Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — Page 3

BATTLE AT MANILA

Filipino Rebels Attack Americans and Are Routed. MOBE BLOOD IS SHED. Otis’ Losses Are Estimated at (75 Mea (a Dead aid Wouded. Conflict Lasts Twenty-four Hours, With Little Cessetion—Volunteers tn 4 Hesulars Were Prepared for the Nisht Attack, and Fairly JHaajjte* tered the Hordes of Natives, Who, Well Armed, Fou*ht with ConrageDewey's Ships Ttaroftr Shelia, The lona expected rapture between the Americana, and the at Manila haa come at last.' The clash came at 8:40 o'clock Saturday evening, when three daring Filipinos darted past the Nebraska regiment’s pickets at Santa Mesa, but retired when challenged. They repeated

AGUINALDO.

the experiment without drawing the sentries’ fire. But the third time Corporal Greely challenged the Filipinos and then fired, killing one of them and wounding another. Almost immediately afterward the Fib'pinos’ line, from Galvocan to Santa Mesa, commenced a fusillade, which was ineffectual. The Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota outposts replied vigorously and held their ground nntil reenforcementa arrived. The Filipinos in the meantime concentrated at three points, Cahrocan, Gagalangin and Santa Mesa. At abont 1 o’clock the Filipinos opened

• hot fire from ell three (daces simultaneously, This was supplemented by the fire of two siege guns at Balik-Ballk and by advancing their skirmishers at Paco and Pandacan. The Americans responded with a terrific fire, but, owing to the darkness, they were unable to determine its effect. The Utah light artillery finally succeeded in silencing the natiTe battery. The Third artillery also did good work on the extreme left. The engagement lasted over an hour. The United States cruiser Charleston and the gunboat Concord, stationed off Malabona, opened fire from their secondary batteries on the Filipinos’ position at Calvocan and kept it up vigorously. At 2:45 o’clock there was another fusillade along the entire line and the United States sea-going double-turreted monitor Monadnock opened fire on the enemy from off Malate. There was intermittent firing at rarlpus points all day long. American Troops Advance. With daylight the American* advanced. The California and Washington regiments made a splendid charge and drove the Filipinos from the villages of Paco and Santa Mesa. The Nebraska regiment also distinguished itself, capturing several prisoners and one howltser and a very strong position at the reservoir, which is connected with the water works. The Kansas and Dakota regiments compelled the enemy's right flank to retire to Calvocan. The losses of the Filipinos are known to be considerable. The American losses are estimated at twenty men killed and 12$ wounded. The Ygorates, armed with bows and arrows, mode a very determined stand in the face of a hot artillery fire and left many men dead on the field. Though there was no concerted uprising in Manila, several attempts were made in the city during the night to assassinate American officers. The positions which the Americans held at the beginning of the fight were formerly occupied by the Filipinos. At the siege of Manila the natives drove the Spaniards from these positions and took possession of them, but finally gave them up at the request of Qen. Otis, falling back about a mile, where they- established new defenses. Some of these were captured by the Americans. Qen. Otis had known for some time that the Filipinos were preparing for an attack, and when It came everybody was ready. The natives cut many of the telegraph wires, which for a time caused no little bother to the Americans. Most of the damage of this kind was in the city or in the immediate vicinity. The American officers generally are pihased at the manned ih irhich the volunteers eowdeeted themselves. Their six or seven months’ drill and seasoning has made them equal

- i.. . . .. ~ tWwjw in in? woriu. ftmght with the same sang froid as tha regulars, surprising even the moat sanguine ot their officers. :<w "’ For some time the situation at 'Manila has been considered critical and it haa been feared that a conflict with the insurgents was at hand. Gen. Otis, under instructions from the State Department at Washington, haa done ail possible to reconcile the natives to the American occupation and it was hoped that his efforts would prove successful. Agninaldo has been menacing ever since the Spaniards surrendered to Gen. Merritt sad Admiral Dewey, In his official pronnnciamentos and in interviews he has claimed that the Americans have no other than commercial rights, which he would agree to when the time came, to the islands or any part of them; that the insurgents practically had the Spaniards whipped long before Dewey sailed into the harbor op May 1 last and that his countrymen only owed the Americans a debt of thanka for having accelerated the ending of the conflict, nothing more. He has protested against the acquisition of the islands directly to this Government at Washington and by representatives to the conference at Faria during the discussion of the peace terms with Spain. Despite all declarations by the American authorities at Manila that their intentions toward the natives were of the most friendly character, the insurgent leaders apparently concentrated the best part of their army on the island of Luson, and rumor has had it that the Filipino force baa gradually been closing in on the capital city, Manila. The native army surrounding Manila haa been estimated at 40,000 men, all well armedaand the cream of the soldiers under APiinaldo. These men, as a rule, are up in modern military tactics. A large part of the rifles with which they are armed were furnished by representatives of the United States when the original campaign against Manila, then under Spanish control, waa inaugurated. The Americana also gave the islanders a goodly supply ot ammunition, little of which was used in the war with Spain, so it is presumed there is much of it still on hand.

President to Pursue a Vigorous Policy in the Philippine* A Washington correspondent says that President McKinley will pursue a vigorous policy in the Philippines, now that Agninaldo has thrown down the gauntlet. At a cabinet meeting following the news of the battle it*was decided to cable instructions to Gen. Otis to follow up his vietory over the insurgents and to crush the power of Agninaldo in all the Philippines. The President greatly deprecates the action of the insurgents at a time when he had hopes that affairs might find a peaceful solution. He believes, however, that Agninaldo had sufficient warning in the proclamation to the Filipinos, which said the United States would bring to account those responsible for disturbances in the islands, and who should fail to recognise the authority of the United States. Otis will be sent to and occupy all the islands possible with the

THE HARBOR AT MANILA.

forces at hand. Re-enforcements will also be sent to the islands as speedily as possible. The Oregon, now due at Honolulu, will be ordered to augment Dewey’fe force in Manila bay. Approximately 6,000 men are on their way to join Gen. Otis, in four separate expeditions, though none is expected to reach Manila for three weeks.

Noted Chicagoan ' neenmba to Attack of lllneas at Wavhlngton. James A. Sexton of Chicago, command-er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, died Sunday morning at Garfield hospital in Washington. Col. Sexton went to Washington in October to accept a position on the army investigation commission. Duringthe holidays he contracted a severe cold, which soon developed into a severe attack of the grip. While suffering from the latter disease complications set in. Col. Sexton had been one of Chicago’s most conspicuous public men. Born to Chicago in 1844, he entered the army at

President Lincoln's first call for troops in April, 1861, being then hat little over 17 years old. Within three months he had won a scrgeantcy. One year later, when only 18, he was made a lieutenant, and three months later he took the captaincy of Company D, Seventy-second Illinois. His company was one raised by the Yonng Men’s Christian Association. In 1888 President Harrison made Col. Sexton postmaster of Chicago. He was always an enthusiastic worker In the Grand Army, the Union Veterans’ League and the Loyal Legion. In the Greed Army he wan contmamler of the department of Illinois hi the 80’s and in 1886 was chosen commander-in-chief. /

WILL PUSH THE WAR.

JAMES A. SEXTON DEAD.

COL. JAMES A. SEXTON.

TOPICS FOR FARMERS.

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. Careful experiments emtotefliatte laboratory of the Agricultural Department at Washington, a CL, hawdem onstrated that bog terteam fcartßl wM remain alive and active in water tear months. This explains the cum at He A great many farmers altow teeftr pigs to obtain their supply «ff wader from streams flowing through their farms. It is a very oeaweaieost raafle of watering stock, hat a rather Aanserous one. If the hogs tqsrtrsam are attacked by cholera or swine fdagwe the germs are sure to be brought Aown and the hogs infected. It is a 'RMcwtt matter to keep informed as no thee*® dtion of ail the hogs along a rtraaum many miles in length, thrveHeve it is the safest plan by far to fence the swflae away from the rivers and evert*. It is safe to say that no herd swine that obtains its supply «ff water tenon a river or flowing stream is safe Oram infection, and those who perrirt In allowing their hogs access do nadh waters must expect to suffer laraoi tenon bog cholera. What mates matters worse, it is not only the person whs thus allows his bogs to become totort communicated to the herds <®ff ids neighbors, and is spread over n write township until the losses van up tedo the thousands. When an outbreak off hog cholera occurs in a niighborhood the best plan is to yard year haps ad once, and to keep a® other animats atat of that yard- Epitomist. . & Prevention of Potato Witna. Here are presented some Statements made by Mr. L. H. Reid, off Wtebontln, at a meeting off the Missouri HottitnCtural Society. Mr. Reid raises potatoes on a large scale and makes his rtsfements In regard to potato entente tan actual knowledge; “No one sbonldjeveT plant a Artl off potatoes without flirt; seating the amt in the corrosive sublimate •flotation <2 ounces of corrosive sublimate do 1# ounces of water). Even iff the seed appears perfectly free from every trace of scab, soak it, as the germs off scab may be clinging to the skin ot the tuber. The expense is small, and the remedy sure, if the treaded seed in planted upon land free from the perms of the scab.” Bordeaux mixture is just as men a remedy against Wight as is mtvestan sublimate against scab, tent one thbg must be remembered, and that is, it ta not a cure but a preventive., {jta wring it you must commence «uiy and apply it as often as necessary do keep every leaf coated with an armor plate of copper. Then the germs off the dreaded blight will not be able to grin entrance.. Don’t apply it once or twice and drink that will do. as you will be very Hfcrty to lose entirely the labor expended In the first application, iff yen take up the battle yon mast keep It up until the season Is over, or your labor may be la vain. In a wet season yon may have to go over your fields as often as once a week, or even dftencr. The only sate way is to keep that armor plate wßi, or the little foe may enter. In an ordinary season four or five applications give very satisfactory results.

Farms Too Big tor the Bw®u. Much of the success off tee former depends in the relationship tatawa the fanner and his faros. Soane aae® can manage aa eighty-acne Cana successfully, but break Means wriw it comes to 169 acres. Others ca® manage a quarter, but cannot * half section. Hte farmer must always be bigger than his farm; the teastoess man. If he would always be successful, must always be capable off riwflimrf; a larger business than he actually 4m* In short, there must always be a reserve power available tar eaaergv*cies. Tim weaker start: always be a servant of the stronger. When tee farm is larger than tee farmer, it rums the farmer, instead off tee tuner manning it. I® that case tee termer goes the farip must grthsri off It before *t becomes a profitable torortxnert—Wallace’s Farmer.

l'rotecdac Trees with tea* People put ou war* dotetog to keep the skin from being exposed to cold air. well knowing teat tee fttanal heat from burning off tee teed Wm Iris tee stomach will funtite warmth write will keep the extremities (horn taw tag. But there Is as tali raal ceaohustion inside a tree, aad it amy be wondered why there "is any advantage to wrapping trees with straw, as is often done to bender trees be pretext an—a from winter's cold. But there is advantage, for thorite tee tone has ns blood It has what is its oqntaalsnr, sag. which circulates to aR Ire trees cram drawn from the deqp soil by tee tree the winter air, iff tee taker can be buff the sap inside will keep teej^alivo house la trtTa mgyroßrtffe groronwter getting rid of Bee. Tfee najpbur «■ te will kill the lira in tho bunitag. Iff ttimed long enough, £iwriil|«^ to stay baßdtag to be kSMff

p ■■ - w*-" ? t -v""-.;?Hgpr-n- ■ the write’off the poritty boose are printed- with a Mod Sprid Bee killer, the teams «R maria ter a number off hptmiFbm them by escaping do ntßrtlrtt dtpemtenre entirely upon QhSs ter teeptap: the premises free tan Men.— Writeee s Farmer. Haft ahem ‘ta n sandy place and always as early ta spring as possible, for they need a tang senses to which to grow. Ffart pnfi the grown! to good j rtnpe. taring a drag a teat wide to Brake the rows, cheek the greand 5 feet each way, or. Iff In rich ground, £ feet. Itert very rioter, s» the aaetes can poaa under them and not find them; put two note hall about 6 inches apart. HuM thn. huff don't break the ska® on the kernel. When they are writ up. hoe and nfhat Keep the ground wvffi eudtAvaffed. and hoe under the edge off the vtoesy being carefUi not to MB them up. and when the spurs hegta to grow be very careful not to tench them with the hoe. Keep the ground terse and they wfid grow and wffittSarae to fewur until ftrost ripens them. WDwa a® are matured teg; wash and dry writ te the ran before putting away- They wRB art keep weil if ml XtriKtd VmOw It te hood tn why our termers ate ro rorktess concerning the eneroaclbmrwns of meeds* The wild carrot might easily have been headed off If we had the sight sentiment among our tendon-urns. The only difficulty sum 3® eradfieatiiajig It te the fact that there teswmrate off It. It te easily pulled before swing to seed. The hawkweed te spreading through the fields es New Toth State aad eteewbece. The best way of draStog with this pest, as we® as with unwaywert where it gets lodged oa the towns; te to sow liberally with salt. Ray a barret or more off damaged salt, which yon caa generally find at any eenaisy store and obtain ter less tea® hriff price. While the salt kite the wrote It fertilizes the grass. Agpdy three or fo®r times to order to thoroughly ranch every plant and root —Farm and FSrasate. The ef Dickson Oounffy, TV*®., have never raised cotton, hat plant tebocro as the money crap, and It usually yields from SSO to $75 per acre art. which te doing very wv® when we take into consideration that all tee grain and meats used upon tee hmnte table are predaeed at tame, besides tee Unfits and vegetable* Mono tobacco te being planted to this seetten every year, and the fanners becooatag mere and mere Independent thereby. It te usmffiy prepared for market to wet weather whe* it te too tesagrerobtie M «urk eat of doors, and to thte respect the tobaceo raiser has tee advantage because he te kept busy aS tee time. Mfeness wtß min the Itawcr as writ as hte machines, and tobacco rdßw te a good care for tha TmelarttaaCtarw. These «r fear years ago an Indian mound to Arkansas Was being excavated. when an earthen Jar was found tat water, ally sealed that contained n Sume of tee grates were the next year which tee Jar waa dug onk a large tree 4 feet to dtamrter was growing, and II te thought tee carp lay fended about Apffb peats. The cars are art targe, fear grow two or three on a single stocky The one tetog peerifiar abort this coca te its cater, or, rather, raters. Oa tee same cab are grains es different eaten, and to tee row y@*g caa find as car that in write, another rinad red. one a larger wriuurin, stretch and tack an a rmsuth mixed, rah thte over and let stand a day, them rah whh a brick to hum above tißsfcto to imTrth. tbmMiq? the Okto soft. In torktog to carefoi to bay the hair down amosth. The rider tte aMR tee stronger tee hide. Bird hwrttag wanri he a less papwtar whnrosa ptrtarieejertacie Me that demtgm Kb feel; ari'rim found R had heen slowly starring tor moral dnyn.—Ssew Talk Fart fltouud, Puff to the o

STATE LAW MAKERS.

The Senate on Thursday passed the bill granting the widow of Oliver P. Morton SIOO a month pension during her lifetime. She is now 76 years old and is in destitute circumstances. The people of Newton County, who would like to have the county seat removed from Kentland to Morocco, lost in the House in the first skirmish over the relocation bill. The majority report of the Judiciary Committee, recommending that it take 05 per cent of the vote of the county to order a removal, was adopted. The House passed several Senate bills, among them Senator Osborne's bill to limit the issue of bonds by county commissioners for gravel and macadamized roads. The lower house passed twenty-one bilA on Friday. Among the more important of them were bills to establish a State board of pharmacy, to require steam boilers to be inspected, to require the examination and licensing of stationary engineers. to establish county boards of charities, to prevent the importation into the State of dependent children, to prevent the adulteration of candy, to bestow the veto power on mayors of all cities of not less than 35,000 population and to require that all street ears be heated during winter months. After a prolonged debate the bill to authorize the State to pay a bounty on beet sugar was defeated, it has been defeated in both houses. In the Senate the bill by Mr. Hogate to provide for revision of the State constitution was advanced to engrossment. The committee on rivers and wate.-s of the lower house of the Legislature decided on Monday to report favorably on the bill for an act to assist in the building of a harbor at Wolf Lake. The bill provides for the condemnation of a right of way for a channel 300 feet wide, connecting Wolf Lake with Lake Michigan, and authorizes the assessment of benefits and damages for the building of the channel. The harbor improvement company which brought the bill to the Legislature says Congress will make an appropriation for the improvement of the harbor as soon as the channel is opened. The supporters of the proposition to reduce railroad fare to 2 cents a mile were defeated in the House on Monday by the tabling of a motion to require the committee on railroads to report the 2-eeut-fare bill.

Pious Slot Machine.

A well-known Union Pacific employe leaned up against the radiator and told the following: "Before the slot machines were ordered out there were a number of jackpot machines about town which paid from ten cents to $5 when they paid anything. One of these machines stood in a saloon iu Douglas street and had swallowed many a nickel without giving up anything in return. "One afternon a Salvation Army girl entered the saloon with a bundle of War Tries under her arm and tackled the men at the bar to purchase copies. The men were liberal, and site sold a number of pai»ers. As she started to leave the saloon her eyes fellupon the machine. She looked at the directions a moment and then said: “ Til just play one uickel in here for the Lord.’ "Bhe dropped the nickel in the slot, pulled the lever, and watched the wheels go round. When the wheel stopianl a shower of nickels dropped into the pan ami spread out upon the floor. The girl stooped down and raked in the shining harvest, and after carefully counting the coins deposited them in her pocket ami sauntered out. "She played one lonesome nickel and raked in $3.70. And that was the only time the machine ever paid more than a quarter.”—Omaha World-Herald.

Ginseng Gathering Profitable.

The gathering of ginseng Is proving profitable at Sang Run, Garrett County. Sang Run derives its name from the ginseng root, which grows along the banks of Sang Run, a small mountain stream. Ginseng is highly .esteemed in China as a medicine, which, It is thought, will prolpng the vital powers, but Europeans have failed to discover any remarkable properties in the drug. The root is called “seug” by the mountaineers, hence the name Seng Run or Sang Run for the stream I® Garrett County. Seng run gatherers of ginseng get from $5 to $7.50 a pound for it green. Solomon Sines, an old banter, has 650 pounds, dry, which commands a much higher price. In China it sells for $6 and $lO an ounce. The most esteemed variety is from Corea. The demand Is so great that many roots are substituted for It, notably American ginseng.—Baltimore Sun.

Bank off England Note Paper.

The safeguard on which the Bank of England relies to tlmart the efforts of counterfeiters is the quality of Its paper. which is made in the bank factory es a superior quality of linen rags and with a water mark that counterfeiter# have never been able to imitate so as to deceive expert handlers of note* Otherwise the Bank of England note la very plain, the engraving having none of that dai*orate detail which characterises the notes of American national hdnks.

Insect Retards Development.

The bite of the tsetse fly, so deadly to the horse, ox and dog, has been found by a committee of the British Royal Society to affect other creature* as well. No remedy has been found. Thla little Insect Is playing a surprising part in the world’s development, as, although man is strangely Immune to the poison, large districts in Africa, notably the Limpopo and Zambesi valleys, mart remain uninhabitable until the pert shall have been destroyed.

Bullet in His Heart for 37 Years.

The Baltimore Sun says that the late WRUam B. Smallbridge, of Glenvill, W. Va., a veteran off the civil war, carried a bullet In his heart for rhirtyseven years. His death was not due to tee presence off the bullet, and-, in fact, he never suffered any inconvenience from JL Before his death be asked hie physician. In the Interest of science, to ■take an autopsy In order to find the hullrt The physician dki so and found h Imbedded in the heart.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK.^ Killed in a Wreck at LafW/fette—Little Girl Takes Morphine and IM«®—!j 11l Health Canaes a Enicldc—Asphyxiated by Natural Gas. *.aaM A train on the Lake Erie and Western i Railroad dashed into the rear end of • Big Four line freight train on a bridge at Lafayette. The caboose of the latter train was telescoped and set on fire bjr, the overturned stove, B. Y. Seigfried, cattleman of Atlantic, low#, was badly scalded by escaping steam and, with his clothes on fire, jumped from tne car and fell on the ice in the river far below. He was later found dead. Thomas Gegan, cattle shipper of Chicago, in employ of Nelson Morris, was terribly burned. -f Police Officer Kills Himself. Captain James Pierce of the Terre Haute police force committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at the Park Hotel, Pensacola, Fla. He left home ten days before in the hope of obtaining relief from chronic stomach trouble which had caused him much physical misery for more than a year. At the time of leaving, it is now recalled, he was in a despondent condition ami he bade farewell to his friends. Child Commits Suicide. Ella Le Grande, 13 years old, an orphan who made her home with R. J. Stone and wife at Velpen, committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of morphine. She quarreled with a playmate, and when her former friend and companion passed her on the way to school and failed to speak Ella burst into a fit of crying and refused to be comforted. Three Are Found Dead in Bed. Patrick Flynn, his wife and son Owen were found dead in bed at their residence at Lafayette. The Flynns had not been seen for several by neighbors, whose suspicions became aroused, and a policeman forced an entrance to the residence. The three had been asphyxiated by escaping natural gas. Within Onr Border*. John Orr shot and killed Doc Swango, near Patriot, in a quarrel. Ice dealers are discouraged about the winter in northern Indiana. William Nading, a wealthy Sbelbyville grain merchant, has been left a maniac by the grip. At Washington, the 64-year-old bride of Henry Myers, aged 75, was killed by falling into a cellar. Carl Agee, Somerville merchant, had domestic trouble and took his life by putting arsenic in his beer. Wm. Klink, an Elkhart carpenter, fell from a stepladder, dislocating bis neck and causing instnnt death. A gray eagle was caught in Putnam County weighing 11 pounds and measuring seven feet from tip to tip. Miss Bashia Russell, aged 70 years, who lived south of Martinsville, died from injuries received by a fall on ice. It is officially announced that a military school has been located at Winona Lake, and that it will be opened next fall. Gertrude E. Morgan, a member of the Liiiputians company, died at the Oriental Hotel, Indianapolis, of malarial fever. At Wellsboro, a row of fourteen store buildings were burned to the ground. The loss will reach SB,OOO, with no insurance. At Marion, George B. Mouser, an attorney, was found dead in a room adjoining his office. Death resulted from epilepsy. Willis Bard of Bremen, who accidentally shot and killed his 6-year-old sister, has become deranged as a result of the tragedy.

By a collision on the Baltimore and Ohio road at Ripley four locomotives were badly wrecked, together with a number of cars. Lytle Bowen, 90, Kokomo, is dead. Since the death of his bosom friend, Judge O'Brien, he had had a mania for reading obituaries. Father Grogan, who died at Lafayette recently, left his large library to Notre Dame and left small bequests to a number of churches. A washing machine factory, a hoop factory and on artificial ice plant will be es* tablished in Washington, if the town will furnish the ground. Mrs. Samuel Donan, Cass County, was putting a buggy in the barn a few nights ago. The rolling door was started by a gust of wind. It struck her on the head, caused a concussion of the brain, and she will die. The Havens & Geddes company, wholesale dealers in dry goods, whose house in Terre Haute was recently destroyed by fire, nas purchased the wholesale dry goods business of D. P. Erwin & Co. of Indianapolis, for $400,000. The company will leave Terre Haute. The hairy wild man captured In Delaware County proves to bo Chas. Jacobson, who escaped from the soldiers’ home at St. James, Mo., last July. His mind is gone. Though 90 years old he was so strong that six men were required to hold him. George Keplinger, a young farmer, shot his sweetheart, Miss Laura Pegen, because she refused to marry him. The shooting took place at the young lady’s home, ten miles east of Marion. Keplinger knocked at the door of her home and when she opened it he threw one arm around her neck and with the other held a pistpt to her head and sent a bullet crashing into her brain. He let the lifeless body fall to the floor and placed the pistol against his own head and pulled the trigger. The bail inflicted a flesh wound and glanced off, doing little damage. Keplinger escaped, but waa captured at the home of John Mattox, about two miles from the scene of the shooting. The Kokomo street car line was sold at receiver’s sale for $9,000 to W. P. Stevens of Detroit, Mich., who will reorganise the company and bond the plant for $90,000. Geo, Galloway, Covington, had back penaion of over $3,000 granted him and sl7 a month, but the day before the news came he died in the Lafayette soldiers' home. A Mrs. Spangler of Fort Wayne pleaded gnilty to having three husbands at one time and was sentenced to three months in Jail. She was ignorant. Hence the light sentence. • . .