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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
REBEL PLOT BALKED.
soMss AND FIREARMS o,scov
Erred IN MANILA.
Insurgents intended to KIN Eoreigs
consuls -Hoped Thereby TO Create
international Comp1icadons-La
toms Funeral Furnished Opportunity,

-Four explosive bombs, some firearms
n 800 rounds Of ammunition were
found In a house in the center Of Manila
Sunday morning while the police were
looking for Recarte, the insurgent leader,
| who was said to have gone to Manila in
the hope Of efEecting an outbreak Saturs
day by taking advantage OF the mobil
ixation Of the American troops at Gen
Lawton's funeral.
It wal learned that the plot included
the throwing of bombs among the for
eign consuls attending the ceremony in
order to bring about international CON.
pHcations. These, it seems, were to have
been thrown from the Escolta's high
buildings, but the avoidance Of the Es-
Gotta by the funeral procession spoiled
the plan.
The populace, 1t is thought, had been
prepared for the attempt by a rumor cir
culated widely among the natives that
Aguinaldo was in Manila and would per-
sonally lead the outbreak. The Ameri-
can authorities, having been advised Of
what was brewing, prepared for al con-
tingencies.
Capt. Morrison, who commands the
troops in the most turbulent district Of
the city, says he does not believe an
0SsA0A 0V4AUAA8 WALL CvGA VCSOAs as Su0
natives lack the resolution to take the
first steps in a movement that would c.
tail fighting at close quarters with the
American troops.
An American advance in Cavite prov
ince, south OF Manila, is expected short.
". Reliable reports from native spies
show that there are upward Of 1000 or
gsnized insurgents under arms within q
mile Of linus. They are strengthening
their intrenchments and possess artillery.
Rebels Garrison Small Towns.
At Novaleta the Filipino intrenchmentA
have been much strengthened since Gen.
6chwan's advance. A thousand Of the
enemy are in that vicinity and there are
600 at San francisco de Malabon. From
twelve to 100 garrison all the towns in
the southern part Of Cavite province and
the same may be said Of the towns in
Batangas province.
The provinces of North Camarines and
South Camarines hold quantities Of
hemp, which the people annot market.
As a consequence the population in that
part Of Luzon is suffering from lack of
food. Rice now costs four times its nor
NAL price. 1t is estimated that 1000 i'm
surgents are intrenched at Calamba. Re-
ports have also been received that 2,OCC
insurgents are massed at Mount Arayat,
having strong positions which command
steep and narrow trails and that they
are prepared to roll powders down upon
advancing troops.
Life along the coasts of the provinces
Of Cagayan and North and South nocos
is resuming normal conditions. The
American troops occupy the important
towns and patrol the country roads. The
natives implore the Americans to con-
tinue the occupation, to establish a set
tied government and to terminate the un-
certainty, abuses and confiscations that
have characterized the rule of the Tagalo
revolutionists during the last eighteen
| months.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
WRESTLING WITH LANDSCAPE
The Original Iowans Got Tired of
Climbing Hills,

The Original IOwnns Got Tired OF
Climbing Hills.
westward of the Mississippi, the
dramatic playof physicalnature against
the migrating will of human beings
assumes many times the interest and.
fmpressiveness that it had in the move
ments from, the .A~lleghanies to Illinois,"
says a writer in Ainslee's, i'll an article
explaining the settling of the United
States. 'The struggle of the settler
with the swamps and marshes and
malaria of Indiana struggle which
lasted to within the most recent genera
tion-was but a proem to the hardships
and conflicts that followed when the
Iowa immigrants crossed the river. and
the MissOurians that were to be flrsook
the hills of Tennessee. F.,
Iowa itself, excluding the coasiac:a.
tion Of the warfare with the doughty
Sioux, was not such q basis OF tragedy,
nor was Missouri geographically SO.
but Iowa and Missouri furnished the
basis Of the exodus to the further. west,
and in doing SO gave both the genesis
and the nemesis to many Il hahited
place on the way to the Pacific. Iowa
itself is an illustration in Il miner way
Of the law of least resistance. AM! Mis-
souri, is an illustration of the law of
greatest endurance.
~"The exces of population from illi-
nois would doubtless have gone over
the Missouri as well as the Mississippi
and have stretched across the plains of
Nebraska twenty years before the
Union Pacific rails were laid. had not
Iowa's surface been as it is and the
nomads grown tired of rolling up and
down the undulating hills and decided
that the easier thing to do was to settle
in the attractive wooden wales and stick
their plows into the deep, loamy. Germ
producing soil. The thousands who ,e-
manned have always been of tleremain-
ing, sticking kind-steady. Industrious.
thrifty, but circumscriEed by the hills
from whose outlook only hills are to be
seem"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

assault and heavy hitting of the Irish
man. The men were fighting for a per-
ccntage Of the gate receipts and a guar
anty. About $4,000 showed up inside
the gate and the promoters waived their
rights and presented this to the fighters,
with a winning and losing percentage.
Maher was evidently outclassed by the
nimble and hard-hitting Kid, and, strange
to say, most of the reports agree that
Mccoy was hitting the harder blows,
sending Maher to the ground oftener
than was good for a man supposed to be
working his way up again to a fight with
Sharkey or Jeffries. Besides the Irish
mans head rocked like an old tower in
a storm. The finishing punch was a left.
Peter himself a y it caught him under
the jaw and on the Adams apple and
seemed to pump all the wind out Of him.
The Kid slipped a couple of lefts to the
jaw early in the round that put Peter
partially groggy, then whipped a right
across over, which went high, followed
by a left to the ear. Then came the right
feint which pulled Peters guard out Of
the way, and, the left hook coming up,
completed the work.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
GREAT CANAL OPENED
WATER TURNED INTO CHICAGO
DRAINAGE DITCH.
At a Cost of sss.ooo.ooo, the Gulf of
Mexico and the Great Lakes Are Com
nected by a Canal Twenty.eieht Miles
lone-Immense Engineering Feat.

Shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday morn
Ang water was turned into Chicago's
great $33,O00,O00 drainage canal and be
gan to flow toward Lockport, where II
fell into the Desplaines river, and thence
through the Illinois and Mississippi riv.
ers to the Gulf of Mexico. There had
been so many delays and so much tark
of injunctions and opposition Of various
kinds that the assurance that the canal
had actually been opened came in the
nature Of a surprise. ven to those who
had kept closest track Of the great enter.
prise from its inception.
While Chicago has turned the course OF
q river and caused water to flow in a di-
section contrary to that indicated by the
natural slope Of the land, in reality il
has but carried into effect a suggestion
of Pere Joliet made in 1874, when he
wrote: I'VE can easily go to Florida in
boats and by 81 good navigation. There
would be but one canal to make, by cut
ting only one-half a league of prairie to
pass from the lake of the Illinois into
st. Louis river"
The dimensions Of the canal are larger
than those of any other channel men
toned and it bears the distinction of be.
ing the only ship canal designed to carry
a large volume of water. Primarily con
structed to divert the flow of sewage
from Lake Michigan through the Des
PLANES and Illinois rivers to the Mis-
sissippi. it serves a more magnificent pur
pose as a connecting link between the
chain Of lakes and rivers and establish
ing water communication between the
Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico.
A little owe eve years ago, or, tt
be exact, on Sept. 8, 1892, the first spade
full of earth on Chicago's great sanitary
canal was turned. The work was begun
on the rock cut below Lemont on the
line between Cook and Will counties
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
Milas.
NEAR THE 100. 600. 600 MARK.
Population of the United States Ma;
Reach Nine Figures.

Population Of the United States May
Reach Nine Figures.
The war with Spain gave to Uncle
Sam a substantial addition to his al
ready big family of children and san
guine calculators there are who predict
that the 100,OO0,O00 mark will be passed
when the censu Of 1900 is taken. The
best estimates, however, indicate that
the total will fall 100000 or there
abouts short Of the eighth cipher.
There were 62,622,250 inhabitants in
the United States ten years ago. accord
ing to the last census. Secretary Cages
actuary Of the Treasury computes the
present population between Maine and
California, Alaska and Key West, at
76,14S,000. To this must be added the
peoples brought under the stars and
stripes by the war with Spain and by
the annexation of Hawaii, to say moth
ing Of Cuba, Porto Rico and Guam.
It is probable that for a decade or two
longer the United States must be con-
tent to remain in the fourth place in
point Of population among the nations
Of the earth. China, despite encroach-
ments upon her territory, still holds the
lead, with 400, GSO,OOO men, women and
children within her borders; the British
empire comes next, with 3S1,O37,S74 sub.
jects, and the Russian empire is third,
120,211,113 persons owing allegiance to
the Gear.
No other nation, however, Gun show
such a rapid increase as that Of the
United States. George Washington was
President Of a nation numbering fewer
than 100000 individuals. 1t took TWEEN
ty years for the population to double. In
1910 it was 7,239,SS1, in 1920 it had
reached only 9,633,s22. and ten years
later the total was 12,S86,O20. From
this time on it advanced by leaps and
bounds. In 1910 it was 1909, 453, in
1850 it was 23,191,s76, in 1860 it had
reached 81,443,332 1. and thirty years age
the census showed a population Of 3S,
55S,371. It did not pass the half-cen,
fury mark until 1880, when it was So,
156, 7S3, and the last enumeration, 1890
gave a total Of 62,622,250.
Owing to immigration from all part.
Of the earth, the population showed q
wide cosmopolitan range even before the
recent acquisition Of new territory. The
Philippines, however, will make a con.
siderable addition to the list Of races GOV.
erned by the constitution. They will add
no less than thirty new names to Ameri.
can nomenclature.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

swift for navigation. The water can be
turned off almost as easily as the flow
from a hydrant may be stopped by turn
ing u faucet. Below the controlling works
the channel widens out to about 500 feet.
forming a basin in which the largest lake
steamers can be easily turned
The canal has been constructed in
strict conformity with the requirements
Of the law under which the sanitary dis
trict of Chicago was organized, and is
Of sufficient capacity to maintain a con-
slant flow Of 100000 cubic feet per min
hte with a current not exceeding one mile
m hour. The flow of water is to be
twenty-five feet In depth and the rock
sections are 100 feet in width. Provis-
ion is. made for q flow Of water that will
easily carry OF the sewage Of the city
when 1t reaches 4 population Of 100000.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

effects of the senility from which he is
now suffering.
DR.. b. H. Roberts, the American ply
sician who has won fame by discovering
a Of utilizing the curative proper
ties Of the lymph by keeping the cells in
an active state, is now in Rome, where
he has been the guest of DIR. Baldwin, a
member Of the American colony of the
Eternal City, who holds the post of adj
wiser to the medical staff Of the Vatican
and also to the royal family Of Italy.
Dr.. Roberts wrote to friends in Chi
cago several days ago that he had dis
cussed the merits of the lymph with DIR.
Baldwin, that the latter had become ex-
ceedingly interested in the matter, and
had suggested that he be supplied with
samples Of the fluid in order that he
might %acquaint himself with its proper
ties and effects on the human system
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

Fifty short, practical dairy rules for
the production and handling Of pure milk,
printed on large cardboards, have been
distributed by the tens Of Thousands
among American farmers by the Bureau
of Animal Industry.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
OPEN DOOR in CHINA.
Lending European Countries Assent to
Policy of the United States.

Lending European Countries Assent to
Policy of the United States.
A diplomatic triumph of no small mag
nitude has been scored by the United
States in securing the assent of the lead
ing European countries and of Japan to
the "open door" in China. The an.
nouncement of the joining of Great Brit
ain, Germany, France, Russia and
Japan in Americas proposals looking to
equal privileges in oriental trade was
recently made by Secretary Hay. The
only country that has not yet come in is
Italy and its approval is regarded as
certain.
In estimating the Importance Of this
it must be remembered that England
some months & was almost prepared
to deliver al ultimatum to Russia upon
the subject and in effect, practically, was
seeking such In alliance as would COM
pei an "open door, in Chinese trade. The
United States refrained from entering
into any entanglements with other pow
ers to enforce such n policy in the in
terests Of trade. This left the Govern
ment a free hand and the result is that
this country has bccn able to secure a
common understanding on the subject
among the powers chiefly concerned.
Secretary Hays recent inquiries as to
the purposes of the powers in regard to
the ''open door, found ready attention
and acquiescence, and an understanding
Of vast Importance has been secured.
This is the first direct acknowledgment
by European countries of Americas en-
trance upon the stage in the east us a
world power. There is no country Of
Europe at present that is not anxious to
be On good terms with the great repub-
lie Of the west.
The London Times, commenting upon
the assurances given by the powers to
the United States regarding the open
door in China, says:
Nowhere will they be hailed with
greater satisfaction than in Great Brit
ain, and nowhere will the particulars
of the arrangement be awaited with deep
er interest. The American republic is
the last power in the world that would
have gone to the trouble of getting pa
per assurances and then allow them to
remain paper assurances only. :
1 she has got them it is because she
means them to be observed. 1t is to be
hoped that in fulfilling that intention she
will always receive the vigorous, unfinch-
ing support of the ~initiators of the policy
she has adOuted."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
aoAr's LYMPH FOR THE PoPa

Latest American Discovery May In.
crease the Pope's Vitality.
What European medical science has
been unable to accomplish American ply
sicians may. The condition Of Pope Leo
XIII. has for some time been such as to
seriously worry his medical attendants,
and in their efforts to find a remedy for
the aged pontiff Chicago has been ap-
pealed to. Word comes from Rome that
the medical attendants Of the holy faith
er are seriously considering the advisa-
bility Of inoculating him with goats
lymph in the hope of eounteracting the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
1 News Items.

Van Buren,, Tex, had a $1OO,OO fire.
Hannah Hall, 1873. colored, is dead in
Houston, Tex.
The Hamburg-American line will try
petroleum as fuel.
Bal Ely killed his uncle named Oops.
Walnut Hills, Va.
Win and Tom Russell killed A. II.
Martin. Conner, Ga.
Harvey Sprinkle, near Huntington, w.
Va, froze to death while drunk.
R. Overton and John Combs were both
killed in a duel. A%tlanthens Hill, Va.
John Leonard, Camden, N. J., was
locked in a lime kiln and burned to death.
The st. Petersburg papers say that
Providence is furnishing Great Britain
for her greed.
Gen. Butler was hit In the side BY Z
spent bullet from q shrapnel shell n
the Colsnso battle.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
PANIC IN A CHURCH.
Altar Drapery Catches Fire at Mass
Ho1yoke, Mass.

Altar Drapery Catches Fire at Mass in
Ho1yoke, Mass.
The New Years mass in the Sacred
Heart Church at Holyoke, Mass, early
New Years morning came neal ending in
a frightful loss of life through a panic
There were 1900 people in the church,
and even the vestry md aisles were fill.
ed. The Rev. p. B. Phelan was cele.
brating mass when one end Of the light
drapery covering the altar was blown
against a lighted candle.
The next moment the entire front Of
the chancel was a mass Of flames. A cry
Of "Fire" went up from a dozen threats,
and then followed a scene Of confusion
which for a moment promised to result
in a repetition of the burning Of the
Church Of the Precious Blood in 1874,
when seventy-five men lost their lives.
Men sprang to their feet and ran shrek.
ing toward the exits. The aisles became
FLIED with a solid, struggling mass of hui.
manity. Men and women were trampled
upon in their mad frenzy to escape. Cries
and prayers filled the auditorium.
A great loss of life was only averted
by the GOODNESS of a dozen men, who with
quick presence of mind cxtinguished the
flames before they had made further
Roadway, and by cool words quieted the
excited crowd. AS it was q number were
injured, though not seriously.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
G WHIPS II
Big Peter Is Easily Knocked Out In
the Fifth Round.

The young Indiana pugilist, known to
ring patrons as kid" Mccoy, but whose
real name is Norman Selby, surprised a
crowd Of 5000 spectators at the Coney
Island Sporting Club by knocking out
Peter Maher Of ireland in the fifth round.
There was never a period, correspondents
nent in scientific methods, although at
one time it seemed probable that Nc
Coy might give way before the rugged
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
Wonders of the LOCOMOTIVES,

The story of the locomotive sounds
simple in the recital. The wonder of
the thing comes into view only when
one reflects on the speed and nicely
with which cumbrous parts are made
to do their duty. The piston and con-
Meeting bar of a modern locomotive
weigh some 600 pounds. When the
speed is sixty miles an hour these parts
travel back and forth five times a sec.
ohd.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
Notes Of Current Events.

Notes of Current Events.
There are 2,517 students in Yale Uni
versity. e.
Chicago is at the front with IN auto
mobile club.
Mrs. Gondy burned to death at Bridge.
port, Ohio.
Mrs. William Packard, Akron, Ohio,
was found dead. Mystery.
Burglar got $500 in stamps and money
from the Nanda, N. T., postohice.
The State Forestry Commissioners of
New York have just purchased 10000
acres Of land in the Catskill Mountains,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

A pet cat saved the life Of s~torekeep-
er Frank Sidney, at Fieldsboro, Del.
There was a blaze in the store, and Sid
ney's room. where he was asleep, was
filled with smoke, but he was awakened
by the cat walking over him and mewing
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

Interstate commerce commission has
extended the time to Aug. i. 1900. to al.
low railroads to equip cars with auto
matte couplers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

with the purpose of recommending its use
to the Pope's physicians in case he found
it suitable to the pontiff's malady. Ac-
cordingly a consignment of the lymph
has been sent to Rome and the Pope will
he inoculnted.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

One Of the agencies through which the
English war Office is supplied with news
and the army in the field with orders is
a military bicycle corps. recently organ
lied in Cape Town. This is the first
time such a corps has seen active SER
vice in the field, although all the stand
ing armies now have such couriers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

There were 2,473 locomotives built in
the United States In 1899. Beats 'ee ~
6e6.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
Advice.

Advice.
Old Pomps-Yes, my daughter studied
singing in Italy. Would you advise
her to go into opera or concert?
The Mean Man-Why don't you try
her on a fish cart first to see how the
public takes to her?-Syracuse Herald.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12
Survival of the Fittest.

Survival OF the Fittest.
As nations die out one by one,
Languages diminish,
IT'S plain to see
The last will be
No other but the Finnish.
Commercial Advertiser.
Out OF the Frying Pan.
He gets his daughter of his hands
And he thinks it all complete.
But o h( nds he has to keep
Her husband on his feet.
A "ready-made" tailor In . provincial
town has this advertisement outside hio
shop: Wear our twenty-one shillln6
euitA and you VIII have . aAr
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-01-12

Patroni.e those who adveztase.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-16
TENNIS AT TUXEDO.

Tuxedo Park N V Jan. Is (specaD.-T. suffern
Taller and Alfred Tompkins played the first court
tennis match of the Tuxedo week the amateur re-
ceivng half fifteen. The result a draw, at
2 sets all. Mr.. Taller won the first set at to T.
After he had reached to 1, Tompkins got well
into the court, and struggled up to to g. then he
lost the next game. improving as he went on. He
won the next set at to 3. Taller pulled himself
together, and, thanks to his voleying and forcing
got the next set at to g. The last set produced a
severe and fight, the amateur keeping a
slight lead till he had reached to 4. Then Tomp-
kins by good length strokes. well placed and
with heavy cut captured three games in succession
winning at to 3.
The light which had been perfect up 10 the end
of the set, not good enough for a whole
set. Tompkins's graceful game great
display, and he showed that he was able TO adapt
himself to new court very quickly. On Tuesday
Mr.. Stockton plays Latham, This should be fine
exhibition it will be interesting to COM
pare it's results with next Thursdays when Mr.
Miles plays Latham, The professional champion
will cOncede half thirty. He and Tom Pettitt
and Mr.. Stockton will arrive at Tuxedo tonight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-16
THE R4CETR4CK.

New-Orleans. Jan. 15-Dona Rita was the only
winning favorite to-day. and she was put to her
best 70 steal from Frank Mcconnell, who was
closing fast at the end. Frank McConnelFs per-
Torrance differed widely from his last one that
the owner and trainer and Jockey L. Thompson
have been suspended pending an Investigation The
weather was threatening and the track fast SUM
maries;
First race seven flrlongs. selIing)-Ben Frost los
0oland), to g. BY George. 100 u
Weber, 10 and second; Sea Knight ll5 tIaoer
10 1. third. Time %. - ~ ~,
Second mile and twenty Yards sellng(MPRaia5
Il l and to l. second; The Bobby lO4 Ct'lchards
/ third 'Tme-1 46. -
Third Sme and eighth sellinglEp 99n RITA
los H. Thompson,. to and to l. second; Traveller
1OT CA Weber,, IS to ., third, Tme-1564-
Fourth (handicap me)-Fforizar, 30 (Itanson
10 1 and I TO- won; Sir Blaze 30 "a. Weber, 100
10 and 30 to l. second Tom Middleton, 104 CWedder-
strand, even. third Tme-l:42A-
Fifth (sx furlongs; sellingl-Sorrel Rose, 100
CNooty) 30 TO and 1. won; EdeFn, 104 (FrOst)
is 10 / /. second; First Past, 1O1 (MasOn),
10 TO s. third Time-1:16h -
Sixth (seven furlongs; seingl-Yubadam 1le
CTabor, to 1 and l. wOn Debrde. 125 Knapp,
to / 1. second; L. T. Cation lib tFros) 4 to
/, third. Time-1:29