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out OF that city. The cataclysm
was fixed for April II.
Colonel John NJ. Fleming, editor
of the Knoxville, Tenn, Sentinel,
who is over 40 years of age, receiv-
cd n challenge from Congressman
James PheIan to fight duel. The
venerable journalist replied in a sar-
castle letter, intimating that the
Congressman is no gentleman, or he
wouldn't have suggested dueling;
therefore, not being a gentleman.
the editor could not think of meet
ing a man morally his inferior.
The Iowa House passed the Aus
tralia ballot reform bill.
Thirty cases of trichinosis occur
red at Aurora, Illinois, some Of them
traced to eating bologna sausagcs.
A gigantic theatrical trust has
been started to control at least one
large theatre in every big city
throughout the country.
The Massachusetts Humane So
ciety's presentation of gold medal
to Capt. Norman ii. Farquhar OF
the L. :. Flagship Trenton, for hav-
| ing saved the lives of 40 of the
crew of the L. S. S. Vandaia dur
ing the Samoan hurricane,is strongly
objected to by seamen of the L. $.
S. 1roquois who were part of tie
crew of the Trenton at the time of
| ~ l,ni
the honors were won by Lieutenant
Brown of the Trenton, who remain
ed alone on the bridge and coolIy
gave the orders to the men during
the height of the storm and until
after the Nandaia's crew were res.
cued from the sunken ships masts.
Several Ohio towns were damaged
by tornadoes on the Sth.
The Senate passed the Antitrust
bill. as reported from the Judiciary
Committee, by vote of ~ to Is.
Secretary Window has telegraph
ed to the Collector at San Diego,
giving him authority to employ all
the assistance necessary in prevent
ing the smuggling of Chinese over
the border.
Goodwin & Co., cigarette manu-
facturers, New York, have filed Il
complaint in equity against Mau,
Sadlcr Il Co., their San Francisco
agents, for dcfraudng them out of
sums ranging from one dollar TO
several thousand dollars.
Mckinley calculates the Rcpub-
lican tariff bill will make a reduc-
ton of $40, 100000 in the revenues.
At the municipal election of Ed
gerton, Kansas, the women's ticket
was elected, as follows: Mayor,
Mrs. w. II. Kelly; Police Judge,
Mrs. Thomas Green; Councilmcn,
Mrs. S. +. Ewart, Mrs. Stewart,
Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Nat Ross and
Mrs. Brown.
The House Committee on Pensions
has ordered favorable report on the
bill granting pension to Mrs. De-
liza Parnell, the daughter of the late
Admiral Charles Stewart and mother
of Charles Stewart Parnell. The
original bill, which provided for 500
per month, was amended to $50.
The official list of dead in Louis.
vile, from the late calamity, will
go little over hundred, with 10
fatally wounded and six crippled
for life.
Vice. Admiral Stephen c. Rowan,
L. S. ~, retired, died in Washing
ton, Mar. 81, aged 50.
Secretary Blaine has about com.
pletcd the preparation of recipro-
city treaty with Mexico, and it is
rumOred that the Senate committee
on foreign relations has given the
document its cordial consent.
Machinery for a new beet sugar
factory at Grand Island, Nebraska
has arrived from Germany, the same
steamer bringing 20 tons of beet
seed.
A committee of the Methodist
Episcopal Conference, in its report
dcnOunces the recent decision Of the
Supreme Court regarding the read
ing of the Bible in the public schools
as ''unamerican and pagan, and :
menace to the perpetuity of our in
stitutions." 1t holds that it is the
duty of Christian citizens to deny
that the Bible is scctarian, aRt
claims for it place wherever a
State attempts to educate youth fol
the duties Of citizenship.
The House committee on railways
, and canals has reported favorabl,
on the bill for the construction b,
: the United States of ship cana
around Niagara Falls. 1t is urge,
as war measure, the only means o
getting round the Falls now bein.
, by the Welland canal through Cana
, dian territory.
, Wendell Baum, secretary of th'
Suicide Club of Bridgeport, Conn.
has fulfilled the membership agree
mcnt Ivy killing himself. OF tn
five Germans who formed the cluI
5 four years ago under an agreemcn
r that one member should kill himsel
| each year, only the president re
: mains to commit the crime. Tn
others have all done it in rotation.
4 The sugar duty, i'm the final 0raf