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THE STATE OF DADE NEWS. VOL. X. FRAUDS IN MANILA. Secretary of War Wants More In formation. NEWSPAPER REPORT EXAGGERATED McArthur Furnishes but Little News .Waj. Davis Denies He Received Money from Evans & Cos. ————— ---• Washington, D. c., Special.—Seere ita: y Root Tuesday cabled General fc. : .u-A:th-ur, uskOng for ad'aij.li'OEail in fo/a.x ion claacaralag liSte reports of frauds in Manila. It iis expected it hat a reply will be received acton. WttHile and finite instructions have not been given General Mas Arthur heretofore to nuke a searching and complete in vt- igadion. It is understood Jhoit the requests fair taformation were of a character to imply thuit the Depart ir.nt expected such an investigation should be aaa-de. Ncl/hen-g dsfinike has l; ;n received from General Mac Ar thur abioirt '.he alleged frauds, al ti ough reference has been made in the tovi tl igation in oibl-agrams received. The first di -patch on the subject from the general said tb:it there had been < geito/ion in lifee press reports, brut the perthtenioe willh w-Mch the reports have born reiterated and the no.vs dispatches giving ra/uKs ttitd specific unvjunts have indicated to the Depart n i officials Uhi?ih parhapu General MacAibkur was net fully advised when lie male his first report. It can ha ft a ter! thr.it 'the Department •intends to have all The i-n.famxci.ion porrible on uhc. subject and Gone-.al MacAibhur will be expected to push the trials and make a complete nep-crt of any and all wrong-doing. ■Major General B. Davie’ name is irentroned in the dispatch from Manila ca being credited upon Lie teaks of Evans & Cos., ns having received sl.- COO Ln Wasitogim. To an Assoeia eJ Press reporter -bo world fj-y.flptiilng #• ''** c-ai-l •;&*..he .v'.. .;,d. the asfeniiion. He was called upon by P'f War Department, irtiwcver, for an r.md to an officer said that ■to kiaew nothing about 'the mater. He Tus cic ely quest/icmcd acid raid that be rover tad any -money from the firm of contractors mentioned, liad not bo-Owed and could not explain wh> tohere should have been charges made. A.'.tlXngjj he is in this country on sick leave, he will return to Manila, ana if the matter is rite cleared up when •be arrives uhcre will demaaud a court cf inquiry. 'Evans the firm of Evans & Cos., is known to sore army officers in Washington .Evans wias in this coun try a shiji-t time ago cud may now be fn X iw York, i: he has mot returned to Manila .It is- not known whether he i- an E-r.glivr/man, an Americami or a Canadian. He was from Niagara, though from which side of the river is mac known. At the onmmmissary de partment General We; ten spoke of his subordinate, Colonel Woodruff, in the highest -terms. He said: “Colonet Wcr.druff always lias borne the high < reputation in the erm-y as a splen did officer and 'thoroughly h-oneelC man. There miglh-t be opportunity for small frauds in a great depot such as tha t of Manila, but there would have to be oril-uVion among ,he officers and the serge m.s in charge if frauds were car ried -on io .arty great extent. It d-s --pnadj largely upon tbs honesty of the < :iti ’ if: arv in. oharge to event any wv. on gtdioir.g and he would bs vary likely to know if Char ewas anything cc< oked’ going on in a large way." Colonel Woodruff has made allu sions to -the arrest of tin® commissary ser-granf in -tielegra.mis yo General Wes ton, but nothing like a report has been made by lnlm. Strike Against Steel Combine. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.—The strike at the Deweese wood plant of th\ American Sheet Steel C mpany at Mc- Keesport is still on. The mill is being operated in a cripoied condition. The strikers are patroling the streets for the purpose of inducing the workmen to remain away from the mill, hut thrv are keeping off the company's Property and no trouble has o-curre;'. Telegraphic Briefs. Tbc North Atlantic squadron sailed Monday from Culebra Island for King s i°n, Jam., en route for Thompkiivs v‘He, L. I. Bishop J. J. Eoher. after a protrac ed Blness, died in Chicago, aged 78 IF Vas a senior bishop of the Evangell church. The Indiana.polds Frees has been me rgrd into The Indianapolis News. The Press prints "a card saving there ls room for but one two-cent paper in the city. The Southern Hallway directors in jjlncinpatl accepted the proposition of ‘; irrn,p l Snenepir, pre ident of the Cin *l nnati Southern, and agreed to a re- of the lease of the road. a *rick Held for Grand Jury. THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY The South. Gen. Thomas H. Taylor, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, died in Louisville, Kentucky. A bill has been introduced in the Florida Legislature to tax bachelors over 40 years of age SIOO. Business men of Fredericksburg, Va., are securing subscriptions tor the purchase of anew boat to run on the Rappahannock. Will Black and Henry Wilson, ne groes, who murdered Ivy Wilson a year ago, were hanged at Magnolia, Ark. A strong fight will be made by in fluential colored men before the Vir ginia Con: titutional Convention against the disfranchisement of their race. i The annual Raster german at. the Virginia Military In ,itu;e, Lexington, was a brilliant affair. Several Balti more belles participated in the dance. When he saw has sweetheart driv ing with another man. Jack Dodd, a young white man dropped ddad near Birmingham, Ala. The North. The Pike'., Peak region, Colorado, is buried under two to ten feet of enow. Minnesota Legislature instructs the Attorney General to investigate pro posed consolidation of railroads. A combination of gasoline lamp man ufacturing interests has been effected it Chicago. The New Coast Division passenger train was wrecked near Bradley, Col., and seven cars burned; no one injured. The body of a murdered babe was found in thb hallway of the Wilhel iniua, a fashionable apartment house on Nicholas Avenue, New York. i A special from PV.'.sburg, Pa., says: j Thomas D. Kahr ey. a grocer living at j No. Kf Albert street, was murdered by a burglar early Friday morning I while trying to rescue his wife from the clutches of one cf three men who were in chc bouse. The man who fired the fate 1 shot and his two ac complices escaped. The Association cf Catholic Colleges in session in Chicago adopted resolu tions protesting against wha't was termed discrimination, against church sc hods in t ■ .ty.-ndonal laws of the _ Jersey Central Railroad officials at a conference in Jersey City, N. J., of fered to add $30,000 to the payroll for the disaffected engine-men, the men to divide it among themselves. The Lower House of the Connecti cut Legislature lias rejected a bill making eight hours a day’s work. Four steamers from European ports arrived at New York with an aggre g).:,;-? cf 4,ITS immigrants. Two -passenger tra:n s collided o i the Denver and Rio Grande RaMlroad at FI a, Cel., and throe trainmen were injured. | Walter PI. Chamberlain, of Chicago, ! last week tendered his resignation as United States assistant commissioner of patents. The resignation will take effect May 1. when Mr. Chamberlain will resume the practice of patent law. A Louisville dispatch says: Assis tant Treasurer S. H. Edgar, of the Louisville & Nashville road, has been promoted to the position of second vice president, left vacant several months ago through the death of A. M. Quarrier. Mr. Ergan’s headquarters will be in New York. A Halwards, Cal., dispatch says: Hunt Brothers Company fruit can ning plant was totally destroyed by fire Friday. The company’s boarding house and 85 cottages. 75 of which were owned by the company, the plant fruit warehouse and 2,000 cases of fruit, were destroyed. Many famiHies were rendered homeless. The loss will exceed $125,000. The fire is he lieved to have been incendiary. Foreign. The plan of a cycle corps intended to heighten the safety of Emperor Wil liam has been abandoned, because it was found that the bicyclists were un able to follow his Majesty’s Hungarian four-in-iiand. Canada’s Governor General will stop fishing aft Old Proprietor Lodge, N. 13., by means of dynamite. A special dispatch from Hong Kong says two Chinese steamers came into collision between Canton and Wn Chow, and that 70 Chinese were drowned. It is i©ported that 5,000 men were killed in a battle in Arabia, which re sulted in the defeat -cf theik Mabar onk by Ibu Rashid,. Hawl times i>n> Germany hare caused thousands of workingmen to be idle. Great Britain is trying to cause the Chinese indemnity to tako the form of trade privileges. fliscellarirous. President Heald narrowly escaped death in a wreck of his special car on the Pere Marquette Railroad. Upon his own reques-; Rear-Admiral Schley has been relieved, of duty on the SouEh Atlantic station. Owing to the lack of interest shown hitherto the Navy Department will net assign a vessel for the use of State naval reserves this summer. Kaffir leaders are preaching the doc trine of "Africa for Afr.cans." TRENTON, GA.. A PRIL 19, liiOl. WILL NOT BUDGE. The President Firm in Attitude Tow ard Cuba. TrIEIR CONVENTION MUST ACT. Required to Define Relations Between The Island and The United Stales— Action on Platt Ainenerneut is Not Final. Washington, D. C., Special.—Sena tors Proctor and Cockrell and Repre sentative Hitt called at the War De partment Saturday morning and had a long conference with the Secretary ol War in regard to the poHlticaP situa ticn in None of them consider the vote in the Cuban conveni.’i’on yes terday as a final rejection of the Platt amendment. Senator Cockrell, who has just returned fiom Havana, re marked that the resolution expressing the opinion that the convention is op posed to the amendment does not air tor the situation at all and i-s mo stronger than the ether resolution adopted by the conversion. War Department officials are of the opinion that the resolution was adopt ed merely to indicate to the people of Cuba that the convention did not want to adopt the Platt amendment and give color to a claim thaf the amendment was forced upon them in case they should finally adopt It. It is certain that the President consid ers that unless the convention, com pletes the work for which it was call ed he lias the power to order General W-cod to dissolve the body and call an eIQ.-.ioa for smother convention. In Phis connection it is not believed that the. rejection of the Platt amend ment would be sufficient cause for such action. The -instructions to the convention were that it should define the relations which are to exist be tween the United States and Cuba. It was not provid-ed that the coavealton ; ahiould adopt the Platt amendment,; but that I'be relc.Vicns with, the United States should be defined. The a-io.i --t-r- oy Cff&gffeso ur thw'piatt amend ment presented to the Cubans what the Uniced Slates' a sa.is factory arrangement and authorized the President to approve any actiox c-f the Cuban convention which was substantially the same as the Platt amendment:- Prerid'ont McKinley and Secretary Root h-o-ld that the Preei-dcr.it is not authorized to approve on behalf of the United States amy action cf the con verb-ion not substantially the same, and the Prcsider-t is therefore de tee-mined act to discuss wto-h any com mission from the convention the ques tion of relations except, on 'the basis of the Pla-tit amendment. It is de clared by thosa close to the President, moreover, that he is not inclined to favor 'the serdir-g c.t a commission to Washington because of Ks reflection upon General Wood. The attacks upon General Wood bj the Havana press have served to strengthen his support by President McKinley and Secretary Root. Should a commission come from Havana the President will receive the members. Ho villi net, however, consider any compromise prepositions ar.d will re ■fer the commission to General Wood who has been anluorized to speak foi the President. President Gompers Visited Charlotte. Charlotte, N. C., Special.—lt is said in local mill circles that President Coirpers cf the Federation of Labor rper.it several days in Charllott'e last week for the purpose of organizing the mill operatives for co-operah'on in .the general mill strike which it is understood has been ordered for May 1. The nron.rafacftr.Ters admit that, the situation is grave, ard this is said o be one c* the reasons why the con vention of the C'ouhhern Cotton Spin ners' Association at Atlanta was post poned. Ninety Thousand Short. Washington. D. €., Special.—The comptroller cf the currency has ap pointed J. T. Sullivan, of his office, a temporary receiver for the Farmers’ National bank cf Vergenn.es, Vermont. The bank examiner, Frank L. Fish, during an examination of the bank on April 3, discovered a shortage in the cash, and a further Lives:!gallon which has been conducted by Special Examiner John 13. Cunningham, in dicates a total embezzlement by .the cashier, D. 11. Lewis, of $90,000. Af ter the discovery of the defalcation, the examiner secured the rturn of $25,000 to the bank. A Girl’s Sad End. Washington. Special—Loulie Pow ers. vtho arrived in this o': y from Richmond Two days ago, was fo-und dead in a room on She second floor of Oo’bb's Hotel Sunday aiAeraoon. A rote found cm a tofcT beside her In dicates that she committed suicide. The body was removed to the morgue and relatives of -the young woman were notified. DEMOCJiA TIC. RIPLEY ON STAND, % Gives His Evidence in the Gaeba Murder Case. —— •- TELLS WHAT TAYL',B SAID TO HIM Witness Explains What lie Tried to M ks Plain to Ex-Governor Brad ley and Judge Yost. Frarkfort, Ky., Special.—The trial cd Garnett'Ripley, charged with complic ity in the assasinatlon of Wm. Gaeb i, was resumed. Put upon the witness stand, Ripley did not deny that he made the statements attributed to him by ex-Governor Bradley and Judge VV. H. Ytost, concerning ex-Governor Tay lor’s remarks to him, but said that while he thought that they were sub stantially correct in their evidenc" 1 , they had misunderstood him, cr he had failed to convey the proper impression on them at the time. The cross-exam - ination was net completed and Ripley Rvill take the stand again to-morrow. s On direct examination Ripley stat'd that he had been talking with the boys in his neighborhood for several years about getting up a company of cavalry He came to Frankfort, first on Janua y 16, the day of the Colson Scott trage dy, selecting this day in order to see Wm. J. Bryan, who was to be banquet ed here that night. He had never known Governor Taylor till that day and never saw him but once after that. January 23. Taylor gave him the or der on January 16 for the o.ganization of his company, and on January 23 Pipley came here and secured equip m.ents for it. This was the day on which he had the conversation wi ll Taylor and his version of it, which - xiies materially from that stated oy Messrs. Bradley and Yost, were as fol lows: "I went into the Governor's office and fund Governor Taylor looking very badly. I told him I was sorry to see ?|.m looking badly, to which he replied i v . substance: ‘ln these horrible times •Anybody would look badly. Some irre sponv hie fool or crank is likely to kill -jr .iau '.ttSrd, -% atii. -ciai-se a ta: around here in which there will be many lives sacrificed.’ “Then I told him I d'd net think Ill’s ould occur and went on talking to him about my company, v rich I was get ting equipmen: Hr. ‘My God,’ sai l he. ’haven't you get that company ready yet?’ That was what I wa.3 trying to tell Governor Bradley and Judge Yost, tout I may not have slated it to them as dearly as I intended to." Ripley denied that he ever said rt Ferguson and Crawford that Goebel would be killed, but admitted that ho warned W. P. Thorne, on January 2>. to keep his eosi away-from Frankfort, ! claiming that he did so because cf the ! disturbed condition here and not from any knoledge cf what was going to occur the next day. He maintained that there was no secrecy about the equipment of his company, and sad that Governor Taylor told him it as not necessary to apply to the county judge for authority to organize it. The company, he said, was organized for pleasure. Witness said he received a special delivery letter from Governor Taylor 1 late in the afternoon of Januarv 'O, ordering bis company out. The letter l did not state that Goebel had been shot and did not give the reason for calling -them out. Decided Ag instfhe Government. Wastf-ng'n-n, D. C., Special.—ln the United Etci/ea 'Supreme Court, an ojin ion wa-s iha-rued clown,, i-r,i tho case cf Fairbamk vs. the Undced Stones. The cose involved vke ccfiaritu-t'onalif.y of the war revenue law imposing a tax upon export bills of lading. The court d-jod'ed) again -t the government, hold ing that pi la,\Csion of th-e law unocn ci'iitu-jlcnal. The opinion wrs handed down by Justice B.ewer, and Justice Harlan, Gray, White and McKenna diiseertoed. Young Rascal Arrested. FM-ca, N. Y., Special.—Cheater Ar thur Lisle, 17 years old, is in the Utica jail charged with using the mai’s for frauduf.-ert and- blacker.- dii-ng purposes. He sent letters to ex-Mayor Charles A. Doolittle and Thomas F and Wm. T. Baker, the latter publishers of the Utica Saturday Globe, to the effect that unless they deposited certain sums, varying from S2OO to SICO, in a certain place, the writer would disfigure and even kill the daughters of their fami lies and othei3. The hov has made a complete confession implicating ethers whose arrests will follow. Gen- French Captured. London, By Cable. —lit as said thaJf. a pi,rv Us lxlJter-tciiegraan 'has been re ceived I.la the effect that Gen. French and 500 British Urcops, have been cap tured by the Eoeis, while hiis force was enveloped la a mint o.n the hills. No c orifimrafion cf -the repo. to can be obtained. LABOR WORLD.' Velvet mill workers at Mystic, Conn., have won their strike. The Brazil soft eoal district, in In diana, will be indefinitely tied up by a strike. In Italy children of either sex under nine years of ago arh not permitted to work in factories. Wages of puddlers at the rolling mill at York, Penn., have been ad vanced twenty-five cents a ton. Fifty thousand citizens of Indiana are employed in wood industries, and receive annually $15,000,000 in wages. The coal workers at Marseilles, France, decided to resume work, and the prolonged strike is finally at an end. Five hundred carpenters and paint ers at Sharon, Penn., struck, causing a general suspension of building opera tions. Two hundred ami thirty-two thou sand eight hundred and twenty-one women are employed in English cot ton factories; only 117,2-15 men. Four hundred coal miners who have been on strike at Blossburg, Ala., on ■account of a difference regarding tlie charges for yardage work, have re turned to work Over 550 union painters and deco rators at Cincinnati, Ohio, struck because of the refusal of the Mas ters’ Association to sign the scale de manding $2.80 for an eight-hour day. The refusal of bosses to grant an increase of two aud one-half cents per hour and that eight hours should constitute a da Ca work lias caused a strike of 100 painters and decora tors at Auburn, N. Y. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern companies have placed or ders in Hie East for 2000 Italian labor ers to do construction work in Wash ington and adjoining States this sum mer. They will lake the place of Oriental laborers. It Is the largest order ever sent from the West for white labor. $90,000 Fire at Bristol. Bristol, Tonn., Special.—The Pile and Burson blocks, in which v/ere situ ated many mercantile establtehThents, wa3 destroyed by fire Tuesday night Loss, $90,0 0. Knoxville was called upon for assistance’ but the order was revoked at 1 o’clock, when the fire was gotten under control. An' explosion seriously injured a fireman. Patrick .ti.Jd for G; - TS >.*' •New York, Special.—Jus’:.-- dec imi held Albert T. Patrick fir the ;ru ' jury on charge of murdering the !a;o millionaire, Wm. Marsh Rice. Ju.-.i - Jerome, in his deci'imi, said he v.\* t satisfied that the testimony cf .Toma, Lice’s valet, was adequately co r.duo rated “within the meaning of :•:•*- ’-1: 799 of the code of criminal proc~<- l ure, by evidence tending to cenneef the defendant with the commission of the crime charged.” • The Dry Goods Trust. New York, Special.— Announcement is made that the underwriting syndi cate of the Associated Merchants’ As sociations, has many times over sub scribed the issue of $5,000,000 first pre ferred stock offered to the public. The-e are unconfirmed reports that the Asso ciated Merchants’ capital Is negotiating for control of a number of other stores in Greater New York, besides those originally mentioned in that connec tion. Had Seedm n. Washington, D C., Special.—The Sec retary of Agriculture declined to view seriously the attitude of the Wholesale Seedinen League, which met ln New York, and denounced the distribution of seeds as extravagant. The charge that there was collusion between the Department and those filling contract is now denied having been made by the League's President. The Agricul tural Department says the League has always been fighting free seed distri bution. P’ Kills a Tough. New\ t Special.—Policeman 9fe phem, W. r |iot and fatalily wound ed Henry i ... uershir.g, 22 years old, tJi an early blur Sunday. Guersing has since died as a result of h,is in juries. King claims that Guersing was the leader of a crowd of roughs bat set upon him when he tried to disperse them from a street corner. Me was struck w'i h his own club be .'opc J ? his pistol and fired tihe int:.l shot. Release for Prisoners. San Francisco, Special.—An order has been issued by President McKin ley directing that the prisoners at Alcatraz belong to volam.eer regi men.s, e-entc-nced for minor offenses be released. This -i-3 clone to enable the mei. to go hone with their regi ments. The order reads that the re lease shall lake place on the date cm which tlhe realm cut to which the prisoner formerly belonged is mas tered out. There are about 250 gen eral prisoners cn the island wiho wall be affecUed by fine order. One-fifth of the inhabitants of Lon don are overcrowded in their habita tions in tbe eye of the law. CATHOLICS ADJOURN Convention of Catholic Colleges Closes Session. OCCUPATION OF TIL IR VIEWS. Adherents Reminded of a System atic Effort in Soma Quarters Look ing to State Control of Schools. Chicago, Special.—A declaration of the Catholic position on education in the United States was adopted at tha closing session of the national confer ence of the Association of Catholic Colleges. The resolutions comprising the declaration received the unanimous ass. at of the representatives of 70 dif ferent colleges—practically the entire collegiate system of the Catholic Church in America. The delegates on adjourning were enthusiastic over th results of their labors, feeling confident that the conference has been a parked success. The declaration adopted was as follows: “First, That this Association of Gath-, □lie Colleges requests its pr ideat, Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, res*, etfully to--' vail the attention of the bishops of the United States at their annual meeting, to the work of this conference in re gard to the collegiate conditions and especially to the importance of ths school improvement. “Second, That the tendency of educa-i tiouul legislation forces us to remind' our Catholic, people of the and well-dehned eorts in certain quarG ters toward absolute State control h' education, thereby threatening 'am ' crippling all private educational of forts, thus depriving a large class or., the citizens of the liberty of maintain-j Ing schools in which the religion shallc be made an essential element * “Third, That we remind legislators of’ the rights of conscience guaranteed to us by our American citizenship, and call their attention to the system of schools which our people have main tained at great expense, and sacrifices. “Fourth, That we protest against the unfair and unjust discrimination re sulting from much of the educational legislation, and we-ppp '••T’.he fa!r niimLihfres'llrffl reuser oi'‘‘tnscfce rtf”:he American people to protect U3 from such liberality. v “Fifth, TharVhlS confcr-'oco of Cath olic colleges convinces us that we are justified in asserting that our cojlege system deserves the generous co-opera tion of all interested in higher Citholic education: and we pled?e ourselves to use every effect to perfect still more our collegiate conditions. “Sixth, That we call upon all Cath olics to recognize the imperative need of a more perfect organization of our educational system ahj we assure there, that with a fuller development cf the Catholic High School, we shall have a complete system, with its headship in the University, and thus we shall con tinue to remain a hi b collegiate standard.” Words of cheer from across the tea were received in a cablegram of con gratulation from Pope Leo XIII, a| Rome. The message read a3 follows ‘ Rome, April 1?, “Mgr. Thomas J. Conaty.. President of the Conference of Catholic Colleges: “The Ooly.Father thanks you for the good wishes expressed by you in the name of the conference of Catholic col leges and bestows most heartily the apostolic benediction. (Signed) I “CARRINAL RAMPOLLA.” The cablegram was in answer to a message which the convention sent toy the Pope, when it convened. No Concessions. * New York, Special.—The trouble be tween the Central Railway Company of New Jersey and its employes is still far from settlement. The representatives of the employes and employers held a long conference In Jersey city, the conferees confessed t' a L no progress to wards a settlement had been made Surrendering to McArthur. Washington, D. C., Special—General MacArthur has cabled another capitu lation of insurgents. He says: “Col. Arce surrendered at Castalieges yester day with 235 soldiers, J 2 officers and arms. This and the suriender of Col. Alva Orongapo on April Bth with 1$ officers, 349 men, 92 rifles, frees both Bataan and Zamhales provinces.’' Newsy Notes. Le Siecle, leading Dreyfusite organ, suspends at Paris. Henry Labouchere suggests a war tax on newspapers. Threats are made ’;y Macedonians to blow up the Chamber of Deputies at Sofia. The thirtieth German, Congress of Surgeons was'opened in Berlin- Friday.. Count Von Buelow, the German Im perial Chancellor, is expected to return to Berlin from Italy next Sunday. M. Delcasse, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, will'visit St. Peters* burg April 22, and will stay six-day®' No. 14.