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I'LATTS MOUTH.
NEBRASKA.
S THE MWS IN BRIEF. 1
The republican city convention at
Cincinnati, Ohio, renominated Mayor
Julius Flelsciunann.
It la aagin stated by the authorities
at Washington that there is no pres
ent intention of moving from Cuba
tho Arerlean troops now stationed
'Jure
A strike involving every union work
man in Sjiokasic, Wash., is threatened
as the result of trouble between tho
unions ami the Spokane Falls Gas
Light company.
A syndicate headed by Chas. Swift
of Detroit and including the Westing
house company and White & Co., were
the only bidders for the Manila street
railway franchise.
Secretary Chamberlain is distressed
over the cordiality of his reception by
the lioers and ha3 requesti'd them to
cut out tue social functions, the brass
bands and the resolutions.
Thomas Ityan. first assistant secre
tary of the interior, has left Washing
ton to visit relatives throughout I'enn
ftylvania. He Is expected to bo absent
about ten days.
The Iako Shore railroad will ad
vance tho wages of station agents
and other employes who have not been
included in previous wage concessions.
A Unit COO men will be affected.
John Muir, the inventor of the pa
per car wheels now in use on rail
roads, died at Morrlstown, X. Y., at
the age of lt years. He was formerly
a large manufacturer of paper and
pastelxiard.
Henry Freese, 19 years oid, was
stabbed twice In the throat in a fight
In Harlem. X. Y. He died soon after
ward in the Lincoln Hospital. The
police say Freeso was stabbed by
Jvrge Frank.
Tho Koran government is negotiat
ing with Uelgian bankers for a loan of
$:;o.mm, secured on the Import duties.
Several important railway concessions
in Korea will also be granted to the
Jtelgian bankers.
The famous Ward McAllister farm,
near XewjKrt. It. I., where McAllister
wrote the edition de luxe of "What
I Know of Society," has been rented
to Morgan Harry, an Irish farmer, for
farming purposes.
The strike of the Italian quarrymen
at Hilltown, Pa., was practically
broken when the Lake Erie Limestone
company announced that it would hire
no more laborers, having sufficient to
operate the quarry until fall.
There were 214,S00 bushels of coal
started south from the Pittsburg har
bor. The fleet contained twenty-six
coal boats, eighty-six barges, twenty
flats, six model barges of rails and two
model barges of iron produce.
The board of regents of the Univer
sity of Michigan has decided to estab
lish at the university a Pasteur insti
tute for the treatment of hydrophobia.
It Is expected that everything will be
ready for receiving patients by April 1.
A bill was introduced in the Wiscon
sin senate to make the teaching of
the doctrines of criminal anarchy a
felony and punishment by imprison
ment for not more than ten years or
a fine of not more than 13.000, or both
The secretary of the interior has
issued rules and regulations govern
ing the iseue and sale of 4 per cent
bonds of the territory of Hawaii un
der th act of January 26 last for the
payment of claims for property de
stroyed in suppressing the bubonic
plague.
It was announced by the trustees
of Barnard college that a gift of
$! '0,000 has been made to that in
stitution by a person known only to
President Butler and Treasurer
Plimpton. The money is to be used
for the purchase of land adjoining the
present college.
The thirty-fifth annual Iowa confer
ence of the Evangelical Lutheran
synod, at Burlington, elected these of
ficers: President, Rev. A. Xoorbaum.
Swedensburg; vice president. Rev
Joseph A. Anderson, Boone; secretary ,
Rev. B. Maddin. Bethesda; treasurer,
C. O. Xelson, Olds.
The steamer J. W. Taylor arrived in
New York after an absence of about
three years. The J. W. Taylor is the
steamer that brought the bubonic
plague to New York on November 18,
1S39. She was then running between
New York and Brazil for the Lamport
& Holt line.
Otto Croelus, editor of the Swedish
Courier. Chicago, died suddenly of
heart disease.
Alfred Pelldram, the newly appoint
ed German minister to Venezuela, ar
rived at New York on the Kaiser Wil
helm Der Grosse.
An International conference on the
subject of good roads will be opened
in Detroit, Mich.
John Firth shot and killed Witten
Height and Frank Williams and
wounded two persons at Eckman, W.
Va., Thursday.
The German military administration
has begun exhaustive experiments
with wireless telegraphy. Tho bal
loon battalion Is establishing stations
between Berlin and the Maroh moun
tains. An apparatus mounted on
wheels Is easily moved by four horses.
The new ocean going steam yacht
Noma, built for William B. Leeds, pres
ident of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific road, had her trial trip Thurs
day and exceeded her contract speed
of eighteen knots an hour by two and
one-half knots.
WINSGONGESSION
8POONER ACT TO BE TACKED TO
CANAL TREATY.
EIGHT OPPOSING PAMPHLETS
The Senator from Alabama Prints and
Distributes a Number of Voluminous
Documents Attacking the Isthmian
Protocol.
WASHINGTON Senator Morgan
on Friday sen-tired his first material
concession in connection with the
canal treaty. This consists of an
agreement to attach the Spooner ca
nal act bodily to the treaty.
This change was made in compli
ance with a request presented by
Ssenator Ixdge during the day's exe
cutive session of the senate who sug
gested that no injury could result, and
unanimous consent was given to the
proposal. It was specifically stipulat
ed, however, that it did not amount to
an amendment.
Senator Morgan consumed the en
tire time of the remainder of the clos
ed session discussing the canal ques
tion from various points of view. He
discussed particularly the attitude of
the isthmian canal commission.
He expressed a desire to have cop
ies of the correspondence between the
government and the nw Panama Ca
nal company on the option to pur
chase the canal for 4o,0ui,000, and
the senate consented to request the
secretary of state for the correspond
ence.
The papers had not arrived at 3:20
and as Senator Morgan said he could
not continue without them. Senator
Cullom moved that the senate ad
journ, and this motion prevailed.
During the day there was more or
less informal discussion of the propo
sition to permit Senator Morgan to
publish his remarks in the Congres
sional Record but no effort was made
to reach a decision. Senator Cullom
takes tho position that this permis
sion should not be granted unless
Senator Morgan will agree to allow a
day to be fixed for a vote.
During the day. Sen-ior Morgan dis
tributed copies of eight pamphlets on
the treaty, in which he attacks it from
almost every conceivable ground. He
declares the new canal company ille
gally constructed, the arrangements
with Colombia of doubtful validity,
and repeats his charges of oribery.
THE STATISTICS OF CONGRESS.
Senate and House Had Their Hands
on Big Bunch of Bills.
WASHINGTON. Alexander McDow
ell, clerk of the house of representa
tives Monday made public an official
compilation by Tally Clerk Wakefield,
showing the work done by the Fifty-
seventh congress. It shows that the
longest day of the session lasted with
recesses 144 hours, during which
eighty rolls were taken.
The number of bills and resolutions
introduced in the house during the two
sessions of the congress was 18.420, on
which reports were made on 2,810 bills
and resolutions. The senate sent to
the house 1,136 senate bills and reso
lutions.
The house disposed of 2,413 of the
measures, originating with it, and of
1.012 of the senate bills and resolu
tions, making it a total of 3,430 bills
and resolutions acted on. It left on its
calendars 403 house and 118 senate
bills and resolutions. Fifteen of the
members of the house died during the
congress, seven resigned and Messrs.
Rhea of Kentucky and Butler of Mis
souri were unseated, the later twice.
Cruise in West Indian Waters.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Secretary of
the Navy Moody, Postmaster General
Payne, Senator Hale of Maine, Repre
sentative Cannon of Illinois, Repre
sentative Foss of Illinois, Judge James
R. Dunbar, Joseph II. Carl of Haver
hill, Mass., Mr. Moody's law partner,
and Fred L. Fishback. Mr. Moody's
private secretary, left here Tuesday
for a cruise in West Indian waters.
Senator Proctor of Vermont and Rep
resentative Gillette of Massachusetts
will join the party in Florida.
Castro Raises Import Duties.
WASHINGTON, D. C Formal ' no
tice of the "extraordinary war tax"
which President Castro created on the
lifting of the blockade has been re
ceived at the state department from
United States Consul Russell at Car
acas. There is a 30 per cent increase
in the duties on imports.
Funds for Irrigation Congress.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Governor
Wells Tuesday signed the bill making
a state appropriation of $6,000 to aid
in carrying out the program of the
national irrigation congress, which
meets In Ogden September 8 to 11.
Outside of this President Kiesel of the
congress said that ample funds had
already been subscribed to carry out
the most elaborate program yet at
tempted. Postal Receipts Increase.
WASHINGTON. D. C The compar
ative statement of gross postal re
ceipts for February, compared with
February, 1902, for the fifty leading
postoffices in the country, show a net
Increase of over 12 per cent. The
largest Increase was 34 per cent, at
Los Angeles, Cal., and the heaviest de
crease, 9 per cent, at Jersey City. Tte
receipts at New York increased 12 per
cent and at Chicago 15.
LARGEST NUMOER OF BILLS
Introduced During Session 17,500 and
Passed 2,000.
WASHINGTON, D. C.The number cf
bills Introduced during the Fifty-seventh
congress aggregated 17,500, of
which 3,918 were reported and more
than 2.000 passed. The house calendar
is clearer at the close o fthis congress
than It ever has been before, only seventy-eight
bills remaining undisposed
of. In the Fifty-fifth congress 2.214
bills were reported and 1,473 passed;
in the Fifty-sixth congress 2,787 were
reported and 2,204 passed. The near
est approach to tho number of bills in
troduced in the Fifty-seventh was in
the Fifty-sixth congress, when 14, 291)
were brought in, and the greatest
number reported were in the Forty
ninth congress, the aggregate being
4.181.
The number of private bills passed
by this congress have been exceeding
ly large.
Fifty members of the house died dur
ing the congress just closed, an un
usually large number.
PENSIONS FOR PROFESSORS.
Cornell Will Retire Teachets at the
Age of Seventy.
ITHACA, N. Y. Announcement was
made Friday of a scheme for the pen
sioning of Cornell university profe-
sorss who, under the rule adopted by
the board of trustees last fall, will bo
retired after attaining the age of 70
years. A fund of $150,000 has been
given the university for this purpose,
and this amount will De placed at com
pound interest until 1914, when it will
amount to $250,000. Each professor
retired will receive an annual pen
sion of $1,500, three-fourths of which
will be paid from the pension fund and
one-fourth of which will be contributed
by the professors.
It is expected, however that profes
sors who reach the age limit before
1814 will also receive the benefits of
the pension scheme.
ACCUSES CONSUL OF NEGLECT.
Did Not Help Shipwrecked Americans
in Bermuda.
WASHINGTON, D. C Complaint
has been made to the state depart
ment of the conduct of the United
States Consul W. Maxwell Greene at
Hamilton, Bermuda, in connection
with the casting away of the steamer
Madiana. It is alleged that the consul
showed absolute indifference toward
the shipwrecked passengers and took
no part in their rescue. The local pa
pers in Bermuda commented on this
matter and the papers have been sent
to the state department, which will
institute a prompt investigation of tho
consul's conduct.
Mr. Greene was appointed to his
post from Rhode Island in 1898.
THE PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND.
Convention of the Railway Christian
Association.
TOPEKA, Kan. President Roose
velt will be present at the interna
tional convention of the Railway
Young Men's Christian association.
which will be held in this city from
April 30 to May 3. He has not desig
nated the date of his visit. An effort
will be made to have him officiate at
the laying of the corner stone of the
new Railway Young Men's Christian
association building, the money for
which was largely furnished by Presi
dent Ripley of the Santa Fe.
Miss Helen Gould of New York and
other well known people will attend
the conference. Delegates will be
present from all parts of the world.
Western Lumbermen Cut Loose.
WASHINGTON, D. C The West
ern Retail Lumber Dealers' associa
tion withdrew from affiliation with tho
National Association of Lumber Deal
ers. The Western Retailers announced
their relations with the wholesalers
would continue to be friendly, but the
retailers were unable to live up to tho
agreement signed at Boston In 1892.
It was pointed out that courts in the
west have decided that such an agree
ment is in restraint of trade and there
fore unlawful.
Plague Record at Mazatlan.
MAZATLAN, Mexico The number
of deaths here in February was 107,
of which fifty were from bubonic
plague. From January 1 to March 1
there were burned by the sanitary au
thorities 291 houses of a cheap class,
for which the owners were paid $73,
000. Idaho Irrigation Project.
TOCOMA, Wash. Contracts have
been let for damming the Snake river
at Idaho, at a point twenty-five mile3
above the Shoshone Falls and building
sixty-five miles of canal on the south
side of the river, and twenty-four
miles on the north side, not including
laterals, which will reclaim 340.000
acres of land under the new govern
ment irrigation law. The dam is to
cost $400,000 or more, and the canal
$2,500,000.
Beet Sugar Bounty Bill.
BOISE, Idaho The senate Wednes
day by a vote of 13 to 8 passed the
house beet sugar bounty bill. The
bill providee3 a bounty of 1 cent a
pound for all beet sugar manufactured
in the state of Idaho during the year
19 f2. and one-half cent per pound for
suguj" manufactured in 1904. All su
gjv on which a bounty is paid must
be put up in original packages and
stamped under state supervis'on.
TREATY REPORT
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SENATE COMMITTEE DISPOSES OF
ONE PROTOCOL.
CUBAN TREATY ON WEDNESDAY
Some Think It an Important Question
That Might Be Delayed Until Regu
lar Session of Congress Miscel
laneous Washington Matters.
WAHHINUTON. Tlie senate com
miitee on foreign relations on Monday
agreed to favorably report the Colom
bian canal treaty to the senate.
No action was taken on the Cuban
or other reciprocity treaties. The
Colombian treaty was reported, as in
the former session, without amend
ment.
When the senate went into executive
session, Senator Cullom reixrted the
treaty and it was ready at length, as
the rules of the senate require. Un
der the rules an objection carried the
treaty over for one day before it could
be considered.
Senator Morgan objected to its con
sideration. He stated that he desired
to have the Spanish copy of the treaty
so as to compare it with the English
text. It is expected that a Uralt in
Spanish will be sent to the senate by
the state department.
Members of the committee on for
eign relations express the opinion that
there will not be any great delay in
the ratification of the treaty. In the
committee meeting Senator Clark of
Montana. who succeeds Senator
Bailey as a member, was present.
During the session of the committee
Senator Morgan offered to consent to
a vote on the canal treaty on Satur
day, providing the senate would allow
him to print such remarks as he want
ed in the Congressional Record, or as
a public document.
Members of the committee later dis
cussod the proposition with other
senators and the consensus of opinion
seemed to be against granting this
permission. Some of the remarks here
tofore made by Senator Morgan re
flected rather severely on the Colom
bian government, and especially on
the presiednt of Colombia, and sena
tors think it would be inadvisable to
give official sanction to such utter
ances. It also is feared that the
Colombian government might take of
fense and fail to ratify the treaty.
The committee will take up the
Cuban treaty on Wednesday. Quite a
number of democratic senators are op
posed to it, and while they say they
have no desire to prevent a vote, they
intend briefly to speak. The repub
licans count on three cr four more
votes than the necessary two-thirds
majority to ratify it. There is a prob
ability of some discussion of the con
stitutional rights of the senate to
make a treaty affecting the revenues
of the government without concur
rence of the house of representatives.
Some opponents of the treaty have
said that they think it is such an im-;
portant question that it might be de
layed until the regular session of con
gress. Others have suggested that
there should be an amendment pro
viding that the treaty should not be
come operative until its provisions
have been approved by the house.
Some members of the committee
think that this much disputed ques
tion ought to go to the supreme court
and be settled there. It is the present
intention of the committee to press
the treaty to a vote as soon as the
Colombian nrotocol is out of the way.
GERMAN TRADE CONDITIONS.
Exports to the United States Show a
Large Increase.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Reviewing
German's commercial record for the
past year, Consul General Frank H.
Mason,. at Berlin, in a report to the
state id'epartment, declares that while
a few branches of manufacture and
tra.te experienced a partial recovery
the .year as a whole belonged to the
period of over-production, collapse and
panic, which began in the summer of
1900, and has caused the condition
still prevalent, wherein prices of food
and raw materials are above all logi
cal relation to the market values of
finished products.
Referring to German trade with the
United States, the consul general calls
attention to the notable increase in
German exports to this country,
amounting to $14,778,770, distributed
through twenty-five consular districts.
ENGLAND INCREASES NAVY.
More Ships, More Officers and More
Men.
LONDON The British navy esti
mates for 1903-4, issued Monday even
ing, provide for an expenditure of
$179,184,205, an increase of $16,010,000,
of which amount $11,180,000 will be
devoted to ship building and repairs.
The maintenance estimates provides
for 127,100 officers and men an in
crease of 4,600 officers and men. The
total expenditures for ship building,
repairs and maintenance is $S9,103,600.
The new construction includes three
battleships, four armored cruisers,
three protected cruisers, to be used
as scouts, fifteen torpedo boat destroy
ers, ten torpedo boats, two coast
guard cruisers, a river gunboat and an
admiralty yacht.
"What is known as an angel shark,
an ugly fish with an eight-inch mouth
containing three rows of teeth, has
been caught with a hand line at Felix
stowe, England.
WHERE THE MONEY GOES TO.
Distribution of the $1,564,108,514 Ap
propriated by Congress.
WASHINGTON, I). C The appro
priations made during the session o
congress which closed Wednesday ag
gregated $753,484,018, as against $800,
624,496 for the last session. The to
tal for the entire congress footed $1,
564.10S.514. or something more than
$100,000,000 In excess of the total ap
propriations of the Fifty-sixth con
gress, the total for that congress be
ing $1,440,438.
These figures were embodied in
statement presented to the senate by
Mr. Allison, chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations.
I he statement also contained an
itemized statement showing the ex
penditures by the past session by bills
as follows:
Agriculture, $5,978,100; army, $78,
138,752; diplomatic and consular, $1,
968.250; District of Columbia, $S.C47,
497; fortifications, $7,188,416; Indian,
$8,512,950; legislative, executive and
judicial, $27,595,953; militaray acad
emy, $C53,248; navy, $81,877,291; pen
sions, $139,847,600; postoffice, $153,
401.549; rundry civil, $S2.272,955; de
ficiencies, $21,561,572; permanent an
nual appropriations, $132,5S9,820; mis
cellaneous, $3,250,000.
EXECUTION AT SITKA, ALASKA.
Homer Bird, Who Murdered Compan
ions, Protests His Innocence.
SEATTLE, Wash. A special to tho
Times from Sitka sr.ys:
Homer Bird was legally executed
here Friday. The execution was void
of accident. Bird walked from the
jail and mounted the scaffold without
assistance. On the gallows he made
a short speech without visible emo
tion, in which he protested his inno
cence. Thirty seconds after the trap
was sprung, and the murderer died
without a struggle. About twenty
witnesses were allowed within the en
closure.
During the great Knodike rush of
1897 and 189S Bird started up the Yu
kon river with two companions. One
day the two companions were found
to be missing. When questioned
Bird stoutly maintained that they had
gone off on a prospecting expedition.
The bodies of the two men were aft
erwards found, riddle with buckshot.
Bird's sentence was affirmed by. the
United States supreme court and Pres
ident Roosevelt refused clemency.
HAS HOPES FOR THE TREATY.
Governor of Newfoundalnd Reports
Progress in Matter.
ST. JOHNS, N. F The legislature
opened Thursday afternoon. The gov
ernor announced a surplus in the treas
ury and also that the Bond-Hay treaty
negotiations were still progressing.
He intimated that measures would be
introduced for the enlargement of the
naval reserve movement, the exten
sion of the telegraph system to Lab
rador on the expiration of the Anglo-
American Telegraph company's mon-
nopoly next year, the establishment of
a cold storage plant and the encour
agement of local iron smelting indus
try.
The French shore modus vivendi bill
was introduced and given its first
reading.
Site for New Office Building.
WASHINGTON, D. C Representa
tives Cannon (111.), Richardson
(Tenn.) and Hepburn (la.) the com
mittee which has been considering a
location for an office building for the
use of members of the house of rep
resentatives, Monday decided to ask
the secretary of the interior to insti
tute condemnation proceedings to ac
quire a block south of and across the
street from the capitol grounds, bound
ed on the east by First street, on the
south by C street, on the west by
New Jersey avenue and on the north
by B street.
Chicago Brokers Break.
CHICAGO, 111. The suspension of
William Young & Co., brokers was an
nounced by the posting of a notice on
the board of trade to close all
trades for their account. The firm
was not prominent in the grain trade,
to which their transactions were large
ly directed, although an old concern,
the present principal having succeed
ed his father in the business.
Appoints a Nebraska Man.
PAWNEE CITY, Neb. Senator-elect
C. W. Fulton of Oregon has appointed
Charles Halderman of this count as
his private secretary. Mr. Fulton was
once a resident of this place.
Watch for Conscience Fund.
WASHINGTON The secretary of
the treasury has received a unique con
science contribution in the shape of a
watch with a gold filled case. The
watch came in a package, postmarked
Pittsfield, Mass. The sender says in
an accompanying letter:
"Such as I have I give unto you for
the conscience fund. The money I
gave for the watch is more than I con
sider I owe the government."
English Seek Coal Lands.
NEW YORK. A syndicate of Eng
lish capitalists is seeking to acquire
coal fields in the Danville district in
Illinois, with the intention of shipping
much coal to England. One possible
result of the purchase, if effected, will
be the construction of another rail
road from Danville to Chicago, a dis
tance of 125 miles, and shortening the
route fifty miles.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
.a test Quotations from South Omaha
and Kansas City.
SOUTH OMAHA.
CATTI.B The receipt of en t tie wore
about normal nnJ the market flhowerl no
great change. About the uhuh! propor
tion of tho receipts consisted of beef
term, and buyerH took liold fnlrly w-1l
and paid Just about nte:nly price for
everything- offered. The better the qunl
ity tho easier the cattle were to dispose
of, but ntlll even the half f:it fc,uff Hold
to about as Kood ndvnntaRe it it l!d
yesterday. The row market H-mcl to
be rather uneven. Rome HfilcH.inn were
well Kntisfli-d with tb. marki-t. ami were
Quoting It steady, while others thought
they did not do unite UK well as yester
day. Taking the average, tli-re win
very little ehanpe from yesterday I" t-.s
prices paid. Bulls, veal calves and tagn
also void without material climiKc. the
demand apparently belnt? fully exiiint to
tho supply. Blockers and feeders were
scarce, and as speculators carried over
very few from yesterday, anything at
all desirable sold at just about steady
prjres. Common kinds, though, wero
slow sale, as not much demand from
the country was expected for the re
mainder of this week.
HOOS There was not an excessive
supply of hogs, but as all other mar
kets were quoted lower prices here also
took a tumble. The decline amounted
to Just about rilfc. Trading was not
exactly brisk, but ntlll the bulk of ln
offerings were disposed of In good sea
son. (Jood heavy bogs sold largely from
$7.) to $7.10 and prime heavyweights
sold tip to S7.171,-.. The medium weights!
went largely from to ?7.i" and t he
light stuff from J0"." down. The l;i:t
end of the market was if anvlliing a
shade easier, a.s packers tilled their inuri
urgent orders and were not as anx
ious for HJpplieS.
SIIKIOl Quotations: Choice lambs.
?fi.rKG.7r.: fair to good biinbs. :.:,' I'-ni.'S,;
choico Colorado lambs. ffl.Ti'KfT ;.7.": choice
lightweight yearlings. $..fi.Vf.W); choice
heavy yearlings. X7,.'.tYiiTS,7,; fair to good
yearlings, $."..(X(ir..r)0; choice wethers, Vi.'ITi
(fi.ri..V; fair to good. Jl.TMr.".. ; choice
ewes. li.mri',.W; fair to good ewes. JI.i'l
(!74.5f; feeder lambs. ft.TW.'i.i" ; feeder
yearlings, J4.2T.rt 4. T.'j ; feeder wethers, $).
4M.G5; feeder ewes, W.Ofcii ::.i"0.
KANSAS CITY.
CATTbTV-liest corn cattle steady: oth
ers 0fi20c lower than best prices of
week; cows and heifers steady: bulls
weak; choice export and dressed beef
steers, JI.IWi 5.40; f.tir to good, ?..Wn 1.50;
stockers and feeders. IJ.OCiil.lfl: western
fed steers. $2.S.VS.Vl); Texas ami Indian
steers, $.1.2.".Ti4.40; Texas cows, tl.ftOfi 1.25;
native cows, J2..0of4.2."; nativo heifers.
JXWTM.nO; etiners, AWrl.U); bulls, $2.7.".V
4.00; calves, $.1.K' 7.i0.
HOGS Market MlOc lower; top. $7.:'.0;
bulk of sales, $7.1.".' 7.2.".; heavy, $7.07a
ff7.30; mixed packers, $;.K-V 7.27'. ; light.
$S.7."f7.12'l-; yoil.c-rs, l-MVnl.Yly, pigs.
$C.l.".iC.5o.
SHICBP AXD I.AMP.S Market steady;
native lambs. i.Kn',M; western lambs,
$4.EOTfi.90; fed ewes. t?,.ft'i r,.( native
wethers. $3.753.7." ; western wethers, $r!.C3
5.70; Etockers and feeders, J2.S0f3.S0.
BIG PAY AIDS AMERICA.
DNves Goods from Market and Sendc
Clerks to Competitive Stores.
BERLIN. Export, a trade paper de
voted to extending German foreign
puuii&iies a series or arucico on
the methods by which American goods
are supplanting German goods in for
eign markets. The articles consist
largely of letters from Germans liv-
ng in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and
Australia.
The writers explain that German
houses are being beaten because they
are unwilling to guarantee agents
fixed salaries, as Americans do, and
also because they depend upon send
out catalogues, whereas Americans
keep stocks of goods in established
agencies, where buyers are able to
purchase after seeing the goods. Ger
man agents, it is added, are largely
taking service with American houses
because of the better terms offered
them.
Export urges the German manufac
turers to abandon their "penny-wise,
pound foolish policy" and give their
agents decent fixed salaries so as to
enable them to withstand the flatter
ing offers of the American competi
tors, adding:
"This is all the more important since
American competition in the world's
market will evidently grow keener
during the next ten years."
Injunction Judge Denounced.
Paducah, Ky. At the western Ken-
tuck district miner's convention W,
F. Farley of Birmingham, Ala., de
nounced Judge Adams of St. Ixuis
for granting an injunction to prevent
the Wabash employes striking. He
said if Judge Adams was within the
law American workmen were in a
worse condition of slavery than the
negroes before the civil war.
TOPEKA, Kan. The state senate
passed resolutions providing that a
$1,500 silver service should be purchas
ed for the new battleship Kansas.
The house will concur In the resolu
tion. Earthquakes in Saxony.
Berlin. Earthquake shocks have
oeen felt for two days in the district
of Voigtland, Saxony, in the Erzebirge
(Ore) mountains.s Yesterday's shack
slight, but those of today were vio
lent. The inhabitants of Grazlitz left
their houses and passed the day in the
streets. The tremors were felt so far
as Plouan, Reichenbach and Zekicka.
Houses at Unter Sachsenburg and at
Asch shook for several seconds. Ex
citement prevails in the district. .
Postage Rates Reduced.
OTTAWA, OnL Sir William Mu
ock has obtained the consent of the
postmaster general of England to re
duce the rate on Canadian newspapers
and periodicals posted in Canada for
transmission to England to the same
as if posted for delivery in Canada.
Sir William has been endeavoring, but
without success, to induce the imperial
government .to reduce its rate to Can
ada. The reduction on Canadian rates
takes effect at once.
Passing of the Story Tellers.
Two of tho best story tells In the
nate will return to private life with
tlie passing of this congretw. George
Graham Vest of Missouri, whoso wit
and stories have enlivened the cloaJc
rooms for tho last twenty years, will
end his public career, and at the samo
time John I Jones of Nevuda will re
tire. Whllo Senator Vest was bril
liant on the floor, he waa wittiest Irt
the smoking room. When surrounded
by a group of appreciative listener,
l.o wMild tell stories and mako Jtfcts
by tho hour. Senator Jones also has
not Kept his fun under a bushel. He
Is extremely erlous and profound In
debate, but In a free-and-easy discus
sion in the cloak room his quaint hu
mor Is second to thut of no member
of the senate. Atlanta Constitution.
Evil Habits Spreading.
Tho steamship Siberia, which runi
between Sail Francisco and tho rhll
ipplnes and China, provides four
opium smoking rooms for Its Chinese
passengers "who can't get along with
out indulgence In th narcotic." Thus
America not only transits Its vices
to semi-civillzed countries and to the
Islands of the sea, but it is in a fair
way to cultivate the bestial habits
of those very countries which it In
vades. Uam's Horn.
He Went West and Prospered.
Treeland, Kan., March lth. One of
tho most prosperous farmers In Har
per County is Mr. N. II. Mead. Home
thirty-four years ajto he left his homo
near Clarence, N. Y., and came to Kan
sas. Hero he lias thrived splendidly,
and last year harvested over one hun
dred and forty acres of wheat alone.
But everything has not gone well,,
with Mr. Mead, for hla health has not
been good for the last few years. Ho
Lis suffered a great deal with Kidney
and Bladder Trouble and could get
nothing to Ktop it. Lately, however,
ho has improved a great deal, and ho
says that ho has none of tho old
symptoms left and Is feeling splendid
again. He used iJodd'a Kidney Bills
and this remedy seemed to work won
ders in his case. He says himself:
"Dodd's Kidney Bills havo made me
well. They are all right and a reliable
remedy for Kidney Trouble. They
helped me right from the start, giving
me great relief, aud finally cured ine."
Warm feet have much to do Willi
white hands. When feet are habit
ually cold the hands aie always red
or blue.
He Despised OfMceceekers.
President. Koosevelt was teillnp, a
friend about his mail, which averages
500 or COO a day. "Oiks of the most,
remarkable letters I ever received,"
ho said, "arrived o.i the morning tho
first full accounts of tho Martinique
disaster were printed in the news
papers. The writer said bo saw that
the American consul at. Martinique
bad been burned to death. He applied
for tho place and wound up with this
assertion: .'I make this early appli
cation so as to get In ahead of thosej
loathsome creatures, the office seek
ers.' "
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