The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1901, Page 2

o DUEL TO THE DEATH DURANT’S GRIM SCHEME American Reported to Have Been Killed Found in London and Confesses He THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901l WILLIAMS HOTEL MAN ENTERS THE RANKS OF THE BENEDICTS Mine Host John A. Ryan and Miss Mary Tully the Principals in a Noon Wedding at Which the Rev. W. F. Reagor of 'COIN FROM CONGRESS, BILLION AND A HALF House Committee on Appropriations Merely Wanted to Leave Betrothed PARIS, March 7. =“The report that John dgtil’h n’\fl]"; a{pmr‘lngklr;{themEumpenn Wilson Dr of Albany. N. Y., who had | edition of the New York Herald: 3—John Wilson Durant. The attention of the American consulate as called to this und an investigation immediately opened which reveaied the following fflegram written in French that had been received by Durant's be- trothed, Mlle. Laure Mangin, yesterday morning “OSTEND (undatcd)—My friend Durant is dead. Count is very seriously wounded. (Signed) Louis Therriott de Greffin.” Throughout 8aturday he was engaged in Parls with his mother, had betn killed at duel with a Russian Count, | n of his own. Durant 1 was fought. The le story was a pure fabrication. Durant and his mother were found last ering at the ¥ n Hotel 1= London When gated on the subject of the ¥ f his death he was greatly taken exhibited extreme agitation at was £ hi b making the final arrangements. He the C is scheme. thaved off his mustache and declined to ¥ olving a frank state- | recognize friends whom he met acci- me 1 that he had had a se- 11 He left Paris Sunday for Os- , Whence he sent the first letter and took the night boat for London, sending the second letter on his arrival there. The that some one tele- i asked whether Du- 1 with Mlle. Mangin, his be- had determined to break off her. He sald he considered n the difficulty would be officially, and that which was solution of his tions with best ex ert Up to last even tended to show tha :g_all the information t he had carried * out est his alleged intention and been Kkilled. . erefore, he took advan- | Louhts arose when dispatches came from t method of announcing his | Ostend asserting that there was no trace of a duel there, that nothing of the sort had been heard of by the police, doctors or hotel people, and, moreover, that no deatlr had oc there of any person named Duran ‘Carter,” the name un- d that he enlisted the serv- ed friend here to secure the a death notice and he ex- = greatest chagrin and surprise [ der which Durant had announced he he stor¥ had leaked out. When !\\'(vuld’lr.n'(-ll_‘ Investigation in Paris then pressed regarding the alleged duel he de- | Prought to light the receipt of the two | ¢ . o letters, which reveal the fact that Durant ’ liscuss the matter, saving: s oo ¥ iy | kindest treatment at the v‘ e b g pssian and 1 don’t wish to I had hoped the plan would story. Sweetheart Is Surprised. il 5 11y | . Durant has been without occupation and | eed, intending to remain officlally |}, jjved extravagantly. He had an 4 for three or four months, thus gIV-| apartment at 9 Boulevard St. Michel, to £ m betrothed a plausible explana- | wh h he sent the death telegram ad- & dressed to his betrothed. Mlle. Mangin Tw letters had been received in|Dbelongs to a poor family. He introduced " one dated Oe.|her among his friends as his betrothed, and a notice appeared in Le Journa] Feb- t the other Lon- 16 announcing the betrothal, in @ the he | » ch it was s ed that the marriage E > make certain per- [ had been fixed for the second fortnight in 5 and to forward his | March. Possibly he reconsidered this in- ; asgow, care of “P. 8. Peat ntion and concelved the duel story as de. and in the latter he exposed |a r requesting tha ophole fo; aration. saying When Mille. Mangin, her sister and e made in the arrangeme brother-in-law were called upon yesterday the first letter and that his rding the ter the women express- rded to London, will | ed the greatest astonishment at the ab- officially died yesterday. | sence of any confirmation of the death ! t gram. Mlle. M gin's brother-in-law, 2 Durant's own hand- | who declares him: better judge of | writing. The evidence originally. appeared | Durant, hit the nail on the head by ex- ' t conclusively the fact of a |pressing his bellef that the telegram was first clew was the following PHILIPPINE WAR LRING AN END upid humbug.” | B I B e o e e o o GRAVE DMEER OF PARTITION Administration Is Worried | Over Present Outlook in China. | British Naval Officer Says the Natives Are Ready to Yield | ——its | Special Dispatch to The Call. |d'ng at noon to-day, when Miss | character. —— Special Dispatch ta The Call. ILLIAMS, March 6.—At the residence of Mrs. P. A, Tully at noon to-day the Rev. W. F. Reagor of the Presbyterian church, Colusa, united in marriage John A. Ryan and Miss Mary Tully, both of Willlams. The house was beautifully decorated. The many guests present partook of an elegant wedding dinner immediately after congratulations had been given, Mr. Ryan is the proprietor of the Wil- lams Hotel, and the bride is the only daughter of Mrs. P. A. Tully. Both have a wide circle of friends in Colusa, Glenn and Nava counties. Amid a shower of rice they departed on the overland tuls afternoon for San Fran- cisco on their bridal trip. pllaipat Al 7 5 MISS HELEN PEYTON A BRIDE. Santa Barbara i:u;g Lady Weds & Spokane Attorney. SANTA BARBARA, March 6.—The home of Colonel Peyton In this city was the scene of an elaborate but quiet wed- Helen Durand Peyton became the wife of jacob Moore Blake of 8pokane. Owing to the recent death of the groom's father. the wedding took place here, the winter home of the Peytons, rather than at Spokane, and only the relati and intimate friends of the family weffe present. The bride, a beautiful brunette, is the LN 15 SHF OB CREDITORS Corporations Will Not Suf- fer From Failure of " John Bearles. NEW YORK, March 6.—The financial embarrassment of John F. Searles. one of the organizers of the Amerlcan Sugar Refining Company and untll yesterday president of the Amertcan Cotton Com- pany, it was said to-day is purely per- conal and will not involve any of the eighteen corporations with which he is connected, efther as president, treasurer, secretary, director or trustee. Mr. Searles’ liabilities it is belleved will reach about 3,100,000 and are covered by his assets, which, however, are main- ly unlisted stocks and are therefore not readily markeétable or of a negotiable If not pressed by the creditors and sufficient time is granted Assignee . Dwight expacts to be able to pay Mr. | Searles’ obligations in full. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. WASHINGTON, March -6.—Adminis- n offielals are very much worried ver the Chinese gituation. Thelr appre- hensions are due not merely to the signs of the purpose of certain powers to delay the completion of negotiations but to the staff of h fleet in Chinese urned to Hongkong traveled extensively and claims to of sizing up the whole ation in the American ;o constantly increasing danger that some of sions from an independent military man’s | them will find a way to obtain a hold & poirn He upon Chinese territory that cannot be osened Americans 2 1 before the Africa. The fee'ing sses is that this spring will stilities, and I 2 r July of this ye nos will be pi tives have n the populous Although all the governments well un-| derstc that Indemnity would be the sub- ject next discussed after that of punish- ments, few of the Ministers In Peking seem to have received instructions on the | bject. | vecial Commissioner Rockhill has stnh-‘ mitted to his colleagues the plan of this t by Jun with the what f lost £ A . The | Government to settle the indemnity qu mig (,dv‘( months | tion. This contemplates an agreement as . n made to Un-|to the total indemnity to be demanded ¢ i t ns meant busi- g i o - , long carried | the Chinese and its distribution by the S the 3 se of failure to agree, th . W stribution would be made by The ‘ fighting and Arbitration. an advan-| “Other diplomats in Peking approve the The | Principle of the Americun_proposal, by conditions are different ) T has now fully 00 arrisons through- e one of these is from which scouting 3 ¥ they have no instructions to act « . and some of the powers do not seem to | think there is any need for hurry. Rockhill has suggested $170,000,000 as t1 chments are strik-| Germany, which ha The natives are in | cnonet® WHCY ! severe policy inaugurated, | 5 - » S soiEe serving in China, will probably urge th 1s to give no quar- this amount be xirhadv iarger, in view of | & e what she alone will demand. 18! the greatest activity in all| "I GNDON, March 7.-The Peking corre- | nly in killing and wound- burning of hundreds of elters and huge stores of jons, which are kept by the iny months. Numerous e being wiped off veek. 1f up for long it wiil mean mination of the Filipinos as a of the Morning Post suggests | preparations to withdraw | troops ‘“‘points to her receiving some | territorial concesslons, probably in the | province of Fukien.” He says: “It looks | as though partition were commencing.” | @ ettt el i @ | IT WILL ADORN YOUR X LIBRARY ' OR READING-ROOM. % ed to-day by the | dia_give full de- s leading up to the rrest by the military police of Manila on bruary 7 of D. M. Carman and Senor nza on the charge of aiding the in- irgents. The two men under arrest did £s in the Philippines as contracting under the firm name of the Car- By means of letters of in- | d influential friends Carman » have obtained permission to t between the lines. This privi- gave him an immense advantage over fla merchants, and it is charged nt 1 this opportunity to mmense business with the 1ling them supplies and stor- copra and lumber. which he vers receiy ¢ 1 Cram’s Superior Atlas of | the World, edition of 1901, of- | fered to Call readers at the | premium price of $1.50, is a beautiful book and is full of fine maps, statistical informa- tion, éensus, etc. You cannot 7 for them 1 e 20} advantage | coffers. Carman’s frien declared - he book of reference than Cram’s | would establish his innocence at the trial. Superior Atlas. Do not be in- duced to consider any other Atlas until you have.exam- ined Cram’s Atlas. A sample SURRENDER OF INSURGENTS. | Thirty-one Filipinos Surprised and T o T e e Captured by Licutenant West. * | book can be examined at Call | MANILA, March 6—Lieutenant West, Business Office. | with the gunboat Laguna de Bay, suf- | prised an insurgent camp on the I1SIand | @ s s stutodudotete dotolfuiodolelnii-iob @ | of Talim, on Lake Bay, east of Manila, | | TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN PEKING. i e 2 1 German Murders His Wife, Wounds Her Lover and Kills Himself. _— | VANCOUVER, B. C., March 6—Japan- | States Phi ie Commis- Tvektipating tharpine Commis. | ese papers which arrived to-day by the . the native Judge of the Court of | Steamship Empress of India contain news First Instance in Manila. who I8 accused | of a terrible tragedy which occurred in | ¢ freudulently aiding the administrator | Peking early in February. Lieutenant | the Enriquez (l‘flall'h Ihn case of the | Denning, an officer of one of the British ez cstate is well known, and the | yegiments at Peking, was mortally concerning it has lasted fifteen | 1© 0 ali years. The estate was originally worth | Wounded, but was still alive when the a million dollars, but through fraud this | last telegrams were received. value has dwindled to $30.00. The venal- | Denning is alleged to hawe been inti- ity and incompetence of the courts will | mate with the wife of August Lindberg, probably be demonstrated. a German ex-officer, who was attached AN to the legation at the Chinese capital. Lindberg_heard of the scandal and hur- ried to Denning’s residence. He found that Denning had left for another part of thirty-one in: all detachm Senate Clerks in Luck. | WASHINGTON, March 6—While ne 1 action to that effect has heen forn b the city, Lindberg was further entaged tsken by the Republiean Senators it is| by the fact that his wife had accdmpa- | decided that there -will be no reorganiza- | pied the Engiishman and he followed tien of the Senate committees durf resent session of the ‘Senate. cision will have the effect of leas intees of retirmg Senators in thelr ntii the convening of Congress them. He found the couple together and | opened fire. | According to the dispatches Denning | tried to protect the woman by placing | himself between her and the angry hus- | band, but -Lindbe; shot her dead with the first bullet and Denning fell with a | bullet in his body. Lindberg then turned | ihe weapon on himself. e fircd two | wihots over his heart and dled almost in- | [ mantly. ’ If You Have Rheumatism BT O ‘Wisconsin for the Orient. WASHINGTON, March 6—The battle ship Wisconsin has been sclected to re- lace the Oregon in Asiatic waters when hat vessel is relieved in the near future. sl il apnp e, | €ena no money. but writeDr.€hoop. Racine, Wia., The Grip Cure That Does CUre | 1 x 127 7or six bottles of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Laxative Bromo-Quitine removes the cause. * | Cureexp.paid. It eured pepds.i0.- If-not,it is free. | assignment, /resignation’ had been | viate. Mr. Seatles was at his office to-day but he would not talk concerning his assign- ment. Pending the action of the board of directors of the American Cotton Com- pany on the resignation of Mr. Searles, which was filed before his assignment was announced, the affairs of that corporation | are now being managed by Vice President William C. Lovering, who was called here from Boston, and D. C. Ball, the general manager. Statement of the Assignee. Assignee Dwight sald to-day that the schedules of assets and liabilities are be- ing prepared, and as soon as they are ready will be submitted to the ereditors nd a perfod of time to liguidate Mr. rles’ affairs will be asked for. So far as could be learded to-day no out-of-town institution is involved in Mr. Searles’ breakdown. The Searles assigh- ment was precipitated by proceedings in- stituted late on Tuesday afternon in the United States Circuit Court in Brooklyn to recover the principal and interest on overdue and unpai! notes aggregating $70,000. The papers in the case were filed by William Cook, an attorney. He sald that there had béen no secret about the legal formalities taken to recover the money and that the papers were regularly filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court. All the notes were given on July 12, 19%0, and were made payable in six months at § per cent to the Duluth Furnace Com- pany of Duluth, Minn., and the judgments are recorded for Thomas R. Thomas of that corporation. The first note was for 20,000; the gecond, for a like amount, had been transferred to the American Ex- change Bank of Duluth; the third, for $10,000, had been indorsed and made pay- able to the Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohlo, and the fourth, for $20,000, was_transferred to the First National Bank of Duluth, Cotton Company Not Affected. Mr. Cook said that the papers were filed In the United States court in Brook- Iyn because Mr. Searles resided in that jurisdiction and_Thomas is a resident of another State. Willlam C. Lovering, vice president of the American Cotton Com- pany, made the following statement at the offices of the company to-day: “John F. Searles resigned yesterday the office of president of the American Cotton Company, and as vice president I am now acting in his stead pending the election of his successor. The American Cotton Com- any is not affected In any way by Mr. earles’ assignment, as the company had | no connection with his arrangements. His which was made after his received, means nothing whatever to the company. That Mr. Searles had struggled for a long time to continue solvent In spite of several crushing mishaps was made clear by several developments to-day. His rela- tive prosperity suffered early last year in the collapse of the American Fisheries Company and the bankruptcy of his son- in-law, Albert B. Roeder. But as long ago as January, 1899, when he ceased to be treasurer and secretary of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company and presi- dent of the Western Natlonal Bank, the assertion that he was a millionaire through his intimate relations with ‘the sugar trust was disputed by those who should have intimate and inside knowl- edge of the facts. ccording to Wall street ideas Mr. Searles still holds securities representing at least one-third of his former fortune, but they are so tied up and hedged about that he cannot dispose of them without a sacrifice, which an assignment would ob- is said that when the wreckage of his fall is cleared away Mr. Searles will still have enough to live on comfort- ably. A matter of speculation in Wall street was the holding of Mr. Searles’ {;:per and collateral. Much of it, it was lieved, is held in Baltimore and other Southern cities.” MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS DENOUNCE LEGISLATURE Home Rule for Municipalities One of the Measures Advocated by the Party Convention. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 6.—Th Democratic State Convention held here to-day elected Justin K. Whiting of St. Clair to succeed Daniel J. Camvau as chairman of the State Central Committes. The convention nominated Judge Alle‘n"(.f. c Elmer G. Goldsmi 6tos- key and Edward Shields 15 Howell ware named for Regents, The resolutions adopted denounce the n-esent State Legls |lature generaily, deémand home rule for municipalities and express confid the leadershin of the party, Bikte ani | National. —————— 4 To Cure a Cold in One Day. ke Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al | s refund the money if it fe cure, t:“g."a'm-'- signature hng&u . Colusa Presbyterian Church Is Officiating Clergyman JOHN A. RYAN, PROPRIETOR OF THE WILLIAMS HOTEL, AND MISS MAY TULLY, WHO WILL JOURNEY ALONG LIFE'S PATH TO- GETHER. only daughter of Cclonel and Mrs. I N. Peyylon. "olonel Peyton is well known in business circles throughout the coast. Mr. Blake {s a young attorney of Spokane. SHARP WORDS ~ FOR BRITAIN ——m Benator Morgan Scores the Policy of King Edward’s Government. —_— ‘WASHINGTON, March 6.—Again to-day Vice Prestdent Roosevelt was the central figure of the opening proceedings of the Senate. When he appeared at his desk to call the Senate to order a wave of ap- plause swept over the thronged galleries. He evidently was impatient at the dem- onstration, and sharply tapping his desk with the gavel warned the spectators that a repetition of the applause would result in an order to clear the galleries. #latt of Connecticut then called up the amendment to the rules, of which he gave notice yesterday, relating to the limitation of debate, After the amendment was read Teller of Colorado {nquired of Platt whether or not he expected to secure ac- tion upon the amendment at the present extraordinary session. Platt replied that he did not desire to discuss the proposed amendment at the present tlme. He wished to have the amendment referred to the Committee on Rules, but he doubted very much if the Committee on Rules could consider it so fully as to enable the Senate to take ac- tion upon it at this session, “I hope,” said he, In’ conclusion, “that some falr amendment to the rules may be devised by which there can be a reason- able (not an unreasonable) limit placed on debate.” Change of Rule Deferred. Teller sald he lind no desire to enter ob- jection to the reference of the amendment to the Committee on Rules. That was the proper place for it. He inquired, how- ever, if there was any expectation on the part of the majority to do anything more during the present session than executlve business. ; Pending an answer to that question Vice President Roosevelt announced in a low but distinct tone that the proposed amendment would be referred, In the ab- sence to objection, to the Committee on Rules. Morgan of Alabama, who yesterday of- ferred a resolution declaring the abroga- tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty be- tween the United States and Great Brit- aln, addressed the Scnate for nearly two hours upon his proposition. His admoni- tlons to Great Britain were particularly sharp. He declared that if Great Britain should endeavor to enforce the terms of the treaty the effort would resuit in a war, in which the great empire, which had con- trolled for scores of years the commerce of the world, would be swept from power and her King would be left with only sov- ereignty over nis own island. Silence of Great Britain. He regarded the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in the nature of an alliance, “a shameful alllance,” with Great Britain, and de- nounced any suggestion of the inability of the United States to sever such an’ al- llance without Incurring the penalties of a war. He maintained that in spite of the silence of G-eat Britain the United States could abrogate the treaty at any time, and until it was abrogated it would act as a clog upon the extension of the com- merce of this country. “There cannot be anything more pre- cious to-day to Great Britain,” said he, “than to prevent the construction of the Nicaragua canal If Great Britain by her ‘golden sflence’ can prevent that her profits will continue, and the longer she can do that the greater will be her profits on the Suez canal. She has remained as silent as the Sphynx which looks out upon the Nile and upon the desert, and she seems to be looking out upon a desert of wasted Amerfcan opportunities, and, sad to say, American honor. Great Britain is still siient. The Objections to Compromise. “We will make no compromise with Great Britain upon that subject. We will make no concession to_Great Britain in relation to the treaty. What we shall do with it—and some of our people are op- posed to even that—is that we shall de- clare it abrogated. If the vote on my res- olution could be taken to-day it would in- form the President of the United States that he has no two-thirds majority in the Senate to adopt any compromise he may make with Great Britain. “If it is the purpose of Great Britain still to look for delay, she will not get it. If it be her determination to pick a quar- rel with us about it, she will find the United States can muster at least half the number of men who voted for the President in the last election—fighting men. And she will find, when that war terminates, that the steel band which binds the throne in London with Austra- lia and India and passes through Canada will have been rent in twain, and with its geverance down will go the empire.” S—— MINERS ARE CAUGHT IN A BURNING TUNNEL Disastrous Fi Km Underground in Colorads and Three Lives Have Probably Been Lost. CENTRAL CITY, Celo., March 6.—The Molepole tunnel, piercing the Utah hill at Apex, seven miles west of this city, is on fire. Three miners are caught in the funnel and are probably dead from suffo- cation. They are Con l(chrnek superin- tendent; W. Bellows and W. Coltrin. The fire originated in the blacksmith shop at the mouth of the lunpel ahd commu- nicated to the timbers «f the tunnel befora it was discover 3 k Allen Still Wears a Toga. WASHINGTON, March 6.—Senator Al a Se Was some con ‘would expire Congress, b wise. . authorities hold other- Mr. and Mrs. Blake left this afternoon !gr Southern Ca.lfl%gfln. points to spend their honeymoon. ey will be at home in Spokané after the summer season. D T T i L AL B B e e Y ) CIAR'S POLICE TRAMPLE CROWDS Students Are Crushed Under Hoofs of Horses in 8t. Petersburg. —— ST. PETERSBURG, March 4.—To-day was the fortieth anniversary of the eman- cipation of the serfs. The students hac been planning for some time to keep it as a holiday and perhape to make some demonstration, but no particular plans were made. At noon a thousand mdle and female students gathered fn and arowhd the Ka- san Cathedral on the Nevsky Prospect, where mass {or the renose of the soul of After the mass the students began sing- ing and the police gathered in great num- bers. The students were surrounded and driven in a erowd toward the City Hall, not far away and also o the Nevsky Ptospect. ’ For no special reason the police began beating the students and tramping them under the feet of their horses. The Nevsky Prospect was filled with spec- tators. The banks and business houses were nearly all closed with shutters fasi ened and doors locked. The spectators and the women students screamed with horror, but the police kept up their at- tack on the students until 400 of the la ter were driven into the courtyard of tha City Hall, the others escaping into the crowd. e entire city was horrified by the conduct of the police. Police Prefect Is Hooted. The police were in charge of Lieutenan® General Kleiget, the Prefect of Police, Wwho, when he rode to the scene of *ha their sympathizers. Another report sa; that professors from ‘ne high educational schools were among che gathering of male and female students who assembled on the Neveky Prospect and that the stu- clal services in memory of Alexander II, but the clergy refuscd to do so on the round that they had not the authority. Meantime the petitioners were surround- ed by the police, who did not seem awars of the object of the demonstration, but inferred it was seditio The police were warned beforehand and twenty-five delegates from the various St. Petersburg higher educational institu- tions were arrested Friday night for meet- ing to consider studert affairs. Noted Historian Arrested. 1t is learned that Professor P. N. Melu- a three-volume “Historv of Russian Lit- of Peter the Great” and also editor of the Russian edition of the Forman Encyclo pedia, was taken into custody on Febru- ary 11 for participation In a_conference called to consider matters relating to stu- dent life and to start a petitlon to the Czar. The manuscript of this petition was fessor Melukoff was dismissed years ago from Moscow Uniyersity for lib world's history at Sofla. turned to St. Petersburg. Sixty-one new arresis were recently made at Kieff. The Government has de- cided not to make a nolitical affair of the attempt made on February 27 by Peter Recently he re- Karpovich upon the iife of the Minister of Public Instruction, M. Bogoliepott, when Karpovich shot the Minister through the neck while the latter was re celving petitions_at the Minidtry of Pub- lic Instryction. Karpovich, who was for- merly a student at Dorpat University, will e tried on March by a court repre- senting all classes of citizens. The penalty for this erime will not exceed fifteen years’ imprisonment. Czar Alexander II was being celebrated. | trouble, was hooted Ly the students and | dents petitioned the clergy to hold spe- | koff, the celebrated historian, author of | erature” and of a ““History of the Period | between liberal citizens and 150 students, | found in Professor Melukoff's house. Pro- | several | eralism. He was afterward professor of | WASHINGTON, March 6.—Representa- tive Cannon, chairman of the House Com- mittee on Appropriations, and Represen- tative Livingston, the senior Democrat member of the committee, has prepared | statements of the appropriations for the Fifty-sixth Congress which will be prin ed in the Record to-morrow. Both place the total apptropriations at $1,.440,06; placing those for the first session 150,562, and-for the second at $729.91L Mr. Cannon publishes a table showing the expenditures of the previous Congress $1,568,212,637," and Mr. Livingston make: comparison with the Fifty-fourth certained at this time, TH sum _ipeludes _$1: 65§ for the postal | service and $547,000,000 for - the sinking | fund. The increase over the appropria tions made at the first session of this Congress is less than $20,600,000, and sum is more than accounted for by increase of $10,424,450 made on_accou the postal service, and by $13513,007 in the bill-that provides for the maintenance | of our navy and for the construction, armor and armament of the new ships of | the navy. One large item Is the appro- Frlauc\n of $5,520,000 authorized by legis- ation at the first gession of this Congress for the St. Louis Exposition. Reductiont of the Taxes. The total appropriations made at the two sessions Of the Fifty-sixth Congress are $128,150,092 less than the appropriations made during the two regular sessions of the preceding Congress. The revenue bill passed at this session will, it Is estimated, reduce taxes for the coming fiscal year $14,000,000, bringing our total estimated in- come for the coming flscal year, including postal revenues, to $675,633,042. Of the total approprrations made at this Session at least $30,000,000 will not, in the nfim of past experience, be expendecd. This considerable margin between actual expenditures and appropriations made by Congress indicates a sum total of ex- 911,683, the t of penditures during the fiscal year 19%2 of not _exceeding ,911,683. - This sum in- cludes $38,000,000 on account of the sinking fund required for the fiscal year 1902, which, of course, under the terms of law, will be met only to such an extent as surplus revenues in the treasury may per- mit. After meeting the fullest ordinary requirements of th: public service under the appropriation8 which have been mads | there will remain sufficient revenue for | 1902 to meet not less than $30,000,000 of tha 1equirements of the sinking fund. Cause of Deficiencie The large deficiencles provided for the fiscal year 1889 by tiie first regylar session of the Fifty-fifth Congress as amounting to $219,772,389, were almost in their eu- | tirety to_Cover the expenses of the mil- itary and naval departments during the fiscal years 1899 and 1900 incident to the | war with Spain. | | "The most marked increase tndicated In | the appropriations for ordinary expenses | of the Government made for the two| years 1901 and 1802 at the sessions of this | ongress over those of the two preceding | years, provided for by the Fifty-first Con- is for the postal service. The neces- sity of these increasing appropriations to meet larger business demands is referred | to as & cause for congratulation. The ap- | propriations have been reduced $128150.091 | by this Congress under those provided by its predecessor, and this has rendered pos- gible a reduction of taxes in the sum of | $41,000,000. By the continuance of the wise | administration now enjoyed by the repub- lic_there is every reason to expect further reduction of expenses, and especfally of | taxes. A Mr. Livingston says the Fifty-fourth | Congress was the last one that made ex- penditures for the support of the Govern- ment prior_to the beginning of the Span- ish war. The Fifty-sixth Congress i1s the first to appropriate for the support of the | | Government since the close of the Spanish war. The difference between the appro- | priations _made by the Fifty-sixth and those made by the Fifty-fourth Congress | is $395,482,272 Numerous Demands Ignored. During the session just closed the de- mands of the people, through their repre- | sentatives, for_the Nicaraguan canal have | gone unhéeded; for new public buildings | they have been persistently denied. The | river and_harbor bill has been permitted | to fail. The payment of just claims of honest people against the Government has not been provided for. It is doubtless con- ceived to be wisdom on the part of the | leadership of the dominant party in Con- gress and the administration to have de- | @ttt e dnieeinbeinl i H O “A ROYAL LIAR,” SAYS | DEROULEDE OF BUFFET Insulting Message From Madrid to | Paris Makes It Certain a Duel ‘Will Be Fought. PARIS, March 6.—The scconds of Paul Deroulede and Andrew Buffet met to-day | to discuss the question of the proposed duel. M. Buffet's representatives declared that he had not insulted M. Deroulede and that there were no grounds for a duc.. This decision was telegraphed to M. De- | roulede in Madrid and hs immediately | wired M. Buffet as follows: “You threw down tle glove to me and now I have picked it up. It is impossible for the king's champion to steal away. I | prefer to believe that what exércised you | principally was the clicice of weapons. I et you have it. Andrew Buffet, you arc a royal lar.” This insuiting message renders a duel inevitable. il e Alleged Murderer Captured. HELENA, Mont., March 6.—James Me- Arthur, an ex-convict, wanted on a charge of kflllngl Captain Dotson, twenty miles west of Helena, on February 15, has been captured in Revalla, Mont., after a_long chase, Tt is asserted that McArthur killed | Dotson at the instance of the latter's son, who is serving a ninety-nine-year sen- tence in the penitentiary. t wholesome fruit this need. 847 figs and prunes Requires less sugar than coffee, tea or any other Cereal Coffee—the sugar contained in figs and prunes largely supplying | order to | are collected each year to be 1 Makes Known the Amount of Money Provided by the Fifty-Sixth Session nied these just demands of the pec provide for this enormot al that Is ler to suppo t ave been inaugu icy of the Republican Notwithstagding the of the people’and the enorm the Federal trea: a#nd internal improv ter throughout the eco ically been denied by Cost of the Army. The most casual explanation table makes gress, which appropriated $1,044,580,273. In | necessary. It shows tha - 1§ statemeént Mr. Cannon says | the two years prior to - ‘““The appropriations of the sesslon just | ish-American war eost a little over $2 closing aggregate as nearly as can be as- | 000,000 and but little more than $46 0 for the two yvears covered by th: fourth ( 1 the hile £ have bee t of appropriations ma that ses the Spanish war during y-fifth Congress. The navy cost for the two years 1307-08 $63.562000, while for the years 131 and 1902 these appropriations amount to nearly $144,000,000. For the payment of pensions the’ appropriations show an inerease nearly $8,000,000 for the two years. In a word this table shows that the price to the people of the policy of this adminis- tration that has been thrust upon them by the Republican party is $100,000,000 within_a perfod of two years, and the half that is contemplated has not yet been put in operation. The ship subsidy measure, that has been deferred, but not abandoned. will cost $150.000,000 ‘more, to say nothing of the lesser schemes that are proposed. ————————————————eeeeee e s AD;EBTISE;‘BI;TS. e CONTAGION AND INFECTION. La Grippe Is Infectious but Not Con- tagious. Contaglous diseases ars communicated from one person to another; infectious diseases are conveyed through the air. Smalipox is a contagious disease; La Grippe is infectious. When an epidemic of the grip is prevailing it is In the air we breathe, and no one is safe. The only safeguard is to keep the sys- tem in the highest possible condition of health, and on_the first appearance of a cold in the head to use some safe antisep- tic like Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets freely A tablet taken every hour or two for a couple of days will be sufficient to break up the attack. rippe attacks the weakest part of stem; it may be the lungs, heart, mach or kidneys, but wherever it locates it almost invariably starts with cold in the head and throat, or, in other words, the disease at the beginning is acute cartarrh. This the reason Stuart's Catarrh Tablets have been so successful in break- ing up attacks o 3 e properties of the germs before the whole oughly infected. Dr. Anniston says: Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, being free from cocaine and harmfui drugs, sho be freely u this time of year on the first appea of grip symptoms. They check the excessive catarrhal prevent secretions, stop the fever and pneumonia. 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