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LATER NEWS. ARMY MANY BILLS PASSED. The Oregon Grape Chosen a« the State The North German Gazette again Flower. denies the rumor that Prince Hohenlohe In the Oregon senate Monday after BAKMUIIT. rubll.bor. con tern plat« c resigning the imperial noon tiiree Lille were introduced, 25 chancellorship. house bills weie read the first time, two OREGON. M c M innville Twenty cliilJren are reported to havo In the Oregon state senate Wednes house bills read the second time and been drowned by an ice disaster at the day the following bills were passed: referred, and two bouse bills were village of Warpuhnen, Boirheim, re To authorize the construction and passed. cently. maintenance of floodgates on Douglas Haseltine, of the committee on horti The president has nominated Colonel and other sloughs, Douglas county; to culture, reported favorably a bill for 1 Asa B. Carey, assistant paymaster-gen require justices of the peace to submit park boardB in cities of 3,000 or more eral, to ire paymaster-general, with the complaints to the district attorney, ex population. cept for murder, arson, robbery, grand I Petitions were filed from 26 mom- Com prellen«! ve Review of the Import rank of brigadier-general. ant Happening« of the 1'nwt Week A terrible blizzard was general larceny, before fees may be collected; bers of the Nesmyth Grand Army post, i»’ Culled From the Telegraph Column«. throughout the Mississippi valley on to piovide a trust fund in Multnomah The Dalles, favoring admitting wives the 29th and 30th of January, reaching county; to authorize the Eugene di and widows of soldiers and sailors to vinity school to confer theological and the Soldiers’ Home; from 18 residents as far south us St. Louis. The New York Evening World prints biblical degrees; to amend the act on the Barlow road,favoring the state's an interview with John Sherman, in Three representatives of 40 German passed last fall so as to make all quartz acquiring that thoroughfare; from 47 which the latter forcibly expresses him families in the East are looking over and p'acer claims real estate; to remove residents of Clackamas county, for the self against expansion. the Pacific Northwest with a view to from principal defendants in prosecu county courFto plank bridges for trac According to figures published at buying several thousand acres of land tions for abortion the shield afforded tion engines; from Portland Woman’s Madrid, 80,000 Spanish soldiers per for a colorry. by section 2011 of the statutes, which Club, for the adoption of the Oregon ished, chiefly through sickness, during Mrs. Jalie L. Stanford, who has absolves them from testifying on the grape as the state flower. The last- the last campaign in Cuba. settled the estate of her late husband, grounds that it might incriminate the named petition was accompanied by a It is reported in Havana that Gen Leland Stanford, and who would be en witness; to provide for county clerks resolution, which was passed, declar eral Rabi, with 1,500 Cuban insur titled to *357,768 as fees, refuees to ac to transmit to the secretary of state a ing the berberís aquifolium the official summary instead of a complete trans state flower. gents, has taken to the hills in Santa cept anything for her services. The house bill to create the office of Clara, in defiance of American author Companies H, D, K and L, of the cript of assessment rolls; amendments ities. Seventeenth United States infantry, to Grants Pass charter; to permit suit state biologist was passed, 17 tó 10. for possession of real estate to be main The amended charter of the town of A battle has taken place at San An- ¡412 enlisted men and nine officers, tained by plaintiff not in actual posses- Adame was the only other bill passed. carina, Ecuador, between government have left Columbus for the Philippines. sion; to provide for election of a dis- Haseltine offered a resolution of i troops and insurgents. Four hundred ' They go via New York. trict road supervisor. thanks to Henry E. Dosch for his serv men were killed and 300 wounded, and The American shipping interests of Bates’ bill for clerks of the justice ices to the state at the Omaha exposi 400 insurgents were taken prisoners. the Hawaiian islands have largely in courts in Multnomah county, alter be- tion, and it was unanimously adopted. The premier, Senor Sagasta, has an creased since their annexation to the ing emasculated by striking out the The following new bills were pre There are now load salary feature, was recommitted be- sented: To authorize tlie governor to nounced that the government had de United States. cided to convoke the cortes during the ing for or on the way to the islands 50 cause found not to be limited to Aluit- let convict labor for not less than 35 second half of February, whether the vessels, of which 35 fly the American nomah county. ' cents per day per man for a period not Adams’ bill to tax dogs also was re- exceeding 10 years; to amend tlie As United Status senate ratifies the peace flag. treaty or not. F. W. Peck, United States commis committed, after considerable discus toria charter so as to permit the watej A bicycle saddle combine is to be or sioner-general to the Paris exposition, sion, for amendment so as to exempt commission, instead of the council, to ganized and capitalized at *1,500,000 asks congress to increase the amount cities where dogs are already licensed. i fill vacancies on its beard; to amend the statutes so as to permit only 5 preferred and *750.000 common Btock. set aside for the government exhibit to In the house the bill providing for a The first appropriation cents per mile for private persons serv Those already in line are said to pro *1,000,000. special election in Malheur county for duce 90 per cent of all the saddles used was *65,000, which Mr. Peck says is relocation of county seat was made a ing papers or for jurors and witnesses in Multnomah county. in North America and a fair percentage entirely too small. special order for Wednesday,February 1. of those used abroad. The reported rich strike of gold at Upon motion of Curtis, each Wednes In the House» Considerable alarm is felt in admin Cripple Creek has been confirmed. It day night hereafter will be devoted to In the house Monday afternoon, istration circles over the possibility is the richest ever discovered in the consideration of local measuies. Donnelly’s bill fixing the salaries of Dr. Josephi’s insane asylum bill, officers of Tillamook county, were that Spain and Germany may recognize world, estimated to run as high as *500,000 to the ton. There is blocked which passed the senate yesterday, was passed. A number of bills were read the Philippine republic — Germany from interested motives and Spain to out in one level, at a depth of 850 feet, rushed through the first and second the second time and referred to com readings and referred to the committee mittees, and half a dozen bills were in free tire 8,000 or 10,000 Spanish troops *5,000,000 worth of ore. held as prisoners by Aguinaldo. A. Thompson, agent of the Coast on penal, reformatory and charitable troduced. Before adjournment, also, institutions. the ball was set in motion for the res The strike which has been in prog Seamen’s Union at Seattle, says: “Un Sherwin’s bill, to amend the charter ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly a less the Shipowners’ Association gi res of Gold Hill-, so a* to enable the town urrection of the apportionment bill. Contrary to expectations, Donnelly's fortnight, among the dock laborers, has up trying to put scab seamen on coast- to issue $2,500 water bonds,was passed. bill to create Wheeler county out of extended to Panama, partly owing to ing vessels, a general strike will be or- The joint committee on fisheries, to the fact that the Chilian line of steam dered/and every sailing vessel on the meet a like committee from the Wash portions of Crook, Grant and Gilliam, ers has increased the wages of its em coast tied up as soon as she gets into ington legislature,was excused till Tues which was defeated in the house Janu ployes, thereby accentuating the dead port. The union men will not accept day next. The bill of Curtis amend ary 26, had comparatively smooth sail less than *40 per mouth.'* ing today, passing by a vote of 34 to lock. ing the fishing laws was ordered print 13; absent, 11; paired, 2. Theodore Kirchener, aged 60, acci- John F. Kennedy, who attained no dentally shot and killed his wife at ed and referred to this committee with Myers submitted a report of the instructions to bring it to tire atten joint legislative committee on fisher- toriety in connection with the numer Newtonville, N. Y. tion of the Washington committee. ous train-robberies and other crimes in ies, showing that uniform legislation One billion feet of Oregon timber, the vicinity of Kansas City, has been had been agreed upon at the conference The reapportionment bill was passed on Abiqua creek, was sold to \V ¡scon held without hail at Mansfield, Mo., in the house Thursday by the narrow held in Tacoma Sunday, which was for a hearing before the grand jury of sin parties a,few days ago. adopted. margin of one vote. Wright county on a charge of train The thermometer ranged from 35 to Bills were introduced as follow»: To The bill to create a new county out robbery. 40 degrees below zero I at different incoprorate Medford; to amend the of portions of Grant, Crook and Gil charter of Arlington; to prohibit exhi The Planters' bank, at Kansas City, points in Wisconsin the first of the liam counties was defeated. with a cupital of *25,000, has been week. A bill for protection of trout, and bitions of mesmerism, hypnotism and Ore assaying from 1-10,000 to *100,- one for protection of carwfish were artificial somnambulism — providing closed by the state. The proprietors penalties ranging from a fine of *50 to are under arrest by order of Secretary 000 gold per ton is repotted to have killed. of State Resell r and Assistant Attorney- been struck in the Isabella mine at A resolution was introduced to re *200 therefor; to prohibit laying out General Jeffries. The bank has no vis Cripple Creek, Colo. strict the introduction of new bills tc county roads on a greater grade than 7 ible assets, it is alleged, whatever. On the 17th ballot taken in the joint February 3, but it was i mieli nitely per cent, and to require road and bridge work to be done by written con The second annual convention of the session of the Montana legislature Sat postponed. tract with the lowest bidder, whenever urday, Hon. Wm. A. Clark was elected A resolution changing National Livestock Association is in visiting Corvallis by the joint commit the cost exceeds *50; to abolish the session at Denver. Nearly 1,000 dele United States senator. office of county recorder of Clatsop In the lower house of congress a tee from February 1 to February 4 county; to prohibit the organization of gates are present. passed. banks with a smaller capital than *10,- Governor G. A. Culberson has been joint resolution lias been adopted grant In the senate the bill to authorize 000; to protect trout, to change the elected by acclamation in the Texas ing to Venezuela the privilege of send school clerks and county judges to dis time of terms of court in the second legislature to be United States senator, ing a cadet to West Point. Charges affecting the integrity of pose of land bid in at sales for delin judicial district. to succeed Roger t^. Mills. quent taexs came up as a special order Amalgamation of the copper mine District Judge Scott, of Omaha, and Thursday. An amendment excepting INTEREST AND USURY BILL. interests of the Houghton, Mich., dis I seeking his impeachment by the legis from redemption by original owners lature have been presented to that trict and of Montana has been delayed land contracted to be sold was offered Washington Senator« Debate It, But body. Take No Action. by the severe i Irress of Levy Mayer. and the bill was recommitted for the Ex-Senator Slater, a prominent figure The interest and usury bill was up Judge E. W. Woodbury, who framed in Oregon politios for a number of amendment. Bills passed were: To amend the for lengthy debate in the senate again the first prohibitorv liquor law enacted years, died at his borne in La Grande by the Maine legislature, is deud at on the 28th. Ho came to Oregon in law relating to certain male animals Monday morning, but after debate no running at large, applicable to Eastern action was taken and the bill was left his home in Bethel, in that state, aged I860. Oregon ranges; to cure defects in deeds suspended in the air, when the senate 81 years. The Montauk Club, of Brooklyn,ten heretofore made that are faulty in ex adjourned to participate in the joint The fourth annual convention of the dered a banquet on the 28th to Admiral ecution, witnessing or acknowledgment; ballot for United States senator. National Association of Manufacturers William T. Sampson, and principal The Mantz-Gray contest was taken to amend the law relating to the mak is in session in Cincinnati. It is among the other guests was Secretary ing of deeds by the sheriff. up bv special order, at the afternoon thought a full attendance of 1,200 of the Navy Jonh D. Long. session, H. J. Snively, of Yakima, on members will be present. The reapportionment bill which behalf of Mantz, and W. II. Smilev, of A big celebration was held in Havana The Spanish minister of war lies de in honor of the memory of the first Cu passed the house Thursday passed the Colville, on behalf of Gray, were each cided to abolish military marshals, to ban president, Jose Marti. Four thou senate Friday after a debate consuming given 40 minutes in which to address retire half of the unattached generals sand people were present, ami there nearly the whole morning session. The the senate. The majority and minor final vote was 22 aves, 4 noes, 4 absent. ity reports of the senate judiciary com and to greatly reduce the number of was no disorder of any kind. The report of the committee appoint mittee practically held that there had officers on the active list in the interest ! The body of Captain Sturtevant, ed at the special session to investigate been no election in the Stevens-Spo of retrenchment. pilot of the Paul Jones, has been found. the Loewenberg contract at the peni kane district. The hearing and dis A dispatch from Washington says: From the clothing of the laxly it is be tentiary was taken from the table, and cussion was continued until Tuesday There is reason to believe that the va lieved he was off duty and asleep when amendments proposed to the effect that afternoon. cancy in the Anglo-American join* the disaster was caused by the boiler the *32,600 settlement be made by One bill was introduced. It provides high commisson caused by the death of exploding. February 10, that not less than *10,000 that in cities of over 5,000 inhabitants Mr. Dingley will soon be filled by the General Eagan, tried by court-mar be paid in cash and the balance in justices of the peace shall receive aniarintnient of Representative Tawney, tial on charges of conduct unbecoming notes satisfactory to the board, and *2,000 and constables *1,203 per year. of Minnesota. an officer and gentleman, was found then the whole matter was made a In tlie Huuae. The commissioners sent by the Cuban guilty and sentenced to dismissal from special order for Tuesday at 2:30 P. M. In the house the bill fixing maxi assembly to Washington to learn what the army. Th« president has the In the senate the following bills mum rates of railroad and steamboat the United States government will do (rower to mitigate or entirely set aside were introduced during the past week: transportation companies at 3‘¿cents alsmt paying the Cuban army, have the findings. To put in the hands of the secretary of per mile passed by a vote of 57 to 13. sailed for Havana. General Gomez’ The district attorney at Philadelphia state the matter of ordering the print As amended, it has become a criminal secretary, Captain Kolily, said that the commission had obtained a part of what has notified counsel for Senator Quay, ing of reports, session laws, circulars, statute, its provisions including a pen- liis son, Richard, and ex-State Treas blanks, etc., the .winter to act only alty for any violation by railway em- they asked. urer Haywood, that be had fixed Mon upon the written order of the secretary, ployes. No more names will lie considered day, February 20, as the date for trial except that the governor may order the The following bills were introduced: for appointment to any branch of the of the three defendants on the thaige printing of executive documents; to For the relief of L. D. Groydir, of postal service in Cuba. The poatofflee of conspiracy in the misuse of the protect life ami property from danger Spokane, and appropriating *294 for department has been overwhelmed with money of the state on deposit in the of railroad trains by providing numer enumerating Indians on the Colville applications for these appointments, People’s bank. ous regulations for warnings on trains reservation in 1891; creating a railroad and enough eligible names are now on Private advices received at Seattle and railroads and exempting from commission and establishing a co<le of file to fill all possible emergencies for state that th« government will send claims for damages railroad companies railway legislation; defining mineral five years to come. three detachments of so’diers into the that comply with the law; to prevent lisle claims as extending 300 feet on Heavy rains, unusual in this lati Coppei river district of Alaska next combinations la-tween tire insurance either side of the middle of the vein; tude at this time of the year, have in spring to lay out a mail route to the companies to maintain rates—same as providing for the binding, preservation jured the spring crop of sugar cane in Yukon river and establish ports. The the Iowa statute; to amend the charter an<l distribution of publie reports bien Nicaragua. The coffee crop in Nica pur (rose is to establish an all-American of Woodburn—passed; to appropriate nially of succeeding sessions of the leg ragua, now being gathered, will not ex route to the Yukon. It will extend *35,000 for a tlax manufacturing plant islature; compelling the use of wide ceed half of the animal crop. Laborers from the mouth of Copper river to at the penitentiary—same as was in- tires on wagons treating heavy loads, are asking high prices to gather the Eagle City, 60 miles below Dawson. trodUoed in the house yesterday; to graduating wider under heavier loads; harvest, and are indisposed to work. provide for a uniform public system, providing for com; ulsory assignment of The two richest prima donnas are Mitel complete Codification of school mortgages, and regulating such assign New« llatii«. laws; to permit recording in all but ment. The Connecticut supreme court has Adeline Patti and Sibyl Sand-'xson. one"'coiinty of certifier! copies of deeds The Senatorial Cnntrat. Pensions have been granted to tire rendered a decision that the property for property situated in two counties One ballot for senator was taken of Yale university is exempt from tax widows of t’apt. Allyn Capron and or more; to authorise county officers to Monday, at Olympia, with the follow Cap*. Allyn K. Capron, father and ation. selcl property bid in for sales for delin ing result: Foster, 28; Wilson, 27; A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states eon, both of whom fell in the war with quent taxes. Humes. IS; Ahkeny, 10; Lewie, I* that the Brasilian congress has ti p- Spain. Richardson, 19; Bridges, 1. The fu- Christ Monberger. wlo died in Buf proved a treaty of extradition with th* Friday in the house the bill to in falo. N. Y., of a fractured skull at the crease liquor licenses in the state was sionists broke away from Lewis, and United Htatee. Fitch hospital, whistled merry tunes practically killed by the measure be ng 19 votes were cast for W. E. Richard Mias Virginia Evans, daughter of all through the 100 hours of his mortal son. The only change in the Repub '’Fighting Bob’’ ■vans, will make illness and was unconscious all the re|s>tted front committee with the rec lican vote was that of Eames, changed ommendation that it do not pass her bow to society dui ing th* present time. from Humes to Wilson. Washington official season. REORGANIZATION BILL DI kuii I ou of th» Principal Work or th» >atlonal Hume. Washington, Jan. 31.—The house tolç day continued the consideration of the Washington and Oregon army reorganization bill until 2 o’clook, when the members paid their Fishing Industries. tributes to the memory of the late Rep resentative Simpkins, of Massachu setts. Little progress was made with JOINT MEETING AT TACOMA the army bill, the only amendment adopted being that to give veterinar ians in cavalry reg.metits the rank, Measure« of a Cuiniuon Interest to Be pay and allowance of second lieuten Recommended to the Two Legisla ants. The time before the eulogies be tures for Enactment. gan was chiefly devoted to a continua tion of the debate on tne advisability An unanimous agreement has been of retaining the Philippines. reached by tlie joint legislative com The diplomatic and consular appro mittees of Oregon and Washington priation bill, carrying *1,500,000, was touching fishing industries of mutual passed by the senate. interest to both states. They formu The salaries of secretaries of legation lated resolutions making such recom to the Argentine republic, Venezuela mendations as will, it is thought, ob and Peru were increased to *1,800, viate differences between the two states and of the consuls at Lu Guuavra,Ven arising from conflicting laws. ezuela, from *1,800 to *2,000, amt at Among the points of agreement Pernambuco, Brazil, from *2,000 to reached may be mentioned the follow ♦ 2 ,200. The allowance for clerks of ing: consulates was increased from *1,600 Changes relative to the close season to *3,200. The salaries of three tiyrii for salmon-fishing on the Columbia secretaries of embassy at London, Paris river; tlie Sunday close law is to be arid Berlin were fixed at *1,600 each. done away with; the Washington law The consulate at Naples was placed in is to be made to conform witli the Ore the *2,500 class; the consulate at Col gon law regulating the fall salmon close lingwood, Canada, in the *2,000 class, season; the gill-net license is to be left and the consulate at Niagara Falls in at *2.50, with the addition of an indi the *1,500 class. vidual license fee of *1 each for all Mason offered a resolution requesting fishermen, as at present provided for in the surgeon-general of tlie army to the Oregon law; the set-net license furnish information as to the percent fee is to be raised in botii states from age of our soldiers in tho Philippines *1 to *3.50; concurrent laws relative to who are sick and have been sick, anil sturgeon lines on the Columbia river the number of deaths in our army by are to be enacted: the appointment of reason of the sickness caused by the a joint commission to establish the climate. Mason prefaced tire resolu proper boundary lines is to be asked. tion with the statement that reports The agreements were readied at Ta had been received that “of late years coma Saturday. The Oregon conimis- as high as 50 per cent of the soldiers sioir consisted of Fish Commissioner unaccustomed to the climate (of the McGuire, Senators Reed and Daly, and Philippines) have died by reason of the Representatives Myers, Curtis and Far said climate.’’ rell. That «f Washington comprised Fish Commissioner Little, Senators EAGAN GUILTY AS CHARGED. Megler and McReavy, and Representa The Necesnary Penalty la Dismissal tives Colwell, Sims and Daniels. From the Army. It was concluded to recommend the Washington, Jan. 31.—General Ea close-season proposition should begin at noon, March 1, and close at noon, gan, commissary-general of subsist April 15. It was recommended to ence, has been found guilty of the make the Washington fall season con charges of conduct unbecoming an offi current with that of Oregon—from cer and a gentleman, and of conduct to the prejudice of good order and disci August 10 to September 10. No settlement was arrived at on the pline, ami of the specifications thereto, boundarv-line question. Both states and has been sentenced to dismissal will probably appoint two citizens from the United States army; but with each, who will seieot an engineer, con a recommendation from the court for sider the matter, and submit drawings the exercise of executive clemency. and profiles at the net biennial session Under the regulations, the court, hav ing reached the conclusion that the ac in each state. cused was guilty, had no choice in American-Can ad Ian Treaty. Washington, Feb. 1. — Prospects for selecting a penalty, the regulations an agreement between the British and prescribing absolutely that one punsish- American joint high commission on ment—dismi-sal — for the offense. questions affecting Canada and tlie Therefore, the only hope for General United States have greatly improved Eagan is in the direction of communta- within the last week, and it is ex- tion, mitigation or disapproval by the pxected now that aoomplete agreement president. Payment of the Cuban Army. on all points will be reached early in Havana, Jan. 31. — Senor Fredrieo February. Reciprocity has been the stumbling Mora, the civil governor of Havana, in block in the way of the commission. an interview declared that the question The principal point of friction was in of the payment of the Cuban anny was regard to the duty on lumber imposed of much greater importance than the under the Dingley law. Canadians Washington government seems to real demanded concessions on this that the ize. He said of the Cubans were to American commissioners were not at collect the customs of the islands, which are their property, their first ac first willing to make. This question has not yet been set tion would be to meet Cuba’s sacred tled, but it is understood that botii obligation to the army by payment in sides are more conciliatory, each being full to the so'diers. The customs ad anxious that the entire negotiations ministration being in the hands of the should not fail on account of one point Americans, the Cubans make a simple business proposition to the United of agreement. States government that it shall ad New Railroad to the Yukon. New York, Feb 1.—A dispatch to vance money to pay the troops, holJ- the Herald from Washington says: ing ti.e customs as security. Several Iowa men have asked congiess The C herokee Treaty. to grant a subsidy of *16,000 a mile Washington, Jan. 31.—The agree- for a railway and telegraph line to the ment concluded at Muskogee, I. T., Klondike. Representative Curtis, of Januaiy 14, between the Dawes com Iowa, introduced a bill in the bouse mission and the Cherokee nation, pro Saturday to carry out the wishes oi the viding for tiie allotment of lamia and syndicate. general betterment of the condition of These men have organized the Cop the red men, has been sent to the sen per River & Yukon Railroad Company, ate. Four of the five tribes have al and they ask congress to grant them ready agreed to new arrangements and rights to incorporate fur 50 years, to negotiations are now pending with the give them right of way for a railroad Creeks. an<l telegraph line from Valdes inlet. A Fatal Boiler Explosion. This company is to be capitalized at Chicago, Jan. 31.—Four men were *30,000,000. It is to have the right to bond and mortgage the line at not to badly burned, one perhaps fatally, by exceed *30,000 per mile, but this mort the explosion of a boiler today in the gage is to be subsequent to the claim basement of the Chicago Tribune. The of the United States for the *16,000 men who bad just completed putting per mile advanced by the government. tn new grates in the furnace of the boiler, were standiidg directly in front Cruelty to Spanish Prisoner*. of the furnace when the explosion oc New York, Feb. 1.—A dispatch to curred, and were covered first with live the Herald from Manila says: The coals, then with »aiding water. Spanish civil prisoners have not yet A Restraining Order. been released. Tales of suffering, hunger and dishonor come from the Washington, Jan 31.—To prevent provinces. Young Spanish girls are army officers of superior rank from forced to live in open with low born seizing upon the quarters of officers of natives. Their parents, being power the transports upon which they may less, appealed to Aguinaldo. His reply be traveling, the secretary of war has was a letter fromjh dishonored child — h«en obliged to make an order prohib exacted after GoJ knows what Buffer iting them from taking the rooms of ing—saying she is happv anil content the masters and quartermasters of ed. Ladies have suffered dishonor to transports. save their husbands from cruel treat Two Consuls Nominated. ment. Five priests have died in one Washington, Jan. 31.—The presi province from hunger and crnelty, al dent presented these nominations to though *60.003 had been sent by the the senate: State, James H. Worman, corporation for their maintenance. Ap of New York, now commercial agent at peal has been made to the American Cognac, to be consul at Munich, Ba nation, in the name of God, to stop the varia; \\ illiam T. Fee, of Ohio, now tragedy. consul at Cienfuegos, to be consul at Eitfan Conrtmiartiial Cme. Bombay, India. Washington, Feb. 1.—The recon! of February 6 has been agreed upon by the court-martial in the case of Eagan was placed in the hands of Judge Ad the senate as the date to vote upon the peace treaty. vocate General Lieber’today fur review. Disarced and Bankrupt. Mr«. Stanford Wants No Tay. Pan Francisco, Jan. 31.—George F. White, a cattleman of Mendocino county, has filed a petition in insolv- ency. J His liabilities are placed at *181,000, ', including a judgment of *100,000 granted his divorced wife. His assets are placed at *110,000. San Francisco, Feb. 1. — A review of the work of Mr*. Jane D Stanford, as executrix of the estate of the late Le land Stanford, shows that she handled property valued at *34,869,24*. The fees and percentages to which she was legally entitled amounted to *357,768, Snow ii In the South. but she waived all claims for her serv Atlanta, Ga. , Jan. 31.—Snow fell ice«. She paid her attorneys *60.000 for their services and allowed them generally throughout Central and *7,000 for exis-uses. Her action is Southern Georgia and Alabama Sator- commended I day.