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on the Notifications appropriation bill,
the Alaska homestead bill, the post Of
| flee and agricultural bills and the immi-
grafton bill were agreed to. In the
house bills were passed making pro-
vision for delegate in congress from
Porto Rico, and to prohibit dealers in
tobacco from giving prizes or prize
coupons with their wares. The con-
ference reports on the Alaska home
stead bill and the Notifications appro-
| priation bin were agreed to. The con-
ferees on the sundry civil appropria-
| ton bill struck out the senate amend
ment appropriating 100000 for the
payment OF the claims of ex-Queen Lii
uokalani, of Hawaii.
All conference reports before the
United States senate on the 81 were
agreed to and joint resolution was
adopted transferring all the authority
and jurisdiction conferred on the secre-
tary Of the treasury by the immigra-
ton bill to the secretary of the de-
partment OF commerce and labor. The
new senator's from Delaware were
sworn in. In the house conference re-
ports were adopted and bill TO give
former soldiers and sailors preference
for appointments and retention in the
civil service was passed.
Pope Leo celebrated in Rome his
ninety-third birthday
Government receipts in February
were S43,02s,t79 and expenditures
$37,75o,749 leaving surplus for the
month Of $5,277,43O.
Farmers along the Wabash in In
diana have lost about Sl5e,OOs
through floods.
At the close of business February
% the total national bank circulation
was 1882, 796,si5, an increase for the
year of SPA, 363,97
BY an explosion at the Edison ce-
ment plant at New Village, N. j., six
men were killed and 25 injured.
The coinage at the minis in Feb
ruary amounted 10 $o,1o6,ss0 as fol-
lows: Gold, $7,45G,5lO; silver, ST.
521, 900; minor coins, S1s7,370.
Fifteen horses were cremated in n
fire in the livery stable Of +. J.. Zie-
mer at Milwaukee, Wis.
Delaware's long senatorial fight
has been ended by the election Of ].
Frank Alice to the long term and Con-
gresham Louis Heisler Ball to the
short period.
The president has signed the army
appropriation and the Philippine
coinage bills.
Nineteen ladrones were killed in
an encounter with American troops
near the village Of Mariquina, seven
miles from Manila.
The president has called an extra scs-
sion OF the senate TO meet March to
consider treaties.
The public debt statement issued on
the 2d shows that the debt decreased
$1,000 65 during the month Of Febru-
ary Cash in the treasury, 1874, 543, 470.
Total debt, less cash in the treasury,
1897, ore, s9S.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Her
bert have exchanged ratification OF the
Alaskan boundary treaty.
The fire loss in the United States and
Canada in February was $4,000, 900,
against S2l,010,o0o in the same month
in 1902.
DR.. Charles n. Ohr, the Oldest. past
grand master mason in the world, died
at Cumberland, Nd, aged % years.
Thousands of cattle dead and dying
I'm the snow on the plains in Colorado
can be seen from every railroad
throughout the range country.
Gov DaohnI 80 \ -.
troops to protect the United States re-
ducing plant from strikers.
The terms Uf 30 membersNof the
United States senate kave expired. but
the political balance of power remains
the same.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived in San Francisco from
Mapila with nearly 200 soldiers.
The state department has secured an
extension Of the option for the pur-
chase OF property and franchises of the
Panama Canal company.
Andrew Carnegie has given Prince
ton university $l,0O00Oo for the con
struction OF graduate school.
Gov. Bailey has issued proclama-
ton calEng upon the people Of Kansas
for contributions TO aid the famine
sufferers In Sweden,
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
coronation of Pope Leo Nil. was cele-
brated at Rome in the presence OF 75.-
900 persons
Many southern Illinois jails and aims
houses are declared by the state
charity board TO be dangerous TO
health.
An injunction against orderinp a
Wabash railroad strike, or urging en-
ployes To quit work, wss issued by the
United States district court at ST.
Louis against the Brotherhood OF Rail-
road Trainmen aud Locomotive Fire
men. l