in of of of of DAY'S DOINGS. SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS BY WIRE. NO REWARD OFFERED LITTLE HOPE OF APPREHENDING LYNCHERS. Views of Governor Stanley- Says Public Sentiment Would Balk Prosecutions Mutilated Body Found in. a Trunk on a New York Pier.
Gov. Stanley of Kansas has revised his declaration to immediately offer a reward for the apprehension and conviction any of persons assisting in the burning at the stake of Fred Alexander, the negro, at Leavenworth. The Governor had decided that he would offer the reward, but deliberation on the subject induced him to change his mind. "It would be of absolutely no use to issue the offer," said the Governor. "If the guilty persons were arrested they would necessarily have to undergo the first trial in enworth County, and on account of the present condition of public sentiment it would be absolutely useless to attempt to prosecute anybody there for the crime." The sentiment of the Kansas Legislature on the Leavenworth mob was, reflected in Chaplain Morehead's prayer: "We realize we have been disgraced in the eyes of the world by the work of a mob.
Save us from lawlessness and make us lawabiding citizens." Within an hour after convening a joint resolution, introduced by Senator Carpenter, was passed by both houses, denouncing the Leavenworth mob. THIRTY-SEVEN HURT AT A FIRE. Guests Leap from Beds and Out Windowe of Burning St. Louis Hotel. Two persons were seriously injured and thirty-five others slightly hurt as the result of a fire that burned the Stewart Hotel, a two-story frame structure, in St.
Louis. Forty guests lost their clothing, as the flames had gained such headway before they were awakened that all escape except the windows was cut off. S. W. Carr and L.
Blake, master bridge builders for the Wabash Railroad, who were the most seriously hurt, were burned about the face, hands and feet. None will die. The others received their injuries in jumping from the windows to the pavement. Mr. Carr saved his wife by wrapping her in a wet blanket and leaping from a window.
She was not injured. The loss was about $10,000. BODY IS FOUND IN A TRUNK. Signs of Murder Discovered in a Box on East River Wharf. The body of a man, with his throat cut and showing other marks of violence, was fowad in a trunk on a pile of skids at the bulkhead of pier No.
11, East river, New York. It was identified two hours later by a woman as the body of Michael Weissberger or Weissberg, an East Side Hebrew, who was employed by a jewelry firm torsell jewelry the installment plan. Landslide in Washington. Heavy rains prevailed at Pullman, 'Wash. thousand cubic feet of earth on the hill broke loose and slid down.
After going about 150 feet it -struck the house of C. O. Merrill, knocking it from its foundation and carrying it several hundred feet, leaving it with ridge: pole slanting at an angle of 15 degrees. No lives were lost. Lose: $500,000 Worth of Hogs.
There prevails in Platte County, a disease which has carried off the majority of the hogs. The loss to the farmers is placed at $500,000 in the last three or four months. Men who had 400 to 500 hogs each find themselves, now that the plague has, about exhausted itself, with only or fifteen hogs. Library Aided by Carnegie. Mayor James K.
Maguire of Syracuse, N. received a letter from Andrew stating that if Syracuse would furnish a good location and agree to spend $30,000 a year upon its library he would give the city a building the cost of which would $200,000. The city will comply with the conditions. Absconded with $50,000. Scotland yard officials have been cabled to arrest in Liverpool as he steps from the steamer the defaulting confidential clerk of a large wholesale house in Walker -street, New York, who is said to have absconded with $50,000 of the firm's funds and to have embezzled (000 before he was even -suspected.
Jumps Off Bridge to Death. An unidentified young man committed suicide by jumping from the middle span of the 'Eads bridge at St. Louis into the main channel of the Mississippi river, 100 feet below. The suicide was well dressed and apparently about 27 years old. Twenty-five Drowned.
The British steamer Kaisari, which sailed from Rangoon for Reunion, has been wrecked at Reunion. Twenty-five of the persons on board the vessel, including the captain, lost their lives. Train Wrecker Is Lynched. Norman McKinney, colored, has been lynched for wrecking the Plant system fast train near Dunnellon, and the vietim implicated two others, who may share the same fate if they are caught, Chicagoan Marries a Rockefeller. Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of John D.
Rockefeller, the Standard Oil monarch, and E. Parmalee Prentice of Chicago, were married Thursday in New York. Safe Blowers in Indiana. Safe blowers entered Frederick Coats' store at Patricksburg, and blew open the safe. The explosion wrecked the building, About $1,500 in money and notes was taken.
Then the sate crackers stole a horse and buggy and drove away. Blast Furnace "Blown In." The new blast furnace of the American Steel and Wire Company in Cleveland was "blown in" the other day, It cost about $1.000,000 and it has a capseity of 509 tons of Bessemer pig iron daily. FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE NE ARTHT REPORT TRADE LIVENING UP. Bradstreet' Finds Encouragement in Almost All Lines. Bradstreet's weekly review of trade says: "Business is still of a between seasons character in most lines, but livening up of interest in several trades has been noted.
Relatively best reports come from the iron and steel, lumber, leather and drug trades, but there has been some enlargement of wholesale distributive trade on spring account the South and 'central West. Some gain in wool sales is noted at Eastern markets, but weather conditions have not been favorable at the East to business as a whole. Summed up briefly, the situation is of widespread confidence in the general business outlook. Cereals have given a further exhibition of life, partly on light Northwest receipts and advices that Argentine shipments will not exceed 35,000,000 bushels, or about half those of a year ago, but also largely on the unquestionably heavier volume of Wall street money seeking an outlet in the grain market. Wheat, including flour, shipments for the week aggregate 5,961,095 bushels, against 3,914,301 last week, and 926 in the corresponding week of 1900.
Corn exports aggregate 4,897,345 bushels, against 4,470,521 last week, and 614,576 a year ago." FIND RELICS OF CHICORA. Bunch of Ill- Fated Steamer's Checks Picked Up at St. That the wreck of the ill-fated Chicaro lies a few miles to the southwest of St. Joseph, harbor was confirmed the other morning through the finding of a bunch of brass baggage checks by Timothy O'Keefe, who was engaged in excavating gravel on the shore. The checks bear the name "Chicora." The steamer Chicora foundered in Lake Michigan Jan.
21, 1895. Her crew of twentyone was lost. Although wreckage came ashore the following spring at various northern points, and while many mariners believed the steamer never reached that shore, it is agreed in marine circles that the steamer on the fatal night did reach the eastern shore at St. Joseph, but fearing the bar at the mouth of the harbor, which was jammed with ice, was compelled to put about and make for some west shore barbor, and while about to return foundered near the shore. Stanley Morton east, hansecretary ton Company believes the checks did not come from the Chicora, but was property stolen from other steamers of the company two years ago.
HEIR TO $15,000 TRAMPING. Alexander Hutcheon Falls Into a Considerable Fortune from Scotland. Alex. Hutcheon, an aged man in fairly good health, is somewhere west of Red Oak, Iowa, making his way by tramping and stealing rides to California, while City Marshal Hawthorne of Kewanee, is making use of part of $15,000 cabled him from Scotland to locate him. Hutcheon sought lodging in the city jail in November and told the marshal he had a fortune in Aberdeen, Scotland, but was trying to keep his whereabouts secret.
The marshal wrote to the Mayor of Aberdeen and in reply received a cablegram to care well for the old man. Barge Collapses at Pittsburg. Three foremen and twenty-three workmen were precipitated into the Monongahela river at Pittsburg while loading a barge with steel rails for the Carnegie Steel Company at Braddock. Two men are known to have been drowned and a third was injured so badly that he died a short time later. The accident was caused by the barge collapsing beeause of its heavy cargo.
Girl's Cries Foil Ki 'naper. Alice Smith, a waitress, was seized in Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, while on her way to work by an unknown man, who attempted to carry her off. He had gone about two blocks with the struggling girl in his arms before her cries brought assistance. The kidnaper then set her down and fled. She was unhurt.
Bind a Family and Rob a Safe. Five masked burglars robbed the farm house of Henry Stroker, near Versailles, Ohio, of $850. Mr. and Mrs. Stroker and their son, Grant, were bound and gagged till they told where the safe was the money was kept.
Besides the money the robbers stole jewelry and horses and then escaped. Train Falls Through Trestle. The engine of a freight train and three cars went through the trestle on the Alberon branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio read. Engineer W. Herbert McCartney and Fireman Charles H.
Clay, both of Richmond, were crushed to death. Kidnaped Child Is Restored. Alice Wilson, 7-years old, has been returned to her poverty-stricken parents in Detroit, almost as mysteriously as she was kidnaped one July morning in 1899, while playing with her older sister. A strange man brought her home and escaped without being seen. People from Russie Landed.
After a night of terrible suspense all of the passengers and crew of the French steamer Russie, from Oran, Algeria, which stranded near Faraman, Bouches du Rhone, during a violent storm, have been safely landed. Cuba a Foreign Land. The United States Supreme Court rendered a decision in the Neely extradition case. The court held that Neely was subject to extradition and must be surrendered to the Cuban authorities, the island being foreign territory. "Stogie King" le Dead.
Mifflin Marsh, who sixty years ago, in a modest little shop in Wheeling, W. originated the "Wheeling stogie" and who was known as the "stogie king," Aled there, aged 83 years, I MOB BURNS A NEGRO. LEAVENWORTH, WITNESSES A HORRIBLE AFFAIR. Doomed Man Fastened to a Stake and Oil- Saturated Fuel Piled Abont Him -Wretch Had Attacked Miss Eva Roth-Suspected of Another Crime, Five thousand infuriated men stormed the county jail in Leavenworth, Tuesday afternoon, took from it Fred Alexander, a negro, and burned him at the stake. Alexander was under -arrest for an attempted assault on Miss Eva Roth and was suspected of having assaulted and murdered Miss Pearl Forbes last November.
The negro was taken from his cell at the State penitentiary at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and loaded into a hack and taken to Leavenworth. Fifty deputy marshals surrounded him and Deputy Sheriffs Stancemyers and Tom Brown sat in the back on either side of him: There were fifty buggies and wagons in the procession which followed the hack in, and it a funeral march indeed for Fred Alexander. The trip to town was made quietly and there was no attempt to 'create a disturbance on the road. Entrance to the jail was effected by steel rails and iron bars, with which the mob battered in the doors and wrenched the cell doors and gratings from their fastenings. Sheriff Everhardy was call'ed upon to the negro, but refused.
The surrenders prepared for this action on his part, and in a minute the steel rails, propelled as battering rams by the united strength of hundreds of determined and bloodthirsty men, began a resistless attack on the jail doors. One after another the barriers gave way to the onslaught and in less than fifteen minutes the trembling negro was in the clutches of his captors. The punishment meted out to Alexander was identical with that administered by a Colorado mob last November to another negro, Preston Porter. The details of Porter's execution were fresh in the minds of Leavenworth's people, and as Alexander accused of precisely a similar crime bis punishment was made a replica of the Colorado affair. He was taken to the scene of his alleged victim's death, fastened by chains to an iron stake driven in the ground, fuel was then piled around him and saturated with oil and the father of his alleged vietim given the privilege of putting the torch to his funeral pyre.
Alexander made no resistance after once dragged to the stake and only kept saying: "You are killing the wrong man." While preparations were being made for the execution there stood on a box across the street a woman of 20. She had stood at the door of the penitentiary and had said, "That is the man," as she saw Warden Tomlinson produce Alexander. "That is the man," she said, "who assaulted me." The crowd had heard her evidence. That evidence was the negro's sentence and the mob was carrying it out. By 5 o'clock stake was declared ready.
It was the work of but a few moments for half a dozen men to haul Alexander from the wagon up the fourfoot bank of cordwood, to fasten a chain about his chest and another about his feet to the rail. Then came the coal oil. It was poured on his head and splashed upon the cordwood. "More! Good! Light it" were the cries. "Confess, for a last time," said rugged old Mr.
Forbes, determined to finish the tragedy he had set out to witness, but anxious to have conviction that he was about to help kill the man who had killed his daughter. "I ain't got a thing to confess." "Then you are off for hell," was his answer. "Wait. Let me see my mother. Let me shake hands with my friends.
I see lots of them here." But the oil was all poured and the match was ignited. In a moment there was a flicker, a flame, the head of the negro waved from side to side as the flames jumped to meet it. A fiendish roar burst from the multitude. Alexander's mother was the only one crying. She was taken away by her negro friends before the match was applied.
In less than five minutes he was hanging limp and lifeless by the chains that bound him. As soon as crowd saw that life was extinct, it began slowly to disperse. When, two hours later, the fire had died down sufficiently to allow the crowd to approach what remained of Alexander, there was a wild scramble to obtain relics, bits of charred flesh, pieces of chain, scraps of wood-everything that could possibly serve as a souvenir, was seized on with morbid eagerness. OKLAHOMA AND STATEHOOD. The Territory Makes Exceptionally Claims for Admission.
The Territory of Oklahoma seeks statehood and makes a good claim to it. It contains 400,000 people, 90 per cent of whom are native Americans and 100,000 of whom are school children; they have! 2,000 school houses, no penitentiary, not a poorhouse, and only six per cent of illiteracy less than any one of forty-five of the States. They own $75,000,000 of property. And 12,000,000 acres are settled, and homesteaders are taking a million acres a year; 1,000 miles of railroad brought last year 6,000 carloads of manufactures and carried away 40,000 carloads of produce. Ten years ago the tion was about 60,000.
Such progress has been made by no other area of equal size in the United States. If Indian Territory should within a few years be added to Oklahoma, the two would have a population of at least a million, who would cast 100,000 votes and pay taxes on $150,000,000 of property. Told in a Few Lines. The Tivoli, noted New York resort, has been closed. Woolworth's store, Portland, burned.
Loss $50,000. West Lorne, was nearly wiped out by fire. Loss $125,000. Maine has 175 factories in whish fish and vegetables are canned. General coal strike threatened in Nova Scotia.
Miners want an increase. Chicago has let a contract for a 000 silver service for battleship Chicago, Congress. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2 76c to 77c; corn. No.
2, 36c to 37c; seats, No. 2, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 48c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 18c to 19c; potatoes, 43c to 47c per bushel. Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to hogs, choice light, $4.00 sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2, 76c to 77e: corn, No.
2 white, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis -Cattle, $3.25 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2, 72c to 73c; corn, No.
2, 35e to 36c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 49c to 50c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.00 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2, 79c to 80c; corn, No.
2 mixed, 38e to 39c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 55c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $2.50 to MARKET QUOTATIONS. wheat.
No. 2, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38e to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c; rye, 52c to 53c. Toledo -Wheat, No.
2 mixed, 78c to 79c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 52c to 53c; clover seed, prime, $6.00 to $6.50. Milwaukee- Wheat, No.
2 northern, 73c to 74c; corn, No. 3, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 1, 53c to 54c: barley, No. 2, G0c to 61c; pork, mess, $14.00 to $14.25.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers, $3.00 to hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.75. New York--Cattle, $3.25 to hogs, $3.00 to sheep, $3.00 to wheat, No. 2 red, 79c to 80c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 46e; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; butter, creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, western, 20c to 21c.
TRY TO WRECK FAST TRAIN. Bandite on New York Railroad Pile Ties in Front of an Express. Bandits made a desperate attempt to wreck the Chicago express on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in Livingstone County, N. a short distance from Batavia. As the train was rounding a curve the engineer saw a pile of ties on the track and figures of masked men in the moonlight.
The train was running slower than usual, and came to a halt, whereupon the bandits departed without a shot. Railroad detectives at once began a search for the desperadoes. There had been a fall of snow, and footprints showed that three men had made a hasty departure. The robbery had been carefully planned and the Chicago express selected as a train that would be more likely to hurl itself to destruction, and whose passengers were usually wealthy Western men. FACTORY GIRL HEIR TO MILLIONS Young Woman Receives Notice that She Is Left $4,000.000.
Miss May F. Love of Bridgeport, a factory girl and orphan, is heiress to $4,000,000 through the death of a childless old uncle, Ashbel Clark, who dug five times that amount from the gold fields of Australia. Miss Love was informed the other day by her brother George of Montclair of their good fortune. She went to New York and satisfied the legal representatives of the administrator of the estate that there was Do doubt of the relationship. She has three sisters, who, with her and her brother, will share the fortune of 000,000 left by Clark.
Town Built by Chicago Men. A new town to be known as National Point is being laid out in Greene County, Arkansas, by Chicago capitalists. The town is on the site of the mammoth box factory which is being erected by the Chicago Box Company to fight the box trust. Fatal Theater Panic. Five persons were killed and scores injured in a panic following a cry of "Fire" in the West Twelfth Street Turner Hall, in Chicago.
A Yiddish play was in progress a and an audience of 1,000 persons, mostly women and children, was present. Burned at Stake, At Leavenworth, Fred Alexander, the negro who attempted to assault Miss Eva Roth, and who was accused of having assaulted and murdered Miss Pearl Forbes on the night of Nov. 6, was burned at the stake. Bad Fire in Lagonda, Ohio. Fire at the E.
W. Ross Company's plant, at Lagonda, Ohio, caused a loss of between $75,000 and $100,000, there being $65,000 insurance. John Ludwig, an assistant foreman, is missing, and it is thought he was burned to death. Race Riot in Wichita, Kan. An all-day riot in Wichita, following the throwing of a motorman off his car by hoodlums, terminated in a sixhanded shooting affray in which several people were injured.
Seventeen arrests were made. County Jail on Fire. A stranger named Potts, arrested in Girard, Ohio, for an assault on Thomas Moss, an 8-year-old boy, narrowly escaped death by fire in jail, but the flames were discovered and subdued by the authorities. Factory Boiler Explodes. The main boiler of the Bedard Morency Mill Park, Company's sash exploded.
and door The factory at Oak ing was wrecked and three men were fatally injured. Steamer Sinks; 150 Drowned. One hundred and fifty lives were lost in an accident which occurred to a passenger steamer plying on West river between Samchau and Canton, Chine. MANY GOING TO ALASKA, Movement to the Gold Fields Is Already Under Way. The Alaska movement is already under way.
Its volume is surprising even the transportation managers. It is believed in Seattle that the record for this month will be greater than for January a year previous. Three vessels, the Excelsior, Cottage City and Ruth, sailed from that port for the north with an aggregate of 175 passengers and 1,500 tons of freight. The majority of the passengers are bound for the mining districts of Nome, Chestochena, Klondike, Porcupine and the different quartz camps of southeastern Alaska. The Excelsior had 100 passengers, sixty of whom were bound for the rich Chestochena diggings by way of Valdes.
The Nome contingent numbers ten, some of whom will go via Katmai, the others by Illanna Bay. Many of the Cottage City's passengers are headed for the Klondike and other British and American Yukon districts. The Ruth took no passengers, had a full cargo of freight, including a crate of skunks intended as the nucleus of a skunk farm to be established on Skakon Island, in southeastern Alaska. CURED BY A HOLD-UP. Cleveland Barber Met a Highwayman and His Rheumatism Disappeared.
Fred A. Carey has a barber shop at No. Ontario street, Cleveland. In his youth he was an athlete and a sprinter. For years, however, Carey has been a victim of rheumatism.
On a recent night, shortly after 9 o'clock, he was limping home from the shop, when he was met by a man who shoved a revolver in his face and hissed "Hands up!" Carey forgot all about his pains and took to his heels. With the swiftness of youth he sped over the ground, and the sensation was so delightful that the astonished barber ran several squares before he came to a stop. Since then the rheumatism has left him entirely. Carey went to the Central station four days later to look at the six men who are locked up on the charge of being persons. He picked out as suspicious, the tried to "hold him and readily, the charge of robbery was placed against the prisoner.
JILTED LOVER SHOOTS TWO. Young Woman and Her Sister Both Probably Fatally Wounded. Amelia and Tillie Bergman, 20 and 17 respectively, were the victims of a murderous assault made upon them at their home in Galena, by George Durerstein, an unsuccessful suitor for the hand of Miss Amelia. Durerstein accompanied the girls from their place of business and when they arrived home, a quarrel ensued, Durerstein shooting both girls, 32-caliber probably fatally. A ball from a lodged in the neck of one of the girls and the second shot entered the body of the other victim.
The shooting was witnessed by the girls' mother. The latter, assisted by neighbors, carried her daughters into the house. Immediately after the shooting Durerstein escaped into the alley. He was pursued by a mob, which he held back by firing. Durerstein resides at Scales Mound.
He is 22 years of age. R. B. Hayes' Heirs Lose a Suit, The Supreme Court Columbus, Ohio, refused to grant a rehearing of the two cases of the heirs of ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes against James Hunt, administrator.
The point at issue is the payment of an annuity to an imbecile uncle of the late President Hayes. The courts have held that the heirs must pay the claim. All to Use American Flag. Alaska advices state that the Sitka Indians, including the Eagle, Crow and Frog clans, who have been quarreling over the use of totems and other emblems of their respective clans, have decided, after a long conference, to put aside their differences and make the American flag their tribal emblem. Quay Will Be Senator.
After a memorable struggle which had continued for several years, Col. M. S. Quay, regular Republican nominee for United States Senator, was elected by the Pennsylvania Legislature to fill the vacancy created by the expiration of his term on March 4, 1899. Rob an Illinois Postoffice.
The postoffice at Kingston, was broken into by burglars and all the stamps and envelopes taken, $30 or $40 being secured by the thieves. Entrance was gained through a back window. A number of letters were rifled, and the contents stolen. Second Trial of Morrison. The second trial of Jessie Morrison for the murder of Mrs.
Olin Castle will be held at the March term of court in Eldorado, Kan. The district Judge has' formally assigned the case to a place on the docket. Disappeare I Luring Voyage. Edward Hermann and his wife, Freud, who were second-cabin passengers on the steamship Koln, which recently arrived in New York from Bremen, disappeared during the voyage, and it is believed they threw themselves overboard. Train Is Wrecked by Gang.
Train wreckers are believed to have caused the derailment of a West Coast Plant system train a few miles south of Dunnell, causing the death of Engineer Tom Roach and injuring several passengers. Buildings Burned at Dawson. News was brought by the Amur of a fire at Dawson which destroyed three buildings and did damage to the amount of $50,000. Stabbing Results in Death. Wiley Morgan, who was stabbed by E.
H. B. Spelling, died at Manchester, Ohio. Snelling was taken to the West Union jail. The Burleigh reapportionment bill will probably become a law within ten days.
The Senate committee on census reported the measure favorably without a dissenting vote and the Senate late Friday passed the bill as it came from afternoon the House. A House of Representatives 386 members, twenty-nine more than of there are in the House at present, is the meaning of reapportionment measure. Not since the Fifty-first Congress has the House passed as many private pension bills at a single sitting as it did Friday. In all 170 special pension bills were ed at the session. The most important to increase the pension of Gen.
was one Americus V. from $36 to $100. Gen. Rice was wounded several times during the Civil War and lost a leg at Vicksburg. He was formerly a member of Congress from Ohio and was the author the arrearages of pension act.
The of Senate had passed a bill to increase his to $60 and the House raised the pension amount to $100. Representative Loud of California, from the postoffice committee, reported to House a bill reand codifying the postal laws. No rising radical changes in existing laws are proposed in bill. The Senate bill relating to the accounts of United States marshals and clerks of the district courts of Utah was The Senate devoted Saturday to enlogies of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota. In the House the river and harbor bill again occupied nearly all the session.
On Monday the Senate again devoted the day to consideration of the army reorganization bill, but made no progress. Messrs. Teller and Pettigrew resorted to filibustering tactics. The House postponed District Columbia business until Monday, Jan. 21, and proceeded with the river and harbor bill.
Good progress was of made, the bill fifty-nine being of the, completed. ninety seven pages amendments were offered, 1 but all failed. Some progress was made by the Senate on Tuesday in the consideration of the army reorganization bill. One amendment that has created much debate was disposed of and a tacit agreement has been reached for a "vote very soon." Mr. co*ckrell (Missouri) emphasized his opposition to increase in the army proposed by the bill and his intention to vote against it, but expressed his opinion that the bill ought to be disposed of speedily.
Mr. Sewell (New Jersey) also urged speedy action on the measure on account of the serious embarrassment the government was laboring under in preparing for the return of the volunteers from the Philippines. The principal speeches against the bill were made by Mr. Berry (Arkansas), Mr. Bacon (Georgia) and Mr.
Teller (Colorado). Mr. Warren (Wyoming) delivered an extended argument in support of the bill. Bill granting pension of $50 a month to Horatio N. Davis, father of the late Senator Davis of Minnesota, was passed.
Mr. Davis was captain in commissary department. In the House the day was devoted to consideration of river and harbor bill. The Senate on Wednesday decided to take final vote on reorganization bill at 4 o'clock Friday. Speeches in opposition to the bill were delivered by Messrs.
Allen, Teller and Butler, while Mr. Me-. Cumber made argument in support of the measure. Feature of debate was denyaciation of practice of hazing at West Point Military Academy. The House passed river and harbor appropriation bill substantially as it came from committee.
It carries slightly less than 000,000, of which $23,000,000 is in direct appropriations. Section empowering the President to negotiate with Great Britain for maintenance of suitable levels on great lakes was broadened so as to provide for joint commission to conduct negotiations. De Armond resolution calling upon War Department for all information relative to alleged action of Gen. Chaffee in protesting against looting in China was laid upon the table. During Thursday's session the army reorganization bill was discussed in thy Senate at length by Mr.
Money (Dem.) of Mississippi, McComas (Rep.) of Maryland and (Dem.) of TenMr. nessee. The Mississippi Senator devoted some attention to the practice of hazing at West Point, which he bitterly denounced. A bill fixing the compensation of district superintendents of the lifesaving service at $2,500 per annum, except in the case of the superintendent of the eighth district, whose salary is fixed at $1,500, was passed. A bill to extend privileges of an act in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods to the city of Milwaukee was passed.
an exceedingly dull day in the House. The entire day was spent upon the bill to revise and codify the postal laws, which is to be the continuing order, not, however, to interfere with appropriation bills or conference reports' until disposed of. It is a bill of 221 pages and is simply a revision of existing laws. Some disposition was manifested to inject into the measure some amendments to the present law in the interest of certain classes of mail employes, but such attempts were successfully resisted. This and That.
Some Polynesian languages have only seven. consonants. Coral, both white and red, is found on the Florida coast. Five negro prisoners escaped from Quitman, jail. Green crocidolite, or "cats eye," is found in New Mexico.
Health authorities estimate that 10 per cent of the men who go to Cape Nome never come back alive. All the big Canadian furniture makers, numbering twenty, have formed a combine. Capital, $5,000,000. In 1890 the mineral production of the United States amounted to $619,000,000, and in 1899 to $976,000,000. St.
Joseph, is to follow Boston's example and provide portable school houses for the overflow from the regu: lar schools. The Russian ministry el communications has decided to adopt petroleum for generating, motive power on the locomothe railways. In the year 1800 the territory of the United States was 815,244 square miles; in 1900 it is 3,768,521 square miles. This is an expansion of nearly 3,000,000 equare miles in 100 years. It is the most amazing record of territorial growth ever made by a nation..
