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THE DAILY JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898. Washington Office— lso3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone ('alia. Business Office 238 | Editorial Rooms 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Daily only, one month . $ .70 Dally only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Daily, including Sunday, one year 10.00 Bunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Bunday. single copy 5 cts Dally and Sunday, per week, by carrier.... 20 cts WEEKLY. Per year 81.00 Reduced Hates to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or Bend subscriptions to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal thiough the malls In the United States should put on an etght-]>age paper a ONE-CENT postage stamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage clamp. Foreign postage 1b usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, he accompanied by the name and address of the Writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: HEW YORK—Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. Cincinnati—j. r. Hawley & co„ 154 vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Deerlng, northwegt comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisviile Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot. (WASHINGTON. D. C.-Riggs House. Ebbltt House and Willard’s Hotel. There are men in this country who will be Uispleased to hear that gold from the Bank Os England is being Imported. Young Mr. Bailey, of Texas, as he is called, is laboring under the delusion that he is director general of the Democratic party. ' The yellow and copperhead journals will Dot be able to create a public sentiment hostile to enlistments. They have done their IworsL The President’s investigation will go on land it will be directed by men who will disclose whatever of evil there has been End expose the lies. • A few months ago Colonel Bryan professed to be anxious to get at the Spaniards with his gun; now he is anxious to Bet at the American people with his mouth. No political party in the United States has ever succeeded by attacking the conduct of a successful war, and the present policy of the Democratic party will furnish Lew proof of the fact. The Cleveland administration is not to be hlamed for issuing bonds in time of peace to maintain the credit of the government, but the Democratic party is to be blamed lor making it necessary. An officer in one of the returned regiments predicts that if asked to do so a large majority of the men, when the thirty days’ furlough is over, would volunteer for six months’ service in Cuba. Colonel Bryan compares the coming rush (of words when he shall open his mouth to the breaking of a dam; "there is no telling Vhen the flood stops.” He seems to have reached a correct estimate of himself. A party which in time of peace borrowed 1262,000,000 at 4% per cent, to protect the national credit against the consequences of its own blunders is in no position to arraign another party which borrowed $200,000,000 at 8 per cent, to prosecute a foreign war. And now the Washington correspondent of the New York Times informs the country that the ambitious adjutant general of the army has completely overs..adowed the eccretary of war. If that is the case the cry of the hostile newspaper should be “Corbinism”—rather than Algerism.

The puttie debt was increased more during the peace administration of Grover Cleveland than it will be during the w'ar administration of William McKinley, and the annua] interest account of the government was increased by the difference between 3 |or cent, and 4V& per cent, interest on $262,bco.ooo. The Dingley tariff law is vindicating itself. During August last the customs receipts were $16,249,299, as against $12,329,495 during August, 1596, and estimates based on receipts to Sept. 15 give the customs reve- | Hue for this month at $17,000,000 as against e little over $11,000,000 in September, 1896. The President of Argentina has offered Jlon. J. Sterling Morton a very large salary lo come there and organize a department of egrieulture similar to ours. In a similar way many years ago Argentina paid Horace Mann a large sum to go there and superintend the organization of a public school bystem. The Argentina government evidently knows where to go for progressive ideas. The St. Louis Republic is one of the Democratic papers which has discovered that the Republican scheme to induce home production of tin plate has been successful. It even goes so far as to say that the logical result of the stimulating duty of the repealed McKinley law has been to cause so large a production that the consequent competition has caused a fall in the price to a lower figure than tin plate sold at when all was imported. It must appear to those who are seeking Information regarding the illness of men in regiments that the regiments which give the most attention to cleanliness are those which have the least sickness. For instance, the One-hundred-and-sixty-Hrst Indiana and the Third Nebraska, Colonel Bryan’s regiment, are in the same division. The former, ■which la reported to have the cleanest camp in the corps, has four men in the division hospital, while the Third Nebraska had one hundred and forty-five unuer treatment in the same place. A Chicago paper publishes a three-column article which begins with the declaration that “public schools versus private schools Is the overshadowing question in Indiana today.” This statement is qualified materially by an admission that the controversy is over colleges. That it is an "overshadowing question" will astonish thousands of intelligent people who have heard but little dismission of the matter. Articles appear in the papers on the subject, but this has been the case for years. There is no opposition to such aid as the State Is now giving the Kormal School and Purdue, and it may be said, we think, that there would not be any opposition to the present levy for the .State University had not its friends indiscreetly given out that they will ask & large

increase of state aid, or at least made estimates for expenditures which would compel a large increase. President Butler, of Butler University, who may be assumed to represent those most nearly connected with the nonstate colleges, disclaims any purpose to antagonize the present levy for the State University, but favors the continuing of the assistance. President Butler and those whom he represents desire to have the Board of Education appointed by the Governor like other boards. But there is nothing of an "overshadowing” nature in the controversy. The people of Indiana are really thinking of other things—to some extent. HILL’S WATER WORKS REPORT. The Journal believes that the city should own the plant which furnishes the water supply for the same reason that It should own Its Are apparatus. It holds that the question of purchase should not be considered from a partisan point of view. If Mayor Taggart should obtain a favorable offer for a water plant which will supply the city with an abundance of good water, all good citizens should favor the purchase. The mayor has received a proposition from the company owning the Indianapolis water works. He has had the property examined by an expert, and his report has got into the papers. People have read it with interest. It contains valuable information. The expert makes the plant worth $1,9v0,000, while the price put upon it by the officers of the company is $3,500,000. That amount of money is not to be paid down, but in the course of twenty-five years that will be the amount paid for the plant. Mr. Hill, it is said, makes no recommendation. It could scarcely be asked of him that he should do so. When, however, he estimates the plant to be worth $1,900,000, and the price asked is $3,500,000, he furnishes the facts from which each person can make his own deduction. That deduction must be that the amount asked is too much to pay for the property unless there are holdings which have a greater prospective value, which can scarcely be the case. The value of the property is doubtless the amount of money it would take to construct similar works to-day. The valuation is made upon the same basis as that of the plant of the street-railway should be made when the time may come to have an appraisal, namely—the amount of money for which the works could be duplicated, less the amount of deterioration. There is one thing that the city should be assured of before purchase is made, and that is that the supply of water from wells which tap rivers beneath the surface is reliable and adequate to the future needs of the city. Mr. Hill is of opinion that with more wells it would be. Unless geologists or other scientists who have made a study of the subterranean streams can give assurance of an abends nee of potable water for the supply of the city as it grows, purchase would be a somewhat doubtful venture. The charter of the water eompapy provides that when the city desires to purchase the value of the plant shall be appraised by a commission. Such being the case, the failure of the present plan for purchase by no means puts city ownership out of the question. Certainly the present showing by the report, as it has been printed in the newspapers, does not warrant the purchase of the property upon the terms proposed.

BUSINESS IN OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. There is some danger that the business opportunities in our new possessions may be overrated by Americans seeking new fields for investment or employment, thereby causing a rush of emigration that may result disastrously. This has sometimes happened in our history. Americans are an enterprising and migratory people, ever on the alert for new chances to make money. For this they will go almost anywhere and take almost any risks. The rush to California will always remain one of the most remarkable episodes in our history. When gold w r as discovered there California was more difficult of access from the Eastern States than Hawaii or the Philippines is at present. The discovery of gold was made in January, 1848, but authentic new T s of the disffbvery did not reach "the States” till the fall of 1848. In 1849 from thirty thousand to forty thousand persons crossed the plains and about twenty-five thousand went by sea. In 1852 the State had a population of 264,000, and in 1860 of 380,000. In 1818 the population of San Francisco was one thousand; in 1852 it was thirty-five thousand. This immense influx of population was sustained by the increasing output of gold and the boundless opportunities for investment and enterprise. In the case of California there was no great reaction, though in a few years almost everything was overdone. The rush to Alaska, though not as great as that to California, has been greater than the circumstances justified, and already there Is a strong return tide of emigration. The settlement of Kansas, of Oklahoma and other Western States and territories has been accompanied by similar experiences—a tremendous rush to get in “on the ground floor,” a surplus of population, a scarcity of employment for poor men and unskilled labor, and the return of many disappointed adventurers. Our new possessions will not justify any rush of immigration. They do not offer an inviting field for the employment of unskilled labor, for investment by small capitalists or for any of the enterprises with which Americans are chiefly familiar. They are tropical countries, and, therefore, not favorable for the rapid development of new enterprises. Moreover, they are not new or unpopulated countries. Porto Rico is as thickly populated as any one of the United States. Hawaii is not so populous, but it is by no means anew country. The Knights of Pythias lodge in Honolulu has issued a circular on this subject, in which the situation is so clearly and temperately stated that it is worth careful reading. It says: The annexation of these islands by the United States has caused many of the brethren to project attempts to better their condition or to find employment in what they consider anew country. Such we consider it our duty to warn and to speak in plain terms. The social and business communities of these islands were old and well established before the rush to California. This is in no sense anew country. The only opportunity here is for the man of large capital. There is no employment here for mechanics of any kind or for unskilled labor. Many men of ability, of good habits and first-class recommendations are now here practically stranded. All lines of small business are filled, and, in most cases, crowded. Do not come here unless you have the assurance in advance of steady employment or have the capital to engage in land development enterprises requiring large means. We spread this positive advice because we wish to save brethren disappointment and distress. It is probable this statement would fit Porto Rico fully as well as it does Hawaii, for Porto Rico is much the older country and the more populous Island of the two. Os course, there are opportunities for investment in both Islands, but they are chiefly in enterprises that require expensive plants and large capital, such as sugar planting or refining, coffee raising, etc.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898.

Eventually, the development of these enterprises and, perhaps, of other undiscovered resources, will give employment to considerable labor, but they will take time, and until it occurs it would be unfortunate for the islands to be overrun by a multitude of unskilled laborers seeking employment where it does not exist, or adventurers hoping to find money growing on bushes. The place to do business or get employment is where business and employment exist. At present they do not exist in our new possessions to any appreciable extent. They will have to be created and developed by capital, and until that is done poor men and laboring men had better stay where they are. THE FACTS COMING OUT. The following, written by a general officer, portrays graphically one phase of the sufferings of war. It relates to the moving of a wagon train carrying wounded men. The writer cays: The column moved rapidly, considering the rough roads and darkness, and from almost every wagon for many miles issued heartrending wails of agony. For four hours 1 hurried forward on my way to the front, and in all that time I was never out of hearing of the groans and cries of the wounded and dying. Scarcely one in a hundred had received adequate surgical aid, owing to the demands on the hard-working surgeons from still worse cases that had to be left behind. Many’of the wounded in the wagons had been without food for thirty-six hours. Their torn and bloody clothing, matted and hardened, was rasping the tender, inflamed and still oozing wounds. Very few of the wagons had even a layer of straw in them, ana all were without springs. The road was rough and rocky from heavy washings of the preceding day. The jolting was enough to have killed strong men if long exposed to it. From nearly every wagon as the teams trotted on, urged by whip and shout, came such cries and shrieks as these: "Oh, God, why can’t I die?” “My God! will no one have mercy and kill me?” "Stop! Oh, for God’s sake stop just one minute! Take me out and leave me to die on the roadside!” "I am dying! I am dying! My poor wife, my dear children, what will become of you?” No war correspondent, no chaplain even, has given a more vivid picture than this of the sufferings incident to> war. A wagon train miles in length, laden with wounded soldiers, many of them without food for thirty-six hours, all without surgical attention, moving rapidly over rough and stony roads—nothing could be more terrible than this. But it did not happen in the recent war. It describes the removal of the Confederate wounded from Gettysburg back to Virginia, and was written by General Imboden, who was in charge of the w’agon train. He says: "During this one night I realized more of the horrors of war than I had in ail of the two preceding years.” If the foregoing incident had occurred during the recent war it would have furnished a great topic for sensational correspondents and yellow’ newspapers. It is but one incident out of many similar ones that occurred in the civil war in which the sufferings on both sides were beyond comparison greater than anything in the recent w r ar. Yet attracted but little attention at the time because the public mind was too intent on the great issues and objects of the war to pay attention to details or individual sufferings. A compensatory feature of the present clamor regarding the alleged mismanagement of the recent war and the unnecessary suffering of the soldiers is that it has revived statistics and experiences of the civil war showing that the same conditions existed then on a much larger scale. Records of the War Department show that the loss by disease in any one of the army corps in the war with Spain does not exceed the loss of a single regiment in the civil war. In the latter war the Fifteenth Maine, which served most of the time in the Gulf and Lower Mississippi departments, lost 343 men by disease—more than the loss by disease of any army corps in the recent war. The sufferings of the soldiers in the civil war w r ere greater, the rations poorer, the hardships more severe, ’the sickness more fatal and the medical and hospital attendance not as good as they were in the recent war, yet the yellow press would have people believe that such things never happened before. As the facts come out they are being put to shame.

It is stated that the water works report of Expert Hill was made public before it had been made to the mayor, controller or other officers to whom it should have been presented, and before these gentlemen knew that it had been completed. Mr. Hill, the expert, declares that he did not give it out and City Engineer Jeup affirms positively that he did not make it public. This is remarkable; it indicates that somewhere in the basement of the courthouse occupied by the city government ;s a more potential personage than Mayor Taggart. Controller Johnson and the Board of Public Works, who can gat reports before they are seen by the officials to whom they are addressed. W. C. F., Sharpsville, Ind.: The War Department is the only authority that could answer your question accurately. So far very few troops have beerj, mustered out. They are being sent home, where they are given furloughs of sixty days If they have been out of the country, and thirty days if they have not. Two batteries of lowa artillery and the Roosevelt Rough Riders have been mustered out, and possibly other commands. 11l RULES IN THE AIR. Swift. "The fight was all over in a minute,” said the witness. *W’y, it was all done as quick as a ole married man kissin’ his wife goodbye.” True Greatness. "Is he really so eminent?” "Well, I’ll tell you: He never indorses a patent medicine with less than a threecolumn cut.” Political Item. The listening crowd do jeer aloud and.greet with wild hilarity The man who’d talk 16 to 1 and money gods and parity. The Cornfed Philosopher. "A woman,” said the Cornfed Philosopher, "gets mad at a man if he be awkward in making love, and gets madder if he makes love as if he had had lots of experience.” The Cheerful Idiot. "They say that the devil is the father of lies,” said the typewriter boarder, "but surely the saying cannot apply to little, white lies.” “No,” said the Cheerful Idiot, "only infernal lies.’’ STATE PRESS OPINION. General Miles is down with fever. The result, no doubt, of another blunder on the part of the War Department. General Alger sent him south.—Logansport Journal. How unfortunate that all those fellows who could have carried on the war with Spain without any hardships, were not heard of until after the war had closed. —Vernon Journal. Blanco has nothing to fear from America and has considerable to fear from Spain, so he lays everything to this country. Great head on Blanco. He makes himself solid with his own country.—South Bend Tribune. The Democrats have begun the campaign as if their only hope is in making the country believe it is in a horrible plight. The Democratic party always depends on mak-

ing everyone miserable and discontented. —Muncle Times. Let some enterprising Democratic statistician figure out what the war with Spain would have cost the LTiited States on a basis of Democratic financiering such as President Cleveland gave the country in 1895.—Columbus Republican. An investigation of the conduct of the war is not exactly what the Democrats want. What they do want is a chance to howl and rant without an investigation, a proceeding which, they know, would put a sudden stop to their chance of affecting the fall elections.—Muneie News. The war now drawing to a close has disturbed all precedents, and in so doing has established throughout the earth anew measure of the powers of the young repub’ic of the West, which, with all these victories to its credit, lias hardly had time as yet to rouse itself to action.—Shelbyville Republican. We are assured now by a certain class of newspapers that the secretary of war has been "a stupendous failure,” that he is utterly "incompetent.” that everything has been mismanaged, that there has been nothing but blundering and corruption. And yet more was accomplished, there was more glorious achievement in the short space of four months than was ever known before in all history.—New Albany, Tribune. The Democrat says, in speaking of the rations of some of the soldiers, all they had to eat was bacon, hardtack, coffee, etc., etc. Well, what of it? Did they expect porterhouse steak, fried chicken and Anger bowls. The civil war veteran was content with parched corn and mule flesh for weeks at a time and he did not kick against the government either. The fellow’s he swore against were the Johnnies who cut off the supply trains.—Washington Gazette. The sick soldier cry, which has been heard throughout the land, is intended to divert the minds of the people from the real vital issues of this campaign. Those who are making this cry most vociferously recog-, nize the fact, that the people wu have nothing to do with the 16 to 1 issue which was so badly repudiated in 1896. The new cry is taken up as the last chance to win a victory, which there is no possibility of winning on a vital question. The people will not be misled by this cry.—Middletown Nows.

CURRENT PERIODICALS. The first portraits taken of Mary E. Wilklrs which she has ever liked will be printed In the October Ladles* Home Journal. There will be nine of them, and they will show the famous New England story-teller at home and with her friends around her. The address delivered by W. H. Sanders, of Marion, Ind., before the State Teachers’ Association at its meeting last December, attracted so much attention that its author, in response to a demand, has issued it in pamphlet form. Its subject is "The Public Schools: What the Public Demands of Them.” Little Folks supplies a want in magazine literature not filled by any other periodical. Its stories and pictures are suited to the tastes and capacity of the babies who can only listen to what their elders read, or who are just spelling out words for themselves. The illustrations are dainty and the stories of good quality. Published by S. E. Cassino, Boston. The Inland Educator (Terre Haute) contains a department on the public library, conducted by W. E. Henry, state librarian. The latest issues of the “Little Journeys” series issued by the Putnams relates to Daniel Webster and Henry Clay, respectively. with accounts of "little journeys” to ihe former homes of these departed statesmen. Mr. Elbert Hubbard is rather superficial as a biographer, but these little essays are graceful, and readable. The October number of the Wide World Magazine, a periodical which professes to deal only in true stories of adventure, contains in its October number thrilling accounts of some curiosities of tiger hunting, of a race for a geld mine, of a leap of 120 feet, of how’ a baby was stolen by baboons, of forest fires and of a variety of other happenings in various parts of the world. Incidentally. a great deal of information of a geographical and scientific sort is conveyed in these tales. September has five issues of the Youth’s Companion. The principal contributors are Justin McCarthy, who describes the oratory of some of the great men whom he has known in the British House of Commons; Capt. Alfred T. Mahan. tTnited States navy, who tells hov r “The CjMd*thn©-'Frigate” was handled; Percival Lowell, who writes of “The Aims of the Modern Astronomer:” the Duke of Argyll, who contributes "A Chat About Herons,” and the Countess of Malmesbury, who describes "A Holiday in Spain.” In his article on "The Battle of San Juan.” in the October Scribner’s, Richard Harding Davis says, regarding the part played by General Shatter: “The unthink ing answer which is invariably made to every criticism on General Shatter is that, after all, he was justified in the end, for be did succeed; he was sent to Cuba to take Santiago, and he took Santiago. He did not take Santiago. His troops, without the aid they should have received from him of proper reconnoissance and sufficient artillery, devotedly sacrificed themselves and tcok the hills above Santiago with their bare hands, and it was Admiral Cervera who, in withdrawing his guns which covered the city, made a present of it to the American army.” The National Geographic Magazine for September gives considerable space to a review of the growth of the United States. The article shows that the growth of 1898 marks no new policy, but is merely a continuation of a course of development successfully pursued for a century. It makes the point, also, that the acquisition of Cuba and the Philippines must make America the naval station of the earth, for the problem born of accession would be the problem of navigation, which needs American genius for its final solution, while America needs the incentive to strengthen the element in which alone she is weak. The writer adds: "The Philippines are remote —only a fraction so remote in time as v.as California a half-century ago, yet remote enough to compel the invention of devices for shortening time and annihilating space, and the problem of bringing Manila within a fortnight of San Francisco is one worthy the genius of the inventors of the innumerable devices involved in steambeating, railroading and telegraphing. Given swift vessels, the other problems presented by the garden of the East are of little consequence save as forecasting directions for the profitable expenditure of long-pent energy.” William Archer ccntributes to the Pall Mall Magazine an essay on the English language which shows broadmindedness and common sense. He does not think the language is being corrupted by "Americanisms,” though he admits that there is too much careless and slipshod "journalese” used In both countries. On the contrary, he thinks there tin be no rational doubt that the English language has gained, and is gaining, enormously by its expansion over the American continent. The prime function of the language is, he says, “to interpret the ‘form and pressure’ of life—the experience, knowledge, thought em >tion and aspiration of the race which employs it. This being so, the mere tap-roots a language seeds down into the soil of life, and th more varied the strata of human experience from which it draws its nourishment, whether of vocabulary or idiom, the more perfect will be its potentialities as a medium of expression.” He adds: • "The English language is no mere historic monument. like Westminster Abbey, to be religiously preserved as a relic of the past, and reverenced as the burial place of a bygone breed of giants. It is a living organism, ceaselessly bisied, like any other organism, in the processes of assimilation and excretion. It has before it. we may fairly hope, a future still greater than its glorious past. And the greatness of that future will greatly depend on the harmonious ir.ttrplay of spiritual forces throughout the American Republic and the British Empire.” The essay, as a whole, is an admirable reply to the charge of socalled purists, who live in fear of all new words and phrases which do not carry with them a classic pedigree. Gold Coming; from Europe. NEW YORK, Sept. 21. —' To-day’s gold engagements comprised $1,000,006 for the United States Mortgage and Trust Company and $500,000 for Morton. Bliss & Cos. There was also announced an engagement of $300,000 to the Manhattan Trust Company, made yesterday. Total engaged in or received from Europe since the beginning of the movement $10,600,000. No Room for Comparison. Kansas City Journal. "One hour at Gettysburg.” says General Grosvenor. "cost the American people more lives than has this war at the present time.” The truth is that the losses and suffering in the recent war when compared to the great results accomplished are really trifling and insignificant. *

BRIDGEPORT’S MYSTERY DISMEMBERED CORPSE FOOD IX A MILL POXD AGAIN IDENTIFIED. Said to Be tlie Remain* of Emma Gill, a Dome*tie—Yonns Man Arrested on Suspicion. BRIDGEPORT. Conn., Sept. 21.—A new development in the Yellow Mill pond mystery was made known to-day, with the announcement of the arrest in Hartford of Walter C. Foster. The police have reached the conclusion that the young woman whose dismembered corpse was found In the pond last week was Emma Gill, daughter of Harry Gill, of Southington. Young Foster is accused of having been an accomplice in the murder of Miss Gill. Miss Gill was twenty-four years old, and had been employed as a domestic in the family of Jas. H. Pratt, of Southington. Her brother described the mole upon her neck, and a similar mark was found on the corpse. The brother told how his sister started on a vacation. At the end of two weeks she returned home, but ai.ncui.ced to Air. Pratt that she was ill and was going away again. To her parents she stated that her suitor, Walter Foster, of Hartford, had a sister living in Stratford, and that he had invited her to go there. Two letters that the parents sent to their daughter were answered, but a third one, with directions on the outside to the postmaster to return within three days if not called for, was received to-day unopened. If the body should prove to be that of Miss Gill, the most puzzling mystery in recent criminal annals will have been solved. Last week the dismembered body was positively identifled as the remains of Grace Perkins, of Middietown, Afass. There have been many cases of mistaken identity in which the proofs have seemed incontrovertible. The newspaper records have been full of such instances and some of them have awakened interest upon two continents. But the present case is singular in its dramatic quality. In no other case has the conclusion of identification been drawn more cautiously and in none lias the evidence upon which that conclusion was based seemed more convincing. Yet even while the father of Grace Perkins, upon the verge of collapse from grief and horror, was hearing to his stricken home the mutilated body of his supposed daughter and while the aged mother in tears was waiting in her cottage the ordeal of the reception of her dead, while the grewsome preparations for the burial were in progress, with the undertaker’s wagon at the door of the home, the grave dug and open, Grace Perkins, alive and unconcerned, appeared. Sue drove up to her home, passing on her way the open grave which had been prepared for her. Her companion, upon whom suspicion rested, returned with her. With the return of the Perkins girl the problem of the identity of the remains dragged from Yellow Mill pond relapsed again into the mysterious. On Monday, Sept. 12, the first intimation of the crime was given to the public. It was brought to light as simply as many grewsome crimes have been discovered in the past. Like the Guldensuppe murder in its execution, it was discovered as that notorious crime was revealed. Some boys were playing about a bridge which spans the waters of Yellow Mill pond. The place is subject to the inflow and outgo of the tides and at times the lowered water reveals that which clings to the mud of the bottom. One of the boys saw a human foot protruding from a package in the ooze, and all of them ran for help. Men came and found two packages securely tied with w'hat appeared to be window cord. Upon opening them one was found to contain a woman’s head. It had been severed from the trunk with skill. The face was fair, the eyes blue, the hair auburn. The teeth were w T ell preserved and cared for. Several of them were filled with gold. The head was wrapped in rubber sheeting such as doctors and nurses use. A pillowcase was found and the leg of a man’s undergarment. The underwear bore the laundry mark “G. 51.” In the other bundle were a woman’s legs. They were severed at the knees and slashed between the upper and middle portion of the thighs. A knife and a saw had been employed by one accustomed to their use. The woman had been dead, the doctors said, twenty-four hours, and had been dismembered within four hours of death. Search was made for the trunk and it was found the next day not far from where the head and legs were discovered. The failure to discover it the day before led to a belief that it had been thrown into the pond during the night. Like the other portion of the body rubber sheeting had been used to enwrap the trunk, as well as what appeared to be a carriage curtain. Tfce trunk had been severed at the waist, a knife and a saw having been used in the work. The other leg of the undergarment was found with the trunk. There were no marks about the body by which to identify it and people crowded to the morgue to see the head. One thought it was that of a Mrs. Seaton, another that of Rachel Warner, a nurse. Mrs. W. A. Russell identified it as that of her daughter. All three persons appeared in life to disprove the identification. A Hoboken woman thought the body was that of Amelia Austey, but this was proved to be impossible. A merchant thought he had seen the woman lurking near his store the night before the body was found. William Kelly, of Bridgeport, said he had seen on Sunday night a buggy with red running gear and rubber tires standing on the bridge near where the body was found. In the buggy was a man who wore a light overcoat and a black felt hat. He was about five feet eight inches tall and of medium build. To the buggy was hitched a gray horse. As Kelly passed the man turned his face away. Keliy, glancing in the buggy. saw several bundles there. He said he afterward came face to face with the t man, whp he saw had a black mustache. As soon as Kelly had gone on the stranger drove away. Kelly went into a little woods near Ms home, close at hand, and was there when another .man came hurrying through the bushes. The man was well dressed and looked as if he might be a pi'ofessional man. He weighed about 175 pounds and was about five feet eleven inches tail. Under his coat he carried a bundle. This he took out before he saw Kelly, but on seeing him he replaced It and disappeared. The laundry mark and the story of Kelly, in the absence of identification, afforded the only clews to the solution of the mystery. On Wednesday a Bridgeport man, Henry Burlison, a meat salesman, appeared in Matteawan. N. Y., with a red-geared, rub-ber-tired surrey and a fagged-out horse. He has accounted satisfactorily for his movements. The laundry mark. “G 51,” was found to be the family mark of a midwife, Mrs. ”Dr.” Guilford. She has been in prison and her husband, a Dr. Gill, Is serving a term in prison. She left town about the time of the murder and the finger of suspicion has since pointed steadily toward her. On Thursday Frank Perkins, an engineer, of Middleboro. Mass., appeared in Bridgeport and by means of a facial blemish and the gold filling in the teeth positively identified the dead girl as his daughter. All were satisfied that Marion Grace Perkins was the woman who had been murdered. “Are you willing to swear that the body in the morgue is that of your daughter?” asked the coroner. “I am wdlling to pledge my life that it is she,” answered Mr. Perkins, solemnly, and yet how completely even a doting father can be mistaken has been shown. Another arrest was made in connection with the Yellow Mill pond murder mystery late to-night, the second man being from Stratford, but whom the officers Refuse to divulge. It was intimated that the man was only held on suspicion. Chief Birmingham and Detective Arnold visited Stratford tonight and called upon Deputy Sheriff Stagg. nhj accompanied them in their quest, and about 11:30 the party returned to the police station with a man in custody.. No name was entered on the slate and no particulars could be learned from the officers.

Dentist Kennedy Indicted. NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—The grand jury to-day returned an indictment for murder in the first degree against Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy, who is accused of the murder of Kmeline C. Reynolds, better known as ••Dolly” Reynolds, in the Grand Hotel on Aug. 16. CHURCH SLOWLY SINKING. Ground Giving Way Beneath a Holy Edifice In Pennsylvania. HAZELTON,.Fa.. Sept. 21.—St. Patrick’s Church at Audenreid is slowly sinking into the mines and abandonment of the property probably will be necessary. For the pa*: ten hours the ground has been settling and the southern wing of the church is almost entirely torn away, the main building being supported only by two badly twisted pillars. Father Malloy ordered the removal of everything from the church this morning, and it is not thought that the building will be fit for use again. The cause of the cave-in is

a sudden rush of coal in a gangway running beneath four large pillars of coal in a breast directly under the building. The church Is valued at ss,ooo. Large fissures have appeared In the territory surrounding the church, but thus far r.o other properties are affected. PARADE OF ODD FELLOWS. Twenty Thousand Patriarch* Militant In Line at Boston. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 21.—Odd Fellows to the number of twenty thousand paraded in Boston to-day beneath a bright sky and through streets handsomely decorated in their honor. The streets along the entire line were filled with spectators. The route laid out for the parade was five miles long and for the entire distance buildings were elaborately decked with bunting, interspersed with the emblems of the order. Business was quite generally suspended. The line was reviewed officially by the members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, Mayor Quincy and members of both branches of the city government. Governor Wolcott and staff and members of the General Court, Chief Marshal Merrimam and Department Commander of the Patriarchs Militant of Massachusetts Gen. Edgar H. Emerson. M’INTYRE’S ALLEGATIONS - THE CHAPLAIN’S CHARGES AGAINST OFFICERS OF THE NAVY. lII* Complaint that He Had Not Been Informed of the Ground of His Coming? Trial Promptly Answered. - WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The attention of Judge Advocate General Lemly being directed to the complaint of Chaplain Mclntyre that he had not been informed of the charges on which he is to be tried by courtmartial at Denver on the 26th inst., the officer very promptly furnished the papers in the case for publication. The chaplain is to be tried upon three charges, all growing out of a lecture delivered by him in the Trinity Episcopal Church. Denver, Col., on Aug. 8, last, referring to the battle of July 3. The first charge is “scandalous conduct tending to-the destruction of good morals.” There are three specifications under this charge, in brief, that he referred to Admiral Sampson as reporting himself within four miles of the Colon when she struck her colors in order to get his share of prize money; second, he charged that on the chase after the Colon the Oregon met the lowa going to the rear and that “Fighting Bob” took the lowa to the rear and kept her there during the battle;” third, that Eastern made ships failed to come up to expectations because the builders received their orders through a political pull, and ‘They did not care how much they cheated the government.” The second charge is “conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline.” It recites the three specifications of the first charge, with an additional one based on the chaplain’s “public and contemptuous reference to Captain Evans as “Fighting Bob.” The third charge is “conduct unbecoming an officer of the army.” and recites the same specifications. Tice Chaplain Prostrated. DENVER, Col., Sept. 21.— Chaplain J. P. Mclntyre, of the battle ship Oregon, has been stricken with nervous prostration and the physician who is attending him says that he may be confined to his bed for some time. It is probable that the court-martial which has been ordered to convene in Denver next week for the trial of Chaplain Mclntyre on the charge of having unfairly criticised the action of Admiral Sampson and Captain Evans in the Santiago naval battle, will be obliged to postpone proceedings for several weeks on account of the chaplain’s illness. Mr. Mclntyre says he has not been officially notified of the charges against him or of the date of his trial and this has seemed to worry him considerably. He is staying at the house of Attorney Thomas J. Dunn, a friend, in this city.

KING MALIETOA’S DEATH e DETAILS OF THE ILLNESS AND DEMISE OF SAMOA’S ItI’LER. Matanfa to Be Brought Back to the Island* and Placed in Power— Germans Anxious to Annex. ♦- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-The steamship Alameda, from Sydney, via Auckland and Honolulu, brought further particulars concerning the death of King Malietoa. The King’s death was due to typhoid fever. He died on Monday, Aug. 22, and was buried on the 24th. A large number of natives and whites attended the funeral. Revs. J. E. Newell and J. M. Arlett, assisted by native priests, conducted the ceremonies. Shortly before his death Malietoa was removed from Apia to Vailama, the residence of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, which is at a considerable elevation on the slopes of Mount Vaca, where Stevenson was buried. The change from the sea beach to the more salubrious locality of Vaillma was expected to improve the old King’s health, but he gradually sank and died. The aged monarch of Samoa was notified that his time had come, and he accordingly resigned himself to his end with the fatalism characteristic of the Polynesian race. In appearance Malietoa was a fine-looking, stalwart man, with a gray grizzled mustaches. According to a report received, it wat believed at Samoa that if H. M. S. Ringdove had not been at Apia the Germans would have hoisted the German flag therj on Malietoa’s death and have proclaimed the annexation of Samoa. Malietoa leaves a daughter, an attractive girl named Faimoa, who is seventeen or eighteen years of age, and who was educated at the London Missionary Society’s school at Papuata, which is near Apia. He also leaves a brother, an elderly chief, who lives at Apia. Speaking of Samoan affairs to-day Purser Smith of the steamer Alameda says: ‘‘There is trouble expected there and the Germans are bringing back to the islands King Mataata in a man-of-war. The English have a gunboat there—the Ringdove. The British, American and German consuls, the chief justices and the president of the municipal council of Apia have formed themselves into a board of control pending the election of a successor to King Malietoa. of the Samoan group. Mataafa was (reported by the powers some years ago to the Union (Tokeiu) islands to the northwest of Samoa, owing to his presence in Samoa being a disturbing political element. He was Induced to surrender himself to the powers* on the understanding that it was for the good of his people that he should go away. The exiled chief was conveyed to the Union group in a German man-of-war, together with several of his relatives and friends. A recent cablegram from Europe announced tiie likelihood of Mataafa being returned to Samoa and this will no doubt be done as a consequence of Malietoa’s death. Mataafa and Malietoa were related to each other Mataafa is popular in Samoa and no doubt a large section of the people would be in favor of his appointment as King. ‘There are several opoosing sections among the Samoan natives, or.e of the largest bring headed by Tamasese, and it is sard that each party has a nominee for the kingship. In view of the conflicting opinions, it will bo seen that the position of affairs in Samoa may again become very serious and that active wax may as likely as not result between the rival parties. During the war of 1888-89 the German authorities nominated the Chief Tamasese as King, hut the only authority he exercised was that backed by the German guns. Tamasese is still In Samoa, living at Aana among the disaffected sections, of which he is the head.” Among the passengers on the Alameda which arrived this morning from Australian ports and Honolulu was Governor Hogg, of Texas, who has been on a trip to the Hawaiian islands. He was accompanied by his daughter. The Alameda brought 13,000,000 for local banks.

CAPTAIN PAGET’S VIEWS BRITISH NAVAL ATTACHE DISCUSSES THE SANTIAGO CAMPAIGN. - ■ ♦ He Thinks the Transportation of Troops Should Be Under Control of the Navy—Cervera’s Sortie. WASHINGTON. Sept. 21.-Capt. Alfred Paget, British naval attache, assigned to observe operations during the recent campaign in the West Indies, is engaged here in assembling the large mass of material gathered in Cuba and in supplementing this with the official data now being supplied by the Navy Department. He will spend most of the fall in getting together the material for his report to the British Admiralty, which will be an exhaustive treatment of the naval branch of the campaign, with considerable attention to the military branch, owing to the joint operations of the two branches during several stages of the war, and particularly in the siege of Santiago. Speaking informally to-day of some of his observations. Captain Paget said it had been shown quite clearly that the naval branch of the service should have complete control of all array transportation by sea. He points that this is the practice the world over. In the British service all transports are under the control of the Admiralty. When troops are to be shipped the war officials make known to the Admiralty the number of men in the expedition, the division into infantry, cavalry and artillery, and tho various requirements of the several divisions. It then becomes the duty of the naval branch to provide the transports, carrying the troops, keeping the several divisions distinct and with their proper equipment, and provide all supplies required for the trip. A naval official, usually a lieutenant commander on the retired list, is placed in command of each transport, it being impossible to secure proper service from merchant captains. The naval branch also conducts all loading and unloading of troops and supplies, this being a branch in which naval officials are well versed. It is not until the troops are on land that tho army authorities assume direction of affairs. This practice, in general operation with all large countries, particularly those having colonial possessions, could be adopted with advantage by this country, in Captain Paget’s opinion, as much of the confusion in the transportation and in landing of the army and supplies was due to the inexperience of the merchant captains of transports, and to the direction of all sea transportation by the army rather than by the navy. Captain Paget’s report will devote much attention to the destruction of Admiral Cervera’s fleet, as this was the main naval incident of the war. He is securing from tho Navy Department complete reports of th® gunnery of the American Bhips. with a view of showing the importance of the “man behind the gun.” Captain Paget’s personal view is that Admiral Cervera s sortie was a most foolhardy venture, which cannot be justified by naval standards, even though ordered by the admiral’s superiors. According to Captain Paget’s view, the most effective use Admiral Cervera cotxld have made of his squudron was to have dismantled them of all the lighter guns, particularly the quick fires, and turned over guns and men to General Toral for use in defending the city. These quick-fire guns, some hundred or more, distributed along the intrenchments and handled by the trained men of the squadron, would have been able to sustain a deadly fire on the American advance. Captain Paget expresses the belief that such a move would have made Santiago practically impregnable. He has no doubt starvation and disease would have broken down the Spanish defense in time, but Cervera’s guns could have held the town from a defeat by assault. In case of a sortie from the harbor, Captain Paget shares the view of American naval officers that the sortie should have been made at night. If attempted In daylight the Spanish ships should have directed their attention to the American transports, as they furnished a vulnerable point wheie great havoc could have been wrought. In any event, whether transports or our war ships were attacked. Captain Paget maintains that the Spanish policy should have been to rush our ships, taking them unawares before steam could be got up, and taking the risk of loss so long as some damage was inflicted. Had this plan been adopted, he thinks it might have resulted in the ramming and sinking of one or more of our ships. Captain Paget speaks highly of our new battle ships and cruisers, particularly those now on the stocks, which he has examin- and critically through the plans and specifications. He says foreign naval experts long ago recognized that first-class war ships could be built in the United States, although he does not admit that our ships yet excel or even equal those of British build. In this connection a prominent American naval officer recently told Captain Paget that the new cruiser New Orleans, bought In England during the early stages of the war, was a revelation to the authorities here, in so far as her guns and armament are concerned.

LINSEED OIL TRUST. The Reorganisation Scheme Explained by President Euston. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.—An agreement adopted last night at a meeting of stockholders in this city of the National Linseed Oil Company was made public to-day. It requires that the stock held by each shall be deposited with the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the company and protect the rights of St. Louis stockholders. President Euston, in an interview said to-day: “I stated in the meeting that the assets of the company at present amounted to at least $6,000,000 over and above liabilities of all kinds. The books will prove this. J produced figures to show that during a period of eight years, from 1890 to 1897, inclusive, the gross earnings were $13,800,000. The operating expenses during the same time were $9,000,000, exclusive of interest. This left $4,800,(W0 applicable to interest and dividends. A great many erroneous statements in regard to the company's affairs have been circulated recently. Its condition is in no way worse than it was in 1893. Os the company’s present capitalization of $18,0u0,000, $6,000,000 represents money actually put in, and $12,000,000 represents good will. The purpose of the reorganization movement is to replace borrowed mony with capital. We expect to enlist $6,000,000 of new capital. I cannot make an accurate forecast or the plan which will be adopted, and 1 think you will find that the capital stock will be reduced to $15,000,000. The preferred stock will represent money actually out, in and the common stock will be based on a fair valuation of the present assets, with a small allowance for good will. Probably $6,000,000 of preferred stock and $9,000,000 of common will be issued. The necessary money is ready in the East. After the reorganization the outstanding bonds will be taken up. The company’s bonded indebtedness is $1,500,000, and the amount borrowed by the company outside of the bonded debt is $3,500,000. This Is represented by book accounts, cash, material and finished products. These nearly cover the Indebtedness. With a slight rise in prices they will more than cover it." Gobbled by the Tobacco Trnst. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.—A deal was consummated in this city to-day whereby the Brown Tobacco Company's plant becomes the property of the American Tobacco Company. The price paid was $1,250,000. Paul Brow’n, president of the Brown Tobacco Company, will become manager of the business here for the American Tobacco Company. A Young Zoologist's Trip. STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Cal., Sept. 21.—Perry O. Simmonds, a university student, has been selected by the British Museum to make a thorough zoological collection tour of South America from Ecuador to the Straits of Magellan, and he will leave Sept. 28 to begin his duties. He will be accompanied on the trip by his brother, laither B. Simmonds. and a Mexican lad of sixteen years, whom he w-ill pick up at Ma<gellan on the journey south. Mr. Bayard’* Condition. DEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 21.—There appears to be but Utile change to-day in the condition of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard. He was perhaps a little weaker, but the gradual decline was not so marked as during previous days, this being due probably to the clear. Invigorating weather. He began the evening resting easily, with a fairly good pulse, but at 10 o’clock a physician’* bulletin said the patient had begun to show signs of extreme weakness.