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The SOIace.

The first general order ever issued by
any government for an ambulance shin
was promulgated from the Navy Depart-
ment yesterday. 1t reads:
The Solace. having been fitted and
equipped by the department as an ambu-
lance ship for the naval service under
the terms of the Geneva Convention. is
about to be assigned TO service. The
Geneva Cross flag will he carried at the
fore whenever the national flag is shown.
The neutrality of the vessel will under
no circumstances be changed, nor will
any changes be made in her equipment
without the authority of the Secretary
of the Navy. No guns, ammunition nor
articles contraband of war; except coal
or stores necessary for the movement of
the vessel, shah be placed on board: nor
shall the vessel be used as transport for
carrying of dispatches or officers or men
not sick or disabled. other than those
belonging to the medical department.
Information as to the special work for
which the Solace is intended will be COM
municated to the commander-in-chief of
the squadron by the department.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
WEST POINTERS INDIGNANT.
Feel That Civil Appointees Hav,
Reen Given Undue Prominence.

Dissatisfaction to no small degree pre-
walls al the present moment throughout
the ranks of the West Pointers on the
Army roster. II is an open secret and
open talk that in the appointment of off.
GERS ordered to the front, those in COM
mand of regiments and TO all prominent
places. the West Pointers have been
completely set aside. Every officer of the
Army now in prominence is an appoint
ment from civil life.
In confederation of this fact the fol-
lowing list is given. Gen. Nelson A
Miles, commander-in-chief of the Army.
is civil appointment: Col. Humphrey,
quartermaster general, Is a civil appoint
ment; Inspector General Breckenridge,
Adjutant General Corbin. Adjutant Gen.
eral Sanger, are all civil appointments.
Major Generals Shafter. Otis, Wade and
Merriam are civil appointments.
As an offset TO this will be borne in
mind that at the close OF the rebellion
every officer Of prominence was a West
Pointer; witness the roll call of Grant
Sherman, Sheridan. Meade Thomas,
Ayres and along list of names familiar
to the American people.
On the Confederate side were Gen. Jo-
seph Z. Johnston, Gen. Robert Z. Lee,
Gen. Wheeler, Gen. Jackson and Gen.
Longstreet, all West Pointers.
Another cause of comment is the treat
ment of Gen. Merritt, whose unpopulari-
ty with the present Administration is
well known TO be due TO the fact that
during the war of the rebellion he was
the man TO approve the findings of the
court-martial against Hon. Russell A
Alger now Secretary of War.
Gen. Merritt is the ranking cavalry Of
ficer and TO him should have been given
the command at Chickamauga. Instead
OF this Gen. Brooke is the man-Gen
Brooke, of the infantry-while to Gen.
Shafter. another civil appointment. has
been given command of the Army of in
vasion in Cuba.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
Lack OF Equipment.

State authorities are protesting 20 the
War Department against the lack of camp
equipage and equipment While contracts
for over $5.OO0.OOO worth of clothing have
been awarded. a delay is being caused
for the want Of tentase. Horses will
have to be furnished to field and staff
officers in all the States and the voIun-
teer cavalry will have to be provided with
mounts. These are small matters OF de-
tail, but they delay the formation of the
new volunteer army.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
NEW YoRK's TAME HOLIDAY.
Anniversary of the Adoption of the
Greater City Charter.

New York. May 4.-This is legal hoi-
iday in New York, and instead OF being
a great affair. as was intended, it is
present farce, marking past fiasco. 1t
is the first anniversary of the adoption
of the Greater New York charter. The
Tammany Hall organization planned a
tremendous blowout. Stewart Brice
$ arted to raise s1.O0O.O0O for jubilation
fund. and, deeply impressed. the State
legislature made the day a holiday. Then
the board of aldermen refused TO vote
any money, Brice's fund did not ma
terialize, and the celebration plan had
to be abandoned. But the holiday re-
mains to mock the men who planned 1t.
Yesterday, as an eleventh-hour happy
thought, the board Of aldermen, which
had no authority to do so, voted that the
holiday should be in honor of Commo-
dore Dewey.
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Heard Firing mt Sen.

ST. Johns. N. f., May 4-Telegraph
Operators Myrick, at Cape Race, and
Murphy, at Trepassey, concur i'm saying
that at IL O'Clock Saturday night heavy
cannonading was heard in Trepassey Bay
for fifteen minutes. 1t aroused the sIum-
bering citizens of Trepassey from their
beds.
Some of the reports were deep and
heavy. others were light, sharp and quick,
and the opinion of all who heard the re-
ports was that two ships were engaged in
battle.
Similar reports were heard again at
Trepassey Sunday morning at 5, so loud
that they shook the houses. The people
expected to see the contestants. when
daylight broke, but 1t was hazy there
until midday. and when ii cleared the
horizon was tenantless. Fully fifty people
at Trepassey heard the firing.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
BOILER BLOWN UP.
Rolling Mill Plant AT Passafc, y. j.,
Destroyed.

Paterson. n. j.. May A portion OF
the plant of the Passaic Rolling Mill
Company, in this city, was wrecked by
a boiler explosion at Ais this morning.
Fireman Edward Canser was instantly
killed and five helpers were injured.
Canser's body was mangled beyond rec
ognition, and was hurled 100 feet over
a railway trestle-
The boiler house is Of brick, and ad-
joins the girder mill. The end of the
latter building was demolished, and the
boiler and engine house was completely
destroyed. The loss will be over $4,000.
The explosion was terrific, and created
CONSERVATION in the neighborhood. Win
dows were broken and things shaken up
generally all over the city.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
Takes Possession of a Hank

National Bank Examiner Van Vranken
reported to Comptroller of the Currenc,
Dawes by telegraph this morning that
had taken possession of the First Ma
tional Bank of Carthage, n. Y, the pres
ident of which is said to have departed
with most of the funds The last re-
port of the bank officers showed: De-
posits, $4,000; capital stock, 100000,
surplus, $4,000.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
The Same Name.

Mr.. Charles E. Miller, who was for
merly employed at the Government
Printing Office, desires 1t to be stated
that he is not the Charles e. Miller who
recently figured In Police Court circles"
The evening times., 1898-05-04
CIRCULATION STATEMENT

Communications intended for publication in
The Times should be tersely and plainly written,
and must in all cases be accompanied by the
name and address Of the writer. Rejected com
municatIons viii not be preserved and only man
uscripts Of obvious importance will he returned
90 their authors.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 4, 1898.
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On Trial for Deserfion.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May An Camp
Thomas today the court-martiaI appoint
ed by Gen. Brooke continued the trial OF
Private Willis l.. Engleham. charged
with desertion. He ran away from Troop
{, Third Cavalry. before leaving for the
South to see his mother who lives in
Oneonta, N. Y. Engleham said he had no
defense to make other than that he had
determined to see his mother before 60
ing away to fight. even if ii cost him
his life. He made no attempt to play m
on the sympathies of the court. but his
straightforward story was pathetic
enough without theatricals. and there is
hardly any doubt that his sentence will
not be severe.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
Mules for the ARMY

New Orleans, La. May 4-The first ex-
}edition of carrying supplies for the
American Army in Cuba sailed from this
port today Two Morgan line steamers
the Whitney and Gussie. slipped down
the Mississippi River today, carving
more than 600 mules. large quantities of
hay. corn and all kinds of provender.
bound for Tampa, Fla, under orders from
the United States Government.
The mules were taken from the two
Spanish steamers Miguel lover and Cata-
hna oy the New Orleans customs officials
TWO weeks ago and sold few davs later
at public auction in this city by the
Spanish agents. who had been foiled in
their attempt to get the animals into
cuba for the Spanish army AT the sale
every animal was purchased by the Gov
ernment agents. The mules originally
came from St Louis and Kansas CITY.
The sailing of these two transport yes
sells means that the animals will be in
cuba ready for General Skaters division
OF the Army as soon as il can be swung
across the Florida straits Colonel ScuIIv
said tonight that he had chartered the
Morgan vessels Whitney and Gussie for
an indefinite period and that they will
return TO this port Immediately upon end
ing their trip. The Morgan company now
has three more big ships tied up to its
wharves which the Government NAV
charter
The evening times., 1898-05-04

Capt. Brown was officer OF the day, with
Lieuts. Jacoby and Cipolari as officers
of the guard. Capt. Kohlberger was Of
ficer of the day for the Ninth. with
Lieuts. Burns and Mahony as guard Off
GERS. The Twelfth Regiment officer OF
the day was Capt. Blake, and Lieuts.
Romayne and Turner Were officers of the
guard. Major Burns. Twelfth Regi-
ment acted as brigade inspector of guard
duty. The guard mounts were well ex-
ecuted, the men reporting in OvercOats
and camnaicn hats
The evening times., 1898-05-04
Kings Palace-Department Store-King's Palace.
Imported LeghOrn Flats.

We sll Of these magnificent bargains left
advise early selection they very
quality Ladies. Misses Chdren Imported
Leghorn the phenomenal price
The evening times., 1898-05-04
Mules for the Army.

New Orleans. May six hundred
mules. purchased in Kansas City and 81.
Louis and five carloads of provender are
on their way 10 Tampa on the Morgan
line steamers Gussie and Whitney. They
are 10 be used by the American Army of
invasion when IL lands in Cuba. The
ships have been chartered by Col James
w. Scully,E auartermaster. for an indefi-
mite period. The mules are the ones ia
ken from the two Spanish ships Miguel
Jover and Catalina by the New Orleans
customs officers two weeks ago as con-
traband. The mules were put UP al pub
lie auction and the Army agents bought
them in. Their shipment indicates that
the Army at Tampa is soon to be trans
ported across flie gulf
Cowboy Recruits for Roosevelt
Phoenix. Ari., May 4-Sixteen COW
boys arrived yesterday, having travelled
overland from Globe. distance of 100
miles 10 join ROosevelt's volunteer cav
airymen. recruiting at Whipple Bar
racks. Globe is sixty miles from the
nearest railroad. and news of the re-
cruiting did not reach the people there
until late Friday They recruited their
quota and wired Gov. McCord Monday TO
reserve place for them.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
$1.25 Trimmed Panama Sailors. zoe

imported Panama Sailors. Knox style. rbbr
band. with leather made and men
style. This quality sells everywhere S25 qut
The evening times., 1898-05-04

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1898.
The evening times., 1898-05-04
7jc Benini Shortbaek Sailors at 45,

choice styles. the cable or roll
plain black, white all
coIorssold everywhere extraordinary bargain at
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
sRUSTEENSALE.

Under .IIe terms Of Il deed Of trust
eXet.ut ed by Mildred !. Moore and
Robert H. Moore. her husband. dated
November i2th. I>;fo. and recorded in
book III at pages 434, 435. 436 and
+317. in the office of the recorder OF
deeds for Washington County. Mis-
souri. ! will sell at public vendue, to
the highest bidder. for cash in hand.
at the front door OF the court house III
the town Of PotoSi. County of Wash
ington. State Of NJ iS>ouri, on
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 1898.
between the hours of nine o'clock in
the forenoon and four O'Clock in the
afternoon of that day. the proper
ty to me conveyed by said deed of
trust. and described as follows. tO-wit
\ parcel of land beginning at I, stake
in The east line of the william Reed
survey. - poles south Of the southwest
corner of the Salmon Ruggle> survey:
| thence south to the sOut he;iSt corner
OF the said William Reed survey;
! thence east 40 rods with the north
| line of Il rart Of land sold by Robert
| II. Moore and wife to Laura \. South
erland: thence uori II tu:, stone set il
the old lane. II rods south OF the
snut Invest corner of the garden: hence
| in Il direct line to place of beginning
containing - acres. more or less. be
ing part of the southwest quarter O
section &, in township -. north q
range :, east; said land being aud sit
mated in the County of WaShingt on
/ state of Missouri.
! j. f. WILLIAMS. Trustee.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

of contempt before their fellow
men. The old >nllierS deserve. to
say the ae:,>t. fair treatment ut the
hands of the lawmakcr, of nur GOV
ernment and the public press.
This hue and cry of fraud has been
going on for fifteen or twenty
years. An army has been furnished
to hunt down and ferret out the al
legged frauds that have been made.
and yet according to the reports,
the amount of fraud committed by
the old soldiers is so small that it
ought to rcfutc all the wholesale
charges that have been made.
Seventy:ive per cent of the fraud
that has been done was not commit
ted by the old soldiers or mcn be
longing to the army.
What would the Republican
party in Missouri to-day amount to
if it were not for the old soldiers
and their sons! You could not array
a corporars guard. Take another
view of this question. Missouri had
abuu, the same population in 1861
that Indiana had. | Bncrci, men
ton one state for the purpose of
comparison. lndiana soldier, draw
on an average ab,u, SiI.hn.non.
while Missouri soldiers draw less
than 81, 500, ,ooO-ve, Missouri ard
Indiana both furnished their quotas
in the late war. The reason fol
this is plain. Every representative
man in Indiana in Congress aut
elswherc is in favor of pensions
Unfortunately. Missouri has beer
represented in Congress by mel
who are not in favor Of rensionins
the old soIdicrs-at least, larg'
majority of them are not. Then w
, have this class that have been re
ferring to, pandcring, rs | call it
to the majority in our state, an'
arraying themselves against tn
pension system. The difference be
/, tween the amounts distributed b,
the government in Indiana an
many other states that | nigh
name is, to say the least, yer
3 great. These states get the bencti
, of money paid out by the govern
} ment, and Missouri is too hi yl
toned to allow the government t
distribute any money here. cNctl
in public improvements and to c;-
:. it into the Missouri or Mississippi
e Rivers, where it is never heard {
: aftel the first h:y rise in rivers.
Very truly Yours.
\. w. MAurIN.
i-(Iinbc Democrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
Di,DEnDF PUBLICATION.


STATE OF MISSOURI, =.
County of Washington, :,
Ia vacation, January :. lS.S. in the
tircufi Court of W I>liitt2tod County.
u March t.:El. 1895.
NAG>iIE CDNPrDN, plaintiff,
JONATHAN COMPTON,, defendant.
Now at his day comes the plaintiff
htrtia. 10y her i: horney-. bearing
Bros. AMI i e> tlrr y titiDn a.!d tfIId-
Wit. alleging. ;tl;isiltg other things, that
defendant. Jonathan Compton. is not
ruSiden; OF the State uf Ml>SOurl:
Whereunun. it Is ordered 10y the clerk
in vacation hat said Defendant be
not tiled by publication that plaintiff
ha~ commenced Il suit against him in
this court. lieo. tject and general nai ure
OF wuit.n IS 10 obtain Il decree Of divorce.
aud that unless the said JOir;li han
Couiuton be and appear at his court
at thr next Term hereof. t. be begun
and h,!drlI at tt!c Court house in the
tow, of Puir~i. il! said county. on the
1,h dav of March next. and. on or
before the ard diy Of said term. ii the
term >haI! 20 long continue, and if
| uo, then on or before Ire last day of
,ad term. answer or plead 10 the
| neti ion III said ctuSe. the same will
! r taken aS confessed. aud Judgment
! will .,e re- .drred II -urdinsIy. And it
| is further nr.i,red that IL copy hereof
| h. pu j shed. n,r"rd,Hg to law in the
"P,,toSl ..n;Iriai. Z iia">p tn.rpub lSl,-
| -; in ~tii t:nibty u ta>iiingj on. for
! four weeks -iicce~SnyiN. published DIT
| least .,;r'e Il Wee. Ire List Insertion
| 10 b 1t le:,<f ii ,en DAYS before the
i .
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
A NEW wage scale, by which the

a NEW wage scale, by which the
coal miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois secure Il II
per cent increase over the old rate,
has been signed, and goes INTO eff
feet April 1. This Increase direct
ly affects 200,O0 miners, and con-
stitutcs a prosperity item of IN
usual proportions in these days of
big prosperity items. The Demo
cratic papers, however, are hidin.
this news in their most obscagt
columns.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

SENATOR TELLERs resolution
demanding that the Secretary OF
the Treasury shall pay government
bonds in silver coin passed the
Senate Friday by vote of A to
32, in which party lines on both
sides were broken up. The adop-
ton of this resolution by the
Senate has no significance beyond
the fact that it is purely political
move of the silvcrite Senators to
keep the silver question the upper
most issue in the campaigns OF
1895 and 1900. There is, appar-
emily, nothing before the present
session of Congress of more i'm
portance than the manufacture OF
DOiitics.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
E\ECUTOR'S NOTICE.

Notice ia hereby given. that letters
t">tanentary on the estate OF Adrian
Cu.cmln. deceased, We're grantedto the
undersigned on the Sth day of Janu-
ary. 1898, by the Probate Court of
Washington County, Missouri.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to me for allowance, within one
elr after the date of said letters, or
they may be precluded from any
benefit Of such estate; and if such
claims be not exhibited within two
years from the date of said order they
viii H." forever barred.
This, ititil day nf .'ar,tlfrv. 1898.
= - ;'t!E1I,\ ,t< f,itnr
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

Send Your name and address on
Il postal card to the ~. Louis
Globe Democrat. st. Louis, Mo. .,
and get seven consecutive '>~"c> oi
that sterling journal, either daily
or weekly. free "f charge. The
Globe Democrat Is UNIVERSAL, con-
ceded ,n he one OF he few realty
great American 'ae"~ ;'a. "i'-. IL
all the WeS; aul Snl,liwc~l it ha>
no riva! worthy of the name.
S'ric,I, Republican in I'"'jtie~. it i
noted ia, IL i;,;,,m~~ - Ill ,sHrl'r-
and factions. au,i, ;,t.ss>r ~, t't
the >'li,,i i'm. .I'i,tj}iy a.'i ;:''>".nt'
reliahiliiy ii it, n"ws service,
Viii III is tn. ,e*, and most ,.3m;,ict,
in the )aud. Nu,e advertiser, III il
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
The local Democratic org;

The local Democratic organ, in
commenting on the possibility of
Judge John l.. Thomas being the
Democratic candidate for Rep
resentative in jefferson County,
says that the Judge ''contra-
dicted" articles ''to" Republican
papers in this section during the
campaign of 1896. We deny that
he did. The Judge contributed
sound money articles to the
"Journar' and several other Re
publican papers. but he ''contra-
dicted'' nothing, either ''to or i'll
them.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

IT is simply question with the
people whether the settled condi-
tions, financial ard commercial,
shall continue as they are, and the
return of the country to general
prosperity be nrctarded. Their
voice shall decide at the election of
1898 whether there shall again be
an Immediate upsetting OF things,
carrying with it business depres-
sion, harder times, and protracted
hardships and misery to the labor
ing classes. The political dema
poruc is hard at work to secure q
reversal of the verdict rendered
by the people in 1896 at the elec
tions to he held the coming fall
The Democratic party hopes t.
elect majority to the next Con
grcss. and follow up that victory
with the election of Bryan in 1900
In the event that that party IS sue,
ccssful this fall. the uncertaint,
in all financial transactions will be,
gin ut once, and the country will
witness hard times more appalling
than those which followed upon
the Democratic success Of 1892
If the American voter has Learned
ANYTHING by past experience will
the party of free trade and rcpudi
alton. and knows his own mint
two wears in succession. he will
in no uncertain tones. indorsc hi
vote of 1896 when he next goes t
,.hc ballot box.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

Why don't the Democrats of
Washington County bring out Il
candidate for Railroad Commis-
sioner! Pretty nearly every other
county in the State has its Demo
cratic candidate for that office.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

By the way, upon what does the
Democratic party base its claim
that it has the only remedy for the
cure of any and all national ills
We have never seen any testimo-
nials of its infallibilty.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
Globe Democrat.
IN NEAiG2tAhi.

Died, at her home re4. Po,oSi, January
p, 1898. Mrs. Katherine Bougfard, aged
II wears and ! months.
Speak her name tenderly. once she was here
Filling with kindly deeds many year;
Now on her resting place green Sward IS
pressed,
While the once loving arms fold Ger l.eI
breast.
There is her easy chair vacant today;
O, what sad memories crowd it for aye
! Her work we'll done; sWeetlv at rest,
She will live eyerlnore. bleSt with tl1t
hleSt
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
Now that Judge Bond is afforded

Now that Judge Bond is afforded
an opportunity to vindicate his
judicial and political character he
does not seem to esteem the privi-
lcge very highly. He denies the
charges in toto, but at the same
time he hopes to prevent an inve,
tigation by questioning the con>ti-
tutionality of the law under which
the charges were brought. If III
noccnt, why docs he try evasion!
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

this issue, and in answering the
same. do not fail to mention this
paper, and state whether yon de-
sire to try the daily or weekly
! Globe Denocrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

TAKING care Of our own protcc-
tion in case Of war, is a good way
to lead up to United States inter
yentiOn in the Cuban fuss.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE
MENT.

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the es-
tate Of Mahala jackson. deceased. will
make final settlement Of his accounts
with said estate, as such adminiStra-
tor, at the next term nf the probate
court of Washington County, Mo, to
be holden at PotnSi, in said county.
on the l4th day Of February, 1898.
RICHARD ii. JACKSON,
AdminiSt ratOr.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1898-02-02

The Democratic-Populistic fuse
in Missouri has become damp with
the uneasy sweat of the Democrats.
and is likely to miss fire the next
ro,,rl