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THE MORNING NEWS. Established 1850. .- - Incorporated ISSS J. H. ESTILL. President. fatal results of strike. BIOT AND BLOODSHED RILED ST. LOUS ON SUNDAY. F*>nr M Were Killed and at Least Seven Were Badly Wounded—Po lice Taken Off Some of the Cars in the Afternoon—Party of Strikers Attacked an Unprotected Car and AYas Fired Upon by the Sheriff** ronsf. c, Louis, June 10.—The day just ended lias been one of the most eventful and Moody since the great strike on the St. Louis Transit lines began, more than one month ago. were numerous encounters be tween strikers and other individuals, and the constituted authorities, resulting in three deaths and the wounding of five or more persons, mostly strikers. One of the latter will die. The dead are: C. Edward Thomas, striking conductor, on the Chouteau ave nue line, shot In breast by deputy sher iff died on way to hospital; George Kin* 1 , striking motorman, on Delmar avenue line, shot in abdomen by deputy sheriff, died at hospital; Fred Boehm, citizen, shot and instantly killed while standing in his front yard, by deputy sheriff; Ed Burk hart. striking conductor on Delmar ave nue line, shot in head. The wounded are: Oscar Marvin, not serious; Ed Barry, motorman, and James McGuire and John McElroy, severe scalp wounds, inflicted by strike sympa thizers. The day was quiet until ihis afternoon when the police were taken off a num ber of the streetcar lines for the purpose of giving them a rest and to test the ability of the Transit Company to operate with out friction. Cars were 1n operation dur ing the daytime on all the lines of the Transit Company, except the Southwest ern To-night crs were run under police p o t*< iion until midnight on the Park avenue. Olive street, Linde 11 division and LaCl de avenue line. Striker* Started n Row. The most serious trouble broke out be tween 6 and 7 o’clock in front of the six-story building on Washington avenue, between Broadway and Stxth streets, oc cupied by the sheriff’s posse comitaius as a barracks and headquarters. Several hundred striking street car men had gore to East St. Louis earlier in the day la attend a picnic given for their tene'H. Toward evening they began returning home singly, in groups of two or throb and others in companies of a hundred cr more. No serious trouble occurred until rne of these companies, composed of nearly 150 street ear men in uniform and headed by a drum corps, came west on Washington a’-enue. In their caps some of them had cards bearing these words: “Union or nothing; liberty or death." The men were marching along the s de walk on the south side of Wa hingten avenue opposite the posse barracks. They were in a jocular mood, and as near as can be learned, had no inten tion of making any trouble duet as they were passing the barracks, acer of the Park avenue division was going west. A numier of the men broke from the line and rushed for the car with ibe Intention, it is said, of boarding it and taking a ride. Another statement was made that it was the intention of the strikers to assault the mocormun and conductor whose car was without police guard. However that may he. the trouble started here. A hr ck was thrown through the car window and a shot was fired by somebody unknown. Fired on the Striker*. At the first intimation of trouble lers of the sheriff’s posse swarmed from the building and surrounded the crowd of strikers about the car. calling upon them to and stierse. O'.ber rhots were fired and then some of the deputies turned loose their repeating shotguns loaded wi.h buckshot. As tar as can be learn ed only four of the men in the strikers’ ranks were hit. Not a deputy was wounded. O. Edward Thomas, a striking conductor on the Chouteau avenue line, was picked up and , placed in an ambulance after the tight wns over. He was shot In the laeast. the heavy load of buckshot tear ing a hole that soon let out his life's b’ood and caused liie death, while on the way to the city hospital. George Rine, a striking motorman on the Delmar avenue line, received a ter rible wound in the abdomen, and subse quently died. Other* were, hedly wounded. The dep uties arrested twenty of the strikers and took them to the. barracks. In East St. Eouis there were riotous s enes to-day during the picnic l of street er strikers and there were a number of exciting incidents. This afternoon strike sympathizers piled timbers and ties on the tracks in Clayton, near a fifty-foot em bankment, but the obstruction was discov ered in time. Fred Boehm, a respectable citizen, aged f■' years, was this afternoon instantly kill ed by a shot from the gun of n deputy sheriff, who had tired at a crowd stoning * car. Striker* I'se Dynamite. Shortly after midnight (his morning a rowerful torpedo was exploded on the rail road tracks at the corner of Twenty-first and Clark avenues. A number of the posse romitatus rushed to the scene and arrested four men who were pointed out as the par ties who had exploded the torpedo. While the men were being escorted to the police station someone tired a revolver at the croup, the ball lodging In the hip of Will iam Haggerty, one of the posse. His wound Is serious. ONLY AS A I,AST RESOnT. Car. Stephens I* Ilnrkunnl About Calling Out Militia. Jefferson City. Mo., June 10 —Gov. Stephens said this evening that every thing Is being put In readiness for call ing out the Notional Guard of Missouri, to quell disorder In St. Louis, consequent to the street railway strike, but he will not issue the call except as a last re sort. It will cost, he ssld. $5,000 to land 2,501 men in St. Louis, and as much per day to maintain them. It might, he said, re quire an extra session of the Legislature to appropriate the money. Troops til tin From Hook Kong. Hong Kong. June 10.—Two hundred and fifty men of the Welsh Fusiliers, also sappers and miners, have been ordered to hold themselves In readiness to proceed knorth on account of the Boxer disturb ances. Their places will be filled by tlroops front India. Anarchy at New Sbwan*. f tendon, June 11.—Trouble has broken out ’at New Chwang. The state of anarchy around Pekin is likely to be imitated In many quarters Asiatic artillery has been ordered from Hong Kong to Tien Tsln. Wires Are Interrupted. New York. June 10.—The Commercial Cable Company Is advised from Shanghai that ail lines between Tien Tsln and Pe lt':-. are Interrupted TUOOP9 MOVING TO PEKIN. Situation There Growing More Dan gerous for Foreigner*. T:en Tsin, June 10.—The special train tha; went to examine the line and rexn nciter returned last night. The railway was found clear two miles beyond Yang Tsuh. The engineers, with the guards, v/alked a mile and a half further. They found the ties and two bridges ourned, ond the railway torn up. They saw a few hundred persons, apparently villag ers gathered ahead of them. The first repair train, with Admiral Seymour and his staff, 650 British, Capt. McCalla’s 100 Americans, 40 Italic ns and 2 r Austrians, left this morning a* 930 o’clock. A Hotchkiss and other guns were mounted on a car in front of the engine. The rest of the guns were mount ed in the center of the train. A second train left at 11 o’clock, with GOO British, Japanaaff. Russian and French troops. Repairing material and new mils wore taken along. There are thirty-one foreign war ves sels at Taku. A message from Pekin to the admirals asserts that the situation is hourly growing more dangerous for for eigners. All tlics: at Pekin have taken refuge In "Legation street. The civilian males are under arms to light with the regulars if necessary. The approaches to l egation s'r et are surrounded by howl ing mobs o' undiscipiine 1 soldiery, with cannon and bayonets. The International guard were holding off the mob, which screamed inrulls and threats. This was the situation yesterday (Satur day) when the courieis got through with the latest dispatches. Iho Empress Do wa.eei was amusing herself at the palace with theatricals. It is reported that government rations are b<Hng dealt out to the* Boxers The troops of Tung Fuh Seang are said to le assisting to kill native Christians, after malignant tortures. RUSSIANS FIRED ON CHINESE. I'rnbnhle That Power* Will Never Leave Pekin. London. June I!.—On Friday, according 'to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Shanghai, a force of Cossacks, reeonnoit oring outside of Tien Tsin was attacked by a rabble of thousands, armed with spears and swords and sonje with rifles. The Cossacks lired upon their assailants, kil irg several. A Russian lieutenant was wounded by a bull t in the stomach. Trere is a serious rising at Nan Kine. Yesterday the nob is. said to have at iacked the palace of the viceroy. Al! dispatches out of l*ekin are censored in th° interest of the Empress. The determination of the foreign minis ters to increase the garrison at Pekin leads to a bolkf in foreign circles in Tien Tsin ond Shanghai that th° Powers will never leave the Chinese capital, but will make China another Egypt. HI ILDINGS WERE ABANDONED. Many Native Christian* Massacred ly (lie Boxer*. London. June 11.—The Pekin correspond ent of the Times, telegraphing Sunday. says: “The Empress Dowager and Emperor returned to Pekin yesterday, escorted by soldiery arid Tung Fuh Sang. “The American mission buildings at Tung Chau, twelve miles from Pekin, which were abandoned by the mission aries, have been looted and burned oy the Chinese soldiery, who were sent to protect them. Within three days seven ty-five native Christians, well known men who had been trained for years by Amer ican missionaries, have been massacred near Tung Chau. (Many of them were burned alive. “Tho intimidation of Christians cbntjji ues within Pekin itself. “Most cf the mission compounds are closed and the missionaries are being col lected under the protection of the legation guards. Reinforcements for all the guards are coming.” REPAIR ING THE RAILROADS. Ten Thensnn<l Troop* to Rack t‘p the Demand* oil; China. Ijondon, June 11. 2:40 a. m.—The ad mirals at Tuku, acting in concert, are forcibly reopening the railway from Tien Tsin to Pekin. Gangs of laborers are repairing the dam aged line, which is guarded by 1.500 men, composed of detachments from the for eign fleet. One hundred Americans, un der Capt. McCalia, are, among them. They have guns and armored trains for use when the line is repaired, which can hardly he effected before Monday night. Ten thousand troops of all nationalities, according to a dispatch to fhc Dally Ex press from Shanghai, will lie sent to Pe kin to back up the demands of the min isters upon the government, or. if neces sary, to suppress the Boxers themselves. ATTITUDE OF l MTGD STATES. will Contribute Greatly to the End Desired In China. London, June 11—Tile Times, comment ing editorially upon the attitude of the various Powers, says: ''America, we are told, will act on paral lel lines with the other Powers to restore peace, but she insists on retaining her independence of action. That is an atti tude to which nobody can object, ami a* it is supported by American sailor* and marines it will contribute powerfully to the attainment of the Immediate object upon which the Powers ore bent. "Our course is quite clear. It is to sup port our admiral. The message Pom Hong-Kong shows that.no time is being lost in preparing reinforcements should he require them.” 111. SSI ANS GETTING HEADY. Troops Are Ordered to I’rcpnre to Cross the Frontier. London, June 11.—A special dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated Saturday, 9, says: ••I have learned from an absolutely re liable source, that minute dispatches have been sent to the commanders ofathc Rus sian troops in Manchuria, directing them to prepare three regiments of Cossacks oti the Chinese frontier, to be In readiness to enter on the day orders are received.” PEKIN REPORTED BURNING. lint the Rumors From Tien Tsln Lark Continuation. London. June 11.—The Daily Mali has the following from Tien Tsin, dated Fri day. June 8: "The wildest rumors are current here to the efTect that Pekin Is burning, but shey lack confirmation.” SAVANNAH. GA.. MONDAY. JUNE 11. 1900. BOLD RAID MADE BY BOERS. TORE IP TWENTY-ONE MILES OF ROBERTS* RAILWAY. Kelly-Kenny May Drive Them Off, bat Roberta* Army Will be De lated in Getting Store*—Bailer In Now in Boer Territory—He Han Had Some Hard Encounter*. Boers Are Still Determined to Fight to the Bitter End. London. June 11. 3:30 a. m.—The Roe.* have torn up twenty-one miles of Lord Roberts’ lino of railway between America Siding and Roodeval. It is a bold raid and vexatious, but it decs not disquiet the military authorities as yet, for they expect Gen. Keily-Kenry to drive off the marauders and to reopen the line. The rapidity of the advance of Lord Roberts cannot have permitted him to ac cumulate large reserves of stores. There fore an interruption of the railway, even for a week, must embarrass the army and may bring the forward operations to a standstill. Nothing has b?en hea:d frem Lord Rob eits for thr:e days. This rad on the railway, the s renuous opposition to Gen. Rundle and the nimbi? escape of Com mandant Botha's division have forced the war office obs a rvers to the reluctant con clusion that the war is not yet ever, al though even the occasional civilian Boer sympathizer cannot sc*e how the Boers will be able to do anything to change the result. Duller in Boer Territory. Gen. Rulier is in Boer territory. Dis patches of correspondents with him. filed yesterday at sunset, describe the corps as < amping at Gansolei, c.os? to the point where the frontiers of the Free state, i he Transvaal and Natal meet. “The Bri i<h marched eight miles yes terday,” says a Reuter corresponoem, “before encountering any opposition. The Boers, who had one gun, withdrew under heaevy ordinance file to a ridge just ahead of the camp.” This long range, running skirmish will doubtless be renewed this morning. Gen. Buffer is expected to make rapid progress now, and to throw' the weight of 20,000 men into Lord Roberts’s Transvaal combina tions. The fighting on June 6, in which there were fewer than twenty casualties, was pt up all day long by musketry and ar tillery. The British attacking line, three miles in length, made its way amid the precipitous hills. A Boer gun on Spitz *itop fired shrapnel rapidly at a range of 400 yards at the British right flank, but every shell was buried in the ground be fore bursting. The defensive power of modern weapons seems less effective in rough country than upon levels, where wide spaces can be covered with flat tra jectories. Gen. Rundle’s and Gen. Brabant’s divi sions are still at Hammonia, in the Ficks burg district. Boer* Still Determined. The latest intelligence from their head quarters is that the Boers are determin ed to fight to the bitter end. They are concentrating 4.000 men around Bethle hem. The country between them and Gen. Rundle is mountainous, and resem bles Northern Natal in being exceedingly difficult for military operations. Geh. Bundle's present ''.-re is to prevent the Boers getting past him southward. Maj. Wood of Bundle’s siaff rode *o a Boer outpost on June 6, and announced that Pretoria had been occupied by the British. How the Boers received this news is not recorded. Altogether, 600 Boers have surrendered to Gen. Bundle. Gen. Hunter's advance has occupied Ventersdorp, 100 miles southwest of Pre toria. This took place on June 7. Gen. Plumer’s column is on the Elanls river, northwest of Pretoria. The British ate sending detachments right and left, to accept the surrenders of commandoes, horses, cattle and forage, and to overawe tjje sparsely settled country. Thus far only one small commando has been heard of. a commando at Tailbasch. Gen. Hunter’s immediate objective ’is Potchefstroom. This town and Rusten burg are the largest towns west of Jo hannesburg. It le reported that Potchef stroom ia ready to submit. Gen. Hunter has warned all burghers, that if the telegraph is cut behind him. he will send back and burn the houses near the line. The Dutch in Cape Colony appear to have split, a majority of the Afrtkander bund being displeased by the unwilling ness of Mr. Schreiner, the Cape premier, to go the full length of the proposed op position to the British. BOERS IX STRONG POSITION. Rot Gen. Bailer Drove Them Oaf and Made Them Trek. London, June 10—The war office has received the following dispatch from Gen. Butler: “Headquarters in Natal. June 10.—With reference to my telegram of June 8. We halted yeste:day to get our trains up the Has', which is very aterp. I find the enemy were about 2,000 strong in a very carefully prepared position In which they must have been very disheartened not to hare held longer than they did. They have all retired about twtnly-six miles to the northwe-t. “I find our casualties were more than I first thought. They were one officer wounded and two men killed and thir teen wounded." STRENGTHENING DEFENSES. Beers l*ln Qnnntltle* of Bags Filled With Sand. London, June 11 —The Lorenzo Marques cotr spondent of the Times telegraphing Saturday, says: "That the Boers are resolved to strengthen their defenses at certain posi tions is shown by the quantities of sacks which their agents are buying* there. So great is the demand for sand material that a large consignment of rice lying in the custom hous? has been emptied in to vessels In Oder that the sacks might be obtained " l’r sid* nt Kruger, according to this au thority. is hearing up well under the dis comforts of his new sett of governmen’. THREE COLUMNS OF BOERS. Ilailwny Destroyed Between America nnd Roodeval. London. June 10.—Gen, Sir Forestier- Walker wires o the war office from Cape Town, under to-day's date, aa follows: "Information received from natives early yesterday (Saturday) reports the enemy in ihree columns near Honing Spruit The railway has been almost complete ly destroyed between America and Roode val.” Thanks to Consnl Hay. Cape Town. June 10-The British high commissioner. Sir Alfred Milner, has tele, graphed United States Consul Hay at Pre toria thanking him for his services In con neciton with the Brttteh prtaonare at Wa- terval. A widespread feeling of gratitude exists for the good work done by Mr. Hay and also by United States Consul Stowe here. •lamcnnn for Parliament. Kimberley. June 9—ln reply o n peti tion to stand for Parliament. Dr. Jame son said that he would accept, as every thing points to the federation of the differ ent states in South Africa with the em pire within a few years. He will work for the establishment of a great imperial party under the British flag. British (it Koomatlponrt. Lorenzo Marques. Saturday, June 9—lt in reported that the British have occupied Koomatipoert after fighting. President Kruger is said to have a large quantity of personal valuables with him. Hnnter nt V elite rad orp. Lichtenburg. June 7.—Gen. Hunter’s ad vance column occupied Ventersdorp to day, the Boers quietly surrendering in small bodies. Considerable looting had been done. Gen. Mahon's column has re joined Hunter. DOUBLE LYNt HIYG AT BILOXI. Ml** Wltiter*tein* Murderer* Exe crated by a Mob. Biloxi, Miss . June 10.—Two negro men were lynched near here this morning for the murder of Christina Winterstein on June 2. Henry Askew and Ed Russ, held as suspect’s, were taken out and strung up to a tree in a thkket, just behind the. railway station at Mississippi City. The law-abiding people of this section, while confident that the necessity existed for vigorous action, deplore and condemn the dual lynching. District Attorney White, promised they would be brought to trial on Monday, and yesterday, at a mass meeting the citizens promised to support the. district attorney in his efforts to have justice done. Early last night. Sheriff Ramsay, In order to protect Askew and Russ from violence, moved them to a bath house. After midnight the. mob assembled near the bath house, and after overpowering a deputy sheriff with whom the sheriff sought to protect his prisoners, dragged the two negroes away. The negroes were tied, back to hack, and swung up to the same tree. Their bodies were riddled with bullets, and. after death ensued, were eet on fire. The nauseating smell of burning flesh could be detected for miles around. Sheriff Ramsay and Marshal Moseley reached the scene after the execution. They saw the members of the mob, hut it is stated, “were unable to recognize them on account of trees casting shad ows on their faces.” WILL TRY TO GET LYNCHERS. Gov. Longiio Intimate* lie AVIII Bring Them to Justice. New Orleans, Ju.ne I#.—A special from Jackson. Miss., says: The news of the Mississippi City out rage was borne to Gov. Longino early this. morning. The executive at once took steps to learn all the details of the deplorable affair. Gov. Longino intimat ed that if.the facts are as reported he will leave no stone unturned to bring the guilty parties to justice. WHITE MAN’S SLAYER KILLED. Two Negroes Shot to Death by a Molt nt Snead*. Fin. Sneads, Fla., June 10.—A tragedy oc curred south of here a few days ago, the particulars of which are just at hand. Ernest Hardwick, a white farmer, was set upon’ by a gang of negroes and beat en so badly that he died in a few hours. Only out* of the negroes was captured and sent to jail Two nights afier the murder a mob went to the house of John Sanders, a supposed accessory to the crime, and shot him (o death as l.e stoed in his doorway. Another negro, innocent of the murder, was also killed. Both bodies were liter ally shot to pieces, and a pint of shot and bulie's was afterwards gathered up from the place. ANAS KILLED IN A RUNAWAY - . Dr. Glbler Receives! Injarie* Which Proved Ffltnl. Suffern, N.Y.. June 10.—Dr. Paul Gihier, head of the sanitarium at Suffern, N. Y.. and of the Pasteur Institute of New York city, died at midnight last night from the effects of injuries received in a runaway earlier in the evening. Dr. Glbier. who was forty-nine years old. and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Horen, seventy-two yeats of age. started for a drive about 8 o'clock last night. They had not gone far from the house when th’ horse took fright at fireworks which some boys were exploding on the read. The anipaal dashed down the road, and a wheel of the vehicle caught in a tree. Dr. Gib or and Mrs. Horen were thrown to the ground. Dr. Glbier's head struck on a stone, and he was rendered unconscious Instantly. Mrs. Horen was so badly stunne! by her fall lhat she was unable to rise, and lay in the road helpless. The horse, with his harness trailing after him. ran back hom*“. Mrs. Gibier imme diately sent workmen out to And the Doc tor and Mrs. Horen. They were carried home and physicians summoned. In eplte of all efforts to revive Dr. Glbler. he die 1 about midnight without regaining con sciousness. Aside from the shock end a few bruises Mrs. Horen was not badly hurt. POPE SEEMS IN GOOD HEALTH. Participated In Ceremony of Venera tion of Tvro Saint*. Rome. June 10.—The Pope went to St. Peter’s Cathedral to-day to participate in the ceremony of Veneration In the case of two Italian saints recently canonized Thirty thousand people were present. He was borne on the Sedia Gestatoria, surrounded by seventy cardinals and the papal court. He seemed In good health, and when giving the blessing to the pil grims rose from hs seat briskly, as If he wished to reassure the congregation re garding his condition. Two Killed by Explosion. Monongahela, Pa . June l<V-In a terri fic res explosion at the Ellsworth mines at Ellsworth, twelve miles Wen of this place to-r!ay two men were killed and three injured. The dead are, Thoms Forsythe, fir ver. ar.d William R ger*. m'ner. _ Martin Government Lo*t. Vancouver, B, C.. June 10.—The Martin government haa been overwhelmingly de feated In the provincial parliamentary election* PROBLEMS CONFRONT TAFT. SITUATION IN PHILIPPINES IS AL MOST STAGGERING. Many of the Native* Expected Sweeping' Change* at Once—Diffi culty In Devising n Plan of Civil Government in Municipalities. Friar* Want to Be Restored to Their Old Position. but Tliut Seems Out of the Question. Manila. June 10.—Judge William H. Taft and his colleagues of the Philippine Civil Commission were beset during their j first week in Mania by a multitude of j callers of all nationalities, profe.-s.ons aid . interests, who present'd a bewildering as sortment of recommendations toucans military and civil policies. The commissioners maintained the atti tude of unprejudiced listeneis. They ad mit that, while they anticipated an enor mous task, the complexity and difficulty of the problems and conditions arc well nigh staggering. They ate determined, however, wkh the co-c pc ration of the army in pacifying, as well as in fighting, to make ihe Philippines a peaceful and honestly governed country before depart ing. They find Gsn. MacArthur adminls er ing civil ond military affairs in a way that is universally popular. The Filipino party, embracing prominent insurrec* ion ises who accepted American rule through force of cireum i .n- <s is alrea ly in iking overtures for the discussion of a scheme of permanent government, p acMcally tc viving the old proposition of autonomy under an American protectorate. There are, of course, some Filipinos who be He veil that Judge Taft would bring the millennium in his vest pocket, and these profess to be disappointed because sweeping changes ore not made imme diately. Judge Toft’s utterances indicate a con ciliatory policy towards the natives. He has conferred with the high army offi cers. some of whom strongly urge that a larger army is necessary to suppress the insurrection, believing that civil gov ernment will be Impossible until the ram pant rebellion in the southern districts of Luzon, in the extreme northern provinces of the Island, and in the Vltfayas except Negros, is crushed. \ Difficult Question. One of the foremost questions is how’ ond from what materials to organize a civil force with which gradually su persede the army as a governing ma ohlne. Spain’s auxiliary, the church, is necessarily barred from consideration. American experience with the natives dis courages the hope of honest government through them until a. generation or more of training shall have eradicated the re sults of Spain’s tutelage. A large pro portion of the provincial officials already installed have proven treacherous, whTe the native, police and officials here in Ma nila are living on a scale of luxury sus piciously disproportionate to their sal aries. Charges against native Judges of failing to account for thousands of dol lars received in fines are under invetftlga tion. At present the governmental alterna tives are the army on one hand and an archy on the other, (ion. (Mis’ plan of municipal governments is being inaugu rated in the principal towrs of Central Luzon and in parts cf the* Vlsaya*. but the Filipinos persist in thinking tbit the question whether the United States will retain tho Philippines is still open, and seme local leaders ask th.it municipal electioffß be postponed until after the presidential election. Many people object to taking the oath cf allegiance to the United States government which is th** first qualification for voting for muni cipal candidates. StntiiH of the Church. The conYmissioncrs also find that the future 'state of me church in the Philip pines Is a leading question in the* m inis cf many, although most of these who have talked with Judge Taft and Ins colleagues draw the inference that the commissioners are opposed to the r in statement of the friars. Archbishop Chappelle has taken a strong stand in supporting the r quest of the friars to be establish* *1 in their old position. WANTS TO ’FIGHT AN ARMY. Trouble* MacArtlinr 1* Contending With in tlie Philippine*. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Manila, May 13.—“1f we were fighting an army the work would be comparative ly easy," said Gen. MacArthur. In speak ing of the situation which confronted him when he assumed the office of governor general The report had come from Gen. Young that Tino and Agttlnaldo were gathering a force ill the Benguet mountains, where they hod been hunted and scattered five months before. The military were hoping ihat Tino would form another army be cause an army ran be located and fol lowed. and if it will try to make a stand, can he defeated, but such good fortune is Improbable, for the one reason that the Americans are so disposed, covering most J of the important roads and passes, that it would be impossible for more than a few hundred Filipinos to attempt to a3*em hie without many of them being discovered and, lie added, for another reason, that the Filipinos have learned that they can handicap the Americans’ progress more effectively by Irregular operations. Gen. MacArthur has to fight a secret organization which amounts almost to a government, which exercises isiwer to I H. me extent, an l enforces Its decree* I over ail of Luzon, and most of the other Islands, which collects taxes here In Ma. | nil*, and even gives receipts for iluli-s ' paid on the cargoes of native boats pass- I ing up the rivers in the suburbs. Method* Employed lij Rebels. TFic control of this underground qrgan- ! ization Is reputed to be In the hands of a lunto, whose headquarters are lit Ma nila, tut so great Is the loyalty or fear which it commands, that the authorities | have been unable to trace Its roots, and i the question whether it Is identical wltn | the famous Katipunan Society, is an open otic. Many of the elections of municipal gov ernments held by the American officer.-, are controlled by the revolutionary organ ization which selects the candidates, and some of these governments are tinques- i tlonably efficient parts of its machinery. Probably the men who are dire* ting lire guerilla activity In the towns, know no superior except the general who has au thority in their province, although they rnay believe that Aguinaldo Ih still the su preme head in fact, as he Is In the minds of the populace. As result of last week's scouting, more thnn 2ft) Filipinos were killed and 160 captured, while 14h rifles, with ammuni tion otid stoves, were secured The American loss was nine killed, in cluding a captain and b lieutenant; two captain* and twenty-one privates wound ed! and one captain taken prisoner by the Filipinos. Th* policy of the Insurgent machine 1* to repeat the Cuban revolution In the Philippines, to discourage conquest by so 1 devactattng the Island, and keeping them in such a state of war that they will be useless to the conquerors. Nowhere outside of the garrisoned towns i an/Americans go except in large armed parties, unless the country for twenty miles south of Manila, and ten miles north be excepted. a The province* directly south of Manila and those north as far as Dagupan, are the quietest of the Island, and their schools and local governmenls are in op eration. much improvement is going on. and the municipal governments prove use ful under the strict supervision of the American officers. Few Place* Under Control. All cf the northeastern coast beyond Dagupan is In o state of war. and there arc frequent fights with heavy losses* to the Filipinos. All oi the southern province* inhabited by the Visayans ate also tuibulcnt and in the ('amarines, Nueva Gat ceres and Al bay provinces the Americans control cnly the territory within the picket line- of the garrisons in the coast towns, while these garrisons are subject to frequent attacks from large insurgent forces. With the exception of Negro*, which, filing the wealthiest island of the Philip rule, the Yi-ayan Islands show similar cond Hons. Fanny is ovenun by the in surgents cutside of the American garri son. American officers from Cebu report that conditions there show no change from one yeir ago. Soldiers cannot even venture to tie outskirts of the city of <*ebu in smaller parties than eight, ac cording to official orders, and they are frequently filed upon in the city. Similar conditions prevail in the Great Visa .van Islands of Samar and Leyte where large insurgent forces under Gen. Luekban have been repeatedly attacking t‘e garrisons. Mlndoio and Fa a wan. two of t .o largest islands of the arch - p lago. have not been visited by Ameri can soldiers. Throughout much of the Philippines the same, sort of destruction and terrorizing prevails that Tuba saw before (be Ameri can intervention. Americans are more soft-hearted in their vengeance on those assisting ihe enemy. Most of the officer* ihink the. .thorough conquest of the island along present lines must be a slow work of years unless the government should adopt methods resemhljng those by which England crushed the Indian mutiny. Neither alternative pleases them. PLOT AGAINST tMERH’ANS. I'lnns Tlint Were Vliide to %**nnnl iiale SoMlorn in Mnniln. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Manila. May 12.—The great store of In surgent documents discovered by Gen. Funston, together wiih some Interesting pa pert- which Capt. Smith found in the possession of Gen. Pantaleon Garcia*, throw interesting side lights upon the Fil ipino government. Mon important of the lot Is Agulnaldo’s plan for the uprising in Manila, which was drawn by him et Malolos, is in his own handwriting in the Tagalog language, and bears the date of Jan. 9, 1R99. Pinned to the document was a translation into Span ish, done by the hand of Buencamlno. Agutnoldo's- order was addressed to his “valiant Sandslihans" or bolomer. When the word "surprising'’ was given they were to slay all American- soM c.s in Manila. The insurgents r.ere to r*- pair to housetop<s where they were to hurl down upon the soldiers heavy furni ture and any Iron Implements they might have heated red-hot. They were also to have ready in’ their houses hot wa'rr, which was to be thrown upon passing soldiers or squirted at them from bamboo syringes. The women and. children were exhorted to help In preparing the water and boiling oil. which they were o r>ess out to the men to use. Afterwards bolo men were to run through streets slash ing Americans wherever they met them. They were instructed not to step to : i?k up the guns of soldiers they Killed, as those could be collected afterward. The bolomen were warned to restrain themselves from the temptation cf loot ing. became, as Agtiinaldoexplained, he was particularly desirous to make good In the eyes of foreign, nations his ass rtlons lhat. the Filipinos were disciplined Mid civilized people. Particular injunctions were given for protecting the banks, even the Spanish Bank. One letter ..'oncoming n consignment of Mausers stated that the German govern ment would not allow them to be shipped from the country without a payment of $lO on each gun. TO OPF\ ISKKhV’S PAt'K AGE. The Proceeding* Are Said to fie Sonicwliiit V'nnnunl. Washington. June 10. Proceedings now in progress at Indianopolis. with a vbw of having produced and opened In court, a package and letter addressed to C. K. W. Neely. are said by the lawyers of the poetoffice department, to be unusual, such cases occurring at very infrequent Inter vals*. Asa rule, matter sent through the mails under seal, and bearing postage at first class rates, cannot he opened and inspect ed under any circumstances, the excep tion being when an order for inspection Is issued by a court. It has been decide.l by the Supreme Court, that such pack ages or letters cannot be opened by Post office employes, but that n court has the I same right to order such an investigation, ias if the articles were actually in the possession of the addressee. In order to obtain such an order, depo sition must be made, that the package or letter in question is supposed to contain matter which should he made public, and the package must be specifically describ ed. It is presumed that the article ad dressed to Neely of necessity, must h# un der seal, as a postmaster has the right to inspect nil matter prepaid at third or j fourth class rotes. The fact that a package is sent at first class rates, under seal, lw regarded as a j suspicious circumstance, indicating a de sire to keep the contents secret, and it I is believed thnr this fact mny have weight 1 in deciding the action of the postoffioc inspector In the present case. PROMINEKT FARMER KILLED. He Was Shot by a Man Who Was Trying to Kill ft blegro. Colquitt, Ga., June 10— Last night at a negro festival on the place of Mr. Rube Widen*r, a prominent farmer of this co nty, a had siting tool; place, as the result of which Mr. Wldener died this morr ing. Mr Wldener was at the house for the purpose of pr serving p ace. Holly Phil lips a white man came to the house drank, and sermod to be raising a gen i ral disturbance among the darkles. Mr. Wldener tried to persuade him to leave without having any trouble but he would not go. A difficulty arose between Phillips and a Philips drew a pistol anl threw it hark cvir hi* shoulder to level on the negro While back of his head In this potUion the weapon wa? fi ej. Mr. \VMerer who war. sttndlng just be hind him received the ball Just under th* eye. coming out at the back of his head He fell to the floor unconscious and soon exoired. Phillips never seemed to rcallzs what he had done but claims this morning that it was altogether accidental. DAILY. fS A YEAR. 5 ('ENTS A COPY. WEEKLY 2-TIMCS-A-WEEK.iI A YEAR FOUR KILLED, MANY INJURED. PRIGHTFI't, COLLISION BETWEEN TW O CnoWCEO TARS. Llt of lnjnrcl \Qcihcm Twenty-Mx of Whom Several Will Die—Motor man OurrouKhn Wan Trying to Slake a SnTteh on the Llne.Wbrn tile Other Car Came Upon Him—He Wax InxtanMy Killed in the Crash That l-'ollotveil. Providence, R. I . June 10—A frightful accident resulting In the loss of four live* and tha injuring of twenty-six persons, occurred on (h? Oakland Beach e>ctrta read at noon to-day. Two cars met in a h?ad-cn collision on a sharp curve. The car coming toward Ihe city telescoped the down trip car. crashing Its way through to the fifth seat. The dead are Arthur Ltseomb. George W. Baker, fifteen months old; Lewis C. Sanborn, Providence; Ed. D. Burroughs, motorman. The Injured are Lieut. Gov. O. O. Kim ball. Providence; C. N. Kingsley. Paw i ucker; Mrs. Kingsley, Pawtuek t; Wil liam Malliet, No. 1 Prince etre?t; H. A. Palmer, Providence; H T. Palmer, Prov idence; S. B. Bragg, Providence; Ma*p TourtiHot, Providence; William J. Boger dy. Owen j. Hurley, Mansfield; Ms. Bogerdy nml von, No. I Redwing street; I>. Balavock, 131 Chapin avenue; Georg• Baker, IDS Livingston street; Mrs. Baker. Florence Baker. Thomas Jackscn and Mrs. Jackson, 18 Calla street; K. J. Fleming, Mrs. Fleming and two children, 20 Susan street; unknown woman, 32 yea*a old. J. E. Brown. IS Friendship street; F. E. Manehesier. Oaklln Beach; Henry Hanlon, car motorman; Claude E. Harris, con ductor. Additions to the death list are hourly expected, as several of the injured at ihe hospital are In a precarious ron - dition. The accident occurred through the efforts of Motorman Burroughs to make a switch on the line, which is a single track, lie had been given hi* sig nal to go ahead, and followed orders, wiih the above results. How the Accident Occnrred. The accident took place on the suburban line between this city and Oakland Beich. a summer resort some twelve miles dis tant. Ordinarily the cars run on thirsy minutes schedule, but on Sundays the travel is extremely heavy, and to-day fifteen-minute times was in vogue. The car which left this city at 11:30 was not due of the regular cars on the road, being smaller and of vestibule build. The car left ihe city terminus and before it reach ed the outskirts of the city was packed, passengers even standing in tha aisUa. Wh n the car reached Warwick station it stopped to allow passengers to alight. According to schedule. Conductor Man* Chester should have waited a few min utes at the turnout to allow the up hound Oakland Beach car to pass. H# rang the signal io go ahead and Motor man Burroughs put on his power. And thf car was soon speeding at a lively rate. Jusi beyond the station is a curve, then a straight stretch of road, and then a sharp curve in a. deep cut. I is impos sible for a motorman to see, beyond tho curve, as on the left is a high bank, hid ing the rails from view. The regular car left Oakland Beach on Its trip to the city, and Motorman Harry llanlon was making his regular time to the turnout at the Warwick station. Suddenly there flashed before his vision .l car sweeping toward him. The curva seemed to lend additional speed to the cars. Quick as a flash* Hanlon shut off his power and applied his airbrakes, which stopped the car instantly. The down-bound car cam** on in spite of the efforts of the motorman to check its speed. Ntsiilt* Wore Terrible. There was a crush and the cars tele scoped. The Oakland Beach our tore its wav through the other car, crushing all before it like an eggshell. On to the fifth seat went the hunter of the up hound car, carrying death and injury in Us wake. Motorman Burroughs was in stantly killed. The scene that followed were heart rending. Under the wreckage were Inani mate bodies, w f hile groans and shrieks of the injured filled the air. Those who were not Injured were frantic in their efforts to locate thdr companions. 4 Calls were sent out for assistance, and a corps of doctors were soon at the scene. Willing hands helped to extricate the injured, who were conveyed to Warwick station. Two cars were equipped with cots, end with doctors and assistants were dis patches from this city to the wreck. The wounded were placed on the care and conveyed to Elmwood station, where two ambulances from the hospital were in wilting. Lewis C. Sanborn, who was Injured in ternally. died on his way to the. city. A woman who was afterward Identified as Mrs. Fred Andrews, a daughter of Mr. Sanborn, was conveyed to the hospital in a precarious condition. Her injuries con sisted of a left arm and right foot crush ed. Her spine was injured. She was, at last reports, delirious and not expected to live. The flfteen-monrhs-old child of Mr and Mrs George W. Baker was killed. Mr. Baker is probably fatally injured, while his wife and daughter escaped with slight Injuries. The fourth victim was Arthur G. Lis f’omb. Among passengers was Lieut. Gov. Charles D. Kimball He was hurt internally and received a concussion of the brain. He was unable to be moved from the Warwick station, and It ta thought his injuries will prove fatal. Mary TourtiJlet is also fatally injured, her back being broken. Koine of the Injured Will Die. While the list of the Injured is noep numbered at twenty-six, there are nu merous persons whose injuries cannot yet be determined. At the hospital, where eight of the injured were conveyed, it te stated (hat it is expected that two will not survive the night. The fact that the regular car stands higher on its trucks than the car wreck ed. added to the seriousness of the col lision. for instead cf the bunters me t ing the bunters of the regular car, they slid over and crashed into the body of th* car. The down-bound car was not equip ped with airbrakes and handbrakes w<r not equal to the emergency, and in fact, had It been supplied with airbrakes it is a question whether the car could hav# been stopped In time. SHOT EACH OTHER TO DEATH. Dr. Taliaferro and Wilkins Thus Ended Their Dispute. Houston. Tex , June 10.— A special from Nacogdoches, says: Dr. Taliaferro and Wiley Wilkins shot each other to death at MlcheUl. twelve miles south of here. Taliaferro became angered because another physician was called to treat the Wilkins family, and * dispute followed with the above results.