THE FIFTH-SEVENTH CONGRESS OPENED Creat Throng of Spectators Witness Re: assembling of Congress, fo the House the Big Floral Tributes Were Deomed to Be Unscen, as the Speaker, Having the Dispatch of Business ln View, Did Not Allow Them to Be Brought lato the Chamber. D. C., (Special). -Both Fifty-seventh Congress Washington, branches of the led to order at noon Monday. 11 £10Use were Ci In the the roll-call showed 318 members After the Mr. Cannon of 1llinois nominated Davi 3 present. roll-cal B. Henderson of Iowa for the Speaker ship and Mr. Hay of Virginia nomina- ted Mr. Richardson of Tennessee. T vote for the Speaker was: Henderson, 100: Richardson, Stark (Nebraska), 1; York), 1. Mr 140; the other three men voted for. He made a brief speech. its expression of confidence and asked the support of members. The oath then was stered to him by Representative Bingham of Pennsylva- nia, the Speaker in turn adminis members-elect When the sworn in the adopted and Mr lution to adopt sixth Congress Mr. Hepburn utes and the pre demanded In the Senate, af ators Dietri nd Mill Gibson of Montana South Dakota we After the usual re pointment of President. that sion, a recess of ; Before South Car providir ticles int Charleston Ex mediate consid Hoar, who transacted wus informed that t} The Senate 2 o'clock to av House and mit ators | bama were app had n ons been were flered a reso of the Fifty- Richardson and ven hive n new members formal res Dalzell i rye sluts On Was » roll-call, Sen- rd of Nebraska Kittredge of er the race i ended ice sent itive has ben pletel many conver BIG RUSH OF BILLS About 3.000 Believed to Have Deen Filed in the House. timated over 3,000 fore 12 much rival bill . ing asked Ih Mr. oleomar the rec a wide range 3 by Representatives York: Corliss, of Washington. this project, northern route, with an Mr. Corliss built and 1 Sherman offeri vate part enterprise Among the other measures introduced wkere those of Mr y , pro- testing agdinst the c war in South Africa: Mr giv- ing a tobacco 1 n Mr Kitchen (N. C.}, amend ment repealing the Fifteenth amendment, also constitutional amendement forbid- d&g appropriations for sectarian pur- poses; Mr. Stephens (Texas), for a tax on incomes and inheritances; Mr. Shaf- roth (Col), constitutional amendment for woman suffrage: Mr. Littlefield (Maine), amending and making more effective the act to protect trade against monopolies, etc... requiring interstate corporations to file veprts with the Sec- retary of the Treasury; Mr. Moody (Mass. ), for the protection of colored Puget sound. f $8.000.000 Government and Mr appropriation « ing a restite { Mey to sol nstitutional {Va.), 1 gdiers State protection: Mr. Henry (Texas), to prevent combinations in restraint of trade. ; Borrowed Book Leads to Murder. Chicago, li, over a borrowed book was followed by long friend. Mrs. Johnson is authority which was downed by Johnson. Newitt fell to the floor Johnson, wear- the house. After running two blocks he was seen by a policeman, who gave chase and arrested him. Killed His Wife on Street. Camden, N. 1, (Special) Samuel Vanstavern, aged 42 years, shot and in- stantly killed his wife. The shooting took place on the sidewalk near Fourth and Chestnut streets, and was witnessed by a large number of persons. Vanstav- ern fired four shots, each of which took cficet. The couple had been married 18 ears, but had frequently separated, and d not beeh living together recently. ghey have one son. Vanstavern sure : ed to the police immediately after the shooting » SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS, Domestic. The South Carolina Interstate and East Indian Exposition, at Charleston, was officially opened. There was a pa rade of United States troops, State mil itia and Confederate veterans. United States Senator Depew was the orator Mavor Haves, the Maryland commis- sioners and others from Baltimore took part in the exercises of turning over the Maryland State Building to the sition. The speakers were Mayor Hayes and Commissioner Francis King Carey M. Hutin, president of the Panama Canal Company, presented the offer of the company for the of its fran chises to President Roosevelt, A. E. Willis, the alleged forger,whose friends had raised money to satisfy those upon whom he had passed worthless checks in Norfolk, Va., has been re- | arrested on information from Charles {ton and Atlanta, Nelson Fritz, aged 16, were received Northern prison, at La P serve life sentence for murder [he United States government will be i asked to appropriate between five and ten thousand dollars for the Jamestown Exposition Fifty Princeton { burglar in the house of a Pi druggist who had called upon them assistance. : sheriff of Choctaw 11 th LIC eXpo sale at Ind, s0On, orte, students captured a rinceton Parkersburg, Ok, train at Guthrie judgment of Reiniger, a pugilis m the effects of | h James ' Standard for the and Company I ransport wdon, in order to secure control ot the Eastern oil interests of that con: accordance with the agreement en- into by Colombian Liberals ¢ Conservative government's offi- the presence of the commanders American and other foreign war- ships, the Liberal Colon yesterday surrendered to General Alban, turning over their arms to Captain Perry, of the lowa, who, in turn handed them to the Colombian government commander. Miss Dorothea Klumpke, the Ameri- can astronomer, assistant at the Park Observatory, is going to Stanford Uni- versity, California, as assistant to Prof. i Isaac Roberts. $ » . i It is rumored in Amsterdam t Queen Wilhemina may apply for divorce the ¢ at sort. | The lower house of the Austrian i Reichsrath ordered a committee to pre- pare a bill prohibiting the dealing in grain futures, Francisco Margall, chief of the Re- publican- Federal party in Spain, is dead, at the age of 81. C. T. Ritchie, of the British Cabinet, {now explains that Premier Salishury's statement that "no shred of independ. ence should be left to thie republics” did not mean that the Boers should not have a representative in the government. Financial The New York Subtreasury states ment shows the banks lost $006,000 last week. ’ The Distilling Company of America, known as the Whisky Trust, is going to reduce its capital stock by $40,000,000, The new Philadelphia Company col: lateral trust 5s are quoted in Pittsburg at 104% and interests bid, and 0% asked. The Northern Pacific is ed to have sold 125000 acres in North Da- kota to the Missouri Slope Land and Coal Company. —- f THE DEADLY CRASH OF FERRYBOATS A Number of Lives Are Lost in San Francisco Bay. PASSENGERS RESCUED BY ROPES. Wild Confusion Two Hundred Passengers on the Steamboat That Went Down, But It Is Believed That the Loss of Life Will Not Exceed Twenty. San Francisco, Cal, (Special) ~The ferryboats Sausalito and San Rafael Col lided in a dense fog, and the San Ra sunk in between 10 and 15 minutes, the Rafael carried between 150 and 200 pas- were drowned, although sengers. The Sausalito was not serious- injured, and after rescuing all the pas- on the San Rafael that she could San he boats and Pacific Fhey pl SCNgers pr own 1 SC weeded to ier steam | ie San Francisco Francisco North plied between San Fran alito, a suburb across the A hn tama Yoda Sau 3 San “1sco bus i winter SOIC Y the PRESIDENT SEES SOLDIERS WIN But Team Played the Betler Football the Navy DECIDED NOT TO KILL THEM. The Latest Reports Concerning Miss Stone and Her Companion. Fell 708 Feet to the Bottom. At eight of 1. asontown, a. the men, (Special) Lambert mines, near here, after dropping a distance 700 down a mine to the surface living, but with three dy- ing and the others probably fatally hurt they got aboard the cage cable parted and the cage dropped on the opposite side was ust as on arriving at the bottom found the men with crushed chests, and in some cases the bones Put Her Babe in an Oven. Sioux City, Ia, (Special) Mrs. J. Fred Meyers, living five miles from Cor- rectionville, wrapped her five-months-old babe in a blanket, put her in the oven of the kitchen stove to keep warm, and went out in the yard to gather fuel. When, half an hour later, she came back, the fire in the stove had blazed up and the room was filled with smoke. Rushing to the oven she found the blanket an clothing in flames. The infant was dead; its arms and legs burned to a crisp. Crushed by His Horse. Leavenworth, Kan, (Special) 1} ri- vate Albert Francis, Fourth Cavalry, was killed at Fort Leavenworth by his horse falling on him. His home was in In- dianapolis. He was 20 years old and en- listed two years ago. Senstr Toma's Subscription. Cleveland, Ohio, (Special.)—Serator Hanna has given $3,000 as his subseri tion to the veland COI et of National McKinley Memorial” Associa GEN. ALEAN USER STRATEGY. Won the Town of Colon by an Attack on Liberal Rear. (By Government Cable) This troops Colon, Colombia, full of Over 700 soldiers landed from the gun town is boat General Pinzon, and the Goveern ment forces are in complete POSSESSION Details of the rebel defeat are coming to light. By cutting a pa through sage the woods unknown to Colonel Barrera, who occupied a small hill at Buena Vis of the Government forces attacked Barrera's troops in the rear. A cross-fire in both front and rear resulted in disaster to the attacked, and the ultimate surrender of the town From Panama comes the news that the surrender of Colon to the Govern ment struck the Liberals like a thun derbolt. General Alban’s Colon triumph detachment ta, a ment that may lead him to the highes in the of the republic He was welcomed at the railway station by a large crowd The General service escort 1 of a torchlight procession, head by a band many “Vivas!” were was much firing of squibs. ants were until evening for first months There is no doubt that guerrilla war fare will be 1 in resumed stronger and better or heard, and there The re 1¢ o'clock in time mn open the the forces are considered essential requ they intend to resume the truggle [rains armed ning i he Ger Cal railroad still carry guards and are run- rived at 3 he stcame United at Be Lovernn has be “Nn the COST OF A BLUNDER Eighty Lives Sacrificed to Engineer's Error Details of Wreck «3 . 1 ih. { Specia iene Supermtend for the « A Family Burned. Beauford, N. C } ! Island, 40 miles east of Beauford, on Sat- Mr Dani smoke, He rushed de night James Was aroused by WT Stairs ised his wife and carried her and one g dwelling. He re and his wife, were two children n her frenzy ushed When neighbors her and one child another child expected Daniels in- His child from the bur urned for anoth burned to a crisp, jured and in a condition of frenzy Big Blaze Near Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C., (Special) ~The Wa- tauga Hall, one of the buildings of the Agricultural and which is outside of the city limits, was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $10, 000; msurance $6,000 The hall was used as a dining-room, kitchen and dor- Mechanical College, building lost all of their effects. As the college has no vacant rooms in the main their homes. AS HAH Special Crashes Into a Freight, persons were injured in a rear-end colli- sion between a special and a freight on the Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern, near Tully Station. The special was bringing home from Cortland a large party of Syracuse Knights of Columbus, who had been attending lodge festivities there. The engineer thought that the freight had taken the siding at Tully, when he suddenly saw the caboose directly ahead of him. The engineer and fireman jumped, escaping injury. Shot Cousin and Himself. Kissimee, Fla. (Special) ~~Miss Belle Steffo was shot and instantly killed at her home, on Springle creek, about three miles from here, and Harry Kindall is probably mortally wotinde He was starting hunting and, it is supposed, shot Miss Steffo accidentally, then attempted suicide. He was foun speechless, but when handed pencil and paper wrote that he wanted to pass out of the world as quickly as ible. They were second Jodens and best © Kindall SEVEN DEAD AND SEVENTY INJURED Casualties on the Gridiron for the Season of 1901, HARD-FOUGHT BATTLES FOR PIGSKIN Long List of Victims Is Ascribed by College Physicians and Trainers to Lack of Prepara- tion for Contests Whch Demand the Utmost the Human Frame Can Endure Unusual Accident in Philadelphia, Chicago, 111, . { me 113 5 ana 7s injured is the tota for the football ported as compiled from all dispatches {and mothers may ist of vistims, but sity physicians view it : Gite} ith gr eb and om igh with regret, and say $ most cases the sufferers themselves In one way this argument out, A large percentage of the from the forepart of ti of the from contended were trained week to prepare TRANSFORT WRIGHT LOST. United States Vessel Goes Down in Philips pine Waters in a Kansas Church. (Special) —A smd oly est maico nt y 4 can where a the ding a seen snread pr 1s religious and the stampeded 3 "TTSONS Were miur- seriously hurt fire, which loss The was Two Women Found Dead. { Special) —Mrs, Ane and Mrs. Kate aged 50 years, were found dead Harrisburg, Pa, nic Baer, aged 22 | Solfelt, { af their home in this city. The women fived together, and physicians say they | were dead 48 hours when found. Mrs Solfelt died of an overdose of mor- | phia and her companion from heart dis- case. years, May Seize Famous Madonna. Rome, (By Cable) —Francia’s “Ma. | donna” having been sold to an Ameri- | can for 320000 francs, the Procurer- | General has brought an action in the | courts demanding that the Marquis Fan. | gonie and the agent who arranged the | sale be condemned to pay a joint fine of 10,000 francs, and that the picture be seized by the state. Georgia Law Annulied Macon, Ga.. (Special) ~In the habeas corpus proceedings in the United States District Court here Judge Emery Speer declared the section of the Georgia law permitting private sanitariums to receive patients and hold them at the will of the proprietor, without the consent of the patient, to be in violation of the Four. teenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and therefore null and void. oir es Ta i Denver, Col, {Special) A fire which started on the fourth floor of the Dene ver City Hall practically ruined the building, destroying much property and probably a large amount of valuable rec- ords, Three Sethen ig Sid © be miss, ing, and it is : ve peri oe flames, tic Pole Expedition. Christiana, (By Cable) ~Boothia Fe« ix hae been as = headquarters # i fessor Amundsen’s three-year NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS. No lnterference in Cuba. Secretary Root addressed a communi president of that nomi President Benachea, Havana § ior sation to Eligio the convention at 2 nated Bartholomo Maso relative to complaints that United State authorities elections fis, A press were interfering in the Cubas Among says in his “The repre ing Governmen eware that thei merely be They have ne past and will n will have nothing toral co { toral law prescril tional Convention and the Military Governor October last Thi partially and effec Entitled to the Reward Se ng pre nent { 1.200 wages $22.430, Civil War Mates Rewarded. In accordance with decision of Navy Department all the mates 1 the navy who served d the Ci War are to be warranted as boatswain n recognition =f their long service Capital News in Geaeral The Supreme Court decided the Doo ey case, involving the egnstitutionality « the Foraker Act, which authorizes t mposition at Porto Rico of a duty 1 mports from the United States, in § of the government. The Supreme Court decided the four een diamond rings case, involving th nght of bringi=e In free from duty gems from the Philippines after the ex thange of ratifications with Spain, gainst the government The United States Supreme Court re sed a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of George F. Bissert, the wardman, con- ricted in New York of making illegal ixactions and collections. The Secretary of the Treasury trans nitted to Congress the estimates of ap propriations required to conduct the bus- ness of the government. The grand otal is $610,827 688. President Roosevelt appointed Thomas 8. Ferguson governor of Oklahoma, saving removed William B. Jenkins, who became interested in a contract made with the territory. Secretary Root informed the Cubans hat it is not necessary to tell United states officials that they must not inter- were in the elections, Orders were sent to Governor Taft, of the Philippines, to return to the Vnited States to recuperate and give nformation to Congress. san “ ODDS AND ENDS THE NEWS Rev, Dr. Daniel J. Hauer, the oldest man in the United States, died at : in Hanover, Pa. He was bor in Frederick, Md, and bad served a anmber of Sharges in Frederick and Carrol] Sonnties fore going to Penn. sylvan 11% 1px “
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