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BaFnS of the Week Recorded Vin a
Brief Style.
CG7JCISE AND INTERESTING.
Ryre Court Hand Down ji Nam-
W-r mt Uottt Important Decliijona
Tffmmmm SliooU 1It Doctor, '( Kills
Mi Daughter nl Tlieu Sulcjdc.
rr-lao l,w Knocked Oirt.
11 Iwsux unanimous opinion wrlttfefi by
J astir I2Kkcr, tho supreme court holds
tins ottmmarjrerino law to be invalid.
Tlte rrtictiU of tho law are not diseftssed
2a tlae opinion, the court simply holding
tttaJt the Law is defective inasmuch as
tit utativo journals show that it
wm without an enacting1 clause when
Ik paetf the senate, and that tho house
laileil to remedy this defect.. This
-ela-a was inserted previous to the
gTJnof the bill by tho governor,
an! the attorney-general urged that
this. wa x. Kufiicient compliance with
tins ronlitution. This contention is
Vninl ly the court, on the.' ground
that tine xmstitutional provision is not
mtmrlxr lirrctory, no part of tjie legis
lative rrer being vested in the gov
rruor. The -court says: "It will
ke itwceh better that the legis-Ls-ter!
khall correct its mistake than
ihi.it the courts shall sanction tho ir
.TTgwlar correotkin in this case.'
.. TberoarC's reference to tho legisla
txzrx. rnetiiig its mistake is taken as
aa iniicatkm that it believes the law
J otherwise constitutional.
""Kiiiftr Readings" In the School.
In a. raw appealed from the Wayne
crirereit irt which granted an order
compelling the board of education of
JTtetroit to discontinue the use of "Bible
Kvailini' ? the public schools the
prwnvt'ornrtre versed the order, de
claring Ova the use of such book is
not unconstitutional. The court says
ti ptveise question involved is not
wkether the pupil can be compelled to
csxl religious exercises, nor neces
xrij whether the reading of the Bible
or avr tnVract from it constitutes a
rar3ti'jj religion or amounts to a
erfttrictkrK. of civil or political rights or
jriri!Ts of Mich students as do not
to ullcnd upon the exercises. The
emirlnion of the court after a review
of the authorities and laws is that the
rradiug of extracts from the Bible
with cm t comment, is not in violation
of taty constitutional provision.
' Justice Hooker wrote tho decision
zlhiI only Justice Mooro dissented.
Silrrr Dollars are Legal Tender.
About a year ago Fred A. Baker, of
TVtroii, refused to accept 301 silver
ckxllars from Stephen Baldwin, of 1'on
il, h payment of a mortgage. Baker
JtruKi to foreclose the mortgage
ajiil'HaM'xiu filed a bill in chancery in
the Oakland circuit court asking that
the mod gage be discharged since
b h.Vi tendered the payment to Baker.
The latter contended that the congress
of tbe Uiwtccl States had treated silver
a a lrsoreliied and debased metal
aud that the money offered by Bald
win was, therefore, not a legal tender.
Judjre i"tnitk decided that the tender
rif ti iit'ilrrr in payment for the mort
3?"sg wa pood and accordingly ordered
the. nxrlgge discharged, as paid. The
vto. wiil be appealed to the supreme
-rvjrt of Michigan and from there it is
ea peered that it will git to the U. S.
JSCpPJI OOUt't.
Xtprtt Companies Mut Pay War Tax.
. Tli Michigan supreme court has de-i-5Jfl
the case brought by Atty.-tJen.
ilajuard on the relation of numerous
Detroit merchants and manufacturers,
ajrxlneit the American Express Co., to
o-wvpcS the company to pay for the
IX. S. monue stamp attached to ship
pJnjr rrveipts. Tho Wayne .circuit
orrort granted such a mandamus and
Tbr. own puny appealed- to the higher
ccort, vvic.re the case was elaborately
-3UTuimL The main question in the case
related 1 theeonstructibn to be placed
optm t revenue act, and the court
oawelmltd that as Hho shipper has
walking 1 do with issuing tlio receipt,
itvraa the clear intent of the law that
the company shall give such a receipt
a will bring tho government the rev
ujue iiroridel, and therefore the com
I".nj must pay the tax.
rintr Tt'li-rtt In Kxcellent Condition.
The oOietal crop report for December
aj that the average condition of
,beat in lle &t.itc Decvl was 100, cm
pa.rrsoTi being with average j'ears. .The
pej-centagc by sections are as follows:
SScMithera counties 101, central 07, and
nrvtlwrt ds. One year ago the perccnt
ajc for the state was 88.
Fall paiiure was remarkabl3' good
BtiI late in the season. The condition
to! live stock is practically a full aver
'agr The figures arc: Horses and cat-
07; fchecp, 08, and swine, 00.
. i m
Detroit IVoniSR's Terrible Deed.
WhiU. temporarily deranged, , Mr3.
' Tl'ntnk 1. ItrookH, lQr7 Uussell street,
S3trort., sJvt and wounded her attend
Tojf physician, DrVp. K. llell and after
"he; barl escaped hc shot and killed her
5-ymr-otd daughter, Uernicc,. and then
aicideiL The husband .and father
-jfowrtd tlc dead bodies of his loved ones
cwhen he retiirncifirom his work.
. j. n Albioa 8tres Darned,
f Fire broke out in Iiosscau's harness
iftore Albion and the whole block of
.fiteurM alores were destroyed. The loss
. Kabrmt 50,000, with $2,!00 insurance.
".; The Automatic Sweeper Co.. with a
aji Lai r took of $30,000, was organized
at Marine City to ..manufacture the
JKiai carpet wccpcr. The factory will
lty3Hperation at once.
The corower'a jury in the inquest
yrejrthc men killed in tho new Won-
W-lal disaster, at Detroit, placed the
. Bwpoiisibilitv of tho horror upon John
.Saott A Co., the supervising architects.
A Crssy Ksrnier s TerrlUl Deed.
A farm hand named Walter llltchings
butchered three people on the farm of
Wm. Hunt, two miles west of Free
Soil, Manistee county, with an ax and
ft knife. Tho murderer afterwards cut
his own throat. Tho dead arc: Wm.
Hunt, Mrs. Hunt, Thomas Hay ward,
a hired boy, and Walter Hitchinga.
There are no living witnesses of the
awful tragedy, but the story is told by
surrounding circumstances. Hitchinga
was known to be slightly demented,
but he was never very violent although
quick tempered. He was a brother of
Mrs. Hunt and made his winter home
with tho farmer. Hnyward was 15
years old. The three men started out
to cut wood, and it is evident that they
had not long been at work when
Hi tellings was seized with an insane
desire to kill, aud raising his ax ho
brought tho sharp blade down on
Hunt's head, cutting tho skull open.
Young Hay ward turned and ran in
terror, but stumbled and fell and the
madman was upon him in an instant
and crushed his skull at a blow. The
two died almost instantly. Ditchings
returned to Hunt's body and dragged
it to a brush heap where ho carefully
covered it up, but Hayward's body was
only partially hidden.
Tho insane man then ran hastily
to the house, grabbed his sister and
with a big, dull jack knife terribly
slashed and cut her in several places
before ho succeeded in cutting her
throat. That tho poor woman made a
desperate fight for her life was evident,
but her strength failed. The murderer
mado two gaping wounds in the back
of her head, from which tho brains
oozed and then pushed the body under
the bed. He then went up stairs and
tried to cut his throat with the jack
knife, but it was too dull so, with blood
flowing from his hacked neck, ho be
gan to search for a razor. At this
point Mrs. Kritzen, a Polish neighbor,
and Hunt's cight-j'eur-old daughter,
ran over in response to Mrs. Hunt's
screams. Hitchinga started at the wo
man, brandishing the bloody knife, and
she caught up the one-year-old baby
from the floor and ran out, slamming
the door behind her, and fled to her
homo with the children. Dy tho time
help has been called and reached
Hunt's home Hitchins had completed
his awful work and lay at the foot of
the stairs with his throat cut from car
to car, and a bloody razor beside hinu
Hunt lived with his second wife,
who was a sister of his first. A son by
the first wife, aged 13, lives near Seat
tle, Wash., and another, aged 20, was
at woi'.c at Millcrton at the time of the
tragedy, lly his present wife Hunt
had two children, a girl of 8 and a boy
one j'ear old, who are being cared for
by kind neighbors. Ilitchings and
Hunt were each about 50 years of age.
Mrs. Hunt was about 45 years old.
Murder at Limning.
A murder was committed in Lansing,
the victim being Lawrence Kdwards,
aged 23, who was shot aud instantly
killed within a block of tho heart of
the business section, under the glare of
an arc light, and tho murderers in their
terror ran directly throujh tho princi
pal business street. Thos. and Hob
I la iii fin had been drinking with Kd
wards and quarreled witli him shortly
before the murder. They were ar
rested soon after the deed was com
mitted. l!olh have criminal records
and Hob had been released from Ionia
prison only the day before.
33th MlrMsitn May io to IIstmo.
It was rumored at corps headquarters
at August, tta., that the 35th Michigan
would be transferred . to tho Seventh
army corps, now commanded by (Jen.
Fitzhugh Lee. That corps is under or
ders to go to Cuba by Dec. 20, and if
the regiment is transferred to that
corps the boys will eat Christmas din
ner somewhere near Havana.
STATE GOSSIP.
John Cope drank himself to death at
Mayficld.
Mrs. (Ico. Heimert, of (.alien, has
gone insane over spiritualism.
The huge tank of the Iloscommon
waterworks burned. Loss $500.
Marquette people figuro on building
an ice palace like that at Montreal
Louise K." liable has been appointed
postmaster at Sutton's Hay, Leclanaw
county.
The total season's shipments of iron
ore from the Crystal Falls district was
3 15,000 tons.
l'etcr Kouing, a steward on a steam
barge, suicided at Menominee by
drowning.
The National Prohibitionists of Shia
wassee have again amalgamated with
the old party.
M. O. Youngs, of Detroit, was fined
550 and costs at Lansing for violating
the liquor law.
Senator Durrows has introduced a
bill to appropriate $100,000 for a public
building at Hattle Creek.
A syndicate of Detroit and eastern
capitalists propose to connect Detroit
and Saginaw by an electirie railway.
Two F. it P. M. freight trains col
lided at Northvillc. lloth engines and
12 loaded cars were completely
wrecked.
George Webster hung himself in the
county jail at West Hraneh. lie was
arrested for beating his wife while he
was drunk.
The otlicial vote shows that a total
of 421.141 votes were cast in the state
election. Pingree's exact plurality
was 75,097.
John Keid. aged 22. of (.rand Rapids,
went to a dance. He quarreled with
his best girl, then went home and
killed himself.
Carmon Hooks, a clerk, aged 19,
while hunting near Stanwood, was ac
cidentally shot by a companion. He
died from hemorrhage.
Heaton's large flour mill at Lake
Odessa was burned to the ground.
Tho loss is f 7,000, with small Insur
ance. It will be rebuilt.
George W. Lee was instantly killed
by a Michigan Central train at Avery;
while across the tracks. Lee's neck
was broken. The horses were unin
jured. Frank Sutton and James Nichols,
who blew open a safe in tho depot at
Martin and who. shot the assistant
agent,' were each sentenced to 15 years'
imprisonment.
Mrs. Elijah Corby, aged 05, widow,
was burned to death at her home in
Ray township, Macomb county. The
house was destroyed and tho body
burned to a crisp.
Charlotte disputed with her electric
light company and has been in dark
ness for 10 months. An understanding
has been reached and all night light
ing will begin Jan. 1.
Frank Debore, aged 23, Co. O, 32d
Michigan died at Grand Rapids from
consumption. Ho was in excellent
health when he enlisted and the disease
was caused by exposure.
Jonathan McGcc, of Ypsilanti, who
is over 108 years of age, applied at Ann
Arbor for a marriage license. He for
got the lady's name and went back to
Ypsilanti to ascertain it.
Wm. Vanlente. aged 30, while hunt
ing near Holland, placed the butt
of his gun on a log. Gun slipped, was
discharged, and the top of Valente's
head nearly blown oX He died in
stantly. I. M. Weston, formerly one of the
most prominent Democratic politicians
of the state and a business man of
Grand Rapids, died in New York City
and was buried in his native town,
Madison, Me.
Harry Randall, a popular young man
of Pert Huron told his wife some time
ago that he was going to die at certain
time, lie was then in fair health, but
last week he died within an hour of
the time he had predicted.
A little 6-year-old son of Aug. Rum
ler. of Jackson, while left alone for a
few minutes, upset a kerosene lamp.
The blazing oil set tho little one's
clothes afire and before assistance
reached him he was burned to death.
Tho following new postolliccs have
been established: Jack Pine, Crawford
county, George Hartinan, postmaster;
Oliver, Lake county, Alex Wolcott,
postmaster. Postollicc at Manton to be
raised to presidential Jan. 1, with post
master's salary 51,100.
Rev. P. J. Sloane, of Owosso, gave a
note for S350 as premium insurance
policy. When the note came due he
denied the signature and refused to
pay. He was sued and tho jury
awarded a judgement for 5357.45
against him, with costs.
Thomas Curtis, a convict at Jackson
prison, was severely scalded while
cleaning a boiler in the wagon shops,
and died of his injuries. He was 53
years of age and came to Detroit last
April on a two years' sentence for
stealing a contribution box from a
church.
Miss Ellen Mny Tower, a Detroit
hospital nurse who went to Camp Wi
koff to care for sick Michigan heroes
returning from Santiago, and later
went to Porto IJico to continue her
heroic work at the call of Uncle Sam,
succumbed to typhoid fever in Porto
Rico.
Ann Arbor entertained the State
Horticultural society at their annual
meeting. The addresses, papers nnd
discussions were of unusual interest.
Officers elected: President, J. C. Mon
roe, Soutli Haven; secretary, E. C.
Rcid, Allegan; treasurer, A. W. Slay
ton, Grand Rapids.
OF INTEREST TO HOUSE
KEEPERS. Inasmuch as tho World's Fair and
the Iowa and Minnesota State Hoard3
of Health, condemned baking powders
containing alum It will be of use to our
readers to have an official list of some
of the powders In order that they may
be able to distinguish between them
and the pure and wholesome cream of
tartar article. This la net an easy mat
ter, as none of the alum compounds is
labeled as such, but all masquerade as
"pure," "best in the world," "none so
good," etc. Our space will not permit
of a complete list and we give the pow
ders most generally sold in this section,
which are known to contain alum:
Calumet. I. C.
Chapman's. Jaxon.
Chicago Yeast. Kenton.
Crown. Loyal.
Climax. Perfection.
Davis O. K. Rocket.
Delicate68e. Snow Ball.
Grant's Bon Bon. Unrivaled.
Immense Value.
Reject all brands sold with a prize or
at twenty-five cents or less a pound, as
they are made of alum. Be on the safe
side and accept none other than Dr.
Trice's Cream Baking Powder, which
received the highest praise and honors
at the World's Fair.
While the steamer Aurora, with the
Aurania, from Duluth for Buffalo with
wheat, was working through the ice
fields at the inouth of Detroit river
flames broke out and the captain scut
tled her in 13 feet of water to prevent
total destruction. Tho wheat cargo is
a total loss. The barge Aurania went
aground on Bar point. The steamer
C. A. Black, wheat, from Duluth, went
went aground at Bar point, also.
The Homeopathic Medical college of
the U. of M. has arranged for post
graduate lectures and a practical clin
ical course for ths present collegiate
year. The courses are arranged es
pecially for physicians with a regular
practice and little time for study. The
clinical course will be free. The lec
tures begin on February 14 and con
tinue until March 3. The clinical
course begins Feb. 28 and continues
for one week.
The state supreme court has affirmed
the constitutionality of the law fixing
a standard for all cider vinegars of
fered for sale in Michigan.
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News of the Day as Told Over the
Slender Wires.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS
Knorinom Increase In Our ICiport and
Large Decrease In Our Imports
llulance of Trade With All Countries
Greatly In Our Favor.
The report of Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage shows that our foreign com
merce of the fiscal year 1893 in many
respects have been phenomenal. The
exportations of tho products of both
field and factory exceeded in value those
of any preceding year, and the grand
total of exports was the largest ever
recorded averaging more than 8100,
000,000 per month, the total being
81,231,482,330, against 8t,050,D'J3,55U in
1397 and 81,030,278,143 in 1302. Tho
value of agricultural products exported
was 8353,683,570, surpassing by 851,
355,338 the highest record, that of 1892.
Our manufacturers also made their
highest record, 8290,697,351, against
$277,235,391 in the preceding year. For
the first time also in the history of our
foreign commerce, tho exports of do
mestic manufactures were greater than
the imports of foreign manufactures,
while the total exports of the year
were twice as great as the total im
ports a condition heretofore un
known. Nearly all branches of the
great manufacturing industries shared
in this increase, particularly manu
factures of iron and steel, leather,
boots and shoes, and mineral oils.
Nearly all classes of the great agricul
tural products made their highest re
cord of exports in the past year. The
prices realized on nearly all important
articles of export were higher than in
the proceding j'ear.
"In importations, the year has
shown an equally remarkable record,
the value of foreign imports being less
than in any previous year, with a sin
gle exception, 1SS0, though the popula
tion lias increased 50 per cent tincc
that time. The total imports were but
8616,049.634 in value, against $761,730,
412 in the preceding year, nnd $779,
721,671 a year earlier. The falling off
wa? almot entirelj' in manufactures
nnd articles of food. The importation
of wool manufactures was $14,823,771,
against $19,162,992 in the preceding
year; of cotton goods, 227,267,300,
against $34,429,363 in 1897; of manufac
tures of iron and steel, $12,626,431,
against $16,094,557 in the preceding
year; of earthenware and china, 6,
687,360, against $9,977,297 a year earlier;
of glass and glassware, 83,782,617,
against $5,603,863 in 1897; and of tin
plate, 83,809,113, against $5,344,633 in
the preceding year.
Tiiis satisfactory condition of our
foreign trade extended to our com
merce with practically every nation.
Our sales to Europe alone increased
$160,420,601, while our purchases from
that section of the globe decreased
8124,253,514; and to all the great divis
ions, except Occanica, there was an in
creased sale, and from all, except Asia
and Occanica, decreased imports. Our
exports to Asia show a gratifying gain,
thoMJoflS93 having been $14,707,791,
against $25,630,029 in 1S96 and $11,615,
703 in 1S30, thus having quadrupled
since 1380, and nearly doubled within
two j-ears.
Report of Hawaiian CniiinilHftlor.rr.
President McKinley has handed to
congress the report of the Hawaiian
commission together with three bills
drawn by the commission for the gov
ernment of the islands as a part of the
United States. The principal one pro
vides for the erection of the islands
into a territory of the United States to
be styled the territory of Hawaii. A
governor, secretary of territory, U. S.
district judge, a U. S. district attorney
and a U. S. marshal are to be appointed
by the President, and an internal rev
enue district and a customs district
are to be created.
Section 4 provides that "all white
persons, including Portuguese and per
fons of African descent, and all per
sons descended from the Hawaiian
race, on either the paternal or mater
nal side, who were citizens of the re
public of Hawaii immediately prior to
the transfer of the sovereignty thereof
to the United States, are hereby de
clared to be citizens of the United
States."
Provision is made for a legislature to
consist of two houses a senate of 15
members, and a house of representa
tives with 30 members. These are to
be elected biennially. Voters for rep
resentatives must be male citizens, 21
years of age and of one ycar'B residence
in the territory, must have paid all
taxes due the government, and must
be able to read and write the English
or Hawaiian language. To be qualified
to vote for senators he must, in addi
tion to the above, own $1,000 worth of
real property upon which the taxes
have been paid, or must have an income
of not less $600 per year.
The bill provides for the election of a
delegate to U. S. house of representa
tives, and also provides that the con
stitution and laws of tho U. S. locally
applicable shall have the same force in
the territory of Hawaii as elsewhere in
the United States.
The American peace commissioners
have rejected Spain's request that, for
a term of years, the ships of that coun
try and its products be admitted to
Cuban and Porto Rican ports under the
same regulations and customs tariff as
American ships and products. Tho
Spanish commissioners were given such
consolation as they may derive from
the permission to reapply, when the
diplomatic relations havo been re
newed, for shipping concessions under
the reciprocity scheme of tho Dinglcy
law, for which Senor Dupuy de Lome
was negotiating in Washington when
the war broke out,
CONGRESS AT WORK AGAIN.
During the second day's session Sen
ator Vest, of Missouri, opened the bat
tie in opposition to expansion by in
troducing the following joint resolu
tion:"That under the constitution of the
United States, no power Is given to the
federal government to acquire terri
tory to bo held and governed perma
nently as colonies. Tho colonial sys
tem of European nations cannot bo es
tablished under our present constitu
tion, but all territory acquired by the
the government, except such small
amounts as may be necessary for
coaling stations, correction of boun
daries, and similar governmental pur
poses, must be acquired nnd governed
with the purpose of ultimately organ
izing such territory into states suitable
for admission into tho Union." Navi
gation laws were briefly discussed and
then tho Senate adjourned. Hot'fiK.
A session of half an hour was held, at
which the deficiency bill carrying the
extraordinary expenses of the army
nnd navy from Jan. 1 to July 1, 1899 was
reported. The report of the Hawaiian
commission was laid before the house
and referred, together with bills of
fered by Mr. llitt to carry out the
recommendations of the commission.
Senator Vest (Dem., Mo.) called up
his resolution declaring it to be uncon
stitutional for this government to ac
quire foreign territory except for coal
ing stations or some like purpose, un
less its intention was to confer state
hood upon the territory and citizenship
upon its inhabitants. In a lengthy
speech Mr. Vest said that it was a
basic principle of this government that
"the powers of tho government were
derived from the consent of the gov
erned," nnd maintained that the fed
eral government had no authority
cither in morals or in the constitution
to go beyond that principle. Senator
Piatt (Hep., Conn.) opposed Mr. Vest
and said that at a later date he would
go into the subject nt length to show
wherein the Missouri senator was
wrong.
During the consideration of pension
bills Senator Vest (Mo.) protested
against the rushing of such bills
through the senate when there was
not a quorum present Mid with only
the title being read. He was willing
to p:iy munificently nnd liberally in
pensions, but insisted that these bills
should receive proper consideration.
Mr. Oallinger (N. II.), chairman of the
senate pension committee, agreed with
Mr. Vest.
Senator Hoar precipitated a lengthy
debate when he opposed the appoint
ment by the President of senators as
members of commissions whose acts
would have to be passed upon by
the senate. The confirmation of the
appointment of the Hawaiian commis
sioners was under discussion nt the
time, and the matter was finally re
ferred to the judiciary committee, with
instructions to investigate and report.
Hep. Hepburn, of Iowa, introduced a
bill authorizing the President to ac
quire by purchase from the states of
Costa Ilica and Nicaragua full owner
ship, jurisdiction and sovereignty of
such land as may be desirable and nec
essary to construct nnd defend a ship
canal from ocean to ocean. The bill
also appropriates $140,OOJ,CO0 to con
st not the canal.
The house passed the r.nti-ticket
scalping bill by a vote of 119 to 101.
Hep. Hull, chairman of the house
committee on military affairs, intro
duced a bill increasing the regular
army to approximately 100.000 men.
The bill was framed at the war de
partment and is not the bill framed by
(len. Miles. It gives a total of 14 regi
ments of artillery, 12 of cavalry and 30
of infantry.
Senators Hale (Vt.) and Hoar (Mass.)
presented resolutions of citizens in
their states, remonstrating against the
extension of American sovereignty
over the Philippine islands and against
the acquisition of foreign territory
without tho consent of the people of
such territory.
Senator Morrill presented a petition
from the legislature of Vermont, ask
ing for the revival of the grade of ad
miral, and recognition of Hear Admiral
Dewey. Mr. Hale presented a bill to
revive the grades of admiral and vice
admiral. .
Senator McCaffrey (La.) introduced a
resolution requesting the President to
enter into negotiations with Oreat
Britain for the purpose of modifying
the Clayton-Hulwer treaty in so far as
it interferes with the United States
constructing, owning or controlling an
intcr-occanic canal " across the isthmus
of Darien.
Senator Vest introduced a resolution
providing for the appointment of a
joint commission composed of three
senators and five members of the house,
to investigate the charges of corrup
tion in the conduct of the war with
Spain.
The urgent deficiency bill to provide
for the support of the military and
naval establishments was passed by
the house practically without opposi
tion. There was not a word of criti
cism of the war during the debate.
In response to the President's mes
sage Senator Hoar introduced a resolu
tion for a committee to prepare and
carry out plans for the celebration of
the centennial of the city of Washing
ton as capital of the United States.
The anti-scalping bill passed by the
house was laid on the table in the
senate, a similar bill having already
been reported by the interstate com
merce committee.
Senator Elkins introduced bills ex
tending the laws relating to customs,
commcrco and navigation to the Ha
waiian islands and Porto llico.
Senator llawley offered a bill on the
lines suggested by (en. Miles for the
reorganization of the army with 100,000
men.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate authorizing tho raising of the
battleship Maine.
PEACE TREATY SIGNED.
Spanish and American CommUilontrt
I inlih Tbetr Work at Tarl.
The United States and Spanish peace
commissioners concluded the work and
finally settled the terms of the treaty
of peace. The Spaniards are exceed
ingly bitter over the result, though
observing the forms of friendliness
und courtesy to tho end. One of the
Spanish commissioners said: "The Eu
ropean nations have mado a great mis
take is deserting Spain and leaving her
to spoliation by the bruto force of a'
conscienceless giant. They all know
that in the Philippines America has
taken more than she can digest. She
will ultimately sell the islands to Eng
land or Germany, and when the trans
fer is attempted it will precipitate gen
eral European strife. We have refused
to sell any island in the Carolines. We
never thought of considering an offer.
Nor have wo consented to negotiate
upon any questions except those di
rectly involved in the protocol signed
at Washington."
The Treaty l Klgncri.
As soon as the treaty of peace was
engrossed the commissioners held their
final meeting and signed the document,
which contained 17 articles. After tho
treaty had been read in both Spanish
nnd English two copies were passed
around the table, tho commissioners
signing them in the order of their
rank; William R. Day, Senator Cush
man K. Davis, Senator William P.
Frye, Whitelaw Ileid and Senator
Ocorge Oray; Scnor Montero Hios,
Senor Abarzuza, Senor Garnica, Scnor
Villaurutia nnd (ion. Cererero y Saons,
each commission signing its opponents'
treaty. Both were tied with the Span
ish, American nnd French colors.
Each copy contnins tho English and
Spanish texts of the treaty in parallel
columns.
Washington: The ofllcial news of the
signing of the peace treaty was re
ceived in Washington with a general
feeling of relief.
May Came a Cabinet Crlnln. '
A special dispatch from Madrid says
the position of the cabinet is most
critical and that t he resignation of the
ministry is expected.
Con. Girt! Is Dead.
Gen. Calixto Garcia, the distin
guished Cuban warrior and leader, and
the head of the commission elected by
the Cuban assembly to visit this coun
try to confer with President McKinley
and members of congress, died at tho
Hotel Raleigh, nt Washington, where
the commission has its headquarters.
The sudden change from the warm
climate of Cuba, with the hardships ho
had there endured, to the wintry
weather of New York and Washington
is responsible for the pneumonia which
resulted in his demise. In his dying
moments, as all through his busy and
active life, his thoughts were for his
beloved country and its people.
Gen. Garcia was 60 years of age. He
leaves an aged mother in Havana, a
wife, two daughters nnd two sons.
One son was with him when he died.
Maj.-Gen. Jas. F. Wade, president of
the U. S. evacuation commission at
Havana has received certain instruc
tions from President McKinley which
seem to indicate that he will be ap
pointed military governor of western
Cuba. Gen. Greene will be governor
of the city of Havana. He has already
virtually taken bold.
The U. S.-Canadian commission is
Hearing the end of its negotiations.
But it is feared the reciprocity features
will prevent an agreement. The Amer
icans have made a proposition show
ing what concessions they can make,
but it is said to fall short of what tho
Canadians expected. The latter will
offer counter propositions nnd on these
the work of the commission must rest
or fall. It is expected that the lumber
schedule will bo the principal point of
difference.
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"Hero" llobson will go to Manila to.
superintend the raising of several of.
the Spanish war vessels sunk by Dew ey
last May, ,
The hcretary of tho treasury's re-
port of the government's receipts and
expenditures for the j'ear ending Juno
30, 1 80S, fchows that Michigan's total:
contributions to Uncle Sam's exchequer
from customs, internal revenue and
sale of public lands, were S3, 103,489.
The government's expenditures in '
the state, in addition to salaries and j
other fixed charges of the government '
service, amounted to $318,000. :
Premier Sagasta is reported to have :
said that if the United Statas insist
upon Spain paying the Cuban and Thil- I
ippino debts she will honor her signa- i
ture to the extent of her resources. -