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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. l N 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. .