The Buffalo Commercial from Buffalo, New York • 2

i hilVFAU) FRIDAY KVKNIiViL FKiWlUkY ir ii a oras. ALL WOUIIDS 11BALED penalty imposed for breaking th speed law. Senator Hinman (republican, Bingham- ton) introduced In the Senate this morning a resolution requesting Gov- Uiggin to send to that body cODiea of the reports of BACK IT'S ACHE? YOUR KIDNEYS Does your urine stain linear Do Too have an oaasnai desire wtaate. especially dnrtng tlie algbtt Is there a smarUag or scalding sensation la passing It! Does It pa'n yo to hold Itl Are you sore, weak or lame In the lower part of the back? Do yon start or jump op quickly In your sleep? Are your eyea sunken, face pale and bloated! Do yoe bave ringing soaada la yoor ears? Are yoa easily faUraedT la yoor broth short Is your sleep not refreahlngT la there -swelling around to eyea, ankles and abdomen? Skin pale, hot and dry? Do you bave nervous symptoms, backache, headache, cramps in the legs? Are yoor bowels ednstlpated aad digestion Impaired! If yo save any of the above symptoms yoor kldneya are diseased and yoor life In danger. B.

W. Irwin, of Beldsbnrg, wrote, oo Aug. 14. 1804: "It took the best doctors wt wo years to discover that the kldneya were the real eauae of all my trouble. I kept getting weaker and sicker.

My weight went dowa from 210 to 180 pounds. My eyes and skin were yellow; my stomach out of order, and at times the palna In my head and back were almost unbearable. I believed I'd die, and It'a a wonder I didn't. They thought I had stomach trouble nd treated me for it, but I got no better. Finally one doctor decided my kidneys were affected and prescribed Warner's Safe Cure.

The good effects were manifest at ooce, and In tbre weeks I was compteteiy cured. In four months I had regained my weight and never felt better in my life. The doctors and my friends were dumbfounded at my remarkable recovery, and unite with me In proclaiming Warner's Baft Cure the grandest medicine la the world foe earing kidney diseases." 1H1II VII tDCC yoa have any doabt as to the development of the disease nllilLlUlu rtLL. yonr system, send a sample of your urine to the medical department, Waroer'a Safe Cure Boch ester, H. and oar doctors will analyse it and send a report with advice and medical booklet free.

Warner'a 8afe Cure la what yoa need. Ifs taken by doctors themselves, prescribed by them, and osed in hospitals for all disorders of liver, bladder and blood, because, while it cures even the worst cases, it contains nothing that can possibly leave any bad after effects. The good effects are felt with the first few doses. Buy it at your druggist's, or direct, 60c and 11.00 a bottle. Accept nothing bnt Warner's Bafe Core.

WARNER'S SATE PILLS move the bowels gently and aid a speedy cure. WILIiARD STATUE. Unveiling Ceremonies in the National Capitol This Afternoon List of the Speakers. New York. Feb.

17. A special dis patch from Washington says: The first statue of a woman to have a place in Statuary Hall in the National Capitol will be unveiled thia afternoon. It is a heroic figure of the late Frances E. Wil- Norfolk, Feb. 17.

Harry Westa-lard of Illinois, renowned the world over cott, a Virginia crack shot and leading as the head of the Woman's Christian I sportsman, 'a authority for the state-Temperance Union, and for her great ment that there is now on hand In behalf of purity of life. Win- I 000 to be used by sportsmen in fighting ois has seen fit to select Miss Willard'a I an effort to be made in the coming atatue to fill the remaining place open to legialature for the passage of lawa sup- bt the Senate might. Investigate the reason for the larga increase asked this year for the support of that office. The resolution called attention' to the fact that legislation now pending provides for an increase in the appropriation for thia purpose of $82,000 over 1904 and over 1903. The resolution was referred to the finance committee without discussion.

Xhe sessions of both houses of the Legislature were of the Friday character, with small attendance. Only such action waa taken as met with no opposition. A few bills were introduced. Both bouses adjourned until. Monday evening.

Woman is Charged with Giv: ing Former Buffalonian Morphine Tablets. New York, Feb. 17. Harrison F. Johnson, a lawyer employed in the office of Frank V.

Johnson, New Y'ork counsel for a life insurance. company of Hartford, died yesterday in the New Y'ork Hospital from morphine poisoning. He was removed from a hotel in Sixth avenue to the hospital in a comatose condition and lied without regaining con- sciousness. The police are holding Mrs. Dottie Everhard.

who, they allege, gave the morphine to Johnson, and her companion. Lottie Keynolds. The Everhard woman, the police claim, says she took a mor phine tablet and Johnson asked for one. She gave him a packet containing several, the authorities say, but it is not known how many he swallowed. The district attorney's office is making an investigation.

Johnson who was about 30 years of age, was married and had one child. He came here from Buffalo nine years ago. Johnson was said to be the sou of V. H. Johnson, who now is believed to be in Indian Territory.

His guardian, Walter II. Johnson of Buffalo, is on the way here to claim the body. Mr. Johnson was well known in this city. He was a grandson of the late Harrison T.

Foster, formerly supervisor from the town of Marilla, and inherited part of his grandfather's fortune. It is said Mr. Johnson was worth about or $30,000. Mr. Johnson was a graduate of Cornell University and was married to a Buffalo woman shortly after his graduation, but later he obtained a divorce from thia woman.

Subsequently he married again, his wife being a New Y'ork woman. The Frank V. Johnson referred to iu the dispatch is a cousin of Mr. Johnson. Mr.

Johnson's second marrisge took" place about four years ago, and he had one did, now about two year 'old. According to friends of Mr. Johnson, there are a 'number -of Hysterious circumstances connected with his death. They say that Mr. Johnson not addicted to tne use of drugs and it is hinted that he -might have been drugged first and then taken to the hotel later.

A year or two ago Mr. Johnson made many eneniies when he was one of the attorneys for a suppression of vice society and obtained evidence against violators of the law. FRED'K COOK DEAD. Former Secretary of State Passed Away This Morning Jay Cooke and Other Prominent Men. Rochester, Feb.

17- Frederick Cook, former secretary of state and one of the most prominent citizens in Western New York, died this morning. He was preai- i oiuw-i. ul UCllUQU- American Bank and a director in many other corporations and Jay Cooke and Other Noted Men. Philadelphia, Feb. 17.

Jay Cooke, whose fame as a financier is worldwide, died last night at the home of his son-in-law, Charles D. Barney, at Ogontz, a suburb of this city. Mr. Cooke was 83 years old. He had been complaining of general debility, the result of old age, for-several years.

His condition was not considered serious, however, and his death last night came rather suddenly. Last Monday he entertained as his guests 125 young ladies attending the Ogonts School and their friends. On that occasion he IBM DEATH OF H.F. JOHNSON 1 Fort Arthur to Hare an Immense Plant for Mann- facture of Pig lion. SENATOR IS AGED 101.

Imperial Regiment at Halifax, to be Disbanded New NaraljPolicy is Being Carried Oat. Toronto. Mackenzie Maan, whose name in Canada has become- synonymous with large undertakings, -have just completed the formation of at million-dollar concern, known as the' Atikokan Iron Company, for the purpose of mining iron ore, and manufacturing pig iron and other products of iron and steel at Port Arthur. Thia company will be supplemented by another, called the Canadian Coal Ore Dock Oompaay. which will construct coal and ore docks at a cost of $500,000.

and will have- a storage capacity of 200,000 tons of coal and tons of ore. xne nnai agreement in connection with the Iron Company waa signed in the office of the Canadian Northern-Railway yesterday. The town of Port Arthur is taking a financial Interest in the company, and also furnishing a site, of forty-acres. The new company will be the first In Canada to produce high grade bessemer ore and pig iron. It is the purpose later on to establish" industries at Port Arthur for the manufacture of steel and steel rails.

The Senate has decided to send a message of congratulation to Senator Wark of New Brunswick on Sunday next, which is the Senator's 101st birthday. Halifax. Details for the disbandraent of the 5th Royal Garrison Regiment, now on thia station, have been received. The regiment is to be disbanded by April 1, and arrangements made for men whose service has not expired, and for the free transportation of themselves and families to England. Ottawa.

Since Mr. Justice MacMahon gave his decision declaring that the Grey Nuns, Christian Brother, and membera of other other religious orders were not qualified to teach In Ontario, the first mentioned have taken steps to satisfy the requirementa of the Ontario educational act Inspector Rochon. who has charge of the bi-lingual or trench schools of Ottawa City." Prescott and Russell counties, in which the nuns are employed, said that he had taken the matter up. Certificates were granted the nnna on their satisfying the department that they had passed the examinations aa prescribed for lay teachers. Certlfi.

caies nave oeen granted to about 100 nons, some securing third-class provincial, others district certificates, and a few temporary ones. Montreal. Donald MacMaster. K. C.

the eminent Montreal lawyer, who repre sented the United States government when the appeal of the Gaynor-Greene extradition case was arguxi before the Privy Council, has been invited to contest British censtitnency ns a Chum-berlain candidate. baa already nonnced his Intention to spend the next rew years lOiigland. At one time MacMaster rf presented Gl.igarrf. his native county, in the Canadian House of Commons. OaJgary, inmtha ajo fourteen members of tha Ranchmen's Club, the swell organization iD Calgary, formed an Aiiti-treting Society.

1 The result has, ben such a falling off in the consumption of liquors in the club that the officials are seriously concerned. It is claimed that the influence of thje organization, even though it only liegvn in the club-rooms has extended to the regular bars, and has seriously cut h'to the receipts of those patronized by the club members. Pembroke, Ont- Charles HncnUcticI was killed by his horse Wednesday about one mile from town. It appears be was trying to break a road, when the knocked him down and he wag- tramped to death. He was 70 years of age.

Dr. Haentschel, of Mattawa, is a son. London. Paul MeLarty, a farmer liv- Ing on concession 12, Yarmouth Towns-ship, was found in a field near Belmont on Tuesday morning in a pitiable tion, ns a result of which he will prob ably die. The mercury stood at 18.

de- grees below aero during the night, jand McLartf while driving home was over come with the cold to such an extent that his reason left him. When discovered at 7 o'clock in the morning he was speech- less, and with his horses unhitched from the sleigh, was driving them aimless'' -about the field. His arms were frqzen to the elbows, and hia face was also badly frozen. Montreal. Crushed under many 4ons of frozen sand, Michael A Hard, a foreman in the employ of the Montreal Sand and Gravel Company, Ottawa street, inet instant death Wednesday.

Allard was working with a gang of men on a sai.d dump at the foot of Ottawa street, near the canal. The surface of the sand being frozen bard, the men were digging in nnder the hard mass on ton to ret at nnfrozen material when, without warning. the top of the dump collapsed, burying the foreman. The men who were on the Job loet no time in setting to wort to i tries te Allard, and a telephone message brought the ambulance immediately to the spot. When the ambulance arrived Allard's body had been resetted from beneath the mass of sand; life, however, was extinct The tremendous weightjof the frozen material had caused instant death.

AN IMMENSE ICE JAM. Feb. 17. The continued cold weather has increased the St Lawrence ice jsm so that it is 14 miles in length and extends from shore i to abore. In place the ice is packed solid from the river bed to the aarface.

The water was raised 13 feet at Morris- burg, on the Canadian aide. IN HAWAII'8 LEGISLATURE. Honolulu, Feb. 17. The territorial legislature convened yesterday and effected D.

D. RIaenberg of Oaba was elected president of the Senate and W. Knudson of Kauai speaker of fas House. Among the recommendations made in Got. Carter' message were the establishment of a system of local self- To Prevent tha Ortp rtdwUeOotdaM Call fnr la tali Or ip ii omlr.

ISCaova Lb, cm I (It government approximating the county system; radical changes la the liquor law, and an increase of educational ap propriations. Gov. Carter said the large number of Asiatic children should be provided for. WHITE HOUSE BECEPTIOH. Given In Honor of the Army and Navy Last of the Season.

Washington, Feb. 17. President and Mrs. Roosevelfs reception to the Army and Navy, the last of the formal even ing social levees at the White House for the season, took place last night. Prac tically all the officers of the army and navy stationed here were present.

Invited to meet the guests of honor were the diplomatic corps, headed by Count Cassini. the Russian ambassador, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the mem bers of the military and naval affairs committees of the Senate and House and prominent representatives of Washing ton and out-of-town society. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt re ceived the guests in the Blue parlor, assisted by members of the cabinet and ladies of their families, with the single exception of Secretary and Mrs, Hay CoL Charles S. Brora well made the in troductions.

CANAL ARGUMENT. Brief Filed by Counsel Milbnm and Blaekmar in Beply to Mr. Boot's Contention. Albany, Feb. 17.

John G. Mllburn and Abel E. Blaekmar, attorneys for the in teres ta which are endeavoring to sus tain the constitutionality of the barge- canal law, have filed with Attorney General Mayer a brief in reply to that of Elibn Root on the constitutional ques tions involved. The brief is devoted almost entirely to a discussion of whether the abandonment of any portion of the present eanal system is a violation of xhe Constitution. Mr Root made a principal argument on that proposition at the hearing before the Attorney General.

Attorneys Milburn and Blaekmar bold that the Constitution does not prohibit the abandonment of any portion of the canal system, if the portion abandoned is practically replaced by a route which serves the same purpose. Their interpre tation of the constitutional prohibition is "The meaning of the constitutional pro vision obviously is that these waterways of commerce shall always be owned and managed by the state and shall never be sold, leased or disposed of to private in dividuals or corporations; and it has no further operation or effect. Hon. George Clinton has been given until Saturday to file his brief. FATAL HOTEL FIRE.

Woman Burned to Death in New York Heavy Losses by Fire in Several Cities. New York, Feb. 17. One woman was burned to death and 15 men and women narrowly escaped in a fire which dam aged the Hotel Winton at the corner of 110th atreet and Park avenue early to day. The dead woman, from cards found in the room she occupied, is believed to have been Miss Lydia Them el of 1529 Montgomery avenue, Philadelphia.

She waa about 30 years old. The fire started in a room on the second floor of the' hotel, and when the firemen arrived flames were bursting from windows in the up per stories. Fifteen men and women were driven out into the streets in their night clothing, and it waa believed that at) escaped until the body of the woman was found lying in a hallway, where she had been overcome by the smoke and flames. She was badly burned and died before physician reached her. The loss on the building was abont $4,000.

This afternoon the police notified the coroner that they had found Miss Themel alive and nnhurt and that the body of the dead woman was unidentified. Heavy Losses on Property. Laconia, N. Feb. 17.

A loss of $100,000 waa caused by a fire that, originating in a five-story wooden factory building owned by the Winnepesankee Lake Cotton Woolen Manufacturing Company, last night, destroyed that building and aawmill and the wood plant of George D. Merrim adjoining. New York, Feb. 17. For the second time within six months, fire gutted the four-story brick building at 38 Cortland street, last night.

For the first 15 minutes the fire waa beyond the control of the department and three alarms were 8ent jn DUt combined efforts of the var- ions engines confined the flames to the building. The loss is estimated at 000. Allentown, Feb. 17. The plant of the Kroll Furniture Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of parlor furniture and fancy tablex east of Michigan, was destroyed tr fire last night Loss 1115,000, insurance $7,000.

Three hundred men are thrown out of work. Glens Falls, N. Feb. 17. Fire Id the building occjpled by the Hudson River Water Power Company caused several thousand dollars' damage today.

BEQUEST AN INVESTIGATION. Alleged Shortage in Accounts of Quartermaster Lafltte of the Logan. San Francisco, Feb. 17. Orders hare been issued from the War Department appointing a board to investigate and report on an alleged fhortage of the accounts of Capt.

Jacaoea De lafitte, quartermaster of the transport Logan, now in this port. This board, it is stated by Capt La-fitte'a friends, is appointed at his own request, as he la held responsible for the funds, and he assorts that there la a abortage in funds which were beyond his control. It is necessary that the quartermaster of each transport take 000 or $6,000 in his aafe on each trip, aa all payments of employes must be made in specie. On the return trip from -Manila Capt Lafitta waa ill and confined to hia bed most of the way across. While be was ill the money waa in charge of subordinates, and the investigation demanded la to fix the responsibility, If possible, for the alleged shortage, VATICAN WILL KEEP CLEAR.

Borne, Feb. 17. The Vatican haa been approached on the advisability of tendering Its good offices in the matter of the proposed marriage of Prince Victor Napoleon with Princess Clementine of Belgium, but has refused to interfere on the ground that Prince Victor never was favorable to the church. Prince Louis Napoleon, who is at Turin, waa congrat--! la ted on the approaching marriage of hia brother with Princess replied that up to the present time nothing had been decided. Assembly Committee Gave a Long Hearing on the Ambler Bill.

AMENDMENT ADVISED. Important Point on Canal Question Brought to Attention of Mayer by Senator TTill fcpertal to' The Co jims.t-la I- Albany, Feb. 17. Assemblyman Shut- tleworth went to New York last night election. Most of the other Erie mem-'bers.

except Senator Ilill and Assembly-V main left for Buffalo yesterday a -v iiciuvuii. AJWHTiunijuian tuinn was an interested listener to the bearing: in the SenatPlamber yesterday afternoon on I th'Habler bill to provide for local op- iu vines ujr miueuuai uioincis aner the fashiou of the Ohio law. The bearing lasted the greater part of the afternoon. and Senator Raines, after listening to theJ nrgcnienta for and against the meaanre and asking several questions, declared be came away that be did not think tin proposed law was practicable, or iconld be worked as it was now drafted, lot it possibly might be amended so as ha workable. Those who spoke against the bill were: Ex-Sheriff Grell of New York and Messrs.

'Max Ecktnan and Gustave Voss, repre- venting the United German societies of i Xew York. Those who spoke in avor were Congressman-elect W. S. Bennet of New York, Mrs. Francis Graham of Lock port, president of the New Y'ork Bute W- C.

T. U. and W. D. Wheeler.

'attorney of the Anti-Saloon Leacrue from Columbus, O. The last speaker ex- I plained the operation of the law in Ohio, Assemblyman I'atton's old Tonawanda armory claim bill has been reported fav orably from the committee on claims of the Assembly. Senator Hill's bill to give the Erie i county jurors a respite of two years after service on a jury passed the Assembly i late yesterday afternoon. i Senator IL W. Hill appeared before Attorney General Mayer with Mr.

Black-l tnar and Mr. Brainard of New Y'ork yesterday, and in addition to the brief filed by Mr. Blaekmar, Senator Hill spoke to the Attorney General, calling bis atten-rtkB to the elasticity of section 20 of article 7 of the constitution which waa an amendment put in by the constitutional convention of 185M, of which Senator HBI waa a member, and he referred the Attorney General to the debate of that convention to indicate that the legislature was given wide discretion in the matter of what constitutes improvement, and that the changed route of the Erie canal Was anticipated by the framers of the Amendment. Section 10 of article 7 reads: The canal may be improved in such rpanner as the legislature shall provide by law. A debt may be authorized for that purpose in the mode prescribed by section 4 of this article, or the cost of anch -improvement may be defrayed by the appropriation of funds from the state money, or by an equitable annual tax." Senator Hill goes to New York this evening to be present at the annual re union of the University of Vermont Alnmnl in the University Club building.

He will return to Buffalo Saturday afternoon. Four bills prepared by the state league of co-operative savings and buildings associations were introduced in the Senate yesterday-by Senator Tully. They are designed 'o encourage the organization of such associations and to relieve in particular 35 associations now hampered in their operation by article five of the banking law. The measures provide for issuing bares after a series is closed, for issues of provident shares for children similar to the 'present savings-bank privileges, for the division of receipts to different classes for retirement of stock in the order of its issue instead of permitting shareholders to withdraw by lot for the creation of a reserve fund absolutely for the adjustment of losses as soon as they occur, and finally for an honest showing by each association to every individual member. Gov.

HIggins has signed Mr. Rogers bills, on appropriating $315,000, to pay liquor tax certificate rebates, the other appropriating $208,750 for the principal and interest of public defense lands. THE NEW TAX BELLS. Several Will be Introduced Next i Week Batavia Bill Passed. Special to The Commercial: 17.

Next Tuesday there will be a' joint taxation committee hearing' given on the bill to tax sales and transfers of corporate stock. Some time next week the Senate committee on taxation will Introduce the mortgage tax bill- providing for an annual tax on all future mortgages, and at the same time the Bostwick Wlls of last year providing for '(exempting mortgages from all. but recording tax and providing the method therefor will be introduced. The Assembly today advanced the Pat ton Tonawanda armory claim bill and passed the Hooker bill amending the Batavia Charter. Assemblyman Hooker introduced a bill to ive boards of supervisors power to legalise the acta and bonds of minor political divisions of a county, such as towns and villages, to fix the salaries of cdunty officers and determine whether they; shall be salaried or fee offices.

Assemblyman Hornidge has introduced a bill repealing the present law which makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500. fine or imprisonment, to sell or grv away a street car transfer. MOBE SEVEBE ON AXTTOISTS. Heavier Punishment for Flyers Pro posed In Bill from Senator Grady. Albany, Feb.

17. The most drastic automobile bill of the session was in-trodoced today by Senator Grady. It proridea that the operator of an automobile who kills a person while traveling at an unlawful rate of speed may be con-vkrtifd of I manslaughter, second degree. Injuring persons as the result of dangerous speed is made punishable by imprisonment of -one to two years and fine of from 1.000 to $2,000. Not lesa than 30 days? imprisonment and $100 fine is the Always prober tJe Fun ii rsaxiyq stroma Cold in One Day, kes.

23c Ctipisi2 Days i Statement of Vice-President "Hyde of Equitable Life Assurance Society. RETAINS HIS POSITION. And tne Alexander Proposition, for Election of Director by Policy-Holders, was Adopted. New York, Feb. 17.

James W. Alexander and James H. Hyde were reelected president and first vice-president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at the adjourned meeting of the directors, yesterday afternoon. All the other officers whose terms had expired were re-elected. A resolution waa adopted recommending that policy-holders be given the right to vote for directors, and a committee, including Messrs.

Alexander and Hde, was appointed to carry out this step, which practically is the policy of mutuaUzation advocated by President Alexander. The results outlined were reached after a protracted and at times heated session. Friends of Vice-President Hyde were disposed to view the outcome as a victory for their side, but In other quarters the result was regarded aa a general compromise in which the contending factions met half way. That Mr. Hyde had a majority of ths directors with him was never in doubt.

His election to the chairmanship of the executive and finance committees waa regarded as significant in this connection. I "We have settled all differences and healed all wounds," said Mr. Hyde, after the meeting. "Every one of us, from my superior, Mr. Alexander, down to the humblest subordinate, now is pulling together.

We are in complete accord." The solution of the society's troubles was due largely, it is understood, to the conciliatory methods employed by Senator Depew aid Jacob H. Schiff. Contrary to report, Mr. Schiff had not arrayed himself on either side and was among those who favored mutualization. The formal statement of the meeting, as prepared by Elihu Root of counsel for the society, and given out by Vice-President Hyde, "with the approval of President Alexander and the board of directors," gives the following list of other re-elected officers: Gage K.

Tarbell, second vice-president; G. T. Wilson, third vice-president: W. H. Mclntyre, fourth vice-president; William Alexander, secretary; Thomas D.

Jordan, controller; S. D. Ripley, treasurer. The committee appointed 'to arrange a plan by which policy-holders may vote for directors consists of Valentine P. Snyder, James W.

Alexander, James H. Hyde, Gage E. Tarbell, Cornellua N. Bliss, T. D.

Guyler and Chauncey M. Depew. This committee is also charged with the formulation of a plan of "indemnification of stockholders," and it is to report on both questions not later than April 12th next. IT LOOKS T.TTTF. SUICIDE.

Discovery of Body of Man Who Dle-Appeared Just After His Marriage. London, Feb. 17. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Major Harry Pakenham. while on his honeymoon at Folkestone, Kent, last week, has been partially cleared up by the discovery of his' body on the seashore near there this morning.

Major Pakenham was a son of Gen. Ralph Pakenham, and his mother was a daughter of William Clarke of New Y'ork. He marridd on Feb. 7 in London Miss Markham, sister of the late Lady Annesley, and was staying with his bride at a hotel in Folkestone. Three days after the marriage, Major Pakenham went out for a stroll, telling his wife that he would not be long.

The next day his overcoat was found in the harbor and a note in a pocket said b7 waa sick and saw no prospect of getting TA; fa- finnth A -J uui iU5 uq svwi-a A AS. KJIU A "DINOSAUB Opening of New Section In American Museum of Natural History. New York. Feb. 17.

The American Museum of Natural History entered op- on a new stage of usefulness yesterday, when a large apartment which is devoted to a single group of fossils the remains of dinosaurs was formally opened to the public. 'Mounted In the center of the tions of the skeletons of scores of related reptiles. There, on the invitation of the director. Prof. Herman Isumpus.

a large company assembled In the afterr noon to drink tea and" do honor to an important cIobs of paleontological treas- ure. VHiri1it omnlnv tho term "dirm- saur to designate a large group or rep-' tiles, mostly of gigantic sise. The majority lived on plants. Some had four legs and some only two. Several genera had stocky figures, whereas others had long necks and tails.

The proportions of a brontosaurus are believed to have been abont 70 feet long and 15 feet high. In exceptional instances it is possible that the creature was 75 feet long. The specimen new on exhibition in the museum baa a length of GO feet 8 inches. The gigantic amphibian, whose skeleton is now publicly displayed for the first time, waa discovered in Wyoming, abont three miles west of the famoua Bone cabin quarry, in 1897. The bones were removed within the next two yeara Bnd nearly five years have been devoted t0 fredn" them from adhering material ttnu" "ranging them so aa to tell their s0 to the observer.

Two-thlrda of the original skeleton has been fonnd. After compieuug ine restoration, and espedal- ly in supplying the. skull, use haa been made of the remains of a related form, a mososaurus taken from the Bone cabin quarry. The work of preparing the specimen waa done by Prof. H.

F. Osborn, curator of. vertebrate paleontology at the museum, and hia assistants. The affair yesterday waa called "Dinosaur tea." Several hundred invitations had been issued to educator and scientists and ta the friends and patrons of the museum and practically all who were invited enjoyed a private view of the huge foaail. Wh-it yon pay tor extracts la Important, but what yon get far your money is ten times more Important.

Harnett's Vanilla cost more because It la worth mere. I it in Statuary Hall. The act of the atate legislature under which the work was executed was approved by the Governor on Feb. 28, and renewed In 1903. The exercises connected with the ac- ceptonce of the statue by Congress will be held in the Senate at 3 p.

m. and In the House at 4 p. m. The Senate exer- clses are in charge of Senator Cullom of Illinois, who will be the first speaker, followed by Senators Albert J. Beverldge of Indiana, J.

P. Dolliver of Iowa and Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois. In the House, George E. Foss of Illinois hss the arrangements In charge, and Charles Llttletield of Maine, Henry T.

Kalney, J. jrau iuu oiuer uicuauers ui uie Illinois delegation will also make ad dresses. NEW YORK MARKET. riOUR-Recelpts 13 813 sales 1,200 Flour firm. Minnesota patents.

winter straights. S5.303.40; Minnesota bakers, winter extras, S3.054.a0; win ter pate.it, S5.90(g3.85; winter, low grade. S9.4o6N.10. RTB FLOUR-Bteady; fair to-good, K35- 1.70: choice to fancy. S4.75Q4.9S.

WHEAT Receipts 10,725 bo; sales 000 bu. Wheat opened weak and was easy all the forenoon under heavy liquidation, larger Argentine shipments and lower cables. May, -SXfy 1.00. RYE-Noralnal. OORX Receipts 56,900 bu; salee 60,000 bu.

Oorn was easy on prospects of heavier Interior movement, lower Liverpool cables and with beat May, 51; July, 52- OAT Nominal; receipts 67,000 bu. BEEF Stealy; family, S11.0CKJ12.00; mess S0.00rg9.50: packet. $10.50031.00. PORK Quiet: mesa. flS.2KS13.75; fam ily, 1.14.004.50, short clear.

$13.00615.50. LARD Steady; prime western steam, $7.20. UTTTTHft efrRNG cmfwyp mfwyp wypt BUTTB 8trong; receipts 2,454. Street price: Extra creamery, Mc. Offl eta I prices: Creamery, common to extra, Z7ftB4c; -lo held, common to extra, 2582c; state dairy, common to extra.

23881c; reoo- vtted, common to extra. western factory, common to extra, 20Q2Sc; western imitation miiniiT rammon to extra. 23- CtOc. OHKEBE Strong; receipts BOO. State, fu'l cream, small, corored and white, fancy.

lSc: do line. 12S4c: do late made, colored and white, choice, 12c: do fair to good. do poor. 9eu0e; do large, colored and white, fancy, 13c; do line, 12MSSl2c; do made, colored and wtilte. choice.

12c: do fair to rood, i 10V4loq4p: do poor, V4lc; skims, full to light. 4KMc. BOOS Firm; receipts 8,058. State, Pennsylvania and nearby fansy, se lected, white, 3c; do choice, 8788c; do mixed, extra, 30ftj87c; western, firsts, 85c; do seconds. S3Q84c; southern, 20035c; refrigerator, 27c.

SUGAR Haw, firm; fair refining. 4 7-10c: centrlfiu.il 96 tent. 4 15-16c; molasses sugar, 3-18. Refined, firm. Crushed, powdered, granu lated, saos.

OOFFBS Pteady; No. 7 Bio 84c. TAT city hhda, 4MrC; coon- try, 4SC. HAx Quiet; shipping, as7uc; gooa to choice, X382c. POTATOES Quiet Long Island.

2.00; state and western, Jersey sweets. LEAD Q.ilet $4 HIDE4 Oulet: Texas dry, to 80 14Hc; Oslveaton dry. 21 to 23 18; Oall- fornla dry, 21 to 28 ids-, iwc. BARLEY Quiet: feeding. Sic C.

New York; malting, 40B2c, e. Buf- falo. BTRAW Steady; long rye, gl.OOQO.OS. BHANS Steady; marrow, medium, $220: peas, $2.00. WOOL Quiet; domestic fleece, S2SrWc.

ducted in accordance with the old roles. The entry of Count Albert Apponyi and Francis Kossuth into the house waa the signal for warm applause from their followers. SPORTSMEN HAVE BIG FUND. Tc Fight Bill Before Virginia Legls lature for Protection of Game. pressing the killing 6f live game in Virginia for snort.

The fight will be made by tbVirglnia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which will aeek the adoption of such laws for the protection of game from sportsmen as are now in torce in Massachusetts and other states. REBELS 8ENTENCED. Buenos Ayres. Feb. 17.

A council of war aentenced Major Villamayor, a leading spirit in the recent mutiny, to eight Tearg imprisonment and two other offl- tft three and five rears respectively. The council will be in session until all the military prisoners are dealt wltl. THE CARTER FUNERAL. New York, Feb. 17.

Many men prominent In legal and financial circles attended the funeral of Jamea Carter, the lawyer, in All Souls' Church, today. The body was taken to Cambridge, for Interment in M.t Auburn Cemetery. CHINESE GRAVES. Desecrating Old Tombs by Night for Buried Prizes A Cup 3,000 Years Old. "They all come from the graves." said he.

"Being durable, they bave lasted through unknown periods, when other thlDgs, put In for the comfort and solace of the dead, have perished. It Is sgainst the law to disturb a grave In China, and there would be no mercy for a foreigner caught doing such a thing. I had to employ natives for the work, and I was fortunate enough to get a very good man, accustomed to the nrt and miliar wltn tne irnnmu. uui the Chinese themselves are at It all tne time, A dealer will keep a gang of ten or a dosen men busy all the time, opening the old tnnjiu at nlrtit wherever lucre seems a prospect of good returns. Officials wink at It? Oh, ys they will buy the pieces themselves.

The wealthy Chinese buy great onanrltlea of these things, snd they will pity more for them than the foreigners will, They buy them as nn Investment. Just as the Hindus pot their spare cash In jewels Bnd gold and sliver bracelets. There are for the Investment of money In China, and those who have Idle nanitai will Dot It Into these things, to lie until they have an opportunity to realize. The graves are in mounds of earth, little hillocks or obtuse pyramids, and sometimes there are thousands of them together. "There Is the oldest bronse In the lot.

a libation cup. that dates 8.000 years before Christ. The Chinese have fixed the perlsd Of, these things, snd they are generally correct. Chinese literature Is extraordinarily rich In archaeology. There Is a piece that Is absolntely unique that little team of bronse horses.

There Is no Chinese bronze horse In any other mnsenm in the world, snd there Is no mention of such a thing In Cnlnese literature. Its primitive form shows that It extremely old. It was probably a decoration of a war chariot, the remainder of which has perl'hed. The only brtrose work done In China now is a very, very ooor Imitation of the old pieces. Here Is Brother carious thing taken ont of the graves miniature cooking stoves, with little cook- log pot" 00 them, about big enough for dolla.

fnr the dead to cooa tneir iooo who. IV, 7oa see bow these cooking stoves resemble ours? Much more than those of Italy or Spain do. "I saw the Empress when she fled to Rian Fn during the Boxer troubles. Tsl An In a very sble woman, and reminds me in tog to Chinese standards: has a full knowledge of the Chinese elsasics. paints, and writes Doetrv.

She la seventy years old now. bnt she looks like a woman of forty-five. She was very plainly and simply drensed when I saw her. She la good representative of the Mancfcu woman. You kr.ow the Vanchos conquered the Chinese back In the seventeenth century, and the reigning dynasty Is Maocbo.

The Chinese aiilmllated the Manchus they assimilate cvrrvthlnc: they're the only people hi the world who ever assimilated the jews. Bat i the Msochit women have al tM OWM (rotoma In manners aad -ad life me. i are invisible. Yoa don't see them IX yoa go to the boose. In the lower classes the Chinese woman la apt to be her boabesd'a partner la bnslneas, and makes a very shrewd, able bualoess woman.

From what any one'eaa see from the surface the Chinese women of the lower classes seem to get along about aa well and happily aa women of coe responding classes anywhere. There la a movement for the greater freedom snd ed oration of women among the upper classes Id China, and large societies of men ar? pledged sot to permit foot-binding ta their families. Dr. Brtfcol4 Laufer ia N. Y.

Eve. Post appeared to be in good spirits and was I room and facing the entrance was a the last to leave the reception room. I colossal brontosaurus, the only represen-From the day of his retirement from tative of its species yet placed on exhibl-active work in financial circles, about 20 tion anywhere in the world, while around years ago, to the day of his final illness, the sides of the hall were displayed por- 7.. uJnZ' I her abllltle. and career of Catherine IL of r.lRne..

well educated, accord- 10O4, vxae; Mr. Cooke never was idle. He maintain ed many business interests, but much of his time he spent in hunting and fishing, either at Ogontz Lodge, in Lycoming county, Pa or in the bass fishing waters at Put-in-Bay. Lake Erie. He was the owner of large tracts of laud in the west.

-ew lOTK, rco. JJaniel H. Mc- Carthy, at one time one of the best cartoonists in the country, is dead at his home here of heart trouble. New York, Feb. 17.

Loliz Evaristo di Costa Gabral, a millionaire machine manufacture of Rio de Janeiro. Brazil, died suddenly last night at a local hotel. According to his physicians, Mr. Gabral was unable to withstand the effect of the climatic conditiona, which brought on heart trouble. Saratoga.

Feb. 17. Rev. Daniel W. Clark of Alton is dead here of apolexy.

He was visiting his son, Rev. W. H. Clark. NEST OF SWINDLERS FOUND.

New York. Feb. 17. An alleged wire- tapping place in Fifth avenue waa raid- ed by the police yesterday and nine "blind" telegraph instruments and a like number of "blind" telephones, to- gether with racing cards, were seised. No one was found in the place.

An alleged policy headquarters and distribution center in Brooklyn was raided yesterday by detectives and five men were arrested. A "GIGANTIC MONOPOLY." Washington, Feb. 17. Secretary Hitch-cock yesterday gave out a statement arraigning as a "gieantic monopoly" the present lease by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company of the right to prospect for oil snd gas throughout the entire area of the Osega Indian Reservation, and explaining the agreement reached several daya ago for cutting off more than one half of the lands operative under thia lease during the next tea years. i Pariflc coast, olds, U13c.

BAIL 8HIPMKNT8. Following are the shipments by rail for tho past 24 hours: wheat, bu. Osfs. bu. Barley, bo.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT 8AFE. London, Feb. 17. The majority of 63 Dy which Air u.vu the reply to tne speecn irom tne mrone brcnd their fret, and have been was rejected by the House of Commons 4 Dd-1p0dent la their pereoo-last night la regarded aa giving the gov- As to the Chlaea women hi general, erament the first move in the political it difficult for a foreigner to know much game, and aa finally disposing of any about them. The women of the upper classes present prospect of dissolution of parliament HUNGARIAN DIET OPENED.

Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 17. The newly-elected Diet met today under the presidency of M. Madarasz, who occupied the chair by right of seniority. In declaring the session open, M.

Madaraas said the new standing orders in trod need in the preceding parliament were illegal The debates, therefore, would be con-.