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THE DEMOCRAT. B. H. ADAMS Pnli'lslier. CAPE GTRRT'EMT. - Mt'SM'RI Pbesidext McKrsi.KT is emphasizing his earnest desire for the ratification of the general arbitration with Great Britain by personal appeals to his friends in the senate. Ges. W. W. Thomas, of Portland, Me-, who was twice the diplomatic repre sentative of the United States at Stock holm, was said, on the 8th, to have been assured that he would be sent back to Sweden. Fathtrics throughout the United States during the week ended the 12th, as reported by R. G. Dun &. Co., were 258, against 800 for the corresponding week of last year. For Canada the l all ures were 61, against 60 last year. Loaks to the amount of $4,000,000 hare been obtained from New York banks recently to pay duties on goods held in bond in anticipation of higher duties under the new tariff. One loan for $500,000 was secured on the 11th. The engagement is announced of Thomas 8. Barry and Miss Mabel Banna, daughter of Senator Mark Banna. The prospective bridegroom Is a member of the firm of Leggett & Berry, bridge builders, of Cleveland, O. A message received at the state de partment from Consul-General Lee at Havana, on the th, stated that he was Informed that Sylvester Scovel, the American newspaper correspondent, would be released from prison on the 10th. Tile sugar schedule was considered by the republican members of the houseways and means committee.on the 8th, and it was decided to increase the rate of duty so as to provide for addi tional revenues to the amount of 820, 000,000. Os the 8th the comptroller of the cur rency declared a first dividend of 10 per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Marine national bank of Duluth, Minn., and a first dividend of 10 per cent, on the American national bank of New Orleans. The health authorities of Bombay re port that up to the 11th there had been 9,032 cases of bubonic plague, 7,448 of which had resulted fatally, in that city. The returns for the entire presidency showed 14,856 cases of plague and 12, 204 deaths from the disease. The first regular cabinet meeting of the new administration was held, on the 9th, at 11 a. m. President McKin ley intends to keep up the practice of holding conferences with his official advisers twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, at the hour named. M. Skouzes, Greek minister of for eign affairs, sent a message to Washing ton, on the 11th, thanking the senate for the resolution of sympathy for Greece adopted a few days before by that body. The publication of the sen ate's resolution in Athens caused much satisfaction. Os the night of the 8th the legisla ture of Oklahoma passed a drastic anti trust measure with heavy penalties, an educational qualification law and a law preventing the incoming republi can governor from removing democratic appointive officers unless by charges proven in court. The admirals commanding the Eu ropean squadrons in Cretan waters have suggested to their respective govern ments the advisability of each power contributing 1,000 soldiers to be em ployed in occupying the towns in the northern part of Crete for the purpose of preserving order.. A bill was introduced in the New York assembly, on the 11th, which authorizes the city of New York to appropriate $100,000 for the equipment and maintenance of a farm colony near New York city, where habitual drunk ards and other undesirable citizens may be sent to be drilled into decency. The Madrid Imnarcial asserts that at the cabinet council, which was held on the 11th, the queen regent refused to sign a decree submitted by the min isters recalling Gen. Polaviejo from his position as captain-general of the Philippine islands, and there were consequent rumors of a ministerial crisis. It is understood that at the cabinet meeting, on the 12th, the Cuban situa tion was discussed and that the discus sion ended with the understanding that the policy of strict neutrality and enforcement of our neutrality laws, hitherto pursued, would be adhered to so long as the conditions remained as at present. v Sib William Habcoubt, the leader of the opposition in the British house of commons, moderated the pessimistic tone of his utterances, on the 10th, and It was supposed that his change of front was due to his having learned that negotiations between England and France In regard to Egypt were being continued. A dispatch from Manila confirms the report of the capture of the town of Salibran, in the Philippine islands, by the Spanish troops. Gen. Zabala, of the attacking forces, was killed while leading the assault upon the insurgents' position. The Spanish lost 10 killed and 80 wounded, and the in surgents had 76 killed. Os the 11th the University of Cam bridge conferred the degree of LL. D. npon Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, United States ambassador to tngiana. in De stowing the honor, the public orator, Mr. J. EL Kandva. referred to Mr. Bay ard as the "able representative of a na tion near to us by ties of blood and lan guage." The students oheereQ Mr. uay trd lustily. CUEEENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IIT BEIEP. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Second Session. IS the senate, on the 8th. a message in writing Afthn ln1tl States WSA Dr&- I.l Mi . I. M VUU . - " . sen ted by Mr. Prudea, one of his secretaries. The senate then proceecco. to me aiuimruuuu of executive business, and at 1 p. m. adjourned until the lutn. IN the senate, om the 10th. the credentials of Andrew T. Wood, as senator from Kentucky, by appointment or Ciov. Braaiey, were it-m and referred without discussion. Notice of two Important amendments to the rules, cnu "To enable the senate to act on legislation when it desires after reasonable debate." and the other "To prevent the Interruption of business by un necessary calling of the roll." was given by Senator Hoar. A memorial from the legisla ture of Idaho, asking for the annexation of a portion of Wyoming to that state was present ed. The senate then went Into executive ses sion, and at 12:40 p. m. adjourned sine die. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Tnp nlA pmnlnvps of the Globe Ship building Co., of Cleveland, O., who had hn m strike for two weeks, be pan to assemble at the yard gate, on the 9th, and stood patlenuv waiting ior mo whistle to blow. All expected to go to work, but only as many as the work warranted were taken in. In all about 400 out of the 750 strikers were em ployed. Mrs. Ricabdo Ruiz, widow of the man alleged to have been murdered recently in the dungeon of the Guanabacoa jail, in Cuba, arrived at New York, on the 8th, from Havana. Mrs. Ruiz will go ts, Waxhlncrtnn to lav before the de partment of state her claims, as the wife ol a muruereu American citizen, against the government of Spain. A dispatch from Colon, on the 8th, said a report had reached that place from Panama that ex-Vice-President Ezeta died in the latter city on that date. Hos. Tuomas F. Batard, Lnited States ambassador, and Mrs. Bayard are arranging to make a tour of Italy, and will probably 6tart from London for Florence on March 20. The special Pullman train conveying the mem1ers of the French opera COm Orleans to San Fran cisco, was wrecked, at midnight of the 8th, at Casa Grande, Ariz. All ol the nnssenrrers on the train were badly shaken up and frightened, and a tramp stealing a nrte Octween me uagguge cars was killed. Edward J. Russell, alias Meredith, charged with blackmailing ex-Corporation Counsel Almet F. Jenks, of Brook SI .inn hv renresentinir him- J , ' - L ' ' self a the agent of a press association, and demanding tnat sum ior inc sup- nMcoinn tf . f J T"T USt DTI the 9th. 1' J J ' sentenced to ten years in Sing Sing prison. Ov t.h flt.h Senator Allison, chairman of the republican caucus, appointed the following steering committee: oenar tors Allison, nale, Aldrich, Cnllom, Davis, Sewall and Carter. By the ac tion of the caucus Mr. Allison was made chairman of the committee. At the annual meeting of the Mis souri Pacific Railway Co., held in bt. Louis on the 9th, the old board of di rectors was re-elected. The arrange ments for the extension of the Iron Mountain bonds was affirmed. It is authoritatively stated that the works of the Maryland Steel Co. at Sparrow's Point, Md., will start up all its departments in a few weeks, thus giving employment to over 2,000 men. Secret aet Shermax, on the 10th, re ceived a cablegram from Consul Mo Garr at Cienfuegos, Cuba, stating that Antonio Suarez del Villar had been liberated. Os the 10th Mayor Campbell, of Bowl ing Green, O., Imposed a fine of five dollars and costs upon himself for be ing drunk and disorderly. "His hon or" was carried to the police station in a beastly state of intoxication and oc cupied a cell with the common drunk ards. Citizens are indignant, and he will probably be removed from office. Gex. Russell Hastings, of Bermu da, W. I., said to have been ranking officer of President McKinley 's regi ment during the war, was knocked down and run over by a wagon near the treasury building in Washington city on the 10th, fracturing his right leg near the knee. The Mussulmans who were besieged by the insurgents at Kandamo, island of Crete, arrived at Cana, on the 10th, on board an Italian war ship. Ex-Uvited States Senator Joseph Dolph died at Portland, Ore., on the 10th. The north-bound Illinois Central St. Louis express collided with a freight train at East Cairo, Ky., on the 10th, at 1:20 a. m., killing Fireman Walter T?-io-t-s rrtlnrfrl. anil in in ri n (r Tele graph Operator Godwin Boaz, who was in the station, which was knocked over into the backwater by the passenger engine, which left the track. The flagship Philadelphia, with Ad miral Beardslee on board, has left Aca pulco, Mexico, for San Jose de Guate mala, to be present at the opening of the international exposition as repre sentative of the United States. Mrs. Cora Stuart Wheeler, a well known literary woman, died in Boston on the 10th. Wjl H. H eatox. ex-commissioner of King county. Wash., was arrested in Seattle, on the 9th, on a charge of em bezzlement of county funds. It is claimed that his peculations amount to about $30,000. Is a tenement house fire in Brooklyn, on the 9th, Mrs. Gladys Duncan threw her eight-months-old boy from the fourth-story window, and then jumped to the pavement. The babe was killed and the mother fatally injured. A special, dated the 10th, from Ha vana, said: From information received I can announce positively that Capt Gen. Weyler has had orders to seek Gomez and offer him "Whatever terms are necessary to end the war." The members of President McKin ley'B cabinet are meeting some disagree able surprises at the manner in which they find themselves blocked in the dis pensation of patronage by the applica tion of civil service rules made opera tive by President Cleveland. ftw the, 11th tr. state department re ceived a copy of President Crespo's me sage to the V enezuelan congress oi r ruary 20, sent by the American minis ter at Caracas, in which he discusses the arbitration treaty at considerable length and urges the congress to post pone all other business until a decision is reached upon it. Physicians at St Luke's hospital, Chicago, said, on the 11th, that they had hopes of the ultimate recovery ol Mrs. Caroline E. Bragg, who was mys teriously shot at her home, 221 East Thirtr-fiifit street. If she recovers. the physicians say, she will be totally blind, the bullet having penetrated the right eyeball. Mrs. Bragg has made a new will discnhenting ner aaopteu daughter Josephine. The LaG range county safe in tne courthouse at LaGrange, Ind., was blown oien. early on the morning ol the 11th, and $400 was carried away. Two thousand pennies just receivea from the mint was a portion of the plunder. Prestdest McKtslet, on me iim, signed the new patent convention with Japan, which thus became opera tive. Bt the fallin? of a section of the old wall in the ancient town of Fez, Mo rocco, on the 11th, ISO workmen were) killed. After a week's stay at the White House, "Mother" McKinley and Mis Helen McKinley, the president's sister, left Washington, on the 11th, for their home in Canton. O. They were accom panied by Capt. Heisland, the presi dent's military aid. Ranavolaxa III., the queen of Mada gascar, who has only held her position .be isl.ind was made a French colony, has been exiled to the island oi Reunion, a French possession near the island of Mauritius. As a result of the several confer ences which have been held, not only by republicans, but by the aemocrauc senators, it may be definitely said that the men who have been appointed sen ators by the governors in states where legislatures have had an opportunity to elect will not be seated. Investigation has revealed the fact that hundreds of important signatures have been abstracted from the congres sional library. In the files of the house documents not a signature of ebster. Clay or Lincoln remain. A retort was made to the police, on the 11th, that Lew is Forbes, a well known resident of Springfield, O., and a cousin of rresiucnt .Mciviniey, naa mysteriously disappeared from his home. Jons F. Sullivan, the murderer ol Mrs. Dutcher and her young son Har ris, was hanged in the jail yard at Dorchester, N. B., on the 12th. Sulli van walked to the gallows in an un concerned way, and was apparently oblivious of his doom. Ox the 12th Secretary Long issued an advertisement for 8,000 tons of nickel steel Harvevized armor for the battle ships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin, together with the necessary bolts ana various hollow forgings, ammunition hoists, etc. Mr. Albert Mott, of Baltimore, has been appointed chairman of the na tional racing board of L. A. W. to suc ceed George D. Gideon, of Philadel phia, who declined reappointment. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky, on the 12th, refused to grant Scott Jackson's appeal for clemency. Jackson will hang on the 20th. Arthur Matiif.w, a negro, was elec trocuted in the prison at Sing Sing, & Y., on the 12th. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The weekly statement of the New York city associated banks, for the week ended on the 13th, showed the following changes: Reserve, decrease, S'2,C93,375; loans, increase, 3,830.700; specie, increase, 212,400; legal tender, decrease. $!,5'JS,000; deposits, increase, 871,222,700; circulation, decrease, 5104, 090. The superb sarcophagus in which will rest the body of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant h:is Ix-en shipper! rromcnieago to New York. Affc-r it arrival it will be transferred to the monument, and the coffin containing Gen. Grant's body will be placed within and the final dedi catory services will be held on April 27. Sumner F. Dudley, formerly general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., in Orange, N. J., and well known all over the country in association circles, died oi Bright's disease, at the residence of his father, Francis D. Dudley, on the 14th. aftcir an illness of four years and con finement to the house for three months. While Mrs. Hall, of Fort Wayne, Ind., was gone to St. Paul, Minn., to be married, her daughter Mae and her fiancee, Wm. E. Calenek, one of the most eloquent and brilliant lawyers of the state, committed suicide at the home of the former by taking carbolic acid. A report is current in London so ciety that the young duke of Manches tuallv marry the eldest daughter of Mr. William Waldorf As- tor. The duke was oorn in ism. n.. mother was formerly Miss Consuelc Ysnaga, of New York. A carriage containing Mrs. O. W. Wells, aged 5J, and her niece. Miss Laura Andrews, aged IS, was struck by a Toledo & Ohio Central railway pas scnger train at a crossing near Marys ville, O., and both wens instantly killed. It is learned that Senor Dupuy di . T I ". Tm tVie Snanish minister, had a stormy interview with Secretary Sher man before he agreed to the release of Sylvester Scovel, the newspaper man inmricnned in Cuba. ( ivc hundred and fifty men went out of the Ohio& Pennsylvania Coal Co.'s mine at Salincville, O., on the 13th, be cause of the failure of the company to secure proper ventilation. Caslist agitation is spreading rap idly in the northern pan oi opuiu. Armed bands of Carlist are being pur sued by troops in the provmaj oi xe- h t)i associated banks of xr Vnrlr eitv held 852.790.550 in ex cess of the requirements of the 25-ner MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Sngar Beet Culture la Missouri. Says a dispatch from Washington of a recent date : ! Several weeks ago C C Bell, of Boonvllla, called upon Mr. McKinley at Canton, O., and presented some resolutions urging that a thor ough investigation be made of the possibilties I of sugar production from beets in this country. I At that time the president-elect spoke encour agingly. He said: -If it Is feasible, I am for it. I am in favor of whatever will extend our protection and in crease the employment of our people. Come and see me after I get to Washington." nr. Bell went to the White House and re- sailed the Canton visit. The president said: ! "I think as well of this now as I did then. I want you to go at once to Secretary Wilson and to say that I sent you. Tell him what you have I told me." Mr. Bell went to the secretary of agriculture, who at once called into consultation J. H. Brig- ham, of Ohio, who is to be assistant secre 1 tary of agriculture. As the result of the conference it was decided to make the desired test during the coming season. The seed must be planted before May 1. The secre tary has Issued the preliminary orders looking to the test. He will have prepared full instruc tions as to planting, and will furnish these in structions, with seed, to at least five farmers In each county of Missouri. He gave Mr. Bell a formal authorization to prepare at once a list of the Missouri farmers who wish to co-operate with the department. Cse of Anti-Toxin. The St. Louis board of health has is sued a circular to physicians of the city, in which the following concerning anti toxin is found: The explanation of anti-toxin and the direc tions for its use state that it is furnished from the blood of the horse. If kept in a cool place, away from the light, it will maintain its strength unimpaired at least six months. It is put up in vials bearing a label, on which is stamped the number of the horse, the date upon which the blood was drawn from him. and the number of anti-toxin units contained in the serum. Anti-toxin should be administered in tbecorly stages of the disease. Theearlier it is adminis tered the more certain and rapid Is the c3crt In mild cases 1.569 units should be given in the first 24 to 36 hours of the disease. When the treatment is begun late or in severe cases, the dose should be from 3.000 to S.OiV units. If marked improvement does not follow the first dose, it should be repeated a second and third time. As a prophylactic in cases of children or adults that have been exposed to diphtheria 300 to 500 units will usually be sufficient, and the immunity thus induced will last from four to six weeks. The injection should be made into the loose skin over the abdomen, which should be thororhly disinfected. Jerry and Annie. A pathetic story was revealed at the St Louis hospital the other day. Jeremiah and Annie Richardson, husband and wife, were taken to the institution, both suffer ing from pneumonia Mr. Richardson soon died, and the doctors say Mrs. Richardson can not re cover. While they were sick in their home a robber entered their humble place and stole every dollar they had. They had been married 25 years, and had been a frugal couple and very devoted to each other. She told the hospital nurse that she had no desire to live, that she was all alone. "I have no one to love, and must go to Jerry. When we were married and left the church. Jerry bent down and whispered: Kvcn death shall not part us "shall it Annicr and I said. 'No, it can not, Jerry.'" Their children are dead, but there are many who be lieve they have a "blessed assurance" that such a couple will be reunited, and that their chil dren will welcome them. Gen. Fred Solomon. Gen. Fred Solomon died in Salt Lake City, Utah, recently. He was mustered into service in 1S61 as cap tain in the Fifth Missouri cavalry. He became a brevet major-general in ltW. He assisted in locating the line of the present St. Louis & San Francisco railway in Missouri. One of his brothers was county engineer of St. Louis county before the war, St. Louis then be ing a part of the county. He was appointed by the county court, and the opposing candidate for the position was U. S. Grant, then a resident of St. Louis. Judge Ltghtner, president of the first city council after the separation of the city and county, was fond of telling that he voted against Grant for county engineer of St. Louis county and afterward voted for him for presi dent of the United States. Released and Rearrested. E. A. Smith was released from the penitentiary the other day and imme diately rearrested. He was sent up for seven years for train wrecking near Otterville, and his sentence had expired under the three-fourths rule. He was taken in custody by the sheriff of Cooper coun ty, and taken to Uoonvllle to be tried for an other crime. Famous Lead Mines Closed. The famous Wilton lead, mines iif Boone county have been temporarily abandoned because of lack of capital and market. J. H. Barger, of St, Louis, who had the work in charge, has been sent to Joplin. An effort will be made to revive the the work at Wilton. -Preachers, Too. The anti-flirtation bill, applying to railway men, was up in the house again the other day. One member threatens to offer an ameddment add ing preachers to the list of those pro hibited from conversing with female passengers on railroads. One MiMonrlan Wanta Nothing. J. B. Neff. of Kansas City, called on President McKinley the other day. Mr. Neff ran for eongress as a republican last fall. It is said that he told the president that he wanted nothing for himself. Mr. Neff says he is the only defeated congressional candidate from Missouri who Is not seeking something. Said to Be Bad Boya, Eight students from the Wentworth military academy at Lexington were arrested for disturbing the peace in front of the Central female college. The young men gave bond for their ap pearance and were released. No Law Against Pool-Selling. The Missouri act of 1S91 has been de clared unconstitutional and there is now no law in force in the state pro hibiting book-making and pool-selling. Witness Hast Fay. If the Collins bill, now before the leg islature, becomes a law, if evidence furnished to grand jury is not sufficient toindict prosecuting witness pays cost Change at Christian College, Colombia. Mrs. Laura Wilcox St Clair has resigned the presidency of the Chris tian college. Columbia, on account of ill-health. Mrs. W. T. Moore succeeds. A Network of Telephone Lines. . The King City Telephone Co.. St Jo seph, jointly with the Citizens' com pany, of St Joseph, is building a net work of lines in northwest Missouri. While Visiting Her Daughter. Mrs. D. Spicer, aged 58, died at Clin ton, while visiting her daughter. She had a stroke of paralysis at 11:30 and died from the effects of it at I n. xo. THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE. Jimasoa Crrr, March S.Sej-atb Tester day house bill increasing the number of state bank Inspectors from two to three, reducing salaries to tl.SOO, and requiring such inspectors to examine trust companies, came up for con currence in the amendments. The senate re fused to recede from its amendment exempts lng trust companies from the provisions of the bill. Senator Busche's bill, providing that ballots on constitutional amendments be printed sep arately from the general ticket was passed. Housa Mr. Farrls' bill passed, providing that where two school districts join, and the enumeration of colored children in either or both is less than 5, the directors may establish a Joint colored school at a point not over three miles from the most remote point in either of the districts, the expense to be borne by each district proportionately: also, that where IS or more colored children are found, a public school hall be maintained for them. Mr. Sickles' bill, increasing the state tax on peddlers' licenses from ti to (10 when afoot, and from $10 to (10 to tlb when on horseback, was passed. Mr. Hood's bill to prevent flirtation on rail way trains was ordered printed for information. A message was received from the governor, vetoing the bill recently passed requiring all excutlons to take place inside the walls of the penitentiary. jErnasosT Crrr, March 10. Sikatb Ths senate yesterday concurred in the house amend ments to the bill providing for reorganizing ths building and loan department, placing it under the control of an inspector appointed by thi governor, and providing for a more thorough Inspection. The endowment bill passed by a vote of S3 to 8, with an emergency clause. A bill to relieve merchants of the necessity oi giving bond for their merchants' licenses, and providing a tine of (500 if they make false state ments to the assessor, was passed. House The school text-book bill was re ported back from the committee with two amendments, the first one substituting "a busi ness man" for state auditor as a member of the commission, and the second providing that the proposed law shall not apply to cities having more than BO.OSO inhabitants. Both amend ments were adopted. The bill for the support of the educational Institutions was called. It carries the follow ing appropriations: Kirksville normal, Oa.SSO; Warrensburg normal, tS,W0; Cape Girardeau normal, &3.000; Lincoln institute, EH.ooO; state university, liM; Rolla School of Mines, (18.0UO. The university was given $47, OUO for maintenance, (33,000 for club building, and (10.0U0 for repairs. Jefferson Crrr. March 1L Senate The senate yesterday occupied much of its time in an effort to agree with the house as to the date of adjournment. It eventually passed a resolu tion to adjourn on March M. (The house changed it to the 19th.) Senator Peers' bill to Increase the salaries of teachers of the state deaf and dumb school at Fulton failed to pass. Senator Williams' bill legitimatizing the chil dren of parents who subsequently marry passed the senate, after a warm debate. Senator Mott's bill requiring real estate se curities on policies and bonds passed. The governor's veto of the hanging bill (that all executions take place in the penitentiary), was sustained 21 to 11, not the necessary two thirds. House The bill providing that 75 per cent of the road tax be refunded to cities, towns and villages under special charter for street pur poses was passed. The senate bill authorizing the county court to make a levy of (2 on every male citiaen over 21 years of age for road purposes and limiting each county to two road districts and the ap pointing by the county court of an overseer for each district at a salary of WOO to (1.S00 a year, graded according to population of counties, was indefinitely postponed. Jefferson Citt, March 12. Senate Yes terday the Whitecotton bill, making more rig orous the seduction law. and raising the age of oonsent to 21 years, was passed. It now goes to the governor. Hocsb The St Louis civic Federation scnooi board bill was defeated by a vote of 63 to 49. Seventy votes are necessary for a constitutional majority, and the friends of the measure stated that an effort would be made to reconsider. The bill authorizing the organization of pru dential and fraternal societies on the same plan as the old line insurance companies, defeated on the 4th, was reconsidered and passed the house, t authorizes the organization of them on a cap ital of (1U0.000. Jefferson Crrr, March IX Senate Gov. Stephens, yesterday, sent his third veto mes lage to the general assembly. The communica tion was addressed to the president of the sen tte, and was disapproval of the act entitled "An act to constitute the assets of Insolvent sorporatlons a trust fund for the benefit of sredltors, and to prevent preferences of sreditors by insolvent corporations, or In con templation of Insolvency and discontinuance of Business, or of voluntary liquidation, and to provide for the application of the assets of in iolvent corporations to the payment of all their creditors in proportion to their re ipective claims,' "The bill." says the gov ernor," makes a decided innovation in the well-established law of this state, and will unsettle questions that are now not open to discussion. It is class legislation of the plainest sort If it is desirable to lo a thing so radical as to lane away irom mo iwner and possessor of property the right of lisposing of it why should the prohibition be limited to corporations! Why should this slass of citizens be singled out and their business operations embarrassed by such an at' tack? Why do not the same reasons exist for Jeprlving all persons of the rignt to dispose oi Kbut belongs to them? The tendency of this lort of laws is wrong. The real m!s- shief and rank injustice which this bill, under the milse of fairness, will work in the every-oay business of corporations can not be fully con- eeived." Hocbe On motion of Mr. McMonigle, of Platte county, the house yesterday recon sidered the St Louis Civic Federation bill. which was defeated on the 11th, and passed it by a vote of 88 to 2s. Mr. Porter was the only Bt Louis man who voted for the measure. Keagan making a strong speech against it The bill will be reported to the senate at once, and will be passed, with amendments eliminating the appointive features. Jefterson Crrr, March 15. Senate The senate held a dry and uneventful session on the 13th, devoted chiefly to committee reports, en grossment of bills and routine work of a general character. Several bills of no particular inter est were passed. House The general appropriation bill was taken up and passed. It was Immediately re ported to the senate. Beranse of Improper Mine Ventllatlo Sat net VTT.T.ie. 0 March 14. One hun dred and fifty men went out of the Ohio Jk TVnnsvlvania Coal Co.'s mine here because of the failure of the company . , -. t to secure proper venmauou. Rhodes and Jamleson Gone to Holland Losnos.March 14. Mr. Cecil Rhodes, of South African fame, and Dr. Jamie son, the leader of the raid into the Transvaal, have gone to Holland on a yachting trip. THE MAGAZINES. The March Arena contains a well- written article by Boston's mayor on "The Development of American Cities.' In the North American Beview Sir Edwin Arnold gives an illuminating ac count of the Indian famine. Julian Hawthorne has been commis sioned by the Cosmopolitan to go to India and "write up" the plague. March hares decorate the covers of the Black Cat and Godey this month. Purple crocus bloom on the Ladies" Home Journal. MISSOURI CATTLE QUARANTINE 4 Proclamation By the Govaraor. of Great Interest to Cattle-Growers and Others. Engaged In too Industry la Missouri. Gov. Stephens has promulgated the following proclamation of interest to-cattle-growers and others engaged in the industry in Missouri : That the cattle Industry of the state- may be more fully protected against southern or splenetic fever, we do hereby declare the fol lowing quarantine line and regulations, which shall be In force from the 1st day of March. 19T. until the loth day of November, UW, unless -changed by order of this board. All that country lving south of or beiow tne following described line shall be considered in- fee ted territory, and cattle from soiu country can not be brought into Missouri only npon tne eonditions and tinder the regulations herein provided: Beginning at the northwest corner of tne state of California thence east south and south easterly along the boundary line of said state or California to the southeastern corner of said state: thence along the western boundary line of Arizona; along the southwest corner of Ari zona; along the southern line of Arizona ana New Mexico to the Rio Grande; along the Rio- Grande river to the southwestern comer of the eounty of Foley, state of Texas, continuing along the Rio Grande river to the southwestern corner of the county of Pecos; following the western boundary of Pecos county to the south east corner of Reeves county; following the boundary between counties of Pecos and Reeves to the Pecos river; following the Pecos river to the corner of Crockett county; along the northern boundaries of Crockett and Schlecher counties to the southeast ern corner of Irion county; along the eastern boundary of Irion county to the northeast cor ner of said county; to the southern boundary of Coke county; to the southwestern corner of Coke county; along the western boundary of Coke county to the southern boundary of Mitch ell county; to the southeastern corner of Mitch ell county ; along the western boundary of Nolan county to the northwest corner of Nolan coun ty; along the northern boundary of said county to the souteast corner of Jones county; along the eastern boundary of Jones county to the northeast corner of said county; along the northern boundary of Shackelford county to the southwest corner of Throckmorton county ; along the western boundaries of Throckmorton and llaylor counties to the northwest corner of Bay lor county; along the northern boundary of said county to the southeast corner of Wilbarger county: along the eastern boundary of Wilbar ger county to the Red river; in a northwesterly direction along the course of said river to the southeast corner of Greer county; following the course of the North Fork of Red river to its in tersection with the eastern boundary lino of Wheeler county; north with the southern boundary line of Rover Mills county: along the southern boundary of Roger Mills and Washita counties, to the southeast corner Washita coun ty; along the eastern boundary of Washita county to the northeast corner of said county; along the eastern boundary of the county of G to the southwestern corner of the county of Blaine; along the southern boundary of Blaine county to the southeast corner of said county; along the eastern boundary of said county to the northwest corner of Canadian Bounty: along the boundary of said county to the northeastern corner of said count) ; along the southern boundary of O county to the south east corner of said county; along the eastern boundary of O county to the northeast corner of said county; along the southern boundary of K county to the west line of the Ponca reserva tion; along the west line of said reservation to the northwest corner of said reservation; along the nothern boundary of the Ponca reser vation to the Arkansas river; following the course of said river to its intersection with the 7th parallel of north latitude at the southern boundary line of Kansas; along said line to southwest corner of Labette county; along the western oounaary or said county to tne north western corner of said county: alone the north ern boundary of Labette and Cherokee counties to the Missouri state line; thence southerly along said line to the southwest corner of Mis souri ; thence easterly along the southern boun- lary line of Missouri to the Missouri river. Then follows a description of the line through Tennessee to the north line of North Carolina to the Atlantic. The executive committee of the state board of agriculture, upon the advice of the governor of Missouri and the state veterinarian, is hereby authorized to make any changes in the above quarantine line and in the quarant ine regula tions nerein aescrioeo. mat may nereaiter be come necessary to fully protect the cattle inter est of Missouri L From March I to the 15th day of Novem ber, 1KU7, each car carrying cattle that have been brought from the above described infected territory within the date above mentiorrt. into or through the state of Missouri, shall bear a placard setting forth plainly in large letters tnat saia car contains soumern cattle, nnu eacn way bill of each shipment shall have a note upon its face with a similar statement And when said cattle shall be unloaded at any point in this state for any purpose whatsoever. Uie places occupied by the animals shall be consid ered infectious grounds, subject to quarantine. and snail oe unmeaiateiy set apart by tne own ers or lessees of the property for the accommo dation of infectious southern cattle, and no oth er cattle shall be admitted. 2. Cattle from the above described infected territory shall not be transferred on foot into or through the state of Missouri, nor kept, grazed or watered on publio ranges, unf enced lands, state lands, highways, or within the corporate limits of any town or city within the .tate. at any time during the existence of the above mentioned quarantine period. i. All the stock yards which shall keep or re ceive southern rattle for trade or transit within Missouri shall provide for use. between March 1 and the lftth day of November. lHW. sufficient number or pens, to be used exclusively during that period, for the accommodation of cattle coming from within the territory above de scribed. Such pens shall be marked or desig nated by reasonably large signs, conspicuously posted, and bearing in plain and large lettt-rs the words "Southern cattle pens." And all stock yards shall, before April 1. next, file with the secretary of the state board of agriculture an affidavit, setting forth clearly that they have complied individually with this section of the rules and regulations. 4. The cars used to transport such animals, and pens in which they are fed and watered.and the pens set apart for their reception at point of destination, shall be disinfected in the fol lowing manner: (a) Remove all litter and manure. This litter and manure may be disin fected by mixing it with caustic lime or satu rating it with a flve-per-ceht solution of car bolic ocie, or. If not disinfected, it may be stored where do cattle can come Into contact with it until after November 15. 1W7. (b) Wash the cars and the feeding and watering troughs with water until clean, (c) Saturate the walls and floors of the cars and fencing, troughs and chutes of the pens with a solution made by dis solving four ounces of chloride of lime to each gallon of water, or disinfect the cars with a jet of steam under a pressure of not less than &9 pounds to the square inch. 6. The state board of agriculture may appoint deputies and inspectors to aid the state veteri narian in the enforcement of these regulations, who are hereby empowered to quarantine, un der sueh rules as may be prescribed by the state) veterinarian, all cattle brought into the state in violation thereof, and to remove from the native to the southern division of any stock yard in this state any cattle that may be sick or infected with Texas fever or capable of spreading the infection to other cattle. Said officers shall, as far as possible, co-operate with the United States department of agriculture in their efforta to prevent the spread of Texas fever. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and cause to be affixed the great seal of the tate of Missouri. Done at the City of Jeffer vn this 1st day of March, A. D. 1897. Los v. Stephens. By the governor: A. A. LESCKua, Secretary of State, A Naval Wedding. Wasbtsotoic, March 12 A naval wedding of general interest is an nounced for next Monday evening, when the daughter of Capt, Charles D. Sigsbee, the naval hydrographcr, will become the wife of Ensign Snmner Eli Wetmore Kittelle, of New York. Net Profits. New York, March 13. The pamphlet report of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min neapolis & Omaha railroad for the year ended December 81, 1890, shows net. profit, after interest and rentals, of SI," 099.850. ao-ainst SL12&234 in ' cent rule.