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PHILIPPINE DEATH LIST. ROBBERY 0 FAMCAC MUWC TRT DDTtJD CANAL TREATY IN SENAT gars JOHN BULL IS DISPLEASED. ANOTHER TRAIN KGLD-UP. POSTAL CLERK IS BRUTUALLY ASSAULTED. COMMITTEE AMENDS BY AN AMERICAN PROVISION.

Ed Gillespie, a Sedgewick county far. men, Set fire to all his paper money to about $200, and bunaed every bill to ashes. He had a hai. luicination the government had TWO BOLD VILLIANS. TO FORTIFY THE CANAL him under suspicion, as a counterfeiter I Adopts a Clause Permitting the United States to Provide Necessary Protection.

Desperadoes Beat the Mall Clerk Insensible with a Shovel. Leave No Clue. St. Louis, Mo. (Special.) A special to the Post-Dispatch from Texarkana, Chester ManiUnctale has an inrterest in the Madison bank and keeps it3 books.

The poetoffice at Rosette, Lincoln, county, has been discontinued, mail to Sylvan Grove. Atchison will ask the legislature to Wild a rdad to the orphans' home a mile north of towm. E. Bradley, a shoe merchant of Atchison, has twenty-seven kinsmen who aire OathoUc priests. John F.

Roe has sold the Chamrte Blade to Charles E. Allison, formerly editor of "the Erie Senitfinel. Messrs. Smith and Haxrison have tatted a. new paper alt Gircleville called thie Jiackscim County World.

Three bridges are to be puit across he -Arktainsas river between Pawnee country end he Osage nation. H. E. Yla.n Deman, who was a professor of bo torn at the state university several years ago, now operates wa vester farm In Virginia. The coumtry residence of P.

S. Hol Kng-sworth cashier of ithe Firsit Nation, el bamk of Independence, was burnetii to the ground recenlily. Very little wheait will be ralised in Atchison county uext season owing to the depredations of the Hessian fly. Many farmers aire plowing up their fields. Prof.

M. A. Carierton, formerly of th Sflalte Agricultural college, is mow a seed expert for ithe naitiomall tural department wiilth headquarters In WashdmgHon. There will be esuabfishedi on January 1 a 6ubs3ation in connection wfilth the pcBtloffioe ait Topeka, to be designated Us substaition No. 2 and located at 717 mud 719 Kairsaa traue.

Jack Hebbe, farm laborer, has bee ai wrested tut Parsons, charged wth forging the -name of Charles Eochne, his employer, to three checks with were cashed by Parsons merch- and a further haEucmation that the money 2a his posessfan was all couav tea-fast. An inquiry into his sanity will be made. It behooves Topeka to make the EamMas eemd-centenmal exposition mora a Eknaas affair in the prelimin. arie than a Topeka aflMr. There is moire oppoeitton tto a legislative ap.

proyrialilion thlam Topeka thinks. If the appropriation Is to go through, Topeka wants to keep Topeka well fin the background at the start. Wichita Eagle. An Eldorado Toman gets up in the morning, puts on her husbamd'a trousers, builds the fires, milks the cows and does up the chares, all be-forie the old man wakens from his morning Slumber. There would not be so many brokemdown husband.

who believe that marriage fis a failure if more wives would follow her example." Hutchinson News. 1 The movement started at the mass-meeting Tuesday night to close the Topeka saloons is a reword breaker in the history of prohibition in that city. The fund from which rewairds for evidence are to be paid; has already rcciched $29,200, and James A. Troutmain.chairmiaai of the committee, eays It will go to $100,000. The joant-5sts will call on brewers aed disfailllexs for ia fund fox "def enee.

5 A queer judicial tangile is reported from Osage county. It seems that la young woman sued her hustaaind for divorce and got (St, but after the decree held been grainlted it was discovered that the husband was not yet of age. Bind, therefore, could not be sued in a court of law. It is said that the difficulty may be overcome by ap pointing a guardian for the boy, and thien suing through him. Chadrmao Hull and Representative Curtis, of Kaudafe, have had a conference in reference to legislation do away with the "Klondike" near the Soldiers home at Leavenworth.

They agreed that if a gemeHail bill shall be Mail Car on Illinois Central Robbed and Conductor Shot. South-bound Illinois Central fast mail, due here at 7:15 p. was held up and robbed by a lone train robber about one mile above the upper limits of the city tonight. Though some of the train crew say they saw four or five men In the bushes, only one man figured in the action, and his booty consists of only one registered mail pouch from Du-rant. and six other registered letters from points between Cairo and New Orleans.

Conductor Kinnebrew was shot In the groin, and J. C. Parker, railway mail Clerk, had his left eye powderburned by a shot directed at his head. The robber got on the train, It is supposed, af some point above the city, and after passing Kenner, the last stop before the train arrives in New Orleans, he climbed over to the engine and covered the engineer and fireman and brought the train to a standstill. When the conductor came forward to see what the trouble was, he was shot by the robber.

R. E. Goldsby, one of the railway mail clerks, stuck his head out of the door and was ordered to jump down, which he did. Then the robber led the engineer, fireman and Goldsby toward the express car and made one of them blow the side out with a stick of dynamite, which he supplied. This train carries no money and has no safe.

The robber then made for the mail car and there discovered Parker, who had hidden the registered pouches. He shot at him, and then one of the pouches was produced and he made off with It. He uncoupled the engine from the train and ran It to a point near Carrollton avenue, where he abandoned it The route of the engine was marked by mall pouches and letters which the robber threw or dropped out as he escaped. The robber was evidently well acquainted with railroading. His face was blackened and he was a man little less than six feet tall, weighing about 150 pounds.

He took Conductor Klnne-brews watch after he shot him. Two suspects were arrested, but the mall clerk did not Identify them. One of them, a tall man, when he turned his back, struck Goldsby as being of the, robber's build. He was captured on the outskirts of the city and had a revolver and seemed to be acting suspiciously. Long List of Casualties Sent In By Ceneral MacArthur.

Washington, D. (Special.) General MacArthur has cabled the following list of casualties in his command in the Philippines: Killed: Walker, Samuel, troopiB, Ninth cavalry, at Umbao, Luzon, Nov. 26. Wenkler, Joseph, company Third Infantry, at Maiolos. Luzon, Nov.

24. Wounded: Hopkins, Daniel company Third infantry, at Maiolos. Nov. 24. Kruger, Otto, company third infantry, at Maiolos, Nov.

24; head, serious. Manchester, Otis, company Twenty-sixth infantry, at Cabatuan. Panay. Nov. 12; chest, slight.

General MacArthur reports the following deaths from disease and accidents: Bell, John, company Eighteenth infantry, Sept. 10; cause not given. Bimson, Harvey, company Eighteenth infantry, Nov. 18; dysentery. Brown, William company Forty-first infantry, Nov.

26, cause not given. Burry, John company Nov. cause not given. Byers, troop Third cavalry, Nov. 25; cause not given.

Burgers, company Twenty-fifth Oct. 30, cause not given. Dorey, "Wm. Musician, Nineteenth Nov. dysentery.

Dihartz, Ray company Thirty-eighth Nov. 26; cause not given. Edwards, Yernie sgt. troop F.Elev-enth Oct. 18; cause not given.

Gage, Henry, company H.Twenty-fifth Nov. 30, heart disease. Gale, Lewis principal musician Thirty-fifth Nov. 26; cause not given. Geizer, Chas.

unasslgned recruit, 28, drowned. Gifford, Willard company Thirtieth Nov. 27, typhoid fever. Glumm, Frank, company Fourteent Nov. 30, dysentery.

Hoover, Edward, company Thirty-fourth Nov. 36, diarrhoea. Innis, Wages troop Fourth cavalry, Nov. 27, dysentery. I Jorgens, J.

A. Herman, farrier troop Third cavalry, Nov. 24; cause not given. Kroegel, Chris. company Thirtieth Nov.

25, dysentery. Krueger, Albert sgt. company Thirty-ninth Nov. 0, typhoid fever. Morgan, Jos.

company Twenty-ninth Nov. 13; cause not given. Mowrey, Jos. company Thirty-eighth Oct. 12, cause not given.

Nelson, Andrew company Thirtieth Oct 12, drowned. O'Day, Patrick, company Twelfth Nov. 24, cause not given. Pierson, Edward, company Fourteenth Nov. 26, typhoid fever.

Randle, John, company Thirtieth Nov. 26. tuberculosis. Reeves, Isaac, company Forty-eighth Nov. 26, cause not given.

Benner, Wm. troop Third cavalry, Nov. 14, tuberculosis. Smith, Frank company Nineteenth Nov. 18, dysentery.

Sullivan, John company Twenty-first Nov. 23, cause not given. "Van Zandt, John, Nov. 30, heart disease. Wilson, James company Twenty-fourth Nov.

26, typhoid fever. Wisler, Jacob, company Fourth Nov. 24, drowned. says: A bold robbery on the Cotton Belt railway occurred today at Bassetts, Tex. thirty miles south of Texarkana, on the train coming north, in which Postal Clerk John N.

Dennis was almost instantly killed and the mail pouches of his car rifled of their contents. The amount stolen is not known. As the train left the Bassett water tank at 6 m. the express and mail cars were separated from the train, but the train crew had them coupled up again. In the run from there to Texarkana the coaches were, uncoupled twice in a very mysterious manner.

Upon the arrival of the train here the United States transfer clerk went to the door of the mail car and knocked for the postal clerk to open it. No response was given from the Inside. Officials then forced an entrance to the car and were astonished to find the clerk, John N. Dennis, stretched upon the floor, aparently dead. Hurried examination showed that the registered bouches had been ripped open and fobbed of their contents, the most valuable of which was the Waco-Memphis through pouch, containing- a large number of valuable packages.

A physician was sent for, and it was found that Dennis was alive, but un-sonscious. An ugly wound In the top of jiis head told the story- Two hours tfter he was taken to the hospital he revived enough to give the details of the robbery. Just as the train parted at Bassett's tank Dennis went Into the vestibule of the mail car to stir up the fire. When le opened the vestibule door he saw two men standing by the one of hom dealt him a terrible blow over Jhe head with a heavy fire shovel. The first blow felled him, and he was was then quickly beaten Into an Insensible Washington.

D. C. (Special.) In accordance with previous agreement the senate in executive session took a vote today at 2 o'clock on the amendment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, authorizing the United States to defend its interests in the canal. The senate did not close its doors until 2 o'clock and there was left only one hour's time for discussion of provisions of the amendment. The vote was taken by ayes and nays, 65 votes being cast In favor of the amendment and seventeen against it.

The negative votes were as follows: Baird, Beverldge, Frye, Foster, Hans-brough, Lindsay, Mason, Mt-Cumber, McEnery, McBride, Morgan, Money, 6tewart, Tillman, Wellington Wolcott and Gallinger. After the amendment offered by the committee "was passed upon, various other amendments received the attention of the senate for a brief time, but none of them was acted upon. The committee amendment which was adopted is a provision to be inserted after section 5 or article 2 of the treaty and is as follows: "Insert at end of Section of Article II, the following: "It is agreed, however, that none of the Immediately foregoing conditions and stipulations In sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this article, shall apply to measures which the United States may find It necessary to take for securing by Its own forces, the defense of the United States and the maintenance of public order." The committee amendment had no sooner been adopted than various senators took the floor to suggest further amendments. The amendment which probably attracted most attention was offered by Senator Elklns, and is as fol-liws: "Nothing in this treaty shall be construed to prevent the United States from acquiring sufficient security and sovereignty, or to prevent It from building, operating, maintaining, controlling and defending the said canal (referring to the proposed NIcaraguan canal), or English Press Do Not Relish the Agreement, London.

(Sreclal.) The adoption by the United States senate of the Davie amendment to the Hay-Pauncefot treaty is evidently regarded as far toa weighty a matter for hurried comment by the London morning journals. Accordingly the Times and most of ths other papers will postpone until tomorrow their editorial treatment of ths question its present phase. The Dally Chronicle, however, publishes a short notice, in which It says: "The news Is very serious Indeed. It means. In a word, that the jingoes and anglo-phobes of the United States senate have triumphed and that we are back again today where we were at ths time of the Venezuelan Imbroglio and President Cleveland's Insolent and provocative speech.

The better feeling manifested during the Spanish-American war has been shaken by the pro-Boer sympathizers and Is now swamped by self-interest. "The Americans Intend to fortify tha canal In spite of the treaty engagement to the contrary. We cannot possibly' stand by and allow the Clayton-Bulwer treaty to be thus Imperiously set aside. The good relations between the two countries must of necessity be gravely menaced. This Is the outcome of Mr.

McKInley's re-election. Worse could hardly have happened if Mr. Bryan had been returned." The Daily Graphic remarks: Ws have no doubts as to the result. Anglo-j American statesmanship will find an! amicable solution of the difficulty created by American Jingoes. We fail to see, however, how the Clayton-Bulwer treaty can be gotten rid of without the Mosquito territory reverting Great Britain." The Standard observes: "It is mora of a rebuff for President McKInley's executive than for Great Britain.

Eng land cannot possibly accept the Hay-Pauncefote treaty treaty thus amended, and It would be insulting to the people and government of the United States to assume that they would either denounce the Clayton-Bulwer treaty without offering an equitable equivalent or contemplate the gross Illegality of disregarding It. "There will be time enough to con-' sider the abrogation of the treaty when, Washington formally tenders a sugges. tion, which would certainly be approached by Great Britain with every desire to assist the United States to carry out a project highly beneficial American commerce, but It cannot be supposed that we would abandon our treaty rights without solid consideration in return. The Morning Post, after contending that England. In negotiating the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, was acting virtually as the representative of all the maritime powers of the world, says: "Should the United States denounce the treaty there" is no means known to International law of upholding It.

The only known method of Induslng a state to accept an obligation of which It Is tired Is the method of compulsion. That method Is out of the question and will hardly be proposed, but It will be open to Great Britain alone, or In conjunction with other great maritime states, to conslde whether another canal, not under the control of the United States, may be worth the making. In this matter Brit Ish Interests are identical with the in crests of all maritime powers, save the United States. condition. He knew nothing more until he was removed to the Texarkana hospital.

He Is In a critical condition. Examination of the car showed that the robbers gained an entrance by crawling through a. small trap door through the floor of the vestibule. In the vestibule 19 a crank with which a person can uncouple the car from another, and it was the Intention of the robbers to disconnect and get control of both cars. It Is believed.

It Is Impossible to tell what the rob-ers secured, but they made a good laul. Officers are on the case, but there little to work on, as the men could lave left the car at three different laces before the train arrived here. Word reached here at noon that two uspects have been arrested at Naples, tear the scene of the robbery, but none the stolen packages were found. Dennis Is an old and trusted clerk. DeArmond Wants to Know, Washington, D.

(Special.) Representative DeArmond of Missouri introduced a resolution requesting the secretary of war for Information as "to what, if any, protest, objection, criticism or suggestion General Chaffee or any other American officer in China made or offered concerning looting or other action or conduct deemed Inhuman dishonest or improper; to whom directed or addressed, and on account of what facts or information, and how received and replied to, and with what result; and what, if anything, the war department did or suggested to General Chaffee or other officers, or directed to be said or done in reference thereto." The resolution refers to the reported incident between General, Chaffee and Count von Waldersee. for any other purpose that the United States may deem for its best interests. Other amendments were suggested by Senators Tillman, Allen, Money and Thurston. Senator Thurston's suggestion provides that the United States may defend the canal and Senator Tillman's makes the committee amendment adopted by today's vote apply to all the provisions of article 2. This would have the effect, It is believed, of multiplying the provision of section 7 of the article, provding against the fortification of the canal.

Other amendments were offered striking out sections 3 and 7 of article 2. Senator Tillman said that If Senator Elklns' amendment should be adopted he would not press his amendment for the modification of section 7, so as to omit provision against the fortification of the canaL Senator Lodge, in charge of the bill, was not slow to recognize the futility 5f trying to secure further consideration of the treaty, as amended, during today's session, and as soon as the unendments were all submitted he moved an adjournment until tomorrow, which motion prevailed. After the senate adjourned for the day the republican committee on order 5f business held a session to decide up in th efuture line of action with reference to the treaty as amended. After this committee had concluded Its conference Senator Lodge, who with the committee, stated, that the senate would proceed with the treaty and that he would continue his efforts to have It ratified. DISASTER T9 ENGLISH ARMY.

IN MEMORY OF HEROIC GIRL. A JAPANESE BEAUTY'S DINNER. Overeating is the sin of the satin-skinned, almond-eyed, fastidious flower of Japan. She begins In the mornig when she awakes by eating two little green plums pickled In vinegar and rolled in sugar. A cup of tea completes this almost traditional breakfast of Japan.

The dinner is of the drollest composition. It is brought In on a tray of red lacquer in microscopic cups with covers. A hashed sparrow, a stuffed spawn, seaweed with a sauce, a salt sweetmeat, a sugared chill. After all these dishes, which are a mere make-believe, a wooden, bowl Is brought in, bound round with copper and filled to the very brim with rice plainly cooked in water. The flower of Japan fills another large bowl from it, darkens It snowy white surface with a black saue flavored with fish, mixes it aU togt.her, carries the bowl to her lips and down all the rice, shoveling It with her two chopsticks into her throat.

And so ends the dinner. Additional, rural mall service has been established at Independence, Ikwi'tgomery county, with one center; ilengith of the route, twenty, five miles; popuftaltSon served, 550; VV. M. Kirkhtam appoSmted, The Mamthatlllan, Republic says ef the mew flouring mill ait that place that, finer mill, of bettrter equipment and tarramgement, conducted by men who are more expert im their business, does not exist In the etiaite." Rural free delivery service wus estabMshed on December 15 as follows: Sabethto, Neroiaha county, with Orte dairr-ier; 'length of the route, twemity-six miles; population served, J. P.

Mathews tappoinited the car. Ponda CSty, 0. claims a citizen 30 years ago waa a printer's devil in Lomtan. The firm for which he worked was printing "Our Mutual Friend," said this printer's devil held copy whfile Charles Dickson read the ftviatd proof. George Williams, who w'as four eeks ago shot in the head near Fort Bconlt tetrad seriously wounded by Joe Bail, a wefatithy farmer with whom he bad been living, has brought suit against ILaUl tto recover $5,00 for per ocal injuries.

(lit Is stafled that Governor Stanley has decided upon his appointments for -tbe four mew places on ithe supreme beach as A. H. Elite, Betoflt; J. C. Pollock, Winfield; E.

W. CuDimiigham, Emporia; Houston Whiteside, Hutchinson. St. Benedict's college closed for the bcKdaye Wednesday. The closing is ton days aatrHer than usual, and Is on account of the existence of a throat trouble wnong the students of the college.

Nine of Khem are wck and were unable "to go to their homes. Casandtra Purple of Kansas City, who sued the Uniroo Pacific rail. road for $3,000 damages for the loss of Truer husband, killed by the oars In Wyoming, has lost her case. A jury fei (he federal court 'alt Topeka re turned a verdict for the company. The execifJive committee of the fate labsocdairfon of county clerks has derfded to ask the legislature to fix a penalty for the vioaaitaon of the law requwing the aissessment of property ft its actual! vaJue, and to fix uniform terms of office for township offlclala.

Noble Thomas, of Emporia, wa trannd to delalth In a caboiose, as the result of a rear-end KsoHisiom near Olathe, Tuesdtay December 11, between two Samta Fe freight trains. Hia father was Kad'ly injured. They were bath on their way to Kansas CSty with Uve Stock. At a meeting1 of the debalting council of the university the following subject for the annual Missouri-Kan. eas debate was chosen: "Resolved That Congress ShouM Have Exclusive Coa-fcrcfl of Legtisliationi Respecting Trusts." The debate will take place the last of March or first of April.

iultrobuced to probihit 'the "saie of liquor within two miles of such homes, it will be offered by the chairman! of the military committee. If 4t is to bear osa Leavenworth alone, it will be introduced by Curtis. The distinction of topping all known November markets in Kansas GJty in the sale of caittte belongs to Charks Longrea of Walsburg, Riley county. The day before Thamksgiv. lng he sold twenlty head of cattle averaging 1,557 pounds per head, for $6.50 per cut, topping all November markets by $1.35 per cut.

On Thiamks. giving dlay he Bold 60 head averaging 1,493 pounds per head, for $5.75 per cut, ia gating Hopping ithe market by 60 Cents. The stockholders of tha Browa County Fair association! ait re cent meeting made arrangements for hold Sag the thirty sixth annual in Browm county. G. T.

Johnson was reelected pneSidnt and Grant W. Har-ffingtoin secretary. The Brown county fair is one of the oldest and most) successful fairs in the state. It has mfeesd but two fairs, since its Organization in 1864, is out of del and has money in iits treasury. The case against William Martin, dale, of Emporia growing out of the Cross bamk failure, has been continued until the April term of the federal court.

There is a general Ithart the criminal proceeding against MartindaJe will be dropped. After thet fcuHure Mairtinidaue transferred all Hs property to a trustee, to be applied on the debts of the bank. Having done this the depositors do not feel dike causing him any mora trouble Alesfaindleit Drummond, a Topeka man, walked! into the police station at St. Louis and said he was a forger. In reply to queries he said that hs (forged the maim of Cutthbert Sar-gwnit, Topeka contraictoTs, (to a $20 check and' had cashed ilt He wanted to give himself up.

Topeka authorities will go after him. It wtas asecr-tainedf at Topeka that he had committed forgery. Drummond tried to com-mtit euckie in Topeka recently. He was formerly ckrk in the pension office and latter ta clerk in the Sam'ta Fe office, but recenUy has been drinking heavily and has had no job. The Washington correspondent of the Topeka Journal says: It is feared that Kansas will be sidetracked its efforts for" favoritism in obtaining fedenatt momey for dlts eemi-centen.

mal exposition at Topeka in 1904 dur. img the present aeswioo. The grounds for this fear are bfcussed on the fact that a number of large appropriations wfll have to be ed by congress this winter that are of dmmedJafte necessity, and them the Buffalo and St. Louis exposition appropriaitions wfill have to take preference of ccmsld-eratln over the Kansas bilL as both of these occur much earlier than the pro. posed event.

Notwithst'amding this oondtodon of things the Katnaas dele-gatiion Is maknng preparations to make 6troiig fight fioa- securing ahe pass. age of their bill at this session, if such can possibly be'dotne." Pension BUI Complete, Washington D. Th pension appropriation bill was complete ed today by the boaee subcommittee oa appropriations having It In charge.after i hearing from Commissioner of Pensions Evans. It carries about J145.2S0,-000, ef which about $144,000,000 Is fos pensions and the balance for adminls-. tratlon.

It will be reported to the full committee tomorrow and get before the house Saturday. Serious Defeat Said to Have Occurred In Barberton District, London. (Special.) The Dally Express publishes a rumor of a serious lisaster to the British arms. According to this report the Boers attacked the camp of General Clements, in the Barberton district, capturing the camp, killing a number of British offi-ters and taking prisoners all the British troops, including four companies of the Northumberland fusileers. The Capetown correspondent of the Daily Mail reports the arrest at Cape Colony, of Harold Rarrin-tale, alleged to be an American, on the harge of fomenting an Afrikander re-pellion.

"The arrest," says the dispatch, "has nade a great sensation and startling lisclosures are promised." A Monument to be Erected to Jennie Wade, of Gettysburg Fame. Sioux City, I a. (Special.) Members of the Women's Relief Corps In Iowa are very much interested In the movement to erect a monument to the memory of the heroine, Jennie Wade, at the scene of the battle of Gettysburg. Circular letters have been sent to every branch of the Women's Relief Corps in the state, calling for donations to the fund. The circular recites the deeds of the noble girl and the incidents during whiech she met her death, she haying been shot down while feeding a number of hungry soldiers.

The women of Iowa, at the close of the national Women's Relief Corps convention at Philadelphia in 1899, visited the battlefield and saw the little brick house with the hole left by the minie ball In the door that took her life. She had supplied cold water to the weaTy soldiers during the days of the bloody battle and fed them. BRINGS BACK THE DEAD. Transport Arrives with 1.500 Dea( Soldiers From Philippines. San Francisco, Cal.

(Special.) TU transport Hancock arrived today fnH Manila, via Nagasaki, with a grue some cargo. It consisted of the bod let GENERAL NEWS NOTES. GERMANY'S FINANCIAL CRISIS. Treasury Official Issues Warning to the People. Berlin.

(Special) In the relchstag today during the debate on the estimates, the secretary of the Imperial treasury. Baron von Thielmann, took a decidedly gloomy view of the economic situation in Germany. He said the system had been undergoing a radical change- since summer and people must be prepared for a number of years to see a gradual shrinkage of the. Inflated condition. The decline, however, would, not take the form of a general financial crash, as In 1873.

This period of diminished trade could not pass without affecting the Imperial budget. Therefore it was necessary to strengthen the reserves of the treasury. In regard to the abolition of the sugar bounties the secretary of the treasury said the negotiations between Aus- Sulzerand His Boer Flag. Washington, D. (Special.) There ms a sequel today to the incident yes-erday, in which Representative Sulzer New York claimed that a Boer flag, aid to have been placed on- his desk the sailors who decorated the hall, iad been removed from his desk prior the centennial exercises in the house if representatives.

Mr. Sulzer had intended rising to a luestion of personal privilege. He con-erred with the speaker at the tatter's iffice prior to the opening of the session. The speaker did not consider the matter ne of personal privilege, but said that inquiry developed that Mr. Sulzers lag had been carried away it should be restored.

Mr. Sulzer thereupon stated tie would an inquiry on the whereabouts of the flag. of about 1,500 sailors and soldiers wn either died In battle, or succumbed tt the ravages of disease in the Philip pines, China, Guam and Honolulu. ThI Is the largest number of bodies broughi home since the outbreak of the Spanish American war. The Hancock will MkelJ remain In quarantine a few days.

The bodies will be conveyed to thl Presidio and placed In the building there, pending Interment or shlpmenj to the homes of the relatives. The Hancock was twenty-five days la making the "run from Manila and wa seventeen days In coming from Naga sagi, the last port at which she touched She brought fifty-two cabin passengers 500 In the and there were elev en deaths on the voyage to add to thl cargo of dead carried from the Phfl ippines. tria, France and Germany were not MANY OFER TO SELL CUTICLE. Chicago I1L (Special.) Young men and old ones, many of "whom betray signs of poverty, called today at the office of. Dr.

Elmer E. Prescott, 110 Washington boulevard, to offer for sale their own flesh and blood to the cause of science. One young woman called. Her clothing was poor but she was comely. "Will It hurt or mar my appearance In any way?" she asked.

Dr. Prescott Informed her that there would be no pain and that the flesh would have to come from her forearm. She left, saying she would think the matter over and perhaps would return. It was in answer to this advertisement that people with the flesh of their arm for sale visited the physician's office: WANTED Skin for skin grafting; about twenty persons; will pay 33 a person. Dr.

Prescott, 110 West Washington. The advertisement appeared for the first time this morning, and scarcely was the physician's office open when two young men walked In and offered to sell the flesh from their arm. TO AID FELIX MA CHUT. The patient for whom the flesh Is wanted la Felix Machut. 208 Cleaver street.

He Is seventeen years of age, and was employed at Kruissing Brothers' machine shop, 29-31 Jefferson street. He was injured October 23. His right hand was caught between two revolving rollers covered with sandpaper. The flesh and skin half way to the elbow Joint were ground or torn from his hand and arm. The boy was removed to the office of rr.

Prescott for the amputation of the member. The bones and tendons, however, were in perfect condition, and the physician said he would be able to give him a new hanL- He treated the Injured member until November 11. when the patient was put under the influence of an anaesthetic and a pocket five inches wide was cut in the thigh, beginning at the hip and extending downward eleven inches. The injured hand was then inserted into the opening and sewed there. It Is now grown firmly to the thigh.

Next Sunday Dr. Prescott win cut the new hand from his thigh. He thinks there will be no doubt as to the success of the operation, and says that the most difficult part of It is passed. A large opening, 11 by 5 inches, will be left in the thigh when the new hand Is carved from it, and It is to fill this that the physician is purchasing flesh. will have no difficulty in getting the flesh." said Dr.

Prescott. "I could take the skin from the patient himself, but he has suffered so much already that both he and his parents would prefer crafts from somebody el." The Norwegian consular treasury fees for the year 1899-1900 amounted to kroner, of which New York furnished 38,186 kroner. Werner, a wealthy spinner at Wer-dau, Germany, has been sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary for arson. He his own factory. "Noble a race horse with a record of 2:10, was cremated in a fire at Fulton, that destroyed the livery barn and eight other horses.

Noble T. was valued at $7,500. At a banquet given at Wilhelmshaven to welcome German marines who had returned from China, Vive Admiral Thomsen toasted them as "worthy competitors of the army for which the kaiser's ceaseless training is responsible." A sanitarium for the treatment of consumptives by a new liquid air treatment has just been opened at Boerne, by the Southern Pacific Railroad company. It is called the antl-Phymin institute. The treatment used is the discovery of a Texas physician.

The imperial court at Leipsic has annulled on formal grounds the sentence of death passed at Bremen last September on Bartholomew Kathost. who was extrr iited from Chicago in October of last year on a Charge of robbing and killing Marie Vodicka, a cook, whom he had married, and throwing her body into the Elbe. concluded, but they would probably provide a basis for definite agreements. The secretary also announced that a bill taxing sparkling wines would shortly be presented and that another bill taxing saccharine was in course of pre- The special attention of our readers Is nvited to the advertisement of the. American "Watch in another column of his paper.

A careful perusal will prove )f interest. The experiment station has concluded that flax PTYCWn fnr sonrl In paratlon. Minnesota is identical with Russian Dt Is conitended that the accepted peed of a warship should be a sea speed which cam be maintained during a period of at least sixty hours, and that at the end of that tame the ship 6hould not be in any way fatigued, but should be in all material and personal respects able to continue the peed in fighting order. Washington, D. (Special.) Sena tor Chandler today gave notice of amendment he will propose to the army bill providing that all original vacancies in the army which shall exist immedl ately after the passing of the act shall be filled by the selection of at least one-half of the persons to fill them among the officers of volunteer and the remainder from army officers.

In 190L said the secretary, an Increased expenditure of 53.000,000 marks must be provided Consequently the transfer ef surplus revenues to the federal states would cease. A general survey of the present estimates afforded, the secretary remarked, a decidedly less pleasing picture than last year. New York. The St. Joseph Grand Railroad company has declared i semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent Its first preferred stock.

The company paid 3 per cent in 1899 and 3 per so far in the 1900 calendar year. flax, and probably equally as good as that imported from Europe ax a high price. Near Marys ville, the ground for a space of ISO feet long and 75 feet wide has "dropped out of sight sunk 200 feet. The space has been filled with water, and the noise of the whirlpool cam be heard a long distance. The neighbors are freightened.

Chappie: "She says I'm he first mail she was ever engaged to." She: "Well, she's got to begin on somebody, hasn't she? Lansing, Mich. The reception that the taxation bills which Governor Pin-gree called the special session to consider, will receive In the upper house, was evinced this evening, when the sen A special report received at the treasury department at Washington from Cantain W. H. TJohPT-ts nf ate adopted a concurrent resolution to Switzerland allows no child under. 14 'ears to become a wage earner, the age it which under the English factory law le ceases to be a child and is ranked is a "young person." English boys of 2 years of age may still work In the nines for fifty-four hours a week, which longer than the hours for men in the nines of Northumberland and Durham, England.

Chicago Post: "I notice you never criticise your wife's cooking," remarked the young benedict "No," replied the man of I have learned better. You when you criticise your wife's cooking she is always trying to demonstrate that your criticisms are unjust, while if you say nothing about it she has no object in going into the kitchen and consequently leaves matters to the cook." adjourn tomorrow and leave consideration of all taxation to the incoming leg Grand Island, Neb. Miss Isa belle LIU tlefalr and William Telfer Hogg were married at St. Stephen's Episcopal church in the presence of a large gathering of friends. The ceremony was, performed by Rev.

Louis A. Arthur, rector cf the church. At the conclusion of the ceremony a wedding breakfast wa4 served at the residence Mr. and R. R.

Horth. The bridal couple will leave for a three months' tour of Europe. The New York board of health has discovered seven new cases cf pox. revenue cutter Manning, tells of a i remarkably long cruise just completed by that vessel The Manning left New York on January 8 of this and was coritinuallyon the go islature. While the bouse refused to An imperial order has been transmitted through the Russian admiralty the Kranetadt docks to the efEeet that aill goods ordered" must be of native production.

The operation of this order includes machines ordered through agents resident in Russia, and through Russian factories. In the future every firm supplying machines, mechanical appWamces and general material for the Kronstadit docks will have to furnteh a declaration to the effect that the goods have been made concur In the resolution and tabled it. It Is considered by many that the senate's action presages sure defeat for the measure when they come up in tnat body. Governor Pingree, however, has umii ine rnicmie oi October, and dur ng the nine months she steamed a distance of 29,403 miles. Luofen Baker manages his own canipaJgn.

not given up hope of the bill's passage in the senate. Half the girls you meet are either pretty or 'clever. The other half are ih ones who would make good wives. No woman's feet feel really comfortable unless she has got them in a pair of shoes that are too small,.