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    THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
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A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of
the Twenty-Eighth General
Assembly. i
SENATE.
In the senate on the 21th Anderson of
Saline Introduced a resolution that the
report of the committees on deaf, dumb
and blind asylums. Insane hospital, pub
lic lands and buildings, reform school.
Asylum for Feeble Minded and Home for
the Friendless, Soldiers' home and state
prison be made by March 5. The resolu
tion was introduced so that the senate
could intelligently determine the needed
appropriation*. In committee of the
whole the senate reported the following
for grnernl Hie: Providing for notice to
bo given before hearings In certain cases
under code of court procedure. Provid
ing when property may be siexed for per
sonal taxes. Amending code of civil pro
cedure relating to affidavits. Providing
for compelling witnesses in certain cases
and providing for appeal. Providing for
the annexting of territory lying contlg
ucus to a city or a town. Fixing salary
of secretary of school board. Providing
for dlstrf't ownership of text books In
cities and towns. Providing for appeals
to supreme court, except In criminal
capes, was passed. Providing for the
publication of the statutes. After a
lengthy debate It was allowed to retain
Its palce on general file and no action
taken. Among bills introduced were the
following: To /provide for appeals and
for the reversal, vacation or modifica
tion by the district court of judgments
rendered or final orders made by tribun
als Inferior to such district court In all
cases except criminal cases and those
governed by the provisions of the Crim
inal Code. To prevent corrupt practices,
treating and favoritism in the letting of
contracts, and the transaction of business
with county boards, city councils and
school boards, and to provide a penalty
for the violation of this act and the re
moval of the offending member from
office. To select grand and petit jurors,
prevent favoritism In'their selection and
providing for their qualifications.
Tn the senate on the 23th Hall of Burl,
Hasty of Furnas and Sloan of Fillmore
Were appointed a committee to draft a
bill In accordance with the resolution
for the establishment of a bureau of
roads by congress, so that Nebraska
would lie prepared to benefit by the es
tablishment of such a bureau, S. F. 31,
providing that J. K. Oobbey be author
ized to compile and have established the
statutes, of which the state shall buy
BOO sets at $0 per set, was passed. S. F.
11. providing that the supreme court shall
have the power to reduce the number
of commissioners to six or less If In the
judgment of the court the business
would Justify It, was taken up. Hasty of
Furnas move 1 to make the number of
commissioners three. Howell of Doug
las moved a substitute that six com
missioners shall be appointed for one
jear and three for two years, making
nine commissioners for one year. Both
the amendment and the substitute were
lost. The bill was ordered engrossed with
the committee amendment as follows:
Three commissioners and stenographers
shall be appointed for one year and six
for two years from and after April 10,
1903. unless the appointments be with
drawn by the supreme judges. New bills
Introduced Included the following: To
provide for the regulation and winding
up of the business of certain corpora
tions engnged In the business of raising
money from members or others by
means of stated installments or pay
ments, to be held. Invested nr distributed
In accordance with certain plans or
schemes: to designate such corporations
as installment investment companies; to
subject such companies to the supervi
sion and control of the auditor of pub
lic accounts, state treasurer and attor
ney general; to designate the said au
ditor of public accounts, state treasurer
and attorney general as the state bank
ing board. Prohibiting members of
school board from being Interested In
any contract let by board, and prohibit
ang any member from being Instrumental
in getting any relative a position In the
employ of the school board.
The senate on the 27th was up against
parliamentary law. It all happened over
the dtsousslon of the amendment to S.
F. 11, recommended by the judiciary com
mittee. The original bill provided that
the supreme court should reduce the j
number of commissioners to six or less ,
If the business of the court Justified it. j
The amendment recommended by the Ju- '
dietary committee provided that three ;
commissioners shall be appointed for 1
one year and six for two years. After
being recommitted nt the morning ses
sion the bill was reported back to the
committee of the whole at the afternoon
session, with Its former recommendation.
After much wrangling the committee of
the whole recommended that the bill be
amended that six commissioners shall
serve one year and three shall. serve
two years. The report of the Torrens
commission, which has been in the hands
of the judiciary committee, was ordered
sent to the Judiciary committee of the
house. This was done at the request of
the senate committee. A few reports of
standing committees recommending bills
for general file were received. New bills
were: For the relief of J. it. Kmmett for
money erroneously paid for rental of pub
lic land amounting to $19.30. Repealing
the law relating to written contracts be
tween owners of land and brokers or
agents selling same shall be avoided. To
require the strengthening of bridges and
culverts of the several counties of this
state, and to regulate the crossing of
them by steam threshing machines and
gasoline engines.
In the senate on the 27th the Brady ele
vator bill, senate tile No. 102, was re
ported back to the senate by the railroad
committee with amendments. Senate tile
No. 95. providing that Insurance com
panies organised under the laws of Ne
braska may transact a general Insurance
business, and house roll No. 4S, to pro
vide that school districts shall pay the
cost of their treasurer's bond, came up
for final reading and were passed. Sen
ute file No. 22. providing that railroad
companies organized under the laws of
Nebraska shall not be subject to the j
limit of Indebtedness which applies to
other corporations; senate tile No. 43.
which provides that landlords shall have
a lien upon the crops and all personal
property of their tenants, and senate file
No. 182. providing for a soldiers and sail
ors' relief commission. were reported
bc.ck by committees, with the recom
mendation that they be placed on gen
eral tile for passage. In committee of
the whole, house roll No. 40. providing
that a lease to luke effect one year after
making must be in writing, was consid
ered and recommended for passage. At
2 o’clock the senate adjourned to the
house to take part In the services in
memory of J. Sterling Morton. The fol
lowing bill was Introduced and read for
the first time: S. F. 231, by Senator
Hall of Douglas—To legalize acknowl
edgements and oaths heretofore taken
and administered by coaunlssioners of
deeds.
HOUSE.
The house devoted the greater part of
the day on the 24th to bills on second
reading. In the list was house roil 344,
the revenue bill, whose 30.000 words were
ugain all read. The bill then was re
ferred to the house revenue committee.
It Is likely the committee will waive criti
cal examination of the hill and sent It
at once to general file. A motion by
Sears was adopted to have 1.000 copies
of the revenue bill printed. Koetter of
Douglas presented a resolution saying
that the Union Pacific had allowed its
condition to degenerate so as to seriously
Impair Its delivery of mail and calling
on the postal department at Washington
to compel the company to correct these
conditions. New bills introduced includ
ed the following: Defining a legal news
paper for the publication of legal and
other ojclal notices In the state of Ne
braska. Must have a circulation of 200
copies and have been published for one
year. Not applicable to counties of less
than 3,000 population. For the relief of
William Rochlltz. Appropriates $500 to
pay for five head of horses killed by order
of the state veterinarian as being afflicted
with glanders. To provide for the estab
lishment in cities of the second-class,
having less than 5,000 Inhabitants, of a
system of sewerage. To amend sections
IK. IS, 20 and 2K, chapter Ixxviii, Compiled
Statutes, entitled “Ror.ds," defining the
proceedings necessary to lay out, alter
or vacate a public highway. To reim
burse consignees for coal confiscated by
railroad companies or other common car
riers. and providing a penalty for the
violation of the requirements of this act.
Requires railroad companies to pay con
signee $1 a ton aside from paying for the
coal. To protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monop
olies, and to prohibit the giving or re
ceiving of rebates on the transportation
of property. Prepared by W. M. Spring
er, president of the National Live Stock
association, appropriating $10,000 to carry
out the provisions named.
In the house on the 25th these bills
were read the third time and passed:
For a concurrent resolution memorial
izes: congress to establish the true mil
itary status of the First Nebraska mil
itia. Making sheriffs' fees the same in
justice, district and county courts. Km
powering mayor and council to extend
the corporate limits of such city so as to
include additional territory and to de
crease the corporate limits by exclud
ing lands not laid off into lots of live
acres and less. Requiring the plaintiff
In condemnation suits to procure right of
way to deposit the cost of suit with the
court. Requiring all county superin
tendents to hold first class teachers' cer
tificates. Making the county surveyor of
Lancaster county ex-oflldo county engi
neer In addition to his powers and duties
as county surveyor. Regulating the vot
ing and amount of school bonds, chang
ing the latter in various districts. Pro
viding that rood overseers shall open
ditches, drains and sluices during the
months of April and October. To appro
priate to the use of the State university
the money In the agricultural station,
the normal and the university cash
funds. Petitioning congress fqr a con
stitutional amendment for the popular
election of I'nited States senators, it be
ing a concurrent resolution. Providing a
health officer and board of plumbing In
spectors for the city of Lincoln. Re
ducing the Interest on the county money
j from 3 to 2 per cent and enabling the
! county to place Its money in outside
banks if those within that county re
fuse to comply with this interest provi
sion. Fixing the time and place of meet
ing of the State Horticultural society.
This resolution was Introduced in the
house on the 27th:
Whereas. The committee on metical so
cieties and 'ey laws has under con
sideration house roll 232. being a bill to
regulate fees of the State Hoard of Phar
macy: and
Whereas. Said committee has endeav
ored to ascertain the amount of fees col
lected by said hoard and paid by said
board Into the state treasury at the end
of each year, as required by the law
governing the State Hoard of Pharmacy;
and
Whereas. The members of said commit
tee have discovered that the State Board
of Pharmacy has for several years failed
to make an annual report and render an
account to the state auditor as required
by law; therefor be It
Itesolved, That unless said board fllcn
its report and render an account to the
state auditor within five days after the
adoption of this resolution that proceed
ings be commenced against the members
of said board for Impeachment on the
ground of malfeasance and neglect of
duty.
Bills were introduced as follows: Au
thorizing the Board of Public Lands and
Buildings to purchase and control a site
and to erect a monument thereon with
proper Inscriptions for the state of Ne
braska, at or near Fort Calhoun In
Washington county. Nebraska, commem
orative of ttie place where Captain Meri
wether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark’s
expedition landed; whqre the counell be
tween Is-wls and Clark and Ihe Indians
was held on August 4, 1904, and where
' Fort Atkinson was afterward located,
■ and appropriating $5,000 to defray Ihe ex
l«'nse thereof. To provide for the pay
ment of the salaries of the officers of
the state government. Authorizing the
preparation of an official statute, making
it admissible in evidence, and authoriz
ing the purchase of a supply thereof by
the state. Authorizing corporations to
*aot as receiver, assignee, guardian, cur
ator, executor, administrator, surety,
bondsman, trustee, agent and attorney
in-fact and defining their duties, privi
leges and powers. To regulate and re
quiring the branding of all articles and
commodities made or manufactured in
the penitentiary in Ihe state of Nebraska.
Authorizing the governor of the state of
Nebraska to appoint three commissioners
to act with a like commission from the
state of South Dakota in agreeing upon
a boundary line between the said states.
To amend sections 1, 2. 4. 10, 10 and 20.
chapter xdiia. article III, Complied Stat
utes, and to add section 20a to said arti
cle. providing for the dlsnosltion of
moneys paid under protest and providing
for the filing in the office of the secretary
of the Irrigation district of a copy of the
tax receipt and affidavit.
The forenoon was spent by the house
on the 27th in discussing whether a Sat
urday session should be held. It was
finally decided that, when adjournment
h* taken for the day. it be until 2:30
Monday afternoon. A half hour was
spent in committee of the whole. The
house and senate met jointly In repre
sentative hall at 2 o'clock to consider the
special order, resolutions of respect for
the memor- of the late J. Sterling Mor
ton, offered by Representative Cassell of
Otoe. Governor Mickey occupied a chair
beside the speaker. Mr. Cassell spoke
briefly. He said he had been for forty
six years a neighbor and friend of Mr.
Morton and had learned to love him as
a remarkable man, a staunch friend, a
model husband, father and home-builder
—a man of intense convictions, unswerv
ing loyalty, broad mind and unquestioned
rectitude. Mr. Jones of Otoe read an eul
ogy that exalted Mr. Morton as pioneer,
citizen, statesman, orator, philosopher
and nhllanthroplst. Remarks were made
by Clay of Lancaster. Spurlock of Cass,
and others, after which the house ad
journed until Monday.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
II. R. by Bacon of Dawson, providing
for an aprpoprlation of $30,000 for the
purpose of determining whether petrol
eum, coal or gas exists and can be ob
tained In paying quantities in Nebraska,
has been recommended for passage in
the house by the committee on internal
Improvement. The plan of the bill is to
sink six wells as a means of getting at
the desired information.
In the house Weborg introduced a bill
to provide that the Board of Equalization
shall consist of one member to be elected
from each congressional district of the
state, to be elected at the November gen
eral election. Three members shall be
elected each alternate two years there
after. The first terms of those elected in
even numbered districts shall ,be two
years and those in odd numbered dis
tricts four years. Thereafter each term
shall be four years. The board shall
have power to raise or lower county
assessments.
Senate file 203. introduced in the senate
by Fries of Valley, is a second edition
of the Tooley house bill, which was killed
in the house last week. It Is a bill for
the rearrangement of the apportionment
of school money. It provides that one
fourth of the money shall be given to
counties according to the number of
srhool district and the remaining three
fourths shall be divided pro rata accord
ing to the number of pupils. Senator
Fries said he believed the bill was not
thoroughly understood In the house,
hence he Introduced It in the senate. It
seeks to take from the larger school
districts money that they now get under
the apportionment law and give it to the
smaller districts.
The revenue bill introduced in the
house on the 22d is entitled: "A bill for
an act to provide a system of revenue
and to repeal articles 1, 2. 3, 1 and 5 of
sections 4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, 10. II and 12 of
articles vii of chapter lxxvii Compiled
Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1901.”
It was Introduced by J. A. Douglas,
George L. Loomis, W. T. Thompson, W.
G. Sears, F. A. Sweezy, C. .1. Warner
and W. H. Wilson, the special house
committee appointed by Speaker Mockett
to act Jointly with Senators Brow'n,
Pemberton, Fries. Saunders, Day. Ander
son and Reynolds in the framing of a
revenue bill. The committee has been
at work about a month.
TO REOFI-ATE THE TONTINES.
The bill regulating investment compa
nies Introduced by Senator Harrison ns
S. F. 222 wns drawn up by several par
ties interested in the building and loan
business In this state.
The bill is for the purpose of regulat
ing so-called “diamond tontines” and
"home co-operatives." It is claimed that
this class of companies have done a
large and lucrative business in this state
with the laboring class of people and
that the business has not always been
to the benefit of the Investors. Reput
able building and loan companies, it is
claimed, are regulated by laws which
provide that before they can transact
any business they must tile a statement
with the state hanking board setting
forth the plan under which they intend
to do business and that the permission
of the board must be secured before any
business can be transacted.
It Is stated by the friends of the build
ing and loan companies that the law
has been proven a good one by the
nourishing condition of the companies
now doing business In the state. It is
contended that any concern which seeks
to secure periodical payments l >m the
wage-earning class should be governed
b> a law similar to the one wh; h gov
erns the building and loan companies.
Buttermilk ooup.
Take two cups of finely cut German
rye bread, add two quarts of butter
milk and place over the fire and cook
gently for one hour, then add a tea
spoonful of aniseed and a very little
sugar (not enough to make it sweet)
and let it boil for five minutes; strain
and just before sending to the table
beat the yolks of three or four eggs
and add to the soup.
A little nonsense now and then Is
relished by the wisest men if (hey
know the preacher isn’t listening.
It is not at all surprising that the
girl who gets vaccinated on her leg
is foolish enough to call it "limb.’
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
An Omaha man Is about to drill for
coal in Cass county.
The retail hardware dealers will
hold their next annual convention in
Omaha.
An ordinance has been passed rais
ing the salaries of most of the city
officers of Fremont.
At Nebraska City Lee Dolan at
tempted suicide by taking morphine.
He was despondent from being out of
work.
Before the season closes it is esti
mated that there will be over 75,000
oushels of corn cribbed at the thriving
little town of Filley.
Miss Peaker, employed in a steam
laundry at Kearney, was caught in
the machinery and so badly injured
that she may lose her arm.
While wandering about the streets
of Wymore at 1 o’clock in the morn
ing in a semi-lntoxicated condition,
Everett Hanna of Table Rock, was
held up by two unknown men and
robbed of $180.
Great anxiety is expressed at the
home of Claus Eggers, a farmer north
of Yutan, for the mental welfare of
his wife, Christine. Her condition is
such that she may have to be remov
ed to the asylum.
Goaded to desperation by unre
quitted love, Jennie Thomas shot and
killed her former lover, Fritz Broder
son, in the latter's room in Lincoln.
Broderson had seduced the girl and
then refused to marry her.
A quit claim deed was filed for rec
ord in the register of deed’s office at
Y’ork, which conveyed 4,120 acres of
land in Baker, Brown and Hays town
ships from Wm. Otto to ^is three sons.
The consideration named was $500.
The property is valued at $206,000.
By the accidental discharge of a
shotgun with which he was shooting
pigeons, Rudolph Cizek of Lincoln was
instantly killed. The charge struck
Cizek in the forehead and tore off the
entire top of his head, blowing por
tions of his skull a distance of thirty
feet.
The doctors of Dixon, Dakota and
Thurston counties met at Emerson
and organized a tri-county medical
association. Dr. O’Connell of Ponca
was chosen president; Dr. Maxwell of
Dakota City, vice president, and Dr.
Rouse of Wakefield, secretary and
treasurer.
The National Reform association
will hold a conference to discuss the
Christian principles of civil govern
ment in St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal
church in Lincoln March 10 to 12.
Governor Mickey will preside at the
first meeting and deliver an address
of welcome.
H. R. 371, introduced in the legisla
ture by McAllister of Deuel, reappor
tions the state into senatorial and rep
resentative districts. It reduces the
number of senatorial districts from
thirty to twenty-eight and increases
the number of representative districts
from sixty-seven to seventy-four.
Smallpox has broken out among the
Indians of the Winnebago and Omaha
reservation, in spite of the most earn
est efforts to prevent the reappearance
of the disease this winter. Last win
ter the disease worked sad havoc
among the Indians, and all that could
be thought of was done to stamp out
the disease.
The following were the prize win
ners at the annual declamatory con
test of the school of expression of
the Nebraska Wesleyan university:
First honors, Miss Emma Smith of
Cedar Bluffs; second honors. Miss Net
tie Steinmeyer of Clatonia, and, third,
Fred Winship of Grand Island. There
were eight contestants.
Ray Cook, living four miles south
west of Gibbon, has lost twenty head
of cattle and twelve more will die
with a disease claimed to come from
poison in the hay. It affects the rear
extremeties, sometimes at the root of
the tail, but generally in the hind legs.
It eats off all the flesh and cords to
the bone and some of them have
broken off at the knees, and the cattle
hobbled around on the bare bone joints
until killed to put them out of their
misery.
J. C. Stevens, draftsman in the office
of the state board of irrigation, has
compiled a table showing the amount
of water available for irrigation that
is not used. The statistics, which run
back to 1895, give a mean annual aver
age of 6,854,000 acre feet. Measure
ments were made in each case in the
channel of the stream below the irri
gated region so that the amount of
water shown would be practically all
available for irrigation. Calculating
that, the amount needed for each acre
would be two acre feet this water
would irrigate an area of of 3,457,000
acres.
A party of fifteen homeless waifs
from the east will arrive in Blair
March 5. They range in ago from 2
to 14 years. The society which has
them in charge has requested that
homes be found for them where they
can grow up into lives of usefulness.
Considerable farm and city property
is changing hands at present in Gage
county. It is thought this is due to
the fact that quite a number of Gage
county people have gone to Oklahoma
and Indian Territory during the past
few months.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Latest Quotations f-om South Omaha
and Kansas City.
SOr'TlI OMAHA.
CATTI-E—There was a moderate run of
rattle In the yards. As Is apt to he the
case toward the end of the week the de
mand was not quite as brisk, bnt still
the prices paid for desirable grades were
not much different from those in force
yesterday. The beef steer market could
be ouoted a little slow', but about steady.
Handy weight cattle of fair to good
quality sold without much difficulty at
steady prices. Heavy cattle, howeevr,
were rather neglected, and sellers found
I1 a difficult proposition to get what they
considered steady prices for that class.
The cow market was also about steady.
There was not the activity to the trade,
though, that characterized the market
earlier In the week, and In some cases
salesmen thought they did not get quite
ns much for their cows as they ought to
have. As a general thing, though, the
prices paid looked just about us good ns
these of yesterday. The bull market was
just about steady today, and veal calves
also commanded as good prices as were
paid yesterday. There were searcely
enough Stockers and feeders In the yards
to make a market, and as speculators
sold out practically all the cattle they
had on hand yesterday, they were wdlllng
to pay about steady prices for desirable
grades.
HOGS—There was quite a run of hogs
here and, as other market were quoted
lower, prlees here also suffered a decline.
Packers started In to buy their hogs 58100
lower, hut sellers would not lake off that
much, and as a result the market was
very slow from start to finish. In some
eases packers raised their bids and
bought the hogs only a big nickel lower,
whiel In others they succeeded In getting
the hogs 5810c lower. It w'as a rather
uneven market and It was late before a
clearance was made. Medium weight
hogs sold largely around $6.S5. Good
heavy hogs sold from $6.S5 to $6.95.
SHEEP—Choice lambs, $6.50.. 6.75; fair
to good lambs, $5.5098.25; choice Colo
rado, lambs, $6.5087.00; choice lightweight
yearlings. $5.658 6.00; choice heavy year
lings, $5.4095.65; fair to good yearlings,
$5.008 5.50; choice wethers. $5.2595.50; fair
to good. $4.7595.25; choice ewes, $1,50'!$
4.75; fair to good ewes, $•'!.7584.25; feeder
lambs, $4.7595.50; feder yearlings, $4,258
1.75; feeder wethers, $4.0084.65.
KANSAS CITY.
CATTLE-Corn fed, higher; heifers,
steady to strong; quarantine, active,
strong; stockers and feeders, steady:
choice export and dressed beef
steers, $4.50®5.20; fair to good, $3.75
@4.50; stockers and feeders, $3,404$)
4.50; western fed steers, 12.80415.00:
Texas and Indian steers. $3.o04i4.(H): Texas
cows, 12.50®3.00; native cows, It.504i4.00;
native heifers, $1.7.Vu4.4rt; dinners, $1.00®
2 10; hulls. $2.50®3.65; calves, $3.00®G.30.
HOGS—Market opened steady; dosed
weak to lower; top, $7.20; bulk of sales,
$0.90®7.06: heavy, $6.!<i4i7.20; mixed pack
ers. $6,754*7.10; light. $6.G5@6.95; yorkers,
$6.85®6.95; pigs. $0.65®0.70.
SHEEP AND IAMBS—Market steady;
native lambs, $4.00®6.60; western lambs.
.'$3.6.40; fed ewi I 13.00415.90; native
wethers, $3.55415.40; western wethers. $3.44
@5.55; stockers and feeders. $2.50®3.60.
THE FAMISHING FINNS.
The Czar Intervenes in Their Be
half.
ST. PETERSBURG.—The czar has
personally intervened in behalf of the
famine stricken Finns, and has order
ed that extensive relief works be
staried without delay.
Besides the immediate construction
of the proposed Idensalmi-Kayana rail
way, which wil cost $700,000, he has
sanctioned the expenditure of $300,000
on the Uleaborg-Tornoa line, voted by
the senate, but hitherto unapproved;
the raising of a $2 oOO.OOO loan for
other railroad construction, the estab
lishment of a bank with a capital of
$800,000, which sum is to be used in
making loans to peasant farmers, and
has approved an appropriation of
$140,000 for public works, principally
the drainage of swamps.
FIGHT A BATTLE IN SALVADOR.
Bonilla Defeats Sierra and Trouble Is
Now Supposed to Be Over.
WASHINGTON—A cablegram re
ceived Friday at the navy department
from Admiral Glass announces the ar
rival of this flagship and the Boston
and Marblehead at La Union, Salva
dor. He said that communication by
telegraph with Amapala was inter
rupted and reported further as fol
lows :
“Battle on the main land on Febru
ary 22 has taken place, resulting in
the total defeat of Sierra, who escap
ed with three or four hundred men.
Bonilla is in pursuit. The capital is in
the possession of the latter's adher
ents. The fighting is supposed to be
practically over. All is quiet here.
The American interests are undis
turbed.”
Fire Destroys Hiyti Town.
CAPE HAYTIEN.—A dispatch re
ceived here from Gros Morne an
nounces the complete destruction of
Port de Paix, Hayti, by fire. Only tlie
vessels belonging to the Haytien coni>
pany were saved.
Big Lace Curtain Exhibit.
BERLIN.—Dr. Lewald, the commis
sioner of Germany at the St. Louis ex
position, held a conference with the
lace curtain manufacturers of Plauen,
Saxony, who decided to make a special
exhibit at St. Louis. The lace indus
try is now enjoying an unusual run of
American orders and the manufactur
ers therefore are more ready to incur
expenses than those engaged in the
metal trades.
BRIEf TELEGRAMS.
The daughter of W F. Cody (Buffalo
Bill) was married at North Platte,
Neb., on the 24th.
Fire in the plant of the J. L Case
Plow company at Racine. Wis,,. didi
damage to the extent of $100,000.
A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the Hawaiian territorial, leg
islature petitioning for statehood.
Senator McCumber has introduced
the p»tre food bill, as a propose*!
amendment to the agricultural appro
priation bill.
Paul Grlnstead, editor of the Times,,
was fatally stabbed by a drunken
negro*, named Frank Warner, at
Wathena, Kas.
The International Wireless Tele
graph company, with a capital of $7,
500,000, filed articles of incorporation
at Camden, N. J.
Dr. WT. B. Davis, one of the most
prominent physicians in Alabamu. was
accidentally killed by being run over
by a passenger train.
The president sent to the senate a
veto of the bill to place Francis S.
Davidson, late a first lieutenant of
cavalry, on the retired list.
Andrew Carnegie has added $125,
000 to the endowment fund of the Car
negie laboratory of engineering at
Stevens Institute of Technology in
New York.
Col. Paul R. Hawkins of Springfield,
Mass., was elected commander-in-chief
of the legion of Spanish war veterans
at the national encampment at Law
rence, Mass.
Secretary Moody ordered a general
court-martial to convene at the navy
yard, Pensacola, Fla., on or about
March 6, for the trial of Ensign Ward
K. Wortman.
While a dance was in progress at
the home of Sarah Anderson in Cov
ington, Ky., a fight arose among the
guests present and James England
was fatally shot.
The house judiciary committee re
ferred all the resolutions bearing upon
the subject of polygamy to a sub-com
mittee, with instructions to report to
the full committee.
All conductors and motormen of the
Topeka Street Railway company have
received notice that their wages had
been raised to $2 a day. They have
been receiving $1.80.
Brigadier General G. W. Baird has
been placed on the retired list. For
many months past General Baird has
served as the chief disbursing officer
of the army in New York.
Sherman M. Bell, a member of
Roosevelt’s rough riders during the
Spanish-American war, has been ap
pointed adjutant general of the Colo
rado national guard by Governor Pea
body.
In the report of the health depart
ment it is estimated that the present
population of Greater New York is
3,732,903, an increase since the
United States census of 1900 of 295,
701.
The attempt to pass in the Delaware
house of representatives a bill to re
peal the voters’ assistant law bill,
which the democrats claim favorable
to Addicks to maintain his grip in Del
aware failed by a vote of 17 to 15.
The resolution which passed the
senate providing that Rear Admiral
Schley be given the pay and allow'
ance of a rear admiral on the active
list was called up in ttie house com
mittee on naval affairs and tabled.
Judge Monger, in the federal court
granted a writ of injunction restrain
ing the city tax commissioner and city
council of Omaha from making an in
dependent assessment of the Union
Pacific and Burlington railway prop
erty for purposes of municipal taxa
non.
Mrs. Coulter, the only woman mem
ber of the Utah legislature, has In
troduced a bill in the house limiting
election expenses of candidates and
requiring the filing of the same. The
bill makes it unlawful for any candi
date to give away or to treat to any
cigars, drinks or other refreshments.
Mr. Cortelyou's elevation to the cab
inet adds another lawyer to the body.
He is a graduate of the Georgetown
university law school and has had the
degree of master of laws conferred
upon him by that institution. Includ
ing Secretary Cortelyou, six of the
nine members of the cabinet are law
yers.
Earl Woods, the 17-year-old son of
a prominent farmer, living seven miles
west of Frankford, Ind., killed hia
father, shot and probably fatally
wounded his mother and sister and
then committed suicide. The motive
of the boy’s deed is not known.
John Page, an inmate of the sol
diers’ home in Norton, Conn., who
was charged with having obtained a
pension by impersonating his father,
who served in the civil war. was sen
tenced in the United States district
court to three years in state prison.
The navy department has decided
to send three more ships in search of
the missing collier Alexander. These
are the Hannibal, at Norfolk; Prairie,
at Galveston, and the Topeka, at
Kingston, Jamaica. The Lebanon al
i ready is searching for the Alexander.
I The houne committee on printing