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LAST EDITION LXIX L'47. IIAEEISBURG, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1900. ESTABLISHED 1831. AGAIN OPENING OF THE OF THE 56th Auspicious Commencement of an Important Session of the Lawmakers The Ceremonies in the Houses Followed By Reading of the Message. Washington, Dec.

3. The opening of Congress to day drew great crowds to the Capitol, intent on witnessing those interesting scenes marking the inauguration of the legislative work of the Government. On June 7th last the first session of the 56th Congress adjourned and the second session began to day with many momentous questions awaiting the atten jon of the national law makers. Above the middle colonnade, fronting the dome, the Stars and Stripes floated lazily, and on either side flags were run up at noon to indicate that the respective houses were, la session. The Senate, Washington, Dec.

3 When the Senate convened; to day at the opening of the second; session of the 56th Congress, it was within the shadow of the death of two of its most distinguished members. A notable meeting on the floor just before the session opened was that between Mr. Hajma, of Ohio, and Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, the chairmen, respectively of the Republican and Democratic National Campaign Committees. Surrounded by many of their colleagues, thy exchanged cordial greetings and lauguied and chatted for several minutes.

When the gavel of President Pro Tem. Frye fell at 12 o'clock, 'the scene presented in the Senate chamber was unusually brilliant and beautiful. With scarcely an exception the desk of every Senator bore a floral emblem. Some were the finest products of florists. As the gavel fell the buzz of conversation in the packed galleries ceased, and the Senators as one man rose to their feet.

The venerable bind chaplain, Milburn, invoked the divine blessing upon the session, just opened, and in beautiful and touching language referred to the death of Senator Gear and of Senator Davies. The President pro Mr. Frye, appointed Messrs. Hoar and Cockrell a committee to wait on the President and inform him that the Senate was ready to receive any communication he desired to make. The committee will join a like jtommittee from the House of Representatives.

i(. I The call of the roll disclosed the presence of sixty one Senators and the Senate then proceeded to routine business. Mr.Proctor, Vermont.presented the credentials of William B. Dillingham, who had been elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Justin S. Morrill, and the oath of office was administered by President pro tem.

Frye. Senator Gear's successor, former Representative Jonathan P. Dolliver, of IoAva, was present, but his credentials were withheld until the official announcement of Senator Gear's death. After the usual. opening routine business, the Senate on motion of Mr.

Hale, took a recess. The Senate re assembled at 1.43 and a few minutes later Major Pruden, one of the President's secretaries, appeared with the President's message. Secretary Bennett, of the Senate, at once began the reading of the document. The House. Washington, Dec.

3 Girded by overflowing galleries, bathed in light from the stained glass windows overhead, the Hall of Representatives presented a brilliant sieetacle when Speaker David Bremmer Henderson called the second session of the Fifty sixth Congress to order at noon today. The desks of half the members were weighted with flowers. Admission to the reserved galleries was limited to those holding cards, but before 11 o'clock the wealth and beauty of the capital were assembling there. On the floor the members drifted in, exchanging greetings. As the hands of the clock pointed to noon the Speaker with one stroke gavel stilled the vast multitude.

"The House will be in order," be. cried in resonant tones. Instantly the members arose in their places and stood reverently with bowed heads while the blind chaplain lifted up his voice in prayer. The first bill of the session introduced in the House was by Representative Crumpacker, Republican. Indiana, "Making an apportionment of Representative in Congress under the eleventh census." It provides an increase of membership from 357 to 365.

The following States gain in representation: Arkansas 1, Colorado 1, California 1, Connecticut 1, Florida 1, Illinois 2, Massachusetts 1, Minnesota 2, Missouri 1, New Jersey 2, New York 3, North Dakota Pennsylvania 2, Texas 2, Washington, 1, West Virginia 1. The following States lose: Kansas 1, Louisiana 2, Mississippi 3, Nebraska 1, Norlth Carolina 4, South Carolina 3, Virginia 1. A resolution in behalf of ex President Kruger was introduced by Representative Fitzgerald, of Massaoh ustts. The Sneaker appointed Messrs. Payne, of New York; Grosvenor, of Ohio, ami Richardson, of Tennessee, to join the committee of the Senate to notify the President that Congress is ready to receive any communication from Turn.

The Speaker announced that 225 members had responded to their names, a quorum, and the House was ready for business. The membnrs elect then appeared at the bar of the House and took the oath. On the reassembling of the hou the reading of the message began and was neaia viun attention. A SECOND SESSION CONGRESS. The Message.

The message transmitted by the President is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: At the outgoing of the old and the incoming of the new century you begin the last session of the Fifty sixth congress with evidences on every hand of individual and, national prosperity and with proof of the growing strength and increasing power for good of Republican institutions. Your countrymen will 'join with you in felicitation that American liberty is more firmly established than ever before and that love for (it and the determination to preserve it are more universal than at any former period of our history. In our foreign intercourse the dominant question has been the treatment of the Chinese problem'. Apart from this our relations with the powers have been happy. The recent troubles in China spring from the antiforeign agitation which for the past three years has gained strength in the northern provinces.

Their origin lies deep in the character of the Chinese races and in the traditions of their government. The telegraph and the railway spreading over their land, the steamers plying on their waterways, the merchant and the missionary penetrating year by year farther to the interior, became to the Chinese mind types of an alien invasion, changing the course of their national life and fraught with vague forebodings of disaster to their beliefs and their self control. Posting of antiforeign placards became a daily occurrence, which the repeated reprobation of the imperial power failed to check or punish. These inflammatory appeals to the ignorance' and superstition of the masses, mendacious and absurd in their accusations and deeply hostile in their spirit, could not but work cumulative harm. They aimed at no particular closs of foreigners; they were impartial in attacking everything foreign.

GROWTH OF TROUBLE. An outbreak in Shangtung in which German missionaries were slain was the too natural result of these malevolent teachings. The posting of seditious pla cams, exnortmg to tne utter destruction of foreigners and of every foreign thing, continued unrebuked. Hostile demonstrations toward the stranger gained strength by organization. The sect commonly styled the Boxers developed greatly in the provinces north of the Yang tse and with the collusion of many notable officials, including some in the immediate councils of the throne itself, became alarmingly aggressive.

No foreigner's life, outside of the protected treaty ports, was safe. No foreign interest was secure from spoliation. 'The diplomatic representatives of the powers in Peking strove in vain to check this movement. Protest was followed by demand and demand by renewed protest, to be met with perfunctory edicts from the palace and evasive and futile assurances from the tsung li yamen. The increasing gravity of the conditions in China and the imminence of peril to our own diversified interests in the empire, as well as to those of all the other treaty governments, were soon appreciated by this government, causing it profound solicitude.

The United States from the earliest days of foreign intercourse with China had followed a policy of peace, omitting no occasions to testify good will, to further the extension of law 1 ful trade, to respect the sovereignty of its government and to insure by all legitimate and kindly but earnest means the fullest measure of protection for the lives and property of law abiding citizens and for the exercise of their beneficent callings among the Chinese people. Mindful of this, it was felt to be appropriate that our purposes should be pronounced in favor of such course as would hasten united action of the powers at Pe i king to promote the administrative reforms so greatly needed for strengthening the imperial government and maintaining the integrity of China, in which we believed the whole western world to be alike concerned. To these ends I caused to be addressed to the several powers occupying territory and maintaining spheres of influence in China the circular proposals of 1890, inviting from them declarations of their intentions and views as to the desirability of the adoption of measures insuring the benefits of equality of treatment of all foreign trade throughout China. THE POWERS' RESPONSES. i With gratifying unanimity the responses coincided in this common policy, enabling me to see in the successful termination of these negotiations proof of the friendly spirit which animates the various powers interested in the untram meled development of commerce and in i dustry in the' Chinese empire as a source of vast benefit to the whole commercial world.

Iu this conclusion, which I had the gratification to announce a completed engagement to the interested powers on March 20. lf)00, I hopefully discerned a potential factor for the abatement of the distrust of foreign purposes which for a year past had appeared to inspire the policy of the imperial government and for the effective exertion by it of power and authority to quell the critical anti foreign movement in the northern prov inces most immediately influenced by the Mantchoo sentiment. i Seeking testify confidence in the will ingness and ability of the imperial ad ministration to redress the wrongs and prevent the evils we suffered and feared, the marine guard, which had been sent to Peking in the autamn of 1S99 for the protection of the legation, was with drawn at the earliest practicable moment, and all pending questions were re milled, as far as we were concerned, to the ordinary resorts of diplomatic intercourse. The president, bj narrating; the growth of the Boxer movement, the fighting at laku and the siege of the legations in Peking and continues: i On July 14 the besieged had their first communication with the tsung li yamen, from whom a message came inviting to a conference, which was declined. Correspondence, however, ensued, and a sort of armistice was agreed upon which stopped the bombardment and lessened the rifle fire for a time.

Even then no protection whatever was afforded or any aid given save to send to the legations a small supply of fruit and three sacks of flour. Indeed th only communication had with the Chinese government related to the occasional delivery or dispatch of a telegram or to the demands of the tsung It yamen for the withdrawal of the legations to the coast under escort. Not onry i I are the protestations of the Chinese gov ernment that it protected and succored the legations positively contradicted, but Irresistible proof accumulates that the attacks upon them were made by imperial troops, regularly uniformed, armed and officered, belonging to the command of Jung Lu, the imperial commander in chief. Decrees encouraging the Boxers, organizing them under prominent imperial officers, provisioning them and even granting them large sums in the name of the empress dowager are known to exist. Members of the tsung li yamen who counseled protection of the foreigners were beheaded.

Even in the distant provinces men suspected of foreign sympathy were put to death, prominent among these being Chang Yen hoon, formerly Chinese' minister in Washington. OUR POLICY IN CHINA. The president then tells in brief the story of the rescue of the legations and proceeds: The policy of the United States through all this trying period was clearly announced and scrupulously carried out. A circular note to the powers dated July 3 proclaimed our attitude. Treating the condition in the north as one of virtual anarchy, in which the great provinces of the south and southeast had no share, we regarded the local authorities in the latter quarters as representing the Chinese people with whom we sought to remain in peace and friendship.

Our de clared aims involved no war against the Chinese nation. We adhered to the legit imate office of rescuing the imperiled obtaining redress for wrongs already suffered, securing wherever possi ble the safety of American life and property in China and preventing a spread of the disorders or their recurrence. As Was then said, "The policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaran teed to friendly powers by treaty and international law and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese empire." Faithful to those professions which, as it proved, reflected the views and purposes of the other co operating governments, all our efforts have been toward ending the anomalous situation in China by negotiations for a settlement at the earliest possible moment. As soon as the sacred duty of relieving our legation and its dependents was accomplished, we withdrew from active hostilities, leaving our legation under an adequate guard in Peking as a channel of negotiation and settlement, a course adopted by others of the interested powers. Overtures of the empowered representatives of the Chinese emperor have, been considerately entertained.

The president recapitulates the attitude of the administration to the Russian and French notes and concludes that part of his message relating to China as follows: The government of Russia has put forward a suggestion that in the event of protracted divergence of views in regard to indemnities the matter may be relegated to the court of arbitration at The Hague. I favorably incline to this, believing that high tribunal could not fail to reach a solution no less conducive to the stability and enlarged prosperity of China itself than immediately beneficial to the powers. THE EXPOSITION AT PARIS. The president then refers to various matters affecting foreign countries rather than our own and continues by speaking of our part in the Paris exhibition. He says: Despite all these drawbacks the contribution of the United States was not only the largest foreign display, but was among the earliest in place and the most orderly in arrangement.

Our exhibits were shown in 101 out of 121 classes and more completely covered the entire classification than those of any other nation. In total number they ranked next after those of France, and the attractive form in which they were presented secured general attention. A criterion of the extent and success of our participation and of the thoroughness with which our exhibits were organized is seen in the avards granted to American exhibitors by the international jury namely, grand prizes, 240; gold medals, 507; silver medals, 77G; bronze medals. 541, and honorable mentions, 3222,470 in all, being the greatest total number given to the exhibit of any exhibiting nation, as well as the largest number iu each grade. This significant recognition of merit in competition with the chosen exhibits of all other nations and at the hands of juries almost wholly made up of representatives of France and other competing countries is not only most gratifying, but is especially valuable, since it sets us to the front in international questions of supply and demand, while the large porpor tion of awards in the classes of art and artistic manufactures afforded unexpected proof of the stimulation of national culture by the prosperity that flows from natural productiveness joined to industrial excellence.

Good will prevails in our relations with the German empire. An amicable adjustment of the long pending question of the admission of our life insurance companies to do business in Prussia has been reached. One of the principal companies has already been and the way is opened for the others to share the privilege. SAMOA. The settlement of the Samoan problem, to which I adverted in my last message, has accomplished good results.

Peace and contentment prevail in the islands, especially in Tutuila, where a convenient administration, that has won the confidence and esteem of the kindly disposed natives, has been organized under the direction of the commander of the Unit Continued on Third Tage, First Column.) OF A SOCIAL NATURE Mrs. Charles A. Kunkel has issued cards for a on Thursday afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock at her residence on North Front street in honor of Mrs. Ross A. Hickok.

The Harris burg Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet to morrow at 'the residence of the regent, Mrs. Levi B. Alricks. The committee in charge of the german for Friday evening will meet to night for tihe completion of arrangements for the first dance on Friday night. The annual meeting of the Banishing Club will be held Hi is vening a the club house.

A collation will be served from 9 until 12. Among the Harrisburg people at the Army Navy game on Saturday were Superintendent and Mrs. Wilson I. Brown, Mr. Brown and Miss Brown, Mr.

and Mrs. Z. Gross, Miss Gross, Mr. Henry Cormick Gross, Mr. and Mrs.

James A. Stranahan, Miss Stranahan, Mrs. John W. Reily. Mrs.

George R. Fleming. Miss Wallace, Mrs. McCla'in, the Misses Seiler, MUs Soleliae, Mrs. W.

S. Brown, Miss Cameron, Mr. and Mrs. James Brady, the Misses Brady, Senator John Fox and the Rev. Dr.

Ernest Frederic Smith. Mrs. Ellis L. Mumma. and Miss Winifred J.

Mumma sailed from Anitwerp on the Southwark December 1st. Mr. Ellis Mumnrja. will be in New York to meet them on their arrival. Miss Dull chaperoned Miss Stone, the daughter of the Governor, and Miss Was son, of Williaiwsport, and a party of young folks ut the game on Saturday, occupying the Governor's box at Franklin Field.

nrrvnle who participated in the production of "The Oxford Affair' for the Free Kindergarten, have been complimented upon flair work by many peo pie. hose in hange nave ut.ch. l.n ve, the nlav repeated, but as yet noth ino has been decided. Willi such talent as. was shown on Friday, tlie rendition ot Trmre elaborate nlay could be made one of the events of the winter.

PERSONALMENT ION. Brief Xote of te Movements of Your Friends and Acquaintances. Senator John Fox is home from Phila delphia. Mr. Charles F.

Sponsicr has gome on a trip to Maine. Mr. K. r. iveiKer, itiu Hi is morning.

Mr. Samuel Small, of York, was tne city on Saturday. Mr. S. P.

Wolverton, of Sunbury, was in Harrisburg to day. Miss Valentine, ol Bclioiome, is vwng Mrs. A. WTilson Norris. Mis Latimer, of York, is the guest or her aunt, Mrs.

Levi B. Alricks. Miss Rhea Corkle, of this city, has gone to visit friends in Altaona. Kflitharine E. Bines, of Chestnut is in Secretary Daniel D.

Hammelbaugh returned from Philadelphia this morning. Miss Saraili X. fcnyaer, oi wiis env, being 'entertained by friends in. Colum bia. William T.

Tredway, a prominent Pittsburg attorney, was at the Common woa.l.tb Mrs. Charles Sponsler has gone to Millersburg to spend several weeks with relatives. Mr. Henry Geisel, has bopn; confined to his home for the last few weeks by illness. Mr.

and William T. Snyder have returned home from a plca.sant visit with friends in York. Miss Marie Hartzler, of York, is the guest of Miss stclla K. Hartzler, of North Second street. Mr.

II. C. Quigley, of Cleveland, has returned home after a week's visit to his parents om. Boas street. Miss Carrie 11.

Thaller, cf loO.l North Sixth street, left this city on Saturday to visit a sister in Philadelphia. Mrs. A. H. Gable, of this city, returned home Saturday from Pittsburg, twhero her brother is seriously ill.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fauth have returned home from a three weeks' visit with relatives and friends in York. Messrs. B.

F. Heist and, Marietta, and A. G. Ilertzler. Lancaster, were prominent Lancasterians in llarrisburjf to day.

Misses Pearl Walker and Fl. ie White, of Columbia, are several, weeks with relatives and friends in tJhis city and Steelton. Misses Olive Socnberger and FJva Guiles, of tliis city, are spending several days in York as the guests rf Miss Gertrude Creamer. Messrs. F.

N. Dellone and Allen Donaldson 'have returned to the University of Pennsylvania, after spending Thanksgiving nt heme. Miss Mary Agnes Smith, after a pleasant sojourn with Major and Mrs. Joseph. C.

Smith, returned to Baltimore this morning, where she is taking a course in kindergarten training. Colonel Henry C. Deniming left at night for Geneva. N. to attend the fit.

jieial of Jiisr sister, Mis Vcrnic Demniing, who died last Thursday. Mrs. George Markley and Miss Mark ley lisivo been spending some time Marietta as the guests of Mjjor and Simon B. Cameron. in 13.

Mrs. Williarii Woodsides. of Millersburg, is spending several weeks in the city as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. B.

High, of No. 221 Boas street. Miss Jessie Ihunsher, of New'burg, and Miss Carrie Stcvick, of Mowersville, who were spending a. week in this city, visiting Mends, left for ihome on Saturday lastt. Mr.

Horace Gridith and Mr. William P. Lear, prominent young men of Chester, stopped for a few days witli friends in this city on their return from a. three weeks' gunning trip in the Allegheny To Wtl To morrow. To morrow evening at 6 oV loek there wil be sedemnized at the Ohev Sholem Synagogue the marriage of Mr.

A. L. Schiilbof, of Chicago, and Miss Jennie Marks, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Marks.

A reception will follow. Awarded tlie Contract. Chief Lutz, of the fire department, has awarded the contract for placing steam beat, in the Citizen Hose Company's bouse, to the Harrisburg Steam Heat and Power. Company, at their bid of $287, IT A Harrisburg Sailor One of the Five Unfortunates. HE HAD VOLUNTEERED Mehaffey Was One of Launch's Crew.

the SAD NEWS RECEIVED HERE Jacob Leroy Mehaffey, son of Aaron Mehaffey, No. 612 Reily street, an employee of the Philadelphia Division, Pennsylvania Railroad, was drowned on November 16th Avhile in the performance of a daring act that was designed to secure the safety of his comrades on the United States Cruiser, "Yoscmite" which was wrecked on the coast of Guam during a terrific typhoon which raged for several days and resulted in great loss of life and destruction of property. The sad news of the sailor lad's death was conveyed to Mr. MehafTey by the Navy Department in a despatch received om Saturday morning last. From what can be learned from the meagre dispatcher received from the scene of the disaster, at a time of groat peril volunteers were called for to man the launch w1iieh was to be sent to find a safe harbor.

Every Jman on tlie vessel save those who were attending to the fires in the engine rooms volunteered, 'but Mehaffey and four others were selected because of their well known bravery and ability. The men had gotten the launch but a short distance from the cruiser when the force of the typhoon capsized it and all were droiwned. It was a sad ending of five gallant men. Jacob L. Mehaffey was a native ot Lancaster and lived there all his life until January, 1898, when, si.

the age of 18 years, ho went to League Island navy yard and enlisted as a sailor. He was all through the Spanish American war on the warship "Topeka," and after the war, when the "Topeka" was sent North, young Mehaffey, learning that the "Yosemite" was to be sent to Manila, asked to be transferred, as be wanted to be active, and his request was granted. He was a line, manly looking lad, the picture of health, and he had the deepest respect and love for his parents. His letters, of which his parents have over two hundred, are all affectionate, and the last one, received on November 17th, two days after the lad had met death in the waiters of the Ladrones, spoke of his soon coming homo and his desire to obtain work on the railroad, failing in which he said he would re enlist. On every pay day he isonlt moiney home, and he had quite a sum laid by in case he could not obtain work when he came Jiomo.

Mr. and Mrs. Mehaffey are greatly distressed over the loss of their boy, and have the sympathy of all who know them. A number of messages of condolence have been received by them from olel friends in Lancaster, from which city they moved to Harrisburg six months ago. A memorial service will be held in the dead boy's honor in Grace Lutheran Church, Lancasiter, on Thursday next.

When lie lived in Lancaster young Mehaffey "vvas a member of Grace Sunday School, and the church will pay him the honor. It is not known that the body has been recovered. DECEMBER COURT. Judge Simonton presided at to day's session of motion court, at which a number of petitions and motions were presented. Hon.

John E. Fox presented a return of sale of real estate by James Li. DeLong, receiver for the New Enterprise Building and Loan Association, of McKeesport, which were confirmed and ordered that the receiver make and execute deeds to the respective purchasers. The. Court granted a charter to Oberlin Council, No.

754, Jr. O. U. A. of Oberlin, the board of trustees of which is as follows: J.

W. Shakespeare, J. Adam Aungst and B. II. El lenberger.

On motion of Hon. John E. Fox a subpoena in libel in divorce was granted to W. II. Fritz, vs.

Mary Edith L'ritz. The grounds stated were "cruel and barbarous treatment." M. W. Jacobs, was appointed auditor in the estate of J. C.

Forney, deceased, late of this city. 1K. III I.I.KV TO Sl'lMIi Second in the Course of Lectures on American History and Uoveriimeui, The second lecture in the course on. American. History and Governmient by Prof.

Lincoln, Hullcy, Ph. under the auspices of the Civic Club, will be de livcred to morrow, Tuesday evening, in the assembly room, lower floor, of the Board of Trade. The subject for the evening will bo "The Organization of Government." Those who were so' fortunate as to hear the first lecture of this course will no doubt be deeply interested in the second. There is continuous line of thought through the course, yet each lecture treats of a distinct and important period in the history of the country. In a 1'ritlcnl Condition.

Aft 'V Tf Williams. of tl.Ic: nlfv former superintendent of the Susque i v. i. nannii v.uiiipaii.y jmues in me Lykens Valley, is reported to be in a critical condition. Mr.

Williams was stricken with paralysis some months ago. He was improving until recently, when he suffered a relapse. Mr. BJeiarcm le'd. York, Dec.

3. George Y. Heiges, ex Burgess of the borough of York, and a former memlxM of tlie legislature und a prominent atjtomey, died here to day. De eeased was elected to the State Legislature in 1872 3 and served en important committees. Feminine beauty is the rock on which masculine intelligence is often wrecked.

DROWNED GUAM W. H. DAYA. D. D.

The Death of a Xoted Colored Man this The Rev. William Howard Day, A. D. ge'neral secretary of the A. M.

E. Zion Church, passed away at 6.40 A. M. Monday morning, after an illness of several months. He was aged 70 years.

Dr. Day was born in New York city and was baptized by Bishop James Varick, the founder of the A. M. E. Zion connection, and was at the time of his death the only person living of those who had received baptism from the hands of Bishop Varick.

He was prepared for college at New York city and Northampton, but on account of color prejudice was obliged to go to Oberlin College, Ohio, where he graduated in 1S47, taking the degree A. the only colored man of a class of fifty. He received the degree A. M. in 1859 from Oberlin, and later D.

from Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C. He was elected professor of languages and mathematics by two colleges in 1857, and offered Latin tutorship, Lincoln, ISngland, in 1862. He visited Great Britain in 1S59, was received by Earl Spencer at Spencer nouse, England, and by the Duchess of Sutherland, at Steffordshire House, London. Subsequently by the Provost of ldin burgh, Scotland; was main speaker at a meeting of 3,000 persons in Music Hall', Dublin, Ireland, presided over by the Lord Mayor, clad in his official robe and jewel of office; addressed other thousands in Ireland and Scotland.

Ln 1866 he was ordained deacon and elder at Petersburg, by the Right Rev. J. J. Clinton, and he was elected general secretary of General Conference in 1876 1888, 1892, 1896 and 1900 for four years. Among the notable acts of Dr.

Day's life was when in 1852 he called together at Cleveland, Ohio, the living represent ativs of color ofvthe War of 1812, and brought together for the first time the men who fought at New Orleans, in Georgia, at Plattsburg, and on the lakes. He was the ora tor of the occasion. He was the chair man of the committee of citizens of Cleveland who addressed Liouis Kossuth, of Hungary, in 1852. That year he established the "Aliened American," a weekly paper published in the interest of his race. Also in 1852 he was secretary of the national convention at Cleveland, and later worked as a compositor and local editor on the Cleveland True Democrat.

He was also a teacher of Latin, Greek, mathematics, rhetoric, vocal music, short hand and other branches of study. In 1857 his health failed and he went to Canada, where, while recuperating he labored for the educational development of fifty thousand fugitive slaves. ln he assumed charge as in spector general of schools of refugees and freedmen for Maryland and Delaware, having 140 schools, 150 teachers and 7,000 children to superintend. In 1869 he risked his life in Wilmington in organizing the colored voters, with the result of changing the representation in the lower house of Congress the first change in twenty years. In 1870 he became editor of "Our National Progress," a position he retain ed for five years.

In 1872 he was made a clerk in the corporation department of the Auditor General's office in Pennsylvania. In 1875, upon the death of the Rev. James A. Jones, secretary of the General Conference of the A. M.

1. Zion connection, Mr. Day was chosen to that position. In 1876 he served in the General Conference at Louisville and was re elected secretary, ln 1878 he was elected school director in the Eighth ward, Harrisburg, and was the first colored man ever chosen to that body. He was reelected in 1881 and 1887.

In 1885 he was chosen by the Philadelphia and Baltimore annual conference, presiding elder of the Baltimore district, which position he resigned in 1886 to become general missionary and intellectual instructor of the conference. In May 1887, Livingstone College, the Rev. J. C. Price, president, conferred on Professor Day the title of D.

D. On the lecture platform, either for the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, for the Masonic fraternity, representing both the York anil the Scottish rites, or on general political, economic or literary questions. Prof. Day was always in request. He Avas widely known in Dauphin county and to many residents of Harrisburg.

By all be was recognized as one of the leading men of bis race. The funeral will take place from the Wesley Union A. M. E. Zion Church, Friday.

The Eulogy will be delivered by the Rt. Rev. (J. W. Clinton, D.

the presiding bishop of the district, with the bishops and general officers of the church to take part in the services. HAPPY BIRTH DAY PARTY Sir. and Mr. Nallrman I'nlertaiu in Honor of liicir Milliliter. Mr.

and Mrs. B. H. Saltzman. of 1706 Market street, entertained on Saturday afternoon in honor of their bright little daughter, Stella May, who reached her (ith birthday anniversary.

It was a happy evemt, the young folks; losing no opportunity' to make merry. Miss Claire Saltzman rendered a number of selections on. the piano and games were indulged in. The little hostess was the recipient of many presents. At 4 o'clock a palatable feast was spread.

Those present included Misses Catherine Dasher, Sarah Morgan, Gentrmlo Eaton, Ida. Sweeney, Lillian Potter, Margaret Roh.rer. Roniane Fro mm, Master David Burn, Charlie Snyder. Harry Boyd, Robert Good, Harold Fast, Russell Dadoy, Luther Wurstcr, Charlie Bold, Mr. Edward Bordner, of llighspire, Miss Amie Orth and Miss Douglass.

Mrs. Case assisted Mr. and Mrs. Saltzman in entertaining the little folks. The decorations were elaliorate and beautiful.

Holly if in the markets. There beautiful Minst't last nidit. Cough medicines are in great, demand. Foot ball over, Christmas holidays are the next events. Commander Dun will address tho Salvation to morrow might.

Sehoml sessions began after a recess for Thanksgiving Day. Duck huiv.ers wcae out on the. Susquehanna early this morning. PARLIAMENT I The 15th Session of Victoria's Reign Begins. ENGLAND'S GREAT DAY Beef eaters Hunted Dynamiters as Usual.

LOTS OF CEREMONY London, Dee. 3. Tlie opening of the) initial session of the fifteenth Parliament of Queen Victoria occurred at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It was a formal affair and of little public interest. A small crowd assembled to see the beef eaters, who carried out the usual search for possible conspirators in the vaults beneath the houses of Parliament, with the customary ceremonial and with the customary result.

i Only a handful of peers attended the opening of the nouse of Lords. Tho Lord Chancellor, the Larl of Salsbury, promptly dispatched the Black Rod to summon the commons. On their arrival the royal commission was read and the Lord Chancellor directed tho commons ta return to the House and elect a Speaker, When this brief ceremony was over tha House of Lords suspended business. There was no to the re election of William' Court Gully for a third term, as Speaker of the Commons. Congratulatory speeches followed.

Tuesday and AVednesday will hp mainly devoted to swearing in members. The? real work of the session will begin Thurs day with the reading of the Queen'a' speech and the debates on the reply to the address1 from tho throne in both houses'. TAKE THE OATH. Many Filipino Say They Will be Good and Lnvc t'ncle Nam. Manila, Dee.

3. Sunday in Vigan waa a groat day for the American caujse. Twenty two hundred natives of the re gionv nearly all fighting rebels, crowded the church and took the oath allegiance to the United States. The oath was administered by the priest. All but 500 of those sworn were Ixdomten.

The number included the 1,200 bolomoni who had previously surrendered. The proceeding! of the Church oecupi ed the entire day and included an ad dress by General Young and an exhorta tion by the priest. Scarcely any rebels rema ini in the vicinity of Santa Maria. General Young attributes this, fact toi, throe causesr the re election of President McKinlcy; the arrival of a stronger body of troops, and the especially rigid enforcement of war measure and the de jiortation of prisoners to Manila, He re ports that it is necessary to occupy all the barriers in order to protect the natives fi om the vengeance of Tagalog raiders. MIIFLWTOWS'S FIIIE Two Manufactories and Five Dwell in jrH Bnrned, Mifflintown, Dec.

3. The industries recently established in this place the local improvement association were destroyed by fire at a late hour Sunday night. About 11 o'clock fire was discovered in the second story of the Ramsey Shoe Factory. Before the Are was gotten under control, the Karl JStchell Knitting Mills and a row of1 five dwelling houses, across the street, were completely destroyed. About one hundred people are thuaj thrown out of employment.

The loss is about $50,000, only part ly insured. The fire is said to be of incendiary origin. Vaslyngton News. Officials decline to make any state ment relative to the announcementi 1 from Constantinople that the Turkish government had arranged to pay tha American mission claims under covern of a contract with Cramps for a war ship. The President received the Congres sional Committee of Notification at( the White House at 1.20 T.

M. Nearly al lof the flowers in both houses were on the Republican side. Chairman Tayne, of the Ways and Mans Committee, said to day that no exact programme had been fixed as to( the time of acting in committee onj the bill reducing the revenues or for the measure in the House. The Supreme Court has affirmed thd Kentucky case in which it was held; that the use of a car for through col ored passengers was not a violation! of inter state commerce laws. Telegraphic Briefs.

Oscar Wilde was buried in Paris t6 day. Bull fights have been commenced in) Mexico for the seajson. The condition of Czar Nicholas more satisfactory to day. Lorcn W. Collins has declined the ap point men to succeed the late SenatojJ avis.

Chicago Congregational ChurphesV, will start a December crusade against crime. The British government gets 000 as duty on the estate, of Paroii; Hirscb. President Diaz entered on bis sixth! term as President of Mexico with great ceremony yesterday. Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson, TJ. S.

who is ill with typhoid fever ali New York, is "getting along At Buffalo, Patrolman Tlunvis Me Namura was stabbed twice, lasit night h.Vt Coiled anting Calient a while was attempting to make an arrest. At Lansing, General W. L. Willi of Grand Rapiis, ex quartermaster general of the Michigan NaV.ional Guard, pleaded guilty to the charge of complicity in military clothing frauds and wiw sentenced' to ten sars in prison. i i it i.k iti roin.

Washington, D. Dec. 3. ForeeasS for F.asfe.rn Pennsylvania: Cloudy tonight and Tuewlay; probably rain or snow in north portion; warmer to night in north portion; light to fresh winds. mostly easterly..