THE NEWS, A te'egram received in Wytheville, Va, from Bishop Burton, of Kentucky, an- nounces that Rev, H, 8, Simmermen, of his Diocese, was drowned while batning at Beattyville, Mr Simmerman was & native of Wytheville, and for some years was roc sor of un church at Bloxom, Accomae county, A sad death occurred in Portsmouth, Vu, when Mrs, Bertha C. Shaw, wife of ober! 8, Shaw, breathed her last. On April 10 Robert J. Shaw was shot and instantly kill- ed by James Hutehing, then a county con- stable, The motive for the crime was alleged intimacy existing between shaw and Mrs, Hutchins, Mes, Bhaw was prostrated at her husband's terrible death, and since then had grown steadily worse, She died of a broken heart. Five small children survive her. The reports of subsistence officers at Ma- pila show that the soldiers in the Philippines are well fed. They bave fresh beef and bacon, fresh bread daily, canned tomatoes, salmon, rice, dried fruits and oatmeal, In addition they have canned corn beef, ham, canned milk and cream, fruits, preserves and a long list of delicacies, which are sold by the subsistence department at cost and are purchased by each organization with proceeds from the savings of subsistence stores, The State Department bas received from United States Consul Kennedy at Pars, Brazil, an explanation of the reported trouble at Manads, which make it clear that the affair was of slight importance. It ap- pears that the objection manifestel to the progress up the Amazon river of the gunboat Wilmington was due to a feeling of lucal jealousy. The natives feared that the Wil- mingtou's voyage up to Iquito, far beyond Mauaos, would discover to the commercial world the advantages of the former, to the loss of Mansos, The demonstration that oc- curred was insignificant, Arthur Tucker, an employe of the Norfolk and Western road, died from the effects of the heat, The Southern Railway will erect a band- gome new passenger station in Richmond, Vea. At Newport News, Va., Willlam O'Boyle, charged with the murder of Alma Hamilton, Lis colored mistress, was held for the action of the grand jury. The next annual meeting of tha West Vir. glinia Bankers' Association will be held at Fairmount. The French Government has renewed pe. gotiations for a reciprocity agreement and will extend its minimum tarlfl to the United States in returu for concessions from this Government, Nineteen naval officers have made appli eation for retirement. Ooly 11 ean be re. tired, The erulser Boston, Captain W. H, Whit. ing, bas sailed for San Francisco by way of Nagasaki, Japan, with Jong-service officers and men from other American warships, The battleship Oregon will soon be stationed off Dagupan, in the Gulf of Lingayen, on bloekad» duty, A large number of represantative raliroad and floancial men attended the fasneral of Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsyl. vania Railroad, at Merion, near Philadel phia. The Fourth Immunes were mustered at Camp Meads, Pa. A pie trust has been formed in New Jersey with $3,000,000 capital The Colorado State Federation of Labor adopted regolutions denodnelng Gov. Chas, 8, Thomas as 8 man unworthy any further recognition by the tolllag masses on ae count cf his veto of the anti-boyecott bill, which was passed at the late session of the Legislature, Elijab Weeks, a merchant and promicent citizen of Bogue postoffies, N, C., was mur- dered and robbed. Mr. Weeks was siospiug in his store, where be was found with ao rope drawn tightly around bis neck, It Is supposed the robbers secured some money. Suspicion points to mea in the neighbor hood, one of them a negro, Mr. Frank Thomason, Pennsylvania Railroad, near Philadslphia, Baron and Baroness ds Barra were found gulity by a Chicago jury of using the malls for fraudulent p grposes, Delegates from many countries are attend- ing the gathering of Christian Seleatists at the mother church in Boston, Testimony before the Pure Food Commis. sion in Chieago revealed many adulterations of foods, Bev. Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, a Baptist clergyman of New York, has been elected president of Brows University, Providence, Rbode Island. Ex-Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, has re- signed from the Democratic National Coin mittee and is expected to become Bryau's manager for the Presidential campaign, The Buperior Court, at Columbia, 8. C., bas reversed the decision of the lower court in an important case affecting the dispecsary law. The decision gives a resident the right to drive over into North Carolina or across the brides to Aagusta, Ge,, or send his team over with an agent, buy whisky for his own uss and return with it, Congressman Richard P. Blend, who has been lil for two months, showed some im- provement, The physicians admit that there is every Indication of cerebral congestion, but will not authorize the statement that be fa suffering from that ailment, His friends are alarmed over his condition, and his sons, who are attending school in St. Louls, have been summoned, The Engineering Bureau of the Navy De. partment bas completed plans for a large electric power plant for the Brooklyn navy yard. It comprises all the best develop ments of electrical epgioeering, and itis estimated that it will save to the Govern ment the cost of its Installation in the course of a year. The plant will cost about $100, 000. ’ By direction of the President, Brig.-CGen, Charlies King, who has jost arrived ut San Francisco from service in the Philippines, bas been bomorably discharged from the volunteer army, to take effect on August 2, Gen. Jos Whesler, president of the Cuban Educational Association, has placed two bright young Cubans named Henry and Edouardo Moutouilien de Ia Tour in the university of West Vieginla, the purpose be. fog to give them a thorough education. The father of the boys is 8 newspaper man snd their mother a school teacher in Cuba. The young men received thelr preparatory edo eation ut Puerto Principe and bave a fair knowledge of English. Girent Cave Discovered, Victorls, B, C., (Special.)~The Mam- moth Onve of Kestucky, which bas held the record heretofore ns the world's greatest cave, must hereafter, it is believed, give pra gedence to a cave In New Zwalaud, discov ered ou April 27, by Horace Johnstone, Doar Port Walksto, and but 10 or 12 miles from the tity of Wellington, Jotnstons explored the cave for miles, but tound hd end. out president of the died at bis home, AGUINALDO, DICTATOR. Reported That He Has Dis- solved His Congress. a ——. HIS PROBABLE MOTIVE. He May Want to be lid of Luna and Filar— Four Vessels Captured—-They Were Probably Taking Supplies to the Inter: for Tribes of Negros, Who Are Threaten: ing to Rise, a —— London, Eng., (By Cable,)—Special dis. patches from Manila say it Is reported there that Aguibaldo has dissolved the Filipino Congress and bas proclaimed himself dic tator, AGUINALDO'S MOTIVE, in Washington as to the New Move. Washington, D, O,, (Special.)—~OfMelals here are in doubt as to whether Agulnaldo in declaring his dictatorship is animated by a desire to rid himself of bis refractory gen- erals, Pilar and Luna, or whether he aims to ecasoildate ln bis own hands the power to make terms of peace. It Is known from the reports of President Beburman, of the American Philippine Com- mission, that these two generals own only faint allegiance to Aguloaldo, and their at- titude toward the peace negotiations bas made these negotiations ineffectual, the eiv- lian members on the Filipino side of the Joint commission being completly overawed and dominated by the military element con- trolied by these generals, It Is Lelieved here that if Aguinaido cas bend these men to kis wili asd sssume suprems control, he will at ones make [or peace, being able to secure better terns for himself than he would otherwise, BOSTON COMING HOME, Bpeculation The Cruiser to Leave Manila Bay-The Tionclads Dolng Good Service. Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.) The United States oruiser Boston, Capt. W. H. Whiting, has salled for San Francisco by way of Nagasaki, Japan, with long service officers aud men from the various American warships, The battleship Oregon will soon be sta- tioned off Dagpan, in the Guif of Lingayen, on blockades duty, The United States gunboat Albany, one of the vessels purchased from the Span- fards, aud commanded by Ensiun W. H. Standley, has captured three sallig ves- sels and one steamer off the Island of Negros, Nine of these boats (of the Albany class) are now in commission and doing good service in the shaliow waters of the Southerp islands, Favorable reports are still being received from the party of 15 Americans, belonging to the gunboat Yorktown, headed by Lieut, J. C. Glimore, of that vessel, eaptured on April 12 by the Filipinos not far from Baler, The prisoners are all well and are receiving fair treatment BLOCKADE | RUNNERS, Captured Vessels Were Probably Carrying Supplies. Washington, D. C,, (Special. }-The three salling vessels and one steamer reported to have boen captured by the Usited States gunboat Albany off the Island of Negros, Philippine Islands, are supposed by naval officers here to be blockade-runners carry- ing supplies of food and ammunition to the islanders, who are threatening to rise in the Interior, These Islanders have been powerfully in- fluenced by Tagal emissaries to revolt, and in some cases have dose so, stiacking the people In seaside towns who stood for the United States, The army airesidy has taken steps to ee tablish a garrison on the Islands, aad the War Department is gratified to learn that ita efforts are being ably seconded by the navy. The CLOUD BU RST iw Many Persons Beported Killed Loss of Property and Crops. Austie, Tex., (Special } The recent cloud. bursts which swelled the rivers of this por tion of the State out of thelr banks and caused a great loss of property, was muoh worse than reported. Many peoples are known to have perished, meagre reports placing the number at 235, Reports came from San Saba and Manard. ville, small towns 0 miles north of here in the mountains, saying that both towns had been swept by the raging floods and were badly devastated. In San Baba eight peo- ple ware drowned and the entire town is re. ported under water, At Maoardveille 12 houses wers swept away, The river la reported as rising at both places, and grave fears are entertained that the entire country in that neighborhood wiil be loid waste, San Saba is focated in a valley, and vast tracts of wheat flelds are under water, These crops will prove a total loss, Many persons, according to reports, had difficulty in getting to high innd before the rise came, TEXAS, Ancient ‘Amerioan Slesping Cars, L. Xavire Eyma, a Frenchman, who cams to this country in 1847, wrote an arilele in L'THusteation of Paris, published July 29, 1848, giving bis experiences on the railroads of the United Statos, Ho saya that at that time the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had & length of seventy leagues and that the cost of the road was 4, 116.744 francs, the reosipis 3.988.406 francs acd expenses 1,964.741 francs. He also gives considerable space to the luterior arrangements of the sleeping cars used at that time and says that “they are actually houses where nothing is lacking for the necessity of Jife and is divided into compartments and slesping rooms, some for men and some for women,” Each room bold six beds or rather little couches in three tiers along the sides, Ho winds up bls see evunt by saying that valuables were not par- ticularly well taken care of, as In Amerien thers ‘‘wers no such things as sneak thieves." Preacher Fen Guilty of Robbery, Hartville, ng (Bpecial, Jasob Fagiey, a farmer, who has besn a justices of the peace, Shiteutan of the Populist County Committee sod preacher, was fouad gulity of vompileity in the robbery of the Kansas OMy, Fort Beott and Missour! train at Me- comb last January and was sentenced to 12 yom lu fe) penitentinry, fa Wilkesbarre ty fo » and residence of Joseph WIFE'S DESPERATE DEED, I —— After un Quarrel With Her Husband, hy Asphyxinted Herself and Daughters. New York, N, Y., (8peocial.)—Mrs, Johanna Bohllling, thirty-five years of age, and Ber two young daughters, Gertrude, aged ten, and Edna, aged eight, were found dead in their home, iu a tenement, All had been asphyxiated by gas, boubtiess turned on by the mother with the idea of murdering her two children and then committing suicide, The tragedy evidently grew out of a quar~ rel between the woman and ber busband, Otto Schilling, a tallor., A week ago they bad a misunderstanding, apd the husband left the flat, Mrs. Schilling had a warrant issued for his arrest. Schilling returned, but when a policeman attempted to arrest him, Sehilling escaped over the roof of the tenement. After his second disappearance Mrs, Bohiling kept her children in her apart- ments, Neighbors In the same tenement detected the odor of gas, and traced it to the Sehli- ling home, Breaking in the door, the neighbors found the body of Mrs, Schilling lying on the bed. Beside her, and clasped ln the mother's arms, was Edna. Gertrude bad evideutly tried to get out of the room. Her body was lying near the door, Beveral letters were found on the floor, They were addressed to relatives and friends. One was to the husband, It read: “We bave been too hasty, and it was so lonesome bere, I take all the blame, I was always your good wile, Otto, snd { love you dearly. God forgive us, Good-bye, “Your loving wife, “Joanna.” ANYBODY CAN GET ONE, The Handsomely Engraved Receipts for Contributions to the Dewey Fund. Washington, D. C., (Bpecial.)—The ecom-~ mites In charge of the Dewey fund, of which Assistant Becretary of the Treasury Vanderilp is chairman, expects to have the Landsome certificates which will be sent to each contributor of the fund ready this week. The certificate Is being engraved at ths Bureau of Eagraving avd Printing, asd will be a beautiful souvenir. It is the size of a registered bond, and showsa superb vignette of Adxiral Dewey. This is the first picture made of the Admiral by the government, and Is absolutely aceurate, be- eause it is eugraved from a photograph seut to the department by Admiral Dewey, at the request of the Navy Department, Every subscriber to the fund, no matter bow smal bls contribution, will receive one of these oe rtiflentes. TORNADO IN IOWA, House Turned Bottom pward-