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SHERMAN ALIVE
AND IMPROVING
A False Report of His Death Was
Widely Circulated.
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ITS ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN ;
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The Statement Contradicted In
Dispatch From Santiago. *
A special of Tuesday from Santiago
de Cuba, says: “There is no truth in
the statements p.blished in the United
States and cabled back hero repre-
senting that John Sherman is dead.
“It is incomprehensible how these
reports originated.
“The American line steamer Paris,
Captain Frederick Watkins, arrived
Tuesday evening before dark, and it
was immediately reported that Mr.
Sherman was mot only alive, but bet-
ter, w r as resting easy and was expected
to recover. He will be transferred if
all goes favorably to the United States
cruiser Chicago on Thursday.”
Was False News.
Seldom has official Washington been
more completely , , , stirred by conflicting
emotions than it was Tuesday by the
announcement of the death of John
Sherman and then by he contradic-
tion of tho report which came a few
hours later, the one giving a relief
which was as marked as was the sor-
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grams a ie < ay, st.inn , . a , 1 ae vui , i
era )le s atesman scorn l ion me grown
worse since one ay, aiu leie was a
umversat expression ot regre , an m
mfiny cases ot persona t is less over
tb u e ws '
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a aiue minis ers, sen a ois ant
members ot tne House expressee ( eep
sorrow, speaking not on y in erms o
admiration and respect lor the ex-sen-
ator s public career, but dwelling witli
. loving kindness upon his personal
character.
The contradiction of the first report
did not arrive until .. «:d(J o >ii clock. r*
came totbe Associated Lress in ■ e
shape ot a positive s a einent rom
bantiago de Oulia, made in the Jcnow -
edge that the report of the ex-sena or s
death had been circulated. Tlnsdis-
culat culation h ioI a m V“ity me city a?it as it g! ‘was was possible possiDie
for it to receive at that hour. Secre-
tary Hay was placed in possession of
KSSS'fSSS’ “Almost marvelous condition " of
a
affairs,” remarked the secretary. Ho
then proceeded to express his great
relief that the first news was not con-
firmed.
The news of the reported death of
Mr. Sherman took many persons,
friends and others, to his house on K
gregated >r” there e when the represeuta-
tive of the Associated Press called
were the two former private secre-
taries of ex-Senator Sherman, Mr.
Babcock and Mr. Valle, as well as
Miss Kate Wilcock, a niece, and Mrs.
Colonel Charles Hoyt, whose husband
was a cousin of ex-Senator Sherman,
Tliey and others present read the dis-
patch stating that the ex-senator was
still alive with tumultuous joy.
QUARANTINE DATE CHANGED.
s .„„o„ wi« B , sl0 ap„i ,«B
Of May ist.
The sanitary board of Savannah,
Ga., held a meeting Tuesday afternoon
and changed the time for the starting
of the close quarantine season from
May 1st to April 10th.
This means that all vessels and pas-
sengers after April 10th will have to
undergo a detention of five days or
longer after the process of disinfecting
has been completed.
On this account the government
authorities will make every 0
get all troops possible from Cuba
before the close quarantine period
begins.
Most of the membeis of the city
council are in favor of the proposition
to turn the Savannah quaiautine sta-
tion over to the national government
and the chances are that steps will be
taken very shortly looking to this end.
BIG POWDER EXPLOSION.
Accident at Dupont Mills In Which
Three rien Are Killed.
Over three thousand pounds of
smokeless powder exploded Wednes¬
day at the E. I. Dupont powder works,
at Carney Point, N. J., instantly kill¬
ing three workmen and injuring a
number of others slightly. The dead
are: Isaac Lyman, William Ford. John
Magill. of the accident has not
The cause originated in
been determined, but it
one of the drying houses where Lay-
man was at work. The shock of the
explosion shook the country ior miles
around and heavy panes of glass were
broken.
A NATIONAL PARTY
May Be Organized By Labor Agita¬
tors and Social Reformers.
A meeting of labor agitators social
reformers, silver men and delegates
from several bodies organized for the
advancement of various kinds of social
conditions was held in New York
Wednesday. conference informal, .
While the was
some of the participants have a plan
whereby it is thought a national party
will be organized.
MRS. PLACE ELECTROCUTED.
Dies In the Chair For the Murder ol
Her Stepdaughter.
Mrs. Martha Place, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., was electrocuted at Sing Sing
prison Monday for the murder of her
bt She^made no^sceue^TUe firstshock
lasted four seconds. The voltage was
1,760. It was then reduced to 200
five or six seconds. A second shock
was then given.
Mrs. Place went, calmly to the chair.
She leaned on Warden Sage’s arm.
Her eyes were closed and she seemed
neither to see nor hear. She murmnr-
ed a prayer.
Mrs. Place was calm beyond expoe-
tation, No one has walked into the
I)fiath came with !egg R , ru ggj e than
waB ever witnessed before. Death was
instantaneous.
Just as she sat down in the chair
she said: “God help me.”
The electrode was fastened in a mo-
ment; another was placed over her
thick light hair, turning gray, a small
circle of which had been cut away.
The straps were adjusted over her face
and a pad over the forehead. Only
her mouth was visible,
In her hand Mrs. Place carried a
prayer book, and when the shock came
she gripped it tightly. The other held
fast to the chair handle. The woman’s
month merely J closed; the face was a
trjfle , ivid Her lae cea6ed to beat
. “ , • min . lte
e crim<J for which MrP . P i ace B „f-
f ^ the death penalty was 8U a tvooi-
ous one. She killed her stepdaugh-
ter, Ida Place, at thtir home, 598
Hancock street, Brooklyn, on Febrn-
av J 1897. The girl was but twenty-
two years old. A double murder had
been planned by the woman. She
^lled her stepdaughter when the girl
was taking an afternoon nap, splitting
\ 1(;r skull open with an ax, and pour-
ing vitriol on her face and into her
moll th.
The same evening the woman lay in
j wft it foi her husband, William W.
] dace) i n the darkened hallway of the
bouse, and when he entered she struck
him in the face with the ax and inflict-
e d a severe wound. He managed to
ge t outside the front door and alarm
t he neighbors before he became un-
congc i oug When the police and neigh-
j,ors entered the house theT found
Mrg . Piaoe in a bed-room in which gas
was escaping, and sh@ was shamming
uncousciousness. Mr. Place recovered
consciousness and said his wife had
d .j ed to murde r him, and the woman
was arrested after they both had been
taken to a hospital.
GROWTH OF thc THE SOUTH. cnirrw
The Various New Industries Estab-
„ . . p w .
Among the ., m ” e imnortan't of the
SKtol&JSKS
North Carolina; canning factories m
Mississippi and North Carolina; coal
mines in Kentucky and West Virginia;
cooperage works in Georgia; cotton
compresses in Georgia (round bale),
Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas;
two cotton compress manufacturing
companies in Texas; a $100,000 cot-
spindles aSSVBSLS* in Louisiana cotton “»r' 5 S seed
ml mills in Georgia, an elec-
tncal gmia, flouring rapply' mills in Alabama J and lr '
North Carolina; a 1,000,000-bushel
grain elevator in Texas; a hardware
factory in North Carolina; a harness
factory in Georgia; ice factories in
Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi; a
$100,000 improvement company in
North Carolina, a $60,000 irrigation
company m Louisiana; a $15,000 amt-
tingm.ll in East Tennessee; lumber
| marble ssjs compan ?s^£srnsr j in Tennessee, two r
novelty works in Virginia; a rubber
tire factory, a silk mill and a spoke
and handle factory m North Carolina;
a stave mill in Kentucky, a tobacco
factory and a general woodworking
factory in West Virginia.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Te nn .)_______
CONDEMNED BY MINISTERS ’
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Atlanta Preachers Pass Resolutions
Regarding the Palmetto Tragedy.
At a meeting of the Methodist min-
j g ^ erg 0 f Atlanta, Ga., Monday morn-
ing resolutions relating to the Pal-
metto tragedy were introduced aud
unanimously adopted. The resolutions
ex gsed stronp B y mpa thy with the
good citizens of Palmetto, commended
Governor Candler and condemned the
cr j me 0 f mob j n tbe strongest
f erms
THREE HEN ENTOMBED.
Walls of Old -Copper Mine Cave In
Upon Them,
The bodies of three white miners
now lie 125 feet under ground beneath
a great volume of water and tons of
diit and debris in a manganese mine
nine miles from Cartersville,Ga.,where
they met death Tuesday morning by
being mashed and smothered by the
great mass above where they were
working caving in on them. and
The mine is on the Canton road
is known as the Clumber Hill mine.
It has recently been leased and worked
with a force of from three to five
hands.
OREGON REACHES MANILA.
3ig Battleship Is In Good Condition
, For Any Emergency.
The navy department has been ad¬
vised of the arrival at Manila of the
battleship Oregon.
The following cablegram was re¬
ceived from Admiral Dewey:
Secretary of the Navy, Washington:
The Oregon and the Iris arrived today.
The Oregon is in fit condition for any
duty. (Signed) Dkwky.
SPANISH FLAG
GIVEN M'KINLEY
Trophy Is Donated By Vice-Con-
sul Torras at Brunswick.
WAS FIRST TO SALUTE,
President Leaves Jekyl and Re¬
turns to Thomasville.
President McKinley returned to
Thomasville from Jekyl Island Wed-
nesday . evening, bringing , . witfi ... ,,• mm
as one of the trophies of his visit to
Bruuswick a Spanish flag.
This was the first flag of the con-
quered , , , ■ i .
nation o )e , se< -
the president of the United States af-
ter the conclusion of peace, and Presi-
dent McKinley will give it a prominent
place among his trophies commemora¬
tive of different phases of the late
unpleasantness.”
The flag was presented to him by
Mr II II Raymond / ’ general south-
ern manager of the Ma loiy r me, o
behalf of Rosendo Torras, Spanish
vice consul at Brunswick. Perhaps
it would be more nearly correct to say
“late” Spanish vice consul, so long as
diplomatic and consular relations be-
tween the two governments have not
yet been formally resumed; but Torra*
is so thoroughly identified with Bruns-
wick that nobody thinks of him in any
other than his official capacity. Mr.
The presentation was made by
Raymond upon the arrival of the pres-
j The idential flag party accompanied at half-past by 1 this o’clock, note:
was
“This is the first Spanish flag whick
saluted President William McKinley
after the conclusion of peace between
the United States and Spain, and is
now presented to the president at
Brunswick, Ga., March 22, 1899, with
the compliments of Rosendo Torras,
late vice consul of Spain.” masthead
The flag was flying at the
of the bark Tafalla, of Barcelona, when
the presidential party arrived at
Brunswick.
The departure From Jekyl.
The start from Jekyl was mad«
about 10 o’clock Wednesday morning,
a s a sail through the waters of the
sound and Turtle river was one of the
features of the program. This was
taken on the Colfax, the revenue cut-
ter which has been at the president’s
disposal during his stay.
The whole Jekyl colony was down
to wave a farewell to the distinguished
visitors, Tom Reed using his mam-
»•«■ 1 ®®’ ThomasVe^n -f f r „ W
p Cannon,Mr. n ihornas Page ® and
® "* f this sail,
P ied the party 1 J or
^ « ^^Ick • i j
P 'the Colfax
docks at Bruns-
and after farewell hadbeen said
be«n i ts return
^.P 4j ^ waR without Bpecifll
in ent , and soon Georgia’s distin-
8 gnisbe d visitors were safely and com-
*>rtably settled . . at Senator q , 8
nnne.
SENATOR TELLER’S VIEWS.
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Colorado Man Ialks of the Democratic
Issue In Next Campaign.
A special from Cleveland, O., says:
g ena t or M. H. Teller,of Colorado, was
asked whatf in , hig judgement, would
z&sszzxr “ the *“
think there is no doubt, n replied
Seilator Teller, “that the democratic
par tissue.” t y will make the financial question
“Who will be the democratic presi-
dential nominee?”
“Undoubtedly Mr. Bryan will be
the choice of his party,” promptly re-
plied the senator.
j n re gard to W. J. Bryan’s contro-
versy with Perry .Belmont, Senator
Teller said:
“I think Mr. Bryan did exactly
right in taking the position he did.
Those fellows in that organization are
not democrats. They are republicans
masquerading under democratic, col-
ors. They opposed Mr. Bryan’s elec-
tion in 1896, saying his election would
‘endanger the nation’s welfare,’ and
he. did perfectly right in declining to
accept their invitation.”
TO TRANSFER CONVICTS.
Old Lease In Georgia Will Expire on
Last Day of March.
The twenty-year convict lease in
Georgia expires on April 1st and the
felony convicts of the state, more than
2,000 in number, will- be turned over ;
to the state and will then be hired to
the nineteen bidders who made con- i
tracts less than twelve months ago for
the labor of the wearers of the stripes, i
The expiration of the twenty-year
lease will witness a radical change in
the working of the state convicts, and
will bring a vast amount of revenue
to the state which has for the full
term of the long lease been reaped by
the lessees.
TENNESSEEANS ORDERED HOME.
The Transport Dixie Will Be Sent to
Trinidad After Them.
A Washington dispatch says: The
transport Dixie has been ordered to
proceed with haste from New York to
Trinidad to bring home the Fourth
Tennessee volunteers.
General Brooke has been directed
by the department to have tbe regi¬
ment in readiness to embark when the
transport arrives.
EMBAL/TED BEEF EXPOSED.
Hotel Bell Boy Testifies Before Board
In Chicago.
The members of the government
court of inquiry finished their labors
in Chicago Wednesday and left at
| once for New York.
| The testimony of Governor Theo-
; dore Roosevelt will there he received,
j after which the court will proceed to
Governors island.
The evidence brought forth during
the day was largely cumulative m its
character, consisting mainly in criti-
! eisms of the canned beef and refriger-
ated beef from soldiers who ate it and
cfh i Is in Cuba and I oi to
lvico.
j j) nvid FleiscRniau, a bell lmy in the
Hotel Morrison, told of a visit to the
stockyards in the company of an un-
known man, whose purpose he sup-
posed to be an experiment in chemical tlie mat-
ter of preserving beef, by
trea t me nt. ,
: Fleischman testified as follows:
j gentleman “One day in in June,” 131 asked he said, if “a I
room me
j would be at leisure to go to the stock
yards with him. I went out there
| with him and had to carry two boxes,
tin or galvanized iron boxes. He went
ont *° Bee 80me ma » about some meat,
he told me. We took the boxes and
went io a car where there were three
j or f our rows G f meat. In each of the
| boxes there were four smaller pack-
a g eg( containing, as I fecollect it, a
. Mack or rather a light gray colored
I substance. He put this into perforated
| trays made for that purpose, set fire to
d and placed it under the meat. I
asked him what that was dona for, and
| he said it was done as an experiment
to preserve the meat.
“Next day I w as to go back and get
the cans. I asked him whether it was
to kill germs or any king like that, and
be said no, to the
nieat. I put my finger on the meat
and ( as ted it and it burned the end of
my tongue. I called attention to the
f ac t that the meat looked rather larger
than when we were there before. He
said that was simply an enlargement
c { the meat from the ice. There was
a sulphurous smell in the car and an-
0 tber odor which I caunot describe,
I took the cans back to the hotel. I
noticed iu one end of the car there was
a card marked‘Tampa, Fla.’
“This was at Armour’s packing
house; there was only one car; there
were only about-three rows of beef. I
think it was halves. I asked him wh**
he was, and if I am not mistaken, lie
told me he was a quartermaster ora
quartermaster general or something
like that/”
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CHATTAHOOCHEE BOATS BURN,
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Three Fine Vessels Are Victims of the
n.~. »• Columbu., fia.
At an early hour Wednesday morn-
ing fi re destroyed three fine Chatta-
hoochee river steamers at Columbus,
Ga. The C. D. Owens, the Flint: and
the Bay City, all large and finely
furnished boats, were destroyed at
the city wharf. The loss will aggre-
gate between twenty-five and thirty
thousand dollars; it is estimated. Th.
boats were insured
The fire originated on the steamer
?. D. Owens, anew vessel of the in-
Independent L, line, and was quickly
com n icated to the steamer Flint,
which was moored near by. From the
Flint the flames spread to the steamer
Bay City, which burned like so much
tinder.
It was not long before the ropes
holding them were burned or cut, and
the three steamers began to float
slowly down the stream. It was a
The boats floated a goodly distance
down the stream, the flames leaping
high into the heavens. The boats
burned rapidly and were soon totally
destroyed. What fragments were not
burned were broken up and floated
away by the waves, aud thus the
steamers were a total loss.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
The watchman on the Owens says that
be had just finished making an inspee-
tion of the hold at 3 o clock vvlien fire
was discovered near the end of the
boiler. He had no idea how it started.
There were two or three persons on
board the boat at the time. The flames
spread rapidly, audit was impossible
to extinguish them—in fact, the small
force present had not the slightest
hope of stopping the fire, being fortn-
nate in getting out of the boat with
their lives.
MILES GIVES DENIAL
To Reports That He Is Fighting Pro¬
motion of Wheeler.
A Washington dispatch says: The
attempt to make General Miles respon-
sible for the attack upon General
Wheeler, reoently emphasized before
the war department with a view to
preventing his becoming a fixture in
the regular army, is another act in the
anti-Miles crusade. Now General
Miles indignantly denies that he has
been in any way a party to the fight
0 n General Wheeler. He has friend been of |
a li along the consistent
Wheeler and now wants him given a :
permanent and prominent place in the :
army.
PETERSON QUITS NAVY.
Charges That Mere Preferred Against
««•» Are Withdrawn.
The resignation of Cadet R. L Pe-
fce^sou, of the sclioolship Chase, o the
rejvenue cdpted by cutter the treasury service, department has een ac-
j Charges were filed against him, but
hjs resignation being was pressed, accepted without
the charges said be engaged
Cadet Peterson is to
to Miss Charlotte Crane, the actress.
SEVEN LYNCHED i
IN ARKANSAS
j RaC0 Troubles Prevail In County j
! of Little River,
THE TERMINATION NOT YET
Besidog the Seven Ki!led Many
Others May Be Doomed.
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A special from Texarkana, Ark.,
J . “A race war is on in Little Riv-
er county, and during the past forty- ,
eight hours an indefinite number of
negroes have met their death at the >
hands Qf ftU infuriated white p0 pula-
f ,
lon -
Seven are known to have been
lynched, shot to death or slain in some
manner, and the work is not yet done,
The bodies of the victims of the
mob’s vengence arc hanging to the
limbs of trees in various parts of the
county, strung up wherever overtaken,
while that of another who was shot to
death while trying to escape was
thrown into a creek and left there.
The couutry is in a state of the
most intense excitement. White men
are collecting in mobs heavily armed
and determined; negroes are fleeing
for their lives and the community is
in an uproar. The exact number of
negroes who have been summarily
dealt with, or those who may yet fall
into the hands of the mob before order
is restored, nxay never he known,
Seven bodies have been found dead
and other victims are being hunted
and wili meet a similar fate when run
to earth.
The known dead so far are: General
Duckett, Edwin Goodwin, Adam King,
Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses
Jones and one unknown.
Joe King and John Johnson were
also tuken into hand by mobs and
whipped. They were afterwards turn-
ed loose and have disappeared.
Little River county is in the ex-
treme southwest corner of the state,
bordered on the west by the Indian
Territory and on the south by Texas.
The negro population is large and
has for a long time proved trouble-
some to the whites.
Frequent murders have occurred
and thefts have become common af-
fairs. One or two negroes haveyire-
viously been severely dealt with when
the people found it necessary to take
the law into their own hands, but it
was not until last Tuesday that the
trouble took on a very serious aspect,
It then developed that carefully laid
plans had been made by a number of
to ptocipitat, . r and
111 een ma - i
t01
. -roes’were „ this
” implicated 1 in plot and
^ar^ , bent on meting out
- J conspirators. Seven have
, killed k,! and “ n f.JContinue® the work of wiping
SLSSS wHhoat *ȣ
plicated Lai in the plot are known and
1 J parties of white men varying in
nnmb r from twenty-five to fifty are ;
scouring the c » ountry n nntrT fm fo r ttipm them.
j
Three Lynched in Mississippi.
A special of Thursday from Jackson,
Three negroes were ta-
“ ten froni an officer of the law and I
^ yLoo , an ftrmed moh uetu . silver
q Uv ’• in county, last Saturday
After being “hot to death the
bo dies of the victims were weighted
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The nesroes were Minor Wilson C.
p d Willis Bovd. They were
tbe ringleaders of the negroes in a race
encoun *„ on the Midnight ” plantation 1
,
some aays ag ’
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BODIES OF MINERS FOUND.
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Were Buried In Cave-In of Cliumbley
Hill Shaft.
a Cartersville, Ga., dispatch says: j
rppe bodies of Frank McEver and
Qh ar l e s McCulver were reached about
12 o’clock Thursday in the Chumbley
ml] 8haft Both bodies were buried
j n the mud and showed that the mi- !
ners live but a short time after the
oave . in
Rescue work is stilt goin^ on in
fieftrch of the body of Thad Chastain,
ad bope 0 f ijf e ba s boen given up
f or b im.
FUMIGATION MUDDLE.
War Department Rules Regarding
Baggage of Returning Soldier.
There has been considerable corres-
pon d e nce between the war and the
treasury department over the hold up
Q f t b e Olivette at Tampa, Fla., with
meQ 0 f tbe Second South Carolina
volunteers.
When she arrived at Tampa the of-
ficerg sa j d tbe y did not want to stop
ber to ba ve the baggage of the troops
fumigated. Surgeon General Wyman
stdd the treasury department officials
agreed that the fumigation of baggage
Bbou l d take place. Acting Secretary
Meiklejohn sustained the action of the
treasury department.
SHERMAN IMPROVES
Condition of Ex-Secretary Grows
More Favorable.
A digpatcll o{ Thursday from Santi-
states that Mr. Sherman is feeling
yery • muc j 1 better, and his physicians
£ hig cou(lition as much im .
yed
During a part of the afternoon he
sat on the deck of the Paris, viewing
Santiago. The anxiety of his relatives
on the Paris is now nearly at an end.
ATLANTA’S NEW CAR SHED
Seems Now to Be No Longer a Myth¬
ical Project,
The Atlanta, Ga., city council,
Thursday afternoon, agreed to accede
to tho conditions named by the rail-
roads as necessary to be settled before
any move could be made toward build-
ing a new depot.
The city has designated its willing-
ness to co-operate in the erection of a
passenger station on the present site,
with elevated tracks and lowered street
crossings. There is still a slight dif-
ference between the roads and the
city, however, relative to the clear¬
ance under the raised tracks at the
central . . , but .... this .
crossings, is a mere
(leta j,
J n the resolution passed by the
council it is especially required that and •
!'><' clearance at Whitehall, Pryor
Loyd streets shall be twelve feet. 1 he
railroad companies had calculated on
only an eleven foot clearance at White-
ball street, which would give a J per
cent grade for the tracks, and a five-
f o0 j excavation for the street,
The city agrees to the excavation,
but requires another foot of c earauoe.
In order to make the twelve feet un- *
der tbe tracks it will he necessary to
ra j se the Broad street bridge and to
begin the raised tracks at a point six-
ty or 100 feet west of the point it
would have been necessary to start
with an eleven-foot clearance and a 1
per cent grade.
The main object for inserting the
twelve-foot clearance clause was t< let
the street cars pass under the tracks.
The property owners along Whitehall
and Pryor streets are said to be heart-
ily in favor of allowing the cars to pass
oa these thoroughfares. It would bo
impossible for an electric car of the
present type to pass through an eleven-
foot clearance. It can, however, pass
through a twelve-foot clearance,
In case the reads agree to build the
do p 0 t. with twelve feet under the tracks
at the central crossings, the Conaoli-
dated street railway will in all proba-
bility run its cross-town cars under
the tracks at Pryor, Whitehall and
perhaps Loyd streets, instead of Lav-
j ng to go three or four blocks out of
the way over the Broad street bridge
as at present,
The action of the council is consid-
ered most favorable for a magnificent
new station. The city has agreed to
make certain sacrificesinordertose-
cure the depot, and the success of the
now rests with the railroads,
LABORS OF CONGRESS
Compiled In a Statement By Enrolling
Clerk Platt.
B. S. Platt, enrolling clerk of ‘.lie
senate, Las prepared a statement giv-
JJ«» Jf™
The statement shows that 1.-157
bills aud joint resolutions became laws
out of a total of 18,463 introduced iu
both houses. Of the measures intro-
'tuced 12,608 were presented in the
house and 5,855 in the senate. Of
those which became laws,942 originated
in the house and 515 in the senate
during the congress one of these ap-
plying to a senate bill and the other
to a house measure. There were in
addition to these, four bills wjhich
failed to become laws because they
were not approved by the president.
The record shows that the senate
passed 1,173 of its own bills and that
the house acted favorably upon only
517, or fewer than half of them, while
the 1,081 houge bills passed by ihe
house the senate acted favorably upon
946.
A larger number of bills were in-
troduced than in any previous con-
8 ress *
MET REBEL RIFLEMEN.
American Troops at Hollo Face a Hot
Filipino Fire.
Details of the fighting at Iloilo on
March 16th show that 400 rebel rifle-
men from Pallia were met by seven
companies of the Eighteenth regiment
of United States infantry and a bat-
talion of Tennessee volunteers. As
supports these troops had three two-
inch Hotchkiss guns, under General
Miller, north of Jaro, across the river,
The Americans met with a heavy
fire. One of the men was killed and
fifteen were wounded of the Eighteenth
regiment, and there were several cases
of sunstroke. General Miller esti-
mates that fifty rebels were killed and
one hundred wounded.
WITNESSES FOR QUAY TRIAL
Subpoenaed By the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
It was announced in Philadelphia,
Thursday, .that the commonwealth lias
subpoenaed all itB witnesses in the
trial of former United States Senator
Quay and his son, Richard R. Quay,
which begins April 10th.
Between fifty and sixty persons
have been summoned to testify for the
prosecution. said that Assistant District
It is At¬
torney Clement personally attended to
the summoning of two Pittsburg bank
cashiers.
The trial is expected to take place
before Judge Beitler.
LAWMAKERS DOWN CIGARETTES
Arkansas Legisiarure Prohibits Both
Thair Manufac'.ure and Sale.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: A bill prohibiting the manufac¬
ture, importation, sale or giving away
of cigarettes or cigarette paper to any
person whomsoever, adult or minor,
under penalty of not less than $500
nor more than $5,000, passed the
Loubo Wednesday by a two to one ma¬
jority.