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WASHINGTON NOTES.
, The :‘a;‘::‘s in the Supreme Court of
the United States are required to
wear knickerbockers. Three of the
pages are nearly full-grown men, and
when on the street they always wear
long trousers. The short knicker-
bockers are known as their‘ oflicial
trousers, and are only worn when the
Supreme Court is in session. Pages
of the court receive a salary of $90 a
month. This is more than either the
Senate or the House pag‘es get, their
allowance being only $75 a month
during the session of Congress. In
Congress the pages are not restricted
to any particular kind of trousers, but
are privileged to dress as their fancy
dictates.
Mr. John Addison Porter, of Pom-
i‘ret, Connecticut, and formerly ed-
itor-in-chief of the Hartford. Post,
is to occupy, under President McKin-
ley, the important and highly exact-
ing oiiice of private secretary to the
nation‘s chief executive. Mr. Porter
is the eldest son of the late Addison
Porter, long time dean of the Sheflield
Scientific School of New Haven, and
Josephine Earl Sheffield, 3. daughter
of the founder of that institution, and
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JOIIN ADDISON PORTER
1.11s born in New Haven forty years
ago. After his graduation from
lYale, where he was distinguished in
rthe. c1asSics, Mr. Porter studied law
under distinguished auspices at Cleve-
land, Ohio, but subsequently left the
legal profession for that of journar
ism. His newspaper experience, cov-
ering a period of sixteen years, has
embracedservice in various capaci—
ties with the New Haven Palladium,
Hartford Courant, New York Ob-
server, and New York Tribune. He
has also been a frequent contributor
to the leading magazines.
Representative Cooper of I’Viscon-
. in is known as the champion pie
cater of Congress. His friends say he
4-1111 eat more pie at one time than any
' other man in Congress. thenever
the Congressman’s digestive organs
_.:1re in good Working order he can usu-
ally be seen at the Senate restaurant
partaking of two or three pieces of
Page's choice pie. Pumpkin pie, “the
kind that mother used to make,” ap-
ijeals particularly to the palate of the
Badger State Congressman. Fre-
quently he has been seen to eat two
pieces of this special kind, and then
glance about the counter to see if
there was not another variety that he
might select. 7
All but one of the PreSidents inaug-
urated since the election of Abraham
{Lincoln .in the year 1860 had experi-
ence in war before their election. Mr.
Lincoln was Captain of a company
raised for the Black Hawk war; and
(hunt, I-Ilayes, Garfield, Harrison and
McK‘ailey were engaged in the war
for the Uni-on. The only7 man inaugu-
rated since the period spoken of who
never carried a gun in his country’s
service is Mr. Cleveland. Andrew
Johnson. who became President after
Mr. Lincoln was slain, had previously
been military Governor of Tennessee;
and Mr. Arthur, who became Presi-
dent after Mr. Garfield was slain, had
honorably served his state during the
war as a Quartermaster—General and
an Inspector-General, with the rank
of. Brigadier.
Mr. Peary, U. S. N., the Arctic ex-
plorer, told some interesting things of
the polar regions at a ' recent public
‘dinner. He said he could talk of only
one. thing, and then laid hold of the
pole. Picturing a. man standing over
the North Pole. he said that this per-
son would have but one point to his
compass, and that would be south. He
could not move except south. Time
would be unknown to him. He would
know no night or day. Experiences
of Nansen and himself during the last
three years, he said, had shown that
the ideal party to discover the pole
must consist of only two or three per-
sons. The old idea of a large party
must be abandoned. By modern meth-
ods the pole could be reached without
any of the horrors of the Franklin
and G reoly expeditions He consid-
ered that the man who makes the dis-
cov e1 y will rank with Columbus. The
quwtion as to what. good it would be
to such a man to discover the pole
would b1 like asking what good was
the wreath at the Olympian games.
It would be a tribute to endurance,
energy, persistence, the conquering of
obstacles. It would be the peerless
prize of the day, and should go to an
American. It had become possible,
with all the recent light on the sub-
ject. he said, for him to advise and
propose within the last month a prac-“
. tical plan to get there.
only 260 miles beyond the highest
point already reached to be traversed.
He thought the only way to reach the
pole would be to follow up Green-
land as it reaches toward the pole. A
certain tribe of Eskimos there could
be relied upon to furnish assistance.
A fund of $150,000 would keep such a
small party as he advised 'for' ten
" , years working steadily away.
SENATOR.
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A SCURCE OF WEALTH.
Gen. Stone Says Good Roads Would Provo
Such to Farmt rs. '
Cyc clists are taking a livelier inter-
est in the subject of good roads at
present than ever before. P1esident
Potter of the League of American
workers in this cause, and he is laying
plans for an active campaign. Presi-
dent Potter and General Roy Stone,
the head of the Good Roads Bureau of
the Department of Agriculture, hold
frequent consultations on highway im-
provement matters I-Ierewith is a re-
port of a speech made at the good
roads congress at Albany recently by
General Stone:
“You are fighting and working, not
f01 glory or scalps, but for practical re
sults in the line of good legislation and
good roads. Your endeavor should be
to conciliate the farmers, while you
keep the cities right for reform. You
don’t want to lose friends or to make-
enemies. You might succeed in pass
ggood road laws in spite of the farm
e1s, but you would have to depend
upon the farmers at last for the execu
tion of those laws. You must remem-
ber, moreover, that while you have
been the active agitators for road im-
provement, and have swayed public
sentiment in this direction, the farm-
ers have, in some cases, taken up the
practical work of road- building and
carried it out with marked success. It
was the farmers who originated the
State Aid law of New Jersey and who
have carried it into execution, with its
vastly beneficial results, not only in
that State, but as an example to many
other States. And it was the farmers
who built the Ca'nandaigua roads in
this State, at their own cost, by direct
taxation, and who petitioned the Leg-
islature for the right to increase the
legal limit of their taxation. Your
eil’ort then should be to keep the farm<
ers with you, or. if possible, put them
in the lead and yourselves in their
support.
In veni' discussion with the farmers
and their 1"ep1esentatives you can
bring to bear this powerful argument:
That it is time to do away with the
cruel injustice which places upon them
and upon the small fraction of the
property in the State which they hold,
the entire burden of building highways
for the whole people. In the State of
New York this burden is borne by one-
i'ourteenth of the property or the State,
and every measure which the wheel-
inen are advocating is in the direction
of actually lifting this burden off the
l‘armers‘ shoulders, instead of saddling
a heavier one upon them.
It is enforced idleness that makes
farmers poor, and no farmer need be
idle a day on account of bad weather
or wet fields if only his roads are good.
On a good road there is always paying
work of some kind, and wet weather is
just the time to go on the road. The
French farmer never loses a good day
in his fields, for he can do all his mar-
keting and hauling of fertilizers in
rainy times.
What prOSperity would burst upon
this country if every farmer and farm-
er’s boy, not at school, and every farm-
hand and team could earn a full day‘s
wages every day in the year, rain or
shine!
When you have convinced your
neighbors in the cities, and especially
those of them who are candidates for
public life, that the interests of the
city population demand that they shall
come to the relief of the farmers, you
can go to the farmers with this assur-
ance of help and ask them to take into
careful consideration the practical
measures by which this relief can be
brought about; and especially the
measure for providing State aid and
for the use of convict labor. It is only
through State and county aid that the
cities and villages can help. If you find
the farmers clinging to the old ways,
say to them that these ways are main-
ly an unfortunate inheritance from the
mother country, which we brought
away with Us and failed to shake off
when the system was abandoned
there; and that to-day in Great Britain
not only are the roads maintained at
the general cost of the people, but
Government loans are made for any
specially heavy improvements that are
desired. Two hundred years ago the
great highways of that country were
kept up, so far as they were kept up at
all, just as they are in this State to
day. by local taxation, while they ac-
tually served the people of the whole
Kingdom.
Upon the convict labor question, let
them understand that a thousand idle
men are being marched about in Sing
Sing Prison to-day for exercise, whose
labor, if properly directed, could pro-
vide the material for thousands ' oi
miles of good roads every year, and
that the honest industry of the coun-
try pays for maintaining these crimi-
nals in idiehess. These things would
be incredible if told in England today.
They would be a bitter reproach to our
Republican institutions. And they
would add another argument, and a
most powerful one, for those who
claim that our system of government
cannot care for the economic interests
of the people as well as a monarchy.
It would be a fatal indictment . «rains!
our institutions, if it must be truly
said, that a free people, in a rich coun-
try, can-not secure for themselves the.
blessing of good roads.
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Bernhardt u Teetotaler.
The actress, Madame Sarah Bern-
hardt, is a total abstainer. She does
not use. and never-has used, wine or
and other intoxicants, and to this she
largely attributes the remarkable
preservation of her mental vigor and
mental power. She drinks, but little
tea. or coffee. confining her beverage
mostly to milk and water. She is lib-
eral with her baths, and takes abun
dant exercise. _
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Wheelmen is one of the most earnest ‘
' her
MAKIN (:r 'I IIIN GOWN S
SUCCESS OF. TWO SOUTHERN GIRLS
IN .A NOVEL ENTERPRISE.
They Have a Better Idea of Making Sum-
mer Dresses Than Northern \V‘omen,
and, Putting Their Skill to the Test,
Have Been Amply Rewarded.
Some years ago it became necessary
for a Southern young woman to earn
own living. 'She came to New‘
York, and after a course of study for
a profession was forced by circum-
stances to give up her plans. Her
money was getting low and she 'was
beginning to feel desperate, when. she
received a visit from a girl friend.
This visit proved the turning point in
the lives of both girls, and in speaking
of it theone who had come here to
earn a living said:
“It was merely a social call. My
friend had come on to New York to act
as bridesmaid at a wedding which oc-
curred in the season at Hastingsf We
were discussing the wedding and sev-
eral of the social affairs, she had at-
tended when she remarked that New
.York ladies looked so much better on
the streets than at an evening enter-
tainment. This, you know, is quite the
reverse of things at the South: We are
both Southerners. There the ladies
look so much better in their evening
gowns than on the street and so much
better in summer than in winter
clothes.
“We fell to discussing this point of
difference between Northern and
Southern women, and the cause of it.
.W e knew it was no fault of the North-
e1n complexion or physique, for in
both" the Northern women surpass the
Southerners.
“My friend said it was because they
didn’t know how to makelight gowns.
They tried .to make them-too much af-
ter the fashions intended for heavy
goods, and in that way lost the dainty
airy efiect.
“That remark set me to thinking, and
I remembered that I had always been
successful with my summer and even-
ing gowns, and had always been in de-
mand among my girl friends in plan
ning and designing theirs. I couldn‘t
sew very well, I knew, but I also knew
I could plan and, as I was always
thinking of some way I might earn
money this appealed to me at 011(0. So
I suggested that we form a partner
ship to design summer and ball gow us.
My friend took to the idea at once, and
we began on the spot to consider how
we should start in. -
“Neither of us could command a dol-
lar’s worth of capital and so we had to
feel sure of things before we began.
We drew and colored quite roughly
about two dozen designs. These we
carried to our acquaintances among
the society people of New York and
asked their opinion, telling our plans.
In almost every instance we received
orders for one or more gowns. When
these orders became sufficient to war“
rant it we began work by hiring the
best French dressmakers and fitters,
and turned out well finished gown-s in
every respect. America makes the
daiutiest muslins in the world, and
why shouldn’t they be made into gowns
to the greatest perfection by an Ameri-
can firm. At to the increase in our busi-
ness I have told you how it begun, and
now you can see for yourself,” mo~
tioning to the adjoining rooms of busy
workers. “We have a large patronage
in and around New York. We have
engaged to furnish a magazine with
several designs each month, and one
of the large dry goods houses, which
has a large ready-made dress goods de‘
pvartment, has applied to us for some
designs."——New York Sun.
Saved Again.
Mrs. Bimley met her husband in the
hall and gave him a good hug and kiss.
“011, George,” she said, “I’m so glad
you‘ve come. Your slippers are by the
fire, and I have a nice hot supper for
you, and some of that quince marma-
lade you like so well. then you are"
away I’m so lonely I don’t know what
to do, and I thought I would ask you
11—” '
“Here.” said Bimley, hurriedly
drawing from his pocket a twenty-dol-
lar bill, “this is for a spring bonnet.
and 1’11 have that set of diamond ear-
rings sent up first thing in the morn-
ing. Don’t say a word; you are per-
fectly welcome.”
Later on Bimley wiped the perspira-
tion from his brow and muttered to
himself:
“(lot that visit from her mother
headed off once more, but it comes
high."—-Detroit Free Press.
Trouble Ahead.
“Mr. McKinley is likely to see some
pretty lively times,” said the passen-
ger with the silk skull cap.
“You bet your boots ” said the pas
senger with the hay- -colored neck- whis
kers. “The Baptists hev nominated
one man fer postmaster down our way
an’ the Methodists another, an? they
both sen-t dillygations to Washington
this week, an’ I calculate that. they
will both swoop down. on ’im at the
same time. I wOuldn’t be in that
man's shoes fer all the money they is
in his job."
“Which faction do you belong to.
may I ask. ‘3”
“Me? Oh. I’m a Bobingersoll man:
only one in the township, an’ she has a
hundted an’ fifty voters ”—Indianapo
iis Journal.
Origin of the Polka.
Sixty years ago an Austrian cook,
finding herselfrdull in the kitchen, sang
and danced in there for her own
amusement. The cook's mistress, hav-
ing surprised her during herinipromp
in dance, ordered her to dance and
sing in the presence,of’a'da'nclng-mas«
ter, who took notes of the perform-
ance. That was the Origin._of the
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COUNTIES SUBNEEGED.
Flood Situation In the w... Is Becom-
ing More Critical.
TWO BREAKS IN THE LEVEES
Disastx'ous Effects of the Breaches—Cotton
Crop “’ill Be Dclayed——\Vater Is
Flowing Steadily Through
ffhe Streets of St. Paul.
Memphis, April 6.——The flood situa-
tion is daily becoming. more. critical.
Breaks occurred in the levees at.Sun-
flower Landing and near Tunica, Miss.
Two men were caught in the first
mountain of water which rushed
through the Sunflower Landing break
and were dashed away to their death
in plain view of 300 or more comrades
who had been working to save the
levee. Those who witnessed the drown-
ing of the men say that the water lift—
ed them high in the air and rolled them
over and over.
The Sunflower break and the Tunica.
break Will flood five of the most fertile
counties in Mississippi, and it is prob-
able the cotton crop in these counties
will be so late that it will be nipped
by frost before it ripens. The cotton
crop will, how ever, be put in the over-
flowed country, even though the waters
do not subside until July. In 1875 the
cotton crop was put in during the last
of June, three months late, and yet the
crop that year was enormous and the
staple fine.
It has rained almost continually for 48
hours along the levees in Mississippi and
Arkansas, and the work of holding them
has been made more difficult. Old river
men and old planters say it is probable
that 50 counties in Mississippi and Ar-
kansas will be overflowed before the
crest of the high water shall have passed
between these two states.
The Mississippi Booming.
St. Paul, April 6.—The upper Missis-
sippi continues to boom, the gauge show-
ing 18 feet above 101v water mark. It has
been raining constantly for 24 hours.
Dispatches from Atkin,‘ Sauk Rapids,
St. Cloud and Little Falls indicate that
the river is still rising rapidly and that
all records are likely to be broken here
in the next 48 hours. The levee at James
street broke, sending the waters all over
that part of the city. The flood has en-
croached into the freighthouse of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road.
Several of the manufacturing concerns
on the west side have been obliged to
shut down because water put out, their
fires.
The relief societies were busy all day
extending succor to the suffering. The
number of persons who have been forced
to leave their homes is about 1,200. The
water east of State street is so deep that
several houses have floated from their
foundations. Logs to the value of $60,-
000 floated down the river. _
Ortonville has been completely cut
off from communication with the out-
side world for "four days. Lac Qui
I’arle, Minnesota river, 'Big Stone lake
and Lake Traverse form one lake 100
miles in length. At this point the lake
and river are merged into one, and all
the water is rising at the rate of one-
half of an inch an hour. A heavy
northwest gale is driving the'ice, which
is a compact ‘and solid mass, out of Big
Stone lake into the overflowed bottoms
of the Minnesota. river, where it is
likely to do great damage. Boats are in
demand in the vicinity of the depot and
the railroad yards.
Rain has been falling for a week,
making the country roads impassable
and‘keeping the farmers off their fields.
At Anoka. every record since that of
1849 has been broken by the Missis-
sippi. Fireman's Grove is filled with
water, and it is expected that the Rum
river dam will break. Millions of logs
have been floating down the river all
day. North of this point many acres of
farm land are under from 'two to six
feet of water, and there are grave
doubts as to whether or not it can be
seeded this spring. River men say that
there will be a further rise of at least
six feet.
The Situation In St. Louis.
St. Louis, April 6.—Jl‘he riVer today“
was stationary at 28 feet 4 .inches at
this city, but the current was increaSa
ing in rapidity and caused some alarm
to the owners of buildings along the
levee. The foundations of these build:
ings are under from two to four feet
of water. Reports received today from
points north as far as Keokuk, 1a.,
show the river to be gradually rising.
The Missouri river is rising a foot ev-
ery 24 hours, and when this volume
reaches -the Mississippi at Alton the
latter river 'will suddenly rise several
feet more, which will cause great dam-
age to the factolies, elevators and rail-
road property in East St. Louis.
The weather today throughout Mis-
souri, Arkansas and Illinois was warm.
No reports of new breaks in the levees
in lower Mississippi territory had been
received, but it was expected that a
number would occur when the flood
passing here reached Arkansas and
Mississippi. It is expected that the
heaviest flood will reach these points
by next Wednesday or Thursday.
For Public Scales.
Albany, April 6.—Governor Black to-
day signed the bill of Mr. Austin pro-
viding for public scales in cities of the
first and second classes, for the weigh-
ing of coal, and providing that any
dealer who shall attempt to deliver less
than 2,000 pounds for a. ton, with an
allowance of thirty pounds to the ton
for wastage and variations in scales,
Shall be subject to a. fine.
Drink, Paris Green, Dedth.
Springfield, Mass, April 6.—-Charles
Martens, the cigar maker living at 597
Main street who attempted suicide with
paris green yesterday afternoon, died
today in the House of Mercy hospital.
He had been brooding over family trou-
bles.
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King Humbert’s Idea.
Rome, April 6.—King Humbert, in the
speech from the throne at the opening
of parliament today, said the accord
'of the powers tended to preserve peace
and prevent massacres.
A Landslide In Erie County, N. Y. .
Buffalo, April 6. —- A landslide has
taken place in the town of Wales, this
county, can ying into the valley 8.
schoolhouse and a strip of land 300 feet
wide.
J IILIO SAN GUILLY’S CASE.
Secretary Sherman Thinks He Would Not
Dare Return to Cuba. _
Washington, April 5.—It has come to
the knowledge of the state department
that General J ulio Sanguilly is now, or
was, at Jacksonville, Fla., and that his
followers have given out the impression
that the general is about to head an
expedition to Cuba. Secretary Sherman
was asked what the United States gov-
ernment would do in case this impres-
sion were well founded.
In reply he said that he did not be—
lieve Sanguilly would go to Cuba. His
'reason for this belief was the fact that
he (Secretary Sherman) held in his
possession a written pledge, made by
Sanguilly in return for the exercise of
the good offices of this government in
securing his release from imprison-
ment, not to have any connection in
any manner with the Cuban troubles.
The Spanish government also held a.
similar pledge, and in addition San-
guilly had promised not to return to
Cuba without its consent. If Sanguilly
violated the obligations he had thus
assumed, the department of state, Mr.
Sherman said, would not interfere
further for his protection, no matter
what befell him,‘and it would have
nothing further to do with him.
The secretary does not believe that
General Rivera, Maceo’s successor in
command, who was wounded and cap-
tured by the Spanish forces and now
lies_in jail at San Cristobal, will be ex-
ecuted. It is undoubtedly true, howev-
er, that the threat of the departure of
another expedition from Florida under
Sanguilly promises to prejudice the
efforts that are being made with some
Show of success to secure Rivera’s'par-
(if n. \
MRS. TILTON STRICKBN.
The “'oman \Vliose Husband Accused
Beecher Is a Paralytic.
New York, April 5.—Through the fil-
ing of a plain uninteresting deed in the
register‘s office in Brooklyn there came
a. sad echo of the famous Tilton-Beech-
er trial, for through this strange agen-
cy it was discovered that Mrs. Tilton
has been stricken with paralysis.
Until some months ago Mrs. Tilton
was almost totally blind. Then she
unexpectedly recovered her sight, only
to suffer a. paralytic stroke a few weeks
ago, from which, owing to her ad-
vanced age, it is feared she will not
recover.
The deed filed was the transfer of a.
piece of property signed by Theodore
Tilton, the accuser of Beecher, in Paris,
and Mrs. Tilton, who was only able to
affix her, mark. Through this circum—
stance the news of her new affliction
became public. She is now living with
a married daughter in Brooklyn.
Where Our Fighting Ships Are.
Washine‘rn, April 5.—The Yorktown
has sailed from Kinkiang for Hankow;
the Detroit from Port Said for Mer~
sine; the Adams from».San Diego for
Magdelena. bay and the Olympia. from
Hongkong for Yokohama. The Mont-
gomery has arrived at Port Tampa.
A Poor Superintendent Accused.
Geneseo, N. Y., April 5. —John L‘.
Scott, for nine years superintendent of
poor of this county, has been before the
board of supervisors to answer to
charges brought of alleged shortages,
amounting, it is alleged, to $20,000. He
says he will prove his ignotcence.
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A Little Girl’s Awful Death.
Lawrence, Mass, April 5.-—Mamie
Coleman, the 8-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Mary Coleman, was crushed to
death by a. shifting engine. She and
two other children were riding on the
front step of the engine, and in getting
off the Coleman child fell.
struck on East. of Bradford.
V Buffalo, April 5.—A special from
Bradford, Pa., says that the test well
sunk by Buffalo and Bradford capital-
ists in the new oil field east of Brad-
ford, has struck oil and promises to be
a loo-barrel producer. This opens up a
new field of operations.
\Vayne \Vas Drowned.
Nyack, N. Y., April 5.—Ralph Wayne
of Peekskill, with-a party of four men
from Tarrytown, left here in a sailboat.
When a mile from shore, the boat was
capsized and Wayne was drowned. The
ferryboat Rockland rescued the rest of
the party.
An Absurd Canard Denied.
Lisbon, April 5.—An official denial
was issued here of the report, circu-
lated by the Daily Mail of London, in
a. dispatch from Cape Town. saying it
was rumored there that Delagoa bay
had been leased to Great Britain ror
30 years at an annual rental of £501),-
000.
' Pitcher \Vhite Reappears.
Albany, April 5.—-—George W'hite, the
pitcher who signed to play with, St.
Louis and mysteriously disappeared
from that city three days ago, hasar-
rived at his home here. He is not well,
and is threatened with typhoid fever.
311‘;- causes Suicide.
Portland, Me., April 5.—Nellie Brown
of Cape Elizabeth, aged 24 years, com—
mitted suicide by drowning in the Spur-
wink river, near her home. The cause
of the act was temporary insanity
caused by a severe attack of the grip.
Castelar Dine: Bigelow.
Madrid, April 5.—Senor Castelar‘and
the Spanish members of the Cobden
club gave a. dinner to Mr. Poultney
Bigelow. In some circles this is re-
garded as being evidence of special
good will toward ‘he United States.
Cauadia
Montreal, Apri
railway earnir is,
31, were $536,000: for the same period
last year, $463,000; increase, $73,000.
11 ific Earnings.
5.——Canad1an Pacific
Portuguese Troops Defeated.
Lisbon, April 5.—An official bulletin
announces the defeat of the Portugese
troops in Guinea by the natives, after
fighting eight hours. Three officers and
a dozen soldiers were' killed.
New Bank For Hobsick Falls.
W’ashington. April 5.—The comptroller
of the cutrency 11.3 given authority for
the organization of 1.15 Iloosick Valley
National bank of Hccsie‘k Fails, N. Y.'
capital, $50,000. '
To Start on Full Time} “
Providence, Ap1ii 5. -——B. 'B & R
Knight’s mills a: River Point will start
at once on full time. The t“: factories
will bier-3‘... L2 000 spindles.
week ending March-
_ABBITRATION SIDETRAGKBD. \
Treaty Will Probably Be Laid Over For
a. Few Days In the Senate.
Washington, April 5.‘ — The Anglo-
American arbitration treaty will be
temporarily sidetracked in the senate.
This will be done for several reasons.
The principal ‘one, given by Senator
Davis, who is in charge of the treaty, is
that a number of senators who have re-
mained in the city in Constant attend—
ance upon the executive sessions in the
belief that a vote would be reached are
anxious to get away for a. few days.
Another reason is found in the difii-~
culty of arranging pairs for absent sen-
ators who oppose ratification of the
treaty in any form. Senators present
who oppose the treaty will not consent
to fixing a date for the final vote until
they can be assured that pairs can be
secured for their absent colleagues and
coworkers at the rate of two for one.
The matter of pairs is not one for the
senate, but for individual senators to .
deal. with, and considerable difficulty
has been experienced in making the de—
sired arrangement.
It is also probable that another reason
for this decision is the fact that the
friends of the treaty in the senate de-
sire an opportunity and want to give
the state department an opportunity to
examine the treaty as amended before
proceeding further with it. The advo-
cates of the treaty appreciate that it
has been most radically changed. They
have put it beyond their power to fur-
ther amend even if they should desire
to make the attempt, and now desire
an opportunity to take stock of what
there is left.
Drowned From a‘Yacht.
West Palm Beach, Fla., April 5.—Wil-
lett Rowe of New Haven fell, over-
board from James Clarke's yacht'Prov-
idencia and was drowned. His body
was found in five feet of water near
the vessel. The yacht was lying near
the dock, and it is supposed that Rowe
went to sleep on the deck and fell over-
board; No cries were heard, and noth-
ing can be known fully of the sad acci-
dent.
lVants Mercy For Rivera.
Washington, April 5.——Mr. Mahany of
New York has introduced a resolution 1
requesting the secretary of state, “if
such action in his estimation be not in-‘
consistent with public policy,” to “reps
-resent to the government of Spain the
profound sense of satisfaction with
which the people of the United States
would viewihe extension of clemency
as regards the remission of death sen—
tence in the case of General Ruis Ri-
vex-a.”
Spanish Reports About Gomez.
Havana, April 5.—At the headquarters
of Captain General VVeyler, in Glen-
fuegos, news has been received from
Bayamo‘ that three deserters from the
personal escort of General Maximo Go-
mez have arrived there. The latter is
said to be fleeing before the Spanish
troops, and it is added there have been
serious disagreements owing to his over-
bearing conduct.
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Captains ‘Vill Exchange Ships.
Washington, April 5.—Ga.ptain E. M.
Shepard and Captain M. L. Johnson,
commanders respectively of the San
Francisco and the Cincinnati, have
been ordered to exchange commands.
The Cincinnati is coming home from
the Mediterranean. Commander R. P.
Leary of the Katahdin has been or-
dered to examination at Washington,
and then will go home on leave of ab-
sence. .. . ,"‘7‘."i“7‘
Ex-President Attends a Smokcr$.\l
Princeton, N. J., April 5.—-—An informal
smoker was tendered Grover Cleveland
by the Nassau club of Princeton. to
which Mr. Cleveland had recently been
elected. The club is a social organiza-
tion composed of Princeton professors
and prominent business and professional
men who reside in the village. The
smoker was given for the purpose of in-
troducing the ciubmen to Mr. Cleveland.
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To Americanize Chinamen. '
Chicago, April 5. —-A Chinese equal
rights league has been formed here for‘
the purpose of Americanizing the China-
men in the United States and asking for
them the rights of citizenship. The or-
ganization was perfected under the di-
rection of Wong Chin Foo, the editor of
The Chinese News, the league having
been incorporated under the laws of Il-
linois and a charter secured.
General Rivera’s Judge. 1.. 1';
Havana, via Key West, April 5. -
Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Ordonez,
who has been appointed to act as judge
in the case of. General Rivera, continues
to work on the same. He is a. very
strict disciplinarian, but it is said that
he believes a diplomatic policy on the
part of the government just now will
have great influence.
Canadian Port Privileges.
Ottawa, Ont., April 5 —An order in
council was laid before the senate au-
thorizing acontinuance of the modus
vivendi with the United States whereby
the fishing vessels of that country are
permitted to buy bait, ice and supplies
in Canadian harbors upon a. payment of
a. license fee of $1.50 a ton.
‘ A Purse For Corbett and O’Donnell.
New York. April 5.-'—The Palace A’th-
letic club of this city has offered a. $5,000
purse for a. scientific 20 round match for
points between Jim Corbett and Steve
O'Donnell, and Billy Madden has ac-
cepted the offer and signed articles to
box within two months on behalf of
'0’ Donnell.
€129 Looks Like Murder.
Binghamton, N. Y., April 5.—~The
body of Charles Clark, a. cattle buyer.
was found in the Chenango river late
yesterday afternoon. There was a. bad -
wound in the head. The coroner says
he was not drowned. An empty pock-
etbook was found on the bank near
the body.
Millionaire's Son Tries Suicide.
Toronto, April 5,—Bailey O’Keefe, son
of Eugene O’Keefe, the millionaire To-
ronto brewer, attempted suicide by tak-
ing a heavy dose of. morphine. Medical
' men are trying to save his life, but they
do not think he can recover.
Mgr. n’el val In Canada.
Ottawa, Ont., April 5. —-Mgr. Merry
Del Val has arrived here. He was met
at the depot by some of the leading
Roman Catholic clergymen of the city
of Ottowa. There was no demonstration
on his arrival.
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