3 l. THE YEAR 'BY FOR THE H. Y. WEEKLY TRIBUNE“. BOTH PAPERS sent to anv Address FOR One' — Dollar! ADDRESS ALL! ORDERS T0 GAZ ETTE. THE SICK AT MONTAHH Detention Hospital Is Now Over- Crowded MANY TROOPS WILL LEAVE Two Hundred Sick Soldiers Arrive on the Roumania. Dr. Ebert Working Energetically. No Dangerous Discom- fort. President McKinley Deeply Afl‘ect- ' ' patients; eighty-four are out 011' fur- ed. Montauk Point, L. 1., Sept. 6.——Thc: ' ' residences. arrival of the transport Roumania with 200 sick has overtaxed the capacity of the detention hospital and resulted in the temporary though not great dis- comfort of the new patients. The hos— pital has accommodations for 450 men, when each man has a cot. and the tents or wards are not overcrowded. Other wards are now being construct- ed, but the progress of the work is so slow that none of them is ready for occupation, though the work was be- gun some time ago. The surgeon-in- chief was not informed of the number of sick he would have to take care of and was taken unprepared when the ambulances began to arrive. There were then in the hospital about 600 men; that is. 150 more than should have been there. The extra patients were lying in some of the wards into which cots had been crow- ded. There were cots on hand for more than the Roumania’s sick, but there was no place to set them up. So there was nothing for it but to lay mat- tresses close together on the floors. In this. way» it was possible to getall the men under cover. Dr. Ebert, surgeon-in-chief. is a man in whom General Wheeler has a great deal of confidence, and this morning ‘ he was working with characteristic en-' ergy to make his patients comfortable. He had a number of cotsitaken out to make room~'for 'mattrtesses (One cot takes up nearly as muCh room as two mattresses), ,and was looking after the future comfort of the sick .in. a way that must have startled the officials of the transportation and Construction departments. It must not be supposed that though 250 men were lying on the floor. they Were without constant 'at- tention and- good care. -As- a matte? of fact they do not have much more tor suffer than if they were lying impetus. It is not believed that any deaths.willr The cbndltiOn,I . “ " result from this alone at any rate, is- only temporary, and due to the carelessness which left Dr.- Eb- I " Iert in ignorance for many hours of the tax to be put upon his- resources, and to the leisurely matner in which work on the detention hospital has been go- ing along. . While the men were being taken from. the Roumania to the hospital twa died in the ambulances. Their deaths, however ,are not to be charged to the negligence or inefficiency of anyone ashore. The men were Dorgas Broomer, private in Company F,- 25th United States infantry,' and Albert Pickworth, private in Company C, 23rd Michigan volunteers. General Wheeler'zsaid yesterday that President McKinley was deeply affect- ed by what he saw and heard in the general hospital during his inspection on Saturday, when he reached the car, General Wheeler said, he was.- on the point of collapse, and when thte train pulled out .he was about to lie down. General Wheeler said, also, that the threatened water famine of a few days ago wasno longer a danger. Engineers are at work to-day sinking the new wells, and the distilling boat Iris is in the harbor prepared to meet an em- ergenc'y. . Colonel Smart is going on with his investigation into the sanitary condi- tion of. the camp. He is proceeding with great care, and examining into every detail that has the promise of bearing fruit. There are 1,340 sick-in the general hospital. The new patients were tak- en in from the regimental camps. The- hospital is not crowded. The hdeaths reported were. Louis Hitzel, private. Twenty-second United States infantry, Company E; John Brawner, private, Tenth United States infantry, Com— pany A: Burt. Brown, 'private, Seven- teenth United States infantry, Com- pany A; Dennis Dixon, private, Ninth ' cavalry, Troop E; Daniel Dumas, pri- vatet, Ninth infantry. Company C. These deaths are all from typhoid or malarial fever. THE PRESIDENT’S PARTY t Left the Vice President's Paterson] ‘Hnme Late Last Night. New York, Sept. 6.—Presldent and Mrs. McKinley, who have been the guests of the vice president at Pater- son, N. J., with Mr. and Mrs. Hobart went out for a drive yesterday. They returned to the vice president's resi- dence at 10.30. Mrs. McKinley looked well and it was denied that she had been taken suddenly ill. The party received an enthusiastic reception from the residents of Paterson. United States Senators Thurston of Nebraska, Foraker of Ohio, and Bur- rows of Michigan held a conference with President McKinley and Vice President Hobart. Last evening a din— nerwas given in honor of the president the guests including Captain Hobart Tuttle, a brother;in-law of Mr. Ho- bart; Attorney General and Mrs. Grlggs, and Assistant Secretary Cor- telyou. The president, and Mrs. McKinley left for Washington in their special train at 11 o’clock last night. Miles Due To- Day. New York, Sept. 6.I—General Miles is expected to arrive in New York on the transport Obdam to-day. The Wisconsin volunteers are also on the Obdam. Besides the Obdam the transport Chester is expected to arrive with Gen- erals Schwan and Haynes and Staflg and the Fourth Pennsylvania Ivolun- * teers on board. The Obdam and the Chester will be met down the bay by several ferry boats and tugs. The soldiers will be taken off the vessels and landed at the piei nearest their respective railroad stations. , It is not yet known what roads they will go out on. . .-....-.- a! THE moors AT SAN FRANCISCO ' Sunday morning, 'Private Oliver P. Mock, Company D, Fifty-first Iowa, of spinal meningitis, and Jacob Ebert, Company A, Twenty- third infantry of typhoid fev e£~.—~ Six patients have been taken to the hospital. Of these two are suffering with malarial fever, two with meas- les and two with mumps. Twenty pa- tients have been dismissed to their quarters and one dismissed as cured. There are now in the hospital fifteen lou'gh, nine are in other hospitals and three are being cared for in private Colonel Leeper of the Fifty-first Iowa declares that his men are contented in the service, and that they are willing to remain until Genera! Merriam gets back and it is settled whether they are to go to Honolulu. If the regiment is not to be sent away the colonel says he is as anxious as any of his men to return home. Private Charles B. Anderson, Com- pany L, First Tennessee volunteers, has been acquitted by a court martial for an assault on Daniel Thomas, a negro whom some men of the regiment recently threatened to lynch. Ander- son was one of the twomen with whom Thomas had a saloon row, which led to the trouble. FRIGHTFUL WRECKI A‘Il' COHOES Montreal Express Train Crashes into an Electric Car Cutting it in Two. Cohoes, Sept. 6.—A frightful accident" has been the experience of Labor day- in this city. A trolley laden with thir- ty-five people was struck‘by a Dela- ware and Hudson train, going at full speed, at a grade crossing in this city last night and cut in two. Ten persons were killed outright. Eight died soon thereafter from the ef- fects of their injuries, and the remain- der of the passengers were all injured, some of whom may die. The accident was one of the most appallinggin the; history of railroad wrecks. Company was struck by the night spa-.- cial cf the Delaware and Hudson Rail- road at a crossing at the 'West -end of the Hudson River bridge, which con- nects this city with Lansingburg, and its load of human Ifrei'gh't- was hurled » into the air. Eighteen of the thirty- five passengers are dead and at least ten of the remainder will die. . Cuban Commission Sails. . New York;'Sept."' (SE—The, Resolute sailed from this port for Havana yes- terday aftennoon- bearing the Cuban commission; ' Rear. Admiral Sampson ‘was the onl‘y' member of the commission. who was recognized and cheered; is he went on boaid But Major General James F. Wade, Major General Ma'tth C. Dun- can and. Lieutenant Celene of the army, legal adviser to the com- missioners, were on board early, as they supposed thte time for sailing was noon. Each commissioner had a number of aids and secretaries. General Wade' s Tsecretary, is Captain W. E. Almy, andII his aids are Captain J. B. Foraker; Jr., Major- Charles- J. Allison- and Captain L. C. Grlscom. General Butlers staff-- consists of Captain W. F. Brooks, Lieu-1 tenant Alfred Hampton and F. M. Page. . ‘ Rear Admiral Sampson has his reg~ ular staff with him. REBELS MASS ‘AROUN'D MANILA Appears to Be Making Trouble. - Manila, Sept. 5.——The insurgent sol: Aguinaldo. diers in strong force are holding the exact. position behind the abandoned American works from which General. Greene displaced them. before the fall of Manila. This morning some-‘Tagallos are re- building: a trench in‘ the vicinity of San Pedro de Malate and Santa Mesa, which were abandoned last week. While tthe more " intelligent” natives talk annexation and unruly lieutenants continue to commit depredations with- in the city, it is clearly the purpose of Aguinaldo to place himself in the Same position as was occupied before the American occupation pending. the ’de- clsion of the Paris conference. Whatever may be the outcome, the ' rebel leader will continue to insist up-' on his purpose of a struggle for com- plete independence, while protesting his friendship for the Americans. A Hume Fur P( or Soldiers. Brooklyn, Sept. 6.’—Several» patriotic citizens in Brooklyn have arranged for a number of soldiers who will return from Porto Rico, Camp Wikoif. Chat- tanooga and other camps without mo- ney or clothing. I The originators of the movement are E. Percival Smith of 406 Carlton avenue, and Dr. Albrc Eaton. of 184 Lafayette avenue. They have secured from Percy Wil- li-ams, a Brooklyn business man, the use of a six-story building at 558 State street for the purpose. They have secured promise of medi- 'cal aid from a number of Brooklyn physicians, and are making efforts to furnish the building and get together a stock of provisions and clothing before the troops begin to arrive after being mustered out. Grand Army Encampment. I Cincinnati, Sept. 6.-The national en-‘ campment of the G. A. R. this week : is bringing in excursionists from every ' direction. The National Soldiers’ Home at Day- ton, Ohio, is less than sixty miles dis- tant, and the veterans from that in- stitution are taking active part. ‘Among the questionsbeing discussed is one to make all engaged in the late Spanish war eligible tomembership as comrades in the “old army." Troops Going to Camp Mead» Washington, Sept. 6.—-The orders is- sued ‘from the war department have been for the movement of the Two Hundred and First, Two Hundred and Second and Two Hundred and Third regiments of New York infantry from Camp Black to Middle'town, Pa. rections were sent by telegraph to the chief quartermaster for providing tran- A sportation for the troops immediately. 7 'xI ‘ ' 231-113.‘ The General Health of the Volunteers It . Good. San FrancisCo, Sept. 6.—JI‘wo patients in the division hospital have died since Shortly before eight o’clock, a trolley car of the Troy City Railroad" o‘hn W. I. " Clous, deputy judge adVOcate‘é-gene'ral- Di- , THE onevsus AFFAIR 1.. The Search For A New Minister of Will. premier, . Henri Brisson, and the ex- minlster war, M. Godefroy Cavaig- , nac, who resigned his portfolio on Sata- urday, .on the subject of the political fected by the recent developments in the Dreyfus case, are printed. in the Echo des Paris. M. Brisson is report- ed as having said that all the members of the ministry are convinced of the guilt of Captain Dreyfus, but that the governmentmust consider thte change the suicide last week of Lieutenant Colonel Henry. M. Brisson expressed ‘the view that it is the duty of the government to en dthe excitement that is paralyzing the business interests of Paris and of the country. M. Cavaignac said that it would be a serious mistake, if not a supreme act of folly, on the part of the government to persist in its present course, and that he was not Willing to participate in such a policy. “You will see," said M. Cavaignac, “in what a condition the country will be after a new trial." The newspapers of Paris point out that M. Cavaignac’s resignation of the war portfolio has produced a painful impression in political circles, which, while recognizing the fact that the in- nocence of Captain Dreyfus has not. yet been proved, takes the ground that a new trial of the charges against the prisoner has become necessary. It is said in some generally well in- formed quarters that the premier, M. Brisson, will assume the war portfolio, relinquishing that of the interior, that he holds in addition to the presidency of the council, to M.-. Vallee. In other equally well informed circles it is said that General Zurlinden, who was a cepted the ministry of war. When the cabinet met yesterday the minister of justice, M. Ferdinand ISar- rien, informed his colleagues of the re- ceipt ovame. Dreyfus’s request for the revision of the verdict against her husband. M. Sarrien promised to give a statement of the result of his exam?- inatlon into the matter at a meeting ”of the cabinet to be convened after the minister -of war shall have been ap- pointed. ills Gfads one’s “rill. London, Sept. 6.——Th__e will of the late, Right Hon. William E. Gladstone has sonal estate was valued at $59, 506 pounds. self in an ordinary memorandum book. It is a document of about two thou- sand words, and is a remarkable Speci- men Of penmaniship. The sebond clau'se' era'l arrangements and says: "Commending myself to the. infinite ecutors. specifying only that they be very simple and private, unless there be conclusive reasons to the contrary. And I desire to be buried where my Wife may also lie. 0n no account shall a laudatory inscription be placed over me.” After appointing his sons as execu- tors, the will charges the future pos- sessor of HaWarden to remember that, as- the head of the family, it willIbe members thereof according to his abil- ity and- their manifest needs and men-‘- its” souvenirs to servants, and bequeaths :to his grandson, Willbam, as heirloom, all patents of crown offices held by the ted to him by the queen. letters from the queen. etc. - The will bears the date of Novem- ber 29,1896: ‘ Disbpnaing the Auxiliary Navy Norfolk, Va., Sept. 6.—The work of navy which is in these waters has begun. commission yesterday, Boston to go out of service. erlca will go out of commission on dispensed with this week. These ‘v'es‘I- sels are stripped, their war color taken off and they are sold to their former owners or to the highest bidder. The revenue cutters here have nearly all been relieved of their armament and are about ready to return to their sta- tions. Spaniards Leave Annapolis. Annapolis, Sept. 6.—Admiral Cerve- ra and the other Spanish officers who have been held here, left yesterday for go to Spain. They 'Were accompanied to the depot by Admiral McNair.‘ Admiral Cervera will be at the Uni- ted States Naval hospital at Norfolk to-day. He goes ‘there' to arrange for the transportation to Spain of the forty- four wounded Spanish wounded who have been 'under treatment and are sufficiently recovered to permit their removal. Miss Gould’s ()fl'er. distress and add to the comfort of the. sick and wounded soldiers, is to crown her workof mercy and patriotism by ‘ caring personally for some of the sol-~ diers now at Camp Wikoif. It was announced yesterday that she would take twenty of the sick men to her magnificent home at Irvington-on- the Hudson, and provide them with medical care and nurses. She will assume supervision of all of the arrangements and pay daily visits to the poor fellows until they become well enough to care for themselves. Gen. Shaffer ll]. Montauk, L. 1., Sept. 6.—Genera1 Shatter will assume command of Camp Wikoft to-day, and General Wheeler will supersede General Young in com- ' mand of the cavalry. General Shatter and four of his staff 'oflicers are ill with malarial fever. nels Durbee and Plummet. The Japan Cable Open. New York, Sept. 6.—-The Commercial ing notice: “Messages for Japan routed by way , of Northern now accepted without re- i striction." 1 situation in France as it has been 8;!- ' that has come over public opinion since~ member of the Ribot cabinet, has ac- been probated. It shows that his per- , His will was written by him-I of the will has reference to the fun-‘ mercies 02' God in the incarnate Son as _ my only "and sufficient hope, I leave the particulars of my burial to my ex-’ ' The rest“ of the document leaves The SuIWane'e was put out of and the Buc-' cancer sailed from Hampton Roads for. The Aim—'1 Wednesday, and the Scie‘ndia, the first‘I .of the colliers, it is expected will be Portsmouth, N. H., whence they will' Paris, Sept. 6.—Interviews with the ‘- his duty to extend good oflices to other; .. testator and books and prints presen-I” disbanding that part of the auxiliary ,‘ . . j other d1rect1ons. ’Idelphia and contracted to furnish "many thousands. of feet of mahogany -. Then he bought up tracts of mahogany trees in Nicar- - agua and Guatemala. At one time he ,was the second largest dealer 'in'ma- New York, Sept. 6.-—Miss Helen Gould ' who has done so much to relieve the - The officers are . Major Noble, Major’Taylor and 0010- I - h s 'ssued the follow- 5 Cable Company a I 1 “game” in everv sense of the word), ‘our food fishes. Astonishing Rise to Riches and Power “3 A NEGRO CROESUS. , 8 Former Alabama Slave. The richest and most powerful man socially and politically in the Republic of Guatemala is John Knight, a negro, who was born a slave in Alabama and who was sold from the public slave block as late as March, 1860. Knight was an exceptionally bright boy. He never saw his father, who was sold into-a distant State before he was born. The family to whom Knight belonged gave him an educa- tion, and at the age of sixteen the boy was sold for $1,600, a high price, con- sidering that the sale occurred 'in No~ vember, 1860, the very time of Lincoln’s election.’ -~ .4 Knight remained with the family of his new ‘master until the close of the war. In common with thousands of other slaves, he then declared his free- dom. He walked to New Orleans, and for the first time in "his life went away from his master’s properties. In New Orleans he worked as a wharf laborer for a firm which handled fruits from Central America. He saved his money. Everyone about the wharves knew John Knight, the most capable and in- dustrious colored man there. One day in June, 1866, he was sent by his em- ployer down to Yucatan. in Central America, to live there as boss of the packing and shipping of fruits to New Orleans. He had $20 a week salary. That was practically the beginning of John Knight’s» millions. He lived in Yucatan a year, worked hard, saved his every-cent, and dreamed of the day when he could have an orange, banana and pineapple shipper on his own ac— count. Having heard of_ the great tracts of free and fertile fruit lands south of San Christoval in Gautemala. he went and located there. A live, wide-awake person was something unigue in those days in that region of siestas and tropical sunshineu A revo- lution, in which Ramon Sanchez had been deposed, was just as its close. John Knight saw what hard work and an opportunity to gain theIIfavor of the new administration would do for himself. He proposed that fora concession of some 50,000 acres of land suitable for pineapple and bananaI growing he would go to New Orleans and get the wholesale fruit dealers," who ruled the American market thirty years ago, to agree to buy $2, 000, 000 a. year of Guatemala fruits. The Guate-I mala Government gladly accepted the proposition. In less than three months 1 New; I the deal Was consummated at Orleans. It was the beginning of the trade of milliOns of dollars annually. To make a long story Short. John Knight got other concessions, as he demonstrated the profit there was in growing fruits for the. 'United States markets. The. shipping business to New York and San Francisco was. - started and enormously enlarged. He married a native young woman in Stapa in 1872, and the union has , been a great help to his fortunes. About tWentIy years ago he induced" New England capital to embark six-’i tens'ively in coffee growing in Gustav and he invested over 31501090.. of his own capital in the industry. The Government gave him a very advan- 'I mala, tageous shipping concession for his ef- forts in bringing capital to the coun- try. Coiere growing proved wonder- fully renumerative for a dozen years. At one time the annual shipments of coffee from the Knight fincas were the largest from any private estate in all . - Central America. The negro planter branched out in He Went to Phila- yearly for ten years. hogany in the world. Everything he touched he made a success. Helives in royal style in the suburbs of Guatemala City. No one in that re- gion except the Barrios ever enter- tained so lavishly as Don Knight and his wife. Their home is a large mod-I ern house of plate glass windows, pol- . ished woods, costly hangings—all fur- nished from New York andNew Or- leans. A small army of servants at- tends the wants of the family.——New 'York Journal. Pirate of Salt Water Fish. The greatest enemy to the best spe- cies of fish is found in the vicious, voracious, and dangerous bluefish’. In size, ordinarilv as long as your arm. with teeth like barbs, he can snap in halves a fish of his own size, and near- ly all fish stand in mortal dread of him. Generally traveling in schools— sometimes as much as five miles in length—they will in short order deci- mate a school of shad, spot, menhadcn .I In his stomach can be or such like; found numbers of smaller fish, accord— ing to size. One was opened which contained a trout of almost his own size, while another contained a shall nearly as large. Still others are found having within themselves one or more of their'own species of smaller size. But their destructiveness does not end here. They will follow a school ”of shad, spot, mackerel and cod, snapping and slashing their prey until the wa- ter is all afoam. They eat until they can hold no more, but their vicious- ness is not abated. With a snap '1 shad is sundered and spit out, and the next shares the same fate. They never tire, and the fish destroyed, but uneaten, cover the surface of the water. Without question the bluefish is by far the greatest factor to be reckoned with, considering the preservation of But man’s effort Seems to be futile in his extinction or . banishment. Nets will not hold him. and only the stoutest line (for he is protected with metal about the hook. will withstand his vicious snapping.— Richmond Dispatch. £3
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