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RETURNING TO WORK.
Many FilipinOs Have Wearied of
Following AguinaIdO.


MANILA, May 17.-Although the rebels
still threaten San Fernando, in consid-
cradle force, large numbers of natives, a
majority of them being families with
their household goods, are returning daily
to the towns inside the American lines.
Many Of the richer Filipinos are coming
to Manila, and laborers are resuming
work in the rice fields. The latter show
their respect for American sovereignty
by removing their hats to the passing
trains.
wagon roads the work of repairing the
railroad is being actively pushed. All the
broken bridges have been trestled, and
only a few excavations remain to be
filled up. Trains will undoubtedly be
running through to San Fernando in a
few days. The only natives there are
some Filfpinos from Macahebe, who are
trading with our soldiers.
AT daylight today Lieut.. Hill who, with
twenty-five men of the Fourth infantry,
was concealed in the trenches near
Pasig, was attacked by force Of rebels
who evidently imagined they could cap
ture one of our outposts because only
few shots had been fired by the American
force A few volleys put the enemy to
flight, the rebels losing five men killed
and number wounded.
The army gunboat Napingdan has re-
turned here from the lake, having been
disabled by cannon shot from rebel
position near Santa Cruz, which broke her
rudder post.
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war discussion, very plainly predicted the
the troublous consequences OF annexa-
ton, for annexation it is. however cloak
ed with glittering phrasing We pointed
out the incapacity of people of that race
for government and Illustrated 1t by
the seventy years of chronic revolution
which makes the story of every South
American Spanish American republic.
While we were sounding the warning our
Republican contemporaries were lauding
the noble, freedom-loving Cuban patriots
who were waging an unequal struggle
for liberty against cruel master. and
demanding that this country recognize
both the belligerency and independence of
Cuba. For party purposes, where it was
not the result OF ignorance, they en-
dowed the Cubans with the qualities of
our own race for organization and gov
eminent. Congress expressed the same
concept in the declaration that Cuba is
and of right should be a free and indie
pendent nation
What troubles we are having in Cuba
and they are trifies beside those that
are sure to come-are all self-invited.
Why should not Gomez and his generals
our contemporaries now print the word
in quotation marks-be disgruntled? II
some Of our memories are conveniently
short theirs are not. They have a lively
recollection of the debates In congress
preceding the declaration of war; they
resolutions they still believe that they
are and of right should be free and in
dependent. and they affect a belief that
congress and the administration were
sincere in that declaration. They see no
indications in a military government of
their freedom or independence and they
get no assurance of liberty in the fact
of the adjournment of congress without
any way of the islands. Can they be
blamed, even taking them as they are,
without capacity for free government, if
they are FESTIVE under military domina-
liOIl anu see III II, III the dtlllGU6 Oh the
president and of Republican leaders and
papers, the sure sign that, however free
they may become, they are not to be in
dependent. Vain, ambitious hungry for
power for powers sake, INDECENT, regard
ing government as chiefly IAN easy way
to dodge the primal curse and make it
pay" how can they be expected to look
der which they will have to work for a
livelihood with no official feathers in
which to strut and with no official purse
to draw upon? We are but at the thresh-
old of our troubles in Cuba. They will
furnish stock for endless Republican ed
itorialS
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MOB AFTER PARENTS.
COIOred Couple at Atlanta, Ga, Tor
ture and Starve Their Children.

ATLANTA, Ga, May 17.-Lawrence
Roach. a negro, and his wife. Winnie,
living in the northeastern portion of the
city, escaped lynching last night through
the promptness of the police department.
For days and even weeks their four little
children, the oldest years old and the
youngest only 2 have been tortured with
the lash, beaten until their bodies and
limbs were a mass of bruised and bleed
ing flesh, then burned with hot irons.
dashed and tied. while paper. wrapped
around their bodies. then saturated in
kerosene, burned and crisped the flesh
and ate away the muscles and sinew
until the bones all but protruded.
This punishment was inflicted because
the starving children. left alone for hours
in their misery, begged bread of the
neighbors and ate the dogs food in the
back yard
The woman had Just renewed the tor
ture Of one Of the children at o'clock
last evening. when someone sent for the
police and a threatening mob cOngre-
gated. Had not the officers arrived
promptly there is no doubt that she
would have been killed. Her husband
escaped. Both will be prosecuted I'm the
state courts. Every member of the mob
was colored and all neighbors of the
Reaches.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18
IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE DAY

London--Queen Victoria laid the corner
stone OF the Victoria and Albert museiIm
savannah, Ga.-The Thirty-first NTicbi-
gan. Colonel Cornelius Gardner, was mus
tered out here today
New York:-The United States ASSAY
once tIt s mas So shipped to the Philadelphia
mint SlO,OOOOOO in gold bars.
Dayton O.-Frank Campbeu kil1ed It,.
Wne and siter-in-law and then suicided
d. west alexandria this afternoon.
London, Ont-Marion Brown was
hanged today for the murder of Consta-
Die Michael Toohey, on June "a. 1898.
Cincinnati. O.-The twenty-sixth ma.
tional conference of charities and corree-
IONS begins here today. for It's annual
session of one week. '''''
Milwaukee. Wis-The transfer of tho
WISCONSIN Telephone company to ths
eastern syndicate headed by Charles 7
Gldden, OF Lowell, Mass, was consIIm.
ma today. the syndicate securing s6O0
oVO or the 100000 worth of stock.
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cH1NA.s SOVEREIGN RIGHTS.

The amicable arrangement entered into
recently in the Orient by the two national
pioneers in the work of Outstanding
and redeeming the natives of other lands
than their own, England and Russia, is
already bearing fruit. Just as English
politicians were congratulating them
selves that now all danger of a clash with
the Bear was avoided in China, and Ill
the sovereign rights of the Chinese gov
eminent were fully protected, they awoke
from their dream by hearing the demand
of Russia for the construction Of 4 rail-
road from Manchuria to Pekin. As the
territory through which the projected
railroad is to run was not included in the
British. sphere of influence, hisoon became
apparent to the British intellect that Rus
STA might be left in that case too to deal
in the strictest justice with the sovereign
rights of China.
Accordingly, what more natural than
that England should in turn manifest an
equally generous zeal in the cause OF. the
sovereign rights of China? This she pro-
ceeded to do forthwith. Our dispatches
show that, while British activity assumes
something of a slightly variant character
from that of her Oriental ally, there is
the same generous regard for the SOW
ereign rights of China in the two cases.
The British procedure consists in sending
men with machine guns into the Kow
Loon Hinterland. Three vessels of war
have started out, evidently to back up the
soldiers, who, when heads are counted,
are expected to reach the figures Of 1850
infantry, 1G0 artillery and 500 marines. The
idea is to cut off the rebels
We are somewhat familiar ourselves by
this time with the operate of cutting
off the rebels as well as moving them
down, and our imperialist population will
| doubtless entertain the profoundest- in
terest in the latest exhibition of the de-
| termined purpose of the allied European
forces to observe strictly the sovereign
rights of China.
The picture however, thus far is in
complete There are Germany, France and
TALLY yet to be heard from They have
not thus far shown the same touching
zeal in the cause of the sovereign rights
of China that the other nations have.
| But the period of their activity is liable
! to arrive at any time. Then the world
will doubtless be treated to the spectacle
of the leading European powers, each
within its own particular sphere of in
| fiuence, exhausting all their energies, civil
and military, to maintain the sovereign
rights of China, and, Of course, caring
| nothing whatever for their own respec-
tive interests.
There appears to be this essential diff
| ference between a4sphere of influence and
a Sovereign right, at least in China, which
IT may be well to bear In mind-that sew
eral thousand square miles of territory
are essential to the creation of a sphere
of influence; while as to Sovereign rights.
nation may carry them around in its
hat, so to speak, with entire convenience.
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SALTWATER.
No Liquor VIII Be Sold at Wild
wOd This Season.

The board of education held a special
meeting Tuesday evening, and decided to
raise the salary of Miss Ada E. Smith,
per annum, and it is believed Miss Smith
will withdraw her resignation and decide
to remain in Saltwater
The city council Tuesday passed an or
dfnance over Mayor Armsons veto, which
provides for the punishment of persons
tnjuring the library books or in any way
injuring the public library property. An
ordinance was also adopted regulating
hack fees in the city, and a new sidewalk
ordinance was also adopted. The levee
ordinance was laid on the table until the
next regular meeting.
Up to last evening II, 900, 900 feet of logs
had been sorted a the boom since work
began, and new logs are arriving. The
crew IS doing excellent work, having
sorted nearly 100000 feet yesterday
The funeral of Charles ]. Larson was
held yesterday afternoon and was largely
attended, the Maccabees of this city, of
which order decea sed was member, at
tending in body.
The board of county commissioners be-
fore adjourning refused to grant license
for the sale of Intoxicating liquors at
Wildwood, this county, and no liquor Will
be sold there this summer Some of the
members of the board in speaking of he
matter, said that they would rather
grant q license than to have blind pigs
operated there, as in the past, but the
Twin City Rapid Transit company rs
sured them that no blind pigs would be
tolerated.
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deal an almost fatal blow to
their own prestige among the
numerous class even in Republi-
can politics who still believe in
the old-fashioned theory of public at
fairs which recognizes uprightness of
character and strength of conviction as
essential to popular favor.
Like Lazarus of old the embalmed beef
traders wait for what crumbs of comfort
may fall from the table of the rich and
powerful man from Maine. They are
willing to abase themselves before the
country If only they can in some way
break the force of the scornful treatment
they have received at the hands of this
upright and masterful character.
Loren Fletcher has never been regarded
as a fool He has shown his shrewdness
in the present crisis. He understands his
friends of the embalmed fraternity, and
he knows just what desperate fix they
have got themselves into. Hence your
Uncle Loren has never ceased to urge
the reelection, willy nilly, Of the I'M
speakable Reed. 1t will not be surpris-
ing if the speakership contest reveals
more than one rift within the Repubu-
can lutte.
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GAMBLING IN CHICAGO.
1t Is Said to Be "Protected" by CITY
Authorities.

Authorities.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE old question
Is there gambling. In Chicago?" was he
tlrst matter taken up by the Baxter IeoIs
latlve investigating committee, which be-
gan Its 'Lexow' work here today. The
committee viii investigate charges that
the city administration extends protection
to certain gamblers, who are on good
terms with those in authority Several
witnesses testified today that there are
many gambling houses now doing bust
ness in the downtown districts.
Philip F. Schaener, the first witness ex-
amined told of his experience as a keeper
OF a gambling house
Until shortly before the recent city
election kept poker room in the Logan
View hotel, said he. 81 was in the habit
OF paying for police protection, sometimes
giving up half my profits, and usually
about $25 a week Finally they wanted $50
week, and 1 used to pay it.
To whom did you pay the money!"
was asked
Tom McGinnis," answered Schaefncr
Just before the late election 1 was told
that l had better give check for the
campaign fund, but L refused When 7
told McGinnis that 1 would not contribute
anything to the fund I was told 1 had
better shut up shop, and 1 did
In response to an inquiry from a mem
Der of the committee, the witness said
McGinnis was proprietor of saloon. and
was supposed to have charge of all the
gambling privileges In the downtown
district
'McGinnis is the fellow whom you go
to for help if you steal anything on the
South side" said the witness, with a
knowing look at the various members of
the committee.
In regard to the opium joints witness
told the senators how the drug was
smoked. and asserted that Sol Praag a
prominent Democratic worker, was pro-
prietor of one of the resorts until man
was found dead in the place, a fortnight
ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18
DEWEY's SWORD.
1t VIII Be Handed to Him by Presl-
dent Mckinley.

5 WASHINGTON, May IA notable fea-
ture of Admiral Deweys arrival in
Washington will be the presentation to
him by the president of the jeweled sword
made by authority of congress- as a tes-
timonial from the government. The
sword was completed some time ago, but,
owing to it's delcacy and great value, it
was deemed best not to send 1T to the
admiral. 1t is now in a safe deposit
vault, awaiting his coming.
The presentation to the officers and men
of the admirars flagship of handsome
medals, authorized by congress, will oc-
eur at the same time The medals ere
being made by a New York firm. and will
be completed next Friday. There are
about 1,70O of them, congress having di-
rected that each officer and man in the
fleet should receive one These not dis
tributed personally to the officers and
men in this country probably will be for
warded to Manila through the navy pay
masters for presentation there.
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Runaway Cleared the Street.

An exciting runaway took place on St
Peter street shortly after o'clock last
evening. The thoroughfare was throng-
ed with cyclists. several of whom mar
rowly escaped being run over, but for
tunately no one was injured.
AS the horse raced down the street
warning cries went up from those already
beyond danger, and wheelmen and teams
gave way before the horse as though his
progress was a flying wedge. Scattering
to either side of the street, they tumbIed
over curbStones into dOorways, or de-
serted their wheels in the gutter. The
runaway turned west at Ninth street
and was brought to stop by collision
with a telegraph post
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San ISIDRO FALLS
Continued from First Page.

ally as meaning that Lawton has COW
cred all of Bulcan province, but only the
open country of that province, or all west
of Norsagaray
East of Norsagaray is a wall of noun
tains extending to the sea. These noun
tains run directly north the left flank
of the rebel retreat, along the valley
of the Rio .Grande to about ten miles
north of San ISidro, where they trend
into the foothills of these mountains that
Lawton is now driving the scattered and
demoralized forces of the insurgents to-
ward.
Lawton has with him the Third and
Twenty-second infantry, one battalion of
the Seventeenth and Second Oregon,
First North Dakota, Thirteenth Mime
sofa and a squadron of the Fourth cav
airy.
No information has yet been received
as to the Twelfth infantry and Light
Battery E of the First artillery, which
have arrived at Manila. The Ninth in
fantry, which arrived with those latter
commands, has been sent to join Law
ton.
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CHINA WILL FIGHT.
Orders Issued Land and Naval
Forces to Prepare for War.

VICTORIA, B. c.. May H.-According
to news received by the Empress of In
dia, China will resist further aggression
by the powers. That China intends to
oppose the advance of Germany in the
north is shown by the fact that recently
orders were sent to the mandarins and
taotaos of all districts and provinces, or
dering them to concentrate what fighting
men they could and prepare for war. The
arsenals have been ordered to push for
ward the manufacture Of arms and am
munition with all haste. late edict
places Viceroy tIiu .in charge of the peo-
pie The Chinese navy also, according
to late reports, is getting ready for an
emergency.
Trouble has occurred recently in Shan
Tung and German. missionaries have been
ilI-treated. Germany is sending expedi-
lions to punish the natives, burning VIII
lagos and gradually pushing her way In
ward, until very shortly she will have
possession of the whole province.
The Kobe Herald says that the Ger
man plan is to establish a German king
dom. with Prince Henry as ruler, as pre-
viously stated in Pekfng dispatches
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SLAIN BY sAvAGES.
Horrible Orgies Reported From the
Province of FOrmosa.

Horrible Orgies Reported From the
Province of FOrmosa.
VANCOUVER, B. c., May 1I.-Formosa
advices give details of a terrible massacre
in the vicinity of Taiko. town in the
central district. Thirty unarmed villagers
We're ambushed by about sixty savages.
who killed twenty-nine of them. Only
one escaped The cause OF the massacre
is said to have been a dispute between
savage tribes over the paternity of an
iliegitimate child and the death of its
mother The reputed father of the child
denied the charge and refused to make
compensation to the tribe to which the
girl belonged. An appeal to head hunting
was the only way by which the injured
tribe could prove it's righteousness to its
ancestors After the massacre the saw
ages INDUCED in a feast at which the
heads of the murdered villagers were
consnicuousiy displayed
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Rest for DR.. wright.

Rev John Wright, d. D., rector of St
Paufs church. has been granted years
leave of absence. 1t is the intention Of
in company with his wife, whose health
is poor
He expects to sail Aug. Z, from New
York for Germany. During his stay
abroad he will pursue ecclesiastical
studies in the direction of an examina-
ton of Oriental and other manuscripts.
and an investigation of the charities of
Europe.
Rev Harvey officer has been chosen
to fill the pulpit of st. Paul's during the
absence of DR.. Wright. This appointment
meets with the approval of the congrega-
ton. Mr.. Officer is the grandson of the
first rector of the parish.
A reception will be rendered DIR. and
ing of May 81 at the residence of FL.
2. Upham.
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NO WATER TO SPARE.
Residents of Rala EAGLE Are Jeal-
GUS of IFS Care.

meeting of property owners of Bald
Eagle lake was held Tuesday evening at
the residence of A.. e. Warren. The object
was to consider the action of the board
of water commissioners of st. Paul with
reference to tapping Bald Eagle lake. 1t
was decided to resist the proposed action
of the board by all means possible, and
a committee OF five was appointed TO
employ cousel and take such other ac-
ton as may be deemed necessary.
1t was brought out that the people OF
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18

After Senator Davis concluded his adj
dress, the orchestra played The Senator
March" which had been defeated to
Senator Davis by Miss Maud Clum, or
this city. and which was rendered for
the first time last night.
Mayor Kiefers name was omitted from
the list of those present. He was there
just the same. and occupied an honOred
seat at the guests table.
G.. A. Linsley. proprietor of the Aber-
deem, made considerate disposition yes
terday of the set floral pieces used in the
decorations. One of them found it way
to each of the newspaper offices
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18
Washington time q p. m. St. Paul..
ANSWER. MAYOR KIEFER.

1t Is one of the peculiarities of Republican
political ethics that when out Of power the
statesmen of that party, local as well as
state and national, are quite insistent on
having the laws-all the laws is the ex-
pression-enforced But when they come
into power they are prone to distinguish
the difficulty, if not the hardship of COM
plying with their own demand.
1t is not so many years ago that even
a very young man may not remember
since the Republican local statesmen who
have since in their official characters and
careers thrown so strong a light of intel
ligence and uprightness on our local ad-
1Ginistration used 10 raise a periodic out
cry on this score. They wanted the laws
all the laws-enforced. The city of St
Paul. in their view, would never, in the
progress of time, reach the high standard
OF official responsibility which they now
represent until the Iaws-an the laws
were enforced.
Well, the enforcement of the laws has
for some time been entrusted to them and
their chosen representatives What has
been the fate of the problem OF enforc-
ing all the laws under the sublfmat-
ed system of official purity and highmind-
edness which now marks the control of
our affairs by these men of the party of
moral ideas?
Mayor Kiefer is, in the language of the
day, up to" that proposition just at this
time. He arrives at it through the kindly
cooperation of certain Hamline gentle
men who doubtless voted for him. One
phase of the matter they present to him
I'M this form:
OF the disorders and crimes commit
ted on that day Sunday because of the
open saloon, does not every law, divine
ana human, hold you guilty? Is not this
refusal to enforce law an utter viola
ton of official decorum and personal hon
or?
What has Mayor Kiefer to say to all
this? Is he or is he not guilty? Is he
or is he not man who beltves in moral
iGeas-assuming the concrete and tangible
form of a political party? VIII he or will
he not enforce the laws-an the laws?
The G l 0 is fully aware that Mayor
Iiefer is very bitterly beset in his own
political organization in these times The
most morally elevated among his party
associates, led by that organ OF power
fully moral ideas, the st. Paul Dispatch.
assail him ruthessly and have virtually
kicked him out of the party of which he
ought TO be the responsible head in this
city. And we accordingly sympathize with
Mayor kiefer, and would make the way
easy and smooth for him if 1t were in
our power. But it is most important
question. that which his Prohibition broth
rem Of Hamline ask And. they have a
right TO have prompt and categorical
answer. Come, Mayor Kiefer, let us hear
from you. Are you or are you not in
favor of the enforcement of all the laws
On the statute especially those in
Volving moral ideas-which relate to the
government of st. Paul?
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ChiIdren,s Home Society.

The ninth anniversary of the Children
Home Society OF Minnesota will be held
this evening at p. m at the Park Con-
gregational church, ST. Paul, Mackubin
and Holly
In addition to reports of the work ex-
periences will be given by the workers,
Rev. E. P. Savage, Rev. D. B. Jackson
and Mrs. Amanda Weber. Also an adj
dress by Rev F. Doran, of Rochester,
subject, 1.-THE Benefit to Society From
the Rescue of Neglected Children"