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CAMDEN _ GHRQNieLB. .I... i ? - .... ... I.. .I.' I. .??? i !?? ??? ' ? 1. "ii""' " ???? 1 *-*""''-1 l" vw ^ l! ? 1 1 ii.. ?> ? > i ?> ti ttr <n< /k . , * t * ?l r-== - CAMDEN, S. C.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1???. VOLUME XXI. v WEDNESDAY?Fob. 1Mb. In the Senate the discussion of thf Mylum bill wan diacusaed on the re? commendation of the committee to investigate conditions at the State Hospital. No action was taken. lit the House among some of the billi passed were: By Graydon?Limiting the author ity of a parent to dispose of a child. Fairfield delegation?Providing for ft county government for Fairfield. By Croft?Amending the oonstitu tion so as to provide for an addition al associate justice. By Sullivan?To regulate the sale of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs; to define concentrated com mericial feeding stuffs; to prohibit the adulteration of concentrated feeding stuffs; to provide for the correct weight and marketing, for making analyses and collecting samples of concentrated commercial feeding stuffs; to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to vest the ex ecution and enforcement of this act in the commissioner of agriculture, commerce, and industries, and author ize and prescribe rules and regula tions therefor. On third reading bills the house had a roll call on the resolution by M. h. Smith proposing the federal amendment for an income tax. By a vote of 100 to 4 the resolution wont to the senate. Those voting against it were Representatives Fultz, C'a!i trell, McEachem and Poar. The effect to recommit the senate bill prescribing a mileago basis for this State fuilcd and the bill passed. Browning's bill to investigate Clemson college Mr. Wingo moved to recommit the bill. This was lost by a vote of G5 to 39 and the bill passed. THURSDAY?Feb. 17th. The Senate readied a vote after several days' debate on the resolu tion to call for the resignation of Superintendent Babcock and the board of regents of the State Hos pital for the Insane. The resolution was voted down with only 12 votes ? for it, which was the expected re sult. The Senate then entered a de bate on the Montgomery amendmeht to the minority bill. This amend ment proposes an expenditure of half a million on the present asylum plant. The House killed the Carlisle bill from the Senate prohibiting chil dren under 10 years old working in cotton mills at night. FRIDAY?Feb. 18th. ? The Sonate finally disposed of the asylum problem from its point of view. After voting down the Mont gomery amendment allowing the present asylum management to bor row half a million dollars to buy more land near Columbia for addi tional buildings, to separate the races and segregate tlie tubucular, tho Sen ate turned about and reconsidered a previously rejected amendment from Senator Mauldin providing for. a commission of five to get.options and plans and specifications for changes thought necessary and report to the next session and adopted it as a sub stitute for the bill passed by the House. It remains now for the two houses to get together. In the mean time -the asylum situation is merely well provided for in an appropria tion of $50,0000 for repair* to th? present plant. The Governor is to appoint three member* of this commiision, the oth er two being Superintendent Bab cock and Chairman Wilson of the State Health Board. SATURDAY?rob. 19th. An act to re-organize the State Hospital for Insane was passed in free conference to create a commis sion to purchase lands for the use of the State Hospital and erect buildings thereon. The appropriation is $100,000. Each member of com mission is to receive $5 per day actually employed and expenses for the time engaged. The House killed the proposed law against spitting in passenger coaches. The hunter's license bill was killed. The bill preventing nepotism in the employment of professors or other employees of State institutions of learning was killed. Tho resolution ratifying the amend emnt to the United States constitu tion providing for an income tax was adopted and ordered for ratification. The bill providing for the further winding up of the late State dispen sary was finally passed. The Qarris school bill came up for discussion in tho' Senate. A pro position was advanced to use the $275,000 of the State dispensary fund for the public schools instead of making a direct appropriation, as proposed by the school bill, but tbe amount is to be $60,000' from the dispensary funds, after a long dis cussion. The bill preventing deduction from weights of cotton for bagging and ties wasj, passed. The bill makotit unlawful for any firm of person engaged in buying cotton to deduct any snm for bagging and ties from the weight or priee of any bile of cotton when the weight of the bag ring and ties does not exceed 0 jier cent of the groee weight of the bale of eotton. The MeMahan publie utilities bill providing for a commission of ire to regulate water, gas and light rates Jtoally got through the Senate after , -.. .. 1 - pawing the House, with tLcse cities exempted from its provisions: Char leston and Spartanburg. Columbia, where admiaaion of the Southern Power Company has been an acute i*< for aome time, was exempted m the absence of the local Senator, but the latter bad the exemption stricken out. The Senate refused to cut down the State tax levy proposed by the House at 6 9-4 mills, which is half a mill above last year. The mileage book bill was 6nallv killed. . 7 POKER UBf HOT. Intratate Commerce Commission Ob ject to One Judge's Authority. Washington, Specai.?In a formal statement submitted to President Taft and to the House and Keualo committees Monday, the Interstate Commerce Commission has suggested certain changes in the interstate commerce measure now pending in Congress, The bill, as a whole, is approved by (he commission, and, in its state ment the commission expresses its gratification "that this measuro em bodies most, if not all, of the princi pal recommendations heretofore made to (he Congress, except the valuation oi luiirOttu properties, and also con tains provisions of great importance which in their general scope are unanimously endorsed." However, the commit tee recom mends "that the bill l?e so amended as to contain the explicit statement that the commerce court shall have no jurisdiction or power over orders of the commission not now possessed by circuit courts of the?l^mled States. "We are of the opinion that a sin gle judge of the commerce court should not be empowered to stay an order of the commission," and the suggestion is made that such a stay may be granted only by the court or a majority of the judges thereof." In the suspension of tho proposed rate the commission desires one hun dred and twenty days instead of six ty days, as proposed in the bill. It is maintained that the commis sion should have power to compel through routes and joint rates whenever in its opinion they are re quired by public necessity. If it is the intent of Congress to give shippers the right to choose be tween two or more routes, in I he routing of traffic, the commission be lieves that intention should be ex pressed plainly in the proposed law. Concerning the purchase ot' one road by another road, the commis sion soys: "We see no reason why the prohibition that one road should not be extended so as to prohibit the acquiring of any interest in a com peting water line" and an amend ment is suggested to include water lines. A similar amendment is pro posed to prevent the control of com peting lines by a holding company. APPALACHIAN EXPOSITION. Will Bt Held In Knoxville September 15 to October 8. Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?The Appalachian Exposition, to be held in this oity September 15 to October 8 of the present year, is being pre pared in the interost of the industrial and commercial development of the entire Appalachian mountain region. This includes portions of east Ten nessee, western North Carolina, south west Virginia, West Virginia, south eastern Kentucky, north Georgia, north Alabama and a part of South Carolina. President Taft will visit the show. West Virginia Wins Victory. Washington, Special.?The State of West Virginia Monday won a substantial victory over the State of Maryland in the long-pending dispute between those States over the boun dary lines between them, when the Supreme Court of the United States announced its opinion in the matter. Attempts to Kill Uncle. Burlington, N. C., Spccial.?Sun day morning Will and Robert Lee Burch attempted to kill and rob their uncle, Chas. Rradshaw, on the way to the Southern depot at Spray. Wadesboro, Special.?F. W. Hurl burt, representing New York City capitalists, was here Monday invests gating a proposition? to build a hydro-electric plant on Rocky River. The proposed plant is to develop C, 000 horsepower. Engineers estimate that the cost of the plant will be less than $6,000,000. ?? ? < Renewed Bope For Tillman. Washington, Special.?If the Sen ator't condition continues to improve he msy be able to leave for his -iromr in South Carolina in a month or six weeks, hat hardly before. ~ at THE CJJ9LSO. ?ays she'd rather *aJti? "Well she'll find plenty of man who wotrid rather ale* ? ?**>?? P^o* gramma than a 4Inner IXHitsville CourleisJoornal. ^ | SOUTH CAROLINA AFFAIRS ? Tki Cream of Ntw? Itoau Oatfcerad From All Otm Bout* Carolina tad Boiled Down. SPARTANBURG NEXT. Sunday School Association Elect W. W. Boyce, President. At the State Sunday School con vention at Iioek Hill last week 32 delegates were elected to represent the association at the world's sixth convention to meet at Washington. May 19 to 24. This delegation is tp be headed by Gov. Ansel, who has accepted a place on the delegation. Spartanburg was selected as the next place of meeting. Copt. W. W. Boyce, of Hock Hill, wm elected president. lie is already president of the Yourk county asso ciation. The following are the other ofllcem: Dr. E. Norton of Conway, was elected vice president; Rev. I). P. Jones, of Enoree, recording secretary; T. II. Lyles of Spartanburg, treas urer; Miss Grace Vandiver, super intendent of elementary department; Mrs. R. C. Cronk of Columbia, su perintendent of home department; Rev. Francis W, Gregg, superinten dent of teacher training; Paul Quattelbaum, superintendent of adult department; Mrs. J. W. Humbert, superintendent of tempcranee de partment; J. Boyd Creighton of Rock Hill, superintendent of house visita tion department. Gives Life For Others. Sacrificing his life to save the lives of others, Thomaa Jefferson, for thirty years night watchman for the Southern Railway at Congaree River Bridge, near Fort Motte, met with a horrible death at his post at an early hour Inst Thursday -ihornitig, being caught in the machinery of the machinery of the drawbridge and crushed?trr death. The steamer City of Columbia arrived at the bridge at 5:30 o'clock and the watchman open ed the draw for it to pass, but as train No. 15 was due at 0 o'clock, he hastened up the track to place a signal to save the passenger train from dashing into the Congaree river. Coming back to close the draw, the watchman fell into the aperture used for oiling the machin ery of the bridge. Shortly after the train crew closed the draw and crushed the life out of the uncon scious man. Many Are Contributing. The flnauoial agent of the Colum bia college, P. A. Hodges, makes an interesting report on the result of contributions made for the new build ings of that institution. There are now pledges secured to the amount of $27,070.79 and within the past few weeks over $5,000 has been promised. In the meantime work is being push ed on the new buildings. Tho walls of the dormitory are nearly com pleted.?-The State 17th. Miss Margie Calhoun Dies. Miss Margie Calhoun, granddaugh ter of South Carolina's famous statesman, John C. Calhoun, and a sister of Patrick Calhoun of San Francisco, died at her home in At lanta, Ga? last week, aged 03 years. For 30 years past Miss ('alhoun, who was a native of Alabama, had been prominent in the social life of Geor gia and the South. Another brother, Capt. John C. Calhoun of New York, survive her. Jealous Oat Tries Suicide. Temporary insanity, brought on by jealousy of attentions paid two small puppies by the members of the family of United States Deputy Marshal W. N. Scott, at Anderson, led to An attebipt at suicide by a large house cat a few days ago. Eastern Star Worker Dead. Mrs. Mary P. Ouzts, Past Worthy Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star in South Carolina, died at Chester last week. She was buried at Marshall, Texas. Want Rice Pest Eradicated. As the result of a conference in Washington last week by former Governor I). C. Ileyward and S. G. Stoney of Charleston with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, it is an nounced that a special agent will probahly be sent to the rice growing districts of South Carolina and Geor gia immediately for the purpose of investigating the damage to the rice erop by "rice blight." Palmetto Leaflet*. Lancaster now has electric lights. The current was turned on last week. Anderson is to have on up-to-date abattoir. Greenville officers found that the store of R. P. Peterson, a negro mer chant of Williamston, was stocks with goods stolen from Ed wards & Company's store at Fountain Inn. John McAllister attempted to con mit suicide at Williamston by drink ing laudanum. The Salvation Array has establish ed a post in Anderson. Geo. W. Brown, of Darlington, is to enter the race for Congress from tbs 8ix+h district. Boys' Corn Clubs arebeing form ed all over the Stats. At Laurens last Thursday 16 bead of horses were burned to death in th? livery stsbls of Nichols, Roper A Roper. The Oounty jaU had a nar row escape from burning. The Andsrton city council lias jock gone on record as epnoisd to car nival eompanisa by refusing the ap plication for a dais hers during the month of ApriL^ llMCB Was not a dissenting vet* in the meeting. 4 WITII/E BUGLERS HEMIC RBOSEVELT Enters Gondokoro With Escort Headed by Chief Keriba. M!XEO BAND PLAYS "AMERICA' African Porter Follow* With Stars Mild Stripes?Roosevelt Hoard* I/Muitt'li of Kgypf inn HHtl.tr*? lirilixh Hospitality Lavish, Gondokoro, Soudan.?Col. Itooee,. velt, Kermli Roosevelt. and tlie <>tli>,>r members of the Smithsonian African Scientific Expedition arrived hero tin schedule time. All were w< I) and on thusiastlc. over their erperleuces and the Hoientlflc result* of their explor ations. V\; Their entrnnce Into Gondoko-o wan rudely picturesque, And nothing that Drltlsh or native hospitality, could Buggest was lacking In the welcome. The arriyal of the expedition in the outukirtH of the town wag heralded with hugle blasts hy Chief Kerlba's bugle band, which led the van. Chief Keriba accompanied his musician*. The native party had mel the expedi tion Hlxleen miles to the south and on the way here did it all the honor that could be got out of Instruments of brass and Indian drums. Reaching tho' town, the band fuftick <up "America." which happen ing to be the British national air, united the occasion exactly, Belgian marches were interspersed. Follow Ing the musicians a native porter car ried a large American Hug. Then came the caravan proper. Colonel Roosevelt, Hermit, the other Ameri can hunter* and scientists, and the body of native porters, who have had an Important If humble share in the work of exploration. Waiting on the Rar-el-Jabel was the launch of General Sir Reginald Wlngate, Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, flying the Star3 and Stripes. Mr. Roosevelt boarded the launch at once upon reaching here and after a brief rest began the reading of his mall. Many communications awaited him. Colonel Roosevelt and the other hunterB and Hclonthits constituting the American expedition had passed through the moat trying stage of their African Journey. For the last ten days they had been practically Isolated In a -wilder ness so forbidding to the white man that it has not been invaded by tho telegraph companies, the only com munication between Its scattered vil lages being through native runners. The character of the country Is such that the expedition, equipped for al most any conceivable emergency, and takiug advantage of every resource that the country afforded in the way of native helpers, was able to mako only about ten miles a day. The expedition left Nlmuie, In the Uganda Protectorate, on February 7. and no word came from the party i until a company of native runnera leached Gondokoro with the news that all was well with the eipedition. Tho first four miles of the eighth march was through open country and the remaining seven miles along a well-wooded range, which prevents a distant view. But one village was passed and UiIb Is two miles from tho Kit River. It Is necessary to crosa several streams, including tho Kit River, which Is forty yards wide at the crossing, and its average depth, when not flooded, eighteen Inches. It has a rocky bed. Tho camp nt Lulurl Hills Is To eated close to a sluggish stream called the Duga, To reach It the traveler pastes through u wooded dis? trlct and must ford the Kadora River, which, however, 1b not more than forty feet wide at its greatest volume, while at times the river bed Is prac tically dry. If the explorer has safe ly endured the burden of the nine days preceding, the tenth march to Gondokoro may be undertaken with out much misgiving. At Gondokoro a brick house was placed at tho disposal of Colonel Roosevelt, In the town there are a few shops, belonging to Greeks and Indians, and a few traders make their headquarters there. The steam boats owned by the Soudan Govern ment call onco a month for passen gers and tho mails for Khartoum. The American party had arranged to proceed on the Sirdar's launch down tho Nile to Khartoum. Three daya will be spent at Khartoum, when tho trip to Cairo will he begun. Mrs. i Roosevelt was expected to meet her husband and son at Khartoum. MARK SLATKR ARRKSTKl). Former State Printer of Ohio Ac? cused of Grafting In OHIec. Detroit, Mich.?Mark Slater, for mer State Printer of Ohio, who in un der charges of grafting, was locked up at Police Headquarters here. He paid ho would waive extradi tion. He said that published state ments had greatly exaggerated tho charges actually made against hiin. Slater had been working here as an agent for a coal concern. lfoiuluras Debt Arranged, . J. P. Morgan & Co., backed by the Onited States Government, arranged to refund the raljroad debt of Hon duras, the bankers to provide the money and Washington. D. C., agents to supervise the customs of the Cen tral American Republic. Hl&AT PROSTRATION I* BOSTON. Octogenarian Succumbs to Ovelexer ? tiou and 1'xccggtvc Humidity. Boston, Mast.?Tha warm wave which swept over Boston had the un usual effect of caualng a heat prostra tion la the middle of wlnUc. Thomas Knjte, on octogenarian re al ding in Dorchieater. wliCwas out walking, was overcome and removed to tb# City Hospital, where the case was diagnosed as exhaustion duo to overexertion and high humidity. He ylU mever. low FADE FRANCHISE WINS Cleveland Gives Big Majority of 8100 For Plan Proposed. fontrit For 11iroo.Ci'nl Trips Mad* Famous by Tom I.. .Johnson >Va? Hoyim MUfcii Ycnr* Auo. Cleveland, Ohio.?Turnlng out to vote lu a billiard, the people of Cleve land ended the fight for low street rar fares beguu fifteen years ago, and latterly tnado famous by Tom L. Johnson in his four terms as Mayor. The now franchise, proposed hy Judge Robert \V. Tayler, of y*e Fed eral Court, was approved by rf refer endum election by a majority of 8100, the largest majority ever given to a public measure in Cleveland. The basis of tho franchise 1h thst street car service under control of the city must bo furnished by the Cleveland Hallway Company at cost, plus six per cent, return to the stockholders on their Investment. For the tirst eight months the faro fill be three cents, with a penny charge for a transfer, this fixod rate being made as a test, Tho maximum rat? of fare allowable during the term of the grant?twenty-flvo years?Is four cents rash, or seven tickets for twenty-five cents. A street railway commissioner, to be paid $40,000 a year out of tho company's earnings for his salary and expenses, will act as tho advisor to the rlty in the regulation of service and fares, and have ampK* at all times to the company s books, Gerhard M. Dahl, former nontenant of Senator La Follctte in Wisconsin, has heen named for this place. Tho three-cent fare goes Into operation al once. ICFHICRG SINKS STIC EL SHIP. Yucatan, of the Alusku Steamship j Company, Goc? Dowir, Juneau, Alaska.?The steel steam- j ship Yucatan, of the Alaska Steam ship Company, formerly a yacht used by George YV. Perkins, of New York City, bound from Valdex to Seattle with sixty-five paasengers, struck an Iceberg In Icy Strait and 6ank within eight minutes In six fathoms of water at high tide. There was no loss of life and no one Was injured. The shipwrecked passengers and Bailors are camped on Chlchagof Isl and to bo taken to Juneau by tho ateamer Georgia, which left Juneau soon after news of the wreck was re ceived. First Mate Guslafson, of the Yuca tan, and Captain Raymond Jaeger, of the fishing schooner Alexandria, ar rived at Juneau with news of th? wreck of the Yucatan. J AI It FOB RICH MAN. C. .1. l)i<kon? Gets Ttro yearn For Violating Bankruptcy I<n\vh. Mobile, Ala.?Charlos A. Dickens, worth half a million dollars. wan found sullty by a jury in the United States Court on tho third count of an indictment charging him with u viola, tlon of the United States bankruptcy laws, in concealing from the referee in bankruptcy bonds to the value of $55,000. There Is no fine In the case and the court sentenced the man to two years' Imprisonment. Dickens, a former resident of Houston, Va., where he baa wealthy relatives, ha* been ar reted for embezzlement and served Heven months in jail for contempt of the Chancery Court In refusing to give a true account of his dead broth* er's estate, COSTS MO It 10 TO DIE, TOO. Doctors, Nurses And Undertaker* Blame It on tho Trust*. Kansas City.?It costs more to die as well as to live these day*. Ten yeprs ago If you fell 111 you could go to a hospital and bave medical atten tion and nursing and die and be bur led for about $150, Now It costs $2ft0 or $225. The trusts are profiting by the In crease, according to Kansas City doc tors, nurses and undertakers. Coffins and graves have Increased in price al most fifty per cent. In tlie last ten years. Lumber, silks, imported woods, and other articles, many of them im-. ported, have almost tripled In price. Because of the Increased cost of liv ing many nurses and physicians have boosted their fees. TAFT AGAIN UKGFK INCOME TAX Hopes New Jersey Will Vote For It, lie Writes Governor. Trenton, N. J.? Governor Fort re ceived a letter Loin President Taft praising the Governor's attitude on the Income tax question and express ing the hope that tbo Legislature would Indorse tho proposition. The letter says: "1 am very strongly in favor of the passaso of tho Income Tax law, and I sincerely hope that New Jersey will bo one of the States to vote for It. I am glad you too': the stand you did." Governor Fo?t treated the matter at length in a special message td Ihe Legislature , ccently. Baby Born on Train, - While a Union Paclflo passenger train from Denrei to St. Louis was speeding through Kansas a son was born to Mrs. D. H. Stiles, of Sand wich, 111. TORK PRICES CLIMB. ? , ,?| !? ? l~+-t ilracli New Record* Hlfliwt Sine* Civil War In Louisville. Chicago. Ill?Top prices for Wro hogs at tho stock yards advasced to $9.47 Vi por hundred, a gala of 7 Mi cents In one day. and mads a now rec ord since 18T0, when the enlmals sold for $10. The advanco caused strong er predictions thaSTlIui flO hoi would soon appear In tho markets. Louisville, Ky.?Hogs sold at M.60 ?tho highest price since the CM1 "War. . ~r-i?' .Washington Representative Southwick, of New York, has Introduced a bill providing tor the repeal of the publicity feature of the corporation tax law. Mr. Southwick In convinced Repent of ? that hit measure will re Publicity roire u largo measure of j Feature. popular approval and thut i It atands ati excellent, ehance of adoption. It in probable, however, tlmt Mr. Southwick hns not taken Into consideration th? oppoui- | tion which his measure Would encoun ter in tho White Hous4. It Is regard ed utt a safe prediction that any at tempt wholly to repeal tho publicity feature could become a law only over the veto of the Kxecut'lro. Some modification of the publicity feature might, however, succeed in both houses and receive tho" approval of tho President. < ? ? ? Senator Dankhend has Introduced an amendment to the agricultural ap propriation bill providing 1500,000 for tho improvement of roads on which rural free delivery A Goo<l has been cr may bo eBta'.) Itoads lished, provided that the Heuator. State or county In which a road Is to be improved ?hall devote a like amount to the pur pose. Senator Bankhead Is an en iuimiusr in the g;>od r?ada movement, but nothing has occurred to remove the fear entertained by many mem bers of both bouses of Congress that wero the policy of making appropria tions for good roads once Instituted It would soon grow Into a log-rolling affair similar to the river and harbor appropriations, that members of Con gress would be compelled l>y pressure from their StateB to work for appro priations out of all proportion to tho necessities of the situation and. with out regard to the economic status of the Treasury, and that ultimately tho ability of a member to obtain gener ous appropriations for road building in his district would come to be the test of his olaims to re-election. ? ? ? Speaking of Democrats and insur gents In the Senate, Senator Money has finally designated Senator Pur cell,-the newly appointed Democrat from North Dakota, Gossip About to tho vacancy on | North Dakota's the Ballinger-Pinchot Sciiatorship. commltteo which re sulted from the res ignation of Senator Paynter. Apart from the fact that Senator Purcell is a Democrat of Intense partisan stripe, the designation is the occasion of no little concern because of political gqs Elp which has reached here to the ef fect that tho Governor of North Da kota contemplates making anothor change In tho representation that State in the upper. House in tho not distant future. The death of Senator Johnson, It will bo recalled, gave Gov ernor Burke, a Democrat, tho unex pected opportunity to appoint a mem ber of bis party to tho House. Ho ap pointed Fountain L. Thompson, per mitted him to serve forty days and thon, according to report, asked him to resign that he might appoint Mr. Purcell. Representatives from North Dakota are to the effect, moreover, that Governor Burke seeks election to the Supreme Court of tho State, and that In order to gain the suppOrt of all the factions of his party ho purposes to divide the period ensuing before tho Legislature will have an opportunity to elect a Republican be tween the four most prominent Demo* cratB In the State, and that. In pursu? ance of this plan, Senator Purcell will be permitted to serve only a short time before he will have to yield his place to the third Democrat on the Governor's list. "At ihe present rate of progress In (he House of Representatives Con gress will bo In xesslon until October 1. Were this the short session it would he Impossible to ContcrosH pass even the necessary. Is Far annual appropriation Behind. measures by March 4, and an extra cession would be necessary." This statement of existing condl tions in the Housa waa made by a member of the big five that practical* ly run the body. "Tho whole trouble." he added, "lies with the amended rules of the House, which permit the most of the time of that body to be taken up by..., all sorts of private legislation, leaving an averago of only two days a weak for tho money bills. Hut I don't think Congress will be in session much longer than usual. When the time comes we will simply kick the amend ed rules out of tho way and go on doing business as we have In other sessions, Insurgents or no insurgents to the contrary notwithstanding." If the present rate of progress Is maintained. Congress will not pass the last of the appropriation bills, let alone tackle any of the legislation ad vocated and desired by the Admin istration, for nearly four and a half months. Of course this Is absurd. Members of Congress are not any top fond of staying in Washington In off years, and this doesn't happen to lie one. So it is a question of Bitting up nights and laboring by the feeble glimmer of the midnight candle, or taking the amended rules by the scruff of the neck and throwing them out of the window. According to the House leader quoted above, the latter alternative will be accepted. "Hazing BJir Fe?see Senates X? Debate. Washington, D. C.?With not more than a dosen Senators In their seats, and without debate, the 8enate passed Senator Pu Pout's bin, *hteh is de signed to d?al with tho tuastton of hating at West Point. The bill pro ?idea that the superintendent of the academy Bhal? fftale regulations for quato^ punishment# j[or tofraetlona cf Latest News. BY WIRE. Senate Focnl Inquiry, Washington. D. C.-rVlce-Presldenl Sherman appointed ni the select com mittee to Investigate the Increased cost of living Senators Lodge, chair* man: Galllnger, McCumber, Sraoot. Crawford, Simmons and Clarke, of Arkansas. Fifty 111 Front Doughnut*. Laurel. Md.?Klftj persona wera mado violently 111 hy eating dough nuts rooked in machine oil, and sev eral of them narrowly escaped death. The baker had ordered a barrel of rookliu: oil and a hardware dealer had ordered n barrel of machine oil, and each got the other's barrel In the delivery. Court Kcbuke* Iliiirrt, San Kranoiseo. Cal. ?- Declaring llmt District Attorney Rlekert had "not shown a deposition to prosecute th?? trial of Patrick Calhoun in good fslth, .Judge J.nwler intimated in court that the rase mlnht be tnken out of the hands of the District Attor. ney. i "Night Letter Service." New York City.-?Pinna are holn* made by tho Western Union Tele granh Company lor a "night letter service"--which will pern^lt any one to send fifty words at night for tho price of ten words sent in the day. Tr.kei Medicine, l'"aiis Dead. Jersey Shore, Pa.?After taking a dose of medicine Alfred Coffmnn, ' aged sixty-five, of Pine Station, Pa , fell over dead. Delng a sufferer from goitre, It is thought he strangled. Miss Ktkins n Suicide. KaiiBa8 City, Mo.?MIsb Agnes El klriH, niece of United States Senator Elklns. of Went Virginia, who shot herself at a local hotel, died after lit:-' geving several-dayB. V Itecord Price in Ifogs. Chicago.?Live hogs at the stock yards touched a price unequalled Hlnce 1870, selling at $9.40 a hun dredweight. Continued light receipts and the scarcity of hogs on the farms called out prophesies that the $10 mark touched In 1870 may soon he reached. Wartime prices for hogs Id 1865 were $13.25. Will Test Hread Law*. Ix)uisville, Ky.?The Nations! A?? Boclation of Master Makers decided to carry to tho Supreme Court of Iho United States a cue to test laws lim iting the price charged for a loaf of hread. Old Man Dead After Fight. Wilmington, Del.?As the result of a fight between Benjamin White, aged ninety-four, and Thonias McCann, aged eighty-five, Inmates of the Lay ton Home For Aged Colored People, White died. "Prince Ruelens" Weds. Meridian, Miss. ? Prince Ruelcni Victor Ruelens, of Paris and Londoin? and Mrs. Lillian Ida lless Seltor, of Philadelphia, were married here. They departed after the ceremony for New Orleans on their honeymoon. Miss Draper Gets Fortune. Milford, Mass.?When Miss Marga ret Preston Draper, daughter of tha * late General W. F, Draper, ie twehty* five years old her sharo of the estata of more than $12,000,000 will be one half, The four children of QencrAt Draper'! first wife get the reat, BY CABLE. Greece Denies Hostilities. Athor>, Greeoe.-? Former Minister* General Tsamados has been elected president of tho Chamber of Depu ties. An official statement denies the stories published abroad that prepar ations wero being made for hostilities between the army and 4iavy, and the reports (hut foreign warships contem plated bombarding Piraeus. More Money For Flood Victims. Paris.?Minister of Finance Coo* heery receivo'J n contribution to the flood relief f.ind of |2000 from tho French colony at Montreal, and $4027.05 tiom readers of a French dally paper of New York City. hepnred For War. Lima, Peru.?Preparations for war continue on the part of both Peru and Ecuador. The trouble grows out of the boundary dispute between the two countries. The only hope of for* eign merchants la that the United States will Intervene and prevent hos tilities, which .would mean the abso lute ruin of both Peru and Ecuador. Sored From a Wreck. Ancud, Chile.?The Chlleatt cruiser Mlnlstro Zenteno rescued the eighty eight persons whom the Hatumet was obliged to leave on board the steamer Lima, which'was wrecked in tha Strait of Magellf}ri. Labor Party Dissatisfied. London. ? The Labor party, will withdraw its support from the Liber als If tha veto bill is held bach. The supporters of the Government ex press confidence that It will rsmaia in power at least antll April. Mimic War fea phnippiae*. Manila.?The Blue Army* Daniel Brush commanding. _ northern movement. This force As sumes the defensive in tho eteentton of^rihe lan ^Jh(i?R?d Army, undrfr Comm^bder TemijBin M. Potts, will embark on transports to attack the Blues.