The Hope pioneer., 1899-06-01

The commission of Aguinaldo met the
American commission in Manila and
We're informed that President McKin-
ley stands ready to offer the following
form of governments: "a governor gen
eral TO be appointed by the presidents;
a cabinet to be appointed by the gov
ernor general; all the Judges to be ap-
pointed by the president; the heads of
departments and judges to be either
Americans or Filipinos or both: and
also a general advisory council, it's
members to be chosen by the people
by a form of suffrage to be hereafter
carefully determined upon"
Filipino commissioners spent day
at the residence of the American COM
1nissioners in Manila and discussed
every point of the scheme of govern
ment. Finally the Filipinos said they
were personally pleased with the plan,
but could not indorse it officially.
Near San Diable, Mexico, seven ne
groes were lynched by mob because
one of the colored men attempted to
assault white woman.
Admiral Dewey said in an interview
in Hong Kong he had the greatest en-
thusiasm in the future of the Philip
pines; that the United States must
never sell them. for such an action
would bring on another great war, and
said that the insurrcction was broken
and there would be no more hard bat
ties.
In London Queen Victoria celebrated
her eightieth birthday at Windsor
castle.
The duke de ARGOS. the new Spanish
minister to the United States, and his
wife sailed for New York from Lon
don on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse.
BY the capsizing of ferry boat on
the Danube, near Strasburg, Bavaria,
IA persons were drowned.
LATER NEWS.
Col. Somcrs, of the Second Oregon,
has been promoted to brevet brigadier
general of volunteers, and Capt. Case,
of the engineer battalion, is made a
major by brevet.
The transport Newport arrived at
Manila with 2GO newly enlisted ma
rincs.
For six weeks the whole northeast
coast of Newfoundland was blocked
with ice, making navigation impossi-
BILE. The people in many sections were
destitute of provisions.
Near Belvidcre, n. j., Joel Till, a
prosperous farmer, fatally wounded
his wife and then blew out his brains
with revolver.
The largest stamp mill in the world
has been started by D. o. Mills, at the
Treadwell mine, on Douglas Island,
Alaska.
General Lawton with most of his
troops has arrived at Malolos. His ex-
pedition marched 100 miles in twenty
days, had twenty-five fights, captured
twenty-eight towns, destroyed 800, ,00O
bushels of rice and only lost six men
killed and thirty-one wounded. On
the other hand. General Lawton esti-
mates that his troops killed four hun
dred insurgents and wounded double
that number.
Adjutant General Corbin has pre-
pared this statement of the number of
deaths which have occurred in the
army since the beginning of the war
with Spain: In Cuba, 1899; in Porto
Rico, PSI; at Honolulu. 45; in the Phil.
ippines COG; in the United States 3, S72:
total, 5000.
At New York Benjamin Kingsley
threw himself in front of a passenger
train and was killed.
A report from Dickens, Texas, says a
water spout did much damage there,
deluging an area of two square miles.
DR.. +. T. Dawson, of Denver. was
caught in the flood and drowned. Much
damage was done to crops. A tornado
passed over Wise county, doing much
damage.
The navy department is laying in ex.
tcnsive new stocks of naval ordnance
and the bids which are being opened
from day to day show that one of the
effects of the recent war has been tc
build up large number of small fac.
tories capable of producing war sup.
plies:
John Burlholder of Martindale and
l.. W. Frankhouser of Terne Hill, Pa,
have been arrested on the charge OF
counterfciting the label of the Cigar.
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