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Show . T O0XKRS ON THE COALVILLE TIMES. CHINA IS SAID TO BE RAPIDLY SPREADING. INSURRECTION la a Paltla at Fas Ckaaa tha Govaraau TiMft War Defeated by Kabata, who Captarod aad Lootad TJTAII STATE NEWS. a T.wo. at elty eoaacll Am tor Art department headquarter. T&e diphtheria qoaraotiB at Fle- aOro baa been raised and the aehoola hare resumed their work. Tb Salt Lake weather office will phortlj prorlde the rural freedellrerj learrler with weather signals to bedlw iplayed on their route The fraternal aocletie of Sprlngellle have decided to erect a building to be Tka ML Flea ecMed to erect a near bnlldin . ut The coat of tb vsed aa a lodge room. be about 810.000. The bnelneaa men of Proro will form for mutual advanon organization of acting in and for the purpoee tage Oniaon on qneation affecting the city." John Lawson, the Terrible Swede," well known In Utah and one of the peedleet profeaaional bicycle riders, died laat Friday in Milwaukee of bnllding will pnne-monl- a. Madge Bull, aged 18, of Salt Lake, nnlcided Wednesday of laat week, drinking earbollo acid in the presence ofayouog man with whom ahe had quarreled. " The Tabernacle eholr. atrong, 159 ncoompaaied by about 400 friends, left California trip last Friday.' The party in ached uled to return on March 24. 'Tha atoclc.falr held at Springrllle, last Saturday, waa a au cues, over forty bead of regtaUred atock being exhibition and liberal prlaes being awarded. David Candlaod, one of the olderat nail moat highly reapecUd realdenta of Sanpete eounty, and well known throughout the etau, la dead at the age of S3. The article of incorporation of tha State bank of Provo have been filed. capital Tha of w concern ha a paid-upf Its, 000, divided Into 250 abarea of a f par value of 1100. The Utah Baaaball leagua baa bean organised. Teams from Salt Lake, Ogden, Lagoon and Logan will form tha league, the season to begin April ' (24, closing September 28, Georgs Boblnaon, an aged janitor employed at the L. D. 8, university, (Salt Lake, I dead as tha reault of asphyxiation, ho having failed to turn ff tb gaa whan ha retired at night. Congressman Sutherland has Introduced tha resolutions which were by the irrigation cDftyeqtloBit pasted J uh a'ccMion of tha reaakl maining public lands of Utah to tba n-their p tat. Bingham Consolidated Cop Gold Mining eompany'e emel Ur at West Jordan givaa employment to about lBO men, the monthly pay roll being la the neighborhood of The per end 14,000. , IN UTAH. COALVILLE. , r , Minister Being Jrmy Amoo.Ii An BEET SUGAR COMBINE. GEN. MILfcS TURNED DOWN. VICTIM OF ANARCHITE I Wow co. nui WARPATH. gntj attempt was made tq kt Rev. Mr, Houst, pastor of the G Lutheran chnrch of Elizabeth, Monday night. Tb police belle, would-b- e aaaasaiu were Italian W REQUEST TO BE SENT TO THE PHILIPPINES IS REFUSED. Secretary of War aad President do Not Approve ef Change of Policy ta Deal-ta-g with Flllptaoa. chlsts. After the shooting of Prcsldenf)-Kinley- , The Washington Post says: Lieu tenant-GenerMr. Houst preached a ae A dispatch from Hong Kong say; Nelson A. Miles of tha a General Ms has been defeated by (bl in which be denounced the anarcl made specific request to the army war department to be sent to the PhilKwang Si rebels, wbo have taken and said they should be driven the country. possession of Fang Chnan. They bav ippines, and in connection therewith On November 24th last hie son killed or captured all the mandarins, submitted a plan by wbicb, in his and have looted the town. General Ms appeared, and tbe minister au opinion, the war could be brought to an end without further loss of life on attacked the rebel strongholds, but queotiy received threatening let in which it waa said that the boy after an engagement lasting two day either side. lie proposed to employ The rebels In bell, and that tbe father .would was forced to retreat. methods similar to those used by him then established their headquarters at be seat there. so successfully in his Indian camSome weeks ago hi little daugl Fang Chuau. T he rebellion is spreadpaigns waa met on tb street by an unknoi in the of Kwang provinces ing rapidly Secretary Root, after due consideraman, wbo tried to entice her Inti hi, Kwang Tung and Yuo Nan. tion, denied General Miles's request, bouse, but she managed to attract A letter received here from Tien Iai, and disapproved of the plan submitted. attention of passers-band the m all from miles Chou, The papers, so indorsed by the says Kwang fifty took fright and hurried away business is suspended there, owing to Mr. Houst stAi heard tary, were sent to the Wiiita House, night on the porch of his home, and he we it and the fear of the rebel president subsquently cou-oto Aa he did so . Marshal Su is at Tien Chou, and ln tlle seCreUry's action. The curr,d instigate. waa blow by Both General Ms la at Kao Chou mat-b- e of the lmlor!em,'Dl disposing head a from blunt instrumenL Whi e eitiea are in Kwang Tung province. waa prostrate one of hla asaailan s ter is said to bear the date March 5, These commanders are awaitiDg reinkpeeled on hie cheat, threw a do li iuo forcement. They wiah to join t heir over hi. face and shored it Into In effect, Preaideut Roosevelt and forces, hut the rebels are bolding all mouth s gag, with one baud, whi tbe intervening passes, and prevents with the other he drove a knife ini Secretary Root hold that tbe war in jnnelion of the government troops. the minister's cheat, inflicting a dee) the Philippine is already at an end, .dany of the imperial soldiers are flesh wound. The wounded manat .or virtual y so, and that tbe adoption joining the rebels, owing to the super- found by his wife and a physician waj of General Miless plan involving a ior pay offered them and the opportucalled, lie found tbe knife woun( nity for looting. The reliel leader is as but that the blow on th (change of policy in dealing with the slight, Hung Ming, a relative of theceletirated head iiad seriously injured him. inhabitants of tlie archipelago, would Hou Chuen, leader of the Tai Bing rebellion. jbe uufair to those otliciala, military BLOODY DUEL FOUGHT and civil, whose work has brought REVOLUTION IN COLOMBIA. ttl,uost complete pacification. Two Men right With Pistols ta 8er4 msnta Tbe Liberal Amy Hs, Gained a Great Borin Ittetrati HrttUh LIiim Vletory. There we a bloody duel Monday, on Further evidence of the ability of the t ridge which apaus the Sacramento tbe Boer to Secretary Imng lias received the folpenetrate the blockhouse lowing cablegram from Commander river between Sucramentocity and tbe lines is contained in a dispatch from dated of the Yolo of town Rodgers gunboat Marietta, Washington, county, Robert W. Woods, a railroad black- Beilhton, Orange River Colony, which Colon, March, 18: Liberal army ha gained a victory. smith, was met on the bridge by Van lescnbes how Commandant Meotz, Rebels have possession of the entire C. Dodge, who conducts a woodcarvlag tbe Diglit of March 10th, crossed the k line at Gotten-kur- g. country west of Banama. Fight ex- shop, and they began ahoottug. f One ltoer advanced, firing his Isthmus." the 'on pected Captain Dodge bad two pistols and fired ten nfle. Two pickets between the blockPerry of the Iowa ha so well estab- shots. Woods fired five times. Dodge houses returned this fire and killed be to of conduct lished the best line was sliot through the stomach and will the lloer and hla horse. Tbe Boers Wood lu was die. shot the bead vessels auj United naval States purtned by but it tbrn eut is bia the wire wound not fence drove in a and hip, thought during the disturbances on tbe Isthmus will prove fatal. The men quarreled aob of loose horses, which knocked of Panama that it baa not been found over Dodge's daughter, with whom down 200 yards of 'the fence. necessary thus far by the navy departDodge alleged Wooca had been intiMeotz then dashed through mate. ment to send special instructions to with over 300 Boers and tbe pickets of Marietta. the Captalo Rodgers ABOUT WESTERN RAILWAYS acre powerless to stop tbe overwhelmiWithin two day the cruiser Philang rush. delphia will arrive at Banama from Morgaa Wuli to Know thalr With t'alMIUtw, Guayquil, and with the Marietta on I Prepared for aa Attaek bv la- Cries tbe gulf aid of the Isthmus, the situaSenator Morgan has Introduced a orgeats tion from a naval point of view will be AU approaches wa when Captain Berry resolution directing the secretary of to Colon ar now !ust as hiit marines to protect the lath, the interior to send to the senate a guarded by small detachments. The mien transit. statement of tbe legal and traffic re- government la throwniog up embank-total- s There wtll be no attempt by the lations between the of the government at certain advantageous points navy to interfere as between factions, United States and tbe railroad which is the center of town and from 200 to unless the military movements of the government and Liberal troop tend to connect with Ibe waters of tbe Pacific, SCO troops are kept moving np and down and also directing the secretary of war tb railroad line. These ara cripple tb railway across the isthmus. necessary In which ease marines and sailor will to furnish similar information with be promptly landed on both tide of precautions to avoid an insurgent sur-'paa to respect to Lhe Philippines, and tb isthmus sod transit kept open. and attack similar to that of tbe charters and owners of such laaovember. B U SLN Rg TINLaEJtATE. ydnstow want oror-tyi objection of Senator Hale. Sabbath Tragedy la Dllooi. Olsemargsrlae Bill I to be Cllvso Right David Williams, a prominent citizen Ufa Savsn Pariah at Boa. of Way, . of Hidalgo, Ills., Sunday shot and Seven member of the crew of t The Republican steering committee killed Edward Ortman. An old grudge station at Ch of the senate bet decided to give the Monomy had existed and Ortman, it la alleged, first place in tb order of business in ham. Mass., lnclndiug the capta had threatened Williams lifeannmber were drowned while trying to reac tbe senate, after disposing of the pend ef times, Ortman went into Williams distressed a in terrific sea. barge ing business, to the oleomargarine bill Five persona from tbe barge irng store and placed hla hand on bit to allow It to be followed by the Chi dens, in addition to the seven members hip pocket. Williams then commenced neae exclusion bill. the crew, were loat by li log and shot eleven times, eight bulThe committee discussed the ques- of of the boat of tbe Mano-mo- y lets tion of giving tb Nicaragua eanal bill tbe capsizing taking effect. station. Rurfman Ellis, who was third place ou tba calendar, but dec! rescued, on regaining consciousness, Claim Boer Wore Enflleh Uniforms. ded not to act on that question, inasmade known the fact that the lifeboat much as it is considered probable that bad reached the resentment is felt among the Much barge Wardens, and the discussion of the oleomargarine taken on board five persons from British aoldiers that the soldiers wore had and Chinese bill will consume some the barge and waa returning to the British uniforms and badge during time. Tb war revenue bill, like apshore when it capsized. tha engagement in which General la a of propriation bill, privileged character and can be taken up at any Methuen waa captnred bat satisfaction Plot So pMIrojr Warvhtpa. time after being reported. A sensation has been caused ln V- is ax pressed at tha latest accounts of BritPORTFOLIO FOR. EVANS, ienna by tbe discovery of a plot to de- th affair, af indicating that the was than behaved better ish n troops warships stroy the Us Loser Talked ef fsr InterFeasioa C from earlier tbe reports. supposed Habsburg and Arpad, which are staior UtpsrtsMt, tioned atBola. A large quantity--- ! Rusria Koady far War. Close personal friends of Pension was recently stolen at TriWith reference to the Rassis-Jspsn-Commissioner 11, Clay Evaua claim to dynamite este, and the government has been inwar rumors, the SL Petersburg have Information that President Rooseformed by an anonymous letter that London Times velt will make him secretary of the In the Hsbsburg and Arpad were imper- correspondent of th terior. It la said secretary Hitchcock iled. The vessels have since been says b is able to vouch that tbe Siberian railway is declining consignwill resign soon and that Evan w rigidly guarded. be offered hit place. It is said the ments from merchant because tbe reIrish Situation la Hortons. change will occur within thirty days. sources of the line are fully occupied The vatician has received confidenA root Try, Ills Wager. in forwarding troops and war material tial news, say tbe Rome corresdond--en- t Edward Dameron of Louisville, Ky. Vlad i vos took. to Of the Daily Chronicle, of paid a bet which h lost on tb a serious situation in Ireland. The Kdlet of tb Dowager. fight Tuesday afterFenian have for some months been ena Chinaman threw a atone Because noon by taklog a swim in the Ohio in an active propaganda with a at Baroness Avezzana, wife of the secgaged with the river thermometer hovering view to organizing for .general rising. retary of the Italian legation at Pekin around zero, Dameron swam seventy Is believed the vatician ,wi!l in- while she was passing In the street, It five feet through the ley waters, and struct the Irish clergy to hold aloof the dowager empress has issued an when he reached the bank hla mousfrom the revolutnionary agitation. edict sternly admonishing the Chinese waa frozen Icicle tache stiff and hung from hla hair. CvAMAtioa of HoMoo, against insulting foreigners. al y, Secre-Mond- ay ut mi,. leilbron-Wolvelioe- Com-atoda- nt m life-savi- life-savi- The eportamen of the eUU ere en 'e deavorlng to orgaalM a state association. The purpose of thle aaaoclallon I to protect the wild gome and fish and to promote big match eporte-aaea- ohooU for bleerocka. The town of West Jordan, In Salt Lake county, two yearn ago bad a population of 1,000. Today Its cl tine na are boasting of the fact that there. Are 1,860 people In the town nnd house nr In great demand, s YVIlllam H. Tldball was accidentally killed by falling rock in tbelCon. Mar last- - A A eur mlnent JMercur.J'rlday slab of rock about etgbt feet square fell upon him. Be lived abent an hour after the accident. Tb farmer In tha vicinity of Beaver will have to carry over n large amount of bay for tha wankofs market, males n market 1 opened up soon, Hay can be bought for about 50 per Cent of what It east out year ago. in ag Twenty. nine boy,-rangin- g from 12 to 1? years, who broke into the Richfield academy hall and took tha tabl cloth used for sacrament purpoee and played ghost with them, war fined last week by the city - ' Justice. ('elbrt Legal proceeding art likely to be Reciprocity Advocates W la la Caban Coa g hot Bis Owa Father The 126th anniversary of the evacutrovaray. Inaugurated by tb citizen of Newton ation of Boston by the British was celGabriel Jarvl, aged 50 years, was The advocate of Cuban reciprocity ebrated in South Boston Monday by the shot Sfid almost instantly killed by bis Against the people of Clarkstoa. It baa com to light. It la claimed., that scored a decisive victory Tuesday night unveiling of a monument erected on Matson, at Astoria, Ore. The s n tb GUrkaton people bav Illegally at the conference of the republican tbe breastwork of the Colonial army son, himself op and is now confined in gave appropriate water , from the Newton member of the house of represents on Dorceatar heights The elder Jarvi was a confirmed jalL reeervolr. tires, the proposition of Chairman . Palls latoa Post llolo. drunkard and catne home intoxicated Max Alder," a cook for thp Oregon Payne of the ways and means commit' door. The daughter of ,T C. and made an effort to kick in th Short Liu surveying party at Ter- tee for a Tu percent, reduction of duty Sinclair of Palouse,' Wash , fell hesfi Matson Jarvi, after securing a revolver, minus, left Stockton laat Thursday with the Sibley amendment, limiting foremost into, post hole containing a proceeded down atairs to investigate. evening for Terminus, during a heavy the duration of the reduction of duties small quantity of water and was suffo. Opening the front door, he saw hia snowstorm, lost his way, sod when to December 1, 1903, being adopted by rated to death before she a as disco- father standing on the imrch, and a vote of 83 yeas to 31 nays. found by a searching party, was in vered. without saying a word, shot him. dying condition, A LONG WAR. PREPARE FOR rla Hry IamIi m Gtrmia Roll Baasta Make. Chinese Aveede to Condition.. William Gray, employed as eogiueei' of Admiral Prince return The Henry As a condition of restoring the valuAfenl Contract ter Parehmse of at the Dally Judge min Park City, of which 1 9 ,CM0 llorae. soil German was to Prussia safely Satable a met with very painful accident palt heaps at Tang Ku, the afternoon cables amid One of the largest orders for horse were siezed last August, accomplished Tuesday urday, While oiling a part of the en- - alt n and Lend 'circumstance with the of the in pomp the ever has been Pekin correspondent given country gin some of the caps became loosened wbjch brother from exacted Prt. ha prince's with a the, imperial Russia tbe closed at South steam buyer scalded Times, the and St, escaping Gray's has seen fit to mark the successful end Joseph horse and mule market. Tha Cbing, president of the foreign fl face in a frightful mauuer. ing of Prince Henrys American mi contract calls for 33,OoO hot to be a written engagement to employ no 'Valid mortgage of record In Utah aion. The same good fortune of free delivered at the rate of 300 per month navy and foreigner. Th Chinese ShULi - eounty December, 31, 1901, (exclusive dom from untoward incidents which for twenty-fou- r provof months While th Koan Shi Sal. governor f railroad mortgage,) a amber, 400; characterized the traus-Atla- o of the director prince's includes contract and many varieties of general ince, value, 1233,472.80 Mortgage recorded tie journey continued until the eud animals, it is the belief that the great, railroad, continue th during 1901, number, 16flivalne,SaL hod tbe lauding occurred during er part of them are for the use of tb correspondent, will refuse to bn bound 012.43. Mortgagee satisfied or released British fcrmy in Booth Africa. jmriod of brilliant auushlps by Prim Ching't undertaking. during 1061, 330; value, 28, 909.1. Austro-Hungaria- ei --- 1 . A meric. a Sugar Treat to t by Wvatora M.a, WEEK IN COXa HESS. Wagd Beet sugar men of tbe west, representing Slot), 000,000 of capital, are organizing to figbt tb sugar trust, or American Sugar Refining company. The first steps were taken Friday afternoon at a meeting of the stockholders of tb Idaho Bnet Sugar company in the Home Life Insurance building on La Salle street, Chicago. J. Hamilton Lewis of Washington, wbo is tbe president of the Idaho company, is said to be slated for tbe presidency of the Soger Beet trust, arrived Friday. There is no talk of merger or iDy absorption, declared the former con"We will gressman emphatically. fight tbe trust if you like, call it trust against trust. From other sources it was learned that during the next fortnight representatives of most of the western beet sugar men will meet in Chicago to take final steps in tbe reorganization and consolidation of the new company. The name will probably b the American Beet Sugar company, the capital will be 810,000,000, or about of the combined atock issues of subsidiary concerns. The Michigan companies, tbe Idaho company, the Colorado Beet Sugar company and nearly all others of equal importauee are said to be iu the deal. one-ten- th PEACE TREATY Rwolt ( RATIFIED. II. K. rears Confer.nea Re- lating t tbe Conduct of W ar. Tbe senate spent au hour iu executive session Friday ou the convention growing out of Ttie Hague peace conference relating to the conduct of war on land and sea, and finally ratified tbe agreement without a division. The countries party to the treaty were Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spam, the United States, Mexico, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembrough, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Persia, PortRoumania, Russia, Servis, ugal, Sweden ana Norway, Turkey and Bulgaria. Tbe provisions of the treaty are binding only on the contracting powers in case of war between two or more of them, and cease to he binding when a power joins either of tbe belligerents. Tbe most important feature of tbe treaty, the contents of which have been generally known, is that prohibbullets. iting the use of dum-duAmong other things specially prohibited are: To employ poison or poisoned arms; to kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army; to kill or wound an enemy, wbo, having laid down arms, or having no longer mean of defense, has surrendered 'at discretion; to declare that no quarter will be given; to employ arms, projectiles or material of a nature to cans superfluous iojury, to make improper nse of a flag of truce, the national 'flag or military snsigna and the enemy uniform, aa well aa the distinctive badges of tbe general convention, to destroy or aieze the enemys property nnleas such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war; ruses of war and the employment of 'methods to obtain information about the enemy and the country considered allowable. MmftIi IS. h use$loed general debate on tbe poetofflee upproprmtto bill and completed consideration of taelve of tbe tweoty aeeeq No amendments were adoptpage of tbe bill ed Tbe principal portion of tbe general debate waa devoted to tbe diHCUsaion rf appropriations for fa&t mall facilities A resolution was adopted to authorize tbe preaideut to invite Vhe families of Marshal Kocbambeau and Marquis Dc Lafayette and tbe people of France to be present at the statue of Marshal Rtxbambeau In Washington Mav 24 W-i- . and appropriating tdO.ubj to carry out tbe purposes of tbe resoiu-tio- n Hocg - Tbe a ere tbe Senate Amorurthe bill parsed into taoJu-fl- u Jo divide Nebraska following boina-steadrathe l&l UjatrU is granting bcitdoDed Kurt Hrulgtr i'oit Saunders and hurt iramie military r erv ations iu tbe right to part has on quurter Mctiou f pipdk laud on Ihe rt iv allot as pasture or of Washcraving land grunting in the siau ihuconilnu-Rme res laud touid in of Ri.it1 ai ington the enlargement mid maintenance of V home. "soldi ami bailors abmgton State as spent Q 1 be grtater portion 4if th day ?ouMdt ration of the ship su0"id bill March 14. bill was pa.sed to include tbe ToiMlie Indiuu reservation iu the stale of Washington under the general fre homestead act and for the rtltef of bouaiide settler in Hots A forest reservations Other bills wire passed to ratify the act of the Anzoua legislature providing a fund ftr tbe University of Arizona for the refunding of tie debt of Navajo tountj Arizona, at a lower rale of mu rt at and to change tbe boundaries between the south rn nd central districts Of Indian 1 crmrj to provide for the Issuance of patent to tire tow nsite of Uasin, Wjo , to tbe 'muniiipel authorities thereof for the use and benehl of sa n u .. n 1 he tuiiK rem u poll on the diplomatic and consular appii prut1'!! was adopted Semis i.rongh the session of the senate the ship suiiMdy bill i.j ihiiu consuh ration. nesura was utstus-- , by Messrs of Ohio MuLa iriu cl Mississippi, Harris of Kansas The For-ak- er and Mart li 12. Hot re The house dexou the da to private Is and citarmg tha pensiou bills passing takndur Ibis is .In lurt t iiuuitM r of pension bills tvtr passed by the house at on i. at as ion. of opinion on the ReSen publican side apiK'ared in the senate debate on Mr Allison of Iowa indithe subsidy bill cated that he was not qi ite satisfied with the measure as it stands now, and gave notlce.of amendments he proposed to offer to it, limiting the time of its operation and limiting also the amount of money unruallr to be paid from the treasury on u count of it He was followed by Mr Spooner of Wisconsin, who took txeeplon to some provision of the measure lie was not at all certain tbe bill would accomplish the great results which IU advocates claimed for it and he urged that before Hs enactment into law, definite information upon that point ought to be furnished to lie gave notice of an amendment congress which he proposed to offer, providing that the bill might be umetided or repealed b congre&R, without, hou ever impairing any contract made undtt its provisions m neo-esaa- ry Dynamiters After Mayor of Spokaa. News comes of a dastardly outrage and attempt to intimidate Dr. P. S. Byrne, mayor of Spukaoe, Wash. Last Tubsday night a mysterious explosion took place a few yards from tbs mayor's bouse in tbe suburbs, shattering glass and blowing a hole in tbe earth. It is thought about two sticks of dynamite were used. Friday the mayor received an anonymous letter threatening to blow up his house unless he changed hia political policy. Detectives have the esse in hand and it Is announced they hope to capture the perpetrators of the outrage in a short time. A r l.ooo, Oklahoma and Mew Mexico to b Admitted to Statehood. The house committee on territories has reported an omnibus bill providing for admitting Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma to statehood. The provisions governing the admissions are identical, except as to New Mexico. In case of this territory a clausa has been inserted in the bill which leaves tbe naming of the state, If admitted, to tbe legislature of the state itself, or to a constitutional convention. Tbe name of Lincoln has been suggested, and the bill ia framed to allow the adoption of this name, or any other, If the people of New Mexico sc desire. The bia provides that two remaining territories shall be admitted aa the states of Arizona and Oklahoma, respectively. Chian Cook Sets Ship on Fir. Five sealing schooners from Victoria, B. C. have put in at the Monterey, Cal. port to escape the rough weather. All report the present season as the roughest ever known on this coast. One of the schooners, the Ocean Belle, Captain MacFee, waa. set afire by the Chinese sooli shortly before reaching Monterey bay.' The fire was extinguished with great' difficulty. Tbe cook saturated everything with coal Oil, and, after starting the fire near some kegs of powder, jumped overboard and waa loat. The schooner waa much damaged. March 17. The house began consideration of the river aud harbor bill. Mr. Burton of Ohio made an extended speech in explanation of the measure, in the course of wbicb he presents many interesting tacts relative to it. Several other members spoke briefly on th measure, among them being Mr. Bellamy of eninMwi against the KurUlC'aPQUnat.jihtreatment bis state had received. vMr. Foster of Illinois and Mr, Cochran of Missouri, discussed the Boer war, criticising the majority severely for failure to allow congress to express the sympathy of the American people with the Struggling republics. Senate After prolonged debate the senate passed the ship subsidy bill, the final vote uppn the measure being 42 to 31. Other bills were passed as follow: Appropriating $150 UQ0 for a public building at Colorado Springs, Colo , granting tbe Central Arizona Railway company a right of way for railroad purposea through tbe San Francisco mountain forest reserve, granting to the University of Utah lands adjacent to iu site; appropriating $100,000 for n public building at Laramie Wyo , for the accommodation of deeds and other instruments in tbe Philippine islands and Porto Rioo, '.affecting lands situated in the District of Columbia or any territory in the United States, to prevent tresspassers or Intruders from entering the Mount Rainer national park, state of Washington. Horsi Mareh 18 House The general debate on the river and harbor appropriation bill in the house was enlivened by Mr Hepburn of Iowa, whomade his annual onslaught on the measure The other speakers were Messrs. Ball of Texas and Lawrence of Massachusetts, both members of the committee, and Messrs. White of Kentucky and Thompson and Burnett of Alabama, wbo spoke in favor of improvements of interest to their districts FraLk B. Lyon of Cuba, (N Y., was elected doorkeeper to succeed the late W J. Glenn, Tbe oath was immediately administered to Mr. Lyon by the speaker Senate For three hours the senate had under consideration the bill providing for the protection of the president of the Uuited States and for the punishment by United States courts of those wbo commit assaults on Mm. Mr Bacon opposed the bill am) Mr. Hoar and Mr Mason supported it Senator Rawlin of Utah, precipitated a lively debate by bin effort to have printed as a document some Philippine correspondence Tbe correspondence wa finally ordemi printed in the Record and aa a document Thirty-nin- e private pension bills were passed and the oalendareieared. Tbe condition of tbe revolution in Venezuela ia unchanged. The revolu tionisU are very active, and it ia reported that they lately have successfully engaged the government troops near Carpnpano, at Uiuria and at Pilar, but that they have not yet captured any ports or cities. The men who walked out in the recent strike at Miasoula, Mont, have returned to work and are operating trains. Others declined to accept the view of the matter which considers the strike is settled and will not return to work. Meanwhile trains are running as usual. Traveled In m Potato Hack, Billed as a choice sack of potatoes, a young man has arrived In Chicago from Kansas City, tied in a sack. For threa days and a half he bad been confined Sn the sack and during that time he had traveled close to TOO miles in a freight car. The sack which covered him was inclosed in an open freight car. The traveler was Martin J, Klan&digger, wbo began his jonrney with only a quart of water and two pounds of crackers laths, sack with him, this being a condition of tho wager of $300, which eanssd him to - make the perilous trip. -- - |