:the 6 pounders.
through the woods to the open,space in
I achiever 1ents
. poral Ferguson of Company I crawled
wihe range from a trench down the river,
- and their bullets soon spattered the
- “5111.11 ll but va orous pa1ty of Americans
0111111111 113111111.
.MacArthur’s Men Fight Their
Way to the City. ~
BRILLIANT CHARGE OF KANSAS N’I'“ I...
Colonel Funston’ s Men Swim a. River
Under Galling Fire—Hale’s and
Wheaton’s Forces Unite—All
1.51 Ready For Final Assault.
MANILA, April 26.—General MacAr-
thur’s division fought its way to the
Filipino trenches before Calumpit yes-
terday, adv ancing four miles, mostly
throu h woods and jungle, and crossing
the B gbag river.
This was accomplished at a cost to
tlfe' Americans of six killed and 28
wounded the First South Dakota regi-
Iment being the heaviest loser.
'Af'tgr fordlng the rive1 the South Da-
kotaiis puxsued the insurgents to the
outskirts of Calumpit, but the town was
found so strongly protected {hat Gen-
eral MacArthur deemed it best to with-
draw the tiied fighteis and to 'go into
camp for a night’s rest before making
the final assm.
The largest buildings in Calumpit
were being fired by the Filipinos while
the Americans were crossing the river
fully a mile away, indicating the ene—
my’ s intention to abandon the place.
The insurgents seem to haVe ado ted
a settled policy of retiring from one po-
sition after another, after inflicting the
greatest possible damage upon the ad—
vancing army. Their forces yesteidaV
were \Vell drilled. EVeiy foot of the
ground VV as tenaciously disputed er
thoroughly organized t1 oops who stood.
rema1kbly firm even before ar tillei y
The enemy had planned to VVreck our
artillery transport train. This attempt
was a failure, but a span of the iron
railway bridge over the riV er VV' as de-
str oyed, hampering the American tr ans-
portation for some time. The Filipinos
cut the gir‘deis, intending to haVe the
. st1"-uctu1e fall VV1tl1 the t1 am but it col-
'apsed prematuiely of its own weight.
which is about 100
f‘ eBagbag riVer,
Ax ide at that point, VV as splendid-
Yards " ‘ and the Americans were
“proach across an open
'4: rebels had cleared
ht. The bank of
1y fortified
bompelled to a,
space from iihieh 11.
Every Obstruction to .3113s surmounted
the river, a high bluff, was .I 1’S 10013"
With trendhes, capped with 1'91..-
holed and partly hidden by bushes.
Gener a1 Wheaton’ s brigade approach»
ed the river along the railroad, leavifi‘g
camp bevlo d Malolq city. General?
i—Iale s, w staitedl onday, VV as ear-
lier on the Cmarch and sweeping VVest-
Ward toward the railroad. The Etr'nored
train “as being pushed by Chinamen,
the Twentieth Kansas regiment ad—
valicihg in extended order on the left
and the First Montana regiment with
the Utah. Li ht artillery, on the right.
The rain firing guns on the trainl
f‘ope’ned the ball” at 11: .30 a. n1. about a
m1 8 from the river, their popping alter
nating continuously with the boom of
The Montana regiment one. the Utah
artilleiy batteries at the same time en-
tered the jungle, from which the insur-
gents, VV ho VV ere occupying a large,
stragglin s V illage of huts, pou1 ed heaV y
volleys. In the course of an hour the
Americans had forced a passage
front of the river, and the ar tille1y, im—
-mediately on VVheeling into the open,
begun shelling the Filipino trenches.
in the meantime Company K, TVV en-
tic-111 111111“; as, led by Captain BoltVV'ood
performed one of the most brilliant
oi: the ca111paig.n The
regiment was being held in reserve, and
Company K changed a distance of a
quazéter of a mile over a cornfield to
the' 11111 of the riV er, near the bridge,
W11 s'io. the insurgents from a trench
Vveiz: peppering the armor ed train, then
abdut 200 yards tion 11 the track. The
company found dhelter in a ditch.
Colonel Fredelick Funston called for
volunteers to cross the river, and the
colonel himself, Lieutenant Ball, a pri-
vate of Company K, a puiVate of Com-
pany E, Trumpeter Barsueld and Cor-
along the iron girders.
'- Tihile this was going on tl'iv; men of
Company K from the ditch VV ere 'fusll-
iading the trenches in the endeavor to
divert attention, but the Filipinos got
Water under the structure.
Having reached the broken span the
mild down the caisson, SVV am a few
'yards to the shore and crawled up the
bank, the little colonel leading the way
to fife trenches, revolver in hand, while
the few remaining Filipinos bolted.
Colonel Funsmn said afterward:
”It wasn’t much to do. We knew they
{cou‘1dn?t shoot straight and that our
boys would attend to them while we
'VV'ere Crossing.”
. General Hale’s troops, on the right,
had the hardest fighting. They follow-
ed the north bank of the river nearest
the town from the east, with the First
“:bra'ska regiment on the left and the
fit irst South Dakota and the Fifty- -first
lowa beyond.
The Country to be traversed was
mestly' jungle, biit the Filipinos stood
’their ground even in the open spaces.
. General Hale’s right joined General
IWheato’n" s' left soon after noon 3. curve
in the 16me enabling the Americans to
pour an enfilading fire into the enemy s
trenches. I I
. About this fime‘ the cheers of the
"Kansas troops announced that the
Americans had crossed the river. Gen-
eral Haie’ s men began to ford the Chi-
co, a. branch of the Ba‘gdad stretching
to the northeast. The general himself
plunged in up to his neck, and the regi—
ments, all carrying flags, flounde1 ed
across the stream. . .
The guns of the Utah Light artillery
Vvere dragged over next and formed in-
to an extended line to advance upon
the trenches before Callumpit, from
which the Filipinos were pouring con—
tinuous volleys. .
The armored car had one man killed
and two wounded. The Kansas regi-
ment had three wounded during the
charge and the Utah Light artillery one
killed and two Wounded. Most of the
other casualties befell the South Dan
kota regiment.
It is difficult to estimate the insur-
gent losses, but they had no fewer than
70 killed, many of them by the artillery.
Conquer First, Discuss Later.
WASHINGTON. April 26. -—-With a
large war department map before them
the members at the cabinet yesterday
board. The press declares the act il-
'\
traced the positions of the American
soldiers and the Filipinos near Calum-
pit. Secretary Alger pointed out VV hat
was intended to be accomplished and the
positions and strength 0: the opposing
forces. A cabinet officer said that the
cabinet has at no time discussed the
subject of the future dispositlcn of the
Philippines. “It is the present that we
are thinking of, " he said, “and there is
| not the slightest intention of deviating
I from the present prcgiafifni I believe
it is the unanimc‘us feclingt. the co hi-
I net that nothf 112; shall be decided as to
the future status of the islands until
We have placed them satisfactOrily 1m.
der the control of the United States.”
He said that may dollar and every
man necessary to bring the islands un-
der the dominion of this eotintry would
be used. When the insurgents have
recognized the power of the United
States the question of their future
status will be taken up and discussed. _
Negro Troops F‘or tch Philippines.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—FA proposi—
tion to use negro troops to a large ex—
tent in future military operations in the
Philippines is attracting much atten-
tion and it is believed V. ill be consid—
er ed by the administration in the near
future. Such a policy is urged on_ the
theory that cgrtain1 racial affiliations
may be utilized in 3. VV a'y to defeat re—
beljious acts on the part of Aguinaldo
and his paitV and to bring peace to the
newly acquired pessessions of the Unit-
ed States in the east. One third of the
population of the Philippines a1e 11e-
groes of the same race as those in the
United States and, while not numerous
about Manila, comprise nearly the en—
tire population of some of the islands.
The advocates of the Scheme believe
that in a short time there would be an
assimilation between the negroes of the
Philippines and their kindred from the
United States and that there VV ould fol—
101V ror the colored people oppor tunitics
to get homes and possibilities of careers
they could not hope for in this country.
“There Their Aid. Comes Front.
WASHINGTON April 26. I—Army
and Singapore as VV ell as from Europe.
which they are using.
Otis Wants 34:05 to stay.
' “ID, April 26. —Thé swernmenf
”1 a. dispatch from General]
Myths-
flats 1’1'515'98'8.t ‘rinIIcipal commander 111
Rice“, Spairi‘s i. sserting that Major'
the “hill pines: ~+ed him not to
General tis has 95399» , from the
withdraw 1146' SpamSh {1'83” "-11 of
island of Mindanab: un’m the 5’5"“
the American forg'c 0‘3? occupr‘lu'u‘m
4411;».
Ivonne]? Antisti'Wa .IiSEtS- ‘
NEW YORK, April 25. xAi't' the annual
meeting 0f the standing committee of
the New York state assocw‘tvon op—
posed: to the extension of the 2.111115ch
to women, held in this city yesterday,
the chairman, Mrs Gilbert E. Jo‘nes.
made a; report, in which she said: “Since l
.7511 1 the defeats of the suffrag'lstg
have been many. In New York the sen- i
ate voted unfavorably upon the bill giv- .
ing women taxpayers the right to vote
upcn questions affecting property. In,
Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticutfl'erA 1
ment, Illinois, Oklahoma; Arizona In-
diana, M' sc 01111, Michig‘e .1111. and Calif01-
nia women suffrage bills have been re—
jected by the legislature bodies.
Thoughtful women are coming more
clearly to see that VVith the franchise
come o'1.1.Ve responsibilities V'fihich VV 0-
men VVill be foreV er unable t0) meet.’
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VVondcrfu—l Telegraphic Fc‘at.
CHICAGO, April 26.~—The' record for
long distance practical telegl‘aip'hing
VV as b1 0‘ en yesterday by the Associated
131955; on its regular system of wires
leased from the lVe'ster'n- Union‘ Tele-f
graph company A continuous circuit?
of 6, 001 miles, reaching from New York ‘
city to the Pacific coast and from Chi~'
cage to New 01 leans, touching Philam
delphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, 11.—112111111,»
Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Oma-‘,
ha, Denver, San Francisco' and all” the"
larger intermediate points south and-1
we t, was sUccessfully worked for s‘ev—l
eral hours. There were 41 operators"
copying from a sender in New Y0rk, i
with newspapers being served directly'I
from this one circuit in 38 of the lead-'-
ing cities of the United States.
New lion-eon Minister. .
VVASHINGrbN, April 26.—The Ko-
rean diplomat who has been appointed
as minister a‘o Washington. to succeed 2
Mr. Chin Pom Ye, who has been trans- ’
ferred to Russia, France and Austria, is
Prince Min Yong W'han. He is first.
cousin to his majesty, second cousin to 1
the late queen and uncle to the crown i
princess He speaks English and stands i
very high in the estimation of foreign-
ers as well as Koreans. He was special
embassador at the co'rOnaItion of the
czar and acted in a similar capacity at
the queen ’s jubilee in London. On his
return home from the queen’s jubilee he I
spent a. year in Washington;
Dark Outlook In Pain."
LIMA, Peru, via Galveston, April 26.——
The Peruvian political horizon 'is‘dark
and threatening. A decree has been
issued by the government terminating
the functions of the national electoral
legal, but recummends obedience in‘ or-
der to 3'. old further trouble. According
to advices from Bolivia, the city of La
Paz, in the department of the same
name, which has long been the nominal
capital, was formally proclaimed the
capital of the victorious revolutionary"
government April 15.
Buffalo Leaves Gibraltar.
_ GIBRALTAR April 26. —The United
States armed transport Buffalo, which
arrived here yesterday morning from
0f-
ficials have learned that since Manila
fell the Filipinos have been obtaining
supplies of ammunition from Hongkong
A strict naval patrol of the island of
Luzon has been established and the be-
lief is expressed that the supply of a111-
munition will now be cut off. It is pos-
itively stated that the Filipinos have no
factory for the manufacture of smoke;
less powder and Mauser cartridges.‘
'arrested the burgomaster and eight
Past Twelve Months Show
Enormous Export Trade.
IMPORTS SNIALLEST IN NIANY YEARS
For Every Dollar's Worth of Foreign
Goods Received Two Dollarl’
Worth of Our Products
\Ve'nt Abroad.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—~The fiscal
year of 1898 was the banner year of the
foreign trade of the United States, ou1
exports being the largest ever recorded
for a like period and our imports ex-
ceptionally small. According to a com-
prehensive report just prepared by Mr.
Frank H. Hitchcock chief of the sec-
tion of foreign markets of the agricul-
tural department, the total value of
our domestic exports reached the enor-
mous sum of $1,210,291,913, exceeding the
record breaking figures of the preceding
year by $178,284,310. On the other hand
the imports during 1898 VV ere the small-
est since 1885, their value being $616,-
049,654, a decline of $148, 680,758 from the
figures of 1897. Broadly stated, for ev-
ery dollar’s worth of foreign merchan-
dise brought into the United States $2
worth of our products found a market
abroad. Our domestic experts, as com-
pared with our imports, showed an ex—
cess of $594,242,259, or more than tVVice
the excess for 1897, VV hich was the lar-
gest previously reported.
A11 interesting fact developed by the
report of Mr. Hitchcock is the increase
in the exports of agricultural products,
being 70. 93 per cent of the total or $858, —
507 ,942, a gain of nearly 25 per cent over
1897. Exports of this class also show a;
greater gain proportionately than non—
agricultural exports. Our purchases of
foreign agricultural products in 1898
. amounted to only $314,291,796, as con -
lpared VVith $400,871, 468 in 1897, a de-
crease of $86, 579 672, or about 22 per
cent.
The value of the Ame1ican farm prod-
uce sent abread during 1898 was much
more than double that of our agricultu-
rai imports, the excess of the former
' over the latter amounting to 8544, 216,146“.
In l897 the excess on the side of the
agricultural exports was only $288, 883, -
ceding stiIIl smaller
' “warty Strike-
in: ~_\
GLOUCF STER, Mass, 32
situation at the quarries o the Rock:
1 ort G1an1te company at Bay View the
shone of the Conflict Saturday night, be:
tween th‘ e police and the striking quar-
rymeii; is Comparatively‘ calm There
are still 21 of the Italians at the shan—
I; ties, and it was stated that fully 25
more are expected today. All the Ital-
lam: are a1 nI1Ied a large number of them
carryifig I chester rifles, while' every
one has a 1" :VOlVél' 0n 111nm Th9 "1911
haVe‘ also 11111: up heavy shutters to
j 62913.? shanties those that Were up Sat-
! 111 d5." ffighf Shomng many bullet holes.
It is ufidgrst‘ood that the attorney of
tion restraining the strikers fr om inter-
fering with the Italians.
——\
The Missouri RiV er Dangérbus
KANSAS CITY, Apiil 24.—The? MiSA
SOUIi 1.-.'-'e1" is three inches above" the
danger 1111's, the government gauge reg:
1ste'1'1'11g213foei. This is a 1ise of eight
inches since Saturday morning. The
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25 and in the years immediately pre~
THE PEAo'E CONFERENCE.
'For Simultaneous Meetings
Throughout the Wot-111..
INDIANAPOLIS, April 26. —As the
American member of the international
peace and arbitration commission Mrs
May Wright Sewell is sending out the
following plan for holding simultaneous
peace meetings throughout 'the world
on May 15:
. “A universal and international dem-
onstration is to take place in favor oi
the aims for which the peace confer-
ence that will open May 18 at The
Hague has been called together by the
invitation o'f the czar. This demonstra-
tion will consist in simultaneous meet-
ings of women, held as much as possi-
ble on the same day (for which the 15th
of May has been fixed) in most of the
more important towns all over the civ-'
ilized world. In these simultaneous
meetings the women will proclaim their
universal and unanimous will for the
idea of peace and the promotion of the
principle of justice (instead of force) in
the international relations of peoples.
Besides, they will interchange addresses
of sympathy with all the other women
gathered for the same cause at the same
hour in other countries.
“These meetings are to be held in all
the more important towns of each coun-
try. Their organization and execution
ought to be centered in one hand, which
also would take the charge of sending
and of receiving the addresses of sym-
pathy which will be exchanged between
countries and which will have to be dis—
tributed to all places in the country
where meetings will be arranged, in
time so that they may all be read aloud
during these meetings. These addresses
have to be sent beforehand until the
8th of May by means of the central
committee of one countryto that of all
the other countries, which will probably
amount to 15 or 18, and will have to be
forwarded to the different meetings in
copies.
“The meetings will indorse short‘res-.
olutions, addressed to governments and:
to the peace conference, and the pass.
sage of these resolutions has to be com--
municated before May 17 to the follow-
ing address: ‘Vradescomite, Hagua’ ”
flun-
. CONDENSED DISPATCHESA
PORTO RICO SUFFERS
One Hundred Thousand Peeple
In Starving Condition.
1111) c1053 PLANS 1011 RELIEF.
Native-u \Vithout Bread and Meat For
Many Weeks—Planter; ‘Villlu‘g to
Contribute coffee and Sugar to
Be Exchanged For Provisions.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—General
Roy Stone and the members of the ex-
ecuti‘ve committee of the ’National Red
Cross called upon the president yester-
day to lay before him a. plan for the
relief of some of the destitution in Por-
to Rico. Over 100,000 of the natives, ac-
cording to Dr. Henna, have been with-
out bread and meat for six weeks and
are on the verge of starvation. .General
Fred D. Grant has reported 39 deaths
from starvation in a. single-province.
The aid the military authorities in Por-
to Rico were able to give the natives in
the way of distribution of rations and
employment on the. roads has been
greatly reduced since the free distribu-
tion of rations was suspended, and some
of the Porto Rican planters and mer-
chants have devised a scheme which
they believe will afford: much relief to
the destitute and at the same time serve
them by introducing. Porto Rican goods
in American markets.
The price of coffee in Porto Rico is
very low on: account of the large crop
in Brazil, and they offer to contribute
a large amount to be sold in this'coun-
try through the agency of the Red
Cross, the proceeds to go toward the
relief'of the distressed upon the island.
The Port-o Rican Steamship company
hasnzrfifered to carry these contributions
free. They also offer to contribute crys-
tal sugar, fruits, preserves, cigars, cig-
arettes, etc. and suggest the sale of
these products at coffee rooms to be es-
tablished in the principal cities by the
Red Cross. They desire that these char _
itable contributions shall be admitted to,
this Country free of- duty, .. H V l A
.. ._'. “w
The members of the Samoan commisa
sion have sailed for Apia.
Japan’s peace delegatEs have arrived
at Victoria, B. C., on their way to The
Hague.
Colonel Garlington’ 5 report on canned
beef gave the opinions of 539 officers
‘ ““il 24. —The
and men.
"-~n «min, has appeared in
The
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the country 11191153 5881656: 5126 sever
valuable orchards have been destrdye
I The Tim'es‘ (915 India announces that
Russia has secured an interest 111‘ a; port
on the Persian gulf.
sent to 53311619111116 Louvere,Belg‘1'flm.
to alntain order among the strikers:
'Tii’a
1 ridge, 0010., since Feb. 4 was broken.
i
the company will apply for an injunc-z
I
1
river is still rising, and as the currentI
is excee ineg strong serious damage
to property in the Ionilaud's may result.
Farmers and squatters spent the day
moving their property to higher ground.
Beyond the flooding of several cellars
of business houses skirting the river
little damage has been done‘ here“ so far.
————— 1
The Spanish Elections.
MADRID, _April 24 —The senatorial a car famine, being unable to furnish 50
elections for the new cortes were held.
yesterday and passed off tranquilly‘
throughout the country. They have re":
sulted in giving the government a lar—-
ger majority in the senate than it had‘ Saturday.
scoured in the chamber of deputies. It i
is reasserted in different reliable quar— l Ahearn teachers’ salary bill. It provides 1
' an increase of about $500, 000 for 10,000
Il teadheis in Greater New York.-
ters that the' attempts of Don Carlos
to raise a loan on the security of his
Italian and Austrian estates have
. failed. 5
Aged \Voman Dies.
LYONS, N. Y., April 24. ——Vlrs. Maria
Croul, aged 97 y'cais, died on Saturday
11ight.She was the daughter of John
Bockov‘en, a cousin ofCommodore Van-
derbilt. Mrs. Croul wasa member of
the Presbyterian church here for over
75 'Iy'ea'rs. She had nine children, seven
off'whoin'are living, ranging in age from
55 £078 years.
fiuugnriun Forgets Arrested".
VIENNA. April 24. —The police have-
members'of-the town council of Bazer, >
Hungary; on'a charge of forging bank
notes. The'operations of the criminals
have been going on for two years.
Iiillcd'lri'a GrnvIcl' Pit.
CARLTON, Minn, April 24. —At the
East Minnesota railway gravel pit, two
miles east of here, two men were killed
by a cave in, and seven workmen were
buried for a time under 100 feet of
gravel bank."
. Burned at the Stake;
NEWNAN, Ga., April 24. —Sam Hose,
the murderer of Alfred Cranford and
the ravisher of his wife, was burned at
the stake two miles from here at 2:30
yesterday afternoon in the presence of
2,000 people.
5111:1161; "Marconi Coming.
LONDON, April 24.—Signor Marconi,
the distinguished electrician, whose ex-
periments in wireless telegraphy have
aroused world wide interest, will' visit
the United States next October.
. Linton Won In Purifi-
PARIS, April 24.—In the 50 kilometer
bicycle race here yesterday Tom Lin-
Man? on her way to New York with
office 's and men from Admiral Dewey’s
day and sailed at night. The condition
of all on board was reported satisfac-
tory.
Mull Route Awarded. ,
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Richard
Chilcott of Seattle, Wash, has been
awarded the contract for the mail serv-
ice‘ to be performed on the new all
American overland route from Valdez.
on Prince William's sound, through the
interior toCircle City, on the Yukon. 9
Vii-tanner: 593 miles.
w...» ~..» I
fleet whose time has expired and with a _
number of invalids, coaled during the.
ton, the Englishman, won in 55 'minutes
:30 3—5 seconds. Eduard Taylore was
second and A. E. Walters thir.d. '
Sunday Baseball.
CINCINNATI, April 24. ——Six thou-
sand people witnessed the game of
baseball between the Orphans‘ and Reds
yesterday. The '-fo'llouing is the secret
Cincinnati, 8; Chicago, 6."-
Woniui‘l Burned to Death.“
' MELROSEW Mass, 'April2 24. a; Mrs. .
Charlotte Lynch, a. widow, was burned?
to death at her home here V’esterday'byf'
l interunl-V'ersity chess match.
l the VV ell Known racing judge, has killed
I himself in Memphis.
her clothing catching fire while she'Was<
preparing breakfast.-
.‘Nyv'-
Stud nts of the Universaty of Illinois
hange Governor Tanner in efiigy for
his veto of an appropriatiim for thel
university.
A fast mail train on the Burlington
has made the run from Chicago to the I
Mississippi riV er, a distance of 206
,miles, in 199 minutes.
I
CONDENSED DISPATCHES l
I
cafe manufactur'ms have formed a" l
[817 .500, 000 trust.
The British beat the Americans in the
Colonel M. Lewis Clark of Louisville,
The Right Hon: Sir John Mowbray,
father of the English house of- com-
mons since 1898, is dead.
The Lake Shore railVV ay complains of
per cent of cars called for.
IFuneral services over the remains of
Representative S. T. Baird of Louisiana
were held in VVas'nington, where he died
Mayor Van TVka has signed the
Lady Scott Disnppcnxs.
LONDON. April 24.—The family of Sir
Samuel Edward Scott, Conservative
member of parliament for West Mary—
lebone, is in a state of great consterna—
tion over the disappearance of Lady ,
Scott, who Was Lady Sophie Beatrix}
Mary Cadoga‘n‘, daughter of the Earl of
Cadogan, 10rd lieutenant of Ireland.
The Daily Mail says her ladyship drove
out shopping on the 17th,. dismissed her
coachman in Bend street. and has not
been seen since. Lady Sophie Cadogan,
who is in her twenty-fifth year, married
Sir Samuel Scott, now in. his twenty-
sixth year, in 1896'. Their town house
is at 7 Grosvenor square.
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The Raleigh Suns.
NEW YORK, April 24. —The Raleigh
completed her coaling yesterdayIand at
8 o’clock p.: in. left her anchorage and
moved slowly down the North river. It
was announced that she was going to
lie off Staten Island awaiting orders to
proceed to Philadelphia. Thousands of
admirers watched the warship’s depar--
ture. Great crowds Went on the little
vessels that took passengers out to look
at her, but none was allowed on board.
Sherbourne School Burned.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24'.'—The
Sherbourne school, a boarding institu-
tion for boys, located in the suburban
town of San Rafael, was burned yester—
day. There were a number of daring
rescues, but Charles Armstrong, the
6-year-old son of an army officer now in
Manila, rushed into the burning build-
ing and was lost. The fire originated
In the furnace room and is attributed to
the carelessness of a. servant.
A Wreath For 0.141113"; Grave.
BOSTON, April 25.——About 75 New
England delegates to the. international
Sunday school congress at Atlanta,
April 26 to 31, left here yesterday. The
Massachusetts delegation carried a
handsome wreath to be placed upon the
grave of the late Henry Grady as a
tribute from the Sunday school teachers
of the. state.
F first Pay ment on Monitors.
WASHINGTON, April 2.5—The navy
department has authorized the first
payment, amounting to $42,290, to the
Bath ]1'on works on account of the con-
struction of the monitor Connecticut.
This is the firs: payment to be made on
account of any of the four new moni-
“its: .
315
' snow blockade which has pre-l
fl vented trains from entering Breckin—
To Ex Ilorc ‘NI xico. .
2 WASHINGTON, Apri 26. —The Na-
tional museum will start two scientists
on May 1 on an ethnological explora.-.
tio of Mexico. They are r. J. N. Rose
Dr. Walter Hough r. Rose wl
devote his attention t9 9 Gnome
botany of exico and e peciallyI the
desert and subdesert regions, with a
view to finding any new plants that
m-.. m at commercial ov- v'" "
5... -- __ .mxcai value.
if: fidhgh‘g, wot will deal with the
pr1m1tlve arts of 1. 6 Indian tribes, par-
ticularly t1}? yaquis. The expedition
! will via'slt the great $135118 0% Casa
Three squadrons of caVaIry ha.,; been I Grandes, South of Cali 0 , ex1co,
which is supposed to be one of the lar-
, gest prehistoric ruins in {be world.
Countess Esterhuzy’s Reasons.
PARIS, April 26.—Countess Esterha-
23! W110 has; begun proceedings for a di-
Vome from Commandant Comte Ferdi-.
nand VValsin Esterhazy, said that the
publication of her husband' s letters to
M. Jules Foche left her no other course.
She would have forgiven him the ruin
and disgrace he had so undeservele
brought upon herself and her daugh-
ters, but now that he 11.111 published de--
grading groundless details of her bodi-
ly infirmities as an excuse for his own
dissipation and had also linked her
name ignominiously with that" of Gen-
eral Giovaninelli she could no longer
refrain from taking the‘ present step
Floods Make People Honlclcs‘s.
OMAHA, April 261~The rise of the
Missouri river at this point" has results
cd in driving 600 people from their
homes and the submergc‘nce of 12 square
miles of bottom lands. The water con~
tinues to rise slowly. YVa-ter is in the
icehouses of Swift & Co. and the South
Omaha company and is’ doing much
damage. All the manufacturing plants
011 the bottoms are flooded, and the Un-
ion Pacific and terminal companies’
tracks cannot be used. A force of men
armed with ‘Winchesters patrol the dike
on the north side of East Locust street
to prevent a possible attempt to- cut it.
Those Bogus Revenue Stamp.»
LANCASTER, Pa., April 26.—An ex-
amination was made yesterday of W.
M. Jacobs’ books, and it was found that
he had defrauded the government out
of about $125,000 with his bogus revenue
stamps, the books showing the differ-
ence between the number of cigars ac—
tually produced at the factory and. the
number that Jacobs reported to the rev—
enue officers as having been made.
Chief of Se01 et Service W'ilkie and; De-
tective Burns are here working on» the
case.
To Test Municipal Ownership,
LANSING, Mich, April 26.—The su-
preme court yesterday assigned May 5 f
as the date for arguments in the case
brought to test the act authorizing mu-
nicipal ownership and operation of
street railways in Detroit. The attor-
ney general appears as Irelator in quc
warranto proceedings brought to test
the authority of the Detroit street rail-
way commission.
Women Wh-iut Players Meet.
WASHINGTON April 26. —-—The second
annual congress of the Women’ s Whist
league has begun here, with 350 players
in attendance, including nearly all the
most prominent women players in the
country and representing nearly every
city. The congress will continue until
Friday morning,when the final matches
will be played. Two sessions are held
daily.
Another Poisoncr.
LEWISTON, Me., April 26.—Among
the items reported by the Androscoggin
grand jury yesterday were nine count:
against George W. Pierce, two alleging
attempts to murder Judge A. D. Cornish
of the Lewiston municipal court with
poisoned sugar and ex- -City Marshal H
E Teel of Lewiston with poisoned
whisky
Judge Day In \Vashlngton.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—EX-Sec're-
tary of State \Viliiam R. Day and Mrs
Day are guests at the White House
They arrived from North Carolina
Judge Day will return there fora fish-
ing trip before assuming his duties as
United States judge.
\Vill Speak at Galena.
WASHINGTON, April 26. ——Postmas-
ter General Smith has left here for Gan
lena, Ills, where he will deliver an ad-
dress at the Grant anniV ersary celebra-
tion tomgrrow.
THE LAST WEEK.
New York Legislature Will Close It"
Work Friday—Little More to Do. , '3
ALBANY. April 24.—The legislative
session of 1899 enters upon its closing,
week tonight with the calendars of
both houses more nearly cleared than
often happens at this period Of the ses-
sion. Few bills of great importance re-
main .to be disposed of. The rapid
transit bill will be called up in the sen-
ate tomorrow. Whether it will be op—
posed by the Democrats is yet uncer-
tain. That it will pass, however,I seems
assured, as all the Republican members
are' understood to approve it, unless it
be Senators Krum and Armstrong, who
have opposed every measure proposing
a tax exemption.
The state police bill is conceded to be
dead beyond hope of revival. Its' con-
sideration therefore Vyill not occupy
much time, if indeed it is called upat
all. The only purpose incalling it up
will be to secure a record of the atti-
tude of senators toward it. '
The fate of the White educational
bill, a. codification of all laws bearing
upon this subject, is much in doubt, as
the regents have never relinquished
their vigorous opposition.
It is expected- that by Wednesday
most of the general and important bills
will have been passed or put to sleep in
committee, and the last portion of the
week will probably be devoted to finish«
ing up the. disposition of the smaller
measures. . "
Of course, as usual, Friday will be de-
voted to lighter things than legislation,
and the assembly chamber will be
turned for the time into a temple of
good will, kind exchanges of gifts and
pentiments and a general place of pleasi
are.
POISONED BY'Hls WIFE.
Dr. Patton Makes Antmnortcm States
utent to. That Elfect. '
TERRE .. AUTE, It‘d” April 24'_D£'
B. 11‘. Pattc; 1 a physician who is known
throughout three” states as a specialist
in the cure of cancer 6111] VVlio is the
propIiietor of a, large samtarl‘h In
01W. is lyifi: at the oint of death from
What he cl 1111; is {Ne effect of arsenic
and chlél‘ofirm poison gdministered
us Wife F31E some 196111115 past the
physician has bgen m terially losing
strength A few days a o héN‘ as co
belle to seek his ped and now lies un-
der 1:118 care 0f t1}: ee phy sici sgwlgo
state that his chant-es {cry re'c :11?
very slight. Since his illness forced him
to ta. e to hi’s bed Dr. Patton has reit-
erate time and again in the "'
“g" L -<.. .q._ ”Caring 5: ‘
. .. omcr physeisnst 1. his Vvite was
8.16 51111121 of hill C'Ol’lal on; Saturday
night the invalid asked {hilt git-S prose-
cutor and coroner be summoned, an
this “as done. A sworn statement ae-
cusing his wife of poisoning hirnjv 5
made by the dyin man. In gdditio
Dr. Patoon reqiiese Eat a post 1.11M:
tem cxa,‘ inat on 0 his body be made.
1,115,151,121 531651, the accuse%1vo
611, has filed proceedings or 5 l e
and is flow at one of her farms near
N31 111511176116 1111. She has been married
four times aqu Is Worth something over
$100 000 in hei o“ 11 right No steps have
yet been taken to apprehend her
._._.
var-'1
Coghluu’s Talk Sisliked. "‘5 7
LONDON, April'24.-—-=The morning pa}
p’ers unanimously condemn the cabled
utterances of Captain Coghian of the
United States cruiser Raleigh regard«
ing the relations betVV een Admiral Dew-
ey and the German 11aVal commander
at Manila as “indiscretions” and “vio~
lations of good manners.” Most of them
express the opinion that Germany will
treat the incident with “dignified €1—
lence.” The Standard says, ' “While
Aguinaldo defies the United States it is
not for an individual American to offer
insult to other nationalities.” The Daily
News and The Daily Mail, nevertheless,
accept Captain Coghlan’s statement as
the true version'of Germany’s attitude
at Manila. , '
Atlanta. Street Railroad D'e'a'l.
BALTIMORE, April 24.—-Negotiations
have been completed by the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit company of Balti-
more and the Trust Company of Geor-
gia of Atlanta for the consolidation of
all the street railway properties of' At-
lanta. The consolidation provides for
an authorized issue of $5,000,000. 5'0 year
5 per cent gold bonds, of which $2,000,000
will be offered to the public, $2,250,000?
to be held by the trustee against out-1
standing bonds, and the remaining $7501-
090 will be held for the purpose of build--
ing an electric power and lighting plant:
and for other improvementsand extens-
sions. I
Soldiers Return Home.
NEW YORK. April 24.-The Manson?
line steamer Ella has arrived from Bara-v
coa, Gibara and Nuevitas. She brought
40 passengers; all but two of whom were-
discharged or' furloughed' officers and‘
privates. There was also: a. desert‘er om
board, who will be placed under arrest.
at the pier. He was a member of the-
hospital corps at NuIevitazs.
Fortune and Sanity Gone.
NEW YORK, April 24.—W. J. cop-
p-inger, 34 years old, who came to this
country 13 years ago with: $100,000, has
been declared imne‘and was yesterday
taken to the Manhattan State hospital
from the Bell'evue hospital insane pa-
vilion. He has; no money left. Cop-
pinger is a cousin of General Coppinger,
U. S. A
The Delugoa Cane.
BERNE Switzerland April 24.—The
president of the Delagoa railway arbi-
tration tribunal has announced that the
case will be ”closed May 1 and that judg-
ment will be pronounced in August or
September. The claim of heirs of Colo-
nel McMurdo, an American, against the
Portugal government is involved in the
decision.
In Honor of Joachim.
BERLIN, April 24.—A concert was
given Saturday evening at the Philhar-
.monic in honor of the sixtieth anniver—
saryo f the debut of the violinist Jeseph
Joachim, who, with 164 of his former
and present pupils, took part in the en-
tertainment.
Fire ,In Ola-ulna.
OMAHA, April 24.—The agricultural
implement warehouse of King'man &
Co., an eight story brick structure, lo-
cated across an alley from the new Bur-
lington station. took fire at 8:30 o'clock
last night ant. 1s a total loss of not less
than $100,000.
Cigars Ben-r, Counterfeit Stamps.
LOUISVILLE, April 24.—Collector C.
E, sapp hasseized 10,000 cigars. the
boxes in which they were packed hear.
ing counterfeit stamps. Four thousand .
cigars were seized in New Albany, Ind. f
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