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Ueifeers ef tie First Regiieat Haie M
Enoagh War.
WOULD LIKE MUSTER OUT
Their Entry Into the City or 3Ianlla and
the Sen ice Rendered There Private
Lynde or York Kills a Iloatuian With
-an Accidental shot.
The followiug correspondence to the
Lincoln Journal from Nebraska's First
regJment, new doing duty in Manila,
tvi'H be read vitli InteresL It bears
date in Ausu3t:
"Well, liave you Heard yet when we
aro going home?" says our brave sol
dier stitching up his sorry-looking
overalls to another brave warrior who
is trying to tie up the ends of an old
pair of drawers so that they will an
swer as well for socks. And they aro
". not the only ones. That is the only
and all-ahsorhing topic with us now.
Once we wondered when we would get
. to the Philippines. Then we put in a
month wondering when we would get
. into Manila. When at last we stood
inside its frowning walls we wondered
how tho thing had been done. We
wondered then what we would do with
the Spaniards, and we wondered what
Uncle Sam would do with us. Finally
we stopped speculating upon all else
and have been wondering ever since
when we were to be sent home. Alto
gether with the common soldier this Is
a very wonderful world.
One of the boys remarked the other
day tiiat ho was afraid the govern
ment was going to try turning us into
Filipinos. Judging from the coats of
sunburn and the coats of native make
which tho Nebraska boys are wearing
ihc changing process is not likely to
take so veiy long a time. Others have
ventured the proposition that the army
Ir, to be kent here for an unknown
length of time ponding possible inter
national derangements. Whenever this
. Supposition is mentioned it calls forth
a general wail of woe, for almost with
out exceotion the boys arc anxious to
get home as quickly as possible.
Sonic one very aptly expresssed the
sentiment of the regiment when he
remarked. "I enlisted to fight, and
when there is no more of that, I want
to get back to plow corn." Barrack life
at best is not present. It savors too
much of incarceration to suit your in
dependent volunteer soldier. In the
face of danger he will bear restraint
In the interest of discipline and play
his part with the precision of a well
constructed machine (that is if his of
ficers don't get rattled). In tho bar
racks, however, it is different. There
Is likely to be, "discipline be hanged."
and when restraint is put upon him
he holds indignation meetings tho
Kamo as any other American citizen.
Ho arraigns the government and in
dicts his officers just as though he ore
at home, and then subsides, rats his
hardtack, smokes a cigarette and goes
to sleep in a corner.
Tho following I found the other day
on a stray bit of paper, evidently torn
from the page of a diary belonging to
one of our boys. Because of the cir
cumstances under which it was writ
ten it becomes well worth the repro
duction. "Before the inside gates of Manila,
flnd inside its frowning walls, noon,
August 13. 1S9S. (an unlucky day for
Alphonso XIII.)
"People of Nebraska: We. of the
victorious army of the United States
and Dewey took a big city which seems
all moss-grown walls, smells bail in
every alley-like street, and hasn't a
bite of bread within its confines.
"Wo don't know yet just how much
in pound precious blood of our broth
ers it has cost us. Three thousand of
the Spanish soldiers crowd the walls
and bastions, gazing all mouths and
"eyes at the boys of the First Nebraska
as they stand resting before their gates
while one of our boys from California
lies dying at our feet, struck by one
. of the bullets from the enemy's last
fire. We have heard that other regi
ments have lost but know not to what
extent. (One's sensibilities become
.deadened to such things in times of
war.)
"Even though it is true that we as a
regiment took very little active part
In the capture of the city, neither also
did any of the land forces. Yet wo
were prepared to contend every inch
cf ground with the enemy and would
have covered ourselves with gore and
glory if he had but given us a chance."
-, Reading the above recalls forcefully
tho dav when we all formed in line
of battle just within gun range of the
fated rity and rested while Admiral
Dewey's firct drow up to bombard its
. ancient walls. Then came fifty-five
minutes of roaring from the giant guns
(such a performance as amply supplied
our wanting Fourth cf July celebra-
. ticn.) Although we rested near th
' bay. intervening trees hid the cruisers
so that our view cf the firing was much
obscured. Lieutenant Corcoran of com-
pany A was stationed as signal officer
on the beach and was in a position
.to witness both the firinc and the
. places where the missies struck. He
says that it was a sight that "he would
not have missed for anything. Hedges,
ditches, barb-wire fences, broken bot
tles, sharpened stakes and masked bar
ricades of earth hiding sharpshooters
would have demoralized any assault,
making the loss of life fearful and
turning the battle into a carnage.
Viewing these works I think all of
us experienced a sense -of satisfaction
in reallziasthat we would never be
called upon to attach such a formidable
poitioni Injthc dead of nisht. but
marched unchallenged around its un
covered "flaclTTiext the beach.
Speculating, floating wild conjectures
and gaping about us like children we
marched on and up the sand of the
beach and toward Manila. On the first
ramparts the guns were silent, and
there proudly floated the American
flag. How we cheered when we saw it,
and further on what applause we gave
that now historic band of Colorado
which rising to the exigency of the
occasion played "Hot Time" as w
went marching by.
Then came more walls. Lines of
walls, squares cf walls, walls standing
"and walls shattered, and all sunnount-
'-ed by ugly rows of jagged glass bot-
ties sunk into the mortar. Every one
' ui.suiucieui. iiupuruiuce 10 Keep a torn
cat or mangy dog has a huge stone
. wall thrown about his small patch of
ground.
p And while we were marching with
"s-Nebraska leading the procession that
flanked all these walls by wading the
.. skirts of the "sea. roving parties of the
enemy began to fire, their bullets whis
tling close over our heads so that our
m officers ordered us and themselves to
. lie down behind low stone parapets for
protection. We soon resumed our
march, however, with the bullets pat
trinz into the sea all about us. To
the bullets and firing we paid little
attention but prepared ourselves with
" ho small measure of exultation to fight
our way through every street of the
city. When we found that there was
to be no fighting we were grlevoityy
disappointed. Had the Spaniards pos
sessed the nerve to make a last des
perate stand there would have been a
struggle unparalleled In the annals of
history. With us well Into the city
the enemy might have surrounded us
and in a house to house fight take such
revenge as they never had before With
us mixed up in the city Dewey could
havA done nothing. Whatever the co3t
however, we would have won In the
end a victory to be proud of.
As you know,, though, we didn't fire
a shot that day. Our guns Itching in
our hands were of no more value than
otivr do. u,iui ; . u x w.
wo stood before Manila's garrison, and
our fighting chances were over.
Friday afternoon, August 22, about
5 o'clock Mylton Lynde of company A,
accidentally shot and killed a native
boatman. He didn't know his gun was
loaded.
Young Lynde was resting with two
companies about thirty feet from
where a canal flows into the river
Pasig.- The three were waiting for the
corporal of the guard to post them on
the new relief. While they waited two
Filipino boatmen paddled in a little
canoe up to the side of the canal next
to the boys. The water being low
only their heads appeared over the
stone ab'itmenL One of the guards
called tho attention of bis companions
to the excellent target which they pre
sented, whereupon Lynde brought his
gun to his shoulder, aimed at the man
in the stern and pulled the trigger. The
gun was fired and the native dropped
to the bottom of the boat. "My God,"
cried Lynde before the report had died
away, "who put that load in my gun?"
Even then the three did not realize
that any harm had been done, but
when they saw the man lying in the
boat dead, the unfortunate soldier
broke down entirely.
A crowd of natives quickly gathered
and were with difficulty kept back by
the guards. While Lynde was being
conducted to quarters many followed
crowding closely about his escorts
with sullen angry mutterlngs, but at
tempted no act of violence.
Lynde, nearly heart-broken, was
confined at regimental headquarters
and the next morning the remains of
the native escorted by the regimental
band and First batallion were given a
burial with military honors; and hU
friends generally were made to under
stand tho nature of the accident, to
gether with the keen regret it caused
both officers and men.
Mylton Lynde contends that some
one unknown to him must have loaded'
his rifle, for he says that he has not
put a cartridge into it since coming
into the city. Ho has always been of
exemplary character. He has always
done his duty as a soldier and a man,
(hereby holding the respect of all who
knew him. He will be tried by court
martial on tho charge of negligence
in tho use of firearms.
His father Is a minister of the gos
pel at York.
Exposition Financially a Success.
Everyone interested in the welfare
of the western country will be pleased
to hear of the wonderful financial suc
cess of the Trans-Mississippi Exposi
tion, now nearing the close ot its five
months' run in Omaha. If its gates
were closed today, there is money
enough in the bank to pay every dollar
of Indebtedness and return to tho
stockholders large portion of the stock
subscriptions. If there is any truth
m the old saying that "nothing suc
ceeds like success." the month of Octo
ber should be marked by a prosperity
unprecedented in the history of expo
tions. According to the books of Secretary
Wakefield, the finances of the exposi
tion on September 26 stood as follows:
Cash balance in bank $128,001
All liabilities 68,000
Net balance $ 60,000
For some time past all bills have
been paid whenever presented with the
proper vouchers and the cash surplus
has steadily accumulated. When the
above figures were given out the ex
position had thirty-six days to run.
October, on account of the peace jubi
lee celebration, and other attractive
features, is expected to draw by far
the greatest crowds of any of the five
months of the exposition season.
The present indebtedness consists
almost exclusively of balance due on
rontracts and the operating expenses
for September. The first aggregates
$26,000 and the latter S4S.000 ?t the
maximum cost of $2,000 a day. Of this
latter amount $S,000 has already been
taken up on account of weekly pav
rolls, and the total obligation on ac
count of operating expenses is $40,000.
Notes aecregating $2,000 are outstand-ir2-.
making a total indebtedness of
scs.noo.
The exposition will close Novem
ber 1.
:reat Iay for Veterans.
In seme respects the most striking
feature of peace jubilee week at the
exposition at Omaha will be the friend
ly meeting of the Blue and Gray on
"North and South Handshaking Day,"
October 11th, and on "Army and Navy
Day" and "Veteran Soldiers' Day," Oc
tober 13th. Great efforts have been
made to secure a large attendance of
federal and confederate veterans for
this occasion, and there is no doubt
that the gathering will be one of the
most memorable ot its kind in the his
tory of the country. The Grand Army
of the Republic, through its commander-in-chief,
the Women's Relief
Corps, through its national president,
arid the Daughters of the Confederacy,
through their national president, have
been Invited to be present, and the in
vitations have been given very wide
publicity. A number of prominent
speakers have accepted invitations to
deliver addresses at cainpfires to be
held morning and evening of the two
days named. It will be a fitting ac
companiment to the celebration over
the close of the war of 1898 that the
men who bore the brunt of the fight
in the early sixties shall stand upon
the same platform and address the par
ticipants in that great struggle.
One Lunatic KUla Another.
Hastings dispatch: Hugh Carroll,
an inmate in the Asylum for the
Chronic Insane, killed Charles L. Da
vis, also an inmate of the same insti
tution, at 10 o'clock this morning by
hitting him on the head with a heavy
piece of cast iron. Carroll succeeded
in cutting his restraining strap and
before anybody could get to him he
siezed an iron bar which was lying
near by and struck Davis square on
the head with such force as to cause
his death within an hour's time.
The oil run which was recently sunk
near Homer in the bluffs will be
worked. A stock company has been
incorporated and preparations to sink
wells will be begun immediately.
Internal Revenue Collector Houtz
calls attention to the fact that eviry
county fair must pay a tax of $10 un
der the new revenue law. He savs
this is not generally known to fair
managers, and they should bere
minded of it to avoid the penalty of
omission.
II
I
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General Wood Doscribes Santiago
After the Surrender.
IT WAS IN AWFUL CONDITION.
Cleaning the Filthiest Towa ea. Earth
Was Oae or the Military Governor's
Tasks Cubans Are Now Chaasiaa;
Treat Toward the Asnerl
Washixoto, Oct. 1. Secretary
Alger lias received a long letter from
General Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Santiago. It is personal to a
great extent, but Secretary Alger has
allowed some extracts to be published.
The secretary feels that General Wood,
combining his medical skill with high
soldierly qualities and executive abil
ity, has met and overcome the prob
lems presented at Santiago. The let
ter presents vividly the frightful con
ditions that confronted the American
army of occupation after the surren
der of Santiago.
General Wood says in part: "I have
had a very difficult position from a
sanitary point of view and not alto
gether an easy one from a military
and civil standpoint. When we came
into the city the sanitary situation
was something frightful. There were
a great many unburicd dead in the
houses, between 3,000 and 3,000 Span
ish wounded and sick, and a great
horde of half famished and sick peo
ple, nearly 20,000 in number, who had
just returned from El Caney, where
they had gone during the siege.
The water supply of the city had
been cut off; there was no water to be
obtained except from cisterns and a
few wells, and the streets were full of
dead animals and all sorts of filthy
materials. I had to start in from the
bottom and repair the waterworks.
Then came the removal of the dead.
Some of these were burned, because
the number was so great and decompo
sition had advanced to such an extent
that they could not be buried. Burn
ing is not uncommonly practiced here
during the epidemic season.
"We have yellow fever all around
-us, and about twenty cases in the
Spanish military hospital. The civil
hospital was full of dying people, and
public buildings were being used as
hospitals. I have been working sys
tematically with every means at hand
to improve the sanitary condi
tion of the city. I have a force
of about 170 men constantly cm
ployed and at many times have had
nearly double this force working
day and night to remove the vast ac
cumulations of indescribable filth
-which has accumulated in the out
liouses and yards, as well as the streets
of the city, which is reputed to be one
of the most unhealthy and dirty in the
-world. The death rate has dropped
steadily since we came in and is now
About one-fourth of what it was in
luly. The water system has been put
in order and a great many repairs
made to it, and the supply, although
insufficient, is utilized to the greatest
advantage.
"I have had to hire doctors for the
hospitals, purchase medicine for them,
and supply them with beds and bed
ding and food, in fact, re-establish aud
take entire charge of them. I have
also established a strict system of
house inspection and inspection of the
streets, and have a disinfecting depart
ment as well as a cleaning department.
The city has been divided into five
districts in each of which is a relief
station where food is distributed and
a physician in attendance who pre
scribes for those who present them
selves sick, and visits the sick in the
bouses. I am issuing at present about
15,000 rations a day. The physicians
are probably prescribing for about COO
or 700 people, and some days many
more. These physiciaus are native
Cubans, educated in the United States
and employed by our government as
contract surgeons.
"It has long been the custom in this
town to depend upon heavy rains and
the rushing floods through the streets
to sweep away the accumulated filth
of the dry season. All this has been
swept down to the water front, where
it has been collecting for years, chok
ing the drains and filling the shal
low waters near the shore, so that
when the tido goes out masses of
dumping material are exposed to the
intense rays of the sun and famish
frightful cause of disease. Later this
year, when the epidemic season shall
have passed, it is my intention, if I
am granted funds and authority, to
have the shallow places dredged out,
so that at least a thin layer of water
will cover them at low tide and pre
vent the present condition of affairs.
"The great expert on yellow fever,
Dr. Guiteras, assured me in July thai
an epidemic of yellow fever of great
severity was absolutely unavoidable,
and that we were destined to lose a
large proportion of our people here.
Thus far it has been avoided, and not
only avoided, but to-day I don't know
of an authentic case of genuine yellow
fever in Santiago de Cuba proper, and
every day increases our chances of
escape. "
General Wood discusses the problem
of getting tee Cuban army disbanded
and the men composing it at work. In
discussing tins phase of the situation
he seems to think that it will be
necessary to discourage the idea among
the Cubans that rations will be con
stantly issued to them. General Wood
says that ail indications now point to
the speedy disbanding of the Cuban
army. He says -the feeling of the
better class of Cubans toward the
Americans is very kind and they ap
preciate what the United States is
trying to do.
Spinners Thrown Oat ot Work,
Philadelphia, Oct. l. Nearly
3,000 carpet weavers have been thrown
out of employment in this city because
of the action of the ingrain carpet
yarn spinners, who decided a few days
ago to shut down this branch of their
business.
xawel Under Arrest.
Yokohama, Oct.1. A dispatch
from Bahan announces the' arrival
there or the Chinese refugee? Kang
Yuwei, the Canton reformer, "who re
cemftly escaped froaa Pekia, mad also
hi arrest by tha Japanese authorities.
CLOTHES WERE HIS UNDOING.
Wearing ef Earopeaa Dress Censed
Chinese Emperor's Downfall.
pEKHf, Oct 1. The developments
of palace affairs confirm the belief
that the emperor, by tho radical re
forms which he had decreed, prepared
himself for the blow struck by the
dowager empress. The successive
edicts furnish a history of the trend of
affairs. Tho emperor's chief adviser,
Kang Yuwei, obtained an unbounded
influence over him and inspired the re
forms. The official classes opposed
him and consulted the dowager em
press as to means for nullifying theso
reforms.
The current story is that the i- ae
diate cause of the emperor's downfall
was that he appeared one day in Euro
pean clothes. This offense, it appears,
was aggravated by the arrival in China
of the Marquis Ito, tho Japanese
statesman, which alarmed the palace
officials, as foreshadowing Japanese
influence in the empire's councils.
Thereupon the dowager impress acted
with wonderful promptness and de
posed her nephew before the Pckin
people were aware she had left the
summer palace. Kang Yuwei, fore
seeing trouble, fled two days before
the crisis. His followers were arrested
to-day.
The announcement of the emperor's
death is expected 6oon, and the dow
ager empress is likely to appoint a
figurehead as his successor, retaining
the real Dower herself.
NICK YOUNG'S STATEMENT.
War Has Made Most of the League Base
hall Teams lose Money.
Washixotos, Oct. 1. Nick Young,
president of the National League sa3s:
"At least seven clubs of the twelve
will fall thousands of dollars short of
their expenses on the year. I was
surprised to hear that even Mr. Han
Ion's great team, one of the best at
tractions in the league, will play to an
actual loss on the year. Washington,
St. Louis, Cleveland, Pittsburg, New
York and Brooklyn will also be forced
to delve into their pockets to the tunc
of many dollars in order to meet
losses. Mr. Wagner has been espec
ially unfortunate with the Washing
ton club.
"The war, and that alone, is the
cause of the poor attendance all over
the major league circuit, and through
out the minor leagues. We tried to
fool ourselves early in the season with
the delusion that the war would not
affect our .receipts to any great ex
tent, but as the season advanced we
were obliged to own up that it kept
many a dollar from our turnstiles."
GENEd'AL MILES TALKS AGAIN.
Alger's Statements That Volunteers Were
Careless of Their Health Denounced.
Chicago, Oct. 1. The Daily News'
Washington special says that General
Miles, at a reception given at his home
to his comrades of the Medal of Honor
Legion, denounced as false the claim
that volunteer officers and soldiers
were themselves responsible for the
sickness in the camps.
"Those who say that the men sick
ened and died because they wished to;
those who blame the soldiers and offi
cers of our army for the disease and
death that devastated the camps and
thinned the ranks; those who assert
that our soldiers suffered through their
own fault, insult a quarter of a mil
lion of the bravest men that ever car
ried arms beneath tho sun.
"These men did not suffer and die
because they liked it, and whoever
says thejr did insults our army and the
men who officered it. It is an affront
to our reason. I have nothing to say
of the blame for the death of those
brave men."
CONGRESSMAN BAKER BLIND.
After Fifty Tears of Publio Life the Illi
nois Politician Loses Ills Sight.
ltaM.Erii.LE, III., Oct. 1. Con
gressman Baker is blind. After an
active career covering half a century
he must travel the rempant of his road
with sightless eyes. At his age he is
70 the doctors say there is no hope of
a restoration of sight.
This calamity has not fallen sudden
ly. The Congressman has been failing
for some time. In fact, he has ncvei
quite recovered from his serious ill
ness of foar years ago. Congressmar
Baker has been for years a conspicu
ous figure in politics in Southern Illi
nois. He is the only man who ever de
feated Colonel William R. Morrison, so
long Congressman from this district,
and more recently chairman of the in
terstate commission.
GENERAL HAWKINS TO RETIRE.
He Is Appointed Brigadier General la
the Begalar Army.
Washisotox, Oct. 1. Major Gen
eral Hamilton S. Hawkins, United
States volunters, who commanded the
division which captured San Juan hill
in the second day's fight at Santiago,
has been appointed a brigadier gen
eral in the regular army to fill the va
fc.
cancy caused by the retirement of
General William M. Graham. Imme
diately after receiving his commission,
he will be placed on the retired list on
his own application under the thirty
years" service clause, and this will en
able the President similarly to advance
Major General J. P. Kent, United
States volunteers (colonel of the
Twenty-fourth infantry), to the grade
of brigadier general in the regular
army.
COLONEL SMITH MAY DIE.
Latest Troshleof the Soldiers Hesse Gov
ernor May Prove to Be His Last.
Saxta. Momca, CaL, Oct. 1. The
condition of Governor A. J. Smith, of
the Soldiers' home, who was shot by
an inmate of the home, is not satis
factory, according to the physician at
the home. His general condition is
weaker, and he passed a restless night
He may die.
Places for Cuban Soldiers.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. L Ar
rangements have been completed for
the formation of a force of Cuban
mounted police for the province of
Santiago. It consists of a command
ant, with the rank of major, three
captains, six lieutenants ten sergeants
and 240 enlisted men. The rates of
pay for the enlisted men are the same
as in the United States army, while
the officers will vet two-thirds.
KiiLEUOFFI;
Flames Are Still Spreading in the
Colorado Forests.
NEW TERRITORY DEVASTATE!!.
Net Prospect ef Bala to Save the Set
'tiers Property Heat and Saaoke
Drive tho Game From tho Burning
Mountain sides.
."Dexter, Col., Oct. 1. The weather
man can offer no hope for those on the
western slope whose homes and crops
are threatened by the forest fires.
There are no indications whatever of
rain, and this seems to be the only el
ement able to stay the flames' fury.
Throughout Eagle county high winds
have prevailed, giving a fresh impetus
to tho forest fires that are devastating
tue timber domain. In consequence
new territory is devastated. The blaze
is rapidly extending along the Grand
reserves of Girard mountain, west of
Ilomcstake creek, and from present
appearances will sweep the country to
Bear mountain at Minturn.
Back of Minturn to the heads of
Willow and Two Elk, the country is
devastated, little remaining to feed
the flames. From Hoosier mountain
tho wind has driven the fire to the
cdjfe of Gypsum creek. The settlers
of Upper Gypsum, Cannon and Collins
are fighting desperately to save their
homes and stop its passage before the
magnificent forests of West Brush are
destroyed. If it gets into Brush the
finest body of timber in the stato is
doomed. No loss of life has been re
ported, but several persons have lost
their -homes and their crops. All the
game is leaving the country, driven
out by the smoke and heat of the blaz
ing woods.
Dispatches say that Wheyley's peak,
between North and Middle park, is
now a mass of flames. It is greatly
feared that they will extend to both of
those beautiful camping grounds. The
lire has already cut a swath thirty-five
miles long, from tho Grand river al
most to Dillon, in Summit county.
Tho width is as yet unknown. Kremm
ling, in Grand county, has had a nar
row escape, and the danger is not yet
entirely over.
Battlement government reserve,
bounded by the Grand river upon the
north, Soaring Fork upon the east
and the Gunnison upon the west, is a
mass of flame. This reserve runs
through the counties of Garfield, Delta
and Mesa. The big White river gov
ernment reserve, starting in Garfield
county and extending through Koutt
and Eio Blanco, is also on fire. Ke
liablt; reports show that the fires aro
now nearly 300 miles in circumfer
ence, with Glcnwoo! for a center, and
practically every mountain range
with timber is ablaze.
SPANISH CLERGY TO REMAIN.
American Archbishops Without Author
ity Over the Cuban Clergy.
Washington, Oct. 1 The condi
tion of the Catholic church through
out the country will be considered at
the annual meeting of the archbishops
of the United States to be neld at the
Catholic university, beginning October
11. Archbishop Keane has come from
Borne to attend the gathering. It is
said that the meeting will not deal
with the questions of Catholic author
ity in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines. So far as Cuba and Porto
are concerned, they are under an es
tablished Catholic archbishopric
which will not be disturbed in any
way. Tho church authority is cen
tered at Santiago, that being the old
capital of the island,tand the arch
bishop of Santiago has two suffragans,
one at Havana and another in Porto
Bico.
REBELS STILL FIGHTING.
Philippine Insurgents Mascrc Spanish
Officers and Their Familloi.
Madrid, Oct. 1. A telejram re
ceived here from General Rio, Spanish
governor of the Visayas islands, who
is reported to have recently proclaimed
himself governor general of the Span
ish dominions in the Philippines, re
ports that insurgent expeditions have
arrived at the Visayas. The re
bellion, it is also reported, is spread
ing, and several provinces in the island
of Luzon have been invaded and some
officers of the Spanish police and their
families massacred. The governor and
officials at Hoilo, island of Panay, have
fled to Manila.
La Correspondent blames the
Americans for tolerating the new ris
ing of the insurgents and urges the
government to present a protest to
the Paris commission.
SICK TO BE BROUGHT NORTH,
General Brooke Will Bo Relieve! of the
Soldlars at Porto BIcan Hospitals.
Wasiungtox, Oct. 1. The Presi
dent has given instructions that all
sick at Porto Rico be sent north as
soon as they are able to travel with
safety, his purpose being to relieve
General Brooke of tho further cars of
the sick and at the saino time enable
the men to receive the treatment ob
tainable in the better appointed home
hospitals. Thess men will be fur
loughed as in cases of those returning
from Santiago. About 700 will leave
to-day upon the Relief and Missouri.
POLITICAL PRISONERS FREE.
General Blanco Orders That AU Be Re
leased. Havana, Oct. 1. The Official Ga
zette publishes to-day a decree signed
by Captain General Blanco and bear
ing date of September 27, granting
pardon to and ordering the release of
all political prisoners now undergoing
confinement on the island.
Bis; Elevators Burned.
Gbbestows, Ind., Oct. 1. Pad
dock Hodge & Co.'s elevators,
containing 30,000 bushels of wheat
and other grain, were entire
ly destroyed by fire to-day. The
Corona mills, a big concern manufac
turing cereal foods from corn, caught
fire and burned down. The loss will
reach $100,000, with only 840,000 insur
ance. The fire was of incendiary or
igin.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Saturday, September Si.
It is expected General Wheeler will
soon resign to enter congress.
The war department refuses to grant
transportation home to furlouj'ied sol
diers. The First Georgia regiment has left
Knoxville, Tenn., for Macon, to Le mus
tered out.
Winnie Davis, "daughter of the con
federacy," was laid to rest with im
pressive ceremonies at Richmond, Va.
The supreme tribunal of Nebraska
says the old board of fire and 'police of
Omaha is not legal, and orders a writ
of ouster.
Chili and Argentina have consented
to arbitrating boundary line south of
latitude 26:52:45, hut not cs to north of
that line.
Senator Quay has asked an investi
gation of charges that he sold post
offices in Lehigh county. Pennsylvania.
Granted by the department.
The comptroller of tu' currency has
issued a call to national banks for a
report on their condition r.t the close
of business Tuesday, September 20.
The supreme court of Nebraska sus
tains the report of Referee Clements
in tho Omaha mayorilty case. This
means that the present mayor will
step down and out.
As an outgrowth cf the Dreyfus case,
Madame Paulmier, wife of a deputy,
shot and serously wounded M. Oilivier,
an editor of La Lanatcrnc, the woman
alleging that the paper had slandered
her husband and herself.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York has
declined an invitation to deliver an
address at the Omaha exposition on
Mayors' day, on October 10, on the
ground that his official duties will not
permit of his absence from the city.
Major Talbot, paymaster of the
Yukon force of Canadian militia, has
arrived on the steamer Amur at Vic
toria, B. C. Talbot says trouble is an
ticpated at Dawson during the ap
proaching winter, owing to the large
number of men out cf employment.
It is officially announced that Hon.
George N. Curzon, until recently parli
mentary secretary for the foreign
office, who is to succeed the earl of
Elgin as viceroy of Egypt has been
elevated to the peerage rs Baron Cur
zon of Kedelstan.
Monday, Septemoer 20.
Senator Hoar remains in a critical
condition. His fever has not abated.
Tho Twenty-fourth (colored) infan
try is on its way west from Montauk
Point.
Thomaii F. Bayard was visibly weak
er yesterday and the end is expected
within a few days.
The war department is now menaced
with an alarming sick roll among the
troops in tho Philippine islands.
The only organized regiment of the
kalifa's army was defeated and its last
stronghold, Gedarif, captured on Sep
tember 22.
General Kitchener in a message to
the lord mayor cf London expresses the
hope that Fashoda will prove of great
value to British trade and commerce.
Roosevelt having declined to accept
the nomination tendered him by the
independent citizens' movement that
organization will select another candi
date. The Spanish steamer Carthagena,
from Aviles for Barcelona, proceeded
after being in collision on September
22, 6ff Cape Vilon with the British
ship Roubina, for Lisbon. The latter
vessel was sunk.
According to an article in the Fort
nightly Review the Anglo-American
agreement provides in detail for Eng
lish and Germany to become Joint
heirs, by purchase, of all the Portu
guese possessions in Africa.
The first troops of, the array for the
occupation of Cuba will leave thj3
country October 20. General Miles
says that this detachment will consist
of about 3.000 troop3, to be divided
among regulars and immunes.
It is announced at Madrid that the
10,000 Spaniards residing in Porto Rico
have refused to live in the siand un
der the American flag and have de
manded that they be returned to Spain
at the expense of the government.
Colonel Bcnnal of the French gen
eral staff, in charge of the second de
partment of intelligence bureau, in suc
cession to Colonel Henry, has been dis
missed and sent to join his regiment.
The reason for this has not been made
public.
Tuesday, September ST.
Fanny Davenport, the noted actress,
is dead.
Colonel Bryan of the Third Nebras
ka regiment is ill in Washington with
malaria.
The pay bf a chaplain of volunteers
has been fixed at that of a captain
mounted.
Several members of the cabinet will
join the president in his visit to the
exposition.
Secretary Alger and party, after in
specting camp sites at Savannah, Ga.,
left last night for Charleston.
The Oregon legislature convened In
special session and elected Joseph Si
mon of Portland as president of the
EenatC;
Secretary Alger will return to Wash
ington and Assistant Secretary Met
klejohn will take a leave of absence to
recuperate.
Major Herman D. Money, son of the
Mississippi senator, was taken from
Camp Wikoff to Roosevelt hospital, ill
with malaria.
The war department has ordered that
at least two medical officers shall al
ways be left on duty with each volun
ten regiment.
David Hanlon of Louisville, Ky. a
private in company M, Second United
States infantry, died at Philadelphia
of typhoid fever.
Lillian Langtry is about to take up
her permanent residence in Califor
nia, which state she has long acknow
ledged as her legal home.
The Colombian government has
again changed its mind, and now de
cides not to pay the Cerrutl claim, on
the ground that Cerruti was mixed up
m the troubles of 187G and 1885.
The French embassy has received a
cable dispatch stating that the Span
ish peace commissioners started for
Paris and will arrive in the French
capital about the time the American
commissioners arrive.
Corporal Roy W. Johnson, company
H, engineer corps, died at the Red
Cross hospital at Camp Mead of ty
phoid fever. He was a graduate of the
University of Nebraska. His remains
will be sect to Crete, Neb.
Wednesday, September 28.
All the British, French and German
warships have left Manila.
Washington reports are to the effect
that Col. Bryan's health has improved, j
Mississippi is asked to rsise the yel
low jack quarantine against Galveston,
Tes.
Senor Joso R. Puente is named for
minister of war for pru and took the
oath of-office.
Roosevelt was nominated .for gov
ernor of New York by the republican
convention on iho first ballot
An electrical storm did great dam
ago to farms near Lexington, Ky., and
killed several valuable horses.
Harry Humphrey, Washington, has
been appointed special agent to allot
lands to Indians on Colvillc reserva
tion, Washington. -
The steamer Danube arrived at Vic
tpria. B. C, from St. Michael with 1S5
K'londikers and dust estimated by the
purser at 1250,000.
The president will change h.s route
going to Omaha and will pay a flying
visit to Missouri unless there is a ma
terial change of program.
Secretary Alger and party inspect
ed Charleston, S. C, and it is probable
tho port will be made a port of em
barkation for tho West Indes.
The wage scales committees-of the
American Flint Glass Workers' asso
ciation and manufacturers met and re
newed practically last year's scale.
The secretary of tho interior reports
that the scuools of the Chcrokees in
Indian territory must close for want of
funds, as a result of the Curtis act.
Tho sheriff of Leeniwaw county,
Michigan, surrounded the three .burg
lars who robbed the Blisfield postofllce
Saturday aud shot Samuel Rothfus.
The British fleet has left Tak Kn,
proceeding from Wei Hal Wei. It is
rumored that the designs of the dow
ager empress have been entirely suc
cessful. Tho southwestern passenger asents
met at St. Louis yesterday to consider
question of commissions to agents. No
solution was reached and the meeting
adjourned.
Surgeon General Wyman has re
ceived a messago from the state beard
of health at New Orleans, stating
there are twenty-six cases of mild type
yellow fever in Wilson. La. Town and
parish are Quarantined. Tho source
of infection is untraceable.
Thursday. September 2t.
Tho queen of Denmark died on the
29th.
The body of Mrs. Augustus Belmont,
who died in Paris, will be brought to
this country.
Colonel's Bryan's fever seems to be
broken an aborted. Diet, sleep and
rest will soon give recovery.
Commander G. M. Book is trans
ferred from command of the Mohican
to that of the Adams at San Francis
co. General Merrltt s report of the bat
tle of Manila has been received alt tlw
War department and will be made
public shortly.
The business portion of the villago
of irehorne, Man., including two
banks and several hotels, was destroy
ed by fire. Loss $50,000.
Thomas F. Bayard died at Karl
stein, lthe summer residence of lu'3
daughter, Mrs. Samuel D. Warren,
after an illnes of six weeks.
The post office department calls at
tention to the fact that the annexa
tion of Hawaii does not change the
mail charges in force prior to annex
ation. Secretary Alger nas returned to
Washington, lie went to the War de
partment immediately after breakfast
and was scon beseiged by a number of
persons who had been waiting for his
return.
The battleships Oregon and Iowa
received orders at the navy yard to
sail for Manila. It is expected that it
will take the battleships sixty days
to complete the journey. They will
stop at Bahai, Brazil, to coal.
Th6 Afro-American league conclud
ed a two days' session at Springfield,
111., yesterday. The boards of educa
tion of Alton and Centralia, 111., were
denounced for maintaining separrlte
schools for white and colored chil
dren. Pcrsident McKinley has so changed
his trip west to include a visit to St.
Louis on his reiturn from Omaha. The
St. Louis delegation endeavored to
have the president's day at the Omaha
exposition made a day later, or Octob
er 13, but the president would not hear
of it.
A dispatch lias been received at the
War department dated September "7
from Santiago de Cuha from General
Lawton as follows: Total sick. 1,00.1;
total fever, 773; new cases. 120; re
turned to duty. 170. Deaths, Wellis
S. Harrison, trumpeter, company A,
Ninth Massachusetts, September 26;
William Waggoner, privalte. company
C, Third volunteer signal corps, Sep
tember 26.
FriiLiy, September 30.
Democrats of New York nominated
Augustus Van Wyck for governor.
The first mail in two weeks left
Santiago for Baltim'ore yesterday.
Aguinaido has been declared pres
ident cf the Republic of the Philip
pines. Fourth United Staites Volunteers
are notified to prepare immediate'
four Cuba.
Attorney General Criggs will not
make an political speeches during
the fall campaign.
President McKinley has sent con
dolences to the king of Denmark on
the death of the queen.
President McKinley has extended
the scope of his trip west to include
Indianapolis and Terre Haute.
Private Emanuel Long, company F,
Sixth Illinois, died at the Pennsyl
vania hospital of typhoid fever.
Colonel William J. Bryan of the
Third Nebraska is much improved,
and will scon return to Jacksonville.
It now appears cetrain that Marl;
Hanna and his associates will buy the
Wheeling &. Lake Erie in December.
Eight hundred soldiers of the
Twenty-first Kansas have left for
their homes on a furlough, to report
at Leavenworth October 28.
Senor Sanchez Garcia, a Spanish
judge at Santiago, having refused to
cease acting judicially, will again be
told to desist under penalty of arrest.
A Cuban will succeed him.
The funeral services of Fanny Dav
enport were held at Trinity church.
Boston. Interment was at Forest
Hill cemetery. Joseph Jefferson was
one of the honorary pallbearers.
Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N.,
hj.3 been elected by tho Protestant
Episcopal convention at New York as
tho New York deputy to the general
convention to be held at Washington,
October 5.
An order of the War department
directs that sick and wounded sol
diers granted, furloughs are entitled
to $1.50 per- day, commutation and
transportation when traveling to and
from their homes and to and from
posts of duty.
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