Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 9, 1900, Page 2

The Pevari--Review. E. C. Kiley. T, J, Austed, KILEY & AUSTED, Editors and Publishers, GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Kansas has sent twenty cars of corn to famine sufferers in India, Some scuthern state should contribute a staff of ylack mammies to make it into corn dodgers. After all, it seems ohly natural that the fire fiend, raging upon the grounds of the Paris exposition, shouid select the water palace as the one place which it was his business to destroy. Kansas City hotel men are prepar- ing to give every convention delegate a bed by putting five beds in each room, At $5 a day for each of these beds t seems to be a game Of high five. Trades unions hitherto have been but little known in Paris. It now is announced that the 3,000 assistants employed in the three great shops, the Bon Marche, Louvre and Samaritaine, are meditating the organization of an association of this kind. Too much business pressure seems to be responsible for the fact that Chi- cago’s gang of porch-climbers succeeds in evading apture. The police, accord- ing to a recent victim of the burglars, are always too busy to attend to such cases and the porch-climbers are en- gaged in so flourishing a trade that they have no time to bother with po- licemen, James J. Corbett is anxious to be- come a congressman from New York city, and his friends declare that he will be elected. Mr. Corbett might not shine in legislative halls, Lut it should be a difficult affair to tear him from his seat if once in the cha larger man than either Se or Mat Quay, and his science should enable him to whip any sergeant-at- arms that ever trod the @ There has been provided a machit.e for automatically cleaning shoes. The foot is inserted into a prope-ly arrang- ed opening and the railing of the ma- chine is firmly grasped. A small motor actuates rotary brushes that re- move the mud. The foot is next placed in the cking arrangement Proper, which acts as the dauber, and the ‘ad set of brushes is devoted to polishing. A needie on a machine indicates the various stages in the operation. The members of the International Commercial Congress held in Phila- delphia were told by Mr. W. C. Barker, as the result of his observations among European manufactories, that time seems to be regarded as of compara- little ye abroad, while in Am- a the maxim that ‘time is eal practically applied. Mr, Bark¢; yuna that in a fargé agricaltural ma- ry manufactory in Europe the only trip hammer in use was worked by hand, the weight being drawn up with ropes and pulley, and allowed to The American power-hammer 's 100 and more blows in a min- Recent observations tending to show nat ants possess a sense of hearing e been described in this. column. fessor Metcalf of the Woman’s Col- Baltimore, adds some intersting ny on the subject in a letter to} Science. One of his students discover- ed that a colony of black ants was thrown into a state of great excitement py sounds of one particular pitch. + them,but when the pec! § struck, either on a violin or with a whistle, the ants would become excited, and if the sounds were continued would grow frantic, some of them falling into a water moat surrounding their nest. Ants of other species paid no attention to the sounds. hough the inhabitants of the ear are not perceptibly affected by the wandering motion of the North Pole, yet it is a phenomenon of un- ceasing interest to astronomers, and on January ist a new plan for investigat- ing it went into effect. The motion, which is suggestive of the wabbling ‘of a top, is extremely slight when the wast size of the earth is taken into account. Since 1890 the North Pole has never been more than 35 feet away from the place it should occupy if the, earth’s axis of revolution never varied in direction. But the motion is er- ratic, and its cause is obscure. The new plan of observation provides four observing stations, all close to the 39th degree of north latitude, and all within 500 feet of the same parallel. These are at Midzusawa, Japan; Carloforte, Sardinia! Gaithersburg, Maryland,and Ukiah, California, Precisely similar observations with exactly the same kind of zenith telescopes will be made at each station on carefully: selected stars. Any change in the direction of the pole reveals itself by a shift of the stars. . sound Secretary Wilson proposes that the postman’s wagon in the rural free de- livery service, which is now rapidly extending, shall carry the daily weath- er forecast, with cold wave and frost warnings, for the benefit of farmers. With universal rural free delivery, every houscholder may receive a daily visit from a representative of the United States government. “The sug- gestion is a reasonable one that. the mail carrier should attend to other government matters, of which a distri- bution of the weather forecasts may be the first upon an extending dist, PROUDER THAN EVER WERE GRIZZLED VETERANS THIS YEAR THAT THEY STOOD FOR LIBERTY. IN ’61. And Stauncher Are the People, Day by Day, For Liberty For All Men, and More and More Do They Condemn “Criminal Aggression”—While Liberty Dies in South Africa People of the North Star State Give Welcome to the Boer Appealing Envoys—Coming State Convention—Next Fourth of July—Mr. Towne’s Candidacy — Lessons of the Hour—Other State and National Polit- ical Points of a Busy Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, June 4, 1900, ‘And Freedom shrieked when Kos- ciusko fell.”” Before this shall have reacked all its readers of the week, Minnesota, ever brave and true to liberty and to every appeal for human freedom, will have given in her,reception to the Boer com- missioners her sentiments on the sub- ject of destruction of republics, and the stifling of the desire for self govern- ment wherever it may be throughout the world. Coming immediately upon the heels of Memorial day, with its les- sons of all that was suffered for the cause of country and political freedom, the public mind and heart were the more responsive, if possible, to the ques- tions involved. Indeed, if required no close scrutiny of all connected with ob- servance of Memorial day to find proofs of some deeply moving power in the general public mind. This was seen in humerous directions—in the sentiments of numerous short addresses in the pub- lic schools, in selections of music, in the public addresses, and especially in the disappearance, in great degree, of that flip-flap sentiment about ‘duty’? and “Amiericanization” of the world by the bullets and bayonets of conquest. In- deed, in at least one instance, that of the general address in Minneapolis, there was distinct and pertinent politi- cal allusion in the denunciation of trusts and combinations as destructive of individuality. Coming from a thick and thin Republican partisan, though a clergyman, the incident was certainly significant. Nor does it lessen the interest that while the Boer envoys aré making their appeals their beloved country is appar- ently in the death throes of English sub- jugation, as also seem the Filipinos, under American conquest. It heightens the interests and deepen sympathy, at the same time that it in- tensifies condemnation of our un- ; Amer: - “By the way, the week has bidgene to T light explanation of the Republican holdoff attitude on the Boer question. It seems that the Republicans are rely- ing on English sympathizers to make goca-the losses they admit they will have smong anti-imperialists, on both Philippine and Boer questions. In fact it leaks out that at the recent meeting of the state committee a report was made that there are 80,000 English born citizens, whose votes they expect to get to offset such losses from other foreign born citizens and from other Americans. It is a missing calculation. The week brought serious losses to Twin City citizenship in the death of several old residents, including Colonel John H. Stevens, the first settler of Minneapolis, and John P. Rea, the well’ known jurist and Lyeteran soldier. All official recalcitrants look alike to Public Examiner Pope, and so his sub- ordinates feel just as much at home with the Democratic ‘‘gone wrong” treasurer of Winona as with the Re- publican of any other county. It is well to record that Senator Tel- ler’s resolution of sympathy with the Boers was buried in the committeé on foreign relations on motion of Senator Davis of Minnesota. But never mind, it has been passedin every nook and corner of the land a thousand times over, by liberty loving Americans. Avery pretty little game is being played by Minneapolis Republicans, en- deavoring to create opposition to the renomination of Mayor Gray. But. everybody ison. Itis a complete waste of the raw material. Reports of the Lincoln movement con- tinue to be immensely favorable. Chair- man Corser has completed all arrange- ments for the national convention, and 1,600 to 2,000 delegates are expected. The movement is reaching out to great numbers of independents who will drop McKinley and stand for Bryan. This is especially true of the anti-imperial- ists and the anti-trusters. There is scarcely any diminution of the flood of good things being said both in and out of the state for Hon. C. A. ‘Towne in connection with the vice pres- idential nomination, At home it is but a repetition of what we all know him to that can be said for such well beloved son. Nor does all this enthusiam and ad- miration endanger that wise action that all feel must be taken in the final deter- mination, towit, that, so far as the state Democratic convention is concerned, its warm endorsement of Mr. Towne, in whatever form it may be put, shall nevertheless submit such final deter- mination to the wisdom of the national convention. The warmest friends of Mr. Towne advise this course. be, and away from home it is the best |: and ‘exceedingly enthusiastic conven- tion that will select the Minnesota rep- resentation on the 20th inst. There is likewise prospect of the largest delega- tion to Kansas City that has ever gono to a national convention from this state. |. At least-a trainload may be expected and possibly two. Duluth expects a carload. It is hoped to announce all particulars by another week. The Democrats and Lincoln Republicans ex- pect to join teams, with features appro- priate to the situation, with enthusiasm and harmony. © We notice in some of the state press references to the ‘fight’? said to be “on’’ for “instructions for Towne’’ by the state Democratic convention. All of our friends cannot be too strongly reassured that there is nothing of the kind on foot, since there is no proposi- tion, even by the warmest of Towne advocates, for ‘instructions’ that would bind Minnesota to any action conflicting with the wisest determina- tion at Kansas City. The matter is covered elsewhere in this letter, but the fact should be emphasized that no friend of Mr. Towne expects or desires any ac- tion here which will interfere with such calm, final decision at Kansas City, as will undoubtedly result. Speaking of national conventions, that at Philadelphia is expected to be opened by prayer by a Philadelphia preacher who prayed for the first Re- publican convention, that of 1856. What a list of political sins the reverend gentleman will have before him for his petition for forgiveness. At this writing congress is on the point of adjourning, and it will be a good riddance of bad rubbish. 7 Speaking of what has not been ac- complished under Republican adminis- tration, our carrying trade is nearly wiped from the seas. Of 2,626 vessels through the Suez canal in the past year by the four great nations, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, 2,000 flew the British, 378 the German and 223 the French flag. Our ships numbered but 25, most all of them) troop transports to and from the Philip- pines. Republican policy takes money out of the carrying trade, and puts it into gi- | gantic trusts and combinations. In a Twin City Methodist prayer. meeting Thursday evening last the ‘“‘de- liverance of our good brother, the presi- dent,”’ was devoutly referred to in a long-winded prayer, reference being made to the fact that the general con- ference suppressed the condemnation of McKinley in the canteen episode. Of course that ‘‘good brother” would not read it if offered him, but we should like to have some one show him the ar- raignment made by William Lloyd Gar- rison, son of the abolitionist, in which he presents the proofs not only of army drinkin, 38, at th the | cagteens, but_the hor- rors existing in “Manila; not only, of drink but of licentiousness, both flour syheore the president a3 commar- -chief has abso-ute power to sup- press or regulate. Mr. Garrison got his facts from personal, unimpeach- able sources. It is a_ story to shock the whole world. Of 1,300 men in a certain regiment, 480 were regis+ tered for venereal diseases. On arrival of our troops lewd women numbered perhaps 20. They flocked there in) droves immediately on relaxation of tha Spanish regulation when we took con- trol, 300 prostitutes of all Asiatic raced coming by one steamer. The multiplied houses were patrolled and protected by. American scldiers and still are, as is the saloon, along with the now tnré- stricted canteen system. Chaplain Wells is quoted as saying that ‘‘whisky and bad women bring more death than bullets or other causes in the Philip- “pines.&, BB os And this is the accompaniment of the ‘dmperial’’ policy cf colonizati that finds commendations from the’ clergy and pleas for ‘‘blessings’’ in the prayers of the supposedly ‘faithful.’ We earnestly commend the Philippine ar- raignment to suchas lead in “expan- sion”’ meetings, or who stigmatize those who do not feel like approving, as ‘‘cop- perheads”’ and “traitors,” ‘keeping up a fire in the rear.’” What labor may expect, as fruition of ‘door opening’ for admission of Coolie labor, is shown in the iron’ re- gions above Duluth, where Japs are taking the place of former laborers.! Install the trusts safely by McKinley’s re-election, and before the next four years pass Japs, Chinese, Filipinos and Asiatic what-nots will be doing all the work at starvation wages. In the lan- guage of Hanna, ‘‘We know our busi- ness. ae man, “I papered my three rooms at cost of $7.35. cost me $14.” «Am T earning more?” he asked in response to a question. ‘Well, I guess not. I was laid off by my trusted com- pany overa year ago and am doing whatever I can strike, and little enough of that. Men that were kept on the road get $100 a month, against $125 to $200 then. Yousee it requiresno talent or ability to sell goods for the trusts as you are simply a messenger to go around and inform them of the latest order issued. Any man can call and take orders when all the terms in a line of trade are alike. “And I'll tell you this. I voted for “Two years ago,”’ said a cm at The same thing has jus McKinley in ’96, but I’m going to vote for Bryan this year because he repre- sents return to the old-time system of trade and ef government.” Here and there all over the country are patriotic men desiring a way within their means to assist the people’s cause. To such we commend the suggestion of The National Watchman, that they send that grand paper to lists of friends that may be reached to vote with us, for the rest of the campaign, forward. ing the amount they feel like contrib. There is every ‘indication of a large | uting. It will do great good, GSO BOBS - IN PI PRETORIA]. TRANSVAAL CAPITAL SURRENDERS UNCONDITIONALLY, Boers Were Driven From Nearly All Their Positions Through ports That a Battalion of Impe- Attacked and Obliged to Surrender a Supericr Foree—England Goes, Wild Over Lord Roberts’ Victoria Health, and Retreated Pretoria — Roberts Re- rial Yeomanry Victory — Queen Drinks to “Bobs'” Londen, June 6.—The war office has received the following from» Lord Roberts: “Pretoria, June 4, 12:55 p. m.—Just before dark yesterday the enemy were beaten back from nearly all the posi- tions they had been holding, and Ian Hamilton’s mounted infantry followed them to within. 200 yards of Pretoria, through which they retreated shastily. De Lisle then sent an officer with a flag of truce into the town Demanding Its Surrender in my name. Shortly before midnight I was awakened by two officers of the South African republic, who ‘brought me a letter from Botha proposing an armistice for the purpose of settling the terms of surrender. I replied that I would gladly meet the commandant general the next morning, but that I was not prepared to discuss any terms as to the surrender of the town, which must be unconditional. I asked for a reply at daybreak as I had ordered the troops to march into the town as soon as it was light. In his reply Botha teld me that he had decided Not to Defend Pretoria, and that he trusted women, children and propertvy would be protected. At 10 o'clock a. m. to-day, while on the line of march I was met by three of the principal officers with a flag of truce, stating their wish to surrender the town. It was arranged that Pre- toria should be taken possession of by her majesty’s troops at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Mrs. Botha and Mrs. Kruger are both in Pretoria. Some few of the British Prisoners have been taken away, but the majority are still at Waterval. Over a hundred of the officers are in Pretcria. The few I have seen are looking well.” Disaster to Imperial Yeomanry. London, June 6. — Following is the text of the dispatch from Lord Rob- erts announcing the disaster to the Thirteenth battalion, imperial yeo- manry: “Pretoria Station, June 5, 12 m.—I regret to report that the Thir teenth Imperial yeomanry had to sur- render to a very supericr force of the enemy May 31 near Lindley. On re- ceiving information of the battalion ed I ordered Methuen to Man) to its assis- ta ethuen to the Rescue. ‘Methuen was then on the march on the Hilbron side of Kroonstad, and half an hour after the receipt of my telegram on June 1 he started off. By 10 a. m. of the following day he had marched forty-four miles in twenty- five hours, but he was too late to res- cue Co, Sprigge’s yeomanry. Methuen attacked the Boers, who were between 2,000 and 3,000 strong, and after a running fight of five hou completely routed the enemy. It very re- greitable circumstance, but I trust it will not be very long before the Irish yeomanry are released from captivity.” Queen Drinks Roberts’ Health. London, June 6. — Queen Victoria, surrounded by the duke gud duchess a gerne of York, Princess Chri ian, Princess Victoria and many other notables of her court, drank to the health of Lord Roberts and the army at Balmoral last evering. A great bonfire, lighted at her majesty’s comirand, blazed on Craiggowan mountain, illuminating the country for miles areund. The nation joins in the toast, glorifying Lord Roberts and turbulently rejoicing in his victory. The dispatches of Lord Roberts telling of a incidents before the . suspomaeniig. of the Capital by the civilians, stand alone, as the correspondents with him have not had their turn with the wires. Lord Rob- erts’ postscript announcing the loss of the yeomanry battalion came too late for the public to know it last evening. ‘The newspaper commentators consider the incident deplorable, but as having no weight to speak of in the results. The battalion numbered between 400 and 500. Gen. Botha and most of his men got away from Pretoria, This is inferred from Lord Roberts’ Message, but the presumption is that the Boer commandant general cannot escape the British dispositions without a fight. Operations elsewhere seem to have dwindled to nothing. Gen, Baden- Powell joined Gen. Hunter on Sunday at Lichtenburg. Sir Redvers Buller has not moved. Bennett Burleigh, wiring from Johannesburg, says Presi- dent Kruger took £2,000,000 in cash to Middleburg. Mr. Burleigh and Guy Escoll, an American correspondent, entered Johannesburg the night before Lord Roberts occupied the city and made a tour of it unmolested by the carmed burghers. England Goes Wild. England celebrated Jast night the fall of Pretoria very much as she did the relief of Mafeking. Drunkenness has been a trifle less than when Baden- Powell was the hero of the moment, put in London and other large towns the scenes last night were particular- ly a repetition of those which marked the other victories, and long after mid- night uproarious yelling, the tooting of horns and discordant chants ascended from streets usually at such an hour as still as the grave. During the evening processions moved along the Strand, Picadilly and the other lead- 4ng thoroughfares. In fact so great was the crush that the only method of locomotion was to join one of the processions which stopped all traffic. NOeOCCRKTIN/LC DARL NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. jame Delegates-at-Large to the Kansas City Convention. New York, June 6. — The Demo- cratic state convention ‘yesterday elected the following delegates to the national convention: David B. Hill, Richard Croker, Edward Murphy and Augustus Van Wy: Alternates, Frank Campbell, Jacob Ruppert, Jr., Cc. Morgan Sanford and James. Sheve- lin. Electors-at-large: Frederick Cook of Rochester, Robert C. Titus of Buffalo. The platform adopted con- tains no reaftirmation of the Chicago platform of 1896, but a declaration that the party in the state will support the platform of the Kansas C m vention. The platform declares against war taxes in time of peace; de- claves for parity of gold and silver as currency; demands abolition - of all customs and tariffs between Porto Rico and the United States; con- demns all trusts and monopolies and entangling alliances; demands just and liberal pension laws and election of United States senators by the people and favors the nomination of William J. Bryan. The convention gave pre- dictions of being very stormy, but ended very quietly. The particular feature of the convention was the domination of affairs by Former Sen- ator D. B. Hill. The silver men pro- fess to he satisfied with the result. MISSOURI DEMOCRATS. Wrangle Over Contsting Delega- tions Delays Business. | Kansas City, June 6.—A protracted wrangle in the credentials committee over ten contesting celegations from St. Louis and three from Kansas City blocked the deliberations of the state Democratit convention that met here yesterday to nominate a full state ticket. In both cases it was a con-) test between machine and anti-ma- ching factions. The indications are that the anti-machine men will win a majority of the seats. ASK FOR MILITIA. St. Louis Business Men Appeal to the Governor. St. Louis, June 6.—The strike situa- tion has assumed such a serious phase that yesterday fifty prominent citizens united in a telegram to Goy. Stephens asking him to call out the militia for the protection of life and property Negotiations between the strikers and the St. Louis Transit company looking to a settlement of the strike are off for the present, and probably will not be resumed until the strikers agree not to demand the discharge of the men now in the employ of the company in erder that they may re- gain the positions they gave up when the strike was declared. Attorney Lehmarn, for the Transit company, stated plainly yesterday that every man now in the service of the com- pany must be retained in the place assigned him, and until this is assented to by the sirikers negotiations as to other matters are useless. ' CAPT. COGHLAN VERY ILL. Sn Bad Navy Department Orders Capt. Dyer to Relieve Him. Washington, June 6. — Word has been received at the navy department that Capt. B. J. Coghlan, who com- manded the cruiser Raleigh in the bat- tle of Manila bay, is seriously ill and has been removed to the hospital to un- dergo treatinent. The department has ordered to duty as his successor in command of the Puvet sound naval station Capt. N. M. Dyer, who com- manded the cruiser Baltimore unde Admiral Dewey. When Capt. Cogh- lan recovers he will relieve Capt. Dyer. The advices of the department as to Capt. Coghlan’s condition are meager, and it is not known how seri- ous his condition is. GREGON ELECTION. Rpublicans Carry the State by a Safe Majority Portland, ‘Or., June 6.—Complete re- turns from twenty-two counties out of the thirty-three in the state show that in Monday’s election the Repub- licans carried he head of the ticket by at least 8,000 plurality. Returns so far give Wolverton, Rep., for justice of the supreme court, a plurality of 7, For congressman in the First district Tongue, Rep.. has 2,421 plurality. In the second district Moody, Rep., for congress, has 5,550 plurality. The Re- publicans will control both branches of the legislature and will have a ma- jority of 22 on joint ballot. MOORS ARE MASSING, Will Attack the Advanced Posts of the French. London, June 6.—Special dispatches received from Algiers portray a seri- ous condition. Thousands of Moors are massing at Figuey and in the neighborhood, determined upon an attack upon the advanced posts of the French. The French columns have joined hands at Zoubia, but the men suffer intensely from heat and thirst and hundreds of camels are dead. The French are preparing intrench- ments and are confident of their abil- ity to repel an attack and even to take the offensive against Figuey. STILL UNCHECKED. Fire in the Calumet and Hecla— Workmen Overcome by Gas. Houghton, Mich., June 6.—The tem- perature of the burning shaft of the calumet and Hecla mine mareh little variation and the fire vidently raging unchecked ni ss Eh Gas escapes in large volumes through numerous cracks in the earth and a large force of men and teams is con- stantly employed in covering the vents. Workmen are frequently over- come by the gas, and one party of eight men narrowly escaped asphyx- jiation, it being necessary to take all of them to a hospital. GRAVE, NOT PRISON. Counterfeiter Falls Dead When He \Is Sentenced. San Francisco, June 6. — Robert Bradly, a self-confessed counterfeiter, dropped dead when sentenced to three years in the penitentiary by Judge De- haven, of the United States district court. Heart disease was the cause. Depot Burglary. Chester, Iowa, June 6.—The depot was broken into Saturday night but very little money was secured. HOT IN THE SENATE MOST BITTER PARTISAN DEBATE: IN MANY YEARS, Pettigrew's Statement That Crump Had Contributed $400,000 to the Republican Campaign Fand With That He Would Be Reimbursed With Con- tracts for Warships Was Branded the Understanding as Falke by Hanna and Carter— The House in the Throes of Dis- solution—Partisan Passion Runs Righ. Washington, June 6.—A tornado of partisan debate swept over the senate yesterday with Senators Hanna of Ohio, Pettigrew of South Dakota and Carter of Montana the chief figures. For sensational criminations and re- criminations, for bitter personalities and for poignant invective the debate exceeded anything heard on the floor of the chamber for many years. The lie was not passed directly, but the truthfulness of statements was chal- lenged very sharply. Mr. Bacon of Georgia precipitated the scene by re- peating a charge made several days ago by Mr. Pettigrew that Mr. Cramp, the Philadelphia shipbuilder, had con- tributed $400,000 to the Republican campaign fund jn 1892, with the under- standing that he would be reimbursed by contracts for the construction of warships for the government. ‘This charge, Mr. Bacon said, had been de- nied neither by Mr. Hanna, the pres- ent chairman of the Republican na- tional committee, nor by Mr. Carter, who was chairman of the committee in 1892. Then the storm broke. Mr. Hanna vigorously denied any know edge of such a transaction and ex- pressed his opinion that it was false. Mr. Carter declared the statement properly could be branded only as a’ lie. Mr. Pettigrew rot only reiterated the statement, but created a tremen+ dous sensation by asserting that his authority was no less a person than Mr. Cramp himself, and that in a con- versation with Mr. Carter that sena- tor substantially had verified the story. He also asked Mr. Hanna relative to his election to the senate. Mr. Hanna replied and expressed doubt of the South Dakotan’s sanity. He was fol- lowed by Mr. Carter, who not only denounced the charges as figments of Mr. Pettigrew’s imagination, but warned the Democratic side who were now the associates of the South Da- kota senator, that if they would lie down with degs they would get up with fleas. Most of the day was given to conference reports and orders and ends of business preparator final adjournment. A night s was held. The House. The house entered the throes ef dis- solution yesterday and all day and all evening the circling galleries were crowded with, spectators. The pictur- esque incidents were few. Partisan passion running high in the face of the impending presidential campaign broke out several times during the af- ternoon and hot words were bandied across tke political aisle. Mr. Hull of Iowa and Mr. Lentz of Ohio crossed swords, and later Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio and Mr. Gaines of Tennessee had a lively encounter. Throughout the day at every opportunity there was a play for political advantage and taunts and challenges were bandied back and forth. But all this was merely incidental to the work of crowding through the big supply bills which had the right of way. During the interims between the consileration of the reports members clamored like madmen in the wheat pit on a panic day for recognition for private bills upon which their political salvation might depend. At the night session the galleries Were thronged with gaily arrayed wonen and the floor was a veritable bedlam. Hour after hour the con-, ferees struggled on with. their reports, the speaker, firm and resolute, steer- ing the house through the turmoil and confusion. Toward midnight the gal- leries thinred out, but tired legisla- tors with the prospects of an all-night session remained in their places, get- ting what comfort they could from the knowledge that with the morrow the end would come. CAUSED BY CIGARETTES. Young Man Becomes Insane and Tries to Strangle His Father. New York, June 6. — John Slover, twenty-three years old, was taken to the insane ward of the Jersey City hospital awaiting an examination as to his sanity. He was arrested at his home for attacking and trying to strangle his father, who is a yard- master in the Pennsylvania railroad terminal. His insanity is said to be due to excessive smoking of cigarettes. HUMMEL IS HANGED. Notorious Murderer Finally Comes to the End of His Career. Williamsport, Pa., June 6.—William Hunmel was hanged ir the jail yard here. He made a long speech. The crime was a brutal one. He was con- victed of murdering his wife and her three children by a former marriage. He sold his confession to a newspaper. and also disposed of his body to @ showman. Six Lose Their Lives. Vienna, June 6. — Six were killed, four fatally injured and many serious- ly hurt by the derailment of an elec- tric car here. The car rolled down a steep embankment. ~ Woma jurned to Death. Chicago, June 6. — Mrs. Annie B. Leeds, wife of Charles Leeds and daughter of the late Dr. Buddington, a prominent physiciah of Minneapolis, was burned to death in her home at 5013 Washington avenue. Unknown Negro Killed. Iowa City, Iowa, June 6. — ' mangled body of a negro was found last evening on the railroad track just Bei i re: a ride. been established, = — ea