Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 September 1898 — Page 6

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Preparation* are being made for aa elaborate and impressive ceremony when the American flag is raised over San Juan de Porto Kieo. The president has decided against appeals which hare been made to him to make political speeches in Ohio and Indiana or elsewhere during the eamThe nary department has ordered 400 sailors to be sent to Admiral Dewey’s squadron at Manila. The men will be sent from San Francisco on a " merchant steamer. fi A special from Paris says: “The secretary of the United States embassy has engaged rooms at the Hotel Continental for the American peace commissioners and their party.” The French minister of foreign affairs, M. Delcasffe, has offered the 8panish and American peace commissioners the use of the foreign office for their meetings, which commence an October 1. Maj.-Gen. Miles,' commanding the army, has completed his plans for the reorganisation of the volunteer forces Into corps, brigades and divisions, and aubmltted them to the war department for approval. Herr Theodore Fontano, the German Writer and poet, died in Berlin, on the tlst. He was born in 1819 and was a War correspondent during the FrancoPrussian war of 1870. He was captured, but soon released. As a result of the announcement of four cases of fever in New Orleans, on the 81st, Yexas slapped on an absolutely rigid quarantine against all freight from that city. Both the Southern and Texas Pacific roads are thus tied *P- - Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, gas been appointed by the president to succeed Senator Gray, of Delaware, on the Canadian commission, the latter having been transferred to the peace commission. Senator Faulkner has accepted. The French government has decided opon the immediate dispatch of a company of Senegalese sharpshooters and a detachment of artillery to reinforce Maj. Marchand, the French explorer, who is reported to have occupied Fashoda, on the <Nile. Gen. Jackson sent a telegram to President McKinley, thanking him for the tender of a position on the commission to investigate the conduct of the war, and expressing regret that urgent private business compelled him to decline the honor.

Ferdinand W. Peck, the United States commissioner to the Paris ex* position of 1900, accompanied by his staff, deposited a gold wreath on the tomb of Lafayette on the 21st. It was inscribed: “A tribute to the memory of Geh. Lafayette from the United States exposition commission.*’ The resolutions repotted unanimously by the republican state convention of Michigan commend Gov. Pingrce for his efforts in favor of equal taxation of railway, telephone and express company properties. The resolutions indorse the j rineiples of the Pingree-Atkinson taxation bill. • Advices received from Bogota, the capital of Colombia, say that all relations between Colombia and Italy have < been severed, owing to the action of the Italian government in the Cerutti affair, which the Colombian officials considered arbitrary and in violation of the treaty of 15*92, which was thereby annulled. Mail advices which reached Kingston, Jamaica, on the 23d, brought melancholy relief to the suspense regarding the full extent of the hurricane disaster on the islands of St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Harbadoes, showing that the first accounts of awful destruction of life and property were not exaggerated. A destructive hurricane swept over Southern Spain, on the 19th, doing great damage in the provinces of Seville and Urunada. Six persons were killed and many injured, and a number sf buildings were destroyed at Sevilla. and 84 houses were demolished and many persons fell victims to the •form st Gaudix, in the proviuce of Granada. The retirement of Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, from the active diplomatic service, would have occurred, on the 21st, had not the foreign office, as already announced, extended his term of service until next April, in recognition of his long and capable service, and the acceptability of hia administration to the authorities at Washington. Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross society, accompanied by a party of friends, made %a call upon the president on the 21st. Miss Barton stated that the visit was only social in its character, and that while there had been more or leas reference in the conversation to the report of the Red Cross in Cuba, she had yet made nothing like an official report. With the departure of M. Gambon, the ambassadors of France, Germany and Italy will be abroad, leaving only Great Britain and Russia with their ambassadors in Washington. This exodus toward Europe at the time of the meeting of the peace commission at Paris has given rite to reports that jtimn la some significance in tha trigs. |

CURRENT TOPICS. THE IEWB IS BRIEF.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. CoL Godwin, of the Seventh immune*, en route to Lexington, Ky., went with hie officers to a Louisville hotel for breakfast. The clerk informed CoL Godwin that the colored lieutenants would not be allowed to eat there. “Well, I won't eat here, then," said the colonel, and he left the house, followed by the captains. They went to a restaurant, a half block away, where a dining room was provided for the colored lieutenants. Secretary of War Alger, it is said, previous to his departure from Washington on his present tour of inspection, verbally notified the president that he was ready to retire at any time the president saw fit to relieve him. Dr. John Harcourt, of Bismarck, the leading phyaician of North Dakota, died at St. Joseph's hospital, St. Paul, Minn., on the 19th, under an operation for gall stones, aged 48. He was a leading Knight of Pythias. Gen. La wton, who is in command of the military department established in Santiago province, Cuba, has recommended to the war department that the American troops be withdrawn and that the duty of garrisoning and policing the province be turned over to the Cubans. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says that “an attempt is being made to have the office of major general commanding the army abolished and Gen. Miles, who now holds that office, assigned to some army department,*' Although the Red Cross society of Madrid offered its services in the reception of the soldiers arriving from Cuba, they were declined by the war department; and at the same time literally no provision was made to provide for their comfort. The queen regent is said to be indignant. Gen. Horace Porter, now ambassador to France, will, it is said, be named as ambassador to the court of St. James to succed Col. John Hay. It is further stated that the French mission will be filled by Mr. Draper, at present ambassador to Italy. Count Stollberg-Wernigrode, a German cavalry captain, hag been arrested on account of the death of Sergt, Scheinhardt from the effects of a sword cut behind the ear.jinflicted by the count for impertinence during the recent maneuvers in Alsace-Lorraine. Alfred S. Pinkerton, of Worcester, Mass., was unanimously elected grand sire of the sovereign grand lodge, I. 0. 0. F„ on the 20th. George A. Steinway, sou of the late William Steinway, and a member of the piano firm of Steinway A Sons died at sea on board the steamship Statendam, on the 14th, aged 34 years An elaborate programme has been prepared for the celebration of the proposed peace jubilee m Philadelnhia.

Gen. Miller, now in command at San Francisco, will command the reinforcements ordered to Manila. Bat teries A and D, of the California artillery, will go with the expedition. John Donahue, a San Francisco gripman. found a purse containing $61,000 in money and drafts, and returned it to the owner, George Mulligan, a returned Klondiker. Over 18,000 head of cattle were reyards on the 20th—a local record breaker. At an inquest held at Bridgeport, Conn., on the 22d, by Coroner Doten, It was fully established by relatives of Miss Emma Gill, of Southington, that the body found in Yellow Mill pond, September I? and 13 was hers.* Her father and three brothers fully identified the remains, and the coroner issued an order permitting them to be exhumed and takefi to Southington for interment. The acting secretary of war received a cable message from Gen. Brooke, chairman of the Porto Rican evacuation commission at San Juan, on the 22d, saying that S00 more Spanish troops had embanked for home. ' Hon. Aaron B. Pratt, ct Albany, a former member of the New York legislature, who was in Denver, Col., visiting his daughter, died suddenly, on the 22d, of congestion of »he brain. A dispatch, received in London from Gen. Roca, president-elect of Argentina, says there will be no war between that country| and Chili. Admiral Cervera arrived in Madrid on the 22d. There were no incidents worth noting in coitnection with his arrival at the capital. It is understood in Yokohama that the Japanese government has decided to negotiate a foreign loan of $50,000,000. The steamer Alki arrived at Seattle, Wash., on the 23d, from Skaguay, with 220 passengers, most of w hom were from Copper River. Fifteen passengers from Dawson had a small amount of gold dust. A dispatch from Manila says: The schemes of the Spanish clerical party have divided the Filipinos almost beyond hope of reconciliation. The comptroller of the currency haa issued a call to national banks for a report of their condition at the close of business on the 20th. The Windsor house at Eau Claire, W'is., was burned early on the morning of the 23d. Several women jumped from the fourth story, and , a Mrs. Churchill was so badly injured that she is not expected to th e. A baby thrown from the third story was caught by J. Charles, and escaped unhurt, while Charles was injured. The steamer Campania, from New York, September IT, with the United States p<«c« commissioners on board, arrived at Queenstown, on the 23d, after an uneventful voyage, with all well on beard, excepting Senator Gray, who had suffered from nearal■ia for tiro days.

Haring scored * victory in the third pool, the Pennsylvania coal miners will now turn their attention to the fourth pool, where, it is alleged, the Chicago agreement is being violated. Ambassador Fava of Italy in taking • long vacation at Borne, and is not expected back to his post in Washington before next December, at which time it is probable that Baroness Fava, who has spent much time abroad in recent years, will return with him. Failures throughout the country, as reported by It. G. Dun & Co., for the week ended on the 23d, were 173, against 209 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the fall* urea were 16, against 26 last year. Heavy storms are reported in the Baltic sea, and 120 fishermen are said to have been drowned between Polan* gen and Libau, seaport towns of the province of Courland, Russia. Richard Malcolm Johnson, the lee turer and novelist, died in Baltimore, Md., on the 23d, after an illness Ol several months.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The officials of the war department pronounce to be without foundation in fact the alarmist stories, coming from sources in San Francisco, to the effect that Germany had shown any disposition to arm the' Philippine in* aurgents, with a view to inciting them to harrass the American army at Mu-, nila. Such an act would be a casus belli. The United States consul at Vienna, in a report to the state department on the trade of Austria-Hungary for 1897, ascribes the general decrease in exports to this country to the fact that the same goods ure now manufactured in the United States, and can be sold there at the same or lower prices than the Austrian goods. Abdul Ualli Adali, the champion wrestler of Turkey, who haa just arrived at New York, has issued a sweeping challenge to American wrestlers. He is willing to meet any man for the championship of America for a side stake of $300 on $1,000, either Graeco-Roman or catch-as-catch-can style. The commission to investigate the conduct of the war dt'pj-rtment during the recent conflict with Spain, held its initial meeting at the White House on the 24th. There were eight members present, and it was announced, that the services of a ninth man Were counted upon. The wrecking company engaged, under Lieut. Hobson, in the work of saving the wrecked Spanish war ships has succeeded in floating the cruiser' Infanta Maria Teresa. The cruiser, after being got afloat, was taken to Guantanamo bay, where she arrived on the 24th. Capt. Brooks of the yacht Chi spa, which was anchored in the stream opposite Sausaiito, Cal., was murdered, after a desperate fight, early on the morning of the 24th, by two bay pirates, who boarded the little vessel, evidently believing it to be without a watchman. The Anglo-German agreement provides in detail for England and Germany to become joint heirs, by purchase, of all the Portugese possessions in Africa. The first outcome of this will be the leasing of Delagoa bay to England. The naval rendezvous in San Francisco has posted a call for men to man the gunboat Culgoa. one of the Spanish vessels captured at Manila by the American fleet.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS Lieut. John W. Heard, of the Third United-States cavalry. Is the champion pistol shot of the United States army. The National Household Economic association holds its sixth annual meeting in Omaha on October 13 and 14. Prof. J. W. Johnson, who for 17 yearn prior to 1893 was president of the Oregon state university, died at Eugene, Ore. Jacob Billings, aged* 90. was master of ceremonies at the fourteenth annual reunion of the Billings family at Boston. It is estimated that^he surplus farm produots of North Dakota. South Dakota and Minnesota this year will sell for $148,000,000. The list of post offices in the United State* now includes Hobson. Ya.; Sigsbee. Ark.. Dewey. N.C.; Sampson, Fla., and Manila. Ky. Wesley John Gaines, of Atlanta. Ga., of the nine bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal church, was born a slave and belonged to the Toombs family. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), answering a request that he deliver a lecture at Newport, Monmouthshire, writes that he has decided to abandon lecturing. Judge A. C. Thompson, member of congress from Ohio. haabeenappointed United States district judge for the southern district of Ohio, to succeed Judge Sage, retired. Rev. Dr. Albert S. Hunt, for 80 years secretary of the American Bible society. died at his home in Brooklyn, N. of bronchitis. He was in the seventy-second year of hte age. Complete official returns from th« recent state election in Arkansas give the following vote for governor: Jones (dem.). 75.541; Auten (rep.), 87,524; Morgan (pop.). 8.310; McKnight (pro.), <31. The owners of the famous cog road running up Pike’s Peak have decided to change the motive power from steam to electricity. It is estimated that the coat of making the change aril! be •boot $50,000. ' Richard Butteed, once a noted lawyer and ipoiitieian, died in New York. He was appointed a brigadier general of volunteers in IMS by President Lincoln and was in command of o brigade at tko battle of Yorkttwa. .

= WITHIN OUR LIMITS. Hews by Telegraph from Various Towns in Indiana,

G«4waltad«r Retar d. Winchester, Ind., Sept. 2i!l.-—Sheriff Simmons arrived Friday eve: king from I California with Charles H. Oadwalla- ; der, the alleged defaulting «ashler of ; the Citizens* bank of Union: City. A j large crowd was at the depo;, but the ; sheriff with the prisoner left the train [ at the crossing below town and hurIried to the courtroom, whic:i quickly filled. Mr. Cadwallader, after some delay, gave bon (Tin the sum of £2,000 to answer to 11 indictments on Monday morning nest. Take* Precautions. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24.—The repeated statement that the managers of the Corbett-MeCoy prize Ight are arranging to “pull off” the fight in Indiana led Gov. Mount to wire the war department for permission to command four companies of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Indiana infantry at home on furlough. The state is now without a national guard and the permission to use the volunteers was asked as a precautionary measure. Give* an Ovation. , Elkhart, Ind., Sept. 24.—Three thou sand people assembled at the depot and tendered an ovation to Gen. Shatter when he changed cars en route from Constantine, Mich., to New York. He made a brief speech, thanking the people for the tribute tcf “the army he had commanded” and expressed his gratification at being “the commander of such a magnificent army” and also of “the indorsement of his countrymen.” Under Bank Chnrter. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24.—The Columbia Life Insurance company is the title of a new old-line life insurance company being organized in this city by E. B. Martindale, Charles E. Darke and others. The projectors of the concern have acquired the charter of the Indiana Bank of Commerce, under which they propose to operate the affairs of the company. Increase of Voters. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24.—Thomas Carter, clerk of the state board of election commissioners, has completed the voting census of the state, and the result shows that the voting population is 42,514 above that of 1896. There has been a gain of 139 precincts. The 1896 returns show 3,120, while this year there will be 3,253 precincts. Forgot the War Tax. Bedford, Ind., Sept. 24.—Frank Brown, of Belleville, 111., was arrested here on a charge of running a show at the Bedford fair without paying the war revenue tax. He was brought to this city by Deputy United States Marshal Brenham. arraigned before United States Commissioner Cardwill and will stand trial. Changed with Barela ry. Kokomo, Ind., Sept. 24.—Prof. Bert Lewis, an aeronaut and member of Battery K, Fifth United States artillery, home from Santiago on furlough, was arrested and taken to Frankfort on a charge of burglary. Two weeks ago Lewis was married to Miss Maud Harrison, of this city. The wife has applied for divorce.

Huytnar Ip Oil Worlca. Hartford City, Ind., Sept. 24.—An eastern syndicate is purchasing all the available oil property in the Indiana field. Much mystery surrounds the name of the real owners of the property, but it is believed to be the Standard company. A New Industry. Indianapolis, Ind., Sep. 24.—The announcement is made that early in October a factory for the manufacture of food products from potatoes will be opened here, which will employ 00 bands, with a, prospect of more later vn. _ Franklin College Opens. Franklin. Ind., Sept. 24.—Franklin college opened with nearly 100 new students enrolled, bringing the total attendance above the average. The prospects are that the institution will see an unusually prosperous year. Hundreds Dying. Anderson, Ind., Sept. 24.—A letter received from Willis Privitt states that he has made a good strike in the Klondike. He is 14 miles from Dawson City, and says in Dawson City hun dreds are dying._ Uig Mortgmge Filed. South Bend, Ind., Sept. 24.—The Indiana. Illinois & Iowa railway filed a J3.000.000 mortgage here in favor oi the Continental Trust company, ol New York, and Joseph D. Oliver, ol South Bend. Banned Himself. Whiting. Ind.. Sept. 24.—An elderly man who refused to give any name but Alban committed suicide In Siadek’s hotel barn by hanging himsell to a beam. No motive was given for the deed. . _ Ftakermea Browned. Hobart. Ind.. Sept. 24.—Capt. A. P. Johnson, his eldest son, Albert, and Kriek Bergman, fishermen on Lake Michigan, north of Millers, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat. Fused Away. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24.—Capt John W. Dodd, onee auditor of state, died at hit home in this city, aged 78 year*. He had been ill for loui years with nervous disorder. * Barnes Cremated. Warsaw, Ind.. Sept. 24.—The liver? barn of William Soash at Pierce ton was destroyed by fire and live horse* were cremated, making a total 1pm ol

ii nn. The Commander of the Fifth Corps Corrects Errors Made by Correspondents.

CHAT ABOUT THE SAHT1A60 CAMPAI8N. SmoktlMi Tcrrai Black Powder to Actio*— Work of the £a«my that Astonished Totorowe - The Comp 8caudal* the Natural Prod net of Inexpert an oe A«o«t the Volunteer Soldier*. New York, Sept. 25.—Gen. W. K. Shatter, who arrived, Friday night, from Michigan, said in the course of an interview: Misquoted Remark*. “My remarks about the volunteers, in a speech at Constantine, have been misquoted. 1 was speaking at a reunion of the Nineteenth regiment. I went to the front with it 35 years ago. It happened that some Michigan volunteers got mixed up in the Santiago fight. I merely said that they had not been intended for active fighting that day. They had been sent oft toward Aguadores to make a feint. They got into a cut and a shell was sent into them, killing and wounding some. Urn When They Hud No Business. “They had no business in the cut and regulars would not have been caught there. The volunteers were all right at Santiago, handicaped as they were. They had black powder rifles, for oue thing, and they had not learned what comes only from the longest drilling and what constitutes the ideal soldier—that is to stand with other men without knowing it.” “It has been said that there were 20,000 Krag-Joregnsens in the arsenal during the Santiago campaign that were never issued,” said the reporter. “Well, I am not at the head of the ordnance department, but the increased number of companies raised the regular army by 35,000 men, and these had to get Krags immediately, as they were expected to do the bulk of the fighting. How many of the small stock of Krags were left after the 35,000 were equipped, I can not say.” “No one who has not seen can know the effectiveness of smokeless powder guns. Our batteries had black powder; the Spaniards smokeless. Ik Astonished Veter***. “One day—the 10th or 11th of July— I was standing in the trenches trying to make out with my glasses the location of a Spanish battery. Our battery was several hundred yards to our left. We could hear the shells leave the Spanish guns and pass over us. We tried to locate the guns by following the sound, but it was impossible. Later we found that it was more than a mile, behind a fringe of bushes, just thick enough to hide the movements of the meu. It astonished me and other veterans who saw the work of smokeless powder.” The “Seondnl* of the Camp.** “The scandals .of the camp” struck the general as the natural product of Inexperience among the soldiers. “There has been gross carelessness on the part of the new men in sanitary matters,” he said. “You can’t make them understand the necessity of care. They resent being bedeviled by their officers for not picking up cigar stubs, fruit peelings, and doing such apparently trivial things. In the civil war we often started out with 1,000 men, and in six months lost 500 of'them through sickness. Not So B*«t, After All. “What has befallen the men who relieved me at Santiago? They had no such conflict with inclement weather as we had. They have had plenty of foot! and complete tentage, but they have 1,300 sick out of 6.000. So I don’t think we did so badly.”

REGULARS FEASTED, Fhu Twelfth Infantry and Battery E, First Artillery. Banqueted by St. Louis Citizen*. St. LouiR. Sept. 23.—The Twelfth United States infantry and Battery E, First United States light artillery, recently arrived at Jefferson Barracks, were feasted in the general mesa hall at noon bv the citizens* committee, headed by Mayor Ziegenheim. The mayor, with a party of citizens and Col. Owen Miller’s band of 30 pieces, went down to the barracks at 10:30 o’clock. The city congressional delegation accompanied the mayor and joined him in the speech-making In the banquet hall. The returned Santiago heroes highI ly appreciated the attention, hearty ] acknowledgments being made by the leading officers. Without Foundutloa la Pact. Washington, Sept. 25.—The officials of the war department pronounce to be without foundation in fact, the alarmist stories, coming from sources in San Francisco, to the effect that Germany had shown any disposition to arm the Philippine insurgents with a view to inciting them to harass the American army at Manila. Such an act would be a casus belli. Famuli Duo to Bunch tu Frmnelieo About October 1-WUI Return to Mflh. Philadelphia, Seph 25.—President C. A. Griscorn, of the International Navigation Co., received a telegram announcing that the American hue steamship Indiana sailed from Manila for San Francisp«rbit\September 1, the Ohio on September 3/and the Pennsylvania on September 9. The three ships took /trimpe to Manila. They are due to arrive in San Francisco, about October l, and will immediately load up with soldiers and set sail again for the Philippines to reinforee Gem Merritt’s command.

THE FILIPINO CONGRESS- .

rtM Problem of Baltin* r**4a to Mti» tola Uo Amr-Th* Unction of a Load To* Debated. Manila, Sept. 26.—The Filipino congress is engaged in the question of raising funds to defray expenses of the maintenance of the army pending a decision by the Paris conference. Hitherto the army of the Filipinos ha* been chiefly supported by public subscription, but now the native government contemplates the inposition of rariouS taxes. The inhabitants of the northern provinces, however, especially of Pampang and Ilocis, flatly refuse to pay land or poll taxes, because it was the popular impression that the revolutionists would abolish taxation entirely. ( The natives of Pampang and Pan’gasinan, the two richest agricultural provinces of the island, and those of Ilocis and Zambales, who are the stur1 diest mountaineers, distrust the Tagals, and insist upon the establishment of an American protectorate. D*b»t«4 the Qucetloo of a Land Tax. Saturday the assembly debated the question of a land tax. A majority of the members were opposed to the maintenance of a burden unequally distributed and unduly fovoring the Tagals, and demanded that a statement of expenditures be submitted before the matter was decided. The statement was not forthcoming, and the question was shelved. Aguinaldo realizes the difficulty of reconciling the conflicting interests* but hopes that the nations will allow the Filipinos a fair chance to show that they are capable of self-govern-ment. ' ■ — Spaniards and Prleata Intriguing to Foment Trouble, Aguinaldo desires to inform tho world that “there is conclusive evidence that many Spaniards and priests are intriguing with a faction of the natives to foment disturbances, so that Americans will believe the whole population to be irreconcilable.” He asserts that the intriguers pay money and provide uniforms to persons who impersonate rebel officers and enter the town, and he accuses Eugene Blanco of being the chief paid agent of these intriguers. The Filipino Fleet—Troop Skip Sank bf * Spaniards. «* In the course of an interview with the press correspondent Aguinaldo said that the Filipino fleet comprises eight steamers, which are now engaged in convoying troops for a grand campaign against the Spanish garrisons in the southern islands. These vessels are practically unarmed. The Spanish gunboat El Cano, he says, recently entered Masbate and caught and sunk the Filipino troop- ° ship Burisan, which was lying at anchor there. Admitted tho Recent Purchase of the Steamer Abbey. He admitted the recent purchase of the steamer Abbey, formerly the Pasig, but denied that she had landed rifles and ammunition at Batangas, though he admitted that she carried » two maxims and a shipload of stores. The United States steamer Hugh McCullogh captured the Abbey 60 miles south of Manila. It is believed that the Abbey has landed 7,000 rifles.

THE MARIA TERESA FLOATED. Limit. Hobeon Srrurc* Another Feather for His Cap—The Vessel Threatened by a Hurricane. Play a del Este, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sept. 26.—The wrecking com* pany engaged under I-ieut. Hobson in the work of saving the wrecked Spanish war ships has succeeded in floating the cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa. The cruiser, after being got afloat, was taken in tow by the Potomac and convoyed by the cruiser Newark, the Scorpion and the Alvardo, proceeded for Guantanamo bay, where she arrived Saturday night. The successful issue of the attempt toNfloat her was greeted with the blowing of whistles, the firing of national salutes and by cheers, in which the Cubans joined, disturbing the noon siesta. Off Siboney the barometer and the wind indicated the approach of a hurricane, and the towing power was increased. S* The Newark, under Capt. Goodrich, rendered valuable assistance in the Work of saving the Maria Teresa. The cruiser is being put in condition for her trip north by the repair ship Vul-. can. ANOTHER DERVISH DEFEAT. Th« Khalifa's Last Stronghold Capture* and His Last Organised Fores I>ec. Coated with Heavy Lea*. Suakim, Sept. 26.—The only organized remnant of the khalifa’s army was defeated, and its last stronghold, Gedarif, captured on September 23, after three hours* hard fighting, when an Egyptian force, numbering 1,300, under command of Col. Parsons, routed 3,000 dervishes, of whom 500 were killed. Three British officers were wounded, and 37 Egyptian soldiers killed and 59 wounded. DIED OF HIS INJURIES. Passes Away Without Recovering Ceaeeleosaese After HU awH VMn a Huul New York, Sept. 26.—John McLean Haxen, son of the late Gen. Wm. B. Hazen, U. S. A., and who was thrown from his horse while riding on Richmond Turnpike, Staten Island, Friday, sustaining a fractured skull, died at Tompkinsvilie yesterday afternoon, His mother and Mrs. Wm. Ludlow, wife of Gen. Wm. Ludlow, U. S. A*