I HILUONIIIREJON KIDNAPED.
PAID $25,000 RANSOM
Conspirators Warned tho Father That n Ha
Failed to Pay the Money Hit Son
Would ba Blinded.
Omaha, Neb., has never known such
Another rcii-n of terror as that in which
it now struggles. Edward Cudahy, Jr.,
who limped painfully into the home of
hit millionaire father at a nearly hour
Thursday morning, had just finished an
experience with kidnapers which he will
long remember.
The boy was carried by his captors
on Tuesday evening into a deserted
house on the outskirts of the city, and
there chained to the floor like a beast
while the brigands bargained with his
father for his release.
Kdward Cudahy, the millionaire pack
er, paid $s.ocx in gold for the release
of his son. The father was threatened
through a letter that unless he produc
ed the money n.t once the eyes of his
son would be burned out. The half
frenzied parent drove to a lonely road
and left the Kld in a ban. at the spot
indicated by the brigands in their let
ter. Mr. Cudahy has announced that he
would pay $J5.ooo reward for the appre
hension of the abductors of his son.
$5,000 for one and $15,000 fyr two rf
them.
lid ward Cudahy, Jr., related the cir
cumstances attending his abduction anil
his experience while in the hands of the
kidnapers. He appears well, though
pale and somewhat emaciated as .ho
result of his terrible ordeal. His wrisn
still bear the marks of the handcuffs
placed upon him by his captors. He
says there were six of the men, but
that all wore masks whenever in his
presence, and that the only one he
would attempt to identify was the one
who kept guard over him during his
incarceration in the lonely building in
which he was held. He thinks he could
recognize the man's voice, as it differed
much from that of any of the others.
MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
Turks in Macedonia Killed One Thouand.
Men Crucified and Floih Sliced Cfl.
Further details of the massacre of the
Christians in Macedonia by Mussul
mans are received from Salonica. In
the village of Bituch. in Northern Al
bania, a horde of Mohammedans cruci
fied every Christian male in the place,
fixing them to trees with stakes driven
through their hands and feet. Many
ot the women were assaulted, and all
were carried off to Mohammedan har
ems. Children were chopped up before
their parents' eyes.
At Gruma, south of Bituch, women
were assaulted in front of their hus
bands and fathers; the men were terri
bly mutilated, having their ears, fin
gers, toes and limbs cut off. Many
Christians were drowned.
At Ribaritz. the entire population was
massacred, after the victims' flesh had
been sliced off. At Banishka, a bonfire
was made of 20 Christians. The Ser
vian consul Rt Mitrovitza estimated the
number of Christians killed at 470 men,
110 women and 430 children.
CAUSING MUCH ANXIETY.
Chinese Desperadoes Burning House and
Murdering Natives.
A dispatch from Peking, dated Fri
day, says the situation throughout the
provinces is rapidly growing worse; and
is causing grave anxiety. The dispatch
adds that unless a definite system .f
government is speedily installed a re
crudescence of the anti-foreign out
breaks is confidently predicted. The
pressure of winter begins to be felt by
the people, who are also suffering on ac
count of the blackmail levied by the m
tivc employes of the allies, for which
the foreigners are blamed. A number
of desperadoes, imprisoned at San Chow
Fu by Gen. Mci, whom the Germans
released, are now hurrying to the Chi
I.i Shang Tung border burning houses,
murdering and pillaging.
Steamer's Big Mail.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse arrived in
New York Thursday with 600 cabin and
641 steerage passengers and an unusually
heavy mail. The postal clerks on board
report that the number of letters han
dled during the voyage was 275,000.
.There were 5,829 registered letters,
making 2,276 sacks of mail. The post
age on about 40,000 letters was insuf
ficiently prepaid. The receiving, check
ing and opening of this amount of mail,
together with the separating and regis
tering, required the constant work of
four clerks and two assistants for 11
Dowio Elder Egged.
At Granville, O., G. L. Mason, a
Dowic elder of Chicago, was mobbed
Wednesday night while delivering a lec
ture at the opera house. Ke made a
bitter attack upon the Masonic and oth
er secret orders, and was assailed with
eggs and other missiles. He appealed
or protection, and a number of men
connected with the societies which he
had attacked gathered about him and
kept the crowd back while he was es
corted to a safer place,- Mason was not
injured.
, To Preserve Valley Forge.
The Valley Forge Park association,
made up of various patriotic societies
having for its object the preservation of
the battlefield at Valley Forge, met
Wednesday in Independence hall, Phila
delphia. Letters were read pledging
the support of Senators Depew, Hoar,
Lodge, Wellington and Scott. The as
sociation has a bill in Congress appro
priating $200,000 for the purchase of the
battlefield, and the intention is to lay
out a park.
Gets an Enormous Fee.
Former President Benjamin Harrison
has received his fee for his services In
connection with the. arbitration of the
boundary dispute between British Gui
ana and Venezuela. The settlement was
made Wednesday, It has been stated
officially that Mr. Harrison's fee was to
be $100,000.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Li Hung Chang is suffering from in
fluenza. Fires in Boston, Mass., cause a loss
of $JOO,00O.
Great Britain is holding out lor
harsh terms to be presented to China.
The census of Germany shows 3.1
cities with populations exceeding 100,
000. It is reported in London that a crush
ing defeat has been inflicted upon the
Boers.
Nearly half a million foreign immi
grants found homes in the United States
in iqoo.
John D. Rockefeller has given an ad
ditional $1,500,000 to the University of
Chicago.
Thirty insurgents were raptured in a
raid only four miles outside of Manila
Monday.
Charles F. Stone was shot and killed
in an encounter with a burglar at Hous
ton. Tex.
Seventeen thousand dock laborers,
sailors and coal porters are on a strike
at Antwerp.
The first political party under Ameri
can regime has been organized in the
Philippines.
Peter Farly, Mrs. Joseph Taylor and
Minnie Baker were drowned in llat.i
lake, Alaska.
Sewn hundred Boers have crossrd
from the Orap;e river colony into
Cape Colony.
Safe crackers at F.vcrctt. Pa., rob
bed the postoffice of $500 in stamps and
$1,000 in securities.
The mayor of Atlanta. Ga.. breaks his
pledire and is locked up in police sta
tion for being drunk.
Over 130 lives were lost by the found
ering of the German training ship
tineiscnau off Malaga.
The Sharon (Pa.) Coal and Limestone
Company is putting down two mine
shafts near Volant, Pa.
A fifteen-year-old New York girl has
been arrested after having-cashed $340
worth of forged checks.
The Pennsylvania Company will build
a branch railroad to the new coal field
in eastern Mercer county.
The railroad from Peking to Taku is
now completed. To make the trip of 80
miles generally takes 20 hours.
The government of Chile has invited
tenders for 5.000 tons of coal for the
railroads and 400 freight cars.
Attorney Gen. Griggs argued in- su
preme court that the constitution does
not necessarily follow the flag.
Attempts to float the British steamer
Laura, ashore on the coast of Holland,
near Petten, have been unsuccessful.
A bill was introduced in the Puerto
Rico house of delegates by Mr. D-'S-cartes
granting suffrage to women.
An invalid sister of General Castillo
of the Cuban army committed suicide
by shooting herself through the heart.
A new company has been formed
with $10,000,000 capital for the purpose
of controlling the crude rubber market.
Free delivery mail carriers ir Craw
ford county. Pa., are throwing up their
jobs. They say they can't make their
salt.
Military court of inquiry investigating
the cause of the death of Oscar L.
Booz. Tuesday held a hearing at West
Point.
The Brown hoisting and conveying
machine works at Cleveland are in
ashes. Over 1,000 men are idle as a
result.
Maj. Estcrhazy, of Dreyfus scandal
notoriety, is an inmate of a London
almshouse, too poor to buy even a
postage stamp.
Sufficient money has been pledged to
relieve the Anglo-American Savings and
Loan Association by taking over its real
estate interests.
Channing B. Barnes, who held iip
and robbed a train near New Orleans,
was found dead in a swamp near the
scene of his crime.
The Tcnney house at Asbury Park, N.
J., was destroyed by fire, many of the
escaping guests being driven out in
their night clothes.
The chamber of deputies has passed
n bill appropriating $500,000 for the
Chilian exhibit at the Pan-American
Exposition in Buffalo.
The new note drawn up by the envoys
at Peking was signed Thursday night
and will be presented to the Chinese
government Saturday.
Conference on arbitration at Chicago
decides that compulsory arbitration of
labor disputes would not meet the re
quirements in this country.
Charles Wcrthcmicr. a London bric-a-brac
dealer, has commenced suit in
Paris against Count and Countess Cas
tcllane for 6,500,000 francs.
A dispatch from Vienna reports Mos
lem excesses against the Christian pop
ulation in the central provinces of Tur
key, where 200 Christians have been
killed.
The cause of the diplomatic snarl ut
Peking seems to be blunders of the cable
company in transmitting messages of in
structions from foreign capitals to the
envoys. (
Mayor Kelly, of South Omaha, Neb.,
is to be tried on the charge of taking
bribes from brewers to allow the sa
loons in the city to remain open on
Sunday.
The Duke of New Castle has arrived
in New York from England on a mis
sion in the interest of the High
Church party in the Anglican and Epis
copal churches.
Francis P. Blake, general superintend
ent of the Puritan Coal Mining Com
pany's plant at Puritan, Cambria coun
ty, committed suicide by shooting.
Cause, ill health.
The night watchman at the State
treasury, in Lincoln, Neb., found thr-e
men endeavoring to rob the safe, but
they were frightened away by his shots,
and got nothing.
It is said that Archbishop Ireland will
make a tour of Cuba, at the request of
President McKinlev, to report upon the
dispute over the allotment of church
property in the island.
At Philadelphia, Pa., the big factory
of the Franklin-Baker Company, manu
facturers of shredded cocoanut was
badly damaged by fire Wednesday. The
loss is upwards of $150,000, fully insured.
SPREAD OF REBELLION IS FEARED.
BOER RAIDS.
Capo Colony Has Been Invaded by Two
Thousand Burghers Demands
' hiss's of General Dewet.
The situation in the northern districts
of Cape Colony is more serious. i Fully
2,000 Boers have invaded that section.
Grave fears are entertained that Dutch
sympathizers will join the rebellion and
that this will spread.
The principal seat of action has been
transferred to the northern part of Cape
Colony. A large body of Boers have
crossed the Orange river toward Bur
gersdorp. A British force followed, to
avoid which the Boers turned westward
and occupied Venterstadt, but they
evacuated the town the same day on the
approach of the British and marched
in the direction of Steynsburg.
Another 3,000 Boers crossed at Sand
Drift, making for Colesberg, but on the
dispatch of a British force, they diverg
ed nnd occupied Phillipstown, cutting
the telegraph wires between Phillips
town and Mottkt Kraal. Early Thurs
day morning a portion of these Boers
reached Houkt Kraal station and cut
the line there.
Considerable reinforcements have
been sent to- DeAar and Hanover, an.1
it is expected that further invasion will
now be stopped, except in the case of
scouting parties which may slip through
to raid cattle and to obtain much need
ed supplies.
DcWct had 6.000 men nnd 1R.000
horses when he captured Dewctsdorp,
according to a gentleman who was im
prisoned there. The Boer commander
then declared that he was not going to
surrender without a free pardon for all
his men, including many Cape Dutch.
The force of 6,000 is now divided into
three sections.
SHORTAGE ALLEGED.
Toller of the York Security Title and Trust
Company Short $20,000.
Harry K. Wciscr, teller of the Se
curity Title and Trust Company, a
banking institution of York, Pa., is
said by the officials of the company to
be short $jo,ooo in his accounts. The
bank posted a notice informing its cus
tomers that neither its capital or sur
plus was impaired by the teller's short
age and that it was prepared to meet
all its obligations on demand. Teller
Weiser has Becurcd the bank by trans
ferring to it real estate valued at $20,
000. How long Wciser's irregular transac
tions have been going on the bank offi
cers refuse to state. His methods con
sisted in changing figures on deposit
slips. Weiser has broken down and lies
at his home suffering from nervous pros
tration. It is believed that he had been
trading in the stock market.
An Idea From Alabama,
Representative Richardson, of Ala
bama, who has just taken the seat from
that State vacated by Gen. "Joe"
Wheeler, proposes a startling innova
tion in the present federal soldiers'
homes system. He has introduced a
bill in the House which authorizes the
National board of managers of the
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers to
establish a branch at Huntsville. Ala.,
to which may be admitted not only vet
erans of the union army, but such ex
confederates as are recommended for
maintenance by the Alabama State
board of examiners in charge of the
State confederate veterans' home.
Maryland Bank Robbed.
Robbers blew up the safe of t'le
Hampstead bank, Carroll county, Md.,
early Thursday morning. So terrific
was the explosion that a portion of the
wall of the building was demolished.
The robbers escaped, using a hand car
and going south on the Baltimore and
Harrisburg railroad. Officials of the
bank say the men secured about $50 in
coin, all the notes having been removed
from the safe the evening before.
Boers Become Invaders.
It is reported that Gen. Knox ha3
been forced to abandon the pursuit of
Gen. Dewet, owing to the situation cre
ated in Cape Colony by the Boers cross
ing the Orange river. It is said that
3.000 republicans have entered Cane
Colony, and a similar number have
reached Philipstown. Dewet, with
about 4,500 men, is northeast of Lady
brand, and an attack on Winburg is ex
pected. Great Battle In Colombia.
The State department has received a
dispatch from Charge d'Affaires Deau
pre, at Bogota, stating that a great bat
tle has been fought at Girardot, Mafr
dalcne river, Colombia, which resulted
in a decisive victory for the government.
It is reported that 600 were killed and
many hundreds wounded. Other vic
tories by the government forces of the
utmost importance have been announc
ed. Lynched an Innocent Man.
Citizens of Gulfport, Miss., Thursday
lynched one negro and are on the trail
of three others as a result of the murder
of Town Marshal W. E. Richardson.
The negro lynched was not the one who
did the shooting, but he had been ar
rested by a posse that was pursuing the
real culprit and his relatives. The negro
church at Gulfport has been burned by
the mob.
Irish Coast Swept By Gales.
Aerial depressions of great size and
depth are spreading over Great Britain
from the westward. Storms are re
ported on all the coasts, numbers of min
or wrecks have occurred and the south
.west gale continues with unabated fury
on the Irish coast.
The Philippines Company, of New
York city, capital $1,200,000, has been
incorporated. The purpose of the cor
poration is to construct railroads and
acquire and develop lands in the Philip
pine islands.
The army bill as amended by the Sen
ate committee permits the sale of beer
in canteens.
PROCLAMATIONS ISSUED.
Gen. MacArthur Says the Laws of War Will
bo Strictly Applied In tho Islands
From Now On.
Thursday Gen. MacArthur issued a
proclamation warning the inhabitants of
the archipelago that strict compliance
with the laws of war will be required
of non-combatants as well as combat
ants. The proclamation refers to procla
mations by insurgent commanders
threatening natives who are friendly to
the American forces and to the orders
issued to their men to kidnap and as
sassinate residents of towns occupied
by Americans. The insurgent leaders
were notified that such practices will end
the possibility of their resuming normal
civic relations and will make them fugi
tive criminals.
Residents of places occupied by Amer
icans were notified that compliance with
the demands of the enemy will create a
presumption that such acts are volun
tary nnd malicious; that pleas of In
timidation will rarelv be accepted,, and
that where secret committees are "per
mitted to exist in behalf of the insur
gents even well-disposed persons will be
exposed to the danger of being tried as
traitors.
TARIFF ON WHEAT.
Agrarian Party In Germany Wants It Made
Prohibitive.
The Agrarian party irt Germany, hav
ing successfully brought about a law
at the last session of the reichstag pro
hibiting, in effect, the importation of
American canned meats, is now using
its powerful influence to increase heav
ily the import duties on all grains en
tering the empire, notably on whe.it,
reports U. S. Consul Dicderich at Bre
men to the State department. The aim
of the Agrarians, according to the con
sult is to make Germany entirely inde
pendent of all countries for its bread
stuffs and food supplies.
At present, however, says the consul,
there seems little doubt that the pro
posed law will be passed by the reich
stag. As a large portion of the im
portation of wheat is American-grown,
this will seriously affect the interests
of the American farmer. "A duty rf
40 or 50 cents on every bushel of wheat,"
concludes Consul Diederich, "cannot
fail to be well night prohibitive, and
the consequence will be more limited
markets, fiercer competition, and lower
prices to the producers."
CH0ATE MAY RESIGN.
American Ambassador to England Coming
Homo May Not Return.
Ambassador Choate will, it is said,
soon sail for the United States, the
death of his partner, Charles C. Beaman,
having rendered his presence in New
York necessary. 1
It is believed that Ambassador Choate
will not return to London. He is not a
rich man and his life there as ambassa
dor entails not only the loss of his pro
fessional income, but is likewise a heavy
drain on his purse, as his salary is bare
ly sufficient to pay his house rent. This
in itself rendered him disinclined to re
tain the ambassadorship for another
four years, and now that his partner in
the firm of Evarts, Choate & Beaman is
dead his return to America for good has
become more than ever probable.
MADE A GOOD HAUL.
Bank Robbers Blow Open a Sale and Secure
$18,000.
The safe in the Citizens bank at Hope,
Ind., was blown open by robbers and
looted of its contents early Tuesday
morning. There were five explosions in
opening the safe. The telephone girl
saw the flashes and called up a numoer
of citizens. Postmaster Spaugh, one
of the first to arrive upon the scene, saw
a man on guard in front of the bank
who ran inside the bank door just i.i
time to avoid a load of shot from
Spaugh's shotgun. The robbers fled
with their booty, and made their escape.
There was at least $18,000 taken. Three
or four men were connected with the
robbery. Twenty men are scouring the
country in search of the robbers, who
are thought to be in hiding not far off.
A Bravo Deed ot a Sailor.
The steamer Alpha, which sailed from
Vancouver, B. C, Saturday for Japan,
was wrecked on a rock in Union bay,
east side of Vancouver island, during
a storm Sunday night. Samuel Bar
hoc, owner of the ship; Capt. F. M.
York, Engineers Dunn and Murray,
Parker White and two seamen named
Crosby and Sullivan were drowned.
The remainder of the 34 people on
hoard were saved by a sailor, who swam
in the raging sea from the ship to the
lighthouse on Yellow island with a
line around his waist.
Morocco Comes to Terms.
A message from United States Con
sul Gummere, at Tangiers. informs the
State department that the Moorish gov
ernment had settled the claim of the
United States for $5,000 indemnity jn
account of the murder of Marcus
Eszagui, a naturalized American citi
zen, in Morocco last spring.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL
Charles S. Francis of New York, has
been nominated to be minister to
Greece, Roumania and Servia.
The Senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of John W. Yerkes, of Ketucky, 10
be commissioner of internal revenue.
Senators who were turned down t
the November election seem determined
to talk the ship subsidy bill to death,
John G. A. Leishman, of Pittsburg,
minister to Switzerland, has been trans
ferred to the mission at Constantinople.
A. L. Lawshe, deputy auditor for tbe
postoffice department, has been ap
pointed auditor for the Philippine isl
ands. The Senate passed the House resolu
tion authorizing the retirement of Con
gressman Charles A. Boutelle as a cap
tain of the navy.
The Senate voted pensions of $50 a
month to the widows of General John
M. Palmer and General John A. Mc-demand.
TERMS 10 CHINA SETTLED UPON.
ENVOYS AGREE.
Tho Conditions tor Negotiation ot Peace Are
Not Made Irrevocable Punishment ot
Boxer Leaders Osmanded.
Telegrams from Pekin, say: At a
meeting of the foreign ministers late
Wednesday evening the terms of the
joint note were agreed to, including! the
British modifications. The ministers le
fuse to disclose anything, believing that
the home governments should give the
particulars to the public.
The officials at Washington are un
able to say just what the British modi
fications referred to in the Pekin dis
patch are, but it is believed they rested
upon the exclusion of the "irrevocable"
clause, which this government has in
sisted must not appear in the preamble
to the note, and the preamble, it is un
derstood, will not contain that word.
It is believed that the following points
cover the essential features of the agree
ment: The punishment of the officials guilty
of the Boxer outrages. The payment
of indemnity for the wrongs inflicted
by the Boxers to the persons, corpora
tions and societies which have suffered.
The revision of commercial treaties.
Some reform in the Tsung Li Yamcn,
so that the ministers having business
with the foreign office may transact It
more expeditiously and with a responsi
ble head. A monument to Baron von
Ketteler and the appointment of a prince
of the blood to proceed to Germany to
make formal apology to the emperor.
The right to keep legation guards in
Pekin desired. The exclusion of candi
dates for examinations for office for a
certain number of years in the case of
those who may be guilty of anti-foreifjn
activity. An interdiction of importation
of arms into China and of material to
be used exclusively in the manufacture
of arms. The taking of measures to
prevent further troubles.
NEW RUSSIAN CANAL.
Belgian Capitalists Will Construct a 60-Mile
Waterway.
Belgian capitalists are planning a
canal between the Volga and the Don
rivers at the point where they are sep
arated by only about 60 miles. The
chain of hills on the right bank of '.he
Volga offers considerable obstacle, but
one which is not considered unsur
mountable. The cost is estimated at
$35,000,000 or $40,000,000.
Representatives of the Belgian capi
talists will arrive in St, Petersburg,
Russia, within a few weeks to negotiate
with the ministries of finance and ways
of communication. This canal will give
the Volga, the greatest river in Europe,
an outlet to the Black sea and connect
the Caspian and the Black seas. The
minister of ways of communication,
Prince Khilkoff, will ask for appropria
tions to the amount of 80,000,000 rou
bles for the approaching year, ns
against 90.000,000 roubles last year.
Half of this amount will be for new
rolling stock and half for construction.
To Shako Off Turkey's Yoke.
Osman Pasha, a general of the Otto
man army, who recently left Turkey
clandestinely and a relative of the late
Osman Pasha, "the hero of Plevna,"
has unfolded plans for ridding Kurdis
tan and Armenia of the yoke of Tur
key. Accompanied by his partisans, some
of whom are in Europe, he will return
to Kurdistan, where the population, al
ready secretly armed, only awaits his
arrival to march as one man against
the oppressor. He says that the Otto
man empire will be compelled to en
gage in one of the most formidable
struggles in its historv. He expects to
be able to put into the field an army
of 100.000 men and is confident of res
cuing the people from a state of anarchy
and social abjection.
Worried by America.
The central bureau for the preparation
of commercial treaties has addressed a
circular to the press regarding the re
cent successes of Americans in getting
foreign orders. The circular mentions
particular orders for cast iron piping,
to be used in the Dutch colonics, at 25
per cent, below the German bid, aud
also orders for locomotives to be used
in Calcutta at figures below the Eng
lish prices and on terms of delivery bet
ter than those offered by the English.
After citing the bridges constructed by
Americans in Uganda and East Africa,
the circular points out that ships are
being constructed at San Francisco for
China and Japan and it concludes wiih
the statement that American competi
tion will be seriously felt in China after
peace is concluded.
Turned Down Pingree's Tax Bill.
The Michigan Senate met at 9 o'clock
Monday night in an adjourned session
and at once proceeded to a considcra
tion of the blanket taxation measure,
passed by the House last Friday, tax
ing railroads and other corporations at
ad valorem ' valuations. After a brief
discussion, action on the measure was
indefinitely postponed by a vote of 12
to 10, and then a resolution was adopt
ed that the Senate adjourn. The action
of the Senate kills the bill beyond re
call. Collicryi Form a Combine.
All the collieries which have been re
cently secured as feeders to the On
tario & Western Railroad Company's
coal department in the Scranton, Pa.,
region have -been consolidated into one
company under the title of one of the
consolidated companies, the Elk Hill
Coal St Iron Company. Seven com
panies, with it collieries and total capi
talization of $4,778,500, are merged, and
the capacity will be 2,000,000 tons an
nually. Rumors ol a British Victory.
The report of another severe battle,
resulting in a British victory, is cur
rent in London. According to the
Itory, the fighting began at daybreak
and last for several hours. The Boers,
who numbered Irom 1,500 to 2.000, were
surrounded at the Orange river and
totally defeated with very heavy losses
in killed, wounded and prisoners. :
VOLUNTEERS TO RETURN.
Philippine Soldiers Ant Soon to bo fteplacsl
by Regulars. ,
Telegrams from Manila say: Tho
volunteer regiments will proceed to the
United States, to be mustered out, in
practically the same order as they ar
rived in the Philippine islands. They
will be replaced by regulars, provided
by the army bill. ' The Thirty-seventh
volunteer regiment, which is to begin
the homeward movement by embarking
on New Year's day, will be brought
from the Laguna de Bay district, and
will sail on the transport Sheridan.
The officers of the regular army hold
ing commissions in volunteer regiments
will be retained in the Philippines, and
volunteer officers on special duty will
be relieved only on the authority of
headquarters.
It is believed that the temporary de
pletion of manv posts and the checking
of operations will result in renewed in
surgent activity. The announcement of
the early commencement of transporta
tion home of the volunteers caused sur
prise. General Hiifhes reports that 2t,
000 persons in the island of Panay have
sworn allegiance to the United States.
Prince Called to Account
Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of the
City Temple, who has assumed for a
week the editorship of the London
"Sun," in Tuesday's issue of the paper,
under the heading "Betting and Gamb
ling Forecasts," tilts at the Prince of
Wales and Lord Roseberry as follows:
"Woe to any country in which the
heirs to the throne and nrime ministers
favor the race course as it exists among
us to-day. If princes are guilty, it is
a poor consolation for us to rebuke peas
ants. If the premier can blaspheme, he
has no right to rebuke ribaldry upon
the street. I would rather have as pre
mier a man of solid character than one
of brilliant mind addicted to habits that
may have the tffcj of a pestilence upon
the rising generation."
Negro Soldiers Riot
Serious riots growing out of race feel
ing took place in the streets of Kings
ton, Jamaica, Monday night. The chief
rioters were several hundred negro sol
diers of the British West India regiment
who were sim-orted by natives of their
own color. They attacked civilians in
the street and maltreated many so badly
that they were taken to the hospital and
are under treatment for severe injuries.
Lieut. Col. Allen, who is in command
of the regiment, organized the police
and swore in citizens to aid in keeping
the peace.
The soldiers defy their officers. Most
of them are in the military camp and
the streets are guarded by the force of
police and volunteers.
Coal Miners Strike.
A strike which threatens to involve
many mines in the anthracite region
started Monday at the Kingston Coal
Company collieries, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa., when 1,800 men quit work, shutting
down four of the five mines operated
by the company. The other was allow
ed to work on permission of the union.
Later in the dav the company hands at
the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre No. 5 quit
work and the mine was idle. They ob
ject to the discharge of four of their
number.
LABOR WORLD.
The German empire in 1899 bad 1,330
strikes.
A settlement of the woodworkers'
strike in Chicago is said to be assured.
In Toledo, Ohio, all of the city de
partments are working under the eight
hour rule.
Miners at the Simpson coal mines,
at Lafayette, Col., have struck for
higher wages.
The International Jewelry Workers'
Union has organized a branch with loo
members at Philadelphia.
The Cigar Makers' International
Union now has a membership of over
34.000, and is growing rapidly.
The servant cirls of Minneapolis,
Minn., are being organized into a union
by the trades and labor council of tho
city.
The products of American work
shops exported during the nine months
ended September 30 last, were valued
at $338,678,243.
So great is the boom in the pattern
making branch of the iron-working in
dustry that employers literally have
had to hunt for workmen.
Common laborers in Spain get from
thirty to forty cents per day in' tho
larger towns and from twenty to thirty
cents in the rural districts.
The employes of the New Castle
(Pcnn.) Engineering Works have been
' asked to accept a wage reduction of
i twenty-five to thirty-five cents a day..
! ' Sixty lace finishers employed in tho
' corset factory of L. Newman & Sons,
at New Haven, Conn., struck a few
days ago against a twenty-five per
cent, reduction of wages.
Shipping firms at Portland and Bath,
Me., are unable to find crews for their
vessels, a number of which are lying
at the wharves unable to leave for
the reasons ' given. The cause of tho
scarcity is that a great number of men
have shipped on transports for Manila
and China.
CABLE FLASHES.
Lord Stratheona and. Mount Royal
has been installed as rector of Aberdeen,
Scotland, university.
Thanksgiving sen-ice in London in
nonor ot Lord Roberts return
poncd until Boers are crushed.
The chateau in Belgium of the
of Ligny, dating from 1146. was
but the paintings and most of
works were saved.
Several modern long-range g
now on the way from England
will replace less modern arma
some ot the torts about the
Halifax, N. S.
A German syndicate has
vast tract of tide-water cou
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
ropean investors have
there looking for coal.
Owing vo French la
the French mercantile m
only with Frenchmen, th
men cannot be tntrodu
and defeat the French
As a result they art ui
lul in their strikes.
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