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Newspaper Page TextGAZETTE. ORV, WEEKLY. COKVAIililS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FBIDAY, APRIL 11, 1902. UNION, Kutab. July. 1897. OAZBTTK. Kstalt. ee., 16S. (Consolidated Feb., 1899. VOL; XXXIX. NO. 16. 4 cj VENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. K Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In a Condensed Form, Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. Cholera is increasing in the Philip pines. The Manchurian treaty has been signed at Pekin. Fire in New York destroyed a six story building. Loss, $150,000. Fighting between Christians and Turks is reported in Northern Turkey. President Roosevelt received a hearty welcome at the Charleston exposition. The house's first vote on Cuban reci procity showed both parties to be divided. Major General W. R. Shafter, United States army (retired), is a candidate tor governor of California. Rioting students at Moscow, Russia, set fire to a prison where a number of their comrades were confined. The leaders were severely beaten by the police. Colonel John McKee, of Philadel phia, who is thought to be the wealth iest colored man in the co-ntry, is dead. 11 i estate is estimated at about $1,500,000. The shah of Persia will visit Emperor William. ' The house has exclusion bill. passed the Chinese Venezuela rebels are gaining ground and the government, js in a bad way. Striking miners in Pennsylvania have rejected the offer of the mineown ers. A third attempt has been made to assassinate the Moscow prefect of police. The .war revenue repeal bill has been passed by the house and gone to the president. A new verse to "God Save the King" has been written for the coronation ceremonies of King Edward. Although the administration regards the Chinese exclusion bill as too dras- . tic, it will plac nsU oppoeitiojiin ;,its ' way. ': ' " ' v. ( f..The St., luis fair may be postponed until 1904. Cecil Rhodes' fortune amounts to 5,000,000 pounds. m President Diaz, of Mexico, is plan ning a visit to the United States this summer. Three men were killed and seven wounded in an attempt to arrest an Alabama negro. The battleship Wisconsin is at San Francisco after a visit to Samoa, Hon olulu and a number of South American ports. Miss Ellen M. Stone has signed a contract for a Beries of 100 lectures, to be given in the principal cities of the United States. The bill providing a form of govern ment for the Philippines will follow the Chinese exclusion bill in the senate. After that the canal measure will be taken "up. The house has begun the considera tion of the exclusion bill. Mitchell made the opening speech in the senate 'on ;tho Chinese" exclusion bill. The last quarter's". imports to the United States from all Germany amounted to $23,786,094, an increase of $1,297 ,56. - - ; -'i - . In an all day fight between part of General Kitchener's forces and the forces of Generals Delarey ' and " Kemp, the Boers were, repulsed. The loss was heavy oh both sides. The bulk of Cecil Rhodes' property J is lefi for education.- It provides two American scholarships at Oxford to each of the present states and territories of the United States. The senate has passed the oleomar garine "bill. The house has passed the sundry civil appropriation bill. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock will soon retire from the cabinet. Abner McKinley denies that he was connected with the Danish West Indies scandal. Twelve hotels and many ami ler buildings were burned at Atlantic City, N. J. Loss, $750,000. It is hardly probable that the bill admitting Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico will be passed by the present session of congress. The president has appointed Brig adier General Hughes a major general and Colonels Burt, De Russy and Sher idan to be brigadier generals. Six persons were burned to death in a fire at Johnstown, Pa. Of the 20 tobacco factories in France 3 are in Paris. South Africa has ostrich farms con taining over 300,000. birds. In New York city alone there are now about 400,000 Germans. The governor of Finland has ordered the prosecution of the Lutheran pastors who refuse to read the new Russian army regulations in their churches. PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT BILL, Measure Perfected by the House Committee New Currency Regulations. Washington, April 10. The house bill establishing civil government in the Philippiens was finally, perfected to day by the Republican members of the insular committee, and in its complete form was re-introduced by Chairman Cooper. There is little doubt that it will be reported to the house by the full committee in a day or two. The house bill ia unlike that of the senate in that it provides a complete form of government for the islands, to go into effect when the war terminates, the provision being as follows: "Whenever the existing insurrection in the Philippines shall have ceased and a condition of general and complete peace shall have been established therein, and the facts shall have been certified to, the president shall instruct the commission to call a general elec tion, for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of the Philippine islands, to be known as the Philippine assembly." It is further provided that all the ex ecutive power then shall be vested in two houses the Philippine commission and the Philippine assembly. Provis ion is made for taking the census with in 30 days after the promulgation of peace. v lnereaiter tne lsianas are j ue divided into election districts and the regular machinery for electing a legis lature is provided. Section 12 of the bill provides that all residents of the Philippines shall have the same protec tion from the United States in their re lations to foreign governments as is accorded to citizens of the United States. For the purchase of the friar lands the bill makes provision for the issuance of insular bonds at 5 per cent, interest payable in gold, the total amount not being specified. The regulation of franchises, timber lands, mineral lanas. etc., is provided for. ine system oi coinage differs from that in the senate bill, as it makes gold the stanaara, with Philippine token money of silver maintained at a parity with gold. The ... tl n -1 peso is to De oi silver, ai win wjuai our silver dollar in size, and.will be worth half as much. FIGHT WITH MOONSHINERS. One Was Killed and a Revenue Collector Nar rowly Escapes Death. Louisville. Ky., April 10. A fight has taken place between moonshiners and revenue officers near Big Meeting Creek postoffice, in Hardin county, during which one man, an alleged moonshiner, was killed and a deputy revenue collector, who was leading the pursuing posse, narrowly escaped death, rifle ball grazing his head. The rev enue officers had information that a still was located in a bottom near Big Meeting creek. They surrounded the still and called on the three men who were operating it to surrender. The moonshiners answered with a volley of shots, and the revenue officers promptly returned the fire. Two of the moon shiners then fled from the still, firing as they ran, and made their escape. When the smoke had cleared one man was lying dead inside the still. It is thought one of the men who escapea as wounded. Hawaiian Appeal for Exclusion. Washington, April 10. Senator Pat terson, of Colorado, today presented a memorial signed by over 300 American citizens residing in Hawaii, praying the enactment of legislation completely ex cluding Chinese and Japanese from any American territory, and providing that all labor of every description preformed for the federal government snail uo done only by citizens of the United States. The petitioners say that 75 per cent of the labor in Hawaii is per formed by Orientals, to the exclusion of American labor, and they call atten tion to the fact that 87,000 of the 150, 000 population of the islands are from China and Japan. Accepts Philippine Judgeship. Santa Fe, N. M., April 10. William H. Pope, of Atlanta, Ga., for the past eight years a resident of Santa Fe, United States Attorney of the Pueblo Indians and Assistant United States Attorney of the court of private claims, today accepted a judgeship of a court of first instance in the Philippine Islands, tendered him by Governor Taft. He will sail in June. He is a gold Demo crat, 31 years of age. Dix Arrives at Nagasaki. Washington, April 10. Quarter master General Ludington is informed of the arrival of the transport Dix at Nagasaki with freight from Seattle for the army in the Philippines. The ves sel was several days overdue. Boers Do Not Hope for Peace. New York, April 10. There is little faith amcng the Boer sympathizers here that peace is imminent in South Africa, says a Tribune correspondent from The Hague. Hearts are hardened in conse quence of the conferences held here and at Utrecht, and the Boer envoys and refugees are asserting in a louder key than ever that the war will last four years longer, and that there can be no peace without independence. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth Latest Market Report, TheJPolk county MohairFAssociation has sold its pool of 35,000 pounds at 25 cents per pound. , . Mrs. Eliza Jane Wrisley, an Oregon pioneer of 1852, has passed away at her home in Medford. Deceased was born in 1826. City elections were held in many towns throughout the state this week Party lines were observed in but a very few cases. A railroad is to be built in Southern Oregon from Grants Pass to Crescent City. It will be known as the Oregon & Pacific Railway. 1 Superintendent of Public Instruction Ackerman states that after, six months of use the new Oregon text booKs have proven satisfactory. The fishing season on the Columbia river opens April 15. The prospects are more favorable for a large pack than at this time last year. March customs receipts at Portland were $77,212.99. The larger part of these receipts were from duties paid on inward cargoes from the Orient. The Columbia N River Fishermen's Protective Union, at a meeting in Astoria, fixed the price of salmon for the coming season as follows: Six cents per pound for fish weighing 25 pounds or over, and 5 cents for smaller fish. No price for steelheads or bluebacks was mentioned. The Willamette Pulp & Paper Com pany, which employs over 500 men in Oregon City, has made a voluntary .ad vance in the wages of about 300 of its employes. AH the men who. have been receiving $1.50 per day will - in future get $1.75, and all of the $1.75 per day men will get an advance of 10 per cent. Salem has ' taken the preliminary steps to installation of city light plant. The farmers' co-operative telephone line from Echo to Pendleton will, be completed about May 1. - Abont half the telephones- in Oregon City are out of business as the result of a live electric light wire dropping jsjx them. The receipts of state land office for March were $39,885.44, or the largest amount received by the present clerk for any one month. A contract for 12,000 pounds of the 1902 hop crop is the top record in con tracts at Salem. Quite a number are reported at 12 cents. Marion Cunningham, an Oregon pioneer of 1853, and one of the most prominent citizens of Harrisburg, has pa seed away, aged 69 years. The clam cannery at Skipanon has started up for the season and will be kept in operation nntil late in the fall, packing about 50 cases per day. Indi cations are that the clams on Clatsop beach are as plentiful as ever before, if not more so. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 6464c: bluestem, 6565c; Valley, 6465c. Barley Feed, $2021.; brewing, $Z121.50 per ton. Oats No. 1 white, $1.151.22; gray, $1.101.20. Flour Best grades, $2.853.40 per barrel; graham, $2.502.80. Millstuffs Bran, $18 per ton; middlings,- $20; shorts, $20; chop, $16.50. Hay Timothy, $1213; clover, $7.508; Oregon wild hay, $56 per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks, $1.101.25 per cental; ordinary, 7080c per cen tal; Early Rose, $1.25150 per cen tal, growers' prices jsweets, $2.252.50 per cental. Butter Creamery, 22 25c ; dairy, 1820c; store, 1315c. Eggs 1314c for Oregon. . Cheese Full cream, twins, 13(3 13c; Young America, 1415c; fac tory prices, llc less. Poultry Chickens, mixed, .$3.50 4.50; hens, $4.505.50 per dozen, 11 HKc per pound; springs, llllc per pound $34 per dozen; duckB, $57 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1213c, dressed, 1416c per pound ; geese, $6 7 per dozen. Mutton Gross, 4c per pound; dress ed. 77Mc per pound. Hogs-" Gross, 5c; d res Bed, 67c per pound. Veal 7 )i& 8 for small; 6K7 for large. Beef Gross, cows, 3?4c; steers, 44c; dressed, 676c per ponnd. Hops 1213c per pound. Wool Valley, 1315c; Eastern Ore gon, 812c; mohair, 2121)c per pound. A silken thread is three times as strong as a flaxen one of the same thickness. Booksellers who supply English schools report that there has been in recent years a very great increase' in the demand for German school books. Since the announcement of the war in South Africa, Scotland has sent to the front 15,500 non-commissioned officers and men and 330 officers; total. 15,830. ISTHMIAN CANAL RIGHTS. Nicaragua and Costa Rica Negotiating with , United States. . Washington April 9. Itjia under stood that Mr. Corea, the Nicaragua minister.- here, has forwarded to his government a proposition as to the price the United States would be likely to pay for Nicaragua canal rights, the proposition haying been submitted to the minister by Secretary Hay. Secre tary Hay's proposition ia said to be in thejnature of counter proposal to that set out in the canal' protocol drafted by, United States Minister Merry last year. Mr. Corea, for Nicaragua, and Minister Calvo, for Oosta Rica, have decided to do away with the protocol stage in their negotiations regarding a canal, and are preparing drafts of treaties which A will embody the term under which their respective governments will cede the necessary canal rights. These treaty drafts are expected to be complete by the end of the current week. By that time Mr. Corea expects to receive his final instructions from his government, including the decision respecting Secre tary Hay's proposal.? The situation as to Colombia is pre cisely the reverse to that as to Nica ragua, as in the former case the United States government has before it a defin ite proposal from Colombia and is con sidering it with some indication of a purpose to suggest desirable amend ments. PASSES THE SENATE. Mitchell's Land Bill for Repaying Certain ' Funds. Washington, April 9. Senator Mitchell today called np and passed his double minimum land bill. The bill as passed provides that where home stead timber culture, desert land or other entries of public lands are or have been cancelled or relinanished be cause of conflict, or where the entry has erroneously been allowed and cannot be confirmed, the secretary of the interior shall repay to the entryman all fees, commissions, purchase money and ex cesses paid upon the same when such entry is duly pajMUiKi. by the depart ment. - , : , la Cases- her a - rt&iEloi. Iivkh tmM double "minimum price for land, which haa afterwards been found not to be within the limits of a railroad grant, or within the limits of any portion of a grant which may be forfeited for failure to COnstract that portion of th railroad in aid of which' the grant was made, tne excess oi si.zo an acre shall be re paid to entrymen. Claim for repay ment to be valid must be filed within three years. BIG IRRIGATION QUESTION. May Colorado Take Water That Would Flow Through Kansas? Washington, April 9. The United States supreme court, in an opinion de livered by Chief Justice Fuller today, overruled the demurrer of the state of Colorado in the case of the state of Kansas vs. the state of Colorado. The case involves the right of Colo rado to appropriate for purposes of ir rigation the waters of the Arkansas river, which Kansas sought by an orig inal action to restrain on the ground that the stream flows through Kansas and the people of the latter state are injured by such an appropriation of the water. The chief justice said that the case is one in which the court can prop erly assume jurisdiction. He said also that the action of the court in overrul ing the demurrer was intended to be without prejudice, but was taken be cause the importance of the case was such that it should not be decided with out full proof on the questions set up in the allegations of damage made by the state of Kansas. COLORADO BANK ROBBED. Explosions Attract Citizens, But the Robbers Escape Two Suspects Arrested. Pueblo. Colo., April 9. The Bank of Fowler, at Fowler, Colo., 25 miles east of this city, was robbed of $1,100 by safe blowers at 2 o'clock this morn ing. Several charges of nitro glycerin were exploded to open the safe and the cash box. Citizens were aroused by the explosions and fired several shots at four men who were seen running away, but the robbers succeeded in es caping. News of the robbery was tele phoned to neighboring towns. Two men who boarded the Santa Fe train at Nepesta, seven miles west of Fowler, this morning were arrested as suspects. In their possession were found $288 and several coins. Bloodhounds have been sent to Fowler to trail the robbers. Casualties of the Boers. London, April 9. Lord Kitchener reports that the Boer casualties during the engagements of Marcfi 31 and April 1 were, at the lowest estimate, 30 men killed and 80 wounded. Commandant Erasmus was killed near Boshof. Decrease of Trade in Great Britain. London, April 9. The board of trade returns for March show the remarkable decrease of 5,528,195 pounds in imports and 2,304,050 pounds in exports. MONEY IS WASTED EXTRAVAGANCE IN THE ARMY TRANSPORT SERVICE. - Strange Proceedings are Just Now Coming to Light Favoritism Has Been Shown To . ward San Francisco, and the Government Has Had to Pay for It Inspectors Re ports will Be Made Public , Washington, April 10. The men in charge of the transport service for the army have . always maintained that Portland and Puget Sound ports were more expensive than San Francisco. They can evidently learn something to the advantage of the service by perus ing the reports which the inspectors of the army nave made. These reports have heretofore never been made pub lic, and it is easy to understand why the army department did not care to give them out. They show a lack of management that will amaze the country and will con vince everybody that'the transport serv ice has been in the wrong hands. Evi dently the claim of the navy that the service should be under its control is sustained. The extravagance of the quartermaster department in fitting up ships at San Francisco does not coin cide with the claims that city has al ways made that Portland and Puget Sound are too expensive for shipping points. There has evidently been a great deal of favoritism in San Fran cisco, and it is evident that deep prob ing is necessary in order to find out just what has been going on. A VIGOROUS PROTEST. Senator Cullom Makes an Energetic Speech Against the Exclusion Bill. Washington, April 10. A vigdrous protest was made in the senate yester day by Cullom against the passage of the Chinese exclusion bill in its pres ent form. Coming from the chairman of the committee on foreign relations, the protest made a deep impression on the senate. Cullom, while expressing himself as in favor of the exclusion of Chinese laborers, said that many of the provisions of the pending measurewere in contravention of our treaty obliga tions with China. He urged, that the United States could not afford to ignore its solemn . treaties, although " he con ceded the authority of congress to enact the proposed law if it saw fit to do so. Patterson and Perkins supported the pending bill, maintaining that in no way did it contravene existing treaties, as, by the convention of 1894, China had agreed that Chinese laborers should be excluded from this country. ' Thre bill is drastic in its provisions, they ad mitted, but no more so than is neces sary to eliminate the possibility of fraud. The Missouri Supply Camp. '' Jefferson City, Mo., April 10. Gov ernor Dockery's attention was called today to the alleged British war supply camp at Lathrop, Mb. The governor said he knew nothing about the opera tions of the British more than that a market had been operated at ' Lathrop by private individuals tor the past 10 years. He says it is the largest horse and mule market in the world, and that it supplies the United States gov ernment as well as the British govern ment with horses and mules. Boer Colony in. Colorado. Dever, April 10. A Boer colony may be established along the line of the proposed Denver-Salt Lake Short Line. A committee of local, Boer sym pathizers called on the state land board today with a letter from Boer Consul General Pierce in New York, asking for information about state lands along the new route. "If I can get the right kind of inducements," said the consul general, "several thousand Boer refu gees will go to Colorado and settle on faims. They will make the best of cit izens. I am sure." The Philippine Rebate. Washington, April 10. Secretary Root, after consultation with the treas ury authorities, has issued instruc tions to Acting Civil Governor Luke Wright, of the Philippine Islands, to give effcet to that part of 'the Philip pine tariff act which provides for a re bate of the export duties on goods ship ped from the Philippines into the United States. Bulgarian Tactics. Constantinople, April 10. The Vali of Adianople, European Turkey, tele graph" that a band of Bulgarians, with the objct of provoking retaliation, re cently killed and mutilated three Mus sulman peasants and a boy near Kirk Kihsseh (a town 32 mi les north-north west of Adinople), and then sought refuge in Bulgaria, hoping to be pur sued and anticipating that a conflict would ensue with the frontier guard. STANDS GAVE WAY. Five Spectators Killed and Many Injured at a Football Came at Glasgow. Glasgow, April 8. The straggle of the crowds which gathered at Ibrox park today to witness the last interna tional association football contest be tween teams from England and Scot land caused the collapse of a portion of the spectators' terraces, resulting in the death o( five persona aad the ia- Jury of 125. When the game began 70,0003 spec tators were en .the ground and an im mense crowd had gathered outside. Being unable' to gain admittance, this crowd broke down some of the barriers and swarmed npon the field, whereupon the police chanted and drove the in- traders upon the terraces and Beats, witn tne result that the railings dividing- the crowds were broken and the people were thrown - ever each nthar. In the frantic straggle toward the exits the pressure toward the upper portion of the westerly terrace was so great that 100 feet of the highest of the structure collapsed under the weight of the crowd driven Upon it, precipitating the mass of people to the eround. 60 feet bnlow. The . injured were piled in heaps, wedged in with broken wood. The onlookers hesitated to approach the dangling structure at first, out fin ally began to utilize portions of the broken barriers as stretchers. A hnn. dred of the most seriouslv ininred were carried to the pavilion and to spaces in tne rear of tne stands. A majority of the victims are suffering from broken ribs and fractured limbs, while noma sustained internal injuries. Those most severely injured were later re moved in ambulances to inflrmnr'nu. and the lesser sufferers were sent in cabs to surgeries. Six of the injured are not likely to recover. A few per sons Were . trampled nnon in trainer In J o escape from the crush when the police cnargea, Dut most of the victims sus tained their injuries in the fall of the terrace. THE DANISH TREATY. Landsthing Continues the Debate Without Reaching Conclusions. Copenhagen, April 8. The lands thing, or upper hoa.se, in secret session today continued the discussion of the Danish West Indies treaty for . three hours with no result. The debate was 1 heated, and much excitement prevailed among the members.V It is hoped that fchs-mitji yffe lanftsthing tomorrow? will enable the housa vto report its con- , elusion's. - " V:'':';S;;:a:, A meeting of the members of the op position in the landsthing was held to night and an exciting debate occurred. A maioritv of thnRA nrpiwnl: AodAmraA I'- UW.M.W. themselves in favor of the sale of the islands, but demanded that a plebescite be taken. The opposition press ia eneracmd in violent agitation against the govern ment. The National Tidense todav an nounces that the right nartr of t.ha landsthing is now in'favor ef the ces sion or me isianas to tne United States, if the consent of the inhabitants of the islands is obtained. ANOTHER ROYAL GUEST. The Prince of Wales May be Next to Visit the United States. New York, April 8. High diplo matic circles here are discussing plans, believed to be far advanced, for a visit by the Prince of Wales to the United States, says the London correspondent of the Times. The administration at Washingon is officially forwarding the proposal for the visit, which, it is un derstood, receives the personal sanction of King Edward, some of whose coun sellors urge the acceptance of the invi tation as a matter of astute 6ta pol icy. Emperor William is com idling an invitation to send the crown prince of Germany to America at the same time, and France is expected to send a distinguished representative. (las Designs on Tripoli. London, April 8. A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company from Constantinople announces that the porte has filed with the Italian ambassador a complaint, charging that Italian fish ermen are extensively engaged in land ing guns on the coast of Tripoli and that Italian officers in disguise are em ployed on board sponge boats in taking soundings and observations. The Trans-Siberian railway gives the cheapest rates in the world. It is pos sible to buy an emigrant's ticket, cov ering 6,000 miles nearly three week's journey for about $3. This year's record in the United States of loss from fire will be about $170,000,000. It is estimated that the loss in 26 years has been $2,890,000, 000, of which $17,000,000,009 was cov ered by insurance. The expenses of the legislative branch of the federal government are $5,600, 000 a year, and of the department of justice $5,000,000. The expenses of the District of Columbia, paid for by the federal government, are $7,000,000 a year. Canadians Volunteer. Halifax, N. S., April 8. The Eoyal Canadian regiment of infantry has iol nnteered for services in South Africa, The offer was made today by Colonel White, the commander of the regiment, tothe acting general, Colonel Biscoe, who is in command of the British forces in North America. The regimect is 1,000 strong and is now doing garri son dutv in Halifax. The offer was cabled to the British war office. HOUSE PASSES BIIL ANTI-CHINESE MEASURE MADE MORE STRINGENT. Mixed Bloods Arc Now Included in Excluded List Mo Chinese Sailors to be Employed on American Snips The Provisions of the Bill Also Apply to Colonial Possess, ions ef the United States. Washington, April 8. The honse yesterday passed the Chinese excluison bill, after incorporating in it several amendments which increased the dras tic character of the measure. The principal one not only excludes Chinese by birth and descent, but all Chinese of mixed blood. The chief strnmrle was over an amendment to prohibit the employment of Chinese sailors on American ships. An amendment cov ering this proposal was ruled out en a point of order, bat subsequently was modified to evade the ruling and was adopted, 100 to 74. As passed the bill practically re- enacts all the existing exclusion laws, and incorporates with them the exist ing treaty regulations. It extends these exclusion laws to the Philippines and other possessions of the United States, and forbids Chinese labor in our colonial possessions coming into thia country. The Philippine commission, by the terms of the bill, is directed to adopt proper measures for the enforce ment of the provisions of the bill in the Philippines Two amendments were made withont division, one by Clark or Missouri to amend the definition of "teacher" un der the privileged classes, so as to re quire that for two years before admis sion the teacher should have been en gaged in "teaching the higher branches," and another by Coombs of California to provide that Chinese stu dents shall leave the country immedi ately upon completion of their eourse of study. . . The conference report on the war revenue tax repeal bill was adopted. - and the Dill sent to the White Honse. Late in the afternoon Fowler OS. JA moved to pass unrfer suspension of the trnieathe sena&I2r Wxtend'-Ui eLr ters of National banks 20 years. The Democrats . were taken completely by " surprise. As it was after the nsual " hour for adjournment, the attendance was slim. The Democrats attempted to filibuster, but a roll of the house finally secured a quorum and the bill was passed. WRECKED AT A SWITCH. One Passenger Killed and' Several Hurt by the Ditching of a Train. Lansing, Mich., April 9. While Grand Trunk passenger train No. 6 was passing through Millets, a tank station seven miles west of here, early today, the rear coach and the Pullman sleeper were thrown off the track. One man was killed and four were injured. The wreck occurred at a switch on which a freight train was standing. The first Beven cars of No. 6 crossed the switch safely, but as the last coach was pass ing over, the switch points caught in such a way as to throw it and the Pull man car following off the track and over on to the engine of the freight train. The two cars and the enirinn were thrown into the ditch. It is said that the switch had been tampered with. The injured were taken to De troit. CABLE TO HONOLULU. Will Be In Working Order by the Last of October. San Francisco, April 9. George G. Ward, of New York, vice president of the Commercial Cable Company, ar rived here during the'day to select a landing place for the projected cable between this coast and the Philippines. Mr. Ward is accompanied by Charles Curtis, the company's chief electrical engineer. While here Mr. Ward will consult with John W. Mackay, presi dent of the company. Mr. Ward said tonight.: "We are going to build the cable, irrespective of congressional action. The first link between San Francisico and Honolulu will be completed by the end of next October. The cable will be shipped from England next July. It has not yet been decided where we will land on this coast. It will either be at Monterey or this city, probably the lat ter," Kruger's Son Takes the Oath. Pretoria, April 9. Casper Kruger, the eldest son of President Kruger, and 24 other relatives of Mr. Kruger bear ing the same family name, are among those who have recently taken the oath of allegiance to Great Britain. Strength of Boer Commandoes. Pretoria, April 9. Careful computa tion gives the strength of the scattered Boer commandoes at between 8,000 and 9,000 men.