Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 316, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1900 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1900.

department Indicate what duties our officers have had to undertake in municipal governing. The ITovost-Marshal Is mayor: under him Is a department of sanitation, or Hoard of Health: a department of law. or municipal attorney; a department of city illumination; a department of education; a paymaster's department controlling the city treasury and all receipt and disbursements; a police department and a secret service bureau; a department of inspection, to which are referred ull complaints and matters to re investigated for preliminary report: the department of the city engineer: a department of licenses, one of public charities, one of prison records, a streetcleaning and disinfecting and fire department, and I believe that is all. The department of Internal revenue is Insular as well as municipal, and has eighty-five pubdepartments throughout the islands. The pstofr.ce Is under a civilian head and is subject to the Indirect control of the military authorities. This list gives some idea of the component parts of the old Spanish system of city government taken up and administered by the army. Our officers have to do many things outside of what reasonably may be expected from a soldier, and In most cases these unexpected duties have be?n well performed. When speaking of the civil work our officers have under taken, it should be borne in mind that they have always acted under superior orders and that the military system and method of doing things Is hard and fast and must be followed: the system and methol are both Inadequate and unsatisfactory to commerce and business, yet they are the only ones the army may use. I have written of a very general discontent with the military government of Manila because this government was military In its severity, brusqueness and apparent lack of consideration. Incompetence, bungling, corruption, grievous mistakes and general delay are other features of administration which have added to the existing measure of dissatisfaction. In this respect the most flagrant examples, and consequently the easiest to get evidence on, are to be found in the native police and the native court, the custom house and the matter of harbor transportation and lighterage and the management of the ManilaDa gu pan Railroad. TAXPAYERS GRUMBLE. As I have before said, the fact that those army officers and civilians to-day administering the several city departments are accountable to the military authority alone makes it impossible for the community at large to learn what is being done in any branch of municipal work. The taxpayers of this city have not even the slim satisfaction of knowing what is done with the money they are continually paying into American coffers. If the community of Manila were given an accounting as to the disposition of insular funds, if the authorities would condescend to give the people a budget retting forth what moneys had been collected by taxation, license fees and custom imposts there would follow some light on the interior workings of the governing authority and the taxpaylng people would be pleased. To-day they say we have been drawing revenue from the islands and this city for two years, and they who pay this revenue have no idea what is done with their money. And they are beginning to question the matter among themselves and to wonder at the attitude of secrecy and mystery maintained on this question by the authorities. The doings of his superior officer are of no concern to the soldier, but the doings of the administrators of a community-are of decided concern to the community administered. If the people were given a balance sheet of insular funds they could determine to thXlr own satisfaction whether anv of th!s money had been ill

rpent. The fact that no such accounting lias been made has thrown several city Tepartf-ients directly or indirectly open to continued criticism. "Were the desired balance sheet given to the public the charges t t corruption to-day made by many might then be impossible to sustain. THE NATIVE POLICE. The native police force of Manila com prises 47S Filipinos, including officers, and they are notoriously corrupt in that they accept money to protect criminals and law breakers. Gambling is an apparently in born instinct to every Filinpino, and gambling is against Manila's laws. Yet gambling goes on all over the city and there are scores of gamblers ready to swear to having paid the police for protection, if they, in turn be protect ed from subsequent police retaliation. Filipino and Spanish clubs where gambling is tne principal pas time exist openly, and Chinaman run in numerable fantan games, while policemen r:itrol the streets outside their dens. A captain of native police, recently asas sinated In Manila, is openly alleged to have had no other source of income except his modest salary; yet he lived in great anluence and style, kept a stable full of horses and more than one mistress and was able to lose several thousand dollars at play in one night. Here Is an authentic example of this captain's methods; he permitted a certain native to run a gambling house for ti a day, but soon raised the price of protection to $15; the gambler declared there was no money in the Job at the price and discontinued his game and his payments. Later the captain raided the supposed game and was deeply chagrined to find the ex-gambler and three friends seated around a bottle of beer, listening to music, and no Mgns of gambling. The captain perceived a profitless night's -jrork, but, being rich in expedient, he forced the four men present to empty their pocket to him. and he thereby carried away a hundred and fifty dollars. The next morning he turned in to the proper authority thirty dollars as confiscated by his men at a gambling game. Complaint against the captain was immediately made and substantiated by very good evidence, but the matter was pigeonholed and no action taken. Charges of gross corruption and malfeasance in office were placed against this police captain by an American army officer, at that time acting as judge of the Inferior lTovost Courts; these charges were also pigeonholed, and the ofllcer preferring them was transferred to another field of duty, where he could not prove so troublesome. The captain in question was, among other things, a most valuable and efficient officer and could ill be spared from his work. Yet his continued presence In American employ was a dally example of corruption under the American administration of the city, and had Its consequent WEATHER FORECAST. Fair To-Day and To-Morrow Northerly Wind. Becoming Variable. WASHINGTON. Nov. 11. Forecast for Monday and Tuesday: For Ohio Fair on Monday and Tuesday; fresh westerly winds. For Illinois Fair on Monday and Tuesday; winds shifting to fresh southerly. For Indiana Fair on Monday and Tuesday; fresh northerly winds, becoming variable. Loral Observations on Sunday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. rre. ?a. m..J0.10 31 92 West. Cloudy. 0.12 7 p.m. .20.22 37 W N'west. Clear. 0.01 Maximum temperature, CS; minimum temperature, S3. Following is a comparative statement of the mean temperature ani total precipitation for Nov. 11: Temp. Pre. Normal 15 0.13 Mean r.t o.tt Departure 0.00 Departure since Nov. 1 22 O.SI Departure since Jan. 1 t!3 3.SS Plus. C. F. lt. WAPPENHANS, Local Forecost Ofrlcial.

Yesterday's Temperatures. Station. MIn. Max. 7 a. m. Bismarck. N. D 4i r Buffalo, N. Y 43 12 Chicago. Ill 22 Zi 34 Cairo. Ill SS 42 ZS Cheyenne. Wyo K 3o 4; Cincinnati. 0 21 42 3fi TavenjKrt. la 3) .V ;-3 Pes Moines. Ia 2$ 2iJ ) Galveston. Vex K4 4j Helena. Mont 4i US Jacksonville, Fla tiS Kansas City, Mo 22 2; za l.lttle Hock. Ark 2t 4 42 Marquette, Mich 21 32 Memphis, T,?nn 2; 4; 42 Nashville. Tern 2i 44 49 New Orleans, La. New York city 4J 41 Ncrth Platte. Neb 2H 5.) 42 Oklahoma. O Zi 4 2i Omaha. Net 2s 4) j mtsburg. IM 2'I 42 4Qu 'Appelle. N W. T 41 n Papl l Ciry. S. D 20 5.1 Fait Lake City 24 4S St. Paul. Mhin Ztl M .Pprlngfield. Ill 22 40 2Springfield. Mil 21 2,j 24 Vlckburg. Miss 4) x,2 42 Washington, D. C 44 43

bad influence upon the balance of the police

force and upon the inhabitants cr :uan)a at large. FILIPINO COUP.T3. Closely allied to the police force in meth ods of extortion are the native Inferior courts, administered by four Filipino justices of the peace. The establishment and maintenance of this local Judiciary has been carefully supervised by the secretary to the military Governor, who at one time had much faith in their honesty and efficiency. But to-day they have fallen Into disrepute one of their number has been removed from office under criminal proceed ings which may eventually bring him to prison. All four Justices are notoriously corrupt. According to ine system uwivkeeping and checks prevailing In the provost marshal s office in Manila, these Judg es should send in dally to me proper uuignated American authority all fines collected bv them in their courts, and It Is estimated that together the four Justices collect live thousand dollars, Mexican. In fines each month. As a maiier 01 wu, these native Judges send in less than a hundred dollars each month, and divert the balance of their collections to their own ues. This has been going on for months pat There is evidence, and plenty of it, that these Judges are in the habit of compromising with petty offenders without trial by taking money from them In exchange for their freedom. It is a further well known fact that during a period of v, nha fiftv-nlne prisoners, sen tenced toimprlsonment by these native Judges were started from the court rooms to the prison and never arrived there. They were in eriean soldiers in some cases. and of native policemen In others; they were not killed en route, dui mey c b..o their freedom in exchange for cash, and the system of checks was at that time so imperfect that their nonarrival at the prison was not officially noticed until an investigation of the matter was made. Cases wherein trial has long been delayed without cause before these courts are common, and the local press are continually cltlnff examples of the farcical methods, corruption and unjust decisions of hese native judges. The facts I have, stated above f have long been known to the military authorities, both to General Otis and to General MacArthur, yet neither has ever taken effective steps to remedy this evil, which so directly affects the common people, and the continuance of which tends daily to dissatisfy the thinking element of the Inhabitants of Manila with the military administration, as well as to shatter their belief in our much heralded clean and good government. And In this latter result lies the deplorable effect of corruption and maladministration. We do not talk the Tagalog tongue; 'few of the natives talk Spanish well, and the majority not at all. so we get no close contact nor understanding with them and fjiil to realize how closely the com mon people watch each and every one of our official actions and draw their own conclusions therefrom. We have cried to them: "We will give you a clean and good government"' until the words are become a habit and we can hardly speak officially without using them. Yet the two branches of the municipal administration of the this city that most directly reach and touch the common people aYe woefully corrupt. Incompetent and dishonest, and the result of the contrast which is thereby forced to the minds of superstitious and unreasonable natives, none too well disposed toward us at best, is almost disastrous to the great work of winning the confidence and affection of the Filipinos. CUSTOM IlOUSn PROBLEMS. The matter of unloading vessels 1n Manila bay, and that of Imposts on Imports, affect every merchant in town, and through them the consumers of what these merchants handle for sale. The incompetence which Is manifest in the. doings of the men who administer the custom house and control the unloading bf ships in the harbor, duo partly to their lack of business ability and understanding and partly to the necessity of doing their work according to army rules and regulations, has resulted In shippers very materially increasing freight rates to Manila in order to protect themselves against losses Incurred by their vessels while In this port because of the endless and Incalculable delays in getting merchandise from ship to shore. In support of this statement I will cite one instance: The steamer freight rate 0:1 a can of kerosene oil from New York to Manila has gone from 30 cents to SO cents, gold, within two months; the game rate by sailing vessel for the same case of oil has risen 10 cents, gold. also within two months, wnich latter Increase advances the cost of getting a small shipload of oil out here by $1,000, gold. These rates are advanced because shippers know by experience what to expect at Manila, and I think it constitutes the strongest kind of a condensed arraignment against the administration of this port. And the consumers pay to merchants and shippers the cost of this increase in transportation. Such conditions here at Manila arise from a variety of reasons; from the endless swirl of red tape with which the military have to surround their dealings with business men, details of which would cover pages, and in my note books I have dozens of examples which brevity prevents my using. Also from the fact that we are proceeding In custom and harbor matters under former Spanish rules, confused by the application of army regulations. The Spanish rules were pood and adequate for the conditions cxtlslng when they were framed, but to-day, in view of the new and -greater requirements, they are a distinct hindrance to commerce. There are not nearly enough lighters for unloading purposes in the bay, and the customs warehouses have, up to this present month, been utterly inadequate. Government property, material and stores take precedence in transportation over all individual interests, and here commerce again gets the small end of it. The rental of lighters is abnormally high, and because of the lack of facilities for unloading, they are often kept waiting in front of the government custom warehouse; for weeks at a time for chances to discharge their cargoes! I know of one steamer with eight hundred tons of freight to unload at Manila being kept here nineteen days to do It. demurrage Piling up at the rate of $350. gold, a day; anther consignment of goods which arrived here June 16 and only got into the custom house on July 14 TOO MUCH RED TAPE. In short, an. inadequate system, poor ratiiities, red tape, a necessary observance of army rules and a resultant lack of consideration of commercial needs and general mismanagement of the port have brought about those Increased freight rates trt Manila. When I speak of incompetence and mismanagement I make no personal reference to the men to-day In charge of the customs and harbor transportation; I know they are working hard and doing all they can to help matters and that they must obey superior orders and observe rP-. ulartons. The incompetence and mlsmangcment are seen when it is realized that we have been here two years and have yet done so little to improve conditions along tho water front. And the fact that for two years we have been collecting a hieh finanish tax on all goods entering Manila, to be devoted to improving harbor facilities, and hive done practically nothing with the very large sum of money thus derived, does not add to the content of the taxpaylng community. When speaking of custom imports and tariff one can easily drift Into a discussion as to whether the Philippines are a part of the United States, whether the Constitution follows the flag, whether American goods should be taxed or free of duty at this port, and so on. ad infinitum. I think it sufficient to say in this respect that the duties on an import Into Manila are com paratively high. Here is an extreme pt ample: A case of canned tomatoes goes into the custom house costing $150. Mexican, freights paid to Manila.' The custom house values the case at $24. on a basis of ono dollar for each kilo of weight, and begins oy margin? .1 per cent, of this; valuation, or $4.$i. as a specific duty on canned tomatoes; then 10 per cent, of the specific tlutv. or 4S cents, for harbor charges; then 8 per cent, of the valuation of $21. or $1.02. for commercial improvement, and then 23 cents as a landing charge and for conduction. The $3.50 case of tomatoes Is now worth $11 in Manila, or an increase of 215 per cent., and the consumer pays this advance to the merchant. A few months ago it took an importer from tr;o to four weeks to get a consignment of goods through tho custom house (this in addition to the delay in g ttinr: the same goods from shin to shore). but 1 am to-day nssurcd that, owing to tne increased racnit:e of now warehouses, rru rcnanciise is now nspatched by the gov cm men t in a week or ten days. CAUSES FOR COMPLAINT. Looking over my note books I find records of several other matters that could well go Into this article. I will briefly re fer to a few of them. Taxpayers are won

de ring why a big cold storage plant for army use, now in course of construction at Manila, should be paid for out of Philippine funds. There has been much complaint of the department of the city veterinary bureau, which also controls the quarantining and slaughtering of cattle. A man who untlt lately was head of this department has teen tried in the Superior Provost Court indirectly charged with complicity in a dishonest horse deal. The court acquitted him, but the man in question almost immediately left the islands.. Perhaps the most profitable of the smaller municipal industries is the slaughter house. It costs the city $13.000 (Mexican) a year to operate this institution, which takes in bv slaughter feer VA.UW a year. Here is

an unreasonable profit of 0 per cent, levied on a necessity of daily life, . namely, the consumption of meat. The Hoard of Health started a crusade against the manufacturers of adulterated and impure liquors. Every distillery in the city with the exception of one was closed up and the owners disciplined. The distiller whose business was not molested is almost as prime a favorite with the powers that be to-day as he was with the former Otis regime. and the fact that he was allowed to run his distillery night and day, thus making large profits while his competitors were forced by the authorities to be idle, created much discontent. No one ever advanced the argument that the favored man's liquors were better or purer than any ont'? else, and It was only by constant and persistent reference to the fact that the military government was showing favoritism that the counsel for the manufacturers of objectionable liquors obtained for his clients a modified and reasonable sentence. The officer on the Board of Health who energetically conducted the prosecutions against these distillers and who wanted no distinction made between A and I has since been relieved from duty and sent, home. CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED. Then there was the matter of the control of the Manila-Dagupan railroad when in military hands. This is an old story, however, as several months ago this railroad was handed back to the owners, who now operate it. The railroad was not well managed, and was a fruitful source, of Incomes, small and large, to the Americans directly connected with its operation. Charges have been made against the administration of the Manila Department of Licenses. I believe these charges were tiled first at Washington, and from Washington they were referred to the military Governor here, and by this last authority they were forwarded to the office of the provost marshal. This was several months ago, and there has yet been no Investigation into the department in question. All these things, familiar t the people of this ctiy, tend to create dissatisfaction with American rule, and a certain class of Filipinos are not slow to fasten upon each and every mistake our authorities have made and use it to discredit, among their countrymen, our efforts toward our much-talked-of good and clean government. A collection of facts like these here set down constitute a powerful feature of agitation against our control, and there are plenty of Filipinos smart enough and vindictive enough to use them for all there is in them. And. In view of the foregoing. Manila looks forward hopefully to what the commission may do in this matter. The commission will probably first establish municipalities in cities other than Manila, and later bring the result of the experience thus gained to the bigger problem of the Philippine capital. It is tho purpose of the civil com mission to establish an excellent, effective and honest civil service in these islands, and such a service will greatly aid the commission In Its most important work of inauguratjrg a good municipal government in Vlanlla. The heads of the various municipal departments will event ually be drawn from this new civil corps. No good man will take up a department of city work without learning how that department has been run in the past and how It is being administered at the time he assumes control. When the city departments do pass from military to civil control there will probably follow, as a result of the acceptance of responsibility by new men, public understanding and light on how the army has administered the municipality of Manila. FILiriXOS XOXCOJIMITTAL. Snylnig Little About the Resnlt of the Election in the United States. MANILA, Nov. 11. The results of the elections in the United States have been quietly received here. So far as the Filipinos are concerned no noticeable change In the situation has ensued, nor is any likely to occur In the immediate future. They are for the greater part noncommittal. News of tho outcome- will slowly work its way through the country to the armed Insurgents, where the assurances of the leaders that Mr. Bryan would certainly be elected must first be overcome. Last week's scouting resulted in several minor engagements with wlmt the official reports describe as "small casualties," namely, four Americans killed and ten wounded. GIRL'S STORY DISCREDITED. Tvro Yon 11 er Men Found Not Guilty of Killing 11 Woman and Boy. ST. PAUL, Minn.. Nov. 11. James Hardy and Elmer Miller, who have been on trial at Anoka for the murder of two members of the Wise family, were found not guilty. Mrs. Wise and a young son were killed on the night of May 27 last by shots fired through a window while they 'were seated about a table in their farmhouse near Anoka, William Wise, her husband, and an older boy were very badly wounded, and have not yet recovered from the effects of the wounds. Eliza Wise, aged fifteen, isade a confession, alleging that Miller and Hardy, who were said to be lovers of her?ei and sister, had plannexl to get rid of the old folks In order that the girls might Inherit the farm and a small sum of money. On the trial of the two younr men, who were both under age, the Wise sisters testJiied to the alleged conspiracy, and the Stato presented in corroboration of their evidence the testlmany of one Allie Pres ton, who alleged that Hardy had proposed to him to Join In the crime. The defense rested Its case upon an alibi, and sought to discredit the testimony of the Wise sisters and Preston by alleging that they had been coached by detectives who were working for the large reward oniered by the State. BATTERED BY THE SEA. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) Stewart was wrecked off this shore a few years ago In the month of July and a boat lead of men came In where the Montlcello's boat was found. Half of the men were dead before the boat touched the land. and many believe the same was true of those In the Monticello's boat. The fury of tne surr is r.i palling in this region. Wreckage of all kinds litters the shore boxes, barrels, pieces of ships boats and parts of the superstructure of the steam ers. The sea is not remembered to have been so heavy on this coast for many years. I)iriNter In Oriental Waters. TACOMA, Nov. 11. Oriental advices say many shipping disasters happened last month on the Asiatic coast. The steamer Matsumaye caught fire and sank In Esashl bay. Her passengers were rescued Just in the nick of time. The steamer Tadotsu and bark Kawata collided near Yokohama, badly damaging both. The steamship Hokushiu Marti was wrecked on the coast of tho Chishima Islands, both vessel and cargo becoming a total loss. The steamer Isenanagl Maru sunk after striking a sunken rock near Osaka and sixteen of her passengers were lost. The Japanese third-class coast defense vessel Katsuragi, of 1,IQ) tons, went ashore near Oshlma and before she rould be towed off was wrecked by a. severe gale. A cruiser was sent to her aid ana succeeded in taking off the crew. American Ship Driver Ashore. LONDON. Nov. 12. According to the Hong-Kong correspondent of the Daily Mail the American ship Benjamin Sewall, Capt. A. M. Sewall, which arrived at HongKong prior to Sept. '23 from Freemantle, where she left Aug. was driven ashore curing the typhoon Friday night. Movements of Steamers. NEW YORK. Nov. 11. Arrived: La Champagne, from Havre; Island, from Copenhagen nru' Christiansand. Sailed: Dulgarla, from Hamburg, via Cherbourg. ANTWERP. Nov. II. Arrived: Noordland. from New York. Q17EENSTOWN. Nov. ll.-Salled: Uznbria, for New York.

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MISSOURI PACIFIC TIIAI.V IS COLLISION "WITH AN KXfJINK. Several' Pasenger, Including 3IemItrm of u Minntrel Shovr, Injured A Man Les Cut Off. LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. Nov. 11. An open switch caused the northbound Missouri Pacific passenger train this morning to take a siding in the yarls here and to collide with a switch engine. Application of airbrake checked the speed, but the following passengers were Injured: S. 11. HARRIS, traveling man, Chicago; ear split open. ARTHUR MAXWELL, (colored), trick bicyclist. Chicago; Jaw broken. GEORGE L. LOGAN, (colored), Cincinnati; face cut and bruised. BUD LAWREaNCE. (colored), cook. St. Louis: shoulder dislocated. HARRY CREIGHTON. THOMAS MADISON and RICHARD LEWIS, all colored. Lynchburg, Va., wero bruised. The colored passengers are members of a minstrel show. ACCIDENT AT A CROSSING. Passenser Train AVreeked and line Man So Ilndly Hurt He Died. OMAHA. Neb., Nov. 11. Passenger train No. 2, eastbound for Chicago, crashed Into a freight at the crossing of the Sioux City & Pacific, near Missouri Valley, last night and the engine, buffet and mail car of the Northwestern road were smashed, the cars and sleepers broken and derailed. The remarkable feature of the accident was the fact that not a passenger was badly injured, except P. C. Peterson, who claimed to be from Omaha, end was stealing a ride. He had both legs cut off above. tne anKies, engineer jonnme t-us, ui train No. 2, had his hand mashed so as to require amputation, and a number of others were slightly injured. Wrong orders are said to have caused the wreck. Peterson died at 3:50 o'clock this morning. Just before he expired consciousness re turned, and he said that two men were standing on the platform with him when the collision occurred. They have not since been seen, and their bodies may be burled underneath the debris. Their names are unknown. Caboose Teleseoped. PUEBLO, Col., Nov. 11. Tho Missouri Pacific passenger train which left' here late last evening ran Into an open switch at Sugar City, fifty-five miles east of Pueblo, and plunged into a freight caboose, in which were four section men. The passenger engine and caboose telescoped and fell In a heap, which took fire and all woodwork burned. Engineer Huckett Jumped, but Fireman Nelson remained on the locomotive and was pulled out of the wreck unconscious. The section men were not seriously hurt. The passengers were uninjured and their cars went east later. The wounded men were brought to the Public Hospital. Eljtlit Persons Killed. PARIS, Nov. 11 Eight persons were killed and fifteen wounded in a collision; between a surburban train and an express yesterday morning at Choisey Leroi. The suburban train was entering the station to allow the express to pass, and the accident occurred then, the suburban train being telescoped. The wreckage was complete and the line was blocked for hours. HER PRESENTIMENT TRUE. Girl Makes Her Will cn n Train nnd Soon Meets Death. DELAWARE. 0.m Nov. It A will was filed here yesterday which revealed a most fantastic story. Filled with a presentiment that the end of her life was drawing near, Miss Minnie Lugger a few days ago, while on board a Union Pacific train, Insisted upon drawing up her will. A few moments later she fell between two coaches, as she was passing from one to the other, and was Instantly killed. Miss Lugger was a resident of Wyoming. When she met her death she was on her way from the West to this city to visit a brother who lives here. She was appar ently In good health and spirits. When near Ogden she startled friends who were trav eling with her by announcing that she feared that she was soon to die, and that she desired to dispose of her property. Though astonished by the proposal, two of those present consented to act as witnesses to the remarkable document. Miss Lugger then wrote as follows: "State of Wyoming, near Ogden, on Union Pacific Train I think I am about to die. and I make this my will. I leave everything to my dear brother alone, William Lugger. MINNIE LUGGER. This was then witnessed by John W. Cur tlss and Mrs. I. M. Low, of Colorado Springs. Col. Apparently satisfied with this disposition of her property. Miss Lugger left the coach in which she was seated and started to pass to one in the rear. She missed her footing and fell beneath the wheels of the fast moving train. As soon as possible the train was brought to a stop. and the woman's body was carried on board. Life was already extinct. The will which she had drawn up but a few ml ments before was found in her pocket and was preserved. Yesterday the document was fded here and William Lugger, the dead woman's brother and her beneficiary, was made her heir. Funeral services were held over Miss Lugger's remains yesterday afternoon. William Lugger, her brother, is a local councilman. SOUGHT FOR THEIR FLAG. An Encounter Between French Canadians nnd British Workmen. VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. ll.-Bitter racial feeling between some French Canadians and Britishers culminated in a flag incident in the neighboring city of New 'Westminster, where serious consequences were only averted by the prompt action of the authorities. On the new stone postoftlce building, in process of construction, are employed a number of French Canadians, brought thither for that work from Quebec. They were given a Saturday half-holiday, and hoisted the union jack and the French tricolor on tha same pole. The British flag was removed surreptitiously, and when the French ensign was discovered floating alone over the government building a crowd of Englishmen gathered to pull it down. The French Canadians defended their flag, and a hand-to-hand conflict followed. The authorities stopped the fight by pulling down the offending flag. The occurrence has caused intense feeling between representatives of the two nationalities. JEALOUS OF HAVANA. Cubans at Santiago Criticise the Action of the War Department. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Nov. 11. Colonel Whiteside received to-day orders from the War Department fixing Nov. 15 as the date for closing the Department of Santiago de Cuba. This date will be a fortnight earlier than he had expected, and there is considerable uneasiness among the officers, who aro not certain how the change will affect them personally. The general opinion, however, is that there will Ik? few changes beyond calling Santiago a district hereafter Instead of a department headquarters. General Wood Is expected to arrive .here next Tuesday. The Cubans severely criticise the War Department' notion. They have always been jealous of Havana: and now they say that the Americans, following Sparish customs, are robbing Santiago for the benefit of Havana. Trap Shooters May Invnde Eutope. CHICAGO, Nov. 11. American trapshooters are the latest to propose an invasion of

Europe. A team of representative crack shots of this country will probably sail from New York early next spring for a tour of England and the continent. Fourteen men will go, ten of them forming the team and the others being substitutes. J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas- City; John S. Fanning, of this city; Thomas Marshall, of Kelthsburg. 111.; Frank S. Parmelee, of Omaha, Neb.; Richard Merrill, of Milwaukee; William R, Crosby, of Batavla. N. Y.; Rollo a Heikes, of Dayton. O.; Chauncey Powers, of Decatur, 111., and Charles W. Budd. of Des Moines, la., are the ones selected for the trip. It is the intention of the party to challenge any teams in Europe, and after the contests in England a trip may bo made to Germany. France and Austria-

ARRANGING NEW CIRCUIT. Ban Johnson Trying to Locate Ball Clubs In Eastern Cities. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 11. The Ameri can Baseball League representatives Presdent Ban Johnson, Charles Comlskey of Chicago Connie Mack of Milwaukee and G. W. Somers of Cleveland are in Phila delphia looking over the local situation with the object of placing a club here next season. They came here last night from Baltimore, "and will remain In Philadelphia a couple of days. It is understood that Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia will, in all likelihood, be included in the American League circuit next season, together with some other Eastern city not yet determined upon. MSMMMHMMMMSmBBSSi OBJECTS TO SUNDAY SHOW. Former 3InrrIiiK Parson' Asks Peo ple to Hear the AVord of God. TRENTON. N. J., Nov. ll.-The presen tation at the Taylor Opera House here tonight of an illustrated lecture entitled "The Passion Play" brought forth a vigorous protest from the Rev. W. A. Hunsberger, pastor of the First Methodist Church. The lecture was given under the auspices of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and an admission was charged. The minister characterized the production of the lecture on a Sabbath and for pay as an outrage. A painted sign was displayed in front of his church reading as follows: "Don't go to an opera-house show on the Sabbath. Come and hear the word of God." The Rev. Mr. Hunsberger was formerly stationed at Milwaukee, where he was known as the "marrying parson' and wnere, it is said, he married about 3.0U0, couples in one year. BOERS ROUTED AGAIN. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) says the Daily Mail, "will make the British private a trained soldier. Instead of a system giving the recruit mainly a housemaid's work and allowing no more than six weeks of military training he will In luture get ten months of scientific drilling, all fatigue and orderly duties being performed by a special corps of time-expired men. The first four months will be devoted to company training, including scouting, intrenching, bridging and taking cover. The second four months will be used in battalion maneuvers, attacking and delending positions and field firing. Two months will be given to grand maneuvers on a war scale. The remaining two months of the first year will be occupied by furloughs. The greatest attention will be devoted to marksmanship, and the allowance of ammunition will be greatly increased. Artillery training will also be improved. The War Office is now acquiring control of large tracts of land in various parts of .the country for training grounds." Xeiv Privy Councilors. LONDON. Nov. 12. Sir Thomas Henry Sanderson, permanent undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, has been promoted to the rank of knight of the grand cross of the Order of the Bath. The Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Selborne, Mr. Joseph Powell Williams and Mr. Gerald Balfour have been appointed privy councilors. Mr. Balfour was already an Irish privy councilor. Mr. John Grant Lawson, who represented the Thlrsk and Malton division of York in the late Parliament, where he was deputy chairman of ways "and means, and who has been one of the parliamentary charity commissioners since 1S95. has been appointed secretary of tne local government board in succession to Mr. Henry Chaplin. XeRlected to Get a Passport. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11. Mrs. Francis Martin, who, before leaving Paris for St. Petersburg had neglected to get her passport officially Indorsed by the Russian consul general, was stopped at the frontier, but she was finally allowed to proceed upon the personal guarantee of a Russian nobleman who had observed her distress. Failure to comply with the passport regulations usually costs a week's sojourn on the frontier. Socialist Demonstration. BRUSSELS, Nov. 11. The Socialist demonstration, which was postponed at the time of the homecoming of Prince Albert after his marriage to Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria, occurred to-day. Fifteen thousand persons paraded, and the burgomaster received a deputation who presented to him a petition in favor of universal suffrage. There was absolutely no disorder whatever, and the city this evening is perfectly calm. Siberians to II ceo in e Cossack.. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 11. The Rus sian general staff recently proposed that the Siberian peasants should adopt the Cossack caste and ten thousand have signified a willingness to do so. It is proposed that the new Cossacks shall be offered eighty-two acres of land each, shall be required to serve four years in the army and shall belong to the reserves until they become tnirty-rour years or age. Yerkes Encllsh Scheme. LONDON, Nov. 12. "Mr. Charles T. Yerkes," says the Dally Express, "has a scheme to radiate electric railways for long distances north of London and to build low-rent dwellings for workmen in order to remedv overcrowd in cr. Hp I nlsn In terested in the mooted scheme of a ship canai Deiween ooumampion ana lonaon. Meddling In Polities. BERLIN, Nov. ll.-Mgr. Stabewlskl, archbishop of Posen, In Prussian Poland has issued a manifesto against a German Centrist candidate and in favor of a Polish candidate. His course has attracted much attention, and the government will probably take notice of it. Russia's Xcw Conl Field. ST. PETERSBURG, . Nov. 11. The Russian minister of agriculture, M. Yermoteff, after visiting the coal deposits recently dis covered on the Black sea coast, estimates that they will yield 1,610.000 tons annually for sixty years. He considers the quality excellent. 3Inny Criminal Pardoned. ROME, Nov. 11. To-day being the birth day of King Victor Emmanuel, his Majes ty signed a Jecree pardoning many crim inals. Karl CaduRan AVI11 .ot Iteitlxii. LONDON. Nov. ll.-Earl Cadogan has consented to continue in office as lord lieutenant of Ireland. Street-Car System Crippled by Fire. NORFOLK, Va., Nov. H-Thc carsheds and el -ctric plant of the Norfolk Railway and Lighting Coin nary. In Huntersviilo. a suburb of Norfolk, were destroyed by tire early thl". morning. Fifty-two r-nrs and the electric! machinery were destroyed. The loss is JIW.COO, covered by insurance. The street-car system wad badly crippled to-day. A fuse frjm a car In the barn is supposed to have started the lire. The fire department saved the local distributing

depot of the Standard Oil Company, which adjoins the sheds. FROM BLOSSOli TO CUP.

Coffee n a Pure Food Rxhlliit nt Buflalo Exposition. Exposition Bulletin. Long before coffee was generally known throughout Europe Lord Bacon wrote, "They have in Turky a drink coffee which comforteth the heart and aideth digestion." The elaborate coffee exhibit in the manufactures and liberal arts exhibition building at Buffalo next year, in the section devoted to foods and their accessories, will demonstrate how Lord Bacon's opinion has descended to succeeding generations Coffee at the exposition will receive th? attention that is due the most popular bevergae the gods ever bestowed upon man. Foods and their accessories will receive at Buffalo more elaborate retention than has ever been given to a like exhibit. The object is to familiarize the people of Pan (all) America with the food products of the whole American continent. The exhibit will be housed in a beautiful building which is a third of a mile in circumference, and as elegant in appearance as It Is magnificent in its proportions. Coffee, being one of the widely-known articles of this exhibit, has been selected lor description as a type of what may be expected in a hundred other products, each of which will receive at the hands of Mr. G. Edward Fuller, the manager of this department, the same painstaking care as the subject of this article. Coffee grows more like a cherry than an thing else with which people in north temperate latitude are familiar. The tree, if allowed to grow naturally, will attain a height of twenty feet, though it is often pruned to keep the branches within reacn when standing on the ground. For beauty it cannot be excelled even in the tropics. With its deep green shining leaves and pure white, fragrant, though transitory uiw". together with the ripening fruit, it produces a Dicture neculiarlv effective. The fruit, first a tiny green ball, changes to pale red as it develops, and finally, when ripe, the color is a rich brown. It has a pleasant flavor, though rather sweet and somewhat insipid. Its pit is the coffee bean of commerce. Each fruit contains two beans, which grow with the flat sides together in separate cells, though should one become abortive, the other grows round and fills both cavities. These rounded berries are separated and sold as Pea Berry Mocha because of their resemblance to the genuine. These abortive cells occur usually toward the ends 01 the branches and are encouraged by prun ing. Mocha is the oldest coffee known to commerce. Where or how it originated is shrouded in prehistoric mystery. Tradition says the seeds were Imported from Abyssinia and Ethiopia and planted in Arabia about the beginning of the fifteenth cen tury. However, it adapted itself readily to the soil and climate, especially in the somewhat insipid. Its pit is the coffee bean formed the principal article of export ever since. Mokha, a small town on the coast of the Red sea, gave Its name to this coffee because it happened to be the port where the camel caravans unloaded and the shipments to the outer world were made. Java coffee gets its name from the Island of Java, though the great bulk of Java coffee now comes from American plantations lying between the thirtieth parallels of. latitude north and south. When conditions are favorable Pan-American coffee is fully equal, if not superior, to the best foreign grown. If any one doubts this statement one of Mr. Fuller's exhibitors will bo prepared to prove it with a delicious concoction prepared from purely American blends. Old Government Java originally got its name when the government of Holland compelled native Malay planters on the island to pay their taxes In coff e. Government godowns (warehouses) ware built, in which coffee was required to be warehoused seven years before ofTerlng it for sale. There are people who say that was no improvement, that the berry does not improve with age, but the probability is those people have never hid an opportunity to sample genuine Java coffee seven years old. Java is an exception in this respect, as most coffees do not Improve after the second year. There is not profit enough in the business to hold coffee such a length of time, though some do so in a. limited way. Those who really love a fine coffee navor and want the last vestige that is contained in the bean may get from certain dealers American coffee in which the natural aroma has been so carefullv develonl that it will equal any Old Government Java that the good dames of Holland were permitted to serve. Coffee Is sold by tho cup in New York for 1 cent: -It is also cold for 23 cents, a greater range of price than any other known commodity. Prices of tho green oerry in me open market var MISSISSIPPI'S GREAT WALL. A Mynterlonn Structure IVhoae Builder No One Xov Kaoiri. New Orleans Picayune. One of the scientific puzzles of the State of Mississippi is the "Brandywine stone wall." It has long been a problem that Is still unsolved. Some time ago Mr. Thomas Watson, of Ilazelhurst, sent Governor Ixmglno a pencil drawing of an Immense pile of stone in the southeastern portion of Claiborne county, suggesting that the stone might be utilized in building the new capltol. In a letter which accompanied the drawing Mr. Watson stated that these stones, plied high on each other, cover an area four miles square. Each stone is six feet long, three feet wide and two feet thick, and they are joined together with an excellent quality of cement. No man knows how they came there. They may have been there for thousands of years. The builders, the Jackson News thinks, were some prehistoric race It could not be otherwise. This structure is supposed to be a continuation of the great "Chinese wall." which seemS to begin below Raymond, in the southern part of Hinds county, and which is traceable through Copiah. It is broad enough to accommodate two or three wagons abreast, and is one of the wonders of the world. "Mention of this remarkable exhibit." says the Hazlehurst Courier, "has elicited no little comment In fact, has brought a letter to Mr. Watson from the warden of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.; and also a letter to Dr. T. II. Birdsong from another distinguished source, it being known that the latter some years ago investigated the matter. Mr. Watson, however," says the Courier, "has given the subject more patient thought and gone over the ground more thoroughly than any one else, and to him the Courier is indebted for the following interesting facts: "lie calls it the 'Brandywine Stone Wall,' and says this wonderful and massive structure or parts of structure of masonry done In stone, which has withstood th rav ages of time for perhaps many thousands 01 years, sun stands an enuunng relic of a prehistoric civilization and a knowledge of the art Of buildini? not infprlor 1 n m j n v re spects to the present day. These stone buildings He, for the most part, burled in the earth in the southea stem portion cf Claiborne COlintV. and lvlnir airalnet tm Copiah county line, on the slopes overlook ing wie valley or the Brandywine creek from the west siri These walls run from northeast to southwest. They are built of white or grayish white stone of immense size, weighing from two to three tons, measuring from hiX tO Olirht IWt In Irrrfh far! f hfrm fr wide by two feet thick. These blocks, or iaus, are laid in a very tine quality of cement, and as jerfectly as brickwork. The joints are terfert and prv rW "At one place the top of the wall Is exTi " "ip eartn neing washed away to a Width of sixtv frpt ami a l-nrrh nf ntntv feet; this exioure has the aptKfarance of urjc-K near in. "At another nlare t0 Ktnnr hi Ln j - - - v bwbv. 4 ' a -j vaa cjuarrled for domestic ue to a depth of three layers of slabs, which Is six feet, a Width Of twcntv.fnnr frt nr th'ht Kl. L-j and a length of twenty-live blocks, or Va) itet. me lengin or tins wall, as Indicated by the croppings, is about l.U feet. "At another place, about 5rj yards avav lrom tho place Irst mentioned, is a wall jutting from under a slope for a distance of nearly 2,l) feet. This stonework U exposeu in a great many places over an area of lour souare miles. "Tne tides and angles of tho blocks of Hones are so perfect that they rcembW uresseil ttrirk. Tho tntm t.f th.-w. wulli ur rerfectlv horizcntal and wltlnv.il reiranl tr. the unevenness of the earth's surface. The seams between th tiers nro ierfectly r.tralght, and each block of One is ierfectJy horizontal m noition. nd the blocks are smoothly dressed on the edges and ends, while the broken surfaces are rougn, snowing a broken surface brought

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NATIONAL TubeWorka Ero:gtMwa Pipe fcr Cay Steam tzi War. Bolitr Tub. Cut sod tfitt sbl Iron Fiuinn(ttrk ta4 ramm!). VfciT. stop C"ok. Er.rics Trim inlr.4. Mn Ganges, ttp Torn, rir Cunr. Vl, srrw ltt sua bits. Wrrnrbi ftesm Trsr. Fnmp. Kit n Mnkt, llo. llrltmr. babbit MrUL SoWW. White s4 C'lor. Wiping Wat, ao4 SU otter Supplies used la eonnN-tton wuii uaa. stnn s4 Water. Natural oaa Hupplira a tpeeialry. Ptr. bettln Apiaratu tor lo. He Butldtno. SUMMOWL M 11: hopa. r artorle. Lau, driea, Luuitxr Dry-llo-oae, tc. Cue and TlirMul to or. 4r aar am Wrou?bt-tro pe, from v Idcü to U beleg Utiuctor. KNIGHT & JILLSON, Kt to 127 S. PENNSYLVANIA KT. cement that it is with gnat ihüculty that they are broken up. "A personal inspection of these gxcat structure: as thev He iartly ouried in the earth would relieve the mind? of the mo.t ikeptlc.il of all doubt of it not being the. work of the hands of man. ln all that is above mentioned in connection with numerous cavlnis-in of the earths crust, which represent -.he existence of underground caverns, abundant evidence is found to bear out the theory of the existence of a great burled city In that locality. "The information above given is vouched for by other partie3 who have visited the scene in recent years, and bears out the theory advanced by Mr. Watson. Truly, there I3 work for the scientist here." THE BIBLE NOT DECADENT. Its Circulation la Vaat and Increasing, Say the British Authorities. Londcn Telegraph. Certain alarmists at the present time seem to be deriving a melancholy ?tlsf action from attempting to show a falling off in the religious spirit of the country. They began by talking of decreased attendances at , the Sunday schools, though the hearti ness with which "Children's Sunday" and yesterday's teachers meetings and con ferences were dl'tingulf hed goe3 far to show that there is little ground for their statements. Now, it seems, according to these croakers, that the English-speaking people are beginning to neglect their Bibles and American publishers and book. sellers aie cited as having said, with xankee directness, that "there is no money in the Scriptures." Kven across the Atlantic It would seem that this is a much exaggerated statement of the case, while here the facts are the absolute reverse, under any circumstances, while the British char acter remains what it is, it wouIJ be difficult to Imagine any alteration hi its attitude of respect and reverence toward the book on which so much of what is best and highest in the national ond individual life has been reared, but against the vague allegations that have been made can be set the unanswerable evidence of figures, showing that with the spread of education the demand for the Bible has steadily risen. Uf course, on this question there coum be no higher authority than the British and Foreign Bible Society, where, witn readiest courtesy, all Information wa promptly afforded. This wonderful organization, which prints the Scriptures In over 400 languages, representing the speech of seven-tenths of the world, is careful at first to point out that Its enormous Issuer in English are of the cheaper and, consequently, most "popular" order. In the twelve months terminating March 31 last its output reached the amazing total of 5.047.000 copies of Holy Writ, a bulk abso lutely without precedent, and considerably more than half a million in excess of the corresponding period previously. Of that huge mass over 20 per cent, or 1P32L,0,3 copies, were in English cr Welsh. In themselves those llgurs are sufficient ly signllicant, but even more striking is the record privately compiled, and not yet published, of the growth during the last decade. In 1SS3-J") the number of complete English Bibles sent out was 534.5S3. Each year showed a consistent, steady rise up to last year, when it was G1S.21S. Ten years ago the New Testaments were R9,C13. and last year 6H.713, the Intervening figures having somewhat fluctuated with a general tendency to increase. Of portions of the Scriptures, such as the Psalter or the (Jospels, 25.000 were Issued in 1889-90, and last year they numbered 4Ö7.4S2. not a little of that irrcat increase being due to the fact that 126,000 copies were distributed to the troops as they left these shores for South Africa. It may here be incidentally men tioned, from a military source of information, that these little books, neatly and appropriately bound, were received with gratitude by the men, and In a very different spirit from that shown to the wellmeant, but often most Indiscreetly -chosen. gifts of tracts. Thus in all its forms the increase is un mistakably marked. The society spends annually 10.000 at home in supplying charitable institutions, poor churches and schools with complete Bibles or iortlons, and many of the plainly bound edition that may be purchased across the counters of the great building in Queen Victoria street aro sold below cost price In order to meet the wants of the most needy. The penny English New Testament is a notable case in point. Since it was first brought out, in 1SI. over T.OOrt.OOO copies hive been issued at a loss of 23,009, as it cannot possibly be produced at Its selling price. A curious little joint in comparative statistics is that for every two complete Bibles sold three Testaments and seven portions are sent out. Even yet it would appear that this country Is not fully supplied with the Scriptures, as a member of the society's committee, while recently e-onductlng some examinations in religious knowledge in tho back country, was surprised at the per centage of children in whose homes neither Bible nor Testament was to be found; and some exhaustive Inquiries are now on foot as to how far the same state of things might exist in other populous centers. It is in contemplation to revive a system of colportage and house-to-house visitation that was successful some years ago, and which would bring the Book to the notice of all. Nor 13 this sustained emand confined to the less costly editions. At he Oxford and Cambridge University presses, which, together with the Queen's printers, alone have the right of printing the Bib!e in this country, the finest typography, the choicest paper, and most artistic of uindlnr aro requisitioned for the sacred volume, and there is not the slightest diminution to be observed in the demand for sumptuous topics. The output of the Oxford press in Bibles, testaments and prayer books in 1M6, for example, was 2.SKn,'.7. and more than 300.000 in excess of the previous year. A talk at Mr. Henry Frowde's n this subject elicited a very Interesting survey of tho question, and It appears that it is true that the American Bible Society has been compelled to move to lets expensive premises, and that its money receipts have been largely reduced. But these facts are not the result of any falling off In the popularity of the Ilible In America. The explanation is that the society's means ol production have become obsolete and incapable cf comietiiig with the newer and more economical macninery io?essed by ether publishers of the Ilible. Never was here such a demand for Bibles In Amer ioa as at present: three times as many Ox ford Bibles have been sold this year as In anv previous year. What this means can be imagined when It is mentioned that the total unnual output of Oxford Itlbles for some years past has been upward of 1.osk),imi copies, and ( von before th?re was an American branch f the Oxford t'idverslty Pres the weekly shipment of lilMes to the United States ..iten excccJcd rivf tons in weight. The Americans take tho keenest interest tn i:ibles and Biblical matters, as wa shown very clearly at the lime of the publication of the Kevised Testaments. Not only the uthoriz-d Ilible hold Its own, bat nlsd the revised version is slowly hut steadily increasing in popularity. And it may h interesting to add that no fewer than ix dlfferert plrt?d odlflor.t. of Oxford Bibles, isued by American firms, ore tu le een In that great olüce. The rumors which have appeared are traceable to the exagjierated und misleading statement mad Im u New York paper, which Is referred to alxne. The increasing sales of ihe ytlble are f trnng presumntive evidence thit they are by no n cans "going out of fashion" v . To Cure a Cold In One Day Take tAxatlve Bromo Quinine Tablets. ATI CruxsUts refund the money if it tzHj to crra.