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GUARDS ATTACKED. Desperate Attempt of Sentenced Sol diers at Keowli to Escape. Miles City, Mont., March 1. Three soldiers, Watson, Sample and Ferris, serving sentences at Fort Keogh, made a desperate attempt to escape. They were working under guard of Privates Osbcrne and Miller at the pump house, a mile from the post. As Osborne's lack was turned Watson knocked him senseless with a bar of iron. Sample overpowered Miller and took his gun away. Ferris, the third prisoner, at tempted to help the guard, but was cowed with a gun. The three then hurried to some timber two miles dis tant. An alarm was given at the fort and officers and a company started fter the. culprits, capturing them. BIENNIAL. ELECTIONS. Iowa Senate Passes the Amendment and It Will Go Through House. Des Moines. Iowa, March 1. The house committee on railroads took up the 2-cent fare bill yesterday afternoon and practically decided to kill it, al though it will not be acted on until the ne..i meeting. The railroads commit tee also decided to kill the Des Moines viaduct bill. The Hogue bill was re referred to the committee and an at tempt will be made to compel the rail roads to furnish cars. The senate parsed the biennial sessions amend ment, with only five orposing votes. It will undoubtedly pass the house with little opposition. Minnesota FisrhtlnB Itself. The Alexandria Post News speaks by the card when it says tnat the so called merger fight is a fight of railroad vs. railroad, and there are a whole lot of people besides the editor of that pa per who know the inside of the matter. The question is, why should the people of Minnesota be asked to put up for th expenses? Why not let the interested parties fight it out and pay their own costs?Sleepy Eye Dispatch. Minnesota is putting up money tc fight its own interests to turn com merce away from it: to prevent its Asiatic trade, and to divert immigatioa Alexandria Post News. CHINAMAN AVENGED. Twenty-Five Years in Prison foa Two Nero Murderers. West Superior. Wis., March 1. Pe ter Jackson and Charles Woods, both colored, were sentenced to twenty-five years" imprisonment in Waupun at hard labor. Jackson and Woods mur dered Charley Yim, a Chinaman, in hia laundry in this city Christmas morn ing, and pleaded guilty of murder ir the second decree. Robbery was the motive, and the ne-jroes secured $7.50. DEATH IN THE FILLS. Insane Iowa Mother Poisons Two oi Her Chilliren. Harlan, Iowa. March 1.Mrs. Anna Rasch, wife of Andrew Rasch, a Dan ish farmer, administered morphine pills to two of her children, causing their death. Then she attempted to -end her own life by taking a large dose of the drug. Physicians were secured In time to save the mother, but the children were beyond help. IMMENSE LAND TRACT. Iowa OnrnI Cimpnny Invests Al most a Million Dollars. Marshalltown, Iowa, March 1.Yes- terday afternoon articles of incorpora tion of the Iowa Central Land com pany were filed. The company control! 200.000 acres in North Dakota along th Northern Pacific, involving an invest ment of $750,000. Prominent local cap italists and Iowa officials are concerned In the deal. DISCRIB1INATION COSTLY. Manager Fined for Firing a I nioi Man. Leavenworth, Kan., March 1.In th city court yesterday Manager TH Courcey. of the Leavenworth Streel Car company, was fined $50 for dismiss ing W. P. Sullivin, en employe, be cause of his connection with a laboi union. This is *he first conviction un der the new state law. STORE, SOCK AND BARNS. Blare in a Stable Spreads Destruc tion in a Town. Baldwin, Wis., March 1Fire brok out in a barn at New Centerville, flvi miles south of Baldwin, and burned O C. Nelson's store building, stock ol general merchandise and household goods and four barns. More Pay for Judges. Des Moines, Iowa, March 1. Tht house yesterday passed the Cummingi bill in amended form, increasing th salaries of district judges from, $2,00i to $3,200 per year. The bin originallj provided an increase to $4,000. Bad Storm at Dnlutb. Duluth. Minn., March 1The week oi warm, unseasonable weather that hat prevailed at the head of the lakes wal succeeded last night by a heavy storrr that started wit.1 rnin, followed bj snow, with a strong northeast wind. Hortbwest Hews MMMMMMMMMMMMM* HOBS STATE PRISON. Burglar Steals Two Cases of Shoes, Stakiun- Two Trips (or the Par pose. Stillwater, Minn., March 1.A daring and. foolhardy robbery was committed at the state prison Sunday morning, and Andrew Aaderson, a noted second story man, is in jail here charged with the offense. Moreover, he has confessed his guilt. Anderson scaled the prison wall Saturday night by a rope. Going to the shoe shop in the prison yard he broke it open and carried away three ases of shoes of a dozen pairs each. Taking theet to the rope ladder he at tached two cases to the rope, and, climbing it. pulled them up. Then he returned and took another case over the wall. The shoes were secreted back of the thresher company paint shop near the river. Anderson after ward pawned the shoes in the Twin Cities. FARGO HAS QUITE A FIRE. Offices and Warehouses of the J. I. Case Company Are Totally De stroyed. Fargo, N. D., March 4.Fire yester day destroyed the big J. I. Case offices and warehouses here, and entailed a loss of $75,000. The flames are supposed to have started in the boiler room and to have burned slowly for several hours before they were discovered. In addi tion to the building, which was valued a", something like $20,000, there were twenty complete threshing rigs stored there, some old machines were in the basement for remodeling, and there was an extra large stock of repairs on hand, as this office was used as the re pair distributing point of the entire NOT hwest. WHEItE SULLY FOUGHT. Whitestone Battlefield in North Da kota to Be Made Into a Park. Fargo, N. D., March 4.The success of the plan to have Whitestone battle field in Dickey county set aside as a small national park seem3 assured. Register Valentine of the local land of fice has received an order from the de partment at Washington to withhold from entry the soulheast quarter of auction 7, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of 17 and th* northeast quarter of 18, township 131, range 65. This section would include the battlefield on which Gen. Scully fought the Indians in 1863. AN AMERICAN JUDGE. English Language Mist Be Spokei. by Would-Bc Clliyeiis. Fargo, N. D., March 4.The action of Judge Owen of Devils Lake in re frsing naturalization papers to an ap plicant who was unable to speak the English language after a six-year res idence in the state seems to be gen erally indorsed by the press. The judge is stalwart in his Americanism and wonts the men who are given citizen ship to be able to appreciate the honor. FIGHT WITH DEATH. Conductor Holds the Grim Reaper Off for a Few Hours. Fargo, N. D.. March 4. After re maining oa duty under trying circum stances and bringing his train success fully to the end of his trip, Conductor Segar of the Soo, from Enderlln to Portal, dropped dead at the latter place as he stepped from the car. He had striven to live until he reached Portal and death came immediately on the re 'ax&tion. INJURIES ARE FATAL. Traveling Man Who Was Injnred at Blanchnrtl, N. D., Dies. Fergus Falls, Minn.. March 4.W. B. Dawley, the traveling man who was in jured in the Great Northern wreck at Blanchard. died of his injuries. His wife left here for his bedside, but his death occurred an hour before she ar rived. Dawley was well known thioughout this section, having trav eled for the St. Paul Rubber company for a number of year3. GRIEF KILLS FRANK SHERMAN. Nephew of General Dies as Result of Paralytic Stroke. Des Moines, Iowa. March 4.Frank Sherman, an attorney, son of Maj. Hoyt Sherman, and nephew of Gen. William T. Sherman and Senator John Sherman, died here at the age of forty five years, as the result of a paralytic stroke experienced five weeks ago while visiting his wife's grave at Woodland cemetery. CREAMERY IS BURNED. Bclllnghnm Industry Is a Heavy Sufferer. Bellingham, Minn., March 4. The plant of th^ Bellingham Co-operative creamery company was burned to the ground. The loss on the building and contents is total, a? there Is no insur ance. The plant was managed under a lease by J. N. McBride. The building was erected In 1897 at a cost of $3,200. Tax Collections Good. Fergus Falls, Minn., March 4.Coun- ty Treasurer Butler has footed up the totals of the tax collections made on hii tour of the cou lty this year, and finds that he collected $37,930 during the four weeks that he spent among the farmers. This is $11,000 more than last year's collections and $10,000 more than the collections of any previous tour in the county's history. The farmers hav? money this year md are paying up their taxes as never before. Would Cnrh the Sports. Sioux City, Iowa, March 4.The min is tere of this city at a session held be hind closed doors decided to place a municipal ticket in the field for the srrlng election. Rigid enforcement of all laws is the general demand of the ministers, who claim that the saloons and sporting element have had too Meets Death at a Crossing. St. Paul, March 4.Mrs. Anna Kor seno was run down by a Milwaukee freight train near the West Seventh street crossing at 2:30 yesterday morn ing. She died while being taken to the city hospital. Unite in Institute Work. Sturgis. S. D., March 4.This year ihe counties of Meade, Butte and Pen nington again unite forces in institute work. The session will convene in Belle Fourche Juno 3 and close June? lt. A large gathering is anticipated, mucn liberty In the past. May Lose Both Eyes. St. Paul, March 4MelvIn S. Mont gomery, a fireman on the Northern Pa cific, had both his eyes injured last night by the explosion of an oil can on his engine. He was taken to St. Luke's hospital, and It is feared that he will lose the use of his eyes. Wrecked by Robbers. Marceline, Mo., March 4. Robbers wrecked the safe in the postofftce he^e with dynamite and got away with practically all its Contents, which is said to have been a considerable sum. Cbe Legislature Proceedings of the Week in the St&te Law Mill... ^^^*Vrf^WWS^ In tbe House. St. Paul, Feb. 25.The great battle In the house on the tax code will probably come off to-day. It would have come yesterday afternoon had not the tax law advocates filibustered until ad journment to delay a vote. They talked In relays. The situation was peculiar. The house haa 118 members, but only about 100 were present yesterday: the rest had not returned from the holiday and Sunday recess. The passage of the tax bill needs sixty votes, a majority of the whole membership. The tax advo cates had not the sixty votes, so their game was to delay a vote until to-day. In the hope that among the absentees trere would be enough to give them the requisite number. The third reading of the tax code a begun soon after 2 o'fclock. and was concluded In less than an hour. A conference of the tax code leaders had been held In the meantime, and as It was certain they could not secure the necessary sixty votes during the after noon, the order was to talk away the remainder of the day. Representative Pennington secured the adoption of an amendment provid ing that not more than two members of the ax commission shall be of the same political party. Representative Jacobson pleaded that more time should be allowed for debate. The motion for the previous ques tion was lost by a vote of 31 to 56. Many of the opponents of the bill were not in the hall when the vote was taken, and Sherman Smith demanded a call of the house. A motion to ad journ intervened, which was carried by a vote ot 67 to 85. In the House. St. Paul, Feb. 26. The tax bill is dead. The result of nine months' la bor by the tax commission and three weeks' deliberation by the legislature is now so much waste paper. For all practical purposes this effort has been wasted. The legislature will now attempt to agree on a bill submitting censtltutlon al amendments to be voted on next fall. Other tax legislation will be attempted and the session Is not likely to close till the last of next week. The house listened to arguments for and against the tax bill for nearly two hours before coming to a vote. Four members were absent on ac count of sickness. But even with them the bill would have been lost. It lacked six votes of the necessary sixty. The bill is dead. An attempt will be made to restore It to life by reconsider ation. This may succeed in getting It temporarily before the house in an ef fort to strike out the Wallace amend ments. Without those amendments, however, the bill will not pass. The opposition to the bill will oppose recon sideration and will oppose striking out the Wallace amendments. Reconsid eration may be carried, but it is evi dent that the bill cannot pass, how ever dectored. A grist of bills was introduced yes terday In the house and sent to the committee on recepcion of bills. In the Senate. Yesterday's senate session lasted thirty-five minutes and included little work of importance beyond the passage of the concurrent resolution introduced last week, asking cor.gress to estab lish a military post at Crookston, Minn. In the House. St. Paul, Feb. 27.The tax code was killed Tuesday and was buried yester day when, by a vote of 55 to 54 the house refused to reconsider the vote by which the measure was lost. The vote on reconsideration was made with five members less present than the vote on which the bill was lost. Immediately on the announcement of the death of the old code a flood of new tax bills was ready. Mr. Jacobson submitted one embody ing, in addition to the features of the defeated code as to street railways and other public service corporations, a 5- cent tonnage tax on ores. The house passed the senate bill ap propriating $25,000 for expenses in the legai fight against the Northern Securi ties company. In the Senate. Senator McOowan introduced a lengthy resolution, reciting that the house refused to pass a tax bill for the ccnslderatlon it the senate, and, there fore, proposed the senate adjourn sine die. Lieut. Gov. L. A. Smith let the re. clution be read, but stated it was oujt of order, basing his ruling on the constitutional provision that neither brs nch of the legislature can adjourn for over three days without consent of the othpr. Senator Daugherty gave notice of debate, and, under the rules, the resolution went over. Several new bills were introduced. In the Senate, St. Paul, Feb. 28.Senator John IT. Ives of St. Paul called for a vote on a reconsideration of the memorial to congress which asks for the establish ment of a military post at Crookston. The motion to reconsider was defeated. A number of 'mportant bills were in troduced and most of them sent to the reception of bills committee. Senator Sheehar. presented a bill to permit all telegraph and telephone companies to issue trust deeds for part or all of their properties, for which trust deeds corporate bonds may be floated, negotiable, to bear interest not to exceed 10 er cent, and convcrt able Into stock if deemed expedient. Senator Halvorsen fathered a bHl rc qniring banks to file statements with the bank examiner May 1 each year. Senator Daly Introduced a bill to have grain in elevators assessed in the name of the elevator owner. In the nouae. The house pasned the senate resolu tion correcting the kind of mocasln fiowei which Is to be the state flower hereafter. The house practically beat the Ny quist bill to defeat the 1901 dog tax law by substituting for It in committee of the whole the bill of Mr. Morley, which makes it optional with each county whether dogs shall be licensed or not. The committee on reception of bills' laid to rest a number of measure*. In the House. St. Paul. March 1. J. F. Jacobson declared war yesterday on State Audi tor Dunn. In a speech bristling with sensational statements he attacked the record of the state auditor vand opened a breach between the two old friends and co-workers that may never be healed. He declared that Mr. Dunn's success In office had been due to luws which the auditor himself had opposed. As a climax Mr. Jacobson declared that the Influence of the auditor had been against the passage of the late tax code. From the way Mr. Durn discusses the subject it Is evident that he does not shrink from the issue and that it will bo carried into the pre-conventlon campaign. The attack was called forth by an interview published in a morning paper in which the itate auditor argued against the tonnaie tax feature of the Jacobson bill. In tbe Sennto. Another constitutional amendment made Its appearance In the senate yes terday morning. It Is designed to fa cilitate the adoption of other amend ments which may *ollow. and provides that only a majority of those voting upon an amendment shall be necessary for Its adoption. Eight new bills were introduced, most of them being sent direct to their prop er committee without flist going to the committee on reception of bills. Later the steering committee reported several bills for indefinite postponement, and in each case was turned down, the sen at? voting to receive tbe measures and refer them to other committees. In the' Senate. St. Paul, March 3. The Jacobson tax bill, which passed the house Friday got a stormy reception in the senate Saturday and precipitated a debate that developed a large body of hostili ties. The attack on the measure wai made from several directionsupon its constitutionality, its scope and upon several of Its most important provis ions. After a long fight the bill was sent to the taxes and tax laws commit tee. A common, understanding was first reached that hearings and com mittee examination of the measure must be concluded speedily and that the bill be reported Wednesdny. Stockwell's resolution calling upon the president to put a stop to the ship ment of horses and mules from the United States to South Africa pussed by a vote of 36 to 5. In the House. The house Saturday, with barely enough members en the floor to pans bills, received a dozen unimportant measures, passed nearly as many more, pgreed upon a special order on the An derson bills for Monday afternoon and adjourned. The interest of Ihe house lay In the fate of the Jacobson bill over In tin senate, where the lords of the upper house were becoming Involved In a pre liminary struggle with the measure, which the house shinned through with out an amendment. Those members di rectly interested in bills before the house managed to keep within voting distance a bnre majority, and the hills pasted went through in a majority of cases practically by default. DR. BURNETT IS GUILTY. Jury Recommends a Sentence of Fif teen Yeirs. Chicago. March 4.The jury in the case of Dr. Orvllle S. Burnett, who has been on trial, charged with the murder of Mrs. Charlotte S. Michel of Nash ville, Tenn., returned a verdict of guilty and recommended that Burnett be sent to the penitentiary for fifteen years. Burnett's attorneys will ask for a new trial. The verdict was a sur prise, us Judge Baker's Instructions to the jury were considered favorable to the defendant. The case was one of the moat unusual that has ever been tried In the Cook county criminal court. Burnett, who Is a .'oung dentist, was ihi-.rged with beln accessory before and after the fact of the death of Mr.'. Nichol, "even though It was admitted by the prosecution that Mrs. Nichol had committed suicide. The state en deavored to establish the point that Burnett and Mrs. Nichol agreed to commit suicide together, and that -the man .weakened, allowing the woman to go to her death alone. The defense disputed that there had been any agreement between the two to end their lives together, and asserted that Mrs. Nichol had taken her own life while Burnett was lying intoxicated at her side. MARCONI AGAIN SPANS OCEAN. Mnrconi Maintains Constant Com munication With Home Station While on Ocean. New York, March 4. Skeptics who doutted the truth of Marconi's recent statement that he had succeeded in dispatching messages between New foundland and his Cornwall station were furnished Saturday with proofs o'. a still more marvelous ashlevement on the part of the versatile Italian electrician, who arrhed from South ampton on the Philadelphia. He an nounced, and his testimony was cor roborated by that of the captain of the v.'stl, that he had been In communica tion with the Podhue station for almost th entire distance across the ocean. Day after day on the voyage the Iri vei tor sat at his post on the steamer end kept up an uninterrupted succes sion of messages with the home station For 2,000 miles not the slightest dllli culty was experienced, but after that the connection was not perfect. KING LEOPOLD IN BAD HEALTH. Condition Causes Anxiety, Bnt Phy sicians Deny mptouis Are Se rious. Brussels, March 4.--The condition of King Leopold, who ht been 111 since hi"* return here from the Riviera, Js ca'ishig anxiety. The physicians in at tendance on his ilesty deny that his symptoms are serious, but the fre- nueiiCY of their /lslts nas given rise to disquieting rumor*. REBELS WEHE ROITED. Battle In Colombia In Which Fifty are Killed or Wonwlel. Colon, March 4.Liberal forces under th" command of Gen. Villa appeared at Rio Prio, in the Department of Magda lena, Feb. 21. After an engagement with government troops from Barran qullla, which lasted four hours, the rebels were routed with fifty men killed or wounded. 'm KESUMB OF mm WKKK'S PBOOWMHGS. I5Z^I21^1EI5Z*Z3 In the Senate, Washington, Feb. 2S. After eight hcurs of tumultuous debate yesterday tlu serate passed the Philippine tariff bill by a vote of 46 to 26. a strictly party vote. Mr. Tillman and Mr. Mc Laurln. the two senators from South Carolina, who on Saturday last were declared by the senate to be In con tempt because of their fight in the chamber, were not permitted by voice or vote to participate in the proceed ings. The qu?stlon as to their right to vote precipitated a sharp debate lasting nearly two hours. Mr. Turner (Dem.. Wash.) contended vigorously for the right of the two senators to cast their votes, and he was sustained by Mr. Patterson of Colorado, Mr. Bailey of Texas and other Democrats. They held that even though the two senators were actually under arrest and in the custody of the sergennt-at arms, they could demand that they be allowed to vote, as the senate had not passed on their case. Mr. Foraker, Mr. Aldrlch and other Republicans held that the senators clearly could not participate In any of the proceedings of the senate until they had purged themselves of contempt and the senate had removed the ban pluced on them. The president pro tern., Mr. Frye. held that the two senators could not vote and he was sustained by a ma jority of the senate. During the debute on the Philippine bill Mr. McComis and Mr. Wellington of Maryland became Involved In a con troversy during the course of which the latter declared that If Mr. Mc Comas should make his statements outside the senate chamber he would brand them as a malicious falsehood. He was called to order promptly and resumed his seat amid considerable ex c'tement. Many amendments were offered to the Philippine bill, but exc%i those of fered by the committee only one, an amendment restricting the operation of the sedition laws enacted by the Taft commission, was passed. In tbe House, The house yesterday passed a bill to divide Texas Into four judicial districts and also the Tawney resolution calling on the secretary of war for Information concerning the transfer of Bugar lands In Cuba since the American occupa tion. It then transacted some burdness pertaining to the District of Columbia and later took up tho diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. The bill carries an appropriation of $1,931,678. an increase of $82,950 over Inst year. It was made the vehicle for speeches on trusts, coinage and other Irrelevant matters. The galleries were pneked all day In anticipation of Prince Henry's visit. When Prince Henry entered the gal lery of the house he was loudly ap plauded, some venturing to give vent to cheers. Prince Henry gracefully bowed and was then showed to his seat by Mr. Hltt of Illinois. Ho remained for fifteen minutes, during which tlnTO ho evinced the greatest interest in tho proceedings. He was loudly applauded as he left the chamber. Without disposing of the pending bill, the house at 4:20 adjourned. In the House. Washington, Feb. 26. Tho house yesterday passed tho diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. It was the fifth of the regular annual supply measures to be sent to tho senate nt this session. No amendments of Im portance were adopted. The feature of the day was the speech of Mr. Rich ardson of Alabama In reply to Mr. Corllfs' speech a few days ago in favor of the construction of a Pacific cabl| by tho government. The question of reforming the consular service was debated nt some length, but no amend ments on that subject were offered. In the Senate. The senate was In session but fifteen minutes, adjourning as a mark of re spect to the la'.e Representative Crump of Michigan. The adjournment was a surprise to the minority, who intended to present a resolution providing for the restoration to the roll of the names of Tillman and McLuurln. In the House, Washington, Feb. 27. -The house yes terday sent the Philippine tariff bill to conference, non-concurring in all th senate amendments. The Democrats sought to amend the amendments by reducing the rat of duty and declaring the United States should relinquish Pll claim to the archipelago, but all propo sitions were defeated. Mr. Tawney of Minnesota male a personal explanation egardlng Gov. Toole of Montana, say ing that In formerly classlrg the gov ernor as on opponent of Gov. Van Sant In the railroad merger case, he had been under a misapprehension. In the Nennte. The senate galleries were crowded to overflowing when the gavel fell at noon. After prayer Mr. Foraker moved that when the senate adjourn it be to me. at 11:45. owing to tho McKlnley ser vices. Adopted. Mr. Burrows then ninouueed that In asmuch as the committee on privileges and elections desired further time, for the considerntlon of business before it, he moved to adjourn. Carried with out objection. The session laatej just one and one half minutes. In the Senate. Washington. March 1. Senators Me Laurin and Tlllmtn of South Carolina yesterday were severely censured by the United States senate for the sensa tional persontl encounter between the two senators on the floor of the senate last Saturday. The adoption of th resolution of cen.iure probably doses the Incident, so far as Mr. McLaurln or the senate Is concerned. Immediately after the senate con vened Mr. Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, reported the resolution of censure framed by a majority of the commit tee. Practically there was no debate on the resolution, although Mr. Gal Jlnger and Mr. Piatt (Conn.) made It evident by brief statements that the resolution was not quite srftisfactory to them. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 54 to 12. When Mr. Tillman's name was called a new sensation to the proceedings was added by his rising and saying with ill-concealed emotion: "Among gentlemen an apology for an offense committed under heat of blood Is usually considered sufficient." The- auditors caught their breath as Mr. Tillman thus entered his protest against the adoption of the resolution. The senate adopted the' conference report on the per.nanent census bill and then began consideration of the irriga tion measure. In the House. The house yesterday broke all its rec ords in the matter of private pension legislation, clearing the calendar and passing 159 bills In a little over thres hours. The oonfeience report on the census bill was adopted and the house adjourned until Monday. BOERS ARRESTED. Attack Upon tho British Mnlc Depot at M Orleans Feared. New Orleans, March 4.It developed here yesterday that Secretary of State Hay had written to Mayor CapdevtUe end Gov. Heard expressing the fear that the Boer representatives and sym pathizers In New Orleans might attack the British horse and mule quarters at Port. Chalmette, just below the city, where the mules and horses are kept awaiting shipment to tho British army In South Africa. Gen. Pearson, the Boer agent at New Orleans, after the failure of his suit ia the United States court to break up tho mule shipment business, wrote a per sonal letter to President Roosevelt on the subject, In which he protested against tho British being allowed to UH.J the United States us the base For Their War Supplies. The letter was so amphatlo In denounc ing the mule depot at Port Chalmette as to fill Secretary Hay with the belief that Gen. Pearson Intended to organize a force to attack thd depot. He accord irgly wrote to Mayor Oapc-devllle, ex pressing his uppreh'nstcn and asklrfr Urn to assure the British officers thift the mule depot was within tho limits in St. Bernard parish, where Mayor Capdevlllo Is wholly without power or authority. The mayor, accordingly referred the communication to Gov. Heard, and he sent It to Sheriff Nunca of St. Bernard. Tho latter has an nounced his Intention to allow no fl&htl or other trouble in his parish growing out of the Boer-British dif ficulty, although he thought the secre tary of stato unnecessarily alarmed. As a precaution, however, he arrested two Boer agents who were found in tho neighborhood of the mule depot, and they were warned to keep away from there. THE MARKETS. Latest Uuotntlons in Grnln and Ul Centers. St. Paul, March 4.Wheat No. 1 Northern. 73 73 1 -2c No. 2 North ern, 72 72 3-4e. Corn- No. 3 yellow, B 1-4056 l-8c No. 3, 55 l-41(5Cc. Onts No. S white, 42 l-243c No. 3, 42W42 l-4c. Minneapolis, March 4,-Wheat No. 1 hard, 76 8-8c No. 1 Northern. 73 D-8c No. 2 Northern, 72 3-8W72 5-8c. Duluth, March 4.Wheat-'ash No. 1 hard, 77c No. 1 Northern, 74e to ar rive, 74c May, 751-2c July, 76 3-8c No. 2 Northern, cash. 7ll-2c No. 3, C!)l-2c Manitoba, cash, 713-4c Mav, 74c No. 2, 68 3-4c flax, cash unci to ar rive, $1.65 May, $107 1-2 corn. 61c barley, 4915Sc rye. 54 l-2c. Milwaukee, Wis.. March 4. Wheat --No. 1 Northern, 76c No. 2 Northern, 74 3-4*75 1-2c May, 70 7-8e. RyeNo. I, 58c. BarleyNo. 2. 62c sample, 55? 61c. Oats-No. 2 white, 44c. Corn May, 62 l-8c. Chicago, March 4.Cusli WhealNo. 2 red. 811-4'"82 3-4c No. 3 red, 78 3-4 81c No. 2 hard winter. 75 3-4 3-4c No. 3 hard winter, 74 3-4 76 3-4c No. 1 Northern sprltiK. 76 S-4077 8-4c| No. 2 Northern Spring, 74 1-24P76 l-2c No. 3 spring, 7074c. Corn-No. 3, 581-3 R'59e Oats-No. 2, 43 1-2i(44c No. 3, 43 45 l-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, Mnrch 4.-Cattle Beeves, $45.5 cows, bulls and mixed, $2 4.25 stackers and feeders, $2.50 4.25 yearlings and calves, $2.50 41 4. Hogs, $5.e5'i8.t0 bulk. $5.80W5.90. Chicago, March 4,Cattle-Good to prime steers, $6.50 'if 7, poor to medi um, $4 0 6.40. slocki-rs rind feeders, $2.25 5 cows. $1.25 5.25 heifers, $2.50^(5.50, IIOKH Mixed and butchers, $5.8r/a6.35 good t" choice heavy, $0.25 6.4o. Sheep Good to choice wethers, $4,654/5.25: fulr to choice mixed, $3.80 4.50 native lambB. $3.756.26. South Bt. Paul, March 4. Cattle Fancy butcher steers, |5.B0W.10 prlnW, $1/(15.40 good to chile. $4.404.90 com mon to fair, 1804.75 fancy butcher cows and heifers. $4.605 prime, $4 9 4.50 good to choice. $3.25ii3.90 com mon to fulr, $2.80^3.10 Rood to choice veals, $5.25!'0.25 common to fair, $4 steer calves. $2.00ir3.35 good to choice stock cows and heifers, $2.750'3 good to choice milch cows and spring ers, $32**40 cOT.nion to fulr, $254/30. HogsUnderweight and light, $5.25 5.90 mixed and butchers, I5.654W.16, HhccpFancy lambs, $5,754/6.25 good to choice fat lambs, $5 5.60 fair to good, $4,754(6 feeding lambs. $44/5. FIGHT WITH BUROLAIU. Chief of Police Mildly Wounded and One Receives Fatal In juries. Matloon, 111., March 4. In a fight between burglars an 1 officers here early yesterday morning Chief of Po lice Lyons received wounds that may cause the lows of an arm by amputation and two or three youths whom the po lice were attempting to capture, were wounded, one of them fatally. The po'lce were advised that an attempt would be made to rob the bank, sta tioned three men in the building, and when the youths entered through a. rear window the police attempted" to capture them. HILLY Rl E. TOO, IH DEAD. Fourth of Noted Minstrels to rum Atvpy In Five Months. Chicago, March 4.Within the last five months four men who won fame as minstrels years ago have passed away. They were Jack Haverly, Billy West, Billy Km' rson and Billy Rice, nice succumbed Saturday at Hot Springs to an attack of dropsy. INVESTOR II FOtND DYING. R. G. WIHIums, Who Devised Tt-Ie pantoicraph. Commits SiilcMr. London, March 4. Rupert Grevllle Williams, the Inventor of the telepan tograph, has been 'ound fatally shot In the greenhouse of his reslderce at Hey wood, near Manchester. There is no doubt that Mr. Williams committed suicide. 1.