The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1900-02-24
Saturday, Feb. ~.

SuCuTuhyp EoDs ASs
CoNGREss-House: Executive, legisla-
tive and judicial appropriation bill
passed The civil service appropriation,
stricken out in committee of the whole,
was restored-77 to 1923. Senate not in
session.
General Otis again reports that con.
ditions in the Philippines are improv-
ing.
Three Massachusetts, volunteers arc
reported to have been tortured to death
by Filipino insurgents.
The League of American Wheelmen
has voted to relinquish control Of racing
and abolish the amateur clause of men,
bership.
The Central Passenger association
lines have agreed to give rate of 1
cent mile for the G.. A. r. encamp-
ment in Chicago.
Justice Hunt Of the Montana supreme
court gave sensational testimony before
the Clark investigation committee. He
said he was approached with a $780,
600 proposition.
MONDAY, EcD. H.
CoNGREss-Senate: Hawaiian bill under
discussion House,: Porto Rican tariff
bill taken up.
Congress is expected to adjourn early
in June.
Another vessel loaded with American
goods has been seized at Delagoa Bay.
The railroad presidents compact is
said to be in danger of speedy collapse.
The transport Indiana is scheduled to
sail on next Saturday, with freight for
Manila.
The stock of the Pittsburg Plate Glass
company, Minneapolis, was damaged
$135, 600 by fire.
The national buttermakers' conven-
ton opened Monday at Lincoln, Neb.
st. Paul is after the next convention.
The appropriation for the civil service
commission, killed by the house in COM
mittee Of the whole, was restored on
record vote.
Senator Clark of Montana has testified
before the senate investigating commit
tee. He says he subscribed over $780,
600 to the campaign fund, but denies
that he was guilty Of bribery.
Tuesday, Feb. 20.
CoNGREss-Senate: Fifty-two pension
bills passed. Hawaiian bill further con-
sidered House: Debate on Porto Rican
Tariff. Hopkins, Newlands and Swan
son (Va delivered speeches.
Mrs. Annie E. Lodge, mother of
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, is dead at
Boston.
A British army order invites the re-
servists to rejoin the colors for year
for home defense and offers 922 bounty
to those who do so.
The president has signed the proclaim
alton making public the Samoan treaty.
The proclamation is in the usual form,
save for the section relative to the ex-
change of ratifcations, and recites the
treaty in extenso.
Leander J. Mccormick, member Of
the famous harvester machinery firm,
and founder of the Leander Mccormick
observatory of the University of Vr.
ginia, died of pneumonia at the Virginia
hotel, Chicago, Monday.
Wednesday, Feb. FL.
William s. Beard, famous as painter
of animals, is dead at New York.
At Chicago Oscar Gardner, the Omaha
Kid, and Tommy White fought six fast
rounds to O draw.
Marechale MacMahon, widow Of the
second president of the third republic of
France, is dead at Paris.
At meeting of the Democratic con-
gressional campaign committee James
D. Richardson of Tennessee was elected
chairman.
The house of commons has rejected
the motion to reopen the inquiry into
the Jameson raid by vote Of 2s6 to
152.
The Massachusetts house had it's an
nual debate on woman suffrage Tues
day, resulting in the defeat of the
proposition-124 to 32-a larger major.
ity than for many years.