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EDMOND. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, FRIDAY,"SEPT. *23, 1898.
NO I '2
OUR PEflCEJNSIRUCISONS.
State Department Gives Out a
Statement Concerning Them,
SPAIN MUST TOE THE MARK,
There la to Re No Deviation From or
Modification Whatever of the Demands
Slade by the United States—This Han
Been Fully Decided On.
Washington, Sept. 17.—The stato
departmeet last night gave out the
following statement concerning the
discussion between the members of
the cabinet and the peace commission
yesterday:
"While for obvious reasons it was
determined that the nature of the in-
structions as to the negotiations about
to be entered upou should for the
present be kept secret and made known
only after definite results shall have
been reached, it is possible to stato
authoritatively that the commis-
sion goes to Paris fully prepared to
follow courso of action mapped out for
it as the result of the consultation of
the last two days.
"At the very out sot it will be inado
clear to the Spanish commissioners
that, as in the case of the preliminary
protocol, there can be no deviation
from or modification of the demands
made by the United Ssates.
"The decision arrived at b}' the Pres-
ident after a full consultation with
the members of the commi ssion sub-
sequently received the cordial and
unanimous approval of the cabinet at
a meeting held this afternoon."
There is scarcely any doubt that the
island of Luzon will remain under the
stars and stripes. The United States
will consent to no cession of the other
islands to Spain except upon guaran-
tees fully recoguizing the paramount
interest of this country in the Philip-
pine group. The commissioners will
be instructed that undav the laws of
nations America can demand from
Spain a money ind unity amounting
to hundreds of million* and that will
be made a basis of computation, elim-
inating Cuba, but including Porto Rico
and the Oriental islands. The indem-
nity to be assessed will be both actual
and punitive, and, as Spain is bank-
rupt, it will have to Ik? paid in terri-
tory.
WORST OF THE CENTURY.
Detail* as to the Wott lndle* Hurricane
Confirm the Earlier Report*.
Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 19.—The
hurricane of Sunday was undoubtedly
the worst visitation of the kind ever
experienced by the West Indies during
the century. Details received from
St. Vincent show that an tinparalleled
destruction of life and property has
taken place there. Hut of a popula-
tion of 41,000, 300 were killed and 20,-
000 were injured and rendered home-
less. Besides this, owing to the com-
plete destruction of tho provisions,
they are all starving. The island has
been absolutely gutted by the wind
and floods from the mountains, in ad-
dition to the waves along the coast.
Hpaln Want* Philippines.
London, Sept. 19.—The Daily Mail's
Madrid corespondent says a long con-
ference was held between Senor Sa-
gasta, the premier, and Senor Montero
Rios, the president of the Spanish
peace commission, to-day, which re-
sulted in the decision that the peace
commission shall strenuously defend
the retention of the Philippine islands
by Spain.
Assassinated In lied.
Independence, Kan., Sept. 19.—Wil-
liam Freedman, a bachelor, living
alone eight miles west of Nowata, Ind.
Ter., was assassinated Friday night
while asleep in bed. A man who had
who had been in Freedman's employ
has been arrested on suspicion. A
strong guard of deputy marshals sur-
rounds the jail to prevent lynching.
A Comity Attorney Disbarred.
Salina, Kan., Sept. 19.—The trial
of County Attorney W. A. Norris of
Saline county, charged with malprac-
tice in office, resulted in his disbar-
ment. Mr. Norris is the Populist
county attorney and tho disbarment
proceedings were brought about by
II. N. Gaines, editor of the Salina
Union, a Populist organ.
Soldier* Sent to Hospital.
Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 19.—One
hundred and twenty-eight sick soldiers
arrived here yesterday on a govern-
ment hospital train from Montauk
Point, and were immediately distri-
buted among seven hospitals in this
city.
Austrian Consul Killed.
Fort Wayne. Ind., Sept. 19—Che-
valier M. Proskowitz, acting chief
consul of Austria-Hungary at Chicago,
lost his life in Fort Wayne last night
while en route to New York, by fall-
ing off the train.
Didn't Find the Privateer.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 19.—The rev-
enue cutter Grant, whieh went up into
Alaskan waters in a fruitless search
for a Spanish privateer, has arrived
here from Sitka.
Fraud* <Io*eph'* Thank*.
Vienna, Sept. 19. -A rescript of the
Emperor to Count Von Thunn Hohen-
stein, president of the Austrian coun
cil of ministers, has been published,
expressing in eloquent and pathetic
language the Emperor's thanks for the
expression of national sympathy with
him in his great bereavement.
Another Declination.
Dkdham, Mass., Sept. 19.— General
Stephen N. Weld, who was offered a
position on the war investigating com-
mission by President McKinley, has
decided not to ncccpt it#
A BIG RAILROAD DEAL,
Jim Hill, Armour Others Control
the 11. A O.
Chicago, Supt. 2*.—Philip D. Ar-
mour, Marshall Field and Norman It.
Ream have secured control of the Bal-
timore & Ohio railroad. They have
made James J. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railway, the dominat-
ing factor in the reorganization of the
system, and have gained for Chicago
and the Northwest what is practically
a trunk line from ocean to ocean con-
trolled by Chicago capital.
Mr. Ream engineered the deal by
which his wealth, that of Mr. Hill and
Messrs. Armour and Field gained a
controlling interest in tho Baltimore
& Ohio, which hereafter is to be a Chi-
cago enterprise, fed and sustained in
transcontinental affairs by tho im-
mense mileage of the Great Northern
railway. If any road completes the
gap between the terminus of the Great
Northern railway in St. Paul and the
terminus of the Baltimore & Ohio in
Chicago it will bj the Chicago Great
Western railway, but that is a mattei
for the future.
MISSOURI TRAGEDY,
German Farter Cuts a Robber's Throat
and Is Shot Dead by Another.
Springfield, Mo., Sept. 19.—Two
mask&l robbers went to the home of
Charles Duffncr, a wealthy farmer liv-
ing in Dallas county, twenty miles
north of Springfield, at ft o'clock last
evening and demanded his money. The
farmer and his wife and a grown son
were in the yard when tho robbers
came up to the house.
Mrs. Dutfner tore off the mask of one
of fite men. nnd the robber drew a
pistol ami fired at the woman, the bul-
let grazing the side of her head. Duff-
ner then seized the robber and began
to cut him with a pocket knife. One
slash cut the robber's throat.
Otto Duffncr, the farmer's son, had
hold of the other robber, and was
keeping him from shooting. After
killing one man. the father ran to the
son's assistance, when a third robber
rushed upfront the road, where he had
been concealed, and shot the elder
Duffncr in the back.
The two surviving robbers then fled,
leaving the dead comrade behind in
the yard. The dead robber has not
been identified.
The " Daughter of the Confed-
eracy" Passes Away,
CRITICALLY ILL FOR WEEKS,
Suffered From Malarial Gastritis—Her
Mother Watched I'liremittlngl.v at Her
Side—Horn In 'he Executive Mansion
at Richmond, Va.
Narraoansett Pier, R. I., Sept. 19.
—Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, died at noon yester-
day at the Rockingham hotel, to which
place she came as a guest in the early
part of the Pier's social season. She
had been ill for several weeks, and a
fortnight ago her ailment was diag-
nosed as malarial gastritis.
Mrs. Davis has watched unremitt-
ingly at her daughter's bedside, and
she is now bowed with sorrow. The
DEATH OF CAPTAIN CAPRON.
Ills Sou hilled at SantlidC and He
traeted Dl«eas9 There
Washington, Sept. 19.—Captain Al- i
lyn Capron, First artillery, died at his
home near Fort Myer, Va., yesterday.
Captain Capron was one of the best
known officers in tho regular array.
He had devoted himself particularly
to tho artillery branch of the service,
having been an honor graduate of the
artillery school in 1873, and was re-
garded as an authority on artillery
tactics. When General Shafter's corps
went to Santiago Captain Caprou ac-
companied it, and his battery did
notably fine work in the battle of San-
tiago.
During the first day's light before
the city Captain ('apron's sou. Captain
Allyn K. Capron of the rough riders,
was killed. The death of his son
preyed upon the father's mind, but ho
never swerved for an instant from his
duty during the terrible days that fol-
lowed. Tho seeds of disease were
sown in his system during the Cuban
campaign, and ho returned to his
homo at Fort Meyer, near this city,
only to be stricken down with typhoid
fever.
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC AT DAWSON
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PEACE COMMISSION SAILS.
Member* With Relatives and Clerks
I.eft on (he Campania.
New York, Sept. 19.—The United
States commissioners to conclude the
terms of peace with Spain sailed Satur-
day on board the Cunard line steamer
Campanin, on the way to Paris. The
commission consists of form?r Secre-
tary of Stato William 1!. Day, United
States Senators William P. Frye,
Cushman K. Davis, George Gray and
Whitelaw Reid. Each commissioner
is accompanied upon the trip by his
wife or other members of his family.
In the party also are J. B. Moore, sec-
retary and counsel to the commission
John R. McArthur, assistant secretary,
and wife; Frank Branigan. disbursing
clerk, and Mrs. Branigan; Miss Atkin-
and Miss McNaughton, sten-
ographers, and Edward Savoy and
Henry Freeman, confidential messen-
gers.
Prior to going on lioard the steamer
Judge Day said to a reporter: " We
had a conference with the cabinet be-
fore leaving Washington; at least all
of us except Senator Gray. All under-
stand the wishes of the cabinet with
reference to the terms of the treaty,
and I believe that there will be prac-
tically no change after our conference
with the Spanish commissioners."
"Do you expect much opposition to
the terms from the Spanish commis-
sioners?"
"I think that America's terms will
be regarded as reasonable, and there-
fore I believe the work of the commis-
sioners will not be impeded by useless
discussion."
DR, JOHN HALL IS DEAD.
In a Few Days the Famous Mlnl*ter Had
Intended to Hall From Ireland.
Belfast, Ireland. Sept. 19. — The
Rev. Dr. John Hall of New York died
this morning at Bangor, county Down.
He was planning to sail for America
shortly to take up his work as pastor
of tho Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church of New York.
Fifty-Cent Gas In Trenton.
Tbfnton, N. J., Sept. 17.—Tho Peo-
ple's Gas company of Trenton, last
nighV announced a reduction in the
price of gas to SO cents per J.ooo cubic
feet as the result of a war of prices
between it and the Trenton Gaslight
Company, the old concern.
Partielfs Old Paper Ceases Publication.
Diulin, Sept 17.—I'uited Ireland,
which was established by the late
Charles Stewart Parnell in lshl as the
organ of the land league. ha cca od
publication
A Spanish Ship In New York.
New York, Sept. 19.—The Spanish
steamer Gran Antila, which arrived
this morning from Havana, is the first
Spanish steamer to arrive at this port
since the declaration of war with
Spain, April 21 last. She left Havana
last Saturday evening, September 10,
with eight cabin passengers and a
small cargo.
Tom Reed Will Come We*t.
Washington, Sept. 19—Speaker
Tom Reed is to make a stumping tour
of the West. Ho is to speak in Mis-
souri and Kansas with Webster Davis.
Wellborn Nominated for CongreA«.
Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 19—The
Fifth district Republican C'ongression-
ol convention to-day nominate 1 John
Wellborn of Lexington, Lafayette
county, for Congress.
For More Harraek* at Sau Francisco.
San FhancI'ioo, Sept. 19.— Brigadier
General Miller will urge tho war de-
partment to erect more barracks at the
Presidio. He will try to have the mat-
ter attended to before the rainy season
begins, as it now seems that mauy of
the volunteers will remain at the post
all winter.
The Ilennlngton Ordered to Honolulu,
San Francisco, Sept. 19.—The gtin-
boat Bennington has gone down from
Mare Islnnd under sailing orders foi
Honolulu It is expected that she may
ultimatoly go to Samoa
To 111 I the Army of Deadwood,
Washington, Sept. 17.—It is proba-
ble that the war department will soon
lake steps to retire a number of army
ofiiecrs who have been on sick leave
for a protracted period. There is quite
a long list of such whose places were
tilled by subalterns during the war
with Spain.
Russia Would Horrow lo Oe*manr
-.The Russian rain-
IIIof • || 1 W 'te, has ar-
med hero to cffect n new Russian
loan witk Geruiau cankers.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS.
physicians of Mrs. Davis report that
she is holding up with great calmness
in her affliction, and no fears are at
present entertained of her health
yielding to the strain.
Miss Winnie Davis, the "Daughter
of tho Confederacy," was born in the
Confederate executive mansion at
Richmond, Va., in 18h3. Sho was edu-
cated principally at home, owing to
the troubles surrounding her father,
and the publicity which attended all
movements of the Davis family. Miss
Davis attained her majority at Beau-
voir, Miss. Here she assisted her
mother in various ways and took her
place in the many social functions of
the place.
She w as her father's constant com-
panion. She assisted him in all his
work, and much of the information
which was required by Mr. Davis in
his writings was secured for him by
his daughter. Her strong character
was marked from youth. She was en-
gaged to Mr. Wilkerson of Syracuse,
N. Y., but shortly after her father's
death the engagement was broken off.
While no public explanation of the
rupture was given, it is well known
that it was for the purpose of main-
taining her father's name.
She received the name "Daughter of
the Confederac3-" in 18S0. when her
father mado his famous trip through
the South. Mr. Davis being unable to
appear, Miss Winnie was brought be-
fore the thousands at the different
points along the route and introduced
as the daughter of the Confederacy.
COMMISSION'S WORK ENDED.
Preparations for the Evacuation of Porto
Rico Are Practically Complete.
San Juan, Sept. 19.—The work of
the military commission is practically
over, all arrangements for the evacua-
tion by the Spanish troops and the re-
ceipt of government property having
been determined upon. Admiral Schley
says that if there were transports here
for the embarkation of the troops the
commission could leave for home with-
in a week.
The attitude of the American com-
mission has offended some Porto
Ricans, who think the Americans have
not demanded enough. They have in-
sisted they should claim the sura of
$400,0( 0 alleged to be in the bank here
belonging to the government.
SULTAN HAS YIELDED.
Orders Djevad Pasha, Commander In
Crete, to Comply With Ultimatum.
Candia, Islaud of Crete, Sept. 19.—
The sultan has ordered Djevad Pasha,
the military commander in Crete, to
accede to tho demand of the British
admiral, Gerard Henry Noel, for dis-
armament, thus complying with the
whole ultimatum of the admiral. A
British military detachment to-day
occupied the entrance to the fort and
it is rumored that the Ottoman troops
will be withdrawn and a British force
will occupy the town.
Returning Miners Hring News of Serious
Condition* In llie Cold Fields.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 19. — Two
hundred miners who left Dawson Sep-
tember 1 have arrived, with 8110,000
in gold dust. They report a typhoid
epidemic prevailing because of the un-
sanitary condition of last winter Hun-
dreds arc ill. deaths averaging ten or
twelve daily. There were seventeen
funerals in one day. Tho body of
Captain Edward Harrington was
brought here.
Tho latest gold discovery was made
in a creek just below Dominion by
Frank Slavin's party. For several
years the creek was unsuccessfully
prospected from end to end. Slavin
tapped the benches, finding gold plen-
tiful.
Consul McCook has advised the
Americans at Dawson that he has no
funds with which to furnish them
transportation out of the country.
Many were expecting to get out by
this means. They are advised to go to
St. Michael's in small boats and report
to Colonel Anderson, commanding the
United States troops there. Consul
McCook has arranged for their passage
to Seattle on the gunboat Wheeling
and the revenue cutters of the sound
fleet. He advises oil who have no
prospects for the winter to leave at
onee, before the river shuts «*ff th«
outlet via St. Michael's.
SHE LIKES POKER.
Hignor Peruatl.il Tell* Lillian Russell's
Falling.
New Yohk, Sept. 19.—Taking of tes-
timony in the suit of Signor Perugini
for divorce from his wife. Lillian Rus-
sell, was begun Saturday in Jersey
City. The grounds on which he seeks
to be released from his matrimonial
bonds are desertion and his wife's per-
sistent refusal to live with him. The
plaintiff attributes his domestic
troubles to his wife's uncontrollable
infatuation for draw poker. He says
she preferred playing poker to sleep-
ing or eating.
DREYFUS TO BE TAKEN BACK,
Prisoner of Devil's Island Will Be Re-
turned to Paris.
Paris, Sept. 19.—It is reported that a
vessel has already started for the Isle
du Diable in readiness to bring Drey-
fus to Paris, and M. lirisson and Gen-
eral Chanoinc are determined that no-
body, however high his position, will
be sheltered.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE AGREE.
Differences O-ver the Nile Expedition Set-
tled Amicably.
London, Sept. 19.—From Cairo and
from an entirely independent source,
the Daily Mail learns that France has
assumed a conciliatorj' attitude toward
Great Britain, and has declared that
the expedition of Major Marchand is
quite unofficial. The sirdar will offer
to take Major Marchand to Cairo and
it is probable that the major will ac-
cept and that Fashoda will be occupied
by Egyptian troops.
Crime Traced to America.
London, Sept. 19.—Tho Daily Tel-
egraph's St. Petersburg correspondent
savs he has ascertained that Luchenni,
the assassin of the Austrian empress,
belonged to a gang of anarchists who
went from Europe to the United
States two years ago, and who had for
their object the assassination of
crowned heads. Tho correspondent
says it is also known that the chiefs of
the band are still in New York.
Hutlness Is Good nt Manila.
Manila, Sept. 19.—The general sit-
uation is satisfactory. Sickness is
fast decreasing. The transport Rio
Janeiro will start for San Francisco,
Cal., on September 22, having on
board 150 sick and wounded soldiers,
who have been discharged. Business
is good. Tho customs receipts for the
past twenty-three days have averaged
nearly $23,OjO a day.
It Will Take That Long for the
Spanish to Evacuate Cuba.
100,000 TROOPS TO BE MOVED,
Delay Will He Advantageous to lloth
Countries—It Is Proposed That Troops
Shall Take Arms, Ammunition, Mate-
rial and Equipment With Them.
Havana, Sept. 19.—The official
statement of the number of Spanish
soldiers in the island is said to place
the aggregate at 100,000, and it is un-
derstood that it is proposed that the
men shall carry with them their arms,
ammunition, material and equipments.
It is estimated that the end of Febru-
ary .will have come before the evacua-
tion of the islaud is completed, as the
soldiers must embark in Spanish ves-
sels. It is suggested that this will be
an advantage to both countries, the
United States having an opportunity
to acclimatize its men during the
winter months, as it is proposed that
the American government .shall laud
troops to occupy each post simul-
taneously with its evacuation, not
leaving any post unguarded at any
time.
At the Tacon theater Saturday night
thero was produced a plav based upon
the Dreyfus trial, in which Dreyfus
was portrayed throughout as an inno-
cent victim of conspiracy in the French
army. From the start the sympathy
of the audience for Dreyfus was plainly
manifested. Four Frenchmen, one of
whom is supposed to have been an offi-
cer of the French gunboat Fulton, now
lying in the harbor, occupied a box in
the first tier. All of them carried
boatswains' whistles, and at the first
insinuation against the honesty of the
trial they began to blow the whistles
and to hiss the players. A scene of
indescribable tumult followed, the en-
tire audience m'.ug in defense of
Dreyfus.
The Frenchmen were forcibly eject-
ed and the performance was continued
without further interruption. One of
the Frenchmen, he who was thought
to be an officer of t^ie Fulton, refused
to give his name at tho station house,
to which the party was taken after be-
ing ejected from the theater, and was
locked up over night.
□General Blanco has prohibited the
future production of tho play in Ila
vana.
A difference of opinion between Cu-
bans and Spanish officers in a promi-
nent cafe here resulted in an exchange
of abusive language and a free fight.
Tho disturbance was promptly quelled
by the police and the ringleaders were
arrested. The disorder is said to have
been provoked by tho Cubans.
GIRL CAME BACK.
Found Her Grave Dug and a Coffin Ready
for Her—Mystery Deeper Than F.ver.
Middlehoro, Mass., Sept. 19.—The
supposed victim of the Bridgeport,
Conn., murder. Miss Marian Grace
Perkins, arrived at her home Saturday
afternoon in the best of health, to the
great joy of the family and the un-
bounded astonishment of the entire
community.
Her father was not in town, for at
the time of his daughter's arrival ho
wm on his way back from Bridgeport
with the gruesome remains which he
had identified as those of Grace, and
for which the funeral arrangements,
including the digging of the grave,
had already been completed.
Miss Perkins came from Providence.
R. I., and v/as accompanied by her
lover, Charles Bourne, and at first it
was stated that the couple had been
married. This was afterwards denied
by young Bourne'* uncle.
Peary's Plans Work Well.
New York, Sept. 19.—A letter r«-
ceivcd in this city from Explorer Peary
says that on August 13 he was at Etah,
near the entrance to Smith sound, up
which he probably proceeded soon
after he wrote, if he was to reach his
proposed new camp on tho northwest
roast of Greenland this season. Mr.
Peary wrote that thus far his plans
had prospered.
He Saved Thirty-Nine Lives.
Roston. Sept 19.—William R Daly,
a noted life saver, for many years
champion swimmer and champion
oarsman of the Pacific slope, and in
recent years well known in theatrical
circles, is dead in South Boston. His
death was caused by pneumonia. Dur-
ing his career he saved thirty-nine
lives.
They Put Up Coal Price*.
Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 19.—The
Franklin county graud jury indictcd
every coal merchant iu Frankfort,
charging conspiracy. Tho coal men
combined a few months ago and have
been supplying the trade at prices
agreed upon by the combination.
Four Deaths In Porto Rico.
Whhinoton, Sept. 19.—In dis-
patches to the war department Major
General Brooke reports four deaths
among tho American troops at Ponce,
Porte Rico, from fever.
They Had to Huy Htampi.
Wichita. Kan.. Sept. 17.—Ex Post-
master Roberts of Grcenshurg is uuder
investigation by the federal grand
jury here, etoarged with defrauding
the government. While Roberts was
postmaster, it is charged, he refused
to sell money orders, but made peoplo
buy stamps instead, thus increasing
his cancellation profits.
Public Views the Casket.
VigjiNA, Sept. 17 —The public was
permitted to view the casket contain-
ing the remains of the late Euipress of
Austria yesterday
Will Go With Alger.
Cl?:CUT*ATI, O., Sept. 19.—General
George M. Sternberg, surgeon general
of the United States, and General M.
P. Ludington, quartermaster-general
of the army, arrived here last night
from the East to join Secretary of
War R. A. Algor on his itinerary of
the Southern camps.
Humor Finds Miss Fair a llusbaad.
New York, Sept. 19.—The latest so-
ciety rumor links the names of Willie
K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Miss Virginia
Fair. If their marriage should really
take place, as is now quite generally
predicted, it would mean a singular
combination of millions.
Sickness Is Increasing.
Washington, Sept. 19. —Sicknosi
among the troops of General Lawton'!
command at Santiago is increasing.
Nearly one-sixth of his force is now
on the sick list, although the number
of deaths is not great
To Muster Out Generals.
Washington. Sept. 17.—The war de-
partment will soou take up tho ques-
tion of mustering out a considerable
number of general officers of the vol-
unteer army. including major generals
and brigadiers, now that the volunteer
forces have been reduced so largely.
Soldiers Heady to Mutiny.
Camp Meade. Pa., Sept. 17.—A ma-
jority of the men in camp are become
ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be uiutiuy in aouuftof the
com man da
DEWEY'S N AME TI HEY
SO SAYS JOHN TUHEY. A FIRST
COUSIN.
'rlah In Alt Hut Niimt Spelling Changod
to Make Hound More American—In-
teresting Old Mail Appeals tn the
Police.
(Chicago Letter.)
PPARENTLY the
man who Is respon-
sible for the Phil-
ippine question la
Admiral George
Tuhey. John Tu-
hey says so, and ho
further remarks
that he ought to
know, for the rea-
son that the hero
of Manila Is his
first cousin. Whetther or not John Tu-
hey's story is ttue, It Is good reading,
and the old man is an Interesting char-
acter. He is here In Chicago, stranded,
and has appealed to the police to get
his transportation to Cleveland, where
he says he has two married daughters
in good circumstances. He came hero
to find a son. Jumes, a railroad man.
His search has proved In vain, and
Lieutenant Seery, at the Armory, Is
taking rare of the old man, who is 82
years of ago nnd hale nnd hearty, until
transportation can be obtained for him.
Asked how the admiral came to
change his name from Tuh?y to Dew-
ey. tho old man said:
"All my children call themselves
Dewey and spell their name in the
JOHN TUHEY.
tame way as tho Admiral does. I sup-
pose they want to mnke their names
lound more American. But the Com-
modore never went back on anything
Irish but the spelling of his name. The
Admiral changed the spelling of his
name when he was on the Potomac
during the war. That was after he left
us, but If any one should tell him he
was not of Irish descent, he would
want to cut his throat out of him.
When somebody told him that he was
of Dutch descent and somebody else
told him that he was of Scotch de-
scent, ho answered that if he knew
that there was a bit of Dutch or Scotch
blood in his body he would cut it out
with a knife, for he was Irish all the
*'me. It was six years ago when I last
rick Tuhey, came also his two brothers. I
my uncles, James and Thomas, both of J
whom are now dead. My two broth- ,
era, one six years older than me, and
tho other eight years older, were also
along with us. My father settled In |
Orange county, New York. My uncle j
Thomas, when he was able to do for
himself, went up to Vermont and
commenced farming, obtaining 160
acres of land. He was also a horse
and cow doctor, and a smart man gen-
erally, and made money rapidly. He
was Admiral Dewey's father. He was
married in Vermont about two months
after he settled there, and his son. the
Admiral, was born there. My father
and grandfather helped him to buy the
farm. My brother Thomas made con-
siderable of a fortune. While ho was
In Vermont, Orange county was di-
vided up into three counties, nnd we
moved Ihto one of the new counties,
Dutchess, which was further up the
river thnn where we hnd been living.
"My uncle Thomas did not mnke nil
his money by farming, but In this way:
An old Englishman named Fassett had
considerable property there, through
which the Hudson River railroad
wished to get a right of way. The
Englishman would not glvo tho com-
pany the right of way through his
land, excepting to the width of 150
feet, and so the company, which owned
all tho water front, would not allow
any boats to land anywhere near the
Englisman's Innd. They took nnother
route, and would not nllow any boats
to land at Rheinbeck nnd Hyde Pnrk,
which were about eighteen miles from
the city of Poughkeepsle. Previous to
this dispute, my uncle, the Admiral's
father, had bought two acres of land
In Poughkeepsle for $200. Tho court-
house and jail were afterward built
on the two acres, which my uncle sold
for between $17,000 and $18,000, but
the Dutchman who bought the land
was still shrewder than my uncle, and
got double ns much for tho two acres
as did my uncle.
"The Admiral's fnther flnnlly enme
down to a little town called Wnshing-
ton in Dutches* county, and from there
went to North Haven In Connecticut.
The Admirnl was then at West Point,
having gone there from Dutchess
county, where his father had consid-
erable Influence. I was In the same
county, and had there a nice farm.
This was after I came hack from serv-
ice in the army during the civil war. T
served In tho Sixty-Ninth New York
Infantry. But my health was very
poor, nnd I enme to Chicago and lived
two years In this city, and kept a lit-
tle hotel on Klnzle street, nenr Clark,
known n« the Old Velveteen hotel. I
lost n great denl of money there, as I
could not get any trade. I moved from
hero to Pittsburg, where my wife had
well-to-do brothers living. They
owned distilleries and other property.
From there I moved to Ohio, tnking lit-
tle contracts for railroad nnd other
work, nnd then I went to Omnhn to
live with my daughter and son-in-law,
James Wilson. We lived In Lincoln
county, Nebraska.
"My father and uncles were born In
Clonmel, county Tlppernry, Ireland.
When my other uncles came over from
Ireland William McKlnlev. the father
TALLEST COLOR SERGEANT.
Suburban Train R'lhbed.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept 19 —
Three men held up the Lake Manawa
railway train returning from the lake
to Council Bluffs last evening The
robbers boarded the ear at the lake.
They got less than 8100 from tho con
ductor and passengers.
Soldiers Ready tn Mntlny.
Camp Mkadk, Pa., Sept. 19.—A ma-
jority of the men in camp are becom-
ing more and more restless and unless
the war department acts promptly
there may be mutiny iu some of thf
commands.
UU tears for Train Robbery.
Dallas, Texas, Sept. 19.—Pearoe
Keating aud Jeff Taylor have been
convicted of robbing a Gulf, Colorado
A Santa Fo express train near Cole-
man, Texas, in June last. Each was
given a sentence of ninety-nine years
in the penitentiary. One railroad man
was killed and another wounded in
the robbery.
Suspend Admiral Monlejo.
Madkid. Sept. 10.—The supreme
council of war has decided to suspend
Admiral Monte jo and Major Sostoa,
director of the Cadiz arsenal.
The Seals Are Hrowlng Less.
San Francisco, Kept. 14.—C. n.
Townsend of the United States fihh
commission has just returned from au
inspection tour of the islands. His ob-
servations from year to year conclu-
sively prove that the herd is rapidly
diminishing in numbers, declining
from 10,000 to 18,000 each season lie
says that pelagic sealing is still car-
ried on by schooners owned in British
Columbia to the exel usion of American
vessels This practice will sooucxter*
ornate the herds.
LOUIS O. CHRISTIANSEN.
Chicago has the tallest color sergeant
In Illinois. His name Ib I uls A.
Christiansen and he is G feet 4V4 Inches
In height and weighs 250 pounds. Mr.
Christiansen Is a Norwegian by birth.
He was a classmate of the now cele-
brated explorer Dr. Nansen. and as
schoolboys they shared the same
bench. During Dr. Nansen's short stay
Iu Chicago last winter there was a
cordial meeting and many pleasant
reminiscences of school-boy days
passed between the Justly famous Nan
sen and his old schoolmate. After be-
ing graduated from the high Bchool In
Christiana. Mr. Christiansen entered
the Polytechhic college at Norten. Nor-
way. graduating from that institution
In 1886. Shortly afterward he emi-
grated to this country and found em-
ployment as architect and draughts
saw the Admiral. He was In New
York, but he came to see me, and
stopped with comrades he had had in
the war In Youngstown. Ohio wIlwo
I was for about eight or nine months.
Two of my sonfi. Thomas and Will-
iam. who spell their names Dewey,
are on board of the Admlnl's vessel,
one of them being an engineer They
are 52 and 34 years of age."
The story of the old man's life, as
he tells It, is Interesting
"I cam* from Ireland to this coun-
try when I was about 3 years of agp
With toy father, whose name Pat-
man with various railroad companies.
Mr. Christiansen soon became Im-
pressed with the grand simplicity of a
republican form of government where
all humau beings are free and equal,
as contrasted with the effete mon
archlcal forms of individual power and
glory prevalent in Europe and early
became one of America's adopted sons.
Ah soon ns war was declared with
Spain he enlisted with the Blue and
Gray regiment of Illinois volunteers
and was selected color sergeant, but
moat of the time he Is pructlcally regl-
menlal clerk aud draughtsman and all
of the time the "pet" of the rank and
file. He also claims to have been the
first man who carried the Cuban flag
through the streets of Chicago, early
In March, while the Blue and Gray
regiment was recruiting.
of President McKhiley, came with them
on the same vessel, McKinley coming
from county Antrim, where the Mc-
Kinleys were well to do and lived In
a large stone house McKinJey being a
tax collector. They settled In Colum-
biana county, Ohio, and they and my
uncles would visit one another. They
have told mt that their voyage from
Ireland to America took eighteen weeks
and that they were in a desperate con-
dition when they got here. I knew
William McKinley, now the presided,
when he wag 14 years of age He
studied law with Da- : Wilaco when
he came home from college and acted
as clerk. I1 was a smart young fel-
low. He was born In Niles, Ohio. Hie
father had removed from Columbiana
Ohio, to Niles, where he worked In a
rolling and puddling mill Ills son and
I were great friends. I have seen him
many times since then. When he was
running for governor he asked me II
I would vote for him. I answered:
'No, Major, you know I could not dfl
it. I would do anything else for you,
but no man can make me change mj
politics.' "
AN INDIANA VETERAN.
(Anderson, Ind., Correspondence.)
Rev. Daniel Ryan of Utica, Ind., whe
has just been elccted commander of the
Indiana department, Q. A. R., is one of
the most Interesting characters In In-
diana. He is widely known throughout
the state as one of the pioneer Metho-
dist preachers, and thero is probably
not a family in tho southern part of
Indiann nt least that does not know
him personally. He has a unique birth,
war and G. A. R record. He was born
on the 4th of July in that great war
year of 184G and he entered the civil
war when he was but 15 by managing
to smuggle out with General Fremont.
Ho wns in his flrBt battle in the Shen-
andoah valley when ho wns but 16.
He was Rent back home on account of
his age. but Inter managed to get with
General Shermnn in his Thirteenth
Ohio regiment, nnd ho served In all
of tho enmpaigns of tho south under
him, most of tho time as a bodyguard
DANIEL RYAN.
to the general. He was one of the metf
intrusted with the sad funeral riteB of
Sherman's boy, who was known as lit-
tle "Sergeant Willie." He served four
years and wns mustered out a week
after Ills nineteenth birthday. He then
returned to Indiana nnd began to
preach, and has been at it ever since.
He waB one of the first O. A. R. men in
Indiana and is well known in national
G. A. H. circles ns being an Indiana
delegute to six of the eleven national
encampments. He tells a good story
and Is one of tho few preachers who 18
a "hail fellow well met."
Australian Initiations.
Tho initiation ceremonies of the na
tives of Australia havo in recent yeart
received the attention of u number ol
anthropologists. The latest paper up-
on the subject deals with the initiation
ceremonies of the Arunta tribe, Centra]
Australia, and is by Prof. Baldwin
Spencer and F. J. Glllen ("Proceedings
of the Royal Society of Victoria," vol.
X. Issued May, 1898). It may be re-
called that an account of the Eng-
wurra ceremony, as performed by th«
Arunta tribe, appeared in Nature a
year ago. The Engwurra is not passed
through until probably the native haa
reached the age of at least 25 or even
30, but this final aud impressive cere-
mony is preceded by others, beginning
at about the age of 10 or 12. through
which practically every Australian na-
tive has to pass before he is admitted
to the secrets of the tribe, and regard-
ed as a fully developed member of It
It need hardly be pointed out that au-
thentic records, sueh as are given in
the present paper, of ceremonial ritei
of aboriginal tribes are of increasing
scientific value, even though the sig-
nificance of the rites Is not understood.
—Nature.
Their Aetlon.
Stranger "Have the people of tliii
community done anything for thi
country in the way of sending men tfl
war?" Landlord Pettyvllle Tavern—
"Wa'al, I don't know as we've don«
much for the country,but we have doni
ourselves a great favor We have s«nt
the local brass band to the front."—
New York World.
A Leading Issue.
Cruikshank Many important prob-
lems will be decided by this war." Cur-
tis—"Yea, sir For instance, ran the
American summer girl really get along
without the American man?"—Phila-
delphia North American
The Passing of Baseball.
Foreign Visitor— 1 see it stated that
public interest in baseball is declining.
UMriepn Host (sadly) I fear it is; I
fenr It Is. I haven't seen an umplrs
mobbed this season Now York
Weekly.
The Conqueror*.
The promise to the apostles was not
that they should be couquerors or pos-
sessors of the woiId, but witnesses tc
it for Him who mado it and ruled It.—
Bishop Huntingdon.
GREEN ROOM GOSSIP.
Beerbohm Tree will return to thll
country season after uext, playing in
■ Julius Caesar" and "Bagged Robin."
Sarah Bernhardt will come at the sams
time under the niHUugement of Maurice
Grau.
Materna lias retired permanently
from the stage. The emperor of Aus-
tria recently decorated her with one of
the medals for art and science. She
now possesses these distinction from
four monarcha.
Odell Williams, who went to Londoft
to play hia original part of the drunk-
en sergeant in "Heart of Maryland,"
has returned, and will reappear as ths
stern but kindly old Squire Bartlett in
"Way Down East."
At the end of a stock company's sea-
son at Buffalo the m?rabers mads the
journey back to New York on bicycles,
not because they couldn't pay car fares,
hut for pleasure. They were nearly •
six days en the way
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