Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 April 1899 — Page 2

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S. Armour, head of UM KMMM it) (Mo.) packing hMM of rmour A t o., and brother of 1'. I. Vriuour. of tUnngm. died ut his Imme I Kansas City of pneumonia M laO Itth. The April report of the Oram; .Indd Kami, r makes the general winter wheat average It.l, ssssjpnrod with "9 last Tear. It is the lowest average since tin- beginning of ÜM bureau's service in 1-94.

NEWS IS BRIEF. Oompiled fr. tu Vxrioiu Source. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Senor Apinv. the M -icnr aintMisaedor, iitfl tin- rtate department, M

the SSth. in company

cloy. swTiiarv f tin- euihassv. and 1.1 his resivects to Stvn tarv day . V

i - pleasant Interchange of rhrwe

had.

A dispatch from Manila, on die "9th, assorted tin- fall of Bocere b. f .re Um

advance of our invincible nm. It added that the inanrgent capital been removed to Sau F- rnaiulo. army wan Onlj tight miles fr..m loio.

W.1S had rhi lie

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s'ate Hike 'iter-

Thomas H. WIffm, son Senator Joseph s. Wigg C)lllltv. lad.. the

ally cut to pieces W esley Hort, a young man who entered Wipes' seliool room With pistol and lold him one of th. in must die. Admiral Dewey has cabled to the department for more men and more ships. This is believed t. mean simply a determination to put into el CUtlOU a plan to more thoroughly patrol the island and prevent filibustering expeditions from landing.

On the nth the president appointed Col Kdwin V. Sumner, of the Seventh cavalry, to be brigadier in the regular army. On. Sumner will imne diately retire, and Col. Thotnai ML Yadereon, f the Fourteenth infan'ry. vill probably be appointed to the vacancy. Cant. Hiram If. Chittenden, oortis at

B - engineers, has hern placed in charge of the improv . in. -ut of the Yellowstone natioi-.il park, which includes 'he son struct ion, repair and maintenance of bridge and rods. He nets ander the direction of the chief of engineera, retaining his station in St. Louth The cruiser Chicago, which left Hampton Koads.on t lie 1 :th.witli orders

to overtake the American hn-r 1 ans and transfer from that ship ex-Secretary of State .lohn Sherman, who hid been taken seriously ill, knifed at Old Point. n.. on the 39th, with ihc distinguished invalid on loard. The bearleat fighting wad ssoat inpnr'ant advance by our tVUOps that have taken place outside of Manila, ccurred on the Mi and 'J7th. when the combined forces of Gen. Wheat on and Cen. MacArthur fought their way to s point bsJOUd New rani van. nine miles from Manila and only 1. miles fr-mi Malolos, the insurgent headquarter Mr. Minnie A. Hawkins, of l'eoria, HI., was arrested, on the '.'Mi. nnd hound over to the United State grand jury, accused of forging her dead husband's name to pension checks, snd saenvfaa aaaawi thereon. This -lie did

for five years, even after che had married again. She obtained gJOO in this v ay. The crews of the American Beet, s.hore on leave, at Dngatoa, .lamai ;. on the J7th. starte rioting naaong themselves, over an old feud about the flagship New York's absence from the fighting at the battle of gaBttsfO tie tuba. The trouble 'listed over two hours, and several men were slightly svonndcrt. und one or two . rimisly. m " ' K. Hates Sofier, who was hinged t HarriHonville. Mo., on the Oth, smi allowed to go upon the scaffold and test It. He tried the trap. Ukd offered s ingestion to the slu-ri fT. Be sain: "lean hardly wait for the time of the execution to come. The suspense t f waiting is worse than the execution can possibly be."

Although a forced const ruction of the legislation of the List eOaVgrCSS wouid aesan to authorize the president to npMtint an admiral of the navy m addition to Idmirnl Dewey, it is saitl at I - ajavy depnetaaenl that there i ne intetttion of ko doing, as it i perfx tly clear that the purpose of eongn i asimply to provide for the advancement of Admiral Dewey to that grade.

The will of Joseph Medill. late editor of the C hicago Tribune, was filed in the probate court on the 17th. The e-tate, estimated at about ioo.no. t net, Is bnOjOaathed in equal shares to hi two daughters, Mrs. Robert W. Patterson nnd Mm. Hobert S. afeOemueh. In addition to a number of be piests to relative, Mr. Medill left 11,000 each to a numlier of old Tribune einpluyea.

The trouliles growing out of the el tion of a king of Samoa have tnken a more serious turn and resulted in the Ixiinbardment of native villages along the shore by the United Stat, cruiser Philadelphia. Admiral Kart, commanding, and the Krilish cruisers l'oroise and Kojalist. At latest accoonta the lxmlirdtnent bad contineud intermittentlv for eight days, snd b ral villages had lieen burned.

1 he following was ported at the war

department la Wnsunftoa on the S'.'th: "Keeruiting for the regain unny is nroirressing most satisfactorily

both in numUr nnd the high class of VeSHsg men offering. RetWU trcei.e! by the adjutant general iip to t'ie close of yesterday show threnlisted strength as Ix-ing over f:.iKjn, within less than 2,000 of the iiiaMtiinm, which, at the present rate of enlistment will be gt ,1(.Lcd within Uu dars."

The names v.( the I luted State transports Sc.india and riona have w II I'll it 11 ( t The former is now tl.e

Warren and the latter the Hancock. An Important corporation ha be. n organicil under t unadim and New York auspices to exploit to the world at the Pari exposition I perfc ? representation of Hie and erorh In the Yukon territory, Including all phases of mining, bj sal direct frOOl ÜM Klondike. Ma . .Intnes M Pollard, who had world-wide teenc ss an wneai bmgdb

lance line siiot. wm.-u ne g.uncu ..

with Se.or io- Wimbledon nnd Croedmore, not in

Washington n the 17th The atatimn ift ol the eeeHUtlen of the treasury issued on the CTth ahowed: Available cash oalsnc. gft 035.: '-; gold reserve, gMt,f7Vaffc Archie C Kisk. a New o:l city broker, filed a peÜtksn in bankruptcy on ÜM 2Tth. Liabilitie,. $1.7, 000; no asets.

a !ist prepared in tn! oeace oi ine adjutant genenaV on Um Mth hosred the casualties in htanfU s.r.ce February s to Ik 1'.7 kille.l and -04 wounded. Mr. CtoM H. Slocuin, .vidow of OctL Henry W . Shn-uni. died si her Lome In Brooklyn on i he .'th. The Hritisb hous of commons adjourned, on the th, for the Fas'": holiday s. f lehnel Shea, 117 years ami 6 months of age. died at Indianapolis. Ind., on the .'th. Mr. Shea was born in Ireland, in i:i. and was a playmate with Daniel OVounell. the great liih )il-

erator. Shea emigrated to America Mad to Indianapolis in Ht"4. He was a blacksmith, hale and hearty, and looked like a man of -0 years. A Manila dispatch of the 29th announced the fall Of Pocave. another Filipino town on the mad to Malolos. to n. MacArthur was awaiting his pon . . . i t. . i

ton train in otner to eroaa tarn iuia can river and push on to Malolos. The

Filipinos are reported to have burned the city of Hulacan. The naal board of promotion hasubmitted its report, and the following oflicers will be edrnnoed to tinrank of rear-admiral in the order named: Oeorge C. aVntty, Norma: BL l arquhar. John . Watson, Benrj p.. Itebeen, WlnhV Id s. Behley, MfaM Casev. v. T. Bampaon, Bnrtlett Cronivvell. John Philip. Francis J. Biggiason, Henry F. Fickini.'. Frederick Rodger. Louis KetnpfT. tieorge V. Sumner. The Ualted States transport ( rook (formerls the sUmmaaln) arrHed at New York on the nicht of the -.'sth. batrlag on board the bodie of the scddiers who died during the campaign in Porto loco, and the bodhnl of 071 of the soldier dead from Santiago. Vrlioir.il Dewi V is iilMOit to add to

his fleet three of the Spanish shiiwhich he sunk on the 1st of M.:v last One of these will be ready to im mto commission shortly. The navy departBM nt has hern informed bf the admiral as to the annahar Of nun which will Ih needed in the near future to put these acquisitions into serice. Aasong Um ndltnry men in Wnrh ington the Impel nalon i eurr :it that

(ien. .Ins. Wheeler Will soon receive orders to go U Manila. The 1'nited States gonboat Yorktown arrived at Manila, on the 2th. with the Spanish steamer Mumlar:.. owneil by the bfeadeconn company, of Manila. The steamer wa captured after tiff chase, in the gulf of Lin gayen. carry ing contraband of war to the I natu gents. Cordelia Hotkin. at S in Francisco, on the 2th, was given a further itnj of exei ution for 21 days by Judge ook in order to give her attorneys time to file amendments to tin- bill of exceptions on appeal of her eneo to the supreme court. The granting of ''e stay is simply a matter Of formality. K. Y. Hrcwstcr. who has charge of the nrrnnrctnciitR for the tt-n-head

.Tefferson dinner of New York demo crats, annonncedi on the nth, that h

linil received a tele" ram from Win .1

i.ryan. saying that he would alten: the dollar dinner on April It. Vt Brewster said the dinner would be ( hienro platform" from beginning t end. The Missouri house ,f repreaentetives. on the .".'th. named a bill svbleb pnu ticaliy ohollahei department atom in the state. The bill applies to eitiei of over 10,000, ami dlrldes gocds into classes, placing a licci--e t.i of $".ou an each. Any tor- tfl carry all dnsn I must pay a tax of fü.000. Timothy Keardon. who rred a BllOel" On the United State steam, r : arsarge during it famous baftlc will, the confederate privat er Alabama, outside the harbor of Cherbour -. France, and who later served under Fi.rrarut in Mobile lm. died in Brook lyn. on the L'Oth. aged 61. The steamer Howetia L-e. plying lieturi'ii ( airo and Memjdiis. sank in 71 feet of sater, epponttC Tyler. Mo., on the 2tli. Of the Go bouIs on loard, pnassmgere and crew, it is reported that only ... ( apt. (srvcll and a mate (nr.nie unknown) escaped with their Mm William Waldorf Aster, owner 1 1 the Pali Mall Oaaetta, London, nrbee he arrived at Sen York, on the Nth, on he White Star liner Majestic, in i-iswer to the interrgatories of one of the customs ofheerv. dew ri bed iiim If as a foreigner ami a resident of iie.it Hrit

i;v. .lohn MefOBfeV pastor nf dal liist MethiNlikt i:piscol church of OOaaha, Neb . died, mi the 29th. a a iesidt of sn operation tat apeadteitla, He was looked uNl. SJ nie of i he ablest men In his church in the west. Surgeon i. em ral Stcrnoerg tcceivcd mail report. from Manila, on d.e J'.uh, ooasnarnlng the hospital and medical atTairs there. In the main the dealt with routine niattcrs. and shorn il natlafaetory eondltioM nranaiUng. Claus Spreeklei has decided to establish In San lranelaoo an elect rk plant that Will be without a mal iu the world, and which will fui th M the people of San Francisco li -.lit. r at and power almost at cost. Th supreme court of Indiana, oa th 20th. held that if .. man Baarries a woman who is imh bte I to him the BWrrfage annuls the debt. Finns arc afoot to reorganise the -a-tional Bed Cross society, with a v ie

to greatly incn asing its scope. Brig.-tien. Flagler, chief of OTdnanM, U. S. A., died at the Hytrcia ho. el. ihj Point. a., on the fOth.

NEWS PROM INDIANA. Latest Happenings Within the Borders of Our Own State.

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THZ WAR IN THE PHlLIPl'lNrs

LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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am, The formal order retiring lo.ir d miral ltolienon. under the proTlasOM of tin personnel act. wa ismd on the 2.Hh. This retirement will .romote ( apt. lk-njamin F. Bay to the rank of rear-admiral, although the presid tit ha not yet made the appointment. Kx-Seeretai v Mit riiian rCaehcd his home in Washington on the

ftrnrj I. Tallant, of Qtrent Fall--. Mont., has been appointed an itniuigratiot Inapeetor for aerrice at Contta Canada. This appointment i m ule in accordance -.v itli Ihc leeomnnjmlntloa of the collector of eostOOH at t.rcut Palls, who states that an additional In tor is urgently needed to pre v nt the importation Into thi country or M.ien contra -t lahorera.

I .iot William . Vulrcw. :io

eroaaed the Atlantic to Paris In IRTH u

a small boat, the Nautilus, will, on

.Inn. IT of tbi vear. start on another

mvBM ici- iss th, Itlantle in a tinv

craft OOnatroeted Of aluminum and c: nvas. and aninil and light enottgk when eollapaed to carrj under the ana.

All ship yards on tin Delaware river j are o busy with work at present that the owners report that thej are net prepared to iak new orders unless actual work is not to begin for spina month There are now under cunst ruction at the various yards, 6 nta si ! - of many types.

too. Stephens ot Miouri .-alien on flu president, on the 30th, and voiuntartly offered the entire Sixth Missouri regiment, now at Havana, for aersios in the Philippines, to W re -enlisted undo the army organization law. The . president promised t considera Ban to tin offer. The Missouri bonae passed a bill, on 1 the 30th. providing for the levying f an Inspection ton f on eent per gal- j Ion "ii all beer Dannnfaetored or sold in the tnte. The nionev goes into the revenue fund to meet expensi ol tke fate go'emment.

The Ninth Illinois and aevi ral other volunteer regiments hav expressed a

willingness to remain In the service nnd go to the Philippine! if they bo permitted to retain the present organization intact with the present ofbeern ii command. Maloh . the Filipino capita!, was captured. nftr a gallant fight, on ', r.ist. by Gen. ICneArthnr'a army the ,,-beIs falling ba.-l. ' San Fernanda p., fore retreating they applied the torch and burned the town. The dreadful report fr Cairo, IM., that th steamer RoWcrO !. bad foundered otT Tyler, Mo, and ....' " nernOni ht. was. happily n :.. i stakt, l ater p ports Sxed the number ' M at

three. be -tatcment of tm condition oftbe tnnsiiry issiieil on the 'ul si;owed" Available COS bal.ca s: J.'. .'T.iMm; gold reseree, 3,0ak0O. The passenger steamer Stella, plyIn, b.twe.n Southampton and tbC Channel Islands, crashed upon the dt.ad. il Caaqad rocks, near the islam! o Asdernojr, on the 30th, in a dens -foir. and foundered in ten minutes, her boilers exploding with a tremendous report a she Wellt down. Seventy si i ii persons are supposed to ha1.per idied. It rat stated nt the war department, on the rtlst. thnt the proslsion of the army hw allowing the retention in arrslee Nr siv months of the solun It-era in the Phtlippinea bed been con-

utiti-.l to mean th. oflie. is as well as tht men and that the volunteer orgaS l: tum would be retained just as they ll X e- ist. L'iala at Washington regard the w: in the Philippines as practically nt an .-nd. Tin loes of Airninaldo b ring the six weeks fighting havbeen enormous, and Iii reumluinfj forces ;ire scattered and dispirited, and 1: i unlikely that anything more than ahirndshea are to follow. The Boston Commercial Bulletin annoutM d on the lllst. that clTort wer ir: king to form a trut of alt the hading carpel mills in the country. The eapltai stoeb f the milla already inter' ted was over ft,000,009, The com binattoa will be financed from Boston ind Now 'ork. Oeorge B. Qlenn.aasiataal pnymaatef general, U, 8. A., died at .lohn llopI ins' hospital, in Baltimore, Md.. on tl ;i-t. of pernkloua anemia, eon tract ed In the t ubaa ami Porto Moon eampulgne, He wna a native of CI nein nati policeman Win. Kllroy, of Ifevada City COL, wa hot and kilhd. on the ::i-t. bj Bd Moore, whom be was trying to afreet i Moore encaped to the hill, and a posse went in pursuit. Brig.fkrn. Henry . M rriatn has bee i aas lg Bed 0 tetnporary command ot the department of Missouri in addition to his duties as commander of the department of the Colorado, PosttnaaterGeitera Charles Kntory I . Itb has accepted nn Invitation to respond to the t' ast of The Cnion," nt tin- Hamilton club dinner 'n Chicago on the tuth Col. Thomas M Anderson was, on the aist, appointed brigadier general In the reg la r army to succeed Fdwin V Sumner, retired. Putnam I'.radbe Strong, reported by Ben. Otis as wounded, is tl e son of rs Mayor Strong, of New York city.

Parnate Os ea Oetsle KVille, Im, Mau h U -loiiath.il. ha hi only daughter, aged Iloeked In her room a t in home

and threatens tu kill tkt aaaOOnO, James Barrett, if he iits t ne prom tht angi.v fnthet went to the I run of his son in law and look hi ilanghter home with him lie remaiai at the bouse conctnntly and says that Barrett cannot come mar lb s.i lie will bring erlmlnol action against Barrett for mnrrj ing i girl under age. Darretta mya he will iut- his wife at il baznrd and trouble is expected. i.uii i in, Med i-,M-r. btartinsville, lad., March gl, During the last few wee ks of her term. Mis Pearl Sur-!, a teacher of a district school mar Paragon, thi county, k-as been worried a) snow one utealing lor lunch and the liiiuhe- ol her pupil, she "loaded" the food Ina lunch basket with red pepper and a seven

year-old child, a pupil, took th. io-e of pepper and been me very sick. Mis Been t eaa arrested, but wns tried ana aeou i 1 1 1 d lien, I Uo.l, I 111. Miineie. Ind.. Miin h 31 Frank .lone a icavenger, discovered the dismembered remains of i woman in a acant lot in the rear of the National hotel. The bead and Uppi r pol I ion of t lie bodj were missing, with the. .-. ption f one arm. ami t)i re Is no clew as to the Identity of the body. There have beea no mysterious disappearance i In this citj recently and t he officer .in at s los to account for the discovery.

rhe American Flag Replaces That of the Filipinos Over Their trstwhile Capital. fHEYHAVt MOVfcO OUT TO A NEW STAND.

Phase w iiai got i t--u,i Let I Mstseatsd hofneo laa leeeslstlMe OnriiBli mi ÜM inerteii ii I i i.. fettftro Pies ta lbs PaiOtta n i.laam lofnee Thoj baft, Manila. March ;:t. I:M p. . The

, hmerican log was raised' orer Wnloloa at ten o'eloek this morning. The Kan--a regiment and the Montana regiment, On entering the city, found it .!, serted, Iba preskhrncia burning, and 1 .1... 1 1 ...I.... If.iLnril. t li.

lue rcneis I, ii.. nil. uiountains iu a state of terror, in.. i Pi snare i IVaaiee. It was exiilcnt that the rebels for some time pat have abandoned all hope of holding their capital, for the Americans found there evklenOM of

U.U. I ni the V ur lleiirli.:. the Vlelor im tlrrml Oeea v on.

Voir. Mi, in. I. in i lot II. Notre Hann. Ind.. March d. faeultv heard of control has passe

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and Michigan at Vnn iioi The schell- . ni. home games i not completed, i lint will probably include game-, with Oberlin, lltinoia and Indiana. Ilnlll tliri'i-. ferre Haut.- Ind.. Manch W The rage contract- for the two coal tie ids in Indiana. I. tuminoui and block, have been agrt t il upon. Oper;? or and min- ! er alike are predicting;! y ear of Steadl pr employment in tin industry noweinploying WjOOQ or 00,00t Baew. than in any since coal wa iirt mined in the state It urns igrvedtbat there shook! i.e two pay rtaj i i month. O, ,-r il I .ml til iiw. Wtab awaka. Ind., Match 11 It nowt d continuously for several hours ami for the Hrt t i me in t he hi t ory of tdi stetion over a foot of snow coven northern Indiana and southern Michigan on the l;.t day of March. Pailroad train- are late and electric c;.r on the Mihawaka. Blkhalt, Goshen and South Head y stem arc dist out inttfd. I.O e mor s iinl n I meal. Indianapolis, lad., March 31. iov. 1 Mount Is I pect 1 soon to announce the names of the atembert of the library commission, He ban proetleatty ' lernt ined upon ail the membera. The eon rnor, auditor of state aaul secretary of state reappointed Mr lai-. of Rieh mond, and Dr. Forrest, of Marion. -ia nie in bt r- of the state lioard of lit a It b.

win lim 1,1 in t at came. Wab i-h. I ml . March 21, The Chieairo .V Wist Michigan railroad y -tetn. which ha it west, rn terminus at New Buffalo, in tlii part of Indiana, has decided to build it own line Into Chicago. The management has arranged foe the right of wav and clo-cil contracts for n at, -rial.

.i.i Ola oases! Beet, Knox. 1ml . March II, .I.W Fanehei

a farmer residing ia Davis township, baa been indicted bj the stark county grand jury for butchering and selling diseased beef. Persona who ate the meat became violently III, which led to the investigation. In it not I ni in lninnu-a. IndlaaapolU, Ind.. March 31. These preme court holds that an employe of railroad in agreeing to accept benefitfrom a railroad reib f association in case of injury relinnuish his rirdit to bring aalt igaaat the compnay for (1 a ti i a ' - Tsssk Iter Own Life. Klhhart, I ml.. March 11, The trifeoi Sot ii SB lit all. w iii was iir-t lieutenant of company B,of the One Hundred and Fifty -seventh Indiana infantry, onm m.tted stiieiil. by taking po son. She a i in poor health. win Reasata, Itlooreitujrton, lad., March 11. Presi lent Swain, of the Indiana unier-itv. baa been offered tin-vice presidencj of Lelnnd Btaaford nnireraity, but. anaounci I that he will not accept, and will r. main here.

I'til Inw ,-tl llrr Knlhrr. Indianapolis, lad., Mnnrh II Trtoh PJ ftuskirk. ageil 41 ear. died at the ( it j hospital, and hli 111 jwanT isld daagb ter ti led at home a fen ralnateeaf ter her fatht r' ib ath. Of the family the wife remains.

ool ite preparat ions for evacuation. On the railroad the rails and ties for about a mlla had ben torn up and probably thrown into the river. The only prisoners captured were u few Chinese. The.- saitl Aguinaldo left Malolos on Wednesday. pleO inn Hie i oaatrr. The principal citisenj of Malolos, thtir families and good have been taken Into the oouatiy orer the railroad, erb lie othera deported n foot, allying llieir jioseions and driving their cattle and other animals before them. Most of the rebel forces were removed Thursday evening to positions Met of the railroad, leaving only some email bands iu Hie strong trenches n froint of Malolo.

t.en. vim- rili n r' ,lniiee.

(ien. MacArthur started for the rebel capital at seven o'clock this morning with tWO rapid-tiro guns flanking the track. tWO guns of the Ctah battery on the right, aad two guns of the Mth artillery on the left side of the rapids, tiring continuously. The Kansas snd Montana reiMinents moved upon Malolow, and the Nebraska and Pennsylvania regiments and the Third artillery kept along the right of the railroad. The only effective stand made by the rebeht was at a bamboo aad earth work, half a mile from Malol.Ms. nnd on the right, where the Nebraska regiment, as was the ;. yesterday, had the haul. t work ind suffered the greateel toes. i ni. Pitnatoa Täece Pteet, Col. Pnnaton, alwaye a1 the front, wa; the Ural man In Malotoe, followed bj n group tf dnahiag hanmna. The Filipino Hag. which was living from the center of the town, was haul d down by some nu n of the Montana regiment, who triumphantly raised their own in its place. Bebels boatsm Meeaaeh, Prom tin- column. of smoke arising

from the city it e-med an if the whole piaoe vvas ablate It turned out, bow erer, that only the p- sith ncia. or government building, a id u few tf the entailer buildings, had been s, t afire t0 by the rebels before they evacuated the place. Prom the reports gathered by the American oAcers, from priaonera and othera, it is believed that the rebel i army is constantly losing Strength on account Of dceertioaS, and that althouarh the anemv mas tnake one tir

two more stand, the force. tif Aguit.aldo will disintegratt . in perhaps a month, tO a few hundreds, who may continue Waging guerrilla warfare iu the mountains. I roups Beansrcel npleaOMts The American troops behaved splendidly. They advanced steadily against sueeenalve lines of trenches, through wiKitii and jungles, nnd sulTering from frightful heat. in addition, the American volunteers wen- handicapped in lighting by the fact that their Springfield riflea are f shorter lange than the Mauser ritles in the hands of the reliels. I nder those circumstances, the steady advance of our troop is a reaOy Irina r kable achievement. N ,l t n t, r t Ii I enl ii re. But the most noteworthy feature of this onward HWCep of the Americans, is the pntlence und eadnranee f the private soitiiers. Tlu v have never hea Itated to plunge aerOM any kind of llifficult country, ngalnof any number of the enemy, ami in the face of positions of entirely unknown strength. This afternoon the rletoriona American army is feasting on OOOOOOttta nnd banana, and etijoving a Well eaiiud rest, while the hospital train is carrying the wounded back to Manila. iiiaimifii Pram Una, Otts. Washington, March :ti. Thh followIng diapnteh vvas received nt I M war department : Manila, Mauh il. Adjutant (ienernl, Washington: Troops resting ut Matoio. Considerable portion of the Etity destroyed by fire. Our casualties, one killed, 1". STOUOded. Hall has returned with hie troops to former itlon north oi Manila. oris.

Washington! April i. "Th-On-only scouting,' was ihc vv u nient comment yesterday on il from the Philippines. It is U . , that the war lias been foughl tin '.ill of Malolos ended Hw bilitf of another battle. The h of Aguinaldos army an- wldel t red. That thom w ill Im- kil a no roan columns pe net rut. t rior, is expected, but no such . tot lits und losses us have tak. -i Since the first week ill Febra b oked for. The troop which Aguinahl' skilled in front of Manila nine -promise that they should loot t! an gone. The ammunition whk been an red has been Bred. Th bOW been captured OT thrown nwti Here and there a band of a f. c drcd may Ik left. Aguinaldo. thought, may have with him ,o Ute Tagal army no longer eis1 Fifty-two days of almoat UOul fighting have been terribly desti Ofbclol reports don't g into dctu l :rii on the ndicl side. An oil timate of two weeks' fighting at Manila, with which the mi

opened, gare the ragtu loaaca i killed and wounded. Tin n l the campaign of the Pasig riv. i Laguaa de Hay. After that cam. th massive charges from Cajpuciio Ifaloloa, it is believed that i live have been killed and wounded Ihc ith of February . Officials of the war depnrtnv :n hose 'be defense of the ia- i rew weaker and weaker, hav- r- u hol the forces of Aguinaldo wer. . wiped out. They don't belleee th cor than a small fraction nin .hui another arm) can bo roeruit 1 1 er such a terrible lesson.

I n ii i I llrnil. Koktuno. Ind . March I! Mr. Annh iiarr. Rtotht r of Df J. iiarr. of this place, and mother of the late Hon. John V. t.arr. sn fouiul dead in bed. She was rs years oM Reart tremble waatho ea ue. nu OalaoO. Terrs Haute. Ind., Morob 11 A. J. Pre w ford, proprietor af two large frahl mills, ha raised the wngot of his wn smolnye ten ner ernt.

i.i.n. ii i.i. s nun. ton. A s,.inrntt- Hoeoawal to Clear Oat nentteeei Ptltpao laeeon Manila, March il, 10! ;r a, m. Qook Hall's brigade advanced today from MarkjUlna Up the Mateo lliver valley, nlintit to hfontafhen, driving the enemy to tin- hills on tha north. The rebels were in considerable force ut the junctions of the rivers Nation and Atnpit with the Mateo; but the American artlllerj noon scattered tiu-in with heerj kma, The Aaaerhnao hss was SSM killed, Lieut. Hregg. of the Fourth infantry,

VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATIONS MOaovaaaO OJan WU1 0e nWtalaejii Ihr er let I '.ee i I I n I f Bseasattaa, Washington, April I. It was it the war department visterd.. . .I.e provision of tin- army law allowii . he retention iu service tor si p )t the volunteers iu the Philip jad been eonahrued tomean the oil r is well a the nien and that the ti eei oigsnizatioati sroutd be rata ,ni as they now esist. den. Otis was given large pic: sowers in the matter, bui wa- ins! ni by cable to send all si. I, aad wo ?! home, as well as volunteers had exceptional reasons whv ihonid return home, each ta the port of fainlies ami the loss of pr ?rty by reason of their absence. The volunteers in the Philip eil not be mustered out nut an Im spared, and the j.r s. if these organizations, the war depsf menf belleten, makes it anneo -ar prgaalae the provisional arm. of alkraied under the army law GOT LITTLE SATISFACTION On Oheee Maaoa tm Keeaseltrawi i aaeatafal afcaaaOa fae tin-1 imnrr. Washington, April 1. The d fren- the Cuban asaembly, M.-r: büon ami Hevin. eotled lafornaallj ü 1 e atate department yeatenlay. had u long conversation v. ith Bt ' Hay. The attiairs in Cuba were fro ' iisciixsed. and the delegites pre-' ' the resolutions of the Cuban BSSSMn Secretary Hay aaaared the delegsh that the Halted States goverm would not increase the amount of i ' af the Cubaa army abore the I i,ooo ilreadj sent to Caha. He sabi th ter OOOld not bl further con- ill H atao Informed them thai the prei ident vvouhl not eonselit tO anv sei fol raising tiioiiey by the CubaS armhty to pny the t'uhan trot-p Later, the secretary mentioiietl call to President McKinley, and tl prcident informed Mm fhoi the! I would he no other or further BnsWt to the delegation than had aire been given by the seen la rj. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURI : The Treasnri atatameat f,,r ,M Oaowa a Veej Bearttfrtnn iiaiaaee atieet.

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