The Daily Tribune from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin • Page 2

A RAPIDS GRAND RAPIDS, WIS. SUTOR, Publishers. COLLIDED HEAD-ON. Passenger and Wrecking Train Come Together While Rounding a Curve. the passenger train were Ran Into Landslide.

Auburn, N. Feb. men were killed and two fatally injured. in a wreck early today on the Auburn branch of the New York Central, two and one-half miles west of Aurelius. A passenger train and wrecking train collided head ou while rounding a curve at full speed.

The dead: JOHN HAZEMEN of Rochester, engineer of the passenger train. FRANK HINES of Rochester, fireman of the passenger train. EDWARD VINE of Rochester, baggagemaD. ENGINEER DURAND of crew of the wrecking train. FIREMAN SCHMUCK of Syracuse, of the wrecking train.

The Injured: Trainman E. I. Renner of Rochester. Evan, member of wreck crew. Both engines and the baggage car of York.

Feb. men were killed and one dangerously wounded in a freight wreck on the Columbia Port Deposit railroad a short distance south of McCall's ferry about 11 o'clock last night. The dead: ENGINEER A. T. HATCH.

FIREMAN PAUL WILHELM. Henry Wolf, a brakeman, was danger- resiously injured. The men are dents of Columbia. The wreck was caused by the train running into a landslide. About twentyfive cars, were reduced to splinters in the wreck.

A SERIES OF TRAGEDIES. School Teacher Slain. Wife Murderer Arrested, and Sulcide of Phliadelphia Youth. Decatur, Feb. Barnett, a school teacher, today entered 3 schoolhouse one mile from Camargo and without warning shot and instantly killed Miss Era Wiseman, the teacher in charge.

He then jumped into a well and was drowned. Barnett had been a suitor for the girl's hand. All were highly connected. New York. Feb.

Wolfrid Blondin. who was accused of the murder of his wife near Boston, Inst June by cutting off her head, was arrested at police headquarters, New York. today. Philadelphia, Feb. A.

Janney, aged 28 years, shot himselt through the right temple at his home in Lansdowne, a suburb of this city, last night. dying instantly. Young Janney had been melancholy for some time. Vancouver. B.

Feb. her companion, Jack Kirk, was asleep, Lulu Watts, a variety actress of Nome, attacked him in a fit of jealousy and severed his head from his body with it razor. New York, Feb. Kress of Union Hill, N. was beaten with a syphon and is now in a hospital with a fractured skull, because he maligned the Hohenzollern, and Prince Henry in particular, in the presence of a German bartender.

The latter was arrested. TARIFF BILL PASSED. Goes Through Senate on a Strict Party Vote-Hoar with Republicans. Washington. D.

Feb. -The Philippine tariff revenue bill was passed by the Senate by a vote of 46 ayes to 26 noes. It was a strict party vote, Mr. Hoar Mass.) also voting in the affirmative. The final vote was taken after rejecting all pending amendments, with the exception of one introduced by Mr.

Hoar. This provided that no conviction for treason in the Philippines could be had without the testimony of two witnesses of the overt act, and that members of the family could, not testify against each other. amendment was agreed to vote of 38 ayes to 34 noes. The Teller amendment, providing for Philippine independence, was rejected by a vote of 37 to 22. Messrs.

Mason Ill.) and Hoar Mass.) voted in the affirmative. All other amendments went down on party lines. POLICEMAN'S SUICIDE. Member of Calumet Hecla Mining Company's Force in Copper Country. Calumet, Feb.

Underwood, a prominent member of the Calumet Hecla Mining compolice force, was found dead in bed Past' evening with a revolver clenched his hand. There was a bullet wound in his left temple and it is supposed to have been a case of suicide, though no motive for the deed is known. FROM HOSPITAL TO JAIL. Preparation for the Trial of Mrs. Soffel at Pittsburg.

Butler, Feb. Kate Soffel, wife of the Pittsburg jail warden, and who assisted in the escape of the Riddle brothers and was wounded during the battle when they were recaptured, was removed from the Butler hospital this morning and taken to Pittsburg by County Detective Robison. She had fully recovered from her wounds. Three charges have been made against her, one alleging the crime of in the cape of the murderers and two alleging felonious assault and battery. Austrian Emperor's Gift.

Besemer, Feb. Francis Joseph of Austria has sent life-sized portrait of himself to Attorney J. J. Patek of Ironwood in appreciation of conspicuous services in the Austrian army. The portrait is handsomely framed, surmounted by the crown of Austria in solid gold.

The gift came direct from his majesty. Jeweler's Dummy Clocks Wrong. A paragraph has been going the rounds of the press that the dummy clocks used by jewelers and other dealers in timepieces as advertisements always indicate the hour of 8:18 to commemorate the precise moment when President Lincoln was assassinated. Lincoln did not al'rive at Ford's, theater on the fatal evening until o'clock and Booth did not shoot him until after 10. His death oecurred at 7:30 the next morning.

-New York Press. over £1,000,000 DEATH OF E. I. KIDD. State Bank Examiner Dies at Home in Prairie du Chien.

HAD STOMACH TROUBLE The End of a Most Useful and Honorable Career- -A Self- Made Man. the services. Fought for Hie Country. Prairie du Chien, Feb. Examiner E.

I. Kidd died this morning at 3:30 o'clock after seven weeks of intense suffering. Last Friday his eyesight and hearing commeneed to fail and later all train of thought and sensibility began to disappear. There were with him when the end came his wife and her two sisters, Cashier Bisbee and Warren Alexander of Grant county, his old comrade and bunkmate. The funeral will be under the personal supervision of Col.

J. P. Barnum of this city and the services are to be held Thursday morning at the First Methodist Episcopal church, which was recently completed and the building of which was largely made possible by Mr. Kidd's great generosity. Dr.

D. C. Dutton of MeGregor, formerly pastor here, will preach the sermon. The funeral will be in charge of the Masonie lodge of this city and the Delamolai commandery of Boscobel. Prof.

F. A. Porter of Lynxville and Rev. F. S.

Ferguson will sing solos during Edward Isaae Kidd was one of those men who contributed largely to the making of Wisconsin's industrial, educational and political history and took a prominent place in the front rank. He was born in Millville, Grant county. May 10, 1844, his ancestry being English. His THE LATE E. I.

KIDD. youth was passed at his native place, where he acquired such an education as schools and academies of that time afforded, and imbibing those lessons of frugality, integrity and justice for which his father was noted. At the age of 17 he became a private in Co. Twenty-fifth Wisconsin infantry. He served in Gen.

Rusk's regiment, carrying a musket from August 1862. until the close of the war. Wherever the fortunes of war took the Twentyfifth Wisconsin, whether in Minnesota during the campaign, at Vicksburg, the Meridean expedition. at Atlanta, or on the march to the sea and through the Carolinas Washington, Mr. Kidd was present for duty and all through the four years, while he was in the service for the flag, he never was compelled to gO to a hospital.

In the Legislature. Upon his return home in 1865 he engaged in the milling business, to which he gave his entire attention, except when absent from home on public business, until 1889, when he with Gen. Fairchild and others established the Bank of Prairie du Chien in this city. During his residence in Grant county and up to 1880 he represented almost continuously his town on the county board. In 1880 he was elected to the state Assembly and re-elected in 1881, 1882 and 1883.

In 1884 he was elected to represent Grant county in the state Senate, and re-elected in 1888, district having been enlarged by the addition of Crawford county. Mr. Kidd's work in the legislative session of 1890-1 was marked by exceptional usefulness. He was an acknowledged leader of the Republican minority. He was always a warm friend and supporter of the educational interests of the state.

His views were that in all its schools and colleges, and in the university itself, the very best instruction that could be procured was none too good for the youth of the state. In 1889 he removed from Millville Prairie du Chien. Since his residence here he had been chairman of the board of supervisors of Crawford county, in other ways his fellow citizens have shown their confidence in his ability and integrity. The Legislature of 1895 enacted a law providing for an examiner of state and banks, and Gov. Upham very properly appointed Mr.

Kidd to the office. concluding that his long and varied legislative experience and his wellknown integrity, as well as his familiarity with the banking business. fitted him in an unusual degree for the discharge of the responsible duties of examiner. To this position he was reappointed in 1899 by Gov. La Follette and held the position up his death, and to the discharge of his duties he devoted nearly all of his time and care.

Sorrow at Madison. Madison, Feb. flag on the capitol was hung at half mast today in respect to the late Bank Examiner E. I. Kidd.

Deep and universal sorrow is felt among the state officers and employes over the sad passing away of Mr. Kidd. Gov. La Follette, State Treasurer vidson and several other state officers nd friends from here will attend the funeral of Mr. Kidd on Thursday.

Once Wealthy Man Dies a Pauper. La Crosse, Feb. --Attended only by his friends, without a known relative in the world, Wenzel Boehn, aged 74, ouce one of the wealthjest farmers in La Crosse valley, died today. While he was rich his children died one by one and then wife passed away, leaving him alone. He heavily and ran through his property, finally going to the poorhouse.

Old friends finally took him out of the poorhouse and kept him until he died. Daniel Lynch, Chilton. Chilton, Feb. Daniel Lynch, a former, resident Hie of hodv this The Inadequate Powers of the Interstate Commerce -Continued. By EDWARD P.

BACON. As is well known. a process of amalesmation. or unification of interest, has been going on for some rears past beer tween competing lines of railway, which has during the last two years assumed enormous proportions, and competition is fast becoming extinguished. Daring the period last mentioned a large proportion of the railway mileage of the country, variously estimated by different authorities as aggregating from 101.000 to 000 miles, constituting not less than three-fifths of the entire railway mileage of the United States, has been brought under the absolute control of five great capitalists, and the process is still going rapidly forward.

This constitutes a power for extorting money from the public the exercise of which. however fairminded may be the individnals in whose hands it is now rested. it is certainly unwise to permit without throwing around it such safeguards for the protection of the public, by governmental authority, as shall effectually prevent its abuse: otherwise it is appalling to contemplate the results that many ensue. We have a striking presage of these results in the joint action of the railroads using what is termed the "Official Classification" of articles of freight. comprising all the railroads in the territory lying east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.

By that action. which went into effect on January 1, 1900, a large number of articles were transferred from a lower to a higher class, by which means they were subjected to higher rates, including many articles of the most common use. According to a report issued by the agricultural department of the government on April 1. 1900. no less than 592 articles were so raised in classification.

and rates charged for their transportation. For example, sugar, coffee, soap and starch. in carload lots, were raised from sixth to fifth class, involving an advance in the rate for transportation, in the ease of A shipment from New York to Chicago, of 20 per cent. On large number of articles the change in classification involr -d an advance in rates of from 50 to 100 per and in some instances even more. Many articles, when shipped in less than carload quantities, were transferred from a lower to a higher class, while the same articles shipped in carload lots remained in the same class as before.

which resulted in an excess of from 33 to 80 per cent. being charged for transportation of the same articles shipped in less than carload quantitles, in over the rate the in full carload from lots: some cases excess was 100 to 150 per cent. The actual difference in cost to the carrier for receiving, billing and delivering freight in less th carload quantities over the cost in full carload lots does not average cent. The difference in cost of hauling, owing the cars not always being loaded to their full capacity in combining lots of less than carload quantities. may be from 1 to 2 per cent.

more. Making the most liberal allowance for the entire difference in cost arising from the difference in circumstances and conditions relating to the two kinds of shipments, it the belief of the writer, from a careful observation for many vears of the details of freight traffic by railroad, with which he has been brought into continnous and close contact, that there is no justification for a greater difference than 5 per at the most, in rates charged for than carload quantities over those charged for full carload lots of the same articles, excepting in the case of articles shipped "in bulk" whose identity must be preserved. Any greater ifference than this is an unjust discrimination in favor of the dealer whose trade enables him to order goods in carload quantities. The effect of this is. as will readily be seen, to destroy the business interior distributing points and coneentrate trade at great commercial centers.

Some idea of the effect so extensive a change in classification of freight articles may be gathered by taking the single article of sugar as an example. In the annual "Report of the Statistics of Railways in the United States." issued by the interstate commerce commission, for the year ending June 30. 1900, the tonnage of sugar transported by the railroads of the country during the year. originating on the line of the companies reporting, is given as 2.050.558 tons. 'The advance in rate.

produced by transferring this article sixth to fifth class, in the case of shinments from New York to Chicago, was one dollar per ton. the previous rate having been in force for a period of fourteen years. It is fair to assume that this represents the average advance in the rate charged on the aggregate tonnage of sugar shipped to all points throughout the country, taking into consideration the fact that rates of freight between New York and Chicago are relatively much lower than those charged between Chicago and points farther west, and also than those charged shipments to intermediate points on the route or for shorter distances to other destinations. This would indicate that the increased amount of money paid by the people of the country, as a whole, for the transportation of sugar during one year, resulting from the change made in the classification of this article, was over two million dollars. And this is only one of 592 articles that were similarly affected by the change made in classification, some to a much greater and others to a somewhat less extent.

The same advance was produced in the rate charged for the transportation of coffee, starch and soap numerous other commodities of common use, the aggregate yearly tonnage of which is enormous. The previously existing rate on coffee and starch had been in force for a period of twelve years and that on soap for eight years. An advance of 14 per cent. was produced in the rate cotton, piece had been goods, in the force previous thirteen rate on years. Similar changes were made in the "Southern Classification" in use on the railroads situated in the territory lying east of the Mississipi river and south of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and also "Western Classification" in use in the territory lying west of the Mississippi river, by means of which, together with the changes made in the "official classification" above mentioned, a general advance was produced in rates of freight throughout the entire country.

It has always been regarded as evidence that a freight rate is remunerative when it has been continued in force a long time. It is a well-known fact that. during the neriods mentioned while the previously existing rates were in effect, most of the the country which were not overcapitalized, and were located where they were needed. were paying good dividends continuously. The only pretext asioned for the indirect advance in rates effected by the changes in classification referred to was the increase in operating expenses consequent upon the advance That this in of labor and cost material.

was more than compensated for he the increase in traffic is shown by the fact. stated in the annual report of the interstate commerce commission anhmitted to Congress on January 4, 1901. the percentage of operating expenses to earnings of all the railroads the country for the year ending June 30, 1900. WAR less than for the preceding year. and less than the average for the preceding period extending back to 1890: and that the net earnings per mile for the year ending June 30, 1900, were greater than for the preceding year, and greater than the average for the preceding period back to 1890.

that, "in every part or this country, carriers hare by concerted action. withon: any notice to shippers, and indeed against the vehement protest of shippers, advanced their rates upon a large portion of the merchandise carried under class rates an average of one-fourth." and justly remarks that. "when hundreds of chippers complain that a publie servant has perpetrated a wrong anon the oublie in the discharge of a nublie duty there should be. some public tribunar before which inquiry can be had and by which redress can he admin-North American Review. (To be Concluded.) LATEST MARKET REPORTS.

Milwaukee, Feb. 25, 1902. EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS. MILWAUKEE -Eggs Market lower; fresh. loss off, eases included, fresh, cases returned, 20c; seconds, 14015c.

Receipts were 375 cases. Butter--Market firm: fancy prints. fancy or extra creamery, per lb, firsts, seconds, 184 fairy prints, extra fancy dairy, 20421e: lines. packing stock, roll, 160 17e; whey, 9e; grease. The receipts today were 11,044 lbs against 21.948 lbs yesterday.

The receipts of both creamery and dairy are light, especially on dairy. The demand is good. Fancy dairy will bring as high as 22c. Cheese- Receipts were 10,230 lbs today against 7808 lbs yesterday. cream flats, new, colored, fancy.

good to choice, Young Americas, new. daisies, new, fancy brick new. low grades, 1 412e: limburger, per lb, No. 1, low grades, 10612e; imported Swiss, 25c: Block Swiss, domestic, 15016c; fancy loaf. No.

2, Sapsago, 20c: farmers'. NEW YORK Butter Receipts, 8849 pkgs; steady; state dairy, state 22420e: June creamery, renovated. 16424c: factory, 16020c. Cheese -Receipts, 2722 pkgs; firm; state, full creams, early made, fancy colored. 12 state, full creams, early made, white.

"large early made, colored, 11c: large early made, white, 11c. Eggs Receipts, 6638 pkgs; weak; state and Pennsylvania, 28c: Western at mark. 28e: Southern at mark, Coffee Easy: No. 7 Rio. CHICAGO Butter Easier: creameries, 18427e: dairles, Cheese Steady; cheddars.

twins. daisies, Young Americas. Eggs Easy: at mark, cases included. Dressed Steady; turkeys, 10 DE chickens. MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET.

HOGS-Receipts, 22 cars; market steady; light, 5.7005.90: mixed and medium weights. common to good packers. 5.75@6.00; choice heavy, 6.1506.25. Pigs, 90 to 120 lbs. 5.00@5.25.

CATTLE Receipts, 10 cars: firm; butchers' steers, medium to good, 1030 to 1300 lbs. 4.7505.75: fair to medium. 950 to 1050, 4.00@4.50; heifers, common. 2.75@3.50: good, 4.00@5.00: cows. fair to good.

3.250 4.00: canners, 1.7542.50: bulls, common, 2.50 choice, 3.25(44.00; feeders. 800 to 950 lhs. 3.25@3.75: stockers. 500 to 750 lbs. 2.75 veal calves, common to choice.

5.00 milkers and springers, common sell for canners: choice. 30.00645.00. SHEEP- 2 cars: market steady; 3.0044.50: bucks. lambs, common to choice, 4.25@6.00. Chicago receipts: Hogs, cattle, 5000; sheep, 15,000.

CHICAGO POTATO MARKET. CHICAGO, Feb. Brothers report: Receipts, Special! market steady; no surplus of fine stock; fancy rurals, 77e; long and round white, 70072e: red, 68e; mixed red and white, 66c. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. MILWAUKEE-Flour--Steady.

Wheat Firmer; No. 1 Northern, on track. No. 2 Northern, on track, Corn No. 3 on track, 57c.

Oats Easy: No. 2 white. on track, No. 3 white. on track, Barley- No.

2 on track, sample on track, 57062e. Rye No. 1 on track, 58c. ProvisionsSteady; pork, 15.30; lard, 9.17. Flour markets steady: patents, 3.75@3.85; bakers', 2.7502.85; rye, 3.20€3.30.

Millstuf's are steady and quoted at 17.50 for bran, 18.00 for standard middlings, and 19.00 for Milwaukee flour midlings in 100- lb sacks: red dog. 19.50. CHICAGO Close Wheat February, May, July, September. Corn-February, 58c; May, 60c; July, 60c; September, ruary, May, July, September, Pork-February. May, 15.52½: July, 15.70.

Lard-February. 9.17½; May, July, 9.47½0 9.50; September, 9.57½@9.60. Ribs- February, 8.30; May, 8.40; July, 8.50@8.52½; September, 8.62½. -Cash Northwest. 1.70; Southwest, 1.65: May, 1.70.

Rye February, May, July, BarleyCash, 58(62c. Timothy-Mareb, 6.50. Clover-March, 8.80. KANSAS -May, July, cash No. 2 hard, No.

2 red, spring, 72c. Corn-May, 60c; September, cash No. 2 mixed. 590: No. 2 white, Oats-No.

2 white, NEW -May, July. Corn- May, TOLEDG Wheat Fairly active, firm; cash, May, 84c; July, CornDull, firm; cash, 59c: May and July, cash, Mar, 43c; July, Clover seed February and March, 5.621: April, 5.571; No. 2 8.60. Rye -No. 60c.

ST. LOUIS-Close Wheat Higher: No. 2 red cash elevator, May, July, No. 2 hard, CornHigher: No. 2 cash, May, July, Oats-Higher: No.

cash. May, July, No. 2 white, Lead--Firm, 4.05; speter strong, 4.12104.15. hard, DULUTH-Close-Wheat No. 1 Wheat Northern, Cash No.

No. 1 Northern, No. 3 spring, to arrive, No. 1 hard. No.

1 Northern, May, July, Manitoba No. 1 Northern cash, May, No. Northern. 68c. Barley- Corn- De.

Flax- -To arrive. 1.68: cash. 1.67¾: May, 1.70¼. Receipts -Wheat. 148,239.

Shipments None. SOUTH 3200: strong to 10c higher; beef steers, Texans, cows and heifers, 3.000 5.00; canners, 1.5002.80; stockers and feed ers, 2.7564.65. Hogs 10c lower; A heavy, 5.9506.20; mixed, 5.800 6.00; pigs, 4.2505.40. 4500; strong to 10c higher; sheep, 3.50@5.80; lambs. 5.2566.40.

KANSAS CITY- 6000; 10c higher; beef steers, 6.0006.70: Texans, 3.2545.50; cows and heifers, 3.00@5.10; stockers and feeders. Hogs ceipts. slow to be lower; heavy, 6.20 packers, 5.8066.25; medium. 5.900 6.20: yorkers, 5.5066.00: pigs. Sheep Receipts.

2000: 10c higher; sheep, 4.7505.65: lambs. 6.4006.75. ST. Receipts. 4500; market steady: beef steers.

3.5066.30; Texans, 3.00€5.50; stockers and feeders, 2.60@4.80; cows and heifers, 2.00@5.15. Hogs -Receipts. 7500: steady: pigs, 5.8506.10: packers. 5.90€6.30; butchers. 6.00626.45.

Receipts. 1000: steady; sheep, 4.25@3.25; lambs, 5.5066.75. Telephone Ousts Ventriloquy. Contrivances have been invented and presented for the production of ventriloquial sounds on the stage by means of a telephone, says a London paper. The receiver is placed in the mouth of the dummy figure and the voice heard is not that of the performer immediately behind the footlights, but that of a person behind the scenes.

Ventriloquists have varied their performances of late by the introduction of stuffed pigs, horses, dogs and other animals, which appear to join in the "conversation." In these instances the telephonic method greatly assists in producing good effects. A Rip Van Winkle Dinner. A London idea for dinner tables, which American hostesses are borrowing, is the use of dwarf trees, mossy logs, lichens, stones and shrubbery of flowers, converting the table center into a miniature forest or garden. One dinner given recently was a Rip Van Winkle dinner, with gnomes in plaster, coloral, in characteristic attitudes among the mosses and trees. Weird lights of red and green bore a miniature of Joseph Jefferson and flashed through the The menu de Pin CONGRESS.

Honse. Again on the 19th the general debate in the House on the Indian appropriation bill was devoted almost entirely to extraneoue topies. As ou the day before, the issue raised by Mr. Wheeler (Ky.) a few days 220 came in for considerable attention and was the feature of the session. Mr.

Bromwell 0.1. Mr. Kern Ill.) and Mr. Fleming Ga.) added their riews to the literature on the subject, but it was Mr. Boutell Ill.) who entertained the House most.

The House, spentuthe day on the 20th working appropriation bill. Forty-two of the sixty pages were dis ed. posed of. Several amendments were adoptbut none of much importance. The apreservoir propriation for for the Gila preliminary river work in the valley went out on 3 point of order.

Mr. Smith (Ariz.) offered an amendment to strike out the apcame the text for a general onslaught on propriation for the Carlisle school, and it bethe practice of educating Indians in Enstern schools. His amendment was defeated. Just before the close of the session Mr. Fitzgerald (New York) made an attack on the superintendent of the school at Mount Pleasant, who, he said, was charged with permitting the debauching of Indian girls.

The House on the 21st passed the Indian appropriation bill. No amendments of importance wece attached to it. The latter part of the session was deroted to the consideration of private claim bills, a number of which were passed. During the consideration of one of the bills, Mr. Kleberg who Is a German.

made a brief speech, deprecating any attempt to make political capital out of the coming visit of Prince Henry. He said the United States should extend to him and the great nation he represents a hearty welcome and a true American hospitality. The House on the 24th passed to divide Texas into four judicial distriets. and also the Towney resolution, calling 01l the secretary of war for information con cerning the transfer of sugar lands in Cuba since the American occupation. It then transacted some business pertaining to the consular appropriation bill.

The bill carries an appropriation of $1,931,678, an increase of $82.950 over last year. It was made the vehicle for speeches on trusts, coinage and other irrelevent matters. Prince Henry entered the gallery of the House and was loudly applauded, some venturing to give vent to cheers. Prince Henry gracefully bowed and was then shown to his seat by Mr. Hill He remained for fifteen minutes.

during which time he evinced the greatest interest in the proceedings. The House, in committee of the whole on the 25th. spent most of the day in consideration of the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill. Mr. Richardson La.) objected to statements made by Mr.

Corliss Mich.) in the report favoring government ownership of the contemplated Pacific cable. Mr. Green Pa.) spoke in favor of reform in the consular service. he declared, few exceptions, are worthless." Mr. Grosvenon 0.) took exceptions.

"The United States consular service is far superior to that of any other country," he said. The Senate continued the consideration of the Philippine tariff bill on the 19th, the principal speeches being made by Mr. Burrows (Mich.) for the bill and Mr Money (Miss.) against It. although Mr. ditcheil Mr.

Foraker Mr. Mallory (Fla.) and Mr. Tillman (S. all took more or less part in the general debate on the subfeet. The Senate on the 20th devoted its time to the Philippine question.

Mr. Patterson one of the minority members of the Philippine committee, delivered his first extended speech in the Senate. Mr. Nelson (Minn.) presented a legal and constitutional argument in support of this government's action in the Philippine archipelago and sharply criticised Mr. Patterson for injecting into the controversy the question of sectarianism.

Mr. McCumber (N. urged that Congress should not bind the future 1:0 by a declaration of a definite policy regarding the Philippines, as it was desirable that all possible information should he in hand before a permanent policy was determined upon. For more than six hours on the 21st the Senate had the tariff bill under discussion. Mr.

Bate Tenn.) delivered a carefully prepared speech in opposition to the pending measure. He was followed by Mr. Spooner, who declared that "the measure advanced by the Democratic minority here would raise hell in the That was the keynote of the Wisconsin senator's speech. It waS an arraignment of the Democratic party in and out of Congress for their attitude con the Philippine question. Mr.

Tillman addressed the Senate in opposition to the pending bill. He declared that expression of the motive for enacting the bill were a subterfuge and a humbug. and everybody knows it. In the Senate on the 22d a fist-fight occurred between Senators MeLaurin and Tillman, both of South Carolina. McLaurin arose and said that Tillman's statement recarding him: was a "willful and deliberate and malicious tie." Tillman jumped over the chairs and struck MeLaurin in the face.

A vicions encounter ensued. Both men clinched and struck frantically at each othed when Assistant Sergeant at-Arms Layton sprang between them and several senators seized the men and parted them. It was with great difficulty that the men were parted. The chair. without putting a motion to the Senate.

declared the Senate had to go into excective session. and amid great excitement the salteries and the the Senate at once took up the startling as enfloor wer cleared. In executive session counter and a resciution was offered referring the matter to the committee on privileges and elections to report as to what method the Senate would pursue. Both made apologies to the Senate. but were permitted to do so calv with the understanding that their apologies did not purge them of.

contempt. During Mr. Tillman's speech in the Senate, prior to the MeLaurin incident. a lively tilt occurred between him and Mr. Spooner over the part that W.

J. Bryan had in the ratification of the Parie treaty. Mr. Tillman declared that improper influences were brought to bear to secure votes for the ratification of the treaty, and he insisted that the Republican side knew how they got the necessary votes. Mr.

Spooner demanded to know what those improper influences were, and upon whom they were brought. He denounced as a coward any man who would impeach a senator without naming him. After eight hours of tumultuous debate on the 24th the Senate, shortly before 7 o'clock in the evening, passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 46 to 26, a strictly party vote. Mr. Tillman and Mr.

the two senators from South Carolina, who on Saturday last were declared by the Senate to be incontempt be. cause of their fight in the chamber, were not permitted by voice or by vote to participate in the proceedings. The question aS to their rights to vote precipitated a sharp debate lasting nearly two hours. During the debate on the Philippine bill Mr. McComas and Mr.

Wellington (Md.) became involved in a controversy, during the course of which the latter declared that if Mr. McComas should make his statements outside of the Senate chamber he would brand them as malicious falsehoods. He was called to order promptly and resumed his seat amid considerable excitement. Many amendments were offered to the Philippine bill, but except those offered amendment by the committee, only one, an laws enacted by the Taft commission, was restricting the operation of the sedition During the session guest of the passed. nation, Prince Henry of Germany.

was escorted into the chamber seat by the side of a President Pro-Tem Frye. As the prince ascended the president's platform the Senate rose as a body and a hearty applause swept over the floor and the thronged galleries. The Senate probably will suspend Senntors Tillman and MeLaurin. Their names were restored to the rolls on the 25th in order that they may be stricken off in a formal and regular way by a vote of the Senate. This plan was decided upon at a conference of the Republican members.

It reHeves the president pro tem. of the responsibility. As soon a8 the journal of the preceding day's session had been read and approved, Mr. McMillan Mich.) member of the Republican steering committee, was on his feet. He called up the meg.

sage of the House of Representatives, announcing to the Senate the death last fall of Representative Rosseau Crump of Michigan. He presented resolutions, which were adopted, and then the Senate, as an addiDonal mark of respect, adjourned, having been in sesison about fifteen minutes. -Tahiti advices tell of a case of leprosy reported to have been cured by the juice of tun-tua, a shrub prepared at the ut station. THE HOUSEHOLD Will Prevent Many a Burn. Reaching into oven after a pie or roast is the cause of many of the painful burns from which the housewife suffers.

and, no matter how careful she is, the accident will happen at intervals. To reduce this danger to a minimum, and at the same time afford the cook the opportunity to inspect the baking with ease, Pembroke D. Harten, of Philadelphia, has contrived the automatic shelf slide for ovens shown in the accompanying drawing. The usual shelf is retained. and the improve- SHELF SLIDE FOR THE OVEN.

ment consists in the pivoted bar and bracket attached to the inner side of the swinging door. The inenr end of the bar is attached to a bolt near the center of the shelf, and a pull on the door withdraws the shelf at the same time, the flat bar underneath also serving as a partial support for the weight above. Thus it is easy to baste and season a fowl or roast, or the pan may be lifted vertically from the shelf, after a secure grip has been obtained on the handles, and there is small chance of a burn, as It is unnecessary to thrust the hands into the oven at all. Senate. Egg Sandwiches.

These are not to be made by a recipe which once appeared for them: "Boil fresh eggs five minutes; peel; take a little white off from each end; cut the rest in four slices, and put between bread and butter." That compound would be but little better than the egg in its natural state. Hard-boiled eggs, for any purpose, should be cooked in water just below the boiling point not less than twenty minutes; then the yolk, instead of being tough, will be soft and mealy. To make sandwiches, use eggs thus boiled; chop fine; add a teaspoonful of butter for each egg, and salt and pepper to season; mix well together. The butter in the mixture holds it together when cold. Spread on slices of butetred bread, and put them together.

A little chopped ham may be mixed with the egg for a variety. it Cheese Cakes. Put al pint of milk on to boil, beat four eggs light and stir into the milk; when it is a thick curd remove from the fire and when cool mash it very fine; add to it four ounces of bread crumbs. Beat to a cream half a pound of butter and half a pound of sugar, add the curds and bread; beat four eggs until very thick and light and pour them into this mixture; then add gradually one tablespoonful of sherry and one of brandy and one of rose water and a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and lastly a quarter of a pound of currants well washed. Line either pie plates or shallow cake pans with puff paste, pour in the mixture and bake in a quick oven.

They should be served cold and eaten the day they are baked. In the Laundry, Alum (used in laundry work) is principally valuable for cleansing water which it is necessary to use a second time, either where the supply is very limited or for other good reasons; though it goes without saying that, where there is plenty of soft water to be had, there should be no such thing as a second use of the same water. Given a tubful of suds which must be used again, a tablespoonful of alum should be dissolved in a small quantity of water--the exact amount not being material--and poured into the suds, the whole being quickly stirred and then allowed to clear. In a very short time the clear water can be poured off, leaving the sediment in the bottom of the tub. Chicken Broth.

Cut the fowl into quarters. Lay in salted water one hour. Remove and place in three quarts of water, bringing it very slowly to a boil. gently until liquor has diminished one-third. Remove chicken.

Season the liquor, bring it to a boil, and strain. Stir a cupful of hot milk slowly into two beaten eggs, then add the mixture to the broth, stirring slowly. Half this quantity is sufficient to serve an invalid two or three times. Peas in Potato Cases. Mash six or eight boiled potatoes.

Add butter and milk in the usual way. When well mashed add a little flour to slightly stiffen them. Fill greased patty pans with the potato, putting a piece of bread in the center of each. When they are browned turn them out carefully; take out the bread and in the hollow made by it fill with young well-cooked peas, which have been seasoned with a little cream, pepper and salt. Serve on a hot platter.

Cleanlinesss. Filth anywhere may become the resting place for germs which threaten life. The skin and clothing ought to be as nearly antiseptic as possible. Half the world does not know how seldom the other half takes a bath. "Oh, that the world would wash itself!" is the cry of the antiseptic reformer..