killed with any dog or Hounding Deer. bitch. Dogs of the breed commonly used for hunting deer, or dogs that are trained to, or will pursue deer, shall not be permitted by the owner or persons harboring the same to run at large in or to be taken in the forest inhabited by deer or kept or possessed in the Adirondack Park. If any such dog or bitch be found hunting, pursuing or killing deer or running at large in forests inhabited by deer, it shall be presumptive evidence of a violation of this section by the person owning, using, having or harboring such dog or bitch. Any person may, and it is the duty of every game protector to kill a dog or bitch found in the Adirondack Park or in a deer forest, or pursuing deer and no action for damage shall be maintained against a person for such killing. " Chapter 636 of the Laws of 1901 provides that pool selling is punishable by imPunishment of prisonment for a period of not more than two years or by Pool Selling. a fine not exceeding $2,000. Chapter 691 of the Laws of 1901 appropriates $100,000 for the construction of the Miscellaneous Laws. buildings of the New-York State Hospital for the Treatment of Incipient Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Chapter 639 of the Laws of 1901 prohibits the sale of railway or steamboat tickets except by agents of railways or steamboat companies, or except to certain other specified persons. STATE APPROPRIATIONS. The annual Appropriation bill as it received the approval of Governor Odell ap propriated, including reappropriations (which amounted to $100,893 48), the sum of $16,853,004 80. The appropriations were divided as follows: The First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fou. teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Eighteenth wards of Buffalo. XXXVIth-The Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twentysecond, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth wards of Buffalo as now constituted and the VIIth and VIIIth Assembly districts of Erie County. XXXVIIth— Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua cour.ties. The following table gives the total amount of State taxes assessed (at 1.20 mills on each dollar of valuation in 1901, against 1.96 mills in 1900) against the several counties, together with the valuations of real and personal property reported by the State Board of Equalization, on September 1, 1900 and 1901: WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. ADLAI E, STEVENSON, of Illinois. *PEOPLE'S PARTY (FUSION)-MAY 10. *SILVER REPUBLICANS-JULY 6. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Illinois. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Illinois. *POPULIST (MIDDLE OF THE ROAD)-MAY 10. WHARTON BARKER, of Pennsylvania. | IGNATIUS DONNELLY, of Minnesota. SOCIALIST LABOR-JUNE 6. JOS. F. MALLONEY, of Massachusetts. | VALENTINE REMMEL, of Pennsylvania. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS-JULY 10. The Republican National Convention began its sessions at Philadelphia, Penn., on June 19, 1900. The ante-convention interest centred in the choice of a Vice-Presidential candidate, the renomination of President McKinley for the first place on the ticket being universally conceded. The Western States, aided by Senator Platt, of NewYork, who controlled the delegation from his State, were practically a unit in favoring Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New-York for the second place. The latter was anxious to avoid the nomination, preferring to run for another term as Governor of New-York, and on the afternoon of June 19, the day before the Convention, he issued a statement earnestly requesting that some one else be nominated for Vice-President. Senator Mark A. Hanna, of Ohio, chairman of the National Committee, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, aided Governor Roosevelt in trying to stave off his nomination. Other Vice-Presidential possibilities were John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy; Congressman Dolliver, of Iowa; Lieutenant-Governor Timothy L. Woodruff of New-York and Cornelius N. Bliss, of the same State. The Convention met on June 19 for a short session, which was devoted entirely to preliminary and routine work. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, the temporary chairman, made a speech. After the Convention's adjournment for the day the New-York delegation indorsed Woodruff for Vice-President. The second day's session-June 20-was devoted principally to the speech of Senator Lodge, the permanent chairman, and the adoption of the platform. Vice-Presidential sentiment had crystallized in favor of Roosevelt, Senator Hanna had faced about and declared for him, and his nomination seemed assured. The Convention completed its work on June 21 by unanimously nominating McKinley and Roosevelt for President and Vice-President respectively. The most striking feature of the Convention from start to finish was the harmony prevalent. McKinley received every vote in the Convention, 926; Roosevelt every vote but his own. The Convention adjourned sine die on June 21. The Platform. The platform, which was adopted on June 20, was as follows: Party Achievements. The Republicans of the United States, through their chosen representatives, met in National Convention, looking back upon an unsurpassed record of achievement and looking forward into a great field of duty and opportunity, and appealing to the judgment of their countrymen, make these declarations: The expectation in which the American people, turning from the Democratic party, intrusted power four years ago to a Republican Chief Magistrate and a Republican Congress has been met and satisfied. When the people then assembled at the polls, after a term of Democratic legislation and administration, business was dead, industry paralyzed and the National credit disastrously impaired. The country's capital was hidden away, and its labor distressed and unemployed. The Democrats had no other plan with which to improve the ruinous conditions which they had themselves produced than to coin silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The Republican party, denouncing this plan as sure to produce conditions even worse than those from which relief was sought, promIsed to restore prosperity by means of two legislative measures-a protective tariff |