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EDMOND. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1899.
NO 40
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American Army Has Entered the
Filipino Capital.
TAKEN AFTER A FIERCE BATTLE
A I.nrs-o Number of American
Wounded— Fight Luited 1
One-Half lloor« — Innu
Fired I lie City a« tliey Uv
a ted It ami Aro Now
Full Itetreut North.
« Kllleil o
wo wnd
rgente
In
Manila, April 1.—Major General
MacArthur entered Malolos, the seat
of the so-called insurgent government,
at half past 0 this (Friday) morning,
the rebels burning the city and simul-
taneously evacuating it. They are
now in full retreat toward the North,
where Aguinaldo aud the cabinet have
been for two days.
The army rested last night in the
jungle about a mile and a quarter
from Malolos. The day's advance be-
gan at 2 o'clock and covered a distanco
of about two and a half miles beyond
the Ciuiglnto river, along the railroad.
The brunt of the battle was on the
right of the track, where the enemy
was apparently concentrated.
The First Nebraska, First South
Dakota and Tenth Pennsylvania regi-
ments encountered them entrenched
on the border of the woods, and the
Americans, advancing across the open,
suffered a terrible tire for half an
hour. Four men of the Nebraska reg-
imeut were killed and thirty were
wounded. Several men of the Dakota
regiment were wounded and one of
the Pennsylvanians was killed.
The Americans finally drove the
Filipinos back. Although there were
three lines of strong entrenchments
along the track, the enemy made
scarcely any defense there Goneral
MacArthur and his staff were walking
on the track abreast of the line, with
everything quiet, when suddenly they
received a shower of bullets from
sharpshooter.! in trees and on house-
tops, but they were speedily dislodged.
The enemy's loss was apparently
small, the jungle affording them such
protection that the Americans were
unabio to see them, and in firing were
guided only by the sound of the Fili-
pino shots. The American artillery
was handicapped for the same reason.
Last night's long line of camp fires
made a beautiful sight, with the
Twentieth Kansas regiment on the
left of ttuiguinto station and the Penn-
sylvania regiment on the right, beyond
the river.
The provision train was delayed by
broken bridges but the stores of grain
and docks of ducks in tho locality
furnished ample forage.
The hospital work is remarkably ef-
ficient, as it has beon throughout the
whole campaign. The telegraphers
kept abreast of the line and maintain
a constant connection with tho city.
INJURED IN a WRECK.
ONLYFEW BUILDINGS BURNED.
Colonel Funaton of Kau« « Waa tb.
Flint American In Malulo*-
Mamla, April 1—The American
Hag was raised over Malolos at 10
o'clock yesterday morning.
Colonel Funston, always at tho front,
was the first man in Malolos, followed
by a group of dashing lvansans.
The army is fcastiug on cocoanutg
and bauanas and enjoying a well
earned rest, while the hospital train
is carrying the wounded back to Ma-
nila.
The Kansas regiment aud the Mon-
tana regiineut, on entering the city,
found it deserted, the presidency
burning aud the terrified rebels re-
treating towards the Mountains. It
is believed they cannot in future make
even a faiut resistance. The Amer-
ican loss was small.
It is evident that the rebels for
some time have abandoned all hope of
holding their capital, for the Ameri-
cans found evidences of elaborate
preparations for evacuation. On the
railrond the rails and ties for about a
milo had been torn up and probably
thrown into the river.
The only prisoners captured were a
few Chinamen. They oaid Aguinaldo
left Malolos Wednesday.
The principal citizens of Malolos,
their families and goods, went into
the country by means of the railroad,
while others departed on foot, carry-
ing their posossions aud driving their
cattle and other animals before them.
Most of the rebel forces were re-
moved to positions ea6t of the railroad,
leaving only some small bands in the
strong trenches in front of Malolos.
General MacArthur started for the
rebel capital at ? o'clock with two
rapid-tire guns fianking the track,two
guns of the Utah battery ou the right |
EM in IE Ml
E, L. Martin, Robert Gilham and
J, McD, Trimble Appointed,
new yorkers headed off.
Kansas City, Mo., April 3.—li L.
Martin, first vice president: Robert
Gilham, general manager, aud .1. McD.
Trimble, general counsel of the Kan-
sas City, Pittsburg Gulf Railroad
company, have been appointed re-
ceivers of the road. The appointments
were made Saturday night at 10
o'clock by .lodge James Gibsou of tho
Jackson county circuit court upon the
application of C. K (Irannis. who is a
director of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Trust company. The general
allegation in the petition is that tho
road is insolvent in that it is unable
to meet the interest upon its bonds,
which fell duo April 5, and which
amounts to £573,003, and Is unable to
clear away certain other debts which
reach a total of between $300,000 and
$400,000.
The receivership of the Pittsburg &■
Gulf may bo termed a friendly one, in
that it leaves tho management of the
road in the hands of the same men
who liavo conducted its affairs since
the day it was started. The applica-
tion for a receiver was made In Kan-
sas City because it was learned that
Eastern capitalists who are interested
in tho road would apply for a receiver.
The April interest on the Pittsburg
& Gulf bonds was duo Saturday. As
tho road has outstanding 823.000,000
in bonds, which draw 5 per cent in
and two guns of the Sixth artillery on I terest, and as the interest which
the loft of the rapids, firing continu- j should have boon paid Saturday
ously. I amouuted to 9575,000 it was evident
Tho Kansas and Montana regiments j that something had to bo done at
moved from Malolos, and the Nebras- once. President Stilwell has been
ka and Pennsylvania regiments and in confercnco with a committee
the Third artillery kept along tho of tho Eastern stockholders
right of the railroad. for several days, but no satis-
Tho only effective stand made by j factory solution of the problem
rebels was at a bamboo and earthen- j had been found. A day or two ago it
work fortification half a mile from j was learned that the State Trust cora-
Malolos and on the right, where the pauy of New York, which holds the
Nebraska regiment, us was the case ! bonds of the company to the amount
Thursday, had the hardest work aud , of 823,000,000. was prepared to take
suffered tho greatest loss. j decisive action if the interest pay-
The Filipino flag, which was flying ! ments were not properly met on April
from the center of the town, was j 1. As this is a New York concern it
hauled down by some of the men in I was plain that if a receiver were ap-
the Montana regiment, who triumph- pointed on iU application tho receiver
antly raised their own above it. \ would be an Eastern man, who wou'.d
special pains to look
KING OSCAR AS UMPIRE.
Will Hare Deriding Voice lu Battling
8a moan {juration.
Washington, April 3.—A joint high
commission to settlo the entire Samoau
trouble has been practically agreed
upon by the United States, Rritish and
German governments. Lord Salis-
bury's absence from Loudon alone de-
lays the formal acceptance by Great
liritaiu. though, in his absence, Sir
Thomas Sanderson and Mr. Villiers,
who aro understood to bo specially
familiar with tho Samoan question,
have approved the plan for a commis-
sion. The United States has inform-
ally expressed its approval, and tho
formal acceptance, it is learned from
the highest quar'ers, will follow
speedily. As tho proposition emanates
from Germany, her approval, of
course, is assured. This high com-
mission, it is felt, affords a pacitto
solution to tho whole trouble at the
moment when Samoan affairs began to
look the most threatening.
The new plan has been fully gone
over by Secretary Hay and the British
and German ambassadors here, aoidits
essential details worked out. Each
nation is to be represented by ono
ini-tnber on tho commission. It is to
have practically unlimited authority,
without the necessity of referring its
decisions back to tho several govern-
ments for approval. It is felt that by
conferring such complete and final
authority ou the high commission, tho
danger will be obviated of any further
deadlocks and delays.
Still another important provision
under consideration is that King Os-
car of Norway and Swcdeu shall bo tho
umpire in case the three high commis-
sioners should fail to reach a determi-
nation. The plan of inviting Kiug
Oscar to refereo a disagreement meets
the approval of tho British and Get -
GIVE TIPS TO JUDGES.
Cuban Court* An> Directed by Fraud
aud llrlberj-.
Havana, April 3.-—To-day, as under
the Spanish regime, bribery and lraud
direct tho Cuban courts. This is tho
firm conviction of the military admin-
istration. Governor General Brooke
is taking the matter up and intends
to clean out the corruption, to revise
the judicial procedure, to change the
court personnel ami to alHilish the
barbarous practico of incommuuicado, I
by which a judgo may imprison for i
life a person iguoraut of the accusti- j
tion against him aud of the nanos of ;
his accusers.
It is true that tho statutes allow ]
only three days' detention incommuni-
cado, but a judge, under the practice
that has grow, up, may make a new
commitment at tho expiration of the
third day; another at the expiration
of the sixth, aud so on without limit.
More than this, the evidence in
criminal cases is taken by clerks, who,
for a consideration, write into tho tes-
timony things never uttered, thus
often making tho best friends of tho
accused appear to condemn him. Ap-
parently the whole criminal and civil
systems have been arranged so as to
make it easy to buy and sell justice.
KANSAS GIRL A SUICIDE.
ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Took Morphine Uec u*o Her I.nver, .
Dli. Was Killed at Maloloi.
Wichita, April.—Miss Mary Wil
a prominent young society woina
Augusta, committed suicide upon >
learning that Alva I)ix, her lover, had
been killod on tho battlefield at Ma-
lolos.
Alva Dix was a private in Company
G, Twentieth Kansas voluteers. Be-
fore he enlisted ho was a prominent
,i .• , , , , farmer In Wilson countv, and ono of
man author,tics, and doiibtlm will bo lhe m0it p„ uUr v„„n,r mo„ ot hi,
approved also l.y tho United State, a, „i it', i,
mK1°'L s',™'"t! "oe" oourl'os
. , , ? i . ""son for soiuj time previous to
Ion, though it is not known lust how i > „i; . . . . . , , ,
f.,.. . I j.o - I , , ., ll,s enlistment and just before ho
far this has been considered by tho < , S- „• , i
From the columns of
from the city it seemed
place was abla/e. It tu
ever, that only the 1
nokc arising
it the whole I
edout, how-
dencia, or j
Burlington
No;
aeugur Train
1'arkville.
Mo., April
DUeliod
—The
Burlington passenger train. No. ^0,
due at the Kansas City union depot at
4:07 o'clock p. in., was wrecked at 3:35
o'clock yesterday afternoon, three
miles beyond 1'arkville, Mo. The
wreck was caused by the spreading of
the rails.
It is probable that nt least one death
will result from the accident. F. T.
Norton of Missouri City, Mo., was left
at a farm house near the scene of tho
wreck, and it was tho opinion of a
physician who was a passenger on tho
train that he could not live until morn-
ing. The other injured were:
O. E Hendee, mail clerk, Kansas
City, fact* badly cut and head bruised;
tnay die.
Piko Moore, Palmyra, Mo., hip aud
back hurt, injured internally.
W. B. York. Atwood, Kan., hip
bruised and wrist sprained.
Frank E. Black, 2411 Lydia avenue,
Kansas City, back and hip sprained.
W. M. Rogers, a brakeman on the
wrecked train, leg injured and head
hurt.
Professor II. W. Lohrman, Topeka.
shoulder injured.
Mary E. Miller, Nulo, Kan., foot
crushed.
Dr. A. F. Yohc, Leavenworth, Kan.,
slightly sprained and bruised about
lb* shoulders and hips
Charles G. McNeill, Chicago, bruised
about the shoulders.
E. W. Altringer, Leavenworth, back
sprained; also injured internally
J. H. Baker, third cook in the dining
car, arm and back hurt.
soper hanged for murder.
Ills Wire and Three Children Were
His Victim*.
Habrihoxvili.k, Mo., March 31.—e.
Bates Soper was hanged here at 5:30
yesterday morning for tho murder of
his wife eight years ago. He admitted
killing his wife and two children at
that time aud killing a third child two
vears ago.
NO PAY FOR THE CUBANS.
(iuneral Itrooke Will Ship the Three
Million Hack llome.
Havana. April 1.—It is asserted
that Major General Brooke is In a
quandary regarding the distribution
of tho 8.1,ooo.ono offered by the United
States government totheCuban troops,
uml has decided to ship the coin back
to the United States.
Gold Statute of Man le Adams.
Nkw York, April .1 —Maude Adams,
the Lady Babble of.'The Little Minis-
ter." may be seen in goldcu reproduc-
tion at the Paris exposition. Some of
her I tah friends are here negotiating
for the designing and casting of a life
size statue of Miss Adams, agreeing to
furnish golden bullion to the value of
J34H.OOO for the purpose.
government building, and a few of the
smaller buildings had been set fire tc
by the rebels before they evacuated
the place.
From the reports gathered by the
American officers, from prisoners and
others, it is believed that the rebel
army is constantly losing strength on
tunt of desertions, and that al-
though the enemy may make one or
two more stands, the forces of Aguin-
aldo will degonerato in perhaps a
month to a few hundreds, who may
continue waging a guerilla warfare in
tho mountains.
interests of tho Eastern stockholders.
FIGHTING TO THE SOUTH.
Insurgent! Sue in to Itn (htlierlng in X'ront
of I.awton'n Division.
Manila, Apr".I 3.—Tho American
forces commanded by General MacAr-
thur are resting at Malolos. The men
are In good condition, considering the
fatigues of the campaign.
The plans of tho rebels, if they have
any, aro conjectural. Considerable
rebel forcea have been collected along
the fronts of General Lawtou and
General Hall, who aro holding the
line from the waterworks to La Lonia.
There is shooting nightly along this
,.T,h° tr"T bolT0'1 6p,le"" S Une. apparently for tho purpose ot
dully. 1 hey advanced steadily aealn.t ,,reaWllg tlw Araerj(!ans.
.Ar,Cn.Chr:!U'r°U?_h Consequently General Lawton has
•ds and jungles and suffering from
frightful heat.
In addition, the American volun-
teers were handicapped in fighting by
the fact that their Springfield rifles
aro of shorter rango than the Mauser
rifles in the hands of tho rebels. Un-
der those circumstances, tho steady
advance of our troops is a really re-
markable achievement
NEW FIGHTING GROUNC.
General ll*Ms ltrigade H.ts . Sharp
Clash Nei r Montnlhan.
Manila, April 1.—General Hall's
brigade, which has been stationed on
tho west of Manila and has taken lit-
tle part in the MacArthur campaign,
directed against the main body of in-
surgents under Aguinaldo himself,
engaged the rebels to-day.
Hall's brigade advanced this morn-
ing from Mariquina up the Mateo
river valley almost to Montaban, driv-
ing tho enemy to the hills on the
north, The rebels were considerable
in force at tho junction of two streams
with the Matoo, but the American ar-
tillery soon scattered them with heavy
loss.
The American loss was one killed.
Lieutenant Greggof the Fourth infau-
try. General Hall eventually returned
to the water works.
General King advanced from San
Pedro Macati, establishing headquar-
ters at 1'asig.
onseq
detailed five sharpshooters froin each
company to attend to tho rebels and
the Americans are picking off num-
bers of thetn.
It Is reported that 3,000 rebels under
Pilar are concentrating at Cainta and
Taytar.
General King sent out reconnoiter-
ing parties from «jach of the twelve
by tho
Washington authorities.
King Oscar was agreed upon be-
tween tho I nitcd States and Great
Britain as a final arbitrator in connec-
tion with tho proposed Anglo-Ameri-
can arbitration treaty, as well as in
tho Venezuela matter. Ho is also
mentioned in the treaty of Berlin as
the one to name a chief justice of Sa-
moa in case tho three signatory pow-
ers fail to agrea on a chief justice. It I
was this that led to the suggestion of !
his namo at tho present time to j
act ns linal arbitrator. Tho expecta-
tion is that the sittings of the com- '
mission will be in Samoa, where for
the time being, they will have com-
plete authority over the whole rango
of Samoan affairs, ho far as tho high |
commission may think fit to act in or-
der to fully restoiv order and estab-
lish affairs on a stable basis. It will
require no treaty to bring tho com-
mission into existence, as the accept-
ances of the United States and Great
Britain will complete tho agreement.
NO ARKANSAS INSURANCE.
Evory Foreign Co in pin/ IIhs Siispeiid^d
Business in the State
Liiti.r Rock, Ark , April 3.—Attor-
ney General Davis has filed 120 suits
in tho Pulaski circuit court against
the sixty-three firo insurance com-
panies doing business in Arkansas
aud, as a consequence, every foreign
company has suspended business in
this state and an insurance policy can-
not now ho obtained at any price.
These suits are brought under a uew
anti-trust law. which was passed
by the legislature a few days ago. It
is one of tho most sweeping and far-
reaching measures of tho kind cv
ently
joined his regiment became
aflianccd lover.
Miss Wilson graduated re«
from Vassar while her sweetheai
on his way to tho Philippines.
Miss Wilsou saw her lover's name in
the list of killed during tho fighting
before Malolos. When she retired she
wrote a note to her father and mother,
telling them that she did not care to
live any longer, since Alva was dead,
and left it on a tabic in her room.
Some time during thu night she took
morphine and ended her life.
The young people were to have been
married in June.
FOR HER HUSBAND'S MURDER,
Misiourl Wo
nd i
n
Mil
. ico' iiiuk mciinum ui mo kinu ever
companies of the North Dakota regi- nnlin(iw, . „ .. . „ .
. , , • . . « |, , I enacted. According to tho attornev
ment and a brisk engagement followed I „ i„, , . , . , *
. i v- . general s interpretation of the law. t
during which seven Filipinos wero r..„i,«- . , ,
killed ~ I wakes no difference whethi
•n gage ment followed |
vhich seven Filipinos wero j
On the American sldj a lieu-
tenant and two privates were ,
wounded.
The death of Lieutenant Gregg of |
the Fourth infantry, who was killed
near the Manila water works, has
deeply affected the army, as he was
one of its most popular young officers.
His funeral took placc to-day.
ON THE ROCKS,
Steamer I.ntded With Fxcnmionlsts I*
Wrecked—Seventy Drowned
SorTHAMProN, England, April 1 —
The passenger steamer Stella, plying
between this port and tho Channel
islands, crashod upon the Casquet
rocks, near the island of Alderney,
yesterday afternoon, in a dense fog,
and founderod in ten minutes, her
boilers exploding with a tremendous
j report as she went down
I About seventy lives aro believed to
Miss Durham Fools Her ra. have been lost. An early report gave
Kansas City, Mo., April — Bert V. the loss as 120, but the officers of the
Durham, the pretty 17-year-old daugh- | London & Southwestern Hallway com-
Niu York, April l
departure of Secretary
Washiugtou he approve
authorising candies iu hulf pound
packages to be kept ou haud for sale
as staples to officers and enlisted mon
of the army This is similar to action
takeu in European armies, based ou
recent discoveries as to the food value
of sugar
ter of Edwin B. Durham, United
States marshal for tho Western dis-
trict of Missouri, was married last
Saturday afternoon in St. Joseph,
Mo., to Leon B. Hanson, a young man
from Glen wood, Iowa. Tho Durham
family knew nothing of tho marriage
until tho girl returned to her father's
home at 3002 Wyandotte street, early
this week. Hanson arrived in Kansas
City Thursday night, after narrowly
escaping death In the wreck of the
Burlington train near Parkville dur-
ing tho afternoon.
riiotogfitphs the Mom ich
Berlin, April 3.—In the Munchenet
Medizinisten Wochenschrift Drs.
Lange and Meltzing described an ap
paratus which they have invented fo<
photographing tho interior of the
stomach. Tho foremost end
stomach tuho contains
camera and an electric light
pany, to which the boat belonged, say
all the passengers except seventy have
been accounted for.
The Stella had on board 210 passen-
gers who were going to spend Easter
in the Channol islands. In spite of
the confusion and the boiler explo-
sions, there was no panic when the
ship went down.
Tho coasting steamer Lynx, which
brought the news of the disuster hero,
picked up four boats and forty per-
sons belonging to the Stella
Another sterracr has picked up a
boat containing fifty-five persons, in-
cluding twenty women, who escaped
from the wrecked steamer. They have
been landed here.
The second officer of the steamer,
who was among those rescued, says
that a collapsible boat was launched
0pjc I full of people, but bethinks she struck
When i ou rocks, owing to tho f«
the stomach is emptied and filled with I Three boats, including the
air tho apparatus photographs the ble boat, aro missing
most secret recesses The negative is !
about the sine of a cherry stone, and
can be enlarged.
o'.lupsi-
I ml inn* Company Barrel.
Toi'KKA, Kan . April a.—State Su-
perintendent of Insurance Church has
refused to license the Indiana State
Lifo Insurance company to do busi-
ness in Knusas. Tho last official act
of Former Superintendent of Insur-
ance Webb Me Nail was to bar this
company from the state, on the
Alger from Jfround that it issued policies at
a circular "uced m®6 practically n
practically made
the policy holders agents for the com-
pany _ t
Dr Kennady Sentenced to Die
New York. April l.—Dr Samuel J.
GROSS FRAUD IS CHARGED.
Topeka, Kan.. March 30.— United
States District Attorney I E. Lam-
bert, representing Receiver Morton
Albautrh, of the defunct First Nation-
al bank, of Emporia, commonly known
as the Cross bank, has brought suit in
the federnl eourt here against Willi,
Martindale
the actiug
surance companies maintain an asso-
ciation, exchange or rating bureau iu
Arkansas ot not. If they mereiy af-
filiate with such association, exchange
or rating bureau in any other state
they are guilty of violating the la
this state and the penalty is a fine of
not less than $200 nor more than $.*>,000
for each day's violation, with the ad-
ditional penalty of the forfeiture of
right to do business in this state.
By virtue of the suits filed by Attor-
ney General Davis, all the foreign in-
surance companies doing business iu
tho stato have beon declared viola
of the anti-trust act, since its app
a I by the governor. Tho stato sue* for
the full penalty prescribed, S3,000,
making an aggregate of 8315,000 asked
by tho stato of the tiro insurance com-
panies. Under the circumstances the
Arkansas agents of tho foreign com-,
nanies are boiug instructed to tako uo ' 1&50>
KeyiKsvii.i.i Mo, April X — F. I* j
Mayhugh, a farmer who lived twenty-
threo miles northwest of here, was |
killed at dusk January 15. A coro-
ner'. jury decided that Mayhugh came
to his death by the accidental dis- I
charge of a shotgun which ho was I
taking out of a wagon
Mrs. Mayhugh and the hired hand, i
Elmer Wilber, have just been arrested '
on a warrant sworn out by Mark May- ;
hugh, a brother of the dead mau,
charging them with the death of F. L. i
Mayhugh. Wilber is in jail and Mrs j
Mayhugh, who has a child about ti
months of age, is tinder guard. The I
case will bo investigated by the grand |
jury, which will meet next Monday. I
CONFISCATED SWIFT'S BEEF. I
llavana Officials tinve l.ftoo.onn I'n
the HospitMln.
S. B. ARMOUR DEAD.
diore risks.
Armour Tmklni; Company's I'reddent
Passes Away —III Two Weeks.
Kansas City, M< ., March 30.—Si-
meon B. Armour, president of the Ar-
mour Packing company, died at his
home. 1210 Broadway, of pneumonia,
at 9:30 o'clock this morning, at the
age of " I years.
S. B. Armour was married June 21,
ss Margaret Klock, of
Oneida, N. Y. They had no children.
GEN. FLAGLER PASSES awav. Victoria. II. April T-I.M0
Jones, who has arrived here from
WAsinNOTON, March 31.—A dispatch
received here from Old Point, Va.,
says that Brigadier General Flagler,
chief of ordnance, IT. S. A., died at the
Hygeia hotel at ft o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
lie was a brigadier genei
served in the army since 1h."
chief of ordnanea at the
death. He made a gallant r
ing the Civil war and wa*
officer.
d, having
. and was
Alaska on the steamer Amur, says
that not more than 5 cents per pan
was taken from any creek in the Mc-
Quostin and Stewart river districts
this winter. All work was stopped by
water. He also tells of tho finding of
• sici-
id bod it
vart riv
i tent <
the
r of hit I
r,l <1 ur- « l> g g l'l.
upnlu i tlu'ir Identity.
One
• «t lli-avlly >«t I
U p-
N. J..
1 nd u
April 3. — I'apen
were tiled with the secretary of ntatt
yesterday afternoon Increasing thu
capital stock of the American Tobacco
company from 93ft,000,ooo to 970 000-
000. The number of companies incor-
porated during the month was 250. on
which there was paid filing fees that
amounted to 8l'Jt ,00V There were
thirty-live companies whoso author-
ised capital exceeded 91.000,too each.
The aggregate authorised capital ol
these thirty-five companies wai
91,111,750,000.
.Maklir; (ilove Cooteits l.mj.ii.
San FiiANt im o. April i (iot.rnoi
Gage has signed the Uickard bill
which legalizes pri/.,- fighting contest:
«... up to twenty rounds. I n bi this hi
president and ono of 4'u'>' incorporated clubs . an promotv
inagers of that institu- ''""^sts after paying an annul
tion during its existi
j106.<-00. The petition gives In great
detail the history of the transactions
which resulted iu tho failure of the
bank. According to it, most glariug
frauds were perpetrated; the accounts
mauipuiated in an unlawful
Kennedy, convicted of the murder of i manner, and thj books were doctored
Dolly lleyno'.ds, was sentenced to die I
during th.- week beginning May 01 j
•,o make thing* balanc3 regardie
;he amount of the shortage
license, the nmount of which i
fixed by county supervisors.
Sp*l
l«ll Up.
Ordfred Out
Tacoma, Wash., April 3.- Foreign
business houses lost over 91,001.000 by
the destruction of Iloilo by the Fili-
pino*, before General Miller laptured
the city. Stephen A Co., an English
firm, estimates its loss at Sl4'i,0()0 ou
stored hemp. Numerous otii r firms
had warehouses and stocks destroyed.
English insurance companies will be
the chief losers, Ths Vnno'i lirnof
jewelers. La Kstrella del Norte, lost
93.10,000 worth of property.
Work for British float
ix)niion April 3.—According to s
dispatch to the Daily Mail from Hong
Kong, serious disturbances h ive re-
cently occurred !u the vicinity of ( an-
tou, aud a British torpedo boat des-
troyer has been sent there to protect
British interests. The destroyer will
soon be followed by otlur vessels car-
rying tro.'ps
Hlrhard Clmmberlaln Is Dead.
London, April. .—Richard Chamber-
lain, brother of Joseph Chamberlain,
secretary of stato for the colouies,
died in Loudon yesterday.
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i mi is m ioi.
Filipinos Show No Desire to Re-
sume Hostilities.
TROOPS RESTING AT MALOLOS.
In tho uniform of his new naval rank.
Havana, April 3.—Swift & Com- j
pany recently imported 1,500,00') I
pounds of refrigerated beef, paying
the duties, with the object of selling
the meat to Havana market men. The
slaughter house inspectors, how-
ever, confiscated tho beef and !
gave it to the hospitals, because
It had not paid the slaughter
house tax. Tho Swift compauy's
agent protested to Senor Lacoste, the
mayor of Havana, offering to pay the
tax, but his efforts were unavailing,
and the comdany will now sue tho city
for the value of the beef.
DEATH IN POLITICS.
AWFUL MORTALITY RECORD
IN PHILADELPHIA.
propria! loim Withheld
That City May Sell the
State of AfTitlra.
Workn ltM.I
the courts by a bill In equity, are the
I men responsible for the present condl-
Three hundred and seventy-one per | tion of affairs, and there is where the
sons have died In Philadelphia of ty responsibility should rest, und there
phold fever since Jan. 1, 1K'J9. The i« where the condemnation of the pco-
shadow of murder hangs over their pie should be placed."
deaths, which can be laid to corporate j —
greed and political corruption, saye a , SEEKING A BRIDE AT IOI.
dispatch from that city. These
Manila. April I.—Tho American
troops under General MacArthur aro
still resting at Malolos. where every-
thing lias been quiet. Hostilities else-
! where—so far as otllcially reported—
, Lave been limited during tho last
twenty-four hours to an occasional
j 'xchauge of eliots between the insur-
gents aud the troops forming the lines
of General Hall, extending from tho
waterworks to La Lonia. But this
shooting has boon just active enough
to make tho lives of the. soldiers a
burden and to compel tho officers to
sleep iu trenches, clothed aud in readi-
ness to repel possible attacks.
Most of the Americans aro becoming
convinced that tho backbonoof the in-
surgent. opposition is broken. There
are numerous rumors pointing to nn
early collapse of tho insurrection. One
of these is that General I'io del l'ilar.
tho best fighter among tho Filipino
officers, will desert Aguinaldo and
give his support to the Americans.
The Spaniards, reasoning from their
experience of the natives, refuse to be-
lieve that tho rebellion is anywhere
near put down. They declare that
the Filipinos will not take their do-
feat at Malolos, with the loss of tho
city and tho removal of their so-called
government, seriously to heart. On the
contrary, tho Spaniards predict that
the Insurgents will hover near tho
American lines, bothering them as
much as possible, and when attacked
in force, dissolve, only to reappear at
other points. T.i s sort of tactics, tho
Spaniards say, will bo followed until
the wot season compels the Americans
to be housed in barracks, ,\nd then tho
Filipinos will return and re-occupy
such towns as the United States troops
' do not garrison. With the next dry
season, a repetition of tho present op-
erations will begin.
j Time alone will show how muoli
there is in this theory; but. as against
it, it must bo borne in mind that tho
Spaniards, in all their domination of
i the Philippines, never gave tho inhab-
itants a demonstration of power com-
parable In effectiveness to that given
them by tho United States.
| A priest and two members of the so-
called Filipino congress, who hid
j themselves in tho woods during tho
fighting which preceded the capture of
j Malolos, havo returned there und de-
clared that 2,000 of the Filipino sol-
diers were anxious to give up fighting,
; and would do so but for their officers,
who keep them under arms.
i Tho whole country between Malolos
! and Caloocan is now full of friend lies
I —women and old people—who are re-
turning to their homes carrying white
flags. The Americans are trying to
gain the confidence of the inhabitants
by proving to them that if they re-
turn and attend to their ordinary
worn, peacefully, no harm will befall
them. Two hundred and fifty civil-
ians came back to their homes in Ma-
lolos last evening.
Two thousand women and children,
with a sprinkling of unarmed men,
supposed to be warriors, came to the
outskirts of Malolos on the sea side of
tho city and afterward sneaked away,
carrying all tho goods they could,
heinous greed on the ono side and of There his been no little good na-
almost hopeless courage on the other, tured rivalry as to which regiment-
In courts and councils alike have the ^jie, First Montana or the Twentieth
Interests of the people been betrayed. Kansas—is entitled to tho honor of
Said Mayor Warwick, who has always j,ftVing raised its flag first in Malolos.
fought for pure water: "Those mem- Colonel Funston aud twenty men of
hers of the council who unreasonably Company E. Kansas volunteers, claim
opposed the loan bill, the schemers the distinction, on the ground, of hav-
who aro interested In what was called injf entered tho town at double quick
a water scheme, as well as those m«'ii an,i raised the company's flag, but the
who havo persistently hung it up in f]rst flag to bo recognized officially
was that of Company G, of the Mon-
tana infantry.
iclllo
of It
A«on
Paris, April 3. — Agoncillo, the agent
of Aguinaldo, in the course of an in-
terview, says:
' The capture of Malolos is not as
important as the Americans are trying
to make it appear. The Filipino gov-
ernment had already determined upon
removal to San Fernando, and a small
Sale in hen Sniem'a Nun Choice la I
Young Lady Jott Turned 14.
Probably the rnoBt. aged candidal
for matrimony Is an Arab named detachment of troops was left witn
Salem ben Salem, who Is living in orders to burn the town and thus to
mies Is for I Oran This old Adonis was born In draw tho Americans inland.
young and I the Soudan, somewhere about 1797. "Two months of rain and fever will
umb " When quite young he was sold to an- *av® tl,e Filipinos their ammunition
mies of civilization and of American
institutions have poisoned Philadel-
phia's water supply. Heretofore It
was supposed that only savages pois-
oned an enemy - well- Philadelphia's
fight against her two enemies Is for
life; for the lives of the
of those who would easily . „„„„ ,,u,tr ....
disease. So Philadelphia sympathet; - other Arab, who disposed of him some ttud a K°°d (leal of trouble, and tho
ally watches New York's struggle for years later for a bag of dates. After war win ?ot e"d wh,le a 8,n£lc Fl1*
clean streets and for a line, wide thor- „ieeting with a host of adventures he "P1"0 remains to bea
oughfare that corporations and poil- ' . Htablisherl himself In Oran. and mar- He charges Major
tlclans would convi-rt Into death's rle<1 Whrn hls wl(e (n„,| t,„ (ou,ld oponlnir hostilities
crossing. Here aro tho new, tho reil
facts concerning this epidemic of ty-
phoid, which Is the greatest crime bo-
cause the commonest honesty would
have prevented its occurrem
not wholly because of factional poll-
tics or to prevent tho present admin-
istration from spending money thnt
tho ordinance appropriating $3.700.000
for tho improvement of tho water sup-
ply was held up or that the council
refused appropriations ;•> the bureau
of water in the hope that tht watei
supply would become so contamlnat I
that the citizens, as the only relief,
would demand tho sale or lease of the
himself a 101-year-old widower. Most
men would consider themselves enti-
tled at such an age to retire altogether
from matrimonial business. Not so
Salem ben Salem, who Is now oourt-
lng a young lady Just turned 14.
holds the
:ans responsible for the transfer
of the Spanish prisoners and for pro-
venting tho Filipinos negotiating a
treaty with Spain.
Agoncillo is confined to his room
with influenza.
OTIS WILL ADVANCE.
•station In the Campaign Against
Malting Arellr Kiplornt Ion Nrem Tumi j
The Immense distances to which
mall matter Is carried, and the terrible I Wabhinoton, April 3.—Tho follow-
dauger In delivering mall in some quar- ing dispatch was received at 6:43
tern, particularly in Alaska, is aston- ! o'clock this morning: "Manila, April
i-hlng. In hundreds of cases It costs, j —Adjutant General. Washington:
over fifty cents to carry a full-paitl i yuiet prevails. Have directed troops
, letter bearing but a two-cent stamp, at Malolos and on the railroad on re-
water wor s, w < i t !«• clj on ns, to |;i^t V);il. t|r COn tractor who makes I ooanoitsring duty Find Insurgent*
Lo.vdox. April I.—Thirty thousand "
Spanish reserves have becu called out ta t r suotvUorm
sav> the Madrid correspondent of th, I' *hbk. 8. D April \ —A lurious
Daily Chronicle and it i, probably Eabier #now Btor,u has hecu "Mf'ng
that' there will bo a ' arl.st rising her« sll dsy, about six inches having
after Faster I *lr®ady falleu. with more iu sight.
one or other of the corporations which
have been moving heaven and earth
to grab them. That hope has be. ti
partly realized. Some of the results
are: Three hundred and seventy-one
persons have died of tvphold fever
since Jan. 1, 1899, and the most coil
servatlve physicians declare that 05
j per cent of the deaths were doe to
! the pollution of the water suppl*.
i Such a death rate from typhoid was
unknown In this city or in any other
I that pretends to care for her people
health. Since Jan 1. 1H99, 3,522 case;
of typhoid have been reported to the
hosrd of health Forty-two more per-
sons have died In Philadelphia since
I Jan. 1 than were killed In action dur-
I Ing the entire war with Spain Two
hundred and forty-six more died In
j this one city than died of wounds re
reived during the war with Spain.
Only 1,775 more people died of dl-i-
i eai.es during the Spanish war than
! have been attacked with typhoid fe-
ver In this one city during the pant ih °Crusadc.
| ten week? The hospitals are over-
crowded with typhoid fever cases
Nine out of the 37 hospitals have 337
esses. A big ward In the almshouse is
given over to sufferers from typhoid.
The history of the strugcle between
the grabbers and the people Is one >f
a initially six round trips In Alaska,
from Juneau to Circle City, a distance
ot 900 miles, encountered dangers,
hardships and privation that makes
Arctic exploration seem tame. On one
of his return trips he had to travel
'• ."00 miles (or one-quarter way round
the globe) more than the regular route
distance to make schedule time for
starting on his next trip.
Caller HJxcuse nie. can I speak to
yoi.r typewriter a moment? City Man
you can't: she's engaged. Caller—
That's .ui right I'm th« follow!—H
lustiatcd Hits.
Hevere PunUliment for Theft.
rarrliii and feathering was once a
legal punlsl ment for theft. It Is said
to be found In the statutes of both
Kngland and Fiance about the time o*
A Country of foels.
only in small portions of surrounding
couutry who retire on the approach of
our troops. Few of our troops moving
to a new position.
"Preparing for a continuod active
j campaign. Array is excellent spirits.
—Otis."
Ilaronena III melt In Dead
Paris, April 3.—Baroness Hirsch,
I widow of tho late ltarou Hirsch, the
i Hebrew philanthropist, is dead. She
| bad been ill several days and bad not
been expected to live.
j Tho baroness leaves several million
dollars, chietly bequeathed to chari-
ties. She once wrote a letter to a
friend: "It is a great aud terrible re-
sponsibility. this pot session of wealth,
aud tho proper distribution i>f it''
Calm's Vlelil of Revenue*.
Havana. April 3. —The island gov-
ernment, us administered by tho
L'nitod States military authorities,
has yielded for tho first quarter
83,500,000 as custom receipts. Of this
amount 100,00J has beon spent, the
rhile U Mid to have mora poat.. la city ot Uavaua ir ,ttimr 'Uuo.ooo aud
proportion to population, thin any th. oity ol SMtl.ro l.'M.ooo. Each
count! y in the world.
8 KIT a. tort of eky-llght? j
' provincial gove
I asked.
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