The Minneapolis Journal from Minneapolis, Kansas • 1

COUNTY 0 1INDEX. TTAWA VOL. XXV. MINNEAPOLIS, OTTAWA KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1901. WHOLE NO.

127 (5. HALF THE TOWN BURNED. THIRTEEN MEN DROWNED. NINE KANSANS A BOLD ATTACK BACK TO PEKING LIVED AS A MAN I The Last of the Season to be Issued by Weather Bureau. Following is the last weekly summary of crop conditions to be issued by the weather bureau at Washington this season: "The temperature conditions of the week ending September 30 were highly favorable throughout the central valleys, lake regions, Middle Atlantic states and New England, and no damaging frosts occurred in these districts.

Heavy rains in the upper Missouri valley and Minnesota, interfered with farm work and caused some damage to hay and stacked grain in South Dakota and Nebraska. Excessive rains also interfered with farm work in portions of the South Atlantic and East Gulf states. Rain is generally needed in Illinois, Indiana and Southern Michigan to put the soil in condition for plowing and fall seeding and also over the greater part of Texas for pastures and truck farms. On the North Pacific coast the week has been cool and wet, with damaging frosts in Oregon and Washington. Injurious frosts also occurred over the Middle Rocky Mountain districts.

'The week has been favorable for maturing and gathering corn ar.d reports from the principle corn states indicate that a much larger acreage than usual at this date has been cut. The crop is now practically safe from frosts in all districts. "The weather conditions in the cot ton belt have been very favorable for picking, except over portions of Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, where this work has been retarded to some extent by- rains of the latter part of the week. Picking has progressed rapidly in the Western districts, where cotton has opened rapidly, the bulk of the crop being gathered in some Districts. Over the eastern portion of the cotton belt the low temperatures of the week were not favorable for the development of the top crop, and heavy rains have damaged the staple in portions of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, while the sea island crop of South Carolina is suffering from drouth.

In Texas late cotton is being damaged by boil weevil and other insects, and the outlook for top crop is poor. "Only a small part of the tobacco crop, and that in Kentucky and Tennessee, remains unhoused. The reports generally indicate that this crop has, been secured in satisfactory condition. "In Kansas and portions of Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and West Virginia, more particularly in the first named state, the reports respecting apples are encouraging, but no improvements is reported from other districts. "Plowing and seeding have progressed well in nearly all districts, and the early sown wheat in the states of Lower Missouri valley has come up in excellent condition.

In Southern Michigan and portions of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, however, plowing and seeding have been delayed on account of the dry condition of the soil, and in Ohio seeding has been purposely delayed on account of the Hessian fly." TOOK A KANSAN TO GET IT Department of Agriculture Secures Long Coveted Species of Almond. The department of agriculture at Washington has finally succeeded in securing the Jordan almond, exportation of which has been rigorously prohibited by Spain for some years, and the government will now experiment with it to determine the best localities for growing it. This species of almond is regarded by the Agricul tural authorities as the finest in the world, but only its fruit heretofore has reached this country, the bush being jealously guarded in Spain. The bush has been forwarded here by the department's agent, who is exploring that section of the world for rare plants. The agent is W.

G. Swingle, of Manhattan, a graduate of the Kansas State Agricultural college. FILIPINOS BURN AMERICANS, Natives of Island of Samar Not Only Shot Hut Butchered Their Victims. The latest advices from the island of Samar give harrowing details of the slaughter of the members of Company Ninth United States infantry, at Balangiga. It seems that the presidente of the town, claiming to be friendly, led the assault in person.

VOn hearing of the slaughter Colonel Isaac D. Derussy of the Eleventh infantry started for the scene Immediately with a battalion. The body of Captain Connell had been tied at the heels, saturated with kerosene and partly burned. Forty-five bodies had been burned in a trench, leaving seven unaccounted for. The charred remains of many were recovered.

In numerous instances the bodies had been badly mutilated. Three hundred Macabebes will also be dispatched to the scene of the massacre on board the Legaspl, which is delayed by a typhoon. Unless a man realy loves a girl he is unable to tell the color of her eyes. Drowned In the Yukon. A Dawson dispatch announces the finding of the body of Peter Wyborg, a wealthy Klondlker, in the Yukon river, sixty miles below Eagle.

Wyborg disappeared AuguHt 24, in Dawson. His hat was found on the river bank there. He had been drinking heavily. Wyborg was a Yukon pioneer and leaves a wife, supposed to live in Seattle, to whom be was married in San Francisco in 1898. "Sealed Lips" Is the title of a recent novel.

Evidently there are no female characters In it. FINALCROP REPORT a Fire at Braddyvllle, Iowa, Destroys Business Property Valued at 883,000. Fire at Braddyville, on the state line between Missouri and Iowa, destroyed eight store buildings and almost their entire stocks, entailing a loss estimated at over $25,000. The fire started in the rear of Dr. Large's drug store, and is supposed to be of incendiary origin.

The business porion of the town of Braddyville is practically all on one street and the eight building3 burned composed two entire blocks on the north side of the street, and equal fully one-half of the business portion of the town. The buildings were all frame and built closely together, and burned like tinder. The flames leaped one cross street in their progress, and the fire only stopped when it burned from the head of the street to the end, Dreaking on the Nodaway river. Because of the row being built of wood and the buildings so close together, insurance rates were exorbitant and as a consequence but little insurance was carried. UNCLE SAM'S INDEBTEDNESS He Owes SI, 351, 516, 244 and has Cash Ilalanbe in Treasury of 8319,010,879.

The monthly statement of the public debt, just issued, shows that at the close of. business September 30, 1901, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,031,524,365, a decrease for the month of $4,825,401. The debt is recapitulated as follows: Interest bearing debt, Debt on which interest has ceased, $1,343,560. Debt bearing no interest, Total, $1,351,516,244. This amount, however, does not include $788,032,089 in certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash held for their redemption.

The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold reserve, trust funds, in national bank depositories, total, $1,197,327,475, against which there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $877,407,595, which leaves a cash balance on hand of $319,919,879. DAVIS STOLE $76,946 People's National has Made a Statement. The directors of the People's National bank, of Washington, have issued a statement placing the shortage of R. C. Davis, ex-cashier, at $71,946..

There is a shorage of in the draft account, $20,746 in the note account and discrepancies amounting to $20,000 on the ledger. The shortage has been covered by the transfer of property, together with money paid over by the bondsmen. The bondsmen, who are officials of the bank at Owenton, agreed to pay $12,414 on the shortage. Davis' bond is' $25,000. With the amount put up by the bondsmen and $5,000 raised by the stockholders, the shortage is covered and there is $4,298 surplus on hand.

The bank is solid and no furthetr trouble is anticipated. But few people drew their money out, and these were the smaller depositors. '1 ne bank had made preparations for a hard run, but the business men and heavv depositors were not alarmed and caused no inconvenience. SEPTEMBER SURPLUS, Government's Receipts Eipfnses Only S32 310,730. The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures Shows that for September, 1901, the receipts amounted to and the expenditures $32,310,736, leaving a surplus for the month of $12,123,636.

The receipts by items are given as follows: Customs, decrease as compared with September, 1900, $540,000. Internal revenue, decrease, $294,400. Miscellaneous, increase, $164,360. The cisburscments charged to the war department amounted to decrease, navy, increase, pensions decrease, $2,200,000. The net surplus since July 1, 1901, is shown to be $1,300,000.

UNLUCKY THIRTEEN. Rail Broke Into Thirteen Pieces at Dun-lap, Causing a Train WrccU. Chicago Northwestern passenger train No. 1 left the track while entering the yards at Dunlap, Iowa. Three sleepers and two chair cars were de railed' and the tracks torn up for quite a distance.

The accident was caused by a broken rail, which broke into thirteen pieces. No one wa? injured and the damage to the train was not (xtensive. The passengers were trans ferred to a train following and brought to Dunlap. World's Fair Site Formally Accepted. At a recent meeting of the directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company the western portion of For est park, set aside as a site on which to build the world's fair to be held in St.

Louis in 1903, was formally ao- contori from the cltv. A bond for 100.000. signed by the directors, was given to the municipal authorities, to Guarantee, that the conditions on which the Bite Is granted shall be carried out. i as It Frospeetlug for Mercurial Ore and Were Caught By a Cloudburst. News has just been received of a terrible disaster that happened in Presidio county, Texas, near the Rio Grande river.

Thirteen men who were prospecting for cinabar, lost their lives in floods caused by a water spout or a cloudburst. The dead: William Bolis. George Holton. Henry Carter. Hernandez Costello.

Philip Humphreies. Peter Shaffer. Alfredo Montez. William Jefferson. Thoamas Frezezello.

Algernon Rhea. Casner Deutschman. George Ainch. Daniel Carr. The men were in two parties, camped a mile apart in a dry ravine known as Alaminto creek, in which there had been no water for fifteen months on account of the drouth.

The men were asleep when there was a cloudburst several miles up the ravine. A volume of water twenty feet Irish washed down the channel of the ravine and swept over the men in the two camps before they were aware of their danger. Ail were drowned arid up to this time only six bodies have been found. The Alaminto empties into the Rio Grande not far from where the fatality happened, and it is more than prob able that the other seven bodies have been swept into that stream. MORE OF CARTER'S MONEY.

Chicago $400,000 is Said to Havi Been Deposited. It is reported that government of' ticials have learned that $400,000, said to be a part of the money embezzled by Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of en gineers, now serving a five-year sen tence at the Fort Leavenworth pen! tentiary, has recently been taken from Chicago depositories to some Eastern city and that secret service men have gone to the place to seize the funds. Last week government authorities located $200,000 in cash and securities in a safety deposit vault in Huntington, W. and during July real es-tate w.orth $110,000 conveyed by Car ler to a brother and uncle was im pounded by appointment of receivers The present location of the $400,000, -vhlch consists of cah and security, has not been made public.

Marion Erwin, special assistant at torney general of the United States, who went to Chicago to file proceed ings against former Captain Carter, io recover part of the booty, left sud denly to follow up information as to I he whereabouts of the $400,000, which he stated, had been On deposit In Chi cago until recently. Solomon Bethea, United States district attorney, and M. H. Whitney, a lawyer, local receivers in the case ld it was expected all the stolen funds wculd be found in a short time, MOTHER'S AWFUL CRIME. Throws her Four Children into a Well and then Jumps in Herself.

The small town of Little York, fif teen miles south of Cleveland, Ohio, was the scene of a terrible tragedy recently. Mrs. Perry Custis, 38 years old, the wife of a farmer, drowned her four small children in a well and then committed suicide by jumping in herself. Her husband, Perry Curtis, was in Cleveland with a load of potatoes, and knew nothing of the tragedy until he read an account cf it in the newspa pers. Following are the names and ages of the dead: Mrs.

Perry Curtis, 38 years. Rosa Curtis, 2 years. Anna Curtis, 4 years. Harry Curtis, 4 years. Harold Scude'r, 9 years.

The latter was Mrs. Curtis' stepson, Mrs. Curtis was released from the Massillon insane asylum recently as cured. A neighbor, who went to the farm to do some chores for Mr. Curtis found the bodies in the well.

The body of Harold was terribly bruised. He evidently made a desperate strugle to save himself. It is blieved he was dead before being thrown into the well. DIED OF GRIEF FOR M'MNLEY. Caleb Harvey, of La Porte, Literally Cried Himself to Death.

Caleb Harvey, a wealthy citizen of Laporte, died as a dirrect result of grieving over the assassination and death of President McKinley. The physicians who attended Mr. McKinley say that he literally cried himself to death. He wept for hours continuously from the afternoon the President was shot, and while in these paroxysms of grief his suffering was intense. It was found impossible to control or assuage his grief, and uf to the hour of his death he wailed constantly.

Mr. Harvey was an ardent admirer of President McKinley. The physicians consider the case without precedent. Three Killed In a Collision. Three men were killed and two aeriniislv lniured in a collision of irelght trains, head-on, on the Berk shire division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad at Long Hill, Conn.

The dead are: Engineer E. Burns. Fireman -Gustafson, of the north-bound train, and BraUeman Naly, of the Bouth-bound train. Engineer Holt and Fireman Pitcher of the south-bound train are Both engines and many cars were nikd, blocking all traffic CHINESE COURT PREPARING TO RETURN. WILL MAKE A GREAT CARAVAN To Number from 3,000 to 5.O00 People With 1,200 Carts LI Hung Chang Ordered to Borrow 700,000 Taels to Defray the Expenses of the Jouruey Reform Movement is Spreading.

Dispatches from Sianfu, China, announce that the Chinese court is preparing to start about October 6. The temporary palace there is being dismantled and all the furnishings will be carried for use en route. The officials and servants will constitute a caravan numbering from 3,000 to 5,000 persons, with 1,200 carts and several thousands of horses and mules that have been collected in the Sianfu district. Two parties of officials have already started to make preparations along the line. The towns through which the court will pass are engaged in decorating temporary palaces and collecting supplies.

The emperor or the empress dowager in his name, has issued an edict strictly commanding the officials to pay for all supplies. The native papers report that several eunuchs have been beheaded for practicing extortion upon the people. An imperial edicts commands Li Hung Chang, as governor of the province of Chi Li, to borrow 700,000 taels from the other provinces to defray the expenses of the court's journey. Special taxes are being levied which the people, already impoverished by bandits, foreign punitive expeditions and missionary are ill able to afford. Li Hung Chang says: 'The court will certainly arrive in Pekln within two months." Despite such official statements, many foreign officials believe the empress dowager fears the foreign troops are kept to entrap and punish her, and their theory is that she will pass the winter in Kai-Yuen-Fu, sending the emperor to Peking.

The continual broadside of reform edicts is the topic of much varied comment. Those best able to judge of their sincerity or effectiveness with hold judgment. Prince Ching, conversing with foreign officials, asserts that the emperor and the empress dowager were agreed as to the necessity of changing the Chinese methods of gov ernment, and that steps for the en forcement of edicts would be taken as soon as the court returned to Pekin. Unquestionably the reform movement is stronger among the upper classes than ever before. Prince Su who was recently appointed collector of taxes on goods entering Pckin an office heretofore considered worth 000 taels per year has announced that he purposes to deposit all the col lections in the treasury and to request the emperor to pay him a fair salary.

His subordinates resent this plan and Prince Su has been threatened with assassination. NEGROES HOLD A TOWN. Centralla, the Scene of a Race Riot Which has Assumed Serious Phase. The little town of Centralia, is in the hands of a mob of negroes. The cause of the trouble grew out of the action of a number of citizens of Centralia, making an attack on the home of a negro by the name of Whit-mire and firing several shots through the roof of his house and finally destroying his home and compelling the negroes to flee in the night for safety.

No negroes are allowed to live in the vicinity of Centralia. The negroes re turned in large numbers and rode up and down the streets firing their guns at random, driving all the whites indoors. Mrs. Coblantz ran to a neighbor's house and was shot down by Oscar Johnson, who thought she was a member of the mob. No opportunity was given the whites to organize and the negroes rode unmolested through the streets.

The shooting of Mrs. Coblantz has wrought the community into a fury and serious trouble may result- Mayor Clapper reports that the citizens will soon have the situation well in hand, and it is expected that the negroes will quiet down. Oscar Johnson is now in the hands of the lederal authorities. Trencher's Son Goes to Prison. In the criminal court at St.

Joseph, Vernon Bentley, indicted for forgery on four counts, withdrew a former plea of not guilty, pleaded guilty on one count and was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary. The other three counts against him were nollcd by Prosecuting Attorney Myt-ton. Bentley is the son of Rev. J. J.

Bentley, presiding elder of the St. Joseph district Missouri conference, M. E. church. Turn-about is not considered fair play by the party in the treadmill.

Kansas Cattleman a Suicide. Charles Meredith, a cattleman, formerly of Clayton, N. who came to Wellington, from Kansas City in the early part of July and bought property with the intention of making that place his home, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a heavy revolver. Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause. He leaves a wife and three sons.

A baseball game is merely a contest between two nines and an MANY WESTERNERS IN ILL-FATED COMPANY C. FOUR WERE FROM MISSOURI Nebraska and Oklahoma Also Represented Nothing yet to Indicate Who Were Killed and Who Kscaped A Short Cablegram From General Chaffee Has Been Recieved. The last muster roll of Company Ninth infantry, which met so frightful fate in the Philippines, received by the war department, was dated June 30. This shows the following names of Westerners, together with their next of kin and residence: Missouri Mack T. Bates', John A.

Bates, 427 East Fifth street, Kansas City, Mo. John H. Miller; Mrs. Annie Miller, Moberly. Absent from muster roll on date of muster rolls, Private Dolbert Gibson, Meadville, Mo.

Kansas Joseph R. Murr, artificer, next of kin, Mrs. I. N. Stalcup, Pater-son.

Elbert DeGraffenreid, 837 North Market street, Wichita. George L. Devere, J. P. Devere, Greenwich.

Charles F. Marak, Mary Marak, Hal- stead. James Martin, John Martin, Horton. Chris F. Rickard, Mattie Rickard, Peru.

Earl E. Stubbs, Elwood W. Stubbs, Burlingame. Melvin M. Walls, Scott Walls, Parsons.

Sherman S. Kelly, F. Kelly, Caney. Oklahoma Watson D. Henrick, Marie Henrick, Shawnee.

Henry W. Manire, Dr. W. H. Man-Ire, Norman.

Nebraska Charles Samelson, Mrs. A. L. Samelson, North Platte. Taylor B.

Hickman, Sarah Hickman, Beatrice. The following cablegram has just been received at the war department from General Chaffee: Manila, Oct. 1, 12:23 p. m. Adjutant General, Washington: With reference to your telegram of the 20th ult, will cable names of the missing enlisted men as soon as ascertained.

The company was rushed about o'clock in the morning by a large body of bolomen, about 400. General Hughes thinks the surprise was due to the confidence in the commanding officer iu assertions of friendship from the natives. Result in the investigation will be cabled as soon as obtained. CHAFFEE. This message is in response to one sent to General Chaffee by General Corbin on Sunday, immediately upon receipt of the news of the disaster to the company of the Ninth infantry.

MISSOURI'S TREASURY, Statement Filed by State Treasurer with the Governor. State Treasurer R. P. Williams has filed the following statement with Governor Dockery, showing the condition of the state treasury at the close of business on the last day of September: Balance on hand August 31. receipts for September, disbursements for September, balance on hand September 30, $1,177,966.09.

The large increase of expenditures over the receipts for the month is. explained by the fact that $300,000 was forwarded to the state's fiscal agent at St. Louis, the Merchant's Laclede National bank, to take up that amount, of state bpnds. The redemption was ordered some time ago by the fund commissioners for October 1. MAIL SERVICE COSTS MOKE.

Estimate of Postoftlce Department Is Greater than for the Current Year. The official estimates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1902, which Postmaster General Smith will submit to congress at the opening of the session, call for an agregate of $6,250,000 for rural free delivery service throughout the country. This is an increase of $2,250,000 over the expense of that growing service for the current year. The total for the free delivery service proper, which is that operated in cities, is $18,745,000, an increase of 9 per cent. The grand aggregate for the entire postal free delivery service, inclusive of both the free delivery and raral free delivery, is $24,095,000.

Big Sheep Runch Closed Down. The big Knollln sheep ranch, south of Solomon, has closed down. The inability of the company lo buy feed was the cause of the owner's action. The firm has been feeding heavy for a number of years. Feed is so scarce that 'many farmers prefer to sell cattle at a loss than to try and keep them over the Was He Murdered for Money? As yet nothing has been heard from Jf.

S. Gillespie, who has been missing frGm his home near Galena, for ten days. Some think that he has been murdered, as he had considerable money when he left Galena for home on the day he was last seen. He had no family troubles, and his financial condition was in good shape. The trouble with most girls is that they don't believe a fellow is really in love unless he acts foolishly.

WOMAN WHO PREFERRED TO WEAR TROUSERS. DEATH DISCLOSED HER SECRET Only Daughter of Retired Army Officer of Boston She Landed in New York From Naples, with an Italian Woman as Her Wife Won Trizcs at a Shooting Tournament. The strange story of a woman who preferred to pass for a man was revealed by the death of Miss Carolina Hall, of Boston, a cabin passenger on the steamship Citta Di Torino, which has just arrived from Naples and other Mediterranean ports. On the passenger list Miss Hall appeared "Mr. Charles Windlow Hall," and with "him" on the ship was Mrs.

Hall. was not until the former was stricken with a mortal illness that the ship's surgeons made the discovery that the supposed man was a woman. Before that, no one suspected that Air. Hall was not a man, and "he" and "his" wife were received as such. The woman addressed her companion as "Mrs.

Hall" and spoke of her as "my wife." The woman was 39 years old and is said to have been the only daughter of a Colonel Hall, a well-to-do retired army officer residing in Boston. She was of slender build, medium height and with a short crop of light hair, cut pompadour. She dressed well and carried herself with the air of a man. Her voice and gestures were masculine. After "Mr." Hall was taken ill the ship's surgeons were called in, and then the secret came out.

The patient begged that it be kept, but the surgeons were forced to tell it to the captain, who, however, did not disclose it to the seventy-five cabin passengers. The surgeons said the na. tient was suffering with consumption. I he vessel docked at New York and the young woman died at 2:35 a. m.

During the day the coroner's office was notified, and a coroner's physician visited the ship and held an au topsy on the body. After this the other woman telegraphed to Colonel Hall in Boston. was learned through the Italian woman tbat Miss Hull had resided abroad about ten years and met her companion, Guisseppina Poriana, in Milan about three years ago. According to the story, Miss Hall decided that men get along better in the world than women, and so adopted mail costume. She traveled thus with the other for two years, and, as she was an artist, went about the art centers painting and working at her profession.

Being a good rifle shot, Miss Hall is said to have entered several tournaments and won prizes. When she decided to come home she asked the Italian woman to accompany her. HOW HE FOUND HIS WIFE, Kite Posed for Slot Machine Pictures and Her Husband Recognized Her. F. Leaman, of Coffeyville, left Denver recently in company with his wife, for whom he has been searching since last March.

Dr. George F. Woll gast, uoneyvmes city pnysician, an insanity expert, who accompanied Lea- man on his trip to Denver, will ac company the couple back to the little Kansas village, where he will attend Mrs. Leaman in the hope that she will be finally cured of her uncontrollable desire to hide away from her husband and friends. Mrs.

Leaman was dis covered by her photograph in a slot machine. Last March Mrs. Leaman disap icared from Coffeyville It was thought at the time that she was temporarily insane, and Leaman begau the search for her. A few days ago passers-by were surprised to see a pretty woman rush into the arms of a big Kansan on Lawrence street and sob for joy. Leaman saw her picture in a muto- seope at Kansas City, wrote to the company and found that the picture; was taken at Cripple Creek.

He went to Cripple Creek and traced her from there to Denver. She had been on the stage as a trance medium with a hypnotist and had forgotten the name jf her former home. Only a Year Alimony. Judge Bishop of Chicago granted a decree of divorce to Mrs. Lynn Pullman from George M.

Pullman, son of the late palace car magnate. Alimony was fixed-, at $1,000 a year and the plaintiff granted permission to apply for an Increase in the alimony and for attorney's fees later. Mr. Pullman, who Is now in California, let the suit go by default. Killed By a Train.

Wallace Myers, aged 50, a resident of Montserrat, was-killed by the fast mail one mile west of the village. The body was unrecognizable, and was identified at the Inquest by personal effects found by the roadside. Stage Line to Nome. The Trans-Alaska Company, which is to estbUsh a horse stage between a point on Cook inlet and the Nome district, expects to have the line in operation about the time of the close cf Boring sea navigation. Passengers, mail and express matter are to be handled.

Ultimately the company purposes constructing a direct road along the same route. Wlgg "Were you ever taken ivp by a society leader?" Wagg "No; but I was once taken up by a ballonist.V FILIPINOS NEARLY EXTERMINATE A COMPANY. ONLY TWENTY-FOUR MEN ESCAPE Three Officers and Twenty-one Men are AU the Survivors Eleven of Them Wounded Insurgents Captured All the Company's Stores and Ammunttlon-ttattle In Island of Samar. A dispatch from Manlia says a disastrous fight between United States troops and insurgents occurred in the island of Samar, near Balangiga. A large body of insugents attacked company Ninth infantry, only twenty-four members of the company escaping.

All the others are reported to have been killed. The company was at breakfast when attacked and made a determined re- istance, but the overwhelming num bers of the insurgents compelled them to retreat. Of the survivors, who have arrived at Basey, eleven are wounded. According to the returns the strength of the company was seventy-two. The survivors include Captain Thomas W.

Connell, First Lieuten ant Edward A. Bumpus and Dr. R. S. Griswold, surgeon.

Captain Edwin V. Bookmiller of the Ninth infantry reports that General Hughes is assembling a force to attack the insurgents. The insurgents captured all the stores and ammunition of the company and all the rifles except twenty-si'x. News of the disastrous fight be tween troops of the Ninth infantry and the insurgents in the island of Samar was sent promptly by General Hughes, commanding in that island, to General Chaffee at Manila and by him transmitted to the war de partment at Washington. When it rtached the department Adjutant Gen eral Corbin realized its importance and at once made it public after send ing a copy to the White house.

General Chaffee's dispatch, which Kgree! with tin. Associated Press iVj-patch, is as follows: 'Adjutant General, Washington: Hughes reports following from Basey, southern Samar: Twenty-four men Ninth regiment, United States infantry, wounded; have just arrived from Balangiga; remainder company killed. Insurgents secured all company sup plies and all rifles except twelve. Company was attacked during breakfast morning September 28; company seventy-two strong; Officers Thomas W. Connell "(captain), Edward A.

Bumpus, (first lieutenant), Dr. R. S. Griswold (major surgeon) escaped. "CHAFFEE." ATTACKED M'KINLEY'S TOMB Guard Stabbed by One Assailant While Halting Another.

A strange story comes from West-lawn cemetery, at Canton, where a company of regulars from Fort Wayne, are guarding the vault in which the body of the late President McKinley lies. It is to the effect that the guard commanding the entrance below the vault and. the approach from the rear fired a shot at one man who refused to heed his challenge; that the shot was diverted by another man who appeared from another direction and that an effort was made to stab the guard. Military regulations prevent either the officers or the men of the post from being quoted on any matter connected with their service, and, for this reason, Captain Biddle, who was in command, was obliged to decline to be quoted at the camp. He will make a full report to his superiors at once.

Reliable authority made the following statement: Private Deprend was on guard duty on top of the vault at a point commanding the entrance below and the main approach from the rear. Shortly before 7:30 p. m. he saw what he took to be the face of a man "peer ing from behind a tree about forty feet from his post. He watched it for.

twenty minutes, he said, and at 7:45 saw the man hurry to a tree ten feet nearer. He challenged the man to halt, but this was not heeded and the fellow approached nearer. Deprend leveled his gun and aimed to shoot for effect, but just at that instant another man who came toward him from the opposite side caught the gun, threw it up, and the bullet was spent in the air. This same man struck Deprend on the right side of the abdomen with a knife or other sharp weapon, cutting an gash in his overcoat c.n inch and a half long each way and a' smaller one in his blouse. The flesh was not broken but was bruised under the cuts in the clothing.

The guard at the" tomb has been increased. The attacking party escaped. Ranchman Robbed of Bl.loO. Sam Webster, a wealthy ranch owner of Wichita Falls, was relieved of $1,150 in currency en route to Wichita, on the Rock Island. Webster said that he still had the money at Wellington.

At the last named station a large crowd boarded the train, among the people being a young man with whom ho shared his seat. He did not discover his loss until he arrived in Wichita, and suspects the young stranger. Fools practice hypocrisy for foola,.