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SWIFT TRAIN SMASHES A
LEY CAB TO SPLINTERS.
EIGHTEEN PASSENGERS KILLED.
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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
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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.
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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. \ /