Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1900 — Page 6

JASPER COCNTY DEMOCRAT. ’ F. E. BABCOCK. Publisher. RcNSSELAER, - INDIANA.

WEEK’S NEWS RECORD

An epidemic of black cancer rash prevails at West Derby, a suburb of Newport, Vt. About fifty houses have been closed and everything possible is being done to prevent further spread of the plague. M. Danysz of the Pasteurs Institute has found a microbe which will wipe ruts out of existence. He bus tried the effect of his microbe in warehouses, farms and other places, and in 50 per cent of cases the rats completely disappeared. Dr. John W. Hamilton, recently chosen a bishop ofAhe Methodist Episcopal Church, is a vigorous advocate of temperance and ah upholder of the rights of women. He is described by the Boston Globe as “a rather rare combination of devout minister of the gospel and acute man of business.” Since the enactment of Wisconsin's marriage license law ..the .mimber of marriages in Milwaukee has decreased 33 per cent. In 1888 the number of ceremonies performed in that city was 4,206, and in 1889 there were but 2,810 weddings. Milwaukee hud formerly been the “Gretna Green” for couples from Btates adjacent to Wisconsin. At the first performance of Sotisa's band in the American section of the Paris Exposition the enthusiasm of the great audience of Americans that gathered to hear it did not break all bounds until the "Cuke Walk” and other rag-time pieces were played. Then the American colony became delirious. The Frenchmen present couldn’t understand it. The standing of the clubs in the National League is aa follows: W.’L. W. L. Philadelphia 27 15 St. L0ui5....'20 22 Brooklyn ...25 ItiChicago 20 23 Pittsburg ...23 23 New York... 17 23 Boston 19 2i» Cincinnati ...16 25 Following is the standing in the American League: W. L. w j Indianapolis 28 12 Minneapolis. 24 23 Chicago ....26 I'.lKansas City. 23 25 Milwaukee ..2.5 20 Buffalo 16 28 Cleveland ...23 20 Detroit 13 30 The mini volcanoes situated in the vicinity of Laytonville, Cal., have burst into alarming activity. The first intimation the inhabitants had of the phenomenon was when an immense cloud 6f vapor issued from the mouth of the craters, accompanied by a sound like far-away thunder. The disturbance is so violent that great redwood trees are swayed when the mud and vapor shoots high over the rims of the craters and Hows down the hillside like a lava stream into one of the tributaries of the Eel river. The murky craters are filled with a bluish mud of about the consistency of boiling tar, but the mud is icy cold. The roar of the volcanoes can be heard for miles ar. on cl. .—. '

NEWS NUGGETS.

Reciprocity with Portugal lias been announced. Hot weather and storms are causing many deaths in England?" • •- (Jen. Gomez says government of Cuba is cureless and extravagant. Fourteen persons were hurt in a collapse of seats at a Chicago circus. Jewels valued nt S3O,(MX) were stolen from tile cathedral of Campeche, Mexico. The New York elevated railroad will use electric power, beginning next February. Hunter’s troops defeated Boers on their line of communication and reached Hohingspruit. Chicago gypsies who refused to answer census questions were held to Federal grand jury. A train plunged down an embankment in Pennsylvania Wednesday and six men were killed. The coal strike at Spring Valley, 111., has ended after’'msting fifty days, at a cost of $50,000. JU A British rcfier column on its way to Kutnassi was defeated by Ashantis, with heavy casualties. Partial loss of sight will force Edwin Arden to leave the stage and go to Europe to consult a specialist. Chairman Peabody of Gold Democratic national committee said the question of a ticket will be decided after other conventions. French deputy in the chamber protested against exhibition of American locomotives in French railways exhibit at th# exposition. The president of the St. Louis Car men’s Union was fatally stabbed ami the chief of the posse comitatus was shot at Wednesday. The Methodist board in New York received word Wednesday of the murder in China of Edna G. Terry, a missionary nt Tsung-Hmi. Ohio Democrats instructed their delegates to the Kansas City convention to vote for the renomination of W. J. Bryan for President. Albert D. Shaw, national commander of the G. A. It., declares the time is not ripe for the return of captured Confederate battle flags. Li Hung Chang, though forced to nid the empress dowager’s nnti-forelgn plana, informed the exiled reformers that hr sympathized with them. On Wednesday Chinese guns were trained on the American mission and British legation anti United States Minister Conger asked for 2,000 soldiers. Secretary Gage snld be would withdraw funds from national depositories until he has $25,000;(M)0 for bond redemptidin. Bird R. Coler, comptroller of New York, told the graduating class at the University of Illinois that less politics and more honesty and intelligence nre needed in government. Missionary interest* have been urging the -Pfpsident to send expedition* to m cure safety of missions in Chinn. A large body of Dacoits raided an I*. dian town, massacred many natives nn6 later were defeated by the armed police.

EASTERN.

Gen. Otis arrived in Washington Monday morning. Nineteen violent deaths occurred in New York Sunday. , Two men and a woman were rescued from drowning at Atlantic City, N. J. Washington Democrats favor the suggestion of Hill for the vice-presidency. Mayor Van Wyck may l>e forced out of office by the New ..York ice trust prosecution. Senator Platt>ays he will retire from politics upon expiration of his term in 1903. Andover Seminary may be merged with Harvard divinity school owing to lack of attendance. Chairman Johnson said the New York convention's action makes Bryan’s nomination certain. The New York ice trust has decided to reduce the price from 60 to 40 cents a hundred pounds. Mayor Van Wyck of New York admitted on the stand that he owns stock in New York's ice trust. Dr. Paul Gibier, head of the Pasteur institute of New York City, was killed in a runaway at Suffern, N. Y. Over 8,100,000 bushels of wheat was bought and sold.in New York during Friday’s strong upward movement in prices. Connecticut and West Virginia Democratic State conventions have chosen national delegates instructed for W. J. Bryan. William Snyder raced with a New York trolley car on his bicycle and fell from his wheel dead from heart disease, caused by the exertion. New York banks make an unfavorable statement, but stock values show firmness. Chicago banks continue to gain heavily in deposits. By an electric railway collision iu Providence, R. 1., four persons were killed and many dangerously injured, the latter including Lieut. Gov. Charles D. Kimball. . The executive committee on India famine relief met nt New York Friday. Contributions of nearly $60,000 were reported, A second installment of $30,000 was cabled to Bombay after the meeting. Mi's. Janies Small shot and killed Mrs. Lou Ostrander in Baldwinsville, N. Y., as the result of jealousy over Mrs. Small's son. The shooting was premeditated, as it is understood that Mrs. Small had been practicing shooting with a revolver for some weeks.

WESTERN.

lowa University graduated 103 students. Chicago corporations owe $473,916 in unpaid taxes. Three police officers were shot in St. Louis riots Thursday. The Colorado Democrats named a delegation instructed for Bryan. A cyclone blew down many houses and killed one man in Miami, I. T. Windstorms Sunday caused damage iu Illinois, lowa and Michigan. The women’s congress at Milwaukee re-elected Mrs. Lowe president. A Kokomo man who tried to prove eating an unnecessary habit died. A steamer arrived at Seattle Sunday with 150 miners and $400,000 In gold. Boer Envoy Fischer visited Springfield, 111., and laid a wrehth on Lincoln’s tomb. The Denver Post brought suit to compel Associated Press to furnish it with news. A company seeking street railway franchise iu Detroit offers ten rides for 25 cents. Spanish cannon, lent to Kansas City as a Cuban war trophy, was found to tie loaded. A banker at Hastings, Neb., was swindled out of $13,600 by the gold briek deception. The wheat crop in Oklahoma breaks records. The yield will exceed 30,000,000 bushels. One hundred and fifty Klondike™ arrived at Seattle Sunday, bringing $400,000 in gold. John Dunean of Dundee, Scotland, will be head of art department of Chicago Institute. Mrs. Frank E. Moores, wife of the Mayor of Omaha, was killed in a runaway accident. President Warren of the Chicago Board of Trade says bucket-shopping is the bane of society. Thirty-four Chicago young men and young women were married at St. Joseph, Mich., Sunday. Fifteen hundred men were dropped from the pay roll of the McCormick Harvester Company in a bunch. Aug. 22 has been chosen for the date of the Wisconsin State Democratic nominating convention at Milwaukee. Mobs of St. Louis women denuded, beat and smeared with green paint three women patrons of the Transit car line. There was renewed rioting in St. Lobis Thursday. One policeman and one boy were fatally shot. Many other persons were hurt. The town of Virginia, Minn., was destroyed by fire; 2,000 persons are homeleas and the property loss is estimated at $500,000. Nearly n score of suicides have occurred in London within n few days, most of them supposedly the result of losses on the Derby. At Minnewaukan, N. I)., Thursday night, u hard frost formed a quarter of an inch of ice. Much wheat was cut back to the ground. Gov. Stephens of Missouri, In a signed statement, blames Mayor Ziegcnheim for declining to assist in suppressing St. Louis rioters. The members of n Chicago coaching party were scraped from top seats when going under a subway, und five were injured seriously. Four Mexicans murdered Anton Olsen and a man mimed Stewart, newcomers in Arizona, at New Hi ver Station, twlntyfive miles north of Phoenix. Gen. Ofis while in Chicago said organized resistance of Filipino* is at au end, but chaos, absolute anarchy and ruin” would follow American withdrawn!. At a barn raising nenr Stockbridge, Wis.,children iu play beheaded a little girl. Her father saw the deed and let a heavy l>eam fall on eight men, who were killed. . ■ The Reformed Presbyterian synod at

Cedarville. Ohio, passed a resolution prohibiting churches from ordaining elders and presbyteries from licensing ministers who use tobacco. Mayor Ziegenbeim of St. Louis issued a proclamation Monday directing the people to discontinue gathering in crowds on the streets and to refrain from discharging firearms. Building projects in Chicago that are under way or waiting for favorable labor conditions involve expenditure of $lO,000,000 > and architects say a boom in building would follow early end of trouble. Bad hailstorms are reported at Medford. Okla., and at Pond Creek and other towns along the Rock Island. Large areas of wheat were destroyed. An elevator at Pond Creek was blown down and a mill burned. Eighteen couples were married in St. Joseph, Mich., Sunday, eleven from Chicago, and others from Wisconsin. A matrimonial headquarters has been opened, where the county clerk waits with minister and justice. By au explosion of gas in a colliery near Gloucester, Ohio, several men are supposed to have lost their lives. Two hundred miners were imprisoned. Eight men were removed unconscious from the effects of afterdamp. July wheat advanced from 68 to 70 cents in an hour on the Chicago Board of Trade Thursday. Millions of bushels were bought and most dealers say the price will be higher, owing to prospect of short crop in the West. Four dead, one fatally injured, eleven severely hurt, four cars derailed by dynamite and the temporary dismantling of two car lines by wire cutters make up the results of Sunday’s strike rioting at St. Louis. A hundred incipient riots were quelled by the police in various part* of the city.

WASHINGTON.

Philippine war hampers the action of the United States in the Chinese situation. The ways and means committee will meet before the reassembling of Congress to consider a reduction of war taxes. Rumor prevails that Gen. Wheeler may be given the post of commander of the department oT the lakes should Otis refuse the place. The State Department at Washington will take no action in China further than is necessary to protect Americans and their interests there. Commander Logan of the cruiser Machias sends word to the Navy Department that the Colombian rebels defeated the Government forces at Panama. Congress enacted 200 laws, of which four are creative: The financial bill, with provisions for refunding public debt; the formatiou of complete territorial government for Hawaii; the enactment of a complete code of laws for Alaska; the law creating a temporary government for Porto Rico. The two houses compromised by permitting Secretary Long to erect a factory if he cannot buy armor plate at a fair price. „ The American missionary conference at Peking sent a telegram to President McKinley appealing for protection and stating that the missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu and other places were in extreme danger; that the Tung-Chau mission station had been abandoned; that chapels everywhere were being burned, and hundreds of native Christians massacred by the Boxers. Admiral Kempff’s instructions are to protect American interests at all hazards, but not to interfere with Chinese internal affairs. The administration will avoid alliance with Ejiropean powers.

FOREIGN.

Lord Roberts says his reception in Pretoria was more enthusiastic than he expected. a Chinese Boxers are said to unrulier 4,000,000 men and are gaining many followers. A big emigration of British farmer* to South Africa is expected when the war closes. The Boers destroyed twenty-one miles of the railroad connecting Roberts with supplies. A Chinese mob burned the Pekin Club and the British legation's new summer residence. The Chinese general who killed 500 Boxers has been censured officially for his action. Russia will take Immediate military action if the dangerous situation in China continues. The date when the German meat bill will be effective will not be fixed for several months. Dr. Buchheim, professor of German literature in King's College, is dead in London, aged 70. A Filipino guide led forty Americans into au ambush near Taal. They escaped with two wounded. The British Government may utilize the Chinese regiment which has been in training nt Wei-Hai-Wei. Later details show Boers took 1,600 prisoners from Pretoria and made orderly retreat with all their guns. Germany is ready to co-operate with the powers in restoring peace in China, but will act alone if necessary. France takes little interest In the Transvaal war, now that the safety of the Johannesburg mines is assured. The London Mail says American intervention would solve Chinese problem. Russians say the Czar and America are agreed. Roumania ia preparing to make energetic reprisals unless Turkey recalls the measure reimposing a duty on iimports from Roumania. The dowager empress of (*bina has ordered the viceroy* to resist by armed force the passage of British warships up the Yangtze river. • Gen. Buller has occupied n position rendering Boer resistance at Laing’s Nek unlikely. Hi* advance was attended by dash, but casualties, were minor. Reballoting in Italy showed ministerial gains. The Government now hns 291 deputies nnd the opposition 200, of whom more than half are'Socialists and Radicals. The Empress of China hns sent 3,000 jnen to guard the railway to Pekin against "Boxers.” British marines will force a passage from Tien-Tsin to the capital. The overthrow of the dowager empress of China and the establishment of the

empire under a protectorate of the western powers, with Huang Hau governing, As proposed by the prisoner emperor. I There was panic on Berlin bourse Saturday; coal and iron stocks fell 15 to 22 points, having lost from 25 to 82 point* since April 15, because of fear of American competition and general political unrest. President Kruger, interviewed in a railway car, declares that coach now his capital, insists that the republic is not conquered and that Boers will fight as long as 500 are able to bear arms. Transvaal treasure has been hidden where Roberts cannot find it.

IN GENERAL.

Exports to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines continue to increase. The Federation of Women’s Clubs decided not to admit colored delegates. Chicago men are worried as to fate of the Red Cross corps in South Africa. Washington politicians belittle E. C. Benedict’s suggestion of a new party. The national committee of the gold Democratic party will meet on July 25. Chairman Jones expects renomination of Bryan and reaffirmation of 1896 platform. “An officer” says the Philippines rebellion will last five years more at least. The lull in iron and steel affects other business and causes less demand for money. Many Cubans say United States is going ahead too fast iu granting independence! Women of national prominence have started a movement to aid widows and orphans of soldiers. Baccalaureate services were delivered to graduating classes in many colleges through the country Sunday. Western railroad companies and land syndicates urge Boers to leave South Africa and come to this country. Several naval officers believe the United States will send squadron to impress Sultan with advisability of settling claims. Statistics show that the United States is paying $1,600,000 a day for articles that can be produced in our island possessions. Judge Taft’s utterances indicate conciliatory policy toward Filipinos, but native officials, he'says, are treacherous and corrupt. Alexander MacArthur of Welwyn, N. W. T., with his wife and two children, was murdered by a hired man named John Morrison. Ball players of the National League have formed a union, but declare they are out for protection and do not care to fight the magnates. Miss Lillie J. Ray has been appointed a deputy United States marshal for Hawaii. Her father is United States marshal for the new territory. Dun’s Review says that failures for May break all records for that month, but holds that the situation is encouraging and shows firmness Of financial affairs. Thomas B. Reed, told two contending women each was right on point of order, whereupon Mme. President Lowe said ex-Speaker Reed is not parliamentarian of the General Federation of Women’s Chib*. Another call has been made upon national banks f0r.55,000,000 of temporary deposits to retire some of the $25,000,000 of the old 2 per cent bonds recently called in, which have been sent to the Treasury Department for redemption. The troubles of Estes G. Rathbone, former director of Cuban posts, seem to be increasing. The auditor’s department has thrown out $15,000 worth of vouchers, including $8,1500 worth of bills which have been paid twice, most of them at Muncie, Ind. The Fidelity Company has been notified that it will be held respon sible on Rathbone's bond. It. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review oi trade says: “The adjournment of Congress, the progress toward peace in South Africa and the rapid adjustment of prices here to a more natural level all tend tc bring nearer the day of greater activity. But that progress has not been rapid. The impression glows that no extensive changes in business are now probable until after the presidential election. The rise in wheat, attributed to injuries threatening a short movement next fall, affected stocks also somewhat. Exports do not materially change. Failures for the week have been 206 in the United States, against 159 last year, and 19 in Canada, against 10 last year.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cuttle, common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair t* choice, $3.00 to $5.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2,38 cto 40c; oats. No. 2,21 c to 23c; rye, No. 2,54 cto 55c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 10c to 12c; new potatoes, $2.25 to $3.50 per barrel. Indianapolis—-Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,72 cto 74c; corn, No. 2 white, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 2?c. St. Louis- Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 te $5.50; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,73 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, U9c to 41c; oats, No. 2,22 cto 24c; rya, No. 2,50 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cuttie, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2,76 cto 78c; corn, No, 2 mixed, 44c to 46c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 24c to 20c; fye, No. 2,61 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $5.25; sheep, $3.00 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2,74 cto 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 30c to 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; rye. 60c to 62c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, “7c to 79c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 241; rye, No. 2. 58e to 60c; clover seed, new, $5.25 lo $5.35. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 northern, 71c to 74c; corn, No. 3,38 eto 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 1, r.6e to 58c; parley, No. 2,43 cto 45c; perk, mess, $11.50 to $12.00. Buffai*—Cnttle, choice shipping Meers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $5.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to C 7.25. New Yoyk—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, §3.00 to $5.75; sheep, $3.0(1 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 83c to 84c; cprn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oat*, No. 2 white, 26c to 27c; butter, creamery, 15c to Wc; eggs, western, 13c t* 15c. •

WAR’S NEW ASPECT.

KRUGER'S FORCES ARE NOT YET CONQUERED. Eonth African Struggle Haa Entered Upon a Stage Which Perplexe* the British—Roberta Attacks Botha, but Fail* to Whip Him. ..Interest in the Transvaal war has been greatly increased by the surprising turn events have taken since Lord Roberts entered Pretoria, remarks the Chicago News in reviewing the South African situation. The day after that event, which was generally accepted in Europe and in America as heralding the close of the struggle, Lord Roberts’ line of communication was cut at Roodeval and the militia battalion of the Derbyshire regiment guarding the railway was compelled after heavy loss to surrender. This wiping out' of a battalion and the news that Lord Methuen was engaged iu fierce fighting near Heilbrou at once gave a new aspect to the war. It was perceived that the taking of Bloemfontein and Johannesburg and Pretoria were incidents, not crises, to the mobile forces of the Boers, and that in turn they were applying Lord Roberts’ tactics to himself. Whether this rear attack and severing of the line of communication by destruction of the railway for twenty miles will have the result of compelling Lord Roberts to a retrograde movement remains to be seen. The later reports that Bloemfontein had been retaken by the Boers and that Dewet at the head of 13,000 men was marching against Johannesburg lack confirmation. j Gen. Kelly-Kenny has in part retrieved the disaster at Roodeval by defeating the force of burghers who cut the British line of communications, but the fact remains that the war has entered upon a new and perplexing stage to the British. This new phase cannot properly be called guerrilla warfare any more than the movements of the American forces after the British capture of Washington in 1814 could be so called. In each case the fighting forces remained intact —the scene only of the conflict was changed. In the case of the Transvaal it is evident that British occupation of Pretoria and Bloemfontein will be precarious until the main body of the Boers has been met and defeated in battle. That would, probably, not be a difficult thing for the British to accomplish with their enormously superior forces, but the tactics of the Boers are wisely to prevent such a pitched battle. By breaking up into comparatively small but effective detachments and striking swiftly as at Roodeval the Boers may lie able to prolong the war for some months yet. Their success in this direction is likely to inspire them with renewed hope and energy. It is this fact, rather than the actual loss of a battalion of men, that disturbs London and England to-day. Gen. Kelly-Kenny's success and the fact that Gen. Buller has at last pierced the Drakensberg mountains and entered the Orange Free State with the result of making the Boer position at Laing’s Nek untenable, are the relieving features in the situation from the British point of view. Lord Roberts has fought a battle with Gen. Botha, at the end of which, though the British gained considerable ground, the Boers were not beaten. Roberts’ line of communication was partially restored by a victory gained by Gens. Methuen and Kitchener over Gen. Dewet. The Borr camp was captured and the burghers, it is added, were scattered. As matters now stand it looks as if the Boers might maintain the unequal struggle for a long time, and this consideration, in connection with the grave events occurring in China, has brought the English people to a more serious mood than it has known since the earlier and darker days of the war.

DECREASE IN WHEAT ACREAGE.

Government Statistician Reports on Crops Through the Country. The monthly report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture states that as a result of a special investigation relative to the winter wheat acreage, plowed up or cut for forage the department’s estimate of the area remaining under cultivation has been further reduced by 1,670,000 acres, the area abandoned, in addition to that announced May 10, comprising 581,000 acres in Ohio, 79,000 acres in Michigan, 220,000 acres in Indiana, 318,000 acres in Illinois and 448,000 acres in California. This brings the area in winter wheat remaining under cultivation on June 1 down to 27,908,000 acres, a reduction from the area sown in the fall of 5,240,000 acres. Notwithstanding this further reduction of acreage by the elimination of all land entirely abandoned, the condition of winter wheat declined during May (1.2 points, the condition on June 1 being 82.7, against 88.9 on May 1; (17.3 on June 1, 1899; IXI.B nt the corresponding date in 1898, and a ten-ycar average of 80.7. Preliminary reports on the spring wheat acreage indicate n reduction of about 507,000 acres, or 2.9 per cent. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Oregon report a reduction of 4 per cent, North Dakota and Nebraska of 5 per cent and lowa of Oper cent. Ju South Dakota and Washington there is an increase of 1 per cent. The average condition of spring wheat on June 1 was 87.3, ns compared with 91.4 on June 1, 1899. Minnesota falls 10, North Dakota 17. South Dakota 11 and Wisconsin 9 points below their respective ten-ycar averages. On the other hand, the ten-ycar averages are exceeded in Nebraska, lowa. Oregon and Washington by 15, 1, 4 and 9 points, respectively. ’1 he total reported acreage in oats exceeds the acreage harvested last year by 3.9 per cent. There is an increase of 1(1 per cent in Ohio, 28 per cent in Indiana, 9 per cent in New York, 3 per cent in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and 1 per cent in Minnesota. The average condition of oats is 91.7. The warning just sent out by the State Department.against the swindling advertisements relating to pretended estates In England awaiting claimants is only a repetition of similar warnings, And It is not expected that it will put an end to these frauds. The English attorneys who are engaged in this business have apparently as complete an equipment us the regular deniers in green goods. Maurice Finley, 5, Chicago, la dead from falling out of a fourth-story window. Elmer Link fell over a railing to the {pound, eight feet below, and is dead.

NINE AMERICANS KILLED

Weik’s Record in Filipino Campaign —Taft Begin* Work. The results of the Filipino campaign during the past week were nine Americans killed, including a, captain and lieuterant, and twenty-three wounded, including two captains. One captain was captured. The Filipino loss is reported to have been 220 killed, 63 wounded and 140 men and 160 rifles captured. The disturbances were chiefly in Panay and Central Luzon. The capture of the notorious Pio del Pilar by the native police has greatly discouraged the insurgents. The secret service men arrested in Manila a colonel of Filipino volunteers. They also seized a number of documents which showed that the headquarters of the volunteers were within a quarter of a mile of the palace, almost under the noses of ’ the American military authorities. President Taft and the other member* of the Philippine commission spent last week chiefly in securing quarters and arranging their offices. They, however, met a large number of Filipino politicians and commercial leaders. The heavy work of the commission has not yet begun. One of the foremost questions is how and from what material to organize a civil force with which gradually to supersede the army as a governing machine. Spain’s auxiliary, the church, is necessarily barred from consideration. American experience with the natives discourages the hope of honest government through them until a generation or more has eradicated the results of Spain's tutelage. A large proportion of the provincial officials already installed have proven treacherous. Charges against native judges of failing to account for thousands of dollars received in fines are under investigation. At present the governmental alternatives are the army on one side and anarchy on the other. Gen. Otis’ plan of municipal governments is being inaugurated in the principal towns of Central Luzon and in parts of the Visayas, but the Filipinos persist in thinking that the question whether the United States will retain the Philippines is still open. The commissioners also find that the future state of the church in the Philippines is a leading question in the minds of many, although most of those who have talked with Judge Taft and his colleagues draw the inference that the commissioners are opposed to the reinstatement of the friars. Archbishop Chappelle has taken a strong stand in supporting the request of the friars to be reestablished in their old position.

The Political Pot.

Senator Quay that was is a candidate for re-election to the Senate. Nearly every up-State district in New York has instructed for Bryan. Oldham, the Nebraska Democratic erator, is to put Bryan in nomination. Louisiana Democrats have selected McEnery and Foster for the United States Senate. Only one native of Vermont has been President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, the successor of Garfield. Stephen A. Douglas, Democratic candidate for President in 1860, was born in Vermont. It has been determined by the Philadelphia managers of the Republican national convention that no doorkeepers shall be appointed from that city for the reason that “they may be imposed upon by Philadelphians of their acquaintance,” whose demand for admission to the convention without tickets, credentials or badges they would find it difficult to refuse. The long-disputed boundary question between Tennessee and Virginia, which has been going on for ninety years and is ascribed by some persons to the reluctance of some Virginians to continue in Tennessee and by others to the insistence of these Virginians now in Tennessee to be incorporated in Virginia, has reached the United States Supreme Court, and on behalf of Tennessee Attorney General Pickle has filed a brief. The controversy turns on the iuterpretatiou of the survey in 1801.

The statement has been frequently made among politicians that nine-tenths of the numlMT of those who apply for appointment in the classified civil service fail to secure places nnd that the actual number of appointments is about 10 per cent of the number. The report of the commissioners of civil service, the municipal board, corroborates this view, for last year in New York there were 16,137 applications for appointment under which examinations were held and 1,709 appointments, including promotions. A majority of the Southern States adopted constitutions under the terms of which civil administration was re-estab-lished between the years 1867 and 1870, but unlike what has come to be the custom iu most Northern States, thes' constitutions have not from time to, time been amended by popular vote, but remain intact without revision, as they were thirty years ago. In three State::,. South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, new constitutions have been adopted—in the Inst Stnte by the legislator* without any formal ratification by the voters. As the present constitutional provisions are, ninny of them, frnpructica* ble of enforcement or no longer suitable, a general overhauling of State constitutions is now going on in the South, iu which, recently, Virginia and North Carolina have joined. ~ The Republican national convention in Philadelphia will have an unusually large numlH'r of United States Senators as del-cgafes-at-large. Nearly every Republican Senator will be* a delegate-at-large from his home State, and among the Democrats, too, a like preference for Senators is' being shown. Senator Morgan of Alabama will be chairman of his State’s delegation, .Tout's that of Arkansas, Tillman that of South Carolina, and so on.

The State of New York has expended In ths last twenty years $953,520 for In▼aatlgating committees of various kinds.