The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-21
MORE MEN.
.. S. Regulars at Ft. Sheridan,
Chicago, the Next
To Be Ordered to the Atlantic
SeabOard
TO MAN THE DEFENSES
Of New York HarbOr Together
With Troops There.
Spain Actually Gets a War Yes
sci of Italy.
UNCLE SAM TOO LATE.
We Tried to Purchase the Carl
baldi and VareZ.
Of New York HarbOr Together
With Troops There.
Spain Actually Gets a War YES
sci of Italy.
UNCLE SAM TOO LATE.
We Tried to Purchase the Carl
baldi and VareZ.
Great Quantities of Ammuni-
tiOn Reach New York.

Chicago. March 21.-The next detach-
ment of United States troops to be sent
to the front will be started from Fort
Sheridan in very few days.
Fort Sheridan troops are to join the
forces stationed at the New York har-
Dor defenses. At Fort Sheridan voIun-
teers have been asked for the new artil-
lery regiment, and 200 men have volun-
teered. From among them 100 were Sc
lected and they will be sent to Fort
Slocum within a few days. The men
were taken from the different COM
panies at the post and their places will
be filed with new recruits.
London. March 21.-The Daily News
Rome correspondent says that Spain
has bought the cruiser Garibaldi from
Italy. The Argentine representative
has bought the cruiser Varez. The
United States wanted to purchase both
OF these vessels, but was too late.
New York, March 21-A boat load of
powder and supplies which was assert
cd to have come from Fort Schuyler up
the sound has been landed on the shore
at Governors island. Barrels and boxes
and cans, evidently containing verious
KINDS Of explosives, were placed on the
end OF the wharf and carefully covered
with tarpaulins No information was
given as to what is to be done with
them.
Four 1O-inch rifles and two s-inch
rifles which have been tested at the
Sandy Hook proving grounds will be
carried by the schooner Daisy FarIin.
which will sail for Key West sometime
this week.
Worl1men are busy at the pier on
east river preparing to load these guns
ana anchor them to the deck of the
schooner. The larger pieces weigh So
tons each and the smaller ones 16 tons
each and the utmost care will be exer-
clSed IN placing them so that they will
not prove too heavy for the ship should
storm strike it While it is stated
that these guns are to be landed at
Key West for the fOrtifications there it
as believed here that some of them will
nnd their way to Dry TOrtugaS. which
as being fortified for an advanced naval
station Other guns are soon to be sent
south from the Watervleit arsenal and
for the first time the strategetical value
of the we'll known inside water route
will be tested
Risk of trusting guns and ammuni-
ton on the open sea, where they would
De habIe to capture should hOStilitieS
occur, has been recognized by the auth
critics The barge NJ. Moran has al
ready been sent to Troy and will be
loaded with supplies. 1t could carry a
cargo OF two hundred tons through the
canals and shallow straits which
constitute the inside channel from New
Y Ork to Beaufort, N. c. Lieut. Harry
General Merritt has started south for
the purpose Of completing a series of
maps of the Atlantic coast near fortifi-
cations and the surrounding country
He will be gone several weeks T,ieut
Hall is regarded by Gen. Miles as one
OF the most competent map men in the
service. He has already prepared sew
eral series for the war department. all
of which have received the highest
praise The maps he is now working
upon will be used by commanding Off
GERS during times of war. They will go
into the most minute details so far as
small streams, bridges and all means of
transportation are concerned.
Chicago. March 21-Uncle Sam has
only to issue an order to his troops to
cook your food and boil your drinking
water" to render the whole American
army immune from yellow fever ac-
cording to Prof. Edwin Kicks. of Rush
Medical college, an account of whose
discovery of yellow fever germs was
published a fortnight ago
The Spanish soldiers in Cuba among
whom mortality from yellow fever has
been great, have eaten and drunk cook
ed and uncooked food and water indis-
criminately.
Prof Kicks theory is that if the sim
pie precaution of boiling and cooking
mad been followed the army would have
been practically immune from the dis
ease.
In the event of war with Spain. tho
American troops sent to Cuba would b.
forced to depend largely on food canned
IN the United States which would lessen
the danger considerably. 1t is Prof
Kicks belief that if the familiar iniUnc-
tIon OF the Chicago health department
TO Doll the water would complete the
SAFETY Of the troops from the disease
whose raVageS are more to be dreaded
than Spanish bullets.