MM TROOPS H REQUIRED NOW
WAR DECLINING.
A preach cl Poses In thi Fhitipplnei May
Alltel Sizo of New Army Expouses
Will be Cut Down.
The very favorable condition of af
fairs in (lie Philip'iincs lias raised liii'i
hope in the brca't of Secretary Root,
who believes there is warrant in the
present tranquility for considering plans
for reducing the strength of the mili
tary forces in the archipelago. The sc
retary's optinii-ni has led hitn so far
that he lias a resolution to try the ex
periment of keening the natives in sub
jection with 40.000 men instead of the
70.000 row employed.
All prtparations for the displacement
of the volunteers now in the i-lands with
regulars enlisted under authority of the
reot y -miration law are hi inn niaile with
that end in view. As the terms of 35,
000 vo'ttnteers expire on July I, the re
duction will easily lie accomplished.
The army will he recruited to about 75,
boo men. at which figure it will be main
tained until it is possible to determine
(whether more than that number or few
itr will be sufficient,
j The war department figures that 30.
tno nun will be enough for service in
the States, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
Nearly half this number will be needed
o care for the seacoast artillery, li
the army is kept at "5.000 nun for a
year the expenditures of the war de
partment for the year will be only about
ifoo.ooo.ooo, instead of $123,000,000,
Which is the s"in appropriated in the
Various supply bills at the short ses
sion cf Congress.
PARDONS DISCOURAGED.
Attorney Goncrnl Thinks Murderer Should
be Sttliflfd With Saving Their Llvot.
The President has denied seven ap
plications for pnrdon and granted two
petitions for the restoration of civil
rights, remitted one fine and granted
one pardon on account of ill-health.
The attorney general in reporting upon
the application says:
"It is obvious that there must be at
some time a stop put to these numerous
applications, which arc made with fre
quent periodicity, for the pardon of
condemned murderers, to whom has
been shown the clemency of commuta
tion of the death penalty to imprison
ment for life. It is very clear, from a
perusal of the reasons given by Pre-i-ient
Harris' n. that he expected the pen
alty of imprisonment for life to stand as
a just measure of punishment due the
lcfendant, with pretty grave doubts on
his part as to whether he did not de
serve to be handed. To interfere now
with that conclusion would be to en
courage every person on whose case
final and deliberate action has been tak
en, to appeal through a new scries of
reports to a succeeding President, until
one could be found who could be in
duced to change the deliberate judg
ment formulated by his predecessor.
This practice has been too frequent, and
I make these extended comments upon
it in order that the President tuny be
advised of my views, and, if he eonctr.s
in them, that they may become the set
tled rule governing such cases."
STOPS DIVINE HEALING.
Apostle of Z on tco Busy With Bu:lnoss to
Cothor With II.
John Alexander Dowic, general over
seer of the Christian Catholic church
in Zion, Chicago, for reasons which he
will not divulge has discontinued his
endeavors to heal the sick, the halt and
the blind, and is having the "Divine
Healing Home" remodeled and trans
formed into an office building.
The building, as soon as the altera
tions have been completed, will become
.headquarters for the Christian Catholic
Church of Zion, the Zion Land and In
vestment Company, the Zion city bank,
the Zion Lumber Association, the Zion
Lace Industrial Company and the other
Dowie enterprises.
It is said the abolition of the "Divine
Healing Home" has been contemplated
by Dowie for a long time. The colony
of those afflicted with disease has been
a menace to Dowie's other and more
important interests.
Therefore, he has nnnounced. those
who desire to be "healed" must seek
other ;uar;ers.
SNOW AND FLOODS.
European Vlllagos ira Inundatod and Hsaty
Damage Dono.
Austria is experiencing nnothcr heavy
snowfall, the third of the season. In
some places it lias been snowing f.ir
36 hours, with serious interruption to
railway communication.
Several rivers in Bohemia have over
flowed and Hoods are feared when the
heavy snows on the mountains melt.
A sudden thaw in Southern Russia
of the recent phenomenal snows is
causing the rivers to overflow. The
town of Elizabetgrad. government of
Kherson, is partly flooded and other
place are threatened. Several land
subsidences have occurred. Mere se
rious disorders are breaking out anions
the poor.
High Tariff lor England.
England is on the brink of a pro
tective tariff. It may be adopted as a
revenue measure, but in effect it will
be protective. The nation has reach
ed the limit pi money raising under the
present system, and the widespread de
pression of British industries is causing
a clamor among working men for some
barrier ngainst foreign competition in
the British market. .,
"England has become a dumping
ground of Europe," said a prominent
member of parliament last week, "and
flow we are going to become a dump
ing ground for America too. We must
have a tariff, if we are going to keep
any part of our old time business lead
ers." Roleasos all Drunken Prisoners.
Police Judge L. W. Wochenheimcr, of
Toledo, O., has decided that drunken
ness is a disease and not a crime. Pris
oners charged with that offense ap
pearing before him are discharged end
the costs remitted.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
The catch of seals off the Newfound
land coast aggregates 216,000.
General Iunstnn has started out in a
bold plan to capture Aguinaldo.
Robbers blew open a safe M Wichita,
Kan., and secured about $7,000.
Japan will go to war with Russia un
less latter backs down in Manchuria.
An aged couple at Akron, ()., have
been married alter a quarrel of 40 years
no.
The Japanese nt Pckin established a
school to give literary degrees to Chi
nese. Thomas Whalen, of Turtle Creek,
has returned Irom Alaska with $75.0.0
in uoU.
The school teachers of Eastern Ohio
formed a protective trust to keep up
salaries.
Owing to a blizzard 500 railroad pas
sengers were snowbound at Ogallala,
Neli., Sunday,
Begging letters by hrslul pour into
Carnegie's quarters, but none get be
yond his sci-rctary.
Some of the conservative newspapers
of London predict the downfall of the
Salisbury government.
The Kerr-Murray machine works, at
l"t. W ayne, liul., were damaged by fire
to the extent of $50,000.
Mrs. Carrie Nation discharged her
negro publisher bi-cau-c he suppressed
ot.; of her hot editorials.
. D. E. Thompson was nominated for
short-term senator from Nebraska, but
his election is not assured.
A Japanese fleet of warships sails for
Korea and relations between Japan an I
Russia arc greatly strained.
The bealch at Pcnsacota, Fla., wis
strewn with wreckage caused by a 70-mile-an-hour
wind Saturday.
The Minnesota legislature has passed
a bill forbidding the manufacture, sale
or giving away of cigarettes.
The Minnesota Legislature has passed
a bill forbidding the coloring of oleo
margarine to resemble butter.
A a result of an election fight in
Morgan county, Ky.. ten men were
wounded, three of them fatally.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Aber
deen. S. 11.. $15,000 for a public library
building 011 the usual conditions.
The revolutionary students at St. Pe
tersburg have appealed for aid in the
formation of the new freedom party.
The New Mexico territorial govern
ment will appoint a commission to visit
Washington and work for statehood.
A mob at Pocohontas, Ark., lynched
George Cheories, accused of the mur
der oi John Norris, the town marshal.
Gen. Harrison's will, which has been
filed for probate at Indianapolis, dis
poses of an estate worth about $250,000.
At Philadelphia police raided a negro
masquerade ball, capturing 17 colored
revelers of both sexes in very scanty
attire.
The transport Grant sailed Saturday
from Manila for San Francisco with the
Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second in
fantry. The New York Legislature has pass
ed a bill taxing trust companies 1 per
cent, on capital, surplus and undivided
profits.
Pope Leo decided to remove the head
of the Jesuit order to make room for
another general more ajiienablc to dis
cipline. The French Chamber of Deputies
adopted a resolution to prosecute Jalu
zot for an attempt to corner the sugar
market.
At San Diego, Cal., fifty Chinese pas
sengers on the steamer Belgian King,
from Hongkong, have been refused a
landing.
Fire that started in the Greenville,
Miss., cotton compress was not got un
der control until Jioo.coo damages had
been done.
Senor Carlos Roloff, the newly ap
pointed treasurer of Cuba, whose term
begins April I, will qualify with a bond
of $.200,000.
The Pittsburg coal combine closed
another deal for 5.000 acres of coal land
in Belmont county, O., and optioned
6,000 niore.
The municipal code of Manila pro
vides that those in rebellion alter April
I shall be ineligible henceforth to vote
or to hold office.
David Winget, an old soldier, is un
der sentence to be electrocuted June
20 for the murder of Frederick Blancke.
Winget was an inmate of the Soldiers'
Home at Sandusky, and killed Blancke
in a drunken quarrel.
Minnesota has been reapportioned in
to nine congressional districts by the
passage through the Legislature of a
bill to that effect.
The committee raising a fund to pur
chase a home in Washington for Rear
Admiral Schley has received $6,000 of
the $10,000 needed.
The strike of coal miners of the Fre
mont county (Col.) district has been
ended by an agreement satisfactory fj
both sides and work will be resumed
April 1. About 1.500 men are affected.
Millions of dollars worth of oranges
arc rotting in California because of the
lack of transportation facilities to move
the enormous crop.
President Gould has completed plans
for the unification of the Southwest sys
tem of railroads, meaning a combina
tion of $,)oo,coo oco.
John E. Tipton, former secretary
treasurer of the Switchmen's union,
pleaded guilty at Buffalo, N. V., to lar
ceny of the union's funds.
It is officially estimated that the Aus
tralian wheat yield will reach 17,700.576
bushels, or an increase of 3,552,028
bushels over last year's yield.
Deputy Marshal A. S. Whiteley and
"Lum" Scott, an illicit distiller, were
killed in a fight of officers and moon
shiners in Lincoln county, Ga.
Albert Kelly, Daniel Preston, Rich
ard Battle and Cornelius Davis, negro
miners, were killed by a fall of ore in
the Sloss-Sheflield shaft at Birming
ham, Ala.
The Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flag
ship in the battle of Mamila bay, has
been placed in drydoek at the Boston
navy yard and $500,000 will be spent in
repairs and alterations.
State Insurance Commissioner Voryj,
or-Columbus, O., has made a ruling that
insurance companies cannot do health
insurance in-that State in connection
with insurance against death and accident.
BLOODY ENCOUNTER.
Confl et In Ruisla In Which One Hundred Are
Reported Killed and Wounded.
Threatening Letters Received.
St. Petersburg (Kussia) dispatches
say that on Saturday joo workmen from
the Obiichower metal works pnraded on
the Nevskio pro-pect. On the way
thither they demolished the state brandy
booths. Eight hundred Cossacks, wiih
drawn swords, met the workmen, and
a sanguinary encounter ensued. The
nnmln r oi killed and wounded is kept
secret.
The police have discovered a plot
against the life of the czar. A group
of students drew lots a,nd the fat ll
choice fell to the son of a prominent
general. The student told hi father,
and the latter informed the c.ir. im
ploring him to leave St. Petersburg.
In the last encounter at Narva gate
100 workmen are reported to have been
killed or wounded by the Cossacks.
The political situation is so serious
that Emperor Nicholas had a meeting
of the ministers to consider the state o!
public affairs. Threatening letters have
been received by Lieutenant General
Kouropatkine, minister of war. Mour
avieff, minister of justice, and Sipiag
nine, minister of the interior.
MANY CASES OF LEFROSY.
Estimated Thai Then Ars 20,000 Ca' In
the PMIIpp'ne Islands.
Marine Hospital Surgeon Perry, chief
quarantine officer for the Philippines,
has forwarded an official report on lep
rosy in the Philippines. He says:
"Leprosy is widely prevalent over the
entire archipelago, but the greatest num
ber of cases exists in southern Luzon
and the southern islands. The total
number of caecs in the islands is esti
mated at 20,000. The cases in Manila
and surrounding country arc isolated
in a substantial hospital under the aus
pices of the Manila, board of health.
Several months ago, orders were issued
that a hospital in each district be set
aside for the isolation of the lepers that
could be apprehended, and a board of
army officers was detailed to investigate
several islands ior the purpose of select
ing a suitable one for a leper colony,
the intention being to deport all cases
of leprosy to this place for segregation
and isolation."
FLAYID HERSELF ALIVE.
While Tcmponrily Insane Woman Cuts CfT
Her Toos, Ears and Note.
Mrs. G. Brunschneidcr. residing near
the Toledo (O.) city limits, occupies a
ward at St. Vincent's hospital and is
in a serious condition as a result of
horrible injuries self-inflicted. With an
ordinary pair of scissors she cut all of
the toes off her left fool, both her cars
close to the head, and about an inch off
her nose. She then cut out a portion
of her right ch?i k, inflicted live gashes
in her left cheek, and finally began on
her arms. Beginning at her left fore
arm, she removed everv vestige of skin,
laying bare the muscles. She also lac
erated her right arm in a horrible man
ner. Her recovery is doubtful. The wo
man is about 50 years of age. It is
thought that she was temporarily insane
on account of domestic troubles.
ZOARITESTO MIGRATE.
An Ohio Colony of Thorn Preparing lo Locale
In Northwest
Disrupted by international dissensions
the Zoaritcs, who lived in a colony at
Zoar, O., for almost a century, have de
termined to migrate to the northwest,
which shall be as far from civilization
as possible, to found a new kingdom
of communism, which they say shall
not decay.
All the younger members of the so
ciety clamored for a division of the
property, and their efforts ended in dis
ruption. Tracts of land in Dakota and
Minnesota arc being negotiated for.
The new community will be started as
far away from railroads and settlements
as it can get and new laws will be
framed whereby each member will bind
himself or herself to lifelong loyalty to
communism, to guard against future
dissent.
Boers Raid Supply Train.
Four hundred Boers under the Boer
commander, Buys, have wrecked a sup
ply train north of Blacklaagtc. They
overpowered the escort and carried off
several wagonloads of provisions.
A convoy destined to join General
French's column has been attacked be
tween Blood river and Schcepcrs Nek,
Transvaal colony. The British had one
man killed and three wounded. The
bridge at Blood river was burned.
Carnegie Ponsions Needed.
Fifty-nine men were billed in the
works of the Carnegie Steel Company
at Braddock. Homestead and Duquesue
last year. In addition to these there
were several thousand injured, a cou
ple of hundred of these being more or
less crippled for lift. In view of the
figures the workmen are greatly inter
ested in the proposed pension fund so
handsomely started by Mr. Carnegie,
and which is intended to benefit the in
jured and needy in his employ.
Semoan's In Revo'L
The Ottoman government has sent a
warship to Marathooampos, island of
Samos, off the west coast of Asia Miuor.
the whole southern region of the island
being in rebellion.
Pansy Rebellion Ended.
Gen.' MacArthur cables from Manila
that Gen. Fullon and 180 of his com
mand, armed with rifles, has surrender
ed to Col. Scott, of the Forty-fourth in
fantry, at Antique, island of Panay.
MacArthur adds that this ends the in
surrection in Panay.
Bank Robbers Fled.
The First National bank, at Lowell,
O., was entered by burglars. They were
discovered by a patrolman and- fled.
Three supect were captured at Water-ford.
MURDER MANIA.
Massachusetts Woman Wlolris Clt Mi Ax
While Tcmponrily Insane Mains
Farmer Kills Three Children.
Mrs. Lizzie Nnramore, while in a fit
of insanity, killed her six children at
her home, a farmhouse, half a mile from
Coldbrook, Mass., and then tried to
take her own life. The children ranged
from ten years to a babe of ten months,
and their lives were taken by the moth
er with nn ax ami n club! She laid the
blood-drenched bodies on the beds, two
on one bed and the other four on a bed
in another room, and then attempted to
take her own life by cutting her thro.u
w ith a razor. When discovered she was
in the bed on which the bodies of t'l,"
four children were lying. Although she
cm a deep gash in her throat and suf
fered the loss of much blood, it is be
lieved she will recover.
Mrs. Nnramore told her most inti
mate friends that she first killed Ethel
and then followed with the five others,
each time taking the next oldest. Five
were killed by being struck on the head
with the back of an ax. while little Lena
was killed with a club. She says she
fully expected the gash in her throat
would cause her death, and that when
her husband returned at night he would
find all of the bodies in the two beds.
She appeared rational in the evening,
and displayed signs of sorrow for the
deed she had committed, although she
is unable to give any reason for killing
the children. ,
Jacob Dearborn Marr, a farmer, liv
ing eight miles from Clinton. Me., kill
ed his three children, Alice M., aged 13:
El win, aged o, and Helen, aged 7, with
an ax shortly after the family had risen
from the dinner table.
Mr. Marr had been despondent for
some time, but his actions were not such
as to make his wife believe that he had
any serious trouble to brood over. The
eldest daughter was washing dishes nt
the sink when her father went by her
to the shed and got an nx. He came
back into the kitchen and struck the girl
a single blow on the he.nl, killing her.
Mrs. Marr saw this and ran screaming
to the house of her husband's father.
Samuel Marr. The husband apparently
walked up stairs to where the younger
children were playing and dealt each a
single blow with the ax handle, killing
them both.
Later in the day he was placed under
arrest. When asked why he had done
the deed, he said: "I don't know."
COMPROMISE IN CHINA.
Danger of Anglo- Russian Conflict Avorled by
Eoth Sides Withdrawing.
Telegrams from Fekin. March, dated
Friday, say: Count von Waldcrsec,
Gen. Barrow and Gen. Wogack have
been in consultation, and Gen, Wogack
has agreed to withdraw the Russim
troops from the disputed ground rt
Tien Tsin provided the British also with
draw. He insisted upon a guarantee
that work on the railway siding should
not proceed until the matter had been
diplomatically adjusted. This proposal
and stipulation were satisfactory to Gen.
Barrow, and was accepted by him.
Consequently the British and Rus
sian troops were withdrawn at 5 o'clock
this morning, thereby avoiding all trou
ble at present.
The Russians have ordered a regi
ment to proceed from Port Arthur lo
Tien Tsin. The arrangements made
by Gen. Bailloud, the French command
er, arc regarded as completely satisfac
tory, and all danger of a collision be
tween the British and French is con
sidered obviated.
SKIRMISHES WITH THE BOERS.
General Dewot Giving His Soldiers a Res.
Erit'ish CrpHire Supplies.
The Boer raiders in the eastern part
of Cape Colony arc, with the exception
of almost daily skirmishes, keeping out
of the reach of the British. Col. Sco
veli engaged Commandant Fouchc and
Commandant Malan near Blaawkrantz
March 20. Three British were killed
r.nd four wounded, and four Boers
were killed. The number of Boers
wounded has not been ascertained.
Commandant Kritzinger is marching
steadily northward.
It is officially reported that Gen. De
wet's commandoes have been broken up
for the present. This is probably to
give the men a rest.
The result of the combined move
ments against Gen. Fourie near TI13
banchu was the capture of 200 Boers,
140,000 sheep, 5.000 horses and a hot
of cattle.
A GIGANTIC PROJECT.
Pennsylvania Salt Manulacturing Company to
Spend $9,000,000 In Michigan.
The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing
Company, which purchased 138 acres of
river frontage land adjoining Wyandotte
Mich., on tlie south and west in 1898 and
1800, concluded definite arrangement!
in Detroit for the erection on the prop
erty of a plant that, when finished, will
represent an expenditure of $g,ooo,0'V.
The buildings will cover between Co
and 70 acres of ground. One section,
which will cover 20 acres and cost abo"t
$2,000,000, will be built this year, work
to commence as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. The buildings will b
of stone, brick and iron and constructed
in the most solid and dnrable manner.
Heavy Registration.
The temperance agitation started in
Topeka, Kan., by Mrs. Nation has re
sulted in bringing out the heaviest reg
istration for the spring election in the
history of the city. The books just
closed show a registration of 15.000, of
which 6,000 are women. The registra
tion last fall for the presidential election
was 10,174 men, which shows that wo
men are taking the greatest interest in
the election this spring.
Yurder and Sulcldo.
Mrs. Nathan Townsend, who lives
near Cass City, Mich., poisoned her
self and her two children, a girl aged
8 years and a boy aged 10, with lauda
num. Family difficulties are believed to
have impelled her to administer the poi
son. Kew Feruvl n 01 Well. '
It is reported on reliable ar-.thority
that ihe Talara petroleum company has
lately discovered a new well near Linn,
Peru, which is a splendid producer.
This discovery it is said, will lead to the
export of oil to Central America and
Auitralatia.
TAV0RS LENIENCY.
Stat Depar'menl Finds That $203,000,000
Is as Much ss the Chinese Govern
ment Csn Psy.
The department of state has received
information that $200,000,000, which our
government conidcrs the maximum in
demnity that should be exacted from
China, is the limit which China can
pay. The United States fixed upon
$23,000,000 as a suitable indemnity for
this country, notwithstanding that our
officials are .convinced that this amount
will only provide for the payment of a
tcrcentagc of its claims, brcau'e it was
felt that this was as much as we should
claim proportionately of the total of
$joo,noo,noo. It is not the intention to
divide this $200,000,000 into as many
equal parts as there arc powers, but
while dividing it into eight or to parts
to see to it that these parts arc so pro
portioned as to compensate the powers
in accordance with the outlay they have
been put to in suppressing the Boxer
troubles.
This government would be willing
to abate the $23,000,000 claim if the other
powers would reduce their claims in the
same proportion, even to the extent of
reducing the total estimate to $too,cov
000, if by so doing the Chinese govern
ment could be relieved by having the tax
adjusted to its liabilities. But although
in grave doubt whether China can p.ty
more than $200,000,000, our government
feels bound to secure compensation for
its citizens and itself to the same extent
as is received by other powers, and is
especially resolved to do this because of
the conviction that a total abandonment
of our claims, or even a heavy reduction
without corresponding action on the
part of other powers, would rather in
jure than help China by destroying
whatever of restraining influence the
state department has been able to ex
ert upon less sympathetic powers.
HOME RULE FOR PHILIPPINES.
Civil Government Likely lo be Installed by
the End of June.
The transfer from the military to the
civil government in the Philippines is
expected to occur about June 30, ac
cording to information received from the
Taft commission and Gen. MacArthur.
Even where civil governments arc be
ing established by the Philippine com mission
the military will be necessary
for some time to support the civil au
thorities. It is the intention to with
draw the military a far as possible,
however, from any participation in the
governments established, and the sol
diers will be more of a police force than
a military force. Wherever possible na
tive police will be organized.
It has been decided that Gen. MacAr
thur will be relieved as governor gen
eral of the Philippines on July 1 and
will return to the United States. Gen.
Chaffee, who is now in China, will sail
for Manila on May . He will succc-mI
Gen. MacArthur in command of the mili
tary forces in the Philippines. The
President expects to appoint Judge Taft
governor general of the Philippines be
tween the arrival of Gen. Chaffee and
the departure of Gen. MacArthur.
Insurgents have attacked and burned
the ungarrisoned village of Ugius, in
South I locos. A detachment of '.he
Twentieth infantry overtook and chas
tised the marauders. Col. Schuyler, of
the Forty-sixth infantry, has captured
eight insurgent officers and 218 men at
the village of Tcrnate, in Cavite prov
ince. Sanitation of Havana.
Gen. Wood reports that the death rate
in Havana for February was 19.32 per
I.ooo, which is below the average jf
most American cities. During the last
February of Sp.uii-h rule, in 1808. it was
82.32 per I.ooo. The report compares
Havana's health statistics with those of
a number of Eastern and Southern
cities of the United States, most of
which arc shown to have a higher death
rate than Havana.
Maryland Voters Disfranchised.
The new election bill having for its
object the practical disfranchisement of
most of the 50.000 illiterate voters of the
State of Maryland, has passed the Sen
ate. It was sent to the House, where
all the amendments made by the Sen
ate were concurred in, and the bill pars
ed. It is now ready for the governor's
signature.
Fought a Dual With Knives.
A. P. Elliott, manager of a San Rcr
r.adino, Cal., copper mine, and James
Neville, another well known mining
man, after a quarrel, fought a duel in
the streets with knives. The entire pop
ulation witnessed the fight, and not un
til Neville fell mortally wounded did
any one interfere. Elliott was nlso
wounded, but not seriously. He is in
jail.
Won by Cpora'ors.
The Indiana bituminous operators and
miners have reached an agreement, ami
the annual contract will be signed.
The agreement provides for the ac
ceptance of the operators' proposition
on every point except one. that being
the paragraph relating to the wages of
day labor. The operators concede ;n
advance in the wages of day laborers
from $2.10 to $2,2S a day.
A Million for Education.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has given $1,.
ooo.oco to the University of Chicago
School of Education, lately organized by
the affiliation of the Chicago institute
and the university. This sum is to be
used partly for purchase of ground,
partly for buildings and partly for en
dowment. Coers Will not Surrendor.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain has
informed the house of commons that
Gen. Botha had sent a letter to Gen.
Kitchener saying that he was not dis-.
posed to recommend to his government
the terms of peace offered by Kitchener.
Botha added that the Boer government
agreed with him.
Telegrams from Mafetens. Basuto
land, say: Gen. Bruce Hamilton's force
has reached Wcpcncr, where the troop
found heavy stocks of grain and ca'tle.
They carried away as much as possible,
but had to destroy 10.000 Kegs of grain.
MINERS MUTINY.
Lack ol Good Food Causes Kansas Ccnv'ets
to Rebel Wert Starved Into 8ub
mission by tht Warden.
The Kansas State penitentiary coI
mine at Lansing was Tuesday in pos
session of 284 convicts, who captured
IS guards and held them as hostages.
The insurrection was brought to a clo3
at 11:30 o'clock at night and the mutin
ous convicts were placed in their celts
as fast as they could be brought to the
surface.
Shortly after nightfall the warden and
every available officer gathered around
the mouth of the mine, each man heav
ily armed. Hunger had begun to tell
upon the mutinous convicts and they
began to parley with the warden. Sel
ecting his men the warden with seven or
e.iglu guards, heavily armed, entered the
hoists and were soon speeding down
ward. The armed guards then started
nfter the convicts, and soon had tne
ringleaders tinder arrest when the others
gave in and surrendered. The work of
taking them to the surface began and
before morning the convicts wiil again
be behind the bars of their cells.
Many complaints have been made by
the prisoners because of the grade of
food furnished them and to this dissatis
faction has been added nil manner of
mistreatment. No outbreak was at
tempted, however, until the men who
had entered the mine refused to return
unless their demands were granted.
They killed the mutes used in the mine
and are living on this meat. The mines
arc worked by the wort class of convicts
and among those who have mutinied
arc 20 life prisoners.
BRUTAL CHURCH FIGHT.
Rival Congregations Engaged In Pitched
Battle With Sorious Results.
Intense rivalry between the Seventh
Day Adventists and the Seventh Day
Baptists, at Berea, Ritchie county, W.
Va., culminated in a general fight, in
which the members of both churches
participated. As result Frederick
Meredith is lying at the point of death,
and three members of the Bee fainilr
are seriously injured. Rev. W. iL.
Wentworth, of the Adventist Church,
was attacked after preaching and as
saulted with eggs. The members of the
rival Baptist Church were present and
are supposed to have thrown the egg.
The men in the Adventist congrega
tion attacked the Baptists and they de
fended themselves. Revolvers, knives
and stones were used and several persons
were bruised and cut besides those men
tioned. The fight lasted for some time,
and was fast and f'.'.rious. Participants
in the fight will be arrested.
1V.0 MEN 6LCWN TO ATOMS.
Dynnmlte trd Clisdng Fowdcr Causes Two
ecldents In Indiana.
By the premature explosion of 50
pounds of dynamite on the farm of Isaac
Marlowe, three miles southeast of Ko
komo, Ind., Marlowe and William
Sta 111 in were blown to atoms. Frag
ments of their bodies were found lodged
in treetops nearly half a 'mile distant.
Marlowe recently came to this county
from Milford county, Illinois.
The explosion of a keg of blasting
powder in the Zcller mine at Cloverland,
Ind., severely and probably fata'ly burn
ed Alfred Reffitt, Albert Harris, Ithiet
Harris and Thomas Harris, all miners.
It is thought that a spark fell from one
of the miner's lamps into the keg of
powder, causing the explosion. All of
the men arc badly burned about the head
and on the hands. It is feared that the
injuries of Alfred Reffitt and Albert
Harris will blind them for life.
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WANT TO LEAVE CUBA.
Over 18,000 Ex-S.ives Desire to Emlgrato
to Congo Frse Slate.
Eighteen thousand ex-slaves of the
island of Cuba, who arc afrcid of bemgf
maltreated and oppressed under Ameri
can rule, have addressed a request
through one of their number named
William George Emanuel, who is repre
sented as their leader, for permission to
allow thein and other colored Cubans
to settle in the Congo Free State as
Belgian colonists.
The govermcnt of the Congo Free
State is willing to receive the Cubans
if America has no objections to their
emigration.
Ge rmiay's Scheme to got Trede.
The Rcichstng has agreed to the pro
posal of the Budget committee to in
clude in the next budget a credit for 20,
000 marks toward instituting chambers
of commerce abroad, although Baron '
von Richthofcn, the foreign secretary,
deprecated their institution, declaring
that if the establishment of such cham
bers in America would be of any appre
ciable value Great Britain would liave
long ago established them.
A Disappointing P ler.
Members of a New fork firm who
two months ago were glad to give to
Charles E. Cosgrove, their young cash
ier, a diamond pin as a recognition of
his honesty and ability are rejoiced to
learn that detectives of the American
Surety Company have found him in the
City of Mexico, where he had fled after
having stolen $20.000.
CABLE FLASHES.
Nicholas Francois Chifflart, the
French painter and engraver, is dead.
He was born in 1825.
The British house of commons pass
ed the second reading of the bill pro
hibiting the sale or delivery of intoxi
cants to persons under 16 years old.
Many Marseilles workmen strike in
sympathy with the dock laborers and a
reign of terror exists.
Many plots to assassinate the czar
have been discovered and utmost pre
cautions are being taken to protect him.
Gen. Andrade, cx-pre sident of Vene
zuela, has arrived at Willemstad, Cura
roa, to prepare for another, revolution in
his own country.
Of the German loan 174.co3.oao marks
will be issued in April at 87!'! and 3 per
cent. After the government credits ore
nvailable the amount will be increased)
to 300,000,000 marks.