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NEBRASKA NEWS.
Silas Springer, thirty-seven year
a resident of Douglas county, and for
:thirty-four years in one precinct, died
last week.
Morgan Rice, a young man formerly
residing at Dixon, but now of Wake
field, attempted suicide bv taking a
dose of poison.
Tom Smith, foreman of the Laverty
cattle ranch, four miles northeast cf
Ashland, was accidentally throwu in
to a feed grinder and had his left leg
terribly mangled-
Exeter proposes having an old
. fashioned Fourth of July xelebraMon-,
with as good an orator as can b
found in the west
While breaking a colt Jesse Fos
ter, residing ten miles north of Sid
ney, aged 27 years, was violently
thrown to the ground and suctained
injuries which will undoubtedly prove
fatal. His spine was dislocated and
an arm broken.
The city council of Kearney by a
vote of 5 to 3 rejected the business
men's -petition to grant a saloon 11
cense"; also the 'petition of the citi
zens to call a special election and take
another vote on the question of li
cense or no license.
At the last regular session of the
I'lattsmouth city council the most
Important business transacted was the
passing by a unanimous vote an ordi
nance providing that all telephone
wires on Main street be carried in
cables under the ground.
-'Eighteen years ago Sunday the little
village of Wymore was incorporated.
At that time there was little more
than the name to indicate that a town
was located there. The town has
slowly but steadily and healthfully
grown, until it now has as progrescive
a city of 4,000 people as can be found
in the west.
Nemaha county has at last for
over settled the long-talked of and
repeatedly voted on question of a
court house. Ily a majority vote of
about S00 the citizens of the county
voted bonds, according to the proposi
tion of the county commissioners, to
the amount of $40,000. AA per cent,
i mining five yoais. with option to pa
J he principal in two, three, four or
iive years.
Much comment has Dccn occasioned
by the recent newspaper dispatches
to the effect that the entire winter
wheat crop was a failure in Platte
county. Diligent inquiries of relia
ble farmers show that while there is
an absolute failure in certain locill
iies not to exceed 45 per cent of the
winter wheat crop of Platte county
will be lost unless further disaster
should come to it.
A reception ana lianqtict was given
the boys of company 11, Third Nebras
ka, at Stromsburg. A musical and
literary program was rendered at the
opera house. The banquet was served
in the spacious dining room of the
Park hotel. A number of the boys
had not arrived home, but about six
fy of the bronzed young soldiers sat
around the tables and went through
an elaborate bill of fare.
The three-year-old daughter of S.
Carson, living at Eden, was instartly
killed by being stepped upon bv a
heavy horse. The horses had been
tinned loose in a lane leading irom
the highway to the barnyard to eed
upon the glass. Towards night the
hoys went to drive them up to feed
them raiu. In a frolicking imod
one of the horses stepped upon tli2 lit
tle irl with icsults already given-
.lohu Singer, who lives south of
Webster City, died last week. H
was wrestling in a spirit of fun with
2tfs brother and was thrown to the
jxround in such a way that his ankle
"was so wrenched that it prod'ired
lockjaw. The actions of the injured
man were something terrible. He
would throw his head back and finally
in great misery, with a convuMve
movement. eery muscle and bone set.
tho end came.
A trip of about four hundred m!les
overland through Nebraska, says a
Creighton dispatch, revealed the fact
that winter wheat is almost an abso
lute failure. Nearly every field sown
to wheat last fall is being plowed
up and planted to corn. A very few
pieces are still standing, but look as
though they would hardly yield the
amount of seed sown to the acre. Oth
er crops are looking veiy prosperous;,
corn mostly planted and some fields
ccming up.
The Commercial club of Tekamah
has in form a definite proposition to
make the proposed Sioux City & Oma
ha railroad, in consideration of their
touchings with that city with thrii
proposed air line between the c: ics
named. It is proposed to vote $10,600
4 per cent bonds to be delivered to the
company providing the road is built
and in operation within two yeais
and providing it has no connection
whatever with the C-, St. P., M. &
O., the railroad at present operating
in Durt county, or with the Chicago
& Northwestern system.
Sheriff Simmering of Adams coun
ty aud an officer from Webster count
have succeeded in unearthing a rob
bers' roost near Uosemont and re-ov-ered
about $1,200 worth of stolen
goods. The officers placed Bill Leicb,
a Rosemont merchant, under arrest,
as they have strong evidence which
implicates him with the gang. It is
thought he is one of the head men
of the organization and that he simply
ran the store to dispose of the stolen
goods. During the last year mer
chants at Trumbull. Glcnville, Brom
lield, Ayr, Funk, Aurora and other
small towns have had their stores
robbed, but the thieves have alvays
escaped-
Morgan Rice of Wakefield committed
suicide by drinking concentrated Jy.
He had been in ill health some timo
and was despondent. Deceased was
aged about 35 years and unmarried.
A well developeG case of smallpox
was discovered in the Union Pacific
yards at Columbus. A man about
.22 years of age was found in a poul
try car suffering with the dread dis-
.case. Permission was obtained from
the railroad company to use a vacant
section house about a mile east of
town, where the patient was taken,
"and also a couple who were found
with him. The strictest quarantine
"has- been established and. the premises
guarded by two special officers.
Amos J. Miller, a farmer living near
:Brashaw. is a firm believer that it
jjays to farm in York county. He sold
.a-14-months'-old cair for $32.
. '. Contractor C. -R. Cushman, of Om
aha,' began last week excavating for
-the' new $12,000 school building last
week at Wakefield. It is to be com
. pieted in time for the fall term of
school. It will be a two-story, eight
:;robm building with central jtowe and
finished in the most modenTstyle. The
grounds comprise a handsome !tlo:k
"in the center of town, and with tho
"new structure completed Wakefield
JL'wiil have the best school facilities of
any. town in northeast Nebraska.
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Nebraska's Junior Senator
Seeks Information.
COMMISSIONS EVANS RESPONDS.
Work ef tbe Departiarat Explained Ib
All Its Details Employes Under Civil
Service- Kales Modes Operandi of
Obtaining Pensions Fees of Attorneys
and Rating; for Disabilities.
Senator M. L- Hayward has received
a lengthy communication from Com
missioner H. Clay Evans of the pen
sion bureau at Washington concern
ig the work of the pension depart--ment,
the people employed there and
the manner in which the pension
claims are handled. The commission
er explain ia .detail the work of the
department and gives much informa
tion of value to Grand Army men. Fht
Nebraska department of the Grand
Army of the Republic will have the
letter published In the official oran
and distributed among all the old sol
diers in the state. Commissioner
Evans tells first of the people om
ployed in the bureau.
There are 1,741 employes in the de
partment of which 5GG arc ex-union
soldiers, and of this number 452 are
drawing pensions in addition to the
salaries. The board of review as
now organized is comprised of one
chief, two assistant chiefs, five ch'efs
of sections and 110 reviewers. jTne
chief of the board is Colonel F. D
Stephenson, who served during the
entire war of the rebellion as captain
in the Forty-eighth Illinois and l-.ter
as colonel in the One Hundred and
Fifty-second Illinois infantry. He vas
severely wounded and is a pensioner
for that reason. Of the 110 reviewers
seventy are ex-union soldiers. A
large proportion of the men employed
on the board of review have been con
nected with the pension department
in different capacities for from twenty
to thirty-five years.
The medical division, whose work
is to settle all medical questions, es
pecially rates of pension, consists of
a medical referee, an assistant medi
cal referee, two qualified surgeons,
two principal examiners and fortj--tliree
medical examiners. The bard
of review In connection with the med
ical division is charged with the id
judication and settlement of all claims
and their action is generally final
on all questions involved. The com
missioner decs not see one In a hru
drcd of the claims that receive tho at
tention of the legal and med'.cal
boards.
During the first nine months of the
present fiscal year 61,000 pension cer
tiflcates have been issued, divided as
follows: Original under the general
law, 4.594; original under the act of
1890, 22.227; increase aud reissue, 9,
747; restoration and renewal, 1.157;
under the act of 1890, increase and
reissue, 10.685; restoration and re
newal, '1,556; accrued pensions, 8,661;
duplicates, 2,902.
AH of the employes of the pension
department are under the protection
of the civil service law. A majDrity
of them are known to be republicans.
There are about 331 emploj-es who are
known to be democrats.
Commissioner Evans adds the ol
lowing additional information bear
ing upon the subject of Senator Hay
ward's letter of inquiry.
"You are no doubt aware of the fact
that order No- 164, which was promul
gated October 15, 1890, was substanti
ally revoked by Assistant Secretary
Bussey on January 7, 1893, in '-ery
positive terms. Under this order ail
disabilities under the act of 1830 were
rated the same as those of service ori
gin. Your attention is also invited to
the act of 1890 with reference to claims
of widows, which grants pensions only
to those 'who are without other means
of support than their manual la'ior."
In cases of invalid claimants it is he'd
by the department that disabilities
under the act of 1890 are placed by
that act upon a different basis for rat
ing than those under the general aw.
Under the general law disabili ies
are pensionable without regard to
capacity to earn support aud are
graded without reference to this con
dition, while disabilities under the
act of 1890 are only pensionable whn
incapacity to labor joins with inca
pacity to earn a support, and the
grades of rating are dependent noon
these two conditions. The bureau has
been extensively criticized for ad
hering to this rule, but as my func
tions are confined strictly to the "se
dition of the law as I find it I am
powerless to grant relief in cases list
do not come within the rule.
"It is very evident that i pon a
careful examination of the act of
June 27. 1890, that it creates condi
tions which arc not applicable to
claims under the general law and that
very much of the misapprehension
and dissatisfaction with the opera
tions of this bureau arise from a want
of understanding as to those condi
tions "Thus, a soldier is entitled under
the general law to f 17 per month for
the loss of an eye, but under the act
of June 27, 1890, he receives only $6
per month, as it does not incapac -tate
him from earning subsistence h
manual labor.
"So in a case of deafness. A sol Her
who is suffering from a degree of deaf
ness entitling him under the general
law- to $10 or $15 per month, has no
pensionable status under the act of
1S90, as the slight degree of deafness
in question does not incapacitate him
from earning a support by manual la
bor. A widow is pensioned under the
general law regardless of her posses
sions, while under the act of 1890 the
employment of an income in excess of
the amount she would receive as pen
sion is a bar to pension under the act.
Now, when these different conditions
arise in the same neighborhood peo
ple seldom stop to inquire as to the
law under which application is made
and when a claim is allowed under
the general law at a high rate for a
degree of deafness which does not en
title to a rating under the new law,
it necessarily results in criticism of
the commissioner. And when a wiiow
who is in affluent circumstances is
granted a pension under the general
law, while a claimant not nearly so
well off is denied a pension under tne
new law, because she is not without
other means of support than her daily
labor, it seems to the public to be an
unjust discrimination on the part of
this bureau. Yet the law creates these
conditions and it is not within our
power to do otherwise than exe-ir
the law as construed by the depart
ment, but in nearly all these case
the pension office gets the bl?me
when it atempts to carry out the law
as it exists.
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WM WORK
"The disability which entitles to
the maximum pension ($12 per month)
under tbe new law is Bubstanthlly
the same at would entitle to a paHion
of $30 per month under the old law.
Yet we find that under .the old .law
only 51,691 soldiers are pensioned ai
$30 per month, while under the new
law 163,367 .are drawing the maximum
rate of $12 per month. Under the
old law only 47,657 soldiers receive
$12 per month. As an index to the
growth of the work of the bureau it
may be stated that during the fiscal
year 1896 there were 2,162,581 pieces
of mail received and sent. For the year
1897 there were 5,056,789 and for the
year 1898 there were 6,566,967, being
more than 300 per cent over the year
189G.
"During President Grant's first farm
from 1869 to 1872, there Were allowed
in all 71,462 claims, and during his
second term there were allowed 47,
359 claims, and during President
Hayes' term, from 1877 to 1880, 39,
945 claims were allowed. During the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, 52.
684 original claims were allowed. It
will be seen .that, the number of. air
lowanceB for the year. 1898 was great'
er than thd number of allowances for
the entire four years of President
Grant's second term and the entire
administration of President Hayes-
"The commissioner, both dep'ity
commissioners, the medical rereree,
chief of the board of review and nine
of the chiefs of division and nios'. of
the other clerks who fill the important
places in the bureau are all ex-un-Ion
soldiers, and as you well know
the entire organization of the bur?au
is controlled by men who served tho
'soldiers bureau' and in all mater3
pertaining, to the organization Of thC
different divisions, in appointments
and promotions, the ex-union so'dier
always has the preference. The dif
ferent commanders of the department
of the Grand Army of the Republic
have all commended the pension bu
reau for its faithful observance of the
statute which gives preference to the
soldiers of the rebellion."
In another letter received by Sen
ator Hayward the commissioner of
pensions has the following to say con
cerning the fee charged by attorneys
for securing pensions.
"Under what is known as the gen
eral law the attorney gets a fee of 52b.
Under the act of 1890 his fee is inly
$10. It has got to be quite a cus'otn
with attorneys to file a claim under
the act of 1890. get the pension allow
ed under that law and then filo
claim under the general laws, so ihey
will get two fees. I had a esse, for
instance, the other day reinstating a
man who enlisted in the war vith
Spain. He was drawing a pension
under the act of 1890 at $10 he had
formerly drawn a pension for slht
disability under the gcne'ral lav,- at $0
he fell into the hands of an attorney
and made application for reinstate
ment under the general law and t:ie;
filed a claim for disabilitv incurred in
the war with Spain, ch was fro
same as he was pensioned for under
the act of 1890. This would have giv
en the attorney two fees, but it would
not have given the man the $ 10 pen
sion that he was drawing when hs
enlisted."
Welcome to the Third Iters.
The citizens of Hastings gave a
public reception and banquet at the
court house in honor of the boys of
company K, Third Nebraska volunteer
infantry, who have returned home
from service in Cuba. The demonstra
tion was gotten up for the purpose of
showing the appreciation of the peo
ple for their loyalty to the govern
ment in time of need and devotion
to their country's flag. At 2:30 p. m.
the members of company K formed in
line at Grand Army hall and headed
by the Second regiment band and es
corted by Dr. Van Sickles hoys' bri
gade and members of the Grand Army,
marched through tin prircipil busi
ness streets, stopping finally at the
court house, which had been picparsd
for their reception. The corridors
were gay witn red, white and blue
bunting and American and Cuban
flags in profusion. Long tables were
arranged down the center at which
the guests were seated and served
with a repast.
The address of welcome was deliv
ered by Dr. Abbott, of the M. E.
church, Lieut. Ray Dammerall re
sponding on behalf of h;s soldier com
rades. Hon. R. A. Batty acted as
tcatmaster. The toj'ts r pci.dc-1 io
were as follows: "The Western Sol
dier," Hon. J. N. Clarkv; Viie Army,"
Hon. J. H. Cessna; "The Navy." Judge
William R. Burton; "Chrisiian Sol
diers,"" Professor Patterson of Hast
ings college; "War and Peace," Judge
F. B. Beal; "Cuba." Rev. Mr. Nelson;
"Future Soldiers of the Republic,"
Hon. G. W. Tibbctts.
Smothered in a n.iilger Hnlr,
Greeley center dispatch: Yeser
day evening between 4 and 6 o'clock
John Gannon, the 17-year-old son of
Thomas Gannon, residing near this
town, went out into the field :V)ul
a quarter cf a mile from the h mse
to dig out a badger that was supposed
to be in his hole, taking with him iwo
large dogs.
After 6 o'clock his two brothers
went after the cows and passed n'ar
the place where Gannon had gon? to
get the badger and saw the togs 'ig
ging and scratching the earth. Reich
ing the spot they found their brher
lying en his face, dead. He had -lug
the hole larger than it was aud ihen
entered it with his head and pnrt of
his body, when the earth caved in
and smothered him. His faithful doss
did not leave him, but scratched the
dirt from off his body and head and
had it completely removed whem found
by his brothers, but life was extinct.
Gannon was a promising young man
and would have graduated at the Gree
ly high school next year.
Information was received at the
governor's office the other day from
the War department concerning the
condition of Captain Thomas S. Dil
lon of South Omaha, now at Manila
with the First Montana volunteers,
who is reported to ha.c almost re
covered from a wound received in one
of the recent battles with the insurg
ents. No definite information was re
ceived by the Nebraska military au
thorities as to the manner in which
the man was wounded, but relatives in
South Omaha requested the War de
partment, through the governor's of
fice, to ascertain his present condition.
General Otis cabled that Dillon was
doing well.
Elliot C. Brown, manager cf the
National Sheep and Cattle compinv,
one of the best known stockmen of
Nebraska and Wyoming, was drowned
in Indian creek near Harrison, Neb.,
while attempting to ford .it, on horse
back. Mr. BrQwn was one of iae
Wyoming Rough Riders under Col
onel Grigsby, and distinguished im
self in the Mississippi wreck 'ast
summer, when he saved many lives.
TI LAWS OF WARFARE
They Are Considered by The
Peace Conference.
CAN EVILS Of WAR IE CMtEstt
A Revision of Geneva Convention Possible
Korgnler Scheme for Its Mol Motion
May Be Sabnaltted Conference May Be
United to Eight Points of Original
Clrcalar Plan Considers Treatment of
Wsaadsd.
MeJ HAGUE, May Sfl.Both -sections
of the committee on the laws of
warfare of the peace conference mot
separately today and began the exam
ination of the subjects submitted to
them, the Red Cross section discus
sinx paragraph No. 5, and paragrao
No, 4 of the circular of Count Mura-
Yleff; Russian minister of foreign af
fairs, and the Brussels conference sec
tion discussing paragraph No. 7.
Both sections met subsequently and
discussed fhe question of competence
as regarding the scheme for the revis
ion of the Geneva convention, known
as the Morgnier scheme.
The Morgnier scheme comprises
modification of the Geneva conven
tion in conection with wounded and
sick prisoners, members of the mili
tary hospital service, convoys for the
wounded, ambulances, hospitals, prop
erty belonging to neutral persons re
ligious and medical staffs and kin
dred subjects. The scheme applies
equally to land and sea warfare.
it was proposed to submit the
scheme to another committee for revi
sion and question was then raised
whether the conference was compe
tent to deal with the matter. Those
who took a negative view argued that
the conference had decided in princi
ple and all the governments reure
sented had agreed that nothing should
be submitted to the .conference be
yond the eight points In the circular
of Count Muravieff. They contcnled
that if the conference once infringed
this rule a precedent would be cre
ated, leading to numerous difficulties,
including probably tho springing of
the Armenian, Macedonian and sim
ilar- questions upon the conference.
It was also pointed out by the op
ponents of the proposal to refer thai
as the Morgnier scheme dealt mouly
with the wounded and hospitals. It
would be impossible to discuss 'he
proposed modifications effectively
without the co-operation of doctors,
who alone would be capable of decid
ing many of the points in issue.
As a matter of fact there is no nan
cf medical training an.ong the dele
gates. The committee finally ad
journed without reaching a decision.
There is no truth in the statement
that a proposal has been submitted
to the conference to abrogate the
provisions of the Declaration of Paris,
1836, regarding the protection of pri
vate property in time of War.
BERLIN, May 26. The Berliner
Neugstcn Nachrichtcn, in an editor
ial denying that Germany is opposing
the IdcA of an arbitration trilunal
at the peace conference, suggests that
the attitude of Great Britain and the
United States in recent years, as
shown by the Venzuelan and Alaskan
disputes, has not been favorable to
arbitration, although as the paper
says, "they are not posing as its spe
cial champions."
Madame Selenka, the famous peace
advocate and promoter of the Wo
man's Peace crusade, yesterday pre
sented to M. De Staal, president of
the conference and head of the Rus
sian delegation, an illustrated album
containing tbe text of resolutions in
favor of peace adopted by meetings
representing several millions of vo
men. The album was accompanied
by an address, "In the name of he
women of eighteen nations," saluting
the conference, assuring the delgates
of the faith of the memorialists in
the results of its labors, begging that
the hopes of the people might not be
deceived and that the conference
would decide that the evils of war
could be cured.
Cnhan Soldiers Are Snlky.
HAVANA, May 26. Major General
Fitz-ugh Lee, military governor of
the navana-Del Rio department, wired
Governor General Brooke at El Ve
dado today that 200 Cubans of the
command of General Rodriguez, near
Mariano, dispersed yesterday, after
resolving not to take the $75 per man.
Some of them sold their arms and
others took them to their homes.
Telegrams from different points say
the Cuban army in the western pro
vinces will adopt the idea of the troops
in the orient, declining to give up
their arms or to accept American
money. According to these reports
the government employes will con
tribute a percentage of their salaries
in order to give the soldiers an
amount equal to that offered by the
United States.
Sera Rfag in Death.
KANSAS CITY, May 26. William
F. Hackney, architect to the Kansas
City board of education, and one of
the city's foremost men of his profes
sion, committed suicide in his office
this evening, blowing out his brains.
He left a note to the newspapers, stat-,
ing that he was hopelessly in debt,
that his income was not sufficient to
maintain his family as it should be
kept and that he had decided to "quit
business." He leaves a widow and one
daughter.
All Quiet In Santiago.
WASHINGTON. May 26. The war
department tonight received the fol
lowing message from General Leonard
Wood, in command of the province of
Santiago:
"SANTIAGO; May 25. To the Sec
retary of War: Just returned from
inspection of principal interior towns
on north coast, this department. Peo
ple at work, no hunger, no application
for personal assistance during the trip,
people absolutely quiet, no Cuban
troops under arms anywhere in the
province and no brigandage.
"WOOD."
Vie Thanks William
WASHINGTON, May 26. The presi
dent this evening received the follow
ing cablegram from Queen Victoria,
In response to his message ot congrat
ulation: "WINDSOR, May 25. The Presi
dent of the United States: I am deep
ly touched by the words of your tele
gram of congratulation. From my
heart I thank you and the American
people for the sentiments of affection
and good will therein expressed.
"V. R. V
A word to the wise may be sufficient
to get the speaker into trouble.
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ACTION OF KAUTZ IMfl.
tec'
rts of tba Dolan of Saaseaa
'''" CosBBslsstoa.
APIA, Samoa, May 17. (Via Auck
MjiirN. Z., May '26.) The Samoatt
MJpmissicn (consisting of BartletC
Tiflpp. former United States mtnls
Wlr to Austria-Hungary; Baron. Speck
to Sternberg, representing Ger
many, and C- H. Eliot, G. fi of tho
British embassy at Washington, reo
rtsenting Great Britaibj arrived heie
.OB May 13. It's first sitting took place
May 16. The commissioners were en
gaged 'all morning in conferring witn
tile chief justice, William L. CI tim
bers. Nothing was disclosed regarding-
the deliberations, but it 1b re
PMted that they will uphold the ne
tlOft of Adimral Kautz, the American
MftYal commander.
fjfataaia sent the commissioners a
litter of welcome and expressed hope
tfrat they .would satisfactorily end the
troubles in Samoa.
lt is understood Mataafa will obey
the unanimous order of tbe comrns-
'sibn, though it . is doubtful whether
ofvwlH order his followers to.disjj-m
unless the Malietsnans are first dis
armed. The Mataafans will probfbly
disperse to their homes if ordered tr
do so, but they will never recoguizo
Malietoa as kind, and doubtless there
will be further trouble in the future
if the kingship is maintained.
Only one or two cases are known of
the wounding of natives by the shell
fire of the war ships, as they have
not realized the strength of the Eu
ropeans, they may go to greater ex
tremes if war arises again.
The rebels remain outside the line?
Indicated by the admiral and have
strongly fortified a new position, wliile
the loyalists are being drilled and hive
fortified Mulinuu. A considerable
number of loyalists has been brought
by the war ships from other islands.
Half the male adults of Samoa are
waiting action upon the part of iho
commission in order io support MaUe-tca-
The Germans are preparing com
pensation claims. It is understood
one German firm claims $GO,000 and
that other German subjects claim
$20,000. The British consul. E. B S.
Mazsej Invited them to put in neir
claims and it is understood that com
mission will adjudicate them.
Replying to questions submitted to
him by a correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press, Mataafa wiid it was tho
head chiefs and not himself who be
gan the war, adding that Ihey did so
because they were angered at power
being taken from them by violence
end also because they were ma-.'e
angry by the chief justice'ii unjust decision-
Mataafa claimed he had upheld Mip
treaty and said his orders througl,ouc
were not to fire upon the Europeans
and that but for this order the whole
party of bluejackets would several
times have been shot down by large
bodies of natives concealed in the
bush.
BERLIN, ay 25. A dispatch re
ceived here from Apia, Samoa, sajs
the armistice was not disturbed by
the arrival there of the Samoan 2tm
mission and that lettcn were bMng
exchanged with the view? Of disbanding
the rival forces.
WASHINGTON. May 25 The fol
lowing cablegram has been rece'ved
at the navy department, dated Apia,
May 16, 1899, via Auckland:
Secretary Navy, Washington: Rad
ger arrived on May 13- The Philndo'
phia will leave so as to reach San
Francisco about Juue 25. Commis
sion may desire to return on the Had
gcr. KAUT3.
Admiral Kautz will return to tho
United States with the Philadelphia.
'Hie flagship will bo replaced by the
cruiser Newark, which is as formida
ble in every respect as the Philadel
phia, and having recently been reno
vated is in shape for long service.
Filipinos Lose Many Men.
WASHINGTON, May 26. General
Otis has forwarded the following dis
patch to the war department:
MANILA, May 25. Adjutant Gener
al, Washington: On the 23rd insr.
Third infantry returning to Balliuag
from San Miguel were attacked morn
ing, noon and evening uy a large
force of enemy, suffering in casual
ties two men killed and thineeu
wounded; enemy repulsed, leaving ou
the field sixteen killed; large num
ber wounded and prisoners. Yester'ay
enemy appeared ,in vicinity San Fer
nando, attacking Kansas and Monta
na regiments, which suffered slight
loss. Enemy driven through rice
fields, leaving fiftty dead, thirty-eight
prisoners; fifty rifles and other prop
crty captured; their retreat through
swamp land saved them from des
election; Lawton returning, lea-ins
with MacArthur on the front regular
troojis to replace volunteers. OTIS.
Carry Homo Terms of Peace.
MANILA, May 26. The Filipino
commissioners left here by special
train today. They will be escorted to
their lines under a flag of tiuce. It
is expected thry will return soon.
President Gonzaga of the Philippine
commission, previous to his departure,
aa..: "We greatly appreciate the
courtesy shown us. We have spent
some time with your commissioners,
incidentally considering the American
constitution. Its principles impress us
profoundly.
" 1 he plan of government offered the
Philippines seems in theory a goad
colonial system. But why should a
nation with your constitution seek to
make a colony of a distaut people who
have been so long fighting against
Spain to secure the same rights your
constitution gives? You fought the
same battle in America when you
fought against England."
In the fighting at San Fernando yes
terday fifty Filipinos were killed and
many wounded. The Americans had
two men killed and twelve wounded.
Toast to the Queen's Health.
HAVANA, May 26. At a banquet
given last night at the Hotel In
glaterra in honor of the cighoeth
birthday of Queen Victoria, the
toasts to the queen and the presi len'
of the United States were rcceivrd
with enthusiasm. Governor General
Brooke in responding to the tjist,
The United States," said that whercv-'
er Great Britain's flag was planted
there was law, order and development
and he believed the same was true in
the case of the United States, which
had been taught by Great Britain.
Says China flas A creed.
LONDON, May 26. The St. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
says: "I am assured that China, so
far from refusing to yield to the Rus
sian demand for a railway system
in Manchuria, has agreed, and that
the terms of the concession are al
ready settled.
The np-to-date wedding ca:;e is no.w
decorated with real flowers, but there
is nothing new in turkey stuffine.
I The News Briefly Told, j
6 .
Friday.
Michigan yesterday welcomed her
last home coming regiment, ifiS fotty
first volunteer infantry, at Detroit.
News of the wreck of a sloop, with
thre passengers for Juneau, with
Blanche Lamore among them, near
southeastern Alaska. l reported.
Carnegie & Co. have bough 50,000
tons of pig iron from the Assfffiwted
blast furnaces of the Mahoning and
Shenangi valleys, paying f 16 per ton.
Lieutenant Colonel Eu'ard J. Mc
Clernand (assistant adjutant general)
ras been ordered to Matanzas. Cuba,
as adjutant general of thnl depart
ment The house of the Texas legislature
passed 1U bill levying 1 per cent tax
on all personal Incomes in excess ot
52,000 a year. It 1 believed it will
pass the senate.
The nationa) graBd lodge 6.th
Mosaic Templars of America, the lead-
ing colored fraternal organization of
the south, has been called to convene
at Vlcksburg. Miss., July 11. in seven
teenth annual session.
William Rockefeller, William G.
Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers and A. C.
Burrage have been elected frtisteea
of the Anaconda Copper company.
They represent the Standard Oil inter
ests in that corporation.
The American Glass cenpany, the
combination of window glass concerns,
has issued a new list, advancing the
price of Its product 5 per cent, to go
into effect June 1. This is the second
advance in window glass recently.
Lieutenant Colonel Marion P. Maus.
inspector general, has been relieved
from further duty in Washington and
ordered to Sat! Francisco for assign
ment to duty as inspector of that de
partment Colonel Maus hfW hn on
the staff of General Miles for sdvefrtl
years.
It is understood that among those
under consideration for membership
on the new isthmian canal commis
sion as engineers from civil life are
Messrs. Bogue of New York, formerly
chief engineer of the Union Pacific
railway; Morrison of New York, a
prominent bridge engineer, and Noble
of Chicago",- at present a member of
the deep water waj commission.
Satarday.
Ex-Congres3man Francis Smith Ed
wards, aged 82, died at his home, Dun
kirk, N. Y., yesterday.
Three companies of the signal corps
encamped at Savannah, Ga., were
mustered but Of service.
The America section Of theoso
phists wia begin their thirteenth an
nual convention today at Chicagd.
William Thompson, a Lynn, Mass,
hotelkeeper, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy Liabilities, 97,400; assets.
$150.
The Cubans are dissatisfied with the
present system of making laws, con
tending that Senors Capote and La
nuza have too much Influence.
Wealthy Cubans will send a delega
tion to Washington to seek a modifi
cation oi the mortgage decree extend
ing tims of payment.
Major Ladd, treasUrei" of the cus
toms funds at Havana, Intends to b
gin a ne.w system of disbursements
by check, as in the United States.
David J. Field, the retired St. Louis
capitalist, who on Thursday last shot
and killed his negro man servant, was
exonerated by the coroner's jury and
discharged.
Bids twere opened at the navy de
partment Saturday for 100.000 six
pound steel shells, 12,000 three-pound
and 20,000 one-pound. Awards havo
not yet been made.
Instead of the usual annual conven
tion in July, the executive committee
of the window glass association ha3
decided that the wage committee shall
meet in July to formulate a wage
scale.
Today a horseless carriage contain
ing the Inventor, Alex Wluton, and a
companion will leave Cleveland for
New York, a distance of 800 mlle3.
The trip is expected to be made in
five days.
Efforts are being made in Boston to
form a combine among the confec
tioners, including all the prominent
concerns east of St. Louis. Several
firms have given options which expire
July 1 on their plants.
Senor Domingo Mendez Capote, sec
retary of the government in Havana,
will report to General Brooke recom
mending general suffrage in Cuba,
with certain limitations, finding edu
cational or property test unnecessary.
The deadlock over railroad taxa
tion continues In the Michigan legis
lature. The senate contends for -.n
annual increase of $32,000 ad the
house for a $500,000 increase. Gov
ernor Pingree thinks the senate 'vili
be forced to come to the house terms.
5toUfi:iy
The big troop transports on th Pa
cine coast are being rapidly fitted v:it!i
refrigerators.
rvilnnpl Alfred E. Bates has rcut'i i
for duty as assistant paymaster s.
eral.
President and Mrs. McKinley enter
tained Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair MnCel
way of the Brooklyn Eagle at dinne
last night
Director of Posts Vaille at Manila
has notified the postofflce department
that he has established the rai'-vay
post service between Manila and Milo
los, the former Filipino capital. I his
is the initial move in the direction of
building up a railway mail servi.-o ia
the Philippines.
Word was received at Buffalo of the
death of Mile. Rhea, the well known
actress, in Montmorenci, France. The
communication came in the shape of a
large black bordered envelope cm
taining an announcement of her fu
neral. The grain' shovelers strike at Buf
falo has been settled. The agreement
signed late last night by a sub-corn
mittee representing the strikers, of
which President Kcefe of the Ling
shoremen's association was a member
and Contractor Conners, has been an
proved by the full committee of rne
Grain Shovelers union. The strike is
to be declared off and the men mil
return to work Wednesday morning.
The comptroller of the currency hai
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks
as follows: Fifteen per cent, the
First National Bank of Larimor.. N.
D.; 10 per cent, the First National
bank of Emporia, Kas.; 10 per c-nt,
the National Bank of Kansas City, Mo.
Specials to the Cincinnati Enqnirer
announce the acceptance by Coleaei
W. J. Bryan to lecture ad speak at the
following cities in Indiana: :rre
Haute, Monday, May 29, to lecture on
imperialism, under the auspices of The
Jackson ian club; at Evai -s,le, Tues
day. May 30, to address a nis demo
cratic rally.
It is nrobable that Colonel AKred
E. Bates will succeed Paymaster Gen
eral Carey July 10, when Carey re
Iir6. Taesday.
The Baptist Annual meeting will be
held at San Francis today, and will
celebrate the semi-centennial of mis
sionary work in .California.
Charles F. Brusb the inventor of
fio aro electric light, has been voted
the KUfifflrd medal by the American
Academy of Art and Sciences.
The Cumberland Presbyterians, in
session at Denver. haf appointed a
ftomralttee to raise $1,000,000 for
cfitJrh educational institutions.
General OM notified the war depart
ment of the dexitk yesterday at Manila
of Lieutenant Pearee C. Forester,
Third Infantry, of typhoid fever.
ilMrt.nrv Alpur tins etven autboritv
ltd the West Point military. -academy
to permit the resumption or (ootDaii
games Deffen that institution and the
naval cadets.
The navy department has cabled an
inquiry, to Admiral Dewey regarding
the itinerary of the homeward cruise
of the Olympia. The Olympia will not
leave Hong Kong much before June,
spending a part of the time in dry
dock getting in shape for her 14.000
mile trip.
L. P. Mitchell. rtVputy comptroller of
the treasury, has decided that retired
naval officers cannot be appointed and
paid as expert aid in the preparation
of designs for new ships, etc.. under
the concluding paragraph cf section 3
of tile naval act of Maich 3. 1S97. bold
ing that d retired officer is not a civil
ian within the meaning of the act.
The transport Sherman has sailed
for the Philippines, bearing 1.S0O men.
the largest number of soldiers to leave
the b'an Francisco port on a single
taii3foTf. and seventy-live officers,
among tftem Brigadier General Bates.
The entire Sixfil Infantry, under Colo
nel Kellogg, made tip the greater part
of the Sherman's human cargo. She
carries a large cargo of supplies for
the army and navy.
Weilnrnilay.
Admiral Schley wna cntcrtainc-i by
the people of Council Bluffs Tlnu
tands of people met him at the pub
lic reception held in the Grand ho'cl.
William H. Seitz. a real estate
broker of New" York, filed a petition
in bankruptcy yer'-rthxr. His liaiiii
ities were $12S,23U and tiicrc :re no
assets.
W. H. Collins was shot in the b..ek
and Instantly killed about nine miles
west of West Plains, Mo., by some
unknown person. J. Fox. whom Col
lis shot last year, is suspected.
William J. Bryan spent a day at
Quincy, 111., a the guest of the
county democracy. Hi addressed an
audience of 10.000 people. Mr. Br-au
was met by Congressmen Dockery .md
Lloyd, of Missouri, and Williams,
of Illinois.
The navy department has cabled an
inquiry to Admiral Dewey regarding
the itinerary of the homeward cruise
of the .Olympia. The Olympia will
not icave Hong Kong much b.'ori
June,, spending a part of the timo in
dry dock, getting in shape for her
14,000 mile dip.
The United States Cransport Solace
is reported to have arrived at Hon
olulu May 15. She has on board a
iarge number of soldiers and sa-Iors
whose time of service has expired,
and many invalided and incapacitated
men. Among her passengers is Gen
eral King and Majors I'urdy and
Nick'crson-
An official application has been re
ceived in Washington from Comman
der G. C. Reiter, recently ordered to
command the Puget Sound naval sta
tion, to he placed en the list of io
plicants for voluntaiy retirement
Four captains, three commanders
and four lleutenaiit-coinnianders have
now applied for retirement, making,
with casualties which occurred Jur
ing the year, all the vacancies re
quired by law.
The Cumberland Presbyterian gen
eral assembly in session at Denver,
postponed action on the resolution
protesting against the seating of B.
H. Roberts, of Utah, as a member of
congress until Wednesday. This ac
tion was taken at the icquest of Stat
ed Clerk William R. Campbell, of the
Utah presbytery, who telegraphed to
Moderator Halsell that a commiicica
tion had been mailed which it was de
sired to have the assembly consider.
1'lmrsil:ijr.
The National Association of "Wagon
Manufacturers has decided to raise
prices
Representative Gillette of Massa
chusctts has invited President Mc
Kinley to visit Springfield, Mass,
while atendiug Kraduatlirj exer-ises
at Mount Holyoke, Mass.. from which
the president's niece graduates.
The president has given order.? to
carry out the lccanimenditiun of
Generals Otis and Lawton making rtol
onel Summers of the Second Oregcn a
brevet brigadier general of volun-
! tecrs; also making Captain Casi of
the eps'meer battalion n major by
brevet.
The Russian minister at Pekin, M.
de Giers. h;is notified the Tsung Li
Yamcn that Russia is unable to accept
the Chinese refusal of a railroad con
cession and that she will send .Migi
neers forthwith to survey a lino to
connect the Russion Manchunan tail
road with Pekin.
Twenty thousand people gathered
at Pittsficld, 111., to listen to William
J. Bryan. One hundred guns were
fired at sunrise in honor of the arr'vai
of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, who came on
the early train from Hannibal.
The rapid increase of Japanese im
migration into Hawaii has attracted
the serious atcnti'm of the auti-ori-ties
in Washington of late and .-ev
eral official inquirhs hae Leen set
on fcot to learn the cxt-nt of t'ie in
vasion and how it can be checked.
The reports icceived by the immigra
tion authorities are in line with press
dispatches stating that the influx is
steadily increasing.
The Madrid Reforma declares
that the minister of finance,
Senor Villaverde, who is sup
ported by the entire cabinet,
maintains the roj-al order, instructing
the Bank of Spain to suspend indefi
nitely the quarterly drawing of the
redeemable 4 per cent bonded rtbt
Reports received at Eldorado, Kan.,
state that cattle perished by the hun
dreds as the result of an unusual
downpour of rain with which that
section was visited. In one pasture
Lehr & Leonard lost 510 head of cattle-
The animals were in poor condi
tion, having just been shipped it
from the west
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