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REPUBLICANS OF MISSOURI.
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stamped their feet and saluted for Dyer
IN a manner that stopped proceedings for
several minutes
The convention voted to name negroes
for alternates at large. and the quaftette
was elected by acclama ton The resolu-
lions endorsed Mr. Kerens for reelection
as national committeeman.
Webster Davis Not Heard From.
Webster Davis, who was expected to be
a factor in the convention, and who was
yesterday made the occasion of an hours
wrangle, took no part in to-days proceed
inss, aside from that Of q spectator The
platform adopted reiterated the platform
of 1896, Endorsed the Mckinley aduinis-
tration as having bestowed the highest
prosperity the country has ever known.
The resolutions favor the maintenance
of the gold standard and the extension
OF self-governmcnt to all the people that
have lately come under the protection
or this country as rapidly as they dem
onstrate their ability to exercise It.
we are unalterably opposed" II says,
ito all trusts and combinations In re-
straint of trade or having for their pur-
pose in the remotest degree sitting OF
competition; and we demand such legis-
lation, both national and state as will
effectively protect the public from the
evils, and If such legislation cannot be
had under present constitutional powers,
we demand such amendments 90 the con-
stitution of the United States as will sup
press such combinations.
I'VE favor the immediate enactment Of
such legislation by Congress as shall
make the seas give evidence that Ameri-
can-built, American-owned and American
manned ships are carrying our foreign
commerce"
1t indorses the Nicaraguan canal.
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SULTAN TO HONOR A FRINGE.
German Torpedo FIOtilIa-Americnn
Circus ut Berlin.

German Torpedo FIotiIIa-Americnn
Circus mt Berlin.
Berlin. May 1.-THE Sultan of Turkey
will send to Crown Prince Frederick Will
liam by a high Ottoman diBnitary the In
tiaz order set in diamonds.
Owing to the low water the division tor
pedo boat of the torpedo fotills, now as
cencing the Rhine has returned to Bonn
The other vessels CT the hotila arrived
to-day at Worms. Popular enthusiasm
continues
The Prusslan government has announc-
ed that the Diet win receive next session
a bill 40 facilitate the obtaining of rural
hep in agricultural districts and TO pun
ish with especial severity breaches of con-
tr.ctx
Berlin and Charlottesberg. q. favorite
suburb OF the capital. we're to-day under
the spell of the Barnum & Bailey circus.
There was a street parade this forenoon,
the public schools closing TO enable the
children to sec IL. The opening perform
ance tonight was well attended. The
circus will remain here for month. The
civic authorities placed many obstacles
in the way of thorough advertising.
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benefit or gain of any description; be it,
therefore
Resolved, That Il is the sense of this
convention that the Philadelphia CONNER
cial Museum is doing 4 work that appeals
to every manufacturer, merchant and pro-
Queer in the United States, and is deserv-
ing of all the support that the national
government may accord It.
Resolved, That this convention earnest
" recommends the prompt passage of the
bills H. SS7, S. III as having a direct bear
ing on the advancement OF the South and
the active support is Urged from every
Southern senator and representative in
Congress-"
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uETHoDIsTs ON TEMPERANCE.
Total Abstinence Endorsed for Mem
hers and Ministers.

Total Abstinence Endorsed for Mem
hers and Ministers.
Chicago, May 16-The Methodist Gen
eral Conference to-day adopted the ma
jority report OF the Committee on Temper
ance after a long light on several para
graphs which refererd to the attitude Of
the church on the license question.
The report indorses total abstinence for
members and ministers and fraternity
with other organizations in tho temper
ance cause. 1t strongly declares against
license and membership In clubs having
bars. Secretary Long was eulogized for
banlshing liquor from the naval ships and
yards.
The friends of President Mckinley in the
Temperance Committee, who made a los
ing, fight against the adoption Of the por-
ton of the report which eriticses the Pres
ident for acceptance of the Griggs decision
in the anti-canteen law will take the
tight before the conference tomorrow IN
the form of a minority report, ubsu,utins
other paragraphs.
The conference took two more ballots to-
day to select two additional members
of the board of general superintendents.
Yesterdays ballots and the first to-day
showed no choice. The second ballot to-
day. to be announced tomorrow, win, it
is said, show a gain of upwards of forty
votes for DR.. ]. F. Berry and CORE
spending loss for DR.. Bowen, the co,ored
candidate Berry on the second ballot re-
ceived S12 votes, against J. W. Hamilton,
who came next, 207.
The conference adopted the Book Com
mittees report, with amendments. to sus-
pend publication of the Northern Chris
tan Advocate unless those in charge
guarantee the book concern from further
loss.
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INTOLERANCE OF JEsUITs.
They Have Issued an Edict Putting
Church Ahend of stnte

Correspondence of the Associated Press
Manila, April 15.-The most sensational
of the events of the past week have been
the distribution by the Jesuits of pam
phlet IN which is let forth the truths which
Christians must observe"
Among the things most strongly con-
demned in this pamphlet are religious toll
erance and recognition of civil marriage.
Consequently this act of the Jesuits is con-
slcered BY many to be an attack upon the
American administration. The pamphlet in
question says:
First. The commands of the church
must be obeyed in the same manner as
the law of God
Second You must subject your own
Judgment to that of the church and think
exactly as the church thinks, for the
church cannot be overcome
Ihlrd. You must reject and condemn
me Masonic sect, so frequently reje- ted
ana condemned by the supreme pontiffs.
Fourth. You must also reject and con-
uslnh liberty of worship, liberty of the
pless liberty of thought, and the other
Hoerties Of perdition condemned and re-
Jected by the popes.
Fifth. You must also reject and con-
oemn liberalism and also modern progress
ana civilization as being false progress
"4't raise CIVILIZATION.
sixth. You must utterly abominate
elHl marriage and regard it as pure con-
cubinage.
seventh. You must also condemn and
REJECT the interference of the civil au-
uhontles in any ecclesiastical affairs, so
nluch In vogue nowadays.
It. sLlghth. Finally, you must hold the be-
a ael mat the church, by its origin has
uilhe and supernatural authority and is,
'no,eoVer, superior 40 the civil authority
1ilu reject and condemn the doctrine that
~'e church is Independent and ought to be
parate from the state. Children must be
rousnt up In the above views, condemn
~ Whatever the church condemns And
AZ en- muss be educated solely In Cath
srs schools by genuinely Catholic teach
so ana not on any account In unsectarian
Nn H which are strictly forbidden by
me me foregoing commands are backed by
aStiLs quotations from the Bible, ecclesi-
. spt &C. syllabus and letters from differ
on, bsopss This pamphlet was issued with
4 urt, Guy expressing church authority and
E Cb,..tth e organ of the Roman Catholic
q CALI IN Manila, a Spanish newspaper
4 tbs, , the Liberastus, admitted the fact
n ever. 'ue Jesuits had published, and with
n sl5ass. isht the pamphlet in question, con-
e apfbe ao.e doubt was entertained as to its
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THAT DISASTER AT CATUBlG.
MAC ARTHUR SENDS DETAILS OF
THE BLOODY FIGHT.

Fourteen of the Garrison Were Kill
ed and Five Were wounded.
heaviest Loss, Comparatively, the
Americans Have Had During the
Fighting in the IsIands-War ONCE
Anxious for News, TeIegraphed
Macarthur.
washington, May 16.-The officials of the
war department, after waiting for nearly
. week to h,ar something from Gen. Mac
Arthur at Manila confrmatory Of the
nrsss report of the bloody three days en-
gagement at Catubig, which resulted in
the heaviest loss of life the Americans
have sustained in any one engagement in
.he Philippines yesterday cabled Gen.
Macarthur a request for Information.
The answer was received to-day, con-
frming the press reports and adding some
interesting details. Gen. Macarthur trans
mtted a report from Henry T. ALLEN, a
major of the Forty-third Volunteers, who
commanded abe United States forces on
the Island of samar.
It appears that this force was divided
among several ports on Samar and while
details are still lacking, it is believed that
this particular force which was bes.eged
al Catubig was commanded not by a
commissioned officer, but by sergeant,
either George or Hall, both of whom were
killed.
Catubig, where the engagement occurr-
ed, is a seaport town of nearly TO- coo in
habtants. Gen. McArthur's cable is as
follows:
Gen. NacArthur's Report.
Manila, May 16-With reference to
your telegram of the 18th. The rumored
engagement in Samar, reported cable
gram of Gen. Otis, May 4, has been con-
frmed by reports recently received from
Henry T. Allen, Forty-third Regiment
United States Volunteer Infantry, COM
handing Samar Island. That detachment
of thirty-one men stationed at Catubig
was attacked April Is by 800
men with 200 rifles and one
cannon. Our men quartered in convent,
which was fired next cay by burning hemp
thrown from adjoining church. Detach-
ment attempted escape by river. Men get
ting into boat were killed; remaining men
intrenched themselves near river and held
out two days longer facing most adverse
circumstances until rescued by Lieut.
Sweeny and ten men. Over 200 attacking
party (many of them reported having
come from Luzon island) reported killed
and many wounded. Lieut.. Sweeney re-
ports streets covered with dead insurgents
killed-Sergts. Dustin L. George, VIII
liam j. Hall; Corps. H. H. Edwards,
John F. ]. Hamilton; cook, Burton E.
Hess; musician, Burton R. Wagner; pri-
Yates, Treffiie Pofnelow, Otto 3. Loose,
Stephen Apperti, Joseph NOEL. John E.
Kuhn Ralph H. Zim. Edward Braman,
Chester A. Conklin, Walter F. Collins, j.
]. Kerins. Henry Dumas, Philip Sailing,
and George J. Slack, all Company H For
ty-third Regiment, United States Volun-
teer Infantry.
Wounded-Privates Lester Rushworth,
Harry C. Lee, NJ. j. Faron, j. H. Clancy,
Company H. Forty-third Regiment Unit
ed States Volunteer Infantry; Corpl
White, Company F, F'orty-third Volunteer
Infantry.
Copy of Henry T. Aliens report for
wardod by mail yesterday. Iloilo Panay)
cable is broken by earthquake. Difficult
to procure more definite Information.
Macarthur"
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London, May 1s.--At the annual dinner
of the Society of Authors this eyering An
thony Hope Hopkins the novelist. re-
spending to the toast. The Society," sail
the organization was every day making
progress, but was not carrying out i'm
portant work on account Of lack Of
funds. This was notably the case with re-
spect to the United States The relations
OF literary men with the United Sta es. he
asserted, were becoming more intimate
and important year by year and the socie-
~ felt 1t desirable to maintain pe-ma-
nent staff In the United States 70 guard the
interests of British authors.
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FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.

Two Letters from Women Helped Through
the "Change of Life" by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM When 7 first
wrote to you L was in very bad con-
ditiOn. l was passing through the
change of life, and the doctors said I
had bladder and liver trouble. 1 had
suffered for nine years. Doctors failed
to do me any good. Since have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, my health has improved very
much. l will gladly recommend your
medicine to others and am sure that it
will prove as great blessing to them
as 1t has to me."-MRs. GEO. Fl. JUNE,
DOL DeKalb Ave-, Brooklyn, n. Y.
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High Prices in Kansas CITY.

Members OF the Democratic National
Committee who allowed themselves to be
talked Into sending the convention to
Kaneas City are now putting up a howl.
This is brought out by the exorbitsnt ho-
tel rates announced by the Kansas City
hotels. One member Of the committee, who
supported Kansas City, tells OF bis ex-
pert In this way.
I'VE were guaranteed by the Kansas
City Committee chat there should be no
increase in rates over those usually charg-
ed and everything seemed to be as salts
factory as possible-in promise. Now they
are putting the screws on. | tried to close
a contract with a leading hotel at Kan
sas city for rooms for the delegation from
my state-twenty-slx In number-and they
forced me to sign q contract which viii
put FIVE people in room and obllgate me,
as national committeeman to pay for
each occupant S. a day for four days
old them / was perfectly willing to obli-
gate myself 90 pay for the period OF the
con, ention session, but the convention
might not be In session four days, and II
Il adjourned earlier the delegates would
not stay. They politely toll me there were
others wanting the same rooms ard l had
TO rack across TO the tune of $3.50 day for
four days"
This member of the committee tele-
gra phtd Senator Jones the facts as stat
ed here and the Senator replied. II agree
with you that II the Kansas City hotels
insist on fcur-day contract, II is an out
rage and absolutely inexcusable."
In further discussing II the commit
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Queen IN Goes West.

Chicago, May Heller Former Majesty
Liliuokalani of the Hawaiian Islands and
party passed through Chicago to-day en-
route for San Francisco. In the party
were Robert w. Wilcox, Honolulu, a per-
eonal friend and advisor to Liliuokalsni;
Charles Hallton English, NJ D, Washing
ton. her physician; Prince Heloluhe, Hon
olulu, private secretary and wealthy land
owner of the islands and the Princess
Heloluhe maid in waiting to the former
Queen. Count Alexander Vlanger of Po-
land, who is on his way to Honolulu on a
pleasure trip, also Travelled with the royal
a,-fxr
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tesman in question said, 1--WE must sign
such contract, however or sleep on the
boundless prairie. 1t is a d. outrage,
but l suppose we must submit TO it,
With the Republican experiences in Phil
adephia and the Democratic experiences
In Kansas City IL is pretty safe to say
that the two parties will fight shy of vii
laRes hereaf er.
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Columbus Residence Burned.

Columbus, Ga. May 16.--At II o'clock to-
night, the handsome two-story residence,
occupied by Rabbi Brown was totally de-
stroyed by fire. 1t was owned by John
Blackmar. The fire got under good head
way and for time II looked like the en-
dire block OF handsome dwellings would
go. Loss 10 building, $500; on furniture,
81 500. Two adjoining dwellings, were dam
aged to the extent OF $1,000 by fire and
water.
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REPURLICANS OF KANSAS.
Stanley Named FIR Governor with a
Full State Ticket.

STANLEY Named If Governor WIN ~
Full State Ticket.
Topeka, Kan, May 16.-For Governor,
w. E. Stanley.
ter
The Republican State Convention here
to-day nominated full state ticket and
delegates and electors-at-large with unex-
pected unanimity.
The fractional war In the party was not
involved in the vote on electors, but the
followers of Cyrus Leland, national COM
mitteeman, made a fight on Nj. A. Lowe
for delegate and were overwhelmingly de-
feated Lowe will likely be named as ma
tional committeeman to succeed Leland.
The resolutions unqualifiedly indorse the
national and state administrations and
pledge the delegates 10 support Mckinley.
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President wants Proof.

Washington, May 16.-The President sent
to the House his veto of the bill for the
relief of William L. Orr The bill was for
services as assistant engineer In the navy
from September, 1868, to March, 1865. The
President says the records of the navy
show that Orr never performed this serv-
ice, and suggests proviso to the bill re-
quiring satisfactory proof of such service
to be made to the Secretary of the Treas
lirV
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North Dakota Republicans.

Fargo. N D. May 16.-The Republican
State Convention to-day elected Senators
Hansbrough and McCumber and four 9TH
ers as delegates to Philadelphia, and
adopted a platform indorsing Mckinley,
the Republican money and tariff policies
and expansion and opposing trusts.
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'O"hUPT PRISON OFFICIALS.
NeStigation Is Being Conduct
ed at Manila.

lat. 'lgton. May lett appears from
mi. "iai advices from Manila that the
nil, ''i oftlcials Of Bnibid prison at Ma
Of e,ss under investigation on a charge
roo., ,.''anging and releasing prisoners and
est ,.'1s brides. Bilibid prison, the larg-
prisor. me Orient, contains thousands of
to cort is' The Americans were Obliged
AciaIe T., ,Iue Alcade Benito and other Of
Selves H., III charge because they them
DDS or ~" nothing of the prison meth
legged me Filipino language. II is al
Ell ma, mat prisoners were freely exchang-
lov,e5 LAY natives with money were al
term ,. W employ substitutes TO serve their
ruptlon tom a,l mat various other forms of cor
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Water Works Association.

Richmond. Va, May 1.-THE session Of
the superintendents of water works was
resumed to-day, with 200 delegates in at
tendance. C. E. Boiling of Richmond
was elected president and c. II. Campbell
of Charlotte, N. c., was elected fourth
vice president.
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Republicans OF wyoming.

Cheyenne, Wyo., May 16-The State Re
publican Convention to-day elected Unit
ed States Senator Warren and D. Clark,
Congressman Mondel, Gov. Richards, Col.
j. l.. Torrey and G.. II. Goebel delegates
to the PHILADELPHIA Convention. F. W.
MendeH was renominate1 for Congress.
The platform strongly indocses The admin
istra.i-u.
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From nrooI.Iyn bridge.

New York May ia young man be-
leved to be August II. Pless Of 40 Van
dewater street, jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge this afternoon and was drown
ed. The body has not been recovered.
Pless has been respondent of late be-
cause of being Tilted by a girl.
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Minnesota,s Republican,.

Minneapolis. May 16.-The State Repub
lican Convention to-day nominated Unit
ed States Senators Davis and Nelson and
two others for delegates at large to the
National Convention. and adopted plat
form indorsing McKinieys administration
and favoring legislation to control the
trusts
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New York, May lit was announced
at 1:45 a. IN. that the vote for the presi-
dent of the international Typographical
Union in this city was close, but II looked
as though James Lynch of Syracuse
would win out by a small majority over
S. b. Donnelly of New York
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TAYLOR GOES no LOUISVILLE.
Wants TO BE Delegate to Republican
Convention.

indianapolis, May 16.-W. s. Taylor, of
Kentucky, who has been stopping at the
Plaza Hotel here for several days with
Charles A. Finley, ex-Secretary of State
of Kentucky, left to-day with his grip.
Mr.. Finley is still here. 1t is said that
Mr.. Taylor went to Louisville to attend
the session of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee of Kentucky, which meets
there tomorrow to determine the organi-
cation of the State convention. MIR. Taylor
expects to be chosen as one of the four
delegates at large to the National Repub-
lican convention.
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RecnIIed From Germnny.

Berlin, May 17-H. de la Roche Vernel,
second secretary Of the French embassy
in Berlin, has been recalled to Paris be-
cause Emperor william had complained
20 the French foreign minister Of The sec
retary's improper public remarks during
the recent visit Of Emperor Francis JOS
x..t
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Berlin, May 16.-The Vossche Zeitung
to-day severely criucises the tariff policy
of the United States government as eff
fecting Porto Rico and calls 1t brutally
unfair TO Europe.
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MEXICAN FREE ZONE BILL.

Information Asked About Japansese
Laborers.
Washington, May 16.-In the Senate to-
day House bill, repeating the provision
of law allowing merchandise passing
through the Unked States from any for
eign country to be transported free Of
duty, so far as the Mexican free zone
is concerned, was passed.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Lodge call
ing upon the Secretary of the Treasury
for information in regard TO the influx Of
Japanese laborers into the country and
whether there, has been any violation OF
the contract labor law, was adopted.
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British Force Advanced.

Thaba Nchu, May 15-The British
force advanced this morning twenty
miles to the northwest and took possess
sion Of the Maquestling's mex. Prisoners
continue to be taken daily
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Berlin, May ia sensational murder
is reported from Cossenbladt, where Herr
Bucchols, an estate holder, has killed two
persons and wounded two others for tes-
tifying against him In court.
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Not at Ail.-"The ties that bind" re-
marked Hawkins, "are not the neckties a
fellows best girl buys him. "-Philadeiphla
North American.
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Relief Came Promptly

"DEAR Mrs. PISKHAM: II had been
under treatment with the doctors for
four years, and seemed to get no better,
I thought would try your medicine.
Ny trouble was change of life, and 1
must say that never had anything
help mo so much as Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, Relief
came almost Immediately. / have
better health now than l ever bad. I
feel like o new woman, perfectly
strong. 1 give Lydia f. Pinkham's
Compound all the credit, and would
not do without her medicine for any
thing. 1 have Recommended it to
several of my friends There is no
need of women suffering so much for
Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are sure
cure. " - MAHALA BUTLER, Bridge
vUafa,, I'll
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Another Woman Helped

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Il took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
during change of life and derived great
benefit from its use. MARY E. JAMES,
1876 Coydon St., Bradford, Pa.
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ST. LOUIS STRIKE STILL ON.

Strikers Rejected the Agreement
Made by Committee.
st. Louis, May 17-At 1925 o'clock this
morning the Executive Committee Of the
strikers rejected the agreement arrived al
between the Transit Company and the
Strikers Grievance Committee. The
strike lie sill on.
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