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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1897)
ELECTRIC FLASHES NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD WEYLEBS CLOSE CALL HORSE SHOT FROM UNDER HIM IN THE FIELD Captain Generals Recall May Be Expected tat Any Time May Save Duestrow from the Hangmans Noose Other Items Close Call for Weyler The reform decrees have not been pub lished In Havana as yet Gen Weyler re mains in the field He is reported to be in Santa Clara He is said to have been am bushed on the outskirts of the town and it is reported that his horse was shot under him and he fell injuring his shoulder slightly He has accomplished nothing and is expected back soon It is said that lie sent orders to withhold the announce ment of reforms until he is ready to pub lish them because Madrid did not consult him about them The revolutionists were never more active than now Several trains have just been blown up in Pinar del Rio province Towns are sacked nightly in Havana and Matanzas provinces Raids are frequent in Santa Clara The Cubans control Santiago outside the city Gen Calixto Garcia is very bold in that province Word comes from the insurgent govern ment it is reported that nothing but in dependence will be accepted The Cubans would accept real autonomy with the United States clean cut guaranty but not through a commercial treaty with Spain The devastation of the island continues The big sugar planters have paid for pro tection by the troops some as much as 40 000 But they oomplain that the troops have been withdrawn Arrests deporta tions and banishments are increasing par ticularly arrests of women to enforce ac ceptance offreforms This course will fail it only1 intensifies hate The Cubans are cheerful Their soldiers are as brave and as patriotic as ever Many are dying of smallpox Many generals are disgusted and leaving for Spain Eight go this week Gen Weylers chief of staff is miffed and has not taken the field He obtained a fur lough and has gone to Porto Rico He may succeed Gen Marin as captain general there letting Marin go to Cuba as captain general till Azcarraga arrives Gen Weylers recall to Spain is expected soon MAY SAVE DUESTROW Mother of Man Who Convicted Him Appeals to ihe Governor If Gov Stephens commutes the sentence of the St Louis millionaire wife and child murderer Dr Arthur Duestrow from the gallows to life imprisonment it will be due to Mrs Elizabeth Merriwether president of the West End Benevolent Society who Is more familiarly known as Mrs Minor Merriwether She declares that she at tended the trial at Unjon watched every incident closely and is firmly convinced that Duestrow is insane The principal argument in her lengthy petition to the governor for clemency is that Duestrows crime was directly charge able to liquor and that as the state permits the sale of liquor which drives men to crime it is particeps criminis and should not punish with extreme penalty one of its oitizens for committing a crime to which it has in morals if not in law contributed She is the mother of the prosecutor m tha pse GREAT BRIDGE FINISHED Massive New York Structure Which Cost Three Millions The largest bridge of Jts kind in the world and one of the most marvelous achievements of modern engineering is practically finished It is the New York Centrals four track steel drawbridge over the Harlem River at One Hundred and Thirty fifth Street The passenger enter ing New York from the north Monday were the first to pass over this greatest of steel railway constructions The massive structure is remarkable in being the first tfour track drawbridge ever built It is 400 feet long and 53 feet6 inches -wide from center to center of outside trusses and is carried on three heavy trusses The work of building this massive structure began September 1 1893 andhasicontinued with out cessation until now It will cost when completed more than 3000000 May Punish Searles Secretary and Treasurer Searles of the sugar trust appeared before the joint leg islative committees on trusts an New York city Monday morning Before beginning Qiissexamination he explained that he did mat appear Friday though -summoned be cause he was on his way to the train when thesubpoena was served on him Chair man Lexow said the subpoenas of the com mittee could not be ignored either by a millionaire or a poor man and that at -the closcof Searles testimony the committee would pass upon the question tof punishing him ifor contempt Searles examination was -then begun Fanatical Uprising in Ifcrazil Fanatical insurrectionists nmder Con eelhiro have now 6000 well armed men organized and concentrated in Bahia Brazil People in the rural toxras axe new helping the fanatics with arms andrmoney Where this help is net given the T engeanee of Conseihirc band falls upon settlers Rhodes Lionized Fronhe moment of bis arrival in Eng- In Cecil Rhodes has been deluged with ihvittions telegrams and letters quefcf an4 requests for his photographs locks of ft hair and authograpbs in ad- iHtion to suggestions oi proposal of mar riage Death ue to Hypnotism James W dmuXfeon Younir a 17-year-old colored boy of Jamestown N Y died under circumstanced that indicated that his death was due to hypnotic experiments fcy J jirrwojPJW amateurs - - PENSION AGENCIES REDUCED Order Signed by President Abolish ing Half of Them President Cleveland has signed on the recommendation of Secretary of the In terior Francis an important order reducing the number of pension agencies in the United States from 18 to 9 The object of the order is to effect a very large saving to the government without inconveniencing the pensioners The secretary demon strates that by this reduction of the pension agencies the cost of disbursing pensions can be reduced by at least 150000 per an num The change was made possible by an amendment to the law governing the disbursing of pensions which amendment was approved March 23 1896 It required that all pensioners should after that date be paid by checks remitted by mail Reports fronvthe pension agencies in reply to inquiries as to the operation of the new lawwere to the effect that under it the pensioners are paid much more promptly that the possibility of error is minimized and that upon the whole it is much more satisfactory to the pensioners than the former law The agents also advise that the pensioners receive their pensions when remitted by mail at theu homes where being surrounded by family influences a pensioner is much more likely to make a judicious disposition of his pension money This executive order will go into effect September 1 next The following are the nine agencies and number of pensioners paid thereat under the new order Boston 94857 New York 98883 Philadelphia 106785 Washington 140205 Columbus 104400 Indianapolis 116066 Chicago 125123 St Louis 161 709 San Francisco 23098 total 970678 THREE FRIENDS SEIZED First Step in the Piracy Proceedings Against the Filibuster The steamer Three Friends was seized andlibelled upon its return to Jacksonville Saturday from a towing trip down the coast The libel charges piracy in that a Hotchkiss gun was mounted upon the bow of the steamer and was fired at a Spanish gunboat at the mouth of the San Juan River while endeavoring to land an expedi tion The name of the gunboat is not given The persons named in the libel are John OBrien Wj T Lewis John Dunn August Arnau Michael Walsh and Ralph D Paine Judge Locke fixed the bond at 5000 which was immediately furnished and the boat was released upon the special provision that a deputy marshal should be placed on board and have authority to take charge of the boat in case that an attempt should be made at any time to violate the law LOUISIANAS -DESTITUTE - Thirty Thousand People Said to Be on the Edge of Starvation A dispatch from Shreveport La says Thirty thousand people in the state are practically starving to death A relief committee which has inspected the stricken parishes near Shreveport says this num ber of people will have to be sustained dur ing the unfruitful season The state has already expended 85000 for corn and pro visions for the sufferers and calls for funds A meeting was held in Shreveport under call of the board of trade and 5000 was subscribed Castillo on Cuban Reforms Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo of Spain in an interview announces that the government intends to faithfully execute the proposed Cuban reforms and that it will not be necessary to wait for the com plete pacification of Cuba He says that it will be sufficient if the rebellion is confined to the western portion of the island The Marquis of Apextguia the leader of the constitutional party in Cuba in an inter view says that it is doubtful whether the scheme of Cuban reforms will serve to terminate the insurrection He adds that Capt Gen Weyler should not be entrusted with their execution Letter Box Coutract Let The postmaster general has awarded to Mayberry Ellis of Detroit the contract for furbishing street letter boxes to the government for four years beginning July 1 next The contract involves about 50 000 for the four years term Contracts were also awarded to the Columbia Man ufacturing Company of New York city for furnishing street package boxes and to the Bond Steel Fence and Post Company of Adrian Mich for mail box posts at 120 per post The two last classes aggregate about 15000 Murder in Minneapolis Nels Benson 80 years of age was mur dered Saturday night at Minneapolis The perpetrators of the crime are known to be a man and a woman as the affair was wit nessed by several boys The instrument used in inflicting the1 wounds which re sulted in Bensons death was a Swedish dagger part of the blade of which was found near the scene of the crime The Popes Health Dr Lapponi the popes personal phy sician in an interview with a press repre sentative said that his holiness was in ex cellent health and that the report circu lated in the United States that the vener able prelate fell in a fainting fit was pure invention Moodys Sixtieth Birthday D L Moody the famous evangelist ob served his 60th birthday on Friday Friends collected 80000 which will be used by him to ereeta chapel for the Mt Vernon school for boys which Moody founded- Pitcher RadLbourne Dead harles Radbourne the noted baseball player of Bloomington HI who won fame and fortune as a pitcher with the Boston and Providence National League cluhs died of paresis aged 47 Kills His Father Anderson Parser a farmer of Grab Charter Ky in a drunken rage fractured Jiis wifeTs skull with a elub and shot his son twice The latter secured a revolver and killed his father Fighting on SSara Frontier A statement is published toat fighting hls occurred on the frontier Siam be tween the French and the Siames CRUSADE ON POVERTY Salvation Army to Inaugurate the Movement in Chicago Commander Booth Tucker and Coi Brewer of the Salvation Army will meet in Chicago within two weeks to arrange the preliminaries for the establishment of a vast system of social settlements similar to those in operation in England organized by Gen William Booth The venerable father of the army will come to this coun try when the preliminary work is done and after setting the great industrial and economic system in motion he will leave it in care of the American officers men tioned The establishment is in tended to be a crusade against pov erty in all its germs Chicago is to be the center of this system andits boundaries will be the United States City colonies are to be established where at least tem porary work will be offered every idle man in the city spacious tenement houses are to be provided under army supervision and eventually the colonies are to be ex tended within a radius of several hundred miles from the city President Harper of the Chicago University and President Rogers of the Northwestern University with other university professors educators and philanthropists have taken an active interest in the movement as outlined by the army leaders WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE No Important Change Noticeable in Business Circles R G Dun Cos Weekly Review says No important change in business appears but the number of manufacturing estab lishments starting much exceeds the num ber of those stopping during the week so much that the curtailment of working time in many cotton mills probably does not lessen the aggregate productive force or amount of wages paid There is distinct increase in orders for woolen goods some gain in the silk manufacture a gain in one branch of boots and shoes and indications of better things coming in the iron and steel manufacture All symptoms are favorable in the money mar ket To many it is the most perplexing feature of current events that wheat does not rise much though it has advanced 1 cents for the week Cotton fell to 1 cents after the agreement to close Fall River and other print cloth works became known but recovered the quotation of a week ago at 731 cents without further news Sales of wool have been smaller than in other re cent weeks and yet are far in excess of the consumption of all mills for a week if all were fully employed Failures for the week have been 811 in the United States against 828 last year and 88 in Canada against 67 last year 5 FAMILY WASvSTARVING St Louis Man Kills a Horse and Uses Flesh for Food John Giesen a German took a horse away from a crowd of boys at St Louis Mo and drove it to his hut and killed it for food Giesen is out of work and with his wife and four children was starving to death The horse belonged to a coal dealer who allowed it to roam at large because it was lame Some boys were driving it around in the snow when Giesen seized the horse The boys who followed Giesen saw him kill the animal cut off a hind quarter and start to roast it Giesen told a police man when arrested that his family had eaten nothing for three days They had eaten no meats for months BOB KNEEBS IS SENTENCED Gets Nine -Months in Prison and Is Fined 1000 Marks Robert Kneebs the American horseman charged with entering the trotting maVe Bethel in races on the German tracks under the name of Nellie Kneebs was on Friday sentenced at Berlin to nine months im prisonment and ordered to pay a fine of 1000 marks He will also be deprived of all civil rights for two years Seven months allowance for the time which he has already served in prison will be de ducted from the sentence so that in reality Kneebs has only two months yet to serve New Base Ball Rules James A Hart Edward nanlon and A J Reach the committee of the National Baseball League appointed to recommend changes in the code of rules have sub mitted their report to President Young 4 MARKET QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 350 to 550 hogs shipping grades 300 to 375 sheep fair to choice 200 to 425 wheat No 2 red 73c to 75c corn No 2 22c to 23c oats No 2 15c to 16c rye No 2 35c to 36c butter choice creamery 19c to 21c eggs freBh 13c to 15c potatoes per bushel 20c to 30c broom corn common short to choice dwarf 35 to 80 per ton Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 525 hogs choice light 300 to 375 sheep good to choice 300 to 375 wheat No 2 84c to SGc corn No 2 white 21c to 22c oats No 2 white 20c to 22c St Louis Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 300 to 375 wheat No 2 S9c to 90c corn No 2 yellow 19c to 21c oats No 2 white 16c to ISc rye No 2 33c to 34c Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 250 to 425 wheat No 2 SSc to 91c corn No 2 mixed 23c to 24c oats No 2 mixed 18c to 20c rye No 2 35c to 37c Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 375 sheep 200 to 375 wheat No 2 red 87c to SSc corn No 2 yellow 23c to 24c oats No 2 white 19c to 21c rye 36c to 37c Toledo Wheat No 2 red 8Sc to S9c corn No 2 mixed 21c to 23c oats No 2 white 16c to ISc rye No 2 36c to 38j clover seed 515 to 520 Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 74c to 76c corn No 3 19c to 21c oats No 2 white 18c to 20c barley No 2 25c to 33c rye No 1 36c to 38c pork mess 750 to 800 Buffalo Cattle 250 to 500 hogs 300 to 400 sheep 200 to 425 wheat No 2 red 92c to 93c corn No 2 yellow 23c to 27c oats No 2 white 21c to 23c New York Cattle 300 to 525 hogs 300 to 425 sheep 300 to 450 wheat No 2 red 85c to 86c com No 2 28c to 30c oats No 2 white 21c to 23c butter creamery 15c to 22c egge Weat ern 18c to 166V STATE OP NEBEASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Farmer Rash Who Murdered His Whole Family Near Wayne Last Week Declared to Be Guilty by the Coroners Jury Rash Held For Murder The coroners jury in the Rash murder case at Wayne returned a verdict that the wife and three children came to their death from the effects of beingstruck and beaten about the head with a stone in the hands pfone Clarence K Rash and that said blows were inflicted- intentionally and feloniously A warrant was immediately swornout for Rash ona charge of murder It now appears thatthe little 10-year-old son while his mother was being killed ran out doors in his bare feet in the snow and hid in a cave his tracks of blood show ing in the snow but cring to the intense cold he returned to the house and was killed by his father Reliable authority states that Rash has made a complete con fession in every respect which will develop later The prisoner has been forced to eat as he had eaten nothing since the night of the murder He now eats regularly BONDSMEN MAKE ANSWER Deny Moshers Liability for the Drouth Sufferers Fund D E Thompson and R C Outcalt bondsmen for C W Mosher who was treasurer of the fund to relieve the drouth sufferers are being sued by the state for a balance he never turned over This bal ance amounts to 3351 The answer is voluminous The bondsmen deny that the legislature had any authority to pass an act appropriating state money for relief purposes or to issue bonds for that pur pose It seems that the first bill passed named therein who should compose the re lief commission and it was necessary to pass another authorizing the governor to name the commission The commission created under the first law elected Mosher treasurer and the defendants were his bondsmen The governor after the pas sage of the second act named the same parties as commissioners and the organiza tion was reformed Mosher was again elected treasurer and defendants say that it is on the second bond that the state must sue It is further denied that the money was ever in Moshers hands It was placed in his bank and drawn out by the auditing committee All paid out of the state treas ury was expended and the legality of issue sale and transfer of the proceeds of the bond is attacked The commissioners per mitted the money to remain in the bank The state never filed a claim and the de fense raises the point that the commission ers were negligent in permitting it to re main so long and in not trying to get part of it back after the bank went under Take Wood from the Indians Indian police are patrolling the forests on the Omaha reservation near Decatur and keep a close lookout for intruders or white men who have even bought wood in these timbers of the Indians By order of the agents no wood is allowed to be hauled away by white men even though they have been honest and innocent purchasers Early in the spring of last year Captain Beek posted notices in conspicuous places notifying the whites that it was the orders I of the Indian department that no wood snouia be purcnaseu ot tne Indians eitner on or on me reservation jliib ieuerai law seems to have been laid aside however an three fourths of the town is guilty of this misdemeanor besides which a few deliberately steal wood from the reserva tion A dozen Indians are now in Lincoln as witnesses before the United States courts and it is said that thirty six ar rests will be made on the strength of their testimony His Pension Came too Late Lewis Keiser an old soldier of Hubbell has been for the past fourteen years a helpless paralytic his sole attendant being his aged wife whose care and fidelity were unsurpassed Some time ago he applied for a pension Congressman Hainer who personally visited Mr Keiser endorsed his application and on the 7th wired the vet eran that his bill allowing him 72 per month had passed the senate and only awaited the signature of the president Mr Keiser died at 6 oclock on the morn ing of the 8th and his loyal companion suddenly finds her years of unswerving duty and devotion at an end Farmer Is Accidentally Shot In front of one of the business houses in Greely T H Buck a well known farmer of Greely County was accidentally shot while putting some groceries in the wagon Mr Buck had come to town with his family and had a gun in the wagon which he at tempted to move to place some groceries down wThen the gun went off the entire load entering his stomach and chest just below the heart He lived but two or three minutes after the accident Safe Was Proof to the Robbers The burglary at the Farmers and Mer chants Bank at Blue Springs proves to have been a bootless one to the robbers An expert from St Joseph succeeded in getting the safe door open and the money of which there was several thousand dol lars was found intact Build Large Cribs for Corn Some of the grain merchants and some capitalists are storing large quantities of corn at Waverly Nearly 100000 bushels are now in cribs and a number of large cribs of 10000 and 15000 capacity are under construction Appointed as Naval Cadet H N Shewell vice president of the Merchants National bank at Nebraska City has received word that his son James has been appointed alternate at the United States Naval academy at Annap olis Md through the efforts of Congress man Strode Trainload of Cattle from Texas Hamilton Stevens have shipped in a trainload of young cattle from Texas to be fed on their ranch south of Ord There ere 400 head in the bunch Thieves Take Knives and Razors Thieves broke into C Roupps hardware store at Bloomington and secured 90 worth of knives and razors They also broke into George Greens lumber office but the sign on the safe that it was open saved it from being blown open They broke cash drawers out but secured only a little small change Gives Permission to Drill Adjutant General Bany has issued a special order No 6 authorizing the stu dents of the schools at Aurora to drill and parade with arms in public under tbesn perintendepce of their instructors URGED TO LOWER RATES Nebraska Railroads Asked to Re duce Tariff on Corn Nebraskas board of transportation has addressed a letter to each of the railroads operating in Nebraska in relation to the complaints received from fanners of exor bitant and practically prohibitive freight rates on corn east bound It says Numerous informal complaints have been made at this office against the rates on corn and coal and that farmers are compelled to burn their corn as the freight rates are too high to permit shipment The board has been urged to reduce local rates to Missouri Biver points From Inquiries sent to all parts of the state the board finds that from B0 to 75 per cent of the farmers are burning corn and also a large per cent of the people of the towns and H seems to the board that It Is a plain business necessity that the rates should be so adjusted that corn could be conveyed tomarketand fallow the peo ple of the state to burn coal It requests that the roails give this matter their Immediate atten tlon Modern Woodmen in Session The state camp of the Modern Woodmen of America the members of that lodge in Nebraska were in biennial meeting in Grand Island on the 2d Four hundred delegates were present The visitors were seated by congressional districts The rep resentation by districts was as follows First District 77 Second 22 Third 83 Fourth 100 Fifth 85 Sixth 88 The membership in the districts is First 8452 Second 2022 Third 3908 Fourth 4755 Fifth 3196 Sixth 3226 making a total of members in the state of 20559 The following officers were elected Heaa consul W H Thompson Grand Island adviser G E Elsasser Omaha banker D C Zinlr Grand Island clerk W A Forsyth Phelps County physician Dr Bartow Arcadia escort Joseph Cham berlain Dawson County watchman Ed Lake sentry C E Moffet board of man agers Fred Pearl O M Gunnell J TV Edgerton The next biennial camp will be held at Fremont An informal discussion and exemplification of work was held at the opera house in the evening One Bill Aims at the Black List One of the bills in which the members of organized labor unions in Omaha are par ticularly interested at the present session of the legislature is one introduced by request by Senator Ransom It provides in brief that no company corporation or individual shall blacklist or publish or cause to be published or blacklisted any employe me chanic or laborer discharged or voluntarily leaving the service of said company cor poration or individual with intent and for the purpose of preventing such employe from securing similar or other employment from any other company Although the bill is introduced in the in terest of labor it was referred to the com mittee on miscellaneous subjects of which Senator Johnson of Clay County is chair man It has not yet been reported from the committee Representatives of the railroad labor organizations have been active in behalf of such a law in eastern states and a similar bill was introduced in the Nebraska legislature two years ago but was suffocated in the closing days of the session How Barrett Scott Died Another and probably the final chapter in the famous Barrett Scott case has just recently developed It grows out of -the death of George Moxey a hermit living in the hills north of ONeill It was suspected at the time that the old vigilantes oi the section had something to do with it and four members of the order were arrested tried and acquitted Now Moxy on his death bed says the vigilantes did the lynching and that he was one oi them and saw it done The news has caused a sensation but nothing will be done Mutual Gets Its Certificate The long fight between the Farmers Mu tual Insurance Company of Nebraska and the state auditors office is closed Presi dent Woods of the company says that Au ditor Cornell has granted him the certifi cate asked for The case has been in the district court at Lincoln once or twice and in the supreme court once Practically it was a fight between the mutuals and the old line companies Was Born in 1700 Col Johnson whe claims to have seen George Washington who died when John son was 9 years old is lying at the point of death in Ashland He was stricken with paralysis a short time ago and it is feared he will not recover He served in the war of 1812 Mayor Swift Declines the Aid M D Welch of the Nebraska Reliei Commission has received a telegram from Mayor Swift of Chicago declining with thanks the tender of corn for the suffering poor of that city recently made by Govern or Holcomb Ice Eighteen Inches Thick The ice crop at North Loup is proving to be one of the finest ever harvested and the work is now well under way The ice is of great clearness and transparency and is about eighteen inches in thichness Nebraska Short Notes Hickman is making an effort to secure a grist mill The Baptists of McCook have dedicated a fine new church The Fremont school board will not furnish any more school supplies The Deuel County teachers held a very interesting meeting at Chappell The Tecumseh military band gave a minstrel show to replenish the exchequer The office of the Barnett Lumber com pany at Arapahoe was robbed of 23 in cash A new irrigation district has been formed at Gering to water the land north of town A movement is on foot to organize a mu tual life insurance company in Fillmore County Most Nebraska towns report that the ice harvest has been completed and dealers have secured all they want There is talk of starting a creamery at Bellwood A dog which was chasing a rabbit ran against Mrs Engles of Auburn knocked her down and badly bruised her about the hips The McCook band gave a concert for the benefit of the cemetery fund and realized a net little sum to be used in beautifying the property John Wright a school teacher near Howe was found unconscious in the school house from an attack of paralysis He was removed to Auburn where he is now re covering At the time of the high water in June the North Loup so flooded Mr Jorgensens farm near St Paul that it destroyed the growing crop after which time in about the first of July he planted fifteen acres oi beans from which he harvested 250 bushels of the finest grade NATJLOJNAJb SUJLjOJNS REVIEW OF THEIR VORK WASHINGTON AT Detailed Proceedings of Senate and House Bills Passed or Introduced in Either Branch Questions of Mo ment to the Country at Large V The Lejrislative Grind An unusually large pumber of bills were passed by the House Mondjiy but few of them of any considerable importance The bills passed included the old bilP which has been pending before Congress for so many years to retire John M Quackenbush who was court martialed and suspended from the naval service in 1874 for drunkenness as a commander under date of June 1 1895 also a bill to reimburse the heirs of Albert Augustine of Rose Hill Iowa in the sum of 30 for two cows destroyed in the Cayuse war of 1847 Bills were passed to authorize the Columbia and Red Mountain Railroad to construct a bridge across the Columbia river to prevent the carrying of obscene literature and articles designed for inde cent and immoral use from a State or ter ritory into another State or territory to prevent trespassing upon and the protec tion of the Chicknmauga and Chattanoo ga and other national military parks tc amend an act entitled an act to repeal thoi timber culture laws and for other poses the act relates only to the entryl of lands in the Sioux Indmn reservation y to authorize the entry and patenting of lands containing petroleum and other mineral oils under the laws relating toj w placer mining the purpose of the billf was to circumvent a ruling made by the secretary Aug 7 189G The Nicaragua canal bill occupied the attention of the Senate most of the day but no progress was made toward a final vote The feature of the Senate Tuesday was a very spirited debate on the conference report of the immigration bill Mr Gib son of Maryland opposed the report and Mr Lodge defended it After two hours struggle the report went over and the Nicaragua Canal bill was taken up Mr Vilas continuing his remarks Mr Teller of Colorado also entered the debate in op position to the measure The House bill to allow the bottling of t spirits in bond was reported favorably The day in the House was very dull nearly the whole session being devoted to debate on appro priation bills The diplomatic and con sular bill was passed and considerable progress made with the District of Colum bia bill The bill as passed carries 1 873708 Resolutions arranging for the formal canvassing of the electorial vote of the last Presidential election to take place Wednesday were adopted The contested election case of Cornett versus Swanson from the fifth Virginia district occupied the attention of the House Wednesday Three Republicans and three Democrats on the Elections Com mittee had reported in favor of the Demo cratic contestee Mr Swanson and three Republicans offered a minority report rec ommending that the seat be declared va cant on the ground that a fair election could not be held under the Virginia elec tion law When the vote came to be taken the minority could not muster enough votes to call the yeas and nays and Mr Swansons title to his seat was confirmed by an overwhelming viva voce vote Af ter a brief parliamentary struggle in the J Senate the friends of the Nicaragua Canal bill were unable to hold a quorum and sit out the obstruction to that measure The friends of the bill finally gave up hope of securing a quorum and yielded to an adjournment Mr Vilas continues to hold the floor The session of the Senate Thursday was one of unusual activity Mr Morrill en deavored to pass the bill prohibiting the use of intoxicants in the capitol building This aroused the opposition of Mr Hill of New York who denounced the busybodies and mischief makers inspiring this class of legislation He moved to recommit the bill but this was defeated by a vote of 27 yeas to 30 nays However he suc ceeded in prolonging the debate to 2 oclock when the bill was displaced by the Nicaragua Canal bill The immigration bill was recommitted to conference Mr Lodge in charge of the measure adopt ing this course as a result of urgent ap peals for a modification of the bill Be fore this was done however a warm personal and political colloquy occurred between Mr Lodge and Mr Chandler on one hand and Mr Gorman on the other Mr Vilas added another day to his speech against the Nicaragua Canal and had not concluded when the Senate adjourned The proceedings in the House were very dull and almost entirely devoid of pub lic interest Richard R Kenney Democratic con testant from Delaware was sworn in Friday as Senator his credentials being regular and signed by the Governor This marked the culmination of a long contest over the vacant Delaware seat No ob jection was made it being admitted he had at least a prima facie right though Mr Chandler stated his belief that H A Dupont had been legally elected adding however that Mr Kenney could be seated and the matter brought before the Senate hereafter The seating of Kenney aug mented the Democratic membership to forty and for the first time raised the full membership of the Senate to its proper i1Uuiu ii cuctia iiu tsaeiiLiuj CuUHge in party strength however The Senate passed the following among other House bills Authorizing the Duluth and North Dakota Railroad Company to construct two bridges across the Red River of the North between Minnesota and North Da kota amending the law relative to the Rock Island bridge to permit street rail way companies to provide electric power in lieu of rent for the use of the bridge The House Committee on Elections de cided the Hopkins Kendall election con test from the Tenth Kentucky district in favor of the sitting member who is a Democrat A minority report will be made in favor of Hopkins Told in a Ferr Lines An unknown man was smothered in ai large malt bin at the Fey malthouse ati Peoria HI j Joseph L Peyton a patent attorney committed suicide at Washington by blow i ing out his brains i The failed First National Bank of Hol idaysburg Pa will resume with 100 pep cent new capital stock j J F Winer who died in a evr York hospital was once a prominent man in Alabama and was Secretary of State be- fore the war 1 k S -4