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nary hospital tents will he erected In the northeast corner of the state fair grounds, where the regiment will be quartered on its arrival home. Dr. Runnels has prepared a list of everything needed in caring for those who are ill, and everything is to be provided that is usually required in a first-class hospital. Three trained nurses will be in constant attendance on the patients. Each man will have a comfortable cot, with sheets, .pillows and a blanket. The three regimental •surgeons will co-operate with Dr. Runnels In taking care of the men. A number of ladies are arranging to serve the regiment with lunch as soon as it arrives at the fair ground. Each man will be given a box containing a good meal. Luncheon for the Soldiers. The Soldiers’ Aid Society met at St. Paul’s Church yesterday morning and transacted business. When it was learned later that the soldiers were to he furloughed instead of mustered out it was decided to reconsider the business at a meeting to be held In the eame place this morning. It was decided yesterday to serve a hot luncheou in Tomljiison Hall. Turned Over to Their Captnln. The four colored men from Camp Mount arrested in the city on Monday for riotous conduct were yesterday turned over to Captain Buckner, who says they will be tried by court-martial. ♦ NO LENIENCY FOR MARKS. Soldiers of the One-Hnndred-and-Slx-tleth Making Charges Against Him. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEXINGTON. Ky.. with the One-hun-dri'd-and-sixtieth Indiana, Aug. 30.—Company C set the pace for the regiment in the matter of a cook shed and dining room, those features of camp life being provided for excellently by Captain Marks’s men. All others In the regiment are now fixed with well-arranged frame kitchens and floored dining halls, protected frdm the rains. Captain Derr, Company F, was officer of the day Monday, and Captain Marks, Company C, went on duty in his place to-day. A cave Is visited daily by the soldiers. It Is said the cavorn had not been entered before for many years. The enterprising Hoositrs were ready for adventure, and many have seen the ends of the underground passages. In one recess a dummy was found hanging to startle chance callers. Many passages are miles in length. The general court-martial has not yet been called. Among the cases to come before it by far the most inportant is the sensational matter of Capt. Thomas R. Marks, the young commander of Company C, of Lafayette. Upon twelve counts he is charged by his men with conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The only penalty in a case of this kind is dismissal. It is said that ninety-seven of the men of Company C signed a request addressed to Captain Marks, in which he was asked to resign his commission. This united demand was made after a series of alleged abuses and a-period of alleged bad treatment. The refused to <lo as the men wished, and charges were filed while the regiment was at Newport News. At that place no general court-martial convened, and the matter went over until such a time as one could be called together. There are bright and earnest young men pushing the case, and they propose to see that the case goes through. Profanity and personul violence are specified in a dozen distinct instances. The charges are strong In tone. In some quarters there is a tendency to drop the ease on the ground that It wifi be useless to publicly disgrace the officer just previous to the mustering out of the regiment, but the members of Company C, encouraged by friends at home, will not be thrown from their course, and the charges will have to stand. Capt. Joseph R. Harrison, of Company G, Is one of the most popular men In the regiment, He has stood with the men all through their attempts to express themselves upon the question of mustering out. Other officers have been in sympathy with the boys, but have refused to publicly express themselves. Captain Brunn, of Company E, destroyed the petition signed by his men, but a duplicate copy was then ready lor the mail. •Other commanders refused to allow papers to be signed, but their commands did not deter the soldiers. When Colonel Culver leaves with his Fifth Illinois boys Colonel Gunder will command the brigade. The State of Indiana will be called upon for 1.200 bed sacks for the One-hundred-and-sixtleth. This regiment has no prisoners in the provost guardho.use in the city. In the guardhouse there is a rare collection of unruly soldiers from the Bowery, the Missouri anil Kentucky hills, the Green mountains and from the rough factory towns of Massachusetts. The guards have much trouble with the lawbreaker, and many vicious ons have been bucked and gagged before they were subdued. The guard In the One-hundred-and-six-tleth has just been provided with quarters after a week without shelter. G. S. COL. HARRY SMITH AS SENTRY. Interesting Letter from the Old Second Regiment at Knoxville. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CAMP POLAND, Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. tO.—The One-hundred-and-flfty-eighth Indiana Volunteers is now comfortably quartered at this place, and everybody is pleased with the change. Chiekamauga was all right, but constant going over the same ground and seeing the same things over and over brought on a sense of weariness and unrest, rendering any proposed change a welcome one. We are comfortably situated hero up m a hill where there is a fine cool breeze. It is counted one of the most healthy places in the country. The hospital, from which place I write, contains a number of One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth boys suffering from slight touches of malarial fever. The hospital is a house with a big, long hall for the cots. There are no sides to the hall, so we have plenty of fresh air. Quartermaster Hopkins comes over frequently, both his helpers, Sergeant Bridges and Clerk Johnson, being on the siek list. I think Lieutenant Hopkins one of the best men that ever lived. He will give up the last thing he has la the world for a siek friend. We have floors in our tents, water handy avd only have guard mount and dress parade. No other drills. It is not hard to get a pass to town, so we will have a pleasant time here. The food is good, particularly so in the hospital, where soups and milk take the place of regulation fare. There are plenty of nurses, who seem to understand their business. There Is a good joke on somebody here. Yesterday a member of our regiment came to the hospital for some quinine for a companion, and an attendant, thinking him sick, put him to bed. He has been here ever since making things lively by cutting up all sorts of monkeyshines when the nurses’ bucks are turned, running around snaking a regular monkey of himself. His actions have a better effect on the patients than all the medicine that cun be given them. Just before leaving Chiekamauga we had- another shirttail parade, with Col. Harry B. Smith at the head of the procession. The night was made hideous with the rattling of tin pans as the brigade made the rounds waking up all the soldiers in camp. Colonel Smith Is not ufraid to get out among the boys and have some fun. Everybody in camp likes him. He takes a joke with becoming grace and always manage* to have his share of the fun out of It. A few days ago an old farmer who had lost some chickens came into camp and informed the colonel that his men were foraging and had been feasting off his chickens. The colonel promptly expressed his regrets and told the furmtr to search the tents and if the fowls were found the occupants of the tent would be required to pay for them. After a long search the fanner found the missing chickens in the tent of Colonel Smith. This raised a great laugh at the colonel'll expense, In which he heartily Joined. The scamp who had stolen the chickens made a hue double play by screening himself from the Job and getting a Joke on the commanding officer by placing the •’swag’’ in the latter’s tent. Though lenient and Jovial with the boys at all times, Col. Smith never permits any remissness In discipline. <-’ne day he found a guard on duty without his full equipment and asked him where his poncho was. The guard replied that it wax in his tent. ’’Give me that gun,’* said the colonel, “and you ’go get tumciio.’* it was raining pitchfork* at

the time, but the colonel took the guard’s place and walked the beat tor half an hour until the return of the sentinel. The spectacle of the colonel doing guard duty struck the men as quite funny and the whole regiment gathered as an audience. The other officers tried to trip him up on the requirements of the position, but he fooled them all by going through every maneuver successfully, even to repeating the long order that every guard is required to commit to memory. J. e COL. BARNETT’S MEN Are Now nt Camp Meade, Pa., lint Want to Come Home. Correspondence of the Journal. CAMP MEADE, Pa., headquarters One-hundred-anrt-fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, Aug. 29.—After one month of the worst “soldiering" a command ever experienced, the One-hundred-and-flfty-ninth is once more in camp in a most beautiful site In the midst of Camp Meade. The men of the regiment are happy at escaping from Virginia and will relish a short rest in the present camp. It is located upon a high point of land perfectly adapted to drainage. The departure from Thoroughfare was made Sunday morning in three sections. The Pennsylvania handled the trains nicely and the run was made to Harrisburg before dark, the trains being an hour apart. Owing to the delay in the Harrisburg yards the men remained in the cars until morning and marched out to camp at 9 o’clock. The trip was made without accident. The leading incident of the trip occurred when Maj. McAuliff, who was in command of the second section, ran across a negro who pretended to be selling lunch to the men and in reality was selling whisky. The major ordered upa detail to have the man ejected from the train, but before the detail came up he tired the "coon” single handed, throwing his boxes after him. On the first section a couple of Company E men became involved in a fight and were turned over to the civil authorities at York, one of the stopping places. The men are all delighted with the new caffip. If the other camps had been selected with the same sort of judgment there is no doubt tut the men would have been less anxious to rush out of the service. The men who were left at Camp Alger and who set up the present camp were pleased to see the regiment march in, as they have been short of rations for weeks. Captain Starr has had charge of the detachment. Lieutenant Colonel McCoy has gone to Reading, Pa., on a short leave of absence. No further orders have been received regarding the muster out of the regiment. It has been announced unofficially that tho One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth wifi be sent to Indiana this week, but it is not thought to be true. It seems to be the general opinion that the command cannot be mustered out within a fUrortf r time than six weeks. All of the work incident to the muster out could be done as well in Indiana as at Camp Meade. G* W. B. ♦ STL DEBAR HR'S MEN ON THE WAY. Bringing' Back Two More Dead Private* of Company B. FERNANDINA, Fla.. Aug. 30.—T0-day the One-hundred-and-fifty-seventh Indiana Regiment left for Indianapolis, where they are to be mustered out of the service. They carried on their train the bodies of William A. Snyder and Clinton M. Lovell, both members of Company B, of Fort Wayne, who died last night. Soldier Falls In the Street. CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—At the corner of Clark and Washington streets, a fpw steps from the City Hall, in sight of hundreds of hurrying people, Private Ernest Hudson, of the Second United States Cavalry, fainted and fell. A cable car nearly ran into him as he lay with his face on the pavement, and a heavy wagon was stopped just in time by a policeman. Hudson was returning home from Montauk Point on a furlough. When he arrived here he found his family had moved from this city during his absence in Cuba, and he was on his way to a railroad depot when lie became exhausted. He was taken to the county hospital, where physicians said lie had a bad case of typhoid. Hudson enlisted at Chiekamauga and served In the Santiago campaign. NASHVILLE’S $500,000 FIRE. Big Blaze Broke Oat In Stove and Tinware House. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 30.—Fire broke out at 2:10 o’clock this morning in the fifth floor of the large establishment of the Phil-lips-Buttoroff Manufacturing Company, dealers in stoves and tinware on College street, and spread rapidly, destroying this building and those occupied by A. J. Warren, furniture dealer; Phillips & Stevenson, stoves and tinware, and the Davis Printing Company. The building occupied by the American National Bank was considerably damaged by tire and water. The loss is estimated at 1500,000 and is covered by insurance. The loss sustained by the PhillipsButtoroff Manufacturing Company on stock and building is estimated at $175,000; A. J. Warren, loss on stock, $25,000; loss on building, S32.CCO; Phillips & Stevenson, loss on stock, $26,000; American National Bank, loss on building, $20,000; Davie Printing Company, loss on stock, $4,000; J. M. Head, loss on Phillips & Stevenson building, $20,000. These losses are pretty well covered by insurance. Dry Goods iu Ashes. AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. The dry goods store of Philip Hatziield, the largest of its kind in this section of the State, was destroyed by tire to-day. Loss, about $135,000; insurance, SBS,CCO. YELLOW JACK NEWS. Surgeon General Wyman Receive* Encouraging Reports. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Dr. Wyman, surgeon general of the Marine Hospital Service, has received encouraging yellow lever news from Key West and Galveston. At the former place no new cases have developed within the last three or four days, and he is of the opinion that no fever casts exist there now. There are no new cases reported at Galveston and the quarantine established against the city has been raised, but it is continued against Fort Point, where the troops are quartered. Altogether the situation is very satisfactory. News of another yellow fever case at Franklin, La., reached Dr. Wyman to-day. It was that of a physician wno attended the other cases which have occurred there. This additional case, however is not considered at all grave, as the source of it is traceable. Fever Raging at Tampico. AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 30.—Assistant State Health Officer Daniels to-day received information to the effect that a third case of yellow fever had appeared at Franklin, La., the victim being the physician who waited on the case of Hobson, who was the first person to develop the fever at that point this season with fatal results. The nurse also died. Dr. Daniels also received information to-day that the fever is raging ax Tampico, Mexico, in a virulent form, 75 per cent, of the cases having been fatal. New Yellow Fever Outbreak. VICKSBURG, Miss.. Avg. 30.—A telephone message to the Herald to-night from Jackson says Dr. H. A. Gant, State health inspector, to-night rtptrled to the State board of health that he has discovered four cases of what appears to be yelllow fever at Orwood, a small village in Lafayette county. Orwood has been quarantined ana the cases isolated and guarded ut a house in tho country. Telegrams were sent by the State boards of health of all the Southern States and inspectors placed on all the trains on the Ulionis Central read. Movement* of Steamer*. NEW YORK. Aug. 30.—Sailed: Cymric, for Liverpool: Scale, for Bremen; State of Nebraska. for Glasgow. Arrived: Werkendam, from Rotterdam LIVERPOOL. Aug. 29.-Arrived: Rhynland, from Philadelphia. Salle!: Sylvanin, for Boston. SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. FA - Arrived: Trave, from New York. BREMEN, Aug. 30.—Arrived Munchen, from Baltimore. BOULOGNE, Aug. 30.— Arrived: Maasdam, from New r York. GLASGOW. Aug. 30.—Arrived Furnessia, from New York. CHRISTIANA, Aug. 26.-Sail*d: Hekla, for New York. NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Arrival: Steamer Southwark, from Antwerp; Pemland, from Southampton.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1898.

TORPEDOES IN THE NILE - ♦ DERVISHES PREPARING TO ENTERTAIN ANGLO-EGYPTIAN ARMY. —♦ Member of Chinese Foreign Office Upbraid* England for Permitting Ramian Aggreion. ————♦ CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 30.—A brigade of friendly Arabs, commanded by Major Stuart Wortley. it is announced in a dispatch from Wad-el-Obeid, published yesterday, which has been pushing round Omdurman, the Dervish camp near Khartoum, with the view of cutting off the retreat of the forces of the Khalifa, had its first brush with the enemy on the east bank of the Nile and captured five men and a grain-laden boat. The Dervish scouts, the dispatch continues, are now frequently sighted and the whole Anglo-Egyptian army has reached Omteriff, thirty miles from Omdurman. It will move into anew camp ten miles further south to-day. The gunboat Melik has been wrecked while reconnoitering ten miles up the river in a terrific sandstorm. The Khalifa, according to a dispatch received to-day from Wad-el-Obeid, has laid torpedoes in the Nile below Omdurman and a large Dervish force is issuing from Kerreri, about eight miles north of Omdurman, to meet the Anglo-Egyptian advance. CHINA GOING TO PIECES. Home Office Admit* the Fnct* and Scold* England. PEKING, Aug. 30.—A high member of the Tsung-Li-Yamen (Chinese Foreign Office), who is a British sympathizer, complained in the course of a recent interview that Great Britain's assurances of support against Ruslan aggression were belated. “Why,” asks this functionary, “withhold such a declaration until Russia has secured Port Arthur and France obtained considerable concessions in the south. The disintegration of the empire has begun; and today the necessity tor strong action is less urgent than when Russia first obtained a foothold." He admitted that China had broken her promises to England; but this, he argued, was because Russian pressure was too strong to be resisted. He complained of “British ignorance of Russia’s line of action,” end asked "why does not England approach Russia directly with a declaration that Russia’s interference in China will be regarded as ea: us belli? It is useless to punish helpless China and to participate in the disintegration of the empire. The Tsung-Li-Yamen prefers that British influence should be paramount, but it is unable to do anything unless England helps, with sword In hand.” Chinese Rebel* Approaeh Canton. HONG-KONG, Aug. 30.-The Kwang-Lting rebellion, which was quiescent for some time, shows signs of serious recrudescence. The rebels are in great force fifty miles northwest ol Canton and are preparing to attack the city. Tan, the viceroy of Lang-Kwang, protested against the surrender of Kwang-Chow to the French, and when the Foreign Office insisted upon the surrender, Tan telegraphed his resignation to Peking and has tendered his seals of office to the governor of Kwang-Lung. The viceroy of Canton, having failed to dispatch troops to suppress ihe rebellion in Hainan and protect the American missionaries, the United States consul at Canton has made strong representations to ihe acting viceroy reiterating his dernanu for the prompt suppression of the general disturbances. The uprisings appear to have been fomented by the Triad and White Lily societies, which have combined for the purpose. One of Zola’* Witnesses Arrested. PARIS, Aug. 30. Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who was one of the witnesses In the recent trial of En.ile Zola to contradict minor points of testimony given by Colonel Ficquarund, who was subsequently wounded in a duel with the latter officer, was arrested to-day and conducted to Ft. Yalereraine by order of the minister of war, Godefov Cavalgn. The arrest was the result of a discovery that Lieutenant Colonel Henry was the authoi of a letter involved in the Dreyfus ease. The papers say that owing to a letter from Colonel Picquart to M. Cavaignac, revealing matters which professional secrecy had hitherto prevented him divulging, the minister of war examined all the officers of the general staff on the Dreyfus affair. Lieutenant Colonel Henry, on being pressed with questions, confessed that he was the author of a letter which was one of three documents connected with the conviction of Dreyfus. Queen of Hollund Now Reigns. THE HAGUE, Aug. 30.-The Queen Regent of Holland, in a proclamation just issued, upon the occasion of the end of her regency, her daughter, Queen Wilhelmina, coming of age to-morrow', expresses warm pleasure at seeing the whole nation "ranged joyously around the throne of the young Queen.” thanks God that her dearest wish has been heard, and, after thanking the people for their loving and faithful support of herself, invokes God’s blessing on the youthful sovereign and concludes: “May our country become great in everything m which a small nation can be great.” Dig Needle Trust. LONDON, Aug. 30.—The St. James Gazette this afternoon says it is reported on the Stock Exchange that an Anglo-Ameri-can trust, to control the output and sale of sewing machine, knitting machine and all other kinds of needles, is being formed. Several American and two Midland nrms are reported to have sold their business to the combination. The capital, it. is further announced, will be £1.500,090 ($7,500,000), divided into preferred and ordinary stock. Crniser Sink* a, Schooner. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 30.—The British cruiser Cleopatra, belonging to the training squadron, has arrived here with the crew of the Norwegian schooner Livelig, which she reports having sunk in collision near Haven island. The Cleopatra put eighteen blue jackets on board the schooner in an effort to save that vessel, but she foundered so suddenly that six of the blue jackets were drevvned. Zion Congress Rank. BASLE. Switzerland, Aug. 30.—’The Zionist Congress, now in session here, decided to-day by an immense majority to establish a colonial bank, having a central office in London, with a capital of 2,900,C00 pounds sterling (SIO,OGO,O>X).) IN SIX WEEKS. (Concluded from First Page.) while the men had suffered a good deal at Camp Thomas, so far as he could judge from his own experience in the civil war they were certainly no worse off than the soldiers then engaged. ♦- COL. J. J. VAX HORNE*I)EAD. Velernn of First Cuban Expedition, Who Would Have Been Retired Soon. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 30.-Col. J. J. Vai Horne, of the Eighth Infantry, died at 4 o’tloek this morning at his home at Fort Russfil, of rheumatism of the heart. Col. Van I’orne hud completed arrangements to start for the East to-day to rejoin his regiment, after a leave of absence for a few weeks to recover from the effects of an accident on ship board off the coast of Cuba. r I he Eighth sailed with the first expedition sent to Cuba. Shortly after it arrived at Bniquiri General Shatter called a consultation of officers on board his ship. While returning to his ship and in a violent storm the ladder on which Colonel Van Horne was climbing loosened, and the officer was crushed between the ladder and the ship. From this accident Colonel Van Horne thought he hui almost completely recovered, but it is believed his death was the direct cause of . Colonel Van Horne was appointed to the Military Academy from Ohio July 1, 1854. By virtue of his age he would have retired in February next. He leaves a wife and five children. One son Is a lieutenant in the regulf r at my. Dcuth nt Fort McPherson. ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 30. -First Lieutenant John J. Bradley, of the Fifth Infantry, died to-day of typhoid fever in the general hospital at Fort McPherson. Lieutenant Bradley was formerly with

the Fourteenth Infantry at Fort McPherson, and on being promoted to the Fifth joined that command at Tampa, where he contracted typhoid fever. , He was brought to McPherson ten days ago. The lieutenant is a brother of Assistant Surgeon Bradley, major of volunteers, now on the hospital ship Relief. Two More Camp Alger Victims. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Two more soldiers, patients in the post hospital at Fort Myor, have* succumbed to typhoid fever. Thev are Privates John A. Boyd. Company E, Ninth Massachusetts, and George Neil, Company A, Sixth Pennsylvania. I Ohioan Die* at New York. ‘ NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-J. C. Winter, of Akron. 0., a private of Battery M. Fiftn United States Artillery, died of malarial fever at Fort Hancock, Sandy Hook, to-day. ♦ MURDERED BY NEGROES. Terrible Revenge on Quurterinuster Frank* ut Chiekamauga. AJjTOONA, Pa., Aug. 30. Soldiers passing through Altoona tell a strange story regarding the death of Quartermaster George B. Franks, of Company G, Twelfth New Y'ork Regiment. The regiment is encamped at Chattanooga. Because of the death of three hospital patients after drinking inilk sold by negroes living in the neighborhood the quartermaster of Company G would not allow the negroes to sell anything to his company. Friday night a gang of negroes caught Franks outside of the camp grounds, and after beating him nearly to death, threw him under a passing railroad train. Since then the guards have been ordered to shoot any negro who attempts to pass the camp lines. _4 WILL CARE FOR SICK SOLDIERS. Chivago Preparing; to Look After Cumpulgners Fannin a Through City. CHICAGO, Aug. 30.—The city health department is taking strong r, easures to give prompt aid to all sick soldiers passing each of the depots, and the police department has agreed to ret pond to all calls with ambulances. A movement is on foot to admit to the County Hospital here 150 of the sick soldiers of the First Illinois Cavalry, now at Fort Sheridan. Officers of the First Cavalry aux4'iiary and the Army and Navy League preented the subject to the county board in a written communication, representing that the l’ever victims coulfi not get as satisfactory treatment at the army post as in the city. Complaint from a Hoo*icr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. RICHMOND, lnd., Aug. 30.-Harry KennepOhi, of this city, in camp at Chickamauga, writes home as follows: “The articles about the surgeons and hospitals in Chiekamauga are worthy of notice. They are not a bit exaggerated. In our own company a fellow was taken sick and !ay in his tent all day with the thermometer at 100 in the shade, and not a doctor showed up to help him. We boys did all we could for him, but that was not much for a fellow as sick as he was. Finally a doctor came around and ordered him sent to the division hospital. Two days later he died of typhoid fever. Then, instead of making arrangements to have him burled, they placed him in the deaij ward and there he lay for nearly two days, covered with a sheet. As soon as Captain Phillips found out about it he made all haste to have him buried. When he went over to see the preparations for burial and they raised the sheet, a swarm of big green flies settled on the body, and the smell was awful. He had turned black. I could give you a dozen other cases just as bad. I don’t know what would become of us if it were not for our officers. When any of the boys get sick now they get them a furlough and send them home. If they have no home they are sent to the St. Vincent or Knights of Pythias Hospital at Chattanooga.” Ten More Deuel ut Camp WikolT, NEW Y'ORK, Aug. 30.—Ten soldiers died at Camp Wikoff to-day. They w T ere: Charles E. Chapin, sergeant, Company L, Second Massachusetts, died in an isolated tent, diagnosis refused; Fred Isueller, Company H, Eighth Infantry, typhoid fever; Murphy, Troop F, Second Cavalry, acute uraemia; unknown soldier, acute uraemia; William H. Newcomb, Company H, T.ven-ey-rtrst Infantry, typhoid fever, getting along well, but last night left his cot, walked into one of the kitchens, found a watermelon, ate ravenously of it and in a short time was dead; John G. Trouthard, Company K, Eighth Ohio, pernicious malaria; Earl Imraler, Company D, Eighth Ohio, typhoid fever; Victor E. Jolin, Company E, Third Infantry, dysentery, died in the detention hospital; W. A. Marshall, Company G, First Illinois, died in the harbor on transport Berlin; Private Waldron, Company A, First Illinois, typhoid fever.. The transports Berlin, San Marcos and Specialist arrived at Camp Wlkoif to-day, carrying soidier from Cuba and landed them. The Berlin had 886 men of the First Illinois Infantry, of whom 160 were sick. General Bates and staff were also on the Berlin. The San Marcos had 397 men on board, ninety-four of whom were siek. The Specialist carried Companies A, Second Artillery; A, First Artillery; F, Fourth Artillery, and F. Sixth Artillery. There were 118 men, only two of them heing sick. Little Sickness at the Presidio. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—Joseph Matthews, surgeon in charge of the division hospital at the Presidio, says that since the removal of the troops to Camp Merriam the health of the men has steadily improved. He denies that typhoid fever is epidemic, the cases being confined to a few companies. Surgeon Major J. A. Rafter, of the Twentieth Kansas, is pleased with the new quarters of the volunteers. He calls attention to the fact that there are only forty-nine sick in the regiment now, against 261 on July 16, when the men were at Camp Merritt. Tho experience of the Twentieth Kansas is typical of that In the Fifth lowa and First Tennessee. In all these regiments there has been a marked decline in the sick list since their removal to the Presidio. General Miller says the death rate is not high, only twenty-live soldiers out of 10,000 having died from natural causes during August. The Red Cross home for convalescents will be opened in a few days in charge of Miss Laura McKinstry, a young society woman of this city. The Oakland Red Cross Society has established a hospital at Piedmont across the bay from this city. Camp Meade Filling; Up. CAMP MEADE, Middletown, Pa., Aug. 30. —Oney Eagan, private, Company H, Second Tennessee, was brought here to-day from Memphis. He is charged with desertion and will be tried by court martial. General Graum has brigaded the First Connecticut, First Rhode Island and Second Tennessee. The muster-out rolls of the Sixth Pennsylvania have bten prepared and the regiment is awaiting orders to move to Mount Gretna to be mustered out. The Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment came in to-day from Camp Alger and was followed to-night by the Eighth Pennsylvania. The recruits of the Thirty-third and Thir-ty-fourth Michigan have been ordered to join their regiments at Isle Lake, Mich., on their arrival from Thoroughfare Gup. The Seventh Illinois has been ordered to Springneld to be mustered out. Not Starving ut Fort McPherson. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—The surgeon in charge of the hospital at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, reports to the surgeon general that the six hundred patients there are being well cared for. He has seventy-one female nurses and plenty of ice, milk and other things and a fund of $2,000 to expend for anything that may be needed. Any reports of starving, he says, must have come from some typhoid convalescent, who was not allowed all he wanted to eat by the surgeon's orders so as to prevent a severe reiapse. Will Move from Texas. ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 30.—General Pennington, commander of the Department of the Gulf, has advised the artillery companies at Galveston, Tex., that he will move them Into a camp further north. The men are very much afraid of yellow fever and have asked to be moved. .A few of the men wifi be left for a guard. Bedding; on flic Man Marcos. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—A dispatch from Surgeon Borden ut Montauk Point to the siugeon general denies the report that the sick on the Bsn Marcos had no bedding except blankets. He says all the sick had mattresses, pillows and blankets. When He Got Ready. Chicago Post. Dewey has discovered the end of that cable. W* felt sure that he would find it just as soon as his job was completed.

GEN. BLANCO’S BIRTHDAY GIVES fSOO TO THE POOR II HAVANA AID IS APPLAUDED. Paper* on the Inland Ridicule Saguita for Hi* Bonnt About Handling the/Cortes— Inland lew*. HAVANA, Aug. 30, 9 p. m.—Ha Lucha, commenting editorially this afternoon upon Senor Sagasta's intention to prevent the Cortes discussing the incidents and results of the war and to forbid the press to publish the parliamentary debates, criticises this attitude strongly and condemns Sagasta’s "autocracy and absolutism.’’ l.a Lacha says: "The Sultan of Morocco pales into insignificance In comparison with the Spanish premier. Nevertheless it must be admitted that in the present state of affairs Senor Sagasta’s policy of muzzling the country and the press is the only one that could possibly succeed in maintaining the consolidation and unity of the country.” General Pando, chief of staff to General Blanco, who lately returned from a voyage to Mexico and other Central and South American countries, where he went on a secret mission to arouse sympathy for Spain, will return to Madrid to-morrow. He maintains strict reserve as to the results of his mission. His post here will be occupied by General Solano. To-moriow will be General Blanco’s birthday. He celebrated it in advance by a gift of SSOO, to be used in the purchase of relief for distribution among the local charitable institutions. His generosity is much applauded. Havana business houses and private citizens subscribed during the blockade the sum of $500,0u0 toward the improvement of the navy, but the opportunity to utilize the fund in that way having passed, a meeting was held yesterday to consider appropriating the fund to the erection of anew and magnilicent Spanish club. Opinions as to this proposal differ widely, the subscribers who are to remain here being in favor of the project, but those who are expecting to return considering such a proposal as unfair to the Spanish. The papers are greatly agitated as to the disposition of the remains of Columbus, and it is understood that the Duke of Veragua, the only living descendant of the discoverer of America, will request the privilege of removing them from the Havana Cathedral and carrying them to Spain, there to deposit them with the remains of other illustrious Spaniards. The general impression is that the remains are not to be included in the surrender. Recent advices from Candelaria report a state of dreadful distress, the result of fevers and scarcity of food caused by ’he blockade. Within a stone’s throw of the town the insurgent General, Pedro Diaz, is encamped with a thousand men; but as yet they have not solicited food. Chief La Hoz is encamped just outside San Cristobal, whose inhabitants take the men supplies. Several insurgent leaders in the province of Plnar del Rio have issued circulars guaranteeing law and order and promising safety to all who will return to their lields and farms. The Cubans in that province have set an example, which will surely be followed elsewhere. ♦ CUBAN CIVIL GOVERNOR. Dr. Doming no* y Roldan Expects to Have Charge of Havana. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Although Havana is not yet evacuated by the Spaniards, the Cubans have named their civil authorities. Senor Gonzalo de Quesada, charge d'affairs of the Cuban republic at Washington, has received, in a report from the Cuban government, a proclamation to the peo-ple-of Havana, issued and signed by Dr. Francisco Dominguez y Roldan, in his selfassumed official capacity as civil governor of Havana and issued a proclamation as follows: "The war is ended. The independence of Cuba, the aim of our revolution, is a fact, but the victory which we have gained in this heroic struggle would be lost if we did not present as fundamental principles of our nationality, harmony and fraternity among all the Cubans. "In the work of establishing more firmly in our fatherland the republican institutions Chiba asks the aid of all her sons. With the aptitudes, virtues and services of all, the ideal of Cespedes and Marti wiH become a reality. Let us all unite in fraternal embrace and, respecting the laws, let us proceed to the reconstruction of our beloved Cuba. “DR. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ Y ROLDAN, Civil Governor of Havana.” The self-appointed civil governor of Havana is likely to rtnd himself unseated when the Cuban military commission finishes its work of providing for the evacuation of Cuba and an American military governor is named, pending the establishment of a stable government. Major General Rodriguez, tho Cuban commander of the military department of the west, has issued an order to his troops as follows: ‘‘The Cuban troops, under strictest penalty, will abstain from destroying any buildings or injuring trees or awnings or taking anything which does not serve to equip the army. The forces may take the fruit of the trees and the products where they are not vegetables. All sugar plantations, villages and buildings will be protected from destruction at the hands of Spaniards. In case the enemy abandons sugar plantations or hamfets, the commanding officer shall destroy fortifications, if he considers it necessary, and give guaranty and protection to the peaceful inhabitants.” Left Gomez'* Canqi on Order*. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—The facts as known at the War Department in reference to the departure of Lieutenant Johnston and his detachment from the camp of General Gomez do not correspond with the reports telegraphed from Havana and published this morning. When the Wanderer sailed from the’Florida coast on her last trip with supplies for Gomez and the Cubans she carried orders to Lieutenant Johnston to remove his detachment and return to the United States. The orders were not made public at the time because the war was not over at that time and it was not deemed prudent to allow the Spaniards to know that a detachment of United States soldiers were about to take ship for the United States, and because general secrecy was maintained regarding expeditions to the Cubans until they were accomplished. It is stated that Lieutenant Johnston withdrew from Gomez’s camp on direct orders from the War Department. Clara Barton Rebuffed. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Advices received at the State Department to-day are to the effect that Miss Clara Barton, of the National Red Cross, arrived at Havana yesterday on the steamer Clinton No. 2, with supplies for the starving inhabitants of that country, and that the Spanish authorities at Havana refused to allow the supplies to be landed and imposed a tine of SSOO upon the master of the relief ship because he had no manifest. The matter is now under consideration by the authorities here, and steps will be taken to secure tho landing of the suplies and remission of the line. The absence of the manifest is not explained. The vessel cleared from Santiago for Havana. Mail Service to Havana. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—An order was issued to-day directing the resumption ot contract mail service on Monday next between Tampa. hia., and Havana, via Key West. The vessel on this line had been during hostilities making trips to Key West three times a week. The service to Key West and Havana for the present will be semi-weekly. Will Go to Havana with Wade. WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—The following officers have been ordered to accompany General Wade, president of the Cuban military commission, to Havana: Major W. E. Almy, Capt. J. B. Foraker, Major C. J. Allison, Capt. L. C. Grlscom, Capt. Joy Cook, Capt. Juan S. Hart. Joh for Lee’* Ex-Secretary. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Ernest Tosca, who has been connected with the Havana consulate for six years and who was Gen. Lee's secretary for three years, has been designated to go to Havana with the Cuban

military commission as one of its secretaries. COLLIERIES STILL IDLE. Superintendent Refuse* to Grant Demand of the Striker*. HAZLETON, Pa.. Aug. 30.—A committee of miners, representing the foreigners employed at the Coleraine colliery, held a conference this afternoon with Superintendent Roderick. The men demanded the reinstatement of a discharged laborer and the discharge of the foreman, who dismissed him; stoppage of collections by the company for the company doctor; the employment of none but union men and the adjustment of a wage scale agreed upon last fall, but altered during the winter by order of the late A. S. Van Wyekle. owner of the mine. Superintendent Roderick refused to grant any of the demands and the committee, reinforced by a member of the United Mineworkers, summoned from the Mllnesville colliery, also operated by the Van Wyekle interests, then withdrew. Everything was quiet about the mines to-day. Superintendent Roderick stated to-night that the company will win this strike if it takes six months to settle it. If the men do not return to work the collieries affected will porbably be closed down for an Indefinite period. The English-speaking miners are not concerned in the movement at all, but fear to return to work lest they be violently dealt with. “NOT GUILTY.” (Concluded from First Page.) has detailed a physician from his office at jectlve point. There were doubtless imperfections in the details of his campaign, but I do not believe that the criticisms of men who did not actively take part in that campaign will carry weight. I do not know who is going to get the worst of this controversy .which General Miles has started, but somebody will get hurt. General Miles has thrown a lot of bricks up in the air and they are going to fall on somebody's head. When they drop he may have to do some dodging himself. It is painfully evident that the whole unsavory business will have an airing. When a man steps out of a second story window he is going to get action. It may not bo the kind of action he wants, but proceedings will be lively while they last.” It is intimated around the War Department this afternoon that in the return fire upon General Miles an attempt will be made to show that he was responsible for the failure to give General Shatter the artillery backing that he had expected, and that it is broadly intimated in that quarter that the commanding general was inspired to initiate the fight in order to divert attention from impending disclosures about this artillery failure. COURT-MARTIAL FOR MILES’. Alger’s Men Preparing the Case Prior to the Arrival of the General. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Officials of the War Department are preparing for a court of inquiry with the ultimate object of having a court-martial of Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. The rules, regulations and articles governing the army have been carefully studied by selected men and their work is about completed. One of the leading congressional supporters of the secretary of war and his administration to-day said that he had seen the law pointed out and significantly added: ”1 hope that General Miles is not guilty of those Interviews." This statement corroborates the Information published several day3 ago that the War Department would give General Miles the opportunity of denying the statement he has been credited with making before any official action would be publicly taken. It is still thought by General Miles’s friends that he has opened the battle himself. When General Miles returns to Washington he will be asked for an explanation of recent interviews with him appearing and the publication of certain dispatches which the War Department has not made public. Whether the investigation will take the course r.f a military court of inquiry Qr of a private interview between the President, tho Secretary of War and General Miles remains yet to be seen. Until the arrival of General Miles the War Department will not discuss the matter. Secretary Alger says that the department will not enter into any controversy witii its subordinates, and he does not propose to discuss matters affecting General Miles during his absence. The department is of the opinion that Gen. Miles made public the dispatches of the secretary, General Shatter and himself published this moaning. Such action it regards as a breach of military regulations, but no military court can secure proof that Gen. Miles made public the dispatches if he and the person to whom they were furnished refuse to give the information, as several military trials made It settled law that no military court can compel a civilian to testify if he does not want to. General Miles may also be called to account for the interviews *with him, as, unless disavowed, they would place him in the attitude of criticising his superior officers and subject him to military discipline. The publication of the dispatches to-day, taken together with previous interviews in the Kansas City Star, were the topic of conversation among officers of the War Department, and already there is a disposition by some to take sides in the matter, while others deplore the conditions as tending to lower the tone of the army and to do irreparable injury to the service. It is expected the controversy will extend to both houses of Congress, and it is feared will have an adverse effect upon legislation which will be asked to better the army. It is generally understood that the regular force will have to be largely increased, at least until the conquered islands are disposed of, and it is feared that legislation in this direction will be hampered by the inevitable controversy between the secretary of war and the general commanding the army. The officials who have been preparing the legal side of the case have settled upon Articles 19, 20 and 25 of Army Regulations as sufficient to cover the alleged offense of General Miles. Article 19 provides that, "Any officer who uses contemptuous or disrespectful words against the President, the Vice President or the Congress of the United States, the chief magistrate or the Legislature of any of the United States in which he is quartered, shall be dismissed from the service, or otherwise punished as a court-martial may direct.” It is presumed that the alleged statements of General Miles concerning the conduct of the war may be made to show disrespect for the President, who is commander-in chief of the army and navy and primalny responsible for the conduct of the var. If this stand cannot be maintained Article 20 can be used. That article provides that, "Any officer or soldier who behaves himself with disrespect toward his commanding officer shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.” This article, on its face, could not be invoked because, although the alleged statements reflect upon the secretary of war, that official is not commonly regarded as “a commanding officer.” MAY BE ACCUSED OF DISRESPECT. But there is a voluminous digest of opinions delivered at court-martials, and. In that digest is found the decision: “The disrespect here indicated may consist of acts or words. It must be shown in evidence under the charge that the officer offended against was “the commanding officer” of the accused. "The commanding officer” of the officer or sojdier in the sense of this article is properly the superior who Is authorized to require obedience to hi* orders from such officer or soldier, at least for the time being. With this standard opinion concerning Article 20 it can be demonstrated that "for

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the time being" the secretary of war la "the commanding officer” who is legally authorized "to require obedience” from Gen. Miles, as well as all other officers and soldiers of the army. All orders issued through the office of the adjutant general contain the words, “By order of the s-ecretary of war,” who is thus authorized "to require obedience.” These propositions and quotations are mere citation of fact. It is a matter of conjecture, however, whether Article 19 could be invoked without the consent of the President, because he is mentioned in that article. Under Articles 20 and 25 the War Department may proceed without consulting the President in the matter, but it is presumed that radical procedure of that nature would not be taken without consul ting t the President in the beginning. Consequently the proposed court of inquiry and subsequent court-martial must ultimately have the approval of the President. It is stated that the President will approve the proposed procedure. “A DAY AND A NIGHT.” Hoyt’s Latest Farce Said to Be an Improvement. NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—The third season of Charles Frohman’s management of the Garrick Theater began to-day when Charles Hoyt’s new musical farce, "A Day and a Night,” had its first New York performance. A crowded house greeted the excellent company, and the bright bits of musio and dialogue were generally applauded. The production was by Hoyt and McKee, and their own company appeared in the cast, at the head of which were Otis Harlan and William Devere. Mr. Hoyt provided hi* usual setting of pretty women, among them Miss Mae Lowery. The situations are amusing and the plot rather better than most musical farces. Lake Steamer Gone to Bottom. CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 30.-M. A. Bradley, of this city, owner of the steamer Superior. received the following telegram today from the captain of that vessel; "Tho Superior sunk on ihe west side of Belle island in four fathoms of water. The members of crew are safe and are at Charlevoix. The steamer is a total wreck." The Superior was loaded with iron ore and was bound for Toledo. She was towing the schooner Sandusky and in a heavy gale became water-logged and dropped her tow, and a little later went down, us above noted. Convention of lion lloo’* Changed. CINCINNATI, 0., Aug. 30.—Mr. J. H. Baird, of Nashville, supreme scrivenator of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo, was here to-day and completed arrangements for the annual convention of the Hoo Hoo at Cleveland, Sept. 9 to 12, Instead of Put-in Bay, as had been previously arranged. Thf* one-fare rate that had been secured for tha island was to-day granted by the Passenger Agents’ Association for Cleveland. Four Murder* in Two Day*. MIDDLESBORO, Ky„ Aug. 30—Walter Burrows, a prosperous farmer, killed his wife and then himself at Powell’s Valley, Tenn. This Is the fourth killing in Claibourne county in two days. Burrows was jealous of his wife. Worth the Price Paid. Philadelphia Press. But it would certainly seem that the top of tho roll has been very nearly reached, and that the ebb. even with the addition of pension claimants for the present war, is about to set in. The ranks of the veterans of 1861 are rapidly dwindling, and it is impossible that the present great list will ba maintained for many years. But whether the tide turns now or waits two or threa years later, the price paid in all these years, and in the years to come, is a just one for the blessings we to-day enjoy as a result' of the sacrifices of these heroes of the battlefield. English Soft Soup. Springfield Republican. The extraordinary eulogies on Ambassador Hay pronounced by the London newspapers would satisfy a diplomat of thirty years of eminent service in all the great capitals of the world. Asa matter of fact, Mr. Hay has served in England lea* than two years, and while there he has had no opportunity to distinguish himself. He is capable of the best service undoubtedly, but his career as a ioreign statesman is still before him. The noiseless paddling back and forth of the English softseap brush with reference to all things American is one of the events of the year. Hitting the Right Chord. Chicago Tribune. “You want an American movement, I suppose?” said the jeweler. "You bet!” replied the returned soldier who had dropped in to buy a watch. "Triple expansion balance?” suggested tha tradesman. * "That’s right!” exclaimed the soldier. "There can’t be too much expansion about it to suit me! That’s the kind of American I am!” Whereupon the patriotic jeweler sold him a timepiece with a highly expanded prico on It. Alger’* I’oMKihle Mi*tuLe. Washington Special. He pronounced the drinking water to b® all right, but in this decision the secretary’s Judgment was evidently in error. After spending about four days at the camp drinking the same water provided for tha soldiers and at the same time being furnished with a better quality of food, he returned to Washington so ill with the dysentery that he was compelled to remain at home ail day. Told the. Story. Montauk Letter. The last company of the third battalion had many less men than'the full quota, and the spectators seemed to know the meaning of it. "Is this a full company?” a man asked. "It was,” replied a soldier. The Question. Kansas City Journal. Those who Imagine that annexation of all those 1,400 Philippine Islands would be a great territorial gain should remember that there is a certain kind of affliction known as being "land poor.” Would all those’lslands be worth their keep? Mn*t Eat Soldier*’ Fare. Chicago Times-Herald. To charge the government with starving its soldiers because it could not supply thera with the delicacies they were accustomed to receive at hotne is monstrous. A soldier must stand a soldier’s fare. Mo He I*. Washington Post. The time has arrived for the United State* to have a full-blown admiral, and Georg* Dewey is the boy for the Job. Headache speedily cured by the use of Horofords Acid Phosphate ( Pleaaant to take. Sold only In bottloi.