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Report by Commissary Arra-
smith to Board _of Inquiry.
LARGE QUANTITY REFRIGERATED BEEF
'It Was of Gooa‘ Quality, and Not a
- Pound Was L‘ost—The Canned Beef
Received Gave Entire Satisfac-
tion—All Rations Excellent.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.——The army
board of inquiry has received the report
of Major J. M. Arrasmith, late commis-
sary at Camp Thomas, Ga., upon the
character of the rations issued at that
point. The report covers the rations
supplied to the 77,000 soldiers mobilized
at Chickamauga park from May, 1898, to
January, 1899, and was made in accord-
ance with an order from General Miles.
The report is dated at Chickamauga,
Jan. 27, 'and is as follows:
“In compliance with instructions con-
tained in your letter of the 23d inst. I
have‘the honor to submit the inclosed
report relative to rations issued at
Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Ga.;
also amount condemned and sold or de-
stroyed. All stores unfit for sale or is-
sue were acted upon by a board of sur-
vey and in all cases were condemned
prior to issue to troops with the excep-
tion that in a few instances damaged
potatoes and bacon were returned to the
depot commissary and exchanged prior
to condemnation.
“The 3,900 pounds of beef condemned
and destroyed was local beef purchased
in Chattanooga.
“The refrigerated beef was sufficient
in quantity’and excellent in quality, and
the fact that the depot co-mmissary in-
spected and issued over 5,000,000 pounds
of this beef and in a hot climate with-
out losing a pound of it indicates the
splendid condition of the beef and the
care exercised in handling it.
“The bread condemned was purchased
in Nashville during the time the regular
troops were here‘ and prior to the erec-
tion of the bakery at this camp. The
bread baked here was very good. I have
never seen better bread issued to
troops.
“The bacon condemned was a portion
of the large amount sent to and stored
in Chattanooga for the use of the army
at Chickamauga. It deteriorated rapid-
ly in. this climate, and a portion of it be-
came infected with skippers and when
shipped out to camp some of it had to
becondemned and replaced by good ba-
con. The greatest care was taken by the
depot commissary for the preservation
of all subsistence stores, and any dam-
age that occurred was due to climatic
and natural causesvand was incident to
the service. The canned beef and baked
beans were very ,good and showed no
signs of fermentation. The damage to
the two cans of the former andthe nine
cans of the latter was due to accident,
nails having been driven through the
boxes, penetrating the cans.
_.“Only 192 pounds of canned roast beef
was received, and this amount was sold
to officers and men of the command and
gave entire satisfaction. The greatest
care was necessary for the preservation
of vegetables in this climate, particu-
larly at about the time that the supply
of old potatoes was exhausted and the
new potatoes were beginning to arrive.
Fifty-four hundred pounds of sugar
were damaged by a heavy rainstorm,
which, owing to the roof of the building
being defective, flooded a portion of the
commissary.
“The quality of the rations furnished
was excellent _and probably the. best
ever issued to an army of 60,000 men,
with the exception of some potatoes and
bacon that spoiled owing to natural
causes; and this slight defect was
.quickly remedied by being replaced by a
good quality of the same, and, taking
into consideration the fact that approx—
imately 30,000,000 pounds of subsistence
stores were shipped here and issued, the
percentage of loss is exceedingly small.”
The table accompanying this report
‘shows that 5,163,900 pounds of refriger-
ated beef was issued without the loss of
a pound. .
A Filibnstering Expedition.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 27.—The Times
prints today the details of an alleged fil-
ibustering expedition having for its Ob-
ject the overthrow of the government of
Guatemala, in Central America. Ac-
cording to the story a regiment of 1,000
men has been formed in Kansas City,
St. Louis and Chicago, and a second
regiment has been formed in-the east.
Two companies are to leave Kansas
City tonight, it is said, en route to the
scene of the proposed invasion, via St,
Louis and New Orleans. The men en-
listed here for the expedition were all
members of the Fifth Missouri regi-
volunteers. A Guatemalan
named Sandoval, the representative of 2.
former government of Guatemala, is
said to be the organizer of the expedi-
tion. '
New Professorship For Princeton.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.——The Tribune
prints the following: ”Princeton univer-
sity is to have a new chair of English
literature, and it is confidently expected
that the Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, now
pastor of the Brick Presbyterian church
of this city, will be its first occupant.
For SOme time graduates and friends of
Princeton have been quietly securing
subscriptions toward the fund for this
purpose. The endowment is so nearly
complete that its success is assured.
It will be of such an amount as to yield
an income which will rank as a hand-
some salary so far as salaries in Amer—
ican universities go.”
Lord Beresford’s Movements.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27,—Rear Admiral-
Charles Beresford spent Sunday in re-
sponding to social calls upon. his time.
He began with a breakfast given by
Commodore Philip, commandant at the
navy yard. He was at luncheon with
Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. Tonight
Lord B’eresford will dine with Mr. and
Mrs. Levi P. Morton. Mr. and Mrs.
Hewitt will give a farewell dinner to
Lord Charles tomorrow night. He sails
for England Wednesday, accompanied
by his secretary, Mr. Robin Gray.
Thrilling Experiences on Bulgaria.
LONDON, Feb. 27.-——The Daily Mail
publishes the following dispatch from
Ponta Delgado, Azores islands: “The
passengers“ the Bulgaria. give thrill-
ing detailed! their experiences. They
feared the vessel Would founder at any
[moment Her chief engineer was hesrd
230 threaten to shoot the first man who
M )hirked work or refused to perform
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duty.”
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CAMP THOMAS FOOD. ,
WATCHING THE MONARCHISTS.‘
Pnsis Police Making a Strict Inves-
tigation of the Pretender’s Doings.
PARIS, Feb. 27.—In consequence of
the placarding throughout the city of
the speeches of the Due d’Orleans, the
Orleans pretender, recently delivered at
San ,Remohand the .seizure of scarfpins
and medals bearing the pretender’s por-
trait the prefect of police was ordered
by the government to make a strict in-
vestigation into the recent proceedings
of the Monarchist party.
The prefect communicated the result
of his inquiries to M. Dupuy, premier
and minister of the interior, with the
result that the minister decided upon
vigorous action. -
Yesterday M. Cochefor-t, chief of the
secret police, was summoned to the pre-
fecture and directed to prepare 17 con-
fidential letters and 17 warrants, which
were handed to 17 police commissaries,
authorizing a search of the residences
of suspects, particularly ,M' Guerin,
manager of the newspaper Anti-Juef;
MM._Buffet, De Vaux, Robert de Cha-
villy, Thiebaud, De Monicourt, secre-
tary to the Due d’Orleans; Dubuc, pres-
ident of the Young Anti-Semites, and
Comte Sabran de Ponteves.
The confidential letters indicated that
the warrants aimed to discover the ex-
istence of any political action on the
part of the Anti—Semitic league or its
relations with the .Royalist:an'd Bona-'
partist committees or with the other
leagues.
No incident occurred in the course of
the ‘domiciliary visits. 'M. Buffet, who
represents the Due. d’Orleans, vigorous-
ly protested against the violation of his
domicile and declared that the Royalist
party would always conspire even if
threatened with imprisonment. Many.
documents were seized at M. Buffet’s
residence. .
Quantities of propagandist pamphlets
and portraits of the Due d’Orleans, a
list of members of the Royalist com—
mittee and voluminous correspondence
were seized at the headquarters of the
Royalist committee, in the Faubourg
St. Honore, and at the residence of
Comte Sabran de Ponteves. The com-
missary who visited M. de Monicourt
surprised him just as he had returned
from Brussels With letters from the
Due d’Orleans addressed to Royalist
personages and instructions from the
pretender to his supporters. All these
were seized.
M. Thiebaud expressed surprise at the
proceedings against him on the ground
that he belonged neither to the Royalist
committee nor the Anti-Semitic league.
Altogether a large quantity of docu-
ments was secured and placed under
seal. All whose residences were search-
ed denied the possession of compromis—
ing documents, but it is believed the
raids will be continued.
Duke of Orleans at Turin. _
TURIN, Feb. 27.—The Duc d’Orleans
arrived here last evening from BrusSels.
CONDENSED DISPATCH ES.
A dinner in honor of Carl Schurz’s
birthday was given in Berlin.
Secretary Alger has abandoned his
proposed trip to Cuba and Porto Rico.
President Zelaya’s army overthrew
the forces engaged in the Nicaraguan
insurrection. -
Two boys were killed and a third se-
verely injured by an explosion of fire-
works on Staten Island.
Much damage to property was immi-
nent from the ice gorge in the Susque-
hanna at Lancaster, Pa.
The extradition treaty with Mexico
has been agreed upon and forwarded to
Washington for action by the senate.
Concerns controlling 90 per cent of the
paper bag industry of the country have
formed a trust with $27,000,000 capital.
The Italian government declared that
it would take no part in the disarma-
ment conference if the Vatican is rep-
resented there. .
The president nominated William R.
Day, formerly secretary of state and
peace commissioner, to be judge of the
Sixth judicial circuit.’
The Czar’s Condition Alarming.
LONDON, Feb. 27.—The Copenhagen
correspondent of The Daily Mail says:
“Well informed persons here assure me
that the health of Emperor Nicholas is
far from good and that his condition
excites the grayest solicitude. A long
threatening ailment assumed a critical
form soon after the issuance of the
manifesto in. behalf of the limitation'of
armaments, and the czar is now pros-
trated. The malady is of such a char-
acter as to forbid all intellectual exer-
tion. His participation in the govern-
ment is merely formal, confined to sign—
ing documents of whose contents he'is
ignorant. The Grand Duke Michael
possesses the executive power, and all
government decisions are arrived at
without the czar’s co-operation or
knowledge.” -
Affairs Kn Spain.
MADRID, Feb. 27.—The newspapers
are urging the government to maintain
its precautions "against Carlist activity,
especially upon the frontier, where at-
tempts are being made to smuggle arms
and ammunition into the country with
‘a view to an early Carlist rising. El
Correspondencia Militar estimates that
440,000,000 pesetas will be required to
cover the cost of the last two wars in
Cuba. The committee of the senate for
the verification of credentials has ex-
amined Admiral Cervera, who had con-
tended that he was entitled to sit in the
senate inasmuch as criminal proceed-
ings had not been taken against him.
North Dakota’s Marriage Bill. .
BISMARCK, N. D., Feb. 27.—The sen-
ate has passed the Creel bill to regulate
the matter of marriage. The bill pro-
vides for the appointment of a commis-
sion of three physicians in each county
for the examination of all applications
for marriage licenses. No license to
marry can be granted under the bill un-
less applicants present a certificate
from the board of examiners that they
are free from certain diseases and all.-
ments, including dipsomania, heredita-
ry insanity and tuberculosis.
$2.50 is required for the medical exami-
nation. , .
American Locomotives Wanted. .
LONDON, Feb. 27.—-The Financial
News says ‘~that the management of the
Swedish state railways intends to buy
20 locomotives in the United States be»,
liver engines with sufficient .célérlty to
meet {the requirements of thy linos.‘
Weather Probahlllflcm
Clearing: fair; fresh to brisk ouster-l)
winds, becoming southerly. _
Fog-("5. 'WW‘M vl‘ ”W
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and go to Zamboanga, island of \Min-
‘ says he is “authorIZed to deny that Ger-
A fee 01.
_ 7 ,_ . , , ,_ .. ,4 000 men are affect
cause theEuropeen teoigdesmnotue-z a .- , vied'
' board of health reports that there are
rmoro than 35,000 cases of grip in this
A man." or the poorer people.
CEBU ISLAND :0'URS.
NO FURTHER FIGHTING AT ,ILOILO.
At Manila It Is Thought the Insur- ,
gent Leaders Are Getting Desper- .
ate and May In‘duce Their Fol— )
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lowers to Attack Our Lines.
”MANILA, Feb. 27.—Saturday night '
the rebels concentrated in such num-
bers near the Chinese cemeterythat'
General MacArthur anticipated an at—
tack and asked for re-enforcements.
Two companies of the Twenty-third
regulars were sent 'to Caloocan and a
battalion of the Twentieth regulars to
the cemetery about midnight.
,But the expected attack was not
made, the rebels, after making a great
noise with bugle calls and yells of “Viva
independencia!” and “Mucho malo
Americano!” and firing volleys, disap-'
pearing in the woods.
It is believed their leaders are getting
desperate and are attempting to force
the United States troops to make an
attack in the hope of breaking through
the American lines, but the rebels are
evidently unwilling to be sacrificed
when facing the Americans. It is just
possible, however, that-they will be
goaded into such a move‘ before more
re-enforcements arrive. All was quiet
during the night, except near Caloocan,
where the enemy’s sharpshooters con-
tinued to annoy our troops at compara-
tively close range. One‘ man of the
Twentieth Kansas was killed in Ari-
quina village, which was burned last
night, and four were wounded in the
skirmish, one of the Idaho, one of the
Minnesota and two of the Pennsylvania
regiment. ,
No such emergency exists here as is
represented by reports circulated in the
United States, and cabled back to Ma-
nila, to the effect that Admiral Dewey
has had a collision of a forcible char—
acter with the German naval com-
mander.
According to the advices brought yes—
terday by the steamer Neustra Senora
del Carmen, whose arrival brought the
news that the American flag had been
raised over the island of Cebu, the Quit-
ed States gunboat Petrel, Commander C.
C. Cornwell, visited Cebu on Feb. 22.
Commander Cornwell sent an ultima-
tum ashore, declaring the intention of
the Americans to take possession—-
peaceably if possible, by force if neces-
sary. The rebels immediately vacated,
taking their guns to the hills. A party
of marines and bluejackets was landed,
and the American flag was raised by
them over the government building,
which they still occupied when the
Neustra Senora del Carmen left.
A battalion of the Twenty-third regu—
lars left for Cebu yesterday by the Unit-_
ed States transport Pennsylvania.
The same steamer brought dispatches
from Brigadier General Miller, at Iloilo,
to Major General Otis, reporting that all
was quiet there, that there had béen no
further fighting, that confidence had
been restored and business was being
generally resumed. General Miller
thinks it probable that the natives will
soon be convinced of the error of op-
posing the inevitable and that the ex-
ample set by the inhabitants of Negros
is having its effect among the other 13-,
lands, which, though not entirely con-
vinced, are, in General Miller’s opinion,
open to reason. .
Madrid Hears Bad News.
MADRID, Feb. 27.—An oflicial dis-
patch from Manila says:
“The situation here is very serious.
The foreign warships are disembarking
troops. General Rios will leave Manila
danao.”
The government has received a long
dispatch from General Rios at Manila,
but refuses to impart its contents.
El Imparcial, which asserts that it is
in a position to know the truth of the
situation at Manila, says:
“There is constant fighting between
the Americans and the Tagalos. The
courage and stubbornness of the latter
have caused great anxiety to the Amer-
icans, who do not conceal their belief
that the war will be a long and desper-
ate one. There is the greatest alarm
among foreigners in Manila, and the
commanders of the foreign warships
have decided to land forces to protect
their subjects.” '
Washington Authorities Dcniit.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—-The gov-
ernment officials here discredit the
statement in the above dispatch that
the foreign warships are disembarking
troops at Manila. Spanish sources of
information respecting affairs in the
Philippine Islands, they say, are not to
be relied upon, as the press and people
of Spain do not hesitate to circulate
statements inimical to the interests of
this country. Secretary Alger was
shown the dispatch last night and with-
out entering into a discussion of it sim-
ply said he had heard no news of that
sort. Such of the dispatches reaching
the war department yesterday from.
General Otis that were made public
were confined to routine matters, while
Secretary Long said last night he had
not a word from Admiral Dewey during
the entire day.
No Interference Intended.
LONDON, Feb. 27.—-—The Berlin cor re-
spondent of The Daily Telegraph, who
many has any intention to interfere in
the Philippines,” adds: “Neither has
any other power, and the Oregon, can-
not, therefore, have been ordered to Ma-
nila on that account.”
Dewey Declines to Answer.
MANILA, Feb. 27.—-Admiral Dewey,
when asked to give his reasons for re-
questing Washington to send the-(bat;
tleship Oregon to Manila, firmly de-
clined to discuss the matter.
Wages Raised Ten Per Cent.
SHARON, Pa, Feb. 27.—The Besse-
mer Furnace association, of which all
blast furnaces in the Shenango and Ma-
honing valleys are members, has ad:
vanced the wages of all employees 10
per cent, to begin on Mar-ch 1. About
: cup In' mum of mam, .
0le, OF MEXICO, Feb. .27.——'I'he
city. The disease is proving fatal to
‘stick to the old black powder.
_dies the beetles hurry tojt.
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SLOW POWDER Hi3 (ism
the Mean Trick That “73s Played on
. a Hunter \Vho \Vas a Little
Old-Fashioned.
When nitro, or, as we (all them,
wood powders, were new, there was an
old man came here regular, who would
He
would also always wear a coat with a-
cape in the blinds, and when there was
wind the cape flapped and flutter id and
never a shot would he get; but he was
so stubborn and set in his ways he
would not change it. Well, some of the
fellows put up “a job on him about his
old “slow and sure” powder, and after
a lot of talk they made a match with
‘ him that his gun with black powderbe
tried against one with wood powder,
and the match came of, says the New
York Sun. '
Some one got at the old man’s shells,
and drew the shot out of those which
they took good care should be the ones
to go in his gun. The old man was
rather deaf, but would never admit it,
and that was where they played the
trick on him. The nitro powder man
fired at a sheet of white paper at 50
yards and made a fair pattern, and
then the old man fired and all walked
'over to see what he had done.
There wasn’t a mark on his paper, of
course, and after they had examined
itcarefully, suddenly one of the party
yanked him one side while another
fired at the paper with an air ‘gun
which he had hid under his coat, and
thus spattered a dozen or so pellets on
the sheet, enough to mark it, and then
they explained to the flabbergasted old
man that his powder was so derned
slow it had only just reached the target,
and but for them hearing it coming and
dragged him one side he would have
been filled up with it. He went away,
and never came to the beach again.
JEWISH NAMES IN RUSSIA.
W'here Hebrews Have Not the Right
to Choose Names tor'l‘helr,’
Children. :
'Despite the dis-graceful persecutions
of the Hebrew maize in Russia, there are
said to dwellin the czar’s dominions at
least one-half of the 11,000,000 of Jews
that inhabit the earth. A rather amus—.
ing illustration of the extent to which
they come under the ban of legislative
control in the Muscovite empire was
exhibited in a case just decided by the.
imperial sienate of St. Petersburg.
From this it appears that, incredible
though it might seem, a Jew in Russia
has not the right. to name his (Wm child
as he pleases, but must give his off-
spring such an appellation as thepolice
regulations ordain. He is restricted to
Biblical names, and, moreover, must
not give his child a modernized form
of old testament nomenclature. ‘\ Thus
he may bestow on'his son such namei
as Abraham, Jacob or Samuel, but they
must. be in the Hebraic or Yiddish form
of Avrohom, Ylev, Shemuel. The
use of a, modernized name subjects the;
Jew using it to a. penalty. A ,South
Russian Hebrew recently ventu‘redto‘
defy the ordinance so far as to call and-
register- his son'Samuel instead of'
Shemuel. The police refused to permit
this, although the father was awealthy
and prominent citizen, whereupon the?
latter appealed to the imperial senate.
This august body has now decided that
Shemuel is only a variant of Samuel,
and that, therefore, the regulations
applicable to Jewish children have not
been violated.
LACKING IN OTHER TONGUES.
There Is no Hindoo Word for Friend
Nor Single French Word
for Kick.
The Hindoos have no word for
“friend.” V .
The Italians have no equivalent for-
“humility.” .
”The Russian dictionary, says Pear-
son's. gives a word the definition of
which. is “not, to have enough buttons
on your footman’s coat;” a second
means “to kill over again;” a 'third
“earn by dancing;” while the word
“knout," which we have all learned to
consider as of exclusively Russian-
mcaning and application, proves upon.
investigation to be their word “knut,”
and to mean only a‘whip of any kind. ~
The Germans call a thimble a “finger
hat,” which it. certainly is, and. a grass‘
hopper a “hay horse.” A glove with
them is a “hand shoe," showing evi-
dently that they wore shoes ' before
gloves. Poultry is. “feather cattle,”
while the names for the well-known
substances “oxygen” and “hydrogen”
are, in their language, “sour stuff” and
“water stuff.”
The French have no verb “to stand,”
nor can a Frenchman speak of “kick-
ing” anyone. The nearest approach,
in his politeness. he makes to itis, “to
threaten to give a blow with his foot.”
Neither has be any word for
fort.” The terms“upstairs" and “down-
stairs” are also unknown in French.
. lnscct Undertaken.
Person’who are fond of walks in the.
country may have wondered why no
trace is ever found of the various. small
animals, such as field mice, which die
by the dozens. The reason is that the
_sexton beetle has taken care of the
tiny dead bodies. When a small animal
They do
not do good deeds solely through phil-
anthrophy, for they get their reward
in food for themselves besides laying
up provender for their families. These
beetles are an‘ inch long and Some have
bright orange bands on the wing cov-
ers. After satisfying their hunger the
beetles proceed in a very laborious
manner,_to bury the remains. After
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spades, dig a. tunnel 'arbund the body.
Inside thisthey dig another furrow and
keep ‘on till the body sinks into the
hole. Then they throw in the earth
they have excavated.
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