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the ~neighboring islands,, as the island of
Panay does not seem to be adapted 10 Its
cultivation, which. no doubt, Is IN a large
measure due to the long periods Of dry
weather.
The town is very unattractive, is low
and is always hot. A large portion Of the
shipping and wholesale houses stand on re-
claimed land from the SWamps. There were
many Spaniards and a good number of for
eignerS established there. with three or
four vice consulates and a custom house.
Travelling by a carriage and pair three
hours from Iloilo are the cities of lara, a
cathedral city and bishops see, and Molo,
where the richest natives and Chinese half
breed families reside, together with the
principal IlOilo middlemen.
The natives are very agreeable and IN
clined to be a peaceful people. They speak
Visayas, which is so very different from
Tagalog. the language of the natives OF
Luzon island from Manila south, that they
can understand each other with very great
difficulty.
AS Hoilo is the most western part Of the
Visayas group, Cebu, the capital city of the
island of the same name, is the most east
ern and the third most important city of
the Philippines. 1t is distant about 400
miles from Manila to the south. and viii
troops. It is a cathedral city and of much
historic interest, as Magellanes (Magellan)
landed there in March of 1921, just fifty
years before Manila was settled. The Arch
bishop of Visayas has his palace and head
quarters there. The city has a population of
34.OO0. has an established custom house,
and has been open to foreign trade since
1863. Cebu produces sugar, tobacco, corn,
rice. ETC., and in the mountainous district
sweet potatoes are raised. There is scarce
ly sufficient rice produced for the necessi-
ties of the inhabitants. the deficiency being
supplied by the neighboring island of
Panay. Some coal is found, which is said
to be of very good quality, though not ex-
listing in great quantities.
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T%ELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

The Westminster Kennel Club show, bet
ter known as the New York dog show"
opened In M~adlson-Square Garden yesterday
with a good attendance of both fanciers
and dogs.
The strike among the coal miners in the
Indian Territory is no nearer a settlement,
ana a coal faEllne is probable if the differ
ences of the men and operators are not adj
JuSted soon.
The Louisville Driving and Fair Associa-
ton has secured 500 entries of 1898 yearlings
for the Louisville prize, a 10000 stake, to be
trotted in 1901. Books for the event were
closed Feb. Is.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has rem
dered a decision affirming the Barren coun-
" Circuit Courts death sentence of Brown.
Brown murdered. several members OF the
family of his father-in-law.
Secretary Alger and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson. who will represent the admin
istration at the Michigan Club banquet, the
annual Washington's birthday gathering of
the Michigan Republicans, arrived in De-
trott last evening.
Thomas NJ. Robinson has been elected
president of the New York Cotton Exchange
in place of William V. King, who resigned
several weeks ago to take the superintend-
ent's position, which has been made vacant
by the death Of Edward X. Powers.
r. w. Jameson, member Of Parliament for
Winnipeg and for years mayor of Mani
toba, was accidentally shot dead at his
home while handling a revolver. Deceased
was forty-eight years of age and one OF
the most prominent men in the Canadian
West.
Governor Thomas has sent a message to
the Colorado Legislature urging legislation
to prevent the consummation Of the con-
templated smelter combine or the formation
OF any trusts in Colorado. The Senate
passed the antitrust bill without one dis
senting vote.
J. w. Watson & Co. wholesale liquor
dealers, of Maysville, KY, have assigned TO
Ben =. Poyntz. The liabilities are placed
at $4,000 to Sl00, 900. with assets less than
half as much. A recent fire, with INSULT
cient insurance, and slow collections are the
causes Of the embarrassment.
Attorney General Monet, of Ohio, has
filed q suit in the Supreme Court against the
Argand Refining Company in quo warranto
to GUST the company from its incorporate
rights. The petition says the company mad
a lease with the Solar Refining Company
and agreed to discontinue business.
BY a vote Of 46 TO 16, or four more than
needed. the Minnesota Senate has passed
over the Governors veto the bill appropriate
ing 10000 TO pay bounties earned under thu
beet sugar bounty law. Four Democrats
voted with the Republicans in favor OF the
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Obituary.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2l.-Mrs. Edith Poppel-
ton, aged twenty-nine. supervisor Of nurses
at the Baptist Hospital, died of pneumonia
Today; She is the daughter of Brig. Gen.
samuel =. Holabird, United States army. re-
tired. A wealthy husband in Detroit sur
wives Mrs. Poppelton. They have not been
living together for many years, it is said.
YORK, Pa, Feb. 21.-John Logan, one Of
the Oldest postmasters in the United States.
is dead at his home at Cross Roads, this
county. He was appointed postmaster dur
ing the administration of President Van
Buren,, in 1891, and has filled the same office
continuously up to the time Of his death,
The deceased was lightweight years old.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-Francis H. Bawo.
head of the great China and glass exports
ing house Of BaWo a. Doter, is dead. ia
Germany aged sixty-five years, of apoplexy.
His personal acquaintance throughout the
United States was very large.
LONDON, Feb. 21.-Sir George Ferguson.
pTlvy councillor, former governor of Hong
Kong, of New Zealand and of Queensland.
respectively, and author of Thirty Years of
Colonial Government" died at Brighton
this evening.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 21.-Capt. James
Mackenzie, one of the oldest lake captains
in Buffalo, died suddenly to-day of heart
disease, aged sixty-five years. He was
heavily interested in the Red Star line.
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UTAH LEGISLATORS FIGHT.
Bribery Charges IRA Senatorial Contest
Results in Bloody Noses.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Feb. 21.-The general
talk in connection with bribery in the Legis-
lature has generated bitter feeling among
the members. Before the joint session met
to-day Representatives Bywater and Cook
INDUCED in a bloody f~isticuff conflict in the
lobby of the House. When Representative
Jackson's name was reached on the roll call
he spoke in reference to attempts at bribery
which he said were made by the McCune
managers. His speech was interrupted by
calls for order, but the speaker decided that
he could proceed. An appeal was taken and
the chair sustained. Several other members
spoke on the subject of bribery. The result
of the ballot was: King, Dem, 6; Powers,
DEM, /; McCune, Dem., %; Cannon, 3;
Nebeker, Dem, z; Rideout, Dem, /; Suth-
erland, Rep. Is. Absent, 2.
The legislative investigating committee
held two sessions to-day and another to-
night. When the committee met this MORN
ing the additional charges filed last night
statement from A. w. McCune was then
read, in which he denied in detail the state
ments contained in the supplemental
charges. Representative a was called and
his cr~oss-eXamination resumed by Judge
Dixon He testified only In a general way
regarding the charges contained in the sup
Elemental specifications and no new facts
hasatch drug store. testified that Law and
McCune were in his store on Saturday last;
that after they left Law returned to the
store and spoke of the conversation with
McCune. and that Law had said he would
accept $3.50, but would not go below that.
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To Defeat Barrows.
Washington Special.

A little conspiracy has been organized in
one of the leading social clubs of Washing
ton to defeat the confirmation of Mr.. Bar.
rows, of Boston, as librarian of Congress-.
The conspiracy has its origin in the ambi-
ton of a member of the club in question.
who is already an attache of the library, to
secure a promotion, and as a part of the
scheme he was backing a candidate who
was disappointed by the naming of Mr.. Bar
rows. The conspiracy numbers several IL
brary attaches of considerable influence.
including the candidate who was turned
down for the Massachusetts aspirant. 1t is
really a strong and influential combination,
and has enlisted on its side two of the
Washington newspapers, one of which has
thrown its editorial page open to covert att
tackS upon President McKinley's choice for
librarian From present appearances 1t is
not improbable that the conspirators may
prevent Mr.. Barrows's confirmation at this
session, in which event it would be neces-
sary for the President to name him as a re-
cess candidate and have him confirmed next
winter, or else select another man. 1t is in
the hope that the latter result may follow
that the war is being kept up on the ap-
pointee. Should the conspiracy fail and
Mr.. Barrows be firmly established as IL
brarian he will be more than human if he
does not incontinently drop his enemies
from the library pay rolls and let them pur-
sue their questionable tactics from outside
the battlements.
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EDISON'S LATEST EFFORT.
Perfecting a Process of Transmitting
Pictures by Electricity.

YOUNGSTOWN, O., Feb. 21.-Thomas A.
Edison, wizard of the electrical world, was
in the city yesterday on his way to Akron
to attend the funeral Of his father-in-law,
Lewis Miller. Mr.. Edison is ffty-two years
of age. He was born in Milan, o., a little
tow five miles from Sandusky. He is
getting very gray and shows every day of
his busy and eventful life. 1t was his GUS
tom, he said, up to a few years ago to
sleep only one hour out of, the twenty
four He now reposes on an average of
about five hours a day. The inventor said:
Il am working at present on a device for
sending photographs by wire. l am per-
feeting The machine now and it will be a
successsS By this invention IN artist can
place, his sketch in it and by attaching it to
a wire send in the picture to his paper.
This thing has been done before, but the
machines ave been too cumbrous. l in
tend to nave this one made similar to a
kodak.
Il believe in ten years a horse will be a
rare sight" continued Mr.. Edison. The
automobile carriage is here to stay. 1t is
now practicable and will soon be cheap
enough for general use. Gasoline will be
the motive power, for it is more economical
and a larger supply of it can be carried.
Electric storage batteries are too heavy,
and besides they are not practicable. The
horseless carriage will also hasten the good
roads
DO you think the end Of electrical in
vention has nearly been reached?"
There is no end to anything replied
Mr.. Edison. Man is so finite that he can
not possibly learn one-millioneth part of
what is to be known. He might put in
fifty years ON the study of water alone,
and beyond learning the component parts
of it he would know nothing. Only the
ignorant say we are near the limit in in
X~ention. There is no limit. l believe the
life of man can be prolonged. Man ought
to live to be one hundred years of age.
This can be done by supplying lost tissue
engrafting. We would live longer. but we
abuse ourselves by excuses and indul-
gerCc.O
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THE TOWN OF ILOILo.
An U-nattractive Place Is the Second
City of the Philippines.

Tloilo, the capture of which by the forces
under General Miller has just been an
nounced, is the second most important city
OF the Philippines, and is situated on the
Island of Panay, the most western of the
Visayas group, being distant thirty-six
hours by boat from Manila. Large steam
ers piled between the two cities several
times a week. Its port has excellent condi-
lions, being completely sheltered or screened
by the small island of Guimaras, lying
lengthwise in front Of its entrance. The
other principal islands of the Visayas are
Cebu, Samar. Leyte. Negros and Bohol.
After the opening of the port of Iloilo
to foreign trade III 1855, three years elapsed
before a cargo of sugar was exported, but
to-day it is next to Manila in the amount
of business done, both as a port of dis
tribution to the neighboring Stands and as
a port OF shipment to Europe and America.
1t is claimed that there is no cane so rich
in Saccharine matter as that grown in
these islands. The greater part of the
125.000 tons of sugar shipped from there
annually is carried to this country in sail
ing vessels. Besides sugar there is about
$4,000 worth of pima ca material made
from the fiber of the pineapple leaf export
ed each year. and a good quantity of sapan
ca dye wood) Large quantities of ma
terials made from abaca or hemp (musa
~textilis) are manufactured, but the abaca,
strange to say, is nearly all imported from
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Hoods Pills cure all Liver ills. Is cents.

bill. 1t received the necessary two-thfrds
vote in the House on Saturday and now be-
comes enectlve without the Governors APP
proval.
The Continental Tobacco Company has
purchased OF Louisville Sl3S.3o3 worth OF
revenue stamps. 1t is believed the company
Is preparing to begin its big plunge into
the tobacco market. The great amount OF
stamps purchased by the Tobacco Trust rem
resents an output of 1G 10000 pounds.
Some progress was made yesterday in the
case OF Mrs. Anna r.. George, under indict-
Hlent at canton, O., for the murder of
George ID. Sexton. The court sustained the
prosecuting attorneys demurrer to Mrs.
Georges plea in abatement, and unless some
new dilatory measure is introduced. the case
Will shortly be set for hearing.
Solemn high mass was celebrated at Chi
cago yesterday in honor of the memory of
president Faure of France by Rev. Achilles
~Bergeron, assisted by two other priests. at
Notre Dame Church. The musical pro-
gramme was elaborate and was participated
IN by several members of the Ellis Grand
opera Company. A large audience filled the
church.
State Superintendent of Insurance Mat
lneWs, of Ohio, revoked the license of the
Traders Fire Insurance Company. of Chi
cago, to do business i'm Ohio. on the ground
mat the company had written overhead in
surance on the American strawboard fac
tory at Lima After the license has been
Suspended for ninety days the company may
re-enter business in the State.
AT Cincinnati yesterday Samuel Klein.
~ q ptution III bankruptcy; assets 500
and, liabilities $1S,0G0. Moses Freiberg also
MED a petition in bankruptcy; assets S7O0
shd liabilities $3l5.cOO, Both of these men
were members Of the firm of Freiberg, Klein
q Co, which was doing a whisky business
IN galveston, Tex, several years ago and
which made an assignment n. 1852.
The condition of Louis Gimm. the BIZ
cycllst, who took part in the San Francisco
race, is improving. The rumors of foul play
VIII not down in spite of the assertions OF
me attending physicians that Gimm's con-
altlon was a natural result of exhaustion.
Inc doctors will make a thorough examina-
uon or the patient to ascertain, If possible,
the administration of poisonous drugs.
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S%UFEOCATED HER SON.
Boy Wrapped I'm Blanket and Put I'm a
Trunk by "a Crazy Mother.

FREDERICK. Md. Feb. 21.-Mrs. Clara
Wachter, forty years old, of Lewistown,
twelve miles from this city, was brought TO
this city to-day and surrendered to the po-
lice by her husband. The charge against
her is the murder of her sixteen-year-old
son, Robert r. Lee Wachter. The husband
and father told the story Of the crime. Ar
riying home TO dinner to-day he missed the
bay, who was weak-minded. He could get
no satisfaction from his wife and after a
long search found his body locked in a trunk
in one of the upper rooms of his house. The
mother had wrapped her son tightly in a
blanket and pushed him into the trunk
where he was suffosated. Mrs. Wachter hal
been an inmate oil an insane asylum for a
time, but three years ago was discharged as
cured of her malady.
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j. C. Perry. one Of the Oldest wholesale
grocers in the city. was delightfully."- sur
prised by his associates in business last
night, the occasion being his sixty-fifth
birthday. His son, on some pretext, in
duced Mr.. Perry to so to the German House.
where he was suddenly ushered into a whole
roomful Of friends and acquaintances of the
Wholesale Grocers' and Brokers' Associa-
tons. After the expression of kindly wishes
for Mr.. Perry the party sat down to hand
somely decorated tables In one OF the small
er dining rooms, where covers were laid for
thirty-tWo. During the evening a number
of those present responded to various toasts
and all had . pleasant time. Mr.. Perry was
congratulated on his long and useful BUSH
ness career and there were many hopes ex-
pressed for numerous happy returns of the
dQw
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JUMPED TO ESCAPE FLAMES.
Two Women Fatally Injured and Two
Found Unconscious.

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-Two women were
fatally injured in a boarding house to-day
at $3.50 Michigan avenue. The injured are:
Theresa Boyle, jumped from third-story
window, both legs broken and internal in
juries; Josephine Wright, jumped from
third-story window. internal injuries. Grace
Rockwell and Cecil i. Garrett were rescutI
by firemen in an unconscious condition. A
number of other boarders were compelled to
jump TO save themselves.
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Grated for use by Roman Catholics will be
used only for the burial Of those of that
faith, and will be administered according to
the perpetual laws of that dedication.
Burials subject to the order of parish
priests may be allowed in portions of
grounds not dedicated; for other a suit
able burial ground win be established by
the municipalities.
"2. The existing habit of exhuming bodies
in cemeteries and placing their bones In a
corner, of the cemetery, or some other place,
thus desecrating the dead, will be discon-
tinued. Any violation of this order will re-
suit IN q fine or some other form of punish
ment of the person responsible for the OBJ
SerVanca hereof -
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Another Payne-whitney Baby.

NEW YORK, Feb. IA grandson was
born yesterday to Cornelius Vanderbilt and
former Secretary of the Navy William c.
Whitney. 1t is the child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney. This is the second
child born to the young couple. The first,
q girl. was born July %, 1897, and named
Flora Payne Vanderbilt Whitney. Harry
Payne Whitney and Miss Gertrude lander
bilt were married Aug. %, 1896. The baby
born yesterday represents the fifth genera
tion of the Vanderbilts. counting from
Commodore Vanderbilt down.
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Leslie,s Weekly.

One of the most eminent English physi-
clans has recently declared in a public ad-
dress that epidemic disease, both among
human beings and animals, has always fol-
lowed in the wake of war" He added that
pestilence may not be a necessary sequence
of war, but that the latter brings about
favorable conditions for the spread of any
latent epidemic. The serious ravages of
fever in the army camps of our soldiers in
Mia and Hawaii, all furnish the best proof
of the truth of the London physicians as
sertion. Very sensibly the War Depart
ment has decided not to send our troops
TO occupy any of the camps that has been
abandoned in Cub by the Spanish soldiers.
New camps are to be established under the
ton has everything to do with the mat
ter. For 1900 years the world has been
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RUNNING RECORD BROKEN.
Time for Seven and a Half FurIOngs
Lowered One SecOnd by DunOis.

san FRANCISCO, Feb. 21.-The worlds
record for seven and a half furlongs was
lowered one second by Dunois, ridden by
Jockey H. Martin, in the fifth race at the
Oakland track to-day. The former record
for this distance was held by Mamie Scott,
whose time was 1884, with ninety pounds
up, made on Oct. II, 1895, over the old Bay
District track. Dunois. who is owned by I.
H. Ryan, is by Imp. t1orist-Beckey B.. He
carried 1O5 pounds and covered the distance
in 1.22L-
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FIVE MINERS KILLED.
Mangled by an Explosion of Dynamite
in an COIIiery.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. 21-In entry
No. 18, mine No. 2, at Blocton to-day a gang
of five miners driving the entry were killed
by a dynamite explosion. The dead are: r.
l.. Davenport and W.. w. Davenport, white;
Robert Cureton, Mark Dooley and Joe Car
penter, colored. Assistant State Mine In
spector John Duncan, who was in Blocton,
and Assistant Frank Culberhouse examined
the place. Had the accident happened later
the fatality would have been very great.
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PURE BEER BILL.
New DO Not Want Their Lager
AduIterated with EXTRACTS"

ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 2t.-The public
health committee of the Assembly created a
sensation in legislative circles tonight by
reporting the pure food bill in an amended
form with a new section which is virtually
the pure beer bill introduced by Senator
Coggeshall. The section added reads: Nor
shall any substitute for hops or pure ex-
tracts of hops be used in the brewing of
fermented liquors. Still another amend
ment increases the penalty for every viola
ton from 500 to $1,000 in each instance.
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NEW YORK. Feb. ARRIVED: Pomeran-
ian. from Glasgow. Sailed: Nomadic, for
Liverpool; Lahn, for Bremen; Norge, for
Copenhagen.
ANTWERP, Feb. 2O-Arrived: Westerns
land, from New York.
ROTTERDAM. Feb. 2L-Arrived: Edam,
from New York.
BOSTON, Feb. 21.-Arrived: Cephaionia,
from Liverpool.
BREMEN. Feb. ~1S.-sailed: Dresden, for
Baltimore.
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possible fifty:
GouIette Got the Decision.

HAMILTON, Ont, Feb. 21.-Kid Goulette,
of Rochester, defeated Luke Stevens, of
Buffalo. at the Grand Opera House tonight.
The fight was tame for twelve rounds,
Goulette having the better of it. In the
eighteenth round Goulette jabbed hard with
his left and followed with a right on the
stomach. Stevens went down, got up and
cried with pain, claiming that he had thrown
his left shoulder out. The referee stopped
the bout and gave Goulette the decision.
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ITS CAPITAL $780, 900.
Car and Foundry Company
Incorporated.

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 21.-Articles of in
corporation were filed with the secretary
of state to-day of the American Car and
Foundry Company, with an authorized capt.
tai of $60,0O0,OOO. one half of which is to be
preferred stock, with z per cent. noncumula-
tive dividend. The company is authorized to
manufacture freight, passenger and street
cars, also car trucks and car equipments.
The incorporators are: Adrian H. Larkin,
Jersey City; +. 7. Patton, jr, Jersey City,
and William II. Toin, also Jersey City.
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Another Combination Proposed.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 2.-The Association of
Iron and Steel Sheet Manufacturers will
meet here tomorrow to consider a prop
Osition to form a combination. The volume
of business in this line is larger than ever
before in the history of the industry and
prices have been advanced Sc a ton for black
sheets and $40 a ton for galvanized.
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A WOOD ALCOHOL
Three California Miners Dead and
Others Expected to Die.

HOOPER, Col, Feb. 21.-Three miners are
dead and two others sick at Blanca mining
camp from drinking wood alcohol. The
dead are: Jim B~owerman, John r. Himer
pected to die: John Bowerman and Lewis
Goodwin. Half a dozen others are more
or less affected.