A PEACE CO3l PACT. Signed by fc-teel Workers and Their Employers. Tlie Trouble in Deweea Wood Tllll at lUt'Ki'riporl, I'a., lit Settled and the tilHeliurjied .lien Will be Ite iiiKtated In Tbelr Form er Position*. Pittsburg, April 19,—There will be no strike in the plants of the Amer ican Sheet Steel Co. The trouble that broke out in the De vees Wood plant in McKeesport last week, and which for a time threatened to cause a general strike of all union iron and tsteel workers in the country, has been settled in an amicable manner. The members of the general execu tive board of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work ers held a long session yesterday. It started out with a general feeling that a strike would come, as the workers would not concede the only point in dispute (reinstatement of the men discharged for joining the union) and the officials of the Sheet Steel Co. were equally determined. During the morning session of the executive board John Jarrett, acting fur the American Sheet Steel Co., ap peared with a proposition for the members to consider regarding a settlement of the difficulty. In gen eral this proposition was that all the men discharged from the Wood plant should be reinstated, including llol loway, and that all but Holloway should return to work at once, Hol loway to be returned within ten days. The board insisted that Holloway should be treated in the same man ner as the others, and finally Mr. Jarrett changed his proposition to include Holloway after three days* suspension, and an agreement, was drawn up and signed last evening. In explanation of this agreement it was stated that the matter will re main in exactly the same position as before the trouble broke our. The organization of the local union of the Amalgamated association among the employes of the mill will be contin ued. though the company will not recognize it in any way in dealing with the men. The Amalgamated association men stated that they did not wish the company to recognize their organization at present, and simply asked the company to allow the men to do as they pleased and act with freedom w hen outside of the mill. The company officials, on the other hand, say that so long as the local union does not try to force recogni tion and the men work under the personal agreement with them they would not allow any feeling against the men. Both sides are satisfied and the strike that has existed for :i week has in reality, according to the officers on both sides, been due en tirely to a misunderstanding between the two sides to the dispute. The settlement will bring the mat ter to an issue, it is said, when the s<ale for the coming year is brought tip for settlement. The union men will seek at that time to have the Wood plant included in the next scale agreement and the company, it v, believed, will oppose this part of the agreement emphatically. The Commercial Gazette in its treatment of the McKeesport strike says: President Schwab, of the Uni ted Steel Corporation, spent an hour Wednesday in conference with Co!. Watson French, vice president of the Republic Iron and Steel Co., and the result is that the threatened strike iwrainst the big Morgan company i> off. When Col. French left the meeting of the advisory board of the Amalga mated association on Wednesday af ternoon he did so promising to use his endeavor to put an end to the strike issue without forcing a back down from either side. lie went di rectly to the Carnegie building. President Schwab was there. It took time to convince the presi dent of the Morgan company that he should act promptly to stop the Mc- Keesport trouble and what would subsequently have involved all of the organized mills of the big company. President Schwab practically passed the word to Mr. Jarrett to sot tle the strike differences on terms he saw fit. A feature of the transaction is that Mr. Schwab had never in years before had conciliatory deal ings with the Amalgamated associa tion. A DEADLY AVALANCHE. Two Locomotives Struck by a Snow. slide —Four Jlen Killed. Boulder, Col., April 10. —A terrible accident occurred Thursday on the Colorado & North western railroad near this city. Two big engines at -1 ached to a passenger train coming from Ward to Boulder were struck by a huge snowslide and hurled into the chasm below. Four trainmen were killed. They are: Engineers Hannon and Fitzgerald, Fireman Mil ler and Conductor Bair. The bodies have not been recov ered. The passenger train left Ward for Boulder drawn by two engines. When the train reached Boonierville the engines were uncoupled and start up the hill to buck the snow, ■which was deep on the tracks. \ sharp curve occurred near the apex of the mountain and jwst as the en gines started to round the curve a vast avalanche of snow and earth was loosened from above. It came down with terrible force and gained mo mentum every second. It is said that the train, which was heavily loaded with passengers, was not touched by the slide, which was 100 feet wide and six feet deep. Here's Another Combine. Milwaukee, Wis., April 19. —The Sentinel says: The five largest sta tionary engine manufacturing com panies in the United States are to be consolidated into one gigantic com bine with a capital of $25,000,000. The E. I*. Allis Co., of this city, will head the list. The companies which are expected to be included in the new corporation are the R. I'. Allis Co.. the Pennsylvania Iron Works Co., of Philadelphia; the dates Iron Works Co., of Chicago; the Fraser & Cham bers Co., of Chicago, and the Dixon Manufacturing Co., of Scranton, Pa. A HUMAN PIN CUSHION Oiizrim ol Ncirdln arc Fxlrue led from u (;lr! Living in u I'renrb Town. Paris, April 17. A dispatch from St. Germain, near this city, describes the extraordinary case of Julienne Eandrieux, a servant girl, from whose body dozens of needles are being extracted. The girl complained of considerable irritation of the skin, and last Thursday went to a local druggist, who found a number of needles emerging from various parts of her body. He extracted them with pincers. The girl has returned sev eral times a day since and up to Tuesday morning the druggist had drawn out 120 needles from her arms, hands, feet, breast, the lobe of her ear, her eyelids and the corner of her right, eye. The girl experiences no pain until she feels the needle piercing the epidermis. The needles always emerge thick-end first, and unless immediately extracted, disap pear again. Two reputable newspapers, the Matin and the Temps, have investi gated the matter and vouch for the authenticity of the story. Mile. Landrieux says that five years ago, when she was 11 years old,she amused herself, with other children, by swal lowing quantities of needles. She swallowed 4!) in one day and never felt any inconvenience until recently. While relating the foregoing to the reporter of the Temps, who saw her at the druggist's, she explained: "I feel one in my eye now." The druggist then upturned her right eye lid and with a magnet drew out four fragments of needles'. A surgeon of the hospital of La Salpetrire said in an interview that the case was quite unprecedented. Needles inserted under the skin were known to have been borne through the muscles, but there was no record of a needle introduced into the stom ach emerging from the lobe of the ear. FAR FROM PROSF*£ROUS. Finance* of Japan urc In a Jlucli Hi - moralized Condition. Washington, April 17.—'The finan cial condition of Japan at present is far from encouraging and her bank ers, statesmen and business men are exerting every effort to avert a pend ing panic. This statement is con veyed to the state department in a communication from I'nited States Consul tien. Bellows, at Yokohama. The situation, as analyzed by the shrewdest financiers and statesmen of the empire, shows that the Chinese indemnity secured at the close of the ■Japan-China war, together with large national loans, led to the exploiting of many public and private undertak ings which caused money to be unu sually plentiful among the laboring classes. This induced extravagant methods of living and is assigned as a potent factor in the large increase of imports. The amount of .indem nity paid by China proved insufficient for the enterprises projected and many millions were diverted from the customary channels of trade to carry forward these undertakings. Foreign capital decline to enter the Japanese market, although tempted by flattering rates of interest. Liv ing expenses have increased during the past few years over 75 per cent., which causes the scarcity of money for commercial and industrial pur poses to be all the more keenly felt. OVER A BRIDGE. Two Care and Six .Hen llr»|> 30 Fed -Two .Well Killed. Buffalo, X. Y„ April 17.—A derrick car and a dongola toppled over a bridge over Eighteen Mile creek, 18 miles from Buffalo on the .Nickel Plate road, Tuesday afternoon. Six men went with them to the rocky bed .'!() feet below. Two of the men died within half an hour after the accident. Four others were brought to a hospital in this city. At mid night the surgeons said it was doubt ful if two of them would live. The dead men are: William Dolilgreen, 41 years, of Silver Creek. Nicholas Wagner, 38 years of age, of Silver Creek. Injured: Wesley Eddy, 34 years old, of Cleveland, may die. A. L. Cameron, 4) years, of Dun kirk, severe internal injuries, Robert Jones, 35, of Gowanda. John Brogan, 35 years old. Bro gan's home is unknown. A LUCKY VETERAN. Inmate of a Soldiers* Home In lle <|iieallii'd a Fortune bya I.udy \1 IIOMI Life lie Saved Year» Ago, Dayton, 0., April 17. —Henry 11. Hawthorne, one of the invalid sol diers in the soldiers* home here, has just received notice that he has been made the beneficiary to the amount of from $200,000 to $500,000, left him by a woman out of gratitude for hav ing saved her life many years ajjo. The woman is Mrs. Josephine Fair fax, who recently died in the south of France. Hawthorne was born in England and came to the United States when a boy. Later he went to England on a visit. While at Kent bathing in the sea he saw a boat capsize with Mrs. Fairfax and her son. Hawthorne, being an expert swim mer, succeeded in rescuing the wo man, but the son was drowned. He returned to the United States and served in the army during the civil war. A few years agi lie met Mrs. Fairfax in England a re ward which she urged him to take. A Combine 1 Hioii Labor, Newport, Ky., April 17. —A notice was posted yesterday on the doors of the factory of the Wadsworth Watch Case Co., where a strike his been in progress, that hereafter no union labor would be employed by that concern. An additional notice stated that the same action had been taken by the following leading com panies: The Keystone Co., of Phil adelphia; the Faliig, of Sag Harbor, anil the Crescent of Newark, N. J. Notice was given that the companies had formed a combine against the employment of union labor. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1901. A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT Holier ol ii Hiver Steamer ICi|)lode>, Hilling Pour People and Probably Fatally injuring Seven Oilier*, Vancouver, P. ('., April 18.—Four people are dead and seven probably fatally injured as the result of an ex plosion Wednesday afternoon on the steamer llamona. One of the plates in the rear of the boiler blew out, tearing away the whole front of tin; vessel and knocking into the water all of those in that part of the steam er. The accident happened when the boat was in midstream opposite Fort Langley, 30 miles from Vancou ver. Two women. Mrs. Harry Morrison and Mrs. J. Bailey, were standing on the front deck and were knocked into the water and drowned. Two deck hands named James Mack anil An drew I'hipps, were struck by one of the flying boiler plates and instantly killed, being so horribly burned by the escaping steam as to be unrecog nizable. A. Power, the purser; J. Maynard, the mate, and Victor Xowell. the fireman, who had gone on that day for the first time, were burned so badly that they cannot possibly recover. Four Indians were dreadfully scalded and only one of these is ex pected to recover. One Indian baby is at the point of death. Capt. Sey mour and John Oliver, the engineer, who owned the larger interest in the vessel, were unhurt. Roth Mrs. Mor rison and Mrs. Bailey had left their babies tip-stairs and had come on deck for fresh air. The babies were unhurt. Power, the purser, has gone insane and the others are in such a condition that no hope is held out for their recovery. The llamona is a stern-wheel river steamer of about 300 tons. She is tcit years old, but her boiler was com paratively new. having been putin last summer. On her fatal trip she had only five passengers, the two women who were drowned and the Indians who were burned. The steam er was valued at about $25,000. HALF A BILLION IN GOLD. That'* the Amount Now Po**e**ed by Hie I nited Slate* Trea*ury, New York, April IS. —The Evening Post says: "Wednesday's summary of the United States treasury report for Tuesday shows that the govern ment's aggregate gold holdings, for the first time in history, have passed the half billion dollar mark. The total was $500,278,.>06, of which $252,- 078,959 was held against certificates in the hands of the outside pub lic, and $150,000,000 as a reserve against outstanding I'nited States notes: the balance being free assets. "This is the largest amount of gold now held by any single financial in stitution in the world, and it is the largest ever held by any institution— with one exception the Imperial Rank of Russia, which in February, 1898, raised its total holdings to $590,- 300,000. At present, however, the Russian bank holds only $371,500,000. "The Rank of France now holds $472,271,000, its high record being $479,241,000 on the 41 Ii of this month. Most of this gold is held against out standing notes. The Rank of Eng land holds $109,100,000 gold and the high record of its history was $245,- 500,000, in February, 1895. The pres ent gold holdings of the Imperial Rank of Germany are $130,000,000 and its total of gold and silver combined never ran above $222,500,000. "The I'nited States treasury's gross gold holdings have increased $70,439,- 000 within the past 12 months. In April, 1599, they hardly exceeded $278,000.000, as against the $500,000,000 now held. On February 10. IS9<">, they reached the low level of $94,239,542." A BATTLE IN A PRISON. Three Convict* are Shot Willie Trying to IC*ra|ic Ironi a Penitentiary. Santa Fe, X. M., April 18.—An at tempt of three convicts at the peni tentiary to effect their escape yester day resulted in the killing of Convict George Stephenson, the mortal wounding of Convict Simmons, the wounding of Convict Sena, Captain of the Guard Felipe Armijo and Guard Pedro Sandoval. George Stephen son, a murderer, had in some man ner armed himself with a revolver. William Simmons and Frank Carper, both sentenced for cattle stealing, were in the conspiracy to break out. Stephenson attacked the guard, who was in the dining room, un armed. lie shot Pedro Sandoval. Capt.Armijo ran for a shotgun and on his return exchanged shots with Stephenson, each being wounded. Superintendent Burson came upon the scene with a Winchester rifle and sent two bullets through Stephen son's heart. A moment later Armijo, though seriously wounded, shot Sim mons, fatally wounding him. Carper weakened when he saw his partners down and surrendered. A South African Iltiie Hook. London. April 18. —The South Afri can blue book, containing recent dis patches from Sir Alfred Mllner and other official correspondence, was issued last night. The dispatches re veal the fact that the government went further in the direction of en deavoring 10 conciliate the Boers than Milner and Kitchener were in favor of going: and, discouraging as the former's estimate of the position of affairs in February was, his ex tremely sanguine views for the future of South Africa will tend to reconcile the country to whatever sacrifices it may still be called upon to make. A itiver with liolden Sunda. Seattle. Wash., April 18.- The Xome Xews Letter, of January 19, received here Wednesday, says the weather at Nome was then mild, with prospect ors en route for the hills. Prospect ors who have arrived at Xome ahead of a large party from the Arctic circle, crossing the divide on the frozen tundra from (iood Hope and Kotigrock rivers, report the discov ery of a new river which empties into the Arctic ocean. The tributaries of the Good Hope, according to the prospectors, are full of precious metal. OTHER PEOPLE'S CASH. Ca«lil*r of an Io»u ttauk Took 000 <>| 11 Kelore lie skipped—The flank li Clo*c<l. Sioux ( ity, la., \pril I -The Lc mars national bank at Leinars, la., did not open for business yesterday. Thomas !•'. Ward, vice president and manager of the institution, is a self confessed embezzler to the amount of $25,(100 or SIIO,OOO. He has also ab sconded. It is alleged he took $30,000 with him or lost it during the past few days in speculation, as it is mis-- ing from the vault of the bank. Ward departed Monday night, and on T ics day Cashier Frank Koob received a letter from Ward beginning: "Dear Frank: I leave to-night for God Almighty knows where. This board of trade business has ruined me. Save me from indictment if you can. 1 will pay back every cent 1 can." Then the writer explained the funds from which he had been steal ing to cover his losses. The officers of the bank are: President, V. G. I'. Maelagan, who is in Scotland: vice president, T. F. Ward; cashier, Frank Koob, the only officer in town. Cashier Koob, in the absence of ad vice, closed the doors and posted a notice that an examiner would be placed in charge. The defunct bank was organized a number of years ago by William 11. Dent. He left the state after dispos ing of the institution. Ward coming from Prhnghar. la., to be manager. The bank was capitalized for SIOO,OOO, and at the date of the last statement, February 15, showed SIOB,OOO de posits. Ward was a member of the demo cratic state central committee. His wife is dangerously ill at home, hav ing given birth to a child a week ago. N'ews of her husband's disgrace is withheld from her. A RAID ON POOL ROOMS. Sew lork Police llooendril on Seven I'laceti unit Arremteil limn bier*. New York, April IS. —The commit tee of fifteen raided seven alleged pool rooms Wednesday afternoon. The raids were made on warrants is sued bv Justice Jerome and upon evidence obtained by the staff of de tectives working for the committee under the direction of .Superinten dent John McCullagh. The raids in each ease were personally conducted by individual members of the com mittee, assisted by their own detec tives and policemen of the regular force from the precinct in which the raid was made. In only one place did the raiders fail to make any arrests, and ('. C. lirewster, of the committee, says the inmates of the place received a tip from the police that the place was abont to be raided. A feature of the raiding was an ef fort made by at least two of the police officials to prove tiiat the places raided were not pool rooms, lint orderly and well conducted clubs. Twenty persons in all were arrested. At a room at Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, no prisoners were captured and no evidence obtained. It was in connection with the latter place that Mr. lirewster acctis d the police of warning the pool room pro prietor. lie said the police moved so slowly that he urged them to hurry, tint met with <-ebuff. When Mr. lirewster reached the place ahead of the police his agents told him some one had come to the place a few minutes after he went into the station and given a tip to to or 50 men within. They were still coming out when he got there. When the police got there the place was empty. LI DELAYS JUSTICE. China'* Aged StalcMinan Prevent* the ■execution ol* Hurtlerer* ol" Cliri*- tiu n*. Pekin, April 18.—A missonary named Killie has returned from San- Ifo, where Christians were burned to death in December. Mr. Killie reports to lien. Chaffee that some time ago several of his converts were killed. He had the guilty parties tried in the Chinese courts, where they were con victed and sentenced to death, sub ject to Li Hung Chang's signature. Mr. Killie came to I'ckin and saw Li Hung Chang, who said the men should be executeil immediately. Upon going to San-Ho three weeks later the missionary found the men alive. lie spoke to a judge of the Chinese court on the matter, who thereupon shovvud him a letter from Li Hung Chang giving explicit in structions that the men must not be executed, as they had only been con victed on the testimony of Christians, consequently the evidence was un trustworthy. In the meantime the French consul found the same men guilty of Incendiarism and other out rages and demanded their execution, whereupon the judge again showed his oidlers from Li Hung Chang. The French authorities replied that if the men were not executed within eight days they would take the law into their own hands and punish the Chinese officials likewise. A Itoctor I* A*»a*«lnateil. Memphis, Tenn., April IS. —Dr. 11. S Scruggs, who resided at Aulona, a suburb of this city, was found sitting upright in his buggy near his home early yesterday. A bullet hole be hind the left ear showed that he had been assassinated by some person who climbed upon the back of the vehicle as t ie physician was return ing from visiting a patient. (•ambient ore Rubbed of (:t,OOU, Memphis, Tenn., April IS.—Two men, with drawn revolvers, robbed Hen Marsh's gambling house early Wttlnesday morning. They spent three minutes in the place and se cured over $3,01)0. Marsh and his as sistants were balancing the cash after the night's play when the robbers rushed in the room. A purse on the table contained $2,500, while Marsh held SSOO in his hands. The four men in the room were ordered to lie on the floor or be killed. They obeyed and the robbers snatched the money. BECAUSE CF THE WAR. Fimlami 'tin*! Itorroiv Nearly #;ioi>,« lHMf,ooo mim! liie.'eunn the Burden* ol Taxation A Keiuiirkablc State ment. London, April 19. -The exceptional interest taken ill this year's budget statement was evidenced by the crowded condition of the house of commons when it reassembled yester day. The chancellor of the ex chequer, Sir Michael 1 tench, rose at 4: IS p. m.and commenced the budget statement. He said the country had reached a point when it was necessary to widen the scope of taxation, but direct tax payers must bear their share of the burden. "1 propose that two pence shall be added to the income tax, making one shilling and two pence in the pound. The extra two pence will realize £3,800,000. There will be no addition to the beer, wine, tea, spirits or tobacco duties. "I propose a duty on refined sugar, of four shillings and two pence a hundred weight. My next proposal is a novel one, unknown in this coun try for 45 years. It is an export duty of a shilling 11 ton on coal. "My final balance sheet will show from taxation a total revenue of £143,255,000. I propose to reduce the expenditure by again suspending the sinking fund to £ 182,902,000. This shows a deficit of £39,707,000, to which must be added £ 1,250,000 for the fresh debt I have to borrow. I must ask the house to give me bor rowing powers considerably in excess of this deficit of £41,000,000. In or der to finance the exchequer 1 ask power to borrow £60,000,000. "The war has brought the country to the verge of ruin. The war has cost £151,000,000, double the cost of the Crimean war. There was £57,- 000,000 of the unfunded debt re deemable within the next ten years. I have tried to put before the house a true account of our finances for the. present and immediate future. In our time no chancellor of the ex chequer has had so difficult a task." At 1:40 this morning Mr. Italfour, the government leader, said it was necessary to pass resolutions at once, whereupon the house divided on the sugar duty, which was adopted by a vote of IS3 to 125. On the resolution to authorize the war loans being put before the house, John Kedmond moved to re port progress. Sir Michael Ilicks- Peach assented and the house ad journed. The liberals in the lobby declared that the budget proposals afforded them the best electioneering weapon they had had for twenty years. One liberal figured out that the war had cost t! 1,000 for every Poer killed. There is little doubt that, in rais ing new taxes, instead of increasing old ones. Sir Michael has courted much hostility and given the liberals an opportunity to close their ranks and to attack the government on its finiicial policy. William Abram, radical member, who is presidet of the Welsh Miners' Federation, said that he was extreme ly surprised at the proposal for a coal tax, adding: "The ultimate result will probably be the closing down of scores of Welsh collieries and the throwing of thousands out of employment. Such a tax is wrong in principle and wilj inevitably cause the overthrow of the government." The shipping interests, which are very powerful in the house of com mons. are also strongly opposed to the coal duty. VETERANS FROM MICHIGAN. They Plan lo Come by Thou*ai)<l« to the A. IC. l-'.iieaiiioniciit at < love land. Cleveland, April 19. —A visitor in Cleveland on Thursday was Col. C. Y. 1!. Pond, assistant adjutant general of the department of Michigan of the Grand Army. His errand was to se cure quarters for the department during the national encampment to be held in Cleveland September 9 to It next. Col. Pond was enthusiastic concerning the attendance from Michigan which will characterize the occasion. Said he: "The Michigan comrades at their camp fires which I visited all over the state are a unit, in their inten tion to attend the encampment. I anticipate that Michigan will have the banner attendance, except that of Ohio, in Cleveland. The distance is so short and the railroad rates ore so reasonable that nearly everybody is coming. "The department of Michigan will bring with it Gov. Illiss as its guest of honor. This is always done by our department, but we have an added joy this year in extending the courtesy, as Gov. Bliss is a Grand Army comrade himself and popular throughout the order in the state." Other visitors were Capt.T. .T.Ham ilton. (apt. I). F. Lyon and Mr. Cieorge Sands, of Pittsburg, repre senting (ien. Alexander Hays post Xo. 3, of the Grand Army. These gentle men were a committee from the post to find quarters. The post will at tend the encampment 100 strong. Hank Failure fanned In*aiiity. Chicago, April 19. —As a result of the failure of the Niles (Mich.) bank a few weeks ago John Pruyn, of Grand Rapids, who lost $40,000 through the suspension, has become insane. Pruyn, who came here few weeks ago, was taken into cus tody on the request of a relative. He was examined in court yesterday and was ordered sent to an asylum. Will Kuild a Steel Plant. Washington, Pa., April 19. — W. Jes sop A- Sons, steel manufacturers of Sheffield, England, will erect a mam moth steel plant in this city. The English firm has purchased 37 acres of land on the Gordon farm north vest of town, on which site the plan will be erected. In a few days gronnd will be broken for the erection of the plant, and it is expected that by the close of the present year it will be in operation. The deal was closed last night by Sidney J. Robinson, manag ing director, and Col. Ilugbee, Eng lish attorney for the firm. AjruinaMo Listens to Voices Heading for Peace. AN IRRESISTIBLE FORCE lie Says It Compels Filipinos to Cease Hostilities. HE ISSUES A MANIFESTO. In Tlitn Addrrm lo tlie I*eo|>le of (l;e Inland* He Say* that l iider the Utile <>l Hie lulled Mali* S lu j Will Find liberty and llu l>|>iiie<s<t. Manila, April 20.—The following is Aguinaldo's address to the Filipino people, made public last evening': "I believe I am not in error in pre suming that the unhappy fate to which my adverse fortune has led me, is not a surprise to those who have been familiar with tiie progress of the war. The lessons taught with a fufl meaning' and which have recently come to my knowledge, suggest with irresistible force that a complete ter mination of hostilities and lasting peace are not only desirable but ab solutely essential to the welfare of the Philippine islands. "The Filipinos have never been dis mayed at their weakness, nor have they faltered in following the path pointed out by their fortitude and courage. The time has come, how ever, in which they find their ad vance along this path to be impeded by an irrisistible force which, while it restrains them, yet enlightens their minds and opens to them an other course, presenting them the cause of peace. This cause has been joyfully embraced by the majority of my fellow countrymen, who have al ready united around the glorious sovereign banner of the United States. In this banner they repose their trust and belief that under its protection the Filipino people will attain all those promised liberties which they are beginning to enjoy. The country has declared unmistak ably in favor of peace. So be it. There has been enough blood, enough, tears and enough desolation. This wish cannot be ignored by the men still in arms if they are animated by a desire to serve our noble people, which lias thus clearly manifested its will. So do 1 respect this will, now tl at it is known to me. "After mature deliberation 1 reso lutely proclaim to the world that T cannot refuse to heed the voice of a people longing for peace, nor the lamentations of thousands of fam ilies yearning to see their dear ones enjoving the liberty and the prom ised generosity of the great Amer ican nation. "By acknowledging and accepting the sovereignty of the I'nited States throughout the I'hilippinearchipelago as I now do, and without any reser vation whatsoever, I believe that T am serving thee, my beloved country. May happiness be thine." To signalize this important step in the pacification of the country Gen. Mac Arthur orders the release, on swearing allegiance to the l-nited States, of 1,000 insurgent prisoners. Washington, April 20. It is be lieved by the administration that the manifesto of Aguinaldo will have a good effect both in the Philippines and in this country. It will take some time for itis dissemination among the Filipinos, but it is expect ed to be of considerable service and to make more rapid the improvement in the situation which set in some time ago and has become quite marked of late. Especial gratification is felt at the unreserved tone of the document and the full acceptance it indicates of American rule. This it is felt will bring to the support of the govern ment many Filipinos who. while wish ing for peace, have hesitated to assist the Taft commission. In this country it is expected to re duce the criticism of the administra tion and to cause less discussion of the general policy of the war in the island and more consideration of the important matter of the best admin istration to lie evolved for their gov ernment. It is to this work that the Taft commission is now binding its energies. Aguinaldo, now that he has accepted American sovereign ty. probably will be given consider ably more liberty than lie has en joyed hitherto. Ilis services will be "used as far as possible in the pacifi cation of the islands. The ,extent, however, to which be will be permit ted his freedom is for (!en. Mac A rthur to determine, with the assist ance of the Taft commission. The Cereal Maker*' Combine. Akron, April 20. —The consumma tion of the project to consolidate all the independent cereal plants of tho country is now assured. The vari ous properties, ten in number, will be turned over to the Great Western Cereal Co. at Chicago next Thursday. The new company wfll compete with the American Cereal Co., better known as the "oatmeal trust." Ms People Injured. Florence, Col., April 20.—A head end collision between a passenger train and a light engine occurred on the Florence .& Cripple Creek road yesterday near liussell, seven miles north of this city. Six persons were injured. Hotli engines were demol ished. ■ leaviemi liainl'all In Ten Year*. Pittsburg, April 20.—The rainfall of the past 21 hours in Pittsburg was the heaviest recorded for a similar period during the past ten years. The report of the weather bureau showed a fall of 1.53 inches. 3
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