FILIPINOS
Two Hundred More Killed in Bat
tle With Wheaton'8 Forces.
TEE REBELS ABE WEAKENING.
The Onerous Treatment Accorded the
Irtnoocr Captured by Our Forces
gecm to Influence the Insurgent
Army Powerfully.
Manila, March 20. Some of the reb
tl8 recently expelled from Cavlte and
the small towns in the vicinity of Pasig
combined forces, and on Saturday
night attacked a cor-pany of the
Washington volunteers, a detached
post at Tagulg, about a mile and a
half southeast of Pasig. General
Wheaton immediately reinforced the
Americans with two companies each
of the Washington and the Oregon
regiments, The post had held the
enemy in check, and the fire of the
reinforcing companies repulsed them,
driving them across to an island form
ed the estuary. They were thus in
front of the Twenty-second regulars.
On discovering that they were en
trapped the rebels fought desperately,
aided materially by the jungle and the
darkness, but they were completely
routed, with heavy loss, after two
hours' fighting. Te Americans lost
two killed and 20 wounded, among the
latter Lieutenant Frank Jones.
General Wheaton determined to pun
ish the natives, and at daybreak yes
terday bis brigade started in the fol
lowing order: The Sixth artillery,
holding the extreme right; the Oregon
volunteers holding the center, the
Washington regiment keeping to the
rdge of the lake and the Twenty-second
regulars occupying the right of the
line, which swept the whole country
along the lake. In a southeasterly di
rection, toward General Ovenshlne's
position. The line thus extended over
two miles of country, rough and cover
ed with thick Jungle, advanced 11
miles. The enemy fled, the last of them
being seen at 3:30 in the afternoon.
At scarcely any time did the Americans
get within 1,200 yards of them.
The troops returned . to Pasig last
night, exhausted by the hard work
under a hot sun. The Oregon regiment
had one man killed and four wounded,
and the Twenty-second regulars one
wounded. According to the official re
ports no fewer than 200 Filipinos were
killed.
General Otis says the American
army and gunboats now command the
lake. He estimates that property of
the insurgents valued at $500,000 has
been destroyed, while quantities of rice
and sugar and 400 tons of coal, which
Is very valuable here, have been cap
tured. Many of the prisoners represent that
the Filipino soldiers are weakening.
The generous treatment that the Amer
icans administer to the native prison
ers and wonnded seems to Influence the
insurgent army powerfully.
The armed tugs Laguna de Bay and
Oeste have returned to San Pedro
Macatl and reported the results of their
tour of the lake. On Friday morning
last they shelled the town of Moreng,
the rebels fleeing without making any
response to the fire. The Americans
landed a party, which destroyed a
quantity of stores and all the stone
buildings except the church. The ex
pedition then proceeded to Majayjoy,
where a sugar mill and sawmill were
destroyed.
On arriving at Santa Cruz, a town
f 1,200 inhabitants, it was found that
the enemy was strongly entrenched and
prepared to defend the position, as
sisted by two gunboats and several
launches. Moreover, the mouth of the
river was blacked with rocks and bam
boo. A few sheila caused an exodus
ef the citizens, bnt not of the enemy's
troops. The Americans did not at
tempt a landing.
The advances of the United States
troops nnder General Wheaton continue
from day to day. Last Thursday the
strongly fortified town of iiaitni was
captured. On Wednesday Pasig was
captured, after several hours deHpernte
fighting. In the first three days' fight
ing the American loss was only six kill
ed and 36 wonnded, while the insurgent
loss was 400 killed and 150 captured.
The Filipino force was 3,000.
The United States Philippines com
mission yesterday held its first business
meeting and decided te issue a pronuncia
meuto to the inhabitants of the islands.
President Schnrman will prepare it. The
document w'll explain the spirit in
which the United States intends to fulfill
the trust Imposed and will call upon
the people of the Islands to lay down
their arms and co-operate in the interest
f good government.
It is reported on hitherto reliable au
thority that Aguinaldo is taking exereme
measures to suppress signs calculated to
cause a cessation of hostilities. Twelve
adherents of the plan of independence,
residents of Manila, have been condemn
ed to death because they wrote advising
surrender, and all loyal Filipinos have
been called upon to perforin the national
service of dispatching them.
On Friday last General Lngarda visit
ed Maloloa for the purpose of advising
Aguinaldo to quit. He argued with the
insurgent leader and attempted to con
vince him of the folly of his persistence
in the face of overwhelming odds. Aguin
aldo was furious at the advice and or
dered General Lagarda to be executed
immediately. The unfortunate general
.was promptly decapitated.
Hesitate to Interfere With Otis.
Washington, March 21. The question
of permitting the Spanish government to
negotiate with Aguinaldo for the release
of the Spanish prisoners held by him is
still under consideration. The president
himself will be the person to decide
whether or not this shall be done. tht
authorities hesitating to interfere in any
way with the working oat of General
Otis' plana, and he has forbidden toe
JOHN SHERMAN MUCH WORSE.
I Believed to Bo Dying; When the
Steamer Parts La ft Kingston.
Kingston.' Jam., March .21. The
American line steamer Paris, Captain
Frederick Watklna, with the party of
American excursionists who are tour
ing in West Indian waters, sailed at 6
o'clock last evening. Ex-Secretary of
State John Sherman was reported
much worse and not likely to survive
the night.
The hot weather has greatly weaken
that unless a change for the better
JOHN BHBBMAN.
ed Mr. Sherman, and his doctors feci
comes very quickly all hope must be
abandoned.
The United States cruiser Chicago
has not arrived, but it is supposed she
will moot the Paris at Santiago de
Cuba. The Paris will probably touch
first at Guantanamo. She left Instruc
tions for the Chicago to follow with all
haste.
REED INTERVIEWS M'KINLEY.
They Say to Each Other "flow Ho You
Io"and "How Do Ton DoJ"
Brunswick, Ga., March 21. President
McKinley is toduy on .Tekyl aland, the
club home of a number of custom
millionaires on St. Simon's sound, ten
miles up the const from Brunswick.
With him ure Mrs. McKinley, Vice
President and Mrs. Hoburt and Senator
Hanna. Tliey are the guests of ex
Secretary of Mm Interior Cornelius N.
Bliss. In another cottage on the Island
is Speaker Thomas B. Bead. All per
sons in any way concerned in their
presence at Jrkyl assert positively and
unreservedly that the visit of the two
rival political lenders at the same time
is a more coincidence. The spcuker will
probably leave Jekyl this afternoon or
tomorrow sad the president tomorrow
forenoon,
A census of Brunswick's 12,000 in
habitants could have been taken nbout
the wharf and the railroad track when
the presidential train reached here. A
committee from the Jekyl Island club
welcomed the president, and assisted by
Mayor Atkinson and former Muyor
Crovatt, escorted him to the island.
The president was greeted with n few
cheers, which he acknowledged by lifting
his hat, when he emerged from the train
and assisted Mrs. McKinley to the car
riage which took them to whore th"
revenue cutter Colfax lay in waiting.
Another small volley of cheers broke
forth as the boat cast off and started on
the trip to Jekyl.
When the president walked ashore on
the island Mr. Beed smilingly raised his
hat and said: "How do you do, Mr.
President?" "
Mr. McKinley acknowledged the greet
ing with a low bow, and said: "How
do you do, Mr. Speaker?"
The President and Mrs. McKinley en
tered a carriage and moved away and
the speaker strolled off. Late in the af
ternoon the president and the vice presi
dent wont out driving.
ANOTHER KANSAS HORROR.
Father Charged With the Murder of
His Five Children.
Hutchinson. Kan., March 21. An
atrocious crime was revealed here yes
terday when the coroner and his assist
ants removed the dead bodies of five
little children from the house occupied
by John Moore, which burned at an eariy
hour. A coroner's jury investigated the
case, asd in accordance with the jury's
return Moore, the father of the dead
children, was arrested on a charge of
murder.
When the firemen and neighbors reach
ed the burning house the father was the
only member of the family of seven
found outside. His actions were queer
and he would not talk. While the build
ing was still burning, and bis children
wore within the burning walls, he took
a horse from his stable and rode away.
When the firemen entered the house
after having partly quenched the flames,
they found the five children lying side
by side in a bed on the floor, all dead,
but not badly burned. The skull of
each child was deeply Indented and from
the (tents long fractures extended. All
but one of the chiidren had been stabbed
in the neck. The throat of the 3-year-old
boy had been slashed so deep that the
spinal column had keen severed.
Before the coroner's jury Moore pre
tended to believe that an exploding lamp
had caused the fire. He said ho wns
awakened by the smoke snd he found
the house afire all over. He did not try
to save his children, because he knew
they ranst be dead, as the fire started
In their room. His riding away from tho
fire ho explained by stating that his wif.
was away from homo attending a sick
friend, and that he went to tell her of
their loss.
"The Pope's Life Ebbing Away."
London, March 21. Tho Borne cor
respondent of The Daily Chronicle says:
"Although there is no immediate alarm,
It is generally felt that the pope's life
is ebbing away. Communications have
recently passed between the different
cabinets relative to the eventuality of a
conclave."
Polish Nobleman (iocs to Prison.
New York, March 21. Count Marian
de Sermaba, a Polish nobleman of com
manding appearance, who married a rich
young woman of thiB city, was yesterday
sentenced to three years in Sing Sing
prison for grand larceny.
Czar Receives Our Ambassador.
St. Petersburg, March 21. Charle
magne Tower, the newly appointed am
bassador to Russia, yesterday presented
his credentials and was received by the
czar.
i.
Mrs. Flaca "Pays the Penalty For
Her Awful Crime.
MET HEB FATE WITH CALMNESS.
The Execution Was the Most Success
nil That Huh Ever Tak 'il lMm-c lu
Slug Slnsr Prison Two Women Ac
companied Her to the Death Chair.
New York. Starch 21. Mrs. Martha
Place was executed nt Sing Sing prison
yesterday. She was the tirst woman to
die in the electric chair In the state of
Now York, ami she went to her death
quietly. Her death was instantaneous,
but two shocks being given. The volt
age of the current was 1700, and it was
continued for four seconds. It was then
gradually diminished to -IH1 voltage,
which whs continued for " seconds. lr.
Irvine, the physician of the prison, ex
amined the woman and then ordered a
second shock. That wns the same as
the tirst in power, and continued tor tho
same length of time. The second shock
has always been administered at Sing
Sine.
Mrs. Place murdered her stopdaugther.
Ida M. Place, a mere girl, on Feb. 7,
1S!)S. She tirst threw acid in the girl's
eyes and then smothered her. This wns
curly in the morning in their home in
Brooklyn. She waited the entire day
for her husband to return, and then at
tacked him with an nx, fracturing his
skull and Otherwise seriously injuring
him. Place, however, recovered.
Mrs. Place was informed on Thursday
last by Warden Sage that she must die
on Monday. Again on Sunday the war
den visited her and told her she must be
ready at 1 1 o'clock Monday morning.
She was ready at that hour, and no one
who watched her could understand what
change must have taken place in the
woman's nature to so dull her senses
that she could go to her death so calmly
and impassively as Mrs. Place did. The
last woman condemned to die In this
state went to the gallows shrieking and
fighting, but Mrs. Place hardly uttered
a sound.
This wns the twenty-sixth electrocu
tion at Sing Sing prison, but none before
was so Successful as that of yesterday.
Not only wns then' no BCOne, bnt there
was no delay. Within three minutes
after coming through the Iron doors the
order sf the law had been carried out.
There wen? 1- witnesses present, and
only those who watched every movement
witnessed Mrs. Place's death.
Mrs. Place had told her pastor that
she believed her sins hail been forgiven,
and assorted her faith in the hereafter.
She was buoyed up with this feeling
when the warden eamo for her to lead
her to the chair. She was dressed in
black, a gown made herself, simple and
plain. She had expected to wear it at
her now trial or when she received her
liberty. A white band wns around her
throat, and ber light brown hair, now
turning gray, wns brushed back smooth
ly over her forehead. It was clipped
nwny only whore the electrode was to
bo placed. Mrs. Place said simply that
(die was ready, and the warden took her
arm in his.
Meanwhile the witnesses hail been call
ed into tho death chamber. Suddenly
tho side door was thrown open, a keeper
stopped In and called for another keeper
and turned rapidly away. The keeper
returned and was followed almost at
once by Mrs. Place, leaning heavily on
tho warden's arm. Her face was very
white, her head uplifted, her eyes closed.
The white hand on her throat seemed
scarcely whiter than her face. Behind
came the women attendants, one a phy
sician, the other the day matron. Itev.
Dr. Cole came next, and after him wore
tho two keepers.
As they came ever the threshold Mrs.
Place gave no sign of fear, nor did she
oven seem to know what was about to
happen. The warden hold her up still
more firmly, and the woman assisted her
to the chair. She was quickly strapped
into tho chair, the electricity was sud
denly applied, and the body was relaxing
almost before the witnesses were con
scious that tho exeOQtton had occurred.
Mrs, Place had murmured as she was
seated in the chair: "God help mo; God
have mery." There was not I sound
after thnt, not even a nionn. The vis
ible effect of the shock wns less than
had ever boon observed in the death
bouse before. There was not the slight
est distortion of fontures; tho eyes were
covered, nnd when the straps wore re
moved they were still closed. On tho
second shock the body straightened ost
again, and n little foam oozed from the
lips. When the current was shut off
the body reposed naturally in the chair.
The body was allowed to remain in the
chair until all the witnesses has retired,
when it was taken to the autopsy room
and a post mostom examination hold.
No one was present but tho operating
surgeons, nnd ttieir report wns sealed,
and will be filed In Kings county, to
gether with the other documents relating
to the woman's death. Tho autopsy wns
a rapid one, and although un information
was made public, the indications are tha
the organs wore found in a healthy con
dition. The insanity plea entered in be
half of Mrs. Place had never impressed
those who knew tho woman best very
favorably.
The body was placed in a red box and
was taken to the Sing Sing station,
whore it was shipped to East Millstone,
N. J. There the funeral took place to
day. Poverty Stricken Spain.
London, March 21. The Madrid cor
respondent of Tho Standard, in a dis
patch dealing elaborately with the plans
of the Spanish government to reorganize
the finances of the country, says: "But,
even with all tho contemplated reduc
tions and a settlement of tho colonial and
imperial debts, Spain will require about
$35,000,000 for her future annual ex
penditure, and her taxation has never
yet produced more than 31,00.000.
A Deadly Southern Cyclone.
Memphis, Tonn., March 20. Reports
from different points in Arkansas, Miss
issippi and Alabama indicate that in the
storms which swept over these states
Saturday 18 persons wore killed out
right and 21 injured, as follows: Ala
bama, 10 killed, 4 injured: Arkansas, 1
killed, 7 injured; Mississippi, 1 killed,
10 injured. Tho property loss will run
into the hundreds of thousands.
Fifteen Vote For Senator.
Harrisburg, March 21. The following
la the result of yesterday's ballot for
United States senator: Quay, 8; Jenks,
4; DalselL 2; Stewart, 1.
Wednesday . March 15.
Secretary Long denies a rumor the.
he will resign durim: the summer.
The transport Mci'lelhm arrived lr
Brooklyn with 16 dead heroes from Pan
tiago, Cuba.
The quarantine regulations of Mi
southern states will interfere fffentl;
with the return of soldiers from Culm.
General Brooke has leen given foil
authority to suppress the Cuban as
sembly, if the latter continues its dis
orderly proceedings.
Pssseugers from the train SnOWhstind
at Wheatland, Y'yo., for the past two
weeks, have reached Cheyenne, and toll
a story of much suffering.
Camp Meade, M IddletOWn. Pa., is to
be prepared for the reception of the
Seventh army corps, which will he soul
from Cuba to be mustered out.
Tlitit-Mlny, March HI.
Smallpox is epidemic in twenty North
Carolinu counties.
Carter Harrison will be renominated
by th Democrats for mayor of Chicago
He carried the primaries.
An unknown woman called nt the Pesi
donee of Mrs. McVean, a St. bonis
widow, blinded her with vitriol, and es
caped. An electric enr ran off n bridge nt
Worcester, Mass. Motormcn Shea nnd
Welsh and Conductor White wore
drowned.
Before tho Pennsylvania legislative in
vostiirntors Messrs. Bpatl and Ocstello
emphatically denied charges of attempt
ed bribery made against them.
Friday, March 17.
Joseph Medill, editor of the Chi. ago
Tribune, died at San Antonio, "'ex.
The talk of separation of Norway and
Sweden is growing in both countries.
Tlie free rations distributed to Cubans
will hereafter be charged again -t th
customs receipts.
B. P. Hutchinson ("Old Mutch"), the
once noted Chicago wheat plunger, died
In a sanitarium at Luke Geneva, Wis.,
aged 70.
Twenty masked men entered a ware
house where nine alleged negro firebugs
were hold for trial. Tho mob killed four
and wounded throe.
At Palmetto. Ga., 20 masked men en
tered n warehouse where nine alleged
negro fireburgl were held for trial. The
mob killed four and wounded three.
Baron Russell of Killowen. lord chief
justice of F.uglnnd. has been appointed
to succeed the late Baron Herscbell on
tho Venezuelan arbitration commission.
In sn election day tight at Hot Springs,
Ark., Police Chief Tolcr. Detective Hart.
Sergeant Goslee. John Williams (son of
tho sheriff) and I,ouis Hinkle were killed.
The sheriff is nnder arrest.
Saturday. March IS.
Tho queen regent of Spain signed the
treaty of peace yesterday.
Princess Kniulani, of Hawaii, died of
inflammatory rheumatism at Honolulu
on March 6.
(Ienc.nl Otis, ncoordlng to u dispatch
he sent to Washington, expects tho Fili
pinos to surrender st any hour.
M. tmckroy, French minister of ma
rine, said in tho chamber of deputies
lhat until recently France was wholly
unprepared for defense.
Puke de Arco, formerly Spnnish min
ister to Mexico, is ugain spoken of as
Dupuy de Lome's successor at Wash
ington. The government survey steamer Path
finder had a satisfactory trial trip in
Long Island sound. She attained a ID
knot speed, four knots above the re
quirement. Monday, March 30.
Secretary Alger will leave Savannah
this week for a trip to Cuba.
Hon. Patrick Walsh, mayor of Au
gusta, On., and ex-l'niled States senator,
died at Augusjn, aged "ill.
Our exports for eight months amount
to $82!,33",141: Croat Rrituin's exports,
same period, $7!S,9t;0,127.
California legislature adjourned sine
die without electing a successor to Uni
ted States Senator White.
The Delaware, Lackawanna nnd West
era railroad now runs Sunday trains, for
tho first time in its history.
Austria accepts our government's de
cision refusing indemnity for Austrian
subjects killed in the Latthner (Pa.)
riots.
At Bowie, Md., 15-year-old John Berry
(colored) killed Miss Mnry A. Clarke,
aged 45, with a club, and I'ntnlly injured
her sister Annie, 45.
THE PRODUCE MARKETS
As Reflected by Dealings In Philadel
phia and Halt I more.
Philadelphia, March 20. Flour weak:
winter superfine, X2.lMi2.40; Pennsylvania
roller, clear. I3.05iff3.25; city mills, extra.
$2.5062.75. Rye flour quiet and steady at
13.25 per barrel for choice Pennsylvania.
Wheat strom;. No. 2 red, March. 72Vr
73c. Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, March. 374'y)
tlie. ; No. 2 yellow, for local trade, 390
39c. Oats quiet; No. 2 white. 35c.; No.
1 white, clipped, 354t35V4c Hay firm;
choice timothy, 912 for largo bales. Beef
steady; beef hams, $18.&0&19. Pork easy;
family, $12ifi 12.50. Lard easy; western
steamed, 5.50. Butter steady; western
creamery, 16ttf21c; do. factory, 12i4c. ;
Elgin. 21c; Imitation creamery, 12W11
17Wc ; New York dairy, H4i20c. ; do. cream
ery, I'i21c; fancy Pennsylvania prints
jobbing at 2225c.; do. wholesale, 21c.
Cheese steady; New York, large, white
and colored, 12c; small do., 12H!&12c.;
light skims, hVolOo. : part skims, 7Vtftgc.;
full skims, 405c. Eggs steady; New York
nnd Pennsylvania, 13c; western, fresh,
13c; southern, 12013c.
Baltimore, March 20. Flour dull; west
ern superfine, I2.25i2.40; do. extra, 2.45(fl
3; do. family. S3.3O03.GO: winter wheat,
patent, $3.5503.90; sprlne do., $3.9004.10;
spring wheat, straight, $3.0503.85. Wheat
dull and firm; spot and month, 72073c;
April, 73H731ic; May, 73c; steamer No.
2 red, 6H309c.; southern, by sample, 680
73V4c; do. on grade, 69073c. Corn firm;
pot and month. 36036c; April, 37 V(
37Hc: May, 2838c; staamer mixed,
35V4035c; southern, white, 37038c; do.
yellow, 37037U.C Oats steady; No. 2
white, 34M035c; No. 2 mixed, 32032Vfec
Rye dull; No. 2 nearby, 57057V4c; No. 2
western, 59c. Hay firm; No. 1 timothy,
$11.50012. Grain freights very dull; steam
to Liverpool, par bushel, Lnl. March;
Cork, for orders, per quarter, 3s. March:
Zs. 10V4A April. Sugar Btrong; granulated,
5.20H- Butter steady; fancy creamery,
2PU22C.; do. Imitation, 18019c: do. ladle,
15016c; good ladle. 13014c: store packed,
lift 13c; rolls, 1201Jc Eggs firm at 12c.
Cheese firm and actlvo; fancy New York,
large, 12140UHC.; do. medium, 12'012c. ;
do. small, UVMWic. Lettuce at $2,508
3 per bushel boa. Whisky at $1.3001.31 per
gallon for finished goods In carloads; $1.31
01.32 per gallon for jobbing lots.
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Mi
Windsor Hotel Destroyed and Many
Lives Sacrificed.
KNOWN DEAD NUMBER EIGHTEEN.
Bat It In Itcllovoil There Are Bod ten
Burled Beneath the Itiitnn, Wliero
tiung of Men Are Now at Work.
Abner MeKlnloy's Family Escapes.
Now ork, March 20. The Windsor
hotel, at Forty seventh street and Fifth
avenue, was totally destroyed by lire
on Friday afternoon laat. The fire was
discovered while the St. Patrick's day 1
parade was passing, nnd the windows of
I the hotel were crowded with people view
' lug the parade. The lire was started, it
( in taid, by the carelessness of a guest,
: who lit a cigarette and threw the match,
still biasing, into the folds ol 1 hue car
! tnin. The discovery of the tiro, which
1 spread with frightful rapidity, caused
I n terrible panic, and n number of women
jumped from fifth nnd sixth story win-
' dows. 'lost of these were killed nt once
or died soon after. There were mnnv
I heroic rescues by the Bremen, who were
1 cheered by the thousands who witncsscl
the conflagration from beyond the tire
lilies.
Evidence has been discovered that
while the patrons Of the hotel were Hoe
ing in panic to places of safety, lenvlno
everything behind them, thieves entered
the building and looted apartments, re
gardless of the fact thai women an I
children were perishing for lack of as
sistance. One man was arrested by de
teethes as he was leaving the hotel with
n bundle of booty. W. 1. Smith, Donald
Mnekey's vnlet, said three men entered
Mr. Mnckey's rooms while he was trying
to save what lie could nnd helped them
selves to what they coiiiti iny tneir hands
on. A. A. Minis, who had visited the
hotel to make a call, saw another man
on the third floor stuffing valuables into
Lis pockets, It is probable that the per
BOOS I Iossps of patrons, many of whom
made Ibc- hotel fhclr home, at a low es
timate will exceed 50t,000. The build
ing. which was owned hy ESldridge T.
Gerry, ns insured for $500,000,
Among the guests of the hotel were
Aimer McKinley. his wife and daughter
Mahil, and Miss Helen McKinley, the
president's sister. Mr. McKinley was
at liis office, and the ladies escaped with
out injury.
No body has been found since ! o'clock
yesterday morning, when the workmen
came across the remains of two charred
bodies in the ruins. Tho first body takc.'i
out was from the Forty-sixth side, the
second from the Fifth avenue side, close
by what hud been the main entrance of
the holel. There were merely fragments
of both bodies, neither having bead,
foot or arms. These fragments were
taken to the morgue, where they were
ticketed as bodies "one" ami "two'' and
placed in tho section especially set nside
for the fire Victims. Those two brine the
total number of bodies so far recovered
up to 12. Besides these there arc at
least six persons who were seen to jump
from the roof nnd windows while the
hotel was burning, and of whose bodies
no trace has yet been come upon.
A button found in the segment of the
body known as "body No. 2," and sup
posed to be the body of a woman from
1H to 27 years of age, was made in this
city. It is a common cloth button, and
is used only by manufacturers of ready
made clothing. This fact, and the fact
that the kill gloves are of poor quality
loud to the belief that the woman was
not a guest, but an employe of the hotel.
From time to time articles of more or
less value wore found and turned over
to the police. They included jewelry,
watches, clocks, cunes, articles of cloth
ing, letters, keys, photographs, field ami
Opera glasses, silverware and toilet
articles. A necklace was found on the
Forty-sixth street side, near where the
baths were. It wns set with diamonds
ami opals, and estimated to he worth
abool 110,000. A gold and diamond
bracelet valued at 2.rtH) was found near
by. According to the lists of missing
properly prepared by the police both be
longed to Mrs. James U. Mokes, who
is missing. One of Thomas P, Ochil
tree's trunks was found, the contents
quite uninjured.
Several of the persons hitherto re
ported as missing were found to be safe
yesterdi . The present list of missing
numbers 44. This, however, takes iu4
account but few of the 200 servants of
the house.
General Young BatbOJtOO Bin Offlcera.
Augusts, Oa., March 21. General
Young has issued nn order severely criti
cizing the commissioned officers and the
finding of the court martial in the trial
of the rioters of the Fifteenth Minnesota
regiment which occurred March 4 and .",
when one of their number wns killed by
a saloonkeeper. He says in part: "The
deplorable inefficiency, incapacity, weak
ness and timidity exhibited by nearly nil
of those commissioned Officers present
nt the disgraceful und violent outbreak
in the camp is Incredible except on the
abundant sworn testimony of snid of
ficers themselves. It is with profound
regret that the corps commander Bndl
himself constrained to punish enlisted
men while, through circumstances be
yond his control, certain officers un
worthy of tho commissions they hold are
permitted to go homo with clean rec
ords. "
Victims of Havana Itlotlnir.
Havana, March 21. Tho excitement
growing out of the conflict between the
police and the populace is rapidly sub
siding, and it is not likely that there
will bo further trouble. The mob has
been taught a lesson, which will prob
'. sbly prove sufficient. During the nf
I frays of Saturday and Sunday three
policemen wore killed and about 15
wonnded. while of tho populace five
I were killed and between 60 and 70
1 wounded, some of thorn so seriously that
they will probably die. Tho condition
of Tolice Cantata Joso Estrampos is seri
ous, but it is expected that he will re
cover. Sixty arrests have boon made.
Flro Badges For the (;uliN.
New York, March 21. Fire Commis
sioner Scsnnol yesterday sent to Miss
Helen M. Gould a letter in which ho in
formed her that, in view of tho services
rendered by her on the occssion of the
Windsor hotel fire, he intended to present
to her a gold badge which would entitle
her to enter fire lines at any fire that
may occur in greater New York. An
other badge will bo presented to Frank
J. Gould, who aided his sister at the fire
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.
Han i tMfg, March'.'l. Governor Stone
set the date yesterday for the execution
of two murderers. One is James A.
Clemmeri convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Kaiser, at .sorristown, and the
other la Jonas Preston. Jr., of Chester
county. Roth nun will be hanged on
i. Unroll is. Tares men
wi It t " I killed and six others iu-
Ji rl ' e . ill don of n holler at John
Min '. s Hwi iill ,"c terdhy st Minnl"
s: l- ... '!" . " 1 nr.- i -on She, Da
vid . : : tv-r Wink. Three of
the l:ijii-ed '. iirotirMy tile. These aft)
John v. fouvdrr, lorace Beige! and
James V, h; i. The cause of the ex
plosion is n i iratery,
Pittsburg, Vnreh 20. W. J. Fitzger
ald, a clerk i:: the distributing depart
ment of the Plttabnrg postofflce since
1S!ir. was arrested by Postofflce Inspec
tor W. W. Dickson, charged with steal
ing money letters. He was canghl In
the act. and it is understood made a full
confession, though be could not say how
much he had purloined. This makes e
fourth arrest in the same depart nl
within n year and the fifteenth lu 'lie
Pittsburg postofflce since 1891,
Hollidaysburg, Pa., March 21. -The
Blair county Republican convention met
in the court house hero yesterday. The
(Biididates for state offices had no ap
position. Thejf are: State treasurer,
Milton Alexander, Lancaster; judge of
supreme court. John Stewart, Chambers
burg; chairman of sluto committee, Gen
eral W. H. Koontz, Somerset. Three
Quay delegate! to the state convention
Wore elected. The new county Commit
tee will be controlled by the friends of
Senator Quay.
Allentown, Pa.. March 20. -Owen
Kern. hotolkeoper at Cedarville. whom
Frank Krause. his hostler, shot through
the right long 00 March .'t, when Krause.
while madly jealous and intoxicated,
killed his swectheat, Maggie Until, and
Wounded Mrs. Kern, died Sal unlay from
his wound. He wns SO years of age and
loaves a wife and two small daughters.
His father, Moses Kern, deceased, was
steward of the Lehigh county almshouse,
a position which his brother, S. A. J.
Kern, tills at present.
Bradford, Pa., March 21 -Henry
Sendholin, a wealthy retired merchant
of this city, committed suicide hist even
ing ut his home in this city. For ore,- a
year he had been blind. His son, Phil
Bendhelm, was a member of the Astor
battery in Manila, and is now at h a.
The young man had an army revolver in
his room, n it. I this the old man succeeded
ill finding. After siipir lie wenl into
the parlor, sat in a rocking chair,
smoked a cigar and then, pressing (he
revolver against his right temple. Bred
a 36-caliber bullet through his brain.
He died instantly.
Pottsville, Pa., March 21. A wagon in
which wore William A. Ben eh, one of
the proprietors of the American Tea com
pany, Of Pottsville, anil an 18 -year-old
lad named Herbert Bands, was strnri-.
by a Philadelphia ami Reading railroad
train at New Philadelphia yesterday af
ternoon. Beach sustained injuries from
which lie died an hour afterwards. Bands
has his left leg broken, besides other in
juries. Ho may die. It is il gin lhat
owing to the high winds they did not
hear the whistle of the engine. Both
horses were killed. Homer Brobst, a
0-year-old schoolboy, while picking coal
at Palo Alto, was run over by a tram
of cars and cut in twain.
Harrlsbnrg, March 21. The house last
evening unanimously adopted a concur
rent resolution creating a commission of
three senators, live members and seven
others, to be appointed by the governor,
who is requested to invited the Penn
sylvania stale hoard of taxes, the Penn
sylvania Legislative Labor League, the
Pennsylvania liar association and the
Patrons of Husbandry, each to suggest
a representative of their respective
bodies to examine, consider and report
ns to what changes, if any, should ho
made In the laws ami policy of this com
monwealth relating to combinations of
capital for business purposes, whether
the same be known as corporations,
trusts or otherwise.
Norristown. Pa., March 21. - John (J,
Kratl, Bged 4H years, shot and kilted Ins
9-year-old son Milton yesterday al their
home t Belfry, live miles from here,
and then committed suicide by shooting
himself. Kratl had boon living retired
on his farm for some time, hut made
daily visits to Philadelphia, where il is
said he speculated largely m stocks. He
returned shortly nfter 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and said to his wife that he
had lost everything he had except the
farm. When Milton came home from
school nfter 4 o'clock he called bim to tha
woodshed to help him sharpen a knife.
When the hoy's mother went in search of
them she found the bodies on the Hour,
the father clutching u revolver.
The Beef Investigators,
Chicago. March 21.- The principal wit
ness on the list to appear before the gov
ernment court of inquiry yesterday. Dr.
Nicholas Senn, wns unable to be in the
city, whereupon tho court recessed at
noon until 6 o'clock this evening, when
Dr. Senn will be hoard. During yes
terday's short session the court received
the evidence of four witnesses who hail
been called upon request of Major Leo,
the representative of Major General
Miles. According to their testimony Ihe
canned beef was always iinpnhitnhlo and
distasteful, and in their judgment it was
a con tributary cause of sickness among
I the soldiers and unlit for an army ration.
! Criticnl reference to the refrigerated
beef was also made by the witnesses.
It seems probable that tho court w ;ll he
able to terminate its Chicago work in
time to leave tomorrow evening for New
York.
Cermiins Kntlng Bona Flonh.
Washington, March 21. The restric
tions upon the importation of meat into
Germany have operated unfortunately
at Strasshurg. according to Dotted
States Consul Itaehr at Kiel. The home
supply of meat has Sean curtailed by the
prevttleni'e of diseases, and priCM aro
high, beef costing from 14 to 33 cents
per pound. Poultry nnd game ore so
expensive that only the wealthy can af
ford them, and many families are using
horse Bosh, the prices of which ranges
from 11 to S cents per pound.
On Trial For Accepting a Bl'tbO,
Now York, March 21. Ex-Aldermsn
Joseph K. Clark, of Brooklyn, was placed
on trial m tho supreme court, befoni
Justice Keogh, yesterday accused of hav
ing taken money as a consideration for
a vote ami act in his official capacity as
a member of the common council of the
city of Brooklyn. The Indictment
charges that Clark received $1,200 front
contractors. .