The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, March 31, 1899, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Hooc River Glacier It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. X, HOOD RIYEB, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899. NO. 45. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by " 8. F. BLYTHE. : ; Terms ol subscription f 1.S0 a year when paid , in advance; 12 u nut paia in aavance. . i. - . THE MAILS. - The mail arrives from Mt. Hood at 10 o'clock a. m. Wednesdays and Saturdays; departs the same days at nron. For Chenoweth, leaves at 8 a. m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; arrives at 6 p. m. For White Salmon leaves-daily at 1:30 p. m.; arrives at 5 :80 p. in. From White Salmon leaves (or Fnlda, Gilmer, Trout Lake and Glenwood Moudajs, Wednes days and Fridays. SOCIETIES. LAUREL REBEKAH DEGREE LODGE, No. 87, 1. O. U. F. Meets drat and third Moo days iu each month. H. J. HlBBABD, N. Q. J. H. Ferguson, Secretary. CANBY POST, No. 16, G. A. K.-MecU at A. (. U. W. Hall II rat Satuiduy of each month at 2 o'clock p. m. All U. A. K. members In vited to meet with us. D. 0. Hill, Commander . T. J. Conning, Adjutant. ' CANBY W. R. C, No. 16-Meets first Satur day of each mouth in A. O. U. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mas. G. P. Ckowkll, President. . Mae. Ursula Dukes, Secretary. HOOD RIVER LODGE. No. 105, A. F. and A. M. Meets Saturday evening on or befme each full moon. . It. F. Davidson, W. M. 1). McDonald, Secretary. r . HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Meets third Friday iiIkIU of each month. , E. L. Smith, U. P. G. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, NO. 25. O. E. 8. Meets Sattirdav after each full moon. , Mrs. Eva Havxes, W. M. I G. K. WILLIAMS, Secretary. OLKTA ASSEMBLY, No. 10, United Artisans. Meets second and fourth Monday uichts of each month at Fraternity hall. Brothers and sinters cordially invited to meet with us. . ;...- A. P. IlATEUAM, M. A. 8. 8. Gray, Secretary. TITAUCOMA LODGE, No. 80, K. of P. Meets Y In A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday tiltrlit. G. W. Graham, C. C. G. T. Prather, K. of R. & S. RIVERSIDE LODGE, No. 68. A. O. U. W. Meets first and third Saturdays of each , month. G. T. Prather, M. W. . . J. F. Watt, Financier. H. L. Howe, Recorder. IDLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O. O. F. Meets in. Fraternal hall every Thursday night. O. B. Hartley N. G. . H. J. Hibbard, Secretary. . - JJ F. SHAW, M. D. r w ! (SUCCESSOR TO DR.' MORGAN) -; ', All Calls Promptly Attended Otlice upstairs over Copple's store.. All calls left at the otlice or residence will be promptly attended to. JOHN XELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE AGENT. , ,, - For 21 years a resident of Oregon and Wash ington. Has had many years experience in Real Estate matters, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent. Satisiactlon guaranteed or no . charge , . J F. WATT, M. D. Graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical Col lege, 1884. In General practice at Hood River, Oregon. -v Surgeon for O. R. & N. Co. Is especially eqnlpted to treat catarrh of nose and throat . and diseases of women. Special terms for office treatment of chronic cases. . : TjENTISTKY; ; ,1 XI in V.n.wH . 1M,1.. will make regular visits to Hood River, and will cave rooms at the Mt. Hood hotel. All the dif ferent methods of crowning and filling teeth. Prices reasonable, and satisfaction guaranteed. Portland Otlice Room 314 Oregonian build ing. . . , .. . ; . ' . piONEER MILLS j Harbison Bros., Props. ' FLOUR, FEED AND ALL CEREALS ; .... - Ground and manufactured, r r- ' Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom grinding done every Saturday. During the busy season additional days will be mentioned In the local columns. - - i HOIID RIVEK. OREGON. B RADLEY PHOTOGRAPHER. ' ! Gallery oppn three days in the week Thursday. Friday and Saturday until further notice. First-class work and : ill Work Warranted. ' 0LUMBIA NURSERY , ' Large assortment of all kinds of :. nursery stock. Send for cata- " ' " ' log . H. C. BATEUAM, ; " Hood River, Or.' THE GLACIER . . . : ; : , . L :. BARBER SHOP. ; -Gbant Evans - - : -' ' - Propritoir. ' HOOD RIVEK, OR. i T. HOOD SAW MILLS . ... .. . . .Tomlisson Bros, Props. -.r i ....FIR AND PINE LUMBER ' Of the beet quality alwas on hand at ; prices to salt the times. DALLAS & SPANGLER, : :.V dealers' in " ; Hardware, Stoves and Tinware Kitchen Furniture, Plumbers' ! i - Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc. ' We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constantly adding. Our prices will, continue to be as low as ' Portland prices. " BEPilBIHQ TINWARE 1 SPECIALTY. I NEI8 J I ra From All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening; of the Fast Week Culled From the Telegraph Columns China has flatly refused, to cede San Mun bay to Italy. ' . Secretary Alger and party have left Washington on a visit to Havana. The British, German and . American ministers at Peking have addressed notes to the Tsung-Ii-yamen, demand ing a settlement of the Shanghai for eign settlement extensions question. Work in the ruins of the Hotel Windsor, in New Yoik, continues with unabated vigor. A great many chaired bones are being found, but cannot be put together to form entire skeletons. The Erie Limited jumped the track 10 miles from Akron, O., the engine and baggage oar going into the ditch, almost instantly killing the engineer, and seriously injuring the fireman and one passenger. A rear-end collision between two freight trains on the Flint & Pete Mar quette railroad near New Boston, Mich., in a heavy fog,' killed the fire roan and badly injured the engineer of the rear engine. According to a report from Seoul, capital of Corea, the whole Coreau cabinet has been dismissed and two of the ministers have been banished be cause of wholesale changes made by the cabinet in provincial offices. Queen Victoria is likely to reoeive an unprecedented honor by the city of New York. : On May 24, the queen's birthday, the national, state and city flags will be flung to the breeze from all public buildings in Greater' New York in honor of the queen.' General Porter, United States am bassador at Paris, answering an ; in quiry of a correspondent, said he was unable to discuss rumois to the effect that be may succeed Alger as secretary of war, as all information on the sub ject ought to come from Washington." The Spanish government has ordered the prosecution of General Weyler's or gan, EL Naoionale, and of several re publican and Cat list newspapers for publishing, with offensive comments, a report that the queen regent was about to abdicate and., to marry an Austrian archduke. The offending pa pers have been seized. According to a prisoner oaptured by our troops, Aguinaldo has announced that he will personally mass the re serves at Malolos and match on Manila within 20 days, unless the Americans withdraw in the meantime. The con centration of the' rebel : forces in the vicinity of Malabon gives color to the statement of the prisoner. . Five thousand borueseekers are on their way from St. Paul to North Pa cific coast points. . .. A dispatoh to the London Evening News from Brussels tevives the tumor that Cardinal Gibbons may be the next pope. - ; : Another battle has L occurred at Ho lie, in which one American was killed and 15 wounded. The rebels lost 20 killed and 800 were wounded. .., .,.. General Otis informs the war de partment that he cannot spare at-present the volunteers now in the Philip pines, but hopes to be . able to do so soon. , .; . . ' . ..''' " During the absence of John Dian and wife, of Greenfel, Manitoba, from their farm, their." residence, caught fire, and their five children were burned to death. v - Severe weather oontinnes throughout Great Britain. Great Jobs has occurred among livestock, and London has ex perienced the heaviest snowfall of this winter. The Argentine transport Villa Reina has been wrecked in Cameiones bay between Cape Raso and Cape de Bahias, Northern Patagonia. -' No loss of life is reported. - - -- ----- Ex-Secretary John Sherman, whose death was reported on . board the steamship Paris while en route home from - Kingston, Jamaica, is still alive and hopes are entertained of his recov ery. He will be brought to the United States on the cruiser Chicago. - Aocording to advices from the Ori ent, the emperor of Corea has oreated sensation by appearing in a full uni form cut in American fashion. His attendants have. also been : attiied in American style. The emperor, it is stated, has cut off bin topknot or short queue, which from time immemorial has adorned the top of the Corean em perors' beads. The Peking corespondent of the T,ntilnn Timed anvil: The Deutsche Zeitung publishes a long article show- ing how the United States is slowly but surely obtaining a commercial foot- j ing in Turkey and the East generally. ! The writer warns Austria and other European states of the danger of whioh they are threatened. Amerioa is de scribed as a "serious trade rival," LATER NEWS. Polo has been burned and abandoned by the Filipinos. . Japan Is considering a project for the nationalization of railways. A school of psychology will be held at Chicago from April 8 to 8, inclusive. The Twelfth New York volunteers have arrived' home for muster out. Secretary of War Alger has arrived at Havana on a tour of inspeotion. Two thousand men are idle as the re sult of the pantsmakers' strike at Phila delphia. - . ' : Half the business portion of Har rison Valley, Pa., was destroyed by fire. Loss. $40,000. ' By a collision between freight trains near Pittsburg two men were killed and two fatally injured. , v The funeral of ex-Governor Francis Harrison Pierpont, of the Virginias, was held at Pittsburg. - Denmark proposes to demand cession of a treaty port in China, and will Bend out a cruiser lor the puprose. - Arrangements have been completed for construction of a railroad from Al va ratio to San Andreas Tuxeto, Mexico. War department officers express un qualified satisfaction with the work of the volunteers before and around Ma nila. - The search of the Windsor hotel ruins, at New York, for dead bodies continues. Parts of human remains were found. ' - Two carloads of Eastern oysters are on their way to Willapa harbor for an artifical propagation experiment by oysterinen. The steamship Tacoma. whioh has ar rived at Tacoma from China and Japan, brought 827 Japanese, most of them of the laboring class. Rear-Admiral Sampson arrived at Santiago de Cuba on board the cruiser New York, and was given a royal wel come by the people. ":' ' Queen Victoria has been petitioned to force President Kiuger, of the Trans vaal, to reform existing abuses, whioh bear heavily on the Uitlanders. The statistics of fire insurance busi ness transacted in the state of Wash ington for theyear of 1898, shows risks written amounting to $82,83,718. : lu the victorious charges on the in surgents at Polo, Sunday, General Irv ing Hale fell wounded it is thought seriously while directing the advance. " Hon. William S. Mason, : mayor of Portland, Or., died his home in that city after an illness of about six weeks. Liver complications, superinduced by an attaok of the grip in February, caused his death. - Lieutenant-Colonel ' Alfred "C Gu ard, chief surgeon, bas been ordered to Vancouver barracks. Wash., as ohief surgeon of that, department. Acting Assistant Surgeon T. G. Holmes has been ordered to new Fort Spokane, Wash.,-; .. "Tr'T -'- Tbe Paris correspondent of the Lon don Observer telegraphs that a furious fight occurred on the Boulevard St. Michael between parties of Dreyfus and anti-Dreyfus ' students. Several persons were injured and two cafes were wrecked. T' . ' Fifteen hundred employes of the Philadelphia - clothing, manufacturers have struok for increase of waves, abo lition of sub-contractors and an agree ment that tbe wages will not be re duced. : Other operatives were thrown out of work, making in all 8,000 per sons out. ' ' - ' V; ' The American- army, some 10,000 strong, is advancing against . the Fili pino insurgents,1; numbering 12,000. The Americans are successfully driving the rebels from their strongholds after stubborn resistance. The American loss is quite heavy, but not nearly so large as that of the insurgents. , ,. , In the storming of the rebel' capital the killed in the Second Oregon were: Company B, Private H. B. Adams; D, William W. Cook; L, Charles Herbert, Guy Millard. Thirty-eight were wounded. The First Washington in fantry nad seven wounded, one mor tally, Captain l ortaon, whose home is near Seattle. , ' . - ' i The Cuban military assembly has decided that dissolution of the assem bly at the present time would be preju dicial to the interests of the army. The assembly has sent Senor Heire and Villallor to Washington to en deavor to obtain the president's co operation in its efforts to raise more money for the Cuban tioopa. ' ; . Spanish officers at Madrid acquaint ed, with, the Philippine islands con tinue to predict the failure of Major General Otis' campaign, notwithstand ing tbe American suocess. They say that while the Americans' will 'un doubtedly win all the battles, they will lose the campaign itself, owing to the aptitude of the Tagalos to conduot a war of surprises and ambuscades. - The United StateB district attorney at San Francisco has been instructed by the United States attorney general to bring suit against the San Francisco Dry Dock Company to secure possession of Mission rock, in that harbor. It is proposed to establish a naval coaling station there. . The dock oompany claims the rock under a title from the ! state. I 'TIE AMERICANS ADVANCING Great Battle Near Rebel Capital. the REBELS SET FIRE TO MALABON The Stubborn Resistance of the Insur. ente Has Surprised the War De partment Manj Thousands JEng-agreil. r Washington, March 28. The war department tonight received the fol lowing: -(:- : f "Manila, March ' 28. Adjutant General, Washington: : MacArthur'a advance is beyond Newcanayan, two miles beyond Polo, nine miles from Manila, and fifteen miles from Malolos. The railroad will be repaired to the advance point tomorrow, and the troops will be supplied by cars. Mac Arthur will press on tomorrow. He is now in the open country. -The insur gents are stoutly resisting behind suc ceeding lines ot intrenchments, from which our troops continually drive them. , Manila is perfectly quiet, and the native inhabitants appear to be re lieved of : anxiety and fear of insur gents. Captain Krayenbub, commis sary lieutenant, Third ' artillery, is mortally wounded. OTIS." Manila. March 28. The United States troops under Brigadier-Generaf Wheaton captured the town of Malinta, beyond the Tuliahan river, today, af ter a sharp fight. Colonel Harry C. Egbert, of the Twenty-second regular infantry, was killed. Prince Loewen stein, formerly aid-decamp on the staff of Brigadier Miller at Ilo Ho, somehow got in front of the firing line and was shot in the side; dying al most instantly. A German who ac companied the prince was wounded. ' The United States gunboat .Helena and other gunboats have been shelling Malabon, about a mile northwest of Calooan, for several hours. The insur gents made a fierce resistance to the American advance up the railroad at Malinta. ' In addition to the fatal wounding of Colonel Egbert, several men of the Twenty-second infantry and several men of the Oregon and Kan sans regiments were killed. : ' - . Evidently . anticipating a bombard ment by the fleet, a thousand rebels vacated Malabon last night, leaving a few to burn the town. General Wliea ton's brigade, composed of the Second Oregon regiment and the Twenty second and . Twenty-third ' infantry, stretched out along the railroad from Calooan to the Tuliahan . river, was prevent the withdrawal, powerless to owing to the natural obstacles and to the strong opposition. A column of smoke at daybreak was the first intima tion of the enemy's 'intention, but others followed at various' points, all soon blending in a . dense balloon 6baped cloud. The flames of tbe burn ing rice mills and large buildings could be plainly seen from Calocan, despite tbe strong sunlight. By 11 o'clock in the morning the only' building of importance not de stroyed in the center of the town was a large stone ohnrob, but even at noon fresh fires were started among the na tive huts in the outskirts of Malabon, although the general, exodus took place much earlier. ., Many of the rebels sought refuge in the suburbs, Navotas and Casag, or were driven inland by the shells of the Helena, Callao, Ning dapan and Laguna de Bay. "r . " ' ' '. Washington, March 28. General Otis' dispatch, reoeived at 10 o'olock tonight, recording MacArthur's ad vance to Newcanayan, marked a direct and important step by the' American troops, in tbe opinion of the acting sec retary, Meiklejohn, and . Adjutant General Corbin. . Both expressed tbeir satisfaction at what had been accom plished. The former dispatch regard ing this branch of the operations, had not been so promising, inasmuch as they had stated that General MacAr tliur, although he bad driven the en emy, could not gain a point north of Polo on account of the roughness of the country. .With easy railroad commun ication to tbe advanced point, the diffi culty in forwarding commissary sup plies will be- considerably lessened. Every step forward is regarded as so much ground gained, and an approach nearer the insurgent headquarters at Malolos now stated to be but - IS miles from the vanguard of the Ameri can army. " The tenaoity of the Fili pinos in the past few days' fighting has somewhat surprised the war offi cials here, who did not ' think them capable of putting up and maintaining the contest they have.. " Washington, March 28. The war department has received tbe following cablegram: ' - 1 Manila,; March 28. Adjutant-General, Washington. MacArthur has driven the enemy, strongly intrenched in large force, north of olo. He will continue to press them. V The insurg ents have strong intrenchments from Calocan to Malolos, which have taken them months to construct. - ; OTIS. London, March 27. A dispatch to the Times from Buenos Ay res says that thn Pnnta da Atacama award recognizes Part of the Argentine and part of the Chilean boundary lines. j GOVERNMENT. ORGANIZED. Situation at the Island of Negros Con tinuei Satisfactory. New York, March 29. A dispatch to the Herald from Ho Ilo, island of Panay, says: Tbe transport Indiana has arrived here with reinforoements for Negros island, where the situation is still ' satisfactory. - The rising of the hill tribes were of no political sig nificance. - The committee of natives, with Col onel Smith, the American governor, presiding, proceeded with ' the work of drafting a constitution, taking the American constitution as the basis of the document. . . , It has been formally proposed to raise the island's revenue entirely from exports instead of by the present method of levying unon land values and cedula personae, thus relieving the laboring class as far as possible. The natives desire the immediate introduc tion of the English system of . educa tion. A gentleman who has had excellent opportunities for studying the political situation advooates a separate govern ment for each of the islands, with a representative assembly at Manila for general control, under the supervision of an American governor-general, who shall be free from interference from Washington, except in regard to inter national questions. , The deputies for the island of Negros will meet on April 8 to 'disouBS the draft of the constitution. Ensign Everhart, captain of the port of Ilo Ho, recently re-established light houses in the neighborhood of Panay, Guiraaras island. Insurgents fiom Concepoion, island of Panay, acting under the orders of General Problador, twice raided Clabazas lighthouse, carry ing off the lamp and appurtenances. Affairs in Salvador. . New York, March 29. A dispatoh to the Herald from Sari Salvador says: The volcano Izalo has been in eruption for the last three weeks, and earth quakes havd been frequent in the vi cinity. The report of the minister, of finanoe shows a drop in receipts from $9,500,000 for the previous year, to $5,750,000 for the year just closed. The decrease is attributed to the un stable condition of the country. Gen eral Rafael Guiterrez, who was recent ly overthrown by the president of Sal vador, is at present at San Jose, Costa Rica. - -"'- - ';'"'" ; Developing- Costa Rica. New York, March 29. A dispatch to the Herald lrora San Jose, Costa Rica, says: An English syndicate has been formed with a capital of $200,000 to work the gold mines located in tbe district of Abangares, province of Li beria. . - It is currently stated that President Iglesias, ,who is at present in Europe, has contracted with a French firm for the construction of the port of Tivives as the terminus of the Pacific railroad. The cost is estimated at 12,000,000 francs. . -: ' . ' : Engineer Slept. Pittsburg, Maroh 28. A freight wreck today on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway just below the city resulted in the death of James A. Bracken, engineer, and James R. Lowe, fireman. C..F. Brandenbaugh, a , brakeman, was fatally injured. Some of the trainmen think Bracken must have fallen asleep at his post. His train, running 80 miles an hour, orashed . into another freight train standing on the track. .. The loss to the company is about $25,000... . . For Antarctic Exploration. London, March 29. Llewellyn Longstaff, a member of the Royal Geo graphical Society, has contributed $25, 000 toward the fund being raised by the British association - and the royal society for the British Antartic expe dition, which will co-operate with the German Antartic expedition in explor ation next year, though eaoh will take a different route. Mohammedan Rebellion In China. - London, March 29. According to a dispatch from Shanghai to the Daily Mail, it is reported that a Mohamme dan rebellion has broken out in tbe province of Kan-Su, the most north western provinoe of China, between the proivnoes of Shen See and Se Chnen on one side and Mongolia and the desert of Gobi on the other. ! Didn't Know It Was Loaded. San Francisoo, - Maroh 29. Kitty Wannemacher, aged 15 years, was shot and fatally wounded by her foster brother, Joseph Miller, 19 years old, while the young man was playing that he was a highwayman,-with ar rifle which was not supposed to be loaded. He has been charged with murder, but the evidence indicates that the killing was accidental. " f ' . '. . NoAmerlcang in Danger. : Washington, March 29. The war department has advices from Honduras saying that no Americans have been arrested and no one is imperilled. . A report had reached this country that seven Americans had been arrested in that country. ' ' Armed Foreigners to Be Resisted. . London, Maioh 29. The Shanghai correspondent, of the Daily Mail says: The dowager empress has ordered the governors of the maritime provinces ot China to resist forcibly any landing of armed foreigners. .1. In Full Retreat Towards Malolos, Their "Capital. AMERICAN ARMY IN PURSUIT MacArthnr'a Division Bas Crossed the. Marilao River and Is Pushing North-, ward Filipino Circulars. New York, March 29. A dispatch to the Herald from Manila eayB: Tbe gunboat Laguna de Bay attacked the insurgents , at Bulacan. Three Americans were wounded. MacArthur's division has orossed the Marilao river, and is advancing northward. . ' " ' The insurgents attacked the Ameri cans last evening at Marilao, but were repulsed with severe loss. Our loss was five killed and 14 wounded. ; Later, Garcia, native general, came down from Dagupan by train, with 1,000 riflemen and 4,000 bolomen and took positions at Marilao. A river was between the Americans and the Insurgent forces. The South Dakota volunteers and the Third artillery, acting as infantry, were thrown forward. The South Da kotas charged brilliantly across an open space on the east of the railway to the edge of some woods. They lost 10 killed and 11 wounded, including three lieutenants. The Third artillery, on the right, of the railroad, charged and lost nine wounded, two mortally. On the left, the insurgents' trench, east of the liver, made a stubborn re sistance. ' Lieutenant Critchlow, with two guns of the Utah battery, and Lieutenant Davis, with a navy colt gun, forced 80 insurgents in a long trench on the op posite side of the river to surrender at the close quarters of -100 yards. The rest of the insurgents got out with se vere loss. Ninety dead insurgents were counted . ' - ; Advance of the American Troops. - Manila, Maroh 29. General MacAr. thut's division spent., the night and morning at Mayeanayan, the next sta tion beyond Polo. After reconnoiter jng his front, he pushed along the rail-, road this afternoon toward Malolos. ' . If the statement of the 85 prisoners captured today is true, tbe main body of tbe enemy has retreated to Malolos. There are no more trenches to encoun ter, although over 80 villages, includ ing the larger settlements of Bulacan and Gudguinto, intervene. . At every railroad station circulars have been posted signed by the Fili pino commander-in-chiet, Antonio Luna, ordering all spies and bearers of news to the enemy to be shot without trial, and instructing that all looters and ravishers be treated in the same manner. Further, all towns abandoned by the Filipino troops must first be burned. While deploring the existence of war, the circular maintains the un deniable right of tbe Filipinos to de fend their homes, lives and lands against "would-be dominators, who would kill them, tbeir wives and child ren," adding that this motive ought to impel all Filipinos to sacrifice every thing. ; - "-' " The Washington regiment had an exciting experience today, and ' dis played much gallantry. The soldiers found a band of insurgents concealed in a stone house over which the French flag was flying. A private approached to set fire to the building. ' He did so, -and the troops approached while it was burning, and the Filipinos had appar ently fled, but they were greeted with a sudden volley from the balcony of the house, resulting in the building being cleared of the enemy in short or der. .'....' ' ' ' " ." . ; - THE BOYS PRAISED. Noble Work Done by the Second Ore . gon Volunteers. ! Washington,' March 29. There was nothing but high-sounding praise heard about the war department for - the Ore gon troops, which have stood the brunt of the fighting in the Philippines dur ing the past few days. The fact that the regiment's losses were much great er than any other organization, and that every company in tbe regiment suffered, shows that the whole regiment had been expoesd to the fire of the enemy. The entire volunteer army in the Philippines is highly praised, the Star, this evening, giving ita half column of editorial commendation. It speaks of the lack of complaint among the vol unteers in the Philippines and the sol dierly qualities. It is well to remem ber that the army in the Philippines has been handled by soldiers, and not by politicians. There is no desire now on the part of the volunteers to come home. 1 ' France Wants Gambia and Sokoto. . London, March 29. The Paris corre spondent of . the Times says: The Liberte suggests that Great Britain should cede Gambia (at the mouth ot tbe river Gambia, Western Africa) and Sokoto (the most important of the Houssa kingdoms, on an affluent of the Niger) in exchange for the fishing rights of the French on the Newfoundland treaty shore. I believe, however, that the compensation for the rights will be pecuniary, . ..