Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1899 — Page 2

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, j . F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. |«EMSBELAER. • INDIANA.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

A chair trust combining seventy-five of the leading manufacturers of the United States and practically monopolizing the business, has been formed. The capital of the new combination is to be $40,000, 000. At Bowling Green, Ohio, Paul Zeltner, one of the slayers of Attorney E. H. Westenhaver, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the fjenitentiafy for life, without a chance for pardon. Dr. Jefferson D. Goddard, who killed Fred J. Jackson in Kansas City on April 2, 1897, was convicted of murder in the second degree in the Circuit Court at Jefferson City. Mo., and sentenced to twenty years in the i»eniteutiary. A letter has l>een received by Gov. Voorhees of New Jersey from Gov. Sayers of Texas, inviting him and Attorney General Gray to a conference of governors and attorney generals at St. Ixmis Sept. 20, tc consider the question of trusts. A suit to test the Ohio anti-trust law of April 19, IS9B, was brought to an issue in the United States Court at Columbus by a demurrer filed by the Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Company to the ouster petition of the Attorney General. Tammany Hall, prompted by the interest among Irish-American* in New York in the scheme to purchase the Muckross estate and Lakes of Kiltarney and make the historic spot a national park, has assumed charge of the undertaking. The first street railway in Seoul, capital of Corea, is nearing completion. H. It. -Bostwick, chief engineer of the syndicate which is constructing the road, has sent to San Francisco for ten or fifteen experienced motormen and several first-class electrical engineers. The American Association of Nurserymen, in annual session at Chicago, elected the following officers: President, W. J. Peters of Troy, N. Y.; vice-presideut, D. S. Lake of Shenandoah, Iowa; secretary, G. D. Seador of Rochester, N. Y.; treasurer, C. L. Yates of Rochester, N. Y. George Stockton Burroughs has resigned as president of Wabash College, to take effect Oct. 1, when he will go to Oberlin to take the chair of Old Testament literature and language. The resignation came as a result of his failure to agree with the faculty. Positive identification of a dismembered body, portions of which were found floating off Bay Ridge, N. Y., was made by Thomas Clark, a life saver at Coney Island. He declared that the body was that of one of a party of three sailors whom he had seen at the beach. They aeemed to be blue jackets from a warship. The standing of the clubs In the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L Brooklyn ... .37 12Cincinnati ...24 23 Boston 33 15Pittsburg ... .22 ‘M ’Philadelphia. 28 St. Louis... .28 20Washington. 17 33 Baltimore ...28 20Louisville ...14 35 Chicago2B 21 Cleveland ... 8 38 Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 24 19 Detroit2l 21 St. Paul 22 19Milwaukee ...21 21 Indianapolis. 23 20 Buffalolß 23 Columbus ...21 19Kansas City.. 17 25

BREVITIES.

Charles A. Bauer ia dead at Springfield, Ohio. The proposed combination of breweries in Boston has been abandoned. Gov. Pingree declares that he han no intention of retiring from politics. Dr. Lawson, the pioneer of abdominal •urgery, is dead at London, aged 51. The United States transport Hooknr. from New York for Manila, has arrived at Colombo, Ceylon. The Cincinnati City Council has denied the Dietrich syndicate an ordinance to pipe natural gas to the city. Baltimore is the place and Aug. 2 the date select'd for the gubernatorial convention of Maryland Democrats. At Loa Angeles, Cal., Earle Hanchette, 20 years of age, killed his wife, 18 years of age, and then fired a revolver bullet Into his own stomach. Frank Naska, alias Marcurio Notario. an Italian, was convicted in the parish of fit. John, La., for the murder of five persons, aud will be sentenced to death. Information, believed to be reliabie. has been received of the assassination of Gen. Luna and his aid-de-camp, Lieut. Pasco Ramon, by Aguinaldo's guard at the headquarters of Aguinaldo. The makers of metal wheels and children's express wagons met at Toledo and decided to advance the price *2 a dozen on account of the advance in the price of material. The business portion of Chama, N. M., has been swept dean by tire. The Denver and Rio Grande depot and round bouse and half a dozen business blocks were burned. William M. Stuart of Detroit, Mich., has been appointed chief of the manufacturers* division of the census bureau, which position he held during the eleventh census. A combination of fruit cauncrs has been completed in San Francisco and all the necessary papers, carrying options on about two-thirds of the canneries of the State, have been signed. The statue of Benjamin Franklin presented to Philadelphia by Justus C. Htrawbridge was unveiled, the cord being drown by Miss Margaret Hartman Bache, • descendant of Franklin. The enormous advance made in the prices of wrought iron pipe since the formation of the trust has paralyzed the oil development of the Southern fields. Four small children of the name of i Christensen were drowned in the Platte ■ river at North Platte, Neb. One fell into the water and the others were drowned while attempting to rescue it. Aubrey Pring, son of John Priug of Colorado Spi*gs, and Lee were killed by lightning while working in a field near Monument, Colo. Others in the field were shocked by the lightning and a team

EASTERN.

Vincent McLaughlin of Pa, publisher and editor of the Philadelphia Times, la dead. The gristmill belonging to F. L. Worth A Co. at Springfield. Mass, was destroyed by fire. Loos $125,000. Plans are now being prepared in Philadelphia for two large steamships for the International Navigation Company. Fire broke out in the St. Denis Hotel, New York. The house was filled with guests and a panic followed the alarm of fire. No one was hurt. The Edison Portland Cement Company, with an authorized capital of $11,000,000, was incorporated at Trenton, N. J. Among the incorporators is Thomas A. Edison. Greystone, the famous country house of Samuel J. Tilden at Yonkers, was sold by order of the court to Samuel Untermeyer of New York. The price was $121,000. Fire in Buffalo badly damaged the building occupied by Stoddard Brothen, drugs; M. Tailmage, stores and hardware, and Thomas Hickey, printer. Loss $140,000. The United States steamship Baleigh was placed out of commission at Portsmouth, N. H. All of the officers have been transferred to various stations, while the crew has been sent to New York and Boston. » Marcus R. Msyer was publicly horsewhipped at New York by Ida Orme, the songstress and actress, who alleges that the manager had persecuted and calumniated her. A stubborn fire op unknown origin has been raging in the Empire mine of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company at Wilkesbarre. The shaft has been idle for some time. The national convention of credit men at Buffalo unanimously elected John Field of Philadelphia and Frederick Standart of Denver president and vice-president respectively. The seventeenth annual convention of the Proprietary Association of the United States closed its sessions in New York. The next annual convention'will be held in New York. Articles of incorporation of the American Pastry and Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $3,000,000, were filed in the offices of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. John Cunningham, a resident ot Chicago, was killed on the West Shore Railroad at Palmyra, N. Y, by falling from a freight train. A passing ear struck him, breaking his back. He was 38 years of ageThe Rev. Dr. W. H. P. Faunee, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, announced that he would resign the pastorate of that church immediately to accept the presidency of Brown University. C. J. Nugent of Boston died on a Nickel Plate train between McComb and Stuartsvilie. Mr. Nugent was suffering from consumption and was on his way home from Denver. Colo. The body was left at Fostoria.

WESTERN.

J. P. Burton, one of the largest coal operators in the Massillon field, died at Massillon, Ohio. The Warsaw Courier announces that Ignace Paderewski and Miss Helen Rosen bare been married. George B. Ward, a St. Louis commission merchant, committed suicide by inhaling gas. No cause known. The *125,000 live stock exchange erected in St. Joseph, Mo., by G. F. Swift and others has been formally opened. Ten of the twelve members of the Michigan congressional delegation met in secret conference aad decided to support Henderson for Speaker. Fire destroyed two depots of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, one at Grape Creek. HI., the other at Perrysville, Ind. A serious wreck occurred on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad near Grandview. Mo. Over forty people were hurt. Spreading rails the cause. Fifty thousand dollars 4 per cent 20year refunding bonds, issued by Fostoria, Ohio, have been sold to Lamprecht Bros. & Co. of Cleveland for a premium of *Bl7. Chancellor Mac Lean of Nebraska University has been elected president of the University of lowa, to succeed President Charles A. Schaeffer, who died last September. Nine hundred employes of the Cleveland Electric Railway Company went on strike and completely tied up fourteen lines. Several small riots took place and two men were hurt. Antonio Barrios of San Francisco, who has been charged- by the president of Guatemala with trying to fit out a filibustering expedition against Guatemala, denies the charge. The United States Court of Appeals at Milwaukee has handed down a . decision holding the alien labor law to apply solely to common laliorera. exempting clerks and al) kinds of skilled artisans. The English Evangelical Lutheran synod of the Northwest adjourned its Milwaukee convention sine die after adopting a uniform constitution for the government of churches in the syuod. Walter Hopkins, who has been serving a sentence in the Harvey County. Kau., jail for larceny, made a murderous assault with a razor ou Deputy Sheriff Herman Means. Means' defense saved his life. Leonard Mason, a well-known business tnau, and William Anderson, who just graduated with honors at the Renville high school, were drowned while bathing in the Minnesota river, near Renville, Minn. William Deering, president of the board of trustees of North western University at Evanston., 111., has tendered his resignation to his fellows, asking for immediate release from duties he has undertaken for three years. A car load of new wheat, the first of the crop of 1899. was received in St. Wednesday from Waco, Texas. It graded No. 2 red winter and tested sixty-one pounds to the bushel. On being auctioned off on 'Change it brought 90 cents a bushel, 15 cents more than cash wheat was quoted. Martin Meier, an aged Swiss resident of Chicago, was found bound, gagged and strangled'to death on the pantry floor of his home, where he had been left by his murderers after they had thoroughly ransacked the cottage for the wealth it was supposed to contain. The date of the Chicago Civic Federation's conference on trusts, wbieh was called for June 26 to 29. has been changed to Hept- 13 to Ml in response to a general demand for more time made by many of

the public officials and organizations invited to participate in the meeting. Masked burglars-entered the home' of Daniel F. Gott, Norris City, 111., and in their efforts to secure money and valuables, shot Mrs. Gott through the head, causing instant death. Gott was also attacked and left for dead. They secured $l4O and a gold watch. At Hartford City, Ind., M. Redkey, cashier of the Leesburg, Ohio, Bank, captured G. W. Delph, whom he claimed had imposed a forged note on him. Unfortunately the cashier was without papers necessary to hold Delph and he made his escape by dodging down an alley. As a result of a waterspout and exceedingly heavy rains on the upper watersheds the Colorado river is raging out of its banks. Reports from Marble Falls and Llano show a twenty-five foot rise, doing great damage to property all along the river. Here the water has gone up to twelve feet and is still rising. Small houses have been swept away. The plan of Mayor Jones of Toledo, Ohio, to lease the city gas plant passed ihe board of councilmen and became a law. Under this plan the city clerk is to advertise the city gas plant for sale or lease. The method is almost a copy of the Springfield, 111., plan of conducting the lighting system. A company stands ready to take the plant, which has never been profitable. One of the worst floods in the history of southern Kansas has been raging. Miles of railroad tracks and thousands of dollars’ worth of property have been destroyed. Two deaths are reported from the floods. At Peck, Neeley Duncan, while attempting to cross a swollen stream, was drowned. At Goddard Harry Hills, while attempting to rescue his brother from the river, was caught by a sudden rise and drowned.

SOUTHERN.

The sale of quartermaster’s property at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park, aggregated $67,000. Edward Ware, farmer of Mount Zion, Ky., was shot and killed by his nephew, Arthur Davenport. Davenport surrendered. A freight train on the Texas Pacific plunged through a wooden bridge at Eastland. The wreck caught fire. Brakeman Calkins was killed. Simon Brooks (colored) was lynched by a mob of 500 negroes near Sardis, Miss. Brooks, with another negro, had attempted to murder and rob a colored woman. Much excitement has been caused by the discovery of phosphate near Thompson Station, Tenn., and all the farmers in that section are engaged in digging for deposits. Effie Davis, aged 14, near Heevee, Tex., poured oil into a stove from a can. The can exploded, scattering burning oil over the house and setting fire to the girl’s clothes. Girl dead; house in ashes. A man who bore letters on his person addressed to “Bishop Jennings, Decatur, 111.,” was shot and killed by Policeman Taylor while robbing the room of Assessor Dilts at Guthrie, O. T. At Hillsboro, N. M., Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were acquitted of the murder of Henry Fountain, the son of Col. A. J. Fountain. The jury was closeted but seven minutes. Fred Friedenheimer, an ex-clerk of the Citizens* National Bank of Louisville, was arrested at Cincinnati suspected of swindling the German National Bank of Louisville out of $5,000 and confessed to the police. As the result of an investigation by Dr. Blount, health officer of Texas, that State, has raised the passenger and freight quarantine which was placed against New Orleans because of a reported case of yellow fever. At Mansfield, Texas, J. G. Murphree walked into the postoffice and without warning shot and killed Sherman Goulden, the assistant postmaster, and wounded R. S. Goulden, the postmaster. Murphree was arrested. J. G. Murphree walked into the postoffice at Mansfield, Tex., and without warning shot and killed Sherman Goulden, the assistant postmaster, and wounded R. 8. Goulden, the postmaster. Citizens of Mansfield say Murphree’s mind is unbalanced.

WASHINGTON.

The Government has decided to abandon the old site of the Government building at Indianapolis aud immediately advertise for bids for another site for the new building. Figures furnished by the Secretary of the Interior show the public domain consists of 1,835,617,692 acres, and last year 8.453,780 acres were disposed of by the Government to settlers. The President has appointed a commission of nine members, headed by Rear Admiral John G. Walker, to determine the most feasible and practical route for a canal across the isthmus of Panama. '* Director of Census Merriam has completed his official technical staff by the appointment of S. N. D. North of Boston chief statistician in charge of the division of manufacturing aud mechanical industries. Congressmen Payne of New York, Dalzell of Pennsylvania, Steele of Indiana, Hull of lowa and Hcatwole of Minnesota are on their way to Alaska, where they will attempt to settle the boundary dispute. ■ . ;i ' ; Survey work preliminary to the laying of a cable between Germany and the United States by way of the Azores was practically completed when the British cable steamship Britannia arrived at quarantine, New York, after having taken soundings between Fayal and Sandy Hook. Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has promulgated immigrant regulations for the island of Cuba. These regulations are substantially the same as those now in force for the United States, except that the regulations for Cuba make no distinction between aliens arriving from Canada and Mexico and other foreign countries.

FOREIGN.

The civil tribunal of the Seine granted a divorce to Cpuntess Esterhazy. Augustin Daly, the playwright and manager. died at Paris of heart failure, aged 61 years. Gov. Gen. Brooke has appointed Senor Gonzales de Quesada special commissioner for Cuba at Washington. There have been twenty-one cases of the plague at Alexandria, Egypt, and seven deaths from that disease. ▲ dispatch from Edinburgh, Scotland,

announces the death of Rev. Dr. William Garden Blaikie from paralysis. The French Government has taken steps to renew actively negotiations for a reciprocity treaty with the United States. The budget committee of the reichatag has voted the first installment of 200,000 marks for the German antarctic expedition. Seventeen native miners were killed and thirty Injured in a mine at Kimberley, South Africa, by the explosion, it is supposed, of a dynamite magazine. The Danish Government has announced its intention to appoint a commission to consider the imposition of a protectionist duty upon agricultural products. The engagement between Prince Maximilian of Baden and the Grand Duchess Helene, daughter of the Grand Duke Vladimir, has been definitely broken off. An American missionary and his family at Mequinez, Morocco, have been ill treated by the ruling pasha. It is understood the United States consul general is taking action in the matter. Advices from Hong Kong state that the black plague has caused 1,000 deaths in San Ning, China, during the past month. Business is paralyzed and the greater part of the population has fled to the country. The market town of Ottensheim, Austria, about five miles west of Linz, on the Danube, has been totally destroyed by fire. Four women perished in the flames and a number of people were injured. The Stella Polare, with the Duke of Abbruzi, nephew of the King of Italy, and his polar expedition on board, sailed from Christiania. The expedition was given an enthusiastic farewell by the crowds assembled and was saluted by the forts. A dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph from Cairo says Janos Rigo, the gypsy musician, who eloped with Princess de Caraman and Chimay, and who, it was recently reported, had died of the plague in Alexandria, has gone to China with the princess.

IN GENERAL.

Over a hundred men are reported to have perished on the Edmonton trail in Alaska during the last winter. The steamer Mariposa has sailed for San Francisco from Sydney, N. S. W., having on board $750,000 in gold. The cruiser Boston has sailed for San Francisco from Manila with time-expired seamen and officers whose tour of sea duty is ended. Maj. Sears of the corps of engineers, U. S. A., now stationed at Duluth, Minn., has been detailed to establish harbor lines in the harbors of Poito Rico. The head camp of the Modern Woodmen of America has selected St. Paul as the place of meeting in 1901. The vote was 199 to 163 for Grand Rapids, the only other candidate. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad A. J. Cassatt of Philadelphia was unanimously elected president to succeed the late Frank Thomson. The whaler Charles W. Morgan of San Francisco made a fortunate find of ambergris in the north seas, according to advices from Hakodate. The lump weighed sixty-eight pounds and is worth $20,800. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly crop report, says Belgium, Holland, Italy and parts of Austria-Hungary promise average wheat crops. In France, Germany, Spain and Poland the crops are fair and there are hopes for a full average crop. In Russia the drought is too prevalent to allow a hopeful yield of either wheat or rye. In Roumania, Servia and Bulgaria a short wheat crop is regarded as inevitable. A dispatch from Tampico, Mexico, says that yellow fever has broken Out there again and has two more victims to its credit. One of the cases can be directly traced from Vera Cruz on the steamer Campeche, the patient dying just as the boat arrived at Tampico. Dr. Matienzas, the Tampico health officer, has decided to establish a period of from three to five days’ quarantine against all vessels from the port of Vera Cruz or any other infected port. The Menominee and St. Paul Railway Company has been organized with a capital stock of $2,000,000. It will build a road from Menominee, Mich., to St. Paul, a distance of 300 miles. The incorporators are ex-Congressman Samuel M. Stephenson and others of Menominee; Wellington R. Burt of Saginaw, president of the Ann Arbor Railroad, and Henry W. Ashley of Toledo. The officers are: President, S. M. Stephenson; secretary and treasurer, Joseph Flesheim; general manager, H. W. Ashley; general counsel, N. L. Smith of Toledo. The Pennsylvania and Ann Arbor railroads are both indirectly interested.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 76c corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,23 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,57 cto 59c; butter, choice creamery, 18c tQ 19c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 4Oc per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 white, 33c to 35c; oatsv, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,78 cto 79c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2,24 cto 26e; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 30c; oats. No.' 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2,04 cto 60c. Detroit—Cattle, $2,50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; Wheat, No, 2,77 cto 78c; corn, No. 2 yellow’, 84c to 80c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 29c; rye, 02c to 04c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 76c to 78c; |corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,57 c to 59c; clover seed, new, $3.75 to $3.85. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 75c to 77c; corn. No. 3,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29e; rye, No. 1,58 cto 59c; barley, No. 2,39 cto 41c; pork, mess, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, goad shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra. $4.50 to $7.00. New York —Gattie, $3.25't0 $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat. No. 2 red, 82c to 84c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 31c to 33c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggr, Western, 14c to 16c.

ARMY IN BIG BATTLE.

FIERCEST ENGAGEMENT OF THE FILIPINO WAR. Las Pinas, Near Manila, the Fcene of Hard Fighting—Natives Offer a Stabborn Resistance—Heavy Lossci In-' fileted on Roth Sides. A terrific battle with the Filipinos was fought at Las Pinas Tuesday morning, Lawton’s entire force of 3,000 men being engaged with a large number of strongly intrenched rebels. The fight continued all day, and toward evening the rebels had taken up a position but 500 yards to the rear of the point where the engagement opened. The insurgents fought doggedly, and on several occasions attempted to assume the offensive. At one time they tried to turn the Americans’ left flank, but failed. The first real artillery engagement since the war in the Philippines began occurred duriiy; the morning through the insurgents opening fire from a masked battery below Las Pinas. The Filipinos had a smooth bore and a number of onepounders. They were answered by six guns from the First artillery, and within a few minutes the gunboat Helena and the monitor Monadnock joined in with all their guns. The second shell .fired by the Filipinos dropped and burst in the camp of the Fourteenth Infantry. Only one man, a private, was struck by fragments of the shell. He was seriously wounded. General Lawton quickly led a reconnoisance with two companies of the Twen-ty-first infantry. The Filipino artillery was some distance back from the beach, and Lawton led his men between it and the water front, being hidden by the brush. When the detachment had proceeded about a mile and a half it encountered an overwhelming force of Filipino regulars and a hot engagement at close range, directly between the masked bat: tery and the bay, followed. So heavily were General Lawton’s men outnumbered that they were forced to retire. They rallied, however, and by a sharp dash succeeded in carrying the enemy's first position. This left an open space to the left, and a heavy flank fire was pourgd in on the Americans, compelling them to retreat to cover again. The range was so close and the accuracy of the Filipinos so good that two officers and nineteen men of the detachment were wouuded. The American troops dropped back out of range of the Filipino fire and summoned a battalion of the Ninth Infantry to re-enforce them. At the same time battalions of the Twelfth and Fourteenth Infantry were sent forward along tjxe road. Americans Fall Into a Trap. The companies of the Twenty-first regiment, skirmishing along the beach, with amigo guides, found apparently a handful of the enemy, who retreated. The men of the Twenty-first followed and suddenly the enemy opened a terrific fire on the troops from the sides and the rear. The soldiers withdrew to the water’s edge, finding what shelter they could, and were picked off rapidly. After their ammunition was nearly exhausted the companies of the Twenty-firet retreated, but Gen. Lawton dashed down and rallied the men. A little group made a desperate stand, Gen. Lawton, Maj. Starr and Lieuts. Donovan and Sonnelly taking rifles from the wounded men and firing at the enemy, bringing down some of the rebel sharpshooters from a tree. Finally their cartridges were all gone and they were forced to break through the enemy’s flank, carrying the wounded to the main body of the troops. After firing in volleys for a short time the Americans were ordered to fire when and where they could see the enemy. It was every man for himself and the best the men could do was to aim at the faint mists arising from the enemy’s smokeless powder. It was impossible to estimate the number of Filipino dead. There were many dead bodies in the fields the Americans traversed. This battlefield, incidentally, was formerly the scene of several of the greatest struggles between the Spaniards and the Filipinos. The Zapote was considered impregnable and hundreds of Spaniards and Filipinos have been killed while fighting over the same bridge in former contests for its possession. In June, 1897, Gens. Pio del Pilar and Trias turned the scale of war on the side of the Filipinos by deserting the Spanish army there on the eve of a decisive battle, carrying native militia with them and thereby breaking the chain of defense around Manila. In the afternoon the whole American force under General Lawton was in action, and heavy fighting took place all along the line. The battle was apparently the most severe one that the American soldiers in the Philippines have been engaged in. Gen. Otis seems to have been oversanguine when he reported that Gen. Lawtou’s gallant capture of Las Pinas and Paranaqua on Saturday had broken the resistance of the insurgents in the province of Cavite. Tuesday’s between the Filipinos and Lawton’s forces in spite of the aid given by warships seeihs to have resulted in the heaviest American loss suffered since the beginning of the outbreak. Gen. Otis’ official dispatch places the loss in killed and wounded at thirty, but an Associated Press dispatch sent later says the American loss is conservatively estimated at sixty.

Telegraphic Brevities.

Scurvy prevails to an alarming extent in Alaska. Said that Japan will try to reclaim Corea from Russia. Session of the Church of God, Decatur, 111., denounced “faith cures.” Trolley car, Pittsburg, Pa., collided with a Wagon. Several.people injured. Julia Crosby and her husband disagreed, Osceola, lowa, She shot him dead. Rev. Mr. Webb, Baptist minister, committed suicide, Cisco, Texas. Insane. Trial of Paul Zeltner, Bowling Green, Ohio, for killing Attorney Westenhaver, began Monday. Isaac Reck and daughter, Mrs. Mary J. Cope, Alliance, Ohio, stepped In. front of an engine. Killed. Albert C. Allenbrand, Dunkirk, N. Y., drank of 100 bottles of pop last week.’ Died in convulsions. Geo. Smith, “Pittsburg Phil,” is reported to have Won $50,000 or $60,000 on his horse, Lothario, at Gravesend. John W. Brown was shot and instantly killed by Gabe Slow, his father-in-law, near Front Royal, Ky., while Brown was endeavoring to kill bls own wife. Slow was acquitted.

GENERAL LUNA KILLED.

by Guard at Againaldo’a Headquarters. Genera! Antonio Luna, one of the bitterest foes of the Americans in the Philippines, has been assassinated by orders ot General Aguinaldo, the Filipino leader. Luna has recently found himself in opposition to his chief’s views, and has not only disobeyed his orders, but at one time stopped Aguinaldo’s peace commissioners while on their way to treat with the Americans. Aguinaldo ordered his death and his orders were carried out by some of his fanatical followers. The assassination of Gen. Luna occurred on June 8, at Kabanatuan, to which place he had gone to confer with Aguinaldo. He had just previously been promoted to the rank of major general by the* Filipino leader. By a preconcerted plgjjJ he was kept waiting at the door of naldo’s headquarters until his patience be-

GENERAL. LUNA.

came exhausted. After demanding an admission several times he attempted to force his way in. He drew his revolver, but before he could use it he was seized by Aguinaldo’s guards and one of them named Ney stabbed him several times, it is said. Gen. Luna’s aid, who was near him, rushed to the general’s rescue, but was seized and disarmed. Luna died a few minutes after being stabbed. It is said that Luna had become so importunate in his demands on Aguinaldo for power and increased authority that the Filipino leader decided that Luna's death was necessary for his personal safety and the Filipino cause. The major general’s commission was merely a bait to throw Luna off his guard and render his assassination a comparatively easy matter. There is open rejoicing among the Filipinos in Manila that Luna is no longer capable of making trouble. He was noted throughout his career for producing discord and mischief wherever he was.

HOW THE WAR FUND WAS SPENT

Little of the $50,000,000 Appropriated by Congress Now Remain*. Little of the $50,000,000 appropriated by Congress before the war with Spain, and made available until July 1, remains in the treasury. Allotments made by the President exceed that sum by $58,216.90. but as the War Department has a little more than $3,000,000 of its allotment on hand no deficiency will be created. Other appropriations were made by Congress for the army and navy during the war, but it was found necessary to also utilize thesso,ooo,ooo. As the war with Spain was primarily a naval struggle, most of the money appropriated in preparation was spent by the navy. Allotments made by the President for the Navy Department amounted to $31,088,589.20, and those for the War Department to $18,949,627.68, a total of $50,058,216.90. The Treasury Department has given out this statement of the allotments made: NAVY DEPARTMENT. Expended for ships, etc 517,739,394.26 Ordnance, powder and shell... 7,912,4)84.20 Equipment of vessel?, pnrehasof coal, etc 1,290,983.47 Establishment of coaling stations and repairs at naval stations 1,038,480.00 Repairing and converting vessels into tnen-of-war 2,230,630.00 Repairs to machinery of vessels 430,813.50 Bureau of supplies and accounts 178,984.15 Bureau of navigation 161,000.00 Marine corps WAR DEPARTMENT. Office of Secretary of War.... $225,000.00 Ordnance material, powder and shell 9,081,494.86 Repairs and extension of fortifications 5,585,000.04 Clothing, transportation, ships, etc 1,989.230.82 Medical supplies, etc 1,520,000.00 Paymaster's department 255,000.00 Chief signal officer 238,900.00 Lighthouse board 75,000.00

OTIS TO HAVE 35,000

President Decides to Give Him More Men than He Asked. Under n plan that has been arranged between President McKinley and the officials of the War Department, the American fighting force in the Philippines will be increased to 35,000 men, all regulars, by the beginning of the dry season. This number is 5,000 greater than estimated by Gen. Otis as necessary to quell the insurrection. The administration, however, has come to the conclusion that it is better to have a few more troops than just enough required for all purposes in the Philippine campaign. After a great deal of consideration of the subject the determination was reached by President McKinley and his advisers that in order to provide Gen. Otis with 30,000 troops it would be necessary to give him a surplus number, so the sick, wounded and those whose terms of enlistment had expired would not reduce the force below the estimate of the commanding general. All these additional troops will be taken from the regular service. Plans which the officials consider satisfactory have been prepared, and will be carried into effect when the proper time arrives. Officers on duty at the War Department said that these plans had been carefully arranged, arid would be success fully executed without detriment to the service. The plan likely to be adopted is to send two-thirds of nearly every infantry regiment and.of some of the cavalry regiments to the Philippines, retaining the remaining third of each regiment for home service and keeping every organization recruited to its full strength. President Schurman of the Philippine commission, denies that there is any friction between him and Gen. Otis. Griffin, Ga., is again under martial law “Regulators*’ attempted to release thetr pals from jail.