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The L'Anse sentinel., 1899-06-17
THE VICTIMS OF WAR.
Surgeon General Sternbcrg Says
5,t3S Soldiers Died of sickness
and 06S in Battle.

Columbus, o., June 9.-Thursday was
the big day of the American Medical
association convention. The interest
centered largely in the presence of Sur
geon General Sternberg. of the United
States army. Gen. Sternberg was ac-
corded the closest attention and he was
warmly applauded. The subject of his
address was SANITARY Lesson of the
War" He said in part:
'It Is well known to sanitarians and mill
tary surgeons that as a general rule more
soldiers succumb to disease than are killed
by the bullets of the enemy. and our recent
war has not been an exception In this re-
gard. The total number of deaths reported
in our enlarged army, including regulars
and volunteers. from May /, 1898. to April
60 1889. is 6,i06. OF these 5,43S died of dis
ease. injuries. or accident During the civil
war the number of deaths from disease was
1s6.216 The number who were killed in bat
tie or died of wounds was 93,969. or about
one-half of the deaths from disease. The
| total deaths from disease In the union
armies from the commencement of the war
to the 3lst of December, 1862, was "a 1926 and
in the confederate armies during the same
period 81 .23S I" ....
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GIVE UP THEIR ARMS.
Over Eighteen Hundred Rebels Tn.
der Chief Mntnafa In samoa
Surrender.

Washington, June THE secretary
of state has received the following
cablcgram from Bartlett Trip, the
United States representative on the
Samoan commissions.
'Apia. May 81 via Auckland. n. H.. June
6.-Mataafa disarmed. over 1880 rebels
surrendered.
(SgneD "TRIP"
Apia, Samoa, May 81, via Auckland,
n. H., June 7.-Malietoa and Tamassese
have visited the members of the Samoan
commission on board the United States
transport Badger and Mataafa visited
them the following day. Neither of
them was recognized as king. Mataafa
expressed Willingness to abide by the
commissioners decision and blamed
the Europeans for the trouble here.
Th- commissioners informed him that
th,y had power to establish govern
ment with or without king. Mataafa
thought the Samoans should have
king, but expressed willingness to dis
arm his followers and leave the matter
ip the hands of the commission.
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CAR LINES TIED UP.
WnllS-Out of street Railway Employees
In Cleveland, o., Is Followed
by RiOtinE.

Cleveland, o., June 12.-The street
railway strike is on, 900 men are out,
and Saturday was day of rioting. At
four o'clock in the morning the motor
men and conductors of the Cleveland
Electric Railway company, known To-
| cally as the Big Consolidated, went out.
tying up the entire system, including
the Euclid, Wade Park, Cedar, Central,
Scovill, Wilson, Broadway, Jennings and
Brooklin lines.
After the stirring events of the day
! President Henry Everett, of the Big
Consolidated, sent formal noticeto Chief
| of Police Corner that he would attempt
to run no more cars excepting mail
cars, which do not carry passengers,
until Monday morning. This announce
ment caused feeling of relief in all
parts of the city.
Mr.. Everett's statement came after
one of the most exciting incidents of the
day. in which William Steffin, division
superintendent of the road, was as
saulted by an excited crowd on Pros
pect street while trying to bring car
through throng of strikers on that
thoroughfare. Mr.. Stefiin lies at his
home in serious condition.
The company made no attempt to
move cars Sunday. There was no ac-
tivity about the barns or terminals, and
the big crowds of strikers and idlers
that assembled saw nothing TO excite
them. A number of motormen import
ed by the company from other cities
were taken to the Lake View terminus
of the road Sunday and all that were
not captured by the strikers We're
housed there for the night. If the
strikers do not return to work this
morning, as notified to do by the com
pany. their places will be filed as far
as possible by new men, and an at
tempt made to move the cars. This the
strikers will not permit, or at least they
say they will not, and while they were
very quiet Sunday there is apparently
Il grim determination on their part TO
thwart the efforts OF the company to
move ears.
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ARBITRATION MAY FAIL.
Germany Making m Active Canvass
to secure Defeat of schemes
Before Peace Conference.

Washington, June 12.-According to
private adyices reaching here from The
Hague, there is grave danger that one
and all of the arbitration schemes be-
fore the conference will fail. 1t is said
that Germany is markedly hostile to
the arbitration principle, and is maxi
ing an active canvass to secure the sup
port of some of the second-rate pow
ers in her opposition. If this movement
Is successful, even in limited degree,
il is feared that arbitration is doomed,
so far as this conference is concerned,
for, to carry any weight and show prac-
teal results, the delegates must be
nearly unanimous.
The Hague, June 12.-.An autho-ita-
tive contradiction is given to the report
that there is grave danger of the arbi-
tration scheme failing. 1t is pointed
out that, although Germany may hesi-
tate to recognize the principle, she has
not yet raised any actual objections
during the discussion.
Atthe session on Friday DR.. Zorn, the
German delegate. explained his oppo-
sition. He said the plan of arbitration
among nations takes away the preroga-
tive of kings, and declared that En-
peror William would not bow to de-
cision of judges not appointed by him
self
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MODERN wOODMEN.
Convention of the order Opens In
Kansas Ciuy-The Second
Days Session.

Kansas City, Mo-, June with the
opening session Tuesday morning be-
gan the greatest convention of Modern
Woodmen of America in the history OF
the order. There were 10000 woodmen
in the city, when the first gathering met
Tuesday and others arrive by the hum
dredS on every train and will continue,
to come in till the big events scheduled
for Thursday. On that day, when the
attractions will include the great pa
rnde, with 90 brass bands, the opening
OF the team contests, and an address by
William j. Bryan, it is predicted that
at least $4,000 visitors will be here.
committee of several hundred is car
ing for the visitors, and the city is
decorated in carnival fashion.
Kansas City, Mo-, June S.-Renewed
interest showed ut the second days ses-
sion of the eleventh biennial conven-
ton of the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea. Several thousand belated members
of the order had arrived during the
night, and on the questions of impor-
tance developed enthusiastic work and
discussion. The action of Tuesday
nights session, which took the pre-
liminary steps toward creating re-
serve fund, question which has been
fought for ten years, was discussed
freely by the delegates before the
gathering met. Head Consul Northcott
had been instructed to appoint COM
mittee of five to draft plan for such
fund and to report Wednesday. The re-
port was made the special business of
the day, and it proved one for fruitful
debate.
The committee on reserve fund re-
ported at the afternoon session. The
plan that it recommends is that II reg
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jEFFR|ES IS THE VICTOR
The Californian Defeats Robert Fitz
simmons for the Heavyweight
Championship.
IMMENSE CROWD WITNESSES CONTEST.
The Australian Is Knocked Out I'm the
Eleventh Round - They battle nj
the Coney Island Athletic, mt New
York City-A Fast Fight to the
Finish.

New York, June 10.James j. JEFF
fries, another sturdy young giant, has
come out of the west to whip champion
pugilists. At the arena of the Coney
Island Athletic club Friday night he
defeated Robert FitZsimmons, worlds
champion in two classes - middle
weight and heavyweight~-inl II rounds
of whirlwind fighting. He came to the
ring u rank outsider, and left il the ac-
knowledged master of the man he de-
feated. He was never at any time in
serious danger, and after the sizc-up in
the early rounds of the contest took
the lead. He had the Australian
whipped from the ninth round. 1t was
acknowledged that Jeffries would have
an immense advantage in weight,
height and age, but the thousands who
tipped and backed his opponent to win
were sure that he was slow, and that
he would, in that respect, be absolutely
at the mercy of the past master at the
science oftighting that he was to meet.
lie proved, on the contrary, that he was
just as fast as the man he met, and
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Schurman to Tour Islands.

Manila, June S.-Prof. Schurman, of
the United States Philippine commits
sion, sails from here on Friday, on
board the United States gunboat Ben
nington, for a three-weeks' trip among
the southern islands. The gunboat
Petrol has also been placed at the pro-
fessor's disposal, and he will visit
Iloilo, Cebu, Negros and Sulu. He ex-
poets to investigate the local govern
ments and have talks with the leading
natives. lie will sail for home in July
The other members of the commits
sion will remain here for some months
longer
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Died In Poverty.

Boston. June 0.-Gridley James Fox
Bryant died Thursday at the home for
aged men here, aged SO. He was at
one time supervising architect of the
United States treasury, and had de-
signed and supervised many public
buildings throughout the country. He
was born in Boston in 1916. His father
built the first railroad in America, in
1881, at the Quincy quarries, designed
to transport stone for the Bunker Hill
monument. Although once wealthy, he
died in poverty.
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DEATH ON THE TRAIL
Scores of Gold Seekers Have Perished
of Drownins. Freezing or stnr-
walton In Alaska.

Seattle, WASH, June S.-The list Of
prospectors who have perished in their
rush to the Yukon gold fields over the
Edmonton trail is growing, and if re-
ports brought down by the steamer
Laurada from southeastern Alaska are
20 he believed it will be very large when
the full story is told. Fifty are reported
to have been drowned in the Great Slave
lake, 20 have perished in the rapids of
the Mud and Laird rivers, ten have
frozen to death, rs have died from
scurvy. The bodies of q score who died
of exposure have been found.
Several parties reached Wrangel last
week from the interior after spending
from IL to 20 months on the trail in the
vain endeavor to reach the land of
wealth. They say that not less than
200 prospective miners have lost their
lives by drowning, starvation, exposure
and freezing during the last winter.
Most of these were Americans from the
eastern states. Scurvy is now raging
among the miners who are helpless on
the trail. Before relief can reach them
many others will have perished.
The Huteson Barge company and the
northwest mounted police have started
small relief expeditions from Telegraph
creek. Government action on a large
scale will alone rescue those that are
unable to get out Of the country by
their own resources. 1t is extremely
difficult to secure names, although the
miners tell of many accidents that cost
the lives of parties of five or ten.
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THE TRADE SITUATION.
Condition of the business world ms
Seen by Dun and Bradstreet-
Failures for a Week.

New York. June 1o-R G. Dun & Co.'S
| weekly review OF trade says: THE past
| week has brought a rise In prices not
| equaled In any other week OF many years
| Iron products have advanced $50 per cent
In one week and pig iron 4.S per cent. FOL
lowing advances of per cent. In pig and
| per cent. In products during May. Cot
ton has advanced l per cent. and cotton
| goods is per cent. during the week. with
woolen goods g per cent. and boots ana
shoes per cent A little reaction OF per
cent. appears in leather and Z per cent. In
hides. but the characteristic of the time
is that expectation of higher prices induces
buying far In advance of requirements Tor
| consumption. 1t Is needless to say that this
Is symptom of danger, and the most con-
| servetive manufacturers, especially In iron
and steel, have striven to avoid it, but ac-
tual inability to deliver products demand
ed leaves them little power, while specula-
tion In wool and other lines Is running away
from consumption. 1t Is a saving feature
that quotations are quite largely hctitious.
Almost all the goods now being delivered
or produced In some industries are on
prices fixed by orders accepted several
months ago, and nearly all the iron works
being thus tied up far ahead. the prices
quoted Indicate not at all what they are
getting. but what they see ft to ask as
way of refusing orders which they can
not accept or else the bids of impatient
buyers who can find nobody ready to de-
liver large quantities.
For the current week failures have been
159 in the United States. against 203 last
year, and 10 in Canada, against IL lact
year"
Bradstreet's says:
Exceptional firmness in prices at the
highest level as regards general staplc
values yet reached, a seasonably small rate
of business mortality. undiminished indus
trial activity, perhaps most manifest in
all branches of trade in which iron, steel
and other metals enter, and large bank
clearings. rejecting to some extent the
improved tone of stocks, but likewise large
are among the features not necessarily
new. but still noteworthy, reflected in trade
advices. Enlarged shipments of bread
stuffs, result of recent buying, induced by
crop damage reports at home and abroad.
have, IL Is true, not been sufficient to on
set liquidation on the late moderate rise,
but this is partially explained by contin-
ued good advices from the spring wheat
CROP confirmed by liberal receipts at pri-
mary points Iron and steel display all OF
their old ard some new strength in the
urgent demand for the balance OF the
year, and the usual summer shutdown
seems likely to be honored more in the
breach than in the observance In this trade.
The outlook in the trade as regards next
seasons labor scale Is still unsettled. Small
supplies of old corn and reports of too
much rain in some sections have helped
this cereal, and are likewise reflected in
hog products, but the prospects favor a
very large acreage in this cereal"
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Murder In Chicago.

Chicago, June s.-Martin Meier, an
aged Swiss resident of Chicago, was
found Wednesday morning bound,
gagged and strangled to death on the
pantry floor of his home at No. 1880
West Fifty-seventh street, where he
had been left by his murderers after
they had thoroughly ransacked the cot
tage for the wealth it was supposed to
contain. The old man was wealthy,
and is reputed to have owned between
$4,000 and 500, 900 worth of real estate,
besides large amount of money in a
safety deposit vault in the city.
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New York, June 9.-The cool furry
that struck this city Wednesday night
had but little effect upon the tempera
ture that was to follow Thursday. The
thermometer ranged almost as high as
Wednesday,. At one o'clock Thursday
afternoon, when the temperature was
at its highest point, it stood at 81, seven
degrees below the record made two
days ago. The record of fatal prostra-
tions was somewhat smaller than the
list of Wednesday, 10 persons dying in
New York and vicinity Thursday. Of
these four were women. Aside from
this there were 81 prostrations, the vic
Tins of which are still in the hospitals
with more or less hope of recovery.
Wednesdays official death list num-
bered 26 and Tuesdays seven, making n
total of SO deaths recorded
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luton indorsing Mr.. Sherman. They
said they considered this an insult to
Mr.. Payne whom they favored as can
lidate.
Soon after this those in the confer
encc notified Mr.. Sherman that they
had decided to vote for HIM, Mr.. Sher-
man then went into the conference, and
said that Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, hav-
ing developed such great strength as
would make him practically the only
candidate, he would suggest that the
delegation go over to that congressman.
An informal discussion followed, and it
was decided to support Mr.. Henderson.
Representative Sherman was re-
quested to telegraph Mr.. Henderson,
notifying him of this action. The con-
ference then adjourned.
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Sent To Prison.

Hartville, Mo-, June Sake Fagley.
who has been on trial here for week
past, charged with completely in the
robbery of a Kansas City, Fort Scott a.
Memphis train at Macomb on January
last, was adjudged guilty. The juCy
fixed his punishment at ~ years in the
penitentiary. Fagley was farmer.
Before he turned train robber he had
been a justice of the peace, had been
three times foreman of the Wright
county grand jury, had been chairman
of the populist county committee and
had been n preacher of the Gospel.
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Grent Fires in China.

Vancouver, u. G., June S.--According
to advices brought by the Empress of
Japan China is a land of big fires. Mo-
todomari village Rijiy, in the province
of Kitami, was wholly destroyed. Sew
enteen men were killed and injured.
Another fire, which destroyed 20 houses,
is reported at Naci village, Sorachi dis
trict. Details of the fire at Shirashi
Kauta Gori Miyagi prefecture show
that the flames destroyed SOS houses.
Two persons were burned to death and
20 or so seriously or slightly wounded.
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NEARING A CRISIS.
The Outlook I'm the Transvnnl he
garded as More Acute-Wnr
Is Expected.

London, June 12.-The situation in
the Transvaal is nearing a crisis, and it
is generally believed that Saturdays
meeting at Johannesburg has rendered
the outlook more acute. In well-in-
formed circles the statement is made
that war is inevitable if President
Kruger does not recede from the posi-
tion he assumed. Prominent outland-
ers and south African capitalists do not
hesitate to say that Great Britain is in
a tight fix, and dare not recede from its
position.
London, June ia detachment of
200 royal engineers sailed Saturday for
south Africa from Southampton.
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NOT A CANDIDATE.
GOV. PinGree Says He VIII Not Run
for Any Office This Year
or Next.

Detroit, Mich, June 12.-The Free
I'ress says: Gov. Pingree will not be
candidate for office, either this year or
nxet, according to statement made
Sunday by one of his closest friends and
advisers 1t is said that his family de-
sire his retirement for social reasons,
and also that the governor wishes to
show the members of the present re-
publican Legislature and others that are
said to be obstructing the course of his
taxation legislative measures at Lam
sing that the republican party in Mich
igan and Wayne county cannot carry
an election without the prestige of the
Pingree name and his personal influ-
ence. Sunday afternoon, in conversa-
ton about the next election, he said:
"WelI. | shall not be candidate for
Office, YOU can bet on that"
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Ular assessments be made each year.
The assessments are now made only
as the money is needed in paying the
faces of beneficiary certificates. The
committee suggested that all the sur
plus from the assessments be placed
in the reserve fund. The fund is only
to be drawn upon when more than the
II assessments are necessary in the
year, or in cases of epdemics of dis
ease. The report was taken up for de-
bate at once.
Kansas City, Mo-, June 10.-The head
camp of the Modern Woodmen of
America has selected St. Paul as the
place of meeting in 1901 The vote was
1919 to 1G3 for Grand Rapids, the only
other candidate
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Cable to Germany.

Washington, June THE final de-
tails have been arranged for the laying
of the cable between the United States
and Germany, the last step being n
satisfactory arrangement concerning
government messages and the rates
of cable tolls. The authorities here have
been informed that the actual work
of laying the cable will begin during
the present summer months, so that
the first message may pass over the line
during the coming fall.
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Given Long Terms.

Muskogee, l. r.. June Z. = In the
United States court here Nelson NJ.
Jones, the ex-deputy United States
marshal, who is held directly response
BILE for the burning of the two Semi
in January, 1898, and was convicted of
taking part in that crime, has been
sentenced to 81 years in the peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City. Mathes, an
other member of the mob, was given
ten years in the penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
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pinurce Yetoe. n nIII.

Lansing, Mich, June S.-Gov. Pingree
on Wednesday vetoed the senate bill
amending the law governing the organ
ization of mining companies so as to
permit such companies to double their
authorized capital of $2,500,o00, and to
provide for the consolidation of present
or future companies. One of the gov
ernor's objections is that the bill per-
mits stock watering for the benefit of
the experienced speculator and the dis
trcss of the innocent investor.
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Death of n Journalist.

Philadelphia, June s.--Nincent Nc
Laughlin, publisher and editor of the
Philadelphia Times, died at his home
here at two o'clock this Thursday
morning. Mr.. Mclaughlin was "a years
of age and succeeded to the ownership
of the Times upon the death of his fa-
ther. Frank Mclaughlin, about IS
months ago. Mr.. Mclaughlin has been
suffering for several months from pull
monary and stomach troubles. He
lcnYes q wife and two children.
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Iniured In n Wreck.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 10. = Forty
seven passengers were more or less Sc
riously injured. three perhaps fatally,
by the derailment of train No. 4. south
bound, on the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf railroad, three miles south of
Grandview, Mo-, Mt 0:30 Thursday
night The train left Kansas City late
and was running at slow rate of speed,
on account of bad condition of track,
occasioned by heavy rains.
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is FOR HENDERSON.
;. 3. sherman, New York's Candidate
for the Speakership, Quits
tie Race.

New York, June IA conference of
republican congressman of New York
state, TO decide upon n candidate for the
speakership of the house of representa-
tives, was held at the Fifth Avenue hotel
Tuesday, and resulted in a decision to
support David B. Henderson. of Iowa.
Congressman Ray and Wadsworth
left before the conclusion of the confer
ence, and said they did so because Rep
resentative Littauer had offered reso-
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A SuIensii,l f:ift

Durham, n. G., June 7.-B. N. Duke on
Tuesday gave Trinity college $5O,OOo.
making total of $1s3,0OO donated the
college by the Duke family in the past
year. The gift is unconditional and
will probably be equally divided be-
tween the endowments of the college
and its library.
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New Tax measure.

Lansing, Mich, June THE house
Tuesday afternoon passed the bill tax
ing copper and iron mining companies,
and il now goes to the senate. The bill
taxes copper mining companies from
onc-sixteenth of n cent per pound on
an annual output of 100000 pounds to
one-half cent per pound on an output
exceeding 5O,oOO,O0o pounds. Iron min
ing companies are taxed three cents "a
ton on iron ore.
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The Texas Flood.

Austin, Tex, June Authorization
from the fiood-stricken district along
the Colorado river to the northwest of
this city fully confirms former reports
of loss of life and property. All tcle-
graph and telephone wires are pros-
trated, while great tracts of wheat and
corn have been devastated by the raging
waters. Several people are known 10
have perished and many more are un-
accounted for at present
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Two varieties have been found in the
new two-cent envelope stamps. In one
the head is pointed at the top and the
lower part of the bust is rounded. The
other shows a broken up" and the EN-.
bossing is much better, the face and
hair standing out prominently.
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A Valuable Find.

San Francisco, June 9.-The whaler
Charles w. Morgan, Of this city, made
a fortunate find of ambergris in the
North seas, according to advices from
Hakodate. The lump weighed 6s
pounds and is worth $20,s00. The Nor
gan had secured only $50 barrels of oil.