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SITUATIAT AT AIAMLA
Exaggerated AoCounts of Sickness
‘ ‘ Among Our Troops.
INSURGEN TS ABE "ACTIVE
A Despatch from Gen. Otis. The Aineri-
calls Likely to Seize the Entire Insur.
gent Fleet. The Rebels Destroying
Property and Crops.
' .- Washington, Sept. 27.—The following
cable dispatch'has been received at
the war department: '
_ Manila, Sept. 26.
Adjutant General, Washington:
Understand reporters send exagger-
ated accounts of sickness. Total in
hospital to- day, highest of any day,
529; typhoid fever patients, 95; all do-
ing well‘ and mostly convalescent; ab-
out 1200 excused from duty; mostly
slight ailments, showing condition fair
for this latitude. ' Nineteen deaths from
disease this month; 23 in August.
OTIS,
Commanding.
Manila, Sept. 27.—-—When the United
States revenue cutter McCulloch capt-
ured the insurgent steamer Abbey, for-
merly the Pasig, sixty miles south 0f
Manila, the‘Abbey, it is believed, hav-
ing landed seven thousand rifles, an in-
surgent gunboat followed the American
vessel into Cavite, and now the Ameri-
cans contemplate taking possession of
the entire insurgent fleet, because the
vessels are flying an unrecognized flag
and are liable to seizure, as pirates, by
the war Vessels of any nation.
Americans 'cruisers'have gone north,
where the steamer Filipinas is landing
troops.
Two steamers which have .just arriv-
ed here brought many Spanish offi-
cials and refugees from the southeast
of the island of Luzon. They report
that the insurgents are overrunning
the country, destroying property and
the hemp c‘rops. Sanguinary conflicts
have taken place at Cebu and Iloilo.
There has been an outbreak of small
pox in the California regiment here:
but only six cases of a mild type have
been reported.
Currency of Porto Rico.
Washington Sept. 27.—Secretary Gage
hasdecided to let the vexed question
of the ratio of the silver currency of
Porto Rico to our own go over till the
assembling 'of Congress in December.
This is but a" temporary question, since
the ultimate policy of the United
States will be to introduce its own
currency on the island, but as this
change cannot be brought about rap-
idly, considerable confusion and many
troublesome complications cannot fail
to arise in the meantime from, the con-
tinued use of the present currency of
the island, whatever ratio to our own
may finally be established.
The custom house authorities have
been directed, till Congress decides oth-
erwise, to adhere to the two to one ra-
tio established by the military gover-
nor, which makes the peso equivalent
to our 50-cent piece.
Secretary Gage outlined a plan a
few weeks ago, for using the existing
currency by retaining on one .side its
present inscription, and on the other
stamping the United States equivalent.
On the peso, for instance, one side
would hear the Spanish coat of arms,
and the words “Isla de Puerto Rico,”
while the other would be stamped just
as is one side of our fifty-cent pieces.
2,000 Men at Port Slocum.
Fort Slocum, Sept. 26.—The mobiliza-
tion of the Twenty-second regiment
has increased the garrison at this post
to two thousand officers and men. EV-
ery available spot on thg island is oc—
cupied by tents and equipage. The
' overcrowded condition of the garrison,
combined with the fact that several
additional batteries of artillery are un-
der orders to come here within a few
days, makes it almost certain that the
Twenty-second regiment will be order-
ed away so that there may be 1 0111 for
the regulars.
The health of the men is eucellent.
but they are tired of garriso duty,
and any change will be Wilcome,
whether it be Porto Rico, Hav na or
home. l
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Sickness at Dawson.
Port Townsend, Wash., Sept. 27=.~—The
" steamship Topeka has arrived with
150 Klondikers, the most of whom
have brought little gold.
T ey estimate that there WEI-3 three
thousand cases of typhoid fever in
Dawson on September 6. Deaths occur
daily of which no record is made. ,-
Among the Topeka’s passengerslgwas
Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson.
Headmits that there is much sickness,
but says that when anyone is taken
51 it anywhere along the Yukon he‘ is
sdi’i‘t to Dawson, which gets the credit.
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To Succed Dr Ball A
New York, Sept. 27. —It is assertedlon
high authority that a successor to
late Rev. Dr. John Hall as pastor of Age
Fifth avenue Presbyterian church 11 3
been chosen and that the man s tile
REV. Dr. George-T. Purves of Pri eto
Theological seminary.
Dr. Purves is one of the most e1n1
nent divines of the Presbyterian faith.
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Patchen and Gentry to Itace. A‘
St. Louis, Mo. ., Sept. 27. —Preside11
Robert Aull of the St. Louis Fair A<
sociation has arranged to have-a match
race between the famous papers, Johr:
R. Gentry and Joe Patchen, held at
the fair grounds on Wednesday, Octo-
ber 5.
The Fair asso‘ciation will put up 9,
pulse of $5,000 for the race.
' The Victoria Jubilee Bridge.
Montreal, Sept. 27. —There are about
three hundred and fifty men at work
6 the Victoria jubilee bridge and the
xtenslon of the tracks at both ends
of it,w1th a view to having it as near-
1y. completed as possible before winter
Sets in. .
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l‘he Evacuation of Cuba.
Havana, Sept. 27.—The American
evacuation commission has been otllci-
ally notified that Manzanillo will be
evacuatedby October 7. - ‘
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' ”acific station.
PORTABLE ARMY HOSPITALS-:—
Quartermaster Ge'ne'1. 1 opened Bids for
Sixty Sextional Hull-sings.
New York, Sept. 27. ——Colonel Amos
S. Kimball, deputy quartermaster gen-
eral, yesterday opened bids for sixty
be erected at Fort Hamilton.
ready to be sent to the island of Porto
Rico.
construction for use in the colder tem-
perature of the north is, those used
up here will have double floors, lined
in between with felt. '
ty patients, and is to be nineteen feet
three inches wide and 121 feet long,
to be constructed in sections, there be-
ing, according to the specifications,
seven sections of width and forty- four
sections of length.
Some of the sections will be hinged
to allow of speedy exit in case of fire.
There will be ample ventilation by
, means of traps in the ceiling.
These hospital buildings are to be
constructed of North Carolina pine, set
on cedar! posts eighteen inches from
the ground, and the roofs are to be cov-
ered with painted canvas.
Air ducts are to be provided, espec-
ially for those in which it is expected
to erect stoves. Bidders were required
to state the number of days in which
they can finish the work.-
Five of these portable hospitals are
to be delivered at Fort Hamilton, and
_'five at Washington Barracks, D. C.
These are to be set up. The remain-
der are to be delivered to the quarter-
master here, crated and ready for ship-
ment. .1. <1. 3'.
These new structures Will increase
Fort Hamilton’s hospital accommoda~
tions by 200 beds, leaving portable'hos- ‘
pital accommodations Of two thous- ‘
and beds to be sent to Porto Rico or
Cuba. .
NINE INVESTIG'ATORS MEET.
Real Work of the Axmy Inquiry Commis
sion Will Begin To day.
bers of the war investigating commis-
sion assembled promptly at 10 o’clock
yesterday in the room reserved for
them in the state, war and navy build-
ing. The chairman, General Dodge,
arrived after most of the members had
assembled, including Dr.' Connor of
Cincinnati, who reached Washington
yesterday morning.
D1. Connor had a conference with
the president at the White House
shortly before the hour set for the
meeting of the commission at the war
department.
At ten o’clock the deliberations bf
the investigators were taken up where
they were left on Saturday when the
preliminary session was held. The {real
work for which the com1n1ssio11 was
appointed will not begin until to—day.
the meeting being occupied with a dis-
cussion of methods of procedure.
The commission will change its quaru
ters to-day from the state, war and:
navy building to the Lemon building
on New York avenue, 9. short distance “
from the war department.
Wheefer Leaves Mon tank
New York, Sept. 27.—General Joseph
Wheeler arrived in this city from Mon-
tauk Point at 4 o’clock yesterday af-
ternoon, en route for Camp Wheeler,
near Huntsville, Ala., where he will,
take command of the cavalry regiments
to be assigned there.
General Wheeler was accompanied
by his staff, consisting of his son, Lieu-
tenant Joseph Wheeler, Jr., Major W.
H; Beach, Lieutenant Matthew A. Ba:-
son, Dr. Charles M. Lee and Secretary
L. K. Wilson.
The party is staying at the Windsor
hotel, where Secretary Wiléon' is pros-
trafed with a periodical visitation of
malarial fever, contracted in the
swamps about Santiago. 1115' wiry lit-
tle chief, however, is hale and hearty, '
and has thrown himself heart and soul
into the plans for his new command.
A Flour Mills Combination.
New York, Sept. 27.—There was a
well defined rumor on the Produce Ex-
change floor yesterday afternoon to the
effect that the much mooted combina- .
tion between several big flour milling ‘
firms of the west and the New York
concerns had at last been made. Rep-
resentatives of several mills were seen,
but none of them would talk about the
rumored consolidation. From men who ‘
are supposed to be on the inside, and .
whose authority is rarely, if ever, dis- '
puted on the exchange, facts were ob—
tained which go far to verify the ru-
mor. .
Another Coal Strike.
ference of district and national miners‘
officers here yesterday
march into the fourth pool on the Mo-
'nongahela river, where“, the scale is
violated. The strike will open to day
with a march against the pits, headed
by a brass band.
The big victory of the miners in the
thi1d pool has aroused diggers all 01 c1
the district to a high pitch of enthu-
siasm and one of the hottest strikes in '
the history of the district is threat-
ened.
Tornado in Tonawanda
Tonawanda, N. Y., Sept. 27.—At
about five o’clock last evening this
city was visited by a tornado which
demolished houses, uprdoted trees, ov-
erturned freight cars and swept a clean
path about two hundred yards w’l‘de
for a distance of ten miles.
The tornado swept over Grand 13-
land before reaching this place, and
it is reported that several people were
killed on the island.
France a. Filipino Ally.
London, Sept. 27.—The correspondent
of the‘ Globe at Hong Kong telegraphs
that he has learned from a trustwor-
thy Filipino source that France has
promised to recognize the Filipino re-
public.
this end are now proceeding at Ma-
nila, where there are three French
warships.
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The Buffalo Going to the l’acillt.
Washington, Sept. 27. ——The navy de-
wartment has decided to send the crui-
ser Buffalo, now at New York, to the
She probably will go
0 Honolulu, and in the
:; needed to reinforce Dewey's fleet,
he can receive her orders at that place
y dispatch boat.
portable hospitals, 2 Some of‘which will'j
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Many of these hospitals will be made V
The onlywdifference essential in the:
Each hospital will accommodate for- '
Washington, Sept. 27.—All the mem-
Pittsburg, Sept. 27.—There was a con- ‘
'to prepare a'
It. is asserted that negotiations to
event that she.
[HA _ 111311 ASSEMBLY;
Will Respect America’ 3 Purpose.
to Restore Order. p, '
CUBANS NOT OPPOSING US
Senor Qmsada Speaking {or the Provis-
ional Government Explains the Nature
of :the Assembly Called for Oct. 10
Cubans,Will Follow This Government’l
Lead.
Washington, Sept. 27.—According to
Secretary Quesada of the Cuban dele—
gation, the object of the Cuban assem—
bly called for October 10, has been gen-
erally misunderstood; otherwise it
, would not have met the reported dis-
approval of the American commission-
ers in Havana.
The assembly, he said, would in no
way interfere with the matters to be
settled by the American government,
‘and would not. choose officers for a
permanent form of government}
“It is,” he continued, "a provisional
assembly, which will provide for an-
, other more permanent assembly to be
elected later. Its members will await
the wish of the American commission-
ers and see what they want before at—
: tempting to establish a permanent form
of government.
“Complying with the constitution of
the republic, the only laws which to-
day have force in Cuba, we have called
* for this provisional assembly of repre-
sentatives'~ to meet on October 10, so
that the urgent questions dealing with
the present and future of Cuba shall
- bediscussed and determined. The rea—
son of our resolution in' this matter
j can be readily understood. When the
f representatives of the Cuban people in
arms assembled at Jimaguaya in Sep-
tember, 1895, they agreed upon and
voted a constitution in conformity to
i the necessities of the war. This con-
stitution was to last two years unless
the war ended before. These two years
[having terminated, the assembly met
again and decreed the present consti—
tution organizing the present govern~
ment according to the exigencies of the
revolutionary period.
“This constitution states that when
been attained a new assembly shall be
called to provide for the provisional ad-
ministration of the government of the
republic until the final constituent as—
sembly shall have met.
“It is that assembly of representa-
tives first spoken of that we have cal-
led together, and it is not to establish
a final politic-a1 status for Cuba, but
to facilitate its accomplishment by a
work for which this government coun-
cil is not empowered. Thus the final
,government of Cuba will be born of
laws and institutions genuinely Cuban,
: and there will exist in the island a le-
gal entity, which, with the co— opera-
tion of the American government, will
attend to the settlement of great ques-
tions relating to the reorganization of
the people, who are suffering from the
disastrous effects of a war that has
brought them to a most critical condi-
tion.
“Following this line of conduct, 1we
shall give our most efficient aid to the
American government. Its task is our
task, and the policy of the United
States inspires us with full faith, and
we have absolute confidence in its in»
tentions.” .
Senor Quesada said he voiced the
sentiments of President Maso in these
matters.
Games Played Yesterday
At New York:
Philadelphia 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0—4
NewYork.. 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0—6
Base hits,‘Philadelphia 7, New York
13. Errors, Philadelphia 2, New York.
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Second game:
Philadelphia ......... 0 0 1 0 0 0—1
New York” 1 0 0 0 0 1—2
Batteries, Murphy and Platt; Warner
and lxusie. Base hits, Ph iladelphiai ,
New Yo1k 3. Errors, Philadelphia .3“,
New York 4.
At Boston:
Brooklyn“... 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0-—5
jBoston ...... 500113000—10
1 Base hits, Brooklyn 9, Boston 12. Er-
rors, BrOoklyn 5, Boston 4.
Second game:
Brookly11.......... 0 2 0 0 0 0 0—2
Boston........ . . 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 3
Base hits, Brooklyn 9, Boston 3. Er"
; rors, Brooklyn 0, Boston 3. The game
was called at the end of the first half
of the seventh— on account of dark—
ness.
Batteries, McKenna and Ryan, Nich—
ols and Bergen.
At Chicago:
Pittsburg... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2— 3
Chicago. . .. . 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 _0— 4
Batteries, Cronin and Schriver; Nich—
; 015 and Thornton. Base hits, Pittsburg
3 8, Chicago 10.E1"101s, Pittsbuig 1, Chi—
. c.ago3
1‘tC1ncinnati
lCleveland.......10000020001—-4
Cincinnati...... 0.0000000300—3
Batteries, Young and Criger; Hawley
and W'ood. Base hits, Cleveland 8, Cin—
cinnati 12. 'Errors, Cleveland 1, Cin-
cinnati 3.
At Washington:
‘Washington. 1 0 4 2 0 0—— ‘7
Baltimoxe . . 3 0 O 0 0 ;2— 5
Batteiies,1{illen and McGui1e; hops
and Robinson. Base hits, “Washington
10, Baltimore 6. Errors, W'ashington
3, Baltimore 0.
Called on account of darkness.
At St. Louis:
Louisville... 0 o o o o 1 1 o 1—3
St.L0uis.... 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0—;2
Batteries, Douling and Kittridge;
‘ I-Iughey and Sugden.
ville 12, St. Louis 9.
' 0, St. Louis 1.
Base hits, Louis—
Er'rors, Louisville
How The . mm Sunni.
Clubs. Won. Lost. PC.
Boston 89 44 .663
Baltimore 86 47 .1517
Cincinnati .............. 83 54 .595
, Cleveland ’74 59 55;;
Chicago ., ................ 75 63 .543
New ork 70 63 .523
Philadelphia . . . . . . . . . . . 67 62. .519
Pittsburg 67 70 “1.39
Louisville .. .. .. .. .61. 74. .453
Brooklyn .. ......... 'L . 49‘ 76 .‘92
,W’ashington 44 90 .323;
'35 98
St. Louis
the independence of Cuba shall have '
. five branches
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. BUSINESS WAS BUSINESS. -~ '5
' Fall out. of the Bank of England.
The late Paymaster Clark of the
United States navy, of Delaware, was
attached to one of the ships on the Eu- .
ropean station during the period of the
civil war. It may havebeen the Kear-
sarge, but it is not important. She Was
an armed vessel and had been long at .
sea and came in for coal, pro-visions A
and to give the men a liberty day on
shore. To meet these and other ex-
penses it was necessary to have some
eight thousand-pounds (men are paid°l
in the currency of the country they
may be in when on foreign stations),
and Paymaster Clark drew sight drafts,
on the sub-treasury of New York 3
through the government agents, J. S.
Morgan & Co., bankers, in old Broad
street, London.
Accompanied by the vice consul he
went to the Plymouth .branch of the
Bank of England, and presenting his
drafts, asked to have them changed
for notes and gold. The bank manager,
not content with exercising proper com-
mercial scrutiny, was very nasty, and
finally said:
“Well, I do not know the sub—treas-
ury, I do not know the paper nor you,
and I have never had business with the
gentleman who is United States vice
consul here, so I won’t cash your
drafts. You say J. S. MOrgan will in-
dorse them. You had better go up to
London and let ’him cash them.”
Mr. Clark went out to the telegraph
office, put himself in communication
with Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Morgan
went to the Bank of England in Lon-
don, the manager sent word to the
Plymouth branch manager, and that
gentleman came personally to the
Royal 'hotel and, with his hat in his
hand, begged to be of service to Pay-
master Clark in any way that gentle-
man would suggest. The apparently
placated paymaster, accompanied by
his clerk, accompanied the bank officer
to the bank. The drafis were duly pas-
sed over and, a large bundle of Bank
of England notes placed before the
paymaster. '
“What are these?” asked Clark.
“Those are Bank of England notes."
“Yes, I see they are notes signed by
Frederick May that the bank will pay
bearer, etc.‘ Viell, I do not know Mr.
May, and, of course, I do not know you.
This paper may be good, but I have no
assurance of that
the gold.”
The humiliated bank manager had to
hunt it up, and Paymaster Clark car-
ried it down to the boat in triumph.
“I would have preferred part of the
money in notes,” he said, “but I could
not refuse the chance of getting even."
-—-P.hiladelphia Times.
CAN THE QUEEN ABDICATE.
Not Considered “'13:: on Account of Her
Foreign Subjects.
There are not only pecuniary and
constitutional difficulties in the way
of abdication. The Queen, however,
is not only Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland, she is also Empress of India,
reigning sovereign over more Moslems
than the Grand Turk, and of more
Africans and Asiatics than any other
civilized monarch. Abdication Would
be misunderstood by most, misrepre-
sented by some, and resented by all
of them. Death they know; a living
ruler they understand. What is abdi-
cation to the border tribes of the Hin-
doo-Koosh, to the lake—dwellers of
Uganda, or the fierce tribesmen of the
Soudan? From an imperial standpoint
a scepter dropped from the hand of
the Great White Queen can be borne
aloft in her lifetime by no successor.
In many parts of the world the Brit-
ish raj is personified in the little lady
wlio, sixty years ago, said to those who
told her that she was a. Queen, “I will
be good.” In some parts of India she
is actually worshipped as a goddess.
In her lifetime the native races of the
empire will either look to the Queen
as their ruler,'or they will assume that
something has happened that saps and
neutralizes British power. These im-
perial considerations as to the effect
on Asiatics and Africans were also in
the minds of the Ministers when they
unanimously refused to advise the
Queen to .rest from the crushing bur- ,
den of the crown.—~Harper’s Magazine.
HONEST BOOK BORROWERS.
SanFranciscoeHas a \Vonderful Public
Library Record. '
After several experiments the man-
agels of the public libraiy 111 San
Francisco believe that the book 1ead-
ing public can be trusted, and they
have widely extended library privi-
leges. Ten thousand volumes of the
most popular works of all classes, in-
tendedfor general circulation, have
been opened to the unrestricted access
of the public. The books may be
taken from the shelves to the reading
tables or .may be taken home, the pa-
trons being: trusted to get their books
charged at the desk. The preceding
experiments were interesting.
Two and a half years ago 5,000 juve-
nile books were segregated and the
children were allowed to make selec-
tions direct from the shelves. In 21
months, with a circulation of 118,000
juveniles, only thirty-six volumes were
lost. Then the 2,000 volumes in the
were opened to shelf
access, and there were no books re—
ported missing. The shelves in the re-
ference and periodical rooms were
opened to library readers, and then as
an experiment'500 books for general
circu ation were placed in the rcfcr~
ence room, where they could be looked
over, and 1 none disappeared. Last
year 571,500 volumes were circulated
and only thirty-one were lost from all
causes.——St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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