AMERICANS CAPTURE I FORTRESS FOUGHT UP HILL On Thousand Took Geronlmo' Stronghold and Lost four Men Thro Hour Undr Fire Many Robot Were Killed. Paiticuars liavc jnt been received Irom Iloilo of the battle at Bugason, Island of Fanny, when 200 bolomcn an I SO riflemen attacked the Americans, ivho lost tbrec killed Lieut. II. M. Koontz, Sergt. Kitchen and Corpora I Hums, all of Company F., Forty-fourth Infantry. When the garrison in force attacked the rebels, 4') of the latter were killed. S'one of the other parties of attacking natives made much of a stand niid the insurgents lost lot killed all told. The fortress of the insurgent chief, Geronimo, at I'inaurati, which the in surgents boasted was impregnable, was taken ami destroyed by a picked force of the Fortv-seeoiVl and Twenty-seventh Infantry and Troop- G. of the Fourth Cavalry, under Col. Thompson. Ger onimo and most of the rebels escaped. The leader has long harassed the Twenty-seventh regiment, operating in the vicinity of San Mateo, Montalban, ami Novaliches. The attack was made upon four sides. The ascents were steep, and the men climbed them by grasping the shrubbery. The enemy's force, numbering several hundred, lied before the attackers reached the top. The Americans de stroyed buildings, and large quantities of supplies and seized a barrel full of documents. Private Hart of the Twenty-seventh, and Private Koppncr, of the Forty-second, and two native scouts were killel and 12 of the attacking force were wounded. The insugent casualiti.s could not be ascertained. NEW ERA FOR FILIPINOS. An Attempt Mad to Install Soll-Govornmonl In On Province. The Philippine commission has enact ed the first legislation establishing pro vincial civil government n the Philip pines, an act for the government of the province of Bcnguet. It co-ordinates with the act passed recently for the es tablishment of township government in the same province. The governor, who is appointive, will receive a salary of $1,500. He will pass upon the acts of the town councils and will issue orders which will hare the same effect bs ordi nances whenever the councils fail to en act the necessary measures. The gov ernor, who will also be the treasurer and auditor, will be ex-oft'tcio, a pro vincial .justice of the peace, and will con trol the constabulary. Electors will be required to affirm that they have had six months' residence and are at least 18 years old, and declare their allegiance to American authority. Three months imprisonment will be imposed for a re fusal to accept municipal office when elected. Ecclesiastics and soldiers arj debarred from office. Delinquent tax payers will be punished by being com pelled to do labor on the roads. DYNAMITE WAS FREELY USED. Daring Hold-Up In Arkansas by Five Bandits. Express Car Blown to Pieces. Northbound passenger train No. 56 on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railway was held up Wednes day night near Gifford station, 40 miles south of Little Rock, Ark., by five masked robbers. The door of the express car was blown open and Express Messenger L. D. Avery, of St. Louis, was, seriously injured by flying timbers. Five at tempts were made to blow open the safe. Their supply of dynamite being exhausted the robbers left with only the contents of the way safe, amounting to about $500. No attempt was mad to rob any of the passengers. The trainmen says the small box car ried off by the robbers contained about $500. It is positively known that the robbers secured several sacks of silver containing $190. . Girl Shot by Hunter. A 15-ycar-old daughter of J. S. Creed, of Burg Hill, near Sharon, Pa., was ac cidentally shot by two Youngstown hunters and seriously injured. The load of shot took effect in one of her hips while she was milking a cow. DISASTROUS WIND STORM. Seventy. Five Person Killed and as Many ' Injured In the South. A tornado extending from a point three miles north of Lula, Miss., to La grange, Tenn., caused a heavy loss of life and property Tuesday afternoon. It appears that 19 lives were lost. It is believed that numerous farm houses and interior communities were struck and, being cut off from the outside, were unable to give notice of their distress. . At Lagrange, 40 miles east of Mem. phis on the Southern railroad, in Fay ette county, not a church is left stand . ing except the Episcopal. The streets are littered with the debris of destroy ed buildings, merchandise, telegraph and telephone wires and poles. Several persons are dead and wounded. . Dispatches received indicate that the loss of life in the tornado that swept over Northern Mississippi and Central and Western Tennessee was 75 and that over 50 persons were injured. Tele graphic communication to the regions struck by the cyclone is suspended, and it is feared that when full details are knpwn the list of dead will be length ened. Latest Census Returns The population of Nevada is 42,335, as against 45,761 in 1890, a decrease of 3,426, or 7.4 per cent. The population of Maryland is 1,190,. 050, as, against 1,042,390 in 1890, an in crease ot 147.000, or 14. 1 per cent. The population of Virginia is 1,854, 184, as against 1,665,980 in 1890, an in crease of 108,204. or .1 1.0 per cent. The population of Kansas, as officially announced Saturday, via 1,470,495, as against 1,447,096 in 189V an increase of 4J399. or 3 per cent. LATEST NEWS NOTES. General Roberts asks for 90,000 fresh troops but request is refused. Youngstown (O.) capitalists will build a $1,000,000 iron plant. The high license local option bill wis defeated in the Vermont Legislature. No less than 10 underground railway systems are now being planned for Lon don. Farmers in the vicinity of New Wil mington, Pa., arc moving for free mail delivery. It is said the deal for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States is oft. A project has been put on foot to build a model industrial town near Phil adelphia, Pa. Frank Speasmakcr, postmaster of London, Q.. a prominent business man, committed suicide. Two men arc in jail at Indiana, Pa., charged with swindling soldiers' wid ows, pension applicants. The receipts from war revenue for the first four months of the present fis cal year were $38,308,856. A mysterious epidemic in Manchester, Eng., was traced to the use of arsenic in the manufacture of beer. The Venezuelan Government has re ceived from Germany 10.000 Mauser ritles nnd 3.000,000 cartridges. At Beatrice. Neb., fire destroyed gen- ral merchandise together with stocks involving a total loss of $85,000. It is reliably reported that the notori ous Apache Kid has been killed in a raid at Colonia Tachcco, Mexico. Official news from Si-Ngan-Fu con firmed the report that the Empress Dowager of China is seriously ill. Oil men have confidence in the Elk Valley section of West Virginia becom ing a great oil producing country. Several young people of both sexes at Martinsburg, W. Va., have been prosecuted for giggling in church. Republican ways and means commit teemen at Washington decided upon a $30,000,000 reduction in war taxes. Farmer A. H. McGrccor. of Geneva, O., has inherited his late brother's $1,000,000 In Cleveland and vicinity. A. Sciffcrt & Co., wholesale tobacco dealers in Detroit, Mich., assigned with liabilities of $104,000 and assets of $35.- 000. With arrival of reinforcements in the Philippines and the ending of the rainy season another Filipino chase has be gun. Grand Army men of Pittsburg, Pa., have started a movement to have the National Encampment of loot held there. The Maver Pottery Company, cf Beaver Falls. Pa., is making arrange ments to double the capacity of its plant. Leonard Dav. young millionaire of Minneapolis, Minn., was killed in a mid night quarrel with a newspaper re porter. Youngstown, O., is to have a $100,000 hospital, $60,000 of which will be con tributed by Myron C. Wick, the manu facturer. At Enston. Pa.. Eugene Skinner pour ed carbolic acid down the throats of his sister nnd himself. He is dead and she may die. The Citizens Light and Power Com pany's plant and the Washington Flour Mills, at Rochester, N. Y., were burned oss $175,000. English manufacturers recognize the fact that they cannot face the growing American competition, because of the trades unions. The Sharon (Pa.) Ore Company has purchased additional ore property in the Mesaba region in Minnesota, at a cost of $300,000. Lord Kitchener is being severely crit icised for his stern policy in South Af rica and it is believed the fighting will last three years. A flock of wild turkevs was carried to Cumberland, Md., by the storm and several stragglers were caught uninjur ed on the street. The British Liberals in their cam paigns will use the cry of "Better edu cation," using the . American school system as an example. Statistics show that since 1804 there have been massacred in Turkey 500,000 Christians while Christian property to the value of $515,000,000 has been de stroyed. , General Theodore F. Brown, 64 years old, veteran of Civil War and member of the G. A. R., sentenced to 6 months in jail for false affidavit in pen sion claim at Chicago. The rebel forces at Buenaventura, Colombia, were completely crushed by government troops, who captured three cannon and two generals. The two Montenegrins involved in the killing of Paymaster Hosier near Mt. Pleasant, fa., were found ruilty of murder in the first degree. President Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, has granted 2,000 miners of Hopkins county, Ky., permission to strike lor higher wages. Within a month trains will be running over the Great Northern railroad to Pucet Sound, through Cascade tunnel. Wash., on which work was started two years ago. Governor Brady, of Alaska, in his an nual -report says the white fortune hunters have introduced to the natives "the arts and accomplishments of Sodom and Gomorrah. The American association at Shang hai, in a manifesto addressed to Com missioner Kockhill, predicts that the en tire empire will unite to drive out for eigners in the spring. . Several animals and an unknown oil man were bitten bv a mad dog in Wavne township, Greene county. Fa A cow has just gone mad and the neighborhood is uneasy. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has rejected a proposal brought forward by the Socialists td reduce army expendi tures 100,000,000 francs and to cut down the army corps from 12 to 8. The plant of the Globe Refining Company, cine ol the largest in the south, was sold to a syndicate of Louis ville (Ky.) capitalists. The price was between $250,000 and $300,000. The plant of the Minnesota Stone ware Company, at Red Wing, has been destroyed by fire. Lots, $75,000. The plant was one of the largest of it kind in the United States, employing 1,000 men. ANOTHER START MADE. Idonllcal Nolo Sent lo th Power by Unltod States Appeal for Negotiation on Business-Llk Line. The secretary of state hns addressed an identical note to the powers interest ed in the Chinese situation setting out tersely and afresh the object of the United States government as to China qnd pointing out how such objects as are common to the powers can best be secured. The note marks the initiation of fresh negotiations on our part on the arrangement of new bases to tide over the impossible situation created at thl last meeting of the ministers in Peking. Some responses already are at hand and it is stated that generally our advances have been well received and th state department expresses satisfaction with the progress so far achieved. It is believed that the note is an ap peal from the extreme course suggested by some of the powers as to the treat ment of China, especially in the matter of punishments and indemnities to which the ministers at Peking seem inclined. The intent is to push the negotiations on a more rational and business-like basis. REPORT ON BANKRUPTCY. Voluntary Assignments lo th Number ot 20,128 Were Made. E. C. Brandenburg, in charge of bankruptcy matters, has made a report to the Attorney General on the opera tion of the bankruptcy act of July I, 1898. The report says, with reference to voluntary cases, that advantage is being taken of the law by men of all classes. The grand total of petitions filed in the United States for the period end ing September 30, 1000, is 20,128. Of this number 809 were from Pennsyl vania. The liabilities is 19.540 volun tary cases reported by the referees amounted to $264,979,152, while the total amount of assets scheduled in these cases was $33,008,771. In involuntary cases 1.H10 petitions were filed, of which adjudication was made in all except 28s cases. Of the involuntary cases 50 compositions were entered into by the bankrupts and the creditors which were confirmed. The liabilities involved in 1,242 cases upon which reports were made were $27,170.- 001, while the assets scheduled were $3.4.1.1.209. There has been an increase of a little more than 300 petitions under the involuntary feature of the law. RIVERS OVERFLOW BANKS. Ohio and Its Tributaries Are Doing Great Damage In Kentucky. The heavy rains of the past few days have caused the Ohio and its tributaries and all the small streams in Kentucky to rise rapidly. Now many arc over flowing their banks and numerous washouts arc reported. Much damage has been done to farm property. The worst effects of the storm is felt at Hopkinsvillc, where the river is the highest for years. Scores of families have been driven from their homes and hundreds of people are unable to get to their places of business. All the streets in the lower portion of the town are flooded. Warehouses and mills along the river were most severely damaged and the loss will be heavy. In the southern and eastern parts of the state, the loss to the farmers will be great, crops being ruined, fences, bridges, and small buildings being car ried away by the flooded streams. In the mountain districts hundreds of logs have been carried off by the high tide. No loss of life has been reported so far, but property will be enormous. OIL REGION HAVOC. Hundreds of Derricks Leveled by Wednesday' Wind Storm In Pennsylvania, Telegrams from Franklin, Fa., say: One death and the destruction of thou sands of dollars' worth of oil property are the results of one of the most vio lent storms that ever visited this sec tion. The extent of the damage to oil property cannot be stated at the pres ent time, but it will amount to many thousand dollars. Derricks were blown down by the hundreds and pumping con nections destroyed. At Erie, Pa., a northwest gale, which attained a velocity of 64 miles nn hour. did $50,000 damage in that section of the state. Windows were blown out, trees leveled nnd a few small buildings col lapsed. The damage to fruit trees is enormous. Twenty-' Live Lost. The steamer St. Olaf was wrecked on the Seven islands in the lower St. Lawrence river. Capt. Lemaistre and 18 men of the crew and seven passengers were drowned. The searching party has found only one body buried in the snow and ice. It is the general belief that all the passengers and crew succeeded in reaching Boule Island, . and perished there of cold and starvation, and that their bodies will be found under the snow, which is three feet deep. Mad Cattl King. W.. F. Mellick, former president of the National bank at f ocatello, lo., and "cattle king" of the Snake river, that State, is now a raving lunatic, the re sult, it is thought, of being sandbagged in Chicago a week ago. He was taken to Morristown, N. J., heavily ironed Thursday and was committed as a pri vate patient to the State hospital for me insane at Morris nams. An Island Dispute. A difficulty has arisen between Ger many and Turkey. The Ottoman Gov. eminent objects to Germany using Far San Island, in the Red Sea, as a coal ing station, nnd wishes to establish there a Turkish depot accessible to all the powers. Germany insists that she will not abandon the island. Larg Woolen Mill Burntd. During a heavy gale Sunday night Are destroyed the Tiffin (O.) .Woolen nuns. COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. Latin. Amorlcsn Congress Adopted It Chita Alon I Obdurate. Dispatches from Madrid, received in official diplomatic quarters at Washing ton, make the first announcement that in the debates before the Latin-American Congress the principle of compul sory arbitration, urged by the Peruvian delegates, has been adopted by almost a unanimous vote. Chile alone protested against the action taken. The decision not only favors compul sory arbitration in disputes between the American Republics, but also pro vides that guarantees shall be given for the faithful performance of the conclu sions reached by the arbitration tribunal. Aside from the immediate question in volved, the decision of the Congress is regarded in South American quarters ns significant of the alignment of the Southern Republics on the increasing differences which arc threatening to bring about a general crisis involving most, if not all, of the South American countries. Chile appears to be the annrcssor and has adopted the compulsory military system. 1 his step has caused alarm among her powerful neighbors in the south, with which she has numerous boundary disputes. A united action by these on some of the pending contro versies is looked tor. CROPS IN FOREIGN LANDS. latest Reporlt Say Wheat Crop In Germany I Large, but Short in Franc. Reports to the Department of Agri culture show that the conditions of fall wheat, spelt and rye in Germany, as officially reported by the German Sta tistical Office, is considerably above medium. The preliminary official estimates of French cereal crops for 1000 show the production of 43.612,41)8 bushels of bar ley, and 252,877,918 bushels of oats. The final estimate for the 1809 crops is for 45,306,122 bushels of barley and 270,436,556 of oats. Comparison of the wheat, maslin, rye, barley and oats pro duction in France for 10 years shows that each of these crops is below the decennial average. The final general memorandum of the Indian Government on the sugar cane crop for the season 1809-190C shows that in both Northern and Southern India the season began well for this crop, and the area planted was larger than in 1808, being approximately equal to the average. Failure of rain, nowever, seriously injured the crop. A BIG LANDSLIDE. Five West Virginia Coal Minos Destroyed and a Creek Diverted. Details of the great landslide which occurred on Bingamon creek, VV. Va., have been reported. Terrific rumbling and reports were the first intimation the inhabitants of that section had of the great avalanche which followed. The whole side of the hill, earth, coal and stone was seen sliding toward the creek. The great fall destroyed five small coal mines. The strata of limestone above the coal has been rent and the bluff for half a mile and 20 feet deep was precipitated to the creek 100 feet below, forcing the creek out of its natu ral course some distance. Some of the boulders were 10 feet thick and 30 feet long. An Immense Coal Deal. Negotiations have been closed by which 25,000 acres of coal land in Brax ton, Gilmer and Lewis counties, West Virginia, passed into the hands of New York and Pennsylvania parties, and in connection with this the Little Kana wha railroad Company, projected from Parkersburg to Burnsvillc, and of which 3t miles is built and in operation, from Parkersburg to Palestine, passes into the hands of the same parties, and in sures the completion of the railroad to Burnsvillc, reaching the coal fields nnd becoming a part of the deal. The Braxton coal company has been form ed with a subscribed capital of $2,000, 000. Filipino Held a Prisoner. Brigadier General Hughes, command ing the department of Visayas, Philip pine islands, has issued an order direct ing that all prisoners captured within the geographical limits of his depart ment who are in nrmed insurrection against the United States, or who are aiding those in insurrection, be "held in strict confinement as prisoners of war. CABLE FLASHES. A house collapsed in Darmstadt, Ger many, burving a score of workmen, of whom 12 are dead. About 5.000 men are on strike in the Pen Rhyn, Wales, quarries because one of the overlookers was discharged. Nine Macedonians, engaged in a plot to kill King Charles of Roumania, were sentenced to hard labor for life. Sir Thomas Lipton has been gazetted as honorary colonel of the Second vol unteer battalion of the Highland Light infantry. Snow has fallen in many parts of Ger many. It is knee deep in Alsace Silesia, in the Hartz region and on the Ba varian Alps. The Yorkshire (England) college stu dents stormed a meeting of the follow ers of John Alexander Dowie, the Zionist of Chicago. At Copenhagen the typhus epidemic is assuming serious proportions. Twenty new and serious case have been officially reported. F. Schultz, a Berlin cabinet maker, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment for criticising Emperor William's "no pardon" speech. The Russian government, according to an Odessa correspondent, has order ed all except three cruisers of the vol unteer fleet to resume commercial func tions. A law has just gone into operation in Norway permitting the conditional dis charge ot a convict for good behavior after he ha served two-thirds of his sentence. A band of Tugeri pirates in Dutch New Guinea raided the natives in the British possession there, killing 15 of the natives. The police attacked the Tugeris, and JO of them wer killed in the conflict 1 mm DEF1ESBRIT1SH pom NOT YET CONQUERED. Declare That th Boer I Will Fight Until Exterminated Franc Gav th Boer President a Rousing Reception. Ex-President Paul Kruger had hard ly set foot upon French soil before he reiterated his defiance of Great Britain. In the speech that he made in response to the welcome, he said in part: "1 thank the president of the Mar seilles committee and the president of the central committee of the independ ence of the Boers for their welcome. I am truly proud and happy at having chosen as my point of landing a port in France, to set foot on free soil and to be received by you as a free man. But my first duty is to thank your govern ment for all the tokens of interest that again only recently it was pleased lo give me. IMjclicve England, had she been better informed, would never have consented to this war, and since the expedition of Jameson, who wished to seize the two republics without the ne cessity of firing a rille shot, I have nev er ceased to demand a tribunal of arbi tration which up to now has always been refused. "The war waged on us in the two re publics reached the last limits of bar barism. During my life I have had to fight many times the savages of the tribes of Africa, but the barbarians we have to fight now are worse than the others. They even urge the Kaffirs against us. They burn the farms we worked so hard to construct and they drive out our women and children, whose husbands and brothers they have killed or taken prisoners, leaving them unprotected and roofless, and often without bread to eat.. But, whatever they may do, we will never surrender. We will fight to the end. Our great, imperishable confidence reposes in the eternal, in our God. We know our cause is just and if the justice of men is wanting to us, He, the Eternal, who is master of all peoples, and to whom belongs the future, will never abandon us. I assure you that if the Transvaal and the Orange Free State must lose their independence it will be because pll the Boer people have been destroyed, with their women and children." GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. National Convention Propose a Highway Commissioner In Each Sttte.J The National Good Roads convention at Chicago has adopted recommenda tions that a highway commissioner be appointed by each State, to have charge of all roads and that a State road plan be adopted in all States, including the employment of convict labor in prepara tion of material for roads. It was also recommended that wide tires should be specified for vehicles used for traffic on public roads. A permanent organization of the Na tional Good Roads association was ef fected, headquarters to be in Chicago. "Oiled Roads" was the subject of a paper read by Mrs. Mary Lyndc Craig, of Redlands, Cal. She told of the ex periments carried on at Redlands nnd Pasadena in the use of oil for the pre vention of both dust and mud. "Suc cess has resulted from our experiments," she said. "We have some of the best roads in the country. We use the crude petroleum, between 150 and 200 barrels a mile, for the first application. The road requires two applications the first year and one application a year thereafter. The oil is applied during the hot weather, at a temperature of over 200 degrees. The cost is less than $150 per mile." TEN SWAM THE RIVER. Captain Gulick and Men Fought Bravely at Blnorougan. Telegrams from Manila, dated Thurs day, say: A detachment of 100 men from Companies I and M, Twenty-fifth United States infantry, colored, under Captain O'Neill, made a clever capture of 30 insurgents, with rifles, supplies and 1,500 rounds of ammunition, in a camp east of San Marcclino, which the Amer icans charged at daybreak. Among the rifles captured were a few Krag Jorgen sens, which the insurgents had recently secured. Several of the Filipinos were wounded. Captain Gulick, with 16 men of the Forty-seventh infantry had a sharp en counter with insurgents concealed in a block house near Binorongan. The in surgents fired a volley from 30 rifles on the approach of the Americans, wound ing two, one mortally. The firing soon became hot on boih sides. With nine men Captain Gulick swam the river, gained the hillside, routed tlu enemy and incidentally killed several fleeing bolomen. The yame party, with a score of comrades, drove the insur gents from Bulasan, where they were in trenched. The detachment killed four and captured five in two days. HUSBAND AND WIFE 0EA3. Shocking Double Tragedy Enacted at Brad ford, Pa., by a Railroader. At Bradford. Pa., Thursday afternoon at a o'clock John J. Keating, a brake man employed on one of the passenger trains ot the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railway, fatally shot his wife and then turning the smoking weapon against his own breast fired a bullet through his heart. Two bullets were fired at Mrs. Keating. The first entered her left temple and the second passed through her left breast. After the shoot ing of the woman, Keating seemed to suddenly realize what he was doing. "My God, my God," he shrieked, "what have I done?" Then he shot himself and fell forward against the dead body of his wife. Both were soon dead. To Roleas Volunteers. It is the intention of the war depart ment to bring home from the Philip pines to the United State every one of the volunteers who care to come and discharge them here on or before July 1 , when, under the law, the volunteers must be mustered out. It is the ex pectation of the war department that the coming Congress will, early in its ses sion, enact legislation which will en able the department to substitute the present volunteer force bv permanent (ore of soldiers. GAS EXPLOSION. Heavy Blast Cause Much Dims Near , Bentleyvllle, Pa. On Ded Bodies Wart Burned Black. A terrific gas explosion occurred at Ellsworth coal mine No. 1, near Mo nongahcla, Pa., at 11:30 o'clock Tues day forenoon. Five men were badly in jured and burned, the bodies of several of them being literally charred. One of the victims has since died from his injuries, and one more is not expected to live. The others have some chance of recovering. The explosion wa caused by the gas in the mine being ig nited by a blast. The five victims were members of a large gang of men, mostly Austrians, the company brought to the mines last week, and Tuesday was their first day, in the mine. About 200 men were at work in the entire mine when the explosion oc curred. The explosion was heard throughout the mine, and caused great panic among the miners. A num ber of the latter, however, started for the scene of the explosion, and soon succeeded in rescuing the injured min ers. By the time the wounded men had been brought to the mouth of the mine a great crowd had collected there, the report of the explosion causing much consternation outside the mine. The escape of most of the men in the mine is due to the fact that the trap door of the chamber in which the ex plosion occurred prevented the fire from entering the main mine. For the same reason the mine, save where the explo sion took place, was not damaged. Work will be resumed shortly. WARSHIPS GO TO TURKEY. Battleship Kentucky Will Proceed to Smyrna to Emphaslie Our Claim. Diplomacy having failed to accom plish the settlement of the missionary claims pending against Turkey, the ad ministration has decided to support peaceful representations by a naval de monstration. Two American men-of-war have received orders to proceed to Smyrna and a third is available for duty in Turkish waters if the department deems it expedient to augment the force. The ships instructed to enter the port of Smyrna are the battleship Kentucky, one of the most powerful battleships of the navy, and the train ing ship Dixie. The gunboat Wilming ton, now in the Mediterranean, may also be instructed to call at Smyrna, if it is thought her presence will have a beneficial effect. To Turkey, in fact to all Europe, the dispatch of the Kentucky to Smyrna can have but one meaning that the United States is determined in its pur pose to collect the claims which it ha for six months been so earnestly press ing for payment. DESPERATE BANK BURGLAR8. A Dozen Armed Outlaws Fall to Loot an Ohio Bank All Escape. A dozen professional bank robbers ' made a desperate but unsuccessful at tempt to secure the contents of the money vault of Sperry & Warnstaff' Deposit bank at Ashley, O., Tuesday morning. While nine stood on guard, holding the citizens at bay with their guns, three operated the dynamite un der the deposit vault of the brick build ing. The bank's property is worth $50, 000, and there was $15,000 in cash on hand. The party left a Big Four train at Ma rengo at 1 o'clock, stole the horses and reached Ashley shortly after 2 o'clock in the morning. They pried open, the bank doors without being discovered, but the first explosion of dynamite aroused the town. The robbers fired as they fled, but no one was hurt. The men were masked and have not been captured. The damage to the bank building, vault and other property is about one half its value. CANAL MUST BE NEUTRAL President Will Insist on Ratification of the Hay-Pauncefot Treaty. The administration and its friends ere preparing to announce an ultimatum on the subject of Nicaragua canal legisla tion. It is that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty must be ratified without amend ment or there will be no progress to ward the main question whether there shall be a waterway to" connect the oceans. There is more firmness .at the White House on this point than on any sub ject in which Congress is interested. The President is so thoroughly con vinced that the canal, to be of any use, must be a purely neutral affair, that ho believes it a waste of time to talk about a waterway fortified and controlled by the United States. COLOMBIA SEEKING TROUBLE. The Government Seize a British Steamship tor War Purpose. The Colombian government has seiz ed the British steamer Taboga, because her agent refused to sell or charter the ship to convey troops to Buenaventura, which was b'esieged by the Liberals. After the seizure the governor placed troops and ammunition on the ship and sent her to Buenaventura. British Con sul Mallet made an ineffectual protest and then sent the facts, to his govern ment. When the Taboga arrived at mienaventura the Liberals retreated. The British warship Pheasant receiv ed rush orders from the admiralty ch patching her to t anaina to pro uritisn interests there, she Thursday, at noon. , Agulnaldo Pursued by Flllplij Gen. MacAbolus, the form! pino chief, is prepared to star suit of Aguinaldo with 100 p tives. supported by America Other ex-rebel Filipinos will in campaigning in the count offer have not been lormally. but they are readv if the ami accept their services. Aguinaldo, it is supposed. em Luzon, according t made by ex-rebel leader nils, confirmed from othe r i 1
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