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Show loctlon of Thomas P. Wafcgaman. wh was sold In New York.lmt winter .j Questioned in court by H. Relsier bn-laney. bn-laney. trustee In bankruptcy of Mr AVu gaman. . . ' The compress owned by Schumacher! Rosenberg; St Co., and the lumber yard of-the of-the Alamo Lumber company . at La ; Orange, Tex., with 21S3 bales of cotton t stored 1n the compress, were destroyed . by fire last evening; loss, Jmooo. . The cotton spinners "of Manchester, I England, have" appointed a committee" to proceed to the United States and there investigate in-vestigate the Vnethods of baling, market, Ing and transporting raw cotton, whl' it is contended are unsatisfactory.' f' ' ' j CREAM OF THE NFVS: - '. ' ' . .. The Senate has agreed. to vote on the Statehood bill before adjournment March 9.' Senator Hopkins says that mines and railroad corporations are' standing In the way of the passage of the bill. j . .. .. '. The House Committee on : Foreign Affairs Af-fairs 'Is urged by Otis S. Gage of New York and N. T. CrutchAeld of Louisville, Ky., to report -favorably the Gilbert resolution reso-lution for the investigation of W. B. Sors-by. Sors-by. United States Minister to Bolivia. He is accused of being connected With a mining mi-ning craft, which affected Mr. Gage and Mr. Crutchfleld. .- . . . ' ' A petition has been filed by creditors to have Riley A. Borgess declared a bank, rupt. He to a 'mining promoter of San Francisco. ... ''. It Is reported that the -Los Angeles St Pacific railroad has been sold to E. H. Harrlman, president of the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, Kuhn, Loeb A Co., of New York and 'Standard Oil Interests, for the sum. of ' 16,000,000. .c - . - . v, . The provision to abolish the office of Lieutenant-Oeneral In the United States army has been stricken -out of the army appropriation bill. . ... ; The Dalsell bill chartering the .Lake Erle & Ohio Ship Canal, with an authorised author-ised capital of 160.000,000 has been passed , by the National House of Representatives. i The report . from Berlin that Germany has expressed her willingness to make concessions on the Moroccan question if France will yield something, and the announcement an-nouncement from Bt. Petersburg that Russia is using her Influence at Berlin to prevent a rupture between Germany and France at Algeziras, gives Great Britain a ray of hope that the conference might still succeed in settling. the questions of the police and Stat bank of Morocco. These hopes, however, are not strong. . . 1 The Oregon State Land board has adopted formal resolutions canceling and declaring void all certificates held by Delaltre Bros, and allied Interests, pur- chased through A. T. Kelliher of Chicago, recently convicted in this city of fraudulent fraudu-lent land transactions, and covering 20,000 acres. . . . . - ' V " The Senate . m executive session has confirmed the following nominations of postmasters. California R. P. Stephenson, Stephen-son, Hollister: H. W. Witman, Oxnard; P. . I. Ferguson, Healdsburg- Idaho W. C. Fenton, Boise. Montana J. 8. Towers, Miles City. Washington A. M. Black-man, Black-man, Snohomish; E. L. Brunton, Walla Walla. '''"- "' Since January 1 4000 passages for emigrants emi-grants from England have been booked by the Salvation Army for Canada. The steamer Kensington, which has been chartered for three voyages, . will sail March 1 with 1400 emigrants, 1000 of whom are bread-winners. a - President and Mrs. Roosevelt were entertained en-tertained at dinner last night by Secretary Secre-tary and Mrs. Metcalf. Senators Aldrich and Crane were among the other guests. The secretaries' conference of foreign boards of missions at Nashville has adopted a resolution declaring that it "cannot accept Secretary Root's statement state-ment that the AmerlcaisNatlon, which led In responsibility for the creating of the Congo State, must be silent while these atrocities continue," and urging that some form of protest' or-Influence shall be sought and used for the deliverance of the Congo people. Veterans of the German army and navy, members of the Boston German Veterans' Vete-rans' society, participated last night in an elaborate celebration of the twenty-fifth twenty-fifth weddina; anniversary of the Emperor Em-peror and Empress of Germany. Prof. Hugo Munsterburg of Harvard spoke at the banquet, urging friendly relations between be-tween Germany and the United States. . The right of the Catholic ITnlverslty of America to the proceed, of the art col- I |