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SANTIAGUAMBlIGN
Rough Riders Said to Have iBec-n ,
Skipped in Oificial Reports.
SOME ' STRANGE FEATURES ‘
Disputes Already Over \Thether They.
Took Part in tho Fightnt San Juan
5. Bill. Curiosity to Read .What Col.
Roosevelt Says. The roivposltion to
Gen. Miles.
Washington,_Sept_. 20.——Now that ar-
my officers havehed time to digest the
Santiago campaign reports they-find
some remarkable features. One of these
is the generosity of the praise bestow-
ed on every hand, and another is the
failure of the reports to accord much
credit to the Rough Riders. It now
appears that General J. F. Kent‘s re-
port, which covers, or rather should
cover the operations of the command
under Wood and Roosevelt, contains
not a word” in regard to the regiment,
or any part of it, which had a share in
the battle of San Juan hill. ,
'. here is an excellent chance that this
Ldent may lead to one of those post-
b: .lum controversies of which history
is full; for already there is a dISpute 3,5
l) whether the Rough Riders really
took part in the fight at San Juan. En-
:ouraged by General Kent 3 report, the
assertion is now made by persons hos-
tile to the Rough Riders, that that reg—
iment was two miles away_from the
hill. General Kent, it is pomted out,
has either told the truth by inference
or has been guilty of an oversight that
can hardly be treated as accidental.
The threat is heard also in some quar-
ters that one of the campaign plans
against Roosevelt will be an attack on
his command and an attempt to belit-
tle its work in front of Santiago.
v” Meanwhile Colonel Roosevelt has
made a long report, ‘Vvhich. with many
others, is now before Adjutant Gener-
al Corbin. It will be given out soon.
More curiosity is felt here to see this
neport than any other‘yet made pub-
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r The opposition to General Miles con-
tinues. It is a question how .much
longer that officer will stand the an-
tagonism. 'He is not disposfid 2:11:23:
' entilation o, s _ _ -
the public v ' discoveries he has
in.
ces, despite some
Féc‘éntly made of well defined and real-
ly inexplicable enmity towards him.
But it would not be surprising to meet
.‘ " ers here i
33:13 fire, this time with heavier guns
and better ammunition ' ‘
No'lon'g'er ago than Saturday Genera.
Miles encouptgred afltiopal evxdence
E‘the opposition to his plans, and he
finds that he is destined. to enforce his
authority if he expects it to be recog-
nized. These dispatches have contain-
ed some hint of the material in the pos-
session of Miles’s friends. It is doubt-
zul whether'th'e exact value of it will
be divulged for some“ weeks, but it is
certain that Congress will institute
such an inquiry as will bring out in of—
ficial form the documentary evidence
of what the general’s supporters re—
gard as departmental duplicity.
.Tl'xere is even a suggestion of an
i’a‘rmy ring" against Miles, 8. charge
:nade officially by Major G. A. Armes,
retired, in letters .to the president and
the war department and in conversa-
tion with correspondents here.
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The iii-idgapm-t DIystery.
New Haven, 'Sept. 20.—-—The New Ha-
ice department was.F yesterday
searching for a young woman who has
been missing for some time and who
may have been the victim of the noto-
rious Bridgeport tragedy. .
Captain Cowles of the detective force
said: “It is true that we are looking
up a New Haven girl as a possible Vlc-
tim of the Yellow Mill Pond mystery.
This girl, whose name I cannot dis-
close Just now, has been missing be-
tween two and three months. She was
the daughter of New Haven parents
and abbut 21 years of age.
“We hope to settle the question to-
day and it may turn out that the girl
0 whom I refer has been he victim of
the Bridgeport tragedy, but probably
not."
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To Minimize Child Labor.
Albany, Sept. 20.—State Factory In-
spectbr O’Leary has issued a circular
letter to' all of his inspectors saying
that this is the time, on account of the
' general opening of schools, to enforce
the prOvisions of the labor law dealing
with employment of young children in
factories and workshops.
He directs special attention to sec-
tion 70, which prohibits the employ-
ment of any child under fourteen years
of age, and section 71, which prohibits
the employment of any children under
sixteen years of age in shop or factory,
unless they can conform to the neces-
sary conditions required of all children
between 14 and 16.
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Another Cup Challenge.
Chicago, Sept. 20.—It is expected that
a challenge for the International cup,
won from the Chicago sloop encedor
at Toledo in 1896 by the Canadian
sloop Canada, will issue from the Chi-
cago Yacht Club‘this fall to the Royal
Canadian Yacht Club.
A syndicate will probably be form-
ed to build and manage the yacht,
headed by Commodore F. W. Morgan.
Named by the President.
Washington, Sept. 20.—The following
appointments have been announced by
the president: ,
George H. Pickerel of Ohio to be con-
sul at St. Michaels; Fred Page Justin
of Oregon to be commissioner for the
district of Alaska, to reside at Wran-
~gel; Thomas Lyng, interpreter to the
consulate at Fuchau. China.
Tno Mun Burned io_Doath.
Syracuse, Sept. 20.—At three o’clock
Monday morning seven buildings
Elmwood, four miles from here, were
burned.‘ Two men, Frank Harvey and
George Strauss, were burned to death,
nothing but the trunks of their bodies
being left.
England and Delagoa Bay.
Berlin, Sept. 20.—The ossische Zeitung
declares that under the Anglo German
' agreement Delagoa bay was ceded to
Great Britain commercially and not
ppliticauy. _ 3 - '
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DEATH or MISS. DAVIS. ‘13”!
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The Daughter of the Confederacy Paul
Away After Long Illness
Narragansett Pier, R. I., Sept. 20.—’
Miss Virginia Anne Davis,‘ generally
' known as “Winnie" Davis, the second
daughter of Jefferson Davis, who was
born in Richmond, Va., on .June 27,-
1864, died Sunday at the Roc-
kingham hotel, Narragansett Pier, R.
I.,' where she had been lying ill for
several weeks. we»;
The body of Miss Davis has been em-
balrned, but no preparations will be
made for the funeral until the arrival
of} Mrs. Hayes, the married sister of
Miss’Davis, Who is now On'her way
. from Colorado and who ’Wil‘l'reachNar-
ragansett Pier to-morrow afternoon.
Th‘eiiilness which resulted in'the 'un-
timely death of the “Daughter'o‘f the
Confederacy," as Miss Davis was fond-
ly called throughout the South, was
contracted last July at the reunion of
the Confederate eterans in Atlanta, Ga.
During the parade which followed,
Miss Davis occupied a carriage with
Mrs. “Stonewall" Jackson and Miss
Clare Lewis Gordon.
The day had been an intensely hot
one. A storm came up and rain began
to fall in torrents.
Miss Davis was drenched and at the
conclusion of the parade felt chilled
through. She set out at once for this
place, but was compelled to stop in
New York to rest for a day, the illness
having gained so rapidly upon her.
Although it had been hoped that the
refreshing breeze of Narragansett Pier
would speedily accomplish her restora-
tion to health, Miss Davis was unable
to’retain nourishment, and, despite her
mother’s devotion, the best medical
skill and the most careful nursing, it
soon became apparent that nothing
could stay the hand of death.
IRON 'AND STEEL TRADE.
Large Export Sales With Demand on
the Increase.
Philadelphia, Septfi 2.-The outcome
of events during the past week have
imparted renewed strength to the iron
and steel markets, says the Press of
this city. The publication of the con-
dition of furnaces, and of stocks on
hand at the close of the month were
extremely gratifying, showing an in-
crease of production during August at
the rate of 6,300 tons per week, and a
reduction in stocks (for the month) of
54,000 tons.
This, in connection with sales for
export estimated at 30,000 tons last
week, and 60,000 to 70,000 tons during
the two previous weeks, has imparted
a stronger undertone and made sellers
less disposed] to accept 'new business
unless at very full prices.
Millions of tons of iron areunder con-
tract for forward delivery, yet the de-
mand); still on, and it only needs the
assent of makers to increase their en-
gagements to a still greater extent.
France- 5111;5th Fashoda..
Paris. Sept. 20.—The report is pub-
lished here, but not officially confirm-
. ed, that Major Marchand has been or-
dered to retire from Fashoda.. leaving
that place in possession of the Anglo-
Egyptian forces.
Le Matin discredits the report, de-
claring that there is no reason why
such a'course should be taken.
A telegram} receive! from a French .
source in Cairo says that there is no
information there confirming Major
Marchand’s occupation of Fashoda.
The French newspapers say that it
appears, according to private informa-
tion, that the minister of foreign af-
fairs has received no news confirming
the report of the presence of Major
Marchand in Fashoda.
The rumors circulated by the Eng-
lish press regarding alleged instruc-
tions sent to Marchand are, therefore,
false.
Shomuke's on Strike.
Brockton, Mass, Sept. 20.—-Nearly
fifteen hundred lasters in the big shoe
factories of Brockton. Rockland, Whit-
man, Stoughton, East V‘Veymouth, Mid-
in.
diebbro and Randolph were ordered out
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, the
manufacturers, with the. exception. of
the'W. L. Douglass & Company estab-
lishment in this city having declined to
accede to the demand of the lasters for
,a. new price list, providing for an in-
! crease over the old rates. A protracted
' fight is expected.
Faulknvr to Succeed Gray.
Vl’ashington, Sept. 20,—Senat0r C. J.
Faulkner of West Virginia has been
appointed to the place on the joint
commission to settle disputed questions
between the United States and Cana-
da, made vacant by'the retirement of
Senator Gray, when he was transfer-
red to the Paris peace commission.
The tender of the position was made by
the president yesterday, in a personal
interview with Senator Faulkner, and
was accepted by the latter.
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A New Leather Company.
Albany, Sept. 20.——Papers incorporat-
ing a leather company, to be known as
“Fayerweather &\Ladew," with a capi-
talization of $1,250,000, have been filed
with the secretary of state. The com-
pany proposes to manufacture tan.
treat and deal in leather and all the
products thereof. Its principal office
is in New York city, and the directors
are Edward R. Ladew, Joseph H. La.-
dew and John J. Hetzel of New York
city.
Annual Horse Show
New York, Sept. 20.—-The annual ex-
hibition of the National Horse Show
will be-held in the Madison Square Gar-
; den November 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19,
' and entries close with the secretary at
No. 16 East Twenty-third street, on
October 22. In all $33,000 in prizes will
be distributed and there will be 112
regular classes.
Alger and Sternberz at Camp Thom-r
Cincinnati, 0., Sept. 20.—Secretary
Alger and Surgeon General Sternberg
are making a visit to the camp and
hospital at Camp Thomas. The secre—
tary, in a public statement, pledged
that soldiers shall not be court mar-
tialed for telling of abuses. .
May Build 3 Signal Station
Washington, Sept. 20.—The Haytien
government has notified our govern-
ment that it has decided to permit the
; establishment of a weather signal sta-
; tion at Mole. St. Nicholas and perhaps
i elsewhere in Hayti. '
THE OCEAN BLOCKADE FLEET. .*
Most of the Vessels to Go Out of Com-
, Inission. ’
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 20.—Most of the
vessels of Commodore Watson’s block-
ading'fieet, which did blockade duty
off the coast of Cuba, have left their
.r-¢‘4-.~
come to the Norfolk navy yard. They
are to go out of commision this week,
and will be laid up in the reserve docks,
but will not be disarmed until the
peace commissioners have finished their
work in Paris. firm“ var-ww-
A large percentage of the crews are
known as “one year men.” These will
be discharged from the service. The
.three year'men, a large number of
them, have been transferred to the re-
ceiving ship Franklin on waiting or-
ders. They may go to the battleships
{entucky and Kearsarge. ‘
The Viking, Yankton, Tecumseh, Ap-
ache, Frolic and Ho‘rnet are here. Of
these all but the Hornet will go out of
commission. The latter will be retain-
ed for the, present. She was behind the
New York when Cervera’s ships made
their dash from Santiago.
The colliers have also left Hampton
Roads. The Alexander and Aberanda
have been ordered to New York to join
the Iowa and Oregon. ' _
The Sterling took on coal yesterday
and at four o’clock the painters and
scrapers were hard at work on the Leb-
anon, Saturn, Scindla and Cassius.
Orders have been received to rush
the work, and it is believed that these
will accompany other warships to the
Hawaiian islands. The colliers each
carry three thousand tons of coal. The
machine guns which were placed on
them during the war still remain.
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At the Navy Yard.
Brooklyn, Sept. 20.—-The battleship
Indiana. was floated into dry dock No.
3 at the navy yard at nine o’clock ycs~
terday morning to undergo a. general
overhauling. Her underbody is very
foul, owing to the fact that she had
not been docked in‘nearly a year, and
a number of improvements are to be
made on her interior, including a re-
modelling of the wood work.
The battleships Iowa and Oregon are
taking onstores and ammunition from
tugs, but none of the ofliCials at the
yard would admit that they know when
the vessels were to get away.
The auxiliary cruiser'Panther arriv-
ed at the yard yesterday and will go
into dry dock‘No. 2 as soon as the
dock can be made ready for her. Her
eight four-inch guns, are being re-
moved. As soon as she has been clean-
of commission. -
The Return of Spanish Troops.
-Madrid, Sept. 20.—The minister ‘of
war, General Correa, has issued in-
structions for the return'lof the Span-
ish troops in the West Indies. The
sick are to leave first. and 'the arch-
ives, especially those relating to' the
war, will be brought to Spain with the
arms, ammunition, flags and material
stored in Cuba. and Porto Rico.
The minister is greatly incensed at
General Toral for sending him a dis-
patch on the latter’s arrival at Vigo.
Spain, from Santiago 'de Cuba, and
said Toral already ought to be court
martialed for‘ his conduct as governor
of Santiago. ‘
The War lnquryl Board.
Dedham,: Mass; Sept. .20.—.General
Stephen M. Weld, who was offered a
position on the-war investigating com-
mission by PreSident.'MCK'inley, has
decided not to‘ accept it. ' .
"I have nothing to Say about the
commission, except that I have decid-
ed not to accept it. My business affairs
prevent my takingthe necessary time
to devote to the work of the commis-
sion.”
A Boston Agent Shot by Burglnrs. ,,
Dover, N. H., Sept. 20.—-Frank Bemis,
tion' on the Western division cf'the
Boston and 'Maine' Railroad,‘ just ‘south
of this city, was'shot- byburglars earl}r
Monday morning and badly wounded,
in an arm. The burglars had entered
the station house through a window.
and had drilled the safe preparatory to
inserting a charge of dynamite. No
property was taken, but the men es—
caped.
The Cnlnmision at Havana.
Washington, Sept. 20.—The war de-
partment has received a cable dispatch
from Major Clous, the secretary of the
American military commission, dated
Havana, saying that the commission
has removed to Vedado. a suburb of
Havana, and that all of the party, as
well as the people on the steamer Res—
olute, notwithstanding newspaper re-
oorts to the contrary are in good
health.
Strikers and \Vm-kmeu Fight.
Cleveland, 0., Sept. 20.—-During an
attempt by twenty-two non-union men
to enter the works of the American
Wire Company, where a strike has
been in for some time, a pitched battle
took place between strikers and non—
union workmen. Clubs, stones and
slungshots were used, and a number
of men were severely bruised and cut.
Jago Gels 8 Years
London, Sept. 20,—John W. Jago, for-
merly first officer of the steamship
Britannic, and John Kynaston, for-
merly third officer of the same vessel,
pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge
of robbing the mails. Jago was sen-
tenced to eight years' imprisonment.
and Kynaston to one year.
Pay Accepted from Neglo Paymagter,
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 20.—The Sec-
ond Texas regiment, which refused
several days ago to receive pay from
Major Lynch, the paymaster, because
he is a negro, finally receded from its
attitude, and the regiment was paid
off on Saturday.
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A Strike at Fitchburg.
Fitchburg, Mass, Sept. 20.—About
350 employes at the factory of the Iver
Johnson Arms and Cycle Company
struck yesterday because of a reduc-
tion in wages, which went into effect
at the ships. , .
Dreyfus Revision
Paris, Sept. 20.——It is expected that
the commission to examine the matter
of revision of the Dreyfus case, which
begins its sittings' on September 21.
will continue its sessions for ten
days. "
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anchorage in Hampton‘Roads and have
ed and overhauled she will be ut out ‘ .
p i so. much to make Grant’s second term
,the preludeto a. third. Fish was an
,the American people.
,madeundoubted preparation to vindi-
_.cate the honor of the country, and w
_, rpunish Spain.
.;instructed 'to tell the Dons that they
.would have to let the Cuban; people 5U.
president’s requeSt for. me‘ to go o'n'the ‘
1 and] humane of men.
station’agent at Ma'dbury, a small stad ’
' ily of republics.
GRANT'S cu'sm Poucv.
He Had Seen Wat's Terrors and Guided
the Naiinu put of a Renewn‘.
The action of President Grant in re-
'gard to Cuba is so. frequently referred
to in certain duarters as a correct pro:-
~edent to follow, that some reference to
the circumstances of that time cannot
fail to be interesting 'at the present
juncture. - ..
In 1873 the Virginius. an American
steamer, was engaged in ordinary com-
merce between this country and Cuba.
She was purchased by some American
citizens,who were anxious to wrest the
“Pearl of the Antilles” from the pow-
er of Spain. While engaged in head-
ing with a. mixed cargo of passengers
and supplies'for Cuba, the Virginius
was pursued, overtaken and captured
off the shores of Jamaica. ,
Those on board .were taken to Ha-
vana, being starved and insulted on
the voyage back, and then subjected
to a. mock trial such as Spain merci-
fully provides for military offenders of
the worst sort. Conviction followed
without even the show of decorum that
accompanies the ordinary drumhead
court-martial, and the prisoners were
sentenced to be shot. The crew and
passengers shared equally the chivalry
of Spain. The whole proceeding was
carried out with that fierce spirit of
brutality, that celerity of despatch
which the annals of Torquemada em-
halm in the pages of European history.
From one end of this country to the
other a wave of popular indignation
swept when the people heard of the ex-
ecutions and the herald-spirit, which
bore up the nation’s hofies at Vicks-
burg and at. Lookout Mountain, cried
to Washington to have the flag of Cas-
tille and Arragon share the fate that.
had so lately befallen the Empire of
Maximilian.
The nation's excitement was quite
as intense as in the case of the Maine’s
bluejackets. Blue and gray alike
joined in the demand that the honor
of the United States could not be
atoned for by an apology and could
only, be satisfied by prompt and effec-
tive measures of retaliation. Caleb
Cushing was thenthe American Minis-
ter to Madrid. Hamilton Fish was
Secretary of State. Cushinx Was the
son-iu-Iaw of the Secretary who did
i
l
able man _,but in a crisis like this he
was a weak man. He was the repre-
sentative also of New York’s interests
in the Cabinet, and New YOrk was
.men‘the pivotal 'state of the Union;
endlin contra-distinction to'the great
virilei and unspoiled West. New York
"then also represented much the same
forces as it does to-day.”
Grant with 'the true instincts of a
braVei-soldier ordered tile Navy to be
put .'on a war footing when the Vir-
ginius aflair had stirred the hearts of
The President
Accordinglyfish was
.There ensued a long diplomatic corre-
(EspOndence, and meantime the still
_,small.voice of Wall street passed the
word along to keep cool about the Vir-
fginius affair; to do nothing rash and
to act with the requisite prudence as
well as with the requisite energy. Such
;was the gawky phrasing of the period.
,While Grant was a firm and patriotic
,Am‘er‘ican he was'also the most tender
He had quelled
,thejg‘i'eatest rebellion in all ‘history,
and was not anxious to subject a na-
,tlon which he had raised erect and up-
;onits feet, so soon again to the dread
,hazard of war. The era. of resump-
ltlon'f and of reconstruction was in full
swing; and if Spain made suitable
reparation and compensation to the
families of those butchered to make
a Spanish holiday ,it was said to be
savoring of cruelty to smash Spain in
her distant colony at a time when Ser-
rano and his extemporized Cabinet
were earnestly seeking to bring the
Spanish Monarchy into the great fam-
Serrano was repres-
ented as the saviour of the Spanish
people, and as a great soldier himself,
and as a, Marshal in the Spanish Army
he could thdy “the tenderest part.”
the heart of another great soldier, then
too the President of a sister republic
,in'that new civilization which Spain
had formerly given to the‘world.
There was a sublime pathos in the
situation that was artfully turned to
account in the case of a. man whose
fame was linked with that of Caeser,
Cyrus and Napoleon, and who could
not do a small, petty or inhuman thing
even if he tried to. Grant erred by
not punishing Spain then and by 113-,
tening to the influences to which he
was subjected, but he erred on mercy's
side. Thus the vacillations and sud-
den changes of policy of that time fur-
nish a painful precedent if a preCe-
dent at all for those of which they
remind us in 1898. The questions
' then as now were Questions or inter-
' ' vention, of independence and of recog-
nition of the Cubans in arms. '
The President’s sympathy like that
of the vast body of the people was
with Cuba. But the casuistry of Span-
ish diplomacy and the fine hand of
Fish provided a. wealth and coping of
argument on the other side that the
straight and simple mind of Grant
was unable to resist. Accordingly
having actually written a message in
favor of Cuba. as the dickey birds of
the _White House say, the President
‘was induced to change it at the last
moment, and so the precedent as it
stands, is the very reverse of what it
might have been had the hero of Appo
mattox been left to his own instincts
and to his unbiased judgment. This
is history but history that has yet to
be written.
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