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VALENTINE - NEBRASKA
DISTRIBUTES RELIEF
LEE EXPLAINS DELAY IN RE
CEIVING SUPPLIES
Horrible Crime of a New York Man
Butchers His Wife ami Two
Children With a Hatchet and Then
Suicides Other Items
Lee Distributes Relief
Washington The state dopartment
has taken official notice of complaints al
leging that the Spanish officials in Cuba
Had been placing obstacles in the way of
the free admission of fond aud other sup
plies sent toICuba for the relief of the suf
fering A cablegram was sent to Consul
General Lee Monday morning rtirertinsr
him to investigate their correctness and if
necessary prevent any delays in the land
ing and admission of stores if it be possi
ble to do so
The following statement is a summary
of his response
The delay in the delivery ot the sup
plies brought by the Concho a week ago
was due to the disturbance cf the past few
lays n Havana The Yillicencia carry
ing supplies from Philadelphia only ar
rived today and there will be no delay in
the delivery of her supplies and their will
be no difficulty hereafter in landing sup
plies
KILLS WIFE AND CHILDREN
New York Man Butchers His Family
and Suicides
New York John Matthews a retail
grocer murdered his wife and two chil
dren a boy 10 years old and a girl 12 by
hacking them to death with a hatchet
Matthews then committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head Before
shooting himself he alao turned on the gas
so that asphyxiation would complete his
murderous work
The tragedy was discovered through the
odor of escaping gas which prompted a
milkman to call a policeman That the
murders and suicide were premeditated
was evident as Matthews had waited until
his wife and children were asleep Then
ho stripped himself to the waist took the
hatchet and brained his wife After that
he attacked his children From letters
left it was ascertained that for some time
Matthews had been Intending to end his
own life Ho had been in the dry
goods business further up town and had
failed A few months ago he opened
the grocery store and had met with little
success His wife a pretty little woman
had recently undergone a severe opera
tion It was these things evidently that
prompted Matthews to write this letter
which was found opened and unaddressed
It is a terrible thing I have to do to
keep my word If I only could have died
alone For five years we have talked the
thing over I always wanted to go out in
a boat and accidently capsize I knew
otherwise I would have a hard time of it
Frm a letter left by Mrs Matthews to a
friend it was gathered that she was a
party to the suicide agreement
MANY OPERATIVES STRIKE
Wage Reduction in New England
Causes Labor Troubles
Boston The reduction in the wages
of about 125000 operatives employed in
nearly 150 cotton mills in New England
which the manufacturers decided upon as
a temporary remedy for depression in the
cotton goods industry of the north went
into effect in a majority of the mills Mon
day In several mill centers namely New
Bedford Mass Bidford Saco and
Lewlston Me dissension among the mill
hands is intense and strikes are on The
eighteen mills of the former city which
give employment to about 9000 persons
have been shut down because the opera
tives have refused to accept the reduction
The situation in New Bedford is very
gloomy
The 3500 employes at the Lacon and
Pepperel mills in Bidford Me refused
to go to work Monday morning under the
new schedule Saco also joined the Bid
ford movement
The Androscoggin mills in Boston and
the King Philip plant in Fall River were
handicapped by a strike of a number of
hands and the Queen City Mills
in Burlington Vt closed on account of a
strike which followed the posting of no
tices of a reduction
The reduction Monday affected the cot
ton mills of Maine Rhode Island Connect
icut the mills of New Bedford Lowell
and a large number of smaller places in
this state and New Hampshire The At
lantic and Pacific corporation of Lawrence
and probably the other cotton mills there
and in one or two places elsewhere will
make a cut next Monday
Hawaiian Sugar Imports
Washington Replying to a question
of inquiry Secretary Wilson sent to
the senate a statement concerning the pro
duction of sugar in this country and his
opinion of the effect of the importation of
Hawaiian sugar upon the production of
beet sugar in the United States He gave
the average importation of sugar to this
country for the past seven years as 101
575 29S of which the Hawaiian importa
tion was 9973924 He concludes Hawaii
will not seriously compete with sugar pro
ducers in the United States
A 200000 Chicago Fire
Chicago Eight firms with stocks ag
gregating nearly in 500000 value sustained
heavy losses by fire Monday morning at
the corner of Market and Quincy Streets
They were mostly wholesalers of clothing
woolens hats caps and dry goods The
aggregate loss is 200000
Ex Congressman Hooper Dead
Richmond Va Ex Congressman B S
Hooper died suddenly at Farmville Tues
day morning
Have Voted to Strike
New Bedford Mass The Weavers
Union has rejected the offer of Richard
Darry of the state board of arbitration to
smooth over the difficulties The loom
fixers carders and pickers associations and
slashers tenders have unanimously voted
to strike
Berry Thinks Hes Dying
Paducaii Ky James A Berry the
millionaire tramp whose leg was broken
while drunk a few days ago is believed to
be in a hopeless condition Friday he sent
rfor the Methodist preacher Rev Mr
jJobnsoxr saying he was going to die
NEW PARTY BORN
Peoples Party Conference at St
Louis Forms a New Organization
St Louis A new party was born
Thursday night in the conference of the
Populists and named the Peoples party
The Peoples party proposesjto go it alone
It has severed all connection with the na
tional Populist committee and made all
arrangements for administering its own
estate without the aid or advice of any out
side party
With a few exceptions the delegates de
clared themselves unequivocally in favor
of going it alone in the future The re
ferendum system was most highly compli
mented and recommended for use among
the middle of the roaders in settling
matters of national importance to the or
der and there was a practical agreement
among the delegates that a national presi
dential convention should be held this
year The entire forenoon and evening
was spent in lengthy discussions and it
was not until a late hour at night that the
mode of procedure for future action was
agreed upon
A number of rules were adopted for
government of the national organization
committee among them a rule that the na
tional committee shall submit to a vote of
the Peoples party any proposition when
petitioned to do so by not less than 10000
members of the party This concluded the
work of the conference
There were seventy four members of
the committee represented by the mem
bers present or by proxies or letters who
favored a joint meeting of the national
committee and organization committee in
the spring Forty states were reported at
this meeting
STAMPS FOR THE EXPOSITION
Series Will Be Issued Illustrative
of the Trans Mississippi Country
Washington The authorities of the
postoftice department have determined
upon the subjects which shall be illus
trated upon the new series of postage
stamps to be issued by the department in
commemoration of the Trans Mississippi
and International exposition to be opened
on the first of next June at Omaha They
are illustrative of the conditions progress
and accomplishments of the great west
from its discovery to our own day The
series comprises nine denominations of
stamps as follows
One Cent The discovery of the Missis
sippi River by Marquette
Two Cent An Indian chief
Four Cent A buffalo hunting scene
Five Cent The Pathfinder being a pic
ture of Fremont raising the flag on the
summit of the Rockies
Eight Cent A train of emigrants cross
ing the plains
Ten Cent A mining scene
Fitly Cent A cowboy and cattle
Dollar A harvesting scene or a great
flouring mill
Two Dollars The Union Pacific bridge
showing a part of the city of Omaha
PULLMAN ESTATE
Inventory Filed by Executors N B
Ream and Robert Lincoln
CniCAGo An inventory of the estate
of the late Geo M Pullman was filed in
the probate court Friday by Norman B
Ream and Robert T Lincoln executors
The inventory lists the real estate and per
sonal property of the deceased though it
places no valuation on the former and
gives only the par value of the securities
which form the major portion of the trust
According to the estimates given at the
time the will was filed the real estate was
worth 200000 and the personal estate 6
800000
As careful an estimate as could be made
in the short time of Mr Pullmans stock
and bond holdings shows them to be close
to 8000000 This estimate is tfased on
the present market value of the holdings
There is however a large amourit of se
curities on which no estimate could be
made The real estate is estimated by
good judges to be worth not far from 2
000000 and over that amount rather than
under
FEAR A DEBATE ON CUBA
Congressmen See Danger in Fiery
Speeches
Washington The house managers de
cided not to consider the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill Friday but to
give the day to the consideration of pri
vate pension bills This was doubtless
done to avert the possibility of precipitat
ing a sensational Cuban debate Inflam
matory speeches during the present critical
state of affairs in Havana would
ative leaders believe be particularly un
fortunate
Mr Perkins of Iowa presented a resolu
tion directing the director of the geological
survey to prepare and have printed 40000
copies of a map of Alaska showing the
most feasible routes to the gold fields
Adopted
Receiver for a Street Railway
Cincinnati Judge Taft in the United
States court on petition of the Interna
tional Trust Company of New York ap
pointed William Christy of Akron Ohio
receiver of the Zanesville street railway
and the Zanesville electric railway The
petitioner holds a mortgage for 175000
on the street railway and one for 500 000
on the railway of the electric company
The petitioner asks for foreclosure and
sale
Durrants Body Cremated
Los Angeles Cal The body of Mur
derer W H T Durrant was cremated at
the crematory at Altadena Thursday At
2 oclock the ashes were removed from the
furnace and delivered to the parents No
one saw the inside of the crematory except
the employes and theDurrants Every
thing was done very quietly But few
persons gathered outside and before the
ashes were removed those few had dis
persed
A 75000 Louisville Fire
Louisville Fire Thursday night in
the plow factory of B F Avery Sons
did about 75000 worth of damage The
damage was not sufficient however to
cause a suspension of operations The
loss is fully covered by insurance
German Warship Disabled
Pekim A steamer for Bombay reports
having seen a German war ship in a dis
abled condition The war ships Duetsch
land and Gef ton are now on their way to
China They were last heard from at
Port Said
Natives Take Khyber Pass
London The Earl of Elgin viceroy
of India has wired the government that
the Sakka Khoel Afridis have occupied
Khyber pass and that the cutting of wires
and firing upon escorts have commenced
To see a shooting star means all
Borts of good luck
The fly crook sooner or later gets
x winged
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GEN BOOTH ARBIVES
GIVEN A WARM RECEPTION IN
NEW YORK
Frightful Method of Self Destruc
tion Selected by a Chicago Man
Patent Commissioner Butterworth
Dies in Georgia
Gen Booth Arrives
New Yopk Gen Booth head of the
Salvation Army arrived from Southamp
ton on Saturday lie was met down the
bay by Commander Booth Tucker On
the pier a large delegation of Salvationists
awaited their chief and the general was
given a warm reception He will tonr
this country and Canada and return to
England April 20
During the day Gen Booth made a de
tailed statement of his plans to the news
paper reporters Incidentally he spoke of
his relations with his son Ballington
Booth Upon this subject he said that full
explanations of the cause of the separation
were given at the time of the disagree
ment and to these he was unable to add
anything
AWFUL PLUNGE TO DEATH
Frightful Method of Self Destruc
tion by a Chicago Man
Chicago Albert C Greenleaf a hook
keeper committed suicide Saturday by
jumping from the Sixteenth floor of the
Masonic Temple His first attempt was
in the Chamber of Commerce building
where he was caught in the act of jump
ing over the railing from the twelfth floor
to the rotunda and ejected from the build
ing He then went to the Masonic Tem
ple ascended to the sixteenth floor
climbed upon the railing and jumped off
into the rotunda His body struck a mar
ble landing on the third floor shattered a
slab two inches thick and landed on the
balcony of the second floor The body
was reduced to a mere pulp Greenleafs
fall was witnessed by scores of people in
the rotunda The body of the suicide was
recognized as that of Albeit C Greenleaf
once a wealthy wholesale merchant of
Columbus Ohio Until ten years ago he
was at the head of the wholesale dry goods
house which his father founded
BUTTERWORTH IS DEAD
Patent Commissioner Passes Away
in Thotnasville Ga
Thomasviile Ga Hon Benj But
terworth United States commissioner of
patents who has been ill for several
weeks died at 815 Sunday afternoon
The end was peaceful and when it came
his wife and children were at his bedside
He came to Thomasville to recuperate
from an attack of pneumonia and gained
rapidly until two weeks ago when he
suffered from uraemic convulsions From
that relapse he never recovered
Mr Butterworth leaves a wife and four
children His wife was Miss Mary Schuy
ler of Pennsylvania The children are
Mrs Howe of Washington D C a widov
William who married a Miss Deere of Mo
line 111 young Ben who was injured in a
college game early in life and Frank
whose prowess as a football coach and
fullback is almost international
MATT FREEMAN ESCAPES
Last of the Zip Wyatt Gang Again
JBreaks Jail
Guthrie Matt Freeman the last of
the old Zip Wyatt gang of outlaws es
caped from jail at Taolga for the second
time in a year Freeman and wife form
erly conducted a ranch in the Glass Moun
tains and it was the headquarters of the
gang Mrs Freeman was Wyatts most
trusty lieutenant One time the gang was
besieged for a week by deputies She rode
the gauntlet of their bullets and escaped
to bring reinforcements and ammunition
Later she was captured and spent a year
in the federal jail here She was con
verted while in the jail and is now travel
ing as an evangelist
Aged Woman Found Dead
Fairbauit Minn A most brutal
murder was unearthed here Sunday after
noon Mrs Frokey an aged woman liv
ing in the town of Wells on the edge of
the city limits was found dead with a
bullet hole in her head and another in her
side Italian peddlers who have been in
the vicinity for the past few days are sus
pected of the crime and robbery is sup
posed to have been the motive They will
be harshly dealt with if captured The
woman lived alone her husband having
separated from her
Murder in Wilmington rZ
Wilmington Ohio Attorney J C
Martin on October 9 shot George McMillan
in this city The ball struck the vertebrae
of the neck and cut the spinal cord half in
two Monday after being mortally
wounded fourteen weeks McMillan died
Martin who had been indicted for shoot
ing to kill surrendered to the sheriff An
attempt will be made to indict him for
murder McMillan formerly lived here
but until recently lived in Colorado The
quarrel that caused the shooting was over
a will
Says Don Carlos Will Be King
New Tork Count de Penalosa was a
passenger on board the steamer La Gas
cogue when she sailed Sunday for Harve
The count who came to this country about
two months ago as the avowed agent of
Don Carlos pretender to the Spanish
throne has spent the most of his time
while here visiting arms manufacturers in
the east He has frequently put forward
the prediction that within the year Don
Carlos will be the acknowledged king of
Spain
Lower Flour Rates
Chicago The Chicago Milwaukee
St Paul road has telegraphed to the Inter
state Commerce Commission that it will
make a proportional rate of 6 cents from
St Paul to Chicago on flour and mill stuffs
consigned to eastern territory This is a
reduction of i cents
Imports and Exports
New York The export of specie from
the port of New York for the week
amounted to 524040 in gold and SS735S5
in silver The imports were Gold 228
865 silver 61050 dry goods 2422030
general merchandise 4149149
Three Miners Killed
Central City Col James Doyle
Joseph Perko and Andrew Westland were
instantly killed and Daniel Munday prob
ably fatally hurt by a fall of rock in the
Hidden Treasure mine at Nevadaville
two miles from here
Municipal League Convention
New York The executive committee
of the League of American Municipalities
has decided to hold the next convention in
Detroit on August 1 to 4 inclusive
3B3 SBI
CHINAMEN BADLY BEATEN
New York Lanndrymcna Strike
Makes Work for the Police
New Yokk Several hundred laundry
men are on a strike in this city John Bit
terman proprietor of the Walker Street
laundry put twenty Chinamen to work
in his shop The strikers sent a commit
tee to protest to Tom Lee mayor of
Chinatown and also sent a number of
girl sinkers to ask the unfair Chinamen
to stop working but all in vain The
strikers having obtained a permit from the
chief of police had a parade More than
one thousand men women and girls
marched in the parade and there was n
band of ten pieces As the Chinamen left
Bittermans shop Friday night fifty men
friends of the ironers lay in wait for them
in doorwa3s near by The Chinamen were
taken unawares and received severe pun
ishment Most of them were cut about the
head and had their eyes blackened
WOULD BECOME A STATE
Oklahoma Citizens Petition
Con
gress for Admission
Kingfisher Oklahoma The Inter
partisan statehood convention brought
over a thousand delegates and other inter
ested persons to Kingfisher The conven
tion was wholly harmonious and adopted
unanimously a resolution petitioning the
present congress to pass an Ijnabiinp act
providing for the admission of Oklahoma
as a state The resolution petitions for
statehood with such boundaries as con
gress may direct with the simple
1 memlutioii that if Indian territory be in
cluded the residents iu each of the five
en ilized tribes and Oklahoma vote separ
ately upon the acceptance or rejection of
the state constitution which shall be oper
ptive for such said sections as accept it
TO FORM TIN PLATE COMBINE
Meeting with This Object to Be Held
in Pittsburg This Week
Pittsburg Pa A committee of tin
plate manufacturers of the United States
will attend a meeting of the Tin Plate
Association in Pittsburg in a few days
The committee will report on the prospects
for pooling the tin plate industry of the
country Meetings have been held during
the last six weeks at Columbus Ohio Chi
cago and Pittsburg The committee is in
New York trying to organize a syndicate
to back the combination The plan is to
organize all the American tin plate com
panies under one general management as
was done in the wire trade There are 302
tin plate mills completed or contracted for
in the United States
For Good Roads
Albany N Y There was introduced
in the senate Friday a good roads bill
which provides for the construction
through each of the counties of the state
of a macadam highwaj which shall fol
low the leading market and travel routes
The expense ot the construction of such
roads is to be borne by the state and the
work is to be done under the direction of
the state engineer The only expense to
the counties is the preparation of a detailed
survey of the highway selected
Says 90000 Have Perished
Jackson Miss Advices from Maj
George L Donald of Mississippi now in
Cuba on whose information the state sen
ate passed a strong resolution say that
90000 persons have perished by starvation
in the province of Santa Clara alone since
January 1 1897 Maj Donald says one
cannot go twenty steps without some poor
starving woman or child begging for some
thing to eat and that a person cannot set
down to a meal without being asked for
bread by starving children
Separate School Law Void
Guthrie Oklahoma The supreme
court has promulgated an opinion in which
the separate school law passed last win
ter making it a misdemeanor for a white
child to attend a colored school or a col
ored cnild to attend a white school was
declared null and void because of the am
biguity and of conflict with both the letter
and the spirit of the fifteenth amendment
to the constitution of the United States
Immense Cargo of Cotton
Savannah Ga The British steam
ship Ranza cleared for Bremen with 18200
bales of cotton weighing 8963855 pounds
and valued at 524952 This is the largest
cargo of cotton ever shipped from an
Atlantic port and is over 7000 bales more
than was ever shipped from this port on
any other vessel
American Engines for the Orient
Dunkirk N Y The Brooks Locomo
tive WorKs of this city has about com
pleted a shipment of ninety two cars of
locomotives for Japan and Corea Of this
order thirty two are for the imperial gov
ernment railways of Japan and four foj
the Seoul Chemulpo Railway in Corea
UTAKKKT QUOTATIONS
Chicago Cattle common to prime
300 to 575 hogs shipping grades
300 to 400 sheep fair to choice 200
to 475 wheat So 2 red 90c to 92c
corn No 2 2Gc to 27c oats No 2 21c
to 23c rye No 2 44c to 46c butter
choice creamery 18c to 20c eggs fresh
19c to 21c new potatoes 50c to U5c per
bushel
Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to
525 hogs choice light 300 to 375
sheep common to choice 300 to 450
wheat No 2 90c to 92c corn No 2
white 27c to 28c oats No 2 white 24c
to 26c
St Louis Cattle S300 to 550 hogs
300 to 375 sheep 300 to 475
wheat No 2 93c to 95c corn No 2
yellow 25c to 27c oats No 2 white 23c
to 25c rye No 2 44c to 45c
Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 375 sheep 250 to 500
wheat No 2 92c to 93c corn No 2
mixed 28c to 29c oats No 2 mixed 24c
to 25c rye No 2 45c to 47c
Detroit Cattle 250 to 525 hogs
300 to 375 sheep 250 to 450
wheat No 2 90c to 92c corn No 2
yellow 28c to 29c oats No 2 white 25c
to 26c rye 47c to 49c
Toledo Wheat No 2 red 90c to 92c
corn No 2 mixed 2Sc to 29c oats No
2 white 22c to 23c rye No 2 46c to 47c
clover seed 305 to 315
Milwaukee Wheat No 2 spring 87c
to SSc corn No 3 26c to 28c oats No
2 white 24c to 25c rye No 2 46c to 47c
barley No 2 SSc to 44c pork mess
900 to 950
Buffalo Cattle S300 to 550 hogs
300 to 400 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 96c to 9Sc corn No
2 yellow 31c to 33c oats No 2 white
27c to 29c
New York Cattle 300 to 550 hogs
300 to 425 sheep 300 to 500
wheat No 2 red 101 to 102 corn No
2 34c to 35c oats No 2 white 28c to
30c butter creamery 15c to 21c eggs
Western 19c to 22c
SAMS BIG KITCHEN
THERE IS NO FINER COOK SHOP
IN THE LAND
In It Is Prepared Food to Relieve Sen
atorial Hunger It Coat a Lot of
Money and Its Product Are the
Best
Where Statesmen Eat
SAM owns
UNCLE kitchen
in the world proba
bly It Is not the
largest There is at
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least one hotel kitch
en in the United
States which sur
passes it in size But
it is fittted out with
every improvement
ithat money can buy
jand no show place at
the capital is more
interesting or less
Tkiiown The public
never gets a chance
lltn gee the Senate kit-
t II chen the marble bath
rooms of the House or any of the other
hixuries provided for the members of
Congress
The Senate restaurant keeper occupies
a peculiar position It looks at first glance
like a very enviable position but if one
can believe the statement of the man who
has held the privilege for a dozen years
that idea is incorrect T L Page of
Maine has been the purveyor to the Sen
ate under both Republican and Demo
cratic rule and he declares that the job
is not profitable this too in the face of
the fact that he pays no rent for his
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VICE PRESIDENT IIOBAliT ItlXCKES IX
HIS PRIVATE ROOM
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kitchens or his dining rooms and gets hia
light and fuel free
The Senate kitchen is in the basement
of the capitol The only way in which a
visitor could reach it would be by the
elevators and the elevator men are not
encouraged to take people down stairs
That is because the engine rooms are in
the basement and the chief engineer does
not want visitors fooling around the ma
chinery It takes a great deal of machin
ery to run the Senate more than one
would think Much of it is used in run
ning the electric light plant and the ele
vators and much more in the ventilation
of the building Huge fans pump fresh
air into the Senate chamber and the com-
UU UlUCl JU11S JJUIUIJ LUC I
foulair out One of these is in the I
ate kitchen and the room is so perfectly
ventilated that no suggestion of the odor
of the cooking reaches any of the floors
aboe
The main room of the kitchen is 100
feet long and 15 feet wide It was remod
eled three years ago at a cost of more
than 50000 It is white tiled above and
below and on all four sides so that its
cleanness forces itself on ones attention
Opening out from it are store rooms and
refrigerating rooms and bakeries One of
these is the oyster room where a man
does nothing but open oysters all day
long The storeroom is about 15 feet
square It is filled with the non-perishables
crackers and spices and potatoes
and all the other grocery goods which will
stand an ordinary temperature for a rea
sonable length of time There is fruit in
this room too a lot of it and the wine
is kept here because the Senators would
not relish a wine room in the face of the
regulation which prohibits the sale of in
toxicating beverages in the capitol There
Is no difficulty however about getting a
supply of wine or of bottled beer
In the kitchen proper there are two
big ranges An ox could be roasted in
either of them the larger is 12 feet long
There is a big soup kettle in one corner--one
of the largest kettles in the world
used for keeping the beef stock with
which every restaurant kitchen is pro
vided Metal steam pipes run through
NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR WOLCOTT
this kettle and keep the stock warm In
another kettle are kept the sauces to be
eaten with meats apple sauce and cran
berry sauce They too are kept warm
by steam There is a steambox for steam
ing oysters a grill big enough to broil
a pig or a lamb under which glows a fire
of red hot charcoal and a patent turkey
roaster which performs mechanically the
turning and basting of the bird which
in the old days absorbed the time and at
tention of two or three persons There
are steam tables in the kitchen as well
as in the steam room It takes thirty
servants to run the kitchen and its appur
tenances
Noon to 3 oclock explains the pecu
liarity which is probably responsible for
the alleged unprofitableness of the Sen
ate restaurant There is no breakfast
hour worth Bpeaking of and no dinner
hour Very few persons eat anything but
luncheon at the capitol The Senators
breakfast at home and dine at home and
besides they are not the best patrons
of the restaurant The public breakfasts
at a hotel and dines at a hotel or a res
taurant down town Yet the Senate
taurant ha to keep as large a force of
cooks and scullions and waiters as though
business continued brisk through the
whole day
There are many frequenters of the pe
counter among the Senators This coun
ter surrouudH the dumb waiters and if
decorated with cold turkeys cold roasts
of beef and salads ns well as many kinds
of pie There are no seats of any kind
It is a common sight for two or three
Senators to be standing at this counter
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MORRILI TAKES RREAD AXD MILK
with Senate pages and committee clerks
and messengers and Washington corre
spondents on each side of them drinking
big tumblers of milk and eating pie
This and the oyster counter are in the
public restaurant a room divided into
two parts by large columns Two small
doorways one at each end of the pie
counter lead to the rooms which are
sacred to Senators only These rooms
were once open to members of the House
but Senators complained of the lack of
privacy and now if one enters the inner
sanctum it must be as a guest of a mem
ber of the Senate The writer has eaten
there 4and he can assure the reader that
the food is no better and the surround
ings no more attractive than in the outer
rooms There is only this difference that
they serve a more liberal allowance of
bread in the Senators rooms than they
do in the public restaurant and frugal
Senators have been known to order a 15
cent plate of soup and eat a whole loaf of
bread with it
Sometimes there is a feast in the Sen
ate restaurant when a member from the
Northwest receives a huge salmon from
Oregon or one of the New England Sen
ators has a shipment of game from his
home Then Caterer Page personally
supervises the preparation of the viuuds
and there is a jolly dinner party at which
a dozen members of the Senate sit down
Occasionally the Senate gets into a snarl
which makes the presence of all the mem
bers a necessity and the dinner party
has to be postponed but it is very un
usual for any public business to interfere
with the good times that the Senators
have in the Senate restaurant
83riS BBS
The President is pulling Senator Thurs
ton one way and the beet sugar makers
in Nebraska are pulling him the other on
the Hawaiian question
J W Shrague of Cincinnati has ad
dressed a memorial to Congress asking
the enactment of a law to provide the
death penalty for the crimes of train
wrecking and robbing
The thirty days of mourning that have
interrupted the social gayety of Washing
ton will compel the administration to hus
tle in order to fulfill all of the formal en
gagements that have been made before
the beginning of Lent
The discipline at the naval academy
was never so severe as at present Capt
Cooper the superintendent is making a
new and higher standard both in con
duct and scholarship and has adopted
some severe measures to test class honor
among the cadets
When President Lincoln appointed Mr
Hassurek of Cincinnati as minister to
Ecuador he told him it was the highest
office in the gift of the nation Quito the
capital being nearly 12000 feet above
the level of the sea Archibald J Sam
son of Arizona now enjoys that honor
The big Barnum Bailey show is now
in Europe and Whiting Allen the agent
is in Washington trying to arrange a plan
for getting it back home without having
to pay duty as on new importations After
the big show set sail for England a few
months ago it was discovered that there
was no provision in the tariff law for
bringing it back into this country free of
duty The tariff makers had had no ex
perience with shows going out of the
country with the intention of returning
and they made no provision for it Even
at a low appraisement it would take the
receipts of the show in London to bring
it through the custom house in New York
The only to get the show home is for
Contrress to cass a ioint rpsnlntinn an-
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury
to let it come in free of duty providing it
bring3 nothing but what it took away
with it last fall
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Considerable alarm is felt concerning
the illness of Secretary Alger He hns
been confined to his house for three
weeks and nearly all that time to his bed
At first the doctor said it was only a bad V
cold then he pronounced it a case of la
grippe then he decided that it was ma
larial fever but now it is typhoid
Representative Broussard of Louisiana
has followed the example of Representa
tives Belknap of Illinois and Beach of
Ohio in getting married and it is hoped
that the epidemic will spread in alphabet
ical order through the entire House of
Representatives Robert Adams of Phi
adelphia Joseph W Bailey of Texas and
William Edward Barrett of Massachu
setts are three young and handsome Rep
resentatives whose names at the top of
the list in the congressional directory do
not have the asterisk that indicates the
matrimonial state but there is still time
for them to reform When the Cs are
reached Mr Cousins of Iowa will be the
first to fall
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