The Weather To-day: FAIR; HOT The News and Observe) . VOL XI,VI. NO. 7.1. MM ILL NORTH CAROLINA HUES II NEf 8 111 GDROOLATION. GIVE MACABEBE TO THE FLAMES Filipinos Thus Take Ven geance on Friendlies, FIRING ON SAN FERNANDO FAILURE TO ENTRAP INSUR GENTS A MONO MOUaTAINS. THESE FILIPINOS WON’T FIGHT BATTLES Hall’s Men Fall’Out by Scores Overpowered by the Intense Heat. Filipinos Change Clothes and Escape Through American Lines. Mint.,: ye <►—1:10 p. in.—Tin* reb els on Saturday night made an attack upon the friendly town of Ma-ca belie and, after driving the inhabitants out, burned the town. Th4 insurgents nightly annoy the troops at San Fernando. Several Am ericans have been slightly wounded re cently. 'Phe enemy have several Krtvpp •runs, which they bring forward and use for tiring large shells into the town, then they retreat with their guns. One of the insurgent shrills fell within thirty yards of General MacArthur’* head quarters Saturday evening. 'Hie Am erican troops do not reply to the nightly outbreaks. FILIPINOS PLAY WITH OUR MEN Manila, dune (5.—8:30 a. m.—The Am erican forces have occupied the peiiiny sula and General Hall’s column is vis camped at Morong. Major ’1 ruman. marching across from Binangon.au, found it impracticable to form a cordon; and the insurgents, with the exception of a hundred or two escaped through the mountains after General Pio del Pilar, dragging their battery by buffaloes at night. A few, however, may be trap ped. The Washington troops have returned to Pasig, but the program of the other troops is uncertain. The present expedition shows the diffi culty which is encountered by an army which must depend upon wagon trains in catching Ira refloat «m1 bandits in their own mountains, and also gives proof that the rebels do not intend to tight battles. General Hall left Santa Teresa yester day morning and in a relied l twelve miles to Morong. up and down rocky bills and through woods and swamps. Scores of his men fell out, owing to the extreme heat and were left to follow as best they could. The head of tl|e army arrived at Morong at noon, hav ing exchanged only a few shots with insurgent skirmishers on the way. Groups of stragglers followed all day. but the force was 200 smaller than when it started. The men were almost IKi hours without rations and it was quite an achievement for them to cover the ground they slid. 'Bn ryute to Morong the Americans met Hocks of Filipinos, under flags of truce, many of them young men with the bearing of soldiers. Many discarded uni forms were found in the houses, appa rently those of soldiers who had escaped by changing their costumes from "in surecto” to “amigo” and walking Iwvhl ly past the army, which had expected to corral them. Few were found about Morong. One member of the Washington regi ment was killed and two were wounded in the encounter with the outposts. ■General Lawton, on board a gunUiat searching the coast for Major Truman, stopped at Biiwui.gonan, opposite Mo rong. Tin* natives immediately ran up a flag of truce and a delegation in ca noe* put off and greeted the Americans with the usual protestations of friend ship. < SOLDI Eli KILLS HIMSELF. Manila. June 7. —(7:10 A. M.l —Lieu- leant Fred \V. Pearce, of the Sixth Fnited States artillery, eonmiittced sui cide here this morning. He camp fioin Hi !o a week ago on leave, hot ling-nvi here beyond tin* limit and failed to reply to repeated telegrams from his comman der. Yesterday In* was put under arrest on his commamlcr’s order. This morning another officer called to wee lilm, when he stiddenlly pulled a revolvdk from un der his pillow ail'd shot himself through the head. Mis friends say his mind was affected by a recent sunstroke. A Spanish paper asserts that Colonel Argneiles, one of the two members of the original Filipino military commission, who were placed under arrest at Turkic lasr month, after returning to Lima’s camp from their conferences with the I lilted States commissioners, lias been court maDialed and sentenced to twcivo years’ imprisonment for “friendship dis played towards the Americans.’” The Second Oregon volunteer regiment lias returned to barracks in Matiili ami is preparing to return to the Fnited States. The order to sail in a few days wiel shortly be issued. The First California regiment will ho relieved by a regiment of regulars at an early date and will follow the, Ore gonians. It is intended to send the First Colorado and the First regiments next. The Failed States, cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey on board, left Hong Kong at 4 o’clock yesterday after noon. HIS FATE’A MYSTERY. Charles Ting Believed to Have Fallen a Victim to Treachery. Santiago do Cuba, June (>. —The friends of Charles Ting, the American storekei*|M*r at El Canvy, who disappear ed mysteriously about a fortnight ago, have offered SI,OOO reward for informa tion as to bis whereabouts. His ac counts have been examined and found correct, and all suggested dues have been followed, but without result. The secret police have been investi gating a report that he might have fallen a victim to a elan said to resemble the Chinese Highbinders, who mark ob jects of their enmity for destruction. In any event. Mr. Carpenter, one of Mr. Ting’s lriemls and a former guest, is convinced that there was a plot to remove him. Mr. Ting '-was at one time a superintendent of road construc tion. and although popular among the Americans had many enemies among the Cuban laborers. TO PROTECT THE TOLL GATES. Cincinnati, Ohio, .Tune 6. —A special to tin* Commercial-Tribune from Mays viHi*. Ky.. says thirty-eight men were armed to-day with Winchester rifles and sent to the toll gates on the three turn pikes in this county. The men were sworn in and instructed to protect the gates at all hazards. The turnpike own ers have an understanding with Gover nor Bradley to send the militia into this county if men cannot be found to pro tect the gates. DREYFUS IS ' RADIANT THE DESPATCH BOAT FINDS HIM WAITING ON THE SHORE. Sympathy Expressed for President Loubet in the French Senate Ac's of the Republic's Enemies Stigmatized as Scandalous. Fort ill* France, Island of Martinique, June U. —When the dispatch boat t,.u*- land, bearing the Superintendent of the prison and the comma ldcr ri the Marine artillery, who were designate 1 by the French Government to notify Dreyfus of tin* revision of lids trial arrived yes terday from Cayenne at :be lie Du Diablo, Dreyfus was waiting on tln shore. Although endeavoring to main tain his self possession, he received the official intelligence with a countenance radiant with joy. F PROA It IN THE SENATE. Paris, June <’». —In the Senate to-da.v tin* President, M. Fallieres. at the open ing of the session, declared that in th* presence of the scandals at Auteuil on Sunday nothing could shako tin* conli deuce felt in tin* R> public, and in* as sured President Loubet that the warm est sympathy of the Senate would never fail him. Senator Guyot, in the name of the four Republican groups, in :iu* Senate, moved “that the Senate associnti s it self in the remarks of President Fallieres, and stigmatizes as scandal ous the acts of tin* enemies of tin* Re public.” Senator L. Ecour do Grnndinaisoii. Conservative, spoke of the brutalities of tin* police, protested against tin* arrests, and said the election of President Loubet was a fatal error. A tumult followed. The Senator refused to with draw his words and left Hit* tribune, whereupon the Senate passed :\ vote of censure upon him. After some remarks from Premier Muptiy. similar to flu* statements In made in the Chamber of Deputies yes terday. Senator Glint's motion was car ried by a vote of 238 to 20. The result of tin* vote was greeted with shouts of “Vive la Republique!” Besides Baron de Christiani and Count De Dion. Baron De Baulny, Baron Meyronet de St.” Marc. Baron De Mandell, Count De Rcmusat. Count D’Aubigny and Mm. Louis Felix and Harris will be tried by summary pro cedure for participation in the distur bances at Auteuil on Sunday. THE CABLE TO GERMANY. Washington. June The filial details have been arranged for the laying of the cable between the United States and Germany, the last step being a satisfactory arrangement concerning Government messages anil rates of ca ble tolls. The authorities here have been informed that the actual work of laying the cable will begin during tin* present summer months, so that the first message may pass over the line during the coming fall. FINED EVERY MAN IN TOWN. * Princeton. Ky.. June o.—Every man in town was fined to-day for contempt of court. A petition had been signed by all of them asking tin* grand jury not to indict the insurance companies and no indictments were found. The Common wealth's attorney moved to proceed against tin* signers for con tempt of court. After considerable ar gument the judge fined every man one cent, and the decision was applauded by the defendants. BLAND PS BETTER. St. Louis. Mo.. June 6.—A special to tin* Republic from Lebanon, Mo., says that the condition of Congressman Rich ard P. Bland is slightly lad ter to-night, the symptoms of paralysis being less ap parent. An enterprising Chicago man lias es tablished a night school of wood carving. Situations will la* secured for graduates in boarding houses. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 7. 18!)!). RIVALS IN SAMOA LAY DOWN HOMS Mataafa Ready to Abide by Commission’s Decision. SO AT LEAST HE DECLARES THE GERMANS ACT WITH THE OTHER POWERS. MAXSE AND ROSE GO HOVIE ON THE 17TH Chief Justice Chamb rs Will Continue iha Sit tings’of the Supreme Court [Con sidering -Reduction in Cost of Administration. Apia, Samoa, May 31, via Auckland, N. Z., June ({.—Malietoa and Tainasese have visited the members of the Sa moan commission on board the United States transport Badger, and Mataafa visited them the following day. Neither of them was recognized as King. Mataafa expressed willingness to abide by the commissioners’ decision and blamed the Europeans for the trouble here. The commissioners in formed him that they had power to es tablish a government with or without a king. Mataafa thought the Samoans should have a king, but expressed will ingness to disarm his followers and leave the malter in the hands of the commis sion. The Germans acted, for the tirst time in many months, with the repre sentatives of the other powers and have officially sent a guard ashore. The naval authorities and the mission societies have submitted their views to tin* commission, and the latter, by pro clamation, fixed May 2711 ias the date for tin* natives to surrender their arms. Mataal'a, however, asked for an exten sion of the time until to-day, when lie surrendered 1,800 guns on board the Badger. The Maliotoaus are now dis armed. The Utilited States cruiser Philadel phia. flying the flag of Admiral Kautz, sailed May 21st, and the British and German Consuls, Mr. E. B. S. Maxse and Herr Rose, proceed to Europe June 17th. Queen Victoria's birthday was cele brated with great rejoicings, about 3,000 strong men of the Malietoa party attending the festivities at Maliinuu. in the presence of the British Consul and nayal officers. The procession visited the graves of the British and Americans ami then marched to the graves of the Germans, who were slain in the battle of Fagalt, in 187 b. The Americans tired a salute over the German graves. The 'mi Dives are gaining confidence, and are freely submitting their griev ances to the commission. The natives brought here from other islands at the time of flu* disturbances will be returned to their homes, and ail the warships will probably leave Samoa at an early date. The Chief Justice, Mr. William 1.. Chambers, will continue the sittings of the Supreme Court. Dr. Wilhelm Soli’, tin* newly arrived German President of the Municipal Council hen*, has not yet assumed his duties. The commissioners are uetneent, lmt it is understood they are considering a reduction of the cost of the administra tion as established by the Berlin treaty, and that the number of officials may be reduced. Tin* residents of Apia express dissatis faction at the indications given by tin* commission that the rebels will not be punished, and they also should be punished for arms illegally imported. They consider this a bad precedent, but it ,is admitted that this is too early to criticise tin* action of the commissioners. The American engineering staff has arrived here, and will proceed to erect a naval jetty and coal stores at Pango Pango. Judge Mulligan, tile former American Consul, has arrived here to conduct the compensation claims anil defend Ma taafa. But the commission lias inti mated that no notice will be taken of the claims beyond recording them, and it is possible tin* commission will ask each power to compensate its own citi zens or subjects as the case may be. DISARMING OF MATAAFA. Washington, June <}. —The Secretary of State has received the following cablegram from Bartlett Tripp, the United State* representative on the Samoan commission; “Apia, May 31st, via Auckland, N. Z.. June Oth. “Mataafa disarmed. Over 1,400 reb els surrendered. (Signed) “TRIPP.” TAXES FOn IMPROVEMENTS. New Orleans Casts an Overwhelming Vote in Favor of Them. New Orleans, Ln., June o.—New Or leans today overwhelmingly decided in favor of a special tax of two mills for sewerage, drainage, pure water, paring park and other improvements. "The plan contemplates an expenditure of fourteen million dollars in tilt* next few years, the tax paying, the principal and interest of the bonds which will run thirty years. Women property holders were allowed to vote and were mainly instrumental in gaining the victory, hav ing a central league and dubs in every ward. GERMANY AND THE CAROLINES. Berlin. June <». —The Minister of For cign Affairs. Baron Yon Buc.low. in th** Reichstag today, made a statement on tin* subject of flu* German-Span-ish treaty for tin* cession of tin* Caridini*. 'Ladrone and Pelew Islands. He said that in order to "round off the German possessions in the Pacific, and in view of German commercial interests which had lung existed in tin* Caroline Islands, “we consider it our duty to take rare of this group, so that in tin* event of a change in ownership it should not be lost to Germany.” In spite of the request of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Herron Rebel and Richter, in behalf of the German Left ists, during the course of the debate on tin* supplementary estimates vigorously attacked tin* Spanish-German agree ment. criticised the "exhorhitant price" paid for the islands and claimed they were of little value. THE DRY DOCK FOR PENSACOLA Washington, .Tune (1. —The gunboat Marinas with the tugs Potomac and Piscataqua will leave New York in a few days with Hie new dry dock intend ed for the naval station at Pensacola. Fla., in tow. The Detroit sailed today from Grey town for Key West. From, that port she will come straight to Washington. She brings the remains of the late Ad miral McCauley, who died in Nicaragua about two years ago. The Vixen has already arrived#at Bluetii Ids to take the place of tin* De troit on that i>ost. A COMBINE IN SWEETS NEGOTIATIONS FOR A MAMMOTH CONSOL IDATION OF SUGAR INTERESTS. Conference in Ntw York. Plans New Under Consideration. The Agglomeration of the Big Companies has Pegun. Chicago. June o.—Tile Record tomor row will say: That negotiations are in progress look ing toward a mammoth sugar consolida tion is mow admitted by one of til* men most interested. These stories have been Cremated at various times, remote and fiCeirt. but nothing c mlirmatory has been obtainable. It is not asserted that the deal on hand at present is in tangible shape, but it is real enough to have necessitated conferences in New York and the plans are now under considera tion by tin* executives donee mod. From widely difference sources today came reports of the independent union of the American Sugar Refining Com pany and the Glucose Sugar Refining Company with the subsequent absorp tion by purchase or otherwise of the plants owned by the Arbuckle interests and the Doschcr refineries with, perhaps, other competing plants. "I can say nothing definite tit this time,” saiil one of tin* head men of the recent conference. "I am in a confidential position with reference to the matter. But I ant at liberty to say that there i* a good deal more ill tile reports of a combination of tin* sugar interests than is generally credited. Negotiations are in progress on the general lines indi cated, but I cannot speak more speci fically.” THE HOTTEST JUNE DAY. That is What New York lias to Say of Yesterday. New York, June G. —The record for tin* hottest June day in New York since tin* establishment of the Weather Bureau was reached today. From early morn ing, when the thermometer stood around 78, until late in tin* afternoon, the mer cury went steadily up. At 3 o’clock it reached the limit, !>B. In New York city and nearby towns there were 31 prostrations recorded. Twenty-three of these occurred in New York city. The deaths from; beat prostration up to 1:30 o’clock this morning wen.* seven. OOXiFEII>HRATE .MEMORIAL \ KAY. Interesting Services Mark the Occasion in Baltimore. Baltimore. Mil.. June <>. —Confederate Memorial Day was Observed today, and the graves of the dead (in the Confed erate lot at Condon Bark Cemetery were showered with blossoms by the members of the Society of the Army and Navy and of the Confederate States, and the Daughters of the Confederacy. The ex ercises included devotional services con ducted by Rev. Wm. M. Dame, and a memorial address by Captain Randolph Barton, who during the war was assis tant adjutant general of the Stoneiwiall Jackson brigade. RAILROAD MEb\ CONVENE. Cumberland, Mil., June *l. —The con vention of railroad men. including rep resentatives of the brotherhoods of conductors, engineers, telegraphers and allied organizations began today ami will be continued tomorrow. Railroad men front as far West as Chicago and from -Southern lines, as well as the nearby roads, to the number of 2.000, are present, and many of them attended the sessions of the convention in the Academy of Music. PRINCESS’ PARAMOUR DIES. London, June 7.—The Vienna corre *l wind cut of the Daily Telegraph says that Rigo, the Gypsy musirian who eloped with Princess De Chi may. while returning with the Princes* to Austria, died at Alexandria. THE FAREWELL OF GEN, GOMEZ He Says Men, Not Soldiers, arc Wanted Now, MEN WHO DESIRE PLACE A FEW WORDS ABOUT AMERI CA N DOMINATION. GEN. GOMEZ THINKS IT WILL BE SHORT Urges Cubans to Aid in Work of Reorganization and Thus Assist in Making less Nec essary th« Stay of Ameri cans in Cub?. Havana. June force of circumstances. This work was not sought by those rich Northern ers. 1 think doubts and suspicions arc unjust. We must form immediately a committee or club to be a nucleus of a government. This will serve Cuban in terests purely and net as an aid to the Snterveivors. "1 as one of the first Cubans, although one of our last old soldiers and not tar from the grave, without passions or am bitions. call on you with the sincerity of a father and urge a cessation of the superfluous discussions and the creation of parties of all kinds, which disturb the country and tend to cause anarch'. To-day we no longer have autonomists or conservatives, but only Cubans. "My mission having ended, I will ab sent myself temporarily, to embrace my family, but 1 wilt return shortly to Cuba which I love as much as my own land. "My last words for my soldiers are that, as always, where my tent is the Cubans have a friend.’’ OFFICERS OF ROADS MEET. The Three systems Talk of Consolidat ing Officers and Agencies. Savannah. Ga.. June •'». A meeting of the tending officials of the Georgia and Alabama, Florida Central and Peninsular anil the Seaboard Air Line was held here today. The consolidation of the offices and principal agencies of the system* was considered, but no action was taken. WITH M’ KIN LEY CHICAGO. Chicago. Ills., June ({.—Admiral Dewey will accompany l’rcsidcnt McKinley to Chicago when the Chief Executive comes to 'lay the corner-stone of the new Federal building October Dili. A private dispatch from Washington says that Mr. McKinley made the announce ment to Henry C. Bayne, of Wisconsin. DEATHS FROM YELLOW FEVER. Vera Cruz. June 0. The deaths at this port from yellow fever in May were 144 out of 303 cases. The high mortality indicates the virulence of the fever. The heat continues great along the i coast. i I’HICK Friri ENTS. A BA TTLE WITH BANDI TS. Sheriff llax.cn Slain Country Aroused Outlaw*’ Capture Expected. Cheyenue, Wyo., June ('». Sheriff Hazen, of Converse county, and the imsse in pursuit of the Inion Pacific robbers had another fight with the bandits late yesterday, news of which has just been brought in. The robbers were surrounded in a gulch when they were forced to abandon their horse*, which were captured. 'They hid behind tin* rocks and made a desperate tight. Sheriff Joe Hazen was shot through tin* body, and died at 3:30 litis afternoon. The entire country is aroused, and the •prospects are good, not only for captur iug the train robbers, but the entire band of outlaws which has infested the Hole in the Wall country. PRODUCTS OF THE SOUTH. An Exposition to he Held at the Grand Central Palace. New York. June 0. The exposition of natural and manufactured products of the South will take place at the Grand Central Palace in New York, commenc ing October 23til and ending December Ist. 181)1). The enterprise is endorsed by tin* Merchants' Association and other mer cantile bodies and is under the manage ment of tin* Southern Exposition Com pany of which the following are tin* officers: Colonel John J. Garnett, director; Montgomery Maze, treasurer, and B. E. Greeue, secret ary. TRAINED A TRIFLE FINE FITZ FOUGHT NINE HARO AND FAST ROUNDS YELTtRI'AY. Jtffiies is Confident. Chits of Police Ocvtry Siys First Heavy Blow Struck Marks ihe End cf the Con est. New York, June ti.--" Bob” Fitzsim sums was compelled to let up a little in his- training work today owing to the extreme heat. Marlin Julian ad vised the champion to take things easy. Instead of boxing with hi* sparring partners in the barn, Fitzsimmons had a canvas enclosure erected in the rear of liis residence, and there he fought nine Irani and fast rounds with Dan Hickey, Jack Everhardt • and “Yank” Kenney. Fitz appcarcit to be on edge, and if anything looked to 'be trained a trifle fine. liis work with the gloves was all that could be desired by Inis most sum guine adherents, and when he turned in for a shower bath and it ruh-down, “Rob" showed no signs of fatigue, while the other three pugilists were winded considerably. Fitz is now about the middleweight limit and chuck full of confidence An his ability to win from the young Californian. Martin Julian, who is watching out for the interests of tin* champion, said to night that Fitz was in rare good trim. The remaining days which Jim Jef fries will have before going to New York for tin* fight of Friday night will be given up to very ilight work. He has gotten himself into fine form, and lie will do but little road work, and that of a very light nature. On Friday, the day of the light, Jeffries will do very little work, expect ing to enter the ring in fresh condition. 'Tommy Ryan. Jim Daly. Billy Delaney and Jack Jeffries. a brother of Jim, will -act as h'is seconds. Jeffries said today: "I will defeat Fitzsimmons Friday night and establish my claim to the heavyweight championship. My ob ject will In* to land Fitz. at the first op portunity whether it is tin* tirst blow in the first round or the last blow in the last round. I do not propose to trifle with the chances, and my first considera tion is to win the tight at all hazards." George B,u*r, of Chicago, will referee "the fight. Chief of Police Devery tonight gave out a statement on tin* subject of tin* police surveillance over the fight. li<* said that all the prepYratimis looked t > a regular* prize fight in plain violation "I the Horton law. 'This, he said, would not he permitted, lie intended to he pres ent at the fight, and if it develo|K*d into a slugging match he intended to stop it. “It will be wril,” In* said, "for the public to understand that tin* first heavy blow struck will mark the end of the contest.” THEY APPEAL FOR AID. 'The Pursuers of tin* Beast Minifee are Exhausted. Atlanta. Ga.. June <>. Harvey Mini fee, tin* negro who is being hunted by a posse for the outrage of Dunlin* Smith, the 8-year-old daughter of .loim Smith is still at liberty. 'lie* Governor and the authnrit os of Cobb county lia.<* each offered $230 for the apprehension of Minifee. 'Today the following circular was spread broadcast on the streets of .\t lanta: ‘‘s.3(lo reward. "To apprehend tin* notorious rape fiendi. Harvey Minifee. "He is now hiding in a lo mile swamp one mile from Austell, Ga. The citizens of Paulding. Douglass and Cobb c..un ties. have been pursuing the fiend- anil are exhausted. They beg the people of At lanta and vicinity to conn* To Austell on the trains leaving Atlanta four ami four fifteen and six twenty and eleven p. m. All who can go will please report to Mayor of Austell. Ga. “This man is heavily armed and defies the law. Please collie out and help us. I Signedl "LOVERS OF WOMANHOOD."'