EXPERT MARKSMEN. Lard Slratheena Will Provide at Hit Own Ex pent 400 Horsemen it Coil ol 11,000,000. Lord Lnnsdownc, Secretary of State til War, accented on Saturday the offer of Lord Stratlicona, Canadian high com missioner in London, to provide, dis tinct from the Canadian contingent, a force of at least 400 mounted men from Manitoba, Northwest territory, and British Columbia, and to arm, cciiip and convey .thetn to South Africa at his own expense. All will be expert marks men, rough riders and scouts. It is estimated that the offer will in volve an expenditure of 200,000. The war office regards Lord Stratlicona' s proposal as an extraordinary proof of colonial patriotism. Ottawa, Jan 14. Lord Stratlicona is chancellor of McGill University. Mon treal, resident governor of the Hudson Bay Company, president of the Hank of Montreal, and a director in the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba and Great Northern railway lines. His lordship, when he was Sir Donald Smith, partici pated largely in the growth of the north western section of the United States, and freely invested his capital in Amer ican securities. When Lord Stratlicona landed on this side of the Atlantic he was the poor but adventurous son of a Scotch gentleman, and he plunged into the life of a pioneer with pleasure, lie grew up with the country, and by wise thrift soon amassed a great fortune. His home at Montreal is one of the show places of that city. As a peer of Her Majesty's realm be has a residence in England which is none other than the ancestral domain of the Lyttons m Hertfordshire. A tlisnatch from Ladysmilh. dated Friday, January li, says: The besieger have been quiet tor two iays. mu can be seen in active movement on the dis tant hills. We have perceived two small bodies galloping with two machine guns. The Boer heavy piece on Bul wana hill has not been tired for two days. More Boer dead have been found at the base of Caesar's camp. All is Well here. The Iioers are fortifying positions north and west of Ladysmith, douht less with a view of securing a safe line of retreat should their opposition to Gen. Buller's advance fail. They still surround Ladysmith in large numbers and may be contemplating another at tack. It is known, however, that they arc greatly depressed by their heavy losses. Trior to Saturday they were perfectly confident of their ability to Uc feat the garrison and to take possession of the town. There is a Boer commando in 7am baans country. Zululand, within a dav's march of the sea. with wagons, It is believed to be waiting for supplies and ammunition secretly landed near St. I.nria hav. The Boers have looted all the stores and mines in the Swaziland territory, and the ruined natives arc completing the destruction. President Krugcr, in the course of a stirring address just issued to the burghers, affirms that Providence is on their side, that their cause is just, and that they must succeed. The Boer successes have been fol lowed by a tremendous outburst of en thusiasm and Boer sympathy in the western part of the colony. Reports from Paarl say the whole district is made hideous at night by bands of young men parading in the villages and singing the Transvaal Volkslicd, while the children are everywhere practicing the national song of the republics. The following are specimens of statements believed by the western Dutch: "Puller and Rhodes are prisoners and two thousand lioers secretly sailed and cap tured Cape Town." Robb:rs Rich Haul. The safe in the Owcnsvillc, Ind., bank was blown open by robbers Friday, who took everything of value even to the revenue stamps, the total aggregat intr fullv Sis.ooo. The thieves then cs caped on a handcar toward Poseyville. Twenty-five horsemen of Owensvillc and 75 of Poseyville arc searching the country for the robbers. Lyddite was used. A lump of gold was found melted and paper money was torn in pieces, possibly $1,000 being destroyed. The bank officials and citizens have offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the burglars. Counlerloiter Captured. William Tarrant was arrested at 514 Robinson street, Allegheny, Pa., Fri day night while sitting at a table en gaged in working on a counterfeit $20 silver certificate. He was released from Riverside penitentiary Christmas day. where he had served a six-year term for the same crime. Detective Richard Kelly, of Pittsburg, being the prosecu tor. Superintendent Muth heard yesterday of spurious bills being afloat,' and he detailed Cantain Thornton to make the arrest. Tarrant opened the door to his room, believing some member of the household was knocking. A complete counterfeiter's outfit was found, and certificates of high denominations not . filled in. A box was piled full of bogus Colorado go'd stock certificates, a plate for printing First National Bank of Pittsburg checks, and some confederate bills. At the Dolice station $260 was found on Tarrant. He admits he served a term ' in Joliet prison. - His parents live Tn Eau Claire, Wis., and a document shows the cancellation of a mortgage on some property owned by him there. He was turned over to the United States' au thorities. Claims for Damages. The New York export and Import company has obtained from its Manila agency a number of claims against the United '. States government for the de struction of the property of foreign res idents during the bombardment of II oilo, and other towns in the Philippine. One specific claim is from the Swiss house of Hollman Si Co., II oilo, for a quarter of a million dollars. The damage seem to have come be cause some of Dewey's "ships were a lit tle ahead of lime. LATEST NEWS NOTES. The T.awton fund is now $80, tot. Dinhthcria has closed six Scranton. Pa., schools. Waynesburg. Pa.. Is to nave a new opera house, built by Odd Fellows. Ex-President Cleveland has none to Georgetown, S. C, to shoot ducks. Cincinnati is making an effort to have the next democratic convention held there. Robbers blew open the McGinniss bank in Owensville, Md., and got away with fij.ooo. The Hartford. Fnrratziil's famous flagship, sailed from San Francisco for New York, Wednesday. John Bryant. Green Bryant and Wil liam Beatty were killed by a falling rock in .1 mine at Ashland, Ky. Gov. A. J. McLaurin, of Mississippi, recently elected United States senator, is seriously ill of pneumonia. John I). Rockefeller has given $100,- 000 to Columbia University. New York, to liiiind a chair of psychology. Louis H. Severance, of New York. has given $60,000 to Oberliti, O., Col lege for the new chemical laboratory. Owing to domestic troubles. Mrs. Charles Fahr. of l'.llwood. Ind., attempt ed to end her life by drinking wood al cohol. The sugar and coffee war has ended. and as a result coffee has advanced one- half cent per pound. Future advances arc expected. LV. Adam A. Wciscr, aged seventy- seven years, was struck by a tram at Zclicnople, Pa., Thursday night and in stantly killed. Frederick Chopin, a young Philadcl- phian, who has been on trial nt Brazil, Ind., on the charge of forgery, was ac quitted Saturday. Governor Roosevelt will soon present plans to the New York Legislature for a lakc-to-occan canal that is estimated to cost $00,000,000. David Linderman was blown off a bridge at Indian creek, near Uniontown, l a., 1 hiirsday, dashed upon the rocks and instantly killed. Spotted Tail, the well-known Sioux Chief, who has been exhibiting in Paris, died of heart disease Thursday. He was eighty-nine years old. Theodore Butterfield. of Chicago. changed with abducting It girls under IS years of age, is supposed to be in sane, and will be sent to an asylum. William Lewis, an obi soldier, of Greensburg, Pa., was held up near the county home junction Thursday and robbed of $40 and part of his clothing. Two daring robbers entered the of fice of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, nt Long Island City, Thurs day evening and took $808 from the safe. Dr. D. I. Forney committed suicide at Cherokee, Kas., leaving a note say ing: 1 had rather leap into the un known than longer endure what I know." Because she refused his proposals, Charles W. Picket shot and instantly wounded Mrs. Lizzie A. Graham, at Wilmington, Del., and committed sui cide. M. C. Mitchell, a Republican politi cian of Martins Fcrrv, O., shot himself dead Friday. Cause, ill health. One of his sons, Allen, is attending school ill Pittsburg. Ice carried away the false work of a new bridge at New Kensington, Pa., Monday. Albert Albert was killed and a score of otlicr bridge workers narrow ly escaped. At McPhcrson, Kas., Mrs. Jos. Chris tic, whose husband was in jail for drunkenness, cut the throat of her two little children, set fire to the house and killed herself. Ex-Congressman William L. Wilson, of West Virginia, is on his way to Ari zona, where he will pass the winter in the hope of gaining relief from pulmo nary disease. Ex-Mayor M. C. Mitchell, of Martins ville, W. Va., committed suicide Fri day by shooting himself in the head. Illness has deranged his mind. He was one of the most prominent Republicans of Eastern W. Va. While skating at Baysvillc, Ont, Thomas Brown, Jr., aged 19 years; Margaret Brown, 21, and James Brown, 17, ran into an opening in the ice and were drowned. The Beaver Valley hospital has been presented with an X-ray machine, cost ing $500, by the Beaver Falls Ladies' auxiliary to the Hospital Association, of tscaver fans, la. W. M. Harrison, of Allegheny, Pa., proposes to build a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific by contributions of workingmcn, who are asked to sub scribe $2 apiece for a "stock bond." A Pittsburg, Fa., firm has secured a contract for 3,000 ice boxes for the United States new cold storage house at Manila. The ice-making machinery will be lurnisnca Dy a Chicago hrm. urday night. Samuel Snyder, a justice of the peace of Paint township, O., has received a cable dispatch from the United States minister in Holland, saying his claim as one of the heirs to an estate said to be .worth $46,000,000, is well established. Two girls at McDonald, Pa., De borah and Kate McDonald, horse-whip ped John Drennan Friday. They claim ed that he had made uncomplimentary remarks about them. Each pleaded guilty of assault and battery and was tmed $2.50 and costs. Mail advices from New Britain reDort the massacre of the captain and crew of IS. men belonging to the British schoon cr Nukumania of South Wales, while trading among the Admiralty islands. Only three boys escaped. The natives, alter murdering tne sailors, made feast ashore and ate their victims. Charles W. Pfinder, a Greene county, Pa., Tenth Regiment soldier, is now on his way to Honolulu to wed the dauch ter of a wealthy sugar planter, whom he met while the troops were in Hawaii. His future home will probably be Hon olulu. Robert Kane walked into a hotel at Driftwood, Cameron county, Pa., Thursday night, and deliberately shot dead Stephen Carey, against whom he had a grudge. Kane escaped to the mountains, but' was soon captured and jailed at Emporium. Both were about twenty years of age. EMPHATIC REMARKS. Ben. Wilton Bart Intervention By Iht United Slalet Wat lutl In Tim to Save En tire Agricultural Districts. There Is at least one of the American Military Governors in Cuba who refuses to endorse the unfavorable opinions ex pressed about the Cubans by American public men. He is General J. H. Wil son. In discussing the island and its people he paid them many compliments. When he went there, he said, he found n country that was starving to death. Every farmhouse, from one end of the island to the other, every agricultural implement had been burned or broken up. "If Intervention on our part had been delayed ten months longer," he declared "the whole of the agricultural district would have been dead. Hundreds of men died of starvation in order that their wives and children might live. "The school system prescribed by law in Cuba," be said, "is ns good as ours. The school children in the city of Ma tanzas, from 4 to 14 years old, could not be equaled by the same school chil dren in any American town. They arc the brightest little talkers you ever saw. "There is no more humane, no more kindly people than the Cubans. Every unkindly term that has been leveled at them has been unjust and untrue." General Wilson was asked whether the Spaniards or the Cubans represented the best class of the citizens ol the is land. "The Cubans," he responded, with emphasis. IOWA DOCTOR'S CRIME. During a Fll ol Insanity He Crushes the Lite Out of a Child He Wat Examining. Dr. G. W. Appleby, for several years the leading physician at Bristow, Unt il' r county, Iowa, .Monday night was called on in 111s omcc iy parents who had brought their child to be treated for some trilling ailment. He took the child in his arms and handled it so roughly that the parents protested, but to no avail. Suddenly he put his thumbs un der its chin and, with his fingers on top of its head, crushed its lace in so that blood gushed out of its nose and mouth. Then jumping up he seized the child by one foot, and began swinging it around his head, resisting all efforts of the terror-stricken parents to stop him, and it was not until help was called in that the child was taken from him. It was unite dead. Appleby declared that God had taken the child. The insane commission was immedi ately convened, and nt midnight Apple by was on his way to the hospital for in sane at Independence. 1 hrce or lour hours after the occurrence he seemed comparatively rational and said he knew what lie was doing when he killed the child, but could not help it. The cause of his insanity is sunposcd to have been religious excitement. COWBOYS FOR TRANSVAAL. A Regiment ot On Thousand Raited by a Western Cattle Man. John G. Maher, a well-known cattle man, of ChadroN, Neb., says he has raised a regiment of 1,000 cow punchers and plainsmen to go to South Africa and help the Boers. Transportation will cost $200 per man, and the money lias been pledged in New York, Chicago and Omaha. He is on his way to find out how far the pledges can be realized on before getting the men together. 1 he plan, lie says, is to embark them as emigrants to the Transvaal and thus escape Federal interference. He denies that it is an Irish regiment, a number of nationalities being represented. The men are all accomplished rough riders and crack shots. China and Franoe Mixing Up. News of more fighting on the Ton. quin frontier in China is brought by the steamer Queen Adelaide. The Chinese recently crossed the lonqtun border and uy a name movement drove the French from their position. The Chi nese used breech-loading jingals with much success. They use center fire cartridges carrying two half ounce slugs winch carry lurtner man tlic t-rench magazine rifles. It takes two Chinese soldiers to operate each gun. At I'aksi inincsc invaded a eamtno house, killing three rrench soldiers and wounding others. Rising ot Cree Indians. A special from Winnipeg, savs: Every effort will be made to head off a possible rising of the Cree Indians, who are talking 111 a threatening man ner. It is known that many chiefs are eager to strike a blow at the British, but the officials are confident that peace will be maintained. Assistant Coiuiiiksioii er Lash said to-day that there was little danger of an outbreak,. He believes that strangers have been preaching sedition to the red men but, he says, the gov ernment is prepared for any trouble and will make a thorough investigation of the Indians sentiment. Littte alarm Is felt over the situation it being held that enough troops are within reach to keep the reds in check. 1 he chief plea of the leaders of the anti British movement among the Indians is that England is attempting to rob the Boers of their homes as she did the tribes during the 1885 rebellion and that, with the Imperial army weakened, AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL The executive committee of the In ternational Peace society has sent a tel egram to President McKinley, asking him to intervene with a view of ending the war. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts. sa'S that State constitutions cr: no figure as to tenatorshin, Captain Sigsbee, the hero of the Maine, and who will take charge of the Naval Intelligence Bureau on February I, has purchased a house in Washington whirh wilt toon be occupied by the Sigsbee family. The president has created a military department of the territory of Alaska. and assigned Col. G. M. Randall, of the Eighth infantry, to command it. Col. Randall served, during the civil war in the Fourth Pennsylvania volunteers. STRUGGLE WITH A SUICIDE. Wlle't Arm Burned y Carbollo Aeld Which She Tried to Prevent Her Husband From Swallowing. Thomns Cole, aged about 27 years, committed suicide in a sensational man ner Tuesday afternoon. Cole was the proprietor o'f the American Candy Com pany, of New Castle, Pa. On Christmas day his wife and ti n weeks' old daugh ter left him on account of his drinking habit. He promised to do better and this week Mrs. Cole returned to him. Tuesday afternoon, while his wife was in a room with him, lie poured out a glass of carbolic acid and told her he intend ed to drink it to end his troubles. When he tried to drink the stuff she struggled with him and some of the fiery liquid was spilled on her arm, burning it fear fully. A struggle followed, and he final ly told her if she would leave the house for a short time he would not kill him self. She did as he asked her, and when she came back a few minutes later she found him sitting in a chair, groaning, and when she spoke to him he said: "I hnve done it now." He then opened his mouth and showed her his throat and tongue, which were burned white with the drug. He then exclaimed, "Lizzie, I am dying," and fell from his chair unconscious. A dyctor was sent for, but he only reached the house in time to see the young man die. It is said Mr. Cole has been despond ent for some time over business matters. His wife, who is quite young, together with her infant, will go to her parents' home in Kllwood. She is heart-broken over the terrible affair. KILLED BY BURGLARS. An Oh o Merchant Mortally Shot While Defend Ing HltS'.ote, N. K. Goss, the leading merchant of Ldinboro, Ohio, was murdered early uuruay uy uurglars. Owing to the frequent losses throuirh hurul.-irv T.lr. Goss had his place of business fitted up with an electric burglar alarm, which was connected with his residence. Shortly after I o'clock, in the morning. the alarm sounded. Mr. Goss dressed nastily, secured the assistance of neighbor and went to the store. 1 he front door had been forced open. Mr. Goss entered while the neighbor guarded the alley m the rear. A vol cy ot revolver shots greeted the pnv prietor. He fell mortally wounded. The burglars, three 111 number, rushed through the front entrance and escaped. Mr. lioss was carried home and died three hours later. The neighbor ob tained only a glimpse of the murderers. 1 hey were seen moving toward 1 alniyra, however, and a posse at once began pursuit. At 10:30 Saturday morning the o. liccrs marched the three prisoners through the streets of Ravenna at the point of guns to jail. Over a thousand people surrounded the jail, threatening lynching. The Sheriff and deputies had been scouring the country since I a. m.. and captured the men in the vicinity of Ldinboro. CREW EATEN BY SHARKS. Forly-Dv Chines Sailors Detert a Sinking Ship on a Rait lo Meol a Quicker Fale. The story of the loss of the British steamer II uncoh on her vovaee from San Francisco to Hong Kong via Java, lias been received and the details show that the loss of the vessel was accom panicd by a far greater loss of life than the cabled reports told of. nearly 50 people being unaccounted for. 1 he ves set sprang a leak alter caving Java witn a cargo of sugar for Hong Kong. The Chinese crew refused to work and the ship's boats, with one exception, were destroyed dunm a storm. the crew built a number of rafts. launching them and set them afloat. leaving the captain and one passenger on board the sinking vessel. The Euro peans occupied one raft and the Chinese were divided on six or seven others, The rafts were : ion surrounded by hun dreds of ravenous sharks, who. in their eagerness to get at the shipwrecked sail ors, jumped far out of the water. Soon several of the Chinese rafts were over turned, und it was then that the Euro peans decided to return tj the vessel. I he only remaining boat was repaired and launched, the captain taking com mand. the island of Ltitxind in the Philippine group, was finally made and, on the natives learning the marines were liritish subjects, made them comfortable and later sent t' cm to Manila. Nothing was ever heard of the Chinese crew mimberii.g 45 men. and they must have been drowned and devoured by the pur suing sharks, Cubant May Fight United Stales. General Miro, Rabi and Castro, who recently were in conference with Gen eral Wood mi Havana, spoke Wednes day night at the Cuban club, Santiago. In substance they declared that unless the Americans soon give Cuba actual independence all true Cuban patriots will take to the mountains and fight the Americans on the same ground on which they met the Spaniards. The other Cuban clubs will meet to discuss the same proposition. In Santiago, where General Wood was so popular during his local administration, feeling now is strong against mm on account of the preponderance of negro repre sentation in the franchise scheme which he favors. CABLE FLASHES. The queen regent of Spain has ap pointed the Duke of Veragua, descend ant of Columbus, a special ambassador to go to Berlin for tne purpose of in vesting Crown Prince Frederick Wil liam with the inswnia of the Golden Fleece, her majcetv having signed a de cree appointing the crown prince a knight of that order. Prince Alfieri, commander of the pa pal guard of nobles, died at Rome, Sun day. At the opening of the Prussian diet Wednesday the speech from the throne gave notice of the reintroduction of the Rhine-Elbe canal bill after the comple tion of the proposed waterway for large ships between Berlin and Stettin, and other river improvements, and the in tention of the government to make the port of Emden available for trans-oceanic steamers, with the object of render ing the Rhenish commerce independent of foreign ports; also a bill for the con struction of light railroads. Troops at Anzuola, Snain, have seiz ed 281 Remington rifle and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, belonging to tho A SPEECH STARTS WAR. Unwritten History Is at Xitl Mad Public Senator's Spjtcn Cabled to Hong Kong Junta and Theno lo Filipinos. John Ilarrelt. ex-ttnil,l Ktntr min ister to Siam, Saturday night at Lake Forest University, Chicago, publicly named Senator Hoar as the U. S. Sen ator whose anti-expansion speech was cabled to Hong Kong and subsequently put in tne hands ol the rilmtno soldiers, causing, as Mr. Barrett believed, the open insurrection. In the course of Ins address, which was on the general subject of the "Phil ippines, the speaker said it had been discovered in the government investi gation that Senator Hoar's speech was cabled in cipher nnc in fragments to Paris, where it was (nit together and for warded to Hong Kong. The message included several thousand words, and the cost for transmission was said to hnve been $4,000. It interested the Government to know what friends the 1'ilipinos had at this time who were in position to send the message. "I was in Hong Kong at the time," said Mr. Barrett, "and I remember the neident distinctly. 1 was coming down stairs in the hotel, when I met the president of the Hong Kong junta, and he had in his hand the long dispatch he had just received. It gave a large part of Senator Hoars speech in full, and a summary of the rest of it. I asked the president what he was going to do with it, and he told me that lie meant to send it to the officers of the army in the Phil ippines. He was urged not to do it, but be protested that it bad been printed in the United States nnd was public prop erty. "Four days after that speech had been delivered it was in the bands of those who saw an opportunity to make polit ical capital of it. The speech was puh- Ii-hed and distributed among the sol diers, and 1 believe it was the culmi nating influence that brought about the open insurrection. I his speech, you must remember, was delivered before there was an open insurrection. ACTRESS ACQUITTED. Julia Morrlton-Jamct Found Not Guilty Dra matic Scene in Courl Accused Speaks. The trial of Julia Morrison-James for the murder of Fraud Leidenheimer, ol the "Mr. Plaster of Paris" Company, of which they were leading man and lady, on the stage of the Chattanooga Opera House, on the night of September 23 last, ended, when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Miss Morrison, upon hearing the words which insured her freedom, ad vanced to the speaker's platform ami made a most dramatic speech to the Court and the jury. She said: "I wish to thank you and the gentlemen of the jury and all who were instrumental in my acquittal for your just and generous decision. Mav Cod in His mercy be ever as just to you nnd yours as you have been to me to-day. As for the prosecution, I wish to say that I fully forgive them, and bear them no malice for the strenuous efforts for my con viction." "As to my presccutors," she contin ued, turning toward Mrs. George J. Antz, the beautiful sister of the murder ed actor, who was overcome with emo tion and suffused in tears. "I leave them to their consciences and their God. To the poor, bereaved sister, 1 say that God knows that, were it in my power to re store her brother to her, 1 would cer tainly do it." The verdict was wildly cheered by the spectators in the court room, and by hundreds outside. Miss Mnrrison will remain in Chattanooga for several weeks, after which she will begin a lec hire tour, her subject being, "The Other Side of the Stage, in which she will point out the dangers that confront young girls who follow the stage as an occupation. President T. H. Roth, of Thiol Col lege, Greenville. Pa., has been relieved of the teaching duties, and the new pro fessorship thus created will be filled by Rev. J. E. Whittakcr. of Rochester, Pa. The president thereafter will devote his entire attention to the supervisory flu tics. Jones & Laughlins have decided to spend $.1,500,000 on the construction of a modem steel plant at nttsmirg, ra. For lb Nicaragua Canal The House committee on commerce Friday ordered a favorable report on the bill introduced by Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, for the construction of the Nica ragua canal. It directs the President to acquire from Costa Rica and Nicara gua control of territory for a canal from near Greyton, on the Caribbean sea, via Lake Niraragua to Breto on the facihc coast. When such control has been ac quired the President shall direct the Secretary of War to construct the canal of such capacity and depth that it may be used by the largest vessels now afloat, and $140,000,000 is appropriated for this purpose. I he President is an ihorized to guarantee the use of the canal to Costa Rica and Nicaragua and their citizens. Stranded in Cuba. A sad story of a larte number of dis tressed and homesick Americans, who became interested in a settlement at La Gloria. Puerto Principe Cuba, was told by Robert Hall, a St. 'oseph, Mo., bus iness man who arrived in New York Wednesday. He said that many were suffering for lark of the ordinary neces sities of life. Many have not the mean to purchase passage back to the United States. Cornering Coal Lands. Another large sale of coal land was made this week by which 7,000 acres of land in the West Alexander region pass es into the nanus 01 rayetu county cap' itslists. The land fronts on the B. & O., and is located in Donegal and West Finlcy townships. Pa., the price given ranging from $ij to $20 per acre. Four thou. and acres were sold some weeks ago to the same parties and options have been secured on nearly 9,000 addi tional acres, extending into Marshall cjoudiV. West Virginia. It is under- utotod that the coal land is being taken up merely for speculative purposes and a will iBain ue viucea on inc. market REBELS HIT HARD. Over 2,000 Rtllr lo tha Mountains Artk bishop Nozaleda's Reeommenda Hons lo Chipoll. ' ' . Report from the movements ol Americnn commanders south of Manila "how that Genrral Hates nnd General Wheaton are at Perez Das Marinas, and General Srhwan nt Silang, all awaiting the arrival of provision wagons. Re connoissances have shown that a.ooo armed insurgents have retired to the mountains from the distance between Indang and Maig, and that the other hnve retreated along the coast front Novelist toward Batangas. Wednesday night Nolan's squadron y of the Eleventh cavalry drove a body ol Insurgents from Maig. fine American was killed and two were wounded. Thir teen dead Filipinos were found. The plan of catching a large mlmber of Fili pinos between two brigades failed. About a hundred insurgents have been ' killed, but comparatively lew arms have been taken. It is asserted that Archbishop Noza leda contends in his interview with Monsignor Chapellc, the papal delegate, on behalf of the Roman Church nnd the brotherhoods, that the titles to all prop erty held by the church and the brother hoods in the Philippines should be rec ognized, and the church permitted to administer its own affairs without state interference, upon the necessity of a re gime that will guarantee the liberty ol the church. Archbishop Nozaleda ad vises the continuation cf the church'!'-"' of the church FARMERS BURDENED. Secretary of Agriculture Hamilton Shows lh Industrial Commitilon How lo Rem edy the Same. lohn Hamilton. Srrretnrv of Aorricul turc of Pennsylvania, appeared before the Industrial Commission Tuesday to lescribe the condition of the farmers. not only of Pennsylvania, but of the whole country. He asserted that the farmer pays too great a proportion ol the taxes, and the disproportion has been growing during the last three cen sus periods. For instance, in Pennsyl vania, where $46,000,000 of taxes for all uirposes are collected annually, the farmers pay $.52,000,000. While the taxes levied are not excessive, he maintained that if property other than that of the farmers were appraised at its true value the tax levy on farm lands could be re- tnced. Mr. Hamilton took no the question why farmers' children are going to the cities. The lack of good roads and graded schools, he thoueht. are tha chief reasons. The farmers send their children to city schools, and a taste ol city life makes them unsatisfied with tho dreary routine of the farm. The im passable roads during the winter, in his opinion, cause ns much dissatisfaction with farm life as any one thing. .Mr. Hamilton s idea is that the coun try schools should be Improved by grad ing them and having their curriculum enlarged by the addition of studies which will interest children in the ob jects about them. He called attention to the leaflets issued by Cornell Univer sity, in which the life and habits of such common obiect as a honey bee are treated in such a way that it may be understood by the children and foster in them an interest in such matters. He thought that such instruction in the country schools would be of great bene- tit. Pulllzsr't Home Burned. The handsome dwelling of Jose nit Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York "World." was destroyed Tuesday by a fire in which the housekeeper, Mrs. Jel lett, and the governess, Elizabeth Mont- -gomcry, lost their lives. When the fire began there were in the house Mrs. Pulitzer, her daughters. Lulu. 14 years old, and Constance, 12 years old, a baby son, two months old, and 22 servants. All got out in safety but the house keeper and governess. Mr. Pulitzer and bis son, Joseph, Jr., were at Lakewood, N. J., at the time. The fir re is thought to have started in she basement of the lower story because of defective electric insulation. The house contained a valuable historical li brary nnd many carefully selected works of art. Nothing of value was saved. The total loss is estimated at $300,000. China About BinkrupL The latest official report upon the for- eign commerce of China shows that the imports into that county which in 1868 were 04.943.000 Haikwan taels were in 1898 i5Q.oj7.ooo Haikwan taels. The im ports from the United States, which in 1HG8 were 742.CCO Haikwan taels. had grown in 1890 to 11,907,000 Haikwan taels. Every year the value of imports had exceeded that of exports, and for the period of 1886-98 the excess of imports over exports is 437,027,679 taels, an an nual average of about 34.000.000 taels. These figures have given rise in tome quarters to the belief that China is being gradually denuded of silver to pay for the balance, and it has even been stated that the country is approaching bank ruptcy. Alabama JuJgu Murdered Judge W. B. McClure. of the Probate court of Lauderdale county, was assas sinated Tuesday night at Florence, Ala. Early Wednesday, morning his body was found in the street, the rain beating up on the upturned face. Judge McClure had been riddled with buckshot Blood hounds have been put on the track ot the murderer. Henry P. Mcintosh, a prominent capitalist of Cleveland, was brought to -Akron, O., Saturday, to answer to the charge of contempt of court. Mcin tosh was snbpenacd as a witness In a case and refused to appear in the com mon pleas court here, although notice was served on him three times. He wilt have a hearing next Saturday and mean while testify in the court as a witness. Dorman B. Eaton's will leave Co lumbia and Harvard Universities Jioo, 000 each, the New York Skir and Can cer Hospital $10,000, and the .Society (or the Suppression of Vice $.5,(00,
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