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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-05-22
Nebraskans to Take a Rest.
RECEIVED FROM OTIS.

rr,,,;,,s Gonna 70 Consult With tho
Philippine Commission.
WASHINGTON. May 22.-Ihe follow
ing dispatch has been received at the
war department:
Commissioners Of Aguinaldo have
arrived. Wish to consult United States
commission which they will do. Their
power limited and apparently armistice
condition precedent to negotiation.
Aguinaldo asks cessation OF hostlnties
to ascertain desires Filipino people.
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|'Aa', although the principle OF secresy
Should be maintained. communications
|nish, be made through the press bu'
iau, subject to the approval OF the
President. This was also adopted.
At the conclusion of the conference
N. De Staal, Sir Julian Pauncefote. the
British ambassador at Washington,
head Of the British delegation. and the
United States ambassador mt Berlin. MI.
Andrew ID. White, head Of the American
delegation. with several Of the other
eMet delegates, returned to The hague
'or lunch. But, NJ. Bourgeois. former
Nelnier Of France and head OF the
French delegation, and almost all the
second technical delegates, who form
part Of committees, remained Mt tine
house in the woods" to draw up certain
lists. They were occupied also with the
@ganlzation Of the committees.
The proceedings passed of withou'
any incident; only the president spoke
'le others manifesting their approoa'
aon by slight, discreet murmurs.
Arbitratiss shs Keynote.
1t was learned during the day that NJ
ue staal placed the question OF medita
non and arbitration in the fore front II
the Proceedings. The question OF law
l.ehdering war az humane as possible o!
TIE extension Of the regulations alread!
existing. was then touched upon by tn
President. who relegated the question
" =. the reduction of armaments to Tn
third place.
This modifies the order In which tn
.aree points were placed In the circula
" the Russian minister Of foreign -
'a'rs, Count Murayief. but 1t has IN
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merit or corresponding more closely to
the views Of the delegates, and it is
now considered certain that meditation
and arbitration will have the chief place
in the work of the conference. Further
the opinion is unanimous that the
American and British delegates will
take the most important part in the
study of this question.
The conference decided that all dele
gates, including the technical represen.
tatives, are to participate in the sittingS
and JON IN the discussions.
The date of the next session has no,
yet been fixed. 1t depends upon tn,
progress which Will be made by the
committees.
NJ. de Staal announced that the gov
crnment Of the Netherlands would Civ,
an artistic fcte on June i6. in honor o
the conference.
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COLONEL kOBBE'S EXPEDITION
successful Progress Up the Rio Grande.
Natives Feared Massacre.

succes.ful Progress Up the Rio Grande.
Natives Feared Massacre.
MANILA, May 22.-7:5O a. m.-Colonel
Kobbes expedition up the Rio Grande
river met with no resistance except at
the outskirts of San Luis, where several
hundred Filipinos were entrenched OH
the banks of the stream. The rebels re-
treated beyond Candaba and the gun.
boats steamed ahead, all the way train
ing their Gatling guns upon the banks
and dropping shells wherever uniforms
anpeared on the shore. The gunboats
dispersed the insurgents before San
Luis. After they had passed, sharp
ahooters from trees across the river a
hundred yards distant, harassed the
seventeenth infantry which was march
F., ing by fours along the narrow. wooded
road. from which the troops were un-
able to see the enemy. The members OF
one battalion laid on their faces in the
road for quarter of an hour trying 70
locate the riflemen and return their lre.
Two Americans were wounded.
The road wound close to the stream,
and was thickly settled. 1t was pic
turesaue march. Many groups OF hun
dreds Of natives were clustered under
the trees on the opposite banks. dis
plaving white shirts, towels, sheets OF
anything white, on poles. Some shouted
Welcomes to the American soldiers, but
lmost Of them maintained , sullen 81
lence. A.,
ltroona two miles outside OF the town
He said: 81 have lived in England ant
! have told the people that the Amer'
cans are like the English, and that the!
need not be afraid"
Half Afraid of Massacre.
y Cantain Grant, in command OF tn
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HERON CONTROVERSY.

No Action Taken by the Iowa Congrega-
t:0nal Association.
ATLANTIC. Ia. May 22-At the ses-
sion Of the Iowa Congregational asso-
citation the fight that has been brewing
against Professor Heron. the professor
of Applied Christianity at Iowa college.
came on in earnest and resulted in a
victory for the friends Of the college,
who were here to see that no action be
taken upon the Heron controversy. It
was not accomplished, however. until
the fact that there was strong sentl-
ment against the professor and his
teachings had been brought out.
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BRIEF SESSION
|ut in Its half Hour Sitting the
Programme of the Peace
Conference
| Materially Altered.--M. de Staal
Advances Mediation to First
Place.
lplcgatcs Reduction of Arma.
mcu,s to Third Place in the
Discussions.
avs Making War as Humane as
Possible Secondary Only to
Mediation.

Tur HAGUE. May 22-The second sit
k,- Il the peace conference lasted 35
IlAa,e~.
The PRESIDENT Of the conference. Baron
l. >,aal read the replies Of the car
hi pseen Wilhelmina TO the kilograms
~, them by the conference on
thursday The president then ad-
Ere,,.d the delegates on the subject OF
h. lau5rs before them. and it was de-
k.ae.l Mt to publish the speech.
The PRESIDENT proposed the adoption
!; arrangements for the committees,
Ea.ch was agreed TO without discus
]. i. Baron de Staal further proposed
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QUEENSLAND HURRICANE.
Nearly Four Hundred Lives Lost oy tho
Recent storms.


VICTORIA, B. c., May 2s.-Shortly
before the lust arrived steamer Miowera
lef, sydney for this port, the cutter
Mystery returned to Cooks Town from
The scene of the recent disaster by hur'
ricane on the North Queensland coast.
bv which practically every vessel en-
rared in the pearl fishery was wrecked,
and much property lost at'oat ana
ashore. The sights that met the eyes oi
the relief expedition along the desolatea
coast were horrifying beyond descrip'
tion. In one place, where picturesque
fishing village with a popula tion OF aoo
had stood, neither house nor tree nor
living thing was left. The site OF the
little settlement looked like new plowea
land and the survivors among the nshei
fo,l had fed for safety to an lnland
town u miles distant. There ana 1uf.
th.r along the coast mangled bodies OF
NO, and domestic animals were found
several were rescued with some am
cnltv. wedged in the branches OF trees
that had detied the storm. where the!
hol heen blown from distances as grea'
- ouarter of mile. The Mystery
of,;cers and crew recovered III al o
bellies Of which Is were identihed an'
claimed by mourning relatives. or tn
remaining 40. 86 were natives wnoo'
remains were given respectable ouf'a
in one great trench. , g.,
The Mystery party found large ms, IS,
| ,.,-.,,o "a and 40 feet above higl
water level, and. trees and vegeta.lo'
,sveled for upwards Of SO miles alon'
the coast. An official report says 'ns as
s8 vessels were wrecked and tha' 0'
neople lost their lives.
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NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. May 22.-
Special Agent Charles E. Lewis Of the
United States treasury department has
arrested Thomas Emberson of New
York. Customs officers here say he has
smugaled millions Of dollars worth OF
lace over the border in the last 1Oyears.
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FINAL STAGE OF REVISION.

Court Of Cassation summoned to Meet
May IS on the Dreyfus Case.
PARIS, May 22.-The members OF the
court of cessation have been summoned
to meet on May 90. for the final stages
Of the revision of the Dreyfus trial.
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x.As hx van Wyck.

Nrw YoRK, May ea.-Mayor van
u,.,or has vetoed tho bipartisan elec'
49, 49, h;ll' The bill provided for the
."n.,.t;on .'v" Of the bureau of elections
sep",,,h,e sspsn the nolice department and the ap-
no;ntment of a bipartisan comm.ss'o,, saas. ~
- 1onr 10 have charge Of the conduc. Oh
s,.ot;ons The mayor gave no reasons
Aor hic action.
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MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, NAY p, 1899.
REDMOND co. TONIGHT
:" ss"s':s' %"s'':s" Coined, "r1yrtle Ferns. -

gunDOat,. landed before the troops ar |
rived and met with a Porto Rican'
welcome. The natives, who had assem-
bled on the shore, crowded about the
Americans with fulsome expressions Of !
friendship, apparently half afraid that
they would be massacred.
Captain Grant quickly distributed
the men from the gunboat La Guna de
Bay to guard the town, and the natives
sent messenger to tell the people, who
had taken refuge in the swamps to re-
turn Hundreds Of the natives there
upon returned timidly, man with an
improvised flag of truce flying from a
bamboo pole preceding each party.
A Capuchin priest, one Of the few
whom Filipinos had not imprisoned,
was found at Candaba. He said it was
/ useless to try to convince the natives the
| Americans had not come to Cypress them,
as they believed their leaders, who had
strongly impressed this belief upon
them. and who have been told stories Of
mas>acres, rape and Filipino victories.
The walls of the towns We're placardsd
with the reports of the slaughter of
| Americans. hundreds, Of whom were
said 10 have been taken prisoners.
| Rice Stores Raided.
As soon as Major, Kobbe reached San
Lula the natives raided the insurgents
rice stores. All day stream of half
nakel people emerged from the store
house IL the manner Of ants, rushing to
their houses with bags Of rice on their
heads,
| On Thursl night body of rebels
returned to San Luis. and burned part
OF tbs town. Lieutenant Cunningham,
with q signal corps party. engaged in
running telegraph line. was camped
near the place. Major kobbe sent the
, army sunboat Cavadonga there nd
found the party today in the town.
| The Rio Irande. since Major kobbe
started. has been the highway for the
. exoil> of the natives. and today there
!, is a continuous procession Of thatched
canoes. with white flags. drifting dowl
! the river and containing whole tamllle:
I Of -wenty to thirty persons, With thell
e household goods and animals on board
: , Thousands of these boats have passe'
the army gunboats.
j Nebrask ans to Take Rest.
i The Nebraska regiment marche'
;, from San Fernando to Calumpit tor
) 30 days rest. The regiment numo Der
q about 800 weather beaten veterans. Nv
i, of the companies are mere squads am
9 their battered cant Gems and shiny clothe
= show unmistakeable marks OF roug
= campaigning. But the soldiers ar
. happy. Several of them dropped by tn
way from the heat but when the
Il boarded the special train at Calumpi'
bound for Manila. they yelled hk
!e school boys and the other troops wel
IL to their stations and cheered heartily.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
Brew TsEH

What is the matter with General
Wheeler? He hurrahs for expansion,
for land-grabbing, is anxious to help
kill the ~Filipinos, but has never united
with any camp of Confederate Vet
Grams as a member? Has he become
Yankeeized like Longstreet?
The rich Astor, grandson of the old
German trader, now lives in England
and seeks the society of the nobility.
Bill is smart. He has got $3.50, 900 off
his New York taxes and returning
scores his former country. Well, this
Empire can dc without him and all his
kidney.
A negro in Virginia shot a white man.
In Mexico they are just like they are
in Indiana and Illinois and other north
ern states, they kill negroes for rape.
On the 23rd instant sever were killed.
The Peace Conference sit with closed
doors. They desire to keep their own
secrets.
Great Britain is steadily strengthen
ing it's navy. 1t has SO increased it
that it will fully equal the navies of
any other two great power Britain
MIA still rules the waves"
The Cubans look as if they were
spilin' for a fight" Uncle Sam will
have to get his gun yet, it may be, to
spread his blessings over those who
do not hunger for them.
There is talk that the government
Will begin to issue by the thousands
five dollar and two-and-a-half dollar
gold pieces.
One Matthias Steingruber, of Fos-
toria, Ohio, was thrown from his horse
in a charge in the Mexican war and
lost his mind. That was in 1916. Only
the other day an accidental blow On his
head restored his mind and he saw
| around him strange things. He marvel
led at what he saw
Iu 1898 electric railways transported
1850, 600, 900 passengers. There was
one loss of life to every 23, 00O, 900 car
ried. Since 1898 the number of horses
in this country has declined 2, 300, 900 and
| electric motors have done it.
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Wilmington Low Price Sales at the Racket Store, Opposite the
Orion Hotel, Near the Post Office.

Fifty dozen Percal Laundered Shirts
with two collars and one pair separate
cuffs, all at 35c. Twelve dozen Gents
fine Silk Pleated Bosom White Shirts,
worth $3.50, my price 75c. Ten dozen
Gents damaged White Shirts, sCld from
s1.00 to s1.50, now Csc each.
Forty dozen Gents fine Oth's Bal
briggan Undervest and Pants, cheap at
SOC, row 39c each.
Fifty dozen Ladies White Bleached
Vests, with lace and tape trimmed sack
and sleeve-, worth zoe, now 10c. Ladies
tape Vest Sleeve ard Neck, for Sc, reg
ular price 10c.
One hundred Tape Sailors, bee utiful
goods, regular price $3.50, new CSC.
Sixty-seven new colored rough straw
Sailors, worth 75c, nov SOC.
One hundred punches of fine large
Roses, wc1t tn soc, now zoe.
$500 worth of fine Millinery samples,
new Hats, new Flowers, new Baby
Caps end Bonnets at half price.
$50 bell crown black and white fine
fancy Sailors, cheap at Csc, now. this
week, at zoe. ~ white low crown Jaun-
ty brim Sailors, worth SOC, now 25c.
$50 yards Of SeCilian, in colors, fresh
light blue, old rose, cream and olive
green; the goods are As inches wide,
and has been sold by Arnold Con-
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livered in Boston was doubly signifi-
cant. That city was the parent of
the anti-slavery agitation. 1t was in
New England thai the fires against
the practice were famed into white
heat by Harriet Beecher Stoves
book, Uncle Toms Cabin 1t was
there that william Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Phillips and others first made
the fight, which eventually resulted in
civil war. Boston, a typical northern
city. always has been h center Of
agitation in favor of the negro.
"Since the burning Of Sam Hose at
the stake, innumerable local organiza-
tons and societies have sent out pro-
tests and concentrations OF the south,
and Georgia in particular. Many of
the resolutions and speeches have been
as incorporate as the widest mag
nations of those IT the south. There
fore, the 81 h CT Ex-Governor Nor
then answ~ these criticisms was so
significant that it extracted the at
tention of all advanced thinkers.
Some of the points made by the
southern speaker in his argumenta-
tive and impassioned speech caused
his hearers to vince. Critical Boston
does not like to be criticised, and when
the speaker practically said that 'Un-
Gle TOMS Cabin was a lie, made out
Of the whole cloth. there was sad
ness and mutterings, for Mrs. Stowe Is
one Of the idols of the Puritan city,
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was already SO addicted he could not
stop. The staunch enemy Of the Gig
arctic business n curse, The Dan
vile Cva-) Farrago, said in its last Is
sue, and it is well worth copying and
circulating:
And when the good ladies OF Char
iotte progress far enough with their
work to show that good can be ac-
complished, it is hoped that good women
elsewhere will take up the crusade, for
God knows that the poisonous cigarette
is the one overshadowing evil of this
fair land Of ours, wors-many times
worse than whiskey with its de-
b~acuheIy, its vice n rags.
Cigarettes claim youth as their vic
tims-shackle reason before it is of age
or has had q chance to ~mature-while
whiskey, which is bad enough, but robs
youth of food and c~lothing-and leaves
at least the hope that the intellect is
not enthralled. Not so with the coffin
nails called cigarettss-they tear from
the guardians arms the infant child
and debauch and deform and pollute IL
while it is yet irresponsible before the
law.
Look at the wrecks in any town and
any street. The blight is frightful-the
trail of this modern serpent is not t.
be mistaken"
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BOA RDS OF
Conference of State and Provincial
Boards Discusses Questions of Trans>
porting Dead Bodies and Extermina.
ting Smallpox

Richmond, Va, May 24.-The nation
al conference of state and provincial
boards of health, of North America,
which has been in session in this city
for the past two days, adjourned this
afternoon, after discussing all the pa
pers which had been assigned to the
various physicians, and electing officers
for the next twelve months. The ques-
ton of a time and place for the next
meeting was left to a committee.
The body had a number Of important
papers before it for discussion, but
probably the most important discus
siOns of the day were on the subjects
of How Best to Transport Dead Bod
les" and How to Exterminate or Cope
with Smallpox.
1t wa shown that during last winter
there was an epidemic of smallpox
throughout the country-nOrth, south
and west-and the fear was expressed
that unless atcive and vigorous steps
were taken the lOathsOme disease would
appear in more virulent form next win
ter.
The point which has SO frequently
been missed by those opposed to vac
cination, that the virus was harmful to
the system was generally c~Ontroverted,
and the speakers asserted that vacci-
nation was not dangerous, but an ex-
cellent preventive.
A section of the bylaws providing
that the annual conference should be
held coincidentally with the sessions
of the American Public Health Associ-
alton was vigorously opposed, and was
laid over for another year. The annual
dues of each state were increased from
SIS each to $40, and other minor changes
were made.
Following are the officers elected:
President, DIR. U. 0. B. Wingate, OF
Milwaukee,; vice-president, DR.. Probst,
of Ohio; secretary, DR.. j. N. Hurry, OF
Indianapolis Ca re-election); treasurer,
DR.. Eleazar Polletier, Of Montreal "a
re-election.)
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The Charleston News and Courier
seeing so much of injury to youth arts
ing from the abuse of the cruel ciga-
rette, says that excessive smoking Of
cigarettes is highly injurious, as "ev-
cry physician and every smoker of long
experience who has ever smoked to ex-
cess, we'll knows. And we are unre-
servedly of the opinion that habitual
indulgence, to any extent, in cigarette
smoking, on the part of boys, amounts
to excess in their case, n means
certain injury to them in the degree to
which it is practiced. We strongly ia
vor, therefore, every proper mean that
can be employed for the suppression of
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
AN AFFAIR
A Negro WOman's lnsolent Tongue
Causes a Murder. the " OundiDg OF
Several Persons and the Probability
of Two Lynch1ngs.

Oliver, Ca, May 24.-It now develops
that the tragedy which resulted in the
killing of Frank Evans and h wound
ing of J. B. Proctor, who is not expect
ed to live, by Sam Perry, a notorious
negro, last night near Cameron, was
the result of the ~impudence of Perry's
wife, who was vilely abusing Mr.. Proc
tors children and cursing white folks"
in general.
Frank Evans, who heard the woman,
stepped UP and offered resentment. As
he did so, Perry, the woman'S husband,
rushed out Of the house with a drawn
revolver and began shooting at Evans.
Evans fell at the first shot and died
without a groan.
At this juncture Mr.. Proctor appear
ed on the scene and vas shot down in
his tracks, two shots entering his body.
Mr.. Proctor'S son was also shot at, but
not hit. Thomas Lee, another promi-
nent citizen, rushed in and was shot
but not seriously. Perry began to re-
load his pistol, but before he could do
so, Brown Evans, a brother of the muir
dered man, appeared and said at the
top of his voice: He has killed my
only brother and 1 will kill him if it
takes me a life time"
The negro ran, and though shot at
by the posse who had gathered, es-
caped to the woods. The negro woman
had already escaped during the ex-
element.
The woman was captured this after
noon in a swamp ear Halcyonville,
and it is not improbable that she will
be lynched- She was trying to join her
husband when captured. He is still at
large, but is being closely pursued by
a large posse, and if captured will be
lynched and probably burned.
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The Boston women, or some of them,
are more fanatical and fierce than the
men are. They do not sympathize in
the least with the hundreds of outrag-
ed white women in the south, but they
are sickened almost to death over the
awful 1ynchings of their black friends
in the cruel and vengeful south. They
deserve prompt medical attention. They
are either threatened with a collapse
of nerves, %neuritis or ~hydrophobia Or
some other awful disease. They held
a meeting, pow-wowed, gabbled and
protested against the barbarisms of
ly~nching." But not one word of pity
for the helpless white women who were
so savagely assaulted and despoiled.
One poor little ignoramus abused the
south for still believing in the cause
Of the south and mouthed about ere
bellion." There are two things the
fanatics cannot forgive the south for
for licking their armies so often, and
for their own blunders, crimes and per-
solutions against the south.
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stable, New York, all the season, whole
sale, for $1.15: my price for these goods,
bought from them at their closing out
sale, now 59c. They are as fine as any
Goods as ever shown in the city, and
If you need q fine dress at less than
half price call and Gee them or write
for samples and send stamp for them.
1000 yards of fine new Shirt Waist
Silk, bought al a closing out sale.
Goods sold for s1.00, now 75c; goods
sold for goo, now 65c; goods sold for
75c, now Coo. 80 inch China Silk at soc.
All colors washable Silk at soc. Change
able silk at Csc, 39c and soc.
200 Summer Coats and Vests from
35c to $3.50. 1000 fine summe Suits from
s1.9S to $1,000.
5000 Mems Hats from 1oc 10 $3.50
each.
/ want your trade We buy bar
gains for the cash and we sell bargains
for the same. We offer as a premium
for a $500 purchase a set OF glass
ware; for a $1,000 purchase a set of
fine gilt China plates; for a $500 pur-
chase we give a set Of cups and eau
GERS or a fine center table; for a S25.O
purchase we give a handsome table or
a book case or a fine arm rocking
chair. Come and see us and get your
card punched with every cash pur-
chase at the Racket Store.