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MEMPHIS BANDITS CAUGHT. IU2H' IECIIY 1 ATE 10 IRE ENDED lira E. vnn The Men Who Held Up Train at Insurgents Kerosene the Business Portion of lloilo. WILL BURN If IF ATTACKED. Macomb In Cuitody.

Kanhas City, Jan. 0. The men whe held up und robbed the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis passenger tra'n at Macomb, Mo. last Tuesday night have been run down and captured by W. E.

Chester, special ageut of the road. Samuel Fulton, assistant to President Washburn of the Memphis, received a dispatch from W. Chester this morning stating that the entire gang of train robbers had been captured and was at Norwood, one mile east of Macomb. Tne telegram was brief and did not state whether or not tho money taken from the train had been recovered. Of the men arrested, four are natives and two are foreigners.

O. M. Roy and Lewis Neigh are tho names of two of the men under arrest. MANILA CORRESPONDENCE. Kwrly Oflicial Wnr News at Last Giver Out in WiiHhliiKton.

Wahiiinoton, Jan, M. The correspondence published oflicially in connection with tho pence treaty contains much of interest from Consul Williams, who was stationed at Manila prior tc the war. He was in constant communication with Aguinaldofor sometime after tho battle of Manila bay, and his letters throw much light upon the relations with the Philippine chieftain. As early as February 22d, last, Mr. Williams wrote: "The governor general, who is amiable and having resigned, wished credit for pacification, and certain rebel leaders were given a cash bribe of JJl, 050,000 to consent to public deportation to China.

This bribe and deportation," he adds, "only multiplied claimants und fanned the fires of discontents." On March 19 he claimed that letters and telegrams were tampered with. He speaks of the inlluenco of the church as the greatest bar to progress in the islands. Mr. Williams also stated that every leisure hour was devoted to the inspection of the forts, arsenals and battleships in und about Manila, even at that early day, and that he was sending information thus derived to Commodore Dewey, who, with his fleet, was then at Hong Kong. Spies were so thick that he did not dare copy dispatches in oilice books.

Mr. Williams left Manila on April 2d. He was a witness of Dewey's victory, and on May 12 resumed his reports from Cavite. His first dispatch of that date begins with the assurance of "the friendliness of the Philippine natives to our country and to me as its representative." Manila, Jan. 9.

Colonel Potter, the special emissary of General Otis between Manila and lloilo, arrived yesterday with dispatches from the latter point. The situation when he left there was practically unchanged. The streets were barricaded, and it was reported that the principal buildings had been "kerosened," the insurgents having threatened to destroy the whole business section by tiro at the first shot of bombardment. The banks were shipping treasure to the United States transport Newport and other vessels. The family of tho American vice consul has gone aboard the Newport.

Colonel Potter reports that President McKinley's proclamation hnd to be typewritten aboard ship, as the printers on shore declined to do the work, and when the text of the proclamation wns read to them ridiculed the notion that conciliation was possible, Privates Harry Silvey and Frank Kirkpatrick of the Sixth United States artillery, while guarding a water boat astern of the Newport, were attacked by the natives of thj crew, l'rivate Silvey 's skull was fatally, and Private Kirkpatrick fell overboard but escaped with a flesh wound. Tho United Slates gunboat Petrel arrived at lloilo on Friday, and Colonel Potter reports that tho United A CARDINALS' BANK IN ROME. Uranohes for tine of Catholic Will He Entbllshed Throughout the World. Rome, Jan. 9.

The Bank of St. St. Peter has been established in Rome, under the direct supervision of the cardinals and by authorization of the Vatican. The circulars which have been sent out to all the Catholic dioceses throughout the world announce that the bank is to bo conducted in the special interest of those professing the Catholic religion. The institution has already received authorization to establish agencies in nearly all of the South and Central American countries, and is enkeavor-ing, through the church, to establish a similar branch in the United States.

The plea for entering the United States is that tho bank is to be used States troops will probably land on Guiamaras island, about midway between the island of Panay und tho chielly by Italians and will afford a safe and secure place for them to deposit their money and transact their banking business and transmit funds, to their relatives in Italy. island of Negros, where a camp will be established. Both sides, Colonel Potter says, have been impressing the local shipping for military purposes und the Francisco Rcves had landed 550 natives The foreigners were taking refuge on the British cruiser Bonaventura. Italy and Colombia Agree. Washington, Jan.

9. General. Julio Hengifo, charge d'a flairs of the Republic of Colombia, has received an oflicial dispatch from Bogoto announcing that a satisfactory adjustment has been reached in the Cerruti case, which recently caused such serious trouble between Italy and Colombia that an Italian squadron made a menacing visit to Colombian waters. The "Model Town" on Lake Calumet Surrendered to Chicago. A WILD PRAIRIE 20 YEARS AGO, CiiiCAOo, Jau; 9.

Tim decision of tho Illinois, supreme court, malting Pull-macrapart of the city of Chicago has K-ou accepted by the attorneys of tho Pullman Palace Car company, Attorney General Aiken, in a few clays, will go before a jndge of the Cook county circuit eoart and ask that the decree entered, which will divorce the corporation of the town of l'ullman insofar as it is directly connected with the tar company. This will end, the dream of George M. I'uUmau. It was he who planned In the town he named for himself a feudal institution in America. The churches, the schools, the hotel, the publ'ie hall, the market house, the public library and 2,000 brick dwelling, all part of his great ambition, all will be sold by auction to the highest bidders.

The Pullman Iron and Steel company will be reorganized. The brick works will pass from the control jf the company. Chicago will assume charge of the streets of Pullman as well as the water works. It is hoped that, in the sale of the dwelling houses, the oarcompauy employes may buy them. Up to the present time no one except the Pullman company it-jelf could own real property, in the law a.

It is more than twenty years since Pullman bought 3,000 acres of prarie Sand on. the shore of Lake Calumet, ibout eighteen miles from the heart jf Chicago. Before building a house 100,000 was spent j.in improving the Sdwnsite. Boulevards with solid roadbeds- wore constructed, lawns and 3ower beds were laid out and trees planted along the streets. All the buildings In Pullman are of brick and iton and are of architectural value.

In iddition to the public buildings, there are electric street railways, gas and jfectrfc light plants and a sewage system. But all of this is owned by Pull-aura audit was the dream of the town's founder that things should always regain as he had thus planned them, lie uld not foresee, however, when he bought the wild prarie land how Chicago would grow About his ideal town. The town of Pullman has been de-, scribed as a prison by thosa who opposed the scheme of paternalism. Thara is not a newspaper published there, tlva churches are under corpora-lion management, there are no merchants, no dealers in anything, who are not in the employ of the Pullmans. There are those who contend that the great A.

R. U. strike of 1894 was brought about purely as a protest against the dependent conditions in Pullman. i However great a change will, come srith the surrender to Chicago, it is believed that it will be welcomed by the mechanics who could never hope to ywa the houses within which they Sired. MRS.

GILLETT IN MEXICO, Chihuahua the Destination of the Plunder's Wife In lluslnegg Again. ElFaso, Jan. 9. Mrs, Grant 5. Gillott arrived in El Paso, over the Saita Fe road, yesterday accompauied by her little son, a woman supposed to be Mrs.

John Baskins of Chihuahua, and a young man supposed to be Mrs. Gillett's brother. In fact he told a railroad conductor that he was Mrs. Gillett's brother. The party registered at the Pierson hotel as JI.

Bronson, wife, child and maid, Kansas City." They 'were met by John Baskins, of Chihuahua. A rather tall stranger, dressed in black and wearing a heavy sandy moustache, has been dogging the steps rf the Gillett party since their arrival left for Chihuahua on the same train with them. Mr. Baskins believes the stranger is a detective, but railroad men are of the opinion he is the cowboy who has offered to kidnap Gillett and bring him out of Mexico. Gillett did not meet his wife in Juarez, notwithstanding reports to the contrary.

Gillett, it is said, was seen in Chihuahua Christmas day. He was met by Troxel and supplied with a change of clothing and a long black beard. He admits having been in Fort Worth November 21. He at once left for Mexico, arriving in Chihuahua No-rember 24, where he met Troxel. After spending several Weeks in the Sierra Madre mountains Gillett returned, to Chihuahua and formed a partnership with Charles Hunt for the purpose of exporting Mexican cattle to Cuba.

It is said the firm has shipped is many as 1,500 head weekly, Troxel acting as Gillett's agent in these transactions. Gillett is said to own more than 180,000 worth of cattle in the United States, of which his creditors know nothing. His homestead is valued at 1100,000, and is in the name of his mother. When a compromise is effected Gillett can convert his property into cash. Since becoming a fugitive Gillett has twice attempted' suicide; once in the Palacio hotel and once in the mount- New I.iiwi for Kunsiins.

Topkk Jan. Following is a list of the bills signed by (lovernoi Leedy: House bill No. 72 To appropriate $20,000 for legislative purposes. House bill 1 To create a court ol visitation. Senate bill 31 To tax foreign insurance companies 4 per cent on Kansas premiums and American companies not organized under the Kansas laws i per cent on Kansas premiums.

nouse bill 3 To repeal the metropolitan police law. House bill 00 Appropriating $8,000 for legislative expenses. House bill 42 To require annual settlements to be made by township treasurers with township boards. House bill 30 To create a state society of labor and industry with a secretary who shall perforin the duties now devolving upon the state labor commissioner. Senate bill 5 To create a state association of miners with a secretary who shall perform the duties now devolving upon the state mine inspectors.

House bill 41 To provide for the organization of an association for the purpose of insuring growing crops against damacre and destruction from hail. House bill 8 To require that 500 members shall be necessary to secure a charter for a grand lodge of any fraternal beneficiary society and to place all such societies under the control of the state superintendent of insurance. House bill hG To amend the stock yards law so-as to require the stock yards company to base its charges for feed on the wholesale market price, instead of the retail price. Substitute for Senate bill 8 To reduce the tolls of telegraph companies. Senate bill If To perpetuate the state school book commission.

House bill 24 To determine ties in elections in cities of the second class. House bill GO To repeal the law creating the board of railroad commissioners. House bill 23 To provide for the election of city attorney and assessor in cities of the second class. House bill To press express companies under the control of the court of visitation. Senate bill 21 To reduce fees of the state printer.

Senate bill 12 To place the fire and police departments of Kansas City, under a board of commissioners. Senate bill 45 -To make appropriation for miscellaneous purposes. Senate bill 41 To provide for the election of insurance superintendent. Jan. 7.

The legislature did not adjourn sine die, as the members hoped and expected it would. A number of minor bills did not reach the governor, and an adjournment was taken till Monday morning. The supplemental railroad bill was again defeated ia the senate. The governor sent in a large number of, unconfirmed appointments, but they were not acted on. The governor ent a message to the house denouncing Representative Blown of Cowley county.

Djc. Governor Leedy sent a message to the house urging that body to demand the proof of the boodle charge made by Representative C. L. Brown, of Cowley county, against the executive department, on the floor of the In explaining his vote on bank bill, Brown declared that he had a letter in his pocket fromanoilicer in the governor's ottiee offering to stop a requisition for 550. Outcalt offered a resolution requiring Brown of Cowlay, made the charge, to show proof under penalty of expulsion.

Late in the afternoon Brown rose to a question of personal privilege and stated that in his remarks Thursday, he did not have reference to Governor Leedy. The House passed the Senate bill providing for the election of state superintendent of insurance by a vote of the people, the first election to be in 1900; Clem Fairchild's bill making railroad companies liable for damages in cases where transportation is not furnished shippers of stock; senate bill reducing the rates of the state printer about 21) per cent. Only one important bill passed the senate. This was the bill which places express companies under the control of the new court of visitation. This bill has already passed the house and will become a law when the governor signs it.

The greater part of the day was consumed by the opponents of the supplemental railroad bill in trying to force adjournment. They succeeded in preventing action. The senate in executive session recon sidered and confirmed the nomination of Carl Vrooman to be regent of the State Agricultural college. Jan. 5.

The senate, by a vote of 18 to 18, defeated the supplemental railroad bill. The bill was intended tc strengthen and make the visitation court law operative, and was drawn up after the visitation court bill had been passed, and prominent lawyers had expressed the. opinion that it would not stand the test in court. Several Populists voted against the supplemental bill. As the matter now stands the visitation court law seems ineffective without the passage of the supplemental bilL WILL UNSEAT ARMY OFFICERS IIoaHe Committee Has Declilsrt on Action Against Wheeler an.

I Other. Washington, Jan. 0. Tho House committee on judiciary will make a report in favor of declaring the seats of General Joseph Wheeler of Alabama and Colonels Campboll of Illinois und Colson of Kentucky vacant. Theso otlicers still hold commissions in the army.

The committee, with the exception of two members, express the opinion that the acceptance of a military commission vacates a seat in Congress, and that, having held commissions during the session, their resignations from the army would not eutitle them to re-enter Congress. Mayor of Victor Jullod. Colorado Si'kings, Jan. 9. James Doyle, 'mayor of Victor, and a wealthy owner of mines in the Ciipple Creek district, occupies a cell in the county jail here, having been committed by Judge Lunt of the district court for contempt of court.

Ilia alleged disregard of an injunction issued by Judge Lunt against him not to prosecute a suit brought by him at Council Bluffs, Iowa, against James F. Burns of the Portland Gold Mining'' company to recover several hundred thousand shares of Portland stock, caused Judge -Lunt to order his Hrlce Had Great Wealth. Nkw Yokk, Jan. the value of the late Calvin S. Brice's personal property in New York is fixed at only 000,000 in the petition for letters of administration on file at the surrogate's office, it is probable that his whole estate, when formally taken into account, will amount to about 87,000,000.

More Josephltes Against Roberts. LamonI, Iowa, Jan. 8. The Lamoni branch of tho Josephite Church of Latter Day Saints, in its regular an-, nual session, adopted a resolution censuring Congressman-elect Roberts of Utah as "a violator of law and practical polygamist," and objecting, to his being seated in Congress. Have a Diplomat With Us.

Washington, Jan. Seuor Agon-cillo, who is in Washington as the representative of the, Philippine, government, lias asked to be recognized by the United States as such and to bo accorded the same rights as the other diplomats. His request is now in the hands of Secretary Hay. 'Scores of times," he continues, "I have heard hopes expressed that either the United States or "Great Britain would acquire these islands." "Aguinaldo told me to-day," he writes on June 10, "that his friends all hoped that the Philippines would he held as a colony by the United States." This was only four days after the first formation of a provisional government by the natives. Mr.

Williams says he 'was invited to be present when this government was organized by the Filipinos, but that he declined. For this he afterwards received a note of approval from the state department. On August 4 he wrote: "If has been my study to keep on pleasant terms with Aguinaldo for ultimate objects. Admiral Dewey says I have planted the seeds of cordial cooperation My agreement with Aguinaldo has been thatthe conditions of government by the United States in the Philippine islands would be vastly better for him and his people in honor, advancement and profit than could exist under any plan fixed by himself and Filipinos. I have traversed the entire(ground of government with him in council, and he has called his officials from fifteen provinces to meet for their discussion, all stated as friendly but unofficial on my: part." On September5 Mr.

Williams cabled: "To-day delegations -from 4,000 Visay-an soldiers, and also representing Southern business came to me loyally, to annexation. SevSral' leaders likewise. Spain cannot If we evacuate, anarchy rules." CLEVELAND ON; EXPANSION. The Ex-I'rcshlent Talis Sarcastically on the l'hlllppliiV OuesUoti. Princkton, Jf.

J.rjau. Ex-President Cleveland, in reply to the request for an expression on the question of expansion, said: "The misguided inhabitants of our new territory who prefer something different from the plan for their control or, who oppose pur designs in their behalf should be slaughtered. The killing of natives has been a feature of expansion since expansion began, and our imperialistic enthusiasm should not be checked by the prospective necessity of destroying a few thousand or a few hundred thousand Filipinos. This should only be regarded as one stage in a transcendently great movement, a mere incident in its progress. Of course some unprepared souls would then be lost before we had the opportunity of Christianizing them, but surely those of our clergymen who have done so much to encourage expansion could manage that difficulty." Senate Wants to Know.

Washington, Jan. 9. Immediately after the Senate convened the resolution offered by Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, calling on the President for information as to the instructions of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty of Paris, together with all correspondence and reports relating to their work, was laid before the Senate. Chairman Davis, one of the commissioners, desired that it be referred to the foreign relations committee, but Mr.

Hoar insisted that the Senate had as much right to such information as the members of the foreign relations committee and that the President should determine whether the Senate should have it. The resolution was adopted in secret session. In support of the resolution offered some time ago by Senator Vest, of Missouri, in opposition to expansion, Mr. Caffery, of Louisiana, delivered an extended spuoeh. liefnttcA to I'ay the Tax.

Pes Moinks, Iowa, Jan. 9. Milton Remley, attorney general for Iowa, today refused to pay the 50-cent war revenue tax on his oflicial. bond. He holds that the federal government has no right to tax state otlicers, and proposes to make a test case.

Lord Salisbury' Keply. London, Jan. 7. The reply of Lord Salisbury to the proposal of Emperor Nicholas for a disarmament conference of the powers, which is just published, promises the cordial co-operation of the British government and asks for an indication or the heads of the discussion at the conference. Flower of Our Army for Maniht.

Chicago, l). Major General II. W. Law ton, who was recently assigned to the command of the military forces in the Philippines, arrived in Chicago yesterday on a tour of inspection of the troops that have been ordered to Manila. A rigid examination of the Fourth infantry at Fort Sheridan was made during tho day with the result that forty or fifty of the soldiers were disapproved and will not accompany their regiment to the Orient.

General Law ton said his command would be made up of the flower of the American army. Leedy's St. LouU Commission. Tor-EKA, Jan. 9.

Governor Leedy appointed the following men to-day to be delegates to attend a meeting for making the preliminary arrangements for the St. Louis centennial celebration of the Louisiana' purchase: J. G. Slonecker, Topeka; II. Kuhn, Marion; Frank W.

Elliott, Troy; A.J. Tullock, Leavenworth; B. F. Hennesey, Great Bend; Lyman Naugle. Wellington; W.

C. Perry, Fort Scott; 0. F. Sawyer, Topeka; Abe Steinberg, Topeka; T. W.

Harrison, Topeka; S. F. Neely, Leavenworth. McCrillis Out on Ball. Joplin, Jan.

8. The McCrillis murder case had a hearing before Judge Perkins at the Joplin court house yesterday on a writ of habeas corpus and McCrillis was admitted to bail in the sum of $15,000. Minnie French Is Dead. New York, Jan. 8.

Minnie Alice Evans, one of the sisters known as "the French Twins," and the wife of Charles II. Evans, proprietor of the Herald Square theater, died suddenly at her home in this city yesterday. Horses Have Grip. Lexinotox, Jan. 9.

An epidemic of grip has broken out to an alarming extent among the fine horses of this section. Thoroughbreds especially are suffering, and many valuable mares are dropping their foals on account of it. Miiso In Royally Received. Santiago de Cuka, Jan. H.

Senor Bartolome Maso, who arrived here today from Jamaica, was enthusiastically received and escorted from the wharf by a torchlight procession. The Spanish club was close I by the authorities and an extra guard mounted. Arrested as a Deserter. Trkxtox, Jan. 9.

Private William Ray of the Fourth Missouri volunteers has been arrested by the local anthoriti rs on a charge of desertion at the instance of General Kline of Greencastle. Another TCans.iti Deuel In Manila. Manila, Jan. 9. Private William Rasch, Company Kansas trolun-' teers, is dead of the smallpox..