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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. <i IT 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. * : i ! 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.