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•f* s * ' "f nry Plaindealer. J. ;VAN SLYKE, Editor ami Prt. IcHENRY, ILLINOIS. XI3UIED IS WRECKED •ifev : • • •> • tNGlNEER.FIREMAN AND ONE £ BRAKEMAN KILLED. IVv. i&4£- Train Wu Running Blttf Kile* en ' Honrs 'When It Struck the Open • < Switch-Chair Car and Sleeper Safe-- iptpat Returns irom Samoa. Tramps Wreck a Train. No. 5 of the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, known as "The Chi capo Limited," was wrecked at In- jgalls Crossing, four miles south of Ful­ ton, N. Y. The wreck was doubtless due to the dastardly work of tramps, who threw open the switch a,t which the train was wrecked, as well as two switches to the north of the wreck. The train was an hour and a quarter late and running near­ ly sixty miles an hour when it struck the switch and was thrown over to the side track. The rapid speed made it impossi­ ble to make a sharp turn, and the train left the track when it struck the safety rail. The egine was thrown twenty feet and blown to pieces. The tender was in­ serted. The trucks of the baggage car were torn off and the head coach telescop­ ed the baggage car. A vestibuled chair car and the sleeper Fwragut were derail­ ed, but neither was badly damaged. En­ gineer Dowd and Fireman Hall both jumped and were found under the wreck- «Lge of the tender by passengers from the sleeper. Dowd died in a few minutes and Hall three hours later. The body of Brakeman Osbom was torn in two. Sev­ eral passengers were bruised and other­ wise slightly injured. Back from Treasure Island. The schooner Sophia Sutherland, which left San Francisco eighteen months ago with a party of treasure seekers for the Solomon Islands, has returned with a cargo of cocoanuts. The men v^ere de­ ceived by the projector of the enterprise, L P. Sorenson, who was put ashore on the island. The others sailed for Samoa, four of them dying of fever. Captain McLean has a poor opinion of the Solo­ mon Islands, but says the outlook for trade in Samoa is good, as the people ape beginning to raise cocoa. The political situation in Samoa was strained when the vessel left, as the death of King Malietoa was expected. Kace for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs In the National Baseball League: W. L. W. Ij. .74 43 Philadelphia. Hi 66 42 Pittsburg ... .57 60 41 Louisville ...47* 69 46 Brooklyn ..42 66 BO Washington. 40 73 50 St. Louis 32 ,84 Cincinnati Boston .. Baltimore Cleveland •Chicago.... .05 New York. . .63 .71 .68 .67 v Following is the standing of the clubs In the Western League: W. L. W. L. Milwaukee ..76 47 St. Paul 65 53 tndianapoHs. 72 45 Detroit ..45 73 Kansjy Cdty.73 48 Minneapolis. 42 83 Oolanrons .. .64 48 St. Joseph 38 78 BREVITIES. SiM*.- .fy:-, 1 $?£••:>- * A*; Gitvefatnd, Ohio, a brick building collapsed, burying a half-dosen men. Two were seriously injured. By the explosion of a boiler at Warren, Ohio, Wesley Gano was killed while op­ erating a thrashing machine. Ten new cases of yellow fever are re­ ported from Orwood. Miss. These cases are said to be of a mild type. President McKinley has appointed O. D. Woodward of Columbia University one of the American commissioners to the Paris exposition. A beavy storm did $250,000 damage in Savannah, Ga., and vicinity. One man was drowned by the wrecking of a steam­ er in Galibogue sound. Cecil Rhodes, the former premier of Cape Colony, has been elected to repre­ sent Barklywest in the Cape parliament. He was returned by a large majority. It has been decided by the Navy Depart­ ment at Washington to launch the battle­ ship Illinois, now building at Newport News, Va., on Oct. 4. Gov. Tanner's daughter has been selected to christen the vessel. At St. Louis, the five-story brick build­ ing ofthe A.'Geisel Manufacturing Com­ pany took fire, and within twenty minutes was totally destroyed. The loss is esti­ mated. at,$100,000. It is supposed the fire started from an electric wire. Fireman Fred P. Smith was killed and Engineer George Hartford seriously in­ jured Hi .a wreck on the California and Oregon Railroad, near Simms station, Cal. The engine and eight cars jumped the track and "rolled down an embank­ ment^' The coroner's jury in Watertown, S. D„ brought in a verdict that Lyman e! Moody, whose charred body was found in the burned ruins of his home the other night, was murdered by Louis Montrol aud Mike Andre, both of whom have been arrested. At Pierre, S. D.. the Supreme Court handed down an opinion in the case of the State versus Charles It. Rankin, declar­ ing unconstitutional the law passed by the last Legislature requiring all can­ vassers for business houses out of the State to take out a license. Fire, smoke and water ruined or dam­ aged about $200,000 worth of flour in the New York Central freight house in Buf­ falo. The flour, which is owned by three Minneapolis companies, was fully insured. The freight house and dock were damag­ ed to the extent of but a few dollars. An attempt to assassinate Mrs. Need- ham, the wife of Danny Needliatn, the pugilist, was made at Oakland, Cal. Mrs. Needham was standing by a table in her dining room, when three shots were fired at her through a window. Danny Need- ham is in Alaska. His wife says she knows who fired the shots, but refuses to t tell the man's name. Fire broke out in Bertram's shipyards \ at Toronto, Out. The docks of the com- t P®ny and the large carpenter 6hop and some small buildings, together with a barge and a quantity of lumber, were de- ' <Ehe k*5*5 reach $200,000. ' ° ̂ ' EASTERN. WhDe be slept. Carrigan w*s arrested and taken to the house and shown the1 result off his wdrfc.1 "I did it; I admit it, the prisoner said. "I did it because he broke my mother's arm. He abused her and I wouldn't stand it." With $150,000,000 behind him, young Thomas A. Mclntyre of Wall street, New York, is planning a flour trust. It will be a combination of all the great flour mills throughout the United States. Mr. Mc­ lntyre will go abroad in a few days to swing the London stockholders into line. "It is our intention," said Mr. Mclntyre, "to fight the great elevators controlled by the Chicago wheat pit. We will build el«Sg vators of our own." WESTERN. George H. Russell of Detroit was elect­ ed president of the American Bankers' Association. After a discussion lasting a week the board of censors of the Topeka, Kan., Federation of Women's Clubs has ex­ cluded the woman's bible from its library on the ground that it is "written in a flip­ pant, coarse and inelegant style." George Englke and Peter Edmiston, who left Riverside, Cal., over a year ago to prospect on the Colorado desert, have not since been heard from. The men went to Santiago, and from there started on their perilous trip. The belief, is gen­ eral that both men have perished. The opinion of grain men throughout the Kansas corn belt has been secured as to the late corn, and all agree that not more than half a crop need be expected. Continued dry and hot weather has de­ stroyed thousands of acres. The corn blades have rolled up under the scorching heat, and the crop in many localities will not make good forage. The safe in the Rosenthal clothing store at Deadwood, S. D., was cracked the oth­ er night and about $220 in cash, between $10,000 and $15,000 in notes and war­ rants, an old watch and other valuable jewelry were taken. The entrance to the room Was effected by cutting a hole through the floor from the basement. A hole was drilled through the combination of the safe, which opened the door. Official returns show that the Choctaw- Chickasaw agreement was ratified by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations at the late election by a large majority. A mem­ ber of the Dawes commission, a represent­ ative from the Interior Department, Agent Wisdom and Gov. McCurtain have met at Atoka to count the votes of the two nations on the agreement. Gov. 'McCurtain was elected by a safe majority oft the agreement issue. George Lerrl, 3% years old, was run over by a Southern Pacific ti-ain on the Narrow Gauge road in Oakland, Cal., and escaped without a scratch. The train was moving down the grade at the rate of thir­ ty miles an hour when the little fellow stumbled. He fell just in front of the pilot of the engine, where the section hands had been excavating. His baby form just filled the excavation and the entire train passed over him. He was unconscious when picked up, but soon re­ covered and is apparently as well as ever. Put-in-Bay Island, a Lake Erie health resort, is in a condition of panic owing to what threatens to be an epidemic of small­ pox. Quarantine has been ordered by the State Board of Health. The big Hotel Victory, where the -pest first appeared, has closed, and guests from many parts of: the country have fled. Dr. Bohlander, local health officer, reports that there art six well-developed cases, all colored wait-, ers at the Victory. These aud three wom­ en servants are quarantined in a building on the hotel premisses. The harbor is left open to trade'. • • At Preston, Minn., M. R. Todd, the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore Courity Bank, has confessed the theft of all the bank's deposit funds to M. T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Grattan told Todd that a lynching was imminent unless he made a full statement. Overcome by fear, he confessed that just prior to-the bank's assignment he had taken all the money on deposit and delivered it to a former part­ ner. Further developments are expected. It develops that Todd is a forger, a spuri­ ous note having turned up in the bank's paper. A note given by the Presbyterian Church, of which To<Td was treasurer, was paid and Todd said he had destroyed it. The note now turns up as collateral in a La Crosse bank. Todd seems to have completely looted the bank and his mother-in-law's large estate. The feeling against him is bitter, almost to the point of violence. With the water high in the hold of his ship and running in through leaks so fast that the steam pumps were unable to take care of it, Captain Hiram Eldridge of the steamer Superior beached the steamer on Gull Island, in Lake Michi­ gan, to prevent her being sunk in deep water. The wreck now lies on the north end of the island and is a total loss. The crew escaped from the doomed boat in the lifeboats and with much difficulty and con­ siderable danger reached Beaver Island. The men were, taken from the island by the steamer City of Charlevoix and taken to Charlevoix, Mich. The Superior, with the schooner Sandusky in tow, both laden with iron ore, left Escanaba bound for Toledo. On going from Green Bay into Lake Michigan, through Poverty Island passage, a furious gale was encountered, which was local to the lower end of Lake Michigan. The Superior was headed into the sea and an effort was made to get un­ der the east shore and thus escape the storm. The steamer and consort had not gained fifteen miles, however, before the Superior began to leak and the rush of water into the hold was too great for the pumps to handle. The towline to the San­ dusky was accordingly cast off and the crew of the schooner made sail on their t>oat down the lake. The steamer was heavily laden and the water in her hold caused her to roll terribly. When off Gull Island Captain Eldridge realized that his ship would soon founder and headed her for the shore. Selecting a somewhat sheltered spot on the north end of the isl­ and, he ran the Superior's bows up on to the beii ch as far as they would go. Cap­ tain and crew remained on their ship for some time, but she pounded heavily on the bottom and began to break up. A railroad train on the Boston and Maine Railroad struck a buekboard at Whiting's crossing at Ware, Mass., and -•, killed five members of a pleasure party. Three others were seriously hurt. A fire at New Kensington, Pa., destroy- ed the opera house, Harmer's block, Ja- ?fi cobin's block and a number of dwellings. Central Hotel was badly damaged, v "< ' '< The ioss is estimated at $50,000, partially ^ ' (nsufed. ^ John Carrigan, about 60 years of age, a cartman living at Buffalo, was mur- * "'f itered by his son Frank, aged 33 years. SOUTHERN. HuntsvUie, Ale,., jumped the track ten miles above Birmingham, Ala.; on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and fivt^qars well filled with troops were piled down an embankment and on the side of the tracks. Two men were killed and about twenty-five others injured. Col. Edward Duffy, commander of the regi­ ment, was on the train with his staff. As soon as possible the wrecked cars were broken into with axes and the injured men and others were assisted out. There is no telling what' caused tbe tender of the engine to leave the track. ' FOREIGN. Malietoa Laoupepa, King of Samba, died of typhoid fever. The imperial ministry of tbe interior at Berlin, by a circular to the different Ger­ man governments,' calls attention to the fact that American wheat flour is fre­ quently mixed with corn and asks that steps be taken to prevent the importation of such flour. The steam whaler. Fridtjof, having on board Walter Well man and members of his expedition to Greenland, has returned to Tromsoe, Norway, after landing an ex­ pedition at Cape Tegathoff, on the south­ ern point of Hall's island. The search for Andree, the balloonist, has proved futile. It is estimated that during his pontifi­ cate Leo XIII. has amassed $20,000,000, including presents of precious stones, gold and silver to the value of $10,000,000., President Kruger of the Transvaal repub­ lic is said to have presented the Pope with the largest diamond in the world. It is valued at $4,000,000. Advices received from the island of Bar- badoes, belonging to Great Britain, report widespread potato riots. Riotous gangs of men have been looting the produce of the plantations during the night. Follow­ ing the recent shooting of the speaker of the house of assembly, these demonstra­ tions are considered to be of a serious na­ ture and more troubles are anticipated. Many outrages have been perpetrated on Mexicans by Guatemalan army offi­ cers. The worst case is that of Trinidad Voga, an honest farmer, who was told by the Guatemalans that they wanted to buy horses, aud he accordingly crossed the line with a large number of horses to meet Gen. B&rrilas, who seized his ani­ mals and had him beaten. This outrage caused much indignation. Other similar actions are reported and are under inves­ tigation and due information will be given the Government of Mexico. The Guate­ malans appear to be actuated by an in­ tense hatred of Mexicans, taking every opportunity to insult and rob the hum­ blest people. The convention which; has been engag­ ed at Managua, Nicaragua, in formulat­ ing a constitution for the United States of Central America, embracing Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, has concluded its work. Commissioners were appointed to convene at Amalpa, Honduras, on tbe 1st of November next. These commis- sioner£%ill supplant the diet of the great­ er republic of Central America, and will assume provisional federal powers. They will make preparations for the election on Dec. 1 of a president, senators, repre­ sentatives and federal judges for terms of four year9 and for the installation in office of those elected on March 1^ 1899. Tbe federal district includes more than 3,000 square miles on the Pacific coast. The constitution has not been submitted to a vote of the'freople. DM OF NEGLECT Returned Heroes Tell Pitiful Stories of Privation. TEN STARVE ON SHIP Hard-Tack and Amy Rations Given Sick Soldiers on Ike Yucatan. • Transport Bring* to Montauk from Cuba -200 Sick Regulars and Evi­ dence of Somebody's Mismanage­ ment--Suffering of the Volunteers Due, to Red Tape--Thouaands 111 at Camp Thomas and Fever la Claim* ins More Victims Daily. IN GferfERAl* In a cyclone at Justin, Texas, the plan­ tation of Parker TerrUl was devasted, dwellings demolished, barns rased, stock sheds wrecked and corn torn froi# the ground. An infant child of one of Mr. Ten-ill's tenants was blown through the boards of a closed door, being the only fatality reported. Privates Hiley and J. F. Kittrick of Company M, First Missouri regiment vol­ unteers. both of St. Louis, who had been in Chattanooga, Tenn., without leave, got on top of a passenger train for Chicka mauga park at 11 o'clock at night. They were struck by a low bridge. Hiley was instantly killed and Kil pat rick is missing. At Nashville, Tenn., fire broke out in the large establishment of the Phillips Biittorff manufactory and spread rapidly, destroying this building and those occu­ pied by A. J. Warren, furniture dealers; Phillips & Stevenson, stoves and tinware, and the Davie Printing Company. The building Occupied by the American Na­ tional Bank w&s considerably damaged by fire and water. The loss is estimated at $500,000. "C While going at a rapid rate the tender of the engine pulling the first of three sec­ tions of a train carrying the 89th New York regiment from Fernandina, Fla., to Sfajtar J. N. Walsh, ex-commissioner of tM1 Yukon district, estimates this saft- sotfs gold outpijt at $11,000,000, while the clean-up for next year will undoubt­ edly aggregate $20,000,000. Bradstreet's sums up the business situ­ ation in this way: "Business conditions in the main reflect the continuance of most of the favorable features hitherto domi­ nating the trade situation in the more favored sections of the country. Promi­ nent in this direction, of conrse, are the iron and steel allied industries, in which active demand, present or prospective, has led to further price advances, sustained and even increased activity in distribution at most Western markets, with some im­ provement likewise noted at the South and on the Pacific coast, steadiness in prices--wheat, corn and cotton, however, excepted--a reduced number of business failures, fair gains in railroad earnings as a whole, and bank clearings, in spite of a slight reduction from last week, showing gains over all corresponding periods in previous years." The ancient bark Guardian lies on the rocks off the head of Tigaldo Island, Alas­ ka, a total wreck. She landed the passen­ gers taken out of Seattle at their destina­ tion, but will never again imperil human life. Aftqr flowing through a bank of solid fog for hundreds of miles through Bering Sea the old bark piled up on the| sharp rocks of the island that guards the Bering Sea entrance to Unimak pass. She was then returning to Seattle. Captain Eagles and the crew took to the lifeboats and pulled twenty-three miles through the fog to Unalaska. No one was lost. The' news of the wreck was brought to Seattle by the steamer L&urada, from Dutch tlar-1, bor and St. Michael. Captain Eagles was on board. The Laurada was black with bewhiskered Klondikers, all of whom had some money, the total amount being esti­ mate*) at $150,000. The Laurada had about 200 passengers, of whom 151 were from Dawson City. There were a num­ ber of gamblers on board. MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c; butter, choice creamery, 17c to 18c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 13c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 45c per bushel. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; Oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.50 to $4.25; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 68c to 70c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 44c to 46c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,-67c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 80c to 82c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 23c; rye, No. 2, 45c to 47c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.25 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, Ne. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 69c to 70c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 30c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 44c; clover seed, $3.35 to $3.40. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring,. 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 44c; barley, No. 2, 40c to 45c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. Buffalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to" $4.50; sheep, fair'to choice weth­ ers, $8.50 to $5.00; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $6.25. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $*.75;' sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 74c to 76c; corn, No. 2, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 80c to 31c; butter, creamery, 15c to 19c; eggs, Western, 16c to 17c. Washington correspondence: Facts of the most sickening1 character continue to flow in upon horrified people in reference to the number and condition of the soldiers in the various camp hos­ pitals throughout the country. It is im­ possible to deal with the subject in detail, so widespread is the evil aud voluminous the story of suffering and horror. It is remarkable that some of the most horrible of these details should come from the camps situated in the heart of the States. From the following table a faint idea may be had Of the extent of sickness and suffering among the soldiers. The tabula­ tion is by no means complete and cannot be made so until compiled from army rec­ ords, but is made up generally from the reports received from the Camp hospitals. Thousands of whom no record now exists, or ever will exist, have gone to their homes on furloughs and are being cared for there. Hundreds of others are arriv­ ing almost hourly in the hospitals and camps of the North from Cuba and South­ ern camps. Following is a partial list: Sick in Various Camps. Santiago 557 Philippines (estimated) .. 500 Porto Rico v.. 328 Boston 416 Massachusetts towns ....... 342 New Hampshire. llhdde Island and Maine towns 231 Camp Wikoff 1,555 Dunn Lorfng camp 318 Fort Meyer Hospital . 339 Washington barracks 203 Camp Meude 205 St. Louis 17<} New York City hospitals 138 Camp Miles, Lexington 279 ChlckaiBuuga 2,500 Jacksonville 100 Fernandina 125 Tampa 00 Camp Alger 100 HuntsviUe 25 Ban Francisco 467 Fort Sheridan 40 Total 9,059 One of the worst pest-holes seems to b^ at Camp Thomas, on the site of the old battlefield of Chickamauga, which was chosen as the site of a camp of instruc­ tion early in the war on account of its supposed sanitary advantages. Here the number of sick, in hospital and outside, is estimated at nearly 2,500, while nearly as many have been sent home to hospitals or their friends. Camp^ Wikoff is filling up daily with accessions from the troops returning from Santiago or Gen. Miles' army in Porto Rico. Loud complaints are made of the need of" nurses and proper food, and yet it is not many weeks since some of the officials of the medical depart­ ment were protesting against the employ­ ment of Red Cross nurses, although they have shown themselves most efficient both at the front among wounded men and in the fever hospitals. The tales of horror which have been re­ lated by soldiers arriving on pest ships in weeks past were repeated Sunday, when the Yucatan got to the pier at Camp Wi­ koff, Montauk Point, and began to dis­ charge the troops who cume from San­ tiago. She had on board six companies of the Seventh regular infantry. - The shocking condition of the men and the ap­ palling scenes through which they passed can be imagined from the fact that seven men were starved to death on the passage, and three mere died while in the harbor before they could be landed, because the ship left Santiago without proper food or supplies for the sick or anything else but the regular army rations, "salt horse, sow belly and shingles," as the soldiers call the corn beef, salted pork and hardtack, which the sick were unable to eat. When the Eighth Ohio landed from the Mohawk Sunday, 300 were reported sick and were carried in ambulances to the hospital, but it was" soon discovered that 170 of them were only suffering for food, and as soon as they had drank a glass of milk or two and had got something whole- Bome in their stomachs they were able to go to their camp. If the vessel had been delayed three or four days more the Eighth Ohio would have lost 100 men from starvation, for many of them had been ill with fever and their stomachs re­ jected the only food that was provided for them. Before Secretary Alger left Camp Wi­ koff he ordered the surgeon general to send immediately twenty-four physicians and eighty more nurses to assist and re­ lieve the devoted women serving as vol­ unteers, who have been working night and day, week after week, until their strength is exhausted. Some of the Red Cross nurses have not had their clothes off for ten days, and there are no accommoda­ tions for them to rest and refresh them­ selves. The regulars who have returned from Santiago are in excellent condition com­ pared with the volunteers. This is jiartic- ularly true of the negro troops. They seem as strong and hearty as they were when they left for Cuba, although they have endured the same hardships ,and have eaten the same rations. This is ac­ counted for by the ability of the negro race to endure hot weather and to resist miasmatic poisons. It is also true and no­ ticeable everywhere that the regular sol­ dier knows how to live in camp and how to take care of himself on the march much better than the volunteer. He is hard­ ened to hardships and exposure. He is accustomed to his rations, while the great majority of the volunteers have been fed aH their lives upon a different diet. The experience of the regular has taught him to take care of his health and to make himself comfortable by little tricks that the volunteer knows nothing about. This difference is very noticeable in making camps. The regulars will march to a va­ cant piece of ground, and have their tents up, their kitchens located, their dinner cooked and stretch themselves out under the canvas to rest before the average vol­ unteer realizes what is necessary to be done. WILL, BE 8ENT TO BARRACKS. Regular Troops to Be Given the Best Possible Accommodations. AU regiments of regular troops whose stations before the war were east of the Mississippi river will be returned to their posts with as little delay as possible. Sec­ retary Alger said that he considered this step desirable in order to preserve the health of the commands, for the troops would be much better situated in perm..' aent harracks than in camps. MEMBERS OF THE PARIS PEACE COMMISSION. UiTlCfc ALOES IS INDIGNANT. Says Conditions of Military CaS&ps Have Been Grossly Misrepresented. Secretary Alger is indignant at the wan­ ton misrepresentations of the conditions at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, and at the indiscriminate charges made against the department by people who take no pains to investigate. To a Washington correspondent he said that the talk of ex- Secretary Sherman is an example of reck­ less assertion without investigation, for Mr. Sherman spent a week at Amagan- sett, only a dozen miles from Montauk, without going near it, but he returns to Washington talking about the horrors of the camps and the necessity for investi­ gation and impeachment. Secretary Al­ ger says that the loss of life in battle and from disease is much less than was esti­ mated by the most conservative authori­ ties, when the army was sent into an ene­ my's country, and to a place about which little was known, except that it was re­ garded as one of the most unhealthy spots in the West Indies. This army was brought home as s6on as it could be= Montauk Point was selected as a deten­ tion camp for recuperation. It could easily be isolated and safely quarantined. Secretary Alger says that the camp, hav­ ing been established for this purpose, will of course be abandoned when all the San­ tiago troops are able to leave and be mus­ tered out of the service. But the report that it will be abandoned because of its unhealthy conditions is false, for the camp is in a very healthy location, and men who come from the transports sick with fever and go into the hospital are dis­ charged in a few days in comparatively good health. All the sickness at Mon­ tauk is brought there from Santiago, and Secretary Alger says it would be as rea­ sonable to call the finest, hospital in the land unhealthy because all its inmates are invalids. • CRITICISED BY 8HERMAN. Former Secretary of State Says In­ vestigation la Needed. The interview with John Sherman, charging neglect and mismanagement up­ on the War Department, created no end of sensation in Washington. To another Interviewer he recited some of the criti­ cisms and spoke with deep feeling of what he termed "monstrous mismanagement." He added:- "The wfyole story is too horrible to talk about, and there can be no possible ex­ cuse offered. I cannot undertake to say what individual authority is responsible, but the facts themselves are monstrous, and whether the fault lies with officers in the field, those in the department or the Secretary of War himself, the responsi­ bility should be fixed and the person re­ sponsible should be severely punished. 'It was known that there was to be a battle; our army was sent there for that purpose, and it was nothing short of crim­ inal to neglect those necessary prepara­ tions for the care of the wounded and sick and to provide for the sustenance of the army. "An investigation should be had at once, and an example should be made of those responsible." BOMBARDED WITH KISSES. Admiral Schley Retreat* Under a Feminine Volley. When Admiral Schley visited the Navy Department the other day he expected to shake hands with his old friends and knew that he would be warmly congratu­ lated. but it is doubtful if he was pre­ pared for anything like the demonstration that took place. Brave Lieut. Pearson Hobson was kissed by a St.. Louis girl at Long Branch, but Schley, the old hero of Santiago, who never lost his nerve when Oervera's men were pouring volley after volley into the fleet, found himsdf cor­ nered--fairly bottled up--In one of the corridors of the department by a regiment of fair women clerks. He withstood the bombardment of kisses for something like five minutes, and now and then found time to shake the hand of an old hero like himself here and there. And then he did something he nev#r did before--retreated under fire. The kisses were too much for him, and he found cover in Captain Crowninshield's office, where he met a number of army and navy officers, who were gathered there to pay their respects. CUBANS WILL DISBAND. Are Becoming Less Hostile to the American Army. Gen. Castillo of the Cuban army, at the invitation of Gen. Lawton, bad an interview with the American commander regarding the disb^ndment of the Cuban forces in the Santiago province. Gen. Castillo expressed the opinion that the disbandment of the Cubans could be ef­ fected without trouble. He said that the hostility of the Cubans growing out of the refusal of the Americans to permit the joint military occupation of the conquered territory, with the Cuban flag floating over, the palace beside the Stars and Stripes, was disappearing, and, under the advice of cool heads, their scheme of mak­ ing an armed demand for their alleged ricbts bad been abandoned. BLAME THE OFFICERS. War Department Chiefs Deny the Charges of Mismanagement. The bureau chiefs of the War Depart­ ment who are charged with incompetence or neglect in failing to provide the army with necessary comforts and proper med­ ical attention are charging that the cru­ sade against them is wholly without foun­ dation, and that the newspapers are en­ gaged in wholesale lying about them and about the condition of the men. They in­ sist that matters are nowhere near aB bad as stated, and that the privations com­ plained of are the unavoidable incidents of every war. Quartermaster General Ludington deposes that the men had all the clothing they wanted and the right kind of clothing and a superabundance of blankets and tents. Commissary General Egan declares that the soldiers had more food than they could possibly use, and that if it was not always available the fault was in every instance due to the failure of the men themselves to take it. He insists that he should not be held ac­ countable for the ignorance of the offi­ cers in not knowing how to get what was coming to them and their men. Surgeon General Sternberg proclaims sturdily that he bought medicines enough for every­ body and that if they did not get where they were needed it was not his fault. Secretary Alger and all his bureau chiefs say that no complaints of inadequate pro­ vision for comfort or health were made officially, and the Secretary adds that he did hot know of existing lamentable con­ ditions until his attention was called to the facts by the newspapers. INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED. Medical Officers at Camp Thomae Ac­ cused of Negligence. An investigation has been ordered of the charges of negligence made against the medical department at Camp Thomas. Orders have been sent to Gen. H. V. Boynton to find out what is the real basis of the many complaints as to conditions at Chickamauga, and who is to blame. If the report of Gen. Boynton fixes the responsibility the party or parties named will be immediately brought to trial by court martial. Surgeon General Sternberg says there has been more sickness at Chickamauga than in any other camp. The investiga­ tion under Gen. Boynton will be far- reaching, as the natural surroundings at Chickamauga were such as is thought to be conducive to health. Notwithstanding the practice during the civil war of keep­ ing men in one camp continuously only for about a week and of putting them to­ gether in numbers not to exceed a division, 40,000 men have been crowded together in Chickamauga for about three months. I The inquiry will proceed upon this ! basis: To discover why a protest from ' Surgeon General Sternberg has not been forthcoming against such an unheard-of disposition of troops for so long a time. The percentage of fever cases will be compared with those of other camps, and > the number of nurses and doctors will be noted, and if not found to be sufficient, such finding will be embodied in the re­ port. Complaints from there have been po clear and pronounced that it is thought the root of the evil may be quickly found. WHO STARVED THE TROOPS? \Concreasman Wants to Know Who Is to Blame. The terrible condition of the sick and wounded soldiers the several camps scattered throughout the country has aroused the greatest indignation among the members of Congress. "I wish Con­ gress were in session, now," said a mem­ ber the other day. "We would soon ap­ point a committee to fix the blame. It is an outrage that soldiers should starve when the people pay millions of dollars to take care of them properly. Army con­ tractors get rich, while soldiers die. We want to know and must know who starv­ ed the soldiers and neglected them when sick." OUR BIGGEST WHEAT YtELIV This Teer'a Crop the Greatest Ceuntry'a History. With the return of our hosts from the field of battle, crowned with the laurel of victory, comes the joyous news that this year's wheat crop will be the largest ever known in this country's history. T yield for the year, on the most trustwor­ thy authority, will be 750,000.000 bush­ els. Of this amount 400,000.000 is winterl wheat and 350,000,000 bushels the spring! crop now being gathered. The 1891 crop,! which amounted to 611,780,000 bushels! and was the largest yield heretofore, is| thus easily eclipsed. These figures mean much to the farm^H and the people generally of this country.! In the first place, the great wheat crop I represents a money value of $500,000,0001 at ruling prices where the wheat is found. [ One-third of tbe wheat crop of the whole world is raised this year in Uncle Sam's domain. The productive country that has grown this wheat extends from ocean to ocean and from the latitude of southern Texas to the Canadian border. Most of the crop comes from the broad prairies of the Mississippi valley, and about 130,- 000,000 bushels of it from the two Da- kotas, whose principal product is wheat. The product in these States is about twice what it was last year, for one reason be­ cause there is an increase of about 20 per cent in acreage. Busy scenes are now being enacted in these new States, where farms are meas­ ured by the thousands of acres, and where wheat raisin# is carried on on a scale known nowhere else in the world. For .mile after mile about the frequent railway stations are vast fields where grain stands three feet high, and at the stations the conspicuous buildings are the large ele­ vators ready to receive the CTop. At many of these railway towns there are enough elevators to supply each half doz­ en inhabitants with one. The Dakota people are learning, and learning much, from Russian farmers who are settling in the States, and who un­ derstand little else than wheat raising. They are learning how to cultivate wheat at less expense than formerly, and how to hold their grain for a paying market. The entire Northwest has fortunately been free from devastating storms during the growing season, and this great factor, added to increased acreage and better farming, has brought a state of affairs which precludes all thought of the "starv­ ing farfners," of whom we heard so mpch a few years ago. These same farmers kre happy now. They are independent, be­ cause prosperous. They are becoming capitalists. They are no longer paying 12 and 20 per cent for money, but are pay­ ing 6 per cent, so as to have money to buy more land on which to raise big wheat crops. PENSION ROLLS INCREASED. Report of the Commissioner for the Last Fiscal Year. The forthcoming annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions will show that G3,G48 original claims for pensions were granted the last fiscal year, and 4,08'J pensioners, who had for various cases been dropped, were restored to the rolls. On June 30 the pension roll contained 976,014 names, while 6,852 original claims which had been granted and 762 restora­ tions were not then entered on the rolls, so there were on that date 985.023 persons entitled to pensions. During the year 33,- 691 names were dropped from the rolls by reason of death and 5,346 for remar­ riage, expiration of minority, and other causes, making the net increase 17,700. The aggregate of pensions paid during the year was $114,651,887, while the ex­ penses of the bureau were $4,613,861. No claim for pensions under the Span­ ish war have yet been granted and no ac­ tion can be taken on those already filed until the records of service' are compiled by the War Department. A new division to be known as thq Spanish-American war division will be established, in which will be handled all the claims arising un­ der the war just passed. No additional legislation will be necessary and the claims will be adjudicated on the same lines as those from the civil war. EOLIPSES THE KLONDIKE. LIPT0N AIDS THE 8OLDIERS. Contributes $10,000 for Relief of Bide and Wounded. Sir Thomas Lipton, challenger for America's cup, and well known philan­ thropist, has contributed $10,000 for re­ lieving the sick and wounded American soldiers. When Sir Thomas was in New York in June he expressed great solici­ tude for the sick American soldiers and sailors in Cuba. At that time he remark­ ed that he would be glad to assist them in any way. The $10,000 demonstrates his feeling toward the Americans. THOUSANDS ARE SICK. Appalling Distress at Guantanamo and Vicinity. Col. Ray telegraphs that the condition of the Spanish prisoners and th& inhabit­ ants of Guantanamo is appalling. Of the 7,000 Spanish troops there 1,062 are sick. Yellow fever, malaria and dysentery are the prevailing diseases. The sickness in Guantanamo is caused by exposure, star­ vation and the unsanitary condition of the place. The death rate is frizhtftU- Enormous Output of Gold from the Black Hill* Region. The output of gold from the Black Hills region for the current year, it is estimat­ ed, will reach the enormous total of $8,- 000,000. The prospects were never as good as at present and the producing mines have never paid a more liberal re­ turn on the capital invested in them. The Homestake, which is the richest of Amer­ ican gold mines, shows total earnings from June, 1897, to June of this year of $2,494,3T4;53, the produet of 548,390 tons of ore. This mine was discovered by the Manuel brothers in 1876 and they had a rich elephant on their hands. The ore was of low grade, with streaks of rich material at intervals, aud they had a mountain of it. They constructed a crude araster on Gold Run and worked the se­ lected high-grade ore successfully. The late ex-Senator George Hearst of Califor­ nia examined it with the practical eye of a miner. He saw a bonanza, asked their price and paid it. The property is really in its infancy, notwithstanding it has been operated for twenty years. On the 800- foot level they have 600 feet of ore in width. None of the stock of the company controlling the mine can be purchased at the present time. News of Minor Note* While attempting to cross Louney creek, near Richmond. Ky., E. W.> Hens- ley, a well-known farmer, was drowned. Ex-President Casimir-Perier of France and his wife are making a cycling tour through the midland counties of England. Many deaths from heat have occurred in Germany, and a number of destructive forest fires have broken out on account of drouth. _ Millions of men in India live, marry and rear apparently healthy children upon an income of 2s 6d a week, and sometimes it falls below that. Canada has collected $250,000 in <Juties during the past year on outfits of Ameri­ can miners passing through Canadian ter­ ritory to the Klondike gold regions. A labour: working on the Guerrero „ Railroad In Mexico dropped a Mghted ci­ garette into a cask of giant powder, kill­ ing three Mexicans and tearing off the leg of a fourth. Mrs. Caroline Taylor, aged 55, was found lying dead in the center of the high­ way between Callao, Mo., and Bevier. The inquest failed to develop the cause ' } of her death. *• The City Council has dispensed T^ith the police force^at Waxahachie, Tex., ow- ing to tin- decision of the State Court of Criminal Appeals that municipalities have no jurisdiction. The Chii-ago Library has received a copy of the Bible p-interl in Zurich in 1552. The volume has 1,500 pages, in heavy old German type, »r.d many quaint woodeut illustrations. .Too WiUght, eoiored, ajred 75. while walkinir along the track i ( the Yazoo aud Mifcsiw-'ij'.pi Valley Railroad at Greenville, Miss., was •tnuk by a train and t »r.bly lnaiiKho. "ymg in^'antly. The Chiiio (<"al.l%u^ai* factory has be­ gun operations with a force of 200 men. The lx>< t s-upi'lv avallab.e wii! UtH'p tiie factory in operation tlirc" months. The crop is'ebtimated at 57,000 tons. j. _ ; -iic.. j'-v . : m, *-V;.