Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — Page 2

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SUMMARY OF NEWS.

k Fire started’ at Congress street and Broadway, Saratoga, N. Y., and spread • rapidly. The fire originated in Charles Leggett's bicycle store and was caused by an explosion of naphtha. The loss is estimated at f 150,000. . v At Pratt, Kan., grasshoppers are reported to be numerous enough to ruin corn fields and all vegetation. On a single stalk of corn is a quart of hoppers. Plover are arriving in great flocks, but hunters are scouring the country for game. Five hundred and fifty passengers and 13,000,000 in gold dust arrived at Vancouver by the steamer Garonne from St. Michael. The steamer Portland has ar rived at Ban Francisco with about sl,000,000 in gold and 150 passengers from the same place. The loss of'twelve members of the Steamer Elk expedition to Kotzebue sound is reported from St. Michael by the Steamer Roanoke. Twelve men perished at various points along the trail between the Selawick and Koyukuk rivers. Scurvy fell first upon them, then starvation and frost. After having eluded the authorities of Middlesex County, N. J., for four years on a charge of murder, William Darling was captured in Thompson township, Pa. He had been known as Ralph E. J. Dalton. He was married June 5 to a Miss Gordon. Darling is accused of killing Henry Dunham. The fight for supremacy and office in the supreme tent, Knights of the Maccabees, ut Port Huron, Mich.,*is over. Maj. Boynton withdrew his candidacy for reelection as supreme record keeper, and George J. Siegel of Buffalo, N. Y., was elected to that office. D. P. Markey was re-elected supreme commander. Maj. Boynton will hereafter be chairman of the committee on appeals on the board of trustees, with the title of past commander. This, it is believed, will give “Father Boynton” as much power in the management of the affairs of the organization as before. The standing of the clubs in the National League race is as follows: W. L. W. L. Brooklyn ...54 25Cincinnati ...38 38 Philadelphia. 48 28Pittsburg ... ,3G 41 Boston 49 29New Y0rk...34 43 Chicago 44 31 Louisville ...31 45 •St. L0ui5....45 33Washington. 28 52 Baltimore .. .43 33Cleveland ...14 (W Following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Minneapolis. 43 31 St. Pau1.....3(1 37 Indianapolis. 41 30Kansas City.. 34 41 Detroit 39 35 Milwaukee ~33 41 Gml Rapids. 37 35Buffalo 30 43 i Charles Keef, an aeronaut, was killed in the presence of several hundred persons who had assembled to witness a balloon ascension at Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland. The balloon and parachute .were attached to a guy roi>e, which in turn was attached to a stake. The ascension of the balloon was very sudden, jerking the rope in such a manner as to pull the stake from the ground. This struck the parachute bnr, breaking it off. Keef frantically clung to the cordage of the balloon. When 150 feet from the ground he was compelled to let go and fell. He landed squarely on his feet, sustaining broken legs and internal injuries. He died soon after reaching the hospital.

BREVITIES.

Upper-leather manufacturers have formed a combine with $70,000,000 capital. ? Minneapolis' new directory contains ©7,800 names, on which the city claims 220,000 population. f Ephraim McKinley, an uncle of the of the United States, died at Ogden, 111., at the age of 85. , ■’ A fire whose origin is unknown destroyed property valued at $250,000 on the water front at Brooklyn, N. Y. I Horatio Alger, the writer of boys’ Stories, died at the home of his sister, Irs. Amos Cheney, at Natick, Mass. , The casting plant of the Addyston Pipe and Steel Foundry at Cincinnati was gutted by fire, causing a loss of $400,000. * Great Britain is assembling a large fleet oi warships at St. John's to settle tfce French-Newfoundland fisheries troubles. *• Employes of the Metropolitan electric street railway system in New York have 'joined the, Brooklyn trolley men iu their jblg strike. ‘ Sheriff Orow of Philadelphia has received a letter from a man at Augusta, ‘Kan., who claims to be the long-lost Charley Hoss. if Secretary of War Russell A. Alger of Michigan has tendered his resignation. It la to take effect at the pleasure of President McKinley. The date has bwu set, however, for Aug. 1. At Salt Lake City, through his attorheys, Angus M. Cannon, president of the . Salt Lake Stake of Zion, has entered a formal plea to the charge of polygamy. Another battle is reported in Samoa, ’■ In ybich one Malietoan chief was mortally wounded and two Mataafa chiefs and | one Suatele were killed and three others I In the burning of the Grace Hotel, a • four-story brick structure at Milwaukee, the roof caved in and twenty firemen fell to the basement, one being killed and several fatally injured. 1 Fire in the St. Rocha suburb of Quebec destroyed sixty-five house's, the loss amounting to $190,000. Three blocks Were burned. Over a hundred families ’ were rendered homeless. K One man was killed, one fatally injured and several others badly hurt by the wrecking of the south-bound flyer ou the 'lllinois Central at Lenzberg, 111. At San Francisco, two masked men atktempted to hold up David Lavani iu his /grocery and saloon. He resisted and was Ktaartally wounded. The highwaymen escapefl. , ! !* Secretary Hitchcock has telegraphed into Captain Mercer, in charge of the Leech Lake Indian agency, susjpending until Aug. 22 the removal of the ,‘®n the agency lands.

EASTERN.

At Waverly, X Daniel Caaterline and Verne Dildtoo were tan isM to tta Ohraumg ri vevtoy the eapteitag of a boat. Samuel Kenney, Sr., father of United States Senator Kenney, died suddenly oC paralysis at his farm near Laurel, DeL, aged 65 years. A consolidation of the wrought steel and iron tube and pipe industry of the United States,-with a capital stock of $80,000,000, was completed at New York. The grand jury tor Berkshire County, Massachusetts, returned fifteen indictments charging forgery against G. Albert Learned, formerly acting auditor of Pittsfield. Annie and Mary Kinney, aged 17 and 12 years respectively, and their cousin Elia, aged 15, were drowned while bathing in the Housatonic river at Lower Derby, Conn. At a meeting of nearly all the large wholesale confectioners of the United States held at Frontenac, N. Y„ it was practically decided that a combination could not be effected. Edwin J. Brogan of Fulton township, Pa., 43 years old, with a wife and three children, has surrendered himself to the district attorney on- the charge of murdering Marion Wiley. William F. Draper, ambassador to Italy, at a picnic given by t&e Milford, Mass., Board of Trade, said that Italy and the United States were negotiating a naturalization treaty. It is reported that the American Steel and Wire Company has purchased the iron mines and mining property of Witherbee, Sherman & Co., at Port Henry, N. Y. The price is said to have been sl,500,000. A scheme to establish a negro colony at Oak Grove, near Flemington, N. J., is assuming form. Maps have been prepared on a large scale by competent engineers providing for every need of a thoroughly up-to-date town. Eight men, formerly employed in the freight department of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, are under arrest at Philadelphia, charged with having stolen thousands of dollars’ worth of goods from the company's ears. The No. 12 coal breaker at Plymouth, Pa., owned by Haddock & Shonk, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $90,000. It is supposed it was struck by lightning. About 450 men and boys are thrown out of employment until the breaker is rebuilt. A large proportion of the 7,000 men employed on the lines of the Brooklyn. N. Y., Rapid Transit Company have gone out on strike. Scenes of lawlessness and riot attended the opening of the strike, and several persons were injured by thrown missiles. The Brooklyn navy yard dry dock No. 2, for which $300,000 was appropriated by the last Congress for repairs, was so seriously damaged during the late storm that it probably cannot be used again for nearly two years. The bottom of the dock bulged for a distance of over fifty feet. Fire at the Brooklyn navy yard threatened much valuable property in the building occupied by the provision and clothing department of the bureau of supplies and accounts. The fire was discovered on the third floor, in which white duck cloth was kept and cut up for the men in the navy.

WESTERN.

The town of Wagner, I. T., was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Loss SIOO,OOO. Judge Johnson at Milwaukee has signed the order accepting the resignation of William Plankinton as assignee of the Plankinton Bank. The 500 dock laborers at Conneaut harbor, Ohio, who were out on a strike all returned to work, the dock company acceding to every demand of the strikers. George W. Holladay was shot and probably fatally wounded by his wife, Annie,' at their home at St. Louis. Mrs. Holladay declares that she acted in selfdefense. Andrew Carnegie has offered East Liverpool, Ohio, the sum of $50,000 to erect a memorial library bearing his name, provided the town council would furnish a ■ site. The offer was accepted. The Iron Molders’ Union of North America at Indianaimlis took steps to provide for assisting apprentices in foundries to attend technical schools where they may learn the iron molding trade. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger’s Kansas City packing plant was closed by the local management rather than grant a second advance in wages to its 200 butchers and their helpers. One thousand men are out of work. . Frank Cody, Sam Towns and George Suu th were arrested in Evansville, Ind., charged with counterfeiting. They admitted making dimes, quarters and dollars gnd said tfcey threw their molds into Pigeon creek. The body of Captain Browb of the Wrecked steamer Olwell was found by the tug Daisy near where the body of his son had been found earlier. The corpse, which was badly decomposed, was taken to Lorain, Ohio. Leseuer, Minn., was startled by the suicide of M. M. Segelbaum. He shot himself, dying instantly. Worry over business matters is supposed to be the cause, and there is no doubt that the act was premeditated for several days. The Indianapolis News was sold at receiver’s sale for $936,000 to l>elavan Smith of Chicago and Charles R. Williams, who held the controlling interest before Maj. W. J. Richards, the other partner, threw the paper into a receiver’s hands. David Coop and George Black, boys 16 years of age, were arrested at Lawrence, Kan., on a charge of having set fire to,a barn, and have made confessions that they have started .eight fires in various parts of the town within the past two years. Vi L. M. Crawford, manager of the Crawford Opera House, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court at Topeka, Kan. ' His unsecured liabilities amount to $388,730. and those secured to $59,450 more, making a total of $448,180. The combination of wholesale grocers of Illinois, lowa and Missouri, for the purpose of purchasing goods in large quantities, took definite form when the Westen Brokerage Company was incorporated at Deo Moines, With a capital stock of $490,000. The Board of Regents of the Uaiver. Hty of Nebraska has accepted the resignation ofjOhayeßorMcLeay and appointed A committee of regent* was appointed to

punree « fir a ft ranmv 11© CwUnrrHnT SKcKmbkl. - Ttaac trsiw ««* AIM oote ta* ota I «re woto ototohriy tojnreff W taOrwrite tag of a freight tzwta «■ Ar Afton road soar ffDooteta, Mn. TB* wreckage ctmstotefl off ten <nw tastes off merchandise, bug* ante Uta aaaun left the trar* «■ ato*9 varan. The conductors wad usMtanuHn off nta Big Consolidated Rtasrt BaßtataF wssas at Cleveland, wta were «a a terita bag month, taree gra>e mt agate, RfeMttan*dred men are afcdteA They «fltem ffbe company has not lived ■* to tee agree■nrriif maAa uiiHstirfli -ran Ara* tfAna* ft mi II Sill UMTUI lunuc vv liivlJ tuiunu tawir tutaxiru strike. Tta farmers of tee Arkansas waßey are unable to harvest tbSMSok off annas* «ff wheat because off rains siMrib fianre flnads ed the rasnitiy. Geaga V. Wtatem. te Topeka, say* weeds taw ggama «*» teat* in the fields that tee Samaras wU be umable to harvest the ®rato. The oamffifiaa prorata for 100 miles afavg tee finlaa Bits river. Wit* a shack the teat off m tmteansflir and a report that was taaal ter tas writes a premature explosion tote gfiane to ter quarry of tee Artesian stem wad liter works in Chicago, white 'was Itetewte B® - a shower of stone, injuring * -tmnre <sg persons. breaking hun&refls off vtotora ami creating a panic among tee atetteftsams «ff that district. Mrs. Marion Moore, residing waff off Brazil, Ind., met a tragic 'fiexte to attempting to save her -sun Item 'tarmn. While her son Edward was mwuiing in a field near the house tas tansies nam away. Mrs. Moore ran out to cstkdh tta horses, when she was knockad mi torr nta machine, which crushed and cnlttaar taflK, causing almost instant death. At Fort Smith, Ark., ten tta -striking miners were convicted «ff ®ntmuug ton® a conspiracy for the purpose off mnimifitcing and terrorizing the mqantefl Snap* miners in the employ tof tee Kansas mn& Texas Coal Company., in viatotinn nta injunction issued by Fetonafl Auflge Bogers, restraining the -strikers team iixfterfering with the aaQfiqyies. The Alaska flyer Huntterilffi treaitheo Seattle with 150 Klnndihere amfl $500,900 in dust. The ofirtadt mum ® board was C. A. Voskelhu* «g Chicago. He shipped $183,000 igr tee ntaer tafcre leaving Dawson, and livings tee taihinetof a $200,000 output with tarn. He- has been in the Klondike for teree ymurs. und got all of his gold Troon one Bimnuza Creek claim. Pickands, Mother A tee Ctawihmfl iron men, ha ve discovered a taupe 'iff high-grade iron ore in tee jjritailiir nwqperty, two miles southeast of dtamfiMuqih. Mich. The was discovered wiiih a diamond drill at a depth -rs otaiut 2WO* feet. The deposit is sixty Seat wra&e. .iilll clean ore, running <5 per cent. Bu nmtttfilic iron it is a non-liessemer, tan -off a very desirable grade. Frank Ray, with his sweetheart, Orlfeerine Wimsey, and Clifford umd Aomes Shannon, started on an excureiaa ujp nta Ohio nivfsr from j& 3i smyiirtai launch. The launch had a small dtat-tatt-tom, known as a “John boat,” ita ttiw.. Roy playfully jumped into this taist, sand all the others, against his protest. Hollowed. The boat filled and -sank All hut Ray were drowned. According to a Lincoln. 3WK, tffifgmtdh. suit to secure title to Chicago comprising nearly M 0 acres mid wjilueß roughly at $250,000,*000, as atom to ta wstituted in the land department at Matta ingtou and later in tee courts -of W. B. Price, a Lincoln lawyer uiiganuiiating tee thirty or forty heirs es JJuixmiite Smith, will begin tee action under * gooemption patent said to have been gnsuZefl to Smith in 1834.

According to a letter received ly Otoff of Police Bite op off Springfieia. Jta, Robert M. E. -Cooper to Aeir tto SMRRBfi in Cripple Creek mining jiroperty ante Texas real estate, left ig- Captain Cragn, a frontiersman, wffio died recently to Cripple Creek. Cooper formerly efltal a paper in Springfield and was at one ttone prominent in Mtosonri politics. Be tacame penniless and has Snr years 'lirert to St. Louis. Yeans age to Texas saved Crego's life.

SOUTHERN

W. S. Taylor was nominated Jar Ctarernor by acclamation by the JlepuiilicKn State convention at Lexington. Ky.. Si Smith, who killed William Bdfl sff Atlanta several months ago, was -what *o death in the jail at Gainesville, Ga. William Preston Jkihnsun, 3tar OHeans, died at Lexington. Va. CHL Johnaon was president us Tulane Ctarersity in New Orleans. . s Representative Hawley off Texas tan arranged with the Agricultural Dugonttpartment foj the distribution iff st'efl tto the flood sufferers In the Brazos valhy. Two lynchings took place m Ttexas im one day. recently. Abe Brown, a nqgan, who murdered a Bohemian woman, utes shot to death near Gilead, -and as sotknown negro was hanged near Hula Mr murdering Lemuel Sharp, a buy. A 12-year-old daughter off ILkavid Criswell, a farmer at Leon, Kj, died, amd all the members at the family were ptar- 1 ed ia a dangerous condition from jinimm put into the bread. < A meeting of the Hayes and Fridfcs families, between whom a Send *Tta* took place at New Boston. Texas, mi one man was shot dead on the ami two others fatally and three suEiuns®wounded. Maj. John Caihoira Courtney, jiresiliratt of the Virginia Society <of Atlanta, wnerctary th* Capital City Club and manager of the Western Union Company, died at his home in Atlanta, att the age of 65.

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Long has rwewed a ikester from Osborn F. Deignan declining nfce appointment to the naval academy to him in accordance with an act Cu»greas. E. D. Holmes, assistant statistician off the Federal Department of Agrioutane. w going to Texas to stady the -damage >ttaue to crops and soils and wgrort Ar «maßt ion of the farmers in the flooded rcgma. ASKiHiaui * ompiniiM’i lias ‘O? ■ tided that tbe*f sff w*s *waita| discharge aa mat s-utS to receive the extra or any puuS'l thereof provided d*y fbc art «f HskA 3J The Federal tlneismteMl • Sm ' urea curi* honn* for nervine ia that the Texas tarees, «r mustawpsrita.

h* Ar tanov of the 'reciprocity treaty, touBOK SOI htarritar eoe of them inadver- ’ ttoOßp tafiooMte that eeffee would experi»wr a mtwriaf reterrinn, if not obtain : ® ever IBramlian coffee. data* tentaa Minister Boehanaa re- ' panto to tor Bate Dapontment at Wash'totere toot tore* was considerable in- : aeuor to tor bate of toe United States wriiflh tdte Awjgywtmpk Ifapygblfr* during the | this yeftr. imports ! fflnon tee United Bates increased SL6I6»- ; CTi wtate Ar exports ftena Argentina to ! tee United Bates bHaeesed

FOREIGN.

Tte Btwram diet elections resulted in a veto vtattay of the Centrists, which is aitetolted to to due to the aid of the soetaMs. . ■- Wi " ■ A offigk eratibpakr enoseA the ctetavse «f • gafltajy m th* * changes nsmm. sear Westphalia, entombhgtotyates, Jb>ten in ortr rerngagiii as the equal off otoer pstn, the new treaties with most eff torpteoripaf nations of the world ta«goa. aw Bate aRheA Th* 9baaute cabinet has accepted the •rffer off to* Qoees Regent to assist the taoases off A* cnanOrj by giving up anatoer XtoMtofii pesetas from the civil Uta. Fanir bombs were exploded in different panto off Bwniftiiia one morning recently. Xf wnmns dtemage was done, but the exeitemanir was intense. The author of the ouaraggs nt taxhsouns. Ftaeigm WTiwster- von Bulow of Ger■aaK, wta was fcnighted recently by Emgeewr WWimm has been given the Order off to* Gtaaoß Ctare off Charles V. by the <She«n Bepnrt off Speta ns eatogFßsv Chiuagw enpftffiifists are interested in the Ftoted Aowaiaam Gta* Company, white was aiignniiaii at New Jersey with a eapittaitatam ass fiSSdtoMWO 1 . fc is anoMssnd that the Westinghouse Etattear am£ Mawmftaturing Company of Flhtatanx will buifii works at Manchester, Exgtanfl. wnfi employ men. Tta ua geyser which recently broke •nni taSin* tta Fountain Hotel in Yellowffime NtafanaE Ffcrfc has been named m honor of the hero of Manila Bo£. Stanettwy Hay has decided that Mrs. ■ta*. wta escaped into Texas, shall be siwnontoMeJ to to* Mexican authorities to ta tmtaf fiir the murder of her husband ite to* City off Mexico. Tta sutaoner Genoa! Sigi in, from •CooSTs Inlet.. Alaska, brings news of the toiwniinr off seven men at Turn again Anna. They were erottang the arm in a ■snuill teotu white, was overturned by a tiigr niifidl warn*. Tta Brw_ De. T. DeWitt Talmage w in dm*. A tew toys ago a tort* bearing ata- dgnntsnes off the executive officers of ata bqg taup trust was sent to his wife, ■tr was tea- ABW99-, and represented her stac* in to* aal* off to* cattm tie and dumfl nulls off Uhdtay A McCutcheon. Itare is a uensitarahle element at Havant eufirawmihg to sow dissensions -nnung nta Ciliums- anti to array them aytenta tta Ammtaans. Recently 2,000 itatfiffis were ihamd m. to* city of Matan2ft- ta tta fiutm off an address to the peopfle, by “Bitsmreurt." It charges tta Anuatatas with, deception and calls mi tta Ctoons to tovtotot* the island unniil ttaiir ffiaff ta recognised. Bh reporting tta latest develsgmunts. ta «rop> predtection, says: “New tentswe* ta to* genera! trade situation ttas week an* off an almost entirely unSnvunteta etaracten. Late unfavorable Mpuirti. fitrimi Rmtsin point to a still mac* pomnumted ifiminnttan off crop yields in uthat eoununy this year. The official Ftanto erepi estimates have also been wfitenfißfi am£ tta outlook seems to tannr tta probability that Europe will tay mearihr as mute, wtaat in America as tit Aid iis tta test fitwaff year.”" Haste wood lumber has advanced during tta pusc yooir at an exi-eetlingiy rapid name, asaff tta price w now higher than «wht tabs* to to* history off to* trade to MtaDnipoita Tta high prices are due to tta sttiinttunr to tta supply of northern gjMW® ftmtsß wwtfl and tta rapidly inereasitog dtennmdL Tta Wiscensi n hard wood ffireste an* gruihuiJly being exhausted, am* dr to assernte ra good authority that ita fcuall mute will to a few years have i&tptiuiil aUnust wholly upon the eam tenwrt® ter a supply. Bares now are Swim $* a* fa higher ttam last year. Eveny- wamtoF «ff haste wood has'been aftevwd and aH have gon* nr above th*

MARKET REPORTS.

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TRUTH KEPT SECRET.

GEN. OTIS IS ACCUSED OF HID» ING FACTS Newspaper Mea at Manila File a Formal Protest Against Distortion of Their Press Telegrams-Dlspatch Via Hong Kong Startle* Washington Washington special: The protest received at Washington by cable via Hong Kong, froni newspaper correspondents in Manila against the censorship established by Gen. Otis has caused a profound sensation in Government Circles. The protest sets forth that news has been suppressed and that the newspaper men have been compelled “to participate to misrepresentation’\by the action df the censor in “excising or altering uncontroverted statements of fact.’.’ The protest is signed by John P. Dunning, Robert M. Collins and L. Jones of the Associated Press; E. 8. Keene of the Scripps-Mcßae Association, Oscar K. Davis and P. G. McDonnell of the New York Sun, John F. Bass and Will Dinwiddie of the New York Herald, John T. McCutcheon and Harry Armstrong of the Chicago Record, and Richard H. Little of the Chicago Tribune. That the telegraphic reports of Gen. Otis were censored at the War Department was well known, but the impression has been that newspaper correspondents were permitted to send* about what they wanted to, provided they avoided mentioning future military movements. The disclosures of the extent to which Gen. Otis Jias deprived the country of proper information have confirmed a quiet belief that the general in command was afraid to have the truth known, and it is believed his official dispatches have been distorted to conceal his mistakes in th* belief that the censorship would prevent the press correspondents from sending the facts. It has been a general maxim among army men that newspaper correspondents are privileged to give actual results of battles in their own language, the censorship being restricted to the prevention of the news of future military movements from reaching the enemy. Otia i ha pcs the New* Gen. Otis has apparently proceeded far beyond this, and has assumed to dictate what shall be sent and how the story shall be told. It seems to be well understood about the department that Gen. Otis has made a serious blunder in attempting to deceive the people of the United States as to the situation in the Philippines, for now even his truthful reports will not be believed, and the people wiH naturally think the conditions on the island much worse than they really are.

It has been painfully felt at the W’ar Department that Gen. Otis made a mistake in not getting out to the firing line now and then, but as the insurgents were north, south and east of Manila it was supposed that he felt he could best direct operations from the city. The failure of one strategical movement after another was plainly evident, and yet the general continued to send in the most optimistic reports. Tta result of the formal protest by the correspondents has been to east suspicion on the official reports of Gen. Otis as to the situation, and it is admitted that now the only course will be for the President to interfere and modify the censorship at Manila, so that the correspondents may be permitted to describe the situation as it is, which will be a salutary check on toe commanding general. It would not be at all surprising if the explosion should result in the recall of Gen. Otis before the rainy season ends. It is recognized that his usefulness will be destroyed as soon as the people learn that he has systematically deceived them as to the situation in Luzon. Army men say the published protest will do a vast amount* of harm, and they thipk the correspondents should have cabled the President direct, and thus have avoided scandal.

Ignore Round Robin. At the regular semi-weekly cabinet meeting Tuesdaf an extraordinary problem of the Philippine war presented itself. The newspaper correspondents’ “round robin” was by far the most perplexing question the President and his cabinet had met in many days. The cabinet was divided as to the manner of dealing with it. The members condemned ft tn a man in private conversation. Two members expressed opinions in favot of deporting the correspondents. But in all these expressions there was a sober admission that public opinion as to the rights and limitations of the press in war have greatly changed since Gen. “Tecumseh” Sherman disciplined Whitelaw Reid and Gen. Jeff C. Davis sent the 'late “Joe” McCullagh out of camp in a raging snowstorm one night. It was stated at the War Department Tuesday that no attention whatever would be paid to the “round robin” of the Manila correspondents. The protest was not sent to Gen. Otis, and it is said will net be, and Gen. Otis will not be called upon for an explanation. In addition to this it was intimated that very encouraging news had been received from the Philippines,

ACCUSES SECRETARY GAGE.

Worthington C. Ford of Boston Tells Tales Out of hohool. Secretary Lyman J. Gage ia accused of misstatements by Worthington 0. Ford •f Boston, former chief of the bureau of statistics. Mr. Ford* declares that he was requested to resign his office in the bureau of statistics without any excuse being assigned, but that the position was desired for another man... Ford says that his place was taken by O. P. Austin, a Washington journalist, who was not required to pass any examination. Austin has been given, Mr. Ford declares, five “emergency” appoint•ments, thus keeping him in office ever since.

OUTLAWS KILL A SHERIFF.

W*uu fearchins for Train Robber* Fall* Into Ambush. Sheriff E. J. Fan and a posse of fire men searching for the outlaws who held up a taain at Feteom same upon them unexpectedly pear Cimarron, N. M., Sunday and a desperate battie ensued. Sheriff FWrr, was billed, two e*f his posse, Deputies Love and Smith of Springer, N. M., were seriously wounded, and the others, isudndmg W. H-Renb, chief of the secret service department of the Colorado and Southern Railway, were badly wounded.

SIX MORE KILLED IN A FEUD.

1 White-Baker Trouble the Direct Cause of Another Tragedy. I As a result of the White-Baker feud, six more victims have been found dead in the mountains near London, Ky. All

TOM BAKER.

cently and was shot while giving a bond. A general fusillade followed, in which five men were killed, and the sixth, Richjtrd Loven, was found three miles from town with his head severed from hi* body. Deputies are being hurried from all over the State into Clay County and ‘more shooting is expected. The dead on the White side are Hugh Griffin, James Griffin and Edward Fisher. The Baker allies dead ate Robert Philpot, Aaron Morris and Richard Loven. Besides the dead several members of both faction* are seriously wounded. The Baker-Howard feud began in De-

cember, 1897, over the purchase by Tom Baker of a judgment for S4O that had been handed down against A. B. Howard. Baker had some of Howard’s good* seized, and thus originated a bad feeling which developed into quarrels. From quarrels it went to fist fights,

then clubs, then revolvenfand rifles and knives. . Tom Baker is the eleventh man to lose his life in the feud and the end is not yet. It is said there are not twelve men in Clay County who are not person* ally interested in the feud to the extent of doing desperate deeds if the occasion seemed to demand it. If the trouble ia not soon straightened out it looks as if Clay County would, before long, be the

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scene of a small but bloody war. Judge Onear of Mount Sterling says troops will have to be withdrawn, and that the only way will be to let the Howards and Bakers fight it out among themselves.

MOVE TOWARD PEACE.

Agninaldo and Some of Hi* Leader* Mak* Overtures. A Washington special on Tuesday say*: Important cablegrams have been received at the State Department from the Philippine commission and at the War Department from Gen. Otis concerning a new move in the direction of peace. These dispatches have been in the hand* of the President for several days, but he has declined to Inake them public because the ultra optimistic views heretofore received from the same source have not been borne out by subsequent events. The latest dispatches, however, are more encouraging than the previous ones, but the President wishes to have some positive results before making them public. All that can be learned- definitely about them is that direct overtures for peace have been made to Gen. Otis by Aguinaldo and some of his principal leaders. It was said by .a cabinet official that if the promises are fulfilled the volunteers now being enlisted will not be needed.

The Comic Side OF The News

Oom Paul will doubtless feel a little sheepish when he lies down with the lion. It is understood that rain only made Gen. Funston’s swims the more agreeable. When the war is over, Aguinaldo should form a baseball team. It’s the runs that count. They say the electrical show is the most shocking thing on the boards in New York. New York’s last horse show was a failure. That dty should now hold a horsey less show. ■ Soldiers in the Philippines are* to wear tan shoes. Corbin desires to match their complexions. Why should any one want to cause Congressman Roberts trouble? He has three wives. The Boston Globe asks hots It would feel to be run over by an automobile. Probably it would produce that rubber tired feeling. Thirty people at Detroit were poisoned by ice cream. This is enough to make one shiver with horror. The Pittsburg Telegraph calls Aguinaldo a dictator. He is certainly a great chap for running things. The sublime porte distrusts the peace conference. Things may be coming His Convalescence’s way, but it looks Armenia. . 7■ Of course, there will be people mean enough to call attention to tie fact that

are allies of th* two factions, and the direct, cause of the present is assigned to tte fact that the Griffin* took the side of the Whites, and that the Philpots, the strongest faction in the mountains, numbering 750 votes, sided with the Bakers. “Bob’j Philpot was ed one morning re-

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