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63D YEAR--NO. 317. GALVESTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 25. 1905-TEN PAGES ESTABLISHED 1842 AMUSEMENTS.

Grand Opera House TOMORROW, MATINES AND NIGHT, Triumphant Tour Texas' Charming Daughter, Miss Bessie Toone IN "IRIS" The Talk of London and New TovK. Magnificent Scenic Production: no Loctll Scun- fi-y Used. PRICBS-Matinee. We nnd Be. Nleht, 25c to $1.60.

SEATS ON BALB. I ROSE COGHLAN'S With Rose Coghlan and Howard Kyle. Direction of Goo. H. Breonan.

Stirring selling to wise buyers daring the past two weeks hasn't embarrassed our range of sizes. There's still a fit for any build of man in a variety of the season's pattrens. 1 Either Suit or Overcoat: Values up to $30.00 Values up to $22.50 $15.00 Values up to $17.50 $11.75 Values up to $12.50 7.5o 1 Gloves, Underwear, Flannel Shirts, Caps, Sweaters and other fixings for cool weather. Robt, Cohen, Correct Clothes for Men and BoVs. CORN We have excellent facilities to handle anfl Bell Texas Corn for export.

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ROGERS GO, Cotton Factors and Commission COTTON. Liberal advances made on cotton shipments. Correspondence solicited. NEW COPPER METALLIC circuits into Humble afford our patrons facilities for the transaction of their business not hitherto available--The Telephone. The Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company.

TEXAS WEATHER. I-'atr Thursjay lair. Eastern and much co Wt.incMln.v: Thur-idfiy a i not bo colJ iu COWAN IN A I A i He (ore Commerce Committee in Ailvot-m-y of Prertident'a a i i i Special to This News. Jan. Sam Tf.

Cowan Fort Worth. vepresentiitK the cJitllo of "WtxsL Texas, before House Commit toe on Interstate and i is the bill. He 1 fi Vtrv strong 1m- in his jii'ntiPiciit, taking a basis the, consumer of all the products i 1 hy tho tr.inspnrlatioii com panics In r-ii'1 the. frolpat. i tlio i nf suggestion of the President tin- Intcrst.i'.o rnmni'MTC i i i i poacr to make a maln- t.il:i a freight rates, he, did n.U a a met ti- nioiutraicil tho necessity for i hy I i data.

(J. rirnilrd i I a i TO TIIK Nitwrd. rowley, Jan. Shnw, ictoil for the murder of l-'rank i Soptcmbor, 01; Mnr.dny mnrnlnj? ns clinrRcd ami was Mlmvrd to nl lo i i of mannlaughtcr. TEXANS ABROAD.

In TO NBWI. VftrV. fnltnn-lnit fCR- Nw York CfmUiiPrilnl. H. P.

UM-llchMrrr, J. lloso. Imperial, W. I I YOUR COTTON Must come to Houston to find the besi market, because the big buyers are here and more of them than are found in many other markets combined. The favorable location of Houston offering four cutlets to the markets of the gives us an advantage over all other southern cottonimarkets.

Let us take care of your Cotton ai Headquarters, where you obtain the best price when you sell, and the besi protection when you hold. Win, D. Cleveland Sons, HOUSTON, TEX. DETECTIVE OP JEROME'S ARRESTED HER ON REQUISITION PAFERS FROM TEXAS. FELL 10 WEEPING SAID SHE WAS INSOCBKT OP CHARGE AND BLAMED HER HUSBAND'S FAMILY.

I1C11CEUTED IN THE TOMBS Police Court Held Her in Ball, -Which. Her Counsel Failed tn Procure. Now York, Jan. Alice Webb Duke, wife of Brodie L. Duke, was arrested at an office in Broad street, this city, today, on requisition papers issued by tho Texas authorities.

Mrs. Duko had been indicted by the Grand Jury at Nacogdoches, on the charge that she and Charles L. Taylor of Chicago had made false statements in an instrument on the strength of which a stockholder in one of the National Banks of that place was Induced to indorse their notes for Mrs, Duke was arrested as she was alighting from a cab to enter an office In Broad street. The warrant was served by a detective from the District Attorney's office. "When Mrs.

Duke was notified that she was under arrest she became hysterical and screamed and wept. She declared: "I'm tho wife of Brodie Duke. His 'aroily are trying to hurt me. I have done nothing wrong." She insisted upon making a call in the as she had intended, but the de- would not permit It and took her to the District Attorney's office in a cab. She sat weeping In that office until her counsel arrived.

The procedure will be to arraign her in a police court and hold her to await arrival of requisition papers from Texas. The proceedings which led to Mrs. arrest today are entirely distinct from her iiatrimonial difficulties. When Mrs. Duke was arraigned In Police she was held in bail and paroled charge of a Deputy Sheriff pending a search for securities.

Mrs. Duke's counsel, however, were un- ible to get bail and she was taken to the Tombs." She will be given a further hearing tomorrow. WRECK IN NORTH CAROLINA, One Killed and Seven Serfoavly Injured at Roy--Canned hy ItalU Spreading. Charlotte, N. Jan.

man killed, seven seriously wounded and a number of others injured to some extent as the result or a wreck on the Asheboro Aberdeen Railroad at Boy, N. today. All passen- gors on board save two or three were to some extent. The dead: RKV. (i.

A. OOLKSBY. pastor of the Aberdeen Methodist Chinch. Injured--D. Berry, Wadevillc, N.

seriously: William Dunn. Mount Oilcad, cut 011 head: David Cook. Mount Gilead, crushed hip and shoulder: Bymim I'ox, Mount Rilead, cut eye; S. Ingram, Mount, (iflead, cut on heart unrf bruised; Clark Knllard. Mount Oilead.

hack yon of Rev. G. A. Oplepby, severe cut on head. Tho wreck was caused by spreading of the rails on curve.

Two went down an emlmukment. ten feot liish and were demolished. JUMPED THE TRACK, Overland Limited Ief( tke 1'nlln One Srrtoanlj' I Osrden. TItnh, Jan. Pnoiftc paflr.o.nRor train No.

1, known as tho Overland Limited, which Jp.ft hero yesterday afternoon, jumped tho track nl Kodak, fnur miles imM of lovelock. rnrly today, iimi eight of the ten earn comp-jMlng tho tnMn left the rails. No ono WH.S nerioimly nlthough ft number wcrn bntiscd hadly. Tho ouiso of iho dprallmcnt In n.scrlbrd to sprjngiiiK of a switch point. TSmporor IJOHPH 11 In I.oiitlon, Jan.

to tho Dally Telegraph, from 91. Petersburg ftnyn Hint nrlvlevn from aro (o tho effect a tho t'znr Inut 1on( both norvp nnd flesh on of IntelllRnnco a tlio nlrlkcrn wero bound thither. It la boltavnrl lift may lleo to Ontohlnn, whoro Alcxandnr lived in duriaK his eaUxtt WILL SHOOT TO KILL Troops at St, Petersburg Take No If Is Simply a Case of Fire to Death, END OF TROUBLE IN SIGHT Energetic Action by the Military Has Frightened the Mob and All Will Be Over in Two or Three Days--Last Night Troops Were Firing and Cavalry Charging -Excited Throngs in the Streets. Special Cablegram to The News, Copyright, 1905, by New York Herald Company, ST. PETERSBURG, Jan.

have been renewed. Troops are firing and cavalry are charging on the excited throngs in the streets. At 6i06 o'clock the excitement was rapidly rising and the streets were patrolled by cavalry. At the corners were strong infantry pickets. Each soldier has been given thirty rounds of ball cartridges with instructions to lire on the slightest provocation.

No pris' oners are beingtaken. It is simply a case of fire to death. A majority of the shops are closed. Hundreds have been pillaged. Barricades in the streets have been cleared away by the military.

Yesterday two regiments of Guards refused to fire at the first command and only fired on the second command, Great disorder is anticipated tonight. Postal, telegraph, telephone and train sctv vice are interrupted. This is not a National movement, but is only evoked by discontented workmen. Energetic action by the military has frightened the mob and the trouble wfll probably cease in two or three days, PEACE MAY DIE YOUNG, Collapse of- the Revolutionary Movement May Be but for Three or Four Weeks at Most, fiPECIU. ClBLEGJUH TO THB NBW8.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 1205, by the New York Herald Gatchina Palace no imperial flag is waving and rumors are rifo that the Czar and Czarina had suddenly left for Llvadla, in the Crimea, but in response to inquiries a court dignitary assured mo that the rumor was groundless. I The principal Ministers are wholly out of sympathy with the acts of pereonasea who have been responsible for tho public order en Saturday night. They condemn the I wholo course adopted by the Government since Saturday evening.

Maj. Gen. Rydz- effsky, Assistant Minister of the Interior, who was the head of the police down to Saturday last, remarked to friends of mine today that tomorrow and Thursday would be the very worst days in St. Petersburg, and that the revolutionary masses would probably visit private dwellings and take whatever they wanted. A number of wealthy young officials are leaving the city tonight in consequence of fears entertained that tomorrow the trains may cease to run, and reports have reached us that In the provinces, on several stretches of line in Central Russia, especially In the Government of the Yula, the railroads have been torn up by the people, but again repaired by the troops.

Desperate attempts have been and will be made by working men to plunder the arsenal. They complain that without arms they can accomplish nothing, and many Intelligent supporters of the revolution are beginning to fear that a temporary collapse of the movement is a question of two or three days, a collapse, however, which may last three or four weeks at most and culminate in far more resonant happanings. But the majority are le.sa pes- simistic and point to the fact that in two hours at one center alone a sum of J6.2.TO was collected for the strikers and their families, by whom the pinch of hunger was painfully felt. An appeal for foreign help, which was drawn up by a prominent literary man, has not been forwarded because of his arrest, but I am enabled to state that the appeal, which would have borne well-known signa- ures, requests British and American nsws- apcrs to open subscriptions for the strikers ind to send money to the office of the lius- slan journal, Asvaboshdennie. in Paris, or tho Vorwarts, in Berlin.

Tho has been marked by two events of groat importance. Ono of them shows tho people who have made demonstni- an- not yet beaten down into suhm.it- 'ion. The other Indicates that the aulhori- ios aro absolutely determined they shall bo jL-Aten down until they have no voico left with which to protest. Tlie first of iho.su events is the battle of Kolpino and the iccond 's the appointment of Gen. Trepoff, ormei- Chief of the Moscow police, whoso Ifc already been more than onco at- Mnptrd, to the position of Prefect of St.

Petersburg Karly In tlio morning a procession, variously "estimated to number from 20,000 to 5,000 1 left Kolpino nnd proceeded along ho high to After they advanced miles on their way tlie.y a regiment of Infantry, supported by mlf a battery of nrtlllcry, nwaltlng their They were ordered to retire, but linking some, show of force, they eonlinned go forward until they had oomo i i range, when micec-sslon of 'olleys fiinpr-fil them and throw them Into Itsordcr. They tied prec.lpltiitely, leaving ho ground strewn with tlicilr dead. loiter hey endeavored to t'orm up nncw, hul tlio fan try. quickly following tip their ndvnn- privncd them, pouring In which drove, them lielter skelter nto Kolpino, where they were. Burroumleil iy troopn, who Inlllcted Inriher pevere nhmriit.

I is Impossible, to furnish a criMi- I lint of toduy's lighting, but nn 've. phiiu-o of nn officer pprhnps conveys ndf-qiinto Idea oce.urred. "Thin lerrlble, 1 lio vtiyx, "may bo cgaidcd aa tho Lifil endeavor to carry out Father Gopon's policy of a petitioner who blindly trusted that the Czar would hear him. The fact that the crowd has made two serious efforts to cut the Moscow railway shows that the methods of the strikers haVe developed on sterner and more practical lines-." St, Petersburg Facts. Odd and interesting facts about the residents of St Petersburg: I Population (census 1,534,000.

Greek Catholics, 85 per cent. Protestants (chiefly Germans and Finns), 10 per cent. 1 Roman Catholics. 3 per cent. Jews, 2 per cent.

Unable to read or write (adults), 36 per cent. Peasants, 40.7 per cent. Burgesses (householders), 20 per cent. Classes In proportion to population-- Workmen, 1 In servants, 1 In 10; 5 scholars, 1 iu 32; soldiers, 1 in 25; offi- cials, 1 in 61; teachers, 1 in 250; police- men, 1 In 208; surgeons, 1 in 60S; advo- cates. 1 In lawyers, 1 In apothecaries, 1 In pawnbrokers, 1 In savants or litterateurs, 1 in nobles, 32.3 pe.r cent; merchants, 2.4 per cent; foreigners.

3.1 per cent; employers and their families (census 1861), clerks and their families. 2U.S32; workmen on wages, 233,409, and families, 68,853 workmen (in- dependent), families. 22,272 562); churches, 425; theaters (state). railways, area (dry). 19.S6S acres; areas (under water), X.330 acres.

Manufactures Gobelin tapestries, glass, porcelain, surgical instruments, articles of malachite, embroideries, tox- tiles, leather, paper, copper, iron, chinory, sugar, etc. 5 Health--Lowest mortality of any Eu- ropcan city. Averagf temperature 2 (January), 5 degrees above zc.ro. BACKBONE BROKEN. A i Confluence Jii tlie Situntioii--Knfher (iopon Said to He In It I o.i cow.

i-'nther fiopon has disappeared and Is raid to be In Moscow directing the, slrfkt 1 there. Kor thi! moment the men he.ro. an 1 i a plan of not ton are KpominKly comincuclnp: to realize i i iiriiiR It is folly lo rc-siM tht' troops, if tho strikers arc- paralyzed there It Is grim-rally Iwlicvcd a revolutionists und terrorists wlm nro coming to front will betfln ti reign of bomb-throwing, and thai ti.c pnlltlcal extlcb' asHOclaMon. known as "IHeRi'l Hotl CropH," will make large Thcro In no i In 1 report cirenlntiiiK that the, wtroug urn maroiilnK upon Kolpln, twenty inllcn from St. ppte.ru- burft for tlio purposo of nelzlnff tho Hinnll nrma fiictory Iheie.

MOSCOW Drunken DiMnottNlrntorM A i i Moper.w, Jfin. nnd cavalry iiro patrolling llio city. Hcvcril gronpn of drmortfltrnlni 1 hnvo boon forcibly i i A confcrnnuo of. dinployora mot tho TO BUILD WHARVES HERE. BPBCUL TO TOT NUWE.

Austin. Jim. II. I-asst- tor, geiior-il attorney of the Chicago, Rock Itiland Gulf Railway, will leave for Galvoston tonight. Rock Island Intends to build wharves at Galvoston In the Immediate future.

Mr. Jjapaiter will secure data necessary to bo incorporated in a notice that special legislation may be applied for, apd such notice lias been given a bill will be introduced upon the subject. Bourse today but achieved nothing as tha strikers have nqt yet formulated their demands. The employes of the Barry Boiler Works began work this morning, but the strikers forced their way into the shops and ordered the men to cease work. They immediately complied.

RADICALS IN ASCENDANT, Social Democrats Break: With Zemst- voinla and Urpe Violence--Gopon ConnaelH Moderation. St. Petersburg, Jan. wildest rumors are in circulation. A mob is reported to bo marching on Tsarkoe-Selo to see the Bmperor as the multitude marched to Versailles to ask Irfiuis XVI.

of Franco for bread in 17S9, but the story Is utterly without foundation. In certain quarters, whero tho woes of Russia arc always laid to the door of Great Britain, the feeling against the British has become intense, it betng charged that the British are furnishing money to bring about a revolution. Father, Gopon's popularity is unimpaired, but It Is already evident that the Social Democrats are sotting the upper hand and that they are urging the people to violence. From trustworthy sources it fs learned thai Father Gopon sent a lettor to the Social Democrats in the following terms; "They have fired upon and massacred us, but we are not vanquished, and the day of. our triumph Is nigh.

Do not spoil our triumph by talcing up arms and resorting to violence. Content yourselves with destroying the portraits of him who is no longer worthy to be our Emperor." This pacific admonition irritated the Social Democrats and does not meet with a response from the workingmen, who apparently are thristing for vengeance and aro clamoring for their leaders to distribute arms. The revolutionists arc also reported to bo actively preparing bombs and infernal machines to wreck the post and telegraph offices and destroy other great property. The revolutionists talk wildly of issuing a manifesto declaring a provisional government. They seem to have broken completely with tho zemstvoists.

whom they treat with contempt on account of what they call their "truckling" to autocracy. Even Prince Troubetzkoi, who led the reformers of Moscow, is regarded with suspicion and even hatred because in an article published in the Pravo he described the revolutionists as a "Port Arthur inside of Russia," which Russia would have to overthrow. M. HcKsen, editor of the Pravo, -whose advanced liberal views are wcU known, has been arrested. The Workingmen's Club has been closed by order of the Prefect of Police.

Prof. Kareeff and MM. Annesky and Pechesrhnnoff, three well-known writers, and Town Councillors Keedrin and Hchnit- nikoff, who are aJso lawyers, were arrested during the night. COSSACKS USED SWORDS. In Strlkem SeveraJ Men Were AVonndert--Electrical Supply House Shut Down, St.

Petersburg, Jan. while dispersing a crowd of strikers at 4 p. drew their swords and wounded severaJ men. Work "fans been suspended at the works of the Belgian Electrical Company, which furnishp.a the majority of the electrical supplies of St. Petersburg.

A POTENT WORD. Workman nt Vienna Meeting 1 Said St. PetcrHburRT and Police Dispersed tlie AHHCmblagc. Vienna, Jan. held a meeting In a hall here last night to discuss the strike situation at St.

Petersburg. As soon as the first speaker mentioned the word "St. Petersburg" a police official, who always supervises such meetings, ordered the meeting to be dissolved. His order was carried out amid considerable tumult. Demonstration In Trlonte.

Trieste, Jan. hundred workmen assembled before the Russian Consulate here last night, crying "Down with the Czar!" "Down with tyranny!" Down with absolutism!" The police dispersed the crowd. MOSCOW PAPER'S DEFIANCE. Says tfce for Liberty Wiii Not lie Prevented. Moscow, Jan.

24. The Liberal paper, Itussky Viedmosti, lias created a sensation owing to its comment on the official statement of the St. Petersburg shooting. Tho paper says; "This official report does not come from the scene of the war; tin: victims have not fallen upon the K'tttleficlilft of Manchuria, nor in a with forcifin foe; but in a bloody conilk't between troops and Russian Inii'KlH'rs. Arms und may avail put down pcacefi'l demonstrations, hut fnrec is not powerful enough to quench the nFpirntions of the KiiPsIan heart, ward off couseriueners ot Sunday's volleys and prevent the! movement for liberty and a jiisily orpnnlJied Government coming to a full fruition." llpwnrrt I i i i on Ilnnrno.

Paris, Jan. The Improved. hrinj? influenced by tho absence nf dtsroiirnginK advices frnm at. PetrrslHirK- an upward tendency and tho close was firm. 1 (Innrler i Paris.

Jim. Tho students of Latin Quarter, i i a number of Russians, held a meeting a In sympathy i tho Kt. retersbnrjr strikers and tempted to make n. fleniniiRtrntlon. The.

pollen hroke up the meet Ing. No serious incident occurred. ItiiciNlii Mnolitno (inns. BorMn, The Russian hnn ordered tho Lmhvlff-Lnewo firms faetftry to supply as MOM us possible WO machine Failu-r Story Dented. Boston, Jan.

Tho AHsnclntcd Htut thnl. it In authorltntlve.ly do- nlril KM her rinpnn ever wan n. repro- a of Y. M. C.

A. In this city. i i i Cologne, a 1M Tim mini a of llm atrlknrn JM nn IH-IIIK most re-- by police i i cut tho coal mum district.) FREE PASS BILL IS IN Senate's Measure to Be Opposed Because it Perx mits Low Rates for Classes of Persons Considered Too THE HIGHER COURTS CONFLICT Constitutional Amendment for a Superior Supreme Court to Sit Only When Opinions Are at Variance--Proposed vention of Assignment of Wages Opposed. Alamo Bill Now Up to Staff Special to The News. Austin, Jan.

The Senate reported the freo pass bill today, but passed the matter by unanimous vote until tomorrow, when it will probably receive consideration. There -will be opposition. One of the features of the bill which Is the subject of criticism Is the clause which provides that the railroads may make special rates for classes of persons. Thia is understood to bo authorization for clergy rates; but it is pointed out that the clause is BO broad that rates might be made to legislators, lawyers, farmers or any other class of persons. In tho lax hearings today the telegraph and telephone companies had an inning.

Generally speaking they opposed any change from the present form of taxation, asserting that the properties arc, already taxed to the limit. The proceedings were fairly interesting, but up to date, they arc regarded by members of the committee as mere preliminary skirmishes. They look for the real battle when the "thirtecn-inch that is to say, tho railroads-- come up. That will be on Thursday and Friday. A constitutional amendment was introduced in tho House by Representative Richardson Maya Navarro County, and provides In effect that whenever the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals disagree or hold differently upon the construction of the Constitution or laws of the State, such fact shall be immediately certified by the court in which the case in pending to the Governor, who shall appoint one of the voted for C.

A. CuluerFon for United States' Simator. Ho was placed in nomination by Senator McKamy, seconded by Senator Skinner. Committee on Interim! Improvements reported favorably House bill, providing for the purchase, of the Alamn Mission property in San Antonio and appropriating 500 for that purpose. Senator Davidson called up the bill and after the several suspensions of the rules it was finally passed without a -dissenting vote.

Finally passed Senator Hill's bill increasing from $50 to $75 per month the salary of the stenographers to the Courts of Civil Appeals. Judiciary Committee No. 1 reported favorably House bill restoring the civil and crim-' Inril Jurisdiction to the County Court of Trinity County. Kngroased Senaton Smith's bill providing for the appointment in vacation of guard- tins for rpinors. same to he permanent THICKS contested at the next regular session of the court.

Engrossed Senator Looney's bill prohibiting common law marriages. A resolution signed by the entire Ssnaie was adopted congratulating; Lieutenant Governor and Mru. Neal over the arrival of a bouncing baby boy. Finally passed bill by Senator Hicks, authorizing bond to be given in appeals to Court of Criminal Appeals in misdemeanor cases on habeas corpus. Senator Glaescock moved to make as Bpeclnl order for next Timadiy, and from day to day until disposed of, the Terrell election law as introduced in the Senate.

The motion was overwhelmingly lost by viva voce vote, only nne voice in the affirmative having heen heard. Adjourned until 10 a. m. tomorrow. GALVESTON CHARTER- BILL.

It I'fLftncd Filially liy ihe House. 'Other AlennurvH. Justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals, to SPECIAL TO TUB NBWB. be selected by lot, who shall sit with the Austin, Jan. the first session Judges of the Supremo Court and Court of.

of the House at 12:15 today the only busi- ncKa transacted was to cast the vote for arid thc'Jiuestlon Urlted States Senator. ence to which his a he qu ppoin tment was made. Upon each certificate of dissent between the two courts the Governor shall make a new appointment. The court thus created is given the power to decide questions only upon which the two courts may be in conflict The concurrence of four of the Judges is necessary to a decision. At the afternoon session the following bills were advanced to third rending: Mr.

Johnson's, prohibiting Toping contests; Mr. Webb's, providing for the creation and investment of sinking funds by cities and independent school districts: Mr. Blanton's, regulating the sale of cocaine and drugs, and permitting the sale of paregoric; Mr. Ware's providing for rhanfc of venue in Tho Judiciary Committee spent three misdemeanor cases from counties having Mr. Love's (Dallas) bill makes such assignments void.

Sir. Hancock's bill makes them when the rate of discount is usurious. Representatives of various interests said to the committee- that they were anxious to knock out the "ahylocks," but a law making all assignments of wages void would work great hardship. The committee was told that railroad men mane such assignments purchase of watches and uni- forir? p.rd other like cases were cited. The House has passed the bill declaring Jefferson Davis' birthday a legal holiday.

The Senate finally passed the bill provid- ng for the purchase of the Alamo Mission. It will go to tho Governor tomorrow. running at large. These bills were finally passed: Galveston charier bill and Johnson Countv road law. After transacting routine business (Tin House adjourned until o'clock Wedm-s- day morning.

Senate Hi I In In trod need. SrxcuL TO Tni NEWS. Austin, Jan. were intro- duced in the Senate this morning as follows: By Mr. Harbison, requiring domestic cor- poratians to confine their business to ono place to be stated in their charters.

By Mr Davidson, perfecting the statutes under which the Fish and Oyster Commissioner operates. By Mr. Glasscoek, providing 1 a locomotive engineer must have served thrt-o years as fireman and conductors two years Senate Root inc. 3PEC7AL TO Tni NBW3, Austin, Jan. Senate this as brakemen.

morning finally passed House bill dtminish- ng the civil and criminal jurisdiction of lakes, bays and inleis" nlong the County Court of Gray County. Also a i coast of the Gulf of Mexico, so that arrests House bili similarly affecting the County Court of Hutchinson County. Finally passed bill hy Senator Hawkins, extending two years the time within which railroad and belt corporations may have within which to construct their lines and prevent forfeiture of charter. may be made for crimes committed thereon. By Mr.

Decker, fixing the time of holding- court in (he Thirty-First Judicial District. By Messrs. Martin, Braohtie-Id, Grinnan, and Stone, providing for special terms of District Courts, the i i being to pur- mil special sessions of courts to give eriiu- I inals immediate, trial, where an President Pro Tern Hanger laid before the I atrocious crime is Senate as pending business the substitute By. Mr. Davidson requiring the hoard oC Senate bill prohibiting any railroad, sleeping pardon advisers to visit the Slate Peniten- car or express company from' issuing free i tiury and report on the condition and merit passes cr transportation.

I of convicts who are without friend? nnd for On motion of Senator Grlggs, who said whom no application for pardon has been the meml'crs have not had opportunity to read the bill, its further consideration wns postponed until after tlift mcrniiig call tomorrow. Next in order was the for bill by Senator Hicks, requiring corporations using municipal franchises to make sworn annual reports by ituins and departments, showing tho receipts and disbursements of the plant and its liiumcial condition; the intention being to enable councils to have data with which to ilx rates, tt they so desire, to bo charged hy water, light and power plants and street railroads, also sewerage plants. Towns of lesa than S.OdO arc exempted in the bill, and Senator Smith offered an amendment reducing It to 4.0ikl. Senator Stafford opposed the amendment. i a it WJIM unncccsf.iry, as plants In such tmviiS ore accessible anil can conceal nothing.

Senator Smith said a plants, in cities of c-vcn 3.000 could conceal facts from tho public, anil Insisted was more- effective i Senator offered an amendment to I the amendment, fixing the i i at 2.000, i i a Hiiinll places should be. accorded legislation as well ns cities. Tho amendment to tho amendment wns Inst by viva voco vote, and orlgiiml Smith amendment wns defeated, tiyra to 17 nuyp. Senator Sir.It offered an amendment mrUuiiK tlio ontiro exemption. 1-ost.

Tho bill was then nnsreri to o'lRroHsnient. Senators Fnulk and Smith had adopted a resolution exonerating printer from nny blnmo in tlio delay in printing Semite bills. Mndo special order for next Thursday, Mil by Senator Stokes providing that a per- non inny im siimtnonseil only twlco during one tpriii of court to answer special vonlro tiielHK. PnMSP.fl to enNi'OJ'wmenl. bill by Senator fllono ih'i I nitod Rt.itim to fjiiiro InndP nccpwiiry for deepening nni! mnlclnK navigable.

of this Stntp, particularly hnvliiK In mlud pros- i ppctlvn work nil (be Kinnlly v.ttsed Hcmitnr nill Mil 1'ltig roping AJ1 IwonlvttU Boualora prmMit illed. House IHIiM Introduced. SPKCIAT. TO THE JCews. Austin, Jan.

were introduced in the House today as folows: By Mr. Ramsey--Authorizing tho issuance, ot bonds for (hi; school houses in cum moil school districts. By Mr. Cobbs--Providing for release, of Hen's. IV Mr.

Edwards--To amend provisions nf penal code relating to subponas; also another bill relating to warrants of HI IVKL issued by magistrates. Hy Mr. Love of Wlllliimsnn--AnujiHlinK Revised Statutes rdathiK publk- nmtlp in cittrs and Mil relating to jmwer.s of commissioners' OHJI is. By Me.ssrK. Kenncily and Robertson -To Hy Mr.

Ttmon--To lix i a i i of who shrill hereafter join their fence, to tlm fence of another. Hy Mr. NVlnis-Rppranng pm acknowledgment statutes. Hy Mr. M.

BlalnrU-Prnvldlng that i laborers on Texas have a lien upnn thtvonulpnu'iH for'their wages. Hy Mr. WIImiMfi--Tn prcscribi- tho time, within which statements i)T facts -iisv im Died in district courts. HKAimr. Tl'BSttAY.

Ronnie OoiitiiiHleo 1VIH fonttlilor firtioui. TO Ttm NVWB. A Jan. flonate Judlrhiry Committed No. 1 has net 2 p.

m. next TUPH- clny an the i it wilt take, tip tho troncnil Innurancn till I iia by Senator luiniipy und tho bill by MSHI-H. Chambers ami Te-rrell, providing for tho. forfeiture, ftf ihc permit of nny fnnir.uncn corporation which tt'inovm iniy num 10 tlm i'Y)ernl i TiOnnny'fi bill nl! c.ln».-en of 1n- mill InlerPRtcd i.