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t>ase of operations ill ‘Manila.
Dewey is at Naples and
Hpi leave on Saturday or Monday tor
Eeghorn.
A British naval comnvaader de
clared that Gen. Otis should be re
called at once.
A landing party of American sea
men had a fight with Moroes on the is
land of Balabac.
The steamer Sundehland arrived at
Santiago from Havana with two cases
of yellow fever.
The sailing of the thirteenth Min
nesota for home was delayed three
days by a typhoon.
General Rosas, an obtreperous Cu
ban veteran, was shipped to Colombia
by Havana’s chief of police.
The second Oregon regiment, which
recently returned from Manila, was
mustered out at San Francisco.
Naval forces killed two natives in
re-establishing a lighthouse on the
Island of Balabac, Philippines.
By Oct. 22 the army n the Philip
pines, already on the ground or en
route there, will number 46,000.
Admiral Dewey asked the navy de
partment for the assignment to cap
ture Manila twenty-five years ago.
Admral Dewey declared at Naples
that he did not desire any de
monstrations in his honor at home.
President McKinley urged Secretary
Root, in a conference at Champlain,
to adopt vigorous methods to conquer
the Filipinos.
Secretary Root declares the war in
the Philippines will be pressed vigor
ously to a conclusion, neither men nor
money being spared.
The Filipinos, unobserved, trans
fered American and Spanish prisoners
.from Cavite province to Battau under
the guns of Corrigidor Island.
The New York Dewey celebration
committee will raise money by private
subscription if the aldermen Insist on
advertising for bids in letting con
tracts.
An American gunboat, shelled the
town of Paete, In the Philippines, kill
ing a child. The natives claim they
had been assured they would not be
molested.
A captain was arrested because of
the slowness of his company In getting
into the fight at Calamaha. It was
stated that most of the men were sick
and unfit for duty.
Minnesota volunteers at San Fran
cisco declared the charges against Col.
Ames to he false and say he Is the
victim of a plot. They tell of trouble
between Col. Ames and Gen. Gtis.
It has been found impossible to or
ganize two regiments in the south for
service in lue Philippines. The
regiments will be filled out by re
cruits from the north and west.
General Wilson, military governor
of Matanzos and Santa Clara, has Is
sued a proclamation reminding Ameri
can soldiers and civilians that they
must be courteous and civil to Cubans.
During a period of time in which
hero were returned to Spain from
0 iba account* of revenue aggregating
$9,000,000. the United States authori
ties have collected more than $29,000,-
000.
An order' has been issued di
recting that all civic transports shall
coal at Magaskl, both going and
coming. This will avoid the delays of
coaling at Manila which has pre
vented the ships from leaving that
port at the time scheduled.
Manzano, a Spanish police inspector
during the recent war In Cuba, on his
return to Havana, was recognized by
a Cuban he had sent to the isle of
Pines, and was only saved from lynch
ing at the hands of the Cuban’s friends
by the Interference of t.hf police.
The war department Is making every
effort to comply with Gen. Otis’ re
cent request for a number of machine
guns. In order that they shall reach
him in time for the campaign ex
pected to open wtth the dry season.
The department has decided not to
send to the Philippines the Sims-Dud
ley guns, but will oonflue the selec
tion to the types now in use in the
army.
In connection with the arrival of
United States Senator Beveridge from
Manila it Is said that Mrs. Beveridge,
who accompanied her husband, had the
distinction of firing five shots at the
Filipinos. She wee* on a drive escorted
by a squad of Tennessee soldiers. She
too far, and soon rebel bul
were falling about the carriage.
'Sits. Beveridge drew her revolver and
tired five shot* in thq direction of the
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suspenttcoal miMing In Illinois.
Charts Best (Jf Milwaukee died at
his sutjnner homV at Pine I-ake.
At Providence,' R. 1., General Hen
derson was given a clam bake.
There is a large surplus of money
in the financial cities of the west.
The butchers of the country met in
New York and will fight trusts.
The new steel and chain trust is or
ganized with 160,000,000 capital.
The American cricketers won the
match with the Canadians at Toronto.
An attempt will be made to have
congress regulate all interstate freight
rates.
Judge Collins of Minnesota says that
it is too early to start a gubernatorial
campaign.
President McKinley will speak at a
banquet during his visit to Chicago in
October.
William C. Clopton, a prominent
New York lawyer, obtained a Dakota
divorce.
Policeman Joseph O’Leary of Chica
go was shot and mortally wounded by
burglars.
State department officials said that
Andrew Carnegie is still an American
citizen.
The Chicago Coffin company sold its
plant to the National Casket company
for SBO,OOO.
Robert Porterfield, a well-known
shipping master, died in Brooklyn,
aged 86 years.
William C. Whitney, who arrived at
New York from Europe, declares that
he is out of politics.
John S. Johnson, or.i.e champion bi
cyclist and skater, will retire from the
sporting world.
Ex-Congressman Henry G. Burleigh
is dangerously ill at his home in
Whitehall, N. Y.
Frederick W. Niblock, Pasadena,
Cal., died of hemorrhage of the lungs
Aug. 7, aged 29.
By the collapse of a slip at Mt.
Desert nearly thirty persons were
drowned and fifty injured.
Mrs. Emma Blunt, Minneapolis, died.
She was the wife of Abbott Blunt, as
sociate editor of the Times.
Anti-Bryan democrats conferred at
Saratoga regarding ex-Justice Van
| Wyck’B presidential boom.
A race war in which a white man
and five negres were wounded took
place near Greenville, S. C.
The Union Steel and Chain company,
with a capital of $60,000,000, has been
Incorporated in Delaware.
John B. Russell, a well-known man
ufacturing pharmacist, is dead, in New
York cl'ty, aged 32 years.
Colonel Wililam E. Sinn, the theatri
cal manager, is dead at Pittsfield,
Mass. He was 65 years old.
The collier Brutus has sailed from
Honolulu for the island of Guam with
a cargo of coal for the station.
William Borden of Colorado Springs
shot and fatally wounded Miss Mabel
McKenna because she refused to marry
him.
Mrs. Martha Hott of Dayton, Ohio,
wife of Bishop J. W. Hott of the
United Brethren church, died, aged 55
years.
President McKinley witnessed a
yacht race at Champlain and conferred
with Secretary Root. Mrs. McKinley
is again 111.
Two Morman elders are reported to
have been beaten to death with clubs
by masked men in the mountains of
Tennessee.
A trolley car on a Connecticut line
plunged off a bridge at Peck’s Pond.
More than a score of persons were
crushed to death.
Frederick Baggs of Indianapolis,
Ind., died after a long illness. He was
manager of the Indianapolis Clearing-
House association.
At Atlanta a conference of Popu
list party leaders, was held. * ney de
termined to put out a state, county and
municipal ticket next year.
Jennie Worrell, twenty years ago a
famous beauty and actress, was prob
ably fatally burned by burning grass
on the Coney island meadows.
General Brooke was given instruc
tions today to prevent at all hazards
any filibustering expedition in Jimi
nez’s interest leaving Cuba.
A special says there is great uneasi
ness in Mexican military circles over
the attitude of the Mayo Indians, who
are in sympathy wltH the Yaquis.
Count Pierre Alexandro von Mohren
sehild was arrested In New York
charged with embezzling 70.000 roubles
while a Russian government official.
John C. Sheehan has issued 1 ft state
ment calling Croker "Ingrate and
traitor" and McMahon a democrat
“Air the imiyose of getting contracts."
News has been received that J. L.
Green, a college man and rough rider,
was killed In a duel at Sancti Spiritus.
Cuba, by an officer of the Cuban army.
Joseph M. Britton was taken from
his home in Newark. 111., and severely
whipped by whitecaps. He was re
cent Iyy indicted for illegal selling of
Hanoi]
kt negro 20 years old,
1 Lillian Clark, a
of age. was taken
exandria, Va.. and
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organlzation at
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res of 10 to 25 oentß
of the Carnegie
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a public library.
A Chicago judge severely
cured ‘the officials of a school of Cor
rection for sentencing a 12-yeai-old
boy to tnree days’ solitary confinement
in a dark cell.
Buchanan Lyall of Brooklyn filed
articles of incorporation. This com
pany will prove a rival to the tobacco
.trust. The company has a capital
stock of $4,000,000.
Etporge Hamilton, motorman of the
car \ which fell from a trestle near
Bridgeport, Conn., and killed 29 per
sons, was arrested and charged with
manslaughter.
Charrps P. James, Leesburg, Va.,
died, aged 80 years. He was formerly
an associate justice of the supreme
court of th District of Columbia,
having retired jn 1892.
Mary Sigsbee jthe only daughter of
Captain Sigsbe, who commanded the
battleship Maille, was secreteiy mar
ried at New Yorsc Nov. 26, 1898, to Bal
four Kerr, a yciung artist.
E. W. McGuJre of Richmond, Ind.,
died. He was president of the DillO-
M Guire company, and formerly gen
eral manager of the Cincinnati, Hamil
ton and Dayton Railroad.
Reports received by the director of
the mint show that so far this season
the amount of gold received at Seattle
and San Francisco from the Alaskan
gold fields aggregates $7,600,000.
William M. Zearing, one of Chicago’s
oldest residents, was stricken with
paralysis on the steamer Northland
while on his way from Duluth, and is
at Mackinac Island seriously ill.
The reports so far received from sub
treasury cities indicate that the can
for gold certificates in exchange for
gold coin will be considerably less
than the treasury officials expected.
Rev. Charles ’M. Lamson, D. D.,
Hartford, Conn., president of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, died at Johnsbury,
Vt., of neuralgia of the heart, aged 56.
General Miles has protested ‘to Secre
tary Root against ex-Secretary Alger’s
order making the Inspector-General’s
office a war department bureau under
the sole authority of the secretary of
war.
The result of democratic primaries
indicate that John R. McLean has se
cured the Lucas county, Ohio, delega
tion to the state convention. In con
tested precincts Mr. McLean secured
all delegates.
The engine and a portion of the
southbound Los Angeles express train
on the Southern Pacific railroad were
derailed near Don Palos. Engineer
C. J. Ford was killed and several
■passengers injured.
Mrs. Annie Kronmann was found
dead by her husband at their home on
Ninth avenue, New York, uncon
scious with ‘two five-inch gashes in
the back of her head. He has been ar
rested for the murder.
The new asphalt paving trust has
secured complete control of the West
ern Paving and Supply company. The
asphal't trust finds itself strongly in
trenched in Chicago. The capital is
placed at $10,000,000 or $15,000,000.
The steamer lowa, one of the best
boats on the Ohio river, with 600 ex
cursionists on hoard, was sunk at the
foot of Slim island, five miles below
Mount Vernon, Ind. No lives were
lost, but there were many narrow es
capes.
Mrs. Henrikka Bratz and “Elder”
D. C. Holmes, “divine healers” and
officials of Dr. John Alexander Dowies'
institution in Chicago were held to the
grand jury by the coroner’s jury in the
inquest over the death of Mrs. Annetia
Flanders.
Marquis Romano, secretary of the
Italian embassy at Washington, has
completed his report on f-e lynching
of five Italians at i,a. He
declares the lynching was an act of
unusual atrocity, without mitigating
circumstances.
Returns from the Cherokee elec
tion indicate the defeat of the national
ticket which had the support of the
full blood element and the election of
Buffington for principal chief by 2,000
majority. The Dawes ‘treaty matter
will not be revived.
Several New York counciimen were
fined SIOO each and committed to pri
son until willing to comply with the
writ of mandamus ordering them to
authorize the issue of stock to pay
Contractor Pierce for work done upon
the new hall of records.
The German and American members
of the Samoan commission, who ar
rived in San Francisco, will come to
Washington for a conference with the
officials. The report of the commis
sioners will be referred to their re
spective governments.
It is understood that a combination
of flour and cement bag manufactur
ers and rape paper makers is under
way. The prime mover in the pro
posed consolidation is said to he the
National Paper Sack company which
has officers in this city. •
Chicago will soon have another im
provement added to Its mail service.
A plan has just been adopted by the
postofflee department for the registra
tion of mail by the letter carriers at
the doors of persons living in the
residential sections of large cities.
At Toledo the sensation of the Zelt
ner murder 'trial occurred when John
Zeltner on the witness stand in his
own behalf, swore that Attorney West- 1
enhover attempted to pull a revolver
and it was because of this that West
enhover wa* killed. The defense will
attempt to prove that the killing of
Westenhover was done in self de
fense. '
W. Wheeler of Con
necticut ha/ decided that under the!
laws of.tb'.t state snhsta^al^Bjlß
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vicinity, and no deaths
disease. The yellow fever scare at
Hampton may delay the completion of
some of the warships now building at
Newport News.
The meeting of independent distil
lers to devise means to limit the pro
duction of Kentucky for one or more
years, adjourned after appointing a
committee of seven to confer with the
distilling company of America, of
which the Kentucky distilleries and
warehouse company is a branch. It is
proposed to limit the production to
20,000,000 gallons.
Gov. Stone of Missouri has received
a letter from Senator Jones, chairman
of ‘the democratic national committee,
in which &>nes says he is threatened
with a return of ill-health, and will
not leave for the United States before
October 1, possibly not then. The let
ter was written in London and the
senator said he would leave soon for
Scotland in search of health.
William H. Davis, a member of the
firm of Davis brothers, who had a de
posit of $13,439.35 in the Plankinton
bank at Milwaukee, has brought suit
to hold William Plankinton personally
liable for the amount. Davis says
May 23, 1893, he was going to with
draw the deposit, but Plankinton rep
resented that the bank was perfectly
solvent. Eight days later the bank
failed.
BY CABLE.
The Dominican revolution expands.
An enormous ‘tidal wave struck
Chili.
A French fisherman was killed by a
British shot.
'Mediterranean points in Europe are
menaced by the plague.
The Transvaal situation is thought
to be very threatening.
British naval and military forces
about Victoria B. C., are being rapidly
increased.
Great Comoro island, in the Mozam
bique channel, rises against the
French.
Emperor William, it is said has de
cided to assent to the resolutions of
the peace conference.
Famine causes a revolt in Bessara
bia, Russia, and soldiers shot and
killed a large number of peasants.
The duke of Manchester is said to be
anxious to marry Miss Gertrude
Elliott, a sister of Mrs. Nat Goodwin.
A severe hurricane developed in the
West Indies, and much damage was
done —over 200 persons were killed in
Porto Rico.
Joseph H. Choate, United States
ambassador, says there is no danger of
a war over the Alaskan boundary
trouble.
President Roea of the Argentine Re
public arrived at Rio de Janeiro and
was warmly welcomed by Brazil’s
president.
The British government has decided
that the financial interests of India de
mand the establishment of a gold
standard there.
It is reported in Cape Town that the
Transvaal voiksraad has rejected the
proposal of Joseph Chamberlain for a
joint inquiry.
A writ of habeas corpus for little
Gladys Perot was obtained in London
and the mother is not to be prose
cuted if the child can be obtained.
The Jiminez revolutionists in Santo
Domingo have captured a number of
towns. Government troops are de
serting to the army of the revolution.
William Waldorf Astor cannot be
come a British peer, a law passed in
the reign of William 111. forbidding
naturalized aliens admission to the
peerage.
Russia has notified China that the
conclusion of an alliance with Japan
would give great offense to Russia and
that the consequences to China would j
be most serious.
Mr. Chamberlain, in proposing a
joint inquiry into the outlanders' fran
chise. also suggested to the Transvaal
that England was willing to confer on
other points at issue.
Rev. Dr. Alexander Dalmain Bruce,
professor of apologetics and New Tes
tament exegesis in Free Church col
lege. Glasgow, since 1875. is dead. He
was born in Perthshire in 1831.
According to Hongkong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern-
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man radical member
and Herr Krzekep, a
deputy, and the former was dangerous
ly wounded. The duel arose Herr
Krzeekepe accusing Herr Wolf of al-g
ways answering political attacks by*
fighting duels against incapable antag
onists.
MINIATURE TORNADO
SWEEPS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI
VALLEY.
DAMAGE!N VERNON COUNTY
Houses and Other Buildings Unroofed
—Village of Stoddard Suffers Great
ly—Heavy Wind and Rain Storm
Frightens Chicagoans and Does
Much Damage.
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La Crosse, Wis., August 12. —A mini
ature tornado swept along the Missis
sippi valley early yesterday doing
great damage in Vernon county. The
greatest fury of the wind seemed to
have been expended in and about the
village of Stoddard, 12 miles south of
this city on the Burlington road. The
high wind and hail was accompanied
by a cloudburst. Great damage was
done to farm property; in many places
whole stacks of grain and hay were lit
erally swept away. Large oak trees
three feet in diameter were uprooted
or broken. Small outbuildings were
swept away and many horses and cat
tle, hogs and sheep were drowned. No
loss of life is yet reported. Max Wol
zynski's brick residence was unroofed,
Paul HuefneFs grain elevator totally
wrecked, Biege and Halverson’s wagon
factory was completely demolished and
Mrs. Wodzynski’s large barn was swept
from its foundation and carried up
against the house and both were
wrecked.
Storm in Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 12. —A severe wind and
rain storm passed through Chicago last
evening and did considerable damage
to the down town district and harbor.
The stonm came from We northwest
and appeared so threatening and the
wind blew so strong that many feared
a cyclone might occur. Signs were
blown dowm, awnings torn down, win
dows blown in and everything loose
picked up and carried long distances.
The storm played havoc with the tele
graph and telephone wires, especially
in the down town portion of the city.
Damage in Michigan.
Bessemer, Mich., Aug. 12. —A fierce
wind and rain storm did great damage
in this city last evening. The heavy
wind tore the roof from the electric
light building, moved the opera house
from its foundation, broke windows
and carried all loose articles away.
The electric light plant was compelled
to shut down, leaving the city in dark
ness. The damage will be several
thousand dollars.
AMERICAN MINERS’ CLAIMS.
Washington, August 12. —James
Hamilton Lewis of Seattle visited the
state department yesterday to'lay be
fore it the complaints of some Amer
ican miners in British Columbia. •They
say that they located a number %)f
claim? '"id developed them under tnt|
British Columbian law. and that after-J
ward a law was passed excluding theiM
j from the dominion. The Americans!
[estimate their loss at about $10,000,000J
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fact all the people of Fond du Lac sH
delighted at the munificence of the gfl
and at the auspicious outlook for t|l
parish. Bishop Grafton during his
years as bishop of this diocese has be err
untiring in his efforts for the upbuild-j
ing of Fond du Lac and the Fond dui
Lac diocese. He has given liberally hJ
his means both here and throughoß
the diocese and it is doubtful if
a diocese in the United States witflH
more zealous or more effective workß
at its head. Arrangements are n<B
under way for the consecration of tjjjl
cathedral next June at the
anniversary of the organization ot’Jß
diocese. i^^B
TRIO OF TALKERS.
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in Kentucky.
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Chicago, August 12. —It is saia
Harrison will accompany, J. $
on his campaign tour of IQhi
in the interest of Goebel and wB
a number of speeches. Ex-Gevß
of Missouri will also speak ill
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Houghson, Mich., Aug. 12. —
Gov. W. H. Upham of Marshfield J
will cut 10,000,000 feet of
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