TAKING UP FOR MORGAN. Resolutions By Chicago Federation of Labor Favor the Gunner. SAMPSON'S LETTER IS DENOUNCED. Class Distinctions Declared to Be Opposed to the Fundamental Principles of the Govern- ment of the United States, and Gunner Mor- gan's Ambition Spoken of as an Honorable Aspiration. (Special). — The Chicago Federation of Labor, at a meeting Sun- day, adopted a f resolutions espousing the cause of Gunner Charles Morgan, who is seeking promotion in the United States Navy. The resolu tions adopted, which will be forwarded to President McKinley, declare it to be one of the fundamental principles of this government that there should be class distinction, and that “the Chicago Federation of Labor, representing more than a hundred thousand toilers of this rity, does unqualifiedly condemn and emphatically protest ir c as- sumption put forth by ural Samp son that restriction the honorable Charles Morgan, hands of said Sampsor dorsement of his ap; notion to a mn instead a cruel and ou The resol miral Sampson matter, Chicago series of no the aspiratio wo Wi ot NEW GOVERNMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES. Judge Taft to be Governor and General Chaf: fee to Command the Troops. Washington close upon the Appropriati amended provisional go pines, t cutive Arthur a present minister judicial ern other will f Ol the words, BEATEN TO DEATH FOR SIX CENTS. Gala Could Not Pay for What He Ate, So the Bowery Waiters Killed Him. ~George Gala, oh om Ee Dp a0 3 =. t large coa upon a after Charlotte N. C, (§ peciai) sixty-five cotton mills 1s representing the total to to the curtailment Souhern Cotton Spinners’ | passed here on the 16th instan hundred and eighty thousand are represented. Other ! the organization will ress Polo at West Point. Omaha, Neb. (Special).—~The ernment has contracted with a horse dealer of South Omaha 20 ponies to be used as polo ponies ut West Point by the cadets. The arimals are to be delivered to the quartermaster at Omaha not later than March 15. It is stated that this is a new departure, and that the War Department henceforth is to recognize polo as the official garue at the National Military Academy. gov io7 Bank Bookkeeper Arrested. Pittsburg. Pa. (Special). Bank Fx aminer Slack had C. H. Siedle, individ ual bookkeeper of the Third National jank, of this city, arrested for an al leged shortage in his accounts of $16, 000. Siedie was afterwards released on bail, pending a more complete exan ’ tion of the books A Murderer Lynched, Camden, Mo. (Special). ~— Dewey Smith, a negro miner, who shot and killed Chester Stanley, a white miner, at Mine No. 4 four miles south of Richmond. Mo., was captured by a mob and taker. back to the scene of his crime and lynched. C—O AA TAA Mrs. Condiff Set Free. Baltimore, Md. (Special).—~Mrs. Bes- sie Miller Condiff, of Solomon's Island, charged with murdering her husband, Capt. Littleton T. Condiff, early Thurs- day morning, September 13, 1000, was acquitted bythe jury in Criminal Court No. 1. Justice Wickes, after an hour and ten minutes’ deliberation. On hearin the verdict Mrs. Condiff fainted anc would have fallen to the floor had she not been caught ny Debuby Warden Fisher, Rev. I'. B. Randall and Mr. T, T. Thomas her attorney, who standing near by. were SUMMARY OF THE NEWS, Domestic. Five mourners who were Winchester, Va., were badly injured in a runaway. Governor Tyler offered a reward of $50 for the capture of Daniel Hall, who escaped from jail at Lebanon, Va. R. L. Ir. and Joseph suicide in Richmond, Virgima, The torpedo-boat destroyer Preble was launched at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. The Brown, tramp teamer Samoa was i WEATHER, WERE government transport. Adolph hot and Thomas in San Francis himself. Arthur C har charged with the murder the mother i 1 Ol the latter iat »CLZ Foote, Foote ” 1 aged ' les have the former > at 3 charged w of semer, being husband is ith cessory. 8 off t de Wet 0 Doers 1 and 1500 crossed the Orange berg Bridge Ed sit to his . 1 1 Frederick, in Deroy! to vard returned to 1 sister, the Dowager Germany presented Portugal, to prevent re ligious demonstrations, L'Ho A, was p Captain cum, LU. S Czar. Stephen 30 the icdiey 11 resented to Sir Cavendish Boyle was fF NN $ snidl + ed governor of Newfoundland gazetted as King Edward to-day will leave Cron berg on his return to England. Financial, The Little Miami Railroad has re clared a dividend of 2 per cent. A bill to permit savings banks to in vest in St. Paul and Jersey Central bonds is before the New Yerk Senate. The New York Railroad Commis sioner has approved the application of the Erie for an increase of capital from $172,000,000 to $177,000,000 to pay for the purchase of the stock of the Penn- sylvania Coal Company and Delaware Valley and Kingston Railroad. J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. sent a cir- cular to the various steel companies ex- plaining the terms of the combine. burg, Pa., against the Company for loss of oil wells, due to a spark from a locomotive, Messrs. Dick Brothers Philadelphia, have successiully placed the $700,000 Michigan Traction first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds, It is reported that the Crucible Steel Company may be included in the steel combination, The Cramp Shipbuilding Company has declared the quarterly dividend of 1 1-4 per cent, payable March 13 Ce mprehe nd trial progress growth Washington down-tow population of he surround en walking reach Representa- » Opes W Preside Seat the 1. of 11 01s] Senator political manager in VRIgNS, and Represe ative Poe ratic member of the House from Arkansas. Behind the Presidential party were carriages contaming the entire Cabinet, the general of the army and his aide, the admiral of the navy and his awle Only a comparatively insignificant porf{ion of the vast multitude saw any- thing of the actual inauguration monies at the Capitol ! numbered thousands on Hanna, the seat op the Me both cam McRae, a The great un- were content to Another Charge Against Rathbone. Havana (Special). —Ex-Postal Dirce- judge and notified that he pliei , with Neely. ased on a statement of receipts from Divi- can no longer ¢ the war maps of 1861 hese are some national questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship Hope maketh not ashamed.” The prophets of evil were not the builders of the Republic, nor in its crises since have they saved or served it Our institutions will not deteriorate by extension and our sense of justice will not abate under tropic suns in dis- tant seas. * * * The path of pro gress is seldom smooth New things found hard to do We face at this moment a most im portant guestion—that of the duture re- lations of the United States and Cuba Our countrymen should not be de We are not waging war against the inhabitants of the Philippine Is- lands. A portion of them are making war against the United States. as disappeared lic quesions Boller Blows Up, Killing Four Men. Gallipolis, Ohio (Special).—~A boiler in the mill of Jacob Linewood, at Creuzet, exploded, instantly killing four men and injuring several others. The dead are Brady Lindewood, Sam Parker, Bert Iron, and a son of G. J. received monthly, while Neely credited only $12,000 on his books, | says he has suspicions that Rathbone + prove it, i Bangor, Me. on the firs to succeed Congressman Boutelle. LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Congressional Proceedings. The taking it 6 oclock 11 Fifty-sixth Congres: March 2, { recess, the ¢ VENINE, Was In session at 197 days, the ght Congresses since the Forty-ninth included. The number of bills introduced was 14.330 the largest on record Public acts passed and signed up to March 1, 345; private 1250 Number of joint 305, the largest in the series of eight Congresses The Con 3708 pages and wy ff acts, Olutions, Record shows journment nober to HIessiong before will have a i the record of the pages. It records cient Tits Fiity beat Congress, with 1021 by 1000 the eight Congresses pages SAren an, 3 Senator Gorman younge married Inglon Philip , read let ning the connec nel Heistand, o General's Department a proposed company to control the 0H produ t f the He read he charges made by Hawkes against Heistand and others in the Was Department § were in Wasl ating the e Senat islands Major Our New Possessions. General Fred Grant says civil govern. should not be given the Filipino insurgents they are either cap- ured or conquered, no matter how peaceful they may appear. D. M. Carman, an American contrac tor. arrested in Manila, charged with aiding the Filipino insurgents, has been released, a very sick man, on $10,000 cash bail Provincial government has been es tablished in the last province of Gen eral Grant's district in the Philippines. The Federalists are securing many new members for thei- party in Laguna province, east of Manila, The steamer Newark, of the Quarter- master's Deparement, has been wreck- ed on Catanduanes Island, Luzon The United States Philippine Com mission has established a provincia sovernment in Bacalan, Island o Fzon. ment until An epidemic of rinderpest exists is Twenty-five thou sand caribao have already died on Mas bate Island. A band of seventy armed insurgef: entered the town of Suog in the pros Captain Draper, commandant at of the Province of Bataan, with 180 L cers and fourteen men, taking twenty. six rifles and destroying 14,000 bushels of pice and 104 carabaog, 1 POWERS NOT IN HARMONY Great Britain Suspects Russia, Which Abuses (Germany. AND THE FRENCH ARE INDIGNANT, The Japanese 2nd Russians Are in a Sori of State of Armed Neutrality--Another Question That is Ssssiag Much Speculation Is as fo Wiethizr the Court Will Return to Pekin or Remain at Sinan-Fu--Need a Leader. The of ented 1 Pekin 1 yr 1 Cable) er 7 repre Pager, 101 CUBANS RESIST CHANGES. Disposition fo Retain Constitution as Adopied ~Delegates Threaten to Resiga. Spain's Cabinet Crisis 3 g 5 Seno Book Causes a i 4 Killed His Stepmother. re Speci I lodging Wil- i, D Marion iN a sireet a head twice, Mrs. Nat'on to Keep It Up. Tokepa, Kan. (Special) —Since Mrs Carric Nation's retorn from Peoria she has occupied a cell the county jail here. Asked ac to her future plans Mrs. Nation said: "You tell the people Nation will attend to her ing same as usual. 1 will go to smashing as soon as | am released of course. This is my mission in the worid at present and I am going to 1 it to the best of my ability.” ——g.— just iat tt knit nis Train Wreckers Foiled. Columbia, S. C tempts were made bound Florida- New York fast near Ridgeway. In the first an iron rail was fastened track. The locomotive ¥ as the obstruction was reached wo miles further the tr=:a ran into a bowlder that had been placed on the track. The pilot of the locomotive was knocked off Railroad Station Robbed. Kent, O. (Special).—A gang of rob- bers broke into the stations of the Wheel img and Lake Ene Railroad at Harte ville, Mishler S<#ield, Mogadore, and Brimfield and stole everything they found of value. At Suffield they stole 500 railroad tickets, but afterward threw them away. The police are searching for the gang. . Swallowed $1,000 Diamond. Chicago (Special) Fatally wounded, William Tate. a negro, lies at the Coun- ty Jail Hospital with a $1000 diamond stud in his stomach. He was shot by Patrolman Frederick Bush while flee- ing from the victim of his robbery, Ag. gust Anderson, Anderson is a wealthy saloonkeeper. He alighted from a South Side elevated train at the Twen- ty-second street station and was assault. ed by the negre. The robber snatched the diamond from Anderson's shirt front and made an effort to seize a fine watch worth $500, with a 57: chain, y~ i wWo (Special wreck at- north mail tram insiance the t¢ hs 0 thc aACross LODE
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