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Weekly News Summary
BisLop Spaulding of tlio Episcopal
church at Denver, Colo., died at the
home of his son in Erie, Pa at the
age of $5 years.
The dispute between Germany and
Venezuela is nearing a settlement.
Venezuela has apparently yielded to
Germany's demands.
A military prison has been estab
lished .on Pulo Maligi island in the
Philippines, according to recent re
ports from those islands.
In a dispatch under date of Shang
hai, the correspondent of the London
Standard announces the probability of
a war between Coreaand Japan.
Dr. Francisco de Paula Roduguez
Alves has been elected as president of
the republic of Brazil, S. A., and will
be inaugurated for a four years' term
on November 15.
The great strike of freight handlers
and kindred trades was broken in
Boston March 13. Fully 20,000 men
who have been idle for four days, are
now at work again.
C. A. Pearson, the London pub
" lisher, has offered a prize of 4,000 for
an airship voyage from London to
Birmingham, a distance of 100 miles.
At the suggestion of Santos Dumont;
to whom the offer was made, the com
petition is open to all aeronauts.
The revolution in Panama still con
tinues. The government has an army
of 10,000 men and the only advantage
the rebels have is the possession of
the gunboat Padilla. The government
asserts that during the recent en
gagements the revolutionists had 700
men killed and wounded.
According to a telegram from Mex
ico City, President Diax will soon re
tire from his position and will be suc
ceeded by his present minister of
war, Gen. Bernardo Reyes. It is also
announced that the American bankers
in Mexico are intending to consolidate
their institutions into one great Amer
ican bank.
The state senate of Iowa passed the
famous railway assessment bill, pro
viding for the just and equitable as
sessment of railways operating in the
state. The woman's suffrage amend
ment, however, after passing the sen
ate, received its death blow in the
house, when it was voted down by a
vote of 56 to 38.
The policies of England and Ger
many in China, according to a dis
patch from Pekin, have developed an
antagonism similar to that of Russia
and Japan over Manchuria. Germany
refuses to aeree to the reduction of
th3 large garrisons the European gov
ernments are maintaining at Tien
Tsin and the restoration of the con
trol of the native city to China.
. On March 7, the British general,
Methuen, was captured by a Boer force
in command of General Delarey. Sev
eral officers and 75 men were killed,
the British force of twelve hundred
men lost all their baggage, and 200
men are missing. As a consequence
of this, the British government desires
that General iKtchener take the field
in person against the Boers and make
a determined effort to capture De Wet
and Delarey.
A cablegram from London, under
date of March 10, says: In a dispatch
dated Shanghai the correspondent of
the Standard says that Chinese mer
chants coming from Port Arthur de
clare they have been ordered to re
move their familios from Port Arthur
because preparations werq being made
there for war with Japan. A dispatch
to the Daily Chronicle from Berlin
Bays that the Russian general, Grib-
ski, who was responsible for the mas
sacre at Blagovestchensk, has been
dismissed from the army. According
to reports of the Blagovestchensk
massacre, which occurred more than
a year ago, about 5,000 Chinese were
driven by the Russians into the Amur
river. Russian troops on the banks
clubbed or shot any who attempted
to land, and the river bank was
strewn with corpses for miles.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld of Il
linois died in Joliet, 111., March 12.
J. Pierpont Morgan will put Colum
bia, America's cup defender of 1901,
in commission and send her across the
ocean to race against anything afloat,
boat for boat. It is reported that un
der this provision Emperor William
may have a chance to race his new
yacht Meteor against the Columbia.
Thomas Lipton will race the Sham
rock I. against the Columbia if op
portunity presents.
A Washington dispatch to the Phil
adelphia Record under date of March
10 says: Secretary Hay is requiring
American citizens imprisoned by the
British to declare as a condition pre
cedent to their release that they will
bring no action against that govern
ment. Complaints have frequently
been made that the state department
was not caring for the rights of Amer
ican citizens as it should, in order that
the British government might not bo
embarrassed during the war in South
Africa. Mandell Miller, of Petersburg,
Va., was employed in a- store at Pre
toria when that city was captured by
the British. He was arrested and
sen --to the island of Ceylon. Repre
sentative Lasslter visited the state de
partment and laid the case before
Secretary Hay, who finally stated that
the British government, not as a duty,
but because of the cordial relations
existing between that government and
the United States, would release Mil
ler, provided he would bring no claim
for damaces against the British gov
ernment for his arrest and imprison-
nent. To secure his liberty Miller
consented to this, and waived all
'claims for damages he might have
against the British government Mil
ler claims that many American citi
zens have been released under similar
conditions.
ing the administration's course rela
tive to the Boer war in South Africa.
Ho accused Secretary Hay of settling
every disputed question for England,
regardless of the right.
The senate committee on isthmian
canr.ls decided by a vote of 7 to 4 to re
port the Hepburn bill, providing for
the construction of a canal via tlio
Nicaraguan route. This bill appro
priates $10,000,000 for beginning the
work.
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whereby sugar for export is sold At aSfltfK tr'ciwWt
low price, which virtually makes itjg.jgft&tf
amount to a bounty, and therefore nukil joint, Napoleon or Je.cphine, compieto with tho
retaliatory measures are sought. S'o
Representative Ray of New York 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL fc&,lrj&J2ti
and Jenkins of Wisconsin filed a ml-oBr?erhMrdiif,wriiaroroarto
nority report on the Newlands irri-'"' SEARS, ROEBUCK CO., CHICAQ0.
gation bill March 10. This report
characterizes tho measure as an "un-
THE WEEK AT WASHINGTON.
The senate has passed a bill divid
ing Nebraska into two judicial dis
tricts. On March 14 the senate ratified the
agreement relating to war on sea and
land, growing out of The Hague con
vention. It is reported that English mer
chants fear Cuban reciprocity with
the United Statps would ruin their
trade with the island.
Secretary Long will retire from the
cabinet May "1. His place will be
taken by W. H. Moodv of Massachus
etts, and Mr. Long will resume his law
practice in Boston.
Advices to the navy department at
Washington from Captain Sebres, na
val commander at Samoa, report tnat
an order has been issued refusing ad
mittance to that island of indigent per
sons. At a joint caucus of senate and
house republicans held March 10 for
the selection of members to conduct
the coming congressional campaign,
nearly every state was represented
and members were nominated from
each.
March 13, Mr. Cochran, of Missouri
made a speech in the house, denounc-
fair, unwise, and improvident schemo"
and declares it to be unconstitutional
In its provision for condemning lands
within states.
The Chinese government has pre
sented to United States Minister Con
ger at Pekin a strong memorial
against the re-enactment of the Chi
nese exclusion act by this govern
ment. The Chinese particularly ob
ject to the expulsion of their race
from the Philippines and Hawaiian
islands.
A resolution was presented in the
house by Mr. Thayer of Massachusetts
alleging that tho sugar trust would
1 e the chief beneficiary of Cuban rec
iprocity, that it was attempting to
create public sentiment in favor of
such reciprocity and declaring that
the dignity of the house was involved.
The resolution, by a vote of 125 to 87,
was lost.
A dispatch to the Chicago News
says that the impression is growing
that the Philippine situation is such
as to make it improbable that con
gress will adjourn before August 1.
Some senators have discussed the ad
visability of asking that Aguinaldo
be brought over to testify, and that
every army officer of rank in this
country who has seen service in tho
islands be called as a witness.
"During the discussion In the senate
committee of General Hughes' state
ments with relation to the Philip
pines, the fact was disclosed that the
first shot had been fired by an Ameri
can; and that the attack was made be
fore the Filipinos were ready, many
of their leaders being absent at a
conference at Malolos; also that the
Filipinos made their best fight on
February 5, 1899. Replying to other
questions relating to the Philippine
bill, General Hughes said he thought
white labor would be a total failure
there, and the only resort would be to
import Chinese ard Japanese labor,
as the natives are physically weak and
lazy. He also expressed the. opinion
that negro emigration to the Philip
pines should be encouraged, and in
speaking of the American chamber of
commerce of Manila, said it was com
posed largely of Englishmen and
other Europeans "who do not care a
snap for American Interests."
The supreme court, in an opinion
delivered by Justice Harlan, has de
clared the Illinois anti-trust law to bo
unconstitutional. According to Jus
tice Harlan, the law is unconstitu
tional because section 9 of the act pro
vides "The provisions of this act shall
not apply to agricultural products or
live stock in the hands of the pro
ducer or raiser." It was held that
this section contemplated discrimina
tion, and therefore destroyed the en
tire act The Chicago Chronicle, re
ferring to this decision, quotes "a dis
tinguished jurist, whose relations to
the supremo court are very intimate,"
as saying: "If the legislature of II
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