Portage Daily Democrat from Portage, Wisconsin • 1

OCRA 1 MINTH YEAR PORTAGE. WISCONSIN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1897. TWO CENTS. CAN SEE ITS FINISH GREEKS TAKE DAMAS1 REGENTS IN SESSION Mrs. Julia Kelley, wife of Thomas K.

Kelley, a fireman on the St. Paul road, died Tuesday morning at her home, 710 West Dayton street, after a weeks illness from asthma and heart trouble, aged 45 years. Mrs. Kelley was a daughter of Patrick Starr and had lived in Madison about forty years. She was bora in Vermont, but came to Wisconsin with her parents when five years of age.

She was married to Thomas Kelley 25 years ago in this city. She leaves a husband and eight children, four boys and four girls. The latter are Mary, James, Bridget, Julia, Agnes, Thomas, Martin and John, all living at home. The funeral will be head tomorrow morning at 8 oclock, from St. Raphaels church.

Senator Thayer opposed this and explained that Prof. Henry had offered to carry out the provisions of the bill at no expense to the state. Senator Conger said a similar bill bad been indefinitely postponed earlier in the session. Many fruit growers opposed the measure on the supposition that they had to pay for the examination of their orchards. Senators Baxter and Thayer spoke against the motion.

It was carried and the 'bill laid over until the evening session. McDill for Regent. Gov Scofield sent In the appointment of George E. McDill of Stevens Point as a member of the board of normal school regents for the term ending Feb. 1, 1900, in place of J.

O. Raymond, deceased. On motion of Senator Phillips, the nomination was unanimously confirmed under suspension of the rales. Bills Passed. Under suspension of the rules, Xo3.

623a and 56a, to revise the banking laws, and 404a, to regulate the procedure for determining insanity and governing commitments and parries, were passed. Other bills passed Nos. 96s (Dennett), relating to Milwaukee house of correction; 154s (Whitman), to jurisdiction of local insurance companies; 378s (Burke), to ditches and drains; 384s (Davis), to prevent unjust discrimination bv fire insurance companies; 387s (Dais), relating to. organization of insurance corporations; S92s (Roehr), to provide fn organization cf fraternal assessment order; 376a (True), roviding for compila-on of town laws; 645a (Taylor), authorizing bridge across Menominee river; 648a (Hoyt), providing for payment of license by plank and toll roads; 649a (Pierce), legalizing acts of Briggsville Cemetery association. No.

49a (Merrill), to cheapen the administration of estates of moderate value in probate court, was slated for non-ooncuirence Senator McGillivray spoke for the measure. Senator Austin said the judiciary committee had reported It adversely because many judges had protested against it. Senator McMullen said many judges declared it would make administration of estates more expensive as the estates could be dragged into the circuit court by it. Senator Whelan also opposed it. The bill wa3 non-ooncurred in, the negative votes being by Senators Conger, Davis, Dennett, Green, McGillivray, Munson, Stebbins and Wood-worth.

Exemption Bill Advanced. Assemblyman Knauss bill. No. 13Ca, reducing the exemption of earnings of towns from Forest county Into Langlade county. Assembly Bills Passed.

No. 103 (Tucker), codifying the school laws; 663, appropriating $500 for a memento for the battleship Wisconsin. The Caucus Bill. On motion of Mr. Wheeler Senator Mills bill regulating primaries was taken up.

It Lad previously been made a special order for the evening. The 'original bill applied only to municipal elections. Several amendments were submitted by the committee on privileges and elections. One applying the law to all elections in cities was adopted without opposition. Mr.

Overbeck offered another applying the law to towns. It was killed. A committee amendment provided that the law should not apply to municipal elections in cities of the 3d and 4th class unless adopted by the council thereof. Mr. Lange offered an amendment extending the committee amendment to general elections In cities.

Mr. W. A. Jones opposed the Lange amendment and It was rejected. Then the original amendment was adopted.

Still another amendment was of minor importance and encountered no opposition. Mr. Lange uiged that the bill should now take Us regular course that is, for a third reading. The speaker ruled that it was on concurrence, and it was concurred In, 42 to 12. Recess till 7:30 p.

m. was taken. ASSEMBLY EVENING SESSION. It was a proud moment for W. A.

Jones in the assembly Tuesday evening when Mr. Davidson presented a joint resolution congratulating President McKinley on his selection of Mr. Jones, a gentleman of eminent abilities, irreproachable Character and excellent business qualities, as commissioner of Indian affairs. The reading of the resolution elicited flattering applause and It was adopted unanimously by a rising vote, the chair amid laughter tben calling for those opposed to stand. Mr.

Anson wns-i called to the chair and considerable business was transacted. Favorably Reported. Nos. 385s, to enforce the payment of claims against insurance companies; 386s, relating to the division of insurance companies; 390s, to protect Insurers from risks In insurance companies; 391s, to prevent the combination of fire insurance companies; 602a, relating to legislative expenditures. The committee on claims reported a substitute for No.

646a, substitute for Noe. 77a, 114a and 520a, providing for the sate of park lands. The bill provides for the sale to some extent of the timber on the lands. Unfavorably Reported. Nos.

148s, relating to the territorial boundaries of cities and villages; 75s, joint resolution providing for a constitutional convention, (vete in committee stood 7 ayes and 4 noes); 108s, making it a penal offense to attempt to obtain credit fraudulently; 396s, to require the unive.sity regents to make reports to the legislature. No Recommendation. No. 50a, to appropriate $8,000 to tbe Wisconsin agricultural society was returned without recommendation. Three of the committee favored an allowance of $4,000 and three the postponement of the bill.

No. 546a, relating t6 the election of assessors in cities of the third and fourth class, was referred to Mr. Bar-num. No. 199a, a bill similar to the Welton bill, to create a board of police and fire commissioners for cities of the second and third class, was referred to Mr.

Ray. Assembly Bills Passed. Nos. 313 (Bullard), appropriating to C. W.

Johnson and others $793.05 to reimburse them for judgment rendered against them for destroying property as fish wardens under the Invalid fish law of 1895; 333 (Buffington), relating to mutual insurance of church property; 358 (Parker), few a municipal court for Kewaunee couniy; 56a, (Latta), relating to printing of election notices; 577 (True), for protection of property against forest fires; 658 (com. on claims), making appropriations for damages sustained by enforcement of the game law; 660 (Burnham), regulating the improvements of boulevards end pleasure ways. Senate Bill Passed. No. 404s (Stout), relating to the enlargement and equipment of the historical library building, was on motion of Mr.

Hall, passed under suspension of the rules. To Third Reading, Noa. 119s (Dennett), relating to the employment of prisoners 249s (Welton), to the giving of official bonds; 666a (committee on finance, banks and insurance), providing for state depositories; 597a (Buffington), to prevent discrimination by Insurance companies. Adjournment was taken to 11 a. m.

today. FIERCE FIGHTING IS NOW IN PROGRESS. SENSATIONAL WAR NEWS Ed ham Pasha Leads Sultans Forces ia Seven Unsuccessful Attacks Against Reveni Tymavo Is Being Shelled by Turks and All Roads to Larissa are Crowded with Fugitives. Athens, April 21. The capture of Damasi by the Greeks has been confirmed by an official dispatch.

This puts a new complexion upon the situ- i ation on the frontier and is great en- i couragement to the government. Of- ficial dispatches report also that further heavy breaches have been made in the Turkish forts at Prevesa. The bombardment ceased at nightfall, but will be resumed this morning. Athens, April 21. (Midnight.) News has just, reached here that the Greeks after a desperate battle, captured and burned Damasi.

Viglia is still resisting. Another division of the Greek troops, it is reported, traversed Reveni pass and captured three block-houses. This division almost reached Damasi, where it will effect a union with the force that captured tne town. Twenty thousand troops under Gen. Smolenitz displayed the greatest bravery.

Reveni lies twelve miles northwest of Larissa. Ed ham Pasha, with a force variously estimated from ten to fourteen thousand troops, led seven assaults against it Tuesday, but all were repulsed by the Greeks. Crown Prince Constantine has telegraphed that the Turks at that point were completely and finally repulsed. In Athens greater attention has been paid to the operations in the neighborhood 'of Reveni than at iMilouna pass. The theory all along has been that if the Greeks could establish themselves at Damasi, their road would lie open to Eiassona.

The exact situation at Tymavo is somewhat in doubt. News from that point is conflicting, hut there is no confirmation of the rumor that that place has been captured by the Turks. What seems to have happened is that Tymavo was evacuated in order to send troops forward to Reveni and then reoccupied by troops returning from Milouna. Milouna Pass, April 21. (Tuesday evening.) The Turks have just commenced to shell the town of Tymavo.

All the roads leading to Larissa arc crowded with fugitives, shouting Reserves, dont try conclusions with the Turks. The, Greek villages in the plain are completely deserted. London, April 2L Taking a general survey of the field at midnight Tuesday the fortunes of war are thus far pretty evenly divided, but the chances for the immediate future are decidedly in favor of the Greeks. ANOTHER VETERAN CALLED. MAJOR GEORGE WILSON PASSES AWAY TUESDAY MORNING.

Mrs. Thomas Kelley Dies Funeral of the Late William Shannon. Madison, April 2L Major George Wilson passed away at his home on East Mifflin street, Tuesday morning, aged 60 years. Rheumatic troubles and asthama, complicated with heart failure, was the cause of death. He was an early resident of Madison and a gallant soldier in the war.

He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters. One eon, Harry, lives in Chicago, the other, George, in St. Paul; all the daughters are married; they are Ida, living in Grand Forks, N. Bessie (Mrs. Victor Koeppel), in Los Angeles, and Clara, in Richland Center.

Major Wilsons father was an Englishman, his mother a German lady. He was born in Hamburg, but was taken almost immediately to Norway, where he lived until nearly 15 years of age, when he came to America and to Madison. In the latter part of the 50s he was a clerk in George Paines drug store on King street. He returned home after the war, and afterward moved to Black Earth and engaged in the general merchandise business. (Major Wilson was commissioned second lieutenant of Co.

fifteenth Wisconsin infantry volunteers, Nov. 12, 1861; promoted captain of Co. same regiment. May 14, 1862; promoted major of the regiment March 11, 1863, and mustered out January 6, 1865. He was wounded Dec.

30, 1862 at Stone River and severely wounded at Chiek-amauga. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel Feb. 25, 1867 to rank from Feb. 21, 1865. He was engaged In compiling the war records under Gov.

Rusk from 1885 to 1890 and was held in the highest estimation by all his associates. As a soldier he never failed in any emergency and was conspicuous for his gallantry and bravery. He was a member of Wilson Colwell post, G. A. of La Crosse.

The funeral will be conducted by Lucius Fairchild post, G. A. of this city, probably tomorrow. Comrades will hold themselves in readiness to attend. LEGISLATURE IS A VERY BUSY BODY.

BLOW AT CIGARETTE BILL Senate Judiciary Committee Says Measure Is Unconstitutional McKinley Is Congratulated on 'His Appointment of Assemblyman Jones as Indian Commissioner. Both houses of the legislature meet at 11 a. m. today and it Is expected that all committees will report at this session all the bills still in their possession. The closing days of the legislature are busy ones.

Nearly every member is deeply interested in one or more bills and he is putting in his best licks for them. Senator Burke nearly caused a in the upper house Tuesday evening by moving that all assembly bills before that body be laid on the table, because the 'lower house accorded similar treatment to a certain senate bill Monday evening. (Milder counsel prevailed, however, thereby narrowly averting what might have developed into a stubborn fight. Blow at 'Hurds Bill. The senate judiciary committee Tuesday evening recommended the Hurd anti-cigarette bill for summary slaughter.

The measure was referred to that committee with instructions to determine upon the constitutionality of it. In its report the committee says: After careful consideration we have come to tJhe conclusion that sections 1 and 2 of the bill are In violation of the constitution of the United States; that section 3 falls with sections 1 and and that the object of section 4 of said bill is better subserved by the provisions of senate bill No. 87, which has passed this body and is now pending in the assembly. The Hurd bill a license of $500 for each dealer and prohibits the sale of cigarettes to minors The Whitehead bill. No.

87s, simply prohibits the sale of cigarettes to persons under 18 years of age. Two Bills Passed. Under suspension of the rales, bill No. 405s, providing fbr soldier monuments at phickamauga and Chattanooga, was passed, as was also No. 178s, appropriating $1,046,000 for the penal and reformatory institutions of the i llAfl I state.

The latter measure first called for an appropriation of $1,136,000, but was reduced $190,000 by the claims committee. Board of Agriculture. The senate receded from its position relative to the True bin. No. 378a, creating a state board of agriculture, and the measure was then ooucurred in.

Baxter Saves It. 'Bill No. 222a, relating to telegraph companies, was adversely reported, but on motion of Mr. Baxter, it was rereferred to the state affairs committee New Fish Bill. Senator Green of the joint committee on fish and game introduced a bill relating to the amount of fish one person may have in his possession, regulating the spearing of fish and In general providing far the construction of the provisions of the general fish and game law.

Favorably Reported. These bills were favorably reported: Nos. 163s (with amendment), to permit cities to hold land outside their limits for hospital sites; 131a (with amendment), to authorize counties to build and maintain county industrial schools; 443a, to investigate railroad earning returns made to the state; 402s (with amendment), exempting certain land from taxation; 32a, relating to the taxation of steamboats; 280a, providing for the assessment of taxes on bank stock; 289a providing for tbe licensing of plumbers; 653a, regulating the sale of poison; 275a (with amendment), providing for a revision of the statutes relating to general elections; 553a (with amendment), to promote the purity of political conventions; 200s (with amendment), relating to the equalization of assessments; 209s (with amendment), relating to the legislative department of cities of the fir3t and second cMsses; 315s (with amendment), relating to time for holding elections in incorporated villages and cities; 318a (with amendment), relating to delinquent taxes; 218a (with amendment), amendatory of the act to establish a beard of immigration; 179a, relating to the assessment of property; 129a (with amendment), providing for the taxation of express companies; 397s (with amendment), relating to trusts; 87a (with amendment), to provide for the condemnation of land for highway and boulevard purposes beyond 'the limits of cities; 474a (with amendment), relating to the fees of Sheriffs and other officers. Unfavorably Reported. These bills were unfavorably reported: Nos.

290a, relating to election of constables in cities of the third and fourth classes; 215s, relating to the taxation of express companies. SENATE, MORNING SFSSION. Rev. W. J.

McKay offeieJ prayer in the senate Tuesday morning. Lieut. Gov. Baensch was in the chi'r. Senator Putnam introduced a resoluiion which was adopted permitting Senator Welton to introduce a bill to authorize the Chicamauga Battlefield commission to erect monuments to union soldiers on Mission ridge.

Senator Conger asked for a reconsideration of the vote by which No. 39Ss, to prevent the spread of the San Jose scale, was ordered to third reading. THE UNIVERSITY AND NORMAL SCHOOL DIRECTORS HERE. BUSINESS LARGELY ROUTINE Dean for the Womans Department at the University to Be Named and an Instructor in Pedagogy 'Past Normal Regents Daughter Makes a Generous Donation, Madison, April 21. The boards of university and normal school regents are both in session in tbe city.

The university regents held sessions Tuesday afternoon and evening in the law building and will meet again at 9 oclock 4kls morning. Little aside from routine business, such as the reading of reports, was done. President Adams was authorized to nominate a dean for the womans department and an Instructor in pedagogy These will, be additional to the present Instructional force. Tthelr election will oome up at the next quarterly meeting In June. The sum of $200 was appropriated for tennis courts, $100 for overhauling the present court below university hall for t)he use of the ladies and $100 for establishing new courts at Camp Randall for the use of the men.

The matter of a university band appropriation was left in the hands of a committee. The board is pleased at the favorable action taken toward the university by the present legislature. All members were present at the meetings except Judge Noyes and State Superintendent J. Q. Emery.

Two new members were received, .1, H. Stout, and J. A. Van Cleave. The others present were W.

P. Bartlett, B. J. Stevens, H. W.

Ohynoweth, John Johnston, J. R. Riess, Frank Challon er, O. E. Clark, W.

A. Jones, Ogden H. Fathers and President C. K. Adams.

This is also the quarterly meeting of the normal school regent. Routine business engrossed their attention Tuesday. Arrangements were made with the land department whereby could be borrowed from the trust funds in accordance with the act recently passed by the legislature. The board received an offer of a fund of $500 from Miss Flavla White of Minneapolis, the income of which hall form an annual prize to be awarded at the (Inter-normal oratorical contest. Miss White is a daughter of Judge Samuel White of Whitewater, who was for years one the board of normal school regents.

The members present Tuesday were Charles Plttelkow, Milwaukee; A. E. Thompson, Oshkosh; Frank Ostrander, Superior; Coe, Whitewater; T. Jenkins, Platte-vllle; Freeman H. Lord, River alls; J.

J. Fruit, La Crosse; G. E. McDill, Steven poilnt. Mr.

MoDUI appointment was confirmed by the senate Tuesday, thus enabling him to be present at the meeting. Regent W. A. Brown of Marinette was absent, arrived In the city from Chicago night. SOME SOLONS.

If Assemblyman Frank E. Hurds anti-cigarette bill becomes a law, as new seems certain, the gentleman from Juneau will enjoy the distinction of having won more parental gratitude than all the other legislators combined. Mr. Hurd resides in New Lisbon. He was bora November 16, 1847, at Clyde, Sandusky county, Ohio, and came to Wisconsin by ox team with his parent in 1856, settling on a farm in the town of Germantown, Juneau oounty, where he spent five years.

He moved to New Lisbon in 1861 and has resided there ever since. He was a private in Co. forty-first Wisconsin volunteers, and is a member of the G. A. R.

He was employed as a clerk after hi discharge from the service in 1864, until 1869, when he opened a store, and has ever since been in a general mercantile business at Now Lisbon, with a branch store at Necedah. He also operates a large farm, and Is a cranberry grower. He has served several terms as mayor and alderman. He was elected to the assembly as a republican in 1894 and re-elected last fall. Mr.

Hurd is a modest man, but if the grateful people generally of the commonwealth ever get a chance to vote for him for a state office his majority will amaze the victim who opposes him. Another reformer, though in a different line, is Senator Charles V. Davis, who stands sponsor for the bill that has passed the upper house, one of whose main purposes is to put a stop to the barter and sale of United States senator-ships in Wisconsin. Incidentally it is also calculated to give the poor man a chance to get into public office and to minimize the influence of Old Moneybags in political matters. Senator Davis was born in Castieton, January 5, 1827.

He was educated in the common schools of Warren county, N. with one term In Chester academy. He came west in 1857, settling in Oshkosh in 1860, where he has since lived. During his residence there he has been engaged in various manufacturing and lumbering enterprises, and is a member ot the firm of DavU, Hansen Iron pump manufacturers. He Is also Interested in a lumber business in South Dakota.

Mr. Davis served several terms as an alderman during the sixties, and was elected mayor in 1868, taking a conspicuous part as such in the government im- Absolutely Pure, Cokbratol for ft groat leaventriR tropgth mud hnalthfulnpm. Aiwurea th food against ahimnd all forma of adulteration common to the cheap brand. tOTAL RAKIWO POWDER MEW provement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. For six years he has been a member of the county board, and was chairman of the hoard from 1889 to June, 1895 having been repeatedly chosen to that office when the board was democratic, He was elected to senate as a republican in 1894, receiving 6,591 votes against 3,721 for Lucas Milttades Miller, democrat, who had previously served one term in congress.

Senator Davis Is to be congratulated on the progress he has made with his purifying measure, and will deserve well of the people if the politicians do not succeed In baffling hi good efforts. Assemblyman Thomas J. McGrath has won a notable victory In securing the passage by the house of hi bill for the establishment of a reformatory for youthful offender He was born January 15, 1859, in Victoria county, Canada and was educated in the common schools of Canada. He came to this country an4 to Wisconsin in 1875 and lived in Waupaca county from 1875 to 1877, in Minnesota from 1877 to 1888, and since that time In Green Bay. He was a farmer and laborer up to 1880, carpenter and Jobber from 1880 to 1884; railroad bridge builder from 1884 to 1890, and since that time a general contractor.

He cast his first vote for Garfield for president. Mr. McGrath is a man of much native ability. He is a forcible speaker and freely participates in the debates. He made an eloquent address for bis pet measure and carried it through with colors flying.

FOR GEN. EWINGS DEATH. New York, April 21. Mr. Marla Ewing Martin was awarded $5,000 damage frojji the Third Avenue Street Railway company for the death of her father, Gen.

Thomas Ewing. The general was knocked down and fatally injured by a cable car on Jan. 26, 1896 He was formerly a member of congress from OMo, and was a cousin of Secretary of State John Sherman. Mrs. Martin sued for $50,000.

TALBOT SUCCEEDS PRICE. Milwaukee, April 21. J. S. 'Talbot, late assistant general freight agent of the Iowa Central railroad, with headquarters at Peoria, has been appointed assistant general freight agent of the Wisconsin Central road to succeed T.

A. Price, deceased. GOT JUDGMENT. Dil the Grocer, but the Judge Came Out Ahead. A Washington attorney i rather noted for the facility with which he fcigets financial obligations.

He has owed a certain grocer $8 for a year or two. The other day the merchant concluded to try a new course with him. Meeting him In his store, He said: Judge, I have a customer who owes me a small bill and has owed it for a long time. He makes plenty of money, but wont pay. What would you do? Id sue him, said the lawyer, emphatically.

Well, I will put the account In your hands, and the merchant presented a statement of the account against himself All right, I will attend to It, said the disciple of Biackstone. A few days later the merchant received the following note from the lawyer: In the case of against I took judgt ent for full amount of your claim. Execution was Issued and returned no property found. My fee for ottalrlng judgment is for which amount please send check. Will be glad tc serve fm in any other matters in wh'ch you may need an attorney," Washington Star.

Awarded Highest Honors Worlds Fair, DR; CREAM BAM MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Crap Cream of Tartar Powder, Pre from Ammonia, Alum or any other adut-rmi 40 Ycasa tfw SUnJud. The funeral of the late William Shannon, who was killed in a runaway in the sixth ward last Saturday afternoon, was held at Vilas Tuesday afternoon. A large attendance was present. Rev.

E. J. Baskerville officiated. A POPULAR PRELATE. TRIBUTE OF CATHOLICS TO ARCHBISHOP RYAN.

A Three Days Celebration Outlined in the Quaker City Children to Play a Prominent Part. Philadelphia, April 2L The jubilee celebration of the silver anniversary of Archbishop Patrick J. Ryan began yesterday morning and will continue with varied exercises until Friday Archbishop Ryan. evening. Archbishop Ryan became titular bishop of the see of Tricorn ia twenty-five years ago last Wednesday.

His episcopal consecration topk place in St. puis in the church of SL John the Evangelist, of which he was then the rector. (The anniversary of the event having occurred in holy week, the celebration was postponed until this week. Today a parade of the parochial school children and an entertainment an the academy of music is to be held. Chairman Edwin Megargee.

Pontificial mass is to be celebrated in the cathedral and addresses will follow. The parade of the boys will be in the morning and in the afternoon the girls will give an entertainment in the acadenly. The entire celebration is under' the direction of Edwin Megargee, choirman. MISS DAVIS WEDS. Joyous Event in the Cream City Miss Vilas a Bridesmaid.

Milwaukee, April 21. The marriage of Miss Julia Bradley Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. De Witt Davis, and Mr. John Flower McDonald of Minneapolis took place Monday afternoon at 4 oclock at the Calvary Presbyterian church.

Miss Harriet McNight of Minneapolis attended the bride as maid of honor, and Mr. Edwin McDonald of Minneapolis was best man. The bridesmaids were Misses Jane McDonald of Minneapolis, Jennie Whitcomb, Helen Sexton, Harriet Cary, Alice Blanchard, Mildred Ormsby, Katherine McCord, Mary Vilas of Madison, and the ushers were Messrs. Waiter W. Heffelfinger, James Pettit, John.

A. Bovey and Soott Woodworth, all of Minneapolis; De Witt Davis, Rudolph Nunnemacher, Richard Houghton and Frank Furlpng. After the ceremony a reception was held from 4:30 until 8 oclock At the residence of the brides parents, 160? Grand avenue. Mr. and Mrs.

McDonald will reside in Minneapolis and will be at home June 22 at 1603 Stevens avenue. Detroit Tribune The HaHliao preacher who talks about the awfulness of the nude may be able to suggest some easy device for having babies born with pajamas. from to $40 per month, was report- ed from the committee for Indefinite postponement, but dt was ordered to engrossment and third reading by a vote of 13 to 12. Senator Austin moved that when adjournment be taken it be until 11 oclock this morning that the committees might have time to prepare their bills for reporting. Soo Passenger Rates.

No. 332a, limiting passenger rates on all roads which earn $3,500 or more per mile to not more than 3 cents per mile, and requiring that tickets be sold at all stations at that rate, brought out a speech from Mr. Lamoreux. He said the bill was directed at the Soo road, which it alone affected. This road, he said, charged 4 cents a mile for local travel, hut 3 cents a mile for through passengers; there was little local travel, and the company runs a day train for its accommodation.

If the bill passed he said, the train would be taken off. The people living in towns aCong the line, he said, were opposed to the bill, and he cited remonstrances from 700 of them. The bill was ordered to engrossment and third reading, 15 to 14, by the following vote: Ayes: Dennett, Devos, Fisher, Green, Mailer, 'Munson, Rdordan, Roehr, SoJliday. Stebbins, Stout, Whelan, Whitehead, Withee 15. Noes: Austin, Baxter, Burke, Conger, Davis, Lamoreux, McGillivray, McMullen, Mills, Pierce, Putnam, Thayer, Whitman, Youmans 14.

Senator Dennett moved that No. 310s, for the taxation of waterworks', be recalled from the assembly. That done, he moved a reconsideration of the vote of passage that it might be re referred to the committee on state affairs as some interests were still unreconciled. Senator Conger moved it be sent to the committee on state affairs, which motion prevailed. Milwaukee Sewerage.

Mr. Hoyts bill. No. 628a, authorizing a sewer commission for Milwaukee, authorized to condemn lands for sewerage purposes, was ordered to engrossment and third reading. BiU Killed.

Mr. Trues bill. No. 375a, providing an appropriation to reimburse the trust funds for a loan to the state agricultural society of $113,000, including Interest. was indefinitely postponed.

School Bill Concurred in. On motion of Senator Stout, No. 103a, amending the school laws, was taken up and concurred in under suspension of the rules. Recess was taken to 7:30 p. m.

ASSEMBLY, MORNING SESSION. Rev. Dr. J. D.

Butler offered a prayer in the assembly Tuesday morning. Then on motion of Mr. True the assembly non-ooncurred in certain senate amendments to the state agricultural board bill, one of the amendments affected a section not in the assembly bill at all. The return to the senate of the bill was merely for the purpose of correcting the error. Bill Killed.

No. 460 (Buffington), changing the matter in official publications of election notices. Senate Bill Concurred in. No. 320 (Riordan), setting off a tier GIFT TO LIBRARY.

Milwaukee, April 21. Yesterday Brewer August Ulhlein walked into the office of ifis friend, George W. Peck-ham, the public librarian, and said: I have lived in Milwaukee a number of years and have prospered here. Today is the anniversary of my marriage, and I feel particularly happy. I admire the usefulness of the library and have great confidence In its management.

It is my desire to do something to help the library. I want to give you $5,000 for the purchase of books. I hope that others Who are happy will do likewise. Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder Iwardad Gold Medal Midwinter Fair.

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