The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-10
GROVER SAYS NAY
he DRAWS TIE LINE WHEN he
CONES TO PENSIONS
He Respites . Texas Murderer and Pardons
Missouri Perjurer but in Cases Of viO-
lations of the Pension Laws He will Re-
quire that Very Strong and Unusual
Reasons be Given for Executive Glenn
ency-HollOwhorn Bear Is Merely q
Neutrality-suspicious. in the Navy and
Other Naval Observation-Disclosures News

Kicker-Promotions in the Navy and
Other Naval Washington News
Washington, Sept. 9-The president
has granted respite until Oct. Is. in
the case Of Thomas iWestmoreland,
who was to have been hanged in Texas
on the 18th for murder.
A pardon was granted Charles A.
Chamberlain, sentenced in Missouri TO
two years and fine for perjury.
A pardon was denied in the case of
c. n. Boyer, sentenced in AIissippi to
fifteen months and fine for violating
the pension laws. Speaking Of the
Boyer case, the president says:
Il shall refuse all applications for
pardons in cases involving violations
of the pension laws, except when very
strong and unusual reasons are pre-
sented''
NOT SUCH A BAD INJUN.
The Indian Office has received no in
TINA ton Of trouble at the Rosebud
Sioux agency. Recently the agents
were instructed to reduce the prices
paid for hauling supplies, etc, to fair
price it being held that they were three
times as high as they should be. If the
Indians did not care to do the work at
the lower figure the agents We're in
structed to contract with white men
for 1t. Hollowhorn Bear, who is the
leader of the malcontents, is well known
as an agitator. 1t is said he always
cools down soon and no real trouble is
anticipated.
NAVAL PROMOTIONS.
The president has approved the re-
cord of the naval examining board pro-
noting the following officers to grades
as follows: Rear Admiral, Lester A.
Beardslee; commodore, John I. Howell;
lieutenant commanders. George W. Ty-
Ter, Perry Garst, James X. Cogswell
and John H. Shipley; Iieutenants, John
Hood. Charles c. Marsh, John 3. Bliss.
and Charles W. Jungen; lieutenants
junior grade, Guy w. Brown, Marbury
Johnson, Harry T. Field, Albert NJ.
Beeche, Frank X. Hill and Roger Wells
Jr.; medical directors, Thomas c. Wal
ton, George H. Cook and George II.
Woods; passed assistant surgeon, L. L.
Young; passed assistant paymaSter,
Samuel MCGOWAN; pay inspector, H.
T. Wright; passed assistant engineer,
W. P. Winchell.
Chief Engineer Herchelmain and
Mate Samuel Gee have been retired on
disability incurred in the service. AS
the result of the above promotions.
and others that are expected 10 receive
the presidents approval in a day or
two, the stagnation in the naval per-
sonnet will be greatly relieved.
DAMAGE TO THE TEXAS.
The naval department has received
from Captain Glass of the bat
tleship Texas regarding the accident
sustained by that vessel during the
trial of her engines on Saturday. He
says the board of survey condemned
the chief engineer of the Texas and
asks for the detail of another chief engi
neer to succeed him. The dispatch re-
ports that the repairs will be complet-
ed in time to resume her trip, and adds
in explanation of the accident: 1.-THE
vacuum in the condenser fell to twenty
inches. This was caused by the ship
passing through shoal water from
Norfolk through the channel to Hamp-
ton Roads by which her condenser was
filed with mud. This vitiated the vac
UNI and resulted in a corresponding loss
Of her horse power, which the con-
structors very properly will not allow.
This will be rectified by taking off the
bonnets and washing out the condenser
Will llS lire nose. IneIe Is
serious in this. The fire rooms are hot,
the blowers not yet working properly
and the engines require tuning up be-
fore going into full power trial.
Mr.. Cramp, the builder of the Indi-
ana. in reply to Secretary Herbert's in
vitation to dock that battleship in the
new Port Royal, S. c., dock has asked
that he be furnished plans of the dock,
giving length, breadth and depth. This
has been sent TO him show
ing that the dock is quite large enough
to receive the Indiana If she can cross
the bar in the harbor. It has been
proposed to send the sip to Halifax
WASHINGTON MISCELLANY.
Washington, Sept. 9.-Benjamin F.
Myers, 20 years old, was almost instant
y killed today in bail game. He was
sliding to second base in an amateur
match when the baseman jumped into
The air to catch a thrown ball. He
dropped on Myers, his body falling on
he young mans neck and dislocating
MS spine.
Washington, Sept. e-The comptroll
r OF the currency has declared divi-
lends in favor Of the creditors of in
solvent national banks as follows: Fiji |
teen per cent. the National Bank of |
Kansas City, Mo. and 10 per cent. the |
Linn county National bank of Albany,
Ore.
A HOUSEHOLD TREASURE.