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OREGON COURIER A, W. CHKNKY, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON THE NEWS RESUME A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. Comprehensive llevlew of the Import not Happening! of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph Columns At Home and Abroad, Captain-General Weyler baa deoided to release Rev. Alberto Diaz and bii brother Alfred from ouBtody, on con dition that they will leave Cuba imme diately. The trial of Soott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan has oommenoed at Newport The speed made in secur ing a jury astonished the court and the counsel on both aides. Estrada Palma, president of the Cu ban junta, issued an address to the peo-! pie of the United States, in which he declares that the introduction now of reforms in Cuba by the Spanish gov ernment will have no effect upon the revolution. The Rome Tribuna, commenting upon the rupture of the peace negotiations between Abyssinia and Italy, violently attacks the government, deolaring the ministers to be responsible for the "dis honor suffered by Italy through King Henelek'i attitude." The schooner Prosper, Captain Hulm, returned to San Francisco to have a leak repaired. She started for Cook's inlet on April 6 with a number of gold hunters, and was about 800 miles up the ooast when a leak was sprung for ward, on the evening of April 17. A dispatch from Ottawa to the Lon don Times says: Sir Mackenzie Bowell, the premier, has announced the resignation of the ministers will be handed in in a few days. It is expected Sir Charles Tupper will be the new premier. An official dispatoh from Batavia . says the endangered post ia Aohin territory has been relieved, after a fight with the rebels under Toekod johan, who lost 70 killed and had 300 wounded. The Dutch loss was one officer wounded and 83 soldiers killed and wounded. Baron von Hammerstein, the former editor of Beuz Zeltung, Berlin, and leader of the conservative party, was sentenced to three years penal servi tude, to be deprived of civil right for five years and pay 1.500,000 marks. The oharges against him were forgery, fraud and breach of trust. A movement is on foot in Chioago for the purpose of crystallizing publio opinion against an exclusive arbltra tion treaty with Great Britain. The ' measure is being vigorously pushed by many prominent citizens who desire that arbitration treaties Bhall be made with every nation, instead of England alone. Chief Washakie and the prinoipal men of the Shoshone tribe and Chief Sharp Nose and the leading men of the Arapahoes have just closed their conn oil with Indian Inspector McLaughlin regarding the purchase by the govern ment of the Big Horn hot springs. The two tribes have agreed to aooept $00,000 for the territory five miles by ten, embracing the springs. Colonel Caleb Dorsey, of Oakdale, Cal., a wealthy and prominent mine owner and rancher, was shot and killed at the Dorsey mine, 11 miles from Co lumbia, at 9 o'olock Wednesday morn lng, by his mining partner, J. T. New oonier, over a dispute that ensued upon Dorsey 's oharging Newcomer with cleaning up and misappropriating the amalgam without the colonel s knowl edge. Wesley Dawes and C. S. Givens, of Jefferson county, Tenn., aooused of the murder of Givens' wife, have bees lodged in the Knox oounty jail for safe keeping, as violence was feared unless the prisoners were removed from the scene of the orirne. Dawes is a nephew of Givens, and has made a confession of the murder, stating that he had been persuaded to do it by his uncle, who had tired of his wife and was infatu ated with another woman. The deed was oommitted with a double-barreled shotgun while Mrs, Givens was at her window sewing, having been enticed there by her husband. It ia again positively denied that negotiations are in progress between Madrid and Washington on the subject of granting home rule to Cuba. Senor Canovas de Castillo, the premier, says the reforms projected for Cuba will be applied only when ciroumstanoes are in favor of suoh a movement The premier also says the reforms would not be applied to Cuba until asked for by Captain-General Weyler, who has said nothing on the subject Senor de Castillo says he will not be a party to a bourse maneuver by keeping silent regarding this rpeort The New York Herald rays: Through special correspondence, news of import ant executions in San Domingo has reached the United States. The min ister of war, General Ramon Castillo, and Jose Estay, governor of the prov ince of Maooris, were executed at Ma oris, onMarch 28, by order of Ulysis Hereaux, of San Domingo, General Pioaxdo, boarded the steamer Presi dente with 150 Midlers, went to Ma ooris. and at 5 o'olock in the morning of the day mentioned, had the officials hoi About 7,000 Cubans have fled to San Domingo daring the hut six an oaths. from Msnomlnee, Mioh.. ootnes word that the Menominee and Fence rivers ' EXPULSION OF KNAPP IV VUV VeV IllVtl vauaD BUU mo UUUUBJ are causing heavy losses to logging interests. The logging oamp of laaao Monroe, on Fenoe river, has been flood ed, caused by a log jam, and the em ployes barely escaped. The oamp with its equipment - and provisions was swept away. Many farmers in the Menominee valley have been driven from -home, and have suffered great loss in stock and crops. One hundred men 'are guarding the log booms at various points on the river. The back water in this oity has driven sewage into the oity water mains, and SO oases of typhoid fever have resulted. There was a large increase in Berlin during the past week of deaths from influenza and pneumonia. Russia has ordered seven ironolads and ten cruisers for her Pacific fleet, in view of Japan's extensive naval prep arations. The oonferenoe for international ar bitration held in Washington, which has been a very harmonious ome, has just closed. The battleship Massachusetts made 16.15 knots on her trial trip in Boston harbor, and her builders win a bonus of f 100,000. A orap game on Grant avenue in San Farnoisoo was held up by two men About $150 was taken. They were oaptured by the police soon after. Miss Laura White created a sensa tion in Ardmore, I. T., by publicly horsewhipping Professor Linn, a drug gist, because he had charged her with theft A Rome dispatoh says the oabinet has deoided against the oampaign in Abyssinia in the autumn, on the ground that such a course would be disastrous to Italy. It is said in Washington that there is a strong possibility that the dele gates from territories who have state hood bills in charge will not attempt to secure congressional action until the next session. 1 j A dispatch' from Panama says: Some fears are entertained here that trouble will occur when the elections for deputies takes place. The members of the liberal party will vote for the first time sinoe 1885. A serious oonfliot between Christians and Turks has ooourred at Episkopi, Island of Crete. There were two days' fighting, and fifty persons were killed and wonnded. The Cretans have ap pealed to Greece for aid. In Houghton, Mioh., sixty trammers have struck in Quinoy mine to enforce a demand for higher wages. The mine is still in operation, but the trouble will probably extend to the miners of the Quinoy and other mines. In Glasgow, Scotland, the steamer Marsden oollided with the British bark Firth of Solway, near Kish lightship, oausing the latter to sink. Thirteen of the crew and Captain Kendriok's wife and ohild were drowned. The London Chronicle has a dis patch from Brussels, which savs that the Baroness Herri, a lady 80 years old, was strangled, her body mutilated and her house robbed at Ixells, a fash ionable suburb. The murderer es caped. The treasury deficit for the flsoal year ending Jnne 80, 1896, will be approxi mately $35,000,000. This ia the opin ion of offioials and others best qualified to make an intelligent estimate of the result of the fiscal operations of the year. A Madrid dispatch says the minister of flnanoe, Senor Juan Navarro, has no tified the cabinet of the necessity of re- iiei measures on account or. tne pro longed drought, whiob has caused a rapid rise in the prioe of cereals, also injuring livestock. A $10,000,000 bioyole trust is being formed in New York. A prominent member says the trust will out the price of high-grade wheels from $100 to about $65, eliminating jobbers' profits and advertising expenses, and will make money at that Senator Warren, from the commit tee on claims, has reported the amend ment to the sundry oivil appropriation bill for the payment of the French spoliation claims, which have been al lowed by the oourt of olaims. It car ries an appropriation of $1,030,000. A mob of armed men, about fifteen in number, entered the jail atMoMinn- ville, Tenn. , dragged the jailer from his bed and forced him to give up the keys. William and Victor Hollis were taken from the jail, carried on horse baok five miles from MoMinnville and hanged. A Louisville & Nashville fruit train and the Evansville & Terre Haute pas- j senger train oollided at a orossing near Mount Vernon, Ind. Alexander Dris- coll, a brakeman, was killed; James Covington, an engineer, and F. R. Thompson, a brakeman, were seriously injured. The two associations of manufac turers of wire and out nails have dosed three days' oonferenoe in Chioaso. I consequence of the rise in the steel market, it was deoided to raise the price of both wire and cut nails 15 cents per hundred weight, to take effect May 1. Senator MoBride has secured a pro-' vision appropriating- 150.000 for con tinuing the work at the Cascades, $30,-1 000 of which, shall be used for extend- TURKISH GOVERNMENT WENT BACK ON ITS PROMISES. Missionary Was Imprisoned at Alex andretta, but When a Battleship Wai Bent for, Wat Jteleased-To Me Thoroughly Inveetlgated, X Constantinople, April 89. Rev, George P. Knapp, the American mis sionary who was expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish authorities without trial, on the charge of having incited the Armenians to rebel against Turk ish rule, was surrendered to the United States consul at Alexandretttf. Details of the affair which reached here show that the step was not taken until the United States warship bad been telegraphed for. Knapp will probably, by the advice of the United States representatives, oome to this oity and have his condnot at Bitlis investigated before the oharge d'affaires. Mr. Knapp, as already oabled, was expelled from Biltis about a month ago, in spite oi tne agreement reaoD6d between United States Minister Terrell and the Turkish government (after the charges againBt Mr. Knapp bad been discussed) that the Amerioan mission' ary should not leave his post until April 1 or until the roads were tolera bly free from snow, in order that he might be able to take his family with him. As it was the missionary was com pelled to leave Bitlis before the time agreed upon and without his family. When he reaohed Diarbekir, in cus tody, the news was telegraphed here, and the Turkish government positively asserted that Mr. Knapp was the "guest of the vali of that place and not a prisoner. " It is now stated that the missionary has been a prisoner throughout his journey to the ooast, and that the vali of Aleppo detained him at that place five days, while mak ing futile efforts to make him sign an agreement not to return to Bitlis. Mr. Knapp steadily refused to sign any such agreement, on the ground that he had committed no orime and had in no way broken the laws of the country, and that the charges brought against him were entirely unfounded. He also distinotly gave the vali to understand thai he intended to protest to the United States government against his expulsion from Bitlis, and his treat ment in general, and to hold the Turk ish authorities responsible for the safe ty of his family. When the vali saw it was useless to oontinue hia attempts to get Mr. Knapp to sign the agreement mentioned the missionary was allowed to proceed, still treated as a prisoner, to Alexan dretta. Mr. Riddle, during the past few days, it is understood, has been in com munication with Washington regard incr the case of Mr. Knapp, and it is believed that a most searching inquiry will be made into all the ciroum stances attending the expulsion of the Amerioan missionary from Bitlis in or der that no doubt Bhall remain as to who is to blame in the matter, and in order to establish a precedent whioh may serve as a guide, should further and similar occurrences be reported. CYCLONE IN KANSAS. A Ieath-Ieallng Storm Swept a Part of the Stale. Kansas City, April 28. A special to the Times from Topoka says five per sons at least were killed outright, three were fatally and seventeen seriously in jured, and great destruction of prop erty was wrought, by a oyolone wbiob passed over Clay oounty last night The dead are: Frank Petersen, wife and ohild; Mrs. Ole Halverson, and a grandchild of Peter Anderson, The injured belong to the families of John Morris, F. Welkin, Peter Ander son and H. Gardner. Passengers on the Rock Island train from the Northwest this afternoon brought partial details of the cyolone. It started about six miles south of Clif ton and went in a northeasterly direc tion for twelve or fifteen miles, then lost its foroe by spreading. It passed about half way between Clifton and Morganville. Its track varied from 160 yards to a quarter of a mile in width. It tore through a farming com munity and left nothing standing. Houses and barns were wrecked, trees torn up or broken, fences leveled and haystacks blown in' every direction. The cyolone was followed by a terrific rain storm, whiob lasted several hours, flooding the devastated district. The cyolone took the people un awares. There had been indications of a heavy rain all day, with local showers, but nobody expeoted a storm. So far as learned, the victims were in their houses, and most of them bad re tired. A large number of cattle and horses were killed. The fruit in the storm's path wus ruined. Heart-rending tales of suffering are told by all persons who visited the scene of tha storm. Many of the injured lay all night pinned SEALERS' HAM) LINES TWO MEN ADRIFT FOR SIX DAYS IN A SMALL CANOE. Their Feet, II audi and Lege Frosen Hx Indian! of a Healing Bnhuouer'i t rear Reported Lout While Off Cape Flattery. Port Townsend, Wash.. April 80. The steamer Al-Ki, from Alaska, brought to this place last night two sealers, who tell a story of much pri vation and suffering. They are Uus Peterson, a Swede, and a half-breed called "Siwash Jimmie." Tbey left Viotoria January 38 in a sealing schooner, the City of San Diego. On the 4th of April, the two men, while out hunting seals, were lost in a blind ing snowstorm, and driven before the wind all night in a small oanoe. When daylight oame, the . schooner was not in sight, and the two men were out of sight of land, with nothing to eat but raw frozen seal meat For six days and nights they drifted, until finally went on the Alaskan beach, 100 miles west of Sitka, with feet, legs and bands frozen stiff. They were picked up by kindly disposed Indians, who oared for them until tbey were able to be taken to Sitka, from whioh .place they oame here on the Al-Ki. As the schooner City of San Diego has not been sighted sinoe the night of the storm, Peterson is of the opinion that she is lost She had eighty skins at the time the men left her. Word reached here today from Neah bay that six Indian sealers of the schooner Deeabka, which carried a full Indian crew, were lost while sealing off Cape Flattery. The six men left the schooner in two canoes five days ago, down by wreckage or paralzyed in the and have not since been seen. After mud, while others orawled or hobbled a prolonged search they were given across the oountrr to the houses of up, and the schooner returned to Mean neighbors. In several instaiices people bay and reported the loss. The In were lifted into the air by the oyolone dians are very superstitious over suoh and carried for a distance, and then a thing, and1 are now bemoaning the suddenly dropped. Buildings were bard luck whioh they say is sure to fol lifted up and then hurled to the low the mishap. Tbey say they will ground with foroe enough to demolish now have bad luok during the rest of the sealing season. THE DOINGS OF CONGRESS, Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Set. Ion Senate. them. LAID LOW BY FLAMES. EXTREME PENALTY. Cripple De- FOUR TONS EXPLODED. Glaat Powder in Treadwell Magaxlne Property Port Townsend, Wash., April ! The steamer Al-Ki arrived tonight from Juneau and Sitka, with forty passen gers and a light cargo of freight From papers brought down it is learned that four tons of giant powder exploded in the magazine property of the Tread well Mining Company at 1 o'olock on the morning of April 16. As only Nightwatohman William Cata was there, he alone was killed. One of the gapers says: "A visit to the spot in the morning, as soon as it became light, disolosed a hole in the ground twelve or fifteen feet deep, fifteen feet wide and about twice as long. The snow for a space of forty acres in extent, was strewn with small pieces ot wood, not one piece of whioh oould be found larger than one's finger. The awful force of the powder was shown by the trees and stumps in the immediate vicinity being uprooted and tossed downhill. A huge bank of snow lying at the baok of the house was shoved up the hill en masse a distance of several feet, and a stump three feet in diameter, situated a short dBtance away, was split in twain. The most diligent search for partioles of the remains of the unfortunate man re sulted in finding one eye, a piece of the skull with sikn and hair attached, the size of a half dol!ar;and a piece of skin about as large as the palm of a man's hand. . "The explosion ooourred on Douglass island, three miles across the bay from Juneau, Dut in tne latter city many windows were broken by the shock. Creek, Colorado, Nearly troyed by Fire. Cripple Creek, Cola, April 38. An angry courtesan threw a lamp at her lover at 1 o'olock today, and $1,000,000 worth of property was destroyed in three hours. The lamp hit the stove, igniting the oil and setting fire to the furniture. In a few minutes, the building was in flames. This was Gough's dance hall, on Myers avenue, near Third street. In a very short time, the adjoining buildings had caught despite the efforts of the fire de partment. It soon beoame evident that the conflagration was to be a big one, labut no one thought it would reaoh such an area. One million dollars is a conservative estimate of the damage done by fiie this afternoon, though some estimates are as high as $3,000,000. The amount of insuranoe, as nearly as oan be ar rived at, will not exceed $350,000. The fire started about 1 o'olock, and by 4 o'clock it had demolished the blocks between Third and Fifth on Myers, between Third and Fifth on Bennet, stopping just this side of the new Midland depot and warehouse, and between Third and Fifth on Carr, with the exception of a few buildings on the Third street side. Nearly all the buildings between Third and Fifth on lfiaton were destroyed, juany peo pie lost everything they had. Sixty Other Committeemen Have eelved Varloni Sentence. Ite- London, April 80. The Chartered South African Company has a cable gram trom Jonannesburg giving lur- tber details of the judgment of the high oourt at Pretoria in the oase of the members of the reform committee. This dispatoh states that in addition to the sentenoe of death passed upon John Hays Hammond and other leaders of the reform committee, sixty other mem bers have been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, a fine of 3,000 and three years' subsequent banishment The dispatch adds: "There is great excitement in Johannesburg and un less the tentenoes are speedily commut ed trouble is expeoted." The Times says in an artiole on the judgment of the Pretoria oourt: "The sentences were a oomplete surpirse, but were regarded with equanimity solely because it was perceived that they could not be executed. This applied with equal foroe to the monstrous sen tenoe against the other prisoners (those sentenoeed to death). We rely on President Kruger's oom mon sense, would be a crime from whioh we glad ly believe Kruger would shrink, would be an egregious error. It is hardly necessary to disouss the oertain oonBequenoes of the exeoution of the sentences. The putting them to death Washington, April 87. The move' meut for international arbitration was referred to in the prayer of Rev. Hugh Johnson, in the senate today: "Let the armies be disbanded; let the world be at peace," be invoked. The sundry oivil bill was taken up. At 3 o'olock the bond resolution wai laid before the senate, and Peffur, its author, pro posed modification! to meet the criti cisms in the reoent speeob of Hill. A Venezuela debate came up when the item of the sundry oivil bill was reached, authorizing the . Venezuela commission to pay rent for its quar ters out of the $10,0000 apppropriated for its expenses. Gorman suggested that legislation was in order. In great baste and a great emergency, congress bad appropriated $100,000, at the sug gestion of the president, for the pur pose, as was supposed, of preventing a war. But now it appeared that the legislation was not effective in geting quarters for the commission. Washington, April 39. Chandler presented a supplemental report con cerning alleged election frauds in Ala bama, and the naval approportiaon bill was then taken up. The main features of the bill are the items for four sea going ooaet-lins battleships, designed to carry the heaviest armor and most powerful ordnanoe, and to cost $3,750, 000 eaob; three torpedo-boats having a speed of thirty knots, to ooct $800,000,, and ten torpedo-boats to cost $500,000. Quay offered an amendemnt increasing the appropriation for reserve guns for auxiliary cruisers from $350,000 to $400,000. Gorman commented on the delay in furnishing guni at the Wash ington navy-yard. At one time the' work bad been muoh expedited, prob ably as a result of the war talk, but of late the contractors had failed to fur nish the jaokets, etc., of guns, and this bad occasioned delay. Stewart re marked that there was $380,000,000' oash balance in the treasury. "Yes, and considerable silver also," said Gorman. After further debate, Quay's amendment was agreed to. Washington, April 80. The senate was plunged into an exoiting financial debate today after several weeks of ser ene and formal procedure on appropria tion bills. ' The naval appropriation bill was under consideration and th item for four battleships, to cost $15, 000,000, served as a text for a speech, by Gorman, poinitng out that the revenues of the govenrment are less. than the reoeipts. Gorman's statement brought out an animated controversy, in which Sherman, Hale and Chandler joined issues with the Maryland sena tor as to the responsibility for the fail ure of tariff legislation in the present congress. Gorman's speech and the frequent heated party colloquys it de veloped, attraoted great interest Th battlesihps item was not completed when the senate adjourned. onse. Washington, April 37. This was private-bill day. By unaniomus con sent bills were passed empowering the oity of Tusoon, A. T., to issue bonds to- the amount of $100,000 for the con struction of a water and sewer system, and to authorize the return, free of duty, of articles exported for exhibition purposes. Jones presented a report on in execute tnese sentences Tg, Swanson, of the fifth Virginia dis trict, In favor of It The people not affected have offered would kindle a blood feud between the shelter to the homeless, of which there English and the Transvaal Boers. No are several hundred. The First Na- sober politician can doubt the ultimate tional bank was doing business in an- iBsue of a oonfliot between Great other part of town while its building Britain and the Transvaal, whatever was burning. The burnt district Is to I its alliances." be rebuilt at once with briok and stone. It is thought the fire was the work of inoendiariea and for the purpose of robbery. Several suspeots have been arrested. STATUE OF GRANT. IN WASHINGTON COURTS. In Peaceful Settlement. London, April 39. First Lord of the Treasury A. J. Balfour, replying to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the lib eral leader, said in the bouse of com mons today that the arrangements for consideration of the arbitration respect ing Venesuela and other questions are the matters that Great Britain and the United States had in view during the reoent negotiations. Balfour added that til last nrttnmnnlnafinn f-nin th ing the walls of the lock, so that it may iTnit stJ.t .rri. n m... be opened for commerce. The appro- wal now nHret,n.iHer,ti. R.1W priation is intended to secure the build ing oi anotner lock. While leaving work at look 9, a skiff whioh oontained nine men, upset and three were drowned at Charleston, W. Va. The dead are: Henry Mahan, colored, of Gallipolia, a; Richard Dickinson, colored, former home un known; Jordan, white, 16 years old. The other sis swam ashore. said the government would deal with both the general question of arbitration and also with a special question con nected with Venezuela, and it was con fidently hoped that by patience and tact on both sides a peaceful solution of the matter will be attained. A well hen, if not too fat, is full of life. Sick hens mope. travelled t Brooklyn, With Impressive Ceremonies. Brooklyn, April 38. The Union League equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant was unveiled this afternoon. The bronze statue, which is the work of W. Ordway Partridge, ia colossal, measuring from the hoof of the horse, where it rests on the granite pedestal to the top of the hat, fifteen feet and eight inches. The pedstal is sixteen feet high, and the entire height of the statue ia thirty-one feet eight inobes. The dedication today was made the occasion of a splendid military pageant, 10,000 soldiers of the United States army, tne national uuara oi .new York and sailors and marines from the navy-yard being in line. The Grand Army of the Republio was largely represented. When the prooession reached the olubbouse, Governor Mor ton and staff, who were in waiting, were loudly cneerea. Alter tne bands bad played the "Coronation March" and other Amerioan national airs, General Stewart Woodford, presi dent of the Union League Club, pre sented the statue to Mayor Frederick W. Wurster as the representative of Brooklyn. As General Woodford aterjued to the platform Ulysses 8. Grant, a grandson of the general, pulled a string and the statue was ex posed amidst cheering from 30,000 throats. General Horace Porter de livered the oration. Feeder's Chanea for Life. Memphis, Tenn., April 37. A. K. Ward, the noted forger has been grant ed bail in the sum of $35,000. Wsrd has been in the hospital for several weeks and may never be brought to trial before an earthly oourt County Treasurer Mot Required to Show Cash for Commissioners. Chehalis, Wash., April 80. The su perior court today passed upon a case in whioh county offioials all over the state have taken muoh interest. It was in the matter of the application of the oounty commissioners for a writ to compel Treasurer Maynard to exhibit the oounty funds in his possession. In January the board accepted, in quar terly settlement, certified checks and certificates of deposit as cash. In Feb. ruary it again demanded an account ing, and refused to count anything Dut casn. xne treasurer refused to bring the funds to the office of the board to be counted, but offered to take the commissioners to the banks and ex hibit his funds there. Then the board asked for a writ Judge Langborne denied the application today, holding tnat tne commissioners oould not de mand an accounting, exoept at the times provided by law; that certified checks and certificates of deposits are money under the statute, but it the commissioners arbitrarily demanded to oount the cash tbey might do so at the banks, but oould not require the treas urer to take money from the banks to his office for exhibition to the board. The treasurer was sustained on every point A Murderer Escapes. Topeka, Kan., April 80. Bill West. charged with the murder of United States Marshal Kenny, in Indian terri tory, escaped jail here today, through an outside confederate, who sawed the bar and with a key made from an im pression on soap unlocked several cells. ThejbGiS.at 4:80 A. M. found halt a doses prisoner in the corridor unable to squeese through the opening in the window. Colonel Brown, who has published the Basin Times for the past two Ilia AajmtAA .A - I jvmmt iwi wwiwu tv IUUU1S tu DUV9C j and will pulbish the Butte Times. the Demooratio sit ting member. - The pension bills favorably aoted upon Friday night were passed. Among them was one to pension the widow ot the late Brigadier-General Ferdinand Vandervere, at the rate of $50 per month. The house' then proceeded with the debate on the pension bill, and adjourned at 6:80. Washington, April 89. This was District of Columbia day in the house, and the general pension bill was side tracked under an arrangement to give the district the first two hours. Sev eral distriot bills were passed. Hen derson, ohainnan of the oomniittee on judioiary, gave notioe that he would call up the bankruptcy bill tomorrow as soon as the pension bill was disposed of. Henderson, from the committee on rules, then, at 1:30 P. M. brought in a special order for the consideration of the Piokler pension bill for one and one-half hours this afternoon, under the five-minute rule, the previous ques tion then to be considered as ordered on the bill and pending amendments, with a provision for a final vote tomor row, immediately after the reading of the journal. Washington, April 80. The houae today passed the Pickler eeneral nen- sion bill by a vote of 187 to 64. The Republicans and Populists voted solid ly in favor of the measure, and the Democrats, with six exceptions, solid ly against it The section to whiob the bulk of the opposition was directed provides that veterans otherwise entitl ed to pensions shall not be disqualified on account of prior service in the Con federate army, provided they joined the Union focres ninety dayi before Lee's surrender. The bankruntcv bill was taken up under a special order pro viding for a vote Saturday at 4 o'oolok. Quite a number of minor bills were before the regular order vai demanded among them a bill to re store the lands embraced in the Fort Lewis military reservation, Colorado, to the publio domain. Secretary Carlisle has issued an or der to the superintendent of the mint at Philadelphia to ooin $50,000 in pen nies, nickels snd dimes for distribution on the Pacifio ooast The object is to introduce these smaller coins in Cali fornia. The present order wss made at the request of the subtreasury at San Francisco. The Connecticut the brineina , stream oi new Kngland, ia 460 miles I in length.