Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 247, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1898 — Page 4

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EVIL IN PENSIONS ■ ' ♦ THE SUBJECT OP OFFICIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON. Commissioner Evan* Tell* of Testa Made, Showlnß Lack of System In Maudlins Record*. ■ ♦ THOUSANDS MORE MAY BE PAID 4 - TREASURY READY TO REDEEM MILLIONS OF PACIFIC BONDS. ♦ Contracts Awarded to Supply the Navy with Millions of Pounds of Smokeless Powder. ,-- ♦ - - WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-The annual report of Hon. H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pensions, was made public to-night. The appendix, containing tables showing comparisons in pension payments, etc., will be Issued later. The commissioner says that the roll is not only increasing in number, but in value. It is believed that it will increase from the war of the rebellion, as there probably are 200,000 ex-Union soldiers living who have never had pensions, and it will increase in amount naturally by reason of increased disabilities, as provided by law. The amounts paid out at the several agencies for the year on account of pensions under the general laws were $75,275,385 and cn account of pensions under the act of June 27, 1890, $06,255,670. The number of pensioners in foreign countries at the close of the fiscal year was 4,371, having increased £O9. The total amount paid to pensioners living abroad was $669,862. Commissioner Evans says there is a lack of system in the established practice of this department in securing the necessary original and continued identification of the pensioner with the service, as there is also in securing notices of death, remarriages and necessary information for dropping, from other causes, pensioners living in foreign countries, as the bureau has no supervision or criminal jurisdiction over such pensioners. There were seventeen survivors and 211 •widows of the Indian wars and forty-six survivors and 502 widows of the Mexican war pensioned during the year. There are surviving five widows and seven daughters of the American revolution. One survivor (dead, payable to-his widow) and seveu widows of the war of 1811' were pensioned during the year just closed. Pension claims pending June 30, 1898, numbered 636,069. The commissioner is confident that there are not over 75,000 of these (invalids and widows) that are genuine original claims. The others <are cases where the claimants are already pensioned. The special examination division has done good work during the year, having endeavored to do justice to all claimants, and many just claims have been admitted that would have been rejected. There is much complaint among pensioners, says the commissioner, and very just cause for such, by reason of the lack of uniformity of ratings for the same or like disabilities of different claimants. This complaint has always existed, and always will, with our present system and established practice, he declares, and it cannot be remedied without radical change of system. “The practice requires,” says the report, “that medical examiners shall make a diagnosis and complete and accurate pen picture of the disabilities of the claimant. They are paid a small fee for each examination and detailed report, and such examination is very often, no doubt, hurried and superficial. Therefore many test examinations are made. As an illustration, it is stated that the bureau recently found it necessary to cause a test examination to be made of a pensioner. He was sent before four medical boards, three members each, all present. All of these boards were within the classified service. Each examined the pensioner under the same instructions. Each board made a careful examination and reported the results of their investigations with the usual care, describing the pensioner’s disabilities from their standpoint. Each bo*ard found unanimously; no minority report. The results, summed up briefly, were; “One board could find no ratable disability; another found a ratable disability and estimated it at $8 per month; another board found disability, carefully described it and rated it at sl7 per month, while the other board made equally as careful an examination, and estimated the claimant’s disabilities as third grade, $24 per month. Same man same condtions, same instructions and ail within forty-eight hours. These physicians are each and all, I am informed, skilled in their practice, in every way reputable practitioners.” The secretary of the interior sustained the action of Commissioner Evans in 3,326 appealed cases acted upon and only reversed liis action in 396 cases, and in these reversals no precedents are set to change the established practice of the bureau. Each case, according to the instructions of the secretary of the interior, must be considered on its individual merits and in accordance with the established practice. A special examination shows that notaries public, magistrates and others engaged in the business of taking acknowledgements of pensioners’ quarterly vouchers for payment have not always complied with the requirements of the law. It has been shown that many fail to require necessary indentification of pensioners to require presentations of pension certificates by the pensioners at the time of taking such acknowledgements, and they have violated the law also in the use of professional or stock witnesses. "Warning has been given to the officials, and it is hoped that it will not be necessary to make them feel the penalty of the law. Attention is called to on extract from the pension laws, providing that all pensions granted under the general laws regulating pensions of widows in consequence of death occurring from a cause which originated in the service since March 4, 1861, shall commence from the death of the husband. Up to the passage of this act June 7, 1888, the widows’ pensions dated from the date of filing the claim if the application was filed after July 1, 1880. No ioldiers’ pensions can go back of the date of its issue since July 2, 1880. “It would seem.” says the commissioner, “that there were and are a large number of widows who had never been pensioned or filed claims for pension. Many them at that date (June 7, 1888,) had remarried, and before the passage of this nr had no pensionable status on account of their remarriage without filing any claim for pension. The soldier husband for some reason had not claimed pension and the widow had not filed a claim, although she may have remained a widow from one to twenty years or more. Under the act mentioned the widow becomes the beneficiary of the government practically for the use and benefit of the second husband. Commissioner Evans is of opinion that the operation of this law is contrary to the spirit or intent of & just and generous recognition of the soldier's services. The widow's pension, he says, 1b intended to aid, assist end comfort the soldier's widow during her widowhood. It is recommended that tbe payments of pensions be made to the wife or some other st liable person la the ease

of pensioners who are likely to dissipate their money. A treatise has been prepared to facilitate the settlement of pending claims, by placing before examiners, as simply as practicable, the requirements of thq bureau in the different classes of claims, thus enabling claimants and those who adjudicate these claims to proceed to their settlement in a more expeditious and intelligent manner. It is recommended that additions be made to the law and medical libraries of the department, and that a commission be appointed on the revision of laws, rules and regulations governing the issuance of pensions. A special division has been established to adjudicate claims growing out of the Spanish war. These will be paid under the general laws. Only about one hundred claims of this class have been filed up to the close of the fiscal year, and none have been adjudicated. NO MORE IiLACK POWDER. Bids Received to Supply Millions of Pounds oi the Smokeless Article. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Probably the navy has fought its last war with black powder. Bids were opened to-day at the Navy Department for supplying the war ships with one million pounds of smokeless powder, a quantity sufficient to supply at least the secondary batteries of all the ships in the service, and this supply will be augmented from, time to time, within the course of a year or two, all the black powder will have been retired, except, possibly, some that will be retained for saluting purposes. There were six bids received to-day at the department and opened by Judge Advocate Lemley in the presence of representatives of most of the bidders, prominent among them being Mrs. Maria Dittmar, head of the powder concern bearing her name. The bids, on an average, were about the same as the navy is now paying for its powder and slightly below the figure paid by the army under the emergency created by the war. The bids were as follows: Dupont Powder Company, of Wilmington, Del., for one million pounds, the government to supply the alcohol and ether, at 79V* cents a pound, making the total $795,000. If the government supply the alcohol only, 80 cents a pound, making a total, of SBOO,OOO. Deliveries to begin with one thousand pounds Oct. 1, and continue at the rate of seven thousand pounds per day. Giant Powder Company, consolidated, of San Francisco, 250,000 pounds, the government to supply alcohol and ether, at 90 cents a pound, making the total $232,500; government supplying alcohol only, 95 cents a pound, making total of $237,500; deliveries beginning with one thousand pounds in ten months and continuing at the rate of ten thousand pounds per month. Dittmar Powder Company, of New York, 250,000 pounds, government supplying alcohol and ether, at 80 cents a pound, making $200,000; deliveries beginning Dec. 1, at one thousand pounds per day. Louis Nixon, of Klizabethport, N. J., 100,000 pounds, government supplying alcohol and ether, at 90 cents per pound, making $96,000; deliveries beginning Dec. 1, at one thousand pounds. Raflin & Rand Powder Company, one million pounds, government supplying alcohol and ether, at 79Vfe cents per pound, making $795,000; government supplying alcohol only, 80 cents a pound, making SS(K>,OOO. The deliveries begin Nov. 1, with one thousand pounds a day until December, then two thousand pounds until December, 1899, then six thousand pounds daily. California powder works, one million pounds, government supplying alcohol only, at 80 cents a pound, making $800,000; deliveries beginning Oct. 1 with one thousand pounds and following at the rate of four thousand pounds per day. TO REDEEM PACIFIC BONDS. Secretary Gage Will Take $14,004,560 Worth This Month. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.—The secretary of the treasury to-day issued the following circular, offering to redeem the rest of the bonds issued to the Pacific railroads: “By virtue of the authority contained in the existing law, the secretary of the treasury hereby gives public notice that United States 6 per cent, bonds, of the face value of fourteen million, four thousand, five hundred and sixty dollars ($14,004,560) issued under acts of July 1, 1862, and July 1, 1864, in aid of certain Pacific railroads, as stated below, and commonly known as ‘currency sixes,’ will be redeemed at any time during the month of September, with interest, to and including Dec. 31, 1898, less a rebate of one-half of 1 per cent, upon the face value of the bonds. "The bonds are in denominations of SI,OOO, $5,000 and SIO,OOO, and were issued in aid of the following-named railroads: Central Pacific Railroad, $9,198,000; Union Pacific, $3.157,000; Western Pacific, $1,650,560; total, $14,004,500. “Packages containing bonds forwarded for redemption should be addressed to the secretary of the treasury, division of loans and currency, Washington, D. C., and the bonds should be assigned to the secretary of the treasury for redemption. Assignments must be dated and properly acknowledged. as prescribed in the note printed on the back of each bond. Where cheeks in payment are desired in favor of any one but the payee the bonds should be assigned to the ‘secretary of the treasury for redemption, for account of ’ (Here insert the name of the person to whose order the cheek should be made payable.)” “L. J. GAGE, “Secretary of the Treasury.” WILLIAMS TO REMAIN. Need of the Consul Now More than Ever nt Manila. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—ln response to a communication from the State Department. stating the desire of Mr. Williams to resume his consular post at Manila, Philippine islands, and making certain inquiries of a diplomatic as well as commercial interest, Secretary Gage to-day sent the following to the secretary of state: “I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst., in regard to the resumption by Mr. Williams of his duties as United States consul at Manila, which were discontinued on account of the recent war with Spain. You suggest that the regulations of the treasury as to the goods imported into the United States from Manila may require the performance of acts similar to those which he formerly performed when in the exercise of his consular functions, and stating that you are not advised as to what regulations, if any, have been adopted in regard to the importation of goods from places in our military occupation. In reply, I have to inform you that no special regulations have been adopted as to importations from places in possession of our military authorities in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and no questions have been raised in regard thereto or considered, although some importations from Porto Rico have been made into the port of New York. Such places are regarded as foreign territory, and importations therefrom are dutiable under the law, knd the requirements as to consular certification of invoices, etc., are still in force as to such goods. If practicable in the present condition of affairs, this department is of the opinion that the resumption by Mr. Williams of his duties as consul at Manila would be advantageous to commerce and the revenue.” THE GOLD CLIMBING. United States Treasury Now Has $220,916,282. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.-The gold in the treasury is steadily climbing ypwsrd. and to-day again broke $ record with a total

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reserve of $220,916,282, the highest in the history of the reserve fund.. United States Treasurer Roberts, speaking of the upward trend of the gold in the treasury, said that out of about $40,000,000 yet to be paid in for the new war loan, it is likely that $25,000,000 or $30,000,000 will be in gold. “It would not be at all strange,” he said, “if before the tide turns our total gold will be considerably over $250,000,000.” SPANISH TRADE DEPRESSED. Now Believed to Be the Time to Make a Commerelal Treaty. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.—At the end of the second month of the war with Spain the effect of the hostilities on* Spanish trade had been to depress it considerably, as revealed in a report to the Department of State by Theodore Mertens. United States consular agent at Valencia. He says that in the month of June there was a decline of $9,843.0G) in the value of importations, while the export trade increased only $1,737,00(1, principally in raw materials sought after from abroad on account of the low value of the peseta. The consular agent urges that, now ttiat the war is over, American capital should take advantage of the opportunity to exploit Spanish trade before the country recovers from its present inertia. He believes that trade treaties should be negotiated and that commercial enterprises should be organized to do business in Spain under concessions that may be obtained. Many industrial enterprises might be opened by Americans and made to pay well by intelligent management, as evidenced by the success of the French capitalists now entering the same field. To Facilitate Inland Trade. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.-To facilitate trade between the Cuban and Porto Rican ports in our possession, the following order has been issued from the War Department; "Where duty has been paid upon merchandise entered at any port in Cuba or Porto Rico in the possesssion and under the control of the military forces of the United States, and the importer desires to transport said merchandise or any part thereof to any other port or place in Cuba or Porto Rico in the possesssion and under the control of the military forces of the United States, such merchandise shall be admitted at such port or place without further entry, upon identification of the merchandise and presentation of a certificate of the proper officer of the United States showing the payment of the duties thereon at the port of original entry. "G. D. MEIKLEJOHN, “Acting Secretary of War.” Defining: an Oil Refiner. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-A ruling defining a refiner of oil, in connection with the war revenue law, was made to-day by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Scott, on an official inquiry as to returns required from persons, corporations, etc., engaged in refining petroleum. The department holds that on the question presented it is not material what the product is, or is called, or what method of refining be employed, providing petroleum be refined, the decision says: “The fact that one concern extracts by distillation the more volatile constituents from petroleum, and that another refines crude petroleum in connection with a certain per centum of the product of the first concern and produces lubricating oils, vaseline, etc., does not seem to place such second concern in a different class from the first. They both appear to refine petroieum, and therefore, are both, in the view of this office, from the light it now has, held to be subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 27 of the war revenue act.” First Reglutered War Bonds. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The Treasury Department to-day sent out its first batch of tbe registered war bonds, the issuance up to now having been confined to the coupon bonds payable to bearer. The department started putting out the coupon bonds in the last week of July and the issue has comr prised s2*), SIOO, SSOO and a few SI,OOO bonds. There are about 20,000 cases calling for the coupon bonds still to be met. About 45,000 cases are on file calling for registered bonds, and these will be met as rapidly as possible. The issue will be in 29’s, 100’s, 500’s, I,ooo’s, s,(Co’s and 10,0C0's. 1,000 Gouts on Board. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The collector of customs at New Orleans has telegraphed the Treasury Department that a private company had asked permission to land at the Mississippi river quarantine station, near Port Eads, 1,600 goats that had been shipped from Galveston to Havana and returned to New Orleans by the steamer Tyr. The unusual ground for the request, authority to grant which the department has wired, was that the fumigation of the vessel would kill the goats. Construing: the Stump Tax. WASHINGTON, Sept, 3. —The Treasury Department holds that an article of agreement on contract for the sale of real estate is not subject to a stamp tax unless it conveys some right es title. It in also held that an inheritance consisting exclusively of government bonas is subject to a tax under the same conditions as money or other personal property, under Section 29 of the war revenue act. No Word Yet from Justice White. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Still no word has come to the State Department from Justice White as to his intentions respecting his appointment as a member of the Peace Commission, whence it is inferred, owing to the approach of the date set for the sailing ot the commission from New York, that the prospects of his acceptance are becoming brighter. Pension Swindler Caught. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Special Examiner Reed, of the Pension Bureau, to-day arrested in this city George F. Anderson, a man of many aliases, who fraudulently impersonated an officer of the Pension Bureau. Anderson hjd, for some time, operated In Maryland arid adjacent States, and was captured after a long chase. ARKANSAS CAMPAIGN. Democrats Said to Be In No Danger from the Fusion Forces. LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 3.—The state campaign closed to-night and the election will occur on Monday. A full set of state and county officers are to be elected, as well as members of the Legislature, But little interest is centered in the general result, it being conceded that the Democrats will have an ample majority over the combined opposition on state officers, and that the ticket headed by Governor Jones will be elected. There are several hot contests for county offices in different localities, where the bitterest of feeding has sprung up between factions, and in these places exciting limes are looked for. Whfie the success of their state ticket was never in danger, the Democrats have conducted a vigorous campaign. mainly for the purpose of keeping up representation in their state convention. The Populist and Republican candidates for Governor have also canvassed the State, and to-night a joint debate is being held in this city before a large audience. Nominated on 749th Ballot. PORT HURON, Mich., Sept. 3.—After 749 ballots the Seventh district Republican convention to-night nominated Edgar Weeks, of Macomb county, for Congress. Horace G. Snover, the present Congressman from that district, was fought by the St. Clair delegation which, on the>even-hundred-and-forty-ninth ballot, flopped from William Hartsuff. of Port Huron, who had received their support at the beginning, to Edgar Weeks, nominating him by 1 vote. Congressional Nominations. HOUSTON, Tex., Sept 3.—The Populist convention for the First district met at Nova Scotia to-day and nominated Joseph H. Eagle for Congress. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—The Republicans of the Fourth district to-day nominated Julius Kahn, ex-member of the Assembly. for Congress. ST. PAUL. Mtnn., Sept. 3.—Tbe Fourth district Democrats, at Stillwater., to-day nominated Judge John W. WU|ia, of this l city, for Confresft

CARING FOR HOOSIERS * . —■ 4 SICK MEMBERS OF 159TH TAKEN TO PHILADELPHIA HOSPITALS. —4 Col. Barnett Thinks His Regiment Will Not Get Home Until After the State Fair. THE 158TH HEARS THE NEWS * NO GREAT REJOICING OVER THE OR* DER TO BE MUSTERED OUT. a-Twenty-Eighth Indiana Battery Left Chivka manga Last Night for Indianapolis. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3.-The third hospital train sent from this city under the auspices of the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, arrived from Camp Meade. Pa., with more than one hundred sick soldiers on board this morning. Most of the men are suffering from typhoid fever, although quite a number are down with malarial and other fevers. None of the patients are believed to be dangerously 111. Over 390 sick soldiers are now being cared for at the MedicoChirurgical Hospital. Among the patients received to-day were the following: Third Missouri—R. L. Pounds. Company I, St. Louis; Williqfn Potts. Company 1, Orleans, Ind.; F. H. Mustersough, Company E; Charles Nooh, Company L; W. A. Sargeant, Company C. Fourth Missouri—Elmer Goyen, Company D; Anton Reutier, Company I; J. F. Pixter, Company E; R. Cranston, Company F; Wm. G. Mae Neal, Company L. Fourth lowa—Charles Wright, Company I. Twenty-second Kansas—R. Keeler, Company H; E. Crairoft, Company L; William Gully, Company L. Seventh Illinois—William Lyons, Company M, Cook county; George Connell, Company A, Chicago. Second Illinois—William Maekie, Company D. Chicago. One-hundred-and-flfty-ninth Indiana C. L. GREEN, Company A. Vincennes. HENRY CONKLIN, Company I, Greencastle. , EDWIN BORNER. Company G, Connersville. CLYDE WOODS, Company A, Princeton. LEA PAXTON. Company I, Greencastle. H. B. WINTERS, Company B, Aurora. R. F, CARTER, Company L, Westport, 111. ISAAC MILLER. Company G. Clifford. Thirty-third Michigan—Charles McGadden, Company R; Robert C. Harman, Company G; Ira Way, Company G; J. C. Magowan. Second Michigan—Louis Becker, Company E, Tyne. Mich. The University of Pennsylvania hospital train, which started for Camp Meade last right, returned this morning with forty-six soldiers. They are members of the New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri regiments. Nearly all are suffering from typhoid or malarial fever. No one is seriously ill. Following is a list of the Western soldier patients, all of whom are now at the University hospital, from the One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth Indiana: CORPORAL MARION YELTON, Company L, Vincennes, Ind. HARRY HAUGHLAN, Company M, Evansville, Ind. EDWARD BITTER, Company M, Evansville, Ind. HUGH WHITNEY", Company K, Princeton, Ind. JAMES F. HILL, Company I, Greencastle, Ind. JOHN N. SOUTH, Company I, Gosport, Ind. Ht'r . Second Division hospital: E. F. BALDRIDGE, Terre Haute, Ind. WILL MISS THE STATE FAIR. So Say Col. Burnett’s Men ut Camp Meade, Pennsylvania.. Correspondence of the Journal. CAMP MEADE, Pa., Sept. I.—From present indications the One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth will not arrive in Indianapolis in time to run in competition with the fat stock show at the State fair. Unless present orders are changed requiring the records and papers for the muster out to be prepared before leaving here, it will, it is thought, be a /couple of weeks before the command leaves. Colonel Barnett to-day said he thought it would not require more than ten days to prepare for departure. This, however, is only an estimate. Orders have been issued recalling all officers who are absent on leave of absence in order to prepare for the muster out. Sherman Stultz, Company B, Terre Haute, died at Fort Myer Sunday of typhoid fever after a two weeks’ illness, and was buried at Arlington. Va., Sunday. The eompany was only notified of the fact to-day. The Third New Y’ork, camped back of the One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth. has not been ordered mustered out yet. and the men lay in their tents at night and almost drive the officers to destraction by singing in chorus, “We Want to Go Home!” Captain Coleman has not yet been able to join his company, but his condition is said to be improving. During the warm weather the afternoon drills have been suspended, and the men put in their time bathing in the river about one mile away. G. W. B. 4— CAMP MEADE DRILLS STOPPED. Hot Weather Found to Be Too Severe on the Soldiers. CAMP MEADE. Middletown. Pa.. Sept. 3.—The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Michigan detachments will start Monday for Isle Lake, Michigan. The regiments have returned from Santiago and have been ordered to the same place. General Graham has been advised by the War Department that the Two-hundred-and-first, Two-hun-dred-and-seeond and Two-hundred-and-thirJ New York, the Second Connecticut, the First Massachusetts and the Fifth Pennsylvania and the First and Third Maryland will be sent to Camp Meade to join his corps. They will take the places of the Sixty-fifth New York, Third Virginia and First Connecticut, which have been ordered to their home stations from Camp Alger be mustered out. The Eighteenth Pennsylvania is getting in shape to be disbanded and expects to leave for Pittsburg next Saturday on a thirty-day furlough. General Graham has ordered all drills and parades to be suspended during the hot weather. Captains W. H. J)erric;k. J. E. Walker and Representative Madison, Second Tennessee, have been ordered before a board of examination as to their efficiency and conduct. One hundred men in this regiment will be discharged on account of physical disability, and tome home. Pure Water at Camp Mead*. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Colonel Moore, of the quartermaster’s department, has returned to Washington from Middletown, where he has been In charge of work at Camp Meade. He has made a verbal report to Secretary Alger of the conditions there. He says that the camp is one of the finest farms in Pennsylvania, on high, rolling ground. 359 to 400 feet above the Susquehanna river. The water supply is abundant and is obtained from such a source that there can be no possible danger of pollution. Three artesian wells furnish the supply. These are from 27l to 381 feet deep, bored through solid granite for some disUnq* and aearly m feet J #oU4 eaodeume

jlpjsp' MR. PATRICK DUGAN. Mr. Patrick Dugan. 40 South West street, Indianapolis. Ind., says: “I was a great sufferer from nasal catarrh. It caused such severe pains in my head tnat at times it felt as if it would burst. The disease had developed so much as to affect my stomach and I could scarcely eat. My eyes were in bad shape and were continually discharging. I decided to try Munyon's treatment and am happy to say that in one month I am entirely free from pains, have no discharge from my nose or eyes. In fact, I am completely cured.” Miinyon’s Remedies—a separate cure for each disease—are sold at all druggists, mostly 25 cents a. vial. Munyon’s doctors at your service free, from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sunday. 10 to i2; Majestic Building, Pennsylvania and Maryland streets. before the water is reached. This water is piped about the camps and to tanks, where the water c..is are easily supplied. Some regiments are supplied by a hydrant in front of each company, others by water carts. Colonel Moore says that there is an abundant supply of this water, which has bean analyzed and pronounced absolutely pure. The sanitary conditions of the camp are excellent. Precautions have been taken that prevent any trouble arising from the sinks and refuse matter. Colonei Moore also reports that the food is abundant and troops apparently well satisfied. President MeKiniey, when at camp Meade, told Colonel Moore that he considered the plax:e an ideal camp. BATTERY B COMING HOME. The Fort Wayne Boys Left Chicka-maiiß-a Park taint Night. CHICKAMAUGA PARK, Ga., Sept. 3. The artillery brigade expected to begin moving to ; day, but they would have been compelled to march through mud and rain six miles to Rossville in order to embark, and all except the Twenty-eighth Indiana concluded to remain until Monday. The Twen-ty-eighth left to-night for Indianapolis. Governor Bradley and party, of Kentucky, arrived this afternoon with a special hospital train and left to-night with twenty-six sick and convalescent soldiers from the Second Kentucky. The men were all in very good condition, and most of them on the road to recovery. The headquarters of the First and Second Brigades, First Division, Third Corps, moved to Anniston to-day. The Fourteenth New York left for Anniston this afternoon. Battery A, Georgia Artillery, left for Griffin, Ga., this afternoon. The signal corps left to-day for Knoxville. No removals will be made to-morrow, but on Mnoday the remaining artillery batteries will leave for their home States to be mustered out and one or more regiments will leave for Anniston. The First Mississippi and First Missouri will leave for the home stations early next week, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Chickamauga is rapidly assuming a deserted appearance. Only a few regiments are left, and nearly all of the camp followers have departed. The little town of Lytle, which has been one of the busiest places In this section for four months, is getting back to Its normal condition. The midway, which was the scene of much turbulence during the summer, is being done away with. The score of frame shacks are being torn down, and the people wno did business in them are leaving for new fields. NOT ONE OF THE KICKERS. Sergeant Duly, of YVincheMter, Says the Men Are to Blame for Sickneaa. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WINCHESTER, Ind., Sept. 3.—Sergeant Ulysses G. Daly, of Company F, One-hun-dred-and-lifty-eighth Indiana Volunteers, is at home on a ten days’ furlough, and while here will file his bond and qualify as city marshal, to which office he was elected before entering the army. He speaks in the highest terms of the treatment accorded the men at Chickamauga Park by their superior officers and makes the broad assertion that no soldier in the camp cun charge his sickness to the negligence, indifference or inattention of his superior officers. The general hospitals he claims were most admirably equipped and supplied with trained nurses, who gave the sick every attention. The division hospitals, he says, were not so well managed, largely because of the negligence of the stewards, who were detailed from the various regiments to serve there. The surgeons were, he claims, very much overwoiKed, Dr. Paul Barcus. of the One-hunared-and-fifty-eighth, particularly. Considering; tho number of men at the park and the length ol' time they were kept there, lie thinks tne percentage of sickness and deaths was low. The food supply furnished by Uncle Sam was always ample In quantity, of the best quality and of considerable variety. The qysentery so much spoken of was due largely, he thinks, to the indiscretion of the men themselves, who after pay day filled up on pies and Other indigestible food, while the typhoid fever was due not so much to an inadequate water supply as to the fact that the water had to be hauled from the springs and stood in barrels until consumed. This difficulty is entirely overcome at Knoxville, where two fine springs near the camp furnish an inexhaustible supply of pure water. NOT SO ENTHUSIASTIC. Col. Smith’ll Mon Failed to Cheer on New* of Mutter Order. CAMP POLAND, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 3,-Two of the nine regiments encamped here have been ordered mustered out. These are the First Pennsylvania and One-hun-dred-and-fifty-eighth Indiana. The former will be moved to Philadelphia and the latter to Indianapolis. The men received the announcement with a degree of carelessness, many of them preferring to remain here in their delightful camp. The muster-out sentiment has depreciated since the troops were removed here from Chickamauga. Brig. Gen. Charles F. Roe will be succeeded in command of the First Brigade by Colonel Gardner, of the Thirty-fourth Michigan Regiment. This will be temporary, However. General McKee has issued orders prohibiting the sale of fruits and other viands in the camps. This is done for the sake of the health of the men. Four army' paymasters arrived here this afternoon with orders to pay off the regiments encamped here. They will distribute IHOO.WjO to the troops. It is understood here to-night that the Third Kentucky and Third North Carolina regiments are to be brought here to take the places vacated by the Indiana and Pennsylvania regiments ordered mustered out. General McKee has ordered a division court-martial to try all offenses committed in the camp. Illinois Majors to Be Tried. JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Sept. 3.-Formal charges have been preferred against Major Bennett and Major Long, of t.h€ Fourth Illinois Regiment, by Colonel Andel, on charges of conduct unbecoming officers and gentlemen, and they will be tried by court-martial. Major Elliott, who was also under arrest, has been released and restored to his battalion. The charges grow out of a joint telegram sent to the Governor of Illlnots stating that the regiment desired to go to Cuba.

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to which statement Colonel Andel took exceptions. While asleep on a wharf in one of the suburbs of the city on Friday evening. Private William McHugh, of Company G. Second Alabama Regiment, rolled off into the water and was drowned before assistance could be given. The body was recovered and will be sent to Atlanta for interment. The contract for transporting the First Wisconsin Regiment to Milwaukee was today awarded to the Plant system. The route will be the Plant system to Montgomery. Louisville & Nashville to Louisville, Pennsylvania lines to Chicago, and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad to Milwaukee, which will be the mustering out point. Wnnt Aprons for Nurses. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Acting Director Mary Desha, of the G. A. R. hospital corps, has issued an appeal asking each Daughter of the American Revolution Society to consider herself a committee of one to furnish aprons to be sent at her earliest convenience to the genera! hospitals at Jacksonville and Chickamauga. At least 400 dozen are needed. The large cal! for nurses (509 last week) has prevented the hospital corps from keeping its word and furnishing aprons, one dozen of which are required for each nurse. Hospital Trains. NEWPORT NEWS. Va.. Sept. 3.—A hospital train of two coaches arrived at Old Point to-day to take the sick Kentuckians in the hospital back to their homes. The train is in charge of Colonel Waiter Forrester, and will leave for Kentucky to-mor-row. ATLANTA. Ga., Sept. 3.—The Ohio relief train passed through Atlanta to-night on Its way to Fernandina. Three cars were left at F’ort McPherson, and will be used to carry the sick Ohioans home. The return from here will be made next Wednesday. Mortality Heavy. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—There were to-day 408 sick men among the troops in camp here. This number incLudes those In the outlying hospitals and in private residences. There are still from thirty-six to forty typhoid fever cases. The Seventh California shows a total of ninety-four sick men. The Fifty-first lowa has fifty-seven in the division hospital. The mortality has been heavy in this regiment of late. There have been six deaths since July 31. Severe Sentence for a Corporal. WASHINGTON. Sept. 3.—Corporal Wm. I. Ellington, Company K. Fourth United States Volunfeer Infantry, having been found guilty of a violation of the twentyfirst and twenty-second and thirty-eighth articles of war by a court-martial, convened at Fredericksburg, Va.. was sentenced to dishonorable discharge and confinement in prison for three years. The man will be sent to St. Francis barracks, St. Augustine. Fla., for confinement. Twenty-Five Cents for Sandwich. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The alleged overcharging by stewards on board transports is stated at the quartermaster general’s office to be one single instance where a steward charged a soldier 25 cents for a sandwich. No other complaints of the kind have been made at the quartermaster’s department. EARTHQUAKE AT SANTIAGO onr New PoaaetiKlon Gets a Oanblc Shaking: Up the Same Day. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept. 3.—Two earthquake shocks were felt here this afternoon. The first, which occurred at 2:15 o'clock, was of unusual severity and shook every house in the city. The frightened people ran out into the streets. The second shock, which was lighter, occurred just an hour later. The Saratoga sailed this evening for Montauk Point with one hundred sick and a quantity of Mauser rifles and ammunition. The sailing of the Missouri has been delayed until to-morrow owing to the difficulty of obtaining a sufficient supply of water The reports of General Wood's corps of physicians showed a marked improvement in the general health of the city. The death rate this week is from 50 to 75 per cent lower than it was two weeks ago. Lydia Plnkham Jokes. Chicago Post. The republication of the pleasant jest which announced In all seriousness several years ago that Editor Bok, then an unmarried and eligible gentleman, was about to marry the lovely daughter of Lvdia Plnkham, "woman’s best friend.” serves to recall the fact that the Plnkham matrimonial X* e has been held in great favor by the wits of the press. We should hesitate to undertake to give a list of the prominent young men who at one time and another Pave been associated in matrimonial deg*™ t°h n * v h X,r fami,y - but beWM* Mr, Ny l|v"n to WyoAn, .2.4 Colorado he made quite a local reputation

A SIDEBOARD 17.50 EACH Others, sl2, sls and $lB W. H. Messenger 201 E. WASHINGTON ST. BASE ♦ BALL . . . . 'M-DAY . . . . INDIANAPOLIS is. COLUMBUS Two Game*—One AilmiKnlon. First Game Culled nt 2 |>. ni. Tickets on sale at Chas. F. Meyer's Cigar Store, Adam's Cigar Store. South Meridian and Bates House Pharmacy. as a humorist, and was already well known to those of the newspaper guild who followed his quaint paragraphs and peculiar order of humor. Business reverses led him to abandon the West and seek new fields. Disliking to admit that he had made a failure of his journalistic enterprises, and wishing to give a plausible reason for his return to "the States,” he announced with much solemnity to his friends of the press that fie wan coming East to marry Lydia Plnkham. Strangely enough, this absurd statement was received seriously, although the philanthropic Lydia was old enough to be Bill* mother—if. Indeed, she was living at tne time—and the joke did make Uiil famous among people who had never before heart of him. Since then Mrs. Pinkham has been solemnly betrothed to a score of good fellow's. and her daughter and doubtless her granddaughter, if she has one. are expect-1 to keep up the family reputation and sustain the family joke. If there is communication in the after life Lydia Pinkham an* till Nye and several of the geritie jesterw who made merry at their expense na\' walked together in the Elysian fields and tc* called for their own amusement the harmless pranks of a previous existence. The Bnnjt ami the Bustle. New York Evening Sun. The bang and the bustle have been thr<>at ' enlng us for some time, and indications that autumn will find them securely established among us. Already, in country towi- . Western cities and other provincial Pj a ‘ where the symptoms of any suggested ion are felt long before New \ ork r-* made up her fastidious mind whether or • to accept it. the girls have begun to P their hair over their foreheads and to ana- n a small cushion to the rear of their ore skirt bands. It remains to he seen, of <*°t**-Jr whether th* cachet of metropolitan a Pl’ r ? . will follow, cut at present things P° in ' "L* W'ay. Both bang and bustle are unwelcoro and unhealthy: each Is, in a J grotesque, if not barbarous: never** there fashions, indeed, with less to r^T. r mend them In the way of beauty and ut■ • and. as everybody know’s, no fash*®- 1 th .. have a stronger recommendation than u* • The unbeautifying bang and th* barwu™ 1 bustle were banished, but for a Utile they were bound to return to us * and unless things should take a very ~ trary turn that “sometime” will be tms Winnie Davla’a f’ondltlon. NARRAG AN SETT PIFMt. R. I- Bepj-*~ The condition of Winnie Davis, da ter of Jefferson Davis, who has been se oualy ill here for some time, was wt improved to-day. Miss Davis passed a- - night, and did not res* ® . he The thermometer to-day registered 33 in m shade, and the extreme heat has gr*-_ taxed her strength, but otherwise her pn sieian thinks that he notes a sl,h iA h ~iL for the better in the run of fever. The L - sieian has definitely diagnosed the case malarial gastritis.

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