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Censure for the Censors. CORRESPONDENT'S PRO TEST AGAINST SUP PRESSING TRUTH. "Bound Bobin" That Has Caused a Stir in Administration Circles. Manila, Joly ll, via Hoog Kong, Jnly 17.-The constantly increasing striotoess of the censorship of press dispatches from Manila, which has prevented the cabling to the United States of anything that did cot reflect official views of important events and conditions, resulted in a united effort on the part of correspondents here to secure an abatement of the rigor of the censorship. The initiative in this gg^direction was taken a mooth ago acd esuited ia the framing of a statement hieb was presented on Joly 9th to Maj. Geo. Otis, commanding the mili- j tory forces of the United States in the j Philippine isl&ad, with a request for permission to telegraph it to the United States. The correspondents also asked that they be allowed to cable to their respective papers all facts aod the cifre rent phases of events as they trans pired here. The correspondents had two long interviews with Gen. Otis, io tee coarse of which they complained that the evident purpose of the censor ship was not to keep information from the enemy, but to keep from the public a knowledge of the real condition of affairs here. It was also asserted by the correspondents that newspapers printed in Manila, which reacted the enemy quickly, are permitted to publish statements similar to those which cor respondents are forbidden to cable. It was made clear to Gen. Otis that the objection was to the system and not to the censor. Gen. Otis finally promised greater liberality, agreeing to pass all matter tba! he might consider not detrimental io the interests of the United States. Gen. Otis censor appointed Capt Green, of bis staff. The statement of the correspondents is as follows : "The undersigned, being all staff correspondents of American newspapers stationed at Manila, unite in the follow ing statement : "We believe, that owing to official dispatches from Manila made public in Washington, the people of the United States have cot received a correct impression of the situation in tbe Philippines, bat thar, these dispatches ave presented an ultra-optimistic view that is not shared by tbe general officers io the field. "We believe that these dispatches incorrectly represent tbe existing con ditions among the Filipinos in respect to dissension and demoralization result ing from thc American campaign aod to tba brigand character of tbeitr army. "We believe the dispatches err in the declaration ihat 'tbe situation is well io hand' and in the assumption that the insurrection cao bo speedily ended without a greatly iooreased force "We think thc tenacity of the Filipino purpose has been underesti mated acd that the statements are unfounded that volunteers are willing to engage in further service. '.Tbe censorship has compelled us to participate io this misrepresentation by excising or alteriog uooontroverted statements of facts oe the plea, as Geo Otis stated, that 'they would alarm, tbe people at home/ or 'have the people of tee United States by the ears/ "Specifications : Prohibit ion of hos pital reports ; suppression of fall re ports of field operations io the eveot of failure ; numbers of heat prostrations is tee field ; systematic minimization of naval operations aod suppression of complete reports of thc situation. (Signed) Jobo T MoCutobeoo, Harry Armstrong, Chicago Record. Oscar K Davit, P G McDoootil, New York Sos. Robert M Collins, Jobo P Daooing, L Jones, The Associated Press. Jobo F Bass, Will Diowiddie, New York Herald. S Keene, Scripps-McKae Association. Riobard Little, Chicago Tribune. CAUSES SENSATION IN WASH INGTON. Washington. Joly 17 -The publi cation of tbe war correspondents' formal indictment .cf Geo Ons, mao agement of the Philippine campaign caused a sensation io the departments here. Seoretary Hay had received advices late as today from civil as well as military sources in the Philippines, which led bim to declare that the situa tion there was certainly improved mater ially and that the prospects for the future bad brightened very much With these advices, the seoretary said, Geo. Otis bad bad nothing to do, aod they were from disinterested persons whose opinions must carry weight Generally there was stroog disin clioatioo exhibited by tbs officials to 8C0S8 this last "round robin." Gen. Miles who was aotiog as secretary of war in the absence of Secretary Alger aod Assistant Seoretary Meikeljohn, would oot comment upon the dispatch, and Adjutant General Corbin took the same attitude. CORBIN MAKES DEFENSE WasbicgtcD, July 17.-Regarding tit iia-emen-'E last calle tspatefef rs ceived ia Washington aud other news regarding the war had beeo censored contrary to the usual castors, Adjutant General Corbin today eaid : "The censure of the so-cailed cen sored press is without just cause ; aocl evidently made nader misapprehension of facts. There has been no ioforma tion received from Gen. Otis that has not been given to the press promptly j on the bulletin beard in the hall of this i office. I "Toe standing instructions of tb president and secretary of war are that the public shall be given ali informa tioa we receive. This bas b en doma and wiil continue to be done. Of course plans of campaigns that would be to help to Aguinaldo aod other re bels have not and will not be pro mulgate^, bat ali faots of events tran spired have been given in fullness." A QUESTION OF NUMBERS Washington, July 17.-A statement was prepared at army headquarters today and given oat for publication in which it was said : "There has been some discussion in the press recently relating to an alleged difference of opinion regarding the number of troops s = nt to the Philippine islands in the first instance." Then follow a namfcer of letters from Geo. Miles and Geo.'Merritt, io which each recommended what troops he thought necessary to be sent to the islands. These estimates, according to the letters, ranged from 14,400 men to 15,425. In conclusion the statement says : "It thus appears that there was no controversy regarding the number of troops to be sent, Geo. Miles, in fact, having designated more than Gen. Merritt oalled for, but only a difference of opinion as to the composition of the force, Gen. Merritt desiriog to have more regulars than were designated by Gen. Miles. "Certain newspapers have attempted to show that Gen. Miles did not want more than 6,000 troops to be sent to the Philippines under Gen. Merritt, but the above official correspondence, show this not to be the fact." ENGLISH COMMENT. London, Joly 18 -Mest of the morning papers comment upon the joint statement that the American corres pondents at Manila regarding the cen sorship there. The Times says : "Gen. 0;"i3 cannot conceal nor explain away tho great fact that he fails to bring the war to ao end. He might just as well cease playing the ostrich and allow the cor respondents to tell the public what they see " The Daily News says : ''The moral of it is that the correspondent will turn wheo you tread too hard upon him, and that bis determination to let the cat out of the bag may still prove a blessing to modern states. Dewey at Port Said. Washington, Joly 14 -Secretary Long has received the following cable message from Admiral Dewev :] Port Said. Joly 14, 1899. "To Sec retary of the Navy, Washington : Olympia io voluntary quarantine As soon as coaled proceed Trieste^ for pratique and recuperation officers and men. Dewey Inasmuch as be is silent oe the subject, it is assumed that no change has occurred in the health of Admiral Dewey and bis men since their departure from Hong Kong, when ali were reported well It is said at the navy department that the Admiral's reference to "pratique" means simply that he is going to Trieste to get a cletta bili of health that will enable bim to continue his voyage through the Mediterranean without delays from- the health authorities at the various points. IN BOSTON ? Boston, July 15 -The Post vtili say tomorrow : ' An uprising of the colored race agaiost the administration at Washington is being organized in Boston This is the seat of the move ment that is proposed wherever the colored people are pf puions "The instigators assert that it wiil mean the downfall of McKinley, imperialism and the Republican party. "The object of this organisation is a revolt at the ballot box. But there are those among its support who would willingly take part ic an armed uprising and who, were it possible, would oiler their strength to aid the Filipinos ia their struggle for iucependenee." The Post says the negroes have had a conferences with Edward Atkinson relative to the organization of a colored auxiliary of the national anti-imperiaiist league. - - ? i - A RAILROAD RUMOR. Charleston, July 15-There is a rumor in some quarters that the Ohio River and Charleston railroad is to be finally built to Charleston. The road bas a continuous line from Marion, N. C., to Camden, and all that remains to be done to complete the road from Ciocionati is to build from Camden to Charleston and complete the gap between Marion. N. C., and Johnson City, Tenn. The engineer corps of tho Seaboard Air Line has reached Summerville and wilt strike the suburbs of Charleston in a few days Paper'novels, new paper novels at H. G 0*e* k Co5 . UNIQUE CRIME OCCURS IN GEORGIA Farmer Si. Smith, Who KUl j ed Judge Bel], Lynched. Gainesville, Ga , Joly 15 -A mob of about 30 men surrounded the county jail early this morning and by a clever ruse tricked the sheriff into admitting them into the jail, after which five of them went to the cell of Si Smith, the murderer of Judge W. B Bell of Atlanta, and shot him to death, riddling his body with bullets and spattering his blood on the ceil walls. The mob pretended to be a sheriffs possee from Gwinnett county with a prisoner, whom they wanted to lodge in the Hall county jail for safe keeping. The ieader of the mob said he was the shenff of Gwinnett, and the unsuspecting sheriff of Hall county, W. B. Munday, admitted the men. After their bloody work the mob quickly dispersed. The governor will be asked to offer a reward for the capture of the men composing the mob. There is great indignation among the people here that such a crime was committed. Smith was asleep when the mob entered. Without warning or arousing him, one of the mob deliberately leveled hie pistol at the heart ef the victim. The men open ed fire on the prisoner, and when they ceased firing the victim's body had been riddled with bullets The shenff said the leader of the mob was about 50 years of age and the others all young men, ail weil dressed, one of whom was fleshy and clean shaven. The coroner of Hall county sum moned a jury this morning and held an inquest, but no verdict was reach ed Si Smith was recently captured in Habersbam county and was brought here and lodged in jail for safe keeping. He v/as held for the murder of W B. Bell who formerly traveled for an Atlanta drug honse. Who Did the Guessing ? It is now pretty generally conceded even by the supporters of the admin istration's Philippine war policy that lhere has been some very poor guess ing done as to the outcome of the military operations in the island of Luzon. The New York Tribune, a few days ago, had an editorial on this guessing from which we clip the following paragraph : "The couree of events in the Phil ic pines bas not met expectations encouraged by ootgiviDge that pur ported to come from the war depart ment. One cannot tell whether the optimistic dispatches announcing a near surrender of the insurgents as the result of negotiations were in spired by some hopeful soul in the department or having the run of it, or by the conciliatory Professor Scburman, wno is now returning from service on the commission. It does not yet appear that his hopeful predictions have ibeen answered by facts But Washington bas its champion optimist also. Whether it was somebody in the war department or some Coo sanguine reporter of the press, eagerly interpreting a wink as a victory and a nod as,the end of the campaign, the elaborate tactical de seri plions of moven ts in progress, which never resulted at all as Wash ington expected, gave the public the impression that Gen. Otis did not often guess very well. Later events have indicated that it was not Gen. Otis who guessed wrong,:t Somebody besides Gen Otis, it seems, according to the Tribune, did the poor guessing, but didn't Geo. Otis report that he could finish up the business there with 3 ,000 effect ive troops ? Some other military gentleman guessed differently for they have expressed the opinion that it would take a good many more than that, and they seem to have done better guessing for more troops are to be sent. The fact is there has been too much guessing all along, which suggest the inquiry, bow much confidence can people have in men who have proved such poor guessers and prophets ?-Wilmingtou tar --^- < .-^ The Cheraw and Chester Railroad Will be Built. Cheraw July 15-Ata meeting of the stockholders of the Cheraw and Chester railroad Compauy held this week at Chesterfield court bouse, the company was reorganized, and Mr G. J Redfearn was elected presi dent of the road He was given authority to contract with any one for the building of this road, the county having already voted bonds to the amount of $1,700 per mile for a completed road. This road wiii run across the north central part of Chesterfield county, giving a large and prosperous section of the county railroad advantages and touch ing the county seat. The Chester field and Kershaw Railroad company has begun the work of grading A large number of railroad machin e, plow shovels, etc , have been receiv ed and have now been put into use. BROOKLYN TROLLEY STRIKE HAS BEGUN. CAS S BELLI IS THE TEN HOUR DA F AT TWO DOLLARS. New Yoik, July 16.-Another trolley strike is on in Brooklyo. So far it has not been as effective as the shrike of 1895, but there is no telling how long or far reaching it may become. For some weeks past the employes of the several lines con trolled by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company have been com plaining that the management did not ive up to the ten hour law. The men demand a revision of the time tables at the different barns and also claitU that they Gbould be paid 20 cents an hour for over time, which is equivalent to $2 a day, the price which they 6et for a working day of ten hours Meetings have been held daily and nightly for the last week, and it was inferred from the reports given out by the employes and their advisers since Thursday last that, while a strike was imminent, it would not occur for seme days to come. Gen eral Master Workman Parsons and District Master Workman Pines had charge of the men's affairs and i fitrike"wa3 called at half past 4 this morning At this hour most of the motormen and conductors on the Brooklyn Traction company's lines had completed their night trips and the leaders decided that this was the most opportune moment to begin what was expected to be a stubborn Sght with the traction company. A heavy rain storm was in progress at this time, and there was very little passenger traffic The Smith street, Franklin avenue and Hamilton ferry lines, which are controlled by the Coney Island-Railroad company, hav ing maintained the regular terms with their employers, were not impeded in the least, but on ail other roads transportation was mopped for a wbiie, and a good deal of conges tion occurred in consequence Shortly after midnight about 1,000 policemen from the precincts in Manhattan and the Bronx districs were conveyed to the different barns and many were piaced along the several routes comprising the terri tory covered by the Brooklyn Trac tion company Up to half past 7 o'clock there were very few cars run over these lines, and those that were sent out from the different barns were policed by two, three and four constables. TEN MILLION THE LOSS IN TEXAS. Hazen Says Rains Were An alogous to Cloudbursts. Washington, July 15.-The weath er bureau today issued a special bulletin on the recent flood in the Brazos river district, Texas The bulletin is accompanied by a map and tables showing phenomenal rain fails Prof II A Hazen, in an introduc tory article, says : "It must be said that, after allowing for ali the condi tions, we still have a most serious difficulty in accounting for such rains which are analogous to so called cloudbursts, about which almost noth ing is known." I. M Cline, the Texas forecast oiucer, says in his report that in places the river was more than 12 miles wide. The damage to crops has been very great. There was a large acreage in cotton, corn, sugar cane and other crops Cotton plant era have suffered most Sugar cane plantations in the Brazos bottoms have suffered much In some places half the crop has been destroyed Farming implements, Block and many of the small tenant houses in the bottoms have been washed away The total losses, judging from press reports and other available informa tion, will aggregate nearly ten million dollars Action has already been taken by some farmers to plant other crops where cotton and corn have been destroyed Some cotton will be planted, bot to what extent cannot be even approximated, lt is desired to make the distract self sustaining as soon as possible, and many who have interests along the Brazos river consider this the beot course to pursue. SIMONTON TO RESIGN Judge Siruonton can retire io tbrce months from con oo full pay, and the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says he "has it pretty straight" that he will dc so. He also eays Senator McLaurio, of Sooth Carolina, will be Judge Simonton's successor. This announcement is of special ioterest in North Carolina, where Judge Simonton bas done so much "injunctiog 99 - Wilmington Star J. T. Cunningham, a Bell telephone lineman in Columbia, met with sn awful death at 1 30 last Saturday by falling from a high pole co which be was stringing telephone wires He broke his neck. The dead man ia about 35 years old and his family in Marietta, Ga., vrs:e promptlfcj a rified of Lis death. | To School Trustees and Teachers. i Trustees aod teachers who are alive to the interests ia their charge I cannot be indiff rent to the county summer school for teachers, in its relation to the problem of better , country schools-a more enlightened citizenship aud a more prosperous people No teacher with profession al spirit and ambition can afford to disregard the opportunity of better preparation for a life work which entails so much of responsibility and requires so much of skill. No trustee that is mindful of his trust-io pro vide for the good bringing up of the children of his community-can be content to dwarf their possibilities by giving them in this day of progress a training that is second rate The more backward to com munity the greater is the need of the very .best instruction. The worst enemies of a community would be the school trustees if they would act upon the principle, "Almost any teacher is good enough to teach our little school." Hardly is any teacher good enough, and no teacher can be too good ! It is a crime to put over children a less skilful teacher thau the money available will secure. We have too much of "the blind leading the blind." It is foily to pay a poor salary and employ an ignorant teacher in order that the school term may be longer. It is ar ste of money. It is a waste of cfc'L lod's euergies If the school ruu. to be dull and stupid, better far that the child should be out in the fresh air in contact with the varied interests of real life, learning in the great school of observation and ex perience. Poor teaching may be worse than no teaching. TRUSTEES SHOULD PAY TEACH ER'S EXPENSES. The State board of education at its last meeti g, May 5, adopted the following resolution to which the attention cf all school trustees is asked : '.'Whereas, in the opinion of this board, it is essential to the welfare of our common schools that there should be a general attendance of teachers at the sessions of the county school institutes, be it resolved that in order to express this desire of the board the superintendent be request ed to address a circular letter to the county superintendents and trustees, nd that the school trustees be asked to make some provision to aid and assist the teachers in their county to attend the said institutes " Thia action of the State board is based upo& the fact that, however great the personal benefits resulting to the teacher from self improvement, the greatest benefits will accrue to the school children If, therefore, the teacher will give four weeks to professional training i order to become better fitted for successful teaching-in order to render better service to the school, the trustees should be willing to encourage a faithful servant by increasing the salary at least to the amount of the cost to the teacher of board and lodging while attending the profes sional school They should recog nize the fact that a ieacher's diligent and faithful work is of value to the school and that the school should not allow all of the burden to fall upon tbe devoted teacher In most of the counties the cost of board and lodging for the four weeks would not exceed eight or ten dollars This is 8 small sum to be paid by the school as sn additional salary for the entire school session in consideration of the better service that the teacher will render to the children. Yet, small as tbe sum is, it falis heavily upon the teacher that receives no more than $25 or $30 a month and is employed for only a few months in the year The pitiful sum of $20 a month is all that is paid to some teachers, who are yet expected to possess such an education and to teach with such painstaking devotion as to give to their pupils the mental training that will fit them for the duties of life, private and public If the trustees really want better educational advan tages for the children, if they have auy appreciation of the need of a better teacher, they cannot doubt that eight or ten dollars paid extra to | secure this boon will be the wisest expenditure that could be made even though tue school term should in consequence be shortened TRUSTEES SHOULD ACT. If a teacher has been engaged for the approaching school session the trustees should at once adopt a reso lution to pay the school teacher's expenses at the county summer school. If a teacher has not yet been engaged, there should be no further delay in making the final arrangements. Many teach ere are-resolved to attend a summer school and pr ts forward lo a higher place in their procession, cost what it may. Yet many are Etill in doubt ae to where they will teach the next j sesaion This is a hardship. It would evidently be a wi6e and just policy for trustees to chose their teachers as early in the summer as possible in order that ail may know what to expect, and that the teachers may be encouraged to prepare them- j selves specially for definite work. Of course no ttustees would be so ! behind to the best interest of their j schools daring the progress of the Bummer school for teachers in their j I county. To keep the teachers from I attending the summer school would ! be to throw away money which the State is spending this year for the improvement of teachers. John J. McMaban, State Superintendent of Education. July 15,1899. 4'Missing Link" Has Been Murdered, NOW IT IS A QUESTION WHETHER IT WAS HUMAN OR BRUTE. Chicago, July 16.-A ipeciai to The Tribane from Booesteel, S. D., says : Upon the question whether his victim was brute or human depends Archie H. Brower;s guilt or ionccence of the crime of murder. Brower was one of the owners of a small teat how which came here for exhibition. Among their attractions was a creature cf seemingly a higher form of animal life thao a monkey and lower than a man. Brower and Thorodyke called the anima) the ''Missing Link" and laid great stress on the fact that no one was abie to say whether it belonged to the human or the brure creatioa. i Brower now avers that thc freak was 3 montey. In a sci:it! 3 with it the show man became angry and seizing a heavy club, dealt his antagonist a hard blow over the ear, from the effects of which it died in a few boars. The locai authorities immediately piaced Brower under arrest oo a charge of murder. At the preliminary hear ing his lawyers set up the defense that their client did not take the life of a haman beiDg, bat the magistrate bound him over to the grand jary. No I'tte For tlie Alligator. The colored prisoners in the peniten tiary are accpiam cd with the habits of crocodiles and fully realize that they relish a pickaninny. Under these cir cumstances they are not anxious to make '.he acquaintance of a crocodile that inhabits the fountain of the pris on. The other day one of them who had committed some offense was taken to the cellar to be punished. After he had been blindfolded one of the men called out to the other, "Keep that al ligator back or he will bite this man." That caused the colored man to com mence to plead, and he said, "Fo' de Lord, Mr. Deputy, ef youse let me go, I'll neber come back here ag'in." "But you told me that the other time," replied the deputy. "But dis is de time I tells you de traf, and I neber will come back ag'in." On leaving the tub he declared that the animal had bitten him a few times, notwithstanding the fact that the croc odile had been in the fountain all tho time. The colored man has kept his word up to date, but he is liable to soon forget the lesson of the crocodile that is the deadly enemy of the colored men in the south.-Columbus Dispatch. Tbe Reviver. "Baby was taken very bad while you were out, mum," said the new servant girl. "Oh, dear!" said the young wife. "Is he better now?" "Oh, he's all right now; but he was bad at first. He seemed to come over quite faint; but I found his medicine ia the cupboard" "Found his medicine! Good gracious! What have you been giving the child? There's no medicine in the cupboard." "Oh, yes, there is, mum. It's written on it." And that girl triumphantly produced a bottle labeled "Kid Reviver."-Lon don Tit-Bits." Some royal crowns are merely silk wadded caps ornamented with jewels &nd pendants. TBE OLD THOROUGHBRED 1899 VICTOR for $33 JUST THINK OF IT. 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