The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-05-02
NEWS FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

Ill int VI
Of Flipinos and Cinnamon in Quiapo
market have led to an investigation
showing that 10 cases of the plague, IA
of which were fatal, had occurred with
in week. The market is located in the
center of the city. In black, rotten,
wooden buildings the keepers of the
stalls live there, with their families,
huddled together In great filth. Some
of the victims were stricken and died
within an hour. There have been sew
eral deaths in other sections of the city
recently which have been traced to in
fection from the market.
After all the market people hal gath
cred together the health officers threw
guard around the buildings and will
keep the inmates quarantined there for
fortnight. They will then burn the
market. The total number of bubonic
deaths are ll9 Cinnamon and 66 Fill
ipinos. The plague elsewhere has been
suppressed. Not one infected person
has been in the Chinese district for 10
days.
Colonel Hardin and Major Case, with
a battalion of the Twenty-ninth infan-
try, have sailed for the islands of Mar
tinduque and Mahbeto 1t is reported
that the insurgents have $50 rifles and
1000 rounds of ammunition. DR.. Bur
gos, a prominent native of Martin
duque and u supporter of the Ameri-
cans, accompanies the expedition to try
to convince the inhabitants of the wis
dom of surrender.
The Americans total loss was nine
killed and Is wounded. Two sergeants
and one private were killed in ambushes
while escortiny provision trains.
Twenty Flipinos in the province of
Batangas attacked Lieutenant Wonde,
who, with eight men, was scouting near
San Jose. The lieutenant and five men
were wounded and one private was
killed.
Sergeant Ledolus, Of the Thirty fifth
infantry, was badly wounded i'll an am.
bush near Balluad. Lieutenant Caleb,
of the Thirty-ffth infantry, with 70
men had fly e-hours' fight with 400 in.
surgents in the Neuva Careras district.
Twenty of the insurgents were killed.
Colonel Smith, of the Seventeenth in
fantry, who captured General Monte
negro and brought him to Manila, is in
the isolation hospital suffering from
smallpox, presumably caught from the
Filipinos.
HAPPENED IN WASHINGTON.
The senate, by vote of 33 to 80, re.
fused Quay a seat ON Tuesday.
The house passed the Porto Ricon
emergency bill.
The house, Wednesday, refused to in
crease the appropriation for pneumatic
mail tubes, owing to an attack on the
methods of the tube company by Mr.
Moody, of Massachusetts,.
The senate passed the Hawaiian civil
government and agricultural nppropria
ton bills, Wednesday.
On Thursday the right of Senator
Scott, the West Virginia, to a seat in the
senate was debated.
The house passed the postoffice appro.
priation bill Thursday.
The house Oh Friday broke all records
by passing 81 private bills. Among
them was one to pension at the rate of
$40 month the widow of the late Colo.
mel John M. Stotzenberg, of the First
Nebraska, who was killed in the Philip.
pines. The conference report on the
Hawaiian government bill was adopted
and the bill now goes to the president
The senate voted upon the resolution
declaring Nathan b. Scott to be entitled
to his seat i'll the senate from West Vir
ginia. The number of votes in the
negative was only three.
In the senate ON Saturday Mr.. Petit
grew asked for consideration of his res
olution expressing sympathy with tn,
Beers. and upon motion of referenc,
the vote was 81 to 11-less than quo
rum voting.
The house recommitted on Saturda,
the Spanish war claims bill to the com
mittee. with instructions to report bacl
bill for the claims to the court O
claims.
On Monday, the national hous
passed the Lacey bill to enlarge tn
powers of the department of agricul
ture and to prohibit interstate com
merce in game killed in violation of 10
cal laws. The senate bill to create
commission of five to investigate ant
report upon the commercial and indus
trial conditions i'll China and Japan wa
debated at length, but was vigorousl,
antagonized by the Democrats, AM
they finally succeeded in striking on
the enacting clause in committee, AM
this motion was pending when tn
house adjourned. If the motion pre-
walls in the house the bill is dead. Tn
bill for a constitutional amendment :,
disqualify polygamy and for election a
senators and representatives and t,
prohibit polygamy, which was reported
by the committee on the election o
president, vice president and represent
atives in congress, was referred to tn
committee on Judiciary after meeting
with opposition from both sides of tn
house. Every speaker who antagonize,
the bill said he opposed polygamy, bu
did not see any reason for legislating il
the constitution and invaliding tn
rights of the states.
The house agreed to the conference
report on the joint resolution extending