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OrriCE REAR OF
MOUNT JOY HALL.
The New Hampshire constitutional
convention recently adjourned after
agreeing in certain amendments to the
organic law of that state for submis-
sion to the voters. The last addition
to the New Hampshire constitution
was made in 1889, and one prior to that
in 1842. Substantially the constitutior
is the same as when adopted in 1782.
The oldest engine in active service
on the Northern Pacific reached the
west coast ahead of the road bed, be
ing shipped around Cape Horn, and
did service in construction work. It
does duty now in the humble capacity
of “weed burner.” In the fertile sec
tions along the division this locomo
tive pushes a flatcar arrangement
equipped with an oil contrivance used
to burn the weeds that grow rank
along the right of way, thus threaten
ing, when left to catch fire from pass
ing trains, the destruction of meadows
or Crops.
SWith a fund recently received from
the Carnegie institute in Washington
the department of experimental psy
chology at Yale university will contin:
ue experiments on the human voice,
which were begun more than a year
ago. Plans are being made for col:
leching dialects all over the United
States, by means of a car specially
equipped with voice-recording ma-
chines. A feature of the collectior
will be voice records of varous tribes
of North American Indians. It has
en decided to gend the car west dur
7 oF Frenc
Laplade, wrote an essay ®n this sub-
ject partly to prove the fallacy of the
gambler's superstition about hig
“luck.” His essay shows that science
upsets the belief that a run of bad luck
is pretty sure to be followed by a run
of good luck. If, for example, in a
game of even chances, red turns up
20 times in succession, it is still an
even chance whether red or black will
turn up on the 21st time. "Gamblers
reckless speculators, therefore,
are continually flying in the face of
cience.
and
A veteran of the Spanish war re-
cently referred to the secretary of the
interior a case in which he claimed a
pension on account of corns that he
ha’ contracted by wearing army
shoes. The departipent after an ex-
austive course of iin <onfies to
are not a
decision
he conclusion 4
ensignable The
convenient, but are
wating, and when they
e Me remedy is Simple and within
easy reach of any cne. The soldier's
patriotism ought not to terminate with
is military service. It should prompt
him to go to a chiropodist rather than
to the pension bureau.”
The London Spectator remarks: We
verily believe that the continent kings,
soldiers and reactionaries are every-
where gaining power through the slow
dying away of confidence among the
people in their representative bedies,
a dying produced entirely by their
want of ability to move. They are
longing for senates which will debate
with gravity at reasonable length, and
then act; and they find nothing but
“talking shops” crowded with a mob
which often cannot keep order, which
always seem filled with a very spirit
of faction, and which extremists have
learned to paralyze by insuperable de-
lays. Legislation is like a Spanish civ-
il trial, in which final judgment is
hardly expected before the next gener-
ation. The people weary of it all, and
wien they have not, like ourselves
the experience of ages in dealing with
parliaments they gradually come round
to the belief that there is more to be
hoped from any form of royal of bu-
reaucratic authority than from any
hamber, however
Chose who believe in free institutions,
as we ourselves do, will have to note
this temper of mind most seriously,
nd to see if, even by radical changes,
ocedure cannot be so amended that
najority can once mere act within
sable time. It is not of much
hat fcod is good and cheap if,
breakdown in distribution,
pts fed.
represéntative.-
BILLIONS IN COMMERCE
The Responsibilities of the New Depart-
ment Will Be Great.
GROWTH OF PER CAPITA WEALTH,
Enormous Commercial Interests of the United
States and Their Rapid Growth—An Infer-
nal Commerce of Twenty Billon Dollars,
Equal to the Eatire International Com.
merce of the World.
Washington, D. C. (Special).=A bul-
letin of the Treasury Bureau of Statis-
tics calls attention to the fact that the
new Department of Commerce will have
dealings with the largest commercial in:
terests of the world.
Figures presented estimate the internal
commerce of this country at $20,000,000,-
000, an amount equal to that of the en-
tire international commerce of the world,
the United States being first in domestic
exports, in manufactures, in transporta-
tion and in internal commerce. In arriv-
ing at this estimate of $20,000,000,000,
the bureau includes only one transaction
in each article produced, while, in fact,
a very large number of the articles pro-
duced pass through the hands of several
“middlemen” between those of the pro-
ducer and those of the consumer. The
SHimate is based upon the figures of the
census, which put the total value of
manufactures in 1900 at $13,000,000,000;
those of agriculture at nearly $4,000,000, -
0co, and those of minerals about $1,000,-
000,000. Adding to these the product of
the fisheries, the total value of the pro-
ducts of the great industries in Ig00
would be $18,000,000,000, and the rapid
growth in all lines of industry since
1900, especially in manufacturing, seems
to justify the conclusion that even a sin-
gle transaction in all the products of the
country would produce an aggregate for
1902 of fully $20,000,000,000.
Estimating the internal commerce of
the country at former census years by
the same method, the Bureau of Statis-
tics finds that the total internal com-
inerce has grown from about $2,005,000,-
000 in 1850; $3,500,000,000 in 1860; $6,-
250,000,000 in 1870; $7,750,000,000 in
1880 and $12,000,000,000 in .18g0. It will
be seen from this that the internal com-
merce seems to have increased 50 per
cent. in the decade from 18go to 19c0,
and is 10 times as large in 1902 as in the
year 1850.
During the same period, from 1830 to
1002, the population has increased from
23,000,000 to 79,000,0c0, and is therefore
only three and a half times as great as
in 1850, while the internal commerce is
ten times as great as at that time. This
relative gain of internal commerce over
population is due, in part, to the greatly
increased facilities for transportation,
the cheapening of cost of articles utilized,
and the increased earnings and increased
wealth of the people. The railroads have
increased from 0,021 miles in 1850 to
201,839 miles in 1002, and the estimated
wealth of the country from $7,135,780,600
in 1850 to $04,300,000,000 in 1000—a per
capita increase of from. $308 in 1850 to
$1,236 in 1600. This increase in wealth
has been accompanied by an increase in
deposits in banks, those in savings banks
alone increasing from $48,431,130 in 1850
to $2,507,004,580 in 1901.
CONVICT TORTURED TO DEATH.
California Prison Committee Makes a Startling
Report.
San Francisco (Special).—The As-

sembly Committee on Prisons has made |
a report on its investigation of cruel |
pnnishment in the San Quentin and |
Folsom State Prisons.
It finds that the strait-jacket and |
other methods of torture are in use at |
both institutions, though the results are
more disastrous at Folsom than at San |
Quentin. The committee listened to |
many convicts and made the following
report:
“At Folsom we found that one con-
vict, Robert Smith, had been perma-
nently cripnled in his right arm and |
hand and had sustained other injuries. |
In the case of Morris Weiss, alias |
Weitz, we find he sustaified such inju-
ries to his hands and arms as a result |
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| of the punishment that in all proba-
bility he will never be able to work at |
his trade, that of a tailor, again.
“In the case of James Deare we
learned that he was found dead in his
cell within 24 hours after being releas-
ed from the strait-jacket.”
® Killed the Wrong Man.
Jackson, Tenn. (Special).—Robert E. |
McCaw, whose home is said to be in
Rochester, N. Y., was shot to death |
here, presumably by a man who mis-
took McCaw for another who, already |
having a wife, married the daughter of
the man who fired the shot. The mar-|
riage of Albert Bilderback and Miss
Lucy Hudgins, members of a prominent !
family, took place Friday. Later in the
day a warrant was sworn out by Sam-
uel Hudgins, father of the bride, charg-
ing Bilderback with bigamy. At mid-
night Robert McCaw answered a ring |
at the door of the house where he liv-
ed and was shot without warning. Hud-
gins was arrested.
United States Was Coasulted.
Liverpool (By Cable).—Premier Bal- |
four, in a speech at a luncheon given
by the Conservative Club here, declared
the British Government had no choice
but to take action against Venezuela.
The Ministers had shown no undue
haste, no greed for money and no in-
humanity. The United States Govern-
ment, he said, had been taken into con-
fidence at every stage of the proceced-
ings. The Monroe Doctrine had no en-
emies in this country.
Siikwerms Dye Cocoons. :
Washington, D. C. (Special).—To
displace the dyer and cause silkworms
to color silk naturally in any desired
shade is the object of interesting ex-
periments which form the subject of a
special report to the State Department
from United States Consul Atwell at
Roubaix, France. He says that two
‘rench scientists actually have succeed-
ed in producing bright red cocoons by
feeding the silkworms with leaves wash-

ed over with red. Orange and bluc
shades also have been produced.

| nats on state occasions.
it. a of Spain, died in Vienna.
| a furor in the French Chamber of Depu-
| ing constructed in England and Italy
| for Chili and Argentina.
| fused to accept the government's tender
i of seats in the legislative council at Pre-
| College of Surgeons at Dublin, Earl
| of Dudley, lord lieutenant of Ireland,
| made a speech predicting a bright fu-
| ture for Ireland.
{ Dresden, Saxony, to the Crown Prince
{ parties to marry again.
i of
{ Act, were released.
| with their entire crews.
| usurer.
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER,
Domestic.
New York detectives, at the instance
of postoffice inspectors, arrested Henry
G. Cartwright, a broken; William
Treadwell, a broken, and Charles E.
Goodrich, a clerk, charged with im-
proper use of the mails in an alleged
combination for ‘turf speculation.”
John William, alias Cullen, and John
Wittmer, were arrested in New York,
charged with stealing about $10,000
worth of silverware and silks from the
store of R. H., Macy & Co. Wittmer
was head night watchman for the firm.
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, is re-
ported to have entered into an alliance
with Congressman Hearst, of New
York, by which the Heart interests in
Chicago are to support Harrison for a
fourth term in the mayoralty.
The forging of J. Pierpont Morgan's
name in London is said to involve an
amount exceeding $165,000. Mr. Mor-
gan is not acting in the matter, which
concerns only the banks that accepted
the notes.
Two mailcarriers and two prospec-
tors have been lost in the blizzard in
the mountains of Idaho. In Wyoming
and Colorado the weather has been
very severe and livestock has suffered.
Recent advances in the stocks of the
four principal express companies—the
Adams, the American, the Wells-Far-
go and the United States—have revived
rumors of consolidation.
A faithful Newfoundland dog, after
arousing the family of George Copper-
smith, at Hawthorne, N. J., and thus
enabling them to escape from their
burning home, perished in the flames.
William H. Kimball, former presi-
dent of the Seventh National Bank of
New York, was sentenced to pay $5000
for over-certification of checks.
Margaret Snedegar, alias Blanche
Smith, aged 26 years, was found dead
in her room, in Cleveland, O., and the
police think she was murdered.
John Cummings, on trial in Welling-
ton, Kan., for the murder of Annie Dish-
man, claims that his wife is the real
murderer. ;
George Nelk, a youth, who murdered
his mother and fatally wounded his sis-
ter Minnie at their home, in German-
town, Pa., is still at large. His brother
arrived from Baltimore and visited his
dying sister.
Reginia Curry, aged 24 years, was as-
saulted and murdered on a lonely road
just outside Philadelphia late Thursday
night.
got off, and the conductor saw him fol-
low her.
Robert E. McGraw was shot and killed
in Jackson, Tenn., presumably by Samuel
Hudgins, who mistook him for a biga-
mist who had married Hudgins’ daugh-
ter.
The collier Ajax brought to New York
the victims of the gun explosion on the
battleship Massachusetts.
The First National Bank of Asbury,
N. J., was closed and the national bank
examiner placed in charge.
William Hooper Young, convicted in
New York of murder in the second de-
gree, was taken to Sing Sing.
George L. O. Perry, colored, was in-
dicted for the murder of Miss Agnes
McPhee at Somerville, Mass.
Fereign.
The president and other officials of the
Macedonian Committee have been ar-
rested, and the Bulgarian government
has determined to dissolve the commit |
tees in Bulgaria and place a strong mili-
tary cordon along the Macedonian fron- |
tier.
The United States revenue cutter
Seminole, Lieutenant Sturtevant com-
manding, made two ineffectual attempts
to rescue the five American fishing |
schooners in the ice packs near Bay Is-
lands, of Newfoundland.
| Mr.
When she left a car a man also oi
{ their claims, Mr. Bowen pledges the
| signature of her first protocol.

A British punitive expedition occupied |
Kano, West Africa, after putting to |
flight the Emir of Kano and 1,000 horse- |
men. The enemy lost heavily.
United States Ambassador Tower, at
Berlin, has adopted a uniform some-
what similar to that worn by other diplo-
he Archduchess Elizabeth, mother of
t'.e former queen regent, Maria Chris-
“Tax Regis had two duels near Paris,
ad his insulting conduct on the field
lid to another challenge.
YTaurice Binder, a Nationalist, caused
ties by making charges against the
Premier and other ministers in connec-
tion with the Humbert case.
The German government has decided
not to buy the four battleships now be-
Generals Botha, Delarey and Smuts re-
‘oria. ; :
At a luncheon given by the Conserva-
tive Club in Liverpool Premier Balfour
replied to Lord Rosebery’s criticism.
Bolivia has accepted unconditionally,
but under protests, the Brazilian de-
mands in the Acre matter.
King Edward received Marconi, the
wireless telegraph inventor at Bucking-
ham Palace.
At the annual dinmer of the Royal
The decree of divorce, granted at
and Princess Frederick permits both
William Duffy, Nationalist member
Parliament, and three others im-
prisoned in Dublin under the Coercion
The British gunboat Harrier has cap-
tured three pirate ships in the Red Sea
Rev. Dr. Randall Davidson was en-
throned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Serious loss of life has followed an
outbreak on the Island of Madagaxcar.
The Humbert family were brought for
trial in Paris on the charge of slandering
a money-lender, whom they had called a
Financial.
Lake Superior charcoal has advanced
$1.50 a ton at Chicago since last month.
A merger of Alabama coal, iron, steel
and railroad properties is talked of. The
capital suggested is $250,000,0c0.
A bill was introduced in the Legisla-
ture at Albany to issue $50,000,000 State
bonds for the improvement of public
roads.
The ratio of operating expenses to
earnings in 19o2 for all the railroads in
the United States as officially reported
was 64.62 per cent. The previous year

it was 64.86 per cent.
PROTOCOLS ALL SIGNED
Britain, Germany and Italy in Line for
Peace With Venezuela,
THE BLOCKADE WILL BE RAISED.
Midnight When the Signing Took Place at
British Embassy — Within Twenty-four Hours
the Commanders of the Blockading Fleet
Along the Venezuelan Coast Will Receive
Orders to Withdraw Warships.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—Her-
be.t W. Bowen, Venezuela's represen-
tative in the peace negotiations at
Washington, has signed with each of
the allies’ representatives here a pro-
tocol providing for the immediate rais-
ing of the Venezuelan blockade, and for
the reference of the question of prefer-
ential treatment of the claims of the
allies against Venezuela to The Hague
arbitration tribunal. The final formali-
ties occurred at the British Embassy.
At 11.30 o'clock p. m. Herbert Dering,
first secretary of the British Embassy,
announced tha tthe British protocol
had just been signed, and that signa-
ture of the Italian and German proto-
cols would follow in the order named.
The Italian protocol was signed at
11.50 and the German protocol at 12.10
o'clock, the presence of Baron Stern-
berg at the White House musical de-
laying a final close to the negotiations
until after midnight.
The British protocol was in English;
the Italian in Italian and German, and
the German in German and English.
Bowen signed in duplicate for
Venezuela; Sir Michael Herbert for
Great Britain; Signor Mayor des
Plances for Italy, and Baron Spec von
Sternberg for Germany. Immediately
on the signing of the last protocol ca-
bles were dispatched to London, Berlin
and Rome announcing the fact.
3y the provisions of these prelimin-
ary protocols, which have required
more than three weeks of constant ne-
gotiations, Venezuela makes two dis-
tinct gains—the immediate raising of a
blockade from which she has been suf-
fering for some weeks, and the return
of all her vessels, war and merchant,
which have been captured by the allied
Great Britain, Germany and Italy re-
ceive advance payments of £5500 each,
Great Britain receiving her .payment
on the signature of the protocol, and
Germany and Italy within 30 and 6o
days from date. Germany, in addition,
will receive five monthly payments un-
til the full amount paid her in advance
aggregates $340,000.
As a guaranty for the satisfaction of
allies a share with the other creditor
nations in 30 per cent. of the customs
receipts of the two ports of Laguayra
and Porto Cabello. This percentage
will be set aside beginning March 1
and retained in the Venezuelan treas-
ury until The Hague tribunal shall de-
cide whether it shall be distributed
without preference among the claimant
nations or whether the allied powers of
Great Britain, Germany and Italy shall
receive preferential payments.
Italy, by her protocol, gains immedi-
ate payment of her first-class claims,
without further adjudication, as soon
as the joint commission at Caracas shall
have passed on the remainder of he
claims. In round numbers the adjud¥
cated Italian claims amount to $560,000,
from which will be subtracted the $27,- |
500 to be ‘paid her 60 days from the |
The |
Italian Ambassador also has secured
for his government the insertion in
his protocol of an agreement that Ven-
ezuela will insert in her treaty with.
Italy the favored-nation clause possess-
ed by the other nations.
Castro Hears the Good News.
Caracas (By Cable).—News of the
raising of the blockade was received by |
President Castro in a eablegram from
Mr. Bowen, who said:
“The protocols” have
Risckade will™ be raised
Congratulations.”
To this message President Castro re-
plied as follows:
“Bowen, Washington. In the name of
Venezuela and in my own name I offer
you expressions of my eternal gratitude
for the decided spontaneousness with
which you served the cause of the hu-
manity that distinguishes superior minds.
(Signed) “CASTRO.”
ACCUSED THE FRENCH PREMIER.
been signed.
to-morrow.
Chamber of Deputies In An Uproar Over the
Humbert Case.
Paris (By Cable).—The sitting of the
Chamber of Deputies Friday afternoon
was suspended amid an uproar, which
was precipitated by charges brought by
Expulsion for Hazing.
Representative Charles Dick intro-
duced a bill providing that the superin-
tendent of the Naval Academy shall
make such rules, subject to the approva
of the Secretary of the Navy, as will
effectually prevent the practice of hazing
at the academy.
shipman found guilty of hazing shall be
summarily expelled” and shall not be
eligible for reappointment to the corps
or as a commissioned officer in the army
or navy until two years after the gradu-
ation of the class of which he was a
member,
Indian Bill Reported.
The Senate Committee on Indian Af-
fairs concluded its consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill. The commit-
tée recommends a number of changes,
and its amendments add $1,488,185 to the
aggregate of the bill as passed by the
House, making a grand total of $10,434,
213. The most important item of in-
crease is $1,200,000 to pay awards to
loyal Creek Indians whose property was
destroyed during the war of the rebellion.
Election Laws for Havraii.
Representatives Graham, of Pennsyl-
vania, from the Committee on Territor-
ies, favorably reported the bill to re-
laws of the Territory of Hawaii with
amendments. The bill provides, among
other things, that election officials shall
be apportioned equally between the two
political parties. Provision also is made
for an official ballot, giving the names
of candidates, the office to which nomi-
nated, and the political party.
Urging Eight Hour Bill.
Mr. McComas gave notice in the Sen-
brought from Mr. Quay the statement
that ‘“‘until the Senator from Maryland
and those obstructionists behind him”
consent to the fixing of a day ‘when a
he would oppose any action on the eight-
hour bill.
Refused to Reconsider.
Mr, Pettus, of Alabama, sought to re-
open discussion of the Alaskan boundary
of the previous day. This was resisted.
by Senator Lodge. He moved to lay the
motion to reconsider on the table.
was a roll call and Mr. Lodge's motion
was carried 36 to 25, which closed the
subject.
Includes Naphtha Boats.
The House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries authorized a fav-
orable report on the bill ‘making ap-
plicable to vessels ‘propelled by ‘gas,
naphtha, or electric motor which carry
passengers or freight for hire the same
regulations provided by law for steam
vessels.
In the Departments,
The House adopted the Sundry Civil
Bill and then broke all records in the
ing 325 private pension bills and clear-
ing the calendar.
The suite which the new Chinese
minister will bring to Washington will
contain people of high rank, a depart-
ure from the traditional policy of
China.
The Senate agreed to the House
amendments to the Elkins Anti-rebate
Bill, which now goes to the President.
The foot-and-mouth disease is
mont.
| The Elkins bill passed the House by
a vote of 241 to 6.
Armond (Mo.), Glass (Dem. Va.),
Hooker (Dem., Miss.), Klutz (Dem.
N. C.) and Neville. .(Dem., Neb.).
The Senate Committee on Postoffices
and Post Roads decided to amend the
Postoffice Appropriation Bill by adding
as an amendment the Omnibus Statehood
3ill. The vote on tl
was 8 to 5. ~
Secretary. Root-ias issued an order to
carry out the purpose of Congress di-
recting the submission by E. V. Valen-
tine ,of Richmond, Va., of designs for a
bronze statue of Gen. Hugh” Mercer.
"Tt is stated that the President has de-
termined to call an extra session
Congress unless the Senate ratifies the
Panama Canal and the Cuban Recipro-
city Treaties.
The Senate Committee on Cuba con-
sidered Major Rathbotie’s petition for an
| investigation of the circumstances con-
| nected with his trial.
A bill was passed by the Senate mak-
ing Chester, Pa., a subport of entry.
The Senate Committee on Commerce
agreed to report adversely the nomin-
i ation of Dr. W. D. Crum to be collector
of the port at Charleston, S.C. The
vote on confirmation was 6 to 8. All
the Democrats voted aginst confirma-
tion, and they were reinforced by. tl
{ of California. > :
An amendment to cut in half the ap-

Maurice Binder, Nationalist, against the
Premier and other ministers in connec-
tion with the Humbert case.
The Deputy accused the Government
of corruption in the matter, and called
Premier Combs a chameleon. The Vice-
President, who was in the chair, ordered
Binder to withdraw his terms, but the |
latter refused. Amid a general uproar,
the Ministers left the hall.
M. Binder continued to use harsh
terms in characterizing the Government's |
act‘on, referring to the Premier as ‘“‘sin-
uous.”
The Vice-President finally became so
exasperated that he ordered the galleries
cleared, and, putting on his hat, left the |
chair.
M. Binder refused to withdraw or
apologize, and was censured, and the
sitting was suspended, but M. Binder re-
mained in possession of the tribune until |
the House reassembled.
He then refused to leave the tribune
until threatened with expulsion.
$25,000 Lost in the Mail.
Indianapolis, Ind. (Special).—A mail
pouch, containing upward of $25,000,
placed on the Pennsylvania train leaving
Louisville at 8 p. m., is missing and
after making every effort to find it the
postal authorities have about decided to
give up. It is supposed that it was
stolen from the Indianapolis Union Rail-
way Company's station. One draft for
$17,000, said to be from a Louisville bank
to a New York bank, was lost in the
missing pouch.
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propriation for the relief of distress in
| the Philippines from $3,000,000 to $1,-
500,000 was defeated in the House, but
{ the language of the paragraph was
| the expenditure of the money.
{ Mr. William Loeb, Jr.,, of New York
will succeed Mr. Cortelyou as secretary
to the President upon the latter's ele-
Department of Commerce.
Mr. Stewart E. Barber, of Easton,
| Md.,, was appointed an assistant pay-
| master in the Navy by the President.
Admiral Dewey is. confined to
| home by a severe cough and cold.
Secretary Hay and Mr. Brun, the Dan-
approaching termination by lit
| the period for time for the ratification ot
| treaty for the cession to the United |
| States of the Danish West India Islands.
fair progre
priation Bill.
The Department of Commerce Bil
was agreed upon by the Senate withou
debate. z SE
An interesting insight of the losses
the Straits Settlements and Indo-China
is given in a set of consular reports pub-
lished by the State Department.
Minister Bowen, acting for Venezuela,
has formally accepted Great
the dispute to The Hague arbitration
tribunal.

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ate that he would call up the eight-hour
bill at the the earliest opportunity, which |
vote can be taken on the Statehoood bill, |
treaty by moving to reconsider the vote |
There |
matter of private pension bills by pass=| Of the train
re- |
ported to have broken out again in Ver- |
Those voting in the |
negative were Messrs. Cochran and: De- |
1e motion to amend |
of |
votes of Jones of Nevada and Perkins |
| modified to require annual ‘reports of |
vation to the new cabinet portfolio, the |
his |
ish minister, have been discussing the |
tation of |
The House of Representative s made |
s on the Sundry Civil Appro-
caused by the depreciation of silver in |
Britain's |
protocol framed to secure a reference of |
The Siemens-Halske and Schuckert |
electrical companies, of BeNin, have de- |
dollars at least.
several of the ma
When the ex
that there was
| package of m
| hand upon a rack
this money proba
fact will not be dc
{ ever, until an opp
a search of the w
After the exprq
| the package of mo
he jumped out of 1
side. In the exy
said to have been h
| nip, but he and t
went on with the tr
| hurt badly enough {
| turn to Butte.
{ Sheriff Quinn and
|« mile and a half o
| met by Division Suj
| who was a passet
up. Supermtenden
the front: of the
smgped by the
| from slBoting, feari
| trainmen.
{ Every officer
| called to South
| proaches to the
| guarded.
| ~ Detective Murphy
{ McCullagh on suspi
robber
land eighty-five dolla
| laugh’s possession. _ 2 a
Helena, Mont. gb pecial). — The | 410
Northern Pacific Railay Company has | of A
| offered a reward of $3000 for the arrest | gene
| and conviction of the five men who are | sions
| said to have held upy the Burlington | of the
| Express just east of Bit The: com- | t
to, t
| pany will pay the $500¢ > 4rd for the
| entire gang or $1000 f a1 member
convicted.
STRIKE HEARINGS END.
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| Clarence S. Darro’ws Argument Completes
Miners’ Case.
hiladelphia, Pa. (Special).—At last | ¢
| the beginning of the end is reached in
the long-drawn-out hearings of the An-
thracite Strike Commission. - When the
Commission adjourned Friday. afternoon,
after the last word had been spoken in |
hebalf of the miners by Clarence S. Dar-
row. that remained to be done
for the Commission to struggle with
great mass of testimony and render
decision, which, no matter what it 1
be, will be binding upoiboth operat
and miners for three yea
tion}
The Session of Fifty-Six Days.
October 15—Commission named
President.
October 24—Meets and organi
NVashington, with Judge Gray as
man.
October 20—
niines in Pent
November
ended.
November = 14—Testimony
aton, with John Mitchell
November 22—Recess taken.
December 3—Hearings re
December 17—Miners’
osed.
December
{ to testify.
December
days.
January
Philadelphia.
January 10—Operators
their witnesses.
February
February
| niiners’ lawyers.
February 13—All arguments en
The Commission has been mn
| 56 days. It has heard 3500
Nine of these were called b;
| mission, 244 by the union mi
{ the non-union miners and
operators. The stenographer
approximately 9200 typewt
testimony, or 2,300,000 words.
Starts on inspec
6—Inspection
S1dc
18—Non-unien
20—Adjournment
resume
6—Hearings

g—Arguments
Germany Declines Warships.
Berlin (By Cable).—The U
Navy Department, after cons
proposal that Germany purcl
battle-ships being cor icted
tina and Chile in Eng
decided not to do so.
Drowned in a Gale.
Washington, N. C. (Special
ing the heavy gale of Thursda)
skipper Manco was capsized
Quarter bay. ~ Capt. Robert
| master, and two white mem!
| crew were drowned. Rep
flicting. One rumor is that f
also of the boat’s crew, were
The same evening in Pamlic
Form Point, two miles dis
Washington, the schooner Ia
Son was sunk. The crew of t
saved.
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