Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1898 — Page 6

gil» Smutty §mooat m. MeC. STOOPS, Editor ud Proprietor. PETERSBURG. % : INDIANA. The reunion of the Iron Brigade, at Milwaukee, came to a close, on the fe?<t, after choosing Racine, Wis., as the place of meeting in the first week of September next year. A London dispatch, on the 1st, said: “Great Britain is beginning to be alarmed lest the fate of Hicks Pasha has befallen the Anglo-Egyptian army finder the sirdar. Sir Herbert Kitch*% cner.” Word has been received of the arrival at Seattle of the steamer Roanoke from the Yukon with $400,000 in gold dust from the Klondike. The Roanoke also carried a full list of passengers. Delegates from the Hong Kong insurgent junta are to have an interview with United States Consul Williams, and it is thought this possibly may result in a settlement of the insurgent question. The city health department of Chicago is strong measures to give prompt aid to all sick soldiers passing through that city and to take care of those who are unable to continue their journey home.

Solemn thanksgiving service* were held in *11 the churches in Amsterdam si well as throughout Holland, on the 81st, upon the occasion of Queen Wilbelmina attaining her majority end ascending the throne. The gold reserve in the United States treasury reached the highest point in its history, on the 2d, with a total re* serve of 8219,320,372. The highest previous amount was $218,000,000, which was recorded in March, 1888. At a special conference of the representatives of the Adams, American and United States express companies, in Chicago, on the 2d, it was decided that the companies would hereafter pay the expenses of the war tax. CoL Girard, chief medical officer of the Second army corps, received a telegram from Secretary of War Alger, on the 30lh, authorising him to increase the subsistence of the patients in the general hospital from 30 to 60 cents a day. * The Spanish transport Co rad on ga. which sailed from Santiago de Cuba on August 19, with 2,148 soldiers, 109 Spanish officers, 44 women and 45 children, a total of 2,346 passengers, arrived safely at Santander, Spain, on the 3d. The United States transport China left Manila, Philippine Islands, on the 80th, having on board Maj.-Oen. Merritt and his staff. The general, is bound for Paris, where he will take part in the Spanish-American peace conference. Spanish authorities at Havana refused a landing to Red Cross supplies for starving inhabitants, on the 30th, and fined the master of the relief ship, Clinton No. 2, $500, because he had no manifest. Miss Clara Barton was on board the vessel. Orders were received at Annapolis, Md., on the 31st, directing Admiral Cervera to make arrangements to proceed with his officers and men back to Spain immediately, in accordance with - the instructions issued by the Spanish minister of marine. The official announcement is made that the interest on the four per cent. United States bonds, due October 1. will be apticipated; that coupous will be paid off September 10, on presentation, and the interest checks on the registered bonds will be sent about September 20 for immediate payment. On the 31st President McKinley appointed C JX Woodward, a professor in Columbia university, as one of the commissioners to represent this government at the Paris exposition. The title is that of assistant commissionergeneral, anti the posi.' >u is one of trust and tequring great executive ability.

Speaking of the czar's peace proposals. Clemenccau, the radical French leader, "said: “The circular undoubtedly is the result of a secret previous agreement between Russia, England aud Germany. These three powers have their hands full. A treaty which would consecrate their late acquisition is eminently desirable. France has not been considered." President McKinley was on the balcony of the Fifth Avenue hotel, in New York, on the 3d, fanning himself with his hat when the naval reserves from the Yankee passed. He jumped to his feet and clapped his hands, and when the tars presented arms, bowed in answer to their salute. The sailors were surprised and delighted at being reviewed by the president. In the urrest of Lieut.-CoL Ilenrv in Paris,on the 31st,onthe confession that he was the author of an important letter which figured in the Dreyfus case, •one of the French people believe that perhaps the real turning point in the Dreyfus esse has been reached, and that the arrest will lead to a revision of the trial of the prisoners of Devil's island. After his arrest CoL Henry cut his throat in prison. The St. James Gazette said, on the fiOth: “It is reported on the stock exehange that an Anglo-American trust to control the output and sale of sewing machine, knitting machine and all other kinds of needles, is being _Several American and two Midland firms are reported to have •old their business to the combination. The capital, it is further announced, .will be $7,500,000, divided into . ™ ■ - -S _ -S --- -> > — m M

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CURRENT TOPICS. THE ISTS n BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. □The Oakland Red Cross society bss established a hospital at Piedmont, across the bar from San Francisco. Maj.-Gen. Otis is acting governor of Manila, in the absence of Gen. Merritt. Halvor Floren, aged 33, and Annie Diiinar, aged 18, were drowned while boating on Diamond lake, near Grove City, Minn., on the 30th. Morris Elofsen and Jennie Nelson, who were in the same boat, had narrow escapes. On the 30th the war department was notified of the death of CoL J. J. Van Horne, of the Eighth United States in* fantry, at Fort Russell, Wyo. The statement of the condition of the treasury, on the 30th, showed: Available cash balance, $393,335,131; gold reserve, $313,236,304. Brig.-Gen. Royal T. Frank has been assigned to command temporarily the Third army corps, formerly commanded by Gen. Wade, the latter having been relieved to become a member of the Cuban military commission. Admiral W. S. Schley and Gen. Wm. W. Gordon, United States commissioners to settle the conditions for the Spanish evacuation of Porto Rico, sailed from New York, on the 31st, for San Jnan on board the steamer Seneca. A court-martial at Nancy, France, has just sentenced a private soldier to three months’ imprisoment and 500 francs tine for shouting “^Tive Zola.” James Elliott, of Detriot, Mich., one of the oldest fire chiefs in the United States, died on the 31st, of stomach trouble.

The “McKinley” bale *of cotton that lias been going the rounds of the boards of trade of the country, be in# sold at auction for the benefit of the United States hospital fund, was auctioned off on the Kansas City (Mo.) exchange, on the 31st, for $305. The transport steamer Olivette, which has been lying near the quarantine i station, at Fernandina, Fla., through some mysterous agency sank on the 31st Aboard the ship were the hospital corps of 35 and a crew of 45 persons, all of whom escaped without injury, but in scanty attire. Unknown incendiaries tried to kill the family of Fred Langs, a farmer living near Melrose Park, a Chicago suburb, by setting fire to his home. Mrs. Langs and her child were asleep in the dining room at the time, and had a narrow escape from death. Four suspicious cases of fever were declared at Tfty lor, M iss., 40 miles south of Holly Springs, on the 31st The Red Cross home for convalescents will be opened in San Francisco in a few days, in charge of Miss Laura McKinstry, a young society woman of that city. Robbers secured $6,000 in cash from the Pacific Express Co. in Omaha, on the 31st It was one of the boldest, as i well os one of the smoothest, pieces of work ever perpetrated there. The money was consigned by the First national bank of Omaha to the Citizens' national bank of St. Paul, Minn. Admiral Seheley has ben selected to command the Pacific squadron upon the retirement of Admiral Miller, about the middle of October, if the Porto Rican commission finishes its labor by that time. He will have vessels of the greatest steaming radus in the navy. A grand demonstration occurred at Cauton, O., on the 1st, in honor of the visit of President McKinley and Secretary of State Day. Out of respect for the president’s expressed wish that his visit be informal, the affair was to a considerable extent unorganized, and partook largely of the nature of a spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm. The A Oeisel Manufacturing Co.’s plant, on the northwest corner of Clark avenue and Second street. Su Louis, was totally destroyed by fire that started shortly before midnight on the 1st The loss was estimated to be $1S0,> 000—$100,000 on stock, $40,000 on tools and machinery and $40,000 on building. At a meeting of the directors of the Pacific Cable Ca, in New York, on the let, plans were considered for establishing cable communication with the Philippines, the Asiatic coast, Japan

and Australia, via Hawaii. Surrey* for a duplicate cable via Sitka and the Aleutian Islands were ordered. The schooner Sophia Sutherland, which left San Francisco IS months ego with a party of tre^Mire seekers for the Solomon islands, has returned with a cargo of cocoa nut*. The men were deceived by the projector of the enterprise, L F. Sorenson, who was pat ashore on one of the islands. While attempting to rescue the sail* or* of an Italian bark, off Ty bee, Ua, during the storm, on the 31st, Lieut. Morgan, United States engineer corps, and six regular soldiers were drowned. The battleship Iowa was gotten into the new dry dock at the New York nary yard on the 1st. Her bottom was in fairly good condition. The American Microscopical society finished up its business at Syracuse, M. Y., on the let, devoting the after* noon to pleasure. The bankruptcy, in London, of K. D. MoConky is announced, with liabilities estimated at tttO.MXX He waa formerly a railroad contractor in New York.

It is reported that the religious order* in Manila are selling their property to a Hong Kong syndicate. The lighthouses in the southern Philippines hare been re-established. Nicholas J. Shannon, one of the Chicago police officers who, on May 1,1M6, helped to qnell the Hay market riot, died in that city on the 1st. The cause of death was undoubtedly due to many wounds he received from the fragments of the bomb thrown by the anarchists. Ex-Mayor Frits H. Twitchell, one of the most prominent citizens of Bath, Me., a member of Gov. Powers’ council, and well known in business circles in Maine and Massachusetts, is a confessed embezzler. The amount of the embezzlement is placed at 960,000, but it may exceed that amount. Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans has issued an order prohibiting the sending of pension checks to “general delivery.” The intention of the department is to have all such checks delivered at the individual local address of the pensioners. The French people now believe that Capt. Dreyfus will be brought home, unless he is murdered beforehand

through the instrumentality of those who dread his revelations. If he reaches France alive he may expect restoration to his rank in the army, as may also his champion. Col. Picquart. Mrs. Sarah Shankenberger has been arrested at Frankfort, Ind., charged with murder in having systematically poisoned her daughter-in-law, whose husband was in the navy, on board the cruiser Minneapolis. He arrived home on the 1st. Gov. Tanner of Illinois, on the 1st, refused to send troops to Pana, on the request of Sheriff Coburn, on the ground that he was opposed to the importation of outside labor into the state which must depend upon the army of the state for protection while at wofrk. The auxiliary cruisers St. Paul and St Louis, at Cramps’ ship yards, Phil adelphia, were returned to the International Navigation Co. by the government on the 2d. The statement of the condition of the treasury, s issued on the 2d, showed: Available cash balance, *296,548,912; gold reserve, *219,320,372. An imperial decree has been issued summoning the Austrian reichsrath to meet on September 26. Gen. Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, has sued for a divorce from his girl wife, Dora Riehardson Clay. In his petition be asks that the defendant be restored to her maiden name and given all proper relief, which is supposed to mean that he intends to provide a lib* eral alimony. The Bertram ship yards at Toronto, Ont., have been destroyed by fire. The steamer City of Toronto, in thfe final stages of construction by the Bertram company, was saved with great difficulty. The loss is placed at about *70,000. An agitation is growing in Yokohama, out of the purchase by the government of four trunk railroads, and reports are revived that the government intends to raise a foreign loan of; *80,000,000 in order to complete public works. Failures for the week ended on the 3d, as reported by R. G. Dun & Ca, were, for the United States, 171, against J91 for the corresponding week last year; for Canada the failures were 22, against 25 for last year The international conference at Quebee, adjourned, on the 2d, until Sep> tember 20.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The refusal of Senor Leon v Castillo, the Spanish ambassador to France, to serve on the Spanish peace commission, on the ground that he could not participate owing to the non-partici-pation of Gen. Horace Porter, the United States ambassador to France, was accepted by the cabinet on the 4 th inst If Senor Monterro Kio accepts a place on the Spanish commission, he will be nominated as president. After a great battle, in which the dervishes “were mowed down like grass,” their losses in dead and wounded reaching thousands, while the AngloEgyptian losses were but 200 in killed aud wounded, the siedr, Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener, with the Kalifa's ( black standard, captured during the : battle, entered Omdurman, the capital I of Mahdiam, on the 2d. Gen. D. S. Atanlev, president of the Army of the Cumberland, announced, on the 4th, that the executive committee of the organization had decided that the annual meeting, which was to have taken place at Detroit, the 21st, will be postponed until September, 1899, many of the active members being engaged in the war. Private Alex. La Duke, Co. I, Second Wisconsin volunteers, has been placed in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas., to remain for life, for the murder of Private Thomas Stafford, of the Thirteenth United States infantry, in a saloon row at Ponce, Porto Kico. Maj. Huer, of the United States engineer corps, has removed fid of the 63 mines or torpedoes put in San Francisco bay at the outbreak c>f the war with Spain, lle^fs experiencing some difficulty in locating the remaining six mi neb as they had dragged their anchors.

Orders will soon be issued lor inc abandonment of Cm cup Wikoff, Mon* tank Point, N. Y. The volonteers will be sent to their homes, on furlough, snd the regulars distributed to their garrison posts. Frank, George and Mabel Ferguson, aged 24,19 and respectively, were drowned at Stamford, Conn., on the 3d, by the upsetting of a row boat in a pond, about a mile off Norton islands. On the recommendation of the Swed* ish-Norwegian council. King Oscar has notified the czar of his acceptance of the invitation to send delegates to a peace conference. According to advices from Iloilo, Gen. Bios, governor of the Vizoayas, is arresting and i*

iiMI SURRENDERS. rhe British Lose Two Hundred, While Thousands of the Dervishes Bit the Dust. TIE BATTLEFIELD A SLAUGHTER PER. The BMklen Soudanese, Apparently Coartl>K Ooota, are Mowed Down Like Grut, and Leave the Field 'White with Jlbbeh-Cled Corpeee—Only Two British Officers Killed. Omdurman, Opposite Khartoum, on the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 8, by Camel Post to NasrL—The sirdar, Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener, with the kalifa's black standard, captured during the battle, entered Omdurman, the capital of Mahdiam, at 4 o’clock this afternoon, at the head of the Anglo-Egyp-tian column, after completely routing the dervishes and dealing a death blow to Mahdiam. Roughly, our losses were 300, including two officers while thousands of the dervishes were killed or wounded. Advanced to the Attack Chanting War Songs. Last night the Anglo-Egyptian army camped at Agaiza, eight miles from Omdurman. The dervishes were three miles distant. At dawn to-day our cavalry, patrolling toward Omdurman, discovered the enemy advancing to the attack in battle array, chanting war songs. Their front consisted of infantry and cavalry, stretched out for three or four miles. Countless banners fluttered j over their masses, and the copper and j brass drums resounded through the I ranks of the savage warriors, who ad- j vanced unwaveringly, with all their I

old-time ardor. Formation Of the An|lo-Ecrptlao Force a Our infahtry formed up outside the camp. On the left were the First battalion Northumberland fusileers, the Second battalion Lancashire fusiliers and the First battalion Grenadier guards, with the Maxim battery, manned by the Royal Irish fusileers. In our center were the First battalion Warwickshire regiment, the First yattalion Cameron highlanders and the First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with Maxims, worked by a detachment of the royal artillery, under Maj. Williams. On our right were the Soudan brigade, commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. McDonald. The Egyptian brigades held the reserves and both flanks were supported by th« Maxim-Nordenfelt batteries. The Enemy Advanced Steadily Under Artillery Fire. At 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded th< ridges above the camp and advancec steadily m enveloping formation. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire, which was answered by the dervish riflemen. A Large Force of llonemen Literal!) Swept Awav* Their attack developed on our left, and in accordance with their traditional tactics, they swept ddwn the hillside with the design of rashing our flank. But the withering fire maintained for 15 minutes by all our line frustrated the attempt, and the dervishes. balked, swept toward- our center, upon which they concentrated . a fierce attack. A largfe force of horsemen, trying to face a continuous hail of bullets from the Cameron highlanders, the Lincolnshire regiment and the Soudanese, Was literally swept away. Throw Away Their Lives la a Bold Charge. The bravery of the dervishes can hardly be overstated. Those who car- ; ried the flags struggled to within a few hundred yards of our fighting line, while the mounted emirs absolutely threw their lives away in bold charges. Right Came in Contact with the Enemy When the dervishes withdrew behind the ridge in front of their camp the whole force marched in echelon o> battalions toward Omdorman. As out troops surmounted the crest adjoining the Nile the Soudanese on our right came into contact with the enemy, who had formed undercover of a rocky eminence, and had massed beneath the black standard of the khalifa in order to make a supreme effort to retrieve the fortunes of the day. A mass 15,000 strong bore down on the Soudanese. Slain Body Literally Mown Down. Gen. Kitchener swung round the center and left of the Soudanese and seized the eminence, and the Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined the firing line in ten minutes, and before the dervishes could drive their attack home.

Tbe flower of the khalifa s army wai caught in a depression and within a zone of withering cross-fire from three brigades, with the attendant artillery. The devoted Mahdists strove heroically to make headway, bat every rush was stopped, while their main body was literally mown down by a sustained deadly cross-fire. Left the IMS White with Jlbbeh-CUd Defiantly the dervishes planted their standards and died by them. Their dense masses finally melted to companies and the companies to driblets beneath the leaden hail. Finally they broke and fled, leaving the field white with jibbah-clad corpses, like a snow drift dotted meadow. ▲t 11:15 the sirdar ordered an advance and our whole force in line drove the scattered remnant of the foe into the desert, our cavalry cutting off their retreat to Omdurinant Among the chief incidents of the battle was a brilliant charge by the Twenty-first lancers, under Lieut.* CoL Martin. Galloping down on the detached body of the enemy, they found the dervish swordsmen massed and were forced to charge home against

NEWS FROM INDIANA. Latest Happenings Within the Borders of Our Own State. Charged with Murder. Frankfort, Ind., Sept. 2.—A sensar tion was occasioned here by the ai> rest of Mrs. Sarah Shankenberger on the charge of murdering her daugh-ter-in-law, Mrs. Edward Sbankenberger. The alleged victim died last Saturday, and it is charged that her mother-in-law killed her with arsenic. The young wife was siek, and the old woman, it is alleged, fed her crushed ice containing arsenic. The young woman made an ante-mortem statement accusing her mother-in-law. Mrs. Shankenberger is in jail. The husband of the dead girl has arrived home. He is a member of the United States navy on the cruiser Minneapolis. * In Fear off Death. Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 2.—When Mrs. Norton returned to her home from the funeral of her husband sha found her l?-months-old child dead. When she left the house there was no indication of approaching death. At the time Norton was dying the dial on the side of the courthouse dock, which could be seen from the house, darkened ^ntil the time could not be read. Immediately upon his death the shadow passed away. The widow now believes there is the same fate in store for herself and is prostrated.

Left Home to Marry. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 2.—Two weeks ago Miss Alta Michaels, of this city, a young lady prominent in society, left home without advising her friends of her destination. Word has been received from her at Fiskdale, Mass,, saying she is now Mrs. John Seyfert, the marriage haying been solemnized In that city. Miss Michaels journeyed more than 1,000 miles alone to meet her lover, who holds a responsible position with a manufacturing concern. The groom was formerly a resident of this city. Verdict of $ulctde. Columbus, Ind., Sept. 2.—Coroner J. D. Emmons returned a verdict of “strychnine poisoning, self-adminis-tered.” after an inquest held concerning the mysterious death of Henson C. Hill,' who died in convulsions last Friday. His wife committed suicide last spring by hanging herself from a !after in the barn at the rear of the family residence, and ever since then Mr. Hill has been very despondent. An Vslneky Trip. Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 2.—Warren Pierce, a farmer near this city, came to town to meet his son Roy, a member of the First United States cavalry, wounded at Santiago, who came home on a furlough. During his absence his residence was totally destroyed by fire, together with contents. Sues for Anderson, Ind., Sept. 2. — David Ilobrage, permanently crippled while at work in the National tin plate works at Anderson two years ago, has brought a suit for $10,000 damages against the company. His right leg was broken in two places and surgical skill cannot reduce the double fracture. Shot at Her Father. Indianapolis, Ind., 'Sept. 3.—Patrolman Crabtree arrested Ida Wilson, a colored girl, of Brightwood. who is only 16 years old. but is married and has a seven-months-old babj\ She said her father^ “wouldn’t let her alone,** ard in u quarrel she shot at him, but failed to hit him. Hotel Closed. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 2.—The Griffith hotel here has been closed and will be torn down and the site occupied by business blocks. The hotel was one of the oldest In Indiana and a favorite resort for traveling men. Blow \Yn« Fatal. Terre Haute, Ind„ Sept. 2. — Alex Hunt (colored) died from a fractured skull caused by a blow from a brick struck by Mrs. S. S. Allen (also colored), with whom he boarded and whom he attempted to assault. Cattle Attacked. Jeffersonville. Ind., Sept. 2.—A mysterious cattle disease has broken out here. It resembles anthrax, but is not in every way similar. So far it is confined to one locality.

Two Perrau Killed. Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 2.—Near North Judson Sam Scott, aged 2a years, and Mrs. Mary Konopska, aged 66 years, were struck by a Chicago A Erie train and killed. Veterans* Reunion. Hartford City. Ind., Sept. 2.—The second annual reunion of the veterans of Blackford and adjoining counties will be held here on Thursday, Septem her 27, 1898. A Mew Bank. Culver City, Jnd„ Sept. 2.—A new exchange bank is to be opened here September 15 by M. C. McCormick, of Ar» gca. England holds the honor of having first formed societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and of having first legislated for its punishment. The Rearing organ of animals is not always located in the head In some grasshoppers it la in the forelegs, and appears on the wings of many insects. Don't think yvu ean make a success of growing small fruits unless yon pat * * of energy, study and labor

The President and Party Among the Santiago Heroes Camped at Camp Wikoff. IMJ.-6EN. WHEELER BIS THE R0108& G«n. gluk/ter was Suffering from an Attack of Fever la the Detention Camp*. Where the President Visited Him—A Visit wm Also Mode to the General Hospital. Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. L, Sept. 4.—The president and secretary of war arrived at Camp Wikoff at 8:45> a. m. Maj.-Gen. Wheeler and his staff greeted Mr. McKinley, Mr. Algerand their party on the station plat* form. Outside, a thousand smart troopers of the Third cavalry were drawn up, and the converted yacht Eileen in the roadstead slowly boomed; forth the president’s salute of 21 guns,. Geo. Wheeler Did vhe Honors. Gen. Wheeler ipdt the president because Gen. Shatter had a touch of fever, and does not feel able to move from his cot. Besides, Gen. Shaftcz is still in detention, and it would hard* ly comport with the discipline of the camp for the commanding general to disregard the detention rules. ten. Wheeler arranged for the inspection party to go through the detention camp, past Gen. Shatter’s.tent. To Gen. 4R£heeler*s Headquarters. Maj.-Gen. WBjbeler was surrounded: by a number of his staff. The carriages, preceded by the cavalry .wound; up the hill to Gen. Wheeler’s headquarters. The president took a>

long view of the wide, treeless expanse, checkered with regimental camps and hospitals, great parterres of canvass amid stretches of grass. The President Admired the Camp. “This is beautiful,” Mr. McKinley said, and then later: “I think I never saw a handsomer camp.” After a two minutes’ wait, the president drov e through the detention camp to Maj.-Gen. Sliafter’s tent. The general was in .full uniform, but his faee was flushed with fever. He endeavored to rise from the chair in which he sat as the president entered-' the tent. “Don’t get up, general,” said Mr. McKinley, as they shook hands. “Yon are entitled to rest. How are you?” “A little achy,” replied the general* "‘but otherwise all right.” Mrs. Alger remained in Gen. Shafter’s tent while the president, Secretary Alger, Mr. Griggs and others went to the general hospital. r On visiting the infantry camp the men were massed without arms, and the president, after being introduced by Gen. Wheeler, addressed the soldiers as follows; The President's Address. “Gen. Wheeler,' Soldiers of Camp Wi« koff, Soldiers of the Fifth Army Corps—I trust that you will put your hats on. I am glad to meet you. I am- *\ honored to stand before you to-day. 1 biing you the gratitude of the nation, to whose history you have added byyour valor a new and glorious page. You have come home after two months • of severe campaigning which has embraced assault, siege and battle, so., brilliant in achievement, so far reaching in results as to command the unstinted praise of all your countrymen. You had the brunt of the battle on> land. You bore yourselves with supreme courage, and your personal bravery never before excelled anywhere, has u>ah the admiration of your fellow citizens and the genuinerespect of till mankind, while your endurance under peculiar trial and suffering has given added meaning tc your heroism. Your exertions made easy the conquest of Porto Rico, under the resistless army commanded by Maj.-Gen. Miles, and behind you, to proceed at a moment’s summons, were more than 200,000 of your comrades, ready to support you, disappointed that the opportunity which you bad did not come to them, yet lilied with pride at your well-earned fame ana rejoicing in your signal victories. “You were on the line of battle. They no less than you were in the line of duty. All have served their country in its need, all will sene it so long as they may be required^ and all will.. forever have the thanks and regard oi

& grateful people. “We can not bid you welcome here today without our hearts going1 out tc the heroes of Manila on sea and landwhose services and sacrifices, whose courage and constancy in that far distant field of operations, have never been surpassed by any soldiers or sailors the world over. To the army and the navy, to the. marines, to the regulars, to the volunteers, and to the providence which has watched over them all, the nation to-day is full of thanksgiving and praise. The brave officers and men who fell in battle,and those who died from exposure and sickness, will live in immortal story, and their memory will be perpetuated in the hearts and the histories of a generous people, and those who are dependent upon them will not he neglected by the government for which they so freely sacrificed their lives.** Condition of Mis* Winnie DstU. , Narragansett, Pier, R. L, Sept. The condition of Miss Winnie Davis to-night shows no marked improvement. She passed a restless night but was more comfortable to-day and her physician is still hopeful of her recovery. Ctaa. Kitcheosr Eologis*d. Paris, Sept 5.—The Temps, eulogising Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener’s feat.