EASY VICTORIES. Americans Givo Filipinos n Scrioa of Bad Drubbings. Two Days' Fighting I nder a Strolling Sun Results In the Fnciny Itcing ■ touted Willi Large Lion— Four Americans killed and lew Wounded. Manila, June 5. —The American tro<Pps are sweeping the peninsula ol Morong. the land projecting to the south into I.aguna de Hay. where the insurgents have a large force near the town of Morong, as well as the battery | on the western shore of the peninsula | which recently smashed the propellet of the gunboat Napitong. Gen. Hal j marched from Antipolo. about six and j a half miles northwest of Morong. to- j ward the peninsula, with his forces spread out. to cover a large section < 01. Truman, with the First North Da kota regiment and the Twelfth infan try, advanced along the coast ot the, lake from Taytay. incidentally clear ing several small towns. There were several streams to be ; bridged or forded and the troops fre- j quently floundered through morasses waist deep in mud. an experience j which, under the terrific sun. exhaust ed the Americans quite beyond endur ance. Col. Whooley. having successfully J completed his share of the movement.! brought the Washington regiment t<. ; the river I'asig. where late Saturday j night the men embarked upon barge.- j and started for their destination un der the convoy of the boats. Gen. Lawton was indefatigable, rid ing from one force to another super vising the loading of the barges. At t o'clock Saturday morning Gen. Hall's troops began to cross the San Mateo river and about noon easily re- i pulsed a large band of Filipinos about 12 miles east of Manila. The Oregon ' regiment, the cavalry, the artillery | and the Fourth infantry accomplished j this task, driving the insurgents from I the hills, the other troops being held | in reserve, but afterwards joining tin ] main column in the pursuit. A running fight was in progress all the afternoon. A Filipino outpost first attacked a few American scouts whereupon the Fourth cavalry formed a long skirmish line and easily drove the insurgents into the hills. Thci: the Oregon regiment moved across a wet rice field, in extended order, to- j ward the hills, where it was believed a large force of the enemy had eon'cen- j trated. When the Oregonians were within about a mile of the position j the Filipinos opened a heavy fire, th< Americans replying and pressing for ward more rapidly. After a few volleys the insurgents scattered over the crest of the hills ir every direction and their panic was in creased when the artillery opened upon them and the shells began to ex plode all around them, undoubtedly causing great loss of life. The bom bardment by the batteries and lh< xnusketrj was maintained for i;<arh half an hour, aft' r which not a Filipinc could be seen on the hills. Gen. Hall's column, in the move ment upon the Morong peninsula completed a circuit of ~o miles, ovet mountainous country, having two en gagements with the insurgents. one of them severe, and keeping up an al most constant fire against scattered bands of rebels for nearly 24 hours. The Filipinos were driven in even, direction and the country throng! which Gen. Hall passed was prctlv thoroughly cleared. At 10 o'clock Sunday morning the column reachcc j a point a few miles from Taytay where (Jen. Hall was met by Gen. Law ton. who had alrcadv entered the towr and found it deserted. The column, after driving the rebels from the foothills near Mariachino about noon Saturday, with a loss ol but two or three slightly wounded proceeded toward Laguna de l'ay, the Fourth cavalry in the lead, the Ore gon regiment next and the Fourth in fantry last. At 5 o'clock these three wgiments fought their seeond batik of the day, and it resulted, like the first, in the complete rout of a large Filipino force located in the moun tains and having every advantage ol position. In this figlit the American loss was four killed three of the Fourth cav alry and one Oregftnian and about II wounded. The Filipino !<>>>. conk, not be ascertained, but the terrific firt which the Americans poured into then for half an hour must have inflicted severe punishment. In this engage ment our troops made one of the mosl gkllant charges of flic war. ami tin enemj was forced to ilee in the great est disorder. The troops, after camping for the night on tlie battlefield, started Sun day morning for Antipolo, where il was expected a strong resistance would be made. Manila, June 6.- T#vo battalions <>l the Washington troops under Col. Wholly, on board barges, were towed from I'asig to Moroiyr on Sunday and landed under cover of a well directed fire from the army gunboats Xapidan and Covadonga. Ihe rebels. wh< were intrenched in the outskirts of the reserved their fire until ttie troops were ashore and in the open. The American artillery opened fire on the insurgents and drove them from their positions, killing nine of them and wounding five. The Washington troops then took the town. W ill (onfer in Detroit. Pittsburg, June 5. At a conference between Secretary Mutt, of the West ern Iron association, and Pres. Shafj t'er. of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, it has been decided to hold the scale conferences in Detroit beginning next Wednesday Diplomatic Delations ItcMitued. Washington. June 5. Diplomatic re lations with Spain, broken off April 2L IsiiH, were formally resumed Satunitiy when President McKinley greeted Due D'Areos. the newly accredited minis ter to the Inited State*, j„ the Whit* House. BATTLES WITH OUTLAWS. Train rtohbera an<l Officers of (lie I. aw Come Toft'llier ill Wyoming —A Sheriff" Killed. Cheyenne, Wyo., .Time 7.—A second battle with the dynamiters of the Union PaciJic express train lias been fought in the mountains 40 miles north of Casper In the sheriffs posse which has been in pursuit since Sunday morning - , anil as a result one man and probably more are dead. Ihe first battle was fought Sunday oil Teapot creek, 30 miles north of Casper. So one was wounded during' this engage ment, iiut several horses were l\illed. The second battle was fought, at a point ten miles farther north and in a wilder country. The robbers, being closely pressed. made a determined stand behind some rocks in a deep ra vine and wlien the posse putin an ap pearance opened fire at elos" range. Sheriff .Toe lla/en, of Douglas, V\'yo„ fell at the first fire, being sln>t through the stomach. The oilicer was brought to Casper. General Manager Dickinson, of the f'nion Pacific, who has been at. Casper since Mondiiy directing the work of hunting down the robbers, tendered the use of his private train end Ila/.en was taken to iiis home al Hon,"las. A telegram from there states that the officer died shortly after reaching home. The posse resumed the fin'ht as soon as lla/en had been removed and was successful in driving the robbers from their stronghold and away from t-ieir horses, which were secured. The rob !<m'n ret rca led to a natural fort among the rocks, some two miles away, where they entrenched themselves and pre pared for a bitter light. The posse divided up and surrounded the place. A courier reached Casper last night from the scene of the tight and report ed that the outlaws escaped ihrough th« lines of the posse in the intense darkness of Monday flight. They stole the horses of a freighting outfit and are now flying for the Hole in llie Wall. Sixty-five men under I'nited States Marshal lladsell are in pursuit. THE MAZET COMMITTEE. It Hear* a Story of How Honey »va« f>ai<l lor Police Protection that nal ! No I Deceived. New York, June 7. — When the Mazet Investigation committee resumed its 'res ion yesterday the first thing done was to declare that in the future none of the witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the committee should he repre sented by counsel. This was followed by the excluding from the court, room of Police Captain Price's counsel, If. C. Henderson, who created a sensation at the previous sitting of the commit tee last week. He was given to un derstand that if he wished to attend the hearing it should be merely as a spectator. The committee then in an attempt to show corrupt practices by Police Cap tain Price, in the tenderloin district, brought out from John C. Kllis, former proprietor of a Sixth avenue saloon, a story of protection that did not pro tect. His statement involved ex-Al derman A. I'. Waite. Kllis stated that Waite had collected for police pro tection for tlie resort. Kllis said he offered Waite a check for if >0 to make j up the agreed monthly installment of > TiO, but that Waite refused the check. Kllis said he took the cash to Waite's house that night and paid it to him there. The payment, he said, did not see l lre the '"protection" promised and the police harrussed him as much as ever. Another proposition made tn him. Kllis testified, was to give up half the receipts of the place. The witness | said he was forced out of business. 11. C. Henderson, Price's counsel, was j arrested later on the charge of disor derly conduct. The charge was pre ferred bv Counsel Clark and Sergeant at-Arms Crawford and was the result of the wrangle at the session last week. Mr. Henderson gave bail in $:ioo. WITH A FORGED CHECK. \ Dank I* Defrauded Out of $5,000 In i ash—Clever WOrlt of Two Dascals, Louisville, K.v., June 7.-—The Ger man Insurance bank, of this citv, was victimized out of $,",000 Monday after noon by two well dressed young men who worked a neat game. Just be fore the hour for closing the banks the assistant cashier of the German In surance bank was rung up by tele phone and asked if he could accommo date the Citizens' national bank with *",000 in currency. On being answered in the affirmative the inquiring party ! said he would send two men around to get the money. Shortly afterward two young men appeared at the bank with a check for $5,000, bearing the supposed signature of the cashier of the Citizens' national bank. The as sistant cashier, suspecting nothing wrong, counted out the money to the voung men, who were profuse in their thanks as they accepted it. When the check reached the clearing house yes terday it was discovered to be a for gery. Kefused to (hange the Plan. Washington, June 7. \ Missouri del egation appointed by the state republi can committee yesterday called on the president and Director Merriam. of the census bureau, and protested against the method of apportioning the census supervisors for Missouri equally among democrats atid republicans. Director Merriam assured them that the method of apportioning the census supervisors met the approval of the republican congressmen from Missouri and that i as all the arrangements had been made he declined to change them. Kalian l.aliorcr* strike. New York, June 7. About 700 Ital ian laborers in the emplo\ of the Kast Jersey Water Co., who were working 1 nt Great Votch, near Paterson. N. J., went on strike yesterday. Their griev ance was that some of the laborers were underpaid. The strikers, armed with knives and clubs, marched in a body to Little Kails, where P.OO Italians were at work'. When they refused tr c 111 i t work the strikers threatened them with violence. Superintendent Young, who is in charge of the Little Falls gang, fearing bloodshed, ordered the men to quit work. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1899. QUEER FLORIDA GOPHERS. 1111 rr<»tv 1 iik Turtle* Tlint til** Nnllit* l'I»t Mkf Kfilcurew Do Terra iiln. '•The most interesting creature I ever ■aw in Florida," said u New ork m<in who spent the winter there, "was tue burrowing turtle. This turtle is ye culiar to Florida, and it is an impor tant factor in t lie domestic eeonori.v of the cracker population, for the Flori da cracker dotes 011 the gopher—that's ■what they call this burrowing turtle— and thinks it is the finest thing in the edible line that ever existed. "Another thing that induces tie gopher to dig its burrow out of tic reach of water is that in those dry and nandy places the rattlesnake and vai 11s kinds of hideous-looking lizarls are most plentiful, and the gopher is THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE. Timely Suggestion as to llow She Should lie Attired This Year. never happy unless its burrow is shared by a colony of either one or the other of these, if not of both. Find a gopher hole and uncover it and you will be sure to find from half a dozen to a dozen or more rattlesnakes, and maybe 15 or 20 lizards of various sizes and colors and degrees of ugliness oc cupying it with its proprietor. The gopher plainly loves the companion ship of these deadly things, although it is itself as meek and harmless as a dove. "No dweller in those parts of Florida ever goes anywhere about without a bag slung over his or her shoulder. This is to put gophers in. as some tire pretty sure to be found pasturing in the wild grass patches. The moment a gopher is surprised by a person with a bag it shuts itself securely in its shell, and the cracker picks it up and tumbles it into the bag. The gopher is likewise trapped by digging a hole close to the entrance of its burrow and GRANT'S CABIN DECAYING. Decay is consuming the little log cabin from which, when it stood on the bluff at City I'oint overlooking the James river, (Jen. Grant directed the movements of ttie union army in the last few months of the civil war, and which now stands in Kali-mount park, Philadelphia. Tile city, which at one time was anxious to secure the historic little structure, is not taking proper care of it and Is letting it goto ruin, it is now a favorite resort for ardent lovers who desire to perpetuate their amours by carving liieir prosaic names In its rotting boards. sinking 1 a barrel or box into it and cov ering- the trap with loose twigs. When (lie gopher conies out anil starts on a foraging trip it tumbles into the trap ind can't get out. What terrapin are to the high-living epicure, the gopher is to the Florida cracker." I'en Hi on I iik I'rofeitHorß. Harvard university is to pension pro fessors and assistant professors who have served the institution for 2IJ years or more, a plan of retiring allowances having been established by the presi dent and fellows of the university. The plan was first suggested in Harvard in since which time the necessary fund lias grown to $340,000. Harvard is • lie lirst American university to jstab ; ish a general system of retiring allow j jnecs. France's Pcenldcntlnl Terms. I Of seven presidents of France, only one iias served a full term. He, tirevy, | resigned earlj in his second term. MASTER SCULPTURE. The AU Hi or of It Una lakniitnt (or Miiny U'urs (ntil Avciwcut ully Truced. In the cathedral of Nantes, France, there is a monument to Francis 11. of Hretagne and his wife Margaret, which is considered one of the masterpieces of French sculpture, says Harper's Ba zar. It is over 300 years old und until 20 years ago no one knew to whom to ascribe it. Then, liy chance, an old stone slab was discovered in the same cathedral, bearing the following in* si'ri ption: "I, Michel Colomb, was a poor for saken boy, whose only home was the highroad, where nlone God anil our | I ret ague saints watched over me; I ! often forgot to eat and drink while | looking at the stonecutters who made the beaut ifill stone crosses for the holy place in the diocese of Leon; and I myself carved small images with a wretched knife, when worthy priests took compassion upon me, fed me and said to me: 'Work, thou little one, and look as much as thou pleasest at the carved belfry and at the beautiful work of the guild (the stonecutters and sculptors); look at nil this, love the good God, the mild Saviour, and the blessed Virgin Mary; then thy name Shall be honored in the diocese of Leon and in the beautiful Hretagne.' This 1 did for a long while, that I might be come a good workman, and then our Duchess Anne gave me an order to cut a monument to our gracious Duke Francis 11. and the Duehe.-s Margaret." taiiine l.aivH llown llhkl. A down east editor has drawn up some new game laws which he wants adopted. The following is a summary: "Hook agents may be killed from Oc- tober 1 to September 1; spring poets, from March i to June 1; scandalmon gers, from April 1 to February 1; um brella borrowers, from August 1 to November 1, and February 1 to May 1, while every man who accepts a news paper two years, and, upon being pre sented with his bill, says: '1 never or dered it;' may be killed on the spot without reserve or relief." Precocity lleliiin! the Scene*. Not long ago Mrs. lieerbohni Tree, with Lady Jeune and several other per sons, stood in the wings of a London theater watching some very little folks rehearsing for a new stage production. One of the liltle tots especially inter ested them and when the child came off Mrs. Tree bent down and kissed her benevolently. "Wouldn't you like to have me get you a sponge cake soaked in milk, you dear, tiny tiling?" she said. "Thanks, dear." replied the infant, "but I've sent out for a sandwich and a glass of port." IN A LEGAL SNARL. Kidnaper* of Marlon ClurU arc In* volvi'il in a itliirli Tailzied Affair Ill<ll< I<<l liy a l.rmid Juiv. New ork. June <>. Assistant Dis trict \ttorncv Mclnt vre has made pul>- lie the indictments against l lie Har rows or Wilsons and Carrie .Jones, the kidnapers of Marion Clark The. first is against George VY. Harrow, alias Mark 1 teauregard, alias .lames \Y. Wil son. The second is against Addia Barrow, otherwise known as Addie Ileauregard and .Iconic Wilson. The third is against Carrie Joins, known as I'ella Anderson. The indict men" s charge abduction, kidnaping and con spiracy. Mrs. and Mrs. Harrow, accused of kidnaping Marion Clark, waived ex amination before Justice of the PcaC'i Herbert at Garnerville yesterday and were committed to the county jail to await the action of the grand jury, -vhicli meets in October. All efforts t.f the New Ork county authorities to obtain possession of the prisoners have, f.'iiletl thus far and unless IJoo. e velt should interfere, the New \ oik au thorities cannot get the prisoners until after they have been tried in Rockland coin.tv: District Attorney W'yre, of Tlockland county, after the adjourn ment of the hearing yesterdav said: "W'c were as anxious us the New Yon: people to have the trial down there, but we could not get buck of the law. We have a good case and early in Oc tober will be able to send these people to prison. An\ steps the New York courts may have taken after this court was set in motion cannot oust this court, and 1 will not flinch from this position." County Judge Wheeler said that he was in favor of turning the Harrows over to the New York authorities. The matter of giving them up rests with the county judge and district attorney, and for his part lie should do every thing in his power to aid the police in New York in the prosecution of the prisoners. \ssistant District Attorney McTn tyre lias obtained from Justice Furs man. of the supreme court, a transfer taking the Harrow case from the court of general sessions to the supreme court. This he says acts as a super sedeas to all proceedings thus far in stituted. Assistant District Attorney Loliabier went to Nyack hist night with bench warrants for the Harrows. District Attorney Wvre, however, declined to surrender the prisoners. TWO BANKS CLOSE. Han Wlio ira> an Official In Itotli In* MltutioiiM IN 'li**lii<; anil a Shortage in Hi* Account* IK Kcported. Dover, N. 11.. June f>. The Coeheco savings bank, of this city, was en joined yesterday from paying out or receiving money and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Harry Hough, the treasurer, who is charged with a shortage of $:!.500. The Coeheco na tional bank also closed its doors, and National Hank Kxaniiner Carroll is cx pceted to take charge of the national bank at once. Hough, besides being treasurer of the savings institution, was paying teller of the national bank. The closing of the banks caused con siderable excitement in the city anil the depositors learned after the notices were posted that State Hank Commis sioners Hatch, linker and Cummings made an examination of the books of the savings bank last Saturday and, finding that the accounts were not straight, applied for the warrant for the arrest of Treasurer Hough. The treasurer could not be found here yes terday. The suspension of the two banks leaves this city with no financial insti tution except the Strafford national and the Strafford savings banks, the Dover national bank and the Dover savings bank having collapsed several years ago. following the discovery of a heavy shortage in the accounts of Cashier Isaac Abbott, who afterwards committed suicide. The capital of the Coeheco national bank is $1.">0,000. THE WHEAT CROP. i Outlook for a Large Yield of Winter W heat Ik I'oor torn Acreage Ik Kitf" gei* tlian liver Before. Chicago, June 0.- The June crop re port of the Ornnge .Tudd Farmer shows a condition of winter wheat of 70.8 per cent, against 72.0 on May 1. There has been severe decline in the promise in tile Ohio and Missouri valleys and some decline in California. Insects and rust are reported over an increasing area, but the main trouble is the lack of vi tality in the plant which resulted from the root damage of the severe winter. The acreage, which last fall was re ported at nearly 30,000,000. has been reduced by plowing up and abandon ment to 24,574.000, or nearly 2,000,000 acres less than was harvested last year. The spring wheat area is reported at TU:;:i,ooo acres, or 100,000 acres larger than last year, and the average condi tion 91.0 against 00.1 a year ago. It is lower only because the crop is started a little kite. Should present condi tions be maintained till the harvest the crop might easily reach 275,000,000 bushels. The corn acreage is the largest ever planted, the preliminary report reach ing fully 54,000,000 acres. Suicided. Chicago, June 7. Mrs. Helle IJolo son. wife of I!. \Y. lioloson, a wealthy member of the board of trade, com mitted suicide at her home yesterday bv shooting herself in the right temple, Holler'* |{»<! Kreak* Washington, .Tune 7. According to .1 letter received here from Munich a German-American journalist, Louis Holler, editor nf the Camden County Journal, daring a lecture delivered by him at the Havarian capital on the German-Americans,their life and work, bitterly criticized the present Ameri can administration and the president. Ilis remarks became so violent as to cause the interference of the supervis ing official, who declared that he would not tolerate any attack on the head of a nation with which Germany eu- I tertalned friendly relations. m WITNESSES. Story of Fierce Competition Is Told by Tliein. FINALLY HAD TO YIKLI). ltival Companies I >l-IV<MI Out of the Oil Business. MORE ABOI'T THE STANDARD The Kin 4'ompaii) I* Said to be Mip« I>Ii• -<1 Willi Secret Information a* Co ■l■ IliiwliieaiM <>i lis Ititain H lietiever Itiijiiired, Washington, .Tune 10. Kx-Senator Theodore F. (invis, of <>liio, was a wit ness before the industrial commission Friday. lie is both a producer and a refiner of petroleum at Marietta and his testimony dealt with the opera tions of the Standard Oil trust and tha Argan Oil Co. He complained of tha discriminations of the railroad com panies. saying that the managers of some of the roads were interested in rival companies and the other com panies were so favored that his com pany had been compelled to suspend business. This discrimination was also practiced by the pipe lines against producers who did not control these lines. In such cases they were also unable to secure fair rates from rail roads, forcing the conclusion that the railroad companies were concerned for the success of the pipe lines. Mr. Davis said that the Standard had been able to come into the control of most of the producing area and this was accomplished through co-operat ing companies. lie said that as a re finer he had purchased considerable oil from the Standard Co. and that it was the custom of the Standard to charge np its losses of oil by fire, leakage* etc., in any given district to the pur chasers in that district, distributing the loss among them. He also said 1 h.it the Standard company had such close relations with the railroad com panies and so completely controlled the markets as to render it almost imprac ticable for any other refiner to enter upon the manufacture of such bypro ducts us lubricating oil. He stated that on one occasion a shipping clerk of his firm had been ap proached by the Standard and oil'ercd money for information as to the busi ness of the concern. This scheme had failed, owing to the fidelity of the clerk, but the firm became satisfied that the Standard had information of every barrel shipped by his house. Kvery shipment was followed up and the consignees approached with offers of oil »t lower rates. The competi tors also resorted to duplicating his brands and sending out under thein inferior articles of oil. The competi tion had at hist become so fierce that his house had been compelled togo out of business. Mr. l'hillips asked Mr. Davis if if, was not a fact that the profits of the Standard company were greater on each barrel of oil sold than the cost of the article, but the witness declined to express an opinion on this point, saying he did not know. It was a fact, he said, that the Standard company had purchased several refining plants and had then dismantled them, but he was not prepared to say that such refineries were well enough located to render it profitable to maintain them. Mr. Davis was followed by Mr. T. C. West gate, an oil refiner si t Titusville, Pa. Among other companies in which he is interested is the Pure Oil com pany. lie said that in both New York and Philadelphia the Standard com pany had reduced the price of oil im mediately upon his company entering the field and that, owing to this reduc tion, oils were now being sold in both markets at prices which rendered the business unprofitable. Mr. Davis re lated some of the particulars of his competition with the Standard, saying that the Standard managers kept a strict account of all the oil sent out b\r rivals. His general policy was to try to get only a small percentage of the busi ness in each place and he had found that so long as he pursued this plan or ices could be held up, but that if he endeavored to increase the quantity prices were immediately reduced, with the intention of driving him out of the field. Mr. Westgate had no doubt that the Standard each morning knew just what shipments had been made by him the day before. lie could not say that the railroads supplied the in formation. but he knew that it did not go from his own oTTice. < anal r«iiimi«»ii)ii<T» Appointed. Washington, .Tune 10.—The president yesterday appointed the following commission to determine the most, feasible and practical route for it canal to cross the isthmus of Panama: Hear Admiral John (i. Walker. I . S. X.; Hon. Samuel Pasco, of Florida; Al fred Noble, K.. of Illinois; tleorge S. Morrison, C. I'*., of New \ork; t 01. Peter C. Hains. C. S. A.; Prof. William 11. Purr, of Connecticut; Lieut Oswa'd 11. Krnst. C. S. A.; Lewis M. Ilaupt, C. I'., of Pennsylvania: Prof. Kmory U. Johnson, of Pennsylvania. Hiu Omen! <Ompaiiy Incorporated* Trenton, N. .T., .Tune 10. The I'd son- Portland Cement Co., with an author ized capital of $11,000,000. was incor porated here Friday. The company is to manufacture and deal in Portland and other kinds of cement. \tnong the incorporators is Thomas tali son. < liicaKoan Mmi the 4 liampioiioliip. St. Louis, June 10. At the West laid club hist night Clarence Forbes, of Chicago, was given the decision in it I'.'-rotmd contest with Casper Leon, i ! New York, for the bantamweiy.il championship of America. 3
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