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tAr HEELS ARB DOING
. ... utji Press Drope of Turoentln
,if IflB -
Jpe3 lna of Rice from the E&st- Clusters
Tobacco Stems from the
e of Corn and Grains of
WHet fro tne West Peannti
nd Cottonseed from the South
. Thoa. W. Mason, of North
Thoa.
county, is a candidate for Con-
rtginthe Second district.
aspventeenh sdbuV convention
t.h(t North Carolina Sunday School
Vjcciation be held in the Fir8t
-u. senate uooomiitee cn Military
-iirgbaa reported adversely Ssna
. Pntchard's bill for the construction
I or r re -H oa f a Vi
y. -fa drive way uuuuia w uo
unl National Cemetery at Salisbury.
vc agreement 01 counsel, tne wiiKes
-CQCty bona Ciso wit uuk ua euuuiu-
on briefs, as the Sapreme Court
ftUoed counsel, but oral argument in
$e cflsa will be heard by the court
cxt October.
q n J 8. Oarr is a millionaire but
be isn't rearms; his sons in idleness.
Ojeof tb'm J o Uarr, Jr., wno re-
ntlY graduates at me university.
tss beeu the ed secretary and treas
arer cf it? Durham Hosiery Miila.
The News and Ooeerver says that if
jyor;h Carolina keeps up to the end of
the Tear trie pice it has eet for the first
two mm ha ic will during the year put
jte matter of $12 420.000 into cotton
Dills &lone curing tne last year or tne
ceniury.
An exchange pays: The present year
4 r r rrw n in hi jrAVr CO fho
A QgllU r"U V J J UVIT u a us 7v. j wo
vpar of the great oat crop failure. Al
ready reports are coming in from far
and near that the oats are of so small
account that the only thing to do is to
plow tbem under and plant cotton.
The Pembroke Manufacturing Com
pany was trganir?d in Newbern Fri
day nu'hr.. 1 1 put up a cotton mill. Ic
was d ' id d to increase the stcck to
$1C0 COO 8turday night the direc
tors elut-d W. B Blades, presidnt;
John C. Whi'.ney, eecretary; Jjtm
Djnn, treeurer.
A Weld n special, to News and Ob
server, 9ch, says: Judge Walter
Clark's tine orick hotel at Hilifax was
hnrned ha mToiig at about half paa;
1 two o'clock and the building and most
of the eo ito a are total los83. Th
hotel whs a sp'eodid three-story brick
structure an c et $14 000 to build it. I
lioarn th J i ce Cmrfc did not have a
J io!ir o' i puran?e on it.
A
V7ir r ti Sentinel: Wicscn chipped
1,794 444 undg of manufactured to
bacco d nn: last month. Tco stamp
ea'e3 r n a follows: Oa tobacco,
$215 333 28; on cigars and cigarettes,
$1 65 78; u spirits, $8 667 34; on wrar.
$794 31 T e phipmems of manufac
ture! .-o m F -oruary, 1899 aggro
gated 1 6"4 ( 58 pounds, while the reva
nuQ ' t "t-Hon tobacco amounted to
$192,456 96
Put r. C izn: Since October the
Sib, wren R.ffi i H ad?n came from
G eenb m rj i oroke cut wi .h small
pox, tn r navj teen in Chatham
counj 83 -a-tsof smallpox. All are
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i excpiimitf 036 or tro families bave
I been frlepec from q'lirantine. Dr
Chapm. a Saperinteadeot of Health
has d t!l in ha power to suppress
the cie-i-e nnd di serves credit for
manam it si ell as he has
Wjln.mt u M seerger: Tee Pro
testant minsters in many places are
denD-j'jcmz tne Mormoca in burciug
laDU'K" fr m ine pulpic, a.d in some
ina. h nv denouacid the elders
facaio'-iC R cntly a yotig woman of
Rilei,& ie t n-r home fcr U.ah, whore
she go to marry a Mormon elder,
wkh whom ene fell in lovo while he
was in North Carolina. Tne girl wa
convene i to the Mormoi faith. 8no
ia about 20 years old Two o hsr wo
men and ttve men of Rileigh hard also
been won over to Mormonism.
Intura C3 Commi8aioner Young yes
terd-iy paid over to the 8:atoTreaaurer
124 377 96 collected from the ioeuranc
compauiea of the 8tat9 for licrs3j,
taxe p c Tois makea bttveen $85,000
and 13 i 0u0 that has been collected by
the insurance commissioner and pad
into the doa e treasury sines the effise
was estaoliahed by the last Legislature,
one year ego. Commissioner Young
will shortly i-eue his report showing
the amount of business done during the
year by ad the insurance companies of
the S:ate.-Ex.
O i Saturday, 3 d, n?ar Clyde, Hay
wood county, G30 Ratl:ff, a young
negro man, criminally assaulted an
Evicted 8 year-old grandaughter of
Nethiaa Hollaed, a whito farmer who
lives near Clyde. Tne negro was in
the empioy of the family. Hi was run
down and caught about 5 o'clock.
Placed: un-era heavy guard, and car
ried to WsyneaviUe 8unday morning,
where he waa piacesd ia jiil. He con
fen&fd h uuiH. Ei'ly Monday morn
5.n, wnilo in jail he was ehot to
death by a mob of infuriated whites.
A Columbia, Tyrrel county, despatch,
6ih, says: Branning's mill, a very
large lumber plant situated at this
place, was burned S inday at 1 p. m.
The mill was worth $40 000. The Ban
ning Manufacturing Company ia one
of the biggest timber concerns in toe
8tate, and had a daily capacity of
about 30,000 feet Tae company owes
large quanties of standing pine timber
in the county and have about eight
miles of railroad in this county and
contemplates building a road into
EL de county, which would give them
a road thirty miles long. It is probable
that the mill will be built.
Fayetteville correspondence Char
lotte Observer: Moved by several re
cent scenes of lawlessness and rowdy
ism, the Fayetteville board of alder
men have agreed upon an ordinance
sweeping out of the corporate limits at
least all houses of ill fame. It is a
bold action and heroic remedy on their
part, for sages, political economists and
moralists have wrestled for a matter
of 200 years with the problem of "social
evil," and the fact of its existence, un
der police supervision, in all the coun
tries of civilization would imply that
long experience had fixed it as an
evil, certainly, but one of the evils
inseparable from the weakness of hu
manity.
Col. Olds' Corn spondenco: The pine
lumber men have certainly a harvest
Ooe who lately had a little eaw milt
now owns 14 uuch milla, all of which
are in oparation, and it is siid his net
inomo is no v more than $50 a day
O ie man lately ught a timber tract
for $12 000 S)ld ii for $16 000, and in
ten days it was resold for $28,000
There are people in th s town
whose principal nourishment just now
is cotton futures. A well known law
yer, who is equally well knon as a
politician, is said to have made some
thing quite near $30 000 on the recent
big jump. It is whispered that several
young ladies have made money on
futures.
R ileigh special to C larlotte Observer :
pTesident Mclver, of toe Siate Nor
mal and Industrial College here, was
warmly congratulated upon his suc
cessful re-opening with the 300 stu
dent) now present. E laminations take
place this week. Tne second term be
gins March 19 -h ; cooomencement, June
2J;o. Its special feature will be the
laying of the corner stone of the 8 u
dents' building to be paid for by stu
dents and to (joat $10 000 Ic will con
tain the society ha'ls. Tae senior clas
contains 30 members. Njne died and
all returned. Nearly every j jaior re
covered. Preiidant Mclver'a little son
vas out today for the first time after
a long attack wirh typhoid fever.
Greenville Weekly: There was a
homicido near Bethel Sunday night
F.om what wo larn ic was abouc a
follows: For some turn J ;seo J mee
had boon paying attencioa to a daugh
ter of E S Lovia. Mr. L)wig obj -cted
out it sea cs that the gi; 1 was favorable
to Mr. J-imrs Sunday night Jvpp
Jamea, Sam Jamea h'-s brother, E t
Myo and anosner friend went to Mr.
Liwis. Jesee walked in, with pistol in
nis band and told the girl to go with
him. The girl went to her father for
protection. Some words passed be
tween Jesse and Mr. Lewie, with the
result that J s-e opened fi e. Ic eeem
ihat a regular ro en-ud between
Jaaae and friends and Mr Liwia and
his two eons. When ic ended Mr
Lei8 had two wounfs in the leg;
J eaa had a wound in the leg and 8am
wa3 dead from a blow cn hia head
crushing in hia ssull. Dr Liughing
house, coroner, went over yeeser day to
oold an itqieat. A Tarboro dia
patch, dated 8;b, has thia to say : Tht
exjicemenc aa to the Jisae James
tragedy has abouc suojided. J-es
James and the six others who venc
with him to the houaa of M Loi
bave all been bound over to court un
der bonds of $500 each. Court ia it
session now at G,eenvillo. Ic ia said
that Jisse J mes has s vorn out a war
rant againsc young Mr. Li wis, the son
of the old man Lewis, charging him
with the killing of his brother, S m
Jam?s. Young L wis was bound over
to court also.
THE TRUCK CROPS.
Newbern Journal: The lat few days
have been the only spring like ones so
far and the truckers are busy a; work
Planting of potatoes ia boing rapidly
pushed, truckers feeling that the soaeon
is advancing.
Estimates as to the damage to the
cabbage crop by the cjld weather, put
loss at twenty per cent in this vicinity.
Cabbages are now showing improve
ment, eo that the above estimate is
considered fair, ahboug it was thought
the damage might prove greater.
Lettuce aa also bgen greatly hurt by
the successive cold waves.
Kinston Free Press: We learn from
good authority that the cabbige crop
of Eistern North Carolina haa been
cut of! fully one-third by the several
I COIU snaps hiou uauuury vju ng"
J sandy lands the crop has been cut off
I one-half.
General News.
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
The Latest Reliable Newt From the
Earth's four Corners Selected
and Condensed for Pro
gressive Farmer
Readers,
From February 14 h to the 27 ,h Bui
ler'e losses were 802.
Several bales of long stare cotton
were sold in Norfolk recently at 12J 5.
per pound.
Two men were killed and seventy
five wounded by a collision of traina in
Indiana last week.
The Law ton fund amounting to $98
432 07 has been turned over to the
widow of General Law ten.
President Kruger, of the Bjera, is
ready to make peace on the basis of
independence of the two republics, or
fight to the bitter end.
The London Daily News says the
government has decided to send the
Bjer General Or on j a and his followers
to the inland of Sc. Helena forthwith
A delegation of women protested to
Congress last week againsc granting
the ballot to tneir sex, causing great
ind'gnation among the equal euffrag-
iste.
Tne National Convention of Social
Democrats at Indianapolis Friday
nominated Eugene V. Debs for Pie i
dene and Job Harriman of California
for Vice President.
The Mississippi Senate passed an anti
mob bill last we; k. It provides an im
mediate trial for cesos of rape and
makee a sheriff who gives up a prisoner
li&ble to indictment.
In France hostili y to England has
reached an intensity which is gravely
perilous. Prophesies of a war with
Eoglaiid by Sep ember are common in
Paria. We think it by no means prob
able, however.
Libor trou bles culminated in a riot
on Tnirty-eixth and Wallace street,
Chicago, Thursday evening. One man
was shot and probably fatally wounded
and six others were injured, one of
them severely.
It was rumored last week that the
Western Union Telegraph Company
was about to absorb the Postal Tele
graph Company, and the report re
ceived ready credence from persons
who claimed to bave cognizance of the
matter.
Prof William P. Trent, of Suwanee
University, haa been chesen Professor
of Eaghea Literature in Barnard Col
lge. a department of Columbia. Prof.
Trtnt' speech at Wake Forest Com
mencement laat year attracted much
attention.
It has b?e n ascer ained that Li?u
tenant Pierce of the L?xirgton com
oany tore d)wn the drapery from the
K mucky State capiccl placed there
or resolution of the assembly out of
r spect to the memory of William
Gobol. Pierce will bo iri8i by court
martial.
On Friday of last week Pope Leo
XIII. of the Citholic Church celebra
ted hi3 ninetieth birthday in good
hea th Regarding the Boer coLfl ct
he eay e: I daily pray that President
McKioiry will tffer the friendly medi
ation of America Hs would taen de
aerve the thanks of the Christian
world."
Ex Senator Gorman week eaid
he was now convinced "that nothing
can prevent Bryan's ee'ection as the
head of the Democratic ticket. He
oertainly," added Mr. German, 'has
the i-epla behind him to a remark
aole degree " Mr Gv man also seated
toat he would support Mr. Bryan'e
candidacy.
A special from Lmcoln, Neb , payses
soon as Mr. Bryan's friends in that
city received the rews that the
National Democratic Convention wou d
oe held at Kacfas City, they
bgan a movenoeot to organize a Bry
ant Club of 10,000 men, who will go to
to the Convention, dressed in long dus
tera and white bats, to root for the
Nebraska orator.
A graduated income tax law went
into efldct in 8 mth Carolina January
1, 1898. The first year the tax yielded
beiweer $7,000 and $8 000 More than
half this eum was paid in Charleston;
19 of the counties didn't respond a pen
ny of income tax, and in several of the
others the yield of revenue was under
$50. The general assembly has now
repealed the law.
Sensational charges are contained
in an anonymous letter which has
been received at the Navy Depart
ment from Manilla. The communica
tion relates to the wrecking of the
Charleston and makes the serious
statement that a number of officers of
the vessel at the time of the disaster
were under the influence of liquor.
The correppondent who furnishes the
information elaims to have verified the
allegations by dilligent irqoiry among
the c fleers of the Charleston. The
charges will be investigated.
Reports reach the Manila hear quar
ters of the Associated Press from va
rious sources including army officers
and the heada of commercial houses
with agents tbraughout the islands, of
continued activity among the insur
gents, who are endeavoring to keep
alive the armed opposition to the
United S;ates and are plan' ing to con
tinue the insurrection with guerrilla
warefare on a larger scale when the
rainy eeaaon begins.
The War Department last week re
ceiveda cable d:spatch from General
Oiisshowinr that the insurrection in
the Philippines is far from ended and
that the insurgents are still fighting in
southern Luzon, where it was thought
they had been subdued. In a recent
engagement the American loss was
Adjutant Galleher, died of wounds;
three enlisted men severely and five
slightly wounded. The enemy left
sixty four dead on the field.
A recent press diepatch says: Officers
in the field now unite in saying that
the pac fixation of the Philippines is
impossible between the present time
and the beginning of the rainy season.
They set the time for this result from
from two to six years. No one wbo
has been at the frqnt and studied the
situation with honest eyes believes that
the insurgents can be subdued under
two year a. A majority of judges are
more inclined to six years.
For the first time in the history of
the country the amount of money in
actual circulation has reached and
passed $2 000 000 000. This makes
$25 98 per capita, on an average, esti
mating the population at 77,000,000.
Nearly half of this two billiocs is
gold or ba?ed on gold; not counting
$218,613,617 in gold coin and bullion
held by the treasury as part of its as
eet a. The present large circulation is
owing to the policy cf the treasury
department in making large loans to
the banks in the shape of revenue in
come.
Three 8!;at9 Republican Conventions
ere held last week, Of the Texas con
vention, after a turbulent contest of
four hours' duration, William McDon
aid, a negro of Kaufman county, was
elected tempt rary chairman by a ma
joxity cf 75 votes in a total of more
than 1(00 The Georgia R publican
8tate Convention elected three negroes
and one white man as delegates to the
National Convention. The Wimberley
Republicans of Louisiana elected as
delegates at large from Louisiana to
the National Republisan Convention
. T. Wimberley and ex Governor W.
P Kfll02g (?hitei?.) and Addijon Vance
and Richard Sims (colored).
Ia Hnds county, Mississippi, there
ia a terrible epidemic of emallpox.
Nearly 100 deaths have occurred in
one ?e:ti n in the lssi wix weeks. Oa
some days the death rate hasbe:n0
largo that it was imposeib e to ee-iir
ceffis, and rude caskets were made
from rails. Wacle families have been
wipel cui cf existence and of several
large families only one cr two children
are lef c. Many of the patients are now
in a critical condition, are without
medical attention and dying at the rate
cf from three to five per day. Tne
death rate exceeds 75 per cent., and
tho entire lower portion of the county
ia demoralized.
The Republican joint caucus of the
K mtuciy legislature met last week and
af.er a long discussion concerning eUc
tion laws in the South and particu arly
the Goebel election law ia Kentucky,
decided to take the initiative in a move
ment to bring the matter before Con
gress. The purposa is to call a con
vention of States, in which Kentucky,
Tenner ee Alabama, Mississippi, Mis
souri, Virginia, North and Sonth Caro
Una shall take part, Congress to amend
the national election law so as to take
out of the handa of the State govern
ment 8 the details of at least congres
frional and Presidential elections. Sev
eral prominent Republican leaders in
addition to the Republican members
of both bouses, were present. National
Committeeman John Yerkes made a
speech He declared that th9 election
laws in the S ates mentioned practi
cally amount to disfraLchisement cf
the R?puolican voters.
We get th'S from the American Ag
riculturist: The railroads are doing
their utmost to defeat the bill which
aims to restore to the Interstate Com
merce Commission the powers origi
na ly intended for it, but the shippers
of the c iuntry, representing, they say,
a combined capital exceeding that of
the railroads, are pitted against the
latter, and are working like beavers
for the measure, the so called Cullom
bill. The railroads threaten, so it is
eaid by careful correspondents at
Washitgton, to cut down their appro
priations to the Republican campaign
fund this year unless the bill is
dropped. The helplessness of the In
terstate Commission has led members
of the Chicago Board of trade to ap
peal to J Pierpono Morgan of New
Yorfe, as "the foremost repreeeDtauve
of the railroad fl iancial latere sts," to
put an end to discrimination in rates
on grain.
MORE THAN FIFTY KILLED.
Terrible Coal Mine Fxplosion-- Pew Es
cape Alive Forty Bodies Taken Out
and Rescuers Still at Work.
Long acre, W. Va , March 6 More
than fl ty men were killed by an ex
plosion in the Red Ashe coal mine on
the New River to-day. The explosion
occurred thia morning soon after the
men went into the mines.
F'Om eighty to one hundred went
in. Tous far only about thfty bave
been accounted for. Fifty ceffias have
been ordered from Charleston.
The R d Ashe mine consists alto
gether of drifts instead of shafts.
Drifts are the simplest form of mines,
as the tunnel runs like a railroad tun
nel into the side of a mountain instead
of being sunk from the top as shafts.
The drifts are the more dangerous
of the two classes, however, as they
are more liable to cave in than are
shafts.
Long Acre, W. Va , March 7 Up
to 11 o'clock last night thirty four
bodies 28 dead, six alive had been
taken from the Rod Ashe mine and
thirty nine were still in it. Rescuing
parties worked ell day and night.
Charleston, W. Va , March 8
Three more dead bodies were taken
frjm the R?d Aehe mine near Fire
Creek today, making 41 dead bodies
removed. The mine ia very hot and
this makes progress slow. Twenty
eight ia the number known to be still
in the mine.
BOERS NOT DISCOURAGED.
Believe That God is on Their Side and
That Tbeir Determination Will Bring
Success
London, March 10 A special dis
patch from Bloemfontein says that
Prsident Kruger addressing a crowd of
people, said:
"Although God is testiog cur peo
pie, my personal opinion is that the
limit of the test is nearly reached. If
the people are eustained by faith in the
time of adversity God will soon again
turn the tide in our favor. If we bave
strong faith in God he will surely de
liver us. The God of deliverance of
the olden time is the same God now."
The Boer Secretary of State, Reitz,
has issued war bulletins in which, after
saying the Government has no official
tidings of the surrender of General
Cron je, but must accept it as a fact,
however painful, he adds:
"The Government remains assured
that the surrender will not discourage
the burghers in their defence of their
independence and standing as a nation
The sirujrgle thus far has shown the
republics have vindicated themselves
as an independent people. Tnis re
verse will not stagger us "
EXCEPT OVER ITS RUINS.
"The British Flag Shall Never Wave
Over Johannesburg"
London, March 10 A correspondent
of the D uly Mail at Lourenzo Marq lea,
telegraphing Thursday, eays:
"I am reliably informed that high
Boer c ffi jials openly vow that the Brit
ish flag shall never fly at Johannes
burg. The place will be rbz:d to the
ground and the mines put in readinees
to be electrically exploded from the
fort aa occasion r quires.
n
LIORE M&N WANTED
Filipinos Giving More Trouble
Manila, Maren 10. General Ycurg
and Hood are asking for reinforce menu
and a battalion of the Forty eighth has
been sent to Aparri. Oth( r troops will
follow. The rebels recently persistently
attacked Aparri for several hours but
were fiaally driven away. Details of
the affair are lacking.
The rebels are holding re-unions in
the province of North Locos, and the
red Kaiipunan cross, symbolic ol re
sistance, is again appearing among the
natives.
STRINGENT RATE BILL.
No Appeal From Decision of Railroad
Commissioners Under AficChord AcCj
Fbaskfort, March 7. Tbe House of
Representatives, after a six hours1 de
bate, this afternoon passed the Mc
Ohord railroad bill, giving the R. R.
Commission the arbitrary right to fix
freight rates on complaint being made.
The bill fixes a fine of from $500 to
$1,000 for tbe first violation and from
$1 000 to $5,000 for each subsequent
violation of the rate so established, and
allow no appeal from the decieion of
the commission. The measure was
p&esed by a vote of 56 to 42. Repre
sentatives Armstrong and Blair, Dem
ocrats, voting against the bill, and
Representative Orr, Democrat, r6fua
ing to vote The Republicans voted
sJidly against the measure. The bill
was paaaed by both houses in 1898, but
was vetoed by Governor Brauiey and
failed to ( ass tne Senate over tne veto.
Tne measure was one of the chief is
sues ia the lait campaign and was the
real reaacn for the opposition oc tae
railroads to tne elecuon of Goebel,
wno championed the meaurp. Tne
bill his passed the Senate ar-d will be
presented to Gjveruor Beckham for
his eignature to-morrow.
Congressional News.
BRIEFLY TOLD
The Senate last Tuesday agreed to
the conference report on the Financial
bill by a vote of 44 to 26
A bill haa passed Congress appro
priating $6 000 to make needed repairs
of the road between Newbern, N. C,
and the National Cemetery near that
city.
The Benate Committee on Foreign
Relations has authorized the reporting
of an amendment to the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill, appropriating $20,
000 to be paid to ex Q leen Liltuokalani
of Hawaii, &nd providing for an annual
donation of $10,000 to her as long as
she may live. Later. This amend
ment was killed in the Senate Satur
day.
BUTLER SPEAKS.
Washington, March 6.- In the Sen
ate today the pension appropriation
bill, carrying $145,245 230 was called
up and after some technical amend
ments had been made was passed.
Mr. Foraker, in charge of the Pcrto
R co tariff and government bill, gave
notice of amendments to tbe measure
imposing a duty of 5 cents a pound
upon ctflEee, chicory roots and chicory
imported into Porto Rico and to pre
vent the importation frc m Porto Rico
to the United States of gooos or pro
duce not actually of Porto Rican origin.
Mr. Butler, of North Carolina, followed
with a brief general discu.sicn cf the
financial question. Ha particularly
attacked the power which he said was
conferred upon the National Banks by
the pending b ll. Ho declared that un
der the provisions of the bill the banks
cculd ir flute the currency of the coun
try $840 000 000. Tnis was a danger
ous power to put in the bands of a few
men. He maintained that the cur
rency hould be issued by the govern
ment and not by the banks and every
dollar should be government paper.
PACIFIC CABLE.
Washington, March 6 The Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs today or
dered a favorable report upon the bill
to construct a cable to Manila by way
of Honolulu, Midway Ielatds, and
Guam. It is to be under the direction
of the Navy Department and to be a
government cable.
The bill calls for immediate construc
tion from San Francisco to Honolulu,
which will cost between $3,000 000 and
$4 000 000 and contemplates ultimate
extension to Hong Kong.
TH. FATHER OB THE HOUSE
DEAD.
Philadelphia, March 7 Corgress
man Alfrad C Harmer, "Father of the
House,1' the Representative f n m the
flVti Pennsylvania district, died at
hi home here tonight aged 75 3 ears.
M Harmer was elected to Congress
in 1870 and reelected to every subse
quent Congress with the exception of
the Forty fourth.
DEMOCRAT OUSTED BFC&USE
OF ELECTION FRAUDS.
Washington, March 8. Tbe House
today unseated Gaston A. Robbins, a
Democrat from the Fourth Alabama
district, and seated in bis stead Wil
liam F. Aldrich, a Republican, wbo
has been three times a contestant from
tbe same district on the ground of
fraud and wbo ia now given his seat
for the third time by a R publican
House. The vote was a stiict party
one.
SECRET DISCUSSION OF THE
BOER STRUGGLE.
Washington, March 9 Dipcussion
of Mr. Mason's resolution e 1 pressing
sympathy for the Boeis was cenducted
in the Ssnate today behind clcssd
doors.
The Hou9d committeo has submitted
a report in favor of a joint resolution
for a Constitutions 1 amendment pro
hiting polygamy and disqualifying
polygamiats for election as Senators or
Congressmen.
Tne Ewart sub committee report to
the full committee next Monday. They
still adhere to their adverse report on
Ewart, -and it will be for the full corn
ea i tee to act. There is no change in
the general opinion entertained' about
the capitol that the report of the com
mittee will be adverse to Ewart, and
some well informed people believe it
will be unanimous againsc bim.
AUERICA WILL DEFEND TBE
CANAL.
Washington, March 10. The Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations today
reported the Hay Pauncefote treaty to
the Senate with an amendment reserv
ing to this country the right to defend
the Nicaragua Canal in case o' war.
Tne iBw cf Hawiii have fcrbidden
th3 importatirn and gale of iMcaicat
insr 1 qu rs end opium. A teuchirg
petitiuu fcaa be eo sent toWsbu gton
Ci?y signed by influential eu?zet e beg
gire toat tttso regulaticna iil be
ccniicutd.