FILPIND GUARDS MUTINY
AND ATTACK AMERICANS
The Twenty-Third Infantry Soon Re-
stores Order.
En —————
FIERCE BATTLE AT A CHURCH
Loyal Members Of The Constabulary
Company That Mutinied, Together
With Americans, Besieged In A
Church, Where The Fight Rages
For Three Hours—The Mutineers
Finally Put To Flight By Another
Company Of Constabulary = Pur.
suit Of The Mutineers,
Manila (Special).—A portion of
the gecond company of native con-
stabulary stationed at Davao. in the
island of Mindanao, mutined on the
night of June 6 and attacked the
company quarters, which they cap-
tured after wounding one of the na-
tive officers. .
After a fight lasting two hours on
the following day, in which one man
named Libbey was killed and four
others wounded, the mutineers took
to the mountains on the approach
of a company of the constabulary
stationed at Mapi, which hurried to
and loyal natives.
Without any warning the muti-
neers suddenly attacked the quarters
at night and gained possession of
them before any resistance could be
gioned officers and several loyal
members of the company
Governor Walker, of the
province, of which the city of Davao
is the capital, immediately rallied
the Americans and such natives as
could be trusted in a large church
and preparations for defense were
hastily made during the night. Win-
dows and doors were barred, loop-
holes cut, food and water taken into
the building and everything made
ready to withstand a siege.
At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of
the 7th the mutineers began gn at-
tack on the church. For three hours
the fight raged. A heavy fire was
directed against the church and its
defenders, but Governor Walker and
his small replied with such
vigor that they discouraged all at-
tempts to storm the place.
The mutineers retired and evident-
ly expected to await darkness under
cover until a rand more sucdess-
ful attack coul be
church. In the meantime,
news of the mutiny had
Mati, a town of considerable
46 miles southeast of Davao. A com-
pany of constabulary stationed there
immediately hurried to the relief of
Davao. Their approacl |
disloyal constabul
draw during the
tive troopers
tains with the
ment,
With the receipt
mutiny also came word that detach-
ments of the Twenty-third Infantry
have reached Davao and quickly
ceeded in restoring order. Several
columns of troops were immediately
dispatched in pm uit of the murder-
ers It is believed here that the mn-
tiny was purely local, resulting from
di tities over food ipplies or the
care of women
ily of the lary
It is though to 1}
members of one compa
vao, and the fact that ne
camps, also comnosed of nativ
ried to the relief of the besieged
troops and Americans at the place is
cited as proof of this naular of-
ficials express complete faith in the
constabulary
Davao
force
made on the
however,
reached
Size,
of the news of the
a1 -
bers of the
we
WORLD'S BIGGEST PIER.
Will Extend Half A Mile Into The
Atlantic Ocean.
New York
were signed by Frederick Thompson
and John L. which call
for the immediate construction at
Long Beach, Long Island, of
longést and most pretentious amuse-
ment plier ever built Associated
with Mr. Thompson and Mr. DeSaul-
ler are a number of proment capi-
talists, who are said to
scribed $1,200,000 to defray cost of
construction. :
Edgineers who have been called
in consultation have reported that
it is entirely feasible to build the
pier one-half a mile Into the ocean.
One of the features of structure will
be a convention hall, capable of seat.
ing 5,000 persons.
{ Special) - Contracts
DeSauller,
Jy
the
WIFE MURDER TRIAL SHORT.
Hungarian Convicted And Sentenced
To Die In Four Hours.
New Brunswick, N. I. { Special).
George Voz, a young Hungarian,
was tried for the murder of his wife
on May 17 and was convicted and
sentenced to death the week begin-
ning July 26. The trial lasted only
four hours and the jury was out
less than half an hour.
Voz surrendered to the police the
day after he killed his wite and
led them to a clump of bushes on
the outskirts of the city, where he
had waylaid the woman and shot her
as she was on her way to work.
Quits The Navy,
Seattle (Specia 1). ~Lieutenant
Commander H. M. Caldwell. who
Was an aide to Admiral Dewey and
stood by his side on the, bridge of
the flagship Olympia during the bat-
tle of Manila, has resigned ‘from the
navy.
Dewey's Comrade
Summer White House Ready,
Beverly, Mass. (Special) Very
thing is in readiness at the Stetson
mansion, on Burgess Point, for the
occupancy of President Taft and his
family. President Taft will come af
ter the Vermont celebration, Presi-
dent Taft has sent word that if ihe
tariff bill is settled at that time he
will remain in Beverly, but if Con-
gress Is still in session he will return
to Washington and leave his family
- here. to join them later in the month
THE CUNARD LINER
SLOVONIA 15 LOST
Stranded Off Flores Island in the
Azores Group,
Timely Aid Rendered By The North
German Lloyd Steamer Prinzess
Irene And The Hamburg-American
Liner Batavia—The Slavonia Was
Bound From New York For Naples,
The Ships Rescuing The Passene
gers Also Bound For Naples——List
Of Cabin Passengers,
(Special) .—Through
news reached
New York
cable messages
York that thé Cunard liner Slavonia,
bearing 110 cabin passengers and
300 passengers in the steerage,
stranded off Flores Island, in the
Azores group. After having steamed
successfully more than half way
across the Atlantic the vessel, which
left this port for Naples on June 3,
is almost a complete wreck; but
thanks to the timely aid rendered by
North German Lloyd and Hamburg-
American liners, which responded to
the Slavonia's appeals for aid by
wireless, every passenger, according
to best reports bere, was taken off in
i safety. These liners which aided the
{ Slavonia in her distress are the Prin-
jzess Ireme, of the North German
i Lloyd, and the Hamburg-American
liner Batavia. Both were also hound
for Naples,
First reports that the
had run agroand reached here short-
ly before 4 o'clock in a
—————————
————
Towns.
VICTIMS HORRIBLY MUTILATED,
Rognes Completely Demolished —
Lambeso Also Suffers Severely
Public Buildings And
Crumble To Pieces And The People
Panic-Stricken,
100 dead an 100 Injured is the
| estimated total casualties as the re-
sult of the earthquake which devas-
and villages In
Marseilles (Special). —From
:
y
tated several towns
the southernmost part ‘of France,
particularly in the department of
Herault and Bouches-du Rhone.
Great suffering is reported from
the remoter places, owing to a lack
of bread and the necessities of life,
before the arrival of assistance. The
casualties may be greatly increased.
as the ruins have nots vet heen en-
tirely searched. The villages of St
Cannut and Rognes were completely
demolished by the earthquake, and
Lambesc, which is twelve miles from
Alx, suffered heavily,
received here a
tain Petersen, of the Prinzess irene,
saying
"Took on board Prinzess Irene 110
Flores Island
passengers on Ba-
probably total
southwest of
steerage
Slavonia
vonia at
The
tavia,
wreck."
When the foregoing was received
the Cunard Line office here had had
on advices whatsoever and it heard
first of the accident through
North German Lloyd
Flores Island, off
3060
Sla-
which the
}
of the Azores group, with dangerous
precipitous cliffs The foundering
of a vessel there be easily
ined, but by good
other liners, the Prinzess Irene
the Batavia, which left N. w
June 5 and June 3,
close by, and the laconic message of
Captain Petersen would seem to indi-
cate there was no loss of life or in-
Jury to anyone. The transfer of pas-
Sengers was, no t, accomplished
with the usual th and dangers at-
tendant to the shifting of nervous hu-
man heinrs at sea
he Slavonia is
can
fortune the
imag-
two
and
respectively
steamship
8 510 feet long, with
and is 22 feet deep
is Captain A. G, Dunni
sel is comparatively
been built at
in 1903.
of 10.808
Sunderls England,
000606 and
Was a
Tonnowia
was one of the
valued at 877
vy insured She
Ultonia
she was
wag partial
and Carpathia and
best liners in the
trade Fb
| FRENCH MISSION FOR BACON.
Former Secretary Of State Will Suc-
ceed Ambassador White,
Paris (Special Private
received here from Washington gtate
that Robert
State, has
ex-Secrelary of
Ambassador-
ceed Henry end of the
year
Accordin to advices, Mr
these
i
$
§
§
Survivors are sleeping in tents and
nany
places and
are
rocks
they have been torn
encumbered with
Houses, public
churches were crumbled
villages serio:
aged are Vauvenargues,
Pelisganne, Pus
guilles
8 and
Pieces
dam-
Venellees,
-Ste-Reparade and Ar-
Ix
Al1y
victims at Saint Cannat and
Rognez were horribly mutilated
There were evidences that several of
tl had lived for
the debris
€ victims nours
before
The people rushe
when the first
Out in terro
ed to the
At Rognez 3
buried in the ruins Th
could be hear t
but all
when a reser
At Saint C
his son
Eanes They
€ plavers
bruises The
near Saint Canna
ed The
guilleg was split
village of V
yOnre
but no
shock
Many
r
rescue
taroughout
were dead
were
Com
gues was
one was killed
Five In River With Auto.
hts Landing, Cal {Spe
W. F. Dixon and Mrs
Merle Dungan ;
Woodland.
anion
Juiia
drow ned
f
Dungan. of
when their
the Sacramento Ris
ur swam to a boat
fost
in
Gets Life
REV. OR. EE. HALE
DIES AT ROXBURY
President Taft Expresses Heartfelt
Sympathy,
Remarkable Career Of The Preac her,
Author, Chaplain Of The Senate,
Kindly Philosopher And Above All,
Apostle Of The Lendl-a-hand Creed,
Taught Young And Old To Look
Up And Not Down, Forward And
Not Backward—Last Of A Notable
Group Of Men,
Boston (Special).—Rev. Dr
Everett Hale, chaplain of
United States Senate,
home in Roxbury
News of the death of Dr. Hale
shocked Boston to an unusual degree
died at
because comparatively few knew that
he was ill. A week BRO he WAR pres.
in honor of the
ninetieth birthday of Mrs, Julia Ward |
Howe, his Ceutemporary in many of
the reform movements with which
both had been ‘{dentified for more
years. To his family it had |
Hale's health was failing A few
days ago heart weakness was noticed
It i8 recalled that on returning to
Boston from Washington a few
having temporarily reiinquished
the Senate,
weeks
wag ascribed to a disor
recovered within a day or two
As Dr. Hale's age
delighted to irate
birthdays. Especially noteworthy
the ox agion of his ge:
eightieth anniversaries, at
public meetings were he id
1882 a purse of 8;
advanced
ceded
éntieth
both
was giv
cele 1902
Hall, a
distin-
Hoar
juent ad.
which was held in
ETeat audience h
guished divine, while Senator
one of his
deliver
Dr. Hale's
who was
and five
Philip IL.
*ll-known artist; Prof
Everett Hale, dr., of Union
Herbert Hale, an architect
thur Hale, employed by
Hafllroad
am fron
Mre. Ha
Taft and
our heartfelt sy
and
which the whole
in the death of such an
comn
tht, the liberal but
harity
brotherhood
spirit, Christian
ance, the
the Fatherhood of God
‘Willlam H
Man 87 Goes To Jail
Ag { S51 fal In the eighty.
John How-
serve nine
correction
ng
idge Brentar
«1 Howard ha
burglary before
i
|
post, declined to accept it, prefer.
ring that Mr. White should be re.
tained as Ambassador, but,
that President Taft had
any event to replace
White, he finally agreed to
position.
the
BRYAN MAY BE SENATOR.
| Will Seek FElection In Nebraska
} Next Year,
Omaha, Neb William
Jennings Bryan will be a candidate
for the United States Senate to suc
ceed Elmer J. Burkett, whose
expires in March, 1911. This an-
nouncement was made by Richard L.
Metcalf, editor of the Commoner, and
is considered oMclal.
Bryan will make the race under
the direct primary, modeled after
j the Oregon law. Nebraska will elect
ia legislature in November, 1910, and
the primary will be held
tember of that year.
{ Special) .-
Cigarettes Barred,
:
| Beattle
| cigarette law is in effect.
It is the
| opinion of the Attorney General's of-
{fice that any person who has clgar-
| ettes in his possession ig subject to
{fine and imprisonment. The Alaska-
| Yukon-Pacific Exposition police will
lenforee the law strictly. No one will
| be permitted to smoke a cigarette on
{the grounds.
Raced A Waterspout,
Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special) .—Unjon
| Pacific westbound China and Japan
fast mail train raced for four miles
with a waterspout near Paxton, Neb,,
and barely missed the course of the
deluge, which tore out a section of
track a few seconds after the train
had passed,
Husband Shot Overseer,
Bradford, Fla. (Special). — Be.
cause, it is alleged, his overseer elop-
ed with his wife C. M. Murphy, a
wealthy contractor and planter of
Burtonton, shot and killed the for.
mer, Paxton Carver, as he was re.
turning to Burtonton for some of his
belongings. Murphy heard that Car.
ver was returning and entered the
train here and killed him. He was
immediately arrested. Carver was
unmarried, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Murphy
have two children,
Cincinnati (Special)
Mumbus larion
ts made in Ct
Dennison, Ohio.
believe they have unearthed the
gest and best organized
the Black Hand in America
lon, Ohio, is said to be the
quarters of the organization
Chief Postoffice inspector
Holmes, of Cincinnati
charge of the work. save
dence has been procured showing
that the gang operating from Mari
on with lines reaching into a num-
ber of cities have robbed geveral
persons in Ohio and other States
dollars in the last
months by the application of
Hand methods.
men arrested
branch of
Mar.
Charles
that evi-
few
The are Sam Lima
Columbus, and A. Mar-
Dennison. Inspector Holmes
was expecting word from
be equally important with those al-
ready made.
Inspector
Holmes says that the
from Marion, was composed of Ital-
fans and worked exclusively on their
countrymen, He has obtained evi-
dence that as late as two weeks ago
they sent from the Marion, O., post.
office money orders aggregating $1,-
$00 to confederates in Italy, this be-
ing the division of blackmail funds
in one case, Many such bits of evi-
dence, it is sald, are in possession
of the inspectors.
Inspector Holmes said:
“The proof we have found against
convinces Ys that
their game
Italians, princi-
We have
worked
On many
well-to-do Bicllians
they have BUC~
cessfully
They meant business
when they made demands for mon-
ey If their demands were ignored |
resorted to the bomb to bring
victinn to time or to punish
refusal to submit to
their
The arrests were made simultan-
the three towns after a |
Search of six monthe for the men |
who sent threatening letters to John |
demanding that $15.000 be
The handwriting
in the letters received by |
Antonio Rizzo, a fruit dealer, of Cin- |
cinnati, who died suddenly several |
weeks ago after refusing to obey
The Postoffice Inspectors say they |
that Marion is the headquarters of
all of the Black Hand societies of
the country, and they allege that
Samuel lima is the head of the |
organization. The contents of the |
safe in the Rizzo store bear them
out in this assertion, they say. They
say they found that hundreds of
business men in all parts of the
State had been paving tribute to the
Acting in harmony with the gov-
ernment officers the Pittsburg po-
lice recent] entered the “Black
Hand" NORAGUAT there and made
21 arrests,
ete
A —— =
I ————
steel rails are pending.
In the ensuing year $270,000,000
of raliroad bonds and rotes will ma-
ture,
Electric supply business in this
ft was one year ago.
Brokers say the greater
American Soo ¢ traded in on
hese days u arders from
Am who apon abroad.
gs stnssis Sua
Se —
All Struck But One.
Winston-Salem, N. C. (Special). —
All the employes of the Mount Alry
and Eastern Railway, a mountain
line, operating between Mount Alry,
N. C, and Danube, Va., a distance
of 19 miles, went out on. a strike;
that is, all of them struck except A.
White, the superintendent o
oe who bi gm
¥
SIGNAL HONOR FOR
THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
President Taft Presents the Aero
Club Medals.
THE AVIATORS ARE EMBARRASSED.
Accords
Their |
ering The President
tional Recognition Of
Achievements — A Witty
In Which He Tells What
velt Would Have Done
fers To Own Limitations — Plans
For Fort Myer Flight.
Washington D. £
To Orville ‘right
Wright, the
{ Special)
and his
Wilbur
Wy
men
President Taft
quered the winds of the air.”
presented at the hands of the
gold medals prepa
them by the Aero Club of America
in recognition of ntific and
practical work in the perfection of
mechanical flight. Only a few
#4go this government dis
game men 1
for an official in-
they
DOeCeREA? N
told them
their scie
Years
missed as
these when they
made application
Bpection of
plished It wa
BO abroad and
of foreign govern
were honored | their ow
In the great East Room of ti
House, the presenc
of men istinguished
Liss
Hera
what accom-
n diplomacy
the world Preside
them with their
dressed to them
preciation of their
gratulation «
nave been r
w th
3 La
{
the neglect
.
DI0T¢ at
land Forbes
the Aero Cin
ib, and G
that cls
' hosts during their
at last the big central
swung open
ompanfed 1
Hapa is
ast Room
Taft, ace
Archibald Butt,
Mr. Herbert
entered
Parsons pre-
brothers to the President
He greete i
particularls irdial to Miss
whom he cong ulated as
important me
President aside
while Mr. Parsons made the ope ing
address, in w h he set forth the
burpose of the gathering
President Taft sj briefly He
was very happy in his remarks In-
deed, his little address was punctu-
ated almost equally with
laughter at his humorous FuUggestions
and was
Wright,
the most
family.’
then gfood
oxe
hearty
appreciation of the work of the
Wrights. When he referred to the
fart that if the work of the Wrights
had Veen sufficiently completed his ;
immediate predecessor, who had gone
down to the mea, would also have
gone "up In the air,” his audience |
burst into such loud laughter and ap-
plause that it was sometime before |
the President could regain control of
the meeting It is seldom that the
GIRL SCALPED IN FACTORY.
Cut And Otherwise Injured And May
Not Recover, i
York, Pa. (Special).—Miss Tillie |
Macabee, 14 years old, daughter of |
Mr. and Mrs, Patrick Macabee. of |
Railroad Borough, this county, while
at work in the New Freedom sewing
factory was probably fatally injured.
The girl's hair and left hand was
caught in the shafting of one of the
machines as she crawled under it to
speak to another girl. She was
scalped, cut and bruised, and the
thumb of her hand was torn com-
pletely off,
The injured giyl was brought to
the York Hospital
ii
First Elevator Ride Fatal,
New York (Special).—On her
first visit to New York and her
first ride In an élevator, Miss Lena
Schoonmaker, 19 years old, and one
of a sightseeing party, was crushed
to death when her head was caught
between the floor of the elevator
and the sixth floor of the Flatiron
Building. party was be ng
chaperoned by Mrs. Charles M. Hall,
daughter of Judge Alton B. Parker.
Mra. Hall had taken a Janty to the
her
girl and brought Kings-
ton, ,
SOMEZ GETTING RID
OF PUBLIC DEST BURDEN
Deficit Transformad Into a Respect-
able Credit.
The New President Shows In His
Message To That The
New Regime Is Also Relieving The
People 1 Taxation
Imposed vy
With United States,
Congress
Oppressive
Castro — lelations
faracas,
striking
ros recent
ela would be bank
the following paragraph
Gomez's message 1¢
ress which shows that
standing the gsion by
Eovernment of
Bive taxes, the
‘resident
of Venezuela, left by
transf
The reading
message to Cx
Was
formance of
Gomez's
formed into a respect
ernoon
recent
y all the
coffee
heavil
been
ready
el
he
will investigate
F. Harms
tion system at Eas: St
President Taft sent to the Sen
ale ine nomination of Peter D. Over.
field to be judge of the Third
dicial District of Alaska.
The exact title of the new rul
of Bulgaria, Prince Ferdinand, is to
be “His Majesty, Ferdinand, first
king of Bulgaria.”
An additional $5.000 was sent to
the American Embassy at Constan-
tinople by the American National
ted Cross Society,
An arbitration treaty between
Brazil and Cuba was signed at Wash-
Ambassador Nabuco and
Minister Velez
Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska,
will work for a bill providing for
charges
against the
of the territory.
Ambassador Leishman at Constan-
inople presented his letters of re-
President Taft received at the
White House the new minister from
Switzerland, Dr. Paul Ritter.
The Board of Engineers decided
that the proposed deep watern ay pro-
ject from St. Louis to the Gulf was
not feasible.
John Norris, chairman of the com-
mittee on paper of the American
Newspaper Publishers’ Association,
was heard by the Senate Committee
on Finance in support of free wood
pulp.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion and the shippers aud railroads
interested in the Spokane rate case
agreed to postpone until fall the
phases of the case still in contro-
versy.
Rear Admiral W. L. Swinburne
ordered to duty in con.
nection with the summer conference
3 the Naval War College, Newport,
Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, Amer.
fean minister to Denmark, will
resent the Unit States at the Ars
and Literary ress at Copenhag-
PT
p