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OLD INDIAN FIGHTERS
Will Show the Insurgents a
Trick or Two.
SANTA CRUZ EXPEDITION
Rebels Attempted to Sneak in Through
the American Lines-William Mar
shall Killed in Recent
Engagement.

Manila, April 9, $50 a. m.--The expe-
dition of 1,500 men, under Major Gem
eral Henry w. Lawton, which started
last night with the intention of cross
ing Laguna de Bay, capturing the town
of Santa Cruz, on the eastern shore of
the lake. and then sweeping the country
to the SOUTH consists of 200 picked
sharpshooters. chosen from the various
regiments. and Hawthorn's mountain
battery, Gates squadron. three troops
of the 4th cavalry unmounted with
bronchos, and Tappan's battalion of the
14th infantry, Links battalion of the
1st Idaho infantry and Franio's bat
talon of the 1st North Dakota infantry,
under General King.
The f1otilla of 20 canoes towed by tugs
and conveyed by the gunboats Laguna
de Bay, Oesta Rapidan and preceded by
the launch containing General Lawton
and General King, started from San
Pedro. on the River Pasig, moving to-
ward the lake just as evening was set
ting in. 1t was a truly picturesque
scene. The men We're all in high spirits
and carried rations for 10 days, with the
lightest marching equipment
General Lawtons plan was to reach
Santa Cruz this morning at daybreak,
to capture or destroy and rebel gun
boats or shipping or take the town and
then to scour the country to the south
of the lake, a district net yet explored
by the Americans. The tactics will be
those of the old-tme frontier fighting,
and it is probable that the command
will be divided into squads Of IL under
commissioned officers.
In General Lawtons absence, the
second division is temporarily COM
manded by General Over shine. whose
lines extend from the beach near Ma
late, south of Manila, to the shore of
Laguna de Bay. beyond Pasig, a dis
tance of about seven miles The with
drawal of the companies constituting
the eXpedionary force made a gap IN
che line from the beach 10 Culicli, just
southwest of San Pedro Macati. which
was subsequently filled by the 4th reg
ular infantry.
The rebels on the extreme right had
evidently been informed of the with
dra wal of the troops and they attempt,
ed to sneak through after nightfall hut
were met with warm reception anC
fell back in disorder on discovering
that the line was still intact.
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Candidate for Reelection.

Cincinnati, O., April 9.-Colonel w. C.
johnson, senior vice commander in
chief and acting commander in chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic, is a
candidate for election as the successor
of the late James Sexton. Quite dele
cation from the department of Ohio and
from the departments of adjoining
states will be at Philadelphia this week
in the interest of Colonel Johnson, who
has an excellent war record. AS Cen
eral Sexton is the only commander in
chief who died in Office since the organ
ization of the Grand Army of the Re
public, there are now no precedents to
be followed in filling this vacancy.
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DEWEY'S LEVEL HEAD.
viii Not Be a Candidate Under Any Con-
ditiOns.

ditions.
New York, April 9.-Admiral Dewey
has given to the Manila. correspondent
of Leslies Weekly an interview regard
ing the suggestion that the admiral be
made candidate for the presidency
next year. The admiral said as to his
politics:
Il am sailor: a sailor has no politics.
The administration is his party and, re-
publican or democratic, 1T makes no
difference. Then, again, I come from
Vermont, and you know what that
means. To be anything but a republi-
can in Vermont is to be man without
a party. My flag lieutenant comes from
Georgia. He tells me to be anything
but democrat in the South is to. be a
nobody If I lived South I would prob
ably be democrat"
Have you ever voted?" the corre-
spOndent asked.
Yes, years ago; but my vote was
usually Influenced by personal prefer
ence or local conditions. 1 am not a
politician, have never held political Of
flee and am totally ignorant Of party
intricacies and affiliations
Admiral Dewey said that neither by
vocation disposition, education nor
training was he capacitated to fill the
presidency. He said he was too well
along in life to consider such posi-
ton. His health would not admit of it
All his life's work was in different lines
of effort and that. while the kindness
and enthusiasm of his friends were
grateful to him and the general tributes
of the American people were dear tC
him. he could not and would not be a
candidate for the presidency of the
United States under any conditions.
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TWAS A BRUTAL MURDER
Won Schmidt Was Insanely Jeal-
GUS of His Former Wife.
STABBED HER TO DEATH
He Then Committed Suicide by Cutting
His Throat With the Same Knife
With Which He Had
Killed His Wife.

Alameda, Call April 9.--Captain Edw.
A. Won Schmidt, a San Francisco har-
Dor pilot and prominent yachtsman,
murdered his former wife and commit
ted suicide in this city to-day. Tho
tragedy, which was prompted by jeal-
ousy, was most brutal. On the last day
of 1898 Mrs. Won Schmidt was granted
cruelty, and the custody of their five
children was awarded to her After
that the captain made frequent threats
against her, and seemed insanely en-
ragged at the result of the divorce sult.
When he called at her home to-day
she opened the door. He had a ris-
tol in one hand and a keen knife in the
other. Without word he made a lunge
at her with the knife, inf1icting a slight
wound in the breast. He then threw
the pistol at a servant girl who had ap
peared, and she fled in terror. None
witnessed the double tragedy which en-
sued but when the neighbors, who
We're aroused by the servants cries,
reached the place, Won Schmidt lay
dead in the back yard with five stabs
in his breast and throat, while few
feet away his divorced wife was breath
ing her last. She had three deep
wounds, made by the knife, in the
back.
The theory is that after Won Schmidt
assaulted her at the front door she
turned and ran, and that he stabbed
her fatally as she fled. She died in a
few minutes after her PROSTATE and
bleeding form was found Her age was
about 80 years, Won Schmidt being 20
years older.
Letters found in the murderer's pock-
cts indicated that a shirt manufactuc-
er of San Francisco was the object of
his jealousy, but friends of all the par
ties assert that there was no ground
for his suspicion. Won Schmidt was
known throughout the state, and was
the son of the famous civil engineer of
that name who do much important
work for the United States government,
in part of which he was an associate.
He had also directed part of the work
of deepening the harbor of Oakland.
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COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Police We're Warned of the Crime Before
1t Was Committed.

Omaha, Neb., April "A. ]. Smith,
registered at the Millard hotel from
Salt Lake City, committed suicide in
his room early this morning. The man
was discovered at $50 o'clock by hall
boy, who saw Smith lying on the bed
dressed. BY his side on a chair was d
small bottle of chlorofOrm and pack
age of cyanide of potassium, the con-
tents of each partly used.
On small table in the room Were
three letters, one to the hotel propr.e-
tor enclosing money to pay his bill and
containing instructions for the disposal
of his body and effects. The second
letter was directed to the Omaha Med
ical college, bequeathing his body TO
that institution. The third letter was
a brief one to the chambermaid of the
hotel enclosing a tip of 81 for taking
care of his room.
Saturday morning the chief of police
received a telegram from w. A. Snyder
of Fort Collins, Col, asking if A. J..
Smith had killed himself at one of the
hotels. An investigation failed to re-
veal any such person. Nothing more
was heard about the matter until this
morning, when Smiths death was re-
ported.
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A FIERCE BATTLE
Between West Point Candidates and viii
lage Boys.

West Point, N. Y, April 9.-A fierce
battle occurred at Highland Falls at
a late hour last night between cand-
dates for admission to West Point as
cadets on the one side and boys of the
village on the other. The candidates
are attending the preparatory school at
Highland Falls prior to being exam
ined at West Point next June for ad-
mission to the academy. There were
about 80 of them in the fight, but they
were outnumbered three to one by the
boys of the town. The trouble began
with hand-to-hand encounter and the
crowd soon increased to such an ex-
tent that stone throwing took the place
of fists. Several of the candidates were
more or less injured, the most seriously
being U. S. Grant, third, appointed at
large by the president. Young Grant
was assisted to his quarters at the
Cranston hotel. Many of the boys of
the town were also badly used up. The
services of all the doctors in town were
required to dress the wounds of the in
jured. Hostilities continued for nearly
an hour.
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1T is SATISFACTORY.
Depuy Views the Situation With Com
p1acency.


Paris. April. 9.--Premier Dupuy. in the
course of an important speech to his con-
stituents to-day at Lepuy. said the situa-
ton both at home and abroad was emf
nently satisfactory.
He referred approvingy to the recent
agreements with Italy and Great Britain
and said France was "now free for indus
trial and commercial development and
large field of colonizing.'
Reverting to home affairs. he said:
1.-THE agitations are only on the surface.
Beneath are calm industry and security.
The end Of the Dreyfus affair appears to
be in sight and the complication will be
unraveled by the court of cessation, whose
Judgment will be acknowledged by all.
The government, however, attaches i'm
portance to reiterating it's determination
to repress all polemics which call the ma
tional army in question.
''If certain people think otherwise, let
us leave them to their despicable folly and
for ourselves continue to look toward the
army, full of gratitude and confidence
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On n Wager,

New York, April 9.-James Elsey. the
London messenger boy who left Lon
don April l for California to rival
the recent trip of Jaggers, the mes
senger boy sent to Chicago, arrived
here this evening on the Cunard liner
Eturia. The lad was met at the dock
by a representative of Broadway
tourist agency, and after being photo
graphed was rushed to the Christopher
street ferry. He left later for the West
over the Delaware, LacliaWanna &
Western road. Elsey, who is l6 years
of age, was dressed in his messenger
uniform He was sent to this country
by Henry McCalmOnt, member or par
lament for Newport, and we'll known
as a sportsman. He is TO deliver q
letter at Hanford. Cal.
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NOT FIT FOR DUTY.
Many Soldiers on the Grant Not SUM-
ciently Drilled.

Many Soldiers on the Grant Not SUM-
ciently Drilled.
On board the United States army
transport Grant, Singapore, March A.
The officers of the detachment of troops
which the Grant is hurrying to join
the American army at Manila make no
secret OF the fact that their men are
not fit for immediate service Hardly
% per cent of the 4th infantry and the
battalion of the 18th on board the
Grant are veterans. The others are re-
crults all of whom We're enlisted with
IN two months of sailing from New
York and some of whom We're taken
in during the last day or two Their
drill has been limited to what the small
deck space Of a crowded transport will
allow, and during the first month of the
voyage it amounted to little more than
setting up" exercises. Save for the
recurrence of Cuban fever, which fire.
quently attacks even veterans, the ply
sical condition of the troops is excel
lent.
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COMMITTED SUICIDE.
DIR. George A. Rawson Hanged Himself
in all Asylum.

in an Asylum.
Indianapolis, Ind, April 9.-Dr.
George A. Rawson, who figured in a
sensational divorce case in Seattle,
Wash, few years ago, committed sui
eide at the insane hospital here to-day
by hanging His wife's name was
Nancy Norton, and she is q. relative of
an ex-governor of Virginia and a cousin
of Prince Yturbide of Mexico, who Gre
ated something of a sensation in Wash
ington several years ago. DR.. and Mrs.
Rawson We're members of the exclusive
circle of Seattle and when she brought
suit for a divorce, making sensational
charges, it was nine days wonder.
The divorce was granted and Rawson,
who was in New York at the time, dis
appeared. In 1891 Mrs. Rawson ap-
peared in Washington with her cousin.
Prince Yturbide, was received by Sec
retary Gresham and given social at
tention.
Rawson appeared in Indianapolis
about three weeks ago and was found
wandering about the streets by the po-
lice He was a victim of cocaine and
morphine, which had driven him in
sane. He was admitted to the insane
hospital April and this morning was
found III closet. He made rope
of two towels, one end of which he tied
to a gas pipe and the other about his
neck He then slowly strangled him
self to death. He has property in
Seattle, and his relatives are supposed
to live there.
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INJURED IN A RIOT.
Iron Workers Use Revolvers, Knives and
Clubs.

Chicago, April 9.-A riot in which
three men were seriously injured and
a dozen others bruised by flying stones
and pieces of iron, occurred to-day be-
tween about 80 structural iron work.
ers. Revolvers, knives and clubs were
freely used. The seriously injured are:
Andrew Rechert.
r. ]. Ross.
Gottleib Federer.
The fight occurred at IS and 20 Ev-
anston avenue, where a big warehouse
is in course of construction. All the
men engaged are union workmen. 1t
was claimed by members of the union
that an agreement whereby outside
iron workers were to do no inside work
was being violated. and for several
days the work inside the building has
been done under police protection, but
no officers were there to-day
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DIED FROM HIS WOUNDS.
william Marshall of Company d Is Dead
at Manila.


at Manila.
Washington, April 9.-The following
cable from General Otis from Manila
was received by the war department
to-day:
Manila, April 1O.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Casualties not hereto
fore reported:
First Montana, 25th-Company G,
Private JOHN T. MCLAUGHLIN,
hand, slight.
Third infantry-Company , Privates
John Ingham Nelson Company H.
Thomas P. Morris.
wounded: Second California artillery
Company D, Private Lionel Sturman
arm, slight.
Third nfantry-Company F, Privates
Jack Hamilton, leg, slight; Company
NJ, Joseph Slack. arm, slight: John
Mccullough, arm. slight; John w. Pa1-
rot, foot. slight; Joseph D. Sweet, heel
severe.
Twentieth Kansas-Company G. Pri-
vate Wesley Mathews. about eyes,
slight: Company X, George Myer, alb
domen, slight.
Twenty-seventh infantry-Company
B, Lawrence Page, foot. slight.
Twenty ninth band-Cortland Flem-
ing, abdomen, severe.
First Washington, 26th-Company X,
sergt. Frank Sharp, abdomen, severe;
LSlIl, ~ dtt SIdll INocilCChCl, leS,
slight.
First South Dakota, 2sth-Company
c, Private Guy P. Davis, hand, slight:
29th, Company L, Private John Rogers,
back, severe.
Utah artillery. S1st-Company B, Pri-
vate John P. Pender, thigh severe:
Company H. Private A. j. Borderwine
51st Iowa, missing. OTIS.
Also the following:
Manila. April 9.-Adjutant General
Washington: Following deaths have
occurred since last report:
March 31-Jacob Bomberger, private
Company H. 18th infantry. gunshot
wound, accidental.
April 4-George B. Fargo private
Company F. 1st Washington, dysen-
! terry
From wounds in action:
April Frank G. Armstrong. as
sumed name; real name Frank Okeefe,
| corporal, Company c, 23d infantry
Leonard F. Phillippi, corporal, Com
| pany G, 1st Colorado.
April 2-WILLIAM T. MARSHALL,
private, Company d, 1st Montana.
April ARTHUR Fl. Vickers. first ser
| geant. Company F, list Nebraska
April 6-Joseph ]. Motse, private,
| Company K, Sd artillery: William E.
| House, private, band, 23d infantry;
William Tufts. private, Company F,
| 4th cavalry,
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A CLEAR VIOLATION.
The Emperor Considers the Samoan Gsv-
ernment Illegal.

London April 1O.-The Berlin corre-
spondent of the Standard says: After re-
ceiving Mr. White, the United States am
bassador, and Sir Frank Lascelle, the
British ambassador. last week, and ex-
planning to them Germany attitude re-
garding Samoa, Emperor William sent in
structions to the German ambassadors
in London and Washington to the general
effect that Germany considers the new
government in Samoa Illegal and the ac-
ton of the British and Americans a clear
violation of the Samoa act
1.-The report of the behavior of Admiral
Kautz toward the German cruiser Fake
has given umbrage throughout the en-
pire and it Is considered certain that if
the report is confirmed the United States
will readily admit Germany's right to
satisfaction and repair Admiral kautz'
errors. 1t is hoped however, that the ac-
counts are exaggerated.
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DROWNED LIKE
TRAPPED RATS
Another Family Wiped Out in
the Yellowstone Flood at
Glendive.
CAUGHT IN THEIR BEDS
Death Came Like a Flash, While
They Slept.
WERE AWAKENED TO DIE
Death Came Like q Flash, While
They Slept.
WERE AWAKENED TO DIE

4 Gruesome Discovery by the Sheriff.
The Eight Members of the Sullivan
Family Found Dead Where the Mad
Rush of the Flood Caught Them-The
Father Supposed to Have Died of
Fright an Horror-His Entire Family
Drowned Before His Dyes-The Hous
Was Thirty Feet Above Low Water
Seven ty-Five Houses Abandoned at
Miles City.
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THE JEFFERSON DINNER.
A Partial List of the Toasts Has Been
Prepared.


New York. April 9--Meetings were held
tonight by the committee of the Chicago
platform democrats and the workingmen
to make arrangements in their dinners
in celebration of Jefferson's birthday. The
contract to serve the Chicago platform
dinner on April Is was let to Bowery
restaurant man. who agreed to serve it at
SO cents per plate. partial list of the
toasts has been decided upon. Mr.. Bryan
will speak upon Democracy George
Fred Williams upon TRUSTS and Monopo-
lies" Colonel c. Fl. Jones on The Plat
form of 1900. The toasts of Ex-Governor
Altgeld and Charles A. Towne, who will
also speak. have not been decided upon.
The speakers at the workingmen's dinner
on April 10 will. in addition to Mr.. Bryan,
be Ex-Governor Altgeld. Governor Pingree,
Mayor Jones of Toledo, Bishop Potter,
DR. McGlynn and Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Stetson.
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Death of DR., James Is. Gibson.

Colorado Springs, Co.. April 9.-Dr.
James B. Gibson. one of the best known
oculists in the West, died in this city
tonight Of tuberculosis of the kid
news. DR.. Gibson came to this city
about three years ago for the beneht
of his health. He was formerly senior
surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear
hospital in New York. He ranked
among the foremost oculists of the
country. The funeral will take place
Tuesday morning from his late resi-
dence in this city.
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Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard
Glendive, April 9.-Later develop
ments to-day found eight more persons
who were victims of the overflow, MAX
ing IL in all. They comprised the en-
tire family of James Sullivan, wife and
six children, whose residence is 200
yards from the nearest point of the
Yellowstone river. When Sheriff Aiken
and Charles Parker crossed the river
amidst floating ice they found the Sui
livan residence with doors and win
dows open and the entire family dead
in the room. The wife and children
was fully dressed with his overshoes
on, were lying on their beds, except
the oldest. daughter and one OF the
younger sons, who were lying on the
floor. From appearances, the overflow
caught them while they We're asleep,
but the position of the father, who was
sitting upright on the one bed, indi-
Gates that he must have been awaken
ed by the rush of water, for he diG
not drown, as his face and hair show
no sign of water, nor could the water
have reached the height Of his posi-
ton. The thought of seeing his en-
tire family drowned undoubtedly was
the cause of his death.
Seven horses in Sullivan's stable
within 100 feet of the house were also
drowned. Sullivan's land around the
house is at least 80 feet above low water
mark, and no one, Sullivan more than
any one, believed his family in danger.
the ranch for town the afternoon before
the ice broke, and had to wade through
water two feet deep on the low land.
The bodies of the family will be
brought to town for interment, three of
them being brought across this even
ing.
The bodies Of Eugene O'Connor and
Miss Nellie Regan were recovered this
morning and will be buried tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock The bodies of
Mrs. r. w. Snyder and Miss Rose Wy
brecht have not yet been recovered, but
friends are anxiously searching for
them near the place where they were
torn away from the tree in which all
took refuge as the two were found
within 100 feet.
Solemn requiem mass will be cele-
brated for the repose of the souls of the
12 persons tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock they being all Catholics.
From reports up and down the river
no more persons are known to be
drowned, but many houses have been
washed away and ruined. Several fam
lilies below town were compelled to pass
the night in trees or they would have
met the fate of the Sullivans. The water
is still running high, with considerable
ice going down, but the worst is over
Old timers say the ice break of 1881 was
equal in thickness, but did not have the
volume of water to carry it that this
breakup did. The highest water this
time was 35 feet.
The citizens of Glendive met last
| evening in the Glendive club rooms and
appointed several committees to begin
investigating the advisability of re-
building the bridge, two main spans
and the combination span of which
| We're washed out, leaving the draw
span, 326 feet long, by itself in the river
and one span, No. 4, 3O6 feet long
! standing on the shore.
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ALGER'S JUNKET.
Ask to Have Their Taxa
tion Reduced.

San Juan de Porto Rico. April 9.-Secre-
tary Alger, with his party left this morn
ing by the transport ingalls,. proceeding
direct for New York, where he should ar
rive on Friday. During his stay here he
received many petitions from munlclpaii-
ties asking financial help and rellet from
excessive taxation.
The administration of General Guy ".
Henry, the governor general of the island.
is understood to be entirely satisfactory
to the secretary of war. The secretary
and the governor general had long con-
ference and an understanding was reach
ed between them as to the future.
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KILLED IT'S KEEPER.
An Elephant Crushed the Life Out of Its
Drunken Master.

Kansas City April 9.--Rajah man.
moth elephant owned by the Lemen Bros.
Circus company, which has been winter
ing in Argentine. Kan, near here. to-day
killed his keeper, Frank Fisher. Fisher
had returned to the tent intoxicated and
tried to make the different animals per-
form Coming to the elephant, he hugged
the beasts trunk and ordered it to open
it's mouth. Becoming enraged. Rajah
crushed Fishers arm and, throwing him
to the ground made repeated efforts to
pierce the PROSTATE trainers body with
his tusks. Unable to reach him, Rajah
finally knelt upon Fisher, crushing his life
out before assistance could arrive. Fisher
was 2S years of age and his home was
in Montreal, Canada. He is said to be Ra-
jahs ninth victim