Show DOMESTIC DOTS ticw 7 No4es V fo n AH PoetJon ot the tn ut Over Which the Stars and SirlioH Vnvo Sharon Pa Feb 20Two house have been xyreck and IWO people injured hereby here-by a gas explosion Portland Ore Feb 25J A Stratton president of the East Portland and Na lonal bank died today Tacoma Wash Feb 25IYO ettif fh Quake shocks were felt here about Jr0 oclock this roprnins No dimmra WAH done New York Feb 25A dl patch from London says th American loan was quoted quo-ted on the stock exchange today at 5 percent per-cent premium Jeff non City R ho f Feb 5Th house today defeated the bill making it p misdemeanor mis-demeanor for women to wear hats at the theaters eh rphfs etc Washington ft < Ci rep 2 The Caere tary of statp has received the resignation of Charleq S HtiaMtlno nC Michigan as United States consul nt Milan S Omaha Neb Feb 25rA special to thE ncc from ONeill Gays A contlnuanco until March 30 was qrv tcd tho alleged lynchers of Barrett Scott today Washington D Coo Fqb lo Todays statement of tho condition of the treas iry is as follows A > aSi We cash balance S17uOa37SG gold reserve 57527DD2S Washington Feb 21I1 Eustis am baseaflor to France will be insinuated to enter a vigorous protest against the Trench decrees just made uxcludlng American Am-erican cattle frpm Trance Fresno Cal Feb 25 Colonel Harry I Thornton one of tno best icnoivn men In the state died tonight at Fresno qf cneu nonta He was a noted lawyer and was interested In horse breeding iopdon Fob 5The death of laron Aberdare Henry Austin Unjcp o tl 1iTC > secretary of state for homo aftarfi Jnl later lord president of the oouArU is l announced an-nounced He Tvas SOjoara ot age Bloomington Ia Feb 25George Curtis Cur-tis an aged man was found dead and frozen 1n hip hpvej last night apparfeitly having been dead a week He WAft a veteran vet-eran of the Union army having served ill the Tiftjsixth Massachyqetts enlist ing in Boston Washington D G Feb 23 The court of claims today announced ludgpient in favor or 150 letter carriers of New YorK Do top Detroit Philadelphia and Memphis Mem-phis for service rendered ijj esccsa of eight hours a day Washington Feb 25ThG president has issued pn order aMspendJng until further notice the operat s of the proclamation putting info effect 4 March 1 nest new rules for the road at gea apd to prevent collisions I Battle Creek Mich Feb 2iAt to days session of the SEpjr91 l conference or the Seventh Day Ad > entlat9 the following fol-lowing directors of the sanitarium were elected J H Kellogg W K Hall A R Henry G H Murphy It McCoy J H Iorrispn J and F D Start Washington D C Feb 2511110 secretory secre-tory of the interior today issued a requisition requi-sition on the treasury for 51U8al000 for the quarterly payment pf pensions at various va-rious agencies The amounts are disbursed dis-bursed at agencies as follows Columbus 3SaOt00 Washington 19500001 Boston J1SOOOOO Detroit SIJDODOO Augusta Me 200000 and pan Francisco 750000 Columbia CI Feb QAt 2 a m the committee of congenatlve or minority Pemoerat who have been In session aU night Issued I an address endorsing Till mans proposition for an equal divide bet be-t > veen the two Democratic factions of representation I rep-resentation In tho constitutional convention I conven-tion I Philadelphia Feb Governor Evans and exGoyernor THlman of South Care Una arrived In tills city last evening tor the purpose of ylattlng the Drexel Instl into and get points for their pew sohpp at Rock lItH The exgovernor said that I the cotton growers ar belnp pauperized and the miners are growing rich When I asked the cause he said lIt Is caused by Clevelands financial policy Baltimore Md Feb 25 Milton 1i Taylor M T aged 70 years died today of heart failure He had bg sn MtV In political life since 3850 anti took a ppn epicuous part in the reorganization ot the Democratic party il Maryland pone the Civil War Charleston W Va Fob 25Cordelia JJill the polpfed child who shot and killed her father in the defense of her mother last Tuesday has been acaultted Al she would cay Tras that she shot her father because she thought he was Kill ins her mother Kingston Jamaica Feb 2S Alexande Bedward a negro who styles himself U prophet ai ld has a following of over 5KK people has i been arrested oij the charge qf sedition Bedward is alleged to have jn i a most emphatic manner advad his congregation to rebel against the govern mont and crush the whites Washington feh 25Mr Euslls ambassador I I am-bassador to France Trill be instructed to enter a vlgarqus protest against the French decree just made excluding Amer jean cattle front France As the decree I s ostensibly based on tl e eKlstenee of pleuropneumpniiv and Tpxaa fever ill cattle coming from the United States the ambassador will call for the proof of the fact That will mean long and tefllou expert examinations by veterinarians and much correspondence which may be of little avail Columbus o Feb Z5Last year tM Adams United States and American ox press companies unoer the Ohio lair re fused to pay the excise tax of 2 pet cent on their gross receipts In the state Tie state therefore brought suit Their mo tlon to quash set up that they were or gattlaejj under New York teffft as jiart nershlps and not being corporations were not J aqle to the tax Jude Pugh this morning overruled the n tipn wd the case will be heard on Us merits |