Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 June 1900 — Page 2

Sfce fib fCwurtg Jrmorrat ML McC. STOOPS, Kdltor and Proprlaloa PETERSBURG. i INDIANA. E. Whitney Carr, of Jordaai, N. Y., on the 7th, gave the Iowa state university $50,000 for the establishment of free scholarships for poor young people. Dr. Studt, Prussian minister of education, has instructed the statistical bureau to collect material regarding the disastrous effects of alcoholism upon the nation. Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote, on the 8th, signed a protocol extending until March 4 next the iiariod of time allowed for the ratification of the reciprocity treaty .with Barb idoes It is said at the war department that Gen. Wheeler will be given no military assignment under his commission us brigadier general of regulars, but will soon be placed on the retired list for At a meeting of the Royal Cork Yacht club, on the 7tli, Sir Thomas Lipton was elected a itteml>er. He expressed his intention of challenging for the America’s cup under the auspices of this club. The Panama Canal Co.’s representatives in Colon, it is stated,, have received orders from Paris to resume work on a large scale. A large number of mechanics and laborers, it is added, have been engaged. The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of the $150,000,0be gold reserve m 1he division of redemption, issued on the 8th, showed: Available cash balance, $146,794,575; gold, $72,218,690. age.

A complete summary of the work of congress, up to date, shows: Number of days in session, 137; bills introduced, 12,152; total passed, 1,215; publife acts, 283; private acts, 932; extent of congressional record, 7,081 pages. Representative Gaines, of Tennessee, on the 7th, introduced a bill in congress prohibiting employment of members by railroads or other corporations dota ini ng charters or ot hert aid fronfthe United States government. - -•——- 1 On arriving at his house in Havana, on tlie 4th, Gen. Gomez made a brief address, in the course of which he said he had kept his promise to return to Cuba, and that lie had never intended to turn his back upon her people. Three hundred and sixty moiormen and conductors left Philadelphia, on the 6th, on a special train over the Pennsylvania railroad for St. Louis, where, it was said, they would take the places of strikers of the St. Louis Transit .Go. Th^postmasfer general, on the 6th, issued an order barring the use of tlie mails to “the Credit General du.Canada,” of Montreal, and the “Credit d’Epargne,” of Paris, France. It is alleged that both concerns are conducting lotteries. In the iridst of a driving thunder and rain storm at Jacksonville, Fla., on the 7th, lightning struck the smoke stack of the ferryboat Commodore Barney, and passing down through the vessel killed four men and injured a dozen others who were working underneath it. Mrs. John Sherman died, at midnight, on the 4th, aged 72 years. She was Miss Margaret Cecilia Stewart, inly daughter of the late Judge Stewart of Mansfield, O. She was married to John ShermaA December 31, 1848. There were no children. She was born and buried at Mansfield. , Advices received fr im Algiers portray a serious situation. Thousanls of Moors are massing at Figuig and in the neighborhood, preparing for a determined attack upon the advance posts of the French. Though «-uffering much from the intense heat, the French are confident of. their ability to repel any attack.

Emperor William has eonclu led arrangements for sending ;an expedition to Syria with a view of ascertabling as much as possible concerning the ruins of Heliopolis. The exploration 'will have the actual aid of the sultan. Tawfik Pasha, the Ottoman minister of foreign affairs, has informed the emperor that all needed aid will be rendered by the local authorities. In response to the request made by the United States and Chilian ministers at Berne, Switzer',it'd to select the third member of the arbitral ion court which is to settle the claims ai d counterclaims held by the citizens of each country against the government of the other, the president of the Swiss republic has selected J. B. Pioda, the Swiss minister to the United States, to act in the capacity referred* to. A terrible accident occurred near Stockbridge, Wis., on the Oneida Indian reservation, on the 7th, which resuited in the killing of eight men and One child. A lot of small children playing in a yard saw a woman cut a chicken’s head off. They decided to - play chicken, and seizing the smallest of their number decapitated it with the ax the woman had just used. A number of men were engaged on a » derrick in the yard raising heavy timbers in the erection of a barn. Seeing the child being beheaded, they became panic-stricken, and in the confusion, the heavy timbers whioh were being raised fell with an aWful crash, killing eight of the men.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. FlcTY-SlXTH CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 4th, the work of the session being practically completed, the session was more of a social function than a business session. Nearly four of the ten hours consumed was spent In executive session. At the night session many of the senators appeared in full dress, and the galleries were thronged with gaily-attired crowds of spectators. No business of importance was transacted.In the house, the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was agreed to as to the $5,000,000 appropriate for the Louisiana Purchase exposition and as to the item for the Mississippi river, with amendments. Other Items in dispute were sent back to conferen<«. The disputed items in the District of Columbia appropriation bill were agreed to* and the bill sent to the preslden* In the senate, on the 5th. the session was given principally to consideration of conference reports and odds and ends of business pernaratory to tinal adjournment. An unseemly and rancorous political debate between Mr. Pettigrew (S D.) and Messrs. Hanna (O.) and Carte' (S. D.) was precipitated by a statement by Mr. Bacon iGa.) that Cramp, the shipbuilder. had*c*mtfibut*ai $4W).00o to the republican campaign fund in 1:892, wnh the understanding that he would be reimhutsed hy contracts •’or construction of war ships.In the house attem'on alternated betwctn confederation of conference reports on appropriation b>lls and heated political controversies, the incidents o*!f the day ana night sessions be-, ing those inseparable from the dying hours of a session.

In the senate, on the 6th, the session, extending far into the night, was occupied in an ineffectual attempt to reach an agreement upon the naval appropriation bill. The hour fixed for final adjournment was reached and passed without an agreement, and the senate finally adjourned until the 7th at 11 a. m.In the house scenes of Indescribable confusion and bitterness markedHhe discussion of the failure of the conferees on the naveJ appropriation bill to carry out their instructions, and the speaker took the almost unprecedented course of appointing new conferees who were not members of the naval committee. The debate, at times, was very hitter. In the senate, on the 7th, the session was devoted chiefly to recessing and so- ! cial functions while awaiting action by 1 the house on the naval appropriation bill, the senate having refused to request another conference. Upon receipt of wort] ; that the house had concurred in the senate amendment remaining in controversy, j house resolution providing for final adjournment was amended, fixing the hour at five o’clock, June 7, and passed. When that hour arrived the senate quietlv adjourned.Tn the house the action of the previous day in rejecting the compro mise of the conferees on the naval bill j was reversed, and the house, by a large majority, accepted the senate amendment, j As the closing hour approached a few l members engaged in singing national airs, being soon joined by the whole house and later by the galleries. Speaker Henderson made a graceful farewell speech, and the members responded by singing “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” the gavel fell and the first session of the Fifty-sixth congress was no more. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The supreme court of Nebraska, on the 7th, refused to issue the writ of ouster applied for by Attorney-Gen-eral Smyth to be directed against the board of fire and police commissioners of Omaha appointed by the mayor. Maj.-Gen. Elwell S. Otis passed through Omaha, Neb., on the 7th, over the Union Pacific, en route for Washington. A number of local army officers met him at the train. Within 40 hours from the time of receiving orders from the navy department, the battleships Massachusetts and Indiana, lying up in ordinary at the League Island navy yard, were placed in readiness for sea and sailed for Hampton Roads. Sport, the tag elephant of the Botosk animal show, who received an injury to his spine, recently, was hanged by the ncek until he was dead at the Belton freight yards, Baltimore, Md„ on the evening of the 7th. Nearly 3.000 persons witnessed the execution, which was accomplished with a 30-ton wrecking derrick.

1 he town of Miami, I. T., was struck by a tornado at 12:30 on the morning of the 7th. Several lives are reported lost and great damage was done* to property. A number of persons were blown into the Neosho river. The first session of the Fifty-sixth congress came to an end at £ p. m. of the 7th. A patriotic scene marked the closing hour in the house, the members joining in singing patriotic songs to the accompaniment of applause from the crowded galleries. Desertions from the battleship Kearsarge, on the eve of sailing from the Brooklyn navy yard, have been quite numerous. The men complain of poor food und petty tyranny, but say that Capt. Folger isn’t to blame, the trouble being with his suoordinates. The correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph at Pretoria says that many <Boer guns and several hundred officers and men were captured at the occupation of Pretoria by the British. W. S. Taylor has formally declined to be considered as a candidate for the republican gubernatorial nomination in Kentucky. He says his duty to himself and family forbids further sacrifice, John W. Yerkes, of Danville, is an aspirant for the nomination. Adjt.-Gen. Fred Bell of Missouri was in Mexico, on the 8th, on his way to St. Louis, to meet Gov. Stephens for the purpose of deciding whether the militia should be called out to settle the strike trouble. The adjutant general said tho militia was ready for action when the governor gave the word. R. G. Dun & Co. reported on the 8th: “Failures for the week have been 203 in the United States, against If9 last year, and 19 in Canada, agair't 10 last year.’*

„Ajf tort accqua* the Transvaal capital was in a railway car, on a sidetrack at Machadodorp, 107 miles east of Pretoria, from which President ■er gave out the information that real struggle is only jiow begun/’ An explosion opcurred in th* Indian* works «i Fantinet, on the 8t' illed and seve lew Reed >r employ mill No. 1, in W were at work/ wild endeavor a number of girls sked. In their ;ape several of the girls were injured, but none seriously. A man named Edwards is missing. The convention of the National Assoclatioh of Rtf Iway Postal Clerks at San Antonio, Tex., adjourned, on the 8tli, a banquet at the Menger hotel at night being the last feature. The old was re-elected. board* of officers Among the changes in the constitution was an increase of death benefits from $2,000 to $3,060. A membership in the New York cotton exchange was sold, on the Sth, at $3',000. The last previous actual sale was at $2,300. T LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The British high commissioner at Cape Town, Sir Alfred Milner, telegraphed United States Consul Hay, at Pretoria, on the 10th, thanking him for his services in connection with the British prisoners at Waterval. A widespread feeling of gratitude exists for tAe good work done by Mr. Hay, and also by United States Consul General Stowe at Cape Town. Nineteen violent dealth were reported in and about. New York on the 10th. The most peculiar was that of William Snyder, aged 1, a bicyclist, who was killed while racing with a trolley car in the borough of the Bronx. He kept up with the car for half a mile, then plunged headlong from his wheel, and was picked up dead. M. Pozzi, the French senator and Well-known Paris editor, was wounded, on the 10th, in the wrist in a duel with swords with Dr. De Yillers, who is an intimate friend of Paul Deroulede, for whose banishment M. Pozzi voted at the trial before the high «ourt. A terrific wind storm passed over central Illinois on the 10th. In Sp'Kjngtield numerous shade trees were destroyed, and reports from neighboring cities within a radius of 40 miles show great damage to fruit trees. Mrs. Gilbert, wife of the late M. N. Gilbert, Episcopal bishop coadjutor for Minnesota, died in St. Paul on the lOJh. Mrs. Gilbert had been in feeble health since the death of her husband several «By a gas explosion at the Ellsworth mines at Ellsworth, Pa., 12 miles west of , Monongahela, on the 10th Thomas Forsyme and William Rodgers were killed and three others were wounded. Four persons were killed and about twenty-five injured,-of whom three are probably fatally hurt, in a collision at aWrwick, R. I., on the suburban line of the Union Railroad Co. on the 10th. The dedication of the new Catholic Church at the West Point (N. Y.) military’ reservation, over which there had been ranch controversy during the past, three years, took place on the 10th. The United States training ship Buffalo, Commander Clarke T. Hutchens, left London, on the 10th, and proceeded for Southampton. A new airship, invented by Herr Weisamann, a mechanic, has been tried at Berlin. It ascended 20 meters and flew 15, landing safely. Joseph Alfeld, carrying a big unsheathed sword, was arrested in St. Louis, Friday for attempting io incite a riot. As the result of a voting contest the St. Louis Star will send eight public school teachers .on a trip to the Paris exposition, bearing all the expense. About 2,000,000 ballots were cast, which cost one cent per. James R. Keene, of New "York, is re-' ported to have bet $25,000 that Bryan) will be the next president-of the United States. CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Parties drilling a well on W. P. Hall's premises at Lancaster, Mo., stmek co^l at the depth of 362 feet. George Gibson, while chasing rabbits, near Guthrie, Okla., was thrown from his horse and killed. Important fetes are being organized in Paris in connection with the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette, presented by the children of America. The ^’ew York Ice trust has announced a cut in the price of ice from 60 to 40 cents per hundred pounds, representing a loss of excessive profits on the season of $3,000,000. Elijah S. Bundy, a member of the board of supervisors of Greene county, HI., died at his home in Roodhouse, Friday, aged 63 years. John Wade, aged 27 years, committed suicide at Fort Smith, Ark., by shooting. He was in the’last st ages of consumption and without relatives. ■* The railroad companies at Kansas City have opened on employment bureau and will endeavor to furnish men for the big wheat harvest in the southwest. While out hunting, near Golconda, 111., John Cummings accidentally shot and killed Charles Hclmes. the 15-year-old son of Rev. J. Holmes, of Temple Hill. The aged father of Frank Funk, Jr., captured at Columbia, Mo„ and sentenced, at Washington, D. C., to hang for murder, has gone to Washington to appeal to President McKinley. In ax^ explosion in the Indiana powder plant near .Font&net, Ind., Matthew Reed was killed and several other employes were injured. W. N. Tiller, a Avell-knov/n retired farmer living near Litchfield, 111., died, Fridav. aged 73 years. He had been a resident of Montgomery countv for SO years.

ALL OVER THE STATE, Events in Various Portions of ln« diana ToM by Wire. T»» Br Mom red. Roekport, June 8. - The wr county con net) has voted an appropriation of $800 to buy the tract of land ^surrounding the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln a-t Lincoln City, in Spencer county. The property to be bought is a beautiful natural park of 16 acres, picturesque and heavily wooded; with maple, oak add eltif. Thfe*g>rjve is near the sunjmit of a large hilt, almost in the center of the wood, and a monument of iittiing proportions is to be erected. Dunkaird Conference Ends. . Wabash; Tnd.. June 8. — The .TQO delegates and 12.000 Dunkard laymen attending the national conference at Manchester have dispersed. After a long and acrimonious discussion of magnetic healing, the members were left free fo practice it. The anti-neck-tie resolution was defeated. but the rule forbidding Dunkards to wear white gloves and badges when acting as pall-bearers adoptedi at funerals was Married In the Road. Crawford sari lie. Ind., June S. — John B. Breaks, aged 65. a wealthy citizen of Montgomery county, was married to his housekeeper, Mrs. Margaret King, aged 64. The ceremony was performed in the middle of the road, several miles from the fine country residence of the bridegroom, who elected to be married/in the road, and gave no other reason than that he wished it. He is not a populist.

Attaches Mall. IndSanapolis. Ind.. June 8. — Deputy United States Marshal Boyd has returned from Muncie. where he went to attach the mysterious package ads dressed to Charles F. Neely and mailed from San Jose. Costa Rica. The post- j master was directed to hold the package until directed to bring it into court at Indianapolis. It is, expected the package will throw light on Neely’s affairs. In Ihe Sign Language. j Indianapolis. Ind., June 8. — Miss Dora E. Tamm and Mr. Williams H. Ecker, of Chicago, deaf mutes, were j married at the home of the bride in this city by Rev. A. W. Mann, general missionary of the class in the middle western states. The minister is a deaf mute and the ceremony was performed in the sign language. „ Hurt. . Portland. Ind.. June 8.—Councilman Frank Craft, of Hartford City, who has a string of horses on the Portland fair grounds track, jumped from a sulky to avoid an ugly smash-up caused by the pacer he was driving falling down. He had his right leg crushed at the ankle. Sleeping His Lite Away. Reynolds. Ind., June 8.—Dr. R. M. Dalzell retired to bed in his usual health on Saturday evening and is still sleeping. He is roused occasionally with much difficulty, but he immediate- : lv drops back into deep slumber. He has taken nothing to induce sleep. Sentenced. Wabash, Ind., June 8. — Noah Wilhelm, the Grant county man tried and convicted in the circuit court here for defrauding Amos Overman of $200 in a green goods deal; was given one to fourteen years in the Michigan City penitentiary by Judge Shively.

Merchant Shot. Covington, Ind.. June 8.—Thomas Rowell, a merchant and farmer, postmaster of Stringtpyvn. eight mTles south of this city, was shot and dangerously wounded by John Zalinski. a farmer. Trouble over land led to the shooting. 'Will Have a Carnival. Marion. Ind.. June S. — The FraneoBelgian citizens of Matthews, this county, will hold a carnival some time in July. It will be an elaborate affair, and will bring thousands of people from the gas belt to Matthews. Sorrow Caused Suicide. . Evansville. Ind., June 8.—Klvin Taylor, a young single farmer residing near Chandler, a few miles above Evansville, committed suicide. He brooded over his sister's downfall. He was a soldier in the Spanish-American war. Legs Cut Off. Muncie. Ind., June 8.—William Herron. 17 yesfrs old. a Redkey glass worker. vyhofee parents live in this city, had both legs cut off by a freight train which he was trying to board for a trip to Tiffin, 0. * Destroying Orchards. Richmond. Ind.. June 8.—The “measxiring worm” is devastating the apple orchards of Wayne county, several fine orchards near this city having been destroyed. Forest trees also are victims of the pest. Death of a Veteran. Kirkltn. Ind.. June 8. — Isaac S. Bolt is dead. He was 63 years old and a native of this place. He served in the Thirtieth Indiana during the civil war. A wife and three dlaughters survive him. , Dies.In n Sanitarian). Laporte, Ind., June 8. — Miss Rachel Ann Hibbard, sister of W. G. Hibbard, of the firm of Hibbard. Spencer. Rarti lett & Co.. Chicago, died at the Ward- ! ner sanitarium in this city, aged 65 years. | Perseverance Wins. Rrewersburg, Indv, June S. — A faith- ! ful and industrious courtship w hich be1 gan here over 20 years ago has result- | ed in the marriage of John Heap and | Miss Emma Cleaver. I President‘McKinley^ Canton (O.) home le being fitted ut» for his reception July 4.

POSSSE MEN KEPT BUST. | *audkj a Bloody Day in St. Loalt-TlM ' BecofU il Four l>ead Md Set* Ml WounJwd. . |8t. Louis, June 11.—Capt. Hancock’s company of posse coxnitatus, stationed U th* sheds of the Laclede avenue line, on Compton, just south of Laclede svenue, had a thrilling encounter with tour men in a buggy at 8:15 o’clock last night. According to the statement of Capt. Hancock and members of his company, the men, in driving past the possemen shouted, "scabs,” and made other remarks calculated to bring on trouble. The men were ordered to desist, an<l upon contimfing were ordered to haK. “Stop or we wiU shoot,” cried Capt Hancock. His answer was a volley of pistol shots from the quartet in the rig. Capt. Hancock returned the fire. The men whipped up their horse and drovp south on Compton avenue at breakneck speed, at the same time firing into the posse company following them. ' f Capt. Hancock’s men emptied their shotguns several times at the fugitive party, each time being answered by the contents of the men’s revolvers. Finally a shot from one of the deputies brought down the horse. The occupants of the rig, seeing their horse killed, leaped out of the vehicle and, firing a parting shot at the possemen, took to their heels and escaped. Three Strikers Fatally Shot. I Three street car strikers were fatally shot by possemen in a riott at Sixth street and Washington avenue at six o’clock last evening. A fourth union man was shot, but not seriously hurt. One of the wounded men died in au ambulance while being conveyed to the city hospital last night.

x he not waft precipitated, according to statements of posse men, by demonstrations against car no 365 of the Delmar Avenue division of the Lindeli system. Witnesses differ as to which side tired the first shot, but all agree that a brick was hurled at the car and that the act brought on the confli*\ Several other contiicts between possemen and strikers occurred during the day .with serious and, in one case, fatal results. CONSIDERING-THE EXPENSE. CettiuK Heady to Call Out the Militia When Convinced ot the Necessity for So Doing:. Jefferson City, Mo., June 11,—Gov. Stephens says everything is being put in readiness for calling out the N. G. M. forces to settle the St. lxmis street car strike, but he will not issue the call until the last resort. It will cost, he says, 5,000 to land 2,500 men in St. Louis, and as much per day to maintain them, and as there is no appropriation, he does not know how the legislature would view a deficiency of $100,000 for maintaining troops in St. Louis. This is a great problem, It might require an extra session of the legislature to appropriate the money. A rumor is current here that At-torney-General Crow will proceed it the supreme gourt to oust Mayor Ziegenhein from office for failure to perform his official duty in connection with the strike. Gen. Crow denies that rny such action is to be takes, .rt this time. SEVEN POSSE MEN ARRESTED. They Refused to Eat and Sleep with the St. Louie Transit Co.'a Non-Union Employee.

St. Louis, June 10.—Seven of-Sherh Pohlman’s posse eomitatus spent Fri day night in the holdover, registers “held for the chief,” because they re fused to eat and sleep with the Trans it company's employes at tne powci house of the Broadway cable line i : Broadway and Salisbury street. Thw men were arrested originally by Cap.. L. D. Picot, of the posse, who had the i in charge, and he sent them to the for i courts in a patrol wagon, where, aft i consultation with Col. Cavender, tVy were placed in the holdover, desp|j« their protests. THE RUSH FOR THE STATES. Gold Dost and Pnueug«n fi. ai Dawson Arrive at Port ^ Townsend. Port Townsend, Wash., June li j— The steamer City of Seattle arr etl Saturday night from Alaska w til $400,000 in gold dust and 260 pass engers, most o9 whom are from Daws >n. Thus far five boats have reached he lakes from Dawson, and the rush or the states is fairly on. Among he returning Dawsonites are many woi e u and children. . Up to May 28, it is stated, the cbj atiup had reached $1S,000,000. This ;etir son opened from three to five w jks earlier than on any previous yea;;, A general exodus from Dawson : reported for Koykuk river, where , ich strikes have been reported. The'water in the lakes is reported as 1 in g very low, ^vhich renders navig if’ion hard and uncertain. VERITABLE HUMAN BUTCfcSR. Kills His Employer and Four f .junkers of His Family, Fatmll <; Wounding Others. > Moozmin, Assinaboine, June 1|£--A sheriff's posse, which returned here last night from Welwyn, a villa c 12 miles to the north, brings deta i> of the slaughtering, Saturday, of Postmaster x\lex. McArthur ahd four :Jher members of his family, and the !a!tal wounding of another; also the st •:cu«i grounding of two others, by John !,for» rison, McArthur’s hired man.

PEHIPPIKE COMMISSIONERS. DIMlraltiM of Foclfleattoo Incre«i«f l>jr Divine ami Unsolicited , SlSfevtiOBK. Manila, June 11.—Judge William H. T;> t and hi* colleagues Of the Philip* pi* g civil commission were beset dur^ fax. their Wil Week in Manila by a rafjltitnde of callers of all nationalities?,, professions and interests, who ■prji Rented a bewildering assortment of reiommendations touching military and civil policies. The commissioners maintained the j attitude of unprejudiced listeners. They admit that, wl ile they anticipated an enormous ti; k, jthe complexity and ditUculty of th'r problems and conditions arc well* nidi staggering. * i * MncArlhar’i Popular I'lftim, They find vlen. Mac Arthur administering. civil and military affairs in a w iy that is universally popular. The F lipiuo purty^embracing prominent ir. surrcctionism who accepted American rule through force of circumstances. is already? making overtures tit the disposition of a scheme of jh-t-Kianent government, especially revisit if the old proposition of autonomy i ‘.der an American protectorate. | Eiproled the Millenium, | There are, of course, some Filipino*; v ho believed that Judge Taft would bring the millenium in his vest pocket, I i. id these profess to lie disappointed V ^cause sweeping changes are not | road* immediately. Judge Taft's utt ranees indicate a conciliatory policy towards the natives. He has conferred ! y ith the high army officers, some of |{hom strongly urge that a ^ larger -•* : r;jjc»y is necessary to suppress the insurrection. believing that civil govern* : will be impossible until the ram* i arit rebellion in the southern dis* i frlicts of Luzon, in the extrenieuorth

f»ii. pn.vmws of the island and in the Vissavas. except Negros, is crushed. One of ilie Foremojtt questions. j f One of the foremost quest ions is ,iow atjd from what material to orifanize a'civil force with which, gradu-' 'j’lly to supersede the^rmy,■ $s a govi ‘ruing machine. Spain’s auxiliary, the h ireb. is necessarily hatred frOm eon. ;kl era lion. American -experience with *:ke natives discourage* the hope of : nonest government through them until i generation or more 'h»-ve eradicated jtlve results of Spain’s tutelage. Troaohrry of the .Natives, A large portion of the provincial offii iaials already installed have proven ; Ijreachorons, while the native police |aid officials here in Manila are living on a scale of luxury suspiciously dis- * proportionate to their salaries. Charges (against native judges of failing to ae- ! count for thousands of dollars received in fines are under investiga- | ’ion. Governmental Alternative*. At the present the governmental alternatives are the army on the one ' hand, and anarchy on the other. Gen. Otis’ plan of numictpal governments ia being inaugurated in the principal towns of central Luzon, and in parts of the Vissavas; but the Filipinos persist in thinking that the question Whether the United States will retain the Philippines is s.till Open and some local leaders ask that municipal elections be postponed until after the pres idential election The Future of the Ckureh. : The commissioners also find that the (future state of the church in the I*bUiippines is a leading question in the minds of many, although most of those i who have talked with Judge Taft and his colleagues, draw the inference that the commissioners are opposed to the ! reinstatement of the friars. Arch- | bishop Chappelle has taken a strong jj stand in supporting the request of the friars to he established in their old position.

EXPORTS FROM MANILA, ' Notable Incfcase In Value Since the OpenlaK of Port* to the Coatt- ' wine Trade. Wes} ington, Juue 11.—The important information was given out by the division of customs and insular affairs of the war department that the exports at the port of Manila, I*4*11- < l ippine islands, for the first three ! months of 1900 show an‘increase of ! $2,050,443 over the same period of 19©9. The exports for January, 1899, wt re $1,252,803; for January, 1900. $558,376; for February, 1 $99, $3,459,568; for February, 1900, $1,690,731; for starch. 1899, $868,631; for March, 1900, $5,382,338. £ In the matter of exports from, the Philippines during1 "* the month of March, 1900, Hong Kong leads, England ranks second,, and the United States third. During the month of March, 1900, there were exported from the port of Manila, 15,540 tons of Manila hemp, valued at $2,190,357. The United States took 3,745 tons, valued at $1,211,750 and England 10,293 tons, valued at $1,* 739,639. /;■ The notable increase in the value ol merchandise exported during the month of March, 1900., from the port of Manila is largely due to the opening ! of numerous customs ports to the I coastwise trade. v : ^ v“ Hanged Himself In His Cell. j Chester, Fa., June li.—James Pierce, j who, with his brother “Pinny” Pierce, j was charged with The murder of George B. Eyre, of this ciiy, on De1 cember 21 last, committed suicide yesterday by hanging in his cell at the county jail at Media vi ' Terrible Price for a Crock of Cream Springfield*.!)., Jtme- it.—John Beck, of this city,- while with a picnic party at Clifton, this county, was murdered by Roht. Mendenhall, a farmer, who became incensed over the upsetting of a croj k of cream. "