Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1903 — TO TEACH FILIPINOS [ARTICLE]

TO TEACH FILIPINOS

THE COMMISSION APPROPRIATES 872,000 FOR EDUCATION. One Hundred Yontlg Student* Will Be Brought to United State* for Four Year*’ Study—We*tern Flood* Cause Deaths. The Philippine commission has appropriated $72,000 to carry out and put into operation the provisions of the education act. This provides that in the various provinces of the Philippines 100 of the best qualified public school students between the ages of 1(5 and 21 who obtain at least 75 per cent on each subject In the special annual examination to be held in each school district shall finish their education in the United States. The competition, Which is limited to natives, requires that they shall take an oath of allegiance to the United States and sign an agreement with the approval their parents to study faithfully and conform to the regulations for four years or any other period of time that may be prescribed. Furthermore, it is provided that on returning to the Philippines they will take : jt- civil service examination in an elective branch. If they" are certified within a year they must promise to accept an appointment for a (Veriod equal to the time of their study in the United States. The act authorizes the Governor to select twenty-five students under 25 years of age for special instruction, in addition to the first 100, in 1!K)4. It is estimated that it will cost about SSOO per year for each student who is aent to America. BIX LIVES ARK LOST IN FLOODS. Fatalities Attend the Rnsh of High Water in the West. Aside from heavy property damage due to the western floods, ;iix deaths have been reported, two in Omaha and four in lowa. Fort Crook City, seven miles south of Omaha, is under -water, only five houses remaining on dry ground. Fifty families are being cared for in tents on the hillsides. All the lower portion of Council Bluffs, lown.is inundated, and rowboats are being used for transpmratttstr. The imgffrifcMa TtfKw Platte valley, the most extensive in tlleState, are under water, and it is feared the crop is_xuiued..- Princeton and Spiekard.TJo.. report the heaviest rainfall ever recorded. Portions of both towns nre flooded. In Topeka, Kan., street car ser.▼ice has been abandoned on some lines. BASE HALL SCORES. Standing of the Club* in Big Leas** Game*. The clubs in the Rational League nre standing thus: W. L. W. L. rittsburg ...76 37 Brooklyn ... .54 55 New Y0rk...07 46Boston 46 61 Chicago .....06 40St. Louis 38 77 Cincinnati ...60 50Philadelphia. .33 68 Following is the standing of the clubs hi the American League: W. L. W. L. Boston 71 39 New York. ...53 52 Cleveland .. .C 3 48 Chicago 5161 Fhiladelphia..6o 51 St. Louis 50 59 Detroit 55 54 Washington.. .35 74 SHIPS AND UOUSKB DESTROYED. Hnrricane in the Caymans Was Very Disastrous. Advices from Grand Cayman, British West Indies, states that a hurricane which passed over that island destroyed 100 houses and twenty-seven vessels. The British three-mn>te<l schooner Governor Blake, which it was feared was lost, arrived safely after encountering the hurricane. The schooner Bentley, the crew of which was drowned with the exception of the first mate, is reported to have been saved by the sehoonef Sea Gull. At Little Cayman loss of lift? is reported, besides great property damage.

Murderous Kobbcra In Chicaco. Two mon were killed and two more wounded in a raid made by masked robbers at the City Railway Company's car barns at Gist and State streets, Chicago, the murderers securing $2,000. A cold-blooded-cyiiuma] shot down men one after the other with deadly certainty and showed familiarity with the surroundings. Death for Caleb Powers. „ Caleb Powers was sentenced to death on his third trial for complicity In the assassination of William Goebel, Gov-ernor-elect of Kentucky. On two previous trials he had been sentenced to life Imprisonment nud has served three years. Live Stock at Principal Markets. Receipts of live stock this year to the end of July at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha. St. I.ouis and St. Joseph. Mo., the principal markets, amounted to 17,734,847 head. American Grain Is Hit. Grain importers of Europe will hold an international conference to consider an agreement against buying the American product on certificates which are issued by the American inspector*. Destructive Hurra in the East. A gale swept a long stretch of the Atlantic coast, causing much damage to (hipping and imperiling many lives. “Francis Grover” Hi* Kame. The boy recently born to Mr. ami Mrs. Grover Cleveland haa beeu christened Fraud* Grover Cleveland. Throw* l(erself Into Lake. Mrs. Alexander Winton. wife of the president of the Wiuton Automobile Company, committed suicide hy throwing herself iuto the lake at Cleveland. Mis. Winton bad been in 111 health fur sever(l Die Beternln* from Part*. While a party of young people were driving home /rant a social gathering w-eii erg teen .borough, north of Alle-’-v**h*t thalr vehicle was precipitat- " *“> high embankment into Girtya *«ree were drowned.