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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Same Dispatch Denies That the
Filipinos Are the Ag-
gressors.
Paris and London Juntas Send
President Mckinley a Tele-.
graphic Protest.
From a British Source at Manila
Comes News of Strained
Relations.

LONDON, Jam. 1O.-The Filipino com.
mittees in Paris, Madrid and London
telegraphed on Saturday to President
Mckinley. The Paris dispatch read:
1--WE protest against the disembarka.
ton of American troops at Iloilo."
The London telegram said:
s'The treaty Of peace still unratified
American claim of sovereignty prema.
ture. Pray reconsider resolution regard
ing Iloilo. Filipinos wish for the friend
ship of America and abhor militarism
and deceit"
A representative of the Associated
Press learns that the Filipino junta of
Paris has received telegram from the
Filipino agent at Hong Kong, dated Sat
urday, saying:
eight with Americans unavoidable.
We are not the aggressors
A telegram from an English house at
Manila says the situations very strained
and that there is much anxiety there.
The dispatch also contained news from
Ioilo, the substance of which was that
the American troops had not yet landed.
The members of the Filipino junta
discredit statement published in The
Globe here that the United States gov
eminent has ordered Agoncillo, the rep
resentative of Aguinaldo, to leave
Washington. They say they surely
would have heard the news if it had
been true.
Mail advices from the so-called Fill
Pine government received here say that
Aguinaldo has decided that all foreign
trade entering ports nnder Filipino con-
troll will be admitted on the payment of
q duty of per cent ad valorem and
that all export trade is liable to duty Of
/ per cent ad valOrem
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
LOUISIANA PURCHASE"

Governor stephens Calls for Delegates to
Convention at st. Louis Jan. 10.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Jan. 9.-Gov-
ernor Stephens has sent out to govern.
ors of the states in Louisiana Pur-
chase, the following telegram:
..Please name delegates at once to the
Louisiana Purchase celebration conven.
ton, at st. Louis, Jan: 10. Your ere.
dentials will serve as transportation to
St. Louis and return. Local commit
tees will provide entertainment for al
delegates on the 10th and 18th
Can you not be on hand? Especially
anxious for all the governors to be pres
ent. Wire reply"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
MORE ABOUT ARMY BEEF.

Commissary Official Says 1t Equalled Any
He Had Ever Seen.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Colonel Henry
Sharp of the commissary department,
who served at Camp Thomas and in
Porto Rico during the war, was before
the war investigating committee. He
said he had made the contracts with
Nelson Morris & Co. for beef at Camp
Thomas and had superintendent the issue
and inspection of refrigerator beef in
Porto Rico. He had been in the com.
missary department for Is years and
said that the quality of the beef issued
at Camp Thomas was equal to any he
ever seen in the regularly army.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Hogmenay Celebration at Glasgow.

LONDON, Jan. 9.-The Hogmenay, OF
New Years eve festivities, celebrated
at Glasgow, it is stated, were marked
by the greatest exhibition of intoxica.
ton in the streets ever seen in Glasgow.
One account of the scene says: 'fIt
would need the pen of lola to describe
the state of the streets. The most as
founding feature of the debauchery was
the appalling number of young lads
rolling about the streets"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Authentic Instances of Railroad
Blacklisting Almost Impos-
sible to Get At.
Law Desired Prohibiting Courts
From Enforcing Personal
Service Contracts.
Testimony of the Secretary OF
the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Town of Pullman to be Sold by
Order of the Illinois Su-
preme Court.

WASHINGTON, Jan. &c. A. Nose
ley, secretary of the interstate COM
merce commission, was witness before
the federal industrial commission,
speaking on the transportation syllabus
of the industrial investigation. He cited
the difficulty in proving blacklisting
system. explaining that many railroads
after the Debs strike had freely given
letters of recommendation to former
employees. bat phrased them SO as to
notify sympathizing companies that the
recommended men had been blacklisted.
He recommended legislation prohibiting
the courts from attempting to enforce
personal performance of labor contracts
by mandatory process, citing an in
stance from the Ann Arbor road, where
Lennon, an engineer, had been fined and
imprisoned for refusing to take out his
locomotive after the court had ordered
him to return to work, the judge hav-
ing been transported in private car
and issued his injunction in the COM
pany's office He referred to the fact
that the safety appliance act passed IN
1893 did not go into effect until 1898, and
that ali but about 30 of the roads had
installed the master car builders coup
Ter He referred to the railroad man as
not only an employee, but in measure a
public servant, and declared that d rail-
road strike here, if large enough, might
starve an entire section of the country.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
MUCH RETICENCE.
War Department Not Giving Out Its
Iloilo Information.

War Department Not Giving Out Its
IIoiIo Information.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-A great deal
of reticence is exhibited at the war de-
partment relative to the state of affairs
at Iloilo 1t is admitted that General
Otis has reported to the department the
facts that were reported to him in turn
by General Miller, but all that can be
gathered as to the nature of the COM
munication is that it goes to confirm the
press reports as to the attitude of the
insurgents. There are excellent reasons
why the officials at the war department
should at this stage maintain secrecy
as to the instructions governing the
movement of troops in the Philip
pines. The situation is admitted
to be critical, but not hopeless by
any means, and it is extremely
desirable that the danger Of rupture
shall not be increased by infammatory
publications, which powerfully effect
the excitable Filipinos. 1t is believed
that General Otis is framing a plan of
campaign which will result in the ex-
tension of his control over the island of
Panay at least without actual hostilities,
or if it must come to warfare, then with
the least possible exposure of the Amer
lean troops. Probably the first step in
this campaign has been taken by this
time in the establishment of camp on
the plains of Guiamaras, lying only a
few miles from noilo and easily accessi-
BILE to the warships. This probably will
be made the base of operations if hostil-
tiles became unavoidable. The govern
ment, however, has not abandoned hope
that peaceful solution can be reached.
Not . Shot Has Been Fired.
The governments instructions to Gen.
eral Miller at Iloilo were to land and get
in communication with the insurgents.
This is as far as his orders have gone,
except that when he has established
communication with the insurgent off,
Gals and people, he is to make public
the purposes of the United States.
Not shot is to be fired by the forces
of this country unless they are attacked,
or until further orders are given from
here. The programme was agreed upon
between President Mckinley and Secre-
tary Alger several days ago. Secretary
Alger was at the White House for some
time this afternoon. He stated in the
most emphatic terms that no alarming
news had come from General Otis, and
that he did not believe shot had
been fired so far or that one
would be fred. He is confident
that General Miller will be able to
handle the situation successfully, and
obtain control of Iloilo without blood.
shed. He is of opinion that the insur.
gents have so long been imposed upon
that they are naturally suspicious and
fear the worst if they surrender the
strongholds into the hands of the United
States.
The policy to be adopted now is gen
tie one. Persuasion will be used before
powder. That will be the. last resort
and Secretary Alger is optimistic in his
views that it will never be necessary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
promises Cordial Co-operation.

LONDON, Jan. 9.-The reply of Lord
Salisbury to the proposal Of Emperor
Nicholas, for disarmament conference
of the powers, which is just published.
promises the cordial cooperation of the
British government and asks for an in.
dication of the heads Of the discussion
at the conference
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
NORTH DAKOTA RATE CASE.
Il VIII He Carried to the United States
Supreme Court.

Il VIII He Carried to the United States
Supreme Court.
BISMARCK, Jan. 10.-The maximum
rate case recently decided in the United
States district court, setting aside the
schedule of the commissioners, will go
to the United States supreme court for
final decision and the appeal will be per-
fected by Attorney General Cowan as
soon as the present press of official du-
ties will permit. This will be the first
time the matter has been before the su.
preme court Of the United States, which
decided the Nebraska law, but in that
case there was fixed schedule and nc
provision for modification should the
rates be unreasonable.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Fifield Has Not Accepted.

MONTPELIER, VT, Jan. lob. F.
5Fifeld, in an interview, said he had not
accepted the appointment as senator and
would not give his answer to Governor
Smiths offer until he has fully consid-
cred it. He also declines to express an
opinion on any national topic.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Extends Period of Residenoe.

BISMARCK, Jan. 9.-The senate has
passed unanimously LaMoure's divorce
law extending the period of the resi-
'dence to 10 months, calling for persona
service and combining its limitations tc
American citizens. There was general
surprise over the action and the advo
Gates of divorce reform are gleeful.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Emperor william Receivers.

BERLIN, Jan. 9.-Thes health of EN-
peror William of Germany, who has
been suffering from inn senza for some
days past is now satisfactory. His
majesty received in audience the min
lister of war, General Won Gossler, and
the chief of the military cabinet, Gen.
eral Won Hahnke.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Furnace Operator Buys a Mine.

NILES, O., Jan. 9.-John M. Thomas,
a prominent furnace operator of this
city, has returned from Duluth, Mimi.
where he PURCHASED a seven-eighths in.
terest in the Aetna mine, paying $105,
900 for it. The mine adjoins the great
Mountain Iron mine of the Rockefeller
Carnegie syndicate.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Dingley Holds His Own.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-The condition
of Representative Dingley is practically
unchanged. His nervous symptoms have
not decreased and his condition gener'
ally is very precarious. He passed
comfortable night however, gaining a
little rest
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Respect the Europeans.

MADRID, Jan. 10.-Advices received
here from leading merchant at Hoilo
to the effect that agricultural opera
tions in the vicinity of noilo have'not
been interrupted and that all the in
surgents respect the Europeans both at
Il0ilo and ON the island of Negros. 4
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Hansbroueh bounty Bill.

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Hans
brough of North Dakota, who intro
duced the amendment to the Hanna
Payne subsidy bill providing for an ex-
port bounty of 50 per ton on agricultural
products, says that there are sent abroad
between 100000 and 100000 tons
of agricultural products yearly, which
would be subject to the bounty.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Purchased by Letter.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. Elm an in.
terview Josh Hoadley of New York
acting for Joseph Letter, the Chicago
financier, confirmed the report that the
Letter syndicate had secured the Rhode
Island locomotive works property and
would as soon as possible begin work
making appliances for automatic trucks
y, ~ X &.tas
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
Bill for Naval Bounty.

WASHINGTON. Jan. Ex-senator Gal
linger offered an amendment to the
naval appropriation bill, appropriating
81, 600, 900 to pay officers and men of the
navy and marine corps the bounty or
other allowances due them under Sec
ton 1885 of the Revised Statutes for the
capture or destruction of ships or YES
sells Of war during the war with Spain.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
three school Children KILLED.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. 10.-A heavy
wind storm swept over the remote Sec
ton of Scott county Friday. At Boles a
school house was blown down and
three pupils were killed. Another was
fatally wounded and dozen or more
sustained more or less serious injuries.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12

ST. ALBANs, VT, Jan. Ex-Governor
Smith appointed Benjamin f. Fifield OF
Montpelier as successor to the late SEN.
ator Justin 8. Morrill, of this state, and
Mr.. Eifeld WI accsnt Ists.si
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
CONFIRMS
RAILROAD DEAL
Transfer Will Be Made This
Week-Another Fur
mace in Blast.

New York, April 25.-Presdent Baxter,
of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company,
is in this city on business connected with
the sale of the company's railroad proper
ty to the Louisville and Nashville and the
Southern railroad companies. In regard to
Baxter said:
'The company is in a position to make a
large amount of iron from now on. 1t
placed another furnace in blast yesterday,
making twelve furnaces now in operation
Within a week or ten days two more fur
naces will be in operation. The company's
output now is about $4,000 tons of pig iron
per month, but with the additional furnaces
at work the output will be from $1,000 to
$1,000 tons per month. 1t has placed large
number of orders at cut prices within the
last ninety days, and the demand still con-
tinues.
1t has been filling orders under old con-
tracts, made when prices were from 81 to
$6 below those at present Those old con-
tracts are now about worked out, only
few of them remaining to be completed
and these will be closed out before July.
The new contracts at the higher prices
are now being filled and the returns from
these will soon begin to show the material
increase of earnings that will be reported
from now on. In fact, the prospects of the
company were never before even approxi-
mately, as good as they are now, and its
earnings, by gross and net, promise to be
very large. 1t is understood that the COM
pany has about 81 100000 assets in its treas
ury, to which 100000 will be added when
the railroad deal is complete. 1t is not
known what will be done with this sum,
but the preferred stockholders believe their
cumulated dividends will be paid"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
TO USE THE NEGRO
Proposition to Employ Colored Troops
in the Philippines

Washington, April PA proposition to
utilize negro troops to a large extent in
future military operations in the Philip
pines is attracting much attention and it
is believed will be considered by the ad-
ministration in the near future.
Such policy, argued on the theory that
their racial affiliations may be used in a
way to defeat rebels acts on the part of
Aguinaldo and his party and to bring peace
to the newly acquired possessions of the
United States in the east. One-third Of the
population of the Philippines are negroes,
of the same race as those in the United
States, and while not numerous about Ma
MA, comprise nearly the entire population
of some of the islands.
The advocates of the scheme believe that
in a short time there would be an asslmila-
tion between the negroes of the Philippines
and their kindred from the United States
and that there would follow for the col
ored people opportunities to get homes and
possibilities of careers that they could not
hope for in this country.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
MH6HRTHUR'S DIVISION
FIGHTS ITS WHY TO TIE
TRENCHES OF CHLUMPIT

coast and from Chicago to New Orleans,
touching Philadelphia, Pittsburg Cincin-
natl Atlanta Memphis, St. Louis. Kansas
City, Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, and
all the larger intermediate points south and
west, was successfully worked for several
hours. There were forty-one operators
copying from sender in New York, with
newspapers being served direct from this
one circuit in thirty-eight Of the leading
cities of the United States. Longer cir
cults have been worked for short periods,
but as far as known today's record has
never been equalled, considering the num-
ber of operators copying, the number of
newspapers served and the territory COW
cred by the circuit.
A distincmtive feature of the work was
that it was not done for the purpose of
testing the possibilities of long-distance
telegraphy. The circuit was made up to
carry the regular daily Associated Press
dispatches at the speed always employed
in the ordinary course used.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
TWO MEN KILLED
OTHERS INJURED
By Explosion Of B8Hzolin in Chewing
Gum Factory.
MANY BUILDINGS WRECKED
COnCuSSiOn Was Terrific, and Flying
NANY BUILDINGS WRECKED
COnCuSSiOn Was Terrific, and Flying
Debris Wrought Havoc.
ONE MAN MADE MARVELLOUS ESCAPE
Was Blown Through a Window and
Landed on the Roof of an Adjoin-
ing Building-Fire Added
to the Destruction.

Philadelphia, April 25-By the explosion
of seventy-five gallons of benzolin' in the
laboratory of Frank H. Fleer & Co., manu-
factureres of chewing gum at 2S4S Callow
Hill street today, two men were killed,
three persons seriously injured and over
score of others We're more or less wounded
by flying debris. The dead are:
Walter Mainwaring, assistant superinten-
dent.
Charles Mckinley, engineer.
OF those injured, Harry Randall, an en-
ploye and Mrs. Givison and her son are the
most seriously hurt, but they will recover.
The explosion was a terrific one, and for
a time caused the widest excitement. No
less than 100 buildings in the vicinity were
damaged.
The laboratory building was a two-story
structure. At the time of the explosion
building who were prepaing a mixture for
the making of vailine.
Flames Reached Furnace
The doors to the room in which they were
working We're closed, but the fumes from
the bezolin in some manner reached the fur
mace In the next room and the explosion
instantly followed.
Mainwaing was instantly killed and Nc
Kinley was so badly hurt that he died sew
eral hours later in the hospital. RandalFs
escape was remarkable. He was blown
through the window and landed on an add
joining building. At first it was thought he
was dead, but after treatment in the hos
pital he regained consciousness. Although
badly hurt he will recover. George Con-
ner, the fourth employe in the room, es-
capped with few severe bruises. AS Mrs.
Givison, with her child in her arms, was
hurriedly leaving her home, which was d.
rectly opposite the laboratory, her dress
caught fire from a burning ember and she
and the child were badly burned. Their re-
covery is doubtful.
Building Completely Demolished
The explosion was so terrific that the
buildings adjoining on each side of the
laboratory were completely demolished.
On both sides of the street, for a whole
square, the explosion wrought destruction.
Windows were broken, fixtures were
smashed and walls cracked. Fire added to
the destruction in a number of places but
the flames were quickly extinguished be-
fore they did any considerable damage
OF the score of persons injured, many
were tenants from many dwellings and
were in no way connected with the labora-
tory. Some were severely cut by glass
while many of them were struck by the
flying debris.
The money loss is estimated to be consid-
cradle over 100000.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
LYNCHED BY NEGROES.
Mob of Colored Men Shoot to Death One
ofTheir Own Race.

Galena, Kas., April 25.-Charles Williams,
alias Jones, colored, was shot to death
early today in the city Jail by mob of
negroes. Williams killed Laura Canafax, a.
negress, yesterday.
The mob, composed of about twenty-five
masked negroes, went to the Jail at
o'clock and broke the door in The first
man had an axe, the second rope and the
third carried pistol Williams was locked
in his cell, but they broke the lock and
ordered him to come out This he refused
to do The man who carried the revolver
then began shooting through the bars
Four shots took effect, killing Williams in
stantly
The mob dispersed without any demon
stration. A coroner's jury found that VIII
liams came to his death from the effects
of pistol shots from an unknown person.
No arests have been made.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
WAR WILL NOT
Be THE OUTCOME
CoghIan Affair VIII Result I'm
pleasantly Only to the Lo-
quaCious Captain.

New York April 25.-The World says
Senator Frye was asked last night what he
thought would be the result of the Cogh-
Ian incident. He said:
'It may result unpleasantly to Captain
Coghlan, but l have no idea that war
with Germany will be the outcome. There
will be no war. If Germany should wage
war on the United States she would lose
her best customer, and would have a revo-
luton on her hands at home within six
months.
II believe that Speaker Reed intends to
resign. l have been satisfied on that score
for some time.
I'm my opinion, Mr.. Reeds retirement
is actuated solely by a desire to improve
his financial condition and he thinks there
is better chance to do SO in Now York
than in Maine. Still, 1 won't say that Mr..
Reed has not also a political anchor to
windward and realizes that New York Of
fers many opportunities for political prefer
ment. The situation in the Philippines is
not nearly so good as l should like to see
1t. When we were in Paris no one con-
nected with the commission believed more
than 5000 soldiers would be needed there
at any time.
"I believe that the Fiipinos will soon
learn that the American governors are not
like their Spanish predecessors. 1 am hope
full that troubles in the islands soon will
come to an end.
"About the coming presidential cam
paign? l have not given it much attention
In my opinion, Bryan will be nominated by
the democrats
Free silver will certainly be an issue If
Bryan has his way, but it is my belief
that the issues Of the war will be the fea-
tures in the next presidential campaign.
"What will the senate do in relation to
Quay? l can't speak for all the senators,
but l will vote to seat Mr.. Quay"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-26
CUBAN BOYS MISSING
Game Over to Attend Prof Washingtons
College at Tuskegee.

Savannah, Ga, April 25.-Two Cuban boys
came over on the Ward liner Havana when
the vessel brough the Second and Third
engineers some six or seven days ago. They
are now missing, and search has been
instituted for them.
The Cubans came to enter the College for
Colored Youths at Tuskegee, Ala, over
which Booker T. Washington presides The
college authorities heard of the coming of
the boys, and a professor of the institution
is in the city to see II he can find them.
Colonel Deveaux, collector of dhe port, is
assisting the professor in the prosecution
of his search, but 1t has so far proven un-
successful. 1t Is thought that the boys
may have gone on to Atlanta with the
Third engineers or with the Second en-
gineers to Augusta.