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F w. - ? VOL. X1L. MAKING ^PROGRESS Good Work Being Done By Philippine Colonies BfcPORT MADE BY COL, EDWARDS He Says These Islands Will M-ke a Most Interesting; Showing at the St. Louis Exposition. Washington, Special.?The developni?ut of the Philippine Islands during the past year, together with a review of pending questions of importance in relation to the archipelago, is contained in tbo annual report of Colonel Clarence R. Kdwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs of the War Department, made public Sunday. The accomplishment of greatest importance to the islands during the year has been the successful launching of the new lis. al system. Fly January 1. next, the new system will be in complete operation. Tho new circulating medium consists of IR.000.000 pesos and fracticnal silver coins and 10.000.000 pesos in paper money. To establish the new system am! purchase the silver for coinage issues of bonds were made of 313.000.000 each. l?otli (if which were sold at a premium. The proceeds of the sale of these bonds were deposited and drew interest at the rate of "tVf; per cent, ho that the government actually male money by going into debt. Colonel I'M wards emphasizes the necessity of a reduction of the Dingley tariff ratoa for the encouragement of trade between the T'nited States and the Philippines. There is an active desire on the part of Philippine commercial interests, he says, for tariff concessions. and the report states that the same desire also ha~s been evinced by the same interests in this country. The chief exports of the islands to the Dnitcd States are sugar, tobacco, hemp and coffee. The latter two commodities already are on the free list. The education of Filipino youths in the country for the purpose of making them the future teachers of the native * schools of the islands has begun under an act passed last summer by the insular government. Ninety-e'ght young Filipinos are now on their way to this country for that purpose. They will attend the grammar schools of southern California during the winter and in the spring he distributed through the Middle-west and Eastern portion of the Cutted States for further instruction. Colonel Edwards optimistically predicts that the Philippine exhibit at the St. I^ouis Exposition will he the ft nture of that show. There are to he something like 1.200 Filipino participants, and every phase of native indus???. nn.l .Ir.owwtl.. lifr. ' II,r. i<zlni>1a 1 to bf represented. Colombia Very B'tter. Washington. Special.?The prers of Colombia continues to severely criticize and denounce tho American govcininont for its action in isthmian matters and the recognition of tho Republic. of Panama. This is shown in a dispatch received at the State Department, late last night, from Minislev Beau pre, at Bogota. President Roosevelt, the United States Congress nud the American people are the targets of violent denunciation. The minister's dispatch makes no reference as to the time when ho intends to leave Bogota on the leave of absence granted him by the State Department. No uneasiness is felt by the Department for (he minister's personal safety. v'u'tinjr Mill Wages. Boston, Special A majority of the c-.tton mills of New "England will he opovat; ,i under a wage schedule appioKimai lv in per < ?-nt. lcrs than has h in in (tret for two years. In the city ?V Pall River alnr.c, "0,00ft operative.! w:l! be aff tr<l and in the Slate of Rhode Island not less than 20.000. At other points in Massachusetts. Con n ecu cm aun ?> o w uanirsnirc. iao agrogato of employes whose wages will he reduced will he several thousand. At other cotton mill centers a reduction will take eff*ct a week later. Wnn's A-ny Post. Wash ngton. Special?Goveraot Il?yward of Soutii ( irolina. accompanied hy Mapv Mcah Jenkins, collector of internal u v nne. George 1 biggins and Uopresrntntivc Lever ealh <1 on the President to urge him to use his influfloure to . .. cure the cs;abli:Ii;u< nt of aa sitny : t G' ltttrt>ia, C. Later.in the da* the dt legation had ntt inter\ it w \\ I . ?tary Hoot .1 the t ante oucstion. No (it i.-lrti lisp yet h'en rea-'hed v.- ::: ling the eiatt' r. Disastrous Storm-. Berlin. By Cable. Communication by telegraph, particularly west of Hanover. has been interrupted by a genoral storm. All of western Europe is at present on'y indirectly connected with Berlin. \t Frankfort-on-the-.Vnin all street car trafTic has been stopped and tices have been uprooted. A now fourslory buil ling with the surrounding scaffolding. bar iron d< 'iiolished ;?t Chemnitz. A ti g anrjk at Emien. one man being drowned. Several lighters were stink on the river Ems and it is believed that, numerous lives liavo been lost. Seven passengers were seriously injured by the derailing of a train at Zehaueen. QRT FO APPALLING ACCIDENT Terrible Loss of Life In Railway Accident in l-linol*. Peoria, 111.. Special.?Thirty-one men were killed, and at least ir> injured, in a head-end collision between a freight train and a work train on the Big Four Railroad between Mackinaw and Tie mont Thursday afternoon. Hodies of 26 of the victims have been taken froir the wreck, which Is piled 20 feet high on the tracks. Five bodies yet remain buried under the huge pile of broken : timber, twisted and distorted iron and ; steel. On a bank at the side of she track lit the bodies of the victims, rut, bruised and mangled in a horrible manner. So far only 12 have been identified, the remaining bodies being unrecognizable, even by those who knew them, and are aware of the fact that they are among i the dead. All the dead and most of the injured were members of the work train, the crews on both engines jumping in time to save their lives. The collision occur| red in a deep cut at the beginnig of a sharp curve, neither train being visible i to the crew of the otlur until they were within T.O feet of each other. The engineers set the brakes, sounded the whistles and thrn leaped from their cabs, the two trains striking with such ' force that the sound was heard for several miles. A second after the collision the boiler of the work train engine exploded. throwing heavy iron bats and splinters of wood 200 feet. Ft deration of Labor. Boston. Special.?The American Fedoration of Labor disposed summarily of thf "open shop" issue as raised in the ease of William A. Miller, now employed in the Government Printing Office at Washington, and the Miller caso itself, by unanimously declaring in fav, or of the union shop in government, as I well as private, enterprises, and by petitioning President Roosevelt to reexamine the evidence offered against ! Miller, and if verified, remove Miller , from the service. Although the rcse' lution adopted presented the Federa tion's views on both "open shop" and I the Miller case, the issues are kept en| tirely distinct. The re-examination of I the Miller case is not requested hecase Miller is a non-unionist, a cir- i cuinstance formely urged as a reason for his removal, but because the Fedi oration believes Miller "is totally unfit j to bo in charge of working people." The Miller resolutions declare that j "Miller has been proved in affidavit s | and court recodra to he a bigamist, per Jurer, defaulter and one totally unfit to be in cha.ge of working people." That I he has violated civil service rules and j the revised statues, all of which de' mand dismissal, and that his retention In government employ is a menace "to production of creditable work because of dissatisfaction with his methods as ; foreman." Three Killed lly Explosion. Kalkaska. Mich., Special.?By an ex- ' plosion of dynamite in a burning store j at Sharon, near here, three men were ! killed and fourth so severely injured , that he may die. The fire oroginated in a general store, it is supposed, from an overheated stove. The blaze spread i quickly and in the excitement of the moment, every one forgot a quantity of j j dynamo* stored in the building. Reclprocl'y Bill. Washington. Special. ? Represents* 1 tive Williams, of Mississippi, introduced a bill reducing by 20 per cent, tho duties on all artloliB being the growth or product of such "untrles as do now, or may hereafter, admit naJ tural products of the United States to Ikoi, o -1,~. t I varnu uiuinri. I I i;c 111 HUL'OI l UUlll'S. NiC2 Home J urncd Humbert on. Special. ?'The elegant Ire <?1 (Unco of Mr. .1. N. McAllister was destroyed by tiro Fatu~dny nlghi. The | origin of th fir? wr.s a defective kitchen !'" . When discovered, about j fi o'clock, the ru ' <. f the kitchen was in a blaze, which . apidly spread to the main po iIon >t' tii? house. In spite of the faithful v rk of the fire company. Only c. smu'l portion of the furniture was saved. Th insurance was $2,jrt0. Trials Postponed. Washington, Special.?The trial of the posted case ; of August \V. Marlon, former general superintendent of the general delivery system; Samuel and Dillon Groff. of this city, and Dr. and Mrs. George R. I.oi'enz, of Toledo, ()., nrrangod to begin in tlio District Criminal Court here, n i\t Mrndfcy, has been postponed until January 11. Attorney Chase. A. Douglas, counsel for Machen objected to the delay but the court granted the request of District Attorney /Beach, on the ground that the latter was not ready to proceed with the case. RT MILL, S. C., VVEDN SERIOUS CHARGES ?? Preferred Against Gen. Leonard Wood By Subordinate. - MAJOR RATIIBOSU HAS HEARING. He Soys (icncral Wood, While Gov oriior 01 v.uoa, Accepted Money From (iamb'.ers. Washington, Special.?Major Ratli- j bone, formerly director of posts in Cuba, was given a hearing Friday by the Senate committee on military affairs, which is investigating the charges against General l^onard Wood. Major Rath bone Hied specific written charges with the committee. He alleged that Gen Wood, while military governor of Cuba, had accepted money from the Jai Alai, which was. he said, a gambling concern, and asserted that he had made n personal friend and boon companion of an ex-convict. Ho also charged him with giving instructions of an entirely unconstitutional and un-American character to the courts. He also charged General Wood with authorizing the use of ex-parte depositions in the postal cases, a proceeding which he asserted is contrary to law nnd the nrincinlo of lnu.* nnd in thin C!ise contrary to instructions Riven by the S^retary of War. Major Rathbone charged that in accepting gifts from the orRanization commonly known as Jal Alai. to which Major Rathbone said General Wood had Rranted a ten years' exclusive concession. General Wood violated the Foraker law. which prohibited the grantiiiR of franchises or concessions. Other charges were made against General Wood, as follows: With complicity with another army officer in the preparation and publication of an article reflecting discreditably upon an officer who ranked both of them, in violation of an accepted canon of military service, and constituting an offense commonly known as "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." Will directing and causing the audi- ] tor of Cuba by a military order to violate the law in the treatment of ac- j counts. With utilizing the services of an exconvict in an effort to displace his superior officer, and by such means to secure to himself the vacancy thus created. Major Rathbone offered to produce evidence and testimony in support of these allegations. rienace to United States. Washington, Special.?It is learned hero that the situation at Bogota has asaume.l a critical phase, as far as relations between the United States and Colombia are concerned. Minister Beaupre, on the 10th instant, was 1 pressed very strongly by the Colombian government to know whether the United States intended to recognize i the new Pepublie of Panama, it is iind? rstood that the request was in such ; Bl.ape as to constitute a menace in the I event, that the recognition had been extended. liank Closed. Washington. Special.?The Farmers' National Bank, of Henrietta. Tex., has been c.losed by direction of the Conip- i troller of the Currency. Miller Weir, national bank examiner, has liaen appointed temporary receiver. The bank's ! capital is $50,000. deposits $103,191. : loans and discounts $172,145. surnlus I S'JtJ.<522. cash on hand $34,141. Two Men Killed. Roanoke. Va.. Special -Two men ! wtTH killed and another seriously, not fatally injured, in a head-on crdlision between two Norfolk A. Western freight trains near Matewan, \V. Va.. Thursday night. The dead are: Engineer Lewis Tarrar, married, of BlueHeld; Brakcman William Pcnn, or Blucfleld. Tarrar's body was partially cremated before It was recovered. Quarantine Against San Antonio. San Antonio. Texas, Special.?The official proclamation of Governor l^anhnm, raising the quarantine against San Antonio, which has been on since October 23. went into effect Thursday, and the towns and counties all over ?? ? Stain of Texas have been lifting their local <~iarantlnes. Truiu service will be resumed on all railroads tomorrow. The proclamation of Governor Lanham states that there is now no yellow fever in San Antonio., no ease having been reported for 10 days, and that the sanitary condition is perfect. LL J ESDAY, NOVEMBER : CONGRESSIONAL MATTLRS. The Cuban Hill in the Mouse?(loei to the Senate. Cuban Bill Passed In the House. The House Thursday, by a rising vote of 335 to 21. passed the bill to make effective the Cuban reciprocity treaty. The dissenting votes were about equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, but there was no record vote, the minority having too few votes to order the yeas and nays. The Democrats, under the leadership of Mr. Williams, sought to the last to secure amendments to the bill iii avcurauurc wun me action ot tne Democratic caucus, but were defeated steadily. .Mr. Williams made the final effort when he tried to have the bill recommitted to the ways and means committee with instructions to amend, but a point of order under the special rule, provinding for u vote on the bill without any intervening motion, was sustained. Mr. Cannon received the applause of the Democratic side when he entertained the appeal from his ruling, made hi Mr. Williams, the Speaker saying he. preferred to err. if he erred at ail. in giving the House the right to express its will. The appeal was tabled b> a strict party vote. In ?h Senate. The Senate held its longest sitting of the session Friday, beginning at noon and concluding at 3:15 p. in. The entire time was consumed in debating a motion to defer the Cuban roci procity bill to tlu? committee on foreigu relations. Tlx' political line was sharply drawn in the discussion, the Republicans advocating such reference, and the Democrats contending that the measure should go to the comniittte on finance. The motion prevailed with out division. The debate served to bring out some incidental references to the merits of the bill and while it was in progr ss Mr. Teller took occasion to correct published reports that he has hope of defeating the hill or that he intends to unduly obstruct its consideration. Messrs. Allison and Aldrieh annouiici d their willingness to have the bill go to the foreign relations committee. But they united in an expression of opinion that such reference should form no precedent for the reference of revenue hills in the future. Mr. Allison denied that there was a pur- | pose of revising the tarff by reciprocity treaties. Messrs. lJacon. of Georgia; Bailcv. of Texas, and Money, of Mississippi. 1 on the Democratic side, advocated tiie ! reference of the hill to the committee | on finance. Mr. Bailey said that there was quite j a probability of all tariff legislation being accomplished by reciprocity trea ] ties and it became important that the finance committee should control the I pending bill. Mr. Bacon said this was not an isolated case and for thnl reason was important. it was a question, lie said, that would largely relate to the -uture action of Congress. Mr. Baron ' aid that as a member of the committee on foreign relations lie had been the author of the provision requiring the "approval of Congress" on the treaty, hut he said he had not believed tire language to he correc tly used. On the contrary, lie consi lorcd it quite absurd to suppose that Congress could approve a treaty. (ii-rman Steamers Not Stopped. Washington, Special.?The Navy Dopn'tinent lias received a report from Admiral Coghlan. at Colon, replying to an inquiry whether there was any truth in the report that the German steamers Markomunn and Scotia had been stopped at Colon bv American nun of war. Admiral Colghlnn states that the Markoinnnia stopped off C 1cii on the route to Cartgcnn. The iv-otia arrived about sunset thr(r days over due; was informed that no tinned force would be permitted to land, but the vessel was not lnt.orfe.rred with and only darkness prevented her getting alongside, the dock at once. Hurrying dun Boat to Colon. Washington, Special Orders have been issued at the Navy Department for the preparation for sea service at once of the gun-boat Bancroft at F'ensacola and the gun-boat Castine at the Drogue Island navv yard. The. first of these boats in readine.-,.-; will be dispatched to Colon and the other to duty it: Hit' waters of liayti ami San Domingo. Ft war, reported to the Navy Department from the Norfolk navy yard that the cruiser Olynipi.i will he ready for sea about December It is intended that she shall proceed at once to Colon as Admiral Coghlan's flagship. Baseball Leaguj. Savannah, (la., Special.?A eonfere.n-c of the I'romoters of the South Atlantic Baseball League held her? Wednesday made arrangements for the meeting to be held here, November 2-1. when organization, it Is stated, will ho perfected. T?d Sullivan will leave to visit the several cities that are to come into the league, and is empowered to act for the promoters. ' # riME 1903. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Mitten of General Interest 1c Short Paragraphs. Down In Dixie. Roanoke is in the midst of a contest over a rearrangement of its city wards. Milk sickness caused a number of death in Tennessee. John Wires, a Hillsboro (Va.) boy. was ratatiy stabbed by his schoolmate, j Humphrey Potts. Norfolk Methodists are stirred up ' over the Virginia Conference resolution regarding transfers. The Mayor of Newport has suspended Chief Stow, of the Fire Department. Six men were killed near New Hope, t Ky.. in a collision between freight rains on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. President Alexander, of the Rragot and Northern Railway, declares $260, 00 of Its securities were stolen from him at Dallas, Texas. At Th- National Capital. Little Is scheduled for the Senate to do until It receives the Cuban hill. President Rosevelt is trying to harmonize his party leaders in the matter of his Panama policy. The Cuban reciprocity bill was refored to the committee on Ways and Means of the House. Senator Hoar, (Hop., Mass..) introduced a bill "providing homes and employment for the homeless poor." The House minority will support the < hill making the Cuban reciprocity ; treaty effective, but urges amendments. General Cror.ler, Chief of Army Ordnance, calls attention to the lack of seacoist defenses on the insular possessions. Politicians in Washington are considering the availability of Senator Gorman as a Presdential candidate in view of the result in Maryland, where the negro issue was the leading one. In order to avoid friction the Pnitcd states has offered warships for a meeting between the Colombian peace commissioner and the Panamaians. I\x-Representative James A. Norton, of Ohio, says Democrats of that State favor Senator (iorman for 'he Presidential nomination. Senator MrComas, (Rep.. Mil.,) introdneed a great number of bills, ono of which provides an appiopriatlon of .100.000 for Improving the Patapsco river. At The North. The Baptist Congress in Philadelphia ended its sessions. The City Hall demonstration at Chi- 1 eago strikers met with no results. Methodists at Omaha appropriated j over 1700.000 for foreign missions. The search for Rev. Joseph Cirrigeone was continued in Now York. Wages of 2.7.000 cotton-mill operatives in Rhode Island are to be reduced. Senator Reed Smoot. of Utah, denies that as an apostle of the Mormon Church he took nn oath of any sort. ( Contracts for building five lightships were awarded the New York Shipbuilding Company, of Camden. N. J., at n cost of $82,000. It was reported in Pittsburg that tim Rockfeller-Clould syndicate bad seen reileontrol of the Steel Corporation and was after the Baltimore and Ohio and other- wmilc ' - . , ii vii 'H i in i iimrai transportation facilities to thr roast. Tin- Woman's Christian Temperance. I'n oa convention asks thr right to censor '!" shows on "the Pike" at thr St. I. iiv. World's Fair. It ;s feared Rev. Joseph Ciri In gone, i- '.or of thr ('nth lie i-hurrh of thr , i i.' i slate ('..ncrption, at Williams-I h:il. > *. V.. lias nirt with foul play at hands of the Mali a. ' i explosion of Tiifrotilycr! irm in Pltihidelnlrn wn krd a !. ;u.m .a! led t> tin- capture of a pans sapi.osi.1 t.ij ho safe hlowers and 510. totli.e thicvt -. .dr\ F. DrWitt Walsh., a prominent , society worms. of Montclalr. X. is dead from a ballet wound inlliele I by herself under mysterious circuuistiincs. 1 I no Fn'-ii 1 Ftati Circuit Conn o, Appeals at St. Paul. Minn., decided that Mi" Tohaoe > Trust might charge what it phased for its products. Fe rn i\rro?? The Sea. V. ( ouibes poke in lite French tfvna;* 11 the Teaching hill. \ dirigible balloon of I/d>aii>l\ h.' thejs marl 1?". niiloc in It", minutes in I'i a n co. The daughter of Henry Lnbouc.horp was married to tbn Marquis <>i Kitd'.nl " Homo. At th Hist prone consistory ( r ronr Pius X Mgrs. Merry del Vni. c.*ih garl, Ajirti. Tallinn! and Ka!s; htha'e were ma i? cardinals. Russia and Austria tlireruvn da rgrr to Turkey unlcs the Macedonian reforms are carried out at once. Mhrdl.-n-eiis natters. The world's sugar production for lOOfl-tH is estimate I at l0,1i!5,S0t) tons. AVilllam Zieglcr. the New York millionaire, was indicted by a Missouri -ram', jury for alleged coneetion with bribery. President Hoosevclt wan crkincd at the convention in EJcston of the American Federation of Labor for his stand oa the "open-shop" cunrtioo. ;s. NO. 36. 4 NOVEL PROCESS. Young German Restaurant Keeper Selected. EAR GRAFTED ON MILLIONAIRE Itirce Hundred AppIlcnnt*%N Itn Were? Wilting to Sell nil l:ar for $5,000. riiilail- Ijihla. Special.?Dr. Awliwr Nelden. of New York performed tfcw operation of grafting nn oar upon thw head of a Western mi.iionaire, wkaw name. the surgeon says, he iu an Jetbend not to divulge. The operation vm* to have been performed in New York, but District Attorney Jerome is f;M# to have Interfered. Mr. N'ehlen is sal# to have advertised for a tnau willing l? sell an ear for J.n.OOO; and of 300 tr?pllcants he selected a young Oerma*. who conducts a restaurant in New York. Dr. Nelden said: "The operation has been performed, and promises to be successful. I am under legal contract and heavy bowM not to reveal the name of my patient. "Goueiuily speaking .he is a wealthy man from the West. How he lest one ear. I don't know. It appears to have been cut off with a sharp ti?Btruir ? > dieve he says it was accidei. ever asked him .0 explain "The operation tool; place at a private hospital here, where F was an slsted by 11 Philadelphia physiean. I think they will he willing to have thctr names known later. "The two men were placed in opposite directions, upon iui 1 longatod be#. One-half of the volunteer's ear?thn upper half?was cut off. together with about four inches of the skin behind the car. "Tills was twisted around and fittod to a freshly prepared wound upon th? patient's head. The half ear was heUl In place by bandages, and the two rnon bound so thoy cannot rcmovo thoAr heads. Tliey n.ust retain this position for at toast 12 days to allow the circulation to come through tbo flap jfkin that still remains a part of tfc* volunteer's r.ralp. "If tins half ear starts feo unite provorlj . the lower half of the ear wlM ten grated In the same manner." R-cognition Denied. Washington, Special.?The revntu tionists of San Domingo applied to the State Department for recognition by the United States. The Application wm presented to the depart incut by J. tl. Giordan, who represented himself as the provisional agent of tbe revolutionary government of which Gen. Jlminoz is the head The State Department has declined the recognition. informing Mr. Giordan that It had heon the unbroken policy of the State Department to recognize only dcfacto governments and if MinJeter Powell, who is on the apot, flnriH that the revolutionists h?ve actually eslah lish- d n capital and opened porta and is aide to protec^ life and property he will recognize it. Miliioiiiirc Dies. Roanoke. Va.. Special.-?George WPalitier. the richest man in southwestern Virginia, ilied VYi-dnesdny at Salt. ille. of pnoutt onla, aged fit. lie cam - to Virginia fmtn Sytacuse, N. V.. h Tore the ci\H war. star tod ti? work ns n clerk in the hlg salt works In Smvt iie (otinty. afterwards becomlr?g solo owner of '.he plant, lie recently sold ah Int-TOBt for $1,000,000 cash. ll<- owned valuable property in N< v.* Y< >!{ and several other States. Ho is survived by ono hjii. Charles Palmer, who inherits t.ho cntiro fortune. estimated to ho worth $4,000,000. The Treaty Signed. Washington, Special.?Secretary Hay and M. Philippe liu^au-Vnrilln. the Mm " r from Pnunmn, at 0:10 o'clock Ti 'v ::iy evening signed 'tic Ifay-Runan-Varill.i tr.aty providing for the construction of the Panama canal l?y the Pniffcd Sl#/c3. The ceremony occurred 111 Secretary Hay's study. Hearty conr.ratiilntions v.v.o ex-hung e-1 and it \vn,. ayreul that the news of the ir.'iir.;; of the trcv.ty should lie kepi 1 corn the puhlic for the present. i'i . i lent Roe,.--, volt wan immediately ndvi?oil of the signing of the document rir.ii Minister Banau-Vnrilln Bent a contidficntiai cablegram to his government statins that the treaty had btea signed. S-lvatlon Armv t ouncii Chatt noogn, Special.?The annual count ! of the Salvation Army otTlcero of the South 'onvcnotl here Tinsday. r"p:c."nt.'ifivea from all stations south e? <}. Ohio river being present. The noKxio: v,ill thst three days, being pres i over f>y Staff Captain Borryrr.nn. assist ol J by officers from the No. t;i and Kc#t. The Salvation Army hea.se,carters and hotel rrns dedicated Wednesday. I ?j#V j*. i 1 Vei^v i ^ .to