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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
NEWS FROM MANILA.

Indications That the Filipinos Are Getting
Tired of Fighting.
Manila Feb 27.-Admiral Dewey
vhen asked by the correspondent of the
Associated Press to give his reasons fof
requesting Washington to send the bat
tleship Oregon to Manila firmly declined
to discuss the matter. All was quiet
here last night and along the line, except
for some desultory firing by the rebels
near Caloocan and San Pedro Macati.
Manila, Feb. 28.-Two Spanish COM
missioners, Seniors Rosatio and Abo
gado who were permitted to pass
through our lines and confer with
Aguinaldo with reference to the Span
ish prisoners at Malolos, returned
through our lines yesterday morning,
near Caloocan with a sealed dispatch
for the Spaniards. The commissioners
said that Aguiraldo and Sanduiko were
both at Malolos and inclined to pacific
overtures. While the F'ilipinos are not
yet prepared to surrender the Spanish
prisoners they will gladly release two
Americans who have been held for six
weeks, on the payment of $50, the value
of food and clothing furnished to them.
Shortly afterwards the rebels sent out
a flag of truce borne by Commandante
Sinforoso de la Cruz, and several hun
dred of the enemy left the Filipino lines
crying mo quiro," Mas combate!'
'Americanos mucho buenon' The COM
mandante said that fully 5000 of his
men had had enough and were anxious
to surrender. Among the enemy in the
jungle many women and children were
visible. A woman laid down her rifle
and attempted to cross with the parley
ers, but she was sent back. After the
party returned to the American lines
the enemy on the right fired volley,
the bullets dropping at their feet.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
DEATH OF COL. CONGER.
well-Known Man Succumbs to a Stroke of
Paralysis.

Des Moines, Ia. Feb. 2I.-Colonel A..
l.. Conger died at IL o'clock Saturday
night from a stroke of paralysis He
came here about a year ago from Ak
ron, O., and established a college Of
osteopathy. He was for eight years a
member Of the Republican national COM
mittee from Ohio, and served several
terms as member Of congress. He was
20 years old.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03
Tuesday, Feb. 20.

Anton Samuelson, whose friends say
he was driven insane as a result Of the
ceremony incident to his induction into
the knights of Pythias, is dead at Chi
cago.
1t is estimated that 10 per cent. of the
Texas cattle persisted during the recent
billiards.
With thirty-five ballots in Pennsylva-
MIA, over fifty in California and about
forty in Nebraska the senatorial dead
lock in those states is intact.
A total number of $40 charities COL
lected last year in London the sum of
e6,2O7,291.
w. M Scott, state entomologist, re-
ports that the commercial fruit crop of
Georgia was entirely destroyed by the
recent cold wave.
The federal supreme court has decided
that Ohio cannot enforce oleomargarine
law in the soldiers home.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-03-03

Tom Allen, the ex-pugilist, shot a
man fatally at st. Louis and has been
acquitted. The mans name was Con-
foy and in an ante-mortem statement
he declared the shooting unprovoked.
Former Governor J. Madison Wells,
of Louisiana, of reconstruction fame, is
dead.
The Reading, Pennsylvania and Lee
high Coal companies have announced
their intention of making an advance of
25 cents a ton on coal within a day or
two.
The Spanish American War Veterans
association will be formed at ccnyen-
ton at Washington Sept. 4, 5 and
The body Of an unidentified man was
found on the Panhandle tracks at Chi
cago. He had been killed by an engine.
Lorenz Weber. formerly an extensive
builder, New York, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $200.75s; no
assets.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
Misses the Mark .

IA Platform Republican," writing
again from Frostburg to the Lonacon-
ing STIR, takes occasion to say:
And now word in regard to Mr.. Oder S
injection of his forceful ideas into this contro-
versy.
The JOURNAL was called by ga
Platform Republican, into "this con-
troversy."
And having been called into it, has
no disposition to crawfiSh out of it.
In other words, as gentleman kind
ly said on the street Wednesday,
The JOURNAL never runs.
The references to jefferson and
jackson, therefore, were not to raise
a question of religious orthodoxy, but
to illustrate the fact that their fear of
ian office-holding class" was so ex-
treme that, in ,Jefferson's case, it went
to ''horror' of all organization, re-
hgious as well as political.
The JOURNALS conclusion at length
is-if ga Platform Republicans" I'M
derstandlng of the merit system is as
erratic as his Interpretation Of analogy,
the spoils idea owns in him a very
poor defender.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
CORRESPONDENTS.
sweet Charity"

sweet Charity"
ECKHARr, Mp, Jan. 10, 1899.
To the MINING JOURNAL
Upon seeing IN this place few days
before Christmas a committee OF noble
ladies wading through drifts of track
less snow to aid in supplying the needs
of the poor, their lovely persons and
noble mission appeared to me like the
sun, frightening every object on which
it shines.
Charity is the term uniformly en-
ployed in the New Testament to denote
all the good affections which we ought
to bear towards one another. 1t is an
active principle. 1t is fountain ris-
ing in the heart whence all the viz
tues flow. 1t prompts corresponding
sympathies with those who rejoice,
and those who weep. 1t is the sun
that cheers the abodes of men, be they
the palaces of the wealthy or the
novels of the poor.
Long live these noble women, whose
ambition it iS-not to be exalted by Il
false glare of excellence, but to be be
loved for the gentle, genuine pursuit
of relief and encouragement of the
poor. The lustre of their goodness
reaches beyond the stars.
JAMES +. RATIGAN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14

islature, sheriff, tax collector, bailiff,
mayor, couucilmen, and last, but not
least, for school trustees.
1t is, in short, very interesting to
note how many good people are equal
in a mighty small way, how many rate
their appreciation of home and public
education below the mark set by 1.-THE
Heather Chinee,' a character from
whom we had hardly any right to ex-
pect a contribution at all. 1t is very
refreshing. If | had the talent of your
'Eckhart Philosopher | could do
'em up in style that would make
him laugh at his own mimicry.
In this last paragraph | caution the
JOURNAL not to class all our able, good
and liberal p and 50-cent contributors
as civil service reformers. because they
may then be harnessed in fellowship
by that distinguished German liberal
list who knows so much of our past. SO
little about our present, and still less
about our future-Carl Schurz.
A CLOSE OBSERVER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
Fire.

Thomas Broderick's house, near
Morantown, two miles northeast of
Frostburg, caught fire Monday morn
ing from stove and burned to the
ground. Mr.. Broderick was severely
burned about the head, face and hands
while attempting to subdue the flames,
and his daughter, Miss Katharine,
who was ill with Ia grippe. was obliged
to flee in her night clothes. walking
half mile bare footed through the snow
to a farmhouse. The other members
of the family were gotten out just in
time by Mr.. Broderick.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
AcknOwled gmentS.

The JOURNAL has received "Chapter
|" of proposed historical work en-
titled Physical, Geographical and
Political Outlines of Allegany County
including Garrett by Jacob Brown,
the Nestor of the Cumberland Bar.
Mr.. Brown states facts with little com
ment, leaving to his readers the prof,
liable exercise of learning and to later
historians the privilege of seeking
conclusions. The book will contain,
Mr.. Brown thinks, about 400 pages
considerable undertaking even for a
younger lover of his native realm.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14

1t has been decided by United
States court that if the War Revenue
Act
imposes the tax upon the express COM
pany, the latter may lawfully require its rem
bursement as condition Of accepting
goods for transportation.
The Act taxes express companies,
but, since the companies have success
fully resisted it, is the Act SIN force
against them
But if the companies had gone on
periodically, as they should have done,
and paid the tax, could it be said liter
ally that the law was Sin force" against
them
And could their obedience in that
event have been cited as an evidence
that some other sumptuary enactment
would be enforceable?
The Homecoming RecieW af1irms.
The JOURNAL denies.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
Competing Rights.

In Boston an editor recently got out
of jail, having purged himself of
charge of contempt of court.
In Richmond, Va, the Supreme
Court of the State is determining the
question whether court, Gas de-
PENDANT in charge of contempt" can
try its own case.
And an appeal from the town of
Worcester, Mass, went against a
newspaper last week in the Supreme
Court for publishing a rumOr pending
the trial of an action for damages.
These matters are not mentioned
here with approval" evident or
otherwise, but merely because they re-
mind us that the kindred question of
government by injunction" seems to
be thus Indirectly kept before the peo
plea judicial prerogative denied
only two years ago by over six millions
of voters.
The JOURNAL was not then and is
not now one OF that great number,
but it cannot help fearing that the
judiciary is not preserving nor even
promoting its own proper, indis-
pensable independence by extending
prospectively its jurisdiction very far
outside the courthouse.
The right of litigants to justice is
unimpeachable-so much so that it is
a genuine pity that courts ever find it
eXpedient or necessary to set it up as
paramount to other sights in the same
charter characterized as ''haljenable."
The more so because it is difficult to
conceive how the right of compar-
atively few litigants should override
those muniments of the masses-''the
liberty of the press and "the privilege
of popular assembly,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
News from the Boys.

The U. S. S. Topeka" left Key
West, Fla, Wednesday, 4th inst, for
an itinerary cruise" touching at
thirteen West India cities, ending
March at Colon-a distance of ., IA
miles. A. B. Largent, of this place,
one of the crew, informs the JOURNAL
that he will tell its readers of his ad-
ventures as opportunity offers.
A letter from T. Getz Hill, at Camp
Conrad, Columbus, Ga, contains a
description of "St. Elmo" the former
home of Augusta Evans, the classical
authoress of great story of same
title. Mr.. Hills observations follow
You have read Augusta Evans st. Elmo,
have you not? Well, | visited the other day
a place by that name-'St. Elmo" and found
it to be where Augusta Evans lived at the
time she wrote that book. 1t is the remnant
of a cotton plantation owned now by man
known as Capt. Slade" Captain in Con-
federate Army) very nice old gentleman
who, with his wife and three daughters, re-
side in the large old house. The place con-
sists of about 100 acres of land, mostly cotton,
some timber (pine) and an artificial pond,
with small islands, covered for the most
part with pond-llies. The islands have
bridges from one to the other and are studded
with large shade trees, quite a number being
"Magnolias" Then there is a fine bath
house attached, fed by spring up near the
house, about 300 yards away by a path over
half of which is covered by grape arbor,
The house itself is worth seeing, and the peo-
pie are the hospitable Southerners you read
Of The house is large and square, with
very wide Railways up and down, and large
porches-front and back, The front porch
roof and room above is supported by I'M
mense columns. The family has all manner
of relics of the times during and before the
war.
Thomas l.. Engleby. of Roanoke,
Va, now member of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lees staff, saw the Spanish flag lower
ed aud the Star Spangled Banner
raised oyer Havana on New Years
day. An interesting account of that
notable event from his pen appears in
the Roanoke (Va.) Times of last Sun
day. Mr.. Engleby is a son of John
Engleby, a former citizen of Frost
burg, and, as stated, is now in line
which promises growing distinction as
he advances in age.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
A Hint Applied.

The Cleaner a new weekly paper, published
at Frostburg, by Henry F. Cook. 1t is dim
inutive in size, but is neatly printed, and
NeWs
A hint the JOURNAL hopes the
Cleaner will take and CLEAN profit there
from.
For instance. the JOURNAL hopes the
Cleaner will ''have no room" at any
time for such dry, depauperate desig-
nations as "the Cumberland coal re-
gion" and Cumberland coal"-posi-
lively the most tiresome misnomers in
the whole field of counterfeit nomen-
clature.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

The Homecoming Reoien adds large
and legible calendar to the JOURNAL 5
collection.
The Both Annual Report of ST.
Mary's Industrial School for Boys,
Baltimore pamphlet of over 10
pages, well printed IN the institution,
is a fine exhibit of the efficiency of
that establishment as a school of prac
teal training for homeless boys.
The Baltimore Sun Almanac, the
most valuable compilation of its kind,
besides its usual matter comprises
historical data of the most eventful
year since 1865. With more to record,
the issue for 1899, embodying in con-
else text the occurrences of 1898, it is
more than ever an entertaining and
useful testimonial of the SUMS gener-
Gus regard for its subscribers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS.
A Cynical View ofSOme People.

~ SynlCdl Few VI oOHic L cOplts
FRosTBURG, MD, Jan. 49, 1899.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
] have read with great interest the
lists of contributors and contributions
to the Normal School Site Purchase
Fund, and | now write
|, To ask where are many Of those
800 contributions of which we heard
so much Boosting?
They are not to be seen on the list.
Fortunately, they were not needed,
but that fact does not lessen my sur
prise at seeing them so eloquently alb
sent.
,, Is it not gratifying to note the
liberality of "our foreign element"
sometimes SO decried
But these are now part OF our
American makeup, and among them
the most worthy of mention are our
three Cinnamon, Toy Jim, Hop Sing
and Toy Wiling. Compare their lib
erality and patriotism with some of
those who gave %, 80 cents, and see
which class thinks more, all things con
sidered, of the town and of public
education
Inc Po gwen Wy 'Heoc ihcu Is inoIo
noticeable to us who can remember as
far back as lS7S-Sl, when Dennis
Kearney led the crusade in Califoln MIA
against the Chinese and finally forced
Congress to pass law violating the
provisions of "a sacred treaty.
3, Is it not little curious to find in
the list the names of some who we well
remember berated Hon. NJ. q. Urner.
who, as Congressman, voted against the
bill abrOgating that righteous treaty.
aud who, largely on that account, was
driven into retirement to make way
for l.. +. McComas
But truce to the past.
We see in the list of same and
smaller contributors standing candi-
dates for postmaster and other federal
positions with more or less salaries at
tached-for county commissioner, leg
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
A Matter OfSchOlarShip.

There is a disagreement in Cumber-
land concerning Sim Wilson's know
ledge of water.
The Times says.
What Mr.. Simeon Wilson doesn't know
about the North Branch of the Potomac and
Its pollutions is not worth knowing, and
what Mr.. Wilson knows he is not afraid to
tell in plain, straightforward Anglo-Saxon.
On the other hand. the independent
inquiries
What does Sin" Wilson know about
water anyway?
Mr.. Wilson may not be able to go
into chemical exposition of the con-
stituents of water, but it is dollar 20
doughnut that he knows ''wot's un-
drinkable."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
Officials Must be Watched.

The Homecoming .Str commendS by
implication a Baltimore SIN editorial
opening as follows:
Gov. Lowndes deserves the thanks of the
taxpayers of Maryland for his determination
to protect them from misInanagement and
wrongdoing by State officials, as far as that
object can be achieved by the system of audit
ing public accounts which he has just in
augurated.
One wouldn't think, however, that
in the scramble for the opportunity of
"wrongdoing by State officials" that
any of them wolld avail themselves
of it,
Because all of them, like the man
who regards the rule which requires
his account authenticated by affidavit
as an Impeachment of his honesty,
think their word ought to be good
enough.
The same people resent civil-service
tests of their office-holdine qualifca-
tons as so many disparagements of
their integrity.
Yet Gov. Lowndes' action is a
straightout confirmation of the fact
that under the fast and loose method
of appointments the people have to be
protected from robbery ''by system
of auditing public accounts"
If not complete ''preventiOn,'
which is "better than cure,n the merit
system is long step in the night
direction at the right time.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
Why {?

There is rumor that another republican
Cumberland NepS.
Looks like the republican amateurs
begin to feel that they have been abus-
ed, and the unanimity of the thing is,
ifpossible, more painful than the agony
manifested for winning a reputation
as one of the political Merati.
But why do the amateurs select towns
where only one republican paper seems
to yawn for exile!
Why, for instance, don't they as
sault Homecoming, where there are
two, and wipe up the earth with both !?
Inshallah !
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14


James Reese, a Frostburg boy who
left here about II years ago, now liv-
ing at Nanticoke, Pa, is guest of
Owen England.
Theordore R. Tyler, of the law firm
of Etting, Celia & Tyler, of Chicago,
staid over Sunday last with his
brother, NJ. Brooke Tyler, of this
place. While here he made tour
underground which impressed him
profoundly.
A change in the Adams Express
company's department places Hunt
ingdon, w. Va, in "the Western
division" Meshach Frost, native of
Frostburg, one time publisher here of
u newspaper, is in charge of the Hunt
ingdon office, and the Adgertiser of that
city speaks of his administration of
its affairs IN the highest terms.
Thomas Armstrong, native of
Frostburg, now a Bedford (Pa.) law
yer, was the other day elected attorney
to the Directory of the Poor of that
county.
Capt. T. F. McCardell, of the Comp
troller's office, Annapolis, was here
this week.
J. H. Murdick, a clever citizen of
Chittenango, n. Y, was here short
time this week.
Miss Osee Parker is visiting her
aunt, Mrs. James O. Cleveland, at
Oakland.
Mrs. Charles W. Shaw left Wednes
day for Baltimore TO visit relatives.
Miss Sophia Behold, of Cumber-
land, visited Miss Lena FRESHMAN lately
Mrs. Frank A. Mum, with her
daughter, Mildred, of Summerfeld, N.
j., the guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Baker, returned home
Thursday.
The bed lounge, at the X. of P. fair
holiday week, was awarded to John r..
Loar, of Midland the set of harness
to John Reed, of Homecoming, and
sewing machine to Miss Clara A Pfaff,
of this place.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
New Field for Him.

The Massachusetts, court that decided the
osophy is not religion very happily refrained
from trying to tell the world just what the
osophy is.-Baltimore News.
The disjointed legal linguist of the
Homecoming Recie,c might untangle the
mysticism which ensnrouds the phenome-
n0 of such things as "the re-embodi-
ment of re-incarnation."
But in law it is dead certain that he
can't differentiate between the which
ness of the what and the sadness of
the heretofore.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
His Will.

The item below appeared first in the
Cleveland (OD Lemier. 1t was then
copied by the Baltimore Sun, with
what brand OF approval is hardly APP
parent. Anyway, it is here referred
to the genius whose legal wisdom per-
colates through the columns of the
Homecoming Recie0 and falls, like gobs
of mucous, into the outlets of its un-
fortunate readers:
Yes, he had a will of his own. His word
was law. But one day he died. Then the
lawyers took hack at his will. His word
ceased to be law.
He had had will Of his own. But after
the lawyers got through with it there could
be no doubt that he might as well have saved
himself the trouble.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
"US Two"

The amiable as we'll as classical
philosopher of the Cumberland Courier
seems to get nearly even with the great
paper in the following characteristic
paragraph:
If l had dreamed that editor Oder was
coming to the county ball would certainly
have cut off these whiskers and been there.
They tell me his dancing is simply dream.
E H. JOhnstOn
If Hawthorne had known Gus two
he would have said:
Johnston dreams in his waking moments,
but the JOURNAL, as an individual, not a
paper, dances-in his sleep.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
COUNTY NEWS.
Bad for the Dentist.

AYE want tooth pulled faller say
to dentist.
An tie dentist haze say FALL right,
boot hadn't Aye better blow en- some
gas so das will be no pain ~
"Aye wont pay for gas; yust give
har quick jank an et'll com out"
An tie dentist haze say-'yo must be
faller of great nerve ; let me examine
20 mouth"
49," said faller, ''et es not for mae !;
ct es for my vife's modder. Shae'll bae
har en- few mennits, an, bay yinks, yo
batter gif har no pain-Aye bat 20 sax
dollar on das ~
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
To he Wedded.

A marriage license has been issued
to each OF the following couples:
John Ahern and Minnie NJ, Willis, both
of Westernport.
George W. Porter, of MT. Savage, and Tillie
Kenndale, of Wittenburg, Somerset county,
Pa.
Joseph H. McCusker and Emma c. Bud.
gers, both of Mt. Savage.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
TheOtIleP Side,

The National Wool Manufacturers
Association announces that there were
'more failures ia the wool business in
1898 than in any year since the panic
OF 1887"
This should seem 20 mean that the
twofold price for wool, occasioned by
the Dingley tariff, which makes the
Fairmont West Virginian and Keyser
Echo so happy at apparent democratic
expense, was a 100 per- cent. mistake.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-01-14
BreyitieS,

When one really prefers the wing or
back of chicken it is an evidence
that his stock of selfishness Is too small
to be inventoried. Hence, naturalists
have never been able to explain why
the very best people like a combination
of white and dark meat.
Weather sleety; ground slippery.
Mr.. Bryan is still clinging to his free
coinage views, but why has he aban-
doned his alpaca coat