THE WASHINGTON NEWS WHAT OUR NATIONAL LAW MAK ERS ARE CONSIDERING. Some of the More Important Work of tho National Congress—Bills That the Committees Report Favorably Upon—Washington Topics. A Washington despatch says that the Isthmian Canal Commissioners have concluded that, *llll all possible expedition, they; cannot complete their report upon their examinations of the various isthmian routes for a canal before next December. General Bates, Chairman of the special Army Board appointed to in« spect the hospital ship Missouri at San Francisco, has made B report en< Horsing the recent recommendation ot Surgeon General Sternberg that the vessel be discontinued as a hospital ship, and turned over to the master's Department for use as a gen« oral transport. Senator Galllnger has introduced a bill granting a pension of SSO a month to General Longstreet. The bill givea the General's services as that of Ma. jor in the Eighth United States In fantry during the Mexican War and makes no reference to his connection with the Confederacy. Representative Levy, of New York, lias introduced a bill to repeal the War Revenue act. The Senate looks forward to an in crease of tho proportion of youthful members ot that body. The election of Representative Bailey, as Senator from Texas, .whlcH is now assured by his success ini the preliminary elec tions, adds another to the youthful contingent. The War Department has been ad vised of the arrival of the animal transport Lenox at Manila and the animal transport Fort Stephens at Hilo. The Lenox carried 457 horses and mules, and lost but one of the number on the voyage. The Port Stephens had no losses. Special Treasury Agent George W. Whitehead is under orders togo to Porto Rico to arrange for the transfer of the collection of the customs from the War to the Treasury; Department. In the Senate April 17 Mr. Hoar de livered an impassioned address against the retention of the Philip pines. The House and Senate conferees have agreed on the Hawaiian Govern ment bill in form substantially as passed by the House. A number of drug men appeared be fore the Ways and Means Committee of the House April -17 to urge the re peal of the Stamp tax. The Senate has under consideration the Alaskan Civil Code bill. The amendment providing for the mining of gold along the beach in the district lias been perfected. The President nominated Charles H. Allen, of Massachusetts, to be Gov ernor of Porto Rico. Senator Thurston has introduced a bill to limit the meaning oI the word "conspiracy," and also the use of re straining orders as applied to disputes between employers and employes. Lieutenant Commander William Winder has been ordered to take com mand of the Michigan on the Great Lakes, in place of Commander P. Garst. Captain G. E. Ide has been or dered to command the New Orleans. Judge Advocate General Lemly has taken the final steps toward the ac quirement for the use of the navy as an ammunition store ground of lonia Island, on the Hudson, above New York. The price paid was $160,000. USED A BIBLE. How a Burglar Broke Jail in New Haven. Martin W. Lynch, of New York, who was convicted of many burglar ies at the last term of Criminal Court and sentenced to five years in prison, in New Haven has escaped. The night guard in the jail was fooled on his half hourly trips by a dummy boy on Lynch's cot in cell 21. When Lynch did not stir at breakfast time an examlqation showed that four bars at the bottom of the cell door had been sawed off and paper cylin ders blackened with stove polish in serted in their places. The iron bars Lynch carried to the chapel to which he made his way. Here he placed a bench on end with the big pulpit bible on top of it to reach the roof and thence dropped to the ground. The cell door was cut with a fine file saw carried to him in a banch of bananas by some one. Lynch is believed to have been driv en away by a confederate with a buggy. Senator Hanna will not be a dele gate to the Philadelphia Convention, but will attend as Chairman of the National Committee. Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give $3,600,000 to the Carnegie Library and Institute of Pittsburg, which, it is ex pected, will be made the largest struc ture of its kind in the world. Senator Chilton withdrew and Jo seph W. Bailey will be elected Senator from Texas. H. C. Frlck is cutting all ties except those of, pecuniary Interest which bind him to Andrew Carnegie. The Grand Jury at Frankfort, Ky., returned Bine Indictmentß in the Go bel murder case. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled in two cases Involv ing the stamp tax on express pack ages that the companies had the right to shift the burden to the shippers by means of an increase of rates. Governor Roosevelt has signed the bill providing for shorter hours ot the drug clerks in the city of New York. Under Its provisions the clerks are .prohibited from sleeping in the stores or In apartments connected with the stores. A GIRL IN THE LOBBY. She Argues 8o Successfully That She Gets Back Her Job. A new and unique avocation has been opened for women by, a plucky Cleveland girl. Miss, Bessie Hayes, a pretty stenographer, successfully lob* bied a bill through the Ohio Legisla ture, providing a position for herself. She went quietly to jColumbus, took the Legislature by Btorm and suc< ceeded in having her bill passed fat in advance of measures of State im* portance. \ Miss Hayes is the only support of Eer widowed mother. For more than a year she had been employed by the County Prosecutor as a stenographer, but the Common Pleas Judges found a flaw In the bill, and her salary was cut off. The day the announcement was made that her salary could not be le gally paid she drew up a bill, and the next day was In Columbus buttonhol ing the delegation from Cuyahoga County. Representative Breck, a country member, was her- hardest customer. She labored with him from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until 10 o'clock in the evening, and finally got his pledge, not only to vote for the bill, but also to Introduce it. The next day, one of the last of the session. Miss Hayes's bill went through unanimously, while salaried lobbyists looked on with amazement. The bill provided that the County Prosecutor can appoint a stenograph' er, and Bessie Hayes will secure the position. GOLD IN A BARREL. Heirs Found It After a Woman's Death. For several years a barrel contain ing $40,000, nearly all in gold, was hidden in the cellar of the home of Mrs. Ella W. Quinn, of North Phil adelphia. After her death, two days ago, the fortune-laden barrel was dis covered. Mrs. Quinn's estate, valued at $500,- 000, was divided between her heirs. Six-year-old John Quinn, of Trenton, inherited $60,000. For two years pre vious to her death Mrs. Quinn hinted at a hidden fortune. "If all the rest is swept away, I'll still have enough to keep me," she said. This led to a thorough search of the house. In one corner of the cellar, amid old hoops and refuse, was found the barrel. It was broken open, and the gold coins In denominations rang ing from $1 to SSO rolled in a heap upon the cellar floor. Some paper money of large denomination was packed in the bottom. The gold was packed tightly between layers of cot ton. The barrel was lined with as bestos. For how many years the bar rel remained in the cellar is a mys tery. CASUALTIES. A cyclone prevailed at Royce, Tex as, Sunday. Twelve houses were torn to pieces, but the occupants escaped. By an explosion of molten metal at the furnace of the Ohio plant of the National Steel Company, at Youngstown, Ohio, James Johnston, Wallace Alexander and Prockett Smith have been terribly burned. The tug Piscatauqua putin to Glou" eester, Massachusetts April 16, tow ing a quantity of wreckage thought to have come from the sand schooner Carl Schurz, which plied between Bos ton and Newburyport. John C. Donaldson, a bookkeeper, lost his life in a lire at Brooklyn. New York. April 14. The Cuban Census. The municipal elections in Cuba have been fixed for June 16. The cen sus of the island shows that the popu lation is 1,572,767, of whom 20,478 are Spanish, 1,296,367 Cuban and 175,811 in suspense. Of the total, 443,426 can read and write, and there will be at least 140.000 qualified native Cuban voters under the proposed basis of suffrage. Negroes contributed only 32 per cent, of the population. NEW YORK MARKETS. Flour and Grain. FLOUR. Minnesota Patents, <3 750)3 90 Winter Patents, 3 60@ 3 85 Winter Straights, 3 40Q 3GO RYE FLOUR. Fair to good, 3 ISO 3 30 Choice to fancy, 3 35® 3 55 RYE. No. 2 Western, bushel 80)4 State,6« BARLEY. Feeding, bushel, 439 45 Malting, bushel, 490 64 WHEAT. No. 2 Red, bushel, 73^ No. Northern, bushel, 77 CORN. No. 2, 112 ob, afloat, bushel. 4|lf OATS; " No. 2, per bushel, jl No. 3, per bushel. 30 Produce. HAY. Shipping, hundred lbs., 650 7| Good to choice, do. 800 M HOPS. State, 1880 crop, pound, $ 1899 crop, pound, 12a 14 WOOL. Tens, pound, 140 17 BEEF. Family, hundred, 14 000 14 M Mess, hundred, U 60 Beef Hams, hundred 210091160 LARD. Western Steam, hundred, m Continent, hundred, <250 CM PORK. Mess, hundred, 10 2COIO 7N family, hundred, 1100011 tt BUTTER. Western Creamery, lb, 230 2S Factory, per pound. 180 21 State Dairy, per pound. 200 11 CHEESE. Fancy email. 11940 IS Late made. 110 It 8008. Btate & Pennsylvania, 130 14 Western ungraded. 130 If r Sheriffs Sale of Re&lestate By virtue of a writ' of Fieri Facia* insued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Sulli van county «nd to me directed and deliv ered there will be exposed to public sale at the Court House in Laporte IV, on SATURDAY, MAY 11', 1900, at 10 o'clock a.m., al) the right litle and intecest of the defendant of and in ihc following messuages, parcels tracts or lots of real estate: Ijot No. 1. All that certain tract situated in the township of Shrewsbury, County of Sulli van and State of Pennsylvania bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a post and running north ST degrees west 193 perches to a beech? thenec north 31} degrees east 278 perohes to stones; thence south 87jf degrees east 189 4-10 perclies to a-white beech; thence south 3 degrees west 280 8-10 perches to the place of beginning, containing 314 acres .mid lit) perches more or le»s of unimproved land. Said land being bounded on east by land lateofßprout and YanHuskirk and on south by land of Geycliuand being a pan of the tract of land in the warantee name of George Ramsey. Lot No, 2. All that certain piece or part-el of kind situated in the Township of Shrewsbury county of Sullivan ami State ol Pennsyl vania, described as follows: Being the land conveyed by the warrantee known as the Peter Benson, bounded on the north by the land in the waranlec name of Abraham Kint/ing on the east by land in the warantee name of Peter Pogne on the south by land in the warrent names of John Barron Jr., Samuel Bryan and John Smith and on the west l>y land in the warrent name of John Swaiin containing 418 acres be the same more or less of unimproved land. Lot No. 3. All that messuage or lot ol land situat ed in Shrewsbury township, County of Sullivan and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows: Begin ning at a nost, thence by land of Wilson Opp, north 49 degrees east 21J perches to a stone; thence by land of the same, south 52 degrees east 00 perches to a hemlock tree; thence by land late of P. Vanderbelt north 31 degrees" east 82J perches to a stone; thence by land of William Bodine, William If. Warn and Wilson Opp north 87i degrees wcstßti perches to a stone on the bank of Rock Hun; thence by land of George W. Craft,-south 23 degrees east 26 perches to a stone; thence by land of same south 3fi degrees east 43 perches to the place of beginning containing 31 acres 90 perches of land be the same more or less unimproved land, I Ait No. 4. All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land situated in the Township of Shrews bury, County of Sullivan and State of! Pennsylvania, bounded and described as fallows: Beginning at an old maple cor ner of Peter Benson, Peter Pogne and Ezekiel Foreman warrants, thence south 2£ degrees west 2914-10 perches to a stone corner; thence north i>~ degrees west 361 perches to a stone corner: tlience north 2£ degrees east 136 2-10 perches; thence east on a straight line to Ri>ck Run;thence up llock Run until the same crosses the warrant line between the John Barron Jr. and Peter Benson; thence east to the old maple the place ot beginning, continuing 350 acres of land more or less unimprov ed land. Saving and reserving out of the last described lot of land a parcel or lot of land containing 8 acres more or less conveyed by Wilson Opp to William andG. C. Frontz by deed dated the 29th day of July A I) 1881. Lot No. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situated in the township of Shrewsbury, county of Sullivan, and state of Pennsylvania bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a hemlock, thence by land of George W. Craft, north 32 degrees west 50 perches to a beech; thence south 49 degrees west 26 perches to a beech; thence south 32 degrees east 76 perches to a stone; thence by land of Wi|liam Frontz north 4 degrees east 42 perches to a hemlock the place of be ginning, containing 13 acres and 62 perches of land be the same more or less, with the appurtenances consisting of a steam power saw mill and necessary buildings in connection therewith. Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as the property of W. 11. Warn at the suit of bewitt Bodine. 11, W. Osier, Sheriff. Sheriffs office, Laporte, Pa., April 16 1900 Trial lilit for Mar Term, 1800. Return day, Mayas, 1900, at a o'clock p. m. 1 Eugene D. Weiner vs Laporte Township School District. No. 49, May tarm, 1897. Djectoient. Plea, "not guilty." Thomson. | Mullen. 2 D. E. Carroll vs John Jaooby. No. 1, Decem ber term, l#9B. Defendants appeal. Plea, "non assumpsit, payment, payment with leave to give special matter in evidence, and the bar of statute of limitation. I Bradley. 3 Laura B. Waddell vs Samuel Cole. No. 23, May term, 1899. Partition. Plea, "non tenant insimul." Walsh. | Cronin. 4 Edward Warburtou, trustee of the estate of Margaret Norton vs John Ward Norton. No. 44 December tern 1899. Ejectment. Plea, "not guilty." Bradley. | Piatt. A ttussel Karns vs A, L. Smith. No. 2, Feb. T., 1900. Defendants appeal, Plea, "non assump sit, payment, payment with leave to give special matter lnevldeuce. the bar of the statute of limi tation and oontract agaiast public poliey. Mul len. I Bradley. H H. W. Osier Sheriff now. to use of .J. W. Car roll vs James Qulnn and John O. Scouten. No, 47 February term, 1900. Assumpsit. Plea, "non assumpsit." Mullen. | Malt. WM. J. LAWRENCE, Prothouotary. Prot'h. office, Laporte Fa.. April 14,1900. ~ os*tmrecoiio7~ Frederick B. Whitney, (or jreara bus iness manager of the Boston Tran script. aged 60 years. R. B. Drury, .founder of tho Kan sas City TUimm, aged 57 yoars. Jennie O'Neill Potter, once famous as an elocutionist.. She was twenty eight years- aid, and death is said to have boon hastened by an over-in dulgence In stimulants and drugs, nl t hough she suffered from cancer. G4iorgo R. Angell, president of the City Savings Bank, of Detroit, and of the .Michigan Bankers' Association. William M. Thrasher, bead of the Department of Mathematics at the Northwestern Christian University Salvator Potis, one of the bcsi known civil aad mechanical engineer* in the United States. 1 112 you art* thinking of a new car- IK't nsk Holcomb «fe Lauer about it. New lot of men's, women's, and children's phoes just opened at J. W. Bucks, Sonestown, Pa. llok'oml) & Latter are closing out their stock of lluggics, if you want one see them at once. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of n writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Sullivan County srnl lo me directed and delivered there will be exposed to public sale st the Court House in I.apoite, Pa., on SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1900, at 10 o'clock a. nit, 'be following describ ed property, viz: 4 All that eertnin lot, piece or parcel ol land lying and being in the Borough of Laporte, county of Sullivan and state ol Pennsylvania, hounded and described ns follows: Beginning «t ihe south east corner of lot of T. J. Kceler on the north side of Main street, thence along said Keelers lot north two hundred anil sixty feet to Strawberry Alley: thence along south side of Strawberry Alley west ninety-five and one-third feet to Blackberry Alley; thence south two hundred and sixty feet to Main street; thence east Main street ninety live and oni-third loel to corner of T. ,1. Keeler. the place of beginning; con taining ninety-one and four-tenths lurches more or less, with large Iratne hotel and barn and store building and other ou buildings erected thereon. Seized, taken into execution and to be sold as the property T. W. Beahen at the suit ol K. I', Tubach. 11. W. OSLER, Sheriff. Sherifl's office,Laporte,Pa., April 14 1900. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Events of the Week Told In a Few Words. The British steamer Sir Garnet Wolseley, from Philadelphia for Cork, which has been beating around the ocean disabled for two weeks, was towed into Halifax yesterday by the British steamer Ruito, from Sunder land for New York and Baltimore. Marie Rosalie Dinse, who jumped Into the East river from the Brooklyn bridge, was practically uninjured by the jump. It Is reported from Constantinople that the Porte has replied to the Am erican demands, stating that "Turkey will compensate American mission aries under the same conditions as in the case of other foreign subjects." The eight hour law has been re pealed by the Territorial Assembly of Winnipeg. The Trinidad Legislature has for mally ratified the second reciprocity treaty with the United States. A train bearing a structure in sec tions and the workmen to put It to gether has been sent from Chicago to the Paris Exposition by the American Forestry Association. Major General Miles has announced that certain land, comprising about 148 acres, on North Point, near Bal timore, recently purchased, has been set aside as a military reservation. The will of the late Samuel Howard leaves practically his whole estate, valued at upwards of $200,000, In trust for the support, maintenance and edu cation of orphan children at Milwau kee. A competitive examination of en listed men for promotion to the grade of Second Lieutenant, U. S. A., will be held in each geographical depart ment June 1 next, in lieu of the usual examination in September. Ex-Congressman David G. Colson, who has been on trial at Frankfort, Ky., for the last four days for the murder of Lieutenant Ethelbert Scott and Luther W. Demaree, has been ac quitted. The Jury was out only eigh teen minutes. The will of the late United States Senator PhlletUß Sawyer ot Wisconsin leaves an estate estimated to be worth over $3,000,000 to the family with the exception of SIO,OO left to the Ladies' Benevolent Society of Oshkosh. Chief Justice Gordon, of tho Su preme Court, at Olympfa, Washington, has tendered his resignation, N to take effect August 1. There is talk of a book trust In volving a consolidation of the Har pers, the Appletons knd other large publishers, but it is said to be all "in the air" as yet, at any rate. The Presbytery of Milwaukee bae petitioned the General Assembly to formulate a creed, appropriate to the needs of the present time." Half a million dollars damage U estimated to have been sustained by fruit raisers in the vicinity of Canon City, Col., from the late heavy storm and frosts. The Postmaster General bas signed a parcel post treaty, with New Zeal« and, which will go Into effect July If Rext An agreement has been signed tot the cutting of the long projected canal from the vicinity of Lake Washington on the upper St. John* River to In dian River, Florida. Work on the setting up of the steel construction of the new auditorium building at Kansas City has begun. Six hundred employees of the Brook* lyn Sugar Refinery have returned to work. The refinery was shut down )n March, and many rumors were cir culated as to the cause. Now, how ever, It is being operated by the full force, and 4,000 barrels of sugar are being turned out dally. Amelia Smith jumped from a Penn slyvania express train running a mile a minute, near Atlantic City. She landed on soft earth and survived. Miss G. 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