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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
WHIPPED BY FUNSTON.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Body of Fill.
pinos Attacked and Dispersed
by Am orleans.

Manila, June 16.-Maj. Wheeler, who
commands the American force at Penar
anda, autographed to Gen. Funston yes
terday that Gen. Lucenas, an insurgent
leader, with 300 men, was four miles
from Penaranda, preparing to attack the
American garrison. which numbers only
fifty men. Gen. Funston at once gath
cred the scouts commanded by Lieut. E..
l.. Admire, and q troop Of the Fourth
cavalry. and marched by way Of Penar-
anda against the rebels. Maj. Wheeler's
fifty men were added to the force as it
passed through Penaranda.
In the meantime Lucenas had seized a
position two miles from the town, and,
with 200 men, the rest of his force being
in the rear in reserve, threw up intrench-
mentS and awaited attack. Gen. Funston
blocked the roads so that no aid could
reach Lucenas, and then made a vigorous
attack on the Entertainments. The Fill
p;nos made Il brave but futile attempt to
hold their position. Sixty Of the Amer
leans made repeated charges on the in
trenchments. and finally the rebels were
completely routed and chased four miles
into the brush and ravineS. The Amerl-
cans found and buried twenty-five bodies,
and more dead are hidden in the brush.
Senior Pedro Haterno. former president
Of the so-caled Filipino cabinet, has been
released temporarily. and he is now coz
ferring with Senior Felipe Buencamino,
former minister OF agriculture and com
merce, with reference to the latter S
peace platform
The transport Hancock, which is 10
take to the United States the home bat
TALON OF the Eighteenth regiment con
sisting of 200 men commanded by Capt.
Lewis. is detained here by q typhocn on
the north coast
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
POLITICAL SOOTHSAYERS.
Experience Shows that Most Ante
Election Prophecies Are Worthless.

Election Prophecies Are Worthless.
The woes of the political-arithmetic
men in the elections since the Civil war
have been pitiful. Odds were offered on
Greeley i'll the betting for several weeks
after his nomination, and his supporters
kept on counting him in even after the
September and October states went to
the Grant side. Have you heard the
news from Maine?" asked Hancock's
friends jOyfully, when that state went
against the Garfield side in September
1880. Have you heard the news from
lndiana:' retOrted the Garfield men. tri-
umphantly, when that state and Ohio
were carried by the Republicans in Oc-
t0ber. The election was SO close, how
ever, that, though the Republicans won,
the result depended on the vote of New
York
Blaines friends in 1884 and Cleve-
lands iii 1888 claimed everything" until
after the votes were counted, but they
were beaten; yet 600 votes in New York
chg lged from Cleveland to Blaine in the
former year and 700 votes transferred
from Harrison to Cleveland in the same
state in the latter year would have re-
versed the result. In August, 1896, Hen
ry George was predicting that Bryan
would carry every state in the Union ex-
cept possibly New York and New Eng
land, while he declared he had hopes
group would be won. The closing of
mills, too, and the hiding of gold at that
time showed that large numbers of per-
sons who opposed George and Bryan be-
lieved that Georges estimates would not
be far astray.
There is lesson here which ought to
temper the positiveness of the political
soothsayers. Estimates made six months
in advance of the election are common
ly WortheSs.-LeSlie's Weekly
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
FOREIGNERS IN PERIL.
Situation at Pekin Excites Gravest
ApprehensiOns.

London June 16-What with the re
ports coming through Tien Tsin that the
Boxers have massacred Il number of ma
tive converts and servants Of foreigners
east of the city of Pekin, besides burn
ing the Catholic cathedral at Pellin, the
situation in the far East appears percep-
tibly graver. To add to the difficulties
comes the news this morning that tele-
graphic communication between Shang-
hal and Tien Tsin is totally interrupted.
Consequently the prevailing uncertainty
as to the facts and possibilities Of the
position will be accentuated.
1t is generally recognized now that the
position of the foreigners at Pekn is
periious, as there is but a short step
from the massacre of the servants of
foreigners to the killing Of the foreigners
themselves.
IF a massacre is averted," says the
Spectator, land the palace reduced to
seeming obedience, the grand difficulty
will be to decide on the next step. The
powers can neither encamp permanently
in Pekin nor leave until it is established
that the government is prepared to re-
spect international obligations and able
to hold China together. If anarchy
breaks out i'm China the object of the
powers is defeated, the failure or success
of the present effort may involve 4 series
of wars Of which no man can see the
end"
Continuing, the Spectator suggests that
an egress from the present lmpasse must
be found in the appointment by the rep
resentatives Of the powers of comDe-
tent vizier, as has so often been SO sue
cessfully done in other Eastern crises.
Otherwise the hideous calamity of China
falling to pieces may in few months be
exciting the cupidity and overtaxing the
capacity of all the ruling men.
Commenting upon the supposed hesita-
ton of the United States to actively par
ticipate in the movement to suppress the
Boxers. as reported in cable dispatches
from Washington, the Statist says: NO
European power will misunderstood the
present hesitation of the United States
and jump at the conclusion that Ameri-
can feeling and opinion may be disregard
ed. The United States will undertake
military operations in China as it did
against Spain if the protection of its
citizens require them. or If the pow
ers threaten to exclude American mer-
chants from their rights in China ac-
quired by treaty. Unless the British
ministers. muddle matters Great Britain
can reckon on the assistance of the
United States and Japan in main
tanning, even by force, the policy Of the
open door in China"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH

MILWAUKEE Flour Steady. Wheat =
Brisk and higher; No. 2 spring, on track,
tic: No. 1 Northern, on track. 75c. Corn
Firm; No 3 on track, 39s4c. Oats-Firn;
NO. white, on track, 26c; No. ) white, on
track, 23@2512c Barley-Firm and higher
No. on track, 441ac; sample on track, 400
43l2c Rye-Higher; No. 1 on track 5Sc.
Higher; pork. 11.42; lard, $50.
Flour is steady at 3.90li4.00 for patents;
bakers, 2,90@3.C0, and 2.900g3. 10 for rye.
Millstuffs are firm and quoted at 13;C0
dIings, and 1880 for milwaukee, flour mid
dlings
.CHlCAGO--Closc = Wheat = June. 741ac;
July a5s@73 } august STqSae 49, c9 0ats
juno, 22a4c; July: 227s0I23c: August, 22aast.
Pork--June, 11.50: July. 11;5Q; September,
11.6713. Lard-June, GO: July, 60; Sep
go; July, GO: September, 6.75. Flax
Cash n. w, $50: s. w. I,S0; September,
1.34; October. 1.29@1; 2912 Rye--551%e955a
Barley--Cash Soa 1, Ln noetn ~
MINNEAPOLIS--W heat-In store. No.
Northern, June, 7iAc; July, 125Se573c: Sep
TENDER 73Tkc: on track, No | hard, 7512c;
No. Northern. 7312c; M, no. Z Northern, re;
hard 765sc: No 1 Northern, 74Mc; No. 2
Northern. 73c; No. g. 70Ac; No. / hard, to
arrive. 7sa4c; No. ! Northern es do, 749sc;
Wheat-Closed firm. 114d
higher; July, 6sl1d; September, 5s117sd
Corn-Closed quiet, 72aAd higher; July, IS
1O7sd; September, 3s1l7sd;
New YORK-Close = Whcat-July, 79Mc;
September, s0s4c bid; October. size. Corn
July, 45c: September. 451ac.
ST. LOUIS-Cattle-R Receipts, 100; steady.
Hogs Receipts, 100: DC higher; PIGS and
lights. 4.95@5:00; packers 4.90Q5oo; butch
ers, 5.0O@5. 1917 No sheep.
KANSAS CITY-Cattle- Receipts, 500; I'M
changed. Hogs-Receipts 5000; steady to
strong; bulk of sales, 4.s5@4.9219; heavy.
4. S5G5 90; mixed. 4.s0@490; light, 4.S0@
4. 871a; pigs, 4.65G4.S71a. Sheep--No mas
ket.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
Long Automobile Trim.

The longest automobile trip yet made
in Wisconsin was accomplished recent
ly by Profs. r. w. Wood and Joseph
Jastrow Of the State university. They
made the trip successfully in Il Stanley
locomobile, covering the eighty-ive miles
in five hours and thirty minutes, actual
running time, which is approximately an
average Of fifteen miles an hour But
one accident occurred on the trip, the
packing Of the steam chest blowing out
near Watertown on bad piece OF road
The defect was soon repaired and the
journey resumed.-The Evening Wiscon-
sin.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
Medical View of Woman,s Dracs

A large number of women sweep the
streets with the skirts of their gowns and
other garments and bear with them
wherever they &c, abominable filth. AT
tempts are indeed often made by wom-
en- to keep their dresses from dragging.
Such attempts are usually unsuccessful.
The management OF a long gown is too
difficult matter for the majority Of
Englishwomen. The habit has arisen Of
Selling the upper part of the skirt and
holding it in bunch at a place called
by women 1.-The broad part CT the back
below the waist and among anatomists
by the less cumbrous term ..gluteal
region" This practice can be commend
ed neither from a physiological nor from
an artistic point of view. We strongly
protest from sanitary point Of view
against the Importation into private
houses of skirts reeking with ordure
urine and pathogenic microbes. For
walking in the street a short skirt should
be worn, and we commend the sensible
walking gown now adopted by the best
dressed women to those whose business it
is to write on the fashions in dress
Lancet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
ADYICES FROM ROME.
Indicate the Appointment of Arch
bishop Keane as Arc hbishop
OF Dubuque.

Washington, D. c.. June 1G.-Advices
have reached the papal legation here from
Rome, indicating the early appointment
of Archbishop keane, as archbishop of
Dubuque The appointment, it is said,
would have been made before this but
for the antagorism Of the German priests
in that sec. who favor the selection of
Father Carroll, professor at the Du-
buque seminary, for the vacancy. 1t is
understood that their. opposition to DIR.
Keane arises from his attitude on the
Schroeder case when that professor,
some months ago, was removed from the
Catholic university in this city.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
CONGRESSMAN DEAD.
Representative Hcffecker Of Della
ware Passes AWay-indianapo
lis Postmaster Dead.

Dover. Del. June 16.-Congressman
John Henry Hoffccker. the state OF Della
wares only representative in the lower
branch Of the national legislature, and
who is said to have been the only Re
publican upon whom both factions of the
party could agree Tor such position,
dropped dead today ut Smyrna.
Indianapolis. Ind. June 1G.-James w.
Hess. postmaster here. died at his home
today from consumption. Mr.. Hess was
prominent in Indiana politics and was
appointed postmaster by President Nc
KinleY in 1897.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
REIGN OF TERROR EXISTS.
Foreign Legations at Pekin Re-
ported Destroyed.
CHAPELS ARE BURNED.
Inceudiary Fires Started in Eas tern
Part of Tien Tsin Where. Many
Foreigners Reside.

London, June Id p. ma special
dispatch from Hong Kong says all the
Pekin legations have been destroyed and
that the German minister, Baron Won
ketteler, has been killed.
A cabinet meeting held today under
the presidency OF Lord Salisbury was
concerned almost wholly with the stu
alton i'll China
Berlin, June 16.--A semi-ofiicial dis
patch from Tien Tsin, dated June Is
(triday), reads as follows:
The foreign settlements here are ade-
Quately protected. Bands of Boxers have
appeared in the native town. They have
burned three chaDelS and are Spread ding
terror among the inhabitants.
Two railroad bridges between Tien
Tsin and Lang-Fang have been rendered
impossible by the Boxers, and the con-
struction train dispatched to repair the
destruction of the railroad near Lang
Fang has been interrupted i'll it's advance
to the relief OF the troops.
In the meanwhile the German detach-
ment has continued to march towards
Pellin by road.
"Ihe Tsung-L -Iamen foreign office,
it is added, has sanctioned the entry
OF foreign troops into Pekin to the num-
Der Of 1900 men,
New York, June 16.-A dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Tien Tsin
says: Boxers control Ten Tsin and the
native city officials have been burned at
the stake. a great panic prevails among
the Chinese.
The Hague, June 16.-The government
has instructed the encouragement Of the
Dutch East Indies Herr w. Rooseboom,
to send q warship with troops to China.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
MORE TROUBLE FOR ENGLAND,
Native Uprising in the Gambina
Co1ony-Eight People Killed.

Bathurst, Gambia Colony, West Afri-
ca, June 16.-A native uprising has oc-
Cured in the Cambria colony and two
British prisoners and six members of the
police have been killed at Sannkanndi on
the south bank of the Gambia river, by
Mandingoes.
The party had gone to Sannkanndi to
settle a question of local administration
when the Mandingoes suddenly attacked
and murdered them.
Cecil Sitwell, one of the murdered COM
missioners, was formerly an official in the
WindWard islands.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
Part of Mt. Washington Tum bles on to
Pennsylvania Railroad Tracks.

Pittsburg, Pa, June 16.-Over 100 tons
of earth and rock toppled over from
Mount Washington to the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks as the Carnegie accom-
mediation train was passing today. Five
persons were painfully injured and ff-
bruises in the wreck. All of the injured
were able to go to their homes except
James Keenan,, railroad employee, who
was sent TO hospital. He will recover.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
SHOT A PUGILIST.
Patrick Farley was Attem ptinp
Escape from Policeman.

New York, June 16-Patrolman Cor
nelius, of the Brooklyn force. shot and
killed Patrick Farley, a pugilist, today.
Farley had been arrested by the officer
and was trying to escape
Farley came home drunk and beat his
wife numerically, threatening to kill her.
She escaped to the street Several off
GERS went to the house and after des-
perate struggle arrested Farley and took
him to the station house. AS Officer Cor
4elius was about to lock up Farley. the
latter sprang at Cornelius, tripped him
up and ran down the street. Cornelius
got up and followed. Farley would not
stop when commanded and the officer
shot him in the back, killing him in
stantIy.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
Before Matches Were Invented.

Before 1883, when wooden matches
people were dependent upon flint and
steel to secure light. The first patent
for a phosphorus match in the United
States was taken out in 1886 by A. D.
Phillips of Springfield, Mass. For many
years people refused to use them, but by
1916 the ill-smelling and clumsy old tin
der boxes Were. generally discarded and
are preserved, like snuff boxes, as curl
Indianapolis Press.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
MILWAUKEE, LIVESTOCK MARKET.
RRILLION DAIRY SAFES

BRILLION. Wis, June 16--Briliion dairy
board sales. II boxes cheddars at 83sc; IS
boxes daisies at sc: $40 boxes daisies at
$3.50 % boxes flats at SIC: 500 boxes flats
at S3sc: us boxes Y. A. at Sc; ITO boxes
Y. A. at 91sc; &c boxes i. A at 9Ac; 33
boxes IonghOrns at &c.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20

No receptacle has ever been made
with sufficient strength to resist the
bursting power Of frozen water.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
NEGOTIATIONS
FOR SURRENDER.
Wives of President Kruger and
Gen. Botha Said to be Con-
ferrng with Roberts.

London, June 16.-5:10 p. ma rumor
is rife in this city that Lord Roberts is
negotiating with President Kruger and
Gen. Botha, through their wives, regard
ing terms of surrender.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20
MARKET REPORTS.
Milwaukee, June is, 1900.
EGG AND DAIRY PRODUCTS.

MILWAUkEE-Eggs -Market steady ct
lie for new, cases included: 101ac for new
cases returned 10%4c for old, cases included:
dirtles and seconds, rose. The receipts
were AS cases.
Butter-Market steady The receipts were
2G,365 lbs today against $685. yesterday.
for dairy, butter. Good grades of dairy are
wanted here and will bring 15c Choice
creamery is selling at lsc, although choice
goods sell in many instances at 1S1bc
The market here is firm and merchants look
for an advance at Elgin next Monday. Fancy
prints, 191ac; fancy or extra cream
extra dairy. 14c: lines 12@13c; packing
stock, 10@11c: whey butter, T9c; imitation
creamery, 13M16c grease, 4@Gc. Fancy
dairy prints lie.
1850 lbs against Is. 800 yesterday. Full cream
firsts. October. per II, 9@10c: full cream flats,
new, colored. 814M9c; New York, full cream
HAZE; Young Americas. October. 100
lie: Young Americas, new. 0@91ac;
brick, fancy October make. 9M9ikc: new
brick. S@S12c: limburger. fancy October, 9h
ported Swiss 24c: Block Swiss. domestic. II
@121rc. No. imitation loaf. 12a12kc:
Sapsago. 1920: farmers. 9@1oc.
NEW YORK-Butter Receipts 1920
pkgs; firm; creamery extras. 151a0519c; fac
tory 14M15a4c. Cheese-Receipts 1860 pkgs:
strong; large white, 97sc; small do, 9G9Ac;
Receipts. $500 pkgs; firm; Western, loss
off, 131gM14c; Western, at mark. 10Gt1312c.
Sugar-Raw. strong: refined firm. Coffee
Weak; No. Rio. S1Sc.
CHICAGO--Brtte Steady: crelmeries,
14@1S14c; dairies, 13@1614c. Eggs-Slow,
fresh, 10c Dressed poultry-Steady; tuYT
keys, &c: chickens, 8@81ac to 1691Sc.
MILWAUKEE LIVESTOCK MARKET.
HOGS-Receipts. car: market higher;
light. 4950I5.1 10; mixed and medium weights,
4.95@j.10; common to choice heavy, 1900
$40; coarse heavy stays, 4.2504.o0
IL a SinH Hy-. M oh
er steers medium to good, 1850 to 1900 lbs,
4.75M5.25; fair to medium. $50 TO 1850 40
04.75: hefers, good to choice 3.5O@4.G0;
COWS, fair to good, 3.0o13.a0: canncrs, 200
d2.50: bulls common, 2.5a0 BOO choice. B.
03.75; feeders. 500 to $50 lbs. 3. 1904. %:
stockers. 500 to 100 his, 3.25@3.75: veal
calves, 5.50Gl650; mixers and springers.
dull. common, 20.00@2j.O0; choice heavy
cows. 81. 00045. 90.
SHEEP-Reccipts none market steady,
3 5OM423: bucks. 23OM3.0O: lambs. common
to choice, 450Q5.GO; spring lambs, 5.00d9
coo.
Chicago receipts: Hogs, 1900; cattle,
200; sheep, 5000
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-06-20

The Hague, June 16.-The government
has instructed the encouragement Of the
Dutch East Indies, Herr w. Rooseboom,
to send Il warship with troops to China.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02

Then Martin sent him a cartel. II met
with q similar fate Then he was branded
as a coward. A street duel was daily
looked for In 1856 the New MississIppian
and the Sword and Shield accused him OF
having robbed the State of $4,000. and
demanded that because OF alleged cruelty
to the conVicts his lease of the peniten-
tiary should be annulled. BY May l of
that year these two newspapers were de-
voting most all of their columns TO de-
nunciation of Colonel Hamilton. One
night on the 9Th OF May Colonel Hamilton
and young Gambrell met on the little
bridge which divides East from West
Jackson. There were no eye witnesses TO
what followed, but when the crowd got TO
them, having been attracted to the spot
by fusillade of pistol reports, Gambroll
was dead and Hamilton was seriously
wounded, having been shot three times.
II was a wild night for Jackson. The
news spread over the State and by mid
night several special trains were al the
union depot, Hamilton had been taken
TO his home. BY daylight a mob had SUR
rounded II, ready to drag the wounded
man from his bed and hang him. But the
temperance people lacked a leader cour-
ageous enough to so into a crowd almost
as large az theirs, which stood at Colonel
Hamiltons steps ready to defend him
with their lives. The prohibitlonists were
accusing Hamilton OF having waylald
their leader. So menacing did the mob
become that n became necessary for the
governor to notify the militia to hold IT.
self in readiness for duty.
~
Two weeks later Colonel Hamilton was
removed to the county Jail While still
to weak TO leave his bed. his preliminary
trial was called. Bail was denied. and for
a year he lay in prison awaiting trial by
jury.
Meantime Gambrells picture was being
sold throughout the civilized world. Boxes
OF them were shipped TO Australia and 70
Africa Mrs. Frances Il. Willard started
subscription for the purpose Of assist .
ing the prosecuting fund. 1t is said that
rev j. Is. Gambrell Roderlck Dhu's
father, received thousands Of doIIsrs 80,
outside the State. Ia employed exnen-
slVe counsel. On both sides there wera
more than forty attorneys. A chunge n,
venue having been taken the trial tool,
place. at Brandon, fourteen miles away
hamilton was acquitted; ana on tho AZ .
ernoon Of his return to jackson he re
eeiYed an ovation, Most of the bnsinesa
houses were closed and his carriage was
drawn by more than 100 OF the most prom
inent men OF the Commonwealth. The
verdict which acquitted him was popu-
lar enc Hamilton had made a gallant
Confederate soldier ana ever the STATE ~
was known as brave aud honest man
who would suffer death himself rather
tban take humanity advantage OF a foe.
The week before his acquittaI General
Writ Adams and John Martin killed each
other in street duel. Adams lad been
a hrigadier general in the civil war ana
Colonel Hamilton had been ore OF his
soldiers. subsequently they were the
wsrmest OF friends So II was quite nat
ural that General Adams. when placed on