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SUMMAl V wttfc eefe*. hold % thilealth mrthert- m --111 »wri«B *» Ute>He j»hi«»e on beat*. " ' 'fll# bo* t Wis af^cfcfBy theRed Star lihe •te, NfcWS. Aiawtcnn Window <5lags Company i* reported f"o m *% »y' J|i/Th« Freneh chamber of deputies de- ^fi|ate<| ® motion tor the separation of dnrrh and state after a heated debate, doriWMrteH'h there were several hand-to fc*4|Nbfs a nd. 4'*3lNBi£^i*iUttten fir duels, The lmve *teft<le » out oft 331-3 per cent in th% price of all window glass* and to have ordered fires lighted in all its factories, the purpose being to resume titrations about Jan. 1. • ^Taylor Kirk. a noted outlaw, was found fBilty at El Reno, Okta., of the murder- of his sister. Mrs. Mary Garboroogh, at Clond Chief, Okla. Kirk will be sentenc- <fcA to death. He shot his sister because dhe would not go with him to a.dance. head-end collision between a west­ bound through freight and an east-bound fruit special occurred twelve miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo., on the*Union Pacific road. The fireman of the east-bound, Benjamin Stocking, was killed instantly. .^^The striking miners at Nanticoke. Pa., Btc decided to waive the demands of the puuyi runners and resume work. The de­ cision was largely influenced by the in­ terference of the clergy against a sym- jwthy strike at Shamokin and Mount Csrniel. ' by remaining at her loom in defiance 800 strikers, one little girl prevented •"viLiie-up at the Altoona. Pa., silk mill. A general strike of the 800 operatives had been planned, but when the one girl con­ tinued at work 700 employes returned to their work. Fire damaged several buildings at St. Louis. and the entire department was called out. The losses are as follows: Sanders Engraving Company, $50,000: G. H. Boehmer's retail boot and shoe Jjouse. Jfio.000; North Broadway Furni­ ture house, $50,000.. A company of capitalists, headed by Thomas A.* Edison, has purchased the John W. CTtne farm at Stewartsville,* N. J., and has secured options on a number Of adjoining farms. The company has been prospecting for cement rock for sev- . eral months, and an excellent quality of rock has been found there. The entire crop of sugar cane aftdbfeet for 1899-1900 wiii amount to about *4,000,- 00ft tons--about the same amount as last year--according to carefully prepared sta­ tistics submitted to the State Depart m^nt by United States Consul Diederich at :Mattflebmsg. Germany. Of this amount : th* United Ftales uses about one-fourth! The office of the Pacific Express Com­ pany in Cheyenne, Wyo., was robbed the other night of several thousand dollars. When Agent O. C. Brownlee entered the office in the morning he found the safe open and the money gone. The express company officials refuse to state the •mount of nwWfey taken, but it is reported J at from $10,000 to $25,000. ^ v hour after the big bicycle race enjl; ed in Madison, Square Garden, New York, and during the excitement attending a 15-mile pursuit race, Frederick S. Slater ' Of Railway, X. J., seated in one of the lower boxes, was shut and mortally Jwoniided; 19 years o'y a medical student. The shooting o<- /ur- -fed as the'^uft^ol a -BradstwfeL' th<* wt_m * ntw work by the Americna G» and. FWittdry Com­ ing 250 car builders. ; ,Jtv The People's Telephone cofl?oratit>n, th* Knickerbocker Telephone Company and the American Telephone, Telegraph and Cable Company were consolidated at a meeting of the directors of the three cor­ porations in New York. The Lowell Manufacturing and Bige- low Carpet companies, two of the largest carpet manufacturing concerns in New England, voted to consolidate under the laws of Massachusetts. The capital tteidk of the new company is $4,030,000. crt»l*al 4t the " set fill «• •ad tftood WESTERN. * S^tss6"0ri Supreme Court trpbeWs t&s St. Louis police and election laws. Joseph Brown, ex-Mayor of St. Louis, died there of a complication of diseases, aged 00 years. W. O. Parker died suddenly of apo­ plexy in the city hospital at Norwalk, lUn'Umtjff jjii Tifc led * tim, " t bou biu&h guard until he wtf-ANiil At State Lirrty SIisfc, Edmund, the 5- year-old son of Dr. W. H. Boykin, shot and instantly killed hiB brother Roderick, aged 11, and severely wounded his broth­ er Tom, aged 13. The older boys were playing with an airgun, which Edmund wanted, and when refused he declared that he would shoot them it they did not give it to him. He went into the bouse, got a small shotgun and put his threat iatoe*«^ition •PS? WASHINGTON. Ohio, aged 71 years. V ployed, W1I pa S; ed i Vi ^ ove^rtf bet •rifonth of usly, finding well eni- upon and ubles a vert- Widespread ad- WalHlnportanee ex- cities, and with the •alnes of staples at the for eight years past, and has opened well and col1 i retail trades therefore show improvement. The strength of , notably Wheat, this week, is a refection largely of decreased receipts at thrift i&M$fcpresti-itWheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,133.- 331 bushels, against 3,690,400 bushels l&st week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 3,813,699 bushels, against 4>- 441,514 bushels last week." Two passenger trains on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad were wrecked by collision near Salida, Colo. At Omaha George \V. Archibald, ac­ cused of stealing $3,000 from the Pacific Express Company, was acquitted. At St. Joseph, Mo., fire Jis*the plant of the Hoefer Packing Company caused a loss of $25,000, with about $12,000 insur­ ance. The thirty-fourth annual encampment of the Gr&Qd Army of the Republic will be held in Chicago Aug. 28, 21i, 30 and 81, 1900. Mrs. Vanata Coffy of Leavenworth, Kan., aged 00, was burned to death, her clothing catching tire while she was get­ ting supper. At Harrisoiiville, Mo., fire destroyed the> buildings and yards of the Hurley Ihjtnber Company, causing an estimated loss of $20,000. * The private bank at Poplar Grovel 111., was entered by biir#a»pnd fhe #ftfe blown open. The robbei"fclseeOFed and made their escape. _ An earthauake shock wai plf^^'felt at many points in Sooth Dakota. The seismic vibration was very perceptible, but lasted only an instants Gen. Pieasantou Porter wk»-s()ie«ted as chief of the Creek Nation. The full bloods;--flrfea had protested against the general's selection, made no demonstra­ tion. a Mrs. Bridget Fitzgerald, mother of John Fitzgerald (deceased), former presi­ dent of the Irish National League of America, died at Lincoln, Neb., aged 98 years. T. A. Giffin of Qhicago has bought the plant of the Kansas City Car and Foun­ dry Company and proposes to make it one of the large car-wheel foundries of the country. '*'• ' A man captured at Toledo, Ohio, who had coujiterfeib moppy^^s been identi­ fied as old Charfey Johnson, the most notorious counterfeiter and plate-engrav- er alive. , Rev. Richard Hassell, a pioraKr Con- W, a|d Wis- nile lili- iv-%- i NEWS NUGGETS: lhan thirty miners Wre killed an explosion of gas in a mine at Ca«- bonado. Wash. iri Unrequited love caused George Spees, a young man at Newark, Ohio, to commit •Bicide with a revolver. Charles R. Groves, a politician and sa­ loonkeeper of Omaha, was murdered by Tom Collins, a local tough. At Ashtabula, Ohio, fire destroyed F. Rogers' livery barn. Eleven convey­ ances were burned. Loss $5,000, partial­ ly insured. Gen. Gatacre's fprce was forced to <*treat from before Storm burg by the Boers. The British troops were led into a trap by false information furnished by Boer sympathizer^ The Guyana Gold Mining Company, : With its principal offices at Marietta, O., bas been incorporated in West Virginia by A. D. Follett and others of Marietta. The authorized capital is $3,000,000. It was announced that Willis J. Abbot. Well known in newspaper circles through- • <Hit the United States, has been selected to take charge of the press bureau of Democratic national committee. Commander Charles P. Howell, chief engineer of the United States battleship Mame "-hen that vessel was blown np in Havana harbor, is dead at his home in New York City. He died from an ano­ rectic stroke. George Koch, 35 years old, of No." 220 'ist Eighty-third street, New York, went to the Presbyterian hospital and asked for treatment, saying that he had been poisoned. Koch died after a few hours. . The police are investigating the case. : At St. Louis, Mo., the M; C. Wet more "Tobacco Company, with a capital stock of $250,000, has been formed to run inde- pendently fit the tobacco trust. At Adairsville, Ga., Lucy Carbon and her child in arms were killed by "Jim" Mayfield. Frank Bird was wounded. The - were at the woman's house ami quarreled. The tourderer escaped, h A suburban passenger train on the Bur- Jutgton road ran down a hand car bearing men 100 yards west of the bridge at Altos, 111., killing two men outright and fatally injuring two others. The acci- ^at is attributed to heavy fog. EASTERN, Admiral Dewey has rented a pew in St. |£fhn\s Episcopal Church in Washington." S; At New York the new torpedo boat 4*stroyer Bailey was launched in Har­ lem river. Nearly 100,000 employes of the New Singland cotton mills have been notified Of a 10 per cent advance in wages. • Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law of Bear Admiral WiHiam T. Sampson, died <pt her home in Rochester, N. Y., aged 70. years. . A coUisioti at Quarantine, New York ^ luirbor, mnk the steamer La well,'loaded A., v it i 'r* •nwey * was i«s^^h|pb||P' Kirk Hotel, Zanesville, Ohio, wit hoot funds. It is claimed she has been deserted by her husband. The couple were married at Marietta n month ago. ?. Seven robbers entered the village of Cornell, 111., and by the use of nitrogly­ cerin ble wopen the safe of the Cornell Bank and secured over $5,000 in money and also many valuable papers. A ' J. C. Darragh, president of the .wreck­ ed Kansas City Safe Deposit and Sav­ ings Bank, who was convicted i|i 1S97 and sentenced to two years in the peni­ tentiary, has been granted a new trial. The Burnham-Hanna-Munger Dry Goods Company at Kansas City an­ nounced a voluntary increase in the wages of its 800 factory employes of from 5 to 12% per cent, to take effect immedi­ ately. The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company, known as the rubber trust, will consolidate the plant at Peoria, 111., with the plant of the India company in Akron, Ohio, tripling the capacity of the latter plant. The Chinese Six Companies has decid­ ed to donate $4,000 to the State Board of Trade at San Francisco, to show their desire to bring about closer business re­ lations between China and the United States. A controversy between the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and Foster & Miller, grain buyers, over an elevator the latter began to erect at Vesta, Minn., re­ sulted in the structure being pulled down an engine. Senator Hayward died at; Nebraska City, Neb. Aug. 15 he was lijjpcken with apoplexy while addressing a Modern Woodmen picnic assembly at Brownsville* Neb., and from that time his strength gave way gradually. The Central Steel Company has been organized by Indianapolis and Pittsburg capitalists, with a capital of $240,000. The new corporation has purchased the Bremier steel plant at Indianapolis and will reopen the works. The crop bulletin of the Kansas Board of Agriculture for the present year shows final returns of the State's agricultural products as follows: The winter wheat yield amounts to 42,815,471 bushels. The yield of corn is 225,183,432 bushels. Fire at Greenville, Texas, destroyed business property valued at $65,000. The heaviest losses are: Van Ronket's dry goods store, $14,000; B- O. Wylie & Co.*_ shoes and gents' furnishing goods, $2or 000; Mrs. V. A. King, two buildings, $10,000. - Delegate* from twelve States attended the annual meeting of American beet sugar growers at Omaha. The associa­ tion voted to ally with the League of Domestic Producers, the object being to compel all sugar and other imports to p,ay full duties. The shovelers on the Conneant docks at Ashtabula, Ohio, numbering in all nearly 500, have gone out on a strike. They ask an advance of 1 cent a ton for load­ ing ore fron. the docks into curs, and also the removal of certain mechanical loading devices now in use. Former Lieut. Colin H. Ball is* search­ ing for the little Filipino boy who came from Mayla as the Twentieth Kansas' mascot. Lieut. Ball took the young in­ surgent to bis home in Sedan for the purpose of educating him, but the boy tired of school and ran away. UTHERN. 7, and Will thirtep takan The Fifty-sixth Congress of the tfnlted States met and organized on Monday. The President has nominated Brig Gen. Leonard Wood to be a major gen­ eral of volunteers. Secretary Long, in hia. annual report, recommends the building of eighteen new warships for the navy. ; Ambassador White is said to have ask­ ed to be transferred from Berlin, because of American criticism of his friendliness for Germany. By a vote of 302 to 30 the House of Representatives decided to investigate the charges against Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah before allowing him to be sworn in. ') President McKinley, Postmaster Gen­ eral Smith and Laga Arriaga, the Guate­ malan minister, have signed a parcels post treaty between the United States and Guatemala, to take effect Jan. 1. It is similar to the other treaties now in force. . The War Department has made public a statement of exports and imports at the five principal ports of Porto Rico for the months of May, June and July, 1899. The total of imports into the ports narned for the three months is $2,572,618. The exports during the same period were $2,- 920,500. , ~ FOREIGN. - . ••tj? LdW Mayor Newton of Ijondon-' has been acquitted of charges in connection with promotion schemes. The American garrison of 200 at Yjgan, Luzon, repulsed an attack of 800 Fili­ pinos, killing 35. The Americans lost eight killed. After a fight lasting sixteen hours the City of Maracaibo, capital of the State of Zulia, Venezuela, is in the power of the Hernandist revolutionary force*. The English troopship Tyne, carrying a new crew for the special torpedo vessel Polyphemus and other men for the Med­ iterranean squadron, went ashore on Bombridge ledge. Isle of Wight. A syndicate headed by Tom L. and Albert Johnson, the Cleveland street car magnates, will build a street railroad in Honolulu and on Oahu Island, on which the capital of the Hawaiian Islands is sit­ uated. The Kurds have ivenged the recent in­ cursion of Russian Armenians into the Alashgerd district in Turkish Armenia, by pillaging the Armenian village of Ivostur and massacring 300 of its inhab­ itants. Information was bronght by the steam­ er Warrimoo from Australia of the atro­ cious murder of a white man and subse­ quent devouring of the* body by the treacherous cannibals of the Admiralty islands*"' • IN GENERAL. William Weir, president of the defunct Ville Marie Bank of Montreal, convicted of furnishing a false statement of the bank's affairs to the Government, has been sentenced to two years' imprison­ ment. Gen. Saager^announces that the Cuban census ho*' be%L completed. He is at present at Matafttas and the news of the end of the work is contained in a cable­ gram from that place to Secretary Root. His next work is a census of Porto Rico. Thfe American schooner Robert Ruff, bound Mobile, with a cargo of coal for poatzacoalcos, Mexico, struck a reef near Vera Cruz, on the Mexican coast, and was wrecked. Her captain, Charles' W. Kaecker of New Orleans, was drown­ ed. The proposed combination of the hat manufacturers throughout the country, which has been under consideration for some time, is likely to become a reality. It is claimed that $15,000,000 of capital is ready to buy every available hat-mak- ing plant. The United States auxiliary cruiser Prairie has sailed from the Brooklyn navy yard for Havre, France, with the first shipment of the United States Gov­ ernment exhibit for the Paris exposition. The vessel will proceed to Norfolk, Va., and to Baltimore, where she will take aboard additions to her cargo, and will then go direct to Havre. A syndicate , of Eastern mills has con­ summated a deal in St. Louis for 1,250,- 000 pounds of wool. The terms of the sale are private, but it is statedthe wool was about 4 cents a pound more than the price at which the same lots were offered a short time ago. and the deal amounted to more than $250,000. All of this wool is what is known to the trade as "ter­ ritory wool." Sixty ears will be required to transport it to its destination in the East. This is the largest sale of wool ever made in the West. A rice mill combine or trust is being organized in New Orleans. New York capitalists have secured ninety days' op­ tions on a majority of the rice mills there the others. There are ills withr a capacity of ch it' is proposed to get Dick Coleman, the Mrs. Lashbrook, was rs by a mob of 1,000 MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, G5c to 66c; corn, No. 2, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 22c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 51c ro 52c; butter, choice creamery, 25c to 27c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 21c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $<>.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2, 64c to 65c; corn, No. 2 white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.25 to $7.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat. No. 2, 70c to 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 50c to 52c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $6.50; hogs^ $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat", No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. % mixed, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26# to 28c; rye, No. 2, 60c to 62c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to ,$6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, 57c to 58c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 53c to 55c; clover seed, $4.70 to $4.80. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 northern, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 3, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 26c; rye, No. 1, 54c to 56c; barley, No. 2, 46c to 47c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep. $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c; butter, creamery, 28c to 28c; eggs, weal* em, 10c to 22c. WOHK QCNCflAL GATACRE MEit*vA DECISIVE DEFEAT. Slit XmqPEI»llN08ES8l0NfiWIM?TH rHOUSES. * ^ General Henderson of Iowa Elected Speaker--Opposition to Certain Mem­ ber* Elect Taking the Oath - Adjourn­ ment Oat of Respect to Hobart. Washington correspondence: Promptly at 12 o'clock Monday the two houses of the LVIth Congress were call­ ed to order, the Senate by Mr. Frye of Maine and the House by its clerk, Mr. McDowell. The opening attracted more than the usual widespread attention which always attaches to the annual as­ sembling of the national lawmakers. There was added interest in the event this year, for the many far-reaching questions awaiting consideration gave un­ usual importance to the return of Con­ gress. Aside from this, the Roberts case introduced a phase which promised some­ thing outside of the ordinary develop­ ments of an opening day. Early in the day the throngs began converging at the capitol. The day was bright and propitious and the thorough­ fares leading to the edifice presented a gay and animated appearance. Within the building ail was bustle and excite­ ment long before the hour for calling the houses to order. The outer doors were open to all and through these flowed con­ tinuous streams of humanity, until the great corridors, galleries and rotundas were fairly packed. As early as 10:30 o'clock the conspicu­ ous figures of Congress began to arrive and this served to give the waiting throngs a temporary diversion. Gen. Henderson went direct to the Speaker's private office, where he shared his time with the House leaders and with those BPKAKkK HKNDKRSON. pleading for admission cards. Repre­ sentative Richardson of Tennessee, the Democratic House leader, was also early on the scene, conferring with his lieuten­ ants. Shortly before 11 o'clock Mr. Roberts of Utah, in silk hat and mack frock suit, made his way through the crowd to the members' private lobby. Here he chanc­ ed to meet Mr. Richardson and the two held a short' conference. A buzz of com­ ment followed the gentleman from Utah wherever he went, but there was no dis­ respectful demonstration. Very early in the day a monster peti­ tion, said' to consist of 7,000,000 names, protesting against the seating of Mr. Roberts, was brought into the hall. It had been collected by a New York news­ paper. It consisted of twenty-eight rolls of names each about two feet in diame­ ter, incased in the American Hag. These rolls were stacked up in the area in front of the clerk's desk and were viewed with great curiosity. Later, Maj. McDowell, clerk of fhe House, ordered allw except two of the rolls taken out into the lobby. At 11:30 a shrill-voiced clerk directed those not entitled to the floor to retire, and officers and pages rapidly cleared out those already in. As the minute hand of the clock opposite the Speaker's ros­ trum overtook the hour band at noon, the gavel of Glerk McDowell descended with a bang. The members arose and the spec­ tators in the galleries bowed their heads. In this stillness the voice of the blind chaplain, Rev. Henry Couden of Michi­ gan, was elevated and his prayer made the occasion reverent. After the invocation the reading clerk began calling the roll. Mr. Roberts, when his name was called, responded "here" in a loud voice. But' he looked nervous and ill at ease. There were no demon­ strations during the roll call. When it concluded Clerk McDowell announced that 352 members had answered to their names--a quorum. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa offered a resolu­ tion, which was adopted Viva voce, pro­ viding that the House proceed to the election of a Speaker for the Fifty-sixth Congress. Thereupon Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, as chairman of the Republican cau­ cus, presented the name of David B. Henderson of Iowa. The mention of the wine of Gen. Henderson was greeted with a round of applause from the Re­ publican side. Mr. Hay of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic caucus, nom­ inated James D. Richardson of Tennes­ see, and his name drew the plaudits of the Democratic side. Mr. Ridgely of Kansas nominated John C. Bell of Colo­ rado as the Populist candidate, and Mr. Wilson of Idaho placed Francis G. New- lands of Nevada in nomination as the candidate of the Silver party. The roll- call resulted: Henderson 177, Richardson 153, Bell 4, Newlands 2. The clerk there­ upon announced the election of Mr. Hen­ derson amid great Republican applause. He designated Mr. Richardson, Mr. Bell and Mr. Newlands as a committee to es­ cort the Speaker to the chair. Senate Assembles in Gloom. In the shadow of the recent death the Senate convened at noon in its first ses­ sion of the LVIth Congress. The death of Vice-President Hobart cast a pall over the preliminary proceedings at the north end of the great marble capitol. Mr. Frye of Maine, president pro tem., called the Senate to order. The chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Milburn, pronounced the invo­ cation, making a beautiful and touching reference to the death of Vice-President Hobart. Remonstrances and memorials against the seating of Mr. Quay were presented by Mr. Burrows (Rep., Mich.) and Mr. Jones (Dem., Ark.). By direction of the chair the new Sen­ ators were then presented at the secre­ tary's desk, where the oath of office was administered to them by the presidentj^ro This,, sayaa Wirtitngttui promises to be one of the SMMt Congresses in history. Indeed* Hi am* ditlons for speechmaking are M flrrtra- ble that all records may be broken, in the first place, there will be a general desire to produce material, for the presi­ dential and congressional* elections of next year. In the second place, Roberts, currency, the army, expansion, Nicara­ gua canal and ship subsidy will afford an inexhaustible mine from which xpceches may be drawn. In the Roberts case, polygamy, precedent, the constitution and States' rights are involved. Currency heads the legislative list. A funding bill to float Government bonds at less than 3 per cent will be introduced and probably passed. A strong effort will be made to pass the Hannu-Paine ship subsidy bill, ,-lt will be a terrible strug­ gle, the result of which cannot at this time be foreseen. Speaker Henderson and Leader Payne favor it in the House, and it will be backed by sfrons influences in the Senate. Opponents of the bill will decry the bounty system and object on economical grounds to the payment of $9,000,000 annually in subsidies. Friends of the measure, will insist that Congress should save the.$25,000,000 now paid an­ nually by Americans to foreign ship own­ ers in freight charges and encourage the building of a great American merchant fleet. There will be legislation for the government of Hawaii, Porto Rico and Alaska; An acre of space in the Congressional Record will be filled with remarks about Cuba and the Philippines. The size of the standing army's proposed plans of re­ organization will receive much attention. There will probably be no general river and harbor bill. A bill to construct the Nicaragua canal will be strongly pressed. A number of railroad bills will be intro­ duced, the two most important of which will declare in favor of pooling and against ticket scalping. There will be much talk about trusts. A constitutional amendment to regulate or abolish trusts will probably be up for consideration. An earnest effort will be made to secure a large increase of the navy. A determined effort will be made, too, to advance the project for the con­ struction of the Grant memorial bridge across the Potomac. While comparatively little time will be spent in the Senate chamber during the early duys of the session, much attention will be paid to getting ready for the im­ portant matters to receive attention lat­ er. These include the financial bill, the policy to be pursued in the Philippines and Cuba, the form of government to be provided for Hawaii and the ratification Of the various reciprocity treaties nego­ tiated during the recess, and Porto Rico. The Fifty-fifth Congress passed an act fixing the price of armor plate at $300 a ton. It is expected that a strong effort ^ill be made to change this, as it is stated that no factory in the country can furnish the material for the newly au­ thorized warship at that price. Harvey- ized armor plate such as is used on the battleships Maine, Ohio and Missouri, cost $400, with an added royalty of $11.20, making the cost $411.20 a ton. Owing to the passage of the act referred to, the Secretary of the Navy has been obliged to suspend construction on those vessels now building, because the stipu­ lated amount will not buy the proper ar­ mor plate. It is thought the present Congress will perhaps make an appropriation for a Government armor plate plant. This, however, will be combated by some for the reason that in order to start such a plant thousands of men would necessarily have to be trained for the work, and an enormous sum would have to be expend­ ed. FOR A LARGER NAVY. tem. Usually the President's annual message to Congress is received on the first day's session. This procedure, however, was postponed at this teession, out of respect to the memory of the late Vice-President Hobart. The official announcement to Congress of his death was made by Sen­ ator ftewali,- W&' i" iron and Of Interest to Lat»r.y?f; Buffalo bridge and structural workers want the eight-hour day $2.50. Wages of Southern Pacific engineers and firemen hate been reduced 10 per cent. The ex peril Iroit of ail iff" in QTe* V; * & r * Zj- 'fk 1 u 'V,'" being tried in De- fireaaen one "day Secretary Long Recommends . an In* crease in Vessels. Secretary Long calls for a larger navy in his annual report. He recommends the construction of three armored cruis­ ers, three protected cruisers, and twelve gunboats. These vessels, he urges, should be added to the navy to give the United States a more prominent place as a naval power. Secretary Long also asks that the officers who participated in the battle in which Admiral Cervera's fleet was de­ stroyed be rewarded, as have those who were in the battle of Manila bay. The report opens with a review of op­ erations in the Philippine waters, saying that the principal duties of the Asiatic squadron have been to co-operate with the army and to maintain a blockade of such extent as has been determined by the general policy of campaign laid down by the War Department. Many impor­ tant expeditions have been carried out, involving duty of an arduous character, and few casualties have occurred. As there is a "lack of harmony and adaptation" under the present organiza­ tion of the bureau of construction, re­ pair, steam engineering and repair, Sec­ retary Long recommends their reorgan­ ization with one common head. He asks for authority to appoint gradu­ ates of the naval academy assistants to the naval constructors. The formation of a naval reserve is urged. Authority is also desired to establish commissary stores in remote stations like Cavite, Guam and Sitka. Coast surveys and an enlarged activity in the hydrographic bureau are desired. It is shown that $300, the maximum price allowed for armor, will not secure first-class urmor, and a Government fac­ tory is suggested. A new battleship, the Kentucky, will be completed Dec. 24. Many vessels are now being built, nearly all of which will be finished in 1900. An estimate of the cost of these ves­ sels is $62,570,610.23. The cost of the present navy, with equipment, Was ap­ proximately $250,000,000. In the navy is an enlisted force of 14,- 501 men, 87 per cent of whom are Amer­ icans. A table incorporated shows the tonnage of the naval vessels under construction to be: England, 331,680; France, 255,533; Germany, 148,235; Italy, 120,540; Japan,' 130,000; Russia, 222,975; United States, 123,236. Last year the cost of the navy was $39,045,113.51. During the present year it will require $74,230,309.15, the increase being due to the improvements under way. Forces Compelled to Retire After Hot Artillery Duel Near Storm berg;-- Led Into a Trap by False Informa- tton-from Boer Sympathizers. Gen. Gataere, while moving out with 3,000 men and two batteries of artillery from Putter's kraal in the hope of sur­ prising the Boers at Stormberg, was mis­ led by his guides, and found himself in an untenable position, with the result that he was obliged to retire, with severe losses, upon Molteno. He reports over 630 offi­ cers and men missing, in addition to a small list of killed and wounded. A correspondent cables: The wily Boers led the British into a trap by fur­ nishing Gataere and his spies with false information that the enemy's camp at Stromberg could be easily taken by sur­ prise and captured. Gataere was told that the Boers there numbered only 2,500 and were in a weak condition. The Gen­ eral determined to make an early morning march with a strong column and strike a rapid blow. The troops chosen were the Second Royal Irish rifles, the Second Northum­ berland Fusiliers, the King's Shropshires, the Second Royal Berkshires acting as mounted infantry, and field batteries Nos, 74 and 77. We marched out smartly, but cautiously, from Putterskraal, and got within two miles of Stromberg without the slightest indication of the where­ abouts off the Boers. Our forces were proceeding cautiously when suddenly we were met by a hail of bullets coming from behind the low ridges to the front and right flank. The reception was too warm to withstand, and we quickly sought shel­ ter behind a kopje. The other troops did the same. ,.We were pretty well covered from the rain of rifle fire, but the big guns, threw their shells unpleasantly around us. Our field batteries swung into line and did splendid work, keeping the Boers off while we sought a better position half a mile away. Here we found ground shelter, and the infantry quickly got into position and opened a fire at long range, while the mounted infantry were sent out to try and get at the Boers' right flank. Up to this time we had suffered but lit­ tle, but a new danger suddenly appeared. The Boers who ambushed us were in front and on our right flank, but now there came from the north another strong command, all mounted, who menaced our left flank. Gataere sent the Irish and Northumberland regiments to meet them, and the result was simply disastrous^ for they dashed straight into the deadly fire of a number of machine guns, which the Boers had slyly placed in a concealed po­ sition. It was evident we had caught a Tartar and were in a nasty position. The Irishmen and Northumberlands got back as best they could, each with 300 men gone. There was nothing to do but retire. The Boers numbered at least 3,000. British discipline saved the army. There was no confusion or disorder. Every man was in his place and the retreat was carried out in perfect order, the column being covered by mounted infantry and artil­ lery, ready to swing into position at any moment. The Boers followed closely, swarming around our flanks, and dragged along two forty-pounders, which they trained on us at every opportunity. Had their gunners been worth their salt they would have in­ flicted severe damage on us, but' their aim was wild and our casualties were surpris­ ingly few. As we neared the Molteno camp the Boers gave up the pursuit and drew off. M A N Y M I N E R S M E E T D E A T H . Told in a Few Line*. Dewey has promised to visit Chieago May 1. Hundreds of cattle drowned daring the recent floods in Texas. W. J. Bryan lias decided to make a tour of New England this winter. The torpedo boat destroyer Viper, Lon­ don, has been given a successful test. A 70-pound seal, covered with bristles, wus shot fn the harbor at Mamaroneck, K. Y. Passengers on a train and negroes at Durant, I. T., bad a "set-to," two of the blacks .being shot. Stumbling face downward Into a pad­ dle, the 2-year-old son of Francis Brown, of East HopeWell, Pa-i was drowned. Desperado ""Bill" Honnycutt and Geo. Fiitch&fd killed each other by shooting Bear Lenoir, N. C. Pritehard was pur- r £ , " "-** Terrible Explosion of Coal Damp at Carbonado, Wash. Eighty men went down into tunnel No. 7 of the Carbon Hill Mining Company at Carbonado, Wash., and five hours later an explosion of coal damp took place. More than thirty of this number are dead. Twenty maimed, burned and blind­ ed survivors were drawrn up, more dead than alive. Those who were not killed outright by the force of the explosion were hemmed in by falling walls, pinned down by splintered timbers and suffocated by the deadly fumes of black damp which immediately filled the mine. The explosion occurred between 10 anfi 11 o'clock, as near as can be ascertained. The men were gathering at th^ mouth of the tunnel preparatory for changing for the noon shift. There was an enormous rumbling sound, and then it ceased ab­ ruptly. The residents of the village knew the terrible TT% ning of this and hasten­ ed to the mouth of the pit. Great vol­ umes of smoke and black damp were pouring from the mine. In addition to the eighty men in tunnel No. 7 there were hundreds of others in different levels, and it at once became apparent that they were in imminent peril from the black damp which would penetrate all the shafts. The men on the surface were unable to afford any assistance, but the mine bosses down in the bowels of the earth realized their peril and led all the men they could col­ lect out through the air shafts. It was nearly two hours before communication was opened up with the tunnel in, Which the explosion occurred. General G. del Pilar Killed. Gen. Gregorio del Pilar, commanding Aguinaldo's bodyguard, was killed by Maj. Peyton J! arch's battalion of the Thirty-third infantry in a fight eighteen miles northwest' of Cervantes. According to reports which Gen. Young obtained from escaped Spanish prisoners at Vigan several days ago, Maj. March left the: coast, where he was pursuing Aguiualdo, and encountered Gen. del Pilar on a forti­ fied trail. They fought for four hours, during which time seventy Filipinos were killed or wounded. The American loss was one man killed and six wouuded. » • - • 1 * fiote*- of Current Smallpox is becoming epidemic in Tex­ as, it is said. Gen. Yaguaracutla, Vencxvcla, has been killed by the rebels. - Haury Trumbull, Omaha, Neb* ktftal a footpad the other night. . ' Bryan helped to dedicate a sew public auditorium in Waco, Texas. ' The skeletons of six Indififffs were un­ earthed near Fort Seneca, Ohio. John Stout,' Fort Plain, N. Y.t stuck a knife into John McMahon, killing hirn. Michael J. Sampson, wanted in Chi­ cago for embezzlement, may be brought back from Ireland. Gov. Sayers, Texas, will call an extra session of the Legislature to consider the tax bill and land matters. Mrs. George A. Lankford, near Hous­ ton, Texas, killed her husband; claiming ill treatment. She's wealthy. " W. J. Nealy, 30, Jersey City, N. J., found his wife with another man and woman and killed her. Mexico is so prosperous that the finance minister will recommend that Federal taxes be reduced. Cash reserve is more Aan $60,000,000. <- J <_*"• *vr. What will Congress do? is a qnestiotfi , to which some thousands of America*^ newspapers have attempted to reply. NoeH . is interest in it confined to this ,countrjP!;'S»' or this continent. What the Fifty-sixth Congress at its first session, which migh^ lawfully be extended to the first Mon* day in December next, but which will,„ ^ in all probability, end several month^^- before that time, will do must inevitabljfcf» ^ affect, not merely the material interests!*" > U of all our people, but their political view%»" < and acts. And as no man in any comfi;- munity "liveth to himself," so no member* ' i". and especially no great member, of th^k,^ farcily of nations can avoid some degreOv' - c--.,; J' of responsibility toward other members^ ',*[ of that family. Recent events have mado* country more influential in interna* tiQnal affairs; have made other nation* ' ' more inclined to study our politics aa<%^l'^^ policies, and have charged us with great* er responsibilities touching the interest#- ^ of other countries than would have beea^^^ deemed possible before the war of 189S-, began. These facts account as well foe • the intense domestic as for the greatly % . { * w augmented foreign concernment in th«»;/ /'< doings of the Congress now in session. V The Senate on Wednesday received ' nearly 800 bills and resolutions. That' \ most important bills were the Financa^ V Committee's currency reform measure^ • ? • K Mr. Cullom's Hawaiian government»' ^ measure and the Frye substitute for th^ftK Hanna-Payne subsidy bill. Mr. Mason* introduced a resolution expressing sympa*i ,^ thy with the Boers and Mr. Rawlins on&* » '» ' providing for an investigation into polyg*V amy. Mr. Harris was added to the Com* 1 mittee on Elections, which will consider*"?- „ ' '"A'- the Quay, Clark and Scott contests. The--'--;v.;;;,. * House was not in session. - , The Senate on Thursday received bilti from Mr. Chandler to encourage athletic^, '-v;. I at West Point and Annapolis. *Sent td< V. JV Committee on Contingent Expensed - <* Chandler resolution to investigate right o& Senators Olark of Montana and Scott of V*- West Virginia to hold their seats. Re* J f t- ceived resolution from Mr. Berry deelaW ing in favor of election of Senators lijf ": popular vote. Adjourned until Mondayj Dec. 11. Before the House met the publican and Democratic leaders attempt* ed to perfect an agreement for the de­ bate on the^naivnal bill. But th^pt^ ' , tiations failed. Thf Itepublkifl'if'ieader# - then decided to resart to q/lspeeial rule, Mr. Overstreet (Indntaa)/'who is to hnvtf' . V<?- charge of the bill, in^ymu-ed the formal". , resolution for a special prdor upon which ' "Jn ; ; the Committee on Rule^ will act. It pro%',!f^.;,^|i vides for the consideration of the bill ^ continuing until a date to be decided upon. by the Committee on Rules. Immediatel'^" ly after the reading of the journal thtf Speaker announced the appointment of; ; the Committee on Rules as follows: Th&v Speaker, Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, Republicans, an<l; Mossrs. Richardson of Tennessee a net* \ Bailey of Texas, Democrats. Announce*^ ? ment ofc the death of Representative 1jl' Greene of Nebraska was followed by ad* ** journment as a token of respect. ' On Friday the House adopted a special >*'„r * order for the consideration of the cur4, - t '* rency bill, beginning Monday, Dec. 11^. • ;*' general debate to be allowed until the foM - lowing Friday, amendments to be offered Saturday and vote to be taken Monday,'!,. Dec. 18. Mr. Dalzell presented an aniend* ^ .; ̂ ment to the rules, creating a committed ' on insular affairs, to consist of seventeei^,. ^ members, to hove jurisdiction over all. f': matters, excepting revenues and appro* priations, of the islands which came t<4 the United States through the treatj with Spain in 1899, and to CuJ>a, and to^ increase the committees on foreign af*y-^ fairs, merchant marine and fisheries, pub? i"**"-?v- lie lands, military affairs, naval affairs^ . and District of Cofafhbia from fifteen to .J'&vC seventeen members, and the committee on territories from thirteen to fifteen members. Mr. Robertson announced thag. death of Representative S. G. Baird o© Louisiana, and after adopting fhe cds« tomary resolutions, at 1:30, as a mark of further respect, the House adjourned un til Monday, Dec. 11. J»OW Quickly We Can Thinlt. Prof. Ricliet, in his lecture on "Nerve* Vibrations," said that the rate of trans- * mission of nerve impulses could not bo " more than ten or twelve times a sec-,; orid. Prof. Richet states that if ono tried to think a set of words in cession he could never pass that speed,, and could not receive a more rapid suc­ cession of sensations on the same or- gan. This period, then, might be calle<} the psychological "unit of time." If the rapidity were greater, sounij, elec- » „ triclty and light would be perceivot^ V*: as independent undulations, not eon-; tinuous sensations; were it slower, onefm,; would see the motion of the hour handr of a Watch and the growth of a tree. , Foolish Fellow. ' % Mrs. Fadde (faith curlst)--How Is-. your grandfather this morning, Brid­ get? :• i.' M Bridget--He still has the rheumatic* mighty bad. muni. ^ Mrs. Fadde--You mean he thinks __^ has the rheumatism. There is no such;^r' ; t h i n g a s r h e u m a t i s m ^ ' Bridget--Yes, muiqt < • A few days later. ? Mrs. Fadde--And does your ^jra -father still persist in his delusion that he has the rheumatism? Bridget--No, mum; the poor man^ 5 thinks now that he is dead. We burled**^ ,, * \ him yesterday.--London Answer^., Theatrical Snowst^m. *. Realistic snowstorms for theatef##^ ; ?J|*| produced by a new machine, which has two revolving perforated cylinders to cj|?' drop flaked and granulated substances respectively, with electric fans under each cylinder to drive the "snow" >"• "* ^ across the stage as It falls. •„ * * \X, I,, I, \ Good Diamond Tfett. < / One test for distinguishing diamonds *4... •- J from glass and paste Is to touch them * * '* J with the tongue. The dia;uon<J. much the co'.der* Wot Hi a Broad Grin. ' • ̂ The spontaneous and happy wit of- the late Isaac H. Bromley, for many ^-C.*'. years a writer of New York Tribune 1 JL leaders, is recalled by the example be- T v T low; ^ > One day In the Tribune office the vet- jK~ ' • *" eran journalist. Charles T. Congdon. i" was talking of the delightful reading he had found in Bayie's Dictionary, and « remarked that if he were ever iti jail J' *J he would be quite contented with that ^ book. . . - 'S'tD-R- "Of course you would." said Brotnftey. - v v;, ,'v • ' * - ' '•<6 i' « > •», t jj . s" - - r-