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The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-28

The Beloit Call publishes a letter
from q wholesale grocery house TO s
BelOit merchant in which the ways Of
the travelling agent, who sells direct to
farmers, is explained. Sugar, soda
package coffee and a few other things
are sold at less than cost TO catch
the farmer. Then everything else is
put in at big prices. Then seven per
cent is added for freight. This is about
three times what the freight actually
is. All Of the business is done With
the expectation that the customer viii
never buy Of the house again 1t is q
skin game all through.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-28

TIE REPUBLIC Is q good paper.
You had better take It
Is vii keep goa posted
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-28
PICKED UP IN PASSING.

a Georgia man who went to Alaska
to dig gold writes home from Dawson
City: "You may expect me in Georgia
as soon as my clothes thsw out enough
for me to get my hands in my pockets
and reach the money to pay for my
ticket"
Milling, Liverpool trade paper, has
this to say of Kansas: "With her mild,
dry climate, abundant cheap grains
and forage and unequsled Transports
ton facilities, Kansas is one Of the
most appropriate and suitable rearing
grounds for cattle in the world"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
9TH BATTERY.
fConcIuded from First Page.
statement of this witness puts a changed

statement of this witness puts a changed
light on the matter.
Watermelon thieves are to meet quick
justice. AT this time dozen men are under
direct charges, and others are suspected of
connection with the robbery and abuse OF
was committed Wednesday. and as result
the guard was made 125 instead of twenty
four. men the reckless men are found
and rounded up. privileges will again be al
lowed the regiment, as is the plan in the
present camp.
Adjutant Lee NJ. Martz. a veteran of the
Thirty-fourth Indiana during the civil war,
is always much sought by the men VINO
fought on the other side in the early sixties.
Many enjoyable reunions occur at his quar-
tors at the head of the first battalion.
Second Lieutenant Beshore, of Company
A, was chosen by Captain Noel Gaines, pro-
vost marshal. as the lieutenant for provost
guard duty from this regiment. Lieutenant
Beshore served under Captain Gaines in that
line of duty at Newport News, and proved
unusually fitted for the work. On account
of a slight illness he was unable to take the
detail here, and Lieutenant SausSer, OF
Company l., was named in his place.
vost sergeant in charge of thirty men from
the misunderstanding The. SER
geant is an old regular army man, and ham
dies Company z at setting up and bayonet
exercises to very good purpose.
Company G has bayonet exercise each
morning under Sergeant Hopper. The La.
fayette boys have long had the honor or
forming a company that was considered
crack organization. Now they must meet
almost every company in the regiment on
ever. that the Company men are better
informed on guard duty and many other
points in military life than any set of men
in the regiment. This excellence is due TO
the constant and vigorous attention given to
the mems training by Capt T. r. Marks:
who is a strict disciplinarian. 1t is said OF
Captain Marks that he is the best tactician
and the best man. physically. in the One
Observation-Disclosures. Captain Marks was
studying law at Ann Arbor when war was
FOOTBALL
Private Porter Jones. of Company d, of
Wabash, who was hurt on the way from
Virginia here. was in very critical condi-
hung in the balance. His parents. from
wabash are with him, and this morning
they called on Company d and received the
sympathy and greetings of their sons COM
rades 80
The assembly tent of the regiment will at
once be erected, and again the letter
writer's will have a resort and the reading
room will be flied with loungers 9. 5.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
IN HONOR OF VICTORIES
GERMAN SOCIETIES TO HOLD SUM-
DAY PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION.
Speakers for the Bismarck Memorial
at Maennerchor Hall Next FRI
day Night.

The German societies of the city will Join
IN patriotic celebration of the victories
or the American armies in the late Spanish
war. Inc subject was presented at a meet
ing at Maennerchor Hall, last Monday
night, at which twenty societies that are
arranging for the Bismarck memorial cele-
Dratlon were present They were unani-
mously in favor of the idea Since then
President Fred Francke of the Maenner.
cnor, has sent invitations to all the other
German societies of the city to participate.
The celebration will be on a Sunday in
the latter part of September, The details
have not yet been arranged There have
been suggestions. however, that IT might
be good plan for all societies ard indi-
Viduals to meet with flags and banners at
the Maennerchor and march to the Union
Station, there taking a train for the Shoot
Ing Park, where the singing societies would
unite in appropriate music and speeches he
MADE. One suggestion has been that il
might be appropriate to plant memorial
Tree. Inc celebration will be a sort of well
come home to Indiana volunteers. manv OF
whom. 1t is presumed, will have returned by
that time. Announcements of further meet
ings to consider the subject will be made
later.
On Friday of next week. Sept 2. the Bis
marck memorial celebration will be held at
Maennerchor Hall. That day will be the an
niversary of the battle of Sedan. William
Rupp. of Chicago, editor in chief of the
Stats Zeitung, and DR.. William Yaeger.
formerly of Culver Academy, will be the
orators of the evening. Beside the speeches,
there will be appropriate music by the Ger
man singing societies and a number of tab
leaux. Monday night. next, a meeting for
final arrangements will be held There are
twenty separate organizations interested in
the celebration.
The annual outing of the Maennerchor
Society will be on Sunday, Sept 4. An ex-
cCrsion train will take members and their
families to Madison, where the party will
beard the steamer Neshit for trip up the
ONO river TO Vevay and other points
ner eaten on the boat ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
FRIEND OF SICK SOLDIERS.
How Mrs. Gordon Cared for Goshen
Boys Sent Home Dying.

Savannah Dispatch in New York Journal
Mrs. W. w. Gordon, wife of the brgadier
general and Porto Rican commissioner, ar
rived here late last night from Jacksonville,
Fla, and made statement, which bids fair
to cause a close inquiry before the END is
reached. Just as Mrs. Gordon boarded the
Savannah train at Jacksonville yesterday
the train from Fernandina arrived and the
work of transferring the invalid soldiers to
the train coming here was commenced
The men were members of Company c,
One-hundred land -fifty-seventh Indiana
Regiment, and were in charge of Captain
e. D. Salisbury Many of them were in
dying condition from the combined effects
of typhoid fever and the long hot ride from
Fernandina. They were thrust through
their groans striking chill to the hearts of
the bystanders. but the astonishing fact was
soon developed that there were no surgeons
no trained nurses. or even stewards TO at
ment. Captain Salisbury did all in his
power, but his facilities were limited
The conditions were desperate. and Mrs
Gordon with the help of the Pullman car
the neglected soldiers. Brandy. milk and
ice were secured and few of the dropping
soldiers revived under its influence. But
shortly after the train started, Private
expired. Everything possible hsd been done
by Mrs. Gordon to save him. but TO no
avail
Throughout the remainder of the Journey
Mrs. Gordon and other ladies were assdu-
Gus in their care of the patients. and II is
due TO their devotion that some of the men
are still living.
on arrival at Savannah Mrs. Gordon SUI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
AT THOROUGHFARE GAP.
All the Regiments Anxious to BE Mus
tered Out of Service.


THOROUGHFARE, Va, Aug. 25.-The
greatest delight is evidenced by the Sixth
Pennsylvania Regiment over the official an
nouncement that they are to be mustered
out The other regiments at Thoroughfare
are fully as anxious for their service to end.
and petitions are in circulation every
where. Major Prices battalion. the third
of the Sixth Pennsylvania, left camp for
Mddletown, Pa, at IL clock and the first
and second battalion left later in the day.
The Seventh Illinois will go Tomorrow
Private George Mayes, who was pro-
nounced cured of measles and on the same
day returned to the hospital in an uncon-
scous condition, died to-day of spinal men
nights. 1t is said that when he was re-
ported cured of the measles all his clothes
were burned to destroy germs. and he was
provided with only a rubber poncho as
covering.
The trial Of Captain Duncan, Twenty
second Kansas Regiment probably will be
completed by tomorrow. He is charged
with having desecrated graves of Confed-
crate soldiers.
DIR. Duncan took the stand himself and
gave a detailed account of his whereabouts
on the day on which the alleged dissertation
of the grave with which he is charged took
place He was at his headquarters, he said,
until 8 O'Clock, when he took his sketch
book and went out for a stroll. He passed
by the grave, where a crowd was at work.
and advised them to stop. He returned to
the camp about IL o'clock and remained all
the afternoon, during the absence of Maj
G. T. Stuart, the regimental surgeon. Sew
eral other witnesses were on the stand tes-
tifying in the doctors behalf.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
MITCHELL, Ind, Aug. 25.-The Burton
family held it's annual reunion here to-day
A large number of representatives from
this and adjoining States were present, the
ADDRESS being delivered by Hon. w. II. Ed
wards. of this place. The great Burton fam
lily numbers over eighty thousand in the
United States, ten thousand of whom reside
IN Indiana, with eleven hundred representa-
tives in this county. The Burtons residing in
TINS portion of the State are descendants
OF hlcnard Burton a native of the Old
dominion, who soon after the revolution re-
moved TO this country. The family is repre-
Sented In all the trades and professions. the
largest number being engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits. No less than eighteen diff
ferent towns bearing the name of Burton
are scattered over twelve different States.
Iney nave regularly organized society
known as the Burton Family Reunion Asso-
citation, of which the late DR.. G. w Burton
OF TINS place, was the protector and the re-
union is held annually at this place Uncle
Eli Burton. aged ninety-one, is the Oldest
living representative of the family, now re-
siding in this county.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
MOUNT AT ROCKVILLE
THE GOVERNOR ADDRESSED 5000
OLD SETTLERS AT A PICNIC.
Other Family Reunions Over the
State-Democrats Complete Their
Congressional Tickets.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.


ROCKVILLE, Ind, Aug. 25-The tenth
annual meeting of the old settlers of Jay
and Randolph counties was held here to-
day, with probably eight thousand people
present. 1t was known in advance that
Governor Mount would attend. and this
helped to swell the number. The exercises
were held in Lakeside Park, which
packed with vehicles and people. President
Lemanx called the meeting to order in the
afternoon after the morning had been spent
in renewing old acquaintance Rev. Thos.
Adding offered prayer, and many pioneers
OF eastern Indiana made short talks. Among
these were Hannah Roberts. aged eighty
two. and Mrs. Clark. of Jay county, aged
seventy-eight and seventy years a resident
OF Jay. She was the first woman married
In the county, and the weaver of Portland's
first carpet. Pending the arrival of Gov
ernor Mount over the Grand Rapids & In
diana Railroad at 2:30 O'Clock, the annual
election was held Ridgeville was selected
for the next yearly meeting, and George
Lemanx, jr., was reelected president. A.
H. Farquhar. of Randolph, and William Nc
Laughlin. of Jay were made vice presidents;
g., J. Marsh. of Portland, secretary, and
]. w. Mechanism, reelected treasurer
The Hidgeville choir sang Don't Forget
the Old Folks as Governor Mount arrived
he was introduced by Judge A. o. Marsh
or winchester, and for one hour he held
the immense audience with a thrilling pa
triotic address.
During the afternoon Union City and Win
chester played game of ball, resulting s
the forenoon between Union City and Ridge
vile was won by Union City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
THE HICKsITE CONFERENCE.
Work at the Richmond Meeting to Be
Finished To-Day.

special TO the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind. Aug. 25.-To-morrcw
VIII end the sessions of the General Confer
ence Of the Hicksite Friends. To-day the
time was devoted 70 the educational branch
"A report pertaining to the educational work
or Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was SUBJ
mitted by Lewis V. Smedley, clerk Of the
educational committee of that meeting. An
executive committee consisting of forty or
more members was named to have charge
or the work OF the General Conference IN
the educational department the coming twa
years. Dr. William w. BirdsaIl. president
or Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania and
chairman siiIs Of the educational conference,
l.. Maris, principal OF George school Penn.
sylvania: read a paper: Or. Joseph Swain
president or Indiana University deliveries
an address. and Anna Willis of New
YORK, read paper on kindergartens nre-
pared by Annie Hillborn. of SWarthmore
This afternoon a meeting of the old stu
dents or the Greenmount Boarding School
vas held This school is now converted intn
an orphans home, located south of this city
present at the reunion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
Officers Arrested.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 25.-By or
der of Colonel Andel, commanding the
Fourth Illinois Regiment, Lieutenant Colo
mel McWiliams and Majors Bennett, Lang
and Elliott were ordered under arrest late
this afternoon on the charge of violating
the sixty-first article of war by conduct I'M
becoming an officer and gentleman. The
particular charge is that they jointly sent
telegram to Governor Tanner and Senator
Mason, of Illinois, stating that all of the
officers, with one or two exceptions, and so
per cent. of the enlisted men of the regiment
desired to go to Cuba, and requesting that
they use their influence have it sent
there. Colonel Andel IS having the
regiment mustered out, stated Nc
Williams was not arres being on de-
tached service from the re, ment, but will
be as soon as he shall return to the regi-
ment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
FRAUD FROM COMPANY e.
Private Murphy, Who Shot Hfmself,
Is "WOrkinE'' Indiana Towns.

Private Murphy, who Shot Himself,
Is "WOrling' Indiana Towns.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, Aug. pa few
weeks ago w. II. Murphy, private in
Company e, Observation-Disclosures In
diana returned to his home at Montpelier.
On the way he stopped at the Middletown
fair, New Castle and Muncie, where he
was lionized. To the newspaper represent
atives at each city he related narrowing
tale of the hardships he endured at the bat
tie of Santiago, claiming he was trans
ferred to a New York regiment. The news
rapers in all the places he visited wrote up
the story at great length. After being ex-
posed he left Montpelier and started for
his former home at Titusville, Pa. Mon
days Indianapolis papers contained spe-
cial from Dilsbore, Ind, stating that a
stranger giving his name as William Mur-
ply was being cared for by the knights or
PythiaS of that city. He claimed that ne
was a member of the Titusville Pa.) order
of the K. of p. Calvin Sinninger, editor
of the Warren Independent, who was a
member of the same company as Murphy,
has written the following letter to friends
here:
Murphy, a private in Company E, One
hundred-and-sixtiet Indiana, has tod
the peop9 of M Mon he eo and trsns
ferred from his regiment to. one in New
York and was sent to the front and got
wounded in several places. Murphy shot
himself, and has no one to blame but him
self 1t was a case of pure carelessness,
and we can excuse that, but we can't ex-
cuse the statements he makes that he was
at the front and got his wounds in an hon
orable battle, for he never was in one. He
seeks to gain little cheap notoriety at the
expense Of the regiment and company to
which he belonged. There is not a man in
the company who does not know this to
be fact Murphy is a fraud and would
be hero who never smelled powder. We
can get the signature of log men to GER
tify to this fact, from the captain or his
company down, if necessary.
CALVIN SINNINGER."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
Another Hospital Train.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.-The fourth
hospital train to leave this city for South
ern camps and the second Pennsylvania
state hospital train left the Thirty-second
and Market-street station of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at Oils o'clock tonight for
Chickamauga. The purpose of this train in
Governor Hastings's own words, lis to
make clean sweep of all sick Pennsylvania
soldiers and as many from other States as
can be accommodated" The train was Sc
cured by the state authorities with the as
sistance of the National Relief Commission,
party, assuming full charge. The train is
made UP of fifteen cars. 1t will go by way
will be reached Saturday forenoon. Stops
will be made after this at Knoxville, Tenn,
and Lexington, Ky. The trip will consume
about FIVE or six days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
.P.WasSOn&CO.
RUN DOWN ON THE BANKS.
Fishing Schooner Sunk by the steam
er Norge and sixteen Lives Lost.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The Thingvalla
line steamer Norpe, which arrived here to-
day, reports that she sunk the French fish
ing schooner Lacoquette. of Bayonne,
France, on Saturday last, on the Grand
Banks The captain and eight seamen were
saved. Sixteen went down with the unfortu-
nate vessel. The Norge sailed from Stettin
Aug. 49, The weather was generally fine to
the banks of Newfoundland, when it became
foggy, with patches of clear weather. On
Saturday, Aug. 20, between 8 and o'clock
in the afternoon, the weather was foggy,
but not so thick that the vessels speed
was reduced Captain Knudsen said he could
see about three cable lengths ahead The
wind was fairly brisk from the west-south-
west when vessel suddenly doomed up
from the north, with sails full and stood
directly across the bows of the steamer.
The bells were rung to stop and back at
full speed but too late to check the steam
er's Roadway. The stranger, a fishing
schooner fell across the bow and with a
crash was forced over and sunk. Three men
sprung aboard the Norge. The passengers of
the Norge, most of whom were about the
decks, rushed about in alarm from the
shock but were soon quieted when they
learned that the steamer was uninjured. A
boat was lowered and six men and a dog
were picked up. The vessel sunk almost inn
mediately and in sinking carried with her
sixteen of her crew. Captain Knudsen, OF
the Norge. says that a steam vessel IS
ing craft, but this was time when the
sailing vessel could do more to help herself
than the steamer. The latter was going
ahead at full speed, for the fog, in the judg-
ment of the captain, was not sufficient to
reduce Roadway. The fisherman was an ac-
tive vessel, had a good breeze and was
under good Storage way, but made no at
tempt to avoid the collision, keeping on
with sails unfurled until squarely under the
bow The large sail of the boat, Captain
Knudsen says should have been visible for
a long distance.
At the office of the French consul the fol-
lowing names of the lost were given.
Lemenant, Ganneu Allan, Lepron, Mon
Morquet, Gerard. Cuenara, Decrox, Min
guri, Baurel and Bonper. All were fisher
men. The report of Captain Berre, to the
French consul, states that when the COLI
lision occurred there was heavy fog pre-
vailing. The men were all on deck fishing.
Suddenly the Norge appeared coming to-
ward them, head on for their side. 1t was
impossible to do anything to get out Of the
way. The Norge. which was. going at
speed of from eight to ten knots an hour,
hit the La Coquette in the SIDE Her after
mast fell toward the wheel. There were
sixteen men in that part of the vessel ana
the rigging and sails pinned them down
so that it was inevitable death for them as
the vessel began to sink. The wheel was
smashed by the fallen mast and control of
Couuette clean in half. The steamer backed
as quickly as possible and her crew lowered
boats and went to the rescue OF the men
in the water. 1t impossible to save the
sixteen men who persisted. La Coquette
sank at once.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
Cnhan War Exnenses.

MADRID, Aug. %, p. m.-The Gazette
gives the Cuban war expenses from Jan.
to June as 447, 1859. 450 pesetas.
The Queen Regent presided at to-day's
Cabinet council. The home situation was
discussed and Senior Sagasta, the premier,
gave details of the capitulations of Manila
and Santiago and explained the manner in
which the Antilles will be evacuated The
of the army at Manila and sanctioned the
dispatch of funds to Admiral Cervera and
to Manila for the immediate needs of the
Spanish prisoners. tranquility prevails
throughout the peninsula.
Much comment has been caused by the
fact that the telegram giving details Of the
capitulation of Manila was signed by Cen
Cejiero instead of General Jaudenes. The
Carist chief at Oviedo. Alesandro Arguelles,
has been arrested.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26
BONES OF COLUMBUS.
Spain Will Make an Effort To Have
Them Carried Back Home.

ST. LOUIS, Aug 25-The Globe-Demo-
Gratis Madrid correspondent says: IAN agi-
tation has been started here for the purpose
of inserting in the treaty of peace clause
providing for the return to Spain of the re-
mains of Christopher Columbus. lest they
should be used by the United States as
trophy of war or else leased to Barnum as
feature of his travelling show, which
would be a scandalous proclamation. 1t is
equally out of the question to leave them
in Havana in charge of the traitorous sepa-
ratists. If the United States gives way to
this demand on the part of Spain it will be
the fifth journey undertaken by the illustri-
Gus navigator since his death. Dying at
Valladolid, he buried there. Three
years later he was exhumed and taken to a
convent at Saville; from thence, thirty
years later, he was transferred to the Island
of San Domingo, and when the latter was
coded by Spain to France by the treaty of
Basic, Just one hundred years ago, the body
transferred to Havana. 1t is to be
hoped that if he is now taken back to Spain
he may at length enjoy the eternal rest
which is generally understood to be the
right of those who have died at peace both
with God and man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-26

WASHINGTON. Aug. 25.-The review of
the First Brigade at Camp Alger, which
was postponed on account of the heat, will
be carried out tomorrow If the weather is
favorable The hospital train from Phila-
delpha left camp at noon, bearing 125 con-
valescent soldiers There were not enough
Pennsylvania patients to fill the train, and
some men were taken from other State or
CARNATIONS. The report that the First Di-
vision is to be moved Immediately to Mid
dletown, Pa, is not confirmed at camp to-
day. Lumber has been issued to the various
regiments to be used as flooring for tents.
Capt. Fred Page, assistant adjutant gen.
eral of the First Division, and Lieut. Alfred
Hampton, an aid on the staff of General
general to Cuba. Both are fluent Spanish
scholars. Private George Perucker, Com
pany f, Sixty-fifth New York, died to-day
of typhoid fever. His body will be inferred
at Arlington with military honors to-mor
row.