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The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
JAPAN MAY FIGHT.
Will Oppose at All Costs Secret Russo
China Agreement.

The British foreign office takes a
pessimsstic view of the situation in
the east in spite of the settlement of
the Tien Tsin question, and enter
tains grave fears that the relations be-
tween Japan and Russia may shortly
reach the danger point.
Judging from information obtained
in various official quarters in London
Japan has confided to at least some of
the powers her determination TO op-
pose at all costs any secret agreement is
made between Russia and China, by
torial or other advantage contiguous
to Korea
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
NoINeed for.So Many Troops.

1t is stated at the war department
that if the favorable conditions of the
past month continue the number of
troops necessary in the Philippines
will not.be as great as has been antici-
pated. This view of the case will not
cause any cessation in enlistments, nor
will any determination be reached
until full and accurate information
has been received from Manila.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
GENERAL HARRISON'S ESTATE.

The Appraisers Fix Its Value at $780,
900.
Ex-President Harrison left $40, 900 in
life insurance. This fact is announced
by President Eitel of the Union Trust
company, which is executor of General
Harrison's will, He said:
"Our appraisement of the Harrison
estate gives it's total value at $780, 900.
This includes all real estate, railroad
bonds, stocks in the Union Trust COM
pany, the law building here and other
securities
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
TO CAPTURE AGUINALDO.
General Funston on Daring and Romantic
Expedition.

Expedition.
General Funston is now engaged in
a daring project, which promises to be
the greatest and most romantic achieve
ment of his eventful career.
In January, from his hiding place in
the province of Isabella, Aguinaldo
wrote letters matchmaking the sub
chiefs who had taken the oath of alle-
glance to the United States.
Later, Aguinaldo ordered insurgent
forces in southern Luzon to join him at
rendezvous in Isabella province. The
rebel officer intrusted with these orders
secretly negotiated with the Aneri-
cans.
On securing necessary information,
capture, and with General MacArthur's
authorization, General Funston pro-
ceeded two weeks ago to make the at.
tempt
General Funston, with Surgeon Ma
jor Harris, Captain Newton of the
Thirty fourth infantry, Lieutenant
Adaire of the Twenty second infantry,
Lieutenant Mitchell of the Fortieth in
fantry, six veteran scouts and COM
pany of native scouts, all picked men,
mbarked on the gunboat Vicksburg
and were landed on remote beach
above Baler.
1t was arranged that Aguinaldo's
emissary, with the native scouts, should
pass themselves off as insurgent troops.
who, having captured General Funston
and others, were taking them as pris-
oners to Aguinaldo.
At the right time. when brought be-
fore Aguinaldo, General Funston was
to give signal when the tables were
to be turned and Aguinaldo was to be
seized. Six days march into the inter-
ior were contemplated. Treachery
was considered possible, but every pre-
caution was taken.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
CYCLONE IN ALABAMA,
Twenty-Five Killed and Many Injured
Property Loss Heavy.


Shortly before ten o'clock Monday
morning a fearful tornado swept over
the southern part of Birmingham, Ala.
The mum Der of killed is estimated at
twenty-five, fifteen of whom are white,
The property loss is placed at a quarter
of million dollars. Eighteen bodies
have been recovered and scores of in
pitfalls.
Among the dead are DR.. G. Chapman
of the firm of Tully & Chapman, who
conduct private infrmary in that
city, and the wife and infant child of
Robert j. Lowe, chairman of the demo-
cratic state executive committee
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
michigan Cashier Took Everythinp in S,oh

Mr.. Dawes, the comptroller of the
currency, has received report from
the receiver in charge on the condition
OF the failed First National bank of
Niles, Mich. The report will not be
made pu ublic at present, but it is stated
that the indications are that the defal-
cation OF the cashier will amount to
about $195, 900.
The comptroller decided to assess
the stockholders of the bank 100 mar
cent. of their holdings.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Condition of Brazilian Treasury.

The Brazilian provisional treasury
balance of 1900, after deducting for
funding loan certificates, shows sur
plus of 1850, 900, and the government
will undoubtedly resume cash pay
ment with interest in July.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Washington Citizens viii Present Home to
Admiral Schley.

At a meeting Saturday night of the
committee appointed at a mass meeting
of citizens Of Washington for the pur-
modest home, it was reported that
about 900 had been contributed to
the fund. 1t is expected that by April
Is about SIS, 900 will have been con-
tributed, and this will be used to pur-
chase IL home in the suburbs of Wash
ington, to be presented to the admiral
on his arrival in this country.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Panay Pacifed.

General Macarthur reports the sur
render of General Fulton and his COM
mand at Antique, province OF Panay,
with $50 rifles. This ends the insur-
rection in the island of Panay.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Montana Woman Poisoned by Insane Ser
want.

Mrs. j. e. Toteman died at Helena,
Mont, Tuesday, as a result of mys-
terious poisoning. With four members
of the family she was stricken while
dining Sunday. The others recovered,
but she grew steadily worse, death re-
sultlng in the greatest agony. A celery
soup, served during the meal is sup
posed to have contained the poison
The servant who prepared the soup is
now in the hospital suffering from
nervous prostration, and it is believed
that while temporarily unbalanced she
put poison in the soup. Mrs. Toteman
was the wife of the superintendent of
the Big Black foot Milling company.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Stringent Marriage Laws in Minnesota.

The Minnesota state assembly has
passed Senator Chilton's bill prohibit
ing the marriage of insane, epileptic
and idiotic persons, and requiring a
medical certificate of all applicants
for marriage licenses. Amendments
were adopted making the physicians
certificate not quite SO sweeping, and
to permit marriage of any feeble
minded person over As, the bill origi-
nally having extended such permission
tn women.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
GOING TO ARCHIPELAGO.

Several congressman VIII Visit the Philip
pines.
Representative Hull of Iowa, chair
man of the house committee on military
affairs, will leave early next month for
the Philippines, where he will study
the situation, in order to equip himself
with information at first hand for the
debates next winter. Several othe.
representatives are talking of accom-
panying him, among them Representa-
tive Overstreet of Indiana.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
Russia and Britain Patch up Their Differ

At consultation Thursday between
Count Won Waldersee, General Barrow
and General Wogack. General Wogack
agreed to withdraw the Russian troops
from the disputed ground at Tien Tsin,
provided the British also withdraw.
He insisted also upon a guarantee that
work on the railway siding SHOULD not
proceed until the matter had been di-
Dramatically adjusted.
This proposal and stipulation was
satisfactory to General Barrow, and
was accepted by him. Consequently,
the British and Russian troops were
withdrawn.
The Philipsburg mail., 1901-04-19
MONTANA PIONEER DEAD.

Father-in-Law of Marcus DAILY and j. Ross
Clark
Zenas e. Evans, father of Mrs. Mar
Gus Daily and Mrs. j. Ross Clark, wife
of the brother of Senator w. A. Clark,
is dead at Anaconda, Mont. He was 70
years OF age and came to Montana in
the early COS from Pennsylvania.
The Washington times., 1901-07-29

knows or is affected by it. When the
son of a man highly respected in the
community, or an official entrusted
with great responsibility, goes wrong,
it shakes the whole business and social
system. The chicken thief is embol-
dened to steal more chickens, and the
ordinarily honest but penniless tramp
feels that he might be excused If he
helped himself 10 pocketbook now and
then. If justice counts for anything,
the man Of high standing should be
punished more severely than the man
of low degree. There is, however, no
way to secure such punishment by
statute. and it must therefore be left to
the general system of things. One way
which providence has of preventing the
wrongdoing of rich men is by making
their punishment great in proportion
to their luxury and power. When star
walton is exchanged for three meals
day it is not a very hard punishment.
When dinners at the Waldorf, and
clothing from Bond Street London, are
exchanged for the fare and garb Of
convict. the change is a punishment,
and it ought to be.
The Washington times., 1901-07-29

Santiago action. 1t also has been ap-
proved by the leading naval experts of
England and Europe. The opinions of
distinguished and competent eyewit-
nesses are not to be lightly brushed
aside. They have great weight with
the country. hard dose as that may be
for Crowninshield, Sampson, and indi-
viduals of that ilk to swallow. When
to Cervera's and Eulate's testimony is
added the story under oath which Will
be told by Captain Cook, Lieutenant
Hodgson, and Others the Sampson
myth will be considerably damaged in
its vitals. on the whole, we do not be-
lieve that there will be much trouble in
securing complete official vindication
of Admiral Schley, even allowing for
the enormous and illegitimate depart
mental odds against him. MIR. Long is
said 10 ardently desire cessation of
newspaper discussion of the Sampson
scandal. He will come nearer to real
izing his wish in the matter than in
any other way if he will correct the er-
ror of Article five in the precept, and
endeavor to show himself fair and i'm
partial in the case at large, Criticism
will cease when, and only when. the oc-
casion for it no longer shall exist.
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
The High-Born Criminal.

1t has been suggested that the Eng
lish plan of Furnishing well-connected
criminals is highly preferable to our
own. Holloway Prison. in which Earl
Russell is now confined for three
months. contains special accommoda-
tions for its noble occupant. He has his
own suite of apartments, with valet and
cook. and is permitted to receive his
friends and do anything ne likes SO long
as he stays there. To the general pub
lie 1t is announced that he is 'in Jail
for three months So. as was said
about the death Of the meanest man in
town, there is no complaint: everybody
satisfied"
When a gentleman of similar promi-
nence and connections Is convicted in
this country Of bigamy, robbing a bank.
or something else, there g no such easy
and amicable way of arranging mat
ters. II he is acquitted, the public
bowls for blood. If he is convicted. he
has to go to the common penitentiary,
Just like any other pluralist or
''grafter," TO borrow a term from Mr..
Flynt's vocabulary OF the Under
World He has to wear stripes which
are just as wide and ugly and unbecom-
ing as those of the tough" persons
with whom he is associated; and the
food which they give him is not bit
better than that of anybody else. He
has to handle vulgar set of tools, on
plebeian material, under the control of
q horribly common sort of man. The
assumption is. therefore, in the minds
of his friends and relatives, that he suf-
fers Infinitely more than the common
burglar or forger who Is his neighbor.
Perhaps he does. He also has COM
mitted much more serious offence
against society. When 2 chicken thief
gets caught and sent to jail, nobody
outside q very limited circle OF society
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
THE RISKS OF RANK.

The order of Lord Roberts that here
after British army officers shall carry
carbines instead of swords In actual war
fare indicates return to ancient usage.
In old times officers were equipped with
fusils, often called .fusees.'' which were
discarded finally as weapons of no prac-
teal value The old song of '.'The British
Grenadiers'' says ..our leaders march with
fusees' in reference to the custom of the
period when it was written At the same
time officers wore swords, then as much
carried as Indicative of social as of mill
tary rank. The sword is the mark of the
gentleman 1t has been held that in the
Transvaal the flash of an officers sword
betrayed his presence in column or line
to the keen-sighted Boer rifiemen. and
that to this circumstance is due the large
mortality in the Commissioned rank of
the British army. Officers and men were
alike in khaki. and the distinguishing in
sigma of rank We're either dispensed with
or obscured. Hence IL has been concluded
that the sword flash undid all the precau-
tions taken to make officers less conspicu-
GUS. But may not the Beers have been
able to locate the officers by other signs
and tokens of their presence? Take away
an officers insignia and his sword and put
him with his men and an experienced eye
Will soon pick out the individual whose
orders animate the movements of the de-
tachment. In many movements the Off
GERS place is fixed; it may be even
pivotal.
OF course. when the troops come within
close range the merest recruit on the 9TH
er side knows where to look for the Off
GERS. An officers place Is always where
he is needed to supervise or lead move
ment as the exigencies of the moment
may dictate. There is no known way of
reconciling authority with immunity. and
the precautions taken to reduce the risk
of officers may disastrously affect the
morale of the troops who in a crisis are
apt to depend on the conspicuous presence
of their leaders. In close engagements Of
ficers must take their chances. What
these chances are was evidenced by an en-
gagement In the Philippines only last
month. near I.ipa. in Luzon, between
comparatively small detachment of our
troops and band of Insurgents
There were four commissioned officers
with our troops and every officer was
either killed on the spot or mortally
wounded Captain Springer. second In
command and Lieutenant Lee, of the en-
gineers were shot dead. Captain Will
helm died of his wounds forty eight hours
after the engagement and Lieutenant
Ramsey who was wounded succumbed to
his injuries only a comparatively few days
ago Here was mortality of loo per cent
OF the officers enGaged.-Boston Tran
serit1t
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
PERSONAL.

Weston Rowland, who died recently In
Fairhaven. Mass. is said to have been
the first man to discover a successful
method of refining petroleum
Mrs. Ann Meyer: whose father was cap
tain of the Claremont, Robert Fulton's
first steamboat, on her initial trip from
New York to Albany. in 1907. died at Eliz-
abeth, N J., recently. at the age of nine
ty-one. Her father was an officer in Wash
ington's army.
Mrs. Edward Pisco. of Denver. Col.
who started last October on a trip
through the East. South. and North to
obtain funds for the National Jewish
Hospital for Consumptives. has reached
her home with S20,009 as the fruits of her
work. Mrs. Pisco is First Vice President
of the National Conference of Jewish
Charities. and enjoys a wide acquaintance
among people of her race.
Lord Roberts dispatches from South
Africa are said to have been written by
Lieut. Col II. V. Cowen, his assistant
military secretary. Apropos. it is recalled
that the Duke of Wellington was once
told that his wonderfully pithy war des-
patches would live long as models for
that kind OF correspondence Yes. said
the Iron Duke Il didn't think Gurwood
had it in him, referring to his secretary
r. E. Heller, of Galesburg. Ill, was
given a verdict of l cent the other day
in his libel suit against John j. Rodgers,
of Abingdon The libel consisted in de-
scribing Heller as rooster and Mr.. Rod
gers having painted picture of a rooster
wearing a stovepipe hat and labeled with
the plaintiffs initials. Mr.. Rodgers. who
is one of the richest men in Abingdon,-
was sued for $4,000
The Rev. Samuel Scoville, son-in-law of
Henry Ward Beecher. has resigned as
~ ,,.,l
Church, of Vineland, N. J.. to accept
of Brooklyn, tc become associate pastor
there with the Rev. DR.. Hills. His pas
torate at Plymouth Church will begin on
the first Sunday in September.
Six thousand coins collected by Cardi-
nal Randi have been bought by Pope Leo
and added to the fine collection in the
Vatican Many fell into the Cardinals
hands in 1862 for their weight in silver
when Pope Plus introduced the French
monetary system. and the old coins were
retired by the Papal Government.
Commissioner Kerr. the head of the
City of London Court who is retiring af-
ter a long and honorable career. is "A ma
tive of Glasgow. He would have left the
bench some years ago but for the dispute
about his pension which VIII now be
years of age.
II is said that only two women in the
Tinted States may use the mails without
having for the privilege. These women are
widows of former Presidents They are
Mrs Julia D. Grant and Mrs Lucretia
A. Garfield. A franked letter goes through
the mails without postage. bearing their
signature either stamped or written upon
the envelopes. All mail matter sent by
Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Grant under their
respective written autograph signatures
and all mail matter sent 10 these two wo-
men, will be carried free during their lives.
No signature or marks are necessary TO
of these women, the address being suf!i-
cient Mrs. Garfield has enjoyed the privi-
lege since 1881. and Mrs. Grant since 1886.
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
POLITICAL COMMENT.

How slow, how slow the wheels move
when a rascal with pull. like Neely.
the Cuban postal agent. falls into the
clutches of the law, If he shall at last
slip away from the arm d Justice
through delay and deterring pressure on
the part of powerful political friends IL
will be. under the peculiar circumstances,
a most unfortunate showing of impotence.
Philadelphia Record.
There is always fly in the ointment.
When the hot weather leaves, the Coal
Trust will have to be encountered.-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
If Maclay had written as many un-
complimentary things about Roosevelt
oh. geei 1t makes us shudder to think
what would have happened to him.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Treasury Department decides that
when man enters this country he can
bring with him fifty cigars. and that
when dude comes in he can lug with
him 500 cigarettes. Weep, weep, all
weep.-Brooklyn Eagle.
We have such large trade surplus
that Mr.. Gage wants to cut it down by
looping of the business done In Russia
Atlanta Constitution.
The Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows feels
that the tariff is sacred as long as it is
framed in the interest of the Michigan
lumber barons The trouble of the tariff
is that it is heavily loaded with the Bur-
rows species of Philadelphia
Times
1t was stated in parliamentary de-
bate that the United States calls for only
one man in every 1000 of the population
for military service. while Great Britain
calls upon one in every 100 of her popula-
ton. What needless calls they often are,
too.-Boston Globe.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has di-
rected the whitewashing of the stones set
up by Mason and Dixon. marking the
boundary between Pennsylvania and
Maryland But who will whitewash the
Legislature? Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
The cows ought to get together and give
Prof Koch three rousing moos.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Duluths Board of Trade has resolved
in favor of free trade with Canada. The
rest of the country can get out of 1t by
seceding.-Chicago Tribune.
During June there were 1T deaths in
Kitcheners concentration camps for
Beers. 576 OF the number being children
And they call this war.-Atlanta Journal
II you strike rock with club 1t viii
make your wrist tingle. That's about
the way a tariff war would result for
Europe. In any case our farmers would
not suffer.--Chicagoi Journal
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
The Passing of n Meteor.

while it is an ungracious task to
criticise the dead, there is no real criti-
cism in The observation which has rec
emily been made that the fame of the
late Joseph Cook has SO waned that his
death created scarcely a ripple of ex-
citement even among his former ad-
herents. 1t was not because the once
popular lecturer had lost any of his
ability, but because the times have
changed; and all unwittingly he was
one of the people who helped to change
them.
His was a peculiar style of eloquence.
Prof. Barrett Wendell once defined it
by the simple statement, He said
things with a bang" He was walking
through the grounds of a college with
a friend one day, when he suddenly
halted, seized his companion by the
ann, and pointing to the earth, ex-
clahned, do You see that blade Of
grass? 1t is miracle"
Very good; there are some people in
this world whose ears are so construct
ed that they cannot hear anything
which is not said with bang; and as
far as blade of grass being a miracle
Is concerned, II is as much OF miracle
as anything else that ever happened.
1t has come to be generally, recognized
that the universe Is governed by law
and not by caprice, and that although
law is elastic enough to allow many
strange happenings, it has not pleased
the Creator to make it contradict itself.
At the time when Joseph Cook won
his immense popularity among a GER
tain class of people in this country, the
doctrines of Huxley, Spencer. and Dar-
win We're as yet new and untried no.
tions to the majority of intelligent peo-
pie. Perhaps the power of inherited
tradition in influencing the judgment
and logic has seldom been fully recog-
nized. II people have believed from in
fancy that the world was created by
magic in seven days, it somehow seems
to them more logical to believe this
than to accept any new theory. 1t took
time to dislodge the old convictions, and
also considerable skill. The scientists
had neither the time nor the right sort
of ability. Their opinions. frankly pro-
claimed. would have been regarded by
the average church member In this
The Washington times., 1901-07-29
IMMIGRANTS NOW TOURISTS.

There is a tide of travel from the
prairie States to Europe this year. which
Is due entirely to the good crops of the
last four years and to the ample bank
accounts OF the farmers of these States.
who came as immigrants twenty. ten.
and even five years ago.
1t is an interesting fact that most of
the travel is to the Scandinavian Penin-
sula. The Swedes and Norwegians and
Danes have been thrifty, Industrious.
md successful. The Germans, too,
have been able to provide a sur
plus fund for making the home trip.
These good people are counted by thou
sands in the Dakotas. Minnesota, north
T,s stern Iowa. and northeastern Nebras-
ka. and there are hundreds of homes
where the great event of u lifetime. the
going back to the fatherland. has been
enacted with tears and smiles this sum-
CITY -Tribune. ffaa
The Washington times., 1901-07-29


Unless the signs should change today
there would seem to be some prospect
that the steel strike may be ended during
the week. as result of some sort of COM
promise. President ,Shaffer Is reported to
have been in secret conference with Mr..
j. P Morgan, President Schwab. and
Judge Gary, of the Steel Trust. in New
York on Saturday. and that looks promis-
ing. Mr.. Morgan is not a pig-headed man
and before has been known to make con-
cessions when they appeared to be de-
manded by conditions. 1t is altogether
likely that the Amalgamated Association
people also, would now be willing to
abate something of their demands. since,
according to popular opinion they have
been skating on very thin ice for the past
week or so. There is no doubt that an
effort at accommodation is under way.
Everybody will hope for its success.