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JOURNAL wkk.nii.y est xni.isiinn wzz. iii.y i:staicliiki) n.v. VOL. LIXO, 21)0, INDIANAPOLIS. SATURDAY 5IOKMXG, OCTOBER 2C5. 1 1) 0 1 TWELVE PAGES. - PKICK 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE 4. THE TW TW A W A TjAT TO tir.iTKx.WT iiodgsovs STATE MENT FLATLY CONTRADICTED. Tolil the nnl Conrt YetcrIay He Swr Mnel l'e of the Epre. Mioa Dninn the Teins." OTHER TESTIMONY REFUTED sciiley positive ms "loop' did .not peril thi: texas. AIjm Certnln the Ltternnce Attrib ute! t II im liy Commander Potta Were Never Made. AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE Or TIIK II A TT LI' OFF SWTIAfiO AM) preceding incidents. Admiral Deuey Prompt In Enfeireiiif? the Hille of the Court that NVit nemse -Int Stick to Fnct. WASHINGTON. Oct. 2S. When the Schley court of inquiry ailjourned to-day Admiral Schley had not completed hid testimony In chief. He took the stand about 11:3) o'clock, after former witnesses had been recalled for the purpose of mak ing corrections in and additions to their testimony, and continued his statement until court adjourned at 3:40 p. m. This adjournment, twenty minutes in advance of the usual time, was due to the fact that the admiral's throat had become some what sensitive as a result of his con tinuous talkin yesterday and to-day. He had made complaint to the court of the condition of his throat immediately after concluding his recital of the story of tho battle off Santiago, and Admiral Dewey, who evidently himself had noticed the dif ficulty, responded by showing a willingness to adjourn the court. Mr. Rayner, how ever, expressed a desire to proceed, say ing that he had a number of questions ivhleh ho wished to ask. and Admiral Schley assented to his counsel's sugges tion. A Quarter of an hour later Admiral Dewey himself renewed the suggestion for an adjournment, and. all concern d agree ing to this proposition, the court adjourned rntil Monday at 11 o'clock. The daj was a notable one in court. By Iarue odds the largest crowd that his yet attended any of the sessions was present, and earnest inten-st was manifested throughout the proceedings. Long before the beginning of the morning session all the seats reserved for visitors in the court room wert occupied and tho greater por tion of the rpace in the rear of these seats was covered by men 'and women standing. They not only stood upon the floor, but tpcr window sills and tables, and even f!l rude elevator machinery In that por tion of the hall was covered by men. Only on one occasion was there any r ilort at applause, and this was suppressed before It had reached any magnitude. The chief event of the day was the ad miral's relation of the events of July C, when the American Meet sent Cervera's squadron to the bottom of iht sta or to the beach. He told his story of this his torical occurrence in plain words and In unaffected tyle, but the narrative was straightforward and to the point, indicat ing close familiarity with all the phases of that event. He said the Brooklyn had for a time sustained the tire of all four of the Spanish sh'ps, and alse. the lire of tho Spanish land batteries. Explaining the his torical turn of his own flagship, the Brook lyn, he said that she had not approached to within loss than &n) vards of the Texas, and he never had considered that vessel in the least langer. He also stated, in re sponse to an interrogation from Mr. Hay ner, that he had never during the battle cnr.ged in any colloquy with lieutenant 1" Jgson and that he had not used the ex pression attributed to him by Hodgson. This refers to the alleged colloquy in which the admiral Is charged with having said, "Damn the Texas." Admiral Scnley also gave the details uf the reconnoissance of May 31, when the Spanish ship Cristobal Colon was bombarded. In this connection he denied the statements attributed to him by Comamnder Potts of the battleship Massachusetts. Preceding the adjournment of the court the question of calling Admiral Sampson to the stand was revived by Judge Advocate Iemly. who reminded Mr. Hayner that he (Mr. Hayner) had suggested some time ago that he desired the admiral called. Captain Lemly said he was prepared to Issue tho summons if e ailed on to do so, but Mr. Hay ner responded that the incident which hid seemed to demand the admiral's attendance had dwindled into comparative insignifi cance, and. he ad. led. that it was well un fierstood the condition of Admiral Samp son's health was such that lie could not be expected to appear upon the witness stan.l. A.i Admiral Schley left the courtroom to day he was given quite an ovation. A large number of person. had halted outside the courtroom, and many insisted on shaking hands with 1dm. The assemblage escorted him up the bill from the gunner's workshop In which the court sits to the outer gates of the navy yard. . testimony in detail. Hear Admiral Schley Tfll the Whole Story or III Cu m pH lirn. WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. -When Hear Admiral Schley took the stand this morn ing he said he would, with the court's per mission, go back to Cienf iit-gos. In order that his narrative might be char. Regard ing the McCall.t memorandum be said he received but one copy. If there had been another he said it should be in the papers mhlch wre return d to the Navy Depart ment In January or February, :u. He said he had not bombarded the earthworks at Cienfutb'&s because he was convinced that urh bombardment would be unavailing Subsequent experiences In the war, lit thought, bore out this; opinion. Admiral JK'hley was proceeding to say that a di.'patch. No. H concerning which Lieutenant Marsh had testified (th- dis patch containing positive information that the Spanish fiee-t waa in Santiago,, was not received by him until June R when the Judge advocate cl.Je ted. apialn I-ernly If tho court please, 1 re- gut very inuiii to U compelled to make objection to this character of testimonv. hut I understand from the court itself that it wants facts. Admiral Schley (sotto voce) Well, those are facts. Captain Lemly I do not understand this witness is here for the purpose of making an argument, and I do not think this char acter of testimony from a witness, even on the stand in his own behalf, is a matter of testimony. Mr. Hayner contended that Admiral Schley was not giving cplnion; that he was Pimply testifying to facts vithin his knowl edge. After some further sparring the members of the court held a brief consulta tion without leaving the courtroom, and Admiral Dewey announced its decision as follows: "The court is of opinion that it is eminently proper for the witness to make the statement that the dispatch was dated May 27 and not received until June 20, then drop it. just slve the facts." To this Admiral Schley responded that this was all that he had Intended to do. Thirteen days had elapsed betöre he re ceived the dispatch. Proceeding. Admiral Schley testified that he believed Captain Cotton's statement regarding the offer of Lieutenant Field to go ashore at Santiago to learn positively whether the Spanish fleet was In Santiago was somewhat faulty, and he detailed some facts relating to Field's offer which tixed his own impression of it in his mind. On May 31, after the bom bardment of the Colon, and after Captain Cotton had gone for Mole St. Nlchola.--with a report to the department on that subject Admiral Schley testified that he sent Nunez, the plied, westward to com municate with the Insurgents. Nunez landed near Ascerederos, fifteen or sixteen miles west of Santiago, and, joining some of the insurgents, went into the interior. He returned June 1 or 2 with detailed in formation of the location of the Spanish ships In the harbor. "I sent him." added Admiral Schley, "to the commander-in-chief with that information." TIIK RETROGRADE MOVEMENT. The witness returned to the retrograde movement, saying: "Touching the question of the retrograde movement, after the Mer rimac had broken down, the movement was not made to the westward until toward ! o'clock, the Yale having had considerable difficulty in getting a hawser to her. That hawser parted about 11 o'clock that night, when I was signaled by Captain Wise, of the Yale, that it would take some four hours to break out a steel hawser. The ship, at that time, was absolutely unman ageable. She was not capable of turning a propeller. I do not think we got under way again until 4 o'clock of the afternoon of the 27th, and not long after she was taken in tow, steaming to the westward. We went a little further than I had Intended, on ac count of the difficulty In getting the Yale to read our Anlois signals. We were obliged tCONTlNriJlJDC)N PAGE H, COL. 1.) I EXPLOSION IN A MINE five men k ii.lf.i1 ami m.h ix ji red .near ayilivesiiahhe. HuiiKnrinn Opened 111 Safety Lamp and (in Ignited l.odie of the Demi .Mangled. WILKESBAURE, Fa.. Oct. 23. A ter rirtc explosion of gas occurred In the But tonwood mine of the Parrish Coal Com pany, situated one mile south of this city, late this afternoon, which caused the death of five men and the injury of nine others. The killed are: EHKNEZEH WILLIAMS, first assistant foreman. COMER WILLIAMS, second assistant foreman. THOMAS Gl'EST, company hand. THOMAS PRICE, track layer. W. S. rillLLIPS, inspector. Directly after the explosion occurred a number of rescuers, at the risk of their lives, entered the mine, filled with danger ous after-damp, and brought out the bodies of the dead and injured. So far as can be learned the explosion was caused by the carelessness of one of the Hungarian laborers, who was injured. He opened his safety lamp while at work in his chamber. This caused a small body of gas to explode, which, however, did not injure the men or cause any damage. The explosion was heard, however, by the fore man and his assistants, who rushed into the chamber only to encounter another larger body of gas which had accumulated from the first explosion. The second ex plosion was of such force that it hurled the men in 11 directions. The bodies of the dead were badly mangled. NEGOTIATIONS ARE OFF ihlgarians not in toicii with miss stone's kidnapers. Communication, However, In Said to , Have Ileen Itnhlinhel with the II rl gauds liy "Way of Menllk. LONDON, Oct. 2'.. According to advices to the Morning Leader from Sofia, dated Tuesday, Oct. 22. any negotiations that were pending between the Bulgarian au thorities and the abductors of Miss Stone have been broken off. SOFIA. Oct. 25. It is scmi-officially as serted that no indication has yet been found of Miss Stone's kidnapers in Bul garia. The Bulgarian government is de termined to annihilate the band, should it cross tho frontier, and will deal with the utmost severity with any Bulgarians whose complicity in the kidnaping shall be proved. Great resentment is felt here at the exploitation to the discredit pf Bulgaria of a crime committed in another state. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 25.-Communl- cation has been established from Melnlk, province of Salonica, with the brigands who abductt d ' Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, and her companion, Mme. Tsilka. Messrs. Pect and Eddy had a long conference to-day on the various phases of the Stone affair, based on dis patches received from Melnlk. NEW YORK, Oct. 25.Th fact that the brigands who kidnaped Miss Ston have permitted communication to be established is taken to mean that Miss Stone is still alive ami safe from harm for the present, at least, says the Sofia correspondent of the World. C. M. Dickinson, the diplo matic agent or envoy of the United States in Bulgaria, as well as consul general at Constantinople, in an Interview said: "I still think that the Bulgarian government will bring pressure enough to bear on the Macedonian committee, and through it on tiie brigands, to release their captives. Some members of the committee were ar rested by the Bulgarian officials but re leased in a few days. If Prince Ferdinand's (Bulgarians government relaxes its pres sure on the committee nothing will be left but to pay th' ransom in order to secure the safety of Miss Stone and her compan ion, Mme. Tsilka. and thenceforth endan ger the lives and safety of the Americans resident in this country or traveling throuuh it. I have absolute proof of the complicity In the crime of some members of the Macedonian committee. The bri gands who attacked Mls Stone's party were disguised in Turkish fez and cloak. Hut two of them threw back their cloaks during the attack, thus revealing the uni form of the Macedonian -"ommittee. They were recognized, too, as Bulgarian. More over, they spoke poor Turkish, but good Bulgarian, and ate ham and bacon. The leading monitors of the Bulgarian govern ment agree, I believe, that the brigands are willing to surrender to the Bulgarian troops, and that in this .-as there would be no danger to the captives, hut if they should be attacked by Turkish troops the brigands would flirht to the last nnd then kill the captives. The Turkish troops are ! under orders not to attack the brigand I even if they are fired upon." W&S?r REDUCTION WoYr3! - AT WILL CURB CHAMBKIILAIX OFTMM'S TIIH BRIT ISH MINISTRY'S POLICY. Sny Aerr Rules Will He Adopted for Limiting: Obstruction In the Houne of Common. SONS OF ERIN EXCORIATED COLONIAL SF.CRI'TARY THINKS TOO MANY" ARK IN PARLIAMENT. lie Also Intlmnte the Time In Ilipc for llnrnli Menaure Ajinliint the lloers. EDINBURGH, Oct. 23. Mr. Chamberlain, the colonial secretary, addressing upward of S.000 persons in Waverly market, Edin burgh, to-night, announced that the gov ernment Intended to frame new rules for the House of Commons so as to limit Irish obstruction. "We propose," said he, "to bring forward rule:? which shall give to the majority of the Commons greater con trol over its own business and greater con trol over the men who insult and outrage It, and we shall endeavor to protect the mother of Parliaments from those who would destroy her usefulness and reputa tion." But this was not the only thing Mr. Chamberlain declared the government in tended to do. "The present representation of Ireland is." said he, "an abuse and scandal. No alteration could be made ex cept in immediate anticipation of a general dissolution, and we are not contemplating that. But when wc get nearer to the time we shall ask you whether you think Irish representation is so precious to you, is so valuable to the national Interests, that it is desirable to continue it on a scale which gives the Irish a representation enormously exceeding the proportionate representation of Scotland and England." The colonial secretary went on to point out that on the basis of population Ireland had thirty members too many in the House of Commons, and on the basis of her con tributions for imperial purposes, as con sidered at the time of the union, ?ho had from forty to fifty members too many. "I say that this constitutes an abuse," he con tinued, "and there is no reason why it should be perpetuated.' In another portion of the speech, which was largely devoted to the Irish question, he observed: "If these gentlemen who now openly shout for the Mahdi and pray for the Boers, if they had a parliament of their own, if all the strings of Irish government had been in their hands, if they had had the power, is it not certain they would have refused to pay their contribution to the war, ami that would have placed us In a position of embarrassment." The relations of the parliamentary oppo sition with the Irish party. Mr. Chamber lain said, he considered "dangerous to the empire." In reviewing the war In South Africa, which he declared again had ben forced upon Great Britain by the Boers, he said the government acknowledged it had made a mistake as to the time of ending the war, and that he admired the tenacity of the Boers, but he Insisted that It was "the dutv of Great Britain to meet this tenacity with equal resolution. Then followed what is regarded as a most important declaration: "I think the time has come, or is com ing," said the colonial secretary, "when measures of greater severity may be neces sary, and if that time comes we can find precedents for anything; we do In the ac tions of those nations who now criticise our 'barbarity am! 'cruelty.' but whose example In Poland, in thn Caucasus, In Al geria, in Tonquln. in Bosnia and in the Franco-German war we have never ap proached."' Oeuerul Elrrtion In l!o'J. LONDON. Oct. 'X-The Dally News says it hears from a quarter unusually well In formed that the government contemplate s a general election In lf2. and that the Con servative election agents ha.e received In structions to be prepared for eventualities. The ante paper makes the statement that IliffltK THE BARGAIN COUNTER. when the Liberal government was over turned in by a snap division a docu ment was actually ready for signature ap pointing Sir Bedvers Duller commander-in-chief. (;i:i:it vl in lli:ifs cash. It I Giving; Eng;llh I'olit ieianM n Grent Deal of Worry. LONDON, Oct. 23. Liberal leaders deny that any meeting of Liberal leaders has been called, as cabled to the United States by a news agency, to consider the advisa bility of issuing a manifesto to the country calling on the government to resign or call a special session of Parliament to discuss the Boer war. the dismissal of General Bul'er and other matters. So far as stir ring up an agitation on tho subject of Gen eral Buller is concerned, it is undeniable that tho -Liberal leaders concede that the War Office acted correctly In retiring Gen eral Buller, though this docs not prevent criticism of that officer's previous appoint ment to the command of the First Army Corps. The efforts made by several of the London daily newspapers to create a feel ing" In General Buller's favor are partly due to their desire to make party capital, as these papers, previous to tho action of the War Office, could scarcely say anything bad enough about the general. They have succeeded, however, in working up a cer tain amount of popular enthusiasm, which finds vent in music hall demonstrations wherever General Buller's name is men tioned. A great meeting of sympathy In Hyde Park is now tinder consideration, and there is talk of tho presentation to the general of a sword of honor as a na tional tribute. In the west of England, where General Buller's home is situated, the feeling runs high. Fnquent meetings have been held to denounce the govern ment's action. A representative of the Associated Press learns that General Buller, nfter delivering the speech which resulted in his retire ment, received a personal letter from King Edward disapproving of his utterances and clearly Intimating that his Majesty would be glad if General Buller would resign. Then the war secretary, Mr. Brodrick, summoned General Buller and pointblank demanded his resignation. It was a stormy interview, ending in General Bul ler's flat refusal to resign. It is said that the general, even then, did not believe the War Office would venture to retire him. After the interview Mr. Brodrick went straight to King Edward, in Scotland, and the result of his visit was the action which has now so stirred up the country. Walter Long, president of the local gov ernment board. In the course of a long speech at Liverpool this afternoon, said the government would defend General Bul ler's appointment to the command at Al dershot on the grounds of policy and jus tice. His dismissal was solely because his recent speech was subversive to military discipline. Agonized consideration had been extended to the case and the Cabinet unanimously supported Lord Roberts's ac tion. Probably no man possessing the tra ditional qualities of the British to a greater degree than General Buller ever wore the King's uniform, but a greater mistake than his no soldier could make. The Scottish Liberal Association, at a meeting at Sterling to-day, at which Sir Henry Campbell-Banncrman presided, passed a resolution that "the continued ex istence of Lord Salisbury's government threatens the country with humiliation and disaster and the Liberal party should be united under Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man's leadership for the government's overthrow." During the course of his speech Sir Henry said the Liberals no long er cared for mlnistf rial denunciations. The nation had lost all confidence in the capa bility of the government, though it might be som time before the nation took en tirely the same Views of the terrible state of thin&s in South Africa. CZOLGOCZ REPENTING. He linn an Interview yyltU n Polish I'rient from Iluffnlo. At BURN, N. V., Oct. 2T.-Leon Czolgotz. the murderer of President Mc Kinley, was visited In his cell la the Auburn prison to day by the Rev. Hyacinth Fudzinski. of Buffalo. The virit was made at the re quest of the condemned man. Mr. Fud zinski entered the prison at 10 o flock and spent an hour with the a.cs.isln. When he emerged he was asked by an Associated Press reporter If Czolgocz had renounced anarchy and embraced Christianity. He re plied: "lit i a Christian. He was born a Christian, and although lu- may have re nounced Christianity, he is a Christian. I think. This is all 1 will say." Father Kudzinsk! Is pastor of the Corpus Christi Church of Buffalo. tJust before leaving for Buffalo he admitted that during the hour he was with the assassin a great change for the better came over him. He t-aid he cxp ettei to sec Czoloez again soon. n TROOPS WILL RETURN SEVEN REGIMENTS TO BE WITH DRAWN FROM TIIE PHILIPPINES. Fourth, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth. Twenty-Second nnd Twenty-Third, Probably. OTHERS WILL BE SENT OUT POSSIRLY ELEVENTH, TWELFTH ASÜ THIRTEENTH CAVALRY, Twenty-Seventh, Twenty-Eighth nnd Twent j -intk In fun try, an Soon . ns They Can Re Recrnlted. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. Having reached a decision to check at least temporarily the natural reduction which is going on in the United States army in the Philippines as a consequence of the expiration of terms of enlistment, Secretary Root has before him details of a plan for replacing these men from the forces now in the United States. While final decision aH to the particular organizations to exchange have not yet been reached, it Is in contemplation to withdraw from the Philippines the Fourth, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Twenty-third Infantry, the organizations to return to the United States in the order In which they went to the islands. Before leaving the Philippines there will be many changes in these organizations, however, for It is the intention to exchange Into them from the other regiments in the Philippines the men whose terms of enlistment are about to ex pire. To take the place of returning troops the department will send out the Eleventh, Twelfth and Fifteenth Cavalry and the Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Infantry. The cavalry organiza tions will be brought up to th maximum strength by recruitment before they go out. while the infantry regiments will be swelled to the exceptional figure of 1.500 men each. In addition at least 1.0"0 men will be re cruited and sent out in battalion organiza tions for attachment to depleted regiments in the Philippines. The quattermaster's department is mak ing every preparation to discharge this heavy transportation problem, nnd it is be lieved that the movement can begin within a month after the orders issue. Orders for the; movement of troops were announced at the War Department to-day as follows: The Sixtieth. Sixty-first, Sixty second. Sixty-third. Sixty-fourth. Sixty f i f tli. Sixty-eighth. Seventieth and Seventy first companies of coast artillery from the Philippines to San Francisco, where they will be assigned to stations in the Depart ment of California. The First battalion Eighteenth Infantry has been transferred from the Department oi California to the Department of Texas for station at Fort Bliss, and Troop I). Twelfth Cavalry, at Fort Bliss, has been ordered to march to Hauchuca, A. T.. for station. TIIE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. It Will Re Devoid of liinl Report of Cabinet Oinrrn. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 AH members were present at the Cabinet meeting to day. Very little business of importance was transacted, but there was a general di-cussion of matters pertaining to the: different departments. The consultations wtv specially lull, owing to the dec ision which Mr. It'Misevelt lias reached to write all of his own message to Congress, and to do it o.i orkin.'l lines. Heretofore tlu secretary of state has written that portion covering for-ign relations, and the otner Cabinet officers each has contributed a chapter on hl3 respective department. The IT sid-.Tii has determined to do away with this detailed Matc-nunt of the affairs of each department. He will devote hit mes sage only to such topics as he chooses to lay particularly before the attention of Congress, leaving the reports of the Cab inet otaoers to :eiiaint t'oriKress with the details of administration. Con res men IHkou C'nmil Trenfj. WASHINGTON. Oct. .-Senatorial call ut,the State Department are bclu& rc- sumed. In addition to ex-Senator Wolcott. Senator St.-wart called to see S. cretary Hay to-day. and Bcpresentative Hopkii.s was also on the callers' list. Very few senators have failed to communicate th ir views- to the State Department ispc tl:.g the lines upon which the new llay-Paun- -fote treaty should be drawn, and the d -partment is satisfied it lias now succe!e.i in framing a convention that will ir.t with the complete acquiescence of the s. i. atorial leaders. This is true even of sortie of the Democratic senators. Or.e of the dangers apprehended in the ratification of the treaty is diversion of support from the treaty as presented to the Senate to amendments which may be offered by per sons who in principle already have accepted the treaty itself. Mr. Choate. L'nlted States ambassador at London, who is now in New England, has reported fully to Secretary Hay on the conditions as he left them i:i London. ! New Mail Route to Re EstntilUhed. i Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Oct. Zk Rural free de livery service has been ordered established, to begin Dec. 2. at Newburg. Warrick coun ty,. Indiana. Length of route, twenty-one miles; area covered, twenty-two square miles; population served, 7-3: number of houses on route, 14."; carrier, Ora F. Mathews. The postotlh-e at Dayville is to be discontinued. Postoffice at Yankeetown to be supplied by rural carrier. Nntionnl Cnpltnl Note. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. Secretary Wil son will leave here next Monday morning for Iowa, where he will deliver speeches at Dysart on Nov. 2 and at Vinton Nov. 4. Senator Pritchard and Representative Moody, of North Carolina, called on the President to-day and asked him to appoint S. I. Adams, of that State, as judge f the Court of Private Land Claims, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Thomas Fuller. The President said that as Judge Fuller was a Democrat, a man of that party would be named as his suc cessor. Lieutenart Colonel Ezra Woodruff, of the medical department, has been retired on account of age. He is a native of Ken tucky. The Clvll-service Commission to-day noti fied the postmaster general that it had modified its regulations in accordance with his request to aive certain physical re quirements of female applicants for posi tions as postoffice clerks, including that of making them hop on one foot for a dis tance of twelve feet. Former Senators J. Donald Cameron, of i Pennsylvania, and Edward O. Wolcott. of Colorado. Editor Schleinitz, of the Mil waukee Germania, and Secretaries Boot and Long took lunch with President Roose velt to-day. Secretary Boot remained some time after luncheon and discussed War Department affairs. To-night the President entertained W. W. Bockhill, for merly special commissioner to China, George W. Perkins, of New York, and Commander Cowies at dinner. The Navy Department received a cable gram from Bear Admiral Bemey to-day announcing his arrival at Vladlvostock aboard his flagship, the Brooklyn. REAL RIOT ON GRIDIRON NOT TUE MILD SCRIMMAGE KNOWN" TO ALL FOOTBALL PLAYERS, lint a Gennine Rongli-nnd-TniiiMe Flht, In Whleli Bystanders As sisted One Tenm with Clubs. M'KINNEY, Tex., Oct. 23. Fourteen men painfully brused and five seriously beaten Is the score of a football game In McKInney to-day. The McKInney Y. M. C. A. team and the Sherman (Texas) city team were on the gridiron, and In the first rush the Sherman team handled the McKInney boys roughly. Two of the men got into a dispute that de veloped into a fight. Others joined in the affair and the fight became general. Twenty two men were soon involved in a fist fight. Bystanders from both cities joined in the affair, with clubs and several men were frightfully beaten. Tollce and deputies rushed in and after some time succeeded in quelling the riot. Roy Runnels and Mansfield, of Sherman, and Weedin, Franklin and Guy Rambo, of McKinnej, were unconscious on the ground. Fourteen others were badly beaten and bruised. The sheriff arrested both teams and has them now under guard awaiting trial to-morrow. Rambo. Franklin, Run nels and Mansfield were taken to the hos pital, where they will remain to-night. Runnels is still unconscious. When the crowd reached the police sta tion the fight was renewed, but officers stopped it before any one was hurt. HONING FOR OPEN FIGHT SOLDIERS ARE ANXIOUS TO RETALI ATE OX SASIAIl nOLOMEN. Angered by Ilarbarona Treatment of Dead Americans Important fnp ture Fighting in Dnfnngns. MANILA, Oct. 23. The people of the island of Samar have been notified to con centrate in the towns, on pain of being considered public enemies and outlaws and treated accordingly. Intense feeling exists among the troops In Samar. If they can meet the enemy in the open there will be gTeat retaliation. Many of them have seen and the others have heard of the barbarous treatment to which the dead American sol diers were subjected by the Filipinos re cently. Francisco de Jesus, Lukban's chief com missary, was recently captured and taken to Cebu. Papers which he had in his pos session have resulted in the arrest of many of tho best known preside ntes and other civil officials of the island of Leyte. It de velops that Blliran island, north of the island of Leyte, has been a hotbed of in surrection. Every civil officer there has been aiding the Insurgents of Samar in every way. They have landed several car goes of rice and have received hemp in ex chAnge. Several thousand dollars also fell Into the hands of the Americans when D; Jesus was made prisoner. His capture is thought to be a great disaster to the revo lutionary cause. General Sumner reports a fight which to.k place s:t daybreak Wednesday at T.iy.iii, province of Batangas, b.-twe-en Companies 1) and I of the First Cavalry and a band of insurgents. There was eb-mltory firing the whole forenoon, when the insurgents were driven into the rr.otmtains. The cav alrymen destroyed th" insurgent barrack... storehouse, ight thousand pounds of rice and many uniforms and blanket.'. The Insurgents yesterday attacked S.n Jose, provinc. of Batangas, whit h was gar risoned by a detachment of the Twe.ity tirst Infantry under Lieut. Patric k A. Coii- nellv. The Americans fought hard. Put i were- unable to prevent the burning of the town. ReernitiiiK Ordered for Infr.ntry. Spe-cial to tli Indianapolis Journal. TF.BBE II ACTE, Ind.. Oct. 2.'. The fol lowing order has been r.cllvcd at the local recruiting f-tatlon: "Enlist for Infantry and cavalry desirable white applicants fitted for tropical service. Send to the Pr-sidi.i. Recruits now especially needed for white Infantry." I'ntll this order was recihed the station had te-ii enlisting men for ih light ami heavy artilleries. This new ord.r J taken to mean that th' War Department has de-cided to ktnd many uw mtji to th. l'niUppincs. ROASTED TO DEATH FATE OF .MEN AMI WOMEN !.N A III ItMXi FI RNITIRE STORE. DiHHtron Fire In the Bnildlng Oc cupied liy Hunt, WilklnKoii & Co. at I'hllHdelnhlfi. NINETEEN KNOWN VICTIMS BODIES OF OTHERS POSSIBLY IN THE RCINS OF THE STRICH RE. Seime of the Employes Burned With in View of ThotiMAiidw of People on the Streets Ilelow. OTHERS LEAPED TO GROUND AND WERE TERRIBLY MANGLED OR CRtSHEIl TO DEATH. I One Hundred Persons In the Place, nnd the Nnmher Who Escaped Is I nknoM n Loss .MKI.OOO. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. r.. Nineteen known dead and property loss amounting to upward of JW) is the awful result of a fire which occurred to-day in th busi ness section of the city. The number of injured is not known definitely, but fully a score; of victims were treated at various hospitals. Police and firemen are to-niaht delving into tho ruins in search of bodies supposed to have been buried beneath the debris, as it is feared that others besides the known dead may has lost their lives in the flames. The buildings destroyed were the fight-story structure it 1213 and 1 I Market street, occupied by Hunt, Wilkin son & Co.. upholsterers and furniture deal ers, and three three-story buildings occu pied by small merchantmen. The big fur niture building extended back a half block to Commerce street, and was owned by llcnry C. Lea. The list of known dead follows: DOROTHY KRAMER. MARTHA BAKER. MARGARET HEBDEN. SUSAN CO UM LEY. HARRY HOUSE. If. A. SPARROW. CHARLES E. SPARROW. FRED WI1TINGTON. CHARLES LAND1S. WALTER STEARLEY. J. K. ARMSTRONG. MRS. MARTHA BANKS, colored. MBS. -.MARY MITCHELL, crlorcd. MARGARET GRADY. ONE UNKNOWN WHITE WOMAN. UNKNOWN COLORED WOMAN, tup posed to be named Wilson. THREE UNKNOWN WHITE MEN. Never in its history has Philadelphia ex perienced a fire which spread with such great rapidity. At 10:20 o'clock this morn ing the blaze broke forth in the building occupied by Hunt, Wilkinson Sc Co., and one hour later the horrible sacrifice of lifo had been made and the immense loss of property had been accomplished. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is said an explosion of naphtha or gasoline in the basement was the cause, but this is denied by Mr. Wilkinson, who says there never was a sufficient quantity of cither explosive about the building to be responsible for to day's terrible di.easter. Rumor has it, also, that an elevator constructor at work in the basement permitted the flame of his lan tern to communicate with some of the gaseous liquids stored in the basement and that this was the cause of the conflagra- ll0n" DIED A LINGERING DEATH. Such a disastrous fire, attended with no great a loss of life in such a brief period, was never before known in this city. Men and women died a lingering, agonlzingdeath In the presence of thousands of spectators who were unable to lift a hand to their as sistance. The rear of Hunt, Wilkinson & Co.'s building faces on Commerce street, a small thoroughfare. On the fire escapes at this end of the building two men and erne woman were slowly roasted to death while the horror-stricken throng on the street below turned sick at the sight. In the front, on Market street, a woman, driven to desperation, leaped from a window on the top floor and was dashed to death on the pavement. These are but a few of the heart-rending scenes attending the confla gration. Firemen claim to have seen men and some women unable to reach the win dows or fire escapes burned to' death in the interior of the buildings. If this 1 so, lit tle or nothing remains of these victims, and It Is doubtful if any portion of their bodies will be re overed. Seventy-nine of the ) persons In Hunt, Wilkinson &. Co.'s building when the fire started were employes, and the remainder were customers and outside workmen, who were engaged in putting the finishing touches on the new eighth floor. More than half cf the firm's cniployrs wer on the upper five floors, and it was among these that the gr'at'st number were killed or injured. With the possible exception of the engineer, who i missing, all rTsoi, on the first three floors gt out of the building safe ly. The rn ml" rs of the Arm had the ir offices on the third floor, and their familiarity with the xits is all that save-d them from suffocation. Mr. Wilkin son said the srnejkc came up the stairway and the elevator s'l aft in such -great vol ume that he and. Mr. Hunt had much diffi e ulty in reaching the stro-t. Mod f tho-ee killed were at work on the sixth floor, wlvre women vcr engaged in sewing. They were at wrk In th rear of the build in if. close to Iho fire escape-e. and became confused by the gn-at piantity f unok that rushed up through the- building. It was report e-d that goods were stored against the windows, which prevented the women from g tting out on the fire esc ape i, but this was positively eb-ni d by a member of the firm. saved by cool-iii:adedni:ss. On the seventh floor there were twenty upholste-rrr. at woik and. thanks to the gnat prrsiic" of mind uf the foreman of the floor, In i an o?Ki,tl of the volunteer fire department at Mount Holly. N. J., 11 escaped urhurt. As soon as he learned cf the fire he m.trsluhd his men and ltd th ni thrwKh the thi k mk down ths sta.rv.ay and mIYIv inln th- Mrrft. Theft were lc-n -mph: c und a numhrr of out- fide workmen on the eighth floor. A ladder re ae heel from this flo r to the roof, wldc-h o-U have enable J tho;e wa IL&I So)r to.