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The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
THE THIRD EXPEDITION.
Gen. Merritt May Go with the Next
Fleet of Transports.

Fleet of Transports.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 1S-MaJor
General Merritt, of the United States army,
has issued an order to General Otis desig
mating the troops that are to compose the
third Philippine expedition, which will be
commanded by Brgadier General King. The
order names the troops as follows: The two
battalions of the Idaho volunteers, the Thir-
teenth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer In
fantry, two battaions of North Dakota
volunteers. the Seventh California Regiment
Of Volunteers. the Wyoming battalion of
volunteers, the two batteries, G and l., of
the Third United States Artillery, COM
manded by Capt. B. j. Randolph and Capt.
w. E. Birkseimer respectively. These troops
will be transported by the steamers Morgan
City, City of Para, Ohio, Indiana and Va
lencia, all of which are being put in readi-
ness as rapidly as possible. under the .direc-
tion of Major Long, the depot quartermas-
ter. who is rushing the coal and supplies
on board in the expectation of having this
work completed by next Wednesday. The
exact date of sailing has rot yet been liked,
but it will probably be not later than the
end of next week. The commissaries of the
various commands have been instructed to
report to Colonel Baldwin, chief commits
sary, what supplies are necessary to be
taken on board the transports.
General Merritt and his staff may sail
with this expedition. He has had the mat
ter under consideration for some little time
He is anxious to depart, and he is making
every effort to so arrange his affairs that he
can go. Maj. r. E. Thompson, chief signal
officer of the expeditionary forces, will sail
with General Merritt, and is now preparing
to take his departure at an hours notice
The signal corps is yet lacking in its re-
Quired quota of expert telegraph operators,
who will perform an important part in the
conquest and the government of the Phil
ippines. Fifteen are coming from ST. Paul.
to be followed by others from other East
ern cities. Major Thompson will leave an
officer in San Francisco to enlist men for
the corps and forward them, together with
necessary supplies, to Manila.
Major General Otis will arrange the de-
tails of the fourth expedition, and will prob
ably remain here until all the troops are
embarked. 1t is hoped he will accomplish
this on or before July l.
Repairs on the transport Nero and the
monitor Monadnock are rapidly approach
ing completion The engines on both ships
have undergone a thorough overhauling.
Considerable boiler work has been done on
the Nero and new ventilators have been put
in. She will be towed to San Francisco bv
the Unadlla when her stores are all on
board. She will take aboard nearly 1000
tons of coal. The cruiser Philadelphia will
be placed on the dock next Thursday for
the third time. On the Monadnock every
thing is busy putting aboard stores and
giving the finishing touches to the engines.
although very little repairs were necessary
to the main engines. The air pumps and
evaporators have undergone extensive re-
pairs.
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the members visited the Queen Regent to
beg her to give up the scheme for the pres
snt Thy told her that under the present
circumstances abdcation would seem like
flight, and would be very badly construed
by the country.
Premier Sagasta was so persuasive that
he obtained the following reply from the
Queen Regent: i admit You are right, sir,
but / do not altogether give up my plan.
/ only postpone it
General Sanchis, the young Kings mill
tary tutor, who occupies apartments in the
palace, has also private apartments in the
Gale de la Cruz. These apartments have
been shut up for two years and half, but
upholsterers are at work making the place
habitable. The neighbors conclude from this
that the Kings tutor is about to leave the
palace and resume possession of his private
apartments, and see in this incident a pre-
lude 20 radical changes at the royal palace.
What is going On, what will happen, is
what every one is anxiously asking, espe-
cially as the Republicans and Carlists are
beginning to bestir themselves in a way
which is very disquieting for the future of
Alfonso'e crown
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
M. Ribot Unable to Form a Cabinet.

PARIS, June 1S-After consultation with
NJ Peytral Sarrien and Dupuy this morn
ing, M. Ribot informed President Faure that
he is unable to form a Cabinet to succeed
the Meline Ministry. President Faure ac
cepted the latter's resignation on June Is,
Wednesday last.
The reason given for M: Ribot's with
drawal from the task Of forming a new
equal division of the portfolios, enabling
them to demand a revision of the Constitu-
ton. 1t is believed that NJ. Sarrien, who is
a Radical, will, for the same reason, fail in
his effort to form a Cabinet. President
Faure, on M. Ribots suggestion, it is an
nounced this evening has asked M. Sarrien
to form Cabinet. The latter is depended
upon to reconcile the republican factions.
M Jean Marie Ferdinand Sarrien was
born in 1910 at Bourbon-Lancy, Department
of Sacne-et-Loire, where he is a landed
proprietor and lawyer. He took part in the
Franco-Prussian war, and BECAME mayor of
his town in 1871. He was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies in 1876 for the first
time, was minister of posts and telegraphs
in the Brisson Cabinet, minister of justice
in the Goelet Cabinet, minister of the in
terror in the third Freycinet Cabinet, and
minister of the interior in the first Tirara
Cabinet,
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-The hospital
train for the removal of wounded and in
valid soldiers left here to-day for Tampa
The train consists of ten Pullman sleeping
cars, one dining room car, one cooking car
and a combination coach. 1t is fully
equipped for hospital service. with medi-
cines, surgical instruments and apparatus
The party, which is under the command of
Major Richards, consists of two commits
stoned officers two noncommissioned off,
GERS, twenty-five privates and three cooks
From time to time, as it becomes necessary.
one or more coaches will return northward
with sick and wounded soldiers, sailors or
marines, who will be taken to Fort Myer,
Va, Fort Mcpherson, Ga, and other points
where there are army hospitals, and those
whose condition demands a high altitude
will be removed to Asheville, N. G. The
coaches which remain at Tampa will be
used as a receiving hospital
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Bigamous Detective Arrested.

LONDON. June 1S.-Joseph Won Arnold, a
private detective of San Francisco, who
married JEANNE Young in that city during
the month of April. 1897 and who deserted
her in London, is now under arrest here
charged with obtaining 9146 from a hair
dresser under the pretense that he Won
Arnold) was heir to a large estate in Ger
many. 1t has developed that the prisoner
has four wives He was married in Nav
1898. Won Arnold posed as a count when
he married Jeannie Young. who at the time
torney OF San Francisco for the support of
her son. the alleged offspring of the lawyer
Won Arnolds trial will take place at the
next sessions
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
BOUND FOR KINGSTON.
Miss Clara Barton, Mrs. j. Addison
Porter and Others.

KEY WEST, Fla, June IS, $50 p. m.-The
schooner Kate sailed tonight for Porto An
tonic and Kingston. Jamaica, with Prince
A. Lieven, an attache of the Russian lega-
ton at Washington, and Captain N. E. An
derson, an attache of the Swedish legation.
Mr.. J. G. Coolidge, of Boston, and num-
Der of newspaper men. With good weather
they should reach Kingston in four days
The Red Cross steamer State of Texas ar
rived in Tampa to-day and anchored in the
harbor awaiting orders. Miss Clara Barton
is on board, as is also her guest, Mrs: j.
ley's private secretary. Mrs. Porter will
return to Washington from Key West.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Obituary.

PIERRE, S. D., June 1s.-Fred Dupree, a
prominent character in this part of Dakota
for the past fifteen years and one OF the
heaviest cattle and horse owners on the
Sioux range, is dead. Mr.. Dupree was the
owner of one of the few herds of buffalo left
in the Northwest.
CHICAGO. June 1S.-George T. William
son. president of theNUnion iron works at
Grand Crossing, Ill., dropped dead while
playing lawn tennis at the Kenwood Club
to-day. Mr.. Williamson formerly resided at
Cleveland, o.
ATLANTA, Ca. June 1S.-Mrs. Hattie
Barrett Howell, wife of Mr.. Clark Howell.
editor of the Atlanta Constitution, died at
the Howell residence in this city late to-
night. She had been i'll but six days.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Fined for Selling Battle Songs.

Copyright 1885, by the Associated Press)
ST. THOMAS, Danish West Indies, June
18.-Messrs. Lghtbourne and Mote, two To-
cal editors, fortnight ago printed and sold
about five hundred copies of battle songs
on the Iowa and Maine, which were much
sung by the populace here. Complaint was
made, unquestionaby by the Spanish consul,
and to-day both the editors were tried on a
technical charge of evading the printing
laws and both were convicted and fined.
This action has caused the populace much
amusement, and they now sing the songs
more than ever, Notwithstanding the efforts
of the police to stop them.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

LONDON, June 1S-~It is announced that
Great Britain will not hold her usual an
nual naval maneuvers this year, which has
caused much speculation as to the reason
for this step. In some quarters it is said
it is due to lack of coal owing to the Welch
strike. But in other quarters it is believed
that important events are in sight. The Of
fieials of the British Admiralty decline to
give their reasons for abandoning the ma
neuvers, but they say it is not because of
lack of coal, as ample supplies of fuel were
secured previous to the strike OF the min
erS in Wales.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

MADRID, June 1S-An official dispatch
from Santiago de Cuba gives the following
account of the recent bonlbaf fdment of the
forts at that place by vessels of the Amer
ican fleet: "At daybreak on June 16 an
American cruiser and a yacht opened fire
on Punta Cabarara and the Notifications
west of Santiago, in the meanwhile dis
patching steam launches with a landing
party, which General Alden repulsed with
out loss. The ships then retired"
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
AN INTERCEPTED DISPATCH.
Report of Spanish Commander That
Was Taken from Its Dead Bearer.

Report of Spanish Commander That
Was Taken from Its Dead Bearer.
Copyright, 1898. by the Associated Press.)
CAMP MCALLA, outer harbor of Guam
tanamo, June II, per the Associated Press
dispatch boat Wanda, via Kingston, Jamai-
ca, June IS, S:45 a. m.-The following inter
cepted report from the Spanish military
commander at Guantanamo was taken from
the body of an unfortunate messenger, who
attempted to pass the Cuban lines. 1t gives
the official Spanish version of the attack
of the American fleet in the capture of the
outer harbor of Guantanamo week ago,
and disclosed the fact that starvation is
facing the Spanish troops in eastern Cuba.
This is verified by extracts, already tele-
graphed. taken from a recent issue of
newspaper of Santiago de Cuba. and from
the fact that a number of Spanish regular
soldiers have surrendered to Captain Nc
Gala, Offering as reason for so doing the
necessity of obtaining food. The letter
reads:
"Caimanera, June 13.
ITO the general commanding the military
division of Santiago de Cuba:
AT dawn on Saturday seven ships ap,,
peared before the port of Caimanera and
fired grapshot and all kinds of projectiles
on the Playa del Este and the Cayo Toro
until they set fire to the fort on tn the Playa
which were occupied by detachment of
American marines. The cannonading con-
tinued with more or less intensity until
O'Clock in the afternoon AS the Playa del
Este had only two muzzle-load guns and
sand entrenchments the detachment could
do nothing before six ships firing on them
from all sides, and they retired into
Managua and to Curzo HILL where they re-
main to-day. making sallies or the beach.
From that day tho soldiers occupied Punta
Caracoles.
The outer port is occupied with the
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Another Transport Secured.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 1S.--Assistant
Secretary Meiklejohn has made arrange
ments for the charter of another transport
for the troops to the Philippines. This is
the Valencia, of the Pacific Whaling Com
pany, which is now at San Francisco. and
will accommodate 600 men. The other trans
ports now on the coast ready for service
namely, the Ohio, Indiana Morgan City and
City of Para, swell the total to five, which
will constitute part of the third expedi-
ton to the islands
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Three Chinese Girls Sent to Jail.

OMAHA, Neb June 1S.-Judge Scott to-
day sent three Chinese girls to jail because
they would not obey orders. Several days
brought to secure the release of three sisters
from alleged slavery The parties plaintiff
are Lincoln. Neb., Chinese and mission
ary named Wykoff The parties defendant
are the proprietors of the Chinese village at
the exposition. Judge Scott ordered the
girls into the custody of Mrs. Wykoff. the
are young. the oldest being but sixteen.
The court confined them in jail Attorneys
are at work trying 10 secure their release.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
THE MARION TRUST COMPANY.

WOMEN having private funds small bank
balances for household expenses may deposit
them With this company, draw against them as they
may have need, and receive interest thereon at the
rate OF Per cent. per annum. payable semi-an-
EualIy. They will find that the MARION TRUST
COMPANY affords them not only secure deposit
:oIy for their money, but prompt attention and
courteous treatment, with especial attention to
shelr business affairs either in advice informa-
lion, or assistance should 1t be desired.
Mechanics With deposits from time to time of
cne dollar and upwards may accumulate conl~
petcncy against sickness or old age. Every dollar
deposited with savings Department. is working
for it's owner 1t is earning something every day
IN the year including holidays.
Office Hours: 9 a. m. to p m, and to p m.
Saturdays and Mondays
N E corner of Market st. and Monument Place.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
sampson,s Pilot Not a spy.

KINGSTON. Jamaica, June 1S.-Commo-
dore Schley requests that the Associated
Press deny the story sent from Kingston
that he had discovered that the Cuban pilot
sent him by the American consul was a
spy and had threatened to hang him. The
man sent by the consul is now with the
squadron. He has rendered important and
sagacious service; He obtained a drawing
positions of the Spanish ships in the port,
besides several communications from the in
surgentE. He guided in two lieutenants.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, June 1s-Fire
this morning In the factory district de-
stroyed the Grand Rapids Desk Company
and the Hake Manufacturing Company
buildings. The loss on the desk factory
viii be $5000c, with S35,O06 insurance; to
the Hake Manufacturing Company, $4,000,
with $1,000 insurance. Three hundred men
are thrown out Of work as a result The
plants were outside the city limits and the
hTemen were unable TO get water.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

Glenn. the postmaster here. was shot
through the heart this evening by Albert
Gripskey an insane bachelor who lives near
town Death was instantaneous. Gripskev
was taken in charge by the sheriff Tha
shooting occurred in the postoffice. There
had been no difference between the men
Gripskey had long been considered peculiar
but supposedly harmless. Glenn was an old
soldier, and an ex-mernber Of the Nebraska
Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
The Chess Tourney.

VIENNA, June 1S.-In the playing of the
thirteenth round of the international chess
tournament to-day, Pillsbury, Showalter
and Schlechter defeated Schiffers, AIapin
Blackburn game was a draw. Tarrasch.
PillSbury and Alapin now lead in number of
games won, in the order mentioned
In the afternoon and evening sessions
Burn drew with Marco, Trenchard lost 10
Steinitz. Baird drew with MarocZy, Caro-
drew with Halprin, Janowsd beat Tschi-
gorin.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Gomez Not Protesting.

NEW YORK, June 18-Horatio W. Ru-
bens, counsel for the Cuban Junto, in an
interview to-day characterized the report
that Maximo Gomez was protesting against
the intervention of the United states as a
lot of buncombe. He says that no such
letter as that ascribed to Gomez had been
received by the Junto
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
-s "1y A Great LauEh-
~ dlA I'D uAAA ing Festival
To-MOrrOxy Night-AIl Next Week.

MATINEE WED. and SAT- ats p NJ
The original and only GEO. II. ADAMS Of
Humpty Dumpty, and his company of comedians
in "A Country Terror"
THE AHERNS--Sensational gymnasts and
Acrobats.
GARNELLA AND SHIRK in a sketch eccentric
LAVANDER AND TOMSON in songs aero
batic and comedy.
TIE ADAMS SISTERS, TONINA and LILLY
in singing and character dances.
HARRY EDISON and his wonderful musical pug
dog Doc"
1Octs-ADMISSION-
Promenade Consents nightly by the FAIR
BANK CONCERT BAND. Carriages and bicycles
checked free at the Illinois street entrance
Down town Reserved Seat Sale, Bates House
Drug Store.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Miss Grace Howard Mulcted.

CHAMBERLAIN, S. D.. June B-The
jury in the case Of Mrs. Millie Manoere
jos Howard. the New York journalist, for
alternating the affections of her husband.
Joseph Manoere, the jury brought in ver-
dict awarding Mrs. Manoere 1900 damages,
adding $1,000 exemplary damages The case
was bitterly contested. Miss Howard's
mother and sister from New York are here.
and remained lin the courtroom with her
during the trial, which developed many SEN
sational and dramatic features.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

and the number of dead increases every
day. The coal supply at Havana is nearly
exhausted, and what is left has been taken
in charge by Blanco, who has his officers
supervise consumption. The electric light
ing company recently received an order to
shut off its dynamos at O'Clock so that the
coal might be husbanded. After the hour al
which the electric light works shut down
Havana is now in darkness.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Three Girls Drowned.

DEFIANCE, o.. June 1S.-Alice Stitzei
and Matte and Minnie Corner were
drowned in the river near here last even
ing. The young wCnen went bathing and
got in deep water Their bodies were not
recovered until to-day
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

CLEVELAND. c., June 1S.-August Sui
ter, commission merchant dealing in but
ter and eggs made an assignment this even
ing. The assets and liabilities are placed at
SIS. .0O0
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

LICK OBSERVATORY. Mt. Hamilton
CAL, June Is = VOLTS periodic comet has
been found by Prof W. ]. Huffey with the
tnlrty-six- inch telescope. 1t was close tn
is predicted place and was found insfan ntlv
no attempt has as yet been made here ~
observe II The measurement Of It's position
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
ADJUSTMENTS.
ADJUSTMENTS.
D.ood White Rivers Pic.
Ia OOu turesque Park
R10nIo The Finest Picnic Grounds in
the State.
PHFk Boating. Swimming and Gen-
erai Park AmuSeme1ts
S1its for rent

BaCnlng suits 1or rent.
Passenger steamers Sunshine and Stella
make regular trips on White river
Take Indianapolis and Broad Ripple cars,
leaving Union Station every half hour. Sun
days and evenings, twenty-minute service,
with extra cars running from Thirty-fourth
street TO park, connecting with Illinois
street cars
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

James NJ. Hobsoli. jr.. brother of Lieu
tenant HobRon OF Merrimac fame. has
passed preliminary examination for ,idpais-
sioa to West Point.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
FORECAST FOR SUNDAY.
Fair Weather, with Light NortherIy
Winds, Predicted for Indiana.

WASHINGTON, June 1S.-Forecast for
twenty-four hours ending Sunday at IL D.
m: For Ohio-Cooler; southerly winds be-
coming northerly.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair; light
northerly winds
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Gen. and Mrs. R[arrison in the Enst.

NEW YORK. June 1S-Gen BENJAMIN
Harrison LETT the Fifth-avenue Hotel to-day
for Long. Branch. 1t is expected that he
will remain over Sunday at that resort.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19

under close guard. They were convinced
that the prisoner was the man who attempt
ed to blow up the ship.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
OPTICIANS.

was obtained. The comet was seen without
difficulty with the thirty-six-inch refractor,
but it would probably be quite faint with
some telescopes. 1t has central condes-
and one-half minutes long. The comet was
first discovered by Max Wolf of Heidel-
berg, in 1884. and was rediscovered by Spit
aler, in Vienna, in 1891. Its period is about
seven years.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
Local observations saturday.
ABSURD STORY.

c. f. r. WAPPENHANS,
Local Forecast Official.
The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19


She bears the name of John Rodgers, a
Maryland boy by birth, who died in this
city just sixty years ago. When he was
only twenty-eight years of age and a lieu
tenant in the navy he received a silver
medal from Congress in recognition of the
capture of the French frigate L'Insurgente
by the Constellation, of which he was ex-
ecutive officer. He fired the first shot by
his own hand in the war of 1872. Three days
after the declaration of hostilitiss he sailed
in the President in command of a squadron
to intercept the British West India fleet
and gave the British frigate Belvidere
running fight of eight hours, during which
he was wounded by the bursting c. a gun
on his own vessel. 1t was during that con-
test that he fired the first gun of the last
war between this country and Great Brit
ly to say the --latest" war between the
two countries but from present appear
anceS the word last" seems more aDpiica-
ble In that cruise or. rather, in a series
of four cruises of a similar character, Rod
gers captured twenty three vessels, includ-
Ing twelve audaciously taken In the Irish
channel. After the war he declined the Of
Rodgers, also received great distinction in
the navy. reaching the dignity OF rear adj
miral, and some may contend that the tor
pedo boat is named for hlIn. But then the
latter also had son, Christopher Raymond
Perry Rodgers, who also attained a rear ad-
miralship, and another SON. George Wash
ington Rodgers, who, while chief of stan
under Admiral Dahlgren, was instantly
killed during the attack on Fort Wagner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-10
NOTES a TEoUBLEsoME PROVISION.
One-C Cent Topographic Dispatch Tax Needs
Explanation. 1t Il Claimed.

HcTCal the paragraph in schedule y
imposing n tax OF 10 cents on "certi-
ficates of any description required by
law" because Of the difficulty and un-
certainty OF determining what certifi-
Gates are taxable. This provision has
occasioned more difficulty in its con-
struction and application than any 9TH
er provision in this schedule.
Amend the paragraph imposing l cent
on telegraphic dispatches so as to make
il definite and certain as to who is 10
affix and pay for the stamp. the tele-
graph company or the person who sends
the dispatch.
Amend section 20 so as to eliminate
from the section the provision that no
stamp tax shall be imposed upon any
uncompounded medicinal drug or chem
ical.
Amend the provision OF section p i'm
posing excise tax on persons. firms.
companies and corporations engaged in
refining petroleum and sugar so as to
require the tax to be assessed and paid
monthly.
Amend section 2S relative TO stamp
tax on parlor car and sleeping car tick
cts by providing a penalty for failure To
affix stamps No penalty is provided
as the law STANDS. as the tax is not i'm
posed under schedule \, where il prop
arly belongs