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The Soldiers Will 3 Not . March in
New York Next Saturday. '
OORBIN CARRIES HIS POINT
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Decision Reached After a Long Conte<
fence at the \Vhite House. Expense
Would be Very Great and Many of the
Troops Are Unfit for the Fatigue, 8
l Long MarchIWould Entail.
Washington, Sept. 13.—There will be
no parade of. troops in New York next
Saturday. All plans providing for a
parade were declared off yesterday and
a. telegram embodying the decision of
the president and the war department
was sent to Mayor Van Wyck shortly
after 2 o’clock.
This decision was reached after a
long conference between the president,
‘Acting Secretary Meikeljohn and Ad—
jutant General Corbin.
Mr. Meikeljohn and General Corbin
were at the White House for three-
quarters of an hour and the matter. was
thoroughly discussed. Before visiting
the president a brief conference was
held with General Miles.
The decision to have no parade in
New York was reached as a direct re—
sult of the efforts of General Corbin,
who was opposed to the scheme ever
since the matter was taxen up by Gen-
eral Miles.
General Miles secured the consent of
the president Saturday afternoon and
so announced to members of the .press.
The adjutant general declared yes-
terday that the plans for a parade, if
there ever were any, would not be car-
ried out. He opposed the project stren—
uously and talked the matter over with
General Shafter and with tht prsi-
dent. '
At the co erence with the president
he used ev y argument possible to
prevent the carrying out of the orders
issued by General Miles to the depot
quartermaster in New York. He said
that the expense would be very grat
and that many of the men were in no
condition to parade the streets. It was
believed yesterday that the president
would not overrule the commanding
general of the army in the matter, but
the decision to do so was arrived at
reluctantly after the conference at the
“White House.
PEACE COMMISSION PLANS
Members \f'ill Receive McIfinley’s In
structions Thursday.
_ Washington, Sept. 13.—The return of
Secretary Day to Washington has
caused renewed interest and activity
concerning the peace commission, of
which he will be the leading member.
After an interview with the president
Mr. Day returnedto the state depart-
ment, and for several hours was in
close consultation with Assistant Sec-
retary Moorefwho will resign his pres-
ent place to become secretary of the
peace commission.
It was arranged between the presi-
dent and Secretary Day'at their in-
terview that the peace commissioners
should meet the president on Thurs-
day to obtain from him an idea of the
scope of-the work before them, and
to consult on theg rave problem of the
future of the Philippines. The com—
missioners will sail from New York
.for Europe on Saturday.
At the regular meeting of the cabinet
to-day.the Philippine situation will be
discussed, and the president hopes defi-
nitely to decide, after hearing the
views .of his ad'visers, on the policy
that will be pursued in the matter.
The importance of the meeting may
be understood from the fact that tele<
grams were sent to Secretaries Long
and Bliss requesting their attendance.
Will be an Investigation.
Washington, Sent. 13.—The disap-
pointing responses received by the pre-
sident from several of the men who
were asked to accept places on the
proposed commission to investigate the
., administration of the war department
in the war with Spain, have not re—
sulted in a decision to abandOn the in-
quiry. ,
On the contrary President McKinley
is more than ever determined that the
investigation shall take place.
He feels that any failure to push it
to the depths would result in accusa~
tions of bad faith against the govern-
ment by the people of the country, and
he is anxious to show everybody con-
cerned that the fullest and freest kind
of an inquiry will be made.
It is now likely that not more than
five of the nine men asked to serve
will accept, and other men of stand—
ing will therefore be asked to become
members of the commission, as the
president is sai dto desire at least sev-
,, en commissioners.
A Big Silver Combine.
Meriden, Conn., Sept. 13.—Stockhold-
ers of four silverware manufacturing
concerns, with a capital aggregating
$1,850,000, have received notices to the
effect that the International Silver
Company, a corporation with a capi-
tal stock of $30,000,000, has made an
offer for the stock of the local con-
cerns.
The receipts of these notices marks
an advanced step in a play looking to-
ward the combination under this one
head of nearly twenty of the largest
silver and silver plated ware manufact-
uring concerns in the country. It is
estimated that the concerns which
have been approached manufacture 75
per cent. of the silverware produced in
' this country.
, Barbadoes Governor Threatened-
Kingston, Jamaica, Sent. 13.——Infor-
mation received here from Barbadoes '
says that Sir J. S. Hay, the governor
of that island, has received an anony-
mous letter, which threatens that he.
and five other officers of the island
will meet the same fate as Speaker
Pile of the Barbadoes Legislature, vho
was recently assassinated by a negro.
lcoscvclt M nit-<51 a. Report.
Camp W'ikoi‘f, Mon auk Point, Sept. ,
sent toi
13.-—Ccléncl Roosevelt has
Vlasbingtcn. at the request of the pres—
ident, a report of the campaign treat-
mg of the mismanagement of the com-
missnry, rattsnortntion and hospital
departments, ..1‘>‘.cmer.tcd by reports
from his captains on the same sub--
ject.‘
THE EMPRESS’S ASSASSINATION
Wound Revealed by thu_Antopsy to have
Pierced the Heart. _
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 13.—-—The
post mortem examination of the body
of the late empress ofHAustria, who
Was assassinated on Saturday last by
an Italian Anarchist, whose name has
been variously given'a‘s Laccheni, Lu-
chesi and Luigini, has revealed that
the weapon completely transfixed the
heart, penetrating three and one-third
inches, and making a wound one-sixth
‘If an- inch wide. The fact that the
empress walked fifty yards to the stea-
mer is ascribed to her remarkable will
power.
The body has been enclosed in a
triple coffin and placed in a room
transformed into a. mortuary chamber.
The walls of this apartment are veiled
with black drapery covered with silver
stars, and several sisters of charity
are continually on their knees beside
the bier, praying for the soul of the
departed. Near by stands the prayer
table of the empress, bearing her rosa-
ry and crucifix.
The imposing demonstration of sym-
pathy organized by the Federal Coun~
cil began at noon to-day. The ap-
proaches to the Hotel Beauriage were
guarded by gendarmes. The procession
was headed with gendarmes with arms
reversed. Then came four beadles, with
cocked hats and long cloaks, half yel-
low and half red. Their leader wore a
crape covered mace. They were fol-
lowed by the members of the govern-
ment, the members of parliament, the
diplomatic.corps, and the civic digni-
taries. .
Then-came a great mass of the pop-
ulation of Geneva. In close ranks the
people defiled bare headed before the
hotel, in spite of the very hot sun. In
the meantime the bell of the Cathedral
of St. Clemence clanged heavily.
The procession lasted for more than
an hour. All eyes were directed to-
wards‘the terrace of the hotel,.where
stood General Berzoviczy, marshal of
the late empressls household; the Aus-
trian minister, and the members of the
suite of the deceased. The majority
of the stores were closed.
A NEW ARMY HOSPITAL
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One {Suitable for lVinter Use at For
Monroe.
Washington Sept. 13.—Surgeon Stern- '
berg has furnished some interesting
details of the plans of the war depart-
[for the establishment of two large well
ltroops.
iing much attention, the medical de-
[announce
IWoodhull, the surgeon in charge, had
ireported that the hospital would be
Iready for the reception of troops next
IFriday.
ment, referred to by Secretary Alger,
equipped winter hospitals for the
He said that, without attract--
partment had for some time been at
work erecting such a hospital on the
government reservation at Fort Mon-
roe, and he was pleased to be able to
that Lieutenant Colonel
There is already at the fort a tent
'hospital in excellent shape, capable of
accommodating 500 patients. The new
hospital will be in addition to- this, will
be constructed of lumber, after the
style of regular barracks, and will con-
tain 1,0000 beds. It is intended for the
reception of sick soldiers returning
from Porto Rico. .
Looking ahead to the possibility of
an extended occupancy of Cuban ports
by the United States army with the re-
sulting requirements upon the medical
department for the care of the sick
soldiers, Surgeon General Sternberg is
planning for another hospital on an
even larger scale at some of the south-
ern ports below Fort Monroe and more
accessible from Cuba.
He has appointed a medical board
to make an inspection of the available
places, and the impression prevails that
the hospital will be located either at
Charleston or Savannah. The hospit-
al ships Resolute and Missouri are un-
der orders to prepare immediately for
a return trip to Porto Rico to bring
back any sick soldiers requiring home
treatment.
Cost of lhe War to Spain.
Washington, Sept. 13.-—-Aside from
the loss of her colonies, and the ships
destroyed in battle, the war has cost
Spain about $375,000,000, according to
information received at the navy de-
partment from the naval attaches of
this government abroad. Including the
cost of preparation begun by Spain in
May, 1895, in anticipation of the war,
these sums have been raised and ex-
pended:
From the sale of 322,944 Cuban notes,
$25,242,255; from the sale of 60,000 Cu-
ban notes of 1896, $5,784,897; loan of
400,000,000 pesetas on the customs guar-
antee, $74,400,000; from the sale of sil—
ver, $866,338; loan of the Bank of Spain
on the Cuban guarantees, $58,400,000;
Eloan of the Bank of Spain on the cus—
itoms guarantee, $48,200,000; loan of the
iBank of Spain on guarantee of contri~
ibutions. $22,000,000; loan of the Bank
Iof Spain, 4 per cent. interest debt,
$29,000,000; Philippine taxes, $37,000,000.
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I Killed In a Riot.
I New Orleans, Sept. 13.-—The steamer
'Olympia has arrived here from Puerto
'Cortez, and brings news of serious ri—
foting in Guatemala during the recent
felections, in which it is said that three
hundred were killed and wounded. The
‘story'of the rioting was brought from
Puerto Barrios to Puerto Cortez by a
trading schooner, whose captain says
the facts were kept from the wires by
the government censorship.
2 Although Prospero Morales died af—
'5 ter his capture in a cave by the gov-
’ernment forces, his followers were ill
.contented to submit to the election of
iPresident Estrada, and, although in no
:shape to make a strong fight in the
balloting, gathered in force at the
‘polls and when the disorders became
I extensive the order to fire was given.
The Burning of Jerome, Arizona.
Prescott, Aria, Sept. 13.—The prop—
erty loss at Jerome, near here, which
,was completely destroyed by fire Sun-
‘ day morning, will reach fully $1,000,000.
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‘1 Eleven bodies have so far been recov-
ered, while a score or more are said
to be in the ruins or missing. The fire.
originated in a cabin and spread rap—
Idly. The fire was confined exclusive-
ly to the business part of the town.
(‘01. 1711 Pair; dc C'um Dinnicged,
i Paris, Sept. 13.—-It is officially an-
nounced that Colonel du Paty de Clam
has been placed on the inactive list and
dismissed from his post, in consequence ,
of the general staff's investigation into
the Esterhazy case.
EAMP'W‘IK‘EFEREPORT
A Thorough. Inspection Fails to
Reveal Serious Conditions.
TROOPS DO NOT COMPLAIN
The Inspection Conducted by Col. Smart.
lnjudiclous Fur-laughs Checked. The
Favorable Site of the Camp. Reports
of Bad Management and Poor Food
Grossly Exaggerated.
Washington, Sept. 13.——Colonel Chas.
Smart, of the medicaldepartment of
the army, has just handed to Sargeon
General Sternberg the written report
of his inspection of Montauk‘Point. He
has also submitted to General Shafter
a report on the same subject.
In the report to General Sternberg
Dr. Smart says that the first thing
which arrested his attention was the
utter prostration of some of the men
furloughed at the intervention of
friends who desired to remove them
to their homes.
No doubt much pressure was brought
to bear upon surgeons charged with the
duty of furloughing by the injudicious
entreaties of the sick men and their
relatives, but it appeared to Dr. Smart
that much greater care should have
been exercised in authorizing the de-
parture of certain of these men on a
journey which necessarily involved
much' fatigue.
The instructions of the war depart-
ment forbidding. the furloughing of
men unable to take care of themselves
appeared to remedy this evil. ‘
The site of the camp, Colonel Smart
says, is excellent, on a firm, compact
and well drained grassy soil. The
camps are in excellent condition, the
streets and inter-regimental areas perT
fectly clean, all garbage buried except
some of the refuse which is more con-
veniently burned. The kitchens of all
the commands are under tent flies,..all
utensils are clean and wastes put un-
der’ ground. "
No suggestion of a complaint as to
the character of the food supply could
be elicited in any of the regiments.
Ic milk, eggs, fruit, etc., appeared to
be abundant: in every camp.
The sick list in each of the commands
ls large, and Dr. Smart’s record shows
that of a total force of 12,851 at Mon-
tauk, when he was there, 2,085 were
sick, many of them requiring hospital
care. The cases of sickness in the
regiments consist mainly of malarial
debility, recurring febrile attacks and
diarrhoeal troubles
No case of typhoid was reported as
having originated in the present camps.
Such cases as have occurred, Dr. Smart
thinks, must have been incurred at
Santiago or on shipboard.
Dr. Smart found that thte troops
were living better than ever before and
that the regulars did not.co,mpla,_i_n at
the conditions. He found that on one
day, as an example of the sufficiency
of food, one company of regulars re-
ceived eight hundred eggs as its al-
lotment, or thirteen eggs per man. The
officers said that the newspaper ac-
counts of bad arrangement at Montauk
were for the most part grossly exag-
gerated.
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. Preparing to Depart,
Washington, Sept. 13.—-Secretary of
State Day arrived in Washington from
his home at Canton yesterday. As
soon as he had breakfasted he went to
the White House, where he had a long
conference with the president, which
is presumed to have had special ref-
erence to the nature of the instruc-
tions to be given to the peace commis-
sioners. Nothing has been heard at
the state department recently from the
other members of the commission, and
it is uncertain whether there will be
bold even the informal meeting which
Is desired in order to arrange for the
departure of the commission on the
17th instant.
Mr. McArthur has just returned to
lVashington from’New York, where he
completed all the arrangements for the
American commissioners will take pas—
sage on the Campania, leaving New
York next Saturday.
It is not expected that the instruc—
tions to be given to the members of
the commission will be made public,
a in view of the department the com—
issioners will be placed at a consid-
7ble disadvantage in conducting their
"etiations were their case made
wn fully in advance.
Spain’s: Protest Answer (I.
drid, Sept. 13.-—The French am-
mdor at \Vashington, M. Cambon,
> has been acting for Spain in the
:ce negotiations, has cabled to the
vernment'here the American reply
thte Spanish note protesting against
e hostilities upon the part of the in-
n'gents in the Philippine islands, in
gite of the peace protocol. The Uni-
.cd States promises to send envoys to
induce the Tagals to respect the sus-
pension of hostilities and to prevent
vessels leaving Manila with insurgents
insurrection in other islands.
Judge Cooley Dead.
Ann Arbor, Mich, Sept. 13.—Judge
Thomas M.'Cooley, the noted jurist and
constitutional lawyer, died yesterday
at his home. Three months ago he
returned from a private sanitarium at
Flint, Mich, where he had been treat—
ed for mental weakness. He was then
so much improved in mental health
that he was able to recognize acquain-
tances. g
The Paris Exposition.
Paris, Sept. 13.——Mr. Ferdinand W.
Peck, the United States commissioner
to the Paris exposition of 1900, with
.his family and staff, has taken up his
quarters at the Continental hotel until
he can find suitable offices. He called
upon the French minister for foreign
'affairs, M. Dclcasse, and other French
. ofiicials, yesterday.
A New Smulicrn Steel Plant.
Chicago, Sept. 13.——A story comes
Efrem Ensley City, Ala, that John-W.
fGates in connection With other Chi-.
gc-ago and Cleveland capitalists, will
2build a $2,000,000 steel plant there. Col.
vlwood, who is closely identified with
{the Illinois Steel Company and the
QAmerican Steel and Wire Company.
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a majority of the body here to-day to,
trip, and it is now settled that the
having the intention of propagating the
Holders Paralyzed by the Sting, 'Livlng
.Ior Months In That Condition.
The, wasp is not a vegetarian like the
bee, and our cement maker has before
her the problem 015 supplying her young
with meat rather than with bread. As
her eggs are laid out in hot weather,
and as enough food must be stored in
the cell with the egg to mature the
Young insect, the question is how to
preserve the meat fresh for so long a
time. She meets the difficulty thus:
After a tube is finished except one end,
which is left open, she files off on a
hunt for spiders. She finds a, fat,
healthy one, pounces upon it, stings it.
and carries it off and places it in the
mud cell. She repeats this process un-
til she has placed as many spiders in
the tube as, according to her judgment,
will be needed. She then lays an egg
in the cell and walls up the-opening.
The remarkable thing about this per"
formance is the magic effect of her
sting. Whether it is the result of a
subtle poison, or whether it is the
special spot in the spider’s nervous
spstem where the sting is inserted we
do not know. Certain it is that after
being thus stung, the spider lives on in
a paralyzed condition for weeks and
even months. It can move only slight-
ly, and remains helpless in its mud
sepulchre until the wasp egg hatches
into a voracious grub, which at once
falls to and eats with great relish the
meat thus miraculously preserved.
" Whether the wasp sting renders the
spider insansible to pain or not is a
question not] yet settled. However, j
the chances are in favor of the theory
that it does. Anyway, we need waste
no sympathy on the spider, the most
bloodthirsty of all the little people of
the fields and woods. There is a sense
of retributive justice in the thought of
a. spider helpless and at the mercy of a
small insect which it would have mer-
cilessly devoured had it been able.
So we need not accuse our alert, in-
dustrious cement maker of any unrea-
sonable cruelty if she, like us, insists
upon a meat diet for her voung, nor
need we have any fear of her sting, for
she seldom uses it as a. weapon of of-
fense or defense.-—Ghautauquan.
Burnacles on Metal Ships
In the old days of wooden ship-s the
boring insects which live in wood were
their chief foes. Teakwood acquired
its reputation as a shipbuilding ma-
terial because of its supposed immun-
ity, from these vermin.
Steel ships suffer from barnacles,
which foul their bottoms much more
rapidly than they 'do wooden: onés.‘
These strangewmarine growths are
sometimes,as.big as one’s fist and ad-
here to the metal plates with tremen—
doUs force, and besides impeding the
ship themselves they catch sea grass
and other rubbish and drag it through,
the water. '
.When a dry dock is notavailable
metal ships have to have their bottoms
cleaned by divers. 'When the battle-
ship Massachusetts was recently
cleaned barnacles and grass covered
her bull to such an extent that she
could not have made more than ten
and one-half knots an houn—Chicago
_ Times~Herald.
AFRAID OF THE GL‘Ass eve.”
Japanese Coolies \Vould Not. Serve the
' Owner of It.
A year or two ago an artist from
San Francisco who wore a glass eye
came to Yokohama and established
himself in a little bungalow on the
outskirts of the citv. ‘
The weather was extremelv _warm,--
and before the stranger had become
settled he was besieged 'by a n..mber
of coolies who wanted to get the job
of fanning him at night. The“ artist
looked over the applicants and finally
selected an old man who brought ex-
cellent recommendations from his last
employer.
When it was' time to retire the artist
took out his glass eye, laid it on a
stand at his bedside andAwent to bed.
The old man picked up his fan and
the San Francisco man was soon fast
asleep. He slept peacefully for an hour
or' two when he was awakened by a
chorus of buzzing insects about his
head. He looked aboug him and found
him had gone.
The next morning when he went in
search of another coolie hejv‘as amazed
to discover that no one would work
for him. He was looked upon as a
wizard and worker of miracles, with
whom it was unsafe to be alone. The
old man had gone among his friends
and told 'how the Californian had taken
out his eye at night and laid it on a
stand in order that he might watch his
servant at night and see that he kept
his fan in motion. The old coolie's story
created such excitement that the San
Francisco man‘ was never able to get
another Japanese to fan him after that;
—_Yorkville Yeoman
, The Chinese Vi’ln. Served with Dewey.
The Chinese servants ordinarily used
for fetching and carrying were im-
pressed into service, and‘showed cour-
age and skill. They showed as much
nerve as the Americans. They aided
at the whips and in lifting and carry-
ing the ammunition. Their faces were
as impassive as when serving dinner in
l—Iong Kong harbor. They chattered to
each other in their own language, and
laughed in their Celestial way when a
shot, striking the foremastfiho‘ok the
ship, caused the paint to scale off the
mast a foot from us, and the angle
lines which "strengthen it inside to rat-
tle loudly. “Velly good,” said one, and
mechanically resumed his task—Atlan-
tic Monthly.
“You must admit that your argu-
ment was rather thin." ,
, "My dear sir.” remarked the man
who was filibustering. “in a case like
this it is not the thickness of an argu«
ment that counts. It's the length.”—
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