IRALER r and Pub. ILLINOIS BAB GANG WIPED OjJT INDIAN TERRITORY OUTLAW BANO DESTROYED. m m 'P it v S*tvlaton Fight Two Fierce tad Sac- f , ceasfnl Battl^ElllinK Thow The; , Did Not Capture--Exciting Experi- t'l^lpace on a Burning Shipat Eea. --_ Cattle Thieve* Rounded Up* >f$S "Mose Miller's gang of cattle and bank thieves, town raiders and murderers, which has terrorized the Indian territory, was destroyed in two battles with the . ,. regulators. Three members are dead, two fatally wounded and three are in jail. The first battle, took place east of Checotah. Word reached Deputy United States Mar shal Ledbetter that the gang eonteinplat- > ed a raid on the bank of Checotah, and gathering a posse of citizens and ranch- ij men who had been in battles with out- ^ laws before they went to the edge of the iv town and lay in ambush for the gang, p They had not long to wait. ^louuted on f^v horses, the pick of that section of the 5 territory, the bandits canie riding rapidly % toward the town. Their first intimation * '*• of the ambush was a storm of bullets. The t>"? bandits replied and the fight became furi- ous, ending in the death of Miller and :|if'i ^'Piccolo Bill." The others wheeled their horses around and then began "V raeeSl across the prairie. The marshal's men 0 were compelled to change horses at a ranch, and then they pushed on again, # finally overtaking the gang, when the sec- ?: ond and conclusive battle was fought. No member of the posse was injured. •JZL .. No one wteck was cavlii) switch failing to work. The lorn Is esti» mated at $36,000. Lewis Warner, the defaulting president and treasurer respectively of the Hamp shire County National Bank and the Hampshire Savings Bank of Northamp ton, Mass., and for whose capture a re ward of $1,000 is offered, was arrested in Louisville, Ky. Warner embezzled up ward of *040.000 three months ago and has been at large since, although he has been tracked by countless detective*. standing of the Clubs. JVHlowing is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W . L. .50 29 Pittsburg ... .44 42 30Philadelphia. 38 32 Brooklyn ....33 32 Washington. 31 40 Louisville .. .32 New York.. .44 40 St. Louis 32 Cincinnati Boston ... Cleveland . Baltimore . Chicago ..55 .51 .49 .47 , Following is the standing of the dubs In the Western League: W. L. W. Indianapolis. 53 31 Columbus .. .43 34 Detroit . 89 30 St. Joseph... .29 St. Paul 52 % • • ti . Kansas City.52 Milwaukee ..50 40Minneapolis ..27 BREVITIES. S»V.*v M' il- Many horses have died in Harvey and McPherson counties, Kansas, from eat ing hay that was infected with worms. ? At Dayton, Ohio, the wholesale grocery «* " store owned by W. S. Phelps & Sons was , closed by the sheriff on chattel mortgages y ^ . amounting to $20,070. The President has issued a proclama- tion restoring the lands known as the 'S • middle and western Saline reserves, in the •A Cherokee outlet, to the public domain. ^ ,1< Striking miners and non-union men at Ledford, 111., engaged in a bloody riot, in 0Z/ the course of which several on both sides were injured with knives and missiles. " " Herbert Fickinger of Mount Washing- *°n' wae arrested at St. Louis, Mo., * j charged with kidnaping 14-year-old Birdie v; * - Bcharfhauser, daughter of a neighboring jfev former. </• ' Frazer & Shepherd's sash and door fac- !?• ^ tory at Minneapolis was totally destroyed by fire. The loss was $40,000. The fire Started in H. H. Bennett & Co.'s hard wood mill adjacent. This was also de stroyed at a loss of $5,000, with no in surance. r The French steamer Dahome, from i Liverpool for Halifax, arrived at St. Johns, N. F. She reports that she struck on Cape Spear during a thick fog, staving , In her bows and filling her fore peak with f water, but she floated off again without iUrtuff dauiagc. William Bdlcom of Grand Island, Neb., .. aged 21, was married recently, and three days after the wedding his wife deserted _ him. While shooting at a mark with a friend, he deliberately turned the weapon oh himself and sent a bullet through his brain, dying in ten minutes. A yard engine on the Norfolk and West ern Railroad at Circleville, Ohio, crashed Into a freight train while both were going at a rate of twenty miles an hour. Wil- ; lianl Ott was instantly killed, and B. C. , McClelland is so badly crushed that he K'>. V. wil1 <Me. Both men were from Dayton, M >\Phio< and were stealing a ride. Both en- v Wiues were wrecked and several cars de- railed. » ' - t The Compagnie Oenerale Transatlan- tique at Paris has given to the presg the report of Captain Aubert, who was charg ed by Edouard Lockey, minister of ma rine, with the inquiry into the disaster to La Bourgogne. It goes very fully into de tails and is accompanied by proofs, com pletely vindicating the crew of La Bour gogne of the charge of having attempted to assure their own safety regardless of that of the passengers. ; The steamship Ardandhu of the Twee- tie line, trading between West Indian ports and New York, came up the bay the other day with a heavy list to starboard and the cargo stored in her lower hold I on fire. Che fire was first discovered off $1 the coast of Maryland. The wildest ex- v; .citement followed the outbreak of the , fire and several of the eleven steerage passengers, all Jamaicans, endeavored to ; seize the lifeboats. The third mate, Per- ; cy Sanders, was forced to draw his re volver to prevent the men from the steer- | age leaving the burning steamer in the three lifeboats, which could easily have accommodated the other forty-five pas sengers and members of the crew. The fire was finally gotten under control and the vessel went on to her destination. Ed Hunt, a prospector who has spent a year in the Sierra Madres country, Mex ico, reports that thousands will go into that country in the fall. Virgin fields of gold and silver are being discovered When Hunt left CaBas Grandes there were 1,000 prospectors readv to start for the gold fields, which are reported to be fabulously rich. The shafthouse on the Deadwood Terra gfce at Terraville, g. D.. one of the Homestake properties, was consumed by fire. Loss, $50,000. , Hsuo, the Chinese ambassador at Ber ts, has been recalled. WESTERN. 0» man was killed and several were in jured while at work- on a sewer near Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio. The men were down in the sewer trench, when the trestle on which the cat hauls away the dirt fell, crashing down upon the workmen. Reports from the throngs of thrashers of wheat in Kansas state that the crop will be 15,000,000 bushels short of the estimates of a month ago, which placed the total yield at 70,000,000 bushels. Much of the wheat was prematurely rip endd and the grain is badly shriveled. An American named Reed, a civil en gineer from Nashua, N; H., and another American named Wiug, connected with a banking firm in New York, were at tacked by robbers in a plantation house at Tlacotapain, in the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. The former was killed and the other mortally wounded. They had large amount of moi^y in the house. The steamer Edward Smith No. 2 was run into and sunk in Lake St. Clair near the Flats; north of Detroit, Mich., by the schooner Aurania,, in tovy of the propeller Aurora. The Smith was bound up loaded and without a consort, whil£ the Aurora and Aurania were bound down. The crew and a pleasure party on board the Smith were rescued without accident. The Smith is owued by John Mitchell of Cleveland, and valued, at $150,000. A tornado struck Minot, N. the other night, demolished seventeen build ings and injured a number of people. No one was killed. The county hospital was destroyed and several of the inmates bad ly injured. Six loaded box cars on the Soo tracks were blown one hundred feet from the rails and demolished. A heavy hailstorm following seriously damaged the crops. A Casselton. N. D., special says the same storm destroyed 20,000 acres of wheat. Secretary C. F. Martin of the National Live Stock Association at Denver, Colo., has issued a bulletin relating to the sheep industry, from which the following is taken: "While the industry as a whole was never in more prosperous condition, the lamb crop does not show as large a percentage as usual, due mainly to the universal cold rains during the lambing season. All sections report forage to be the finest 91 ten year^, and the lambs -larger-and fatter than usual at this time of the year. It is too early yet to correctly estimate the wool'crop, but it is believed an increase of 10 per cent is a conservative estimate." A strike of nearly 300 workmen affilia ted with the St. Louis Building Trades' Council was called against the Anheuser- Busch Brewing Association. Nine unions Vrent out. They were the carpenTers, gasfitters, stonemasons, stonecutters, la borers, electrical workers, and engineers. The reason stated by the officers of the combined trades is that the brewery re fused in certain cases to pay the union scale of wages. The Anheuser-Busch, company has been regarded as very friendly to union labor. It employs a host of union brewery workers.c The men who quit were employed on many different buildings. Mr. Ivauffman of the brewery says the trouble was not caused by the attitude of the firm; the trouble was be tween the firms that had contracts on new buildings. These firms hired non union men and the strike followed. Charles Brant was assassinated the other evening at Twenty-first and Locust streets, St. Louis. He lived only a few blocks distant, and from all that the po lice have been enabled to learn he was on his way home from down town, tfhat he was expecting to be killed was shown by several notes found in his pockets when the body was searched at the morgue. These notes told what disposition to make of the body and also gave the address of young woman in the city whom the po lice were to notify. The assassination was one of the boldest in the annals of the city. Notwithstanding that it is a resi dence district with people sitting out on the steps, the murderer was so success ful that he completely obliterated his steps so that the police are at sea as to the identity of the assassin. They say, however, that the murder will develop one of the greatest sensations of the day. Brant was 30 years old and a stenogra pher for the Wagner Electric Company. He was married several years ago, but had separated from his wife, and it is be lieved that she is now a resident of Los Angeles. She was the daughter of a for mer gambler in St. Louis. The assassina tion of Brant, the police say, will show that he had been followed and that he knew^he_ would be waylaid and killed. L. Calhoun of Kansas City," represent ing a St. Iiouis detective agency, after twenty days' traveling through Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, located Mrs. Edna Beaman, a grass widow, in Sedalia, Mo., and obtained from her a confession that clears up the mysterious murder of Gaylord Fish, son of a banker at Georgetown, Cal., Dec. 6, 1897. Three years ago young Fish, then aged 27 years, left Georgetown and proceeded to Kan sas City, where he met Jane Armbrust, a member of the Salvation army, aged 55 years, and married her, to the surprise of all who knew him. Fish carried $2,000 insurance in the Woodmen of the World and was the only sou of a wealthy father. year ago Fish,1 senior, died and then Mrs. Fish, the son's wife, began planning to gain possession of the elder Fish's es tate. In Kansas City young Fish was taken suddenly ill and it was believed that an effort was made to poison him, but nothing could be proved. Mrs. Bea man, the witness, knew Mrs. Fish in Kansas City, and when the latter remov ed to Georgetown she sent Mrs. Beaman the money to join her in the centennial State. On arrival there a proposition was made to Mrs. Beaman to get Fish out of the way, but she declined, and then, Mrs. Beaman alleges, Mrs. Fish did the job herself administering chloroform, the victim being found dead in bed the morn ing of Dec. 6 last by Mrs. Beaman. Sus picion of foul play was not entertained at the time, but finally the Woodmen of the World began to investigate the case, with the result that it was placed in the hands of the detective agency. HAViirl pittlal are a total loss. 'Hit a defective electric renortaita tag a low 9280,000; in building and fire was ca light wire. A soldier of Bat&tar A, Sixth artillery, committed suicide afv Fort Clinch, Fer- nandina, Fla., by jumping overboard and swimming out in the seund so far that he could not possibly get back. He had all his clothes on as well as shoes. The su^ cide's name is Bigar from Albany, N. Y. He was recruited and taken to that fort a month ago, since which time he has been desperately ill. The Kentucky State Board of Health issued a proclamation placing the whole of Jackson County and each of its inhabit ants under rigid quarantine from the out side world. The board found that there have been, more than 100 cases of small pox in the county. The facts were laid before the county authorities, and an ef fort was made to have an appropriation made by the County Court, as designated by lawj 'The court declined, although there is money in the treasury. The State board now calls on the adjoining counties to enforce strict quarantine against Jack son County along its entire boundary. Evasion of the quarantine incurs heavy T»enalties. Dr. McCormack, secretary of the board, said: "The State Board of Health was reluctant to take this ac tion, because it is the first time in sixteen years that an absolute quarantine has been declared. But the danger was so great and involved se many people and so great interests to the State that we concluded only rigorous measures would meet the emergency." FOREIGN. A dispatch from San Juan de Porto Rico to Madrid says a new insular cabi net haB been formed under the presidency of Senor Nulez Riveira. s A wealthy American named Riegel has been killed while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc without a guide. His corpse was found on a glacier. Admiral Canavaro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Argentine Minister to Italy, Enrique Merino, have signed a general arbitration treaty between Italy and Argentina. A violent shock of earthquake lasting ft minute was felt at Concepciou, capital of the Chilian province of that name, and at Talcahuano, on the Bay of Concepcion, eight miles distant from Concepcion City. Many jKJusfca were destroyed and the tele graph and electric light wires were sev ered. The inhabitants were terrified and fled from their homes, spending the night in the open. Nineteen Austrian sailors who arrived at Havre by I*a Bretagne were taken be fore a magistrate and confronted by four second-class passengers, survivors of La Bourgogne, on charges of cruelty and bru tality at the time of the collision between La Bourgogne and the British ship Cro martyshire off Sable Island July 4. Al though the evidence offered against them was very slight, six of the accused were held on remand. ,0 'i Ifltt ./ V EASTERN. Cumberland Nail and 'Iron Com pany at Bridgeton, N. J., has gone int« • the hands of a receiver. • At Wilmington, Del., after having beet • locked up for three days, the jurors in th« case of United States Senator Richard R, Kenney, who is charged with aiding and abetting in the looting of the First Na tional Bank of Dover, were unable t< agree upon a verdict and were discharged There was a wreck on the Pennsylvania Bailroad la the Fourth street yards, A1 toona, Pa. One engine and six cars load- •4 with flour, teed and produce were con* T»; .vy-- : vJ.-.j; 7j'<- * ' •h . .aaek",..? IN qENERAL. Tlie Earl of Minto has been appointed governor general of Canada in succession of the Earl of Aberdeen. He is a liberal and retired from the army in 1870. Lieut. John Lind, quartermaster of the Twelfth Minnesota volunteers, now at Chickamauga, has formally accepted the nomination for Governor tendered him by the Democrats, silver Republicans and Populists. A cablegram was received by Arthur Scwall & Co., Bath, Me., from Valparaiso saying that the ship Kenilworth, bound from Hale Island, Hawaii, to New York, had been burned; that Captain James G. Baker, First Officer Piper and a boy nam ed Hobson had lost their lives. The Ken ilworth was laden with sugar. Bradstreet's commercial report says: Midsummer conditions still govern most lines of trade and manufacture, but the volume of business as indicated by bo.nk clearings shows little decrease, and is evi dently considerably in advance cf previ ous years at this time. A feature in trade this week is the better, demand reported for wool east and west, largely confined, it is true, to a few grades of wool. This appearance of activity has given a decid edly more hopeful tone to tffls business, which, however, is not yet refleetedyin the manufacturing branch. Indications that important developments may shortly be witnessed in the iron trade accumulate. This is partly the result of expected good orders from railroads for rails, of a large export business and of a good volume of small orders for various classes of steel. The statistical position of pig iron has been strengthened by the curtailment of production of ah average of nearly 1,000,- 000 tons a month since Jan. 1. but some shading, especially of southern iron prices, imparts an air of irregularity to the trade. Effects of the reported advance in prices by the Besseme^ iron combination have not yet been measured, and the result of this announcement is awaited with inter est. Dullness has been a feature of the cereal markets. Old wheat supplies are rapidly decreasing, and the new crop movement, while in excess of last year, does not reach the proportions expected. Another feature of the business situation is the active preparation making ?n the coast shipping trade for the large busi ness with West Indian points which is expected to develop as a result of military and naval operations." SOUTHERN. At Crawford^ Tex., the Allen block burned. The loss is $50,000; insurance. $20,000. Two distinct "earthquake shocks passed over East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, lasting four and seven seconds respectively. No damage resulted. The White-Howard-Baker feud in Clay County, Kentucky, has broken out again. John Baker and Charles Clarke were ambushed by twenty members of the Op posing faction and shot to death. Mrs. Bishop, wife of the jailed at Mari etta, Ga., saved the life of Jailer C. N. Barrett. Negro prisoners attacked Bar rett and woujd have killed him had not Mrs. Bishop appeared with a revolver and intimidated them. I At Galveston. Texas, the Beach Hotel, MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prim*, $3.00 to $5.40; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice. $2.f>u to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 75c to 77c;* corn, No. 2, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c; butter, choice creamery, lUc to 17c; eggs, fresh, 11c to 12c; potatoes, choicc, 40c to 48c; per bushel. Iudianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 tc $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 75c; corn, No. white, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 28c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.30; hogs, $3.00 to $4 00; sheep, $3.75 tp $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 7(Jc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2, 24c to 2ttc; rye, No. 2, 47c to 48c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.15; wheat, No. 2, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, N o. 2 mixed, 20c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 41c to 42c. Detroit-Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.20 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 74c to 75c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 2i9c to 30c; rye, 46c to 47c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 77c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 33c to 34c; oata, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c; clover seed, $3.20 to $3;30. Milwaukee--Wheat, No, 2 spring, 88c to 90c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 2?c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c; barley, No. 2, 43c to 44c; pork, mess, $9.75 to $10.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; sheep, fair to choice weth ers, $3.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $0.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No, 2 red, 81c to 82c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 30c to 82c; butter, creamery, 14c to 18c; eggs, Western, 13c to 15c. CUBAN CAPITAL. tWILL BE At- " JC v,"TACKED • IN' THE Great Army of 150,000 Men to Storm Blanco's Stronghold-- Shatter'* Hen Will Come Home for Seat Hnfora the Dedal*® Fights of the War. Miles Will Lead the Army* Wsshlngton special: Gen. Miles aw commander-in-chief, aid ed by Gens. Shafter, Brooke, Lee and Graham, with a combined force of 150,- 000 men, are to take the field against Havana in the fall. Meanwhile Shafter's men will be recalled to the United States for recuperation, three regiments from Tampa going to Santiago to take their place, in company with the immunes now there. "Gen. Shafter and his Fifth corps will take the field against Havana in the fall. Until then they will rest in the United States. As soon as the Spanish prison ers are well out of the way Gen. Shafter, with the whole Fifth corps, will be order ed back to the United States, perhaps to Montauk Point, L. I,, or some such suit able place, where they will rest and Ve- cuperate, so as to be ready for the cam //' NEIjSON ttle of Ban. Portsmouth ' the other day, <3apt Mashroboc, second offi- cet f* the Maria Teresa, saidi ""As we came out of the channel, we opened fire on the Brooklyn, and the Texas answered it, but her shot fell short. Otherwise she would have struck us, for, it was a straight line shot. Th£ Brooklyn and the Iowa then fired, but neither shot hit. Again the Bropklyn and the Texas fired. The Brooklyn's shell went into the admiral's cabin and, exploding, set fire to the after part of the ship. The shell from the Texas pierced our side ar mor and exploded in the engine room, bursting the main steam pipe. We sig nalled to the engineer to start the, pumps, bu^ got no reply, and then found that all below in that part of the ship had been killed. At that time shells were bursting all around us, and the ship's hull was be ing riddled below. Then, for the sake of humanity and to save life, we beached the ship. Just as our captain gave the order to haul down the colors he was struck by a shell and killed. Meanwhile the Viz- caya had run between us and the Texas and was then engaging three ships--the Brooklyn, Oregon and Texas. She made a desperate, but hopeless, fight. Now tha£ wehave learned that we lost between 800 and 1,000 men and the Americans lost only one man, it amazes us. It is incred- ible. We cannot comprehend it iTdoes not seem possible. Arid yet we must be lieve it.^ Have we hot seen with our own eyes the utter wrecks of our Bhips and how yours were not hurt, even the small est injury, that we could see?" ! paign 4n\the fall against Havana." This statemet|t was made by one of the trusted counselor# of the. President. The state ment was further made that not one of the regiments now in Santiago would be sent to Porto Rico; that it was thought by the administration that in all of them there was some danger of fever infection. But Gen. Shafter will remain until the Spanish prisoners are disposed of, accord ing to the plans of the Government. Many northerly camp sites are being now considered by the Government, Sea Girt, N. J., among them. It may be nec essary to bring more of the Southern troops north, but they will not be brought unless it is necessary. The Fifth corps of hardened veteaans <!s also to be put v. DESTROYED HIS EAR DRUMS* Detonations from an Elgrht-Inch Gnit Make a Lieutenant Stone Dea&. Among the patients on board the naval relief steamer Solace is Lieut. Harrison of the Oregon, the drums of whose ears were destroyed by detonation caused by the firing of an eight-inch rifle upon that ship. He was in command'of a thirteen- inch gun, and put his head out of a hatch way to get a breath of air, so that it was within a few feet of the mouth of a rifle upon the upper deck when it was fired. The concussion was so severe that he fell insensible, and it was several hours be fore he recovered consciousness. He is stone deaf, the membranes of both ears having been lacerated. EUROPE TO BE IMPRESSED). Watson's Fleet la Intended to Eerva as an Object Lesson* A Washington correspondent -declares that the administration has a greater pur pose in view in dispatching the eastern squadron to Spain than to make an attack upon the ports of that country. The real object is to impress Europe with the abil ity of the United States to form a squad ron whose strength will be such as to com pel respect and prevent interference with DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF DEWEY'S SHELLS |N MANILA BAY. ijiimiiWfflg The sketch frota which this picture was redrawn was made by T. T. Jeans of the British navy for the London Illustrated News. It gives a clear idea of the tremendous execution of the American gunners on the Reina Cristina, Admiral Montejo's flagship. It will be remembered that this ship was crippled by the Olympia's heavy guns and was on fire before she reached the short, where she sank in the shallow waters of Cavite bay., • m into shape for the Havana campaign. The Porto Rican army also will be by fall hardened to field and fire, and, together with the Fifth corps, which will then join it, aboyt 50,000 seasoned men will move upon Havana. This is now the plan of the administra tion. These 50,000 men will form the,nu cleus about which 100,000 more volun teers now in this country will be formed. By the fall these volunteers, it is expect ed, will be in prime condition, both as to equipment, arms and uniforms. If the Porto Rican campaign is to be a deliber ate one, the campaign against Havana is to be a more deliberate one. In order to relieve the regiments of the Fifth corps as soon as possible after the Spanish prisoners have been placed on the transports, Gen. Coppinger has been ordered to send three regiments from the Fourth corps, at Tampa, to Santiago at once. The regiments designated are the Fifth Maryland. First Florida and Sec ond Georgia. These regiments, with the immune regiments already ordered thith er, will be sufficient to hold Santiago and the surrendered territory, and they may operate against Holguin and Manzanillo. It is likely that an attempt will be made to occupy bcth of these towns if health conditions favor, and Senor Quesada says the insurgents will be active during the summer blazing the way for the great coming campaign. (Jen. Miles will be cpmmander-in-chief of the Havana campaign, and will start In with two trained major generals in Gens. Shafter and Brooke. Lee will fol low with another division, and Graham with the Camp Alger troops and the 2,000 men left in Chickamauga will help make up a grand total of 150,000 men. KILLS FEW MEN. Yellow Fever About Santiago Is of a Mild Type. - A dispatch received by Adjutant Gen eral Corbin says that 386 new cases of fever of all classes were reported in his camp before Santiago Sunday. As the same dispatch reports only four deaths-- and none of them from yellow fever-- from among hundreds of cases of fever known to eyist in the camp, the war au thorities are more than ever inclined to the belief that the cases of yellow fever are of mild type. its plans in regard to the demands to be made upon Spain as to the price of peace. The squadron will be the strongest that can be gathered and will include all of the battleships, a large number of protected and auxiliary cruisers and perhaps the armored cruiser Brooklyn, although this is not definitely stated. It will be under orders to first , proceed to the coast of Spain and destroy Camara's fleet, after which it will bombard Spanish ports and harass Spanish commerce and, if need be, part of it will proceed to the far east should there be any question by a third Government of the disposition the United States will make of the Philippine isl ands. DYNAMITE SHELLS IN CANNON. Process Invented to Throw Them by Means of Gunpowder. William S. I sham of the City of Mexico laid before the ordnance bureaus of the War and Navy Departments an astonish ing proposition. He has invented a pro cess by which shells charged with dyna mite may be safely discharged from a piece of artillery by force of gunpowder, the shell bursting by impact. The ord nance officials were somewhat skeptical at first. They said that if Mr. Isham could successfully fire dynamite with gun powder he could do something that nobody else had ever done. Mr. Isham insisted that he not only could do it, but had done It. He produced letters from the Mexi can Secretary of War, Gen. Berriozabal, and the United States minister, Gen. Pow ell Clayton, both testifying that they had witnessed the experiments with the new process. Spanish Arms to Be Used. The ordnance bureau, is busy with pre parations for using the Mauser rifles cap tured from the Spaniards. It is probable that the Mausers will be used to replace the Springfield rifles, wifh which many of our volunteer regiments are at present equipped. Expelled "Yellow" Correspondents. Gen. Shafter has reported to the War Department that he directed the expul sion of the correspondents of a New York paper for placarding Santiago city with advertising posters, whieh bore the in scription, "Remember the Maine." CROWDS CHkKB BRYAN. Royal Reception Given the Colonel and His Bearlment. Col. William J. Bryan and liis regiment were given a royal reception upon their arrival at Nashville. There were several sections of the troop trains, and each one was cheered, both coming and going. The women served sumptuous lunches to the Nebraska boys. Col. Bryan made a speech, thanking the people of the South for such a demonstration, and declared that one of the greatest successes of the war was the practical disappearance of the Dixie line Santiago Becoming Tranquil. Under the civil government the city %f 'Santiago has almost resumed its normal condition. Many of the Spanish authori ties have refused to take the oath of office recognizing the supremacy of the United States. In every case those who have resigned have been replaced by na tive Cubans. ' • ' Shafter'a Explanation. Gen. Shafter has told Gen. Garcia that the reason why the Cubans were not in vited to participate in the ceremonies waB that be thought it would not be g6od pol icy. His action, be stated, was not due ta am hw Cuba* all>aa> Coliimodore Watson's expedition will disturb the plans of the nobility and aris tocracy of Spain who are in the habit ef •pending the summer at San Sebi&tian, a •ery attractive resort upon the northern coast of Spain, in the province of Qui puzcoa. It is the country of the Basques, who are the proudest people on the penin- fmla. They claim to be descended directly l!rom Cain, without the intervention of fcToah, and that their dialect is the lan guage spoken by Adam and Eve,in para- tlise. San Sebastian has been for many years the summer capital of Spain. The Queen goes there the beginning of every June and usually remains until October. It has a most delightful climate; the scen ery is picturesque and all the surround' ings are much more attractive'and com fortable than those at Madrid; But the city is so exposed tQ the sea that it could be easily destroyed by a single gunboat, and although it is not probable that Com modore Watson will attack an unfortified pleasure resort the Spaniards are very timid and will undoubtedly remain in the interior. . . * * • . While Capt. Eulate of the Vizcaya is at Annapolis he will have plenty of thrie to reflect upon the rashness of a promise he made in the presence of several Amer ican officers and newspaper correspon dents at the Hotel Ingleterre while he was in Havana in command of the Vizcaya, shortly after the destruction of the Maine. The fighting capacity of Capt. Robley Evans and the battleship Iowa being the subject of discussion, ?3Capt. Eulate was imprudent enough to predict that if there was a war he would capture the Iowa and tow her over to Spain. It was appropri ate, therefore, that it should happen to be the fate of the boaster to surrender to Capt. Evans after Cervera's fleet had been destroyed, and the dramatic manner in which he kissed his sword and offered it to "Fighting Bob" has already been told. r • • • Sir. Quesada, the representative in Washington of the Cuban junta, sought an interview with Secretary Alger to pro test against the retention of Spanish offi cials at Santiago, and-to-demand the ap pointment of insurgents in their places, but he obtained no satisfaction. He was informed that the. President and lie offi cers of the army were thoroughly displeas ed with the conduct of the Cubans at San tiago, and that unless they behaved them selves better their rations and supplies of ammunition would be cut off. * * • One of the rough riders from the far West came into the War Department on crutches and was warmly received every where. When somebody asked him, in a contemptuous way, how he got along with the dudes in his regiment he replied: "I used to despise dudes before I went .to war, but now I like them. YQU never can tell what a man amounts to by the way he wears his (ciothes. In our regiment the worse the dude the better the fighter.", • • « The steamers Resolute, Olivette, Break water, City of Washington, Seneca, Sol-' ace and other ships which brought up the wounded will return full of everything needed by the soldiers in the way of food and clothing, and the Glacier started with 4,000 tons of dressed beef. Fifty thou sand light canvas uniforms will be sent. They are very much needed, as most of the troops are still wearing the regula tion woolen uniform. , • • • Assistant Surgeon General Greenleaf, who is in charge of medical affairs of the army in front of Santiago, sends most en couraging reports concerning the yellow fever and the sanitary condition of the troops. Very few of them have been ex posed, and Dr. Greenleaf sees no reason why nearly all the regiments may not par ticipate in the Porto Rican expedition. Most of the cases of fever are of a very mild type. • • » Mendez Capote, vice-president ot the Cuban republic, having failed to secure official recognition from the Government of the United States, has gone to Mexico to solicit the good offices of President Diaz, who has shown much sympathy with the insurgents. Mr. Capote hopes to persuade President Diaz to use his influ ence with President McKinley to recog nize the Gomez Government. • * • There is ho doubt a great opportunity to make money at Santiago in legitimate en terprises, particularly trading in the nec essaries of life. The Spanish army has eaten^pp everything in the way of food and the provision stores are empty. The entire population must be supplied from this country for several months. There is said to be plenty of money in the place. * • • The Government is sending large car goes of supplies of every kind to the quar termaster and commissary department. The contractors are beginning to turn in enormous quantities of clothing and food, which will be issued to the eastern armies, for the Manila troops have been very thoroughly equipped and do not need any more. v, . . ' • • • ' is the intention of the President to recognise the insurgent element when ap pointments of natives are made to local offices. But he wants to avoid anything that - looks like factional representation. In selecting officials he proposes to take the best men he can find, regardless of their attitude toward the insurrection. The prediction made by Horatio Ita- bens, counsel of the junta at New York, that unless we recognized the insurgents we would have to fight them, is likely to/ come true sooner than any one expected, for the dispatches from Santiago already report very ugly, feeling between the Cu- bttiia Uiiut-f Cifuviii Slid th<2 AHiC-riCuIi SOl- diers. The former have conducted them selves in such a way as to forfeit the con fidence and respect of our arniy, although they continue to eat rations and carry arms and ammunition issued to them by our Government. Small Death Rate. Of the 1,584 men wounded before San tiago only sixty-eight have died. The surgeons are amazed at this small per centage of mortality. Nearly all the wounded men are getting well, and it is claimed that never in the history of war have gunshot wounds proved leas fataj or healed so rapidly. Strengthen Their Defenses. Spaniards are working night and day on'the defenses of Manila. They have placed many mines in the highways and have dug pits and filled them with upturn- Friday. 1 * A Blanco expressed bitter opposltblii ti-' p e a c e n e g o t i a t i o n s . t ? i , J Maj. Gen. Chaffee in the field hospital at Santiago suffering from dysentery. i'rsi The first detachment of troops from i ' J Chickamauga left for Newport News-to- embark for Porto Rico. Aguinaldo has proclaimed dictatorship >,f. oyer the Philippines and refuses to subor- } \t dinate himself to American authority. De- barkation of American troops rapidly con- i ? ~ tinues near Manila. . s, Reported that 5,000 Spaniards included " - In Toral's capitulation, while marching to Santiago to surrender to Shafter, were- ambushed by 4,000 Cubans under Garcia, % but put the latter to rout after hot fight- * inS. \ I'M" Lieut. Hobson, hero of the, Merrimae .f|i episode, arrived in New York on the* ;j f-ruiser St. Paul and proceeded to Wash- iugton. He was sent to confer with the wgardiug raising. ,. '* Saturday. ^ live transports tailed f<r Porto Kico« from Tampa. * % Gen. Brooke and his staff left Chicka- ^1 mauga for Newport News. • " 4 Details of the naval victory at Nipe *'< - show it to have been one *>f the tntosi « spirited sea battles of the war. i' Jfl Advices from Santiago say the letter al- 't.,* leged to have been written by Gen. Gar> cia to Gen. Shafter was written by a ff® newspaper man, probably without the knowledge or consent of Gen. Garcia,^ Gen. Shafter reports rhat a colonel of /Jig Spanish engineers from Guantanamo ar* rived at Santiago to iearn of the surren- der, and declared that the garrison at Guantanamo will gladly accept the terms of surrender. Sunday. / \ Admiral Sampson's report on the nava| battle at Santiago which ended in the destruction of Cervera's fleet has been re. ceived in Washington, but not made pub. lie. The Spanish troops in Havana. togetV? with the residents, have strongly fortified the city, say Spanish reports, and are eager for an opportunity to measure arms with the American forces. Lieut. Hobson's plans for raising the sunken Cristobal Colon,«the Spanish war ship, have been approved by the Navy Department, nnd arrangements have been made to begin the work. Monday. Seven thousand Spanish troops at ttuan- tanamo laid down their arms. Gen. Miles has begui^ to land his expe» dition near Ponce, Porto Rico. --Gen. Shafter reports 500 new cases of fever among our troops at Santiago. Gen. Brooke has arrived at Newport News, preparatory to sailing for Porto Rico. Cubans at Cienfucgos sent to Admiral Sampson a pitiful appeal that he take the- city, as they are starving., , 1 Tuesday. Details received of the landing ef Gen. Mil.es' expedition at Guanica, Porto Rico, and the hoisting of the Stars and Stripes^ Gen. Shafter sternly, rebuked Senor Ros, the civil governor of Santiago,-for unauthorized, dismissal of Spanish offi cials. Reports of Admiral Sampson and Com modore Schley on the destruction of Cer vera's fleet at Santiago made public by the Navy Department. Spain sued for peace through M. Cam-* bon, the French ambassador in Washing ton, who formally asked President M<V Kinley in behalf of Spain if he would con sent to negotiations to end the war. Gen. Shafter, while regretting any clash with the Cubans, said their to Santiago were untenable. He sent a letter to Gen. Garcia explaining the po sition of responsibility which the United States occupies before the world. Wednesday. ^ - Announced on authority that no armis tice will be granted Spain. Arrival off Porto Rico of the transports Mobile, Grand Duchess and No. 30, with re-enforcements for Gen. Miles. Spanish advices to Madrid alleged tke repulse of the advance of Gen. Miles upon Yauco, after fighting lasting all night. Spanish troops in Porto Rico reported to be concentrating in San Juan, the, cap ital, for defense against Gen. Miles' troops. Gen. Shafter pleased the,native Cubans by permitting them to occupy and rule over the town of Songo, near Santiago, surrendered by the Spanish. Thursday. Gen. Brooke's expedition sailed from Newport News for Porto Rico. Several American transports, probably those from Charleston, cruising off Porto Rico. Secretary Alger announced that as sobn as fever conditions permit Shafter's army will be removed to a tract of land adjoin ing Montauk Point, Long Island. Gen. Shafter now reports 4,122 of his men sick, 3,193 with fever of various types, but the low death rate shows the sickness to be of mild form. Telegraphic Brevities* Two-thirds of the male population of the world use tobacco. South Dakota's wheat yield is 100 per cent greater than last year. Flax is being successfully grown near Victoria, in southern Texas. Northern Pacific officials report an enor mous wheat crop along their line. Six members df a family by the name of Von Zostrow of Sherburne, N. Y., have died of trichinosis from eating raw pork. Considerable damage has been done to mountain towns on the Isthmus of Te- hauntepec by a series of earthquake; shocks. In an altercation at Warrensburg, Ma,, between James Lohg, a drayman, and WhitsettoM. Harris, Long struck Harris, over the head with a dray standard, frac turing his skull. During the recent German elections pot, ofte vote was cast in the town of Postroff, a place of 8,000 inhabitants. A polling- booth was erected, but, as none of the citizens appeared to 'vote, even the elec tion officers refrained from casting their ballots. W. A. Thomas of Sevierville, Tenn„ whiie driving in a heavy wagon along a country road, became engaged in an alter cation with James Mitchell, a negro, who struck him with brass knuckles, knocking him under the wagon, the wheels of which passed over his body, killing hfltn instantly. Mitchell was arrested. The immigration reports for S&n Fraa-. cisco for June show a remarkable da-' crease compared with last year. Ceylon is alarmed at the news that the world Will end next year and the begin ning will be the sinking of the island be neath the sea. The villagers on the island are trying to atone for their sins by acta of charity and by flocking to the temples. The past year's trade was the most re markable in the history of this country. All countries in the world paid tribute to the United States^ More gold eaaae late the country than ever before, and the balance of trade was double that of any previous year. The exports exceeded the iwpvrta fef : mmm •imaMSt