Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1898 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

BATTLE BETWEEN REBELS AND IMPERIAL TROOPS. Capt. Tholeman, an American, Shoot* One Member of His Mutinous Chinese Crew—Slanderer of Woman Is Killed by Hi* Victim’s Brother. Flowery Kingdom I* Disturbed. News has been received from the Orient that there was a battle between the rebels at Wu-Chow, and the imperial Chinese troops, in which the former were victorious. Over 1,500 of the troops were slain and their bodies were thrown into the river. The Dosing, under Capt. Tholman, was engaged to take about 1,000 Chinese troops to the scene of the rebel lines. From the time the Dosing left Canton until she reached Wu-Chow, some 200 miles up the river, Capt. Tholman had trouble with his crew, the Chinese sympathizing with the rebels. One, a com/ prador, began inciting them to mutiny, and the captain alleges that in self-dZ-fense he was compelled to shoot the man. The comprador died from his wound the next day. Capt. Tholman was placed under arrest, and, as soon as an opportunity was afforded, was sent to Canton. In bis journey he was confined in an iron cage, and on arrival was placed in the British jail. On account of claim of American citizenship made by Tholeman there is a bitter feeling against all Americans in that district and further trouble is feared. SHOT WHILE IN PULPIT. Georgia Minister Receives One Hundred and Seven Wounds. Rev. J. B. Fletcher, a Congregatiohalist minister, was shot while attempting to organize a Congregational church at ISmiley, Ga., which’ is about twenty miles from his home at Hagan, Ga. He went to Smiley, as the result of correspondence concerning the organizing of the church, which has been carried on for several months. While in the pulpit he was shot through the window, his lx>dy being riddled with 107 buckshot and several small ■hot They entered his hips and thigh, one lodging in his left hand and five in his right hand. His wife, with the assistance of others, put him into a buggy and took him twenty miles to his home. His condition is serious, although the expectation is that he will recover. But two shot have been removed from his body. One of his assailants has been arrested. The others have been located. The would-be assassins are said to be colored officials of a Methodist church. Standing of the Club*. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Boston 69 36 Pittsburg .. .154 51 Cincinnati ..69 39 Philadelphia. 49 52 Baltimore .. .63 38 Brooklyn ....39 62 Cleveland ...62 42 Washington. 38 65 New Y0rk...60 45 Louisville .. JI9 67 Chicago 58 49 St. Louis. ... 730 77 Following Is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: W. L. W. L. Kansas City.6B 44 St. Paul 61 48 Indianapolis. 64 43 Detroit 39 68 Milwaukee ..67 45 St. Joseph... .38 67 Columbus .. .59 43 Minneapolis. 37 75 Murder in St. Louis. • James A. Baker, superintendent of the Majestic Steel Range Company, was shot .end killed in front of his home at 5055 Ridge avenue, St. Louis, by Campbell Allgaier. The men quarreled over certain alleged statements Baker is said to have made about Allgaier’s sister Betty, who lives a few doors west of the Baker home. Baker was 37 years old, and leaves a widow. Allgaier, who was placed under arrest, is 25 years old and a widower. Atkinson Case Out of Court. The indictment against Mrs. Myra Atkinson, wife of Gov. Atkinson of West (Virginia, for forgery has been quashed and the case against her dismissed by Judge Blizzard in chambers, on the ground that the indictment failed to allege guilty intent,* and, further, that the dismissal of J. P. Owens, principal, would necessarily acquit Mrs. Atkinson, who was only charged as accessory. Samuel Warner Shot and Killed. Samuel Warner, a sporting man, was ■hot am! fatally wounded in a disreputable part of Louisville, Ky„ while pursuing a woman with whom he had quarreled. She ran into a saloon and when Warner was refused entrance he showed fight and was shot in the abdomen by Robert Alford, a colored porter. He died soon afterward. Minnesota Bunk Goe* Under. The Fillmore County Bank of Preston, Minn., has failed. M. R. Todd was cashier, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. J. T. Greenleaf, wns president. Todd assigns «s the reason for its failure that he has lost heavily in wheat options. The assistant cashier, J. J. Hagen, states that the deposits ure $50,000. Four Person* Killed. In a rear-end collision nt Sharon station, a summer resort, twenty miles out of Boston on the Providence division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, four persons were killed outright and thirty-eight seriously injured, ■nd besides th'ore were several score bruised and shaken up. Steamer Run* Down n Yuwl. A ynwl containing five men wns run down by a river steamer in the Delaware river, opposite the mouth of the Schuylkill river, and three of the men were drowned. Powder I‘lnnt Destroyed! A tremendous explosion at the plant of the Chattanooga Powder Company at Ooltewah Station. Tenn,, killed two white men. Lucius B. Eakin and Horton Mortchke. and wounded seriously, if not fatally. six others. After the explosion the gtlant was destroyed by fire. Grain Elevator Burned. The Chicago Railway Terminal elevator near the river west of the Northwestern passenger station In Chicago was deatroyed by fire. The loaa was nearly *300.600. - .

LOSSES IN THE WAR.

SMALL NUMBER OF AMERICANS WERE KILLED. Spain’s Loss of Men Was Many Times What Ours Was, and She Has Parted with Much Valuable Property—Estimate of Losses in Both Armies. Casualties Were Few. Igp.hlnirton correspondence- ■ u T? A „_.l

TH E Army and Navy Departments are in possession >of nearly complete A lists of casualties TSffl on the American ZeLj side, and of more of less accurate es©O timates of losses I’ll inflicted upon the Spaniards during the war. which lasted only 114 days. The double total is probably less than that of

,single battles in our civil war. The Spanish casualties are, of course, far greater than ours, but are difficult to estimate because of conflicting reports. The first defenders of Spanish honor to fall in the war were undoubtedly killed at the bombardment of Matanzas, on April 27, the war having beer, declared by Congress to have commenced April 21. Shortly after this the cruiser New York fought some Spanish cavalry at Cabanas, thirtyeight miles west of Havana, without sustaining loss, and on May 1 Dewey won his world-famous victory off Manila, after stopping for breakfast when half way through. The loss on the Spanish side footed up 400 killed and over GOO wounded. The American casualties consisted •f the wounding of six seamen. ’ The Vicksburg and the cutter Morrill engaged the Santa Clara batteries off Ha-

INTERIOR OF HOSPITAL TENT.

vana on May 7 without sustaining injury. Four days later came the fight in Cardenas harbor, in which the only American ■aval officer to be killed in the war met his death. The cruiser Wilmington, torpedo boat Winslow and gunboat Hudson had entered the harbor to attack some Spanish gunboats. In the fight a shell burst aboard the Winslow, killing Ensign Worth Bagley and four others. The Spanish losses in Cardenas included one medical officer, three sailors, two women, three children killed; wounded unknown. The day of this skirmish was also the day on which the cruiser Marblehead, the gunboat Nashville and the auxiliary cruiser Windom attacked some Spanish

SCENE ON THE HIGHWAY NEAR PONCE, PORTO RICO.

troops behind improvised breastworks at! Cienfuegos. One seaman was killed and ; another wns so badly hurt that he died j later. Captain Maynard and Lieut. Cam•ron Winslow, both of the Nashville, were slightly, and Robert Volts of the Nashville, Herman W. Kuchneisted. John Davis and John T. Doran of the Marblehead, and William Levcry were seriously wounded. Many other Americans received trifling wounds. The Spaniards lost 800 killed and ninny hundred wounded. Sampson’s bombardment of San Juan de Porto Rico, an engagement satisfactory in its results, took place the next dny, the lowa. Indiana, New York, Terror, Amphitrite. Detroit, Montgomery, Watnpatuek and Porter joining in the attack. The enemy responded with a heavy fire, killing Frank Widemark. a seaman on the New York, and the gunner's mate on the Amphitrite, and wounding seven. The ships were uninjured. The Spanish governor general reported the casualties 1 In the town an eight killed and 34 wounded. A second minor attack on Cardenas took place. In which seven Spaniards were reported wounded, and on May 31 Commodore Schley liombnrded the Santiago fortifications, firing on Morro Castle. La Zoea pa and Puntn Gorda. Our forces were unscathed and the Spanish loss was reported heavy. On June 6 Sampson took * turn nt the forts, silencing them without sista ining loss. On the Spanish side Col. Ordonez, Capt. Sanchez, Lieut. I’rizar and Officers Perez and Garcia were wounded, An ensign nod five sailors were killed und twenty wounded. Five American ships bombarded Uabtnnnern. In the bay of Guantanamo, on June 7. and forty marines went ashore there from the Oregon three days later. Then they were joined by 600 more marines from the troopship Panther, under Lieut. Col. Huntington, and the Marblehead. Vixen and Dolphin ran up the bay to fire on the Spanish earthworks. The first battle of the marines took place Juno 11, when Assistant Surgeon John Blnir Gibbs of Richmond. Va., Sergt. Charles H. Smith and two privates were killed. The Spanish loss is unknown, lit the

“Well, now that it is all over, it appears to me that that bird has moulted wonderfully since last February.”

next two or three days' fighting, in which the marines did gallant work. Sergt. Maj. Henry Goode and Private Tauman were killed and five privates wounded. There were also some Cuban casualties. Sampson’s next bombardment of Santiago resulted in the killing of an officer and three men a.nd the wounding of an officer and twenty men. On June 13 the Yankee fought a Spanish gunboat off Cienfuegos, and Solon P. Kennedy of New York was wounded. Three days later the Spanish general, Joval, was killed in a naval attack on Santiago. A gunner was killed at target practice on the Yankee by an exploding shell. Then Shafter effected a landing in Cuba and moved upon Siboney, and the army took up its share of suffering and danger. The daring and famous charge of the rough riders and the Tenth cavalry and Fifst cavalry on Sevilla Heights, near Slboney, when 1,000 Americans fought twice their number, took place on June 24. The killed included: Capt. Allyn K. Capron, Sergt. Hamilton Fish, Sergt. Marcus D. Russell, all of the rough riders; Capt. Maximiliano, Corp. White of the Tenth cavalry, Corp. Doherty and ten privatefl. Maj. Crow, Lieut. Col. Alexander O. Brodie, Capt. McClintock and Lieut. Thomas of the rough riders, and Maj. Bell, Capt. Knox and Lieut. Byram of the First cavalry were wounded, as were forty-six other soldiers. The Spaniards lost 285 killed and wounded. The Texas shelled the Santiago batteries on June 22, when a six-inch shell killed Apprentice Frank E. Blakely and wounded seven seamen. Shortly after-

ward Thomas Levalley of White Plains, N. Y.. died in the Key West hospital of appendicitis caused by o’vcrexertion while serving on the Yankee before Guantanamo and Santiago. Casualties at Santiago. In the advance on Santiago of July 1, 2 and 3, there were killed 21 officers, 205 enlisted men and 77 officers, and 1,197 enlisted men were wounded. At that time 84 enlisted men, of whom many have since been found, wore reported missing. In the destruction of Cervera's fleet on July 3. Chief Yeoman George H. Ellis of the Brooklyn was the only American killed. Three were slightly wounded on the Texas. The Spanish h*s has been estimated at 350 killed and 160 wounded. Including Admiral Cervera himself and Capt. Eulnte. Besides this, in the sinking of the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, Capt. Acosta, five seamen nnd 21 marines were killed, and a lieutenant and 11 men wounded. In the subsequent mutiny of Spanish prisoners on the Harvard six <>f them were killed and 15 wounded. The loss with the Spanish cruiser Alphonse Nil. is unknown. Winthrop Chanler of New York, a brother of Col. Win. Astor Chanler, was wounded in the right nnn on July 8, while landing with a force of 25 rough riders a fid some Cubans from the auxiliary gunboat I’eoria. at I‘alo Alto. Gen. Miles, after effecting his landing in Porto Rico, nt Gunn fin, hns had such a gfatifyitig time of it that there wer« practically no American casualties. Capt. Gihon Barrett nnd four men, all Sixth Massachusetts, wore wounded in a tight before Yauco, where four Spaniards were found dead and several wounded. On Aug. 6 eight privates wore wounded at Gniiynnin. One Spaniard wns killed and two wounded. Five men were wounded nt Asonmnta, Lieut. J. P. Haines, Fourth artillery, and two privates were wounded nnd a corporal killed. One man was killed and an officer nnd 15 men wounded near In the fight at Manila July 31, the Spanish loss wns estimated at 300 killed and 1,000 wounded, nnd we lost nine killed, nine seriously wounded, including Capt.

SOLILOQUY OF BR’ER EAGLE.

Reinholdt Richter, and 38 slightly wounded. The last casualty-in the navy was the death of Emanuel Konlouris, a coal passer on the gunboat Bancroft, who was killed during a recent engagement' with Spanish riflemen at a point of land jutting out into Cortes bay. Corporal Swanson was killed by a shell in Gen. Wilson’s advance in Porto Rico. Capt. Lee and Lieut. Maines and three privates were wounded. The Spanish loss has not been reported. Total Looses in Both Armies. Gen. Vara del Rey of the Spanish forces was one of those killed at El Caney. Gen. Toral declined to estimate the total Spanish losses there. It is safe to say that their loss in killed in battle on land and sea is several times our loss in dead. According to the estimate at hand the navy has lost: Killed, 1 officer and 18 pen (including Cadet Boardman, accidentally shot at Cape San Juan Aug. 10); ’wounded, 3 officers and 40 men. The army has lost: Killed, 23 officers and 213 men; wounded, 87 officers and 1,316 men. Total American loss, 24 officers and 249 men killed, 90 officers and 1,356 men wounded. The estimating of the number of American soldiers who lost their lives through sickness in the war is a more difficult matter, because of the lack of complete reports from all hospitals. At present the Navy Department has no sufficient data on the matter. As to the army, 250 deaths is a conservative estimate. The land that Spain must add to men and ships in her column of losses includes Cuba’s 43,319 square miles. Porto Rico contains 3,550 square miles, and is the healthiest of all the West Indies. Guam, or Guahan, is the southernmost and largest of the Ladrone group. If we select it as our perquisite in that locality we will get a fertile piece of ground 100 miles in circuit, thickly wooded, and provided with a couple of Spanish forts and a roadstead. The Philippines have an aggregate area of 114,400 square miles. We have taken thirty or forty transports in the course of the war.

WANT TO BE ANNEXED.

A Strong Feelint; Among ‘ paniardi in Cuba for Union with Us, A correspondent of the New York Herald who visited Havana since the signing of peace articles between the United States and Spain says that the sentiment of Spaniards in the capital is in favor of the annexation of Cuba to the United States. They realize that if a steady and strong government is not founded it will be very difficult for them to remain in the country, representing as they do the wealthy element. They prefer the idea of annexation to any other kind of rule, for they believe it would be the only thing which would guarantee order and the protection of all kinds of interests. They state that a government established under any other conditions would not last very long. The Cuban element, representing financial interests and having social standing, who have taken no active part in warfare, have similar ideas and believe also that any other government which might be esr tabllshed in Cuba in which certain radical elements would participate would precipitate great disturbances and render impossible all efforts for pacification by the Government. Among many of the plain people the feeling of annexation is strong. "We want to belong to the United States and not to the Cubans,” many of them said to the correspondent.

GRAND KEVIKW HKLD. Brllliasitßpcctacte Witnessed at Camp Thomae. Forty thousand people saw the great review at Chickamauga. Snodgrass hill was black with spectators, and their vehicles formed a line of miles. The crowd came early and waited. The assembly in

AN AMBULANCE WAGON.

itself was a great show. People were there from all the country sound about to see the last review of Camp Thomas. They were not disappointed. The military panorama passed l>efore them was all they expected It to be

CHEER FOR HEROES

Great Crowds Greet Home-Com-ing War Fleet. BIG NAVAL PAGEANT. New York Makes It the Occasion of a General Holiday. America** Battle-Scarred Fleet that Sack Cervera’a Ships Thunder* It* Tribute at the Tomb of Gen. Grant —One Million New Yorker* Wildly Cheer the Fighter*, While Roaring Gun* Emphasize the Welcome—Ovation to Eampeon and Schley. New York special: ■ New York and the nation on Saturday fitly signalized the appreciation of the republic of her victorious fleet. An imposing pageant of warships was received in the harbor of the largest city of the country with acclamations of delight and admiration, and the ovation from shore and from the great flotillas of all sorts of craft on the water significantly gave to the returning heroes some idea of the esteem and admiration in which they are regarded by the people. Long before sunrise gun was fired at Castle William, Governor’s Island, the people were astir and abroad. Crowds were hurrying to the river to be early on the scene. The New York and New Jersey shores were crowded with people. The river and bay were literally alive with craft and the craft alive with people, all cheering and good-natured. An impressive scene was when the flags were raised on the forts and flagships. As the starry banners were raised aloft the bands of the forts and on the flagships played the “Star-SpAngled Banner,” and the shores rang with patriotic cheers. There was very little friction in carrying out the program and no more delay than was to be expected. There was considerable wigwagging on the gray battleships, and the police boats formed in line. Theh came the Glen Island, and then the battleships began to slowly move up the bay. There was a salvo of cannons and cheers of peopk, and the toots of thousands df whistles made an indescribable din. Soon after the monster pageant was in line. First came Admiral Sampson’s flagship, New York, then Admiral Schley’s flagship, Brooklyn, then the Massachusetts, Oregon, lowa, Indiana and Texas, and after them a moving mass of all sizes and descriptions, with flags waving and people cheering. The great battleships moved slowly and majestically. As Governor’s Island was passed there was a tremendous report from the guns that did so much execution at Guantanamo and Santiago. The people on shore and afloat went wild. They yelled and screamed, waved flags, and jumped up and down in patriotic fervor. And so it was all the way up to Grant’s tomb, where there was a final demonstration of patriotic fervor such as New York has never witnessed before. The pageant was viewed and cheered by hundreds of thousands of people. It was a magnificent and indescribable scene and one never to be forgotten. Since leaving Guantanamo no incidents of an unusual nature except a temporary breakdown on the part of the Indiana had marred the homeward progress of Sampson’s fleet. Few ships were passed. Smooth seas and fair winds made the passage pleasant. There was occasional change of formation. Heading out from Cuba, the armor-clad ships came in single column, the New York leading, the lowa next, then the Indiana, Brooklyn, Massachusetts and Oregon.' At night the fleet shone with side lights, running lights, portholes lit up by electric lights from within blazed out on the waters as the ships passed through the Windward passage. It is months since such an illumination has been seen in Cuban waters, where warships, blockade runners, transports and all sorts and conditions of craft have been threading their way with all lights screened, great shadows, that passed silently. On the trip from Guantanamo, as the air got cooler the spirits of the 3,000 men and officers aboard the six ships rose correspondingly. The relief from the perpetual heat of Cuba was indeed appreciated. Saturday's celebration was the first opportunity the American people have had of demonstrating in a public way their gratitude for the great achievements of the Santiago squadron, and throughout a long day of greeting there was no stint in the welcome, no pause in the shouts and cheers, no cessation of the spirit of rejoicing at the sight of the vessels and over the return of the nation’s defenders at sea. Enthusiasm knew no limit, and the sentiment of gratitude and rejoicing dominated land and sea and people. The hearts of our naval heroes were gladdened by the roynl welcome extended by a million patriotic Americans. Such an outburst of enthusiasm wns never before witnessed on the banks of the Hudson or any other river.

News of Minor Note.

A plague of roaches infests the northern portion of West Philadelphia. The Piccadilly Club of Cincinnati will present a loving cup to Admiral Dewey. It is said Spain never learns or forgets anything. It will therefore remember the Maine. J. N. Taylor, aged (M years, committed suicide by blowing off his head at his home, eight miles south of Marshall, Mo. Divers in Lake Huron hnve recovered 000 tons of copper from a wreck IUO feet deep, after it had lain there for thirty-two years. A cylinder band of a thrashing machine burst near Solomon, Kan., and killed George Parks, who was feeding the machine. Rome Armstead shot and almost instantly killed a yonng man named John Cooper at a wheat thrashing ht Champion, Mo. While cutting tobacco near I^incaster, Pa.. Henry Barr stopped to pick up a stalk and gouged one of his eyes but with Lis cutter.

A Prophecy of the War.

Poor Cuba had suffered at the very threshold of this great and free country for more than a century before any active Intervention was undertaken by the United States. Outrage after outrage had been piled upon American citizens who resided there or undertook to trade at her ports. The present war ought to have been fought fifty year* ago, and it is a long, sad commentary on the too peaceful conservatism of the past that the first man killed in front of Santiago in June, 1898, was the grandson and namesake of the Secretary of State who held back the hand of justice In 1870 when the Virglnius affair stirred the American people to indignation. It seems to prove that,, whether the war was deferred or not, it must come in spite of the conservatism—in spite of the cost of life and money. The thought that it would come was present in the minds of many, and in one instance at least seems to have been developed into a J>asis for action. Many residents of our city have noted in the street cars among the advertising’ signs which are so prominently displayed a series of cards which refer tonaval and military lines, and which have a double interest at the present hour. Although they were placed in thecars over a year ago, before the Spanish war was thought of, their text in not a few points seems to foretell with accuracy some of the relations of the war.

Is there not a certain prophetic touch In the suggestion, “A clean nation ha» ever been a strong nation,” with the further humorous advice to ‘‘fortify with Sapolio,” backed by a picture of Uncle Sam marching up and down behind a rampart formed of cakes of that well-known article? Truly civilization and soap seem to go together, and the clean, well-tubbed, nicely housed AngloSaxon seems to have in that regard a great advantage over his soap-avoiding enemy from the peninsula of Spain. We realize the dread realities of war when these cards suggest tp us that the proper ammunition with which to resist

dirt is Sapolio. The campaign in Cuba, has resulted in a loss of life on the battle-field of about one hundred and fifty, while every evidence points to the probability that double that number of deaths will result from the yellow fever scourge, which largely originates from the Spanish lack of cleanliness. No les» a statesman than James G. Blaine stated publicly that one'hundred millions would be a cheap price to pay for Cuba if by proper sanitary measures we could prevent the annual scare of yellow fever along our coast.

If, as these active advertisers assert, the advance of civilization is marked by the use of Sapolio, there should be a good market for their useful article in the Spanish possessions which have lately fallen under our control. Whether they were prophesying or not? their announcements nre brisk and timely, and the advice they give is—like the American arms—irresistible.

A Woman’s Explanation.

Her Accord Ing to the scriptures therowill be no marrying or giving in marriage In heaven. She—Oh, that’s easily explained. He—How so? She—There will not be half enough men to go around—see?

Domestic Diplomacy.

Biggs—l see you have that servant girl that we used to have. She has such an awful temper that I don’t see how you manage to get along with her. Diggs—Oh, that’s easy enough. We manage her by letting her manageeverything else.

Good Progress

"How are you getting along with your housekeeping?’’ asked the youngwife’s mother. "Ob. splenddliy,” she answered. ”1 have almost gotten so I can do things tosuit the hired girl.”—Washington Star.

War Prices.

He—J would give the world for you." She—ls that all? Why, you offered 1 that much before the war raised price*.”—lndianapolis Journal. "God Save the Queen” is sung IBtwenty languages.