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LIVES LOST III I Blil! HOTEL.
THE WINDSOR. DESTROYED.
Escape From a New York Building Mud Im.
posiible by the Denee Crowd! Which Had
Gathered to Bel th Parade.
Fire broke out In the Windsor hotel,
New York, last Friday afternoon.
While thousands of people were view
ing the St. 1'otrli k's Lny parade from
the windows nnd balconies the cry ot
"Are" rang through the corridors. In
a moment the building ft whirl
wind of f!nme. The engines reached
the hotel with difficulty so dense was
the crowd.
Thus far sixteen persons were killed
In the fire nnd ft number are still un
accounted for. The dead:
Connolly. John. Flanagan, Kate, Olb
son, Mrs. Addle, Goodman, Eleanor
Louise, Clrandy, Miss Lasallcs. of
Elizabeth City, N. C. llenry, Mrs.
Mehltable, Kirk, Nancy Ann, aged 73,
widow of James H. Kirk snap manu
facturer, of Chicago; Iceland, Mrs.
Warren, wife of the proprietor of the
hotel: I.eland. Miss Helen, daughter
of proprietor of hotel; Paddock, Ame
lia, Sullivan, Mary, unknown woman,
who Jumped from a Fifth avenue win
dow, died at Helen Gould's home; un
known man, jumped from roof at rear
of hotel, body not recovered; unknown
woman, mother of child, Jumped from
hotel window, body not yet recovered.
The hospital reports as to the injured
are most favorable. Most of the pa
tients are Improving. Home of them
were able to leave the hospital and
others will be discharged lit a few
days.
There was the wildest scene of ex
citement within and without the
building. Hundreds of guests and
i employes were In the hotel when th
fire broke out, and for many of them
escape with safety was Impossible.
Probablv from ten to fifteen Uvea were
lost within a half hour, and thirty or
forty persons were Injured In Jumping
from windows and in rushing through
the roaring flames In the corridors and
on the stalrwnys. Many who were in
jured died later at near-by residences
and at hospitals, and others who
made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks
were so badly Injured that they are
still hovering between life and death.
Soon after the first alarm was given
people In the lower floors of the hotel,
those who had easy access to the
street and stairway, commenced to
pour out of the building In great
numbers, but It very soon became ap
parent that a great majority of the
occupants of the hotel were either
panic-stricken or unable to make their
way to the ground floor.
Windows were thrown up on every
side of the' building and guests, most
ly women, in all stuges of terror, made
their appearance and uttered frantic
appeals for assistance to the crowd be
low. As the flames gathered about
them they became more and more
terror-stricken, and presently some of
them stood upon the narrow window
sllls and beckoned to the spectators
that they were about to leap.
The men collected upon the side
walks ready to render any assistance
thev could, and In the meantime some
ot the women left the window-sills
nnd dropped to the streets. In moHt
Instances the efforts to catch them
nnd break their awful fill were un
availing, for they struck the sidewalk,
and In moBt cases broken limbs were
the result. As soon as the firemen
could get their scaling bidders Into
position they climbed the sides of the
building and entered at every winnow
where ther was an unfortunate guest
appealing for assistance, and many
casts of heroic rescue were witnessed
by the throng in the streets.
At the corner of Forty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue, directly
across from the hotel. Is the home of
Miss Helen Oould, and at her direction
many of the Injured were carried
there and were treated by physicians
and nurses whom she had sent for.
The first horror occurred Just ,15
minutes after the fire broke out. A
handsome woman appeared at the
window of a room on the fourth floor.
She held out' her arms to the crowd
below. Then she raised her hands us
If In supplication, and in n morpent
. climbed to the window und leaped.
She turned about like a top and
struck the Iron railing In front of the
hotel. Her body seemed to be Impaled
there, 'but It fell oft and Into the area
way. Bhe was dead. The Woman was
Identified as Mrs. Amelia Paddock, of
Irvlnirton. N. Y.
The President's brother, Abner Mc
Klnlef. who with his family lived at
the hotel escaped uninjured, but lost
all of his effects.
The loss of the fire Is estimated
roughly at $1,000,000. The building
was valued at (3oO,000. Th? loss on
the contents of the building Is almost
complete. The salvage men managed
to save $20,000 worth of paintings on
the first floor of the hotel.
Many of the guests who lived at the
Windsor lost valuable jewelry and
bric-a-brac and furnishings, among
them being F. F, Flower, a nephew of
ex-Governor Flower, who, among
other things, lost a package of Jewelry
valued at J. 000. The Windsor was
owned by Elbrldge T. Qerry. There
vui 1600.000 insurance on the building
and (75,000 on the contents.
President McKlnley, when In New
York, always stopped at the Windsor.
A suspicion became current Monday
that the fire was the work or thieve.
Many of the guests who had lost dear
friends and all their valuables openly
declared that thieves had set the big
hotel on fire for the purpose of creat
Ing a panic and looting the rooms. The'
police were Investigating these stories
very closely and questioning the four
men now under arrest. The police say
that there must be at least SO bodks
In the ruins.
Elbrldge T. (Jerry had insurance ag
gregating (f.95,OU0 on the Hotel Winds
or end (120,000 on Its furniture. War
ren Leland. the proprietor, had (100,
000 Insurance. It Is estimated that II.-
000,000 was lost in jewelry belongtn'g
to people living at tne hotel.
Hobaon Saving Spanish Vesaela.
The work ot repairing the three
Spanish gunboats raised In Manila Bay
la reported to be progressing rapidly
at Hong Kong under the direction ot
Constructor Capps and Assistant Con
st rue tor Hobson. The vessels, are said
to be In excellent condition as to ma
chinery, and even before they went In
to dry-dock to be repaired the Isla do
Luson and the Isla de Cuba made 13
knots under their own steam, and the
Don Juan de Aurtrla was only about
a knot behind. Tho constructor s re
ports to the Navy Department show
that 1 the other sunken Spanish war
ships have been so badly damaged as
to be not worm ine com oi raising ana
repairing.
Coal lor Admiral Dewey.
The equipment bureau of the navy
denartmenl Is now loading at New
port News, 6,000 tons ot coal to be
taken to Manila. This coal will go
ebr-ovh the clues Canal.
TERSE TELEGRAMS.
Princess Kaluln.nl ot Hawaii Is dead.
Ex-Benator Walsh ot Georgia la
dead.
Governor Plngree. of Michigan, 18
heading a movement for a new party.
Joseph Lelter has failed again. He
was endeavoring to form a dairy
trust In Chicago.
The lamn chimney factories In the
Indiana ana belt closed down. Indefi
nitely on Saturday. . ,
John O. Mllburn wns elected presi
dent of the Pnn-Amerlcan exposition,
to be held at IlutTntn.
John Sherman Is very 111 on board
the steamer Paris which Is now cruis
ing In southern waters.
John Shess. lavld Euydcr and
Peter Wink were killed In a boiler
explosion at Altoonn, Pa., last Friday.
Numerous attempts have been
made at New Orleans during the past
few days to burn Catholic Institutions.
Two troops of cavalry have been
ordered to the Yosemlte park to pro
tect It from timber thieves and sheep
herders.
rcnaineer Frederick Wllhnm nnd
Fireman Edward Gray were killed by
he ditching of a train near Auourn,
Cnl.
The California legislature has ad
journed without electing a I'nlted
States senator to succeed Stephen M.
White.
Five thousand men employed by the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail
way had their wages Increased last
Monday.
William II. Schwolhe, ft well-known
ItlZen of llrnnklvn ,11ml at 7:13 a. m.
on March 13. He was a member of the
Thirteen Club.
I.eech Lake Tndlnns In Minnesota
who Imagine that they are being Im
posed ipon by the government are
preparing to "make trouble.
Fireman Van Londlngham and
Brakcman E. A. Graham were killed
by a freight wreck on the Norfolk and
Western railroad at Ada, a.
The finance committee of Pittsburg
councils dlscunsed and practically de
cided upon a new bond Issue of (7.000,
000, bringing the debt ot the city up to
the limit.
Four locomotives were destroyed In
a collision in Valparaiso, Chill, the
other day. One passenger was killed
nnd a dozen wounded. The damage
is placed at (200.000.
The Allan liner. Castlllan. Is a total
wreok off Halifax. N. 8. Eight hun
dred head of cattle on board the
stranded ship perished. All of the
passengers escaped.
The famous mad stone, which has
been In the Fred family ot Leerburg,
va. for 130 years. u sold last Wed
nesday for (TOO. This stone Is said to
have never failed to cure.
Unless measures are taken to feed
the deer In Yellowstone Park thou
sands of them will die. Hecause of
the deep snow they are unable to se
cure their own food.
Sixty senators and representatives
will soon go on a cruise to examine
the proposed Panama and Nicaragua
cannl routes. They will be guests of
the Panama Canal Company.
Suits aggregating (1.600.000 have
been brought by the state of New
lork against Armour & Co.. or cni-
cii no. The racking house Is accused
of sellng oleomargarine as butter.
A gigantic telephone company,
capitalized at about $30,000,000, Is under
the process of formation, and Is to
cover Pittsburg and Allegheny, West
ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
towns.
Unbelt Lewis was hanged at At
lanta, (la., Wednesday for tho murder
of Charles Haynes. Lewis built the
gallows upon which he was executed
while employed by the cuunty two
ynrs ago.
Tho three-mastea scnooncr James
W. Blgelow from Jacksonville for Pro
vldence. It. I., has been given up for
lost, as Bhe Is over two months out,
Cant. Graham wos In charge. She
carried a crew ot eight men.
It was said In Chicago that the mak
ers of bar Iron in seven States have
combined to. form one great corpora
tion. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan
Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Ala
bama ore said to be Included.
Sixty, thousand textile workers In
New England may be affected by a
new machine which will be placed upon
tho market shortly. The American
Warp Drawing Machine Company has
been incorporated In Maine with a
capital stock ot (3.000,000.
The United States transport Thom
as, formerly the Mlnnowaska, sailed
from Havana Monday morning for the
I'nlted States with 202 volunteers. The
Ward liner Havana, specially char
tered for this purpose, will sail with
the Second Louisiana Volunteers,
In the hearing of the caso of At
torney General Monnett, ot Ohio,
against the Standard Oil Company, at
New York, J. JJ. Arjhiioi.i, of tho
SlinUard, and Attorney Films, Mon-
nclt'x r.-.s itunt, became Involved in a
quarrel, and called each other liars.
Mrs. Henry H, Moeser, of Pittsburg,
the other day told her 10 year old
daughter to call her father to dinner.
When the child came to the father's
room she found him hanging from a
beam. The suicide was very poor and
had been in ill-health for a long time.
The coroner's Jury at Hot Springs.
Ark., rendered a verdict against Sher
iff Williams. Deputy Sheriffs Coffee
Williams, Edward Spears and William
Watt In connection with the riot of
Thursday, in which six men were
killed, and they were committed to
Jail. .
The murderer of Mrs. . Anthony
Stlegler of Mount Lookout, near Cin
cinnati, whose dead body was found In
her home last Friday, has been found
In Albert Luken, a boy of 16, living
with his widowed mother in Clifton.
Luken was arrested and made a full
confession, giving his motive as rob
bery. He got about (70.
Many Lives Were Loat.
A calculation based on the most re
cent statement made by Lloyds, the
recognised authorities In shipping,
reveals the fact that at present there
are nine steamships, bound across the
Atlantic from United States ports,
overdue to such an extent as to
render their reinsurance Impossible,
and this means the loss of no less
than 251 lives and the sacrifice of pro
perty amounting in the aggregate to
about (1,805.600.
Coroners Divide s Body.
Oeorge Bates a few days ago got Into
a fight with a saloon-keeper whose
place of business is in Minnesota across
the river from Pembina, N. D. He
was beaten and taken home where he
died. The coroners from the two states
both claimed the body, one saying that
tho crime had been committed In Min
nesota the other that the man had died
In Dakota. They compromised by cut
ting the body In two each coroner tak
ing half. The head was boiled so that
the skull can be used as evidence. The
assailant. John Smith. Is under arrest.
A verdict was rendered In accordance
with the above facts.
FAMILY SIP! OUT Of U.
DEATH IN A CYCLONE.
Members of Lewis Coffee's Household btrewa
About for Half a Mile In Cliburne County,
Ala. Flfteea Persona Killed.
One moment Lewis Coffee, of Ed
wardville, Alabama, was enjoying the
presence and health of his large fami
ly, the next he and his entire household
were swept away to death by a cyclone
which visited Alabama and Georgia
town last Sunday. a
The list of the dead Is as follows:
Lewis Coffee, aged 55, tax assessor of
Clebourne county, and the following
members of his family:
Mrs. Coffee, aged 46; Leila, aged 22;
James, aged 20; Lula, aged IX; Jacob,
aged 1.1; Deveroe, aged 8; Dolllo,
aged 10; Orover, aged 6; John aged 4;
The path of the storm was about 200
yards wide, and It traversed the coun
try for 12 miles, beginning In the
northern part of Clebourne county,
near Iron City, and moved southward.
Tlire waa an Immense conical cloud
that bounded along like a rubber ball,
rising at Intervals and leaping for sev
eral hundred yards without doing any
damage. Then when It descended It
would pick up houses and crush them
to pieces, uproot trees or twist them
off level with the ground and sweep
all before It. Lewis Coffee's residence,
a strong double log house, situated on
ft little hill, was In the path of the
storm. It was swept away and the
timbers scattered for a mile. Ten of
Its eleven occupants were Instantly
killed. Except the body of the baby,
which was found under the ruins of
the chimney, the corpses of the vic
tims were carried half a mile and nine
of them were found heaped together.
Every body had been stripped of Its
clothing. One was twisted around a
stump and two others were headless.
Heslde the body of the father lay Bes
sie Coffee, the only member of the
family not Instantly killed. She was
unconscious, and her arms were
around her dead father's neck. She
Is unable to talk and will die. In the
same neighborhood the residences of
J. W. Wilder. J. H. Cason, Andrew
Stelpan and Benjamin Stanxell were
wrecked, and all their occupants In
jured. Near Heflln a white woman,
whose name cannot be learned, was
killed and five persons In the same
family hurt. It Is estimated that
about 50 buildings were destroyed,
between 20 and 25 persons were In
jured and over a score of farms wer
devastated.
A cyclone passed over nurke county,
Oa., Sunday morning. In the vicinity
of Waynesboro four people were
killed. Several houses were demolish
ed and much damage was done.
There were 11 houses blown down on
Waiter McCathern's farm, six miles
from Waynesboro. One house near
town was completely demolished while
It waa occupied by eight negroes, but
they all escaped uninjured.
LOOTING A STEAMER.
The Wrecked Liner Caatillan Hat Fallen Into
the Hande of Plratea.
The steamer Delta arrived at Hall
fax Sunday from St. Vincent with the
cargo of the wrecked steamer Caati
llan. Members of the Delta's crew re
port that the Castlllan may be floated
and that acts of piracy are In progress
at the wreck. The Delta's people are
loud In their denunciation of the
vandalism they saw.
A hundred boats swarmed around
tho Castlllan, and the people In them
defied all authority.. They carried
away everything they could In the
shape of cargo, and smashed the
saloon doors for the sake of the brass
fittings. When tho Delta left there
were about 800 of these vandals
aboard, loading up dories and smacks
with cargo, furniture, etc. Before Cap
tain Barrett left the wreck he tit"
tempted to drive the wreckers off the
ship at the pistol's point, but they
dared him to shoot.
Special custom house officers from
Halifax and Yarmouth were also put
on board, but the wreckers only treat
ed them with contempt and went on
with the work ot destruction uninter
rupted. Thursday tho weather was particu
larly line and hundreds ot boats were
there from all around, while men
swarmed over every part of the ship,
hacking, smashing und destroying.
Fred Jones, of Ottawa, chief preven
tive olllcer of tho Canadian customs,
went down and warned the men that
thought ho had no force with him at
present to stop the work of destruction
and robbery, prosecutions would be en
tered against every soul of them and
the least penalty was a year's Im
prisonment. Ha Operated the Santiago Balloon.
Thomas Carroll Boone, the telegraph
operator in the war balloon In the
operations before Santiago, died Mon
day at the Massachusetts general hos
pital, at Boston as the result of an
operation on a wound received In the
fall of the balloon after It hud been
shot to pieces. Boone, with two
government officers, performed herolo
work in the airship, which was a tar
get for the Spanish gunners, until it
fell Into the trees and threw all three
men out. Boone waa caught In the
drag anchor and waa fearfully wound
ed. He never fully recovered, although
since last fall, up to within two days
of his death, he continued hlB work as
a telegrapher.
Gagged and Robbed
Mrs, Charles H. Nix was seized by
two burglars Wednesday night, at
Chicago, who, after gagging her tied
her to a chair in the basement. Then
they looted the house, securing (2.000
worth of valuables. After this they
carried her, still gagged and bound In
the chair, to the second floor and lock
ed her in a clothespress. After two
hours and a half she succeeded In
slipping the gag and called for iielp.
A stableman heard the cries and came
to her rescue.
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS-
The Oregon arrived at Manila last
Sunday.
Gen. Brooke has informed the war
department that a fresh quarter of
beef will not last 12 hours In a tropical
climate. .
The bones of Admiral Vlllaml), one
ot the officers of Cervera'a late squad
ron, were found In a cave near Santi
ago last Tuesday.
The Seventh army corps, now at
Cuba will soon return to the United
States. They will assemble at Camp
Meaae, fa. tor musier out.
Hereafter all rations distributed by
the united oiaies among tne Cuban
poor will be charged up against the
custom receipts oi ine province.
When the Spanish fought the Fll
Inlnos they usually stopped for a mid
day rest. The Americans apparently
never rests, and this astounds the Fil
ipinos.
AN AWFUL CONFESSION.
A Chicago Bautaga Maker Admits That He
Murdered His Wife Burled the Bones
That Would Not Burn.
Two years ago Interest was centered
In Chicago on Luetgert, a sausage
maker, who was accused and finally
convicted of having boiled the re
mains of his murdered wife In a large
vat. Now August A. Becker, also a
sausage maker, has confessed to hav
ing murdered his wife and boiled her
remains In a large kettle. He was
arrested four weeks ago and Wednes
day confessed.
Becker when first arrested admitted
killing his wife, but declared he push
ed her off Handolph street viaduct In
to the lake, and that she was drown
ed. The police have never placed any re
liance in the drowning confession, and
have kept up their work on the ld.ea
that Becker had killed the woman In
his house and made way with the
body. The finding of a portion of a
hum nn lung three rinys ago In Beck
er's born put strength In their theory.
In his confession Becker said he had
killed his wife by striking her on the
bead with a hatchet In the kitchen of
his home. He then cut the body to
pieces and boiled It In a large kettle.
After watching the disintegration of
the remains for several hours, and
when nothing was left that resembled
a human body, Becker says he took
what remained and burned it In a red
hot stove, the fire having been pre
pared by him. The bones which would
not burn be burled on the prairie near
his home.
January 27 was the date Becker
says he cxnmmltted the murder. He
asserts the crime waa not premeditat
ed, but that he quarreled with his
wife on the afternoon of that day,
and In the beat ot passion he killed
her with a blow on the her.d with the
hatchet.
The piece of lung and a portion of
calico which were found under the
barn, nnd which the police believe to
be strong evidence against Becker, he
says could not be any part of the
body of his wife, as he Is certain that
he destroyed every particle of flesh,
and he maintains the dress winch she
wore was also entirely burned.
August Becker, the sausagemnker,
who confessed to having killed his wife
and boiled and burned her body last
Thursday took police officials to the
spot In his yord where he had burled
the charred remains. Two baskets of
burned bones were found, and Dr. Dor
sey to-night Identified a portion of
them as a human shoulder blade.
EOLD1ERS CALLED OUT.
Texas Authoritlee Hava DlfTicu'.ty In Removing
8n.alt.pox Pnticnta.
The work of removing smallrmx pa
tlents to the pest-house at Laredo,
Tex., under direction of State Health
Officer Blunt was begun Monday
morning. After 10 hnd been removed
the officers encountered on East Mata-
moraa street a mob of several hun
dred Mexicans, who menaced them.
The chief ot police was telephoned
for.
Marshal Joe Barthelow and Assist
ant Marshal Idur hurried to the scene,
and when they attempted to arrest the
leaders of the disturbers they were aS'
saulted with stones and fired upon
Idar was knocked down and severely
beaten, and one of the rioters was
wounded. About 20 shots were fired,
A dozen arrests were made, and the
mob dispersed.
The health officers resumed their
work, but were soon met by another
mob of 600 or 600 Mexicans, many of
them armed. The health officers de
slated, and Dr. Blunt opened tele
graphic communication with Govern
or Payers. The war department tele
graphed authority to use troops at f t.
Mcintosh, A fight Is probable when
the negro regulars arrive.
PLEASED ENGLISHMEN.
Our Ambaeaador to Great Britain Makes a
Speech Which Waa Well Received.
Ambassador Choate made a brilliant
debut as an after-dinner speaker at the
annual banquet of the Associated
Chambers of Commerce of Great Brl
tain Inst Thursday night, at which he
was the principal guest. He had be
side him Lord Charles Beresford and
Lord . Chief Justice ltussell, both
speakers of great power In their own
wny, but Mr. Choate at once estab
lished his claim to be considered a
finished orator, commanding a vein of
fine humor, together with charming
gracefulness and tact. He received a
worm reception when he rose. His
speech was enthusiastically applaud
ed, especially those passages In which
he dwelt on tho kinship of the two
races. At the close he received an
ovation which Is altogether exception
al on such occasions. He was highly
complimented on all sides, and received
the congratulatory comments of the
audience, comprising 600 representa
tive business men from all purts of the
three kingdoms,
ROASTED AND FROZEN.
A Cincinnati Man Subjected to Terrible Tor-
turca by Chinese.
Yokohama papers Just arrived con
tain details of the terrible sufferings
and death of M. U. Blanchard, form
erly of Cincinnati.
He was captured by a band of Man-
churlans In North China and taken to
their mountain cave. There he waa
tied hand and foot, and after being
stripped was laid on the snow near a
fire so that his head and shoulders
were nearly roasted, while the op
posite extremities were freezing.
In the morning ho was flayed alive
by the bloodthirsty Chinamen. They
used bamboo canes, and the flesh of
the lower extremities was torn off in
shreds. Natives ate his heart and
liver, and the rest ot his remains were
thrown to the dogs.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
In spite of reports Secretary Alger
says he has no Idea of resigning.
The secretary of war says there Is
no such thing as embalmed beef.
Investigation reveals that Gen,
Eagan bought all the army meat
direct from the packers.
American citizens have presented
claims of (21,000,000 for damages sus
tained during the war with Spain.
A committee of prominent citizens,
of Washington, are making arrange
ments to have Admiral Dewey with
them In May:
Upon his return from the South the
President may cause the regular army
to be Increased to 62,000 men. The
best regiments now In the volunteer
service may be retained for this ser
vice. ,
Gen. Miles and his friends say that
If It Is proven that cans labeled "Prime
Boast Beet" did not contain anything
but remnants ot brlled beef then suit
will be brought against the packers.
The attorney-general will be obliged
to recover large sums of money.
NOTHING illS THE HMERIGANS.
CONQUERING THE INSURGENTS.
Philippine Meet With Nothing But Defeat
Enemy Attack Our Forcea Near Paaig
and Art Badly Beaten.
The American soldiers In the Phll'p-
plnes are determined not to spend
more time than necessary nn tho Isl
ands If a cessation of hostilities with
the Insurgents will secure their re
lease. From Manila to Paslg their
march has been a victorious) one.
From Jungle and stronghold Jhe ene
my has been driven, growing weakT
every time he attempts to reorganize
his scattered and depleted numbrs.
Som of the rebels retently expelled
from Cavlte and the small towns In
the vlclnty of Paslg combined forces
and Sundny night attacked a company
or the Washington Volunteers, at ft
detached post at Tngulg, about ft mile
nil a half southeast of Paslg. Gen
eral Wheaton Immediately reinforced
the Americans with two companies
ench of the Washington and Oregon
Beglments. The post had held the
enemy In check, and the fire of tho
reinforcing companies repulsed them,
driving them across to an Island
formed by the estuary. They were
thus lif front of the Twenty-second
itegulnrs.
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. The Americans lost
two killed and 20 wounded, among the
latter Lieutenant Frnnk Jones.
General Wheaton determined to
punish the natives, and at daybreak
Mondny his brigade started In the fol
lowing order:
The Sixth Artillery, holding the ex
treme right; the Oregon Volunteers,
heading the center: the Washington
Heglment, keeping to the edge 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 direction,
toward General Ovenshlne's position,
Tht line, thus extended over two
miles of country, rough and covered
with thick Jungle, advanced 11 miles.
The enemy fled. At scarcely any time
did the Americana get within 1,200
yards of them,
Wednesday Gen. Wheaton's column
encountered the enemy In such force
between Pateros ond Taguig as to
necessitate a change In the original
plans. The cavalry attacked a rebel
stronghold In the Jungle, driving the
enemy into Pateros. The Americans
had one man killed and three wound-
Scott's battery shelled the city and
woods effectively.
Later the enemy crossed the river
from Paslg. Two companies of the
Second Oregon lnfnntry cleared the
right bank after a sharp engagement,
and then retired with three wounded.
In the meantime the Washington vol
unteers closed In, driving small bodies
of the rebels bock upon Pateros. One
mnn was killed. During the night
the enemy burned the town of Pnslg.
Philippine Insurgents were detected
a few dnys ago smuggling guns Into
the city packed In coltlns. The
Americans captured 1200 guns conceal
ed In this manner.
The Twentieth Infantry hnd nn all
doy fight at Paslg last Thursday.
Three thousand rebels were encounter
ed and defeated. They were routed
with heavy loss. Our loss wns small.
Three hundred nnd fifty rebel soldiers
were made prisoners. Weaton's bri
gade now .holds the towns of Paslg,
Pateros and Taqulg. This news Is
based upon official Information,
The First battalion of the Twentieth
lnfnntry regiment advanced from
Pnsig Friday, clearing the country to
Calntl, a well-defended village ot 700
Inhabitants, five miles northwest of
the foothills.
The strongly fortified village of
Calntl, northwest of Paslg. Philippine
Inlands, was captured Frjdny after
desperate fighting, by tho Twentieth
lnfnntry. The Americans lost 17
wounded, while the rebels' loss . , was
heavy.
Maggote In the Beef,
The lost witness colled before the
army beef court of Inquiry at Chicago
Wednesdoy, proved to be sensational.
He was First Lieutenant M. F, Davis,
of the First cavalry, called nt the re
quest of Major Lee,' representative' of
General Miles. Lieutenant Davis tes
tified thot in Cuba half the canned
roast beef Isued to the soldiers was
thrown away because It was unfit to
eat. He testified that he had opened
one can himself and found maggots In
It.
An Enormous Pan.
A Pittsburg company la to construct
a fan which will draw the smoke
laden gas from the Hoosao tunnel.
The fan will be 16 feet In diameter and
g feet wide with a capacity of draw
ing 600,000 cubic feet of air a minute.
CABLE FLASHES,
The Peace Conference will be held at
The Hague on Muy 18.
The bill for the Increase of the Oer
mun army has been defeated In the
relchstug by a large majority.
It Is said that the dowager empresB
ot China Is administering poison to the
emperor and that be is slowly dying.
An explosion on the British crulBer
Terrible, a few days ago resulted In
tho death of a stoker and the wound
ing of six men.
Otto Schuleman, the German arch
aeologist claims to have discovered a
prehistoric city ot large size In the In
terior of Mexico.
The old Russian boundary line of
Alaska was discovered, and according
to it all the Klondike region Is the pro
perty ot the United States,
An Anglo-Egyptian expedition will
be undertaken next autumn, according
to a dispatch from Cairo to the "Dally
Mall," to finally dispose of the Khalifa
Abdullah and the other Dervish lead-
era In the Soudan.
An official decree Just Issued in Paris
authorizes the school of mines to ac
cept the gift of (5,000 offered In Feb
ruary last year by Dr. Thomas Eglea
ton, professor emeritus of mineralogy
and metallurgy of the School of Mines,
New York.
The Spanish government protested
to the United States against the order
of General Otis prohibiting the ran
som of tho Spanish prisoners held by
Agulnaldo. The Geneva convention
called will appoint a delegate to -act
In the matter.
The Constantinople correspondent ot
the London "Standard says:
"New has been received from
Smyrna that 6,000 Cretan Mussulmen
refugees, who were in desperate lack
of work and food, invaded and pit
laged the Greek and Turkish quarters
of the city, a conflict resulting, In
which many persons were killed or
wounded."
"THUNDER, BUT NO RAIN."
Oen. Gomes Thus Characterises the Cuban
Aaeembly.
Gen, Comet has been deposed by the
Cuban Assembly, but Cuba Is with
Gen. Gomes. The Cubans by demon
strations have proved their regard for
the general, and Oen. Brooke has de
termined to dissolve the Assembly, It
being but a body of mischief-makers.
The action of Civil Governor Mora
and the police department In attempt
ing to prevent Wednesday's popular
manifestations In favor of General
Maximo Gomes Is strongly censured,
and the Ill-feeling against the police
runs high. The action of Oovernor
General Brooke in restraining the
Cuban authorities from Interfering
has pleased the people and Is favor
ably commented upon. Gen. Gomes
Is refelvlng hundreds of telegrams
from all parts of the Island express
ing tho people's allegiance and loyalty
to him. The general says he recog
nizes only one power in the Island
that of the United States. In hla
opinion the assembly Is acting as It
does because It wants to get money
out of the United States. He points
out that the assembly first proposed
to take (HO.000,000. As for himself, he
avers that he Is not a beggnr. The
United States Government offered the
(3.000.000, and he has never asked an
Increase. To all callers General
Oomes speaks lightly of the assembly,
declaring that It was his creation, as
he did not wish to appear a dictator,
and that the real military members,
who took no part In a vote to depose
him, will now resign. He calls the as
sembly "a collection of block clouds,
with much thunder but little rain."
THEY CRIED FOR MERCY.
Mob Kills Four Negroes Who Had Been Chsrged
With Arson.
A mob of masked men stormed the
little house doing service as a jail at
Dnlmetto, Ga at an ear)y hour Fri
day morning and shot eight negroes.
Four were killed outright and the
other four are badly wounded. The
negroes were held, charged with the
burning ot the town, three fires since
January 1 having nearly completely
destroyed It.
The mob rode Into the town about 1
o'clock. The little house used as a Jail
since the fire wns near the center of
the town. The guard was called on td
turn over the negroes held there for.
trial on the charge of arson. He re
fused and awakened his assistants.
They were quickly overpowered, how
ever, nnd with a rush the whltecaps
made for the prisoners, who had been
awakened by the noise outside. They
began begging for mercy, but were
shot down quickly.
The dead are Bud Cottom, Henry
Blgby, Tip Hutzon and Ed Brown.
STRENGTHENING HER FLEET.
England May Purchaae the Holland Submarine
Beat
Captain L. K. Bell, of the Tloyal
navy; John P. Holland, Inventor of the
eubmnrine torpedo boat, and L. B.
Benet, of the Hotchkiss Gun Com
pany, soiled nn the American line
steamship St. Paul for England Thurs.
day, Mr. Holland s visit to England
Is the result. It is said, of several long
consultations with Caption Bell re
garding the purchase of a submarine
boat by the British Government.
Cnptnln Zollnskl, inventor of the
dynamite gun bearing his name, was
at tho dock to see the party off, and
practically admitted that Captain
Bell had come to this country to look
Into the matter of the Holland boat.
Znllnskl Inferred that the success of
the French submarine boat Kede had
caused much uneasiness In England,
and that this fact had much to do with
the proposed purchase.
ITALY'S ACTION SUPPORTED.
Great Britain and Japan Approve of the De
mand Made on China.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies
r few days ngo Admiral Canevaro,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a
comprehensive statement regarding
Italy's action In China. He confirmed
the reported recall of Plgnor Martlno,
Italian Minister at Pekin, and an
nounced that Italy hnd obtained the
approval of Great Britain and Japan
before demanding the concession at
Son Mun. ,
Great Britain, ' however, hnd re
quested, he said, that force should not
be employed, and hod promised In re- '
turn to give her diplomatic support to
Itnly at the court of Pekln. Other
friendly Powers, the Minister an
nounced, were then notified and In
dicted their acquiescence.
Flva Men Killed.
A shooting occurred at Hot Springs,
Ark., Thursday evening which result
ed in the death of five men and the
serious wounding of one man. The
killed are:
Thomas Toler, chief of police: J. E.
Hart, city detective; Thomas F. Goa
lee, police sergeant; John Williams,
son ot Sheriff Williams; Louis Hlnkle,"
driver of a brewery wagon,
Ed Spears was shot In the neck and
may die.
The shooting grew out of the mayor
alty campaign under way.
Prospectors Froaen to Death.
The steamer Excelsior, which ar
rived last Friday at Seattle from tho
mouth of Copper river, Alaska, brings
news of the freezing to death of six
men on Valdez glacier about the first
of March. They were: Adolph Ehr-
narat, iew zurx; aiaximiuun juiuer.
New York; Alfred Aleeman, New
York; Dr. Edward Logan, Denver;
Itudolph Elkerkamp, Louisville, Ky.;
August Schultz, New York. All the
bodies except that of Dr. Logan were
recovered and burled at Valdez. Ehr
hardt. Miller und Aleeman were mem
bers of the Scientific Prospecting Com
pany of New Y'ork.
A Balance in Spaia'a Favor.
According to official figures, which,
have just reached the state depart
ment from Consular Agent Mortens,
at Barcelona, dispatched under date
of January 30, the imports of 1898, as
compared with 1897, decreased nearly
(29,000,700, while the exports fell oft
only (18.000,000. Mertens says that
the total exports during 1898 were
valued at 859.747,000 pesetas (1132.401.
038) and the Imports at (a95,25,000 pe
setas ((91.772,450), thus leaving the
balance of trade In favor ot the
country and showing; its natural
wealth.
Rhodea Pleaaea the Germans.
A contract has been concluded be
tween the German government ami!
Cecil Rhodea, the BrltlBh South Af
rican magnate, for the construction ot
a telegraph line In German East
Africa. A contract for a railroad
through the same territory is upon
the point of conclusion. Emperor Will
lam and Empress Augusta Victoria,
besides the ministers, with their
wives, attended the banquet given by
Sir Frank Lasc-elles, the British am
bassador, to Cecil Rhodes, who ap
pears to have personally Impressed
everybody from the emperor downward.