THE NEWS, The Baltimore and Obio Raliroad, at the request of numerous business organizations of Baltimore and Philadelphia, has arranged for a ten days stop-over at each of those wities under the usual procedure of the passenger depositing the ticket with the ticket agent upon bis arrival, The Balti- more and Ohio Raliroad now grants ten days stop-nvers at Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, Wiillam N. Boggs, the defaulting bank teller of Dover, Del., was sentenced at Wil- mington to flys years In the penitentiary aad to pay a fine of 6,500. A movement is on foot in the Florida Legislature to provide for a revision of the State constitution, Stove manufacturers who are meeting in Cinelonati may form a consolidation of their interests, A dispateh to the Navy Department from Captain Coghlan states that an examination of the Raleigh alter she was floated shows that she sustainéd practically no damage in grounding off Charleston, George Ubler, a farmer, fifty years of nge, residing near Mouot Hope, Pa. killed his wile with an axe while she was milking a cow. He then banged himself. The double tragedy was discovered by their ion, and is aseribed to religious insanity. The saw-mill plant of the E. E. Jackson Company, at Reidavilte, Ala, was destroyed by fire. Loss, £75,000. The president of the company is ex-Governor E. E. Juckson, of Maryland. Alex. Volliath, of Sheboygan, and H, D, Eivers, of Baltimore, students of Mission . House College, were drowned while boat. riding in a small lake near Fraokiio, Wis, Their bodies have not been recovered. A young man named Roderick, of Charles- town, W. Va, shot bimsell through the leg, between the thigh snd the knee, while handling a pistol in the dicing parlor of Jones' confectionery at Berryvilie, Va. The wound is a very painful one, and bad the bullet passed a little higher up, it would bave severed an artery and death would have resulted. An equestrian status of General Hartranit was unvelied at Harrisburg, Pa. Three thousand persons attended a recep- tion and banquet in Washington, D, C,, la honor of the Natiooal Soelety of Mechanical Engineers, Alter experiments with wireless telegraphy by the United States Signal Corps, Geseral Greely bas concluded that it will not sup- plant the pressnt system of wires, Secretary Keep, of the Merchants’ Ex- change, Buffalo, N. Y., telegraphed to the Confederate Veterans reunion at Charleston, 8. C., an invitation to hold the reunion ia 1901—tbe Pan-Amerienn Exposition year— io Buffalo. C. E. Littiefiel ], of Rockland, was nonofi- nated by acelamation by the Republicans of tha Second Maine Congressional Distriet to succeed the late Nelson Dingley., June 3 will be observed as Memorial Day at Lexington, Va, An Alexandria, Va. flem bas secured the contract for a Confederate monument to be erected at Edgefield, 8. C. The West Virginia Koights Templar Con- ciave, in session at Huotiogton, selected Fairmont as the next piace of meeting The bodies of Joseph Harnby and Mary Viack, daughter of a farmer, were buried in the same grave at Beemer, Neb, The giri kilied hersell because she was convinced she could not be cured of an allment from which she was suffering. Haraby, to whom the girl was engaged, called at the Viack bome and asked permission to see the dead girl's body. He entered the death chamber and shot himsel!, dying instantly, A report irom Benjamin, Koox eounty, Tex. states that a terrifle storm, with rain approaching a waterspout, swept over the country about thirty miles wert of that place aud tbat the family of George Humphreys, composed of four perfons, was drowned by the sudden overflow of a branch of the Brazos river, Other disasters are believed 10 have oceurred in the Pan-Handle, but the section is almost without wire communica tion, Secretary Long has designated Surgeon C. Boyd to represent the medical corps of the navy at the International Medical Con. gress, which meets at Beriln in Juve, Dr Boyd is ehie! assistant of the SBurgeon-Gen- eral, and is stationed In Washington, He will sail from New York on May 28 Attorney-General Monnett, of Obhlo, bas named Charles B. Squires as the man who offered him a bribe io connection with Standard Of tigation Messrs, John W, and Hobert Garrett, of Baltimore, bave presented a number of val- uable volumes to the library of Princeton University, Confederate COKSET 8S KILLED HIM, Lacing For Feminine Hole in Amateur Burlesque Caused Apoplexy. Passale, N. J., (Special. )-Tight lacing eased the death of Chas, T, stewart, baoker, amateur actor, aod one of the leading men socinily of this piace. He was found dead io bed, and the use of corsets, made nece.- sary by his part lo a burlesque io whieh he bad participated, it is supposed, brought on an attack of apoplexy. Mr. Stewart was 38 years old and a son of I. C. Stewart, who leit him a Inege fortune, The father died mors thao a year ago, and the young man became» associated with the firm of A. Hathawny & Co,, bankers, of Now York. Prominent persons io Passale some time ago desided to give an entertalament to ralse tunds for the Gemae Hospital, of that city, An amatenr theatrionl perform- aace was decided upon and Mr, Btewart was pressed into aetive service because of his well-known ability in that lige, Mr, Stewart was east for the tracsformed part of Little Germany In the “Crimes of Normandy,” sud sleo Bad charge of the ballet, Tuere was a large audiences in the thestre on Tuesdny night, and the spirited performance was much enjoyed. Little Gers many received a full measure of applsase, but toward the close of the Luriesque seem- od fatigued. He complained of feeling dis- tressed, and remarked to a friend: “This Is my last show.” When the “makeup” and costumes had been removed Mr, Stewart walked direetiy to bis home, In High street, snd went to Led. At Lreakiast time be had not arisen and a servant finding that repeated knocks at his door were unanswered, entered and tound the young man dead, FILIFANUS DEMOKALIZED, a — - An Englishman Says Now Is the Time to trike Murd Manila, (By Cable Mr. Higgins, the Foglish manager of the Mantin-Dagupan Katlway, nod two of bis asslstanis, who had rewaloed ipside the Filipino Hoes to protect ty of the raliway COmMPRnY, Bre rived at San Fernando, : been informed by the natives MILES’ NOT SUSTAINED Report of the Beef Court of In- quiry. ———— GEN. EAGAN CRITICISED. Canned Roast Best As Article of Food Board Says It Was Not Suitable For Use On Transports Or a Long-Continued Field Ration— Miles Consured For Error In Not Promptly Notifying Secretary. Washington, D, C,, (Specin’.)~By direc. tion of the President, who avproved the fin lings, Actiog Beoretary of War Meikle- Joho has just mads publie the report and fludings of the military court appointed to lavestigate the obacges made by Major-Gen- oral Miles, commanding the army, that the beel suppiled to the army daring the war with Spain was unfit for the use of the troops, The court finds that General Miles’ allega- tions that the refrigerated bee! was treated with chemicals were not established; that his allegations concerning the canned fresh or eanned roast beef were sustained ns to fis unsuitability for food as used on the trans. ports and as a long-contisued fleld ration, General Miles is censured for “error” in falling to promptly notily the Secretary of War when be first formed the opinion that the food was unfit, General Eagan, form. erly commissary general, Is censured for too extensive purchases of the canned bee! as an untried ration. Colonel Maus, of General Miles’ stall, is also censured, The court finds that the packers were not at fault: thatthe meats supplied to the army were of the same quality as those supplied to the trade generally, aod recommends that no further proceedings be taken in the premises, Conclusions of the Court, The conelusiou of the court adverse to further proceedings based upon the charges is as foliows: “It has been developed In the coarse of the inquiry, as recited in this report, that is some instances certaln lndividuals falled to perform the full measure of duty or to ob serve the proprieties with digoify high mili- tary command, but the court Is of the opin. fon that the mere statement in the official re- port of the facts developed meets the end of diseipline, aud that the Interests of the ser- vice will be best subserved if further pro- ecoedings be not taken.” There is more or less eritlcism of Miies in various parts of the report. “The court fiuds that the major-general commanding the army had no sufficient jos tifieation for alleging that the refrigerated bee! was embalmed or was unfit for lssus to troops, It also finds that he committed an General as claimed, that the food was unfit, caused sickness and distress, that some of it was supplied uader the “pretense of exper. iment, did not immediately report such knowledge appiled,” Why Col. Maus is Cenaured, The censure of Colonel Maus, Inspector. bis lallure to call attention to charges COL in a report of inspection made by Dr, (or Major) Dally, on October 26 Inst, Iu which he stated bis Delle! that the bee! was chemi. cally treated, “The slienos of Col, Maus” says the court, “on so Important a maller as the chemicalized bes! reporied by Major Daly aud personally known to himself is re- markable.” The remark Is also made that Gen, failure to draw special attention to this port is “unexplained.” Commeantisg upon Geperal Miles" tee. mony that he had formed the opinion re- processed, the court remarks: the date upon which he formed a belie! otf a reasonable suspicion that the health the troops was belag impaired by the use of delerterious food, it was bis bounden duty, in the opinion of the court, lastantly to take the most effective measures withip his cou- trui to ascertain the actual fact aod correct the wrong, Hf asy should be found, samples of the bee! then being supplied to the army by contractors and to bave sub-| mitted these samples to chemionl examine tion, which would have resulted in the de. agent that may have been used as a preser- vative agent, Yet no such precaution as | that suggested was taken by the Major-Gen- the court, General Miles’ Allegations. “The court finds that the allegations of the major-general commanding, to the effect that the refrigerated beef supplied 10 the troops was treated with chemionl preserva. tives, have not Leen established, Tie court flads that so much of the allegations of the major-geaeral commaudiog in re. spect to the enhined roast bee! as relates to its unsuitability for food, as actos] y used on the trassports, and as to its exieusive or leng-coutinued use ax a fleld ration, wre sustained, In the oplolon of the court none of the other aliegations lu relation tu the canned fresh Leo! are sustained, “The evidenee shows thet Cul, Jobs F. Weston, assistant commissary-general of subsistence, recommended the ndoption of the canned roast beef as a component of the field ration, and 10 this extent Le is respon. sible,” Toe réport places the quantity of eaoned roast bee! purchased for the war Ly the commissary department at 6,847,174 pounds, ineluding 350,000 pounds which was brought from Liverpool sud other Eaglish pore, This amount is characterized as exvessive, aud the commissary-genernl (Ueveral Eagan) is severely criticised In several paris of the document on this score, Ouse of the severest rebukes Is as follows: Reckless Purchase by Kagan, “Considering the little use that had Leen made of this Lee! in the regular army, the probability that the volunteers were entirely ignorant of it, that {ts use as a part of the field ration had never beén sanctioned by the President or Secretary of War, the court can but characterize the action of the com- missary-general of aubsistence as unwar- runted and reckless—in that he ordered the purchase of such enormous quantities of food that was practically ustrisd and un. known, and the court so finds, The court also finds that there is no ground for any imputation whatever of any other actuating motive.on the part of the commissary-general than the earnest desire to procure the best possible food for the troops. The court pronounces this act of the commissary-general of subsistence a colossal error for which there is no pallia- ton,” The court finds that there was neglect in Cuba and, to a less degree, in Porto Rico in delivering the refrigerated beef, “The court,” says the report, ‘does not wish to state the case more strongly than to say that the finding appears to be warranted that too mueh time was consumed in dis. tributing this perishable article, The fault, if nny there was, rested with the brigade and higher commaudiog officers and their commissaries and quartormasters, but the testimony is not so deflolte or specific as to warrant the naming by the court of any particular officers.” Canned Hoast Beef ns Ration, ““The court is of the opinion that the canned roast bes! was not suitable as a travel ration on transports, considering the absence of cooking Incilities and the ab- sence from that ration of fresh vegetables and condiments, For use on shore as a fleld ration where the companies had thelr eamp cooking equipment and vegetables were avaliable, canned roast beel is suitable for (ssue, say, two days in ten, but not for two days in succession, In some organiza- tions it seems to have constituted at least one-half of the ment ration, and until after the surrender the troops bad no means for other cooking than was practieable with the individual kit earried, For such extensive use, Or apy use exceeding one day in five, the court finds this beef unsuitable, “Tue refrigerated beef is, in the opinion of the court, a suliatis ration for troops when it ean Le Issued to them In good con- dition,” The opinion Is expressed that it would have been impracticable to land Les! eat tle on the hoof In Cuba, the remark of the court on this point belog as foliows: “The commanding general of the expedi. tion characterizes as ‘absurd’ such a propo. sition, and many of his commanding officers whose opinion Is given iu the testimony evincided with bim in the Impracticabiiity or inexpediency of such a project. The court concurs in the oplsion of these men, whose experience in active military service dated {rom 1861." The Packers Exonerated, An Instruction of President MeKioiey tc the court was that “if the packers of the country are guilty, it most be known,” BR. - plying to this direction, the court says: “The court fiods that at the outbreak of { hostilities, In April, 1508, the packers of eanned bee! wers engaged in the manuine. ture of an article of standard quality, well { known to the trade and the sulsistence de | partment, under the name of canned roast beef, The methods of packing then in tisw in the preparations of the meal as an article " i of commerce, and the epurt does not find | progress of the war, “The larga purchases for the | military forees daring the months of | and June, 1¥48, were made not at the soiie - | tation of the packers or in consequence of | efforts put forth Ly them for that purpose, | but by she order aud upon the juitiative of i the comm issary-geborai of su purchases Leltig mad~ ln every case Ly offi vers of bis department lntue nu lopiviog speoaficsily other questio out ty the President, the court says “The canned Leef was descrived as “fresh’ because It was pot salted, bul the meat was | pot oid or stale. The refrigerated | nisbhed the army was not doctored or treaied | with auy other agency than cold air, “The meat purchased lor the ariny was the meat of commerce; both kinds—relriger- ated and casted-were such as are well knows In both hemispheres as commercial articles, of which there is and bas been very | iarge consumaption not only by the trade | generally, but by the United States Navy | and by the armies aud navies of Europe, | “No reports of unfitoess or unsuitability | | ! ase of the bnistenoe, suct 10 ne | sot of the bee! sent from the United States were forwarded to the War Department by any general officer serving in Cuba or Porto Rico while the fluid operations were in | progress, nor were any such reports received i until more thao one month sfter hostilities i censed,”” Miles Hines Nothing to Say. | General Miles, when nsked whether he | bad any comment to make upos the beel | report, repiled that be had read it. “Bat | inve wotbing to say,” be added, “either | about the report, the wethod of taking testi. | money or the couciusions reached.” | “Does that wean that 0 far as you are copeerned you will let the mntlor rest where the report leaves 7” asked the reporter, “1 have nothing to say,” replied General Miles, aE CRUIKER BUFFALO BACK, Five Hundred OMcers and Men, Naw York, Y.. (Special, )~-The eruiser Buffalo arrived bere from Mantis after a quick run of forty-lour days, which ino.ud-d stops at Singapore, Port Said asd Glbraitar, Sue brought abour 500 cMo-re and men from Admiral Dewey's squadron. These are mostly long-term meh, whose time has expired aud are to be landed at the navy reed, where they will be disnharged, Among the officers wio returned on the fuffalo are Paymaster Jolin B. Martin, Oup- tain Dutton, of the Mariue Corps; Lieut, A, G. Rogers, of the Mousdnoek; Lieut 8 8 Robison, of the Boston; Sureeon F. Rogers, of the Monterey; Burcern R, 8, Hineicman; of the Boston; Essigus Stephen Douglas su F. 8. Wison, of the Mosadovek: Eosigu Lang, of the Manila, aud piss naval eadets who came home 10 take the sprivg examina tions at Anns polis, Tus Buffalo bas two six-inch guns from the Reina Coristisa, Monotojo's fagship, which are intended fur the Smithsonian Io- stitution, as well As the wheel of the same snip; the beil of the Isia de Culm, some tor. yedoes and a great quntity of gans and old vrass cannon, all eaptured from the Spanish, fhe Brings N. Soldier Dies From Accidental Bhooting. Savannab, Ga, (Special) Private Hiram Huet, of Company I, Toird Keutueky Vole untgers, died frow the effects of a bullet wound seeidently loflieted by Privats Ar noid, of the same regiment, The of Hunt was shipped to Beaver Dum, Bank Cashinr Commits Sulotde. ease id; som BPANISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS, Heim Ths Amutisan adv: advange foluinn rested at — LAWTON’'S DIVISION. Taking a Short Rest in San Fernando, Where Thelr Advent Was Heartily Wel- comed by the Natives-Trovps Greatly Exhsusted by the Campaign snd Com- panies Reduced. nese vm Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable, )— To clear the Fillpinos out of Bacolor, about five miles southwest of San Fernando, will be the next task of the Americans, The rebel Genernl, Maseardo, has a force of 7,000 there, well armed apd possessed of plenty of ammunition, His troops have never met American soldiers, and they think, according to reports carried to Ban Fernando, that they cen “whip the whole lot,” PBacolor is well intrenched, and thousands of natives are working like beavers, digging trenches aud earrying the dirt in baskets, The enemy uses bis riflemen for fighting ouly, but compels the bolomen and Chinese, und even the women, to labor incessantly. The rebels have an outpost about a mile beyond San Fernando, with a trench that holds between two and three hundred men. Prom that point several volleys were fired upon the camp of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment, In the vicinity of La Gulna de Bay the rebels are extremely active, but the lines of Gen, Ovenshiine and Col. Whalley, who is communding Gen, King's brigade during the latter's Hiness, have been materially strength. vied, and there is no dauger in that direc tion, Tue armed steamers Laguna de Bay asd Cavndonge, noder Capt. Granl, have gone to Guagua, about five miles southwest of incolor, presumably to establish a base of supplies for the troops etgaged on the porthern campaign, tis rumored that Mabini, the Cabioet, and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the so-called Filipino government, who Is o Radical, is to be socereded Ly Paterno, the framer of the Bpanish treaty of 1806, Tuls change is regarded as significant at the present juncture, The eotrance of the Americans into Ban Peroando was virtually unopposed, Teo Lattalions of the Fifty-first lows l-glment, which swan the river north of the oity, were smartly peppered while in the water, but the rebels disappeared as soon as the Americnns reached the shore. Io the ne the hospital squad bad walked into the city, supposion Americas were there, They encountered ives, The few Spaniards and Fiik pao who were left weicomed fie Americans nnd opened their houses to Gu. Mare Arihar areeptling entertainment atthe hands of Senor Hizon, a sugar magnaie, 1! thes jubabitants of the Sen Fern region are 10 Le believed, there is ti pathy with the insurrection in that qus Belure evacuating the city the relmis Larned the churel and the pulblie Lulidiogs, and the Chinese quarter. They drove out as hundreds beiplog the fhieantit serous the Lridae he Bo tat 4 “ them, of the city before them, as Well inese, to prevent them The country beyond Calumpit is ful tevpches aud pit-falis in sharpened bamboo, Fore the roads, with where hardest poar Sante Tomas Wheaton's troops did their nkisg 10) mud, are many bodies of ¥i Toe nray wnjoring In the swamype Gon, Hen = sir waists in lipinos, jile at Ran ciires fue fe which i= and wealthy town ithe Americans hia tered » occupation of Manlin, It is inrgely bulit of stone, Lhe river is ciose at hand, and high bills almost surround it, Geo, MacArthur's permanent hesdquariers fs epabilabed in the best house in town, which is richly decorated with frescoes and carved woods, After Bacolor has been cleared, communieation with Manlia may be estal. lished, Along the roads to Calumpit the foel wagons and bull teams draggiog pro- visions have to Le ferried one by One across two rivers, but the Filipinos have several inunches in the river deiln, The American troop ure much exbausted by the campaign, except the Jowa troops, which are comparative y fresh, The regi. ments of the divicion average jess than fANly men to a company, and all bave a wenther- Worn appearance, a DEWEY IN “FERFECT HEALTH.” This Is The Heport Prom the Olympia’s Surgeon, fan Francisec, Cal, (Special }-On the steamship City of Pekin, which has jost are rived from China snd Japss with Dr, Epage, passed assistant surgeon United Kigtes Navy, and surgeon on the flagship O ympla for Jast year and a ball, He makes toe following statement regarding Admiral Dewey's Health: “Admiral Dewey is lp perfect bealth, He bas not beens more than twenty miles from Manila sines the fret day of ast May aud he has not felt the pecessity of a physician's aid fo that time, The climate of Manila Is eonwrvating, of course, but the commander of the fleet bas been no more affected by It really the moet § te ele noes fhe “Taw people of California will be disap- polated at not seeing Admiral Dewey, fur bie Js determized to return to the United States in the O.ympia by way of the Sues Canal, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, It fs Lellnved In Borde that a substantial inerense in the German navy fs almost sure to be an outcome of the Coghlan incident, Matanla, the rebel chief in Bamon, has no- opted ah armistice, s Italian cabinet has resigned as a ree sult of strong opposition tothe government's policy fo China, All Dinar has dethroned the Bultan of Darfur and taken the power In Lis own hands, Toe site on the Qual D'Oreay, Parle, on which the American building for the expori tion of 1900 will be erected, was formally transferred. he Rir Herbert 8, Naylor. Sand, mar eveland, ried Miss Jennies Chamberlain, of € Ohio, died in London, A indemnity for the murder of a mission. ary France demands that Obina shall give ee valaed at $700,000, FRENCE MAIL STOLEN, Ambassador Oambon Complains That the Embassy Bag Was Cut Open, Washington, D, ©,, (Special, )— Ambassa- dor Cambon celled on Becretury Hay and made formal complalut about the Vinbassy mull bag, which, when received, was slit open, 80 that a man's haod could enter and the contents could be examined. Mr. Hay sald the matter hind already been referred to the PostofMes Departmwat, OMielally, the Froneh Embassy minimizes the importance of the fnaident. Usofcial- ly, the deepest concern fs felt, It is the be tel in diplomatic cireles that the mutiiator of the bag was afier a state secret, The mall received by the Emunssy was not dis- turbed so far as outward inspection would show, The Fretieh Embassy and State Depart- ment have rescued the conclusion that no money theft was contempiated by the person who cut the bag. They ure aleo convineed that the motive was nothing else than to ob- taln some papers, The Embassy's mail of hocessity concerps international questions, A baling feature is the lnablilty of the French Embassy to determine what was in the bag originally. Home ietler or paper might have been abstracted, and without & list of the bag's contents it Is impossible to say if anything is missing. It Is understood that Ambassador Cambon has cabled to the Paris Foreign Office for a description of sverything locked in the Lay, Tue PostofMice authorities will trace the bag from the time it was posted and was received lo Washington. Every man who baudied the bag will be cross-examined with a view of ascertaining when the eut was first sotleed, Was it sound when re- coived on board ship on the European side ? If not, the erimisal will pecessarily sought in Europe, If et when received on board at the Europesn port and mutl- Inted when received ut the New York Post. office, the incision must Lave been made on board ship, If the bag was whole when it left New York sod ripped open when de iivired at the Embassy, the cul must have vectrred on the way wo Washiogton, or in this city. De FOUR KILLED IN STREET DUEL. A Disputed Doectas’s Bill the Cause of a Depiorubie Tragedy. Okolona, Mis... (Special }— A terrific four- handed street baltic ooourred bere. The participasts were Dr, J. Murles and his son, Howard Marler, un the vue side, and C. D, and W. F, Clark on the other, Knives aud pistols were sed, and Dr. Murfee, bis son, aud C, DD, Ciark were kiil-d ou the spot, aud W. F, Clark was morisily wounded The tragedy was eoacted at noon in fropt ef the residence of Dr. Murleve sud Charlies nn Clark bad called on Maries disputed doctor's bill, 1, golug i610 the street to fgut it out, rdag to Fister, who ives opposite, Dr, Juries was unarmed. Cianrk drew a kulfe and cot Dr. Murlee's throat, the Jaguiar, fiat moe meut Walter Clark, a brother of Coarles, tuskied his yard asd fired Jour shots ute the prostrsts body of Dr. Murlee, any ote of which would have proved fatal, Then Dr, Murfee's sou, Howard, ap; firlug first at Charies through bead, Ciark, Dr, sud they gquarrells« allorney, Over » Le 6G, WwW, severing from eared, Ciark, shooting bim Then be fired three times st Walier Clark, one bullet entering the forebiesd, Walter Clark fired again, # outing Howard Murles through toe heart, Exe pling Walter Clark, ali died jnstantiy. Ir, Murfes was sixty years of age, and eaves & Widow and Jour eblidresn, His son was aged lwenty-one, Charles Clark was iorty, aol unmarried. Walter Clark was thirty -taree, aud a widow and ebiid, TRIED TO Bt BN TUE the eaves Gis WHOLE CITY. The Filipinos Were Anzions te Wipe Out Muniin, iq taut G wera] Las received tLe report of Geg- etl BP. Hughes, provost marsh of Manile, giving an account of the fires wuleh oocurred in Manila in the eariy days of the Filipino rebellion, The report is en- dorsed by General Otis, who says that it should be stated that Gegeral Hughes was present in person dariug the period covered and directed all the operations, asd that his tact and vigilance saved the city Irom eon. flagration. General Hughes’ report shows that the flres were clearly ineendiary, aod that even after they staried, the Filipinos trivd in every way to jrevest their extin- guisbn-ut, The firemen were shot at by persons concealed in bouses, and efforts were wad- to paneture the Lose, General Hughes commends the troops for the ser. views they performed, spd also Speaks in high terms of the Engi volunteer fire urigade, The troops were detachments of the Twenty-third Infantry, Second Oregoo, Tuirieenth Minnesota apd Tenth Pennsyi- yanin, Washington, special, The Adju- v CRUCIAL TEST OF GUN-COTTON, A Fifteen-inch Gun Burst to Show the Safety of Handiing Sxplosives, Sandy Hook, N. J., (Seen )—A fifteen Inch Bodman gun wes exploded by a olinrge of 100 pounds of smokeiess powder, Tue gun was buried in the proving ground eieh- teen feet in the sand, and the discharge was wade by electricity, The men are vow dig glow 10 fad out what bas dwoome of shell that was loside the gan, coutnining 100 pounds of guo-cotion, to which a Gathman safety fuse was attached. The Gathman poopie claim that the gua-cotton wouid be recovered io perfect condition even if the gun and shell were exploded. The test was 10 show the safety In banding gua-cotton In guns fired by powder © 1arges, MEE, GEORGE AR A LECTURER, Only Funrtern Pevenns Had Enough Curi- onity to Pay to Hear Her, Steutenvitle, O,, (Special )—Mrs, Anos Groter delivered her first Jecture al the Olymg la bn thts eity. The house seats 1,200 Lut there were only fourteen people who paid the admiseion to hear, Khe delivered, howev: r the lecture, which was practically A sketeh of her Hite A AAG APO All Burned to Death. Dalton, Ga. (Special. )~The residence of Dr. L. C Bagwell, 10 miles east of hore was arsed. Dr, Bagwell, his three ebildren and thelr negro housekeeper were buraed to death, It 1s sapposed a lamp whieh Dr, Bagwell had on a table near his Led ex- ploded, DEATH FOR HER FIRST, Brother Killed by Train. [le any, who was, sult His sister Matis ran i IRE and a Aluaguide the BROOKE 1S SUPREME as o— Difference With Gen. Wood in Regard to Decree Issued. A NEW SUPREME COURT. A Letter is Addressed to Gen. Wood Pointing Out the “Undesirablifty” of Attempting to Handie the Affairs of His Province Without Regard to Other Bections, Havana, Cuba, (By Cable.) The decres legalizing civil marriages which was re- cently issued In the provines of Bautlago differs from the one on the same subject in course of preparation at beacquariers bere, The military governor of Santiago prov- ince, Gen, Leopard Wood, scted without consultation with Governor-General Brooke and bis decree was first heard of here through tbe local newspapers. Probably it wll not be sanulled specifiesily, but it wil be rendered nugatory bya general paragraph in General Brooke's decres cov- ering the entire island, General Wood's action in this particulsr Is one of u series of incidents in line with the theory beid by some thet the provines are not so many departments in a military division, but rather so many states, loosely connected nnd semi-independent. A letter bas been addressed to Goneral Wood point. lag out 10 bim the npodesirability of an st- tempt to handie the affairs of ope province without regard to similar conditions in others und sliegiog the necsssity of a unis form system in wake the people homogeneous, Benor Federico Mora, formerly elvil Gov- ernor of Havana, who was recently sp- poloted Bupreme Court fiscal, sald in ao {n- terviow “Although I wouid not tion wfter native bad Leeson shown, loreed upon century of denoe, order 10 Oppose RnLexa~ incapacity for government 1donot Sale ft should be the people, . alter ball & fighting, hy armed indepen~ My knowledge of American honesty compels the beilef that the government of the United States Is acting In good faith to- ward Cuba asd with the intention to keep the promises which President McKinley bas made, To wiciate these promises would disgrace the President and the pation in ihe ! eyes of the world, The estabilshment of a supretie courtin Cuba ls, In my iilly the first actual step toward recoguition of Caban independence. If that were not the Intention, the highest courts of Cuba would not be fined, b those of the Usnfiled States belsg Ligher, cases would be subject 10 ap- peal there, Oa this subject & majority of { those who bave been selected for the Su- | preme Court bench bold the same opluion : 1 ns mysell’ ut GOMEZ NOT FIT T0 RULE { This Op'nion is ¥zpressed by Gen Ernst, Who Has Juet Returned From Cuba. New York, N. ¥., passengers on the wat released from H. Ernst, who bas unary, {Special )~- Among the steamer Havauas, whieh quarantine, was Gen, O, been in Cuba sioes Jan- General Erost said there was no man in ( was qualified to Le riveied { did not think mez would i position, that in iba who hie opinion he thought president, He i that O ever Ni hme 2 8 BR TO i rnemies, again, 1 do | Lold that i anoexation ioc : i eause trouble, od man, but he bas many Ersst. “Then, is qualified to Shouid the sentiment for crease 1 believe Gomez would H+ keeps quiet as long as they dangle “Cata libre” before hin.” said nol offiee, renerai bnlievye hin FAMILY OF VIVE MURDERED, Husband Shanta Wife as She Watches at Her Mother's Bier. Howard Ci'y, Mich, (Special Harvey killed Lis wile, his Plorsou, and his grasvdmotber. He also fatally wound-d bis thre -mosthe-old baby, aod his father-in-law, John Logeusiayer, aud finally shot bimeel!, inflicting a serious though not faial wound, Harvey's uncle and grandmother lived a mile north of town, The murderer went there, He asserts that Pierson, his uncle, was quarreling with his grand other, and that be isterfered; that thereupon Pierson stabbed and killed the old lady, aged seveniy, and that Le ( Har- vey) retaliated, shootiog his ance dead. After shooting Pierson, Harvey stabbed him three times, Harvey then returned to his bome, two miles southwest of town, Arrived there, he shot his wile twice, killing her. He then fired at his three-monthe-old baby, the ball wolug into its arm. Next Harvey entered his tather-ln-law’s room and shot him twies, inflicting, however, no fIstal injury. He then turned the revolver on himself, shoot ing bimeelf in the neck, Harvey's wile, when a'tacked, was sitting up with the re mains of her mother, The Pierson home presents a horrible zp. pearance, Pierson’s body was found in & chair and that of the oid lady oun the floor clad in night dress. There are signs of a desperate struguie between Harvey asd his grandmother, Lut po fedicstion of & fight between the two men, Harvey himself informed the Sheriff of the murders at Piersou’s house, Hs was then arrested for murdering bis wife. He has pothing to say about the tragedies at his own bome. There are stroug threats of iyneblog, It transpires that Harvey on reachiag the homes of his ints mother-in-law said vothing about his terrible acts at Piersou’s house, Ha « dio sit up by the corpse of his wills mother. Accordingly the others re- tired,” It was 4 o'clock In the morniog when Harvey wept to his wife's room snd killed ber and attempted to siny bis baly and bis father