Auditor Cornell Speaks in Language Most
Plain to Mr , Armstrong ,
41 OVERHEAD INSURANCE. '
Jt Will Not Uo Permitted to Do Written
In Nehrnnka The President of the
Uluhnttitn Company ItouuUly Jtoustcd
Sty the Auditor of Nebraska.
Auditor Cornell is after P. B. Arm
strong , president of the Manhattan
Fire Insurance company of New York
city. In a letter , which is herewith
xiven. he intimates that the company
cf which Mr. Armstrong Is president
may Just aa well retire from business
3n Nebraska as not and the sooner the
lintter ns far as the auditor Is con-
corned.
The difficulty arose over Ihe writing
of the "overhead" insurance on large
properties by which the home ofilce of
the company saved commissions to lo
cal agents and also evaded paying a
lax on the premiums to the state. Aud
itor Cornell has for some time been in
correspondence with several com
panies in regard to the matter and
they have almost to a one agreed to
dispense writing insurance in that
innnnrr. The auditor in writing to
IVIr. Armstrong says that in securing a
license for 1898 , his company agreed
to suspend writing that kind of pol
icies and from correspondence which
Tie has had he rather thinks this was
not done. While Nebraska has no res
ident agency law , the auditor intimates
that an agreement should be lived up
to. He explains things in the follow
ing manner :
P. B. Armstrong , President Manhat
tan Fire Insurance Co. . New York City
Dear Sir : Citizens of this state have
frequently called my attention to the
practices of eastern insurance com
panies doing business in Nebraska , in
liaving insurance on property here ,
written through Chicago and New
"York brokers and agents , entirely dis
regarding their legally licensed agents
In this state. Our statute provides that
" 'insurance agents shall render the list
of net premiums" for taxation ; it is
therefore urged that when Nebraska
agents do not receive the premiums ,
our assessors do not meet with the men
who receive them , and these premiums
for that reason generally escape taxa
tion in this state. This caused me to
send a circular letter to eastern com
panies early this year , requesting that
"before I re-licensed them for 1898 , they
should auree to stoo this overhead
Avriting , and have all the Nebraska in
surance written by Nebraska agents ,
who could under the law. "be personal
ly holden for taxes on the premiums. "
-All but two companies agreed to stop
1he practice and many of the compan
ies spoke of it as a bad practice , which
they were very happy to see discon
tinued. If Nebraska had a "resident
agency law" there would have been no
need of trying to effect this agreement
"between the state and the companies.
Mr. H. F. Neefue , secretary of your
company , answered my letter tinder
date of April 12. 1898 , as follows : "It
is not our intention , now that we have
a commissioned and duly authorized
sicent in your state , to write business
there , other than through such agent. "
I regarded this as all in good faith on
your part and accented it as a con
tract between your company and the
state. I then sent you vour license for
1898.
On July 22,1S9S , I called attention to
your violation of this agreement by
Insuring property in this state through
Itfew York agents. I asked if you would
liave the kindness to cancel this in
surance and have it re-written through
your Nebraska agents , so this state
could tax the premium. Your reply to
me under date of August 9 , to say the
least , is rude and in several respects
\ It is false. You intimate that "compan
ies pay into your treasury , taxes upon
-all such premiums received for this
overhead -insurance. " You had our
law in hand when you wrote this and
"knew its falsity quite well. Neither
your company nor any eastern com
pany you may mention , pays taxes on
premiums into our state treasury.
You convey the idea that you "sent
the bulk of our insurance covering the
Cudahy plant , to our Omaha agents to
lie written , " and they refused to write
it because you placed the rates too low
to please them. The truth of the mat
ter is that the New York brokers con
trolling the line of insurance in ques
tion , placed the insurance with your
Tsew York office and your office then
sent same to your Omaha agents to
liave the policies written ; but they re
fused to write the policies for the rea
son that by doing so they would ma
. .A terially help the New York brokers to
continue to keep the enormout line
of insurance carried by the Cudahv
Packing company away from the Oma-
"ha local agents , who are as justly en
titled to the business , as the state is
to the taxes on the premiums.
Your remarks that I have joined an
insurance trust to assist in oppressing
\ the people of this state are very silly
snd unworthy of the president of any
great corporation. The people cf Ne
braska do not need the assistance of
outside corporations to keep their pres
ent state officers from oppressing
them. I stand enjoined by the federal
courts now and have been so enjoined
for many months because I was con
sidered too active in enforcing anti
trust and anti-combine laws relating
to insurance agents.
You intimate that you will withdraw
from the state if I insist that you live
up to your agreement of April 12. The
quicker all persons and corporations
that do not reeard the sanctitv of a
contract withdraw from the state , the
"better for the people of Nebraska. It
5s plain you obtained your license for
1S9S under false pretenses. It cannot
"be returned any too soon. Parties at
South Omaha and New York can man
age their own affairs , but they must
also manage to pay the taxes due this
state so long as I am insurance com
missioner.
To this d.te Nebraska has been an
exceptionally fine field for eastern in
surance companies. If the next legis
lature enacts a strict "resident agency
law" and imposes a severe tax upon it
premiums , imprudent men , like the
president of the Manhattan Fire Ia-
surance company , can feel that they i
are to blame for it all. The Spectator ,
the ablest insurance journal in the
world , in its issue of August 18 , speaks
as follows : "Our sympathy for Pres
ident Armstrong Is very much weak
ened by the unwarranted statcment3 in
his letter to Auditor Cornell. Arm
strong is by nature and education an
iconoclast , moro successful in tearing
down than in building up , still he
might refrain from attempting to prej
udice the business that he relies upon
for a livelihood. "
You believe "there are forty other
companies doing overhead insurance
in this state , and defrauding Nebraska
of her Just revenue. If I can secure a
list of such companies I will show yon
that I treat all alike. If your atnte-
ments are true in this regard , the
( iiiickcr Nebraska puts laws on her
books to compel insurance companies
to deal fairly , the better it will be for
all concerned.
When I wrote you July 29. I made
a similar request of the Traders' Fire
Insurance company of New York.
Their answer is worthy of honorable
men , quite different from yours. They
agree the stale h.s rights which they
will rcapect. Such a spirit of fairness
ia apyrecfated.
You have the bad srrace to give pri
vate correspondence to the press and
take special pains to send It to the
western papers. I will save you the
trouble this time by giving this letter
out mvself.
Very truly yours ,
JOHN F. CORNELL ,
Auditor of Public Accounts.
Per SAMUEL LICHTY.
Hartley In the I.nnndry.
Ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley ,
says the Lincoln Journal , has been as
signed to laundry work in the peniten
tiary by Warden Leigh. " Bartley was
suffering from a bad case of granulat
ed eyelids when he entered the prison
to serve a twenty years' term. He had
been receiving treatment long before
his trial , but after his sentence was af
firmed by the supreme court his eyes
became worse and it was reported that
he would be unable to perform hard
labor. The warden did not make the
assignment until the prison physician
examined Bartley and gave him a phy
sical rating. Recently Bartley's eyes
began to improve. The change was so
marked that some ventured the opin
ion that his eyes had not been given
proper treatment while he was in the
Douglas county jail. It is said this is
the belief of the penitentiary physi
cian. While some believe the storv
and pretend to assign a motive , others
are satisfied to give their opinion of
doctors in general and assert that
many of them would dislike to cure
a patient too speedily when Le patient
evinced a desire to pay coed round
fees for treatment.
Bartley's deportment is much the
same as it was while he was in the
Douglas Bounty jail. He continues to
attend strictly to his own business. He
has no cell mate , has received no vis
itors and seldom communicates T/ith
others. His work in the laundry is said
to be satisfactory. He helps wash and
iron. The washing is done by ma
chinery and it is a part of his duty to
place the garments in the machine and
remove them at the proper time. The
ironing is done after the old-fashioned
manner , with bij , heavy flat irons.
Some skill rnd muscle is reauired in
the operation. Garments belonging to
convicts and guards go through the
laundry and Bartley handles his share
of them , whether they be coarse striped
goods or fine white shirts. He still
wears glasses to protect his eyes , but
his poor sijrbt does not appear to in
terfere with his work. He has never
made a complaint to the warden and
be observes the rules of the peniten
tiary strictly.
Nebraska Medals for Fruit.
Superintendent Youngers of the Ne
braska fruit exhibit , says the Omaha
Bee , is furnishing some conclusive evi
dence that this is net the first exposi
tion where the state has been in the
lead in the way of showing : first-class
fruit. The evidence is in the form of
bronze and silver medals , all of which
are in a case close to the fruit tables
and under lock and key.
The first medal Nebraska won on its
fruit was at a horticultural exhibit in
Baltimore in 1871. This was on a gen
eral exhibit. The next was in Boston
in 1873 , and was siven on account of
the largest variety -of pears being
shown by any one state. At that time
Nebraska had fortythreevarieties on
exhibition. The first prize was award
ed in 187G , at the Centennial , when the
slate was given p medal for the best
collection of grapes. Prior to thi * tim < >
the state hr.d won medals at Boston
and Philadelphia , where it had shown
its fruits.
Hot and Dry.
The weather of the past week , saya
the last Nebraska crop bulletin , has
been much like that of the week which
preceded it and the results have been
much the same. In the northern coun-
Hes the week has been very favorable.
Corn has matured rapidly and has not
suffered from the hot. dry weather.
The yield will be reduced so'mewhat in
most other counties as a result of the
heat and lack of moisture. Threshing
from shock is about finished. The
weather has been so favorable that
very little or no grain has been dam
aged in the shock. Fall plowing is
well advanced , but the ground is now
getting too dry and plowing has about
stopped. A very little wheat and rye
have been sown , but generally seeding
will be delayed till after a rain.
Killed at Manila.
Osceola disoatch : There have been
so many reports in relation to the
death of William Lewis and people
here were so anxious to know the .
truth that a telegram was sent to the 1
war department to have the mystery
cleared up , and yesterday Postmaster
Campbell received a reply from Secre
tary of War Meikeljohn saying that
William P. Lewis was killed while in
the trenches before Manilr. on the
night of August 2 by the bursting of a
shrapnell thrown by the Spaniards into
the trenches.
Dennis Grimes of Sauuders county ,
stopped to care for his horse , when the
animal , presumably maddened by the
flies , gave a vicious kick , the blow
grazing the right sideof Mr. Grimes' s'
head , severing one ear. The blow , had
struck Grimes sauarely , would have
caused instant death.
Buffalo county is harvesting an un- e ;
usually large crop.
INDUSTRIAL CENSUS.
CONDITIONS IN MARCH. IS95 ,
AND MARCH , 1393 , CON-
THASTED.
tizln * of 31.03 1'ur CentIn Number of
Hand * Kmploycd , 44.O. > 1'er Cent. In
W. ges Paid , and 11.5(1 Per Cent , hi
Kate of Wages 1'or Cupltu.
The statistics of industry and labor
tabulated from the industrial census
just completed by the American Pro
tective Tariff League , and the accom
panying comparisons and comments
by Congressman Robert W. T&ylor of
Ohio , which appear In the current is
sue of the American Economist , will
not fail to attract universal attention
or to excite profound interest wher
ever read and digested. The process
of reading and digestion is greatly fa
cilitated by the clear and luminous
manner in which Mr. Taylor has pre
sented his facts and conclusions. The
report should be read entire , and
doubtless will be by many millions of
people , as it will be at once issued by
the Tariff League in Defender docu
ment form , bearing the serial number
C6 , and made available for wide dis
tribution in connection with the cam
paign of 1S98.
No industrial census of equal accu
racy and scope has ever been obtained
outside of governmental operations.
Returns are received from 2.229 indus
trial establishments in forty-seven
states and territories , embracing al
most every known line of industrial
activity. Two years ago the League's
census contained the figures of but
little more than half the number of
establishments which have reportad
this year. In 189G the comparison em
bodied the conditions prevailing in
that year under the Wilson law , and
those prevailing In 1S92 under the McKinley -
Kinley law. The showing then was
one of tremendous shrinkage and de
pression. In the 1,388 establishments
reporting there was a monthly loss in.
wages of § 1,601,204 , or at the rate of
In Colorado sixty concerns employed
in 1895 4,758 hands , and in 1898 6,632
hands ; wages paid. 5200,478 and ? 31S >
154 , respectively.
In Connecticut seventy-eight con
cerns reported 13,839 and 15,576 as the
number of hands employed in the two
periods and $503,956 and $605,368 as
the wages prJ'.d.
South Carolina gave reports from fif
teen concerns , which in 1895 employed
3.718 hand ? , and in 1898 employed 3-
892 , and the wages paid increased from
? 62,804 in ] S95 to $174,610 three years
later a gain of more than 100 per
cent , in hands employed , of more than
250 per cent. In total amount of wagoa
paid , and of nearly 20 per cent , ia
average rate of wages.
From the State of Washington the
exhibit is equally remarkable. This
state sent 168 reports , showing . the
employment in 1895 of 3,946 hands and
7,590 in 1898 , while the wages paid in
creased from $188,889 In 1895 to $430.-
258 in 1898.
Equally interesting details pertain
ing to all the states and territories and
to all the industries represented are
given in the tabulated statements em
bodied in the census summary and
recapitulation. The student of eco
nomic and political questions cannot
afford to skip any portion of this re
markably interesting document. By
every fair and open mind the summing
up in the closing paragraph of the re
port will be accepted aa cogent , fair
and obviously truthful. Congressman
Taylor says in conclusion :
"The American Protective Tariff
League presents these facts for the
consideration of the American people.
Their meaning is npparent , and their
effect must be to stimulate the hope
and strengthen tha convictions of ev
ery believer in the principle of protec
tion. "
LARGER RECIPROCITY.
Franco Anxious to JCxtond Her Trada
with the United States.
From a Paris cable of July 20 it
appears that the business interests of
SHOULD BE STOPPED AT ONCE.
( Uncle Sam "There they go , loaded down with American money , and
not an American shipowner among them. This foolishness is going to be
stopped. " )
$19,214,448 a year ; a Decrease of near
ly 30 per cent. In tue employment of
labor and a decrease of 26 } per cent ,
in wages paid.
Now mark the contrast. In 1898 the
2,229 establishments reporting show a
wonderful revival from the paralysis
which fell upon them as the result cf
hostile tariff legislation. These re
ports give Information as to the num
ber of hands employed and the gross
sum of wages paid in March , 1393 , and
in March. 1S9S , the object of the in
quiry being to bring into juxtaposition
the conditions prevailing at an ap
proximately equal length of time after
the enactment ot the tariff laws cf
August 23 , 1891 , and July 24 , 1S97 ths
Wilson and Dingley laws , respectively.
It is found that In March , 1S95 , sev
eral months after the Wilson law be
came effective , the 2.229 establish
ments reporting in response to the
Tariff League's inquiries employed
204,580 hands , and paid these hands in
wages $7,079.323.
In March , 1S9S , after eight months
of steady revival under the Dlngley
law , these same 2.229 establishments
employed 209,329 hands , and paid them
in i wages $10.198.130.
Gain for 1898. under the Dingley
law , in hands employed , 31.C5 per
cent.
Gain for 1S9S. under the Dingley
law , in wages paid , 44.05 per cent.
Gain for 1898. under the Dingley
law , in average of wages paid per
capita , 11.56 per cent.
Taking the month cf March as a
fairly representative month In the
matter of industrial activity. Congress
man Taylor finds that at the same rate
of gain throughout the year the 2,22 ! )
establishments reporting will employ
64,500 more men than were employed
In : the which
year embraced the re
turns of 1895 , and will pay out wages
exceeding by more than 537,000.000 the
sum paid during the Wilson law pe
riod named.
The figures of the Tariff League's
industrial census tally so closely Ja
percentage with figures obtained by
parties who investigated separate In
dustries independently of the League
as to Justify. Mr. Taylor's conclusion
that vhe comparisons and percentages
given above represent with exception
' , accuracy the Industrial conditions
prevailing very generally throughout
the United States.
The reports , geographically consid
ered , present seme Interesting facts.
France are growing impatient at the
delay in securing a comprehensive re
ciprocal trade agreement with the
United Stales. On Wednesday of last
week a deputation consisting of prom
inent members of the chamber of com
merce called upon M. Maruejouls , min
ister of commerce , and asked that the
government secure a commercial en
tente with the United States , accord
ing to section 4 of the Diugley tariff
act. M. Maruejouls promised to con I
sider the matter.
Section 4 embodies the general fea
tures of the reciprocity clause of the
Dingley law. Under its provisions the
president of the United States with the
a-Iv'ce and consent of the senate may
enter into a commercial treaty with
any foreign nation on the subject of
r-oiprocal trade agreements , such
agreements to cover a period of not
more than five years.
It aprears from this movement of the
French chamber of commerce that
broader scheme of reciprocity with the
United States is desired than that re
cently provided for In the agreement
under section 3 of the Dingley law.
This agreement was limited to a small
number of articles. What the mer
chants and manufacturers of France
evidently want is a commercial treaty
that shall cover a far wider range of
the products of both countries. The
big home market o the United States
is a tempting field and foreign trad
ers look upon it with unconcealed en
vy.
3IuzzIed nml Mute.
a
A Hcnlthy Yearling.
The Dingley tariff law was one year
old Saturday last , at midnight , and it
is the healthiest infant in the world
today , despite the efforts of the con
glomeration of the populist-democratic-
free silver quack doctors to kill it.
El Dorado ( Kan. ) Republican.
Eighty-Three Volunteer Organiza
tions Ordered Discharged ,
THIRTEEN REGIMENTS TO STAY
They Will Probably Ho Retained In the
Service Until Next Spring No Western
Troops In the List Mostly Eastern and
Southern ItcslmcntA for Garrison Duty.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 5. A statement
prepared at the War department shows
that including1 to-day eighty-threo of
the organizations in the volunteer
army have received orders looking to
their being1 mustered out of the service.
This number includes fifty-three regi
ments and a number of minor organi
zations , such as batteries of artillery ,
independent companies of cavalry ,
etc. , and probably represents almost
one-third of the approximated 220,000
men called for by the President in the
two proclamations issued by him.
The appended bulletin was issued by
the War department to-day announc
ing the additional regiments to be
mustered out of the service. Adjutant
General Corbin said that in all prob
ability few if any other troops would
be ordered relieved from duty at this
time. The bulletin of the organiza
tions to be mustered out follows :
First United States volunteer cav
alry , "Rough Riders. " at Galveston.
Texas ; Ninth Massachusetts infantry ;
Uatteries B , C and D , First Maine ar
tillery ; Companies A , B , C and D , Second
end Washington volunteer infantry ;
District of Columbia infantry ; First
battalion , Nevada infantry ; Third ,
Ninth and Fourteenth New York in
fantry ; Second Xew Jersay infantry ;
First Massachusetts heavy artillery.
In connection with the orders mus
tering out the above named regiments
it is significant of the government's in
tention to retain many of the volun
teer troops in the servica that orders
were issued transferring thirteen regi-
ments from their state camps to the
various camps of mobilization through
out the country. It is understood that
the orders were issued with a view to
the retention in the service , perhaps ,
until next spring , of the organizations
named in the orders. The regiments
included in the orders are as follows :
Third Georgia , from Griilin. Ga. , to
Jacksonville ; Fifteenth Minnesota
from St. Paul to Camp Mead ? , Middle-
town , Pa. ; Fourth Xew Jersay from
Seagirt , to Casip Moada ; Eighth in
fantry ( regulars ) from Fort Thomas.
Wash. , to Lexington ; Fifth Massachu
setts from South Framington , to
Camp Meade ; Thirty-fifth Michigan
from Island Haven , to Camp
Meade ; Third Mississippi from
Jackson , Miss. , to Lexington ;
Two Hundred and First Xew
York from Hamstead , to Camp Meade ;
Third Xorth Carolina from Fort Macon ,
to Knoxville , Fourth Kentucky from
Lexington , to Knoxville ; Third Ala
bama from Mobile , to Jacksonville ;
Third regiment United States engineers -
gineers from .Jefferson Barracks , to
Lexington ; and First Territorial regiment -
ment from Tucson , Ariz. , to Lexing
ton.
TO ABANDON CAMP WIKOFF.
Keculnrg to Be Ordered to Garrisons
The Twentieth to Fort T-eaveiiworth.
XKW YORK , Sept. 5. A dispatch to
the Xcw York Tribuaa from Washing
ton says : Orders v.-ere prepared at
the War department to-day for the
practical abandonment of Camp Wikoff
at Montauk Point. All the volunteer
regiments now there will soon start
for their homes and will receive fur-
loughs as they are mustered out. while
most of the regulars , us soon as they
hava recuperated sufficiently , will re-
suinc dut3' at the posts which they
garrisoned before the war began. The
orders for the regulars may be issued
to-morrow. The Twentieth infantry
will go to Fort Leavenworth , Kan.
PANDO FLED WITH MILLIONS ,
A V , t Sum Taken by the General In
Secret Departure From Haraua.
XKW YOKK. Sept. 5. A dispatch to
the Xcw York Herald from Havana
says : Having successfully done every
thing in his power to convey the im
pression he was sailing for Spain by
way of Xew York on the steamship
Philadelphia , Thursday , General Pan-
do , instead , secretly started for his
Jiativa land aboxit ten hours later on
the French steamer Xotre Dams du
Salut , it is said , with S.,400,000. The
secret was so efFectually kept that
very few persons here have any knowl
edge of it. and all the Havana news
papers announce Pando's departure on
the Philadelphia.
The Only ' 'Official Cane" on Kccord.
WASHINGTON , Sept. .V The alleged
overcharging by stewards on board
transports as stated at tbe quarter
master general's office , is said to be
one single instance where a steward
charged a soldier twenty-five cents for
sandwich. Xo other complaints of
the kind have been made at the quar
termaster's department
u
A Voting Girl in Trouble.
ST. JOSBIMI , Mo. , Sept. 5. Ida Tot-
man , a Cameron girl 1 ? years of age ,
was arraigned before Commissioner
Pollock to-day , charged with opening
and destroying mail not her own. at
Mrs. Linda Totman. the girl's mother ,
entered a plea of guilty for her daugh
ter , and the young defendant was
bound over to the federal grand jury.
Mrs. Mary Totman of Cameron , an
aunt of the defendant , is the one
whose letter was tampered with. A
check for S50 was taken from the letter - .
ter , the signature forged and money
obtained and spent by the girl in be
having a good time. 15aii for Si,000
was furnished.
SPANISH ARMS CAPTURED ,
25,130 Hlfloj nnd 3.BOO.OOO
Surrendered nt Santiago.
WASHINGTON' , Sept. ft. Colonel If. D.
Uorup , tha chief ordnance officer of
Santiago , has forwarded to thu war
department a complete list of the ord
nance captured from the Spaniards.
The number of rifles and carbines cap
tured far exceeds the expectations of
the authorities in Washington. The
list as received by General Flagler ,
chief of ordnance , ia as follows :
Rifles :
Spanish Mausers. . 1C.C03
Argent . iC :
Hcminston . 6.11S
Curblncs :
Mausers 813
Ardent . . . . . . 81
Remington 33 ;
Revolvers 75
Ammunition for .small arms :
Mauser rifle cartridges . 1,500.000
Argent rifle cartridges . 471,21 * )
Remington rills cartridges . 1.630,000
The worthless small-arm ammuni
tion amounts to OTIS.OOO cartridges.
Forty -four smooth-bore siege guns and
five mortars wcro also captured , to
gether with the following rifled guus :
lironze , 30 ; cast-iron , 10 ; steel , 8.
Projectiles captiired : Solid shot ,
spherical , 3,551 ; shell , spherical , 673 ;
shell , cylindrical , 1,87'J ;
cylindrical , 437.
NAVY TO KEEP 20,009 MEN.
No Great Fnllln ? Off From the
Quota to Bo Allowed.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 5. The enlisted
force of the navy is to be maintained
at its full strength and as fast as va
cancies occur through discharges anil
the expiration of enlistment periods
they will be filled. The number of
men enrolled in the navy during the
war with Spain reached 24.000 , includ
ing about 4,000 naval militia.
The return North of the Santiago
fleet , and that on patrol service , re
sulted in the mustering out of over
400 regular seamen , whose terms had
expired , and who had no desire for
further active service. Many ships
have on their list sailors who will also
leave the government service in the
next month for the same reason.
To keep the strength approximately
up to 20.000 enlistments have been di-
rec'ted to begin again at recruiting
stations , and so anxious are hundreds
of well-equipped man to join the navy
that no difficulty will be experienced
in j soon having the quota filled.
NO PARADE OF MILES1 ARMY ,
The Volunteers From Porto Klco to Ua
Sent to lltoir Homos at Once.
WASHINGTON , Sept. 5. General Miles
and his army of between 4,000 and
5.009 volunteers , now on the way to
this country from Porto Rico , will not
parade in Xew York city or elsewhere
as a body upon their arrival. The of
ficial announcement ot this fact was
made at the War department to-d.iy
When the transports arrive in New
York harbor they will be met by
officers with orders for the troops to
proceed j directly from their ships to
the trains , to be sent immediately to
their . state camps , preparatory to be
ing mustered out of the servSet : .
MAINE WRECK STILL THERE.
Havana Authorities K-ttablUli a Pittrol
About the Hulk In the Harbor.
XKW YOKK , Sept. 5. A dispatch to
the New Yorlt Herald from Havana
saya : Within the last few days the
authorities have reinstitnted the sys
tem of patrol boats about the Maiuo
wreck as maintained before the war ,
intending to show the commission
their determination that American
property shall be fully protected and ,
incidentally , that they do not regard
the cause of the disaster as determined
and intend to give no opportunity for
the manufacture of evidence.
For the Xovr Nuvnl Hospital.
CHICAGO. Sept. . " . A dispatch to the
Chicago Record from Washington says :
The surgeon general of the navy has
asked for proposals , to be opened Octo
ber 12 , for the construction of a model
naval hospital at Mara Island , Cal. ,
under a congressional appropriation of
8100,000. The plans are of the most
modern type , conforming to the latest
hospital practice at home and abroad ,
and provide for indefinite expanbiou.
The 2 ocro Had Killed Four Women.
DALLAS , Texas , Sept. . " > . From the
confessions of "Dobie".Toe Malone , the
negro hanged here yesterday , it is be
lieved that , he participated in four or
live murders. Two years ago he killed
Mrs. Durham near Dallas , and he and
another negro killed throe white wo
men at Kagle Lako. near Houston ,
about three years ago.
Governor IJlack Wants IIi < i Men Kolleved
WASHINGTON , Sept. 5. Governor
Ulack was an early caller at the \ \ ar
department this morning. As a result
of his personal inspection and obser
vations , the governor recommended
the mustering otJt of the Third. Ninth
and Fourteenth regiments of Xew York
volunteers in addition to those prev
iously ordered out of the service.
A Ktns34 Il- > tel Sinn Kills Illmsolf.
OSAWATOMII : . Kan. . Sept. 5. C. A.
Furr. proprietor of the Central hotel
this place , shot himself last night.
He recently canu here from Lane ,
Kan. , and had just , recovered from a
severe sickness. Ills mind has been
affected at times since coming here.
HIU < iourl liay rrobnbly Glren Up.
OMAHA , Sept. f > . Missouri day at
the exposition will probably have to
given up. The commissioners have
been unable to secure the desired rates
from raihvays.
