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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1896)
AROUND THE EARTH OCCURRENCES THEREIN FOR A WEEK WANT TO AEBITEATE APPEAL MADE BY CARDINALS OF THREE COUNTRIES Unhappy Man Learns that Ho Is Only the Eighth Husband of a Woman TVho Marries for Cash Consul Waller in London Want to Arbitrate Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore gave out the following appeal for arbitration instead of war signed by himself and Cardinals Yaughn of Westminster and liOgue of Ireland An appeal by the American Irish and English cardinals in behalf of a perma nent tribunal of arbitration We the cardinals representatives of t he Prince of Peace and of the Catholic Church in our respective countries invite all who hear our voice to co operate in the formation of a public opinion which shall demand the establishment of a per manent tribunal of arbitration asa ration al substitute among the English speaking Taces for a resort to the bloody arbitra ment of war We therefore earnestly invite all to unite with us in pressing their convictions and desires upon their respective Govern ments by means of petitions and such other measures as are constitutional CONSUL WALLER IN LONDON Formulating a Claim Against the French Government Johnli Waller formerly United States Consul at Tamatave island of Madagas car arrived in Loudon a short time ago after his release at the instance of the tJnited Slates Government from the French prison in which he had been con fined under the sentence of twenty years imprisonment imposed upon him by a court martial for having corresponded with the Hovas Ho has been living in retirement since his arrival and upon the advice of his agents who are formulating a claim against the French Government has not received any English reporters She Has Eight Husbands John Green of Butte Mont who is try ing to have his marriage annulled told a remarkable story about his wifes matri monial adventures The woman was known in Butte about a year ago as Gladys Southward and was a devout member of the Baptist Church when Green met her They were married last September On the 12th of last month jGreen says she deserted him taking all his cash Upon investigation Green finds that the woman has eight living husbands iand has never been divorced Her first ihusband whom she married when she was 14 is a farmer named Amerman liv ing near Des Moines Iowa Later she married Gossage in Des Moines Lazell in Helena Dayton in Davenport Nelson in Portland Ore and Ryan at Albany Ore She is now supposed to be in Portland Both Heirs to Millions The New York World says the engage ment of Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney is now admitted by all their friends and denied by none of the family It only awaits the formality of announcement As Miss Vanderbilt is the daughter of Cornelius Yanderbilt and therefore the prospective heiress of one kourth of about 5100000000 and as Harry Payne Whitney is the only son of ex Secretary William C Whitney and the prospective heir of one half of the Payne Whitney millions this statement is bound to attract considerable attention Militia on Guard I In response to the application of the pheriff at St Landry parish and the mayor bf Opelousas Gov Foster directed Brig Gen John G Lynn commanding the Louisiana State National Guard to com ply with a request of the St Landry au thorities for troops Trouble is expected jover the announcement that the negroes will not bo permitted to vote at the com ing parish elections The colored men were not allowed to register and have made threats of vengeance if attempts are made to stop them at the polls Threatened Strike Averted The strike of the union men employed In the construction of the auditorium for Ithe Republican National Convention at fet Louis Mo which was threatened be cause of the award by Contractor Mc jClure of a contract for roofing to a firm temploying non union men has been averted by McClure deciding to comply jwith the request of the trades unions and withdrawing the awards from the ob- loxious firm He will relet the roofing Contract to some firm employing none but lion men May Tie Up the Lines 1 j The New York World says A com plete tieup of all the roads of the Metro politan Traction Company is threatened by the officers of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Street Railway Employes of America unless the company takes back ten gripmen recently discharged Cotton Mills Shut Down White Bros have decided to shut down For an indefinite period the Jaffray and Cheshire cotton mil it East JaffrayN H and also the Nelson and Glen Allen cot jtoa mills at Winchendon Shiloh Battlefield Association Gen John A McClernand president of the Shiloh Battlefield Association states that the annual reunion of the association will not be held April 6 and 7 on the bat tle field as usual Whether the reunion will be held at all this year will be deter 5nined later Seventy Rebels to Be Shot The court martial is busy in various parts of Havana province and death tences have been recently passed on seventy captured insurgents who will soon be shot DUN COS REVIEW iJ The Business World as Seen for the Past Week E G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade says The general demand for fir shed prod ucts does not improve The steel con cerns propose to restrict production by allotment those producing more than their share paying paying 2 per ton to those who produce less Prices of wool have fallen 7 per cent the average of 105 quotationsbeing 1362 cents Sales in March were smaller than in any other month since 1894 and for the quarter were only 57147780 pounds of which 30316200 were foreign against 69081315 last year against which 26258850 was foreign Speculation in products has been tame Cotton continues to come forward so largely that former predictions of 6500000 bales are remembered with derision and the outlook for the next crop continues good Wheat has slightly advanced and if late reports of inquiry from extensive frosts and storm prove correct will ad vance more though western receipts con tinue large and for five weeks past have been 13835110 bushels against 8831372 last year while Atlantic exports have been only 6733132 bushels flour included as wheat against 8435 701 last year CECIL RHODES IN THE FIELD Takes Command in rhe Campaign Against the Matabelcs A dispatch to the London Times from Johannesburg says that the situation thera is more hopeful and there is a be lief that negotiations between President Krueger and Colonial Secietary Chamber lain have taken a favorable turn A Cape Town dispatch to the London Times says that Hon Cecil Rhodes has reached Salisbury Mashonland and has asked for as many volunteers as can be spared for the campaign against the Matabeles Assistant Commissioner Graham was murdered by the Matabeles at Inyali on March 27 A general attack upon the whites followed and they were entirely outnumbered and almost overwhelmed They managed to get hold of a wagon and retreated three miles Some 300 Mata beles then surrounded the wagon and a fierce hand to hand conflict ensued Over borne by superior numbers six of the whites were killed Donovan the only survivor of the massacre managed to escape by hiding in the long grass creep ing away unobserved DEATH AT THE STAKE Fate Which Awaits Three Outlaws If They Are Taken Alive A tragedy occurred at Concord Ga in which two men were fatally shot Sher iff Gynn and a posse went to the house of Taylor Delk a notorious desperado to arrest him on a warrant for robbery and attempted murder As the sheriff arrived at the door he was fired at through the window with a rifle and was fatally wounded About fifty shots were fired Sheriff Gynn was lying on the front porch begging some one to come and get him when John F Madden a prominent mer chant attempted to drag him off He was also fired on and a ball passed through both thighs breaking both legs If it is possible to take the trio of pris oners alive their fate will be a horrible one death at the stake having been de termined upon by the frenzied people Big Georgia Fire Several years ago Brunswick Ga wys visited by a conflagration which destroyed it and the other day it was almost re peated A fire started about 180 p in which swept away many of the most pros perous business enteprises of Brunswick and for a time it was feared the whole town would be in ashes The total loss is estimated at about 5500000 and the insur ance is placed at 400000 Philapelphia Editor Killed Thomas Wharton Sunday editor of the Philadalphia Times fell from a fourth story window of his residence and was in stantly killed It is generally believed he suicided Of late the occupants of the house have noticed that he seemed melan choly Wharton was widely known be cause of his literary ability He had been connected with the Times since 18S8 Killed by an Explosion A dispatch to the New York Herald from Yalpariso Chili says Tho monitor Huascar fresh from the new dry dock in Talccahuauo has arrived there Scarcely had she cast anchor when a dreadful dis aster occurred on board Without warn ing the main steampipe burst killing eight of the crew and probably injuring nine others Killed In an Explosion A terrific explosion occurred in the Giles mine near Word Colo in which three men were instantly killed and two others badly hurt When the men went to work they took about fifty pounds of giant powder down in the mine with them and shortly after they reached the bottom the powder in some unknown way exploded Rails Spread Five Hurt The Butler express on the West Penn sylvania Railway was wrecked nearFree port Pa and five seriously injured The accident was caused by the rails spread ing Tho two rear coaches jumped the track and went over an embankment Fire broke out immediately after and the passengers narrowly escaped with their lives Kentucky Iron Works to Start Up The South Boston Iron Works at Mid dlesboro Ky will be put in operation at once as a tool and implement factory Money has been raised in London to Li quidate the old indebtedness and furnish a working capital Three hundred men Till be put to work Frosts in tho Cherokee Strip A special to the Star from Perry Okla homa says For the past two nights light frosts have fallen in that section of the Cherokee strip The cold spell was pre ceded by a severe windstorm Some re port fruit and a few wheat fields consid erably injured Broke Through the Ice A special to the Minneapolis Journal from Crookston states that letters received there from War Road near tho mouth of YtM V the Rainy River on the Canadian bound ary report the death on the Rainy River of Col A F Naff a United States deputy marahall and his entire party of explor ers in all probability eight men They were on their way to investigate reports of the timber stealing by Canadians along the boundary and tributary waters and were ascending the Rainy by sleighs They are reported to have broken through the ice and to have been lost SPANISH INHUMANITY Americans Tell of Barbarities They Witnessed in Cuba The New Orleans Picayunes special Havana letter dated March 27 gives this among the summary of events personally investigated by the writer which is de clared to be accurate in every respect In Bainoa Dr Vodal Sotolongo made an operation on a poor old man and when he was convalascent he was one night arrested and taken to the armory of the civil guard where they lashed him all over the body and in spite of his cries they laughed and took him on the outside of the town where they compellod him make a grave in which they buried him after he died from the ill treatment he had received To further appreciate the condition of this country I -will relate what I heard in the city of Trinidad while there a few days ago Rev Father Canon igo said 1 believe that all the Cubans possible should be killed off and clear the country and in that manner make room for families which would be brought over from Spain The negroes and mulat toes should all be killed off silently and without exciting any comment and their property confiscated Therefore when we would bring families over from Spain and colonize the island we would give them this confiscated property and they could make a good start in life The Cubans who send their children to the United States to be educated should be taken hold of by the police and quietly placed where they would do the least harm because those Americans have re publican ideas which are the real cause of the present desire of the Cubans to re volt The Yankees are the only people who sympathize with the Cubans and they are responsible for this war MISSOURI TRAIN ROBBERY St Louis and San Francisco Cannon Ball Held Up The east bound cannon ball train on the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad was held up three miles east of Lebanon Mo and the safe blown open and robbed The robbers boarded the train at Le banon at 1250 p m and after reaching the scene of the robbery held up the en gineer aud fireman stopped the train and with the engineer ahead of them marched to the express car The messen ger refused to open up and the door was blown open with dynamite and the safes contents removed Several packages of valuable papers were found the next morning beside the track and some money which had been overlooked in the hurry of departure The passengers were not molested The brakeman hurried back to the city and started Sheriff Jones and posse on the track of the robbers While the amount of money secured by the robbers is not known it is thought to be considerable Wells Fargo offer 300 reward for the arrest of the robbers Brick Pomeroy Dying A special to the Milwaukee Wisconsin from New York City says Brick Pomeroy the noted printer editor an publisher is dying of dropsy at Blythe Bourne L 1 His case is hopeless and death is only a matter of a few days Pomeroy made himself famous during the war while publishing Ponieroys Demo crat at La Crosse Wis His paper had a large circulation and was noted for its extreme views on financial and other gov ernmental matters He afterwards found ed a paper at New York with disastrous results Troops for South Africa Owing to the gravity of the situationih South Africa the British Government wil dispatch 5000 troops to the Cape of Good Hope as soon as possible to be ready for emergencies The British Chartered Com pany has formally requested the Govern ment to order the immediate dispatch of 500 troops from Cape Town to Buluwayo Notorious Outlaw Killed The notorious outlaw Carl Thorn alias Diamond Point who led the raid on feyville Kan and who while a member of the Dalton gang killed four men was killed by a United States marshal at Do ver Oklahoma Both the outlaw and the officer exchanged ten shots The marshal gets 3200 reward Oklahoma Politician Killed A special to the Kansas City Star from Perry Oklahoma says Dutch Surber a politician of some note in Oklahoma was killed while chopping down a tree The ax caught in a limb and falling struck him on top of the head splitting it open Fell AVith an Elevator Four men at Chicago fell with an eleva tor on which was 1503 pounds of debris all were seriously injured MARKET QUOTATIONS Sioux City Cattle Stockers and feed ers 300 to 380 Hogs Prices ranging from 5362K to 370 Grain Wheat 4Sc to 50c com 16c to 19c oats 14c to 14c rye 20c to 25c hay 400 to 5500 but ter 14c to 15c eggs 7c Chicago Cattle Beet steers 325 to 400 stockers and feeders 275 to 385 Hogs Prices ranging from 360 to 415 Grain Wheat April 62c May C3Kc corn April 2Sc May 29Kc oats April lSc May 19c rye No 2 35Kc Hax No 1 88Xc timothy 325 Kansas City Cattle Beef steers 275 to 400 stockers and feeders 240 to 365 Hogs Prices ranging from 350 to 380 Sheep 200 to 400 South Omaha Cattle Beef steers 300 to 390 stockers and feeders 275 to 375 Hogs Prices ranging from 350 to 380 St Paul Cattle Beef steers 300 trf 330 stockers and feeders 285 to 327 Hogs Prices ranging from 200 to 375 Minneapolis Grain Wheat April 59c May 59c July 60c No 1 har4 on track 60c No 1 Northern 59c SHOT IN COLD BLOOD FEARFUL CRIME COMMITTED AT CLINTON ILL Ed Polen Kills His Wife and Mother-in-Law-Women Slaughtered While Fleeing Frenzied Man Then At tempts Suicide to Escape Lynching Caused by Domestic Troubles Domestic infelicities in the family of Edward Polen culminated Friday after noon at Clinton 111 in the murder of Mrs Polen and her mother Mrs William McMullen by Polen After he had com mitted tho crime Polen ran to the Illinois Central yards to escape the crowd of ex cited pursuers who intended to lynch tine murderer To avoid this fate he -threw himself dn front of a train but was not fatally injured He was removed from the scene of his attempted suicide without molestation Then the crowd collected about the jail and for a time it looked as if the lynch ing would take place The desperate nature of the mans injuries delayed the attempt and the crowd retired It ap pears from the most reliable information tihat there has been trouble in the Polen household for some time Mr and Mrs Polen had been in Creston Iowa for about six weeks where Polen had se cured employment but all did not go well in the Iowa home and Mrs Polen left there and returned to lier mothers home in Clinton a week ago Friday Polen re turned and met his wife on the street and they held an animated discussion After leaving Ms wife Polen returned to the home of his mother-in-law Mrs Mc Mullen where his wife was and it is supposed the discussion of their troubles was again renewed Polen became frenzied during the dis cussion and rushing to where a double barreled shotgun was standing he seized the weapon and turned toward the now thoroughly frightened and defenseless women who attempted to escape They were not quick enough however They were within about fifteen feet of the house when Polen threw the gun to his shoulder and pressed the trigger Mrs Polen fell on lier face without a groan dying instantly Her mother stopped at the report of the gun and turning saw her child fall heavily forward cold in death As the motlher gave a cry of anguish at the ter rible deed of her infuriated son-in-law he again pressed the trigger and with the second report the soul of the mother was ushered into eternity The murderer then ran east through the outskirts of the town thence along the railroad track stopping to reload his weapon An alarm was given immediate ly by the neighbors and soon the streets were thronged with the excited populace hurrying to the scene of the tragedy A posse was soon formed and started in pursuit of the murderer In the meantime Polen had been fleeing east on the railroad track He got about a mile and a quarter from town wnen he saw a freight train approaching Turn ing he beheld his pursuers following and realizing the impossibility of escape he waited until the train had approached al most to where he stood and then sudden ly threw himself in front of the engine He vas doomed to disappointment how ever for the pilot of the engine was too low It struck and threw him to the side of the track unconscious The train was quickly stopped and the injured man picked up and brought to the city where he was lodged in jail A crowd soon col lected and the talk became ominous The officers feared an attempt to lynch the murderer would be made and to quiet the crowd the announcement was made from the porch of the jail that Polen was fatal ly injured and would probably die in a few minutes This resnlted in the dis persion of the crowd Marshal Moffit with his prisoner drove from Clinton to Maroa in a cab Polen apparently is not badly wounded as he was able to eat lunch at Maroa and was sitting up in a restaurant He is now in jail at Decatur Telegraphic Brevities Mrs Minnie F Payne of Fort Scott Kan has brought suit for divorce against Albert Bigelow Payne an author and poet John Maguire of Butte Mont has dis covered records that lead him to believe that the Chinese knew how to use ca thode rays centuries ago The Governor of Missouri granted a stay of execution to Thomas Punshon who was sentenced to be hanged in St Joseph April 3 until May G The Union car works to be operated on tho co operative plan will put up build ings at North St Louis at once Tho capital is 50000 and the president is H W Rocklage Twin sisters and twin brothers were married at Burbank O Rev Nathaniel Lewis performed the ceremony that made Irene V Repp wife of Vernon R Stair and Idena V Repp wife of Vertal R Stair Williams Hills Yale aged So died at Meriden Conn of blood poisoning He was the pioneer manufacturer of tinned ware fn New England He retired from business several years ago having amass ed a fortune E Wilding and J F Gilmore repre senting a London syndicate are negotiat ing for the purchase of the Chino ranch in southern California The ranch con sists of 40000 acres and the price offered is said to be 2000000 Four steamers arrived at New York having on board 3484 immigrants The Massilia from Marseilles and Naples brought 11S3 the Patria from Ham burg 9G1 La Bretagne from Havre GOO and the Bonn from Bremen GOO When the remains of Michael Hart wlio was killed at Hammond Ind by an Erie passenger train were sent to his home at Newburg Conn the entire force of the Illinois Steel Company followed the body to the station Gov L G Hughes was assaulted on the street by P J Ciark correspondent at Phoenix for the Denver Times Clark who had criticised the Governors official conduct claims that the executive was instrumental in securing his Clarks dis charge from another paper Charles E Clark a printer who has worked in Omana for years has been ap pointed superintendent of the Childs Drexel Printers Home at Colorado Springs to succeed Schuman who has held the position for some time but against whom charges of incompetency have been made QUEEN OF THE CARNIVAL Miss Arthemise Baldwin One of the Sweetest Maids of New Orleans One of the sweetest maids of New Or leans is Miss Arthemise Baldwin who was crowned queen of the recent Mardi Gras in the city near the delta She is the daughter of Albert Baldwin presi dent of the New Orleans National Bank Miss Baldwin looked a real queen and certainly never did a real queen wear a more gorgeous coronation robe a pretty picture of which was made by illustrated American This gorgeous robe was of ithe richest white satin embroidered with gold thread and jewels Around the bottom of the skirt were five large coro nets wrought out of seed pearls and jewels Above them was a rich applique of palest green velvet couched in gold thread and with the design picked out in amethysts sapphires emeralds and other glittering jewels The corsage was cut T round in the neck and the entire front was covered with the same exquisite jew eled embroidery Huge puffs of sarin jpllk MISS APTHEMISE BALDWIX formed the sleeves and on tihem the rich design of the skirt was repeated About the neck was a costly medici collar thick ly studded with jewels on both sides un til it formed a glittering mass of gems From the shoulders fastened by gems hung the court train of royal purple vel vet deeply bordered with ermine and lined with heavy white satin The train three yards long was richly embroidered with fleur de lis wrought in iihe same jew els as those used in embroidering the gown About her white throat she wore a superb necklace of diamonds a jeweled girdle spanned her waist on her Ihead she wore a crown and in Iher hand she bore a scepter PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT Increase for the Month of March Is Given as 3274780 The monthly statement of the public debt shows the debt less cash in the treas ury on March 31 to have been 942342 253 an increase over last month of 5 274 7S0 which is accounted for by an in crease of 14209522 in the amount of bonds delivered during the month pay ment for which had been made previously The increase in the cash during the month amounted to S934741 making the net increase 52747S0 as stated The debt is classified as follows Interest bearing debt S37404140 Debt on whidh interest has ceased since maturity 1059510 Debt bearing no interest 374920351 Total 12139S4001 This however does not include 5G2 909253 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury The cash in the treasury is given as follows Gold 1718S5709 Silver 508930744 Paper 105952143 Bonds disbursing officers ba3ances etc 28200349 Total 874969947 Against which there are demand liabili ties amounting to 003327198 leaving ja net cash balance of 271041748 in cluding the gold reserve Increase in Circulation The monthly statement of the Comp troller of Currency shows tihe total cir culation of national bank notes to be 221227805 an increase for the year of 13777001 and for the month of 4134 340 The circulation based on United States bonds amounts xo 199723005 an increase since March 31 1S95 of 19 875022 and since Feb 29 last of 4674 051 Tho circulation secured by lawful money amounts to 21504S00 a decrease for the year of 6097961 and for the month of 539711 The amount of regis tered bonds on deposit to secure circulat ing notes amounts to 222998800 and to secure public deposits 17068000 News of Minor Note The progressive euchre party at Phila delphia for the benefit of the Cubans net ted nearly 1000 Elizabeth Charles author of many his torical novels characterized by a deep re ligious feeling is dead at London Patrick McGuinness 90 years of age was burned to death in a fire which de stroyed his liome at Middletown N Y James and Frank Tillman and Lucy Law were instantly killed by a rock crashing through the house where they were sleeping at Echo W Ya Thomas Seay who has been ill at his home at Greensboro Ala for two weeks with the grip is dead He was promi nent in public life for over twenty five years The 500 lithographers in New York who struck seven weeks ago are jubilant over tihe notification that they may return to work pending the decision of the com mittee on arbitration Mrs M A Stockton who was one of tihe prominent figures in the recent scan dal involving Rev C O Brown of the First Congregational Church San Fran cisco has been expelled from the church William Royce tie murderer of Nellie Patten was arraigned for trial at Sioux City la and created a sensation by changing Ms plea of not guilty to that of guilty His crime was a cold blooded one Hawaiian Consul Wilder stated at San Francisco that under the treaty between Hawaii and the United States the Ha waiian Government can grant no conces siions cede any territory or grant permis sion to any foreigner to land a cable with out the permission of the United States Warren B Sexton general manager of the defunct Sexton Security Company at Kansas City has departed He left a letter addressed to his brother Edward P Sexton vice president of the company stating that he had lost several thousand thousand dollars of the companys funda In wiheat gambling THE InATIOFS S0L0IS SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE SENTATIVES Our National Law Makers and Wliat They Are Doing for the Good of tlie Country Various Measures Pro posed Discussed and Acted Upon Daily Report Some minor business was transacted at tho opening of the session in the House on the 1st A bill was passed to authorize the lighthonxo board to proceed with the construction of a lighthouse and fog signal on north Manitoa Island Lake Michigan The House then re sumed consideration of the sundry civil appro priation bill An amendment to appropriate 530000 for the purchase of tho house in Wash ington in which President Lincoln died was adopted Mr Hyde of Washington oifercd an liendmeiit to appropriate 75000 to commence the erection of permanent buildings at the mili tary post at Spokane Wash which was carried 04 to 37 despite the appeal of Mr Cannon urg ing members to stand by the committee At 515 the House adjourned Senator Ihitler of North Carolina introduced a hill requiring the acceptance of current legal tender funds in payment of notes bonds and private obligations He explained that the pur pose of the measure was to put a stop to gold notes gold mortgages etc which were being wrung from the people to their dire distress Referred to the Finance Committee Senator Call offered a joint resolution directing the send ing of an adequate naval force to Cuba to put an end to barbarities and the violation of treaty obligations The resolution went over under the rules The consideration of the postofllce oppro riation bill was then resumed which occupied Ihe time for the balance of the day The subsidy tem went over for a separate vote The balance bf the postoflico appropriation biil was com pleted At 520 the Somite adjourned The question of tho appropriation of public money for private or sectarian institutions was ligain fought over for four hours in the House on the 2d On a former occasion in connection villi appropriations for charitable institutions in Washington tho contest was managed by Mr Linton of Michigan who is one of tho pronoimced A P A members in Congress That contest was successful and the bill was recommitted The bone of contention was tho Howard Univer sity a colored institution of Washington for which an appropriation of 32C00 was inserted lu the sundry civil bill the day before Mr Hainer of Nebraska in whose temporary absence the amendment was adopted arrayed his forces against the appropriation on the ground that It was both a private and sectarian institution a school of theology being maintained by the uni versity Tho House voted to retain the appro priation thus in a measure reversing its action when the District of Columbia bill was up Tho sundry civil bill as amended was passed Among the minor bill passed by unanimous consent was one to reimburse A P Brown late postmaster at LeMars Iowa for losses sustained by robbery Tho postofllce appropriation bill served to bring out more sharp discussion In tho Senate on the 2d on the propriety of abolishing country postoflices and absorbing them as branches of city offices The bill was laid aside and the bill authorizing the lighthouse board to proceed with tho building of the lighthouse at North Manitou island Lake Michigan was passed The House bill was passed granting the Atchison and Neb raska and tho Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroads a right of way through the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian reservations in Kansas and Nebraska At 5J the Senate went into execu tive session and soon after adjourned until Mon day Friday being private bill day in the House Mr Pickler chairman of the Pensions Commit tee demanded the regular order Mr Hitt chairman of tho Foreign Affairs Committee thought he ought to antagonize the private pen sion bills if they would entail debate in the in terests of the conference report on the Cuban resolutions Mr Hitt however finally agreed to withhold his motion if Mr Pickler would de mand the previous question on each bill as it was called up The roint of no quorum on tho first bill was made Dilatory tactics followed on the private pension bills and the speaker was compelled to count a quorum on the motion On ono occasion when Mr Erdman made the point of no quorum the Speaker made the important ruling that 17S constituted a quorum thus decid ing that a majority of the actual full membership of the House was a quorum a point raised in the Kentucky senatorial fight This question had never been absolutely settled After about thirty bills had been passed in something more than an hour Mr Erdman made a novel point of order demanding after the bill had been ordered to bo engrossed that a copy of the engrossed bill bo produced As this could not be done the bill was laid aside Then Mr Hitt chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee called up the con ference report on the Cuban resolutions The report agreed to the Senate resolutions the first of which declared in the opinion of Congress that a state of public war existed in Cuba and that the United States should maintain a strict neutrality between the belligerents and the sec ond requested the President to use his friendly offices with the Spanish Government for the rec ognition of the independence of Cuba The con ferees originally agreed on the House resolution the most important of which favored Interven tion if necessary but when the Senate rejected the report of the conferees the new conferees de cided to accept the Senate resolutions Mr Hitt moved the adoption of the conference report A lengthy debate followed on the matter and no conclusion was reached Curiosities About Coins Herodutus says that Croesus was the first ruler to order gold coins made In the year 450 B C round copper coins were first made Each weighed twelve ounces The most valuable United States cents are those of 1793 1799 1804 1809 1S11 1813 1823 and 1S27 The rarest and most valuable United States coin of what is called the reg ular mint series is the silver dollar of 1804 A silver half dime of the year 1802 is worth 30 if in good con dition and from 10 to 25 if in only fair shape The only valuable nickel 5 cent piece is that of the year 1S77 which the collectors purchase at 1 sach The little silver 3 cent piece was first coined in 1851 It was discontin ued in 1873 One of the first date is worth a dime one of the last 1 The face of the silver dollar is that of a young lady residing in Philadelphia Her name is Anna W Williams and- she is a teacher of kindergarten phil osophy The very oldest coin in the British museum is an Aegian piece of the year 700 B C It is not dated of course dating being a modern inno vation extending back only 500 years Many eyes suppobed to be black are only a deep orange brown Eyes in rapid and constant motion be token anxiety fear or care People of melancholic temperament rarely have clear blue eyes The eyes of birds and fish are round with no angles at the corners The upturned eye Is typical of devo tion Wide open eyes are indicative of rash ness The eye is really a self adjustable telescope Caesar Borgia had prominent hair closed eyes Side glancing eyes are always to be distrusted The eyes should not be used in weak ness or sickness 4 r v V j