The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 14, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO @ALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1901. DEATH SENTENCES FOR INSURGENTS General MacArthur Inflicts Punishment Upon Filipino Murderers. SHIFTWATER BILLS ESCAPHDE Elopes From Butte With Young and Pretty Belle Lamore. | B Striving to Put an Bnd to Outlawry and the Killing of Prisoners by Their Native Captors. Two Former Wives of the Man ‘Who Dug Out a Fortune in the Klondike. - Special Dispatch to The Call eaceable and unof- d necessary 1o or revenge Or a |y rict elle, after she had been led t he would take her back to gain. Swiftwater recently re- Alaska with new storles of plenty of money. He Surope, he sald, to in- in a new mining 1, and had stopped his ex-wife and her sis- veral of the old way he scat- e were to- an to think her a s g 1 several rich le was here iished even some the nderstand about to erything t,” when t and pretty reared at the t she and rope. Gussie she could not variety thea- had been am to her n Francisco, ater, to tel vi er divorce t which she ng. but st and he u- WILL COME WITH HIS va! DISTRICT PACIFIED. | po.mer Superint ce of Pampanga Government. sndent of Schools in Cuba Will Pay a Visit to California. Accompanied by bride, Alexander Y. ent of Schools in ¥ from Havana sport McPherson. Their wed- place on New Year's day and t in Cuba. Se- knownr as one of young women in al Wood and his d 2500 other invited guests mony y teachers were in the United States Mr. Frye found time to pay any attentions to Senorita Maria Terra. Nov 5, the day which the tut met in am to the EW YORK on S teleg “I know that | very m | Cuba.” nexec to annex The reply was: “J but will be happy tc accept a pro- Frye will sperd their hon- - United States. They will go to Calif re Mr. Frye has ex- | tensive orange 4 £re | REPORT OF RUSSIAN GIBBONS | MINISTER OF FINANCE ice Presided Over in | Indicates a Surplus in the Ordinary by the Aged Estimate of 73,443,450 Roubles. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 13—The Rus- | sian Minister of Finance, M. de Witte, has mitted his budget statement for This shows a surplus in the ordin- estimates of 73,443,450 roubles. He ex- ns that events in the Far East hav essitated & heavy for 1900 to 61,900,000 roubles M. de Witte snnounces that in spite of the hostilities in China the financial situ- RDINAL “ he W1 ouse. | atfon is favorable and no foreign loan t few of them | wil] be required this year unl unfore- 2 _who seen complications should ar M. de Witte points to the unfavorable fact that th was a diminution of the gold in the « during 190 by 74.000,000 roubles. e declared himself confidept, howevcr, that the amount of gold remaining is suf. ficient to enable Russia to wait for better times. . WILLIAM P. COLEMAN SUDDENLY PASSES AWAY Prominent Citizen of Sacramento and an Early Pioneer of California Dies of Hemorrhage. ACRAMENTO, Jan. 1 who for twenty esident of the Sacramento Bank, died evening at his home on J street, be- tween Third and Fourth, as a result of a hemorrhage which had attacked him sud- denly while l.e was engaged in reading a newspaper. Mr. Coleman was a ploneer Californian and a man of much wealth. He leaves a wife but mo_ children. H: only other relative In this city is his | nephew, Postmaster J. O. Coleman. Mr. Coleman was born tn Hopkinsville, Ky.. in 1826. He came across the plains to California in 1849 and in 1851 located at | Bacramento, where he opened a general outfitting store and later an insurance office. It was in this office that Mr. ole- man and some others organized the pres- | ent Sacramento Bank. Mr. Coleman was | & man of Soclal instincts and there was a | memorable gathering at his home New | Year’s night, over which he presided. | ———————— | PRAISE FOR. BLUEJACKETS. | Missionaries Write Testimonial to Commander of Solace. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secretary | Long has received a letter written by a number of missionaries to Commander ) Winslow of the hospital ship Solace ex- pressing not only their thanks for the | courtesies of the vovage from San cisco to Yokohama but adding a tribute to the spiendid management of the ship and the apdmirable qualities displayed by the American bluejackets. | Mr. Long highly appreciates the senti- ment of the letter and says that if more people would go aboard our naval vessels | there would be many testimonials of the | same sort for our sailors and our ships. DEADLOCK IS IMMINENT. MAN BA;('J‘LICH | 'URNS WITH BIG feet speaks said the no po- Robbed by Footpads. < 13.—John Mohard, and Labor As- isted and highwaymen below the heart, not fatal wound. He attack, and to-night to be resting easy. Consul at Butte. - an. 13.—George N. ted Grecian This is the first as named for O44444444444444044444 + THE DAY’S DEAD. + B+ ARG A S st s S TR T YOwY Joseph Yates Page. ON, Jan. 13.—Joseph Yates ast six years chief clerk of roller of the Currency, died to. ¥ nia. He was well knows | Battle for Senators in Nebraska Leg- Vpuing inferests af the country. | islature Promises to Be Long. mily distinguished in the States b | LINCOLN, Nebr., Jan. 13.—The outlook rn to-night 18 that when the Nebraska Leg- - islature begins battling for Senators to- Commodore Henderson. | day |hr will be ;vl'trl:mui proll’tlilmnm~ (}m:‘cun S IR on the part of the Republican majority. s Commodore Alex- | Ty; “néans there will be no election on e g B f_fl'Pd the first ballot. The fallure to hold a J ‘wad at his home | caucus is on account of the inability of many Senators to agree on rules vern- ing thelr deliberations. The fact that two Senators are to be elected complicates matters, and Republican leaders fear the nder and usurer, who | cOntest is drifting into a deadlock. the greatest and meanest locks,” is dead. Another Crowe Clew. e WILKESBARRE, Pa., Jan. 13.—The po- Lord Lionel Ceeil. lice of Nanticoke are looking for “Pat” = . Crowe, the alleged Cudahy abductor. In- LONDON, Jan. 14.—Lord Lionel Cecll, | formation f; Chicago is the effect Beif-brother of the Marquls of | that Crowe is somewhere in the Fenneyi: vania anthracite regions, Latest Sweetheart Is a Sister of the | > s received o native| BUTTE, M Jan. B.—“Swiftwater ted of m\ll’d‘l"Bul'” who is so known by soed o be | Pame of William Gates, has jus s of imprisonment. | #Rother incid to the many that have | longed to an | ®one to make he fame and notordety | der the name of | OF the su Kiondike goldseeker. | 3 . One of his ex-w Gussie Lamore, in ad -or its declared |, ..cc says he h oped with her William P. | MADAME MODJESKA IS PREPARING TO RETURN TO HER NATIVE LAND £ Beautiful Home and Ranch in Santiago Canyon About to Become the Property of an Eastern Capitalist. e | TAINg TWEN’ ARDEN, THE HOME OF MADAME HELENA MODJESKA, LOCATED IN A PICTURESQUE SPOT IN THE MOUN- i MILES EAST OF SANTA ANA. THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY PLACE IS ABOUT TO BE- H COME THE PROPERTY OF AN EASTERN CAPITALIST. ANTA ANA, Jan. 13.—Rumor has it that a deal is on by which Arden, the handsome home of Madame Modjeska, and its appur- tenances will, soon become the property of an Eastern millionaire. This report is given further color by the fact that Modjeska is said to have given out to her intimate friends here her intention of spending six months in Europe at the conclusion of the theatrical season, which by some is interpreted to mean that the famous actress may fulfill her long cher- | 1shed desire and return to the land of her MRS, KENNEDY IS BOUND OVER Coroner’s Jury Recommends That She Be Held for [ Murder. | | KANSAS. CITY, Jan. 13.—Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy, who shot and killed her husband, Philip H. Kennedy, on Thurs- day evening, two days after he had brought suit to have their marriage, which he asserted had been forced, set | aside, has been bound over to the Grand {Jury with a recommendation that she be held for murder in the first degree. The Coroner's jury, which had sat on the case | all day, rea to some sensational testimony. Later, the prisoner, before a Justice of the Peace, made a formal plea of not guilty and was remanded to jail for her pre- liminary hearing, which was set for Wednesday next. The most important point brought out at the Inquest was the fixing of the identi- ty of the hat belonging to the man who struck Thomas Kennedy, a brother of the dead man, just after the shooting. The hat belonged to Will Prince, who said he just happened along at the time, although he admitted he had gone there looking for his sister. While Kennedy was trying to ull the woman away from his brother, e was struck by some man who had fol- lowed the woman to the scene. On the stand Prince admitted he had struck Ken- nedy in defence of his sister. Dr. R. O. Cross, who shooting, declared that Lulu Prince Ken- nedy told him last November that she the wife of 1 the baseball pitcher of the Kar 1 Club. Dr. Cross said th de this statement the first time she came to his office. | When married to Kennedy a month ago, the woman gave the name of Lulu Prince. She had formerly kept company with Pat- | ten. Patten lives at Westport, N. Y. The friends of the dead man who are alding the prosecution will, it is stated, try to prove that Kennedy was the vic- tim of a conspira | Mrs. Kennedy slept to-day until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. When she was taken to her cell last night she became nervous the jail oflicials called a phy- siclan to ®ttend her. it was her first ex- perience behind iron bars, the first days having been passed in the police matron's room, and when left alone in her cell she realized for the first time apparently the enormity of the charge against her. It was feared for a time that she was going to be seriously {ll, but the physician suc- ceeded in quieting her nerves, after which she fl‘etpt soundly. this afternoon and seemed great! freshed. re- TO PREVENT RAILWAY EXTENSION Suit Praying !or;jnmflm Against the Executors of the Ward Estate. PONTIAC, Jan. 13.—Charles W. Ward of Queens, N. Y., son of the late David Ward, who was a multi-millionaire and the owner of many thousands of acres of ine lands in Michigan, West Virginia and ‘alifornia, has begun an action in court to restrain the executors of the Ward es- tate from entering into a contract for the construction of the Kanawha and Elk Railway in Virginia, and also to extend a line of road now owned by the estate in Charlevoix, Mich. Judge Smith of Pon- tiac has entered a temporary restraining order in the case, and a motion to enlarge the injunction will be secured next Satur- day. AR A Keller’s Second to Testify. WEST POINT, N. Y,, Jan. 13.—The Congressional committee which is investi. gating the alleged hazing of former Cadet Booz put in the time to-day visiting places of interest In the highlands, Tha committee expects to complete the inves- tigation to-morrow mght or Tuesday morning. Cadet Brown, who officiated as second for Keller in the Booz fight, will be the first witness to testify to-morrow. i 0 4 Strike Is Ended. FLORENCE, Colo., Jan. 13.—The strike at the Union Gold Extracting Company's mill ended to-day. President Milliken of the company granted the demand of the Mill and Smelter Men's Union for an eight-hour day, and a satisfactory wage scale was arranged a conference be- tween the president and a committee of the union. Al An A s ‘' Condition of Mexico’s Finances. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13.—Greatly exag- gerated reports of the financial condition f ovic bars, en, Poblieber shrved the oxy jon of siiver dollars, but Yall? few and there is' a large ing done at interior points ed 2 verdict after listening | | Suttes, and the output of ofl is several witnessed the | She ate a heu.rtf' meal | v | from a visit to the well. | to be saved in dirt reservoirs. | well was visited by thousand Special Dispatch to The Call nativity to spend her declining years. For while before the footlights Modjeska’s years apparently sit lightly on her, in reality she is far from strong, and this season in all seriousness will probably end her professional career. What is without doubt the most exten- sive private irrigation system in Southern California has ‘ust been compieted on the property, which is situated in Santlago Canyon, ‘about twenty miles out of Santa Ana, the water from which is designed for use in irrigating a portion of the 1000- acre ranch. The system is that of im- pounding the water from an ever-flowing mountain stream, which finds .its way down what is known as Harding Canyon, BRIDE TO THIS STATE @ -iiriiniviminisimirimiriniiniieiefieltebfoteledoe bbb bt de el oot @ |REBELS ATTACK OIL 1S SPOUTING HUNDREDS OF FEET Texas Gusher Is Rapidly Increasing in Volume. U 3% Special Dispatch to The Call AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 13.—The great ofl gusher near Beaumont is the overshadow- ing sensation throughout Texas. Thomas D. Jendall, an ofl well expert of Penn- sylvania, who was visiting the Corsicana oil field at the time the phenomenal well was discovered, arrived here this evening He says it far eclipses any well drilled In the United thiousand barreéls dally, greater than the greatest gusher ever known in Russia. | Mr. Jendall tested the flow of the oil as best he could, and he estimates that it exceeds 25,000 barrels every twenty-four hours. The flow is constantly increasing in vol- ume. This is due to the fact that when the oil was struck the iron casing was blown out of the hole, and the size of the hole is gradually increasing. The solid six-inch stream of ofl is now shoot- ing straight into the air to a helght of more than 200 feet. It is MT Jendall's opinion that it will be impossible to an- chor the well, and that the oil will have The reser- voirs are being constructed as rapidly as possible. and a number of them are al- ready filled and overflowing. The people of that section are crazy with excitement, | and a score or more of companies have already been formed to drill other wells. Fabulous prices ar2 being:asked for lands that were regarded as almost worthless | before the strike was made. These prices are being paid willingly by some of the moneyed investors. The s of people to-day. The roar of its spurting can be heard for many miles. e e FAOM POVERTY 10 AFFLUEACE Sudden Change in Fortunes of Heirs of the Late W. M. Rice. s Special Dispatch to The Call POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Jan. 13.—A rep- resentative of Attorney Potter, who is en- gaged In looking after the estate of Wil- llam M. Rice, who died in New York last September under suspiclous circum- stances, has been in Stone County, Mo., and has found heirs of the millionaire. They are B. F. Rice, Bird Rice and Mrs. Mattie Clark. The appearance of a messenger and the notification he served on the poverty- stricken people that they were heirs to an estate of $5,000,000 or more was a joyful surprise. The three are ignorant country folks and were not aware of their uncle's death nor of the sensational ecircum- stances connected with his demise. What action will be taken by the heirs is not known, as for many years they have been the poorest people in the country, being barely able to eke out an existence, and they have not he means to carry them out of the State. Knocked Down and Robbed.’ WILLOWS, Jan. 13.—John Scripture knocked down and robbed John Achs of 3 and a watch near Germantown yester- day. Scripture then got a rig from a liv- eryman at Germantown and drove away. Officers are on the track of the fugitive, but as yet have not succeeded in cap- turing him. Glenogle and Glenfarg in Port. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 13.—The North- ern Pacific liners Glenogle and Glenfarg arrived from the Orlent to-day. The Gleno- sle brings a Tull g0 of tea and silk, eight Chinese and one saloon passenger, Both vessels had pleasant weather until just off the coast, when strong gales were encountered. ey No German Loan. LONDON, Jan. 18.—The Berlin corre- mt of the Times denies the rumor that Germany intends to pla in New !ork'l:d London. M omy | faflure to crush the rebellion. near the mouth of which a concrete dam twenty-eight feet high has been built. The length of the dam from bank to bank fs eighty feet and its foundation is solid rock, an excavation of eight feet having been made for that purpose. A topographical map of the entire prop- erty has also been prepared and forward- ed to the famcus actress in New York. This gives color to the story that the property is about to change hands, Madame Modjeska has always expressed a desire to return to the scenes of her early life in Poland, and the disposal of her property here probably marks the first :llep toward the accomplishment of fkis an. CITY OF PANAMA M:=de Desperate Endeavors to Overthrow Forces of the Government. ——— KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 13.—The British steamship Texan, Captain Lund, which frrived here to-day from Colon, Colombia, reports that when she left Colon terror relgned among the inhab- itants around Panama in consequence of another rebel descent upon the city. Heavy fighting began outside of Panama on January 10 and continued fiercely throughout January 11, when the rebels were making a desperate attempt to get within the city. The Government troops were strongly contesting the advance of the insurgents when the Texan left. Captain Lund savs the losses on both sides had been considerable, though with- out advantage either way. The rebels had been largely reinforced and were well stocked with supplies. Two British war- ships have arrived at Panama and an American cruiser was momentarily ex- pected. It appears also, according to reports brought by the Texan, that business in Colombia 1s at a standstill everywhere, with a general enforcement of martial law, and that the people are becoming dis- gusted with the Government, owing to its The fight- ing 1s now over a wide field and the rebels have become more stubborn than ever. A dispatch from Colon, dated January 11. sald the few rebels who were outside the town of Panama had been driven back to the bush by the Government troops, and added that there was no extensive revolutionary movemen! Mystery of Spade’s Death. LOS ANGELES, Jan, 13.—The death of Dr. F. Spade, whose lifeless body was found in bed in his room in the Maxwell lodging-house yesterday with a gunshot wound under the left eye, is still a mys- tery. The entire detective force of the | city Is working on the case, but thus far | they haye discovered no clew which would | lead to ‘a reason for' the crime. Coroner Holland, in view of the efforts of the po- lice to shed some light upon the manner in which the magnetic healer came to his end, concluded to defer the inquest until to-morrow. —_—— Albertson Will Be Speaker. OLYMPIA, Wash., Jan. 13—R. B. Al- bertson of King County has been agreed upon for Speaker of Lhe lower house of the Washington Legislature, which con- yvenes to-morrow. All the other candi- dates have witl wwn and Albertson vgl‘ll H. D. okane hag recelved the Dem- Senator Meg- be elected receive the solid Reoublican vote. Merritt of. Sp« House. Indications of Oil. PENNGROVE, Jan, 15.—A few days ago Frank and A. W. Kenney of Santa Rosa leased from Horace Appleton his large ranch near Agua Caliente in Sonoma Val- ley for the purpose of sinking oil wells Coal deposits have been discovered on the place and oil indications are prevalent in many localities. There is no question but there is ofl in manv piaces. It is thought z;m it can be produced in paying quanti- tles. a8 Chinese Seriously Injured SAN JOSE, Jan. 13.—W ong Gen, a mem- ber of thé S8am Yup Company, was shot and seriously wounded in Chinatown at 7 o'clock this evening. He had just come out of a restaurant and saw his assailant, who, he says, was a siranger. Three shots were fired, all taking effect—one in each arm and one in the left breast. The po- lice have made no arrests, but say the assassin is a relative of the Chinfse who was polsoned last week.® . > ——— , Miner Meets Death. VANCOUVER. B. C., Jan. 13.—A specjal from Lillooet, B. C., says that while en- gaged in thawing dynamite in one of the tunnels of the Ample mine John Olsen, a miner, was instantly killed and two other miners, Walker and Smith, were seriously insured. The Ample mine Is the propert; of the Toronto and Lillooet Gold fieeetz Company. ‘Two Men Drowned. TACOMA, Jan. 13.—A Centralla (Wash.) special to the Ledger says: A message by gmho.n:d says that Buperlnhnde:t H. G. while repatring L. Baker were Nash was Centralia. nes north o1 Cenoraiia: from ma and Baker from Both leave families. | tor who betray | ing against it will at once have the seat | declared vacant. sufficient votes in both branches to carry | HOME RULE PART N FULL POWER Republicans and Democrats Unrepresented in Honolulu. —_— Dominant Party to Make Radical Changes in the Election Laws to Hold the Native Vote. Spectal Dispaich to The Call HONOLULU, H. T, Jan. 5—The meet- ing of the first Territorial Legislature early In February again brings political issues to the front. In spite of thefact that the Republican and Democratic parties together spent over $30,000 on the late election in Honolulu and the island of Oahu, they are virtually without repre- sentation in the Legislature. Although the Republican party alone spent over $35,000 of the above amount it was beaten through a#’alliance with the missionary faction, which resulted in a large portion of the Republican and all of the native vote being cast for the Independent ticket. Allied with a strong element of the Re- publican party, the Independents are now well organized and will go into the com- ing legislative fight under skiliful d trustworthy leaders. The tions of the Independent or party, as they ready consolidated and have “‘H call themselves, agreed caucus that any Representative or Sena- in the party policy by vot- The Home Rulers have out this threat. This position is taken, the leaders assert, to hold the native mem- bers together against the liberal use of | money_to be made by the defeated par- tles. The anti-home rule fight, it is charged, will receive the backing of the Planters’ Association, the old missionary | party and the sugar faction of the Re- publican party. Holding a majority in both branches of | the Legislature, the Home Rule party will at the outset introduce a new election law and a bill embracing radical changes in the system of taxation, which the lead- ers assert will not only hold the natives together solidly in the future, but will | draw largely the support of the mechani- cal and labor elements. The new election law, which will be early introduced, will be a modification of the Australian ballot system and will make it impossible for the planters or other political factions to control the nominating conventions. In fact, it is said, the new law will abrogate nominations by political conventions. The new tax system Is understood to be of such a nature that it will equalize taxa- tion, will insure the prosperity of the middle and laboring classes, and will in- | crease the revenue without being a bur- den, as at present, upon the poor mana. e Home Rule party will also insist upon a well organized plan of municipal government. At this point the great fight of the first Territorial Legislature will | take place against the allled forces of the two defeated parties, the sugar planters | and the present I government. In other words, President McKinley’'s ap- ointees, backed by their friends, will be g’)und in the front of the battle agalnst the voters of the Territory and their elect- ed representatives. TOPGALLANT IS DAMAGED. Typhoon Strikes the Ship Off Coast of China and She Springs a Leak. TACOMA, Jan. 13"—The ship Topgallant, owned in San Francisco and bound from Hongkong for Port Townsend, was struck by a typhoon off the China coast and | badly damaged. Her seams opened, let- ting in quantities of water as the vessel | rolled. The pumps were kept going con- tinuously but proved ineffective, and the ship gradually settled in the water. The captain refused to put back until the crew became mutinous and declared they would take possession of the ship if he did not eturn to Hongkong or Manila. Captain unvaldt then consented, and the ship ar- rived at Manila last month in almost a sinking condition. The crew was dis- charged and paid off. The United States transport Indiana, after being ashore on Pollilo Island tweo weeks, has been pulled off uninjured by the Pennsylvanis and has arrived at Manila. PR s b 8 Expelled From Germany. BERLIN, Jan. 13.—Hugo Beftauer, a paturalized American, who is connected with the Berliner Tageblatt, has been ex- pelled from Prussia as an obnoxious for- eigner. gy LN Carlists to Be Watched. MADRID, Jan. 13.—The Spanish Govern- ment has decided to send warships to watch the coast of the lower provinces in order to prevent the importation of arms by the Carlists, who are still agitating. WHAT 00OM PAUL EKRUGER'S HANDS REVEAL Sturdy President of the Boers a Lover of His Country and a Glad- iator Against Fate. Weary of cheering and snap-shotting him, the Continental admirers of Mr. Kru- ger have been examining his hands with a view to obtaining fresh food for adora- tion, says the London Mail. The Paris Vie Illustree publishes a photograph of Mr. Kruger's hands, as well as the profes- sfonal opinion of a famous Parisian chiro- mancer thereon. The left thumb is miss- ing, a gun accident depriving Oom Paul of that useful member early in life. Mme. de Thebes, the chiromancer, atter a lenfthy examination of the photograph, sent in the following comments: ““These two hands resemble each other very little, and prove that the theories of the ancient peoples were right when they said that the left hand was the hand of fate, the right hand the hand of will. “Kruger’'s left hand is almost \the hand ails are b and The forefinger is longer than the others, showing a ter- rible authority without reasoning, a desire for command, everything by brute force, a primitive hand if ever there was one, “As to his intellectual culture, he has turned toward the soll, for he is a coun- man before everything. He loves the soll; he loves his country and understands nothing else. His nature, which has re- mained upright and loval—the primitive form of the left hand indicates that to us —only thinks of keeping its independence and In defending his country he defends himself. “Now look at his right hand. What a change! How this man is well informed® How this square hand indicates reflection: The forefinger, which represents intuition and inspiration, is as long as the middle finger; intuition which exerclses control, which analyzes before acting. which con- ceives clearly and justly, and which goes forward with the fixity of fate. Note these two fingers of equal length, which is very rare. It is predestination. “And these two fingers are close to- gether and indicate the man with whom we have to deal. He goes against fatall- Jr. He commands it, he resists it, he bat- e« with it, and he overcomes it, for the long thumb, which aimost reaches the first phalange of the forefinger, shows a will of fron. The left hand indicates that he does not feel physical suffering. The right hand shows that moral suffering dogs mot affect him. 3 ““These fingers, which are longer the palm, are those of an idealist. hores his love for the Bible. This man, who has little intellectual culture, has found there an_outlet for bis mysticism—it finds its outlet In_chanting and reading the Psalms. I have not, unfortunately, the lines written in these two hands, but I can affirm that they are not of clay; they are of brass.” s SN Bill-Did you say that gun of yo would shoot 1000 yards? e Jill—That's What I did. “Well, it's marked to shoot only 500 yards. ““Yes; but there are two barrei: kers Statesman. Among other things that hang ove: from the other century is the fact that we will have to tolerate a few months the French expression of fin ecle. WIHT OF WAY " FOR ARMY BILL Senate Will Dispose of the Measure During This Week. Lengthy Discussion Probable Oveér Daniel’s Amendment for the Appointment of Volun- teers as Officers. i WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—The army re- organization bill will continue to engage the attention of the Senate at least d ing the first days of the present week. The oplnion is quite generally expressel among Senators that the bill will be acted upon by the middle of the week and n the critics of the measure join in this pre- diction. Many phases of the question in- volved in the army bill remain to be coa- sidered and the genmeral understanding is that there will be a general discus- slon before the bill can be disposed The speech of Senator Platt of Connecti- cut on Friday last in defense of the bill on general principles will call for replies, and there are also speclal features which will require more or L Among these is Senator Dan ment concerning the rs as officers in th tion of the disp: of Filipinos in v vision for the enlistm: T the American army. The disposal of all these questions undoubtedly will fill the first two or three days of the week. Senator Allison intends to call up the | legislative and judic appropriation | biils when the army bill is acted upon, but whether this and other appropriation bills to follow it shall occupy the exclusive at- tention of the Senate so long as they are on _the calendar is a question which has not yet been determined. The present indications are, however. that the appro- prigtion bills will be considered ! ad- | vance of all other measures enever | they are before the Senate. When there are no appropriation the ship subsidy bill will be discussed. There are still numerous speeches t made on this measure and already t | 18 talk of night sessions for its coms: ation when it is taken up. There is little in the legisiative bill to | arouse discussion, but there is a possi- bility that Senators hostile to the sub- sidy bill may use the appropriation bill for the purpose of delay Next turday will be devoted to eulo- | gies in memory of the late Senator Gear. | PROGRAMME IN THE HOUSE. Questions Will Occupy WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—A programme of miscellaneous matters will occupy the attention of the House during the com- ing week. The river and iarbor bill which was debated for three days las week, will consume one and possi | days. Although the bill was ecriticized severely during the debate last week. it is in no danger of faiiure. Most of the attacks came from members who were disappointed in what the bill grants for their localities and the actual opponent3 of the measure will be overwhelmed whe the final vote is reached. The Dis.rict Columbia Committee, which under : rules would be entitled to to-morrow, w demand a day later in the week if they give way to the river and harbor bill to morrow. After the latter bill is disposed | of the bill to revise and codify the postal | laws will be taken up under a special or- | der. It will be followed by the Distric of Columbia appropriation bill and | latter in turn by the postoffice appropri- ation bill if there is any remaining time. | Miscellaneous | —_— | JEFFERSON’S RELIGION. | His Views on This Disputed Subject Quite Clearly Set Forth. | Mr. H. R. Looker read two letters from | Thomas Jefferson before the Columbia | Historical Soclety in Washington on | Tuesday evening, December 4, according | to an account in the Baltimore Sun. The | letters were written to Charles Thompson, who was secretary of the conmstitutional convention, and were Interesting pri | pally_from the fact that they dealt w v Jefterson's religious views. Extracts from them follow: “T replied: ‘Say nothing of my relig- fon; it is known to myself and my God | alone, its evidence before the world is | be sought in my life. If that has bee | honest and dutiful to soclety, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.” “It 18 a singular anxlety that some peo- ple have that we should ail think alike. Would the world be more beautiful were all our faces allke? were our tempers, our talents, our tastes_our forms, our wishes, | aversions and pursuits cast exactly in the | same mold? If no varieties existed in t | antmal, vegetable or mineral creation, b | all were strictly uniform, catholle | orthodox, what a world of physical and | moral monotony would it be! These are the absurdities Into which those run who usurp the throme of God and dic him what he should have done. May with all their metachysical riddle a pear before that tribunal with as cl hands and hearts as you and I sh There, suspended in the scales of eternal just'ce, faith and works shall show their worth by their weight. God bless you | and preserve you iong in life and healt | “1, too, have made a wee little | from the same mate “Philosophy of Jesu: in of his doctrines, mad texts out of the bouk and arranging on the pages of a blank book in a ce order of time or = A more ful or precious m: of ethics never seen. It is document in | that T am a real Christian; that is to say, | a_disciple of the dacirines of Jesus, ver | different from the Platonists who call m: infidel and themselves Christians and preachers of the gospel, while they draw all their characteristic dogmas from what its author never said or saw. They have compounded from the heathen mysteries a system beyond the comprehension of man, of which the Great Reformer of tho vicious ethics and deism of the Jews, were he to return on earth, would not recognize one feature. If I nad time I would add to my little book the Greek, Latin and French texts, in columns side by side, and I wish I could subjoin a translation of Gassendl's syntagma of the doctrines of Epicurus_which, notwithstanding th calumnies of the Stoics and caricatures of Cicero, Is the most rati system re- maining of the philosophy of the ancient: as frugal of vicious indulgenve and frul ful of vistue as the hyper! extrava- gances of his rival sects.” Runs Ninety Miles an Hour. A speed of ninety miles per hour was recently made by the Black Diamond ex- press of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, says the Railway Review. The train consisted of four Pullman cars and an “Atlantic’ type engine. This train was thirteen min- utes late at Rochester Junction, and on the run to Manchester an attempt to make up the lost time was made, and was more than accomplished. One ~~ction of the road a distance of 5.1 miles was made in exactly three minutes and forty-one seconds. For the last 1300 feet of that distance the brakes were applied slowing down for a_train order board. The first four and three-quarter miles by actual blueprint measurement was run In three minutes and eight seconds. This speed was timed by three watches, which never left the hands of the men holding them. The total distance was covered at an a erage rate of eighty-eight miles an hour, and the rate for the first four and three- quarters was exactly ninety miles g: hour. On the same run the distance tween Rochester Junction and Manches- ter, 20.1 miles, was covered In nineteen minutes and ten seconds. This time was taken from a standing start at Rochester Junction to a full stop at Manchester, the speed being reduced to & rate of twenty- five miles per hour through the Manches- ter y‘"h- I e e b T v D 2 tury saine is the only Poy been Known to take the ulster off ristmas time. Ch TR of's "masden Mou Lo, whe; a n, w! i the Ted the armies of &&Im‘:flm