Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 15, 1902, Page 7

| #8 entitled to 5 per cent of the money received. the sale of: government Dews of the Northavest |(cheEesistature) ==" "F< ongress Proceedings of the ing a constitutional convention to re- Wbeuaen Gx eas fa) Week in the ..... 3 | vise the state constitution has appeared ribo" in the house for the third time in con- WEEK'S PROCEEDINGS. State Law Mill. secutive sessions) It was introduced a. a a, Saturday by Representative Sherman lutely prohibit the sale of oleomargar- Freight Train and Handear Met on| st. Paul, Feb. 6. — The gailery and Smith of Minneapolis. In the Senrte. ine. Hudson’s Big Bridge. hall of the house of representatives] The motion to pass the bill on its first} Washington, Feb. 6. — Throughout ‘ Hudson, Wis., Feb. 13—Freight train} 27. crowded when the hotification | reading failed, and the bill took its reg- | yesterday’s session the senate had un- The Senate. No. 157, west-bound, struck a hondcar| .ommittee was directed to inform Gov. ular course and was referred to the jU-| ger consideration the urgent deficiency | Washington, Feb. 12—A stirring de- terday through the mail two diamond | 0 the second span of the St. Croix} yan sant that the house and the senate diciary committee. . | bate on the general Philippine question hives It was her birthday, These rings | Pridge about 8 o'clock yesterday morn-| ere convened in joint session, ready to| ‘The house extended to the members| “PPropriation pill, and just before ad- |. 1, cipitated in the senate late ¥es- sent to her thus mysteriously were ing, throwing the section crew in all di- receive his message. The members bill was closed yesterday. The: friends of the bill have decided to offer an amendment to make the 10: per cent tax apply to oleomargarine in poocagie ed of butter, “of any shade: of yellew.’” amendment is designed to meet Ane! charge of the opponents of’ the bill that " without this amendment the language of the bill might be construed to. abso- eg RINGS RETURN MYSTERIOUSLY. We KILLED. —h Stolen Eighteen Months Ago and Re- 7 turned on Owner's Birthday. Webster City, Iowa, Feb, 12, — Miss Maude Soule of this city received yes- of the*state tax commission an invita- | J0urnment passed it substantially in| -taay, the pugcipal participants be- len from her eighteen months ago. | Tections. Andrew Swanson and August] jo2 as the governor entered and | tion to appear to explain portions of the | the shape in which it was reported to} ing Mr. Platt of Connecticut and Mr. Johnson, both men of families, were iN-| \ai6q slowly down the aisle to the | tax code on which the legislature desires | the senate by che committee. Hoar of Massachusetts. Mr. Teller of stantl; killed. Fred Carlson and Charles speaker's desk, where he was greeted | more information. But the resolution During the early part of the session | Colorado had concluded for the day his = was passed only after a lively debate. the case of Judge Arthur H. Noyes of | argument against the enactment of the The senate memorial, petitioning con-| the district court of Alaska and Alex- | pending Philippine tariff bill In re- Bress to provide for the payment Of/ ander McKenzie and others was dis- | sponse to.some statements he had made $495,000 due Minnesota under the 5 per| cussed. Mr. McCumber of North Da- | Mr. Platt directed the senate’s attention cent land sales compact of the enabling | kota delivered an elaborate speech in] to the situation in the islands, as he act under which the state was organ-| defense of Judge Noyes and Mr. Mc- | viewed it, maintaining that great prog- ized, was taken up in the house Satur-| Kenzie. He became involved in a col- | ress was being made by the government day and adopted under suspension of | loquy with Mr. Tillman, who said he | ia subduing the insurrection. He re- st No one knows who sent them. No one knows who stole them, The postmark upon the package sent her cannot be { read. The rings are valued at about } # 4600. The intrinsic value, however, was ja eetveot BURKE: Inlorieg’ | Whee. discar sii geeeee, RC a, oy teeny at Z i essage was ered Carlson was found on the engine seduces ¢ ue pe frequently ap- pilot holding to Swanson’s dead body, landed’: 4 which lay across the pilot. The sec- tion crew was trying to reach the east end of the bridge in a driving snow storm before the freight crossed. little compared to the sentiment attach- ing to them as gifts. At the time they were stolen Miss Soule had taken them off and placed them, together with an- The Senate. The senate convened at 10 o’clock yesterday morning, a half-hour before * other diamond ring, a gold watch and he legislature 1 other jewelry in her jewel case. It was | Neither crew saw the other until the ac- | the seins estan Ay reat governor's | the rules by a vote of 78 to 0. appeared in the novel attitude of a | ferred to the elections for municipal of- 1 4 about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Upon] cident. While the coroner and a jury Haid AS defender of the United States judiciary. | ficers im various eities of the islands ] { were viewing the scene of the accident | ™ es In the House. In a brief speech Mr. Stewart re-}| and to the establishment of schools | going for them the same evening about A report fram2d by a joint commit. at 11 o’clock a west-bound freight met St. Paul, Feb. 11.—A bill for the re-| viewed the case, speaking strongly | for the education of Filipino children. i) 7 two of the rings were gone. was pre-| | Z ie the River Falls passenger on the first | tee of the senate and hous’ Was ter | lief of Col, Joseph Bobleter, former | against Judge Noyes and his actions in| Mr. Hoar ridiculed the statements of | THERE BY SUFFRAGE, span of the bridge within 100 feet of the eee vea although action was post- state treasurer, appeared in the Minne-} alaska. Mr. Platt and in a fecetious vein ad- 44 sy coarecap phe Dkarpar hing paiiee watil to-day. The committce re- tea house of ceptors Mate hi In the House. verted te the efforts of the American Denied Permission to Build. ly shaken up, the sti ‘nea. | port embodied a recommendation that sion yesterday. This |, wi ct An agreement was reached in the | 8Overmment to control the Filipino peo- ‘o1NL S8UQ ‘NT WONSeg UO #1919795 railed and both engine pilost smas! * lin each. house a special committee of introduced by S. B. Peterson of New| pcuse whereby the oleomargarine bill| Ple. The remarks of the Massachu- _Cass Lake, Minn., Feb. teeth nite The quick action of the; Peseenees en. five on “reception of bills” be appointed Uim, provides that Col. ponies an will be brought to a vote after two nette, Senator aroused Mr. Platt, who the settlers on section 16 received the | gineer saved a bad accident. ‘ | by the chair, All bills exclusive of be released from liability on his more days of consideration, one to be | delivered a notable speech, in, the { order to vacate the premises (which or- SEG ngermnenr mappsregalenre those relative to taxation, are to be| 294 skall be repaid $1,500 already given | geyoted to general debate and one to| course of which he referred to Mr. ler was afterwan Aeseii0en tees cies * | Grst referred to this committee to be| t the state in settlement of a claim) debate under the five-minute rule. The | Hoar in pretty sharp terms. | een considerable controversy 38 i) | Aftey Hating the Weighty Compost-|roported the following day after re-| SSeinst him for 36.000 om accOMnt O°) dehate yesterday continued in desul-| Early in the day the senate pasued @ H whether the peopl on the land had the | “tion, Done Into Pancakes, Wixcon- | ceived. If they were approved they| ™ney lost in bankrupt depositories) tory fashion without special incident, | Joint resolution submitting a constitu- 13 right to erect new buildings or repair sin People Nearly Die. will go to their respective committees, during the panic of 1893. ss tional amendment changing the times old ores. Several letters have been ex- Menasha, Wis., Feb. 13—Mrs. Joseph | the understanding being that all the} The session, which began at 10:15, In the Senate. of presidential inaugurations and the | ‘ © changed between the residents and the] itn her two daughters and six] Gommittees of last year will be reap-| !@Sted barely fifteen minutes. Adjourn-| Washington, Feb. 7—For four hours | termination and commencement of | Micials of the interior department OF | hoarders, who take their meals at the | pointed. Ment was’ taken under the rales Until jiyesterday the senate had the Philippine | colereeses from’ March 4 to: the last a tariff bill under discussion. The Bhnyeday, ba ret ous measure was completed, so far as the! ‘The voting on the amendments to the Philippine committee is concerned, all! oleomargarine bill in the house yes- of the committee amendments being | terday indicated a considerable change adopted. Several other amendments, | of sentiment since last congress when however, will be offered, one or two be- the bill had 106 majority, and that the tnelaenatiy: opposition to the measure has gained " strength. While the passage of the bilt a Toward the close of the session the | i, not endangered, it is not likely that discussion became heated. In re-|the majcrity, when the final vote is sponse to a resolution offered several | taken, will exceed 30. The opposition days ago by Mr. Rawlins of Utah, the | was strong enough in committee of the seeretary of war transmitted to the | whole to adopt two important amend- senate the sedition laws enacted by the | ments, one providing that nothing in 10 o’clock to-day. Fi In the Senate. ‘The senate convened at 2 o’clock yes- terday afternoon. The session was short, and the tax committee met at 2:30 to take up the discussion of the tax bill. The country bankers will be given & hearing to-day. The committee expects to report the bill back to the senate by the first of next week. matter. During the past week Dr. boarding house conducted by Mrs. Well physician in charge of the | Smith, were taken violently ill yester- See arene. vec cment’ saying | @2¥ morning shortly after breakfast, the Its ttle: section 16 are there 2° wich all had partaken freely of buck- by inere suterdnes GnatTeeeae per- | Wheat cakes. Fivaipiabe are Autckly niliaion ei cpanel summoned and by the liberal use 0! penn bate ores eee emetics prevented fatal consequences, aes ge spel i si although several were seriously ill. Dr. nee: Kendall, who is attending the victims, > says that their sickness was due to BAREETS) OF PAPER Ero plaster of paris, and that he aaeavors this substance in the flour from which Hob ia pap rected roca neers the pancakes were made. The authori- Butte, Mont., Feb. 12,.—State Senator | ties will investigate the case. If the bills are not approved by the committee on reception of bills a two- thirds vote will be necessary before the bill can proceed to its regular com- mittee. It is expected by this method to cut down attempts at general legis- lation. The senate and house formally adopted the joint rules which were in force last year. The House. Follcwing the report of the joint com- mittee in the house Representative .W. P, Roberts presented an amendment to the effect that the new tax code be ome In the Senate. Feb. 12.—Senator Knatvold St. Paul, »bson, who is largely interested in the Te made a special order before the house] introduced a bill appropriating $25,000 | pnii 7 A rpc auc : 2 : 3 spt ppine commission. They were | the act should be construed to prevent <= “apphire diggings in Fergus county, GIRL DIES OF BURNS. not later than next Monday; that all) to aid the attorney general in fighting | yead in full and immediately drew the | the manufacture and sale of oleomar- soya She sty ay iene bea cor tit ee ivia spi eadtn Geniae la e iweaee. Saati ae oy Hecate d the Northern Securities company. | {fire of the opponents of the govern- | garine in any state for consumption { * the East o! many diamonds . E: ii committee e! nm open Mr. Baldwin offered a bill providing t’s Philippine policy. Mr. Hoar of i R - w@ <= and Is Fatally Hurt. cepecenean tie ecaiiitiwe Pasaibeliowunauel ment’s Philippine policy. entirely within such state, and the oth g in this state is a myth. The stone that Ba is creating all the furor is a white *, sapphire, very hard but of compara- | 8irl, Sa eannnititle worth, Hobson has made | burned Monday night, died at 2 o'clock i r, ay ‘ hilad was several trips to New York and London, | Yesterday morning. The c! where he has interviewed well known | burned about the face and head and a for a constitutional amendment per-| wassachusetts expressed his astonish-| er to provide for the inspection and Action on this amendment was laid] mitting an income tax and the taxation] mont that such laws should be en-| pranding of renovated or Gioseas’ but- over. In presenting this amendment | of charters and franchises, leaving with] soreed by the government authorities. | ter. Considerable feeling was injected Mr. Roberts insinuated that the ene-| the legislature the power to exempt any] wr. Foraker of Ohio had read from | into the proceedings toward the close mies of the bill were desirous of fight | class of property from taxation, the revised statutes of the United | of the session. ing under cover. Senator Baldwin introduced a Dill) state- the laws of congress relating to Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 13.—The little Mattie Moore, who was terribly ' } ar suffered most intensely. She was con- | tana stone. In veins extending for | Scious and able to talk. The father, arists with reference to the Mon- 4 Ww. Aetna mene Lees a Which is almost a duplicate of a pectin che: ceimevot’ “Areaudil-asidi aimtieiot= THE MARKETS. z oT Wolt | Gerson, poe negra de acd of the new code. It calls upon the/ ences against the government, and = inllen along theicrse: Dele ore ene es ee Comets arate sts been | th® accusation and came out bluntly| president, secretary and accounting of-|} iq that the acts amet by the Philip- | Latest Quotations From Grain and tt white stones can be found by the Maa ite Rocke enlito aamasanes| ae opposed to the bill, and announced | eer of every corporation or association pine commission were: almost identical Live Stecke Centers se rade Monday night, and the three ehil- | thelr intention of fighting it In the) in general to prepare and deliver to the | iy ‘ticir language with the laws enacted | St. Paul, Feb. 13. — Wheat — No. 1 WOMAN HAS LEPROSY dren, two girls and a boy, were left in | 0PM. faicuted’ & onents | #8%¢s8er @ sworn statement of the COm-|),. congress in the days of the fathera Northern, 74 @ Te; No. 2 Aare 5 MAN Hi Osy. the house. she ‘eldest, # igittobinitie | oe a eePEee ridicule: ne cd aa pany’s business in detail. of the republic, and that there was |e, 73 @ T4c. Gorn Noe: zellaw, : Sawyer County (Wis.) Sufferer From | Years, climbed up to turn a semper in ee tentne eed arene pe) The Feira ops pellgeln Riley coeerert nothing unprecedented or unusual Bee ee ees oie tes ag es fine Dread Disease Found, the stove pipe and fell upon a hot stove. | } oice was on hand to about them. : Tia 36 see ‘ : | pass the tax bill, | mileage, but it was defeated. 43 1-4e. S mberland, W! Feb. 1A Nor- | Neighbors heard the children's ecreame and for one, he should oppose all other} genator Ives presented a resolution The Ohio senator was Acie iat Minneapolis, Feb. 13. —wheat—No. - a L gian woman living in Silver Lake | and found the girl with all her clothes legistation. stati that as erybody claimed ‘the continually and had several watm col hard, 761-8c;\ No. 1 Northern, 737-8@ nship, about six’ miles east of here, | burned oft. Purther dissusslon brogght aboulad eae ee TR ONY. loquies with senators who were oppos- be/'3't.. in ut is supposed to be a leper, and the local i ba : te ae by ME jaion faamer was the man virtually affected ing him. In one of them he announced £3-fc; No. 2 Northern, 727-8078 3-8. physicians whe Have Senos) (2) bab aes ae Gs ce cry yt edad Sia ane Roverta gresnin dion’: Se Ee by theses coe apareglaret mt eas meee with great earnestness that the Ameri- TES lod a bape noe pen ites pre ince it leprosy. The secretary of Seay of the session be set aside for a sena' y i 2c, —No. e, -2¢; [| 4 Sate board of health is expested | While the Amount Is Not Important, | @rawn and an amendment agreed 10} nearing of all agriculturalists who de- }C8" army never would return eh No. 4 white, 41@411-4c, Barley—No. 4, the state aieeruas eoeeeatte rhe Method Is. making the bill a special order as s00n| sireg to be heard. Philippines unt t returned vi + | 53@63c, Ryo—No. 2, 58 1-20560. li woman's’ face. and. feet’ axe covered | HUmatcels NAIR, debriis.-Bbs costs | as/1¢ comes from. the pommiiee: In the Hoase, ana et oui i e8e suet CoB’ f Duluth, Feb. 18—Wheat—Cash, No. ja past) os 4 _|in the cases against Judge Lauder of 9 gress, rail about it as they might, ought |} 1 nara, 771-4e; No. 1 Northern, cash r CONE Ses ana Seabs of 2 hideous na. | the Fourth judicial district were taxed In the Senate. be, nouee 40 Sbrpeenat yes unde® | thoroughly to understand that fact. fang February, 74i-4c; May, 261-4¢: — y bretier (2! tn ; onaineed | PY Clerk Hoskins of the supreme court, | St. Paul, Feb. 7.—A determined effort] @ suspension of the rules, pe ormer | 12 concltsion of the debate Mr. Hoar | suly, 771-8c; No. 2 Northern, 71 3-4e } os ~hicago is a pronounces’ | after a hearing by Attorney Frenks of | was made in the senate yesterday Be ae, eat i saa hed further | Poured oil on the troubled waters of the | ‘No 3, 693-4c; Manitoba, casi, 72 1-4c: | : ne Wahpeton for plaintiff and Attorney | morning to have the session thrown ike eat ast norco raeae dh de-| Senate, maintaining that men might | yay, 743-4c; No. 2, 69c; flax, cash, PREPARE FOR HANGIN Bangs of Grand Forks for the defense. | open to adinission of general legislation | Habllity for state money lost, tn differ on any of tlie great questions | $1.79; track and to arrive, $1.71; May 3 ANGING. inti f° "ev descripti Th: ple | furct banks during Mr. Bobleter’s term . e Dion igia , The plaintiffs asked for a $50 attorney | Of every description. e trouble f offi now before the country, but that all | $1.731-2; hye, 5c; corn, 61c; oats, Seaftorld From Which Tapper win | fe2 in each of the two cases and $5 for | started over the acceptance of the re- Oetker faite assed cure errors in last | Were thoroughly loyal to the country | 49 1-2c; barley, 49@58¢. Slip Into Eternity Being Built. drawing affidavits. The clerk allowed | port of the special committee gn rules. - 3 pi lati the wi- | 224 Were doing their duty as they saw | Milwaukee, Wis., Feb, 13. — Flour is Chaska, Minn., Feb, 12, — Workmen | the attorney fees at $20 in each case | Senator J. D. Jones, chairman of the been mee. Lehi ance ae Hisate it. steady. Wheat steady; No. 1 Northern, j have begun the erection of the gallows | and struck out the demand for fees for | committee, desired to have the report] OOn® UOMETY 2ne | pee Nght and water |..28tly in the day Mr. Scott of West | 76c; No. 2 Northern, 741-2@75c; May, = upon which Andrew Tapper is to be ex- | Preparing affidavits. The total of the | of the committ2e, as presented on the pan! ane at ‘Watlena i Virginia delivered a speech in which |773-4c. Rye lower; No. 1, 601-2c ecuted on the 18th inst. for the murder | costs in the two cases taxed against | previous day, at once adopted. Sen-| “CY eal ihe ge gills wareviateoauced he advocated an investigation of the} Barley steady; No. ot Rosa Mixa. ‘Tapper has changed | the judge will not be over $60 or $70, but | ators Young and Snyder supported Riciaieaninginr lutooduced’ = cape ‘or | San Blas route for an isthmian canal, | sample, 55@62 1-2c. his demeanor since he learned that the |.much interest lies in the novelty of the | Senator Jones. Senators Daly, McNa- ‘he Baldwin ence bills to provide for and Mr. Hansbrough made a carefully | white, 451-2c. Corn—May, 61 1-2c. heard of pordons refused to commute | Procedure. mee and Everett, Democrats, and Me- whi: inobind tox prepared address on his bill to provide | Chicago, Feb. 13.—Cash Wheat—No. f & his sentence. The decision has angered —_—— Kusic. Republican, strenuously ob- ‘W. W. Dunn of St. Paul presented a | # naticnal system of irrigation of arid | 2 red, 8&4 @ 5c ‘im, and he continually indulges in pro- CONSHATUTICN, AAR: ested to having au general: bills re- 7 so go amend the constitution that | lands. No. 2 hard winter, 76@78c; No. 3 hard y fenity A Soeverate has been placed | oo. sénainc Cannot Be agitate Dacron deaths pdt a to reject | “all taxes shall be divided as nearly In the House. wirtter, aaa No. 1 Northern spring, _ m ip Public Examiner. J equally as may be, and that a cash val-| The house spent the day on the leg- 76@7&c; No. 2 Northern spring, 75@77c; the report of the committee was lost— 39 to 27. Senator J. D. Jones’ motion to amend the report so that a bill unfavorably reported back to the committee on re- ception of bills can be taken up by the senate on a majority vote instead of two-thirds, was adopted. Senator Knatvold’s bill appropriating $40,000 for expenses of the extra session of the legislature passed under suspen- sion of the rules. In the House. The new tax code was introduced in the house yesterday morning and was referred to the committee on tax laws and appropriations jointly. The house then adjourned and the two committees met in the hall of the house with most of the members pres- ent to hear the Duluth Delegation. islative, executive and judicial appro- | No. 3 spring, 71@78c. Corn—No. 3, 59c. priation bill. “Very rapid progress was | Oats—No. 2, 43 1-4c¢; No. 3, 42 3-4@43c. made, 74 of the 130 pages of the bill be- | Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 13.—Cattle — ing disposed of before adjournment. | Beeves, $4 @ 5.85; cows, bulls and No debate of importance developed | mixed, $1.5045; stockers and feeders, during the consideration of the bill, | $2:50@ yearlings and calves, $2.50@4. and no amendments of importance were | 108s, $5.80@6.20; bulk, $5.85@5.95. adopted. ung, “4 Chicago, Feb. 13, — Cattle — Good to prime steers, $6.50@7.25; poor to medi- - um,~$4 @ 6; stockers and _ feeders, | In the Senate. WES : i a ‘it $2.50@4.75; cows, $1.25@2.25; heifers, Washington. web, 8 The Philippine | $2.50@5.50; canners, $1.2502.50; bulls, bunt | was. taken up early in the | $9 59@4.60; calves, $3@7.25;. Texas fed senate yesterday. The session was | steers, $4 @5.50. Hogs — Mixed and notably quiet. Mr. Turner of Washing- | butchers, $6 @ 6.37 1-2 ; good to choice ton delivered a carefully prepared | heavy, bahar rough heavy, bagpoviea speech on the general Philippine ques- | light, $5.75 @ 6; bulk of sales, : tion and had not concluded when the | Sheep, $3.80@5.65; lambs, $4.50@6.55. train between Haysville and Agnew, [pili was laid aside for the day. He South St. Paul, Feb. 13. — Cattle — on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi-| discussed particularly the legal and | Fancy butcher steers, $5.50%6.10; prime, cago railroad. ‘The engineer testified | constitutional questions involved in the | $5@5.40; good to choice, $4.40@4.90; com- that he had been on duty thirteen hours | government and control of the Philip- | ™0n to fair, $3@4.25; fancy butcher and was ti out. “I ember noth-| pine archipelago by the United Stat cows and heifers, $4.26@4.75; prime, a P ipelago by the Un es. O15: fs ing.” he said, “after leaving Osborne} after the adoption of only minor | $3-75@4.15; good to choice, $3.15@3.70; until [ struck the fast stock train.” amendments the pension appropriation | CC™mon to fair, $2.60@3.10; canners and ; cutters, $1.50@2.65; good to choice bill was passed early in the session. butcher bulls, $2.75@3.50; common and sas Bees bolcgna bulls, $2@2.70; good to chotce The house yesterday passed the ex- nhs Marstchethl the veals, $4.50@5'25; common to fair, $3.50 ecutive, legislative and judiciary bill, ti @4.25; good to choice feeding steers, the second of the regular supply bills. | g9 49@4.25- common to fair, $2.5003.35; son of W. Q. Hannum, an assistant pay- } AS passed it carries $25,171,969. which is good to choice stock steers, $3 @ 3.60: master of the United States army re- | $503,721 in excess of the current law. | common to fair, $2.50@2.90; good to i siding in Brooklyn, has been found |Only two amendments of importance | choic,. steer calves, $2.75@3.25; common ; ~ CONSTRUCTION IS DELAYED, uation shall be made as ncarly as pos- sible. This eliminates the full cash val- ue objection. Aberdeen, S, D., Feb. 13.—The report senat from Pierre on Friday that Sena- tor A. F. LeClaire of Edmunds county wi eareeer Tae accent eroeraes had been appointed public examiner to Bemidji, Minn., Feb. 12.—It is given | Succeed H. N. Cooper, was premature. yut in railroad circles that the further | The sovernor is considering the ap- ‘onstruction of the Minnesota & Inter- | Pointment, but has some doubts that it national toward the Canadian boundary | C22 be made in view of the provision of { line will not be taken up for a couple | the constitution that members of the of years owing to the uncertainty as | !esislature may not be appointed to lu- to who is to furnish the funds for new erative positions during the term for nes for the Northern Pacific. This | Which they have been elected. Mr. Le- will be a great disappointment to | Claire’s term as senator does not expire thousands of settlers in Northern Itas- | Until January, 1903. j a county. rte, 3 ARTESIAN WELL POWER. FIREMAN FALLS FROM TENDER. ENGINEER FELL ASLEEP. artling Statement Made Before a Coroner’s Jury. Pittsburg, Feb, 13.—“I guess I went to sleep on my engine after my train left Haysville yesterday morning, and two minutes later we struck the stock train in which a drover was killed and anoth- er man injured.” Such was the sensational admission to the coroner of Engineer William Jackson of engine No. 695, which Mon- day crashed into the caboose of a stock Electric Light Plant Will Be Ran by the Water. Steik His H { tree Om Me ettes | May Die of | Sioux Falls, 8. D., Feb, 13—Artesian Prairie du Chien, Wis., Feb, 12.—John well power is to supplant gasoline pow- Howard, a fireman on the Burlington | ¢ in the operation of the electric light © south-bound limited, accidentally fell | Plant at Mellette. For the past few from the tender of his engine here yes- | Weeks the engine has not furnished terday morning, striking on his head | Satisfactory power for the quantity of and sustaining severe injury to the |8@S0line consumed, and Gregory & Har- head and spine. He now lies in the city | "is, the owners of the lighting plant, hospital, still unconscious. His home | 2t€ now arranging to sink an artesian is in La Crosse, Wis. well, which is expected to furnish ample power for running the system. In the House. St. Paul, Feb. 8.—Nine bills were in- troduced and three passed in the house yesterday morning, the most important measure being the senate bill appro- priating $40,000 for the expenses of the extra session. The other bills passed:|, fix the court terms in Jackson councy and amend a technical error in a 1901 bridge bill. The other new bills referred to the committee on reception include one by Representative Nyquist for the repeal of the 1901 dog tax law. Mr. Burns of Spring Valley wants to give local boards the right to waive poll taxes. Mr. Von Wald offered an amendment BOY HANGS HIMSELF. Se Roolboy Prank Results in a Ghanitty Death. if New York, Feb. 13.—Clare Hannum, BURNS AND COLLAPSES. SAFE BLOWERS. . Hlevator at Lawndale Causes Block- ade on Great Northern. Fergus Falls, Minn., Feb, 12, — The ‘levator at Lawndale burned to the ground yesterday afternoon. The burn- ing building fell across the Great Northern. sidetrack and wheat and lebris blocked the track for some time. Take $75 From a Glenwood (Minn.) Store. Glenwood, Minn., Feb. 13.—The safe in the store of the McKinley Mercantile company was blown open by burglars, Akout $75 in money was taken. No clue has been found as to who are the cracksmen. The tools used in drilling Fs { dead, harging in nis room at Peddie in- | were adopted. One provides for a com- | to fair, $2.50@2.70; good to choice stock stitute Fs Pignacve: N. J. The boy | mission to redistrict the legislative dis- | cows ihe heifers, $2.75@3; tee to } had fastened his door and pushed a|tricts of Oklahoma, and the other au- } fair, $2.95@2.60; good to choice heifer ee oe bureau agaiust it, and had then hanged | thorizes txe president in his discretion | calves, $2@2.75; common to fair, $2.25@ ; himself by a small cord tied to a screw | te cover into the civil service the tem- | 259; stock and feeding bulls, $2.25@2.75; | hook over a closet door. While the {porary clerical force employed on ac- | good to choice milch cows and spring- } tragedy has every appearance of suicide {count of the war with Spain, There | ers, $32@40; common to fair, $25@30. % , to the election law fixing the voting 'y State Fair for Montana. the sdfe were taken from Ryngell's ma e, the weneral belief is that the boy lost |are about 1,250 of these clerks still in| fyogs—Underweights and light, $5.25 idtona, AROHT™ GH AEA cca rine Chan: Fours in the rural districts, and Mr-}is5 life in an attempt to startle his | the service, By the terms of the amend- | @5.95; mixed and butchers, $5.6506.20; ¥ elena, Mont., Feb. 12. iol ord of Duluth wants the primary]. wmate by a “make believe” suicide, |ment the president must place all or | heavy, $5.75@6.25; boars, $2.50@3 stags, issued within a few days for.a meeting Injuries May Prove Fatal. law amended to except the Dulutn tat turned into a terrible reality when | none of them under the civil service. $4.50@4.75; pigs, $4.50@5.15. ‘ % a those interested in the matter of | prairie du Chien, Wis., Feb. 13.—John | School board from its operations. iGvnw tn date tacaave dsininell? : ‘Sheep—Fancy lambs, $5.25@5.60; good 4 holding a state fair at Helena. D. R. | qoward of La Crosse, who fell from an In the Senate. Saab In the Senate. to choice fat lambs, $505.25; fair to McGirnis of Kalispell and W. M. Wool- | engine here and sustained a compound | The tax code and the bill for consti- HORRIFIED THE AUDIENCE. Washington, Feb. 11. — Throughout | good, $4.75@5; feeding lambs, $3.25@4.25; vridge of Hinsdale are the prime mov- | fracture of the head and spine, is still | tutional amendments proposed by the PEE, nearly the entire session of the senate | thin buck lambs, $2.50@3; good to choice ‘came ne een and the meeting will | unconscious at the city hospital. His | tax commission were presented in the|yomate ‘@rapere Performer Falls | yesterday the Philippine tariff bill was | young wethers, $4.25@4.60: good to choice’ be held in this city early in March. recovery is doubtful. senate by Senator Somerville, acting nnd Breaks Her Neck. under consideration. Mr, Turner of | heavy wethers, $4.25@4.50; fair to good ‘ Buss Bee mice chairman of the tax committee. Newport News, Va., Feb. 13. — Ev&| Washington concluded his speech be- | wethers, $4@425;: good to choice fat iin, area wen ae aa Blaze at Ean Claire. Senator Meilike presented a bill pro-| Gilbert, a trapese performer at the Pow-|gun last Friday on the legal and con- | ewes, medium weight, $3.50@4.25; heavy- init. npdeivernct ae Deer hoame PARKS Eau Claire, Wis., Feb. 13.—There «vere | Viding for sessions of the district} hattan theater, broke her neck Jast|stitutional phases of the Philippine | weights, $3.25@3.60; fair to good, $2@3.25; ——— . 5 four fires, all small except that at a {Court in Jackson county on the third| night during the performance. In her | question. He held, in the main, that | common killers, $2.75@3; good to choice sharge of having murdered D. Davidson on Thanksgiving day, is supposed to be endeavoring to cheat» the gallows by starving himself. He has eaten nothing for a week and physicians are contem- plating forcing food down his throat or | by injecting Hquid food. Mondays in May and November. The| aerial act she swung from a trapeze, |as the Filipinos had established an in- | stock and feeding ewes, $2.25@2.75: fair bill was referred. catching her foot in a loop about thir- | dependent government in the islands | to good, $2@2.25; common ‘ The membership of the committee on|+y-five feet from the floor. Last night | prior, to the fall of Manila, the United } skates,” $1 @ 2. réception of bills was Increased from | ner foot slipped from the loop and she] States, under the principles of interna- | Lambs, $4@3; ewes, $2.25@2.75; wethers, five to nine. felt headlong to the floor almost among | tional law, had no right in the islands. | $2.50@4.50. Harold Knudson of Sherburne coun-|the horrified audience. She died in ten} Mr. Teller of Colorado took the floor ty. was appointed postoffice messenger | minutes. ‘The woman’s home was in |to deliver a speech on the pending Talmage in a Wreck. — at $3 per day. new York, measure, but had scarcely introduced | valdosta, Ga., Feb. 13—Rev. T. De- tor Miller secured the passage ms his argument before he requested that | witt Talmage was in a train wreck at a resolution memoralizing congress to] The Marconi company expects to com- |he be allowed to Senne his address | Dupont, on the Plant system yesterday expedite the payment’ of a balance of }municate with the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, | to-day. morning, but escaped with a severe $495,000 due the state on the sale ie bearirg Prince Henry, all the way In the House. J shaking up and the loss of his federal lands in Minnesota, The state facross the Atlantic. ‘ General debate on the Seomeresine The train ran into an open buil*ing on the East side owned by 8. A. Lund .and:> occupied by Bolter & Reinke as a meat market. The loss on this was $5,000. F Fine Home Burned. Decorah, Iowa, Feb. 13. — The resi- Miner Instantly Killed. dence of L. N. Moss, one of the finest 4 Hurley, Wis., Feb. 12—Tony Borgo, | the city, was destroyed by fire with an Italian miner, was killed by falling |} Most of Sts contents. The fire started 400 feet into a shaft at the Superior , from an acetylene ‘hes Sea ‘The mine. He was'a single man. * loss is about $1 rd