The age-herald. [volume], December 07, 1901, Page 8, Image 8

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GENERAL CHAFFEE
MAKESJIS REPORT
361 Filipino Officers and 3638
Men Surrendered
STATISTICS FOR PAST YEAR
Suppression of Brigandage In the
Islands Will Be One of the
Most Difficult Prob
lems to Solve.
Washington. December 6.—The War De
partment today made public the first
annual report of Major General A. P.
Chaffee, military governor of the Philip
pines.
General Chaffee sums up the situation
in the Philippines from a military point
of view by stating that the provinces
of Batangas and Laguna, in Luzon, and
the Islands of Samar, Mindoro, Cebu and
Bohol constitute the area now disturbed
by any embodied force of Insurgents.
He says that to the physical character of
the country, to the nature of the warfare
of the rebels who are amigo and foe In
the self-same hour, to the humanity of
the troops, which is taken advantage of
by the rebels, and the Inhabitants who
sympathize with them and to the fear
of assassination on the part of the friend
ly disposed if they give information to
the American forces. Is due the prolonga
tion of the guerrilla warfare.
Favors Military Rule.
Commenting upon the plan of gradually
replacing military with civil administra
tion, General Chaffee recommends that
there be no further material reduction
of troops before January, 1903. The civil
governments which arc being organized
provincial and municipal—General Chaf
fee says, are both new and untried, and
there Is but one certain and reliable
method of ascertaining the ability of the
Filipinos in self-government, namely ob
servation by the army.
In anticipation of a partial concentra
tion of the troops In the Philippines next
year General Chaffee names J2.500.000 as
his estimate of cost for the construction
of quarters and barracks.
A table is submitted showing that since
June 10 last, the date of the last table
submitted by General MacArthur. up to
September 15. 301 Filipino officers and 3,
638 men surrendered to tile American
military and twenty-six officers anu 494
men were captured.
Suppression of Brigandage.
In an appended report. Judge Advocate
General Groesheck pays that the sup
pression of brigandage in the islands
will he one of the most trying problems
of the future. If the military arm was
left free to deal with the mauraders, he
Bays, there would be no doubt of their
final suppression, but the Incoming of
civil government complicates the situa
tion very considerably.
Great attention Is paid in appended re
ports to the subject of the prevalence of
venerial diseases In the army of the
Philippines and the measures to segre
gate dissolute women and by rigid physi
cal Inspection, guard against a spread
of the diseases.
This Thief Got Whisky.
Some thief is staggering around the
Streets of Birmingham this morning full
of a portion of the case of Green River
whisky which he took from the sa/oon of
Wheelan & Co. yesterday afternoon. The
police are looking for a man in such con
dition.
HeiskelT’s
Ointment
Corel Skin Troabln When
Everything Else llue Foiled.
Try it on an obstinate case of
Tetter, Erysipelas, Eccema, Pim
ples, L'lcera, King Worm, blotches
or any Skin Disease. Ask your
druggist forit. BymalloOc.a box.
Helskelt's Soap, for the skin, 26c.
JOHNSTON. HOLLOWAY A C0„
831 Commerce Slrett. Philadelphia.
"X cured tetter of 16 years’ stand
ing with your Ointment In four
weeka."—W. F. Herndon. ElmendoW,
Bexar Co., Tex. ‘
FIRST AVENUE STORES
TO BE REBUILT AT ONCE
The Tomlinson and Turner buildings,
which were burned yesterday meriting,
will be rebuilt at once. The insurance
agents state they will settle the claims
without delay, and Mr. Tomlinson says
he will rebuild when they do so.
The two buildings occupied lots 2023 and
2025 First avenue, and w*ere among the
handsomest in the city. They caught
Are Friday morning. The inside of both
was a total loss, but parts of the walls
are still standing. They may be used
in rebuilding, according to the statements
of insurance agents.
The buildings were valued at about $25,
000, with insurance of $19,000. The con
tents were worth about $19,400, with in
surance of $7500.
Malone Heal Estate and Insurance
Company carried the greater part of the
which is about $9000.
On the Turner building th&e was
about $10,000 insurance, carried by the
Phoenix of Hartford, and the Norwich
Union and Sun of London.
The losses do not amount to nearly so
much as the value of the buildings, and
stocks, as portions of both wore saved.
The following estimate of the value of
the buildings and contents 16 considered
correct:
Mrs. E. W. Turner—Loss not estimated;
building valued at $12,000; amount of in
surance $10,000.
John W. Tomlinson—Loss not estimat
ed; building valued at $12,000; amount of
insurance $9000.
W. D. Colby—Loss on furniture, stock
and fixtures, $12,000; fully covered by in
put ance.
L. P. Spivy & Co.—Loss on stock and
fixtures between $2500 and $3000; $1000 of
insurance carried with the Imperial
Company.
E. V. Gregory—Loss $300 no insurance.
P. L. Houppert—Loss on furniture $500;
no Insurance.
Birmingham Paper Hangers’ Associa
tion— I»oso $75; no insurance.
L. P. Spivy—Furniture in sleeping
apartments $400 $200 Insurance.
PERMIT ISSUED FOR
: WOODWARD BUILDING
A building permit was Issued by Julian
Kendrick City Engineer yesterday for the
erection of the ten story Woodward office
building. The contractors estimate the
cost of the building at $200,000.
Following are the plans as accepted by
the city engineer:
Location—Corner of First avenue and
Twentieth street.
Owner—W. H. Woodward.
Architect—Stone Brothers and Weston.
Builder—John Griffis & Son.
Number of Building—One. fireproof.
Dimensions of Ground Plan—100x100
feet.
Number of Stories and Height of Same
—Ten stories with basement and attic;
first story seventeen feet high, all oth
era ten feet and eleven Inches; base
ment, 7 feet and 6 Inches; floor thickness
17 Inches,
Material in Walls and Thickness of
same—Terra cotta and brick.
Thickness of wall one to two feet.
Material In Roof—Fire proof.
Material in cornice—Copper.
Girders to carry floor, size 12 to 18
inches.
Distance between supporters of girders,
18 feet to 24 feet 6 inches.
Longest span of floor joist about twen
ty feet.
Size of floor joist and distance apart,
each floor, 12 inches, iron, about four feet
six inches centers.
Number of Fire Escapes—Two.
Estimated Cost—8200,000.
SELMA.
Mistrial In Nunnelee Case—Meeting of
County Committee.
Selma, December 6.—(Special.)—Today,
after being out nearly forty-eight hours,
the Jury In the quo warranto proceed
ings against James H. Nunnelee to show
by what authority he claimed the office
of circuit clerk of Dallas County, re
ported their Inability to agree, and a
mistrial was ordered docketed by the
Judge. It Is understood that the Jury
stood seven In favor of Nunnelee to five
for Phillips, the relator In the proceed
ings. The case was given to the Jury on
Wednesday afternoon, and the discharge
came only at noon today. This leaves the
case where It was before the venire was
drawn. Another day will be set and an
other venire drawn from which a Jury
will be selected.
Yesterday at Mlnter, this county, the
firm of F. J. Dee & Co., doing a general
merchandise business, made an assign
ment In favor of all creditors, Mr. Rob
ert K. Dapsley, shipping clerk for C. W.
Hooper & Co., of this city, being named
as assignee. The amount of liabilities of
the firm is placed at *10,000, while the
assets are expected to be about *4000.
The cause of the failure of the Arm Is
attributed to the fact that last May a
lerrlflo hailstorm passed through the sec
tion in which the store of the firm is lo
cated, necessitating a replanting of ths
cotton crop. It was thought until recent
ly that the late crop would mature suf
ficiently to allow the firm to pay Its in
debtedness, but the frost came and the
late crop was killed. The principal credit
ors are firms of Nashville, New York and
Selina. C. W. Hooper & Co. of this city
Is the principal local creditor.
A meeting of the Democratic county
executive committee of Dallas failed to
material'xe today for want of a quorum.
The meeting was for the purpose of
recommending to the state board of reg
istrars suitable persons to be appointed
registrars While there was not a quor
um of the committee in the city, owing
to the fact that It had been given out
that the state board would not be gov
erned by the recommendation of county
committees. those members present were
practically unanimous In saying that they
would not endorse any man for the
place who did not Intend to carry out In
the strictest sense the provisions of the
constitution as to registering voters.
In other words It Is the sentiment of
this section that only such negroes as
come under the provisions of the consti
tution shall be enfranchised, and at the
same time that no white man who does
not voluntarily disfranchise himself will
be presented from becoming an elector.
Tribute to a Minister.
Montevallo, December 6.—(Special.)—
As a farewell party the friends of the
Rev. M. H. Wells and Mrs. Wells met
Monday night at the Hotel St. George
to pay them a tribute. The Rev. Mr.
Wells has been in charge of the Method
ist church of this district, but has been
sent elsewhere. In a short talk Miss
Barnes expressed the sentiments of the
town with reference to the minister, pay
ing him and his wife charming tributes
Musical selections were rendered bv Miss
Bampey. Miss Dale. Mrs. Chate Mrs
Rhodes, Miss Allen and Mrs. Whitaker. '
°A8T ORiAi
Bern the It's Kind You Have Always Bought
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r The Kind You Have Always Bought
Pell City, Ala., Is situate about midway
between Birmingham and Anniston,In the
middle of the great coal and iron fields of
Alabama. Don’t forget to attend the auc
tion sale of 160 business and residence
lots December 10, 1901. 12-7-2t-sa-mo
We make cute. Age-Herald Engrav
ing Co.
Finest whiskey and wines
for medicinal purposes.
Gunn Drug Co„
2017 2nd Avenue.
LEST YOU FORGET.
I SAY IT YET—
You need a Gas Stove.
BULLARD PAYS TRIBUTE
TO BIRMINGHAM BOYS
r----——~
Col. R. Xj. Bullard, who has made him
self famous as commander of "Bullard's
American Indians” In campaigns In the
Philippines, Is In the city, the guest of
Judge Dan Greene, and talks most en
tertainingly of affairs In the Philippines,
and especially of the part taken by Ala
bama soldiers fighting in his regiment,
the Thirty-ninth.
Among other interesting things Col.
Bullard said:
“Birmingham was well represented in
my volunteer regiment In the Philippines,
the Thirty-ninth Infantry, dubbed in the
field ‘Bullard's American Indians.' The
number was small, probably a dozen, but
their quality great.
"Men make themselves heroes In vari
ous ways and probably the hardest way
of all Is by the simple discharge of heavy
duty. Charles Cansler left Birmingham a
soldier simple indeed, but with a heart
full of courage to do, and bear Anything.
He won his commission by his own man
ly merit and devotion to duty, above all
by his calm, self-reliant encouragement
of his comrades to face death whether It
came from the lurking enemy or from the
lnsiduous and far more deadj^ diseases
of the tropics. Lieutenant Cansler served
well to the end, and is back among his
friends here near Birmingham.
Won Shoulder Straps.
"H. R. Casey, who enlisted also as a
private with Cansler, also won his
shoulder straps on his own merit. He
is a great lover and rider of horses, and
two of his horse performances won him
a name. Gen. Robert Hall is an old
regular soldier. He has spent his life In
the army, passed through the 'great war,’
was present and on the personal staff of
Joe Hooker in 'the battle above the
clouds’ on Lookout mountain. On an ex
pedition in the Philippine mountains, un
able to make them move longer over the
mountain fastnesses, and In order to pre
vent them from falling Into the hands of
the enemy, General Hall was about to
abandon his own and all the horses of
his staff and order them shot. Casey
begged for their lives, declared that he
could save them, and he did.
"For two or three days he rode them,
drove them, forced them, carried them,
almost lifted them after the general and
his staff afoot on the rugged mountain
craigs and slopes and brought them all
through safe to the sea. Now, an Ameri
can horse in the Philippines costs the
United States about seven hundred dol
lars, and so Casey's work of two days
saved the government as much as his
own pay for two years. General Hall
couldn't praise him too much.
“Casey closed his military career with
this performance: The major, with a
handful of mounted men, of whom Casey
was one, surprised a little bunch of
guerillas, five of whom made a dash for
the woods across a little rough patch of
open field, pursued at a breakneck speed
by Casey alone on horseback. He emptied
his six-shooter as he sped after the fly
ing Insurgents. He bagged three of them.
"The United States wanted and kept
him as superintendent of water works
In the large city of Manila.
Would Get Into Battle.
"Capt. Thomas Hardeman was my
quartermaster and was never supposed or
expected to get into a fight; but somehow
he managed to attend to all his business,
being an excellent quartermaster and still
get into as many fights as any ono whose
sole business it was to fight. I had no
ticed and been irritated at a very general
tendency among officers of our army
in the Philippines to be-'very soft-heart
ed and averse to putting in military
prisons the insurgents whom they had
captured in open warfare against our
troops. One night Hardeman brought his
wegon train into camp and reported to
me that his train had met the enemy that
day. Exhibiting a great long bolo, he
said he had captured that from an in
surgent.
" ‘Where is the man from whom you
captured it?’ I demanded.
“ ‘I didn’t bring him along,' replied
the captain.
“ 'Then why in the thunder didn't you?’
I cried out in a rage. 'The officers of
this regiment are getting too blasted
tender-hearted to be here pretending to
be carrying on war. Some ol’ you ought
to have stayed at home an/l taught Sun
day school. If you can’t get up the heart
to slap captured Insurgents in Jail as
prisoners, what did you come out here
for?’ and more to that effect.
Did Not Bring Him Back.
’’As soon as the captain had a chance
to edge in a word, he meekly explained
that it was a very hot day and a long
march, and he knew the Insurgent would
be spoiled before be could be brought to
camp.
"Hardeman's supply train was one of
the sights in General Bates' command. It
consisted of American horses and big
mules, Philippine caribaos, Spanish di
minutive ponies, big army wagons, llttlj
two-wheeled bull carts, sleds, buggies and
carriages ponies and bulls worked to
gether tandem caribaos in shafts and
tandem; oxen worked to carriages and
bulls to buggies; but If the train filled the
soldiers' mouth with laughter, it also
filled their bellies with good army rations.
Hardeman did so much Indeed with so
lltlle that on the return of his regiment
to the Unit’d States for muster-out, a
special cable of the secretary of war
held Hardeman in the Philippines as
treasurer and registrar of the important
province of Pangasinsn.
"All of the Alabama boys in t>? Phil
ippines are doing nicely. Those in the
army are in a fair way to promotion, and
many working in Manila at their various
vocations are establishing themselveB as
men of business and influence.”
GIRL PREVENTS WRECK.
Uses Her Red Jacket to Flag Down
T rain.
Greenville, la. December t. — A blue
eyed heroine of eight summers in the
person of little Clara Schlosser, daughter
of Fred Schlosser, a saloon-keeper, Is re
ceiving homage from scores of thankful
travelers and the members of the crew
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
train No. 4. which by her presence of
mind was saved from disaster.
A horse in crossing the track near her
home became fastened In the culvert and
wrecked it. The little girl knew she could
not summon help before the train arrived
going at full speed. So she took off her
little red Jacket, and standing on the
track waved it frantically at the ap
proaching engine, bringing It to a stop.
A coated tongue, foul breath and clog
ged condition in the bowels suggests the
use of Prickley Ash Bitters. It is Just
suited for such ailments.
HOW TO SOLVE THE SER
VANT QUESTION
USE A GAS STOVE.
LOVEMAN
of the Ohio.” T of the Ohio.”
JOSEPH & LOEB.
A Big Purchaseof Boy’s
Clothing by Our
New York Office
We have just received word from our New York Office
of a special purchase of Boy’s Clothing that has been
shipped by fast express—it will be here this, Saturday
morning.
This is the most important purchase made by us or any
other store in Birmingham at this season of the year, for the
opportunity of saving comes to you, not in the dull months
of January, or August, but in this busy moqth of Decemberl
The prices on this quality of goods would cause com
ment during the month of January, now they are nothing
short of marvelous. It shows among other things that it
pays to buy from this store, for the more we sell the more
are we able to save you| for instance, it is because of the
increasing business in boy’s clothing (which established a
great outlet) that enabled us to take all this manufacturer’s
sample lines. We cannot go into detail of the goods or de
scribe them in a detailed way—in a general way, however,
there are altogether, 3 SO boy’s suits—they are all wool,
double breasted and in the desirable heavy weight cheviot
so sought for—there are solid colors as well as checks and
plaids.
They are Marked in
This Sale at $1.50
Then there are some knee pants, *
about 5*0 dozen, for boys from 3 to 16
all wool, 75*cP no, ma’m, only 50c
And here are fine worsted, cassimere
and imported cheviot pants, for boys from
3 to 16 years—beautiful quality—about
half of them worth 1.25*, a fourth of them
worth 95c, a fourth worth 1.5*0.
Take your choice for 75
There are other lots besides these;
there are five different qualities, shades, tex
ture and size.
1.5*0 includes suits worth 2.^0.
2.5*0 includes suits worth 3.25*
3.50 includes suits worth 4.50
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FRUIT CAKES....
We have a fine line of Fruit Cakes ready for the
table, If you prefer, however, to bake them
yourself we can furnish the purest, freshest in
gredients—
Citron, Currants, Ralsens, Shelled Almonds, Orange
and Lemon Peel and Spices of all kinds.
JUST RECEIVED....
Fresh Shipment FLORIDA ORANCES— (±>0 K
Per box. Cp<w. < O
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