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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-02
TEE rRoUBLE1NDR. HALL,s CHURCH
Election of nm A.pI.tant Pastor Advised.

EtoctiOn Oh IN hnhintnht fnhtof AuVihou.
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: To mem.
bers OF DR.. John Halls congregation. and to
all familiar with the discord existing therein.
1t is evident that the end is not yet; and. in the
interest Of harmony, 1 suggest the selection Of
DR.. Schauffier as assistant pastor. This would
meet tho approval of tho entire congregation.
greatly please DR.. Hall. and bring order out
of chaos" EDWARD X. TOMBSTONE.
ia WEST FoRTy-FIRsT STREET Jan. 81.
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Kansas Farmers Abandon the Fine.
RON The Stores and Hard,care R.port.r

From the Stores and Hardware Reporter.
In accounting for the reasons for the failure
OF the Cob Pipe Manufacturing Company at
Quenemo; Usage county. Kan. the explanation
mand Is that farmers are In such good condition
financially that they have discarded their ayor.
lite cob pipes, and are now smoking cigars. This
is had for the cob pipe company. but Il is TO be
hoped that they can console themselves for their
loss by contemplating the improved condition of
ers from cob pipes to cigars Indicates that the
farmers have money TO spend. and arc prepared
to part with 1t TO crafty their desires.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-02
How CranLs E.llven he Alaska yylutsr.
From tho Alaska Nine

Another crank proposes to bring u lot OF camels
from vladiyostok and ship them to Alaska by way OF
Japan. He expects to use them to take supplies into
the Yukon country. II he cannot buy camels his
next choice Ia dogs. and reindeer come last. He
might as we'll take geese or lions for any chance he
has OF getting such creatures into the interior.
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Gus wretch who monopoliscs or attempts TO
monopoliEe and 90 on. Mr.. GREENE says in his
autobiography already quoted that he "came
within two votes Of being elected to all the posi-
ton which Senator w. v. ALLEN now occupies"
1t 10 clear that the Hon. WIND ALLEN and tho
Hon. BUFFALO GREENE are worthy rivals and
twin Statesmen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-02

From the Pittsbur0 Dispatch.
II is beyond dispute that owners of the professional
clubs have tho power to completely abolish the fea.
lures that have ~dlsgraced the game OF late. Let them
enforce the rule that a player who resorts to disput.
ing or smuggling will be ruled OF every league ground
in the country. and the trouble win be stopped by
the double process OF eliminating the i~rreclAimable
and instructing those capable OF learning It in tho
necessity OF decent behavior.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-02
a Naval Family.

From the Baltimore Sun
WARRINGTON, Jan. 8O.-Thomas L. selfrldgo OF Cali
forniA has been iDdorSed by his greatgrandfather.
Rear-Admirai selfridge. and by LieutenAnt-Com
msndsr seifridge for appointment by tho President
TO the Naval Academy. Should he DO appointed there
will be on the naval rolls four OF this family.
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" our friends vho favor us ,Cfth manuscripts for
solicitation ,cfsh TO haze rejected articles rsfurHsd'
tier must IN all cases send stampsJ for that purpose.
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From fAs Baltimore SSR.
whale in the Chesapeake In the winter season u
an iRnotSsiOn-
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
AN AUDACIOUS GERMAN.
Took Charge of q Chinese Court an
Acquitted the Prisoners,

Took Charge of a Chinese Court and
Acquitted the Prisoners.
Berlin, Aug. 2O.-Herr Eugene Wolff
the well known German explorer, who
has just returned from China, where
he acted as correspondent of The
Tageblatt, is being prosecuted upon 9
charge of having, without authority,
assumed the role of judge and with
having liberated 10 Chinese murderers
of German missionaries.
According to the evidence of Bishop
Amer, on which the prosecution Ii
based. Herr Wolff, having heard of the
trial appeared in court with dog
named Schuster. Four vacant chairs
stood in the hall in which the trial was
to be held. Wolff seated himself in the
most imposing of these, saying, 'Tll
take the highest, and you, Herr Schus-
ter addressing the dog), will take the
second highest at my right He then
ordered the clerk Of the court into the
next chair on his right, and lastly, with
a gesture. bade the wondering man
DARN to take the fourth and lowest
chair.
The mandarin questioned VOLTS
authority, Whereupon the latter drew
a roll of papers from his pocket and
flourished it as his authority, and the
prisoners being introduced and declar-
ing their innocence, Herr Wolff SOL
emnly acquitted them and declared the
proceedings ended. He then saddled
bis horse and departed.
The story caused the utmost aston
ishment. Bishop Amer was in Ger
many at the time of the alleged oc-
currence consulting the government in
regard to the murders, which ulti-
mately lead to the occupation of Kiaou-
Chou, and only learned of what had
happened on returning to China.
1t appears that Herr Wolff often
posed in China as a German envoy.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
At CAMP THOMAS.
The Work Of Preparing the First Corps
For Removal Has Assumed
Definite Shape.

Chickamauga Park. Ca, Aug. 90
The work of preparing the Second and
Third divisions of the First corps for
their removal from Camp Thomas to
Knoxville and Lexington, respectively,
assumed definite shape yesterday.
Orders were sent to the various regi-
ments directing that they Immediately
get the sick in their hospitals ready
to be taken to the Sternberg reserve
hospital The work of removing was
begun yesterday afternoon. Numerous
furl,ughs have been granted for con-
valcscents, and the divisions going
away will today be without sick men.
The Philadelphia hospital train, sent
to Camp Thomas by the city council,
reached the park yesterday and left
in the evening, bearing away about
hundred sick soldiers from the three
Pennsylvania regiments.
The First Vermont regiment left yes
terday for Vermont in six sections OF
ten cars each. The Fifty-second Iowa
was yesterday afternoon ordered to
Des Moines, and will leave not later
than the first of next week, The First
Illinois cavalry yesterday received
orders to proceed to Springfield at as
early a period as possible. They will
get away next week
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
AT CAMP W|kOFF.
landing the Heroes of Santiago on Long
Island-No Yellow Fever Patients
Among the TrOops

New York, Aug. 2O.-General joseph
Wheeler Yesterday formally assumed
command of Camp Wikoff. at Montauk
Point. The health inspectOr of the
camp boarded Yesterday the TRANSPORTS
Mobile and Comanche, which arrived
In Fort Pond bay Thursday night, The
Mobile has on hoard the detachment of
the Second regiment volunteers of
Massachusetts and the Twenty-second
regiment of The regular army. These
men were landed and sent to the de-
tention camn
The Mobile brought 1.6OO troops In
an of whom 400 are renorted on the
e,cl LIST Ten DEATHS occurred on the
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
EvACUATlNG SANTIAGO.
The Transportation Of Our Own Troops
and Spanish Prisoners Is
Being Hurried.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 20.-A por-
ton of the First regiment of infantry
left yesterday morning on the steamer
d. H. Miller. Yesterday afternoon 500
of the District of Columbia troops
sailed on the TRANSPORT Hudson; 500
of the Seventh infantry on the Yucatan
and six companies of the Thirty-fourth
Michigan on the transport Santiago.
Owing to the increase In sickness
there is much need Of hospital ships.
The number of those sick is large and
there are not sufficient accommodations
for them.
The embarkatiOn of the Spanish
troops continues. One thousand left on
the Vile de Verde last night. Next
week smaller transports will take the
S;paniards at Guantanamo Bay
The bodies of Major Gray and Major
O'Connell and Privates Carey and Jane,
of the Ninth Massachusetts,, are on
board the transport Santiago in charge
of brother of Congressman john T.
Fitzgerald
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
THE 0LWETTE ARRIVES.
Stops at Fort Monroe En- Routcto Montaul
Point With Two Hundred Sick
Soldiers From Santiaqo.

Newport News, Va, Aug. 20.-The
hospital ship Oivette, from Santiago,
with 200 sick soldiers on board, arrived
In Hampton Roads at o'clock ycster-
day afternoon.
DR.. Pettus, surgeon in charge of the
Marine hospital service at Fort Mon
roe Immediately boarded her and pro-
ceedcd to ascertain the condition of the
sick. The examination made by the
doctor was satisfactory, for when he
came ashore he spoke in high praise of
the ship and her officers. The vessel
was in excellent condition in every de-
partment, he said. She is in charge Of
Major A. H. Appel, surgeon U. S. A.
II was not expected that the Olivctte
would put any Of her sick ashore at
Old Point. She had orders before leav-
ing Santiago to call at Fort Monroe
for orders. Fever and dysentery are
the prevailing ailments on board and
on the voyage up the coast five men
died and We're buried at sea- Major
Appel was very anxious to bring north
for interment the body Of Major Con-
rad. who expired shortly after the ship
sailed, but he found it impossible to do
90. and the remains were deposited
with military honors in the sea-
The Olvette sailed for New York last
night at 8 o'clock. The patients on the
vessel will be landed at Montauk
Point.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
0BTUSD SAGASTA.
The Present State Of Things Is
.s Neither Peace Nor War;"
70 SOLVE COMPLEX QUESTIONS.

While the Premier Is Endeav oring to
Hoodwink the Spanish Public, the
Government Declines Informatlon
Regarding Augustus Flight.
Madrid. Aug. 2o.-El Liberal pub
fishes remarks made by Senior Sagasta
on the diplomatic and political situa-
tion, quoting the premier as follows:
From legal point Of view the pres
ent state of things is neither peace nor
war, but merely suspension of hostil-
tiles. An armistice would have allowed
us to dispel better the obscurity of the
situation. but the United States de-
further in advance.
"The questions to be solved are nu-
merous and complex. What we have
done first Is to lay down certain bas
on which each minister may make any
observation which study of the subject
suggests. These will continue to be
treated In daily cabinet councils, 1t
being held that the bases in question
are the fundamental Instructions for
the guidance of the various commits
sions in the forthcoming negotiations,
to be supplemented and rectified sub
sequently by telegraph.
I'm Cuba, besides evacuation, there
are many other problems. Spain may
abandon her sovereignty over the
greater Antilles. but there will remain
the question of edif1ces and all our
properties There are lawsuits before
the tribunals affecting the interests Of
the Spaniards Where and when will
these be decided? In Havana, where
large number Of criminals have been
condemned by Spanish tribunals, what
is to be done with them? Then there
are other questions for which we have
to fix a basis of discussion and agree
ment, regarding the Philippines. Be-
sides these and other problems OF
greater Importance there is a prelim-
mary question to be discussed.
According to International law a
suspension of hostilities has been sign
ed and the surrender of Manila ought
to have no legal efficacy. How will tha.
principle be understood by the United
States? This causes us much anxiety,
ana we give IL STeut attention., bul we
are still awaiting the information de-
manded from General Jaudenes, which
has not reached us, on account of the
difficulties of communication between
Manila and Hong Kong"
These remarks have all the appear
ance of being authentic, as they are In
accord with information from other
sources and in harmony with Senor Sa-
gasta's usual style.
The public Is still anxious for an ex-
PLANTATION of Governor General Augus-
It's mysterious departure from Manila.
but its curiosity Is not likely to be sat-
isfied for some time. the government
declining to say anything.
1t is rumored that the government
will instruct the Cuban commissioners
to present strong case for the recog-
milton of Spain's claim for cOmpensa-
tion for the cession of public works
in Cuba, the compensation to take the
form of saddling upon Cuba the bulk
of the Cuban debt existing in 1895.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
HOBSON AT ANNAPOLIS.
Tho Brave Lieutenant May Return to
the Naval Academy.

Annapolis, Aug. 2O.-Lieutenant Rich
mond p, Hobson came quietly into
Annapolis yesterday from Washington,
and was driven Immediately to the
naval academy. Few knew him, but
they were enough to have it known he
was here, and that drew number Of
people to see him take a train for
Washington.
As the lieutenant drove along the
drive fronting Blake row he saw Ad-
miral McNair, superintendent of the
naval academy. and alghted from his
carriage, and the two had prolonged
conversation Lieutenant Hobson then
went to his quarters in the bachelors
quarters" and returned and had sec
ond interview with Admiral McNair. 1t
Is thought that the visit was in rela-
tion to Lieutenant Hobson returning in
October to assume the duties of head
of the department of naval construc-
tion, which was inaugurated last Octo-
Der, under a curriculum advised by
Lieutenant Hobson, and of which de-
rartment he was put in charge.
He was accOsted at the depot as he
got on his train by lady, who asked
him to pose for snap shot from the
kodak. The lieutenant hesitated for
some time, and then as the train moved
out his gallantry and courtesy prevail
ed, and he put his head out of the
window and was once more photo
graphed.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
A DEADLY CLOUDBURSr.
It Caused a Flood Which Swept siI
Children to Death.

Children to Death.
Plttsburg. Aug. 2O-A cloudburst np
sawmill Run yesterday caused flood
in that stream and endangered the
lives of a dozen persons. Six children
were drowned. and the mother Of the
first two is dying from shock. The
dead children are Irene Lotus. Regis
LOTUS. Gcnevive Shaughnessy Marga-
ret Shaughnessy, Nellie Sauls and An
ME Holzapfel.
The water in tho run began TO rise
early in the morning, and at o'clock
q great volume of water came down.
The drowned children, together with
some older persons, were standing on
a porch of the brick tenement house
on Violet alley. in the rear of Main
overhung the run. When the great
wave. 20 feet high. came down the
porch was carried away and the peo-
pie went with it.
Mrs. John Lotus, mother Of the two
children first named, and two men
were the adults In danger. The woman
made feroic effort to save her chill
dren, but to no purpose.
Near the mouth of the run the sand
dredge Plttsburg was moored, and
when the men in 1t saw the wreckage
coming down the stream and the peo-
pie struggling for life they stopped all
else and went to the rescue. The men
and the woman were carried out into
the Ohio river, but were saved by the
sand diggers.
The woman excited the admiration Of
all who saw the catastrophe. She was
almost overwhelmed number of times.
hut each time fought off the debris and
came to the surface. She Is. however,
dying from the shock caused by tho
loss of her two children.
There was heavy downpour Of rain
throughout western Pennsylvania from
midnight until 8 o'clock in the morning,
and considerable damage was done by
washouts and the overflowing of small
streams, but as far as known there
were no other casualties.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
Disappointed Office Seekers.

Washington. Aug. 20.-The postoff1ce
department Is experiencing much
trouble from the numerous applications
being received from persons in all parts
of the country for appointments in the
mail service of our new possessions
and for positions as postmasters and to
fill other places in Cuba. Porto Rico
and the Philippines. The department
cannot make any such appointments,
and the thousand or more applications
received will not benefit the senders in
any way. Every one chosen for such
employment has been and will be taken
from the force already In the service Of
the government.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20

fos+;,;,,os Motob,v 4. tb,s ~. o.o .,
.he ordnsnce ouarterma ster's and an
y,neer h,re,na where the need for the
snrnl,.y rso,,Irod and Tho man ann
,,,ovad ror The ex,geno,e. ~ var m
innaar av,st 7, tho ordranco hursou
tho forca ot tho xo r,,,, ar.ono,. "a n
ba roduoad in oil cuse. whore th,s con
ha accomp,,sbed without datr,ment IN
+ho sorv,co Tho pocL Island or.anol
nroh,h1,, will, bo .facted mora than
anv o,her Tbare hegore tho wor about
oao mon warn emn,oved Whom tho
no,co nrotocoI yos .irned thera varo
annroxjnatelv a 600 men engaged and
ordars have hean ,ssued which vii, re-
d,,ca tbia number hv two-tbirds Re-
fore and during the war large numhers
,f contracts were made with ordnance
firms for sunnlvInr material Tn many
casos those were made conditional so
tbat thnv could he terminated within
n fpw davs .ftar tho cessation NJ hos
ti,i,ies and tho denartment has in
evorv c,so ova;1ad ,tse,f of this nr;v-
s,odee
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
Mcpartlapd Defeats zeip)er,

New York, Aug. 2O.-"Kid" McPart-
land, of this city, and Owen Zeigler. of
Philadelphia. fought 25 rounds last
night before the Atlantic club. and
Charley White, the referee, decided in
favor of Mcfarland, who. with the ex-
ception of the last two rounds, had the
better of hte bout. Mcfarland sur
prised many of those who witnessed
the fight by using his right hand eff
fectively, while his left was continu-
ally playing havoc with Ziegler's face.
Zegler fought desperately in the last
two rounds and had the better of the
New Yorker in the work accomplished,
but this was not enough to counter
balance the lead which the kid" had
gained previously.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
DOTS.

Any one Wishing to take house and al
low the owner to board the rent out, should
address ~ this Office.
A challenge to wre stle any man In the
state Weighing 1928 pounds, has been Issued
by Thomas Leo nard, an employe of the
Diamond State Brewery.
Sheri # Finn and his deputies will dis
tribute the ballot be xes Is among the var
ious polling places next week.
:. The Roofers Association Committees met
last night and reported progress.
Girls are wanted at tho Georgetown Hos
iery factory, Thirteenth and Lombard
streets.
]. Frank Biggs, representing the Hanna
Whltefeld estate, yesterday afternoon sold
tho store property at the northeast corner
of Third and Poplar streets. to William
Turner for 81, 400. =.
Agnes Heaphy has been held In $500 bail
to keep the peace.
Officer Theodore Sarkosky has resigned
to take control:of q Front street saloon.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
OUR STRICKEN HEROES.
Bringing Home Sick and Wounded
b. Soldiers From Porto Rico.
PENNsYLVANIANs AMONG THEM.

Tho Hospital Ship Relief Arrives in
/ New York IInbor with Over Two
+ Hundred suffering Warriors, Who
: WIN BE Taken to New York Hospitals
New York. Aug. 20-The United
States hospital ship Relief, from Porto
Rico with sick and wounded soldiers,
arrived at quarantine yesterday. The
Relief ls.t Ponce ON the 14th and Maya
guez oH the 18th inst. She carried 2is
sick and wounded soldiers from Cen
eral Miles army. Ten deaths from
typhoid fever occurred on the voyage.
Nine of the victims were buried at sea.
The body of Major Lawrence Smith, Of
Philadelphia, surgeon United States
volunteers. who died at sea Aug. Is,
was enclosed in Il metallic coffin and
brought here. -Four deaths from ty-
phoid fever occurred on the Relief
while she was lying in Ponce harbor.
The bodies of these four were taken
ashore and buried. They were Philip
Koph. corporal. Sixteenth Pennsylva-
mia; Marion Sullivan. private, Troop A,
Fifth United States cavalry; Theodore
Bronson, private, Company A. Second
Wisconsin, and Charles A. Currier, pri-
vate. United States hospital corps.
Among those buried at sea was John l..
Barney. private, Company A, Sixteenth
Pennsylvania.
The total number of cases of typhoid
fever on the Relief including those who
have died. was 167, and the number
aboard of her when she arrived yester-
day was 1853. The Relief also brought
70 wounded men, including three Of
6cers, the most of whom were shot in
the battle near Mayaguez on Aug. 10.
Among those suffering from various
kinds of fever are the following from
the Fourth Pennsylvania volunteers:
Major Morris F. Cawley, surgeon; Pri-
Yates Walter f. Wise. Louis Arm
strong. William r. Shell and William
+. Chesterfield. The Sixteenth Penn
sylvania Is represented by the follow
ing stricken ones: Prvates Henry Il.
Rice, Talbot r. Dale, John McKeon,
William D. Grant, Crawford Burton,
Oleid Frank, Theo Fl. Lubald, Arthur
W. Bartholomus and George NJ. Whit
lock; Sergeant Reuben Bulmen. City
Troop, Philadelphia, Benjamin II.
Brook.
All the patients will be transferred
20 New York and Brooklyn hospitals as.
soon as arrangements can be made to
receive them.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
POpulists VIII Not Fuse.

Houston, Texas Aug. 20.-In q
speech at the big Populist encampment
at Greenville yesterday Senator Marion
Butler, of Norht Carolina, national
chairman Of the Populist party, sur
rendered to the middle -of-the readers,
or anti -fusionsts. He declared that as
national chairman he would promise
that there would be no trades or COM
bines with either of the old parties be-
fore the next national convention; that
he would call that convention at least
a month before the Democratic or Re-
publican conventions convened, and
thus prevent any opportunity Of fusion.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20
Disorderly Negro Soldier Killed.

Macon, Ga, Aug. 2O.-Jim Neely. a
negro private in the Twenty fifth in
fantry, was shot and killed at Hamp-
ton, Ga, Thursday night. He was re-
fused permission to drink at a soda
fountain, and became abusive. When
demonstrated with for swearing in tho
presence Of ladies he assaulted Mr.. viii
Henderson whit his dagger bayonet.
Henderson drew pistol, but 1t was
knocked from his hand and secured by
the negro, who began shooting. A
number of citizens Joined in the fusil-
lade, and Nicely received wounds from
which he died.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-20

Washington, Aug. 20.-Some of the
regiments are canvassng among them
selves the question whether or not
they care to be mustered out now or
wait until later The First New Jer-
sey is strongly opposed to remaining
any longer, 500 men voting their pref
erence to go home and 800 to go to Gu
ba. A majority of the Seventh Ohio
have voted that they preferred to re-
main in the service. while the Eighth
PENNSYLVANIA entertains quite differ
ent sentiments.