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ESiABLISKtiD 1854
DESPERATE
FIGHTING
Bacon's Force, However, Has
) Not Been All Wiped Out
as Reported,
IS ENTRENCEHD
In a Good Position and Can
Hold Out If Reinforce
ments Arrive in
Time.
MANY KILLED TODAY
Major Wilkinson and Six Privates
Killed —Indians Are in Force-
Fire on the Detachment
from the Marsh.
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By Associated Press.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6. —A special to the
Journal from Walker saye: .Major Wilk'n
son. with six privates and coo Indian po
liceman are dead. Col. Sheehan is slightly
wounded. Thirty Indians are dead
The Journal dispatch boat has just re
turned from the battle ground. There
was desperate fighting all the morning.
The Journal boat brought out H. S. Tal
man.the deputy marshal and Col. Sheehan.
Sheehan is not badlv wounded. He was
shot in the abdomen while the boat was
•transferring the wounded men. He was
fired on from the bnish.
This was the signal for the re-oppn-ing
of hostilities. The troops opened on the
Indians and in a second there was a fierce
fight in progress as \v:-> that of yesterday.
Baulk u narrowly escaped with
■his life. He had his shoulder bored clear
through.
The firing be. true so hot that he was
( *;> weigh author and steam out
into the lake. The Indians appeared to be
fieice.
Bacon's command was too small to take
the aggressive. The detachment is en
trenched in a good position and can hold
out so long as the ammunition lasts.
The sieamep ‘‘Chief’ has arrived there
with a posse c? armed men.
Major Wilkinson was shot and killed
while walking up and down admonishing
his men to keep the-ir heads low.
SITUATION DESPERATE.
Minneapolis Joarnal Correspondent Tells of
Last Night's Experience.
By Associated Press.
Minneapolis. Oct. 6 —Arthur Ipleger,
staff correspondent of the "Journal, wires
I at S:3O o’clock this morning from Walker.
Minn.:
A force of eighty men under General
( Eaccr. has been annihilated. I do not know
whether Inspector Tinker has more infor
maticn than I have, but he sent word to I
the wer d-parur nt last night that the
i Third infantry detachment had been wiped
out.
: go*, in very late from expedition on the
4 Fiona Wo started out to carry supplies
* and rations to the troops. It was very
dark off shore and we signalled for an
hour.
Corporal Nettlekoven used the code in
use at Santiago. Either the troops had
/ been driven inland cr there is not a man
cf them left. No answering signal cf any
sort was received although we lay off and
cn the whole length of the headland. %
To land was an impossibility in the dark
as the reinforcements from Brainard have
\ not arrived and there is only one old Win
chester rifle on the boat.. is no pos
sible coufct that the small force on the
, \ boat would be annihilated if .we had land
i!t '
Iff There were men aboard who preferred to
THE MACON NEWS.
die in the effort a* rescue, however futile
it might have been.
We had blankets and rations for the
. blue co 3 '> if any of them survive. A heavy
; frost prevailed.
There is not so much as a coffee bean to
divide among the whole command this
morning.
The men of Bacon's command were
‘ ckc r. out on conditions that would disgrace
a mil; *;2 s- rge ant were La responsible for
them. Every life lost was a useless sacri
fice.
Had the proper force been sent in the
first plate net a shot would have been
bred. I have hopes that Bacon may have
entrenched himself and the failure to an
swer the signals last night were due to a
determination not to betray the location.
The men had 120 rounds of ammunition
each. I don’t fully endorse the belief that
every man in the command is dead because
General Bacon is an old Indian fighter and
however badly handicapped it is doubted
very much whether he would permit twice
the number of Chippewas to get away with
him.
Corporal Nettlekoven, as a sharpshooter,
is worth tis weight in gold. He dropped a
couple of bucks over on the point yester
day evening with a Krag-Jorgensen at
2,000 yards.
The third expedition to the point has
just started. There are fifteen riflc-men on
board, picked men. The boat carries cof
fee and provisions.
The detail is under the direction of Dr.
Camp, of Brainard, an old Indian fighter
and a man who never knew the name of
fear.
The troops have not had a thing to eat
since yesterday at noon. They have not
even had a drink of whisky to sustain vi
tality. The night .was fearfully cold. Re
inforcements were wired for repeatedly
but there was no assurance here that they
would have any today.
The situation is desperate to a degree.
Every man in this town slept all night
with a Y/lnehester across his arm.
CONFERENCES
Held in Oashingtohm but Nothing Has Been
Done,
By .Associated Press.
•Washington. Oct. 6 —The interior depart
ment authorities eagerly awaited news
from the Indian uprising in Minnesota to
day but were disappointed, failing to re
ceive official dispatches giving the details
of yesterday’s conflict.
The information that so far has reached
the department has been of the most
meagre character and up to noon today
the department was without a word of
further advices of an important nature.
Indian Inspector Tinker has wired sev
eral times for further instructions despite
the fact that ample instructions and ad
vices were sent him and he is without in
formation as developments there is nothing
upon which to base any change in the or
ders
In tte absence of any further disquiet
ing news from General Bacon to the sec
retary cf war, the interior department of
ficilas are hoping the situation may not
prove as threatening and alarming as is
generally believed.
It is conceded that the uprising may as
sume greater dimensions. -
During the day there were a number of
conferences -at the interior department re
garding the situation between Secretary
Bliss, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Jones and Chief White, of the Indian di
vision cf the department.
Secretary Bliss said the dispatch of ad
ditional troops might have the immediate
effect of bringing about peace among the
Indians and as General Bacon had author
ity to avail himself of as many troops ts
he btlieved necessary he did not believe
the -trouble would last long.
FIRE WATER
Started the Trouble Between Marsha! and
Indians.
By Associated Preest,
A asking .on. Oct. 6. —Commissioner of
Indian Affairs Jones today received the fol
lowing dispatch from Indian Agent Su
therland:
Walker. Minn.. Oct. 6.— The trouble at
Leech Lake originated in consequence of
an arrest made by the deputy marshall of
an Indian, cn a warrant for moon shining.
"The Indians overpowered the marshal
and rescued the prisoner.
’ 'Troops were sen: here to assist the
marshal in arresting the rescuers. I have
' D '^ ri ' r€ a V3<?k my best to get the
In a.'no .? give themselves up and save
trouble, but they would not.
"Today the troops and Indians had sev
*’:’-'-l a::!-s. Tne United States marshal
has called for more troops."
TROOPS TO THE FRONT
Four Companies Le*t Minneapolis this Morn
ing. *
By Associated Frees.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6.— A special train left
r<r* SneTings? ..his monlng with Com
panics B, F and H an I Lt-Col. Harb&eh
of the lh id infantry. It will be rusl eJ
to tb: frert, but cannot ream Walker be
fore 2 o'clock under the most favorable
conditions.
There are 200 picked men in the detach
ment and they have three days’ rations
and an abundance o? ammunition.
Tne Gatling gun part of equipment and
further reinforcements will be kept ready
to start at an instant’s notice.
MACON NEWS THURSDAY OCTOBER 6 ißos.
THIRTY-ONE NEW
CUSES REPORTED
Yesterdav in the State ofMis
sissipi cf the Dread Yel
low Jack.
COLLEGE STUDENTS LEAVE
From Starkviile and Wiii Be Quar
antined—One More Death at
Jackson.
By Associated Press.
Jackson, -Miss., Oct. 6 —Another death
was added to Jackson’s fever record last
night, the patient being Lelia Harris,
white. Her death, however, is attributed
to neglect, she having been sick for sev
eral days before her illness was known.
A telegram to the state board from
Starkviile, says: ‘‘The sick are all in the
hospital and a cordon is around the col
lege grounds. Most of the college people
leave for St. Louis today and all of them
expect to be quarantined.
There were thirty-one new cases report
ed in Mississippi yesterday as follows:
Jackson, 4.
Water Valley, 1.
Orrwood 4 cases and one death.
Taylor’s, 2 cases.
Morriston, 5.
Starkviile A and iM. college, 3.
COMMISSIONERS
At Quebec Will Adjourn on
Next Mondav.
By Associated Preen.
QutDec, bet. t>. —The international con
ference will adjourn next Monday, Oct.
10, to meet again in Washington Nov.- 1,
was the official announcement made by
the commissioners last night.
Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the
American commission, was asked what
progress had been made and how much
•time the 'Washington -session would prob
ably require.
"We have accomplished a considerable
amount of work,” said he, ‘‘and there still
remains much to be done.” But beyond
this indefinite statement he would not go.
The Canadian people are very anxious to
have the commissioners return here to
sign the treaty if one is agreed upon. They
think it ought to go out to the world as the
treaty of Quebec. The Montgomery mon
ument question was again revived by the
appearance here of Mrs. Garrison, of Chi
cago, who represents the 'Sons of the Rev
olution. She will see the American com
missioners and urge them to do what they
can in the way of securing from the people
of Quebec the privilege of ejecting a mon
ument in this city.
MORE FIGHTING
Between the Insurgents and
Spaniards Reported,
• *
By Associated Frees.
Madrid, Oct. 6. —An official dispatch from
Iloilo reports that the landing of troops
there caused a panic among the insurgents
and that 300 muskets, four canons and a
quantity of ammunition and a flag were (
captured in addition to eighteen Spanish
prisoners released. The insurgents dis
persed. The bulk of them withdrew to the
mountains and some of them surrendered.
The clergy and inhabitants, the dispatch
save, have issued a manifesto in favor of
Spain. In other encounters between the
Spaniards and insurgents -recently 36 cf
the former were killed.
MAH-GE-GA-80.
Indian Says that the Soldiers’ Loss Was
Only Ten.
By Associated Press.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6. —A special to the
Journal from Walker says: “I have just
met an Indian named Mah-Ge-Guh-80,
who came over from Bear Island in a
canoe a: 3 a. m. He sa:cs the loss cf
whites is ten killed and fifteen wounded.
He denies that the troops have been wip
ed out, but says the Indians had the best
of it. Their less, he claims, does not ex
ceed five killed and wounded.
‘‘The forces with Bacon are probably
safe and more encouragement is felt about
it. I have ether information that there j
are fifty dead Indians within a mile of the :
landing. ’
:much mystery,
Surrounds the Finding of a Body in a Bath
Tub.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis. Get. 6. —A peculiar part of the
•circumstances surrounding the death of
Wni. Strutt, who was found dead in a bath |
tub at the West End Hotel, lies in the fact j
that his clothes were in a room which wsa :
securely locked and the key down in the ;
office in his box. Strutt's room was 100
feet from the bath room.
GOVERNOR WALCOTT
Unanimously Renominated in Massachusetts
this Morning.
By Associated Prees.
Boston, Oct. 6. —Governor Roger Wolcott
was unanimously renominated by the Re
publicans today, w. Murray Crane, of
Dalton, was unanimously renominated
lieutenant governor.
EPiSCOPSLHS
| ARE IN SESSION
Second Day of Great Conven
tion Brings Up the Ques
tion of Divorce.
BEHIND CLOSED ODORS
The Matter Will Probably Be Dis
cussed-Much Interest is Felt
Everywhere in Result.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 6. —A prayer meeting
| for the delegates for the triennial conven
tion of the Episcopal church, was held in
the Church of the Epiphany this morning,
Rev. Dr. McKim reading the prayer ser
vice.
Bishop Gilbert, of Minnesota, pronounced
the benediction and Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix,
the president, called the second day’s ses
sion of the house to order.
A number of standing committees were
appointed and resolutions and memorials on
deceased members were presented and re
ferred.
Rev. Dr. Mann, of Missouri, offered a
resolution naming Kansas City as the next
place of meeting.
Several questions on the question of mar
riage and divorce were presented, -and
Bishop Dovenport, of the diocese of Spring
field, moved that the discussion of these
questions by the convention he held be
hind closed doors. The matter was re
ferred for consideration by a committee.
There is considerable speculation as to
the final recommendations of the commis
sion on certain subjects, some of which are
of great moment to the church. First in
point of interest is the report on the pro
posed canon on marriage and divorce. The
preliminary report of the committee has
already .been issued, in which it recom
mends that the church enact legislation
forbidding the clergy to solemnize the mar
riage. of any divorced person while the
other party to the divorce is living. The
church at present has no canon on divorce.
The nearest approach to it is the canon
which admits to the sacraments a person
who is the innocent party to a divorce.
The preliminary report of the commis
sion, of which Bishop Doane is chairman, is
■the cause cf a great diversity of opinion
among the delegates already in the city.
A number of eminent clergy express the
opinion that the recommendation will not
be adopted, at least by the present conven
tion, the objection being that the church
should take ground so high on the question
of divorce that there would be no chance
of maintaining It. A minority report will
j be filed by Bishop Potter and several other
members of the commission providing a
substitute for the recommendation prohib
iting the marriage of divorced persons al
together. The main feature of the substi
j tute is a provision for the marriage of the
innocent person to a divorce stilt.
Another matter which premises to occu
py much of the convention's tune is the
i question of the church’s attitude toward
•territorial expansion and the course to be
pursued with regard to organizing the de
nomination in the territory lately acquired
by the United States.
Other matters cf interest which will
| come before the convention will be the
• question of a new constitution for the
churQh and the proposed adoption of the
provincial system. The subject of the re
vision of the constitution has been before
< the church for several years, and it is con
sidered rather improbable that any defi
nite action will be taken by the present
j gathering. The provincial system is in
j tended to join contiguous diocese into
groups, each group to have an arch bishop
and a provincial council for transacting
certain business now only done by the gen
eral convention. The change, it is thought,
would be for the convenience of the church
government. There is very little opposition
to the measure expressed, it being general
ly regarded as a question in which the
bishops alone are interested.
ARMY OF MINERS
Are Patrolling the Railroad
Tracks and Streets,
By Associated Press.
Carlingviile, 111., Oct. 6. —The town of
Virden presents a decidedly martial aspect
as fully two thousand armed miners are
being organized into squads with which to
patrol the railroad tracks and highways.
The -commissary arrangements for feed
ing the miners have been perfected. The
strikers are not molesting the companies’
plants.
I Manager Lukene has reaffirmed his pur
pose of bringing in Alabama negroes to
take the miners’ places, and insists that the
sheriff be in readiness to invoke state aid.
ANOTHER SESSION
’ Os the Paris Peace Commission Was Held
Today.
Bv Associated Press.
Paris. Get. 6.—The Unite! States Peace
Commission held an hour’s session this
morning and then took a carriage ride to
Versailes.
PRIVATE DEAD.
By Associated Precs.
San Francisco, Oct. 6. —Private William
Bumpass, cf the First Tennessee, died of
hear: disease at Camp Presidio today.
AT MERIDIAN.
Strict Quarantine Has Seen Established
Against the World.
By Associated Frees.
Meridian, MLs., Oct. The Meridian
beard C f health has passed resolutions
quarantining against the world and no
person will be allowed to enter the citv
under any cireumstanctc- until freu.
Members of the First an i Second regi
ments have been employed as quarantine
officers and 'hs city will be guarded by
bayonets.
FEELING IS SINCERE. '
Sir Charles Tapper Speaks cf Anglo-/ m ri
can Sentiment.
By Associated Prees.
London, Oct. 6. —The Daily Chronicle
publishes this morning an interview with
Senator 'Frank D. Pavev and the Daßy
News cne with Sir Charles Tupper. the
Canadian statesman, both of whom dilate
upon the growth of the Anglo-American
interests as a genuine and enduring sen
timent. Sir Charier* Tupper testify'ng to
the sincerity of the feeling affecting Cana
da.
DECORATIONS ARE PRETTY,
City Hall Has Been Beautifu ly Decorated
bv the Fi em“p,
Quite a number of ladies called this
morning at tbe city hall to look at the de
corations of the council chamber, where all
the Georgia Mayors will be entertained
during the carnival week.
Perhaps no building in the city will be
so handsomely and so artistically decorated
as the city hall. It is done in high art,
the national tri-colors and the carnival
colors being harmoniously used and manip
ulated into 'the most pleasing shapes,
while the grouping of flags and the inter
weaving of the daisy, the city’s flower em
blem, makes an entirety that calls forth
admiration from all who view them.
The work is being done by the firemen
from the designs furnished by Clerk Smith.
The ladies are cordially invited to call at
the hall and see what can be done with
flags and bunting. The front of the hall
will also be beautifully decorated and when
the large flag is bung out it will be one
of the prettiest sights in the city.
GEORGIA-CAROLINA.
The Two Big Teams Will Plav
Football Here Nov. 12.
Manager Pomeroy, of the University
football team announces that he has just
completed arrangements with the Univer
sity of North Carolina for a game of foot
ball to be played in Macon on the 12th of
November.
Georgia and North Carolina have not met
on the gridiron for two years and the game
this year will be interesting.
The University team has been busy at
■practice since the opening of the college,
and is now' in splendid condition. They
will meet 'Clemson in Athens for the first
game of the reason and Saturday week
will play the Techs there.
Coach Chas. McCarthy is pleased with
tbe work of the team so far, and thinks
that they will win all of the games played.
A large crowd will come from Athens to
Macon to witness the game here on the
12th, and it is very probable that a special
train will be run.
COMES TO MACON.
Capt. S. E. Owens W i! 1 Be Missed by Heme
Foiks.
From tbe Augusta Chronicle.
Capt. S. E. Owens, who has extended
so many cordial greetings to Augusta’s
guests in the past several years, leaves to
night to join the reception committee of
of the hoLeleries cf Macon. He taas been
for the past three years, day clerk a: the
Planter’s Hckel, and fer five years previ
ous to that was at tne Arlington. He has
now accepted a position at the Brown
• House of Macon, where ha will take good
care of the guests entrusted to his care.
Capt. Owens is one cf the best known men
in Augusta, and a great favorite with the
traveling public. Though locating in Ma
con he declares ‘‘good old Augusta will al
ways be his home.”
Capt. Owens will have the pleasure of
greeting many Augustans next week in
Macon on the occasion of the Diamond Ju
bilee and tbe Brown House will be an at
tractive place with this well-known Au
gustan behind the desk.
E NECKWEAR
Men’s Autumn styles in Puffs, Imperials, Tecks,
Four-in-Hands, Club Ties and Bows. Princi
pally in simple but effective patterns and color
ings for the business wear of the quietly dressed
man.
Lively, slashing enough sorts are among
them, however, if you will hunt a little.
Good, honest values in good, honest goods.
They vary little from the regular dollar quali
ties—made from nearly as rich silk and satin,
but not lined as well. Worth 75c; our price, 50c.
PRICE THREE CENTS
iSPIIISH FHR
PORTO RICANS
Several Assassinations Have
Taken Place Lately and
More May Follow.
SETTLING OLD SCORES
Before the Evacuation Takes Piaac —
IV!aceos Will Leave the Island
Before Flag is Raised.
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! By Associated Press.
San Juan. P. R., Oct. G—The Alicante
arrived here yesterday morning and Hill
j Spain today with 250 sick Spanish
soldiers.
Tuesday Captain Artegui, of the civil
guard at Bay amo was severely .-tabbed by
i some persons unknown. It is thought he
will die. He is much disliked by the islan
ders.
[' Tie officials at Bayam o promptly made
several arrests, including a prominent pby
, sician. Dr. Si. Hall. Captain Artegui and
| St. Hall have long 'been bitter personal
, enemies. The physician is known to be an
j American sympathizer. He had to leave
| the island during the war and but recently
; returned. 'When arrested he was in a sick
bed from which he was removed to the jail,
j Popular opinion acquits him of any con -
j nection with the stabbing.
| Trouble of this character has been feared
j for some time at Bayamo. A Spanish res
! ident recently asked for American protec
! tion. General Brooke replied that it was
; impossible to furnish this until the Span
j ish had evacuated the island and that in
j the meantime the Spaniards must look to
j the Spanish authorities for protection.
I The Bayamo occurrence increases the ap
i prehension among the Spanish at Sau Juani
! where there have been similar incidents
| during the last few days. There is a ru~
' mor that old scores will be settled by the
j islanders and anonymous handbills are cir
culated all to the some tenor. Nevertheless,
i if there is no interval of unprotectedness
, between the Spanish evacuation and the
! American occupation of San Juan, serious
disorders are not likely to occur here. The
i United States .postal authorities now at
j Rio Peidras, will be ready to establish an
office here at the earliest opportunity.
! The remainder of General Ernest’s bri
| gade. the Sixteenth Pennsylvania and toe
I Third Wisconsin, now at Cayay, has re
j ceived orders to proceed to Ponce on Friday
j next. It will take four days to make the
’ trip. At Ponce they will embark for the*
j United 'States, arriving ‘between the 20th
and the 25th.
Since the cessation of hostilities a large
per eentage of sickness among these reg
! iments has been largely due to inactivity
and lack of interest with severe guard and
.patrol duty. The men are overjoyed at the
prospect of returning to the United Slates.
; Seven or tight old mortars, formerly be
longing to the city fortifications, were sold
by the Spanish authorities and removed to
; the dock for shipment. The American com
mission objected to the removal and the
' sale Has declared off. The mortars will be
replaced.
It is said that Captain General Macias,
who has nerved Spain long and faithfully,
and has never known defeat or surrender,,
will leave *the island before the formal sur
render to the American government. The
| feeling which prompts this resolution is
fully appreciated by the Americans here.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
Indiana Democrats Want Slammard as Jus
tice.
By Associated Prees.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oot. 6. —The Demo
cratic state central committee has decided
that M. Z. 3*annard, of Jefferson county,
should be placed on the ticket for supreme
judge in place of Judge Hackney, who re
cently withdrew his name from the ticket.