NEWS OF THE WEEK
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SERGIUS IS KILLED
France w ill build a warship of the
largest type to take the place of the one
recently wrecked.
Women of Moscow have petitioned
the czarina to ask the czar to make I
peace with Japan.
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The parcels post treaty with Great
Britain has been signed by the officials
of both countries and will take effect
April 1.
Governor Hoch, of Kansas, has ap
proved the oil refinery bill and recom- j
mends other laws against the Standard
Oil company.
The president has asked congress to
increase the naval appropriation bill.
One woman was burned to death and
15 men and women narrowly escaped
in a fire which damaged the Wintou
and two hotel, New York.
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D O ING S
IN
C O NG R E SS .
T u e s d a y , F e b r u a r y 14.
The usual three hours were given by
the senate today to the Swayne im
peachment trial. Only two witnesses
were examined.
The senate today passed the agricul
tural appropriation bill and took up
the District of Columbia aprupriation
bill.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was reported to the house and immedi
ately thereafter the naval appropriation
bill was taken up, with the under
standing that eight hours shall be de
M is s ile w a s* P a c k e d w ith N a ils, and voted to general debate and that the
house shall convene at 11 a. m. each
G ra n d D u k e 's B o d y w a s T o r n
day while the bill is under considera
In to F r a g m e n t s.
tion.
Russian Grand Duke the Victim
of a Terrorist Bomb.
HAD BEEN MARKED FOR MONTHS
W e d n e sd a y , F e b r u a r y 15.
Moscow, Feb. 18.— W ithin the walls
The senate today continued but could
of the far-famed Kremlin palace, and not conclude, consideration of the b ill
Jay Cooke, the great financier, is almost underneath the historical tower
making appropriations for the supjs.rt
Utah w ill spend $30,000 at the dead.
from which Ivan the Terrible watched of the government of the District of
Lewis and Clark fair.
General Lew Wallace, author of “ Ben the heads of his enemies falling beneath Columbia.
The Cody, Wyoming, bank robbers
In the Swayne trial a number of wit
H ur,” is dead.
He was 78 years old. the axe on the famed Red Square, and
have been caught in Utah.
w ithin a stone’ s throw of the great bell nesses were examined for the purpose
The
annual
weighing
of
mails
on
of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergius, uncle of ascertaining if the judge was in the
Pennsylvania oil men w ill build a
trains is now in progress on all rail- I and brother-in-law of Flnqieror Nich habit of traveling on passes.
large refining plant in Kansas.
roads.
The question of what the policy of
olas, met a terrible death shortly before
A ll Panama canal commissioners took
the government should l>e with respect
The New York board of aldermen has i 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
fees as Panama railroad directors.
The deed was committed by a single to the upbuilding of the navy was again
raised the fine for carrying concealed
Russian university students have de weapons from $20 to $720.
terrorist, who threw beneath the car threshed out in the house today. At
manded reforms and suspended study.
riage of the grand duke a bomb charged the time of adjournment the navy ap
I t is now conceded that J. Edward with the same high power explosive propriation b ill was still under consid
The president promises a thorough
Addicks., of Delaware, cannot be which wrought Minister von Plehve’s eration.
investigation of the Standard O il com
elected United States senator.
death. The missile was packed with
pany.
T h u r s d a y , F e b r u a r y 16.
It is probable that a decisive battle nails and fragments of iron, and its
Threatening letters sent to the czar
will be fought by the two great armies explosion tore the imperial victim ’ s
Aside from two hours spent in rou
have caused martial law to be pro
body
into
ghastly
fragments,
which
in Manchuria before a thaw comes.
tine business the senate today gave its
claimed at Tsarskoe-Selo.
strewed the snow for yards around.
The president has appointed Governor Every w indow in the great lofty facade entire attention to the Swayne impeach
The Indian appropriation bill, as re
Two and a half hours of
Brodie, of Arizona, to be assistant chief ot the palace of justice was shattered ment trial.
ported to the senate, w ill contain no
the time given to that case was spent
of the Record and Pension office.
and
bits
of
iron
were
embedded
deeply
provision for church shcools.
behind closed doors.
Before taking up the naval b ill,
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her in the walls of the arsenal, a hundred
Russian cavalry made a raid around
yards
away.
*
which occupied the greater part of its
the flank and rear of the Japanese 85th birthday and received greetings
The
assassin
belongs
to
the
noted
time, the house today entereil an em
from women's clubs all over the world.
army and drove in all small parties.
“ fightinjTgroup” 0f the Socialist R evo -1 phatic protest against the action of the
lutionary
party,,
which
has
removed
The Japanese are transporting the
Four men were killed and 14 otherB
senate in amending the agricultural
injured by an exploding boiler at the heavy guns used by them at Port A r other prominent officials and long Bince bill. After considering the naval hill
Provident Coal company, St. Clairs- thur to the north to turn on Kuropat- passed sentence of death upon Grand for the most of the day it was laid aside
Duke Sergius. The grand duke knew and several bills of minor importance
kin’ s army.
ville, Ohio.
that he stood in the shadow of death. were passed.
Puter w ill not 1» prosecuted for his
The Oregon land fraud trials are to
He was the recipient of repeated warn
be postponed until June.
Attorney recent attempt to secure state lands
ings and elaborate precautions were
ileney expects more indictments when near Klamath Falls fraudulently. The taken to insure his safety, but all the :
F rid a y, F e b r u a r y 17.
money paid by his dummies is to be
the grand jury recovenes in April.
The house today rejected all changes
resources of the secret police and sol
returned to them.
diers proved unavailing asgainst an at in the original statehood b ill by send
Nan Patterson is seriously 111 with
Ex-Governor Boies, of Iowa, is seri tempt almost exactly duplicating the ing it to conference without taking any
tonsilitis.
ously ill.
procedure that caused the death of action on it.
The powers have refused to allow
The senate today passed a bill appro
Minister von Plehve last July.
Greece to annex Crete.
priating $9,940,000 for the District of
Columbia, and the diplomatic and con
A report from Colon says that city is R E S E R V E S B R E A K U P A C R O W D .
A N O T H E R C A B L E IN A T L A N T I C .
sular appropriation b ill carrying $2,-
now free from yellow fever.
156,000.
Three minor Russian officials have R u s s ia n R e v o lu tio n ists w e re B lo c k in g C la r e n c e M a c k a y
A nnounces That
Only one hour was spent today on.
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been murdered or assaulted by terror
B id s H a v e B e e n M a d e f o r L a yin g .
the Swayne impeachment trial.
ists.
New York, Feb. 21.— Police reserves
New York, Feb. 21.— Another Atlan-
Russian terrorists have threatened were called out tonight to disperse a | tic cable is to lie laid and bids for its
S a tu rd a y , F e b r u a r y 18.
the lives of nearly all of the imperial crowd said to be sympathizers with the laying have already l*en made. It is
After an hour spent as a court of im
family.
Russian revolutionary party.
Eight expected the new cable w ill lie in oper peachment the senate today took up the
The government has just contracted men were arrested, charged with parad ation during the coming summer. appointment of a conference committee
for 60,000 tons of coal to 1» delivered ing without a permit, collecting a ! Clarence Mackay said today that no on the statehood b ill. The matter was
crowd and holding an unlawful meet new stock would be issued on this ca- finally postponed until Monday, when
at Cavite, Philippine islands.
ing.
| hie, but that the cost has been met by the special order erf the day, the eu
New York society women intend to
The trouble started when two police the Mackay company, liecause of a de logies upon the character of the late
build the Colony club on Madison ave men came upon a crowd cheering and sire to keep the reserve fund of the
Sentaor Quay, was entered upon.
nue, New York, for women exclusively. applauding a speech made by one of Commercial Cable company intact.
The house passed the pension appro
Mr. Mackay added that the first re priation b ill, carrying $138,285,200.
The United States Cotton Duck cor their m im ler. The police were unsuc
cessful
in
dispersing
the
people,
and
port
of
the
Mackay
company
to
the
poration in 1904 made a surplus of
The District of Columbia appropriation
It was said shareholders would bis adopted within b ill was sent to conference, a b ill was
$166,085, after paying interest on called for the reserves.
that
a
red
Hag
was
lieing
waved
and
the
next
fortnight.
The
new
cable
will
bonds.
passed to prohibit interstate transpor
later a sergeant of police, who assisted embody the latest discoveries in this tation of insect pests, carrying with it a
Two members of the Panama canal in the raid, made the statement that branch of electricity.
fine and imprisonment.
commission are on their way home to on one of the men arrested was “ in
make recommendations to the canal flammatory and revolutionary litera
P a rt o f B r id g e B lo w n up.
committee of congress for changes in ture.” This man’s name was Al)>ert
M o n d a y , F e b ru a ry 2 0.
Harbin, Feb. 21.— A party of Japan
the plans .>
The house passed the nayal appro
Argentier, and the police found on him
ese
and
Chinese
bandits
destroyed
the
priation b ill carrying a total of $99,-
Special Attorney Heney has arrived a subscription list for the Russian rev
abutment of the railway bridge near 914,359. The provision for two battle
in Washington and w ill make a report olutionists, said to have l>een issued by
Yaomin, 100 miles distant from here,
on the Oregon land fraud cases and as the pro-revolution committee for Rus early this morning, but the damage was ships as reported by the committee on
naval affairs was retained.
A ll the men arrested said they
sist in the Hyde-Dimond land fraud sia.
repaired in a few hours.
Frontier
Whether the senate conferees on the
cases in California before the supreme were tailors anil protested against being guards heard an explosion at 3:40
statehood bill shall represent the party
tnken into custody.
court of the United States.
o’clock and found that a charge of gun that defeated joint statehood for A r i
cotton had been exploded against the zona and New Mexico or the party that
The czar is said to have decided to
abutment. Two telegraph poles were fought for the retention of that provis
offer peace.
S t r ik e R e s u lt s in B e tte r W a g e s.
Warsaw, Feb. 21.— The chemists' as also destroyed. An unexploded charge ion was debated at length today, but no
Japan w ill not agree to peace unless
sistants here have struck, demanding of guncotton was found 400 feet from decision was reached.
it is enduring.
shorter hours and one free day each the place where the explosion occurred.
The Swayqe trial was taken up at 2
The second trial of Nan Patterson has week. A majority of the other strikers Traffic has been resumed.
o’clock.
Two witnesses were exam
been set for March 6.
have resumed work, the only important
ined. After the provisions of the Flor
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branch
still
out
being
the
ironworkers.
West Virfginia senators accuse Gov
ida statutes relating to suits of eject
The strike has resulted iu a considera
Tokio, Feb. 21. — The navy depart ment or disqualification of judges had
ernor White of boodling.
ble general improvement in the condi ment announces the seizure of the been read it was announced that the
North
Dakota has
appropriated tion of the men.
They have secured British steamer Silvania, bound for case of the house managers was con
money for the Lewis and Clark afir.
higher wages and shorter hours.
In Vladivostok with Cardiff coal.
The cluded.
The preliminary statement
A b ill w ill be passed this session al the tanning districts the men secured place where the seizure w as made is for Swayne was not finished when the
the first increase in wages in 40 years. | not stated.
lowing Alaska a delegate in congress.
court adjourned for the day.
Fire destroyed two
steamers at Boston.
piers