BOERS RETIRE. Pretoria Has Officially Announced the Failure ol General Snyman and His Army lo Rcducs the Town. The relief of Mafeking is reported by the following dispatches from Prc toria, tinted Friday : "It wa.s officially announced tliat when the laagers and forts nround Mafeking had been severely bombard ed the siege was abandoned, a British force from the south taking possession of the pb.ee." Anot'litT telegram says: "New peace proposals will probably be put for ward by the Ttoer governments. The recent reverses are causing despond ency. There was a prolonged meeting of the Transvaal executive at l'retoria Thvrsday." Krnger ami the other high officials purpose leaving l'retoria almost im mediately for l.ydenburg. The British prisoners will be conveyed there, and the foreign consuls at l'retoria arc leav ing for l.ydenburg. In Kroonstad it is saiil fhat President Kruger will sur render when Roberts crosses the Trans vaal frontier. Koberts is accumulating immense quantities of supplies and the preparations for another movement arc well advanced. The next stop will be Johannesburg. fc London has scarcely sobered down from its exhilaration over the relief of Mafeking when it is reported that the Pretoria government has derided to ap ply for terms of peace. The "Express" Monday morning makes the following announcement in its most conspicuous type: "We have the best reason for stating that in the last 24 lionrs a telegram has been received at the foreign office, ad dressed personally to flic prime minis ter, from President Kj-uger, proposing terms of peace. The exact terms of the message cannot be stated; but we be lieve it is couched in an exceedingly bumble strain. It is inconceivable, of course, that Lord Salisbury can have sent any reply except the one that stands ready on the lip of every Briton unconditional surrender.'' Gen. Koberts telegraphed from Kroonstad at 3 o'clock Sunday after noon: "No official intimation has yet been received, but Renter states that the re lief of Mafeking has been effected. Rundle reports having occupied Bres lers Flat. Trommel and Clocolan, the enemv fallimr back on Senekal and I'icksburg. Fiftv ritles and t.ooo rounds were surrendered by the Free Staters to a baMalion of veomanry working alonor the telegraph line from Roshof to Bloemfontetn. A field cornet and f burghers surrendered at Roshof yes-tcrd.-iv. While at Hoopstad Metlittcn secured 250 rifles and between 400,000 .itnl 500,000 rounds. WHAT CUBA COSTS. A Statement ct Island Finances for Last Year, Receipts Double Exprndl'urcs. The war department sent to the Sen ate, in answer to a resolution, an item ized statement of the receipts and ex penditures in Cuba since the United States assumed control. The actual cost of the Triscornia railway, six miles long, connecting the harbor of Havana with the interior railroad system, was $142,611. The receipts from all sources for 1H00 were S10.110.5cx. and expenditures, $7.421710. Of the receipts, $15,012,100 was from customs receipts, $250,025 postal receipts. $760,880 internal rcve nue, and $20.1.584 miscellaneous. Of the expenditures. $211,202 went to the department of finance, $876,640 to jus tice and public instruction $255,421, to agricultural and public works, $040,975 to State and government, $448,070 to cxtraor diuary expenses and $12,200 to postof fice. The sum of $1,(188.442 was spent on sanitation in the half year from July I to December 21, 1890. In the same time the rural guard cost $506,152; bar racks and quarters, $617,755: the cus toms service, $.14.1,085, and public works, $268,036. Charities got $262,002, civil government is set down for $164. 281, and municipalities $123,113. The census cost 9211,401. 111,11 j 111 fii.iiiK"" a viii iv ill 11 i;w York department store, was shot and Kiiiea in inc siore oy iMiwaro nan be cause she refused to marry him. Hall made no attempt to escape. A NOVEL SCHEME. Chicago Undertakers Will Hold funerals on the installment Plan. Corporation papers have been grant ed the Chicago Burial Association. The incorporators are three undertakers. The company has a capital backing of $5,000. To give funerals on the install ment plan is the purpose of the com pany. A policy will cost $50, and will secure a $75 funeral when every one ot tnc lannly so endowed requires post mortem offices. The policy will be made out wish the names ot the entire tamily of which a member is the purchaser, and anv one of the appointed may use the policy fu neral. 1 lie purchaser will be assured a proper burial, with carriages for mourners and a minister at the crave. The plan of the burial association pro vides that the purchaser of a. policy pay $1 down and $t a month until he has paid $50 into the association. lie then is granted a paid up policy lor $75 funeral. The American machinery buildinir in the Vinccnncs annex of the Parix expo sition was formally opened Tuesday, Christians Burned Alive. The Peking correspondent of the Lon don Times says: "The anti-foreign movement beaded by the "Boxers" has attained alarming proportions. There has been a serious anti-Christian out break near Pao-Ting-Fu, province of Pe-Chi-Li, 73 native Christians were murdered, including women and chil dren. Many were burned alive. "The Catholic missionaries report that the persecution is the most serious known for years. The danger is in creased by the apathy or coanivance of the government." LATEST NEWS NOTES. An official census of Venezuela shows population of 2,223.527. Lady Georciana Curzon's Mafeking relief fund exceeds $50,000. Robert Hutchison, of Wellsville. O.. celebrated his lootli birthday Thursday. The boiler of a torpedo boat exploded at St. Petersburg Thursday, killing six persons. Seventy-nine dm t lis nnd 2K rases ol bubonic plague have occurred at Sidney, Australia. An open switch wrecked n Cleveland & Pittsburg train Saturday, causing $8,- 000 damage. The cornerstone for the Kinns Daughters' hospital at Stcubcnville, O., was laid Thursday. The boromi'li ronnril of Canonsburg, Pa., has authorized the construction of $50.ocr water works. The Mansion House fund for the re lief of the victims of the Ottawa fire has reached 1 50,000. The French steamship Gacognc Thursday carried $3,200,000 in gold from Iew iork (or Havre. Canton. Oliio. Republicans intend to send a big delegation of boomers to the 1 hiladelplua convention. Circen goods men, reputed to be from rittsbnrg. are said to be operating around Huntington, W. Va. F.lks of Pa.rkersbitrir. W. Va.. have purchased a homestead which they will transform into a clubhouse. All railroads have aorreed to the rate of one fare for the round trip to the Republican National convention. The Grand Army of the Republic of New Jersey elected F.. V. Richards, of Trenton, department commander. John Kenna. a St. Louis saloon keeper, was fatally wounded by a police olliccr whom he attempted to shoot. Charles E. St. John, of Pittsburg, has been nominated for secretary of the American Unitarian Association lor I'lOO. Frank S. Monnett, formerly attorney general of Ohio, predicted that the State will go Democratic in the coining election. President McKinley has accepted the invitation to be in Canton, O., July 4, when a Spanish trophy cannon is to be mounted. The bubonic plague is spreading in San Francisco, and the Chinese arc put ting every obstacle in the way of the health officers. Mrs. Francis Wilkinson, of Turtle Creek. Pa., died of smallpox, being the fifth of the family to die in 24 days from various causes. Extra police arc being added to the force at Dayton, O., on account of the strike of the People's Street Railway Company's employes. Mrs. Sophronia Allen, a New Bright on (Pa.) widow, aged about 80 years, was killed by the flyer" westbound on the Ft. Wayne road. The annual convention of the Nation al Conference of Charities anil Correc tions began Friday in Topeka, with more than 300 delegates. The Philadelphia General Liquefied Air and Refining Company lias been incorporated at Trenton with aji au thorized capital of $1,000,000. Puerto Rican customs receipts for January, February and March were $198,000, as compared with $355,000 for the hrst three months ot 1X99. Four attempts have been made with in two weeks to assassinate George W. Green, custodian of the government building at Martinsburg. W. a. A new and highly poisonous brand of baking powder was found to be respon sible for the poisoning of the W.hit- mcycr family at Bloomsburg, Ta. It was announrcd at Pretoria that Johannesburg will be defended, and Vrede lias been proclaimed the new capital of the Orange Free State. The United Mine Workers' executive committee, in session at Indianapolis, has passed resolutions for an inquiry into the W est irginia mining laws. Gov. Stone lias respited William II Simnis, the Fayette county wife mur derer, to July 12, to allow new evidence to be laid before the pardon board. Seven bills of indictment for fraudu lent use of the mails were returned in Boston against Francis Truth, who advertised himself as a divine healer. The committee of the international peace bureau, in session at Berne, Switzerland, called upon the 25 powers signatory to The Hague convention to intervene to put a stop to hostilities in South Africa. A circus aeronaut, Joseph Wilburn, dropped 3.000 feet and was dashed into a shapeless mass, at I ocahontas, W Va.. because his parachute failed to work. The "Spectator." an Fnglish paper, said that the continental papers are de termined not to allow an American fleet to collect the indemnity from the sultan. Earl White, a student, was caught in the elevators in the Odd Fellows tem ple at Akron, O., and horribly crush ed. He will die. His home is at Bar berton, O. The Sharon Steel Company has pur chased valuable ore land in Virginia, Minn., and will use the product in its blast furnace, which is to be erected at Sharon. Ta. Philip H. Blantz is defendant in a di vorce suit at Canton. O. He testifies that his wife received advice from al leged spirits at a Spiritualist meeting to seek a' new husband. The miners in the employ of the Beav er Coal and Coke Company, in Law rence county, ra., demand back the 3 cents a day kept out of their pay, under the act of assembly which required that that amount be kept out of the wages of unnaturalized employes, and have fil ed a bill in equity. The act was declar ed unconstitutional. Young Professor Murdered. Prof. Roy Wilson White, a brilliant young instructor in the law department of the LTniversity of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, was brutally murdered Saturday night. Three men, Jwo of them negroes, are in custody on sus scious condition and died Lmr "hours Prof, White was found in an uncon scios condition and died four ihours later. His skull bad been crushed evi dently witti an iron bar. The only ar ticle missing from the body was a watch. A small sum of money was undisturbed. m. 'mm twenty miles. ALL IS DENIED. Gen. Stephen H. Manning Declares Ha Can No Longer Refrain From Telling the Truth Regarding II. "Sheridan's ride" was all "poppy cock," according to Gen. Stephen II. Manning, who was second In command of the Sixth army corps during Gen. Nteridan s famous raid through the Shenandoah valley. Sheridan's com ing had absolutely no effect on the re sult of the battle. Manning insists. Gen. Manniuir. who is a resident ol Boston, gave out an amazing interview Sunday, which, if it is accepted, will completely upset this important inci dent in civil war .history. He declares thai he no Innurr can refrain from the temptation to tell the truth anil cor rect the "damnable unjustiec" of "the fakrd" historical arts of the celebrated battle of Cedar Creek, which was the reason of Sheridan's ride. Gen. Mannincr. in the course of bis recital, declared that he met Gen. Sher idan two years before bis death and that Sheridan then admitted that he had done wrong in claiming credit for the victory over harly at Cedar Lrcek. Sheridan claimed that it was his ar rival." savs Gen. Manning, "that turn ed the tide of battle. Some poet wrote a gushing song about the matter, and that settled it. Since then it has been absolutely useless to tell the truth nbont Ins historic incident. lien he reach ed us he found a lot of sutlers, camp followers and bummers running toward mrhester. 1 hat is always the case in all armies when in battle. Possibly there might have been 500 of this crowd that Sheridan met. but they did not constitute the army, by a long shot. The truth is that when Mienclnn ar rived, our lines bad been reformed and were rapidly marching upon Early's re treating and demoralized forces. Sher idan s arrival changed nothing. 1 he result would' have been precisely the same had he not come. We could 'have had Early whipped before night in any rvent. "What was the result? History now teaches tliat Sheridan found the whole army retreating. It was too good an opportunity for Sheridan to miss, and be was ready to gain immortality by slandering a brave army." WANT TO RESIGN. Volunteers Are Anxious to Escape the Philip. p'nt Rtlny Season. A special to the New York Evening World says that over 300 United States oinntecr officers in the Philippines have handed in their resignations to es cape the arduous campaigning of the rainy season. All these applications, says the dispatch, have been refused. If all the army officers, who desired to resign, were permitted to do so there would not be 15 officers left to a regi ment. There is not a brigadier general in the field who docs not want reinforce ments. . The t'ispateh further says that the plot to rise against the Americans in Manila upon the arrival of the new commissioners was broken up by the prompt measures of Gen. MacArthur. The natives had planned to burn all tlie public buildings. Although the plot was checked, the feeling in M.'iiiU is shown by the fact than an effort Jo or ganize a demonstration by the friendly natives in honor of the commissioners, failed signally, it being impossible to get a dozen natives to take part in it. GREAT FINANCIERING. Russia's Enormous War Cebt Has Been Wipod Out In Short Order. An imperial ukase has been publish ed announcing the redemption of the debt of the imperial treasury to the hank for bank notes issued for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the wars of 1853-56 and 1877-87. It provides that henceforward no bank notes shall be issued to meet the requirements of the treasury. This liouidation is regarded as an in dication that the imperial treasury will not need further loans to meet budget expenditure. In 18S1 the war debt of the treasury to the Bank of Russia agirrcgatcd 064, 000,000 rubles. When M. de Witte, Russian minister of finance, assumed his portfolio in 1802. the debts still totaled 742,000.000 rubles. This entire amount lias been extinguished within less than eight years. Paper Dollars Cheap. Advices from Columbia by the Royal Mail steamer Xrcnt s:,y thai the rebels arc operating around Panama, which is full of troops, some of whom arc quartered in the churches. An en gagement took place May 16. north of Panama, the rebels being driven off. Carthagcna is still in possession of the government. The Trent was to have conveyed a body of troops to Carthagcna, but the rebels destroyed the bridges on the night of May 13, thus preventing the troops arriving for embarkation. On the same night a desprrate engagement took place outside of Carthagcna, in which the government troops were vic torious. As many as 500 rebels arc said to have been killed in t'hc fighting. The country is in a frightful state, and paper dollars bring only 5 cents each. Bal ls With Rebels. A telegram from Manila, dated Sun day. says: Five hundred insurgents, half of whom were armed with rifles, ambushed 80 scouts of the Fortieth vol unteer infantry in the hills near Aqua- san. in the northern part of Mindanao. The Americans routed the natives, kill ing 51. The American casualties were two killed and three wounded. Baby Mashed to 1 Pulp. Tuesday morning a six-months-old child was found in an Iron gondola of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at the end of the big railroad bridge, which spans the Ohio river at Bellaire, O. It is supposed by passengers on No. 46, eastbound train, tliat a woman who was on the train with the child threw it rut of the window and that it alighted in the place it was found. The distance it fell was over 90 feet and it was mash ed into a flat pulp. WAR CLOUD FAIRLY LIFTING. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach Sees the End ol Anglo-Boer Hostilities The chancellor of the exchequer. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, speaking at Bris tol, England, Wednesday evening, con gratulated the audience on the fact that the cloud of war was fairly lifting and that there were streaks of light portend ing a glorious dawn. Continuing he said: "We arc contending with a foe whose courage and skilled tenacity we have learned to respect. But we are entitled to hope that the beginning of the end is coming." Sir Michael added that the thanks ol the nation would be due to Lord Rob erts and those under liim. If the gov ernment, he declared, was not entitled to credit for the successes, it was not blamcable for the reverses. It bad shrunk at nothing to supply men and means. The chancellor denied that be was personally responsible for any delay in forwarding troops to South Africa, and announced that it might be necessary to still further increase the navy. He dis agreed with the suggestion that a large, permanent increase of the army might lie necessary, but said that the country must look to the volunteers and the militia. "The expenditure of the country," said Sir Michael, "is growing at an enor mous, a dangerous rate. I have always put a strong navy as a primary neces sity of the country, and it may be that assent will have to lie given to a further expenditure, in view of the hostile feel ing toward England in some European countries. But I regard the country's increasing expenditure as the real dan ger. If we go on as we are going there may be very bad times in store for the country, particularly for the working classes." DEAD FILIPINOS EVERYWHERE. General MacArlhur Sends Thrilling Details ol the Bloody Fight at Catublg. Officials of the war department, hav ing heard nothing from General Mac- Arthur confirming the press report ol the bloody three days' engagement at Catubig, which resulted in the heaviest loss of life tlie American army has sus tained in any one engagement in the Philippines, cabled the general for in formation, and this answer was received ednesday : the rumored encacemcnt in carnal has been confirmed by reports received from Henry T. Allen, Forty-third regi ment, United States volunteer infantry, commanding Satnar island. The de tachment of 31 men stationed at latu- big were attacked April 15. by 600 mer with 200 rules and one cannon. 1 nit turn were quartered in a convent which was fired next day by burning hemp thrown from an adjoining church. A detachment attempted to escape by way ol the river. The men getting into t lie boat were killed. The remaining men intrenched themselves near the river and held out two days longer, facing most adverse circumstances, until rescued by Lieutenant Sweeney and to men. Ovei 200 of the attacking party reported kill ed and many wounded. Lieutenant Sweeney reports streets covered with dead insurgents. The Americans lost 19 killed ami five wounded, G. A. R. Ladies Home Bumod. Fire destroyed the Ladies' G. A. R. home, at Hawkins station, about eight miles east of Pittsburg, Pa., on the Pennsylvania railroad, Wednesday nfter noon. Forty widows of soldiers of tlie civil war lost their permanent home. The building was totally destroyed, while a part of the furniture is also a total loss. The origin of the fire is un known. The loss is about $25,000. with possibly one-half insured. The inmates bavc been given a temporary home. Luckily no lives were lost. This was due to the system of keeping the in mates. The aged and helpless were car ed for on the first floor of the three story building. The fire started on the third floor, which gave abundant oppor tunity to get the helpless ones out in safety. There was considerable excite ment during the fire, and the shock may cause the death of an aged inmate, who is suffering with n bad attack ol rheumatism. She is Mrs. Anna Knouff, 08 years old. British War Losses. The war office has issued an abstract of British casualties since the beginning of the war. This shows a total of 20, 035, exclusive of the sick in the field and the invalids, including the wounded sent home, who number 8,oot. Bomb Throwers In Honolulu. Advices received by the steamer Arangi from Honolulu tell of an at tempt to assassinate the Portuguese consul, A. Desousa Canavcrro, on the morning of May 4. Some one threw a bomb at the house, and it had ex ploded just under the bedroom window of the consul. It shattered a portion of the floor near the bead of the con sul's bed, smashed all the windows in one side of the house, tore up the ground and scattered bits of sheet iron, the contents of the bomb, to a consid erable extent around. This is the second attempt to assas sinate the consul within the past two years. Two Portuguese anarchists, who had been heard to make threats against the caius:!, were arrested. Seventy-Hour Pattlo. News has been received of a victory by the Colombian government troops over the insurgents in a battle in the Vetas district, which began May 11 and last ed 70 hours. Gens. Leal and Hcrrera were among tlie killed. The slaughter was described as "hor rible butchery." Twelve hundred insur gents were taken prisoners and the gov ernment troops captured a large quan tity of guns and rifles. Sermons on Trains. The passenger departments of the trunk lines running out of Chicago are considering the advisability of establish ing religious service on Sundays on their through trains, with a view to min imize tlie prejudice on the part of the church neoolc against Sunday travel. The plan which seems to find most favor Is that of converting the dining cars into chapels, where services can be held soon after the mormns meal One diner would accommodate all the passengers on one train who would care to torn the. service. SEVEN KILLED AND II WOUNDED. MANIAC'S CRIME. Crazy Passenger on a Swedish 8leamboat Makes a Record In Killing Captured 8hortly Afterward. Telegrams from Koping, Sweden, dated Thursday, say. As the steamer Koping was passing the steamer Prins Carl, a man sprang upon the deck of the latter vessel and shouted, "If any one :omcs near I will shoot." At the same moment a woman was seen hanging over the ship's side, shrieking for help. The man escaped in a boat. When tlie Prins Carl was boarded it was found that 12 men on board had been shot, six of whom, including the captain, were dead. The rest were found locked in their quarters. One of the wounded died soon afterward. The Prins Carl is a boat that plies be tween Koping and Stockholm. After passing (Juicksttnd. a man suddenly started to shut all the doors of the cab Ins and saloons, and then, with a revolv er in either hand and with a dagger and I knife in his belt, began firing at every one he encountered. lie stabbed the taptain in the back and a lady passen ger in the breast with the dagger and hacked n boy with tlie knife, lie also ihot the mate through the shoulder, and nf four gentlemen, who were playing cards in the smoking saloon, one was shot in the temple, because he moved when the murderer warned him not to stir. The Prins Carl was stopped off Kop ing. and the murderer seized the oppor tunity to jump into a lifeboat and row away as fast as possible. Search of the steamer discovered seven dead and five wounded. Tlie police have tracked to Eskcl stuna (57 miles west of Stockholm), and nrrested there the a-ithor of the Prins Carl tragedy. He tried to fire a revolver it the officers. W hen arrested, he gave Ins name as Philip Noordlund. On be ing questioned about the murders the prisoner replied that it was a matter for the police themselves to unravel, but nn being further questioned he confess rd his crimes, and also said he had stolen Roo kroner from the captain. EXECUTIONS BY PROXY. Chinese Murderm of a Missionary Allowsd lo Purchase Substitute. The steamer Empress of China brings information that punishment lias been meted out to the murderers of Mission iry Brooks. Fifteen men were tried for the crime before the provincial judge it t inman Ml. and C V. Lamphell British consul. It was developed that only three were guilty of the actual kill ing, and one of these dealt the final jlow. This one, being most culpable in he Chinese criminal code, was behead rd in the presence of the British consul. Another, who was only a shade lighter n guilt, was sentenced to strangulation it the autumn nssibes. A third was sentenced to life imprisonment, and tour others to ten years' imprisonment The North China Daily News has a Mory to the effect that tlie condemned men were nllowed to purchase substi tutes, and that for $1,000 two men were produced who agreed to pay the pen alty of death imposed upon those most directly concerned in the murder. The man who was to be beheaded paid $600 lor his substitute, a dissolute oniuin smoker, who wished to provide for his family. The murderer condemned to be strangled had to pay only $400 for his substitute. GOVERNOR'S PROTEST. Smith, ol Montana, Will Charge Fraud In ihs Appointment of Clark. Governor Smith, of Montana, has wired a protest to the Senate against the acceptance of the credentials of Mr Clark on the appointment of Lieutenant Governor ispriKus. Governor Smith ill leges that tlie resignation of Clark was written in April, and that the date it now bears. May tt, was tlie result of erasure. He will also allege that the resignation was in the possession of Charles A. Clark, son of tlie senator, for several weeks, and that the appoint ment by Spriggs was part of the plot In the carrying out of the plot, it will he added, misrepresentation and other devious methods were used to get the governor out ot tlie Mate. Governor Smith will probably give a lenatorial commission to Martin Magin- nis, lormcrly territorial delegate. PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO. Six Deaths ol Chinamen Occurred In as Many Weeks. The bubonic plague lias almost ccr lainly reached San Francisco, but every rndeavor is being made by the authori ties to suppress the facts, at the request 01 local merchants and commercia bodies, who fear the news might hurt the 1 acihc coast trade. Thus far the disease is confined to Chinatown, situated in the heart of the city. Six deaths have been reported in is many weeks and several cases are now being watched. All victims are Chinamen. The district affected is in a jqualid condition and favors spread of the disease. The Chinese hide the sick, as they Urcad quarantine, and dying Chinese are carried over the roofs by their country men, to avoid the health authorities. Japan Keans VI it. Affairs in China are in a state of extra ordinary quiescence, while forebodings Df a coming storm are in the air. Ku ia has gained her points in Korea, in Ihc shape of a large tract of land bor dering upon the magnificent harbor of Masamno. Much chagrin is felt by the Japanese jnd it is everywhere surmised that th day of reckoning cannot be long delay ed. Dying by Thousinds. A special dispatch from Hyderabad, noting the rapid spread Qf cholera, savs "In one division no fewer than 45 fam ine camps have been attacked bv th pestilence. The most virulent type is at Uujerat, where nianv thousands have perished. In the God'hra camp alone there have been thousands ot victims, An appalling loss of life seems inevita ble." DELEGATES RETICENT. Will Appeal to President McKlnlsy, and Fall Ing There, (he People Will be Asked lo Aid Them. The steamship Maasdam, with the; envoys from tbe South African repub- ics, arrived In New York Tuesday from Rotterdam. The envoys, Abraham Fischer, J. M. A. Wolmarans and C. H. Wesscls, were met by a committee which went down the bay to greet them, ami later were welcomed by a large body of Boer sympathizers on the pier at lloboken. The mayor of that city extended a welcome to them and the party took carriages for the Hotel Man hattan, where the envoys will lodge dllrinir I'llrir tlnv In Vpiv Vnrlr Citv. Judge Van Hoeren made the address of welcome at a reception, saying: "We cannot promise vou that vour pathway in America will always be a pathway of flowers. You may confi dently appeal to the American public. The light of liberty burns in the breast of every American worthy of the name. There will always be difference of opin ion as to questions of policy and ex pediency, and perfect unanimity is not to be expected in the views of the people as to the duty of the United Mates at the present time." The envoys were eager to hear the latest news of the war. When told of reverses to their arms and the advances made bv Gen. Roberts they merely shrugged their shoulders. "Such news, ' said Mr. Fischer, "does not disconcert tis in the least. We read these dis patches between the lines; besides what difference does one or a dozen reverses mean to us? We never propose to stop fighting until we Tiave gained what we are fighting for our independence." 1 he delegates were reticent concern ing their plans. Fischer said: "We cannot say anything which may hinder our cause. We should like to have the government arbitrate "with Emrland and undoubtedly we shall go to Washington and try to have an audi ence with President McKinley. If we cannot induce the government to d what we like, we shall try to arouse the people, so that they will compel the gov ernment to recognize us in that way." WEALTHY ECCENTRIC DEAD. Will be Burled In a $50,000 Casket. While (he Garments Cost Another $25,000. Mrs. Dr. Frances P. Hiller, widely known as "The Lady of the Caskets" died at her home in Wilmington, Mass., Friday. Mrs. Hiller became noted throughout the country when she began building a mausoleum in which were to rest the remains of herself and hus band, Dr. Henry Hiller. The place cost $500,000. For herself, Mrs. Hiller prepared a magnificent burial robe. It was made of corded silk, decked with 500 yards ot hand made lace. In two rows up and down the front of the robe are over 5,000 English daisies embroidered by the most skilled artists of b ranee. On the sides are panels of white silk. The robe is fastened by nearly five hun dred silver hooks designed by Mrs. Hilcr. The cost of the outer robe is said to have been $20,000, and with it went under-garments costing $5,000. The walls of the mausoleum were 1 C I . .1 ' 1 . . . sive and double looked to prevent gra itnmv iivv. iii iiiivix. .iiivj lliu KUtvs llin on the doors were of gold and worth in , in 3 lit, ci iviii u. 111 hiiwvim. inline 111 uirnise vci. nnn fin mc co nn. u m mnil.ilKnn. olil , n 1. niiii cum emu. Aiier niiier uie-- , r T T ' 1 1 I T 1 . ' . . I. coachman, be agreeing to have his na changed to Hiller as a condif, the marriage. Rebels Await the Election. Brig. Gen. Theodore Schwan, who has been Gen. Otis' chief of staff in the Philippines for nearly a year, has arrived at San l'"rancisco from Manila on the transport Thomas. He is hopeful that it will not be many months before af fairs will have naturally adjusted them selves to the American contrql. "The robber bands," said Gen. Schwan, "arc incited by native politi cians who impose on the credulity of the common herd. Jo people are so credulous as the lower class of the Fill pinos. These leaders have been ini! l 1 'M I imr the ex-soldiers to continue on warpath, assuring tliem that arr Ain can election is soon coming and McKm- ley would be defeated and the Ameri cans withdraw from the Philippines, I.T THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Promoters of the world's fair at fair at Sj having thi of Pent Louis in 1003 are figuring on h venerable Galusha A. Grow, sylvania, take a prominent Dart in tha celebration ot the Louisiana purchase. it was mar. genm-man s nomcstead bill 1 . .,. . .1 , that resulted in the speedy settlement ot the lands ol the Louisiana purchase. Commissioner Gen. Powderly is tak ing active steps to establish a system ol immigrant inspection in the Hawaiian islands. He has detailed F. H. Lamed rtiitf rlfi-L- of tll( tnmiiirrntir.n Kiironu to proceed to moiioiuiu and make a ,.tr . ii . . iiiri-im cciiiiiiiuu(ii. T T n . 1 1 - ,1,1. f-tlrr riftr n.-t ri f Ifn 1. v. over 1.000 banks will he supplied by the new currency piates, out an cannot be supplied in less than from four to six months. About $15,000,000 in currency is tied up because these plates are not yet ready. Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah, who was excluded from the House of Repre sentatives for the practice of polygamy, will receive $2,000 from the government to defray his expenses attendant ' upon tlie contest 10 retain nis seat. The House bill relating to game birds was favorably reported from the Sen ate committee on interstate commerce. The purpose of tbe bill is to preserve, distribute, introduce and restore wild birds in the United Mates. In anticipation of the passage of the army reorganization bill, the war depart ment is being flooded with applications from persons who seek appointments to the additional cadetship created by the act. The Senate has confirmed the nomi nation of J. C. McNally, of PennsyU vania, as consul general at GuatcmalaJ
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