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De Lessons, Confession.

Paris, Feb. 2S.-The Figaro to-day pro-
fesses to reveal some sensational points
affecting men who have stood high in
the government, which points, the Figaro
claims, were elected by the examining
magistrate, NJ. Franqueville, during the
recent examinations of Charles de Les
seps. The Figaro states that Charles de
Lesseps testified that it. was owing to the
urgency of the late minister of war, NJ.
de Freycinet, and the late president of
the chamber of deputies, Nj. Floquet, and
of NJ. Clemenceau, that he yielded to the
demands for money made upon him by
the late Baron Reinach and Cornelius
Herr, Reinach having threatened in 1883
to bring a public suit against the Panama
lanai company, the exposures attending
which might have proved highly disas-
trous to the company. The Figaro goes
on to state that when NJ. de Freycinet
was questioned by M. Franqueville as to
this avowal Of Charles de Lesseps, NJ. dc
Freycinet admitted that he had employed
his influence to dissuade Charles de Les
seps from mourning the risk of q law suit
which would be likely to have damaging
consequences for the Panama Canal COM
pany:, M. tloquet, when questioned by
truth of the statement of Charles de Les
seps; so far as it affected him. The re-
port III the Figaro occasions considerable
comment, in view of the terms of init
macy known to have existed between De
treyclnet and Herr, and the sympathy
That de %treycinet is alleged to have ex-
hibited in Herr, s success.
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Monday, February 20.

The bill for Incidental expenses of the
state law library come up in the senate
and Was amended and passed.
A communication from the state audi
tor relative to the inquiry OF the con-
current resolution OF Mr.. Kinter, as to
the license OF railroads and express COM
panies, to the effect that no such license
had been paid by such companies.
The communication was referred to the
attorney general with request for his
opinion.
The following bills were introduced in
the senate:
To legalize county seat elections and to
remove any defect therein.
To repeal section SAG, chapter 1873,
laws OF 1890, relating to the transfer OF
freight and tie duties of railroad com
missioners in connection Herewith.
To repeal laws relating to duties of the
railroad commissioners.
To repeal laws relative to commission
ers OF railroads.
For womlan's suffrage. Proposing
constitutional amendment.
To regulate fees Of district court clerks.
To amend the penal code making the
exposing OF poison a misdemeanor.
TO NIX Tne salary OF JUDGES, OF county
courts on basis OF population.
To pay expenses of sheriffs in removal
OF prisoners from county funds.
Constituting the superintendent OF
irrigation and forestry, ETC., commission
er OF fish and game.
Concurrent resolution to amend the
constitution, changing location OF the in
stitution for the feeble minded from
Jamestown to Grafton.
To provide for the division Of civil
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Home Ru1e Victory.

London, Feb. 2S.-In the house of
commons to-day Mr.. Gladstone made a
motion that on Tuesdays and Fridays
the house meet at , o'clock in the after
and that government business, es-
pecially the second reading of the home
rule bill, have precedence over all other
business. Henry Seton-Karr (Conserva-
tive) moved that Mr.. Gladstone's propos-
al be rejected. He accused the Liberal
leader of scheming to rush business
through. The government, he said, had
already ~monopolized the whole time of
the house, thus preventing the members
from introducing bills. Such a course,
Mr.. Seton-Karr held. was a wanton
outrage on the rights of the members.
Mr.. Gladstone's proposal was carried by
a majesty of AZ, the vote standing 27O
in favor to 22S against it.
Sir William Harcourt, chancellor of the
exchequer, introduced the liquor
trade veto bill, and it passed the first
reading.
William G. Cavendish-B entick Con
%servative) asked whether the attention
of the admiralty had been called to a
recent celebration at New York, at which
President Harrison vas present, when
the flag of a steamship that had been
built and subsidized as a queens cruiser
had been changed and the flag of the
United States hoisted in its stead. Mr..
C%avendish-B entick also wanted to know
whether the admiralty would henceforth
prevent such a proceeding. Right Hon.
Sir U. Kay-Shuttleworth, secretary to
the admiralty, replied that there was
nothing to prevent the transfer of a
British mercantile cruiser to a foreign
country after the period for which a
subsidy had been granted her had lapsed.
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Thursday. February %.

In the senate Milier's resolution III re-
gard to resubmission was laid over.
The following bills were passed.
Appropriating $500 for Selkirk bury
ing ground purchase.
Appropriating $4,000 for worlds
fair.
Appropriating -, 1OOfor reform school
expenses.
Appropriating IS, 900 for school land
expenses.
Appropriating $4,000 for aid to free
schools.
A free text book amendment.
In the house all senate appropriation
bills passed without change.
Also the following bills.
Appropriating $4,000 for the gov
ernor's house and furniture.
A bill in regard to railroad right OF
way.
A bill compelling railroads to run at
least tri-weekly trains.
Among the important bills introduced
were:
Extending to June l the time for taxes
to become delinquent.
Putting cost of destroying n~oxious
weeds on railroad and other adjoining
lands in the shape of a tax lien.
Placing cost OF prisoners and insane
persons transportation on counties.
Allowing towns and cities to fund
debts,
Taxing elevators $3.50 on each 1000
bushels capacity, and fixing grain stor-
age charges at l 1-2 cents for every 80
days thereafter.
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ON TO
The vice President on the Wa

The Vice President Oh the way
Bloomington, ILL.,, Feb. 2S.-An Bloo1u-
ington arose bright and early to-day TO
bid Vice P~resident-elect Stevenson n
party a fitting farewell and give them
God speed on their triumphal march TO
inauguration. Gen. Stevenson and TAM
lily were up unusually early and started
for the union depot in carriages about
7:3O. Upon arriving there he found a
multitude of fully 1000 people waiting.
When he alighted from his carriage It
was about 1:4O. .
His family Immediately went to a prl-
vate car, which was in waiting, but MI.
Stevenson was compelled to stop and say
good by to everybody and give each a
farewell handshake. 1t took him until
almost 8 o'clock to reach his cal. In
thusiasm ran high and he vas saluted
upon every turn with loud huzzahs. At
exactly s o'clock the train pulled out,
and as it passed the depot one grand
final yell was given which seemingly
almost shook the earth. Just before the
train moved it was photographed with
Mr.. Stevenson and party standing upon
the rear platform. The entire train was
run under the auspices of the Illinois
Democratic club, and from here to Wash
ington it is in charge of Hon. John Eddy,
the chairman of the clubs committee on
railroad. The baggage car was filled
with provisions, etc, and in one end con.
tanned a barber shop. Next to the bag
gage car was a dining car which was
equipped with eatables sufficient to sup
ply the party for eight days. Its larder
was filled with everything healthful and
palatable. Following the dining car were
four of the finest and largest sleeping
cars. Following these was a private
car of President Cakes. of the Northern
Stevenson for his personal use. 1t is a
fine car, named "Glacier,'' and was
taxed to its greatest capacity.
When the train was filed there were
about one hundred and twenty-five
people aboard, among whom We're,
besides Mr.. Stevenson. wife and chill
dren, Hon. and Mrs. James s. Ewing
and son Spencer; Mrs. Stevenson's sis
ter, Mrs. NJ. r.. Scott and daughters.
Burnette of st. Louis; Mr.. AM! Mrs. J.
L. Bum and daughters, Misses Lucy
and Fanny; Mr.. and Mrs. John Steven
son, Thomas Stevenson and William w.
Stevenson, Hon. B. II. Funk. the newly
elected congressman, who will succeed
Hon. Owen Scott after the Inauguration;
Hon. Robert Il. Williams. Charles Ste
yenson, nephew of the vice president;
G. H. Ensinger, Harry c. Bum of Chi
cago, w. H! Bum of Warrensburg, Mo.
and a number of newspaper men. In the
crowd were representative Democrats
from Pekin. Decatur. Lincoln, Minonk,
Saybrook, Mason City. Delavan and 9th
err surrounding towns. Mr.. Stevenson's
mother, who is eighty-three years of age,
did not accompany her son on account
Inauguration Vice President Stevenson
and family will return to this city, where
they will remain until next December,
unless a special session of congress is
called.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04
Friday, February 20.

In the house on vote to refer the resub-
mission resolution to the committee on
temperance, the resubmissiOnists showed
themselves to be in the majority. .
The house passed the committee substi-
tute for the railroad and elevator bill of
Churchill and referred Standish's substi-
tnte to the committee on grain and grad
ing;
The committee on appropriations re-
ported unEavorably the bill appropriate
ing money to build state fair buildings
at Grand Forks.
Gov. Shortridge sent the following list
OF appointments to the senate:
Trustees of the University OF North Da-
kota: N. G. Larimore democrat, Lari-
more, Grand Forks county; Sever Serum
gard, democrat, Devils Lake; J. 7. Ian
gemo, independent, Edinburg. Members
OF state board OF equalization from First
judicial district: W. E. Delong independ-
emit, Osnabrock. From Second judicial
district, Thomas Hesket democrat, Rolla.
From Third judicial district, A. B. Cup
till, republican, Fargo. From Fourth ju-
dicial district, Motif Stephens, independ-
ent, Wahpeton. From Fifth judicial dis
trict, William Dvyer, democrat, Napole-
on. From Sixth judicial district-Louis
Connolly, democrat, Hensler. Trustees Of
deaf and dumb assylum-Chas F. Spring
er, Devils Lake; JAS. McCormic,
republican, Penn; Q. Il. Aaberg, indie.
pendent, Devils Lake; John S.
Conyers, democrat, Cando; C. D..
Moores, democrat, Crazy. Trustees
North Dakota Hospital for Insane
Haivor Johnson, independent, La Moure;
s.. K. McGinnis, democrat. Jamestown.
Trustees Penitentiary at Bismarck-W.
O. Ward, independent, Bismarck; Job O.
Taylor, Democrat Members. State
Board Agriculture-First district: John
D. Parsons, democrat, Grand Forks;
Second district, John A. Ely, Towner;
Third district, John w. Burnett, indie
pendent, Cummings; Fourth district, Jens
Peterson, independent, Minor; Fifth dis
trict I. C.. Wade, republican, Jamestown;
Sixth district, Oscar H. Will, indie
pendent, Bismarck. Trustees for North
Dakota reform school at Mandan-Elijah
Boley, Mandan, republican, Morton
county; A. B. FLYNN, Mandan, democrat,
Morton county; j. II. Hager, democrat,
Sweethriar; T. C. Kennedy, democrat,
Mandan; W. l.. Yeater, independent.
WilliamspOrt.
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Another Firm EailS.

Philadelphia, Feb. 2S.-The debt Of the
Wellman Iron and Steel company is not Civ
en-, but the claim of the Brush & Sons COM
pany is for $40, 900, and that of Francis H.
SaylOr for 500, 600 for stock of the mill COM
pany held by them. while that of Boyd 4
Bros. is $500 for supplies furnished. The
claim of Madeira & Sons is not set out In
the bill. TIL mill company was chartered
Nov. p, 1889, with a capital stock of $780,
600, which was subsequently increased to
$500, 900 Its works are at Reading, in prop
erty leased from the Reading Railroad COM
pany, covering forty acres Of ground: It
employs $50 men, and the assets include
valued at $50. $50 20. A considerable por-
ton of this is the absolute property Of the
ials and stock in process Of manufacture to
the value of 1851, 743.G6 There are also
$4,000 worth of accounts receivable, pay
able by debtors throughout the country.
The liabilities consist Of g $4,000 mortgage
held by the Reading Railroad company,
bills payable accounts $217,s12, accounts
payable $4,000, and wages and salary S.
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SUDDENLY BLOTTED OUT.
TEN PEOPLE ARE INSTANTLY
KILLED.
The Burned Walls of a Building Are
Blown Down, Falling Upon
Tenement and Burying the
Unfortunates In the
Ruins.
Terrible Fatality.

Chicago, Feb. 2S.-At 1870 o'clock this
morning the wall of a building Wblch
was lately burned at 1877 Halsted street
was blown down. 1t fell upon a two
story brick building at 765 Halsted
street, occupied by the families of john
Smith, a saloonkeeper, and James hunze'
a jeweler. Ten people were killed by the
falling wall. They are:
John Smith; Dollie Smith, his daughter,
aged thirteen; "Babe" Smith, son, ten years
Of age; Hattie Smith, daughter, four years
of age; Pauline -, domestic in tho Smith
family; James KunZe; Mrs. James kunze;
son Of James Kunze, twenty-one years or
age.
The building which collapsed was owned
by John York, a large dealer IN dry goods'
and was destroyed by fire a few weeks ago.
1t was five stories high, nearly $50 feet
deep, and had a heavy front Of white stone.
York began to rebuild Immediately after
the fire, and as not all of the walls We're
down he had built the new wall on the top
Of what remained of the old one. 1t is sup
posed that the green wall was not sufll-
GENTLY braced, although York said tonight
that both, the contractor and himself De-
lieved it to be entirely secure.
The weather during the early part OF the
evening was calm, with a little rain falling
but about II p. m. the wind began to rise
and by midnight it had increased to n gale
The high walls of the York building began
to shake in the wind and a policeman who
passed in front Of it shortly before it fell
Informed the Canalport avenue station tha'
he thought it would bear watching. nc
was told to look at it closely, and II In DIS
mind there was any danger to warn the oc'
cupants of the neighboring buildings tc
move out. He turned back to the build
ing and when within two hundred feet
Of it, there was a deafening roar. a large
white dust cloud, a succession Of shrieks
from the building occupied by the Smitl
and Kunze families and it was over. Be
fore aid could arrive the ruins Of the de-
molished buildings had caught fire from
the stoves and began to blaze furiously'
The efforts of the fire department., which
had also responded to the alarm. were
enough to extinguish the blaze without mucl
difficulty and the work Of rescue was begun
Later-The body said to be that of Fred
Kunze, the son, Is supposed to be that OF
Smith. Kunze Is badly injured, but ID still
alive,
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townships having two or more congress

townships having two or more congres-
sional townships.
Authorizing cities to levy and collect
an annualpoll tax.
Constituting boards of audit for cities,
and to provide for the presentation and
building OF claims.
Appropriating $500 to defray the ex-
penses in transferring exhibits from
Worlds fair to the state board of agri-
culture.
A substitute for senate bill No. 76
Hospital appropriation for building):
To authorize the board of directors of the
hospital for the insane to issue bonds in
the sum of $4,000 for the erection OF lad
ditional buildings and the equipment
thereof.
Adjourned to Thursday.
In the house Mr.. Hangar was made
speaker pro tenn for the day.
The following bills were introduced in
the house:
Amending the law providing for the
taxation of property in the unOrganized
counties and expense of levy and collec-
ton.
Requiring notation on instruments
transferring real estate whether taxes
i pNAu Va uAAO SOlA " OuACo
Amending laws in relation to the col.
lection OF statistics by cutting out acre
age and amount per acre of wheat and
other products.
Providing for the publication of the
revenue laws as amended by the legisla-
ture OF 1898.
Reducing the salary to 81 per year for
the state superintendent of forestry and
irrigation.
Memorial to congress asking the pass
age of q graduated income tax. The re-
solution was passed,
Committee on grain and grain grad
ing: Substitute for house bill No. 2, in
PRODUCED by Mclean. Providining a pro-
cedure for the condemnation OF land for
the site OF competing warehouses. Sub
stantially the South Dakota law-the
bennett Measure with unconstitutional
features eliminated, and appraisers of
damages to be appointed by the courts.
Submitting an amendment to the con-
%stitution for woman's suffrage.
Memorial to congress in relation to the
allotment OF the militia fund. Congress
appropriates $500, 600. Missouri draws
5000 more than five times as much as
North Dakota, while their militia force is
much smaller. The allotment is made
upon the basis Of representation in con-
gress.
Amending laws in relation to redemp-
ton from tax sale-requires a fee OF fifty
cents to be paid into the county treasury.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04
Assaulted ON the Street.

Chicago, Feb. 2S.-At the main entrance
to the court house to-day, in view Of hun
dreds of people, Samuel Baxter Foster, at
torney for the Grand Trunk railway, vas
assaulted and knocked senseless by Phillip
Wood, q Texan. Foster is executor OF the
estate of Alonzo c.. Wood, and the Texan
is one of the contestants Of the will, which
leaves IN estate valued at nearly 500, 900
ceased. Phillip Wood and other relatives
filed q bill to set aside the will, alleging
that Foster had exercised undue influence
ter filed a demurrer to the bill, and when
the matter was heard before JAdge Tuley
q few days ago, the demurrer was sus-
tanned and permission given to file an
amended bill. This. it is alleged, angered
Wood, and it is said that he threatened to
kill Foster and others connected with the
alleged that Wood visited Foster n Of
fered hime $40. 600 to withdraw from the
case, which Foster declined.
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Considerable Of n Press Fair.

New York, Feb. 27.-The officers of the
Press club to-day gavs a press view Of
the interior Of the Grand Central, palace.
where the great press club fair and bazaar
is to be held during May. The new build.
Ing which is next to the Grand Central
depot is said to be the largest exhibition
hall outside Of the Chicago fair grounds.
face Is to be occupied by the press club
fair. the object of which Is to complete the
fund for the erection Of a new press club
largest exhibit of its kind in the United
States.
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To Blow Tn n DistilIery.

Cincinnati, Feb. 27.-There is a re-
port of a daring attempt to blow up the
Dolsworth distillery at C~ummingsville
last evening. A trap had been set to
blow up the whole concern. Under the
anhydrite and nitro-glycerine. The phos-
phate anhydrite explodes when it ONE
in connection with water. This would
ignite the nitro-glycerine, and the whole
distillery and bonded warehouse would be
blown to atoms. 1t is precisely the
scheme employed to blow up the Shufeldt
Gistillery at Chicago.
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A General Strike in Sfrht.

Chicago, Feb. q. Unless the de-
mands of the striking electrical workers
are granted all members of the build
ing trades council, representing twenty
seven trades, will quit work at the
worlds fair grounds. This was the de-
cision reached at a meeting of the build
ing trades council at No. 1877 Washing
ton street, last night. This, the strikers
work done at the fair grounds by May
l. Seventy n%on-union electrical workers
joined the strikers.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04

Ethnologists who have of late a
been studying the Beast Men" or
the "Wolf Children" of India have
come to the conclusion that the story
of Rome's founders is probably rue.
A wild boy found running on all tours
in company with a female wolf and
her cubs in the north of india, could
climb a tree with as much agility as a
squirrel; would lap water or suck it
like a cow or q horse.
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Russeu Harrison's Paper.

Helena, Mont. Special, Feb. 2S.-Russell
Harrison's newspaper, which was attached
by the sheriff election night, will appear
again in q few days. The new editor and
manager will be Lemuel Eli Quigg, the
well known newspaper and magazine writer
of New York city, who was also literary
editor of Chairman Carriers national Re-
publican committee during the last cam
paign. He has a three-year contract signed
by L. Fl. Hershtield, a millionaire Hebrew
Republican with political aspirations: The
aafter1 Don Republican paper, and issue both
a morning and evening edition, which will
probably take some name other han the
at once and set things il motion. It is
supposed Richard Kerens of st. Louis has
let go Of the Associated Press franchise,
which Russell Harrison hypothecated with
him
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04

J.. NJ. Barrie, the Scotch novelist,
is a modest and dif1ident little man
whose large and luminous eyes always
seem to be asking to be forgiven for
rushing into print. He has a large
head, with lots of gray matter in it.
1t is reported that Goodwin Smith
will start an annexation newspaper
in Toronto, and that it will have a cap
ital of 100000. Whose money will
be swallowed up in the venture is not
known.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04

The monomaniac who, in 1889,
stopped Queen Victoria while she was
riding on horseback in hyde Park
and proposed marriage to her, has re-
Gently died III Bedlam, the celebrated
insane asylum of London. He seemed
to be perfectly sound on every other
subject, was well educated, and wrote
very sensible memoirs relating to in
sane asylums and the reforms which
might be made in them. He was
eighty four years old.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04
Shot Afmaa1P

Northfeld, Mimi, Special, Feb. 27.-Eu-
gene Blood committed suicide to-day by
shooting himself through the heart. A
young Lady to whom he wa engaged Is
SICK ana not expected to live. Young Blood
went to see her this afternoon. and ON re-
turning went at once to his room and shot
himself. He was twenty years Of age and n
son OF Horace Blood. a retired farmer Of
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1893-03-04

building; so erected for any increase re-
covered in the district court, together
with the costs incident thereto. Such
condemnation OF said right OF way and
said right OF occupancy shall only extend
to so much Of backgrounds as is necessary
for the accommodation Of such public
warehouse"
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The POpe's Health Improves.

Rome, Feb. 27.-The pope is much better
of his cold, and this morning said mass in
his private chapel. Somewhat later he re-
ceived Count Revertera- Salandra. Austrian
ambassador. who presented. to him a letter
Of congratulation from Emperor Franz Jo-
seph and several gifts. one Of them an
This afternoon the pope received the Scot
fish pilgrims and listened to a Latin adj
dress read in their behalf by Archbishop
Macdonald. After the presentation OF
the Peters pence. the pope expressed his
gratitude and Mgr. Merry Del Val read q
formal address from the pope to the pill
grimS.
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For the Pensiouers.

washington, Feb. 2S.-The pension am
preparation bill was passed by the senate
today without any amendments. 1t appro-
tnge widows and minor childreD $1S5. OOO.-
w. and about $1.5O0,OOO in addition for fees
OF examining surgeons, clerk hire at pen
SION agencies, and some small items. Mr..
German commented upon the magnitude OF
pension appropriations, and gave it as his
opinion that It you'd be necessary to ap-
session.. f neAe