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About The Abbeville chronicle. (Abbeville, Ga.) 1896-1953 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1898)
VOL. II. t SWIFT TRAIN SMASHES A LEY CAB TO SPLINTERS. EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS KILLED. % Men and Women On the Trailer Mangled Beyond identification—Ten Badly Wounded and May Die. Shortly before 8 o’clock Monday night a trolley car of the Troy City Railway company was struck by the night boat special of the Delaware and Hudson railroad, at a crossing at the west end of the Hudson river bridge, which connects Cohoes, N. Y„ with Lansiugburg. Eighteen of the thirty-fiva passen geis were killed outright . . , , and , it is . stated that at least ten of the remain der will die. , Ihe cars entering the city for Laus ingburg were crowded with passengers returning from a Labor Day picnic at Renselaer park, a pleasure resort near rr °y Car No. 192 of the , the victim Troy City railway was of the disaster. It came over the bridge about 7:26 o’clock, luclon w itb a merry party of people. ihe crossing where the accident oc curred is at a grade. Four tracks of the Delaware and Hudson road, this’point, which runs north and south at cross the two tracks of the trolley road. It was the hour when the night boat special, a train which runs south ,a-nd connects with the New York city boat at Albany, was due to pass that point. The tracks of the street line run at ■ v grade from the bridge to the point where the disaster occurred. " In consequence of this fact and of the frequent passage of the trains, it •has been the rule for each motor car conductor to stop his car and go for ward to observe the railroad tracks and signal his car to proceed if no trains ascertained were in siglit, It cannot be whether that rule was complied with on this occasion, for all events pi ior to the crash are forgotten by those who were involved. Tho motor car was struck directly in the center by tho engine of the train, which was going at a high speed. The car was upon the tracks before the train loomed in sight and no power on earth could have saved it. The motor man evidently saw the train approach ing as he reached the track and open ed his controller, but in vain. . With a crash that was heard for blocks, the engine dashed into the lighter vehicle. The motor car parted in two, both sections being hurled in the air ip splinters. The mass of Human iiy, for the car was crowded to overflowing, was torn and mangled. Those in the front of the car met with tho worst fate. The force of the col lision was^ there experienced to the greatest degree, and every human be ing in that section of the car was killed. Bodies were hurled into the air and their headless and limbless trunks were found in some cases fifty feet from the crossing. The pilot of the engine was smashed and amid its wreckage were the maimed corpses of two women. The passengers of tho train suffered no injury in addition to a violent shock. The majority of the passengers of tho trolley car were young people. They included many women. The injured were taken to the Cohoes city hospital and to the Con tinental knitting mill, the former not having sufficient ambulance service to care for them all. The dead were placed in boxes and taken to a neigh boring mill shed. •Many were unrecognizable. The crash was frightful in its results— headless women with gay summer dresses, bathed in their own and tho blood of others; limbs without trunks or means of identifying to whom they belonged; women and men’s heads with crushed and distorted features; bodies crushed and flattened. Tho train of the Delaware and Hud son road, immediately after the acci dent, proceeded to Troy. The engin eer stated that he did not see the car until he was upon it. He tried to prevent his train from striking the car, but his efforts were fruitless. REGULARS AND VOLUNTEERS Be Separated In Order That Better Discipline May Pro vail. A Washington dispatch says: Sec retary Alger is seriously considering the proposition to separate the regu lars from the volunteer troops. The suggestion has been made that it might be wise to send tho regulars back to the permanent military encampments. It is argued that there are numerous frrts and military stations all along the New England coast where the reg ulars might be conveniently and profit ably stationed, and be much better cared for than they are in the emer gency camps. At the war department the question is discussed from various standpoints. WILL VISIT OMAHA. President Accept* Pressing Invitation of Exposition Officials. President McKinley and as many members , of ... his cabinet ... as can do , so will attend some portion of the peace jnbilee which begins at the Omaha ex position October 10th. The president so informed a delegation of Nebras kans who called at the white house Tuesday and presented to him a attend, somely engrossed to The Abbeville Chronicle. OPPOSED TO A REVISION OF THE DREYFUS CASE. DISAGREED WITH HIS COLLEAGUES Story of the Imprisoned Artillerist and the Revelations Which Followed His, Trial and Conviction. A cable dispatch from Paris states that M. Cavaignac, minister for war, has resignod. The resignation was due to a disagreement with his col leagues who desire a revision of the Dreyfus case, thus a revision of the Case seem8 nssured - Story of Dreyfus Case. Albert Dreyfus is an Alsatian Jow. He was a captain in the Fourteenth rog i ment of artillery in the French army. He was detailed for service at the information bureau of the minis ^r of war. He was arrested on Octo ber 15, 1891, on the charge of having sold military secrets to a foreign power. Here is the letter which was said to have been found at the Herman embassy by a French detective, writ ten, it was claimed, in the hand of Dreyfus: “Having no news from you I do not know what to do. I send you in the meantime tho condition of the forts. I also hand you Instructioris as to firing. If C"ffetnTrSns have been given only to officers of the gen eral stafT ' 1 leavo for ,he manoevres.” Some time before the arrest of Drey fus, who was charged with being the author of this letter, M. Drumont, ed itor of the Libre Parole, had been rav ing about the Jews in general. He declared Dreyfus guilty, but affirmed that there was danger of his being ac quitted, through the Juverie, “the cosmopolitan syndicate which exploits France.” Public opinion in Paris was thus poisoned agaiust Dreyfus. He was under these circumstances brought to tri|l dared before guilty, a secret degraded court from martial, his de mili tarv rank and imprisoned for life on Devil’s Island off the coast of French Guiana. The sentence was executed with the greatest severity, It is stated that Dreyfus is living in a mis erable hut shut in by an iron cage on the islaud. He is allowed to send and receive letters only which have been transcribed by one of his guardians, He and his family have always stoutly asserted his innocence. It appeared from the indictment of Dreyfus that he was convicted on an unsigned memorandum indicating that its author had sold military secrets to a foreign government. It appeared also that of the five experts in handwriting who testified at the trial only three hail affirmed that Dreyfus had written the memorandum. Matthieu Dreyfus, a brother of the captain, declared that Major-Esterhazy was the guilty mgn. » Esterhazy was arrested, his lodgings and papers ransacked and two letters were found in which he expressed a wish that the Germans would conquer France. He was tried, as Dreyfus had been, before a military court and behind closed doors. Bo far as can be judged by the meagre accounts made public, the evidence that Esterhazy wrote the memorandum was quite as strong as that which had already con victed Dreyfus of that act. Esterhazy was not only acquitted, but also publicly congratulated and complimented by the president of the court. Then it was that Emile Zola, the novelist, took a hand in the affair. He addressed an open letter to the presi dent of the republic entitled “I ac cuse,” wjjieh was published in the “L’Aurora. ” He charged that the officers of the courtmartial freed Es terhazy upon the order of their chiefs in the ministry of war, in their anxie ty to show that French military just ice could not possibly make an error. Thereupon Zola was indicted, as was also the responsible representative of the paper “L’Aurora.” They were adjudged guilty of tho libel against French officers. By the assize court of Versailles Zola was sentenced to pay a fine of 3,000 francs and serve a year in prison. It was in the Zola trial that Colonel Henri first figured in the eise. ORDER TV AS REVOKED. Second T?orlh Carolina Regiment Volun teers Will Not Be Mustered Out. The order for the mustering out of tho Second North Carolina volunteers, which was issued from the war de partment several weeks ago, has been revoked, and the North Carolinians will continue for the present to do guard duty along the Atlantic coast. Strong influence has been brought to bear upon the authorities at Wash ington to retain the regiment in ser vice, since a large number of other southern regiments will be kept intact and given places in Cuba or Porto Rico until the final settlement of peace terms. MILLSTONES EXPLODED Hurling Four Men Into Eternity anil In juring Pour Others. A dispatch from Vicksburg, MU*.,' ^ says: J The millstones at the gin on the Ni Ha Ynma plantflfcion burst with a terrific force Saturday morning, in s tantly killing four men and injuring j onr others, two of them fatally, Three of the dead wore driven through the walls of the building by the force of the explosion, and their bodies were fearfully mangled. ABBEVILLE. GA„ THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1898. MIDDLE.OF.THE-ROADERS NAME DARKER AND DONNELLY. PREPARED FOR CAMPAIGN OF 1900 Convention Split, Into Two Factions. Senator Butler Designated as a Traitor By One Faction. A Cincinnati special says: The middle-of-the-road populists at their session Tuesday reorganized the peo ple’s party, renewed its former declar ation of principles and nominated its national ticket two years and two months in advance of the date of tho election. The object of this early ac tion was to head off any such fusion as that of 1896. While the radicals controlled the convention, they could not have car ried out their programme without a bolt from the northern delegates. Tho western and southern delegates nominated Wharton Barker and Igna tius Donnelly and declared the princi ples of the reorganized party. The eastern states were not repre sented. It was the smallest national convention on record, and it adopted the longest platform on record, one of over 7,1)00 words. Most of the usual rules of conventions w r ere ignored, as most of the delegates came with self constituted credentials, owing to the confusion over the call. A letter was read from ex-Governor David Waite, of Colorado, during the early hours of the session, in which ho denounced Senator Butler as a treach erous chairman and false leader, and advocated the nomination of straight populist tickets for president and other offices. An elaborate address to the people of the United States was adopted. It reaffirms tho previous platform of the populists aud covers mauy questions, and in referring to the present situa tion, it says: “The people’s party vote in 1894 and 1895 rose to nearly two millions, and everything indicated its speedy national triumph. In this emergency the democratic party saw that it had no recourse but to steal one of the principles of the despised, populists. In the Chicago convention of 1896, in a prearranged theatrical scene of great uproar and enthusiasm, moved to the front as the devoted and life-long champion of that which it had always opposed. “Senator Butler, who is chairman of our national committee, preached dis integration and demoralization just ns Benedict Arnold stipulated for the scattering of the American forces, that the British might the more readily overthrow the young republic. “Sir. Butler taught our forces that the first duty of a soldier was to break ranks and go over to the enemy. All efforts to chain the boundless subtlety of this cunning man have been in vain. Our chief battle is not against the de monetization of one metal for the ben efit of another, but against the chain ing of the world’s progress to the car wheels of a prohistoric superstition in tho shape of both metals. The whole world today is held in check by a sys tem of gold barter, while enterprise languishes, industry suffers and tho cemeteries are populous with the bod ies of bankrupts and suicides. We will end the tricks of the office seekers by putting our national ticket in the field at once. “We believe the soul is bigger than the pocketbook. We have nothing but kind words for Republicans and democrats individually. Our hearts go out to the wretched and oppressed of the whole world. While we demand that if either gold or silver is to be used as money, both shall be so used; we insist that the best currency this country ever possessed was the full legal tender greenback of the civil war. And wo look forward with hope to tbo day when gold shall be relegat ed aud tho human family possess, free of tribute to bankers, a governmental full legal tender measure of values, made of paper that will expand side by side with the growth of wealth and population.” A hitter discussion followed on a motion to proceed with nominations for president and vice president. The But ler faction moved to amend by refer ring the whole matter to their national committee. This caused great disturb ance and the Butler faction, led by Mr. Palmer, of Illinois, left the hall and the other faction proceeded with nominations. Barker and Donnelly Nominated. After numerous nominating and sec onding speeches in presenting two names for presidential candidates a ballot was taken, resulting as follows: Wharton Barket, of Pennsylvania, 128 4-5; Ignatius Doni illy, of Minne nesota, 99 1-5. On motion of Mr. Donnelly the nomination of Mr. Barker was made unanimous. Ignatius Donnelly was then nominated by acclamation for vice president. WILL NOT PARADE. An Order Issued In Regard to General Miles and His Troops. A Washington dispatch says: Gen eral Milas aud his army of between 4,000 aud 5,000 volunteers now en route to this country from Porto Rico, will not parade in New York city or elsewhere, as a body, upon their arri val. The official announsement. of this fact was made at the war depart ment Saturday. CHEERS THE MANY SICK SOLDIERS #Y HIS PRESENCE. HE IS GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME. Goes Through the Hospitals and After ward Addresses Heroes of the Santiago Campaign. President McKinley spent five hours at Camp Wikoff, Montnak Point, Sat urday, barehead.d most of the time, visiting the siok in the hospitals and inspecting the well in their canton ments. He made a speech to the as sembled infantrymen, reviewed the cavalrymen, expressed his opinion of the camp to the reporters and issued an order directing the regulars to re turn to their stations east of the Mis sissippi. With the president wereVioe Presi dent Hobart, Secretary of War Alger, Attorney General Griggs, Senator Redfiold Proctor, of Vermont; Briga dier General Regan, commissary of the army; Brigadier General Ludington, quartermaster of the army; Colonel Henry Hecker aud Secretaries to the President Porter aud Cortolyou. The ladies of the party were Sirs. Alger and Miss Hecker, daughter of Colonel Hecker. General Wheeler, his staff and near ly every officer of prominence in the camp met the president at the station except General Shafter, who w r as still in detention, and General Young, who fell and broke his arm Friday night. After greetings aud introductions on the railway platform, the president took General Wheeler’s arm and went to a oarriage. Mr. McKinley drove to General Shatter's tent in the detention camp. The general, who was flushed and weak from a mild case of malarial fever, was in full uniform, sitting in a chair at the door of the tent. He tried to rise, but Mr. McKinley said: “Stay where you are, general. You are entitled to rest.” The president congratulated General Shafter on the Santiago campaign and after a few minutes’ rest proceeded to the general hospital. The soldiers recently arrived on transports and de tained in the detention section of the camp lined up irregularly on each side of the road and cheered. Mr. Mc Kinley took off his straw hat then,and scarcely put it on for more than a minute or two at a time during the remainder of his progress through the camp. Miss Wheeler, a daughter of the general, happened to bo in tho first row of the hospital tents and she showed the president through her division. General Wheeler announced in each ward: “Boys, the president has come to see yon,” or “SoldierR, the president of the United States.” Some of the soldiers slept uncon scious, some listlessly raised upon their elbows, others feebly clapped their hands. Mr. McKinley gently shook hands with many, and at every cot he paused an instant, and if he saw the sick man looking at him he bowed in a direct and personal way. From here the president proceeded to the infantry plain, as it is called. The men of the Ninth Massachusetts, the First' Illinois, the Eighth Ohio, the Thirteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty second and Tenth regular infantry were assembled without arms. About 5,0 0 men stood in close order. Gen eral Wheeler said: “Tho president of our great country nas come here to greet the soldiers that mnrehed so gallantly np Han Juan hill on July 1st. He comes here to express the nations thanks to these brave men.” The president then addressed tho men in a touching manner, eliciting cheers at frequent intervals. The par; of the field where the Eighth Ohio stood, the regiment which is sometimes called “The President’s Own,” was particularly noisy. The party then wont to the detention hos pital. The graveyard, in which sixty to seventy plain new wooden crosses stood, was near the road on the left. The president solemnly raised his hat. Mr. McKinley went through all tho wards of the detention hospital in th* same careful way in which he had gone through those of the general hospital. The president and those with him took lunch with General Wheeler and his staff. After lunch tho president, General Alger, General Wheeler and Colonel Hard, of the Eighth Ohio, were photographed in a group. The presidentfissued an order direct ing that the regular troops at Camp Wikoff whose postH are cast of the Mississippi should return with tho least possible delay to their posts. When the president reached Long Island City he took the government ferry boat, General Meigs, and was taken around the lower end of Man hattan island to the Jersey shore on his way to the vice president’s, at Pat terson, N. J., where he spent Sunday. FAVOR ANNEXING CUBA. I’l-omluent Spaniards Iu Mexico Advcit-aGi Such Course. Leading Spanish residents in the city of Mexico, who have in some cases had large connections commercially with Haveugj jujil .other Cuban ports, are now favoring the definite annexa tion of the island to the United States, ‘ assuming that the Spanish flag wi!l I to float there. * , soon cease FIRST WORK OF THE BODY WAS TO CLEAR THE GALLERIES. SECRET SESSION WAS THE ORDER. Sapita Starts tlie Ball—Pres* Censorship Was Discussed-"'Sensational Seelies Presented. The Spanish chambers assembled at Madrid Monday, At the opening' of the senate the sec retary read a letter from -Senor Rod riguez, senator from Porto Rico, re fusing to obey the summons to attend. The premier, Senor Sagasta, ascend ed the tribune and read a decree au thorizing the government to present to the chamber a draft of a law em powering the ministers tp renounce sovereignty over the colonies in con formity with the stipulations of tho peace preliminaries between Spain and the United States. The president of the senate proposed a secret discussion of the decree and desjiite the protests of some senators ordered that the gal leries be cleared, which was done amid loud murmurs of disapproval. The chamber soon became involved in a discussion of press censorship and a deputy inquired the motive underly ing a circular which General Chinchil la, captain general of Madrid, has ad dressed to newspapers regulating their reports of the sessions of the cortes. He declared that the censorship was inconsistently applied aud that the effect of the circular was to punish possible errors in advance. At the close of the censorship dis cussion, in which deputies who are journalists protested emphatically against the attitude of the govern ment, Senor Romero y Robledo ac cused the government of illegality in continuing the suspension of the con stitutional guarantees after the reopen ing of tho cortes. He demanded im mediate decrees revoking the suspen sion. Senor Capdepon, the minister of tho interior, replied that the time was not opportune to revoke the suspension and reminded Senor Romeroy Robledo that a former i:, TTio .iMtcncziaiiiiiterim General goT^ ernor of the Philippines, replying to the government’s request for informa tion as to the true situation of affairs in the archipelago, reports that to as sure the re-establishment of Spanish quire sovereignty over tho islands would re a permanent army of 60,000 men, a floot aud endless quantities of mate rials. The conservatives have decided to continue to support the government, DONNELLY DENOUNCED FUSION. Mlddle-nf-tlic-ltoail Uu |i ti I i 1.1 N Meet In Con volition At Clnclnneti. The national convention of tho mid dle of the road populists was called to order at Cincinnati Monday noon. During the morning tho middle-of-tho roaders were in informal conference and exchanged opinions enough to in dicate much difference in their views as to whether they should hold a nom inative convention or merely a general conference. In calling the convention to order Joseph Tarker, of Louisville, secretary of the Reform Press Association, strongly advocated independent action by tho populists, whether it is done at this convention or at some future time. Ignatius Donnelly was chosen tem porary chairman and made a red-hot speech denouncing General Wheeler and all other leaders who had co-oper - ated with fusion with the democrats. He referred to Grover Cleveland as a traitor to the democratic party, and Senator Butler as a traitor to the pop ulist party. He was especially severe in denouncing Senator Butler as a man who reached an exalted position by conniving with the republicans for his election to the senate and now un der instructions from W. J. Bryan he is conniving with the democrats. Mr. Donnelly advocated a reorgani zation of the populist party on the lino of the middle-of-the-roaders, as indicated in their conference at Omaha last June aud again at Nashville las'; July. The usual committees were ap pointed. KAISER SENDS CONGRATULATIONS Kitchener Received Meaftagcs Kccalllns; If 1st Great Victory Over Dervishes. The Cairo correspondent of Tho London Times says the first telegram of congratulations to arrive from En ro I? was from Emperor William, who : aid: “I am sincerely glad to he able to offer my congratulations on the splen did victory at Omdurmao, which at last avenges poor Gordon’s death.” The queen and General Lord Garnet Wolsely, the commander in chief of Lh? British army, telegraphed their fjongratulations to the sirdar direct. REDEEM PACIFIC BONDS. Secretary of tins Treasury Issue* An Im portant Circular to Holders. The secretary of the treasury has issued a call offering to redeem tho balance of the bonds amounting to $14,004,650 issued to the Pacific rail roads. 9,000,000 Of this amount over were issued to tho Central Pacific, over $1,500,000 to the old Western Pacific. These bonds will be redeemed at the treasury at a rebate of one-half of one per cent of their lam value at any time during the jKoufTof September. A BRIDGE COLLAPSES, CARRY. ING DOWN SIXTY MEN. THE LIST OF DEATHS APPALLING. Disaster Came Without Warnlng^Kigh teen Bodies Recovered, But Many Are Missing. A special from Hogansburg, N. Y., says: About noon Tuesday two south spans of the international bridge of the New York and Ottawa railroad, now under construction across the St. Lawrence river, about three miles above St. Regis Indian village, fell without warning with sixty workmen, all being thrown into tho river, some sixly feet below. Over thirty were picked up and taken to the Cornwall hospital and twenty-seven were missing. The bridge consists of three spans, of which two were completed and tho third was nearly completed when the south pier gave way at its foundation, causing both spans to fall into sixty feet of water, takiug its load of hu man freight with it. The bridge was being bull! aoross the St. Lawrence river at the foot of Long Saulto rapids, near Reinhardt’s island. The water at this point is known to be as swift as in any part of the river. The immediate cause of the disaster and the giving way of the span of the bridge seems to have been from the washing nway of one of the large piers. The pier in question was begun all last fall and work was continued winter and finished this summer. The con tract work was in charge of Messrs. Sooy, Smith A Co., who are well known as extensive and careful con tractors iii their line and known to hqve hail instructions from the rail road company to build for "parma nency.” The pier had becn/Kcoepted as perfectly reliable amp' safe. It would seem from this 'that tho swift ness of the current was underesti I-, ! I n !« ( II tl” 1 hospital. died. Eighteen of them have since The latest information makes probable tha^t the death list will reach thirty. ■ As far as can be learned, eighty seven men were on ike pay roll, of whom eighty-two reported for work Tuesday morning. Of this list, only thirij^fght ya-witness have been of the accounted fail of for. the bridge says that he was sitting on tho hank of the river watching the work men above him when, without warn ing, there came a fearful crash. Two spans of the bridge col lapsed, the immense mass of timber and iron dropped and the agonizing shrieks of the men who were being crushed in tho wreck were drowned by tho rushing waters. Then he saw bodies coming to the surface,aud the work of rescue began. This was helplessly inadequate, there being only a few boats in the vicinity anil very few men who would under take to swim out into the turbulent waters. Many who might have been saved wore drowned before help could reach them. Piteous appealing faces sank beneath the waters before the eyes of helpless onlookers. Mangled bodies came to the surfaco for a moment, and then passed out of sight. It was a terrible and heart-rending scene. Even those who were got to land alive wero in such condition that many died on the way to the hospitals. Some had their hacks broken, others both logs, while others were crushed by tho. heavy irons. About fifty of the men employed on tho span were Americans, who were working for the Phoenix Bridge Com pany. The remainder were mostly Indians, who acted as assistants. Every man on tho division wont down with the wreck. Many of those who escaped climbed up the iron work which still rested, on piers at either end. The scene around the Hotel Dieu, where the wounded and dying were taken, was heartrending. The wives and relatives of missing men were anxiously inquiring aftev their loved ones. HILL WHITE REFUSE! Reported That ITo Will Not Serve On the Fence Commission. Secretary of State Day arrived in Cleveland, O., Monday morning. Secretary Day said that lie intended to hand in his resignation on the 12th of this month. He gave it as his un derstanding that Justice White had decided not to serve as one of the commissioners. Regarding ex-Secretary a pub lished interview with Sherman, in Washington, in which the latter expressed some very radical views regarding the war with Spain, he declined to speak. MAN Y DEATHS AT WIKOFF, Mot Wav© Having a Disastrous Effect on Sick Soldiers. A Now York disyatch says: The hot weather is increasing the deaths among the sick soldiers in the hospitals at Camp Wikoff to an alarming degree, besides prostrating many who hereto fore have not been on the sick list. There were eighteen deaths Friday. President McKinley was shocked on learning of the terrible suffering of Michigan troops from the heat while en route from the camp to Long Island Citybv rail. NO. 33. 1 NINETY-FOUR DEATHS OCCUR IN THO DAYS IN METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF PROSTRATIONS HESW Mercury Stood Steadily In the Nineties. Belief Finally Came Through Cooling Breezes. ( Fifty dead and over 100 proatratione in one day is the record of th. heat in New York Saturday. The sun beat relentlessly on the sweltering city all day long. Night followed almost like day and the deaths from the heat were reported at intervals in the various city hos' pitals, police headquarters and the ooroner’s office. The highest point reached by the thermometer during the day was at 2 o’clock, when the mercury registered 92 degrees. The humidity averaged 85 per oent. In Brooklyn there were six deaths and fourteen prostrations. Forty-Three Sunday. While the heat of the city was not as great Sunday in the matter of degrees, it was just insufferable, and more so than that of Saturday, on account of the duration and continuance of the hot weather. Up to midnight there had been re ported to police headquarters forty three deaths and forty-four prostra tions from the heat. Sunday everything that floated car ried a crowd of humanity to seashore or mountains, and the trains, cable and trolley cars and other modes of locomotion were jammed with people all day long. There were twenty prostrations and. four deaths from the heat reported in Hoboken. Sunday night the. sweltering heat gave place to a shade of coolness. A breeze agitated the air sufficiently to relieve the terrible pressure, aud in tho tonement districts everyone who could find space on which to rest up on the roofs or fire escapes was' drink ing in energy and vitality in the changed condition of the atmosphere. Nino Deaths in Philadelphia. There were nine deaths from the heat and about twenty-five prostrations in Philadelphia Sunday. TO SUPPLY SMOKELESS POWDER. Bids From Six Firm* Who Wont to Fur* BidVwere \ nlsli tlio Government. opened Saturday at the navy department ffj^h ^ for snpaij' warships : smokeless teries to supply of all at. the lcaHHHBSHH| flhiP^B||ljj|| and from thie time supply to time. will h^_ There were six bids received atra( department and opened by Judge Ad vocate Lemley iu the presence of rep resentatives of most of the bidders. The bids on an average were about the tamo as the navy is now paying for its*powder and slightly below tho figure paid by the army under tho emergency created by the war. WANT HONORABLE DISCHARGE. Governor of Nnliraskn Aiks For (he Ke lease of Col. Bryan's Regiment. Governor Holcomb, of Nebraska, telegraphed to Washington Sunday asking if it was possible to secure an bonorablo discharge for tho members of tbo Third Nebraska, Bryan’s regi ment, on their application. Private advices from Jacksonville telling of four deaths within a week and an alleged increase in the sick list of the regiment has prompted the gover nor’s action. NINE NEW FEVER CASES Reported From Orwood, Mis*.—A Total of Twenty-One Patients. The marine hospital service at Wash ington received a dispatch from tha Mississippi state health officer stating that there were nine cases Saturday ab Orwood. With twelvo cases heretofore report ed this makes a total of twenty-one at that point. Three cases of yellow fever were im ported at Franklin, La. This makes a total of seven cases in all at that place, two of which have been fatal. HOSPITAL DOORS CLOSED. Action Wag Taken on Account of Sever* Criticism and Abuse. The following telegram was received at the war department Tuesday: “Chattanooga, Tenn,, September 0.—General H. C. Corbin, Washing ton: Second division Third corps hos pital closed yesterday. This is the one that was most generally and se verely criticised. Following is its re cord since established, June lOthi Total number of patients, 2,462; total deaths, 38. Of these cases 270 were typhoid and of the total deaths twenty eight were from typhoid. “H. V. Boynton, “Brigadier General.” CEUVERA GOES TO NORFOLK, A<1 utli-ftl Slaking Freparations i’orTrssi. poi-latiou Rack to .Spain. Admiral Cervera, of .the Spanish navy, accompanied by Lieutenant Cer vera, his son, left Annapolis Monday for Norfolk, Va., for tha purpose of completing arrangements for, the transportation to Spain of the prison ers now confined at Portsmouth, who were captured in the naval fight off Santiago. \ /
