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* \ > V * WAR BREAKS AIIV 111 AIIIAH UUI IN 5AMUA l laiaafa's Followers Rise in < Rebellion Fostered by tbe Germans. DEBETQ ATTAnFCTI 1PTA lliiUJjlJiJ ii 11 nujiuu in in British and American Warships Then ShelleJ the Town. ' ' > 4Han j- rebels Killed by the Ships' Fire Intr V * the Jungle?Villages Along the Coasl Earned-UennRD Consul Upholds Ma1 taafa, Despite tho British and American Admirals' Order Disbanding Bit Government? Feeling Against the Germans Hitter?Foreigners Leaving Samoa?Natives Kill an American Sentry and Three British Seamen. Apia, Samoan Islands (By Cable).?The troubles grcwing out of the election of a Sing of Samoa have taken a more serious turn, and resulted in a bombardment of na, live villages along the shore by the United States cruiser Philadelphia, Admiral Kautz commanding, and the British cruisers Porpoise and Royalist. Thbbombardment ha; ;ontlnued intermittently for over a week, Beveral villages have been burned, and there have been a number of casualties imong the American and British sailors md marines. As yet it is impossible tc estimate the number of natives killed 01 Injured. t ft' Walcbdf^ Navot^s I' - j ymn ww ! " 'manil/ ! N , M 53 | T - ; /f" I - ftp ss** 8CENE OF OUR MILITARY OPERA.1: (The map shows the capital of the insurg< captured by United States forces wfc Filipinos.) As Mataafa and his chiefs, constituting v , ' the provisional Government, continued tc defy the treaty after the arrival of th< Philadelphia Admiral Kautz summoned the various Consuls and the senior nava Dfficers to a conference on board the Phil adelphia, when the whole situation was rarefuliy canvassed. The upshot was t resolution to dismiss the provisional Govsrnment, and Admiral Kautz issued t proclamation culling upon Mataafa and his chiefs to return to their homes. Mataafa evacuated Mulinuu, thy town h< bad made his headquarters, and wont int< ?- . -. the interior. Herr Rose, the German Consul at Apia issned-a proclamation, supplementing th< ono ho had issued several weeks before, up holding the provisional Government. As { result of this the Mataafau3 assembled k large force and hommed in the town. Tha British cruiser Royalist brought tin Malietoa prisoners from the Islands t< which they had been transferred by tin provisioual Government. The American: then fortillel JIulinuu, whero 200D Malicto nns took refuge. The rebels?the ad< herents of Matua'a?barricaded the road within the municipality and seized thi British houses. An ultimatum was then sent to them ordering them to evacuate and threatening them, in the event of refusal, with a bombardment. This was ignored, and the rebels com menced an attack in the direction of thi United States and British Consulates abou halt an hour before the time ilxed for th< bombardment. The Philadelphia, Porpoise md lioyallst opened Are upon the di3tan Tillages. There was great difficulty in lo eating the enemy, owing to the dense for est, but several shore villages weile soon ii flames. A defective shell from the Philadelphia exploded near tbe American Consulate,an< tbe marines outside narrowly escaped. I fragment struck the leg of Private Rudge shattering it so badly as to necessitati amputation. Another fragment traverso< the German Consulate, smashing tb crockery. The Germans then went 01 board the German'cruiser Falke. During the night the rebels made a bo attach on tho town, killing three Brltisl sailors. A British marine was shot in th leg by a sentry of his own party; anothe was shot in the feet, while an America) sentry was killed at his post. The bom bardment continuing, the inhabitants o the town took refuge oil board the Royalist greatly crowding the vessel. Many people are leaving Samoa, the Cap tain of the ltoy* list urging them to go, s< as not to interfere with the military opera tions. Tho Porpoise has shelled the vil lages cast and west of Apia and capture^ many Do&t9. . The Americans and British are flghtln] Ouuboat Machlai Ordered to Gaatemals The United States gunboat ilachius ha \eea ordered to Guatemala to investigat the reported arrest of six members of th recent expedition organized in Kansas Cit to go to Guatemala. They are said to b in danger of death. >*o Georgia Peaches Tills Year. At a meeting of the Georgia Vrult Gro^ rri' Association at Macon it was aRrce that there would be no peaches for shi[ meat from the State this year. Tha roaso given is that tho trees were injured by tL r-eant freeze. Tho Labor World. Boer bottlers at Kansas City, Mo., ha\ p . formed a union. A branch of the National Buildin ? . ~ !i i.~- l.aan ATmml at f!nlnri u raues uouucu uiu u ? do Springs, Col. Unions of the various building crafts < Memphis, Teun., are agitating the formi tion of a building trades council. Tho Btriuing miners in Arkansas and Ii dian Territory aro still out and are fln for their demand for a restoration < wages. During 1808 tho Labor Commissioner < 8<?attle, Wash., found employment for 18 154 people, in addition to a large numbi JWt to tfco 1*0P Pick hops. s- * splendidly together; but there Is a bitter feeling against the Germans. Two men, a British and a German subject, have been arrested as spies. The bombardment of the jungle was for a time very hot. The American and British troops are vy? 1 CHIEF MACAl'i'A. (One of the supporters ot Mataafa.) i . uu -..v. (? f|,? nnaf 1U? nuu cauu uiuci iu v-wucjiuh ?.?*? j'v? . of greatest danger. During the night llghtiDg they both displayed the greatest bravery. SCHLEY GETS HIS PROMOTION. All tlie Officers Advanced to the Rauk of ) Hear-Admiral Oualify. i Washington, D. C. (Special).?The Naval i Board of Promotion, consisting of Rear. Admirals McNalr, Howell and Howlson, i has completed Its work and submitted Its ! report. The board was convened to deter. mine the qualifications of those officers recently advanced to the rank of Rear-Ad' miral, under the term3 of the Naval Per> sonnel bill. The report passes favorably 1 on all the officers appointed, so that all . question of their advancement is removed. The list is a3 follows: Rear-Admirals 1 George C. Rsmey, Norman H. Farquhar, > Johu C. Watson, Henry B. Robeson, Winr Held S. Schley, Silas Casey, William T. Sampson, Bartlett J. Cromwell, John W. jicd\ /iwCranacue IP" /s.i?fA 06 riONS.AGAINST AGUIJsALDO'3 ARMY, mts, Malolos, and the towns which have been lie on their way from Manila to subdue the Philip, Francis J. nigginson, Hsnry F. Picking, Frederick Rodger3, Louis Kempff and George W. Sumner. In addition to this favorable action was taken on Captain Benjamin F. Day. The retirement of Roar-Admiral Robeson caused a vacancy which makes Captain Day a Rear-Admiral. KANSAS MURDERER LYNCHED. TUlrtV .Hashed Men Hang nim'From a Itallroad liild~o For Killing a Woman. Holtos, Kan. (Special).?Hafry Sanderson, the young farmer who shot and killed Mrs. John Fleischer at Magette, in Jackson County, while she was attempting to protect l^pr niece, Meda, from his attack, was lynched by a mob of thirty men. Sanderson's object was to kill the niece, of whom he was jealous. They went directly to Horr's Hotel, where Sanderson was in bed guarded by Deputy Sheriff Riggs. Arousing the landlord and his wife, the mob demanded the location of Sanderson's room. Horr refused to tell, but his wife told them tosavo her husband, who was threatened with death. Rushing upstairs, the mob forced tbe door of the room, overpowered the Deputy and bound ' the wounded prisoner, whose arm had been shattered by tbe accidental discharge " of his shotgun after the death of Mrs. t Fleischer. . Sanderson was taken to a bridge in the outskirts of the town, the rope with which ? he had been bound being used as a noose; The other end was securely fastened to the * railing of tbe bridge. He wa3 picked up by n dozen men and thrown over the railing, where he slowly ^ strangled. The body was found swinging j from the bridge by Sheriff Haas and tiis de, puties. It was cut down and brought to the city, where an inquest wa3 hel l, the j verdict being death at the hands of unj known persons. D 1 FIVE BURNED TO DEATH. t Aruiour Felt Factory Destroyed and T5inJ l>!oycs Trapped tn Upper Stories. 0 r> Til /Cnaninll TTi.?a Imrliaa i have been taken out of the ruin3 of the j Armour felt factory, which was destroyed by Are. The dead are William Rickdskl, John - George, James Flanigan, William Gillson > and Ella Hemmelwrlght. All wore employes and were trapped on - tbo upper floors of the building. Ten peril sous were injured by jumpin . The fire spread over the entire building iu a few g minutes. t "Honor Thy Father and Tlij Mother.* s In a case of a husband suing for damages e for the alieuation of his wife's affection at e Fittsburg, Penn., Judge White refused to y allow a Rirl to testify against her mother's e character, saying that ic would be in violation of the commandment to "to honor thy father and thy mother." r_ Ex-Senator Gray Appointed Circuit Judge ,1 President HcKmlov, at Washington, ha? nrnftinfftj (Innvrnx flvwr fnrmAflv TTnilfttl a States Senator from Delaware, to be ;e Uuited States Circuit Judgi lor the Third Judicial Circuit. Zeltnei'R Held For Doul>le Murder. 6 Coroner Triehler, at Bowling Green,Ohio. has completed tha inquest in the Hoyts? villo trajiedy and holds John and Taul Zeltner for murdor in tlie first distfree, finding them jointly guilty of tho murdet if nt V TT lVaalniil<iiv?r nnrl f'lnr?nr'fl Wittenmeyer. Thu brothers were taken before Mayor Campbell and bound over withi out ball. m }[ General Eag&n Azain Testifies. General Eagan ha3 testified agala bofore s? the Army Beef Court of Inquiry, at Washlngton, and was subjected to a severe 9r cross examination by Major Lee, the reprncAntatfva of GMHAPUI XTIl#ia. " " * * i ! M'KtNLEY TO SAMPSON: The Prenldent Olrei the Admiral Credit For the Santiago Victory. Washington, D. C. (Special).?A. high tribute to the services rendered by RearAdmiral W. T. Sampson In tna war with Spain has been paid by President McKInley in responding to the Rear-Admiral's request that officers about whose conduct in the war there has been no question be advanced to the places for which they were nominated to tbe Senate. Tbe President had hoped tbat the bill for the creation of tbe grade of Vice-Admiral would be enaoted In-order that he might confer tne honor of tho rank on Rear-Admiral Sampson, as he Is firmly oJ the belief tbat .Rear-Admiral Sampson deservod greater credit than any other man for the destruction of Cervera'a fleet. How sincere he is in this opinion is shown by his letter: "Executive Mansion. ) "Washington, March, 13, 1899. f "My Dear Sir?I am In receipt of your very "considerate letter of the 9th inst., la which you express a desire that, without reference to your Interests, the other naval officers who rendered such conspicuous service in the naval campaign in the West Indies may have tho advancement which you recommended for them and in which you ask nothing for yourself. I highly commend this disinterested action on your part, Let me assure you that I have the highest appreciation of your services as Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic naval forces during the Spanish war la blockading Cuba, co-operating with tbe array, directing the movements of the great number of vessels under your orders, and at last, after the most effective preparation, consummating, with the gallant officers and men under your command, the destruction of the Spanish fleet. It was in recognition of your services and of your groat skill that I recommended you to the Senate for the advancement you had earned. Very truly yours, "William McKixlet." The letter was sent to liear-Admiral Sampson while he was at Havana with tbe squadron of evolution, and n copy of it has been received at the Navy Department and placed on the official (lies. A SUPREME COURT FOR CUBA. It Will Consist of One Presiding Judge nnrl SI* AaRnr.in.tn .Tutl^ca. Havana, Cuba (By Cable).?The decree establishing a Supreme Court for Cuba has been published. The court, which is a provisional institution necessarily, is adapted to the present needs of the island. It will consist of one presiding judge and six associate judges. Tiie salary of the presiding judge will be $5000 a year in American gold. The law under which it is constituted requires the presenco of five judges in rendering sentence in an ordinnry case, and of all seven in the case of a sentence to death or perpetual punishment. The court will have jurlsdlctisn over criminal actions against oven its presiding judge, as well as all civil officials and the military secretaries in the provinces. Ic will decide questions of jurisdiction batween inferior tribunals, and will generally supervise the administration of justice in Cuban territory. The directiou and control of the court is vested in the presid ing judge, and nil its members must be Cubans, or swear to accept th? new Government of Cuban territory. CUBAN BANDITTI CAPTURED. Eight Robber* Arrested Near San Lul, and One Killed by Soldiers. Santiago, Cuba (By Cablo).?There has been considerable trouble from banditti during the last few days in the vicinity of San Luis. When it was first reported, General Wood, the Military Governor, 6ent mounted troops, as well as the entire force of gendarmerie, into the district with instructions to capture the bandits if possible. They met with no success, but finally Lieutenant Eanna, General Wood's aide, went to San Luis to mako a personal investigation, with the result that witflin twenty-four hours the alleged ringleader, Francisco Dleguez, and five others were captured. Later two more were taken, and one was killed while resisting arrest. All are now closely guarded in the mili tr.ry prison here, tne jail not being considered safe, owing to the friendship felt for the prisoners by several prominent insurgent officers residing in Santiago. FOUR KILLED IN A MEMPHIS FIRE. Ono Man Lost His Life in Attempting a Rescue. Memphis, Tenn. (Special).?In a fire, which broke out in the boarding house of Mrs. Nolan, four people lost their lives und others were seriously iDjurod. The doad, who ull lost their lives by suffocation, are Mrs. Chapln, widow; Roy Chapln, her son, aged ten; Chester Chapln, aged four, and Thomas Uull. Mr3. Chupln was a stenographer'for Bradstreet's, and occupiod a front room on the third floor. Three persons were badly Injured. Bull lost his life in a heroio attempt to save the Chapln family. The flro was a remarkably rapid one, and' had made considerable hoadway by the time the firemen arrived on the ecene. Its origin is unknown. It was the second flro in the samo building during tho night, and it is thought that possibly the earlier blare was not entirely extinguished. SHOT IN COURT BY A J'JDGE. The Jade? Had Boon Assaulted and H? Uaed Ills Revolver. Dallas, Texas (Special).?At Sweetwater County Judge John H. Cochran, of Nolan County, was attacked in cour^ by C. P. Woodruff, a prominent attornoy, and badly Injured about the head. Woodruff left tho court, and as ho was go'ng Judge Cocbran opened lire on him. R. P. Watts, a bystander, was shot In the hip. Ho and Judge Cochrau were seriously Injured. Attorney Woodruff was placed under $3000 bond. He attacked Judge Cochran because the latter refused to approve a bill of exceptions in a suit In his court. A Child Slnrderer'i Confession. John A. Moore, who murdered his five children at Hutchinson and who was taken to McPherson,Kan., as a precaution against a threatened Ivnchiuir. has confessed his crime before a notary public. The prisoner said be had quarrelled with hi.s wire nod that a separation was talked of, in which event he feared that his children would come under the control of his wife's family,whom he dislikes. It whs brooding over the prospect of his children being reared amid suoh surroundings, ho deposed, that prompted him to crush thoir skulls with a hatchet, cut their throats and tire tlie house in which their bodies Jay. Must Pay 84000 For a Uoc'4 lilte. The 3tandard Oil Compauy, at Louisville, Ky., will have to pay $4000 to a woman who was bitten by a dog ownod by the trust. In January, as Mrs. Jennie Montgomery was passing along the street the dog jumped at her, knocked herdown, and wnnndnil h?r in thi? Ave. She SUOd fOT $10,- | 000. but the jury a lew (lays ago awarded only S4000. The Sherman Arrives at Manila. Th*? transport Sherman has urrivor. at Manila with reinforcements for Con. Otis. Prominent People. Senator Beveridgo, of Indiana, with his wife, has started on a trip to visit Japan, China and Manila, There aro three Bonapartes left?Prince Roland, a widower, with one daughter, and the Frlnce Victor and Louis. For years Thomas Edison slept only one hour out of the twenty-tour. Now he needs about Ave hours for the same period. Queen Victoria owns two of the oldest watches In the world. Both have silver dials and are as large as half crowns. Sir Herbert Kltchenor Is an Egyptologist of the keenest kind, and i9 Intimately acquainted with the art of unrolling a mummy, - - . .. ' t FIGHTING IN LUZON 1 I ( Town of Maliota Captured 6;1 United States Forces After a Fierce Encounter. 1 < I REBELS FLEE TO IAL0L0S! i i Filipinos Apply the Torch to Malabon - Before Leaving the Town. i General MacArthur's Division Sweep* the j Country North of the Fatlc-Towna and Railroads Captured by United J States Troops? Natives Stoutly Resisted j Behind a Series of Intrenchinonts? I Colonel Egbert Dies In a Charge?His General Takes OS flis Hat and Says: "Colonel, You Have Done Nobly"?Ma- ' linta Taken With a Rusli, Despite a Heavy Rebel Fire?Prince I.udTrljr von Lowenstein-TVertlielm Killed In Front of the Firing Line?The Losses on Both Sides?Enemy's Casualties Heavy. Manila, Philippine Islands (By Cable).? A great battle was fought on Saturday, resuiting in a signal and sweeping victory for the American troops. General MacArthur's division, consisting of the brigades of General Harrison Gray Otfs, General Hale, and General Hall, sup- j plemented by General Wheaton's brigade^ i advanced at daylight and cut the enemy's forces in two. They captured the towns of Novnllchos i on the left, and San Francisco del Monte < and Marlqulna on the right, clearing the i rebel trenctes in front of the line north ' from the river to Caloocan. They also secured possession of the rail- i road, practically cornering the flower of ' UTAH'S LIGHT A.RTI: Agulnoldo's army at Malabon and In the foothills at SIngalon, twenty miles apart.~ The troops engaged were the Third Ar- : tlllcry, as Infantry; the Montana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakata, Minnesota und Oregon Volunteers, the Third, Fourth. Seventeenth and Twenty-second Regulars, the *' . ...1 Li tail Aruuory uuu iiicmj-iuuu Begulars. The movement of the American troops on Saturday swept ther insurgents back toward Malabon. The American troops ndvanced on the double quick, yelling fiercely, and occasionally dropping in tho grass and firing by volley, " The natives stood qntil the Americans were within 200 yards of their position, and then broke and ran for the woods. About thirty of them were killed In tho outskirts and seventy on the roads. Tho Montana and Kansas troops met the hottest resistance in a strip from which the rebels have greatly worried the Americans recently during the night. Ninety minutes after the -start?at six j o'clook?the whole front for a distance of three miles to the north had been cleared. General Hale's brigade had simultaneously Swept In a northwesterly direction, routing the enemy and burning the town of San < * J -1 ,r - J ? nit mKati A# a/iof. rrancisco uei juuluo auu a uuuuvi v? tered buts. The line was opposite Norallches, the ar- , tlllery-advanclng along a good road from Loloma to Novaliches, the wagons carry- : Ing pontoons, telegraph supplies, and ammunition, following. The Infantry moved In splendid order. 8moke from the burning hats marked the line of the American adrance. Ambulances ?nd horse litters, led by Chinese, brought in tbe wounded, among whom were a few Filipinos. Tho Americans who were wounded endured their Injuries 'bravely, one BBIOADIEB-QENEEAL LOTD WHEATOIf. 1 group which had been brought into the hospital singing "Comrades." The Pennsylvania troops took nine pris- I oners, among them a great: naked Captain J of the Macabebee tribe and ons Japanese. All the prisoners were greatly terrliled, ex- 1 pecting to be executed immediately. . ' The United States troops, under BrigH- ] dler-General Loyd Wheaton, captured the I town of Mallnta, beyond tbe Tullahan | River on Sunday after a sharp flglit. Colonel Harry C. Egbert, of tbe Twenty- 1 second Regular Infantry, was killed. < Prince Loewenstein, formerly aide de camp I on the staff of Brigadier-General Miller at j Tl " Af fho flrlnf? i llOUO, BUILlCiiuw nuv 1U uuut WV ---?r, , line, and was shot iu the side: dying almost ! I A Locomotive's Boiler Explodes. The boiler of a locomotlv-9 drawing a train of empty coal car3 on the Philadelphia ( and Reading Railroad exploded nine miles north of Reading, Penn. Oscar Leisy, a i brakeman, wa3 killed by flying fragments , of the wrecked boiler, and Lymnn Enierlcb, fireman, and George D. Zimmerman, en- ( gineer, were injured. Two Boys Killed in a Railway Yard. Fred Firth and William Stem, boys, both ] thirteen years of a^o, w?ro killed while | walking on a track in tba Delaware and ' Hudson Railroad yard nt rhiilipsburg, N. 1 J. Their heads and legs were crushed. Cyc'ilnc Notes. The cycling clubs of Rochestor, N. Y., are no longer assoclatod, and the fa ilure of last ' year's big race meet is said to be the cause. 1 tn Pncland and Wale3 last year an aver- ' age number of ovor 100 bicyclists a week ' were fined for offenses agalust the highway 1 laws. Charles W. Miller, ths six-day cyclist, in- ' tends to go to Paris, whore ho will enter the soventy-two hour race which Is to be started In May, According to an English paper "a cyole baptism" took place recently at Ixelles, a ( Buburb of Brussels. The child was carried 1 In a perambulator attached to the father's 1 ilsyclu. 3 y- ; * c i % Instantly. A German who accompanied blm was wounded. A column of smoke at daybreak was the Urst intimation of the enemy's Intentions, but others followed at various points, alt T soon blending in a dense balloon-shaped c :loud. The flames of the burning rice mills j and large buildings could be plainly seen from CtUoocan, despite the strong sunlight. When the Americans were within abont 300 yards of the intrencbments the Filipinos suddenly volleyed heavily. The Twentysecond, which was holding the centre, suffered considerably, but with the Oregons on the left and the Kansans on the right In the woods, the fighting was kept up for half in hour, the Twenty-second Infantry advancing up the slope, through the thick ijrass under the hottest Are. General Wheaton and his staff were all the time under a rain of bullets. Colonel 1 Egbert, who was in the thickest of the lighting, was shot in the abdomen. He was placed {upon a stretcher and au attempt was made to carry htm to the cars, but be died on the way. It was a most affecting scene. General Wheaton, baring his head, said, "You have lone nobly." Colonel Egbert gasped in reply. "I must die. I am too old." ! No Filipinos were found in the trenches, i Though apparently their force was much smaller than that of the Americans, they bad au immense advantage in position and in opportunity to retreat. The evacuation of Ilalabon was a picturesque rout. Thousands of men, women and children, loaded down with household fjoods, some with their dearest treasures? Bgbtlng cocks?under their arms, poured ftoross tho swamps in the early morning. General MacArthur's advance guard, the Third Artillery, and the Twentieth Kansas Eegiment, joined General Wheaton's brigade shortly aftar Malinta was taken, approaching along the Novallches road wflQterlv. The soldiers were much ex hausted, and thoro were several proatra- v tlons from the heat, which was intense. t The Second Oregon Regiment encountered 1090 Filipinos west of Mallnta, t who were retreating from Malabon. The f enemy bad taken up a position behind c four rows of intrenchments, but was driven s out after an hour's heavy firing. One Oregonlan was killed and five were wounded. J Tbe Third Artillery, acting as Infantry, * with two guns of the Utah Artillery and ? the Kansans, had a sharp fight oast of J Mallnta. Tbe Americans had but slight c I033. Five Filipinos were found dead and several were taken prisoners. In tho fighting west of Mallnta, tbe Oregonlans captured a Spaniard, but he denied l: that he was taking part in the battle. The j surgeons from the fleet and the British t Bruiser Powerful volnnteered their assist- g ancc, and were Indefatigable in their ser- J vicea at tbe frost. ( The American lo?ses in thess engage- ( mentsare forty-five killed and 145 wounded. The Filipino losses are estimated to be ] ^ ^ ^ ^ | LLEItY IN ACTION. d ? d about 500 killed and wounded. A thousand Filipinos, composing the rear guard of tbe rebel army, made a stand on Monday in some strong entronchments about Marllao, across the Marilao River. In the engagement six Americans were killed, Including three officers, and forty were wounded. The American forces advanced from Meycauayan, the brigade commanded by General H. G. Otis being on the left of the railroad and General Hale's on the right. The rebels had an unfordable river In front of them, and they poured in a Are so effective that it showed they were veterans, probably members of tbe native militia which th9 Spaniards organized. The American artillery put a dramatio end to the battle. Approaches, under cover of the bushes, to about sixty yards from the trenchns, the artillerymen emerged upon an open space commanding J the town. When the Americans appeared they gave a yell, and the Filipinos were panic-stricken, about a hundred seeking safety in flight, while a white flag was raised by those who were In the trenches, who ulso shouted "Amigos!" ("Friends!") Colonel Funston, with twenty mon of tbe Kansas regiment, swam across the river to the left of the railroad brldgaand captured eighty prisoners, with all tnelr arms. The Pennsylvania regiment captured forty pris- s oners. By this time the right of the Fili- C plnos was demoralized. The Americans re- b [rained from burning the town. e TWO BROTHERS DEFY A M03. ^ Murdered an Attorney and Surrendered v After an AU-XIght Siege. Bowlino Ghees, Ohio (8peclal).?The J murderers ot E. H. Westenhavor, ol North 1 Baltimore, and of Clarence Wlttonmyer, ot I Hoytsvllle, are now In jail here, where they * weie lodged on Sunday at noon, after a 2 siege at the Zeltner homestead lasting all t Saturday afternoon and all night. Paul n and John Zeltner surrendered. q The two men and Mr9. John Zeltner held ? six hundred men at bay till the crowd was augmented by two companies of militia,the Bloomdale Rifles and the Noitli Baltlinoro f Cadets. Often during the night men endeav- * ored to creep under cover of darkness to ' within such distance of the house that a concerted dash could be executed,but the occu- 5 pant3 of that well-barricaded fortress were t ever vigilant, and <tvery time a shot from f the rifle of one ol the brothers or the women i sent the approaching men scurrying back v into the darkness of the woods which adjoin n the Zeltner place. Again and again efforts J wA?t? annr\ti man hv vhlo.h A ll woro IllttUO LW liuia swuiv *?*ww ...... _ few men could get inside the house, but every effort of tho kind failed signally. j When the men turned over their arms ^ and ammunition to ex-Sheriff Biggs and j Sheriff Kingsbury, they had four rifle3, r two revolvers of thirty-eight calibre, and {, seventy-ftve' rounds of ammunition for ^ both kinds of weapons. This would indl- t cato that they had prepared for a siege. n The Zeltners are men of much more than average intelligence, and were fairly wellto-do farmers. 1 E. H. Westenhaver, ex-Solicitor, of North ? Baltimore, had been counsel for the Zelt- J tiers in numerous cases, and sued tbom for Ills fees. The jury and witnesses had J1 been sworn on Saturday before Justice '' Burgoon in the township bouse at Hoyt'a * Corners, when raul Zeltner demanded some papers from Westenhaver, and attempted to take them from his pooket. John Zeltner thou joined in demanding the fc papers, and immediately fired the shot ( that killed Westenhavor. As the Zeltners 8 had their horses roadv for mounting and jscapo, it Is thought they had arranged to . ?et Westenhaver iuto a flgbt for the pur- ? pose of "doing him." They did not give their victim time to make any demonstra- ^ tlon toward tnem. , o A Schooner Given Up as Lo?t. ^ The schooner A. M. Burnham, of Glou- p cester, Mass., wltii a crew of twelve men, h mostly Scandinavians, is givon up for lost. 3ho left Gloucester on January 21. and I was last spoken during the storm ofFebru- c tiry 13, whoa she was making hard work r 5l it. 1! ,, Ontario Settler* in LHitrei*. G The settlers in the Townships of Kenne- tl l>ec and Alden, in Addington, Ontario, are In such destitute straits, owing to a bad . jeason last year, that the matter has been ? laid before the Ontario Government in the * hope that aid will bo speedily offered. l'oth tlio BWlvrclU Dead. (George Biiwoll, the elder of the^two j, broth rs whose swindle of the Bank of Eng- o land made such a sensation, died a few days v igo in a lodging house In San Francisco, Cul. He was taken with pneumoniaa week e after the rccent death of his brother, and v Ills coustltutioa proved unequal to the I ordeal. The Bidwells wont West several o HiontLis ago to engage m mining. r Cuban Assembly Will Not Dissolve. n The Cuban Military Assembly, lu sesslou fi (it Havana, has decided against a dlssolu- b tion at present, and bas sent two representatives to stato its case to President He- n tinUy. b n - - Wl ' .-J- :? "x < r THE NEWS EPlTOMi^&P. Washington I tami. The State Department baa granted proiaioual recognition to several foreign Coauls in Cuba, Porto Blco, and the PuilipJine9. Attorney-Generarftrlgirs has decided that he application o( tbe Commercial Cable Jompany to land cable? la Cuba and Porto ilco could not be granted. In answer to a letter fron the Paymaster leneral of the Army, requesting a deision as to the class of enlisted men of the ' - gular army entitled to the benefits of exra pay on discharge from the army, Comproller Tracewell of the Treasury bas deman n?hn onllafmt ,%trr flirt IUOU lUilk IUD UiCU vumwvm ?V. - ? ear only," and are entitled to extra pav, ire those who went in after the Act of iprll 26,1893, which authorized the increase of the regular array. Arrangements have been completed by he PostoiflceDepartment for the dispatch if mall by steamer from New York to Saniago every Thursday, instead of alternate Thursdays, as at present. Mall for Santluro is also forwarded by rail to Miami or !"ampa, to connect at Havana every Thurelay with the matter dispatched from the utter point The President has authorized MajorJeneral Brooke, the Military Governor of 3uba, to Issue exequaturs to Consuls of orelgn Governments in Cuba for the period if the exercise of American authority in he island. Brigadier-General JloyaL T. Frank, Julted States Volunteers, ha9 been placed n temporary command of the Department if the Gulf, headquarters at Atlanta, Ga., is the relief of Brigadier-General A. C. $f. 'ennlngton, United States Volunteers. The Dolphin has sailed from Washington or Norfolk and thence to sea to destroy a creek on the Carolina coast, which has teen a danger to navigation. While In Cuba Secretary Alger will act tpon the proposition to divide Cuba into oar military departments. Tills has been inder consideration in the department for ome time. The Ordnance Bureau of tho War Dopartnent has sent a circular to the Governor of iach State in the Union stating that the irma and ordnance stores furnished tiie 'olunteers during the Spanish war will be eturned to the State in kind. Domestic. Frederick T. Clark shot his wife at the lome of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Richard Ioyne at McKeesport, Penn? and then ;liled himself. The shooting was the remit of jealousy. The couple had not been iving together for some time, and Mrs. 3lark bad applied for a divorce because of Clark's alleged neglcct and drunkenness. Henry Sanderson, a young farmer of ackson County, Kun., in a lit of jealousy, hot and killed Mrs. John Fleisher la an atempt to kill Mada Flolsher, the young laughter who hudjiltod Sanderson. J. F. Bully, an employe of the Tostofllco it Toledo, Ohio, was caught in the act of teallng money from the mall3 and placed inder arrest. Bully is a well-kuown nuslclan, and choir leader. Money lias >een disappearing from the Toledo office or years, and the aggregate sum wa3 large, le was trapped by means of marked loins. Lightning struck M. E. Howertoa's barn it Oakville, Ky., killtug Robert Panrod and laugerously injuring Mr. Howerton. The iarn and all its contents wero destroyed. Henry Bothburt. a prisoner la the Tombs, few York City, nwaiting trial for petty Jarony, committed suicide by jumping from be balcony of the fourth tier of cells to be courtyar*! below. Kothburt was sixtyIve years old. Governor Pingreo, of Michigan, has igned the bill authorizing the City of Derolt to purchase and operate the street ailways of tint city. Frank Pearson, a bookkeeper in the First National Bank at Chicago, and holder of be mile amateur championship bicycle ecord for Illinois, accidentally shot and nstantly killed himself at lilver Forest, a uburb west of Chicago. He was alone rhen he shot himself. The Court of Appeals at Frankfort, Ky., ins rendered a decision declaring the slot oachine to be a gambling contrivance. ?he machines were owned by the Cullie Jompany, of Detroit, and were seizsd by he police. The Callie Company instituted ' _ _ t ? J ?I I uit against cue ponce nuu <uu.au iui a tum gainst city officers. At Durham, N. C., a flvo-inch pipe In a lump-house at the Durham Cotton Mannacturing Company's mill burst with fatal esults. W. H. Branson, Secretary and .'reasurer of the mill, was so terribly calded that he died from his injuries, J. 5. Mathes, the Superlntendeut. was also turned about the face, and will loso his yeslght. Patrick Hass was beaten over the head rlth an Iron bar by Mrs. Thomas Carey at Worcester, Mass., and killed. Mre. Carey rus insane. Frank P.. Swanstrom, twenty-eight, comQitted suicide at Worcester, Mass., by wallowing prussic acid. A quarrel with lis sweetheart. Annie Lind, was the cause, le wanted to make up, but the girl reused and sent him away. Just after leaving hor dock at Charleston, !. 0., the Clyde steamship Carlb ran down he sloop Florlne and cut it Into shreds. Miree meu of the sloop were drowned. ?hcy were William Edwards, William larray and rrcieau aianigauic, an coioreu. Eugene Stewart, eighteen years old, a on of a Baptist minister, shot and killed Miomus Blvely, near Kingspolnt, Tonn., a ew days ago. John Jackson, of Lonaconlng, Md., and Irs. Charles Bowman were found dead in he Bowman house, at Douglas, W. Ya., a ew days ugo. Their heads were crashed n by blows from a bed slat wielded by the woman's hNisband. Bowmnn was arcested ,t Cumberland, Md. He says he found ackson in his house and jealousy caused lim to commit the deed. The State Court of Criminal Appeals at )alias, Texas, affirmed the sentence of eath imposod upon Jim Darlington, alias im Qarlington, on the charge of partlcllatlnqr in the robbery of a Gulf, Colorado nd Santa Fe passenger train near Fort forth on July 21 last and In the murder of he fireman, Watson Whltaker. The englieer, Joseph Williams, was also killed. Mrs. Molter, near Lagrange, Md., caused he death of two of her children a few days go by administering morphine. 8he atompted to commit suicide, but failed. It 3 said she feared her husband was becomQg insane, and for that reason thought ft est tbat the rest of the family should die. .'he family relations were pleasant. Foreign. The German battleship Oldenburg broke ler anchor and went aground noar Kiel, ?ermany, a few days ago, during a heavy nowstorm. The Vorsvaoris, at Berlin, says that the .dmiralty has issued an order saying that he Emperor is opposed to naval officers or ion wearing mustaches only, and in conequence they must either be clean shaven r grow lull boards. The death is announced at Mentone, 'rauce, of Countess Dzlalynskl, formerly I 'rincess Czartoriska. wao once ruiusou iuo and of Napoleon lit. Llewellyn W. LongstafT, a member of the toyal Geographical Society. London, has < ontributed 8125,000 toward the fund being ! uised by the British Association and tho loyal Society for the British Antarctic Ex- ( edition, which will co-operate with the lertnan Antarctic Expedition in explornlon next yenr, though each will take a dif- 1 jront route. \ The sealing steamer Aurora, Captain ] brilliant Keene, arrived at St. John'.*, N. from t!io icefields with 24,000 sials, a . jll load. Tlie sealers Leopard and Aigor- 1 10 followed hor with full loads. The Spanish Frenier has inf. rned the ! jueen llugont that her ratification of tho eaco treaty has improved the commercial ' ntlook for Snain. and that there is noihiug | ' rhatever to fear from the Curllsts. 1 The application of Mme. Dreyfus for the xclusion of certain Judges from the re- j islon Inquiry lias beeu rejected by the rench Court of Cassation. A formal line f $20 was imposed upon the applicant. ] A German-American named 0. W. H. . leif, has been sentenced at Dresden, Gor- , lany, to forty-two months' Imprisonment jr obtaining jewelry from a court jeweler y false pretenses. The whole Korean Cobinet has loen dis- ( ilssed and two of the ministers have been , anished because of wholesale changes lade by the Cabinet in provincial offices. i - ^ ,n , t A TEMPERAUCE COLUMN, THE DRINK EVIL MAOc MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Temperance Araiy-Drnnltennni la France?Fear Tbatthe Whole Working Claat Will Become Habltnal Drank' ard?? A Vigorous Teetotal CampalgnThe Philippine Isles are takea Bv Dewey, wise and brave, And we are ta.the army Oar land from drink to save. While Sampson's on the lookout. With ready fleet and strong, We, too, are In the army To battle 'gainst the *rong. The Peril of France. ' r J Some time ago a Frenchmau compiled ] new statistics concerning the consumption of alcohol In the different countries of Europe. The statistician found himself com- / pellod to assign the somewhat doubtful honor of first place on the list to his own countrymen, and, what is still worse, the "Grande Nation" was not closely followed by the drinkers of whisky or schnaps, but, V to use a racing term, simply won in a can* ter. When these statistics became generally known the first impression in France v; was one of unbounded astonishment. Frenchmen bad always been accustomed to ''3 look on dsonkenness as a horrible vice essentially peculiar to their neighbors across the Channel and across the Bhine. The feeling of astonishment soon gave way to < one of mingled paulo and anger?panic on account of the future of the nation, and . *j nnffAF flfffllnof tliA "mAtivola nnHrtfA" whn baa dare to tell bis fellow-countrymen an unpleasant trntb. However, now the ?>'jj truth has bteen recognized everything Is to 3 be dene tbat can be done in order tLat tha situation may be ameliorated. We have already touched on one curloua ; feature of the French teetotal campaign; \ the barracks have been placarded with pictures showing tbe results o( drfnlc, and < a number of medical men have started a > special crusade agalhst the evil. It ap? pears that drunkenness in France has not Sjjj been communicated to the people from ' '. nbove, that is to say, whereas in the laboring classes the examples are unfortunately m frequent, tbe cases of alcoholism in the -* upper and middle classes have up to the ' present been relatively rare. The statlstics before us show that the favorite bever- -j age of the French worklngman is the horrl* ble concoction known as absinthe, and Its effects upon him nro really disastrous. The harm done in England by tbe over-consumption of whisky and by schnaps In Germany Is small compared to that'done by absinthe in France. Dr. Laborde, of the Academy of Medicine, has r.ffirmed ln^^M a brochuro upon the subjeot his conviction 1 that, unless something is quickly done to 1 remedy the present state of affairs, within- J a relatively small number of years the 'vy \7holo of the working classes will have be come habitual drunkards. Special legisla- , tion on the subject has already been proposed, but as the "marchands de vins" are Jy exceptionally influential electors, it is to be feared that -ine deputies will be slow to *: r support any measures likely to dadreas# the consumption of alcobol in France. English Author* and Abstinence. Waller, one of the liveliest and wittiest poets of the Restoration period, was an Inflexible abstainer from all intoxicating , . liquors. Lord Byron confessed: "The effect of wine upon me is to make me gloomy? ^ gloomy at the very (boment it is taken; bat it never makes me gay." De Qaincey wrote In eulogistic terms of the modern temperance movement: "It has attained, both at home aud abroad, a no tional range of grandeur." * Doctor Samuel Johnson abstained for 9 considerable periods from intoxicating drinks, with great advantago to his mind s I and feelings, aDd always absolutely con- ' 1 tended for the wisdom of this course. ] juora JLytton wrote (in 1345): "i agree m the main in the principles of the temperance society, and heartily wish it success, us having already done much good, and being calculated to do much more." Shakespeare, In several of his dramas, depicts the misery of Indulgence in strong drink, and pats into Casslo's mouth the celobrated words: "Ob, tliou invisible spirit of wine! It thou bast no nnme to be known by, let us call thee?Devil!" Sir Isaac Newton, John Locke and Bobert Boyle were examples of remarkable abstemiousness, amounting almost to'total abstln- i ence from all Intoxicating drinks. When composing his treatise upon Optics, Sir Isaac used only water as a beverage; and Locke, in his writings, strongly recommended abstinence, especially in the physical training of the young. William Cobbett wrote: "In the midst of a society where wine aud spirits are considered of :more value than water, I have lived two years with no other drink than water, except whon I have found It convenient to obtain milk. Not an hour's Illness. not a headache for an hour, not the smallest ailment, not a restless night, not a drowsy morning bare I known daring these two famous years of my life." EvilESect of the Cocktail. If one goes to a dinner party of three or a banquet of three hundred;.the first duty is held to be to potir a highly alcoholie "'cocktail" into an empty stomach?an insult to the digestive organs as brutal as could be offered them, and for three hours these poor structures are staffed with an excess of nitrogenous food and flooded with many kinds of acobollo mixtures until in the early morning hours they are at last allowed some chance to repair their injuries. But what an Idea of nutrition and of life it all pre?upposes! If a visitor from some other planet should stumble on our fashionable drtckiag Habits he would surely be long in fathoming the mystery of wby otherwise sensible and honest men make themselves such slaves to the drink fiend. And what the result of it is we all see and know. The reliance upon alcohol once established in youth, the tyranny be comes ail tne more rurious in later years. A Champion's Testimony. A champion cyclist was asked: "Do you ever take spirits of any kind? I mpan whiskey or brandy." "Nor they cut tbe breath short. You can't pee and take brandy. It may help s little but It leaves you worse. I believe that if Ave or six men were together in a race, say two miles from the tape, and one was handed a drink of brandy, it might let him break away and win easily; but If he had ten miles, or a lon>j race before him, he wouldflnd great difficulty in riding. His breeth would be cut short. The man who drinks brandy or whiskey will soon b? broken-winded." "So you don't believe in brandy?" "No; it may help for a short f-purt, bnt It is no good for a long run. Only a tem? iterance man can be a cood racer."?Pacific Ensign. The Crusade In ParucT&ph*. There are 3516 saloons in Missouri. Tbe saloon was born of evil, but it exists > because good men tolerate it. Sixty thousand tODS of corks are used fox tbe bottled beer consumed In England. k.. In January, 1887, there were in St. Louis 1007 saloons. This year finds that number reduced by statutory regulation to 2029, a ; decrease of 2038. Tbe Mi330url law prohibits the adulteration of liquors. Belgium spends $212,600 a day on strong drinks. Confirmed drunkards are shamed Into reformation in many of the towns of the , Argentine Republic byl>eiii? compelled to jweep the streets for eight days each time they may be arrested for intoxication. The saloon club may appear harmless, but it is a deadly weapon. Kecent statistics of alcoholism published by the British Goyernment show that there has been an alarming increase in the number of deaths from delirium tremens and other alcoholic diseases during the past twenty years. The percentage of victims to population in 1896 as compared with 1870 is greater by fifty per cent. In men, and by 110 per ccnt. in women. In Waldeck, a little German principality, a decree has been proclaimed that a license , to marry will not be grauted to any Individual who has been iu the liablt of getting" druuk. Tbe 300 new saloons In Manila are doing a bad work. Visits of our soldiers to them ought to be restricted. If they bad their canteens there would be no temptation to drink anything stronger than beer, or lo visit bar rooms and get int.o trouble. i