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COAL MINE DISASTER CAUSED BY
GAS EXPLOSION.
EIGHT WORKMEN TAKEN OUT DEAD
The Other Sixty-Two Made Miraculous
Escapes, Though Three of Them
Were Badly Injured.
Seventy men were entombed Friday
in the Empire mine of Snowden, Guild
& Co., a short distance from Browns
ville, Pa., as the result of an explo
sion of gas, followed by another ex
plosion of fire damp.
Of the number entombed all escaped
or were taken out by rescuing parties
except eight, who were killed outright,
and three more or less hurt.
The list of the dead is: John A.
Huiston, Salem Haiston, Robert Da
vidsoD, John Bennett, William Pritch
ard, Henry Hagar, John Cartwright
and James Hall.
Those injured are: George Baker,
miner, burned about face and breast;
John Baker, slightly burned; Samuel
McIntyre, cut on bead by fall of slate.
The explosion is said to have been
caused by the loosening of a large
block of coal which opened a pocket
of gas. ^Immediately following the
explosion of gas there was a second
explosion of fire damp.
Intelligence of the disaster soon
spread and tjie crowds gathered around
the mouth of the mine. Terrible
.scenes of grief and horror were pre
sented as it was thought that all of
those in the mine had perished.
Wives and children of the entombed
men were frantic with grief and their
shrieks and wails were frightful to
hear. Notwithstanding the great dan
the rescuing parties worked
bravely.
At 9 o’clock Friday night the last of
the explorers of the mine erme out and
announced that tqere was nothing liv
ing or dend left behind in the mine,
leaving tho list of fatalities as given
above.
COL, JOHNSTON PASSES AWAY.
Th© Well Known Lpcturer and Novelist
Dies In Baltimore.
Richard Malcolm Johnston, the lec
turer and novelist, died in Baltimore
Friday morning, after an illness of
several months.
Richard Malcolm Johnston was bv.-n
at the old homestead near Powelltou,
Ga., on the 8th of March, 1820. After
receiving such schooling as the neigh
borhood afforded ho entered Mercer
university, then located at Pennfield,
in 1841. He graduated with the first
honors of his class, which was the first
one formed at this noted school. Af
ter teaching school for a year he
studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1843.
At the close of the wnr he removed
to Baltimore aud established the noted
Penn Lucy school for boys at Chestnut
Hill about two miles north of Balti
more. This school was named in honor
of his daughter, Lucy Davenport, who
died in Georgia. For many years tho
Georgia poet, Sidney Lanier, was as
sociated with him iu conducting this
school.
Mr. Johnston has written in all more
than 100 stories, the majority of which
have appeared in book form. Per
haps his most important literary work
is a book called “The English Clas
sics,” a historical and critical work on
English, literature. It was prepared
by him for publication while professor
in the University of Georgia. This
book is used as a text book in the
higher classes of most of the colleges
and universities of the northern and
eastern states.
EXODUS OF AMBASSADORS.
Only a Few Representatives of Foreign
Countries Are Now In Washington.
With the departure of M. Cambon
from Washington, the ambassadors of
France, Germany and Italy will be
abroad, leaving only Great Britain
and Russia with their ambassadors at
the national epital.
The exodus toward Europe at the
time of the meeting of the peace com
mission at Paris has given rise to
reports that there was some significance
in the trips, although it is said at the
several ambassies that no political con
siderations are involved.
THEY DON’T SPEAK.
Friendly Relations Between Colombia and
Italy At An End.
Advices received from Bogota, the
capital of Colombia, say that all rela
tions between Colombia and Italy have
been severed, owing to the action of
the Italian government in the Cerruti
affair, which the Colombiau officials
considered arbitrary and in violation
of the treaty of 1892, which was there
by annulled.
News received from Carthageua
says it is rumored there that Colombia
agrees to pay the claim of Punchard,
McTaggart & Co. of 10,000 francs as a
result of a breach of the Antignain
railroad contract.
ADOPTED AN ULTIMATUM
Which Demand, a Reafflrmatlon of the
Chicago Platform.
The Chicago platform democrats of
the state of New York, represented by
about 100 delegates, met in executive
session in Troy Thursday, perfected
an organization and adopted an ulti
matum demanding that reaffirmation
of the Chicago platform'shall be adopted be em
bodied in the platform ooavWtion to
pjr the Syracuse
Chronicle
rEUE&PTOKl ORDERS ISSUED
By Washington Authorities That Span
iard. Evacuate Cuba at Once.
A Washington special says: A very
peremptory message of instruction
has been sent to the Cuban military
commission, anil by them made the
basis of a note to the Spanish corn
missiouers. The authorities in
X“ uM,,°bMu’
that the United States will not be sat
isfied with auy further delay in the
evacuation of Cuba.
It is to the effect that the terms of
the protocol called for the immediate
evacuation of Cuba and that Spanish
sovereignty The must be relinquished.
American commissioners have
been informed that the evacuation of
Cuba cannot be delayed.
that Cuba, '' nr at department least, shall is be determined ready for
some of our troops by the middle of
next month, and all speed is being
made to equip troops to lie sent there
at that time. The administration has
determined that the Spanish shall be
brought to an understanding that they
are the vanquished and not the victors,
and they are to take terms and not
dictate them.
A SENSATIONAL STORY.
It la Said That Germany Will Furnish
Arms to Filipinos.
The Sau Francisco Post publishes a
sensational story to the effect that
Germany is planning to send muner
ous trading vessels to the Philippine
islands and will ar B 150,000 Filipinos,
besides furnish in JQ Krupp guns ami
artillery for ---
field use.
The islanders, The Post alleges, will
be thoroughly drilled by German offi
cers, and by February Aguinaldo will
be prepared to make an onslaught on
the American forces. According to
The Post, German agents have made a
report to their government that it will
be impossible for the United States to
land more than 50,000 in the
pines before Aguinaldo is ready to
make his coup
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WHEELER FIRST SELECTED
To Command a Division ot Regular Cavalry
In Cuba.
A special to The New York Journal
from Washington says:
The first steps were taken Friday
toward preparing an army for the
occupation of Cuba after the evacua
tion of the Spanish troops. General
Miles aud Acting Secretary Meikeljohn
had a long conference on this subject
for the purpose of assigning regiments
aud officers to this duty in Cuba and
Porto Rico.
General Wheeler is the first officer
to be selected as a result of the con
ferences for a responsible command
in the Cuban army of occupation. He
will have charge of a cavalry division
consisting of two brigades, and com
posed of six regiments of regular cav
alry.
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WOODFORD FORMALLY RESIGNS.
Former Minister to Madrid Follows Usu
al Custom on Breaking Out of War.
Following the custom in the case of
a minister who has been obliged to
leave his post by the breaking out of
hostilities, Stewart L. Woodford has
filed his resignation as minister to
Spain. It is believed that it will be
six months before the United States
has occasion to send a minister to
Madrid again, and if Mr. Woodford’s
resignation remains so long unacted
upon his status will fte merely nomi
nal, for under the law, his salary
ceased after the expiration of 60 days
from the date he left his post.
NYU TING FANG NOTIFIED
Of Accession To China’s Tlir#ne of the
Dowager Empress.
I he Chinese minister at Washing
ton, Mr. Wu Ting Fang, received a
cable dispatch Friday from the Chi
nese foreign office at Peking giving
the text of the edict issued by the em
peror Thursday in which, owing to the
critical condition of Chinese affairs,
he calls back to power the empress
dowager and commits to her hands the
direction of affairs of the empire.
THE FEVER SITUATION.
City Board of Health Reports No Change
In New Orleans.
The New Orleans board of health
issued an official bulletin Friday night
showing that there have been no cases
of fever in two days. There has not
been a single death among the five
cases previously reported. One new
case is reported at Houma, in Terbonne
parish. There have been no new cases
at Harvey’s Canal in four days.
KHALIFA’S ARMY DEFEATED.
The East Remnant Driven Frt>in Strong*
hold at Gedarif.
Advices from Suakim just received
state that the only organized remnant
oi the khalifa’s army was defeated and
its last stronghold, Gedarif, captured
September 22d, after three hours’
hard fighting, when an Egyptian force
numbering 1,300, under command of
Colonel Parsons, routed 3,000 der
vishes, of whom 500 were killed.
Three Egyptian officers were wounded
and thirty-seven Egyptian soldiers
killed and fifty-nine wounded.
EXPRESS TRAIN ROBBED.
Highwaymen In Missouri Blow a Car tip
With Dynamite.
The Colorado and Coffeyville ex
press train on tho Missouri Pacific
railroad, which left Kansas City at
9:1.5 o’clock Friday night, was held up
by robbers about six miles out from
the city.
The locomotive and baggage car
were detached from the train, after
which the robbers shattered the Pa
cific Express Company’s car with
dynamite. The amount of booty «e
„-iv J <* not known,
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ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1898.
ADMITS THAT HE WROTE CON
VICTING DOCUMENT.
DETAILS OF NEFARIOUS PLOT.
Ex-Major Says He Was Ordered to “Man
ufacture” Proof By Ills Superior and
Bllmlly Obeyed the Command.
The London Observer of Sunday
morning continues its E.sterhazy rev
elations in a long article, the most
salient feature of which is Esterhazy’s
disclosure, made, it is asserted, in the
Presence of more persons than one,
that he was the author of the famous
Dreyfus bordereau which he wrote “at
the request of Colonel Sandherr, now
dead.”
“It was intended,” he said, “to
constitute material proof of Dreyfus’
guilt. It was known through a French
spy in the service at Berlin that certain
documents had reached the German
general staff which Dreyfus nloue could
have obtained. It was a list of these
documents which constituted the bor
dereau. Dreyfus bad been tested in
several ways. For instance, a plan
for the concentration of troops on the
southeastern frontier had been dictated
*? him ."' hich was 9 uite fantastic. A
Ital *°. rt stormed . t ‘ me a 1 fter ": that arc a the ° u Italian T r , f.P ioa staff 1 la
y ns
w ? s making modifications around Nice,
wblch ^sponded to the changes
>“ tbe imaginary scheme
^ ated rbe “ to Dre Dreyfus, ? fn *, managed to spend
Iong , 1 m Alsace without being
a PPar<m*ly found out by the German
anthonties-a very suspicious sign,for
was almost impossible for a French
officer to remain for any length of time
in the conquered provinces without
being found out. In fact, there was
considerable moral proof against
Dreyfus before the trial took place,but
no material proof.
“Colonel Sandherr, who was an Al
satian, like Dreyfus, but intensely an
ti-Semitic, determined to torga this
proof. He was convinced of the ac
cused man’s guilt, but it was neces
sary for the purposes of the courtmar
tial that documents should exist.
“When Colonel Sandherr told me to
write out the bordereau,I did so with
out the slightest compunction. I am
one of those men who are soldiers by
profession, and cling to old medieval
traditions of military discipline. When
I received an order I obeyed it implic
itly and without question. I wrote
the bordereau because Colonel Sand
herr told me to. I knew, of course,
the purposes it was intended to serve.
I know I was committing a forgery:
but I also knew that all intelligence
departments in all countries were run
on if precisely the same lines, and that
was impossible to achieve the results
in any other way.
“It was exclusively upon the evi
dence of the bordereau that Dreyfus
was condemned. The document pri
vately shown to the officers of the
courtmartial was fetched from the war
department during the trial with the
object of convincing judges should
they show signs of wavering.”
A SCOURGE OF SCURVY
Carries Off* Nearly the Entire Crew of
a German Vessel.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
German bark Olga arrived at the Dela
ware Breakwater Saturday night for
orders from Samaraug, Java, laden
with sugar. She brought to a close a
voyage of strange fatalities, having
only a few of the original officers on
board, Captain Dreyer, her com
mander, and five others having died
of that dread disease scurvy, which so
often breaks out on board vessels from
the far east. The Olga sailed from
Sourabaya on April 3d.
RETURNS TO OMDURMAN.
General Kitchener Established Posts at
Fashoda and On Rabat River.
Advices from Cairo, Egypt, state
that General Kitchener, commanding
the Anglo-Egyptian expedition, has
returned to Omdurman, having estab
lished posts at Fashoda and on the
Sabat river. The troops did no fight
ing except with a dervish steamer on
the way south, which was captured.
ROOSEVELT IS CONFIDENT.
Claim That He Has Cost, Ills Citizenship
Is Denied By Rough Rider.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is not
worried about the claim that he is not
eligible for the governorship by rea
son of an affidavit filed with the com
missioner of taxes.
“You maybe sure,” the colonel said
to a World reporter, “that this talk of
my being disqualified is all rubbish.
That paper does not affect my standing
as a citizen in the least. I signed.it
only to avoid paying double taxes in
Washington and New York on my per
sonal property. It is all poppycock
for any one to say that I have lost my
citizenship in New York.”
GOVERNOR TAYLOR ILL.
Tennessee’s Chief Executive Said to Be
In a Dangerous Condition.
Advices from Johnson City, Tenn.,
are to the effect that the condition of
Governor Taylor, who has been ill for
some time is alarming. guard
It has been decided to put a
around the house and allow no one to
approach. The strain of seeing visit
In tors and attending to public business worried
hi* weakened condition has
him very mush*
SECOND REGIMENT ARRIVES IN AT
LANTA FROM HUNTSVILLE.
PATRIOTIC OVATION AWAITED THEM
Go Into Camp at Piedmont. Park Until
October 1st When They Will
Receive Furloughs.
Tho Second regiment of Georgia
volunteers reached Atlanta at noon
Thursday. The regiment left Hunts
ville, Ala., Wednesday evening and
its advent into the Gate City was
heralded by cheering crowds, screech
ing whistles, clanging bells and
booming cannon from the time
the trains reached the city limits
until they had pushed their way
through the great throng that surged
about tho union depot.
The progress of the four Bpeoial
trains with their loads of tired look
ing soldiers was a triumphal march
from the state line to the capital.
Mothers, sisters, sweethearts and
friends were at the railway stations
all along the line hoping to catch a
glimpse of the returning volunteers.
Where the trains stopped the sold
iers eagerly rushed out to greet their
friends and rushed back to the cars at
the sound of the bugle.
Where the trains did not stop peo
ple stood in their doors or at the sta
tions and waved a welcome.
The royal welcome, however, was
given by Atlanta. Nothing compara
ble to it lias been seen in the city
since the reception of the Liberty hell
in 189 ). The demonstration in honor
of the soldiers was of the same kind,
with the same patriotic fervor, and
was participated in by all classes.
Men and women, little children,
white and black, workmen from the
shop, grimy with the sign of honest
toil, men of business from tbeir stores
and counting houses, and professional
men from their offices, all joined in the
welcome to the home-coming volun
teers.
IiUncli For tho Boys.
Near the depot the ladies of the At
lanta Relief association awaited the
soldiers with a dainty but bountiful
luuch, which was the thing most
needed by the weary travelers.
The royal reception at t e depot
was followed by a parade of the prin
cipal streets, with a review at the park
by Governor Atkidsou and General
Pennington.
The address of welcome was deliv
ered at the auditorium iu the after
noon by Hon. John Temple Graves
and was followed by the luncheon to
the Second by tho Army and Navy
league in tho government building.
The regiment lias gone into camp at
Tiedmont Park until the first of Octo
ber, when the meu will receive their
pay with a 30 days’ furlough aud go
to their homes. On the first of No
vember they will return to Atlanta to
be mustered out of service.
Though not in actual war, the regi
ment has seen many hardships, and
has been somewhat thinned by sick
ness. About sixty of the men who
marched on the streets are on sick call,
reporting to the surgeon every morn
ing for examination.
Others are absent on sick leave and
a few were left ill the hospital at
Huntsville. The twelve companies
were reduced to about 870 men. Death
has laid his hand on about a dozen
since they left tho state light-hearted
and bouyant with the efforkoseent
spirit of youth.
ANXIOUS FOR PROTECTORATE.
Filipinos Want Americans To Rccoguizo
Independence of Islands.
Advices from Manila state that the
national assembly has decided
to request the Americans first to re
the independence of the is
lands, second, to establish a protecto
over their external affairs and to
induce the powers to recognize their
independence; third, to appoint a joint
commission ot Americans and Filipi
nos for the arrangement of details to
reciprocate the American services.
CERVEIU REACHES SPAIN.
Received With Cheers On Ills Arrival
at Santander.
The Anchor line steamer City of
Rome, chartered by Admiral Cervera
to transport to Spain the Spanish
sailors, captured at the battle of
Santiago, who were recently released
by the United States authorities, ar
rived at Santander, Spain, Wednesday
from Portsmouth, N. H., whence she
sailed on September 12.
\fter landing a crowd of people fol
lowed the officers and cheered for Ad
miral Cervera. Captain Eulate refused
to make any statement for publication,
ho reserved what he had to
for the courtmartial.
NO PRIVILEGED CHINESE.
Consuls to Forcljn Countries For.
bidden to Issue Certificates.
The secretary of the treasury has
made an important ruling in which he
that Chinese consuls iu foreign
countries are not authorized to issue
to privileged classes of
Chinese entering this country. Tho
effect of tliis rilling will be to prohibit
the entry to this country of the priv
ileged classes except upon presenta
tion of certificates issued by the im
perial Chinese government.
DETAILS OF FUNERAL OF
WINNIE DAVIS ARRANGED.
PALLBEARERS PROMINENT MEN.
Magnanimous Request, of Grand Army
Men to Act as Escort Granted
By Mrs, DayU,
Tho details of the- funeral of Miss
Winnie Davis were given out at Rich
mond, , Va., Wednesday ... , , afternoon , by
the committee having charge of the
arrangements. According to plans ar
ranged organizations participating iu
the ceremonies will take their posi
tions iu Hue as follows:
Flatoon of police, military, Lee
camp, Pickett camp, visiting camps,
veterans from the soldiers' home, Sons
of veterans, honorary escort, active
pallbearers, hearse, family, friends,
Hollywood association, Oakwood asso
ciation, Hebrew association, Confeder
ate museum, daughters of the confed
eracy, Lee and Pickett camps’ ladies’
auxiliary, private carriages.
Honorary pallbearers were selected
as follows: Governor J. Iloge Taylor,
General John B. Gordon, General
Fitzhugh Lee, General Joseph Wheel
or, Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, Colonel
W. O. Skelton. Mr. James Swan, Gen
eral Dabney II. Maury, Colonel Wil
liam H. Palmer, Judge George L.
Christian, Mr. Virginius Newton, Mr.
Joseph Bryan, Mr. W. D. Chester
man, Colonel Gordon McCabe, Colonel
Walter E. Grant, Colonel John Pur
cell, General Charles J. Anderson,Dr.
James B. Me Caw, Dr. George Rosr,
Mnjor V. Robert Stiles, Colonel
Archer Anderson, Mr. Burton M. Har
rison, Colonel E. W. Cutshaw, Gen
eral Bradley T. Johnson, Mr. Arthur
M. Sedden, General David A. Weissi
ger, Mr. E. B. Addison, Mr. J. H,
Dooly, Mr. Thomas Atkinson, Mr. T.
D. Williams, Mr. J. N. Boyd, Mr.
Leslie Spence, Jr.
Escort of Grand Army Men.
A special of Wednesday from Narra
gansett Pier says: Grand army men
will escort the remains of Miss Winnie
Davis to the depot. Commander Chase’s
note to Mrs. Davis was as follows:
Headquarters Sedgwick Post, G.
A.R., Department Rhode Island, Wako
field, September 21, 1898.—Mrs. V.
Jefferson Davis, Rockingham Hotel,
Narragansett Pier, It. I. —Dear Mad
ame: In behalf of the officers and
members of our post, I wish to offer
the services of four of our members to
escort the remains of your daughter
from the hotel to tho railway station.
Respectfully, J. P. Chase,
Commander.
Mrs. Davis replied as follows:
“Narragansett Pier, September
21, 1898.—The Commander of Sed
wick Post,' G. A. It., Wakefield—Sir:
In memory of our pleasant Rojourn in
Rhode Island, and the cordiality of
the population with whom we have
come in contact, I accept with grati
tude yonr kind offer. Respectfully,
“V. Jefferson Davis.’*
Great pleasure was expressed by the
citizens of Richmond over this spon
taneous tribute of the men in blue to
one whom the soldiers of the late con
federacy loved so well.
COTTON GREATLY DAMAGED.
A Material Reduction of Crop as Compared
With East Year.
Reports from all over tho Memphis,
Tenn., district are to the effect that
the condition of cotton has steadily
deteriorated during tho past six weeks i
and the consensus of opinion expressed
by factors and buyers alike is that
there will be a material reduction in'
the number of bales marketed as com
pared with last year. Similar condi
tions are believed to prevail in the
other cotton districts iu the south.
TEXAS QUARANTINES.
Freight From New Orleans Not Allowed to
Enter tho Rone Star State.
News reached the Southern Pacific
officials Wednesday that as a result of
tho announcement of four cases of fe
ver in New Orleans, Texas has slapped
on an absolutely rigid quarantine
against all freight from New Orleans.
Both Southern and Texas Pacific roads
aro thus tied up.
IS ROOSEVELT I NELLI GIB I.E1
Supporters of Gov. Black Say the Colonel
Ih a Non-Resident.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,
states that the supporters of Governor
Black have exposed their hand, which
has been responsible for their great
confidence in their ability to defeat |
Colonel Roosevelt for the gubernatori- [
al nomination, and which makes the
nomination of the colonel an impossi
bility. Roosevelt, they is “ill
Colonel say,
eligible” to run as a candidate for gov
ernor in New York state, as when lie was
sworn in as assistant secretary of the
navy he swore to his residence as
Washington, D. C.
NO FEVER IN SAVANNAH.
A Rumor Originating In Baltimore
Proves to Be Unfounded.
A Baltimore paper of Wednesday
contained n miner that there was yel
low fever in Savannah. The rumor was
seut from Philadelphia to Baltimore.
The publication was a great surprise in
Savannah, as there had never been an
intimation of anything of the kind.
Health Officer Legardy said there had
not been any yellow fever in the city
for twenty-two years,
HE Yf EVACUATION PHASE.
Antonomlata In Cuba Want to Tnlce
Part In Negotiation*.
Official dispatches receiven by one
of the embassies at Washington
from Havana confirm the reports that
the oolonial government of the island
is taking a baud in shaping the terms
on which the evacuation shall be exe
cuted. This, it is believed, may
develop some new phases in the situa
tion in Cuba.
The colonial government was estab
lished by Spain shortly before the wnr
broke out, there being a cabinot of five
officers at Havana and a legislative
body with two houses. It curried out
in a measure the long pending plan of
i Riving Cuba home rule by means of
ftn antonomoU9 government, but while
in name autonomous, it was contended
| by the insurgent element that genuine
home rule wns lacking and that this
colonial regime was a continuance of
Spanish domination.
It appears, however, that these col
onial authorities are taking a very act
ive part in the present negotiations
and that there is more or less co-opor
atiou between them and the Spanish
government. This creates a condition
in which the United States must deal
not only with Spain, but with those
who claim to represent the island it
self, free from Spanish control. The
colonial or autonomist administration
is very thoroughly organized and can
exert much influence. It established
a regular legation in Washington prior
to the war with especially prominent
men of Havana on the staff. It num
bers iu its ranks much of the wealth
of Cuba and claims to stand for the
educated classes as against the insur
gents and illiterates. This makes two
distinct Cwban classes—the autono
mists, who are co-operating with Spain,
and the insurgents, who are opposed
to Spain. ,
It now Reems clear from tho official
as well as from the press reports of
Havana aud Madrid that the autono
mist government is taking up the
claim first advanced by Spain that
many incidental questions as to Cuba
must by settled before the evacuation
begins.
But the view among government
officials here is that the Cuban autono
mists as well ns the Spaniards have no
questions to advance or settle before
evacuation is determined upon. The
time and place of evacuation is looked
upon by tho authorities here as the
only point involved and there is likely
to ! e a rude awakening if the pro
Spauish element, either as autonomists
or us native Spaniards, insists upon
bringing in the determination of the
Cuban debt, future forms of govern
ment, rates of tnriffterSpain preliminary ami many
other subjects as a t°
evacuation*. \
The American commissioners,
cording to tho understanding here.wi
insist upon a strict adherence to the
protocol for an immediate evacuation
of tho island, and if need ho, will
submit an ultimatum against taking
up subsidiary questions on Cuba’s
future. While the Cuban colonial
government is thus combining with
the Spanish government In bringing
forward these incidental questions,yet
the opinion was expressed by a
high diplomatic officer based on re
cent advices from Havana, that a se
rious issue would be avefted and that
tho actual evacuation of the Spanish
troops from Cuba would begin within
the next month.
But it nlso appears that the evacua
tion will cover a much longer time
than has been anticipated. There are
some 100,000 Spanish troops in the
island. Allowing 1,000 men on a
transport and a vessel leaving every
day it would take 100 days, or over
three months, for tho evacuation.
But the vessels are not available for
a trip every day for 100 consecutive
days, so that the time for departure
would probably fur exceed three
months.
SANTIAGO’S CUSTOMS FIGURES.
Collector Donaldson Take. In 8107,78.1
From July HI To September 1.
The report issued by Customs Col
lector Donaldson covering the trans
action of the custom house at Santi
ago during the period between July
16th and September 1st shows that the
sum of $107,783 was collected .from
various sources and payments were
made of $13,101 for sanitary and simi
lar purposes, city police and munici
pal salaries, salaries of custom house
and miscellaneous expense.
Collector Donaldson estimates the
annual income of the province of San
at $2,150,000.
DEWEY’S RICH PRIZE.
Captured at and Near Manila Are
Given »i Value of SI .500,000.
An Associated Tress correspondent,
from Manila under date of
30th, says:
“The work of setting the wheels of
in the barbor of Manila in
tior. has been entrusted to Captain
Glass, of the United States
Charleston. One of his first
was that of taking an inventory
all the shipping that fell into Ad
Dewey’s hands on the 14th in
This includes everything afloat,
on the bay or river, which
a radius of forty miles, and its
is about $1,500,0000.”
BOARD IS MADE UP.
President McKinley Decline, to Announce
the Full Member.hlp.
The president gave out the informa
tion Friday that the commission to in
vestigate the conduct of the war de
partment had been completed, and
would consist of nine members, as first
announced, Ho has not announced
the full membership. Several of the
members of the commission arrived in
Washington Friday,
NO. 30.
THE DEPARTMENT
CONFER WITH PRESIDENT.
THEIR WORK 15 MAPPED
Mnjor Goneral Podge Made President
the Commission and Major Allies Se
lccted as Military Recorder.
The commission to investigate
conduct of the war department
the recent conflict with Spain held
initial sitting in tho office of
McKinley at tho whfte house Saturday.
There were eight members present.
Dr. Phineas S. Connor, of Cincinnati,
was the absentee. The eight
were present were: Major General
Granville M. Dodge, of Iowa; Colonel
.1. A. Sexton, of Illinois, Captain E.
P. Howell, of Georgia; Major General
J. M. Wilson, chief of engineers of
United States army; Hon. Charles
Denby, of Indiana, la o minister
China;ex-Governor Urbana Woodbury, A.
of Vermont; ex-Goveruor James
Beaver, of Pennsylvania, and Major
General A. McD. McCook, of the
army, retired.
The commission spent an hour and
a half with the president and then
proceeded to the room assigned it at
tho war department for the purpose of
organizing and beginning work.
The proceedings with the president
consisted in tho mam of a general ex
change of views as to the scope of the
commission's investigations, in which
the president participated quite freely.
The president had put his own views
in writing and read them before pro
ceeding to a verbal discussion. In
this statement be said that complaints
had been directed especially at the
surgeon general’s, the quartermaster
general's and the commissary gener
al’s departments of the army, and he
suggested that the conduct of these
departments should receive especial
consideration at the hands of the com
mission. He wished the commission
to go to the bottom of the subject iu
all cases and proceed with its work
without fear or favor.
“If,” he said iu the formal discus
sion that occurred, “the commission
should have difficulty in securing the
attendance of witnesses or obtaining
access to papers thought to be essen
tial to the prosecution of its labors, I
hope the matter will be brought to my'
attention, when I will do all in my
power to overcome the difficulty. I
want the commission to have a clear
field, and 1 will do all that is possible
for me to do to see that it has.”
The suggestion was also made to the
commission that the first effort should
be to secure general or^nKafh information of the in re
gard to tlie wiV£h n the work army
and the time iu was
performed. The presidfeiris-fliKgested
the name of Major Miles, of the'arg’J
for the position of recorder of the com
mission.
Becretary Alger's request as made in
tho letter read by the president was
for a complete inquiry into the con
duct of the war, especially on the
lines of the charges published in the
newspapers. He said these charges
had assumed such magnitude that he
did not feel satisfied to have the de
partment rest under them, and that he
desired an investigation by men emi
nent in military and civil life.
Dr. Phineas S. Connor, of Cincin
nati, announced as the ninth member
of the commission, was selected be
cause of his eminence as a physician.
The presidoqt had been anxious from
the beginning to secure the services of
a medical man, because the medical
department of the army is much in
volved in the charges that have been
made.
After the close of the conference at
white house, the president ex
pressed his satisfaction with the per
sonnel of the commission, adding that
ho believed their investigation would
be thorough and their report fair and
impartial.
The commission organized by elect
ing Granville M. Dodge chairman and
Weigbtman, of Washington,
Major Miles, of the in
general’s office, to be military
The commission adjourned about
o’clock to meet again Monday.
session was devoted to method of
nothing definite being
CHAPLAIN MAKES CHARGES.
Preacher Criticises Management
of Volunteer Camp.
llev. Cyrus L. Brady, archdeacon of
Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Pennsylvania and chaplain of
First regiment of Pennsylvania
in n sermon at Philadel
Sunday night, severely criticised
management of tho volunteer
which came under his supervis
at Chiekamauga, where his regi
was stationed for a long time.
He said the medical, commissary,
and ordnance depart
were all to blame.
EVACUATION PROGRESSING.
In Porto Rico are Acting
Promptly and In Good Faith.
Advices from San Juan, Porto Rico,
that everything regarding the
of the island of Porto Rico
the Spanish troops is proceeding
The Spaniards are
in perfect good faith and are
various over everything as they quit
towns.
Preparations are being made for an
and impressive ceremony
when the American flag ia raised over
Juan.