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SOME HOT FIGHTING.
Rear Guard of Aguinaldo's Army
Makes a Stand at Mariloa.
COMMISSIONS ISSUE PROCLAMATION
The Htniloitlo Movement to ICiitrap tlm In-
urcMiti Hi'twon otir I.lncs I'rnimltljr it
Kiillurn UiiHUiiltle In tlm Twentieth
ICuiisim Ainirlonn I.ohhoh.
"Manila, March 23. A thousand Fill
plnos, composing the rear guard of
tho rebel army, which Is retreating
on Malolos, Aguinaldo's headquarters,
made a stand yesterday in some strong
Intrcucliments about Mariloa, across
the Mariloa river. In the engagement
six Americans were killed, Including
throo ollleers, and 40 wero wounded.
The American forces advanced from
Maynuvan, the brigade commanded by
Uen. Harrison Gray Otis being on tho
left of tho railroad and (Ion. Hale's
on the right. They eventually dis
cerned while roofs with steeples among
tho green trees by tho river, looking
not unlike a Massachusetts village.
The rebels had an unfordablo river
in front of them, and they poured a
fire so effective that It showed that
they were veterans, probably members
of tho natlvo mllltla which tho Span
iards organized. Tho American ar
tillery put a dramatic end to tho
battle. Approaching under cover of
tho bushes, to about 00 yards from
tho trenches, tho artillery emerged
upon an open space commanding
tho entire town. When tho Ameri
cans appeared they gave a great
yell and tho Filipinos were panic
stricken, about 100 of them seeking
safety in llight while a white flag was
raised by those who were in tho trench
es, who also shouted "Amigos"(friends).
Col. Funston, with '20 of tho Kansas
regiment, swam across the river to
tho left of the railroad bridge and
captured 80 prisoners with all their
arms. Tho Pennsylvania regiment
captured 40 prisoners. ly this time
tho right of tho Filipinos was de
moralized. The Americans refrained
from burning the town and rested
there last night. Uen. Otis' brigade
is crossing the framework bridge,
Gen. Halo's brigade remaining on the
south bank of tho river.
The United States Philippine com.
mission proposes to issue a proclama
tion immediately after the rebel gov
ernment at Malolos is dispersed, be
lieving that the most effective moment
to secure the allegiance of the nativch
will be after they have received an ob
jective lesson of the Americans' power.
Gen. Mac Arthur's divisiou spent the
night and morning at Mayauyan,
the next station beyond Polo. After
rcconnoitering his front he pushed
along the railroad In the afternoon to
wards Malalos. If the statement of
;i5 prisoners captured yesterday is true,
tho main body of tho enemy has re
treated to Malolos.
Tho Washington regiment had an
exciting experioneo and displayed
much gallantry. Tho soldiers founda
band of insurgents concealed in a
stone house, over which the Freuch
flag was Hying. A private volunteered
to set lire to the building. Ho did so
and tho troops approached while it
was burning and tho Filipinos had ap
parently fled, but they were greeted
with a sudden volley from tho balcony
of tho house, resulting in the building
being cleared of the enemy in short
order.
OKN. OTIS' 1'I.A.N FAILKD.
Washington, March US. The third
day of the lighting north of Manila
brought little of a decisive character
from which war department olllelals
could judge what the final outcome ol
this movement would be. In all ofll
cials quarters the-most intense inter'
est prevailed, but there was no excite
ment and none of that anxiety and
tension shown during tho memorable
days of last bummer when the decisive
blows wero being struck at Santiago,
liurly in tho day Gen. Otis cabled the
war department a brief but compre
hensive dispatch summing up the situ
ation. It disclosed that severe fighting
was going on with our forces advanced
as far north as Mariloa, while the
insurgents, under tho command of
.Aguinaldo, wero being driven back
with considerable slaughter. This and
tho press dispatches satisfied the
olllcials that the strategic movement
of entrapping insurgents between out
lines had not proved as successful as
designed, and that the move had now
shifted to a retreat by Agirnaldo'a
forces and a pursuit by our trnopa.
The insurgent retreat toward Malolos
was slow and dogged, and advantage
was taken of ono after another oi
lines of intreuchmentH, the burning
of bridges and the interrupting of
communication.
CAHHAI.Tins IN TWKNTIKTH KANSAS.
Washington, March 23. -Gen. Otis
has notified Adjt. Gen. Corblu of
tho following additional casualties
during the past four days In tho Twen
tieth Kansas regiment:
Killed -Company It, Sorgt. Morris .1.
Cohen; II. Private II. Falrehild.
Wounded Company 13, Private John
C. Muhr. hint:, fatal; D, Artificer
lames K, Hosted, neck, moderate; IS.
Samuel R Parlon, leg, moderate.
I.OHSKS TO Till'. AMKIIIUANH.
Washington, March 28. Advices re
ceived at thu war department show
that the number of casualties in Sun
day's and yesterday's lighting was:
Killed, throe olljcurs uud 2.1 enlisted
nu! n ; wounded, nine olllcc.rs and 2 OS
cnlistud men:'
BAD GANG IN THE TOILS.
Ilorlirri mid Willi Hliiipacni untl II.
fllitttliiMTH mill Wir Arri'Ntiil Inr it
Crlmu Comiulttod In 18117.
Wichita, Kan., March 20. Herbert
nnd Willis Slmnsou. two barbers of .
Wichita, and Mr. ami Sirs. 11. h. I
Matthews, of Itioe county, wore arrest-
ed uud brought to the county jail hero
last nlirht. Thcv are charged with
being Implicated In the murder of Jo-
seph Now, of Eureka, Kan., who was
shot in his own vard at night, Oc
tober ill, ISHO. They arc said to bo a
part of a gang of 11 criminals led by
ITrnnk Allgood, a train robbor, murder
er and horsethlef, which has operated
in south Central Kansas for tho last
12 years. Allgood Is now in jail at
Iola, Kan. Ho was arrested two or
three days ago as a result of an In
vestigation which was started by W.
P. Freeman, a guard of tho Kansas
penitentiarv, about seven months ugo.
After five months' work Freeman got
hold of a confession made to Warden
Landis last January by a prison con
vict, in which it was stated that All
good killed Joseph New and that Mrs.
Amelia New and James Dobba, who
arc now In the penitentiary at Leaven
worth for life, were innocent of tho
murder of Mrs. New's husband. All
good, It is alleged, was a diplomatic
criminal. lie knew that Mrs. New and
Dobbs wero thought by the neighbor
hood to bo lovers and unduly intimate.
It is alleged that ho killed Joseph New
for S-100 which Now had, knowing that
public sentiment would (ix tho crime
upon Dobbs.
HAS FAITH IN OTIS.
I'rcHldi-nt McKlnltty IiiIiti'MimI In All Mu-
nllii Hist utclu-H hut IliK Ihui'(I No In-
AtrnetlniiM Kogitrillng thn Munition.
Thomasvillo, Ga., March 28. Presi
dent MeKinley and party left hero at
seven o'clock yesterday afternoon by a
special train over tho Plant system and
Atlantic coast lino for Washington.
The Associated press dispatches from
Manila and also those from Gen. Otis,
which have been forwarded to tho
president the past few days, have been
carefully read, but the president has
taken no action, nor Issued any in
structions regarding the Philippine
situation. Gen. Otis, in the president's
opinion, has handled matters ablj',
and will be allowed a free rein. The
latest advices show thnt our casual
ties are beginning to run up, but also
indicate that a crisis may be approach
ing as Aguinaldo himself Is command
ing the Filipinos, who are being
Gteadily beaten back. A hope is en
tertained hero that Aguinaldo, his
staff and some of his generals may be
captured.
HANJ5-T0-HAND BATTLE.
SlierlfT Kvsiiip Mini u l'onna IIhvuii Tumble
Kxporluncn with u Oimj; of Out lit wx
.Vcnr Dextitr, Mo.
Dexter, Mo., March 28. A pitched
battle was fcught eight miles north of
here between Charles Hcudrickson and
a gang of thieves, of which he was
tho head, and ShorixY Evans and a
posse of otlicers. After a ten-minute
battle, during which about 100 shots
were fired, Hcudrickson was killed,
receiving a wound In tho head; his
daughter, who was an active partici
pant in the battle, perhaps fatally
wounded in the left breast, and Deputy
C. If. Month slightly wounded.
Hcudrickson and his gang are fugi
tives from Franklin county, where they
are charged with a number of robberies.
They have been in hiding in this
county for borne time past and were lo
cated hero last, week by detectives.
Sunday as the olllcersneared the house
they were met with a volley from
every window. They pressed forward
and at the time of Ilendriokson's deatli
were engaged in a h&nd-to-hnnd con
flict with the thieves. Two wero cap
tured and five escaped.
COLLINSMADE A SPEECH.
itcforo Stiiiiuiii'o Wii J'hwhhiI Il lli'dliirml
Ills Iniiiii'iiiMiH mill Still Ho Wuulil
Not I.onir lln In Prison.
Topeka, Kan., March 28.-John
Henry Collins received the death sen
tence for the murder of his father yes
terday with the same placid demeanor
that has characterized his actions
from the first When asked by Judge
Hazenif he had anything to say he
ui.ua ii buiiMiiuunui siieecu wiuci)
brought tears to tho eyes of many of
tho people who crowded tho court
room. Among other things, he said:
I hnow that I am InnocMit; I know that I did
not kill my father. I wish If it woro possible
that ho inU'ht como buck hero to-day from
beyond the crav iiml ho before you so you
might learn from him that I am not guilty. I
would, if It would avail anything, call upon
Almighty Clod to read niv heart to-iluv ami
show you that I am an Innocent man I will
not bo In tho penitentiary Ion',-. Tho murderer
of J. S Collins will be lound and you. Judite, i
will fuel that you lnmlo a mistake In H-utoucIag
John Collins. Tho time will como when I will
lin f rro and tho inurd -rer will bo found.
"Colli" II irvny Iti'.lgon.
Chicago, March 28. W. II. ("Coin")
Harvey has resigned as general manit
ger of tho ways and means committee
of the democratic national committee,
and Mr. Sam II. Cook, of Missouri, has
been appointed in his place. Mr. Conk
hns been in practical charge of the of
fice for some time, while Mr. Harvey
has been in the Held. Mr. Harvey
gives as tho cauno of his resignation
that he could not gut the committee tc
agree on what hu thought win a prac
tical, busiucss-llko and aggrcalve poller.
THE NEXT SENATE.
RiiptibMcitiix Will Iliivn u MiMiilirrKlili) nf
Flfty-Onr, Kxcltntvi" of Oiniy (. noul-
tlnii Will NumliiT Thirty. Tlvi'.
Washington, Muroh 2S. In tlirco
states thu legislatures huvo adjourned
without electing a senator to tho I
Fifty-seventh congress. The llrat loir-
ialuturo to adjourn without action was
Utah; next came Delaware and then '
California. Delaware and California
ouh has a republican legislature,
Utah an anti-republican, if not an out
right democratic body so that, the re
publicans will loso two and tho op
position one, a total dillcrcnco of two
on a partisan vote. In Pennsylvania,
the legislature Is still In. session trying
to elect a successor to Senator Quay,
but with strong prospects of adjourn
ing without making a choice, practi
cally leaving throo republican and ono
democratic state but partly represent
ed in tho next congress.
The republicans will have a total
membership in tho Fifty-seventh con
gress of 51, exclusive of a senator from
Pcnns3lvanla, and not countlnu' Stew
art, Jones and Kyle, who will vote
with thu republicans on all questions
except silver. Tho total opposition
will number S5., which, with the va
cant seats of states having made no
choice, makes up the total of
tho 00 members of tho up
per chamber. This gives a re
publican majority of 10 over
all, including Stewart, .loner, and
Kyle In tho opposition, and 22 when
thoy are Included in the republican
column. In Nebraska a republican
(succeeds a populist; in Montana'n dem
ocrat succeeds a silver republican, and
In Maryland, Wisconsin, New York,
North Dakota, New Jersey, West Vir
glnltwnnd Indiana democrats go out
and republicans take their seats.
SHOWS A BIgTnCREASE.
JiortH or Income Account of 720 Kit II
ivity l.lnii flivii linix K truing of
yi,:iH.r,!ii),:iK.
Washington, March 25. Tho prelim
inary report of the income accounts of
railways in tho United States for tho
year ended June ill), 1SUS, reported to
the Interstate commerce commission,
was issued to-day. The report in
cludes the return of 720 lines, with an
aggregate mileage of lSl.iW, miles.
The receipts for the year were:
Passenger service. l.'!3.'l,M);,78.2- freight serv
ice. '8ri,8i!J.137; other i-arnlngs from operation,
130,705,111: gross earnings. 1,238,6:M,330: oper
ating expenses. 1811,311. IU; Ineoino from oper
ation. MJ7,2(il,0!2. Tho Increase or gross earn
ings over previous year was t6 lt)I.r8.t Oper
ating expenses Increased J.' 8,7 10. Ml, ami In
come. (57,716.01 Gross earnings, per nillo,
incro.iscd 8708: operating expenses, 43W anil
icome, 1340. These are) the largest Ik'tiros re
ported since IBM and tho Income account shows
an Increase of UI0 per inilo over tho report for
1831
M'COY WON THE FIGHT.
With it Superiority In Ulrvorncsn anil Oulck-
iu s lln Knnlly Iriit Clioynnkl In it
Twenty-Kniiiiil t'oiito t.
San Francisco, March 25. With a
superiority in cleverness, quickness
and ring generalship, which was ap
parent from the first round, Kid Mc
Coy was very properly awarded tho de
cision over Joe Choynski at the end of
tho 20-round contest before the
National Athletic club in Mechan
ic's pavilion. It was a very
pretty fight, but it was almost en
tirely in lavor oi ine younger man.
McCoy won, and won easily. He had
the fight in his hands, and at any one
of half a dozen palpable opportunities
he could have administered a decisive
and knockout blow. Hut again and
again he failed to follow up his ad
vantage, and Choynski was considered
lucky to be able to stay tho 20 rounds.
Agnirt to Mitlntiiln ICiUm.
Washington, March 25. The presi
dents, general managers and other
representatives of about 25 railroad
compnnies, wero in executive confer
ence here with tho interstate com
merce commission. Tho result was a
verbal assuranco to maintain uniform
turifl'd, thorough co-operation and thu
appointment of a committee to confer
with tho commission looking to more
definite and speelllc action for secur
ing general stability in freight rates.
Klglit IJitTH rroin 'iiuiili! to IMwHiii.
Seattle, Wash., March 25. Hates to
Fifiivcnn (ttir Imvn lnti ,.n t ..,. K.
tho forinilUoil of H trilIlsnortation c,mf.
Wniltloii. Kates, to take effect with
opening of navigation on tho lakes
are announced as follows: Ono hun
dred and sixty-two dollars a ton for
freight of all kinds; tltv-t-class passen
ger passage, S100; second-class. fcS).
Tho schedule time, us arranged, is
about eight days from Seattle to Daw
son. John HIirrniHii (iritiliiully Improving.
Santiago, Cuba, March 25. Dr. (JraiT.
of tho Paris, who examined John Slier- )
man after ho was transferred to tho
Chicago, says both lungs are practi
cally clear and that tho patient is do
ing well. Ho praises thu manner in
which tho transfer was conducted, un
der the direction of Chief 0 Ulcer Ileek
wlth, who did not leave until ho haw
Sherman comfortably Installed in thu
captain's cabin.
I'lt'llicil 'I'll it llcr I'm hi it Ia Iti'volit'll.
Indiananoll.s, Ind.. March 25. (iov.
Mount, after a consultation with those
who had asked for the parole of Mrs.
Augusta Schmidt, thu prisoner for
murder, who refused thu parole after
It had beuu granted toiler, hai revoked
his action. Mrs. .Schmidt is said to bo
ph'Uhed ut thu jjoyernor'u last action.
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