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Wm STATE OF DADE NEWS.
VOL. X.
■bland declines.
Bhiguan Canal Project May Be
Held Up.
WWER TO SENATE’S DEMANDS.
Spplfiillp' * - ■■■ • ,
■Kish Will Submit a Counter Pro-
Hposal, Hoping An Entirely New
‘■tgreement flay Be Reached.
.jjfcadon. By Cable.—lt has been
d by a representative of the As-
Pres that a reply will short
■rarbe sent to the'United States in re-
to the Nicaragua Canal project.
P’it ttll not comply with the Senate's
Neither will it be in the
Wt re of a flat refusal, though for
■HKosrs of im,mediate construction, it
|J he tantamount to such a refusal
■■nil consist, mainly, in a counter*
iMßtrosal, or proposals, likely to neces*
■Bto extended negoriations. The na
|B of 'the proposal is not yet ascer
Pauneefote will probably be
medjuin through whom the answer
|Bl he sent and by whom the eubse
negotiations will chiefly Ire con
victed. In British official opinion, it
■ likely that - several months will
■apse before the matter reaches a
■raclusion. by-which time the Hay
■auncefote treaty will have elapsed,
the basis of the Senate’s amend-'
The British counter-proposals
■re now formulating, and it is hoped
■p entirely new agreement satisfac
to both countries, will eventually
reached.
S Envoys Badly Treated.
Bloemfontein, By Cable.—An in
ential burgher gives some details
raiding the treatment of the peace
voys who went to General Dewet a
tger. It seems that they were or
red to remain with a cart until the
fles arrived. As the Boers were
faking laager in the expectation of
r - British attack one morning, Com
mandant Froneman came up and asked
■Perdered to wait tor mules, wnereupen
j the lioer commander immediately
Ijamboked Moigendael on the head and
face, and said he felt inclined to shoot
pirn. General Dewet coming up at the
moment, said: “Why don't you shoot
r im'.''’ and at this Froneman fired at
the envoy, who died of the wound.
Kueller, another envoy, was jamboked
pi so.
Great Naptha Fire.
A St. Petersburg, By Cable. —Advices j
■rorn Baku Friday evening announce
■that the naptha fire has been extin
guished. Ten factories and five de
pots were burned, containing alto-
Hpther 35,000,000 poods of naptha and
■naptha refuse. The losses will exceed
PIOOO,OOQ roubles. Niine charred cor
t fees have been recovered. One hun
dred and sixty persons were injured
l b.v burning, 41 of those severely, and
F Six have succumbed to their injuries,
f Many victims are still under the ruins,
and the search 'is proceeding, A hun
dred homeless families are being dis
tributed and housed in the neighbor
hood; bread is doled to the employes
of the factories at the expense of the
authorities and the public is sub
scribing generously to the relief fund.
To Pnrchase Northern Railways.
Ixindon, By Cable.—Dr. Morrison,
wiring to The, Times, from Pekiin,
Thursday, says: “Russia through the
Chinese minister in St. Petersburg has
offered to purchase the Northern Rail
ways from Shan Hai Kwan to New
Chwang and SimM)in Ting, the pur
chase money to be deducted from the
indemnity. Such a transfer would
violate the understanding China gave
England in October, 1898, ueverto
alienate these railways to any power.
The 'foreign, envoys are hopeful that
China w<ll accept the note regarding
punishments.”
More Vessels Than Ever Before. I
Wash’ngtun, D C., Specal. John W. 1
Rryant testified before the industrial
commission upon the commerce of the I
Mississippi river. The annual reports!
of the United States dupervising in
spectors, the witness said, show more
steam vessel on the Mtsissippi and its
tributaries to-day than ever' before.
Tn his opinion the struggle of the]
Steamboat is not so much agams. the
railroad as against the impediment of
navigation. He stated that 11 ere is
much business carried Ijy rail which
preference and convenience would go
by the river but for uncertainties o)
navigation.
Peaceful in Venezuela.
Washington, D. C., Special.—Minister
Loomis, at Caracas, has telegraphed]
the State Department that It has been
reported to him that the government ot
Venezuqja has just suppressed a revo
lutionary uprising in the island o.
Ma.rjarita; that the leader of the rev
olution in eastern Venezuela has beer
captured and that his follow rs eitbc
were taken or dispersed. Tie whole
country is reported peaceful.
TILLMAN SPEAKS.
Grows Vehement While Discussln.
Pensions.
SENATE.
Forty-eighth Day.—An ineffectual
effort was made in the Senate to se
cure an agreement upon a time for a
final vote upon the shipping bill. Vig
orous protests were made by oppon
ents of the measure against any such
agreement, even for a date in the in
definite future. Mr. Pritchard, of
North Carolina, spoke today in sup
port of the shipping bill and then the
naval appropriation bill was consid
ered the rest of the day, the shipping
bill being laid aside informally. The
naval bill had not been acted on when
the Senate adjourned.
Forty-ninth Day.—During the en
tire session the Senate had under con
sideration the naval appropriation
bill. Practically the bill was com
pleted when it was laid aside for the
day, all of the committee amendments
being adopted, but as the measure was
about to be placed on its passage, Mr.
Butler, of North Carolina, precipitated
a discussion of the armor plate ques
tion, In order to enable some others
to speak upon the matter, the bill was
laid aside until Monday. Eulogies
upon the late Representative Harm -r,
of Pennsylvania, concluded the ses
sion.
The passage at the beginning of the
session of the Senate of a bill granting
a pension of SSO a month to Stacy H.
Cogswell, Company F, Thirteenth In
diana Volunteer Infantry, induced Mr.
Tillman, of South Carolina, to make
some forceful comments upon the
House in not taking action upon a bill
providing a pension for a Mexican
war veteran who had resided in South
Carolina during the civil war, and nat-,
urally had been in sympathy with the ’
Confederacy. The bill had been
passed by the Senate, but the House
invalid pension committee 'was delay
ing final action upon it. Mr. Tillman
urged. He said that there' was so
much sectional animosity in the house
committee that the members refused
to permit action upon the bill for the
benefit of this old Mexican veteran.
“Is the war over, or is it not?” de
manded Mr. Tillman, with vehemence.
“Let us find out whether it is or not.
I swear by the Almighty Gad that I
will not, let another pension bill pass
this Senate until this old man gets
justice.”
Fiftieth Dav,—KUm-ru- .ftor tluF
tio\ bill was 'passed. The shipping
subsidy bill was then taken up ami
kept before the Senate during the ie
mainder of the executive day. Mr.
Caffery, Democrat, ofLouisiana oc
cupied the floor throughout the session
Opposition Senators made the pomt or
no quorum several times and demand
ed a call of the Senate.
HOUSE.
Forty-eighth Day.—This was prob
ably the last day to be devoted to pri
vate .pension legislation by the House
of Representatives in this Congress,
The high water mark, made in the
Fifty-first Congress, was almost reach
ed today, when 184 bills were passed
against 197 passed at a single session 1
in the former Congress. In all, th_
house at this Congress has passed
about 900 bills, a number considerab.y
exceeded in the Fifty-first.
A general pension hill was passed to
restore to the pension rolls widows o,
soldiers of the civil war who subse
quently married and became widows,
or divorced. By the terms of the bill,
however, its benefits are limited tc ,
widows of soldiers who were tnarrie
before the close of the civil war ana
who are now dependent upon the.i
own labor for support.
own lauor ior
Forty-ninth Day.-The considera
tion of the diplomatic and consular ap
propriation bill in the House developed
something of a sensation when Repre
sentative Brown, of Ohio, standing m
the centre of the Republican side ol
the chamber, made a speech strongiy
condemning a colonial policy and urg
ing that Congress should at °nce gne
assurance to the Filipinos that the
purpose of the United States was tc
give them independence. His an-
I nouncement that he would advocate s
resolution to this effect *as l°udl> ap
plauded, particularly on the Demo
‘ on,! at the close of the
planned, panicuwu./ ~ .
cratic side, and at the close of the
speech many of his Republican asso
ciates crowded about him
gratuiated him. RepresentaUves Miers
of Indiana, and Dmsmore, of Arkansas,
also spoke on the Philippines.
The consideration of the diplomatic
and consular bill went over at -
e°clock and Hie rest of the day was
give” t'o eulogists ot the lute Repre
sentative D*y. of “
Wise, of Virginia. Those who pi
nounceti eulogies upon the life and
character of-.tlm late Mr. Wise wete
Messrs. Lamb. Rrtcey, of
Weeks, of Michigan: Lanney. ot North
Carolina; Aldrich, o! Alabama, and
DaiT-Thla was held da.
being bv tar- the-Uvelieht
L a,irine the present session. A
very interesting debate/ryer th? con
“gitfa-u* b>- the mg Jg™;
? the a>m-
I brought subst fete
mittee to dL aQ amend
pr°rfthe war reTenue reduction act
r “t'iwn'r f *o7,nn r oK
I and its paramount ngh.s . ■ - .
| legislation.
TRENTON, GA.. JV.BRUAIU Va 101.
HARBOR ICE LOCKED^
New York Suffering rrom the Intense
Cold.
FERRY BOATS HAVING HARD TIME.
A Heavy Snow Storm Adds to the
Difficulties of the Situation—The
Worst Blockade in Yea a.
New York, Special—New York har
bor was still ice locked and all traffic
afloat in bay and rivers was crippled by
the floes. Not in many years, say the
shipping men has commerce on the
harbor been so impeded by the ice.
Even the Atlantic liners are delayed
and bothered by the packs which for
days have hung persistently along the
water fronts everywhere, filling up the
slips and causing delay and vexation
to thousands who travel on ferry boats.
Increasing the trouble a hundred fold,
came the storm Sunday morning and
for several hours ice and snow placed
an embargo on the port. No' vessel
dared to navigate the Narrows, or
Hell Gate, until the snow had stopped
falling.
Many tug boats have been called into
service to break the way for clogged
vessels. Where one tug is usually
enough to tow a whole fleet of canal
boats around the battery, two or three
are now required for the work. The
resources of the tug owntrs have been
taxed to the limit. Last Wedne-day
night it was impossible to charter a
tug for any pree. Every one was
busy. One of the largest owners of
these boats in the city said that the
ice had probably disabled a hundred
tugs by breaking their propellors. The
dry docks are full of boats, having
broken wheels replaced. The ferry
boats continue to fight their way from
slip ti slip. It has been impossible for
there boats to run on schedule time for
several iiavs - r -
Government of Cuba.
' Washington. D. C.. Special—lt is now
apparent to-the officials of the adminis
tration that it will scarcely be possible
for the United States to withdraw en
tirely frem the government of Cuba,
under the most favorable circum
stance.'. before next fall at the earliest.
This is conceding the possibility thab
the Cuban convention may adopt a
constitution entirely acceptable to this
government on or before April 1 next.
It is recognized on all sides that it will
require several months after the adop
tion of the constitution to complete the
organization of the Cuban government,
and have it in successful operation. All
the national officers must be chosen
laws enacted for the collection of the
revenues anl the establishment of a
stable government, a police force 01
constabulary organized to take ‘th<
place of the United States military
force for the preservation of peace am
I the maintenance of order, and th
! municipal governments organized.
Scale Re- Adopted.
Columbus, 0., Special. After
struggle over the wage scale for tl.
next year, lasting ten days, the joii
conference of coal miners and oper:
tors Saturday adopted the sale of tl
year preceding. Indianapolis was s
leoted as the place for the next confe
ence, which will meet January 30, 19(
Both sides expressed satisfaction wi
the outcome of .the session. This <
ternoon the scale was signed by t
officers of the United Mine Workers
America and committees of operate
representing the block fields of In
ana and the mines of Illinois, Ohio a
Pennsylvania.
Cork Factory Burned.
Pittsburg, Special.—The five-st
brick building at Twenty-third st:
and Alleghany Valley Railroad,
factory, was completely destroyed
fire Saturday, together with the ft
dry and machine shop of the Tot
Hogg Iron aaiW Steel Foundry,
Twenty-fourth street, adjoining
Armstrongs. The los6 will react
most $50,000, with insurance cove
the amount fully. The Armst
cork factory was the largest plai
the kind in the country and the
pany has offices In most of the pi
pal cities of the country. The p
in the office was saved.
A Bill to Legalize Joint Smashi
Topeka, Kan . Special.—Reproj
tive Lawrence introduced a bill
House to legalise joint—sma
it a sufficient defense in an act
law to show* that the property d€
ed was used in the operation of s
The bill was advanced to seconc
ing. A motion to rush it to
reading was defeated by a vote c
26.
I'emAhatic.
RIOT IN ST. LOUIS.
. • - -■ ——
Scrtous Conflict Occurs at a Local
l Election.
—,—
POLICEMAN AND NEGROES SHOT.
Ihere Were 200 of the Latter in the
j Crowd and They Figured Most
5 Prominently in the Affray.
St Louis, Special.—More than 150
shots were fired, a sergeant of police
and two negroes were wounded and a
•ballot lsox was stolen in the course of
ji riot about the second precinct poll
ing place of the fourth ward, early
Monday evening. It was only after a
. lot call had brought Lapt. Kiely with
forty policemen and riot guns to the
scene that a semblance of order was
restored. Even then the streets were
riiled.A'ith negroes and some white
men, all of whom were armed, many
of them intoxicated and booking'for
trouble. Not a ballot was cSst there
during th#day. The wounded were:
S-ergeant Qulnlivan of the fourth dis
trict, shot in the right leg;
Monroe, shot in the right arm* Fred
Jones, shot in left leg.
The trouble had been brewing all
afternoon. When It came time to
open the polls the Tinker judges had
not yet arrived. Later the Tinker men
disagreed with the Wells men as to
the advisability of opening the back
door of the polling place. The Noon
alt ertnwd claimed that the other fac
tions were jockeying to prevent any
voting whatever, because, they said,
the ward was overwhelmingly .for
Noonan. The judges, being unable to
agree, no voting was done. Rumor has
! it that the first man to draw a revol
! ver was a negro named Arthur Gardi
ner. immediately the street became
the scene of a fusilade. Every man
drew on*e or two revolvers.
w,, ~*
Judge John J. Ryan..rail out from
I his desk to the street and shot square
ly at a negro advancing upon the
Ujooth, gun in hand. There was no
j time to make arrests', but the police,
undeg .Sergeant Quinlivan, rushed
j Munroe, who had resisted the tempt
j to disarm him, that Sergeant Quinli
van was shot. Detective McGrath at
tempted to disarm the negro and in the
midst of a scattering fire wrapped a
handkerchief about the sergeant’s
wounded leg to stop the flow of blood
from a severed artery.
The policemen were on the spot
within a few moments and succeeded
in quelling the riot and dispersing- the
200 negroes who had figured most
prominently in the affray. After order
I had been restored it was found that
the ballot box had been stolen.
Russia’s Claims.
Berlin. By Cable. —The Berlin Tage
blatt publishes a dispatch from a cor
espondent in Siberia, who cites evi
dence going to show that Russia con
siders that her recent acts have an
nexed Manchuria and Mongolia. For
instance, the new Russian governor,
Lieutenant General Maihsyessky,
passed through Kiahita, on the Mono
golian frontier, for Urga, in Monogolia,
December 2 last, to assume the ad
ministration, and the Russo-Chinese
Bank and its branches have been of
ficially notified that from January 1,
the Russian protectorate has been in
force.
Naval Officers Exonerated
Washington, D. C., Special.—The
Navy Department has received from
Commander Richard Wainwright, su
perintendent of the Naval Academy, at
Annapolis, the report on the case of
Hobart Green, a young marine officer
of Virginia, aboard the Santee, whose
death was charged to have resulted
from neglect of pr|per attention dur
ing his illness. The report complete
ly exonerates the officials. It say3
that young Green had every care; that
there was no exposure to wet or colds:
and that he was buried with the usual
ceremonies.
Washington Items.
Senator Morgan has given notice ot
an amendment he will offer to thg
sundry civil, or river and harbor bill,
authorizing the acquirement of suffi
cient territory from Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal.
Senator Warren reported from the
committee on claims, an omnibus
claims bill. It aggregates $2,989,008
for which there are 77 claimants.' The
claims include: Under the Rowman
act $902.‘59; French spoliation claims,
5479,718; El fridge board findings. $809,-
133; State claims, $477,894. The mem
bership of the Court of Claims is in
creased from five to nine.
Troops to Stop Prize Fight.
Columbus, 0., Special.— At Governor
Nash’s request the State emergency
board authorized him to incur any ex
pense necessary, not exceeding $50,000.
In the use of State militia if necessary
to prevent the proposed Jeffries-Ruhlin
contest at Cincinnati. It is believed
that he has arranged with Sheriff Tay
lor, of Hamilton couptv, to call for
ti oops if necessary to stop the fight.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
The South.
There is a strong movement dfoflt
Against the removal of the Port
Royal naval station to Charleston, S.
C. The fight at first will be alcing the
for the improvement of the designated
site at Charleston.
A Tampa, Fla., despatch says that
the schooner Lilly White and Dr. Lyke3
bound over in $2,000 each until the
opening of the United States Court in
May. The crews of the schooner have
been.placed under S3OO bonds.
The Tallapoosa Gold Mining Com
pany. with a capital of $3,000,000,
is empowered to operate gold mines
in Haralson county. Georgia. The in
corporators are .1. A. Kitchorn, Charles
Y. Flanders and Walter A. Rlgg, of
Camden.
Jeffersdn Imng, a negro, who thirty
years ago represented the Macon, Ga.,
district in congress, died Monday at
Macon. He stood well with the white
people of the community.
At Montgomery. Ala., Monday, in tin
United States Court, an eulogy 0:1 Johi
Marshall was read and the court ad
journed.
Two young men, George and Tobe
Stroud, have been ’murdered at Sabin
river, near Many, La. It is not known
who did the killing.
A decree was eiftered in the United
States court at Harrisonburg, Va., ap
pointing Cornelius Shields, of Bristol,
and Henry K. McHorg, of New York,
receivers for the Virginia Iron, Coal
and Cc*Ke Company, with headquarters
at Bristol.
Wright Harbor and Wallace Reed,
brothers-in-law. became engaged in a
difficulty ait Collinsville, Ala., over per
sonal matters. Nick Petty, an on
looker, interferred. Harbor turned on
Petty and asked what business it was
of hfs, pulled his pistol and shot Petty,
killing him instantly. No arrests have
been made.
Two hundred leather workers in the
Bona Allen factory, at Buford, Ga.,
struck Saturday. They a.sk a recogni
tion of tlie Leather Workers Union'.
M — •
The North.
Typographical Union No. it has de
, edei by a formal vote to wiu.uraw
' the boycott against the New York Sun
1 ani 'to take no further hostile steps
against that paper.
and her husband?Boni vlkA 0 ;'* 1
lel lane, for $10,296, in a suit brolifn?
against them by Eugene Fischef. Tha
suit was brought to recover on three
notes which were executed yb the de
fendant jointly on February 6. 1900,
| G. E. Jones, until last Wednesday 1
member of the Chicago Stock Ex
change, failed Friday, with l'&bilitiei
somewhere between $50,000 and SIOO,-
000. The losers are people who trade
in the so-called bucket shops.
Chas. B. Powers, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
has accepted the presidency of the
American Association of Base Ball
Clubs.
Major General Otis was the guest of
honor at the annual dinner of the So
ciety or ; the Genesee, at the Waldorf-
Astoria, in New York.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that an
official of the National Tube Company
has received a telegram from President
E. C. Converse, which stated that th
papers for the purchase of stock of
Andrew Carnegie had been signed, but
the deal was not closed.
The Denver, Col.. News has a special
from Chihuahua, Mexico, which sayf
that several tons of dynamite store*
in an underground chamber of th
San Andres mine exploded. Eighty
seven men, women and children wer
killed and many others badly injured.
At St. Cloud, Minn., fire desstroyed
the West Hotel and several smaller
buildings adjoining. Total lass $130,-
000, partially insured.
The Guggenheim block, in Pueblo,
Col., a two-story building, occupied by
the Crws-Bcggs Dry Goods Company’!
department store, was gutted by lire
Saturday. Estimated loss $130,000; in
surance SIOO,OOO.
The Bath, M*., Iron Works has re
ceived the contricc for the construction
of a United States battleship to b
named the Georgia, from the Navy Do
partmcnt at Washington.
Foreign.
The Copenhagen correspondent o!
The London Daily Telegraph, say® the
Crown Prince k>f Sweden and Norway
learned whllv Copenhagen the grav
est news regai g his mother, the
Queen, and tha, is feared her early
death is inevitab.
Emperor William ias bestowed oj
Dr. Von Holleben, i. Glrman ambas
sador at Washingtoi ®Erown Order
o fthc first class.
Prince Carlos De j w V! |i will
w and the princess of was
pro 'aimed a son of * - the
con Si ’itir.Tioi im* v
Emp
Ehil Re
Eagle, ■*
Tim
sv r „g from a danger,
t, . throat and her con*L
serious.
“Plague pre-ails in *>'
dia,” says the Bor'
of the London , r t*.
the central prcvinces. In
weekly mortality is 2,500.'
At Friday's session of th
tionaJ convention in Havan
Ri'era tendered his res'gnatio
it on the demands of his privi
*
A BIG COMBINATION
Tremendous Welding of Steel Inter
ests.
HARMONY BETWEEN BIG CONCERNS
rhe Sale cf Carnegie’s Interests to
theJ. P. riorgon Syndicate Con
firmed.
New York, Special.—The '.Vlafl at
Express and The Evening Post '
nounced the sale of the Carnegie Stiwljr
to the J. P. Morgan syndicate an an
cOmplished fact. The Mail end Ex-N
pres® says:
“The only hitch that occurred in the
negotiations leading up to the transfer
of the control of the Carnegie Com
pany was in relation to the control of
the bonds held by Mr. Carnegie The
Morgan syndicate agreed yesterday to
take the $86,379,000 stock at something
above its market value, but Mr. Car
negie held out his usual tenacity of
purpccsei for a guarantee of thoAn per
tent, income on his $-86,000,(w# of
50*ypdf bonds. .This was also corrod
ed at a meeting ftkdto-day, it i‘ V
derstcod. There wiP®
tion, but harmony
elf inter eats and ownership
plied 1 in the manufacture of
duces of all kinds.
“The Carnegie Company, with its
vast supplies of coal anu
hand, will be the parent company
produce the raw material for the rar
rious corporations manufacturing fin
ished products, u.nd the economies
can be introduced through
tion and harmony will make it pos-.
sible for the corporations to manufac
ture so cheap as' to drive small
petitors out cf business and to give the
American manufacturers a very large
place in 'the market© of the world. The
companies included in this system of
harmonious steel industries, besides
the Carnegie Company, are the ft>U,
low*ng:
i- “Federal Steel Company, $-UWLflsHLr*
'-rttfefr mr-TTTTK un 4 * 1-..,
e 553,260,900 preferred stock are out
standing); American Steel and Wire
Company, $50,000,000 common and
$40,000,000 preferred stock, all out
standing; National Tube Company
$40,000,000 each of common and pre
ferred stock, all issued and ihe Ameri
can Bridge Company $35,000,000 each
of common and preferred stock, which
$30,527,800 of each has been iesued.
“The Moore group includes the Na-.
tional Steel Company, with $32,000,000
of common eitock and $27,000,000 pre
ferred, all issued; the American Tin
Plate Company $30,000,000 common
and $20,000,000 preferred stock, with
$28,000,000 common and $18,325,000
preferred stock issued; the American
Steel Hoop Company, $19,000,000 cam
men and $14,000,000 preferred stock,
all issued, and the American Sheet
Steel Company, $26,000,000 common
and $26,000,000 preferred Stock, with
$24,500,000 o*f each issued.”
Philippine Bill Passed
Manila, By •Cable.—'The amended pro
visional government bill has been
passed and the commission will leave
here Tuesday to organize governments
in the provinces of Pampanga, Pan
gas.inan and Tarlac. 'After the cim
missioners -return from their tour they
will organize Ztkrabales, Bataan, Bula
can, Nueva Ecijas and Cagayan. The
latter, a northern province, is added
by General MacArthur to the list of
those regarded as ready for provincial
government. The commission has
been visited by six head-hunting Igor
rotes from the province of Kontoo.
They were immensely entertained by
the sights of Manila and expressed a
liking for Americans. The generals
have been much congratulated on
President McKinley’s nominations.
Three Ho re Submarine Boats.
Washington, D. C„ Special.—The
Senate commi fitted on naval affairs
has concluded its consideration of the
naval appropriation bill. The ' com
mittee amends the bill so as to pro
vide for the purchase of three Holland
rorpedo boats and instead of authariz
v the Secretary of the Navy to con-
Mct for the new vessels as provided
i™Uie bill a it passed the house, he
is to furniish plans for four
vedKs, the plans to be completed by
theMginning of the first session of
the %xt Congress. The committee
reccnsider its former d°-
the Port Royal na<J
S. C.
■ the Philippines. *
' —Natives,have re
' the
. ..—aUiy, l--
jd nts and killed the
o . The Federal party
of Bata*. -nee. including the pres- ,
ident ofte pueblo, held a big meet
ing at Oram yesterday, and resolved to
notify the insurgents of Bcatan that
♦hey must cease eperari-ons within a
in', cleans to cap tin o them.
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