A TOPEKH CITIZENS DECLARE IM ULTIMATUM ISSUED. II Ealoont trt Not Closod In Five Day Armed Men Will Attempt to Drive Them Out. ' Three tlirniancl male citizens ot Ti pika, Kans.. in mass meeting Sundiy, issued nil ultimatum giving tl"? saloon keepers until I-'ritlny at 12 o'clock noun to quit business. If this slmtt not be done, warning was given that 1 .000 armed men wotilJ move on llic "joinu ' nnil remove tlicin by force. This aetii.n is the result of ' the crusade stan di by Mr. Carrie Nation. The meet ing was called by n committee of tlu; Law Enforcement league and was at tended bv nearly all the prominent business men of the city. Conservative men, wlio have hitherto advocated inoo iration in ilealinK with the lawless ele ment, insisted that the lime had come win 11 patience has ceased to be a vi" tue and that the pontile of Topcka should tal:e the law in their own hand. The offieirs were warned that tlr ' bad waited long enough. The properly owners in whose premises the "joints" are kept, were warned that they should abate the nuisance at once, or the peo ple of Topcka would not be responsible lor the damage that mi(jht ensue to I'.tc buildings. ALL ENGLAND SHOCKED. Greet Lotset ol Treopl Cauiei Willlngneu to End War. The report of Lord Roberts showing the great loss of British life in the Transvaal 12.0N0 dead, of whom 7.7'J.I perished from disease has caused a most profound sensation and is the ab sorbing subject of discussion in Lon don. What most impresses the public is that the losses continue to be as great as ever, although the authorities have claimed that tile war ended several months ago. The Hritish military headquarters in Africa can keen back the news of de feats and exaggerate alleged successes, but it cannot silence or suppress the death roll, which tells the story of Eng land's rapidly diminishing army. The movement for peace has been greatly strengthened .by this South African news. The missive of Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood to South Africa, however, docs not mean a cessation of the war; neitlvr docs it mean a concession of lloer in dependence but it does mean a recogni tion of the liners as a treaty making power and the presentation of the best terms that England is willing to give. These are, it is understood, the or ganization of the South African repub lic and the Orange Tree State as sepa rate, self-governed colonies, with ,all the rights enjoyed by the people of Cape Colony and free from military oc cupation, except small garrisons V Pretoria and Hloenifontein. COL. ALBERT 0. SHAW DEAD. Ex-Comtnaniicr-ln-Chlcf ol the 0. A. It. Ex piree ot Apop'exy. Representative Albert 1). Shaw, of Watertown, X. V., formerly 'commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was found dead Sunday 11. inning In bis room at the Riggs house, Washington, D. C. A physicim summoned immediately after the dis covery of the body pronounced death due to apoplexy. Col. Shaw was born in Lyme, N, Y., December 2". 1S41. He served a term of enlistment in the Thirty-fifth Now York volunteers, and as a special ngi nt of the war department at provost mar shal headquarters during the civil war. Later he was a member of the State assembly for one term, was appointed rnnsul to Toronto in lN(i8, and pro moted to Manchester, England, in 1S78, from which latter place he was removed by President Cleveland m 1SS5, for being "an offensive partisan.'' Afterward he filled the office of de partment commander of the . Grand Army of the Republic for the State d New York; commander-in-chief of the national body and a representative in Congress, succeeding the late C. A. Chickeriug, who met a tragic death in New York. Burglart Torture Woman. Burglars bound and gagged the pest inistress at Rossford, a suburb of To ledo, O., at .1 o'clock Wednesday morn ing and robbed the office of $150 in stamps and $5 in coin. The robber tortured the postmistress cruelly, hv applying lighted matches to her feet, finally compelling her to reveal the hid ing place ot the valuables. She was beaten over the head with a club and brutally kicked in the side. ' REJECTED BY BRITAIN. London Government Will Not Accept N cara Quan Canal Treaty. London advices say; A reply will "shortly be sent to the United States Nicaragua canal project. It will not comply with the Senate's demands. Neither will it be a flat refusal, though for purposes of immediate construction, it will be tantamount to such a rc fusil. It will consist mainly in a counter pro posal, or proposals, likely to necessitate extended negotiations. The nature cf the proposal is not yet ascertainable. In liritish official opinion it is likely that several months will elapse before th.! matter reaches a conclusion, by which time the Hay-Pauncefote treaty will have elapsed on the basis of the Senate amendments. The British counter pro posals are now formulating, and it is , iwped an entirely new agreement, satis factory to both countries, will eventually, be reached. Zoarltee Colony Olibanded. The last act completing the dissolu tion ol the communistic society at Zoar, O'., was completed Tuesday when the last surveying and apportionments were made. The arbitration committee has bad trouble to please each oi the I,l6 heirs. The buildings In the town an 4 7. coo acres ol land have been apportion' cd and each member gets $5,000 wor.h, LATEST NEWS NOTES. Ex-King Milan, ol Scrvia, is dying In Vieiina Carnegie has given the city of Dc, ciitur, 111., $60,000 for a public library. Secretary Hay has left Washington for a few days' rest in a Virginia resort. King Edward VII. is reported to be siifTering from a malignant and incurable throat trouble. The coal strike in Colorado has been settled, and all mines arc open with a full force of men. Mrs. Elizabeth Hollhonse, aged 72, was found burned to death at her home in Allegheny, Pa. Prof. Max von Pettenkofer, a distin guished cheiui-t, committed suicide in Berlin by shooting. It is said that the Russian oil fir; was caused by a discharged employe, who wanted revenge. French Pbniniandeis in China will in vade thn province of Shan Si in spit. of Waldersee s protest. The Earl of Kimberley. Liberal lead er in the bouse of lords, is stilTcritig Iroin congestion of the lungs. Cardinal Gibbons declares that Mrs. Carrie Nation's methods ill her anti bqilor c.".'s:'dc are nil wrong. Horace Silsby. the inventor of a steam fire engine, died at Seneca Falls. N. Y., Tuesday. He was 60 years old. A severe storm is prevailing along the north coast of France. Three small wrecks have occurred ofT Cherbourg. The power house of the Omaha t Neb. ) street railway was destroyed by fire Saturday, entailing a loss of $joo, 000. Charles Arnold, aged 2,1 years, shot and killed his wife, Florence, aged 20 years, in New York, and committed sui cide. Ex-City Clerk of Sandusky. O., W. A. Miller, who is short in his accounts to the extent of $20,000, is mysteriously missing. The grand lodge of Elks has decided to change the dale of the National con vention in Milwaukee from July 10 to July 2J. An unknown Italian, out of work and starving, committed suicide by shooting in St. Paul's cathedral, London, during service. Gold plated tiles have been discover ed on the lluil.lliist temples in Chilli, and the foreign soldiers arc stripping I lie :!a :es. Three men who arc suspected of hav ing stolen 1111 express safe containing $40,000 at Manila, la., have been placed under arrest. Quirin's tannery, at East Olean, N. Y was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $120,000 and throwing 1,200 men out of employment. George Foster, former cashier of the South Uanvers (Mass.) National bank, of Peabody, has been arrested charged with embezzling $j,rtoo. A lumber yard, sawmill and 14 houses in the western part of Havana, near El Ccrro have been destroyed by fire, a total loss of $700,000. The Thirty-seventh regiment, the first of the volunteers to return from the Philippines, arrived in San Francisco from Manila Wednesday, Patrick Cahill, of near Roney's Point, W., Va., is using a small elephant in farm work, and finds it docile and far more useful than :t horse. The masked burglars entered the Lank at Andovcr, O.. bound the watch man and blew open the safe, but fled before securing any money. Mrs. Carrie Nation nnd three follow ers Tuesday wrought damage to the ex tent of $1.51x1 in the "Senate," the finest equipped "joint" in Topcka. At Columbia, Mo., Henry Arthur and Clifford Christian, two young men who had been arrested for interfering with a dance, were burned to death in jail. The Southern Cotton Spinners' A ; soci; tion will meet on February 16 to arrange for a curtailment of production, probably of from ,1.1 to 50 per cent. A bill has been introduced in the low er House of the Illinois Legislature pro viding for capital punishment in the electric chair instead of by hanging. A father and son at Montgomery, Ala., pursuing a man who eloped with the old man's daughter, shot Chief Jus time Mc'c'lan, who Interfered with them. A Hritish force of 700 under Mat. Crewe was ambushed by 2,500 Boers under DoWet and compelled to retreat, losing heavily 111 men and abandoning a j:un. A pipe of the Standard Oil Company burst three miles from Millway, Lancas ter county,- Pa., and 1,000 barrels of oil escaped before the leak was stopped. Rio dc Janeiro has. a municipal debt of almost 60,500.000 milreis. about $13. coo.ooo. The annual deficit is nearly one aim 4 null tunes the entire income. Gloomy reports come from the Phil ippines, the soldiers not sharing the op timistic views of the civil commission. and believe the Filipinos can hold out almost indefinitely. Farmers in the vicinity of Paiia, 111., have been defrauded out of $10,000 '.iv swindlers who, under pretense of sell ing watches., have got their signatures to notes, 1 At the annual meeting and election "f the Diamond Match Company, the statement showed net earnings equal to 13 3-10 per cent, on the $15,000,000 cap ital stock. An unknown, healthy looking woman raided :t poolroom at Milwaukee, Wis., smashed all the mirrors with pool ball '., chased everyone out and made her ow 1 escape later, David Hunter McAlpin, the million aire tobacco manufacturer and philan thropist, died Friday at his residence i t New York. He was 85 years old. Deaih resulted from an attack of apoplexy. The Federal Salt Company is said to have obtained control of the German Island works in the Gulf of California, thereby securing a monopoly of the Pa cific coast output. Two robbers overpowered the son of F. P. Curtis, a merchant at Curtis, Tex., and took from him $500. The boy wit on his way home with the money from his father's store. Mobs in Madrid stoned the carriages of the papal nuncio and the minister .if the interior. The kingdom is rent by strikes and anti-Jesuit demonstrations, end bloodshed is feared. , , , FIVE KILLED H FIFTEEN INJURED FAST TRAIN WRECKED. Erie Limited Leaves the Trick Near Green, villi; Pa., and Plunges Into the . Hillside Sid kcenot. Train 5, the New York-Cli'i-wno lim ted, on the Erie railroad, was wrecked by the breaking of a strap at the Tail joint Thursday morning at Greenville, Pa. Five passengers were dead whim taken from the wreck, several are mis ing, another died from his injuries, and there is a score of badly injure I. Scarcely a passenger escaped without some injury. It was in the smoking compartment that dentil laid a ruthless hand, lor tlu'rc not one of the 10 occupants escaped death or injury. This car was complete ly telescoped by the steel mail car ahead, which went through it as if it were paper, tearing, crushing, maiming and carrying death. The scene of the wreck is on a sharp curve. On one side, 40 feet below, (lows the Shenango river; on the other is a steep bluff. The engine left the track at the curve, ami before it had gone two car lengths plowed into the steep hill, where it fell upon its side and was half buried After the crash the uninjured passen gers set about the rescue of the in jured, surgeons were summoned, and within a few moments the dead and dy ing were cared for as fast as they cou'd be discovered beneath the wreckage The scene inside the telescoped cars was terrible Men begged to be releas ed nnd screamed in agony They were all heaped in a corner of the car, dump ed there by the irresistible impetus of the mail car The injured were placed upon a special train and taken to the Spencer hospital, Mcadville, about noon. WILL STAY IN CUBA. Secretary Root Saye to.dlor Will Not Come Home Now. The secretary of war has given out the following official statement regard ing Cuba: "The framing of a constitu tion for the island will not be the cue for the withdrawal of our troops." be said. "There will be a great deal -c-niaiuing to be done down there aft-'r they get a constitution before they havj stable government. "In the first place, an election will have to be held. After the election the first administration of the island must be inducted into office. "Then this new-born government must be given a chance to prove that it ran manage affairs without the as sistance of the United States. "It would be a great mistake for us to withdraw our troops and find inside of a week or a month that we had leit a revolution upon the island that would sooner or later involve us in serious difficulty with the people of the islai.d or with some foreign power. "Not until we are satisfied that the Cubans can run their own affairs, and will be able to continue them success fully will the United States withdraw t lie troops now stationed there." ROBBERS BRUTAL CRIME. An Ohio Farmer and His Family Robbtd 11 d Tortured by Six Mon. Six masked robbers broke into the residence of John Duncan, a wealthy farmer living near McKay, a hamlet in Ashland county, ()., Saturday night. bound and gagged Mr. Duncan and four other members of the family, an I after ransacking the house demanded of the farmer that he disclose to tin 111 I where his luonev and other valuables were secreted. Upon relusing to com ply they applied matches to his feet, torturing him as well as the others un til the location of the money war, dis close?!. The thieves evidently knew that. Mr. Duncan had considerable money at home, as he was known to be suspicious of banks. They obtained $450, fo,ur watches and other valuables, after which four of the robbers, leaving their victims lielnless, stole a team 01 horses and bobsled and made their es cape. Whole Family Almost Wiped Out. Five members of the Lawrence fam ily, residing 18 miles west of Wagoner, I. T., are lying dead at their home from smallpox; that two remaining members of the household are awaiting :cath, unconscious, and another is near ly dead from fright and loss of sleep. The oldest son was taken sick and die ! in 48 hours. The father left immedi ately for town to secure a coffin and upon his return found two others hail died also. The father was taken sick with the disease and died in four hours. Smallpox is raging throughout the ter ritory, and a thousand cases exist, with no way to secure relief, as there are no laws to raise taxes to fight the disease, and Congress refuses aid. leaving the country in a terrible condition. Horo ot Shiloh It Dead. General B. M. Prentiss, one of the oldest generals of volunteers of the civil war, died at his home in Bethanv, Mo., Friday. He defeated Generals Holmes and Price at Helena. Ark., Julv 4, 1862, and resigned in October of the same yen r. General Prentiss was known as "the Hero of Shiloh." He was the last sur vivor of the Fitzjohn Porter court-mar tial, and was a prominent U. A. K. man He was 81 years old. Captur.d 1 Governor. . A company of the Forty-seventh United States volunteer infantry, oper ating in the island ol Catanduaucs, on the southeast coast of Luzon, captured Husios, the insurgent governor of the islnnu. The United States gunboat Don Jua'l ile Austria, co-operating with a detach mcnt of the Forty-seventh infantry, ca;i tured .30 insurgents, including a colo.iel and two majors, in the province of A! bay, Luzon, Evidence is accumulating against the incriminated Manila traders' who were charged with aiding the insurgents, Austrian Ministers' Fight. 1 he debate on the election riot ut Maros Vasarhely in the Austrian reichs- ruth Saturday culminated in scenes of disorder rarely witnessed even in that I ... -. CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. Against Haling. The Senate Tuesday passsd the Dis trict of Columbia appropriation bill and partially considered the bill making ap propriations for the support of the West Point military academy. All the amend ments suggested by the committee on military affairs, including that prohibit ing hazing, were agreed to. During the day the ship subsidy bill, by a vote ot the Senate, was formally laid a-tde and superseded as the unfinished business. The House continued discussion of controverted quetions in connection with the postoffice appropriation bill. War Tax Reduction Bill Passed. Tvo important measures were dispos ed of by the Senate Wednesday, the mil itary academy appropriation bill and '.he war revenue reduction measure. The former was under consideration less than an hour. The only change made in it was the strengthening of tho provision against hazing at West Point, the pen alty for which is expulsion from the academy and ineligibility ti-appont-ment in the army or navy. The war tax reduction bill was then taken up. Mr. Aldrich explained that the bill would reduce the revenues $.w.Koo.ooo annually, without taking into account the effect of the amendment taxing bucket shops. If each one should piy $400, the government would derive $10, 000.000 from that source. An amendment to tax incomes above $4,000 3 per cent, for 20 years was de feated, 21 to a strict party vote. The bill was passed. The House discussed the postal ap propriation bill all day, but reached no vote. Postal Bill Pasted. Thursday the senate had both day and night sessions, spending most of the time on the shipping bill. The bill for the payment of traveling allowances on dis charge from the volunteer army to of ficers and enlisted men of the Eleventh cavalry and Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh regiments of infantry was pass ed. The pension appropriation bill was then passed after Mr. Ilalhnger had stated that 1.500 names had been placed upon the pension rolls thus far on ac count of the Spanish war, at an annual cost of about $J70,ono. I he postofnee appropriation bill, de bate on which has consumed almost an entire week in the house, was pass cd. The amendment to reduce the rate of railwav mail pay, was ruled out on a point of order. Truce on Subsidy Bill. An ineffectual effort was made in the Senate Friday to secure an ngrceme-it upon a tunc for a final vote on the ship ping mil. Vigorous protests were made by opponents of the measure against any such agreement, even for a date in the indefinite future. I he naval appropriation bill was considered the rest of the day. the shipping bill beiiiff laid aside informally. 1 he House did nothing but pass 1S4 private bills, and a bill to restore to the pension rolls widows of soldiers of the civil war who subsequently married and became widowed or divorced. Its ben- fits arc limited to widows of soldiers who were married before the close of the war and arc now dependent upon their own labor for support. A New Judicial District. The Senate on Saturday practically nmplctcd consideration of the naval apnropriaiion bill. I he diplomatic and consular appro priation bill wa.s under consideration in the House, and Mr. Brown, Republi can, Ohio, advocated the speedy adop tion of a resolution declaring the pur pose of this country to establish a stable government in the Philippines and then relinquish sovereignty. House passed the bill creating a new United States judicial district in Penn sylvania to be known as the Middle dis trict of Pennsylvania. The court is to lie organized at Harrisbiirg, on .May t, 1001. AT THE NATIONAL C.PITOL. The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Carroll D. Wright, of Massachusetts, to be commissioner of labor. The Senate committee on naval af fairs has amended the naval bill to pro vide for the purchase of three Holland torpedo boats. The report of the commissioner 0: patents for 1000 shows that during the year there were received .10,67.1 applica tions for patents, of which 26,418 were granted. Mr. Long recommends that the naval appropriation bill be amended so as to authorize the appointment of two ca dets by each senator and representative iii Congress, and for the appointment of 10 cadets at large. The House committee on banking and currency has tabled the bill repealing the 10 per cent, tax on State bank is sues and the bill requiring national banks depositories to pay interest to the government on public deposits. The pension of the widow of Gen. Lawton was reported by the House committee on pensions at $50 a month, a reduction from $100 a mouth fixed by the Senate. Senator Hoar has submitted to he Senate a communication from Secretary Long stating that goo naval officers will be needed for new vessels and those now in reserve. i The House committee on 1 the Louisi ana purchase exposition has (voted to re port the bill for a government appropria tion of $5,000,000 to the Sti Louis ex position in 100.1. I The bill amending the emigration laws so as to exclude persqns affected with insanity, idiocy or cpjlepsy. has been favorably reported f 'oiu the House committee on immigration and natural ization. Encouraging reports as tq the eu-vcl-opment and exploitation of the Sn."an islands, have been received i the st tic department from United Stales Con sular Agent Harris at Kibenstock. Elghty-Soven Peop'e Killed. Several hundred tons of dynamite stored in an underground chamber of San Andres mine, situated in the Sierra Madres, in the western part of the state of Durango, Mexico, exploded with terrific force, blowingthe whole top of the mountain oil and, destroying a por tion of the village of miner there. II DEATH PHI! FOR CHINESE. ENVOYS' TERMS. Minister Demand Execution of Twelve Rebels Refuse to Spire Fit Slang'l Life Chinese Trickery. At their meeting in Peking Wednes day morning the foreign envoys prepar ed a note, to be delivered to the Chi nese plenipotentiaries, containing the substance of the decisions arrived at. in cluding the sentences of execution. This will be translated and delivered to Prince Ching nnd Li Hung Chan. who will immediately communicate with the court before replying. The minis ters refuse to spare the life of Tung Fit Hsiang on the ground that they did not consider the claim of the plenipo tentiaries reasonable. They allowed the lives of Prince Titan and Duke Lan. not because they considered their crimes less, but on account of their relationship to the imperial family and the effect their death might have 011 the Chinese. It is estimated that China will be able to pay without serious burden 4,000,- 000 annually for a service loan ind .t8o,ono,ooo for indemnity. 1 be propo sition which meets with most acceptance is that she should take up bonds and then determine the portion of indemnity to be allotted to each power, and that she should redeem the bonds within, say, 45 yean. With reference to the conference, it should be said that the Chinese had' pre viously obtained surreptitiously a copv of the ministers' indictment against the Chinese officials and, being aware of the divergent views of the powers re garding the severity of the punishments, Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang were well prepared with answers and eva sions. In response to the diplomats' com munication relative to the punishments Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang made the following propositions; Prince Tuan to be exiled to Chinese Turkestan; Duke Lan to be degraded and exiled to Manchuria; Ytt Lu, for merlv viceroy of Chi-Li, to be decapi tated; Cliuang to receive an order to commit suicide; Ymg-Nien to be con demned to death, but his sentence to be commuted to life imprisonment; Chao Tu Stiao CChao Su Kiam), Kisicu (hi Hsien) and his son. Sin Tong. to be de graded, while Sin Tong, Li Pon Hong and Kong Yi, who arc dead, are ccn- dinmed to posthumous execution. UNCLE SAM'S ARMY. Would be Bickod by Ten and Half Millions ol Men if Nooded. Ten million five hundred and forty six thousand and ten men are available ior military duty in this country in cases of emergency. Of this number 1 1.I.067 are members of the national guard of the various States and can be assembled in Washington inside of 10 days and 00 days later the entire quota could be in camp and partly equipped for duty. The figures for three States follow: Pennsylvania, 0.72.2 officers an 1 men in the national guard and 917.3J8 others available; Ohio, 5,88,5 officers and men in the national guard and 650.000 others available; West Virginia. 1,042 officers and men in the national guard and 125.000 others available. These figures have been transmitted to Congress by Adjutant General Cor bin and give' an idea of the strength of this country should President Mcl-Jin-lcy again be required to call for volun teers. KILLED BY EURNING OIL. Twenty Persons Dead and F.fty injured in Russian Potroloum Fields. Fire that broke out Wednesday in the magazines of the Carpcau and Dlneic Sea Company at Baku. Russia, contain ing 6,000,000 poods of petroleum, and spread to other depots, which contained 12,000,000 poods of naptha, is still burning. Many persons perished. Twenty charred bodies have been found, Howards of 50 people were terribly burned, and 400 families lost everything they possessed. The burning naptha poured out like a stream of lava, inun dating and setting fire to everything in its path. A pood is ,16 pounds. Later reports says: Five hundred per sons perished in the burning of the oil wells and reservoirs. All the Rothschild reservoirs, 500.000 tons of mazout and .150.OX) tons of naphtha were destroy- ; en. Miners Hurt by in Explot on. The explosion of a keg of powder in Hemlock row. at the edge of Irwin. Pi., occupied by the Russian mining colony, caused terrible havoc in two houses, at which time two men were burned b: yond hope of recovery and three more so seriously burned that they are in a precarious condition, and may die from their burns. The men are all employed by the Westmoreland Coal Company. Matsay F'vanyans, one of the burned men, was filling his small powder can from a 25-pound keg of the stuff, which was by the kitchen table. There were a crowd of men in the room at the tim", waiting their turn, and accidentally on of them propped a lighted squib into the big can. In an instant the whole thing went up with a flash. One whole end of the small house was blown out. Youttey Sentenced lor Life. Henry E. Youtsey has been sentenced by Judge Cantrill to life imprisonment for participation as a principal in the killing of William Goebel. When sen tence was pronounced Youtsey exclaim ed: "I am innocent. I have been con victed by base and infamous suborna tion of perjury." No appeal will be taken and the prisoner will be taken to prison shortly, Mil y In Brazil. Great misery prevails at Para, Brazil on account of a long-continued drought. Rains have fallen in the lan few days, but have given little relief. Many of the suffering inhabitants, are migrating to other States. Several suspicious cases of disease have appeared in Rio Janeiro, and the police department believes they arc cholerine. They are being watched carefully and strict quarantine, measures ill be taken. GUERRILLAS WERE WARNED. General MacArthur'e Recent Proclamation Leave Nothing l Surmise. The full text of General MacArthnr') proclamation to the Filipinos, issued Friday, makes matters very plain to the murderers and guerrillas who up to thi time have been terrorizing the islands. General MacArthnr has placed special emphasis on the following clauses: ah persons in Manila or elsewhere are again reminded that the entire arch ipelago, for the time being, is neces sarily under the rigid restraint of mar tial law, and that any contribution of ad vice, information or supplies, and all correspondence, the effect of which i to give aid, support, encouragement or comfort to the armed opposition in the field, are flagrant violations of American interests, and persons so engaged are warned to cohform to the laws which apply to occupied places as herein set lor.lt. "The newspapers and other periodi cals of Manila are especially admonish ed that any article published in the midst of such martial environment, whiitlt by any construction can be plac ed asseditious, must be rerarded as in tended to injure the army of occupation and as subjecting ad connected with the publication to such punitive action as may b; determined by the undersigned. "Men who participate in hostilities without being part of a regularly or ganized force, and without snaring con tinuously in its operations, but who do so with intermittent returns to their homes and avocations, divest themselves of the character of soldiers, and, if cap tured, are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war." FUTURE OF SAMOAN ISLANDS. Encouraging Report at to Their Develop ment and Exploitation. F'ncouraging reports as to the devel opment and exploitation of the Samoan islands have been received at the state department from U. S. Consular Agent Harris, at Kibcnstock. German plantation experts, says Mr. Harris, claim that the Samoan islands have a great future in coffee, tea, tobac co, cotton, and like products. Upolu island, in particular, it is said, is especial ly suitable for the culture of thesrprod ucts, possessing as it does, favorable po sition, a fruitful soil, and a good cli mate. A company is being formed in Germany for the exploitation of this island. Plantations are to be laid our. narrow gauge railways constructed, and the development of the land generally promoted. The enterprise is headed by men of practical experience, who have acquired their knowledge of plantation life in East Africa and in Brazil. Work is expected to begin this spring. RAIDED DRUG STORES. Wcmcn Followers of Faith Cure Dowle Wreck Pharmacies in Chicago. Crying out that drugs were t!'c agents of the devil, a half dozen women followers of Dowit, the faith cure heal er, adopted the tactics of Mrs. Nation and wrecked a number of drug stores on the west side of Chicago. In some instances there were hand-to-hand fights with the druggists. Armed with pitch forks, umbrellas and canes, the wonu-n came out the victors in nearly every en counter and succeeded in destroying property wherever they went. The women were a well-organized-band, were of middle age and well dress ed. Most of them wore automobile coats, under which they concealed their imple ments cf destruction while on the street. Cases Against Indians. Uifited States District Attorney Phil lips, of Oshkosh, Wis., has been called to Washington by Attorney General Griffgs, who wishes to confer with him relative to cases growing out of trespass cf the Stockbridge and Mttnisce In dians on reservation timner lanus. 1 nen; are 15 criminal indictments pending against the Indians and eight civil cases aganst persons who bought logs, a total sum of $42,oco being involved. Traitors Found in Manila. Theodorio Carranza, a wealthy Span ish merchant of Manila, and his part- tractor and owner of boats, have been arrested on the charge of furnishing supplies to the insurgents. The prj vincial government bid has been pass ed by the commission, which will leave there Tuesday to begin organizing the governments. I CABLE FLASHES. A case suspected to be bubonic plagti has appeared at Cape Town, South Africa. A recent imperial edict orders the im mediate construction of railroads in the Yang-Tse valley. China. Thursday Queen Wilhelmina cf Hol land wedded Duke Henry of Mecklen burg Schweriu at The Hague. Emperor William has conferred upon Farl Roberts the Order of the Black Eagle, the highest German decoration. It is reported from Kiel that Siegfred Hess, a Berlin banker, has fled to the United States, alter embezzling 300,000 marks. The Danish government has introduc ed into parliament a bill authorizing the raising abroad of a loan of 45,000,003 kroner, about $22,000,000. The Italian ministry was defeated in the chamber of deputies on the ques tion of the dissolution of the Genoa labor exchange and will probably re sign. Plague prevails in all India except the central provinces. In Bengal there is a weekly mortality of 3.500, and in Bom bay the deaths reach 94 per cent, of tin cases. During a severe snowstorm in Liver pool some telephone wires fell in tin London road and came into contact with an overhead electric wire. Two people were killed and 14 injured. The expedition sent against Sami lanua. island of Summatra, has ed the Achinese fortress of Bator The Dutch loss was six killed any wounded. T he Achmese lost 70. In 1900 the Prussian state miy duced 162,000,000 tons of ant lira, 7'A per cent, over the output The soil coat output was cent, more, in spite ol the I
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