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NEWS OFTHE STATE Ordinary and Extraordinary Happenings. THE PAST SEVEN DAYS IJI DETAIL llrlef Nnmirmry of 8titi Dolnci SUt, County nml Municipal Now of lin- porliinio lo Our llujr lller lllg Item llollvd Down. 25 Ira yUmpp, n young druggist of Call away, wiw thrown out of n carriage, striking on IiIh head and should.'!-, In juring him unite severely. On of the ltocr envoys told an Oma hit man that the peace oominlvslon may make a proposition to annex the Dutch republics to the United States. The Epworth assomby, to be held at Lincoln August 1 to ". has secured Maud llalllngton Hooth, Generals How ard und Gordon and two Methodist bishops among the speakers. Chris Sasse, a prominent farmer liv ing cast of Dodge, Neb., met a horrible death Saturday night, lie was struck by a bolt of lightning and ills body ivas burned beyond all resemblance to that of a human being. One of his horses was also killed by the shock. Samuel T. Davis, who went to Sioux City, la., in lS.'irt, and from the llrst has been a prominent lawyer and capital ist, was struck by a street car and in stantly killed. He was quite denf and did not see or hear the car. In early days ho owned the land upon which the best residence part of Sioux City now stands. Ora lfrawner, who lives three miles west of Wilcox, Neb., Is suffering from a peculiar disease. On the least exer tion he perspires freely on the right half of his body while the left side remains perfectly cool and dry. Ex cept for a feeling of numbness on the right side of his body during the early morning hours, he Is in perfect health. Tuesday afternoon two families who reside In Union, Neb., were returning from a visit In the country when the team ran away, throwing the occu pouts out and instantly killing the threc-iuouths-nld baby of Dave, Luruc. Mrs. Larue was quite badly bruised and Mrs. Walker Jones was so serious ly Injured that It is thought she can not recover. C. O. Charlston, said to have been once a member of the Nebraska legis lature, and a justice of the peace, from Phelps county, was convicted at Chi cago of obtaining SM by a conlldence game, and was sentenced to tlfteen days i the county jail. Charlston's plan was to present worthless checks and obtain small sums of money on them. The north Nebraska college build ing of Madison, Neb., Is a total wreck, having been struck by lightning and burned. A furious storm, had been raging for hours, and at about mid night the deme of the college was struck by lightning. Near by citi.ens saw a small bla.e about the size of a candle, but nolhiuir could be done. Loss about S5.000. Edward Hamilton, Harry Welch and Mrs. Harriet .lenniugs, the persons ar rested at Itrownvllle charged with burglarizing the home of Mr. Strain, just above Nebraska City, and carrying the goods olT In, boats, had a hearing before Judge .loyee and was bound over to the September term of the dis trict court. Frank Ambroz, a farmer living seven miles west of Madison, Neb., was In jured severely by being thrown from his wagon and being run over, lie was late starting from town, and hail stopped to tlx the seat, when the hor ses started up suddenly and threw htm out. Ambroz was taken care, of by a friendly farmer. The team was found the next day tied fast to the wheel in the middle of a wheat Held. A party of Sarpy countj horsemen reached Omaha Tuesday In hot pursuit of horse thieves who stole two good horses and a set of harness from Aug. Leaders, a farmer residing two miles from Pa pillion. The theft occurred early in the morning. Ky noon blood hounds had been secured from Lincoln nnd they took the scent and held it until they reached Omaha, where they became confused. The pjlice joined in the search. An Kile Creek. Neb., .Tune 12, special says: A tornado was seen to form on the Turdy farm, two miles west of Klk Creek, shortly after I o'clock this evening. At the beginning it seemed to be no more than an ordinary whirl wind, but as it advanced a funnel shape was taken on and for some time it was feared would come direct over the village, but fortunately It veered to the northeast and passed the town about eighty rods to the north nnd just above the tree tops. Its course front this on was cast and a little to the north. At K. II. Itoonc's farm It broke some trees, then went on to tho farm of K. C. Thompson nnd uprooted ami made small wood of his line orch ard. The Rnwllngs barn at 131 South Thirteenth street. Lincoln, Neb., was consumed by lire Tuesday morning. The tiro spread from the barn to the rear part of the brick block owned by Mr. Unwlliigs, at 1210 N street, anil damaged It considerably, gutting tho old portion of the building. The front part, just completed, was slightly damaged. The paint shop of .1. .1, liutlor, two doors south of the barn, was burned bnt tho row of frame buildings south of tho barn were saved, owing to tho direction of the wind. Tho barn was filled with hordes but thoy were ull saved. Alouo Soitt and Itobcrt (Justin were arrested at lletiklcmen, Neb., chnrged with cattle stealing. The preliminary trial will bo held at St. Proud h, Ivan., as the alleged theft was committed in that state. I. S. Knight, a coat dealer, of Hay Springs, Neb., shot Dick Hall, a car penter, with probably fatal ctTeet. The ball passed through the right hand and entered the right breast just below the nipple. During the thunder storm Saturday evening lightning struck the barn of Paul Soretisen, seven miles south of Adams, Neb., and killed Luke Peter son, a hired man, knocked one of Mr. Sorenseu's boys down and killed six horses. An Omaha special of .Inne tilth says Charles II. King shot and killed .Mm Hood, who had attempted to invade Mrs. King's dressing room, Hood did not heed repeated warnings and at the bed chamber door ho received two shots and died In twenty mluutes. A Valentine, Nob., .Tune IS special says: After being out all night tht jury In the case of Thompson returned u verdict of murder in the second de gree. After the verdict the sheriff took charge of the defendant und he is now confined in jull, Ills eouscl are preparing a motion for a no'v trial, which will be passed upon dune 20. One of the most severe wind and rain storms for many years passed over tills section Saturday night, doing heavy damage, says n Sargent dispatch. The Murlingtou round house was blown down, breaking the cabs and smoke stacks, so that they will have to be sent In for repairs. The Ruiilngton road is washed out in several places and trains cannot run for several days. Nebraska City special says: Marshall llloxlns, a young man, was drawing baled hay and was just fastening the last bale on the wagon when a bundle fell on the horses, which ciuim-iI them to run away. He attempted to climb Into the wagon and was thrown under the wheels. The heavy load passed over his right leg between the knee and ankle, the bones were torn apart and the llesh pulled loose from the bones. A Sioux City, In., .Tune IS dispatch nays: Samuel Livingston was shot and Instantly killed In Union county. South Dakota, by his neighbor, Lor enzo Stevens. Livingston, who Is llfty eight years old, wanted to marry Stevens' nluctccii-ye-ir-nld daughter nnd the men quarreled about it. Liv ingston struck Stevens with a monkey wrench and Stevens shot him through the heart. Tho murderer made no etVort to ooape. After a year's suspension the ar rangement between the United States and Portugal, establishing reciprocity on certain articles spec! tied In section It of the Dingley act, has gone into ef fect. Under the agreement Portugal secures the same terms that France scoured in her leelprocity arrangement respecting reducd duties on still wines, argols and works of art. The international arrangement was sus pended, owing to a clerical error. A small tornado crossed Auburn county. Nebraska, so far as known, only touch! in the, ground twice. It passed from the southwest to tho northenst, near the town of Johnson, removing a building from the founda tion, and badly damaging It. it again struck the ground six miles north of Auburn in a Held, doing no damage. Heavy rains fell nearly all over the county Wednesday. Miss Rosy Hudson, daughter of a merchant, and Miss Merle Dressier, dauuhtcr of a farmer, livintr north of Hellwood, Neb., were drowned In the Platte river while bathing. The dead body of Miss Hudson was washed about half a mile down the river and was found on a sand bar among w Mows, on which some of her clothing caught. A searehlng.party worked all night, but Miss ltressler's body was not found. Doth were about fourteen years of age. The accident has cast a gloom of sorrow over the community. The week ending .Inly 11 was very warm, the dully mean temporalities averaging from ft dogioesabov. normal In the eastern sections to 7 degrees above In the westirn. In the eastern half of the state the maximum temper ature were generally above IX) degrees. Nearly all sections were visited by moderate showers on Saturday night, lint the total rainfall for the week was very delleient, being kss than one half of an inch over the greater poitiou of the state; only two or three small areas In the southeastern portion re ceived the normal amount. Tohn Hecse, department commander, and Winslow II. ltarge. assistant adju tant general, have issued an order to the It. A K , pots. The app.iinlmeut of the department commander's stalT is announced as follows: Assistant adjutant general, .Tames D. tinge, post No. Fill, Franklin; assistant quarter master general, llrad P. Cook, pjst No. 211, Lincoln; judge advocate general, Ira I). Miutson, post SHU, Kearney; Inspector general, Harry E. Pound, post No. SO, lied Cloud; chief of stall", Charles K. Durmester, post No, 110, Omaha. The assistant adjiuaut gen eral will assume the duties of the oilice on .lunc 2.1. Other stall" olllcers will assume the duties of their olllces as soon as regularly qualified. Steven Huffman, a Herman farmer living one mile southeast of Sterling, Neb., was drowned. Ho witli his son were returning from llurr in n one horse buggy. When half way homo they attempted to cross a swoll-'ii stream, but missed tho bridge which was under water and all went down. The son and horse saved themselves, but Mr. Hull'muii did not rise after going under. Searching parties worked up to Sunday noon before tho body was recovered, The Neligh creamery has a weekly output of 5,000 pounds of .butter. WIDE WORLD NEWS Comprehensive Condensation of Christendom. A COMPLETE SUMMARY OF THE WEEK M rit rnrncrnphu Contnjrlnc World of Information tin pponlnR of tha rant .Hoti'II Unyn Inter- CRtlllR to Alt. A London, .Tunc II dispatch says: Mrs. Gladstone, the wife William 10. (Hailstone, the English statesman, died at 5:40 p.m. today. Out of n totul of seventy-live plague cases since the outbreak at Cairo, 1'tfypt. thirty-four of them have re sulted fatally. Hollo Royd, the famous spy of con federate fame, died suddenly of heart disease at Kilbourne, Wis., aged llfty seven years. She was In that city to deliver a lecture. For the past two days and nights, a continuous rain has been falling in the section near Oxford, Miss., Itlvers and smaller streams have overllowed their banlcs and great Injury has been done to the orops. ' Two ItuITnlo, Rochester .t Pittsburg trains collided head on at West Kails, New York. Kngineer William Katon of HulValo was killed and Kngineer Frank Matteon of llradford fatally in jured. No passengers were killed. Tiieollieial counts of the ballots east for olllcers of the international typo graphical union has been completed. For prusidcut the count shows: .lames M. Lynch, Syracuse, N. Y., It. till; Samuel It. Donnelly, present incum bent. tl.UOll. Charles P. Packer of Chicago, ex banker, clubman, liuauclcr and a lead er hi church circles, has been arrested In Minneapolis on the charge of ubtniii lug money by false pretenses. Packer was former president of tho defunct Park State bank. The Alaskan Exploration company has received advices that the com pany's steamer.tA. F. (iustin left Daw sou on .lune 1th for St. Michael, carry ing 52,000,000 in gold dust. It is ex pected to connect with the Xealandia at St. Michael for San Frunolseo. A Flora. Intl., .June 11 special says: The llapttst church at Young America was struck by lightning and several children who were practicing for chil dren's day exercises were prostrated. The Dunkard church at Darwin was also badly damaged by lightning. While nine men in a basket cable line suspended eighty-live feet above the Tallapoosa river at Tallahassee, Fin., vere crossing, the cable broke and the men fell to the river. One was killed and two are reported unable to live. The others were more or less injured. Definite ofllelal information was re ceived at Washington from the foreign olllce of one of tho most important continental powers stating that the tsung 11 yainen hn.l untitled the min ister of that power at Pckin that the dowager empress would not object to the presence of foreign troops in China's territory. Former Governor Drake of Center vllle. 1. 1., who attended the commence ment exercises at the Drake university at Des Moines, announced that he had made the university joint heir witli his live children in his will. His prop- erty is valued at S.'l.o).'),0i)0and the uni versity will get SSO'MliMi. He has nl ready contributed S.'OO.OOO. Sonny Jefferson, a negro twenty-two years old. was lynched near Metcalf, Gn., by unknown parties. Jefferson had been working lor F.mory Stringer, a white farmer.and recently attempted to assault one of Mr. Stringer's daugh ters. Ho was caught and confined in the jail at Metcalf, Ga. Soon after midnight ho was taken to the. out skir's of the village, hung to a tiec anil riddled with bullets. A London, June 11 dlspitch says: Lieutenant General Sir Frederick For-estier-Walker, in command of the lines of communication in South Africa reports that in the disaster to the Drit ish troops June !). at Roodovnl, where the Doers cut Lord Roberts' line of communications, the Fourth battalion of the Derbyshire regiment were all killed, wounded or made prisoners ex cept six enlisted men. Two oflieors and tlfteen men were killed and five olllcers und seventy-two men were wounded, many of them severely. P. M. ltlngdal, temporary chairman of the Sioux Falls populist convention, lias named the following committee to notify Charles A. Towne of his nomination for vice president: K. Gerry Drown, Massachusetts, J. II. (Cyclone) Davis, Texas; Howard S. Illinois; A. 11. Weir, Nebraska; G. II. Shlbley. New York; Leo Vincent, Col orado: E. N. Warden, California: J. XV. McGabick. Virginia; XV. It. Sattell, Missouri; Thomas A. Pettit, Kentucky; and Krncst Kraner, Oregon. The com mittee is to meet in Kansas City July 4. Monday evening at Des Moines, la., as the regular train on the Chicago .t Northwestern was pulling out for Ames It came Into collision with a spe cial passenger train that was coming in. Kngineer Thomas Smith wus killed, but tho other cngincmen jumped and were not hurt. Doth en gines were demolished, but the rest of the trains remained on tho track. None of the passengers were hurt beyond a shaking up. Governor Shaw was on the outgoing train bound for Chicago and Philadelphia and receive 1 a cut on the temple and a bruited arm, but was able to go home. There was a fire at the Paris exposi tion Thursday, The liaises were dls covered In the national pavillion of llosnla and Hcrzegovtiia. The damage done was slight. Five persons were pnlnfnlly Injured and fifteen or twenty others were more or less hurt by the wreck on the Car negie accommodation on the Panhandle railroad near Pittsburg, Pa. At Louisville, Ky., Thomas llach shot and killed his eighteen-year-old adopted daughter, Mollic, and then killed himself lccause the young woman was recently married secretly. Three men were killed, eight bndly burned or maimed and three other men are missing as the result of a lire In cooperage establishment of Paul Weld man nt North Kleventh street nnd Wythe avenue, Drooklyn. N. Y Tho property loss Is estimated tit S25O.O0O. Chaunccy M. Hawkins, a San Fran cisco jeweler, committed suicide by taking morphine, after vainly trying to obtni nemployiuciit. Ills wife, who reside In Los Angeles, says that he was once wealthy and formerly man aged a jewelry establishment in New York. A special "tobacco train," consisting of thirty-five cars, holding each eight een hogsheads of tobacco, the total weight being 1,800,000 pounds, left Henderson. Ky., Sunday. The ship ment is part of a large contract of over two thousand hogsheads to go to New Orleans. Frank Smith, a miner, made large winnings in a Mexican gambling house at Helvetia, Ariz., and was killed by Mexicans, who provoked a row before he could leave the saloon with the money. He was slabbed and riddled with bullets, but in falling mortally wounded two Mexicans. Miss Lily McAtteo nnd Sherman Morris of Louisville, each seventeen years, were drowned in the Ohio river at Ferngrove, fifteen miles above Louisville, Ky. While trying to ex change seats in the boat Miss McAtec fell overlMinrd. Morris attempted to save her and both were drowned. A London, June IS dispatch says' That Commandant Gen. Louis llotV.a should have been able to stand for two days against Roberts and then to re treat without losing any guns or hav ing any of his men captured is taken to mean that he has a force which the British must still reckon as formidable when acting defensively. John Lynch, u prominent resident of California, committed suicide at Ilerk ley. Mr. Lynch was seventy-live yenrs of age. During leeonstruotion days he was one of President Grant's appoint ees in Louisville and was a member of the returning board in that state dur ing tho Hnyes-Tllden eontest. Ill health Is given as tho cause. Sun lay morning. June 17. at 1 o'clock the large auditorium at Des Moines, la., used for a convention hull and only constructed a year ago at a cost of $50,000, was destroyed by lire. In surance amounts to 8225,000. It wai occupied by the commercial exchange and the T. W. P. Chase Amusement company, the latter holding a lease and conducting a vaudeville show. Mrs. Harry Kit.miller of North Platte was accidentally killed Friday by the discharge of a shotgun, the charge almost blowing her head oil". She had shot at a bird and had just taken her place in the buggy beside her husband when the gun was dis charged by the horse stai ting up sud denly. The Kltzmlllers had been married but two mouths and this makes the accident all the more sad. There can be no question but that the death was the result of the accidental discharge of the gun. Fire destroyed the home fo- friend less children, a charitable institution maintained by the churches at Lead- vllle, Col. Four children were burned to death. There were forty children in the building, but all but four were brought out safely nnd most of them with scarcely a stitch of clothing on. The four little ones were in one of the upstairs rooms and burned to aa un recognizable condition. Thus far the management of the home has been unablo to identify the dead. A conference between the committee of nine from the Moldcrs Union of America and the administrative coun cil of the Foundryinen'snatioual Asso ciation, whicli has been in session a week, ended with tho decis ion that a proposed advance in pay for moldersin Cincinnati, Cleveland and Chicago of 25 cents per day would not be granted. The action of tho asso ciation restores the wage in effect prior to May 1. This decision n fleets all cities In the United States. A conch on the Kansas City S- Leaven worth electric line crashed into a work train at a curve near Marshall creek, ten miles east of Leavenworth. Kan. The coach was splintered to kindling wood and five railroad men on It in jured, one of them fatally. II. I. Stubbs, Kansas City, extra mo torinan, will die. Edward Holiday, Kansas City, conductor, Kdward Flournoy, Armourdale, motorman; Henry Hurkhart, Arinourdale, extra conductor, and John Armstrong, Ar inourdale, e.trn men, were severely bruised and cut. The ear carried no passengers. The crew on the work train escaped unhurt. A dispatch from Dlwnblk, Minn,, dated June 14 , says: A terrible accl bio Occident occurred , today at the Hale mine, three miles from here, in which five men were Instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite. A charge of dynamite had been set and the fuse lit In one of the drifts. When tho usual alarm wns given to enable the laborers to reach places of safety the live men rushed directly into the drift whore the charge was planted and met their deaths. French blue lawns with white opec dots, or rings are extremely smart. AFFAIRSJF STATE. Departmental and Executive Actions Condensed. MOVEMENTS OF THE ARMY AND NAVT. Trannuctlon nml HapponliiRft of Moro Tlmn Oritlnnry Interest to Hie Feople of America Actions Which Muku IIMtorjr. Kdgar Howard of Papllllon vm nominated for congress at the Omaha convention. Senator Clark has returned to Mon tana and denounces his accusers as a gang of perjurers. Over six million persons are now re ceiving relief In India. The prospects of a fair monsoon are somewhat im proved. The bark Itoder.lek Dim, formerly Hawaiian. Milled from San Francisco for rillo, Hawaiian islands, under the American Hag. She Is the first vessel to change her Hag since the annexation of the Islands. News has been received at New Or leans that President Iglesais of Costa Rica hud sent to congress n decree making legal tho circulation in that country of tin- money of the United States; also the gold coin of England, 1 ranee and Germany. A Jackson. Miss., dispatch says that when Governor Longlno learned of the lynching of the negroes Rnss nnd Askew at Mississippi City, he intimat ed that if the facts are as reported he will immediately undertake to bring tlie guilty parties to justice. The United States cruiser Albany, whicli was placed in commission at Newcastle-on-Tyne, May HO, and under orders to proceed to the Medlteranean, has arrived at Southampton. The United States training ship IlulTalo. which sailed from New York April 1!) for a cruise in the Meditcranean has also nrrived. It Is being claimed by those In a position to forma reliable opinion, that the prices of news paper are likely to be higher during tlie latter half of the present year than they have been heie tofore. This judgmeut is based on the heavy demands both in this country and abroad, occasioned by tho Paris Exposition, the llritish-lioer war, and our now upproachlug presidential cam paign. A Denver, June 11 dispatch says: The state court of appeals decided thai a membership in or a contract with the Associated press is not a "propel ty" which can be taxed. This suit wns brought by tho Rocky Moun tain News on behalf of the papers in the city using the service to prevent the assessment of the Associated press franchise of 825,000. The decision of the lower court that it was not a tax able property is atlirincd. A San Francisco, Juno 12 dispatch says: The Examiner 'asserts that of a band of thirty-two Japanese immi grants who were recently deported on the steamer Thyra, at lenst four, nnd possibly twenty, are already back in this state. One of them has been iden tified nnd is now in custody. The men are supposed to have left tho Thyra at Poitland or Astoria, where the vessel touched, but the northern customs olllcers declare that such could not have been the case. Privates Cole and Ripley, two pris oners doing terms for desertion, es caped from the guard house at Fort Meade, near Sioux City, la., Tuesday night. Just an hour after the dis covery of the escape Private Jack O'Donnell of Troop I, unaware of the escape, came down the road and was ordered to halt. He probably did not hear, and advancing, was shot dead by the sentry. O'Donnell was an old iMgniu cavalryman ami nan just re turned from Cuba. Lieutenant Fitz hugh Lee, son of General Leo, was the o Ulcer of the guard. A special from Washington says: The intervention of tlie United States in tlie Chinese crisis involving the rep resentations nlrendy made by Minister Conger, together with the action taken by Admiral KeniptY, both under the discretion allowed them by tho presi dent's instructions, are declared oili daily to exhaust this govern incut's re sources, so far as they can bo applied at the present time. Without a distinct change in untlonal policy, whicli is re garded as most remote and except un der gravely complicated international conditions afTecting not only tho sta bility of tho Chinese empire, but the equilibrium of Europe tho olllcers or American agencies at Pekin and Tien Tsin as well as in future centers of dis turbances, will be limited to such ef forts for the protection of American interests ns the participation of Min ister Conger in the insistent demands made by all the foreign representatives upon the tsung-ll-ynmon and tho dow ager empress for nH'ordlng .security to tlie life and property of aliens, and as the landing of nrmed forces und the dispatch of gunboats to furnish the necessary protection In case of China's failure to comply. Senator Scott, who Is in Philadel phia attending to his duties as a mem ber of the republican national com mittee, sunt a 820,000 telegraphic draft to his son, Lieutenant Scott, nt San Francisco, where the young man, upon returning from volunteer service in the l'hlllppinos, was mnrried Thursday. Tho sonntor wired that he began life with twenty cents. As n result of tho refusal of the Chi cago Edison company nnd the Com monwealth Electric company to grant an advance, iu wages, 200 light men struck. A powerful Chilian flying quadrot of six vessels anchored off Arlca, Peru. They will remain for a week and will the proceed southward. Cadets for West Point under the In crease provided' by recent legislation have been appointed by senators from the states at large as follows: William A. Howard, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Rod erick Dew, Tecuinseh, Neb, A. Kingston, Jamaica, June IS dis patch says: llritlshGulnna mail reports river boat accident, June 10, when a boat with twenty-three persons were precipitated over the falls of Cuyunl river mid dashed to pieces. All hands were lost. In the United States district court at New York, the Jury In the Dodge ease, in which Mrs. Phyllis E. Dodge sued to recover 501,000 worth of jewels seized one year ago on a chnrgc of in tent to avoid duties, returned a verdict for the claimant, Mrs. Dodge. A llelolt, Wis., June 17 special says: Fourteen carloads of tissue paper making machinery were shipped by u llelolt manufactory today to Shanghai, China. This marks the llrst American and is probaby tlie only paper making machinery ever sent to China. There have been paper-making machine ship ments made from that city to Japan. John Evans alias Ed Ratlga, a noto rious postolliee roblwr and criminali, having escaped from Wisconsin peni itentlary and being wanted In Chicago and other cities, was convicted in tlie United States district court of robbing the Wapella, McLean county, postolliee, May 15, of S2.1 in money and stamps. lie was arrested in the Peo ple's bank, Dloomiugton, where lie had gone to have small bills exchanged for larger ones. Mr. Hitchcock, chief of the bureau of foreign markets, agricultural de partment, testified before the industrial commission that the falling oil of our exports of butter and cheese is entirely due to the Inferior articles exported. Tlie only remedy was shipment oil first-class products and a government guarantee of purity. Ho favored uni formity in board of trade grain in spection rules. Cotton for export, ho said, should be better packed. A Washington, June IS dispatch says: It seems probable that after all the United States troops In the Philippines will be called upon to furnish n con tingent to assist in tlie rescue of the foreign missionaries in China and in the protection of the foreign embasies nnd legations. A great change has come over the administration in this regard, for as late as yesterday there was a linn determination not to go be yond the employment of marines and sailors. A Mnnila dispatch says: General says: General Macabulus. who has been per sistently active in the Pangsansl dis trict, has surrendered to Col. Emerson II. Llscutn at Tarlac with eight olllcers and 124 men, all armed with ritlos. y. Senor Pedro Ilaterno, former presi dent of the so-called Filipino cabinet, has been released temporarily and he is now conferring with Senor Felipe Duencainlno, former minister of ngri- f culture and commerce, with reference to the hitter's peace platform. During General Otis' visit at the war department the other day he made one statement In particular which came as a distinct surprise, hi view of tho fact that he lias spent a year and a half in fighting tiio Filipinos, for lie declared that these same Filipinos were, with out question, the very best of any Asiatic race living on the Pacific coast and islands. He paid n high tribute to their acquisitiveness, saying that the young an 1 old wero alike anxious to learn from tho Americans and quick to do so if given an opportunity. The demand for schools on the American plan was insatiable. It had not been possible to secure a sullloieut supply of Spanish-American text books. A dispatch fiom Washington tinted ' Juno 17 says: Not a line of news was was received today from any ofllelal source respecting the situation in China whicli is most critical. Cable communication with northern China is suspended. The navy department during tlie day made an effort to reucli Rear Admiral KemptV on his flagship Newark at the Taliu forts, at the mouth of the Poi-IIo river but without success. Just what course will be pursued Is not yet de termined, but if communication re mains interrupted, it is certain that more naval troops will be dispatched from Manila to extend aid to the inter national relief ealuinn. A London, June 17, telegram says: A special dispatch from Hong Kong says all the Pekin legations have been destroyed and that the German minis ter, Huron von Koettelor, has been killed. There Is no confirmation of tho re ported destruction of the legations In Pekin and the killing of llarou von Koetleler, tho German minister, nor tho later report of fighting between the llrltish and Chinese. There Is not a cabinet in Europe, apparently, that knows what has been transpiring In Pekin for five davs or In Tien Tsui for three days. Nor Is thero any that know witli what, dilllcultics the small and Inadequately equipped international column is contending be tween these cities, Tlie Chicago Tribune publishes a summary of the census work compiled from all parts of the United States The general result of tho work Is given in the following table: In numerical order the live leading states arc New Toik, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri, the last showing tho most marked gain lu pop ulation. Population of tho United States Census of lS'.H). 02,022,250; Tribune's llgures, 7s,l,ill,712; percent of gain, '. Value of farm lands Census of ls!P 812,2:o,2S2,t54; Tribune's figures, 317,-1 805,200,931; per cent of galu, 35.