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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1898. Washington Oifice— lso3 Pe nosy I vania Avenue = ’ Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month $ .70 Dally only, three months 2.00 Da‘ly only, one year f 8.00 1 -illy, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year SI.OO Reduced Hates to Club*. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, IndinnnpoliH, Ind. Fersons sending the Journal through the malls In the United Stotts should put on an eight-page paper a ONE-CENT f.cßtage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage stamp. Foreign postage Is usually double these rates. All communications Intended for publication In thts palter must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK—ABtor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLEI—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson stieeta, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. 6T. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Rigga House, Ebbltt House and Willard's Hotel. There seems to be no cause for the assault which some of the yellow payers have begun upon General Shatter. It has been a long time since the complaint of too much revenue has been made. But a surplus can be managed. If in 1864 General Grant had been tried by the same papers that are now denouncing the conduct of the war he would have been condemned. Admiral Dewey’s request for more ships bears out his recent statement that he had more business to attend to before he could conveniently leave the Philippine islands. Every fair-minded man in the country feels that the President desires to have a searching investigation Into the charges of maladministration of camps and hospitals. Admiral Dewey asks for more ships, presumably to scatter about the islands to regulate Aguinaldo and his followers. Let the admiral have what he wants. He makes no mistakes. To the independents who asked Colonel Roosevelt if he would accept an independent nomination against a Republican candidate he replied in the negative. The Republican party is good enough for him. When the One-hundred-and-fifty-elghth end the One-hundred-and-fifty-ninth come marching back let the community scan their ranks to see, if they can, the gaunt, tottering and broken men, for such most of them must be if the Sentinel and like papers tell the truth.

The men and women of Des Moines, la., have voted on a proposition to purchase the water works owned by a corporation and defeated it. It appears that a majority of the men were against the purchase and a majority of the women in favor of it. The majority against purchase was only 159 in a total of 7,689 votes. Queer stories are told these days. One of them is that during the summer of 1864 General Grant declared that he would not move his army without onions, and that the next day three trainioads were forwarded to the front. One of the weaknesses of this story is that the Potomac army was not reached by railroads in 1864. Senator McLnuren, of South Carolina, follow's Senator Foraker in confessing that he made a mistake in voting for Cuban recognition and that the President was right in opposing it. The Democratic senator even goes so far as to say that President McKinley is more popular the country over than any of his predecessors since Andrew Jackson. The finances of the National Encampment of the Grand Army seem to have been so badly managed during 1896-97 that the organization was threatened wdth bankruptcy. The Woman’s Relief Corps, hearing of the situation of the brethren, voted $2,000 of its surplus to keep the encampment afloat. Evidently the members of the national W. R. C. are better financiers than the managers of the Grand Army. The cry for the repeal of the war tax has been begun, but it cannot be done until Congress shall meet. In that connection it is interesting to note the prediction that the old, or Dingley, revenue law will show an increase of $50,000,000 over its record, and this prediction is made by a paper which has denounced it. The Dingley law is a revenue getter, but not to the extent predicted. ’ The repeating of the stories of neglect and suffering in hospitals, bad enough at best, but wickedly distorted by the Sentinel, may be regarded as good politics, but, to have been up to date, it should have filled its double columns with these reports three weeks ago. Now that the President has ordered an Investigation, and men of character and ability will be called to the work, the political profit which so many expected to make out of the apparent ignorance of a few men connected with the medical, supply and transportation branches of the War Department will not turn to the advantage of those who expect it. The late Empress of Austria did not manifest imperial traits nor show signs of a strong character. Had she been endowed with ambition, shrewdness and a truly royal intellect she might have been an Empress in fact as well as in name. She would have adapted herself to the court and its customs instead of allowing her dislike of them to drive her into seclusion, or she would have bent her subjects to her will and by diplomacy or by imperious rule have changed the irksome observances to her liking. The haughty Austrian nobility would have bowed humbly to the Bavarian princess had she shown herself indeed a Queen. A warm welcome is extended by everybody to the returning soldiers. Though it happened that they were not called on to fight any of the country’s battles, they proved their courage and their loyalty when they left home and business and volunteered for whatever service, offered. They have not to fight, but they have endured a

long and trying summer and have proved their mettle hardly less than they would have done in actual war. That they are privileged to return at this time Is matter for general rejoicing. THE FINANCIAL EXPLOIT. In the current issue of the Forum Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Vanderlip, under the caption, ‘‘Lessons of Our War Loan,” tells the story of the recent financial achievement of the treasury in placing $200,000,0(X) of 3 per cent, bonds. Mr. Vanderlip declares that the United States has floated a $300,000,000 loan “at the lowest rate of interest at which a nation ever disposed of its obligations in time of war.” The history of the transaction is very interesting. The government wanted but $200,000,000, but it had offers aggregating $1,400,000,000. That is seven dollars were subscribed where one waa asked for. Nor were these bonds subscribed for by foreigners, but by citizens of the United States living in the United States. The law making the loan a popular one required that those subscribing for S2O should have the first call. For S2O bonds there were 320,000 subscribers. Again, no person asking for over $4,500 got a cent of the loan. More than half the loan went to 230,000 persons. If all the subscribers had sent money with their subscriptions they would have sent three times the cash held by all the national banks of the country. In other words, if all the subscribers had sent money with their subscriptions they would have sent seventenths of the money in circulation. As it was, more than $100,000,000 was sent and turned into the treasury before a bond was issued. And while this vast amount of money was being handled the rate of discount in the New York money market was not affected in the slightest degree. There are many interesting facts like the foregoing connected with the placing of the popular loan. These, however, are ample to make it a financial achievement without parallel in the world. Indeed, it may be doubted if there is another government which would be offered a loan of $1,400,000,000 in a few weeks at 3 per cent, interest. It is doubtful if even Great Britain has a higher credit, or if any government could hire as much money to-day at so low a rate of interest. This is due to the fact that the majority of the people have believed in redeeming the public obligations in the money of the world. It is due to the fact that when the Republican party came into power as a debt-paying party the first act of General Grant was to ask Congress to declare that the obligations of the country should be paid in the coin of the world. Then, as now, there was a party or clique opposing such payment, but it has been beaten time and again after it has destroyed confidence and led the country to the brink of disaster.

NOT CHRISTIAN ADVICE. A religious paper in New York, the Christian at Work, makes a surprising demand—that the United States immediately send its war ships to Constantinople and collect the SIOO,OOO Turkey owes us at the muzzles of Sampson’s guns. It declares that the whole American people would approve if our fleet should be sent to force our just claims upon the Turk. Perhaps the editor of the Christian at Work has been reading of the demand which Austria made two or three years ago with ships, which was said to have tfeen heeded. Things have changed in Turkey in two years. Since the trouble with Greece the Sultan has learned that Turkey is well-nigh a first-class power. It has not much of a navy, but could put 600,000 troops in the field in ten weeks, and can mobilize a million in three months. To bombard Constantinople would not insure payment, even if we were able to do it. Turkey, backed by its vast army, might and probably would decline to pay. In that case we would either be compelled to retire ignominiously or engage in war with Turkey on its own soil. Is the United States prepared to go to war with a country which can put a million soldiers into the field—soldiers who have been famous for centuries for their ferocity in battle? Are the people of the United States ready to send hundreds of thousands of their sons to fight such a foe as Turkey, nearly 6,000 miles distant? We have not yet finished with Spam. We do not believe that the country will accept the advice of the Christian at Work as to the method to collect SIOO,OOO, the damage to American citizens by Turks while fighting the Armenians. If the mass of the American people were to make answer to the Christian at Work it would be that Turkey is no place for American citizens. Some of the American citizens who are always asking the United States to protect their property in srch countries ere American citizens for that purpose only. Doubtless some of them are missionaries—wellmeaning but illogical people, since they cannot convert a Turk, and the Armenians are Christians of a sort and the sharpest traders in all that country. May we not hope that son etime it w ill become the policy of this country not to naturalize foreigners who make their homes as American citizens in their native lands. They are naturalized in older to escape military or other duties at hi me and to enjoy the protection of a nationality to which they render no return, either in strvice or taxation. PREVENTABLE STREET DANGERS. The New York Evening Sun, after quoting the Journal’s recent criticism on the neglect of their duties by Indianapolis police, says: ‘‘The best thing for Indianapolis to do is to get a good bicycle police squad such as we have in this city. Then the rules of the road will be enforced all round in an impartial way.” That may be true, but certainly much could be accomplished in the way of reform if the policemen we already have would exert themselves a little. For example, if the officers stationed at the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets and at Washington and Pennsylvania had arrested scorchers as they should have done during the months past the accident by which one of the public school teachers will probably lose her hand would not have happened. A good many people have wondered what those officers think they are stationed at those corners for. anyway. They seldom make an arrest, even the wheelman who knocked Miss John under the street car being allowed to go free. In other cities policemen on busy corners are expected to clear a way for pedestrians, but though at certain hours of the day the traffic at the points named makes crossing difficult for the most active persons, feeble old people and women with little children are allowed tc make their way from curb to curb as best they may without assistance from the officers. The police force of the city is not as large, perhaps, as the needs require; Indianapolis covers a large territory. and it is unfair to charge official negligence when an accident or a crime occufs in a remote district, but in quarters whefe

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officers are constantly stationed the public has a right to expect protection and the strict enforcement of city ordinances and regulations. Under another administration it would have reason as well as the right to expect it. The understanding during the Taggart regime that saloon laws and gambling laws are to be ignored has, however, apparently demoralized the force, and citizens have no security in any direction. A FAIR PROPOSAL. The request which the nonstate colleges make of the Legislature which will be elected in November is that the members of the Board of Education be appointed by the Governor, as are the other boards. They do not ask that these institutions shall be deprived of the aid they receive from the State; indeed, one of the of such institutions, Mr. Butler, of Butler College, declares himself opposed to any interference with the state colleges. They simply ask for fair play in the Board of Education to the end that the graduates of the nonstate colleges shall have equal privileges with those of the state schools when they ask to be employed as teachers. It must strike the independent observer that this proposition is a fair one. There is no reason why the Board of Education should not be appointed as are other boards —by the Governor. There is no reason why the superintendents of schools in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne and Evansville should be members of the board because those are the three largest cities. There is no reason why the presidents of the three institutions receiving State aid should be members of the board while the presidents of the other institutions are shut out. Every board should be appointed by the Governor, and particularly boards which deal with the public school system of the State. Attention is called to the proposition made by the heads of the nonstate colleges, because their position is misunderstood In that they are confounded with a considerable element which is fighting the State University to the end that it may be deprived of the aid which it receives from the people. It is not the purpose of the recognized leaders dt the nonstate schools to interfere with the revenues which other Institutions derive from the State. All they ask is to be put upon an equal footing with those institutions so far as their graduates are concerned. They are not for war, but for peace on terms of equality. To the Journal it seems that this is a most liberal proposition, and that any other is unjust and is designed to make the state schools which furnish teachers a monopoly.

There is little doubt that Congress will soon provide for an increase of the regular army. Recent events have shown the importance of being better prepared for war, and besides the garrisoning of Cuba, Porto Rico and perhaps the Philippines will give employment to a considerable number of troops for some years to come. Military authorities seem to be agreed that the army should be increased to from 75,000 to 100,000. At present its legal maximum on a war basis is about 61,000, but this limit is not nearly full. It is said the government will have recruiting officers at all stations where volunteers are mustered out with a view of giving them an opportunity to enlist in the regular service. The opportunity is worth considering. The term of enlistment is three years, and for any young man who wants to see something of the world and get the benefits of athletic training and strict but not severe discipline the time would not be wasted. There is no probability of war, but garrison service in Cuba and Porto Rico will h&ve its attractions in the winter season, and before another summer the troops will know how to take care of themselves in a tropical climate. For young men who have acquired a taste for army life the regular army offers an opportunity to see the best side of it and serve the government at the same time. As the government really needs troops its invitation to enlist in the regular army is as much an appeal to patriotism as is a call for volunteers. Conventions, with crowds that fill the streets, come and go, regiments of soldiers go to war and return, political contests are waged—all these things we regard as events of consequence when the; are really of little moment compared with another occurrence to which the most of us give but passing heed. This is the opening of the city schools with their 25,0X1 children. The education of that number of children is of more importance to the country and the world, has more bearing upon the future than any of the other happenings. Its significance can hardly be overestimated. It is upon these children that the responsibility of the Nation will rest a few years hence; it is in their schools that they will lay the foundations of character and knowledge that will fix their rank as individuals and as citizens. Upon the wise conduct of the schools much depends, and it should be the part of all men and women, parents or not, to satisfy themselves that the best methods are employed and real progress being made. Instead of the prevailing indifference to the occasion the annual opening of the public schools should be celebrated as an event of the utmost consequence. Those who deny that the volume of money and paper representing money which flows through the banks is a fair indication of the volume of business at any period cannot say that the volume of traffic over railways is not a sure indication of the condition of the business of the country- If there are large shipments, large consumption and active business are certain to exist, while the shrinkage of trains means the shrinkage of business. Upon the basis of railway carriage the country was never more prosperous than at present. The Financial Chronicle has recently made a statement of the gross earnings of 223 railroads, operating 164,161 miles, from Jan. 1 to June 30, showing that it amounts to $567,053,205, against $500,020,873 for the corresponding months of 1897. This is a net increase of $61,102,723, or over 12 per cent. The net increase of earnings makes a better showing for the reason that the fixed charges are the same for a large as a small volume of business. The increase of net earnings on 186 roads was $17,820,528, or 14.18 per cent. The Honolulu cable scheme had Its origin in Boston. From the record Boston established for long-distance hearing without artificial aid during the late war, communication might be carried on between the Pacific coast and the Sandwich islands by stationing some of the “tiring-heavy-guns” Bostonians at the Golden Gate with an tsar trumpet. It Is said that Aguinaldo is becoming alarmed about the future. When civilized people begin to experience that sensation they immediately start to be good. This is only a suggestion, Aguinaldo. The Empress of Austria was In her sixtysecond year at the tlnue of her death, but

ail her portraits represent her as a very youthful woman. This is accounted for by the explanation that she would have no photographs taken or portraits painted after her beauty began to fade. If she had studied the arts of the modern actress she might have acquired a make-up that would deceive even a camera. A general European war would be a deplorable thing, but Uncle Samuel would have the satisfaction of krowing, while the trouble was in progress, that he had eaten at the first table and was in a condition to look on with a considerable degree of assurance and freedom from uneasiness as to personal violence. If the natives of the Philippines do not succeed in proving their incapacity for selfgovernment within the next few months it should not be charged trt> any want of effort on their part. They are doing all in their power to confirm the argument in favor of at least a protectorate on the part of this country. From all reports Cincinnati deserves praise for the manner in which she handled the G. A. R. Nationl Encampment. It appears that she took care of the great gathering almost as well as Indianapolis handles big crowds at national meetings. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Newly Minted. “I’ve got anew idea.” “Hmh! It ought, then, to be a bright one.” Seasoning. “The world is mine oyster!” was the young man’s joyous statement. However, it was to bo swallowed with a pinch of salt. Spoiled Child. “What are you crying about now, dearie?” asked the fond mother. “Is there something mamma's sweetest wants?” “Yes.” "What is it?” “I—l don’t know! That’s what I’m crying about!” The Proper Way. “Abner,” asked the wife of the editor of the Plunkville Bugle, looking up from her latest “take,” “don't you think it is a sin for you to write those Washington dispatches right here in the office?” “No, I don’t,” stoutly responded the editor. "I have always been taught that the way to get a thing done right is to do It yourself.”

WILL DISCUSS MONEY GOI.DITES AND SILVERITES TO BATTLE NVITH WORDS AT OMAHA. National Convention of Currency Agitator ih to Open To-Day—Views of E. V. Smalley and C. A. Towne. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 12.—The national currency convention will open at the exposition to-morrow morning and is to continue three days. E. V. Smalley, editor of the Northwest Magazine, of St. Paul, and also editor of Sound Money, a periodical published at Chicago under the auspices of the National Sound Money League, of which he is the secretary, with headquarters at Chicago, came in yesterday and secured quarters at the Millard Hotel. The silverites who have arrived are ex-Congressman Charles A. Towne, of Duluth, Minn.; George Fred Willlafrt&V ; 6t Boston, and H. F. Bartine, of Washington! Congressman Charles S. Hartman, of Dakota; Fred V. Dubois, of Idaho; Anson Wolcott, of Wolcott, Ind., and Judge Sheldon, of Connecticut. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska City, and Horace White, of New York, and H. P. Robinson, of Chicago, came in this evening. Gen. A. J. Warner, of Ohio, and others are expected on the morning trains. There is much interest in the conference among the men who have been asked to take part in the debate. Discussing the convention and the money question generally, Mr. Smalley said: “The fact of the matter is that the agitation of the money question is simply a correlative of hard times. Now, that the country is enjoying universal prosperity the money question, as an issue, has died out. It is only the politicians who are trying to make it an issue. It would not have been heard but that all of the Democratic conventions of the States west of Chicago, for the want of an issue of some kind, reaffirmed the Chicago platform. We anticipated that they would try to make an issue of it and so we thought this convention would be timely and of great educational benefit to the country. It would give all sides a chance to be heard and in this respect the convention will be unique for there has never before been a national monetary conference in the country at which all the conflicting sides were represented, that at Indianapolis having been distinctly a sound-money conference," Mr. Towne, of course, sees anotner side to the matter. He has just been to Colorado, where, he says, he had to depose Chairman Richard Broad and Secretary William R. Freeman from their positions at the head of the state central committee of the Silver Republican party in that State because of their having been influenced by the goldstandard people. He also charges the advocates of the gold standard with being responsible for the recent attempt at Colorado Springs to capture a silverite convention at which one of the disturbers was killed. “The silver forces are uniting in almost every State,” he said. A GRAYBEARD LYNCHED. Hnnged I>y a Missouri Mob for Assaulting an Eleven-Year-Old Girl. LIBERTY. Mo., Sept. 12.—At 10:30 last night Benjamin Jones, a gray-haired man sixty-eight years of age, was taken from the Clay county jail and swung to an iron beam at the front entrance of the courthouse. The mob, which consisted of about seventy-five men, quietly rode in on horseback, finished its work in thirty minutes and left. Jones committed a criminal assault on Annie Montgomery, an eleven-year-old girl, Saturday evening, and confessed !iis guilt just before he was hanged. The doors of the jail were easily forced, and the lynchers soon came out v/ith a rope around the old man’s neck. He was begging for his life, but no heed was paid to his appeals. He was led out the hallway to the front entrance. “Hang him right here.” shouted one of the masked men, A few minutes were spent debating the matter, but the end of the rope had already gone over an iron beam of the porch. The old man stood trembling and groaning. “Have you anything to v:ay?” were the gruff words of the leader. "I was drunk when I done it; oh! I was drunk!” came the reply. The command to swing him up was given. There was a quick jerk of ’he rope, and the body was given a swing out into the air from off the top step. The job was finished and the crowd melted away quietly. Jones had served a term of two years in the Missouri penitentiary for forgery. He has been traveling lately in Kansas and Oklahoma selling medicines. SLAUGHTER IN GUATEMALA. 300 People Reported to Have Been Killed and Wounded In a Ittot. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 12.—The steamer Olympia, which has arrived here from Porto Cortez, brings news of serious rioting in Guatemala during the recent elections, in which, it is said, 300 \vere killed and wounded. The story of the rioting was brought from Port Barrios to Porto Cortez by a trading schooner. ~hcse captain says that the facts were kept off the wires by the government censor. Although Prospero Moralnz had died after his capture in a cave by the government forces, his followers were ill content to submit to the re-election of President Estrada, and although In no ehaoa

to make a strong fight In *he balloting, gathered in forces at the polls and considerable disorder followed heated personal disputes. Troops had been posted near ml the p.dls, and when the disorders became extensive the order to fire was given. Details are lucking, but according to the schooner captain WO persons were killed or fatally wounded. WARNED BY ASSASSINS. Public Olflcinls of Darlmdoes Threatened Anonymously. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 12.—According to advices received here from the Barbadoes since the death of the Hon. Mr. Pile, speaker of the Assembly, on Sept. 2, from the effects of the recent attempt to assassinate him, the Governor and five public officials have been anonymously warned that a similar fate has been decreed for them "as a reward for their oppression." The worst feature of the Pile tragedy is that the government reward of SI,OOO for information regarding the conspirators fails to induce their betrayal. CAPTURED BY NATIVES CAROLINE GROUP OF ISLANDS PROBABLY WRESTED FROM SPAIN. - - Garrison at Ponape Supposed to Have Been Slain by Rebels, Who Attacked the Place In Force. * SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—The Caroline group of islands, which belong to Spain, is undoubtedly by this time in the hends of the natives of the group, with the Spanish garrison wiped out. News of a revolution in the Islands reached this city in letters from Honolulu by the steamer Coptic. The story was borne to Honolulu by a trading schooner which touched at the Carolines. Two native kings of the group, who had long been at war with each other, some months ago declared a truce, combined their forces and began a war against the Spanish authorities. The Spaniards were concentrated at Ponape and it was here that the natives made their attack. The blacks fought with white Spanish and in such numbers that the Spaniards were compelled to retreat and take shelter in the barracks, which they held. The gunboat Quiros was then dispatched to Guam for aid, but on arriving there found the American flag floating. The Quiros never returned and at Yap, in the Caroline group, it was thought she was lost. The supposition is that the Ladrone garrison of Americans had possession of her. There were 200 soldiers in Ponape town, but these were poorly supplied with ammunition and in no position to resist a prolonged attack. The belief is that the place was captured and the Spanish garrison slain. The entire group, unless the Spaniards made an unexpected stand, must be by this time in the possession of the natives. This story is confirmed by James Wilder, of Honolulu, who recently returned to Hawaii from a tour in the Carolines. He said at that time the natives were much discontented and were preparing for a revolt. SONS OF VETERANS Many Enlisted In the War Against Spain, uud Some Died In Cnba. OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 12.—The seventeenth am ual encampment of the Sons of Veterans was called to order in this city by Senior Vice Commander George E. Cogshall, of Grand Rapids, Mich., in the absence of Commander-in-chief Charles K. Darling, of Boston, who is in Porto Rico in command of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. About 150 delegates responded to the roll call. The morning session was confined exclusively to routine business, but there are many important matters coming up. At the afternoon session all additional routine committees were appointed and the annual reports of the officers were read. The main report was one by Adjutnat General Bolton, who reviewed the work of the' last year in the absence of Commander-in-chief Darling, in this, as well as in the other reports, considerable stress was laid upon the fact that more representatives of the order enlisted in the war against Spain than from any other organization. Particular mention was made of Company L, Thirty-third Michigan, which fought in the battle of Sibonev and lost many men. Another State which furnished companies of Sons of Veterans was Minnesota. Recommendation was made that special services should be held in commemoration of the members of the order who have fallen in battle. A net gain of 599 members has been made during the past year, the total membership being at present 32,341, distributed among 1,158 camps. A surplus of over $l,lOO has been edded to the treasury of the society. There will be a fight over the election of the commander-in-chief, for which office there are three prominent candidates—W. S. Oberderf, of New York; Colonel Sheppard, of Illinois, and Lieutenant Governor Jones, of Ohio. There are three cities after the next encampment—Denver, San Francisco and Boston, with odds at present in favor of the westerly city. The Ladies’ Aid Society will commence its session to-mo-r----row with good attendance of delegates.

MAY COAL AT SEA. Fonr Colliers 'Will'Accompany the Oregon and Texas to San Francisco. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The Navy Department is shifting some of the officers on the battle ships Oregon and lowa preparatory for their departure from New York, on their long cruise to San Francisco by way of the Straits of Magellan. The department has just selected from among the fleet of colliers acquired during the war four of the best and largest to accompany the batttle ships on their long run. These are the Cassius, the Scienda, the Alexander and the Aberendia, and. their coal capacity is sufficient to insure a full supply tor the big battle ships, as well as for themselves, without subjecting the fleet to the refusal of any of the South American republics to take on coal on account of the technical existence of the state of war between the United States and Spain. No attempt is to be made to drive the big ships so as to equal the famous run of the Oregon coming eastward, the need for the ships on the Pacific side not being so pressing as to warrant incurring the risk of injuring the boilers or machinery by keeping up full speed. It is expected the battle ships, with their colliers, will be able to start from New York about the end of this month. TICHBORNE CASE RECALLED. Death of One of the Chief Wltneiiei lor the Notorious Claimant. VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 12.—The steamer Miowari has arrived from Sydney and Wellington, bringing news to Aug. 13. One of the chief witnesses in the famous Tichborne trial, Jean Lane, has just died in a New South Wales lunatic asylum. Buie was steward on board the ill-fated Bella, which sailed from England w'ith Tichborne. In his evidence at the famous trial Buie identilied the claimant as one of those saved from the w r reck with himself. Up to a short time before his death he stated that he tirmly believed that the claimant was Tichborne, who sailed with him in the Bella, until the conclusion of the trial, when he and the claimant were arraigned ior perjury and sentenced to a fourteen years’ term. After the expiration of his sentence in England Buie went to New South Wales and worked in different vocations until a few months ago. when he was admitted to the Biverpool Asylum. He was seventy-eight years of age, a native of Bornholm. Denmark, and uumarried. Two Women Killed at a Crossing:. WINCHESTER. Va.. Sept. 12.—A buggy, in which were Miss Baura Dellinger, her sister, Miss Alice Dellinger, and George Sister, was struck by a freight train last night and the two young women were instantly killed. Sister was badly injured. Murdered by Alaskan Thieves. NIBES. Mich., Sept. 12.-Joseph and Morton H. Marshall, of Otsego, who went to Alaska last February, have been murdered by thieves. A letter received by a mend of the men states that their bodies w’ere found

PRAISE FOR STERNBERG ♦ TRIBUTE FROM GEN. COPPINGEK TO THE SURGEON GENERAL. Soldiers nt Cnnip Wheeler Rapidly Recovering from the Effects of Florida's Fever-Laden Air. WASHINGTON. Sept. 12.—1n view of all that has been said of a critical character, respecting the conditions, from a sanitary point of view, existing among the United States troops quartered at Huntsville, Ala., the War Department has deemed it proper to make public the following letter, dated Sept. 8, which has been received by Surgeon General Sternburg, from Major General Coppinger: "Dear Surgeon General—l have an impression that at this time it may be of interest to you to have a line on a linesman’s view of the sanitary condition of the Fourth Army Corps. We are camped in an attractive, open valley, the fresh, cool, invigorating air of Huntsville hills steadily winning our poor, enfeebled men back to life and strength after the poisonous, fever-laden swamps of Tampa. Our corps and brigade hospitals are well supplied, and the surgeons and attendants doing fine work. Their work has been long and arduous. Drs. Reynolds, Lippitt, Strong and Richards, now fever-stricken and broken down, were especially noticeable for their indefatigable zeal for the well being, and their tender solicitude for the welfare of those to whom they ministered as well. Dr.. O'Reilly has worked nobly and effectively, with marked and successful administrative capuclty. "Our condition struggling at Tampa with typhoid and malarial fever was sad. I cannot too strongly express my gratitude to you for the extraordinary’ success with which you supplied the corps with doctors, immunes, nurses and medical stores. The more extraordinary when you reflect how conflicting and unlooked-for orders fired our men, with little time for preparation, into unlooked-for places. You humanely responded to every appeal. On behalf of my stricken men, I wish earnestly to thank you.” TWO WINTER HOSPITALS. One Almost Ready and Another to Be Erected Soon. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Surgeon General Sternberg to-day furnished some interesting details of the plans of the War Department referred to yesterday by Secretary Alger for the establishment of two large, well-equipped winter hospitals for the troops. He said that, without attracting much attention the medical department had for some time been at work erecting such a hospital on the government reservation at Fort Monroe and he was pleased to be able to announce that Lieutenant Colonel Woodhull, the surgeon in charge, had reported that the hospital ivould be ready for the reception of troops next Friday. There is already at the fort-a tent hospital in excellent shape, capable of accommodating five hundred'patients. Tne new hospital will be additional to this, will be constructed of timber after the style of regular barracks and will contain one thousand beds. It is intended for the reception of sick soldiers returning from Porto Rico. Looking ahead to the possibility of an extended occupancy of Cuban ports by the United States army, with the resulting requirements upon the medical department of the care of the sick soldiers. Surgeon General Sternberg is planning for another hospital on even a larger scale at some of the Southern ports below Fortress Monroe and more accessible from Cuba. He has appointed a medical board to make an inspection of available places and the impression prevails that the hospital will be located either at Charleston or Savannah: The hospital ships Resolute and Missouri are under orders to prepare immediately for a return trip to Porto Rico to bring back any sick soldiers requiring home treatment. Te post hospital at Washington barracks, District of Columbia, the Sternberg and Sanger field hospitals at Chickamauga Park and the military hospital at Ponce, Porto Rico, have been designated as general hospitals and are placed under the exclusive control of the surgeon general of the army. Tlie Sternberg: Hospital. WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The following dispatch to the President from Major General Breckinridge, dated Chickamauga Park, Ga., Sept. 11, was made public to-day: "Less than forty days ago work was begun to build and equip Sternberg Hospital to supply a crying demand for better accommodations and more careful treatment of the sick of this command who were daily increasing in numbers when I assumed command on Aug. 2. Major Griffin was put in charge of this hospital and it has been, in that time, of infinite comfort to the hundreds of sack who have been in its wards and is now a model field hospital in pvery way. He deserves great praise and commendation for the work he has done."

Sickness Decreasing:. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12.—Sickness is on the decrease in the Presidio camp, and the typhoid fever is getting well under control. There were twenty-six in the convalescent home to-day, 115 men off on furlough, 319 In the division hospital and forty-seven in the Presidio field hospital. There are sixty cases of typhoid in the division hospital. The First Tennessee has sixty-three sick men. TRAIN IN A WASHOUT. Flood Causes a Railway Accident and Death of a School Teacher. TEXARKANA, Tex., Sept. 12.—About noon yesterday rain began falling here and continued for thirty hours, the country adjacent to Texarkana being flooded. Sulphur river rose twelve feet last night. All trains entering Texarkana have been delayed on account of washouts, especially in Bouisiana and Texas south and west of here. Passenger train No. 4 on the Texas & Pacific Railroad lies in three to six feet of water near Buchanan, twelve miles south. It was late and running at a high rate of speed when it switched around a curve into a washout on a feeding spur to Sulphur river. The trestle work and several hundred feet of track were gone, and the engine, mail, baggage, express and smoking cars went into the water. Prof. Caldwell, a colored school teacher of Queen City, Tex., was crushed to death in the forward end of the smoker, while J. E. Cothran, of Fort Worth, was badly injured by a flying ice tank in the same car. The engine turned completely over, and Engineer Nat Gilmour and Fireman Miller were only saved from death by the steel cab, which stood the crash. Mail Clerks H. Wingfield, C. W. Cramp and W. M. Swift were thrown into the stream and had a narrow escape. Swift’s left hand w’as crushed and the others suffered severe bruises. Expressman Guy Walker was badly bruised about the legs. The wrecked cars were turned over and smashed. Wrecking trains have been at work all day, but a passage will not be effected till to-morrow. The dead and injured were brought to Texarkana. CUBANS SUFFERING. Spaniards Saitl to Be Oppreanlnc the Poor of Havana. W'ASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Senor Thomas Estrada Palma has just received a communication from the representative of the Cuban revolutionary government, who has secretly been In Havana since the beginning of the war. The letter Is as follows: "The situation of the Cubans In this city, and in this province, is, In truth, critical. The termination of the war, in which we rejoice at the Independence of the island, has brought with it direful woe to the Cubans and demands immediate attention; and it is this condition of affairs that compels me to write to you at this time in the hope that you will be able to present the case to the American government and secure immediate relief. ‘‘The war is ended, and at the same time we are not living in peace. Nevertheless-, in the rejoicing over the outcome, the victims of the war, the real sufferers, are almost entirely forgotten. The victims are the Cubans. Neither the United Btates nor Spain has suffered from the ravages of war or. their own territory, while all the dewrought by the

struggle has been endured by poor, suffer ing (Aiba, and the end is not yet. “Chaos reigns in Havana. The public service has in neurly all departments been practically abandoned, and the employes, thus being thrown out of their positions, take the more from ns. What is true of the civit authorities Is doubly true of the soldiery. The Industrial public is completely paralyzed. AH animals, all horses have been taken away to meet the necessities of the Spanish army. There is nothing for the laboring people, for the poorer clashes, the large majority of whom are Cubans, to do. Matters have not improved since the raising of the blockade. The poor man who manages to plant a little garden place to save himself and his family from starvation finds, just as he is about to harvest his crop, he is made the prey of the soldiery, who rob him of all. The city is full of thieves and vagabonds, who steal, plunder and destroy ail they can. Neither is there any justice or attempt at punishment for offenses, even the most grave. "To make it worse, the colonial government has advanced the customs duties 20 per cent, since the blockade was raised. "Tlie goven.mtnt is liberating the most dangerous criminals, while political prisoners are treated with the utmost cruelty. A short time longer of the present condition of affairs and the entire Cuban population will be dependent upon the noble charity of the Red Cross. The press Is again beginning to defame Cuban liberty and the Spanish censor is maintaining a policy worse than in the times of Weyler. “What I particularly wish to have you obtain for us is the aid of the American government in preventing the confiscation of Cuban property by the Spaniards, which is going on at an alarming rate every day. Tlie Cubans are poor enough, but their condition is growing steadily worse by plunder and roblwry. Again, we desire to have the censorship raised, so that the outside world may know what we are suffering. That would do more than all else to stay the ravages of the Spaniards.” COST OF WAR TO SPAIN ABOUT f:t74,.N(M>.000, RESIDES HER FERTILE ISLAND COLONIES. * Enormon* Sum* Spent on the Army Instead of the Navy—No Danger of Renewal of Hostilities. NEW YORK. Sept. 12.-A special to the Herald from Washington says: "Aside from the loss of her colonies and the ships destroyed battle the war has cost Spain about $374,800,000. Information to this effect has been reached at the Navy Department from the naval attaches of this government abroad. Including the cost of preparation in anticipation of the war begun by Spain in May, 1895. these sums have been raised and expeifded: From the sale of 322,944 Cuhun notes. $25,242,255; from the sale of 60.000 Cuban notes of 1886, $5,784,897; loan of 400,000,000 pesetas on the customs guarantees,s74,4oo,ooo; from the sale of silver, etc., $866,338; loan of the Bank of Spain on the Cuban guarantee, $58,400,000; loan of the Bank of Spain on the customs guarantee, $48,200,000; loan of the Bank of Spain on guarantee of contributions, $32,000,000; loan of the pank of Spain 4 per cent. Internal debt, $29,000,000; Philippine taxes. $37,000,000. These sums do not include debts for transports, etc., contracted by the government which are placed at approximately, $62,000,000. "According to the information in the possession of the department all the money obtained has been expended on expeditions* sent to the colonies, whose total amounted to 180,431 soldiers, 6,223 officers and about seven hundred generals. Os the millions expended only $5,6tt),000 was spent by the Spanish government to increase Its naval force. El Mundo, of Spain, commenting on this small appropriation for the navy when such a large sum w’as expended for the army, points out that this sum was sufficient to have bought and maintained a battle ship of ten thousand tons. ‘With the entire appropriation,’ it continues, ‘sixty-six battle ships could have been secured. “According to the reports received here it is evident that Spain deeply deplores her failure to add a large number of ships to her navy instead of applying at least half of the appropriations made by the Cortes to the maintenance of the army. It is appreciated by the Madrid government that in view of the condition of her treasury ami the further fact that her naval force is now greatly inferior it would be useless to continue the struggle, especially as there is no nation of Europe willing to support her in case she should again resort to the arbitrament of arms. Because of this the authorities have no reason to believe there will be any serious hitch in the negotiations of the peace commission, and while they expect the Spaniards will do everything possible to delay the completion of the treaty, believing they may bring about complications advantageous to their government, the American representatives will be in a position at any time to bring them to terms by a simple threat to withdraw."

ON THE WAY TO SPAIN ♦ ADMIRAL CEB VERA AND HIM SAIL* OKS SPEEDING TOWARDS HOME. Seventeen Hundred Prisoners on Board the City of Rome, Whleh • Left Portsmouth, N. If., Yesterday. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Sept. 12.-One thousand seven hundred of the sailors and marines who survived the disaster which befell the war ships of Admiral Prsoual Cervera at Santiago on July 3, Including the admiral and his staff, embarked on the steamship City of Rome this morning. Admiral Cervera, with his son Angel, made farewell visits to the offices of the navy yard previous to boarding the City of Rome. On his way to the boat the admiral spoke enthusiastically to those who accompanied him of the treatment the Americans had accorded to the Spanish prisoners, to his staff and to himself. He detailed the many courtesies he had received at Portsmouth, Annapolis, Norfolk, New York and Washington. He said he would carry with him many happy recollections of the kindness and generosity of those in official circles, as well as of citizens in every walk of life. The City of Rome sailed this afternoon for Santander, Spain. Os the Spanish prisoners on board 1,668 men were from the prison at Seavey’s island. As soon as the prisoners were safely on board the steamer the 104 sick men in the hospital were carefully moved and the last man was carried on board shortly after noon. All the Spanish prisoners were warmly clothed in American uniforms./ Thousands of spectators, who were viewing the scene from all kinds of river crgft and on the shore, cheered the Spaniards, who waived adieus in response. The Spanish prisoners have been on New Hampshire soil two months. The ttrst batch of prisoners consisted of 696 men, who arrived here on the St. Bouls July 9, and the second consisted of 1,008, who were brought here on the Harvard July 15. During the sojourn iiere thirty of the Spaniards have died in the hospital. As the big Anchor liner passed down th/ harbor Admiral Cervera /fctood on dock kicking toward the city until the vessel bad reached the open sou. >' Col. E. S. Dudley. U. S. A., of the adjutant general’s office, Washington, is here making an investigation of the shooting of Spanish prisoners on board Ahe auxiliary cruiser Harvard, which occurred Just before the left Cuba for Seavey's Island. He is taking testimony of the marine* and the Spanish prisoners, and also had long conference with Admiral Cerverg/'on the mutter. The shooting was the outcome of a dispute between a number of the prisoners and several privates of ths Ninth Massachusetts who were on board. No Yellow Fever in Florida. JACKSON VIBBE, Fla.. Sept. 11-Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, state health officer, today denied the rumor of yellow fever in this city. Dr. Porter stated emphuticaily that not only was there no fever in Jacksonville. but there had not been a case u Florida this year.