Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1898 — Page 5

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BONDS We Offer — SIO,OOO Indianapolis 6 per cent. Bonds, issued for the improvement of various streets. Amountto suit purchaser. Price upon application. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO., 205 Indiana Trust Building. WAGON WHEAT, $1.35 ACME MILLING CO.. TlO We*t Washington Street. SUKGiCAL IKSIKUMfciNTS _ DEFORMITY APPARATUS. Trusses, Elastic Hosiery. Largest stock of ARTIFICIAL. EYES In the State. WM. H. ARMSTRONG & CO. was received by Captain May as to the exact hour that these officers will arrive in this city, but he expects them early this* morning and no delay worthy of mention is apprehended in securing the horses needed. In this connection it is proper to state that the field officers are having considerable trouble in securing their own horses. The supply of desirable animals is exceedingly small and the prices have advanced to exorbitant figures. Only yesterday Dr. Garstang, w ishing to secure a mbunt communicated with a dealer with a view to purchasing it and learned to his amazement that the animal was held by the owner at Wot). when ordinarily it could not possibly bring more than $125. On all sides the horse dealers have taken advantage of the situation, knowing that the officers must secure horses and at once. Knowing themselves to be masters of the situation they are naming any price that suits their fancy and it Is probable that the officers who are still without horses will be compelled to pay double and perhaps treble the value of the horses to secure them. POLAND WILL GO. * Accepts a Place us Adjutant to Major Conde. Another one of General McKee’s staff will go to the front attached to a regimental command. Yesterday morning Major Conde, of the Second Regiment, announced that ho had selected as his adjutant Maj. William B. Poland, who has, until yesterday, been on General McKee’s staff as engineering officer and has had charge of laying out the camp at the fair grounds. This change was made necessary by the fact that his present adjutant, Harry Murphy, was appointed to that position by his predecessor, Lieutenant Colonel Thayer. Adjutant Murphy’s resignation has been in the hands of the militia authorities sine© last September, when Col. Thayer was promoted. By request of Major Conde, however, he consented to serve until July 1, or until such time before the opening of the summer encampment as it would be possible for him to select anew adjutant. Major J aland has been all along desirous of going to the front, so much so that he has stated that, rather than remain at home he would shoulder a musket as a private in any company that would receive him as a member. In this connection it is stated authoritatively that promotion will be rapid among the higher regimental officers from the fact that many of them have been pronounced by Captain Wakeman and Lieut. May as being physically unable to bear the severe strain of a hard campaign, and that if any serious service is seen it will be only a question of a few months before they will be forced to resign, leaving openings for more hardened men who are now holding subordinate positions. Many regimental officers, who have large business interests which will suffer from their absence, are, it is stated, greatly disappointed, in having to go to the front. Many of them, it is said, never seriously expected to be able to pass the physical examination and thought to be able to retire from the service with horror because of this fact. However, as it turned out. the examination of regular field oincers was more or less in the nature of a farce and these officers found themselves, by force of circumstances, obliged to remain with their commands. One battalion commander is stated to have expressed his intention, in any event, of resigning his command on or before Aug. 1. Thus it will be seen that, while officers like Major Poland are, apparently, retrograding in rank by accepting subordinate appointments their chances for more exalted commands are bright.

HE HAS A BAA'D. Dciirfut Aspiration of Col. Smith’s Heart Is Gratified. Colonel Smith, of the Second Regiment, has finally had the secret longings of his heart gratified by securing the services of a really first-class band. Ever since the old Second Regiment Band crumbled to pieces on the first day in camp and the wild and woolly Cowan Rand fizzled in its ineipieney the colonel, who delights in the belief that the Second Regiment leads the whole of the Indiana "bunch.” has been inconsolable because of the lack of the always desirable band. Monday, after a hard chase, the Lafayette Military Band of twenty-two men was secured to serve with the Second Regiment. and although some of them were not 6trlctly up to tlie physical, requirements laid down by the mustering officer and the main cornet player was "shy’\one eye. Colonel Smith and his staff literally forced them into the service by bringing atV sorts of pressure to bear on Lieutenant MaK Captain Wakeman at first refused to pi*ss the physical nondescripts, but Lieutenant Colonel Thayer immediately clinched the matter by saying to Captaifi May. “Can’t you waive your restrictions in this matter eo these men can get in." At which Captain Wakeman spoke up and said, “Do you want to see the blue book here? Do you understand that if anything wrong comes of this the blame will not come to you, but will fall on us?” Captain May finally came to the rescue by ■aying to Captain Wakeman. "You had better pass the men but m the muster roll make a notation of th> ir defects.” This tickled Lieutenant Coloi el Thayer so much that he voted Colonel May to be an honorary member of the Second Regiment on the spot. The band was mustered in yesterday afternoon along with the rest of*the Second Regiment. HOW THE THIRD GOT THERE. Itrenaoni Efforts Tut Forth to Be the Ranking Regiment. When a member of the Third Regiment rolled over in his sleep last night and half wraked up he chuckled at the march the regiment had stolen over the Second, and the elation at becoming a real United States soldier ras doubled by the knowledge that when the Second and Third Regiments and Battery A move to the South the Third will be the ranking regiment and Colonel Studebaker in command of the body until it reaches the point of rendezvous and

is swallowed up among thousands of troops from all over the country. Behind all this there Is a story—a cause—a story of a night of hard work and desperate effort to fill up all companies and make out the reports before the officers of the Second Regiment had completed the corresponding work in their regiment. Colonel Studebaker said, last night: “It was a race and we won it. Yesterday I went through the regiment and explained the matter to the officers and the men. Asa result ail the new recruits were immediately transferred around until the companies were filled. Then came the word from Lieut. May that there was a great deal of clerical work in the way of making out extra reports to be done before the regiment could be mustered. I then detailed a big force of men for clerks and nearly all the night we labored together and the result was that early this morning I was able to take the reports to Lieutenant May and say, ‘We are ready to be mustered.’ We were mustered Into the federal service first and, therefore, we will be the ranking regiment in the detachment.” The spirit of Colonel Studebaker induced competition between his companies for the honor of being the first ready to be mustered and Capt. N. W. Gilbert, of the company from Angola, was the first to present his report to the colonel. Colonel Smith, of the Second Regiment, said that, of course, the Third Regiment having been mustered in first w’ould be the ranking regiment in the detachment to be sent South, but that his regiment could have been ready and was ready to be mustered as soon as the Third, but that he had dot regarded it as a race. It was suggested at brigade headquarters that as former Lieutenant May was lieutenant colonel of the Third that fact might go a long way toward explaining the headlong gait at which the regiment had made preparations to be mustered first.

CLOTHING FOII THE TROOPS. Various Ideas About What I NeededNo Use for Overcoats. The State of Indiana is to equip the first batch of troops sent out by the State for the Cuban war. By taking practically everything the State owns in the way of arms and munitions, this equipment can be supplied so far as Arms, tents and accoutrements. The trouble lies in the matte’* o| clothing. The state quartermaster’s department is now' wrestling with the proposition, and from the talk of the officials as to what is to be furnished it would be difficult to tell whether the expedition were meant for Cuba or the Klondike. The colonel of one regiment made out his requisition yesterday. One of the principal items in it is an overcoat for each man. Troops in New Orleans or Cuba will have about as much use for overcoats this summer as they would have for bear-traps. Since the war broke out volumes have been written by competent authorities upon what to take for a sojourn ip Cuba. The summer weather in Cuba is so desperately hot that the ordinary militia uniform would be a burden of the worst kind. The Insurgents dress in the very lightest cotton goods, and then they are too hot. They wear, instead of heavy shoes, a leather sandal. Their protection at night is a rubber blanket, swung above their hammock to keep off the falling mists. Their chief foes are not the Spaniards, but the blood-thirsty mosquitoes and scorpions, and a mosquito net is an indispensable necessity* while a good supply of pennyroyal oil would not fce a bad thing. Instead of this sort of an outfit. Quartermaster General Richardson and his aids labored all of last night and will continue today to supply the troops with blue flannel shirts and cotton flannel drawers. At first he was somewhat exercised as to whether it would not be advisable for the boys to wear red flannel drawers, and was heard to say that the uniforms that they now wear should be exchanged for new ones, because the old ones had been worn until they would not afford sufficient protection from the cold. He also advocated that a contract be let for eight-inch abdominal bandages of red flannel, to be worn next to the skin to prevent the man from catching cold after an all-day march by sleeping on the ground. Persons at brigade headquarters who heard this last proposition laughed, and said that unless the boys wore martingales the bandages would roll and slip up under the arms, torturing them with heat until they were torn off and thrown away. It was stated that if the equipment proposed were carried into practice it would be a waste of hundreds of dollars, for as soon as the boys got into the torrid climate of the Southern coast States and Cuba all clothing but that to protect the skin from injury would be thrown away, and no influence could be brought to bear to make the boys carry the useless stuff. It was pointed out that during the civil war the soldiers who campaigned as far north as Tennessee, in me mountains, threw away their overcoats and sometimes their blouses when April drew around. It should be remembered, said the critics, that the boys have to carry their blankets W'rapped around their bodies. / Quartermaster General Richardson stated last night that it would be impossible to send the troops away equipped to-night, and that unless the War Department ordered them to move and sent the equipment after them they would not be ready to take trains for the South until Thursday night at the earliest. The government depot at Jeffersonville has been the scene of day and night activity in making clothing foi- the troops of the .-ountry; every seamstnss in the totvn has been employed, and it was stated last night that the Indiana troops could not depend on the depot for their equipment. For this reason those officers who have charge of clothing the men were excite.! last night over the prospect of a clothing famine. Quartermaster General Richardson asked that the Journal announce that he desired immediately to hear from factories that could turn out in the shortest possible time cotton flannel drawers and blue flannel shirts for the troops. He found that the clothiers of Indianapolis could not begin to provide for the troops. NEBRASKA GOT THE PLACE. Regiment of Indiana Infantry Offered for Manila. The information comes to the Journal from its Washington correspondent that Governor Mount, seeing an excellent opportunity to give the Indiana boys distinguishing service, offered to the War Department a regiment to go to Manila, but that, evidently, the Governor of Nebraska had also seen the opportunity and had slipped in ahead of Governor Mount with an offer of a regiment from his State for the work to be done in the Philippines, and was successful. The dispatch continues in corroboration of the information in another column of the Journal us to the assignment of the Indiana troops by stating: “The Indiana boys who were to have gone to Manila will remain at home as reserves. The two regiments and the one light battery, who were yesterday assigned to Chickamauga, will go to New Orleans. The regiment of infantry and the other light butterv will probably come to Washington as originally scheduled.” letter to the governor. An Epltle from Pierce—Company of Youug Women Suggested. Among the letters received at the Governor’s office yesterday was a choice literary gem from Henry D. Pierce, in which a page of typewritten manuscript was required to ask for a pass to Camp Mount. Mr. Pierce started out with a preamble, in which he

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stated that he had been absent from the city several weeks and had not kept informed as to the details of the government of the camp. He did not, therefore, know whether or not the public was admitted without passes, or whether or not it was admitted with passes. He respectfully requested a pass for himself, however, wtoether one was necessary or not. “I do not wish to go on business,” said Mr. Pierce; “nor do I go out of mere Idle curiosity. It is in the nature of a duty.” Mr. Pierce then explains that he has a boy large enough to jpo to such a place alone, but too conscientious to go for fear his going would not meet with the approval of his parents. “Like Casi Bianca,” Mr. Pierce writes, “he could not go because he had not the consent of his mother.” Now Mr. Pierce wants to take him as a reward. The boy has been at home with the housekeeper for ten weeks, while Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have traveled In foreign parts. Another letter was from a man In Washington, who wants his son-in-law released. He says the young man has a wife and two children who are destitute. The Governor replied that the boy was now in the United States service and out of his control. An Anderson girl writes the Governor for permission to recruit a company of young women. READY TO GO ANYWHERE. Governor Says Indiana Troops Are Ready for Duty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, May 10. Governor Mount’s dispatch directing Russell B. Harrison to say to the secretary of war that he had no favors to ask in the matter of assignments of troops, but that they were willing to go where they could do the most good, created a very favorable impression at the War Office. A high official of the department said that it was the first dispatch of the kind that had been received, and that it was in refreshingly striking contrast to those from the Governors of many States, who are avalanching him with importunities and demands. Conspicuous among the executives who are trying to run the War Department at Washington may be mentioned Governor Leedy, of Kansas. From Governor Mount came a dispatch saying: “Any assignment of Indiana troops by the War Department will have my approval. They are willing to go, and I am willing they go where they can do the most good. Our quota is in first-class condition.” Madison People All for McKee. The people of Madison, General McKee’s native town, are much interested in the developments that may lead either to his being appointed brigadier general in the federal service or to his being disappointed. The Madisonians are for him under all circumstances, according to the Madison Courier, which says: "Gen. William J. McKee should be given the commission of brigadier general in the volunteer army and allowed to lead the Indiana troops to the front. He has earned the right by twenty years’ devotion to the militia service, in which he has attained the highest rank and won the most cordial approbation from United States officers.” The Courier also says: “The following telegram was sent to Governor Mount today: “ ‘Madison, Ind., April 29, 1898. “ ‘To Hon. James A. Mount, Governor of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.: “ ‘Urge McKee for brigadier general. He is from Madison. Signed Perry E. Bear, judge; Ellison D. McGuire, mayor; Charles A. Wymond, president M. and M. Club; M. C. Garber, postmaster.’ ” Wa* “Onto His Job.” One of the amusing features that came aa an aftermath to the mustering in of the Third Regiment yesterday took place on the porch of General McKee’s headquarters. One of Colonel Studebaker’s men had been assigned by Captain May to guard duty at that point. The sentry, who evidently kept posted as to current events and possessing •a keen sense of humor, was accosted by one of the staff officers with the interrogation “Are you one of the Third Regiment men?” Hardly had the sentry brought his gun to a “present” when he fired back at the officer the answer, “No, sir, there ain’t any Third Regiment here. I belong to the One-hundred-and-tifty-seventh Indiana Volunteers." The officer, after heartily laughing at this bit of wit on the part of the sentry, secured the information he was after and left to detail the story to his fellow-officers at the mess table.

Purchase of Supplies. The Commercial Club has taken up the subject of the purchase of supplies for the Indiana volunteers. A telegram was sent to Senator Fairbanks urging that all supplies be bought here. It read: “Please request secretary of war to authorize quartermaster and commissary officers at Camp Mount to purchase all supplies needed by Indiana volunteers while at Camp Mount from dealers in Indianapolis and vicinity.” Senator Fairbanks replied: “I asked the War Department some days ago to make purchases of supplies in Indianapolis, and understood this would be done. I will communicate immediately with the secretary on the lines of your telegram.” The club understands that supplies are now being bought in Chicago over the protest of local dealers. Officers Given Another Chance. Several of the commissioned officers who were rejected by the examining surgeons yesterday appealed to the Governor, and the latter had a conference with Captain Wakeman. The latter agreed that in cases where the men were sound but failed to come up to the requirements in measure, they would be passed, and others with slight disabilities which would bar them from the regular service, would be passed. But opposite their names on the rolls would be entered a minute of this disability. This will be done to keep a record, to be of service in ease of applications for pensions. All the commissioned officers jwho w T ere rejected were given another chance yesterday before the chief surgeon. May Will Remain. When the Third Regiment moves, unless the plan cf last night is changed, Lieut. Col. May will not go with it. He has certain work to perform at the camp in his capacity as mustering officer for the United States which must be performed and in order that he may do this and still keep his appointment to the Third Regiment he will be carried forward on the record of the regiment as being detailed for certain duties at Camp Mount and will rejoin the regiment at some time in the near future. He will send his horse with the regiment when it moves. McKee’s Chances Good. A special to the Journal from Washington says: "The second list of appointments to the staffs of the major and brigadier generals which were to have gone to the Senate were unavoidably postponed till to-morrow This is the list to which the Indiana boys are looking forward to with considerable interest. The fact that the Indiana volunteers are to be scattered will not operate against the appointment of General McKee to a brigadier generalship. His appointment is still regarded as one of the sure things.” Number In Camp. The regimental reports to brigade headquarters yesterday showed that there were 4,628 men in camp, an increase of seventeen over the day before. The reports were as follows: Brigade headquarters ; 62 First Regiment 1,037 Second Regiment ’oil Third Regiment i’ooi Fourth Regiment i’i66 Artillery ’321 Veteran Sharpshooters. The first company of Veteran Sharpshooters will meet in the Criminal Court room to-night (Wednesday) at 7:30. All members are requested to be prompt in attendance. Business on hand and a general good time is expected. Portland Volunteers Impatient. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., May 10.—The Portland volunteer company, which is now fully equipped and drilling every night, is very anxious to go to the front, and has telegraphed to a prominent federal official at Indianapolis asking him to intercede for them with Governor Mount and see if it is not possible for them to be called out. Quartermaster’s Depot Rushed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., May 10.—Col. C. W. Williams, of the United States quartermaster’s depot here, awarded a number of contracts early this week for supplies for the army. Rush orders for tents, uniforms, camp utensils and all the equipments necessary for an active campaign are being received. The employes are working day 0- •* night and Sundays. The late orders are

the result of the rapid mobilization of the troops in Chickamauga and Tampa. At least six hundred sewing women are regularly employed making uniforms and in addition to these several manufacturing concerns are turning out big rush orders by machinery. Madison’s Second Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MADISON, Ind., May 10.—Madison’s second compeny of volunteers was organized to-night, electing Charles E. Cosby captain, Michael Klein first lieutenant and George S. Taylor second lieutenant. Camp Notes. Ray Thompson, of Battery A, passed the required medical examination before Captain Wakeman yesterday in good style, being the only one of a squad of eight men to be accepted. Rev. G. A. Carstensen. chaplain of the Second Regiment, now known as the One-hundred-and-flfty-eighth Indiana Volunteers. yesterday stated that it was his intention to write weekly stories from the army camps, which it was his desire should be read in church every Sunday. General McKee was confined to his room at headquarters the greater part of yesterday with a severe cold, which brought on a general indisposition, but he appeared at mess in the evening in his uniform and at high good humor that the boys so long under his command had at last become an arm of the federal service. SPANIARDS “SHADOWED.” Alleged Spies Watched by United States Secret-Service Officers. CLEVELAND, 0., May 10.—Information was received to-day from a trustworthy source that a number of United States se-cret-service agents are in the city shadowing Spaniards. During the last two weeks about fifteen Spaniards have come to Cleveland from Tampa and New York. Nine were given work in the cigar factory of A. De Arango, a Cuban. Ah his other employes are -Cubans, and they had arranged to buy a Cuban flag and a United States flag and place them on one of the walls of their work room. The Spaniards refused to bear their share of the expense, saying that mey would prefeu to help buy a red fiag. After a war of wxtrds and a close approach to blows, the Spaniards were discharged and ordered out of the factory. Inquiry to-day elicited the information that every Spaniard in Cleveland is being watched by detectives. SUICIDE OF A HAVEMEYER. Charles F., Son of the Lite Theodore, Shoots Himself. NEW YORK, May 10.—Charles F. Havemeyer, son of the late Theodore Havemeyer, is believed to have committed suicide last night at his home in Roslyn, Long island. He shot himself through the brain. Mr, Havemeyer was thirty-seven years of age. He leaves a wife and two children. No motive for the suicidal act is known. Mr. Havemeyer had been to Ndw York during the day and had seen several friends. Shortly before the shooting he had been playing with his boy, apparently in his usual good spirits. The coroner’s jury rendered a verdict that Mr. Havemeyer came to his death by the discharge of a pistol in his own hands, and there was no evidence to show that it was not accidental.

NOW FRANCES HODGSON. Mrs. Burnett Sccnres Divorce and Right to Resume Maiden Nume. WASHINGTON, May 10.—Judge Hagner, late this afternoon, signed a decree granting Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist, a divorce from Dr. Swan M. Burnett, a well-known oculist of this city. She is permitted to resume her maiden name of Hodgson. DOOLEY ON HIS COUSIN GEORGE. Tlie Philosopher Discourses Upon the Philippine Affuir. Chicago Journal. “Well,” said Mr. Hennessy, in tone of chastened joy, “Dewey didn’t do a thing to thim. I hope th’ poor la-ad isn’t cooped up .there in Minneapolis. “Niver fear,” said Mr. Dooley, calmly, “Cousin George is all r-right.” “Cousin George?” Nfr. Hennessy exclaimed. . -v "Sure,” said Mr. Dooley. “Dewey* or Dooley, ’tis all th’ same. We dhrop a letter here an’ there, except th’ haitches—we niver dhrop thim—but we’re the same breed of ttghtin’ men. George has th’ thraits iv th’ fam’ly. Me uncie Mike, that was a handy man—was touid wanst he’d be sint to h—l f’r his manny sins, an’ he deserved it, f’r l’avin’ out th’ wan sin iv runnin’ away fr m annywan, he was booked f’r iverything fr’m murdher to missin’ mass. ‘Well,’ ho says, ‘anny* place I can get into,’ he says, ‘I can get out iv,’ he says. ‘Ye bet on that,’ he says. “So it is with Cousin George. He knew th’ way in. an’ it’s the same way out. He didn’t go in be th’ fam’ly inthrance, sneakin’ aiong with th’ can undher his coat. He left Ding Dong, or whativer ’tis ye call it, an’ says he ’Thank Gawd,’ he says, ‘l’m where McKinley can’t give me his ideas iv how to r-run a quiltin’ party an’ call it v/ar.’ he says. An’ so he sint a man down in a divin’ shute an’ cut th’ cables, so’s Mack cuddent chat with him. Thin he prances up to th’ Spanish forts an’ hands them a few oranges. Tosses thim out like a man throwin’ handbills f’r a circus. ‘Take that,’ he says, ‘an’ raymim’oer th’ Maine,’ he says. An’ he goes into th’ harbor, w*here Admiral What-th -’ell is, an’, says he, ‘Surrir.der,’ he says. ‘Niver,’ say’s th’ Dago. ‘Well,’ says Cousin George, ‘l’ll just have to push ye ar-round,’ he says. An’ he tosses a few slugs at th’ Spanyards. Th’ Spanish admiral shoots at him with a bow and arrow an’ goes over an’ writes a cable. ‘This mornin’ we was attaekted,’ he says. ‘An’,’ he says, ‘we fought th’ inimy with great courage,’ he says. ‘Our victory is complete,’ he says. ‘We have lost iverything we had,’ he says. ‘Th’ treacherous foe,’ he says, ‘afther destroyin’ us, sought refuge behind a mudscow,’ he says, ‘but nawthin’ daunted us. What boats we cudden’t r-run ashore we surrindered.’ he says. ‘I can write no more,’ he says', ‘as me coat tails are afire,’ he say*s, ‘an’ I am bravely* but rapidly leapin’ fr’m wan vessel to another, followed tie me valiant crew with a fire engine,’ he says. ‘lf 1 can save me coat tails,’ lie says, ‘they’ll be no kick cornin’,’ he says, ‘Long live Spain, long live mesilf.’ “Well, sir, in twinty-eight minyits be th’ clock Dewey he had all th’ Spanish boats sunk an’ that there harbor lookin’ like a Spanish stew. Thin he r-run down th’ bay an’ handed a few war'rm wans into th’ town. He set it on fire an’ thin wint ashore to war'rm his poor hands an’ feet. It chills th’ blood not to have anything to do f’r an’ hour or so.” “Thin why. don’t he write something?” Mr. Hennessy demanded. “Write?” echoed Mr. Dooley. “Write? Why shud he write? D’ye think Cousin George ain't got nawthin’ to do but to set down with a fountain pen an’ write: ‘Dear Mack: At 8 o'clock I began a peaceful blockade iv this town. Ye can see th’ pieces iverywhere. I hope ye’er injyin’ th’ same gr-reat blessin’. So no more at prisint. Fr’m ve’ers thrulv, George Dooley*.’ He ain’t that kind. ’Tis a nice day, an he's there, smokin’ a good tin-cint see-gar. an’ thiowin’ dice f’r th’ drinks. He don’t care whether we know what he’s done or not. I'll bet ve whin we come to find out about him we’ll hear he’s illicted himself king if th’ F’lip-ine islands. Dooley th’ Wanst. He’ll be settin’ up there undher a pa’m three with naygurs fannin’ him an’ a dhrop iv licker in'th' hollow iv his arm, an’ hootchykootehv girls dancin’ befure him, an’ ivery tin or 'twinty minyits some wan brinin’ a prisoner in. ‘Who’s this?’ says King Dooley. •A Spanish gin'ral,’ says the copper. ‘Give him a typewriter an' set him to wurruk,’ say*s th’ king. ‘On with th’ dance,’ he says. ‘And afther awhile, whin he gits tired iv th’ game, he’ll write home an’ say he’s got th’ islands, an’ he’ll tur-rn thim over to th’ govermint an’ go back to his ship, an’ Mark Hanna’ll organize th’ F’lip-ine Islands Jute an - Cider Comp’ny, an’ the rivolutehinists’U wish they hadn’t. That s what’ll happen. Mark me wurrud.” They Go No Further. Baltimore American. Spain has plans to blow up the American ships. But this will not cause any alarm. Spain has had plans to put down the Cuban insurrection for the past four years. Spain always has plans. But they are never carried but. 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HAVANA RUMOR STEAMER MONTSERRAT REPORTED TO HAVE RIS THE BLOCKADE. Spaniards Anxious to Moke It Appear that the Work of the American Squadron Is Ineffective. ■ NAVAL BATTLE OFF CARDENAS THREE SPANISH GUNBOATS ENGAGED BY THE LITTLE WINSLOW. Former Forced to Ran After the Torpedo Boat Had Secured the Aid of the Gunboat Macliias. INCIDENTS/ OF THE BLOCKADE ■ 4 FORTS AND TELEGRAPH LINES DESTROYED BY OUR SHIPS. Two More Prises Brought to Key West—Refugees from Havana on a French War Ship. MADRID, May 10.—A dispatch received here from Havana this afternoon says the Spanish steamer Montserrat, which, with a valuable cargo, troops and a large sum of money intended for Havana, escaped the United States fleet and entered the port of Cienfuegos, has now run the blockade of ,tho American and has entered the port of Havana in safety. It is claimed here that this proves the blockade of the Cuban port3 is ineffective. The Spanish mail steamer Montserrat, which is alleged to have run the blockade at Havana, appears to have reached Cienfuegos on April 27, with 1,000 Spanish soldiers and $500,000 in silver and eighteen guns of large calibre, in addition to a very valuable cargo, including a quantity of ammunition. The Spaniards claim the Montserrat was sighted by an American man-of-war, which fired on her. The mail steamer, it is alleged, mounting guns as an auxiliary cruiser, returned the lire and eventually reached Cienfuegos. So many utterly false reports have been given out in Madrid recently that American confirmation of the arrival of the Montserrat at Havana will have to be required before the story of her blockade running is accepted as truth.

WORRYING THE SPANIARDS. The Hornet and Winslow Destroying Forts and Telegraph Lines. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) ON BOARD THE DISPATCH BOAT KATE SPENCER, OFF CARDENAS, May 9, via Key West, Fla., May 10.—The Spanish soldiers are displaying much activity along the line of coast from Bahia Honda, forty-five miles west of Havana, to Cardenas, sixty-five miles to eastward. As the ships of the blockading fleet have instructions to prevent the erection of new fortifications and have at various points shelled working parties, the task of strengthening existing defenses and throwing up earthworks is carried on principally at night, save in the immediate vicinity of Havana. The narrow escape of the Vicksburg and Morrill, on Saturday, when they were decoyed within easy range of the Santa Clara batteries, just west of Morro Castle, has taught some of the unarmored ships a lesson, and It is not likely that that class of boats will venture within close range of the modern high-power guns again. Along the coast fresh sand batteries are being thrown up almost every night, but these works are of a flimsy character and would be reduced by the fire of the big guns in a few minutes. The officers of the blockading fleet believe Captain General Blanco is wasting a good deal of energy in the erection of insignificant shore batteries. The strengthening of the more formidable works about Havana is a very different thing. It may be, however, by the erection of these light batteries, which must be abandoned as soon as the serious work of the fleet begins, Blanco puts heart in his starving soldiers and imbues them with the 4dea that a Yankee invasion can be repelled at any point. The Hornet and the Winslow, now blockading Matanzas, have had a lively time for several days shelling Spaniards at work on batteries and telegraph lines outside of the entrance of the harbor. There, as at other points, most of the work is done at night and each morning sees fresh earthworks thrown up like fresh ant hills against the rusty green old coast line. Sunday morning the Hornet found a party putting a telegraph line up from a lighthouse and signal station a mile east of Matanzas, to the batteries west of Point Sabanilla, on the other side of the bay. The batteries here are said to be of some magnitude, mounting a few high-power guns. To stop this telegraphic activity the Hornet steamed quietly in and dropped a shell in the midst of the workmen, 'they scattered like rabbits, and the line grounded then and there. Several other telegraph parties have been discouraged in the same way at other points. It is evidently the intention of the Spaniards to establish communication by wire with all their coast blockhouses and batteries, with a view possibly of massing troops and guns to oppose a landing whenever threatened. Hereafter they will probably carry their wire behind the first range of hills, where they will be less subject to sudden interruption. It is not possible that there are enough heavy guns at the command of the Spaniards to mount them in all the new sand batteries springing up, but as there is a railway from Havana to Matanzas, quite close to the coast, the authorities may be deluding themselves with the idea that they can transport heavy guns to the batteries nearest the threatened landing point whenever their watchers telegraphed the appearance of American vessels off the coast. FIGHT OFF CARDENAS. The Winslow Draws Three Ganbonis Out of the Harbor. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) ON BOARD THE DISPATCH BOAT KATE SPENCER, off Cardenas, May 9, via Key West, Fla., May 10.—The little torpedo boat Winslow yesterday morning precipitated the first naval engagement fought in Cuban waters. On a reconnoissance in Cardenas harbor she drew the fire of three Spanish coast guard vessels, and a lively vest-pocket sea fight followed with the tiny gunboats. As the Winslow was decidedly in the minority, she made for the open sea, where her big station mate, the gunboat Machias, which had been called up by the firing, took a hand in the fight with her four-inch rifles, and tossed several shells over the low sand pit, behind which the Spanish boats were sheltered. It was impossible to see whether any of these landed on the boats. The Winslow was not touched, but she claims to have knocked a few splinters out of the larger coast guard boat. The most important result of the Winslow’s reconnoissance was the discovery that Cardenas harbor is mined. If there were any batteries on shore, the Spaniards did not think it worth while to disclose their position. That there are mines in the channel is important, in view of the report that it is Cardenas and not Matanzas where the landing of United States forces will be made.

The fight with the guardia costas occurred yesterday morning. Cardenas is one of the largest bays along the coast, the little town of the same name lying at the southern end. From the western shore Iccicas point reaches out like a long index finger, almost touching Piedras key light, which, in peaceful days, beaconed the harbor entrance. The lighthouse has been in darkness and deserted for many nights. J eeling safe in the desolation of the lighthouse and the silence ashore, the little Winslow crept quietly in under the early morning haze for a closer inspection of the harbor. There had evidently been a lookout about the dunes along the sand pile, for the Winslow was allowed to feel her way into the harbor, taking notice of changed buoys and false marks designed to lead a hostile fleet on to torpedo fields. But suddenly there was a puff of smoke from among the Mangrove clumps along one of the inlets, and a six-pound shell screeched out of the bushes. Crack, came another from the shelter of a tiny key in the hay, and a third from further down the coast. Then three coast guard boats darted from thetr cover, under a full head of steam, like a big pike after a minnow. The Winslow’s crew Jumped to the two-pounders fore and aft and let the Spaniards have It, port and starboard, as they chased in. The little gunboats came along shooting, but, after the usual Spanish fashion, hit nothing but the adjacent scenery. Then the Winslow scudded along for the open sea. using her after gun as a stern chaser and shooting as she went along. The Spanish boats wasted sixty shots, and the biggest boat, mounting a twelve-pounder, kept up the bombardment as long as the Winslow was in range. The Spaniards, who had probably heard the news from Manila, were evidently as mad as a nest of hornets and kept up the chase until all four of the little craft were rocking in the swell past Piedras keys. Just then there was a crash and a roar to seaward, and the Machias, bearing in under a canopy of smoke, sent a shell smashing into the pursuing fleet. The little patrol boats spun about like water spiders and ran to shelter beyond the sand pile. The Machias sent a few' shells skipping in between the sand dunes, but with what effect could not be seen. At any rate, there are three additions to our prospective fleet bottled in Cardenas harbor awaiting shipment. REFUGEES FROM HAVANA. Women Flee from tlie Starvin* City on a. French War Sloop. (Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.) ON BOARD THE DISPATCH BOAT KATE SPENCER, off Havana, May 8, via Key West. Fla.. May 10.—The French sloop of war Fulton, a school ship, passed out of Havana harbor about 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon unmolested by the blockading fleet. The American war ships lying outside closed in on her when she was spied in the offing, and the Mayflower, temporarily flying the admiral’s pennant, passed close enough to her to examine her with marine glasses. The Mayflower dipped her flag and the Fulton returned the salute. The Mayflower then sign •'led to the other ships and they all hauku eff and gave the Frenchman a wide berth. The Associated Press dispatch boat ran alongside the Fulton w’ithin easy hailing distance. Aboard the French vessel were quite a number of Spanish refugees, who crowded up to the rails. Several of them were women, evidently of the wealthy class, judging from their apparel. There were doubtless some French citizens among the refugees, but the majority were unquestionably Spanish. The Kate Spencer saluted tlie tri-color as she passed under the Fulton’s stern and the salute was acknowledged. Seme of the sailors swung their caps above their heads, but the refugees at the rails locked sullen and made no sign. The Fulton headed westsouthwest, probably bound for Vera Cruz, Mexico. The officers of the blockading fleet are very much chagrined because the French line steamer Lafayette was allowed to enter Havana harbor last Friday, as they are convinced that she carried arms and munitions of war, but, as one of them remarked: “Uncle Sam can afford to be generous, as no amount of contraband of war can help Spain now." The courtesy asked by the Frnech government was that the Lafayette be allowed to land 150 passengers. A vigilant watch is being kept and when she leaves Havana she will be required to show affirmatively that her cargo is unbroken. Failing in that she may yet become a subject for the prize court.

TWO MORE PRIZES. Fishing Schooner and a Norwegian Steamer, tlie Latter a. “Suspect.” KEY WEST, Fla., May 10.—The Spanish fishing schooner Fernandito and the Norwegian steamer Bratsberg arrived here this morning. The Spanish boat was captured by the Vicksburg yesterday morning while trying to make Havana harbor on her way from Yucatan. She has a crew of six men. The Bratsberg is a cattle steamer, and left here a few days ago. She was acting suspiciously and was apparently attempting to run the blockade into Havana, when she was stopped and turned back. The Mangrove convoyed her to this port in company with the Fernandito, which had a prize crew aboard, arriving here early this morning. The case of the Bratsberg bears many features of resemblance to that of the French steamer Lafayette but, like that case, it will be settled without any international complications. About two weeks ago the Bratsberg, bound from Progrese, Mexico, for Havana, with MM) head of cattle, was warned off the Cuban coast by the blockading fleet. She put into this port and remained a couple of days, when she sailed, ostensibly for New York to find a market for the cattle. She was piloted out of this harbor April 27 and was not seen again until yesterday morning, when the gunooat Newport sighted her about twenty-live miles off Havana. Capt. Tilley knew she had once been warned off, and, observing that she was floating easily and with cattie pens apparently empty, he haiied and boarued her. Captain Thorson stoutly denied that he was attempting to slip past the blockade, but he could not satisfactorily explain the disposition of his cargo and was sent in under the Mangrove’s escort, in company with the fishing smack i ernandito, taken by the Vicksburg off Havana yesterday. The Mangrove reported that all was quiet about Havana when she left that harbor, the Cuban blockade causes only cursory interest here now. Everybody is waiting for news from Rear Admiral Sampson. There is a great deal of sorrow here over tne lllnesH of Chaplain Chidwick, formerly ot the battle ship Maine, and now of the cruiser Cincinnati. He is confined to the Marino Hospital with an attack of erysipelas, but his condition is not at all serious. The report that the Spanish fleet has returned to Cadiz has been received with satislaetion by naval men here. The Norwegian steamer Bratsberg, it was announced to-night, will be released. United States District Attorney Stripling said that she could not be held. British Steamer Warned. (Copyright, 1898, b.v the Associated Press.) ON BOARD THE DISPATCH BOAT KATE SPENCER, off Cardenas, May 9, via Key West, Fla., May 10.—The British tramp steamer Strathdee, Captain Currie, attempted to run the blockade yesterday, but was overhauled by the gunboat Machias. The captain of the Strathdee claimed that the vessel was loaded with sugar and that he had on board a number of Spanish refugees from Sagua la Grande. 'He also said that the steamer was bound for Matanzas, where it was desired to disembark the refugees. The commander of the Machias was skeptical of this story, however, and warned the captain of the Strathdee that if he attempted to take the vessel into Matanzas she would be fired upon whereupon the Strathdee put about and steamed away in the direction of New York. Blanco Misleading tlie People. MOBILE, Ala., May 10.—Gustavo de Cardinos, a prominent Cuban of this city, received the following letter from Havana yesterday dated April 26: “The Spanish are celebrating the victory of the capture of four American ports—Mobile, Boston. Charleston and Pensacola. Blanco has given a very large banquet to the army and navy. The city is gayly decorated and thousands of people in procession. The city is wild with enthusiasm.” The letter is from a lady friend of Senor Cardinos, who inquires apprehensively if the facts are as alleged by Blanco. TIIE MATTER OF ENLISTING. No Reflection on Militiamen Wlio Do Not Want to Go to War. Washington Post. It seems to us that there were very good reasons for refusing to accept militia regiments as wholes in organizing the volunteer army, and we can see excellent reason why many members of such regiments as the New York Seventh and Thirteenth should have declined the proposed arrangement. There has been much gossip in connection with this matter, and many rowdy mob demonstrations—especially in the case of the Thirtet nth—but all that proves nothing in the estimation of respectable and fair-minded people. The same argument that applies to the New York militia can be invoked with equal

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propriety in the case of our own District National Guard., The fact is, simply, that there is no occasion why any militia organization should be called out in its entirety. In each one there are great numbers of men who cannot leave their civil occupations and responsibilities without serious loss and inconvenience, and we are confronted by no emergency which call* for or would justify such personal sacrifices. No one doubts that, with the safety of the country at stake, every member of the National Guard, not only in New York, but everywhere throughout the land, would rally at the first call of the government. We have so much faith in our citizen soldiery as to believe that they are animated by the highest spirit of loyalty and patriotism. But no such emergency exists. Thera is no need for a tenth or even a twentieth part of our fighting material, and no reason, therefore, why the whole of any militia body should be called out or should be put- in a. position of embarrassment by the government’s mere offer to receive It In bulk with its organization Intact. Under either arrangement thousands of men in every part of the country would be subjected to a most cruel alternative—that of incurring the contempt of their fellows by a refusal or of making ruinous and useless sacrifices .of private interests by enlisting. Thousands would be plunged into a disastrous predicament through false pride, through fear of hostile criticism. Othenl thousands, their dependents and their helpil less families, would be made the martyr* of a foolish and cruel blunder. We think the government has gone about it in the right way, assigning to each State its quota of volunteers and receiving these only as individuals to be arranged and utilized as may seem best. In this way there is no real responsibility imposed upon any one, and all are left free to act according to their respective preferences and obligations. It is absurd to suppose that any one is required to make serious personal sacrifices at this stage of affairs, to leav* his family helpless or to abandon his business to irreparable ruin The President ha* called for only 125,000 volunteers, and he ha* already received about 700,000 application* for enlistment. The Nation is in no sort of danger. There is no crisis in our destiny. The call has been responded to six times over. Why should men who are more needed at home than at the front yield to a stupid and senseless clamor when the government does not need them and when no rational construction of patriotic duty includes them in. tho present scheme of action? We fail to imagine a sensible affirmative reply to this inquiry. AMUSEMENTS. The Waynes and their company will change their bill this afternoon at the Park to Frederick Bryton’s well-known play, “Forgiven.” When Bryton first brought this drama out its title was “Jack o’ Diamonds.” This was afterwards changed to “Forgiven” and the play became famous. It will be presented to-day and to-morrow. Maude Granger’s comedy “Inherited” will be given Friday and “A Klondike King” Saturday. W. B. Gross has arrived ahead of “Shore Acres.” Mr. Gross has been with Mr. Herne ever since the first production of this beautiful play. The advance sale will open at the Pembroke Monday. “Shore Acres” will be at the Grand the last half of next week. The demand for seat* to Nat Goodwin’* two performances at English’s Saturday indicates that this leading American comedian is one of the most popular that come to Indianapolis. "An American Citizen” will he given at the matinee and “A Gilded Fool” will close the engagement Saturday night. E. 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