Norwalk gazette, Friday, January 19, 1900 · page 12

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ORA did not like usually to go
downtown shopping with her moth-
er, but. Betty adored it, as she used to
say in curious imitation of the talk of
older girls. Dora was 12 years old ana
had been downtowu so many times that
there was no longer any novelty in it;
while Betty was only five, and had hard-
lv ever been at all. Nevertheless, when
mother proposed the trip one fine Oc-
tober morning, both little girls were
pleased, Betty on general principles and
'Dora because she liked to select her
own ribbons, and also because
wanted to see the display window at
Lawson’s store.
“The girls were talking about it at
school,” she said. “Harriet Graham said
I just must go down. Each day they fit'
up the window difierently. Yesterday
it was a. kitchen, and Harriet said there.
was a little girl in it who played cock.
She swept the room, and she cooked
things on the stove, and she scrubbed
the kitchen table, and she washed the
' dishes in the dearest dish pan and dried

them on pink-and-white glass towels.
' Day before yesterday, .
it, it was a parlor, and the little girl
played she was a lady and wore a long
' dress anddid all sorts of things.”

That was very excitin g for Betty, and
it was a contented party that took the
electric car, rode through the subway,
which still see-med to Betty like. some
mysterious, enchanted cave, and start-
ed On the. brief tour of inspection and
shopping which Mrs. Warren had
planned. They bought Betty’s shoes
' and hat. and Dora’s ribbons and gloves
before it became convenient to pass by
the wonderful window, which, in the
. minds of the children, was their chief
, goal. It equaled and even surpassed
their hopes.

“There, now, Betty Warren!” said
“Did you ever in your life see
anything sweeter than that little girl
in the nursery? See, she is dressed like
a nurse‘maid to~day, taking care of the.
children! Look at the twin brass beds,
and that precious cradle with the fluffy
pillows and the silk coverlet! Don’t
you wish you could be an advertisement
little girl, and do nothing but. play with
such lovely things?”

Betty said nothing. She was taking
in all the. delights of the nursery, and
had no words of comment ready yet.
The wide window was furnished like a
small room, and the little girl, who was
just then making up a. bed, was just.
about Betty’s size. Very cunning she
looked in her nursemaid’s cap and
apron, with a soft frill of muslin about.
her neck and the. quaint arrangement.
of her hair. All the furniture of the
room was fascinating; but. the crown-
in g charm here, as in every real nursery,
was the children it contained—the doll
figures which seemed to give the tiny
nursemaid so much care. She rocked
the baby in its cradle—indifferent to the
wise instructions given by those who
knew better—dressed and undressed
the dolls that took the place of old-er
children, showed a black Dinah how to
put a log properly on the grate fire, and
once she even found it necessary to
make the little boy doll stand in the cor-
ner for being naughty to his sister.

Mrs. lVarren and Dora both gazed
with great interest, and Betty was
wholly absorbed. “Oh, what. a happy
little girl she must be!” she murmured,
softly.

“I don‘t know about that,” said her
mother. “It must be hard to turn play
into work. She looks as earnest over it
as Dora does over her. arithmetic prob-
lems. I should think this crowd of per-
' sons looking at her would make her
nervous. I feel. sorry for the little
' thing.” ’ -
“Well, anyway, mamma, they draw

the curtains every little while to give .
her a rest,” said Dora, comforting‘y. as i

they turned reluctantly away.

They stopped for an ice cream soda
before taking the car for home, and it
was here that Mrs. Warren met an old
friend of hers with her daughter Lil-
lian.

“It is the greatest piece of good for-
tune that I have met you,” said Mrs.

she '

when Lillian saw '

 

Hathaway. “I have just been trying to -

reach you with the telephone. Our old

friend and schoolmate, Susan Haskell, _-

is coming to luncheon with me, and I
want you to come right home with me
now, for she is to be in \the city only
. iibout four hours, On her way south-
ward.”

Mrs. Warren was pleased with the ,

thought of seeing her old friend. but
hesitated a little about the children.
“01" course, Dora can go home alone all
right,” she said. “But I. wish Betty
were not here. She is such a little fly-
away you must- kcep right hold of her."

“Oh, Mrs. Hathaway, mayn't Lillian
come home to luncheon with me if mam-

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mu is going wi h you '2” stlid Dora, cager- -

iy. Mrs. Warren seconded the invita-
tion. and the three children were final-
ly left to go home by themselves. After
that Lillian had one or two errands to
do in the neighborhood, and then the
girls went the the florist’s to leave an
order from Mrs. Hathaway. But atlast.
they were fairly started toward the sub-
wayentrancc, where they meant to take
the cars. ' ‘

Suddenly, at the same minute, both
girls missed Betty. Neither could tell
how it happened. She had been skip-
ping from one to the other, holding now
Lillian’s- band, now Dora’s, saying little.
but making her presence constantly evi-
dent. And now she was gone.

“Why, she had hold of my hand when
I was at the fiorist’s!”

“Yes, and she went out to the front
of the store to see those Japanese

' flowers.”

“Was it before then that we met the
man with the balloons, and she wanted
”a?!,

“Oh, dear.

. took hold of a lady’s'dress, and

almost crying. “We must go back ano
look for her.”

Then a happy-thought occurred to
Lillian. _

“Perhaps she went back to Lawson’s
to look in the window again. Don’t you
remember how she wanted us to go back
for one more look?”

So the girls hastened to Lawson’s,
finding the usual crowd before the win-
dow, but no sign of Betty. Then they
went straight to a policeman and told
the whole story, and then there was
telegraphing to the central station, and
‘the policemen were notified to be on the
lookout for a little girl, five years old,
yellow hair, blue dress and a. black silk
bag in her hand. It was Dora’s firstim-
pulse to start for her mother. But
Lillian and the policeman advised her to
wait a little longer, and the policeman,
sure that the little one could not have
strayed far, began a systematic walk up
one street and down the next, the girls
following and looking into all the
stores.

“Somehow I cannot help thinking
all the time of Lawson’s,” said Dora,
finally. “Let’s go back there Once
more, and then if we do not see her
I will go straight to mother, though
I know I shall die if I have to tell
her Betty is lost—poor, little fright-
ened thing, as I know she is this min-
utel”

980 to~Lawson’s they went again, Qnd
mingled with the crowd in frontf"of
the window, but no Betty was there.
They were too disconsolate to look
insid'e,..and the crowd, which seemed

bigger and more amused than ever.

hustled them along. They had almost
passed when suddenly there was a.
little stir and a. sharp rap on the glass
made them turn their bewildered eyes
and there, with a doll in each arm, the
rocking chair from which she. had ris-
'en still swaying back and forth, with
shining eyes brimming over with fun
and excitement, her yellow hair tossed
back and her cheeks aglow with de-
light, was Betty, not. frightened, not

troubled, but supremely, radiantly
happr- '45
Dora and Lillian stood motionless

with amazement, and if Lillian at
least. felt that she would like to shake
the unrepentant cause of all their suf-
fering, perhaps she is hardly to be
blamed. But in Dora’s mind the joy
of beholding again her little sister,
alive and uninjured, banished every-
thing else. An attendant who was
watching from the inside then beck—
oned the girls in, and they heard the
whole story. Betty had walked in all
alone, and going to a. clerk, announced
unhesitatingly her desire “to be an
advertisement.” He was surprised to
see so small a child alone, and asked

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her if she were lost. “Yes, I suppose
I’m lost, but they’ll find me pretty
quick, and I want to be an advertise-
ment while they are hustling.” The
clerk laughed and callel to a. gentle-
man who was just passi g in the aisle
of the store.

“Mr. Harris, here’s an applicant- for
the position‘o-f window girl, and I
think she’ll make a good one.”

When Betty had repeated her story
and told her name. the gentleman had
her take of! her jacket and hat. and
lifted her carefully to the big window
seat. “They’ll find her quicker there
than anywhere else,” he said. “Be-
sides, it will please her, and her moths
er is one of our best customers. It
isn’t. a~ bad advertisement, indeed, to
have the daughter of Hon. Hamilton
Warren as one of our employes.” And
he laughed as if he enjoyed the joke.
The girls must have passed the first
time before these preliminaries were
settled.

“I. hope you’ll like it,” said the
child, who yielded her undesirable
place to Betty. To Betty it was any-
thing but undesirable, however. She
felt that her time was short. and sim-
ply set to playing with all the single-
mindedness and apparently all the un-
consciousness with which she would
have played in her own room at home.

“Well, I knew she was never shy in
her life," gasped poor Dora, divided
between joy at. the recovery and
shame for Betty’s shortcomings.

. “But. I never dreamed of her doing a

thing like that! How could you run
away from us, Betty!" she said, re-
proxingly. as the child‘s jacket and
hat. were being restored. “We were
dreadfully frightened.”

“Didn't run away." was the coaxing
answer. “Didn’t run away at all! I
I
thought it was you, and I was turn-

‘ ing my head to loolrat the balloons.

I don’t know,” in!!! nu...

And when I looked round, it. wasn‘t
you, and the lady looked cross at. me;
and this was just next door. And I
couldn’t see you, and I had to come
in."

Just as they. were leaving the store,
accompanied to the door by several
admiring clerks. the gentleman who
had given the desired permission to
Betty came up.

“But we always pay for our adv-er:
tisements, my dear,” he said. And he
handed Betty a. generous box of choc-
olate peppermints and a. bright, new,
shiny ten-cent piece, and Betty went
home- happy as a queen.--Christian
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Senate Still Discussing the
Philippine Question.

l’ElTlGREW'S AMENDMENT REJECIED

The House Minority Leader Attacks
Secretary Gage—Accuses. Him 6! ,
Unfair Dealing— Hopkins De-

feuds That omciul’o Action.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The senate :
is still in the throes of discussion of the
Philippine question, and apparently there
is no near approach to'a deliverance upon
the subject. Mr. Vest of Missouri yes-
terday voiced the opinion of many sena-
tors when he said that such discussion as
was now in progress was of no conse-
quence, as the country was confronted

 

 

"by a state of facts that could not be

changed "by talk.

Mr. Pettigrew’s resolution of inquiry
and Mr. Lodge's substitute for it were »
laid on the table, and Mr. Hoar’s general
resolution-of inquiry as to the facts of
the Philippine war was taken up. An
effort of Mr. Pettigrew to amend it so as ~
to callfor the president’s instructions to '.
the Paris peace commissioners led to a
prolonged debate. After the senate had
considered the matter behind closed doors
the amendment was rejected by a vote of
41 to 20.

The debate for the day was concluded
by Mr. Vest, who made a notable speech ‘_

‘in opposition to the assumption in some .
.quarters that every man who does not
' agree with the policy of the administra-

tion is a traitor to his country. Mr. Vest
threw into his utterances all the nervous
force and energy and the accomplished
oratorical ability for which he is famed
and commanded the attention of the sen-
ate throughout.

Mr. McLaurin (Dem.. S. C.) addressed
the senate on the financial question, mak-
ing an argument in favor of his proposi-
tion to confer authority upon state banks
to issue circulating notes.

The senate committee on interoceanic
canals agreed unanimously to; report a
bill for the construction of the Nicara-
gua canal. The bill is the same as that
reported favorably in the house by the
committee on interstate and foreign com-
merce, with a few verbal amendments.

The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill was taken up in the house under an

' agreement which limited the general de-

bate to that day. It was the general ex-

! pectation that it would open up a stormy
' debate upon the question of expansion in
- view of the large army and navy items it

contains, but the members early became
very much engrossed in a discussion of
an item of $150,000 for rural free deliv-
cry, in which all are personally interest-
ed, and the subject of expansion was
barely touched upon.

The last hour of the debate was en-
livened with an attack by Mr. Richard-
son, the minority leader, upon the secre-
tary of the treasury for his course in
connection with the sale of the New York
custom house. He rehearsed the charges

- that Secretary Gage had been guilty
. technically of embezzlement in connection
. with the sale of the custom house in de-
' positing the proceeds in a national bank

.stead of the treasury
, States,
-would not hold.

 

encampment It Jacksonville, 1118., 0‘
i May 2 or 3.

which was a government depository in-
of the United
but declared that this charge
IIis purpose, be said,
was to show that the National City bank
had been favored on account of the con-
tributions of its directors to the Repub-
lican campaign fund of 1896 and to show
that the course of the secretary in allow-
ing the purchase price to remain in the
bank while at the same time paying rent
for the property and keeping it exempt
from taxation was not dealng fairly with
the trust funds of the government. '

Mr. ’I—Iopkins of Illinois championed the
course of the secretary, declaring that his
reply to the house resolution answered
every charge brought against him and

displayed business ability that must meet ‘

the approval of all fair minded people.

 

 

Plural Marl-[ages Abandoned.

‘WASHINGTON, Jan. I'll—Senator
lawlins presented to the senate a brief
memorial from President Lorenzo Snow
of the Mormon church on the question of
polygamy. Mr. Snow says he is persuad-
cd that there is much misunderstanding
upon this question. He says that in ac—
cordance with the manifesto of President
\Voodruflf of '1890 “the church has posi-
tively abandoned the practice of polyga-
my or the solemnization of plural mar-
riages in this (Utah) and every other
state and that no member or officer there-
of has any authority whatever to perform
a plural marriage or to enter into such a
relation. Nor,” he continues, “does the
church advise or encourage unlawful co-
habitation on the part of any of its mem-
bers. If, therefore, any member disobeys
the law either as to polygamy or unlaw- .
ful cohabitation he must hear his own
burden, or in other words be answerable
to the tribunals of the land for his action
pertaining thereto.”

Samoan Treaty Entitled.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.——The senate
haslratitied the Samoan treaty without
division. The ratification occurred in ex-
ccutive session and after two hours of
debate, which was participated in by a
number of senators. Messrs. Davis, For-
aker and Spooner advocated and Sena-
tors Bacon, Money and Tillman opposed .
ratification. Senator Bacon made the‘
leading speech in opposition. He based
his objection upon the general ground
that it was contrary to the spirit of our
institutions to attempt to govern any peo-

ple in opposition to their wishes.

Queen Sophia Receives.

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 17.——Queen So-
phia held a drawing room yesterday, and
Mrs. W. \V. Thomas, wife of the United
States minister, presented Mrs. W, R.
Livcrmore, wife of Lieutenant Colonel
Liver-more, military attache of the Unit-
cd States lcgatiun; Mrs. C. S. “’iuslow
of Chicago and Miss Maud Duryea of
the same city. All the American ladies
wore court dresses—black, with long
train, and black and white putf sleeves
and black gloves. ‘

Funeral of General Sharpe.

KINGSTON, N. Y., Jan. 17.——The fu—
neral of General George H. Sharpe was
held from his late residence on Albany
avenue yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
The services were largely attended both
by friends in this city and men who had
been associated with General Sharpe in
public and private life.

 

Dewey Makes an Engagement.
SPRINGFIELD, 1115.. Jan. 17.—Ad-
miral Dewey has accepted an invitation
to visit the Grand Army of the Republic

 

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KILLED IN KENTUCKY.
EidCong-rcsslnnn Colson Shoots Five
Persons, Three of Whom Are Dead.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. ’17.—A
shocking tragedy in which the lives of
three prominent men Were sacrificed and
that of a fourth hangs by a slender
thread, while others miraculously escaped
with painful injuries. occurred here at 1
o’clock yesterday. The principals in' the
tragedy were ex-Congressman David G.
Colson of Middlesboro and Lieutenant
Ethelbert Scott or Somerset. Scott was

' shot six times by Colson and almost in-

stantly killed.

Luther W. Demarre. assistant postmas-‘

ter at Shelbyville, an innocent bystander,
was shot three times and died instantly.
Charles Julian, another bystander, was
shot and died a half hour later, and Cap-

. min B. B. Golden of Barboursville, com-

monwealth’s attorney of the Twenty-sev-
enth judicial district, was shot in the
back and is not expected to survive the
night. Colonel Colson himself was shot
twice in the arm. Harry McEwing of

I Louisville was shot in the foot, and W.
O.‘ Ridpath .of Chicago sustained a bro-.;

ken leg by the lifeless form of- Scott fall-
ing against him as it rolled down the

, stairway. The tragedy is one of the mast
. sensational in the history of the “dark

and bloody ground.”

The killing occurred in the lobby of the
Capitol hotel, the principal hostelry of
the state capital, the room being Well
filled at the time with politicians and

5‘others who are here attending the con-
, tests for state offices before the legisla-

ture.

Examination of Scott’s body' shows.

that he was shot at least six times. The
factthat a part of the bullets were of 38
and part of 44 caliber indicates that he

. was shot by somebody besides Colson or

that Colson had two revolvers. Wit-

. nesses to the killing say that Demaree

was directly between Scott and Colson
when the shooting began and that he was
killed by the first shot fired. Colson
lives at Middlesboro and represented the
Eleventh district in congress for two
terms. Scott was a young lawyer living
at Mount Sterling and was a lieutenant
in Colson’s regiment in the Spanish war.
\Vhen the killing occurred, the city was
thrown into a state of the‘gl'cntest ex-
citement, it being supposed at first that
it was the result of a clash growing out
of the political contests or trial in the
legislature. Captain B. B. Golden, who
is thought to be fatally wounded, is a
lawyer who lived at Barboursville and
was captain of the Kentucky cavalry
troop during the Spanish-American war.

Captain Golden made a statement, in
which he said no words passed between
Scott and Colson before the shooting and
that Colson fired first. Golden and Colson
had had trouble before, and Colson’s
friends charge that Golden was engaged
in the shooting yesterday.

One Point Against Taylor.

FRANKFORT. K52. Jan. 17.—The
court of appeals has rendered a decision
nullifying Governor Taylor’s appoint-
ments of \V. II. Mac-key and A. M. C.
Cochran as election commissioners and
enjoining them from acting. thus sus—
taining the Democratic commissioners,
Poyntz, Fulton and Yontz. These com-
missioners will try the contests in the
cases of minor state officers. The deci-
sion was made on a strictly party vote,
Judges Gufl’y, Burnam and Durille dis-
seating.

Committeemun Cummings Ousted.

\VASHINGTON, J an. 17.—Represent-
ativc A. J. Cummings, who has been for
several years the member of the Demo-
cratic congressional committee from New
York, will be succeeded by Representa-
tive Jacob Ruppert, Jr., upon the nomi-
nation of ten members out of 18. Mr.
Cummings is deeply chagrined at the
method adopted by those opposed to him

. in getting him out: of the place he has

held so long and which he expected to
retain.

Ice Harvesters Dishenrtened.

NYACK, N. Y., Jan. 17.—-This warm
spell of weather has disheartened the
hundreds of men and boys who expected
to cut ice on Rockland lake for the Con-
solidated Ice company of New York.
From 1,200 to 2,000 men and boys, com-
ing from different; parts of Itockland
cum-1 are employed on the lake during
the harvesting of ice, and the money they
earn is the main support of many families
in winter.

Founder of Populism Dead.

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 17.——Jay Bur-
rows, the founder of the Populist party
in Nebraska, is dead at his home in this
city. He had been ill only a few days
with pneumonia. He was a veteran of
the civil war, serving with the Ninth
New York. He was born in New York
state and came to Nebraska in the early
eighties.

Senator Gear Rte-elected.

DES MOINES, Jan. 17.—Unitcd States
Senator James H. Gear was formally
elected in the legislature yesterday to
succeed himself in the United States Scu-
ate. The house vote stood 78 and the

senate 33 for Gear, while Fred “’hite.

tDem.) received 1-l votes in the senate
and 18 in the house.

Portugal \Van-ts What She Has.

LISBON, Jan. 17.——In the chamber of
deputies yesterday the minister of for-
eign atTail-s, Senhor Veiga Beirao, re-
peated his recent statement with refer-
ence to the Anglo-German agreement
and added that Portugal would neither
sell, cede nor lease any portion of her
colonies.

 

Burmese Rice Crop Large.
LONDON, Jan. 17.—Thc Calcutta cor-

respondent of The Times says: "The

Burmese rice crop has broken the record.
Over 2.020,000\tons will be available for
export to foreign countries. Burma is
also able to supply a practically unlimited
quantity to the Indian famine districts.”

 

Professor Smith Resigns.

GENEVA. \I. Y.. Jan. 17.—Professot
Hiamilt'on Lamphere Smith of Hobart
college has resigned. His resignation
will take effect at the cluse of the present
college year. Professor Smith has been
connected with Hobart: for 32 years. . He
is 76 years old. 1

Six Cents For Hfllband's Aflectloul.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—Mrs. Marie

Kuhn recovered in the supreme court a
verdict for 6 cents for the alienation of
aer husband’s affections. The suit wae
tried before Justice Trans and a jury.

 

Suud y Actorl Arrested.
TOLEDO, an. 17.—At the instigatior
.of the Pastors’ union two complete thea-
ter companies i have been arrested and
were arraigned, charged with giving 'a
theatrical representation last Sands:
night. ‘ .

V ‘ '100 Magnum

. dustice Brown Denounces Sen-

 

 

 

sational Journalism.

ADDRESS canon NEW mu BAR.

The Mind of Man Conceive: Nothlus
Worse Thou Sunday hence—Prel-
Holds Béputafions at Its Mercy.
Private Character Assullcd.

ALBANY, Jan. 17.—-The principal ad-
dress before the State Bar-association at
its meeting in the assembly chamber last
night was by Mr. Justice Brown of the
United States supreme court upon “The
Liberty of the Press,” in which he se-
verely denodt'icedwhat he termed sensa-
tic'mal journilism. In opening his ad-
dress .Justlcé Brown admitted that too
much could but be said in praise of the
daily press a newsgatherers. Their en-
terprise in t at direction is superior to
every obstacle. No quarter of tire globe
is too remote, no expense too‘hgreat.
Their news columns are a refreshing con-
trast to the déldly dullness of the conti-
nental papers. All this, however, does
not blind as to the fact that many of
these papers lire guilty of a grave abuse
of their privileges.

“Ugly storiek are told,” he said, “of the
methods resorted to to create a sensation
or to advertise a paper, of correspondents
sent to Washington with instructions to
blacken the character of particular men
regardless of facts, of editorial space
sold for so much a line, of spies put upon
houses to unearth domestic scandals or
upon the steps of‘public men to ferret

 

 

out political secrets, of respectable wo-
men detailed to walk the streets at night;
get themselves arrested as disreputable-
and spend a night in prison for the sake
of a startling article upon the infamous
persecution of working women and of va-
rious other contrivauces by which report- .
ers are sent not to Investigate facts, but

to make a case by book or crook against 1
some prominent official. For the credit I
of humanity, not to say for the honor of ‘
a great profession, let us hope that these
stories are untrue. -

“The next step in their downward ca-
reer was the illustrations, and such illus-
trations! il’ictures of current events, of
battles. of murders and sudden deaths,
sometimes copidd from photographs, of-
tener drawn from imagination.

“All of these extravagances culminate
in the weekly Sunday morning editions.
If there be another worse than these the
mind of man hath not hitherto conceived
them. Probably no law could lit-"framed
which could cover such cases. since mat—
ters of taste are beyond the pulse of thc‘
law, but it is to be regretted that the
great mass of the American people are so
imperfectly educated as to take pleasure
in these abortions of the engravcr's net.

"But it is in its assaults upon private
character that the press is guilty of its
greater cruelties, for no other word in the
English language will adequately express
the nature of these attacks.

' “With regard to oflicials and candidates
for public office a different rule applies
from that which holds good as to private
individuals. The public has the right to
know not only the qualifications but the
private character of candidates for their
suffrages, and as in a great majority of
cases they cannot possibly know them by
acquaintance or by private inquiry, they
must necessarily rely upon the press for
information. The law is justly liberal in
this regard.”

Justice lirow‘! then recited the provi-
sions of lilt‘ law cf libel and asked who
should say that the citizen has any ade-
quate protection. Does not the press hold
our reputations completely at its mercy?

“In this inefficacy of the law,” be con-
tinued, “as it stands- at present and the
impracticability of further legislation we
are confronted by the fact “that in this
free country there has grown up a des-
potic, irresponsible power which holds
our reputations completely at its mercy.
No man oécupies a political position by
executive appointment and few by elec-
tion who cannot be driven from it by a
combined attack of two or three influen-
tial journals whose cue the minor papers
are only tooready to take up.”

 

Captain English Refuses Pay.

\VASHINGTON. Jan. 179—\Villiam E
English, a son of the former Democratil
vice presidential candidate from Indiana
and a captain of volunteers in the wax
with Spain, has returned to the treasury
a check for $1,172 sent him for pay for
his army services with the statement

that he would not accept pay for service ~

 

to his country in timeeof danger.

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TO TAX MORTGAGES. .

 

Bill For New York Legislature to.

Relieve Real Estate.

ALBANY, Jan. 17. a‘- Mr. John L.
Smith has introduced a bill in the assem-
bly that, is designed to make the holder
of a mortgage pay his share of the taxes
on the mortgaged property. It provides:

“If at the time of the payment of any
such tax any piece, parcel or lot of land
upon which said tax was paid was sub-
ject to a mortgage, then being a lien up-
on and against such land, the tax so paid
shall be“ deemed a payment upon the
mortgage in the proportion that the un-
paid principal of any such mortgage
bears to the assessed valuation of the
land subject to such mortgage at the

time of payment and shall in all things ,

operate and have the efiect of a cash
payment on such mortgage, and the to:
collector’s receipt shall be a full, com-
plete‘and sufficient voucher for such pay-
ment.”

The bill is to take eflfect June 1, 1900.

“’hut Miners Will Demand.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. Iii—The ses-
sions and executive conferences of the
miners here show that the demands will
include a general eight hour day, check.
weighmen at all mines, the abolition of
“pluck me” stores, more liberality in the
use of. “script” in payment of wages, eni
forcement of weekly pay days in states
that have laws to this eflect, an exten-
sion of the national order in Pennsylva-
nia and several other states, a permanent
strike fund secured by levying per capih
tax on members of all local unions, the
continuance of the strike in Arkansas,
Kansas and Indian Territory, war on
the coal companies in those states oper-
ated by the Gould railroad companies,
concentrated efi‘orts in congress to pre-
vent “government by injunction” through
federal judges and the enactment of: a
law providing that labor leaders cited
for contempt of the United States court
shall be entitled to trial by a jury of 12
men and a general advance in wages
after April 1 of from 10 to 20 cents per
ton.
The German Naval Dill.

BERLIN, Jan. 17,—Tho naval hill
reached the bundcsrath yesterday. Its
contents are substantially proposals, as
recently foreshadowed, to double the na—
val strength of Germany, as well as to fix
it legally. The agrarian members of the
reichstag have formallyrcsolved to press

the meat inspection bill to a second rcad‘ ‘

ing, notwithstanding; the urgently ex‘
pressed wish of Count von Bulow that
the measure should be deferred.

 

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