Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 6

[JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. IP' F. E BaBCOCK. Publisher. Bflfrrrgx : -r-=r -r —— | RENSSELAER. ■ • INDIANA.

BOMB FOR JOHN HILL.

, ATTEMPT TO KILL MAN WHO FOUGHT GAMBLERS. Dynamite Cartridge Attached to a Pole at His Home in Marfan Park, 111.—Family Escapes Injury fit. Lonii Strike May Spread. Dynamiters at Work. K. An attempt, was made at 2 o’clock the other morning to assassinate John Hill, I Jr.. at his home in Belmont, a suburb i; . twelve miles south of Chicago. 1 tynainite : was the means employed. Two unknown ■ men placed a heavy charge of tiie explosive against the house in which the president of the Anti-Gambling League and his wife and two daughters were asleep. The force of the concussion was so great that the frame and sash of the window in the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hill, - and against which the deadly contrivance was placed, was blown with terrific effect f. into the room. Fragments of wood and : shuttered glass were even hurled into the r room directly opposite, which was oecu- ' pied by the ll and 13-year-old daughters of Mr. Hill. Although it is evident that • the deed was carefully planned and deliberately carried out, yet the would-be mur-f.-derers failed in - their design owing to the fact that the window was open and the ■ force of tin- concussion was thereby mall teriall.v lessened. Mr. Ilift is outspoken r in his belief that the act was incited by i- persons whose enmity he hits incurred on i account of his recent-active efforts against I bucket shops and gambling in behalf of [ the Civic Federation.

Standing of the Clubs. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. TV. L. I’Boston 07 35 Pittsburg .. . .51 49 Cincinnati ..07 38 Philadelphia. 40 51 Baltimore .. .51) 38Brooklyn ... .38 59 E Cleveland .. .59 41 Louisville . . .38 <l4 New York.. .57 44 Washington. 30 03 ■Chicago 55 48 St. Louis 30 70 Following ia the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. TV. L. | Kansas City.oß 40Columbus ...55 43 I Indlauapolis. 61 41 Detroit ......38 05 I Milwaukee ..04 43 St, J05eph....30 05 St. Paul 59 40 Minneapolis. 35 73 - Strike in St. Louts. L : It is asserted that 700 workers in the allied building trades of St. Louis are out ; as the result of the strike for better wages inaugurated some time ago, and that the 1 aiiMpt-nsion of work may spread. There |,*re a large number of new buildings in | course of construction, and it is feared f that work on them may be stopped.. The f electricians who went out some time ago [ arc still idle. They say they cannot fail I to win.

NEWS NUGGETS.

At Abilene, Kan., .f. F. Stiintz, ox-Stnto Treusuter, died of heart disease. | Andrew Carnegie lias offered the Town .Council of Dumfries, Scotland, the-sum Of £10,00*) to build a public library'.- | Lightning caused the explosion of a. tank containing 30,000 barrel* of oil near Findlhy, Ohio. Loss is about .‘530,000. I Theoxpedition to explore the east coast * f < Greenland, under Lieut. Amdrup, sailed from Copenhagen on board the steamier Godt-Huab. | The Lord Mayor of London, the Right ■ Hon., David Davies, has postponed his f. projected American tour indefinitely on account of the illness of his wife. f Two tramps were killed and three others seriously injured, the engineer was fatally hurt and the fireman seriously in a freight wreck near Fort Worth, Texas. A terrific explosion occurred at the ronndhouse of the Santa Fe; Prescott and Phoenix Railroad, at Prescott, A. T,, re--gulting in flic fatal injury of two men nnd gjsh'e wounding of two or three others. M. Camhon, the French ambassador to the United States, who represented Spain 'ln the peace negotiations at Washington, pas been decorated in Madrid with the grand cross of the < >rdor of Chnrlcs^lll. ¥• The London Daily Telegraph's correspondent in St. Petersburg says: “1 am aide to confirm the statement that Emperor William will stay two days at Liva«lia as the Czar’s guest during his journey to Palestine." I*- Arsenic in lunips as big as a pea was found in thb chocolate bon tons which were to Mrs. John P. Dunning of ; t)oveiv Del., and which not only sent her to lief grave, hut caused the death of her Mrs. sho a |). K Dean. ; George Miplfin, deputy comptroller of the eSHtteney, has fentleyed resignation. to take effect At fi|. 1. to accept the presidency of thF I’liintoix National Bank" ■of N4w York. Ily will tie succeeded by ,'JLaC. Murray, chief of the organization division. Sv There was another great tire at Nijni Novgorod, about 250 miles northeast of Moscow. Russia. The city workhouse wa* destroyed, tho inmates jumping from ;sthe windows, iantiy.being killed and many inore iojun-d. Thirteen bodies burned to /Biauyiof the inmates are still uinweounted for. , 'r..: fe The Now York limitnl train on the Lake jßbore Railroad was Wrecked one mile Hires! 0l Jaiporte, Ind. The engine dashed pto nix raw toatbd with ice* Although t the sfc/w-k of the Collision threw the pasBjpcngtfW about violently, few of thciu jee* mhrirt-’l mrm- then slight hmlscs. The ■jeonddefer and afonc were «pfvnt*iy injareth th> ev.tifn or nnd fireipmsn jpa+aplr.g with s shaking up,, LAn a<-< i.Vnf ai'lwlil <wWife*- Union CV$ ipery ®taiiway Bn#,. in BffG*h Ootiunbia, ip tbe deaf.i of *t least *l* pet iioms. A long »<.r< train, with a p.ussonEjprr <4mfh attached, fedunged through the *patis the Trent river about miidwax ixwween the wharf and Up ion Kpity. Cw vma ii!-out 125 feet high and 500 ■, |L:Th<j#Ml.crs at Berlin < eminent on a dlsM*ete)Mfarg Vicdemesti, d> Airing' that HjbtglaiMi luis assnim-d a protectorate over

EASTERN.

Diego Re Vivo, one of the best known. Impresarios in the United States, died at his home in New York from paralysis. Rose O’Toole, ten years pf age, was killat Worcester, Mass., by falling from the fourth floor of a building forty feet to the ground. The greatest gas well which has been developed in New Yofk State, and probably the largest in the world, was struck in an old well at Baldwinsvillp. The window glass scale trouble was unexpectedly settled at Pittsburg, ■Pa., and 20,000 men throughout the country will return to work next month. 0,000 of them at an advance in wages. United States Senator George G. Vest of Missouri is lying critienlly ill in Asbury Park, N. J. Senator Vest has been ill for some time, but a rapid decline, such as, it is said, he suffered within the last few days, was unlooked for. Henry It. Curtis anil Edwin A. Curtis, surviving partners of the firm of Edwin C. Burt & Co., dealers in shoes at New York, assigned for the benefit of creditors to Thomas Cunningham of Biauvelt, Rockland County. N. Y. The liabilities are set down at SIIO,OOO. Mme. Demorcst. vice-president of the board of Temple trustees and one of the leading W. C. T. LL women in the country, died at her home in New York City. The deceased was a personal friend of Frances E. Willard and wns the founder of the Demorest rttcdnl contests. While trying to prevent boy inmates from escaping, J. W. Stuckrath, keeper in the Alleghany County, Pa., reformatory, was killed by the lads. Several boys had plotted to escape from the place. When no other guards were around they attacked Stuckrath, who fought them off and was about to open a door to call for assistance when he was felled with a baseball bat. » ' “After years of wrongful living and secret drunkenness, Policeman Henry C. Hawley of New Y’ork finished his earthly career shortly before noon the other day by killing himself, after murdering the mother who raised him, his wife and their twa j-oung children, ju a sqiyilty merit oh the Top Upo? of tne ten&uont 043 Sixth avenue. There he had lived with them in ostensible respectability during almost the whole of his life us a man of family. At I)over, Del., Mrs. J. Polk Deane nnd her sister, Mrs. J. P. Dunning, are dead as the result of poisoning from eating candy. Mrs. Dunning is the wife of J. Preston Dunning, the well-known Associated Press correspondent now in Porto Rico, and both women are daughters of ex-Congressman John PL Pennington. The candy came through the mails. The postmark on the box was not legible, but it is supposed by Mrs. Dunning to have been sent by a friend in San Francisco. The sloop yacht Leona, with seventeen men aboard, while anchored outside of .Boston light, was run into by a barge in tow of the tug Honeybrook and five men were swept from the deck by the heavy towline. Two of the VK Solium n and Albert Nbrdell; were drowned; another, Augustus Caspersdff, was killed by being jammed between the towline and the dock, while the two/other*. Peter Nelson and John Harkinson, although sustaining injuries, were rescued.

WESTERN.

N'ebrusku Republicans have nominated Judge M. L. Hayward of Nebraska City for Governor. Receipts for July at .the Omaha exposition enabled the directors to pay off $50,000 of the floating debt in addition to the running expenses. Four masked men held up a west-bound train on the Santa Fe Pacific at Grant, N. M., fifty miles west of Albuquerque. An armed guard prevented tlmm from nibbing the express car. Fire destroyed $300,1)00 worth of property in the raisin-packing section of Fresno City, Cab, and caused the loss of fourlives—three Chinese and a white wutchinan named Harper. In less than an hour four blocks were laid bare. The floods in the Scioto Valley have covered over 12.000 acres of corn land in the Scioto bottoms in the immediate vicinity of Portsmouth, Ohio, causing a loss of over $200,000. It is feared that the loss will be increased fully SIOO,OOO more. The broom corn crop in Kansas will be almost a total failure. Within five years Kansas hus become one of the broom corn States of the Union. During last year four extensive broom manufactories huve been located in central Kansas. L. Helender of McPherson County reports that many fields would not produce a ton to the acre. Gov. Richards of Wyoming hns telegraphed Secretary Bliss requesting him to have the United States cavalry at Fort Wnshnkic, that State, ordered to assist the State authorities to capture a party of Bannock Indians from the Fort Hall (Idaho) reservation. The Indians are said to be killing elk and other big game in Wyoming. Three hundred and sixty-seven thou, sand acre* of land will be restored to the' public domain in Minnesota, and on Oct. T> next entries for homestead titles can be mgde. . The land is in the Duluth and Cri;okston districts and is a.part of the Red Lake Indiah reservation. The area of ground involved comprise# sixteen townships. At Rochford, S. D., W. F. Hooper fired a charge of buckshot into John McCree, an employe of M. P. Hay of the Lookout mine. McCrea jumped Hooper’s placer ehsiirt nnd on being remonstrated with defied him. McCrea will die nnd the sympathy of the community is with Hooper, au old settler, who gave himself up after the shooting. The entire business portion of Wheatland, Cat, was destroyed by tire. Only one small grocery store was left standing, nnd there were 3,000 people, including transient hop-pickers, to. feed. Tho floating population became riotous ami began plundering the town. A large force of deputy sheriffs was sworn in from among the to protect the property. Three masked men held up the proprietor aud fourteen men in the- Denver Hotel gambling room at Kreekenridge, Cylo. The gun of one of tjie hold-ups was accßleatelly discharged before their work was completed and. the.} gut su.all -fehbty, about SIOO in rnoijey, several watches and one diamond. '■ A posse pursued the robbers nnd a fight ensued, in which one man qp each side was killed. « The soflith-tiound Dtunliu ilyet on the Chicago. Burlington nod Quincy.was held Wp at Dog hill, two .tall#* north at the Francis street stntion, At. Joseph, Mo. No passengers were' molested., bud the Vi Ihmi atear the track. There was

very little money to the aafe, according to the Adame Express Company. A series of mass meetings among the farmers of Sedgwick, Reno and Sumner counties, Kansas, has been arranged and calls issued for the purpose of raising $40,-. 000 to hriug suit for an injunction against the irrigation ditch companies of Colorado to prevent them from draining the Arkansas ri+er. Appropriations amounting to $1,500 have been made by the County .Commissioners of Sedgwick and Reno counties and by the City Council of Wichita.

SOUTHERN.

Gold and copper deposits have been discovered in Fulton County, ten miles from Atlanta, Ga. Some specimens of the gold ore assay from sl9 to $1(59 per ton. A fire started at New Orleans in Osborn's Turkish bath establishment on Bourbon street, and while no buildings were destroyed, it penetrated, into several large Canul street retail stores, doing considerable damage to stocks. The loss will approximate $200,000, well insured. John M. Rowan, after trying sixteen successive years, was elected Republican sheriff in Hawkins County, Tenn. Ha died from overjoy. The mother, brother and sister of Rowan have died during the past three years as a result of overwork in siding with him in his political aspirations. v Death to twenty persons and devastation to 100 farms is the story in brief of a cloudburst in Hawkins County, Tenn., along Beach creek. For several weeks oast Tennessee has been flooded by heavy rainfalls, and the cloudburst was therefore a surprise. The torrent of water came with sueh force as to sweep away everything in its path. The Reamer New 'South, returning to Cincinnati with un excursion party of 700 people from Muysville, Ivy., ran into a bank in the upper part of the city and stuck fast. The party were of the convivial sort and many were intoxicated. When the boat struck the shock knocked people down and caused a panic. There are unverified rumors that some were drowned, but ho names are given. The pilot is blamed for the accident. A special from Wartrneo, Tenn., says: “I. liawlins, a prominent business man of Miliersburg, has been found murdered on the road near his home. His body was riddled with bullets and shockingly mutilated. He was disemboweled and the body cut almost in two. The body was found by John Pruett, who says he heard pistol shots in that vicinity several hours ■ before. Rawlins recently was married to a j'oung woman who was the belle of the neighborhood. It was thought he hud been murdered by tramps, but suspicion now rests on William Fulks, a neighbor, who is u cousin of Mrs. Rawlins. Fulks called at the Rawlins home a short time after Rawlins had left, and on being told of the departure, started in the same direction. Fulks recently bought a revolver and cartridges at Bell Buckle, Tenn. He was not present at the funeral nnd is said to have left town.”

WASHINGTON.

President McKinley has received Ambassador Hay’s acceptance of the office of Secretary of State, soon to be vacated by Judge William R. Day. Whitelaw Reid, ex-minister to France, hus been offered and has accepted the pluee as ambassador to the court of St. James to succeed Col. Ilay, The legal representative of the Colombian Government called on the Secretary of State at Washington for the purpose of making arrangements in connection with the final settlement of the claim of Italy against Colombia. It is represented by the Colombian Government that when the award was mads by President Cleveland as arbiter there was no provision as to the method of settlement, and the proposition of the Colombian Government is that this question be referred to the United States as arbiter. It is the desire of Colombia that this mutter be settled in a manner to preserve the dignity of the republic. The West Indian weather service was practically inaugurated the other day, when the Washington office, received reports from six of the ton observation stations recently established there. Prof. Willis J. Moore said that the system was now in complete working order and the department would bo enabled to forecast tho terrible West Indian hurricanes that for years have swept the Atlantic coast without warning. The whole group of islands has been plotted and meteorological cohditions are charted daily at the recently established stations. It was feared that the West Indian service might be hampered by delays in the cablegrams, but Prof. Moore stated that the reports daily reached the Washington office within an fiour and a half after the observations were made. Every effort was put forth to get the West Indinu service in working order, as the hurricane season is approaching. 1 The officials are much gratified at the success of their efforts. It is believed that for the first time in history warning can be given of the. ap'proach of the pext of- these disastrous storms that are born-in the vicinity (ft the Windward Islands. The vacancy in the Washington bureau caused by the death of Prof. Morrill hjas been filled by the promotion of Pyof.'H. C. Frankitafield, now on duty at St. Louis, to be national forecasted on duty at Washington.

FOREIGN.

The official announcement was made in London that George Curzon had accepted the post of viceroy of India. The ministry at Lisbon has resigned and Scnor Jose Lucauio has been charged with the task of forming a new cabinet. In a collision between..a passenger and a freight train near Ponte Decirno, Italy, nine persons were killed and forty seriously injured. , ! . It is announced that Lieut. Col. Macallum, Governor of Lagos, west Africa, will succeed Sir Herbert Murray as Governor of Newfoundland. ‘ ' Kaiser Wilhelm had a narrow escape the other day. ,Hi» horse,became'. frightened and threw him to the ground. His injuries wore not serious. W. Ifamsdcn, for over, thirty-five years British consul at' de Ciiba.vfcas jdst died at Kingston. . Jamaica, In‘the fifty-eighth' year of his age. .Mount A'esuvius.' IJuly, is .now in a mate of enaption from n new oratep?*The eruption is supposed to be connected with %e seismic disturbance felt at Messina in southern Italy. v A : firy resulting in appalling loss of life wa uti turned to the ground nnd between thirty

and forty inmates were cremated in their beds. Senor A. Laxo Arriaga wired the Associated Press from Long Branch, N. J„ where he is passing a part of the hot spell, that he had received a cablegram from his home Government saying: “Revolution quickly suppressed- Peace prevails in Guatemala.” The Japanese imbroglio of 1897 has been settled by the payment of $75,000 to Japan by the Hawaiian Government. In making the payment the Government does not admit the justice of the claim or the right of Japan to indemnity. The payment was made at the request of President McKinley. Advices from Kalgoorlie, West Australia, say thousands of people are rushing to the vicinity of Lake Gwynne, close to Kanowna, where a nuggej of gold weighing 95 pounds wAs recently discovered. The excitement in the mining districts is reported to be intense. . In Brussels, Belgium, while a policeman was arresting a militant anarchist named Willems, the latter shot and wounded the officer and then escaped. The anarchist also shot several persons who attempted to capture him, but he was finally arrested and lodged in jail. Later the police visited Willems’ lodgings, where they found two anarchists who promptly opened fire at the officers. The policemen replied to this fire, fatally wounding one of the anarchists. His companion was captured. By exercising the good offices of the United States tactfully Secretary Day has probably succeeded in averting a severe crisis iu the relations between Italy and Colombia, growing out of the Cerruti affair. A cablegram has been received at the Department of State in Washington from Rome saying out of regard for the United States the Italian Government had telegraphed Admiral Candinani at Cartagenu, Colombia, to give the Colombian Government eight months’ time in which to settle with Cerruti’s creditors under the terms of President Cleveland's award.

IN GENERAL.

Many destitute argonauts camped along the beach in the neighborhood of St. Michaels and Fort Getthere are reported starving. They rely solely upon the charity’ of the natives for food enough to keep alive. The arrivul of two gold-laden miners at Lake Beunett started a stnmpede to the newest Klondike of the Northwest. A small creek flowing into Taku arm, a branch of Tagish lake, was located by some lucky prospectors nearly a month ago. and gold was found of remarkable richness. Rumors of the strike had reached Bennett before, but until two of the miners came out 1 after supplies little attention was paid to it. One of the men claimed to have taken out SIOO per day for over three weeks. It is said that pans running from $2 to $0 are common. The new strike is within sixty miles of Benhett, and several hundred men and women started at once for the scene. A steamer was chartered and led the stampede. The news reached Seattle on the steamer City of Topeka, which brought down four Ivlondikers, two of whom wore women. Their combined wealth was estimated at $50,000. The Topeka brings news of a rich strike on Baranoff Island, about twenty miles from Sitka and tjiree miles in the interior from Whale Bay. It is similar to the Pande Basin discovery. The gravel on the shores of a small lake was found to be rich with gold. As soon as the news reached Sitka there was a stampede. , Bradstreet's said on Saturday: “Changes in general trade and business this week have been very generally toward improvement. Notable in this respect has been the iron and ,steel trade, which has passed from the stage of prora ise to that of fulfillment on increased demand and marked advances in values. From all the leading iron centers east and west come reports of more or less improvement in tone, demand or prices, especially prominent in the latter particular being steeL billets, with an advance of n per ton: steel rails have had advances ranging from 25c to $1 and sympathetic advances are likewise noted in Eastern pig iron, wrought iron pipes, steel beams and other structural and steel plates. Further P#?ouraging features have been the accentuated demand on foreign account for wheat and corn, which is reflected in advances for those cereals in spite of a rather more favorable than expected Government report of possible yield. Effects of the holding of wheat by farmers for better prices are found in the reduced volume of grain carried by railroads during July. Business failures still incline toward a minimum, numbering only 157, against 189 last week. 214 inj this week a year ago. 258 in 1896, 195 1895 and 254 in 1894.” r

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prims, SB.OO to $5.75; hogs, shipping grade* $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, to $5.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 69c to 70o| corn. No.*2, 32c to 34c; oats. No; 2, 20# to 21c; rye. No. 2,44 eto 45c; buttery choice creamery. 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, ffcc to 13c; potatoes, choice, 35c to 45# per bushel. . shipping, $3.00 t# $5.50; hogs, ,-choice fight, $3.00 to $4.25| fhedp,, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50| wheat, No. 2 red. GBc to 69c; corn, No. 2> hite, 32c to 34c; oats. No. 2 white, 24c to 2Cc.' St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wltent. No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats. No. 2,23 cto 25c; rye. No. 2,43 cto 45c. . Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74e; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 51c. Detroit—Onttle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $R.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 73c; corn, .No. 2 yipllow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c TO 27ci rye, 45c to 47c. To ted o—heat. No. 2 mixed, 72c to 74c; corn, No. 2 taixed, 33c to 34c; oats, Np,'2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. No.-2, 44c to 45c; clover seed, $3.10 to $3.20. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 79c to 81c; cord, No. 3, "330 to 34c; oats, No, f vrhift, 26c to 28c; rye. No. 2,44 cto 45c; barley. No. 2,44 c to'4oc; pork, mess, s9.op to $9.5(0. •. •• l Buffalo—Cattle, good, shipping steers, ft tef $5.50; hogs, common to choice, »‘to $4.50; sheep, ‘fair to choice weth-’ $8.50 to $5.25; lambs, common to pytr«i $3.00 to s7,o©. v .New. York-r-Cattle,.s3.oo to $5.75; bogs, PU9O Jo $4.75; ' sheep, $3.00 -Jo $4.75; wheat, N<U 2 red, 80c to 82c; rifrn,’ No. £s, 38c l to 40c; oats, No. 2 "white, -io‘ J&c; butter, creamery, 15c to 2Uc; eggs, ’western, 14c to 15c. I X',.

MANILA IS TAKEN

Dewey Bombards the City and Spaniards Surrender. AUGUSTI HAS FLED. American Troops Under Merritt Now Hold Philippine Capital. Consul General Wlldman at Hons Kong Cables the News of Manila's Fall— Spaniards Capitnlate Unconditionally—Spaiah Captain General Escapes to Hong Kong on a German Cruiser— Officers of the Kaiaer'a V eaeel Refuse to Explain Their Remarkable Action Hong Kong special: Manila has fallen. The city surrendered unconditionally to Admiral Dewey and Gen, Merritt Saturday. The American fleet and land batteries opened fire on Manila Saturday morning. The Spanish resistance was feeble and the Americans were soon in possession of the city. The surrender of Manila was demanded Friday. Notice was given that the bombardment would begin the next day. Captain General Augusti immediately fled, escaping on the German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, which sailed before the bombardment was concluded. Admiral Dewey demanded the surrender of Manila in an hour. The Spaniards declined to surren-

CAPTAIN GENERAL AUGUSTI. Spanish Governor of the Philippines.

der and Dewey began the bombardment and the Spaniards hoisted a white flag. . The Spanish consul at Hong Kong had’ not notified the Spanish authorities at Manila of the signing of the peace protocol. It is believed that the reason why the Spanish consul did not send the news of peace to Manila was to give the Spanish authorities there a chance to play for time by denying the authenticity of the news sent from here by the American consul by the steamer Australian. The surrender of Manila, coming as it does, furnishes a fitting conclusion of the drama of war. which began with the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila harbor on the Ist of May last. Like the battle of New Orleans, fought by Andrew Jackson on t-lre* 1 8th of Junnary. 1815, it came after the suspension of hostilities between the contending powers, but this does not invalidate the surrender. Dewey nnd Merritt simply anticipated the protocol, whibh provided for the occupation of the city by the Americans during peace negotiations. No formal turning over of Manila to their forces,is necessary now. Details of the taking of the city by American forces, so far as received, show that Admiral Dewey gave Gen. Augusti an hour in which to surrender at the time of the last deniand, made on Saturday. Gen. Augusti refused to comply. The bombardment, which began at 9:30 a. m., was continued for two hours, and then the Americans stormed the trenches, sweeping all before them.

Those within the Avails attempted no resistance. The First Colorado volunteers stormed the outer trenches and drove the Spaniards into the second line of defenses. Then the American troops swept on, driving all the Spaniards into the inner fortifications, where the Spanish commander, seeing that further resistance was useless, hoisted the white flag and surrendered. Tho Spaniards in the trenches probably numbered 3,000 men. The American attacking force numbered 10,000, and the Americans were better armed, better trained and in better condition. The foreign fleets watched the bombardment with 'acute interest? The American wnrships engaged .were the Olympia; Petrel, Raleigh, MeCulloeh, Boston, Monterey, Charleston and Baltimore, The Spanish trench extended around Manila' at a'distance bf from'two to font miles/from the walled city,- fornfing a circle ten mile* in circumference* and it was impossible, the Spaniards,say, to hold so long a line against the American attack.’ Admiral Dewtiy and Gen. Merritt, it is reported, had issued orders to spare all except the armed defenses -of the city and consequently the.town Is understood to have been but little dumaged. The Stars and Stripes were raised over the city at 5:40 o’clock in the afternoon. In the bay Admiral Dewey’s fleet thundered a national salute anjl the formal surrender of the Spaniards was completed. The surrender includes (5,500 men, 12,000 stands of arms and an itataense amount of ammunition. The Spaniards i\ere allowed the honors of war. We captured 7,000 prisoners, 12,000. rifles and ♦Unlimited ammunition. Gen. Merritt has assumed > command;' festering the civil laws.- Eight American!! were-kilted add fifty wounded; (The Spanish loss wgs much greyer. The ships were not struck.. • AGUIJtALDO HWBUKBD. '-•••. \ -*tt "■ :• v : . } General Anderson Deals Severely with •' WoiJl<l-Be Dictator. Gen. Andefson lids oeen forced to remind the flk-tatoß Emilio Aguifthldof of’ his true commission and the nature of- the rights the United States has won. Aguinaldo, once a humble ally, who begged Admiral Dewey for.passage to tiiuatih Isf and, is, im£’ -prqtid, fraitgiitfrand autocratic, and bujrnife v%jthi ambition .to. spmp’dny, rule at Manila, either as mill; tnry presdrfeitt -or 'flibthtor. 4 • -The*- hope 1 makes him jealous of the Ataericank? J i £

REDUCE THE ARMY. , t War Managers Decide to MOTter OhT Many Soldiers. The President has decided to- muster 40,000 volunteers out of service. He believes he will have all the soldiers he needs without them, and their discharge now, instead of a few months hence, will save several million dollars. The men who are to be sent home are to be selected from those who enlisted under the second call and those who have seen service. None of the men now in the Philippines and Porto Rico will be released, for if they were others would have to be sent to take their places. Later on a good many men will have to be sent to Cuba. Gen. Lee thinks about 40,000 will be needed. Fifteen or twenty thousand more men should be sent to Manila to provide against contingencies. But there are many thousands of volunteers at Jacksonville and other camps, and in a comparatively short time the regulars now at Montauk Point will have regained their health nnd will be ready to take the field in the Philippines, if necessary, or do garrison duty in Cnbn. The military advisers of the President have assured him that he will have troops enough to meet all contingencies even if he lets 40,* 000 go. ■

SICK LEFT TO DIE. Scenes of Horror on Fever-Freighted Transports. The transport Saguranca arrived at quarantine off New York with 300 officers and enlisted men of the army from Santiago who are emaciated and broken with fevers. The tale of the suffering of these men since they left Santiago seems almost incredible. They were shipped in transports from Cuba on sick leave with out any provision haying been made for medical attention. In that neglected con dition they made the trip to Tampa biiy and there they were detained eleven days, during which neither doctors nor medicine were sent to their relief. Several died aboard ship while being detained at quarantine off Egmont Ivey. When it seemed as if death would rid the whole of the transports of bothersome passengers news of the deplorable state of affairs reached Gen. Coppinger at Tampa. Hr immediately ordered that all the sick br put aboard the Seguranea and sent to New Y'ork. The placing of the sick aboard the Seguranea, which had been hastily bat fully supplied with proper food, dear water, medicines and doctors?, was in the nature of a rescue.

PERISH BY TUE HUNDREDS. Spaniards Die at Santiago Too Fast for the Cremation Force. At Santiago the bodies of the dead Spaniards continue, to be cremated. Over 700 have been burned so far. Monday afternoon seventy were burned. Over twp rails a dozen bodies were stretched" and-across them another dozen, ami about thirty corpses were stacked iif an immense funeral pile ten high. 'The pile was then saturated with kerosene arid the torch applied. Around the pile lay twen-ty-two coffins containing f-orpses in astute of decomposition. Altogether about seventy unburied and unconsuuied bodies were there, stench was terrible. These seventy corpses represent two days’ dead from the Spanish camp. The danger to the population front the stench, the presence of the buzzards, vultures and flies is incalculable. TO DISBAND '1 HE CUBANS. Americans Decide Fate of Garcia’s Army at Santiago. A secret meeting was held at the palace in Santiago between the commanding officers of the American arlhy aud the Cuban leaders. Gen. Garcia, it is said, was present. The information obtained is to the effect that it was resolved to disband the Cuban army and that the United States should pay the men off. This involves the expenditure of $15,000,000, but it is most imi>ortant to the prosperity of the island, whose wealth is entirely agricultural; nobody, planter or farmer,, daring to cultivate his land while insurgent bands are in the field raiding and burning. MASSACRE IN PORTO RICO. Spaniards Fall Upon Women and Children and Slay Them with Machetes. Six Porto Ricans, accompanied by a priest, arrived at Coamo from Siales, thirty miles northwest of that place. They had walked all the way across the mountains. They reported that Spanish soldiers, crazed by liquor, came from Maniti to dales Saturday. An improvised American flag had been raised on the plaza. The sight of it so enraged the Spaniards that they attacked with machetes all the men, women and children they could find. They killed or wounded about ninety i>ersons. REBELS ATTACK MERRITT. Reported that Agalnatdo Turned Against the ’Americans. It was reported in Hbng Kong that the United States troops at Manila had an encounter with the rebel forces under Aguinaldo’." 'The insurgents’,"‘tfjpofl ‘ whtmr restrictions had been placed by Maj. Gen. Merritt, nre said-to- have mutinied-at not’being permitted to have any share in the surrender of the city.’ They are said to have attacked the Americans in the , the trenches.

FROM THE FRONT.

Lient. Hobson is constantly haunted by female admirers. All submarine mines have been removed from New York harbor. Francis Murphy, the well-known temperance advocate, has been appointed chaplain of the Fifth Pennsylvania regiment. Under the personal direction of Admiral Dewey the navy yard, arsenal, forts and barracks at Cavite have been re-estab-lished. ' , ’ The people of the Isle of’Fines are and the report that they have been furnishing Cuba with food is thus .proven false. . The correspondence'- bet wi-i-n Admiral Sampson and Glen. £>baftpf l»efore Santiago has been made ihibtic.’* " ‘ ' iik Spanish officers surrendered at Santiago will be allowed to take their wives and .children back «to Spain at the Expense of the United States. A telegram from Newport News says it is rumored t&Jtt the cfhiser Minneapolis, which m at tfieNoHolk' navy yard, will go to the Philippines.. 1 ; ■ ’ .The cruiser Moutjfcuiery, the monitors Ampbitrite and Puritan. from pey West, 'and-' AH' tug T.rydtuf. -froirf GuririlaUrtffio', have gone to Porto Rico.