Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-01

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house. Max Cruger, fireman of the works,
| says the explosion was caused by two men
shooting into the building. After the ex-
| plosion the lower timbers of the building |
| took fire and burned fiercely. The ground |
around for half mile was strewn with |
! fragments of the dead, splinters, packing
paper, etc. The violence of the explosion
/ shook houses in Barlow, across the creek |
| from Bay Chester. Many windows in the |
| hotel at Pelham Bridge, over a mile away, |
were shattered. At West Chester the win
dows in many of the houses were broken. |
| The conclusion was felt at New Haven, !
| Port Jefferson, Bridgeport and other places. !
| The people generally thought that Virgins |
| earthquake had come.
Geronimo's Surrender.
WASHINGTON, September 30th.-General |
| Miles annual report, embodying the story |
| of the surrender of Geronimo, has been |
received by the Acting Secretary of War |
| General Miles, it is said, reports that he |
accepted the surrender of the savage chief |
tain agreeing. among the conditions, that |
| he should not be surrendered to the civil |
authorities of Arizona for trial, and that he |
| should be taken away from that vicinity.
MILES DTsoBEYED ORDERS.
This accounts for General Miles failure !
| to obey the instructions of the War Depart I
ment-to confine the hostiles at the nearest
post. The Star says: /" The fact that Cen
eral Miles accepted a conditional surrender
| when the positive instructions of the Gov
ernment were that nothing but capture or
an unconditional surrender should deter
mine the Apache campaign, raises very
| grave questions for the consideration of the |
| President and the Secretary of War. What |
| the result will be can only be conjectured,
but unless there are some very extenuating
| circumstances not apparent on the outside,
| a reprimand is the least that can be ex-
pected. The report shows that the hostiles
never before have been driven to such a
stage of desperation, and that they could
not have stood out against the troops much
| longer but, nevertheless, the War Depart
ment would undoubtedly have preferred
| the Indian war to last another year rather
| than that the hostiles should surrender
upon their own terms"
CROOK MIGHT HAVE DONE THE SAME.
1t is said that General Miles campaign
did not practically differ from that of Cen
eral Crook, and that the latter could have
secured the hostiles last January upon SIM
liar conditions to those accepted by General
Miles, when Geronimo expressed a willing
ness to surrender, but escaped when he
| found that he could secure no assurances
of safety from General Crook. General
| MITES report - very loIP anu interesting
| He devotes the greater portion at it to an
account Of the pursuit of the Indians since
| he took command He shows how his
| campaign differed from that of Crooks.
The latter used friendly Indians to fight
the hostiles. while General Miles pursued
them with United States troops, using only
| q few Indians as trailers.
/ MORE CRITICISM OF MILES.
| WASHINGTON, September 30th = The
| official report of GerOnimo's capture was
received from General Miles to-day, and
there is great doubt whether the BrigadieI'-
General gets as much glory out OF it at the
| War Department as ne has from the coun-
| try at large. General Miles had strict
orders to make Geronimo's surrender un-
conditional. and he had no discretion to
make any terms whatever with him. The
report received to-day confirms the rumor
that he did allow Geronimo conditions,
and very liberal conditions at that.
The War Department people are
not only astonished, but angry at
what they term the assumption
of authority by General Miles, and he will
be called strictly 10 account for the position
he has taken. General Miles action has
| given General Crooks friends an opportu-
nifty to criticise the War Department again
for his removal from the southern COM
mand, and it is stated that he had several
opportunities to secure Geronimo on con-
ditional surrender but, remembering bis
orders from the department, refrained from
accepting the same. If he had cared to
dsobey orders, as Miles has done, Crooks
friends say he could have had the chief of
the Chiracahuas long months ago.
Royal Arch Mason.
WASHINGTON, September 30th.-To-day's
session of the General Chapter, Royal
! Arch Masons, was a long one, and good
| deal of business of private character was
| transacted The Grand Chapter refused to
recognize the Mark Lodge of Canada be-
cause it had invaded the jurisdiction of the
Grand Chapter of Quebec by establishing
Mark Lodges in that jurisdiction. The ap-
plieation of the Royal Arch Masons of
Australia for representation in the General
Grand Chapter was refused, it being de-
! eided that no chapters under the American
system should be established in that juris-
diction. The following officers were elect
! ed Noble D. Larned. of Washington,
General Grand High Priest; David A. Day, !
Of Buffalo, n. Y, Deputy General Grand
| High Priest Joseph II. Ilorner of New
| Orleans, General Grand King; George Nc
i Cahan, OF Baltimore, General Grand Scribe.
The remainder of the officers will be elect
ed tomorrow. The Chapter, in a body,
went to Mount Vernon this afternoon.
Washington Notes.
WASHINGTON, September 3Oth.-The
| President to-day appointed John Mclean,
of California, to be Interpreter to the
| United States Consul General at Kama
gawa, Japan.
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs Folsom have
gone to Buffalo for visit of about ten
| Gays.
The Secretary of the Interior has under
consideration proposition to allow certain
| tribes of Indians in the West the privilege
of utilizing grass upon surplus lands on
their reservations, by allowing them to take
cattle from neighboring cattlemen to pas
| ture, the Indians to herd and care for the
cattle and to receive fair and just COM
| pensation therefor but no white maH will
| be allowed upon the reservation. II is
probable that an order authorizing certain
tribes to enter into contracts with cattle
men, as outlined above, will soon be is
| sued.
The order of the Secretary of the Navy,
changing the Washington Navy Yard into
an ordnance foundry, goes into effect after
| today.
BALTIMORE, September 30th.-The San
has long letter written by Jefferson Davis
| from Beauvoir, Miss, To Colonel J. T.
Schaf, of Baltimore, replying to General
| William Z. Shermans so-caled report to
the War Department, and which the
| United States Senate ordered printed as
Executive Document No. SO. Davis says
"A sense of the great injustice done 10 me,
and to the people | represented, by the
Senate in making the malicious assault of
General Sherman public document, and
giving to his slapder the importance
| which necessarily attaches to an Ex-
ecutiye communication TO the SEN
| ate has recently caused the request
for reply by me to be pressed with very
! great earnestness. For this reason, j have
! decided TO furnish my reply to you for pub
| iication." Mr.. Davis then proceeds at great
| length to dispute and deny the charges
brought against him bJ General sherman.
in which he declares he did all in bis power
TO prevent the war, and did not seek the
post of Chief Executive. lie saws: For
all acts of my public life, as President Of
| the Confederate States, am responsible at
! the bar of history, and must accept her
verdict, which l shall do without the
least apprehension that it will be swayed
| from the truth by the malicious .falsehoods
of General Sherman, even when stamped
as an Executive Document by the United