Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1898 — Page 2

file Counttj Jtraooat M«C. STOOPS. Ultor ui FupttoOS PETEUSBUBG, INDIANA. A Cariost uprising was reported at Vents de Banes, south of Palenire, on theJd. .———- Gks. Shatter reports that he has in the hospitals at Santiago 8,181 sick and wounded prisoners 0* the 2d Premier Sagasta summoned Senor Silvela, the conservative leader, and other absent politicians to Madrid, in order to consult with them regarding the peace terms. Wm. David Murray, fourth earl of Mansfield, died in London on the 2d. He was born in 1808, had been a lord of the treasury and a lord high commie* •loner of the churoh of Scotland. President T. Est^aj^a Palma of the Cuban junta says: '“There is no danger that the Cubans will permit a slight misunderstanding of one of their countrymen—even a general—with an American to affect the successful issue of the campaign.

The honorary secretary of the Royal Ulster Yacht club, Mr. Kelly, telegraphed, on the 3d, saying that the challenger for the America’s cup is Sir Thomas Lipton. Sir Thomas is a newcomer in yachting circles. His yacht is to be named the Shamrock. The state department has been advised by United States Consul Wildman at Hong Kong that all prisoners taken by Aguinaldo, the insurgent chief, including monks, are “treated with perfect humanity,” and that all reports to the contrary are absolutely A sensation was created by Emperor William, on the 3d, who telegraphed countermanding the Bismarck obsequies, which were to bare taken place | in front of the reichstag building, and ordering instead that mourning services be held in the Emperor William Memorial church. It is reported in London, in connection with the Anglo-American nkJvement, that strong endeavors are being made to get the prince of Wales to visit the United States and Canada next summer, and it is added that encouragement has been given the idea in responsible quarters. An official dispatch to Madrid from Sau Joan de Porto Kico says that Coh San Martin, who was in command of the Spanish garrison at Ponce, has been court-martialed and shot for abandoning the place without ^resistauce. Lieut-CoL Puiz, the second in command, committed suicide. The Hawaiian commissioners, who will lav the foundation for a new government of the Sandwich islands, left Chicago in a body, on the 4th, for San Francisco. Before leaving, the three United States members of the commission were driven to the Union league and feasted by the members of the eluh.

Word has been received at Victoria, ! i. CL, of a desperate stampede from t he Copper River country to the coast, the statement being made that 3,000 men are making their way over the Valdes glacier, and that many of them are doomed to starvation unless the United States government sends relief promptly. Wau the president closed his of* ficial work, on the 5th, he had not re* eeived the reply of Spain nor any inti* mation as to how soon the reply might be expected. The French ambassador had not been heard from throughout the day. and lie as well as our govern* ment officials was waiting for Spain to five the final response. The congress of the republic of Colombia, it is auuouuced in a dispatch v from Bogota, the capital, has ununi* mously resolved to deposit a sum equal | to£60,000 (#3i>J,0J0) as security for the amount due the heirs of bignor Cerruti, the Italian subject, whose claims against the government of Colombia were decided in his favor by President Cleveland, as arbitrator. Rkckxtlt notices of allotments of bonds have been sent to a number of j persons who had subscribed knd for- | warded the required cash, but who ; now deny all knowledge of the transaction. The indications are that their ! names had been used by interested parties without authority, with a view to getting possession of the bonds in Ujp^tion of the spirit of the law. THE colonial elections, which occur In Cape Colony on September 1. are already causing great excitement. Personalities are rampant, and the air is thick with the most serious allegations against the leaders of bqth factions. Cecil Rhodes, the former premier of Cape Colony, who at first held aloof, is now in the thick of the campaign, and is carrying the light Into the camp of the Afrikanderbund. Hiring the Bismarck, memorial services in Berlin, on the 4th, all the banks and many of the shops in the city were closed, and flags, many of them bordered with black, were halfmasted everywhere; shop windows , were covered with crepe, and there was a universal display of mourning emblems and portraits of the dead chancellor wreathed with flowers and draped with black cloth. The French court of cassation hasdismissed the appeal of M. Emile Zola against the decision of the Versailles n&sixe court which, on July 1$, sentenced the author acd M. Perreux. managing editor of the Paris Aucore, each to a year’s imprisonment, with 3,000 francs flue, and to pay the costs of the suit for libel brought •gainst them by the officers who composed the Esterhazs court-martial i

CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS II BRIBE. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A raisin trust is being formed in San Francisco. The Spanish newspapers at Ponce, Porto Rico, profess loyalty to the Americans. The most rabid Spanish publication of them all. La Dcmocracia, issued an address to the public announcing the demise of the paper under its present name and giving notice that it would appear under the name of the Courier, with a section printed in English. . Three persons killed and 13 injured is the record of a fire that occurred in the Berwyn hotel, Chicago, on the 1st. The fire started in a bicycle repair shop adjoining the hotel, and spread so rapidly that the egress of the people in ! the upper stories was cut off. Robert Ei.lis, while oiling the machinery in the Missouri Electric Light | A Power Ca's house in St. Louis, where he was employed, on the 2d, allowed his hand to come in contact with an electric accumulator and was instantly killed Adjt. -Gen. Corbin, at the direction of the secretary of war, issued an order, on the 2d, granting sick and wounded soldiers at hospitals, when able to travel, one month's furlough and transportation -to go to their homes. Georoe Ton, a wealthy resident of New York city, committed suicide, on the 2d, by jumping from a tenth-story window in the Hotel Majestic. Mr. Tod had been a sufferer from melancholia for some time. Washington, Ind, was visited by a heavy storm ou the 2d. Much damage was done to buildings and crops. Miss Mary Hendricks was instantly killed at the orphans’ home by a chimney tailing on her. 8ix petitions have been lodged against the return of members of the British Columbia legislative assembly, five government and one opposition. The grounds alleged are bribery and

corruption. A it kick and stone business block in Frankfort, Ind., occupied by a newlyorganized social club, was destroyed by an explosion of dyuarnite on the 1st. The battleship Texas was placed in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard on the 3d. An examination showed that, except for a slight dent in her keel, made by striking a coral reef off Dry Tortugas, she is in very fair condition. Mbs. Jaxk Fish. of Georgetown,Col., who was on preliminary examination, charged with poisoning her husband, on December 6 last, was discharged by Justice Woodward on the Sd. It is reported that Mr. George N. Curzon, the parliamentary secretary of the British foreign office, has accepted the office of viceroy of India, in succession to the earl of Elgin. Assistant Secretary Vanderup is now sending to subscribers to the war loan about 6,000 bonds a day, and this number will be increased later ou. It is asserted in Wasltington, that as the result of a cabinet conference on the night of the Id, it was determined to hold Manila«£ity, bay and surrounding territory permanently, and that Spain hml been so notified in response to one of her queries, Tuk statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 3d, showed: Available cash balance, $.'34,033,1$0; gold reserve, 8160,6-5,026. The Cherokee legislature met in extra session at Tahlequah, I. Y., on the 3d, to consider means for conforming to the Curtis bill, and to make arrangement for fighting the Delaware

claim. The California state board of trade has adopted a resolution asking President MeKiuley to appoint a citizen of the Pacific coast on the peace commission which is to decide upon the future disposition of the Philippine islands. The princess of Wales has gone to Copenhagen, leaving her husband with a broken kneecap on board his yacht, at Osborne. Gossip has it that the cause of the princess’ trip home to Denmark is the presence at Cowes of the coutess of Warwick, the only woman in England the princess is jealous of. Ur to latest accounts Old Glory was floating, unopposed, in nine Porto Rican cities, and half of the island is now | practically United States territory. Everywhere the American soldiers are received with open arms, the Spanish troops scurrying away in the direction I of San Juan. One of Spain's argent requests in connection with the evacuation of Cuba and Porto Rico was that she be allowed to remove all arms and movable munitions of war from territory not actually oocuppied by the United States. Br consent of the war department Spain has made arrangements to send $350,000 in specie to her prisoner soldiers at Santiago. None of the transports for the removal of t&e prisoners bad arrived up to the 3d. The steamer Hiawatha, which went out in search of bodies from the Boargogne, j nt into Canso, Nova Scotia, on the 4th, having found 30 bodies and buried them. She sailed again to coai ttnue the search. The transport Tacoma, which will take horses and males for the artillery at Manila, sailed from San Francisco £*iSL_. .. J... ...'rtf’"life

No confirmation had been received at Key West. Fla., up to the 4th, of the report that Neuvitas, the chief port of the province of Puerto Principe, had been evacuated by the Spaniards after a bombardment by American war ships. Jm.au Louis Charles Garnikr, the French architect, died in Paris on the 4th. He was born in 1835, and designed and supervised the erection of the grand opera house in that city at art expense of nearly 50,000,000 franca The telegraph operator at Tilt Cove, the most northern office of Newfoundland, wired, on the 4th, that a report had just reached there of the loss of a large Transatlantic line steamer in the vicinity of Belle Isle, with all hands. There is a recurrence in the town of Ash boro, Ind., of the singularly, fatal malady which caused 40 deaths there in the summer of 1896. Up to the present time this season there have been five deaths. This disease is something like cholera, and has all the symptoms of flux. It is thought the epidemic is due to bad drinking water. AeriXALDo, the Philippine insurgent leader, is dismounting from his high horse, and instead of acting, as he did for a time, as though he was master of | the situation, is now adopting a far more conciliatory course, thanks to the firm attitude assumed by Qen. Merritt. As ▲ result of urgent representations in regard to the health of (Jen. Shafter’s army at Santiago, the war department has ordered that the men be transported north as rapidly as transports can be provided. Four regiments of immunes will replace them as garrison. The Buenaventura, the first Spanish prise captured in the present war, was sold at auction at New York, on the 4th, by representatives of the government. Luckenback & Co. bought the steamship for $13,400, and said they thought they hail a bargain. Ix the recent operations against Manzanillo, Cuba, ten Spanish vessels were burned, sunk or destroyed. Nc damage was, done to the American ships engaged, and there were no casualties on our side.

At West Superior, Wis., pn the 5th, Tommy Arnold, the four-year-old son of the janitor of the Broadway high school, climbed out upon the fourthstory platform of the fire-escape and fell, turning over and over in his drop of 70 feet to the foot of the basement stairway, but eseaped with only a broken thigh, although striking on the asphalt pavement. The steamer Dirigo arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 5th. from St. Michaels, \1rith 100 passengers, some of whom went north recently, but, being unable to get up the river, returned. About 40 were Klondikers. They brought down $200,000 in dust ami nuggets. Two men, Chas. Moore and Geo. Brown, of Midland, Ont., had 970,000 between them. The Madrid correspondent of the Paris Temps telegraphs that there is no danger of any uprisings in Spain. He adds that everybody is desirous of peace, “though profoundly deploring the necessity for making such great sacrifices.” The adjutant general received a cablegram from Ponce, Porto Rico, on the 5th, announcing the death, from brain fever, of Capt. Edgar Hubert, Eighth regular infantry. Gapt. Hubert was a Georgian. Ik a conference between Senor Sa gasta and Senor Silvela, in Madrid, on the 5th, the latter urged that it was imperative to summon the cortes for the negotiation of a treaty of peace. LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Oex. WiDK’s reinforcements for Gen. Miles are going forward regardless of the progress of peace negotiations. The agreement to negotiate a treaty ol peace does not necessarily carry with it a cessation of hostilities. In the case of the Mexican war it was a month after the peace ncgotiatians began before hostilities were declared to be closed. The Madrid correspondent of the Paris Temps, on the 7th, said: "The cabinet council yesterday morning discussed the question of assembling the cottas, but no decision was reached, as the ministers desire to ascertain if ttye United States considers the approval of parliament necessary to the definitive signing of the treaty of peace.” Tuir statement of the New York city associated banks for the week ended the 6th showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, decrease, $-,011,475; loans, increase, $12,753,100; specie, increase, $2,433,000; legal tenders, decrease, $651,500; deposits, increase,$15,31?,500; circulation, decrease, *113,800. The Madrid El Epoca states that the police are investigating an anarchist's plot against the life of a high political personage which was to have been carried out, on the 8th, upon the occasion of the anniversary of the assassination of Senor Cauovas del Castilla A meetiso of the officers of the military society at Santiago was held at the palace, on the 6th, and the election ; of officers took place. Gen. Shafter was elected president; Gen. Wheeler first vice-president and Maj. Sharp secretary. Two cars on the Belt Line trolley road went through Bradley's bridge, near Whites boro, X. Y., on the 7th, and 176 passengers were thrown into i the Erie canal. Miss Mary Bradley, of Utica, X. Y., was the only person killed. Da. James & Axgeu, who resigned in May last, and who. has been succeeded as United Slates minister at! Constantinople, by Mr. Osear S. Straus, of New York, will leave the Turkish capital on the 13th. Ox the "th her majesty. Queen. Regent Christina approved the general lines of the reply of Spain to America’s peace terms, which Senor Sagmsta had explained to her, Tjux first regular cavalry and the first volunteer cavalry, Rough Riders, sailed from Santiago da Cuba on tha 7th, on the transports MiftwS and Mab ■

WITHIN OUR LIMITS. News by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana. Stand* Off Constable*. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 5.—Lafayette Swain, who wired Gov. Mount from Parke county for.assistance, has had another bout witji constables. They attempted to arrest him by breaking open the door of his house. They then grappled with him, but he beat them off and drove them out of his house with a shotgun. From the outaide they poured in a fusillade with pistols and shotguns, wounding Svfain. They failed to get him and went away. The sheriff says the warrant is defective and refuses to interfere. The charge against Swain is for assaulting bis brother’s wife at Caseyville, 14 miles away. Four constables were sent for him. More trouble is anticipated. K*ot Tied at Midnight. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 5.—H. P. | Flavin, of Chicago, son of the president of the Onyx Soda Fountain company of that city, was married here at midnight to Miss Jessie Smith, of j this city. The young couple aroused j the deputy county clerk at his home, I and after securing a license awakened ; the rector of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic church, who refused to marry J them. Rev. Mr. Schwedes, pastor of j the German Reformed church, was j then aroused and tied the knot. The couple were the principals in a sensational runaway escapade a few days I ago-_ Antique rteatll*. Hagerstown, Ind., Aug. 5.—The an j nual meeting of the old settlers of | Wayne and Randolph counties was j held at Osborne park, near Economy. Many of the utensils aud implements ! that were in use in the olden times j were on exhibition. The age of some | of the articles was known to be over j 150 years. Nearly every kind of prim- j itive farming implement known was j shown, from the wooden plow to the | wooden pitchfork. The collection of j old-style cooking utensils was very | complete. ,

Ketwrn* to Her Mother. Muncic, Ind., Aug. 5.—Mr?.. Harrj | Beno. nee Della Warmer, has abandoned her freakish husband and arrived home. Beno and the pretty Muncie girl were married irf this city three weeks ago after Beno had been buried several days on a wager. Beno is devoid of feeling. He drinks poison, drives a shoemaker’s awl through hia skull, is nailed to the cross, by Laying large silver nails driven through hia hands and feet, and carves his flesh with a sharp knife without any regard. _ Soldiers* Home Cottas?*Indianapolis. Ind., Aug. 5.—The committee of the Indiana G. A. R., having charge of the work of building county cottages at the soldiers’ home at Lafayette met in the statehouse and made arrangements for working up interest in the project in the different counties. Only about one-th.ird of the counties have so far erected cottage* and it is desired to have every one is the state represented there. Will Quit Prenrhlng. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 5. — Rev Harry A. Slaughter, son of W. M. Slaughter, of this city, has resigned the pastorate of the Wyeti Park Baptist church, St. Joseph, Mo., and will take the general agency oi the Mutual Reserve Insurance company at Indianapolis.

DrownpU While Sel»ln*c. Spencer. Ind., Aug. 5.—While wading In White river near Romona seining for minnows. Homer McHenry was seized with an atack of epilepsy, t which he was subject, and was drowned before his companions could render aid. An Engineer Killed. Tipton. Ind.. Aug. 5.—Engineer Erasmus Bennett, one of the “veterans” ct the Pennsylvania line’s Louisville anc Chicago division, lost both legs her* by fulling under his engine at the sta- j tion and died in a short time. --— Shelburn Mine Burning. Shelburn, Ind., Aug. 5.—The fire caused by the gas explosion in th* Shelburn mine is still burning.' The burns received by the men in the explosion are serious, and recovery it uncertain. A Mnrdrron* Miner Caaght. Terre Haute, Ind„ Aug. 5.—Dode Car* tington. a miner who shot and killed Bay less and Wesley Niece in a saloon et Grant February 12, has been arrested at a mining camp in Hawkins county. Society Circa* m Sncceaa. Richmond, Ir»d., Aug. 5.—The L. A W. society circus, given here for th* j benefit of the Red Cross work, netted j about $320, which has been forwarded to the society's headquarters at Xrw York. I Killed by Ushtnlas. Corvdon, Ini., Aug. 5.—McClellan Wright waa killed by lightning at his home four roPes east of here. He was one of the leading teachers cf Harrison county and was 35 '-ears old An agreement by the owners of race horsesenteredat certain stake races to divide equally the premiums and stake moneys awarded to any of their horses, is held, in Hawkins ra. Ottinger (Cal.), 40 L. R. A. 76, to be valid, and not a wagering contract. Damages for mental anguish, independent of and unaccompanied by physical injury of any kind, are denied, 1b Peay vs. Western Union Telegraph company (Ark.), 39 L. R. A. 463. White shirt waists trimmed with cm

inn in United States Government Officials Giving Attention to the Next Steps to be Taken. tfANT EXEMPTION FROM CUBAN DEBT.

The Spanish Note Believed to be Lengthy —Further Negotiations May be Necessary—Shall the Surrendered Troops be Allowed to Carry Their Arms—Two Methods of Procedure. Washington, Aug. 8.—Although as yet without official confirmation of the report from Paris that the Spanish government has decided to accept the terms laid down by the United States as essential to the negotiation of a treaty of peace, the officials here are proceeding under the conviction that the end has come and are giving attention to the steps to be taken next. In view of the delay in coming to this conclusion, the idea was beginning to prevail that the Spanish government was About to Enter a Plea In Abatement, and that the answer would again be inconclusive. In this case the president was disposed to deal firmly with the issue, to give notice that our proposals were withdrawn and let it be understood that when, Spain again sued for peace the conditions would be much more severe than those first laid down. If the Spanish answer should embody an effort to secure any material change in the conditions, it will meet with prompt rejection. Some reference has been made in the dispatches of British newspapers to a desire on the part of the Spanish government to include in the preliminary agreement a Clause Exempting It from Liability for tha Cuban Debt.

The formal statement of the points of the United States note, given out from the White House, made no reference to this subject, and it cannot be known as yet whether or not the iull text shows anything more. But presuming that no reterence whatever is made to the Cuban government, it is possible that it may be regarded as one that should be treated by the peace commissioners who are to meet later to frame the treaty. Uiued Upon Fr**» Reports of the progress being made At Madrid towards returning the answer of Spain, it was calculated by the department officials that the formal note could not have been delivered to the president before to-day, and that was also the belief of the French ambassador. From the Length of Time Consumed in its Preparation, the note was believed to be long, thus entailing the consumption of much time in forwarding it first to Paris, reducing it to cipher there, transmitting it OTer. the cable and then retranslating it at the French embassy. In the case of the last note the attaches of the embassy worked nearly all night to prepare their communication to the Spanish government, though the conference with the president closed before five o'clock in the afternoon with the ambassador in possession of the United States note. Should the Speolah Answer be an Uncon. dltional Acceptance of onr terms, some negotiation may be necessary to agree upon the steps to be taken to give effect to the agreement. So far as can be learned it has not yet been determined how this shall be. There are two ways open, the first is a military capitulation by the captain generals of Cuba aud Porto Rico.which will immediately place the American military or naval commanders in technical occupation of the islands and enable them to carry out in their own way and m their own time the embarkation of the Spanish armies in the islands. * The question as to whether they shall be Permitted to Carry Off Their Arms is not now as material as it was in the case of the surrender of Gen. Torsi's forces at Santiago, where, occurring in the midst of the campaign, there was a necessity for securing the moral effect of compelling the Spanish soldiers to lay down their arms. Spain having, succumbed, it might be urged that the United.States could grant a concession ! on this point to Spanish pride, without fear of having the action attributed to fear of the consequences of a refusal. This would not apply, however, to the Volunteers Who Might Elect to Remain la * Coho, as it would not be prudent to allow so large a body of men to carry arms without restraint in the days of reconstructions, when delicate and difficult matters of internal policy are to be settled and new methods applied to the islanda The Second Method by which the preliminary peace agreement might be formally effected would be by a protocol to be signed by the representative of the president, probably Secretary Day in this case, and by 31. Gamboa in behalf of the Spanish government. It was by just such an agreement as this, known as the Cushing protocol, that war with Spam was averted as the result of the Virginias affair. Arrival of Transport No. SO from Santiago with Sick aad Wounded. Fort Monroe, Va., Aug. 8.—One hundred and seven sick and wounded soldiers who arrived here from Santiago Saturday on transport No. 30, the Lampasas, were taken to the pact hospital yesterday afternoon. It is understood that bat few of the men are in a serious condition. There were no suspicious fever case* aboard, ▲bout 135 men who have been in the hospital here left last night on the Washington steamer for Washington barracks. These men are reported eon

COMMODORE SCHLEY RIGHTED. . i 11. Remark* Attributed to Him by an lift* •pcnsloie Person Proven Mot to Have Been Made by Him. Washington", Aug. 8. —Secretary Long yesterday requested the publication of the following correspondence: A Letter on Service from Admiral Samp, son. United States Flagship New York. I Guantanamo Bat, Cuba, Jul” 27. f Mt Dear Mr. Secretary; I am led towrite at the present time on account of the publication of an article which appeared in the> papers of the 19th inst. In which Commodore' Schley is made to say, apparently to the writer, that he had over and over attain declared it was possible to enter the harbor of Santiago, notwithstanding the mines. Commodore Schley called upon me yesterday and Voluntarily stated that the publication of the article on the 19th was false In every particular; that he not only never stated anything of the kind, but that he had never even thought of it; that he had always entirely agreed with* me on this question, and that he did not know a single officer whose opinion differed from mine. As I have reason to believe that CommodorwSchley has been misrepresented, I have taken, the liberty to address to you a telegram upon, this subject this morning, and as I am about to^> mil for the east, I trust that it will receive your atteution at an early date. Very res pec fully, [Signed] W. T. Sampson-, Rear-Admiral United States Navy. Commander-in-Chief United States Naval ForceNorth Atlantic Station. * t The Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Admiral Sampson’s Telegram. The telegram referred to is as follows: Plata Del Estb. » Via Hatti, July 27. lfc9d. 1:30 a. m. j Secretary Navy. Washington: I call department's attention to an Associated Press dispatch in the New York Times and Herald of 19th attributing to Commodore Schley certain opinions regarding mines. 1 request that the manager of the Associated Press be called, upon to name the source and authority for thin statement. [Signed] • Sampson. The Associated Press Called to Account. On receipt of this telegram the department wrote the following letter to the Associated Press: Navy Department. 1 Washington, July 2#, 1896. f SlH—The New York Times and the New York Herald of the 19th instant, published am Associated Press dispatch in which oertain opinions regarding mines are attributed to Commodore Schley. This dispatch is written in such a manner as to convey the impression that it was received frpm your representative with the squadron off Santiago, and consequently had been censored by proper naval authority. I therefore have to request that you inform this department at your earliest convenience, the source and authority for the dispatch to which reference is made [Signed] ; John N. Long, Secretary. Mr. C. A.[Boynton, General Southern Manager,.. The Associated Press, Post Building. Washing

loo. The Associated Press Not Responsible. The reply of the Associated Press it as follows: Washington. D. C, Aug. 1, 1898. Hon. John D. long, Secretary or th» - Navt: Sib—Your favor of July 28 is at hand concerning articles published in the New York Times and the New York Herald of the 10th inst., in whioh certain opinions in regard to mines are attributed to Commodore Schley. This letter was not written by either of our representatives with the squadron oft Santiago. but by another gentleman, who was temporarily >n one of our dispatch boats. The» dispatch was not subjected to censorship Takes Issue with the Gentleman. Our Mr. Graham, who has been constantly with Commodore Schley since his squadron assembled at Hampton roads, and is probably more familiar with his views than any newspaper man at Santiago, takes issue with the gentleman who wrote * the letter referred to. and says that Cornmodom Schley was always in complete accord with Admiral Sampson as to the question of entering the harbor. He quotes Commodore Schley as saying: “Admiral Sampson and I had always agreed that it would be foolish to enter the harbor with the mines In place, and the - condition of the mines proved that Admiral Sampson was correct.” • , • Very respectfully yours, [Signed] Charles A. Boynton. THIRTY-ONE BODIES FOUND. The Grewsome Search of the Steamer Hiawatha for Victims of the La Bourgogne.

Halifax, N. S., Aug. 81—The steamer Hiawatha, which left Halifax July 20* to search for bodies of La Bourgogne victims, returned last night. Mr. Per* ry, one of the members of the expedition, said the steamer *1?nt to the place where the captain of the steamer Oldlield reported he saw 200 of them, floating. No bodies were found in thislocality* but a few miles further away the first body was found. During that day, Sunday, and succeeding days until August 3, the members of the expedition w orked continuously, the weather being favorable and the sea calm. During that time 31 bodies were found. Those found on the first day were in a fair stage of preservation. Those found later were advanced in decomposition. Nearly all were the bodies of steerage passengers or sailors. This could be told from the clothing. Most of the bodies, were men, a few were women, and some boys, borne were taken on board lor particular examination. None were those of the Dillon family. All of the bodies were buried atsea in the usual manner and aU the effects, such as they were, were brought ashore. There was hardly anything about the female bodies top, aid identification. Only one or two were those of first-class passengers. On Wednesday the Hiawatha went to Canso on account of heavy weather. They were advised there of the reports, of other steamers, particularly of the Aldersgate, passing bodies. The Hiawatha returned to the latitude and longitude given, bub was uneole to accomplish much, and finding no more bodies abandoned the SHp and. returned. Tbe first body found was that of Eugene Dobose, of Montreal. HIGH HONORS FOR HOBSONPresented with a, Beautiful and t'Mtly Sword aad KUsod by a Pretty St. Louis tiirL ° Long Branch, N. J., Aug. 7.—Friday evening, Lieut. Hobson, U. S. N., who* is here, was presented with a beautiful and costly sword by the guests of tha hotel, who got up an Impromptu reception to the hero of the Merrimac. Miss. Arnold, of St. Louis, distinguished herself by requesting the honor of being permitted to kiss the recipient, and 1 lieutenant gallantly