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WOMEN As BooT-BLAcKs.
Novel Contest to Raise funds for
Library Association.

Novel Contest to Raise funds for a
Library Association.
OTsEGo (AIich.l, March 1.-THE lead
ing society women Of this city have been
engaged in novel contest to raise money
for the benefit Of the Ladies' Library
Association. For several weeks each
woman has been trying to outdo her
neighbor in originality Of method and
financial results. II is intended ut pub
lie meeting that the competitors shall re-
late their experiences. Two women have
attired themselves in tattered garments
and stood on street corners grinding
hand-organs ard singing Annie
Rooney" etc. Several Others have been
engaged in boot-blacking and peddling
popcorn and fruit among their friends
All have a neat sum TO show for their
work
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TULARE LAKE LANDS.
The Application of California Denies
by the Interior Department.

The Application of California Denied
by the Interior Department..
WASHINGTON, March lin the mat
ter of the application of the State of Cali
fornia for certification of certain lands
in the vicinity of Lake Tulare as swamp
land, the Secretary of the Interior to-day
denied the application, holding that at
the date of the swamp land grant in 1850
the lands in question formed part of the
bed of the lake, and hence were not in
cluded in the lands granted. He holds,
farther, that while the urveyor-General
has been made the tribunal to determine
what lands were swamp at the date OF the
grant, his jurisdiction was confined to
lands that actually existed as such at the
date OF the grant, and therefore his APP
proval of the plats of survey in this case
can have no binding force on the depart
ment.
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SHOT IN THE HEAD.
a Portland Police officer Uses His
Pistol With Telling Effect.

PORTLAND, March III. McMahon
was shot and seriously wounded this
afternoon by Police officer Day Hutchins,
while resisting arrest. The officer, who
had a warrant for McMahon, who was
charged with obtaining money on false
pretenses, attempted TO serve it on one of
the principal streets. Mcmahon broke
away and ran down the street. The ON
Ger ran after him, accompanied by large
crowd of citizens. Jumping into an ex-
press wagon, McMahon drew u revolver
and fired indiscriminately into the crowd,
but without infiicting any damage. Offi-
Ger Hutchins drew a revolver and fired
al the fugitive. The bullet passed through
the base Of the skull. McMahon was
then captured. Hutchins was taken into
custody. The wound is not fatal.
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SUSPENDED BY THE NECK.
n German Sailor Suicides at Milpitas
Landing.

n German Sailor Suicides at Milpitas
Landing.
OAKLAND, March T.-News was re-
ceived here this morning by the Coroner
that man had been found at daybreak
hanging by his neck near Milpitas Land
ing.
This afternoon it was learned that the
suicide is Peter Westphal, German
sailor. He arrived at Milpitas Landing
last night and was around little
This morning he was found suspended
by the neck from a joist in the landing
barn. His feet were almost touching the
ground. His brother, also a mariner,
arrived at Warm Springs this afternoon
and said that deceased had been subject
TO fits OF insanity for some time past.
THE Coroner's jury, after investigation,
returned a verdict of suicide while the
deceased was of unsound mind.
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PoACHERs HANGED.
BRITISH COMMONS.
British Colonies Lose Revenue Through
Reciprocity Treaties.


LONDON, March lin the Commons
to-day the Parliamentary Secretary stated
that the loss in revenue to British colo
MES in the West Indies under the reci-
procity treaties with the United States
was: jamaica, SI45, 600; Leeward Islands.
$4,000; Windward Islands, $40, ,000; Bar
BADGES, 100000; Trinidad, 5000; British
Guiana, Sl45, 900.
John O'Connor again raised the ques-
ton of Irish representation on the Brit
ish Worlds Fair Commission. Attorney
General Webster replied that the Irish
members misunderstood the matter. Out
of twenty members on the list nine We're
Irish. Ii the Irish members handed in
other names they would be added to the
committee. Ireland will be well repre-
sent1d in the exhibition, and in the work
of classification care should be taken to
see that the wishes of the Irish member
aye carefully carried out
Sir Lyon Playfair held that the sum
now proposed for the grant was utterly
inadequate, and Baitour said that the
question OF increasing it would receive
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WILLIAMS TERRIBLE DEEDS.
Wholesale Murders by the Alleged
Jack the Ripper.
KILLS HIS WIVES IN ORDER TO
MARRY OTHERS

Franz Schneider StrangIed at Vienna
for the Murder of Servant Girls
General Barrios Takes Possession
of tho Presidency of the Republic
OF atomala-Anarchists Endeavor
to Blow Up the Residence of the
President of Court of Justice at
Liege, France.
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snecial 10 the REcoRD-Uxrox.

D
MODESTO, March 1.-THE house of
Mrs. Lawrence. the divorced wife of
Joseph Lawrence, was mysteriously
burned at midnight last night. The
= oman barely escaped with her babe
alive. The woman's hair was singed by
the blaze. She says her divorced hus-
band lately several times advised her to
insure the house: that he wanted to stay
all night last night, and when she refused
him he struck at her with a spade. She
believes somebody set fire to the house,
because there had been no fire for hours
before. The authorities are at work on
She case to see if it was the intention to
murder the woman and babe.
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Sugar VrIlst.

New YORK, March IA local paper
says report was current in Wall street
to-day that negotiations at Philadelphia
resulted in the American Sugar Com
pany taking the Spreckels and Franklin
refineries, and that it has also been de-
cided to tie up the S25, ,00D, 600 of new stock
of the company, half until the Old stock
reaches par, and the other to wait the con-
clusion OF the negotiations for it by the
SNnGinnfn
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Messiah Craze.

CHICAGO, March 17.-Information was
received at General Miles headquarters
to-day that interest in the Messiah craze
is being awakened among the indians of
the Northwest by the expected return cf
Short Bull and other Sioux chiefs, who
have been in Europe with the Wild
West shows. It is believed that Short
Bull, who is a reputed prophet of the
Messiah, If allowed TO return to his
people, will start the excitement anew.
The chiefs are expected to arrive at Fort
Sheridan on Saturday or Monday next.
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Man of Nrnnr 1viroc

NEW York, March Thames Taylor,
the man with one arm, but with wives, if
the police are right, more numerous than
the States Of the Union. is passing his
time in the Tombs, and does not seem
unhappy. Colonel 7. c. Tryon, the
private detective who arrested him, says
81 honestly believe that Taylor has sixty
or seventy wives living. He has been in
the business for quarter OF century
\ on know what that means. he las
been operating chiefly in the West and
South.n
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BarrIos In Possession.

New YORK, March 17.-Jacob Baiz,
Consul-General for Guatemala, has re-
ceived the following telegram, dated at
Guatemala City, the 10th: General Reyna
Barrlos took possession ofthe Presidency
OF Inc republic Yesterday. The Cabinet is
as follows: Minister Of Foreign Affairs.
Salazar: Treasury, Herrera; Public
Works, Felez; Public Institutions. Cab
raj: interior, lstraGa Cabrera.
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early attention. A vote of $4,000 was
then approved

Noland moved to adjourn discussion
on the vote for the Irish teachers fund,
on the ground that most of the Irish
members We're absent because of st. Pat
rick's Day.. Balfour said this was not the
fault of the Government, and after fur
ther debate invoked the closure. Noland's
motion being defeated-I2l to 4I-the
Irish members withdrew in a body.
Conybeare and Labouchere protested
against the Governments course, when
Balfour again moved the closure, adopt
ing the teachers fund grant-1l9to II.
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The Guensberc Failure.

ST. PETERsBURG, March 1.-THE latest
estimates put the liabilities of Guensburg
at 100000 to 2o,00o,0O0 rubles. The
assets are l5,Q00,G00 rubles.
LONDON, March 1.-THE Warburrs
of Hamburg have telegraphed their cIi-
ents abroad announcing their readiness
TO take up all of Guensburg's acceptances.
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army, leaves to-day for st. Paul, where
he will Join an engineering exploring ex-
pedition bound for Alaska. On arriving
there he will. for period of years, give
his attention to channel improvements
and general explorations. The exploring
party will be composed of $50 men, ap
pointed by the United States Govern
ment, which has of late taken particular
interest in Alaska, and wants to have
itself thoroughly posted as to the mineral,
agricultural, navigable and other present
and possible resources of that land.
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Raid ON Rncket Shons.

DENVER March 1.-THE police this
afternoon began a raid on the bucket
shops, a room which had been running
in the vicinity of the City Hall for the
past week being closed. 1t was fitted up
with ''clock" quotation devices. All
similar institutions in the city will be
closed
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Food for the Famine Stricken

LIBAU, March 1.-THE unloading Of
the cargo brought by the steamship In
diana from Philadelphia for the relief Of
The Russian famine sufferers, was fin
ished to-day. The first train load was
dispatched to the distressed districts amid
great ceremony, the American and Rus
sian officials toasting the health of the
Gar and President Harrison, amid the
playing of the national airs OF the two
countries
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a DOMESTIC IN LUCK.
She Falls Heir TO Half Million
Dollars.


UKIAH, March lit has just de-
yeloped that domestic servant in Ukiah
has fallen heir TO half million dollars.
she was in the employ of NJ. Newfeld,
who secured her services through an en-
ployment Office in San Francisco. She is
Mrs. Duncan, and was married in Lon
oon, where her husband died, leaving a
lsrge estate. 1t was involved in litiga-
ton, ana the widow had despaired of
getting anything. She had friend in
California, and came here, and being
destitute. engaged as a domestic. Her
friends here interested themselves in her
behalf, and employed New York attor-
ney 10 go 10 London, with the above re-
suit. Sne has now gone TO make good
her claim.
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sutter County Granners-

4UBA CITY, March 17.-At meeting of
the Yuba City Changers to-day it was de-
cided to hold their annual Grange re-
union at the large warehouse Of the Farm
ers' Union, on May 4h. e. w. Davies,
Master OF the California State Grange,
and other speakers viii be present
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silver orc in Missouri.

SEDALIA (Mo.), March 17.-While drill
ing well in the village of Lincoln,
twenty miles south of this city, David
Wenger struck vein of quartz, contain
ing rich streak of silver. Colorado ex-
perts pronounce the vein rich one, and
preparations are being made to develop it
on q large SCALE
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BOODLERS IN CHICAGO.
ROttenness and Corruption Charged
in Minneapolis Affairs.
ALDERMEN ACCUSED OF SHADY
TRANSACTIONS.

Bribery of the Most fragrant Kind
CharGed-Money Spent With Law
ish Hand-The Boodling OF the Cook
County Commissioners Thrown in
the Shade = The Indictment OF
Number of the City Dads Prom
ised When the Grand Jury Takes
the Matter in Hand.
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Claus spreckels Coming West.

NEW YORK, March lit is under
stood here and at Philadelphia that Claus
Sprec1els will shortly return to look after
his interests on the Pacific Coast leaving
the control OF his Eastern business to his
son Adolph, who arrived in Philadelphia
from the West Sunday, and is now daily
at the executive offices in Philadelphia.
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THE JAPANESE MISSION.
Ex-Speaker Frank L. Coombs Likely
to be Appointed.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Presi-
dent has made up his mind nottoa appoint
Major George II. Bonebrake Minister to
Japan. He had fully decided to do so,
according to members of the California
delegation, but he was not pleased with
Major Bonebrake's undipIomatic state
ment on the acceptance TO the press be-
fore the position was rendered to him.
Besides this good deal of opposition has
been manifested to him on account of the
semi-tropical irrigation matter. The
California delegation held meeting last
Monday and decided to recommend eX-
Speaker Frank l.. Coombs for the place.
Judge Waymire of San Francisco Will
get the place if Coombs does not accept it.
The delegation would rather it would go
to Waymire, if Coomps can be induced
to withdraw, but il be insists upon 1t he
will probably be annointed.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
PRESIDENT HarrisOn's Judicial
Nominations Confirmed.
FREE COINAGE LIKELY TO BE DE-
FEATED IN THE SENATE

Inc Interior Department Has Denied
the Application of California for g.
Certificate of Certain Lands in the
Vicinity of Tulare Lake Under the
Swamp Land Grant, Holding That
the Land in Question was Not In.
cluded in the Grant of 1850.
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until four or five years ago, when he re-
turned here. He was very widely known,
and very popular where known. He has
suffered for years with rheumatism, and
sudden attack of the disease on the
heart caused his death. He was native
OF New York City, aged 81 years.
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Two Brotners Drowned.

BEowE's LANDING Cali, March IL
While making fast the stern lines of the
schooner Monterey boat capsized and
two sailors, brothers, named Eli and i'd
ward IIlliSon, were drowned. The
bodies have not been recovered.
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FataI snloon OrarreI.

RosEBURG or, March 17.-During a
quarrel in a saloon to-day a. Hans
brough, brother Of Senator Hansbrouoh
OF North Dakota, was stabbed and killed
by Nicholas Jones. The latter gave him
self up, and is now in jail.
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An Fdftor Semi to Han.

ASTORIA >Or.), March 10. W. Dun
bar, editor of Iolc31 Totk, Il local newspa-
per, was to-day sentenced to one year III
the County jail ana TO pay ali costs o.
trial for publishing libelous articles con-
corning eX-Mayor samuel EIlmore
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Prohibition 20 NInlne.

PORTLAND (Me.), March ia move
ment is on foot looking to the formation
of societies all over the State to agitate
for the resubmission and repeal of a pro-
hibitory law.
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Raid on the Kings River Dams.

FRESNO, March yesterday seven
teen heavily armed men from the vicinity
OF Hanford blew out the dams OF the
Centerville, kingsburg and Emigrant
Ditch Canals, i'll hings River, with dyna-
mite. The lawless lnarauders have thus
far escaped detection.
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Passed BOTH branches.

JEFFERSON CITY (Mo.), March 1.-THE
Congressional redistricting bill passed
both branches Of the Legislature. It di-
vides the State in fifteen districts, fourteen
Democratic and one Republican.
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sudden Death at Grass yalIev.

GRASS VALLEY, March I7.-Last night
at 10 o'clock Edward McSorley dropped
dead in the Wisconsin Hotel. He was
iust starting to his room when death
seized him. Deceased came to Nevada
Comfy IN about 1852, where he mined
and kept saloon for years He then
" ent TO Eureka, New, where he resided
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Heavy Wool Cron.

RENO, March H.-Sheep men in this
vicinity are engaged in shearing. They
report the wool clip unusually heavy
and clear. The lamb crop is also very
large, and the high price OF mutton
makes the industry very profitable.
Sheep wintered splendidly, with no great
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Raise sensationaI Ranorts

SPRINGFIELD (Mo.), March 1.-THE
latest news from fancy County says
everything is quiet. Sensational reports
in regard to a battle between 1aney
County officers and murderers are with
out the semblance of truth.
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TronbIe Looked For

OZARK (Mo.), March IA large num-
Der of people are moving from fancy
County to avoid the impending struggle
between the Sheriff's posse and the Bright
lynchers. a rumor was current this
afternoon that skirmish had taken
place, but it cannot be verified vet.
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Died From IIfs Inturies.

WILLIAMS, March 17.-John Willing,
who was injured III falling from the raft
ers OF building on Tuesday, died last
night. One rib was found TO have pene-
trated the lung. He leaves two sons and
d daughter, all grown.
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s House CoIlanses.

TURLocK, March ia house belong
ing to Mrs. Martin of San Francisco,
While being raised TO put on an addition,
fell with Il crash to-day at noon, While
the Worilmen were at dinner. The loss
is 81, 900.
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NYarlike prenoratlnns.

WARSAW, March 17.-Extensive works,
such as the construction of roads. rail
ways and fortifications, have commenced
in Russian Poland. One hundred aud
fifty thousand Poles are employed. The
works will be completed in two months.
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Sudden Death.

HoT SPRINGS (Ark.), March l7.-Rev.
DIR. Ro bert McMurdy of Washington, d.
c., 20 years of age, and prominent in
Washington, Philadelphia and other
Eastern cities, dropped dead here to-day
of apopleXy
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NIiners Advised 60 Resnme Worl,.

LONDON, March 1.-THE conference of
the Miners Federation advises the min
ers to resume work Monday.
LONDON. March 17.-At a meeting of
the Lancashire and Cheshire coal mine
owners to-day it was decided to permit
work to be resumed in the mines on
Monday next. The decision affects over
1G0. 600 men.
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storm at Sisson.

SIssoN, March lit has been cloudy
and showery tor the past two days. To-
night storm set in, with prospect OF
continuing. The wind is mouth.
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Effects of the BIizzard.

TALALA q. IT,, March 1.-THE snow
storm which has been raging throughout
the Territory has caused a severe loss of
cattle. one mans loss alone is reported
to be 1000 head
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Famous Composer Dead.


NEW York, March 17.-Marks Strak-
hoch, the famous musical composer, died
this afternoon OF paralysis.
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a steeple-Cllmber KIlled.

LIvERMoRE FALLS (Me.), March IT.
Charles Shaw, the famous sleeple-
while repairing a church spire,
fell and was Instantly killed.
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Heavy SHOWS.

ALBANY, March 17.-The Assembly has
passed the Senate Worlds Fair bill APP
propriating $4,000.
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The Charleston at san Diego.

SAN DIEGO, March 1.-THE cruiser
Charleston has arrived in port and took
her old station in the bay at Il O'Clock to-
day
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Strlke ON the Canadian Pocific-

WINNIPEG, March 1.-THE conductors
and brakemen on the Canadian Pacific
struck this morning. Passenger trains
are moving, but few freights.
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Lottery Offices Closed.

LOUISVILLE, March 17-All lottery Of
fees here, including the general offices.
were closed to-day, permanently, it is be-
leyed.
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A Town In Flames.

MINNEAPoLIs, March IA. M.-At
ESQ A. NJ. a report was received from
Clear Lake, Wis. that the business por-
ton OF that town was on fire, and will be
totally destroyed. No particulars.
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COAST CHRONICLES.
A Divorced Woman's House Mys-
teriously Burned.
SHE BARELY ESCAPES WITH HEP
BABE ALIVE

A German Sailor Terminates His Ex-
isrence in This Wicked World by
Hanging Himself to a Rafter in q
Barn at Milpitas Landing, Alameda
County-A Domestic at Ukiah Falls
Heir to Large Fortune in England.
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WEATHER IN THE SOUTH.
Fruit Killed by the Cold Snap-Heavy
Fall of Snow.

New ORLEANS, March 17.-Dispatches
from many points Of Central and North
east Mississippi report heavy snowstorms
and freezing weather. At Helena, Ark,
the snow ceased to-day, after fourteen
hours, eighteen inches having fallen. A
dispatch from Dallas, Tex, says hurri-
cane of rain, sleet and snow ragged
furiously all last night. No part of the
State from Red River to the Gulf escaped.
At some points the snow reached the
extraordinary depth of twenty inches.
and everything that could be killed by
lS0 to 240 of cold is dead to-day. 1t is
conceded that the fruit crop is totally
swept away, but many think where the
snow buried wheat and oats the crops
will be saved. Dispatches from hun
dred points in the interior of the State
report that it is a calamity more severe
than anything that occurred in the past
ten years.
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Appropriations for the AIbatross.

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Secretary
Spalding sent communication to Con-
gress recommending that an item be in
serted in the urgency deficiency bill for
fuel supplies and other necessary ex-
penses of the United States steamer Alba
tross, in the waters of Behring Sea and
vicinity for the protection of the seal
islands and interests of the Government
in Alaska, under orders of the Treasury
Department, an appropriation OF $4,000
to be Immediately available.
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Panic on the Bourse.

BARCELONA, March IA panic pre-
vailed on the bourse here to-day and
number of failures are reported.
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CINCINNATI, March 17.-Heavy SHOWS
are reported IN Eastern Kentucky and
West Virginia.
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FELToN's ANTI-sUBsIDY RIr.r.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.

esterday's Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-In the Sem
ate to-day PETER introduced bill to es-
tablish an experimental station to inves-
tigate and determine whether electricity
can be profftably used as motive power
for farm machinery.
The Committee on Commerce reported
the Senate bill exempting American
coast-wise sailing vessels. piloted bv
licensed masters or by United States
pilots, from the obligation to pay State
pilots for services not rendered Placed
on the calendar.
The Committee on Military Affairs re-
ported a bill to amend the statute relative
to certificates of merit TO enlisted men of
the army, the amendment being to
change the word 'privates'' into the words
enlisted men," Passed.
The Senate then went into executive
session.
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WAsHINGToN, March I'm the House
the Committee on Military Affairs re-
ported a bill for the acquisition of site
Tor harbor defense at San Diego. Re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the free wool bill.
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Resources of Alaska.

OTTAWA (Ont.), March Nv. P. Bar
rett, an old pensioner of the United States
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PARIS, March l7.-Sixty anarchist sus-
poets were arrested by the police this
morning in kue Arbresec. In the Iodg-
IngS OF an anarchist named Cazeau the
police discovered "a quantity OF chemicals
used in The manufacture OF explosives.
SEIZURES AND ARRESTS AT BERLIN.
BERLIN, March 1.-THE police have
searched the lodgings of several an
archists, seiZe3 lntIammatory pamphlets
and arrested two OF the leaders.
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'eath of a Philanthropist.
a Prime Minister Ill,

LONDON, March 17.-Oliver Haywood,
a leading Manchester banker and philan-
thropist, died to-day.