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TILE WATERLOO PRESS. P18' Edltow and JUMUham THUKSDAT, MAR. 14. 1901. 190L MARCH.

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HISTORY OF A WEEK. PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS OF THE WORLD. of Crimes and Criminal An-eld ants, i Fires, Ktc, from North. Voatb. Baa and Wast, Baawtchad with Minor Affairs.

Gen. Harrison' Condition Berioas. Indianapolis special: The condition of ex-President Benjamin Harrison may be stated in one word, serious. Ills family for a amber of day have thought it advisable to say little to the newspaper! regarding; th seriousness of hia condition, bnt Dr. Jameson states that the upper part of General Harrison's left lung was inflamed.

There is some danger of the congestion extending to thereat of the long and to the right lung. DeWet ia Safe. The London Times publishes the following dispatch from Aasvogel Kop, March 9: General DeWet has escaped northward, by a forced inarch, with 1,400 men. His objective is believed to be the vicinity of KroonsUdt. Now that General DeWet ia back: in bis own country it will be almost impossible to operate against him.

Just as soon as he is pressed, his eommando dissolves, to meet again a few days later. Carrie's Close CslL Wlchiia (Kan.) special: The jury that tried Mrs. Carrie Nation has disagreed. The verdict came in seven for conviction, five for acquittal. The jury failed to agree because two of the women tried did no smashing, and one could not be convicted unless all were.

Mrs. Carrie Nation, if alone, would have been con rioted in ton minutes, the people say. A new trial to he called. burglars Bob Kansaa Bank. The private bank of J.

II. Springer was burglarized at Argonia, by three men, who took $2,000 in cash and $4,000 In government bonds. About $140 In gold and $8,000 In bonds was left untouched. The robbers procured their tools from a Santa Ke section bouse. The vault was entered through a brick wall and the Safe was blown open with nitro-glycerine.

Situation Gloomy In the Eaat. A dispatch from London says: It Is likely that the powers will oppose the schemes of Russia, says the Fckin correspondent of the Morning Post, wiring from that city. The situation Is regarded as Ycry gloomy. Even the Chinese plenipotentiaries declare openly that Intervention by the powers Is not desirable unless they are prepared to back up their protests. Robbers Took Fright.

Six masked men made an unsuccessful attempt to rob the Citizens' Bank at Perrysburg, six miles south of Toledo. They exploded dynamite twice to gain entrance to the bank from an adjoining store, and were almost into the bank when they were discovered by awakened citizens. After firing several shots at their pursuers the robbers made good their escape. Illicit StUls tn Chicago. Fifty illicit stills were found In the Italian Quarter ot Chicago.

Also three unlicensed warehouses containing many thousand gallons of wine. Some of themoonsniners have grown wealthy at the business and will employ counsel to defend them. The murder of an Italian led the detectives to Investigate the discovery of the stills and wine cellars. All on Board Lost. A dispatch from Bilbao, Spain, says: The British steamer Avion a.

Captain Len- ex, has been wrecked at the Bilbab breakwater. All on board were lost. The last obtainable report of the movements of the steamer Avlona show her to have left Santander on February 12 and arrived at Troon on February 17. Three Children Cremated. At Washington.

three of Guy Williams small.ohildren perished in a fire "that destroyed the family residence. None but the babies were in the house at the time and it is believed they wore playing in the fire and thus set fire to the Mr. Williams is a well-to-do farmer. Bank Cashier Located. Defaulter Brown of the Newport, KyM i hmir has nositivelv been identified by a reporter of the Cincinnati Post, who found I Brown in Spanish Honduras, from whence he will not return unless nis iortunes i permit his coming back and making resti-i tution to the bank.

The Dixie Floated. Word has reached the Nary Department that the training ship Dixie, which has been aground for over a week past at Maryland Point in the lower Potomac, has been successfully floated. Fort Wayne Masonic Temple Attrse-tlons. March 16. "Why Smith Left Home." Struck by Tornsdo.

Princeton. was struck by a tornado last week. One dwelling was wrecked, several others were moved from their foundations and hundreds of outbuildings were demolished. No lives were lost. The court house and high school buildings were much damaged.

Woman Burned to a Crisp. Mrs. John Wilson, aged 76, residing near Glenn, twelve miles west of Brazil, was burned to a crisp from the flames catching her clothing while rekindling the fire in tho cook stove. Flames Destroy Five Thousand Books. At Grand Haven.

fire totally destroyed the public library building, in-rlndinir 5.00O volumes. The loss is 000. insurance The high school was in the same buildiug. a four-story brick structure. The fire, it is supposed, was of incendiary origin.

Car Wheel Goas Through Roof. While a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton passenger train was thundering along between Findlay. Ohio, and Me-Comb, a wheel on a coach burst- One piece went through the floor of the car and out through the roof, narrowly missing two passengers. CIKL TEACHER WHIPS SIX She Thrashes Big Bay Pupils with a Steve Poker In Ohio. Maud Sweitzer, the pretty lS-year-old school teacher who thrashed six big boys with a poker at Krnmroy.

Ohio, ha stir-fed up a row ot big proportions. Miaa Sweitzer teaches a common district school. Her pupils are the sons and daughters of farmers. She had occasion to punish one of the younger boys and was using the rod unsparingly when a larger boy sprang to his rescue. Objecting to interference.

Miss Sweitzer attacked the newcomer with a broom. Five other big boys tumped into the fray. Seising the poker the teacher met them all. raining blows right and left. She drove two of the boys from the school room and the other fonr into their seats.

Then she marched the original refractory pupil to his seat and attempted to resume her duties. This was so nearly impossible that school was dismissed half an hour early, but it was resumed in good order the next day. END OF A STRANGE TRIAL. Ernest Hecht Acquitted In Syracuse of Murder or Mrs. Foster.

The remarkable trial for murder In Onondaga County, N. of Ernest Hecht has ended in his acquittal by the jury. In May, 1900. Hecht waa arrested by Chief of Police O'Brien in the rooms of Mrs. Louisa Foster.

Mrs. Foster lay dead on her bed in her front room, with her hands folded and a rose placed on her breast. On the stand, he claimed that he bad taken morphine she had dealt out to him and did not know what took place during much of the time and did not know when Mrs. Foster died or when she took chloroform. On his behalf witnesses testified that he bad acted in an irrational manner for the day previons and the plea of Insanity was made.

It was shown that his uncle, hia aunt, his cousin and his sister had been lnssne. THREE KILLED aY LIGHTNING. Strange Fatality In Family of Postmaster at Welch. Cm. At Welch.

GaH three lives were snuffed out by a flash of lightning the other night, death coming while the victims were sound asleep. Postmaster Morgsn and bis family, consisting of eizht persons, retired late. Morgan was aroused from a stupor with a strange feeling and saw hia house on fire. He called to his family, but received no response. He reached over to arouse his wife and found that she was dead.

He went to another bed to arouse his 12-year-old boy and G-year-old girl and found that they were also dead. An infant In his wife's arms was not harmed. The house was set on fire by the lightning and soon burned. NEGROES TO TEST STATE LAWS. National Council Ready to Attack D'sfrsn-chlsament Enactments.

The executive committee of the National Afro-American council has issued a Circular which says tha disfranchisement of American citizens is a menace to the Pfirmapenge of the republic and appeal is made to Congress io publish the text ot all disfranchisement State laws. The council promises it will call on the colored people everywhere to support the movement to test tbo constitutionality of the Louisiana disfranchisement laws. The council demands the immediate repeal of all "pro-slavery contract labor lawa." Negro Saved from a Lynching. Moss Million, a negro, who cut and perhaps fatally wounded Itay Sailors, white, at Kxrelsior Springs, was taken to Liberty, fo.r safekeeping. After Million' arrest street lamps were put ojjt ni mo oincers.

fearing an attempt to lynch the negro, slipped him out of town. Sailors waa cut on the neck and face and will likely die. Frank Dlnsmore Is Doomed. Frank L. Dinsraore's death sentence was affirmed by tho Nebraska Supreme Court.

'He was convicted of the murder of his wife and Fred Lone of Odessa, in whose family ho boarded. Mrs. Lane confesses that be planned to kill the two and then charge that I killed Mrs. Dinsmore and committed auicide. Lake Engineers Win Fight.

The first break in the ranks ot the ves-selmen who have been affiliated with the Lake Carriers' Association was made when the Detroit and Cleveland line conceded the demands of the Marine Engineers' Association and announced that the line would not remain iu the Lake Carriers' Association. One Hundred Millions to Be Expended. It is expected that $100,000,000 will be expended in St. Louis la the next two years in connection with the great world's fair to be held in 1903 in commemoration of the centenuial of the Louisiana purchne. Sixteen millions will be expended on the exposition direct.

Nero Is Held for Murder. William Wisely, colored, was placed in jcil at Knobnoster. charged with murdering Nellie Allen, a 17-year-old white girl. The girl's body was found iu the middle of the street near Mrs. Allen's home.

The face showed marks of violence. German Emperor Slightly Wounded. While Emperor William was driving from the ltathskeller to the railway sta tlon in Bremen a workman named Diet rich Weiland threw a piece of iron into his majesty's carrisge. The Emperor is said to have been slightly injured. Severely Hurt In Nightmare.

While struggling in a nightmare In a sleeping car near Johnstown. E. B. Stewttinias of Chicsge put his foot through a window and severed an artery. Before medical aid could be summoned be became very weak from loss of blood.

Song Writer Is Dead. Walter Ford, writer of popular songs and member of the song publishing firm of Ford Bartton. died in New York of consumption. Ford collaborated with Ttsrtton in writing "The Sunshine of Par adise Alley." Man In Fight at Parkville. 111.

John Snyder and Isaac McCullom. vvriw i in w. tnO ill II 1 14 SLlvrh vfc former had a shotgun and the latter a revolver. Many shots were fired. Both men are fatally wounded.

Children Perish In Flames. At Matthews. the dwelling, of Mrs. Hattie Peal, a widow, burned dur-lug her absence, and two of three small children left in charge were burned to death. McKlnley Names Same Cabinet.

The first official act of President Mc-Kinlev in his second term was to trans mit to the Senate the renominations of the same cabinet that was in office at the close of his first term. Many Passengers Injured. An east-bouud passenger train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ran into a freight train at Hopetower, three miles west of Coatesville, Pa. Over a dozen passengers were injured by the collision. Desperate Fight with Yaqula.

Col. Fernando Gonaales. with a de tachment of Mexican soldiers, who started in Dursuit of a force of Yaqui In dians several days ago. overtook a large THE WATERLOO PRESS, MARCH 14, 1901 body of the fugiSves near Las Prietea and a desperate fight followed, which resulted in over thirty of the Indians being killed and a number of others wounded. Three soldiers were killed.

WILLS ALL TO TELEPHONE GIRL, George H. Welton Falls to Provide for Ha Widow and Children. Miss Nellie Cass, a telephone girl at Fargo, X. has caused a sensation by filing a petition for the probating of the will of George II. Welton, who died ot apoplexy recently.

Welton left a widow, an aged woman, two married daughters and a married son. It was supposed that he had died intestate, and the children were preps ring- to have the estate probated. Miss Cass haa what purports to be Weltoa's wilL It is written in Welton'a handwriting, and was dated in January. Miss Cass refused to be interviewed as to her relationship to Welton or to make any statement that would bear on the case. Her attorneys announced that they believed the will was valid, despite the -fact that neither the widow nor the children were mentioned.

The deceased is supposed to have left a large estate. WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Mrs. Hannah McGann Dies as the Result or tha Explos on of a Lamp. Mrs.

Hannah McGann was burned to death in a fire which resulted from the explosion of a lamp in her home at 114 Sholto street, Chicago. Mrs. McGann was alone in the bouse. Her four children were playing in front of the bouse, and they noticed smoke issuing from the upstairs windows. The children screamed for help, and their cries were heard by Policeman James Cost el lo.

He ran to the building, and after breaking open the front door of the apartments found Mrs. McGann lying on the floor with her clothing in flames. He threw a blanket over her and carried her out of the building. The flames were extinguished, but the "woman waa so severely burned that she died before a physician arrived. PAYS FOR COMMENT ON CORSETS.

One Woman Puts Up $41. SO for Saying Another's Stays Were Tight. Embellished by a verdict for 41.50. the principle was laid down in one of the Cleveland common pleas courts that the integrity of a pretty young woman's figure must not be publicly impugned nor the tightnesa of her corsets commented upon. Miss Clara Snyder, pretty and 19, sued Mrs.

Annie Bricknian, a neigh-f SS.OOO damages for slander, the slander consisting of statements made in the presence of a number of mutual friends that Clara's corsets were tight. Railway Collision Kills One. A rear-end collision in the Union Pacific yards at Columbus, resulted in the death of one person and the serious injury of three. Tho Grand Island local crashed into the caboose of the local freight. The engine telescoped the caboose and the express car of the passenger train was thrown up over the wreck.

Bl( Firs at Elyria. Ch o. The Fay stocking fsctory and the Elyria Canning Company were burned out at Elyria, Ohio, the building in which the two concerns were located being entirely destroyed. The total loss by fire was with only partial insurance. One hundred persons are thrown out of work.

Dark Porsj Wins In Montani. Paris Gibson, dark horse, of Great Falls, was elected by the Montana Legislature as a Democrat to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the resignation of W. A. Clark last spring. Three Hantttd In Arkansas.

Kirhy Graves, Kill Johnson snd Henry Brooks, negroes, were banged at Kich-mond. for murder. Graves and Johnson were convicted of murdering Ed Evans, white It rooks was convicted of murdering Frank Hopsou, colored. Child Strikers Win Fight. The.

strike among the 150 children operatives of the Haledon velvet mill at Paterson. N. was settled by O'Connor Brothers granting an increase in wages of 25 per cent. Fire In an Asylum. The Astoria Institute, a private asylum for alcoholic, morpliine and ilrng bat- tues, located at Astoria, L.

was burn ed. The twenty-five Inmates were takeu out safely. Loss Woman Cremated In Indiana. Mrs. I-ixtie Wilson.

aged CO years, re siding eight miles west of Brazil. was cremated in her home. The build- in eaugrrt fire and before the old woman could escape she was burned to death. Steamer Sinks with Crew. The British steamer Aviona.

Captain Lenox, has been wrecked at the Bilboa. Spain, breakwater. All on board (twenty-three men) were lost. Victims of Fire at Apex. Col.

Three men were imprisoned by fire in the Molepole tunnel, near Apex, Colo, and perished. Big Girt to Vassar College. John I). Rockefeller has given to Vassar College for a new dormitory. THE MARKETS.

Chicago Cattle, common to prime. $3.00 to hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to sheep, fair to choice. $3.00 to wheat. No.

2 red, 75c to 70c; corn. No. 2, 3Sc to 39c; oats. No. 2.

24c to 25c; rye. No. 2. 49e to 50c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, 3Uc to 41c per bushel. Indianapolis pattle.

shipping. $3.00 to hogs, choice light. to sheep, common to prime. $3.00 to wheat. No.

2, 74c to 75c; corn. No. 2 white, to 40c; oats. No. 2 white.

27c to 2Sc. St. Cattle, $3.25 to hops. to $5.50: sheep. $3.00 to wheat.

No. 2. 71c to 72c: corn. No. 2.

3'e to 37c; oats. No. 2. 25c to 20c; rye. No.

2, 51c to 52c. Cincinnati Cattle. $3.00 to $4.45: bops. to $4.25: wheat. No.

2. 7 So to 7iV; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 41c; oats. No.

2 mixed. 20c to 2Sc; rye. No. 2. 54c to 55c.

Detroit Cattle. $2.50 to hops. 53.0O to $5.50: sheep, $2.30 to wheat. No. 2.

7 So to corn. No. 2 yellow. 40c to 41c: oats. No.

2 white, 2So to 20c: rye. 53c to 54c. Toledo Wheat. No. 2 mixed, uc to TSc- corn.

No. 2 mixed. 39e to 40c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 2Sc; rye. No.

2, 51c to 52c; clover seed, prime. to eVu. Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern.

71c to 72c: corn. No. 3. 37c to 3Sc; oats. No.

2 white. 27c to 2Sc: rye. No. 1. 51c to 52c: barley.

No. 2. 50c to 57c; pork. mess. $13.50 to Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers $3.00 to hogs, fair to prime.

$3.00 to sheep, fair to choice, $3.90 to lambs, common to extra, $4.30 to New York Cattle, $3.73 to hogs. S3 OO to $5.90: sheen, $3.00 to 540 wheat. No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; com. No.

2. 40c to 47c: oats. No. 2 white, 3e to butter, creamery, 21c to 22c eggs, west era, 14c to 15c a DIE IN AN EXPLOSION. MANY KILLED IN CHICAGO BURSTING EOtLER.

BY Twelve Dead and Over Bears Injured, Some 1-stilly Uiaater Occurs in a Lis Laundry, an Completely Wreck the Entire lnildiu. The boiler in the Doremus laundry, at 45S West Madisou street, Chicago, exploded Monday morning, killing twelve persons, injuring thirty more, and wrecking the satire block of buildings on the south sid? of Madison utrwt, from Loom-is street to Throop. With the exception of the barrack of the Volunteer of America, in the middle of the block, next to the laundry, the structures were one-story high, with thiu partitions between uc into au alley. The barracks is two stories high. Candy stores, secoud-hand stores, Chinese laundries, teed stores, tailor shops, a rifle gallery, a bicycle store, aud shoe store occupied the rest of the block.

Back of them la the southwest corner of the building was the boiler. The proprietors of these places were getting ready for the day'a business. Thirty-six of the sixty girls employed in the laundry had passed the automatic timekeeper. The boiler was holding almost the full pressure of steam and the girls in the place were sorting out the linen for the washing. A deafening roar rang through the building.

The whole place shook as if with fright, and then came the crunching of timbers and the shattering of glass. Most of the girls had not time to move an inch. Tons of debris crashed in upon them, and the noise of the wrecking drowned out their shrieks for help. Then came the bias of escaping steam, with its terrible menace of scalding to those who lay he! plena beneath the twisted iron and broken beams. The light wood caught fire.

The big room, which had fallen like a house of cards, now was lighted up by slender threads of flame which crept through the wreckage and came closer to the maimed bodies. Thousands of men and women ruahed to the assistance of the victims. The police and fire departments and various hospital corps were soon on the scene. For two blocks up and down Madisou street buildings were shattered by the forte of the explosion. Nearly every window in these two blocks Was broken and the list of persons cut by flying glass will amount to fifty or more.

Persons who were iu bed in the near vicinity were hurled from their beds by the force. Men in neighboring stores were dashed to the floors and covered with the shower of glass. Passengers In street cars were thrown violently from their seats. The terrible roar of the mammoth boiler as it went flying skyward and the crashing the walls intermingled with the shrieks of the injured and dying. il AMERICA HOLDS ALOOF.

Wilt Make to Aiiiaiue with Enslasd Auilnt Russia. According to a Washington correspondent the United States Government has not reached an agreement with England for the exclusion of ltusia from Manchuria, ami will not sticzest or entertain a proposition for such a compact with any nation. It in adhering consistently to th'. policy adopted at the comtnen-je- ent of the uprising to preserve the. in tegrity of the Chinese empire, and th approval given by the European nations anl JapAD to the notes.

isaned by Secretary Huy convince the administration of the ijiin-erity with which the advances hav been received. Within the last month it was reported that tlye Chines Gnr-rnmeot waa considering individual settlements with the nations represented at Pekiu. The United States immediately protested, snd addressed instructions to our ambassadors and ministers iu Europe ami Japan explaining the apprehension entertained oui-eming the injurious results that would follow private or individunl negotiations, and soliciting a further expression of the policy that would be pursued by the respective governments iu tin mutter of territorial The Chinese minister, Mr. Wu, was sUo odvi.ied. and he notified his Jovernment that the Uaited States would protest against any settlements other than those reached through joint negotiations at IVUin.

Ituia has pi veil assurances that the occupation of is temporary, and solely for the purpose restoring pence and order in hf? province I The United States canuot: look with equanimity upon the separation of Mnn- huria from the Chinese empire, eontin-s the correspondent. Should it reded to Ktissia as indemnity, other nn- ions that participated in th" relief ot Vkin will demand territory, and the par- llion of the empire would bo carried the extent of practically obliteratiiig it from the map. 'j 4M OTHER ROCKEFELLER WEDDIXG. The date of the wedding of Percy Avery Bockefeller. the second son of William Rockefeller.

Standard Oil mag- MISS STILT. MAX. nate, and Miss IsaWl Goodrich StiHman has been fixed for April 23- The wedding will rtacv sociimlus probably be the biggest and most notable ot the Eater season in New York. Telesjraphic Brevities. J.

W. Campbell is the new ponce chief. St. Iais. Town of is in hands of a receiver.

More tronble between Russians Chinese in southern Manchuria. the and English stocks have depreciated s'nc the formation of the billion-dollar it eel trust. The United States irr.perted more silver from Mexico in l.w than in 1S99. At Meyersdale. Pa- 250 miners struck because two union men were discharged for loading dirty coal.

Mrs. Letville. East Cambridge. goes to prison for five years for blinding John Bourchard with vitriol. Government is planning to spend $00, mi in surveys of unexplored Alaska untry, duriag the cominc summer.

1 I Congress, l-l 11 1 I H'Mfl'WH WORK Of CONGRESS BRIEFLY SUMMED VP. Number of days in 19' Number of bills introduced: .14.330 Number of reports 3,000 I oraic acis 3-K 4. Private acts 1,200 Total acta 1.395 Number of joint resolutions. 393 iiiiHiiiiniiiinnii n-i- Senator Carter of Montana talked the river and harbor bill to death Monday and the Senate adjourned at 11:55 o'clock la that great appropriation measure. Starting in early in the morning.

Mr. Carter began his speech with the avowed intention of continuing until the life of the Fifty-sixth Congress should have expired. After a few weak and futile efforts to interrupt him the other Senators gave up all idea of preventing him from completing his talk. Finally at 11:55 o'clock the Montana; Senator closed his remarkable address and Senators Hoar of Massachusetts and Coekrell of Missouri announced that the Fifty-sixth ses-sion of Congress had completed its work. The action of the Senate on the sundry civil bill wag followed by the Senate receding from the Charleston amendment to the Ht.

Louis exposition bill, which had passed the Houke as a separate measure. This action passed the bill appropriating $5,000,000 for St, Louis. Very little interest attached to the proceedings of the House. Vice-President Roosevelt ej tered upon the discharge of his official duties as presiding officer of the Senate when that body met on Tuesday at noon. He was soon required to make a ruling.

During the reading of the journal Mr. Money desired to interrupt the proceedings, that Mr. McLaurin, his colleague, might take the oath of office. Mr. Morgan objected, sayinc that the reading of 'the journal should be completed.

"I am' of the impression that the rules require the reading of the journal first," announced Mr. Koosevelt when the matter was submitted to him for a decision. The announcement was )iiietiy received, although it was noticed that the Vice-President had used a prsonal pronoun instead of saying "the chair is of the pinion." During the sessiou the President's nominations for cabinet positions sere received and confirmed. "if there Is any applause or disorder the scrgeant-at-arnis sill clear the galleries." This was Vice-President Roose velt's stern announcement as he took his place to preside over the Senate on Wednesday and rapped sharply with hia gavel. lx was called out by the burst of pplause which followed his entrance into the chamber.

Applause is strictly forbid den bv the rules of the Senate, and the new Vice-President not propoi" to allow the rules to be violated even bv persons who wish to show their appreciation of himself. Mr. Morgan who on Tuesday offered a resolution de claring the abrogation of the Clayton- Buls-cr treaty Ix-lween the United States and Great Britain, addressed the Senate for nearly two hours upon his proposi tion. His admonitions to Great Britain were particularly sharp. Senator Frye of Maine was on Thurs day unanimously elected as president pro tempore of the Senate to preside durin; the absence of Vice-President Roosevelt Nothing wds done iu the Senate asi" from the confirmation of a batch of nominations aud the election of the president pro tempore.

Mr. Morgan concluded hia remarks on his resolution fur the abro gation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Ad mirnl. Dewey has Ix-cn rewarded; for his participation in the battle of by a check for which represents the judgment rendered iu bis favor by the court of claims. The Senate was all ready to close its extra session ou Friday, but held over a day to permit Mr.

Mitchell of Oregon to arrive and take the oath of office. A small amount of routine business was done. After proceeding lustiug only six day the extraordinary session of the Senate was declared adjourned siue die at 1:55 p. m. Saturday.

During the session prac tically no business except that ot an executive rharacter was transacted. Thf session was called by the President in order that Seuate might have anl opportunity to coobrm appointments! made at the heciuning ot the new nd-t ministration. that busiuess accoui dished, there was nothiug further for th-t Senate to do. At the opening of Satf nrday's session the President pro temj. Senator Frye of Maine, was inducted into ottlce, the oath being administered by Vice President Roosevelt.

John Mitchell, the recently elected Senator from Orczon. was presented by bis col h'aije. Senator Simon, aud took the oath of tiftit-f Odds snd Ends. The American Federation will orpan ize Porto Rican laborers. President has appointed A.

G. Gear to be a Circuit judge in Hawaii. The output of coul in Washington State for lis. si was about 2.200,000 tona. Upward of 100.000 horses have perish ed in the South African war up to date.

Railways use up over 2,000,000 tons of steel a year, almost half the world's pro duct. A little railway at Onset Bay, on Cape Cod. operates the only horse car in New England. i The manufacture of the old phosphorus match will be prohibited in Switzerland after April 1 New Y'ork has the most expensive wat er plant in the country. It has cost up to date Last year ine total number or new books published in the United States reached 0.350, or 053 more than in any previous year.

Frank Hagan, prominent contractor. Birmingham, called to his family, while at a table, to "Look here.T then fired a fatal bullet in his head. v-w 1 1 t-nora maae oj r. vtayiana tirown anil Dr. August M.

Unger. Chicago, to have quashed the indictments pending against them in connection with jthe in surance policies on Marie Deffnbacb. who died several months ago, have fail ed The municipal povernment of jSti Pe tersburg has appointed a commission to stndy the question of sanitary working men's homes. The with its marshy surrouudinps and its liability flows, is regarded as unhealthy to at! best. The evil is aggravated by the the poor of rooms beneath the overflow line.

The German papers state tha(t during the last year the exports from the Unit ed States to the Argentine Republic have increased per cent, as compared with the figures of the preceding year. This elves America second place among the countries which do export business into Argentine, while the German Empire has passed down to the fourth place. TvnPL T'TTc yi'ycmv uxtiL v. iiu ur.UiJiUj.1 i I WHAT THE INDIANA LEGISLA TURE HAS ACCOMPLISHED. Review of Legislation that Has Been Passed Governor lnrbis's Veto of the Joss Railroad Consolidation Kill- Primary Klectloa Bill India aapolia correspondence: The legUlative session has come to end.

final adjotirmnentxhas been taken, and Senators Sand Representatives have re- luruinl to. the avocations that' engage their retention as private citixens. Wa present below-- a brief resume of the most important legislation that has been in the sixty days since the svion opened. Most of the lulls already signed by the Governor! are of local importance only. One.

however, is in the interest of stood roi.ls. It provides that the maximum weight of wagon, with tire under three inches, load, shall nbt exceed 3,200 pound: three to four luch 4,000. An other bill enables school trustees of adjoiuing townships to establish j6int district i schools, thus insuring longer terms, jit is a step in the general consolidation of weak rural schools recommended: by tho Superintendent of Public Instruction. i The Joss Bill Veto. The most sensational occurrence of the session i was the Governor's veto of the Joss railroad, consolidation bill, under which.

it is said, many consolidations were projected, and it was hoped to elude damage suits; by removing jurisdiction to the; Federal Court. The point was raised that it wouid be an important sur render of theitate's sovereignty, and the Governor took this view of the bill, sending it back to the Senate; where, it originated, with a ringing veto. It had passed the Senate by a vote of 32 to 1 and the House by a vote of 72 to 20, and some of the railroad attorneys supporting it were anxious to try to pass it over the Governor's head. intention waa abandoned later. The other bill vetoed by the Governor is known as "the Bluff- ton bill." It enabled school corporations to Issue bonds to build school houses and provjded that this debt should not be charged to the debt of the municipal cor poration.

Many towns, notably Bluffton, Lafayette. Sullivan and Salem, are badly In need of new school but cannot build them because of the narrow margin between the existing municipal debt and the 2 per cent constitutional Gov, IJurbin took the view that the bill provides a subterfuge to evade the constitution and seeks to accomplish what la inhibited by the Among the bills passed is Senate bill 12U (Senator Thompson), which provide that books tind papers of a firm or corporation lean be searched to determine whether certain persons are sequestering property from taxation, only after the township or county assessor has made an affidavit before tho Circuit Court setting forth the name of the person and describ ing tbo property alleged to be seques tered. The bill of Representative Metxker abolishing trading stamps passed not withstanding the importunities of a pow erful lobby. The lust bill to repeal Caraway law and punish the buyer as well as tho. seller of.

votes that of Sena tor lnrnan was killed. The railronTts succeeded In their oppo sition to Representative Neat's bill re quiring. 500-miiie hooks, good for the pur- Chaser or uny tuemlK-r of his family, to be sold for $10. The bill passed the House, but the msjority "of the Senate railroads f-ommittee agreed on a report indefinitely postponing the bill. Senator Cregor anil Senator Fleming'" each brought iu a nii- inority report but the temper of the Sen ate was npaiftst the bill.

The last temperance bill before the Leg islature was killed and this General As sembly will not add a line to the statute books on the subject of the liquor traffic. The pre-election promises to pass nn dequate and comprehensive! anti-trust law faded into thiu air. I Primary ectioni The Jos primary election bill, bearing the name of Representative Minturn. but containing none of Mr. Minturn's bill ex cept jthe Enacting clause, has passed.

The bill provides that the precinct committeemen of the party organization shall be selected at primaries, the to be according to the Australian system and the polls kept open from 4 Until 8 p. The! primaries of different psrties shall not! be held simultaneously. Shortly thereafter the precinct committeemen shall meet, organize and decide by ma jority votei whether nominations shall be made directly in primaries conducted ac cording the Australian I system, or whether dclcpate only shall be selected at such primaries and the candidates nominated in connection by the delegates thus chosen. The bill is of compulsory application only to Marion and Vander- burg votiolieM. Kidnapers need to beware, for the bill of Mr.

Bishop applying either the death penalty or life Imprisonment to the kidnapers of persons of any ape. providing the trvitive be a ransom, has passed. The death of the Calumet canal bill bad TRe congressional reapportionment bill was passed. The Democrats claim that it isjlleral and threaten to appeal on the ground that the territory forming certain d.ifricts is not contiguous. i A joint resolution passeu, io ue reier- red to Congress, asks an amendment to the constitution ot the United States to ele United States Senators by the people.1 The general appropriation bill receiv ed the approval of both branches.

The -Senate killed a resolution amend ing the constitution so as extend the right of suffrage to women. The House had passed the resolution. The medical bill also passed. Bbort Btste; Jteans. Fekin has several cases of smallpox.

Georpe F. Coffin, Rush County pioneer, is dead. Anderson Presbyterians will build a new; church. I Epidemic of mumps in the southern reformatory. Bloominpton has downed the hot water beating ordinance.

I The Big Four1 will build a new $15,000 passenger station in Lebanon. Big yield of peaches is expected. The trees have stood the winter welL James Talbert, Shelbyville. tried to commit suicide by illowing pounded glass. George Wewant, Kouts, has mysteri ously disappeared.

He was lately married, At the election in Center township a subsidy for the CJ IL M. Railroad was refused. Dowell Kins will' represent the Rich mond high school in the State oratorical contest in Indianapolis. Edward Rose. 74J of Lafayette, has re tired as a passenger conductor on the Chicago and Northwestern.

lie has run one train between Sycamore and Cort- land thirty-one years. INDIANA LAWMAKERS The congressional reapportionment bill passed on Monday. The Democrats claim that it is illegal and threaten to appeal on the ground that the territory forming certain districts is not contiguous. One district runs from Indianapolis to the Ohio river. The Fort Wayne charter bill passed.

A joint resolution passed, to be referred to Congress, asks an amendment to the constitution of the Uuited States to elect Uaited States Senators by the people. The committee investigating the worn a as reformatory heard Manager Miss Keeley in her own defense. She denied the charges. By a vote of 52 to 35 the lower house of the Legislature on Tuesday adopted the Neal joint resolution for a constitu tional amendment providing for woman suffrage in this State. After the vota a motion to reconsider was voted down.

The general appropriations bill wat passed by the House Wednesday morn ing. There was no discussion. The vote was 00 yeas to 14 nays. Those voting nay were: Davis of Greene, Jackmitn, lrr, Lawrence, Tucker, Murphy, Mylcr, May, Parks, Reeves, Roberts of Dtar- born. Robertson.

Seifera and Zollman. After Senator Woloott's bill increasing the salary ot the recorder of Jasper Coun ty had passed under suspension of rules In the House Senator Crumpacker's bill to increase the salaries ot the clerk and recorder of Starke County to $1,200 and $1,000 a' year, respectively, was passed in the same way. The House on Thursday passed the bin for the strengthening of the fish and game law. Extraordinary powers are given to peace officers by th" bill. It provides for the issuing of search Warrants by justices of the peace In all cases where there is reason to believe anyone has fish or game in his possession out ot sea.

son, and in sch cases the State is made the complaining party. The anti-kidnapiug bill. which provides for Imprisonment for not less than ten years and for life as the maximum penalty, was also passed. The Senate killed the resolution amending the constitution so as to extcud the right of suffrage to women. The hours had passed the resolution.

medical bill passed. The bill separating the woman's prison and the girls' industrial school was killed. Tho voting machine bill passed. A new railway consolidation bill was introduced. The telephone bill failed to pass ou Fri day.

The bill to separate the woman prison and girls' industrial passed the Senate. The report of tho committee investigating the womnn's prison practically whitewashed tho management with very little qualification. The no pas uo pay bill was ruled out of order, Tho Joss primary election bill was concurred In for the Minturn bill. It leaves primaries optional with each county. The bill providing for the publication of legal advertisements both In dally and weekly papers failed tj pass.

8tato Items of Interest. Farmers near Valparaiso any crows are dying In great numbers cither from cold or starvation. A tramp with stove and cooking utensils has spent the winter iu a bin sycamore troe nfar Peru. The only union of glass snappers In Indiana has 'been organised in Muncie, with nearly 100 memlwrs. Glen Hodappand two companions, Sey-r nimir, ciniKht three wild geese, which weighed over forty pounds.

Cra wfordsville Elks have invited Car rie Nation to be one of the attractions at the Elks' carnival July 4. Georpe Davis, OH, a wealthy farmer near New Albany and a brother of JcT. C. Davis, died of pneumonia. The C.

It. M. road will spend in Marlon and Onter townships fot ripht of way, building the road, switches and depots. As a CJ E. I.

frelpht train was passing Ihrouph West Union some one shot through the A. B. Riwe, Chicago traveling man, hud a narrow escape. On excellent authority the statement is published that all the slock in the Union Traction Company has boon purchased by Georgo F. McCulloch of Muncie.

Unknown man tried to kidnap a child from the Iipausport orphans home. Supposed to have ieen the father of a Ik recently sent to the institution by the court. Mrs. Agnes Bronger wo arrested in Celina on the charge of baptizing he-2-weeks-old babe iu a creek. Sh! belongs to fanatical sect and is supposed tc be insane.

Georpe W. Jarrett. 18. who killed Im stepfather. Anton Maloy.

at Columbus, has not leeu indicted by the grand jury, as it was shown he shot his father in de-fens? of his mother. Theodore Ileckman. 81, of Galeni. esnirht. between Oct.

1 ami Jan. eighteen woodchueU; sixteen skunks an I five rabbits. They were all tasen in one trap mid from one hole. I Mrs. Winnie Wilson, a Kokomfl "grass" widow, has gune into court to-get possession of her 13-montbH-old baby, which, she says, is detained ny ner oroiu- ers to prevent her marryinp Franktoo pas companies have combined, the A.

G. Unuston company absorbing the Franklin Natural Gas and Oil Company, thus putting an end to the war that has been a picnic for consumers. Georpe Woods, a white man. who witnessed the lynching of the negro Ward at Terre Haute, was made insane by fear that he would lie held accountable and died in jail, where he was placed for safekeeping. i Will R- Mack drove into Monticella the other day with a lighted lantern in his btippy.

to keep his feet warm. left the lantern burning while transactiii? business in Monticello, spreading the rolm over it. The tire that followed, destroyed the buggy. Mrs. Astor'a Hnake Mrs.

William Astor has a wonderful nake ring which literally writhes in constant motion on her finger. It Is constructed of flexible gold wire, each scale being represented by a loop of wire, in which a ruby, an emerald, or an amethyst Is flrmlly oeL The "lightest movement of the fingers sets th wires quivering and the ring scintillate and seems to go round and round the finger with a serpentine movement that bus something very weirl about IL Foolish Man. "Yes, ma'am," said Mrs, Slaguire, "me husband had plinty 'o' money wanst. for be bad a good job. but he lost it" I -And be never had any einte, eh?" remarked Mrs.

Amelia Rate-Poore. "That's just the tbroublej ma'am; he niver had anny Philadelphia Press.1 BtoppiaK a Lcsk. "I'm getting rich fast." "How?" I got my wife to take my camera and lock It up." Chicago Recoid. i.