Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 17, 1899, Page 2

The Mevaia-Review. E. C. KILEY, Editor, GRAND RAPIDS - MINNESOTA. cceeds like an oficehoid- er’s successor. The majority of the waiters in res- taurants are gu: After a rough lie has been polished it is called hypocrisy. believes in dreams—but significance. Father Time has to face smokeless powder in his battles with women. Every not in the: The woman who hesitates at an auc tion sale sometimes wins by losing. The higher a man rises the more he has to depend on others to hold him The name of Diggles does not roll on the lips, but it is on the roll of fame. Many a man who says he would rather be right than president can’t be either. e invalid realizes that he is on the yad to recovery when he sees the ill. k igh dc The coming of Dewey is expected to revive the flagging trade of the st. New York does not want the peace conference to interfere in any way with it Nothing pleases men more some than to hear disagreeable things about some one they have wronged. The cat has nine lives, but that is nothing to the number of lives of some men sold by subscription only. The child of today is the critic of. to- morrow, but unfortunately parents never realize the fact until tomorrow. Admiral Dewey was born in t_2 not very prominent state of Vermont, but he has “expanded.”—Cincinnau En- quirer. As an Insull-ator against the matri- monial current the president of the Chicago Edison company is no longer a success. An exchange says the town of Cleve- land is figuring prominently in the Monnett bribery scandal. It takes fig- uring to solve problems. Those friends of Quay who are anx- ious that he run for the office of state treasurer must have the most sanguine dispositions in the country. It is thoroughly agreed that Ameri- ca’s Philippine troops are brave men. But this does not convince the major- ity of people that they should be killed. Russell Sage is a church man and probably doesn’t play cards. At any rate, he showed no disposition to fol- low suit when he learned of Mr. Car- negie’s future, Great Britain’s cheerful acceptance of the Bradley Martins as_ subjects shows just how true and self-sacrific- ing is her new devotion to the United States. An ea nm bachelor has been com- d to pay $8,000 for hugging and kissing a confiding maiden. nme is one of those unfortunate men who have failed to accommodate their predilec- tions by joining the navy. Dispatches from New York aver that a Manhattan woman last night cap- tured a burglar. woman should be looked up, it would be about an absolute certainty that she was a Chicago girl before migrating to the eastern city. Chicago women alone know how to capture burglars and no burglar who isn’t an_ utter stranger to the life of this city would think of robbing a house where a Chi- cago woman might be in possession. Capt. G. P. Farrell, captain and as- sistant surgeon of the First California volunteers, who traveled all over Luzon last October, found that the one topic of conversation among the Filipinos at the time was the coming fight with the Americans. “They seemed,” he says, “to regard it as inevitable, and were not disposed to avoid it; even the little boys were marching up and down the streets and being drilled, and I never saw more military enthusiasm in any country.” The truth is the Philip- pines were bought by the United States without adequate information as to the character and intentions of the inhab- itants. Even Gen. Merritt was so de- ceived that he gave it as his opinion that the Filipinos could not be induced to fight. He looked upon them ag chil- dren who could be easily managed. The entire number of deaths to the American forces since the opening of the war with Spain, both on land and sea, through fighting and the result of sickness, ameunts to 6,209, a little less than half the soldiers killed in the three days’ fighting around Chattan- ooga thirty-six years ago. The new battleship Kentucky is to have a fourteen-gallon punch beow?. That will be too small. Nothing less ' than a barrel will do for the Ken- | tucky if her name is to count for any- ewe | thing, If the history of that- PITH OF THE NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK INA CONDENSED FORM. A General Resume of the Most Im- portant News of the Week From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged in Con- venient Form for Rapid Perusal By Busy People. * Casualities. A steamer is burned at Bayfield, é and one man is drowned, ‘The passengers and crew had a narrow es cape. Two babes, aged ene and two years, children of Mrs. CharlesDetloff of Pop- lar Grove, I, were instantly killed. ‘The mother left the cab on the depot platform while she stepped into the depot station. A gust of wind blew it in front of a fast-coming freight, man- gling both children. A fire at Republic, Wash., destroyed six blocks, entailing a loss of $50,000, TIurther spread of the flames was pre- veuted by blowing up buildings with dynamite. ‘The mystery of the disappearance of $25,000 from the specie tank of the steamer Alameda, on her. voyage to Sun Franciseo from Sydney, is still un solved. Miss Ruth Jepson of Lebanon; Miss Florence Spies of St. Jacob, and Miss Hallene Jack of Beaucoupe, Ill, stu- dents of. McKendree college, were drowned in Silver creek, two miles north ef Lebanon, Il. Washington Talk. Each state is to get a captured Span- ish cannon. Bungling will be carefully guarded against in the census taking. The Cuban press in Santiago is so rabid that Gov. Gen. Brooke appoints a censor. Three treaties for. reciprocity with the British West Indies are being made in Washington. Assistant Secretary Davis will.make an effort to secure one of the cannons cuptured by Gen. Funston and his men for Fort Scott, Kas. The insular commission has reported that all classes of the Porto Rican population are ready and willing to ac. cept American institutions and United States laws. At the request of the British authori- ties the war department has directed Gen, Otis to suspend the issue of storm warnings for Hongkong and the China ecast, heretofore issued from the Ma- nila observatory. A cablegram from Manila to the navy department states that -Com- mander Seth Ackley who was only re- cently sent out to take command of the Concord, has fallen ill and been sent to the nayal hospital at Yoko- hama. Foreign. The Chilean ministry has resigned, Costa Rica and Nicaragua are on the verge of war. Cuban officials abuse their franking privilege, Japanese scientis sian cavalry. The eight-hour law goes into effect in British Columbia June 12. Indians along the Mosquito coast of Nicaragua go on the warpath. e sultan of Sulu is reported pre- paring to fight the United States, The English house of commons voted Gen. Lord Kitchener a grant of £39,351. The Spanish chamber of deputies has elected Marquis Pidal president of that body. lt is expected that Great Britain will make a military demonstration agains. the Transvaal. A dispatch from Auckland says both native factions, the Maliettoans and the Mataafans, are disarming. Mataafa has surrendered 1,800 guns. Commander Schoenfelder, of the Ger- n warship Faulke, which was at Sa- moa during the recent troubles there, has been decorated with the order of the Red Eagle of the third class, with the ribbon and crown, Westgy Richards, the commission agent (bookmaker) who was arrested at the Bank of England, London, April 29, while attempting to cash three £100. notes which were stolen in January last at Parr’s bank, was discharged, the evidence against him being insuf- ficient, London cable advices received from Bahai, Brazil, say yellow fever is rag- ing there. It is added that half a doz- en young Englishmen, employed as clerks, have died of che fever; that the English chaplain at Bahai is also a vic- tim, and that the American chaplain is burying the Englishmen. The procedings against the New York Herald for lese majeste, for printing the verses of the song, “Hoch, Der Kai- ser.’ which Capt. Joseph B. Coghlan, of the United States cruiser Raleigh, gave xt the Union League club, New York city, last April, have resulted in an order by the court in Berlin, direct- ing the suppressicn cf that issue of the newspaper, s are shot by Rus- People Talked About. Paderewski married Miss Helen Ko- sen in Warsaw, May 3. Senor Carvalaj, formerly Spanish minister of foreign affairs, is dead. Frederick O. Prince, the Massachu- setts Democratic politician, is dead. Augustin Daly, the well known the- atrical manager, dies suddenly in lar- is. ji Serator Hanna denies that he will re sign the chairmanship of the Repub- lican national committee. Marie Wainright, the well known actress, was married to Frank Rob- erts, her leading man, in New York. Rey. W. H. P. Faunce of New York has been elected president of Brown university. Col. George L. Terry, who was the first proprietor of the Hoffman House, New York, is dead, aged sixty-one. Col. Terry accumulated a fortune and retired about thirty years ago, George Trott, one of the six organiz- ers of the Union League at Philadel- phia, is dead, at the age of ninety years. Mr. Trott was born in Beston fand graduated from Harvard. Passed Assistant Surgeon S. 8. White of the United States army, died at Ju: neau, May 30, e Mrs. Dora T, Voorhis, widow of Com- modore Veorhis, Who was formetly at the head of the New York Yacht club, was found dead at her home in New York. Heart failure is attributed as the cause of death. Gen. Carlos Ezeta, ex-president ot Salvador, lies dangerously ill at his home in Oakland, Cal., and grave doubts are entertained as to his recov- ery. He is suffering from congestion of the lungs. Criminal Record. Cubans lynch an agent of Weyler, who murdered women and children, Sheriff Hazen, who is wounded in the fight with train robbers, near Cas- | par, Wyo., is dead. ; At Westchester, Pa:, Jonas Preston, Jr., colored, was hanged in the jail for the murder of his wife in February, 1898. Casimir Baptiste, the Indian who, while drunk, murdered a respected cit- izen, Philip Walker, on April 15, was hanged at Kamloops, B. C. During a quarrel over a ditch near Peoria, Ill, Harry Thurman struck Alexander Hammond with a spade, killing him almost instantly. Perry Bauer, who is referred to as the “Bill Alder” of Chicago, being the official man-killer of that town, killed Fred W. Tucker with his fist. Three squads of Osage Indian police and light horsemen evicted several hundred intruders from the Osage In- dian’ reservation. ‘he destruction of crops is great. Freeman Cochran, who killed George Stanbrough near Bethany, Mo., in 1897, was hanged at Bethany. Cochran and Stansbrough were farmers, and quar- reled over a woman. Baron Edgar de Bara and his. wife, Fannie, were found guilty in the Unit- ed States court at Chicago of having used the United States mails to de- fraud residents of Great Britain. James A. Price, commander of Key- nolds Post No. 71, G. A. R., Philadel- phia, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. It is believed he killed himseelf while temporarily in- sane from illness and heat. The Cocheco Savings Bank, of Do ver, N: H., was enjoined from paying out or receiving money, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Harry Hough, the treasurer, who is charged with a shortage of $3,500, Augustus F. W. Hartman of Milwau- kee, who was arrested at Colorado Springs, on the charge of attempting to poison Charles E. Bivens and fam- ily by mixing strychnine with their food, has been released, having been adjudged insane, Mrs. Belle Marshall Roloson, wife of R. W. Roloson of Chicago, for twenty- five years a prominent and wealthy member of the board of trade, commit- ted suicide at her home by shovting herself in the right temple, Mrs, Rolo- son nad for some time been a sufferer from nervous prestration. Otherwise. The United Daughters of the Con- federacy held their annual reunion at Glen Echo, near Washington, Sixty representatives of architectural clubs of Boston, New York, Pittsburg, Detroit. Chicago, St. Louis, Toronto, Philadelphia and Cleveland, have met in annual session at Cleveland. The Omaha and Grant smelter, at Durango, Col., has been closed by a strike, the result of the new eight-hour Jaw. One hundred and fifty men are cut, A Chicago officer of the Woman’s temple said that $200,000 of the $300,- 000 necessary to retire the temple bust bonds and secure the Jegal control of the building has been provided for. A farmers’ combination, which has for its ultimate purpose the control of wheat and grain markets, is said to have been formed in Sul-ivan and Vigor counties, Ind. The tracks of the White Pass railway will be completed to Lake Bennett by July 1. The schedule time from Puget Sound ports to Dawson will then be about eight days. From Eddy, N. M.. during the month of May, 15,000 head of catte were shipped to Kansas, 10,000 to Wyoming, 8,000 to Nebraska and 3,000 to Indian Territory. The officers and executive board of the National Congress of Mothers bave decided upon Des Moines, Iowa, May 8, 1900, as the place and date for the next congress. The steamer Dirago, which has ar- rived at Seattle from Alaska, reports that the Alaskan rate war is ended. The old rate of $100 from the lakes to Dawson has been restored, Six thousand employes of the ‘Ten- nessee Coal and Railroad company, at Birmingham, Ala., have received an ad- vance of 2 1-2 cents per ton. Tuais is the fourth advance within a few months. S. F. Lieb, president of the Stanford university trustees, is quoted as saying that the property deeded to that insti- tution by Mrs. Stanford is worth $38,- 000,000, and could be converted into $15,000,000 cash. Degrees were conferred upon nearly 500 young men and women at the com- mencement day exercises of Columbia university in New York. Gov. Roose- velt received the honorary degree of doctor of laws. A Steubenville, Ohio, telegram says: The big strike of sewer pipe workmen of this valley was settled at a confer- ence last night and all works have re- sumed operations. The workmen ac- cepted the advance of 15 cents per day. Goy. Sayers of Texas has telegraphed to all the governors and attorneys gen- eral of the Southern: states a call for an anti-trust convention to meet in St. Louis Sept. 20, for the purpose of se curing concerted action against trusts. The will of the late Robert Goelet was filed for probate at Newport, R. 1. After making provision for certain be- quests for the widow’s support during her lifetime, it divides the remainder of the estate between the son,. Robert Walton Goelet, and the daughter, Be- atrice. The Guggenheim Exploraticn compa. ny, capital, $8,000,000, was incorporat- ed in Trenton, N, J. The company is to explore in mines and minerals. The incorporators are Merris Guegenhe'm and Isaae Gurgenheim of New York, | and Edward P. Mattews of Perth Am- © p bey, N. J. FITZ KNOCKED OUT YOUNG MAN FROM CALIFORNIA DOES TH ETRICK. James J. Jeffries, After Eleven Rounds of Whirlwind Fighting, Wrests the Title of Heavy-weight Champion From the Redheaded Antipodean — Jeffries the Ac* knowledged Match of the Man’ He Defeated — Contest Pulled Off Without a Wrangle and Was De- void of Brutal Elements. New York, June 11. — James J. Jeffries, another sturdy young giant, has come out from the West to whip champion pugilists. At the arena of the Coney Island Athletic club last night he defeated Robert Fitzsimmons, world’s champion in two classes — middle-weight and heavy-weight — in eleven rounds of whirlwind fighting. He came to the ring a rank outsider and left it the ac- knowledged master of the man he de- feated. He was never at any time in serious danger, and aftei tue size-up in the early rounds of the contest took the lead. He had the Australian whipped from the ninth round. It was acknowledged that Jeffries would have an immense advantage in weight, height and age, but the thousands who tipped and backed his opponent to win were sure that he was slow and that he would in that respect be absolutely at the mercy of the past master at the science of fighting that he was to meet, lle proved, on the contrary, that he Was just as fast as the man he met, and beat him down to unconscious de- feat in a fair fight. He is a veritable giant in stature and marvelously speedy for his immense size. Less than a year ago he appeared in New York a great, awkward, ungainly boy. At twenty-four he has defeated Robert Fitzsimmons, Tom Sharkey and Peter Jackson, and if he cares for himself he will probably be 9b » Suecessfully Defend the ‘Iitle for many years. ‘Che defeated man was just as good as when on the crispy morning on the plains of far-away Ne- vada he lowered the colors of the then peerless Corbett. He was just as ac ive, just as clever, just as tricky and just as fearless of punishment. He went unfaltering to his defeat. He was the aggressor even at moments when he was bleeding and unsteady, and when stunned by the blows he received he reeled instinctively toward his op- ponent, but founc him a different than any he had met «nd a difficult man to fight, Jeffries fonght from a crouch- ing attitude that was hard to get at. He held his head low, his back was bent down and his left arm wes ex- tended, He kept jabbing away with the left and found no trouble in land- ing it. It was there that his superior reach told. That giant arm served as a sort of human fender to ward off danger. He showed an excellent de- fense and the ability to use both hands with skill. He is game, too, for he never shrank from his punishment. It was a great fight té watch and com- menced and ended amid scenes of in- tense excitement. It was all very dra- matic. The contest was pulled off without wrangle and was devoid of the brutal elements that Chief Devery alleged he feared. Never was a crowd handled with greater order and less friction. It was all perfectly orderly, Fight Starts Promptly. There was no long delay at the ring, and the big gong sounded almost as soon as the men had been presented and gloved. When they squared off Jeffries looked fifty pounds to the good. ‘The opening round was a try-eut pure and simple, and not a single ‘blow of an effective nature was landed. The second round egan in business-like fashion with Jeffries getting in his left, Fitzsimmons then tovk a turn, but was short. Just as the round clesed Jeffries downed Fitzsinmons with a hard straight left on the jaw. The champion came up slowly in a dazed sort of a way and reeled toward his man. The crowd cheered Jeifries, but the gong ended the round. Fitz simmons rallied in, the rest and was aggressive again in the third. Fitz- simmons was bleeding but fighting viciously. He made the pace, but it was the Californian’s round. The fourth was fast but not dec‘sive. Fitz simmons made his best showing in the fifth. He began the rovnd with a punch that cpened Jeffries’ left eye and sent a little torrent of bleod coursing down his cheek, Le forced Jeffries against the ropes, but the Califernian slipped away from him. He made Jeffries hug around, but when the round ended Jeffries was Back and Fighting. Fitzsimmons was the a-gressor in the sixth, and that, too, was his round. He tried all of his tricks with left and right but was unable to place them right. He closed with a strong right upper-cut, but that, too, was blocked. ‘The seventh might be sid to have been Fitzsimmons’, but he did ro par ticular damage with his punches. The eighth saw the beginning of the end, for Fitzsimmons never regained his balance after that round. Jeffries be gan the round with a straight left on the face that again brought the blood out of his opponent's mounth. ‘The Cornishman staggered against the ropes but came beck for another facer, There was fear ip Fitzsimmons’ corner, and Julian yelled to Fitzsimmons to be careful. Fitzsimmons planted one of his lefts on Jeffries’ jaw and staggerea him against the ropes, Fitzsimmons looked like a beaten man. The round was all Jeffries’. He sent the Aus- tralian’s head back with a series of lefts, put his right on the body and avoided any serious puni-ament. Fitz- simmons kept pressing forward all the time; however, but was uzable to find his opponent. The tenth was in real- ity where the fight ended. Jeffries rushed his opponent and downed him with a left swing. Fitzsimmons seemed out, and there was a moment of the wildest excitement. Julian ran along the side of the ring and sprinkled water on his fallen idol. At the end of seven seconds Fitzsimmons staggered to his feet only to go down again. He was up again and Jeffries poised him- self ; For the Finish. i He shot his left to the body and tried for the head with the right. He was calm and collected, but the time was the aid of the man who was then going, siaggering and dazed, to certain defeat. There was a frantic effort to revive the champion of champions, but he was- clearly. gone and his seconds could not restore him. The fate-like gong clauged again and the old fighter wobbled out to meet the sturdy young Hercules who awaited him. It was as courageous and gritty a dash asuptothe firing line in battle, but it was hope- less. They were together. It was a splendid moment and full of the melo- dramatic intensity that characterizes a tragedy. Jeffries was as fresh as at the start. There was a moment of sparring and the giant. arms of the Californian shot out through the air. It was left and right and all over, Fitzsimmons, limp and unconscious, dropped to the floor. Jeffries stepped back, for he knew the force that had been put behind the terrible blows. The timers called off the seconds that counted out an old ring hero and her- alded another, but nobody heard them. The crowd was on its feet howling. There“was a rush for the ring, but scores of bluecoats barred the way. Ten seconds are short, and when the tenth had come there was a new roar of excitement to welcome the victor. Julian, Yank Kenny and Everhart gathered up the prostrate man. He was still in a trance. They carried him to his corner and a little blood oozed from his mouth as his head fell forward on his chest. The new hero crossed the ring and shook the hand of his rival, after which he was sur- rounded by his friends, who hustled him from the ring and into his dress- ing room, MAY USE VETERANS. Chance for Volunters Who Want to Stay at Manila. Washington, June 11.—The cabinet, in connection with the possible neces- sity of enlisting a force of volunteers, discussed a plan for the enlistment of several skeleton regiments in Manila from among the volunteers who desire to remain in the service and the sub- sequent filling out of these regiments with recruits enlisted in this country. Gen. Otis, according to the plan, will be given authority to select the officers who are to be mustered out. The plan, which commends itself to the favor of the members of the cabinet generally, would form a nucleus of veteran of- ficers and men, seasoned to the climate and familiar with the work to be done. Such a force leavened with veterans, doubtless would be immeasurably su- perior to a force of raw recruits, un- disciplined and unacclimated. The plan was only discussed in connection with future contingencies, and did not reach the stage of completion. The president anndunced names of the Nic. araguan canal commission and there was unanimous concurrence in the se- lection. The attorney general an- nounced his opinion that the army re- organization bill fixing the maximum strength of the army at 65,000 did not include the enlisted force of the hospi- tal corps, about 2,600 men, so that the enlisted force can be increased by that rumber. Up to the time the cabinet met no word had come to indicate that the modus vivendi relative to the Alaskan boundary had been signed. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, June 12. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 72 1-2@74c; No. 2 Northern, 711-2@731-4¢e, Corn—No.3 yellow, 30 @311-2c; No, 2, 311-2@31c. Oats—No, 8 white, 27 1-2@28 0. 8, 27@27 1-2c, Barley and Rye — Sample barley, 34 @10c; No. 2 rye, 56e; No. 3 tye, 55¢. Duluth, June 12.—Wheat—Cash, No, 1 hard, 76 5-8c: No. 1 Northern, 74 1-8¢, No. 2 Northern, 695-8c; No. 3 spring, 67 1-Sc; to arrive, No. 1 hard, 76 7-8c; No. 1 Northern, 743-8 July, No. 1 hard, 767 No. 1 Northern, 74 3-8¢; September, No. 1 Northern, © 73 7-8e. Oats, 26 3-8@26 7-8c; rye, 56c; barley, 34c; flax, to arrive, $1.01; September, 4c; corn, 32 3-4e. Minneapolis, June 12.—Wheat—July opened at 72 7-8¢ and clesed at 72 5-8e; September opened at 717-8c and closed at 711-2c. On track — No. 1 hard, 73 5-8c; No, 1 Northern, 72 5-8e; No. 2 Northern, 71 5-Se. Milwaukee, Wis., June 12.—Flour is steady. Wheat lower; No. 1 Northern, 76c; No.2 Nerthern, 741-2 Oats steady at 28@29¢e. Rye dull; No. 1, 571-2e. Barley steady; Ne. 2, 40¢; sample, 35@39 1-2c¢, Chicago, June 12. — Wheat — No. 2 Te. 8, 82 1-2@338e. 24 1-2¢. Chicago, June 12. — Hogs — Light, $3. 3.95; mixed, $3.70@3.95; heavy, $3.85@38.95; rough. $3.60@3.75, Cattle Beeves, $4.5075.50; cows and heifers, .73@5; Texas steers, $4.25@5; stock- ers and feeders, $3.75@5 10. Sheep— Natives, $8.75@5; lambs, $3.75@5.75. Sioux City, lowa, June 12. — Hogs — $3.50@3,60. Cattle—Beeves, $4.50@4.65, cows and bulls, mixed, $2@4.50; stock- ers and feeders, $4@4.50; calves and yearlings, $4@5.50. South St. Paul, June 12. — Hogs — $3.85@3.60. Cattle—Steers, $4.35@4. calves, §325@¢40; cows, . stockers, $3.50@4.85; heifers, $2.75@3. The secretary of state of Delaware has issued a cerfificate of incorporation to the American Grass Twine Com- pany of New York, for the manufac- ture and sale of twine of all kinds, capital stock, $15,000,000, and the Delaware Cotton . Company of Wil- mington, for the manufacture and sale of cotton goods of all kinds and quali- ties; capital stock, $250,000. Temrest at Madrid. Madrid, June 11.—The city was yis- ited by a-terrible tempest of hail which aid immense damage and caused floods at many points. One person was killed and many.injured. Attorney Wile Is Dead. Chicago, June 11.—David J. Wile, the } attorney wko was shot a few weeks ago by Mabel Burke, who shot and killed herself at the same time, died last night of bloodpoisoning. Wile was about forty-two years old. an To Find the North Pole. Christiana, June 11, — The Italian crown prince, Victor Emanuel, ac- companied by the crown princess, ar- rived her to join the expedition of the duke of Abruzzi in search of the north too short. Again did the gong come to 1 pole. ‘ 3 “AGGY 1S DICTATOR FILIPINO CHIEFTAIN NOW THE WHOLE THING. Report Reaches London That ee | naldo Has Proclaimed Himself Dietator and Dissolved the Fili- pino Congress—Washington Of: fieinis Think He Aims to Consol- idnie in His Own'Hands the Pow- cr to Make Peace—Nebraskans WHI Sail in a Few Days—Oregons WILL Sail Next. s London, June 10—Special dispatches from Manila say it is reported that Aguinaldo has dissolved the Filipino congress and has proclaimed himself” dictator. Washington, June 10.—Officials here are in doubt as to whether Aguinaldo mm declaring his dictatorship is ani- nated by a desire to rid himself of re- fractory Generals Pilar and Luna or whether he aims to consolidate in his own hands the power to make terms of peace.» It is known from the reports of President Schurman, of the Amert- can Philippine commission, that these two generals own only faint allegiance to Aguinaldo, and their attitude to- ward the peace negotiations has made these negotiations ineffectutl, the civilian members on the Filipino side of the joint commission being com- pletely overawed and dominated by the military element controlled by these generals. It is believed here that if Aguinaldo can bend these men to bis will and assume supreme coutro] he will at once make for peace, being able to secure better terms for himeelf than he could otherwise. Washington, June 10. — Gen. Otis cables as follows regarding return of volunteers: “Oregon requests to de- fer time of departure until 12th; will leave for Portland in transports Ohio and Newport. Sixth infantry, upon ar- rival, will r ve Californians at Ne- gros. Hancock sdils in few days with Nebraska and other troops.” Washington, June 10.—The situation in the Philippines is described by Gen. Otis in the following cablegram: “Results of the movements in Morong province were to drive the insurgents: into the mountains after the capture of Antipolo and other towns in that section. They retreated and scattered before our advance, leaving twenty- five dead on the field; our loss was. four killed and a few wounded, mostly slightly. The city of Morong is garri- soned and all other troops withdrawn. Inhabitants of the probinces profess: friendship and ask protection, Large numbers wish to enter Manila. We re- fuse, city population is increasing too rapid Leading natives through- out the island, ineluding active insur- gent leaders, seek permission to send their families to Manile. It is consia- ered the only place of personal safety.” ‘The conclusions drawn hy the war department officials concerning the conditions in the Philippines are that the insurgents are little more than marauding bands which will continu- ally decrease when the men find there is life and liberty under American gov- ernment. NEWS OF THE WAR. Blockade Duty of the Ships — Gil- more Party Safe. Manila, June 10.—Tne United States- cruiser Boston, Capt. W, H. Whiting, has sailed for San Francisco by way of Nagasaki, Japan, with long service of- ficers and men from the various Amer- ican warships. The battleship Oregon will soon be- stationed off Dagupan, in the Gulf of Lingayer, on blockade duty. The Albany, one of the vessels pur- chi from the Spaniards and com- mandaed by EnEsign W, H. Standley, has captured three sailing vessels and one steamer off the island of Negros. Nine of these boats (of the Albany class) are now in commission and are doing good service in the shallow waters of the southern islands. Favorable reports are still being re- ceived from the party of fifteen Ameri- cans belonging to the gunboat York- town, headed by Lieut. Gilmore, cap- tured on April 12 by Filipinos. They are all well ard are receiving fair treatment. FILIPINO DICTATORSHIP. The Report-Is CreditedGen. Luna Is Challeneged to a Duel. New York, June 10. — An Evening Sun special from Manila says: The remor that Aguinaldo has established a distatorship and placing under ar- rest those known to be in favor of am autonomous government is credited by leading Filipinos: here. Members of the family of Senor Buencamine, one of the Filipino commissioners who was recently captured by Gen. Luna while on their way to Malolos to join the other native commissioners, and de- tained by that leader, have been inter- yiewed at Sulipan. They say that Maj. Buencamine, son of the captured ccmmissioner, has challenged Luna to fight a duel on account of an insult to his father, whom Gen. Luna is alleged to have struck. EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION, Results From an Explosion of Oil im a Harware Store. Lyons, N. Y., June 10.—An explosion of oil in the hardware store of J. 8. Myers resulted in the most extensive conflagration Lyons has experienced im years. The Myers building, together with its contents, was- totally de- stroyed; the William Kline block, ad- joining, was badly damaged, and the Boehim block was partially destroyed. Mr. Myers was seriously burned, but it is thought he will recover. They Are Alarmed. Glasgow, Scotland, June 10. — At a mass meeting here of manufacturers, ship owners and merchants a resolu-, tion was passed expressing alarm at the serious injury to British and colon- jal trade arising from the continued and threatened extension of foreign competition by America and Germany, . _ Britain Boacd of Trade. : London, June 10.—The statement « -the board of trade for the month i May shows increases of £3,170,400 inv imports and £5,138,900 in exports. | {