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THE STATE OF DADE NEWS.
VOL- X.
CR!EF AND CLADNESS.
>The sorrows of men and women,
Tht>- ask no voice to tell;
rw,, in the heart that has felt the pain
■The dumb-toned sorrows dwell;
Like the wounded thing that hideth,
The stricken soul shrinks far
From the careless crowds of the market
place. , .
Mute, till its wound is a scar.
9
The joys of men and women,
They burst into gladsome song,
The chant of the brave soul lifted high
To make some other soul strong;
For this is the creed unselfish,
To all stanch natures known—
Happi ness share with the wide world’s
‘ heart,
Sorrow hold in your own.
—St. Louis Republic.
| How Old Man Haines
1 Lost PationGs, 1
T"T~T HE red gentleman with the
I feathers in liis hat and the
, telegraph wire bracelets be
came too importunate In his
demands for cigarettes, and, as he had
been detected in the act of appropriat
ing a wooden handled skinning knife,
valued at $1.50, five minutes before,
the post trader walked around the
counter and kicked him energetically
out of the store and half way around
the hay corral. It spoke volumes for
the post trader’s activity that he was
able to do this, for it is no easy mat
ter to keep within kicking range of a
properly scared Crow Indian for the
distance that he covered, to say noth
ing of performing the act itself; there
fore the post trader was breathless
when he returned and had to lie on the
counter with his head on a bolt of
pink-striped calico to recover himself.
The old bullwhacker, who had been
watching the race from his seat on a
nailkeg, with a grin on his wrinkled
mahogany visage, complimented the
advance agent of commerce on his
achievement.
“I wuz suthen of a foot racer myself
when I wuz younger and limberer than
what I am now,” he said, “but I duuno
that I ever seen the time that I could
have done better than that. I’m re
gardin’ it purely as a physical feat,
however. I’m not say in’ that you
showed a strikin’ amount of jedge
ment. When Young-Man-Afraid-of*
His-Breeehclout has got you knotted
up with green rawhide an’ the squaws
are fixin' the fire for the grand bar
becue niobbe you will regret your per
nishus activity an’ cuss the day that
you humbled the proud spirit of the
noble Injun warrion. Is this shebang
insured?”
“You was never introduced to me,”
rejoined the post trader. “I’ve got a
ha’f inch of callous on the soles of
my feet an’ I come into this country
from the headwaters of Bitter Creek
along of J. AY. Hancher an’ Ed Pher
netton an’ the rest of them despera
does. I’ve got relatives by marriage
among the Crows and Ogalallas an’
I’ve drunk more alkali water an’ eat
more dog an’ buffalo berry than any
white man this side of the Big Miz
zoura. I didn’t bring my outfit in
here in the spring of ’99. What did
you expect me to do? Give that greasy,
tin-tagged coyote my stock of cigar
ettes to keep him good-tempered?”
“If you had you wouldn’t have for
feited his friendship,” returned the old
bullwhacker. “As it is, I’ve got an
idee his heart is bad an’ he won’t
come an’ see you no more. An Injun
has got his feelin’s the same as a white
man has, an’ I reckon you would git
hostile if any hombre bo'oted you from
blazes to breakfast because you nst
him for the means of soothin’ your
nerves. You injered that Crow in a
sensitive spot, Ike.”
“I done my best to,” said the post
trader.
“He may belong to the Badface band
an’ have hair in bis tepee," continued
the old bulhvhacker, in the same grave
tone of reproof, “but at the same time
he’s a human, an’ as a human it’s your
play to extend the right band of fel
lership to him instid of the sole of your
number nine. Hain’t they got no Sun
day-school liberries out on Bitter
Creek? Ilaiu't you never read about
the settler who found a poor, starvin’
redskin out in the snow plum exhaust
ed an’ took him inter his shack an’ fed
him up a whole lot an’ warmed him
an’ then turned hint loose with a grub
stake am when the Two Kettle outfit
c.phoomed the tomahawk an’ raised
merry Cain scalpin’ an’ burnin’
through toe paleface settlements an’
the good-hearted granger was raked in
the Injun that he had saved sashays in
an’ rescoos him from a turr’ble death?’’
“I’ve read them stories,” said the
post trader.
“But you don’t believe ’em,” said the
old bulhvbacker. “You ain’t sanguine
concernin’ the good. that there is in
your feller man.”
“Well, my tlie’ry is that there ain’t
no galoot so low dowm but if you treat
him with kindness an’ keep him close
herded he will show the good that’s in
him. Did I ever tell you about Old
Man Haines an’ Gus Minnick? Well,
it goes to prove what I wtiz a sayin’.
Old Man Haines lived out on Blue
Creek apiece above where it empties
into tlie Platte, opposite the mouth of
Ash Hollow, where Harney cleaned up
the Sioux.'He wuz jest about the most
benev'lent old duck that ever ripped up
tough sod with a balky team of bulls.
Long sufferin’ wuzn't no name fer
him. He had two boys that was jest
like him, an’ his ol’ woman wuz worse
than lie wuz.
‘•One fine, cloudy evenin’ Gus Min
niek an’ Todd Blakey comes along an’
rustles ten head of Old Man Haines’
ponies, an’ was hiking south with
them, when they met up with a crowd
of Inquirin’ stranglers who were drift
in’ back down Prairie Dog into Kan
sas after an unsuccessful pursout of
some north-bound boss thieves. The
boys liad too many brands iu their
bunch, an’ one of the stranglers reck
ernized Blakey, so they tied their feet
under their horses an’ headed for the
nearest timber. They give Blakey the
first swingin’, an’ wuz adjustin’ the
grass rope to Gus’ neck, when Old
Man Haines comes up with his big
gest boy, Arch. They had been hot
an’ close on the trail all the time.
“As soon as they explained who
they wuz an’ identified tlieir ponies,
the boss strangler allowed that there
wuzn’t no reason why the ceremonies
Shouldn’t perceed, an’ lie throwed the
other end of the rope over the limb.
“ ‘Why,’ says the old man, ‘you
liain’t goin’ to hang that poor boy, air
you?’
“‘I reckon I am,’ says the boss
strangler, cheerful an’ gay.
“ ‘I don’t believe it helps a man to
hang him,’ says Haines. ‘You jest
give him up to me an’ I’ll take him
back to the ranch with me an’ sur
round him with moral influences an’
keep him out of bad company. He’s
got good in him an’ I’ll bring it out
of him an’ make a useful citerzen of
him.’ •
“Well, the long an’ short of it was
that he begged so hard that they let
Minnick go, an’ Old Man Haines start
ed back with him. On the way he
talked to Gus like a father, an’ told
him how wrong it was to rustle cay
uses when he could get them himself
by workin’ honust fer them. He made
Gus a present of the ten that he had
stolen as a starter, an’ offered him
good wages to work on the ranch.
“Gus stayed for two months, an’
then he got inter a argyment with the
biggest boy about breakin’ a colt, an’
shot him up an’ lit out. Old Man
Haines was real provoked about it,
but he jumped on a horse an’ put out
after Minnick an’ overtook him at Box
Elder. As soon as Gus seen him he
throwed down on him with a Winches
ter, but the old man told him to be
have himself an’ quit monkeyin’ with
firearms.
“ ‘I sh’d think you’d seen the evil of
them sort of actions after killin’ Hen
ry,’ he said.
“ ‘Did I kill him?” says Gus.
“ ‘Yes, you did,’ says the old man. as
severe as he knowed how. ‘An’ I sh'd
think you’d be ashamed of yourself. I
don’t wonder you felt as if you didn’t
want to look me in the face after sech
actions. All the same, I don’t w#nt
you stragglin’ off where you’ll get in
ter bad comp’ny, so you jest come
right back home with me. We’ve got
to have them colts broke, an’ we’re
short-handed now.’
“Well, Gus knowed how forgivin' the
old man wuz an’ he went back an’ they
all avoided the subjec’ of Henry,
so’st not to hurt his feelin’s. He stayed
on a month longer, an’ then because
the old woman burned his cakes for
him he brained her with the skillet.
The other boy told him that wuzn’t no
way to do, an’ Gus got mad an’ mas
sacreed him with the butcher knife,
an’ then set fire to the house an’ iit
out.
“AYhen Old Man Haines got back
an’ found out what had happened ho
said that it wuz enough to make a man
lose patience, but he wuz sot in his
ways aqd he said that he w T ould make
a good citizen of Gus in spite of hill
and high water. So he went out after
him again, an’ coaxed him back, an’
everybody said that Gus was a
changed man from that time forward
—as meek as Moses an’ honust as the
day.”
“Are they living there together yet?”
inquired the post trader, with some in
terest.
The old bullwhacker took a largo
chew of tobacco before replying. Then
he said: “I wuz hopin’ you wouldn’t
ast me that question, becuz it might
seem to milertate against my the’ry.
The truth is that the old man sent Gus
to town one day, an’ Gus come back
with a jug of whisky for himself, but
he forgot the old man’s smokin’ ter
backer. The old man said that it
showed selfishness an’ ingratitude on
Gus’ part an’ he allowed that he must
be poor material, anyway, an’ lie had
done the best that he could with him,
but that settled it. They wuz standin’
by the woodpile at the time, an’ the old
man had the ax. I come along jest in
time to assist at the funeral.
“Still, I never took the old man’s
view, reckon that Gus jest forgot."—
Chicago Record.
The Yoet’s Dream.
Once there was a poet. He wrote
an epic poem on the Beautiful Snow,
and took it to an appreciative editor,
who grasped him by the hand, and
said he was a new-born genius, and
gave him a check for ten thousand dol
lars, and an order for ten more epics*
And then the alarm clock went off.
Moral—The world owes much to
alarm clocks.—Baltimore American.
The busy man who never has any
time might cat a few dates.
TRENTON, GA.. A PHIL 5, 1901.
FUTURE OF SOUTH.
Will Dominate the Union and be
World’s Richest Spot.
THE* NEGRO WILL BE ABSORBED.
Slavery Was Wrong—Wisdom In
Division in Pollctics—No More
“Solid South.”
New York, Special.—ln its forth
coming issue, Leslie’s Weekly will
print a paper by Col. John S. Mosby,
the famous Confederate raider, on
“The Dawn of the Real South,’’ In
which he says:
“The real soulfh is just at its birth.
The growth of this child of the na
tion may be gradual, but in the end
the south will be far richer and more
powerful than the north. In the days
to come the south wtill become the
dominant section of the country.
“Without the War of Secession the
south could never have hoped to at
tain the future that is now certain.
Slavery was a great incubus, paralyz
ing natural energy. By abolishing
this wrong our war benefited every
State south of the Mason and Dixon
line. The negroes are producing more
as freemen than they ever did as
Slaves, and the great mass of the peo
ple are better off today than they
were under the old antebellum sys
tem.
"Socially, as well as industrially,
the abolition of slavery was highly
beneficial in its results to the masses
tor slavery was a great wrong and no
community can exist in the highest
state of happiness when its systems
are based on a wrong.
“There are the soundest reasons for
asserting that the negro’s status is
bound to improve. While they are
not as near to equality with white
people as they were under the sys
tem of slavery, they are certain to be
absorbed by immigration and in this
enguifment they will disappear. This
is the natural and wisest solution of
what we now call the ‘race problem.’
“Richmond is the city most likely
to become in time the hanking cen
tre and commercial headquarters of
this country and therefore of the
world. The days of that famous old
city as a political capital are past, but
its career as the central point of man
ufacture for the whole* south, and
from there for the world at large, is
just beginning.
‘"While great forces have been
working for the change, industrially
and socially the political change is
hardly less (marked. It is well nigh
folly today to speak of the ‘solid
south.’ That, by the way, was a
phrase of my own invention. When
Kayes became the Republican candi
date for president, I urged in a let
ter (Aug. 1876) that it was better for
some southern imen to support him
because, if he were elected, his ad
ministration must necessarily rest on
whatever supported it. It was better
for the southern people to divide be
tween the parties, so that, no matter
which side won, there would be men
f rer.dly to southern people who
would control its southern policy.
This contention is fully realized to
day, and the ‘solid south’ belongs
wholly to the political part.”
The Manila Scandals.
Manila, By Cable. —The sensational
frauds in the commissary department
which were developed by the arrest
of Captain Frederick L. Barrow and
others, will he probed to the bottom
Orders have been issued that no guil
ty man escape. The number of men
implicated in the frauds is undeter
mined and high rank will not suffice
to shield delinquents. Colonel Wood
ruff, the chief commissary at Manila,
said to the representative of the As
sociated Press that the irregularities
were exaggerated, and that the troops
were always well supplied with
stores. Colonels of the returning
volunteer regiments wrote to Colonel
Woodruff, in praise of the commis
sary department.
A Boer Uprising.
London. By Cable. —Dispatches from
Cape Town and Brussels talk of Gen
eral Botha and General DeAVet joining
a gathering of 13,000 nven for opera
tions against General Fri nch in the
Transvaal. Two hundred Boers have
reappeared near Richmond, Cape Col
ony, and the town, guard has been call
ed out to defend the place.
Newsy Notes.
Only one Federal office commission
in Baltimore will expire within a
year—'that of Assistant Treasurer
Sloan.
The President has appointed Capt.
Edwin M. Shephard a rear-admiral.
A brakeman on a New A.ork Cen
tral freight train was killed at Depew,
N. Y., by his train being ditched.
Thousands of cords of wood in
shaft No. 1 of the Republic iron mine,
at Republic, Mich., have been hurniug
since Tuesday.
Joseph A. Colin, a New York post
office clerk, concerned in stealing $43.-
000 in registered mail, got four years
in Slug Sing-
I'MMOCHA TIC.
throughout the country
Y' -
The South.
The Arkansas House of Representa
tives has passed a bill imposing a floe
yt from SSOO to SI,OOO for gambling.
President Judga Clark Simmons,
charged with shooting with intent to
kill Rev. John Rexrcoad, in a quarrel
'over a lot of fence rails, was acquitted
at Weston, W. Va.
Tlie Tobacco Com
pany, of Wilson, denies 'the published
renort that its business has been sold
to the American Tobacco Company,
saying it is independent and will re-
At Huntington, W. Va., Sehon,
Blake & Stevenson’s wholesale gro
cery store was burned. Loss, $100,000;
insurance $50,000. Fireman John
Wright was killed by falling walls.
Chief Justice Lurches and Associate
Justice Douglas, of the North Carolina
Supreme Court, who were impeached
by the State Legislature, were acquit
ted on every charge by the Senate sit
ting as a high court of impeachment,
on Thursday, eleven Democrats voting
to acquit. v
The North.
New York butchers have asked the
public’s aid in abolishing Sunday
work.
Coal for 3 cents .a bucket i9 sold to
needy persons in Boston by the Salva
tion Army.
Pearls to the value of $1,500 have
been found in the Hackensack lliver,
at Orangeburg, N. Y., and some from
mussel shells at Nyack.
The Buffalo Pan-American Exposi
tion stomps will be placed on sale
at post offices throughout the country
on May 1 next.
The Circuit Court at Cleveland, 0.,
has decided that the eight-hour law
for city employes enacted by the last
legislature is unconstitutional.
A settlement has- been reached with
the 400 strikers at the Macbeth Glass
Works, at Marion, Ind., and busi
ness has been resumed.
•Nicholes Heeney, who murdered
Frank Johnson, a Pennsylvania rail
road towerman, was sentenced to life
imprisonment at Cleveland, O.
Suit for divorce, on the ground of
cruelty, has been brought against Com
edian Frank Bush, at New York.
Father John Gloyd, life pastor of St.
Patrick's Catholic church of Washing
ton City, died at the parsonage of the
church.
A mass meeting of Russian sympa
thizers was held in New Irving Hall,
Nbw York city, * Wethresday night.
There were 3,000 people present. Abra
ham Ghuen and a nihilist named
dimir Slalchneikoff ware the princi
pal speakers.
Inspectors at San Francisco, Cal,
have placed the responsibility for the
wreck of the steamer Rio de Janeiro,
on February 22, on the late Captain
Ward and Pilot Jordan, and have re
voked the license of Chief Engineer
Herlihy.
St. Clair McKelway, of Brooklyn,
N. Y., has declined to be a member of
the Board of Visitors of the United
States Naval Observatory, and Secre
tary Long has designated in his stead
Professor Charles F. Chandler, of Co
lumbia University, New York.
Foreign.
It’ is estimated that the wheat crop
of Australia will be about 14,000,000
bushels.
Berlin has fourteen schools in which
girls of thirteen and fourteen are
taught to cook.
Lieutenant Count von Arnim, of the
Gardes du Corpps, has been command
ed to join the German Embassy in
Washington.
A Roman dispatch says it is offici
ally announced that at a secret con
sistory to be held April 15, and a
public consistory three days late,
Archbishop Martiinelli will be raised
to the cardinalate. The cardinal’s hat
will be borne to him by Signor Cola
oiachi.
The Cologne Gazette says, regarding
the rumors that the Crown Prince
Friedrich Wilhelm intends to marry
an Austrian Princess, that the Gazette
is reliably informed that the Crown
Prnce will, in no circumstances, marry
a Catholic, hut either a German or an
English Princess.
’’ t
niscellaneous.
President George H. Harris, of the
Burlington Railroad, was once a
brakemsu.
In some Swiss hotels a fixed charge
of S2OO is made in case of the death of
a guest.
Nine bids for mail p-ouches and
sacks for four years, beginning July
1 next, were opened, but the award
will be delayed some days
Ex-Senator Chandler has called the
Spanish war claims commisson to meet
at Washington, D. C., on April 8.
The new United States torpedo boat
“Tingley,” was successfully launched
at the Columbian Iron Works, Balti
more. Miss Anna Truxton Craven,
of Tucabo, N. Y., grandaughter of the
late Rear Admiral Craven, christened
the boat.
The indemnity negotiations are hin
dered. says the Pekin- corespondent of
the London Morning Post. l>ecause
Germany insists in forcing a loan upon
China, to meet the foreign’ demands
Sir Robert Hants scheme of internal
taxaton would occupy 50 years. A con
flict s believed to be imminent he- 1
tween French and Chinese troops at
Hawai-Lu.
ARMY PROMOTIONS
Reward Given General Funston for
Services.
WHEATON MADE MAJOR GENERAL
And Col. Jacob H. Smith, of 17th In
fantry Promoted to Brigadier Gen
eral.
(Washington, D. C„ Special.— I Tne
following important army appoint
ments were announced at the White
House Saturday:
To be major general United States
army, Brigadier General Lloyd
Wheaton, vice Miles, promoted to
lieutenant general.
To be brigadier generals in the reg
ular army, Col. Jacob H. Smith,
Seventeenth Infantry, brigadier gen
eral volunteers vice Daggett, retired;
Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, U. S.
volunteers, vice Wheaton, promoted
The announcement of these appoint
ments was made after a conference
between the president, Secretary Root
and Adjt. Gen. Corhin, and at the
same time 'the long expected list of
appointments of majors and captains
In the quartermaster’s and commis
sary departments and of chaplains
was made known. All of these ap
pointees are in the regular army, un
der the recent act of congress en
larging and reorganizing the army,
and; without exception the staff ap
pointees are from volunteer officers.
The chief interest, however, cen
tered in the three high appointments
of a major general and two brigadiers
and more particularly in the selection
of Gen. Funston after his gallant ex
ploit in capturing Aguinaldo. Follow
ing the announcement Gen. Corbin
sent the following to Gen. MacAr
thur:
Mac Arthur, Manila.
The following appointments made;
Wheaton, major general; Smith and
Funston, brigadier generals. Secretary
of war Joins me in congratulations to
all.
CORBIN.
Among the other appointments' were
the following:
To be captains and assistant quar
termasters: Wm. Coulling, Virginia;
W. B. Barker, Mississippi; A. W.
Butt, Georgia; H. L. Pet'tus, Ala
bama; L. F. Garrard, Jr., Georgia; K-
J. Hampton, Kentucky; B. Frank
Cheatham, Tennessee; Fredk. W.
Oole, Florida; Chas. T. Baker, South
Carolina.
To be captain and assistant commis
sary of subsistence: H. G. Cole,
Georgia; T. B. Hacker, Tennessee.
To be chaplains: John M. Moose,
Mississippi; Charles T. Wright, Geor
gia; A. A. Pruden, North Carolina,
Fitzhugh Lee Banqueted in Omaho.
Omaha, Neb., Special.—At the Oma
ha club Dr. George L. Miller, the vet
eran journalist of this city, tendered
a formal dinner in honor of Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee. Covers were laid for
40. The club dining hall was pro
fusely decorated with cut flowers and
potted plants. Among the out of
town guests were Gov. Leslie Shaw,
of Iowa; Former Secretary of Agri
culture J. Sterling Morton and Former
Congressman George W. Perkins, of
Sious Oi'ty. There were a nomher of
notable responses to toasts. Dr. Mil
ler, the host, acted as toastmaster,
and In graceful and finished phrase
proposed the health of Gen. Lee. “We
are gathered here to do honor to one
of the most illustrious names in the
national annals, to one of the most
famous soldiers of our time, to one of
the ex-governors of Virginia, the
mother of States and statesmen, who
are among the chief architects of our
free system of government.” The
guests drank to the health of Gen.
Lee standing. Gen. Lee’s remark*
were brief but eloquent.
Newsy Notes.
A- counterfeit of the $5 silver
certifiu issue of 1899, has been
*
found.
A New York Stock Exchange seat
yesterday sold for $52,000, an ad
vance of $2,500, over previous prices.
An opponent of the billion dollar
Steel Trust will be the Heckert-Balt
zley Billet Company, of Findlay, O.
Thanks Cabled Funston.
Washington, D. C., Special.—The
War Department has made public a
portion of the cablegram sent to
General MacArthur, conveying the
appreciation of the President and
Secretary of War of General Funs
ton’s capture Aguinaldo. It is as
follows:
•MacArthur, Manila.
“The President directs me to ex
press his high appreciation of the
gallant conduct of General Funston
and Of the officers and men of the
army and navy* engaged with him in
the Palanan expedition. The Secre
tary of War personally joins in this
expression.
(Signed.) _ . “CORBIN. ’
CAPTURE OF AGUINALDO
Col. Funston Describes His Daring
Exploit.
'Manila, By Cable. —Aguinaldo, who
was captured by Gen. Funston and
brought to Manila on the United
States gunboat Vicksburg, was
brought ashore at' 3:10 a. m. Thursday
and taken before Gen. MacArtbur at
the Malacanang palace. He talked
freely, but seemed ignorant concern
ing recent events. He appeared to be
in good health and was very cheerful.
He lunched with the officers of Gen.
Mac'Arthur’s staff and was then es
corted to the Andai street jail. Aguin
ald'o’s capture was attended with con
siderable difficulty, an insurgent ma
jor being killed at the time of the
event. Twenty rifles and a number ot
Important papers were captured.
Gen. Fred Funston, who, March 23,
captured Emilio Aguinaldo, when in
terviewed by the representative of the
Associated Press, made, the following
statement concerning the capture of
the Filipino leader:
The confidential agent of Aguinaldo
arrived February 28 at Pantabangan,
in. the province of Nueva E <ja, north
ern Luzon, with letters, dated Janu
ary 11, 12 and 14. These letters were
from Emilio Aguinaldo and directed
Baldormero Aguinaldo to take com
mand of the provinces of Central
Luzon, supplanting Gen. Alejandrino.
Emilio Aguinaldo also ordered that
four hundred men be sent him as soon
as possible, saying that the bearer of
the letter would lead these men to
where Aguinaldo was.
Gen. Funston secured the corres
pondence of Aguinaldo’s agfigt, wd
laid his plans a,ccordl
months previously he ha<J''in,-j i%
camp of the insurgent Gen:*- Si*
incidentally obtaining Lacuna’s .
official papers, and a quantity
signed correspondence. From th
material two letters were
ostensibly from Lacuna to A^Oj
One of these contained inform,
as to the progress of the war. j.
other asserted that pursuant to
ders received from Baldormero .
aldo, Lacuuna was sending his A
company to President Emilie Aguii
aldo. % *■
His plans completed and appt
Gen. Funston came to Manila and u
ganized Lis expedition, selecting r
Maeabobcs, all whom spoke Tagalo,
fluently. Twenty wore
uniforms and the others the clothing*
of Filipino laborers, lue Macabebe
company, armed with 50 Mausers, 18
Remingtons and 10 Krag-Jorgensens,
was commanded by Capt. Russell T.
Hazzard of the 18th U. S. Volunteer
cavalry. With him was his brother,
Lieut Oliver P. M. Hazzard, of the
same regiment. Oa.pt. Harry W.
Newton, 34th infantry, was taken be
cause of his familiarity with Casigu
ran bay, and Lieut. Burton J. Mitch
ell, of the 40th infantry-, went as Gen.
Funston’s aide. These were the only
Americans accompanying the expedi
tion.
With the Macabebes were four ex
insurgent oficers, one being a Span
ish, and the other three Tagalos,
whom Gen. Funston trusted im
plicitly.
Gen. Funston and the American offi
cers wore plain blue shirts and
khaki trousers. They carried each a
half blanket hut wore no insignia of
rank. The Macabebes were carefully
instructed to obey the orders of the
four ex-insurgent officers.
On the night of March Bth the narty
embarked on the United States gun
boat Vicksburg. It was originally in
tended to take cascoes from the island
of Polillo and to drift to the main
land, but a storm arose and three of
the cascoes were lost. This plan was
abandoned.
The camp of the insurgent leader
was surprised, and the party of Col.
Funston was ordered to fire.
The Macabebes opened fire, but their
aim was rather ineffective, and only
three insurgents were killed. The
rebels returned the fire. Ou b wring
the firing, Aguinaldo, who evidently
thought h’’s men were merely cele
brating the arrival of reinfo”cements,
ran to the window, and shouted; ‘ Stop
that foolishness! —quit waisting
ammunition.”
Hilario Placido, one cf the Tagalog
officers and a forme” insurgent major,
who was wounded in the lung by toe
fire of the Kansas regiment at the bat
tle of Caloocan, threw his arms around
Aguinaldo, exclaiming “You are a
prisoner of the Americans.”
Col. Simeon Villia, Aguiar,ldo’s chief
of staff, Major Alambra and others at
tacked the men who were holding
Aguinaldo. Placido shot Villa in the
shoulder, Alambra jumped out of the
window and attempted to cross the
river. It was supposed that he was
drowned. Five other insurgent offi
cers fought for a few minutes and
then fled, making their escape.
Killed Three Children and Himself.
Devii’s Lake, N. D., Special. Email
Segerlin, a weil-to-do farmer, living
eight miles northeast of town, killed
his three children and staboed him
self to death. He went to the barn, ac
companied by two little daughters,
aged 7 and 5. As he did not come to
dinner his eldest daughter, aged 9,
was sent to call is thought
that before tex
father had killed the others and
*meddatHy killed her. Both the other
*ehildr were killed with a knife.
Segerlin was sent to the insane asy
lum about ten years ago, hut was
soon allowed to return home appar
ent}- fully recovered.
NO. 22.