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DREYFUS DEAD -■ ■ ♦ AN UNFOUNDED RUMOR WOW BEING CIRCULATED IX PARIS. • Excited and Imaginary Populace Also Feeds on Groundless Report of Bolsdeffre’s Suicide. WHY HENRY KILLED HIMSELF ♦ ARMY XO LOXGER PROTECTED HIM AFTER THE EXPOSURE. High Officials Charged with Advising and Then Conniving at His Self-Destruction. ■ - ♦ DREYFUS MAY GET NEW TRIAL MINISTER OF JUSTICE SAID TO HAVE INDORSED SUCH A STEP. - - History of the Famous Case and the Zola Sensational Charges lhat Followed. —— ♦ PARIS, Sept. I.—The Dreyfus case presents no new feature, but there is a plentiful supply of rumors. The first of these is that Dreyfus is dead, no ietter having been received from him for some weeks. Another report is that General Boisdeffre, who has just resigned the post of chief of the general staff, has committed suicide. Both these rumors are undoubtedly without foundation. Colonel Paty Du Clam Is on a va ation trip in Switzerland, and there is no confirmation of the statement of La Patrie that he had been arrested for complicity in the Henry forgery. General Gonse, assistant chief of the general staff, who tendered his resignation yesterday *to M. Cavaignac, minister for war, has been pursuaded to withdraw it, as his retirement under the age limit will occur next month.* The lull in news, however, has in no way diminished the popular excitement. The latest cartoon of M. Forian happily hits off the situation. It represents two soldiers, one standing, the other sitting on a bench and reading a newspaper. “What are you reading?” asks the former, "about the Czar’s letter?” "No, sir,” the latter replies, "about the Henry afTair.” Speculation is keenest over the motives for Lieutenant Colonel Henry’s suicide. Looking to the view the whole nation has adopted regarding the guilt of Dreyfus, it Is argued that Henry may have supposed he was acting in the country's interests even In forging the letter, which would satisfy the nation of the justice of the sentence without production of the real evidencej which would be undesirable on the highest political grounds. In that case Henry might have posed as a martyr to misguided patriotism. The traditions of the Intelligence department, which, at the time of the condemnation of Dreyfus, was under a conspicuous anti-Semite, Colonel Sandherr, would probably heve led a blunt mtnd like Lieutenant Colonel Henry’s to construe the slightest hint from above of the desirability of killing off the anti-Dreyfus agitation into an order to do so by any means. Colonel Sandherr, who was then suffering from an incipient paralysis, seems to have been the head of a general conspiracy to hunt .Jewish officers out of the French army. Dreyfus, a man of haughty demeanor, but of vast strategic knowledge, would naturally be selected as a victim of these machinations. It is asserted that Col. Sandherr's last days were haunted by a fear, amounting to terror, lest the illegal and flippant nature of the evidence on which Captain Dreyfus was condemned should be revealed and w’eaken the prestige of the intelligence department, and that he enjoined on Henry, his subordinate, to guard the department's traditions at all costs. Tho carelessness of the authorities in allowing Henry to have a razor and in not watching him is generally interpreted as connivance and perhaps, as persuasion, since officers under arrest and likely to be condemned should, according to military .regulations be constantly watched, while Lieutenant Colonel Henry was left for hours alone and allowed to lock the door on the Inside. The suicide occurred shortly after the prisoner had received a visit from an officer of the general staff, who on leaving ordered the Bentry on duty before Col. Henry’s place of confinement, not to disturb the prisoner, as he had a lot of work to do. It is recalled that a similar opportunity to commit suicide was afforded to Dreyfus, who, however, declined to profit by It. It is generally believed that the rest ot the general staff of the French army will follow the example of General Boisdeffre. the chief of staff, and of General Gonse, the under chief, and tender their resignations. It appears that the minister for war, M. Cavaignac, is convinced that Colonel Henry had accomplices in the forgery of the incriminating document, and there are per-sistent-reports that Colonel Paty du Clam will shortly be arrested. In this connection It is reported that the minister of Justice. M. Sarrlen, has already tuken steps to grant Dreyfus a retrial. The medical examination made of the remains of the late Colonel Henry shows that his death was instantaneous. Had Henry been expelled from the army, both himself and wife w-ould have lost all pension rights. As it is, the widow becomes entitled to a handsome pension. This seems a more likely motive that the explanation based on the ged incoherent letter he left behind that he n.<d lost his reason. Having died uncondemned, his remains are entitled to military honors, but his brother will take the body to Pougy, near Chalons, where it will be buried on Saturday with the strictest privacy. Several officers of the general staff, It is ■aid to-night, have asked to be sent back to their regiments. General Renouard, the new chief of staff, is understood to have a free hand and to be at liberty to replace all the staff officers if he thinks fit. It is expeoted that he will resort to a process of purification. The government’s position Is most unhappy. Notices of Interpellations in the Chamber of Deputies multiply. President Faure is censured for leaving Paris at such a critical moment. Great efforts are being made to get the signatures of a majority

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of the deputies, which is a necessary preliminary to a convocation of the Chamber. President Faure returned to his home at Havre this afternoon. Later in the day La Patrie announced that Colonel Paty du Clam had been arrested for complicity in the Dreyfus forgery. minister for war this afternoon received in audience General Renouard, director of the military college, who has accepted the office of chief of the general staff, vacant owing to the resignation of General Boisdeffre. Colonel Henry left letters addressed to the minister for war and General Boisdeffre, in which he protested that he had not realized the gravity of the act, which he committed "solely for the good of the cause.” Growing Sentiment for Dreyfn*. PARIS, Sept. 2.—The movement in favor of a revision in the Dreyfus case is growing by leaps and bounds. Considering recent events, Major Count Walsin Esterhazy retains an amazingly cool attitude. In the course of an interview yesterday he expressed astonishment that Lieutenant Colonel Henry was allowed to have a razor. Henry’s death, he said, was regrettable, "because, doubtless, he had other revelations to make.” Count Esterhazy intends to appeal against his enforced retirement from active service in the army. ZOLA’S CONVICTION. Review of the Famous Case Which Has Disrupted France. PARIS, Sept. I.—M. Emile Zola, in his famous “I accuse” letter, which led to his trial and conviction on the charge of libeling military officers, said: "I accuse Lieutenant Colonel Paty du Clam of having been the diabolical worker of a judicial error—unconsciously I am ready to believe—anu often having defended his nefarious doings for the past three years by the most absurd and culpable machinations. "I accuse General Mercer (who was minister for war when Dreyfus was tried) of being the accomplice, at least through weak intelligence, in the greatest iniquity of the century. "I accuse General Billot (minister for war during the late Dreyfus agitation) of having in his hands certain proofs of the innocence of Dreyfus and of having suppressed them, thus having rendered himself guilty of treason against humanity and justice, for a political reason and in order to save the compromised staff. "I accuse General Boisdeffre (the chief of the general staff) and General Gonse (the assistant chief of tho general staff) of being accomplices in the same crime, the one through religious animosity, doubtless; the other, perhaps, through the esprit de corps, which makes the War Office a sacred and unassailable ark. “ laccuse General De Pellieux and Major Ravary of having made a flagitous investigation whereby I mean an inquiry of the most monstrous partiality. "I accuse the three experts in handwriting, the men Belhomme, Varinard and Couard, of having drawn up false and fraudulent reports, unless a medical examination shall prove them to be victims of a disease of sight or of judgment. "I accuse tho officers of the War Department of having organized a press campaign in order to lead public opinion astray. "Finally I accuse the first court-martial of having condemned a man on a document kept secret, and I accuse the second courtmartial of having covered this illegality byorder, and of committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person.” After a long trial in February last, M. Zola was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and to pay a fine of 3,000 francs for these alleged libels, and M. Parrieux, tho manager of the Aurore, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and to pay 3,000 francs line. On his way to and from the courthouse during the trial M. Zola was continually hooted by mobs, and at the conclusion narrowly escaped personal violence. When the French author heard the verdict he exclaimed: "They are cannibals.” General Boisdeffre, the chief of the general staff of the French army-, who has just resigned. Is understood to be in high favor at St, Petersburg. He gained considerable popularity by his attitude in defense of the army during the Zola trial, and at one time was looked upon as posstbiy aiming at a military dictatorship. Prince Henry of Orleans, who is credited with hoping for a military movement against the French republic, also tried to make capital out of the trial. He showed himself daily in the hall of the courthouse, and one day embraced Major Esterhazy, another ol’ the French officers implicated in the scandal, crying: "Vive i’Armee.” which aroused enthusiasm among his Orleanist friends, but which did not otherwise excite the crowd present to any degree. ■ THE DREYFUS CASE, Out of Which Grew the Scandalous Trial of Zola. PARIS, Sept. I.—The Zola trial Is the latest phase of the Dreyfus case, which has shaken the French nation to its toundafions and started a war of persecution against the Jewish race, and resulted in the conviction of Dreyfus and Zola and their sentence to imprisonment. The first act was the trial of Dreyfus for betraying secrets of the French army to the Germans. When these secrets continued to leak out Comte Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was charged, as an officer of the French army, with betraying the information. His resignation was requested in November, 1897. Late in 1897 Emile Zola wrote letters to the Figaro in which he declared that Dreyfus was innocent and denounced the anti-Semitic persecution that was being carried on. His trial resulted in his being sentenced to one year's imprisonment and a line of 3,000 francs, on Feb. 3, 1898. The conviction of # Dreyfus, about whose trial the questions have been raised that have dragged other men into the affair, was a secret one. In 1894 he w r as charged with having sold plans to the German government, and the French secret service watched every move he made for some time. They obtained the sweepings of the office and all papers that they could lay hands on, and the government finally claimed to have secured a letter which contained proof of his guilt. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on Dec. 22, 1894, and has since teen confined on a solitary Island, living in a cage and guarded by armed soldiers. Before he was exiled he was obliged to suffer the worst degradation that could fall to a French military- officer. He was taken into an open square in full uniform, and there, in the sight of the crowd assembled, was stripped of every mark of office. His many friends have protested as loudly as they dared that he is exiled not on account of his own crimes, but because he knows too much about those of others. When it was discovered that the exile of Drey-fus had not resulted in checking the betrayals of French military secrets Count Esterhazy-, a rich and titled officer of the army, was accused of having a part in the acts, and his resignation was requested. Colonel Picquart searched his room for papers, and there was a protest against this at the trial. Count Esterhazy was a Hungarian, and left France for Germany. Zola protested against the method of this trial. Emile Zoic took up the case late in 1897, (Cuntinued on Fifth Page.)

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER ’2, 1898.

SHAFTER BACK SANTIAGO VICTOR NOW IX CAMP WIKOFF DETENTION CAMP. - ♦ Flock of Correapondentß Kept at a Distance and Interviewing Him at Long Range. ♦ GEN. JOE WHEELER ANGRY - ■ ♦ ON FINDING SHAFTER HAD LANDED WITHOUT HIS KNOWING IT. Will Not Be in Command at Montaak Point l util He la Out of Quarantine. BETTER HOSPITAL REPORTS —— ♦ SURGEON GENERAL STERNBERG GIVES DR. SENS A GOING OVER. ■♦■■■■■ ■ List of Regiments Ordered Mustered Oat—Ohio and Kentucky Sending Hospital Trains South, CAMP WIKOFF, L. 1., Sept. 1.-The transport City of Mexico, with General Shatter on board, w-as sighted off Montauk Point at 6:40 a. m. to-day and an hour later dropped anchor in Fort Pond bay. The City of Mexico has on board beside General Shafter the members of his staff, including Lieutenant Colonels E. J. MeClernand, B. F. Pope and G. McC. Derby, Majors Robert H. Noble, John Miley and S. W. Grosbeck and Captains J. E. Gilmore and E. H. Plummer. As socn as General Wheeler was notified of General Shatter’s arrival he ordered a salute of fifteen guns to be fired, and Troops M, C, H and K of the regular cavalry were detailed to escort General Shafter into camp when he should land. General Shafter and his staff were landed from the City of Mexico shortly before 1 o’clock, being taken off in the auxiliary gunboat Aileen and landed at the floating dock some distance away from the quarantine pier. General Young was at the pier at the time. The coming ashore at the float of the commander and his staff w-as unexpected. General Wheeler had the cavalry drawn up at the quarantine pier and the guns waiting to salute General Shafter. He was not aw-are that General Shafter was on shore until General Shatter and his staff had been driven to the detention hospital in carriages. General Wheeler was a little put out when he learned that General Shafter had landed. General Shafter appeared in good health when he came ashore. On the City of Mexico beside the general and his staff came one company of tfie First regular infantry. No report as to their condition has been made. General Wheeler when informed that General Shafter was ashore ordered the salute of fifteen guns fired. It was difficult to get near General Shafter at the detention camp, but the commander of the Santiago campaign sent word to the correspondents that he was glad to be on American soil once more, but was sorry to learn that so many of his men had died and were still sick at Montauk. He said, however, that had the troops remained in Santiago they would have fared much worse. General Shafter is now, strictly speaking, by reason of rank, in command of Camp Wikoff, but he will not assume the reins of control until his term in the detention camp is finished. In an interview this afternoon General Shafter said: "I enjoyed the trip north on the Mexico greatly, but more so on account of the ship being a prize. From a casual observation, I like Camp Wikoff. It seems just such a place as I should have selected. I will soon acquaint myself thoroughly with all the details of the camp. "I knew- nothing of the Miles-Aiger controversy until I was shown a newspaper on my arrival here. I will not discuss it now, that I am unfamiliar with the phases of the case, nor will I enter the controversy at any time. Secretary Alger and General Miles can take care of themselves, and so can I. "The Red Cross and other nurses did good work at Santiago, but the front is hardly the place tor women. There was never any real scarcity of food in Cuba, but there were no transportation facilities to get supplies to the front other than pack trains. The army and sick in hospitals dow-n there fared as well as possible in such a climate.’* When told that it had been denied tnat there was yellow fever at the camp at Santiago, General Shafter said that it was nonsense, as there was yellow fever there and the doctors in Santiago, who knew it like a book, said it was yellow fever ana nothing else. Santiago was on the mend, tho general said, and the sanitary measures taken by the Americans w-ere having a good effect. Corporal Talcott Dead. WESTERLY, Ot, Sept. 1. Corporal William N. Talcott, Company M. Seventyttist New York Volunteers, died here to-day of malarial fever contracted in Cuba. The body will be taken to the home of his parents in Rockford, 111. Talcott, who was twenty-eight years old, graduated from Amherst College in 1893 and from the Harvard Law School in 1597. In January last he was admitted to the New York bar. He enlisted as a private and was promoted for gallantry before Santiago. He was listed to the second lieutenancy in the regular army. V olunteer Nurses from Michigan. NEW' YORK, Sept. I.—Sixteen young volunteer nurses, on their way to Camp Wikoff, 'Montauk Point, arrived in this city last night in charge of 11. S. Pingree, jr., of Detroit, son of Governor Pingree, of Michigan. Tne young women, wno were quartered at tne Hotel Metropole, are connected with the best families in Detroit. Most of the young women were in New York for the first time, and they spent the evening in visiting different points of interest. — NOT TIME TO INVESTIGATE. Sternberg Says Crltlciam Comes from Irresponsible Correspondents. WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—Surgeon General Sternberg to-day sent the following letter to a New York medical publishing house, which had made inquiries of him concerning the conduct of the war with reference to the medical department and especially about the subject of having an immediate investigation of his bureau. lie says: "I am ready at any moment for a complete investigation with reference to my administration of the affairs of the medical

department; but the War Department is not disposed to make such an investigation as the result of sensational newspaper articles. There is at present an evident craze to criticise without regard to truth or justice. I have no doubt there will be a congressional investigation into the conduct of the war; but I do not feel at liberty at present to insist upon ari investigation for my own vindication, because it would be contrary to the general interests of the service. “It would make it necessary for me to give up all the important official work, which, at present, almost overwhelms me, for the purpose of devoting myself to a presentation of the facts relating to my administration. It would make it necessary to take clerks away from their daily tasks in order to look up the documentary evidence on file in my office, and, in the meantime, important matters would necessarily be neglected and the sick in all parts of the country would suffer. It wmuld make it necessary to call upon the medical officers who are now urgently needed for the care of the sick in our various camps and hospitals to come to Washington as witnesses; and all this to satisfy the clamor or irresponsible newspaper reporters. There has been no official complaint with reference to my administration of the medical department. “In regard to Montauk Point, I intend to send at once Lieutenant Colonel Charles Smart, an experienced officer and the professor of hygiene in our army medical school, to make a thorough sanitary investigation. To go myself, as I should like to do, would be to neglect important official duties in connection with the supply of hospitals, the movement of my hospital trains, of hospital ships, etc.” o GOOD WORK IN HOSPITAL. Major Taylor Has Everything He Needs at Fort McPherson. WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Surgeon General Sternberg is in receipt of a letter from Maj. Blair D. Taylor, surgeon in command of the general hospital at Fort McPherson, Georgia, which is in the nature of a response to certain charges published in Southern newspapers relative to the conduct of tho hospital and the treatment of the sick there. In the course of the letter Major Taylor says: “Have spent this month for milk at the rate of SBOO a month; have as much ice as can possibly be used, not only for drinking purposes, but for cracked ice and ice caps. Have special diet kitchens in each building, run by competent cooks, and a special baker for the bread. Have now seven-ty-one trained female nurses, but need more on account of the sickness of some of them; have over a hundred hospital corps men and have hired numerous laborers in mess hall and in tents, with scrub women for the wards. “My trained female nurses are very indignant at this misrepresentation. Every one is working to his or her fullest capacity to care for the sick. The only thing this man said approaching the truth was that some weeks ago some of the walking cases in tents did not have sheets or pillow' cases, as wo were short then, and used what we had for the very sick. I have had numerous mothers, fathers and sisters thank me personally for the care and attention bestowed upon their sick. Only this morning a gentleman from Michigan, whose son, of tho Thirty-second, goes on furlough, told mo that his son could not have been better treated if he had been at home. "I don’t propose to say a word in the newspapers, but’ thought it brst to report this matter to you. Have nearly $2,000 ahead now, and can provide for the present very well. This man may have heard some convalescent typhoid patient complain of not getting enough to eat when his diet was bedng restricted by the surgeon for fear of perforation and hemorrhage. Don’t see how I could possibly spend more money for the comfort of the sick without absolutely throwing it away. Am willing to court investigation at any time.” ORDERED MUSTERED OUT. Nine More Regiments to Be Sent Home from Camim at Once. WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-The War Department has issued orders for the following transfer of troops for the purpose of being mustered out at their destination: First Wisconsin, from Jacksonville to Camp Douglass, Wis.; Fifth Ohio, from Fernandina to Columbus; First United States Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders), at Montauk Point; Thirty-third and Thirtyfourth Michigan, from Montauk Point to Camp Eaton, 111., and Lake, Mich.: First Connecticut, from Dunn Loring to Niantic; First Illinois Infantry, from Montauk to armory in Chicago; Fifth lowa, from Jacksonville to Des Moines; Third Virginia, from Camp Alger to Richmond; First Mississippi, from Chiokamaugd to Springs, Miss.; Second Mississippi, from Jacksonville to Lauderdale Springs. It is probable that the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry will be ordered mustered out in a few days. The regiment is now* at Fernandina, Fla. Quite a controversy has arisen in regard to the disposition of the regiment, the officers desiring to remain in the service, while the men want to go home. The men have asked for their discharge, not in a body, but individually, and it is probable that the regiment will be mustered out as a whole. BRECKINRIDGE WON’T HAVE IT. Saya Cause of Sickness Rests with the Government. CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ga., Sept. 1.The movement to Anniston, Ala., of the Third Corps, now dwindled to seven regiments, began this afternoon. The three divisions of the corps were consolidated into one division under command of Gen. Royal T. Frank, Gen. C. E. Compton, Gen. Charles P. Mattox and Gen. Leonard W. Colby, brigade commanders. The First Division hospital corps left this afternoon for Anniston, and General Frank w’ill proceed to that city in the morning. Generals Sanger, Mattox and Roe have submitted their reports on the conditions at Chickamauga and the healthfulness of camp, which were forwarded to-day by General Breckinridge to the War Department. General Breckinridge states that these rejjorts state that the men are not to blame for the sickness in the camp, but that it rests with the government; that the officers and men had endeavored to properly police their camps to prevent sickness, but that the means for that work had not been supplied adequately for protection against disease. Six deaths were reported to-day. ♦ LESS TALK AND MORE WORK. Surgeon General Sternliera’a Advice to Dr. Senn. WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. Dr. Nicholas Senn's statement that he anticipates a typhoid epidemic at Camp Wikoff, unless the troops are speedily removed, caused Surgeon General Sternberg to make the following heated statement: "If Dr. Senn, as has been alleged, anticipates a great outbreak of typhoid fever at Camp Wikoff, he has failed to inform mo of that fact. He Is on the spot, and it is his business as surgeon in charge to use every means in his power to keep the camp in a proper sanitary condition. To do this Is not such an extraordinary feat, after all. He knows what to do. and if he fails to do it he must and wIM be held responsible, not myself, if any one has said that the water (Continued on Second Page!)

STUFFED CLUB BEWfi CARRIED BV AVAR DEPARTMEAT OFFICIALS FOR MILES. ♦ President McKinley Expected to Take a Hand in the Quarrel and Prevent Any Bloodshed. MILES SAILS FROM PONCE AND EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AT XEAV YORK NEXT 3IOXDAY. ♦ No Intimation that Me "Knows of the Clamor Which His Interview Has Aroused at Home. PART OF PORTO RICO Af.MY * OX SEPARATE TRANSPORTS FOLLOXV COMMANDING GENERAL. Gen. AVilson Left in Charge, AY bile Gen. Brooke Is on His AVay to Jolu Schley at San Juan. 1■ , ♦ Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—The view Is gaining ground that the President will Interfere to keep General Miles and the War Department officers apart until Congress gets a chance to go Into the investigating Lusiness on its own account and in a proper way. Secretary Alger, all the officials of the War Department and General Miles are the President’s subordinates. They are subject to his orders and if he so wills it a summary* stop can be put to further airing of the family scandal in the military establishment. If his subordinates insist on continuing hostile demonstrations against one another he can set them one and all outside of the breastworks and let them fight it out. He can call for Secretary Alger's resignation and assign Miles to Honolulu and Corbin to Sitka on “waiting orders” if he be so minded. Washington is hearing from the country on “camp horrors’’ and on the Miles-Alger controversy and it has heard enough to warrant the prediction that Congress will reorganize the army and the War Department and so broaden them out that they will be ready for war Or any other emergency in the future and not be compelled to pay so dearly as it has this war for experience. It is learned also that Genera! Miles is getting scant sympathy in his campaign against the War Department to right a fancied wrong before peace has been declared. It is a “campaign’’ based on “wounded vanity,” some allege, and tending to demoralize the army and destroy discipline. “The war with a grievance” has ceased to be terrifying to the War Department. Indiana has tiled a clean claim against the government for $79,655 for money spent in fitting out volunteers for service in the army of the United States in the war against Spain. The claim will not hang fire long. The auditor of the War Department speaks in complimentary terms of the business-like manner in which the claim is prepared/ Representative Overstreet is moving to have the two Indiana signal-service companies mustered out. MILES SAILS FOR NEW YORK. Twelve Thousand Troops Left In Porto Rico Under Gen. AA’ilson. WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—The War Department learned that General Miles left Porto Rico to-day. The department makes public the following dispatch from General Miles: , “Ponce, Sept. 1. “Secretary War, Washington: "Twelve thousand troops will be left in Porto Rico and nearly 4,600 infantry, cavalry and artillery sail for New York. These troops sail on the Obdam. Concho, Chester, Alamo, Mississippi and Manitoba. The division is under command of Maj. Gen. Wilson with Brigadier Generals Schwao, Hains and Garretson. All these officers have taken part In the different engagements and are entitled to much credit and I speak for them any consideration that can be given on their return home. The cavalry and artillery leave most of their horses and all of their held transportation in Porto Rico. I sail on Obdam to-day. “MIDES, Major General Commanding.” Two Transports Leave Ponce. WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—General Miles Is en route from Porto Rico to the United States. He sailed from Ponce this afternoon on the transport Obdam and will arrive in this country probably next Monday. The announcement of his departure was contained in the following cablegram received by Adjutant General Corbin to-night: “Ponce, Sept. I.—Corbin, adjutant general, Washington: “General Miles and staff, nine companies Second Wisconsin, with eight hundred men and twer.ty-eight officers, sailed 2 p. m. to-day, transport No. 30, Obdam. “WILSON, Major General.” The following cablegram also was received from General Wilson: “Ponce, Sept. I.—Adjutant general, Washington: “Transport Chester sailed at 2:30 p. m., with General Schwan and staff, General Kails and staff, Fourth Pennsylvania with forty-one officers and 1,150 men. “WILSON, Major General.” Miles AVill Land at New York. NEW YORK, Sept. I.—Colonel Kimball, deputy Quartermaster general, received from General Miles a dispatch dated Ponce, Sept. 1, stating that 4,000 troops sailed to-day from Puerto Rico on the transports Manitoba, Mississippi, Concho, Alamo, Chester and Obdam. He himself sailed on the Obdam. The transports will all come to New York. *. GOING TO MEET SCHI.EA. Gen. Brooke Now Crossing the Island for San Juan. PONCE, Porto Rico, Sept. I.—General Brooke yesterday notified Captain General Macias, the Spanish commander at San Juan de Puerto Rico, under a flag of truce carried to the Spanish lines by Colonel Goethal, that Repr Admiral Schley and General Gordon, the American Porto Rican peace commissioners, had sailed for San Juan from New York an the steamer Seneca. At the same time General Brooke, who is also a member of the commission, asked if there wa£ any objection to his proceeding overland with an escort, Major Jose Reyes, of the Spanish army, brought the reply cf General Macias to-day. It was sent by wire

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and said there were no objections. Consequently General Brooke has arranged to leave on Friday or Saturday with his staff, escorted by Troop H, of the Sixth Cavalry, and Captain Pitcher's company of the Eighth Infantry. Several stone culverts between here and the Spanish works on the crest of the mountains, which have been blown up. will be repaired to-morrow by Colonel Goethal's engineers. The colonel has examined the Spanish fortifications. He says they are marvelously strong and that he couUl have held back the strongest army in Europe with five hundred men against an assault in front. The Spaniards had trenches and two guns. All but a hundred of the six hundred men stationed there have returned to San Juan. AA'hy Porto Rico Troop* Were Not Paid WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—A dispatch has been received at the War Department from General Miles asking why the troops in Porto Rico have not been paid. The explanation is given that the paymasters with money for the troops were at Santiago and ready to proceed to Ponce, but General Miles objected to those paymasters, saying they would bring yeliow fever infection with them, or the money might be infected while on board the ships. Other paymasters have since been sent to Porto Rico to pay the troops that remained there. Complaints have been made, also, by certain regiments that they received no pay while at Santiago. It is learned at the department in some of these instances the requests were made by the commanding officers of the regiments to defer payment until the troops returned to the United States. Such requests were approved by General Shatter, anil accordingly the paymasters omitted such regiments when paying at Santiago. A Squatl Readies New Orleans. NEW OftLEANS, La., Sept. I.—The United States transport Whitney reached the city to-day with about forty soldiers and civilians, who came direct from Porto Rico. The Whitney also brought, heavily shackled, two prisoners, one of them being Private Alexander La. Duke, of the Second Wisconsin regiment, who killed Private Thomas Stafford in Ponce, and who was tried by court-martial and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. The other prisoner Is Henry Apter, a civilian, who is charged with robbery. The commands represented by the returning soldiers are the Nineteenth Infantry, Third Artillery, First Pennsylvania Artillery, Two-hundred-and-tlrst New York and the First Regiment New York cavahy. (Sugar and ’Luases from Porto Rico. WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—A complete report on the importations of sugar and molasses from Porto Rico in the fiscal year 1897-I*B, as well as the quantities for 1895-96, has been forwarded to the Treasury Department from New York by Supervising Examiner of Sugar Jacobs. He shows that for the past fiscal year the importations from Porto Rico were: Sugar, 90.554,414 pounds; duty, $1,393,765; value, $1,864,015; molasses, 1,371,823 gallons; duty, $41,221; value, $2<89,183. For the year 1895-96 the imports of raw sugar were ,39,379,373 pounds. SPANISH WAR VICTIMS *> ♦ STATISTICS SHOWING THE DEATH HATE IN BATTLE AND CAMP. Buttle Has Claimed 3NO, but the Siekly Camps Hate Destroyed Nearly Two Thousand. CHICAGO, Sept. 1.-The Tribune to-mor-row' will print statistics showing the number of soldiers who have been killed in battle and have died of disease in camps dur ing the war with Spain. The Tribune says: “While 353 officers and men have been killed in battle or died of wounds received, there have died of disease in camps between .1,200 and 2,OCK> volunteers and regulars. The Tribune has secured the names of 1,284 who died in camp, on transports or at home after contracting the dread malady at one of the camps. yThere is no doubt about the 1,284 whose names have been secured. Neither is there much doubt that there are hundreds dead whose names could not be secured on account of lack of records and the inability or unwillingness of army officers to furnish lists of the dead.” The Tribune gives the following statistics of dead in each camp, giving in every instance a full list of names and the nature of the disease. The list by camps is as follows: Camp Thomas 352 Santiago 341 San Francisco 78 Camp Alger 75 Camp Wikoff 63 Jacksonville 50 Tampa 58 Miami 26 Fernandina, Lakeland, Camp Meade and other minor camps, in private hospitals, at home, etc 115 State camps 36 Transports and hospital ships 9o Total 1,284 Deaths are attributed to the following causes: Typhoid fever 615 Yellow fever 84 Dysentery 63 Meningitis 47 Malaria 81 Pneumonia 61 Cause reported as fever 106 Miscellaneous ailments or diagnosis not reported 327 Os the regular army, 290 are dead. Massachusetts is first, with 130; Illinois second, with 100; Michigan third, with 91, and New York fifth, with 85. THE ST. PAUL AT MANILA. Gen. Merritt Reported to Hnve Arrived at Houg-Koug. MANILA, Philippine Islands, Sept. 1.The United States transport St. Paul has arrived here from San Francisco and reports all well on board. The lighthouses in the southern Philippines have been re-es-tablished. it is reported that the religious orders are selling their property to a HongIvong syndicate. LONDON, Sept. 2.—The United States transport China, according to a dispatch from Hong-Kong to the Daily Mail, has arrived there with General Merritt and General Greene, the former en route for Paris to attend the proceedings of the HispanoAmerican peace committee and the latter en route to Washington. B. aND L. SECRETARY SHORT. The St. (load Mutual Cnuight for Thirty Thousand Dollars. ST. CLOUD, Minn., Sept. 1,-L T. Troutman, secretary of the St. Cloud Mutual Building and Loan Association, according to a report which has been presented to the directors of the association by an expert accountant, is mure than $30,000 short in his accounts, it la thought a settlement will be made.

157TH ARRIVES - FIRST SECTION OF SOLDIERS Ilf ABOIT O'CLOCK THIS MORNING. - - ♦ Tveitty-Six Seriously Siek Men in Col Stadehnker'a Section! One Hundred Others Disabled. * MARCH THROUGH THE CITY WILL PROBABLY BE UNDERTAKE!* IN NEIGHBORHOOD OF lO O'CLOCK. Sandwiches, Other Fond and CofTea for Urenkfnst Prepared by the Local Samaritans. ♦ - > ( UNDER A CRUEL BRIGADIER ♦ STORIES MEM TELL OF GEN. HALL’S TREATMENT OF SOLDIERS. ♦ He Was One of the Figures In Fort Sheridan Sensation—Arrangements for the Sick. ,| ♦ i The baggage train of the One-hundred-and-fifty-seventh Regiment reached this city at midnight, but there was only on© sleeping car, containing a detail of men to look after the horses and property attached! to the train. The second section, directly in charge of Colonel Studebaker, and containing, among other soldiers, twenty-six seriously in men. will reach the Union Station about 6 o'clock this morning, and the other sections will probably come in at intervals of one hour after that. While the hour at which the men will take up their march' through tho city cannot be stated exactly, it is probable that the column will move from the Union Station somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 o'clock. At 1 o’clock this morning Colonel Studcbaker’s section was just leaving Cincinnati, and a measugo from him early this morning said he hadi twenty-six sick soldiers op his train, while, scattered through the other sections, wera about one hundred men who are in a bad physical condition and will require conveyances to the camp ground. Colonel Studebaker also wired to Superintendent Zion at the Union Station asking that arrangements be made to provide 2,600 sandwiches, with sufficient coffee, for the regiment. Superintendent Zion replied that the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society had mad© all arrangements to furnish the men with wholesome food and that the colonel need not concern himself about that matter. Later, another message was received from Colonel Studebaker thanking the ladieiy for their forethought on behalf of his offlcei'4, and men. The sandwiches, w!Uh fruit and coffee, will be furnished the tired volunteers before the march to Camp Mount is taken up. The Commercial Club and Mayor Taggart are the ones who are preparing the breakfast for the boys, but the Ladies’ Aid Society has* been the promoter of all this thoughtful mevement and the society will take Its turn with furnishing the regiment with luncheon Saturday evening. it is supposed ttie regiment will march up Meridian street a considerable distance before taking cars for the fair grounds. South Os the Ohio river the regiment came in three sections, the first in charge of Colonel Studebaker. the second Major Fitzgerald, and the third Major Kuhlman. Major Barnett was in charge of the sick on th first section, Lieutenant Garstang of the second section and Hospital Steward Schults of the third. Coming from Cincinnati, it Is understood, the train was divided into four sections. The remains of Private William A. Snyder and Clifton Lovell, who died at Fernandina, were brought with the train au far as Cincinnati and from there sent direct to Fort Wayne. The detail in charge of the baggage wax greatly interested in knowing where the regiment would be camped. One of the boys said: "It's a shame to put us on exhibition at the fair grounds liko prize cattle.” They were delighted to be so rear home, and they laughed and talked with the people who pressed around them to ply them with question. T he boys on tin baggage train said the trip had been uneventful, so far as they were concerned, and that they had been informed the sick n en on the hospital train had stood the journey very well thus far. Their faces lighted up when they were told that roast beef, sandwiches and coffeo had been prepared for their arrival at Indianapolis. The baggage train, which came in about midnight, was in charge of a detail of thirtylive men from Company K, of Auburn. The horses of the officers of the regiment were in the first car, and a sleeper for the men was a part of the train. At Conncrsville and other Indiana towns the station platforms wero crowded with people, who had come down to sec the regiment. The soldiers are not by any means the same kind of men who left Camp Mount several months ago. They have been changed from national guardsmen to regulars, and the change shows itself in their faces and 30beF manners. , The first rectlon of the train was in charge of Sergeant Kendall. The train contained one car containing the hor-tes of the officers, fifteen box cars, with the camp equipment, and one sleeping car for Sergeant Keodall and his men. The last time Sergeant Kendall and his detail saw another section of the train, he said, was at Macon, Ga. He reported that the train la running in three sections, each containing a battalion. Col. Studebaker and Lieut. Col. May are on the first passenger section, which has with it three hospital cars for the sick and convalescent. Sergeant Kendall was under the impression that about twenty-five men were la serious condition, with enough more in a more or less decrepit physlcui condition to make about one hundred, ail told, In the hospital cars. It was his understanding that the bodies of Privates Lovell and Snyder, who died en route, were to be sent from Connersville to Fort Wayne. STORIES OF GENERAL HALL On the way home the men have had a very hard trip. On one of the Southern roads the train service was so bad that on© of the men in the sergeant’s detail had to take the place of the fireman, who did not know how to fire the locomotive. All the men are very anxious to know the facts concerning the thirty days' furlough and seem to fear that after that time is out they will be sent back to the service. They express themselves as having had enough. They say u.at the fair grounds will be a welcome sight. “When we left." said on*