Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1899 — Page 6

She gike «wntg Democrat «. aa«c. BTOOfO, Editor and FroprUWft rirCBRSBURG. : : INDIANA. - M"=3 The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 12th showed: Available cash balance, $259,727,542; (old reserve, $231,437,925. The London Saturday Review claims to hate particular information to the effect that the present peace in Spain will be short-lived, and that Don Cartoo will soon submit his fortunes to f final issue. ' The Filipino town of Ildefenro wat captured, on the 12th, by the force of Generals MacArthur and Lawton, the only casualties suffered by our troops be ing one man wounded. The town was said to be garrisoned by 9.000Filipinos. Wm. Blair, one of the oldest residents of Chicago and at one time head of the firm of Wm. Blair & Co., one of the largest hardware houses in fth« United Stages, died, on the 10th, of pneumonia. Mr. Blair was 87 years old. Failures throughout the Unitec States for the week ended, on the 12th, according to Dun’s Commercial Review, were 165, against 246 for the corresponding week last year: For Canada the failures were 20, against 24 Iasi year. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has decided that copyrighted books printeel in Europe from plate}, made front type-set in the United Stated are not subject to the prohibition of importation in section 3 of the copyright act Of March 3, 1891.

^ ! At the annual dinner of the Londor Newspaper society, on the evening of the 10th, Harry Fumiss, the newspaper artist and illustrator, deprecated the growth of Americanism, which, he said, was “eating the root out of hon est English journalism.” The cases of the 12 Filipinos whc were denied landing at San Francisco, on the 11th, will be appealed to Washington. The papers have been sent to Commissioner-General of Immigration Powderly, and he will decide whether the Filipinos are actors or merely contract laborers. Former President Cleveland left Princeton, N. J., on the 9th, pud went in his private car to Philadelphia. There he took the Baltimore & Ohio railroad for the west. It is thought he is oh another gunning trip as he went by the same route last year for the same purpose. The British Avar ship Pearl will arrive at Port Tampa, Fla., on the 20th. and remain until the 25th, to accept an invitation extended by citizens of Tampa, AA'ho Avill hold a celebration on May 8-i in honor of Queen Victoria's birthday. It is possible that the Pearl may be accompanied by another ship An equestrian statue of Maj.-Gen. John F. Hartranft, former governor Of Pennsylvania, in Capitol park, at Harrisburg, was unveiled, on the 12th, with impressive ceremonies in the presence of a large concourse of people, includiug many veterans of Gen. Hartranft division of the Ninth corps. Baron Edgar de Gara,who is charged In Chicago with using the mails to defraud a number of persons in England, went before Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States district court, on the 11th, with a petition to have his bail reduced from $10,000, but Avhen he left a few minutes later his bond had been raised to $11,000. Representatives of over 25 mining concerns Avho control the output of soft coal in Illinois and Indiana, met in Chicago, on the 12th, to consider an advance in the price of coal. Higher ratefe of transportation and an increase in the cost of labor are given as the reasons which make the contemplated change necessary.

The remains of Gen. H. C. Egbert, arrived in Washington, from Manila, were interred at Arlington cemetery, on the 11th, with full military honors. All the available troops in the vicinity of Washington were ordered out. by the war department, and many distinguished army officers were in attendance on the funeral exercises. It was stated in the immigration bureau that the action of Commissionor North, at San Francisco, in refusing a Inffnding to a company of native Filipinos under contract to exhibit at a cdme museum in New York city was entirely proper. The contention of the Filipinos that they are actors and not laborers, probably will not be sustained. On the 11th Gen. Greely made the first authoritative statement as to the progress making in the development of wireless telegraphy under the auspices of the- United States signal corps, the important eonelusion being reached by Gen. Greely that the wireless fey stem is not likely to supplant the ordinary method of telegraphic communication. The United States gunboat Nash fille, the vessel which fired the first shot in the war with Spain, arrived at fit. Louis,and anchored near the Illinois shore, opposite Walnut street, soon after noon, on the 10th. She was met down the river by a large fleet ol steamers, and welcomed from the wharf by thousands of spectators whjle screeching whistles and booming canadded to the excitement of the ocAt night the officers \vere m a reception by the Mercantile

NEW8JS_BBIEP. Oo®^*iW fttar Various Sosroaa. Personal and general. Red^-Admiral Van Reypen, surgeon general of tbe mvy, received a letter, on the 10th, froi:i the surgeon of the Oregon, Dr. Steve itison, at Manila, stating that the health of the ship’s company was excellent, notwithstanding the trying heat of the battleship. A seat on the New York stock exchange was sold, on the 10th, for $40,ood, the highest price ever paid. At the instance of the czarina two commissioners h ive .been sent to the famine-stricken district of Russia to inquire into the distress there, and to take prompt me Jisures for its alleviation. The Britis>h-V nezuela arbitration, which was to begin at Paris on the 24th instant, has been postponed until June 5. The Iowa grand lodge of the Ancient Order of U tited Workmen closed its session, on the 10th, at Muscatine, with the election of officers, and adjourned sine die ■ H ■fhe statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 10th showed: Available cash balance, $262,658,788; gold reserve, $241,699,762. 1 The San Fran< isco Examiner prints a story regarding the new gold discoveries at Point Nome, Alaska, which its advices declare exceed in richness those of the Klondike. An eastern syndicate is said to have secured control of the Wisconsin Telephone -Co., which operates nearly all the lines in that state. It is estimated that a quarter of a million persons viewed the gunboat Nashville, on the 11th, from the Missouri and Illinois shores, from the

great Eads bnd|»e and from skiffs and other water cra:i't. About 15,000 persons visited and inspected the vessel. A complete denial was given at the treasury and interior departments, on the 11th, to the sensational story of a deep-laid counterfeiting scheme that had been uneartlied in the photographic room of the pJi tent office. The story was declared to 1; ;>e a fake. In a great fire, on the 11th, in the town of Gura Humora, province of Bukowina, Austria, 200 buildings, including the principal church, the town hall and other public offices and all the school houses, were destroyed. The commissioner of internal revenue has held that conveyances from a husband to a third party and from the third party to the wife of the original grantor, to operate as a gift to the wife, are each taxable. In the 100 hours’ cycling contest at Eoubaix, France, ended on the 11th, Charles W. Miller, of Chicago, won first prize, lie covered 2,258 kilometers. Joseph Harvey, of Howard City, Mich., 30 years old, killed his wife, his infant child, his father-in-law, his uncle and his grandmother, an$, as a fitting consequence to this succession of niurders, tried to commit suicide, but did not wound himself seriously. A dispatch from London, on the 11th, states that Tom Xickalls. father of the famous scullers Guy and Vivian Nickalls, also known as “King of the American ltailrcad Market,” died at Pattison Court, lied Hill, aged 72. Assistant Attorney General Boyd, at Washington,, has rendered, at the request of the secretary of the treasury, a decision which has been approved by the attorney general, in which he holds that transactions known among stock brokers as “puts” are not taxable under the war revenue act, although “calls” are subject to the tax. Admiral Dewey has sent, and the National museum, at Washington, has received, two cannon which he captured from the Spaniards at Cavite, near Manila. In one of them two shells and a grape shot were found.

I here "was a small panic at the museum when the discovery was made. .The heads of ihe religious orders in the Philippines,according to a dispatch from Home to the Daily Mail, have presented a pe it ion to the pope, in which they protest against the American atrocities. The war department will not send any troops to Manila by way of New York and the Suez canal. All troops now under order for Manila, or to be ordered there during the next few months, will le sent by the way of San Francisco. The Protestant church of St. John, at Ballinasloe, near Dublin, has been destroyed by fi re. The edifice contained valuable, memorials of Clancarty and other olid and distinguished Galway families. The loss is £30,000. -x French -warship arrived at Tangiers, on the 11th, for the purpose of enforcing the demand that the kadi of Robal be pun shed for insulting the French military mission. A construct on train on the Pittsburgh & Western railroad, near Wampum, Pa., crashed through the trestle at Spanglers Run, landing 80 feet below. Two men were killed and six injured. The t restle was a temporary structure. A. Rowie, a passenger from California on the er stbound Union Pacific overland train, suddenly jumped through the coach window while the train was near Chappelle, Neb., on the 11th. It is su]’posed that he suddenly became insane. Private dispatches received in London say that the forces of Generals MacArthur aid Lawton were reinforced, on the 12th, by fresh troops from Manila, end fighting had been resumed. Tod Sloan, the American jockey, was presented to the prince of Wales by Lord William Beresford, at Newmarket, on the 12th. He was not a bjt flustered at ti e honor. Four men were instantly killed by the slide of a portion of a large culm bank at Ceut alia, Pa., on the 12th. Several were l adly injured. ' . \ * . .i .

The Empire 81 tel and Iron Co., of Cincinnati, which has recently secured a number of plants in the middle states, nought the Victoria furnace at Goshen, Va., on the 12th, and all of what are known as the Potts Valley coal properties, including over 1,000 acres of coal land. M. Henri Becque, the French dramatic author, died in Paris on the 12th. Capt. James A. Buchanan, Eleventh United States infantry, has been appointed treasurer of the island of Porto Rico, in addition to his duties as collector of customs at San Juan. Former Gov. Roswell P. Flower, of New York, died, on the night of the 12th, at' the Eastport Country club, at East port, Long Island. Mr. Flower was taken ill early in the day with a severe attack of acute indigestion. In the afternoon symptoms of heart failure supervened, and he grew steadily worse until the time of his death. A movement is on foot in London fot the suppression of Sunday newspa pers. LATE NEWS ITEMS. On the 14th Col. Victor Vifquain ten* dered to the president the services of the Third Nebraska regiment, which had just been mustered out, but was willing to re-enlist to take the place of the First Nebraska, now in Luzon, but soon to return to this country. Mr. McKinley thanked the regiment for its patriotic motives, and said that its offer would be kept in mind should it ever again be necessary to enlist more volunteers. Sir Henry Irving, Whose recent work in the title role of Sardou’s drama “Robespierre” at the Lyceum theater, London, has been .exceedingly trying, was taken seriously ill, on the 14th, with an affection of the throat. His

son, Lawrence, who is Sir Henry’s understudy in several notable roles, was compelled to take his father’s place. The Belmont mill of Wheeling, W. Va., and Ben wood blast furnaces, of Martin’s Ferry, 0., four of the largest iron works in that section of theOhio valley, all of which are the property of the Wheeling Steel and Iron Co., of Wheeling, have granted .3.000 employes an advance in wages of ten per cent. Donald McLean, aged C6, a western railroad promoter, fell over the balustrade on the fourth floor of the Palmer house, in Chicago, on the 14th, landing on the stone flaging, two floors below. His thigh was badly injured and his skull fractured. He died soon afterward of his injuries. One of the largest gatherings ever seen in Minneapolis, Minn., adopted resolutions, on the 14th, in sympathy with the administration of affairs in connection with the Philippines. The names of McKinley and Dewey were cheered to the echo several times during the afternoon. Gov. Stone of-Pennsylvania has made a cut of $1,000,000 in the school appropriation, and reduced several other items, whereby he saves in the aggregate $1,500,000, which will be applied to reducing the floating debt of the commonwealth. r The Catholic Knights of American, at their convention in Kansas City,voted unanimously to endow a chair at the Catholic university in Washington, likely to be the chair of English literature. W The Manitou Park hotel and casino at Colorado Springs, Col., which were to have been opened for the season June 1, were destroyed by fire on the 14th. The loss is estimated at $50,000.

CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Missouri university won in the debate with Nebraska university at Lincoln, Neb., Friday night. K. W. Henry, one of the best-know® attorneys in Iowa, died in the courtroom at Maquoketa during a trial Friday. The Russian govenrment has forbidden Jews to reside in St. Petersburg Several French Jews are among those who will be compelled to leave. Five unsuspecting members of th« crew of the gunboat Nashville, wht were ashore on leave, were Hobson* ized by a party of eight St. Louis girls Friday night. . Announcement is made from a semiofficial souree that Mayor Harrison oi Chicago will not be a candidate foi governor. Burglars entered and robbed ths Ellsworth State Bank of Ellsworth, la., of $3,800. Preparations are being made to present Capt. Dyer of the cruiser Baltimore a beautiful sword on his return to this country . Passenger service on street cars equipped with compressed air motors has been begun on the Twenty-third Street ’cross town line in New York city. Judge Kimball, in the district court at Washington, decided that the sale of liquors on Sundays In Washington hotels was legal under the act of 189a Considerable uneasiness prevails on the Lower Mimbres river, 25 miles from Deming, N. M., on account of the smallpox situation. On account of the long-continued drought, prayers for rain were said in every town and village in Roumanis Friday. \ David Henderson,the theatrical manager, who lives in New York city, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The total liabilities are $130,364. The premature explosion of an aerial bomb on the sidewalk in front of ths Standard theater, St. Louis, Friday night, injured four men, two of them seriously. The archbishop of Manila has ex* piessed the belief that the rebellion is near an end. He is in close touch with the Filipinos through his clerg) throughout Luzon. Moritz Albert Jacobi, for 25 yean president of the Cincinnati Frefa Piesse, died of apoplexy at his residence in Fort Thomas.

ALL OVER THE STATE. Events in Various Portions of In diana Told by Wire. t-at««e CelckMtlra. Crawfordsville, Ind., May 13.—A wed- j ding, a silver wedding and a golden wedding will be celebrated together I on Tuesday evening. May 16, at . Lebanon. On that occasion Miss Neva Whittaker will be marired to W. E. Duthie, of Indianapolis, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Whittaker, will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary their marriage, while Mrs. Whittaker's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Warren, who live with their daughter, will celebrate their golden wedding. * Died la Xrn York. Terre Haute, Ind., May 13. — A tele- | gram has been received in this city an- ! nouncing the death at New York ol j James P. Crawford, president of the ‘ Terre Haute Iron and Steel company, | and secretary of the Wabash Iron com- ! pany, both of which concerns were re-; cently sold to the trust. Mr. Crawford j had been in ill health for some time ; past, and his death was due directly tc ; a stroke of paralysis. His remains will he brought here for interment.

Accused of Conspiracy. | Brazil, Inti., May 13. — Luther Mitchell, a policeman of this city, has filed charges against Mayor Homer Bailey before the police board, charging the chief executive with conspiracy. He alleges that the mayor offered • a ! young woman money if she would in- i duce Mitchell to keep a tryst with her. j He avers that the mayor's purpose was to cause him to lose his position. The i mayor denies the allegation, and the police board is investigating. Fatal Tornado. Marion, Ind., May 13.—A tornado struck a residence iya miles south., of Upland, occupied by the families of David Mong and O. L. Walker, a son-in-law, and completely demolished it. Eva Walker, aged* four, was instanly killed bv falling timbers; Ina Walker, infant, was seriously injured, with little hope for recovery; Jesse Mong was seriously injured, and Mrl and Mrs. David Mong and Mrs. O. L. Walker were all badly bruised. Discovers Gold. I’ogan sport, Ind., May 13^».<*^f)avid L. Bush, who returnedhe Klondike about a year agc^-Ms found gold within a mile ofj^fansport. He claims the vein r^^through the ground in the victory of the old canal bed and brought in a portion of the dirt, which was fused and refined and pronounced the genuine article. Bush says there is plenty more where that came from and there is much excitement pending developments. * Fix the Tln»c*^ Terre Haute, Ind., May 13. — The Big Four Railroad company, which is building a fine depot to mget the demands of travel, and the wishes of the Terre Haute public, has fixed upon the week of the state encampment of the G. A. R., which is the last week in the month, for the formal opening of the structure. Kicked to Death. Columbia City, Ind., May 13.—While : Lee Helsler. aged 35, was driving in company with his wife, some portion , of the harness gave way. Mr. Helsler stopped the horse and attempted to get 1 out of the buggy to fix the harness, ; when the horse kicked him in the stomach, killing him instantly. Inlvemlty Trustees. Indianapolis, Ind., May 13.—The I state board of education has reelected 1 N. U. Hill, of Bloomington; B. V. Shive- j ly, of South Bend, and Robert I. Hamil- ! ton, of Huntington, trustees of the j State university for three years. D. K. Goss has been reelected as member of the state truancy board.

Strike Situation Serious. Evansville, Ind., May 13. —The situation in the coal miners’ strike has assumed a more serious aspect. Present indications point to a long strike. The operators assert that they can secure coal at other places and supply the demand and make a profit besides. Glass Workers’ Strike. Redkey, Ind., May 13.—The blowers and gatherers in 12 shops out of 42 at the Marietta glass works in this city have struck for pay fpr all ware which is culled out by the company. It is said the company will put in machines to take the place of the strikers. » Died in Persia. Indianapolis, Ind., May 13.—Mr. and Mrs. Solon L. Bryan, of this city, received a cablegram from Teheran, Persia, announcing the death of their daughter, the wife of Dr. John G. Wishard, superintendent of the Amerieab hospital at that place. To Tour Europe. Wabash, Ind., May 13.—Miss Adelaide Baylor, principal of the Wabash high school; Mrs. Emma Mont McRae and Miss Doan, of Purdue university, and Mr. Moran, of. Lafayette, will leave in June for Europe, to remain two months.' , Conductor Killed. Fort Wayne, Ind., May 23.—Eugene Olerehan, conductor on the1 Nickel Plate, was instantly killed here by falling from his train. Several cars passed over his body. ■» Is in Debt. North Manchester, Ind., May 13.—M. Butterbaugh, a sawmill man, has filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He is in debt $2,500 and his assets are $1,000. Factory Burned. Logansport, Ind., May 13.—Shearer’s ice cream factory was gutted by fire, the loss being $6,000. The insurance amounts to $1,000. The Russian government has forbidden Jews to reside in St. Petersburg.

Death of New York’s Forma Governor at His Home oi Long IslandWAS A VICTIM OF ACUTE IMKESTItL *1* Body Taken to Sew York City, Wkere ike Pnnernl Will 1« Held, the lotement Tnktng Place at WateHowa-Xn. Flo wet Prostrated Over Her Bereave meat. New York. May 14.—Former Gov. ftoswell P. Flower died suddenly at 11:30 o’clock Friday night, it Fastport, Long Island, in the hou se of the Long' Island Country club-, Acute indigestion was said to be the cause, although the symptoms were aft first regarded as those of apoplexy.

ROSWELL,P. FLOWER. Roswell P. Flower was bori, 1$ Theresa, Jefferson county, N. Y., August 7, 1835. His father was born at Oak Hill, Greene county, N. Y„ and his anjiestors went from Connecticut. Roswell vas the sixth of nine children, and when h d father died he was eight years old. He worked with his brothers on two farms his mother owned and spent his time between school sessions In the hardest kind of labor. He became deputy postmaster of Watertown, N .Y., in 1853. and kept his place six years. Then he became a partner }a the jewelry Arm of Hitchcock & Flowe!*, bought out his partner at the end of ti.ro years, and jontinued in the business until 1869. Mr. Flower came to New York in that year to take charge of the estate of Henry Keep, whose wMe^sr—Was airs. Flower's sisterKeep owned f. great many sWcifFoad and other stocks, and during the months before his death I,e spent much time .instructing Mr. Flower about them. Having thus gained an insight into Wall street and its mernodn, Mr. Flower formed, in 1870, the firm of Benedict. Flower & Co., which has since Keen a power in Wail street. Mr. Flower always was a democrat. In the eary 70s he helped Samuel J. Tilden to develop the famous organization which exposed Tweed, and enjoined many other triumphs. Mir. Flower was chosen chili man of the Democratic state comml! tee in 1S77, and in 1881 he defeated William Waldorf Astor for congress, after a hit campaign, in the Eleventh district. His majority was 5,100, while Levi P. Morton, republican, had" carried it at the last previous election by more than 7,000 votes., He refused a renomination. He was elected bovemor of the state in 1S91. In the cholera epidemic in the late summer of 1892 thousands cf passengers arriving from Europe werr quarantined on shipboard down the bay. As an emergency measure. Gov. Rlewer bought with his own money the Fire Island hotel, in the name of the state, jtnd ordered that the passengers be sent Chore. Mr. Flower took up Brooklyn Rapid Transit less than two y.?ars ago, buying from 20,000 to 30,000 shares at about 25, when the capital shock was only J25.000,300. He absorbed many Subordinate lines, , among them the Nassau Electric company, and increased the capitol stock to Ho.OOO.OOO, and by his extraordinary successful manipulation put the price up to 137. His holdings in Brooklyn Rapid Transit alone, which cost, hint two years ago a little more than $500,000, are worth, at today’s market price, more than $3,0)0,000. Mr. Flower was one o; the founders of the Federal steel trust, whose st"ck already issued is $90.037,SO'- Good authorities estimate that Mr. Flower’s pr >tits in the last eighteen months in Wail street have exceeded $10,000,000.:i He had become in that time the acknowl edged speculative leader in the financial markets of the United States. Mr. Flower married Sc.rah Wooc:ruff, a daughter of Morris M. Woodruff, of Watertown, in 1859. Three children were born, of whom only one survives, Emma Gertrude, who is the wife of John B. Taylor. Mr. Flower has been for years one of the wardens of St. Thomas’ [Spiscopal church. In Fifth avenue. ii New York, May 14—The body of Roswell P. Flower was: brought to this city from Eastport, early this morning, on a special

ROSWELL FLOWER’S FUNERAL. Pallbearers Select t*d—Comr v’tteea and Boards to Attend—To he Interred at 'Watertown. New York, May 15.-i-The pallbearers for the funeral of the late form ? * governor, Roswell P. Flower, were s elected yesterday. They ate: H. H. F orter, Levi P. Morton, J. .Re ward Simmons, A. N. Brady, John E. Borne, \V. A. Nash, H. M. Flagler and S. A. Rosendale. f A committee of 24 :rom the Democratic Editors* association, the lo :rd of directors of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., the faculty anil trustees of the Flower hosprtal and a commit!?* from the grand lodge of masons will* ttend the funeral. This will take place from St. Thomas* Episcopal chifrch or Fifth avenue, at four o’clock this afternoon. After the church services the remains will be- taken to the Grand Central station and placed in a special train, which is scheduled to leave for Watertown at 9 p. m. The burial will take place from the home of Mrs. J. D. Taylor, Mr. Flower’s daughter. at was said yesterday that the Mystic Shrine had tendered tin escort for the body, but that it had been declined, the relatives and imre ediate friends of the family preferring as tittle display as possible. The Reconstructed Italian Cabinet. Rome, May 15.—King Hunjbert yesterday approved the select io'ns/for the reconstructed cabinet made by Gen. Pelleoux. The new ministry will be made up in accordance with the original nominal ions cabled last Thursday, except t hat Sign or Pietro Carmine will take the portfolio of finance and Signor Salandra will take that of agriculture, industry and commerce, instead of the finance portfolio, for which he was nanud at first. The ministry of posts and telegraphs goes to Signor Isinliano.^ «

FROM THE PHILIPPINES itt* DtepatdkM from G«a. otto Itdtoato that th« lMitiwli It* Autou f Q-lt. Washington, May 15.—The following; dispatch from Maj.-Gen Otjpl giving W the status of the military situation as It now exists in operations against ths insurgents, was received at the war department yesterday: <£t - Stlrrlas DtavatekM troa Otta « Manila, May 14, JW99. Adjutant General, Washington—Situation is as follows: Lawton, from ’ Ralinag, has taken Ilde Fonxo and San Miguel to north with slight loss, ami driving considerable force of enemy- j Gunboats and canoes accompany 1,50th | men under Kobbe up Rio Grande river from Calumpit, depart 16th{ MacAr- j thur remains at San Fernando, cover- ; ing coiin tty. Yesterday received a messenger from Aguinaldo expressing wish to send commission to Manila for conference with United States commission to arrange terms of peace; direo* tions given to pass a bpdy of representative insurgents to Manila should i* present itself. t [Signed] OTiS. JOIST MEET 1X0 PROTOSKU.

Filipino* Anxious tor iVnct VBnnd oj? Scouts Couture o Uiirri*one4 Town—Bril Hunt Amenably. Manila. May 15.—The civilian mem bers of the United States Philippine commission are favorable to the meet* ing with a Filipino commission whichwas suggested Saturday, on behalf of Aguinaldo, by Lieut. Keys of the staff of Gen. Gregerio del Pilar, who came to Gen. Lawton under a flag of truce,, bearing the proposal, ft is thought by the American commissioners that the idea may have resulted from a re. cent meeting of the so-called Filipinh congress at San Isidor. Definite in* formation on this 'point, however, can not yet be obtained; though the local Filipino committee, which is in dose conununication with the leaders of the rebellion, is doing its utmost to secure* Sun Miguel Captured by Ten Scouts* The membe rs of Maj.-Gen, Lawton's band of scouts, under W. M. Young, Tndian fighter, entered the town of San Miguel, about 15 miles north of Norzagaray, not aware of what place it was. They found 200Filipinos there, but the rebels, taking the Scouts for the advance of Gen. Lawton's army*, fled, after firing,a few shots. -Young and another scout were wounded, and have been brought to Manila. Rigid Rules Relaxed, The uniform quiet now prevailing in Manila has led the authorities to relax the rule under which the chffi’stMgtM.' were cleared, from seven to half-past eight, and last evening there was the largest and most brilliant assembly of pedestrians and people in carriages to listen to a band concert on the Luaeta that has been known here since the Spaniards left. Farewell Lnoeheon to Dewey. Prof. Schurmann, president of the United States Philippine commission,, gave a farewell luncheon to Admiral Dewey yesterday, at which Prof. Dean C. Worcester and Col. Charles Denby*. of the commission, with Generals Mae* Arthur, Mrs. Lawton and others, wera present. The health or the, admiral was drunk with the utmost cordiality. HONORS A WAITING Will Rerelvr All the Attentions He Is Willing to Accept Bs Route Home. Washington. May 15.—Admiral Dewey's home coming by way of the Mediterranean is likely to give occasion for distinguished bonorsfrom the naviesof Europe, most of them being represent* ed by extensive squadrons in those waters, and some of them having their chief naval stations at Mediterraneaa. ports. The French on the Alert.

Already Ambassador Cambon, of France, has called the attention to the authorities at Paris to the return ot Admiral Dewey by way ot|$te Mediterranean, and his probable sailing of his flagship Olympia past the French naval .ports in Algiers. These are opposite the British possessiohpof Gibraltar and Malta, at the entrance to* the Mediterranean, and are easy and natural stopping places along that route. . It is hardly expected that the admiral will touch at Toulon, the great naval depot of France. At the ports of French Algiers he will be accorded every honor due not only to his high rank, but to the universal esteem in which he is held by the naval fraternity. The British Will Do Thet* Share. The British authorities have taken, no steps thus far to have the admiral stop at British ports, but it Was stated by one of the British officials that. Dewey would be assured a most enthusiastic greeting if he stopped at. any British station, and that undoubtedly steps would be taken induce him to touch at Plymouth and Portsmouth. , , ; In any event, it is said, the admiral: was quite likely to stop at Malta amt Gibraltar, as these are usual Coaling places, and this would give an opportunity for'an expression of British esteem for him. I&sgi;. i W m . War Department Order, Washington, May 13.—An order of* the war department directs that savings will not be allowed on dried fruits or fish which were recently made a. part of the army ration. These articles were allowed for the purpose of affording variety and for hygenid reasons. ' : ‘ ■■AMs' ' '1sis Bishops En Route to Rome. Geneva, Switzerland, May 15.—Sixteen South American archbishops and I bishops have arrived here, on their way to Rome, to attend the forthcoming - consistory. vv/'" ‘