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DOINGS OF THE WEEK
A Complete Review of the Teleg-raphle
Newt of This and All For
eign Land.
General Shatter says the surrender of
Santiago was a great surprise to him.
Retribution is not quite complete.
The Cuban commissioners will make
an attempt while in Havana to ferret
out the persons who destroyed the
Maine.
Orders have been issued by the war
department that all the regular army
Tegiments now at Montauk, which
were started previously east of the Mis
sissippi river, shall return to the same
stations.
A semi-official note from Berlin says
that peace having been re-eetablished
between the United States and Spain,
orders have been given that the Uermun
naval force at Manila be at once reduced
to one or two ships.
A report is current In London that
Great Britain and Germany have signed
a treaty of alliance for Germany's sup
port in Egypt. England will recog
nize Germany's claim to Syria as an
outlet for her surplus population.
, Reliable information has beon ob
tained by the Associated Press to the
effect that Russia intends to convene
the international peace conference at
St. Petersburg one month after the ad
journment of the Spanish-American
peace conference at Paris.
The monthly statement of the public
debt, shows that August 81, the public
debt lees curIi in the treasury, was
(1,012,470,717, which is a decrease for
the month of 134,789,711. This de
crease is accounted for by a correspond
ing increase in the cash on hand, due
to the receipts from the war loan.
The Chicago Tribune prints statistics
showing the number of soldiers who
liave been killed in battle and have
died of diseases in camp during the war
with Spain. While 850 officers and
men have been killed in battle or died
of wounds received, there have died of
disease in camp between 1,200 and
2,000 volunteers and regulars.
A Madrid di "patch says: All Cata
lonia protests against the continuance
of the special war taxes, and insists
upon their immediate repeal, threaten
ing to close all the faotories if the de
mand is not complied with. The lower
classes are deeply and perhaps danger
ously impressed by the ghastly appear
ance of the repatriated soldiers from
Santiago de Cuba.
Lighthouses in Southern Philippines
have been re-established.
Foreign vessels will be allowed to
enter the ports of Hawaii as usual,
pending revision of the United States
laws.
Schley and Gordon, commissioners
to settle the conditions for the Spanish
evacuation of Porto Rico, have sailed
for San Juan.
Being out of work and without means
to support his family, a Chicago ding
clerk turned highwayman, and in at
tempting to rob a saloon was forced to
hoot the proprietor.
Several vessels of the "Mosqnito"
fleet are useless. The board of survey
lias found upon examination that their
machinery and boilers are badly worn,
and will make a report condemning
them.
The annual session of the National
Irrigation Congress opened at Chey
enne Thursday. Ex-Senator Carr, the
president, delivered the annual ad
diess, urging the necessity for extend
ing irrigation facilities.
Eight lives were lost and considera
ble damage wrought by the Georgia
storm, which was more serious than
first reported. Lieutenant Morgan and
a crew of six were drowned by the up
setting of a yawl off Tybee island.
The mate of an Italian ship lost his life.
The American Bhip Baring Brothers,
from Now York, has been burned in
the harbor of Kobe. About 3,000 tons
of matting was also destroyed. It is
intimated that the fire was of incendiary
origin. When the vessel arrived at
Kobe from Yokohama six of the crew
were in irons. Four were afterward
liberated.
Orders have been received in An
na polis from the president directing
Cervera to make arrangements to pro
ceed with his officers and men back to
Spain immediately, in accordance with
instructions issued by the Spanish
ininiitterB of marine. The officers were
very enthusiastic when they received
the news.
A passenger train on the New York,
Ontario it Western railroad, was
wrecked at In;alls, near Saratoga. The
wreck was doubtless due to the dastard
ly work of tramps, who threw open the
switch at which the train was wrecked.
The dead are: Engineer B. C. Dowd,
of Oswego; Fireman William Hall, of
Norwich; Ilrakeman A. L Osborne, of
Walton. Eight were injured.
Minor Newa Itema.
The United States government has
placed sn order in England foi 10,000,
000 cartridges.
Regulations have been Issued con
cerning military taxes to be collected
in the Philippines,
Sir William Augustus Frazer, bart,
the author and one of the queen's body
guard for Scotland, is dead.
The subsistence department will have
plenty of supplies ready to forward to
JCuba in cast it is found necessary
LATER NEWS.
Memphis, Tenn., has been quaran
tined. Governor Lord has issued a proc
lamation, calling the Oregon legislature
is extra session September 2(3.
The steamer Lewiston ran ashore
while carrying sick soldiers from Mon
tauk Point to Boston, and it is feared
many men will die as a result of the
exposure. ,
A slight clash has occurred at Daw
son. United States Consul McCook
was compelled by a Canadian officer to
remove the Stars and Stripes from the
Alaska Commercial Company's store.
The United States gunboat Benning
ton has been ordered to Pango-Pango
bay, Samoa, aocording to Mare island
reports, to make a survey for a coaling
station. Upon finishing the survey she
will proceed to Manila and relieve the
Concord, which will come to Mare
island and go on drydock, the English
dooks pot being available.
There has been another series of
fatalities in the Austrian Alps. One
case, that of a newly married couple,
was particularly sad. The bride lost
her footing and fell; the rope broke,
and she went to destruction. The hus
band deliberately threw himself after
her, and was killed. A gentleman who
visited the spot two days later luBt his
balance and fell, being killed instantly.
A Havana dispatch says: Senor Fer
nandez de Castrazo has directed a dis
patch to the mayors ot the provincial
towns, instructing them, in order to
avoid mistakes, to "correct the igno
rance regarding the origin of the relief
supplies now being sent into the in
terior from Havana," and to take steps
to inform every inhabitant tiiat the
supplies are "bought, paid for and dis
tributed by the colonial government,
unaided by any foreign help or sub
scription." The whaling fleet has been lost in
Northern waters. At least three and
probably eight vessels were caught and
crushed in the ice above Point Barrow.
No news of the crews has been re
ceived, but the general belief, however,,
is that no lives were lost. The Belvi
dere got out. The Wanderer is also
said to have reached Herschel island.
The vessels lost, therefore, were the
Newport, Fearless, .Teannie, Belana,
Grampus, Beloga, Norwhal and Mary
D. Hume.
It has been decided to abandon Camp
Wikoff within the next three weeks.
James Wilson, "King of Tramps,"
has been commended for his bravery at
Santiago.
Fifty deaths and over one hundred
prostrations is the result ot one hot day
in New York.
John Hills, a well-to-do New York
ice dealer, his wife and his sister-in-law,
Mary Conlin, have been poisoned
by whisky Bent through the mail.
Private letters from onr consuls
abroad indicate that the Philippines
must be retained if the United States
desires tor maintain its position in the
world of nations.
The Iowa met with an accident in the
Brooklyn iiavy-yard dock. The engine
rooms are said to bave been partly
flooded during the process of floating
the big battle-ship.
The French minister of war, M.
Cavaignac, has resigned. The resigna
tion is due to a disagreement with his
colleagues, who desire a revision of the
Dreyfus case. ThuB a revision of the
oase seems assured.
Oriental advices say that the recent
assaulting of an American missionary
in the Sorachi district, Japan, is caus
ing considerable excitement, especial
ly since the new treaties will spread
foreign residents all through the in
terior. More soldiers are soon to leave for
Honolulu. General Miller says thiee
legiiuents will sail from San Francisco
within a month. The First Tennessee,
Fifty-first Iowa and Twentieth Kansas
are the lucky men The 6th and 7th
California and California heavy artil
lory are to be mustered out.
Aocording to native Japanses papers,
reoeived in Seattle on the Kinshu Mara,
Marquis Ito's visit to China is liable to
result in his changing lesidence. It is
Baid that he has been offered a princely
salary to become general adviser to the
emperor.
Spanish soldiers have demanded their
pay, and they object to leaving Cuba
without it. Posters exhorting the
troops to refuse to leave Havana unless
the money is firt forthcoming, were
circulated in Havana. The pievailing
sentiment is one of animosity toward
Madrid.
A Madrid dispatch says: General
Jademes, ad interim governor of the
Philippines, replying to the govern
ment's request for information as to the
true situation of affairs in the atohf
pehgo, reports that to resume establish
ment of Spanish sovereignty over the
islands would lequire a fleet and eud
less quantities of material.
At least 11,000,000 prize money will
be distributed among American sailors
as a result of the war with Spain.
Rear Admiral Sampson of the North
Atlantio squadron will receive $40,000,
Dewey am! his men are to receive tl87,
600 head money. Appropriations tor
the purpose w ill likely be made at the
next session of congress.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
town council of the town of Dumfries,
Scotland, the sum of 10,000, to build
a public library.
The attorney-general of Ohio has de
rided to bring an action against the
American Steel and Wire Company,
under the anti-trust law.
The reported death of Mrs. Terriss,
widow of the actor wlio was murdered
by Richard Arthur Prinoe December 1
last, proves to have been an error.
Mrs. Terriss is seriously ill in London.
DEATH RODE THE RAIL
Appalling Disaster at Cohoes,
New Yorks, f
2
TRAIN STRIKES A TROLLEY CAE
Eighteen Faaaengera Killed and Moir
Will Die-Happy Fioknlckera Sud- '
' denlr Hurled Into Eternitr
Cohoes, N. Y., Sept. 7.. An .appall
ing disaster occurred in tins city to
night. Shortly before 8 o'clock a trolley-oar
of the Troy City Railway Com
pany was struok by the night-boat
special of the Delaware & Hudson at a
crossing at the west end of the Hudson
river bridge, which connects the city
with Lansingburg, and its load ol
human freight was hurled into the air.
Eighteen of the 85 passengers are dead,
and at least 10 of the remainder will
die.
, The cars entering the city from Lan
singburg were crowded with passengers
from a pionio at Rerinsaelaer's Park, a
pleasure resort near Troy. It was car
No. 192 of the Troy City railway that
met with disaster. It came over the
bridge about 7:80 o'clock laden with a
merry party of people, fresh from the
enjoyment of the day.
The crossing where the accident oc
curred is at a grade. Four tracks of
the Delaware & Hudson River railroad,
whjch runs north and south at this
point, cross the two tracks of the trol
ley load. It was the hour when the
New York boat special, a train which
runs south and connects w ith the New
York city boat at Albany, was due to
pass that point. Tracks of the street
lines run at a grade from the bridge to
the point where the disaster took place.
In consequence of this fact, and a fre
quent passage of trains, it has been the
rule for each motor-car conductor to
stop his car and go forward to observe
the railroad tracks and signal his car to
proceed if no trains are. in sight. It
cannot he ascertained whether that rule
was complied with on this occasion, (or
all events prior to the crash are foigot
ten by those who were involved.
The motoi car was struck directly in
the center by the engine of the train,
which was going at a high late of
speed. The accident came without the
slightest warning. The car was upon
the tracks before the train loomed in
sight, and no power on earth could have
saved it. The motoiman evidently saw
the train approaching as he reached
the track, and opened his controller,
but in vain. With a orash that was
heard for blocks the engine struck into
the lighter vehicle. The effect was
horrible. The motor cai parted in tvo,
both sections being hurled into the air
in splinters. The mass of humanity,
for the car was crowded to overflowing,
was torn and mangled. Those in the
front of the car met with the worst
fate. The force of the collision was
there experienced to the greatest de
gree, and every human being in that
section was killed. The scene was hor
rible. Bodies had been hurled into
the air, and their headless and limbless
trunks were found, in some cases, 60
feet from the crossing.
The pilot of the engine was smashed,
and amid its wreckage were the maimed
corpses of two women. The passengers
of the train suffered no injury, except
a shock. The majority of the passen
gers on the trolley-par were young
people. They included many women.
The train of the D. & H. R. R. acoi
dent proceeded to Troy. The euigneer
stated that he did not see the car until
he was upon it. He tried to prevent
his train from striking the car, but his
efforts were fruitless. His train was
going at a very high rate of speed at the
time. He was some minutes late, and
was trying to make up lost time. In
consequence of the caution taken by
the trolley road .to ascertain if the
tracks were clear at this crossing, the
engineers of tiains have always felt
safe in running by at a high rate of
speed.
The engineer says that the first he
knew that thecal was coming was when
it hove In sight at the corner of the
street, at which the crossing is situated.
Hewlisbut a short distance from the
car at the time. It was utterly impos
sible to bring the train to a standstill.
He thinks that f he motorman', when he
saw the train was upon him, tried to
get beyond the danger line. The grade
of this crossing and the speed at which
his car was going also made it impose i
ble for him to stop before reaching the
tracks. It was the front end of his car
that was caught and eiushed, and he
was killed outright.
The following bodies were identified:
Archie Campeau, James Temple, Ed
ward Barney, Mrs. John Craven, Miss
Kittie Craven, Mrs. John W. Sutcliffe,
Joseph Sense, Nellie Svett, 15 years of
age, Mrs. Eliza McElroy, Mrs. Jojnes
Taylor, Miss Winnie Craven, James
Lines, Mrs. Ellen Scaw and John Tim
mi us.
Drowned In Lake Erie.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 7. Frank and
John Mane, 16 and 17 years old, re
spectively, ajid Geo. Grass, 14 years
oil, were drowned while bathing in
Lake Erie. There was a heavy sea on
and the boys were caught by a receding
wave and carried into deep water.
Wind and Hall.
Iowa City, In., Sept. 7. A severe
wind and hail storm caused damage to
the amount of f 50,000 in an area three
miles wide ami 12 miles long, six miles
north of here. The hail was exceeding
ly heavy and many persons were in
jured. Many small buildings were
wrecked, and the corn crop was com
pletely destroyed in the region of the
storm.
The cells composing the epidermis
ve 1-1600 of an inch in diameter.
HOMAGE TO THE QUEEN.
Holland'! Tonnsr "Sovereign's Enthual
a.tlo (iieetlne.
Amsterdam, Sept. 7. Queen Wil
heliftina arrived at the railway depot
in Amsterdam at 2 o'clock, and was en
thusiastically received. The burgo
master delivered an address of wel
come, to which her majesty replied:
"For a long time past I have been
looking forward to this moment, which
is the most solemn of my lite.''
The queen briefly addiessed the va
rious crowds assembled to welcome her.
The burgomaster's daughter presented
her majesty with bouquets of orange
flowers tied with native ribbons. The
entire court, in carriages, participated
in the procession to the palace. A
guard of honor, oom posed of generals,
escorted the royal carriage.
After the burgomaster had delivered
a speech of welcome, the queen drove
to the Damplatz. The uniformed
guards lined the entire route, and kei'J
back the throngs. After Burgomaster
Vandenhoven, governor of the province
of Northern Holland, had offered the
province's homage, in the course of his
speech referring to the ties that foi
more than three centuries had bound
the provinces and house of Orange, tht
queen replied:
"I am glad that this day has ar
rived." Six hours before the queen arrived,,
200 000 people had assembled in the
streets and around the palace. Her
majesty appeared at 2:30 o'clock, P
M., preceded by 30 divisions, including
representatives of the army and navy,
governmental and municipal officials,
and princes from Holland's East Indian
colonies, who came here expressly to
witness the enthroning of the young
queen.
The royal coach was of white, orna
mented with gold and drawn by eight
black horses. Queen Wilhelmina, who
looked pale and tired, bowed and waved
her handkerchief continually. In front
of the palace, the army and navy were
drawn up in the form of a great square.
The coach passed along the four sides
of the square before drawing up at the
entrance to the palace.
A few minutes later Queen Wil
helmina appeared upon the balcony and
bowed repeatedly to the 60,000 people
who approaohed the palace waving
handkerchiefs, hats and flags.
Meanwhile many bands were playing
national airs, chimes of bells were ring
ing and steam whistles shrieking their
salutes to the young sovereign.
FIERCE STREET DUEL.
Mlaalaalppl Men Fight to the Death,
Showing Poor .Marksmanship.
New Orleans. Sept. 7. A special
from Meridian, Miss., says: The most
desperate duel in the history of Merid
ian ocourred this morning beween Jim
Finner and Aleok Webb, his son-in-law.
Both emptied two revolvers. Webb re
treated into a jewelry store, followed by
Finner, still shooting. The daughter
of Finner attempted to kill the officer
who went in to arrest the men. A fu
sillade passed between Finner and his
daughter and Webb and his daughters
in the store. Webb was shot three
times. He will die. Finner was hit
three times before he was killed by
Citizen Burgess. Webb, three weeks
ago, was shot by Finner, who waylaid
him, and this morning ended the trag
edy. Webb married Finner's daughter,
and bad blood has since existed.
Strike! at Manila.
Manila, Sept. 7. There have been
several labor strikes here, the demand
being for excessive wages. Because the
American authorities in the early exi
gencies of the situation agreed to ex
travagant demands of the laborers, it
has been difficult to return to an equi
table basis. One of these strikes caused
the suspension of traffic on the tram
ways of Manila for three days.
Copies of the new tariff have been
circulated heie, but it has not yet been
enforced. Pending the receipt of in
structions from Washington, it is esti
mated that under the American tariff
there will be an average reduotion of
one-third, as compared with that of
Spain, An insurgent newspaper print
ed in the Spanish language appeared
here today.
llrltlah ring Flying.
London, Sept. 7. The war office re
ceived this evening the following dis
patch, dated at Oindurman yesterday,
from Geneial Sir Herbert Kitchener:
"This morning theBiitish and Egyp
tian flags were hoisted with due cere
mony upon the wails of the palace in
Khartoum. All the British wounded
have left for Abadia in barges towed by
steamers. I saw them before leaving.
They weie all doingVell and were com
fortable. . The cavalry sent in pursuit
of the khalifa were compelled to aban
don the attempt, owing to the exhaus
tion of the horses, but I have ordered
the camel squads to continue the pur
suit." Two British Olttcera and S3 Men Rilled
London, Sept. 7. The official list
gives the number of British officers
killed in the capture ot Omdurman as
two, while 13 were wounded. Of the
men, 23 were killed and 99 wounded.
The losses sustained by the Egyptian
officers were one killed and eight
wounded; men, 20 killed, 221 wounded.
Dispatcnes from Omdurman relate that
a newspaper correspondent named
Howard, who was afterwards killed,
participated in the gallant charge of
the Twenty-first Lancers.
Waa It Andree.
Chicago, Sept. 7. A special to the
Times-Herald from Winnipeg, Mani
toba, says: Indians reaching Dauphin
from the far north report meeting an
Eskimo who told of the appearance
among them of a strange man, who de
scended from the clouds on the shores
of Hudson bay. The opinion among
the whites is that the man is Andree,
the Arctic explorer.
The English Federation of Engine
men consist of 10,000 men.
TAKING OF OMDURMAN
Kitchener Defeated Khalifa
- After a Bloody Battle. ;
GALLANT CHARGE OF BRITISH
Ml
,Hd Trlbet Were Unable to With
stand the Withering Fire of
Modern Qrdiianoe.
Omdurman, Opposite Khartoum on
the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 6. The sirdar,
General Herbert Kitchener, with the
khalifa's black standard captured dur
ing the battle, entered Omdurman, the
capital of Mahdiam at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, " at the head ot the Anglo
Egyptian column, after completely
routing the dervishes and dealing a
death blow to Mahdim. Roughly, our
losses were 200, while thousands of the
dervishes were killed and wounded.
Last night the Ang'o-Egyptian army
encamped at Agaiza, eight miles from
Omdurman. The dervishes weie three
miles distant. At dawn today,
the cavalry patrolling toward Omdur
man discovered the enemy advancing
to the attack in battle array, chanting,
war songs. Their front consisted of in
fantry and oavalry, stretched out for
three or four miles. Countless banners
fluttered over their masses, and the
copper and brass drums resounded
through the ranks of the savage war
riors, who advanoed unswervingly,
with all their old-time ardor. Our
infantry formed up outside the oamp.
At 7:20 A. M. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and ad
vanced steadily in enveloping forma
tion. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire,
which was answered by the derviBh
riflemen. Their attack developed on
our left, and in accordance with their
traditional tactics, they swept down
the hillside, with the design of rushing
our flank. But the withering fire
maintained for 16 minutes by all our
line frustrated the attempt, and the
dervishes, balked, swept toward our
center, upon which they ooncentiated a
fierce attack.
A large force of horsemen, trying to
face a continuous hall of bullets from
the Cameron Highlanders, the Lincoln
shire regiment and the Soudanese, was
literally swept away, leading to the
withdrawal of the entiie body, whose
dead strewed the field.
The bravery of the dervishes oan
hardly be oveiestimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
100 yards of our fighting line.
When the dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camn, the
whole force marohed in echelon of bat
talions toward Omdurman.
As oar troops surmounted the crest
adjoining the Nile, the Soudanese on
our right came into contact with the
Remick, who had reformed under oover
of a rocky eminence, and had marched
beneath the black standard of the kha
lifa in order to make a supreme effort
to retrieve the fortunes of the day. A
mass 15,000 strong bore down on the
Soudanese.
General Kitchener swung round the
center and left ot the Soudanese and
seized' the rocky eminence, and the
Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined
the firing line in 10 minutes, and be
fore the dervishs could drive their at
taok home. The flower , of the khalifa's
army was caught in a depression and.
within a zone of withering cross-fire
from three brigades, with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Mahdis strove
heroically to make headway, but every
rush was stopped, while their main
body was literally mown down by a sus
tained cross-fire.
Defiantly the dervishes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to com
panies, and the oompanies todiiblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white
with Jibbuh-clad corpses, like a snow
drift dotted spot.
At 11:15 the sirdar ordered an ad
vance and our whole force, in line,
drove the scattered remnants into the
desert to Omdurman.
Among the chief incidents of the bat
tle was a brilliant charge by the
Twenty-first Lancers.under Lieutenant
Colonel Maitin. Galloping down on a
detached body of the enemy, they found
the dervish swordsmen massed behind,
and were forced to charge home against
appalling odds. The lancers haoked
through the mass, rallied and kept the
dervish horde at bay. Lieutenant
Grenfolt, nephew of General Sir Francis
Grenfelt, was killed, four other officers
were wounded, 21 men were killed and
20 wounded.
The Egyptian cavalry were in close
fighting throughout with the Baggara
horsemen. For a short period the
enemy captured and held a gun, but it
was brilliantly retaken.
The heroiu bravery of the dervishes
evoked universal admiration. Time
after time their dispersed and broken
forces reformed and hurled themselves
upon the Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs
conspicuously leading and spurning
death. Even when wounded and in
death agonies they raised themselves to
fire a last shot.
Among the wounded is Colonel
Rhodes, the correspondent of the Lon
don Times, and a brother of Ceoil
Rhodes.
Pour Youug Women Drowned.
Erie, Pa., Sept. 6. By an acci
dental jibing of the sail of the pleasure
yacht Camienca, on Presque Isla bay
this morning four young women were
swept off into the water and drowned
before assistance could be rendered
them. Their names are Mary, Delia
and Ella Paradine and Jessie Moore.
Madrid, Sept. 6. The government
has decided to pay the next coupon of
the Cuban debt, pending the settle
ment with the United States,
PRESIDENT AT WIKOFF,
Cheered the Sick Heroea of the Ran.
tlago Campaign. .
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N.
Y Sept, 6. President McKinley spent
five hours In . the camp today, bare
headed most of the time, visiting the
tick in the hospitals and inspecting
the well in their cantonments. He
made a speech to the assembled in
fantrymen, reviewed, the cavalrymen,
expressed his opinion1 of the camp to
the reporters, and issued an order di
recting the regiments to return to
their stations east of the Mississippi.
With the president were Vice-President
Hobart, Secretary; of War Alger,
Attorney-General Griggs, Senator Red
field Proctor, Brigadier-General Egan,
commissary' of the army; General Lud
ington; quartermaster of the army;
Colonel Henry, Heoker, and Secretaries
to the President Porter and Cortelyon.
The ladies of the party were Mrs. Al
ger and Miss Hecker, a daughter ol
Colonel Hecker.
General Wheeler, his staff, and
nearly every officer of prominenoe in
the camp met the president at the sta
tion, except General Shatter, who it
still in bed, and General Young, who
fell and broke his arm last night.
After greetings and introductions on
the railway platform, the piesident
took General Wheeler's arm and went
to a carriage.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the
rough riders, was among a group of
Horsemen nearuy. Air. Mciviniey saw
him and got out of the carriage to
speak to him. Colonel Roosevelt has
tily dismounted and tusseWd with a
gauntlet for 15 seconds, so that un
gloved he might shake hands.
The oolumn of carriages wound up a
hill, escorted by the Third cavalry reg
iment, and the mounted band of the
Sixth cavalry. The party paused a
moment on the hill, und the president
looked out on the wide, undulating
oamp, water bounding eaoh side and
whitened on the levels and hilltftps by
the tents of 18,000 men, laid out in
geometrio lines.
Mr. MoKinley drrJTe to General
Shaffer's tent in the detention camp.
The general, who was flushed and
weak from a mild case of malarial
fever, was in full unfiorm, sitting in a
ohair at the door of the tent. He tried
to rise, but President McKinley ,said:
"Stay where you are, general; you
are entitlted to rest."
The president congratulated General
Shatter on the Santiago victorv, and
! after a few minutes' rest, proceeded to
iue (jenurui iiuepuui. ilia auiuiers re
cently arrived on the transports and
detained in the detention section oi
the camp lined up irregularly on each
side of the road and cheered. The
president took off his straw hat then,
and scarcely more than put it on for
moro than a minute or two at a time
during the remainder of his progress
through the camp.
Miss Wheeler, a daughter of the gen
eral, happened to be in the first row of
the hospital tents, and she showed the
president through her division.
General Wheeler announced in each
ward: "Boys, the president has come
to see you;" or, "Soldiers, the presi
dent of the United States."
Some of the soldiers slept uncon
scious, some listlessly raised upon their
elbows, others feebly clapped their
hands. Mr. McKinley gently shook
hands with many, and at every cot he
paused an instant, and if he saw the
sick man looking at him he bowed in a
direct and personal way.
In the second ward .the president en
tered, Sergeant John A. Alexander,
company D, First Illinois, who has a
tever, was rather startled to hear Gen
eral Wheeler announce the president.
The seigeant half raised upon his cot.
Mr. McKinley, attracted by the move
ment, took Alexander's hands and
said:
"I am sorry to see you so sick. I
hope that you are getting better."
"Thauk you; I think 1 shall get
well."
"Do you wish for anything?" asked
General Wheeler.
"No, I have everything good for me,
I guess," Alexander replied wearily,
"but I wish I were home."
"I hope that we may soon get you
there," said Mr. McKinley.
He had many such bits of talk with
the men, and seemed to be in no
hurry. He almost outwore the pa
tience of all his party by his slow
going through ward after ward.
Ambuahed by Indiana.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 6. The
schooner J. M. Coleman, which arrived
on the Sound today from St. Michaels,
brings news that two prospeotors were
ambushed while drifting down the Yu
kon in a boat. Indians fired on the
boat, killing one and wounding the
other. The wounded man escaped,
and reached a police camp. Police
started, and found the Indians enjoying
the prospectors' supplies. They were
brought to Dawson, where one of the
Indians made a confession.
Mr. Frank, who came on the Cole
man, says when he left Dawson there
was a stampede to Dewey and Samp
son creeks, from which fine reports
came. Both are in American territory.
Trouble In Ladronea.
Madrid, Aug. 80. Negotiations have
been opened with Washington to obtain
permission for the Spaniards in the
Ladrone islands to go to Manila, as the
situation in the Ladrones is extremely
critical.
Blown I'p by a Torpedo.
New Olreans, La., Sep!. 6. The gov
ernment steamboat John I. Meigs was
today destroyed by an explosion at St.
Philip. She had aboard Lieutenant
Jervey and a party engaged in remov
ing the torpedoes laid in the Mississip
pi river during the beginning of the
war. Lieutenant Jervey had a narrow
escape. The killed are: Charles Starr,
commander of the boat; Seigeant John
Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos;
Ralph Rogers. Those wounded are;
Friti Koch and D. B. Reddv.