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The Leon reporter., 1900-09-13

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The following warrants were through
motion approved as correct and war
rants ordered drawn for same.
w. A. Boone, cash advanced. ...$54 35
Thom pson & Warner md Sc ........ 7S
M. B. Austin & Co. supplies s......... 4 95
Globe Machinery & Supply Co... IL
Centerville Block Coal Co.. :. ....... 2l 80
Centerville Block Coal Go ............. 28 40
N. Bigley, hauling .......... ... 3 35
Farquhar Bros. supplies 55
Farquhar Bros. supplies. .... 2 55
James Marvin, mortar ........ IS
H. j. Vogt, miscellaneous ...... ....... 25
Western Wheel Scraper Co wheels 6 so
Gates Lumber Co., sundries. 4 rs
7. w. Ballew. tiling .. -. ........ Is 64
j. w. Honnold, labor on Streets. Al so
w. w. Potts, labor at cemetery % SO
Grant Johns, hauling ........... 25
Henry McKern, hauling. .. so
1t was moved and seconded that the
following warrants, drawn during vaca.
ton be affirmed as correct:
CALVIN Adalr...... $40 90
Calvin Adair r........ :. ... ........ ....... "a 90
Calvin Adair...-......., ....... ........ 20 90
Calvin Adair ...... 49,. 40 90
CALVIN Adair 100 90
Motion carried.
Motion was made and seconded that
a warrant be drawn in favor Of Calvin
and Walter Adair in full of balance due
them on contract for digging the Idaho
st. sewer, also for extra work on same
sewer, in the sum of twenty-eight dol
lars. Motion carried.
The following claims were then ap-
proved as correct and warrants were
ordered drawn for same:
A. NJ. Pryor, salary and extra la
bor.. $29 rs
L. M. Goodman, salary for Aug
usg. .:.................,..-,.. 70 w
VIM. Zimmerman, salary for Aug
uSt...-... ............... ...... ~ w
A. S. Lindsey, salary for August. 20 90
No further business coming before the
Council same was adjourned through
motion.
Attest
FOREST BowsHER, NJ. WooDARD. .
Recorder. Mayor.
Russ Bleaching Blue makes clothes
whittier than snow, delights the laun-
dress. All grocers sell it in and 10
cent packages.
License to Wed.
The following marriage licenses have
been issued by Clerk Stockton since
0ur Last iSsie.
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License! to Wed.

The following marriage licenses have
been issued by Clerk Stockton since
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Correspondence. s.
DAVIS civ.

81 Ns Wtnd last tuesday morning was
very severe here for several hours, blow
Ing Scott 4 cClaran's awning down and
crashed the wood work Of the awning
through one Of their plate glass win.
DOVE and demor allied it. Also signs
and shade trees were severely shaken,
and many blown down. Considerable
damage was done to fruit, and bushels
Of apples we're ruined.
pr. Laney and family took vacation
last Wednesday and all went for a visit
to their old home at Decatur.
Mr. Harris Of the Leon Marble Works
4 was on; our streets last Friday.
Az the political pot begins to boil
candidates become more numerous.
The Davis City Cornet Band furnish.
ed the music for the Woodmen picnic
at Decatur.
Mrs. Emma Horton visited her par
ents at Decatur last Friday.
Jim Adkins and family returned from
their trip to Oklahoma last Saturday.
He does not Nike that country as well
as old Iowa. He says the heat is in
tense and that the water is bad. Fruit
and vegetables are very inferior quail,
ity.
Frank Horton had business at Leon
last Friday.
y. II. King left for trip to Shenan.
doah last Monday.
Mayor Hamilton returned last Sat.
urday from an unsuccessful trip after
the thief that broke into MIR. Caves
store last.week. Mr.. Hamilton traced
him to st. Joseph, Mo-, and found
where he took breakfast Wednesday
morning also where he tried to sell a
suit of clothes to railroad man, telling
him that he had traded horse for the
stud. He had four suits of clothes.
several hats and a lot of gents under.
wear. He took d. B. Guthrey's horse
and rode it to Lamont where he turped
it loose and took one from another barn
and rode II beyond Kellerton where be
threw the saddle over in corn field
and turned the horse loose and went to
farm house and got his breakfast and
on le eaviDg the house the family noticed
that he took off through the woods in
place Of keeping in the road.
George Shoemaker visited his uncle,
Frank Citizens, at Decatur last Sunday,
making the trip on his wheel and com.
ing from Decatur in hour and Is min
utes. How's that for l5-year old boy?
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Woodard visited
in the country last Thursday nd Fri
day. = =
wa.
visited her ln-law }Grandma
Hopkins.the past week.
Will Woods and wife, of Shenand oah,
were in town Friday.
j. @. Keshlear has a new daughter.
Will Mel anphlin went tn Cainsvi)le
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Coal.

Hard and soft coal always on
Arnold & slgler.
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Harry Hatcher.
Mabel Inez Lowell.
j. Orman McKibbeI
Nellie A. Thomas %.
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To Cure a cou
Take" Weeks'I5rea
cheerfully reful
The Leon reporter., 1900-09-13

Russ Bleaching Blue makes clothes
whittier than snow, delights the laun-
dress. All grocers sell it in and 10
cent packages.
The Leon reporter., 1900-09-13

ber and November The rains have come
three weeks late, and. with their cattle
dead and they themselves enfeebled by
hunger, the small farmers cannot prop
erly prepare the soil. That necessitates
poor harvests, and that necessitates re-
lief, not only until those inferior haryests
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THE LOUD BILL KILLED.
SENT BACK TO COMMITTEE BY A HOS
TILE MAJORITY OF FIFTY-TWO
IN THE HOUSE
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.
Washington March 22-The so-called Loud
Postage bill. increasing the rates on second class
postal matter, met in the House of Representa-
tives to-day the worst defeat 1t has encountered
since .ts author began his campaign for postal
Reconsideration in the LIVth Congress. In that
body, on January ), 1897. Mr.. LIQUIDS measure
received substantial majority. but, owing to
the rush Of business inevitable at short ses-
sion, failed even to obtain a place on the Senate
calendar. On March 3. 1898 the House laid Mr.
Louds, project the table by vote of 162 TO
1i9. Undisturbed by this reverse, the California
Congressman renewed IN the present Congress
his determined fight for higher second class pos
tai rates, and until week two ago he seemed
to be sanGuine of winning second victory. The
vote in the House this afternoon disclosed the
emptiness of Mr.. LIQUIDS hopes for his bill was
recommitted, without instructions, TO the Com
mttee Postoffices and Post Roads by vote
Of AS TO 90. The hostile majority of fortythree
in the LVth Congress had thus swollen to a
hostile me jority of ifty-two in the LVIth Con-
gress.
Several powerful influences contributed to to-
days refusal to restrict the privileges hitherto
accorded to senders of mail matter now known
second class. The decrease of the postal
deficit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899,
was ore Of these for this decrease was held by
many members of the House TO hint at grad
ual but certain approximation OF revenues anc
expenditures in the postal service. Moreover, in
his advocacy of the measure defeated to-day
Mr.. Loud had undoubtedly shown disposition
to insist objectionable minor details. which
drove away many Representatives inclined to
support a less drastic bill TO cure defects admit
ted exist in the present system of postal
classification.
The majority in favor of the motion to recon-
nit was so decisive that it is regarded I'M
likely that the bill will appear again in TIE pres
ent Congress. Mr.. Loud. after the vote was
bounced said that this was the third time and
out, far he concerned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23

A BILL INTRODUCED BY CHAIRMAN RAY
OF THE HOUSE JUDICIARY


Washington, March 22.-Representatve Ray, of
NewYork. chairman of the House Judiciary Com
mittee has introduced bill 10 amend the Bank
ruptcy law. He makes a statement in regard to It,
In which he says
The most important changes six additional
objections to discharge. viz:
Flrst-Obtainng property credit upon a
terially false statement in writing.
Second-Making preference. though the bill
makes II necessary that the creditor, relying upon
this objection shall prove that the preference
fraudulent.
Third-The making of a fraudulent transfer of
property.
Fourth-That the bankruptcy merely con-
tributed TO or brought by gambling.
tlth-That discharge shall be refused to any
one who has previously been discharged within six
years.
sixth-That discharge shall be denied to any
one VINO refuses in the of the proceeding TO
answer any questions approved by the Court
Inc Dill also provides that mercantile CORPORA
lions may be adjudged voluntary bankrupts after
receiving the consent thereto tority of their
stocAhoders; also, that voluntary receivership of
an lnsolvent corporation under the State laws shall
pc an act Of bankruptcy It shortens the time
Ipo twe1iy-fve days to ten days when default
mon where the debtor has absconded. The bill
makes the wife a competent witness, Irrespective
or the laws of the State.
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sn the Din.sy act Is ogsrays The proDe
70 think to impose Is per cent TSsr as some
in the argument for this small customs e.setn
way for the internal expenditures OF puerto ssest
to be raised; that, raised IN this way IL ysis.o
some other way which might be NOR -. u IN
that in some way II must be raised and 49, Gus:
is to be returned TO Puerto Rico. ths-. ,.arif
justification in charsiag the United States VITO no
with anything but due regard for the interests
o. that island LII, y u does not put the Puer,s
them free trade II is only because Il gives gfhars
without the relief ard return above staioS
would be.
TRUST IN AMERICAN HANDS.
It's people never were induced by any act Of ~.
Ghed States q Thqy s o to
that. of course. no guarantee was ever extendss -
1e 8s an 10 Tor us sa gre4a
are trust in our hands. Hitherto. argg
under the military government OF the Presidsnsrn
Courts have been set "; g. schools aave been. es-
use. the ravages of the hurricane win be mod
Grated labor emPloyed and rd the island in few
Rome was not built in day and tie Republi-
can be trusted to deal honesty fairly and J risb
day no question that has awakened more ,pS.r. .,
than the Puerto Rican question under dis.
egssop legislation pIa nSoTes no ard
right. and the Republican party can be trusted
I confess that not forcibly struck With
the objection that IL Is dangerous and inequitabla
that some OF the administrative laws applyfn,
to our new possessions. like Puerto Rico. should
differ from those which apply In the States
received a letter the other day from good friend
who. pressing this point. said the nation cannot
endure with two laws under flag. That IA
one of those apt phrases that sometimes carry
a man off his feet. 1t is terse and sounding. Ny
replv Is that certainly there should not De tya
laws for the same people applying AZ the same
time under the same circumstances On the other
hand the nation has endured for over century
with one law for men. another for women and
another for children; the laws Of one State have
been contrary to those of another, even in the
same State-our own. for instance-there is rum
for everybody in town and rum for NOBODY
in the adjoining town
II Is not only the part of wisdom, but II Is
naitber an Infringement on fair dealing nor an
exception 10 the custom of our own nation to
have commercial. statutory provisions or police
reruIations in the new islands differing from our
own but adapted to the circumstances.
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MINING CONCESSIONS AT CAPE NOME.

SECRETARY SAYS NO DISCRIMINATION HAS BEEN
PRACTIsED IN GRANTING THEM.
Washington. March 22.-Se cretary Root made a
brief statement to-day in regard to the action Of
the War Department in granting licenses to pros
pectors TO dredge the waterfront of Cape Nome,
Alaska in their search for gold. He admitted that
one or two such licenses had been issued. but 20
whom he did not remember. it in the regu-
lar routine of the Department. There about
dozen more applications of the kind file, and
they will all be granted. The Secretary explained
that his authority was ba sed the giving
the War Department jurisdiction the naviga BILE
waters Of the United States.
Secretary Root decided 10 withhold detailed
information respecting the concessions and app-
cations for inclusion in the reply he will submit
10 ne resolution inquiry adopted by the Senate.
He insists that there has been no discrimination
in these con cessions and that exclusive priv
ileges have been granted.
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bill from the Senate Civil Government bill and
to take vote on the House measure

to take a vote on the House measure.
The committee is willing that vote should be
taken on the House bill as it was passed by that
BODY, provided it becomes apparent that It is
iHapolitic TO attempt to amend 1t. but effort
,.ll be made to ascertain whether the House
win consent TO any modification. Some Of the
Republican Senators think the bill should be so
changed as to provide for the continued exemp-
ton from duty of the articles which were ex-
esnpted by the Presidents order. They also
consider the House bill deficient in that 1T fails
TO provide any means of collecting the duty it
imposes There will be a conference with men,
bers of the Ways and Means Committee OF the
House, and if the latter do not discourage
amendments these will be offered There is.
however, a fear that If the bill is amended in
any respect it may be difficult if not impossible
TO secure its acceptance by the House on a con-
ference report. On this account there may be no
effort to modify the bill.
A report will be made TO the Harmony Com
mittee tomorrow to the attitude of the
House. and If this report is adverse to amend
rnent Mr. Foraker will be authorized to renew
his request for unanimous agreement to fix q
time for vote IL will also be agreed that the
committee shall not attempt to amend the bill
In case the report should indicate willingness
the part OF the House to amend. his request
viii probably be to fix 8 date to vote the
House bill amended.
The programme then would be to go forward
with the consideration of the government BILL
The members Of the Harmony Committee who
favor the House bill express the opinion that
most OF the Republican free traders will offer
their amendments to the House bill, and then, in
case they voted down. accept and vote for
the bill. The free trade Senators say there is
stronger determination than ever before to
resist the bill il came from the House. II is
said there are eight Senators who will not sup
port IL unless amended. These are said to be
Messrs. Davis and Nelson Of Minnesota: Wei
lington, OF Maryland; Hoar, OF Massachusetts;
Mason, of Illinois: Beverage of Indiana Proc
tor. of Vermont and Simon. Of Oregon. What
they VIII do in the bill is amended cannot
be foretold, but il is evident they expect COM
promise which they support.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
THIRTY KNOT TORPEDO BOAT TRIAL.

Washington March % (SpeciaD.-Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth. of Wilmington, Del, builders of the
thirty knot torpedo boat Stringham, have in
formed the Navy Department that the vessel is
finished and will pass through the canal to Balti-
more on March rs for a two hours trial over the
measured course in Chesapeake Bay. The Naval
Trial Board will probably be assembled to test the
vessel on March 81. The Stringham is the largest
torpedo boat built for the United States. She
has 400 horse power which is exceeded by only the
largest cruiser in the Navy, being greater than
that of the Charleston the Atlanta and the Bos-
ton. and practically the that of the Albany
and the New-Orleans, which 1000 ton ships,
the Stringham being only 402
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
GERMAN CRUISER LAUNCHED.

Berlin March 22-The German cruiser launched
to-day Kiel received the name PrInz Heinrich
and named by Princess Henry of Prussia She
is belt-armored. with plate 100 mImetres thick at
the water line. She has indicated horse mower
OF 1900 and triple expansion engines and is ca pable
OF twenty and half knots hour She carries
two A-centmetre guns in two revolving towers six
15-centlmetre guns In classmates, four 15-centl-
guns In revolving towers and numerous
smaller guns. together with four torpedo tubes.
Her displacement Ia 6.8oo tons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
ARBITRATION WITH NICARAGUA.
TREATY PROVIDING FOR SETTLEMENT OF
CLAIMS SIGNED.

Washington March 22.-Secretary Hay and senior
Corea the Niearaguan Minister to-day signed
treaty providing for the settlement by arbitration
Of the claims OF two American against the
Government Of Nicaragua. One Of the claims is
that Of Orr & Laubenheimer, of New-Orleans, for
damages sustained through the temporary seizure
by the Nicaraguan Government of some tugs pe-
longing 10 the firm al Bluefelds. These tugs were
lsed to tow lighters laden with bananas from the
shore to vessels lying out at sea. and in their
absence a stock of bananas accumulated for ship
nlent decayed. The loss is placed at about $1,000
The other claim is that of the Post Glover Elec-
trio Company of Cincinnati against the Nicaraguan
Government for electric light supplies. The goods
were ordered by an agent Of the company at Blue
fields. The agent decamped and the municipality
seized the goods, for which the company has never
The treaty provides for the submission OF these
claims sir gle arbitrator. General a. ?. Alex
snder of South Carolina the engineer who recently
acted arbitrator in the settlement of the boun-
dairy dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
THE RUSH TO EUROPE

FLOOD OF APPLICATIONS FOR PASSPORTS AT
THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
washington. March p (SpeciaD.-The Passport
Division of the State Department IS overvbeln,ed
with applications for certificates of American
citizenship and it has become necessary for Secre-
tafy Hay to assign clerks from other bureaus Of
the department to help the limited force In efforts
to meet the demand, which is more than double
that of last year. itself a record breaker on ac-
count of the practical suspension of transatlantic
trat1c the summer before In the last four weeks
more than fifteen hundred passports have been
issued. y lmerous applications are being refused
To-day two men from Texas who visited Wash
lngton 10 get their passports found that though
they had lived in the United States over thirty
years, having mmigrated before they were FIVE
of age. their neglect procure ma ton
papers debarred them from visiting France as
American citizens 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
REDUCTIoN IN FoREIGN POSTAGE AskED.

Washington. March % (SpeciaD.-J. A. Hickman
of the Merchants and Manufacturers Board of
Trade, of NeW-York City. is here in the interest of
the plan for the reduction of foreign postage rates
and had a conference with the superintendent of
foreign mails to-day concerning administrative de-
tails. The Merchants and Manufacturers Board
of Trade also favors the passage of legislation to
correct the abuses which have grown up under ex-
listing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
INHERITANCE TREATY RATIFIED.
SEVERAL AMENDMENTS ADOPTED BY THE
SENA4 z.


SENA z.
washington, March 2-The Senate to-day. in
executive session. ratified The treaty between the
ohi'eo states and Great Britain relative to the
estates OF the citizens of country who die In
the other, which has been under consideration sew
eral Gays There was debate but several
amendments were accepted. Article was amended
SO as 10 provide for the extension OF provisions
OF the agreement 10 dependencies of the United
States only upon direction of the law making
power OF the United States.'' thus relieving the
treaty Of the criticism that 1t conferred too great
power upon the President. Article amended
so as to make it Apply only to the right of dspos-
ing Of property
AS DRAFTED, the treaty conferred on subjects of
Great Britain in the United States and on those f
he united states in Great Britain 1.-The same right
III acquiring. possessing disposing of property
as is possessed by citizens of the countr i,saf
Int words acquiring ana possessing" were
stricken out AS amended the treaty was ratified
by an almost unanimous vote. ~ i'''i'eu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
FOREST FIRES IN CONNECTICUT.

Plainhed. Conn, March % CSpeciaD.-Spring
forest fires are being reported much earlier than
usual this year. destructive one has been "a cling
in Coventry r. l.. just the State line The
fire was started by tramps, and has burned over
hundreds of acres of valuable timber and DESTROYED
ties and telegraph poles $500
Franklin. Conn., March % (SpeciaD-The forest
fire on Ayers Mountain is of the worst ever
known in this section The loss will be great
Other forest fires reported In different noTts of
Sprague and Scotland ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
A NEW COUNTERFEIT $40 NOTE

Washington. March 22-Chief Wkie Of the Secret
Service to-day received counterfeit SO note
Nhlch was discovered in Scranton. Penn. 1t is al
most Identical with the counterfeit SO note which
was found last November in large quantities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
COIRT IA RTI1L ZINES.

Washington, March % (SpeciaD.-In the war with
Spain the amount of forfeitures reverting to the
Treasury from the pay Of volunteer soldiers on ac-
count of fines imposed by courts martial aggre-
gated s2SS ~ 16 Much of this came from the Penn
sylvania regiments and Representative BETTER of
that State has introduced bill providing for the
distribution of the total the States in pro-
portion to the troops they furnished in the war
the money TO be used by the Governors for the
benefit of the INDECENT soldiers of such States
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT

Washington. March 22.-The President sent the
following nominations to the Senate to-day:
JOSEPH F. MONAGHAN of Rhode Island 10 be Consul
at Chemnitz Germany.
For Appointment in the Volunteer ArmyFirst se-geans
70 be second lieutenants: L. W CAFFEY Company
e, 4oth Infantry: WILLIAM WINSTON JR Gem
L. 4 Inf - 49, 49,
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ernment on Apr,l 8. Rear-Admlral Frederick Rodg-

eminent April s. Rear-Admiral Frederick Rodg-
ers, Captain Robley D. Evans. Commanders Joseph
N Hemphl and Charles e. Rocker Lieutenant
Command Richard Henderson and Naval Con-
structor Washington L. Capps have been desig-
mated board to make the final inspection and or
dered to meet the vessel at Newport News on
the morning of April and take her to sea for
fortyeight hours. They will run her at full speed,
fire all her guns, including those in the two story
turrets, which have never been used, and gem
orally test the capabilities of the ship fighter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-23
TRIAL OF THE KEARSARGE.

Washington. March p (specaD.-The final ac-
ceptance trial Of the new battleship Kearsarge has
been ordered for April 3. and be completed
within FIVE days as under the contract the vessel
must be finally rejected or accepted by the Gov