ALS IN BOMB BUSINESS Missiles Found in Female School in Russia. EIGHT SENTENCED TO DEATH Drumhead Court Martial Passes Sent- ence Upon Those Arrested on Ac- count of Threats. Another search for bombs at the Moscow female university has resulted in several unfilled ones being found. It is reported that the eight girl students arrested in connection with the threat of the terrorists to execute the death sentences imposed upon Count Ignatieff, Gen. Pavloff, Gen. von der Launitz and Gov. Alexandrovsky have been tried by drumhead court martial, the verdict of which is death. The elections held February 10 were a struggle between the Constitutional . Democrats and Socialists, and the probability is that neither party se- cured an absolute majority. Strong forces of police were massed in the vicinity of the polls and the police stations were literally jammed with agitators before noon. There were mounted patrols in all the streets, but despite this there were frequent collisions between con- servative and radical voters. Nobody was seriously injured. The 19 So- cial Democrat workmen electors will support M. Matyeeif, the labor leader for parliament. A REMARKABLE FEAT Man Walks on the Water from Cin- cinnati to New Orleans. Captain Charles W. Oldreive com- pleted the feat of walking the water from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a distance of 1,600 miles, in 40 days, lacking 45 minutes, thereby winning the world’s championship and a bet of $5,000. Oldreive met with an accident just before reaching the goal at the head of Canal street that nearly cost him his life. His big wooden shoes sud- denly slid outward and the water walker turned turtle. His wife, who accompanied him all the way in a rowboat, rescued him. Oldreive left Cincinnati January 1 at noon on a wager that he could walk to New Orleans in 40 days. At the falls, above Louisville he was delay- ed for 24 hours, and this allowance, it was agreed, should be computed in that time. Oldreive was in motion only during daylight, laying over every night at the various landings. He was equipp- ed with shoes made of cedar wood, four feet five inches long, five inches broad and seven inches deep. In a gasoline boat preceding water walker were Captain I. Weatherington of Dallas, Tex. who backed Oldreive, and Arthur Jones, the WHITE THREATENED THAW Testimony of Doorkeeper at the Garden Theater. The defense of Harry K. Thaw, un- der the direction of Attorney Delp- hin M. Delmas, of California, began to assume definite shape on Wednes- day and when adjournment was tak- en testimony had been placed be- fore the jury to the effect that Stan- ford White had been heard to make a threat to kill the defendant, coup- ling the threat with the display of a revolver, and that Thaw’s actions following the killing of White on the roof of Madison Square Garden was considered by several eye witnesses to have been “irrational.” Mr. Delmas called Benjamin Bow- man who testified that in 1903 he was a doorkeeper at the Garden Theater and knew both Stanford White and Harry Thaw. Q. Did you ever hear Stanford White make threats against the life of any person. A. Yes. A few nights after Christmas Stanford White came up to me after the show and wanted to know if Miss Nesbit had gone home. I told him she had. He replied: ‘‘You are a liar.” I told him to go back on the stage and see for himself. When he returned, and as he passed me, he pulled a pistol from his pocket and muttered, “I'll find and kill that —— —— before daylight.” Q. Did you communicate this threat to any one? A. Yes, I told a detective sergeant. Jerome—I1 object to that. Delmas—Did you communicate the threat to this defendant? A. Yes, I met him on Fifth avenue and told him I wanted to speak with him re- garding Miss Nesbit. I then told him of the incident at the theater and of White's threat. Q. What was Mr. White’s condi- tion when he made the threat? A. He was black in the face with anger. Dr. C. C. Wiley, of Pittsburgh, who was at one time connected with the Dixmont Insane Asylum, was called as the first witness for the defense. Dr. Wiley in response to questions by John B. Gleason, of Thaw’s counsel, said he had devoted much of his life to a study of insanity and that he had served as an expert on insanity. Dr. Wiley’'s opinion is that Thaw has been insane for several years, and that the killing of White, was the act of an insane man. During the course of the cross-ex- amination Dr. Wiley said that while Thaw was undoubtedly insane before and during the act, and perhaps im- mediately thereafter, it was very probable that since that time he may have recovered his sanity. The doc- { tor said, having the idea that he or his wife were in danger from White, the removal of White would relieve the stress or strain upon Thaw’s mind and his mental condition would again become normal. Mr. Jerome wanted to know if, con- |'sidering Thaw’s physical and mental W. | who represented Edward Williams of | Boston, who laid the wager. GERMANY AND HAITI DISAGREE Countries Are on Bad Terms on Ac- count of Alleged Fraud. The relations between the govern- ments of Haiti and Germany history, he might not be likely here- after to acquire another homicidal hallucination, and Dr. Wiley replied it was possible, but did not necessari- {ly follow. | Kittanning, { iam Thaw's parents. are | strained owing to the refusal of the | German bankers, Hermann & Co., by | direction of the court at Port Prince, to return to the Haitian gov- Au | ernment large sums of money alleged | to have been. obtained fraudulently. Among the alleged transactions of | Hermann & Co., with the Haitien gov- | ernment was one which is said to have proved fav-o-ahle to the government. This was concluded by the Halitien minister of finance, gation and Hermann & Co. The Ger- man minister demanded that this transaction, as well as others, be an- nulled, but the Haitien government, in ! Appeals the German le- | terms thal the German ‘minister deem- | ed offensive, refused to acquiesce. The German minister at the same time de- manded the withdrawal of the phrase objected to. This also was refused. Fears are entertained at Port Au Prince of grave complications ensu- ing. IRON AND STEEL RECORDS Exportation of These 1906 Totals Up $172,500,000. The exportation of iron and manufactures reached their record during the last year, according 1 to figures compiled by the Bureau of | tatistics of the Department of Com- | The total of these the calendar merce and Labor. products exported in year 1306 aggregated $172,500,000, an | increase of $30,000,000 over the pre- ceding year. crease of 75 per cent in the exporta- tion of these articles three years. Practically every one of the portant articles or groups of articles | share in this gain. Millionaire Ranchman Acquitted. The Supreme. Court of Kansas fi-| cases the cowboys, nally dismissed the against Chauncey Dewey, ranchman, and his Clyde Wilson amd W. J. McBride, charged | Chihuahua, several weeks steel | highest | There has been an in- | millionaire | Dr. John E. Deemar, a physician of Pa., was next called to the stand. Dr. Deemar is the family physician of the Copleys, Mrs. Will- Dr. Deemar said he had known Harry Thaw for 25 vears. When the defendant was 9 vears old Dr. Deemar treated him for a nervous disorder. EQUITABLE MUST ANSWER Policyholder Charges Unjust bution of Surplus. The Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety, under a decision handed down by the United States Circuit Court of in New York must answer to the bill of complaint filed against it by J. Wilcox Brown that the so- ciety’s surplus had not been equitably distributed among the pciicyholders. The higher tribunal in overruling the Equitable demurrer states that the case is remanded to the court be- low, and the ‘‘defendant, if it be so advised, has leave to answer within such time as the Circuit Court shall decree.”’” This gives the defendant the privilege of answering to the bill as already filed. Distri- FAST TRAIN WRECKED Articles for | Engineer Scalded but Passengers Es- { caped Serious Injury. The Manhattan Limited, one of | the fastest trains on the Pennsylvan- | ia railroad, which left Pittsburgh at 12:55 Saturday morning, crashed into a heavy freight train, at Turtle Creek. Three Pullman cars were smashed, | a combination club car burned, eight | coke cars scattered along the tracks | and the freight engine turned on its i back at the foot of a hill. | Engineey T. W. Williams of the | Limited was scalded. The wreck was in the last | caused by the Limited side-swiping | the freight just as the latter was im- | clearing a switch. { | SCHWAB BUYS MORE MINES Pays $100,000 for Additional Mexican Properties. i Charles M. Schwab, who purchased the San Toy group of mines in the Santa (®ulalia district, State of ago, has with taking part in the killing of the | just closed a deal“for the purchase of Berry family in Western Kansas in 1903. Wabash Stock Increased. The Wabash Railroad filed with the secretary of state of Indiana cer- tificates of increase in capital stock. | The increase amounts to $66,500,000 and consists of $50,000,000 in com- mon, and $16,500,000 in preferred stocks, of $100 par value a share of each. Eight employes of the Insurance ‘Stove Range and Foundry Company, in Covington, Ky., were terribly burn- ed in an explosion of gas at the plant. Two of themi may die. three other mines in the same dis- trict. The consideration was $100,000. Three Dead in a Train Wreck. A defective switch caused the wreck of a €Chicazo Great Western railway at German Valley I11.,, February 7. The Cline, engineer, Chica- go; Paul F. Jacobson, railway mail clerk, Chicago; Louis Nels, railway mail clerk, Minneapolis. Seriously injured: R. F. rumble, fireman, Du- buque, Ia.; James Harlock, Stables, Minn.; G. H. Jamicon, Chicago, ex- press messenger; Mrs. F. N. Koontz, Fort Dodge, Ia. passenger train Freeport, dead: Martin near YOUNG WIFE'S PTFUL TALE Mrs. Harry K. Thaw Tells of Her Relations with Stanford White. TRIED TO PREVENT MARRIAGE Witness Told How White Pursued Her and Attempted to Break the Engagement with Thaw. 2 Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife of Har- ry K. Thaw, was called to the wit- ness stand and told the story of her life. It was the same story she told Harry Thaw in Paris, in 1903, when he had asked her to become his wife—the confession of one who felt ‘there was an insurmountable barrier to her ever becoming the bride of the man she loved. In testifying Mrs. Thaw was not allowed to state the names of cer- tain persons, but by consent of coun- sel for defense she. gave them in whispers to Mr. Jerome ‘in order,” as Mr. Delmas said, ‘‘that the prose- cution may have the fullest possi- ble opportunity to refute any of her statements if he can.” As the young wife ‘unfolded the narrative of her girlhood and told the early struggles of herself and her mother to keep body and soul to- gether; of how gaunt poverty stood ever at the door, and how she finally was able to earn a livelihood by pos- ing for photographers and artists, she wen the sympathy of the throng which filled every available space in the court room. Then came the relation of the wreck of that girlhood at 16 years of age. It was the story .eof her meeting with Stanford White, the story of the sumptous studio apartments, whose dingy exterior gave no hint of the luxurious furnishings within. These meetings were by invitation of White and others were in attend- ance at several of them. Once, how- ever, none of the other persons came and White induced her to drink a glass of champagne from the effects of which she became unconscious. Mrs. Thaw said that when she told the story to Mr. Thaw he became excited. ‘“He would get up and say: ‘Oh, God,” and so on. I cried and he made me tell it all. He walked up and down the room continually.’ Evelyn also told of undergoing an operation while at a boarding school to which she was sent by White, and of Thaw visiting her at the hospital to which she was later taken, and of his kindness to her in sending her fruit, flowers and other comforts and luxuries appreciated by a sick girl. Mrs. Thaw further testified that Stanford White tried to prevent the marriage in various ways, and that he sought interviews with her, but that she refused to meet him. RIVER APPROPRIATIONS Amendments Provide for Dams Nos. 2 and 3 in the Allegheny. The House completed and passed the rivers and harbors appropria- tion bill, carrying more than $83,- (300,000 with sundry amendments, all of which were suggested by the chair- man of the committee, Mr. Burton, of Ohio. Among the important amend- ments adopted were: To construct dam, No. and com- pete dam No. 2 in Allegheny river, $235,000 being an increase of $35,000; improving Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, of New York; for continu- ing the improvement and for the maintenance of the Chicago river, $200,000, being an increase of $180, 000. A survey of the Missouri river was authorized from its mouth to Sioux City; also a survey of the Savannah river, Georgia, for 30 miles below Au- gusta. 9 0 To Prevent Coal Land Monopoly. Representative Lacey of Iowa in- troduced a bill to prevent monopo- lies in coal lands, by providing that patents for coal lands shall contain a clause stipulating that they are to become invalid in case they are trans- ferred to persons or corporations holding more than 5,000 acres of coal | land. STORES FORCED TO CLOSE Western Towns Appeal to Washington for Relief. An urgent appeal for fuel has been received by the interstate commerce commission from the town govern- says suffering there is imminent and business places are closing, and groceries are running out of sup- plies. There have been since December 24 and no mail has left the place for three weeks. It is claimed that coal has been on the road since October 15, and but two cars have been received in six weeks, after repeated appeals. . Chairman Knapp, has called the at- tention of President Hill, "of the Great Northern railway, to the mat- ter. - A dispatch from Fargo, N. D. says: Reports of a fuel famine in. various towns on the branch lines of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific in different parts of the State contin- ue to come in. Sharon, N. D., is en- tirely out of coal. e ho local freights Express Train Kills Two. Harry Switzer of Pleasant Plain, O., and Martin veville of Midland City, were killed by an express train on the Baltimore’ & Ohio Southwestern at Winstone between BEpworth Heights and Loveland, O. They were walking on the westbound tracks and stepped over in front of the train. _ Major General John C. Weston will succeed Major General Wood in com- mand of the forces in the Philippines on July 1. LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDED Intense Cold Made Doubly Severe by Terrific Blizzards—Much Suffer- ing for Want of Fuel. A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn. says that with few exceptions there has been below zero weather in this sec- tion for 17 days, and for three days, thermometors have registered 22 de- greedgrbelow zero. In North Dakota, 30 degrees below was common and this was coupled with terrific blizzards. For days the main lines of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific railroads have been blocked and many of the branch lines have been at a standstill for weeks and months. There have been reports of many persons freezing to death, but these have been denied from North Dako- to sources. It is, however, admitted by railroad managers that the spring thaws will reveal some grewsome tales of suffering, starvation and death. The railroads are gradually getting their main lifles and some branches clear after weeks of ‘snow bucking” with huge engines doubled up to pow- erful rotary plows. McHenry, N. D., sends a telegram that there have been no freight trains there since December 18, and that all fuel, including gasoline, is gone. Farmers are burning barley and fence posts. Winter weather through Northern Montana is now more severe than it | has been at any time during the last | 27 years. Not a wheel is turning on the main line of the Great Northern railway. No freight train has passed through Havre for 48 days. In drifts west of Havre seven Oriental limited | passenger trains are stalled and to the east five more are similarly sit- uated. to 44 degrees below zero. MUTINY ON CRUISER One Killed and Two Wounded League Island. Mutiny on the armored cruiser ‘Tennessee at League Island resulted | in the shooting of two petty officers by an enraged seaman = and the wounding of the latter. The dead: Chief Master-at-Arms James Douglass, 45 years old; bullet penetrated brain; two ugly abdominal wounds. The wounded: Master-at-Arms William McCool, flesh wounds on face and arm; Harry Burke, 24 years old, seaman, shot through left wrist. Burke, the alleged ringleader of the mutiny, was placed in irons, and two other sailors, Lunness and Dean, are also in the brig, charged with be- ing accomplices. The trouble began when the Ten- nessee was acting as escort to Presi- dent Roosevelt. Anxious to make a good showing, the petty officers be- came martinets and hardly a day pass- ed that the brig did not contain one | for | Tennes- | or more sailors lodged there trifling offenses. When the see arrived at League island it was declared by the sailors that the ‘‘non coms’ had more authority than the officers. PERISH FOR WANT OF FUEL Family of Four Freeze After Burning Their Furniture—Woman and Five Children Dead. Passengers from the northwest report that while a train was stalled in a snow drift on the Great -Northern road a few miles west of Fargo, N. D.,, last week, a party of a dozen volun- teers, having left the train in search of food for the passengers, came to a farm house where they found every member of the family of four frozen to death. In one part of the heuse were the bodies of the farmer and his wife and nearby the corpses of two children™ Every bit of furniture had been used for fuel. An unknown woman and her five children were frozen to death at Goodrich, a town on the Carrington branch of the Northern Pacific rail- road. President Signs Pension Bill. President Roosevelt has signed the general service pension bill passed by | congress which provides pensions for all veterans of the Mexican and civ- i1 wars. Explorer Plunges Into Tibet. News from Sven Hedin, the Swedish traveler, who last year started ‘from Chinese Turkestan on a journey of exploration to Tibet, has reached Calcutta. Hedin, who, when he sent off his courier, had already explored 1'S40 miles of unknown country, said he : 3 | hoped to reach the monastic city of ment of Edinburg, N. D., A dispatch | Shigatse at the end of February. MINE DISASTER. Fan Failed to Work and Supply of Pure Air Was Cut Off During Rescue Work. An explosion of gas in mine No. 25 of the Davis Coal & Coke Company, at Thomas, 50 miles from (Elkins, W. Va., sent probably 25 men to death. D. R. Jones, a mine boss, was kill- ed later while engaged in the work of resuce. - After having explored every part of Mine No. 25, at Thomas, where an ex- plosion occurred last Monday, 22 bodies have been found. Including the death of Mine Boss, Dan R. Jones, who was overcome while try- ing to rescue bodies, this brings the complete list of fatalities up to 23. Plans of the Biggest Battleship. Mr. Hale, chairman of the naval committee, presented to the senate the plans for a battleship that shall | be the equal of any: fighting vessel afloat or confemplated. five battery of 10 12-inch? guns in will turrets. The seeondary battery be 14 five-inch rapid fire guns. Federal investigation of the Ameri- can School Furuiture Company is to be undertaken by the grand jury now in session in Chicago. The temperature is from 14 | | at | The ship is | to be 518 feet long andyto have a main | MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION | John D. Rockefeller Makes Larg- est Donation Ever Known. GIFT A COMPLETE SURPRISE { | | | | | | This New Contribution is in Addition | to $11,000,000 Previously Given | to Cause. Thirty-two million dollars worth of income bearing securities was the gift which - John D. Rockefeller, through his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr., announced to the general educa- tion board at a special meeting in New York city February 7. For general education purposes through- out the country is given as the pur- pose of this donation—the largest single prize ever handed out for such purposes. Mr. Rockefeller previously had giv- en the board $11,000,000 for the same work. . The board apparently was not pre- pared for this gift, which was an- nounced in this letter, dated Febru- ary 6, from young Mr. Rockefeller. My father authorizes me to say that jon or before April 1, 1907, he will give to the general board income- bearing securities the present market value of which is about $32,000,000, one-third to be added to the perma- nent endowment of the board, two- i thirds to be applied to such specific | objects within the corporate purpos- | es of the board as either he or I may i from time to time direct, any re- mainder not so designated at the death of the survivor to be added also” { to the | board. Will Direct Use of Money. | Members of the board, when asked | what the ‘‘specific purposes’ referred | to in Mr. Rockefeller’s letter meant, said that it was in the line of educa- tional work and was intended, in their opinion to direct the disposition of the fund to such institutions within the province of the board as he may deem proper. The elder Mr. Rocke- feller is not a member of the board, but his son is a member and the ac- tive direction doubtless will come from him. The board voted to accept the gift and drafted a letter of thanks to the donor in which it said: This ig the largest sum ever given by a man in the history of the race for any social or philanthropic pur- pose. The hoard congratulates you upon the high and wise impluse which has moved you to this deed, and desires to thank you, in behalf of all educational interests whose developments it will advance, in be- half of our country. permanent endowment of the WANAMAKER HOME BURNED Palatial Residence and Fine Art Works | Destroyed. Lyndhurst, former Postmaster General Wanamaker, at Chelton Hills, Mr. Wanamaker’s sidered one of the most artistic and valuable of Philadelphia properties. The estate consists of 30 architecture, stood on a hill about 250 yards back from the famous Old York road. The Wanamaker art gallery tained some of the rarest prints and Mr. Wanamaker and his family have been at their winter home, Philadelphia and the country place was in charge of a caretaker. valuable paintings being about only things saved. «Christ before Pilate’ and ‘‘Christ on Calvary,” by Munkacsy. These two paintings are valued at $250,000. panies from Jenkintown, Ogontz, Ash- service, but the water supply was in- adequate and their efforts little. Youghiogheny Must Wait. and harbors of the war department, after a hearing which Representatives ed to present the claims of - the Youghiogheny, decided to make no recommendation as to the canaliza- tion of the Youghiogheny river until another survey or preliminary exami- nation has been made. The rivers for a survey of the Youghiogheny, or, which undoubtedly will go through and, after the war department has made the survey, the board of rivers and Harbors can make a comprehen- sive report on the project. Original Republican Dies. Rev. Seymour A. Baker, one of the founders of the Republican party, an anti-slavery agi- tator, a Presbyterian minister and an editor of note, died at Kansas City, Mo. Alaska on a hunting trip after his presidential term expires. Congressmen Are Against Tips. The house committee on the Distriet of Columbia made a favorable report on the Murphy bill which makes it | unlawful to either give or receive tips in any hotel or eating house in the District of Columbia. King of Siam Coming Over. Advices by steamers from the or- jent say that the king of Siam is to visit. the United ~tates in May. His majesty will leave Bangkok in March and will proceed - fromYokohama to Europe via America. BUT 20 VOTES CAST AGAINST Act Will Increase the Amount Now Paid Out for Pensions About $15,000,000. The house of representatives pass- ed without amendment the service pension bill passed by the senate on January 11. There is no doubt Presi: dent Roosevelt will sign the bill. For years the proposition to pen- sion all soldiers, regardless of dis- ability, has been pending before con- gress. The Grand Army of the Re- public has exerted every effort in its power to bring about such legislation and only today was it accomplished. Soldiers’ pensions now less than the amounts named in the bill just passed will be raised accordingly. Those re- ceiving more will not be affected. Following is the schedule of the ser- vice pension bill: At 62 years of age, $12 per month; at 70 years of age, $15 per month; at 75 years of age or over, $20 per month. These pensions shall commence from the date of the filing of the appli- cation with the pension bureau, and the terms apply to any person who has served 90 days or more in the civil war or in the war with Mexico. All that is necessary is to establish age and produce an honorable dis- charge. But 20 votes were cast against the bill, all of them by Democrats, and among them. John Sharp Williams, Democratic floor leader of the house. It is estimated that this new pen- sion act will cost the government about $15,000,000 more than it is now paying for pensions. DEAD MAN AT THROTTLE Train Dashes Through Philadelphia at High Speed. The Congressional Limited train on the Pennsylvania railroad, which leaves Washington for New York at 4 o'clock, ran through Philadelphia at terrific speed with the engineer, Joseph Toms, dead at the throttle. The train makes two stops in the city, one at West Philadelphia and the other at North Philadelphia. Shortly after the train left West Philadelphia, the fireman, Harry Michner, noticed the speed was un- usual. Michner called to Toms, but received no answer, and when the train rushed through Fairmount park and nearer to North Philadelphia, the fireman climbed over the boiler into the cab to find Toms dead with his hand on the throttle. His head was hanging out of the cab window, and had been crushed by striking some object along the road. PENALTY FOR MUTINY Twenty Russian Sailors Taken to For- tress—Vice Admiral Nebogatoff Gets 10 Years. On account of the revival of terror- ism and political crimes in Russia the Schlusselburg fortress has been re- stored to its former use as a prison suburban | acres of ground and the house, which | y A 3 : t ary sriods. in the main was of English style of | for yarying perio | the attempt to con. | Stolypin with bombs at his country | residence August 25, most valuable paintings in existence. | identified. Mile. Klimova is the daugh- in | The suburban police and fire com- | bourne and Glendside were called into | availed | The board of engineers on rivers Acheson, Dalzell -and Cooper attend- | and harbors bill contains a provision | placed there by Representative Coop- | President Roosevelt hopes to visit | for political offenders. Twenty sail ors of the Black sea fleet have just | been taken there in chains to serve the handsome home of | John | near | : h Jenkintown, was destroyed by fire, en- used again for executions. tailing a loss estimated at $1,500,000. | home: vas con-| Vice Admiral Nebogatoff and the imprisonment for the mutiny at Se- fortress will also be sentences of life participation in bastopol. The The emperor has confirmed the sentences passed by the court-martial other naval officers tried at the same time. Nebogatoff will be interned in a fortress for 10 years and the others The two women, Milles. Klimova and Terentieva, who participated in blow up Premier 1906, have been ter of a councillor of the empire and | Mlle. Terentieva belongs also to a | good family. They will soon be tried | by a court-martial. The fire made rapid progress, a few | the | Among these were | CURRENT NEWS ITEMS. The Irish Parliamentary party unan- | imously re-elected John Redmond, as | chairman of the party. The German steamer Manhattan has arrived at Algiers from Philadelphia, and landed the crew of the French | bark Jules Simon, from Port Loul which had been abandoned near thy | Azores. Frank Banquisik was hanged at | Newark, N. J., for the murder of Thomas Hoff, at Mont Clair, two years ago. Banquisik had made a full con- fession. ’ The Republican caucus nominated Frank O. Briggs for United States Senator from New Jersey, to succeed John F. Dryden by a vote of 22 to 18. The vote subsequently was made unanimous. Congressman William Alden Smith § was elected by the Michigan Legisla-§ | ture to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Alger. Congressman Smith had already been elected as Senator , Alger’s successor at the expiration of { his term March 4. “Aunty” Jane Lewis, whose age is authentically estimated to have been 116 years, died at Hamilton, O, February 6. She was born in Peters- burg, Va., and lived for many years with the family of Gen. Zachary Tay- lor. Sapulpa, I. T., has offered a prop- osition to the constitutional conven- tion to locate the capital of the new State at that place.. It offered 100 acres of land, $100,000 cash and light and heat for the State buildings free | of charge for 50 years. Boston Wool Market, The wool market continues\ strong, with trading dull, chiefly because of the high values. Foreign wools are firm. Leading domestic quotationg follow: Ohio and Pennsylvania, XX and above, 34 to 347%c; X, 32 to 33c; No. 1, 40 to 41c; No. 2, 39 to 40c; fine unwashed, 26 to 27c; unmerchant- able, 29 to 30¢; half-blood, unwashed, 331; to 34c; three-eighths blood, un- washed, 34 to 36c; quarter-blood, un« washed, 331% to 34c; Delaine, wash. ed, 37 to 38a oe ’
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