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The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-20

republican party had never in a cam-
 paign advocated the retirement of the
 greenbacks and that it would not be
 able to defend the bill before the coun-
 try. He said that national bank cur
 rency secured by government bonds
 could not be permanent settlement of
 the currency question unless we have
 a permanent and increasing national
 debt.
 Taking up the Philippine question, he referred first to the Puerto Rico bill and said: "The desire to impose import duties on goods coming from Puerto Rico compelled the republican party to disclose it's imperialistic tendencies. This bill has raised a storm of protest from republicans in public and private life, but why should any republican be surprised? Imperialism means that the people brought under the flag are not to share in the guarantees of the consti- tuition. It is amazing that republicans have contemplated the permanent ac- quisition of the Philippines without stopping to consider the future etatus of the Filipinos. Are the Filipinos to be citizens? What good does it do to ex- clude few Chinese and then bring, in by force S,000,00O Filipinos? If the Fili- pinos are not going to be citizens, are we going to change our constitution so as to hold them in perpetual stage of vassalage? Can we expect anything but their hatred so long as we rule them carpet-bag governors? The re- publicans have opposed the considera- tion of the Philippine question by the cry that nothing could be done until the insurrection was put down. The Puerto Rico tariff bill, however, gives us some idea of the treatment which the Filipi- nos may expect, and Professor Schur- man, one of the presidents commission CTS, says that this bill will arouse sus- picion in the mind of the Filipino as to his future condition.''
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TEXAS TRUST LA IFS SUSTdINED. An Opinion Handed Down by th,
 Unified Stntea Suureme Caurt

Washington, March 19.-In the United States supreme court an opinion was handed down to-day in the case of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, involving it's right to do business in the state of Texas contrary to the provisions of the state antitrust laws of 1889 and 1895. It was charged among other things that the Waters-Pierce company was a member of the Standard Oil trust, az, organized in 1882, and various other al- legations were made, but the court did not enter upon general discussion of trusts, contenting itself with a discus- sion of the Texas trust laws as applica- ble to this case. The opinion sustained the decisions of the state courts to the extent of affirming them and was thus opposed to the contentious of the oil company, but 1t did this upon the ground that the state laws imposed a condition which the oil company had accepted and hence was without ground of complaint.
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"old Bullion, Ion New Bond.

Washington, March 19.-The head of Thomas Fl. Benton of Missouri will decorate the new per cent. bonds for $1,000. Benton by his persistent oppo- sition to paper and silver and demand for gold currency was given the soubri- quet "Old Bullion" The new registered bonds will all bear draped figures on each side, one representing the law and the other the genius of war The first will hold a tablet bearing the word Lex" The other figure will hold a firebrand aloft and will have a battle scene for Q back ground. Different DOT traits will decorate bonds of different denomination
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HOTEL PROPRTETORS FINED. New Hartford Men Whose Places Wer, Raided by Law and Order League. |.

New Hartford, Conn.,, March 1S.- Harry L. Clark and John Conroy, pro- prietors of the two hotels in this place, pleaded guilty to-day to selling intoxi- eating liquors on Sunday, March and II and to keeping open house on the same dates Each paid fine of $12O and costs of nearly SS0. This is the outcome of the raid made week ago by agents of the law and order league. The agents of the league came here to-day to try the case and one of them was in possession of a search warrant for gambling implements and seized a gambling machine in Conroy's place. The warrant was issued by Judge Welch of Torrington. Secretary Thrash CT assisted Prosecuting Agent Bearse and Wellington B. Smith represented the accused
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Lnrrest SinuIe Insurnuce poIicv.

Providence, March 19.--What is be- lieved to be the largest single life insur- ance policy ever written at one time on the life of one man was placed last week by August Belmont on the life of John Mcdonald, contractor for the New York rapid transit tunnel The policy is for $2,000,O00 for term of five years, and was taken by life insurance company the amount to be distributed among most of the companies in this country and some in England
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Prominent NrSvtoyvn Man Dend.

Newtown, March 19.-George w. Bradley, a prominent citizen of the Gray's Plains district Newtown, died at his home to-day after short illness from pneumonia, aged seventy three. He is survived by a widow and one daughter, the wife of Judge Frisco of Enfield The deceased represented Newtown in the legislature of 1860 and again in '7S-79. He was generous con- tributor to the county press and was highly gifted as q writer of verse.
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A Military Experts Opinion.

London, March 19.-During the pause in the military operations in South Africa Spenser Wilkinson, writing in the Morning Post, deals speculatfvely with possible movements. He says: Lord Roberts may send one or two strong cavalry columns to move unex- pectedly on various points, thus upset ting the Boer plans of defence, and rendering possible an advance of three converging forces on Pretoria, without any heavy preliminary fighting"
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A GHOST STORY AND A DEATH
4 STRANGE OCCURRENCE INA DAN
 BURT FAMILY.

Mrs. Charles w. Lee Sees the ApparItton
 of Her Father Who Has Been Dead
 Fifteen Years-It Passes Through Her
 Room With the LifeIess Body of Her Mother-A Few Minutes Later tho | Mother is Found Dead.
 Danbury March 1s--Mrs Charles w. l Lee, wife of we'll known painter, is alarmingly i'll at her home on Jefferson avenue in consequence of a most url- toward experience which she claims to have undergone. The circumstances surrounding the case are exceedingly peculiar to say the least and have fur- nished much food for discussion to the friends of the family and others who have learned of the story It is a tale whereby Mrs. Lee maintains she saw the ghost of her father, who died tif-S teen years ago, and his appearance was coincident with the sudden and wholly
 unexpected death of Mrs. Lees mother. Mrs. Lee has but recently rtturned
 from the hospital and was convalescing
 from a severe attack of illness. Her
 iiioliS1, 4Nll D. CtllS, d WOlIldu tl .llLLy
 five years, whose home was in Brook lyn, has been stopping at the house. Az she was obliged to be up considerable during the night in attendance upon
 Mrs. Lee, the mother decided to remain in bed this morning and along towards noon MT. Lee brought her a light re- past into her room and she chatted and appeared in her usual health. Soon af
 rewards MT. Lee was attracted to his wife's room by her outcries and found her in a state of utter collapse. She maintained she saw her father pass through her room and soon afterward return with her mother in his arms. She was so positive that her mother was dead that in order to calm her MT. Lee went to the mothers apartment and was astounded to find that she was dead though he had left her scarcely five minutes before in apparent good health. Death was due to heart disease.
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Failure ofn New York Builder,

New York, March 19.-John Kehoe, a builder of this city, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, With liabilities Of l,o2O,- 900 and no assets. The greater part of the liabilities are merely nominal, con- sisting of bonds and mortgages on prop erty which he formerly owned and which he sold in the course of business but he is still liable as maker of the mortgages. Of the liabilities $1,401, $50 is secured by bond mortgages and $115,- 2S5 unsecured.
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All the Necessary Steps Taken to Protect
 Them,

London, March 19.-Being asked a question In the house of commons to- day regarding the reports of trouble threatening to occur in China, the par liamentary secretary of the foreign of flee, Sir William St. John Brodrick. said that her majesty's government had taken, and continued to take, all neces- sary steps to protect British interests in this connection. He also denied the story published in the United States that the American government were sending Warships to China.
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Asccndency of Anti-FOreiSn Party Be-
 coming More PrOnounced DniIY.

coming More Pronounced Daily.
 Pekin, March 19.-The ascendancy of the anti-foreign party is becoming more pronounced daily. The dowager en1- press appears unable to sufficiently re- ward the officials who exhibited marked hostility to everything not Chinese. Hen Ha Tung, probably the most bitterly anti-foreign official of the empire, has been decorated with the three-eyed pea cock feather which had not been con- ferred for eighty years. The notorious Li-Peng- Hing, who was dismissed from the governorship of Shang-Tung on Ger man demand, has been advanced to the first rank, and the former governor, 1uh-S Sien, Of Chan Iung has been ap- pointed governor of the Shan Si district, snub to the powers interested and likely to prejudice British interests in the province.
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Roa,r Connor.o Hav. con,,o,

Waterbury, March 19.-The directors of the Waterbury baseball team met tonight and unanimously decided to give Roger Connor the sole control of the makeup of the team and it's man. agement this season. The team as al ready decided upon will include the old infield.
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ANGLO BOER W1R SITUATION.
Nnfeking Probably Safe-A Fight Ex-
 pected in Natal.

| London, March 20--4 a. m.--The wal office has had no news up to this hour
 confirming the report of the relief of
 Mafeking, but George Wyndhom, par liamentary under-sectetary for war, re- plying to a private inqairy in the lobby | of the house of commons about mid night smilingly said: II think it is tall right"
 | The Free Staters seemingly have not quite collapsed. They are in considera- b1e force around Smithfeld, although much dispirited. A British spy from Rouxville says that Commandant Oily fer and a commando are going to Kroonstadt. The agents he left behind are using desperate means to raise re- cruits. They are communicating Brit ishB Boers under penalty of death Kroonstadt, where the Boers are con- centrating, is a hundred and -thirty-sev en miles from Bloemfontein. It is sur rounded by a country of hills and jun gles.
 General Gatacre is now resting at Sprngfontein preliminary to joining Lord Roberts. General Buffers hill work before Ladysmith has given him an experience which is about to be used in forcing the Biggarsberg range. It is believed that 25,0o0 of his 400O0 men are about to engage General Botha's force and the next news of fight will probably come from Natal. The leaders of the Afrikander Bund are circulating a pe- tition in Cape Colony asking the i'm peral government not to take away the independence of the Boers. Thirty-two thousand additional troops for South Africa are now still at sea-
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For Rebuilding of Thenter Frnncais.

Paris, March 19.-The chamber of deputies to-day adopted a credit of g. 400, 900 francs for the reconstruction of the Theater Francais recently de- strbyed by fire, and for the provision of a temporary home for the Cemedie Francaise at the Odeon. The financial bill was then voted in it's entirety after the rightists had declared that they would not participate in the vote.
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Peoples Parry Leader Dead.

Seattle, Wash, March 19.-Herman F. well known aa the former chairman of the national committee of the Peoples party, died in this city to- day. He came here from the east about two months ago in delicate health, and has since been resting quietly at the home of his brother His body will be sent to his former home in Illinois.
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ed to table the reconsideration until the next meeting, and MT. Walsh seconded The amendment was lost and when it came to a vote on the motion to adopt no quorum was present and the board adjourned
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REV. DR. .TTICHELL,S FUNERAr. To bo Held nt His Late Home i'm North.
 ampton To-mOrrow

The funeral of Rev. Dr. Justin E. Twitchell will be held from his late home in Northampton Wednesday af- ternoon at 3 o'clock. A large number of the people from this city will attend the funeral and the bearers will be members of Dwight Place church, of which Rev. pr. Twitchell was formerly pastor for thirteen years.
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Metropolitan Gets Third Avenue.

New York March 19.-President II. K. Vreeland of the Metropolitan Street Railway company tonight issued a statement to the effect that the Metro politan Street Railroad company had secured a controlling interest in the Third Avenue Street Railway company
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Rubonic pIngue In nAnstraItn,

Adelaide, Australia, March 19.-Five deaths have recently occurred here from what is suspected to be the bu- bonic plague.
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TrOops at Cnrnarvon.

Carnarvon, Cape Colony, March 19-- The Canadian Mounted Rifles, under Colonel Herchiner, and the Canadian artillery, commanded by Colonel Crury, have arrived here with a contingent of yeomanry. The presence of this force here has had an excellent effect in the district. It is reported that large force of insurgents is in the vicinity of Van Wyksvlei.
 fComplete Earlier AnglO-Boer War AdyiceS
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Sydney, N. s. w., March 19.-Another death from bubonic plague has occur red here and two fresh cases are of ficially reported.
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HOUSE IS DETERMINED. Will Not Concur with Senate Amend d m~nts to Puerto Rican BilI,

Washington, March 19.-The house to- day refused to concur in the senate amendments to the Puerto Rican relief bill The democrats supported a mo- ton to concur on the ground that it would avoid further delay in extending relief to the inhabitants of the island, but the republicans stood firmly behind Chairman Cannon in his demand that the house should insist upon its original provision to appropriate not only the money collected on Puerto Rican goods up to January 1, but all subsequent money collected or to be collected The remainder of the day was devoted to District of Columbia business.
 Measures of National Importance.
 Two measures of national importance and many of slightly lesser interest were passed by the senate to-day. The legislative. executive and judicial ap- propriation bill, carrying more than $25,000,000, was passed without debate. The measures providing for the ap- pointment of 8 commission to adjudicate and settle claims of citizens of the United States growing out of the war with Spain was also passed without op- position. For a brief time the Puerto Rican government and tariff bill was under consideration MT Foraker, in charge of the bill, submitted some com- mittee amendments. A few of them were agreed to, but the important ones are still pending. A free. trade amend ment to the bill was offered by Senator
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Lust Ntgbt's Flights.

Lynn, Mass, March 19.-Danny Mc- Bride of New York was given decis- ion over Martin Flaherty of Lowell af- ter two minutes of fighting in the first round at the Prospect club tonight on the ground that the latter did not break clean. The match was for fifteen rounds for a purse.
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New York, March 19.-Matthey Mats thevs of New York met Eddie Connolly of St. Johns, N. B., at the Hercules Ath. letic club in Brooklyn tonight and Con- nolly was so badly used up in the four- teenth round that Referee Charley White interfered and stopped the bout to prevent Connolly being knocked out, and gave the decision to Matthews.
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SITUATION IN CHINA.

[Complete Earlier Anglo Boer War Advices
 on Page g.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30

Prison may be and must be a place
of punishment, but the punishment can
be made to fit the degree of crime in
some measure. In making the SUCCESS
tons made in this article the writer
wants to steer thoroughly clear of one
rock on which so many split. One has
no desire to make prison life more easy
than life outside. 1t is upon this that
so many prison .reformers go astray.
The prisoner is kept at the expense of
the state. Every article that one buys
| in store where the dealer pays a Ii
cense, gives it's quota to the support of
the prisoner. AS a fact a recent calcu-
lation by a statistician proves that the
people of the United States pay $780,
OOO,0 a year towards the support of
their criminals. The sum almost takes
ones breath away but it can be veri-
fed
We do not want to treat our criminals
too we'll We do not want to be too
harsh with those who have only over
stepped the line little. We have no
for proper game, with Fred Jones who
is in for bashing in the head of some
one he got into a quarrel, with, or with
Sam lily who has played the burglar
game from New York to Hongkong and
finally brought up here.
The suggestion of the authorities con-
Injected with the Jail is good one, and
should be carried out as soon as possi-
BILE. 1t is not a question of clothes. but
| it is a question of trying to save the
self respect of the erring who have
strayed but little way from the right
path.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30
SOME FIGURES.

The number of forecasts as to who
will be elected for president is almost
equalled by the number of forecasts as
to how it must be that everyone of the
three delegates for Hawaii will be cleo
ted. However the former is far more
interesting from a national point of
view, no matter how much the latter
may be from the local standpoint.
One of the latest diagnoses of the
coming election is that Mckinley will
hold all the States he carried in 1896, eX-
cepting Maryland and Kentucky which
show an inclination to go for Bryan and
Indiana, which is doubtful and is the
scene of desperate political conflict.
Bryan, on the other hand, will hold
the States he carried in 1896 with the
exception of Kansas, South Dakota,
Wyoming and Washington, which are
practically assured to Mckinley and
Idaho and Montana which are doubt
full.
The same source of information says
that the Republicans have no chance
of carrying Missouri, Colorado, Utah
and Nevada, while the Democrats have
an equally hopeless prospect in their
efforts to break into New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut.
The probable vote for 1900, will give
25S to Mckinley and 16S for Bryan,
leaving Idaho 8, Indiana 10 and Mon
tana 3, or p in all, as doubtful. Sup
posing Mckinley to lose these Bryan
would have but 1S9 There are those
who give to Bryan Illinois "a, West Vir-
ginia 6, and Delaware 8, or SO votes
more, and even then his vote would be
but 222 or behind the required number
for choice. The total vote of the cleo
toral college being 447, and 224 being
necessary for choice.
This latter reasoning is absurd al
most. The Republican phalanx is
strong and it will not be knocked to
pieces in this way. Even the Democra-
tic papers go over these figures and
cannot better them. Their last hope is
New York, but New York is not going
to vote for Bryan in spite of his bril-
liant but unpersuasive rhetoric. The
silver issue kills Bryan in New York
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30
PRISON REFORM.

The recommendation of the Attorney
General with reference to the classih-
cation of prisoners is only in conso-
nance with a number of articles upon
prison reform which appeared in these
columns before the last Legislature.
For many years it has been a constant
effort on the part of prison reformers
TO get the prisoners classified.
There are men who have by law, to
be confined in prison whose crime is
nothing like that of other criminals.
Take for instance drunkenness. The
habitual drunkard is man diseased.
Yet the law of the territory condemns
% that diseased man to the same punish
ment, as in melted out to the thief or
the slugger. That the habitual drunk
ard should be restrained, no one will
gain say, but that he is on the same
plane as the thief, no one, without a
moral strabsmus, will grant. One
might go on an enumerate a number
of offences which justice has to con-
slider, but which are by no means really
infamous.
"hdl tire AllOTHey -SeHeTdl is AIM
ing after and in this he is being as
sisted by the High Sheriff and the
Warden of the Jail, is to practically
divide the sheep from the goats. The
long service men should be separated
from the short service men. 1t is the
policy of all jails and penetentiaries.
To argue the case appears futile 1t
IS a self evident proposition and the
arguments have been placed over and
over again before the legislatures of
the past, but with the usual turn down
of insufficient funds. OF course such
reforms should be advocated by the
Prison Commissioners. AS far as The
Star knows there are Prison Commits
sioners stiH in existence. Up to the
resent those worthy and amiable gem
tlemen have confined their duties to an
inspection at uncertain periods, and re-
ports which is so buried in the mass of
reports that no one seems to have dug
them up. But after all they are no
more amiss than other committees, who
report in like way and that is the end
of the matter. In point of fact if there
is not an earnest prison reform man on
such a committee it becomes a hollow
farce. This is what has been in the
past.
Warden Low, when in charge of Oahu
Prison. was very anxious to make the
reforms on a much greater scale than
is now proposed. His idea, and it was
a good one. was to have the present Jail
used for the worst class of prisoners
For the minor offences he wanted a
farm established where those serving
light sentences might be employed in
useful and congenial work. There
would be ploughing, breaking ground,
the attendance supon stock. the looking
after crops. and so forth, all of which
would call forth the better attributes of
the men. 5'ifSah'i -
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30

The acreage of sugar beets on the
Continent of Europe has been increased
slightly in most countries this year.
Germany has 1,O9O,521 acres in beets, an
advance of 81 per cent, Russia has L.
S56,075 acres an increase of rs per cent,
Belgium has made the biggest increase
She has gone up from 1925 acres to
17OO2S acres, an increase of Is per cent.
Russia and Germany are the largest
beet producers in Europe, Austro- Hun
gary stands third with S39,151 acres and
France fourth with 6S5, S91 acres. From
which can be gathered how important
the beet industry is to the countries OF
Continetal Europe.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30

The very cool reception which Bryan
has received in New York disposes of
his chance in that State and with that
of his entire chance of election. With
out New York his chances are absolute
ly nothing. Those who have been vacil-
lating as to which side to vote on had
better come into the fold and vote the
straight Republican ticket here. Nc
Kinley and prosperity is the watchword
of the Republicans, and it has ring
ing sound With Republican certain
ty, We should make a mighty poor
showing in Washington with a Demo-
cratic delegate. There are only seven
days to think in. Political minds had
better be made up quick.