The Cape Girardeau Democrat from Cape Girardeau, Missouri • Page 2

It. II. ADAJIS, FublUher. C.rK GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI. )lace the total wheat crop of the.

United States this year at bushels, with the except ion of IMtl and the largest on record. Premier Silvela announced, on the 14th. thft measures for the lileratioii of the Spanish prisoners in the Philippines were proceeding, though no result had been obtained. Government estimates point to a yield of corn of probably 2,200.000.001 bushels a heavy increase over last year and almost within touch of the record-breaking crop of 1S00. Gen.

Weyler denies the report that he is a republican, but thinks federalism is theoretically acceptable, lie also says he would be an absolutist if a king worthy of the name existed. Col. Chas. Page Bryan, United States minister to ltra7.il, in an important communication to the Argentine and Brazilian press, asserts that the United States wants nothing of South America but trade and harmony. The Thirty-first regiment United States volunteers is now practically full.

One company is made up of fighting fuedists from Clay county, who are not only hardy, but line marksmen and soon become well-drilled. The American line steamer Paris, recently pulled off the rocks near Coverack, left Falmouth, Kngland, on the 14th, under her own steam, aided by several tugs, bound for Milford Haven, where she will be docked for repairs. The common council of Detroit, on the 11th, by a vote of 24 tc 10, reduced the price of street car fares on the Citizens' anil port Wayne lines to eight rides for 25 cents. The company will make a stout legal resistance. The French government is nloiit tc expend several millions of francs on the coast defenses of New Caledonia.

According to a report to the state department from our commercial agent there, Mr. Wolff, the work has already commenced. Reports of the Great Northern rail way officials place the destruction ot wheat by the recent hail storm in North Dakota and Minnesota at acres or nearly .1,000,000 bushels. At 70 cents per bushel this means a loss of over $2,300,000. On the 14th Secretary Gage sent to Lieut.

Cushing, in command of the revenue cutter Rush, a letter of congratulations on his success in towing the cutter Nunivak from San Francisco to the mouth of the Yukon river, a distance of about 4,200 miles. Aug. Hosetig, an Austrian government railroad otlicial, was arrested, on the 14th, for stealing the emergency mobilization plans, which he delivered to a man named 1. Ziboworski, who is said to have communicated them to agents of France and Russia. It is reliably reported that Gen.

Juan Isidro the aspirant to the piesidency of the republic of Santo Domingo, has sent a confidential igent to New York to carry out cer-liiin plans. The agent is fully empowered to present the views of Gen. Japan's importations have grown In the past live years from SS.237,172 yeu to yen. Meantime her exports have grown from S0.712.SG4 yen in 1S93 to yen in 1S9S. The import from the United States have increased from yen to yen.

Two hundred and fifty Chinese men and women intended for the Chines village feature of the Philadelphia export exposition, have sailed from Hong Kong on one of the steamers of the Nippon Maru line for San Francisco, where it is expected they will arrive September 1. According to Bradstreet's the business failures in the United States foi the week ended on the 1 1th numbered 56, as compared with 156 the preceding week, 157 a year ago and 214 in 1897. In Canada the failures for the week number 27, against 26 the week previous, 33 a year ago and 31 in 1397. The Strickeen river steamer Strath-cona arrived at Wrangle, Alaska, on the 6th, with 30 survivors of the Edmonton's trail. All these men came in with the pack train sent out from Telegraph Creek and Laketon by the various trading companies last spring.

They tell heartrending stories of suffering, starvation and other calamities endured. In view of the growing importance the fruit industry of this country, an especial effort will be made to make an attractive showing of fruits at the Paris exposition, next year, and Director Dodge, of the agricultural department, has prepared a circular which will be sent broadcast over the country, asking for contributions to the proposed exhibit. Gov. ltradley of Kentucky, discussing the interview with Congressman A S. P.erry, of Newport, in which the latter declared ltryan might be shot if he persisted in going to the state in the interest of Goebel, said: "I can not think Mr.

Iterry made the statement attributed to him. In any event, uch a (statement is an insult Kentucky and wholly without foundation or excuse. NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Cardinal Is'ulor Yerga, bishop of Al-lano. died in Rome, on the loth. He was born in Italy in 1:2 and was created a cardinal in l-4. The assembly of Victoria, N. S.

WM on the 10th, adopted a resolution pledging the colony to join the Pacific cable scheme. The Persian minister of foreign affairs, Mushir-Ed-Dowleh. died suddenly, on the 10th, while passing through Paris. A street car ran off the Trairie-street bridge in Merrill, on the 11th, dropping into the river, a distance of 20 feet. The car was completely wrecked, but none of the paseugers were fatally injured.

The popularity of the revolution in San Domingo is due to the use of the name of Gomez, and should he decline the presidency or Jiminez finally oppose his election, prominent leaders are already considering the alternative of calling a plebiscite in order to whether the country would not prefer to renew the vote of 171 for American annexation or an American piotectorale. Col. W. C. Johnson, of Cincinnati, acting commander-in-chief of the G.

A. R-. is a candidate for election as roniinandcr-in-chief at the coming national encampment in Philadelphia. Mai. Elijah .1.

Jlalford. paymaster of the department of the gulf, arrived at Fort Thomas, on the lit li. with 540.000 and paid otT the Thirty-first regiment and the regulars stationed there. A report was received at the war department, on the 11th. from an officer at San Juan, Porto Rieo, estimating that the number of killed in the recent hurricane on the island amounts to 500.

The Continental Telephone and Tel egraph and Cable capital was incorporated at Trenton, N. on the 11th. Maitro I-abcri. principal counsel foi-Capt. Dreyfus, was waylaid and shot while en his way to attend the court-martial at Rcmics, France, on the morning of the 14th.

The bullet is said to have entered his stomach, producing a mortal wound. At last accounts he was still alive. Advices from the Arctic whaling fleet, brought to Port Townseud, on the 13th, by the schooner J. M. Coleman, 25 days from Port Lawrence, are not encouraging.

The season, it is stated, has been a complete failure. The French schooner Paubboto was sunk in a collision, on the olT Lowestoft. England, by the steamer Hercules, and five persons were drowned. The steamer rescued the remainder of the crew. Hon.

George Laskey. an Ohio pioneer and -the founder of thcOhioilrain-Hge system, died at Toledo on the 13th. He was 75 years old. Two police officers were murdered in Denver, on the 12th. by a recruit lH'longing to Company Thirty-fourth volunteer infantry, stationed at Fort Logan.

The great West Indian storm of the nth did comparatively little damage in the city of Santo According latest reports received from Davis of Porto Rieo. at least 1.000 persons were drowned or killed by falling walls during the recent hurricane; fully 100.000 jmt-sons have lieen rendered homeless anil destitute; one-fifth of the dwellings in the island are totally destroyed; thousands of cattle were killed and all crops ruined. The North Atlantic squadron, composed of Admiral Sampson's flagship, the New York, the Itrooklyn, Indiana. Massachusetts and Texas, sailed from Itar Harbor, on the 13th. The squadron was expected to engage in a few days' practice cruise, and then proceed to Newport, It is proposed after the close of the Paris exposition, next year, to open an American exhibition either in Moscow or St.

Petersburg, to consist chiefly of American exhibits from Paris, with a view of extending American trade. The greatest steamship the world has ever seen, the White Star liner Oceanic, is now preparing, at Belfast, for her maiden voyage from I.iverjiool to New York. Capt. Cameron, formerly of the Majestic, has been given command of the Oceanic, and is engaging his officers and crew. Because the girl dared him, William Crowe borrowed Gertrude Moore's bathing suit, on the 13th.

and dived into the Ohio river from the Big Four bridge, at Louisville. similar leap from which killed Thomas Heavy just a week before. Crowe, who is an athlete of local repute, made the descent of 90 feet successfully. The special committee appointed by the. G.

A. R-, to investigate the charges made against Pension Commissioner Evans will report that the entire organization of the pension bureau is in th hands of men who served in Ii union army and that the charges have no foundation in fact. As a result of a reconnaissance in force, on the 13th, the Filipinos were driven from San Mateo, northeast of Manila, and the town occupied by our troops. The American loss was three men killed and 13 wounded, including a lieutenant of the Twenty-first infantry. A Washington dispatch of the 13th Mid: "To-night Secretary Root telegraphed the governors of all states, asking them to recommend two officers who had served in the Spanish war, with a view to officering the additional! 12 regiments, which will be organized at once." Natural gas in great quantities has been struck on the farm of Robert Lee, near Muscatine.

Ia. The oil is 170 feet below the surface. Hamilton Smith, an English lad, 16 years old, while descending the Otem- na, mountain, in Switzerland, on the 14th, fell 500 feet down a precipice, and was instantly killed. Accompanied bv two companions, he had climbed the mountain without a guide. The statement of the condition of the treasury issued on the 14 th showed: Available cash balance.

gold reserve. The torpedo boat Fox. built by Wolff Sewieker, on the Pacific coast, was accepted by the government on the 14th. There were 23 deaths from plague and 25 new cases reported in Hong Kong during the week ended on the 14th. The New York suit-treasury received CI.215O.IHK) in gold certificates, on th'j 14th.

for distribution in that city. Mayor George T. Baker of Davenport, telegraphed, on the 14th. subscribed for the relief of the Porto Rico hurricane sufferers. A large shipment of clothing followed on the 15th.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. O. W. Bibble, manager, announced, on the 15th. that the Postal Telegraph-ruble Co.

would handle, free of charge, all government telegrams regarding Porlo Kican storm sufferers, and through its connection, the Bermuda" Co. and West India and Panama will also handle cablegrams af the same class gratuitously. The trustees of the Miami university, at Oxford. met in Cincinnati, on tin 15th. and elected Kev.

David 'i appan. D. 1., pastor of the First P11 sb lerian church at Portsmouth, lo succeed Dr. Thompson as president til the university. Dr.

Tl ipson was rtiently elected president of Ohio state university at Coiuuihus. Gen. lirnoke will be called to Washington, shortly, to consult with Soc-tetar Root concerning affairs in Cuba. I'h" secretary desires to have the benefit of Gen. Brooke's knowledge of the rendition of things in the island be-fiie he reaches any definite conclusions as to a future policy for Cuba.

A newspaper published in Macao, the Portugese seaport at the southwest entrance of the Canton river, reports that Fiance has occupied the island on San t'hau, west of Macao, as ail assertion jf her right to the province of Kwang I'ling. in the event of the partition of hina. Senator M. L. Hayward was stricken with apoplexy at Brownville, where he had gone to deliever an atl-Jiess at the Modren Woodmen's picnic the 15.

lie was reported to be in a very precarious condition. The board of aldermen of New York adopted a resolution, on the 15th, authorizing the Dewey celebration com-millec to expend $150.0) 10 without advertising for contracts. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says-that Kniperor Nicholas and the empress will visit (juecii Victoria about the end the present month. All communication between the Azores and Portugal has been interdicted 011 account of the seeming cases 01 bubonic plague which have been iliscovercd at Oporto.

There was considerable rioting in the Catholic quarters of the city ot 1 ill fast on the 15th. The police were stoned, and windows and street lamps were smashed. Egbert It. Savage, Thtr-tienth infantry, has been retired on his own application after 30 years' sen ice. CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Natural gas was struck near Harris-burg. Friday. William .1. Bryan spoke at Petersburg. 111., Friday, on "Pending Problems Kansas City brokers have expressed a desire to siibscrilie to the St.

Louis World's Fair fund. North Texas cotton growers haie inaugurated a movement to establish a market at Texarkana. Tex. Elijah Self, a farmer, living neat Pcrry shot and fatally wounded Albert Kimball, his son-in-law. During the last fiscal year exports ol manufactures from the United States exceeded imports by 30 per cent.

There will be no reorganization of the national guard until Clark's inspection is finished. During a violent windstorm, Friday night, the new barn of Christ Kruse, at Elgin, 111., was blown down, fatally injuring Kruse and badly hurting three others. Five assaults on Georgia women, one negro lynched and another lynching expected before dawn, was the criminal record of Georgia Friday. Friday was a record breaker in recruit ing for the Thirty-third infantry, at San Antonio, Tex. Ninety-eight recruits were received, making a total of 730 men enlisted to date.

Leo Adamson, nine years old, of Chicago, confessed to stealing the pursn of Salome Olendorf, of St. Louis, who is visiting in Chicago. William Wells, who was struck on the head with an ax by his son Willis, a few days ago. died of lockjaw. Friday night, at his home near Godfrey, HI.

The Saline County (111.) Register, the only democratic paper in the county, after suspending three times in the past year, has resumed publication. The death roll of the West Indies hurricane reaches into the thousands Porto Rico sustained the most damage, nearly the entire island being laid waste. The secret dossier in the Dreyfus case, it is now said, contains news of many scandals, one of which affects Hohenlohe, the German chancellor. J. It.

Buxton, a lawyer, 41) years old. committed suicide at his hotel in Waco, by cutting his throat. He had ben suffering from kidnev trouble recently. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Reesnt Death.

ISobert Finn, aged 80, a capitalist, at his residence in Lebanon. John R. Lucas, aged 80. at his home, five miles north of Slater. He was one of the pioneer settlers of Saline i county, where he had lived Ii5 years.

He was born in Howard county. I Thomas W. Fisher, a noted stockman and extensive farmer near Fulton. John P. Howell, aged S3, a pioneer of Macon county.

Thomas Hoskins, a pioneer of Sullivan county. J. D. MsIJeely, wholesale grocer and railway construction contractor, one of the wealthiest residents of St. Joseph, in Kansas City, as a result of sunstroke, received while at Enid, Ok on business.

He was on his way home. J. W. Cummings. aged 53, for years an employe of the Wabash railroad, at his home in Moberly.

Mrs. Addie Clardy, at Guthrie, Callaway county, of heart trouble. She was 29. Mlssonrl Post Oltlce Receipt. The following table shows the gross receipts of the 19 principal post offices in Missouri during the fiscal years 197, 189H and 1S99: Carthage, $13,217.75 in 1S97: in lsy.

in lMi'J. Chilli-cothe, 11.7S2.34. $13,145.40. $13,951. Clinton.

Columbia, I4.163.S2, $11,500.63, $14,506.45. Hannibal. $22,123.01. Independence. $9,071.29, Jefferson City, $21.10.12.

$17.711. IS. $21,460.96. Kansas City, $513,931.62, S63S.327.54. Kilksville, $10,900.43.

$13,609.30, Louisiana, $12,872.80, $15,532.40, Marshall. $9,637.45, $10.6657, Mexico, $9,905.06. $12,405.01. Nevada. $13,216.39.

$18,534.10. St. Josepll. $135,430.83. $1.

$158,571.09. St. Louis. $1,575,722.84, $1,690,605.53, $1, 843,540.50. Sedalia, $25,685.45, $25.460..

74, 33.381.10. Springfield, $37,129.23, $41,143.79, $43,025.82. Wnrronsburg, Septi niber 27, 28, 29 and 30. JrflVrsnn City Kail Kcsll titles. Jefferson City is to have a round of fall festivities.

A state horse show is to be given at Cottage Place park on August 22, 23 and 24. While this is in progress there will lie three big parades a jockey panicle, a carnival parade and a flower pa lade. A street fair has been arranged to take place September 17, 2, 29 and 30. Slept Too er the Track. Bake Ool was killed by a train one mile east of Northview, Webster county.

Ool was accompanied by William Reynolds, of Springfield, who says that he and Ool were sleeping by the side of the rails. He says that Ool was too close to the track, and that a passenger train struck and killed him. Neier Hrrovrrril From the Shock. Mrs. Mary Karixson, aged 23, died at home of her father.

John Marnell, in St. Joseph. She was the widow of William P. Earixson.a young man who committed suicide May 2S by taking carbolic acid. The young woman never recovered from the shock of her husband's tragic death.

Dropped Dcnd. The various G. A. R. posts of the Ninth congressional district met in a fcur davs' reunion at Wellsville.

A ceil Man Killed In i llnnnivay. Thomas Westlake. aged 83, was so badly injured in a runaway at Sedalia that he died. Whent Acrense Increased. An enormous whent crop will prolv ably be sown in Missouri this fall because of the unusually favorable conditions brought about bv the rains.

A Fortune In Ireland. Jasper Strachan. a candy-maker, at Kansas City, will go to Ireland to take possession of a fortune of $123,000 to which he has recently fallen heir. Mrs. Flourl'n Mlatnkr.

Mrs. Gustave Flouri mistook a dead body at the St. Louis morgue for her husband. He surprised her by walking in and received her blessing. Missouri's Oldrnt Man.

"Uncle" Paul Brown, of Lindsay-town, Pettis county, the oldest man in the slate, died recently. He was IDS years old, so the neighbors say. Doy Kill II In Sinter. Charles Thomas, aged eight, ol Springfield, while playing with his fa- ther's "safety" revolver, accidentally killed his sister, aged five. Left Thousands for Charities.

Joseph Benoist, a French-Canadian, who had lived in Kansas City for 20 yer.rs. died recently, leaving nearly $200,000 to local charities. A G. A. H.

Uennion. D. C. Padgett, a prominent farmei in the north part of Shelby county, dropped dead in his barn of heart dis- ease. He was 70 years old.

Mlssonrl Cotton. Cotton is generally doing well, being heavy of fruit and squares, though it is rank in some localities, owing to heavy rains in July. Little for Their Trouble. The post office at Arcadia was broken open and robbed of about $5 worth of stamps. The thieves overlooked $250 worth of stamps.

Took Ilia Own I.lle. T. H. C. Laxton committed suicide nr llartville, Wright county.

He drank morphine and whisky. He was highly. respected. Hunced Himself in the Barn. George X.

Gauger, a farmer and stockman near Barnard, Nodaway county, committed suicide by hanging in his bain. i hi tin M. Labori, Capt Dreyfus Principal Counsel, the Victim of an Assassin. SHOT IN THE BACK AND BADLY WOUNDED He Was On Ilia War to Attend tha SittlnB of the Conrt-Martlal at Rennea, and was Waylaid At Last Acconnta lie was Suffering Severely. Kennes, Aug.

15. Latest details regarding the shooting of M. Labori show that the sky was overcast whea M. Labori left his home, about 6 a. accompanied by Col.

Ticquart and tha latter's brother-in-law, M. Gast. M. Labori was laughing and chatting with his companions when he was shot. The party was passing the Quai Richmond, and was about to cross the Chataubriand bridge, when a man, bidden behind a wooden fence, at a corner of the quai, stepped out and fired at M.

Labori. Fell to the Ground. The wounded man fell to theground. He tried to rise and put his hand to the wound in his back and brought the hand back covered with blood. As he lay there, with his clothes covered with the dust in which he had fallen, he said in a faint voice: "I beg you to give me my stick and my papers.

(Jo and tell them," he added, with a final effort, "to suspend the proceedings." Spcrtntora Gathered. The shot had been heard 200 yards away from the avenue de la Guere, where a crowd had gathered as usual to witness the arrival of the principal personages connected with the court martial. These spectators ran in the direction of the spot where the shooting had occurred, followed by gei-dariues on horseback. The Doctor Arrived. The wounded man asked to have a carriage called to convey him to his residence and to have Dr.

Reel us summoned. When the doctor arrived he ktelt beside M. Labori. putting a bottle of smelling salts to his nostrils. Around these central figures were grouped the spectators, all deeply affected, some indeed crying like children.

At a little distance was gathered another group. The central figure of which was the commissary of police, note book in hand taking down the testimony of the ey witnesses of the affair. The Scene of the Crime. The scene of this pathetic picture was a dusty high road, the dark.green, siow waters of the River Vilaine on one side and on the other scattered houses with a gap just opposite the spot through which could be seen a green meadow with a stream flowing through it and beyond that the backs of a row of houses. A cordan of mounted gendarmes was drawn up as quickly as possible, about fifteen yards apart, and in the space within which were the tw groups already described.

Borne to Ilia Iteaidenee. An ambulance which had been summoned arrived with four attendants of the military hospital bearing an ordinary stretcher on which was placed a blue and white striped mattress. On this M. Labori was tenderly laid and the stretcher was borne by friends of M. Labori and some newspaper men, with Mme.

Labori walking beside it. The party proceeded slowly back in the middle of the roadway to M. Labori's temporary residence, where he had rented a furnished house for use during the continuance of tha court martial. Searching; for the Assallaat. A force of gendarmes, headed by M.

Ilcnnion, sub-chief of the secret police, is scouring the country in search of M. Labori's assailant, and a company of infantry has been dispatched to surround and beat the wood wherein the man is supposed to be hiding. An incredible side of the outrage is the fact, it is asserted, that several passers-by saw M. Labori shot and passed on indifferently, neither offering to help the victim nor joining ia the pursuit of the assassin. Robbed by an Onlooker.

Still more incredible is the fact that an individual who went to the side of M. Labori as he lay wounded on the ground, is said to have searched the pockets of the suffering man and stolen their contents. The assailant fled after the shooting, holding his revolver in his hand, with his finger on the trigger and threatened several men who showed a disposition to block his way. The Wounded Man'a Condition. One of the doctors at M.

Labori's house said that M. Labori was bearing the agony he was suffering with marvelous fortitude, and added: "He has been put to bed and is being watched by his wife. He has spoken, but not of himself; always about the trial. XV have strong hopes that he will pull through and have sent an optimistic telegram to his family. It will be 4) hours, however, before we can speak with certainty of his condition." An Unjust Strike.

Washington, Aug. 15. The executive council of the American Federation of Labor has declared that tha strike of the union coopers in Tabst's brewery, Milwaukee, is unfair and unjust. The coopers struck because tha management was preparing to instil.1 machines. Caught In an Rlevntor.

St. Louis, Aug. 15. Edwin R. Smith, a septuganarian, was caught by an elevator in the Chemical building.

Eighth and Olive streets, dropped down the shaft and mortally injured. FROM THE EDMONTON TRAIL. Eighteen SwviTora Retnrn to Ed jngnlOB A Lone List of Those Who Will Come no More. Seattle, Aug. 16.

Advices from Edmonton, Xorthwest territory, state that IS survivors on the Edmonton trail had reached there from th interior. They are: Win. G. Smith, Selkirk, John Grant, Toronto; Frank B.istian.St. Alberts; Carmichael, Sucbury.Ont.; Geddes.Ontario; Ritchie and son, Poplar Point, J.

Ross, Rapid City, R. Hunter, Hamilton; Joseph and Gus Schuler, Chicago; W. Schmidt, New York; MeCle.itic, Winchester, X. Smith and Manitoba; John Stetson, Princeton, UL, and Wood, Delaware. Weathered the Winter.

Wm. G. Smith, Grant and Bastian from Black Mud river, on the upper Laird, 110 miles from the Dease. where they had wintered. About 110 men wintered above them on the Brula jiortcge, continuing on through the spring.

About ten died on the Laird, through scurvy and accident. Lone Lit of Fntalitira. An old man named Grieves died frcm scurvy. An unknown man drowned in l'ocd river. Another, a young man, unknown, died of scurvy.

A body down the Laird river this spring, fioi-en to an ice Hoc, ami though a number of men tried to get it they Aire unsuccessful. A Wisconsin man was drowned at Cranberry rapids. A mar. named Titrney died of scurvy. An old man died near Fort llalket.

Ha had both feet frozen, necessitating amputation, and did not survive the operation. "Old Pete," a Swede, was accidentally shot dead by L'Chappeile, of Albert. Wintered on the I'pner Laird. Among the parties wintering on tha uper Laird were. A.

1). OslHirn. John Russel and J. Kennelly. Edmonton; Ross and Rose-well, Sudbury, W.

Drain, Prince Albert, and Falkcnberg. who spent the wintei before last along Grand Rapids. Near the mouth of the Nelson, a man named Clatworthy and two companions wintered. He was endeavoring to push on up the Laird. Maloney.

his former partner, had frozen his feet and is at Great Slave lake on his way back. Grant, Bastian and Smith left their first camp in January on their way back to Edmonton, pulling their outfit on tolwiggans to Snye Town, below Devil's Portage. Returned on the Steamer Wricley. The river steamer Wrigley left Simp-sot! on June 20 for Great Slave lake with about 60 Klondikers on board. The majority were from Simpson and Norman, and the remainder from the Laird and Gravel rivers, where they had been wintering.

On arriving at Great Slave lake, the passengers disembarked and the Wrigley returned down the Mackenzie to Peel river to bring up all those who wintered ia that vicinity and who desired to return. The Wrigley will return to Resolution about August 20. MORE MULES FOR MANILA. The Lonit-Rnred Beaat of Unrdrn to Solve the Problem of Army Transportation. Washington, Aug.

The problem of transportation in the Philippines has been under consideration by tha war department for some time. It ia i expected that at the end of the rainy season it will be necessary to move the troops some distance from the railroad and at the present time the means of transportation are not sufficient for a large army and extensive operations. The difficulty has been met by sending li'ules to Manila in large numbers. The quartermasUr's department has already shipped about 'KM) of these animals and will send fcOO more very soon. There are nearly 2,000 more owned by the department, which will sent if 1 needed.

These animals will not only be used for transjiorting supplies in wagons, but it is intended to organize a pack train for carrying guns and equipments where teams can not lie utilized. The indications are that the campaign, after the rainy season, is to lie conducted not only along the railroad where Gen. Otis has confined most of his operations, but that the interior of Luzon will be penetrated. EXCHANGED FOR GOLD COIN. Amount of Gold Certlucutea I'nld Out at the Several Sab-Treasuries.

Washington, Aug. 16. The amount of gold certificates jKlid out at ths stv-erai sub-treasuries np to the close of business Monday in exchange for gold coin was with San Francisco and New Orlians yet to hi? heard from. The amounts taken at the several sub-treasury cities arc given as follows: Washington I 9W.9W Haltim.ire 1.831.74) New Yurk Philadelphia, l.HS.IiS') (t3.ii0 Cincinnati ZW.IW Chlcauo 1.4n;.0H St. Louis l.nd.OuO Struck Annlnst the Pit lions.

Springfield, Aug. 1G. The nailers employed by the Cantrell Coal Co. at Cantrell, have struck because the pit boss, Peter Bechen, is objectionable to them. Two weeks ago they served notice on the operators that unless the pit boss was removed 'within two weeks they would strike.

The operators did not remove the pit boss and at the expiration of the time named in their ultimatum, the miners vent out. A meeting between the miners and operators has been held, bus without result..