Lkerton of \Vorcester
INVESTIGATION IIIII
,_ Commission to Meet the President
on Saturday Next.
‘ SEVEN MEMBERS SECURED
Believed That the Other Two Will Have
Accepted Before the Time for the Con-
ference. Gem/Alger Has Not Resigned.
[-Geh. McCook Mentioned.
Washington, Sept. 21.—The president
announced yesterday that he had so
far completed the commission to in-
vestigate the conduct of the war that
he had invited the members to meet
him for a conference at the White
House on Saturday next with a ‘view
to beginning work neXt week.
Seven of the nine members have defi-
nitely accepted, and the president ex-
pressed himself yesterday as being con~
fident of; being able to 'secure the other
two necessary to complete the quota
by the'ime set for the conference. The
names of the new men who have been
invited to serve were not given out.
Secretary Gage and Attorney General
Griggs were the only-members of the
cabinet at yesterday’s meeting. The
president suggested the necessity of
giving early attention to annual de-
partment reports, saying that he de-
sired to begin Work on his message to
Congress as Soon as practicable. He
talked with secretary Gage at some
length as to the lines of his report, but
no information Was given out concern-
ing it.
After leaving the White House Sec-
retary Gage said there was no founda-
tion'to the report that Secretary Alger
had tendered his resignation.
Anson G. McCcok Mentioned.
Washington, Sept. 21.—It is under-
stood that General Anson G. McCook
of New York will be the seventh mem-
ber of the war investigating commis-
sion.
ARMY QUARTERMASTERS.
Complaint That They Have Been Unjust.
ly Blamed.
Washington, ' Sept. 21.—The army
quartermasters feel keenly the criti-
cism directed against their corps and
they are prepared to furnish some sen-
sational evidence which transfers the
responsibility and blame for many de-
fec'ts of the quartermaster’s department
to another branch.
They go further, and insist that Sec-
retary Alger, Adjutant General Corbin
and the departmental officers are at
fault.
It is explained that orders to troops,
transferring them from point topoint,
were issued in the early days of the
war without due notice; to quart’ermas-
ters, who were concerned with cloth-
ing, supplies and transportation, or to
subsistence oflicers, who had to do with
provisions. ‘
The result was that troops went to
one camp, and their clothing and equi-
page and subsistence to another.
The involved systetm of army admin-
istration—the mass of “paper work”—
which had been grown up in the long
period ofpeace when officers had plen-
ty of time for this business, proved
overwhelming.
A regiment asSi ned to Chickamauga
one day was or 'ered to Tampa. the
next; the first ordr would‘ be gurnish-
ed the quarte teraéa' stence
egnu ’t’tilh for
officers, who” lQb" fig
several days; When it com to the sup-
plemental order.
Shipments ,therefore, wuuld be start-
ed in all haste to the first named point,
and no reserve material was on hand
to supply the second point.
It was impossible always to overtake
the first shipment, and there were con-
sequently endless confusibn and de-
lay.
Strikers Attack Policemen
. Haverhill, Mass, Sept. 21. -—The first
act of violence in connectmn with the
street railway trouble in this city oc-
curred Monday night, abOut ten o’clock
when a car was stoned, and two police-
men, while taking two‘ strikers to the
police station, were assailed by many
missiles. Several windows were broken
in the police station.
A squad of reserve officers was sent
out and dispersed a mob of about two
hundred men and boys, which, howev-
er, reassembled. Then the police made
a second rush, used their clubs freely
and put the crowd to flight.
After this all cars that ran were un-
der police protection.
The Central Labor Union last night
adopted resolutions condemning the
railroad company, and other labor or—
ganizations in the city have passed
similar measures.
The street‘ railway officers have suc-
ceeded in obtaining ten new men to go
to work.
Will Expel Anarchists
Budapest, Sept. 21.—The governor of
this district has resolved to expel all
Anarchists who are not citizens of
Hungary.
Madrid, Sept. 21.—Six Italians were
arrested in Barcelona yesterday on
suspicion of having been connected
with the assassination of the Empress
of Austria at Geneva.
Eagle Captured
Plainfield, N. J., Sept. 21.—George
Belcher of Watchung avenue has a
large American eagle confined in his
hen coop at home, which was captured
yeste1 day aftetr a desperate encounte1,
in which three men fought against the
ferocious courage of the great Ameri—
can bird to flee itself from their grasp
and fly away to freedom.
To Best in Richmond, Va
Narragansett Pier, R. I., Sept. 21.—
It has been decided that the body of
Miss Winnie Davis, after a brief ser—
vice here, will be forwarded to Rich-
mond. Va., on the train leaving here
at 10.10 o’clock Thursday morning. The
journey should be completed at 9.05 a.
m. Friday.
Odd Fellows Elect Officers.
Boston, Sept. 21.—Hon. Alfred S. Pin-
was yesterday
unanimously elected grand sire of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F.
K
definitely
dock, Hodge & Co.,
;St. Louis ..
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SPAIN’S COMMISSION INSTRUCTED.
Her Pans Commission Is Told \Vhat To
' 'Do
Madrid, Sept. 21.—The cabinet coun-
cil was in session five hours yester-
day. The ministers fully approved
the instructions to the peace commis-
sioners, who will start for Paris on
Sunday. .
The instructions to the Spanish peace
commissioners cover several pages and
are mainly devoted to the question cf
the Philippines. -.««
They are less precise respecting the
West Indies, the disposition of which
are virtually settled by the protocol.
Nevertheless, the commissiOners are
instructed , regarding “ the
Cuban debt and commercial relations,
upon which points 'fhey are to insist
strenuously.
All the negotiations will be subject
to the direct approval of the Spanish
cabinet.
The Spanish peace commissioners will
receive twelv'e thousand francs. per
month, and their secretaries g0}: two
thousand to eight thousand fra
It is said that the instructions are
drawn in a spirit of compromises
The United States ha not replied‘gto
Spain's communicati 0%" raid; ing fithe
.question of the validity of this surr’én-
der of Manila after the Signing of the
protocol. This is' supposed to be due
to the nearness of the rfi’eeting of the
peace commissioners. «.11.;
Weekly Crop Repoy;
Washington, Sept. 21.—The weekly
crop bulletin issued by the weather
bureau gives the following summary
The week ending September 19,1898,
on the whole, has been generally fav-
orable, except in portions of New Eng:
land, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Maryland, where the drought condi-
tions previously reported continue,
while in Mississippi and southwestern
Texas and some sections of Kansas
and Missouri, heavy rains have retar-
ded farm work.
Killing frosts are reported from Nor-
them New England, Michigan and
Wisconsin, but with slight damage, and
light frosts have occurred in New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, doing
little or no damage.
:T: Rough Riders Start for Home
New Yogk, Sept. “21:The Arizona
delegation of Roosevelt’s Rough Rid-
ers started home‘ MOnday night after
a week of unalloyed happiness in this
city. Some time before the-.men left
word was sent out from thei Eheadé
quarters in the Delaware ‘iho Se, at
Thirty— fourth street axi'd Th lrd ayenue,‘
that they. had an importing" statemer
which they desired .«Ito make public.
The statement proved to be a testimo-
nial of the appreciation felt by the
Arizona contingent for the kip-3.11;. treat-
men’t it had 1eceived at 'the hands oi
the people of this city in generfial and
from the police force in particular. ,
Our Flag Ovor Havana
Hnavaa, Sept. 21.—At ten o’clock yes-
terday morning the American flag was
hoisted on the flagstaff of. the TTotcha
hotel, the headquarters of the Ameri—
can evacuation commission.
ELECTIONS INSPAIN
Ministerial Nominees Generally
Successful. '
BLAIIoo AND AUTONOMY
Cables That. Hols Not in Accord With
Cuban Colonial Ministry. Duke of
Tetuan Blames Sagasta {or Spanish
Disasters. Says Liberals Could Have
Averted War.
London, Sept. 21.—Special dispatches
from Madrid say the provincial coum
cil elections have resulted in the return
of the ministerial nominees, except at
Bilboa, where the Basque-patriot Sa-
rana has been elected by an OVGI‘Whl \-
ming majority.
Serious street disorders ensued.
Madrid, Sept. 21.—Captain General
Blanco cables from Havana that he is
not in accord with the Cuban colonial
ministry, to which the‘ government
here replied that while Spanish sover-
eignty existed in Cuba, he must apply
autonomy, and therefore he could not
turn out the colonial government no“
in office and appoint a new one.
Madrid, Sept. 21.—The workmen of
Bilboa, where the cruisers which be-
longed to Admiral Cervera's lleet were
built, have decided to go to Sautander
in order to make a demonstration
against the def, ated Spanish admiral
on his return to in.
The govern”. however, has taken
measures calculated to prevent the
plan being carried out, and the minis-
try has also forbidden demonstrations
in welcoming Cervera home.
The Duke of Tetuan, who was minis-
ter for foreign affairs in the cabinet of
the late Premier Canovas del Castillo.
is quoted as saying in an interview:
l ”Senor Canovas, if he had lived,
would never have accepted war with
‘the United Statets. Canovas and my-
self were convinced that war would
lead inevitably to the ruin of Spain.”
Continuing, the duke blamed the Lib-
erals, who, he said, could have avert-
ed war, either by accepting the proff-
ered good offices of the United States
minister, General Stewart L. \Vood-
ford, or by treating with the insurg 7-
ents on the basis of Cuban independ-
ence, or by selling Cuba.
In conclusion the Duke of Tetuan re-
marked: “Senor Sagasta is responsi—
'ble for all our disasters and must be
ejected from power.”
«~—
No Joy for Cerveru.
Madrid, Sept. 21. ——The workmen of
B‘ilboa, where the cruiseis which be-
longed to Admi1al Cervera’ s fleet were
built, have decided to go to Santander
in order to make a demonstration ag—
ainst the admiral on his return.
The government, however, has taken
A guard of marines “fag posted at the measures calculated to prevent the
entrance to the grounds.
Colonel Clous plan being carried out.
The ministry
and Captain Payne stood on:- tl1e roof has also forbidden demonstrations wel-
of the hotel at both sides of the flag—
staff.
At 10 o’clock sharp a Quartermaster
of the steamer" Resolute raised the
coming Cervera home.
WestIndiaanrricaneVictioml
Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 21. —At a
flag, which unfurled and fluttered. public meeting yestetrday, called for
proudly in the breeze, which was blow- the purpose of discussing the possibil‘-
ing from the sea
Ten Men Cremated
Toledo, Sept. 21. —Ten' men were cre-
mated and eight more fatal] ‘burned'
last night in the In diQaS rous me
that ever occurred in b.ledo
The spontaneous combustion of dust
in the grain elevator owned by Pad-
at 'nine o’clock,
caused this terrible destruction of life,
and none of those who were taken out
after the fire were far enough from
death’s door to tell any of the de~
tails.
ON THE DIAMOND
.Games Played Yesterday
At New York:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
St. Louis“ . O O 2 0 0 0 4 1 0— 7
New York. 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0— 7
Batteries, sugden and Taylor; War-
:ties of raising funds for the relief of
the sufferers from the recent hurricane
Iwhich swept over the West Indian is-
‘,lands the archbishop of the West In-
dies declared that the condition of Ja-
maica was such that it was not possi—
ble to do more than emphasize an ex-
pression of sympathy with those who
were in need of help.
Any substantial relief, he added, com-
prehending the re- -establishment of the
original conditions in the vastated
islands, must, in his opinion, necessa-
rily take the form of imperial assist-
ance on a large scale.
Public opinion here endorses the
statements of the archbishop, and es-
'pecia-lly holds Great Britain responsi-
ble for the indhstriai crisis which ran-
ders the othe1 West Indian colonies
impotent to give the suffering islands
substantial aid.
I The Philippine Situati o n.
ner and Doheny. Base hits, St. Louis I
15, New York 14. Errors, St. Louis 2,
New York 3.
At Brooklyn: 1
‘ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Pittsburg... 8 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 2—15
Brboklyn.... 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0—0
Batteries, Bowerman and Cronin;
Grim and Kennedy. Base hits, Pitts.-
burg 20, Brooklyn 5. Errors, Pittsburg
0, Brooklyn 5. L
At Philadelphia:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cincinnati.. 1 1 1 3 0 O 0 1 0— 7
Philadelphia 1 0 3 0 0 0 O 0 1-- 5
Manila, Philippine Islands, Sept. 21.:-
Twenty Spanish vessels, including 12
'steamers, have completed their trans-
fer to the American flag, and a major-
ity of them have now proceeded on
coasting voyages.
i There is some uncertainty regarding
'the native crews on the Filipino ves—
. sols. It is reported that they have been
Batteries, Hawley and Wood; Mur-i
phy and M. Murphy. Base hits, Cin-
cinnati 10, Philadelphia 9. Errors, Cin; .
cinnati 0, Philadelphia 5.
At Baltimore:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 »
Cleveland.. . . 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4—5
Baltimore...... 1‘1 1 1 0 2 0 0’——6
Batteries, Peter and Criger; Nops
and Robinson. Base hits, Cleveland 9,
Baltimore 8. Errors, Cleveland 2, Bal-
timore 1.
Game called on account of dark-
.ness.
At Washington:
1 2
3
Washington. 0 0 0
Chicago.r... 0 0 0
Batteries, Killen and McGuire; Calla-
han and Donohue. Base hits, Wash-
ington 5, Chicago 6. Errors, Washing-
ton 2, Chicago 1.
-2
_ 0
4 5 6
0 0 0
0 0 2
'I-Io-q
omoo
coco
At Boston:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 .
Louisville... 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1— 4
Boston...... 2 4 3 0 3 3 1 8 0—24
Batteries, Dowling and Kittridge;
Lewis and Bergen. Base hits, Louis-
ville 8, Boston 26. Errors, Louisville 10,
Boston 0.
How The Clubs Stand.
Clubs. Won. Lost. PC.
Boston 85 .44 .655
Baltimore .............. 81 46 .638
Cincinnati .............. 80 53 .6632
Cleveland 74 54, .578
Chicago . . . . . .. .. . . W72 60 .545
New York 70 60 .538
Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . 64 61 .512
Pittsburg 66 66 .500
Louisville . . . . . . .. .. .. 57 73 .433
Brooklyn 48 74 .393
Washington .. . . . . . . . . . . 43 87 ' .346
............. 34 . 96
. 262
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committing questionable acts, and the
Boston, Raleigh and Manila sailed yes—
terday under orders to protect com-
merce. ,
The British gunboat Rattler has gone
to Cebu. There are rumors that the
insurgents are attacking Cebu and 110-
I10.
The Eighth Cavalry Going to Cuba
Washington, Sept. 21. —The orders for
the exchange of the stations of the
Second cavalry, now at Montauk Point,
and the Eighth cavalry, now at Fort
Mead, S. D. have been tempo1arily
suspended. The Eighth cavalry saw
no service, and it is the purpose of the
administratiOn to send the regiment to
Cuba in the autumn.
Provincial Elections in Spain
London, Sept. 21.—Dispatches from
Madrid say that theprovincial coun-
sils election has resulted in the return
of the ministerial nominees, except at
Bilbao, where the Basque patriot Sara-
na has been elected by an oveiwhelm-
lng majority. Serious street disorders
ensued.
Says Bryan \Viil Resign
Kansas City, Sept. 21.—A special to
the Star from Jacksonville, Fla, says:
“Colonel William Jennings Bryan of
the Third Nebraska volunteers will
shortly resign his commission in the
army.”
Mr. Bayard Weaker Again.
Dedham, Mass, Sept. 21.—Hon. Tho-
mas" F. Bayard was reported as being
considerably weaker yesterday.
It ._was thought that he "would not
survive longer than three or four days.
Philadelphia’s Peace Jubilee
Philadelphia, Sept. 21.—The citizens’
committee has selected October 26 and
27 for the peace jubilee.
.t-IE CAPTAINIS ECONMOICAL/WIFE.
Toppled the Other “hay and Put the Bone
in-Place
In a Massachusetts seaport town
there is a retired sea captain who
makes a frequent boast that he has
the “smartest woman along shore.”
New instances of her enterprise are
constantly coming to notice. The last
One refers to an exploit by which she
saved herself a doctor’s bill. The cap-'
tain tells the story with great relish.
“She’s getting pretty heavy,” he be-
gins, “and now and again she’ll miss
her footing. Well, not many months
ago she missed it on Our stairs and
fell all in a heap down three steps 01.
to her side.
“When I got to her, she said, just as
brisk as usual: “Don’t ask me if I’ve
hurt myself, Cap’n, for of course I
have. I reckon I’ve unjointed a bone
in my left leg, falling on it. Now
don’t try to pull me up.
scramble round a minute, and you go
for the doctor.’
"Well, the doctor’s our next neigh-
bor, so it didn’t take long to get him.
He looked her over, and said there
was a bone somewheres round her left
hip that was out of hilter.
“At that mother rose right up on her
feet and toppled over the opposite way
from lwhat she’d fallen, downstairs,-
and we heard a kind of a crack.
“She looked up at the doctor with
her mouth kind of whitish, but the
same old twinkle in her eyes, and she
says: ‘I believe I’ve set that bone my-
selt, doctor,’ and she hadl”—Youth’s
Companion.
FRIENDLY WITH THE DOGS.
The 'Rats Knew Their Protectors and
\Vouldn’t Eat Without Them.
A gentleman who lived some years
since in“ Renfrewshire was accustom-
ed, aftér his shooting excursions, to
feed his dogs in their kennels, the
food being placed in a long trough.
On one occasion, when he had attend-
ed to them as usual, he looked into
the kennel through a hole in the door,
and was somewhat astonished, not
at perceiving a number of rats there,
but at seeing them in the trough, qui-
etly and fearlessly partaking of. the
bread and milk with the dogs, which
seemed to pay no attention to them
whatever. He was determined to de-
stroy the rats and the non day he
placed the trough in such a position
that a gun pointed through the hole
would rake it from one end to the
other.
At the usual hour the food was
placed as a lure, and the dogs were
kept out, but‘the plan did not succeed.
The plotter against the rats could ob-
serve the head of one of them-old
and sagacious—peering out at hole af-
ter hole, and from under the manger
for the purpose of reconnoitreing, but
none of them descended. Having wai-
ted to no purpose forth an hour he
let in the dogs, and in a few minutes
the'rats were again feeding in perfect
harmony. They seemed to be aware
that their safety was connected with
the presence of the dogs. 7
Slang Puzzled Him.
Edouard Remenyi, the great violin-
ls‘t, who recently died, used to say
that some of the hardest studying he
ever did in his life began after an ex-
perience he had in Detroit.
“On my first tour of this country,"
be delighted in telling, “I worked un-
ceasingly to acquire a knowledge of
the language and got on fairly well.
But the slang that I found so preva-
lent baflied me more than anything
else. I gave a performance in De-
troit one night and met with a recep-
tion thatwarmed my heart toward
her people. Among other things, this
appeared in one 'of the papers next
morning: “Here an ugly. little, bow-
legged chap, whose clothes hung loose-
ly about his ungainly person, waddled
to the footlights. But, sakes alive!
how he did play the fiddle!’
“Now, I couldn’t make out what that
.‘sakes alive’ meant, so I timidly ap-
proached a gentlemanly citizen, told
him of my inability to grasp the mean-
ing of the slang, and asked him if the
expression was intended to be com-
plimentary.
“He kindly read it and replied: ‘Well.
I should snicker.’
“I was more bewildered than ever,
and from that time on made the study
of slang one of my chief occupations."
—Detroit Free Press.
WIT AND HUMOR.
“Did she break down when you told
her you were going abroad?”
“Naw. I think she [felt like doing
one, though.”——Indiana’polis Journal.
“I spent $100 on my silver wedding
present to my wife.” ,
“What is it?”
“I don’t know; she hasn‘t got
through exchanging it yet.”—Chicago
Record.
“Mike,“ said Blodding Pete. “how is-
lt dat some 0’ dose people kin work day
after day 2111’ never seem to feel it?"
“Well, ” replied Meandering Mike, re-
flectively, “I s‘pose dey is started in
young an’ gets to be immunes."--—
Washington Star.
.“Do you understand women?”
“.Yes, I understand them well enough
to know that I can’t underslaud them
at all ”—-Ch1cago Record.
“Hark. Somebody is playing a de-
lightful bit from Wagner.”
“,Oh no; that’s only James shovel-
ling coal in the cellar.’
“You called on Miss Spritely the
other evening? Didn’t you find her
charming in conversation?”
“I found her charming in monologue.
We didn’t succeed in holding any con-
versation.”—-Chicngo Tribune.
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