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Committee Work All About Done.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 5.-The dele
gates to the International conference are
beginning to talk about final adjournment,
which will probably take place about April
!. Nearly all of the committees have made
their reports and several of them have been
already adopted. The report of the COM
mlttee on customs union, which considered
reciprocity treaties. IS IN the hands of the
printer. The three committees on cable
communication on the At antic and Carib-
bean sea have their reports prepared and
they are now being translated. The reports
OF the committees on customs and reg ula-
tions and the committee on port duties are
both about ready to submit to the confer
ence.
The committee on extradltion and bank
ing will finish its labors within a few days.
The committee on arbitration has agreed
to report in favor of the adoption of that
means of settling all international ques-
tons, but has not ag,eed upon any plan
yet. The committee for a monetary con-
vention will make two reports. These re-
ports are IN the hands of the printer now,
and will be submitted soon. The reports
OF the committee on railway commU lica-
ton, sanitary regulations and weights and
measures have already been adopted by the
conference, while the reports of the COM
mittee on patents and trade marks and In
ternatlonRl law are regular orders for the
consideration of the conference.
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Minister LincnIn,s Son.

LONDON, March 3.-Minister Lincoln
stated that the doctors say his son surprised
all about him by not only surviving the
night but by having sufficient strength to
permit the tapping operation being per-
formed, which greatly relieved the heart
and lungs from illusions. 1t was pro-
nounced that this operat on, because of the
patients feeble condition, would be fatal,
but it has at least temporarily dispersed the
hopeless condition of the patient Addi-
tiOnal measures were taken to prevent
dangerous accumulation of pus. Another
operation was performed which afforded
great relief to the patient. A dram was in
serted in the affected part and the matter Is
now flowing freely from it. Though Master
Lincoln is still in great danger. his physi-
clan and parents are not without hope of
his recovery. In conse luence of an errone-
GUS report having been sent to the United
States to the eject that Mr.. Lincoln's son
was dead, large number of cablegrams of
sympathy and coincidence from the United
States were received by the minister, and
he Iequested the Associated Press to express
his own and Mrs. Llncoln's appreciation of
such kind regard and good will.
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CATTLE BILL.
SUPPRESSION and Extirpatioa OF Pleuro-
Pneumonia-TO Prevent Expectation of
Diseased CattIe-TO Create Bureau
of Animal Industry.
Rules to he Issued From the Department
of AgricuIture-Speeial Investigations
to be Made-NOtice to be Given of the
Existence of Contagious Diseases.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1.-Senator
Paddock introduced bill for the establish
ment of a bureau of animal industry, to
prevent the expectation of diseased cattle,
and 10 provid for the suppression and ex-
tirpation of paeuro- pneumonia and other
contagious diseases among domestic anil
mails. This bill, which is intended as
substitute for various measures on the
same topic that have been before the senate,
provides that a bureau of animal industry
shall be established. The secretary of agri-
culture shall prepare and enforce ru es for
the suppress on and extirpatlon of all dis
eases of cattle, especially pleuro- pneumonia.
Cattle so affected shall not be transported
from one state to another. The bill further
provides that in order to promote the eX;
portation of live stock, the secretary shall
make special investigation INTO the SUBJECT
along the dividing lines of the United states
and Canada and other dividing lines on
routes to seapoIts. No railroad company
or steamship line shall receive for transpor-
tation, nor shall any person drive In prl-
vate conveyance any infec' ed cattle. ZEN
alties are provided for the violation of these
provisions. It shall be the duty OF the sec
rotary to give notice through the newspa-
pers of the existence in any locality OF
contagious disease, and shall also notify all
TRANSPORTATION companies of this fact.
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tional commission of engineers to study
the possible routes, determiue their true
length, estimate their respective cost and
compare their leciprocal advantages
That the commission shou d be composed
OF three engineers appointed by each ma
ton, with the privilege of dividing into sub
commissions, and to appoint as many other
engineers and employees as might be con-
sdered necessary for the more rapid execu.
ton of the work.
That the railroad, in so far as the COM
mon interests will permit, should unite the
principal cities lying in the vicinity of its
route. That if the general direction of the
line cannot be altered without great incon-
venlence, for the purpose mentioned in the
preceding article, branch lines should be
surveyed to connect these cities with the
main line. That existing railways should
be utilized as far as is possible and compat-
lble with the route and conditions of the
continental railroad. That the construc-
ton, management and operation of the line
should be at the expense of the concession
aires. or to the persons to whom they sub
let the work, or to whom they transfer their
rights, with all due formalities, the consent
of the respective governments first being
obtained. That all materials necessary for
the construction and operation of the rail-
road should be exempt from import duties.
That all personal and real property of the
railrOrd used In Its construction and opera
ton should be exempt from all ta1ation,
national. state and municipal.
That the execution of a work of such
magnitude deserves to be further encour-
aged by subsidies, cessions of land or guar
antees OF minimum of interest.
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How Chicago Received the News


ST. LOUIS, February "a special to the
Globe-Democrat said: Chicago is on big
drunk, and the town is in an uproar. News
of the result of the final ballot in the house
of representatives at Washington was re-
ceived here about o'clock, just as the first
installment of workers was going home. and
IN few moments the streets in the vicinity
of the newspaper Offices, hotels and other
places where returns were being received be-
came all but impossible. Crowds of men and
boys went shouting and singing through the
streets, TIN horns by the hundred were fshed
put from their hiding places and made to
10 full duty, and the DIN became all but
Ia the house began the various bulletin
boards were surrounded by eager crowds,
and each gain by Chicago was greeted with
cheer. by O'Clock the crowds In the
down town thoroughfares became larger
and overdoved from the sidewalks into the
streets, tramping through the mud, hinder
ing the passage OF street and cable cars and
other vehicles. Male patriotic Chlcagoans
began to "hll up" in the exuberance of
their enthusiasm, and the dispenser of
liquids hadn't time to go to supper. It
was given out that the police would arrest
any man found sober on the streets, and It
Is matter of record that the arrests have
been very few. Bands of music were or
dered out and paraded the streets, and hun
dreds of boys carrying torches stopped
around in the mud, making all the noise
possible. The sole idea seemed to be to
create Tscket and whatever would make
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The Ur.uline Nuns in Rebellion.

PTrrsBrRe, Pa, March 5.-The UrsulIne
nuns are in open rebellion against his holi-
ness the pope. The troubles of this sister
hood, which have covered several years,
were supposed to have ended some months
ago when, with the sanction of the authOri-
ties at Rome, it was arranged that the en-
tire property owned by the nuns should be
turned over to Bishop Swiss upon payment
of $4,000. Ex-Mother Sup rior Alphonse,
however, has now gone back on this COM
promise and has placed the fourteen acres
with the building in the hands of a real
estate agent to be disposed of. She claims
that herself and her associates organized
the institution, secured the necessary funds,
and hold the title, and that they do not re-
gard the clesaSt'cal law as rising superior
to the laws of Pennsylvania. The fight,
which Will now procee with increased bit
terness on both sides, is of interest to the
Catholic church throughout the world, as il
is the first time that sis;erhoo1 has openly
defed the authority of the Holy POntif.
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Hot From the Wires.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 5.-The Cum
berland river has risen to forty-eight feet
eight inches and is still rising. The Ten
nessee river is on boom, and has swept
away thousands of dollars worth of timber
and fencing.
ATCHIsoN, KAN.-Three women of this
city are applicants for appointment as CEN
sus enumerators. The equal Suffrage asso-
clation is backing them. Representative
Morrill, has written the census supervisor
asking that they be appointed.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The supreme court
has confirmed the decision OF the Missls-
sippi courts that the statutes of that state
requiring separate cars for colored passen-
gers apply solely to commerce within the
state, and not violation OF the law regu-
lating interstate commerce.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The senate spent
most of one days executive session discus
sing the appointment of Ex-Governor War
mouth to be collector of the port of New
Orleans. He was confirmed by a mixed
vote of republican and democratic senators.
GUTHRIE, l. T.-Great indignation is ex-
pressed here at the statement in the special
tele ram sent to the press from Topeka IN
regard to the alleged negro colonization of
Oklahoma. The lands in Oklahoma are all
taken up, and amoEg the settlers there is
only a handful of negroes. 1t is difficult to
understand how thousands of negroes are
to be coionized on lands already occupied
by legitimate claimants.
WASHINGTON. n. C.-The house commit
tee on public buildings reported favorably
the senate bill, with an amendment reduc-
ing the amount from $4,000 to $1,000 for
the construction of public building at
Salina, Kansas.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Indian Agent Ben
nett, located in the Indian Territory, has
reported to the Indian bureau that it has
just come TO his knowledge That an act was
passed by the legislative council of the
Choctaw nation, about two months ago, in
cooperating the Choctaw Lottery company.
The agent represents that great secrecy was
maintained concerning this act, and it was
with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded
In securing copy of it.
LFAvENwoRTH, KAN.-It is annouced here
that the headquarters of the department of
the Missouri have been ordered removed to
st. Louis, Mo. The removal takes effect
about May L.
CHICAGO. AT a meeting of socialists in
this city a resolution was passed endorsing
a call for an international labor convention,
to meet in this city during the presence of
the worlds fair in 1892.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo.-Noyes, Norman & Co.,
who esale boot and shoe house, lost $780,
900 by fire: fully covered by insurance. 1t
is supposed that a spark from the stove in
the packing department ignited some pack
ing straw.
ATCHIsoN, KAS.-An AtchIson lumber
firm has completed a purchase of 10000
acres of pine lands in Lou siana.
Sea NECTADY, n. Y.-The residence of
James II. Bradshaw. in this city, was dis
covered to be on fire, ana Mrs. Bradshaw
was burned to dea h. The prevailing opin-
ion is that it was caused by electric light
wires.
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Weekly Synopsis of Business Reports.

weekly SYNOPSIS Oh ANCPoA'S'
New YORK, March 3.-R. G. Dun d Co.'s
weekly review of trade says:
Unreasonable weather and growing doubts
about the monetary future do not help bust
ness. and reports this week are less encour-
aging. Yet, it must be remembered that
the reports of dealers everywhere are liable
to be much influenced by disappointment
of past hopes, so that they consider trade
unsatis factory because it is not up to their
expectations; because distribution does not
su ! ce to clear away stocks purchased,
though the amoInt of transactions may be
larger than year ago. To the trader who
bought 20 per cent. more than in any pre-
vious season, but has only sold per cent.
more, business is unsatisf factory. The pre-
vailing tone just now is one of discourage
ment. Boston notes little improvement.
The Philadelphia dry goods market lacks
life. At st. Louis the distribution of sea-
sonable goods is lair in volume and co lee
tons satisfactory. The boot and shoe trade
is fairly active, but there is little trading in
wool. Trade is reported good at Omaha,
only fair at Kansas City, and up TO the
average at st. Paul and many other points.
Collections are generally reported fair.
The movement of breadstuffs is still heavy,
and exports. both OF wheat and corn, greatly
exceed last year 8. After drop of about
cent in each, wheat recovered to an eighth
above last weeks pric S, and corn to FIVE
eighths abo7e, with far transactions in
each.
The business failures occurring through
out the country were :0l. as compared with
total of go last week.
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A PecnIiar Ballot Rnr

WASHINGTON. D. c.. March Sup in the
room of the house committee on elections
stood ballot box that will figure in the de-
bate on the Featherstone-C Cate election case.
The box is plainly and simply made of tin
ana looks like any ordinary cheap ballot
box. But there Is a popularity about it
that appears only "pon close inspection.
The orifce wherein the ballots are placed
Is double, so that ballot if placed in one
side slips into the box. but if placed into
the other slides unperceived down into a
waste basket or upon the floor. The con-
testant (Featherstone) asserts that twenty
one of these boxes were used in one county
at the election in Arkansas. and as the re-
publican ballots were marked In blue TO
distinguish them, it was an easy matter for
the democratic election managers to see
that they did not go into the the ballot
boxes and get counted. The double slip
around the orifice can be readily taken OF,
leaving the box absolutely honest in ap-
near nee.
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The Urgency Deficiency Bill.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. March 1.-The urgent
deficiency bill is completed. 1t makes a
total appropriation of S23, $50, 2I3. of winch
$711, 629 is appropriations to pay two and
three year volunteers, bounty to volunteers,
communication of ratlons and horse and
property claims.
Other items of importance are:
For public build ngs, $4,000; internal
revenue, $4,000; light house establish
ment, $4, 799; collecting customs revenues,
$751; soldiers homes, $4,000; patent
Office. $4,000; land Office clerks, SIS, 900;
surveys, $1,000. Indian supplies, 5000.
For survivors and widows of soldiers of the
Mexican war and war of 1872, $21, sos, S3i;
artificial limbs, $ 0,00o; United States court
witness fees, $4,000.
Under the head of naval establishment
the bill provides that the expenses incurred
In the purchases, shipment and discharge
of coal at Papago, Samoa. S316.41 shall be
paid from the appropriation of 500, 600 for
establishing the station made last year.
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Two accidents From Carelessness.

ATcH1soN, KAN, February 2s.-S. A. Fra
zier, of the First National bank, narrowly
capped serious injury. A cartridge which
had found its way into the bowl of his pipe
was exploded by the fire. A portion of the
brass shell cut severe cash in his left
cheek and his left eye was filled with to-
bacco and ashes, causing him to sujer
much agony. A portion of the pipe, which
was blown to pieces, a so struck the ball of
the eye, and it is feared that its sight is
ruined.
A 12-year-old boy named Arthur Allen
was perhaps fatally injured here. He was
leading calf to water and had tied the end
of the rope halter around his waist. The
calf run away and the boy was dragged
over the broken ground until his head and
It is feared that his skull was fractured.
He is the son of George c. Al en-, foreman
of theAtchison railroad bridge crew.
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the loudest noise was in demand. Every
locomotive in the railroad yards, every
whistle in the factories and on the tugs IN
the river let themselves loose, and people
couldn't hear themselves think. But no
body cared. 1t was a time for rejoicing,
and everybody rejoiced, each in hls own
way.
Now that the house has voted for this city
the pleasure arising from this fact is allayed
by the fear that the senate may turn Chi
cago's cake to dough. Cheering messages
were received here, however, from the
members of the Chicago committee, saying
that the senate was all right, and would not
dash Chlcago's hopes to the ground, not
withstanding Senator Hiscock's savage pre-
diction the other day to the effect that 1t
didn't matter how the house voted, as the
senate would not let tine fair come to Chi
cagO.
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Congressman Peters BIII for the Irrigation
Commission,

WASHINGTON. D. c., March 3.-Congress-
man Peters, of Kansas. has introduced a
bill providing within certain limits for the
promotion and regulation of irrigation and
matters subsidiary and accessory thereto,
creating and empowering commissions, etc.
1t provides that all the waters in the United
States shall be used for pu poses of lrriga-
ton, and directs the appointment of nine
commissioners OF irrigation for the eastern
and western irrigation divisions, into which
the bill divides the country. The two CON-
missions are to meet general council and
formulate plans for carry ing out the provi-
sions of the bill. Charter licenses are to
be granted TO persons DESTROYS of building,
maintaining or altering any irrigation work.
The commission is authorized to cause slch
experimental investigations as shall be nee
essary to demonstrate the character for pur-
poses of irrigation of the subteranean water
supply in the several states and territories.
A bill was introduced in the house by
General Vandever of Callforn a. chairman
of the special committe on irrigation. 1t
provides for setting apart all the waters
west of the 9th meridian for purposes of
irrigation, subject to domestic uses, and
the appointment of an irrigation commits
sion as a division of the department of agri-
culture, to have charge of the whole matter
with full power and authority to settle all
irrigation questions rec ardles of state lines.
1t also provides for the preservation and
extension of forests and the storage of water.
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Election of Officers.

WINFIELD, KAN, February 2s.-The grand
lodge A. o. .. W. held an election of Off
GERS, which resulted in the following selec-
ton:
Grand master workman, R. II. Emery,
Seneca, by acclamatlon.
Grand foreman, d. S. Sossell, Belleville,
by acclamat on.
Grand overseer, Or. A. W. Mckinney,
Hutchinson.
Grand recorder, E. NJ. Forde, of Empo.
ria. reelected by reclamation.
Grand receiver. 7. o. Beck, Topeka.
Grand guide, d. j. Roberts, Usage City.
Grand Waterman, S. d. Hallowell, Wlch-
tia.
Grand trustee, E. p. Young, Winfield.
Grand medical director, Frank Swallow,
NJ. D., Valley Falls.
Supreme representatives: Hon. A. P,
Riddle, Minneapolis: Hon. J. E. Riggs,
Lawrence; Hon. j. NJ. Miller, Council Grove.
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F. G. I. B.
1t Proposes to Have Nearly All the Popu-
lation Of OklahOma-But VIII Welcome
Such Whites as Desire to Live There
for Purposes OF Trade.
Negroes Have Not MeddIed With Cities Of
the Territory AS Yet, as They Are
Willing to Have the Whites
Build Their Towns.

TOPEKA, KAN, March A reporter has
been interviewing E. P. McCabe, recently
returned from Washington, and also other
officers and head men of the ''First Grand
Independent Brotherhood" who are here,
and gives out the following as their ex-
pressed sentiments:
"We did not mean to have our objects
and aims given to the public so soon, but
there has been no harm done. We propose
to not only have a majority of the voters in
Oklahoma, but We propose also to have near
ly the entire population. There are many
now there who will not live in a niger
state. These we will help move ont. We
will not want the mass of white people with
us, but will welcome those whites who have
money and who are willing to come among
us for purposes of trade. If they wish to
make their homes there. and will make our
customs their customs, our people their
people, We will be glad to have them with
US. But when the time comes we will wei
come only those who will make themselves
the new cities, and you will find Compare
lively few negroes in Guthrie, Oklahoma
City, Edmunds, and other towns You will
observe, however, that we never take a step
backward, and only our own people know
how many of our race there are there, but
prefer to fill the country with farmers and
encourage our people to go to the cities only
as our needs demand. Before the end of
the year you will find the work of the Broth
erhood IN the cities and towns to a marked
degree, and will see our racs behind the
counters and at the desks, and Will find that
they are patronized. We are willing to
have the whites build the towns for US, for
we are not. as yet, builders. They are do
ing all that for US. We do not propose to
impose upon the whites nor abuse our
power. We will simply stand by our own
people, and there can be but one result, and
that result will be a solid negro state, the
grandest in the union"
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Kansas CITY Gets No Early Train.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, March "A. ]. Van
landingham. commissioner of the Kansas
City Transportation bureau, met Allen
Marvel, president of the Atchison, Topeka
d Santa railroad, at the zion depot, and
rode with him in his special car as far as
Topeka. Mr.. Vanlandingham took advan-
tage of the opportunity offered to talk with
Mr.. Marvel on the subject of an early west
bound train from Kansas City. The presi-
dent of the Santa Fe sys' EN- had very little
encouragement to offer Kansas City in it's
movement to secure early trains, and he
was free to express the opinion that they
would not be put on in the near future.
MIR. Vanlandin ham returned to Kansas
City with A. A. Robinson in his private car.
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rerribl. Mortality Among soldiers.

LoNDoN. March 5.-A dispatch from Cal
cutta gives sickening details of the suffer-
ings of the British troops engaged in the
Chin Lusai expedition. Notwithstanding
the stringent orders telegraphed from the
India Office respecting sanitary precautions
the health of the troops shows no improve
ment. Of 1000 unjaub coolies sent from
Calcutta to reinforce the hin column. $50
men we're either dead or in the hospital be-
fore the q hin column had been forty-eight
hours in the hills. 1t is charged that this
mortality is due to the cruel acton of the
military authorities at Calcutta, who sent
these men to the front without tents or COW
ering, leaving them xposed to the heavy
rains