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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-13
Sinking Rapidly.

London, June 1.-THE following bull
letin was issued from Hawarden cas-
tie Saturday afternoon: Mrs. Glad
stone grew worse Friday evening. She
is now quite unconscious, and is rap
idly sinking
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-13

Education of siamese In England.
Every year a number Of boys are
sent from Siam by the. king to England
to learn different things. One learns
upholstery .anot her typewriting, an
other languages. another science, and
SO on.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-13
A Degenerate.

Caught in the act of setting fire to a
barn, Rander Abrahamson, aged 90,
was arrested at Duluth by detectives.
Not only was he caught in the act,
but in the presence of a large num-
Der of people at police headquarters,
he confessed to starting fourteen in
.cendiary fires in the last three weeks,
including fire in barn in which one
man and five horses We're burned to
death.
= The incendiary, who has endan-
gered property worth 100000, is a
youthful degenerate that simply en-
joyed seeing the blaze and watching
the fire department make runs. He
was arraigned, charged with arson in
the second degree. His mother was
brought into Jail charged with drunk
enness as he was being arraigned.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-13
Dead VIII NUMBER SIX or Eight.

8 Glouster, o., june lit is now
stated thatthe dead from the explo
OF gassi IN mine No. 2 will number six or
eight. I'Wo@more explosions occurred
dusislg the night. From 800 to 400
miners are thr own out Of employment.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-06-13
The Midway.

The Midway at the St. Paul carnival
to be given by the Elks from June 18th
to 30th, will furnish a series of most
attractive exhibitions. The streets of
Cairo will will always be a novelty to
an American audience. They will be
a special attraction to children, as an
opportunity will be offered for riding
elephants, camels and burros. This
will suit both old and young, and the
children will flock by the thousands to
the streets of Cairo.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
JINGOISM-WITH A DIFFERENCE.

The old fable about its making a difference
whose is gored receives a novel if not alto
gether convincing Interpretation 1t the hands Of
those who fondy exploit their hatred of what
they are pleased to call Imperialism and lingo
ism and militarism. These latter are, in their
eyes, dreadful things. But like the felicity of
Yum Yum's wedding, 'it all depends, bless you,
1t all depends
For example, for the United States to inter
vene in behalf of outraged humanity in Cuba
was jingoism and militarism But for it to med
die in the South African embodiment in behalf
of the Beers would be only the proper discharge
If a solemn duty. For the United States to send
forces to suppress a revolt against its lawful
authority in Luzon, and to maintain peace and
order there, is rank Imperialism and direct in
vitation to all sorts Of complications with the
Powers. But to send fleet into the Medter-
ranean and to the Dardanelles to lombard Turk
sh cities and to coerce the Turkish Government
would be peacefully minding our own business
and scrupulously refraining from cause of of
fence to any other nation. We are much
nearer. apparently, to the Transvaal than to
Cuba. and the collection Of claim of 100000
is so much more important than the protection
of the National honor and the safety of mill
ions of lives and hundreds of millions Of prop
erty. Truly, it all depends.
It is Quixotism, run madder than any ever
seen in La Mancha. 1t is duty, apparently,
to maintain an army and navy for everybodys
use but our own; to champion everybody's
causes but our own; to go skylarking over the
world a-tilting wherever alien windmill
waves its arms but to shrink tlmorousy from
guarding our own coasts and from maintaining
our own rights. We are to go to war for trifes,
and in causes which do not concern directly;
but are to cling to peace at any price" when
ever the honor and welfare of our own land are
concerned. 1t is a fine application Of the old
fable. Only, in the original If we remember
Alright, the man was chiefly concerned when his
own OK was gored.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24

tolerable peace, there might be some reason to
question his accuracy. As it Is he tells the good
and the bad. and his reports confirm those of
other officers and civilians who have previously
expressed hopeful opinions of the situation
1t is evident that General Schwan is no mill
tary braggart publishing rosy stories for popu-
lar consumption His statement that 1.-The most
serious obstacle in the way of complete pacifi-
''cation of the islands now lies in the mutual
''dstrust between the troops and the inhabi-
''tants" is the manly facing of disagreeable
truth, which a person writing a political cam
paign document would probably have avoided.
This distrust is natural on both sides. A few
treacherous natives and few misbehaving sol
diers easily account for it, General Schwan
thinks that better acquaintance will dissipate
the prejudice, and the work Of civilian Commits
sioners will doubtless facilitate the adjustment.
In view of the harm done by any discreditable
act the part of Americans. it is important
that prompt measures be taken to make all
minor civil appointments on merit. The strict
discipline which keeps soldiers in order will be
lacking with civil functionaries, and unless they
selected with the grea test care because of
fitness and not because of influence there is
grave danger that something like Cuban
troubles may upon in the Philippines,
where incalculable harm might be done in
breaking down all the confidence that hundreds
of good and efficient men had nurtured in 4
suspicious people. The higher officers in the
new possessions have been chosen with ad
mirable judgment. Their subordnates should
be as carefully picked and soon possible
the Civil Service competitive system should be
adapted, as it can be, TO test fitness for island
service. to avoid the danger which Gen
eral Schwan points ont.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
GENERAL SCHWAN'S REPORT

The declaration of Brigadier-GeneraI Schwan
In his report TO the War Department just made
public, that the sole hope of the Philippine in
surgents is the expectation of American inactiv-
ity during the wet season and .'the possibility
''of victory for the Democratic or anti-expansion
party in the coming Presidential campaign"
viii doubtless excite great Indignation among
the politicians who are fitted by this coat made
for Filipino assistants. 1t is, however merely
repetition of the warning General Lawton sent
in that last letter, which became known after
ne had fallen, as he feared victim of Tagal
rifles loaded by American agitators. That SOL
emn and pathetic rebuke had to be accepted in
comparative silence and humility Lawton was
dead. and his mourning countrymen were in no
mood TO listen to those whom he recognized as
the ultimate cause Of his death either in de-
fence of themselves or in attack on him for his
statement. But Schwan is living, and must ex-
pect 10 bear the brunt of their resentment not
merely for the truth he tells but for the former
unpleasant truth they had 10 swallow.
The anti-expansionists will not believe that
this is anything but an attempt to play politics,
and will persist in heralding every encounter
with the savage bands m9king incursions from
the interior or every fight with the scattered
bodies of insurgents evidence that the war is
still far as ever from an end. People of more
sane and unprejudced views, however, will
read with interest General Schwan's statement
and accept IL the latest and most trust
worthy exposition Of conditions in the islands.
AS reasonable people they will not expect tina t
q country inhabited by many races in various
states or barbarisn and civilization will be en-
treiy free from disorder, like Boston suburban
village. There viii doubtless be disorders as
for century there have been disorders here
along Indian frontiers and where our gangs"
have operated, just as in parts Of Italy to this
day there are communities that maintain more
or less constant armed resistance to the Gov
ernment
General Schwan frankly says the islands are
infested with brigand bands. and that they are
a nucleus for RECOMMENDATION Of insurgent forces
on a favorable opportunity, and his frankness
commends his statement TO acceptance IL he
represented not merely that the backbone of
insurrccfion was broken, and that in Luzon all
the interior as well as all the coast towns of
importance were occupied by American troops.
and that the majority Of the educated and peas
classes desired the restora ton OF peace under
American rule. but that the islands were en-
tirely ready for the withdraw wal of military con-
tro and for New England town meetings, which
IS the only thing the antiexpansionists Will call
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
Iem21ork 1ailp Geibn,rs
THURSDAY. MAY "a, 1900.
TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN.-Lord Roberts's army reached the
Rhenoster River on its march to Pretoria, the
cavalry under General French crossing over and
General Hamilton's column seiZing Hebron:
the Beers finding themselves outfanked, re-
treated northward in the night; General Baden
Powell reported the relief Of Mafeking to LORD
Roberts; further details Of the capture Of Com
mandant Elof and his men in their attack on
Mafeking We're received in London - Mr.
Griscom, United States Charge d'Affaires at
Constantinople. has presented another and more
peremptory note TO the Porte, demanding
prompt settlement of the American mission
ary claims. - The House of Commons
passed the second reading of the bill enabling
women to be elected Aldermen and Coun-
cillors in the new Borough Councils. -
The Reichstag. by a vote of 163 to 1913
passed the Meat Inspection bill. - The dele
cation from the New-York Kriegerbund arrived
IL Dresden. = a relief force for Coomassie
was landed at Cape Castle, the Gold Coast.
DOMESTTC.-The War Department made pub
lie letter from General Schwan reviewing
the situation in the Philippines and showing
that the rebellion is waning =- Secretary
Roots Army Reorganization bill has been aban-
doned for the present session of Congress. -
Secretary Hay entertained the Boer envoys at
luncheon. - The Methodist General Con-
ference decided by large majority to abolish
the time limit Of pastorates. now fixed at five
years. - policeman was shot and killed
by strikers in st Louis, where nearly all the
streetcars have resumed running schedule
time - At the Presbyterian General As
sembly the McGiffert case was finally disposed
Of and the question of a revision of the creed
was referred TO a committee of fifteen. of which
the Rev. DR.. c. A. Dickey will be chairman
=" Jonas G. Clark, the founder of Clark Uni
yersity, died at Worcester. Mass.
CONGRESS.-Senate: Mr.. Platt of Connec-
ficut, spoke, expressing the views of the Re-
publican majority on the Cuban postal frauds
and Mr.. Spooner continued his defence of the
Administrations policy. - House: The reso-
luton for final adjournment of Congress on
June was adopted, and the bill to cover extra
dition in cases similar TO that of Neely was
passed. r-r-a
CITY-Stocks We're dull and finn. - Win
ners at Morris Park: Filon dor, Gold Lace
ondurdis Sweet Lavender, Vulcain and First
whip. - The French Line has petitioned the
Federal courts TO limit the liability for La
Bourgogne disaster to the value of the ship
which is nothing - The Mayor delivered
himself OF a tirade against Republicans to the
reporters in City Hall. - The officers of the
American Ice Company, who in police
court, pleaded not guilty to charge of con-
spiracy. - The receivership Of the Third
Avenue Railroad Company ended -
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, the portrait painter
died in the Presbyterian Hospital
THE WEATHER.-Forecas for to-day.
Cloudy, showers in the afternoon and evening
The temperature yesterday: Highest, IS de-
-grees; lowest, 50; average. 693s.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
PERSONAL.

D. H. Chamberlain, who Governor of South
Carolina during the so-called "Carpetbag' re-
gime has subscribed for twenty shares of stock
in the Charleston Exposition Company, which ex-
poets to hold great fair In Charleston next year
The University of New Brunswick. at Frederic
ton is to celebrate its centennial anniversary on
May 29-31 Invitations to participate have been ex-
tended other Canadian and leading American
universities. Chancellor Harrison announces that
honorary degrees will be conferred upon the fol-
lowing at the approaching centennial of the insti-
Bailey, Providence. r. L.; the Rev George =.
Chase president of Bates College. lewiston Me.
Professor L. A. Hall Colby College Watervle. iIe
lege Brunswick, Me-; the Rev. G. H. Synatt
ithaca N. Y: Dr. A Fl. Harris. president Of the
University of Maine.
The will of Julius Adams of Boston, gives s25, 900
to Carney Hospital Of that city
Edouard Bocher who died a: the age of ninety in
Paris the other day, was for many years the conh-
Dental adviser Of the Orleans family and the centre
of most of the Oreanst plots during the last forty
years.
The will of Captain Thomas Wilson, OF Cleveland,
provides for the establishment OF home for aged
couples. in which preference shall be given to
sailors and their wives.
signorina Loretta Italia Garibaldi has entered the
preparatory school Of the Woman's College, Of
Baltimore, where she is making up hack work in
She is the granddaughter of the famous General
Garibald. Her father, Gumiotti Garibaldi has
achieved distinction as a military leader. Signorina
Garibaldi will remain at the woman's College until
she finished her full course. returning TO Rome
only during her vacations. She is much pleased
She will allow to address her by any or the
titles which she has a right TO use
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
COMMITTEE FOR MRS. FROTHINGHAM

Henry Brill counsel for Mrs. Fannie NJ BedIow
the mother OF Mrs. Julia A. rockingham. applied
to Justice Leventritt in the Supreme Court. yes
terday for order confirming the verdict of the
Sherih's jury finding Mrs. Frothingham habitual
drunkard and incapable OF managing her property
valued at $4,000. in real and personal estate in
Guiding diamonds worth $4,000. Mrs. Frothingham
is the divorced wife of Howard p. Frothingham a
Wall Street broker, who has the custody of their
only daughter. Lillian. now fifteen years old. Mr.
Brill asked that George b. Covington, a lawyer
who had managed the business of several OF her
relatives. be appointed a committee of her estate
and said he was a ft and proper person TO do so
E. Mckinistry. representing Mrs. Frothing gham
opposed the appointment OF Mr.. Covington. Jus
tice Leventritt gave Mr.. Mckinistry permission To
submit the names of two persons whom he thought
reserved his decision
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
CHOLERA AND THE FAMINE.
OUTBREAK OF THE DISEASE sCATTERs THE,
SUFFERERS STATES NEED AID.

OUTBREAK OF THE DISEASE sCATTERs THE
SUFFERERS NATIVE STATES NEED AID.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The Committee of One Hundred received yes
terday from the Rev. Robert Hume chairman OF
the Interdenominational COMMITTEES on Famine Re-
lief, the following cable dispatch published In your
columns this morning: Cholera bad in some dis
tricts. Mortality and distress increasing. Relief
most urgent in native States. Grain prices
rising"
1t may be of value to have this and other recent
cable dispatches explained in more detail The COM
plication caused by the cholera lies merely in
the sweeping away by hundreds and thousands
OF those who have gathered at government relief
works. but in the panic and scattering II causes
This breaking up of camps and wandering about
OF the starving in search OF relief elsewhere must
result in vastly increasing mortality from starva-
ton. The independence of the native State- in
matters of internal rule prevents the Government
of India from putting into effect the same efrec-
tive measures for the saving OF the people It
however, loans them money il their resources are
insufficient. and the aid of special officers 20 d.
rect their plans of relief Notwithstanding this
assistance. the system relief in these States does
not compare with what is being done in British
territory and hence emaciation and deaths from
starvation are most appalling The efforts
OF missionaries in these native States there
& tSIe of spec1a value and as they have less to aid
might well use them more literally a channel
rising is matter of thankfuness. The Govern
ment policy of non-interference with the grain
trade has been more than Justified At the begin
ning OF the famine, November I. 1899 the price OF
aewaTt sshs cheapest & grain eom9a TO the famine
ON February % four months later. il was 1915
cents q pound The fact that the price OF grain
mas not risen makes II stin the fact that this com
mon grain Is within two cents a pound, which Is
the ordinary ration for adult per day This
adds emphasis also 10 the fact that money which
can oe easled and readily EXCHANGED for grain IS
present conditions render India in her great ex-
tremity. JUSTIN + ARROT~r
No. 100 Park-ave.. New-York May q 1900
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
less II It could not shut or the streams of

less II It could not shut of the streams OF
statements from counsel it could have given
orders to it's own employees. On the whole,
therefore the court seems to have been charge
able with needless delay of nearly year at
that point in the case. From March, 1898 to
January 1899, the litigants had the floor again
with statements and counterstatements based
on the report. Then the final arguments were
called for and these lasted until May 1. 1899
when the case was declared closed. But imme-
datey the contestants began clamoring for
reOpening, which was granted, and even as late
as February 26. 1900 there were requests for
still further reopenings and adjournments
which the court refused. On March 1S 1t
declared the case closed and on March % it
announced its judgment.
We may hold the court responsible, then, for
a delay of less than one year. For all the other
years of delay and waiting the litigants them
selves, or their counsel are to be held respon-
sible. Constituted as it was, the court could not
we'll hurry them nor shut them off from further
argument any more than it did That fact does
not dscredit arbitration. 1t does emphasize the
desirability of establishing for all cases which
voluntarily submitted arbitrable a per-
manent tribunal which shall have rules of pro-
cedure to which the litigants will have to con-
form. and which will not permit any such
heightened litigation long drawn out as marked
and marred the case of Delagoa Bay.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24
THE QUEENS BIRTHDAY.

To-day is festal day in the British Empire.
The anniversary of the soveregns birth has
steadily increased in interest with her increas-
ing years, until 1t is now the supreme patriotic
holiday. To the rest of the world its appeal is,
OF course, far less strong. Yet 1t is by means
to be dsregarded. Almost any person who has
attained the age of eighty-one years is, because
of that age q marked figure In the circle to
which he or she belongs SO a sovereign who
has reached such age becomes through that
very fact marked member of the community
of soveregns. The distinction of Queen Victoria
rests, it is true, upon much more significant
basis than mere length of life and of reign 1t
is based upon the fact that her eighty years
of life and nearly siXtythree Of queenShip have
been instinct throughout with virtue and wis
dom and the qualities generally which make for
righteousness OF rule and for sweetness and
purity of life. 1t is not only a long life and
long reign, but good and true life and reign
benefcent to humanity that are honOred to-day
In that view of the case the world outside of
the British Empire may at least regard the day
with respect and sympathy.
1t will not escape the judicious observer that
the circumstances amid which the Queen enters
her eighty-second year compel q certain recon-
sderation of some former notions concerning
her status a sovereign. 1t has often been
said in recent years-though never, far as we
know, on sufficient authorty-that she was
determined to finish her reign without another
war of any magnitude That has been put forth
as the explanation of Great Britain's abstenton
from coercive measures toward Turkey in the
Armenian and other cases. and of her failure to
oppose the steady advance of Russia in Asia.
The idea has grown up that matter what was
done Great Britain would not go to war so long
as the Queen was living. We have no doubt
that Her Majesty has sincerely desired to have
no more wars and has steadily exerted her
influence to that end But that she ever
demanded maintenance of peace at any price
even to the sacrifice of national safety or honor
is simply unthnkable. The present war was
not engaged in against the Queens will. She
strove to avoid it. But when IL became nev-
liable there is no doubt that she accepted it
with the philosophy Of patriotism. Nor has she
been In the matter a mere figurehead. Despite
the idle tales that have in recent years been
circulated, she is still potent force in British
government. Nothing is done without her
knowledge, and in case is the royal assent
to be taken for granted.
OF this fact the last few months have given
striking evidence The Queens progresses
to Ireland We're of her own conception and the
execution of them was due to her own energy
and courage She is still Queen. and not alone
in name. She is still the head of the British
Empire and Of the great elder branch of the
English speaking race. And 1t is as such that
she Is to be regarded, well as a woman of
noble character the day that marks her
progress into another year of her ninth decade.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-24

was so great that prices on March 16 were "A
per cent higher than they are now.
The fall in these two months has been almost
exactly half in food products. Using the total
cost Of articles in each class that their rel
ative Importance may be noted. the fall in
breadstuffs was from S14 Id to S13,333, and in
dairy and gard products from S13,272 to
$11, ,S36. and in sugar, liquors. tobacco, fish and
other miscellaneous food from $3.50 to 1929,
while the cost of meats during the same time
from $S,594 to SS,19S. Against this fall OF
50, 1872 in the food products there appears fall
of S2,007 in other articles, largely manufactured
or imported. In the lumber and drug class the
decline was small. from S16,SSO to S16,l3l. In
the clothing class. which includes materials
with products, allowances for wool. cotton, silk
and india rubber to represent, together with
quotations of woollens. cOttons, silk and india
rubber goods, the great variety of such goods
not quoted, the decline not great. from
SIT, ,654 to S17,436. But in the metals class en-
bracing coal and mineral oil, with the metals
and their products, the decline has been from
S17,4 ,476 TO $15,S66 in the last two months. 1t is
only needful to remember that in this very
class the rise was greatest in amount and ap-
peared to go further beyond reason than in any
other class of products.