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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.