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THE KEPI? OB HAZ1WG Congress Committee Submits Its Findings in the 8ooz Case. BILL TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS "Tli* Report Says Thai FlRlits Arrnnjrerf at ffe?t Point Are Much More Vie ious Than Tho9e Conducted Undei Marquis of Queensberry Rales?Drastic Measures to Stop Practice Urged. Washington, D. C.?The report of the special Congressional Committee wliich investigated the hazing of Cadet Eooz and the general subject of hazing m ?esL ironic was suunmrea 10 me House of Representatives by the Chairman of the Committee, Representative Dick, together with a bill providing stringent regulations against hazing, fighting and all brutal practices at the Military Academy. The report is ;.n exhaustive review of the practice of hazing in all its forms, and while moderate in tone, is nevertheless a stringent arraignment nf the practices enumerated. It specifies more than one hundred distinct methods of harassing fourth-class men. and describes them in detail. One of the "funny formations" described is that practised on Philip Sheridan. Jr., who was compelled to ride a broomstick "in mockery of his Illustrious father's achievement at Winchester." The report describes the system of fighting at West Point as shocking in Its character. The Committee declares that the West Point code is more vicious than the QueeiiSberry code. It is held that fighting is the worst form of hazing, that such fighting as that *>4- WrT>/-vIn f (e o fAlAnir o/>Anrr1ln(T tn the statutes in many of the states, and that the time has come when Congress must decide whether fights which are high crimes elsewhere shall continue , at xhe academy. The Committee finds that Cadets Mac Arthur, Breth and Burton were hazed into convulsions, that others were hazed until they fainted, while ethers were hazed until they were sick. The hazing of Cadets Booz and Breth are elaborately treated, but the Committee does not attribute their deaths directly to hazing. The report odds: "But while we cannot fix upon hazing the responsibility for these two deaths, the possibility that It hastened them and the blot It throws on the otherwise fair and glorious fame of the academy, Its conflicts with proper training and discipline and unfitness In this century, urges the adoption of rpncnnuhlfl vet. we believe, effective, measures for its eradication, and the promotion of discipline at the academy." The bill submitted contains eleven sections against hazing, and provides means for its detection and punlsh& ment. Dismissal is provided as the penalty for taking part in a fight or challenge, directly or indirectly, or for any form of annoying, harassing, or bracing cadets-. Cadets dismissed are made ineligible to appointment to the tp army, navy or marine corps. Provision 52: Is made for courts of inquiry, courtsmartial. closer association between offi ccrs and cadets and other means for effectually stopping the practice. y SHOOTS AN ALABAMA JUDGE. Jesse Bcalo Woauds Man Who Was Protecting His Intended Victim. Montgomery, Ala.?Thomas N. McClellan, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, was shot here by Jesse Beale, a prominent citizen. Judge McClellan was struck in the right shoulder, the bullet shattering ' - the shoulder blade. The shooting was the sequel to a rather sensational affair. Judge McClellan was trying to prevent Beale from shooting John McQueen, a solid tor of Jefferson County, who was in tht house. It had been reported to Beale that his daughter, Caroline, had been out all night in a cab with McQueen. Upon hearing this the enraged father, accompanied by his son, Phelan, armed with pistols and shotguns, went to McClellan's house after McQueen. It later developed that Miss Beale and McQueen had taken tea at a restaurant, and while on the way home decided to get married. About midnight they drove to the residence of Judge of Probate Gaston and requested a marriage license. Judge jf;* Gaston refused, under the circumstances, and the couple spent the balance of the night searching for a Justice of the Peace to marry them, Failing in this, Miss Beale staid at a <rirl friend's hnnse and McQueen went O" to McClellan's residence. Miss Beale and McQueen were married and left on a bridal trip to New Orleans. The Beals, father and son. are held to await the result of Judge McClellan's injuries. LANCASTER'S TARS IN A FICHT. Clash Between Sailors and the Populaci at La Guayra, Venezuela. Washington, D. C.?Information has been received of a clash between sudors of the United States naval vessel Lancaster, now at La Guayra, Vene zuela, and the people of that city. II was the outcome of a brawl betweer 6ailors who had been enjoying them selves on shore leave. The Lancaster's men were forced tc take their small boats and return t< the ship. No fatalities are reported or either side. Life Imprisonment For Lynchers. Fegram Cochran and seven othci ? ?iftomieotl l^nnhintr ? "? Hit'LI, YYUU HC1C tinuotu VI . negro in Fairbarn, Ga., were fount guilty, and were sentenced to prisoi for life at hard labor. The men wer< accused of murdering Sterliug Thomp son, a harmless negro farmer, for ab solutely no reason. i Smallpox In California. Six cases of smallpox have beei discovered in San Francisco. Foui cases of the disease are reported ii Oakland, Cal. Cuba l'cpudiates Debts of Spain. The Constitutional Convention a Havana, Cuba, adopted by a large ma jority the tirst article of section 23 which provides that all debts con tracted prior to the promulgation o the constitution shall be repudiate! except those contracted on behalf o ?v the revolution from and after Febru ary 24, 1895. fc>j< r Yaqals Defeat Mexican Troops. Mexican troops were ambushed b: Yaqul Indians in the mountain pasi east of Ures and fully a hundred weri killed and wounded before they coul< extricate themselvest v- , I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED t WASHINGTON ITEMS. The Senate confirmed all tho Presi dent's nominations of Brigadier-Gen> erais. The Administration fenrs the imposition of countervailing duties 011 Russian sugar may lead to oommer, eial war between the United States 1 and Europe. The President nominated former Congressman Charles A. Boutelle. of 1 Maine, to be a captain on the retired . list of the navy, in accordance with the recent act of Congress. A delegation of prominent Cubans called on President McKinley and discussed the condition of affairs In the Island with him. Owing to retirements President McKinley will have the appointment of twenty or more general officers in the army within the next eighteen months. 1 Russia and the United States are on the verge of commercial war because of the imposition by Secretary Gage of a retaliatory duty on Russian sugar. Robert W. Wilcox, Delegate from Hawaii, answered charges filed against him, declaring he was loyal to the Government and fairly elected to Congress. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Tne i'ninppine tiomuiissiuu is ictening a warm welcome from natives on Its journey in Luzon. The mass of evidence against Neely is accumulating at Havana, Cuba, and preparations are being made for his public trial. The American forces in the Philippines have captured since, September, eighteen cannon, 1800 rifles, thousands of bolos, and 90,000 cartridges. A lumber yard, sawmill and fourteen houses in Havana, Cuba, near El Cerro, were burned, with a total loss of $700,000. Eighty persons were injured, most of them firemen. Several arrests were made in Manila. P. I., in connection with the alleged aiding of Insurgents. DOMESTIC. The bill legalizing the whipping ot wife beaters was passed by the Delaware Legislature after a lively debate. Mrs. Thomas C. Piatt, wife of New York's senior United States Senator, died in her apartments in the Fifth Avenue Hotel, at New York City. She was in her sixty-sixth year. Lou Miller, a German resident, blind for many years, was murdered near Hazleton, Ind., by being shot through the head. Miller was about fifty years old and reputed to be worth $100,000. Mrs. Harriet Matteson died at the Old Ladies' Home in Dunkirk, N. Y., aged lOi years. Tfiro in flip TClmberlv Mills of the Klmberly & Clark Paper Company, at Appleton, Wis., caused a loss of $300,000. Great Ice floes in the waters about New York City seriously Impeded navigation. A raid in Winfield, Kan., resulted in the destruction of a "joint." Several shots were fired and one woman was hurt. A mob took a negro charged with assaulting a woman, from a jail at Paris, Ky., and lynched him. Fire at Rochester, Penn., damaged jne of the plants of the National Glass Company to the extent of $500,000. A special election will be held in the Fourth Maine district on April 8 to choose a successor to Congressman C. A.. Boutelle, resigned. A school for teaching boys to beg tvas discovered in New York City through the arrest of the alleged manager. Major Anderson, in an amateur entertainment, hypnotized a boy at Lvons. N. Y.. and had to summon a professional hypnotist to awaken the youngster. Senator Hoar before the Massachusetts Legislature advocated the ostracism of persons who corrupt States. Former Lieutenant-Governor Henry C. Bates, of Vermont, will accept the position of Judge in the Philippines, with a salary of $5500 per annum. Hundreds of teachers in the United States are applying for positions in the Philippines. In the Supreme Court at Ballston Spa, N. ?., it was decided that a signalman should precede an automobile 1 a furlong. , Yale Issued a circular warning her alumni and friends that the project to , erect a statue to Nathan Hale was not authorized. C. B. Murfin, of Ann Arbor, Mich., a student in Braden's National Prepara> tory School for West Point, N. Y., dropped dead while he and other students were engaged in snowballing. Death was due to heart disease. The Louisiana sugar planters have finished their planting nearly eighty days ahead of time, taking for granted that there would be no more cold weather this year. FOREIGN. 1 The British Admiralty chartered the Maine to attend the Mediterranean fleet as a hospital ship. Another epidemic of the plague is raging at Bombay, India. Of 2000 deaths within a week 022 were due to (his disease. The Governor of the Province of i Shen-Si, China, is appealing for aid in behalf of 4,000,000 inhabitants of the I famine-stricken districts. Forty-two Russians were killed in an t engagement at Kao-Chiao, China. They I pofnend tho ncsintanrp of the allies. A dispatch from Cape Town says tliat A. D. Wolmerans, Boer delegate 1 to the United States and Europe. ? writes from Paris strenuously urging > the Boers to surrender. Many Germans are offering to tho British Embassy, at Berlin, for service in South Africa. ? 4 Martial law was declared in the j province of Valencia, Spain. ! Professor Von Pettenkofer, a famous j bacteriologist, who was eighty-three ! years old. at Munich. Bavaria, com. mitted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. He suffered from melancholia. Mr. Marconi was successful in sendi ing wireless telegraphic messages from c the Isle of Wight to Cornwall, Engi land, two hundred miles. Enteric fever is increasing in British garrison camps in South Africa. uuneu ouia'S vuargv u auaiiva um>' com lmd a farewell audience with the * Turkish Sultan. ' The Dominion Government aban' doned its plan of sending a commission ' to St. Petersburg to examine into the J original Alaskan documents, in defer' ence to the wishes of the Washington Government. Governor Gallett was recalled tc France. His successor is Edouard Petit. 8 Slgnor Saracco, the Prime Minister e resigned on account of the defeat of j the Italian Ministry. ROBBERS MAKE RICH HAUL Steal Express Safe With $40,000 From a Railway Platform. Authorities of Iowa Town Where Crime Occurred Say They Have Two Men Who Committed It. Sioux City. Iowa.?Prompt and active work by the authorities at Manila. Iowa, resulted in the arrest of three men who are supposed to have been implicated in the theft of a United States Express Company safe whicb contained about $40,000. The Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul train in which the safe was taken from Sioux City arrived at Manila at 8.05 o'clock p. m. The Omaha train was late, and James Sturtevant. of Sioux City, the express messenger, did not hurry in unloading the goods and packages from bis ear. The express safe, with other articles, was unloaded and placed on a truck ota the station platform, and then Sturtevant and the baggageman went to the other end of the platform to get another truckload. When Sturtevant returned li^ noticed that the articles on the truck were disarranged, and a glance showed mat UJU 11 uu UUA was ^uue. There was great excitement, and no time was lost in spreading the alarm. City Marshal Ferrill hastily assembled a posse and vigorous work was begun. Snow lay thick upon the ground, and It did not take long to discover the tracks of two persons, who evidently had been carrying some heavy object, directly from the truck as It stood upon the depot platform. They carried the safe a distance of about two blocks, and then loaded It 'nto a wagon, which had been left there in waiting. The wagon was driven a mile and a half into the country and there the safe was forced open and the contents were abstracted. The men there abandoned the safe and went their way on a new track. It was not difficult to trace them, however, and three arrests were made. Their names are John Jackson, John Stovalt and Chas. Hayes. All are men who live at Manila and are well known. Their reputations heretofore have not been bad They stoutly protest their innocence, but the autnorities believe the evidence against at least two of them will prove conclusive. The three prisoners are in (nil knfftnM V\f\f\T\ iinoMa furnlch jail, UUVIUj; UCCU UUUUIC iv luiuiou bonds of 812,000 each. The authorities say the shoos of two of the men exactly flt the tracks In the snow at the station where the safe was carried off. The stolen safe contained fn the neighborhood of $40,0uu. Twelve thousand dollars was In cash and the renin Inder In drafts, checks, and various valuables. None of the money or valuables has been recovered. DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN SHAW. Former Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R. Found Dead In Bed. Washington, D. C.?Representative Albert D. Shaw, of the Twenty-fourth District, and past Commander-inChief of the Grand Army of the Republic. was found dead in his room at the Rlggs House. He attended a banquet the previous evening at the I TSUUIti. TT J? 1 EjULMlt nuuss 1U UUUU1 UL VUU1U1UUUC1' COLONEL ALBEET D. SHAW. (Member of Congress and former Commander of the 0. A. R., who was found dead In Wushlngton.) In-Chief Rossleur, of the G. A. R., and complained to friends nearby of suffering from indigestion. His death was due to apoplexy, and he probably died soon after reaching his room. The body was taken to Watertown, N. Y., Mr. Shaw's home, where the funeral was held. Mrs. Shaw died on February 9, 1899. Mr. Shaw leaves a son, Dr. Henry L. K. Shaw, of Albany, and two married daughters. Albert Duane Shaw was born in Lyme, N. Y., December 27, 1S11. He enlisted as a private in Company A, Thirty-fifth New York Volunteers, in June, 18G1, and served two years. He served one term in the State Assembly of New York and then entered the consular service. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic of New York In 1896 and of the National Encampment in 1899. He was elected to Congress last November to fill the unexpired term of Representative C. A. Chiekering, who committed suicide while temporarily insane, and was also elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress. Senate Paasei Pension Bill. The Pension Appropriation bill, carrying $145,245,230, was passed by the United States Senate. Claims allowed on account of the Spanish war represent only $270,000 of this year's total. Another Rich Klondike Strike. James Lawrie, who arrived at Seat tie, >>35X1., Oil U oicttiijur 11U1U uuiuport, reports a rich strike oa Kuskokwin Creek. The Alaska towns are greatly excited and many are leaving for the scene of the strike. Prince Commits Murder. Prince Johann Pedocky has been arrested for the murder of an actress named Pauline Mitoroski at Budapest, Hungary. The prince, who was penniless, robbed .?is victim of jewels and valuables worth $100,000. Minor Mention. A workman at Cardiff, Wales, has been attacked by bubonic plague. The Riviera has not had such a cold January as the past month since 1871. Net earnings of the Tennessee prisnnai.o >n thp Inst two vears were $280, 555. Railway communication has been restored between Pekin, Feigtai and Paotingfu, China. A Cleveland (Ohio) syndicate has raised $500,000 to quarry lithograph stone 1b one of the Southwestern States. 'V' V'-Ar.'-" THE TEN NEW BEGIIENTS Order? Desif,-natins: Them and Assigning Their Headquarters. WILL BE SENT TO PHILIPPINES The Senate Confirms the Nomination of General Miles to Ee Lieuteuant-Gen. eral of the United States Army?Young' Ciiaffoe and MacArthnr Are Mojor-Generals?Wilson and Lee to Be Brigadiers Washington, D. C? Adjutant-General Corbin has issued the necessary orders for the organization and equipment of the ten additional regiments authorized by the new army bill. As the regiments are organized and drilled they will be forwarded to San Francisco for transportation to Manila, but it is not expected that many of them will be in shape to go to the Philippines for several months. Meanwhile the regular army organizations now stationed in this country will be * ? ? ? I>lt!1innino usea as rar as pussiuic iui jl service and the new organizations used for garrson duty in this country. According to the orders these regiments will bo located as follows: Eleventh Cavalry, headquarters, fort Myer, Va.: Twelfth Cavalry, headquarters,. Fort Sain Houston, Texas; Thirteenth Cavalry, headquarters, Fort Meade, S. D.; Fourteenth Cavalry, headquarters. Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fifteenth Cavalry, headquarters, Presido of San Francisco; Twenty-sixth Infantry, headquarters, Fort McPherson, Ga.; Twenty-seventh Infantry, headquarters, Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y.; Twenty-eighth Infantry, headquarters, Vancouver Barracks, Wash.; Twenty-ninth Infantry, headquarters, Fort Sheridan, 111.; Thirtieth Infantry, headquarters, Fort Logan, Col. MILES IS LIEUTEN ANT-GENERAL. " Senate Confirms Also Promotion of Yonng, Chaffee and MacArthur. Washington, *D. C.?The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: To be Lieutenant-General?MajorGeneral Nelson A. Miles. To be Major-Generals?BrigadierGeneral S. B. M. Young, Colonel Adna R. Chaffee, Elghtn Cavalry, (MajorGeneral United States Volunteers); Brigadier-General Arthur MacArthur, (Major-General United States Voluntpprsl. The President sent to the Senate the nominations of James H. Wilson, of Delaware, and Fltzhugh Lee, of Virginia, now Brigadier-Generals of Volunteers, to be Brigadier-Generals in the regular army. Generals Wilson and Lee get their appointments under section thirtythree of the army bill, which authorized the President "to select from the Brigadier-Generals of Volunteers two volunteer officers without regard to age. nnd, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint them Brigadier-Generals." A favorable report was made to the Senate on all the Brigadier-Generals recently nominated, including Generals Wood. Grant and Bell, and Generals Wilson and Fltzhugh Lee. Under the rule, no action was had and consideration was postponed until the next executive session. New Light Catteries of Artllleiy. Washington, D. C.?Orders were Issued at the War Department for the location of the new light batteries of artillery provided for in the re-organization law, at the following points: One each at Fort Myer, Virginia; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Meade, S. D.; Fort Snelllng, Minn.; Fort Hamilton, N. Y.; Fort Sheridan, 111.; Vancouver Barracks, Washington; Fort Logan, Col., and Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. Two each at Fort Riley, Kansas, and the Presidio at San Francisco. BRITISH POLICY UNCHANGED. Chamberlain Sajs It Has Been "Approved OTorwhelmlccly by the Empire." Capo Town, South Africa.?The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has addressed a communication to Sir Alfred Milner, approving the remarks made by Sir Alfred in his reply to the Afrikander deputation sent to him by the Afrikander Congress at Worcester with resolutions addressed to Queen Victoria. "The Government has no intention," says the Colonial Secretary, "of changing the policy which it has repeatedly declared, and which has been approved overwhelmingly by the empire." Died Wliile His Pardon Was Being Signed While Governor Bliss was in the act of signing the pardon of John Becker, of Quincy, the prisoner died of consumption at the State prison in Jackson, Mich. Becker was convicted at Cold Water of arson and sent in June, 1808, to State prison for fifteen years. Sale of Danish Islands. With only one dissenting voice the Financial Committee of the Landsthing. at Copenhagen, Denmark, has approved the 6ale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Congrenman Boutelle Has Resigned. Charles A. Boutelle has tendered his resignation as Representative from the Fourth Maine District in Congress, to take effect February 28. Smallpox In England. Smallpox has broken out among the Thirteenth Hussars at Norwich, England. Large Fortune Under the Carpot. Thomas and Margaret Moore, an aged couple of Banklick, I\y., died a few days ago. Their two sons Immediately instituted a search for a will. They found $14,000 in gold under the carpet. Heroine of Pckln Married. Miss Mary Condit-Smith, who was in Pekin, China, during the siege, wast married to Lieutenant Hooker, of tho Marine Corps, at Washington. At the request of the State Department she will not publish her story of the siege. Dentil Penalty For Kidnaping In Missouri The Missouri Senate passed the bill punishing kidnaping with death. This action was taken as a result or me recent Cudaliy kidnaping in Nebraska and was recommended by Governor Dockery In a special message to the Legislature. Another Indian Famine. Lord Curzon has notified the authorities in London that another famine is impending in India, in fact has already begun, and the immediate expenditure of one crore of rupees, about $3,300,000, is necessary, in addition to the remission of large land jevenues. ' . . V; - y""'i'V TWF ELECTORAL VOTE Senate and House in Joint Session Canvass the Presidential Voto. McKinley and Roosevelt Received 293 of the 447 Cast, and Congress Declares Ihem Elected. Washington. D. C.?The Senate and House met in joint session Wednesday. canvassed the electoral vote and declared William McKinley elected President and Theodore Roosevelt Vice-President for four years from March 4. McKinley received 292 electoral votes, to 155 for Bryan. The method of counting the electoral vote for President and Vice-Presidenl is prescribed with great detail by the statute and was followed literally. At one minute of 1 o'clock Colonel Ransdell, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, appeared at the main door of the House, opposite the Speaker's desk. and announced the President pro tem. and members of the Senate. The members of the House rose to receive them, while page boys, carrying the caskets in which the electoral returns were deposited, took them to the Clerk's desk. Senator Frye, President pro tem. of the Senate, ascended the rostrum and took his place at the right of Speaker Henderson to preside over the joint session. The certificates were not uniform, and the operation of opening the bulky packages and seeking out the result in each case was attended with many delays. Upon the announcement of the vote of Wyoming, by the direction of the presiding officer, the tellers formally ascertained the totals. ? Senator Chandler announced the total number of votes cast as 447. of which William McKinley, of Ohio, received for President of the United States 292; William Jennings Bryan. nf XTaK^noIro 1RK nnri nf whfpll TllPfl dore Roosevelt, of New York, received for Vice-President 202, and Adlai E. Stevenson. 155. Thereupon, In accordance with the statute. Senator Frye proclaimed the 6tate of the vote as delivered to him. "This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Senate." said he. "is, by law. a sufficient declaration that William McKinley, of the State of uhio, is elected President of the United States, and that Theodore Roosevelt, of the State of New York, is elected Vice-President, each for the term beginning on March 4. 1901, and will be entered, together with a list of the votes, on the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives. "The count of the electoral votes having been completed and the result declared, the Joint meeting of the two houses is disssolved and the Senate will now return to Its chamber." A tremendous outburst of applause, which swept over the galleries, followed. The Senate then filed out of the hall and the ceremony was ended. ALABAMA CONVICTS SHOT. They Had Made a Daring: and Nearlj Successful Effort to Etcape. Birmingham, Ala.?Sis convicts made a dash to escape from the coal mines nt Pratt City. They were led by Chas. Higgins, a life man sent up for murder, and Charles Harris, serving a twenty-year sentence. The men made their way for two miles under ground In entries of worked-out mines. When the convicts were checked off the six men were missed. About that time an electric gong was sounded as the desperate men were battering down a heavy gate at the mouth of the old mine. All the guards were notified and when the convicts had the gate down and were about to get out into the open they were fired on by the guards. Higgins was almost instantly killed. Harris was shot in the breast and is fatally wounded. The other four men surrendered and were marched back to prison two miles away. The convicts had to break down seven gates on their underground trip. THE SMALLEST WOMAN IN CUBA. Senorita de Cenda, Twenty-four Inchea Tall, Calls on the President. Washington, D. C.?Among his visitors a few days ago President McKinley received Senorita Estirito de Cenda, who is the smallest woman in Cuba. She was born near Matanzas, and is about to return home after a visit to the United States. Senorita de Cenda Is commonly called by her friends "Chiquita." She is thirty-one years old. twenty-four Inches tall, and weighs twenty-seven P0UnQ8. Oiie Wild rtuuvruj' uicootu satins and silks and wore diamonds. She speaks Spanish, Italian. French and English and made a little speech to the President in the last-named language. as follows: "I want to thank you, Mr. President, for what you have done for my people." The President replied: "That was a very nice little speech, one of the most welcome I have ever received." Hove Choice of Modes of Salcldc. The Emperor of China is said to have given a choice of modes of suicide to the officials whose deaths are demanded by the representatives of foreign nations. Steel Balls For Australia. A contract for 17,000 tons of steel rails has been secured by the Illinois Steel Company for the Australian Government. The rails are to be shipped to Melbourne. National Bank of Cuba Incorporated. The National Bank of tjuna, at nnv- i ana. has been incorporated with a capital of $1,000,000. For Governor of the Philippines. President McKlnley will appoinl Judge William H. Taft Governor of the Philippines and establish civil administration in the Islands as soon as the Army Appropriation bill, with the Spooner amendment, becomes law. Boy Dies of Lockjaw After Vaccination. Francis McCormick, aged eight, died at the Mercy Hospital, in Springfield, Mass., of lockjaw, which set, in after vaccination. The physician who vaccinated the boy is not known, but the authorities will investigate the case. Doing* ef State Legislatures. ? t.sii n 1 Pnnt-rm. A UI1I AVI il VUUOHIUUUUUI N/w*. ? V tiou lias failed to pass tbc Oregon Senate. Congress lias been memorialized by the Oregon Legislature to reject tbe Parcels Post bill. The New Jersey House has passed a bill providing a penalty of one year's imprisonment or $1U(X) flue, or both, for hazing whereby bodily Injury is Inflicted. The Tennessee House has rejected unanimously a bill appropriating $50U0 to bring home from San Francisco the Tennessee soldiers now en route from Manila. / , .t-'Z&i5? VjicV*,r.__ When Brn?lo* Speaks In TOhlspera. Marriott Brosius, Congressman fron the Tenth District of Pennsylvania has a voice that is famoui. Not long ago a member of the Hous< was passing out of the front door o: the Capitol with a friend when tltej heard a crash behind them as of dis tant thunder. "What was that noise?" inquired the friend. "I don't know." replied the Congress man. "unless it was Brosius whisper ing."?Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. t New Brake. Fast Time. A new kind of instantaneous brake which is said to diminish almost en tirely the disagreeable sensation 01 concussion experienced when a trair is pulled up. has been fitted to th< Paris-Calais express. Armed with this safeguard the Northern Railway ol France express covered 185 miles be tween the Gare du Nord and Calais ir 184 minutes, or less than a minute s mile?a record, at any rate on the Con tinent. for such a distance.?Londor Daily Mair. Thrre la a Clan of People Who aro injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been olaced in all the grocery storei a new preparation called Gbain-O, made o pnre grains, that takes the place of coffee The most delicate stomach receives it withou distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. I does not cost over }( aa much. Children ma] drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts per package. Try it. Ask for Geaiw-O. Turquoise mining In New Mexico Is of very remote origin. Many of the present mines, when located, indicated operations by the inhabitants of New Mexico at a time prior to or contemporaneous with the Aztecs, stone and earthen vessels of great antiquity being found in the workings. LaneU Family TTIedicin** Moves the bowels each day. In order t< be healthv this is necessary. Acts eentlv 01 the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache Price 25 and 50 cents. In 1800 the Indian canoe was practically the only floating vehicle on the great lakes, which hold one-third of all ihe fresh water in the world. To-day the lake fleet numbers several thousand steel steamers, with seventy ship yards on the shores of the lakes to add constantly to the number. TrfGraln-O! Try Oroin-OJ Ask your grocer to-day to show you a pack age of Qbaix-O. the new food drink that take* the place of coffee. The children may drink i without injury as well aa the adult. All who tr] it, like it. Gbain-0 has that rich seal browi or Mocha or Java, but it iB made from pur< grains, and the most delicate stomach receivei it without distress. % the price of coffee 15 and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers Yankee ingenuity is hard at work these long winter days experimenting upon or really manufacturing articles to be used in* connection with automobile industry. It is said that in seventy-flve per cent, of New England towns there are one or more concerns so engaged. THENERWEl "I am so nervous and wr fly." How familiar these e annoy you and make you irrii uofit for ordinary duties, and That bearing-down senss miserable. You have'"backache and p in top of head, later on at the Such a condition points trouble. If you had written to Mrs perienced impaired vitality, tnese nours 01 awiui sunerm^ Happiness will be gone ou unless you act promptly. Pi "Vegetable Compound at < help you. Then write to Mr there is anything about your You need not be afraid to not explain to the doctor?voi and is absolutely confidential, ence with such troubles enal best for you, and she will cha: Mm Valan^lHa fll Hoi (Ill Jl TOICllllllM wa , Lydia E. Pinkham's "Dkae Mrs. Pinkham It is wit] I add my testimony to your list, hoping others to avail themselves of the bene uable remedy. Before taking Lydi ham's Vegetable Compound, I was terribly nervous and tired, had si no appetite, gnawing pain in atoinac' back and right side, and so weak I < stand. I was not able to do anytb''" pains all through my body. Before * a bottle of your medicine, I found n ing. I continued its use until I h bottles, and felt so well that I did take any more. I am like a new pei medioine shall always have my prai P. Valentine, 506 Ferry Avenue, C |^j| I The Gentle Art of Letter Writing. 1 The classic age of letter writing, like that of chivalry, is gone, although no Burke has been found yet to utter its ; splendid funeral oration. Correspondf ence on business, hurried notes coa7 taining invitations to dinner or accept ances thereof?these are the missives which fill the bag of the letter carrier. 71 The love letter, we presume, still holds {fa on?nw nn/1 i# ttta n i?a f a *! i i / } rr c\ f fam ti.o onajf, auu, XL w c u?c tu j uu^t Aium " the revelations of breach of promise " cases, It is full of sugary sentlmental> Ism as in the days of Lydia Languish. But the letter as It has passed Into lit- ' erature, the letter whose hirhest claim to be treated as art is that it conceal? ' art. the letter as written by William Cowper, or Oliver Goldsmith, or Horace Walpole, or Miss Burney?that . charming epistle intended only for the i affectionate perusal of friends, and yet of such value to the historian of life and manners?shall we say that It has V disappeared from the busy modern ,, world, killed by the "railway and the steamship and the thoughts that shake mankind?" At least. It is now but a rare product, a fragile flower scarcely able to maintain itself In our altered , social soil. Correspondence from being a cher H ished art and solace has in onr day f tended to become what Is called in ' slang a "grind." It is "snippery," like the cheap newspapers, a sort of "bits" v r or "cuts," giving .hints which require . to be filled out, only that the receive* has hardly time for that mental pro* ? ( cess. Truth to tell, a great doal of our letter writing is boredom, the source [ of Irritation and weariness to those who are called on to undertake itLondon Spectator. v Twelve Thousand Heroes. Why the Government awarded no ) Medals of Honor for the charge up San Juan Hill. j I was told at Washington that the 1 reason-the regimental officers did knot tecelve the Medal of Honor, for which they were recommended on account of . their bravery at the charge of San . Juan Hill, says Richard Harding Dayis, in Everybody's Magazine, was because the Government argued that if it gave the medal to one man there was no good reason why it should not * give It to twelve thousand. A virtue which is shared in common by twelve thousand men must be a common virtue. As a matter of fact the members " of the Knickerbocker Club in the t Rough Riders'Regiment and the negro r regulars, who, had they not been sol1 diers, would have been barbers and * ; I servants, reached the top of the hill at . exactly the same time. That Is not ^ said in belittlement of courage, certainly not of this particular exhibition . of it, which was to me one of the most | moving and magnificent spectacles of . a life-time, but rather to suggest that ? we have cause for congratulation In v the fact that the proportion of brave j. i men is so great. One might almost say that all men are brave. m etched." "I feel as if I should . xpressions are! Little things v tame. You can't sleep, you are ' are subject to dizziness. , ition helps to make you feel ains low down in the side, pain base of the brain. unerringly to serious uterine \ 3. Pinkham when you first exyou would have been spared > t of your life forever, my sister, rocure Lydia ?. Pinkham'g once. It is absolutely sure to s. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., if case you do not understand. i tell her the things you could ar letter is seen only by women . Mrs. Pinkham's vast experi)les her to tell you just what is rge you nothing for her advice. ppy Results Accomplished by ?' i-LI- /"* '' vcgciauic VUII1|JUUIAU? ti pleasure that ' ' nad taken half ^/[ ad taken four fon, and your ?pnf| I j y/li ae."-Mrs. W. MotwDVAlENTINL .amaen, rs. j. |i? ?j inn Owing to the fact tk?t tome lk?5tica\ Rl U II people have from tira# to time <ju?Mloa?d 4 CM U the renuiaeneuof the ttltimonl*! ltttm we are constantly publishing, we have the National Citjr Bank, of Lvaa, Maae.. Is.ooo, paid to any pirsoa who can enow that tha a bora not genuine, or was published before obtaining tha permission.?X<YDlA 9- flxkuk MlSICXXB Co. v : , . . i;. : :