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Gavel Taken by President for 167 Appointments.fSnedal to The WnrKnWASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—President RooseveLt, taking’ tfhe advice of Secretary (Root and Smvator Dodge, to-day *' acted on the theory, as was exclusively predicted In The World this morning:,that the‘three seconds elapsing In the Senate 'between adjournment of the extra session and convening of the regular cession created a constructive recess.He sent in the nomination of Drnrtard /Wood to be a 'major-general With it came tihe other ir»r nominations of officers in the regular army who -failed of Confinmo/Uon.Tttio Manila 'Cable News of Oct. 30, a copy of which was received at -the War Department to-day, is authority -for ine statement wait 'the recent outbreak on tha hitherto peaceful Island of Jolo was due to the fact 'that a Mahometan Moro was- hurled with a pig 'by order of flbtewt.-’Col. Rodgers, of 4he Fifteenth Cavalry, whteh has just been relieved from garrison duty at the city of Jolo.The story in the Cable News is highly sensational.It charges that the facte* were suppressed by flic pvenn censor e«-tabliftheil at /.amlioanga ly Gen. Wood, and that while Gen. Wood Wan Kept fully -Informed his re-ports to Wufiliington were vrltb-lield throagli fear that they would. Influence the elections*.The story as published m (he CaJble News is that a “ju/namerutado” (a man •who has taken an oath to kill a Christian) was shat to death on the streets of Jolo after partly disembowelling a* member of R Troop, Fifteenth CavalryOne of the bullets wont through a fanatic's faody and killed the chief bugler of t/he squadron.To lie BurieU with a Pig.Col. -Rodgers, with a desire to teach f itlhe natives a lesson, ordered the body . ocf the fanatic buried with a pig, which 5%t)he greatest Insult that can be offered to tlhe pork-hating Mahometans. They-' Jj Wove that to be defiled in any way by 'touch of pork bars (them fromheJven.The evont was widely advertised, and 2,000 Moros, all armed and ugly but QU'let, assembled on the p'laim outside of(Continued on ^e-corki Pago.)
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World
New York, New York, US
Tue, Dec 08, 1903
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