The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-04-26
MANILA NEWSPAPERS.
James K. Foreman Sends Home Some
DailieS From Our New Pos
sessions.
SAMPLES OF LOCAL NEWS.


Mr.. Snyder is veteran OF the
Civil War and is chock full of in.
teresting "reminiscences and an
ecdotes of army life. We regret
to notice that as the years go by,
his health is falling. His sight
is so impaired that he can scarce
ly recognize his friends.
He brought us three newspa-
pers that James Foreman of Co.
&C, " Thirty Second U. S. Infan-
try in the Philippine Islands sent
him recently. They are publish
ed at Manila. The first is "The
Tribune" a five-column, eight
page daily, published every morn
ing except Monday, at five cents
a copy or nine dollars a year. The
copy before us was dated Febru-
ary 16, 1900. The following is a
sample of news clipped from its
columns;
yesterday boy claiming to
be a Macabebe, complained to the
Provost Guards that he had been
robbed on the Escolta of $1,000
by a Filipino who lived in Santa
Cruz district. The boy said he
had just arrived in Manila from
Subig where he had been en-
ployed by a doctor, and the thief
had taken all his pay from him.
"Private Stafford of f Compa-
ny Goth Infantry accompanied
the boy to the home of the thief,
who was absent at the time, and
the woman of the house refused
to give the mans name or reveal
his whereabouts. Private Staff
ord informed the native police on
patrol along the street to keep on
the lookout for the man. The
fellow returned about an hour
later, and was arrested.
$50 anxious was he to avoid
being locked up he at once hand
ed over the sixteen pesos to the
muchacho, who after receiving
his money, disappeared as if by
magic, but the fellow did not
avoid the fate of being locked up.
"He gave his name as Pedro,
and failed to see where the JUS
tice came in, in being locked up
in the calabose after he had re-
turned the "dinero. "
"No doubt by the time the
court gets through with him he
will not see where justice is in
robbing his fellow men Of their
earnings"
The second is called "The Ma
Mia Freedom, twelve page pa
per published every morning, at
five cents a copy, or ten dollars a
year. 1t says it is an American
paper, advocating Greater Am
erica" Judging from the num-
Der and size of the advertise
ments, the business men of our
dusky city are hustlers, and the
paper looks like money maker.
The body-type, however, suggests
second hand plea; and, our
friend Davy Maun could do bet
ter press work on his hydraulic
cider press. From this paper
we give the following interesting
account of an accident to a Chi
man, or "Chino" as our Manila
paper has it.
ga Chino got his leg broken
while unloading a cascofilled with
quartermaster's supplies down
on the waterfront yesterday, and
was permitted to suffer great ag-
ony, with the heavy box lying a.
cross his leg while his country
men stood around and refused to
assist him.
"The gang were hosting the
heavy case out of the casco, onto
the wharf, when the rocking of
the boat caused by the waves of
a passing launch, threw one of
them off his balance. This left
too much weight ON the others,
and the box began to slip back.
Seeing this, and not having conf
dence in each other, all released
their hold and jumped from un-
der.
"All escaped but one, who was
caught and pinned to the floor of
the boat, while the full weight of
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