Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 August 1899 — Page 6

- Ithc 5ikc (County gcmaftat M. #*«*<;. MOOPS, Editor and Froprletoft rETE!WiUKU. : * : INDIANA. It la now acknowledged that the bubonic plague began in Oporto, Portu,gal, June 4 last, since which time there have been 39 cases, 13 proving fatal. j The Spanish government urges all Spaniards now in Portugal to remain there, with a view of preventing the propagation of the bubonic plague in 8pain. The board of aldermen of New York 8 adopted a resolution, ori the 15th, authorizing the Dewey celebration committee to expend $150,000 without advertising for contracts. *-» The city of Havana was profoundlj stirred, on the 18th, by the death ol the young wife of Villegas, the formei Cuban officer, whose cruelties to hei had long been a scandal. Orders were issued, on the 17th, foi competitive examinations to be .held September 15 in each geographical department of the arniy for the promotion of enlisted men who desire to become lieutenants. The German embassy in Washingtor has received from llaron Sternberg the full report of the Samoan commission and the draft of the proposed convention bjr which the treaty ol Berlin will be modified.

XJy The first national convention of th< Young1 People’s Christian Temperancl union has befen called to meet in Chi* coga, September 27 and 28, organziatioa to be effected on Frances W’illard’s birthday in honor of her memory. Walter Wellman and the survivors of the Polar expedition led by him arrived at Tromsoe, Island of Tromsoe, Norway, on the 17th, on the steamer Capella, having successfully completed their exploration ip Franz Josef Laud. Premier Bight Honorable George Houston Ried, in addressing the farmera’ conference jn Sydney, N. S. W., promised that the government would assist them to get the best American machines, thus aiding in the improvement of their condition. In the Peruvian chamber of. deputies Deputy Velez, on the 17th, made a motion that a note be addressed to the minister of instruction requesting an explanation as to why the council had decided to close the English schools at Callao. The motion was adopted. The state department has received : a valuable report from the United States consul at Chefoo, China, showing the great strides made by American trade throughout China. It is in line with the views expressed by President Schurman since he returned from the Far East. Gov. Poynter has abandoned the pro- , , ject of providing a special train foi the First Nebraska, and the disbanded volunteers will be forced to use the traveling allowance granted by the government. Over $15,000 had been pledged by private subscriptions, leavN ing $20,000 still to be raised. Gen. Brooke will be called to Washington, shortly, to consult with Secretary Boot concerning pffairs in Cuba. The secretary desires to have the benefit of Gen. Brooke’s knowledge of the condition of things in the island before he reaches any definite conclusions as to a future policy for Cuba.

Capt. Dreyfus still lives almost ex* clusively on milk and eggs. On rising at five o’clock he takes a glass of milk. He is then escorted to the court room under a strong guard. On returning to prison he takes a second glass of milk, and at one o’clock a aoft-boiled egg and another glass of milk. • As Emperor William’s yacht Meteor has finished her racing season on the Cowes course, Capt. “Ben” Parker, the skipper of that craft and 11 members of her crew have received permission from his majesty to come to the United States immediately, in order to help sail the Shamrock, in the races for the America’s cup. The trustees of the Miami university, at Oxford, O., met in Cincinnati, on tile 15th, and elected Rev. David Stanton Tappan, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Portsmouth, to succeed Dr. Thompson as president of the university. Dr. Thompson was recently elected president of Ohio state university at Columbus. G. W. Bibble, manager, announced^ on the 15th, that the Postal TelegraphCable Co. would handle, free of charge, all government telegrams regarding Porto Rican storm sufferers, and through its connection, the Bermudan Cable Co. and West India and Panama Cable Co., will also handle cablegrams if the same class gratuitously. An order for the organization of ten additional regiments of volunteers for service in the Philippines was issued by the war department on the 17th. This order will add 13,090 men to the enlisted strength of the army land increases the total strength of tfie army to 95,045 men. It will give Gen. Otis « fighting force of 62,451 men. The state department has been informed by Consul Managhan, at Chemnitz, Germany, that a new trade arrangement has been made between Uruguay and Germany by which each is guaranteed the same rights as the most favored nation, except that Uruguay does not grant the special privileges given to Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. :

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The St. Petersburg' correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says that Emperor Nicholas and the empress will visit Queen Victoria about the aid of the present month. The Paris Droits du L’Homme says a locksmith named Bonnet was shot in the abdomen, on the 16th, by an unknown assassin,. who saw him in a street and called^ out: “He looks like one of those dirty Jews.” The man then fired at the locksmith and escaped. Bonnet was taken to a hospital, seriously wounded. Secretary Root has directed that the transports Pueblo, Belgian Ging, Columbia and Charles F. Nelson be chartered. They can carry 2,550 men. All will be ready to sail from San Francisco for Manila by September 1. The secretary of the interior, on the ! 16th, began to grant permits under the Alaskan code to persons and firms to | sell fire arms to the natives of Alaska, i The loss by the recent great storm j in Porto Rico is now estimated at $75,000,000. Experiments made at the Pasteur in- | stilute in Lisbon? identify the Oporto | epidemic microbes aa those of the buj boiiic plague. The headquarters of the Order of • Railway Telegraphers will be removed j from Peoria, 111., to St. Louis on September 20. The Brussels chamber of commerce, on the 16th, adopted four out of six of ! the government’s electoral measures. Eliza Day, colored, aged 60 years, a patient at the Columbus (Q.) state hospital, died, on the 17th, from peritoni- ! tie, and an autopsy revealed in her

j stomach the handles of five silver ; spoons and 50 cambric needles and in ; the bowels nearly 50 more needles. The convention of the National Firemen’s association opened in Milwaukee on the 17th. There was a slim attendance. Mayor David S. Rose welcomed the visitors. Papers relating- to thd firemen’s business were read. The Twenty-sixth regiment band, on the 17th, gave a concert on the'lawn in front of the Hotel Annex, at Plattsbnrg, N. Y., in honor of president and Mrs McKinley,who sat in the balcony outside their apartments. Jim Franey, the pugilist injured by Frank McConnell in their fight at San Francisco, on the night of the 16th died, on the 17th, without having regained consciousness. The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 17thshorted: Available cash balance,- $271,488,035; gold reserve, $246,221,304. The national encampment of the Spanish-American war veterans will be held in Washington city September 8 arc 9. Kansas farmers are contracting the sale of their corn crop at 15 dents per bushel in the .field. In Brown and Marshall counties a number of farmers have agreed to deliver large consignments of corn on January 1, at 22 cents a bushel. Frank Bangs was instantly killed by falling into a corn-sheller at an elevator in Beatrice, Neb., on the 17th. A wagon load of corn had just been driven in, and the trapwvas opened to receive the grain. Bangs fell through the trap into the sheller, and was caught by the sharp steel prongs or grapples and torn to pieces. The wedding of Miss Julia Dent Grant, daughter of Gen. F. D. Grant, to Prince Michael Cantacuzene will take place at Newport, R. I., September 25. Bishop Henry C. Potter will officiate. The ceremony will be held at the All Saints church. Mrs. Potter Palmer will give her niece a dot of $500,000.

The gunboat Democraeia left Guaymas, Mexico, recently, and a rumor was started that §he went to intercept a vessel from San Francisco carrying gatling guns, rifles and ammunition to the Yaquis. She did not return, but It was rumored that she had captured the filibuster. <s). Ex-Judge Richard PteUdergast, one of Chicago’s most prominent lawyers, <|ied, on the 17th, of anaemia. An om ^ration of transfusion of blood from John Morrissey—a young man whom the attorney had helped to a successful career—was performed, which afforded temporary relief, but a relapse came and death followed. Adjt.-Gen. Corbin has been highly pleased to discover that the soldiers offering themselves for the volunteer regiments have, in large numbers, had experience in Cuba and elsewhere. The per cent, runs from about 20 to 60, according to locality, making an average of about 40 per cent, that may be called veterans. One of the ten new regiments of volunteers to be organized under the order issued on the 17th, will be assembled at Jefferson Barracks, St, Louis. It will be the Forty-sixth, and will be commanded by Col. W. S. Schuyler, formerly captain in the Fifth cavalry. " Eight hundred insurgents attacked Angeles, Luzon, on the 17th, but the Twelfth regiment drove them into the mountains. Three ditched locomotives were captured. None of the American | troops was injured. The insurgent loss is not known. The insurgent faction in the state of Los Andes. Venezuela, under Gen Citriano Castro, was completely defeated by the government troops in a bloody battle which lasted 18 hours. The loss of the insurgents is placed at 800 killed and wounded, and that of the government at 3Ck>. Twenty cases of the curious contagious cutaneous disease, which is rapidly spreading about Downs, 111., have been discovered in Bloomington. It is less severe than in the country. Bloc mington doctors diagnose the city eases as impetigo contagiosa.

The American line steamer St. Louis, which sailed from Southampton, on the 18th, for New York, has among her passengers Rear-Admiral A. S. Crowninshield, chief of the bureau of navigation of the United States navy department, and Prince Hatzfeld. The inquiry into the killing of Capt. Pollock at the soldiers* home at Milwoukee, by David Anderson, promises to develop into a general inquiry as to the treatment of the inmates of the home by the officers in charge. The lord mayor of Dublin has issued an appeal to Irishmen throughout the world to, subscribe to a fund for a memorial to the late Charles Stewart Parnell, the foundation-stone ofVhich will be laid in October next. Assistant Secretary Taylor has selected the property at the corner of Minnesota avenue mad Seventh street, as a site for the public building at Kansas City, Kas. Compensation, $20,000. The legislative council of Western Australia, on the 18th, passed a bill enfranchising women LATE NEWS ITEMS. Paris was the scene of the most serious anarchist disturbances, on the 20th, recalling some aspects of the commune. Shops were rifled of tlieir contents and churches were wrecked, rare works of art and costly ornaments being wantonly destroyed, and furniture piled Up in the streets and burned. The police were overwhelmed several times, but finally gained the mastery and a large number of rioters were jailed .

James P. Young, a private in Co. D, Thirtieth infantry volunteers,^ was j killed by a freight train at Evanston, 111., on the 20th, while an his way to Fort Sheridan to report after a day's absence. The body was strewn along the tracks for a block, and the only remaining vestige of the uniform which ! Young wore was a brass button fouud i on the roadbed. On the night of the 19th Mrs. Jennie Weston drowned herself and her four- j year-old son Bertie in a cistern at the ‘ family home in Pierre, S. D. There was no one else at home except a danghter about 17 years old and the deeed was not known until next morning. Family troubles are supposed to have been the cause of the tragedy.. I The transport Siam sailed from San Francisco, }for Manila, on the 20th, with 350 mules which will be used for military service in the Philippines. The ! vessel will stop at Honolulu for sev- j eral days and the mules’"will be given 1 a run ashore as a rest from their j steamer voyage. Fifty experienced ' drivers accompanied the animals. Miss Viola Horlocker, who is resting j under $5,000 bond charged with having attempted to take the life of Mrs. I Charles A. Morey by sending her a box of poisoned candy on April 10 last, is now in the insane asylum at Jackson- | ville, 111. On the 20th Dr. George N. Krieder, the attending physician, said that Gov. Tanner was suffering from malaria and ' his fever was high. He will probably : be unable to attend to the duties of liis office for a week. Map. Russell B. Harrison, inspector • general at Santiago de Cuba, is critit j cally ill with yellow fever. The disease ! had progressed for three days before ■ being pronounced yellow fever on the 20th. The transport Garonne sailed from Seattle, Wash., on the 20th, for Manila, having on board 400 horses belonging ' to the Third cavalry. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. i __ l Marshall, Mo., has arranged for a ' street lair this fall. Two miners were accidentally kdled j near Galena, Kas. The Dawes commission has com- ! pleted its work at Durant, I. T. The Dana (111.) coal miners will re- : sume o/crations soon with union men. i J. S. jhalmer, a fireman, fell benath a wrecked engine at Quincy, 111., and . was scalded to death. Atty.-Gen. Goddard of Kansas de- | fends trusts, and declares that he will < not proceed against them. A clash between union and non-nn- ;

ion miners at Lexington, Mo., resulted ! in the injury of three men. j A letter from a miner near the Yaqui reservation states that the war promises to be of Iona- duration. The San Felipi hotel, at Albuquerque, X. M., the largest building- of its kind . in the southwest, was burned Friday; * loss. $43,000. ' • i, Tobert Campbell and his cousin, Ccr- ; neiius Campbell, who went to his res- j cue, both perished in a well at Knox- | ville, Tenn. The Kansas City Underwriters’ association will be dissolved, in accordance with the state, law, but the rates will not be thereby disturbed. “Kid” McCoy was knocked out in less that half a round, Friday night, by Jack McCormick, a comparatively unknown fighter, at Chicago. Judge James Simpson addressed the ex-confederates at Bonham, Tex., vigorously defending secession and the conduct of the south before the war. Lieut. Ernest Weber of Battery A, St. Louis, will accept a commission as.' first lieutenant in one of the new regiments in course of formation by order of the president. The gunboat Machias and other armed ships are guarding the Cuban coast to see that the neutrality laws of the United States are not violated by San Domingo filibusters. Jack Harlon has been arrested and placed in jail at Tusla, I, T., charged with killing James Williams. Mrs. Harlon ran away with Williams, then her husband killed him. Jiminez, leader of the San Dominican revolution, was arrested on board a sttamer as he was leaving Cienfuegos, Cuba, for Dominican shores. Cubans resent American interference with Jiminez.

HOOSIEB HAPPENINGS Told la Brief by Dispatches ft era Various Localities. Ptltrlnite to Notre Done. Notre Dame, Ind.t Aug. 18. — The greatest pilgrimage in point ot num* bers that has ever been made to toe grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at Not re Dame was that from Kalamazoo, Niles and other Michigan cities. It is estimated that 3,000 or more persons joint'd in the devotional exercises. After toe exercises at the grotto the people tittended high mass at the university church. Rev. Frank O’Brien, dean of Kalamazoo, celebrated mass. After t lie services the dean, in the name of toe parishes of Kalamazoo, presented to 1 tie university a beautiful banner, handsomely decorated and embroidered in gold and blue, the Notre Dame colors, as an expression of the high regard in which the institution is held by the Catholics of Kalamazoo. Public Bulldlnsr Site.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 18.—Assist ant Secretary Taylor has taken final action in regard to the acquisition by the government of a site for a federal building at Indianapolis^Proceedings in condemnation will at once be instituted against the whole of square 36, known as the University park site, and if the awards are found to be reasonable the entire square will be secured and the building placed in the center of it. If, however, the awards under condemnation proceedings are found to be excessive, the government will take only a little more than half of the tract. This, it is said, is all that is absolutely necessary for the building, but the entire square wrould be very desirable. Gov. Mount to Select Officers. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 18.—According to advices from Secretary of War Hoot, Gov. Mount will at once recommend for appointment for service in the new regiments for the Philippines 12 commissioned officers for Indiana. The governor says: “The responsibility for these recommendations to the war department has been assigned to me, and I am therefore admonished of the necessity of careful action. I shall consult superior officers of .Indiana regiments as to the liaost desirable men in their judgment most deserving of consideration*' and my conclusions will, in a large measure, be predicated on information received from these sources.” Delegates to Prison Congress. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 18. — Gov Mount has appointed delegates to represent Indiana at the national prison congress as follows: Alvin T. Hert, superintendent of the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville; Charley Harley, warden of the state prison; Sarah F. Ifieely, superintendent of the industrial school for girls and woman’s prison; T. J. Charlton, superintendent of the reform school for hoys, and Amos W. Butler, seci-etaty of the board of state charities. The prison congress convenes at Hartford, Conn., on September 23. Wanted for a Brntnl Deed. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 18.—A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Newton Reed, a Big Four brakeman, who is accused of having kicked a coal miner named "William Henry off the ladder of a box ear down which he was chasing him and causing him to fall under the wheels. Reed is said to have disappeared. The United Mine Workers’ organization of the state, qf which Henry was a member, has taken up the case and will prosecute Reed if he can be found.

v License Suspended. » Indianapolis; Ind., Aug. Is.—The insurance department of Indiana has suspended the renewal of the state license of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life association of New York pending a further investigation of its affairs. The company had insurance in force in Indiana in December last of $1,6C7,000. The policy holders of the company are awaiting with much interest the report of the New York insurance department on the examination that has just been com-, pletcd. ■■■’ War on Trusts. New Carlisle, Ind., Aug. 18.—A. B. McIntyre, of Kent county, Mich., is organizing anti-trust leagues jn northern Indiana and southern Michigan coimties. It is proposed to effect the organization of a league in every school district in the two states and to refuse to buy all commodities controlled by com- i bines. The work of the organization i will be extended to the cities, where leagues will be instituted among the industrial workers. „ * - The State Banks. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 18.—The condition of state banks, as shown under the call of July 27, marks an improvement over the lust previous call, April 15. The cash on hand has increased $1,500,000 and the deposits have increased over $2,500,000. The surplus shows an increase of between $3Q:000 and $40,000 and overdrafts have decreased about $29,000. Men Fight with KbI-^mu English, Ind., Aug. 18.—News reached here from Oriole of a fight between George Hanley and Charles Harvey at a picnic. The weapons used were knives, and both men were horribly butchered. Harvey is cut principally in the abdomen. Hanley’s left eye is cut out, his nose severed and his right cheek laid open. Alleged Counterfeiter Held. Muncie, Ind., Aug. 18.—United States Commissioner Ellis bound over to the United States court Charles Downs, of Danville, HI., for having counterfeit mdlds in his possession. * He was arrested at Fairmount fair and was turning out spurious dollars, it is alleged.

Ti e Day at Rennes Taken Up :>y a Continuation of CoL Picquart’s Deposition. CONVINCED OF DREYFUS' INNOCEIKIE. Biiterkur, Hot Drcffu, Wrote lit Bordereau, Bnt the War Offi «rs Would Hot Admit that aa Euro* Had Boca Made, aad Soii*hf to Cover Up the Evidence. Rennes, Aug. 19.—When the second j trial by court martial of Capt. Ai red Dreyfus, charged with treason, waii resumed in the Lycee at 7:25 a. m., !>»L Picquart, former chief of the int »Uigence department of the war oiitoe, was called to the witness sfand and continued his deposition, which was interrupted Thursday by the adje urn- j ment of the court for the day. Tho Colonel's Fearless Maanev. The colonel gave his testimony in j the same fearless tone of voice t hat: characterized his manner Thurs lay. Me began by declaring he though I; it i 11 ct isarv to immediately reply to l ien, j Itogcta* veritable arraignment of :tim j while on the stand. At the outset of | CoL Picquart's remarks, lioget inter-! posed, and said he would reply to j ![them. , ,

Dteenued the Dossier. Continuing, Col. Picquart proce'i (led to discuss the secret dossier as b ing the mainspring of the condemnation of Dreyfus. He took up the documents successively referring to the writers and addresses of the Iftters as A nnd Among those present in court i ere Generals Zurlinden and Billot, former ministers of war. Msltre Kormud Present. Maitre Mornard, who argued the case in behalf of the Dreyfus far uly, for the revision of the prisoner’s ientence before the court of cassation, was present to assist M. Demang oi; counsel for the defense. Drift of Picqnart’s Testimony . Col. Picquart’s efforts were mainly directed to the matter of showing :hat Esterhazy, and not Dreyfus, was the author of the bordereau, and ”;hat When the attention of the higher offi? c« rs of the general staff was called to the fact that an error had been made in the condemnation of Dreyfus, instead of endeavoring to undo the < itoi every effort was made to cover up the fact that an error had been made, wen to the extent of resorting to forgery. An l’nsensation|il Incident. At the conclusion of Col. Piequ irt's deposition, Generals Koget and Me ciei rose together and asked to be alh wed to be confronted with the witness. The confrontation, however, only last :d a few minutes, and did not prove sen- j sational, having reference to t om-1 paratively minor points. Af^er Picquart had reiterated his statements, the court adjourned at 11:40 a. m., until Saturday. The deposition of Col. Picquari oc- • cupied the entire session. The Session Reviewed. Col. Picquart practically occupied j the whole of the day’s sitting with a j masterful presentation oi his side ot the case. He spoke for five hours, aud his voice at the end of that time began to show- signs of fatigue. His testimony was followed with the closest at- i tention by the members of the court-! martial and by the audience, and during the brief suspension of the court,1 Generals Mertier, Koget, Billot and DeBoisdeffre, and other witne jses, sauntered together up and down the court yard of the Lycee, or gathered fn little groups, animatedly disi uss-! Ing Picquart's evidenct

Ainim for Urey ins. Dreyfus drank in all the witness I vords, which came as a balm to the ! wounds inflicted upon him by Jer* j vier and Roget, and the* prisoner fre-; quently and closely scanned the faces of his judges, as though seeking to read their thoughts. ; From the standpoint of the spt ©tailors, the session was the most uneventful one since the opening of the [trial. Eve* the confrontation at the tend lacked the dramatic torce of the similar incidents which have marked j almost every previous sitting. Pic- ! iquart’s deposition was a fine per-| formance. He spoke without notes, : and in view of the mass of facts ad- ] duced, it must be yanked as a feat of I memory.- , frourt Toole Copious Notes. The members of the court-martial j took copious notes* during Eicqnart’s testimony; and it was quite evident that several of the explanations ho gave caiue as fresh light. Then, when Picquari concluded, both Gen. Roget and Gen. Mercier jumped up and asked to be heard :ontrndietorily. i Col. Jouaust asked Gen. Roge . to speak first. He thereupon faced Cal. Picquart, who replied promptly tc his questions, which the general d jlitin a theatrical manner and with frequent gestures. j Gen. Mercier adopted a quieter demeanor. Keither, however, said itnything which could be describe } as damaging to Col. Picquart’s evidence. Denied » Writ of Habeas Corpn* Seattle, Wash., Aug. 19.—-United States District Judge Hanford yesterday denied the application of the Chinese crew of the transport Victor! i for a writ of habeas corpus. In view o t the fact that the crew is not permitted to land here on account of the exclusion law, the court concludes that it'would be putting the government to unnecessary expense to transport the n to Hong Kong. The agents of the vessel furnished a bond pledging that they would discharge the crew at M tnila and send them to Hong Kong

mm gg| THE WAR IN THE PHnjPPlHB^ Secretary Roof* Map of tke n«3tM •f Actloa May Lead to Important , . J Changes la Plaa of CampaipW#;-' .' r| Washington, Aug. 21.—The ma| s of the Philippines and especially of that portion of the island of Luzon north and south of Manila, which has been prepared for the use of Secretary Root, may assume a more important port in the coming campaign than hits been given it heretofore. Secretary Root has not only ascertained where the United States droops are located, and has them nicely marked of? on the map, but he has also taken into consideration such information as can be obtained relative to the population of the adjacent country, the kind of people and their disposition toward the United States. The secretary ba» also been studying the lines of transportation and learning what he can of the geography of the country. $||| It is believed that more than one army can operate to advantage in the Philippines and the suggestion has * been made by some army officers tha& an army should start from different - points and operate in such a manner as to distract and destroy the Filipino forces. At present the United Stages forces do not occupy the lines of railway half way to Lingayen, on the gulf of the same name. ffifp)' ■' g It has been suggested that if one force were to start from iangay^n and move south at the same time that another were moving north, there, would be a great probability of soon securing the entire railway for the use of the army and the insurgents would bfr separated into divisions east and W£St by the railroad, as they are now divided into northern and southern babds. Between Angeles and Lingayeu is, Tarlae, a town of considerable size hiad situated in a province where the datives are said not to be unfriendly to the United States. If this province could be occupied it might be of gpept advantage to the government.

VMuie these are merely suggestions it may be that when the army in the Philippines consists of 60,000 meie instead of about 20,000 or 25.000 it Mil be possible to have four or more anpics operating ingtead of two as during the last campaign. •' • The locations of troops, as marked by pins on the map prepared for Secretary Hoot, show the places pied as follows: ' -North of Manila,under Gen. thur—a point above Angeles. Wheaton), Angeles, Porae. Cafe* Rita, San Fernapdino. (MaeArtH* Bates, Candiba, San Luis, Calm Malolos, Quinga, Baluig, Bustos, gu?nto and Bigaa. South of Manila, Imus (Lawt headquarters), Mingting— Iupa, Bacoor, Talaba, Pafanaque,, Ta Pasig, Mariquina and points adjacent around the aqueduct, and"pumping station, Taytay, Antipolo, ’Morealg^hd' Calamba, the farthest point south . which has no communication by DISPATCHES FROM GEN. Two Successful Engaisemenii the Inna rents—One Intent enouaiig;.}'' Killed, One Wounded. Washington, Aug. 21.—The fc ing dispatches announcing ments with the Philippine insi were received 'at the war depai yesterday: ' Manila, Aug. 20, Lieut.-Col. . Sixth infantry, 80 attacked and routed 100 of the ei entrenched at Xibuan, Negros tains, having three men sli| wounded. Enemy left in entref merits 19 dead, six rifles, all res ammunition. Supposed to be Tagr.los who a few days since crossed to Panay in small boats.

QUARANTINE RULES REL, Manila, Aug, !& First Lieut. Alfred W, Drew, Tvv; infantry, instantly killed aud Lieut. Willie Uline, same regiment verely wounded yesterday i:i ^ on insurgents in the vicinity geles by two companies of tiiV infantry. Ao other casualties. Ei routed. ' orii First Lfeut. Alfred W. Drew tioned in above dispatch.wds Texas, lie graduated from the tary academy in 1S91 and was «$» as second lieutenant of the T\v; Iftl fantry. During the war with Sjxrf was major of the Thjrd Texa* '•% • Result Inspector-General Uses*, sell B.' Harrison Is Critical!) Ill With Yellow Fever. S Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 2 2 Russell 15. Harrison, inspector ge is critically ill with yellow fever, disease had progressed for three although not pronounced yellow filter until yesterday afternoon. WMj-: Of late the quarantine rules have been^relaxed, ©wing to the fact tljat there have been no new cases in the city, and officers from headquarters, have been in the habit of coming to Santiago dailj% returning to headquarter* at night. Maj. Harrison has been isolated, but not brought to the fever hospital. Th# Result of Carnlrsfne*s£ Manila, Aug. 20.—The pointed to examine into the causes of the grounding of the United Cable ship Hooker, which went ashore near the mouth of i^igedor harbor, at the entrance of Manila bay, finds that the accident ckvcurred in daylight, on a reef showO.on the chart, and that there' were evi. dences of carelessness on the part, of the navigator of the vessel. The instruments and other property Ijaye been removed from the Hooker, W&t the cable is now being removed. .iL'.feiEL