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Thai Three Million Divided at Last. EACH OF 40.000 CUBANS WILL GET $75. Habaos, Maj 6.-Forty thousand will be used as the divisor io fixing she shares of the soldiers io the 3,000, OOO allotted by the United States gov ernment to be divided among the Caban troops, sod the payment will begin at the ead of next week. A general order declaring the payment sod setting forth the roles to be observed will be issued by Gov. Geo. Brooks oo Mon day, next. The governor general and Geo. Gomes bave decided that tc would be impracticable to try to verify further the army rolls ss submitted by the re cently dissolved Coban assembly. Gee Brooke today seat to Geo. Gomer a list of the commissioners for the several corps, asking if be wished to make any changes. The oom missioners-one Cuban sod one American for esob corps-will be orderen to meet at ones in Habana to take action aa to the details of the hristan of the money. The order in which the payments will be made is as f olio w : Fin t, tn Habana province ; then in the provinces of Pinar del Bio, Matso r- tss, ftsnta Clara, Puerto Principe sod Santiigo. Th next important role laid down is that sc requiring the giving up of all arms ns a condition of the payment of $75 e ich man is to receive. Afear all the privates and non-com missioned officers are paid, money will be left, and the remainder will probably be divided among thc maimed and destitute of the army. Gov. Geo. Ludlow, military governor of the department of Habana, reoeotiy asked Senor Lsonsa, eeeretsry of jus tice ic Gen. Brooke's advisory cabinet, to arrange to allow American lawyers to practice bere, because of the desire of tbs American syndicates sod mer chante coming to Habana to employ Americans to defend their interests: Senor Lanes* referred the matter to the Universidad, which governs ad mission to the Habana bsr, and its reply, which was approved by the secre tary of justice, ras s refusal of the request, it being held that it would be for the best interests of Americans to employ Cohans with a knowledge of the Ional laws. Utterances by Gen. Lsoret and other of tbe assemblist leaders, are published herc today which might be regarded ss tending to inflame the minds of tbe Cubais against tho United States- and Incite Shem te outlawry. Geo. Laer et is qao ;ed as saying that, while he has no do ibt of the honorable intentions of the United States toward to Cubans, troubles and misunderstandings arise sarong h thc ignorance of department as to tbe conditions in Cubs. The general is also reported to have said that he could not see how the lower classes will be able to live dur log the year. The crops are now harvested, business is dull sod iodos tr es at a standstill. The capital of the islanders is boarded, while foreign cap ital is limited. The general said he was confidant that starving Cubans would soon be obliged to steal io order to keep body sod soot together, sod that were they to steal his property be could not blame them. As for the 3.,OOO,OOO from the Uoited States for the pay meo t of tbs Coban soldiers, that money would soon be spent tn saloons and would give no substantial help. Tali: like this, which is repeated by other prominent Cubaos, is believed to be causiog outlawry. Strikes arc spreading. The steve dores at Cieofnegos hsve again quit work. THE FILIPINOS WELL "ARMED, Manila, May 7, 8 40 p. m-To elear the Filipinos out of Bacalor, boat five miles west of San Fer nando, will be the next task of the Americans. The rebel general Mas cardo, bas a force of 7.000 men there, well armed and possessed of plenty of ammunition. His troops have never met American soldiers, and they think, according to reports carried to San Fernando, that they can whip the whole lot. Bacalor is weil entrenched and thousands of natives are working like beavers, digging trenches and carrying the dirt in baskets The enemy uses his rifleme.i for fighting only, bot compels the Bolo men and Chinese to labor incessantly. The rebels have an outpost about a mile beyond San Fernando, with a trench that bolds between two and three hundred men From tbat point several volleys were fired last night upon the camp of the Twentieth Kan sas regiment Neither Msj Gen. MacArthur, nor Msj. Gen. Lawton moved todsy although each reconnoitered the country in bis own vicinity, for some miles from headquarters, developing the presence of small forces of the enemy. In the vicinity of La Guina de Bay the rebels are extremely active, bat the lines of Gen Oven nhine and Col. Wholley, who is commanding Gen. King's brigade daring the latter's illness, have been materially strengthened and there is so danger is that direction. Tbe armed steamer LaGuna de Bag and Cavadonga, ander Capt Grant bare gone to Guagua, about five miles southwest of Bacoior* presumably to establish a base of supplies for tbe troops engaged on the northern campaign It is rumored that Mabini, presi dent of tbe cabinet, nd minister of foreign affairs in tbe so called Filipi no government, who is a radical, is to be succeeded by Paterno, the framer of the Spanish treaty of 1896. This change is regarded as significant at the present juncture. The entrance of the Americans into San Fernando, was virtually unopposed. The Filipinos, who expected the invaders to approach from the sea bad had that side of the town strongly guarded, but there was only one line of trenches beyond San Tomas Two battalions of the Fifty first Iowa legiment, which swam the river north of the city, were smartly peppered io the water, but the rebels disappeared as soon as tbe Americans reached the shore. In the meantime the hospital squad bad walked across the bridge into the city, supposing the Americans were there. They encountered no natives The few Spaniards and Filipinos who were left welcomed the Amer icana and opened their bouses to them. Gen MacArthur accepting entertainment at the hands of Senor Hizoo, a sugar magnate. Idaho Undertakes to Stop Lawlessness. Will Prosecute Eight Hun dred Men for Murder and Arson. Spokane, Wash., May 7.-Mines bf Shoshone county, Idaho, that propose to operate during the reigo of martial law, may do so only OD condition tbat they do not employ members of the Cour D'Alene miner?' union. This is the martial law as laid down by Gen. Merriam and Attorney Gen eral Hayes, of Idaho. At a meeting of t ia mine owners io this oity this morning Mr. Hayes presented this mandate. The owners oheerfoliy promise to obey. "We are going to aleas up the Cour D'Ale es," said Attorney Geoeral Hayes, prior to his departure for Boise. "I have seen some of tbe mine own* j ers today and they have been informed by the proper authorities tbat they cannot employ any one connected with a crimoal organization in ths county. The miners' union in Sboshone eounty contains many desperadoes and crimi nals who, through the protection of the uniont perpetrate crimes and out rages. Twice bas it been necessary, because of hese men aod their organ zatioo, to put the county under mar tial law. We want to stop that sort of thioj;. "We have undertaken as large a job j of criminal prosecution as ever oom j ru en oed io the history of the county. The tryiog between 700 and 800 men is a :ask of enormous magnitude. We propose to push tbe prosecution vig orously, however. I am obliged to go back to Boise for a few days on offi ciai business, but will be beck in about a week and expect to spend the entire summer io tbe Conr D'Alenes. Pris oners will be tried io both the State and Federa! courts. Murder and arson are some of the charges the State will bring against rheie men, and we hope to inflict the extreme penalty." Millions of Dollars Invested in Steamships. Habana, May 7 -The owners of the principal Cnbao steamship lines met today and resolved to send two representatives to Washington with a request that the companies be al lowed to fly the American flag, or, if that is impossible, to have a distinctive flag, so as to be able to engage in trade with the United States and other countries The Herrera company owns twenty steamers and the Menendez company six, three of which were built in Philadelphia at a cost of $200,000 each. The sum of $3.000,000 is in vested in the steamers used to trade with. Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, Jami ca, Mexico, the Southern States and the Canary islands, and those of the Herrera company made regular tripa to Santo Domingo aud Puerto Rico. Now the owners of both steamers and sailing vessels, of which 150 are Cuban, assert that business is being ruined because it is confin ed to coastwise trips. Two Ameri can lines are doing a large coastwise business, yet Coban vessels cannot go among the West Indies or to the southern States. Tbe Coban schooners, for instance could do a carrying trade in cattle lumber and flour with Savannah, Mo bile, New Orleans and Galveston but Washington forbids With the sale of the Spanish float ing dock steamers they will have no facilities for makiog repairs here, and as matters now stand they cannot dock in American ports. The feeling of the steamship people that they are unjustly treated is shar ed by the entire commercial class of 0 J bs, and particularly in Habana, as this is the fourth port in North American Atlantic coast CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED. Report of the Military Court on Charges of Gen. Miles. Washington, May 7.-By direction of the president, who approves the finding, acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn today made public the report and finding of the military court appointed to investigate the charges made by Maj. Gen. Miles, command ing tho army that the beef snpplied to the army during the war with Spain was unfit for the use of the troops. The most important features of the report are : The finding that the general's allegations that the refriger atored beef was treated with chemicals, were not established ; that his allega tions concerning the canned fresh or canned roast beef were sustained as to its unsuitability for food as osed on the transports and es a long oontinued field ration ; censure of Gen. Miles for "error" in failing to promptly notify the secretary of war when be first formed the opinion that the food was unfit ; oecrnre of commissary general, Gen. Eagan, for the too extensive purchases of the canned beef as an untried ration ; censure of Col. Maus, fo Gen Miles' staff ; the finding that the packers were not at fault and that the meats supplied the army were of the same quality as those supplied the trade generally, and the recommenda tion that no forther proceedings bs taken in the premises. The conclusion of the court adverse to further proceedings based upon the charges ts as follows : "it has been developed in the coarse of the inquiry, as recited in this report, that in some instances certain ic di vid uals failed to perform the full measure of duty or to observe the proprieties which dignify high military command, but the court is of the opinion that the mere statement in the official report of the facts developed meets the ends of discipline, and tbat the interests of the service will be best subserved if forther proceeding be not taken.7' There is more or less criticisms of Gen. Miles io various parts of the report. Probably the most direct j instance is the one which states tbat beyond the criticism of officers, found elsewhere in the report : **The court finds that against none of the officers commanding oorps, divi sions, brigades and regiments and their staff officers should a charge of guilt be brought. "Tbe court also finds that the major I general commanding the army had so sufficient justification for alleging that the refrigerated beef was embalmed or was un fit for issue to the - troops It also finds tbat be committed an error in that, having belief or knowledge as claimed, that the food was unfit, tbat it caused sick t)ess and distress ; that some of it was supplied under the pretence of experiment : that other beef was embalmed, he did not immediately report snob knowledge or belief to the secretary of war to the end that a prnpar remedy might be promptly applied." The censure cf Col. Mans, inspector general on Gen. Miles' staff is based upoo bis failure to cali attention to charges concerning the beef at Chicka maoga contained in a report of inspec tion made by Dr (or Major) Daly, on the 26th of October last, in which he stated his belief that the beef was chemically treated. "The silence of Col. Mans/' says the oourt, "on so important a matter as the obemicalized beef reported by Maj. Daly and personally known to himself, j is most remarkable. " \ The remark is also made that Gen Miles' failure to draw special attention to this report is "unexplained." Dsath of Mrs. Whitney. New York May 6 -Mrs Wm. C. Whitney, wife of the former secretary of the navy, died shortly before 1 o'clock this afternoon The change for the worse in Mrs Whitney's condition came on last Tuesday, and it became evident to her physicians then that the end was not far off. Mrs Whitney was thrown from her horse while fox hunting io Aiken, S. C., on February 21, 1898. She tried to pass under a low bridge but struck her head on a beam and fell to the ground She was unconscious when picked up Everything possible was done for her, but she remained absolutely helpless from the time of the accident until soe died She was completely paralyzed from the neck down. Mrs. Whitney was the second wife of ex-Secretary of the navy Whitney, and he was her second husband, her first husband having beeu Capt Randolph, of the British navy. Carnegie Will Sell Out London, May G -In response to an inquiry from the correspondent here of Tbe Associated Press regarding the rcportedtraosfer of his business inter ests in the United States to a syodioate, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has furnished the following statement : "Mr. Car negie has given bis young partners the terms on wbiob ho wcnld be will ing to sell and retire from business. Ile has no deficite infoimation ss yet whether they are goiog to buy or not, bat he thicks 'ha?- they will. BOLIVIA INDIANS IN INSURRECTION. --------_ Cold Blooded Butchery of Five Score of Pando's Soldiers. Washington, May 6-The depart ment of state bas been informed by our minister at La Paz. Bolivia, under date of Marob 28, 1899, that on March 1st Col. Pando sent, from his army to 8ioa8ioa, 120 meo, commanded by Arturo Eguino, to Ayopaya, there to confer with Mr. Crellama as to the best meaos for simultaneously attacking Cocbabama. Oo arriving at the tove of Mohosa, Eguino demanded a loan of 200 Bolivars from the mayor These demands being refused, the priest and mayor were imprisoned. Meanwhile, however, the priest had dispatched couriers to the Indian villages, asking that the natives attaek Pando's men. large crowd of Indians came, and io spite of all measures taken to pacify them the arms of the soldiers were taken away, the men subjected to revolting treatment and o ally locked inside the church for the night. In the morning th priest, after celebrating the BO called "mass of agony,77 allowed the lodi ana to takeout the unfortunate victims, two by two, and 103 were deliberately murdered, each pair by different torturers. Seven escaped death by having departed the day previous on another mission. Each day brings ness of rising of the Indians io different sections of tho northern part of the country-. A large party of whites arrived in La Paz today, fleeing; from Iodian threats. SLAPPING AN EDITOR'S PACE. An Assault m Honea Path, Which Hesults in the Assailant Being Shot, but Rot Killed. Honea Path, May 6 -William C. Sharp, of the firm of Sharp & Robin son, of this place, was shot and wourd ed today by G. E. Mooro, editor of (he Honea Path Chroniole The difficulty originated from a notioe of the dissolu* lion of the firm of which Sharp is a member, published in the Chroniele. Sharp assaulted Moore, slappiog him io the face. Moore resented it and shot at Sharp twice. The first ball slightly wounded Mr. Geo. W Rush, who was tryiog to separate the parties, and the second entered the lower part of Sharp's body. The physioian is unable to find the ball, but does not think the wound serious. New Attorneys. When the State supreme court met yesterday morning the chief justice stated that ail the applicants named below bad passed a satisfactory exami nation, aod, being present, they were admitted, sworn and enrolled as attorneys of the supreme court: NB Barnwell, J J McSwain, Raphael Link, J H Funderburg. T C Sturkie, A S Salley* Jr, R E Babb, John J Can tey, C L Cuttino. Barber Hoke, B H Darlington, J C Co t. G L Toole, Alotzo E Twine (col.), Dczier W Davis, (col ) Mr. Thoa D McKeown passed the examination successfully, but cannot be sworn and enrolled until the 3d day of June next, on which day he will have arrived at maturity. The above list oovers ail who applied for admission to the bar, no one having failed to pass the examination.-The State, May 7. BOYS USE KNIVES. Saluda, May 6 -Yesterday about dusk at Miliedge Delcach's in what is called Sodom, Mick Deloach, a boy about 17 years old, cut John Grice Dr Kirksey, who attended Grice, thinks he will die. It is cot yet fully known how the affair started, but it seems that three or four boys were drinking and after some hot words between Grice and Deloach the latter went to cutting A gash near Grice's heart, about four inches in length, it is thought will cause his death. Lumbertoo, N. C., May 6 -El. Lowery, a nephew of Harry Barry Lowery, the famous outlaw of eastern Carolina, shot aod killed Tucker Dial, at Scolthtcwn yesterday. The shooting was the result of a law suit over eome land. It appears that Lowery went to the placo where Dial was at work, and ordered him to leave the premises. This Dial refused to do, and thereupon Lowery emptied a load of shot into Dial's chest, kiiling him instantly. Lowery tbeti effected his escape. He is a desperate character, and may attempt defiar.ee of the au t bor i i CB . He is also accused cf kill ing a man in Clinch county, Ga , some years ago. Bennettsville, May 5 -The chain gang, while working two miles from town this afternoon, overpowered the guard, and eight escaped. Two have been recaptured. Sheriff hunt ing for others. Failed to Connect. An Expedition With Supplies Returns to Manila. Manila, May 8 -The army gun boats, Laguna De Bay and Cavadonga, which started np the San Fernaodo River for Guagua on yesterday to estab lish a base of supplies for the troops engaged in the northern campaign, returned today, General MacArthur having failed to connect with the expedition. The guoboat found the rebels eotrecohed at Sosmoan and Guagua, on the water fronts. The vessels steamed by the works, shelling the occupants and driving them out. Landing parties from the boats entered beth towns, capturing at Sosmoan a Spanish captain io uniform, ostensibly a prisoner in the hands of the rebels, also a native officer. At Gaagua the town and a small gunboat were found burning, the natives evacuating the place in consequence of the bombard ment. A number of Filipino flags were captured at Sosmoan and a quantity of arms, chiefly Bolos, bows and arrows. The expedition will prob ably return up the San Fernando River after being reinforced, on recentiy purchased light draught steamers. The demoralisation of the Filipino army has culminated in the open revolt of General Mascardo against General Luna, second to Aguinaldo in com mand. Aguinaldo bas ordered a court martial to try Mascardo. Luna sent orders to Maroardo afc Baoolar to hurry rs-enforcements to him jost before the battle of Santo Tomas. Mascardo flat ly refused to obey the order. He sent back word that he would only take orders from Aguinaldo. Luna imme diately selected fifteen hundred of his best troops and started to Baoolo fcc enforce the order. Mascardo again refused to obey the orders given by Luna Both armies formed a line of battle, but before the opeoing Luna gave one more chance. Colonel Agoilles sent Mascardo a flag of truce. Mascardo still persisted in refusal to obey, but consented to leave the question to Aguinaldo. This averted hostilities, Luna appealing to Aguinaldo, who immediately ordered a court martial. Natives Make Daring Attack. Manila, May 8, 9.40 p. m The Filipinos surprised the United States forces at San Fernando with a daring trick yesterday. A railway train with an engine at each end was run almost to the American outposts and ia plain sight of the town Before they could be-reached a gang of natives sprang off the train, tore up several lengths of the railway track, boarded the train again and steamed away so quickly that there was oo opportunity to capture the raiders There is in Hew York a very disrep utable locality known as Chinatown, and a vigorous crusade is on to do away with it by widening the main street that passes through it. In the discus sion which this move has brought about in the borough one very remarkable and shameful fact was presented for consid eration by Father McLoughlin, a Roman Catholic priest whose church is in that neighborhood. He is thoroughly familiar with the dens of vice and with ail the infamy of the locality, and he said that it was constantly visited by fashionable women in parties, who are doing what they call "slumming" and go down there to feast their eyes upon opium victims and have the worst char acters of both sexes pointed out to their dainty curiosity. They thus make a public exhibition of forms of vice and misery that cannot even be written about, and they give a certain sensa tional importance to degradation by be coming interested in its enormity with out ever caring to relieve it. There is no doubt a great deal of just censure in this. It became a fad a few years ago for delicate girls togo slumming. They wanted to see all that men see. Profess or Swing made this complaint in Chi cago at ono time, and the slumming nonsense got to be a police nuisance in London several years ago. The morbid desire to look upon these things is in the main pharisaical The beholder is very apt to feel how much better she is than the object of contemplation. "Ashen of Angeln'' Cake. I once knew an estimable lady who in the absence of her cook undertook to make a certain kind of cake. She took "some" of one kind of ingredient, "a lit tle" of another and "a small quantity" of something oise. To her delight and surprise, the result was a cake of which neither she nor any one else had over beard. It was an entirely new cake and an extremely delicious one. Proud of her achievement, the lady gave the cake the beaut if ni and poetic name of "ashes cf angels," and on the very next occa sion when the absence of her cook made it possible for her to venture into her kitchen she tried to repeat lier success. This venthappened in the year 1883, and ever since that date the unf< rtnnate lady has been vainly trying to repro duce her wonderful cake. She has never once succeeded, although she has made at least 200 different varieties of cake and pudding, each one of which has been more deadly than the other. She is still hoping that one of these days she may hit upon her "ashes of angels" again, but ; S that cake was purely the result cf chance the prospect that she will be able to make it a second time is not bright.-W. L. Alden in Pearson's j Magazine. i THE BALKY HORSE. A Simple Scheme of the Motorman That Made Him Go. Pecple near the New York entrance of the bridge saw a balky horse frus trated with delightful ease the other day by a man who openly confessed that he had no practical or theoretical knowledge of horsemanship. He was the motorman of a Fourth avenue car bound toward the terminal at the bridge The horse was one of those an gular, cockeyed, ungainly beasts that no amount of currying and feeding could make respectable. It had stopped square in the middle cf the track and had spread its feet apart as though its mind was made up to hold the street against the world. In a few minutes four trolley cars were backed up behind the cart atod more were in sight down Center street Mo tormen, conductors, truck drivers, as sorted citizens and a policeman stood around and gave the usual advice The driver kicked the horse and two or three men called to the policeman to stop him. Then they in turn made htfc.;, mane suggestions about starting a fire under the beast's stomach. A woman said that it would be easy enough for any one to coax him along with a lump of sugar. The motorman of the fifth trolley - car, which had by this time reached the end of the blocked line, walked up and surveyed the situation. "Whosecar is this'"' he asked, point ing to the first car that had come up behind the wagon to which the balky horse was attached. "It's mine, " said another motorman, who was fingering a trass motor handle as though he would like to brain the horse with it. The motorman from the rear hoisted the car's front fender and strapped it in place, folded against the dashboard: "Now," he said to the motorman who had claimed the car, "go ahead, very easy. " Then, turning to the dis consolately profane driver of the horse, he said, "Get up and take hold of the reine" The car ran forward until the fender reached the tailboard of the wagon. "Now," said the self appointed master of ceremonies to his fellow motorman, "start up as fast as you durn please, and don't stop until you get to the bridge" The car started. The wagon started. The horse in the shafts simply had to start He slid and shoved back for a few inches and then broke into a help less gallop. The car came banging along behind, giving the horse no chance to change his mind and balk again. The spectators cheered. The ingenious mo torman looked the assembly over with a sneer. "Say 1" he said. "Say 1 Some people are dead slow, eh?"-New York Sun. The Death In the Chair. The execution of Mrs. Martha M. Place was a triumph of grisly justice. To even write about the carrying out of the deatb penalty upon a woman is not a pleasant task, but justice is not instituted to furnish pleasure There are some dire tasks which fall to the community no less than to the individ ual that we must contemplate with our teeth set and our resolution unbent. The law claimed and took its victim in spite of the most energetic and tireless efforts to save her. Every argument that the emotion of pity or horror could furnish was brought to bear, and a large part of the community, which is too busy with its pleasures to waste,jnuch sympathy upon the victims of the mur deress, found time to appeal in behalf of the murderess. The result is a vindi cation of the law and a fresh respect for justice, which r assumes a new phase of inevitableness and majesty. The law is no respecter of persons, was what the governor of New York said when ap pealed to. The well being of the com munity muft be safeguarded, even if sentiment is outraged, was what he meant to say. On the whole, it is a healthy return to the rigid defensive measures which society has established for its own protection. That the ad vancing temper of civilization is against capital punishment and that capital punishment will ultimately be modified are not at all to the point. Whatever the penalty for murder may be, let it be inflicted justly and impartially upon offenders after due conviction, without regard to other considerations than those of justice to the innocent. Srveet. "I had my picture taken today, " said little Christine. "I crossed my arms and leaned on a chair, and the picture man put my head in some tongs." "Why. you must have looked like a lump of sugar in sugar tongs, " laughed papa. "Why, so I must have, " said Chris tine delightedly, " 'cause the man kept saying, 'What a sweet little girl:' " What to Eat. Even Thoujrh He Hnted Lawyers. President Droher of Roanoke college tells this story of the late Edward Aus ten of Boston : "Meeting President Eliot of Harvard some years ago, he said, with a familiarity warranted by a life long acquaintance: 'Stop, Charles, What is the next building you want at Cambridge?' "President Eliot replied, 'The build ing we most need now is a new build ing for the law school.' " 'Oh,' said Mr. Austin, 'I hate law yers! But what do you suppose such a building would cost?' "The president thought a moment and replied : 'It would depend on the material used. An adequate building cf brick could be built for from $80,000 to $70,000.' " 'Are yon sure,' asked Mr. Austin, 'that $100,000 would be enough to pro vide a thoroughly good building?' " 'Yes,' replied the president. " 'I'm your man,' said Mr. A.ustin."