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Comma-1111‘.
NO MORE SOUTHERN CAMPS
xfiis Ambition to Lead the
for the Important Post. Gen. Wheeler's
.Command. Bryan’s Political Regiment
"'zlb‘amington, Sept. 23.-General Fitz-
Hiding-111.1213 will probably not be selected
' to command the army of occupation in
Cuba. The militarv advisers of the
president are of the opinion that a
.1 .cgegular army general should be chosen
for this important task, and in thiS'
connection General James F. Vlade is
mentioned. He is an officer of experi-
ence and thoroughly fitted for the
piaee. He is at present at the head
«of the Havana commission of evacua-
tion.
(General Lee’s ambition to command
'the force is well known here, and has.-
enlisted much popular sympathy. He
has applied formally for the 'detail,
.and is quoted as saying to his friends
athaitif he fails in his object he will re-
",‘n. He is destined, according to pre-
. .1tp1ans, to have a. subordinate com-
..wr. and in the Cuban army, and it is
~..1 gated at the department. that no argu-
nuent or persuasion on the part of his
friends is likely to increase the impor-
..tance of his detail. Not a few of the
:‘regular army officers would be likely
: 'to resent the assignment of a volunteer
. to the command of 50,000 or 60,000 troops
:swhen high officers of the regular ser-
mvice. are still awaiting duty at the
"front.
It has not yet been decided where
General _Wheeler’s cavalry division
Shall be concentrated. It is probable
xthat it will’ be encamped at or near
*Huntsville, Ala., until it is needed in
.- Cuba. '
v. Colonel William Jennings Bryan was
"at the war department yesterday mor-
ning. He will have no trouble in get-
, ting his resignation accepted, if he de-
.sires it. His regiment is regarded as
of no more military value than any po-
" litical organization ‘whose members
* ~ wear a uniform and carry rifles instead
- .of‘ torchlights.
:The reports regarding the command
are not particularly flattering to the
regiment, and it will probably be am-
mg the first of the next lot to be mus-
‘terddéou‘t.
”'Yt‘i‘here' seems to be an irreconcilable
" difference of view between Colonel Bry-
an and his superior officers in the army
as‘to the outcome of his visit.
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.Bryan remarked to a friend after .
s'seeing the assistant secretary of war
:and General Corbin that there had been '
no satisfactory leguits from his inter-
View.
On the other hand, General Corbin
arcade the assertionthat Bryan had not
1"'1b1'oached the subject of mustering out
‘ hisxnen, but had simply called and paid .
his-«respects. .
To .12. .correspondent’s question how
"-‘he enjoyed military campaigning as
compared with political campaigning,
Bryan replied that his military expe-
; v. rience.-v.r.tas.a subject he could not now
9. dismiss.
1 r teneral Wheeler's acceptance of the
‘command of the cavalry corps is dis-
tinctly conditioned upon his continu-
ring with the troops only so long as
rma-y be necessary to establish them on
the iSland, when he is to be permitted
to resign and resume his seat in Con-
;_gress.
The war department has decided to 1
establish no more large camps in the
South, except one in Columbia, S. C.,
which is a famous health resort. The
camps at Nashville and Huntsville will
be retained, but that at Lexington
will be broken up. a
At Outsavmi Italy.
='Colon, Colombia, Sept. 23.—Advices
:rec‘eived here from Bogota, the capital
uof Colombia, say that all relations be—
ciween Colombia and Italy have been
5'- severed owing to the action of the
iItalian government in the Corruti af-
.fair, which the Colombian officials
consider arbitrary and in violation of
the treaty of amity of 1892, which was
thereby annulled. _
' News received he1e f1 om Carthage-
' me. says it is rumored there that Co-
lombia agrees to pay the claim of
Punchard, McTaggart & Co., of 10,-
000,000 francs as a result of a breach of
....the Antiguian railroad contract.
Seven Klondike" Loot.
Seattle, Sept. 23. -—It is believed here
~‘-.-that seven eastern men, who started
early last spring for the Klondike ove1-
land through the Nelson and Pease
river regions in Canada, have perished
in thezmarshes.
They have not reached either of the
posts beyond the marshes, nor return—
ed to their starting point. Frederick
Short of Chicago is the only man whose
name is known.
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The Quebec Conference.
Quebec, Sept. 23. —The international 1
conference met yesterday at 10. 30 andI
. adjourned after an hour' s sitting. The I
. Atlantic fisheries question was under
~ consideration.
' ‘The commissioners ate luncheon yes-
terday on board the H. M. S. Renown.
Senator Faulkner, who replaces Sen-
..ator Gray on the commission, arrived
..-.-.at .noon.
Gen. Jackson Cannot Serve.
" Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 23.—General
. Jackson has sent a telegram to Presi-
dent McKinley thanking him for his
tender of a position on the commission
:to investigate the conduct of the war,
:and expressing regre that pressing pri-
vatet business compels him to decline
the honor.
The Paris Peace Conference
London, Sept. 23.—The Daily Mail
- says that the Rothschilds will loan
. lion pounds on the security of Alma-
.1 --den quicksilver mines, when the treaty
of peace shall have been signed.
Five Days 101' Argentina.
Buenos Ayres, Sept. 23.—El Tempo
. says Chili has given .Argentina. five
days in which to accept unrestricted
arbitration of the boundary dispute be-
Livaéween the two countries.
OCCUPATION 0F CUBAA
’Gen. Lee Not to Have the Chief: 23.
Occupying I
'JForces. Gen “'ade Likely to Be Chosen A
Spain four million pounds or five mil- ~
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TROOPS AT CAMP MEADE.
«Mastering Out 01ders. Sickness 9nd
Deaths in Camp.
Camp Meade, Middletown‘, Pa.., Sept.
—The Seventh Ohio started yeste1-
day for Columbus, where they will be
I mustered out. This is the last move
ment away from camp. All of the 0th
. er regiments will be kept, with possi-
'bly one exception, that of the Four-
iteenth Pennsylvania, which, it is ru-
mored, will be ordered to Pittsburg for
mustering out.
Colonel Glenn, however, says that he
knows nothing of the muster out of his
command.
Surgeon Charles R. Parke of Scran-
ton has been placed on trial before a
. general court martial charged with re-
Ifusing to accept descriptive lists from
patients of the division hospital.
A He is defended by General Gobin' and
' Assistant Adjutant General Norris,
I Surgeon Stringfellow of the Fourth
Missouri is the complainant in the
.case.
Private George W. Hoffman, Second
West Virginia. died yesterday of ty-
phoid fever. William M. Brown of
er York, died in the hospital Wed-
nesday night of typhoid fever. His
mother arrived in camp to visit him,
but her son had been dead an hour
when she reached the hospital. She
did not know he was ill.
There is no verification of the story
that barracks are to be erected here
for winter quarters. The soldiers will
be sent to Cuba and Porto Rico as soon
as the climatic conditions will al-
low. . . .
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CHINA'S EMPRESS RULES»
Imperial Edict Announces Emperor Has
Resigned.
Pekin, Sept. 23.—An imperial edict
just issued definitely announces that
the emperor of China has resigned his
power to the empress (dowager em-
press) who has ordered the ministers to
deliver to her in future their official re-
ports.
Shanghai, Sept. 23.—A local rumor is
to the effect that the emperor of China
is dead. No details are obtainable, but
it is said that the gates of Pekin are
closed.
' Yesterday it was reported from Pe-
kin that the empress dowager had re-
gained her ascendancy over the em-
peror and that she was now practically
ruler of the empire. The report was
meagre in detail and nothing beyond
the bare statement was given.
A dispatch to the London Times says
that the dowager empress has assumed
charge of the government and that she
will attend all the meetings of the
Tsung-li-yamen, be present at all an-
diences, see all memorials and approve
every edict that is issued.
I This according to the dispatch means
a virtual restoration of the regency and
the early reinstatement ‘of Li Hung
Chang is consequently expected.
Alger at Chattanooga.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 23. -Secre-
tary Algei and party reached this city
Wednesday night from Knoxville. The
party was met at thte depot by the
mayor of the city and a large number
of citizens, and were conducted to the
‘city auditorium. wnoie three thousand
people had gathered to meet and re-
ceive them.
Secretary Alger made. a short speech
thanking the people for their courteous
reception. He said, with reference to
changes of mismanagement:
“That some mistakes have occurred
I admit, but that the medical depait-
ment, thte commissary department and
the quartermaster‘s department have
done their full duty I affirm.”
)Ii- -5 D.t\is' Body Removed.
Nariagans c-tt Pier, R. I., Sept. 23.——
The sorrOVV1ul jou1pey of Mrs. Jeffer—
son Davis to Richmond, Va.,
, body of her daughter, Miss VI innie Da
vis, was unde1taken under favorable
circumstances at 10. 20 yesterday morn-
ing.
! A detail from Sedgwick Post, G. A.
R, acted as esc01t to the railroad sta-
tion, and the casket was deposited in
an apartment of a' special car, while
the party accompanying it were con-
ducted to another section of the same
vehicle, which, at Kingston Junction,
was attached to the colonial express
for New York.
Atlantic Coallng Station. 5
Washington, Sept. 23.—Rear Admiral
Belknap, retired, who lives in Brook-
line, Mass, is in Vv’ashington in c011-
sultation with the naval authorities in
regard to the establishment of coaling
stations along the Atlantic coast, from
Maine to Port Royal, S. C.
He was president of the board which
the chain of stations which the navy
‘department believe should be main-
tained.
estimates will contain the item of coal-
ing stations.
The Striking ~hoo Labial-s.
A Brockton, Mass, Sept. 23. —The strik-
ing shoe lasters were still maintaining
their firm attitude yesterday, and the
manufacturers generally seemed equal-
ly determined in the fight over prices.
Conferences, however, were in progress
with several firms during the morning,
and the union claimed to expect settle-
ments on terms acceptable to the strik-
ers.
Gen. Greene and His Stair Arrive.
San Francisco, Sept. 23. —The steam-
er China, from Hong Kong and Naga-
saki, is in the harbor. Major General
A Merritt was not on board.
The China. showed a. clean bill of
health and was not put in quarantine.
Brigadier General Greene and his stair
were 011 board.
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Lleut. Peary's Expedition.
Washington, Sept. 23. ——Friends of
Civil Engineer R. E. Peary have re-
ceived advices from him dated Cape
York, July 25, in which he reports that
all is well and the prospects of success
excellent.
The Peace Commissioners.
Paris, Sept. 23. —-The minister of for-
eign affairs, M. Delcasse, has offered
the peace commissioners the use of the
foreign ofiice for their meetings, which
commence on October 1.
Company C, Two Hundred and First
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IWIKOFF THANNING 0111
Few Troops Remain at Montauk
Point. '
QUICK WORK IN BUILDING
Winter Clothing Ditributed Among Many.
of the Soldiers. Wooden Hospitals
Nearly Completed. City of Mexico’.
Passengers Landed.
Camp VVikoff, Montauk Point, Sept.
23.—Last night was more comfortable
'in camp, and the sentries were able to
keep warm by means of considerable
'exercise, but nevertheless it was no
weather for summer clothes. Overcoats
and winter clothing have been distribu-
ted in a number of the camps, .but
there was not enough to go all around
and a good many of the men had to
exercise to keep warm.
The departure of the Third cavalry
has taken a good deal of life out Of
the camp, and the fact that Montauk
is fast returning to the deserted state
in which the camp found it, becomes
more apparent every day.
The arrival Wednesday of the two
transports .with the yellow fever and
other diseases on‘ board, threw every«
body into a state of great excitement
for a time. It gave the quarterpaster
an opportunity to show how much he
could do in a sh01t time, however, and
it is doubtful if a. camp ever went up
as fast against as great odds as did
the new detention camp which General
Wheeler ordered built for thte emer-
gency. Fifty teams were set to haul<
Eng tents and lumber to the site of the
new camp in as many minutes and
forty carpenters were at work before
noon.
Half of the tents were up, and one
hospital ward of three tents had also
been erected when, late in the after-
noon, the Seguranca was ordered to
New York.
The City of Mexico was held here,
however, and the labor of building the
camp was not wholly loét.
The seventy- -six troopers General
Wheeler decided to subjectlto the same
quarantine rules which have governed
all new arrivals, not because any dis-
ease was really feared, but as a pre-
cautionary measure.
There are now 423 men in the hos—
pital, and two hundred of them. will
be sent to New York. The erection of
two wooden wards was begun yester-
day. They will be completed this week
and by Monday all the sick will have
been moved out of canvas wards. Then
the work of removing the canvas an-
nex will begin, and when that has been
completed all the other canvas will be
removed.
General Wheeler yesterday morning
telegraphed to Colonel Kimball in New
Yerk, asking for the final arrangements
for the removal of the few troops re—
maining here. He expected a definite
reply yesterday.
It is settled 3now,:-General Wheeler
said, that the First cavalry will go to
,Dakota, the Ninth towthe-department
of the Colorado, and the Second, Sixth
and Tenth to. Huntsville. ‘
The City of Mexico was unloaded yes-
terday, and the men on her taken to
'the detention camp prepared for them
by the provost marshal. The well men
were brought to the iron pier on one
of the barges, and after ’having eaten
a.“ luncheon of sandwiches and coffee
provided for them by the Red Cross
Society, as many of them as were able
marched up the hill to their camp.
There were only fifty in the proces-
sion. They looked. wornland ill, as
nearly all of them had had the fever at
one time or another, and they showed
with the '
examined sites and made a report on 1
It is possible that Secretary Long's
plainly the enervating effects of the
Cuban climate in their sallow faces and.
emaciated bodies, ‘ '
' The eighteen sick and eight others
who are convalescing, went up in am-
bulances after having been landed at
the wooden pier.
What Russia Gets from China.
London, Sept. 23.—A dispatch to the
Globe from Hong Kong says that Hau-
ching-chen, ex-Chinese minister to Ger-
many, who went to St. Petersburg last
summer on a special mission, and ret-
urned to China on September 10, con-
cluded at St. Petersburg, under the
terms of the secret convention signed
at Pekin on March 27 last, an agree-
ment ceding to Russia the ports of
Port Arthur and Talienwan.
The full text of the treaty comprises
530 words. It stipulates that only Rus-
slan and Chinese warships shall enter
Port Arthur. Chinese soldiers are pro«
hibited from entering Russian territory
at Port Arthur and Talienwan. Russia
has the exclusive use of the inner har-
bor of Talienwan and the ,.sole admin-
: istration of the territories ceded. A
tract of land to thenorth of Talienwan
is designated as a buffer belt.
All defence works and lighthouses
are exclusively Russian. Russia, by the
, terms of the treaty, purchases all of
the government buildings at Port Ar-
A thur. The extension of the Russian-
I Chinese railway system is to be hast-_
’ ened and the funds borrowed for that
purpose must be obtained from Russia.
All disputets growing out of the agree-‘
ment are to be settled in writing in the
, Russian text.
New Jeney Republicans.
Trenton, Sept. 23.—Acting Gov. Fos-
ter M. Voorhees was nominated by ac-
clamation for governor by the Repub—
lican state convention yesterday after-
noon. ~
The convention met at noon in the
Taylor Opera House. There were 814
delegates present, and the galleries
were filled o overflowing when Chair-
man Franklin Murphy of Essex county
called the convention to order.
He introduced the temporary chair-
man, John W. Griggs of Pasasic, at-
torney general of the United States,
and former governor of New Jer-
- sey.
Vixen Here.
New York, Sépt. 23.—The auxiliary
cruiser Vixen, which was present at
the destruction of Admiral Cervera’s
fleet off Santiago, arrived in port yes-
terday and is anchored off quarantine.
Japan to Ratio 3. Loan.
Yokohama, Sept. 23.—It is understood
the Japanese government has decided
to negotiate for a foreign loan of $50,-
' 000,000.
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SHE WAS AT THE FRONT. ‘K I
Ellie Beasoner Followed Shatter to Sea
“'hat War Was Like.
To a bright and Winsome miss of
twanty years fresh from the Sunflow-
er State belongs the distinction of
having been the only American girl
to follow the boys in blue to Cuba and
to make her way to the front against
many obstacles and by her own exer-~
.tions. Elsie Reasoner is the name of
' this plucky little heroine. From her
picture one gets the impression that
she is somewhat older and taller than
she really is.
Miss Reasoner was born in Kansas,
in the midst of daisies and sunflowers,
and is a. splendid example of the
bright, cheery, breezy, self-reliant girl
of the Western prairie. She writes
well and she talks well, inheriting
these talents, perhaps, from her fath-
er, Judge Calvin Reasoner, at one time
a prominent editorial writer of Leav-
enworth and later connected with the
Chicago press.
.VVhen the Spanish-American war
broke out Miss Reasoner was at Oma-
ha. in charge of the Bureau 'of Public-
ity at the exposition. With the first
sound of the bugle she was astir, and
determined to go to Cuba to see for
herself what a real campaign and a
real battle were like.
In telling of her expoits she said: “I
first sought some encouragement from
publishers, but got little. You see,
hardly any one thought it possible that
I would ever reach the scene of the
conflict, and mostgof my friends and
acquaintances who knew of my inten-
tion either laughed at me or tried to
frighten me. One publisher, for
Whose magazine I thought I might
write an interesting article descriptive
of my experiences, wrote me that my
proposed undertaking was ‘positively
absurd and foolhardy.’ However, I
persevered, and in due time sailed
from New York to Kingston, bearing
splendid letters of recommendation
from quite 'a. number of influential pub-
lic men.
“I had one to Geneial Miles, one to
General Shatter, and several to ofiicers
of the fleetfrom Admiral Sampson
down to captains of the fighting ships.
“I saw some lively skirmishes, and
was near enough to the front and the
firing line to hear the music of the
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Mausers and the crack- of the rifles
o‘urvboys carried. I was near enough
to. see some of the horrors of war,
and to realize that General Sherman
had it about right. I got just as near
to the thick of the fight as the com-
manding officer would permit me to
go.
I “I did not see the great hero, ‘Teddy’
Roosevelt. I missed thatpleasure, but
I did see many of his troopers, some
of them dead and others wounded.
And that reminds me, here is a. picture
I took of a Spaniard lying dead on the
field. He was a sharpshooter, and.
from his perch in a mango tree, had
. been picking 01f some of Roosevelt’s
men. A big, burly negro cavalryman
finally located the Spaniard, and
brought him down, badly wounded.
Without looking to see whether he
was dead or alive the enraged negro
raised his rifle and battered the sharp-
shooter over the head until he was
dead. There he is, just as he lay when
[passed the place. You see I got an
excellent picture of him.
“Oh, yes; I saw funny things, too. I
_ saw a Cuban sell a horse for half of
a pineapple and a piece of tobacco. _
“I saw six-footers of the Michigan
volunteers, who had fought Spaniards
almost hand to hand, run like deer
from under sized land crabs.
“I saw General Shatter—three hun-
dred and seventy odd pounds—riding a
dimunitive Cuban horse.
“Two things most impressed me, one
quite as much as the other. First, the
deplorable mismanagement of the
transportation and commissary de-i'
partments, and, second, the wonderful
cheerfulness of the soldiers amid
great hardships and suiferings. I nev-
er saw such a body of splendid fel«
lows, and have no idea I shall ever see
the like again. Why, I saw young men
in some of those field hospitals des-
perately wounded who were cracking
jokes with one another. I met pale
faced men, hardly able to walk, makx
~ing their way to the rear for treat-
ment, whose only complaint was of
their hard luck in being hit so early
in the fight. So far as I could judge
the mismanagement of the Santiago
campaign on land was something aw-y
ful; the bravery and cheerfulneSS of
the rank and file were something glor-
ious. ”
wife do much .fancy
“Does
work?”
“Fancy work? She won ’1: even let a
porous plaster come into the house
without crocheting a red border round
it and runnir .g aieilow ribbon through
the holes.” ' '
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