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fellow student.
Wholesale forgeries and unblush-
ing and andacious attempts at brib-
cry have been brought TO light in
with the convention of |
the National Electric Light Associa-
ton in Kansas city.
The Ottawa Ministerial organ, the
Gazette, in opposing the proposed
Alien Labor law to shut out Amer
lean competition, says the law of the
United States on which the Cana
dian bill is based is failure.
The body of Hiram Sawtelle of
Roxbury, Mass. was found Febru-
airy 14th, horribly mutilated and
with bullet i'll the heart, buried in
the woods near Lebanon, Maine.
Isaac Sawtelle, brother to the dead
man, is under arrest, charged with
the killing.
The latest indignity perpetrated
upon American traders in Colombia,
South America, is the looting Of the
storehouses on the San Bias coast.
These buildings are owned by Eos
ter & Co., Leopold Schepp and Will
liam Heron Il Co. of New York and
merchants of Boston and Philadel-
phia.
The House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries has by
vote of seven to six, authorized ia
vorable report on the bill introduced
by Representative Dingley of Maine,
exempting American coastwise sail
ing vessels piloted by their licensed
masters or by United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay State pi
lots for services not rendered.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
appointed the Collector of Customs
at San Francisco, Captain White of
the Revenue Marine Service and DIR.
Bailhache of the Marine Hospital
Service, as board to investigate the
charges against Captain Healy, the
commander of the revenue steamer
Bear. He is accused of cruelty to
American sailors during the recent
cruise to Alaska.
The President has signed the proc
lamation opening the Sioux Reser-
walton in South Dakota. The proc
lamation is very lengthy. It recites
all the laws passed upon the subject,
and states that negotiations were
concluded in a satisfactory manner
with the Indians. In conclusion the
President declares the lands open to
settlement at once, excepting such
lands as are reserved by the acts,
and warns all settlers from invading
the lands excepted.
The President has now under con-
sideration the agreement recently
entered into between the Commits
sioners of the Government and the
Chippewa Indians for the cession Of
part of their reservation in Mime
sofa. The coded lands aggregate
about 100000 acres, and it is ex-
pected that the President will an
nounce his approval within the next
few days The reservation, however,
will not be opened to settlement be-
fore late in the coming summer, as
the whole tract must first be surveyed
and appraised.
There was a sensational scene in
the Court of Criminal Correction at
ST. Louis February 10th, when Mrs.
Agnes O'Brien drew a cowhide from
under her cloak and struck her hus-
band, Charles O'Brien, dozen times,
cutting one ugly cash in his cheek.
The trouble arose over charges of
infdelity preferred against the wife
by the husband. Mrs. O'Brien was
fined $50 for contempt of court and
committed.
The Council of State, summoned
in pursuit of the Imperial rescript,
opened at Berlin February 18th.
The Emperor, in his opening ad-
dress, said:
'The council should endeavor to
frame scheme for the protection of
the workingmen from the arbitrary
systems and operations of employ
ers, by which gross advantage is
taken of their needs and their in
ability to help themselves by any
other means than the desperate rem
edy of strikes.
at should also attempt to protect
women and children against the
protracted hours of labor. At the
same time due regard should be
given as to how far German indus
try will bear the increased burdens
thus placed on the cost of produc-
ton without jeopardy to Germany's
position as competitor in the mar
kets of the world.
"Not less important for insuring
the peaceful relations between mas
tiers and men are the forms of guar
antees to be offered workingmen to
secure them the right to express,
through representatives enjoying
their confidence, their own state-
ment of their interests in any differ
e1ce. The closest technical study
should be given to the making State
directed industries, patterns and ex-
amples Of effectual solicitude for the
worklngman's wide field of fruitful
action in helpful support and aid of
what the law shall ordain."
The committees, or sections into
which the Council is divided, are
Mod God tO absOlute Secrecy as to the