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Current Comment.
Battlefield of Vicksburg.
IA u oh lilo a Lei ,lin pnaAn.l

From the Philadelphia Record.
Under the provisions of the bill to estab-
lish national military park at the battle
field of Vicksburg, which passed in the
house and senate and now awaits the ex-
ecutive signature, about 1900 acres of ter
ritory including the confederate fortfica-
lions. the national cemetery and the fed
eral lines, will be acquired by the United
States and brought under the control and
supervision of three commissioners, to be
selected from the forces which took part
in the siege and defense Of Vicksburg in
1865. The locality Is to be made memo
rial battlefield in the South as Gettysburg
is in the North, and in due time it will
be marked at every point of interest with
appropriate monuments and tablets.
Twenty-Five of the states were represented
by troops in the military operations be-
fore Vicksburg under Grant and Pember-
ton; and these widely scattered common
wealths will heartily unite in commence
rating the deeds of valor there achieved.
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| ~ CENTENNIAL eXpositions in such
numbers that it is very diff
cult matter to keep them all in
mind are in contemplation for the early
years of the new century. The century
will be ushered in by the worlds fair
at Paris and by another in Venezuela.
The revolutionary centennials of this
country are all past but there are
other events in the early history and
growth of this country that will be APP
propriately concentrated.
1t was on November II, 1900. that
congress first assembled in the city of
Washington and that event will be
properly observed, although there is no
plan at present for an exposition in
Washington. Ohio proposes to celebrate
in 1902 the one hundredth anniversary
of its admission to the union, and San
Francisco proposes to celebrate next
year the fiftieth anniversary of Califor-
MAS admission. ST. Paul and Omaha
are talking up expositions and Buffalo
is now before congress with a request
for an appropriation towards a Pan
AHlGTlCdu EXPOSITION TO De nelu III lndI
city.
Probably the most important of all
the eXpositions in contemplation for the
early years of the century will be the
exposition in commemoration of the
hundredth anniversary of the Louis
lana purchase. This will come in the
year 1903. It is proposed to make this
worlds fair and to hold it in st. Louis.
That city is perhaps the best selection
that could be made in which to cele-
brate this event, having been included
in the purchase, and Montana will take
particular interest in the exposition on
account of having also been a part of
Louisiana at one time. The people of
st. Louis are already planning for this
exposition and are extremely anxious
to do better than Chicago. Particular
attention will be given to representing
properly and fully at this fair the re-
sources, wealth and products of Amer
ica's new possessions and to represent
the various tribes and peoples occupy
ing them with their habits, customs,
dress and dwellings. Doubtless there
will be villages illustrating life among
all the Philippine tribes.
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In the Klondike Region.

n COPY of the Klondike Miner
and Yukon Advertiser a paper
published weekly at Dawson.
has reached the Standard desk. Tho
paper is of recent date and tells of the
very large number of INDECENT people in
Dawson who have to be supported by
the public this winter
The Miner urges the necessity of reg
ulations governing the acquiring and
the working of hydraulic ground. If
favorable laws covering this branch of
gold mining were provided it would be
a strong factor for the future develop
ment of the country. The Miner speaks
of another point which is retarding the
development of the gold fields. 1t is
that the city of ottawa is the place for
application and grant. This is the oc-
casion of very great delay.
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Five DeadIOcks Yet.

Z n five states senatorial deadlocks
| still continue and in four of these
states they must be broken this
week or those states will be represented
in the United States senate by only
one senator. In Delaware, Nebraska,
Utah and California the legislative ses-
sions are limited to sixty days and the
sixty days will expire before the end
of this week. In Pennsylvania there
is no constitutional limit to the length
of the session and the balloting may
go on indefinitely.
1t is likely that some of the deadlocks
will be broken before the end of this
week. In Utah all apparently hangs
on the findings of the investigating
committee which was appointed to in
quire into the charges of bribery pre-
ferred against McCune. In California
there are signs that an agreement may
be reached before the end of this week.
In Delaware there seems no hope of a
break and the little state will lose a
senator.
The Nebraska deadlock is one of
the most stubborn of all. Sixty. bal
lots have been taken with scarcely a
change in the voting. The republicans
have majority of thirteen on joint
ballot, but are dividing their vote
among three candidates. A plan for
deciding the contest has been suggested
by the populists, but has not as yet
been agreed to by the republicans. 1t
is in the form of a resolution which
pledges the members of the legislature
to support the governor in calling a
special election to be held Immediately
after the adjournment of the legsla-
ture, at which election the people are
to vote directly for their choice for
United Stataes senator. A special ses-
sion of the Legislature is then to be
called and the members are to vote
unanimously for the candidate who has
received the largest number of votes
in the election. The republicans object
to this plan for the reason that they
cannot agree on any particular candi-
date, and with the republican vote of
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~ ONGRESS will adjourn at the
" end OF this week. If it adjourns
without first passing the bill
which makes Dewey admiral of the
navy some explanations will be re-
CURED OF the members of the lower
house by the people of the United
States
1t is not believed that single person
in this country denies the right of
Dewey to this honor. Never was an
honor more deserved, never was there
country were more unanimous; people
of all parties and all conditions, than
they are on this proposition of making
Dewey admiral. Yet the bill comforting
this honor passed the senate two weeks
ago and has not been heard from in the
house.
There is a discreditable rumor in con-
nection with this delay in passing the
Dewey bill The rumor is to the effect
that the bill is being delayed on account
of the personal friendship of Represen-
tative Boutelle of Maine, chairman of
the naval committee, for Sampson. Bou-
telle does not deny Dewey's right to the
honor, but 1t Is charged that he has de-
clared he will not favor the passage of
the Dewey bill until Sampson is like
wise granted the honor which his
friends have marked out for him.
This action on the part of Represen-
tative Boutelle, if true, is exceedingly
discreditable. The people of the United
States are not agreed on the question
of whether Sampson is deserving of the
the majority of the people are at a loss
TO know what Sampson has done to de-
serve this honor. If the credit for the
victory at Santiago does not belong to
Sampson During the fight he was ter
miles away and did not reach the scene
in time to fire gun. Furthermore, he
took from the blockading fleet the New
Ign, speedy enough to keep up with tho
Spanish vessels, in order to make his
trip to Siboney, although knowing that
the Spanish fleet might at any hour
seek 10 escape. He could have made
the trip to Siboney in a steam launch
just as well, but he took the flagship
He gained no glory in the fight at San
tfago and he certainly proved a disap-
pointment at Matanzas and San Juan.
But whatever view may be taken OF
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A Scrap in Ohio.

+ 1NLEss Mckinley is engaged in
still hunt Senator Joseph B.
Foraker is on top in Ohio just
now. He has been downed in thatsstate
again and again, but he has a large
following and is a hard man to keep
down.
A few days ago the Ohio Republican
league held a meeting at Dayton and
gave the president distinctly to under
stand that in making plans for 1900 he
must reckon with Foraker. and that if
there is to be unity of action among the
republicans of Ohio Foraker must die
tate the terms. The platform adopted
at Dayton eulogized Foraker but did
not mention Senator Hanna's name.
The president and the Ohio delegation
in congress were endorsed so far as
their action conceded with that of SEN
ator Foraker. While Governor Bush
nell has been denounced by the McKin-
ley organs of the state as traitor and
renegade he was lauded to the skies
in the Dayton platform for his patriot
ism and fidelity
It would be singular, indeed if Nc
I<inley should fail to get the delega-
ton from his own state. But the Han
ma barrel has not yet been opened.
That will probably turn the tide as it
has done heretofore.
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TEN PAGES.
The Time for Caution.

@NLY four days remain of the
~ present session of the legislature
of Montana. Under the consti-
tuition the session can only continue for
sixty days. The sixty days of the pres
emit session will expire at midnight on
Thursday.
1t behooves the conservative members
of the legislature to be exceedingly
Watchful during the closing days of the
session in order that no pernicious leg
islation may be passed. The worst bills
always come to the front towards the
close in the hope that in the hurry and
turmoil of the closing hours of the ses-
interest or class may be passed. This
has often been the case heretofore; it is
sincerely to beihoped that it will not be
the case this year. There have been
fifty-six days in which bills could be
introduced and those which may now
beintroduced should be scrutinized with
great care. The merit may be doubted
of a bill which was not introduced
earlier in the session so that ample time
could be given for discussion and criti-
cism
J The legislature is to be congratulated
On the fact that it has a steering COM
mittee of exceptional ability. Among
its members may be counted some of
the most conservative as well as some
of the most able members of the legis-
lature. The people may rely on them
to prevent the rushing through of legis-
latfon of such character that it 'would
surely be repented in the future by the
people of the entire state.
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race, which not only decreases. the wear
on the rivet, but securely holds the
cutting edges together
The anti-smoke ordinance in Kansas
City has been sustained in court. The
court held that careful firing OF fur
naces is preventive of the smoke nuis-
ance.
1t costs $25 to call man a liar in Ne
braska, according to recent court de-
cision in that state. Time mas been
when such pleasantrps in Nebraska
cost lives.
The Rochester Democrat and Chroni-
Gle has in James III. Kelly subscriber
who has taken and paid for the paper
for 81 years, beginnins his SUBSCRIPTION
Feb. 5, 1888.
President Krueger's insensibility to
physical pain is very great -Four years
ago he was kept awake one night by
toothache, and he extracted the tooth
himself in the middle of the night by
means of pair of pincefs winch he
hunted up in the Kitchen.
A handy tool for carpenters use is 8
nail-holder, for starting nails IN cor
ners and places where the fingers can
not hold them easily steel punch
having a pair of jaws attached to its
face to grasp the nail and hold IT while
the hammer is driving it.
pa,s ~ ,..,.,5, 81 anv desired
a1a i auJus'e,' ,''hinh hos ~
. aug M 2 nsM nolutl, "t ,s,i sat ~ 80
pem s h ,a,uil.eu !. Oh , be mnyed 10
the position desired and held fast by
the holder 10 1ocls tbn laws in the head
GROUND Is easily thaWeu lon lining
operatlons by the use OIL new ap I,
aus harlls stove 1hpI''su VI. sieu'
Win poiler over tfe ilte-poA, me va
ter pelng heated and dlscnarseu IN tha
FORM OF Steam TO a tna"lhs enaiHoer'
Whlch IS placed over the srouha 70 pe
loosened.
Apropos of the vigorous discussion
which has been for some time in pro-
gress in scientific circles as to what
horseless carriages shall be called a
correspondent of New York paper
suggests the good old word 'go-cart.
This term has the merit of being short,
fully descriptive and thoroughly Anglo
Saxon.
President MoK;,1or,s SIGNATURE is
naxt to that ~ Iah,, davis and Tvler
tha MA mast ~ ~, of f>u n'r chef arsc,,,
tives Van P,rar;s ,.os tho hardest IN
deoinber tho,ah Iaffocson Tsy1or
HAYES Renian,i1, uo rrison and Garf,ald
navar ,iftad thair ~ i'm IN sipnine thair
names 7 a Adams, ;s small cranned
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MURDERED HIS WIFE.
Butcher Albert A. Becker Arrested for
the Crime

Butcher Albert A. Becker Arrested f,,r
the Crime.
Chicago, Feb. 26-Evidence strength
ening the belief of the police that
Butcher Albert "A. Becker, who was ar
rested yesterday on suspicion of hay
ing murdered his wife, did actually
commit that crime was furnished by
DR.. w. 7. Kirby, who, after a micro
scopic examination of the stains found
on the boards in Becker's barn. express
ed the opinion that they were made by
human blood. Further examination of
the barn has resulted in the discovery
of a small bunch of black hair, which
ne1ghbors say exactly matches that
Of the missing woman Search for Mrs.
Becker's body was continued though
out the day, catch basins and the rrai-
RE for mile in all directions being
thoroughly investigated, but no trace
or 1T was found. The ear rings ana
ring found in Beckers house, and which
the butcher declared he had Recently
bought for his second wife, were posi-
lively identified as belonging to the
missing woman.
From a story told by a fellow coun-
tryman of Becker, the suspected wife
murderer may be implicated in the
murder Is years ago of wealthy stock
dealer in Magdeburg, Germany. Becker
was faced by Henry Sander in the po-
nee Statlon to-uav anu charged WITH
having a knowledge of the murder.
Becker. however, denied the charge.
Sander. who also knew Becker when
the latter lived in Milwaukee. told the
police that Becker once tried to kill his
wife there, and but for Sanders inter-
ference would probably have succeeded.
Becker made a long sworn statement
to-day emphatically denying the.
charges against him and repeating the
story of his wife's disappearance told to
the police yesterday
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-LLxnchinp Threatened.

Omaha, Feb. 26.-At Crawford, three
miles from Fort Robinson. City Marshal
Frank d. Mooney was probably fatally
wounded, by. Louis Grossman, late trum-
peter of company c. LIST U. s. cavalry.
Grossman had only yesterday been dis
charged from the army. and In company
with some comrades had boarded the train
at Fort Robinson. All were more or less
intoxicated. Soon after the train stopped
Mooney who was standing on the plat
form. was shot down, the bullet entering
his eye and penetrating his head. Gross
man was arrested charged with firing the
shot. This he denies. Lynching Is threat
ened
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Family Trouble in Ohio.

From the Washington Times.
There are ribald folk who delight at
the report of Senator Hannas obstruc-
ton of General Grosvenors ambition to
be the governor of the Buckeye state.
This is understood to mean the use of all
the influence of the administrat ton in ia
vor of a rival aspirant There could be
no more painful instance of the ingrati-
tude which men in public life sometimes
suffer. The administration has not had
an apparently more devoted champion
than the Ohio statesman, yet he is ruth
lessly slaughtered because Senator Hanna
has schemes in his head
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Pertinent and Peculiar.

1loilo hasn't hotel
Korea has one locomotive.
Alaska contains 1913 saloons.
London has 15,452 policemen.
Rockefeller employs $4,000 men.
France has women letter carriers
Persia's shah smokes a $4,000 pipe.
United States has -20S,3sS saloons.
There are .3,100 breweries in Belgium
Alabama has woman cotton planter
Leather gloves are made in 25 states.
Brazil produces half the worlds rub
Der.
Connecticut has 1857 cotton opera
tives.
In Berlin sheet music is sold by
weight.
The invention of the typewriter has
given employment to 100000 women.
Uncle Sam gets something over $685.
100000 year from taxes out of tobacco.
Summer cars were running. in San
Francisco last week. The temperature
was 80.
The shipyards of Great Britain could
turn out a big steamship every day of
the year.
1t is said that the present annual out
put of chewing gum is about $4,000, 600
and is increasing.
A church in London still possesses an
income originally given to it for the
purpose of buying fagots with which to
burn heretics.
A minister al Pulaski, Pa, has been
dismissed by his congregation because
he insisted in a sermon that the rain
bow existed before the flood.
Shears and scissors are to be made
with ball bearings, the washer at the
end of the connecting rivet being cut
out on the under side to form ball
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The Adams Inquest.

New York, Feb. EFF the inquest into
the death of Mrs. Kate Adams is not com
pleted by Tuesday night. Coroner Bausch
will demand that further hearing be adj
journed until he can dispose of some out
standing cases.
Coronr Hart said to-day that as District
Attorney Osborn told him he expected to
finish the Adams case before the end of the
week. Cornish is to have another session
on the stand. several members and en-
ployes of the knickerbocker Athlete club
are to be called. and then the police OF
the detective bureau and the handwriting
experts will tell what they know and what
they suspect.
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When China Can Walk Alone.

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
British and American capital is now en-
gagged in putting up modern mills in
China and is teaching the native how to
run them. 1t will be some years before
these mills will supply the Chinese mar
kets with their products but each pass
ing year will record progress in that di-
rection. American exports of raw cotton
goods are decreasing When modern ma
chinery and Chinese cheap labor are COM
bined in the manufacture of the staple
goods of trade the question will arise, not
of an open door into the far East, but of
an open door out of the far East
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In Memory of Dingley.

Washington, Feb. 26-The annual meet
ing of the Congressional Temperance So
ciety tonight at the Vermont Avenue
Christian church was memorable one in
honor of the late Representative Nelson
Dngley of Maine, who was for IS years
president of the organization. Represent
tative w. Grout, of Vermont, vice presi-
dent. presided and made an address, in
which he spoke of the great loss sustained
to the temperance cause everywhere in
the death of Representative Dingley. Rev.
F. D. Power. the secretary; Representa-
tive Martin N. johnson of North Dakota
and Hon. Hiram Price also made ad-
dresses. ..
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Big Power Trust.

Pittsburg, Feb. 26.-The consumma-
ton of the $25, 100000 combine, the New
York Gas, Light, Heat and Power COM
pany, has been made possible by the
decision of the directors of the Stand
ard Underground Cable company to
surrender to the combine $146,0O0 worth
of bonds of the United Electric Light
and Power company Of New York, held
by it as collateral. 1t appears that the
combine, which is intended to absorb
the illuminating and power interests of
the country could not be completed
without these bonds.
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Prominent People.

Dr. Murray expects to have more
than half of the new English diction-
airy published by the end of the CEN
fury, up to the middle of the letter L..
The letter that has given the English
compilers the greatest difficulty is, Gu
riously enough, the letter H,
Mrs. McCumber, wife of the senator
elect from South Dakota, was former
ly resident of Fargo, where she was
employed as assistant manager of the
Western Union telegraph office. While
still Miss Jennie Schorning she was
transferred from Fargo to the Wahpe-
tore office, where Attorney McCumber
wooed and won her.
Nine. Modjeska, the actress, is one
of the few people who can do two en-
tirely opposite things at the same mo-
ment. She will sit upon the stage ap-
parently writing a letter that causes
her the greatest grief and agony-the
tears running down her cheeks and the
sobs shaking her whole frame-and on
the paper that lies before her she draws
caricatures of persons she knows.
Since the death of Mrs. Depew some
thing more than five years ago, Miss
Annie Depew Paulding, 1.-THE senator's
niece, has been at the head or the dis
tinguished New Workers. home. This
young lady will preside over Senator
Depew's home at the national capital.
She is the daughter of Senator Depew's
sister, Annie Mitchell Depew who mar
ried William II. Paulding, and who still
lives at Peekskill N. Y.
Henrik Ibsen. the Norwegian dramat-
list, was intended at first for a doctor,
and at the age of 16 he had to don a
druggists apron. His ambitions car
ried him a little beyond that. and he
decided to become a doctor and read
up for examination at Christiana. In
the course Of his study he was reading
Sallust, and the character of Catiline
so took his fancy that he wrote little
play introducing him. This was Ibsen's
first dramatic work.
The Phillips Brooks club of Boston is
made up of workingmen of all creeds
although its rooms are in connection
with the Episcopal Church of the Re-
deemer The work of constructing the
rooms has been done by the members
themselves and their friends. The rec
tor, Rev. A. B. Shields. has succeeded
in raising all the money necessary to
defray the expenses up to the time
of opening, and now proposes to set
himself the further task of establish
ing a library suitable to the needs and
tastes of the workmen.
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Rio Plant To Re Sold.

Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 26.-Negotia-
lions will probably be completed for
the sale of the plant of the King, Gill
bert & Warne company of this city to
the company organized to control the
Bessemer Steel plants of the country.
The Columbus plant is one of the larg-
est in the West, comprising three blast
furnaces and a large steel mill. 1t
is said to be the intention of the new
company to make Columbus one of the
principal producing points.
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the controversy between the friends of
Sampson and the friends Of Schley the
whole country is unanimous on the sub
ject of Dewey's promotion. The bill
giving Dewey the honor due him should
be passed at once and let Boutelle's
rider" making Sampson vice admiral
take its chances on it's own merits.
Sampson should not desire to ride to
honor on Deweys name
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A Heavy Loss.

Evansville, Ind, Feb. ga tornado
passed over Evansville to-day. The
Evansville Brick company's plant, the
Diamond Coal company's building and
one residence We're destroyed and many
private homes were unroofed. Other
minor casualties were reported. Other
loss will be heavy
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WAY of the Wife.

From the Indianapolis Journal
The Fat Mani believe my wife looks
on me a piece of furniture.
The Thin Man-Very likely. But how
did you find that out?
'She told me the other day. that my
chin was So handsome that ought to
grow a beard TO protect 1t from the
weather.