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Biiiii in MANILA
Ameridan Advance on the Philip-
pine Capital Stoutly Resisted.
VOLUNTEERS FOUGhT WELL
TheVSpanish LosSes About 500 Men'lu
4 filled and Wounded. Our Losses Small.
The Troops Engaged. No Part Taken
by the Insurgents. Arrival of the Mon—
terey and Three Transports.
Hong Kong, Aug. 9.-German stea-
mer Petrarch, which left Man-lie. on Au-
gust 6, arrived here to-day and brought
the first news of a severe engagement
betWeen the Spaniards and Americans
near Manila.
The United States forces were vic-
torious, {‘hd lost only. eleven men kil-
led and had thirty-seven men wound-
ed. The Spanish losses are not deil-'
nitely known, but they are reported to
have been heavy, some estimates plac-
ing them at more than 500 men in kil-
led and wounded. The insurgent forces
remained neutral.
The attack was made on the Ameri-
ca‘s camp, between Cavlte and Manila,
during the night of July 31. The Span-
iards, who numbered more than 3,000
men, made several desperate charges
upon the American lines, but each time
the fire of the American troops drove
them back, and finally broke their
center and they retreated.
Later the Spaniards made 62 second
attack, but were again repulsed, and
retreated into the bush, keeping up an
incessant fire on the roads leading to
Manila, over which they apparently ex-
pected the American troops to advance.
San Francisco, Aug. 9.—A dispatch to
the Examiner from Manila, dated July
31, sent via Hong Kong. says:
“A heavy engagement took place to-
night between the American and Spa~
nish forces at Malate. The Spanish
made an attack, attempting to turn our
right. After an hour's fighting they
were repulsed. The troops engaged
:Were the First battalion California vol-
unteers, Tenth Pennsylvania, First bat-
tallion Third artiliery (regulars), and
Battery A, Utah. Our loss was nine
killed and forty-four wounded. The
Spanish loss was upwards of 200 killed
and 300 wounded. Our volunteers made
a glorious defence against upwards of
3,000 of an attacking force. The battle
raged for three hours." ,
A dispatch to the Call, front? Cavite.
August 6, via Hong Kong," August 9,.
says: ,
“The American forces engaged the
enemy before Malate on last Sunday
night and compelled them to retreat
with heavy losses. Our troops lost
thirteen killed and forty-seven woun-
déd. It hats been impossible to ascer-
tain the exact losses of the Spaniards.
The fighting lasted four hours. The
American troops engaged were part of
the Tenth Pennsylvania First Califor-
' his; and Third (regular) artillery.
“The Spanish led in the attack, at—
tempting to disfilodge our troops by 2
flanking movement from the strong po-
sition they have been holding near the
enemy's lines. The position is still held
by our troops.” '
A dispatch to the Call from Cavite,
dated August 6, says:
. "The: three transports which sailed
from San Francisco with General Mer-
ritt, but which were delayed at Hono-
lulu, arrived to-day. The monitor Mon-
terey also arrived."
Washington, 1ug. 9.-A dispatch was
read at tly: cabinet meeting to-day
from Rear Admiral Dewey announcing
the arrival of the monitor Monterrey
and the collier Brutus at Manila bay,
and that there was plenty of coal and
fresh provisions to last for three
months. ~
“ CAPTURED SPA-‘HSH ORDINANCE.
Col. Boru'p‘s Report. 9,000 Rifles Thus
Far Turned in.
Washington, Aug. 10.—-Colonel Borup
of the ordnance department has re-
ported to the chief of ordnance of the
army that he has received of the capt-
ured arms at Santiago 7,000 Spanish
M-ausers and 2,000 Argentina Mausers.
It is estimated that there are 10,000,000
rounds of ammunntion, but he has not
had time to make an examination and
count of this portion of the captured
ordnance. The rifles which he'has ex-
amined are in good condition and suit-
able to be issued at once to the troops.
it is expected that as many more pieces
of small arms will be received from
outlying points near Santiago, the nine
thousand being those taken with the
troops in Santiago.
Two More Prize Ships.
Key West, Aug. 10.—-Two Norwegian
steamers have been added to the Uni-
ted States’ collection of war prizes.
They are the Aladdin, captured by the
auxiliary gunboat Hawk off Cadiz light
Isle of Pines, on Saturday, and the Ber-
gen, taken by the auxiliary gunboat
Viking, off Francis Key, on Sunday.
The Aladdin had cleared from Tam-
pico, Mex., for Sagua la Grande, with
a cargo of sugar. The Bergen was os-
tensibly bound from Santiago for the
same port for the purpose, it is said, of
taking off refugees.
Both steamers were seized without
difficulty and were brought in here yes-
terday by prize crews, respectively un-
der the command of Ensign Schofield
and Lieutenant C. B. Bollos.
To Abandon Chickamauga Camp.
“'ashingtcn, Aug. 10.--The war de-
partment has decided to abandon the
big military camp in Chickamauga
Park without delay and move the
troops there further north.
Major Hopkins, who made an inspec-
tion of the camp last week, reported
to the secretary of war that it was 'un-
healthful and that there were a great
many typhoid fever cases there.
Gen. Coppinger's Expedition.
Tampa, Fla.., Aug. 10.—General Cop-
pi,;.;er’s expedition has not begun to
move yet, and it is believed that it has
been held back by the war department.
TheiFifth infantry, which was ordered
to load on transports, was subsequently
ordered to delay the movement.
headquarters ship has been changed
from the Yucatan to the Santiago.
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“ cénveaA BLAMES BLANCO. r3
and: field Responsible for the Lou 01
Spanish 1 lcet at S \nIiagn.
W'ashington, Aug. 10.--Capta.in Gen-
eral Blanco is held responsible by Ad-
mirai Cervera. for the destruction of the
Spanish fleet. In his official report to
Madrid,,which has been transmitted to
Spain through the French ambassador,
Admiral Cerveracalls attention to the
orders issued by Captain General Blan-
co for his entrance into the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba, and for his depart-
u-re therefrom. i
Admiral Cervera. states that upon
his arrival at Curacao he received in-
struct-ions to proceed to Santiago de
Cuba. Against his judgment he car-
ried out his instructions, well knowing
in advance that his fleet would certain-
ly be blockaded. He received orders on
July 1 to leave «the harbor, and not-
withstanding his teiegram to Captain
General Blanca showing the result of
a sortie of the kind, he was ordered to
obey instructions.
The navy department declines to
make the report public on the ground
that it is a. confidential document'and
it is similarly regarded at the French
embassy. Admiral Cerverra feels that
his report. having been addressed to
the Madrid government, "properly be—
longs to it, and should be suppressed
or made public as it sees fit. It is a
lengthy document, covering some sixty
pages, and is a journal of the move-
ments of the fleet from the time it left
the Cape Verde islands until its de-
struction.
Accompanying the admiral’s report
are the reports of the commanding offi-
cers of all of the vessels of his_ fleet.
with the exception of one ship, the re~
port of which is made by the second
in command, her commanding officer
having been killed. The report of the
commanding officer of the Colon, it is
stated, shows that he really surrender-
ed to the battleship Oregon. Had it
not been for the bursting of a: steam
pipe, which caused the revolutions of
the Cblon's engines to drop from eighty-
six to fifty-four per minute, the Colon
would never have been caught so eas-
. ily.
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ORDERS TO Ski-AFTER.
Troops fo‘r Montnuk Must Be Isolated to:
Five Days and Great Care Used.
Washington, Aug. 10.--The following
order has been sent to General Shatter
for his instruction regarding the em-
barkation of troops from Santiago to
Montauk Point:
War Department,
Adjutant General's Office, Aug. 9.
Commanding General Fifth Corps, San-
tiago de Cuba:
Recommendations of surgeon gener-
als of army and Marine Hospital ser-
vice as follows, should be accomplished
as far as practicable:
1. Hold troops assigned to a trans-
port under observation three to five
days in separate camp not infected by
fever.
2. Surgeons to inspect the same
twice daily, isolating promptly suspec-
ted cases.
3. Bathe and freshly clothe Or ster-
ilize on clothing of troops at'che begin-
ning of period of observation.
4. When not posible to detaii't'roops
in camps under observation, bathe
them and freshly clothe or sterilize oil
clothing before embarkation, excluding
after searching inspection suspected
cases.
5. Yellow fever convalescents or sus-
pects should not accompany healthy
troops.
6. No equipage or personal effects
capable of conveying infection should
accompany troops unless disinfected by
steam or otherwise.
7. Arrange to embark by daylight
under a careful supervision of surgeons
who will control sanitary conditions of
troopships en route.
By order of the secretary of war.
H. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant General.
The Key Monument Unveiled.
Frederick City, Md., Aug. 10c—Ths
monument erected to the memory of
Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star
Spangled Banner," was unveiled yes.
terday at Mount Olivet cemetery here
by his great granddaughter, Julia Mc-
Henry Howard of Baltimore.
.Henry VVatterson of Kentucky made
the dedicatory address. ‘
For a New Army Camp.
Washington, Aug. 10.-—Major Mills of
the inspector general's department has
been ordered to inspect a. tract of land
in the vicinity of Tryon, N. C., for the
purpose of ascertaining its suitableness
for the establishment of an army en-
campment. If the site is favorably re-
ported upon some of the troops now in
Florida will go into camp there. ’
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Red Cross Abroad.
Washington, Aug. 10.--The consul
'general at Berlin reports that an appeal ‘
for contributions to assist the Red
Cross society in caring for the sick and
wounded in the war between the Uni-
ted States and Spain has been issued by
the Red Cross Society of Germany.
The Spanish Polsoners.
Washington, Aug. 8.——The war do
partment looks for the arrival of the
first ship to carry Spanish prisoners
from Santiago at that point today.
This will be the Alicante, which left
Martinique two days ago. The St.
Augustine is expected to reach Santi-
ago on August ‘14. She is a hospital
ship and will relieve the distress ex-
isting in the Spanish hospitals. With-
in the uext week the department hopes
to see the enibarkation of Spanish pri-
soners well under way.
Dr. Angeli Coming Home
Constantinople, Aug. 8.——Dr. James
B. Angeli, who resigned in May, and
who has been succeeded as United
States minister here by Oscar S. Straus
of New York, had a farewell audience
with the sultan yesterday. Dr. Angel)
leaves here on August 13.
Hobsou Goes to Washington,
New York, Aug. 8. «Lieutenant Hob-
son, accompanied by his mother and
sister, left the Waldorf-Astoria Sat-
urday afternoon and wen to Orange,
N. J. They remained with friends un-
til midnight, when the lieutenant pro-
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WEEKLY? Nouthn GAZ
MILES GAINING GROUND
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He Sends Encouraging Statement
of Prospects in Porto Rico.
HE NEEDS NO MORE TROOPS,
Gen. Miles Thinks He Can Subjugate the
Island and Keep It Under Control i
Without Additional Force. San Juany
to Be Taken Immediatly. The Advance
on the City of San Juan Covers 13
Miles. '
Washington, Am. 10,—The secretary
of war received a telegram from Gen-
eral Miles, making a brief, encouraging
statement in regard to the success and
prospects of the Porto Rico campaign,
and stating that he should need no more
roops to accomplish the subjugation
of the island and keep it under safe
military control.
~ He indicated that the capture of San
Juan would be accomplished immedi-
ately and that his present force was
large enough to take the city without
great loss.
The three deiachznents of General
Miles's force operating in Porto Rico
are now enabled to communicate with
one another by telegraph.
General Greelv, chief of the army
Signal Corps, received a dispatch this
morning from Lieutenant Colonel Jas.
Alien announcing that the Signal Corps
in Porto Rico had established more
than 100 miles of land telegraph lines
and that the several detach-ments of the
army which were converging on San
Juan were connected. '
The lines were being extended, he
said, as the army advanced.
The orders to General W’ade's pro-
visional division of eighteen volunteer
regiments to go to Porto Rico were re-
voked to-day.
No more troops will be sent to Porto
Rico, and from the present outlook for
peace it is unlikely. in the opinion of
the war department, that any further
military expedition will be sent to any
Spanish territory at present.
According to advices. from Porto .Ri-
co, General Wilson advanced yesterday
from Ponce to five miles east of Juana
Diaz on his march toward San Juan,
the capital city. His force covered in
all thirteen miles. Reports reached him
that the Spaniards were making a
stand at Coamo. General Wilson de—
cided not to make an attack immedi-
ately, but to wait until his wagon trains
had been brought up from the rear.
After driving the enemy from Coamo
it is General Wilson’s intention to at-
tack Aboni-to, where, according to many
reports that have reached General
Miles in the past week, the Spaniards
have obstructed the highway to San
Juan and have also mined it.
A reconnoitreing party, with General
Wilson personally headed, made out a.
strong entrenchment one mile from Co-
amo, on the route that our troops must
take to enter the town.
General W'ilson has the Second‘and
Third Wisconsin volunteers, two bat-
teries of light artillery and cavalry
troop C of Brooklyn and the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania regiment, which had just
been equipped with Krag-J’orgen-sen ri—
fles. General Ernst is accompanying
General Wilson.
A Delpatch from Gen. Merritt.
Washington, Aug. lit—The war de-
partment has received the following ca.-
ble dispatch from Hong Kong:
Adjutant General, Washington:
lacArthur's troops arrived thirty-
first. No epidemic sickness. Five
deaths. Lieutenant Kerr, engineers,
died of spinal meningitis. Landing at
camp delayed on account of high surf.
To gain approach to city, Greene's
outposts were advanced to continue line
from the Camino Real to beach, on
Sunday night. Spanish attacked
sharply. Artillery outposts behaved
well. Held position. Necessary to call
out brigade. Spanish loss rumored to
be heavy.
Our loss, killed: Tenth Pennsylva-
nia, John Brady, Walter E. Brown.
Regular iinfantry, William E. Brino
ton, Jacob Hull, Jesse Noss, William
Stillwqgon. First Califorma, Maurice
Just. Third artillery, Eli Dawson, First
Colorado, Fred Springstead.
Seriously wounded: Tenth Pennsyl-
vania, Sergeant Alva Walter, Privates
Lee Snyder, Victor Holmes, C. S. Car-
ter, Arthur Johnson. First California,
Captain R. Richter, Private C. J. Ed-
wards. Third artillery, Privates Chas.
Winfield, J. A. McEirath. ~
Thirty-eight slightly wounded.
MERRITT.
Disastrous Fire in Bismarck.
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 10.—Fire last
evening burned a large portion of this
city, causing a loss of several hundred
thousand dollars’ worth of property.
The flames started in the agent's office
of the Northern Pacific depot.
In a short time the building and the
big warehouses of the company were
in flames.
Every drug store in the city was
burned and all the groceries but two or
three, two newspaper offices and the
great bulk of the business portion of the
city, with several blocks of residences.
Many people are homeless.
Loading Spaniards for Home
Washington, Aug. 10.—-The following
dispatch has been received here:
Santiago, via Hayti, Aug. 9.—Corbin,
adjutant general, Washington: All-
cante is now being loaded with Spanish
sick. It is to carry 1,000. They will be.
loaded and the ship will leave this af-
ternoon or early in .the morning.
SHAFTER,
Major General.
To Free Carveru’s Men.
Washington, Aug. 10.—It has been de-'
clded to parole the 1,600 Spanish naval
prisoners confined at Portsmouth, N.
The offer to release the seamen will
be made through the French ambassa-
dor, and will require Spain to bear the
expense of transportation, shipping the
men to Spain in neutral bottoms.
The offer to permit a return to Spain
will not include the Spanish officers
held at Annasolish ....
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SICKNESS IN THE ARMY.
Shatter Says '15 Per Cent of the Men Had
Malaria.
Washington, Aug. 8.—The following
telegram from General
made public to—day by the president:
“I can very readily see what intense
exoitement the publication must have
occasioned; a great deal more Pnan the
situation warranted. Situation is grea—
tly aggravated from the fact that be-
fore any of the men were taken ill they
were thoroughhr exhausted. At least
75 per cent. of the command had been
down with malarial fever, from which
they recover veryslowly and are in no
condition to stand an attack of yellow
fever or dysentery. Placed here now
in the same condition in which they
were when they came here, I do not
believe they would be in any particu-
lar danger. The regiment of immunes
that recently arrived is not suffering at
all, and I don’t believe they will. They
can keep out of the sun, are well fed
and well clothed. What put my com-
mand in its present condition was the
twenty days of the campaign when
they had nothing but meat, bread and
coffee, Without change of clothes, with-
out -any shelter whatever, and during
the period twice as stormy as it has
been since the surrender. Fresh troops
reaching here in the middle of August
with good camps, good water, abund-
ance of tentage, which they will find
here, need- not apprehend serious dan—
ger.
in which you hold my command and
the value of the services they have
rendered. It pays for all the sufferings
we have endured. I have read this
to Generals VVheeier, Lawton, Bate;l
and Kent, who concur with me in the
view expressed above." ,
What General Shafter refers to in
the first sentence of the dispatch is the
publication of the general’s round robin
demanding the removal of the troops
from Santiago, and also Colonel Roose-
velt’s letter to General Shatter in which
he asked that the troops be sent north.
From Camp Merritt.
San Francisco, Aug. 9.—The big tran-
sports Scandia‘and Arizona may sail
for the Philippines by the end of the
week, but not before. There is a grow-
ing belief that they will not carry as
many men as was at first intended and
that the beginning of peace negotia-
tions will mean the mustering out of
mcst of the troops remaining at Camp
Merritt and the Presidio.
General Merritt has now with him or
on the way to Manila 15,000 men.
Nearly five thousand tons of commis-
sary stores will go on the Scand-ia and
Arizona.
The only movements of troops during
the early part of the week will be the
beginning of their march to the Yosem-
ite of the Utah cavalry, and perhaps
the sailing of 150 members of the First
New York. regiment on the transport
Mariposa.
No arrangements have been perfect-
ed yet for the rest of the regulars, and
they are likely to remain here for sev—
eral weeks, unless some vessel not now
in sight takes them. _
Major General Merriam himself is
anxious to get to Honolulu to look over
the newterri'tory added to his de-
partment, but he states positively that
he will not leave here until the way is
clear to sen-d all the troops ordered to
sail for Manila. '
The Cubans Will Keep on Fighting
Santiago, Ciiba, Aug. 8,—General Ca-
iixto Garcia and his twelve hundred
insurgents have stopped drawing ra-
tions, and Garcia has left the province
in high dudgeon becafise the United
States authorities refused to permit
aim to take up the reins of government
of the province. The last heard of him
he w-ts west of Holguin, proceeding to-
ward Nuevitas, in. the province of Pue-
rto Principe. His purpose is probably
to form a junction with General Go-
mez, who is supposed to be in Santa
Clara province.
Gomez proposes to continue his
guerilla warfare regardless of any ar-
mistice between the United States and
Spain. It is understood that Gomez
and Garcia will send to Washington :1
icint protest on behalf of the so—cailed
Cuban govern-ment against General
Shafter ignoring the claim-s of the in-
surgents to administer the affairs of
the conquered territory.
To Start a Big Felt Plant.
Chicago, Aug. 9.—Armcur & Co. have
decided to go into the manufacture of
felt on a large scale. They have made
common felt for some time, and having
all the material necessary for it, they
are enabled to do it cheaply. The re-
cent failure of the works at Dolgeville,
N. Y., has induced the packer to en-
large his works and make them the
largest felt manufactory in the world.
All grades of piano and tailoring felt
will he made. The new factory will
employ 300 men. A number of work-
men formerly employed at Dolgeville
will come here.
Shamrock Will Cost $300,000.
London, Aug. 9.——Will Fife, Jr., the
boat designer, .to whose designs the
new racing cutter Shamrock, ordered
by Sir-Thomas Lipton, Is to be con-
structed, confirmed in an interview to-
day all of the details concerning the -
yacht which have already been cabled
to this country.
He added that the cutter would cost
60,000 pounds and that he was confident
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she would win the Americacup.
Pope Writes te Italians.
Rome, Aug. 9.—A papal encyclicai
letter has just been issued, addressed
to the bishOps of the various dioceses
of Italy. It deplores the suppression
of the Catholic clubs and societies,
which was ordered by the government
as a sequel to the recent riots, and con-
firms the papal veto upon Catholic Ital-
ians participating in political elec-
tions. -
Adolph Sutro Dead.
San Francisco, Aug. 9.—Adolph Sil-
tro died this morning. He had been
in ill health for a year or more, physi-
cally and mentally. ,
He was the builder of the now fa-
mous Sutro tunnel and at one time
mayor of this city. '
Novelist Ebers Dead,
Munich, Bavaria, Aug. 9.——A ispatch
from the Villa Ebers at Tutzing near
this place, announces the death of Geo.
Maurice Ebers, the Egyptologist and
novelist. He was born in Berlin in
1837. -
Tun]
Shafter was ‘
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TAMPA moors EMBARK“.
Rough Riders Leave for the Northern
1 Camp. The Porto Rico Expedition-
Tampa, Aug. 9.—The movement .to
Montauk from Tampa is about com;
iplete. The last troops to leave for that
i point were about 450 of the Rough Rid-
ers who did not go to Cuba. They-got
away yesterday;
The only troops remaining here.- now
are those designated to go to Porto Ri-
co. The city is still excited by the raid
zmade on the city and county jails on
, Saturday night by a number of thenc-
groes belonging to the Ninth cavalry.
=A race riot was almost precipitated.
Governor Bioxham has taken the
matter up and will demand the return
of the offenders by the general govern-
ment.
i Three transports are now at the
- docks at Port Tampa loading for Porto
'Rico. The work is being pushed as
.rapidly as possible, and the troopships
EClinton, Yucatan and Santiago may be
i ready to sail to-day. Four others were
[released from quarantine today and
i will take the place at the docks 'of those
.now loading. The Fifth infantry has
already begun to go aboard ship and
_General Coppinger will go aboard t0.-
. day, unless orders from \Vashingion
:change the present programme.
I PLANS FOR EASTERN SQUADRON.-
Vessels “fill Sail lot-span It Her Answer
is Not Satisfactury.
Washington, Aug. 9,—The auxiliary
cruiser Yosemite is being held at New-
:port News, Va., awaiting orders to
:convoy several colliers to wherever the
government may direct. According to
(information obtained to—day the sailing
of the eastern squadron to which the
‘Yosemite is attached, is dependent up-
,on the character of the Spanish answer
to the American peace terms.
g It is understood that if the Spanish
; response is not satisfactory the eastern
isquadron will leave Guantanamo and
the Yosemite will leave Newport News
to meet at a rendezvous not a great
distance from the continent of Europe,
the Yosemite convoying the colliers to
that place.
The navy department Will neither af-
firm nor deny the report that Admiral
Sampson has been assigned to the com-
mand of the squadron, with Commo-
dore Watson in charge of the second
division.
Sixth Cavalry Arrives.
New York, Aug. 9.-—About 600 mem-
bers of the Sixth United States cavalry,
representing the remnant of the regi-
ment kept' in camp at Tampa, Fla,
. reached Jersey City at 3.30 o'clock yes-
terday morning-and were transferred
to Montauk Point during the day. These
are the first of the troops to be in-
stalled at that place, in accordance
with the orders issued at Washington
several days ago. The men and their
horses and camp equipage were sent
from Jersey City to the Sixty-fifth
'street ferry, and by noon. two trains,
one of twenty-three and the other of
seventeen cars, had left the yard of
the Long Island Railroad Company at
the foot of Sixty-fifth street and were
speeding toward Montauk. In these
trains were taken about 1,400 horses
and all of the tent and camp equip-age.
The remainder of the troops were sent
to the ferry later in the afternoon.
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The Blue and the Grey.
Philadelphia, Aug. 9.~hThe week's en-
campment of the Confederate survivors
of Pickett’s division and Union veter-
ans of the Philadelphia brigade on the
New Jersey side of the Delaware river,
was opened yesterday.
The veterans held a short street pa—
rade in this city and visited Indepen-
dence hall, where they were welcomed
by Mayor Warwick. Speeches were
made by Comrade Frazier of the Phil-
adelphia brigade: Colonel A. K. Mc-
Clure of the Philadelphia Times, Gen-
eral William A. Hemphlll of the Atlan-
ta Constitution and Congressman John
Lamb of Virginia.
Mrs. Pickett, widow of General Pick-
ett, accompanied the veterans to Inde-
pendence hall and the camp grounds.
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Texes NearlyReady.
Brooklyin, Aug. 9.—T-he work of re-
pairing and overhauling the battleship
Texas has progressed with such rapid-
‘ ity and success, since she was floated
into dry dock last Tuesday, at the navy
yard, that it is said that she will be
out of dry dock by the end of the week.
The work of cleaning her under boy
of sea growth and barnacles is practi-
cally completed, and as'soon as the
bottom can be sandblasted and painted
she will be ready to be floated out of
dry dock. After she is taken out of the
dock she will take on stores and am-
munition, when she will be ready for
service again. Captain Phillip said to~
day that he had no idea what the des-
tination of the Texas would be when
she left the yard.
Death of Dr. James Hail.
Albany, Aug. 9.——A telegram has
been received here announcing the
death of Dr. James Hall, one of Ameri-
ca’s best known scientists, and the state
geologist of New York since 1837. The
aged scientist died Sunday in Echo
Hill, up among the White Mountains,
§ in the town of Bethlehem, N. H., where
“he had gone three weeks ago alone, but
apparently in his usual health.
_ Dr. Hall, though 87 years of age, had
:but recently returned from a trip to
Europe, where, he attended a confer-
ence of the leading scientists of the
world, held at St. Petersburg, Russia.
New Javanese Gunboat. -
Chicago, Aug. 9.-—Nine Japanese offi-
cers passed twenty-four hours in Chi-
cago on their way to Philadelphia,
Where they will place in commission
ithe nearly completed cruiser Kasagi.
- The party includes three commissioned
officers and six petty officers.
Captain Kosiwayujhema, who will
command the Kasagi, has been in
Philadelphia since his ship was launch-
ed, supervising its completion, accom-
panied by a few officers. The rest of
the officers and a. crew of 260 seamen
will pass through the city six weeks
hence, when it is believed the ship
will be ready.
Prisoners Embark for Home.
Washington, Aug. 9.——T.he quarter-
master general has received a dispatch
announcing that the Spanish transat-
lantic liner Alicante had arrived at
Santiago. The Alicante is now loading
with Spanish prisoners for Spain. She
will carry 1.900 rnen- .
THOSE Hillilii SHIPS ‘
Shatter Says He Is N of at. Fault
For their. ~ Terrible Condition.
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AUGUSES
GEN. STERNBBRG
The Report on. the Concuo and Seneca.
Received. Shatter Blames the Quater-
msier and. .Medicai Department. The
Army Has Never Had. a Sufficient
Suppl y of Medicines.
Washington, Aug. 9.-—A fur _
nation from his szandpoint oflthegpa:
Elected condition of the sick and woun—
ded carried from Santiago to New York
on the trmlSDOrts Concho and Seneca
has been made to the war department
by General Shafter. The adjutant gen-
eral has received a telegram from the
general Which throws some light on the
conditions. existing in Santiago at the
time the transports left there.
biggngoitnuélmaunedly he puts the
- urgeon General Sternberg,r
for the suffering which attended the
voyages to New York. and he declares
in no uncertain language that he will
not submit to criticism for unfulfill-
ment 0f resDonsibiiities which belong
to the surgeon general.
General Shaffer distinctly answers
the repeated statement of General
Sternberg that the commanding gen-
eral or “line officers of the army" have
failed to allow the prompt shipment of
medical supplies, and he declares that
at no time was ample provision made
by the medical department for the
needs of the army.
The commanding general ' reports.
that the Seneca and the Concho were
ordered to stop at Siboney and report
to Dr. La Garde to carry convalescents
home.
The water supply, he says, should
have been attended :0 by Colonel Hume
phrey, the officer of the quarterm-as-.
ter's department in charge, but that,
Humphrey had since reported that the.
captains of the ships did not ask for
water.
This is an admission on the part of
the quartermaster that he left the
question of water supply for the sick
soldiers entirely to the captains of the
ships, who of course were interested
only in the water for their crews. Gen—
eral Shatter further says that acting
assistant surgeons Hicks and Bird,
who accompanied the Seneca, were sup-
plied “with such medicines as could be
spared," and that Dr. La Garde says
“the best was done that could be done
under the circumstances."
Dr. La Garde has told the command-
ing general that the Medical Corps was
short of help and nearly everything
else, but that the officers in charge did
all they could.
General Shatter says that the army
has never had enough supplies for its
needs, and that on three occasions the _
command has been totally without.
medicines. _
He says distinctly that this was the
fault of the administration of the med-
ical board.
General Shatter says that the short-
age of water was inexcusable, and the
blame for this he places distinctly with
the quartermaster's department. This
statement is striking, in View of the
fact that Colonel Humphrey was ac-
cused of inefficiency while at Tampa in
charge of transportation. ' a
The telegram of General Shatter has
this concluding paragraph: “Referring
to the convalascents on the Yucatan,
the same remarks apply as to medicine
and attendants. There is no excuse
for lack of food, as there has at all
times been plenty of that. I have no
doubt that many more were put on the.
ship than should have been owing to
the great desire to get home, as they
had the fear of yellow fever and were
almost wholly without hospital accom-
modations. The sick and wounded had
only the clothing on that they wore
into the battle, and of course that was
ragged and worn out by the time they
reached home. There was none to is-
sue to them at the time they left, and
their own extra clothing they could not.
get at. . T
“There has never been a cam: of suf-
fering here that could be remedied by
the means at hand that was not at-
tended to. The surgeons have worked
as well as any men that ever lived, and
their complaint has been universal of
lack of means and facilities. I do not
complain of this, for none could have
foreseen all that would be required,
but I will not quietly submit to hav-
ing the onus laid on me for the lack of
general states that if men came away
these hospital facilities. I understand
from the public prints that the surgeon
unsupplied it was the fault of the com—
mending general. Such is not the
case." '
This message is not the only one of
the kind which the war department has
received in regard to the bad adminis-
tration of the Medical Corps, but the
dispatches are being carefully suppres-
sed by the authorities.
‘5' Curzon to Be Viceroy.
London, Aug. 9.—The Evening News
says it learns positively that Mr. Geo.
N. Curzcn, the parliamentary secretary
for the foreign office, has accepted the
vice royalty of India, in succession to
the Earl of Elgin.
The India office informs the Associa-
ted Press that it is unable to definitely
con-firm the report, but the indications
point, it is said, to Mr. Curzon’s ap-
pointment as Viceroy of India.
Five Persons Drowned.
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9.—Five per-
sons were drowned by the capsizing
of a boat in the Piscataqua river, near
Dover Point, yesterday. The drowned
were Mrs. Wolfgang Geiger and her
two children and two children of Alex-‘-
ander Green, all of this city.‘ The body
of Mrs. Geiger was recovered this
morning.
Gen. ‘Wheeler Leaves Santiago.
Santiago, Aug. 8.-General Wheeler
has sailed on the Miami.
Seven hundred and fifty men of Gen-
eral Kent's division, the Sixth infantry
and the Thirteenth infantry, sailed to-
day by the Vigilancia.
Nu Grace for Colombia.
Rome, Aug. 9.—The Italian govern-
ment has decided not to grant any
further extension of time to Colombia
in the settlement of the Italian claims.
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Norwalk Chronicler