Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1900 — Page 2

Ehf § ifet County § rmoftat M. McG. STOOPS, Editor and PiopiMMk PETERSBURG. : INDIANA. The cholera in many parts of Bombay and Rajputana is causing much mortality, and impeding the relief work. There are now 5,730,000 persons in jreceipt of relief. The senate, cn the 31st, passed the sundry civil appropriation hill, carrying, as an amendment, $5,000,000 for the Louisiana Purchase exposition to be heldin St. Louis in 1903. The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Xeddleston, telegraphed, on the 20th, that a good rain had fallen in Mysore, mid that scattered showers had fallen elsewhere in the famine district. The monthly statement of the pubdie debt shows that at the close *~f business, May 31, 1900, the debt, less •cash in the treasury, amounted to $1.1322,608,811, a decrease for the month of $2,193,274. Count Goluchowski, the Austro-Hun-garian minister of foreign affairs, in in speech in Buda-Pesth, on the 28th, said: “The driebund is to-day what it was 20 years ago—a peace alliance par excellence.** The Portuguese government has informed the committee representing the parties to the Delagoa Bay railway nrbitration award tharthe minister of finance is ready to pay and desires to know where the money will be received. | The monthly statement of the comptroller of the currency, issued on the 1st, shows that at the close of business, May 31, 1900, the total circulation of national bank notes was $300,48V 889, an increase for the month of $15, 210,563. The sheriff of St. Louis began, on the 81st, Ike swearing in of a posse comitatus of 2,300 men, chosen from the ranks of the better eitizens, to r^s*ist 'the police in suppressing lawlessness and to give protection to street car employes and others.

Fire in the five-story department etore of the Pitts-Kimball company, lidjoining the Park theater, Washington street, Poston, on the right of the Mst, did more than $200,000 damage. The Park and Tremont theaters abd the New England Piano Co* suffered considerable loss. A special train started from Tien' Tsin, on the 31st, for Pekin, with contingents of American, Pritish, French, llussian and Japanese troops to protect foreign consuls and residents and their Interests. It was rumored that the entrance of the foreign troops would be resisted at the outer wall. , The seating capacity of Kansas City’s convention hall, as it will be arranged for the democratic national convention, has been submitted to the national committee md the sergeant-ttt-arms,by F. E. Hill, the architect,and approved. It makes provision for accommodating 22,260 persons. A netv pest has made appearance In the wheat fields in portions of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. It is the green plan louse, or aphis, that usually gathers on the tender shoots and buds of roses. Entomologists do not apprehend that much “damage will be done, as the growing crop is strong enough to resist its ravages. A special dispatch from Shanghai, dated the. 30th, said: “Yesterday the Chinese government issued an edict prohibiting the Boxers’ organization, under penalty of death. The edict, which wras signed by the emperor, was couched in equivocal terms and was promulgated really more as an excuse for than in condemnation of the movement.” , - The municipal council of Paris met, on the 30th, for the first time since the nationalist victory at the late elections. The rival parties had an opening tussle on the question of the presidency, which Avas won by the nationalists, whose candidate, M. Gribauvul, was elected by 45 votes, against a total of 35 cast for the socialist and radical nominees.

The president of Chili opened the Chilian congress on the 1st. In his address he said Chili was at peace with an the world, and expressed the hope of an early settlement of the questions pending between Peru and Poliviu. The president announced a budget surplus of $16,000,000; said the financial condition was flourishing, and that new railroads and public works would be pushed. The latest news from the war in South Africa, up to the 31st, was that Johannesburg had surrendered, Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal ic- | jiuraie, was peacefully awaiting the approach of Lord lioberts’ troops, the garrison having been withdrawn from 'the forts, and President Kruger was fleeing towards Lourenzo Marquez. It was generally believed that the war ■wa* practically ended. CT About two hundred and fifty Amerins gathered at the Picpus cemetery, ear Paris, Ion the 30th, for the customary celebration at the grave of Gen. Lafayette. Speeches were deliv* by- Gen. Horace Porter, the UnitStates ambassador; Commissionerral Ferdinand W. Peck and C. fayetle, the nearest descendant of :he great patriot. A "-number of tbs from various American so* ties were laid upon the tomb.

1 jSM. Mon. Tm. Wed, Ifcw. Fit. Sat. j HM 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 * 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 117 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. In the senate, en the 2Sth, Mr. Wellinglou (Md.>, referring to a secret understanding existing between the United States and Great Britain, Mr. Lodge (Mass.) challenged him to the proof. Mr. Wellington said he believed the proof could be found in the secret archives oh the state department. Mr. Lodge replied that the secretary of state had emphatically denied that such an agreement existed, and the country, believed his statement. The reading of the sundry civil appropriation bill was completed, but uut all of the committee’s amendments were disposed of. The proposition to continue the life of the industrial commission until October 31, 1901, was, after debate, agreed to..In the house the Alaskan civil government bill was passed, and some odds and ends of legislation were cleaned up. In the senate, on the 29th, the most important business transacted was the adoption of an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating 35,000,000 for the Louisiana Purchase exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1906. A motion to reconsider subsequently offered by Mr. Gallinger (N. 11.) wsas debated without reaching a conclusion. The Teller resolution expressing sympathy for the Boers was sent to the committee on loreign relations, 40 to -M_ In the house the senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill was rejected and a modified proposition giving the secretary of the navy discretion in the .matter of purchasing armor plate or the erection of a government plant substituted therefor. The conference report on the post office bill was finally agreed to and the measure, as amended, was passed, The senate was not In session on the 60th. having adjourned over in deference to Decoration day'..In the house, the regular order bfeing withdrawn, the motion to strike out the enacting clause of the Chinese commission bill was defeated, and the bill was again placed upon the calendar. After passing 190 pension bills the house adjourneu In honor of Decoration day.

In th© senate, on the 31st, the sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying fS.QWW'JO lor the Louisiana Purchase exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1903, was passed. This leaves only the military academy and the general deficiency appropriation bills to be acted upon by the senate, and these were expected to be disposed of by the 2d.In the house consideration of the lesolution reported from the judiciary committee proposing a constitutional amendment to lodge in congress the power to “define, regulate, control, prohibit or dissolve trusts, monopolies or combinations,” was"entered upon under a special order, which fixed 5 p. m. of the 1st, for taking the vote, without opportunity to amend. A constitutional amendment requires a tw’o-thirds vote to adopt. In the senate, on the 1st, caustic debate of a political nature occurred upon sut.jects not themselves political. A memorial was presented from the people of California asking the government to pro-* vide some relief for the starving people of India. Mr. Hale reported a further disagreement on the naval appropriation biU. Seventy-nine private pension bills were passed, as was. also, the military academy appropriation bill. Consideration of the general deficiency appropriation bin was begun.In the house, the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment empowering congress to regulate trusts wits defeated—154 to 131—less than the necessary two-thirds majority. Tne vote was almost exclusively on party lines, republicans favoring and democrat's and populists opposing the resolution. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Representative- Richardson, of Tennessee, called cn the president, on the 31st, and presented a resolution adopted by the legislature of Tennessee recommending to the president the appointment of Gen. .loseph Wheeler as a major general in the regular army. The overdue ship Penny Clement, 300 bays from Hamburg for Kiao Chau, China, was reported to have arrived at her destination on the 31st. Ninety per cent, reirsurance had been paid on her. A Manila dispatch of the 31st says that Maj. March reports: coming up with the supposed body guard of Agi.inaldo north of the Cayagan valley. During the tight it was seen that an insurgent officer was shot from off his hoi-se. He was rescued by his comrades, but his horse and saddlebags were captured. The saddlebags contained AguinaIdo’s personal papers.

ine nussian amoassaaor at Uonstantinople has notified the sultan that the Armenian outrages must cease and prompt reparation be made f-jr past persecutions. The porte is told in plain words that unless this in done Russian armed interference in the disturbed province is inevitable. The saltan and the harem clique are terrified by this tfireat. The issuance of a bench warrant, at the instance of Judge Cantrill, at Frankfort, Ky., on the 31st, for the arrest of W. S. Taylor, former claimant of the governorship of Kentucky, ^as the first official notice that an indictment had been returned naming Taylor as an accessory to the murder of William Goebel. James Smith, the messenger boy from Philadelphia, presented to President Kruger, at Pretoria, on the 31st, the message of sympathy from American school children. The boy, who is modest and polite, created a good impression among the Transvaal officials. A Pretoria special to the New York Herald, on the 31st, said the British were repulsed there that morning, and that fighting was in progress. President Kruger was said to be giving orders, and “The old lion was dying game.” All the officers of the United Confederate Veterans were re-elected by acclamation at the second day’s session at Louisville, Ky. The election was put through irf" record time, taking less than one minute. The chamber of commerce of L^s Angeles, Cal., sent S},000 to Bomlisy, India, cm the 1st, to be expended in relief of the famine sufferers. This I money was raised by subscription. j

By the explosion of dynamite in the house of William Broehm, a mile north of Forest Junction, Wis., on the morning of the 31st, the entire family of five persons, and a Mr. Stebbins v.ere blown to pieces. The United States 'transport Sherman sailed from San Francisco, on the •1st, for Manila, via Honolulu and , Guam, heavily laden with commissary supplies and carrying a number of passengers and soldiers and the wires I and families of,a number of officers ou duty in the Philippines. One of the first calls made by census enumerators in the District vi C oluinbia, oh the 1st, was at the While House. Enumerator Henry Ross, fully equipped with all the necessary blanks, put in an appearance before the president had reached his office. A judgment for $15,000 was rendered in San Francisco, on the 1st, against Frank Van Ness, the horseman who. about five years ago, while handling the race horse Morello, converted tl»r animal to his own use and removal him to California. LATE NEWS ITEMS. • In the senate, on the 2d, the Cuban extradition bill was passed; the general deficiency bill, the last of the «.ppropriation Wills. was passed, as w:>s, also, the emergency river and harbor bill. The session was concluded with c-nlogies of the. late Representative Green, of Nebraska....In the house the Littlefield anti-trust bill to amend the Sherman net of 1890 to make it more effective in the prosecution of trusts, their agents, officers and attorneys, was passed, 273 to 1. Mr. Maun (rep., 111.) casting the negative vote. The announcement of the vote was cheered to the echo. Louis Klopseh, of New York, publisher of the Christian Herald,Who airived in India, May 14, and started at cnee on a ton* of the famine-stricken districts, has returned to Bombay, after traveling through the most sorely smitten portions of the Bombay prorideney, including Gujarat and Baroida. His description of the ravages of famine and pestilence is appalling. H. H. Massey, who is on his deathbed at Sweet Springs, Mo., suffering from cancer of the face, has turned over to his attendant a complete sil-cr counterfeiting outfit and several half dollars of his own manufacture. Be lays he has been making spurious coin for 14 years, passing most of it away from home. ■»

j Dtmu uuu’nere gfuna nas presented a petition to the bundesrath, in connection with the meat inspection bill, claiming' that hogs’ livers anj tongues are necessary in the manufacture of sausage; that inspection In •such cases is practicable, and ilmt their importation should be continued. The United States transport Hancock, from San Francisco, May .17, arrived at Manila, on the 3d, with tee members of the Philippine commission. Gen. MacArthur’s staff welcomed ti e commissioners.on board the Hancock. The post office department will hot Interfere with the project of postal clerks to raise money for the purpose of securing the passage of the ’'classification bill” by congress. The grand steeple chase at Auteuil, France, last year the scene of a turbulent outburst against President Loubet, passed off yesterday without a sign of political distrubance. Six men and two ladies, French and Belgian refugees from Pao Ting Fu, prrived at Tien Tsin on the 2d. .Nine are still missing. CURRENT NEWS MOTES. * Wharton Barker has sent his letter of acceptance of the presidential nomination to the people’s party national committee. Andrew Whrren, president of the railway supply company bearing his nemo, died suddenly at his home in St. Louis as the result of a stroke of apoplexy. An army of worms is denuding the trees in what is known as the “'pine flats,” in Saline county, Ark. Anti-semitic agitation has taken new lease of life in Austria and Germany. A riot of negresses was occasioned near Perry, Okla., by the report that one of their sex was held as a slave. Clifton 31. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, has been named for a place on the Dawes commission, lice Judge McKentinn rocio-nocl

George Grubert attempted suicide in St. Marcus eemeterj-, St. Louis, shooting himself upon his wife’s grave. Clark ltysdale, of Grand liapids, Mich., was struck by a locomotive rear Sedalia. Mo. He is thought to have committer! suicide. Europe is anxiously reaching out fcr whatever remains of last year's cotton crop in the United States. The Cripple Creek (Col.) May gold output was 54,00© tons, worth $2,228,104, a gain over April of $500,000. The 17,000 tons of smelter grade averaged $80 each. Nine soldiers, who had seen service in the Philippines, were received at the government insane asylum, at Washington, Friday, for treatment. The monthly report of the Missouri bureau of agriculture shewed some deterioration in the wheat and oats erop, but corn rather improved during the month. The boiler at the Mosely mining plant, located six miles north of Neosho, Mo., exploded Friday. Tarts of the boiler were thrown 500 feet. No one was killed. ^ John Mitchell, son of Dr. H. C. Mitche 11, of Carbondale, 111., has been appointed by Congressman Smith as a cadet at the military academy at West Point. , / The grand jury at Benton, 111., returned an indictment against Harry Hubbard for murder in the first degree. He is charged with the murder of William Espy, March 14.

NEWS FROM INDIANA. Latest Happenings Within the Borders of Oar Own State. FoMlatlM of iDdiSma. Indianapolis, Ind., June 1 — The city board of health has completed a computation of the population of Indiana, based on the school enumeration, and it shows a statement of 2,638.483 people in Indiana, a decrease of 3,49“ over last year. This computation gives the fol lowing population figures:

Indianapolis ..139,11$ Evansville _56,157 Fort Wayne... 46.204 South Bend. .. 36,036 Terre Haute... 38.364 Anderson .21.2S0 Elkhart . 13.083 El wood.12.152 Hammond .... 12,673

Jeffersonville . 11.1S* Kokomo ..._ 9,803 laifeyette .20.587 Lopansport ... 18.226 Michigan City. 14.58S Muncie ..19.624 New Albany... 19.974 Richmond .16,492 Vincennes ..... 12,715

The Loyal Legion. Indianapolis. Ind., June 1.—The commandery in ehief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion will meet in this city Wednesday, October 17. The eommandery in chief is composed of the members of the commanderies who have held the four highest offices. Lieut.. Gen. Schofield, U. S. A., retired, is commander in chief. > ? Sugar Beet Plant. Crown Point, Ind., June 1.—Arrangements have been completed by William 11. Snelby, George W. Cass and others of Chicago, owners of 1,000 acres of Kankakee valley land in this County, under the name of the Lake Agricultural company, to build an immense sugar beet factory a£ Shelby, on the Kankakee river. Donknrd* Beet. Wabash, Ind., June 1.—The national Punkard conference convened at North Manchester, this county. Every train on the two railroads brought large additions to the crowd which has been assembling since Monday and which is now estimated at 7.000. Nearly all of the church dignitaries are now on the ground. Will Be Mounted. Fortlano, Ind., June 1.—The sum of $.>00 has been appropriated by the county council for the purpose of mounting the cannon recently donated by the United States government to Stephen J. Bailey post, Grand Army of the Republic. The gun will be mounted in the courthouse yard, t

Winn the Medal. Notre Dame, Ifed., June 1.—The annual oratorical contest, the winner of which, at commencement, will receive the Breen oratorical medal, was held in Washington hall, and Alfred J. Duperier was awarded first place. W. W. O'Brien second place and Francis O'Shaughnessy third place. Costs Must Be Paid. Elkhart, Ind., June 1.—A rule made by Judge Wilson, of the Elkhart circuit court, promises to be a troublebreeder. He has instructed the county clerk to refuse to enter of record decrees of divorce when granted at one term of court and the costs are not paid by the next. Sew Pest. Hagerstown. Ind., June 1.—A new pest is destroying apple orchards. Countless worms of a dark brown color appear on the trees, and in a few hours foliage and fruit are consumed, and the tree has the appearance of , having been scorched in a hot fire. Silver Jubilee. Columbus, Ind., June 1.—The twen-ty-fifth anniversary of Rev. Father A. Oster, of St. Bartholomew's church, was celebrated here, a jubilee reception being held in the schoolrooms at eight o'clock, which was largely attended by the membership of the church. Commits Suicide. Liberty, Ind., June 1.—Tom Dixon (colored), single, about 20 years old, employed by Dr. S. D. Kell, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was found dead in his sleeping room. He had been melancholy for a week or more. Fatal Bicycle Hiding:. Crawfordsville. Ind., June l.-~James M. Vance, a photographer, died here after taking a hard bicycle ride. He had been in perfec? health .before, and expired a minute after dismounting from his wheel. He leaves a wife and four small children.

Pawed Away. Fort Wqyne, Ind., June 1.—Former Senator L. J. Bobilya died at his home here. He served in the house of representatives in. 1894-95. and was elected senator in 1$96. A .rear later he was appointed county auditor,. Sixty YeaCs Wedded. Anderson, Ind., June 1.—Mr. and Mrs. William Mustard, well known, highly respected and perhaps the oldest married couple in Madison county, reached the sixtieth year of their married life. May Lose His Sight. Lebanon, Ind., June I.—J. M. Knox, treasurer of the Indiana Jersey Cattle club, is suiferin^from wounds inflicted by a setting hew. She pecked him in the eyes, dangerously injuring his slg-Iit. A ' a • 1 Gravel Roads. Frankfort. Ind., June 1.—Messrs* Goar & Betts, of this place, have contracted to construct 25 miles of gravel roads in *Greencastle township, Putnam county. Leases Land. Valparaiso, Ind., June 1.—The standard Oil company has leased 30,000 acres of land near Kants, this county. It-is given out that the company will bore for oil. Smallpox. Alexandria. Ind.. June 1.—’jfhrte cases of smallpox have broken out in this city. Strict quarantine is ob served.

KtH BOBS BUST. BUT RETICENT, Only Official DUpatcbe* From the Seat mfl War la Sooth Africa Air lowed t-» Go. London. June 4, 4 a. m.—There is so direct new^Trom Pretcyia-of later dal* I than Thursday,evening. Gen. French'* cavalry were then at Irene, eight mile ) I M»uth of l‘retoria, and firing was b< ar:d there. Lord Roberts’ messages al*out womlary operations elsewhere mol I the situation at Johannesburg, dried Orange Grove, a farm four miles north- | east of Johannesburg, show that Saturday at 9:10 p. m., he was 25 iuildr from Pretoria. The correspondents with Lord llo.:*rts have not got through a line aboil the operations after the occupation ■!' Johannesburg. Official messages ec v lirnie to come through; but press tek> grams are held up, possibly to avoid their giving even a hint as to wb.,t may be the pending operations. Passengers arriving at Louren j Marques Saturday direct from P. - toria. say that the capital was prep;. - ing to surrender when they h j Thursday. The forts were dismantled.. The Boer guard at Romati Po. „t searched all trains amP turned, l*r»; 4 most of the fugitives, among them ifoserting foreigners who were strivii- j to reach neutral soil. Immense Boer convoys of provisionsi are between Pretoria and Middlebuv Fifteen trains are sent daily i ai Machadasdoran, with supplies J'Lr Lydenburg. Pretoria is pictured by the refugt , as in a state of indescribable e«.>: - fusion and chaos. The populace t*:! dismayed, and the British are expc^ -! cd hourly. , Some foreign attaches have arrM fj at Loureneo Marques to communica e with their governments for orders o leave, as they considered that organized war on the Transvaal side Us at an end. Flying among the Pod "? are reports that the British have bo :i beaten back at Lindley, with heu;. y loss; that the main attack on Eland - fontein failed, and Lord Roberts wLs forced to retire to Klipsriverbur,.'; that the railway has been cut behi; 1 him south of Vereeniging, and that a provision train has been captured.

turnout crediting' any of the Hr r bulletins, everything from the field f war behind Lord Boberts points tol a great effort last week to paralyze >s advance by a bold stroke from t‘.:r eastward at the railway north «1 Bloemfontein. No less than four Be r columns were in a movement north M with this objective. There was a cos imamlo in front of Gen. Brabant, ne I Fieksburg, another faced Gen. Bund; near SenukaL, a third occupied Lvndle v, and pressed toward the railway, a d » fourth seized Jleilbron and push. J toward Kroonstad. 1 These operations, assuming them o have been independent, all appear o have failed. A revival of the Boer fighting pow r east of Lord Boberts’ advance, !~ though fruitless, is a symptom tri t the Boers are not yet crushed. In Gen. Bundle's attack on the jif-f trenched Boers, seven miles east >f Ser.ekal, May 29. the British did rjj >i see a Boer all day, so completely w^ e they screened. The British infanr v uid not get within 1,000 yards of th* ii* lifiemem The -1S2 losses wired y Lord Boberts were sufferetl by i to Grenadiers and Scots guards while 1vaneing over ii level from which ?j e grass had been burnetl. The British.; -s in khaki were a conspicuous targ .;t against the black Iwickgrouffd. Gen. Bundle withdrew his wh< In force a| sundown to Senekal, havi succeeded in drawing the Boers fr| n Lindley. ADVICES FROM LOUD ROBERT , Many Minor Matters, bat \othingt>>f His General Movements. |j London, June 11.—Lord Lansdow, cl secretary of state for war, has receif d the following from Lord Bobe*- s, dated Orange Grove, June 2: 1 “Johannesburg is quiet. The pe<x !e nre surrendering arms and poni s. Only three Boer guns were left in ; tie

me yueensiamters captured* May 30, a Crusote, with 11 wagons l of a in in unit ion. ■ ' | | j] “Commandant Botha, of Southpa s~ berg, his field cornet and 100 prison* rs; were, taken in the fighting around hannesburg, some belonging to M foreign contingents, and the Irish i ' jpde. The Thirteenth yedmanry were itbacked,May 29,between Kroonstad tUi'3 Lindley. There were sofne casualties.*" Additional Advices. London, June 3.—The war office hhjs received the following additional idvices from Lord Roberts, dated Ora: gje Grove. June 2: “Owing to the interruption of bje telegraph lines I only to-day recei e l a report from Col. Sprigg that his1, uttalion of imperial yeomanry was attacked between, Kroonstad and L: adley, May 29. Casualties to follow. “The shops in Johannesburg are being opened, and there seems to tv :» general feeling of relief at the peact ;‘nl occupation of the town. The Department Will Xot Interfere. AYashington, June 4.—t’he postr ter general was asked jester? ay whether or not the department wi ild take setion in regard to the repo led project of postal elerks to mi sc nx ey for the purpose of securing the f ssage of the “classification bill” by > ingress. He said there was no rej.. Nation of the department forbid ing elerks to contribute to such a fund although It was the policy of the de* irtment to look with disfavor upon ach attempts to influence legislation. , ,T< is not probable any notice will be ti.Joiiu

ARRIVED SAFELY AT MAJiIIJC Tb« Philippine Contsiluloneit CordiaUp Welcuued by Ue». McArthur •ad S'aflf. Manila, June 4.—The United S.intem transport Hancock, from San F.-neia-eo, May 17, arrived here yes t«» tinymorning' with the members of theITiilippine commission. The xccuoaberk of Gen. MacArthur’s staff welcomed the commissioners on board tae Hun— cock. At noon the com vclksione rm* landed and drove to the palace escorted by (Jen. MacArthur's staff, a band and 4&o companietfof the Twenty-uxth inlp>^ry, with artillery. > The t'ommlMloBera Welcomed. At the palace the commissioner*! were welcomed by Gen. MacAuthur ilk, a short and forcible address. After Judge Win. H. Taft, president Of the commission, had replied the commissioners returned to the Han- - cock, where they will remain until, they have selected suitable dwelling*, on land. t During the morning the members of' the l'ilipino supreme court, the localeditors ami many of the leading merchants repaired to the transport,whero they conversed with the commissioners. * Kear-Admiral Homy, in command of the United .States naval forces on the Asiatic station, called officially daring the afternoon. To-day Gen, MacArthur will return the call of the com— miss oners. ,< The family of Judge Taft will remain for awhile in Japan. The families cF the other commissioners arrived with them. Judge Taft, speaking yesterday in*, reply to a representative ot the press; regarding the powers and.future work, ol the commission, said: Power* ami Future VorU, “We have full instructions and extensive powers. The latter we shall nut . air until we have had ample tira® tot. acquire sufficient knowledge of the> situation to enable us to proceed to enact legislative changes and reforms, preliminary to the establishment of sk, stable civil government. Until \v<#.assune authority, Gen. MacAnliur will

exercise the powers formerly performed and exercised by Gem Otis, ar.d, even after we take active ar. l full part, in the government Gen. Mae Arthur will continue as the executive head until, on our recommendat.on to. Pi evident McKinley, it shall seem to, ^ the president that the time has arrived for the‘appointment of a civil extcutive and tor making' the military forces . merely auxiliary in carrying an the civil government, and to be available-, only in cases of emergency for the suppression of lawless violence too. formidable to be overcome by the regularly organized local police. Issues ot Interest to Filipinos. “We are aware that then- are several, issues of deep interest to the Filipinos,, upon which it is our duty to take action. Some of these involve judicial investigation and decisions upon legal rights. Others call for the careful exercise of political power in order to secure equitable adjustments. Upon the latter eluss of issues we can not.. now sp»*uk. Justice to the "Filipino. “Uepresenting the sovereignty of the United States in 'he Philippines,, which it is the purpose of our government to maintain, we are here »•!.. io justice to the Filipinos, and to se--iire lor them the best government in.. dut power, and such a measure of popular control as is consistent with ‘keif ability and security of law, order and. V property. We are civil officer*, mejv^ of peace. The field of our work is. necessarily confined to regions wherethe armed enemy has ceased his opera-, tions. We can not deal with armed, men. Gen. MacArthur and the turny- * - *-vill do that.

Will Afford wk, Full Hearing. “When those now in arms shall have-, aid them down, relying as they certainly can, upon the justice, generosity and clemency of the United States, we shall give them all a full hearing upon the policy to be pursued and the leforms to be initiated. We purps.se*to inaugurate as comprehensive school system throughout the island*!;, is circumstances will allow.. I ara suiprised that Manila has not received., uews regarding' the Spooner hill, ;v. measure calculated to help us greatly-M in our work." bought Information In Hons Kong<„ While in Hong Kong- the eomnds— pioners questioned Amacho and numbers of the wealthy Cortez family regarding Filipino affairs not covered by ihe Filipino junta here. The Filipinos^ in Manila are anxiously and eve.’> nervously waiting for a formal statement by the commission regarding its', future- policy. Cables from Hong Kong have been, published here to the effect that it.etommission will not assume eontioC. until September. This report, coupled with the statement that Washington,,, approves Gen. MaeArthurs plan of-* campaign has created considerable incitement in .Filipino circles, where it has been expected that iramedn-’e changes of policy and action would follow the arrival of the com miss ion.. Kansas* Big Wheat Crop, Topeka, Ivas., June 4.—The farmers^, of Kansas will begin this week to harvest the largest wheat crop in the bis—~" tory of the state. - Secretary Cobum., of the state board of agriculture, says: “The crop this year will be the heaviest ever known:- In 1892, Kansas had; ’,800,000 acres of wheat, and raised fO,000,000 bushels, an average of 18;. ht.shels to the acre. This year the winter wheat acreage is 4,685,819, a«„ estimated by the growers, and the average yield will be larger than that of' ISIffi.”