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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24

Key West, Fla, Sept. 2s,--New cases Of
yellow fever number forty and deaths
number three. The weather continues
rainy and favorable for the spread of the
fever
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
DEPARTMENT NOT INFORMED.
1t Has Not Been in Communication
with south Africa.


with south Africa.
Washington Sept. 23.--The state depart
ment has not been In communication with
United States Consul Macrum, at Preto-
ria, or, in fact, with any OF Its consular
representatives in South Africa recently,
so that officially II knows nothing of late
developments in that section.
Some weeks ago Secretary Hay gave in
structions to the consular officer Of the
United States In South Africa to protect
all American interests in their respective
localities and to protest against any in
fringement upon personal liberties OF
Americans, which would cover any at
tempts 10 impress them into the military
service OF the South African Republic
As nothing has been heard from them on
the subject. II Is assumed that no case
has arisen to warrant report
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24

Washington, Sept 2S.-Gen, Otis cables
tho war department to-day that the Sem
ator sailed yesterday from Manila with
the Iowa volunteers
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
THIRTIETH REGIMENT GONE.
The sherman Carried 1t and $50 Re
cruits to Manila.

San Francisco, Sept. 2S,-The transport
sherman sailed to-day for Manila with
the Thirtleth Regiment, United States Vol
unteers and a detachment of $50 recruits
for the Thirteenth Cavalry and the Thir-
ty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Volunteer
Regiments. Col. Cornelius Gardner goes
in command of the Thirtieth, while Capt
William b. Reynolds of the Fourteenth In
fantry is in charge of the recruits
TJents Miles and McKelvy are also with
the recruit detachment
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
OPENING OF OHIO CAMPAIGN.
REPUBLICANs AT AKRON ENTER
TANNED ny ROOSEVELT.

Ii Is Said 10000 visitors Gathered
There for the OccasiOn-Eirst
Speech Made by Republican Cam
didate Nash-ROoseveIfs Views
ON Trusts and sTariff Tanlxering.'
He Says the Democrats Have Ad-
vanced Nothing That Is COnstrue-
tive,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
PENNSYLVANIA VOTES
Today For Municipal Officers
Throughout the State.

Philadelphia, Feb. 21.-Today is cleo
tion day throughout Pennsylvania for
the selection of city, town and borough
officials. No state officials are voted for.
The day is a legal holiday.
In Philadelphia, mayor, city solicit
tor and three police magistrates are to
be chosen by the voters of the entire
city and the various wards separately
select members of city council and
school directors. A light vote is being
polled on the general city tickets, mas
much as the election of the Republican
candidates by large majorities is as
Sured.
There is no factional fight in the Re-
publican party this year as has been
the case in the past few years. Samuel
H. Ashbridge for mayor and ]. L. Kin
sey for city solicitor received the whole
party's endorsement and their election
by large majorities is conceded by the
Democrats. The Democratic candidates
are DR.. w. Horace Hoskins for mayor
and Frank r. Shattuck for city solici-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
BUSINESS RESUMED AT ILOILO
RED CROSS ARMED
As Defense Against Filipino Sharp
shooters.

New York, Feb. PA dispatch to the
Herald from Manila says:
The enemy were concentrating all day
at the WaterworkS and in front OF
Kings brigade. They finally became so
nagging in front of Kings position that
the general sent two companies of First
Washington infantry over the Pastg
river.
They swept the country for two miles
and then swung over to the river bank,
opposite the insurgent trenches facing
the American position at Macati, and
opened a flank fire on the insurgents
across the river.
Two guns of the Sixth artillery, under
Lieutenant Scott, at Macati, pounded
the insurgent positions, while the troops
from Macati charged and drove the
enemy before them. Fifteen Filipino
dead were found and four wounded
Two American soldiers were wounded
by the explosion of Springfield rifles.
The declaration of Aguinaldo that he
has made a humane war is another
fabrication. In the past few weeks the
Red Cross has been like red flag to
the insurgents.
Chaplain Pierce of MacArthur's staff
testifieS that he has been shot at by
sharpshooters fifty times in the pro-
visional hospital Not an ambulance or
litter came which was not the signal
for a shower of bullets.
The surgeons of the hospital corps,
who were giving aid to the F'ilipinos
as we'll as to the American wounded,
were a target for the sharpshooters.
A wounded man who was being car
ried from the field was killed by insur-
gents concealed in a tree. The Red
Cross people are now armed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
SEATON IS TIRED
Of Wading Through the Pond of Wa
ter on jackson Street.

Captain Seaton has become tired of
wading through the pond of water which
gathers on the Jackson street pavement
in front of the state house in wet weather,
crowd to go around the pond by the mar
row passage to the north. This morning
he got the following resolution through the
house:
Whereas, The east approach to the cap
ftol for pedestrians converges upon a piv
otal point around telegraph pole, making
it necessary in inclement weather for each
individual passing to and from to double
the Horn telegraph pole) in order to
avoid walking in the pond; and,
Whereas, The discomfort and incon-
venience thus rendered pedestrians is be-
yond endurance and beneath, the dignity
of the state that has expended so many
hundreds of thousands of dollars for a
capitol; and,
"Whereas. The sidewalk on each side of
the driveway can be returned at right
angles from the main sidewalk on Jack
son street to a point of 25 or so feet abut-
ting against the circular curbStone, thus
relieving the congestion of crowds 'Goub-
ling the Horn around the telegra oh pole;
therefore be it
Resolved, That the house of represent
atives suggests that the executive council
difficulty on the line above mentioned, or
by such other procedure as will give the
desired relief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
TO END MARCH q.
Senate Wants Legislature to
Adjourn Sine Die on That
Day.

The senate today adopted the follow
ing resolution, presented by Senator
Campbell:
Resolved, BY the senate, the house
concurring therein, that from and after
the adoption Of this resolution, the sem
ate shall give preference to bills that
have passed the house and have been
messaged to the senate; and the house
shall give preference to-the bills that
have passed the senate and have been
messaged to the house; and in case of
disagreement between the two houses
upon any measure, on application, a
conference committee shall be appoint
ed by each of the two houses in such
manner as they deem proper to adjust
such differences, subject to the ratifica-
tion of the respective houses.
That after six o'clock p. m, March 1,
1899, no business shall be transacted by
either house of the legislature except
the consideration of appropriation bills
and receiving messages from the gov
ernor, from the state officers, mes
sages between the two houses, and that
the legislature adjourn at II o'clock
noon, March 4, 1899.
The house may amend this resolution.
but it is reasonably safe to presume
that the session will end the fourth, but
may be prolonged until the tenth.
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REED TO RETIRE.
Report That the SpeakerWill Practice
Law in New York City.

Portland, Me, Feb. 21.-Speaker
Thomas B. Reed is said by several inti-
mate friends here to have decided to re-
tire from politics and engage in the
practice of law in New York.
He is not rich, and it is argued by
them that inasmuch as the presidency
appears beyond his grasp he is anxious
to amass a, competence and settle down.
Today a report was circulated that
Mr.. Reed had written a letter to a close
friend in which he stated his fixed pur-
pose to retire from congress at the close
of his present term. This letter is said
to have been received by Weston NJ
Milliken, a schoolmate and intimate
friend of Mr.. Reed, who has recently
been appointed collector of customs. Mr..
Milliken would not discuss the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
Insurgent Forces About Il0ilO
Going to Pieces.
General Miller Has All the
Troops He Needs.
ENEMY DRIVEN BACK
From Vicinity of Manila With
Considerable Loss.
Natives Try to Burn Quarters
Of Washington Volunteers.

Washington, Feb. 21.-The war de-
partment has received the following:
Manila, Feb. 21.-Adjutant General.
Washing Miller reports on
18th instant, insurgent forces few miles
out from Iloilo believed to be dfsinte-
grating. Can maintain his position with
present force. Business in city being
resumed. He has sent up four repre-
sentative men, officials from capital of
island of Negros where American flag
raised and American protection re-
Quested against small inSurgent force
in islands. Affairs there and in Cebu
very encouraging. Shall endeavor to
maintain and improve present promiS-
ing conditions.
Affairs here quiet. Small insurgent
force east of city driven away yester-
day with considerable loss to the enc
my. (Signed) OTIS.
Manila, Feb. 21.-The natives of the
village of Paco made a bold attempt
last night to burn the quarters OF the
First Washington volunteers by set
ting fire to the huts adjoining their
quarters in the rear. Fortunately the
wind changed at the moment the hre
was discovered and, famed by a stiff
breeze, the flames spread in the oppo-
site direction, destroying fully 20 shacks
and houses opposite the ruins Of the
church. The incendiaries escaped.
Mysterious signals were frequently
made along the enemy's lines during the
night, and this led to the belief that an
attack had been arranged, but nothing
happened.
The Filipinos are leaving the vicinity
of San Pedro Macati in small parties
and are reported to be moving toward
Singa1on.
CASUALTIES IN PHILIPPINES.
Washington, Feb. 21.-The war de-
partment today received the following:
Manila, Feb. 21-Adjutant General,
Washington: Additional casualties:
First shington-Wounded Feb. 10,
Company L. Private Carson Ellis, elbow,
accidental.
Killed Feb. 20, Company K, Privates
Alton A. Reinhart; Company Nj, John
F. Adams.
First California-wounded February
20, Company L, Privates Arthur Buhl,
Kruz, arm; Thomas c. Haley, thigh.
Casualties near Iloilo, Panay Islands,
Feb. IA, Eighteenth infantry: Killed
Company A, Corporal Robert S. Grigs-
by; wounded, Company A, Sergeant
Robert Jennings, thigh; Company j,
Corporal James H. Saunders, nipple;
all wounds above slight. (Signed),
OTIS.
BUSINESS RESUMED AT ILOILO.
Manila, Feb. 21-The United States
transport Newport has arrived from
Iloilo with dispatches from Gen. Miller
to Gen. Otis. She reports all quiet at
occupying the suburbs Of Jaro and Malo
and business has been resumed gener-
ally with the outside world. Some rice
is coming in from the provinces and
there has been no fighting since Febru-
ary II. All is quiet at Manila The
heat is causing some Inconvenience, but
no casualties have been reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
WANTS A NEW COURT HOUSE.
Emporia Really Means to Tear Down
the Old Stone Building.

Emporia is famous for her beautiful
homes, successful business men, enter
prising citizens and handsome young
women, but the old court house which
track for nearly half a century is prob
ably the worst structure of it's kind that
could be found in a days travel in Kan
saS. Various movements in different
directions have been attempted to get rid
of the. old pile of stone and plaster but
nothing has as yet been accomplished.
Now the city seems to mean business
as the legislature is asked to authorize
the commissioners to submit a PROPOSE
tiOn for a new court house to the peo-
pie of the county for ratification. The
building is to cost $75, 900 and the money
is to be raised by the sale of NJ X &
T. bonds held by the county and a tax
levy of two mills per annum. The bill
was presented in the senate by Senator
Braddock. In the house by Represen-
tatiVe Harris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
In the Mississippi at st. Louis
a Large One.
Great Difficulty of Breaking
Big Cakes of Ice
AS THEY FLOAT DOWN.
For a While Some Boats
Seemed
Doomed to Certain Destruc-
tion by the Ice.

ST, Louis. Feb 21.-The ice gorge IN
the Mississippi river north OF the tdus
bridge broke loose yesterday and it re-
ouired the constant work of all the tugs
IN the harbor to keep it broken up alohs
the shore on either side of the river, and
thus prevent enormous damage 10
steamboats, and other shipping interests
About noon the first indications of the
giving away of the ice fields were APP
parent Large patches of ice began 10
float down the river A STRONG VIM
from the southwest forced the noes 10
the eastern side of the river, Where II
gorged along the shore, in many pIdceS
to a height of Is or 20 feet. oeNerai osi19 ~ "
the Virgins ferry boats were moored on
that side beside other small cratt, ana
the greatest apprehension tor tneH
safety was manifest. .
The river men concluded that II Woulu
be best to break the ice at the time
rather than run the risk OF having II
give way at night, when the darkness
would add greatly to the dlthcuIty OIL
protecting river property
With this object in view the tugs H
G. Haarstick, Reliance, H. c. Clubb,
Suzie Hazard and w. K. kaVanau ugh
stuck their noses into the immense ice
fields. breaking and crushing it under
them By this means large HoeS We're
soon released and started down with
the current. AS the ice struck the piers
of Eads bridge, it piled up in great
heaps. at times reaching a height of %
or 80 feet. The size of the foes was,
as a general rule, regulated by the dis
tance between the several spans OF the
bridge. The enormous crushing power
of such a field of ice may be imagined
when its average thickness was about
10 inches.
In order to prevent the ice from reach
ing the shore in solid mass, the tugs
skirted along the edge of it, breaking it
in small pieces, thus reducing to min
tmum the danger to river craft moored
along the shore.
The bulk of the large fields passed
down the river a distance of about so
yards from the shore.
Owing to the direction of the wind the
east side suffered the greatest danger,
and the difficulties encountered by the
tugs in keeping the shore line clear
low the Virgins Ferry company's
wharfboat, at the east side approach of
the Eads bridge, the little stern wheel
pleasure steamer Myrtle Corey was
moored. This boat was built for navi-
cation on the Meramec Highlands.
For a while the boat seemed doomed
to certain destruction. An enormous
foe was floating directly upon it, piling
upon the shore to a height of 10 feet
and crushing every object with which
1T came in contact.
The tug Reliance managed to make
sufficient headway through the ice to
break it I'D close to shore before it
reached the point at which the Myrtle
Corey was tied up.
So far as could be learned, no damage
was done to any of the boats or other
river property.
The breaking up OF the ice was sig
nailed by the screaming of the whistles
of the boats in the harbor and thou
sands walked down the levee or stood
on the bridge to view the scene,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
TO ADJOURN NEXT MONDAY.
A Concurrent Resolution offered to
That Effect

A concurrent resolution has been in
troduced into the house by Mr.. Tenny
lature shall finally adjourn on next
Monday, February 27. 1t also provides
that all consideration of general bills
shall cease at noon Friday. The reSOlu-
tion is as follows:
Resolved, By the house of represen-
tatiVes, the senate concurring therein,
that all consideration of house bills in
the house, except upon MESA ges from
the senate, and all consideration of SEN
ate bills in the senate, except upon mes
sageS from the house, excepting in both
instances appropriation bills, shall cease
at II o'clock (noon) Friday, February
"a; and that after February %
no business shall be transacted
in either house except the con-
sideration of messages from the gov
ernor; and that final adjournment be
had on Monday, February 27, at II
o'clock (noon).'
If this resolution is passed it will
make the session fall one day short of
the time allowed by the constitution,
even if Sundays are counted as legis-
lative days The session began on JAN
ury 10, which left twenty-five days in
January, counting Sundays as legisla-
tive days. With twenty-seven days in
February, the total session would be
forty-nine days in length.
It is not probable, however, that the
legislature will adopt the resolution.
The actual number of legislative days
on which the house has held sessions,
counting today, is thirty-five. Fifteen
days more. not counting Sundays, will
bring it up TO March 10, which will give
sufficient time to get the calendar pretty
we'll cleaned up. If Mr.. Tenny's reso-
luton should be adopted it would mean
that the great mass of bills which are
on the calendar would die there without
ever coming before the house for con-
Sideration.
The senate is three days behind the
house in the matter of legislative days,
e. 60 r. I,0e l.
the reason that it was organized ready
for business when the session began,
while the house consumed the first ten
days in dealing out the offices and COM
mittees. There have been 900 bills intro
duced in the house and between 400 and
500 in the senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
A DOLLAR A WORD
To Be the Rate on Messages to Manila
by the New Cable.

Washington, Feb. Ex-senator Frye has
reported from the committee on foreign
relations the amendments to the sundry
civil appropriation bill for the construc-
tion of a submarine cable in the Pacific
ocean as amended by the committee. The
amendments are numerous and radical.
The most important OF them increases the
subsidy to be paid every year for twenty
years to S115,0O0 and extends the time in
which the contracting company is to be
given. to complete the line to the Philip
pine islands to the 1St of January, 1902.
Other amendments increase the forfeit
of the contracting company from $500, 900
to 800, provide that the subsidy money
shall only be used in maintenance and re-
pairs and not on paying dividends; fix the
rates on government messages at one
third the rates on private messages. re
tanning the provision that they shall be
carried free during the twenty years; fix
a rate of 25 cents per word on private
messages to Hawaii and 81 per word on
such messages to the Philippines, press
rates being one-fourth of these amounts;
give the postmaster general the right to
revise these rates every ten years and
authorize the president to request the CO.
operation of Japan in securing the estab-
Ishment of the proposed line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
ELL1oTTs RECORD.
Councilman Who Has the Courage of
His Convictions.

An effort will be made to defeat Coun-
Gilman. John Elliott of the Third ward.
Mr.. Elliott is one of the oldest citi-
zens of Kansas and he has been one
of the most aggressive opponents of the
water company. He has large property
interests in Topeka and is able to de-
vote nearly all his time to the affairs
of the city. A man like Mr.. Elliott who
will devote his time to the good of the
city should not be turned down. The
water company has no use for Mr.
Elliott for he has stood with Council
man Drew in opposition to the water
company. He has been thoroughly
tested.
The opponent of Mr.. Elliott is reported
to be a pleasant and agreeable gentle
man and the only thing that could be
urged against him is his inexperience
with the affairs of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
CAPT. FULLER ANGRY.
He Resents the Attacks on Mr..
Drew's Republieanism.

Captain A. M. Fuller one of the stall
wart Republicans of Topeka said to-
day:
Il am for Charles ]. Drew for mayor
and 1 am disgusted with the kind of d
have worked with Mr.. Drew in Fourt h
ward politics for 20 years and know
what kind of a Republican he is and
to see the paper which poses as the
Republican organ of this state come out
and talk mugwumpism and Populism
in connection with his candidacy makes
me decidedly weary.
1.-The Journal has conducted this fight
in a straightforward, manly way, with
out attacking any one and 1 believe
that the people of this city approve of
it's course"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21

was at the court house when Dr. E. p.
Rodgers paid the money for Mills as
sessment and I told him then that the
know better than to believe the stories
that they are telling CONCERNING. the ad-
ministration induced me to be a candidate.
! know that the men who brought out
Mills are Brooks men,
Councilman Roundtree is one of the
most popular colored men in Topeka. He
has ably represented his race and the city
of Topeka in the city council and he
should not be turned down as the result
of a piece of political trickery. The peo-
pie know where Mr.. Roundtree stands on
the waterworks question, for like Coun-
Gilman Drew. he has been tried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
TO REDUCE EXPRESS RATES.
Senator Hanna Gets His Special Ses.
sion Measure Through.

Under an emergency late Monday af-
ternoon the senate passed Mr.. Hanna's
bill to reduce the express charges in
Kansas. This is in the nature of an
amendment to the court of visitation
laws. 1t was introduced in the special
session, but did not pass.
The bill, which is now pending in the
house, but which will not be reached
and will die on the calendar, makes the
following scale of prices for express
package shipments:
Parcels under pounds, Is cents.
From 5 to 10 pounds, 25 cents.
From 10 to 80 pounds, 25 cents.
From 80 to so pounds, 80 cents.
From SO to rs pounds, 35 cents.
From rs to 100 pounds, 40 cents.
This bill includes books, publications,
bicycles and all other freight which can
be packed in a receptacle of the dimen-
SiOnS of a barrel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
Sampson at the Bermudas.

Washington, Feb. 21.-The advance
guard of the North Atlantic squadron,
composed of the flagship New York and
the battleship Indiana, arrived at the
Bermudas today and reported to the
navy department by cable. Admiral
Sampson also stated that William J.
Brownley, a first class gun captain, was
swept overheard last Friday morning
from the Indiana. He was born in 1872
at Drammen, Norway. and enlisted in
1898. The squadron will proceed to Ha-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
ROBBED THE EXPRESS
a Large Amount of Currency Taken
From Santa Fe Car at CherryvaIe.

Kansas City, Feb. PA special to
the Star from Cherryvale, Kan, says:
An express car on the Cherryvale &
COfeyville train, a branch of the Santa
Fe railway was robbed today in this
city of a large amount of currency and
money orders while Express Messenger
Cooper was at breakfast. The safe was
opened with a skeleton key.
The amount secured is not given. The
robbers escaped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-21
SULTAN BACKS DOWN.
Revokes the Grant of a Coaling Sta
tion to France.

Bombay, Feb.21.-The sultan of Oman
has revoked the grant of a coaling sta
tion to the French under the British ad-
miraPs threats of a bombardment. The
British warships Eclipse, Sphinx and
Rerbreast are lying off the port of Mus
cat. The sultan has issued a proclama-
tfon to the foregoing effect and he will
make a similar announcement in open
durbar. The French consul has entered
a protest