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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

Nearly every member of the Legisla-
ture will go down to Huntington on a
special train Thursday, where they
will be given a banquet by the Cham
Der of Commerce of that city, the oc-
casion being the dedication of the first
building of the Asylum for Incur
ahleS
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-02

The story that a delegation of Hat
fields armed to the teeth, were on their
way to the capital to Stay the two Nc
Coy's in the Legislature, proves to be
a canard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
SUDDEN DEATH OF
CONVICT VASQUES

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, May 23-The
prison officials are sorely perplexed over
the death at 4 o'clock this morning of
Nose Vasques, who expired in his cell just
as the prison physician reached the bed
side. Vasques for the past week has been
al work with the road gang employed in
the building of the Tiburon boulevard.
Yesterday afternoon, while unloading
gravel from a construction car he lost
consciousness and fell TO the ground. He
was picked up and carried to the shade
of tree, where he Immediately revived.
He resumed work and nothing was
thought of the incident
VasqueS returned to the prison in ap-
parently good health. He was locked up
with the other prisoners as usual and is
not known to have complained of feeling
i'll. This morning as the cooks and din
ing room men were released from their
cells groans were heard from Vasques
spouse, and DR.. Lawlor, the prison ply
sician, was summoned. When Lawlor
reached the prisoners bedside Vasuues
was found to be dying and he expired a
few moments later. The Coroner held
an inquest this morning. The jury re-
turned verdict of death from natural
causes.
Vasques has spent much of his time in
the hospital since his Incarceration, being
treated for a pulmonary complaint The
Vasques family is notorious in the Grim
inal annals of this State. At one time
there were the father and three sons at
San Quentin. The father, Mates Vas
cues, died in the penitentiary. The fam
lily was implicated in number of rob-
berries in the southern part of the State.
where its name was terror to stage
drivers and travellers.
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companied by an insurgent captain,
called upon Major General Otis o-day
and announced that he desired to sur
render his person and property into the
hands of the Americans.
The surrender was arranged by
Chaplain Pierce of the Fourteenth Reg
iment, who knew Rosario before the
war. Rosario has been closely watch
ed by the officials at Tarlac since the
instruction has been weakening. and
only escaped by persuading General
Luna to send him on a secret mission
to Manila for the purpose of collecting
funds. With the captain are ten men
and their families Rosario Travelled at
night through the swamps and noun
tains, passed the lines of both armies
and entered Manila last evening. He
has been liberated on parole.
According to the story told by Ro-
sario, General Luna is absolute dicta-
tor and Aguinaldo fears him. Every
Filipino leader, it is added, suspects
the others Of treachery.
The recent meeting of the Filipino
congress was to secure a new cabinet.
and the question of peace was not for
mally considered, as the members fear
ed General Luna's displeasure. The
Filipino government was unable to Sc
cure Secretary Of the Treasury. All
those who were offered the portfolio
declined to accept 1t.
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CONFERENCE
CLOSELY GUARDED

THE HAGUE, May 23.-The chiefs of
the delegations to the Peace Conference
held a private meeting this morning at
1.-The House in the Woods" and after
ward informed their colleagues of
the arrangements made for choice of
presidents Of the committees as agreed
upon last evening.
The selections were ratified without
incident. The following is list of the
heads of the first committee Honor
airy presidents, Count Won Munster,
head of the German delegation, and Mr..
Andrew D. White, head of the Ameri-
can delegations; effective president, A.
P. C. Van Karnebeck, head of the dele
cation of The Netherlands. This COM
mittee Is divided into two sections, war
and marine. The vice presidents or
the war section are: Lieutenant Gen
eral Abdulla Pasha of the Turkish dele
cation; Major General Ardagh OF the
British delegation and Brigadler Cen
eral Monnier of the French delegation
The vice presidents of the marine sec
ton are: Vice Admiral Fisher Of the
British delegation; Vice Admiral Pc
than of the French delegation and Cap
tain Siegel Of the German delegation.
The second. committee is constituted
as follows: Honorary presidents, the
Duke de Tetuan, head of the Spanish
delegation; Turkhan Pasha, head of
the Turkish delegation, and Count
Won Welserschcemb, head of the Aus
tria- Hungary delegation; effective
president, Professor de Martens OF the
Russian delegation. This committee is
also divided into two sections, Red
Cross and Brussels Conference. me
vice presidents of the Red Cross section
are: General Thaulow and DR.. S. Roth,
~, Cxrricc dnla0o vice
presidents of the Brussels Conference
section are Professor Won Stengel OF
the German delegation and General
Zuccari of the Italian delegation.
The third committee is composed as
follows: Honorary presidents. Count
Nigra, head of the Italian delegation,
and Sir Julian Pauncefote, head OF the
British delegation; effective president
M. Bourgeois head of the French dele
CATION; vice presidents. NJ Debille,
head Of the Spanish delegation; Baron
d'Estournelles de Constant Of the
French delegation Count de Macedo,
head of the Portuguese delegation
Herr Mercy, Signor Compili and Dr.
Zorn.
The three committees held their first
sessions this afternoon, these being de-
voted solely to inaugural fornalities
and an exchange of ideas with regard
to procedure. TheY will meet again on
Friday.
M. de Staale, head of the Russian
delegation and president of the confer
ence. attended the meeting of the ar
bitration committee, sitting next to M.
Leon Bourgeois, head of the French
delegation.
The measures to preserve the secrecy
of the deliberations have been doubled.
Only the delegates and secretaries are
admitted to the precincts Of the Huis
Ten Bosch Both entrances to the gar
dens are closed with barred gates, which
are guarded by sentries under the COM
mand of on-commissioned officers in
full uniform. Every applicant for adj
mission is called upon to produce an
orange-colored card issued to the dele
gates and to give the secret pass
word
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
BRUTAL TREATMENT OF
THE Y0RKTOWN'S MEN

NEW YORK, May A.-The Manila cor
respondent Of the Journal cables an in
teresting interview with General Lawton
regarding the campaign. General Lawton
gives the first information about the
shocking manner in which the men from
the Yorktown have been treated by their
Filipino captors. He found melancholy
evidences, when he captured San Isidro,
that the American prisoners had been
cruelty abused and subjected to outra-
geous indignities at the hands of Aguin-
aldo's barbarous soldiers.
After thirty days successful campaign
ing Lawton is resting with 5000 men at
Candaba. He said in describing his vic
torious march of months duration:
1T panied me when we got into San
Isidro to see on the walls of the prison
there the names of the fifteen Americans
from the Yorktown.
From Colonel Ray, the Spanish officer
whom we rescued, | learned that one of
the American prisoners escaped from his
captors. His freedom was short-lived, for
he was afterward recaptured. He was
stretched on the ground before his fellow
prisoners and twenty lashes were given
him
I'VE found letter near San Isidro,
written by one. Of the Yorktown's crew,
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none of the ventilated fruit cars for
merry in the service, except such as is
necessary for our strictly local business.
We cannot take them out of the local and
put them into the through traffic, because
in the through traffic they would make
two possibly three trips in the season.
whereas in the local traffic they make
many trips and are used continuously.
The letter closed with deprecatory
reference to the present agitation. the
freight manager appearing to believe
that such a movement would hurt the
fruit season which, he said. promised
such rich returns.
1t was not long after the correspond
ence had been made public that the
fruit growers renewed their resolution
to go ahead and organize. whether the
prospect as regarded the railroads at
titude was hopeful or not. Edward
Berwick of Monterey urged the grow
ers to can and dry their fruit and ship
none at all until conditions were
changed. H. L. Gibbs a fruit shipper
from Stockton, who said he was for
mer employe Of the Earl Fruit Com
pany, asserted that a conspiracy was
on foot by that and other companies
to ruin the growers. j. n. Barton of
LOOMS said if the growers would or
ganize this year they would be free
from slavery next year.
A. R. Sprague, president of the
Southern California Deciduous Fruit
Exchange, declared that the railroad
was. just as willing to deal with the
growers as it was with Porter and Earl
provided the growers were organized
on business principles. He urged the
grow RS Of the north to organize along
the same lines as the EXCHANGE of
which he was the head. Other orchard
lists spoke in the same strain and a
number of letters were read from
growers unable to be present in which
they urged thorough organization.
When the report of the committee
favoring organization was presented
there was much enthusiasm. and in
few minutes $500 was raised with which
to carry on the preliminaries.
Tonight the convention adjourned
after discussing details and directing
that the work of Incorporating the
Northern California Fruit Exchange be
proceeded with at once
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
TI-IMPERIAlISTS
WANT COOPERATION

BOSTON, May 23.-The executive COM
mittee of the Anti-Imperialist League to-
day elected the following additional vice
presidents: Senator Donaldson Caffrey of
Louisiana, ex-Congressman w. Bourke
Cochran Of New York, William H Flem-
ing of Georgia, ex-Congressman Henry
u. Johnson of Indiana, President David
Starr Jordan of Stanford University, Her
bert Welsh of Pennsylvania, Rev Leon
ard Woolsey Bacon If Connecticut, Pro-
fessor Hermann Won Hoist of Chicago
University, Colonel Thomas Wentworth
Higginson of Massachusettts. Professor
w. G. Sumner of Yale College, Charlton
T. Lewis of New York, Austin &C. Fox
of New York. Governor Andrew NLea of
York, Edwin Burritt Smith of Chi
cago, Senator b. r. Tillman of South
Carolina, George G. Mercer of Pensyl-
vania President Henry Wade Rogers of
the Northwestern University DR. Emil
Pretorius of st. Louis, C. ]. Bonaparte of
Baltimore Colonel Patrick O'Farrell of
Washington, DR.. Felix Adler of New
York Albert E. Pillsbury of Massachu-
setts 1t was resolved to promulgate the
following resolution:
THAT the Anti-Imperialist League
should take immediate steps to establish
and encourage close relations with all as
sociations and individuals throughout the
country who are opposed to the imperial
policy, with view to organize all the ele-
ments of opposition to this policy for the
most effective and united political action
at the proper time.
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CROTHERS HONORED BY
THE STANFORD ALUMNI

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May %
The alumni held a business meeting this
morning and elected the following Off
GERS: President G. E. Crothers, 95;
vice president, j. E. Gilmore: secretary,
Miss Lillian Ray, 97; treasurer e. IT,
The alumni adjourned to the chapel,
and addresses were delivered by Miss
Bl sa I Andersqn NJ g. and G g. E.
Crothers, '95, who has, had charge OF the
alumni interests in the tax exemption
movement, and who spoke of its progress
and prospects.
The alumni gathered for their fourth
annual BANQUET at 1880 IN Robe Hail.
Professor c. R. Whittier, 'eS. president OF
the gaye al the irs R toast to ss,' which was
Responded to by Ralph Arnold, president
of the class of '99. pr Q. L, Elicit spoke
ister": A. B. Rice, 's9, of "Stanfords VIC
tories; r: W. HartwelI Of "OHr Boys IN
ford" and President Jordan Of 1.-THE New
Dr.. Jordan spoke Of the changes which
were taking place an1ut s the baIng can
sidered for the future. By the recent sale
of property Mrs. Stanford had been able
to put large amount OF money ne I'M 1neo n the
buildings now being erected: The assem-
bly, hall had been accepted and the IL
brary, the Stft OF lnOndS w eltoli oleti-
ford. was well under way. A change
would be made in the buildings, however,
in regard to roohng
The present roofing, which was a tin
imitation of thing, would be replaced, he
said. by the genuine article, which was
used In all other university buildings. The
memorial arch, which was being erected,
would join the assembly hall. TO the east
of the new library building would be con-
structed for the use of the history, eceon-
omics and English departments. Mrs.
stanford had made every effort to obtain
plans for the new chapel, which will make
1t the most imposing of any college
structure in the United States.
Long rows of Japanese lanterns were
suspended from the arcades of the quad
Tonight The shrubbery and flower beds
were brilliantly lighted and the moon
hung on the edge of dark clouds, which
swept slowly across the sky. The scene
was one Of beauty. 1t was the night of
the senior promenade. In the center of
the quad, on a stand built for the occa-
sion. Bennet's band from the city dis
coursed sweet music. Every conceivable
nook was partitioned off and formed into
booths by the young ladies. who there re-
ceived their friends and served them with
refreshments as they lounged about on
the divans.
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mission explained that they would be
the same as under the United States
Constitution. The Filipinos also desired
information as to the school system to
be established, and approved Of the
American policy Of the separation of
church. and state.
They chiefly objected to the scheme
on the ground that it gave them per-
sonal liberty. which they know they
would have but did not give them po-
litical liberty.
Finally the Filipinos said they were
personally pleased with the plan, but
could not indorse it officially.
During the day the Filipino Commits
sioners called upon General Otis, and
they will repeat their call Tomorrow
There is much comment here on the
outing the Filipino ENJOYS are enjoy
ing. They are arrayed in blue coats,
scarlet trousers and gold lace, and
drive about the city, reveling in the
attentions bestowed on them, which is
evidently exceedingly gratifying to
them. They are the centers of contin-
ual levees at Filipino houses, where
they have been entertained and have
had every opportunity to advance the
interests Of the instruction.
Military sentiment disapproves of the
Ftlipinos being lionized by their civil
ian element. General Otis, from ante
bellum experience and knowing the
Filipinos fondness for discussion, has
maintained the attitude he assumed
with the first Commission. He has
had no offer to make the Filipinos
hn 10,
without terms. The army believes that
if we intend to remain in the Philip
pine Islands it will be cheaper in the
long run to whip the insurgents so
thoroughly that they would be glad of
the opportunity to surrender, rather
than parley with them and make terms
which they would construe as a com
promise.
The army is also Of the opinion that
while the first course may cost more
men and more money in the begin
ming than the latter, it will prove an
effectual damper upon future insurrec-
lions, whereas if the war is ended by
a compromise the professional revolu-
tionists among the Tagallos NAV be
encouraged to try again in a few years.
Professor Schurman, speaking of the
commissions policy, said
II believe force was necessary be-
cause they thought US weaklings and
towards; but L believe also that con-
Citation should accompany force. NV
endeavor has been, ever since I came
here, to exercise Cancellation"
The professor is most optimistic as
to the results of the negotiations, and
believes the scheme of government pro-
posed by the United States Commission
will ultimately be adopted.
Rosario, a Filipino congressman. a
wealthy resident of Manila and former
ly Aguinaldo's commissary- general. ac-
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These cars were, as always before, placed
at shippers disposal without charge, but
the issue proved that the expectation of
handling the business in ventilated cars
was not well founded, and they were not
used, but the business for which they
were built moved instead in refrigerators.
For this company 1t was costly expert
ment, made in sincere effort to meet the
views of the fruit growers, under promise
in convention that the cars would be used.
Our ventilated equipment so provided has
consequently since been converted into
boXcars, and there is no changed condi
ton with respect to transportation in VEN
tilated cars that would warrant the car
riers in restoring at great expense equip
ment which has failed to stand the test
of experience and been discarded by the
growers and shippers.
Continuing the letter of the freight
traffic manager says that the present
refrigerator system of transportation
began in 1888; that at that time the
charges for refrigeration were from $50
to 800 per car higher than now; that
owing to reasons with which his COM
pany was not concerned one refrigera-
tor company after another dropped out;
that last year three lines of refrigera-
tor cars were provided, but out of some
400 cars of fruit shipped all but a
hundred or so were loaded in the cars
of the Fruit Growers Express and Con-
tinental Fruit Express. The letter
of fruit in these two refrigerator lines
caused the railroad company to follow
the lead Of the shippers and engage
from the Fruit Growers Express and
Continental Fruit Express all the re-
frigerators needed for the traffic.
The letter then directly answers the
questions Of Mr.. Stephens in this wise
Our response to your first and second
questions consequently is that we have
contracted for all the refrigerator cars
necessary for the deciduous fruit traffic.
orators in the endeavor to satisfy the va
rious and often conflicting interests Of
those promoting individual car lines we
line and under such variety of auspices
that serious confusion would develop, to-
gether with multitude of cars for which
there would be no loads.
AS to the remaining questions your let
ter recites, new ventilated cars could not
be obtained at this late date, and we have
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
FRENCH PREJUDICE
TOWARD AMERICA
Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel,

Call Headquarters, Wellington Hotel,
Washington, May %.
An example of the manner in which
anti-American prejudice is formed i'll
some portions of Europe has been
brought to the attention of the State
Department in the issue of LIE Petit
Marseillaise of Marseilles, France, Of
the 7th inst. This paper contains a
full-page Illustration, in garish colors,
representing a young girl undergoing
punishment by the whip in America.
The two prominent figures in the pic
ture are the girl, who is undergoing
public f1oggtng, and the Sheriff. The
latter is a tall figure, wearing a red
shirt and black trousers, his right arm,
with which he is welding a cruel lash,
barred to the elbow, while the girl stands
with her arms in the stocks and body
bare to the hips, receiving the blows
from the whip. The chastisement is
witnessed. apparently with enjoyment,
by miscellaneous assemblage Of old
men, young girls and little children, all
we'll dressed, while number of soldiers
stand in the background to support the
proceeding with the official authority of
the United States Government. Elk
tic dtlOl Tic Mol SSllldiot
says:
In country like America, where one
is accustomed to find only progress and
new discoveries, one is very much sur
prised to see turn backward like pun
ishment by the whip. This, retrograde
movement is performed in the State of
Virginia, in which the Legislative Assem-
bly, has voted a law permitting the ap-
plioation of corporal chastisement in pub
lie.
THE first person upon whom this pun
ishment has been inflicted is a young girl
of Is years of age, who was whipped on
the public square of Manassas.
IF one did not notice the modern dress
of the crowd which was present at the
scene, in the presence of the Sheriff and
representatives of the public force, he
would have thought himself in the mid
die ages on seeing the unhappy girl, naked
to the waist, both hands held in a piece
of plank, while the executor of the law
acquitted himself conscientiously of his
mission
1t is only necessary to say that pun
ishment by flogging is not authorized
by the laws of Virginia, and that the
illustration is purely imaginary.
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TWO OFFICERS SLATED
FOR PROMOTION

WASHINGTON, May 23.-General Otis
cables as follows:
MANILA, May 23.-Adjutant General Wash
ington: On urgent recommendation of Lawton
/ recommend Colonel Owen Summers to be
brigadier general of volunteers by brevet for
conspicuous gallantry at Maasan, Bulac bridge
and San Isidro; Captain ]. s. Case, major of
volunteers by brevet, for distinguished services
and gallantry at above places while acting di-
vision engineer officer
Colonel Summers is colonel of the Sec
ond Oregon Volunteers and commanded
the advance brigade of General Lawton's
division during his recent march north
ward to San Isidro.
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DIVER SAYS THE
PARIS IS DOOMED
Believes That the Attempt to
Float the LiDer Will Be
Unsuccessful.

ga leading Cornish diver who returned
here
for
not
dhp foreods badly damaged the bukheas
In which
roughw eath n the
the continues favorable.
damage lis inside the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
SPIKE" SULLIVAN LOSES.

NEW YORK, May 23-After twentv-
five rounds of vicious fighting at the
Lenox Athletic Club, kid Mcfarland
was given the decision over Spike" Sui
livan. Going into the fight on the short
end of the betting, Mcfarland com
pletely upset the calculations of the
sports. He bested his man at every
point of the game and administered to
him the most severe punishment that he
has ever received in his pugilistic career.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-24
MEN KILLED SINCE
THE WAR BEGAN

NEW YORK, May pa Washington
special to the Herald says: Adjutant Gen.
eral Corbin has prepared this statement
of the number of deaths which have oc-
CURED in the army since the beginning
of the war with Spain:
In Cuba, 1899; in Porto Rico, 2S7; at Ho-
nolulu, As: in the Philippines, 606; in the
United States, 1872; total, 6209.
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saying that they were being kicked, their
hair pulled out and that they were cruelty
treated in various other ways, and pray
ing their fellow countrymen to hurry to
their release.
THE insurgents make a practice of
numbering Chinese who fall into ,neir
hands, and our men, | suppose, should
not been similarly treated though the
cruelties and indignities heaped upon
them must be hard to bear"
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LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVED.

Tuesday, May g.
Stmr Arcata Reed. As hours from Coos Bay
DOMESTIC PORTS.
EUREKA-Arrived May 23-Stmr North Fork
hence May %; schr Oceania Vance, hence May
10.
PORT TOWNSEND-Arrived May 23-U S
stmr Richard Rush. with U S stmr Nunivak in
tow hence May 2. via Eureka.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER.
MOvILLE-Arrived May 23-Stmr Furnesa,
from New York, for Glasgow.
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Swiss Statesman Dead.

GENEVA, Switzerland. May 23.-Dr
M. Noise Vautier, President Of the State
Council, is dead.