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The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04
the latter will be ordered to embark on the
transport st. Paul tomorrow for Negros.

transport st. Paul tomorrow for Negros.
Additional wonnded.
Additional wounded from the north
west: February 20, in the trenches be-
fore Caloocan:
First Montana, Company G, Private Ed
ward Moore (severe).
Second Oregon, Company E, Private
Martin Hildebrandt, finger (slight).
Additional near San Pedro Macah,
February 1927:
First Idaho, Private William H. Lille.
First California, Private Charles f.
Bushman. OTIS
Flag Waves Owe Guam.
San Francisco, Feb. 2S.-The steamer
Gaelic from Hong Kong to Yokohama,
via Honolulu, arrived today. The Asso-
ciated Press correspondent at Honolulu
sends the following news, dated Febru-
ary 2l:
Commander Taussig Of the Bennington
is the first American governor Of Guam.
The American flag went up over the new
possession at 1880 a. m. February |. 1t
was raised over Fort Santa Cruz in the
harbor Of San Luis d'Apra, the main har-
Dor of Guam. The paynaster of the Ben
nington is the collector of revenues for
Guam. Everything is quiet and orderly.
The American flag was also raised over
Wake island by Commander Taussig.
The United States Collier Brutus arrived
at Guam from Manila january and
sailed from there at p. M, February l,
having coaled the Bennington and partic-
ipated in the hag-raising ceremonies.
Captain Cottman of the Brutus says all
the stories OF revolt in Guam against the
United States authorities following the
departure of the Charleston are pure fc-
ton.
The Hottest Day.
Manila, March 2, $3.50 p. m.-This is
the hottest day of the season, but fortu.
nately all is quiet inside and outside Oi
our lines and the majority Of the men
were kept in the shade.
The transport Morgan City has arrived
here.
Scattered the Rebels.
The former Spanish gunboat La Guna
de Bayo steamed up by the river opposite
Macati this morning and opened fire or
the insurgents on the opposite side from
| General Wheaton's brigade. She fired hel
four Calling guns, two Nordenfeldts and
one-pounder.
The engagement lasted three quarters o.
an hour and then the insurgents scattered
but as soon as the "Tin- Clad" withdrew
the insurgents returned and again opened
slow and annoying fire across the river
Additional Casunlties.
Washington, March 2.-The following
bulletin was posted at the war depart
ment:
Manila, March 2.--Casualties near Cal
ocean: First South Dakota, February
27-Private Herman III. Delman, Lieuten
ant Robert B. Ross.
Montana, Feb. 2S, Company A-Privat'
Alvin +. Pletner, shoulde (slight); X
Howard l.. Tanner, thigh (moderate) NJ
William j. Christy, hand (slight).
First Washington, March COMPANY
C, Corporal Alfred B. Reichelt, shoulder
tmoderate); Company i, Private Herber
L. Osborn, chest (severe). OTIS.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04
Rebels Active AT CalOOcan.

Manila, March l.-4:55 p. m.-The reb-
els are very active at CAloocan and Mala-
bon. They evidently intend to mount a
battery in front of the Malabon church,
destroyed by fire of the monitor Monad-
mock, February 81. They have been
throwing up earthworks for their guns.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04
Prisoner Going Crazy.

San Francisco, March 2.-John Dough-
erty, ex-treasurer of the Marine Nremen's
Association, who is in the city prison ac-
cused Of appropriating about $1,000 If
the funds of the association, has exhibited
symptoms of insanity and been placed in
cell by himself.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04
Declares a Dividend.

Washington, March 1.-The comptroller
of the currency has declared a dividend
of s per cent in favor of the creditors Of
the Northwestern National bank OF Great
Falls, Mont.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04

Cincinnati, March 2.-The Covington,
Ky, qostoffice was robbed of stamps and
money last night, reported to amount to
$40. 900.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04

In Persia bonfire plays an important
part in the marriage ceremony, the ser.
vice being read over In front OF it.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04
oueen of Belgium In III.

Brussels, March 3.-The queen of Belgi-
um is gravely i'll, suffering from bron-
cnial pneumonia.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04

Chattanooga, Tennn., March 2.-The
Eighth United States volunteer regiment
is now being mustered out.
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04

The railway employees cooperative
store at Juniata, Pa, has gone to the
wall
The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-04

Manila, Feb. 2s.--4:35 p. m.-There has
been the usual desultory firing along vari.
GUS parts OF the line, but the only casual
ties today are Captain David Elliott, ,Twen'
tieth Kansas volunteers, and private Of
the same regiment. Both are seriously
wounded. They were shot by the enc.
mays sharpshooters near Caloocan.
A battalion OF the Twenty third in
fantry relieved the battalion of Californis
volunteers at San Pedro Macati today, and
The evening times., 1899-08-01
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH TESTS.
Experiments Begun at IA Government
LiEhthouse Depot.

New York, Aug. 1.-Experiments in
wireless telegraphy were begun last week
at the United States lighthouse depot at
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, the work be-
ing done by William F. Clarke, New
York electrician, under the direction Of
Col. David p. Heap, the engineer officer
In charge OF the Third lighthouse district.
AS soon as the electrician perfects some
new apparatus the experiments will be
continued, and If they prove successful, as
he believes they Will, it is probable that
wireless telegraphy will be adopted for
sending messages between lighthouses.
lightships, and merchant vessels and light
house stations.
Mr. Clarke is the inventor who had
charge OF the exhibit of wireless teleg-
raphy at the spring electrical show in
Madison Square Garden. He has been
conducting experiments in his laboratory
and about New York Bay, amplifying Mar
conis work. and he hopes TO greatly i'm
prove on the results obtained by the Ital-
ian Last week Mr.. Clarke ran wire up
to the top of the tall Flagstaff at the Tomp-
kinsville depot and established conmuni-
cation with lighthouse tender in the bay.
No messages were sent. but an electric
bell on the tender was rung from shore-
The tender then steamed down to Coney
Island, and an attempt was made to ring
the bell across five miles OF water. The
bell on the tender rang. and Mr.. Clarke
believed that the sending instrument at
Tompkinsyille rang 1t. After that trans
mitter was set up on the tender. and the
bell at Tompkinsville was rung- The Gov
ernment officers saw that the bells rang,
but they did not take the experiments as
conclusive. What Will be attempted short
ly will be the sending OF messages from
Tompkinsville TO Coney Island, and IL the
experiments prove successful experiments
will follow with the Scotland ligntship.
Sandy Hook and Fire Island lightships.
and the Navesink lights, Romer Shoal bea-
con, and other lights about this harbor.
Mr.. Clarke expects to send messages
across the forty miles between Tompkins-
vile and the Fire Island lightship.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
CoLUMBIA's MAST RESTEPPED.
New Steel Experimental Spar Had ta
Re Removed.

Bristol, R. l., Aug Columbia arrived
here shortly after o'clock yesterday
morning to have some alterations made 10
her topmast and TO have her mast read
justed to get rid of decided slew" to
port which developed yesterday afternoon
in the steel mainmast which was stepped
last Thursday.
The tender st. Michaels which towed
her down Saturday afternoon, brought her
back yesterday morning, and Capt Terry's
steam derrick Archer came over from Fall
River to lift the mast out of its step, where
it was improperly set last week, and to
step 1t over again.
AS soon as Columbia went to her moor
ings, about 200 yards out from the boat
shops. the Archer went alongside, stays
and wedges were loosed and the mast
raised about ten feet, where il was checked
up and held until the step had been cut
out SO as to make fit at the prescribed
angle to insure the proper rake aft without
inclining to either side. This operation
did not take many hours and when 1t was
finished molten lead was again poured in
at the mast heel to hold it tightly in posi-
ton.
A fine new Oregon pine topmost with
handsome bowspTit were sent over from
the East Boston Star Company's works
this morning by rail, and were taken on
board the St. Michaels for use when the
contingency may arise.
When everything was once more in shape
and two Of the topsails, which had been re-
cut, were sent down from the sail loft, the
st. MiehaelS again took Columbia in tow
and set out for Newport.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
Tint Old "AIIianee,, BuEaboo,

The old report is revived of an alliance
Of the Latin republics of South America
against the United States. The fact that
the story comes from the other side of the
Atlantic shows the sort Of influence
through which il was sifted
or course the story is not to be regarded
seriously in this country. In Europe it
may furnish topic for earnest discussion
for Europe does not yet understand New
World politics and has not yet arrived at
a full appreciation Of what American insti-
tutions stand for. To be sure, there are
certain prejudices in the minds of Latin
Americans which tend to estrange those
people from this country of ours but these
are not, as Europeans so fondly believe
ineradicable race prejudices. Archbishop
Ireland, for example, could testify to that
Even the Vatican knows what really is the
cause OF estrangement, and with character
isitc wisdom has recently taken steps
to remove it, by investing the prelates and
the vast religious structure of South Amer
lea with an independence which they have
not hitherto enjoyed.
This is a concession forced by changing
conditions in the thought and aspirations
of our neighbors TO the south which is
quite as significant of the overwhelming
influence of this Government in the af-
fairs of the Western Hemisphere as any,
thing that has occurred since the enuncia-
tion of the Monroe Doctrine. Indeed, it
may be regarded as the final blow at the
tie which has bound LatinAmerican insti-
tutions to the obsolete organization of
Continental Europe these two hundred
years or more. to be followed soon by
complete enforcement.
Certainly it indicates that change for
the better is nearer at hand than the
change for the worse represented by the
Metternichian proposition of an alliance
of Latin-American republics against the
United States. The report runs that the
prime movers in the negotiations are Bra
zil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. It
is interesting to note that these form a
group of countries on the Atlantic side of
the South American continent, and are.
therefore, more directly concerned with the
developing commerce OF the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea than are the pros
porous and progressive nations on the
other side of the Andes. This circum-
stance probably accounts for the agita-
The evening times., 1899-08-01
Generals Lee and Wood.
From the Chicago Chronicle.


II the report be true-and we are very much
inclined to doubt it-that General Brooke is to
be superseded by Gen. Leonard Wood, the change
would be greatly for the better General Wood
has manifested both tact and firmness in dealing
with the people of Santiago, and he would
unquestionably acquit himself with credit as Gev-
ernor-General of Cuba. There is, nevertheless
another general who is fully as capable as
Wood and who is far better entitled to succeed
Brooke. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is the older, if not
the better, soldier. He enjoys the esteem and af-
lection OF the Cubans OF the entire island, while
General Woods reputation is confined to sin.
gle province. He is, moreover entitled to the
supreme command by every consideration of senti.
ment and justice. Unfortunately, however, Gen.
eral Lees very fitness for the post is the best
assurance that he viii not get it, The President
is not in the business of advancing the reputa-
don Of possible candidates for the Presidency.
Lee, like Miles, will be kept on the shelf He
ID altogether too popular already.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
Bible Mission Needed in Town.

(From the New Orleans Times Democratic
The mission societies send several mil
lion Bibles to Africa every year." said
lawyer of this city. 1T is a very worthy
enterpriseand no doubt highly appreciated
by the gentlemen residing on the upper
Congo. The last explorer who penetrated
that region was shot through the solar
plexus with a fiint-lock musket. and ths
surgeons extracted several fragments OF
the Episles of Paul to the Corinthians from
the bullet wound. However, that is neither
here nor there. What I started out to
say was that small riyulet of the great
food of African Bibles might be diverted
edyantageously to darkest New Orleans.
This was impressed upon my mind a few
days ago by very peculiar incident. A
discussion had arisen in the Office in re-
gard to Biblical quotation. and naturally
all hands started to look for Bible.
That there was no copy of the Good Book
in law Office is perhaps not to be wonder
ed at but it certainly is a little strange
that We couldn't find one anywhere in the
building. My nextdoor neighbor IS
deacon, and he blushed painfully when we
asked the question. He said that he had
q Bible, of course, bat, unluckiiy, his part
Ger, who was always on the lookout for
something new and interesting, had carried
il off to read. 1t was astonishing how
many Bibles had just been mislaid through
out the different offices. We thereupon ex-
tended the search, and, to make long
story short, eventually borrowed a copy
from the colored janitor of a store two
blocks away When We asked him for it
he turned ashy, and l observed that the
name of the owner had been erased from
the title page. All of which leads me to
repeat that Bible mission is badly needed
in the business district. Won't some be-
nevo!ent person take up the idea? %
The evening times., 1899-08-01

tion which the Continental press Is trying
to stir up. European nations have valuable
island possessions in that vicinity which
they fear viii slip from them when the
United States rounds out its purpose rep
resented by recent insular acquisitions
and the irrepressible determination to con-
struct and control an isthmian canal. An
other factor of no inconsiderable moment
in the consideration is the virtual mo-
nopoly at present enjoyed by Europe in the
carrying trade of the four countries named
and the real monopoly Of their internal
commerce.
But it is this very element Of commerce,
in the broad sense, which is working the
radical change in the politics of South
America. 1t is the growing contact with
our commercial energy which is thrilling
all Americans with new life, in
vigorating their institutions, and dispelling
preiudces from their minds. Against such
a growth as this European politics cannot
prevail. What Europe failed to do in the
youth of the nineteenth century cannot he
done at the dawn of the twentieth. There
will be no alliance of Latin American re-
pubIics against the United States.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
Modern Spanish Torture.
From the London Chronicle

In view of the enquiry which it is understood
has been granted by the Spanish Government
into the charges of torturing prisoners in the
classmates of Monjuieh it may be of interest to
set out some of the items in the Indictment
made against the authorities. 1t is said in the
first place, that a reward of 100000 pcsetas was
offered to any Jail official who could extort an
avowal of guilt from prisoner Acting under
this stimulus, the jaiers stated to have
forced the wretched creatures under their con-
troll to run round their cells day and night for
eighty hours at a stretch heavy whips being
used to keep the victims awake. The officials
are also said TO have deprived them of all food
save salt stockfisii and ardent spirits, confess
sion being the price of a glass of water Not
few paid It'll slaked their thirst and, it is con-
tended, were summarily shot,
1t is further, alleged that wedges were driven
under the nails OF prisoners with hammers, and
allowd to remain until the nails sloughed away.
Even more horrible mutilations are stated not
to have been uncommon. One Of the most cruel
devices, borrowed from the Inquisition, was, it
is affirmed, a.. machine like a divers helmet.
fitted with tube allowing the victim to breathe,
while a screw compressed slowly the sides and
top, thus producing uncomfortable agony. -0ne
prisoner, MorasL is stated to have undergone this
torture more than once, and to have been driven
mad by it. } 3oc
The evening times., 1899-08-01
TUESDAY. AUGUST /, 1899.
yellow Jack Surrounded.

The activity and organization displayed
by our national health authorities in iso-
Iating the scene Of the yellow fever out
break at Hampton, is highly encouraging
to the communities which might be en-
dangered were the conditions less favora-
bic 10 segregation. and means and facili-
ties not as available as they are.
AS matters stand, there does not seem
TO be any more danger that the epidemic
will spread to Washington than that it will
strike Montreal. Either accident is among
the possibilities. but they are too remote
TO create the least local anxiety. The
disease is declared by Dr. Wyman to be
of q mild type. Only one new case was re-
ported yesterday, and the officials OF the
Marine Hospital Service are not at all
doubtful of their ability to confne the
fever within their quarantine Gordon.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
Suppress the Boycott.

The boycott which has taken the place
of dynamite in Cleveland is a more hateful
and un-American instrument Of law def
ance, and il ought to be dealt with with
the utmost firmness and courage. The
dynamiter can be caught and punished in
such a way as to minimize the dangers OF
that form of anarchy; but the boycott is a
less personal force and cannot, therefore,
be so easily curbsd. Adjutant General AK
line pointed the way TO get at the boycott
by calling attention to the statute in Ohio
which defines as a misdemeanor any in
reference by the public with the suppress
sion OF strikes and the restoration of order.
This only shows that in Ohio, as in other
parts of the country, the statutes keep
pace with the needs of our rapidly deyel-
oping industrial system, and that the
weakness there, as in other States, is
the lack Of courage in the administrators of
law to enforce it.
Undoubtedly the boycott is interfering
with the suppression of the strike and the
restoration OF order in Cleveland. As many
people are now deferred from riding on
the tabooed cars through the fear of injury
TO their business interests by the loss OF
trade, as were prevented by the fear of nj
troglycerine and hurtling missiles which
the strikers formerly employed to enforce
their demands. This condition appeals as
strongly as the one preceding for courage
and firmness on the part of the authorities
The military ought to be ordered to arrest
every person who encourages or in any
way is connected with the boycott. and the
courts ought TO deal with him in a spirit
no less lenient than that with which the
dynamiters will be dealt Until this is
done the law breaking element will have
no respect for the statutes, and the cause
OF labor will continue to suffer through the
criminal conduct of the foolish and un-
American element which too frequently
dominates its councils. Legitimate trades
unionism nowhere endorses the boycott in
America any more than it endorses dyna-
mite.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
MooNsHINERs PUT TO FLIGHT.
Results of n Revenue Omcers' Raid
ON Long Island

New York, Aug. -Four OF Internal
Revenue Collector Moore's men, il was
learned yesterday, had an exciting expert
ence with armed moonshiRers near JamaI-
ca, L. l., late on Saturday night. They dis
covered two Illicit stills in the woods there
and the men who guarded one of the places
were armed with rifles. The officers had
gone in search of moonshiners, and they
charged the suspects. The moonshiners.
instead of making the fight which their
armed appearance seemed 10 forbode, fed
into the woods, and the officers succeeded
in making but one arrest.
Collector Moore had been informed that
moonshinsrs were operating in the vicinity
OF Jamaica. but all previous efforts to locate
their premises had failed. He determined
to end the practice, and detailed Deputies
Cadzow, Rawlings. Webster. and Krisletter,
of the Internal Revenue Department, in
Brooklyn TO stamp out the moonshiners.
The four officers, with Deputy CadzoU
in command, went TO Jamaica last Saturday
and began skirmishing in the woods there
about After q long search the officers sud-
denly stopped to listen 10 some strange
voices. Only 4 short distance away, stand
ing in front of small building. were three
desperate dpptdI dHCS, anu Satu
armed with a rife.
The men. up 10 this point seemed not 10
have discovered the approach of the officers,
who took advantage of the fact to MAKE
plans for the raid. While they were thus
engaged they discovered, not far away.
another house, in front of which several
men were drinking something that looked
in the glasses exactly like liquor. The
officers speedily decided upon a line of ae-
ton.
I'VE must do our duty, men," Deputy
Cadzow said. as he led his comrades in the
charge against the armed men. When the
officers burst upon the men 1t looked as il
a desperate battle would be fought. But
the men, instead of taking aim and firing
their rifles dropped their weapons and 1ei
through the woods.
The second Group. having been warned
by the shouts OF the fugitiyes, quickly drop
ped their glasses and disappeared. The
officers pursued them hot.y, but owing to
the density of the woods in the vicinity
only one of the men was arrested.
John Stumpf, who fell into the hands CT
HE deputies, is thought to be the owner OF
one of the places. He was taken 10 Rich
mond Hill, where he will be f.eld pending
the action OF the Federal authorities.
The evening times., 1899-08-01
The Beers Tusks.

Whether the Transvaal Secretary OF
State means what he says, or not, 1t is
plain enough. as The Times remarked yes
terday, that the Beers are being driven
into a close corner from which escape will
be impossible without a surrender or
fight.
The clever turn made by Lord Salisbury,
in accepting the Valksraad concessions,
subject, however. to joint enquiry as to
their adequacy and good faith, has COM
pletely nonplussed President Kruger and
his associates. They are talking boldly
and declaring that they will not submit to
such an arrangement unless it includes
plenary discussion of ali points at issue
between the South African Republic and
England, including the convention OF 1884
and everything else since the war. But
it is easy to see that they are badly worst
ed in this encounter of diplomacy. The
concessions granted to the Uitlanders are
neither as liberal as the minimum demand
of the suzerain State, nor were they en-
acted with much pretence of disposition to
apply them honestly. Hence the deter
mination of England to subject the legis-
lation TO formal enquiry is notice to the
Boer leaders that they have yet to offer
further terms and guarantees, or else pre-
pare for the struggle which can end
only in their political annihilation.
Kruger and few other bell wethers of
the Dutch flock, have such a vital inter-
est in preserving the status quo. in view of
their present opportunities for extortion
and loot, that they will probably, to the
extent of their influence, attempt to Sc
cure some additional sop to the British
Cerberus from the legislators at Pretoria
The principal difficulty will be that the
headmen of these stupid burghers have
been swearing to them for years that, with
proper armament they would be as invin-
chile against the redcoats as their horde of
rihemen was against the little force at
Majuba Hill. On the basis of arguments OF
this kind the Volksraad has allowed
Kruger and his personal following a free
hand in spending the large sums annually
wrung from the Uitlanders on one pre-
tence or another. A considerable arma-
ment has been procured. but those who
have done the purchasing have grown rich.
1t would be extremely embarrassing for