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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24
THE WAR IN
THE PHILIPPINES.
INSURGENTS CAPITAL Is
CAPTURED AGAIN.
Feeble Resistance Made by
Enemy, Who Fall Back.

Manila, May II, IL AO a. IN ten.
Lawson's advance guard under Col.
Summers Of the Oregon troops took
San Isidro, the insurgens capital, at 8
o'clock THE morning The expedition
under Maj Kobb of the Third artil-
lery, consisting of the Seventeenth
infantry, battalion of the Ninth and
one battery Of the First artillery, left
Calumpit today, marching Up the
Rio Grande to join Gen Lawton's
division at Arayat. a fotilla of
canoes. loaded with supplies, also
proceeded up the river. Both forces
were conveyed by the gunboats
under Capt. Grant.
Aguinaldo's ex secretary, Escamil-
10, who was arrested on February %,
is now employed as official interpre
ter by the authorities
els p. m-Col Summers COM
mand, consisting Of the Twenty
second infantry on the left, the
Minnesota regiment in the centre
and the Oregon and North Dakota
regiments on the right preceded by
scouts and accompanied by Scott's
battery of artillery, advanced from
Baluarte at daylight The troops
first encountered the enemy two
miles from San Isidro, the rebels
retiring when our artillery opened
fire. Jus. outside the town rebel
force estimated to number 1000 men
was entrenched. 1t made slight
resistance, but evacuated It's position
when our troops turned its right
flank.
The enemy's loss was Is men
killed and 20 wounded Our troops
also captured three prisoners and
many rifles On the American side,
one soldier OF the Oregon regiment
and one of the Minnesota regiment
were slightly wounded.
After capturing the town. Col.
Summers troops continued their
advance, pursuing the retreating
rebels for several miles
Although the rebels still threaten
San Fernando in considerable force.
large numbers of natives, q majority
of them being families with their
household goods, are returning daily
to the towns inside the American
lines. at Apalit especially
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.
Owing to the bad condition of the
wagon roads, she work of repairing
the railroad is being actively pushed.
all the broken bridges have been re
paired, and only few excavations
remained to be filed up. Trains
will undoubtedly be running through
W Oau VcIu8uOO iu 1S" Ooyo
The only natives there are some
Fiiipinos from Macabebe, who are
trading with our soldiers
At daylight today, Lieut. Hill,
who with Is men of the Fourth To-
fantry, was concealed in the trenches
near Pasig. was attacked by a force
of rebels, who evidently imagined
they could capture one of our out
posts. as only few shots had been
fred by the American force A few
volleys put the enemy to flight, the
rebels losing FIVE men killed and a
number of wounded
The army gunboat Napingdan has
returned here from the lake, having
been disabled by cannon shos from
rebel position near Santa Cruz,
which broke her rudder post.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24
EXCITEMENT IN coMMONs

London, May 16 Jos Chamber
lain, secretary for the colonies, .his
evening said he had heard nothing
officially regarding the arrests in the
Trausyaal and did not think that too
serious significance ought to be at
tsched to them.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24

London, May 19.-Is is announced
10 a special dispatch from Allahab
that a serious epidemic of cholera has
follosed in the wake of the plague at
Kurracte, the principal seaport. There
we're sixt5-four deaths yesterday from
cholera
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24

Mexico, May 19.-Orgaus Of the
Spanish colony predict that the Uoi'ed
States ere long will be engaged 10 a
costly war 10 Cuba as we'll as the Phil
ippines, bas;ng The predictions on sup
posed inside information from Gaia.
The Correo de E1pana says somebody
will be fouoa to supply Cubans With
arms.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-05-24
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The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Latter Consisted of but Fifty
Cavalrymen Under Lieu
tenant Monroe.
SOME PRISONERS RESCUED
Seven Americans and Seventy
Spaniards in the Hands
Of Insurgents.
Lawton Negotiating With An
I other Force on Terms of
Capitulation.

! MANILA, Dec. General Conan has
surrendered 800 officers and men with
rifles, American and 70 Spanish pris-
oners and the garrison at Bayombong,
province of Nueva Viscaya, to Lieuten-
ant Monroe with 30 men of the Fourth
cavalry.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Considerable
interest is felt here in the news that
the insurgents at Bayom bong have just
surrendered, particularly as the num-
Der is said to exceed that captured
by the United States troops at any one
time. Bayombong is the city to which
Aguinaldo at one time contemplated
retreating for the puspose of locating
the rebel capital after he was forced to
flee from Tarlac, but the American
troops pressed him so hard that he was
unable to carry out his intention. No
information regarding the surrender
has been received at the war depart
ment
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
GERMANS OBJECT
Mr.. Chamberlain'S Use Of the
Word Alliance Vigorously
Commented On.
No Desire to Be Unfriendly
but Will Not Fight Other
Peoples Battles.
BRITISH PRESS DIssENTs
Practically Unanimous in the
Opinion That the Speech
Was a Mistake.
French Newspapers Charac-
teriZe His UtteranCeS as
Empty Threats.

BERLIN. Dec. 2.-The use of the word
"alliance" in Mr.. Chamberlain's speech
at Leicester has caused general fut-
ter in the German press. The Chau'
whist organs protest vigorously. The
Kreuz Zeitung, the organ of the mill.
tary party, comments with scorn and
indignation. Other journals, including
The Lokal Anzeiger, assert that the
meeting of Count Won Buelow and Mr.
Chamberlain in London was productive
of results calculated to smooth away
some difficulties which had arisen in
colonial questions, but that no alliance
exists, although the conference be.
tween the German and British states.
men at Windsor castle left an equally
good impression upon all. AS bearing
upon this The Lokal Anzeiger adds:
Germany and Great Britain are
guided by the same sincere wish to re.
move in friendly manner occasional
subordinate differences. At the same
time Germany does not intend to fight
other peoples battles"
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
CHAMBERLAIN'S MISTAKE.
London Newspapers Take Exception t
the Views Expressed.

London Newspapers Take Exception to
the Views Expressed.
LONDON, Dec. 2.-With few excep-
tions the afternoon newspapers dissent
from Mr.. Chamberlain's Anglo-Saxon-
Teutonic alliance speech at Leicester.
The Pail Mall Gazette lays stress on the
strong anti-German prejudice in Great
Britain, and declares, bluntly, that Mr..
Cham berlain had better have kept
silent.
The Westminster Gazette takes the
same line, believing Mr.. Chamberlain
did not represent government opinion
and pointing out how offensive the
speech was towards France.
The Globe maintains that it is impos-
sible for Germany to give the quid pro
quo for the responsibilities that would
accrue to Great Britain from such an
alliance.
The Evening Standard says Mr..
Cham berlain referred to no alliance by
treaties.
The st. James Gazette says: "Mr.
Cham berlain simply expresses English
public opinion, which has come to re-
alize that with Germany and the United
States we can work, because with those
powers we have community of inter
ests and sentiments, whereas, with
Russia and France we have not"
The Sun is the only other evening
newspaper to take a similar favorable
view of the suggested alliance.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.
Paris Papers Say Chamberlain Is In
dulging in Empty Threats.

Paris Papers Say Chamberlain Is In.
dulging in Empty Threats.
PARIS; Dec. 2.-Some of the news
papers attach considerable Importance
to the utterances of Joseph Chamber
lain at Leicester and consider that they
show that Emperor Williams visit to
England was partially political. The
majority, however, characterize GER
tain of Mr.. Chamberlian's declarations
as empty threats. and regard the sug-
gestion of an alliance between Great
Britain, the United States and Ger.
many as simply eccentric.
The Matin observes that Mr.. Cham
berlain alludes to the alliance as an ac-
complished fact and as being his work,
and ''seizes on the opportunity to ad-
dress threats to France, which leave us
as unmoved as does the famous pros
pect of new triple alliance"
The Journal urges the recall of Ad-
miral Fournier's squadron from the
Levapt, in '.view of eventualties which
may arise from the present anti-British
campaign in France"
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08

But be that as it may, it is obviously a
good thing for the tax payers as a
whole to have this work done. and the
Free Press is of the opinion that the
county will be the gamer by it, and
that the county board really worked in
the interests of the county when they
made the contract.
The kind of argument the Enterprise
uses all through its article is good
deal the same as one of it's objections,
that the county is going to be Obliged
to pay more of the state taxes than
counties where the tax dodger is left
unmolested. In other words, Mr.. Hota-
ling wants the property that these ex-
perts are uncovering and placing on the
tax lists to bear its share of the burdens
of government, left where it was, and
allow those who have property that can
not be covered up bear the burdens.
But people generally do not take that
view of the matter
And we notice that people in other
counties do not endorse the Enterprise
editors view of the question, but are
making contracts with Mr.. Wellman,
and such contracts have already been
made with Nicollet, Hennepin, Stearns
and Wright counties, and others will
probably follow.
The county is not throwing away
money in this deal, but is being bene-
flied by it.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
is A GOOD THING FOR THE
COUNTY.

The editor of the Mapleton Enter
prise works himself into something of a
sweat this week over the work that is
being done in placing taxable property
on the tax lists that has heretofore been
covered up and has not been paying it's
share Of the burdens of government. He
has really no good argument to put
forth against the work, but wanting to
find fault of some kind. he picks up the
long exploded point, that not only will
the parties doing the work receive one
half of the taxes paid the first year, but
for every year thereafter so long as the
property thus uncovered and placed
upon the tax rolls remains there. This
point was fully discussed in the local
press last summer, and had the Enter
prise editor taken note he would now
know that the gentlemen doing the
work disclaim any such Interpretation
OF the contract. All the county pays
for the work is one-half of the amount
paid in the first year. At first blush
this looks like big thing, but it must
be remembered that those who do the
work have to be experts at the work,
and can command big money in private
lines. 1t is extremely doubtful when the
full amount of time they put in is count.
ed up if they will make so very much
more than they would in other ordinary
lines of work they might be engaged in.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Last of tho Englishmsn wh,pn.a

New YORK, Dec. 2.-Dave Wallace,
the last of the cargo of English fighters
which was imported here within the
last few months. went down in defeat
like his predecessors at the Broadway
Athletic club. Joe Bernstein of New
York placed several blows on Wallace's
face and body and in exactly 73 seconds
the Englishman lay prostrate, unable
to come to time.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Falling OF in Grain Receipts.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 2.-The re-
ceipts of -four and grain by lake at this
port show big falling off from last
year. From the opening of navigation
to Nov. 80 the receipts of -four have
been 8,430,850 barrels, decrease of
1,337,0OO barrels as compared with last
year. The receipts of grain have been
1876, ,5S4, ,979 bushels, as compared with
1913, ,778, 1856 bushels last year, decrease
Of over 58, 600, 700 bushels.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Did Not saenrs tho pa.snort.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Application
was made by Gustav Thielkuhl at the
state department during the day for 900
passports for members of the third ex-
pedition to be sent from this country to
the Transvaal by the promoters of the
Duchess Dues Legion. He was told,
he says, that they could not be prepared
before Dec. 81, the day the third expe-
dition would sail from New York.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
McCLEARY COMMENDS 1T.
Thinks the New Financial Measure Rgh
...a Step in the Right Direction,

A Washington dispatch under tn
date of Nov. goth, says: The most in
teresting comment on the house tinar
cial bill made public yesterday, is prot
ably furnished by Representative Nc
Cleary, who expresses satisfaction wit
it's provisions in general. Mr.. McClear
said:
L have just finished reading the
bill. 1t appears to me to be very
good one. In the first place, it de-
fines in unmistakable terms the
word dollar and thus does away
with the uncertainty which many
honest men have believed to exist
on that point The dollar is de-
clared to be 25.S grains of standard
gold, which is what it has been for
two generations. The bill contains
a specific declaration that all obli-
cations of the United States gov
ernment are payable in accordance
with this definition. This is as it
should be. 1t will remove all doubt
and enhance the credit of the
United States to the highest point.
'In the second place, tie bill pro-
vides for division in the treasury
department to be known as the di-
vision of issue and redemption, the
prime function of which division
will be to take care that all forms
of currency are kept on a parity
with gold. In connection with the
work of this division there is pro-
vision that obligations of the United
States, unless redeemed in gold,
shall not be reissued except for gold
The purpose of this is to break the
so called endless chain of green
back redemption.
In the third place, the bill pro-
yides that national bank notes may
be issued to the par value of the
bonds deposited with the govern.
ment as security. The tax is trans.
ferred from the circulation to the
capital, surplus and undivided
profits of the banks, and provision
is made for the establishment of
national banks with S25, 1000 capital
in towns having not more that 1000
inhabitants. The purpose of these
provisions is to encourage the issue
of the bank notes when the business
of the country demands their use,
and to make it possible to establish
national banks in the sparsely set
tied sections of our country, thus
giving banking facilities which they
might not otherwise have. While
the bill does not go so far as those
who are interested in currency re-
form might wish, it is move in
the right direction"
One of the reasons Representativ
McCleary is so prompt and strong il
the bill is the fact that mos
Of its provisions follow precisely il
effect the provisions of the bill prepared
by Mr.. McCleary in the last house. Hi
observation that the measure does no
go as far as some of the advocates o
the currency reform desire doubtles
refers to the idea of permitting emer
gency issues by banks upon assets of
a bank. which idea was to some exten
in the bill he offered las
winter.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
CAPITAL $2oO,OOO,O
All Sugar Refining Companies to Co,
aOlidate.

All Sugar Refining Companies to Con.
solidate.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-The News says: A
5000, 900, 900 trust is in contemplation.
There is every prospect that the Amer
ican Sugar company the Glucose Rein
ing company and all of the so-called in.
dependent sugar refneries will be con-
solidated. H. o. Havemeyer of the
sugar combine secured an option on the
Arbuckle Sugar company, the Doscher
concern and the outside plants in Bos-
ton and New Orleans. The important
feature of this plan, it is said, is that
the American Sugar company will in
crease its capitalizati on from $75, 5,00O,-
900 to 500, 200, 900.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Kentuoky Deadlock Rroken.

FRANKFORT, KY, Dec. 2.-June w.
Gayle of Owen county has been nomi-
mated for congress by the Seventh dis
trict Democratic convention. The nom
ination was made on the 67th ballot.
John r. Allen broke the deadlock
shich existed up to that time by with
drawing and throwing his vote. to Gayle.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Well Known at Fort Houst on,

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 2.-The killing of
Captain o. B. Warwick at Iloilo on
Nov. "a in brush with insurgents was
a shock to the large military colony
at Fort Sam Houston, where his two
sisters and niece reside. He was very
popular with the civilians as well as
the military class.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Maeab.b. Scouts En,cient.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-Word comes
from the Philippines that the two COM
panies of Macabebe scouts under Cap
tain Batson are doing SO well that it
has been decided to form a full bat
talon Of those natives. The additional
two companies will be very useful in
the present campaign in tracking the
fleeing remnants of Aguinaldo's disor-
ganiZed army.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
THE KHALIFA'S DEATH.
Surrounded by tho Emirs He Quietl
Awaited His Fate.

Awaited HIS FAto.
CAIRO, Dec. 2.-Off1cers from the
Soudan who have arrived here say that
when General Wingate's force overlook
the khalifa the latter tried to outdank
the Anglo-Egyptians, but failed. See
ing his position was hopeless the kha-
lifa told his emirs to stay with him and
die. He then spread a sheepskin on the
ground and sat down on it with the
emirs on either side Of him. The kha-
lifa was found shot through the head,
heart, arms and legs and the emirs
were lying dead beside him. The mem
bers of his body guard were all dead in
front of them.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
Leary Wants More Marines.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. Captain Leary,
the naval governor of the island Of
Guam, wants an additional force Of
marines. The few men he has at COM
mand now are but an insignific ant force
compared with the 5000 population Of
the island
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08

CHICAGO, Dec. 2.-John Mitchell, ma
tional president of the United Mine
Workers union, who is in Chicago on
business connected with the settling up
of the Illinois trade disputes, said the
national organization was preparing to
secure the release of J. p. Reese, who
was sent to Jail at Fort Scott. Kan.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08

1t is officially stated that the number
of bank depositors in this country
reach 1888, ,874, or more than double
the number of ten years ago. The idea
that wealth is not being diffused among
the masses does not seem to hold good,
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08

AASSS~
THE NEW FINANCIAL MEASURE.
The financial measure framed by the
house Republican caucus committee has
been made public, and has met the ap-
proyal of Republicans generally. There
is little doubt but that it will be
promptly passed by the house. Just
what the senate will do with it is not so
clear. That it will be amended by that
body, is freely admitted, but it is
thought by those in a position to judge
that it will not be materially changed,
and that it will be ready to send to the
president for his signature by early
spring, and some are sanguine that he
will have it in his hands by the middle
of winter.
The bill in short firmly establishes
the gold standard by law, as it has been
in fact from the early '30s. Itrequires
that the interest bearing obligations of
the government be paid in gold, as has
been the policy of every administration
since 1873 1t sets aside 800, 900, 900 in
gold for reserve fund for the redemp-
tion of the greenbacks, and this sum
must be kept strictly for this purpose
and not encroached upon for anything
else by the secretary of the treasury,
and the latter is authorized to sell bonds
from time to time. if necessary, to
maintain it, these bonds bearing three
per cent interest. 1t also provides that
when green backs have once been re,
deemed they shall not again be paid
out except for gold This provision is
designed to break the socalled endless
chain or at least reduce its working to
the minimum. 1t is in accordance with
the recommendations of President Nc
Kinley in past messages to congress. 1t
further contains provisions relating to
national banks, authorizing them to
issue notes to the par value of bonds de-
posit ted, reduces their taxes on circula.
tion, and authorizes the blishment
of banks with capital of $4,000 in
cities and towns.of 2,0OO and under.
There is nothing radical in the meas
ure, nor of an experimental character,
and the Republicans in both houses of
congress ought to put forth all their ef-
forts to push it through that body as
soon as possible. While some of the
more radical currency reformers look
upon it as too conservative, still so far
as it goes it is in the right direction
and corrects the weak features in our
currency system, thus removing the
danger that might come to the nation
from those weaknesses. More than this
it will promote more healthy growth
along the line of financial matters than
our present conglomerate financial sys-
tenn is capable of doing, and will do
much to discountenance the growth of
fiatism. 1t simply enacts into law that
which has been demonstrated as prac-
tical, and there ought to be no serious
objection from any Republican mem
Der of congress to that, or from any
gold Democrat either, for that matter
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08

Miss Annie johnson, who graduated
from the Normal school this week. will
go to Belle Plaine.tomorrow to accept a
position as teacher.
The Mankato free press., 1899-12-08
THEY MAY SURRENDER.
Insurgent Com manders Are Negotiating
With General Lawton.

With General Lawton.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA special to
The Herald from Manila says Gen
eral Lawton is at Bambong, 20 miles
south of Bayombong, in the Capgayen
valley. He is in telegraphic communi-
cation with the insurgents over the
wire in their possession, and the COM
manders of the opposing forces are con-
sidering propositions made by telegraph
looking to the surrender of the rebels to
the Americans,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1899-01-01
PAVEMENT PARAGRAPHS.

The trouble with the man who
knows it all is that he hasn't taken
time enough to fud It out.
Nothing is more attractive in an
advertisement than the word
''free."
Love makes the world 90 round,
but the disappointed lover is apt to
consider it fat.
Some people pay so much atten-
tion to their reputation, that they
lose their character.
Theory and practice are two very
different things-any lawyer in
Texarkana will tell you this.
Justice is blind, but so long as
people will talk she has no difficulty
in locating them.
There are more born idiots in
this world than We have any idea
of.
We have all heard of the man
who bit off more than he could
chew. But there was another man
He attempted to say more than his
supply of intellect would permit.
Of the two, he presented by far the
most lamentable spectacle,
How do we chase news items?
Oh! That's easily told. Somebody
tells a friend and tells him not to
tell, and a friend of the teller tells
friend of ours, and he tells US;
consequently, we hear. See
The man who is made father
for the first times, may feel happy,
but he looks nothing but scared.
If God Almighty-power eternal,
was to destroy the world by fire
and birthstone, what would become
of the apostles of religion? What
a puzzing problem.
Robert Laura.