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ASHBURN ADVANCE.
V(){, VIII.
FIGHT WHIPPED
SAYS GEN. OTIS
Cables War Department That Reb=
els Have Been Subjugated.
AGUINALDO IS HIDING OUT
Filipino Government No Longer
Exists—Its Officials Are
Scattered.
A Washington special says: Genera!
Otis summarizes the situation in Lu-
zon in a dispatch to the war depart¬
ment Friday in which l c says that the
insurgent government can no longer
claim to exist, its troops and officials
uro scattered and Agtiiualdo in hiding.
The dispatch follows:
“Manila, November 24—Claim to
government by insurgents can he made
no longer under any fictieV; its treas¬
urer, secretary of interior and presi¬
dent of congress in onr hands; its
president and remaining cabinet offi¬
cers are in hiding, evidently in differ¬
ent erals central aud troops Luzon in provides; email hands its scat¬ gen
tered through these provinces acting
as banditti or dispersed playing the
role of ‘amigos,’ with arms concealed.
“Indications are that Aguinaldo did
not escape through the lines of Law-
ton or Wheaton, but fled westward
from Bayambang railway station. Tel¬
egraphic communication to Dagupan
established, probably to Han Fabian
today; hy relaying nine miles of track
with material at hand, railway com¬
munication to that point re-establish¬
ed; labor of troops must attend main¬
tenance.”
Fuller details of the sharp engage¬
ment between Carpenter aud tho in¬
surgents in Iloilo reached the war de¬
partment Friday in the following
dispatch from General Otis dated
Manila:
“Ill Pansy, 21st instant, when Dick-
man drove enemy in vicinity of Jnro,
Carpenter, with two battalions of the
Eighteenth infantry and Bridgeman's
battery, bad severe engagement at
Pavia, north of Iloilo. His casualties
were five killed, twenty wounded, now
in Iloilo hospital; others, slightly
wounded, with Command. Enemy
driven northwest ; reported very heavy
lor-s. Particulars not received. Car-
penter passed on to insurgent's strong-
bold, Santa Barbara, which he captur-
ed on the 22nd instant without loss.
Nothing received from column under
the immediate command of Hughes,
which is moving rapidly and operating
north and west of Santa Barbara. Ap-
parentiy the Vissayans are friendly,
not taking active part; enemy consists
of 2,000 Tagnlos.”
A later dispatch from General Otis
gives the result of tho fighting at
Iloilo as follows:
“Hughes, Iloilo, reports enemy
driven back into mountains; insur¬
gent capital, Cobatuan, captured. Only
serious action that of Carpenter nt Pa¬
via; total casualties five killed, or since
dead of wounds; twenty-seven wound¬
ed; captured ten prisoners, eighteen
cannon, six rifles, quantities of am-
unition. Enemy’s casualties not sta¬
ted.”
ItOEB CASUALTIES HEAVY.
Arrivals at Pretoria Estimate Killed and
Wounded ut 1,000.
Unconfirmed reports continue to
rive at Cape Town to the effect that
General White recently onught the
Boers in a trap at Ladysmith, indne-
ing detachments of the beleaguering
force to venture into the open country,
•when sortie parties from the British
camp captured them. estimate
Late arrivals from Pretoria
the Boer casualties at 1,000 men, half
of whom were killed. They also say
the race coarse there is being pre-
pared for a laager, in the event of a
siege, and the guns of the fort are
trained on it in case the prisoners at¬
tempt to escape.
From President Kruger down, every
one is in favor of fighting. They be¬
lieve they will succeed in annexing all
the beleaguered towns. The flag of
the united rcpublio, now ready, bears
the orange cross.
Tammany Eaves Parnell Homestead.
The Parnell homestead in Wicklow
county, Ireland, now advertised under
foreclosure proceedings, will not be
sold. Tammany Hall, at a meeting of
the executive committee held Satur¬
day, guaranteed the claims the |10,000 needed
to pay off against tbe home¬
stead.
______
Jail as Hospital.
Twentr-five of the men injured in
the wreck on the Omaha and Fort
Dodge road Friday are being cared
for at Dennison, la. Accommoda¬
tions were so limited that a number of
the leas) injuyed jail, have been lodged iu
the couaty which has been fitted
up as sn emergency hospital.
Official Organ of Worth County. Orders for Job Printing Given Prompt Attention.
FACETIOUS dOYNTON
H s Speech at Chick* mauga Re¬
plete With Sensation.
ARRAIGNS LATTER DAY VOLUNTEERS
Compare)* ilicm With the Veterans of Ci
Uhliculcs tin* ltecent Spanish*
American War.
Tho exercises of dedicating the 107
monuments and markers of the state
of Illinois on the battlefields sur¬
rounding the city of Chattanooga were
held Thursday at Orchard Knob, the
site of oils of the principal memorial
shafts nml famous during tho civil
war as the headquarters of General
Grunt.
Among the visitors were Senator
Cnllom, Governor Tanner und stall,
Commissiojer of Pensions II. Clay
1’vans. General H. V. Boynton, rep¬
resenting the secretary of war, aud a
large delegation from the confederate
camp of Chattanooga.
Major Charles A.Connelly delivered
tho speech presenting the monuments
to the governor of Illinois on behalf
of the Illinois commissioners.
Governor Johu I?. Tanner, of Illi¬
nois, received the monuments aud in
turn presented them to tho govern¬
ment.
General H. V. Boynton, chairman
of the national park commission, in
receiving the monuments, said in part:
“The citizens of any state, or of any
nation, might well be proud to stand
on this historic snot, with the right to
stand hero us the military associate of
General Grant, participants with him
each in his appointed rank in that
miracle of military history, the storm¬
ing of Missionary Bidge. First, to¬
ward this point, and then from this
point he delected that series or mem¬
orable battles which have given Chat¬
tanooga a world-wide fame.
“What of the soldiers who won the
battles which these monuments com¬
memorate aud the great captains who
commanded them? Did General Grant
spend his time about the commissary
stores in the capacity of a pure food
commissioner? Did he send his staff
officers throughout tho limits of his
command to gather evidence to prove
that the war department did not know
mu re than a thing or two about war?
Did be fill the press of the land with
interviews criticising everything and
everybody but himself? When he tel-
egraphed General Thomas from Louis-
ville to hold Chattanooga, did Thomas
reply, ‘We are out of tho proper brand
of meat, and it can’t he done,’ or did
ho reply, ‘Wo will hold tho town till
starve?’ Did General Thomas and
p,jn general officers send a round robin
to Washington concerning the condi-
tion of their stomachs, their temper-
atnre and their pulse, and promptly
furnish a copy of it to the press?
“And what of the soldiers who serv-
e d under General Thomas? They
went about the streets of Chattanooga
B ud the horse and mule corrals, pick¬
ing up kernels nml scattered corn.
They gathered about the refuse heaps
of the commissary stores where moldy
bread was thrown,, whittled off the
mold, and filled their haversacks with
the crumbs; and when interrupted by
the play of the seige guns, they would
look up at the smoking summit of
Lookout and exciainr. ‘If these ra-
tiuons hold, Mr. Johnny Beb, we’ll
get you yet.’
“The monuments which Illinois hero
dedicates are to such officorsand men.
Let the small,, but the loud persistent
crowd of grumblers of the national
guard in the war with Spain, who
filled the land with their baseless
gronnings, take notice of the kind of
soldiers which an Anferican state de¬
lights to honor.
“And those who fought against
these iron men were soldiers of a like
mold. .When union veterans gather,
that fact should never be forgotten,
and ever be held as a matter of pride,
since, together, they fix the universal
and undisputed standard of American
pluck, endurance and heroism on the
field of battle,
“This great park, embracing seven
battlefields, is being established with
absolute impartiality as a military ob¬
ject lesson and an illustration of the
powers of the American soldier in bat¬
tle. More than a thousand historical
tablets attest this impartiality. The
like of it was never seen before in any
land.”
THE CHARLESTON DOOMED.
Nsvy Department CoiiTlneeil That Vvs.el
Cannot lie Saved.
The following cablegram was receiv¬
ed at the navy department Thursday
from the commander of the United
States naval station at Cavite, P. I.:
Cxvitr, Nov. 23.— Charleston
wrecked November 2d. Last seen
November 13th, under water from
stern to smokestack. Three unsuc¬
cessful attempts to get near her.
Heavy typhoon since.
“Letttze. ”
The officers of the navy department
look upon this report as dismissing
the last hope of saving the Charles¬
ton.
ASIIIUIKN. <iA.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER^ \m.
HOBART BURIED
AX PATERSON
Funeral Services Impressive and
Largely Attended
MANY NOTABLE MEN PRESENT
President and Cabinet Members
Deeply Affected—All Classes
Represented.
With the impressive religious services
of the Presbyterian church, and with
the dignity duo to liis higii office, all
that is mortal of tho vice president,
Garret A. Hobart, was committed to
tho earth at Paterson, New Jersey,
Saturday afternoon. The president,
Secretary of State John Hay, Chief
Justice Fuller, former Vice President
Levi P. Morton, former Secretary of
War Alger, Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock, the supremo court justices,
members of the senate, members of
congress and the vice president’s per¬
sonal friends filled the beautiful Chiu eh
of tho Bedeomer, and with moistened
eyes and bowed heads testified in¬
tensely and eloquently as to his worth
as s statesman, friend and neighbor.
The chief magistrate of the country
bowed his head in his hand. He was
visibly agitated. There was scarcely
a dry cheek in the crowded edifice,aud
the widow was apparently the most
composed.
The city wore its most Bomber garb
in mourning. All the mills, big busi¬
ness houses and stores were closed.
All the pomp of an official pageunt,
which was omitted in deference to the
wishes of the .deceased, could not have
equaled in impressiveness the scene
in the church.
The imposing and solemn strains of
Chopin's funeral march filled the edi¬
fice with its solemn melody as the cas¬
ket was borne up tho aisle on the
shoulders of tho stalwart members of
the capital police and placed upon the
bier prepared for it in front of the
pulpit. Following it cume the
bcarers, members of the senate. Fol¬
lowing them came the family, the
widow and her son, President Mc¬
Kinley, tlie government dignitaries
and intimate friends. They all sat
close around the casket. On every
side of it tho fiora! offerings were
bauked in a wreath of beauty and
color.
The funeral services were opened hy
Kev. Charles B. Khaw, who read a
portion of the ninth psalm, verses 1-fS
and 10-12. This was followed hy a
selection from Job 34, verses 1-11, and
7-12, and concluded by a reading from
the x'th chapter of Corinthians i. Af¬
ter a prayer sixty mule voices tilled the
church with the beautiful melody of
“Nearer My God to Thee.”
After the sermon, in which tho bus¬
iness, statesmanlike and social quali¬
ties of the deceased were extolled, I)r.
Magie pronounced the benediction,
and in the snmo order that it arrived
tlie funeral procession left the church.
Through a long lane of thousands of
uncovered heads the cortege wended
its way to Cedar I,awn cemetery,
where tlie body was placed in tho re¬
ceiving vault.
Service At Hie Houma.
The service at the house was brief
aud simple. It was held in the library,
which was banked with flowers sent
hy friends of the dead vice president.
Mrs. Hobart, with her son, Garrett A.
Hobart, Jr., sat near the head of the
casket, while near her were grouped
the president aud iris cabinet, judges
of the supreme court, the honorary
pallbearers and the immediate friends
of the family and family servants. The
Rev. David D. Magie offered prayer
and read a passage of scripture. The
president, cabinet and supreme court
judges and those present took a last
look at the face of the dead, the casket
was closed and all that was mortal of
Vice President Hobart was carried out
to the hearse and thence to tho church.
There were never gathered in New
Jersey, and seldom in any part of the
United States, so many mourners of
eminence in tho nation. They repre¬
sented distinct stages of our national
life, combining the history of tre¬
mendous civil strife, now buried with
the marvelous record of progress fol¬
lowing the days of Lincoln,aud mark¬
ing tbe epochs that came with the
lamented Garfield and the living
President McKinley. In the throng
were senators from states that were
territories before the war and for years
after. There were Hoar, of Massa¬
chusetts, representing the old, and
Beveridge, of Indiana, representing
the new in national life. There were
John W. Daniel, of Virginia, repre¬
senting the confederate soldier, and
Hawley, of Connecticut, standing as a
type of the Union veteran, each of
them mourning tbe loss of tbeir pre¬
siding officer.
^ 0 ^ c keme Worked By a
Shrewd Sharper.
USED "ENDLESS CHAIN” METHODS
A Concern That Offoroil I>cposltom 520
For Cent a Year—L«w
Steps In.
A Now York dispatch says: William
F. Miller, head of tho Franklin syndi¬
cate, which has accepted tho deposits
of thousands of persons in Brooklyn
under promise of paying dividends of
10 per cent a week, or 520 per cent
per annum, and Cecil Leslie, his
secretary, were indicted by the Kings
county grand jury. Bench warrants
wore issued for the arrest of those
two meu, hut up to quite a late hour
Friduy night neither hud been found,
the police saying that they had disap¬
peared in the afternoon.
Friday night the police raided the
premises occupied hy the Franklin
syudieato on Floyd street. There was
a great crowd of people around tho
building and the police surrounded it.
Inspector Brennan arrested Louis
Miller, brother of the head of the syn¬
dicate and cashier of the concern, and
took possession of 815,000 in cash.
There were forty employes engaged
at work in the offices and these were
allowed to go.
William F. Miller began the Frank¬
lin syndicate in a very small way, lo¬
cating Ins offiv-o among the poorer
classes of Brooklyn, and making one
feature of his business tho acceptance
of very small sums of money and the
alleged investment of them for tho
poor people. He claimed that by in¬
side tips on the stock market he wus
able to reap large aud quick profits,
of which he wus willing to pay a largo
percentage to his clients.
lie paid the in.ercst on tho princi¬
pal each week, and his business in¬
creased. Within the past few months
he advertised extensively and in all
parts of Booklyu could ho found men
who could toll wonderful stories of tho
weekly dividends. Then some of the
financial concerns in New York began
to look into tho business of the Frank¬
lin syndicate and not only did many
of the prominent financiers denounce
as preposterous tho offer of 10 per
cent, interest on money invested, but
some of the hanks refused to accept
Miller’s uoeount or to do business with
him.
It is claimed that Miller waH simply
the representative of u syndicate of
men who had been engaged in con¬
ducting blind pools for yehrs. Tim
very fact that the newspapers and
financial circles began to make inves¬
tigations aroused the public interest
to such an extent and at the same time
in some quaiters the public cupidity
that, it is said, within the Inst, week,
Miller lias received deposits of hun¬
dreds of people, aggregating n daily
amount of from 880,000 to 840,001).
It is easy to see, under theso circum¬
stances, how the Franklin syndicate
could readily pay 10 per cent of this
amount a week and still make money.
Not only were the people living York
within tho limits of Greater New
large depositors with the Franklin
syndicate, but cities *11 over tho coun¬
try contributed tho earnings of scorns
of their residents to swell the wealth
of the syndicate. The mail delivery
daily at Miller’s office amounted to
about three wagon loads and most of
the letters contained money.
Miller had a faculty of displaying a
large amount of his wealth and tho of¬
fices on Floyd street wero piled high
with greenbacks of all denominations
and heaps of gold. This seemed to
lend confidence to those who came
with their subscriptions, and it is im¬
possible to even estimate wkero the
“endless chain" would have ended.
The principle of the endless chain ns
developed by Millet depended upon
tbe fact that his old customers
brought him additional members and
were allowed a commission of 5 per
cent upon all money invested. Those
who were drawing this income of 0
per cent became walking advertise¬
ments for the Franklin syndicate.
Want Itoml Limit Extended.
Secretary Gage is in receipt of a
large number of requests from finan¬
cial circles to extend the bond offering
limit beyond November 30.
BATTLESHIP TESTED.
Trial of th« Kentucky Provo* Highly 8at-
t ft factory to JSuihlor*.
A Boston dispatch says: Against
tide, wind and a heavy head sea fur
at least half her course, the new bat¬
tleship Kentucky made a record of
10.877 knots speed an hour Friday ou her
official trial over tho govern¬
ment course from Cape Ann to Boone
island, and hy her work showed that
she is a little faster than her aister
ship Kearsage, which recently was
sent over the same course. The trial
satisfied her builders, that hIio can
justly berated as a 17-kuot vessel,
although her contract calls for only
16 knots.
Will Now Bo Adopted By R'bol
. Filipinos.
AGB1NA1.D0 S FORCES ARE SCAT IERE0.
No I.otigot' Al»ln to Opi'iily Copn With Him
A mt'iTcitn*, Tlu'y Will Itntort to
Worry In u Tlit'in.
A Muni lit special under dale of Nov.
211, stated 1.Imt tho last Filipino coun-
eil of war was hold by the retreating
lenders at Bnynmbaug on November
18th in the house now occupied hy
General MaoArthur. It was attended
ly Aguinaldo, Pio del Pilar, Oaroin,
Alrjaudriona and some mein hers of
the so-called cabinet.
Information has reached General
Mae Arthur from several sources to
the rfleet that the council recognised
the futility of attempting further re¬
sistance to the Americans with united
forces, and agreed that the Filippino
treoss should scatter and should here¬
after follow guerrilla methods.
Reports of ambuscades and skir¬
mishes come from every section of the
country along tho railroads. Those
districts seem to be filled with small
hands. Saturday four men of com¬
pany D, Ninth infantry, wore foraging
beyond linmlmti, when twenty Filipi¬
nos took them in ambush, killing one
and capturing the other three. The
Americans resisted for half an hour,
the firing being hoard ut Bamhun.
Lieutenant Fraser, with u s<puid,
followed the retreating Filipinos sev
oral miles. The Americans found the
hoilios of several American soldiers.
They burned the hamlet where the
tight took place.
Three Filipino riflemen ambushed
an American surgeon near Capas, lie
shot one ami the others fled. Itetween
itamhun and Angeles a mule train was
fired upon hy the insurgents and a
Spunianl, a former prisoner of the
Filipinos, who wuk with the train, was
shot.
Friendly Filipino* Mnnlcrnl.
At Malasiqqui, the officials who wel¬
comed (lie Americans were murdered.
This was the only railroad town which
llic Americans did not garrison, and
on the night tho troops withdrew a
hand of insurgents entered, dragged
Antonio Mejia, president of the town,
into the street and cut his throat. The
murderers then assassinated the vice
president uml live members of the
town council in the same manner and
told the frightened natives who wit¬
nessed the slaughter to spread the
news that a similar fate awaited all
frionds of the Americans.
HEN. MILKS IN ATLANTA.
Ilu Visit, r r( Mrl-IHM'KOII
him) lCx|»r«*POM Siiltstiirtloii.
General Nelson A. Milos, com-
iriauder of the army of the United
States, and his party, spent the day
Saturday in Atlanta, (la., and left nt
11:50 o’clock, )>. in. for Washington.
Tho party arrived from New Orleans
Friday night, and early Saturday
morning, during the, steady downpour
of rain, General Miles drove out to
the post at McPherson.
He spent only u short time nt tlie
fort, looking about the grounds in
company with several of the officers
stationed there, and returned to the
city nearly no hour before noon. While
nt the post he questioned those in au¬
thority ns to the number of men,
equipment and general health at the
post and seemed to bo pleased with
both w hat. he saw and beard.
TIIKOKY INTKRESTS OFFICIALS.
f iiv«t«tl|cntloii Kognril I ng PuMtrtic-
11•>11 of tin* Mnlii«.
Some iutereat )iah Ue«n created in
official circloH at VVaRliin^ton, partic-
ulnrly among naval officers, by the
publication of tho results of what pur-
ported to be a secret investigation re-
garding the destruction of the buttle-
ship Maine in Havana harbor, which
the story said, wus blown up by gun
eottoii torpedoes planted in the hay
for that purpose.
Diligent inquiry, however, fails to
show that any official investigation
has been made at the direction of the
Washington authorities, although it
is suggested that the officials at Havana
have discretionary powers to make an
iiivestigation should they see fit.
A REVOLTING CHIME.
Moldiur of Fort Monroo Arr««t**.d <»u Sun|tU
elon of Murd«*r.
A dispatch from Newport News, Va ,
says: The discovery of the mutilated
body of a woman in Phoebus Thurs¬
day morning was followed by the ar¬
rest of Louis August, an artilleryman
at Fort Monroe, who is charged with
the murder.
The . victim, Annie Benedict, a
mulatto woman, was found by a soldier
from tlie borne lying nude on her bed.
The bedding and floor were spattered
with blood. The woman’s body had
been cut open and the entrails re¬
moved and placed in a bucket by the
bedside.
NO. II.
BRITONS CLAIM
BIG VICTORY
Battle of Belmont Results In a
Heavy Loss.
BOERS OVERRUNNING NATAL
Britain Is Becoming Thoroughly
Alarmed Over Transvaal’s
Aggressiveness.
Advices from Loudon under dnto of
Novmuhcr 21, are as follows: Before
nnxioty as to tho situation in Natnl
has been relieved, tliere comes news
of a great battle ut Belmont. This
happened sooner than was expected.
Only the official account is yet to hand,
hut so far as can lie gathered, the
fighting appears to have been almost
a repition of the battle of Klangs-
luagte. A dispatch of the previous
day estimated that the Itoers in that
vicinity numbered 2,000 and that they
had five guns, uml judging from the
absence of any statement to the con¬
trary in the official report, it is be¬
lieved "that the British were Hlightly
Mil parlor in numbers to the enemy.
The Boers had chosen a position
with their customary skill and wore
strongly entrenched. Tho British hud
to carry three ridges in succession,
apparently the guards bore tho brunt
in carrying tho last ritfcu by a bayo¬
net charge, after its defenders had
been shaken with shrapnel.
Nothing is said as to whether tho
positions so gained were held.
ComplolB ItritiMli Victory,
The secretary of war lias received
the following dispatch through Gen¬
eral Forrester-Walker from Geueral
Methuen, dated Belmont, November
28 d:
“Attacked the enemy nt daybreak
this morning, lie was in u strong po¬
sition. Three ridges were carried in
Succession, tho last attack being pre¬
pared by shrapnel. Infantry behaved
splendidly aud revived support from
the naval brigade and artillery.
"The enemy fought with courage and
skill. Had I attacked later 1 should
have had far heavier losses. Our vic¬
tory was complete. Have taken forty
prisoners. Am burying a good num¬
ber of the Boors, but the greater part
of tho enemy's killed and wouuded
were removed by their comrades.
Have captured a large number of
horses und COWH nml destroyed a large
quantity of nmuuition.”
Tho report concludes with a long
list of euHiialtioH.
Hit nut ion SHU Ohmiuro,
The situation in Natal remains ob¬
scure. Fighting is reported nt both
Estoourt and Ladysmith. It was at
first reported that heavy living had
been heard in the direction of Willow
Grange, loading to a belief that Gen¬
eral tlildyard had made a sortie.
Later dispatches announce that Gen¬
eral White sortied from Ladysmith
and inflicted a demoralizing defeat
upon the Boers.
It would be premature to give full
credence to either report, What is
quite certain is that Ladysmith, Kst-
court mid Mool Itivcr station are all
isolated, and the Boors seem nble,
after detaching enough troops to hold
three British forces, aggregating 17,-
000 men, to push on toward Pieter¬
maritzburg with Home 7,000 men.
A disquieting feature of tho whole
campuigii is tho fact that all the ad¬
vancing geiierulH report meeting the
Boers in force. In review of the bril¬
liant success of General Joubert in
partially paralyzing the relieving col¬
umns, the question is being asked,
w ] m t would have happened had he at
t |„, outset of the wur, instead of sit-
tillg ,i own p e foro Ladysmith, pushed
to Pietermaritzburg?
General Gulacre’a report that the
Dutch are rising increases public unx-
j 0 ty, as it tends toconflrrn rumors that
have long been current. A special dis-
]jB t c h from Durban announces that
„,„ r8 fij g naval guns were landed
Wednesday and hurried to the front.
p r j nce Christian Victor left Mooi
cump before it was invested,
t )( . ttl ing dispatches to Pietermaritz-
burg.
HESORTKD TO DYNAMITE.
Effort Mtt.de To Kxtarmltiato Non-Union
Ml ttnrn.
The houses nt which non-union
miners are boarding were blown up
with dynamite at Huntington, Ark.,
Thursday night. Ten deputy United
States marshals were sent there from
Jerry Lind Friday morning. Tho
strikers ure growing desperate and
trouble is believed to be imminent.
Dewey und Kriiinhy Invited.
The committee in charge of tho Con¬
federate reunion to lie held iu Louis¬
ville next May have invited Admiral
Dewey aud Lieutenant Brumby to at¬
tend.
