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IIILLSItOKO, OltEGOX, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1899.
NO. 11.
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EVENTS OF HIE DAI
Epitome of the Telegraphic
Newt of the World.
TKRKK TICKS FROM TIIK VYIBES,
lb T. Mantianherea rroaottlod
la a Condoneed IfornB.
Rota Uonhsur, lit famous animal
painter, l dead at London, England.
Tlx North Atlantic squadron will
mult Nswpoit, It. I., lit uuimr
qtiatlere.
Cuban K)ldlor at Havana rfual on
the Hut day lo accept lha 78 allotted
them by lb United Stales to surrsinlei
lli.lr aims.
' Fioro Hardeovllle. H. 0., it retried
Ilia bunting lo dealh of Jacob nolo
in ii n, til wife and seven olilldran, in
an accidental Bio which destroyed
tliair booee.
Pertluulare received regarding tlia
famine In Hustle oonllrm tlia ptsvlooa
harrowing aioounla. Home autlioritiaa
estimate tliat aa innny aa JO.OUO.OOO
peasant are starving,
Tlia Spanish troops have withdrawn
from ZamUianga a I tor a battle wll'i
Ilia inauigmiU. Tlia lrtaurgetit lost
was severe. Th Spanish lues was ulna
killed and 17 wounded.
Harry and John Aitdeitoti, biothett,
' aunt out lulling on Voting', bay, ur
Aalorta, Dr., In a atrial! Unit, and were
- rlrowned by lha rapalsiiig of Ilia boat
whan titer were lets than 60 yards
from shore.
Howard It Kreia, a young r.no
bout 11 yeare of aga, an art Indent
)f lha Academy o( Design of New York,
made a startling and successful Jump
f Hint tha Brooklyn bridge, and cama
Jul of tba river uninjured.
An Oakland, (Cal..) miner, who hat
juat relumed from Copper river, Alas
ka, says that ha knout of HO proaiwe
lora In that awl Inn who ara filiating.
If not already dead they will dia In an
rltort 10 reach civilisation. Mutt of
Uimii went oat In small parties, with
piily piovialoni enough to last litem
fuw nionlhs. Heactie pat I lea have beat)
nimble to get trace of theui.
Tba Loudon Timet In an editorial
dealing with lbs pioapeol that there
stilt of lha peace confluence alii he
, permanent arbitration tribunal says:
"No government or people have devot
ed theitiaelvoa wllhgiealer ardor to tha
sludy of (ha theory of arbilraton than
lha government and ople of tba
United Nlalea. Tba Americans not
only poaaess great lawyers, but ara
community In which knowing ol
legal prlnalples Is mom wldetpiead
than in any other."
Colonel Pumrneis, of tha Parotid Or
agon, has been promoted to brevet
lirlgadler-genernl of vol unto it, and
Captain Cat to he major by brevet.
Queen Vlotorla's SOlli birthday was
celebrated throughout the llrltlah em
plra. Festivities were alao held In tha
leading capitals of Anieriu and En
tope.
Thaooioner't Jury Investigating the
train wreok at Exeter, on tlie Heading
railroad, found tint tha accident was
due to tha negligence of employes of
the company.
The Duke of A root, Spanish minister
to tha United Statoe, and tha duchess,
were among tha passenger on hoard
Iba Kaiser Wilheliu dor Utosee, sailing
from Southampton.
Tha nsavl orders potted at Washing
ton, assign Captain J. II. Coghlsn to
duty as ooinuiandaut of tha Puget round
naval elation, June 80, by which time
the Kalolgh will bo out of oomraiaaion.
At Griffin, Ua.t tha flogging of four
colored operatives of the Klncaid mills,
by whileeapa, has led to sensational
ilnvelophinentt. The mayor has called
out tha militia to pioteot tba uegtooa,
At Copenhagen, while soma men
wore engaged in filling shellt at a mil
itnry laboratory, some of them exploded.
. killing several men and severely injur
ing a noncommissioned officer and two
woiknien. The laboiatory was do-
troyd. ( , f s.
Rain and hall hat dona tuoch damage
to tba erupt and property In Central
Knnsas. In Hull tie county, wheHt and
other crops for miles were oomplutely
dettioyed, many buildings were nam
aged and thousands of window lights
were bioken. Home oattla and many
chickens and birds were killed.
Joohn Burkholder, of Martlndale,
and L. W. Frank Howsor, of Terra
Hill, Pa., have been arrested on the
charge of counterfeiting labels of tha
Clgarniakura' International Union. It
Is alleged they have been engaged ei
tensively in this business for years, and
supplied a large number of lactone.
James Noill Gresham, young man
from La Grande, shot himself through
the heart while In hit room at tha
Hotel Perklnt, Portland. Ha was a
nephew of the lato General Walter (g,
Uresham, Cleveland' secretary of
itate, and "aephew of ex-Governor
Taylor, of Tennessee, Tba young man
" wai In the custody of an officer, and
could not face disgraoe.
,;! SI Inor Hen llama.
Roosevelt' rough rider will hold
their first annual reunion on June
114 In New Mexico.
' Tlie Weatinghouae Eleotrlo Coin
pony has received an order to equip a
trolley line between mnaueipina ana
Atlantic City.
Tha equestrian stntue of Major.
General John F. Hartrunft in Capitol
imik, Harriabtirg, Pa., was unveiled
LATER NEWS.
15. It. Itolllnt, a rancher atQultoene,
Wash., was crushed to death by a tree
falling on him.
Major Murchand waa welcomed with
enthusiasm by the French on his ar
rival at Toulon.
At Pails ei-Presldent Harrison de
livered the Memorial day oration at
the tomb of La Fayette.
The United Htato orulr Ilrooklyn
wa damaged by-striking a bidden ob-
trtnetion in New Yotk harbor.
Frank llouts, a biutal parent, was
killed while be slept by his two young
children, whom he had almost starved
to tallsfy bis own wants.
A tramp assaulted tba 13-year-old
daughter of F. W. Mespelt, near Hclo,
Or., a she waa returning from school.
Tbe glil broke away and escaped.
The winter wheat crop of Koulhern
itnatla has been completely destroyed
by a protracted drought. The spiing
wheat crop is also In Jeopardy from the
same oaute.
As a result of the test made at tha
Chicago stockyards by tha livestock
coiuuilaaloners and health officials. It
lias been discovered that ail of 13 cows
examined were suffering from tubercu
losis.
M. do Heannre created a deep sensa
tion in the French court of sttis-t by
solemnly declaring that he had become
(conrlnowl tbat the bordereau was writ
ten by Major Count Ferdinand Walsiu
Ktleihaty.
Ke lor in In the navy la being talked
of In Washington. A plan for a reor
ganisation of that department 1 on
foul Dewey, it I said, mar lie placed
at the head of a board to pass on bu
reau matteia.
A dispatch fiom Manila sara that
the men from the hospital-ship Iteliel
captured by tbe Insurgents off Pais-
nanue weie the third engineer, another
oflloei and a boat's crew. They were
sailing In a cat boat, and native from
the shore act out In boats and took
them.
Lord Baliabnry has officially sounded
the stale department on tha proposition
whether the United Slates will exempt
a atrip along Lynn canal from the de
tails of arbitration. In other worda,
will the United Ulale agree to give to
Canada a strip on the Lynn canal at
once. If ao, the other phase of the
question oan go to arbitration.
Abraham and Oscar Junttl, brothers,
are lha Oral Columbia river fishermen
reported drowned this seaton. Tbeii
boat was oapalaed on Peacock spit, and
they sank More the I i lota ring crew
could reach them. Another tithing-
bout containing two men was carried
over the bar. Tbe Point Adams life
saving crew went out after thom, but
wa unable to pick them np and re
turned. What became of the men Ii
not known.
The run of salmon In the lowei Co
lumbia ia increasing.
Tha total nnmher of plague oases re
ported at Alexandria is eight. Two
have died and two recovered.
A Paris ditpatch ssys Dieyfos will
certainly tie acquitted at hi lecond
trial. All his accuser are dead, or
have fled the country.
Heoretnry Alger will control tbe
granting of fiauohises in Porto Kico.
object to a nominal revitionary su
Ibority of tlio president, which will
not Leoessnrily be exercited.
Two score scientists of note, con
stituting the Harilman exploring ex
ied it Ion to Alaska, have arrived in
Portland. They will embark from
tit'Hlile on the steamer Elder,
Huron von Munchausen' Hperbert
hruder won the race for the grand
prise of Hambnrg, valued at 100,000
murks. The biirou married Mis Net
tie Crosby, of Chicago, some year ago.
President McKlnley has Issued th
long-expected amendment to the civil
service Miles which he hat had under
consideration for about a year. It re
leases from the operations of civil serv
Ice rule about 4,000 office.
An order ha been itsued at Manila
re-establishing the Philippine courts,
whkh have been oloted since the
American occupaton. It revive all
the Spun I th system not conflicting
with the sovereignty of the United
State.
Secretary Alger ha received a cable
grain from General Otia in response
to his inquiry, announcing that a ma
jotity of tlie Oregon regiment of volnn
teen at Manila have decided to return
by steamer directly to Portland. The
Washington regiment decided to come
tint to San tiancisco.
Within one week the state of Ne
braska, South Dakota, Iowa, Wiaoon
tin, Mlnueiota and Noithern Illinois
have experienced seven ol the most vio'
lent storm known In years, resulting
in the loa of nearly a iloaon live and
doing' damage to pioporty and crops
that will run into the hundred of
thousands.
Tbe iteamer China, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, via Honolulu, biings
newt to San Francisco of the murder of
an American soldier named George
Ryan, near Maloloa. Ill frightfully
mutilated body wa found on April 17.
The body wa laahed to a raft floating
In the river, the skull crushed and both
arm bad been cut oft at the elbow.
The contract for distributing govern
ment leed this year ba been let by
the agricultural department to Charles
Parker, of Santa Clara, Cal., for 105,
000.
For the first time In 18 year, R.
W. Wagner, a prominent oitiaon of Bu
cyrni, O., la able lo apeak. In 1858
be wai afflicted with Illness which left
him mote. While holding a little
ohlld on his lap recently he waa aeiaed
with a sudden detire to tpeak to her,
and to hta lurpilse wai able to do to.
CAUSED BY WASHOUT
Passenger Train Wrecked
Near Waterloo, I a.
NI.N'K KILLED AM) 23 INJURED
Track Wat titriulM4 kf a Claed-
beral-Kna-lae Irerallad 1 the
Waterloo, la., May 80. The throngb
train from Chicago lo Minneapolis,
over the Hock Island and liurlington,
Celar Rapids Ac Northern railways,
waa wrecked at 1:16 tliia morning, al
tbe orossing of Kink creek, alout four
mile southeast of this plaoe. The
train consisted of five oosohee, Includ
ing insil and baggage cars, smoking-
car, two passenger coaches and tleepei.
Nine perton were killed and 23 in
jured. The list of dead is as follows:
L. Arnold, loiubernian, Mmueapolia;
Will Hcholllan, of Waterloo; W. A.
McLaughlin, Mnakegon, Mich.; R. II.
Kchwvlte, Alton, III.; David Hallo,
Minneapolis; F. 8. Carpenter, St.
Lonia; llswkins, pulltnan conductor;
George Wsinwright, train conductor;
one unknwn person.
A cloudburst had washed tbe sand
and gravel roadbed, leaving the trsck
unsupported for a stretch of 30 feet.
The tails and ties held together, and
there waa nothing to indicate the inse
curity of lite road. The engine struck
the washout and Was derailed In the
ditch betide the track, and behind it
the cars were piled in a confused heap.
Tbe mail car toppled over and wss
telescoped by the baygnge car, behind,
while the rear end of the baggage car,
in turn, telescoped the smoker. The
roof of tlie sleeper ploughed its way
through the day coach, while the lower
half of the latter crushed through the
deeper. The engineer and fireman
Jumped Irom the train and escaped
1th slight Injuries.
Mr. bebwette. of Alton, 111., was
brought to this city alive, hot died at
8 o'clock. He was badly rot about the
head, and it waa evident from the be
ginning that hia injuries were fatal.
He was on hi way to Minneapolis,
where he wss to be married today. He
asked his physician to telegraph his
father and his sweetheart. "Tell her,"
he gasped, "that 1 bav been detained
by a wreok, and cannot keep tlie ap
pointment on time. Dou't say any
more. '
Tha new wa brought to this oitr by
a mail clerk. The Ore whistle was
blown and a switch engine and coach
were hastily prepared and a tellef train
sent veiy speedily. The injured pas
sengers were extricated fiom the debt it
and brought here. Anothor relief
train toon arrived from Cedar Rspids,
and took a number of the seriously in
jured to be treated in the hospital in
that city.
VIOLATED A TRUCE.
Ifsgres Itlaed Natlvat fire Vpea Amer
icana.
Manila, Mar 30,-Whlle at Esca-
lante, on the island of Negro, pioklng
np the cable between that Island and
Cehu, the cable-ship Recorder landed
a party in a launch, consisting of tin
commander, second officer and several
of the crew, and Captain Tilly, of the
signal corps. A parly of rebels waited,
nnder a flag of truce, until the Ameri
cans bad landed, and then treacherous
ly poured a murderoui fire npon them.
Captain Tilly and one man at once
spring into tbe water, and the ootu
mander of the Recorder, nnder great
risk, managed to reach the launch and
put oft from the hank to save It from
being captuied by the rebels. The
second mate was picked up by the
launch Just aa he was sinking. He
said that when he taw Captain Tilly
last he waa awimmiag feebly. Though
tha iteamer wa far out from shore,
those aboard saw tbe Malay seamen
caught by the rebels, flogged and cut
to pieces.
General Smith, with detaohment
of troops, ha started on board a gun
boat to investigate the affair.
8WEPT BY A TORNADO.
Heavy Damage Dune la
Couutjr. Nebraska.
Hamilton
Omaha, May 80. A special to the
Bee from Central C.ty, Neb., says
Probably the most destructive tornado
that ever visited Nebraska passed
through the northern part of Hamilton
county last night at 7 o clock, deattoy
ing liora $75,000 to f 100,000 worth of
property, Including 15 dwellings, one
church, one aihoolhonse, two iron
bridge aorosa the Blue liver, barna,
oorn cribs, outbuildings, orchnrds,
fences and stock.
Tba track of tha storm waa 56 mile
in length and about 100 yards in width
Dining the blow a little rain fell,
accompanied by immense hail itonea,
tome aa large as a tin oup. In neatly
every case the families sought shelter in
cellar. Wliile there were many nar
row escape, strange to aay, no one was
seriously lujuied. The loss to ctopa
will be alight, but the grove and
orchard were mined. A majority of
tha farm were Insured, but it will be
Imposiihle fur several day to get the
amount of Individual losses. House-
bold good and olothing were all de
ttroyed.
Probably 8,000 people vnited tha
acene today.
Killed Her rather While llepl..
Rapid Olty, 8. D May 80. Lena
Bout, aged 14, and a younger brother,
ohildren of Frank Bouts, a Burlington
tie contractor, of Pennington county,
are under arrest, the girl being charged
with mnrderlng her father. She shot
him through tbe head while be elept
The man was cruel to hi family,
which lived half-starved much of the
time,
BANKRUPTCY OF SPAIN.
thm Will A pulug.tlr.il jr Kpu4late In-
laml 4H f.ubmm Hunda.
New York, May 81. -The Times'
London financial correspondent cabin:
Paris has at last betrayed symptoms
:il tiredness. The French are marvel-
nit people, the most painfully thrifty
In the world, but even they cannot
upply means for all the follies to
which they are invited to tobscribe.
Gurly last week some of their Indus
trial paer structures began to crum
ble, and suddenly tbe bonne found
itself overloaded in many directions.
It has been sulky ever since, and
twice during the week it looked almost
disposed to abandon Hpanitb Invest
ments.
Poor old Spain seems about to
throw up the sponge and apologetically
repudiate. No one expected any gov
ernment official to admit bankruptcy
qtiarely; your Upaniarda has far too
much dignity to do anything of the
soil But an Indirect admlasiou does
just aa well, to the next debt coupon
is not to be pl 1 until tbe oortes votes
tbe new budget with fretb taxes,
which is not a Job of lightning express
order. Worse still, in some respects,
the government his viciously kicked
the Dank of Spain, ao that it may die
of ill usage. Hpaln has no oommeroe
to speak ol, except what foreigners con
duct. Tlie Bank of Spain bas there
fore, levied on the government by the
simple process of making it advances
as required ont of increased Issue of
notes. Tlie security given consisted of
Cuban bonds, treasury notes and 4
per cent redeemable bonds. The in
terest on the Cubun bonds bas been
frankly inaiiended, that on all the
other debt has been postponed, and
harder treatment than it, if possible
the redemption drawings on redeemable
bonds have been stopped. The result
is tbat the bank is stranded higli and
dry, with asset of perhaps 35,000
represented merely by government
promisee to "manans."
The only consolation ia that th
repudiation was done witb high Span
ish dignity. The government bad no
more use for the bank, because it could
not get any more notes, therefore tt is
left lying like a spent mule.
The term of the French bank comes
next. They hold nearly tbe whole ol
the Spanish external debt and some
Cuban bond, and have made splendid
prulits out of the business in tlie past,
especially out of venturesome bears.
Both England and the United States
paid them heavy Ones for rath sales on
the outbreak of the lust war. We cer
tainly did, and for many years past
British bears have beeu petiodically
trapped and sheared by these skillful
French financiers. They oau therefore
afford to lose a few millions and still
have enough for "soupe muigre. " But
lose they must, because their very
atiocett in the past leave tbem with
all the bonda and no market to negoti
ate upon. The Paris bourse ia couae
quently pretty certain to be limp and
wabbly for some time, if it does not
actually collapse.
PRESIDENT'S WESTERN TRIP
Volunteers Mar All Be Moblllted ia BU
Fsv.1 anil Mlnneapollt.
Washington, May 81. Tbe presi
dent line been anxious to meet all the
troops who served in the Philippines,
if this were practicable, and he has
agreed to go to Minneapolis and St.
Paul to greet the Minnesota volunteers.
With Hie possibility that the presi
dent might be unable to continue hia
tiip lurther west, the Twin cities have
undertaken to arrange for mobilisation
of all the volunteers as their guests.
The first tioopa are expected to arrive
at Snn Francisco the middle of June
and tbe last by August 1. The jubilee
therefore probably will occnr early in
August. The president's acceptance of
thia invitation doea not necessarily
mean tbat he has abandoned hia cou
templated trip to the const.
STEADMAN'S DEAD BODY.
Will He Called Upon tc
in lllluola.
"Do Time"
Los Angeles, Cal.,, May 81. A
press dispatch from Joliet, 111., states
that an officer will be sent to Calilor
lialotake Frank Steadman, now it
an Quentin prison, back to lllinoi
.then bis terra expires. Steadruuu,
who was sent to Hun Quentin under
the name of Frank Wheeler, was sent
to the penitentiary from Stockton iu
1888 to serve five years for burglary.
He escaped and went Kant. He whs
arrested foi a crime in Chicago and
sent to Joliet. He escaped from there
and was captured in Loa Angeles and
tent back to San Quentin to serve out
his term. In 1897 he killed W. R.
Kelly, a fellow oonvict at San Quen
tin, and it now serving out a lite sen
tence. Claim Jumping to Stop.
Tucoma, Nay 81. Aooording to a
lottei from St. Michaels, a request was
recently sent to Captain Walker,
stationed at that place, to tend a force
of soldier to pieserve order in Cape
Nome diitriot, it having been reported
that tliete was considerable claim
jumping aud tbat bloodshed was liable
to result. Captain Walker conferred
with the United State oonituiaaioner
at St. Michaels ami decided that the
latter should go to Golovin bay and
open oourt. A email detachment of
soldieis accompanied the commissioner.
According to the letter, court was to
have opened about March 1 or 5, the
commissioner having announced that
be would be In the district by that
time, armed with a copy of tbe laws
relating to mining territory owned by
tbe United States.
'larla 81111 Vat.
Coveraok, England, May 80. The
ninth attempt to float the American
liner Parla waa made thia evening, and
proved an ntter failure. Her bow ia
absolutely impaled by the rocks. Five
tug were used In the endeavor to tow
the Pari off, three other standing by
lor an emergency.
A SEATTLE COLLISION!
Passenger Train Ran Into an
Electric Car.
OXK PASSENGER WAS KILLED
Klfhteon Woro li)Jr4, overal (
Into the B.
Seattle, May 81. A collision occur
red this morning near the Washington
iron works between a Grant-street elec
tric car. containing, aa near aa can ba
learned, 25 people, and the local Olym
pia Noithern Paciflo taseenger train.
One man was killed, Emanuel
Broad, aged 85. a laborer, of South Se
attle. He died while being taken to
the hospital. Eighteen wrro injured.
The electric car waa just coming into
the city aud tlie train was just start
ing out for Olympia. They met nearly
head-on at the intersection of the two
tracks. The passengers of the electric
car were nearly all thiowo into the
bay whete the water was nearly 15 feet
deep. It is a wonder that no one wa
drowned during the panic thai followed
the collision, tio far aa known every
one is aooonnted for.
When Molorman Bharpe saw the
train approaching, be applied the
brake with all his power, but the track
was slippery and his car crashed into
the locomotive. The paeengere made
frantic efforts to get off the ear. The
motormaii and conductor succeeded in
jumping off tlie platform, but an in
stant later the engine crashed into tbe
street car, and nearly all tbe people
were thrown into the water below, in
cluding the man who waa fatally in
jured. Although he succeeded in get
ting ofl the cat, he did not succeed in
getting out of the way, and when the
engine bit the car he waa atruck by it
and knocked into the water. Without
a moment'a hesitation, although ter
ribly injured internally, be promptly
grabbed a pile and held it Seeing
that another passeuger on the train
was about to sink, the injured wan
grabbed him with hia free hand and
held him until a rope could be letdown
and both of them hauled up.
As quickly as possible tbe train waa
stopped and the train crew, assisted by
employea of the Washington iron
works, made beroio efforts to get the
fiightened passengers out of the water.
With topes and boards everyone was
quickly taken ont. Some were found
clinging to piles, some were ttrnggling
and swimming about, and others were
crawling up tbe piles and timbers.
Everything waa in the direst confu
sion. Tlie wrecked electrio car lay on
its aide, almost at right anglea with
the rails, while tlie passenger train wa
some 50 feet distant from where the
electric car lay. The locomotive head'
light was broken, and the cowcatcher
badly deranged, while the whole front
end was covered with broken close and
debris from the electric car.
Railroad! la alatka-
Tacoma, May 81. J. E. Onrling,
president of the Alaska-Yukon Trans
portation Company, haa arrived from
London and will go North to look after
that company's interests. With him
are Engineer Blair, oi London, and
Mr. Hubbard, of Chicago, the com
pany's attorney. Uurliug proposes to
save TOO miles of water transportation
between St. Michael and Nulato by
building 75 miles of railioad from a
point on Norton sound, near tbe mouth
of the Unalakik, to the Yukon river,
about 45 miles from Nuaton. Part of
the route lies within the 100-mile mil
itary reservation around St. Michaels,
and right of way most be obtained
from congress.
Carried Off Oolrt Nu(!t.
Oakland, Cal., May 31. During the
progresa of a fire which partly de
stroyed tbe fins residence of William
C Price, in East Oaklaml, thieves en
tered and looted the bnildlng. Among
other things they carried off a case
filled with gold nuggets and oilier val
liable mineral specimens. After the
tire small nuggets worth about $10
nere picked up on the lawn. The
value of the missing specimens is nearly
13,000. -
HalUlones tor Rarrl(erators.
Hastings, Neb., May SO. A terrific
hail storm 81 tuck thia oity at 8:30
o'olook this aft i noon, and continued
15 minutes, during which . time over
8,000 panes of glass weie broken, fruit
aud grain deatoyed, chickens and birda
killed and Injured aud several petaona
hurt.
Fire and Brlmitono.
Algiers. May 81. Tbe French
steamer Aloaia, from Marsoilet for Pal
ermo and New Or lean a, with 833 pas
aengeia on board, arrived herewith her
cargo of sulphur on fire. The cook of
the vessel waa asphyxiated and several
passengeis were burned.
The Missouri house haa adopted the
senate amendments to the state depart
ment-store bill and passed the bill as
amended. Tbe bill levies a license
tax of fiom $300 to 9500 on firms carry
lug more than one of 73 claaaea of
goods, aa classified In the bill. The
bill applies to firms in St. Louis, Kan
tat' City and St. Joesph. It goea to
tlie governor for hia signature. .
The' Hague, May 81. The drafting
committee, or subcommittee of the
arbitration committee,-met today and
discussed the Russian scheme, adopt
ing, with slight modifications, tlie
first sis articles.
A Washington dispatoh says It oan
be announced, semi-officially, that the
Cauadain government will receive a
rebuke from England in regard to the
Alaskan boundary controversy, aud
ihat then the whole thing will be set-
lied by arbitration,
MEMORIAL DAY IN MANILA.
firavot Raitarr Knoll rooorat4 by
aoldlore.
Manila, May 81. Memorial day waa
celebrated at Battery knoll, Wfiere
Scott 's guns were planted againat the
Filipino trenches in tbe first days of
the fighting at Manila. Nearly 800
soldiers lie buried there on the bleak
mound surrounded by rice fields, rough
boards marking Ibe graves. A few
soldiers who could be spared came to
Battery knoll, duty and bronsed, bear
ing flowers with which to strew their
jomrsdes' graves. A silk flag waa
placed above eacb mound.
Just before sunset a few bundled
Americans gathered in a circle around
Battery knoll in bjue and brown uni
forms. Tbe guns of tbe monitor Mon-
rdnock boomed a significant reminder
f the nearnesa of war. Just as the
ixtb artillery band began a dirge, the
i.iunder of the Monadnock't guns
ceased, while "taps" sounded from the
ongle.
Charles Den by, of the Philippine
commission, presided at the exercises.
He spoke briefly of the peculiar sol
emnity of the day to Manila. Tbe
:hap!ain of the British cruiser Power
ful made the invocation. Chaplain
Pierce, of the Twenty-third infantry,
aud Chaplain Cressey, ol the Minnesota
volunteers, delivered orations, and the
mldi em sang appropriate hymns. Af
ter "taps" had been sounded, the sol
iliers took tlie flags from the grave to
tend to the relatives of the dead.
Similar services were held over the
dead in Paco cemetery this afternoon.
Colonel Derby waa tbe orator on this
occatiun. The gravea were decorated
with a vast quantity of magnificent
flowers. High mass lot tlie dead
Homan Catholics and communion were
celebrated in the morning. Orationa
were delivered by Fattier McKinnoo
and Chaplain Stevenson, of Ibe Idaho
regiment, a Methodist, and Peter Mc
Queen, a Congregational clergyman, of
Boston.
Most of tbe bosineaa placea in Ma
nila were closed in observance of the
day. The American and many foreign
flees weie displayed at half-mast.
The grave of toldiera and sailors
buiied at Cavite and Ho Ilo were alao
decorated today.
The Daj In Havana.
Havana, May 31. Decoration day
was observed here in a notable msn
ner. At 9 o'clock in tbe morning Mrs.
Estes Q. Rathbone and a committee of
women who bad been selected tor the
purpose were taken in Rear-Admiral
Cromwell's lanncb, escorted by a de
tachment of marines, to the wreck of
the battle-ship Maine, where they
strung the skeleton of the unfortnnate
craft witb ropes of laurel and wrealha
of flowers. Mrs Lncien Young repre
sented the navv at the decoration ot the
gravea of tbe sailors and soldiers in
terred in the Colon cemetery, at II
o'clock. Mr. Patterson and acorn'
mittee representing tbe Maine Aaeocia
tion participated in the ceremony. A
great many flowers and wreathe were
plaoed npon tbe gravea of the heroea,
Similar exercises took place at the
Quemadoa cemetery.
WAR IN THE SOUTH.
Sevan Vlfhtlna- on tko Ialand of alia
dnnao Zamboana;a Bombarded.
Washington, Jnne 1. A special
oable, via Loudon, waa presented here
tonight for oonfiimation, but failed to
be corroborated in any way by official
advices. Tbe oable bad just been re
ceived from Laboau, an island near
Borneo and a abort distance from the
Sulu archipelago. It declared that a
severe battle bad been fought on the
island of Mindanao between Filipino
rebels and Americana, and that Zam
boanga, the metropolis of the island.
had been bombarded and bnrned to
ruint. It alto stated that the Ameii
can navy blockading the port of Snlo
had denied admission to a tramp Brit
ish steamer, and that the gunboat Caa-
tine escorted her seaward. No-credence
ia put in the story here, aa all admin
istration departments declare that Cap
tain Barker, In command of tlie fleet
at Manila, on the flagship Oregon,
would have given notice before thia
had the blockading of Sulu been be
gun.
The dispatoh waa not taken serious'
ly here, but may have aome found'
tion, aa Labnan ia in cable connection
with Singapoie, and neater the alleged
scene of fighting than Manila.
Tlllor'a Body Pound.
Manila, Jane I. Brigadier -General
Smith, who waa aent with a detach
ment of troops on a gunboat in aearcb
of Captain George H. Tlley, of tbe
signal corps, reported missing at Esca'
lante, island of Negros, aent the body
of Captain Tilley to Ilo Ho todav on
boa id a launch. The body of Captain
Tillev waa buried later in the day witb
notable ceremonies. Engliab friends
of the captain joined with hia com
radea of the signal oorpt in arranging
for the funeral, and heaped wreathe of
floweia upon the coffin of the dead aol
dier.
Operation on the Qnoon.
London, June 1. Truth in ita lisue
today saya: "Queen Victoria hat de
cided to undergo an operation for cat a
ract when Professor Hermann Pagen
Italclier, director of the opthalinlo hot
pital at Wiesbaden, thinka the proper
time haa arrived. The operation will
be performed either at Osborne or Bal
moral, probably after tbe parliamentary
session.
Yellow Jack Appears.
New Orleans, June 1. The Loui
siana state board of health gave notice
tonight to aeveral other boards of
health that the autopsy ahowed tbat
Mia Johanna Grille, who died here
Sunday, bad yellow fever. The board
of health declare that no other caae in
New Orleans i in the slightest degree
luspioious.
St. Thomas, Ontario, Jnne 1. Robert
LindBey & Co. 'a deparment atore waa
burned laat night. Lou, 1110,000.
SMALL ARMY NEEDED
Otis Will Be Satisfied Witb
Thirty Thousand Men.
PEESS REPORTS ABE UNTRUE
Proaldoa Dm n.t (hare In th Ana.
lot Croated br Iko Dli-
rote boa.
Washington, June I. The Post says:
."Oeneial Otis baa informed the war
department that he will be satisfied if
the army nnder bia command ia kept at
maximum of 80,000. The preaident
will give him thia number.
"Tbe aituation in the Philippine
eras the anbjeot of an extended confer
ence today between the president and
Adjutant-ueneTal Corbin. In view of
'ie more or lees alarming reports
7incb bave been aent to tbe United
Plate from Manila, it ia imDortant to
jknow that the president does not share
in tlie anxiety winch these dispatches
bave created.
"General Otis haa kept inclose touch
ith the authorities here, and if he
ara in a tight position, which ' tbe
press reports seeem to indicate, it ia
felt that he would not hesitate about
making bia dilemma known. On tbe
contrary, the advice received from him
show tbat be ia not in need of a largely
increased army. He ba cabled that
prese reports of activity of tbe Insur
gents sooth of Manila have been great
ly exaggerated, and he thinka 80,000
men will be amply abundant to meet
all requiiementa.
"The present (trengtn of tne army
in the. Philippines, including volun
teer wbo are still in the service, ia
86,000. When the volunteers return,
some 84,000 regular will remain, or
6,000 lesa than the number estimated
aa necessary by General Otia. The re
inforcement now en route to Manila
or under ordeia to depart will bring
tbe total regulars up to the required
figure; but, aa there will be eonsidei-
able loss through sickness, it ia pro
posed to decreaae the companies now
stationed in garrisons in thia country
to the minimum and increase the
companies in the Philippine to the
maximum. It ia believed that thia
arrangement will give General Otia all
the men he requires, without disar
ranging the army, aa it ia at present
distributed.
"It can be stated on antborlty that
f General Otia asks for an additional
force there will be no enlargement of
the army, even to the extent of recruit
ing the 85,000 volunteers provided for
in the army reorganisation bill which
passed the last congress." ,
May Have All Bo Wnnta.
Washington, June 1. "General Otit
will be given all the men necessary to
successfully carry out tbe plan adopted
in the Phllipp gps," said Secretary of
War Alger tonight General Otia
needa at least 40,000 men, and 50,000
would better meet the exigencies of
the situation in the Philippines. Mr.
McKinley wanta to avoid a call for
more volunteers, and yet he can tee no
way of escaping it. General Otia need
at least 80.000 moie men, and the
other 15.000 of the force of 85,000 vol
unteer which the president may call
for without further action of congress.
are needed in the United States.
"It ia not now a question of whether
35,000 volunteers are to be enlisted,"
said an authority tonight "It is only
a question of how toon Ibe call shall be
issued. Whether the president shall
issue the call now, so that the men
may be enlisted and put in shape for
service by the close of tbe rainy season,
or whether it shall be delayed two or
three months and tbe campaign in the
Philippine dragged into tbe next cen
tury, are points the preaident must de
cide." Altar's Cable to Otia.
Washington. June 1. Secretary Al
ger tonight cabled General Otia to ad
vise him at once wbat further rein
forcements he may need after the ar
tival ot all the regular troops to be dis
patched to tbe Pbilippinee to replace
the volunteers whose time ia out. Sec
retary Alger haa furnished Geneial
Otia detailed information aa to the
plan of assignment of regiments to bia
command. Pending General Otia' re
port, final decision on further augmen
tation of Otia' report will be deterred.
Ran Into a Hand-Car.
Marietta, O., June 1. Aha.idoar on
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
railroad waa struck by an extra through
freight near Colville today, and waa
thrown high In the air with ita (our
occupant, section hand. Two of
them, William Baabnell and Otia
Dodd, were instantly killed. Tboma
Flaherty, tection foreman, waa proba
bly fatally injured. The other man waa
severely injured. Fog prevented the
men from teeing the train in time to
eaoape. . - ).-.-
Indian Afoot Calla tor Troop. .
Anaconda, Mont., Juno 1. A spe
cial to the Standaid from Mile City,
Mont., says: Agent Clifford, at the
Cheyenne roaervation, haa called for
additional troops, and 60 men have
been sent from Fort Keogh. The offi
cers will not talk, and tbe cause of the
requisition is not known.
Troops for Alaakn.
Chicago, June 1. Under direction
from the war department, Biigadier
General T. M. Anderson, commanding
the department ot the lake, baa or
dered company E, Seventh United
State infantry, to Alaska. Th com
pany ia atationed at Fort Sheridan.
Captain C B. Farnsworth I in com
mand. The soldier ara to do garrison
duty in place of a company of tbe Four
teenth infantry, whioli bae been with
drawn and tent to Manila,
with impressive ceremonies.