Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 May 1899 — Page 2

7^ M. McC. STOOP *, Editor Mid ProprUtOO PETERSBURG, : : INDIANA. The sVatemeut of the condition of the treasury issued on the 28th showed: Available casli balance, $286,373,355; gold reserve, 9244,736,845. The appear i uce of yellow fever at Bahia, Brazil, «as announced, on the 26th, in a di spatch to the state department from United States Consul Furniss at that place. ^ | Gen. Otis reported, on the 26th, conjunction of Gen. Lawton’s twocolumns and the driving of the enemy to the north and west; also that Gen. MacArthur had taken that part of Calumpit south of the river. The Dominion government has been advised from the Yukon to allow the military contingent to remain' there pending the settlement of the boundary question. No action has been taken in the matter. Interviewed by a New York World correspondent, Admiral Dewey declared his faith in Capt. Coghlan, saying that he was certain the captain could not have said anything to place him, the admiral, in a false position. The International Woman’s Peace and Arbitration committee is sending out a plar for holding simultaneous peace meetings, with an exchange of greetings and peace sentiments, throughout the world, on May 15. Casper Lanno, a private of Co. A, Thirteenth infantry, en route to Manila, was run over and killed at Truckee, Cal., on the 26th, by a locomotive engine. , Lanno leaves a widow and five children at Eden Center, N. Y. The remains were interred in the military cemetery at Brica, Cal. The jury in the case of Mrs. Anna E. George, charged with the ^nurder of George D. Saxton, at Canton, O., returned a verdict of not guilty after nearly 23 hours’ deliberating, on the ,28th. The verdict was received by the crowd assembled in court with unmistakable evidence of approval. It was said at the navy department, on the 2Sth, that the developments of the day made it improbable that the Iowa would be sent to Manila according to the original programme. In view of the state of affairs in China, however, the* American fleet on the Asiatic station would be kept at high standard.

The London Daily Mail says it understands the American tender for the ^ 40,000 tons of rails for the railway to be constructed by Cecil Rhodes, from Buluwayo to Gwelo and Mafungabuz, was many thousand pounds below any English tender, but it was not accepted because delivered in an irregular form. The secretary of the French embassy at Washington, M. Thiebaut, arrived in Paris, on the 25th, and handed the Spanish-Ameriean treaty of peace to the Spanish ambassador, Senor Leon y Castillo, who immediately sent it to Spain by the first secretary of the Spanish legation in Paris, the Marquis de Noval las. The Ontario government has determined to make c an effort to prevent Americans fishing in Ontario waters. The fishing inspectors have been given instructions to confiscate boats and tackle of Americans found, fishing in the forbidden ’waters. The western part of the province may be given the strictest attention. * A telegram from Gen. Otis, on the 8Sth, announced that Aguinaldo had taken what the general regarded as the first step toward surrendering, namely, requesting a cessation of hostilities. This news was hailed with delight by the responsible heads of the government, who desire nothing so much as honorable peace with stable government for the Filipinos. Gen. Otia. informed the Filipno emissaries that only unconditional surrender would be considered. Later news from the scene of the terrible cyclone at Kirksville, Mo., while somewhat modifying the number of killed and wounded, in all other respects justify first reports of the awful desolation wrought, while adding many dreadful, curious and interesting details to the first graphic accounts. Nearly 40 dead bodies had been recovered within 24 hours after the occurrence of the storm, and the work of rescue and relief was still going on.

The anniversary of the birth of Iriyssea S. Grant was observed with appropriate ceremonies in many cities of the country on the 27th. At Philadelphia an equestrian statue of the fpreat general was unveiled in Fairmount park, by Miss Rosemary Sartoris, daughter of N ellie Grant-Sartoris, President McKinley making the dedication speech. Among those present | were the president and Mrs. McKinley, the members of the'cabinet and three generations of the Grant family. Several oydones and cloud-bursts visited the country, on the 27th, in several of -which human lives were lost and much property destroyed. The most disastrous of these was that which partially destroyed Kirksvi lie, Mo* and afterward visited Newtown, Mo. In the former city it was estimated that 400 homes were destroyed, no ^ vintage of most of them remaining to inark their former sites. One hundred persons were believed to have been Milled and 1,000 injured. At Newtown jl so the list of casualties was very . ....

MAY—1899. Sib. 14 121 28 8 15 22 29 Tm. 14 23 30 Vtl Ttar. Fri. 10 17 24 31 11 18 25 12 19 26 Sal 6 13 —i ■ 20 27 • WRPPFffWmffWfWRW NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Souroa , PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Postmaster-General Smith l€ft Washington, on the 25th, for Galena, 111., where he was booked to deliver tn address at the Grant anniversity celebration on the 27th. The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 25th showed: Available cash balance, $283,S',7,487; gold reserve, $242,512,264. The Thirteenth United States infantry arrived at San Francisco, from New \ork state, on the 26th, en route to Manila. The United States disptach boat Badger, with the Samoan commission on board, sailed from San Fr incisco for Apia on the 26th. The steamer will probably stop at Honolulu for :oal. A sensational trial began, on the 27th, at Breslau, Germany, -v^here a man named Hermann, is chargid with murdering three wives and 12 children ot his second marriage, as well as a whole series of others murde r a About 300 houses of the town of Guta, Hungary, were burned on the 26th. The charred remains ol several women and four children have peen recovered from the ruins, and it is feared there are other victim j. A’guinaldo has ordered his men to economize their powder, whuh is a significant sign of shortage of ammunition. Steel billits are selling atPil tsburgh, Pa., in 1,000-ton lots, at $26.50 per ton. Ex-Premier Gerlaehstein of Austria died in Vienna on the 26th. Commissioner Wilson of the internal revenue bureau, has decided that baseball games by college and amateur or local clubs for which an admission fee is charged, are not subject to the special tax under the act of Junj 13, ISO*. Eev. Dr. Alex. H. Clapp, edi torial secretary of the Congregational Home

Missionary society, died in New York city, on the 27th, aged 81 v ears. He had been connected with the society for 36 years. Virulent smallpox hasappe red simultaneously in various parts of Germany, notably at Iserlohn, Hanovei and Moozadlo. The Prussian authorities are taking prompt steps to prevent its spread. } The president, on the''27th, issued a proclamation announcing the issue of the new extradition treaty between the United States and Mexico, a id the convention is now in force. A terrific windstorm, followed by rain and hail, swept the Soldier valley, in Nebraska, on the night of the 27th, leaving death and ruin in its path. A heavy rain fell throughout the state of Wisconsin, on the night of the 27th. Reports from different parts of the state tell of cloud-bursts, with damaging results. Nearly 100 survivors of the Sultana disaster gathered at Cleveland, O., on the 27th,.in annual convention, the occasion being the thirty-fifth anniversary of the event. One of the strargest occurrences of the Kirksville (Mo.) cyclone was the finding of a crooning baby out in a field far from any house. The child was^ scarcely scratched. Another baby was found where it had seen bjuised to death by the violence of theAvind. Neither had been identified or claimed 2a hours after the storm. The main part of the business portion of San Francis, lias., was destroyed by fire on the 2$th. Thirteen business buildings were burned. There was no loss of life, but County Attorney Finlay was badly burned. Adjb-Gen. Corbin says the Filipino peace overtures will not bring about any change of plan in tins country as to forwarding ships, supplies and troops to the Philippines. 1 John P. Ross, of Sharon, Mass., was shot and killed by his wife, Mary E. Ross, in the course of quarrel at their home. She says she acted in self-de-fense, as her husband was choking her at the time. The pair had been married about a year.

At Birmingham, Ala., 5,000 employes of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. were given notice that on May 1 their salaries would be adva nced on a basis of ten per eent. A statement prepared by the war department shows that 198 were killed in the Philippines from February 4 to April 28, and 1,111 v ounded. Total, 1.309. Col. Hugh D. Greer, a well-known er-confederate soldier, who served through the civil war under Gen. Forrest’s command, was accidentally run over and instantly killed by a Southern railway train at Buntyn Station, near Memphis, Tenn. Fifty Americans wore overcome by the heat, and Col. 1 unston dropped utterly exhausted after the battle, at Calumpit. The men of the Kansas regiment cheered hiica when he went among them. Secretary Hay was. notified by the French ambassador ihat Spain would accept through him the $20,000,000 to be paid, under the treaty of peace, for the Philippines. Th payment will be made to the ambas sador as soon as the president return s to .Washington

The trial of the famous McCormick conspiracy case, growing: out of tha Pkoetix election riot and lynching in Greenwood county last November, ended in the federal court at Greenville, 8. C., with a verdict of not guilty. The jury was composed entirely of white men. » Three thousand recruits~6nd 20 officers will be concentrated at the Presidio. The large post will be converted into a regular recruiting and receiving rendezvous for troops. There arc 1,000 men here now under command of Col. Harbttch, Third infantry, and Capt. Hadrin, Eighteenth infantry, adjutant. Justice Stover, of the New York supreme court, granted a decree of absolute divorce to Henry T. Sloane from Mrs. Jessie A. Sloane. Thirty minutes later Mrs. Sloane met Perry Belmont, and journeyed together to Greenwich, Conn., where they were married. Mr. Sloane received the custody and control of his two children until they reach the age of 21. LATE NEWS ITEMS. ' The governor of Sinaloa, Mexico, in order to give greater security to life and property, has suspended the constitutional guarantees in cases of kidnapping, patricide, premediated murder and highway robbery. A similar measure regarding persons guilty of putting obstructions on railway tracks was taken a few years ago with eminently satisfactory results. That class of offenses died out. It is the Mexican substitute for mob law and lynching ami works well in practice. Three persons were killed, more than a dozen badly injured and 50 less seriously hurt as the result of a wreck, on the 30th, on the Rochester & Lake Ontario railroad at Rosebaur’s Corners, one-half mile north of the Rochester (N. Y.) city line, when two cars on an excursion tnud filled with passengers left the track while rounding a curve at full speed, and were completely wrecked. American manufacturers made their highest record in foreign markets last month. The figures of the March exportations, which the treasury bureau of statistics issued this month earlier than on any previous occasion, showed that the March exportations of manufactures were $37,025,733, or more than 25 per cent, in excess of any preceding month.

All the saloons m the north part of Terre Haute, Ind., were closed, on Sunday, the 30th, for the first time in years. The closing was brought about by the clergymen in that portion of the town, and a meeting of the ministers has been' called to effect Sunday observance throughout the city. Spain’s economical situation, according to El Liberal, is unfavorable, tested by the official returns for the first quarter of the current year. The imports showed an increase of 45,000,000 pesetas, while the exports fell off 43,000,000 pesetas. The customs receipts shewed a* heavy decrease. The committee arranging for the United Commercial Travelers’ meeting in Toledo, O., May 27, are planning to take special action on trusts, which a:e cutting off the traveling salesmen. Vigorous measures will be taken in the matter. Henry Charles Fitzroy Somers, eighth duke of Beaufort, died in London, on the 30th, in his seventy-sixth year. He was the patron of 24 livings and held many important offices during his life. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Kansas negroes are talking of colonizing in Cuba and the Philippines. A towing trust with a capital of S3,000,000 is soon to be organized in New York.

Michael Flood, an employe of the Drummond Tobacco Co. of St, Louis, is missing*. # Judge H. C. Caldwell denies that he intends to resign from the federal bench. President McKinley was eheered by a large crowd when he reached New York city Friday evening. Charleton M. Lewis has been ap!* pointed to the Emily Sanford chair of English literature at Yale. Active preparations are being made for the annual parade and May festival of the St. Louis Sunday schools. A workingmen's dinner, similar to the one recently given in New York, will be given in Chicago on or about May 10. The kaiser has written a friendly letter to President McKinley, thanking him for approving the German cable project. The hospital at the state asylum for the feeble-minded at Glenwood, la., was destroyed by tire. ‘ The annual report of the supervisor of electric lighting, at St. Louis, shows that 11 persons were killed by shocks duepg the P^t year. Gen. Otis believes that the insurgent request for cessation of hostilities is a ruse to gain time, and he has given them 48 hours in which to unconditionally surrender. C Murderer Kirve's has. been declared sane at Dayton, O., and he will be sent to the electric chair for killing his own child. He attempted to escape execution by pretending insanity. A stateftient prepared by the war department shows that 189 men were killed in the Philippines from Feruary 4 tc April 28, and 1,111 wounded. Total. 1,309. Three thousand recruits and 20 officers wall be concentrated at the Presidio, San Francisco. The large post will be converted into a regular recruiting and receiving rendezvous for tioops. Gen. Guy Y. Henry has issued a call for a commercial convention to meet at San Juan, Porto Rico, on May 10 to organize a chamber of commerce and ft r the protection of harmony and commerce between Americans, Per to Ricans and Spaniard*

WITHIN OUR LIMITS, News by Telegraph from Various Towas in Indiana. ri*i • Ma«t«4o»’» Bob«d. Liberty, Ind., April 29.—While some* men were digging a ditch on the farm of David Dial, four miles northwest of this place, they came across the bones of a mastodon. One tooth and a tusk were brought here for exhibition. The tooth was six inches from front to back, four inches broad, and weighed over five pounds. The tusk was eight feet long. When lifted from its resting place a large portion crumbled when exposed to the air. The circumference of the tusk is six inches. Another tusk, eight or ten teeth, and a bone iy inches across have been found. . Asti-Lttsor Folk Active. Laporte, Ind., April 29.—The prohibition party is becoming unusually active throughout the state, and a call has I been issued for a state conference to be ! held at Indianapolis* May 15 and 16 to perfect an organisation and to outline i plans for maintaining an organization I in every township of the 96 counties in j tire state. It is proposed to begin the j campaign of 1900 at once, and for the j first time in the history of the party to ; place full congressional, legislative, ju- j dicial and county tickets in the field. Joined the I n Ion. Xoblesville, Ind., April 29. — James Morrison, president of the Madison county Federation of Labor, has organized the employes of the flint glass works here into a union with membership in the Flint Glass Workers’ association. The management of the factory heartily indorsed the movement and promptly signed the scale of wages presented by Mr. Morrison. Ordered to Strike. Evansville, Ind., April 29.—An ortiei has been issued to the miners of southern Indiana of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, to be ready to strike. The order was issued by Fred Dileher, member of the national committee of the United Mine Workers. About 3,000 miners will be affected. The diggers will demand the Chicago scale of wages.

'Will Last All Summer. Anderson, Ind., April 29.—Resident Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, has abandoned the effort tb secure a peaceful and early settlement of the strike of the American plateglass works in Alexandria and left. It is given out that no effort will be made on the part of the management to start the plant until August. MitmlBK Woman Pound. Evansville, Ind., April 29. — Last week Mrs. Mary Storek disappeared from her home, and her body has been found in a ditch a few miles from the city. The face was badly battered, and it was feared she was foully dealt with. Her husband was accidentally -killed some months ago. Two children are left homeless. To Bntld a Cottas:*. Richmond, Ind., lApril 29.*—1The board of control of the Eastern Indiana hospital for the insane has let to Louck & Hill, of this^eity, a $24,660.28 contract for a cottage to accommodate 58 men. It will be two stories and divided into wards of single rooms. The building is to be finished by October 18. Will Go to Japan. Richmond, Ind., April 29.—Tl^e engagement is announced of Mr. Guerney Binford, of Carthage, and Miss Elizabeth Schneider, of this city, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schneider..' Mr. Binford is a Friends missionary, and shortly after his marriage will go with his wife to Japan.

Shot by His Stepson. Auburn, Ind., April 29.—A serious shooting scrape took place in Angola. Herb Bellinger, a newsdealer, shot bis I stepfather, Harvey Barnes, five times with a revolver. Bellinger's mother had been divorced from Barnes, but went to visit him, and this caused the shooting. Barnes cannot recover. Toole In 11U Members. Indianapolis, Ind., April 29.—Probably the largest numbet of new members 1 ever taken in a church on one occasion went into the First Baptist church when the Brightwood Baptist church was al>sorbed by the one in the city. Two J members were baptized and 114 joined by letter. .«• . "Went Craiy. Kokomo, Ind., April 29.—Isaac Spurgeon, who operates a small molasses Victory in the west end of the city, went crazy as the result of having a tooth pulled and made repeated attempts to commit suicide. Free Mail Delivery. Lebanon, Ind., April 29.—Representative Landis has received word from Washington that free delivery will be established here, to go into effect August 1. Three carriers will be appointJ -?— Fish Dynamiters. New Albany, Ind., April 29. — The streams in this vicinity are being dynamited and the board of county commissioners will offer a reward for the arrest of the miscreants. Passed Away. Slielbyville, Ind., April 29.—Rev. C Waldecker, of the German Presbytt an church died at the ane of 61 year On Governor’s Staff. Indianapolis, Ind., April 29.—Henry L. Kramer, of Indiana Mineral Springs, has been appointed by Gov. Mount to a position on his staff with the rani; of major. . Baclc from Europe. Notre Dame, Ind., April 29.—Very Rev, Andrew Morrissey, president of Not i e Dame university, has returned from, a three months* trip to Europe.

FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD WRECK. Tkree 1 ‘enoma Killed ul Tkrcm - Scare Ii]wc4 kjr Am Accident at m Carve* Rochester, N. Y., May 1.—Three persons were killed, more than a dozen seriously injured and 50 less seriously hurt as the result of a wreck at 2:48 o’clock yesterday afternoon on the Rochester A Lake Ontario railroad (better known as the Bay railroad), at Rosebaur’s Corners, one-half mile north of the city line, when two care on an excursion train filled with passengers left the track while rounding a curve at full speed, and were completely wrecked. The train, which was crowded with excursionists bound for different points along the shores of Lake Ontario, in the Irondeequoit Bay district, left the bay station in this city at 2:41 o'clock yesterday afternoon, about 15 minutes late. Every seat in the coaches was filled, and a large number of people were standing on the platforms. The train was made np of an engine, one closed and two open coaches. There is a grade about 100 yards from the corner of North avenue and Ridge road, and when this grade was reached the speed of the train increased perceptibly. Down the grade swept the train, its speed increasing constantly. When the far curve was reached the engine rounded it with startling rapidity. Next to the engine was the closed carriage, divided into two compartments, and when it reached the curve it veered over to the north, and rode around the curve on the left wheels. It had gone but a part of the bend in the track wheo it left the rails and shot straight ahead. There was a sudden crash as the couplings between, the engine and coach, were severed, and then the coach again veered over and plowed through the earth for several feet before dropping on its side in the front of the Ridge Road hotel.

EX-GOV. ALTGELD DOOMED, m» Physician Says He Has FoayU His Last Political Ft«ht—His Case a Sad One. Chicago, May 1.—Ex-Gov. John P. Algeld has fought his last political battle, according to information furnished by Dr. Nicholas E. §enn. * “The governor is certainly a very sick man, and it seems to me beyond all question that has fought his last political fight,” said Dr. Senn, last night. . “In addition to his illness, which is itself serious, the ex-governor, I am sorry to say, is completely broken down in spirit, and is despondent to the last degree. Not that I want to be understood as saying that the defeat sustained by Mr. AItgeld at tne Chicar go election, a few weeks ago, haa wrought this discouragement from which he is now suffering. On the contrary, he seems toi hare lost no faith in his political fortunes or the triumph of the principles with which his name has become inseparably assticic ted. “The chief cause of his despondency is his realization of the fact that his present illness is bqt a development of his old ailment, locomotor ataxia. In t lis knowledge, which has had an unusually depressing effect upon him, is the great danger. For if the governor could be induced ft» look upon the cheerful side of life and take an extended trip for rest and change of scene, he might be benefitted. But in any case it'is clear that he can never again be a strong man or sufficiently restored to health to wage another political fight.”

SIGHTSEERS AT KIRKSVILLE. Fifteen Thousand Visitors Spend tho Sabbath in Viewing the Wreck Caused by the Late Storm. Kirksville, Mo., May 1.—Fifteen thou* Band visitors were in Kirksville yester* day viewing the ruins of Thursday evening’s cyclone. Special trains came from Sfc^ouis, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Quincy, Mobery, Mexico, Trenton and other points. Fifteen hundred excursionists came up from St. Louis. Mayor Noonan sent a message to I Go v. Stephens last night asking him to j issue a proclamation in behalf of the ] cyclone sufferers. One thousand people are homeless I and fully half this number are desti- I trite. Citizens are contributing liber- | ally, and $7,500 has been raised, but ] $25,000 will be needed in the next j two weeks to prevent suffering. Two hundred and fifty tents will be ordered j and the victims of the storm can be I temporarily housed in tills makeshift j manner. ^ The funerals of Theodore Brigham uud J. Weaver, victims of the storm, were held yesterday afternoon. Union Memorial services were held last evening at the Christian and Methodist churches. * The dead have all been buried with the exception of two whose death occurred yesterday afternoon, Cal. Little, whose wife was instantly killed, succumbed to his. injuries, yesterday, and Paul Beeman, a child, died from the effects of the cyclone. Official number of the dead, 53. v. Bad Showing for Spain. . Madrid, May 1.—Spain’s economical (situation, according to El Liberal, is unfavorable, tested by the official returns for the first quarter of the current year. The imports showed an increase of 45,000,000 pesetas, while the exports fell off 43,000,000 pesetas Opposed to the Treats. Toledo, O., May 1.—The United Commercial Travelers’ meeting in this city, May 27, ajre planning to take special action on trusts, which axe cutting off the traveling salesmen. Vigorous measures will be

PEJ&E PROSPECTS PLEj ▲11 Parties In (he PhlUppHMt «•«• tor tlie End of toe '#•»« »ew PntpoMli Expeetd. Manila, May 1.—While it is th< eral expectation among Americans the Filipino emissaries will re! with revised proposals ffpa Gem tonio Luna, Maj.-Gen. Otis is no ting this prospect interfere wit preparations for pushing the war. __ nrday he ordered Maj.-Gen. bmwiiO^0 return to Angat, a few miles west of Norzagaray, and not vance aggressively while 4be ticns are pending. Gen. MacArtl apparently acting on the same putney, but he is repairing bridges .md strengthening the lines of his which is stretehed out with a four-mil^ front and within a quarter of the enemy. ▲ Orstttrlag Possibility. The possibilities of peace are ^ fying to a great majority of the army* who have regarded the war as an unpleasant duty that must be performed according to American traditions. Manila is cheerful over the pro of a return to normal life, though§ are skeptics wfeo remark that would enable the insurgents until the rainy season, upon they hav.e been depending as an important aid. Seventy-Five nomad Retacm. The prisoners report that there are75,000 refugees north of San Fernando, This is not impossible, considering the-thickly-settled populated region which the Americans Jmve cleared. It seem*, also that smallpox is spreading among them. The so-called Filipino congress wilh meet at San Fernando tomorrow.

The Filipino llilei When Dean C. Worcester, of theljfiited States Philippines commission, whoaccompanied the Filipino emissaries from Calumpit, said to Col. Manuel Argnelles that the Americans were t»uder no obligations to refrain from-, fighting, the Filipino officer replied: “Would you fight While we are discussing terms of peace.” :' ^'0,- " Mr. Worcester responded with the* suggestion that an armistice should: give the Filipino leaders time to etv~ cape. “My God, where would we escape to?” the Filipino exclaimed, referring in this to the menacing hostile tribes, behind the Filipino lines. " f '-it • Disappointed Ail Aroniti^;'. / % Col. Arguelles told the press correspondent that he was much disap* pointed in the results of his mission. He said, also, that Aguinaldo expected'! Calumpit to be the cemetery of th«» American army. In the Filipino Ca Lieut.*Col. Wallace, of the First Montana regiment, Maj. Adams and May Shields, who slept on Friday night in* Gen. Luna’s camp, where they went to inform the Filipinos that their envoys would return in safety, found tha Filipino commander cordial, the Filipino troops removing their hats as theAmericans passed. The Filipinos complained to them that the Americans Used explosive bullets, which is not the fact. The American officers retorted! that copper shells used by theFilipinos are worse than explosive bulle|£§ Gen. * I.una said he regretted being obliged to kill Americans; but that was hia. business.,, - Gen. Wheaton entertained Col. Anguelles and Lieut. Jose Bernal, and provided them with horses to return to their camp. ;_■ •' . l

Inducements to Surrender. In the course of the conference Saturday, Jacob C. Schurman, chairmua. of the United States Philippines commission, told Col. Arguelles that if the' insurgents would now lay down theirarms he and his colleagues of- the commission would consult them regardingthe plan of government to be submitted to President McKinley. He said he could not promise that all their suggestions would be adopted, but he could assure them that there would be a presumption in favor of their suggestions, adding that the commission- / ers would be especially desirous of satisfying the legitimate aspirations of the Filipinos. . ^ No Humiliation NeceaKUry. When Col. Arguelles protested that unconditional surrender would be bumilitation, Mr. Schurman replied: ' “There would Ih? no humiliation in Gen. Otis’ treating our brother Filipinos as Gen. Grant treated our brother Americans at Appomattox.” Mr. Schurman said to-dsiy to the press correspondent: “i believe Col. Arguelles 15 personally sincere and honest, though I have no means of ascertaining .t3fe sentiments and aims of the authorities .behind him. The Filipino people, likeothcr Asiatics, have no trust in mere words, without force behind them, but,, with force, I consider a conciliatory spirit of the utmost importa&ettHoiv the Filipino*Must be Crovemed,. “I believe that when peace has been established, governing the Philippines, will not be a difficult matter, provided we show them firmness, justice' and kiudliness. At the present time they distrust and dislike us, but these sentiments, which are perhaps not unnatural, will soon be dispelled by the effects of the good government we have promised to establish here. It will be the foremost duty of American officials to understand and sympathize with the Filipinos themselves.” ^ Fell Duels Before the Americans, Saturday,> before Gen. Otis had issued the order directing Gen. Lawton, to return to Angat, the troops of his command encountered the rebels ’« a. circle of hills outside San Rafael, about five miles northwest of Angat, dislodging them after an hour’s fighting. The Americans had three . wounded. A* theusand armed Filipinos fell back asthe Americans advanced. . , mM The villagers met Gen, Lawton, offering him provisions. They dare not flee into the mountain country at A iso