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BONDS WE OFFER $5,000.00 Indiana poll* (( per cent, bond*, loaned for the improvement of various ■treeta. Amount* to anlt purchaser. Price, 10l und interest. CAMPBELL, WILD & CO. SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS DEFORMITY APPARATUS, Trusses, Elastic Hosiery. Largest stock of ARTIFICIAL, EYES In the State. WM. H. ARMSTRONG & CO. (New No. 127) 77 S. Illinois st., Indianapolis. Ind v, OBiTUARY. Brig. Gen. John Kemp Mfxener, Aged Sixty-Three. WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-Brig. Gen. John Kemp Mizener, United States army, retired, died very suddenly this afternoon at his residence in this city. He had been ill about a week, but was believed to have been improved. The immediate cause of death was heart disease. He has a brother, Brig. Gen. Henry R. Mizener, in Detroit. He was sixty-three years old. He served throughout the civil war and received brevet commissions lor gallantry at the battles of Corinth anu Panola, Miss. Other Deuths. ASHTABULA, C., Sept. B.—Congressman S. A. Northway, of the Nineteenth district, died at his dome in Jeftersoq township tonight, aged sixty-five years. BERLIN, Sept. B.—Professor Dietrich, chief constructor of the German navy, is dead. HE SAW POOR DREYFIA. A Few Words from the Prisoner of Devil’s Island. In the Kuche und Keller, a European magazine, Karl Vv tin Ueber, cook of the Netheriand steamship Andalusia, writes as follows: Our ship, the Netheriand steamship Andalusia, was anchored oh Devil’s island on April 1 after a visit to Cayenne, when we were hailed from snore. At the same time a small boat put otf, manned by soldiers. They came alongside to ask the captain for the loan of a cook while the Andalusia was waiting for freight. The cook of the little garrison had broken his arm, they said, and our cook was to teach one of their men so that he might be able to attend to the kitchen until another was sent by the commander. The captain sent me to the Island, and whtle busy in the little kitchen instructing a soldier in the mysteries of broiling lamb chops and cooking pork 1 had plenty oi opportunity to question Captain Dreyfus's guards. The men, who had at first seemed disinclined to speak, became quite loquacious alter a while. "He” was not so ill treated as those in the world seem to think; "he” is not confined; "he” can go everywhere on the island. Os course, two men are always at his heeis. “He” gets up between 6 and 7 in the morning and his first breakfast consists o' a cup ot chocolate. If the weather is gooo ’he” goes for a walk soon afterward and winds up his promenade by a bath. "But are you not afraid he might swim -away or commit suicide?” 1 asked. "Not at all,” said the soldiers, “for a rope is fastened to both his wrists, and the ends of the rope are in the hands of the guard. After the bath he takes his second breakfast—butter, bread, ham or eggs and a bottle of beer. Then he goes in for study. He reads and writes for several hours.” "What kind of books has he got?" The soldiprs looked at each other. After awhile one of them said: “He is only allowed to read technical works. But he can write whatever he pleases. He is now writing an account of his life.” "Must he show you what ne writes?” "No; we read only the letters he desires to have forwarded* These are sent to the commander in cayenne." “And does the commander send them off as received?” “No; they are copied and the originals are retained at Cayenne.” "What does he do besides reading and writing?” "Two weeks ago we received permission from the commander to play cards with the prisoner, and he has become an inveterate gamoier since. After dinner—he has always soup, a roast and dessert—about t o’clock in the afternoon, we always play baccarat together." "What are the stakes?” The soldier laughed. "He has not got a sou. and there are probably not 3 francs on the whole island. We piay for shells. Tne prisoner gets his supper at 6 in the evening—roast or ham and a bottle of beer. Soon afterward he goes to bed. He is not allowed to have ligh., you know. Only the guard at the door ket.ps up a wood fire. He says the hours from 7 to 10 are his worst. He cannot go to sleep before 10 o’clock, and the guard is not allowed to answer any questions he may put. In the daytime we may talk to him, but only on the most trilling subjects—the weather, his health, etc. Our own country is not to be mentioned.” "Is he allowed to smoke?” "No; that is. I think he is not, for the commander does not furnish him tobacco.” '".May I leave some cigars for him?” The soldier did not answer. I emptied my tobacco pouch and my cigar case on the table. I hope he got what I left for him. As I was about to return to my ship I saw a man. followed by two soldiers, approaching from the strand. Dreyfus! He seemed to have heard of my presence and measured me with questioning looks. His lips moved, but he did not speak. He is a middle-sized man, cadaverous and of a yellow r complexion. His eyes are deep in thir sockets; he walks with a stoop and his forehead is furrowed. He Is growing old rapidly, no doubt. Dreyfus whispered with his guard, and. •when the latter had nodded assent, walked up to me and shook me by the hand. “Bring my good wishes to the wide world.” he said, in a voice quivering with emotion. Then he walked slowly toward his hut, where he remained standing at the door, waving his haad. .as my boat dashed into the billows. ILSjf -an hour later we were on the way home.

PLEASKU WITH INDIAHAPOLIS. A Recent VTnltor Find* It an Attractive Place. San Francisco Town Talk. An ideal convention city is Indianapolis. Jnd. With its wide and level, well paved and exceptionally clean streets, its excellent hotel accommodations, unlimited railroar facilities for the rapid handling of 'arge crowds, added to the open-handed hosn'tality of its citizens, the Hoosier capital—the great thriving Inland commercial center of the midland Western States—has not its superior. There is no disease-breeding garbage or sickening odor to be encountered in its thoroughfares, no rough and noisy cobble-stones for man or beast to stumble over, no jams or delays to pedestrian, cyclist, vehicles or street cars on account of narrow and easily obstructed streets. 1 may be visited by the severest rainstorms and an hour after it subsides the most daintily-appareled maiden may trip across the streets at any point without fear of soiling her shoes or skirts. And to the wheelmen and wheel woman it ts all that the most devoted to that healthful and fascinating exercise could desire. The city has been laid out perfectly square, the streets running due east and west, north and south with four avenues diverging from the corners of the central square, and when the visitor comes to the junction of the streets and one of these avenues It seems like a ten-acre open space, surrounded with beautiful edifices. A circle has been made of a quarter section of each of the four squares forming the central square and in the center of this circle has been erected to the memory of Indiana's heroes of the rebellion the finest historical monument In the United States, if not in the world: on* of its attractive features and most remarkable portion of Its construction being the large water fall of crystal water which continually flows from the four sides of its base. Unlike Chicago and others of Its neighbors, ground room has not been considered in Indianapolis in the erection of its business houses, and hence four or five-story substantial. attractive and commodious structures Is the rule. Dreadful. Washington Post. That makes me think—talking of jewelry, I mean—that a Washington girl who is in Paris just now writes me that the earring Is in fashion—not earrings, but earring, for the fad of the moment is to wear but one. and that one as large and conspicuous as may be The ear selected for adornment is the left, and aa the newest fashion in hair dressing leaves the ears e'ntirely uncovered, the earring Is thought to be extremely effective All I can say la that if the thing threatens Washington I hope the government will eea that we are quarantined against it.

BATTERY A HAS SAILED _♦ LEFT PONCE YESTERDAY WITH GEN. WILSON’S COMMAND. Latest Jiw* from Col. Gnndfr’i RegU meat-Chiekumunga Nearly Deserted—Other Camps. - ■ WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.-Major General Wilson and nearly six hundred officers and men left Ponce, Porto Rico, this evening on the transport Concho for New York. General Wilson’s dispatch to the War Department concerning the departure of the Concho follows: "Ponce, Sept. 8. Adjutant General, Washington: "Just sailed at 5:30 o’clock on transport Concho, with following troops on board: Myself and stafT of First division, First Army Corps, and staff of Sixth Army Corps, sixteen officers, seventeen men; detachment of United States engineers. Company C, with twenty-seven men, five officers; unattached artillery battalion, field and staff, two officers, three men; Battery A, Missouri Volunteers, three officers, 155 men; Battery A, Twenty-seventh Indiana Artillery, five officers, 164 men; Battery B, Pennsylvania Volunteers, three officers, 164 men. Should reach New York Sept. 14. Total, 33 officers, 530 enlisted men. "WILSON, Major General.” Another dispatch from General Wilson, in which so many errors had been made in transmission that it could not be made public, indicated the departure from Ponce tonight of the transport Alamo, hiving on board three companies of the Second Wisconsin, Company A, of the First Illinois, Company H, of the First District of Columbia, and Battery C, Pennsylvania Artillery. The Alamo also is bc-und for New York. PAYING OFF THE 158TH. Col. Smith’s Men Were the First to Get Their Money. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. B.—The work of paying off the eight regiments encamped at Camp Poland and one at Camp Bob Taylor began to-day. The One-hundred-and-fifty-eighth Indiana is being paid off and the First Missouri will be paid to-morrow. It will take about a week to finish paying off the entire division. An order was received by Colonel Brown, of the Fourth Tennessee, directing him to report to Gen. Breckinridge, which indicates that this regiment will be attached to the Second Division, First Army Corps. Orders were issued at division headquarters to-day for a courtmartial to be convened in the First Brigade. No notice has been received as yet of the arrival of other regiments which have been ordered here. The hospital train sent out by the State of Minnesota took forty-one patients from this camp to-night,, Private Arthur C. -uekel, Company L, First West Virginia Regiment, died to-day in the division hospital. ■ —♦ VOLUNTEERS LEAVE WIKOFF. None bat Refralars, 13,000 in All, Now at Montank Point. CAMP WIKOFF, Montauk Point. L. 1., Sept. B.—This is now a camp of regulars, 5,000 horse and 8.000 foot. The last of the volunteers save the Rough Riders and the sick left for their homes to-day. Eleven hundred recruits for the regular infantry arrived to-night from Southern posts. Companies B and M, about 260 men, of the Third Texas Volunteers, got away on the 9 o’clock train, bound for Fort Clark, Texas. About twenty-five of the Texas men are sick. These were put into a baggage car and made comfortable on steamer chairs. The First District of Columbia regiment had expected to get away this morning. but it developed a mix-up had occurred in the matter of transportation. The death list from the general hospital to-day included: William Cramer, Company C. Twelfth Infantry; Joseph Keene, Company H. Ninth Massachusetts; Riden T. Keene, Company H, Ninth Massachusetts; Otto Sandhammer, Company A, Eighth Ohio; Frank A. Griffith, Company I, First District of Columbia; Joseph Peerman, Company A, Third Infantry; J. C. Long, Company C, Eighth Ohio. The Keene brothers of the Ninth Massachusetts, died within an hour of each other of malarial fever. To-day there were 761 patients in the general hospital and 900 vacant cots. In the detention hospital there were 350 and 200 vacant beds. General Wheeler will go West to-morrow with the body of his son. General S. M. B. Young has received orders to report to Major General Graham at Camp Meade. Pa., for assignment to duty. He will leave the camp at 9 a. m. to-morrow. He was the first commander of Camp Wikoff and i is believed that he will command a division of -the Second Army Corps, which is to return to Cuba for garrison duty. These Michigan volunteers were discharged from hospital and sent home today: John Reardon, Company G, Thirtythird Michigan, Plainfield; Guy Lincoln, Company G, Thirty-third Michigan, Alpena, and John Behring, Company G, Thirty-third Michigan, Alpena. Major M. C. Hutchins and ills clerk, J. Banks Burrett, who have been in charge of the information bureau, have been ordered to Cincinnati. Major Hutchins succeeds CapL Palmer as depot quartermaster.

ALMOST DESERTED. Only Five Reglnusil* Remain in Camp at Cliickamanga. CHICKAMAUGA PARK. Ga., Sept. B. Only five regiments of the great volunteer army mobilized at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park, remain in camp here to-night, and two of these will be gone before Saturday morning. These regiments are the Second Kentucky, Second Arkansas, Ninth New York, Third United States Volunteer Cavalry, Captain Grigsby’s Rough Riders and the Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry, immunes. The First Arkansas Infantry left this afternoon for Little Rock, Ark., and the First Mississippi for Lauderdale Springs. The Ninth New York will go Saturday to be mustered out. The Rough Riders will be paid to-morrow, and will be mustered out here. The Sixth United States Volunteer Infantry will remain here as a guard of the government property at the park. The field hospital of the First Division, First Army Corps, was to-day disbanded, and the sick, twenty-five in number, were transferred to the Sternberg Hospital. Three deaths were reported from the various hospitals to-day: Sergeant Batch, Company A, Eighth Massachusetts; Private John P. Chatham, Company B, First Pennsylvania, and Frank G. Grummel. Company E, Second Ohio. The investigation of the Second Division, Second Corps hospital, by Maj. Milo B. Ward, chief surgeon Third Brigade, Second Division, Third Corps; Maj. J. J. Johnson and Maj. E. S. Helburn has been completed and detailed report of the case will probably be submitted to General Breckinridge this week. Over two hundred witnesses were introduced before the committee and several days have been consumed in the Investigation. The cases of alleged ill treatment and neglect were investigated by the committee, and every point in the cases were carefully sifted and the exact facts brought out. ♦ SEVENTH CORPS ALL RIGHT. Medical Commission Finds Sanitary Conditions Good. Florida Times Union. The army medical commission which reached this city and began its work in Gamp Cuba Libre one week ago yesterday

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morning finished its duties and left at 7 o’clock last evening for Huntsville, Ala. Its special car was attached to the rear of the Florida Central & Peninsular train leaving at that hour, and the work of the commission will be continued in Huntsville, Chickamauga, Middletown, Pa., and at Montauk. The instructions issued to these officers were to make a thorough study of typhoid fevers ir, the different camps of the army and also to make suggestions to the commanders of the camps as to improvements which will, in the opinion of these medical officers, benefit the camps from a sanitary point of view This report of the evidence taken here was prepared and forwarded to the surgeon general of the army before the party left last evening, and a letter was also sent to General Lee. These officers, Maj. Walter Reid, U. S. A., Maj. E. O. Shakespere, U. S. V., and Maj. Victor S. Vaughan, U. S. V., have lost no time in their investigations here and have personally examined every hospital, the camp of every regiment, and with especial care those from which the highest sick lists have been reported. They have investigated the camp at 1 a bio Beach and have held repeated and exhaustive consultations with those surgeons that have been specially charged with the care of the fever patients in all parts of the camp. They have collected a mass of testimony from the surgeons which will be used by the surgeon general in compiling his conclusions as to the marked prevalence of typhoid fever in many of the camps of the country. A Times Union and Citizen representative called at the car last evening just before the start was made for the West and Major Shakespere w r as asked by Major Reid, chairman of the board, to express the views of the commission, so far as they might be made public, of the camp and of the hospitals of the Seventh Army Corps. “The Seventh Corps has had the advantage of almost every other camp in having an inexhaustible supply of water that is absolutely unimpeachable,” he said. “There have been no suspicions of its purity, and the medical corps has been aided by this fact. There has been also the fact that this water has been taken to the camps of every regiment in advauce of its coming, so that when it has arrived at its camp grounds it has found water of the purest kind and in unlimited quantities. This is to the great credit of your city authorities and to Colonel Livermore, the chief engineer of the corps. “We have found that the officers of the corps have been diligent in their orders that only city -water should be used, but when we consider that the corps is made up in large part of men who were practically raw recruits, not quite as subservient to military orders as would be the soldiers of the regular army, it is not to be wondered at that when these njen have been out from the immediate direction of their officers they have violated this rule and have drunk water from surface wells and from running streams. It would not. be strange that these wells in your suburbs should be more or less contaminated with germs, and this might be a possible cause of some of the sickness. ,It would be contrary to experience all over the world if some of these wells were not contaminated, and it is no reflection on Jacksonville that it should be so. It is possible that germs might also exist in the milk supply for so large a body of people as has been gathered in the camp.’ COL. CINDER’S REGIMENT. Privates Are Laughing; at the Home*ivk Officer*. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LEXINGTON Ky., in camp with the One-hundred-and-si.ctieth Indiana Volunteers, Sept. B.—Mrs. G. W. Gunder Is here from Marion, visiting her husband, Colonel Gunder. There have been many visitors this week. The men are much amused at present because of the conduct of commissioned officers. They say the shoulder straps laughed at them and called them homesick babies, but at the present time the officers—those whose wives are not now here—are pulling every string to secure leaves of absence, and there are not enough commissioned officers to fill up the regiment. The men want to know who is homesick. Captain Harrison, Company G, is acting assistant adjutant general at Colonel Gunder’s headquarters while Adjutant L. L. Martz is at home. Adjutant C. S. Maltby returned to-day. Six more men were taken to division hospital to-day. Adjutant McFeely has recovered from a short illness. Private Huffman, Company D, who has a severe case of rheumatism, has been given a thirty days’ furlough. Private Darter, Company A, is also out on a month’s leave of absence. Sergeant Moon, drum major of the band, who was left at Old Point Comfort hospital, Virginia, has been furloughed for thirty days, and Corporal Doyle. Company C, is acting as drum major. Private De Voss, Company F, is clerk at brigade headquarters. G. S.

Expect Alger To-Day. CAMP MEADE. Middletown, Pa., Sept. 8. —Secretary of War Alger is coming to Camp Meade on a tour of inspection. He will arrive in a private car to-morrow morning. General Graham is anxious to give a review in honor of his distinguished guest, and, if he consents, the entire Second Army Corps will be paraded. General Shafter is also expected to visit the camp to-morrow. The trial of Lieut. Guy Morgan, of the Twenty-second Kansas, charged with tampering with the graves of Confederate soldiers, was concluded to-day and the findings of the court forwarded to the War Department. Lawton's Health Report. WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Following is General Lawton’s report, made to the War Department to-night, of the health conditions of the American troops at Santiago: Total sick 555 Total fever Total new cases 411 Returned |o duty 76 Death—Corporal George Hir.nen, Company F, Second Infantry, typhoid fever. Sept. 7. A Country of Possibilities. H. H. Lusk, in North American Review. It cannot be too emphatically insisted upon that the Philippines are, for all practical purposes, a country of possibilities rather than of any considerable present value. The soil is tor the most part of that rich volcanic character which seems, in conjunction with tropical heat and : , ains, to produce the richest vegetation of the most valued kinds; the natives, while entirely uncivilized, and practically independent, which really means without government of any kind, are not as a rule hard to deal with, nor are they usually unfriendly to strangers or averse to Europeans; and the influence of Christianity, so tar as it has gone, has prepared the way for that intercourse with superior races which lays the. foundation of civilization. On the other hand, it must not be forgotten that the native races of these islands have ail the vices of' their condition. Less even than those of Luzon are they at all inclined to exert themselves to do any useful work. At present they have no idea either of self-government or of permitting anyone else to goveigi them. Accustomed to the domestic tyranny of their chiefs as their normal condition, and to small tribal wars as tlicir common employment, they present by no means a very hopeful field for the operations which are to develop their resources or to elevate their condition. Losses by Fire. MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Sept. B.—The Memphis Grain, Elevator and Manufacturing Company and the Eagle mills were totally destroyed by lire to-night which started in the elevator from an unknown cause. John Dolan, a cooper, was in the elevator whe the lire broke out and received burns which it is tnought will cause his death. The elevator had a capacity of 250,000 bushels of grain and the Eagle mills of 450 barrels of tiour and 850 barrels of meal in twenty-four hours. Total loss. $242,000; insurance, 175,000. NEW YORK, Sept. B.—Three workmen were burned to death in a fire in Max Stiner & Co.’s whisky house, at No. 30 Vesey street, this afternoon. The fire was started by the explosion of a barrel of spirits of alcohol. The dead are: William Witt, foreman, of Brooklyn; Rudolph Schoenborff, residence in x\ew Jersey; a man known as “Paul,” residence unknown. The first two named were married and had famines. All three bodies were found in the basement, where the explosion occurred, and where the liquors are blended. It was with great difficulty that the other employes made their escape. The explosion is believed to have originated from the flame of an open gas jet. Loss. SIO,OOO. Movement* of Steamers. NEW YORK, Sept. B.—Arrived: Hecla. from Copenhagen; Pennsylvania, from Hamburg. Sailed: Auguste Victoria, for Hamburg; Nomadic, for Liverpool; Barbarossa, for Bremen. QUEENSTOWN. Sept. 8.-Sailed: Germanic, for New York; Aragonia, for Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. B.—Arrived: Switzerland, from Antwerp. MARSEILLES, Sept. 8.-Arrived: Burgundia, from New York. COPENHAGEN. Sept. B.—Arrived: Thingvalia, from New York. HAMBURG. Sept. B.—Arrived: Deutschland. from New York. ANTWERP. Sept. B.—Arrived: Nederland, from Philadelphia. BREMEN, Sept. B.—Arrived: Saale, from New York. NAPLES, Sept. B.—Sailed: Alesla, for New York. GENOA, Sept. B.—Sailed: Ems. for New York.

DUPLICITY OF TURKS ■ ♦ EVIDENCE THAT THEY INSTIGATED THE CANDIA MASSACRE. —* . Gen. Polavieja ns the Head of a New Party in Spain Becoming immensely Popular. *■ ATHENS, Sept. 8.-The following dispatch, dated at 8 o’clock this evening, has been received from Candia: “The bashi bazouks are committing excesses and the Christians in the surrounding districts are arming to march to the assistance of the Candians. “There are eight war ships in the harbor and a fresh bombardment is expected. "The British, German and Spanish consulates have been looted, and thus far three hundred native Christians and sixty-seven British subjects have been killed.” The Asty says it learns from an authentic source that as soon as the British troons arrive at Candia from Malta the Turkish garrison in Candia will be expelled, martial law proclaimed and the ring-leaders of the riots put on trial and publicly hanged if guilty. According to a dispatch from Candia, sent late this evening, the admirals of the international fleet have decided to compel the disarming cf the bashi bazousks and the surrender of the instigators of the disorder. Turkish Troop* Did It. LONDON, Sept. B.—The correspondent of the Standard, telegraphing Thursday from the British battle ship Camperdown, off Candia, says: "The refugees tell ghastly stories of massacre. They report that no fewer than seven hundred Christians are missing. Several attempts were made last night to set on fire the office of the Eastern Telegraph office. It had been ascertained that all the houses overlooking the British camp were loop-holed for rifle fire and barricaded. This shows clearly that the outbreak was preconcerted. The behavior and attitude of the Turkish troops have been and still are inexplicable. Without going so far as to assert that they took part in the attack on our troops, though many people are ready to affirm on oath that they actually saw the Sultan’s soldiers firing on our men—it is impossible to controvert the positive fact that they made an attempt to render assistance. "Every Christian survivor of the massacre swears that the butchery was mostly the work of Turkish soldiers, who first robbed and then slew their victims. Edhem Pasha is the man who ought to be held primarily responsible. Had he wished to prevent bloodshed he could certainly have done so. “Not until the British troops under Col. Reid had been lighting hard for four hours did Edhem, with his Turkish soldiers, arrive upon the scene. He had then the effrontery to claim that he had only just heard the British troops were being attacked by thousands of Bashi-Bazouks. It is needless to comment on this brazen-faced lie. It is enough that Edhem Pasha must have known what w r as happening from the moment the first shot w r as fired, if. indeed, he did not arrange, the plot himself.” 800 Christiuns Slain, LONDON, Sept. B.—The correspondent of the Times, telegraphing Thursday, says: “It is estimated that no less than SOO Christians have been massacred and the town has been pillaged by the bashi bazouks and the Turkish soldiers. All reports agree as to the disgraceful behavior of the Turkish troops, who were seeu firing on Colonel Reid. The mob ran through the streets shouting ‘Death to the English!’ Parts of the town are still burning.”

NEW SPANISH PARTY. Polavieju's Proclamation Has Aronsed All Cluemcs in Spain. MADRID, Sept. B.—General Polavleja’s new party is assuming the greatest importance. His programme has met with the warm approval of the great newspapers, particularly Bl Imparcial, El Heraldo and El Nacional. El Nacional until lately had supported General Weyler, but it will rally now to General Poiavieja, who proposes a reorganization of Spain from the financial and political view points. It is understood that General Poiavieja decided to organize anew party after several conferences with a ‘‘high personage,” who, however, has not interfered directly in the formation of the party. His manifesto is now under consideration. If the military censor refuses to grant an exequatur, the manifesto will be read in the Chamber of Deputies. The general conviction is that as soon as the treaty of peace is signed the Sagasla Cabinet will resign and be replaced by either a Silvela or a Poiavieja Ministry. The speech of Count D’Almenas in the Senate yesterday has greatly excited the military party, w hose hot espousal of the cause of their Cuban comrades threatens to make trouble. Senor Sagasta said this evening: “The nomination of the peace commission is delayed because the commissioners ought to have the full contidence of the government, but who can say who will be in power a month hence?” Bill Authorizing; Peace. LONDON, Sept. B.—According to the Madrid corespondent of the Times, the following is the text of the bill authorizing the government to conclude peace: “The government, whose moderate language will not be found fault with by the representatives of the nations, limits itself to submitting to the Cortes the following bill, whose first and only article is: ‘The government is authorized to renounce rights of sovereignty and to cede territory in the Spanish colonies, in accordance with the peace preliminaries agreed upon with the government of the United States of America.” The Times correspondent says the bill is signed by all the ministers. LI flung; Cliang; Dismissed. PEKING, Sept. 7.—Li Hung Chang has been dismissed from pow'er. It is presumed this was done in accordance with the demand which, it was rumored, the British minister here. Sir Claude M. MacDonald, was instructed to make on account of the alleged general partiality of the great Chinaman to Russia, culminating in Great Britain being deprived of the contract for the Peking-Bankosv Railroad, by giving the Russo-Chinese Bark financial control of the road. LONDON, Sept. B.—A dispatch has been received from the British minister at Peking, Sir Claude MacDonald, confirming the report that Li Hung Chang has been dismissed at his request. Willielminu's Kingdom. Philadelphia Telegraph. The country has an area of only 12,648 square miles, or a little less than that of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined, while its population at present is upwards of five million, or nearly double that of the two States named. In the East and West Indies, however, Holland possesses colonies which have an area of about 788,000 square miles, or more than one-fifth of the entire domain of the United States, and a population of about 35,(*>0.000. The heritage of the young Queen is therefore one of no mean proportions, and in her wisdom and patriotism the welfare and happiness of widelyscattered millions of people are involved. She will, of course, reign rather than rule. The government of the Netherlands is as strictly constitutional as is that of the United States, and its fundamental law underwent revision as late as 1887. Such executive power as the sovereign possesses is exercised through a council of ministers responsible solely to the States General, the historic title by which the Parliament is known; but, as already stated, the independence of the country is possibly bound up in the permaneey of the royal house, and the young Queen Is therefore something more than a figurehead—she represents, to the people of the Netherlands themselves and to the world at large, the nationalist Idea and a safeguard against absorption by Germany. Her people love her, and havfe good cause so far to do so; the whole world

looks on with Interest as she assumes her sovereign powers, and wishes her a long and prosperous reign. CROOKES ON NITRATES. Interesting Viem Advanced at the Bristol Seienee Meeting. BRISTOL., England, Sept. B.—At the opening of the British Association for the Advancement of Science here President Crookes devoted his inaugural address chiefly to the theory that the world’s wheat supply will fail to keep pace with the needs of the growing population beyond the year 1931. The supply of fixed nitrogen, mostly in the form of nitrate of soda, was not inexhaustible, he said, and might come to an end. The store of nitrogen in the atmosphere was unlimited and its fixation for use as manure was one of the great discoveries awaiting the ingenuity of chemists. He expressed the opinion that a solution of the problem might be found in burning nitrogen in the air by means of a powerful electric circuit and suggested that Niagara Falls could thus produce fixed nitrogen at a cost of $2. r > per ton. The artificial production of nitrate, in his judgment, miht increase the production of wheat to thirty bushels an acre. However, future generations, instead of trusting mainly to wheat would probably trust more and more to *be exuberant tropical food stuffs. CHANCES FOR FUSION THREE SILVER PARTIES IN COLORADO MAY GET TOGETHER. * Senator Teller Makes No Apologies for Voting: for Bryan—Fusion In Washington—Political News. COLOR ADA SPRINGS, Col., Sept. B.—At the end of to-day’s sessions of the four state conventions here the chances for fusion between the Democrats, Populists and the Teller branch of the Silver Republican party appear little brighter. The nomination of Simon Guggenheim by the anti-Teller faction, which seemed assured last night, is not at all certain. According to the agreement reached last night neither faction of the Silver Republicans attempted to meet in the opera house. The Teller Silver Republicans met in Durkee Hall. In calling the convention to order Chairman Blood said: “There is no doubt that the people of Colorado are with Henry M. Teller in this fight.” The delegates rose en masse, waving hats and cheering. The demonstration continued five minutes. Senator Teller was then elected temporary chairman. He made a speech in which he reiterated his well-known views on the silver question, and said: “I believed we could best serve the cause of silver by organizing this party. It was for the purpose of carrying on education of the people of the country. We have assembled at various places to cast our votes where it would do the most good for silver, because this question is a paramount one. I have no apologies to make for voting for Mr. Bryan (cheers.) I will say I would gladly support him in 1900 again. (Cheers.) When people said they could not see how I could break away from the old party I answered I did not see how I could stay in it.”

Mr. Teller made an address of two hours’ length, in which he traced the history of the Silver Republican party and denounced President McKinley and his supporters as enemies of silver. He spoke on some of the phases of the late war, claiming that it would not have been necessary had the President listened to the plea of Congress when it asked for the recognition of Cuban belligerency. He created great enthusiasm by a vigorous advocacy of the annexation of the Philippines. J. M. Downing, of Pitkin county, was made permanent chairman, and a committee was chosen to meet with similar committees from the Democratic and Populist conventions to arrange for a fusion ticket. After tins National Chairman Charles A. Towne addressed the convention. He defended his action in deposing State Chairman Broad, w'ho, he claimed, had arranged 10 turn the machinery of the party in the State over to the McKinley Republicans. He was followed by Congressman Shafroth in a brief speech. _ , The anti-Teller faction met at Coburn Hall and elected Judge Dixon permanent chairman. Former Congressman Beiford addressed the convention. He said that Senator Teller had repeatedly stated his purpose of devoting the remainder of his life to the destruction of the Republican party and predicted that he would fail. He said if silver was ever remonetized it must be through the Republican party. B. Clark Wheeler, of Aspen, nominee for Congress in the Second district, spoke briefly, after which Judge Hilton, of Denver, made an address. He asserted that Senator Teller has not been the friend of silver that he has claimed to be, and paid a tribute to “the unconquerable and matchless Wolcott, which was applauded. Friends of Simon Guggenheim made strong efforts to force his nomination without further delay, but strong opposition developed and fought successfully for delay. It is said that the opposition favors the nomination of Judge Dixon, of Pueblo. The Democratic convention elected E. S. Stimson, of Cripple Creek, permanent chairman and chose its committees, including one on fusion. _ ~ , The Populists chose Lyman L. Henry, of Ouray, temporary chairman. Senator Wolcott came to town to-day and has been in conference with some of the anti-Teller Silver Republican leaders. Simon Guggenheim, of Denver, was nominated for Governor by the anti-Teller Silver Republicans. After the reports of the committees Mr. Henry was made pe'rmanent chairman of the Populist convention and a fusion committee of seven was named to meet like committees from the Teller Silver Republicans and the Democrats. The three conventions named then adjourned until tomorrow. „ The anti-Teller Silver Republicans tonight nominated a full state ticket as follows: . _ _ Governor, Simon Guggenheim, of Denver; lieutenant governor, Ira Bloomfield, of Rip Grande county: secretary of state, Joseph W Millsom, of Fremont county: treasurer, Harry Mulnix, of Denver: auditor, John A. Wayne, of Weld county: attorney general, H. M. Hogg, of San Miguel county; superintendent of public instruction, Miss Mayme Marble, of Denver; regents of the State University, E. J. Tample, J. W. Gunnell and Dr. J. H. Pershing. The Guggenheim opposition delayed proceedings in the convention all day, but at the night session the opposition suddenly collapsed and the nominations were made by acclamation. The coroner’s jury in the case of Charles E, Harris, killed Wednesday in the fight between rival factions in the Silver Republican party, rendered its verdict to-night justifying the Teller faction in its endeavor to hold the opera house against the antiTellerites. The verdict says that the shot which killed Harris was fired by persons unknown to the jurymen. The Tellerite* Released. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Sept. B. The five men arrested after the fight between armed bodies of men representing the two factions of the silver Republican party, for the possession of the opera house, have been released by order of the district attorney, there being no evidence to show that any one of them fired the shot which killed Charles E. Harris, of Denver. The coroner’s jury, which is investigating the murder, is taking a mass of conflicting testimony, and the only point that has been established so far is that Harris was a member of the party that drove the Teller people out of the opera house. 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John R. Wiggins, Philadelphia; E. E. Robothan, Lackawanna; Henry Zimmerly, Erie; recording secretary, George W. Ellewellyn, Alleghuny. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the administration of President McKinley, “whose sagacity, integrity, statesmanship and untiring perseverance has brought to a successful close the war with Spain with so small a loss of life and treasure/' The time and place for holding the next convention was referred to the executive committee. Delaware I’roll is Nominate. DOVER, Del., Sept. B.—The Prohibition State convention met here to-day and made the following nominations: Congress, L. W. Brossius, of Wilmington; state treasurer, John Hutton, of Dover; state auditor, Dr. George W. James, of Georgetown. Samuel Dickey, of the national Prohibition committee, addressed the convention. Congressional Nominations. ISHPEMING, Mich., Sept. 8.-Carl Sheldon was nominated for Congress by the Republicans in the Twelfth district by a vote of 9S to 28. Stevenson men will prqbably hold a separate convention, based on irregularities in chocsing chairman of the convention. The matter mav go to the courts. MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich., Sept. B.—The Democratic union Silver and Populists’ convention for nominating a congressman of the Tenth district massed and nominated Dr. A. W. Nichols, Populist, of Greenville. No other candidate was in the field. HOUSTON, Tex., Sept. B.—R. B. Hawley, present congressman from the Tenth district, the only Republican from Texas, was renominated by the convention held at Columbus yesterday. THE MAN BELOW THE DECK. He la a Enthusiastic as the “Man Behind the Gnu)* New York Tribune. Ever since they returned from southern waters, where they carried the flag to glorious victory, the ships of the North Atlantic squadron have attracted much attention, and thousands of men and women have made the journey to Saten island for the purpose of seeing the victorious fighting machines in their war paint, and before the slight bruises which they had sustained had been obliterated. Thousands of people were content to see the ships from the decks of excursion boats, became enthusiastic over the sight at long range, and returned to their homes with glowing accounts of the great masses of metal, with their decorations of polished guns and decks populous with officers in spotless white. Others, who were anxious to make closer investigation, went aboard and swarmed over the ships and saw “the wheels go round.” The adventures of the squadron were told and retold by officers and men, and, between seeing and hearing, the general public knows more about a modern battle ship, its construction, efficiency and management than it knew before the victorious vessels came to New York. The part which the various members of the ship’s company take in engagements was explained to men and women over and over again, and many of those who heard the story were filled with pity for the men below decks. The firemen, engineers, coal passers and machinists had the sympathy of the visitors, and stories were told about those men being locked into compartments where the heat was unbearable, and from which there could be no escape in case the vessel went down; of armed marines standing over the poor firemen threatening to blow their brains out if they left their posts, and of one continuous strain from work and prostrating heat, with never a chance to see what was going on above or knowing which way the battle was turning. TTie commander of one of the ships, when he heard one of these stories, said that the woes of the fireman and coal passer existed chiefly in the imagination of the storywriter. “Os course,” he said, “the fireman has to fire and the coal passer has to shovel coal, and they know very well, when they enlist for these posts, that they will be able to do the work without providing themselves with extra fur overcoats, just as the man who takes a job to cut ice in the Northern lakes knows that he can worry through the season without a linen duster. Working at the fires is a hot job, but the men who enlist for that service know all about it, and one hears no complaint from them any more than from men in less warm parts of the ship.” The temperature varies in the ships. Some, are so constructed that the thermometer rarely rises above 120 degrees, while in others a temperature* of 200 degrees is nothing unusual when the ship is in action. “When the weather gets too hot for us,” said a member of the New York’s crew who is one of the 207 men whose posts of duty are away below the water-line, “we turn on the fans and get a change.” The men have four hours’ duty and eight hours’ rest. While on duty they have many chances to come aloft to catch a whiff of fresh air and to see what is taking place, and when off duty they rest in their quarters or on deck, and make themselves as comfortable as possible. As to being cut off from escape, the officers say that there is no such condition. When the ship gees into action trapdoors in the shape of monster iron grates are closed to protect the boilers from possible splinters or projectiles. These grates cut off all retreat by the regular stairways that lead to the decks, but there are ladders inside the ventilator pipes which are always accessible, and other Iron ladders which lead from the boiler rooms to the upper deck. “If you had been with us,” said an officer, “you would have seen how these ladders were made use of during our fight with the Spaniards. Men having fired their boilers and having a few minutes to spare clambered up and popped out, heard the condition of affairs, and went below and carried the news to their mates. But even if they had not come .aloft they would have known what was going on, because the captain sent an orderly with tidings of the fight every little while, and the men at the tires and in the engine rooms were as enthusiastic as those at the guns.” To show that the men at the fires are enthusiastic about their work, despite its severity, an officer of the New York said that when the Colon was being chased by the New York there were one hundred men at the New York’s fires and boilers, and of these nearlv one-third were not on duty, but had volunteered to assist. The force having “been thus augmented, many of those who were there because It was their duty had an opportunity to take matters easily and go aloft for fresh air. This same spirit showed itself on board the Oregon during her memorable voyage from San Francisco around the Horn to Cuba. Men who were overcome by the heat In the furnace room Insisted on returning to tbelr work as soon as they felt able to do so. Another officer, in speaking of the firemen and coal passers, said: "The time was when these iron were not looked upon in the proper way. Neither officers nor men seemed to appreciate them, but the opposition was similar to that which was felt by

the stage coach people toward the projectors of the first railroads. To-day we know that speed is one of the great factors in naval warfare. It was speed that conquered the Spaniards as much as anything else, and the fireman, the engineer, tha coal passer and all those who belong t® that part of the ship’s company feel their importance, and know also that their worth is recognized. As to a marine standing over a lot of firemen threatening to kill them if they deserted their posts, it is no more true than that similar means are employed toward a gun crew.” The men who work below decks are a brawny, vigorous lot, and one of their number said as to his work: “Barring the hot weather, it’s all right. I have sailed nany years and have known more men to ask to be sent below from the decks than of firemen who wanted sailors’ jobs. I’d rather be here than Are on an ocean lir.er. For a little while, in case of a little war like that we have had with Spain, the work be hard, but generally it’s all right. On an ocean liner they get a crew of stokers and work them every minute till the ship lands, then they get away, and the next trip she carries anew gang, and they have the same hot, long hours to work. On one of these ships the men are enlisted for the purpose. They stay at their posts like the others aboard ship, and take a pride in their work.” The pay of the men at the boilers and fires Is much better than that of the regular crew. A first-class fireman receives $35 a month, while a seaman has only $24. The second-class firemen receive S3O a month, while the “ordinary” seaman has only sl6. The landsman on board ship whose duties are like those of an ordinary laborer gets sl6 a month, and the fireman of equal rank—the coal passer—has $22 a month. Viewed from all sides, it appears that the fireman’s lot is not so black as it has been painted, and that there are always good men ready to take places “below” on shipboard. Rrnolnri at Ulontauk. New York Tribune. One of the remarkable things about th® camp Is the discipline of the regulars, where their officers are absent. Some or the companies have but one lieutenant left with them, the captain and other lieutenants being either dead or sick. The one lieutenant has many things to do without looking after his company, for he has to watch that his supplies arrive properly, and thw thousand and one other things that fall to an officer’s lot. The officers have found that shoulder straps go a long way in dealing with teamsters and others, and that a captain or a lieutenant can do more, in flv* minutes with these people than a sergeant in an hour. Consequently the charge of tha company falls to the lot of trie first sergeant, and In every case they keep excellent order and things go on smoothly. The abolition of the guard about the detention camp has bettered the condition of the men there. They are now being looked after by comrades who are well and who can skirmish around and corral good things, which they carry to those in the camp wiju* are not able to be around and get where things are distributed. Many of the privates who had a chance to-day got a lot of relief goods about the depot and lugged them on their backs out to their friends la the detention camp. Misfit Pictures. London Letter. “Rupert of Hentzau” is illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, and he has transformed all the women mentioned in the story into pretty American girls. Now. Queen Flavla nay or may not have been as pretty as Mr. Gibson’s American girls usually are, but most assuredly she was not an American, and she neither looked nor dressed like one. Had Du Maurler, who never drew a woman who was not born in London, attempted to illustrate one of Mr. Howells’s stories he would have peopled the pages with English girls, just as Mr. Dana has peopled Ruritania with girls fresh from Newport and Long Branch. The Persian diver brings up no pearl from the depths of the sea which can surpass in radiant purity a complexion beautified by Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. A staple accessory of the bath and the toilet. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, Black or Brown, 50c. _ Mrs. Winslow'* Soothing Syrup Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens th gums, allays pain, cures wind colic, regulates the bowels, and is the best remedy for diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggisis ,n every part of tho world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing By nip. 25 cents a bottle. 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