s MANY WERE KILLED BY THE STORM. TEXAS TORNADO. The Village ot Willi Polnl Almost Wiped Out by Wlnditorm Followed by Heavy Cloudburst. A score on more persons were killed, many others injured nncl much properly destroyed by a tornado and cloudburst tliat swept through llie valley of tlie Sa Line river in Texas Saturday afternoon Houses were torn down, trees uprooted and the wind swept clean its path. Fol Iowiiik it came the rain. It fell in sheets and two men in Terrell are thought to have been drowned. From Will Point, a town on the Tex as Pacific railroad, comes the report that half of the town has hern totally destroyed and that at least eight per sons have met death. Among the 25 or more buildings destroyed were the oil mill, the Johnion Cotton Gin Company';; plant, the Texas Pacific depot, the public school ami numerous stores. The prop erty loss in Wills Point is estimated it $75,000, and in Van Zandt and sur rounding country districts about $100, The storm section extends into Ar kansas, Louisiana and up the Mississip pi valley nearly to Memphis, in regions almost without wire or rail. Properly losses approximate $1,000,000 to the foutheastern farming and other interests, and at least a score of persons arc (lead. At New Boston about 12 houses were partly wrecked and two persons so bad ly hurt that thev are expected to die. In Arkansas the storm wrought much property damage and killed many per son!. TROUBLES ARE CROWING. Tar.fl War and Russian Seizure ot Manchuria Strain Friendships. Unless Russia backs down from the position she has assumed in Manchuria, end withdraws her troop when the allii s decide that the time for such action Ins arrived, Li I limn Chang's statement thai if China could only wait long enough the power would be lighting anions thcinsilvis, will be very likely to come true. According to the facts that have leaked out at the state detriment. Kny: land. Japan, Germany and probably the United States, have served notices upon Kussia thai unless she withdraws they will use their forces to oust her. The statement has been couched in the usual diplomatic language, but is none the less strong on thai account. Rus sia has so far made no denial of her pnr- )ose in the far cast, and so far as can be earned she has paid no attention to tin demands made by the powers mentioned. The tension is growing, and F.ngland 's the power that is forcing matters. All ' of her great c;istcrn empire is at stake. ENSLAVES NEGROES REIO CE. Thanksgiving Meetings Being Ibid Cver tho D.a'.h ol a Slaveholder. The sudden death of Preston B. Allen, who owned and operated a slavery cs tablMiment in Anderson county, S. C, lias caused the wildest excitement. Re ports from Anderson say that the nc Kroes, and especially those who were held as slaves, arc holding thanksgiving meetings. Allen lived 10 miles from the city of Anderson. He owned a stock ade, where several negroes were confin ed, but the jury did not produce evi dence sufficient to have him indicted. Allen had called on Judge Fowler, the father of the system, and was discuss ing the fearless work of the jury, when Suddenly Allen fell over dead. The news spread to the negro quarters and blacks licgan to pray and sing. Another far mer who is implicated in the slave hor ror, it is said, died last week under simi lar circumstances. His name was not mentioned by the jury afler his death, but the fact was known to the negroes and the two deaths following in succes sion have caused the negroes to believe it a Nemesis, and they arc glorifying. Bloody Rain In Italy. A phenomenon, first observed at Pal ermo. Sicily, has extended all ovr Southern Italy. In Rome the sky is J rellow, but at Palermo and Naples a icavy red clo"d fills the heavens and the rain now falling resembles drops of coagulated blond. It is attributed to dust from the African deserts, swept across the Mediterranean by the heavy south winds. Found General Green's Remains, The question of the final resting place of 'the bones of General Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, has been settled by the investigating committee of the Rhode Island society of the Cin cinnati, and the Georgia historical soci ety finding the remains in a vault in the Colonial cemetery in Savannah, Ga. A silver name plate was found inscribed with the name and rank of General Greene. The Rhode Is'and society will erect a memorial. Blundor Sent Him to Prison. Chaunccy F. Glover, a wealthy resi dent of Long Island, has been sentenc ed to four years and four months' im prisonment for forging a will purporting to be that of his father. He presented an alleged will bearing date of i8yo, and a stationer testified that the paper on which it was written was not manufac tured until 1&J7. Glover fainted when sentence was pronounced. TERSE TELEGRAMS Five men were killed in zinc mine near Jopli'i, Mo by an explosion of powder. John D. Rockefeller has given $110, 000 to Vassar college for a new dormi tory. Various religious bodies have passed resolutions denouncing the Sunday ses sion of Congress. . Black erysipelas is raging at 1 Rains burg, Bedford county, Pa. Several deaths are reported. Greut Britain may abandon her an cient policy of free trade in favor o( a protective duty on sugar. Col. William G. Sanger has been sel ected to succeed George D. Meiklejoha as assistant secretary of war. In 0 street duel at Parkville, 111., be tween John S-iydir and Isaac McCul lom, farrv.eis, both were fata'ly wounded. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Mohnmmcdalis in Bombay rioted and several were killed. Rev. A. F. W. Ingram has been ap pointed bishop of London. The Silver Republican party of Idulu lias been formally disbanded. Ait earthquake in Peru was wide felt end wrecked many houses at Lima. The Indiana Senate killed the proposi tion for woman suffrage in that State. San Francisco officials have admitted that the bubonic plague exists in that ci:y. A new central organisation of th? building trades of Chicago, III., is being formed. The Portuguese government is prepar ing measures against the religious asso ciations. The Legislature of Utah has passed a law that will reinstate polygamy i-i that Slate. Forty Filipino insurgents nud many soldiers surrendered lo the American forces in Luzon. A Brooklyn pastor and his wife arc considering the odvinbility of emulat ing Mrs. Nation. F.x-President Cleveland was nearly drowned Saturday while hunting ducks, being caught in a storm. The extra session of the Senate ad journed Saturday after confirming many army and navy promotions. Mrs. Sanders and her niece, Viola Wilcox, were burned to death in their home at Hot Springs, Ark. Kirby Graves, William Johnson nnd Henry Brooks, negroes, were hanged at Richmond. Ark., for murder. An Knglish archaeologist reports the discovery of rare finds of golden tab lets of the first dynasty of F.gypt. Bank burglars at Perrysburg, ()., who used nitro-glyeerine. were frightened away before securing any booty. Maj. William Warner, of Kansas City, Mo., denies that the coinnii.sionership of pensions has been tendered him. The examiner took charge of the First National bank of Niles. Mich., after a sensational run on it by its depositor-. A mob . of j-Y) Italians at Orange, N. J., caused a riot in trying to bum a pest house, and several persons were hurt. J. II. Springer's bank, at Argonia, Kas., was robbed by burglars id $2,600 in cash and $4.1x10 in government bonds. The population of Alaska, as shown by the census of 1000, is 6,1,50.2, an in crease of 31,540, or 0X4 per cent, in 10 years. The strike of the stevedores and other dock hands at Havana has been ended by n compromise on the question of waes. Myrtle Webster was arrested at To peka, Kas., on the charge of killing her husband, who was found in bed with his throat cut. Claims aggregating $1,000 have been filed at Washington against alleged dep redations of Pennsylvania militiamen at the inauguration. Flames did damage amounting to $250,000 in the office b"ilding of tins. New York. New Haven and Hartford rail toad at New York. Two Italian laborers were blown to atoms by an explosion of dynamite in a quarry at West Mauayunk, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. Capt. Richard B. Paddock, of the Sixth United States cavalry, is dead at Tien Tsin, of, pneumonia. He was ap pointed from Illinois. At Grand Haven. Mich., fire totally destroyed the public library building, in cluding 5,000 volumes. Loss $100,000, with insurance of $40,000. John MaeWilson Diirant, of New Y'ork, who has been living for two years in Paris, has been killed at Ostcnd in a duel with a Russian count. Andrew Carnegie offers a library for Vancouver, B. C, under the usual terms. The Morocco tribes on the French frontier in Algeria arc in revolt. Contracts arc being closed at Ta coma. Wash., by a Chinese firm for 50,. coo barrels of (lour per month for ship ment to China during the year. John A. Kasson has resigned the of fice of special commissioner of the United States to make reciprocity treaties with foreign governments. At Atlantic City, N. J., Albert Zim merman, 40 years old. shot his wife through the head, attempted to kill her father and then shot himself dead. The Molcpile tunnel, piercing the Utah hill at Apex, Col., is on fire. Three miners were caught in the tunnel and are probably dead from suffocation. T. L. Clark, general manager of the American Steel Hoop Company, said that the trend of the United States steel trust is to secure Southern interests. Thi? Indiana Legislature has pass-d a bill providing a penalty of death in ex treme cases and imprisonment from 10 years to a life term for kidnaping for ransom. Pennsylvania miners in the bituminous region agreed to accept the advance ot the operators for another year, and an thracite operators posted notices that re cent concessions will stand. "Prince Albrecht Zu Sohns-Braunfcls has committed suicide at WeUbaden, having learned that the disease from which he was suffering was incurable. David Forsythe. a street car conduc tor, was found dead in New York with a bullet in his head. John Quinn, a motorman, has been arrested on suspi cion. Administration people say the mili tary government will be continued in Cuba until the constitutional conven tion accepts the terms imposed by Con Cress. By a vote of 52 to 35 the lower houc of the Indiana Legislature adopted the Neal joint resolution for a constitu tional amendment providing for woman suffrage in that State. The Ontario government has taken up the question of forbidding the export of natural gas from the western penin sula, and there is every indication that the measure will become a law. The famous Gracia group of mines, in the state of Oaxaca, Mcx.. has been sold to a firm of bankers of Detroit, Mich. The mines will now be equipped with modern American machinery. Joseph A. Conlin. formerly a clerk in a New Y'ork branch postoftire, has been arrested in San Francisco on a charge of stealing in New York registered mail containing $400,000 worth of bonds and $:.cco in cash. ) - . , READY 10 MI El 1 ALLIES. DEFY THE POWERS. Chines Boxer Chlols Have Assembled an Aimy of 3(1.000 Men-lapan'i Enpeola lion 01 Trouble with Russia. Gen. Tung Fu Hsiang, with ao.coo men, and Prince Titan, with to.ooo men, tre at Ning Hsu. prepared to resist ar rest. Li Hung Chang is again seriously ill, r.nd his physician says his life hangs by a thread. Prince Ching and Karl Li seem to think that by spreading rumors of tlr: court's unwillingness to return to l'ekin unless this or that thing is done they can inllueiicc the deliberations of the for eign envoys. The imperial personages arc extremely uncomfortable at Sian Fu, where they live in the house of the gov ernor, which is only a small structure. French missionaries who have returned here from Sian Fu believe the empress dowager would bring the court back to Pckin on the first offer of the allies having a; a basis the removal of the troops except the legation guards. The Japanese battleship llatsuse, just completed in Fngland. has been ordered In proceed to Japan with all possible peed. Other orders given to the Japan ese navy indicate the seriousness with which the Japanese government views the situation in the far Fast. Well-informed Japanese regard Russia's action in Manchuria as a gigantic bluff, inspir ed by the notion that Fngland's hands arc tied in South Africa: but, as Germany is only half hearted in the maintenance of Chinese integrity, a coalition with Ja pan is improbable, and Japan is too ni'ich embarrassed in her finances to do more than to protect and to endeavor tr lecure compensating advantages in Ko rea. WAR CLOUD IN BULGARIA. Turk sh Troops Concentrating on the Mace donian Frontier Powers Given Warning. Increasing apprehension is felt in Bulgaria at the concentration id Turkish troops on the Macedonian frontier. Large quantities of arms and ammuni tion have been secretly imported into the, vilayets of Kossovo, (Jskltv and Monas tic Two Russian officers, who have toured recently in northern Macedonia incognito, left last evening for St. Pet ersburg. The Bulgarian government has re ceived sharp reminders from three of the great powers that it will be held re sponsible for the preservation of order in the border districts. Great anxiety exists in Albania, which is in a state cf unusual ferment. A quantty of cartridges of Russian manufacture have been seized at Xanth", otherwise called Fskidje, in the southern part of Rouinania and adjoining the dis affected parts of Macedonia. The Turks have also raided and burned the village of Dabauiftcha, in which disturbances are alleged to have occurred. Twenty five men and seven women perished in the flames. At Drama, Macedonia,, p cases of dynamite and 1.950 Mauser rilles have been seized by the Turkish authorities, who have also arrested 300 persons charged with either an active i t intended share in an uprising against the sultan. BRUTAL COLOMBIAN TACTIC3. Reported That Both Sides In the Struggle re Resorting lo Them. According to V. II. Putros, a railroad man, who has arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from South America, the war now in progress in Columbia is characteriz ed by brutality on both sides. In tho far interior, Putros says, the federals be fore being driven out. slaughtered every person that fell into their hands, except ing only a few women. At Chinipa a body of adherents cf Marosquin, while retreating, came upon an inn near the town, and took posses sion of it. The person in command of this party was Melton Zubis, who nt present has charge of the artillery nt Bogota. Theophilc Ortiz, son of the owner of the inn, was found within an." made prisoner. Having ascertained tha the young man's father was a rebel, Zu bia ordered him to be tortured. He was finally, according to Putros, impaled by his chin on a hook driven to the door, and his hands were nailed to the sides of the entrance. In this way, after a series of struggles, he soon died. Rare Find in Waste Paper. An autograph letter of George Wash ington, dated 1776, has been found among some waste paper stock at th Bryant paper mill, Kalamazoo, Mich. It was written to Capt. James Jamicson, a New York merchant, asking for bout freight rates on a quantity of flour. Two copies of the "Federal Gazette" and Baltimore "Advertiser," over 100 years old. and an autograph letter of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia, dated 1793, were also found. The waste paper came from Philadelphia. ffombers ol Cabinet Roeppoln'od. The President Tuesday sent the fol lowing nominations to the Senate: John Hay, of the District of Colum bia, to be secretary of state; Lyman J. Gage, of Illinois, to be secretary of the treasury; Elihu Root, of New Y'ork, to be secretary of war; John W. Griggs, ot New Jersey, to be attorney general; Charles F.mory Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be postmaster general; John D. Long, of Massachusetts, to be secretary of the navy; Ethan A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to be secretary of the interior; James Wilson, of Iowa, to be secretary of ag riculture. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, intro duced a resolution in the Senate declar ing the Clayton-Bulwer treaty abrogat ed. More Indian Claims. Omaha Indians on the reservation 'n Eastern Nebraska arc preparing to take steps to establish a big land claim. Charles P. Mathewson. Indian agent for the Omahas and Winnehagos, will pre sent their case at Washington, so tint an attorney may be appointed to begi;i the work. The Omahas claim that a large por tion of Dakota and Dixon counties, Nebraska, belong to them by treaty, made in the early '40's. The claim takes in several thousand acres of the most valuable land n those counties. STRIKE THREATENED. Altoona Convention Requests Members lo Cease Work April 1, Unless Demands re Mel Agree on Eight-Hour Day. At the miners' convention held in Al toona, Pa., this resolution was unani mously adopted: "That we request nil mine workers to associate themselves with their organization and cense work on April 1, unless paid scale rates." The resolution was understood by the delegates to be virtually a demand for p.ll operators in the district to pay the scale. April I, njot, was declared a holi day tn celebrate the adoption of the eight hour movement. Thus the con vention goes on record as opposed .0 any other day, although the operators prefer nine hours. Among the other resolutions adopted were: Where there is an agreement be tween the oprators nnd miners no man be employed unless he can present .1 working card; abolition of company stores and organization of co-operative stores; nil free cliques be abolished; ask ing the Legislature to repeal all acts contrary to the 90-day lease; declaring any man a "scab" who loads coal by lin ear or day; condemning the compul sory education law. The scale to be presented to the operators asks 00 cents a ton for pick mining, Inst year's rate, two-thirds differential and pay for all dead work. BRUTAL RUSSIAN POLICE. Men and Women Students Trampled Under tho Feel ol Horses. A serious one-sided conflict occurred at St. Petersburg, Russia. Wednesday between 1,000 or more students and the mounted police. The students had gathered to celebrate the 40th anniver sary of the emancipation of the serfs. They had collected in nnd about the Kaan cathedral on the Novsky pros pect, where n mass for the repose of the soul of Oar Alexander II. was beinn celebrated. After the mass (he students began singing and the police gathered in great numbers. The students were surroun I ed and driven in a Trowel toward the city hall not far away and also on the Novsy prospect. For on special renson the police began heating the students and tramping them under the feet if their horses. The spectators and the women students screamed with horror, but the police kept up their attack on the students until 400 of the latter were driven into the court yard of the city hall, the others escaping into th? crowd. The entire city was horrified by the conduct of the police. NEGROES ASK FOR JUSTICE. Afro American Council Complains ol Disfran chisement and Lynching. A circular issued by the executive committee of the National Afro-American council says the disfranchisement oi American citizens is a menace to the perpetuity of the republic. The com mittee promises it will cajl on the col ored people to support the movement to test the constitutionality of the Louis iana disfranchisement laws. It declares that the system of slavery practiced in Anderson county, S. C, accidentally dis closed at a murder trial, calls attention to the encroachments of the contract rystem upon the labor and liberty of American citizens, and demands the re peal of all pro-slavery contract labor laws. Appeal is made for a trial by jury for every person charged with crime and for swift and certain punishment of the guilty by process of law. This last suggestion is made in consequence of the burning alive of two negroes. PURSUIT WITH BLOODHOUNDS. Husbend of a Murdorod Woman Leads the Chaso Suspect landed In Jail. At Corsicana, Tex., Mrs. Conway Younger was assaulted and murdered Thursday night by a negro. A posse of 200 men, headed by Younger and blood hounds, are following the trail of the murderer, who will meet a terrible death at the hands of the pursuers. Younger returned from the fields to find his wife missing. He asked his child where its mother had gone. "A big negro knock ed mamma down and dragged her away." lisped the little one. Mrs, Youngcr's body was found in a brush patch not far from the house. There were signs of a terrible struggle between her and her assailant. John Henderson, who, it is believed, is the murderer of Mrs. Younger, was arrested and spirited away by officers to Hillsboro, where he is now in jail. Custom House Blowi Up. The custom house at Trim, a few miles from San Sebastian, Spain, has been blown up with dynamite. Several persons were killed and many injured by the explosion. The government does not know whether to attribute the out rage to Carlists or anarchists, although the section is strongly Carlist. Calhollo Priest Suicides. Despondent over his recent dischar.' ! from the Duluth diocese, Rev. Francis ! Budzyoski, a Roman Catholic pries.-, i shot himself in the heart in a Miuneapo- ! 11s, .1111111., noiei ana uiea uelore aid could reach him. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL Inauguration expenses footed up about $75,000, or $15,003 more than four years ago. Receipts more than cover the cost. Recognizing the impossibility of ob taining action by the Senate the Pres ident will not re-transmit to that body the nominations of Rear Admiral Samp son and Rear Admiral Schley for ad vancement. Representative Cannon, chairman of the House committee on appropriations, and Mr. Livingston, the senior Demo cratic member, agree in figuring the ap propriations for the first session of th.! Congress that has just expired at $710, 150.862, and for the second session at $729,911,683, a total of $1,440,062,545. The appropriations of the previous Congress, the Fifty-fifth, were $1.5(18, 213.637, and of the Fifty-fourth, $1,044, 580,273. Congress adjourned sine die Mondnv without enacting into law several im portant pending measures, including the river and harbor bill. PLANS UNFOLDED. Military Strength for Heme Service lo be In. creesed to 680,000 Men Only Volun tary Enlistments Contemplated. In the house of commons Mr, Broiler ick, the war secretary, prefaced his intro duction of the army estimates for igoi 02 by saying that the war In South Africa had brought to light many faults, even in those portions of the army sys tem which were believed to be best. The war office proposals contemplate the ability to send abroad three army corps, with a division of cavalry, in ill 120.00:1 men, and nt the same time have a sufficient force for home defenses. The country is to be divided into six districts, each district representing an army corps, and each corps command,; I by an officer who had a command n time of war. He said the object of the government in dividing the country into six districts was to centralize the rcsponsibilty and decentralize the administration. The three army corps, to be entirely com posed ol regulars, would be stationed nt Aldershot, at Salisbury and in Ire land. The other three army corps, to include 60 battalions of militia and vol unteers, would be stationed nt Colches ter. York and Edinburgh. The govern ment also proposed to raise eight bat talions for garrison duty from men about to enter the reserve, to establish a re serve militia, and to raise a force of 35. 000 yeomanry, to be armed with short rilles and bayonets. The Met addition to the army under this scheme would be 126.500 men, at a cost of 2.000.0-.0. ami 40.000 additional trained volunteers. Under the new scheme the army for home defense will consist of 155.0m reg ulars, 100.000 reserves. 150,0011 militia. 25,0110 yeomanry and 250.000 volunteers BOERS TALK AND FIGHT. Whilo Peace Negotiations aro in Prcgross the Burghers Make Active War. In the house of commons Thursday Mr. Balfour said there had been com munications between (Jen. Kitchen-r and Gen. Ilotha, but the government was not in a position at present to make a statement 011 the subject. It is said in Boer -ircles at Pretoria that the leaders in the field will surrender with a ma jority of their followers if assured of amnesty and assistance in starting life afresh, and if free pardon is granted. Gen. Kitchener telegraphs as follows from Pretoria: "Lichtcuhurg being attacked by I; larey's forces, fighting continued all day long. The garrison consists of 200 yeomanry and 300 Northumberland fusiliers, with two guns. Maj. Fletcher nnd Lieut. Hull arc reported killed. I Bin sending reinforcements." Col. (iorriugc reoccupied Pcarston, on the Great Riet river. He says the town should have been impregnable to the Boers, but the town guard offered inade quate resistance, and the Doers raptur ed the place, together with 60 rilles, 15 men and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. The government is sending out this week reinforcements of 12000 troops to South Airica. ENDING THE WAR. Commissioner Tatt Reports Piojra.a In Or ganizing Philippine Provinces. Secretary of War Root has received the following cable dispatch from Judge Taft, president of the Philippine com mission: "On the eve of (he President's sec ond administration I wish to convey to him assurance of the great progress made toward peace. Since January I, 127 firearms have been captured and !. 368 were surrendered. The capture.! and surrenders were both due to co-operation of mitives. Since November 5,000 botomcn have surrendered in I lo cos nnd 1,000 in Albay and Camarines: 60.000 residents of l'anay have taken the oath of allegiance: offensive attacks by insurgents are now of rarest occur rence; Belgado, the insurgent leader of Panay, with 350 men and rilles. and Angeles and Simon Tcchon. with 200, in Bulacan, have surrendered. Lacuna, Mascado. Pablo, Tcchon, Sandico and other leaders have made overtures of surrender; but their condition of im munity from prosecution for alleged complicity in assassination, not conced ed, has delayed consummation. SURPRISED BY INSURGENTS. Signal Corps and Scouts A tacked and Eli te red Hoavy Lois. A wagon train and a detachment of the signal corps, together with six Maca bebe scouts, were attacked by the insur gents about midway between the towns of Silang and Dasmarinas, in Cavite province. Three Americans were killed and two of the Macabebe scouts were wounded, while one man is missing. Four horses and one mule were killed. Captain Mair, with detachments of infantry and cavalry from Silang arrived at the sce-is of the surprise too late to intercept the enemy's retreat. The commission has decided to dou ble the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the improvement of Manila harbor, and it has passed a bill accepting the transfer of the Manila public library. , Thieves Make a Gcod Haul. Six masked men took tools from a blacksmith shop and breaking into the West Toledo (O.) postoffice blew the tafe open with nitro-glycerin and ot S700. The safe was demolished, and the building wrecked. They fired scver-il allots at citizens who were aroused by the explosion and drove away in a wag on. Lett $85,000 for Michigan. Mrs. Love M. Palmer, of Ann Arbor, Mich., widow of Dr. A. B. Palmer, who was professor in the medical depart ment of the University of Michigan, from 1S52 up to the time of his death. 15 years ago, is dead. ' By the terms oi her will she leaves $85,000 to the uni versity. It is understood that $20,000 will go to build a new ward for the ho uital nnd $15,000 to maintain free beds in that institution. Mrs. Palmer left 40,000 with which to build a tower for St. Andrew's Episcopal church in that city. ABSOLUTE SLAVERY. Flndii.i of (our Carolina' Grand fury. Freemen Whipped for Disobedience and Shot II Ihoy Attempt to Escape. The grand jury of Anderson county, South Carolina, will report to a specUl term of court the result of its investiga tion of the labor contract system in that county, which was declared by Judge Ilenet to be "worse than slavery" and equal to the conditions in Siberia. At the February term ol court rep resentations were made to the judge thut contract laborers were being kept in stockades and worked as convicts by the landlords; that these contracts were bought and sold by the planters, the laborer having bound himself to be transferred at the will of one landlord to another; that freemen were whipp"d for infraction f tdantation regulations, and each landlord made his own rules to govern his farm. After hearing from the grand jury the result of a hasty investigation, Judge Ilenet said: "By such terms and con ditions it is manifest that poor, ignorant negroes arc subjected to a state that is worse than slavery. I doubt if there ever was such a contract framed or d yised or conceived before in any civil ized or Christian community. Repre senting the law-abiding. God-fearing people of Anderson county, you will as certain the names of those fo-called land lords who have brought disgrace to your county and put it to a burning shame." It is reported that the grand jury found that over 500 contracts have been executed before one magistrate. VANQUISHING THE REBELS. Captures inl Surrenders Accumulate In tho Philippines 4,500 Prisoners. Capt. Hand, of the Forty-fifth infan try, and Capt. McLean, of the Forly seventh infantry, co-operating with the gurboat. Don Juan dc Austria, surpris ed a body of insurgents in camp, near the town of Posacao, on the coast of Camarines province, Luzon, and cap tured an insurgent commissary general nd a quantity of supplies. Protcsio Montejar, leader of the insurgent forces on the island of l'anay, with seven offi cers, 43 men and 3H rijles, have surrend ered to (.'apt. Barker, of the Twenty sixth. Fifteen ex-insurgent leaders and 500 followers took the oath of allegi ance to the United States at Conccpcion. island of Panay, and Jfti more promise soon to sweur fealty. This extinguishes t tie rebellion in that district. Four thou sand five hundred insurgent prisoner are now held at Manila. The new pris on on Grande island, in Subig bay. 60 miles west of Manila, has been complet- . el, ar.d 1.000 prisoners will be sent thete from Manila. The character of some of the meas ures which the commissioners arc con sidering indicates their expectation of the early establishment of the general civil government. The fact that there have been no insurgent attacks for months, except isolated instances of firing volleys into towns by marauders, who immediately run away at tho top of their speed; the rapid spread of peace sentiment in all directions; the large number of those who surrender and the willingness to take the oath of allegiance 011 all sides these and similar consid erations, are regarded as pointing to the virtual establishment of peace in the near future. Sclentifio French Barbers. The crusade against microbes and ba cilli has now extended to the barbers' shops in Paris. In front of each chair is a gas burner. Bone or celluloid combs arc no longer employed; metallic combs are used instead. The barber turns on the gas, and before he com mences operations he slowly passes his metallic comb several times through the flames. His scissors and razor are likewise thus purified by fire and his customer is reassured by witnessing this burning tip Of all the microbes before the hair is touched with the instrument". The risk from the brush is mitigated hy the constant uc of antiseptic hairwash, in which thymol, on account of its plc.n ant odor, is the favorite ingredient. London Lancet. Fire at Iowa University. At Iowa City, la., fire destroyed the college of medicine and literary build ings at the University of Iowa. The loss is not less than $250,000. A sever blow was struck to the university on ac count oi the loss of recitation rooms. Inaugural Epigrams. . By President McKinley: The path of progress is seldom smooth. We will not leave the destinies of the loyal millions in the islands to the dis loyal thousands. There are some rational questions in the solution of which patriotism should exclude partisanship. The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go. Sectionalism has disappeared. Divi sion on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861. The prophets of evil were not the builders of the Republic, nor in its crises since have they saved or served it. Surely, after 125 years of achievement for mankind, we will not surrender our equality with other powers on matters fundamental and essential to national ity. v By Vice President Roosevelt: Accordingly as we do well or ill, so shall mankind in the future be raised or cist down. We belong to a young nation, already of giant strength, yet whose present strength is but a forecast of the power that is to come. . great work lies ready to the hand of this generation: it should count itself happy, indeed, that it is given the privi lege of doing such a work. CABLE FLASHES. A large body of Russian troops were defeated by to.ooo banditti near Shittg Killt7 Chinn The population of the central pr luo.ouo uy laiiune. Russian Gen. Orloff will be martiuled fi.r serious disobceiie rrders in Manchuria.