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THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER '-• o ilcHBNIlY PLAlNDBAI-BR ILLINOIS. v»j. H. B. Merrill, owner of Hope stucco mills and a pioneer Of central ua^as. is dead at his homo at Hope, Kan., aged 70. Lancaster. Tex., has Voted an issue of with which u» put in a ays* ' (em of water works. John Manning was caught by a log csnier in a mill near Sulphur Springs, Mo., and pushed against the saw, sus­ taining injuries from which he died in a short time. At Petersburg. Va., Mrs. O. L. Ben­ son attempted suicide by cutting her threat with a carving knife. Ill health i_ supposed to have prompted the act. A trust deed for $1,000,000, running from the Dutch General Electric com­ pany to the Old Colony Trust company pf Boston, was recorded at Duluth, Mini. Improvements are planned. William Westerfield, arrested at Springfield, 111., on a charge of using the mails to dfefraud, was held to await the action of the federal grand jury, and in default of $2,000 bail was re­ manded. At Assumption, III., the proposition to change the village to a city ear­ ned oy thirty-three votes. a.. Vincent's Orphan asylum at Denver was badly damaged by fire. \ AlPwere rescued unharmed. Harris O'Neill was smothered in a bed of mortar which he was mixing in the rear of his home at Chicago. When found the victim's head and shoulders were submerged. Sam Forsyth of Tupelo, Miss., was killed near Murphysboro, 111., in the wreck of a MoWle & Ohio freight. The Americati Bridge company has secured the Pittsburg contract for the Wabash railroad viaducts to cost $1,600,000. Loom fixers employed by the Ameri­ can Woolen company ,at Olneyville and Manton. R. I., have joined the burlers and sewers in a sympathetic strike to help the weavers, who struck against the double loom system. Employes of the yarn-making departments are ex­ pected to follow their example. •> , The 1,400 members of the paint- v. jfe' brotherhood at St. Louis have notified their employers that they would not return to work until the ad­ vance of 60 cents a day in wages, de- •; Banded six months ago, is granted. * , St. Louis union barbers threaten to ' ' 'strike unless the bo38 barbers sign a new contract calling for an increase of 5 cents for Sunday shaves. Thomas Killean, a former member Of the National Military Home at llarion, lnd., was found in a saloon laiad died in a hospital. An Investiga­ tion is being made. James H. Fairchild, ex-president of ' Oberlin college, lies critically ill at his home in Oberlin, O. Heart disease li the cause of his illness and his great •»e, 84 years, is against his recovery. Governor Odell authorized the extra­ dition of Charles A. Cockran, wanted fa Nashville, Tenn., on the charge of larceny. He is accused of having de­ frauded the Union Bank and Trust . > Company of that state through papers of the American Hardware Company, of which he was president, discounted by the bank. The report that Herbert Booth, third •on of General Booth, who was in com- , mand of the Salvation Army m Aus­ tralia, bad withdrawn from the army 1* confirmed in London. Ill health is - the cause of the commandar's action. :v . <ii. W. Bloomingdale of New York has been appointed temporary receiver for the firm of Escewege ft Cohn, im­ porters of fancy goods. The liabili­ ties are said to be $91,950 and the as­ sets. $53,750. Dow ft King's elevator at Pittsfield, 111., was totally destroyed by fire, to­ gether with 40 a 00 bush. Is of wheat and a.OOO bushels of corn. Insurance, $28,- 000. The big White Fleming sawmill, five miles below Tiptonville, Tenn., was „ completely wrecked by a boiler explo­ sion. Sam Burton, the fireman, was blown fifty feet and instantly killed. Caver Vandersaul of Troy township, Whiteley county, lnd., committed sui­ cide by hanging at the home of his brother William. The young man had recently lost his wife. Oarlisle Ramage and Clyde Stephen­ son, two boy« lost on Green bay, Wis­ consin. have returned home. They were lost in a fog and spent one night on the ice. suffering much .from the void. Chariott' l,pe. the old woman whose clothes caught fire from the stove near which she was kneeling in prayer, ousd at Warsaw, lnd. She was past 80 .years old and lived alone, having no relatives. The imperial yacht Hohenzollern lias sailed from Hamilton, Bermuda mr ••4. . f..„, located in Denver. Col '%hich inhaled the infant's breath°whlle ' it ,was lyinp in a carriage. ^ At Ouray, Colo., a blizzard raged. • After the wind died down three inches fM&t pink snow fell, covering the moun- ^:f ,tain8 and giving them a weird appear- 4/^ince. Communication with mines is ut off. There is great danger of ijt^y Avalanches. ' The Czar lias invited Emperor Fran- Joseph to attend a hunting party Y O;- Ip Poland next September. , The British admiralty has contracted V ,Y*^" With various ship-building companies tor the construction of five first-class ' fend two third-class cruisers and two battleships. Fall River manufacturers and the .textile unions refuse to yield and the . Indications are that a big struggle be- *1 'tween capital and labor will be started. . Ambassador White has left Berlin for an Easter holiday. c>ecretary White to ia charge of the unhaanr. . for the Azores The 12-months-old child of Gustavs Brown, a traveling salesman, was sufr ^^located in Denver. Col.. l,y a large (at •F A son of John Stroble, near Harris- burg. 111., was fatally stabbed, being lisemboweled by a young man named Stephens in a quarrel over their dogs. Private Schmidt of troop C of the Thirteenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Arsinaboine. was frozen to death while attempting to walk from the half-way house to the post, a distance of six miles. John Howik, an employe of the National Steel company, was killed by in engine at Youngstown, Chio, and Michael Torain. an employs of*, the same company, was caught by ft de­ scending cage and killed. A section of the naval arsenal at Valparaiso, Chile, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $1,000,- )ui). Gen. Mena, Mexican minister of pub­ lic works, who wa$ hurt by being caught between the floor of his ele­ vator at the department and the steel cornice of the gateway, may be con­ fined to his room for some time. " The Mercantile Bank of Vera Cruz, Mexico, declared an annual dividend of 12 per cent on its capital of $2,000,000. At La Rochelle, France, a meeting of the employers of the striking dock laborers and delegates from the 800 strikers resulted in the acceptance of the demands of the latter. Booth Tarkington, the author, was nominated for the legislatare by In­ dianapolis Republicans. "General" Washington, the negro convicted of conspiring to kill the wife of R. L. Taylor, a white man, was hanged at Mansfield, La. Edwin K. Brown of Solon, Iowa, won the University of Iowa oratorical con­ test, and with W. H. Anderson of Bs- therville and H. E. ^adley of Webster City will represent the state in the Northern League content at Chicago in May. The United States consul in Lyols refuses to pay taxes Imposed by the municipality, claiming to be exempt by the convention of February 2, 1853. The municipality threatens to seize the consul's furniture. At London the failure is announced of Lord Francis Hope. The petitioning creditor's claim was £4,000. The Royal Mail steamship Elbe has arrived at Fayal, Azore Islands, under charter to convey to their destination the passengers of -the disabled Cunard steamer Etruria. The North German Lloyd Steamship company has announced an increase of 10 marks in the steerage rates from Bremen to New York^ Baltimore and Galveston. ~~ Oliver Greer, a negro, was executed at Anderson, S. C., for assaulting a white woman. He confessed his crime. The story that the British Admiralty has forbidden the transfer of the White Star Line to the Morgan interests is untrue. Northern Pacific officials claim to have filled all but twelve positions va­ cated by striking train men on the Rocky Mountain division. Strikers re­ fuse to return unless all are taken back. Trains are running as usual. Rural Prussia, according to the bien­ nial statistics of the medical depart­ ment of the Prussian ministry of edu­ cation. is undergoing a heavy decrease in the number of births. Eighty-two per cent of 548 districts enumerated shows that tne population has failed to multiply in anything like the ratio of the preceding two years. The majority of the passengers of the American line steamship Waes- land, which was sunk by the steam­ ship Harmonides in the Irish Sea, sailed for Philadelphia on the steam- suir Noordland. The sultan of Morocco has dis­ patched an expedition consisting of 14,- 000 men to Wezan to punish the Beni Mestana mountain tribe and if possible rescue the two Spaniards kidnaped by them last July. Indictments in three cases against Mrs. Catherine SofTel, wife of ex-War­ den Peter K. Soffel, growing out of the escape of the Blddle brothers from jail on January 30, were returned by the grand jury at Pittsburg. All the master metal workers and the tinners of St. Joseph, Mo., reached an agreement and a strike of three months is declared off. The workmen are to secure 35 cents an hour. The employers wanted their men to' draw out of the building trades council. The men would not consider tills. Severe earthquake shocks recurred at Shamka, Transcaucasia. About 12,- 000 persons are destitute as a result of the subterranean disturbances whicn occurred at Shamaka about the middle of February. The new Bank of Orizaba. Mexico, with a paid-up capital of $150,000. is a new American institution. Orizaba is now an important industrial center and has hitherto lacked banking ac­ commodations. Charles Michaelis, a retired mer­ chant and prominent politician of St. Joseph, Mo., committed suicide by shooting himself. Continued illness ^&d despondency over the recent death or his wife are assigned as causes. The imperial German yacht Hohen­ zollern arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda, from New York. No direct settlement of the boundary dispute between Chile and Argentina has been arrived at, but if a proposi­ tion on the subject i£ made Chile will not refuse to consider it. A. S. Francis, a lawyer, charged with misappropriating X.3.000 of funds be­ longing to the countess of Orkney, formerly Connie Gilchrist of the Gaiety theater, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey in London, and was sentenced to live years' penal servitude. Count Von Buelow, the German chancellor, has vetoed the proposed trip of German univ-rstty students to Paris, as tho government fears the French nationalists might provoke demonstrations against them wbich would react injuriously to the interests of the two countries Albert Walker, charged with murder in the first degree for having .'(hot Owen W. Logan at East Maryville last June, was acquitted at Maj-yvllle, Mo. The shooting was provoked by reports that Logan had rulnea Walker's daughter. Logan was a gambler. During the attack of the Colombia revolutionists on Agua Dulce on Feb. 20 General Ramiroz was Killed. The Oscar II., a new 10,000 ton ves­ sel, Btarted on its first voyage to New York from Copenhagen. The royal LAST TRIBUTE PAID TO ALTGELD Immense Throng Follows the Remains to Their Last 'Resting Place. EULOGY BY WILLIAM- J. BRYAN tho better part of him whom we knew as Altgeld survives the grave. Ail a £ bird, escaping from its cage, enters a larger world, so the influence of the deceased is broadened, rather than narrowed, by his death. He has proved how great are the possibilities under our institutions. Born in another land, he has demonstrated what one caij^do unaided if he has Ideals and a Zl(K|iMt Wn* Cttered at the Brave •f ' the • D* p trt«d tMdw--Thousands •lew tk* Body as It Ll« Ib State at th« fablle Library. John P. Altgeld's body was com­ mitted Sunday to the e^rth selected for its final resting place and over it were said the last words of tribute from his followers and friends. It was not with rites of church nor» with rites of states that he was buried. NO minister of the gospel was there to speak, nor did the officials of city and state, of whom many followed the coffin, appear, except in the character of citizens. The military pomp and the formalities that might attend the funeral of a former governor of the state were all omitted. The burial was one in which all the services cen­ tered upon one individual man and his relations to the other men of the society in which he lived. The speak­ ers, two men associated with him in national politics and one who had been a lifelong friend, all found their conso­ lation and their hope alone in the in- Unless ditions in the federal immigration ser­ vice take another unexpected turn, T. V. Powderly, commissioner general of immigration; Thomas Fitchie, commis­ sioner of immigration at the port of New York, and Edward F. McSweeney, assistant commissioner of immigration at the sam« port, will be retired from office shortly. It is understood that Frank P. Sargent, grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, has been selected to succeed Commis­ sioner General Powderly, the place having been offered him a short time ago. IwthqukM PNtrof Two Tewu> Vienna dispatch: A dispatch to the Neue Fieie Prease from Constan­ tinople announces that the town of Kyankarl, northeast of Angora, in Asia Minor, was destroyed by an earth­ quake March 12. No details of the dis­ aster had been received. Kyankari had 20,000 Inhabitants. Constantinople advices say the town of Tchengerl, in the province of Kastamouni, Asia Minor, was totally destroyed by an earthquake on March 8. Four persons were killed and 100 wereinjuredi At Dafaaits for oioaooa Toledo, Ohio, P. B. Brady, JOHN P. ALTGELD. W fluence which the personality of the man will still possess when his bones have become dust. The services of the day made a most perfect showing of the influence which Mr. Altgeld had exercised in his life and of the great number of the follow­ ers who felt in his death a personal loss. Despite the 25,000 people who had gazed upon his face as he lay uoon his bier in the hali of the public library building the day before, it was seen as soon as the doors were opened that the numbers were by no means ex­ hausted. For three hours they passed in steady stream, and in tne last half hour of the time 5,000 men and wom­ en were numbered in the line. Then, through the streets of the city as far north as Lincoln park on the way to Graceland cemetery, a funeral procession of thousands of men, and of many women, walked slowly behind his hearse. Ii was 2:20 o'clock before the funeral procession reached the cemetery. The coffin was carried from the hearse by the pallbearers, Clarence S. Darrow and Joseph Martin, followed immediately after, and behind them was Judge Dunne, chairman of the funeral committee, and William Jen­ nings Bryan. The crowd pressed in behind the relatives and the commit­ teemen and honorary pallbearers, and then, with no formality, the coffin was quickly lowered out of sight. No clod of earth was thrown into the grave, but when all was ready Judge Dunne announced that William Jennings 1 Bryan would offer his tribute to the i dead. j Mr. Bryan said: "It is written that : the things that are seen are temporal j and the things that are unseen are eternal. This is our con°olatlon to­ day. This occasion--sa«l as it is-- would be inlinitely more sad if we were committing to earth all that there was of our departed friend; But PrlDO«M Alio* Uom to PoUdim. Tne Hague dispatch: The Princess Alice of Albany has started for Pots­ dam. Gossip connects her visit with tne reports of the coming betrothal af the princess to the crown prince, of Germany, Frederick William. the missing manager of the Imperial Savings company, is declared to be a forger and defaulter to the amount of 1100,000. This fact became known af­ ter an investigation by trustees of that institution. Brady is thought to be in Chicago or South America. His plans were particularly successful. He would forge a note and give security for it by a mortgage signed by him­ self for the savings company. Many of his spurious signatures were poor imitations, but none was questioned until after his disappearance. EndMTorcn Select Denver. Boston, Mass., dispatch: The exec­ utive committee of the trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor met here and decided ^o hold the inter­ national convetion In Denver, Col., in July, 1903. Invitations to hold the con­ vention in Denver were presented from the Colorado senate and house of rep­ resentatives, the Commercial club, the Board of Trade and the Christian En­ deavor union and these were unani­ mously accepted. Would Mot* lows Dilnriltjr. Des Moines, Iowa, special: Repre­ sentative Larrabee introduced a joint resolution into the legislature amend­ ing the constitution so as to permit the removal of the state university from Iowa City to Des Moines or other cities offering sufficient inducements, providing Iowa City continues to do as little for the institution as in the past. I.If* I*o»t In Now ITOrk Fire. New York dispatch: Fire that des­ troyed the postoffice building in North Pelham caused the death of Edward Yocum. 13 years old, a newsboy, and the serious injury of his mother. The losi; is estimated at $20,000. Fnlkatlilav Approve* Sale of Inlands. The folkeihing. lower house of par­ liament. by 88 to 7 votes, approved the treaty for.the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The treaty now goes to the landsthing. the upper house. Llaeoln Vitrei to Be Bold. ,; The old Lincoln farm, in the heart of Lincoln City, lnd., is to be' sold for delinquent taxes. Attempts have been made to turn the farm into a park and ask Congress to make an appropriation for its purchase, t^pd this may be done after the farm passes Into other hands. The mother of Lin­ coln is buried on the farm. Blir Fire Low at Wlnalow. Fire destroyed two blocks of buildings in the business part of Wins- low. 111. The bank, postoffice, fifteen business houses and several private residences were entirely consumed. The loss Is 1125.000. insurance $60,000. C»r B.«ifiaa Burn at St. l^oeta. "At St. Louis. Missouri, fire de­ stroyed the west barn of the Easton avenue sheds of the St. Louis Transit company, together with seventy cars. The loss Is estimated at '$125,000, fully covered by insurance. Grain Elevator The grain elevator of Fueher & Ford at Mount Vernon, lnd., containing 75,- 000 bushels of wheat, was destroyed by fire, due to spontaneous combustion. family of Denmark visited the fteamer Lo»8- *8000°; f"1^, covered in"ur b e f o r e s h e s a i t a i i . • . . ' a i i o a , * ̂ v - . ' = ' - v . r v . -„ . f\ '-i Tblnk Tum Uw Ia Affected. Vexas lawyers assert that the Illinois anti-trust law decision seriously af­ fects the statute of this state, which hears on that subject. Attorney Gen­ eral Bell believes the Texas law fii an nulled. Chpreh Worker Kills Heraelf. At Newark, Ohio, Miss Vina Woodbury, a Methodist Sunday school teacher who lived at Wesley Montcom ery's residence, committed suicide by hanging. She was ill with qui: IN CONGRESS Business Transacted by' the House and Senate in ita National Capital. PASS MANY PRIVATE PENSIONS Bout Members Break IiibH by •otlnr Bllla far the Belief^ of War Veter*oa--Be view of MM«sre« Before Both Bodlea. TaeMtay, Mftrc*;*!. '• Prior to consideration of the ship subsidy measure in the Senate a lively debate developed over an effort on the part of Mr. Berry of Arkansas to ascertain when the committee on privileges and elections might be ex­ pected to report the resolution provid­ ing for the election oI Senators by the direct vote of the people. Mr. Hoar (Mass.) indicated his vig­ orous opposition to such a resolution on the ground that it would subvert the fundamental principles upon which tue Senate was founded. When the ship subsidy bill was taken up Mr. Mallory of Florida made an extended speech in opposition to the measure He analyzed the bill carefully and held that there was no good reason for its enactment. Secretary Hay was attacked by Rep­ resentative Burleson of Texaa for de­ clining to ask the British authorities for passports whereby Rev. Hiram W. Thomas and wife of Chicago might pass through the British lines to dis­ tribute relief funds collected in Il­ linois for Boer women and children. Mr. Sulzer asked if the British au­ thorities had not declined to allow the Red Cross to conduct their humane work in Scftith Africa. Mr. Hitt said such a statement had been made and had been denied; he did not know the facts. "The information I have," de^- clared Mr. Sulzer, "comes from the Boer commissioners in this country." "I am not in' communication with the British or the Boer officials," re torted Mr. Hitt This ended the de­ bate. Wednesday, Ifareh IS* The ship subsidy bill occupied prac­ tically the entire time of the Senate. Mr. McCumber (N. D.) presented a carefully prepared argument In which, as a representative of an agricultural state, he favored the bill on the ground of its protective features. Mr. Depew delivered an elaborate speech, which was listened to attentively by Senators and by throngs in the galleries. Mr. Depew shid: "Within five years, if the expectations of this bill are realized, for this comparatively small expendi­ ture of $7,500,000, the reproach that American ships are scarcely seen in foreign ports will be removed. Then, again, the American flag, floating over American steam and sailing vessels, will be seen in every port in the world: then with the American flag and Ameri­ can skippers will come the American commercial agent and the American financial exchanges, and we can have the methods for that competition in which we believe we should be more successful than any other nation, but which is as yet only a dream and a hope." Genera] debate! on the postoffice ap­ propriation bill continued in the House. The proceedings were enlivened by a clash between Mr. Coniss of Michigan and Mr. Richardson of Alabama on the subject of the^Paclflc cable. Mr. Sims of Tennessee devoted some time to showing how the House had been "buncoed," he considered, in con­ nection with the census bill. Mr. Dougherty of Missouri discussed rural free delivery, Mr. Jackson of Kansas the government ownership of tele­ graphs and Mr. Greene of Pennsyl­ vania the Philippine situation. The latter argued that if tuis country would proclaim its purpose to grant inde­ pendence to the Filipino the insurrec­ tion would cease instantly. Thursday, Mar eh IS. In the senate the conference report upon the diplomatic and consular ap­ propriation bill was agreed to. Sena­ tor Morgan reported the Hepburn Nlca- raguan canal bill without amendment. A large number of minor bills were passed without objection. Considera­ tion of the ship subsidy bill was then resumed. Mr. Berry made a vigorous argument in opposition to it. He be­ came involved in a colloquy with Mr. Hanna who maintained that the ships acquired from foreign countries could not participate in the subsidies. Mr. Perkins (Cal.) delivered a speech in support of the bill. Mr. Penrose fa­ vorably reported the Chinese exclusion bill and It was spaced on the calendar. Then the senate went Into executive session, and at 6:25 p. m. adjourned. In the house general debate upon the postoffice appropriation bill was closed and consideration of twelve of the twenty-seven pages of the bill was completed. No amendments were adopted. Tne principal portion of the general debate was devoted to the dis- Cyeloae la Te»* Dallas, Tex., dispatch: A cyclone struck this section of Teig^ filling two persona living in the suburbs and doing great damage in the farming dis­ trict. The property loss In Dallas county alone will reach $100,000. Oraeme Stewart Mot After Office. The story sent from Washington that Graeme Stewart of Chicago had been ofTerod tne position of first assist­ ant postmaster-general was erroneous. Mr. Stewart declares he has no aspira­ tions for office. eussion of the appropriations for sev­ eral small facilities. Mr. Underwood (Ala.) defended the subsidy to the Southern railroad on the ground that it was absolutely necessanr to give the South quick mail facilities. Mr. Smith (111.) discussed the subject of penny postage and Mr. Sulzer (N. Y.) and Mr. Fitzgerald (N. Y.) urged the immediate necessity of a new postoffice building in New York city. Mr. Cochran (Mo.) then made a speech denouncing the course of the administration on the Boer war. Before adjournment at 5:10 o'clock, a resolution was adopted to authorize the president to invite the families of Marshal Kochambeau and Marquis de LaFayette and the people of France to l>e present at the unveil­ ing of the statue of Marshal Kocham­ beau in Washington, May 24, 1902, and ^appropriating $20,000. Friday, March 14. In the Senate the ship subsidy bill was again under consideration. Mr. Foraker supported it, although fee ad­ mitted be would have preferred to build up the American merchant marine by the levying of discriminat­ ing duties. Mr. McLaurin (Miss.) and Mr. Harris opposed the measure on the ground that it was not constitutional. They maintained that it was class leg­ islation, which amounted to little short of robbery of the people for the ben­ efit of a few ship owners. At the con­ clusion of Mr. Harris' remarks the sen­ ate went into Executive session and confirmed The Hague treaty on rules of warfare, and at 6:03 o'clock ad­ journed. in the House the postoffice appro­ priation bill was passed, the only amendment of Importance being one to incorporate In .the bill the provi­ sions of the bill to classify the rural free delivery service. Quite a number of other bills were passed, Including three for marine hospitals at Buffalo, Savannah and Pittsburg. The Burle­ son resolution calling on the Secretary of State, for the facts relative to the case of Dr. Thomas and wife, who de­ sired to go to South Africa to dis­ tribute relief funds, was adopted after a tiiort debate. Mr. Sherman called up a bill to prevent false branding and marking of food products entering into interstate commerce, and -it was passed. The conference report on the diplomatic and consular appropriation was agreed to. Adjournment was taken at 4:50 o'clock. 9 tatnrdajr, March 15* Differences of opinion on the Re­ publican side appeared during the de­ bate in the senate on the ship subsidy bill. Mr. Allison indicated that he was not quite satisfied with the meas­ ure as it stands now and gave notice of amendments limiting the time of its operation--no contracts to be made after July 1, 1910, and none to extend beyond July 1, 1920--and limiting also to $5,000,000 annually up to 1907 and to 18,000,000 thereafter the amount of money to be paid from the treasury on mall contracts on account of It. He 'was followed by Mr. Spooner, who also took exceptions to some pro­ visions of the measure. Earlier in the day Mr. Teller made a speech In opposition to the measure, and was followed by Mr. Elkins with a brief address in stipport of it. Mr. Bacon gave notice of an amendment provid­ ing that no contract under the bill shall be binding upon the government until approved by congress. Mr. Mal­ lory submitted an amendment depriv­ ing all vessels from the benefits of the act whose owners have been within the last year parties to "any agree­ ment or understanding of any kind with any person or corporation to con­ trol ocean freight rates." A bill ap­ propriating $150,000 to establish a marine hospital at Savannah, Ga., was passed; also a bill providing for the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river at Omaha, Neb. Ad­ journment followed a brief executive session. The day in1' the house was- devoted to private pension bills, 229 being passed, clearing tbe calendar. This is the largest number of pension bills ever passed by the house at one ses­ sion. A resolution was adopted call­ ing upon the war department for in­ formation concerning the transport service between San Francisco and the Philippines. Mr. Minor (Wis.) denounced a published statement regarding the speaker and himself as false. The story said that h,.e (Minor) had changed his position on the ship­ ping bill and on th^i Cuoan tariff ques­ tion because of the speaker's intention to advocate a local revenue cutter measure in which the Wisconsin mem­ ber Is interested. Speaker Henderson also stated that there was not a shad­ ow of truth in the article. Adjourn­ ment was then taken. Voa Hollebea Not Recalled A rumor that the German Ambassa­ dor, Von Holleben, had in some man­ ner displeased this government and had been given his passports, is em­ phatically denied at the 8tate Depart­ ment. , Robbers Seenre Rich Booty* Burglars blew open vault of the Fanners' Bank at Townvillc. Pa., and stole *><>tween $7,000 and $8,000. There ia not the slightest clew to the perpe­ trators of the robbery. ^ : ar-- • Waahlagtoa Wales. Rural free delivery will be es­ tablished May 1 at Secor, Woodford county, Illinois. The Shafroth Dill to adopt the me­ tric system of weights and measures as the standard for the United States was ordered favorably reported by the House committee on coinage, weights and measures. If passed, it will go into effect Jan 1. Two Boer Offlcers Killed. Cape Town, dispatch: In a skirm­ ish near Pearston, Cape Colony, March 10, between British troops and Com­ mandant Fouche's force of Boers, Com­ mandant Ovendaal and Field Cornet Van der Walt were killed. Kentucky Bank Robbed or (5,000. Newcastle, Ky., dispatch: The Bank of Newcastle was robbed of $4,- 50o in jewelry and »500 In stamps. Citizens were aroused, but Wfre held at bay until the six burglars made their •escape. Troops to ^oppress Italian Strikers. Several detachments of Italian cavalry left Paaua for the districts disturbed by the strike of agricultural laborers. Troopers have left Ferrara to enforce order In the Copparo dla-^ trlct „ •ehley to B« Oaeat of Honor, It is announced that Rear Admiral Winfleld S. Schley will be the guest of honor at the fourth annual banquet Of the Maryland society of New York %t Sherry's on Wednesday. April ). WORST STORM flF 1 Minnesota, Montana and th^ , Dakotcs Swept by Fierce Blizzard. ^ iSV SHOW PILED IN HIGH DMFTSfgf •j."-" , > Si TetirfVaph. WiM* Mam powa Ueia e I All Over the Striekea Actios, on Lake JM*ebuf an--Cold Sna^~ ':1'- V ;• j*. |a A gale that blew as high as ifty-ai* miles an hour swept down on Chicago*. . Sunday and brought with it a eolqff£j wave that soon hammered the mer«-.«." cui y far below the freezing point. Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin; and tbe Canadian Northwest experi­ enced the worst snow-storm in many- years and railroad traffic was para­ lyzed. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern had not moved & wheel for thirty-six hours in the blizzard- stricken district. ^ The loss to range cattle and sheep on the ranges will be heavy, as many of the ranchers were caught unpre­ pared after the mild weather. The high wind has piled the snow in mountainous drifts and packed it in solid masses, many deep cuts being filled. The Red River Valley division of tho Northern Pacific, between Frankfort and Winnipeg, was abandoned. The situation on the Great Northern was equally bad. The line was tied up between Grand Forks and Williston, N. D., and all wires were lost beyond Fargo. Winnipeg was cut off from railroad communication with the outside world. At LaCrosse, Wis., the thermometer registereed zero. Small buildings and trees were wrecked in all parts of tho ' city. At Sparta the worst blizzard of the season prevailed. The mercury at Plainfield, Wis., dropped thirty-five degrees. A bliz­ zard i*aged throughout southern Michigan. At Fargo, N. D., all trains on the transcontinental roads were tied up and passengers were cared for at hotels. A blizzard raged in western. Michigan and the whole lake shoro was gale-swept. Northern Alabama was deluged, aa were portions of southern Georgia and Northern Florida, and streams in those sections are out of their banks. The Chattahoochee at Columbus, Ga., rose seven feet. ® Chinese Indemnity. At a .meeting of the ministers of the powere, at Pekin, China, it was de­ cided that the bankers* commission erred in refusing to accept the Febru­ ary instalment of the Chinese indem­ nity, and the commission was advised to devise means to accept.the Chinese tenders. The ministers were unable to agree on a plan to reduce the claims of the powers where these are in ex­ cess of their pro rata share of the in­ demnity. Waata War Claim Paid* John Pierce of Marlon, Indiana, las filed a claim with Congressman Steele for $37,500 for the burning of Pierces* boats on the Kentucky river by Union soldiers during the Civil. War. By special act Congress is to be asked to allow the claim. Pierce was a loyal union man. He says he was rendered bankrupt by the burning, which was ordered by the government. Elopement Cat Short. Springfield, 111., special: Abraham* Boch, one of the wealthiest farmers in Logan county, arrived In iSast St. Louis in time to prevent the marriage of his granddaughter, Anna Boch, aged 15, and Robert. Weatherholt, aged 19, who had eloped to that city several days ago. Weatherholt will be brought to this city and lodged in jail on a. charge of abduction. Now Home for Railway Mercer. Des Moines, Ia., dispatch: By a. vote of 37 to 7 the senate passed tho Molsberry bill, which removes the limit of indebtedness that may be in­ curred by railways. This measure is generally believed to have been fos­ tered by the Northern Securities Com­ pany with a view of making Iowa the- future home of the railway merger. Dynamite Two Cars. Two Kansas City-Leavenworth elec­ tric cars were dynamited. On* woman was injured. One car was damaged beyond repair, one of tho wheels being torn off and the motor ruined. A sixty-pound rail was split in two. New Preeldevit of 1>bor OoUego Tabor, Iowa, special: At a meet- ,' ing of the trustees of Tabor colleger- Rev. William J. Sallmon of New Hav- ' en, Conn., was elected president. Rev. Sallmon is at present pastor of a Con­ gregational church at Bridgeport, Conn. Site for Kellogg Sanitarlaai. That St. Joseph. Michigan, will se­ cure the Kellogg Sanitarium, which was recently destroyed by fire at Bat­ tle Creek, seems to be an assured fact. J. H. Graham has offered Dr. Kellogff as a site for the new buildings twenty acres of ground on the banks of the St. Joseph river, two miles south of the city. It has become (known that local transportation companies and railroads, with the aid of citizens, vftlL furnish the $75,000 demanded by Ksl>/ logg for the new institution. Accept Chinese lademaltr. Pekin advices say the bankers' oommlssion accepted the February in­ stallment, amounting to 1,820.000 tasls, of the Chinese indemnity, greatly to • U*e- satisfaction of the ministers of tho powers. More Mh'pe for ' Brltteh Wavy. It is stated that tbe British ad- mlrality has contracted with various shipbuilding companies for the con-' struction of five first class and twq$r - third-class cruisers and two battl^^ ships. . ^ ^