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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
CACTUS MOST VERSATILE.

A plant will furnish you with a tooth-
pick or a pint of watetr: that has no
leaves, and yet sometimes weighs a ton;
that can live without moisture and
blooms in the night; that sometimes is
70 feet nigh and again measures a couple
of inches-surely the cactus is entitled to
be called the wonder of all the growing
thing on earth.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
ENGAGED.
not say.

.I have a number of friends among the
clergy began the stage-struck lady
from the bes. circles of society.
Huh growled the manaSer,
And I am quite sure that several
of them would be kline enough to de-
nounce me."-Indianapolis Journal.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
OLD STAMPS FOR A DEFICIT,

To balance the finances OF the island Of
ST. Helena Mr.. Chamberlain, the colonial
secretary, has authorized the sale Of $780,
900 worth Of old issues of postage stamps.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
CHICAGO DOG

In Chicago $4,000 dog licenses have been
issued for this year and 1000 or 5000 more
are expected to be taken out.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-05
WORLDS COAL FIELDS.

The total area Of the coal fields in the
world is estimated at 471.8 800 square miles.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
TAKEN BY ARMY OF 1000
Fighting Vas Terrific and Four Amer
lean Dead.
PART OF fHE CAMPAIGN PLAN
To Harass and Worry the Insurgents
-ilipinos Have Received Consign-
ment of Ammunition from Ja-
pan-Food for Prisoners

Manila, July 27-Brigadier-G r. II.
Hall, with 900 men, has captured Calamba,
on Laguna de Bay. The loss to the United
States forces was four killed and twelve
wounded.
With the large armies engaged the fight
ing was terrific and great numbers of the
insurgents were killed.
Calamba is city on LaGuna de Bay,
about thirty miles southeast of Manila. 1t
is much further south than the United
States troops have yet penetrated on land
1t is in the province of LaGuna. 1t has a
population of 11,i76, and is twenty-seVen
miles from Santa Cruz on the eastern
shore of the bay. Its capture is not con-
sidered of any strategical Importance, eX-
cept as part of the plan to harass and
worry the insurgents.
1t is reported in Filipino circles in Ma
Mia that the insurgents recently received
consignments of saltpetre and lead from
Japan. The insurgents had been experience
ing many difficulties in the manufacture of
good powder, that which they produced
lacking power of penetration and range
Tho=two friars who were recently arrest
ed here on suspicion that they were the
bearers of messages to Aguinaldo from the
Filipino junta at Hong Kong, have been
liberated for want of evidence upon which
to prosecute them.
AS soon as authorize ton can be received
from Madrid to incur the necessary ex-
pend4tures the Spanish general, Jaramillo,
will send a Spanish commission composed
of Senors Toral and Rios to Tarlac to
carry. food, money, medicine and clothes to
the Spanish prisoners there. The commits
sion will also reopen negotiations for the
rcleasa of the captured. 1t is reported
that 5000, 600 in Mexican money will be Of
fered to the insurgents for the release of
the Span.ards. General taramillo declines
to confirm this report.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
DonghertY In Command

Buffalo, N. Y, July N.-Lieutenant Colo
mel William e. Dougherty, of the Seventh
infantry has arrived here under orders
from General Miles to take command of
Fort Porter which, since the absence of
the battalion of the Sixteenth infantry has
been garrisoned by a company of the Sew
enth. Major Auman, who was with the
Thirteenth infantry at San Juan Hill, is
at present in command al Fort Porter un-
der an order from the secretary of war
issued Apil s. directing him to take charge
of the fort during the absence of the Thir-
teenth in the Philippines. AS the orders
of the secretary of war are believed to
take precedence over those of General
Miles, the question is to be submitted to
the war department as to who Is actually
in command of the post.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
ROW IN CHATTANOOGA
Street Car Compal ny Will Discharge
VINO join Union

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 27-It Is re-
ported here tonight that tie motormen dis
charged from the City Street Electric Rail
way company because they had been active
in organizing a street railway employees
union will receive tho charter for their
union tomorrow and that they have the
signatures of about 40 per cent. of the elec-
tric railway employees to applications for
membership in the union.
The officials of the street railway have
body announced that they will discharge
ony ore of their employees joining the union.
The RAPID Transit company, a rival line
to one or more of the suburban lines, is in
vitins its employees to join the union. 1t
is stated that If the charter for the union
arrives to morrow a demand will be made
on the City Electric company for shorter
hours and more pay and that If this is re-
fused there Will be a strike. The officials
of The railroad state that they will have
no difficulty in supplying the places of all
strikers. The men discharged by the city
company for joining the union have been
employed by the Rapid Transit company.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
COTTON SEED CRUsHERs
Third Annual Session of the Associa-
tor in Memphis

Memphis, Tenn, July 2.-The third an
nual convention of the interstate cotton
seed crushers of America finished its work
at a late hour today and a large number of
the visitors left on the night trains for
their respective homes.
The convention, 1t is believed by those
who have taken greatest interest in its
success will probably prove more profitable
than any which has been held in the past.
Thirty or forty new members have been
enrolled and now that the arbitration plan
of settling difficulties between the buyers
and the sellers has become a rule in the
interstate association, it is believed that
it will attract number of people who have
heretofore held out against organization.
Members of the association have thought
for some time that change should be
made in the rules as to grading; in other
words, the idea that some specific dehni-
ton as to grades and types of seed and oil
and seed products in general should be uni
formy observed in the association is now
very strong, and when the committee to
which revision of the rules has been in
trusted makes its report changes to make
such views were Incorporated in recommen-
dations.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
UNITED STATES ADVISED.
President MCKINLEY Telegraphed His
CondSlence Yesterday

Washington, July 27.-The state depart
ment has received confirmation of the
death of the president of San Domingo in
the shape of the following dispatch from
the United States consul at Puerto Plata:
"President Heureaux assassinated."
Consul Reed, at San Domingo, also con-
firms the report but neither give any de-
tails.
Official confirmation of President Heu-
reaux's death was communicated to the
president at Lake Champlain by the state
department and the following cable dis
patch was sent by his direction
Lake Champlain, via Washington, July q,
"To His Excellency, Wenaslao De F1gue-
rero, President of the Dominican Repub-
ic San Domingo:
I'm the name of the American people and
in my own, l offer to your excellency and
the Dominican nation most sincere condo
iences by reason of the death of President
Heureaux.
"WILLIAM M'KINLEY."
Wenaslao is the officer next in line to
President Henreaux and succeeds to the
office of president.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
HOW TO PAY FOR
SPANISH WAR
America Should Secure Trade
of Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines.

Washington, July 2z-(Specialo-If this
country could secure the trade of Spain
with Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines,
it would be only a few years before the
government had fully reeouped itself for
the war in behalf of them. According to
three possessions afforded market for
over s4O,00O,O0O worth of Spanish goods a
year About three-fourths of this amount
was in manufactured goods, and consider
able more than one-haf of this market
was that of Cuba alone.
The British consul, Mr.. Roberts, takes
the year of 1896 as one of medium trade.
The exports of Spain to Cuba in this year
amounted to 1874, 1675 pesetas; to Porto
Rico, 37,66O2o9 pesetas, and to the Philip
pines, SS S57, ,757, making total of 2l0, ,430-
241 pesetas. Accepting the value of the pc
setas at 90 cents this makes the trade of
the three colonial possessions worth to
Spain in that year the amount of SAL ,O96,-
CAS-.
Totalzing the three colonies, Mr.. Roberts
finds that of the 21O .2I1 pesetas value of
goods exported from Spain into Cuba, Por-
to Rico and the Philippines, the value of
lac, ,O10 1862 pesetas was in manufactured
goods, 6S,S22S46 in provisions and 1146,655
pesetas was in raw materials.
To this market for 100000 worth OF
Spanish goods Mr.. Roberts adds 230OO,O0O
or 81 100000 for money paid to the Spanish
steamship companies for the carrying trade
to and from the colonies. "If this be ad-
ded,' he says, ito the value of passage
passage at the low rate of $50 pesetas a
head, it shows a further 100000 pesetas
per annum, giving total of 100000
pesetas per annum paid in freight and pas
sage money to the steamship companies for
the carrying trade to and from the colo
MES.
Mr. Roberts has been in Spain long time
and knows it's people very thoroughly. He
says that the Spanish manufacturers and
merchants are not going to give up this
trade without a struggle. He goes on to
show that this trade was built up after
years of toll and industry By giving low
tariff to goods manufactured in Spain and
shipped to Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines it was impossible for other nations
to compete with the Spanish manufacturers
and merchants. The tariff was practically
bounty offered on goods manufactured in
Spain. number of German, English and
French moved their factories into the Pen
insula in order to net the advantage of this
low tariff into the Spanish possessions. He
believes in time that the United States can
get the greater bulk of this trade into the
colonies if the government uses copcilia-
tory methods towards the conquered pos
sessions and gives advantage in every pos
sible way to the planters of and manufac-
turers of these islands to get their goods
into America at good terms.
A. W. n
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Situation Ia Critical

Puerto Plata, July H.-President Heu-
reaux, who was murdered in Moca yester-
day, had gone there to see Jacbo Lara
The president at the entrance to the city
was fired at by four individuals. The body
has been brought to Santiago attended by
a government escort and members of the
late presidents family. The enemies of the
government are trying to disturb the peace.
Genral Figuerero, the viee-president, sue
ceeds to the presidency. He will continue
the present system of paper money. Pres
ident Heureaux went to Moca attended by
only six persons
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a late hour report that the situation there
is becoming more serious.
A POLITICAL CRIME
Governor of Santiago Confirms the GEN
eral Opinion

Fort de France, July H.-The body of
President Heureux has been taken to San
tiago de Las Cabaleros. The presidents
widow has requested that the remains be
transported by railway TO Porto Plata and
from there to Santo Domingo by sea, but
the government of Santiago fears disorder
if the body should be removed from there
by train.
The government of Santiago confirms the
general opinion that the assassination of
the president was a political crime. 1t
is reported that the assassins party is
gathering forces preparatory to an attack
on the government troops.
1t has been learned that Caceros' compan-
ions. when the president was killed, were
Juan Picharde and Horacio Vasquez. The
latter is the brother of a deputy in parlia-
ment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
THE WIDOW NOTIFIED
That Remains Will be Inferred at San
tie~o de Las Cabaleros

Fort de France, Island of Martinique,
July 2G.-Vice President Ifuero, who as
sumes the presidential functions, acting
with the ministers, has informed the wild
ow of President Heureaux that the bouy
of her husband will be inferred ait Santi-
ago de Las Cabaeros. and orders for car
rying out the plan have been given to the
governors of Santiago.
1t is concurrently reported that this
course was decided on in order to avoid
th2 excitement and manifestations which
would be the result of the removal of the
remains to the city of Santo Domingo.
Foreseeing the possibility of disturbances,
and in order to prepare for any emergency,
General Pepin. governor of Santiago, has
taken important precautionary measures
and has decided to demand that arms and
ammunition be forwarded to him from
Santo Domingo.
Adviccs from Santiago received here at
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
OTIS BRUTALITY.
Testimony of Soldiers Returning From
the Philippines.

San Antonio Tex, July 27-San Antonio
yesterday welcomed nome with public
ovation three discharged soldiers of the
Eighteenth regular United States infantry.
The three men were Emile Riley, w. T..
Stiegler and w. r. Burrier sons of wealthy
citizens of Fredericksburg, Tex, who Joined
the regulars for active service in the Phil
ippines in preference to garrison duty with
the volunteers in Cuba.
The three men are of excellent character
and have good educations. They have made
careful observations of affairs while in the
campaign, and are bitter against the mil
itary commander of the islands.
'"The half has not been tolGs' said w.
r. Burrier. II know 1t is fact that there
were at one time as many as 5000 men in
the hospitals at Manila and Ilolo.
"Whle 1 feel that did not get all Of my
mail, I would not charge that our mail has
been withheld from us, or that mail home
has been tampered with. 1t was common
talk in camp, however, that our mail was
being tampered with. I will know tnat,
however as soon as 1 reach home.
"Otis is the most thoroughly disliksa
man in Manila. The volunteers and regu-
lars alike have no love for him. Lawton,
Wheaton and Macarthur are the officers
who are looked up to by the men on the
island.
THE worst feature of the whole thing,
as 1t appeared to US, was the brutal treat
ment of the volunteer regiments. We reg
ulars were well treated and in no instance
overworked, while the Nebraska and Kan
sas troops were made to bear the brunt of
almost every action. The hospital figures
will bear out this charge. Our regiment,
for instance, has had only two men killed
and 20 incapacitated for further service in
all of the time that we have .een on the
islands, while In tbe Nebraska regiment
there are about 20 able-bodied and fit men
left to a COMPANY.
"a remark that has filed tie rank and
file with disgust was the statement ac-
credited to enc of the surgeons that it was
a whole lot cheaper to plant so soldiers in
the Philippines than to send one invalid
home on transport"
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ASSASSINATION
Of HEUREAUX
Death Of Dominican President
Has Caused a Panic,
M'KNLEY SENDS COINCIDENCE
No Details Have Been F Forwarded
to Washington.
De FlGUERER0 WILL SUCCEED HIM
Reported That Situation at Santiago
is Becoming More Serious.
KILLING WAS POLITICAL CRIME
Suspicion That Party in Sympathy
With the Murderer is Gathering
for an Attack on the Gov
ernment Troops
Reported That Situation at Santiago
is Becoming More Serious.
KILLING WAS A POLITICAL CRIME

Cape Haytien, July 27.-Details of the
Domingo, received here. are to the effect
that he was assassinated as he was about
to leave o.. horseback for Santiago De Las
CaAaberos.
The assassin, Rafon Caleeros. surround
ed by several accomplices, approached the
president as he was talking with some
friends, and fired twice with revolver.
The first bullet struck the president in the
left side and penetrated the heart, caus-
ing instant death.
The second bullet killed an old man who
was standing near the president.
The assassin and his accomplices then
fed to avoid the shots fired at them by
the presidents friends. 1t is not known
whether any of them were wounded.
the body OF the president was taken to
the palace Of the governor of Mocoa.
President Heureaux's death has caused
a panic.
1t is said that one Juan Isidoro Jiminez,
VII lOOh pdll III the dllEIhpLSu &C.
ton of June, 1905, is a candidate for the
presidency.
1t is reported that General Maxine Co
mez, formerly president OF the Cuban in
surrectionists, who is a native of San Do
mingo, also aspires to the presidency.
The father of Calceros, the assassin, was
put to death by the order of President
Heureaux in 1884
Vice President General Wenasao de
Figuerero Immediately upon the announce
ment of the presidents death, assumed the
direction of affairs.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28

Nashville. Tenn, July 27.-The property
of the Ruskin cooperative colony, located
at Ruskin, Tenn, fifty miles northwest Of
here, has been sold by a receiver. The
land. 1,70O acres and buildings brought $12.-
900.
This means the failure and end of the
Ruskin colony. founded by j. A Wailand
in 1S93 and which has been looked on both
in this country and Europe as the most
successful experiment in socialism ever in
augurated. The colony was prosperous,
revenues far exceeding expenses, but be-
came disorganzed by a faction favoring
free love- contending it was sound social
ism
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
Tunneling Under a City

Butte, Mont, July 27.-A mining company
under the name of Smoke House Mining
company has been organized here for the
PURPOSE of tunnelng under the city for
Copper ore. The organization of the COM
bany was brought out through a settle
ment of litigation which has been going on
for many years, involving claims which
cover the principal parts of the city of
Butte. The Importance of the new Com
pany is regarded as second only to that Of
the Amalgamated Copper company James
A. Murray, the millionaire banker, and
other capitalists are at the head Of the
company.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
INGERSOLL CREMATED.
Body Was Placed III Retort at 1870
and Ashes Out at 2.

New York, July 27.-The body of Colonel
Pond. L. l., today. The body was placed
in the retort at II 30 and at o'clock all that
remained was ashes.
There were no services at the crematory
Even the organ, which is usually played
while a cremation is going on, was silent
This was at the request of the family
There was a crowd about the building and
a number demanded admission, but no one
except the members of the family and two
members of the cremation society were
admitted.
The body was removed from Walston
soon after 9 o'clock and taken to the
Dobbs' Ferry station, where funeral car
was waiting. The body was placed in the
car and the members of the family also
entered 1t. The body was inclosed in a
black coffin which was was unrelieved by
handles or plate. On the trip to the city
Mrs. Ingersoll and the family sat about
the bier and on the top of the coffin rested
wreaths of roses and evergreens. The par
ty reached the Fresh Pond crematory at
1880 o'clock. The coffin was not opened in
the Columbarium Those present stood
around it for few moments and then it
was carried to the incinerating room. Mrs.
Ingefsoll bore up better than 1t was ex-
pected she would. When the retort had
sufficiently cooled the cradle was drawn
out and the alum-soaked sheet was opened.
The ashes were then placed in the usual
canister and then in the urn Beth were
sealed and the urn taken in charge by the
fngersoll party. The return trip was then
begun. Mrs. Ingersoll bore up we'll. The
funeral urn is beautiful one, wound with
laurel leaves and berries in bas relief and
set with cypress leaves fashioned Of green
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
Union Steel and Chain Co.

New York, July 27.-The Times will say
tomorrow: The Union Steel and Chain
company, which recently organized under
the laws of Delaware with a capital of
$6O,O00O0O, Is engaged in organizing still
more extensively, according to Secretary
Charles r. Defreest. He said today that
the company had already purchased nearly
fifty plants, and is negotiating for the pur-
chase of as many more. 1t will own and
cr"~ate plants in nearly every state in the
union. 5s
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS
Will Not be Candidate for Vice-President
on Democratic Ticket

Boston, July 27.-The Post will announce
tomorrow that George Fred Williams, now
en- route to Europe, will not be candidate
for vice-president before the next national
democratic convention.
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bronze It is oval and set on a red
porpoyry base that rests on a brass plat
form. On one side Is the simple inscrip-
ton: Robert G. Ingersoll." On the other
in French are the words This urn holds
the dust, the heart, the memory"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-28
VIM. !. BRYAN
IN INDIANA
$4,000 People Listened to ST.
yer Leaders Speech,
THE PHILIPPINE POLICY
Shov' be Denounced in Next
/ mOcratic Platform.
Fls s ,lAL QUESTION CONSIDERED
: :
=
q
: That War for Conquest is
Q Dangerous Doctrine.
CHRISTIANITY OF GATLING GUN
Referred to Sarcastically by Speaker
President Should Appoint An
Attorney General Who is
Inimical to Trusts.
That War for Conquest is a
Dangerous Doctrine.
CHRISTIANITY OF GATL1NG GUN

Greenfield, Ind, July 27.-William J.
Bryan held three meetings here today, two
at the fair grounds and one on the court
house square in the evening. Fully 1900
visitors were in town and 1900 people
heard him on the fair grounds at each of
the two meetings.
In his speeches Mr.. Bryan insisted upon
nothing being substracted from the demo-
cratic platform of 1896, but that to 1t should
be added denunciation of the Philippine
policy of the administration, which gave
arms to the insurgents to help them to free
themselves from the yoke of Spain and
then after buying them at $3.50 each was
shooting them down for daring to assert
their independence against the republic of
the United States, the land of the free.
He said any failure to strongly indorse
the Chicago platform would be backward
step that would be very harmful to the
democratic party.
Discussion of Trt st
He said the national administration
could proceed against the trusts by having
the president appoint an attorney-general
who would recommend the people a law
obstructing their operation and If necessary
recommend the adoption of a constitutional
amendment empowering congress to pass
such q law.
Mr. Bryan devoted most of his time TO
the finance and Philippine questions. lie
said that he had heard the Mckinley pol
icy defined on the grounds of religious
duty. He warned all religious thinkers
that a war for conquest for religious rea-
sons was dangerous doctrine. He thought
Christianity shot into humanity with
Gatling gun would do little good, as the
man receiving the load would be httle
benefited and the man who was shot at and
missed would be kept busy picking up and
caring for the dead.
Other speakers were Judge Tarvln of
Kentucky, president of the League OF BIZ
metallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley; B. 4.
Shively of South Bend: John Overmeyer,
of North Vernon; John w. Kern, of Indian
apolis, and Michael Foley, of CraWfords-
ville
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From the Edmonton Trail

Victoria, B. c., July 27.-H. Y. Jones,
who recently crossed the Edmonton trail,
has reported in this city. He started from
Swift Current on April 8, 1898. In July of
last year Jones says a party of twenty
was lost on the Great Slave lake. Several
of their bodies have been found.