THE DISARMAMENT CONGRESS AT THE HAGUE. wn ll///111 w//^ \w...... The"House In The Wood" near The Hague, where the Peace Conference meets. STUBBORN STRIKERS. Tlir} Uilusc to Yield un lin li and All Npgullation* are al an Kiid. Buffalo, X. V., May 20.—The grain shovelers last night adopted resolutions repudiating all agreements made with the Lake Carriers' association land de manding- the unequivocal abrogation of the contract wit'll Mr. Connors. The striking- freight handlers at their meet ing voted to ignore the advice of Bishop (>uigley, in which he urged them to re turn to work under the terms granted by the associated lake lines at the con ference in the afternoon. The action taken at these two meet ings. it is thought, will end for .some time to come I'he negotiations which have been in progress for over two weeks to bring a tout a settlement of the dock troubles. The grain shovel ers will refuse to make any further proposition to either the lake carriers or to the contractor. and as the lake .carriers some days ago decided to with draw from the conflict the indications are that the strike will be permitted to -wear itself out. The tinal conference between Contractor Connors and 111'.- men was held l-'riday afternoon and •was fruitless. Condemned Subliiitli Desecration. Minneapolis, Minn.. May 20.—Sunday observnee was the question which took up rhe major part of the Presbyterian assembly's time yesterday. Most of tin 1 afternoon session was devoted to an earnest discussion of the report of the special committee on fiabliath ob servance. In the end the committee's eight resolutions were adopted ai d two more were added. In the discussion the Sunday street car. the Sunday train and railroad excursion, the Sund.ny newspaper, the Sunday-working Pres byterian and every form of activity not in harmony with the literal mean ing of the fourth commandment was condemned. A His Advance to be Demanded. Detroit, Mich., May 20.—AVilliUm Wei he, of New York, a government inspec tor of immigrants, who for nine years •held the presidency of the \nialg-amat ed Association of Iron and Steel Work ers. addressed the annual convention yesterday. It is stated that the wlage rate to be asked for puddling will be $5.50 per ton. an advance from the scale of '9s of 37 VL per cent. On the ad journment of the convention the con ference committee of the association -will meet with representatives of the American Tin Plate Co. nnd the Re public Iron and Steel Co., for the pur pose of settling the bar iron and tin plate rates. A foully Adventure. Xew York. May 20. —What the passen gers and crew of the stfjnmer Barba rossa escaped on Thursday when the ship was on tire was fully revealed Fri day when her hold was opened and the blackened, charred interior told the story. Hundreds of trunks and pieces cf baggage lilid been drenched. A glance at the blackened cotton bales and charred woodwork showed plainly the great danger the passengers 'had escaped. The adventure of the I!)ir barossa, counting ihe damage by tire and the injury to l.a Bretagne, will cost the North German Lloyd Co. $175,000. Fertilizer Trimt l« a Sure I hin^. Boston. May 20. —The American Agri cultural Chemical Co., which is a com bination of several fertilizer manufac turing concerns, announces the con summation of its plans. The author ized capital stock of the company is $40,000,000. The new company includes 22 concerns in the northern and east ern states. Income 'lax Kill Panned. Houston, Tex., May 20. The house yesterday passed the bill placing I per cent. tax on ill personal incomes in excess of $2,000 a year. The bill will now goto the senate and it is believed it will pass that body. Welcomed ltetu mtuy Soldier*. Detroit, May 20. Detroit yesterday welcomed her last home coming regi ment, the Thirty-first volunteer infan try. which has been in service 1-1 months, but slaw no fighting during the war. After eight months in southern camps tie' regiment did police duty in Cuba. E3" A Search tor Andree. London, May 20. —The Mail publishes ■the following dispatch from Stock holm: "An expedition under Nat hois' will leave to-morrow for the northeast coast of Greenland, iu search of An dree.* Undertaker Accused of Brib ing Morgue Keepers. A TRADE IN CADAVERS. Market was Firm at $3 for Each Corpse Secured. THE MAZET INVESTIGATION. Tlie 7lciilber« of the I.emulative Com mittee are 'l'old ol a Queer lln«inr**ft 'l'llat I* Alleged to Have l'loiiri»lied In Greater Si civ York. Xevv York, May 20. —The feature of i Friday's sessions of the Maze! investi gating committee was the unearthing j of an (alleged system of corruption in I the disposition of dead bodice from a city hospital; a ghoulish tale that was well corroborated. By several wit nesses it was stated that an undertaker ntitned Marren illegally secured the funerals of all bodies taken to Harlem i hospital and that he was enabled to do this by bribing clerks in-the employ of j the city to break t'he rules. ! Wyndon Lynn, formerly employed by I Marren, testified that on Marren's be half he had on 33 occasions paid clerks : .it the morgue for bodies that were j not properly deliverable to Marren. ; Lynn said that Marren had told him that so long as C'roker and Carroll eon i trolled aflhirs he could combine his ar rangement with the morgue keeper. I Lynn also testified that Marren 'tonght from the morgue for 50 cents to $1 each, ••(jtlin.-. made for the city at a greater cost. Lynn admitted that he had come to the committee direct from the Tombs, where he was confined on complaint of M'irren, charging petit larceny. Lynn ; said that he had pleaded guilty to the i charge. The sum involved was s2l, J and he had himself discovered the | shortage, to conceal which he had made a false entry in Marren's books. A j friend hlad written to him that the pro secution would be dropped if he would | promise to leave Harlem. After leav- I ing Marren's employ the witness had gone into the undertaking business on his own account. Two other former employes of Marren gave evidence cor roborative of Lynn's. ,J. 11. McCarthy, a judge of the city court, said he had contributed $2,000 or $3,000. he was not sure which, to the demoeititic party at the election in 1*97, when he secured his seat on the city bench. lie said he thought he had drawn a cheek to Mr. Croker as i chairman of the finance committee of Tammany Hall. He said he approved I of judicial candidates contributing to I their political organizations. The old question of sewer pipe and the connection between the Contrac tors' Supply Co. and the city depart ments was gone into, several witnesses j being called, but the only important, i point elicited was that Richard Croker hind objected to his s'>u going into this j concern when be learned t'hat it intend ]ed to supply city departments. The ' committee then adjourned until May 1 31 ' Cotton Yarn .11111M Sold. Taunton. Mass.. May2o.—The News i savs: The offer of English capitalists j to buy all of the seven cotton mills of I Bristol county has been accepted by a | miajority of the stockholders in all the j mills. The actual bonus to be paid above the par value is $2,455,000, and the total amount the present stockholders | will receive is ss,4<>o.ooo. Second Advance lor <.la«». j Pittsburg, Mhy 20.—The American ] Glass Co., fhe combination of window ; glass concerns, has issued a new list advancing the price of their product 5 per cent., togo into effect .June 1. : This is the second advance recently made in window glass. Seventeen lilectrle Vehicle Com |>a nle» j Trenton, X. ■)., May 20. — Seventeen electric vehicle transportation com- were ineorpoi»ted here Friday. These companies we?e formed by the . Whitney-K'lkins-Widener syndicate to ! operate auto-mobiles iu as many differ ent states. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1899. LAWTON CAPTURES SAN ISIDRO. ■ In' Second 4 apltal ot the Filipinos la Occupied by American Troop* He bell arc He In;; Cornered* Manila. May 13. (li n. Lawton's ad vance guard, under Col. Summers, of the Oregon troup.-, tnn'ic Sinn Isidro, the insurgent capital, yesterday. The ex pedition under M:ij. Kebbe, of the Third artillery, consisting of the Seven teenth infantry, a battalion of the Ninth and one battery of the First ar tillery, left Calumpit at daybreak, marching up the lJio Grpnde to join Lawton's division at Araynt. A flotil la of barges loaded with supplies also proceeded itp the river. Both forces were convjyeJ by the"tin el id" army gunboats. Washington. May 13.—The following dispatch has been received from Gen. Otis: "Situation lis follows: T.awton has covered lluliican province with his col umn and driven insurgent troops north ward to San Isidro. the second insur gent capital, which he captured Wed nesday: is now driving enemy north ward into the mountains. He has had constant fiirhting. inflicting heavy losses and suffering few Casualties." That the insurgents tire disintegrat ed and demoralized is perfectly mani fest from the press dispatches and the cable received from Gen. Otis. Gen. T.awton. who was pushing the line of the rebel retreat along the Kio Grande, has taken Sian Isidro. the second insur gent capital, and when Otis' dispatch was sent was still pressing the enemy northward. The fact that he is sus taining few losses in his forward movement, although in almost con tinitial contU'-f with the enemy is an other p-jof their utter .unioraliza tion. It will soon be the mountains or the sea for the insurgents. As our troops could be transported by sea to the mouth of Agno and a new base of op erations established there, it would be folly for the rebels to take that course. Scattered, demoralized and disheart ened. it is almost certain t7mt the rebels will retreat into the fastnesses of the mountains, where they would in safe from pursuit, and where they could keep up a guerilla warfare in definitely or until their leaders came to their senses. The words in (ien. Otfs' dispatch must not be taken literally as untitl ing that I.awton has "covered" all of Hulacnn province, but only the open ?ountry of that province, or all west if Xorzagary. l-'ast of Norzagary is i \v1;111 of mountains extending to (lie sea. These mountains run directly north on the left flank of the rebel re treat along the valley of the Ilio Iraifde, to about ten miles north of San Isidro, where they trend westward. It is into the foothills of these mountains that T.awton is now driving the scat tered forces of the'insurgents. ON THE AMAZON. filniibont Wilmington t|aUi>« a Ke markable Voyage ol 2,000 .tjlilc* Ip the 4.real lilver, Washington, May 18. —The navy de partment has received from C'ominland er Todd, of the Wilmington, an inter esting account of the remarkable voyage of exploration up the Amazon river made l>y that vessel in April last. The Wilmington was instructed by ffie navy department to push on up the great river and laseertain how far it was navigable. ('apt. Todd reports that he ascended to Yuquitos, in Peru, which is about 2.100 miles up the river. Manaos, at the junction of the liio Negro with the Amazon, has heretofore been regarded as the head of naviga tion for steam vessels and from that fact it has grown to be a prosperous city of 40.000 inhabitants. Conse quently the intention of » ipt. Todd to ascend the river above that point caused consternation nnd led to some adverse dc.-n-nstrations ijaotsr the American consul and against the native pilots who assisted the Wilmington's [•ommander to make the voyage. Capt. Todd succeeded, notwithstanding these obstacles, in ascending the Amazon for 1,000 miles above Manaos. and had it not been for lack of fuel he could have teamed about 300 miles further, he believes. A BAD PLACE FOR POOR MEN. Capitalist* Can Ho Well In I'orto Itleo, but tloney l<»* People Should May Away. New York. May 18.—Gen. Henry, un til recently military governor of Porto Rico, has arrived here from San Juan. He is enthusiastic about Porto Uico, its people and its possibilities. "It is a wonderful country," he said, "but we will have togo slow in bringing alx>ut reforms. Capital invested will bring large returns. More than 50 per cent, of the value of the sugar cane is lost in the process of grinding. Children are thirsting for knowledge and the great need Ts schools. "The general conditions are very en couraging. Over 15,000 men are at work on public improvements and we are spending over SIOO,OOO u month in this way. The road from Ponce to San •Tuan, the military road, is well built, but the other roads are wretched. "Porto Pico is the place for the Cap italist rather than for the poor man. At present there are thousands of the poorer class without employment. When T left there were 15.000 laborers employed on the roads at '>o cents n day. The average wlages for unskilled labor on plantations is '!<> cents a day. The fertility of the land and warmth of the climate make the demand for labor very smkill." Hum Slay In .lull. Will lace. Idaho. May 18.- Judge May hew has denied the application for a writ of habeas corpus for the two county commissioner#. Royle and Stim son, confined iit Wtrdnei for complic ity in the recent rioting. In rendering his decision he denied every material contention of the applicants. Then main hope was based on the contention tla a t a suspension of habeas corpus was a right of Ihe legislative bran -h of the government, riather than tile execu tive, unless delegated by the former In the same manner u»> other laws are passed. FOUGHT AT MANILA. Gen. Anderson Bore a Noble Part in the Eastern C&mpaign. Ju*t A l>|»ol n fed Com nuind cr of the Military Department of the Lakes, with lle«a«lq unrtrfi in ChlrRKO —Tke l*h ill ftp Ine Situation. Gen. Thomas M. Anderson, U. S. A., now in command of the department of the lakes, lias only recently returned from Manila, wliither he accompanied Gen. Merritt. Gen. Anderson is a sol dier from his shoes to his hat, lie started out 41s a private in company A, of the Sixth Ohio volunteers, in IS6I, and he had not been in the harness a month before he had won a commis sion as second lieutenant of cavalry in the regular army. Just live months after he was given his lieutenant's com mission he was made a captain in the Twelfth regular infantry. 111 1564 he was brevetted major general for gal lant conduct. 011 the field in the battle of the Wilderness. Oil the very same day he was brevetted lieutenant colonel for bravery in the battle of Spottsyl \ania. The general is a native of Ohio, and before he took up lighting as a regular profession lie was a lawyer of ability and a thoughtful and cultured scholar. Hence his rapid rise from the ranks. Gen. Anderson headed the first American expedition to the Philippines, and was in command of the military forces at Cavite and Manila until Gen. Merritt arrived. He took part in the capture of Manila and performed meri torious service until a few weeks ago, when he was ordered to the United States. Gen. Anderson converses freely upon all topics relative to the Philippines, with the exception of the new-born anti-loyalist movement and the subject of expansion. He calls the leaders of the Malolos insurgent government men who are unscrupulous and are guided almost solely by avarice and selfish in terests. Although confident that the backbone of the Filipino insurrection against the United States will be broken, the general nevertheless is joatli to express more than a hope for GEN. T. M. ANDERSON. (New Commander of the Military Depart ment of the L.ake.sj the ending of the warfare in the near future. With the mountainous char acter of the country and the fast nesses of the interior affording numer ous refuges for guerrilla parties and bands of outlaws, he says there is every inducement for the Filipinos to keep up a harassing campaign against the American troops. "The leaders of the Malolos govern ment are ambitious and unscrupulous," said Gen. Anderson. "The reason tliey wish for independence is that they wish to gain control of the forfeited church property of the Spanish government, which is very valuable, and of all Span ish concessions, and dispose of them to their own advantage. By Spanish concessions I mean charters for water works, tramways, electric lights and other corporate interests. They know that the treaty with Spain compels that government to respect all cor porate and treaty rights. "The fact is that the natives of the Philippine islands were prejudiced against us by th»> leaders of the Agui nalilo government. In various man ners their minds were poisoned against us, and it was claimed that the sub stitution of American government fdr Spanish authority would not release them from the intolerable bonds and tyranny against which they had fought. I have no doubt that if the natives real ly understood the more liberal and hu mane character of the United States government as contrasted with the rule of Spain they would not show such en mity toward us. But. the prejudicial view has been established, and it is difficult to disabuse the minds of the natives." Marketing: in Cuban Town*. Probably one of the most peculiar customs noticeable in the Cuban mar kets is the extremely small purchases —small in quantity—made by the lower class of natives. Small gourd cups, holding scarcely more than a table spoonful, are used in measuring rice, flour, beans and peas. Cabbages are cut in wedges the size of a cigar, turnips into eighths, squashes into minute chunks and onions into halves. Pota toes are sold by number. It is 110 un common thing to see a woman buy a piece of meat weighing a couple of ounces, then pass through the market purchasing 4 tablespoonful of vegeta bles here and and a piece of garlic there, and, finally, after an hour of gossip, de part with food products worth five or six cents. Xomada In Kan*n«. At nearly all the Kansas towns, camped in the suburbs in gypsy fash ion, you can find families with a lot of half-grown tow-headed children and hungry .logs, who wander like the Arabs over the plains from the moun tains of Wyoming to the coast of Texas as the weather grows cold or warm. NAPOLEON THE GREAT. He la a Cat of illgk Decree and Had a Market Value of Fire Thou* ■ and Holla m. People who admire car,» say that they are the only domesticated animals possess either character or indi viduality, but even the most enthusias tic cat lover would probably hesitate before valuing a cat at $3,000. Mrs. Charles Weed, of Bound Brook, N. J., has a cat, however, which cat connois seurs say is worth that sum. The name of this eat is Napoleon the Great, and he is great. He's a big, gray fellow, with a coat as thick as a bear skin, but considerably softer. Na poleon belongs to that brand of cat NAPOLEON THE GREAT. (A Feline Aristocrat Said to Be Worth J&.000.) known as Angoras. The breed is dis tinguished for the length and silkiness of the fur, but also for the beautifully symmetrical markings which some of them possess. Napoleon is what a woman would call a "solid-colored" cat. He is the same color all over, and is devoid of any blemishing variegations. Curiously enough, cat fanciers say, it is harder to obtain an animal all one color than one that is marked. Some of the most beau tiful Angoras that ever went on the show bench were pure white, with the exception of an evenly marked saddle or tiger yellow stripes. They were handsome, but they were not consid ered half as good or valuable from a show standpoint as the somber Napo leon, who in color resembles a battle ship with its war paint on. Keeping a cat of the value of Na poleon the Great is no joke, for the anin.il, unfortunately, seems to have no sense of the proportions of his value. He is just as likely to wander off along the back fence as any other cat of no intrinsic value. The owner of "Napoleon" does the best she can, and, so far, has managed to prevent her high-priced pet from either wandering or eating things which are not likely to agree with the internal economies of a $3,000 cat. The trouble about a cat is that it cannot be compelled to do anything it doesn't want to do. "Napoleon" has taken first prize at every show in which he has been en tered. lie is still quite a young cat, and his owner think 3 the animal has many years of prize winning yet to come. HENRY CLAY FRICK. llend of the Great American Steel Combine Which h to Have »Cop itui of #000,000,000. Henry C. Frick, the man who will be the head of the billion-dollar steel com bine, is comparable only to the great manufacturer' whose property he has acquired—Andrew Carnegie. Mr. Frick is immensely rich already, and will be made richer by ths new coalition of capital in the iron and steel industries. Thirty years ago he was a poor book keeper in a Fayette county (Pa.) flour mill. He made his start in business by HENRY CLAY FRICK. (Head of the New Billion-Dollar Steel Combination.) the purchase of a small interest in a coal mine near his home. The business grew steadily. In 1873, at the time of the panic, the future steel king was only 24 years old. The panic enabled him to acquire the whole plant, and then he began to spread. He bought everything he could in the way of coal (at panic prices), and when the reaction came he found himself enormously wealthy At 40 he was master of the coal trade. In 187 She took in a partner, E. M. Fer guson, of New York, and in ISS2 the Frick Coke company was organized. Andrew Carnegie then became associ ated with Mr. Frick in the coal and coke business, and for many years the two have worked together. Mr. Frick is only five feet four inches tall, blond and slight. lie is affable, generous, and, it need scarcely be added, has great ca pacity for work and organization. Few captains of industry are his equal and none his superior. IluntlnKton'a Mineral Wealth. Though the name of Collis P. Hunt ington is generally connected with rail ways, Mr. Huntington owns more coal mines than any other man in the Unit :d States, if not in the world. COME FROM AFRICA. A Group of Interesting Students in an Ohio University. Thry Ileloiiß to Varloun KnfTlr Tribes -No One Ever llearn of Them I*y liiK and Cheating—Two llrijfht Voung Women. In Wilbeforee university, Xenia, 0., there are now ten bright South African students, eight men anil two women, representing the Basuto, Mtembu, Fengu, Xasa and Zulu tribes, says the New York Tribune. They have been in the institution for various periods, from seven months to five years; the oldest student. Miss Manye, of the Basuto tribe, whose pieture accom panies this article, has passed five years in tlie school, and is now a sophomore in the scientific course. The names of the entire company are as follows: Misses Makhoma, Manye and Adelaide Tantsi, Messrs. Muskinya, Maxeke, Yapi Tantsi, J. J. Tantsi, John Manye, Segaone, Kuzwayo and Masiza Kakaza, Of the men two are taking a classical course, one theology, one preparing for law and four are taking the English ' course. Although representing several dif ferent tribes, they all converse freely in the Kaffir tongue, which is now a written language. The most peculiar thing in their speech is the "click" cle ment, represented in English by "C," "X"and "Q." It is made by three kinds of "click"— one by the tongue one on the ro«f of the mouth, somewhat as we express strong and sudden disappointment; the sec ond is the driver's "click" to his horse when he wishes him togo; the third is a guttural "click" of the same sort. These "clicks" are introduced at the be ginning, or even in the middle of a word, with the utmost ease by the Af ricans, but no American can pronounce "Maxeye"—the x representing a "click," "click." Miss Manye has taken special train ing in voice culture and is a singer of grace and effectiveness. It is remarka ble that all the students possess good ~, CHARLOTTE WIAKHOMO MANYE. (A Basuto Student at Wilberforce Univer sity, O. voices and all \Vere trained singers after the African method when they ar rived. In character they stand as well as the best. Said an ex-president of the university, now a bishop: "No one ever hears of an African student lying or cheating. They are all persons of strong character, holding their places among the students by means of their worth and ability. Miss Manye is as sistant superintendent of our Sunday school, and an excellent one she is; everybody honors and loves her." The whole group of students have an ease and dignity of bearing refreshing to observe and during their whole stay here their deportment has been excel lent. Some of them are the sons of heathen fathers of considerable pos sessions, especially in cattle and sheep. Indeed, cattle are money in South Af rica. All of these students expect to return to Africa when through with their studies, most of them to teach, think ing thus to be of the highest service to their people. One young man hopes to engage, in legal and political life. The countries to which they will return are now under English control, and are fast taking on European civilization, but the negro element is so effecting this civilization as to make it neces sary that the newspapers be printed onc-lialf in Kaffir. The male students take great interest in the military drill carried on in the university. This part of the college work is under charge of Lieut. Young, the only colored West Pointer in the army, and is kept up to a high standard, the young Africans being as bright as any on the drill ground. A representative of the Mtembu race, when asked why he wished to learn the drill, made answer: "I want to be a cap tain and be able to teach my people. My people are brave, but they have not education. They do not love to fight; they like to farm, and are peaceable, but they are brave and full of fight if necessary. The Zulus are the fighters. They like to fight. The Basutos also have got guns from France and have fought the English once or twice. They, too are good fighters." The students all speak well of the English, but are not so friendly toward the Dutch. They say they never heard of killing people by "mobs" until they came to this country, and that their people when well educated are treated by the Eng lish as white people. They believe that they will finally come into a fair share of the control of the country and have little complaint to make of the Englinh people who are living and trading in their midst. Gold of the \orlVt. During 1893 Canada produced $13,- 700,000 in gold, of which $10,000,000 same from the Yukon region 3
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