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McHenry Plaindealer. , • • ! . ' ft... >«. i, , J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MttNENftY* ILLINOIS WEEPS NEWS RECORD W.? •r I# •7.\i w f V» - The People's Railway (Fourth street cable) of St. Louis, which has been in the of n reooiror the past two years, fitap, sold at public auction by the sheriff. Third mortgage bondholders bid $500,000 and secured the property, which will be veorgauized.. The reservoir of the Big Dippergravel mine, nenr Ooifax; Cal.. burst. The witter Wished down the narrow canyon, sweeping everything in its path. Joseph Ferber, an employe of the mine, and five Chinese, trho were working the gravel in the can­ yon, were drowned. The property loss is •bout $20,000. At Monticello, Minn., some one explod­ ed a dyn.triiite bomb in front of F. B. Bryant's general store. The explosion Shook the entire town. The Bryant store was completely wrecked. The J. W. Clark rftore, next door, was more or less wreck­ ed. Neither the dynamiter nor his mbttve has been discovered. Maxey hall, one of the newest campus dormitories «f Brown University, Provi­ dence, 11. i.. was gutted by fire. The fire started in one of the student rooms and gained great headway, owing to frozen hydrants and difficulties encountered with a. foot of anew and the mercury at zero. The damage is about $15,000. Cadets Baender and Lace of the see'ond class at West Point, the former of Mober- ly, Mo., and the, latter of Iveosauqua, Iowa, sent in their resignations and left the military academy suddenly. The eawge of their premature leavetaking is known only to the authorities, who decline to°teay anything about the matter. Capt. D. W. Glenn, who is now in Washington on special duty in connection with the exploration of the Klondike coun­ try, has received a telegram announcing that Lieut. Castner. United States army, and two enlisted men. who disappeared in the frozen wilderness of the Klondike last August, hare arrived safely at YVeare, a station at the mouth of the Tanana river. Henry P. Rhodes, a prominent young attorney of Denver, Coio.. died as the re­ sult of wounds inflicted by himself. Up­ on hearing of his death Mrs. Olga Lav- renius, a young Russian widow, under­ stood to have been Rhodes' fiancee, shot and instantly killed her 10-year-old son and then sent a bullet through her 6wn brain. The cause of Rhodes* act is not kbown. The steamer P. D. Staggs, Capt. Doug­ lass Jones, was badly wrecked at the bridge over the Tennessee river at John- sonville, Tenn. In attempting to go under the drawbridge the boat "sheered" and strack the bridge, knocking the pilot house and smokestacks off. The boat then drift­ ed helplessly down the stream and burned. Eight roustabouts lost their lives. The boat was valued at $10,000. The other night burglars gained an en­ trance to the farm residence of M. L. Ransey, north of Tiffin. Ohio. They bound Ransey and his wife and threat­ ened to bam them if they did not reveal where their money was concealed. Ran­ sey gave them $50, bnt this did not satisfy them and they were about to set fire to his bed when he produced a bank book show­ ing the deposit of his money. Ransey had •did a large tract of land the day before and the burglars supposed he had the money* in the house. One robber was captured. body of Lttcy Corbin. an lS-year- olif'colored girl of Oxford, Ohio, was found niide'r the ice in Four Mile creek. Leading from the spot were footprints, which terminated in a thicket, where the snow was trampled as if by a struggle, ahd Smirched with blood. The girl spent a recent evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson, a young colored couple. Mfs. Dickerson appeared at the home of the girl's father at midnight and told him to keep his. d Aught er at home if he wanted her to be safe. She claimed she had found Jlfisg Corbin on her husband's lap. From that time the girl was not seen alive. Advices from the Orient state that the Chinese rebels in Formosa are gaining strength and that many cities are being looted. A battle occurred between the Chinese insurgents and the Japanese troops at Taipehfu. The engagement re­ sulted in victory for the rebels, who, after succeeding by their flank movements in dodging the Japanese fire and coming to close quarters, fought hand to hand for three hours. Hundreds were cut down, and. when the Japanese were finally beat­ en back they left between 350 and 400 dead on the field. The rel>els did not reach 100. Advancing after their victory they captured Tzu Lan, about seven or eight miles from Lopeh. The inhabitants were terrorized and there was a rush to a moya for safety. i BREVITIES. » Tillage of Forestport, X. Y., was destroyed by fire. ^ . 'Brig. Gen. John H. Patterson has been , placed on the retired list. An explosion in a still of the Atlas oil 1 "refinery at Buffalo caused a loss of about *25,000. The threatened election troubles in Ja­ maica have been entirely quieted. The . British fleet has dispersed. Robert P. Porter, recently a special «Mismigfiioner to Cuba, sailed for Europe and is reported to be on a mission for the President. President McKinley has issued the or­ der for a court of inquiry to investigate the charges made by Maj, Gen, Miles re- gardirig "embalmed beef" Mrs. Mary Williams, her son Harvey and two sniill children were drowned While fording Clinch river. Kentucky. The Clinch river was swollen by the recent rains. r The Secretary of War has sent to Con­ gress a statement on the militia, showing a total organized force of 101.53(5: total unorganized and available. 8.999.S25. Mrs. Paniphilia Wolcott died at Akron »--0bio, aged 72 years. She was the widow ' * of C. P. Wolc-ott and sister of Edwin - Stanton, Secretary of War in Lincoln cabinet. V' The stockholders of the American Ce- " rt»al Company at their annual mooting in JUcron, Ohio, accepted the proposition of ' f C&e new cereal food trust for the absorp- ' ' lion of the American and alwut ten other :yt «ereal companies. being ttTfctatfte. ©8* W«nan was killed and four persons injured. The ex- plosion waa caused by a gas leak ia the cellar. A two-hone wagon, loaded with furni­ ture and on which six persons, five men and a young woman, were riding, was struck by a fast Baltimore and Ohio freight train at the crossing at Riverton station, just above McKeesport, Pa. Four of the men were killed and the other man and the young woman were fatally in­ jured. WESTERN, ' *5 Elmer Hosner committed suicide by hanging himself at Relue, Ohio. At Los Angeles, Cal., A. G. Branley, the old soldier who shot Gov. Smith of the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica, was sentenced to two years in S&ik Quentin prison. The new brick poorhouse at Hastings, Minn., burned, with its contents. The twenty inmates were removed to places of safety. The loss is estimated at $20,000, insurance $5,000. ' * Three cases of smallpox were discovered in the Vendome Hotel at Omaha, and the place was placet! under strict quarantine by the health department. Several guests escaped through skylights. At Bucyrusf. Ohio. L. fc, Haman and family ate apples that had Jain in a cellar near some arsenic which rats had tracked upon the fruit. All the family became sick and the youpgest daughter died. Two children of Will Carson. V boy and a girl, have been drowned in the Uncom- pahgre river, near Montrose, Colo. They were playing on the ice and broke through. One of the bodies has been recovered. W. S. Pardee, assistant secretary of the Pacific States Mutual Savings Bank, was shot and probably fatally wounded at j San Francisco by Christian Iteis. Jr. The shooting took place in Pardee's office. j Fire which broke out on the top floor of the four-story Gaenesslen block at Cleve­ land gutted that structure and badly dam­ aged the Mayer ,& Bingham building ad­ joining. The total loss is estimated at $75,000. The Moulton Hill winery at Cloverdale, Cal., the property of I. Laudsberger, of San Francisco, has been destroyed by tire, together with 200,000 gallons of wine. The loss is estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000. In a head-end collision between a^pas- senger train and a freight train off*the central division of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway near Pollock, La., two trainmen were killed and several injured. Indian Agent Walker, at Perry, Ok., has issued an order prohibiting persons entering the country of the tribes under his care, the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians. The spread of smallpox caused the stringent order. Two buildings and their contents were entirely consumed by fire at Bolckow, Mo. Floyd, Wood & Dysart, who occupied a double store, sustained a loss of $35,000. The loss to W. L. Chambers, hardware and buggies, will be $12,000. The town of Shiloh, Ohio, was almost wiped out by fire. The fire originated in the bakery of C. Obey and spread to and consumed the remainder of the block, con­ taining the principal establishments of the town. The loss will run up in the thou­ sands. Howard D. Thomas & Co. of San Fran­ cisco, manufacturer's agents handling carpets and matting, have petitioned the United States District Court to be ad­ judged bankrupts. They have scheduled liabilities amounting to $3^,953, with only $109 assets. At San Francisco, Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was sentenced to serve the term of her natural life in the San Quentin peniten­ tiary for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dun­ ning of Dover, Del., whom she killed by means of a box of poisoned candy, sent through the mails. At Bowling Green, Ohio, Mrs. Gertrude Teller was sitting by the stove and the heat ignited a celluloid comb that was in her hair. The inflammable material burn­ ed furiously, and before it could be re­ moved her hair was nearly burned from her head. The fire was smothered, but not until she was very seriously burned. SOUTHERN. Soldiers of the Fifteenth Minnesota Regiment at Augusta, Ga., attempted to lynch a saloonkeeper who had murdered ane of their comrades, but were captured by the provost guard. The town of Stilesboro, Ga., was nearly wi^-d out by a cyclone. No lives were ost. but several people were injured. The Methodist Church, a new structure, was ruined and twelve families were made homeless. Harry Deffinbaugh, aged 28, was shot and instantly killed on one of the most prominent streets of Sistersville, W. Va., by Miss Ella Bow en, aged 20. Miss Bow- ?n is in jail and alleges that Deffinbaugh pursued her, tearing her clothing and threatening her if she left him. The body of a dead woman was found on the Hydes ferry turnpike bridge, oyer the Cumberland river, near Nashville, Tenn. The body was identified as that of Mrs. J. D. Clark, or Minnie Cox. J. D. Clark, the alleged husband of the woman, was arrested charged with the murder. W. C. Griffin, State superintendent of agencies and manager of the Dallas, Tex., office of Bradstreet's, was found in a dying condition in the Windsor Hotel & that city. He registered under an assum­ ed name, and before going to bed he took morphine. He died shortly after being found. His accounts are straight. opposed by the Ftabutdaxs, and an ing Is feared. ' Afcvicflte from Bolivia confirm the report of the retreat of President Alonzo and his army to Oruro, a town of Bolivia 100 miles northwest of Sucre. The Indians^ it is added, are rising everywhere and are murdering and plundering. There are also rumors of complications between Bolivia and Chili. At Maraoijlps* in a meeting of the anti- Dreyfus League of Patriots, a hostile demonstration on the part of some Drey- fusites4 led to' serious fighting in the arlrifinff wjhl^h iwrojyAfc n;ijrp The police repressed the disturbances, but a number of people were injured. Many arrests pvere tnade. Australian colonial premiers have agreed qpn a federation plan. The legisla­ tive authority is to be vested in the queen and two houses of parliament, the mem­ bers of «ach to be elected on the basis of manhood suffrage. Seven ministers will form the executive government and a new federal capital is to be established at New South Wales. Yalientp's gendarmes, searching the woods between Mayari and San Luis, Cuba, for the missing postal courier, An tonio Arturo VariOs. who left Mayari for San Luis with a ^tiail pouch, intending to traverse rtie entire road, have reported the finding1 of the body. The courier was cvideutly murdered, as many wounds from machetes Were foiind on the body. II is horse was wandering two miles off, but no trace of the mail pouch hrts been found." • " Advices fVoita the Orient say that the death of the Japanese. Princess Sanda- poriilya probably saved the lives of hun­ dreds of tli^at&r-goers at Osaka, Japan. The death in the royal household was an­ nounced when the show at the Kabuki Theater was about half through, and an immense audience slowly filed out. They were hardly clear of the building when flames broke out in the third story and soon reduced it to ashes. A strong wind was blowing at the time, and the firemen could do nothing to stop the flames. A number of them were seriously injured. The theater was one of the finest build­ ings in Osaka. Advices from the Orient say that a Canadian woman, who joined the China inland mission as the wife of Rev. Mr. Iiynhart, a Belgian missionary, has reach­ ed Tachieulu with a terrible story of cru­ elty and suffering an*>ng the fierce moun­ tain tribesmen of Thibet. Her husband was brutally murdered after their son had died < from exhaustion. She was chased like a hunted deer for two months through the mountains on the border of China and' Thibet. She was shot at time and again kind pelted with bowlders from the cliffs overhead, but finally succeeded in reaching a mission; She and her hus­ band were attacked while attempting to cross into Thiliet. " IN GENERAL. Banana dealers are pow said to be form­ ing a trusti The American Steel and Wire Company has advanced the price of wire and wire nails $2 a< ton, making the price $1.45 a hundred base at milfe to jobbers and wire nails $1.00 a hundred. Ambassador Powell Clayton has notified the State Department that the Mexican Government has consented to grant the application of the United States authori­ ties for the delivery to them under extra­ dition proceedings of James Temple, an American'railroad mam who is now held under arrest in Mexico for killing a Mex­ ican on the American side of the border in Arizona. j Capt. Delos Hayden, keeper of the lighthouse on West Sister Island, Lake Erie, and a companion named Brown at­ tempted to cross to the mainland ovej the ice. Brofc-n died from being frozen. The two men set out* with a small boat and they had not proceeded far when their craft became fastened between ice floes. Cutting wind picked up great sheets of water, which froze on them as it fell. Fishermen on the mainland saw the two men in distress and they went to the res­ cue. Hayden and Brown were uncon­ scious. The boat was half filled with ice, into whicto their feet were solidly frozen and their ice-incased hands held the oars. Brown was so badly frozen that he died and Capt. Hayden suffers intensely. R. Gfe. Dun £ Co.'s weekly review of trade j»ys: "Failures in January were smaller than in any previous month except ^.ugust, 1898, and July, 1897, and the proportion of solvent payments to clearing house' exchanges is smaller than in any other month qf which records exist. In January there were but 86 cents per $1,- 000, jelearing. house payments, and the smallest in any previous month had been about $1.08 per $1,000. The defaulted liabilities were $7,721,897, against $10,- 451,513 last year, a decrease of 26 per cent, and 58 per cenysmaller than in 1897, 57 per cent smalle^than in 1896, 50 per cent smaller than in 1885, and TO per cent smaller than in 1894. The'manufac- turing failures w^re the smallest, except August, 1898. There were only seven failures for $100,009 or more, and the average of liabilities per failure is smaller than in January of any other year, and the small failures are not only fewer in number bat smaller in average liabilities tl^an in any previous year. Considering tj»at January is usually one of the largest months ol1 thfe year in failures, the return is surprising as well as encouraging. Fail­ ures for the week have been 224 in the IJnited States, against 335 last year, and 25 in Cataada, against 39 last year." THE MARKETS. WASHINGTON. EASTERN. . Maurice E. Fagan, aged 55 years, for- jJBerly a well-known lawyer of Philadel­ phia, but laterly of Collingwood, N. J., OOminitted suicide in Laurel Hill cemetery : l»y shooting himself through the head. Gov. Roosevelt of New York has "deoid- •d that he will not interpose official clem- «fjcy between Mrs. Martha Place and the electric cliair, in which she has been sen­ tenced to die for the murder ot her step- slaughter in Brooklyn. f A terrible gas explosion occu.red in , Stna, Pa.*;-completely demolishing the lirick residence of Joseph Ackerman, it John H. Comstock is dead, at'Washing­ ton. James A. Sexton of Chicago, command­ er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re­ public, died at Garfield hospital in Wash­ ington. The Republican House caucus at Wash­ ington has decided to refer all currency reform legislation to a committee to report at the next session of Congress. The last of the supply of postage stamps issued in commemoration of the Omaha exposition has been shipped from the Postoffice Department and all that remain of that immense series are now scattered about the postofflces throughout the coun- try. The War Department has repudiated the name "colonial board" as applied to the commission recently appointed to deal with insular questions. Curtis Guild, named as a member, has declined the ap­ pointment, so Messrs. Watkins and Ken­ nedy will serve alone. The House Committee on Judiciary at Washington has decided that the mem­ bers of the House who accepted commis­ sions in the army vacated their seats. They are Wheeler of Alabama, Campbell of Illinois, Colson of Kentucky and Rob- bins of Pennsylvania. Members serving on eiv|l commissions are held not to have forfeited their seats. AN1LA Filipino Rebels Attack Americans •S- *• and Are Routed. ^ 'Are Estimated' ai' ia Dead and Wouaded. Men Conflict ibfkat* Tweotyidir Hfttfra, with Little Cessation--Volunteers and Regulars Were Prepared for the Night Attack, and Fairly Slaugh­ tered the Hordes of Natives, Who, Well Armed, Fongrht with Courage-- Dewey** Ships Throw Shell*. The long expected rupture between the Americans and the Filipinos at Manila has come at last. The clash came at 8:40 o'clock Saturday evening, when three dar­ ing Filipinos darted past the Nebraska regiment's pickets at Santa Mesa, but retired when challenged. They repeated claimed that the Americans have no other than commercial rights, which he would agree to when the time came, to the isl­ ands or any part of them; that the insur­ gents practically had the Spaniards whip­ ped long before Dewey sailed into the har­ bor on May 1 last ai d that his countrymen only owed the Americans a debt of thanks for having accelerated the ending of the Conflict, nothing more. He haB protested against the acquisition of the islands di­ rectly to this Government at Washington and by representatives to the conference at Paris during the discussion of the peace term* : Despite ajl declarations by the Ameri­ can authorities at Manila that their In­ tentions toward the natives were of the most friendly character, the insurgent leaders apparently concentrated the best* part of their army on the island of Luzon, and rumor lias had it that the Filipino force has gradually been closing in on the capital city, Manila. The native army surrounding Manila has been estimated at 40,000 men, all well armed and the cream of the soldiers un­ der Aguinnldo. These men, as a rule, are up in modern military tactics. A large pftrt of the rifles with which they Ate arm­ ed wer6 furnished by representatives of the United States when the original cam­ paign against Manila, then under Spanish control, was inaugurated. The Americans also gave the islanders a goodly supply of ammunition, little of which, was used in the war with Spain, so it is presumed there is much of it still on hand. AGUINALDO. the experiment without drawing the sen­ tries' fire. But the third time Corporal Greely challenged the Filipinos and then fired, killing one of them and wounding another. Almost immediately afterward the Filipinos' line, from Calvocan to San­ ta Mesa, commenced a fusillade, which was ineffectual. The Nebraska, Montana and North Dakota outposts replied vig­ orously and held their ground until re- enforcements arrived. The Filipinos in the meantime concentrated at three points, Calvocan, Gagalangin and Santa Mesa. At abont 1 o'clock the Filipinos opened WILL PUSH THE WAR. President to Pursue a Vigorous Policy in the Philippine*. , X Washington correspondent says that President McKinley will pursue a vigor­ ous policy in the Philippines, How that Aguinaldo has thrown down the gauntlet. At a cabinet meeting following the news of the battle it was decided to cable in­ structions to Gen. Otis to follow up his victory over the insurgents and to crush the power of Aguinaldo in all the Philip­ pines. The President greatly deprecates the action of the insurgents at a time when he had hopes that affairs might find a peaceful solution. He believes,' how­ ever, that Aguinaldo had sufficient warn­ ing in the proclamation to the Filipinos, which said the United States would bring to account those responsible for disturb­ ances in the islands, and who should fail to recognize the authority of the United States. Otis will be sent to take Boild and oc­ cupy all the islands possible with the forces at hand. Re-enforcements will also be sent to the islands as speedily as pos­ sible. The Oregon, now due at Honolulu, will be ordered to augment Dewey's force in Manila bay. Approximately 6,000 men are on their way to join Gen. Otis, in four separate expeditions, though none is ex­ pected to reach Manila for three weeks. JAMES A. SEXTON DEAD. Noted Chicastoan Succumbs to Attack of Illneas at Washington. James A. Sexton of Chicago, command­ er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re­ public, died Sunday morning at Garfield hospital in Washington. Col. Sexton went to Washington in October to accept J FOREIGN. General Gomez has published a letter at Havana declaring that "forced guidance is hateful to us" and offers his services to assist the natives in erecting a republic In Cuba. Attempts to enforce the use of the Rus­ sian language in the schools and compell­ ing service ia the RuiaiaB agggja biUafo.j 30c. Chicago--Cattle. Common to prime, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 tot $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 72c to 73c; corn, No. 2, 37c to 38c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 50c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, 16c to J8c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 69c to 71c; corn, No. 2 white, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 32c. St. Lonis--Cattle, $3.50 to $6.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 27c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 55c to 56c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2, 63c to 65c. Detroit--^Cattle, $2.50 to $5.75; hogs $2.56 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.25 wheat, No. 2, 71c to 73c; corn, No. yellow, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; rye, 59c to 01c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 73c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; oats, NO. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye. No. 2, 55c to 57c; clover seed, new, $3.75 to $3.85 , Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No, 2 white, 29c to 31c; rye, No. 1, 55c to 57c barley. No. 2, 45c to 53c; pork, mess, $9.50 to $10.00. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, common to choice, $3 .25 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice weth ers, $3.50 to $4.50; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $5.25. New York--Cattle. $3.25 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheift, No. 2 red, 82c to 83c; cor 11,3No. ; 2,48c to 46c; oats. No. 2 white, 35c to 37c; butter, creamery, 15c to 20c; eggi, Weat- THE HARBOR AT MANILA. ,hot fire from all three places simulta­ neously. This was supplemented by the fire of two siege guns at Balik-Balik and by advancing their skirmishers at Paco and Pandacan. The Americans respond­ ed with a terrific fire, but, owing to the darkness, they were unable to determine its effect. * The Utah light artillery finally succeed­ ed in silencing the native battery. The Third artillery also did good work on the extreme left. The engagement lasted over an hour. The United States cruiser Charleston and the gunboat Concord, sta­ tioned off Malabona, opened fire from their secondary batteries on the Filipinos' position at Calvocan and kept it up vigor­ ously. At 2:45 o'clock there was another fusillade along the entire line and the United States sea-going double-turreted monitor Monadnock opened fire on the enemy from off Malate. There was inter­ mittent firing at various points all day long. American Troops Advance. With daylight the Americans advanced. The California and Washington regiments made a splendid charge and drove the Filipinos from the villages of Paco and Santa Mesa. The Nebraska regiment also distinguished itself, capturing several prisoners and one howitzer and a very strong position at the reservoir, which is connected with the water works. The Kansas and Dakota regiments compelled the enemy's right flank to retire to Cal voean. The losses of the Filipinos are known to be considerable. The American losses are estimated at twenty men killed and 125 wounded. The Ygorates, armed with bows and arrows, made a very determin­ ed stand in the face of a hot artillery fire and left many men dead on the field. Though there was no concerted uprising in Manila, several attempts were made in the city during the night to assassinate American officers. a position on the army investigation com­ mission. During the holidays he contract­ ed a severe cold, which soon developed into a severe attack of the grip. While suffering from the latter disease compli­ cations set in. Col. Sexton had been one of Chicago's most conspicuous public men. Born in Chicago in 1844, he entered the army at President Lincoln's first call for troops in April, 1861, being then but little over 17 years old. Wittrin three months he had won a sergeantcy. One year later, when only 18, he was made a lieutenant, and three months later he took the cap­ taincy of Company D, Seventy-second Illi­ nois. His company was one raised bys the Young Men's Christian Association. He became regimental commander before he was 21 and led his regiment in the bat­ tles of Columbia, Duck rivt»r, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville and throughout COL. JAMES A. SEXTON. The positions which the Americans held at the beginning of the fight were former­ ly occupied by the Filipinos. At the siege of Manila the natives drove the Spaniards from these positions and took possession of them, but finally gave them up at the request of Gen. Otis, falling back about a mile, where they established new de­ fenses. Some of these were captured by the Americans. Gen. Otis had known for some time that the Filipinos were preparing for an at­ tack, and when it came everybody was ready. The natives cut many of the tele­ graph wires, which for a time caused no little bother to the Americans. Most of the damage of this kind was in the city or in the immediate vicinity. The Ameri­ can officers generally are pleased at the manner in which the volunteers conducted themselves. Their six or seven months' drill and seasoning has made them equal to the best troops in the world. They fought with the same sang froid as the regulars, surprising even the most san­ guine of their officers. For some tiijie the situation at Manila has been considered critical and it has been feared that a conflict with the insur­ gents was at hand. Gen. Otis, under in structions froi^ the State Department at Washington, hafc done all possible to re­ concile the natives to the American occu­ pation and it was hoped that his efforts would prove successful. Aguinaldo has been menacing ever since the Spaniards surrendered to Gen. Mer- ritt and Admiral Dewey. In bis official prouuneiawentos ai*d jp if^arview* he has the Nashville campaign, although wound­ ed both at Franklin and Nashville. In the successful assault on Spanish fort, at Mobile, Ala., April 8, 1865, be had his left leg broken below the knee by a piece of shell. He was mustered out that year. In 1889 President Harrison made Col. Sexton postmaster of Chicago. He was always an enthusiastic worker in the Grand Army, the Union Veterans' League and the Loyal Legion. In the Grand Army he was commander of the depart­ ment of Illinois in the 80's and in 1898 was chosen commander-in-chief. AVAU •NCHES IRAQO MOUNTAINS.* One Great Slide Crush** a Train and Another Destroy* Miner'* Cabin- Towns Without Food or V*aelvCttt Off from the World. A-Buow»iorui raged with but prief inter­ mission for more than a week in Colorado. Snowslides are frequent, and serious loss of life from,this source is already report­ ed. Many towns are entirely cut off from communication either by rail or wire, and it is feared the dead list will be greatly swelled when they are heard from. A Denver and Rio Grande work train was buried under an avalanche of snow in the canyon of the Grand river, nine miles , east of Glenwood Springs. Six deaths are known to have* resulted from the accident. Thirty-two men composed the crew of the train, which had been sent out to raise the snow blockade east of Glenwood, and it was at first reported that they had all been killed. The en­ gine, caboose and two flat cars were pick­ ed up by the terrific force, tossed about like egg shells and landed at the edge of the Grand river under thirty feet of snow and debris from the mountains. The slide was*a quarter of a mile long and 400 feet wide. A relief train, bearing doctors from Denver, reached the scene soon after the accident, and it had hardly come to a stop before a second slide came crashing down behind it. Another snowslide on Mount Elbert, near Leadville, swept away the cabin of William Manning, an aged miner, and buried him under tons of debris. The enormous quantity of snow in the moun­ tains this winter accounts for the snow- slides, which are unprecedented at this time of the year. Mountain trails and railroads are hopelessly blockaded, and many of the outlying mining oafrips can be reached only by men on snowshoes. Pro­ visions are becoming scarce in many towns, and serious results are feared if the roads are not soon opened up. , A supply train reached Breckinridge after a hazardous trip, and the citizens were compelled to shovel ftie snow off the track at the finish. The train included several freight cars loaded with hay, grain, coal, beef, flour and groceries suffi­ cient to last about two weeks. It took nine hours to make the rim from Como to Breckinridge--thirty-four miles. At Leadville the supply of coal is so small that a forced shut-down of mines and shelters is threatened. A snowslide on the summit of the Sel- kirks swept away the Canadian Pacific station and round house at Rodgers' Pass, B. C., and killed sevea people and injiu-ed two more. ':3 I ^OjMH^TO AID BROOKE. Cnban Lender Has Promised to DU- band Hi* Army. Late advices say that Gen. Maximo Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban forces, has pledged his support to the United States and will work with Gen. Brooke for the disbandment of the insur­ gent army. Gomez, although he declared the $3,000,000 offered by the United States to the native soldiers too small an tfmount, will advise disbanding the vari­ ous armies and expects to persuade all the men to return to their homes and take up peaceful pursuits. This important pledge from the insur­ gent leader was secured, by Robert P. Porter, special coinftrtssioner of President McKinley, after a conference. As a re­ sult of the interview Gen. Gomez cabled to the President of the United States as­ suring him of his co-operation. He also telegraphed to Gen. Brooke at Havana, accepting the latter's invitation to go to the Cuban capital. In view of Gen. Gomez's reported prior attitude of hostility toward the United States, Mr. Porter went to Cuba clothed with absolute authority, and the tender of the $3,000,000 was practically a verbal ultimatum. Had it not been accepted no more ultimatums would have been made. Mr. Porter made plain the purpose of the Government and was gratified at the ready response of Gen. Gomez. Gen. Gomez had told the President his soldiers could not live in the island if dis­ banded without money, and as the Presi­ dent could not undertake to pay the Cu­ ban soldiers money as salary it was agreed that the United States should distribute $3,000,000 among the Cuban soldiers as a relief fund, each soldier to receive about $100, which would enable them to leave the army and be self-supporting while seeking regular employment. Gomez de­ clines to take any part, in the distribu­ tion of the money, which will be left en- tfr^ly in tlje hands of Gen. Brooke, mili­ tary govefrpot of Cuba. NO FAITH IN THE FILIPINOS. Admiral Dewey Refuses to Return The<r Launches, Filipino members of the joint commis­ sion at Manila demanded the release of the launches seized by the Americans, and also that they be permitted to fly the Fili­ pino flag in the waters of the Philippines. Gen. Otis is reported as being favorable to granting these concessions, but Admiral Dewey refused, not wishing to-put him­ self in a position obliging him to employ searchlights in order to discover the move­ ments of the Filipinos, to prevent the smuggling of arms or avert a possible tor­ pedo attack. A dozen natives have been arrested, having been discovered secretly manufac­ turing bolas in Manila. The military po­ lice almost daily find small quantities of bolas, rifles or ammunition, all of which are seized. The Filipino telegraph office in Manila connecting with all parts of the island of Luzon has been closed by the Americans, and the operators arrest­ ed upon the discovery that the wires were being used for the transmission of Gen. Otis' secret orders and dispatches to the Filipino Government at Malolos. CHINAMEN ARE STARVING. Mote* of Current Bvent*. Henry Laupheimer auctioned more than 20,000 bides of various kinds at Sedalia, Mo. At least 400 cases of smallpox, with numerous deaths, have occurred at Salem, Ark. & A bill has passed the Alabama Senate establishing separate couuty control of the liquor traffic. Colima, the volcano in the Mexican State of that name, has been in a violent state of eruption since the recent earth­ quake. Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma has offered a reward of $100 each for the murderers of A. C. Fulton of Independence, Kan,, who was murdered near Enid, Okla. Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York will receive the brevet of brigadier general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious Santiago campaign. Orer a Million of Them Destitute Along the Tellow Hirer. Advices from Shanghai tell of a wretch­ ed state of affairs along the Yellow river, where the floods have cpused terrible suf­ fering. It is estimated by missionaries who have made the circuit of the flooded district in boats that 2,500 square miles are inundated and that 1,000,000 people are suffering for food. Thirty-four coun­ ties in the province of Honan are affected, and nine are so badly flooded that only a few villages in each are left intact. It is estimated that along the banks of the Yellow river near Chinau-fu 165,000 peo­ ple are living in mud huts, with nothing to eat except willow sprouts and the leaves RECORD-BREAKING VOYAGE. Transport Buffalo Goes to Manila in Fifty-four Day*. The United States transport Buffalo, liaving on board sailors to relieve men in Rear Admiral Dewey's fleet, has arrived at Manila. The Buffalo made a record- breaking run from New York to Manila in fifty-four days. It had aboard 700 sailors to relieve men inr Dewey's fleet whose time has expired. The Buffalo will be used as a regelar transport for men and naval stores, making regular trips be­ tween Manila and San Francisco The controversy in the Senate over the--'>'"..»;- •ote upon the various resolutions Inter- pretive of the peace treaty took an acute turn late on Friday. The opposition to a ' "i vote first cfame from the friends of the treaty, who held to the theory that it'-^'J could be ratified without compromise. ' Those who apparently were then willing* , that a vote should be taken that day, held an opposite view and absolutely refused-' to agree to a time for taking a vote. The "4 contest occurred in the executive session." The next hour and a quarter was spent fj- in a vain endeavor on the one side to get an agreement to a date for a vote upon +'i^i the resolutions and on the other in a more successful effort to bring the day's session to a close without allowing anything to ber %. accomplished in that direction. For more'*- than five hours the Senate in open session listened to arguments in opposition to ex- •' pansion and in opposition to the ratifica-' ; ' tion of the treaty of peace. The speakers „< were Mr. Money {Miss.) and Mr. Daniel. ^ (Va.). Mr. Hale (Me.) presented the eon- * ference report on the diplomatic and con- sular appropriation bill, and it was agreed' ̂ to. * • .;Afc the opening of Saturday's session ' ;/ • Allen (Pop., Neb.) offered a resolution?^" declaring that the United States, in rati -a# tying the treaty of Paris, does not 1 mit itself to the doctrine that the islands.-*^ acquired through the war with Spain aret i to be annexed to or become a part of the r iyted Statcs- Mr. Chilton (Dem., Tex.) addressed the Senate on Mr. Vest's anti- expansion resolution. Senator Wolcott made a strong speech in favor of e!xpan- sion. The Senate went into executive ses- sion without voting on any of the pending resolutions regarding expansion. The time of the Senate behind closed doors was consumed almost entirely by Mr. Morgan. After disposing of a few routine matters the House took up the bill mak­ ing appropriations for the expenses of the military academy at West Point The treaty -f peace with Spain was ratified by th< Senate Monday afternoon, the vote being 57 to 27, only one more than the two-thirds majority required. ' Monday was suspension day in the Houset and quite a number of bills were passed,.' some of them of importance. The census bill prepared by the House committee went through by a vote of 147 to 42. The bill differs in several essential features from the Senate bill, particularly in that it makes the census bureau entirely^ inde­ pendent of any existing department. A bill was passed to extend the anti-con-' tract labor laws over the Hawaiian isl­ ands, and another bill was passed to refer forty-four war claims for stores and sup­ plies to the Court of Claims. In the Senate on Tuesday a bill grant­ ing a right of way through Indian Terri­ tory to the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company was passed. Mr. • Spooner of Wisconsin presented the ere- : dentials of Senator-elect Quarles. Mr. Tillman of South Carolina, in accordance with notice given, addressed the Senate on the McEnery resolution. Tuesday was the first of two days set aside for the consideration of public building bills. The committee had reported seventy-eight -bills for buildings in thirty-five States, authorizing in the aggregate an expendi­ ture of $14,060,900. Little or no opposi­ tion developed and bills were favorably acted upon almost as -rapidly as they } could be read. There was, however, more or less good-natured chaffing throughout the session. As a result forty bills, car­ rying or authorizing appropriations aggre­ gating $11,364,000, had been laid aside with favorable recommendations before adjournment was reached. In the Senate on Wednesday the In­ dian appropriation bill, which has been pending for several weeks, was completed and passed. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was taken up, but after twenty-four pages of it had - been disposed of it was laid aside for the day. A few measures of minor impor­ tance were passed. The net result of the work 'during the two days allotted for the consideration of public building bills in the House was the passage of a single bill providing for the erection of a build­ ing at Newport News, Va., at a cost of $75,000. Sixty-five bills in all, carrying or authorizing the expenditure of about $12,000,000, were favorably considered in committee of the whole when the com­ mittee rose, but because seventeen other bills reported had not been acted upon in committee all efforts to advajice the bills favorably acted upon in committee were blocked. Mr. Corliss (Rep.) of Michigan called up the Senate bill to amend the law requiring ballots for mem­ bers of Congress to be written or print­ ed, so as to permit the use of machines where authorized by the laws of the State. The bill was passed--94 to 44. Chairman Cannon of the Appropriations Committee of the House, in the course of the general debate on the sundry civil bill on Thursday, sounded a note of warn­ ing against extravagant appropriations, and practically served notice that neither , the ship subsidy bill nor the Nicaragua canal bill could be passed at this session. The general debate upon the sundry civil bill was not concluded. Before if was taken up quite a number of minor bills were passed by unanimous consent. Throughout its open sef-sion ,tbe Senate . bad under consideration the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. I The following bills were passed: Author­ izing the Sioux City and Omaha Railway Company to construct and operate a rail- way through the Omaha and Winnebago_ reservation in Thurston County, Neb., and to restore to their original status asf to promotion officers of the navy and ma­ rine corps who lost numbers by reason of the advancement of other officers for ex­ ceptional and meritorious service during the war with Spain. New* of Minor Note. Russia sells to other countries 1,500,- 000,000 eggs a year. The Illinois State fair will increase its purses this year $10,000 for trotters and pacers. The best tWee in five style of racing is a horse-killing system, says a veteran of the turf. Customs receipts at Havana have near­ ly doubled since the Americans took pos­ session of the city. What is known as "Mission Rock," San Francisco Bay, has been officially set apart fo^ a coaling station. Gen. Gomez intends to concentrate all the Cuban fortes in the island in the province of Santa Clara, and from there march to the vicinity of Havana, where he will encamp. The Nationnl Creamery Butter Makers' Association, in session at Siotix Falls, S. D., adopted a resolution asking Congress to increase the tax to 10c a pound on colored oleomargarine. Grant G. GiHett, the Kansas cattle plunger, who recently failed with liabili­ ties aggregating over $500,000, has turned his property over to his creditors, and it is stated that the latter have promised that no criminal action will be instituted against him if he returns from Uvjpee#.- i -k&.