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SAPOLIO Rothchtid Bros Afdnfe Oregon, Wwinicwi -and Idaho, 20-26 Nor Frs street, PsrtIB Or. immmmUlttw SUPPLIES..... Eastman Kodaks : " ana rums exclusive cARtan: House r; 88 Third St 3 J. A, "Vfesco. Penman and Secretary. STREETS. PORTtAhD, ORE001 i . MANAGEMBNT ' . $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 per Day ORBCON n $3.00 PER DAY f? A atael a-entleaiea. T3t9 aaaaarffa aho - iT reesaa and a-Iv 0rlea. -rX - .M mm. w aunuu, asaasws STARR STREET fchrett Ssveatt aaj ft i i " MAX MtlLLER DEAD The EminentPhilologistSuc ', cumbs to Liver Ailment WAS LONG HOPELESSLY APfUCTED "WorXce es His AktsMdrrajphy Until Tea JDeeym Aar-Actlve Career of jtke Grea.trSoholar. LONDON, Oct 28. Frederick Max Mul Ier, 'corpus" professor or comparative phil ology at Oxford University, died today at 12:35 P. M. His "disease was an affection of the liver. Until 10 days ago he "was able to conr tlmife -writing his autobloerraphy, dictating to .hist son. He was perfectly conscious unliUthls morning1. Ho 'was 77 years old. iPro.uj8Dtly during his illness dispatches ofl$sHty were recelyed from Emperor Wflllam.- For more than a. year 3ie 'had nohbpe of permanent recovery. .t'??'r ' " ' " (Proiessor Mullet, the son, of the poet, wjlhelm fuller, was born at Dessau, Ger miri, JDecember 6, 1823. He was educated i Ueipsl6 and Berlin, and took his de gree Jn 1842, after, which ho proceeded to Paris, where he studied Sanscrit, and ho , sacred books of the Bast under Ipugene Btirrouf. ' In Germany ho had previously studied Arabic and Persian, as well as philosophy and .comparative phil plofeT.' n, 1545 ho jYlalted England for tl6 purpose of examining manuscripts In the Eaat India House" and at the Bod leian Library, Oxford, and in the follow ing year was -commissioned by the. East Jlridla Company v to edit the Ri&-Veda, w3xich was subsequently issued by the Urirveeaty; P.ress, Oxford. 'In'1850jie:waaf a'plntedL deputy Taylorlan .professor o moderphguagestat Oxford, and t four years liter succeeded to the professorship. He became curator and subsequently Orl "ental librarian" of the Bodleian Library in 1866, and was1 elected a' fellow of All Souls' College in 1558. In 186S he was appointed professor -of comparative philology at Oxford, and held the chair until 1875, when he accepted the editorship of the scries of Important translations of the sacred jjooks of the East Of the series, 49 vol umes have been Issued, which embrace translations of the Upanishads, the Dhammapada, tho ZenoVAvesta, the Vedlc Hymns, the Qur'an (Koran), the Gaina and Vedanta-Sutras, the Buddhist Mahay ana Texts, the Sacred Books of China, and the Institutes of "Vishnu. Professor Muller Tiad tho faculty of In. vesting his subjects with life and in terest for even the unlearned reader, and has specially enriched them by his suc cessful method of approaching the history of man's religious and intellectual devel opment by the study of human speech. He Is one of. the weight foreign members ,Of the Institution, of France, and was elected first president of tho Aryan .sec tion at Stockholm in 1885. Besides hjs monumental work. Professor 24uUJ? ;tratt<cd.i 4n 1S9Q-2, and published updTer iother critical Hexls aid ommenfafles'on Brahmanlc, BUddhist, Pahlavi and Con lucian literature, and the early cere monial laws of the Orient. He has .also published a history of Sanscrit literature 139), a Sanscrit grammar for beginners 1SS6), anfl. a volume' of "Hlbbert Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion ' as illustrated by the religions of India 1873). Not less Important have been his labors in the new science of comparative philology. The chief results of these la bors appear Jn tho series of five volumes entitled "Chips From a German Work shop," embracing essays on philology, mythology, traditions and customs, and on the. '.Science of Religion." In 1861-64 appeared--the famous "Lectures on the Science of Language," delivered at the Royal Institution, London, and In 1887-88 were - published his lecture on the "Science of Thought" The latter were followed in 1S91 byhis "Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion and Physical Relig ion," and twq, years later a work on "Anthropological Religion; Theosophy. or Psychological Religion." He was engaged on an autobiography at the time of his death.) . Old Newspaper Man Dies. KNOXVTLLXEJ, Tenn., Oct. j- 23 Colo nel -John M. Fleming,, aged 68, and for many years editor of the, old Knoxvllle Tribune, arid later of the Sentinel, died tonight at The Bast Tennessee Hotel for Insane? where he has been for the past seven years. Christian Minister Dead. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct '28. The Rev. Henry Russell Prltchard, the oldest min ister of the Christian church In the United States,"" died suddenly -at Chesterfield, Ind., today, aged 81. -" FLOOD IN' WISCONSIH. Slack Damage Done at and Near City of La Crosse. IiA CROSSB, "Wis., Oct 28-In"the 24 hours preceding 81 o'clock this morning 7 inches, of rain fell in this city. The storm' was the severest in this city, al though it -was generally felt within a ra dius of 60 miles from here. The Milwau kee Toad suffered much damage to its tracks, and no trains have arrived 1 torn. tho East for 24 hours. The La Cross River marshes are flooded, and most of tho hay that escaped the late flood has been destroyed. On H. Goodard's farm tho house was undermined and the fam ily sought refuge in a barn until rescued today. The Green Bay Toad has a wash out on the marches which will -require some days to repair. At Hokaha the dam which held in Lake Como broke today, and the lake hae almost disap peared. There is agood. deal of. damage throughout the country. Fire caused by electricity damaged the La Crosse Knit ting "Works to the extent of several thou sand dollars. . Also Severe at, "Winona. . WINONA, Minn., Oct 2S. This city and vicinity was visited today by the worst storm in many years at this season of the .year. Lightning did considerable damage in the jolty, and the railroads Buffered, considerable loss on account of washouts and high water. The Chicago & Northwestern, lost 1000 feet jot track that was washed out near Rockland, "Wis , and 1000 feet near "West Salem, "Wis. The Chicago "Milwaukee & St. Paul road had two washouts. All passenger trains on the river division of the .Mil waukee are abandoned. ; h . In'Memory ot Slain Missionaries. -NpW "JTORK, bct 28. At union service in memory of the Presbyterian mission aries" who were Jdlled,at Pao TlngFnon June 30 lastwas field, today In the P,lftli Avenue Presbyterian Church. The mis sionaries so remembered were Dr. George Hodge and Mrs. Hodge and Rev. andj 3rs. Slmcox and. their hifieSlitJIeTPfliM area. Flve-Eresfayterfun. elerK3.tment Jtook. part Iif the ceremony Refi. Dr. EjlrVes.i pastor of the church; Rev. Drv .H 'A. Johnston, Rev. Jr. George Alexander, Rev. ""Dr. A. J. Srown, otfe of the secret tariw or the Ere&bytetiart Board of P6r- eign Missions, and Rev M. D. Babcock. 4 . HAVE HOT YET COfiPLIlD. " -' ' - - ' v:. Few Coal Companies "yVill Net Ad-vaaee-Railro&d -Mch5 AbJc More. i .HAZLETON, Pa., Oct 28.7-The Lehigh &, Wllkesbarre Coai Company, operating tieT Audenreld, Hone'ybrQoke ana Green Moun tain collieries, in this district, has not yet compiled with the demands of tho anthra cite miners. It Is expected that the com pany will grant Ihe concession by Novem ber 1, when work will betresumed. There will ba no resumption of work at the Minerville colliery, wilch Is operated by the AS Vanwlckle estate. Owing to an agreement with the Pennsylvania, the Officials say they cannot afford to graiit an iricrease-of 10 per cent, and if' the mem return towork theytwlll -.have to be contented wHh the old rato.of wages. , Tho, Vanwlckle Company has granted the in crease at "Its other collieries at Coleralne and Silver Meadow. It ia. said the Calvin 3ardoe Company, owner of Jthe Lattlmer mines, will not take backthpsomen who itmck before the nines were closed down Hy 900 "marchers -some weeks ago. "The firemen and brakemen on the Dela ware. Susquehanna & Schuylkill Rail-, road'have submitted a'nuniber of demands to theVallroad officials. .The former- de mand that 30 hours shall constitute three i shifts, iand that they be paid,7 ,for. ?they same, .ipsieuu ui. -a iv, -waica niey,reppxve: at present The brakemen demand an fni crease of 10 per cent In their wages". The engineers 'have no grievances. Thl3 rall- road Is oWned by Coxe Bros. & Co., -who operate4 Six collieries' in $hls region, and was built for the purpose of hauling coal from its mines to the tracks of the Le high Valley Railroad. , f - MOST HAVE POSTEJD NOTICES. ' Mitckell Tells tbe Miners toGo' id Worlc Toflar. WHiEESBARRE, Pa., Oct 28 All tM coai companies in the Wyoming rVayey, with, a few exceptions, have ndw posted notices granting, their employes the-lOjper cent increase Asked for-by the Scran ton convention. The exceptions af el BfewUiU dividual operators, who do not' employ many hands.- But it-is said when ,the men employed- at these collieries report for work tomorrow they will bo told they will reeclve the samerw.ages paid by the other companies. " N The Kingston Coal Company had. no tices posted today grafting he Increase"; This company employs2200 men, and wm the last of the big Individual concerns in the valley to grant the increase. The officials of the Susquehanna Companyhad a conference with their employes Satur day night and agreed to pay thenrtHe advance. $ President Mitchell' afdp3he' ex ecutive board of the United. SHlneworkef a visited Plttston this afternoon.1 Tljey were received by a large' crowd, and there was the greatest enthusiast t Addresses were mad by President Mi?oneH rid otler. Mr. Mitchell told all tlfe miners to go to work tomorrow. He p.Jsa.vorigratuat&t them' on their good WOT&rln&ha' Istrtke.- '. f.i-v --v' UNION P0STOFFICE: CLERKS Chicago Employe, Afllllate "With American Federation of Labor. CHICAGO, Oct. 28. The postofilce clerks of Chicago today entered the ranka Of the trade unionists. The clerks have afllllated themselves with the American Federation' of Labor, and the .new organ ization will bo knownas the Chicago Postofilce Clerks' Union". It is claimed that practical'y all of the 1400 postofilce employes In Chicago are included in tho movement Foremost among tho objects for which the new union Is to strive will be the adoption of the eight-hour working day for letter-carriers. Another object to 'bo given almost equal prominence will be the agitation In favor of Federal legisla tion that will fix absolutely the rate of wages for letter-carriers and other post office employes, taking the matter 'com pletely out of the hands of 'the "Promo tion Board" and other similar agencies. It 'Is to be a labor union pure and. sim ple, and will direct Its efforts solely to the problem of bettering the lot of tho rank and file of the postofilce employes. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT NEWS. Foreign. t Professor Max Muller, the famous philologist died in London, aged 77. Pago 1. Tho French Premier mado a significant ad dress at Toulon Page 2. Japan wishes to hold tho balance of power In. the Orient," page 2 Prince Hohenlojie says he resigned because he was Ignored on important occasions Page 2 A new title Is sucreested for Queen Victoria. Page 2 The Boers 'are sold to havo 15,000 armed men in tho Held In Orange River Colony. Page 1, China. Boxers at Pao Tine Fur declare the provincial Treasurer ordered them to kill foreigners. Page 2 Prince Tl and Ting Nlen are. abided to the list of those whose execution France f has de manded. Page 2. Russians found the Mukden district extensively mined. Page 2 Chlneso looters stole Manchu throne and colossal archaeological objects of great value. Page 2. Domestic. All but a few of the coat operators have posted notices complying with the demands of strikers, and -work will be resumed today." Pago 1 Chicago postofflce clerks have affiliated with 'the American Federation of Labor. Page 1. Damage by flood Is reported from La Crosse, "Wis , and "Winona, Mnn Page 1. Dr Townsend makes a statement concerning the Eaterson, J J affair. Page 2. Considerable , forces of Filipino Insurgents strongly attack American troops. Page 1. 1 Pacific Coast. More than '$20,000,000 in gold dust and bullion has been deposited in Seattle assay office this year Page 3 . The now gold strike In tho Baker City country is extensive and rich Page 8. Progress of work on Northwest rivers and harbors. Page S ' Local. Box manufacturers combine to ship stock to the East. Pago 10 -, Lightship Umatilla Beef goes adrift and puts Into Neah Ba. Page 8 Oregon Qamera Club exhibit opens , today. Page 10. . Political. Crowds of people follow Bryan, abqut New Tork Page 1 ' "- McKlnley and Roosevelt spend a quiet Sun day Page' 1. ' r . 1 Kusslins "say our v "imperialism" Is "not like that of Great BritaJnPagol. Commercial. Our trade with Porto Rico shows a marked Increase Page C Money matters In Germany are 'much easier. Pago 0 ' " American stocks showed activity on' the Lon don exchanea. Para "a. nti ti a A i At r-a l svnr Kim IN- NhW YHKK raBj Grea't Crowds of People Fol '.l t Jow Hirri About ATTENDED PARKHURSTS CHURCH aUtayJPctllcenefi tfrenevt to Clear tbe -Wavy Will Spealc at Nine Meet- r . iagfH la Brooklyn Tonisht. NEW YORK, Oct 23. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan breakfasted at 10 o'clock -In their hotel with ex-Governor Stone and others. iAftcr breakfast the party adjourned to Mr. Bryan's room where the candidate re ceived Congressman Richardson and sev eral.. local politicians. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan then left the hotel and walked through Madison Square to tho .Madisdn-Square Presbyterian Chnrch, Wien Tt "Rrvnn flrnt nnnonrfd nri tTin street, there were very few people about but those who were there. Instantly rec ognized him and 'with many a shout fol lowed him to the door of the church. Yale and Harvard boys, who came to New TTorkr irtth Mr, Brvan on Satiardn.v kwaaei-ilso i.t ta'achurclaand. 'Occupied' seats a short distance in front of Mr. ' Bryan." - Dr. Parkhursi, the pastor, was not in formed 6f Mr. Bryan's presence, and his sermon was an exposition of a portion of the scriptures. "Word was evidently passed through the congregation during the service that Mr. Bryan was in the church for when the benediction was pronounced almost the entire congrega tion rushed for the doorsand filled the sidewalk and street in front of the build ing. This crowd was -also augmented by those who wpre on the street and in the Square and by the time the party reached tho hotel 2000 people were crowd ed about them. So dense was the crowd In fact that It became necessary for sev eral park policemen to go In advance of Mr. Bryan and ,clear a , way for him through the crowd'. As he disappeared In the entrance of thes hotel the crowd cheered. , , Mr. Bryan stopped in his room .from 1 o'clock to 5, when he dined. Until 9 o'clock tonight, when he left the Hoffman'House, there was a steady "stream -of callers. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were both kept busy shaking hands. Among the callers were Congressman Sulzer, Frank Campbell and James K. McGulre. ex-Governor Stone and Congressman Richardson. Promptly at 9 o'clock1 Mr. Brjan and party left tho hotel for the Grand Cen tral Station, where they took the train for Albany. A squad of 22 policemen, two roundsmen and a sergeant kept the crowd back and a platoon of 20 mounted police men escorted Mr. Bryan to the station. Notwithstanding the fact that his depar ture was not announced in any of tho morning papers, the people appeared to find it out inx some way and fully 3000 were gathered about the hotel eagerly awaiting hl? appearance As soon as he emerged, with Mrs Bryan, a great shout went up. On tho way up Broadway to the station crowds of people lined the streets on eith er side and shout after shout rent tho air. At the Grand Central Station, Mr. Bryan was at once recognized by tho crowds awaiting their trains and It was with, great difficulty that the police held tho people back and kept a passage way for the party. Mr. Bryan's special1 car, the Rambler, was attached to the New York Central train which was scheduled to leave at 9:30. As the train pulled out with Mr. and Mrs. Bryan on the rear platform he"re were more cheers. Mr. Bryan will stop first at Albany and will come back tomorrow arriving at Weehawken at 6:25 P. M, where he will be met by Congressman Sulzer and driven to Hamilton Fish Park for a 10 minutes' sneech and thence to the Academy of Music, in Brooklyn, arriving there at 7 30, where he is to address a meeting. He will speak also at seven other places in Brooklyn during the evening. Debn and the Social Democrats. BOSTON,, Oct 28 Tlje Social Democrats of Boston and vicinity gavo an enthusi astic greeting to Bngene V. Debs, the Presidential candidate of that party, in Paine Memorial Building tonight, and listened to two speeches from him. The keynote of Mr. Debs' speeches was the necessity for the working class having possession of the tools of production, by which he meant the paraphernalia of con struction as It exlst today mill ma chinery, etc. He said that so long as Jhqso are owned by" private capital so long will the working man be oppressed. His remedv is public ownership and man agement of the tools of production. Projrress of the Prohibitionists. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct 28. The Prohibi tion special train with John G.. Woolley and party aboard, rested on- a siding at Saratoga today until 2:45 this afternoon, when lit was attached to 'the rear of a regular traln arriving at -Albany at 4?20. The .party went to Herkimer tonight. Seven stops are scheduled for- tomorrow.- , ' ' sf RooHeylt'g Qniet Sunday. BINGHAMPTON. N. Y., Oct 28. Gov ernor Rooseyelt spent the day very quiet ly hero taking a long drive with Mrs. . ' T , 4,x - . ' mr " w mum&Pm.. AK-y PROFESSOR MAX MULLER. Roosevelt durintr the &v and frolnrr to. tfc-if HenrfJs.itsrssr. 8 iriu lumurrow inciuueir; uut- tnre msioiua. Cortland, Ithaca and Elmlra, where (he party will staytfor the night RUSSIANS ON AMEIlIOAi? EtOTSSjf. Oar "Imperlnllam't Not Lfke Tiat et . Great Britain. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. ?8. The Rus sian jpres3 is displaying jLCOnalderaljle In? terest in the coming election lnj the United f States. Several organs have reached the conclusion. Jhatt both parties occupy virtually the same position. Re garding Imperialism, Prjnce Utojnskl's paper, the Vledomostijsays:, . ; "It is not important which, candidate is elected, and it will be.usefuT tor observe tho advance and reflux'of. Jhe Impetlal lstic wave. 'ivta-J "American Imperialism "regards colonies as ajneans, not an end. Ameirlca wishes economic dominion over the universe, which explains her effort to girdle the world with colonies.. Shot desires foot hold In China and even ln. Turkey,, 83 the recent Indemnity affair Showed: 4 Ameri can Jmperlallsm, unlike, that jOtfEnglahd, is not due to economic necessity, even. though the market Is big enough." ijj, X ume paper expresses xne opinion tnac the Imperialistic wave" has receded mark- edly since 1S9S, and It contrasts Imperial Ism with Monroelsmtdding:- "Monroelsm 13 jembjtrrasslng to the im perialists, who realise 'thalfrA-merica can fMm W?' - nil 3pAt not Interfere- url&r hSliwshs&rcs while 1 lJf to the fact that korblddlns EnroSfWineHn-tSllHhith from'lhe towns American hemisphere." How the 3IcKInleys Spent Sunday. CANTON, O., Oct 28. President Mc Klnley attended church this morning. Later tho President and Mrs. McKlnley and Captain and Mrs. McWlllIams went to the country home of Mrs. Marie Sat ton for lunch. Mrs. Boston Is an aunt of the ladles. - A few social callers were received dur ing 'the day and evening, including an Impromptu delegation of commercial trav elers who called to shake hands with the,Presldent They wero received In the reception-room and a few pleasant words exchanged. Eleven different states were represented in the party, from New Eng land to the Pacific. Cleveland'; Large Registration. CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 23. Tho regis tration In this city Is 81,871, a gain of 999S over 1S9C. 15,000 STILL IN THE FIELD. Boers Nnmerons in Orange River Colony Attack on Con-voy. LONDON, Oct. 29. According to a dis patch from Cape Town to the Dally Mall a force of Boers attacked and surrounded a party of Cape police with a convoy noar Hoopstad. Orange River Colony, last Sat urday, and a short fight ensued. "The police," says the correspondent "were forced to abandon two Maxims. Ul timately, reinforced by the yeomanry, they succeeded In getting away with the convoy but they lost seven killed, 11 wounded and 13 captured. The colonials were outnumbered 10 to 1 and the en gagement lasted 'for two hours. "Tho Boers have 15,000 men In the field, nearly half of whom are In Orange River Colony. Theso are divided into comman does of some 300 each, but are papable of combination for large operations." Krnger to Land at Marseilles. BRUSSELS, Oct 2S. The Transvaal agency announces that Mr. Kruger will arrivo at Marseilles on the Dutch cruiser Gelderland, November 11 or 12. He will receive several French, Dutch and BeU glan delegations. Mr. Kruger will pro ceed to The Hague without stopping at Paris and after expressing his. thanks to Queen Wllhelmlna , for Dutch hospitality on board the Gelderland, he will appeal to the powers to Intervene In South Afri can .settlement on the basis of article three of The Hague convention. CHURCHILL STANDS PAT. Still Avers Lord Ronslyn Libeled Soldiers fn Africa. LONDON, Oct. 23. Solicitors of Win ston Spencer Churchill have written to tho solicitors of the Earl, of Rosslyn. de clining In the name of Mr. Churchill to withdraw or apologize for Mr. Churchill's statement at the recent banquet of the Pall Mall Club that Lord Rosslyn, in dis patches and letters from South Africa to English newspapers, had libeled their of ficers and made assertions that were nothing short of falsehoods. This morn ing Mr. Churchill writes" to the Dally Mail repudiating the suggestion that he is moved by personal feeling against Earl Rosslyn, but pointing out that the Earl Is responsible for a libelous statement concerning four famous cavalry regi ments. After saying that if Lord Rosslyn will frankly withdraw the alleged libelous statement? he (Mr. Churchill) will' be the first to regret that hard worda have been spoken, he refers to his action regarding Lord Rosslyn's misleading account of Mr. CburchilUs escape in.' South Africa, point ing out that this resulted in the publish ers withdrawing LordRossIyn's book from circulation and In Lord Rosslyn's writ ing to Mr Churchill that the passage was not lntenled in an offensive sense, and should be expunged in future editions. FILIPINO JgfjVITY porce of 400 Attacks Amerr- can Scouting' Party. Insurgents ledbyawhite KAif "Were "Finally Driven. Off 1400. Wa- tlvc Drive Oor Troop Bacto American Deserter Capture!. (MANILA, Oct 28. While seontfar TB& Looc, a detachment of the Twentieth and Twenty-eighth Regiments, under Captain Belgler, were attacked by 400 insurgefctsi armed with rifles, under the command o a whlto man, whose nationality isr nofe known to the Americans. The-insurgent for the most part were intrenched". Afiflr xi, heroic fight. Captain Belgler drove offj the enemy, killing: more than 75. Tho fight lasted for two hours. Captain? Bus ier and. three privates were slightly wounded, and two of the Americana wera killed. An engagement toolc place October- M between detachments of the Third Cav alry and the Thirty-third Infantry, num bering CO, and a force of JlnsTzrgets, ta- eluding 'W0 riflemen antf MOD boloinen. The fighting was desperate Finally, under pressure of overwhelming numbers; tho Americans were compelled1 to- retira' ctf NarvJcan. Lieutenant George I. 3Febigas and four private? were killed, nine wound ed, and four missing-. Twenty-nine' horse- are mlaslnsr. A- number of teantatara wero captured by the Insurgents, but were sub sequently released. Tho enemy's losa ia eatlmated at 150. A civilian launch, towing & barge loaded; with merchandise near Jtrayat was at tacked by a force of 150 Insurgents under David Fagln a deserter from the Twenty fourth Infantry. The American troops hearing the firing, turned out la force be fore the boat could be looted, and cap tured Fagln. who holds the rank of. Gen eral among the insurgents, and who ha sworn special enmity towards his. former company. Of the 20 men he captured a, month ago, seven have returned. Qne was killed In a fight, his body being horribly mutilated. Fagln sent messages to hia former comrades threatening them with violence If they became his prisoners- It was Fagln's men who captured Lieu tenant Frederick W. Alstaetter, who la & prisoner. General Hall's expedition, with a. force of nearly 800 men, through the mountains to Blnangonan, Province of Infanta, In pursuit of the insurgent, Callles, although it discovered no trace of the enomjf $ countered great hardships on. the nxareH. Twenty Chinese porters died and 40 rtftA were sent Into the hospital. After sta tioning a garrison of 250 men In Blnango nan and visiting Pollllo Island, off tho coast of Infanta Province. General Hall and the rest of his force embarked there on the transport Garonne. Reports from General Young's district show an Increase of Insurgents there ow- Injr to thofact that recruits are; gains innr rrom me towns While a detail of the Thirty-third In fantry was returnlrg from Bangued they were fired upon by insurgents, Sergeant Bearstaller being killed and two privates wounded. The Army Casualties. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 The following casualties were received at the War De partment from General MacArthur at Ma nila: Killed October 21, Twenty-eighth In fantry, John McBride; Twenty-eighth In fantry, John O'Haraj October 25, Bayam bang. Seventeenth Infantry, Corporal William F. Stelner: Otto Znhplnu October 24, Seventeenth Infantry. Thomas M. Sweeney; October 7. Maulbaul, Forty fourth Infantry, Charles Brandenburg; October 10, Twenty-fourth Infantry, Wil liam S. James. Wounded October 21, Twenty-eighth In fantry, Captain George W. Belgler, wounded In leg, slight; Twenty-eighth In fantry. Raymond Sweeney; Twenty-eighth Infantry, Frank E. Mekalllk: Fred M. Hunter; October 25, Seventeenth Infantry. Arthur V. Farrar, James Barr. "William Halcr; October 7, Third Cavalry, William J. McMahon, hip, severe; October 19, Thirty-ninth Infantry. James McGinness, wounded In arnvsllght; Alva Cundlff. arm. serious; October 10, Twenty-fourth Infan try, Edwin Skinner, thigh, serious; George W. Jackson, arm. serious. Sentences for Filipinos. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 Military com missions In the Philippines have recently tried a score or more of native FlllRlnoa on charges of murderous assaults, ab duction, rape and violation of the laws of war. In most Instances the death pen alty wis Imposed, although In only two cases was It actually executed, the oth ers boln? commuted to Imprisonment at hard labor. In one Instance a native or ganized a miniature Insurrection and with a small squad of Filipinos made an armed raid on the town of Tuguegaro to release some of his fellows who wero held prisoners there by tho United States. He was sentenced to hard labor and Im prisonment for 30 years and his sen tence later was commuted to 10 years' Im prisonment Philippine Customs Regulation. MANILA. Oct 23. The Philippine Com mission has decided to compile the re vised Philippine customs regulations with Its own Investigations assisted by the report of the Army board. The result will be forwarded to the United States for publication and discussion among those Interested In foreign commerce, when the details appear to be satisfac tory and the drift has been approved by the Secretary of War, the commission will promulgate It hero as a law. The measure has taken on a new Interna tional commercial interest and the course of the commission Is heartily commended here. No Friar Appointed. MANILA. Oct. 23 Archbishop ChapelTe. who recently left Manila accompanied by several friars, for the northern district of Luzon, under conditions that aroused the suspicions of the Filipinos here that be intended to establish the friars In par ishes there, was warmly welcomed on his arrival at Daugapan. Two years have elapsed since an opportunity for baptism has been presented. More than 25C0 per sons have been baptized. In view of the protest of the parish against the appoint ment of a friar as parish president Mgr. Chapelle did not attempt to make It Stcreoptlcon Gas Exploded. CHICAGO, Oct. 2S. An explosion of gas that was to be used for a stereopticon en tertainment wrecked the interior of the First Presbyterian Church In Austin to night, and the operator, George W. Lettch, recently returned from missionary work In India and Ceylon, lost his right hand and received a number of other Injuries. The gaa wraa in two cylinders about four feet long. One of the tanks sprang a leak and tbe llsrht In the lantern limited It causing the explosion.