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REPORT OF MAI. BELL.
Hazardous Service in Clearing the
jungle of EilipinO Sharpsh00ters:

Jungle of Filipino SharpShoOters
Some of the most Hazardous and weari-
some service seen by the American troops
in the Philippines was that which fell to
the lot of the soldiers posted along the
proaches to the waterworks. They were
not only obliged to be ready to meet at
tacks from the insurgents at all hours of
the day and night, but suffered greatly
from the sharpshooters who were conceal
ed in the thick cover on the side of the
river opposite to the positions Of the Amer
leans.
Mai. J. F. Bell of the engineers, who was
for some time in charge of the office of
military information under Otis command,
tells the story of one of the successful eff
forts of the Americans to clear out a nest
of such Filipinos, in report which the
War Department has just made public in
connection with the original report of Maj.
Gen. Macarthur Maj. Bells report is
dated March l, at Manila. He was directed
to cross the Pasig river to Its north bank,
opposite the American headquarters at San
Pedro Macati, to scour the north bank as
far south as the mouth Of the San Mateo
river, and to find and drive out certain in
surgent troops and sharpshooters. He was
afterward to fall on the right flank of an
other body of insurgents which had taken
up a position on the south bank Of the
Pasig about half way between Guadalupe
he took Companies NJ and X of the Wash
ington volunteers, consisting of 121 men
and five officers.
The first movement was made without
hitch, owing to the careful observation
made In person by Maj. Bell Of the ground
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over which the American troops had to adj
vance, and the insurgents were taken by
surprise and driven eff, with the loss of
two dead and three badly wounded. The
country was difficult to traverse. being
badly cut up and densely wooded. The in
sUrgent wounded were shipped to the Ma
Mia hospital The second movement was
equally successful, and as Maj. Bell had
carefully located the insurgent force the
preceding day, he was enabled to place his
own men at the most effective positions.
The insurgents stood their ground for twen-
ty minutes, and the report states they re-
turned the fire of the Americans with as
hot fire as they had experienced. They
were finally driven off, however, leaving
nine dead and three badly wounded men
on the field. The Washington troops lost
two men killed, one from each company
Maj. Bell pays a high compliment to the
brigade surgeon, Maj. g. F. Shields. He
says that instead of following in the rear,
the surgeon. of his own accord. accom-
panied him (BelD in the front, and remain
ed there during the afternoon, giving aid
to the wounded insurgents. When the
wounded were sent back he secured a gun
and used 1t to good purpose in the SUISSE
quent fighting. Says Maj. Bell: He con-
Quoted himself in a ccura geous and SOL
dierly manner throughout both engage
ments."
Prof. George F. Becker of the geological
survey also accompanied Maj. Bell, having
been with him in two preceding engage
ments. OF him the report says: His con-
duct throughout the afternoon was char
acteriZed, as 1t always is, by cool and cour-
ageous conduct. He was always in the
front of the fight with the men, and rem
X to a position at which I desired them to
await my coming"
Maj Ben further says that Corps. Alex
ander SeliG, Company NJ. and Otto Haught-
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PASSENGERS ON KAISER WILHELM.
Duke DAreos. New Spanish Minister
and Other N0tabies

Among those who arrived at New York
yesterday on the North German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse from
southampton were fifty-seven passengers
OF the American line steamer Paris, which
ran ashore on the coast of England May
Il Other passengers on board the Kaiser
were: The Duke d'Arcos, Spanish ambas-
sador to the United States; Duchess Ar
CO.'S Miss Julia Dent Grant Mr. and Mrs
Potter Palmer. w. G. Max Muller secre-
tary of the British legation at Washington;
Juan Riano, secretary of the Spanish Legal
ton at Washington; Gen. George b. Will
liams, Col. James n. Wheelan Sth United
States Cavalry, and Lieut.. c. H. Hazeltine.
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SUICIDE AFTER CENTURY RUN.
BrooI>I4n BicycIist Takes Poison to
Relieve His Suffering.

The New York World of today says:
Harry Aubrey, eighteen years old of No.
1872 Douglas street, Brooklyn, committed
suicide by poison last night after making a
century run on his bicycle.
He was devoted to the wheel and often
made three century runs week. Lately
he had been treated for appendicitis, and
the doctors advised him To leave his wheel
alone But he went out at 6 am. yester-
day and rode until $3.50 o'clock.
His brotl er then got him home He fell
in a faint and was pitt to bed. 1t is not
known how he got the carbolic acid he
took.
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DEWEY WILL SAIL JUNE 5.
The Admiral Gives His Estimate of
Lieut.. HObson.

A special cablesTan to the New York
World from Hong Kong yesterday says:
Admiral Dewey. on the olympia, will sail
from this port June 5.
The vessel will call first at Singapore,
where she is expected TO arrive June II.
and will remain there two or three days.
Admiral Dewey, speaking of the Merri-
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ington of Company K attracted his atten-
ton by especially cool and courageous con-
duct He has no doubt that many others
behaved in an efficient and fearless man
Eer, but regrets that his attention to the
responsibilities Of his position prevented
him from observing them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-31

Patient-"And what do you think of my
case, doctor?"
Young Physician-"Oh, am perfectly de-
lighted with it. l have learned more from
three weeks attendance on you than did
in all my two years reading. If you only
last two days longer / shall become quite
an authority, I'm sureii-Ht-Bits
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Z q =

For use in indicating when the firemen
have reached the fire with the nozzle and
desire the water turned on an electric sig
ma! mas been patented, composed of a wire
inserted in the hose. with a push button In
each length TO complete the circuit and ring
q bell on the engine.
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not be as largely attended as was at first
thought. The leaders In the movement
gave indication today that they fear
failure. A circular letter issued by the
committee on arrangements denouncing
in most vehement language certain labor
leaders who it is claimed, at the instance
of Senator Hanna and other republicans,
have cOnSpired to break the meeting up.
Now that the anti-Hanna republicans of
this county have chosen a contesting dele
cation, another congressional district viii
be taken out of the committee creden-
tails, and that committee, as 1t will be COM
posed when it takes up and settles the con-
tests for seats, will be composed of only
seventeen members. Senator Hanna loses
a district If the contest is recognized, and
will be two short of majority in this i'm
portant committee
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The Woman Who Was and the
Woman Who Is.

Mrs. M F. Long of LeIoup, Franklin County, Kans,
words cnnno how grateful your kind advice
and good medicines have been poor health
my life In the years grew and years ago
poorly could hardly drag around consulted Specialist and
he said had uceaton and that operation would have
performed At last Pierce asking advice
got helpful answer advising try his medicines
vore Prescription Golden Medical Discovery and also his
Pleasant Pellets bought two bottles of the Favote
scrpon two of the Discovery and walls of the Pellets
and began taking Favorte Prescription and the other med
advised When commencing weighed IIoH pounds
and after taking bottle of each like
month gained eight pounds After taking bottles of
each of the medicines named, began to look like and
not like wasted skeleton That weary tired feeling all left me-
and did though life worth living, and that had
been snached from the grave and would live good old age
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The Conventions Program.

The convention will meet at 2:30 pm.
Thursday by congressional districts to Sc
lect members of the various convention
committees and members of the state CEN
trail committee, and at 4 pm the conven-
ton proper will be cal ed to order in the
Columbus Auditorium. 1t is likely that no
names will be presented to the convention
until Friday morning.
There will be nominated by the eonVen-
ton besides q candidate for governor, a
lieutenant governor, supreme judge, state
treasurer, state auditor, attorney general
and member of the state board of public
works; but the question of nomination for
governor completely overshadows all the
other offices to be filled.
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There are grave dangers of an open rup-
ture in the convention and party strife
that will lead to defeat at the polls. All
factions of the party are loyal to President
Mckinley, however. ard the platform that
will be adopted will be, in any event all
that I'D be wished by the most ardent
friends and admirers of the President.
Looking over the convention before It
meets, one cannot doubt that the anti-Han
ma element is in the majority. The faction
that was led in its opposition to Senator
Hanna in the senatorial contest by Charles
l.. Kurtz does not seem TO have grown at
all. but large section has been split off
from the following which the senator had
in that struggle by his disposition to dictate
too much from Washington as to who
should get the party nominations.
H. NJ. Daugherty, row one Of the leading
candidates for the nomination for governor
before this cow ention, led the protest
against the senator's course. Daugherty
was then looking forward to this nominal
ton ard saw, or thought he saw, that SEN
ator Hanna was planning to throw the
honor to either Col. Dick or Judge George
K. Nash Dick has since become a member
of Congress and retired from the field, but
Judge Nash is out a candidate for the
nomination, and Enthusiastically has the sup
port of Senator Hanna.
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Lgo, said of Lieut.. Hob

son:
J like him. He Is a brave man, dignife,
and modest The trouble about Hobson i
that he takes life too seriously and is bash
full"
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ton.
Outcome is in Doubt.
That the outcome of the convention

That the outcome of the convention is
decidedly in doubt is indicated by the fact
that no one, not even the boomers Of the
candidates will bet on their candidates
against the field except with odds of from
5 to 900 per cent in favor of the individual
candidates With the increasing intensity
of the fight, the springing of dark horses
goes and eX-Representative w. {.
Cooper of Mount Vernon is among the sug-
gestions of this morning.
f. S. Monnett, present attorney general,
announces himself as a candidate for nom
ination for a third term AS he has been
prominently identified with the antitrust
movement, getting before the convention
in this way may, if the antitrust feeling
there is strong, result in his nomination
for governor after all.
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printing on it. Address, DR. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y
Free! On receipt of stamps to defray expense Of
mailing only, will send DR.. Perce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser containing 1908 pages This book will
prove constant friend and wise counselor to every
woman Send onecent stamps for book in paper COW
ers or 81 stamps in cloth binding. Address above
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Daugherty and Nash Lead.

bauSneTtS ana N0Sn Lead.
Daugherty and Nash are the leading can
didates for the nomination. There is a large
field. however made up principally of ia
vcrte sons. Few of them can control
more than their own congressional districts
Divided up among many candidates no
one has nearly enough votes to nominate,
the case stands. But Charles l.. kurtZ
as the leader of the anti-Hanna faction.
controls about 13J delegates. which, with
the strength that DaEgherty has, would
easily control the convention. 1t seems
hardly possible that two such hostile lead
ers of one year ago should join forces now:
but stranger things than this have hap
peneJ In politics. one hears ii repeated
about the hotels here frequently that there
is now a complete understanding between
Kurtz and Ddugherty to act together
all questions where they can by so doing
defeat the wishes of Senator Hanna.
Daugherty and Kurtz themselves deny that
thc .c is any alliance made. and the circum-
staEt-al evidence is all in support of this
The question seems to resolve itself into
this: Has EauCherty the courage to con-
tinue the fight he has began against Sena-
tor Hanna to the bitter end, and join hands
with the old anti-Hanna faction under
Kurt in the convention, or will he see that
though possibly detected, he will still be
under the wing of the senator ana the ma
tiCnal adm, nistratioa? If he does not Join
hands with the anti Hanna faction it is
clear that all he can hope to accomplish is
to make deadlock in the convention If
an alliance is not arranged before the con-
ventiOn opens there will be little chance of
IT afterward, for Senator Hanna will give
them little time for it He will force them
to play BALI right along.
Foraker Displaced by Kurtz.
Foraker seems to have been wholly dis
placed as the leader of his old faction by
kurtZ. The senator seems to have lost too
much of his old fighting qualities to suit
the faction. He has become quite a COM
promser in politics now. Possibly il is in
duced by q desire not to stir up trouble for
himself when he comes up for reelection a
few years hence. Foraker is to be here
but the time of his coming has not been an
nounced, and, indeed, little importance
seems to be attached to it. No one expects
that he Will take up the management OF
the anti-Hanna fight.
Senator Hanna will be here Wednesday,
HIS headquarters will be at the Neil House
and the fact that George B. Cox. the Gin
cinnati boss, had an adjoining suite was
interpreted some time ago to mean that
Hanna was to have Cox's support but now
that e. o. Eshelby, Senator Hanna's GIN.
cinnati representative, has instigated q con
test against Coxs delegation that view of
it is changed.
Ex-senator Sherman will not be here A
special from Mansfield gives an interview
with him, in which he makes the state
ment definitely.
The indications now are that the state
labor convention to be held here tomorrow
and which was supposed to be intended as
a boom to the independent nomination of
Mayor Jones OF Toledo for governor, will
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BUSHNELL FOR ORR
Ohio Governor Declares His Prefer
enee in Gubernatorial Fight.
DARK HORSES SPRINGING UP
Grave Danger of a Rupture in the
Convention.
MEANS DEFEAT AT POLLS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

COLUMBUS. Ohio, May 30, 1899
The two most important developments In
the republican state convention today are
the declaration of Gov. Bushnell for Col. w.
P. Orr of Pi9ua for governor, and the selec-
ton of contesting anti-Hanna delegation
by majority of the republican central COM
mittee of this county. The latter had been
threatened by the opponents of Judge Nash,
but the Hanna managers did not believe a
majority of the committee could be induced
to join in the movement. OF the thirty
eight members twenty-one took part in
meeting last night which selected the new
delegation.
1t will be contended by these delegates
that they are regular, and those selected
by the same COMMITTEES two months ago are
not because the call for the state conven-
ton had not then been issued. Strictly con-
strued. CT course. this is correct, but the
custom of selecting delegates in that way
has been honored by long observance and
never before questioned in Ohio. 1t renders
uncertain one congressional district hither-
to regarded as certain for Hanna, and
weakens him a the start to that extent.
Judge Nashs candidacy is affected then
to Il greater degree, for without his own
county delegation he cannot hope to stand
high in the convention Il candidate for
governor.
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Col. Orr on Governors StmH.

Col Orr, for whom Gov. Bushnell has de-
clarCd, is il member of his staff, and while
loyal to The governor in his fight against
Hanna. has never offended the other fac
tion. 1t is reported here that President
Mckinley has assured Col. Orr that his
nomination would be acceptable to him.
Gel. or Is Il lrotheT-lE-iaW OF tn" late
Senator G. s. BriCe.
Cne strong Oh ection TO him stands IN the
way OF his noD.!nation-he is the nlanag-
ing officer Of the school furniture trust
recently organized and largely interested
In it. AS it seems agreed that the conven-
ton shall ADOPT an antitrust ank, his
nomination would to that extent stulttfy
the party The governors warm indorse-
nent of Orr shows that he is not to sup
port his colleague, Lieutenant Governor
Asa W. Jones, as some supposed he would.
Charles l.. kurtz also declares that he Is
not interested in General Jones candidacy
This leaves Jones with only his own county
and congressional district to support him.
A special from Mansfield quotes ex-senator
John Sherman as faVoring Representative
w. S. Kerr for governor, but this is simply
an expression of loyalty to the representa-
tive from the Mansfield district. Kerr will
be the temporary chairman of the conven-
ton.
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my9-s&w-10t
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-08
HE CUTS FINE FIGURE AND Is GREATLY ENvIED

and accepted the widespread fallacy
that the tariff is n tax. At the same
time our manufacturing industries had
suffered severely from the reduced
tariff of 1888 Hence when Harrison
came into power his party thought they
could frame bill that would more
fully protect cur industries and at the
same time lessen the imports 80 as to
reduce somewhat the surplus revenues
thus meeting both sides of the question.
and the Mckinley bill was made up
with that end in view 1t took the du-
ties off products we do not produce
and raised the duties on things we
do produce. and this so stimulated bust
ness and increased prices that during
1891 and 1892 the imports We're the
largest ever known in the history Of the
country and the custom receipts in
creased. as the foregoing figures show
But when Cleveland again came into
power unfortunately he had congress
to carry ont his ideas. which he did not
have during his first term. and the
Wilson -Gorman tariff bill was parsed.
under which, as the above figures show,
the custom receipts fell off over 4185.
0OO.00 in two years, and Mr.. Cleve-
land found himself with a deficit in the
treasury instead of surplus and had
to sell S262. 900. 900 Of bonds to make
up the loss caused by his ruinous policy.
The imports fell frcm 1897. 400. .482 In
1892 to s654 894. 622 in 1894. de-
crease Of x172.4O7. $40 in two years
That is why the Republican party had
to shape the Dingley tariff so it would
not only protect and restore prosperity
to our industries. but also increase the
revenues of the government, which It
most successfully accomplished.
DIR. E. p MILLER.
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-08
BY CHEAPER PRODUCTION.

How America Has Forged to the
Front In certais Manufactures.
1t would be well for the free traders
TO reflect npon the comments Of British
authorities upon these points. This quo
tation from the Birmingham Daily Mail
should be pasted in the hat Of every
American
"By cheaper methods Of production
America is overtaking us in more than
one department of manufacture. Star
Ting To the Midlands are the figures pub
lished today concerning nails Statistics
show that the expectation Of wire nails
from the United States has grown from
i.547. 07s pounds in the fiscal year 1888
to 2.s04. O98 pounds in the fiscal year
1893 The growth. which has been phe
nomenal ever since the beginning. has
been especially SO in the last two or
three years In 1895 the expectations
were 4.367. a67 pounds; in 1895. 8. O3i. :
927 pounds. thus practically doubling in
one year. and. in 1893. 22. 1914. 099
pounds showing similar gain in the
last two years. the exports of 1898 being
FIVE times more than in 1895. This is
not very pleasant when one puts this
side by side with the fate Of the nail
trade in the Midlands. Moreover. Chi
cago has become the seat Of an iron bed
stead industry that threatens to defy
competition the United States general
ly is knocking even Germany ont in the
manufacture Of cheap boots. and. be-
sides this, American steel rails are be-
ing sent to Ireland and Bombay. while
the oafi m oa aauf ", for tho an py,ly NJ
plates for the construction Of a 5000 ton
chip show that in accepting an Ameri-
can contract there will be an economy
Of $40. 900 as compared with the lowest
English tender : Fl
La Junta tribune., 1899-04-08

For fresh bread, pies or cakes go
to Fishers postoffice news stand.
Eight per cent money for city or
farm loans. w. II. Gibson, Central
block.
S. w. Cressey and G. M. Hall,
of Rocky Ford, were county seat
visitors Thursday.
The Semi-Weekly Tribune and
the Kansas City Weekly Journal
one year for Si.5o,
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church will serve an Easter tea at
the home OF Mrs. w, A. Hart this
afternoon form 3 to o'clock.
Get the best prices you can on
pianos and then come to us and
we will discount them. Two bar
gains in second hand pianos.
l.. Smith.
The last meeting OF the present
city council will be held next
Monday evening. The following
Monday the new mayor and coun-
Gil will be installed in office and
the various city officials elected
for the ensuing year.
was reading an advertisement
of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy in the
Worcester Enterprise recently,
which leads me to write this. |
can truthfully say never used any
remedy equal to it for collie and
diarrhoea. have never had to
use more than one or two doses to
cure the worst case with myself or
children.-W. A. Stroud, Popo-
moke City, Md. For sale at the
Arcade Pharmacy.