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CUBANS NOW FILING CLAIMS.


Havana, May 29.-There were Ill ap-
plicants yesterday for shares in the S.
600, 900 which the United States has
offered as a gratuity to Cuban troops.
Thirty were given SIS each. The 9th
ers were not on the rolls, although they
had guns which they were ready to
turn in and certificates of service.
The United States military authori-
ties consider that the rolls are
very unreliable. Indeed, the opinion
is freely expressed that large proper
ton of the names are fictitious and
that the rolls omit a majority
of the names of those rightly entitled
to share in the gratuity. The object
of this, apparently, is to discredit the
entire proceedings and to show the
| Cuban public that a large number OF
the troops refused to take American
money. OF those paid 25 turned in
arms-Mausers Remingtons and car.
bines. The other five showed receipts
from the alcalde vouching for the de.
livery of their arms Col. Randall says
it will be necessary to have additional
days after awhile here and eXtra
pay rolls former who have undoubtedly
seen service lie also believes that
were the payment to be continued IL
Havana for the next three days, a
least 30 per cent. of those entitled t.
apply would do SO. Most of those whC
received shares yesterday asserted tina
they only heard by accident that th'
distribution was now actually taking
| nlaop
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camping in the 1ungles and woods out
side Others, on the watch for chances
to haraSs the garrisons and attack
scouting parties or detached companies
with greater forces. This is the kind
of warfare they prefer to regular bat
ties.
Foreigners who have arrived here
from the insurgents country, under
the recent order of expulsion, say the
cemeteries in all the towns are filled
with fresh graves. A majority of the
Filipino wounded die because the in
sNrgent hospitals are inadequate, med
icines are scare and they have few sur
geons, except Spanish captives who
have been impressed.
Fillpinos to he whipped.
Washington, May 2s.-The president
and the war department have about de-
cided to support Gen. Otis views of
the Philippine situation and there will
be no more parleys with Aguinaldo' S
envoys unless they indicate before en-
tering the American lines that they
are prepared for unconditional sur
render. The administration is in
formed that the optimistic views oi
Chairman Schurman and other mem
bers of the commission at Manila arr
without foundation and that the Fill
pinos will have to be whipped int
| submission. Conquered territory is he
ing reoccupied and the American troop'
are being harassed daily. To end this
more troops will be sent to Gen, Oti'
and preparations made to deliver I
crushing blow. The Twenty-fourtl
infantry (colore6 will probably be senl
! IN Manila
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from beneath the blue waters of
Havana bay, they lie here mute but
forceful reminders of a dread event
which cast u shadow of death over
many an American home.
We now mount stairway, leading
to the geological department, which in
recent years has been placed in the
armory building, This department is
presided over by Prof. Gallaher, and
his assistant, Mr.. Ransom, who is well
versed in his work, and attentive to
visitors. The geological collection is
extensive and varied, and the richness
and beauty of its specimens would
require many pages to give even Il
tolerably fair idea OF the wonderful
resources OF our state.
In thus collection, one of the most
attractive objects OF interest is n beau
iifuI garnet, embedded An coal, brought
from the far away hills of Alaska
Another is a slab of flexible sandslon,
from the qlIarries of North Carolina
1t can be bent like whalebone. Herr
also are GRANTEES IN gray, brown, white
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WRECK NEAR WATERLOO, IA.
Track as the Result of a CIoudburst
and Nine People We're Killed,

Waterloo, Ia, May s9.-The through
train from Chicago to Minneapolis
over the Rock Island and Burlington,
Cedar Rapids 4 Northern railways was
wrecked at l:l5 Sunday morning at the
crossing of Sink Creek, about four
miles southwest of this place. The
train consisted of five coaches, inelud-
ing mail and baggage car, smoking
ear, two passenger coaches and
sleeper. Nine persons were killed
and 2S injured. A cloudburst
had washed the sand and gravel
roadbed away leaving the track unsup-
ported for a stretch of 20 feet. The
rails and ties held together and there
was nothing to indicate the insecurity
of the road. The engine struck the
washout and was derailed in the ditch
beside the track and behind II the cars
were piled in confused heap, The
mail car was topped over and tele-
seoped by the baggage car behind,
while the rear end of the baggage car
in turn telescoped the smoker.
Inc lfhck bekhn " ochtie'
Oelwein, Ia, May 29.-The Chicago
Great Western passenger train that
left st. Paul Saturday. night at S;lC
o'clock, was wrecked two miles north
of here yesterday morning. Richard
Manning, of Minneapolis, the colored
porter, was killed. Several men and
women on the train were more or less
injured. The train was running ovei
low lands when the track began Il
settle and the train was derailed.
Killed While Crossing the Track.
Buffalo, N. V, May 29.-Joseph Kel
Ter and Ray Sherman, of Alden, N. Y.
and Louis Carey. of Auburn, Four Cor
ncrs, Pa, were killed at Wendts sta
toe at two o'clock yesterday morning
while driving across the New Yorl
Central tracks. Their carriage wa
struck by an eastbound express train
Freight Train Wrecked.
Denison, Tex, May 29.-An extri
freight train, eastbound Texas & Pa
cific, was wrecked two miles east o
Whitesboro yesterday, demolishing sey
en- cars of merchandise. Enginee
John Ison was killed and Firema
johnson fatally injured.
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LAWTON'S GREAT CAMPAIGN
In 20 Days His Troops Had 22 Fights, Cap
tured aS Towns and Killed and
Wounded Many Filipinos.

Manila, May 25.-Two companies of
the Third infantry and two companies
of the Twenty-second infantry, form
ing Gen. Lawton S rear guard, returned
from San Miguel to Balinag Tuesday,
escorting signal party which was
picking up wire laid with Gen. Law
toms expedition, found that the insur-
gents had reoccupied the country and
hard fighting followed from daylight
until the Americans camped at night.
But the troops completed their work,
though harassed by the enemy. One
American was killed and 10 We're
wounded. The troops captured 20
prisoners and 30 rifles.
Gen. Lawton with the rest Of his
troops has arrived at Malolos. His eX-
pedtion marched 100 miles in 20 days,
had ~ fights, captured as towns, de-
stroyed 300, 900 bushels OF rice and only
lost six men killed and n wounded.
On the other hand Gen. Lawton esti-
mates that his troops killed 400 insur-
gents and wounded double that number.
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SUNDAY TORNAD0ES.
Charles Peterson and His Six Children
Killed In the BiJou HiIls-several Places
In Nebraska Stor. l-S. .ricken

Omaha, Neb., May ga special from
Chamberlain, &. d., Sunday evening
said: Word has just reached the town
of disastrous and fatal cyclone which
passed across the country in the vicin-
ity of Bjou hills, 25 miles south Of this
city Saturday afternoon, between four
and five o'clock, resulting in the death
of seven persons and the serious injury
of two others. The killed were Charles
Peterson and his six children. The cy-
clone formed on section in plain view
of hundreds and moved in a southerly
course, the first place reached being
that of ART Coden, which was totally
destroyed. The storm then destroyed
church and schoolhouse, after which
it reached the Peterson place, where the
execution done was simply appalling
The dead and injured were strewn about
the premises, all being bruised and
MANNED in a shocking manner, while
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CORNWALL A SUICIDE.
Kansas City Physician Suspected of MUIR
dering His Wife, Her Brother and Miss
Homestead Takes His Own Life.

Kansas City, Mo-. May 29.-Dr. Rich7
mond Cornwall, slayer of his brother,
once suspected Of wife murder and
twice of the murder of young women,
one of them Maude Belle Bonesteel,
the mystery about whose disappear
ance has never been cleared, killed
himself early yesterday morning. 1t
was u bloody ending of bloody
life. Financial difficulties may
have been the immediate cause
of the suicide. But back OF this,
in the life of this man, were four
tragedies, each mystery. And the
secret Of each he took with him TO his
grave-the secret of the death OF his
sweetheart, the death OF his wife, the
death of his brother and the disap-
pearance Of the girl, Maudc Belle
Bonesteel. After an evening spent
at the theater and a careful pre-
paration of the details for his self
destruction, such as writing notes
and u last good-by to his wife and baby,
DIR, Cornwall put q bullet into his brain
in the yard surrounding the residence
of his brother-in-law, DR.. j. G. Whit
tier, 4O33 Warwick boulevard. He used
the same revolver with which he shot
his brother Herbert to death in st.
Louis ON the morning of July Z, 1897.
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A LARGER ARMY NEEDED.


Manila, May 27.-The events Of the
past week have emphasized the need Of
much larger army here, without
which, according to the best authori-
ties in Manila, it would be attempting
the impossible TO expect to establish
American supremacy in the Philippine
islands. The inadequacy of the Amer
lean forces is said to be responsible for
the large total loss in the number of
small encounters, without materia! re-
suits as compensation. Most of the
fighting had been in territory which
the Americans had swept, but had been
compelled to abandon because they
could not spare troops to hold it.
The forces commanded by Gen. Mac
Arthur and Lawton held two important
lines of communication and commerce,
the railroad to San Fernando and the
Rio Grande river. But much of the
country they have swept, including
scores of the smaller towns and some
of the larger ones, have been left un-
covered, simply for want of men to
hold them and the insurgents have re-
turned and are occupying the towns
| the Americans abandoned and are
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CIVIL SERVICE ORDER.
President Mckinley Issues His Much Dis
cussed Decree Which Throws Open
About 1000 Places.

Washington, May 3O.-President Me
Kinley to-day issued the amendments
to the civil service rules which he has
had under consideration for about a
year. 1t releases from the operations
of the civil service rules about 1000
offices. Among such places are the fol-
lowing: Pension examining surgeons,
Indians employed in the Indian service
not connected with the Indian school
service and many places in the en-
gineer department at large, the
quartermaster' department at large
the subsistence department at large,
the ordnance department at large OF
the war department. With reference tc
those places in the outside war depart
ment service it is provided that they
shall be subject TO regulations to bt
prescribed by the secretary of war ant
approved by the president, thus placing
these branches of the service on sub
stantially the same basis as the navy
yard service.
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prescribed begins: 81 recognize and
accept the supreme authority of the
United States of America" etc.
The Filipino members are all prom
inent lawyers. Arralanao is the leader
of his profession in the Islands, In the
early stages of the Filipino movement
he was Aguinaldo's principal adviser.
Aralita was member of Aguinaldo's
first cabinet. Melliza was president of
the insurgent government at Uoilo.
4, Torres is the leader of the local com
mittoe working with the commission
to concliate the insurrectionists.
Spanish will be the official language
of the courts. There has been agita-
tion among the local British and Amer
lean business men and American law
yers who came to the Philippines to
make fortunes to have the English
code and language adopted, but Maj
Gen. Otis concluded that 1t would be
unwise, even il practicable, to upset
long usage. He thought it best to give
the natives courts in the language tC
which they have been accustomed. The
Spanish salaries proved a stumbling
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DEwEY'S OPTIMISTIC VIEWS
The United States Must Never Part with
the Philippines. He says-AguinaldO
aPower Among the Natives.

New York, May 25,-The Journal
prints an interview had with Admiral
Dewey at Hong Kong. The admiral
said:
appreciate the welcome given me here, but |
am too worn out and sick to accept hospitality.
| am not sorry to leave Manila | could hut
stand the care and responsibility mueE longer.
A year In this climate is enough for an old man,
and am glad 10 be permitted to rest have
the greatest enthusiasm In the future OF the
Philippines. l hope to see America the key to
oriental commerce and civilization. The brains
OF our great country will develop the untold
agricultural and mineral richness OF
the islands. We must never sell them.
Such an action would bring on another
great war. We will never part with the Philip
pines. | am sure, and in future years the idea
that anybody should have seriously suggested
II will be one OF the curiosites Of history. The
insurrection is broken. Aguinaldo and his gem
erals must be captured, and then the very sem
blance Of an insurrectlon will cease. Aguinaldo's
name is the real power among the natives.
Wherever we go 1t is always Aguinaldo. The
officers OF the Tagalos, civil and military, tell
us they have no power to treat for
peace until they hear from Aguin-
aldo Foreigners and natives all tes-
tify TO this state Of facts. We must concen-
trate our troops and vigorously prosecute the
| campaign In LuzOn. That Is our whole task.
| The southern islands will quickly fall in line
| This, hope will not be long In happening. The
| Olympia will go home leisurely. | want all ol
my oficers and men TO get the greatest benefit
| OF all the stops we make. We will pick oui
places with this in mind They have earned 4
rest by year OF steady duty without respite.
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PHILIPPINE COURTS.
An Order Issued Re-Establish ing
Them Under the Old System.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE TO Be SPANISH.


Manila, May SO. Am order has been
issued re-establishing the Philippine
courts which have been closed since the
American occupation. 1t revives all
the Spanish systemnot conflicting with
the sovereignty of the United States.
The chief justice is Caytuma Arralanao.
The associates of the civil bench are
Manuel Araulla, Col. Crowder and Gre
goria Aralita. The justices of the
criminal branches are Ramnndo Mel
liza, Ambrosio Ryanzares, Julio Loren
to, Maj. Young and Capt. Birkhimer
The attorney general is Florontio
Torres. This corresponds with the
American supreme court. The oath
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OUR STATE ARM0RY.
A Description of the Building and It's
Contents as Seen by an Inter
ested Capital Visitor.

The following line description of our
state srmory was written for the Jeffcr-
son City Tribune, by Mrs. Wallace j
Davis, well known all over Lafayette
county az Miss Alice Ustick, of Dover,
a sister OF Mrs. W. +. Eastwood.
The building stands on the south
western slope OF the capitol grounds.
Facing 1t ls the supreme court build
ing, and just east OF 1t rises the stately
dome Of the capitol.
The armory is built of light sand
stone, and in quaint style Of archi
lecture, somewhat like an old Spanisl
fort, its rtd root risingaharp and steep
and here and there loop hole abov
Its deep-set windows. Al the rear th
mighty Missouri river dashes its darl
waters against the banks and the
passes on in its never-ceasing flow til
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block to obtaining good men, the
highest being only $1,000, the Spanish
Judges receiving fees, which are abol-
ished. All the Judges are representa-
tive men.
VOLUNTEERS VIE WITH REGULARS.
Chicago, May 3O.-Capt. Charles D,
Clay, of the Seventeenth infantry, a
grandson of Henry Clay and a fighter
at Santiago, has returned from Manila
on sick leave lie was wounded near
Malolos March 25, Is days after landing
from the transport Grant, The bullet
entered his neck and has not been ex-
tracted. He went to his home in Lex
ington, KY, last night, but expects to
90 to New York Immediately for treat
mcnt Concerning the war in the Phil
ippines he said:
Volunteers vie with regulars In rallnntry
The hcroism Of both is superb. The First Ne
brasl,a and Twentieth Kansas rcglmcntS art
eaual 10 any on earth, And the war now golnl
on is as dinicult and magnificent u passage OF
arms us any In our annals. a handful Of mcr
| are wnging q war there against mcomparlhl'
odds. with 1900 or 10000 men we coult
sweep the island In 30 days and avert th'
tremendous mortality that is now rs certain
as fate. Gen. Lawton had the eye OF the sol
der when he said 10000 men were needed
We have not troops enough to occupy whn
we conquer. The place at which was wounde'
had been taken three times before and rs man
times abandoned because we had not fore
enough to hold IT, That is the case everywhere
Manila is great city, full OF thousands Of me
ready 10 rise at moments notice. It require
lOpOO men TO hold down Manila. Some j,Wn ar
in hospitals or useless and that leaves barrel
1900 men to beat the Filpinos in the held an
! hold what is gained.
RAIN WILL NOT INTERFERE.
Manila, May Soften. Otis says tina
the campaign against the Filipino in
surgents will be prosecuted by tn
American forces with the utmo-
aggressivcness possible during tn
rainy season. Gen. Lawton is of tn
opinion that an early settlement of tn
present troubles aud the close of hosti
= tiles depend largely upon the Amer
, cans giving rigid protection to tn
working classes in their peaceful occr
pations, while waging incessant wa
against the armed forces of the cnem
from this time forth by means
guerrilla warfare.
TELEGRAM FROM GENERAL OTIS
Washington, May 3O.-rhc war d
: partment has received the followin
+ telegram from Gen. Otis:
: Manila, May @,-Transports Ohio and Sc
:. ator, with the Thirteenth infantry, just arrive
A Private David K. Johnson, company f. browne
and tiye men deserted at Honolulu no 9th
] casualties, -.- -----
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THEY PREFER KANSAS.


Topeka, Kan, May 90. - Urge
muster out at home instead OF San
Francisco. This is the text of Il cable
gram signed by both Funston and Met
calf. received from Manila by Gov.
Stanley. The governor Immediately
transmitted the message to Secretary
Alger by telegraph. Il interpret the
message as meaning" said Gov. Stan.
ley, "that they have ascertained the
wishes of the regiment. | rather ex'
pcct the officers favor San Francisco,
as it would mean over 81, 900 additional
travel pay each for them to be mus
tered ont there
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Travellers and HOme-Seekers Going
Northwest to Montana and
Washington,

Travellers and HOme-Seekers Going
Northwest to Montana and
Washington.
After March l4th, can take through
tourist sleepers every Tuesday and
Thursday, at Kansas City, via the Bur
lington Route, for the entire Journey
through to Butte, Spokane, Seattle
Puget Sound and intermediate destina'
tons on the Northern Pacific Railway
These through sleepers are the "rea
thing i" and are carried on the Bnrling
toms Montana Express, leaving Kansas
City 1910 a. m. via its Northwest Main
Line, the Billings Route-the short lin'
and the time saver to the entire North
west.
These are the only through sleeplnl
cars for first or second class passenger
from Kansas City to Montana an'
Washington.
Also first class through sleeping ca
service every day from Kansas City u
Butte, Anaconda, Montana, commenc
ing March 18th.
Write us about these things.
J. G. BRAMBALL, Il. +. A.,
Mansas City, Mo.
| l., W. WAKELY, G. p. A.,
st. Louis, Mo.
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Weir City, Kan, May 29.-Sheriff
Sparks served injunctions on the otli
GERS and employees Of the Kansas &
Texas Coal company, restraining them
from importing criminal or other
classes of laborors TO take the places of
striking miners. The injunction is
sweeping, as it practically dcbars the
company from employing anyone from
other states or parts of this state to
enter their mines. Strikers consider ii
n preat victory.
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Berlin, May 29-Prof, Virchow de-
livered an important address before the
tuberculosis congress, rejecting the
theory Of hereditary tuberculosis.
This doctrine, he declared, was contra
dicted by all his pathological researches.
He said he had never found tubercu-
losis in unborn or newborn infants,
though it might be contracted during
the first davis existence.
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the buildings were smashed into splin-
ters. After doing its worst here the
cyclone destroyed the Criegor premises,
then passing into the range Of hills
skirting the Missouri river, where it
appears to have been dissolved
Terrific Hailstorm at Hastings, Neb.
Hastings, Neb., May GA terrific
hailstolm struck this city at 3;45 o'clock
yesterday afternoon and continued 10
minutes, during which time over 5000
panes of glass were broken, fruit and
I grain destroyed. chickens and birds
killed and injured and several persons
| hurt. At the ASYLUM for the chronic
insane, 400 panes Of glass were broken
in the main building and 1900 in the
| greenhouse, where an immense amount
of damage was done.
A severe hailstorm visited beatrice
early yesterday evening, doing inn
| mense property damage, injuring sew
eral persons killing birds and break
ing glass by the wholesale. The storm
came up suddenly and hundreds Of peo-
Pile were caught while driving. Dead
birds lie in the streets by hundreds,
trees are stripped Of their leaves and
fruit and crops destroyed
Central City visited by a storm.
Omaha, Neb, May ga special from
Central City, Neb., says; Probably the
most destructive cyclone that ever Wis
tied Nebraska passed through the
northern part of Hamilton county Sat-
urday night at seven o'clock, destroy
ing from SIS, 900 to 100000 worth of
property, including 10 dwellings, one
church, one sehoolhousc, two iron
bridges across the Blue river, barns,
corn cribs, outbuildings, orchards,
fences and stock.
Tornado at KeswIck, Ia.
Montezuma, Ia, May GA tornado
which struck half mile south of Kes-
wick, yesterday evening, did consider
able damage. The farmhouse of Mr..
Mccoy was demolished and Ave persons
were injured, Mrs. Mccoy probably
fatally. Rain and hail followed the
storm and did great damage to the
growing crops.
Thirty People shocked by Lightning.
, Sanduslky, o.. May 29.-Louis f.
Bert, farmer of Oxford township
was killed by lightning Saturday night
, at barn warming near his home
| About 80 persons were in the barn ant
r all were prostrated, several of then
being more or less injured by the shock
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oil Painting OF the Twentieth Kansas.

EmpOria, Kan, May 27.-IIOward
christy, war artist of "Truth," has
been employed to make large oil
painting OF the Twentieth Kansas reg
iment in action, to be presented to the
Kansas State Historical society by a
donor whose name Mr.. Christy with
holds. He will study the regiment in
San Francisco when it disembarks and
the pain ting will include portraits OF
Fred Funston and the commissioned
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