Nan ER A
THE NEWS,
During the month of August thers was an
incredse fn the coliections of internal rev-
enue over the corresjonding month of 1897
of $11,006,285,
The Chinese Legation in Paris officially
denies the reports of the death of the Em-
peror of China.
A branch of the Molsons' Bank, at Winni-
peg, Manitoba, has been robbed, it is sald,
of more than £60,000. Eatrance to the
vault, it is supposed, was gained by a per-
son having knowledge of the combination.
A botler exploded at the saw mill of
Laberty & Lee, six miles from Verdi, Nevada.
Two lives were Jost and three persons were
seriously injured. The plant was destroyed.
Fire at Clarksville, Tennessee, caused a
balf million dollar loss, Gill & Turnley’s
tobaceo warehouse and the Louisville and
Nashville depot were among the buildings
destroyed.
Fourteen houses, comprising the greater
portion of the business district of Lowell,
Indiana, were destroyed Ly fire, The loss
will reach $40,000, with limited insurance.
It is stated that the disposition of the
troops in the Philippine Islands, before Gen-
eral Merritt's departure was 80 ordered as to
warrant the view that a large or complete
holding of the Philippines by the United
States was contemplated,
Owing to protests and petitions from mer-
chants of Manila, General Otis has postponed
the operation of the new cusicias and traflle
regulations until November 10,
Four soldiers were killed and nine wound-
ed in a sorimmage with Indians, at Bog-Ab-
Me-Ge, Shirk's Point, near Bear Island,
Minnesota. Becretary Alger has ordered re-
inforeements to be sent at once to the scene
of the fight. It is said a general uprising of
Indians seems imminent,
Brigadier General Ernst, with the Six.
teenth Pennsylvania and the Third Wiscon-
sin Regiments, has been ordered to leave
Ponce for the United States, Both regi-
ments have a number of men on the sick
list.
The transport Panama arrived at Fort
Monroe from Porto Rico with 156 sick sol-
diers from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois
regiments. The men will be placed in the
hospital at Fort Monroe.
The transport Berlin, with 175 econvales-
cents on board, arrived at Santiago from
Ponce,
Naval Constructor Hobson is now confl-
dent that he will be able to save the Cristo-
bal Colon, and aiso the Reloa Mercedes,
which was sunk by the Spaniards,
The guus so far recovered from the wrecks
of the Infanta Maria Teresa, the Vizcaya and
the Almirante Oquendo are valued at £300,-
000,
Troops are being burried forward to the
aid of General Bacon and his handful of
regulars, who are said to be in extreme
peril, near Leech Lake, Minn., surrounded
by hundreds of hostile Pillager Indians, In
the battle Wednesday, between General
Bacon's command and the Indians, at jeast
sight whites ware killed, including Major
Wilkinson, commander of the soldiers under
General Bacon.
The Republicans of Massachusetts, In
State convention at Boston, renominated
Governor Roger Wolcott and adopted reso-
lations favoring the retention of all the
Philippines,
It is stated that the majority of Allen D.
Chandler, Demoeratic nominee for Gover-
nor of Georgia, was about 60,000,
Chicago Raliroad men and merchants
have formed a national anti-ticket-sealping
committees to sncure congressional legisia-
tion.
Much damage was done in portions of
western Massaobusetts and Vermont by a
severe storm in the Hoosle Valley,
Forty postmasters {from the first-class of.
flees of the country attended the first nanual
convention of postmast rs of the United
States at Detroit,
Several thousand square miles of moun.
tain forest lands are belog swept by fire In
the vicinity of Glenwood, Colorado, and the
damage to ranches and homes is sald to be
enormous, though no ives are yet reported
lost,
Forest fires have also been sweeping a
large territory in Wisconsin, and the viliage
of Cumberiand was almost entirely wiped
out,
The town of Pana, Til, Is in a state of ter-
ror, owing to bostliities between striking
coal miners and colored men imported to
take their places, The strikers held upa B,
& O. Sguthwestern train containing more
wegroes and forced them to return, The
sheriff and his deputies are powerless, and
Governor Tanner sent several companies of
militia,
H. C. Garber, attorney for an Akron, O.,
telephone company, was arrested on affl.
davit of Akron's city commissioner, who
charged bim with attempted bribery,
The Delaware tribe of Indians are sald to
have bought lands in Mexico, to whieh they
will remove from Isdian Territory.
A West Indian hurricane, accompanied by
terrific winds, did much damage along the
coast of Georgia and South Carolina, ruin
ing crops, driving vessels ashore and Imper-
fling the lives of many persons,
A special dispateth from Trenton, N. J,
says that two great combinations are nearly
organiged-—-one of the potters the other of
glassmakers,
A special dispatch from Chattanooga
says that the Bouthern iron furnaces are
working at foll biast and that business con-
ditions otherwise seem good,
Jesse James, son of the noted outlaw, is
said to be Involved fo a traln robbery in
Kansas, He keeps a cigar stand in Kausas
City.
GREAT FINE AT HANKOW.
Square Mile of City Burned, and One
Thousand Lives Lost,
According to a special from Shanghbal, a
fire on Sunday at Hankow destroyed over a
squnre mile of the city, locludipg the gov.
ernment bulldings and the temple, It Js
feared that a thousand lives were lost,
Hankow Is a treaty port on the Yang-Tee-
‘Kiang, at the mouth of one of ita teibutars
fos, 700 miles from the sea. The eity forms,
with Hau-Yang and Woo-Chang, the Capi-
tal of Hee-Po, all In sight of one another,
and separated only by the river, one of the
greatest commercial centers in the world,
Huo estimates thelr united population at
(00,000, but they suffered much fn the
ao-Ping ware, Hankow is one terminus of
the proposed Peking-Hankow Rallway,
Increased Postal Hevenues,
A Washington special says: Mr, Henry A.
Castle, the auditor for the Postoflice Depart.
ment, in his annual report shows the net
postal deficiency for the fleeal year ended
Juna 30, 1898, was $0,020,905, the smallest In
some years, The | revenus for ie
was $50,012,018, an increass of $6,847,1
The expenditures locroased §4,252,296, nid
the defleit was reduced by $2,004,020, At
the same ratic of !mereass both In revenue
and in expenditures, Auditor Castle onleu.
lates the expenditures in the present Aseal
will pass the $100,000000 eark, snd
» revenuey yo beyond $48,000,000,
ANNAPOLIS LYNCHING,
Smith Wright Taken From
Jail and Shot
io
THE POLICE TOO LATE
The Lynchers Gain Entrance to Jall and
Compel the Officer in Charge, at the
Polnt of Their Revolvers, to Hand Over
the Prisoner-~The Doomed Man Com-
pelied to Walk Before the Mob,
Axxarvorts, Md., (Bpeolal).— Wright Smith
colored, who attempted an assault on Mrs,
Morrison, the wife of Captain James Morri-
son, of the third district, residing near
Jones’ Station, was taken from jail shortly
after two o'clock Wednesday morning and
shot,
The lynching party went to the jall, point-
ed guns at Night Watchman Duvall and took
the prisoner to Sanders’ lot, near the City
Cemetery, and riddled the body with bullets,
Bmith begged for mercy and cried ‘‘Mur-
der!" as he was being removed from jail.
Deputy Sheriff Burlingame informed the
State's Attorney of the affalr and asked
what disposition should be made of the
body.
Story of the Assault.
On Friday, September 2, shortly belore
midnight, while Captain James Morrison, of
the sloop William E. Price, was on his way
to Baltimore with a load of oysters, his
house, near Jones’ Station, in the Third
Distriot of Anne Arundel county, was enter-
ed by a negro, who fovaded the room occuo-
pled by Mrs. Morrison and her sister and
attempted to assault them,
James Barrett, Frank Johnson and
Smith, who had been traveling about the
county, were arrested on suspicion, They
claimed they were in the neighborhood and
slept in the packing house at the station,
but théy denied all knowledge of the as-
saunlt,
Mrs. Morrison stated that she and her sis-
ter were in the third story of the house,
They had retired eariy, They were awak-
ened about balf-past ten by a voles demand.
ing them to get ont of bed, This frighten.
ed ber sister, who started to run, The ne.
gro, a burly fellow, threw her on the floor,
and then made for Mrs, Morrison, whe
grabbed her assailant by the throat,
The two struggled, the negro, by superior
strength, overpowering her, Finally she
freed hersell and ran into an adjoining
room, securing a pistol, which she pointed
at the negro, It falied to go off, though
she snapped It several times, the negro hav.
ing bold of her all the time, Ho floally se-
cured the weapon, with which he beat her
over the head and afterward threw her down
the stairway, the fall causing an ugly cut on
her bnox, Beth women fought desperately
4nd Soally drove off thelr assaliant, While
the brutes was tusseling with Mrs. Morrison
ber sister ran to a neighbor's house, whers
she gave the alarm, Mure, Morrison also
took refuge with a neighbor,
The affalr caused a great deal of exelte.
ment in the neighborhood and searching
parties were soon on the track of the mis.
oresnt. It was thought robbery was Intend.
ed and that the negro had confederates on
the outside, a pumber of footprints belong
found around the house, A lamp, which
bad been left downstalfMy was found in the
third story the next morning. Nothing,
however, was missing, the man baving evi.
dently been discovered too soon to effect a
robbery.
Captain Morrison returned bome Satur.
day, baviag been summoned by telegraph,
His wife complained of several painful
wounds, including a deep gash in the Lack
and two or three outs In the bead and shoul-
der, foflileted by a toilet basin, which was
thrown with such foros as to break it, Her
wounds, though painful, are not considered
serious, Her sister escaped serious hurt,
but was considerably frightened Ly the
attack,
Mrs, Morrison falled to identify the pris.
oners and they were discharged,
A colored man, who had disappeared from
tte neighborhood, was arrested In Balti.
more and taken $0 Annapolis, Hse gave the
name of Wright Smith,
Mrs. Morrison unbeeitatingly identified
him as her aseallant the moment she saw
him, He trembied violently, but denied his
gulls,
There was much feeling against the pris-
oner {rom the time of his identification,
ABUUT NOTED PEUFLE,
John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia mer.
chant, enrries a life insurance of $3,000,000,
At a banquet of Datel descendants in New
York Mr. Depew opened his remarks with
Al.
“Good evening, Van.”
Prineess Charlotta Iturbide, daughter of
Prines Iturbide, of Mexico, presides over a
lemonade stand In one of the plazas in the
City of Mexico,
It is proposed to erect in Aberdeen, Seot-
land, a statue of Lord Byron, to commemo-
rate the 10 years of Loyhood that the poet
spent in that eity, Byron was 2 years old |
when bis father cams there, When the poet |
was 5 yoars oid his mother sent him to Mr,
Bower's English school, which is now in the |
siums of the eity,
Ira T. O'Brien, a blacksmith of Rome, Ga,,
is sald to be the best ciassieal scholar in the
Htate, He can converse In seven languages, |
He Is one of the few men who can trasslate
Latin to English and vice versa as rapidly
as he can write, and he does it with marvels
ous accuracy. He speaks Greek, German,
French, Spanish, Italian and has a good
knowledge of other languages,
Dr. David Gill, the British astronomer at
the Cape of Good Hope, has been elected a
foreign member of the National Academy of
Salences, Washington, The list is a very
Hmited one, the only other foreign astrono-
mer on it being Dr. Otto Btuve, inte Imper.
ial astronomer of Russia, and Dr, Arthur
Auwers, astronomer and president-secretary
of the Academy of Belence, Beriin,
The Empress Eugenie 1s stil at Farnsbor-
ough, and, though in fairly good health,
raroly walks at all, except In her garden and
with the aid of a eruteh,
To judge from the numercaus photographs
and eats of the late Empress of Austria, one
would bave thought her a bruneite, On
the contrary, she was a decided blonde, and
ber beautiful halr won for her in early days
tbe name of “Goidelse,"” or “Elisabeth of
the golden locks,”
When J. A. Paulsell, a veteran of both the
Mexioan and Civil Wares, and now 84 [years
old, married n woman of 23 years a few days
ago, he used a novel weddipg rieg. It was
ot kasts aad > made from a bit of eannon
" rxienns at Chepultepeo :
a by the Americans, uy
Menolik's vnvoys spent over £20,000 dur.
ing thelr stay In Parle—prineipally for gar
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(RUISER 70 CHINA.
Admiral Dewey Ordered to Send
the Baltimore to Tien-Tsin.
TO PROTECT AMERICANS.
ness Clty Is 1,802 Miles, but the Bal-
more Will Make All Possible Speed-—
Her Departure Weakeas America’s
Grasp In the Philippines.
A dispateh to the New York Herald from
Washington says:
tent by Becretary Loong to Admiral Dewey
directing him to send the protected crulser
saltimore at once to Tien-Tsin, China,
This nection shows conclusively the con-
corn feit by the administration at the ex-
Empire. It wouid seem 10
more sensational information had been re-
ceived from Minister Conger than the au-
thorities have made public, It was stated,
however, that the advices from the minister
of affairs existing throughout the
In a dispatoh made public by the State De-
had oceurred at points not then known,
over the death of the Emperor, and the ef.
forts which will probably be made by his
adherents to seek revenge, or, at least as
sure safety for themselves, the authorities
deomed It wise to place a sbip as near the
capital as possible, where the members of
the American legation and
near the capital may flad refuge in case of
need. After a consultation with the
dent Becretary Long directed Capt. A SB.
gation, to prepare
Dewey 10 send the Baltimore to Tien-Teln
without delay. These orders were signed
and cabled, and it is belleved the ship is
now on her way to her destination.
The Baltimore has a long trip before her,
The distance between Maaila and Tien Tein
is 1,862 inlies, which she will cover under
the “hurry orders’ given her within seven
days at the utmost. The instrpctions 10
Capt. N. M. Dyer, require him immediately
upon his arrival to communiente with Mic
istar Conger and take every step needful to
protect American Interests,
The dispateh of the Baltimore from Man-
fla Is rather embarrassing in view of the
necessity of malotaining a strong fores in
the Philippines, but there was no other ship
immediately avaliable, and It was recognized
that prompt action must be taken,
It is evident that the adminstration fs
either more reileyed coneeraing the inter.
national situation In the Philippines or
that the danger to American Interests in
Chins is greater than in the islands. Bo far
as Germany is concerned, the authorities
are satisfied that ber attitude Is now as sor-
rect as they can desire. The Baltimore can,
therefore, be spared from Maniis.
A MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY,
A Tennessee Farmer and His Friends Kilt
Five Men.
A speoial dispatch says that a tragedy has
ocourred in the north portion of Cannon
county, Tenn, about tilrty miles east of
Murfreesboro’, Five wen are reported to
have been killed,
John Helitngsworth killed a man named
Higgins over a year ago. A suit was brought
against Hollingsworth and a judgment ob-
tained by the Higgins family for $700. When
the party of men came to earry out ihe legal
proceedings and had gathered in the barn,
Hollingsworth and his friends fired into
them with double-barreled shot guns, kill-
ing four men aud wounding another so bad.
ly that he i» not expected to recover, Rev,
A. CO. Webb, a minister, is one of those killed,
Samuel Webb, his son, is another,
A later dispatch says that Hollingsworth
has been shot and severely wounded,
LOBK OF 30 LIVES,
Labrador Mall Steamer Leopard Belloved
to Have Gone Down.
It is feared that the Labrador mall gleam-
er Leopard, with a crew of eighteen men
and tweive passengers, was lost in a severe
storm off the nor.heast coast of Ht, Johns,
Bhe leit King's Cove Tuesday morning,
but bad not reached Battle harbor at mid-
night Friday, though it Is oniy twenty-four
hours’ run. The storm was the severest that
had raged there in many years,
The Leopard was of 320 tons, and was
bullt at Ayer, Seovtinnd,
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In Moore's Place.
A Washington special says: The Presi.
dent has appointed Dr. David J. Hill, of
Rochester, First Assistant Secretary of Blate,
to succeed John Bassett Moore, resigned,
Dr. HII is president of the Rochester Uni.
versity, Is 8 scholarly gentleman, and fs
partionlarly known through his knowledge
of international Inw,
He bas taken a prominest partin New
York polities and bas delivered many public
addresses during recent oampaignn, Hels
now in Holland, but is axpected to return at
onoe, haviog novepted the position tendered,
am tt Ste nec
w Oty Guiaud Nutettn, ;
vO ine, father of Miss May Collins
the Rentucky irvs Thinker Whe wor Iam
dead fu » Boston hotel with a male compans
lon over a year ago, drowned blowell ins
pond at Rilzabeth, tour miles from Paris,
ILLINOIS LAUNCHED.
| Battleship Glides Into
Water at Newport News.
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'A BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
Governor Tanner and Mis Staff Attend
the Ceremony Over 40,000 People Saw
the Battleship Launched—Grand Ban
quet and Hall Foliow Ceremony Illi
nois Fride of the Navy.
Newronr News, Va. (8peclal). —Amid the
enthusiastic plaudits nearly 40,000 in-
tensely interested people, the shrill saluta-
tion of steam whistles from many boats and
tugs, and the strains of “The Star Sp angled
janner,"” the first-class battleship lilinocls
glid into the water on Tuesday. The launch
was a brilliant success in every particular,
| the mechanism and preparations being per-
i feet, The assemblage of spectators was un-
| precedenied in the history of the Newport
{ News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
pany.
The sponsor of the vessel, Miss Nancy
Lelter, of Chieago, arrived at 10.80, sccom-
| panied by Governor Tanner, of Illinois, his
| stall in full uniform, and a crowd of distn-
{ guished Chicagoans. The approach of the
christening party was heralded bya chorus
{ of volees, and as the party ascended the
gally decorated platform alongside the prow
! of the vessel, all eyes were torned towards
| Miss Lefter,
While the crowd srpectantly waited, the
i keel blocks on which hull rested and
the shores along her side were carefully re-
moved until the weight rested upon the
slidiog ways, The wis held then
only Ly the oaken planks between ihe slid.
{ing and the ground ways. As these were
| being served by the saw, the sponsor stood
walting to perform her conspicuous part in
the ceremony.
Suddenly the painted mass of steel began
to move, and gaining speed as it went, slid
toward the water. Just as the motion faizly
| began, Miss Leiter, who had been standing
with the christening bottle poised in the afr
iet it swing sharply against the bow sim.
ultaneously uttering the words “I christen
thee IMlinols."” and then, amid deafening ap-
piause, the waving of banners, and the din
of steam whistles, the gayly decorated hull,
with more than 100 persons aboard, gilded
into the Jawes River and as her bows cleared
the ways, slowly floated out into the
stream.
At 4 o'clock the distinguished guests were
entertained at a grand banquet in the bean-
tifal decorated ballroom of the Chamberlain
Hotel. Covers were iald for 600 persons and
the assemblage included, besides the no-
tabiss at the launching, many wilitary and
naval officers,
President CO. R. Orcutt, of the Newport
News shipbuilding plant, was tomtmaster,
The toasts and speakers were:
“Our Presidest,” by J. O. Hamlin, of
Shelbyville, Iii; “The State of Illinois," by
Governor John R. Tanner; “Our Navy,” by
Rear Admiral Howell; “Chicago,” by Mayor
Carter Harrison; “Virginia,” by Governor
J. Hoge Tyler.
The banquet was followed by a ball,
The Illinois is a sister ship of the Ala-
| bama, now building at Cramps’ yard, and
of the Wisconsin, building at San Francisco.
Her dimensions are: Length, 868 feet: beam,
1 72 feet 24 in hen; draft, at normal displase-
ment of 11,525 tons, 28 feet 6 inches. Her
speed will be ebout 183¢ knots, and the in-
dicated horse power of her engines
10,000,
The armor belt Is 163¢Inches thick at the
top and 9 inches thick at the bottos.
This belt extends four feet below the water
line, There is also diagonal armor 12 inches
thick at the bottom, This beit extends four
fest below the water line, There is also
diagonal armor 12 inches thick connecting
the belt armor and barbettes. The fires
keel plate of the Ililnols was laid February
10, 1897, and she Is to be completed In Ooto-
ber, 1809,
Nr
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of
Com-
the
vessel
AR AA AAS
Treasure Stolen,
A special from Stevens Point, Wis, says:
Joseph Bloertzbach, 72 years old, has been
robbed of $15,600. This amouni—econsisting
of #7,000 iu Stevens Point bonds, $2,000 ia
Government bonds, £8,600 In goid, $3,000 In
paper money--he had Kept buried in a tin
box in his woodshed. Duriag his absenos
from the city it was exhumed and taken, to-
gether with his list of the bond numbers
The empty box was carelnlly relterred,
"CABLE SPARKS
It is reported that General Kitohener
ealied upon Major Marchand at Fasbods to
Just the Prunes flag ana that the latter re
It i» now believed that Kuang-Hsu, Em.
peror of China, committed suicide, oi that
ha will be succeaded by Yio, a grandson of
Privos Kung,
Propositions for the settlement of the
Atacamma question, made Ly a representa
tive of Chill, have been refused by Ase
gentina,
FIGHT WITH INDIANS,
Attack Made While Men Were
Preparing For Dinner,
FOUR MEN KILLED.
Fire Was From Bog-Ah Me -Ge-Shirk’s
Honse, Near Bear Isiand, Minnesota
Inspector Tinker Was Shot Through the
Log, und His Cont Slesves Were Torn to
Ribbons by Another Builst.
A special from Walker, Mion, says: A
terrific battle was fought at 10 o'clock Wed-
nesday morplog, thirty miles from Walker,
at Bog-Ab-Me-Bhirk's Point, close to Bear
Island, A detachment of one hundred wen,
under General Bacon, was landed on the
point ghortly after 8 o'clock, The landing
was effected with considerable difficulty, ow-
fog to a high sea. After landing, a sortie of
tbe bush was made in all directions. The
soldiers went through the thick undergrowth
very carefully, aud with every precaution
taken sgajust ambush, No Iodians were
seen until nearly 11 o'clock. The men were
then ordered to line up in an open space,
near the shore of the lake, charges were
drawn and preparations made for dinner,
The order to make coffees had been given
and the soldiers were standing in column
formation when a shot was heard. It came
from Bog-Ab-Me-Ge-Bhirk’s house, The
bali struck Ed. Harrle, ex-Marshal, of
Walker, a hall-breed,
This was the signal. Immediately the fir-
ing became general, It seemed that a shot
cams from every bush, Three of General
Bacon's men dropped. They were at onos
carried to the rear. On the very instant
that the first shot was heard every man in
the command sprang for cover without
waiting for orders, Like a flash the blue
column bad vaslshed, nnd except lor a gray
hat showing behind a tree or bush, not a
sign was to be seen of the eighty men who
stood erect Lut an instant before, General
Bacon's voles could bs beard bigh above
everything, admonishing bis men. The gen-
eral stood erect, and, supported by Major
Wilkioson, looked upon the Indians
“Steady, men,” he called, “keep cool, BOW
keep cool.”
Again there came a volley
dians,
from the In-
ers made a terrific rush.
them dropped, while the
yelling like flende,
about 150 or 200
others fell
There must have
Indians.
rush to prevent the recapture of
Quod and Bap Dway We Dung.
was entirely successful,
and the order was given to charge.
soldiers arose, ducking avd dropping
grasshoppers, Suddenly s volley was
The
fired
lay off shore.
through the frall woodwork of the boat, and
every man, exoept the pliot, sought
revolvers, bul the range was 100 long.
of Duiuth. Iospector Tinker
through the leg, and his coat
was shot
steamed from the ageney under orders from
Marshal O'Connor, who was on
get the twenty men under Lieutenant Hun.
phrey who bad been leit there,
escaped death by a mirecle,
fired a volley directiy ut him.
The Indians
been killed and nine wounded,
mistake to send so few men,
It was a
fight, as the Indians respect
Gatling and a Hoteb kiss,
been used with effect The Indians bad
fired twenty-five shots before the troops re
tursed the fire, It Is thought that General
Bacon will entrench bimself and await rein-
foresments,
The wounded City Marshal of Walker, was
brought bome under a Red Cross flag
abeard the Flores, Marshal O'Connor and
Deputy Marshal Bheehan behaved with the
utmost bravery. The latter is sixty years
oid, but be stood yelling at the wen to keep
their heads down, while he bimseil stood
erect and bareheaded,
Lieutenant Morrison had never before
been under fire, The men behaved aplen-
did'y. O'Connor was put ashore in a hos.
and through brush to reach the Leech Lake
Agency,
Madrid Astonished.
A special from Madrid says: The reported
intention of the United States Government
to retain the whole of the Philippine Islands
has created almost a state of stupefaction
bere, and it is semi-officlally announced
that the Bpanlsh Government has resolved
to vigorously combat any such action, which
it is claimed, the terms of the peace proto-
col preclude,
General Rios, Governor of the Visayas Is-
lands, reports to the Government another
defeat of the Insurgents in the Province of
Antigua, He says the Spaniards captured
the town of Bugason, killing 24 of the in.
surgente, The Bpanish voluntesrs, he adds,
aiso repulsed an losurgent attack on the
town of Ibasan and killed 31 of the attack.
ing force,
The Delagos Bay Deal.
The Cape Town correspondent of the Lon.
don Dally Mall says: “Great Britian, it is
reported from Johannesburg, wiil take over
the Delagon customs, raliways and tele.
graph about the middie of this month,
Tue Trabsvasl Volksraad is now discuss.
ing the law binding the Orange Free Siate
and the Transvaal to muial mi itary assist
ance in the event of an a'tack from the out.
side, This is attributed 12 a fear of com.
plica loans ar sing out of the Delagoa Ba
Partner Kilts Partaer,
A Clacinnat! special says: Ex-State Sen-
ator J, C, Richardson died at his bome, in
Glendale, and a coroner's jury held his bro.
ther-in-law, W. J. Haldeman, a wealthy and
prominent business man, for murder. The
mill at
GOVERNMENT OF HAWAILL
The fiystem in Operation in the Distriet
of Columbia May Be Recommended,
A Washington special says: For almost &
generation the Distriet of Columbian hay
been governed under a mixed civil and mils
itary commission, sppolated by the Presi
dent of the United States, At various inte
vals durlpg this period cheap politiciaps
aud sgitators bave upderiaken to arousy
publie sentiment against this form of gove
erpment, but without suceess, Ex Senator
Whyte, of Maryland, is one of the mes who
was lostrumental in securing this politiess
#ystem when the United States assumed one
haif of the expenses of the District, He
hus no reason to regret his share in iis adope
tion. It has worked well and the iutellfs
gence and property of this community is
overwhelmingly iu favor of iis continne
ance,
This District is solely the ward of the gove
ernment, as the Hawaiian Islands are now
Therefore the proposition to govern the re-
cently annexed depesdeney iu a manner
similar to that of the District of Columbia
mects with much favor apd the prospect is
it wiil receive the sanction of Congress, The
establishment of this system for the Ha-
waltau Islands will avoid all the embarrass.
ments and complications which it is justly
feared will result from a territorial form of
government, including even a modified suf-
(rage.
FIGHTING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Insurgents Reported to Have Pied When
Spanish Troops Were Landed.
Madrid, (Special, )— An official dispateb
from Ilolio, Pullippine Islands, states that
the landing of Spanish troops there caused a
bundred muskets, four cannon, a quantity
of ammunition and a flag were captured,
In addition, eighteen Bpanish prisoners were
relessed and the insurgents were dispersed,
The bulk of the insurgents withdrew to th
mountains and some of them surrendered,
The clergy nud the people, the * dispateh
says, have issued a maoilesto in favor of
Spain. Communication with Cebu has been
restored,
Iu other
encounters bLeiween the Epan.
the rebels wore killed,
CASUALTIES AT MANILA.
Bix Deaths From Smallpox, Eight From
Typhoid, and One Man Killed.
Manila, Philippine
There have been {«
Islands,
irteen cases of smallpox
and six deaths from that disease among the
American troops duriag the past few days,
The dead are H. M. Powers, First California
Begiment; Harry Wheeler, Becond Oregon;
Henry Culver, Fourteenth Infavtry; Joseph
Daily, George Coc iy aud Frank Warwiek, of
the Thirtesnth Minnesota Begiment Right
deaths from typhoid been
recorded,
Artilleryman Roach
Bpeeisl, jw
fever have also
was killed by & sen-
Mclntyre's Defense,
A Special Denver says
Uregon, wa
stand io his own defense in
He stated that he
of an ounce
had taken three-fourths
of brandy and 18 grains of juin.
bis lecture. He
, and had no recoliestion
what be had said.
was feeling very {i
of
Henry George Declines.
A New York special says: Henry George
bas declined the nomination for Governor
on the tickel placed in the field by the Chi
cago-piatform Democrats, and the commit
the baviag autbority to fill the vacancies
of the County
Mr. George in
pursuing usinter-
writing his father’s
of New York for the piace.
that by
Ex-Publie Printer Benedict Nominated
Thomas E. Benedict, of Ellensville, was
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Eighteenth district, New York. Mr.
Benedict was Public Printer in Washington
for two terms,
FIELD OF LAO A
Franee buys American silk.
Giass canlerns are announced,
Melbourne “hasn't a beggar.”
Eogiand bas 1,200 000 unionists,
Chicago has 1,000 union musicians,
London has a sandwichmen's home,
England has a woman grave digger.
The cidest industry 1s corn milling.
Beer costs a dime & glass in Oregon,
Loodon lactories make ancient eoins,
Ireland bas 100 woolen manulactories,
Our walches are sold in South Africas.
Germany contains 403 beet sugar mills,
Connecticut bakers held a State conven
tion.
In Fravee $0.65 is exacted for a ton of
coal,
Nashville unionists want fenders on street
Cure,
Lima (Ohio)
£1.50 a day.
Washington union granite
$3.60 a day,
Bacramento bas a raiiwey employes’ pov
litical club,
An international labor congress was beid
in Antwerp,
Unlonists operate six co-operative window
ginss plants,
Aberdeen (Scotiand) masons struck for 11
cents per hour,
In New York any person who gives a sirest
car transfer to another or any person whe
accepts one from an unauthorized person
and offers it for use is guilty of a mis
demeanor and liable to imprisopment and
fine,
A home for barkeepers is to be estabileh.
ed ut Wankesha, Wis,
New York pavers won a strike for the dis.
charge of non-unionists,
President Barter, of Michigan Federation
of Labor, urges unionists to enter politien,
Joseph Leicester has been Becretury of the
English Glassworkers' Union for forty-six
pavers won a strike for
culters pet
years,
Bolus (New York) saloons closed at 7.50
Pp. m. last week on account of the revivel
meetings,
Brewers censure Gompers for speakine af
the Omaha Exposition, Non-union Leer is
sold there,
The leading job printing plant of Wie
twenty-one-yoar-nid
Eogitsh and Welsh miners demand 10 per
cont, advance in wages, 3
When Albia (Is) miners strock the com.
pany abandoned fis minks, :
er
Kew Tora unions Rave eantsibuted: Ww A
fund to secure a pardon Berkmans,
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