Ceneral Feeling That Their Collapse Is at Hand. PROMINENT OFFICERS GIVE IT IP Del I’lUr I.eHven Agatnaliln'a Brniti and Accept! the Inevitable—Two Thousand Trlvatea Detlre to Yield — Many Non ronilmlant Natives Are Keturnlng to llielr Homes—The l.aurels at Malolos. MANILA. April 3.—The American troops under General Mac Arthur are still resting at Malolos, where every thing has been quiet today. Hostill tiee elsewhere, so far as officially re potted. have been limited durlne the last twenty-four hours to an occasional exchange of shots between the lnsurg ents and the troops forming the lines of General Lawton and General Hall, extending from the water works to La lxtnla. But the shooting has been just active enough to make the lives of the soldiers a burden and to compel the officers to sleep In trenches, clothed and In readiness to repel possible at tacks. Most of the Americans are becom ing convinced that the backbone of the insurgent opposition Is broken. There are numerous rumors pointing to an early collapse of the Insurrection. On* of these is that General Flo del Pilar, the best fighter among the Filipino of ficers, will desert Agulnaldo and give his support to the Americans. The Spaniards, reasoning from their exoarlrnce with the natives, refuse to believe the rebellion is anywhere near p it down. They declare that the Fil lolnoa will not take their rttfeat at Maloloa with the loss of the city end the removal of their so-called govern ment seriously to heart. On the con trary, the Spaniards predict that the insurgents will hover near the Amer ican lines, bothering them as much as possible, and when attacked In force, dissolve, only to reappear at other points. This sort of tactics, the Span iards say, will be followed unti1 the wet season compels the Americans to he housed In barracks, and th<*n the Filipinos will return and reoccupy such towns as the Untied State* tr lV«ililtil in Aluikn. DEADWOOD. S. D.. April 3.—Word has been received here of a very ro mantic marriage at Dawson City, the parties being Ely E. Weare of Cedar Rapids. Ia., and Miss Emil Fellows of Montour, la. It was the first grand wedding to occur in the history of tha city und it was made a grand event. It is described as a genuine old-fash ioned love match." Both parties are known in tits city. hared After Many Huura. I.ONlMi,N, April The ('heritors cm respondent of the Daily Mail aaya: The eight puicaenxent of the tftella who landed here were reunit'd from a Itoat originally cuntalnlitK fourteen men. *l'he Itoat eapalxed anti al\ were drowned The othera clung to the keel for five houra and then managed to rtgn the liout, whirl) waa half full of water. I'aatly fur Ilia nultllera NHW YOKK. April 3 Hefoie the departure of Secretary Alger from Wuahingtou he approvetl a circular authorial ng cantllea In half-pound packaged to be kept on hand for aala •a ataplea to oArero ami enltaled men of the artuy. Thl* la altullar to action In Kuropean aruilea. baaed mi recent diacoverUa aa to the fuutl tain* of McMIeley Kipeeraca Krgrrl It Kill.IN. April S. A aaml'olMtlal not* publlaked tkla evening aaya ' The tiermau'a pmpo«l to di«pat> h to . «• meat a high < ummuebtu < emulating of a •portal plenipotentiary from each pov> er. la regarded by the American guy. •foment aa being nullable to the pur* immo In «law I'rectldettl McKinley, through the amlaoatlut eipre*.>d •urplau and .|**p regtal when he heard •ha nana of the cuitlatua at Apia. TLE American Soldiers Lounging in Fllllpino Capital. GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS OE TROOPS. First Nrltrssks Hear* the Hmnt of I last ing—Quit* s Numlitr of Casualties In the Regiment—Montana Men Sul»stl« lute Stars ami Stripes for Fllllpino Flag —Insurgents l.oslng Heart. MANILA. April 1.—'I he American flag wan raised over Matolos at 10 o'clock yegterday. The Kansas regi ment and the Montana regiment, on entering the city, found It deaerted. the prealdencia burning and the reb el* retreating toward* the mountain* In a state of terror, it Is believed they cannot In future make even a faint resistance. The American loss was small. It Is evident that the rebels for some time past have abandoned all hope of holding their capital, for the Ameri can* found there evidences of elabor ate preparations for evacuation. On the railroad the ral.» and ties for about w mile had been torn up and orobably thrown Into the river, the prisoners captured were a few Chinamen. They *ald Aguinaldo left Maloloa on Wed nesday. The principal citizen* of Maloloa, their famllle* and goods have been taken Into the country over the rail road, while others have departed on foot, carrying their possessions and driving their cattle and other animal* before them Most of the rebel forces were re moved to positions east of the rail road, leaving only some small bands In the strong trenches In front of Ma lolos. tleneral MacArthur started for the rebel capita! at 7 o’clock In the morn* Ing with two rapid tiling guns flanking the track, two guns of the Utah bat tery on the right and two guns of the Blxth artillery on the left of the r?.» Ids, firing continuously. The Kansas and Montana regiments | moved \ipon Maloloa and the Nebraa ka and Pennsylvania regiments and the Third artillery kept along the right of the railroad. The only effective stand made by the rebels was at a bamboo and earth work, half a mile from Malolos, and on the right, wnere the Nebraska regi ment, as was the case yesterday, had the hardest work and suffered the greatest loss. Colonel Punston, always at the front, was the first man in Maloloa followed by a group of dashing Kr.ns< ana. rue Filipino nag. wnicn wan nymg from (he (enter of the town, was hauled down by some of the Montana regiment, who triumphantly raised their own above It. From the column of smoke arising from the city It seemed as If the whole place was alda/e. It turned out, how ever, that only the presldencia, or government building, and a few of the smaller buildings had been set on fire by the rebels before they evacuated the place. From the reports gathered by the American officers, from prisoners and others, it Is believed that the rebel army is constantly losing strength on account of desertions, and that al though the enemy may make one or two more stands, the forces of Agul naldo will disintegrate, In perhaps a month, to a few hundreds, who may continue waging guerrilla warfare in the mountains. The American troops behaved splen didly. They advanced steadily against successive lines of trenches, through woods and jungles and suffering from frlrhtful heat. In addition the American volun teers were handicapped In fighting by the fact that their Springfield rifles are of shorter range than the Mauser rifles In the bands of the rebels. Under those circumstances the steady ad vance of our troops Is a really re markable achievement. The victorious American army Is feasting on eocoanuts and bauunas and enjoying a well earned rest, while the hospital train Is carrying the wounded back to Manila. FIRST NEBRASKA CASUALTIES. Following is a list of casualties In the First Nebraska: Killed—PRIVATE MILTON LYNDE, Company A, York; PRIVATE WILL IAM ORR. Company A. York; JAMES II. WHITMORE, Company L, Omaha. Wounded—First Sergeant Vickers, Company A, groin, severe; Private Roy Campbell, Company A, leg, mod erate; Private Henry Heckman, Com pany O, thigh, severe; Private Otto Kastenberger, Company H. shoulder, slight; Private Jack L. Beach, Compa ny H, forearm, slight. Wounded. Man n 30:— Set geant Hugh Clapp, Company I), thigh, severe; Sergeant Robert McConnell, Company H. breast, slight; Private Herbert H. Barber, Company A. wrlat. thigh and buttock. aevere; Private William lea den, Company U. cheat, aevere; Pri vate George R. Horn mar, Company G, forearm, alight; Private l.yvnera Dur ham, Company G, cheat, aevere; Pri vate Bert H. Watta, Company O. thigh, alight; Private Herbert Hodgea. Com pany D. leg, alight; Private Krle New feldt, Company D. thigh and ahoulder, aevere; Private John K. Da via. Com pany G. hand, alight; Private Claude N. Chenowlth, Company (1, thigh, alight; Private l.lyod Hpottenateln. Company II. aevere. Private Kdwaru Downing. Company H. thigh, alight; Private John C Maiahall. Company II. leg alight; Private Walter A, K.ifrlta, arm. aevere; Private Hoy Dna.au, Company II. leg, alight. f.lecttee ImImu rilwl tarty WASHINGTON, April l The deik of the hottae of tepie»eniaUvea |» iH. • Inning to receive lua'allallona of the teatltnony In runireted electiou , .owe. which »ill come up fof (ouanleratloH at the neat »>mii« of emigre** Thue far the moet of the teeilatogy hae been from the , iMiteatanta. I'rohabiy the ntuat Important ra*«a will be thoe# of l><» k*i> agalaat Bel lamy. la the math North Carolina die triet. and Waiher agalaat Hheg |n the Ninth Virginia diatrlct hi the elec none In both Iheee dtatrlcta. lactdeota aotme^ueat thereto have been attended with bloodshed CETTING THGOPS HOME Tlilrtrrn Thnutund Rrtnrnril ftiim Cuba During thf Month of Mnrrh. WASHINGTON, April 1.- So far during the month of March 13.000 troops have been landed in the Unit ed Staten from (Juba. This work haa required especial expeditionary meas ures on the part of the quarantine ser vice, but so far all the require me ms made upon the service have been met. The war department has exercised un usual haste because of the desire to avoid the necessity of compliance with the order of the treasury department H-quirlng the aislnfrction of ail the baggage of returning troops nud their equipment prior to tntry. This has been successfully accomplished by the co-operation of the Murine hospital service and the quartermaster general a office without an exception. The arrival of transports at southern ports has been so arranged as to per mit the disinfection of baggage with out causing undue detention of troops. Transports carrying troops were sent In accordance with this arrangement to the quarantine stations at Dry Tor tugas and at Hlackheard island and to the Florida state quarantine station at Tantpa and the rlly quarantine sta tion at Bavunnuh, (la. Marine hospi tal surgeons were sent to all these points to expedite the business, but <.'olonel Bellinger, quartermaster of the war department, Is In general charge of the work. The marine hos pital service also has furnished addi tional disinfecting machinery for the work. All told about 1,000 tons of bag gage bss been ursinfeeted during the month and no baggage was allowed to evade that duty, although some efforts were made in that .Hrectlon. A report huH been received at the war department from Major Penrose I of the t'tali regiment, now a brigade surgeon at Manila. It Is dated Febru ary lfi, but contains no Information re garding the fighting that had been go ing on about Manila. The details re lated mainly to the slckuesa and health conditions of the brigade Th ve were some malaria and some smallpox cas es, but the brigade had evidently not been engaged in any lighting, as notu ing was said about casualties. This brigade was about three tint n half miles outside of Manila and stretched from Pasig to Manila bay, Surgeon Penrose said their meals were cooked In Manila anti sent to them three times a day. The food was excellent and there was no complaint among tha men. Plan of Killlplnot |,i|l„,|. WASHINGTON, April 1. A copy of the Japanese Times oi February 12, published at Toklo, has been received here. It contains an interview with an American named Crocker, who may be Prof. Crocker of Columbia col lege, who was an eye-witness of the fit«t two days' lighting about Manila, which began February 5. Ho Indicates that the Filipinos ini the city undoubtedly contemplated rising en masse, but failed to carry out the plan of cooperation with those in arms outside of the city. He says If the rebels had destroyed the water supply of the city it would have entailed great hardship upon tho Americans, and attributes their fail ure to do so to their regard for the well-being of the Filipinos in tho city, "During the fighting," says Mr. Crocker, "Aguinaldo, who Is supposed to be at Malolos, communicated with Dewey. He sent him a message, in :whlch he Haid, 'For Clod’s sake, stop the tiring,’ and disclaiming all respon sibility in connection with the start ing of the trouble, Dewey, however, refused compliance, and I think Agui naldo is now accepting the situation. "There was some talk of Aguinaldo resigning and washing his hands of the whole affair, but 1 do not think he will do so. The opinion Is that it was not Aguinaldo who precipitated this thing, but his followers whom he could not control.” Mr. Crocker left Manila while tho fighting was still in progress and his estimates of the casualties are very wild. He says there were from 5.000 to 10,000 Filipinos killed and wounded, and tells of the terrific destruction wrought by the shells from our war ships. The shells from Ihe Monad nock, he says, killed "twenty, thirty, and sometimes flfty natives at a time.’' No Troop* (o Hr Sacrlllml. WASHINGTON, April 1.—It Is said at the War department that General Otis will not make a campaign during the rainy season, nor Is It believed that he will at present chase the Fil ipinos into the mountain fastnesses of Luzon. The officials consider It evi dent that the light that was In Agui naldo has been whippet! out of him and It Is believed he cannot hold the Filipino army together much longer. If Otis advises the War denartment will approve a cessation of active hos tilities or further forward movement. The < •blurt Mrrtlng. WASHINGTON. April l.-In the ab sence of late news from Samoa or the Philippines the cabinet meeting waa devoted to other matters. The Ni caragua-Panama canal commission was discussed informally and It Is the belief of the cabinet that the present Nicaragua commission, of which Ad miral Waller Is the head, will be re uppol tiled with probably two addi tional members. The czar's peace conference was not mentioned. larrliil Kama ana SAN KKAM'Irtt'O, April I.- Tha transport atanmar rharle* Nelson has aallad for Manila. Hha hail »o<» tin* <>f freight, whli h Is to be aqually vldad between the ionimlaaary and tha quartermaster's deparintents. I.letiteit* ant Alfred Aloa of tha KighleenlIt I nltad Stata* Infantry was In root* mand of snivels rarrulta. a number of whom ara fur tha hospital corps. Al**r 1 IKNKI KiKW t'olta. April I (VI* Havana I Tha secretary of war. tlan. Hueeell Al|sr, aud hla party, ar« rlvad hara at d o't loch last etenlug, with a cavalry and Infantry amort. Ha want to tha rvsldeae* of llanaral Hataa. tha .omutandar of ih>* depart* ntant of Hanu t'lara. whsr» a rw*y lion wit held this aiming at whlih tha Amarlian officers of tha district warn present Thatm is iwora suamsm under tha hand of “literature" than> any other hand wa know anything about GFNFKAI. NF.WH NOTES Timothy Keardon, who served as tunner on the L’nlted States ship Keai surge during its famous battle with the confederate privateer Ala bama, outside the harbor of Cherbourg, Prance, and who later served under Parragut. In Mobile ba.v, is dead in Hrooklyn, aged Cl. The president hns appointed Colonel Rdwln V. Sumner of the Seventh cav »!ry to be brigadier in the regular «rmy. General Sumner will Immedi ately retire and Colonel Thomas M. Anderson of the Fourteenth Infantry will probably be appointed to the va •ancy. Sunnier wns a brigadier gen eral of volunteers and Anderson a mujor of volunteers. The maple sugar harvest In Vermont Is believed to be a total failure this year, and if the worst fears of the sugar makers are realized the industry will be crippled for many years to some. The sugar orchards were stripped of leaves last summer by an army of caterpillars and Gils spring the trees are found to he sapless. Judge Shims, in the federal court nt Dubuque, has decided that under the bankruptcy act innocent third par lies can hold their securities. The court holds that mortgagees cannot he compelled to yield possession of prop erty In their hands which pussed into their possession before the proceedings in bankruptcy were begun. 1 he following wan pmtrd at tlte war department: "Recruiting for the reg ular army la progressing moat satls fnetorlly both In numbers and high elaaa of young men offering. Return* received try the adjutant general up to the close of yesterday show the en listed strength ns being over (12,000, within less than 3,000 of the maximum, which, at the present rate of enlist ment, will be reached within ten day*. A deed was filed In the county clerk's office at Louisville from Dennis Ixmg & Co., of Louisville, to the Cnlled States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry com pany of Burlington. N ,f„ transferring the plant anil all property of Dennis I «a* * • I M I m t S ♦V MW Wheat k.i tsgeiag tints 5*1, .... Mmmi. , ..... .. these Usiioe* , ■•we Wised valve lieckset sad fee J* s a* |f* II la ii u 10 71 4 M a it a as t 50 1 I M 1 40 I 1. • 0J 1 40 a to * 15 4 10 4 » 4 75 4 00 4 10 4 HI 4 7» a 40 4 ?t UH S' I' 5lW * M * M a at \ \i » ■ 15 toi •I it ** , m n fi :«• »a A CRAND LADY OF ILLINOIS Mrs. Lucinda B. Chandler, of Chi cago, Is the Honorable President of the Illinois Woman's Press Associa tion; Honorable President of the So ciety for the Promotion of Health; LUCINDA U, CHANDLER, of Chicago, 111. founder of the Margaretta Fuller So ciety for the study of Economic* an ! Governments, anil also President of the Chicago Moral Educational So ciety. Mrs. Chandler Is an ardent friend of !’• ru-na, and In writing to Dr. Hartman on the subject sho stat ed as follows; Chicago. Jan. 6, 1899. Dear Doctor—I suppose every one that Is confined to their desk and not getting the required amount of eier else, will sooner or later, sufTe.r with catarrh of the stomach and indiges tion. I know by experience that Pe ru-na Is a most excellent remedy for these complaints. It has relieved me. and several of my friends have ui'id It with the same satisfactory results. Yours very respectfully, LUCINDA B. CHANDLER. if there Is good in us, it will brlt.j; out good In others. BIO FOUR OFFICIAL RESIGNS Passenger Truffle Manager If eCormlcIs Sloes to (lie Southern PucIHt). IS. O. McCormick, passenger traffic manager of the Cleveland, Clnclnattl, Chicago und St. Louis railroad. Rig Four, lias resigned from that company to accept a similar position with thv Southern Pacific company, with head quarters at San Francisco. This in formation came last night In the form of a telegram to C. H. Mitchell, city passenger agent of the Dig Four la Chicago, as follows: ”E. O. McCormick has resigned to take service with the Southern Pacific railway as passenger traffic manager, headquarters at San Francisco. Presi dent Ingalls lias appointed me gencrul passenger and ticket agent. In full charge of the passenger department. These changes effective about May 1. "WARREN J. LYNCH.” The news was a complete surprise to locnl railroad men. as no rumor of a change in the traffic department of either road had been circulated. It |g believed that the approaching en trance of the Santa Ke into San Fran cisco and consequent competition, something the Southern Pacific has not yet had to face on traffic into that city. Is the cause of the change. Mr. McCormick Is a progressive passenger man and Is considered one of the be-,t In the business. He was formerly gen eral passenger agent of the Monon, and subsequently of the Cincinnati, Ham ilton and Dayton, before going with the Big Four, In 1893. W. J. Lynch, who succeeds him, has grown up with the system, rising from stenographer In the office of the passenger agent of the old Bee Line at Cleveland In 1888. The position of r&Hsenger traffic man ager Is created on the Southern Pa cific, Samuel Goodman being general paasenger agent and J. C. Stubbs, third vice-president, In charge of the traf fic department.—Chicago Tribune. Do* Gully Curve*. About half way between Cumberland and Martlnsburg, on tbe Second Divi sion of tbe Baltimore and Ohio rail road, Is a picturesque spot known as Doe Gully. There Is quite a little hill at thin point that the road goes through, and the approaches to thU tunnel Include several reverse curves. The company has been engaged for the past two months In removing these curves and reducing tbe grade*. Tbe chief engineer says that tbe Improve ment will do away with one of tbe most objectionable pieces of track on tbe Second Division since Seven Curves were eliminated, and will re move four reverse curves. It will nut only make a much better riding track for fast trains, but materially assist the weet-bouud freights in climbing this grade. Behavior Is a mirror in which every one displays hts Image. Dulled State* rateut (lire llu.lne**. Four patents were Issued to Iowa Inventors this week upon application prepared and presented by us as fol lows: To Mrs. A, P Chamberlain, of Dee Moines, for game cards adapted for teaching music, to D. Klerk, of Om ari, fur a rotary pump; to W. V. and K I.. Stephenson, of Kt Dodge, for an extensible and adjustable step ladder; to K K. Miller, of Klma. for a tank heater and feed cooker. One of our applications allowed, brt not yet laaued, for a new departure In washing machines. Invented by Cap*' Itandlenian. a veteran of two ware, and hi* eon Zouave. Two disks having rubbing surface* on tbotr laslde fare* are adjustably connected with a hor launtal abaft In a tub In au