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Evening star., 1898-08-30
TROOPS IN CAMP.
General EOynt0ns Favorable Report
on Chickamauga.


CHICKAMAUGA- A-CHATTANOOGA Ma
TIONAL MILITARY PARK, Tenn, Au-
gust 3o-Gen. H. V. Boynton. chairman of
the Chiekamauga-Chat National
Park commission. ordered by the War De-
partment to thoroughly investigate. the. co1-
-ditions at Camp Thomas and report there
on, has completed his report and forwarded
it to Washington. The report is favorable
on nearly every matter investigated. The
water is said to be good. the ground well
adapted for camping purposes. the hospitals
well located and the attention given the
sick good could be expected.
The indications that the. report will
bring on a warm dispute, numerous
statements contained therein are contra
Cicted by high army officials. The full text
of the report is expected to be made public
by the government officials after they have
passed on it. Owing to a slight and un-
expected hitch which has occurred between
the army officials and the railroads, the
work of moving the 1st corps to Annistou,
Ala. has not yet begun. Two regiments,
the 1st Mississippi and Sd Tennessee, are
expected to go tomorrow.
1t is the intention of the officials to hare
the seven artillery batteries away from the
park within forty eight hours. but Maj. At
We'll, who is in command. states that this
VIII be almost impossible. The batteries
VIII not be mustered out here, but will be
sent to their respective states. The two
Georgia batteries will go TO Camp North
ern, Griffin, Ga, where they We're mustered
in.
The 4th Ohio will probably go into. ca,np
ar Columbus, until mustered out. but il Is
not yet known il st where the Indiana bat
terry will go.
Evening star., 1898-08-30

Proposals Received for Transfer of
Ground to District.

Proposals to sell to the District sites far
three school buildings were opened: today
at the District building. In advertising for
bids for a site for the new manual training
school building 1t was stated that the. site
must DE located near the Central Migh
School-that is, between VI and r streets
and 9TH and 9th streets northwest
For this building Rosenberg & CO. offered
three sites ut SAL 100, S4S,50e and 81, 400.
Burgess & Nash offer lots ranging from
$50 to s. per foot; James F. Scaggs and
w. D. Hoover offer lots in square 40 at
So 400; Beck & Weller offer lots at s4s,0so
and $1,000. The sites must contain at least
1000 square feet.
For the school site in the third division
Charles ~ Shields offers four lots in su,1sre
16o, ranging in value from 3d. i2J to SD 1t,s:
Scagss and Hoover. lots in squares 9o4 and
Sif at Si-2J per square foot; Westcott, Will
cox and Heiston, lot in square SAT, at
S1,t59: NJ. 1. Weller. five lots ranging in
value from Sl4350 to $4,000; Joseph B.
Bailey, lot at 80 cents per square foot.
The third division is in the southeastern
section of the city.
For a school site in the northeast: An
drew Wilson and Mary A McCallum. ~
cents per square foot; William Dickson one
lot, at 60 cents foot and one at IS I'll.
w. H. Barnes & Co., G5 cents a square foot
John Miller, square 1853, 80 cents per
square foot; B. n. Meads, 81 cents square
foot; j. b. Bailey, 10 cents 4 squara- foot:
b II. Warner, three lots i Roseiiale, an
from $500 to $1,000, one lot in square 1890.
40 cents a square foot: Thomas W Smitt,
lot in Rosedale. 5000; II. H. Elliott. two
lots, S7.o65.23 and 81 965.a6; NJ l. Weller,
two lots al 311s and 30 cents a square foot.
C. c. Duncanson, lots at s3,6oe and Si,Oej
in square 1890 and one in square IOIo at
p cents a square foot.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
SIGNAL CORPS IN PORTO RICO.
oh spanish Evacuation Will Take
the Telegraph Lines

The War Department has received I'D
vices from Porto Rico on the work heinz
done by the little army of signal service
men on the island. There are 300 of tbeso
men now there and they will have TO as
sumo the control and operation of the s,ov-
eminent lines of telegraph The lines now
OF course. are operated by the Spaniards
but when the possession of the island is
transferred to the United States the signal
service will have to take charge until the.
future status Of the system is determined
This government always has been on
posed 10 government telegraph system
and signal service officials say it is NOT
HhpfoDdoIe that the lines in the new island
possession Will be eventually sold to private
enterprise through bids for its purchase
1IiS, however, NJ not yet been taken I'D
OincidIly and COVE nment control will have
10 De assumed at least until the ultimate
disposition is deter mined at all the offices
on lhc entlTe telegraph system of Porto
Rico Blue print diagrams of the system
nave been forwarded here to the signal
service authorities They show that ASIDE
from line that runs irregularly along the.
coast thtrc are TWO lines running directly
north and south and others, forming a net
Work through the island The principal
Telegraph stations which the signal service
VIII have to man, are at San Juan. from
which there is a double line to Ca:,lIa :
Porcc. from which there is also a double
A4Iie 10 tile ShoFef Mayaguez, Gauco, Quay
anna, Arroyo, Humacao. Faiardo Agrad-
lila, Arecibo. CtuaTdo, Rio Piedras, Cayey
AibonitO and Ciates.
While there is much work to be done in
the way OF extending and operating the
telegraph lines in the newly-acnuired NOS
sessions. signal service officials say there
Is no difficulty in securing enough men.
OF the 800 men now in Cuba, il is claimed.
two companies could be withdrawn for
other fields without detriment. A number
OF the volunteers i'll the corps have asked
10 be discharged, and where their requests
are well founded they will be complied
with
Colonel Allen, chief signal service officer
on General Miles staff. and in charge of
signal service work in Porto Rico wired
mat ne Will sail from Ponce for the United
States today. Colonel Allen has been in
charge OF the signal service work in Porto
Rico He is in poor health and is coming
back 10 recuperate- Lieut.. Colonel Glass
lord. next III rank, will take command of
the signal corps there
Evening star., 1898-08-30
Washington stoc. Exchange.

Sales-regular call-I2 O'Clock m.-United States
3s l90o at l04is. $500 at lo45s. West End Ma
uenal Bank, 10 mt 81. Mergenthaler Linotype, 10
at 1so. American Graphophore, pfd.. ; at l3la.
Pneumatic Gun Carriage, loo at 25c. 100 at 25c
District Of Columbia B1nds.-2u-y year Funding 5s
ing currency 365s, 1l3 bid.
Miscellaneous Bonds.-Metropoltan Railroad IS
lls1a bid Metropolitan Railroad conv. Gs. 12J
bid. 125 asked. Metropolitan Railroad certificate
of Indebtedness A, ia bid. Metropolitan Reilrund
certificate of indebtedness, Il. IG9 bid. Columbia
Railroad es 122 bid. 126 asked. BELT Railroad
5s 4s bid. IS asked. lexington Railroad Gs loo
bid, 1o5 asked Washington Gas COMPANY. ser A.
6s 113 bid. Washington Gas Company ser H. Gs
1l3L bid. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone SIS
log bid. American Security and Trust rs. l005s
bid. Washington Market Company LIST 6s. 10 bid
Masonic Hall Association rs. los bid. Washington
National Bank Stocks.-Bank Of Washington. $50
bid. Metropolitan. 3o5 bid. Centrnl. l40 bid
Farmers and Mechanics; lso bid Second. l4o bid
Citizens, l40 bid. Columbia. 130 bid. Capital
100 bid. West End. 80 bid, 50 asked. Lincoln.
lis bid. 12l asked.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies National
Safe Deposit and Trust, ll3 bid, 1l6 asked Wash
ington Loan and Trust. 126 bid. American Secur-
ity and Trust, 150 bid.
Insurance stocks:-Firemen's, % bid. Franklin,
37ls bid. Metropolitan 10 bid. Corcoran, 80 bid.
Potomac. 5sS. bid Arlington. 122 bid. German
American, 1855 bid. National Union. 10 bid. Co
lumba 10 bid. Riggs, ~ bid. : asked. People, g,
: bid. Ss h'ne0in' 's DID, 10 asked Commercial
Title Insurance stocks.-Real Estate Title, Al
bid. Columbia Title Az bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks.-Capitai Traction Company, 73k
bid. "a asked Metropolitan t22 bid.
Gas ana Electric Light Stocks Washington Gas,
As bid 10 asked Georgetown Gas, 4s bid. United
States Electric Light, l0l bid 104 asked.
Telephone Stocks.-chesapeake and Potomac. IS
bid.
Miscellaneous Stocks. - Mergenthaler Linotype,
1S4 y bid, 1854 asked. Lanston MoDotype, l4s
bid. 10 asked Americna Graphopbone. l3 bid.
Pneumatic Gun Carriage, .25 bid, &c asked. Great
Falls Ice. Ito bid, 122 asked.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
PRIVATE BALDMAN,s DEATH
TWO Other District Volunteers Sic,
Near Baldman's Late Home.

The death of Private Adolphus J. Bald
man of Company B, 1st District Regiment.
which occurred while the troops were en-
route from Santiago to Montauk, was an
nounced to his father. Mr. Henry Bald
man of 2O2 Maryland avenue northeast, in
a teiegram from Corporal Leonard Bald
man, also of Company B. and brother of
the dead man. Private Baldman was
twenty-six years old and unmarried He
had resided here all his life, where he was
widely known and highly thought Of His
mother received a letter from him August
Il, dated July 22 at Santiago, in which he
said he was in good health
Only few doors away from the Bald
man residence on Maryland avenue north
east at NO. 30, two other District yolun-
teers are suffering from the dire el.ects
or the Cuban campaign. They are brothers.
Sergeant Claude |. Dawson and Musician
Noble Dawson. Sergeant Dawson went to
cuba as postal clerk with Mr.. Eben
Brewer, but was taken ill shortly before
MI Brewer died, and was sent home. He
suffered a relapse week ago, but is now
improving.
Musician Dawson, who is but sixteen
years Old, was taken i'll aboard the trans
port on the way to Porto Rico, where he
was ordered after the fall of Santiago. He
has been very i'll of typhoid fever, but is
slowly improving.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
PLEASED WITH CONDITIONS
Result Of Visits to Camps Alger and
Thomas.
representative GrosvenOr ma Semi
tor Allen Say Soldiers Complain
MOskt of Detention.

Representative Grosvenor of Ohio called
at the War Department today in company
with ex-Representative Thompson to re-
port to Secretary Alger the results of tLeir
visit of inspection of the camp at Dunn
Loring and particularly of the state OF af-
fairs in the case of the 7th Ohio Volunteer
regiment Gen. Grosvenor was emphatic
in his approval of what he saw. He said: :
Il never saw body Of soldiers better fed,
better clothed and better sheltered than is
the 1th Ohio Regiment at present. So
much for the general condition. Now as to
particulars: There were 1 600 men in the
regiment. Except from suicide there have
been but two deaths among them since the
organization, four and a half months ago.
Including the men who were furloughed to
go home and recuperate, and those in the
hospitals, there were but forty-one men
not able to report for duty yesterday morn
Ing. A finer, ADLER set of IEen L never saw
in my life"
Continuing, Gen. Grosvenor said that the
dissatisfaction among the soldiers was all
traceable to the fact that they had not
been able to get to the front. Yet those
VINO mad gone from among the Ohio troops
mac suffered very much more in men lost
and sick than those whose condition at
Dunn-Loring had been reported to be so
bad On the whole, the general was salts
fled that the men were very much better
off than were the soldiers in the civil war.
This last view was shared by Senator
Allen of Nebraska, who called at the War
Department to get some news of the
whereabouts of the I'd Nebraska Regiment,
which he was told was on it's way from
Chickamauga for Omaha. He said the
main complaint among The men was of
their enforced detention a. the camps in
stead of being at the front but that so far
as their physical condition was concerned.
while the men had suffered d good deal at
Camp Thomas, so far as he could Judge
from his own experience in the civil war
they were certainly No worse off than the
soldiers then engaged.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
NOT YELLOW FEVER.
DR.. Senn Predicts Typhoid Epide EN- ic
in n Few Weeks


NEW YORK. August 30.-Medical officers
at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, deny that
there have been deaths at the camp hos
pital from yellow fever. The two men
whose deaths there yesterday were said to
be attributable to the disease named were,
according to the surgeons in charge, VIC
Tins of pernicious malarial fever, which
those unfamiliar with yellow fever fire.
quently diagnose as the latter. DR.. Nicho-
las Sem. assistant surgeon general, u s.
A, is quoted as saying today at Camp Wi
koff:
In justice to the camp 1 want to say
that almost none of the sickness among
the soldiers up to the present time and
none of the deaths have been due to the
conditions which now prevail here or have
in the past. Sickness has been almost en-
tirely limited to fevers contracted in the
south, and the death rate would have been
much more than now had the men re-
manned in the south instead of being
brought here.
Defense of the Camp.
''The change of climate lessened the ef-
fects of the fevers and improved the con-
dition of the men. AS a consequence. the
only sickness which can be attributed to
this camp is dysentery or lesser troubles
which may have been caused by the change
of diet or water.
oo lar none OF the IeVerS has been in
digenous to the camp. But if the men re-
main they will certainly be attacked with
typhoid fever. This will be due N the
germs which they will get in the water,
For a time this camp will be healthy one
but in few weeks the typhoid fever
germs from the sinks and cesspoo1s now
scattered so thickly about, will permeate
the earth and contamnate water sunpIv
ITO make this place healthy we shou,d
have system of drainage which would
carry away all these germs hut TO h,fi1d
such would cost large sum, owing TO the
extent of the camp"
Several hundred cots arrived last nigh,
and were this morning put up in the dif-
ferent hospitals. There is now enough
room to accommodate all the sick Con-
valescents are being discharged daily from,
the hospital and their places are being
taken by the SICK from the transports.
Mrs. Katharine Tingley, president of the
International Brotherhood, a Theosonhist
Society, has established a relief tent about
three-quarters of a mile from the Monta,1k
Point depot. There are four female and
seven male nurses in attendance and tbara
are twenty sick in-the tent 1t Is a nIace
where furloughed soldier may stop on his
way to the depot and secure something to
eat gratis.
A Mothers Search.
Mrs. NJ E. Bell of Chicago is here look
ing for her son. Dieloyne N. Bell of Troon
L of the Rough Riders. He was stricken
in Cuba with fever and was taken to the
hospital at Siboney. He was to have come
north on the Catania. but suffered from a
relapse, and was left behind. Mrs. Rel re-
ceived word that he had arrived at Boston
on the Olivette, and she went there. onlv
to find that the information was incorrect
Then she came here, but as vet has
learned nothing as to the Whereabouts of
her son.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
Baltimore Markets,

BALTIMORE, August 30-Flour dull unchanged
receipts, 0S24 barrels; exports To- 1872 barrels;
sales. $50 barrels. Wheat dull-spot and month,
I0tsaI04s; September, 69si ia6Sk; October 6,ss a
6ess; December, 61l4a674i: steamer No. 2 red 6ia
64ti-receipts I3,6si bushels; exports. none
stock, III 6 bushels sales, 2s. 600 bushes-south-
ern wheat by sample. 65aTI; do. on grade. ssa
sols Corn tirmer-spot and month. 34Aas4I4
mixed, Aaa3la-receipts, 2i7, ,T76 bushels: ex.
ports. 12S. 4ol bushels; stock. 7eo s03 bushels
sales. .2.oo0 bushels-southern white corn. 33a35;
do yellow, 341.a35- Oats easier-No. 2 white
western. "a. sales; Ne. mixed do, "a, sales-re-
septs. 81, ,1l3 bushels: exports. none; stock 49,
256 bushels Rye frmer-No. nearby, Al; No. 2
western. receipts, 7,o3s bushels; exports none;
stock. 81 .55s bushels. Hay steady>-No. timothy
steamers; parcel room quiet, unchanged Sugar
strong unchanged. Butter steady, unchanged
Eggs firm, unchanged Cheese steady, unchanged.
Lettuce 7sc. per busheI box. Whisky unchanged.
Evening star., 1898-08-30

The facts as known at the War Denart
Ient in reference to the departure of
Lieut.. Johnston and his detachment from
the camp of General Gomez do not cores
pond with the reports telegraphed from
Havana and published this morning.
When the Wanderer sailed from the
Florida coast on her last trip with supplies
for Gomez and the Cubans she carried
orders TO Lieut.. Johnston to remove his
cstdchrneat ard return to the United
states The orders were not made public
at the time because the war was NOT over
at that time and it was not deemed pr1dent
TO allow the Spaniards to know that a de-
tachmcnt of UEited States soldiers was
eb2ot 10 cake ship for the United States
ana because general secrecy was main
tanned regarding expeditions to the Cubans
unth they were accomplished. 1t is stated
that Lieut.. Johnston withdrew from CO.
lnezs camp on direct orders from the War
DepartIn snt, and II Is not likely that he
"as ordered away by Gomez
Evening star., 1898-08-30
MERRITT FOR PARIS.
General and STAFF Left Manila ON the
China Today.

MANILA, Philippine Islands, August 30
here today, having on board Major General
Merritt and his staff.
The general is bound for Paris where he
will take part in the Spanish American
peace conference. Major General Otis is
acting governor of Manila.
Generals Greene and Babcock, with their
staffs. are bound for Washington.
Opacible, the insurgent leader, is going
to Hong Kong, in order to confer with the
inSurgent junta there. He will receive
Aguinaldo's final instructions by cable.
Agonillo, another of the insurgent lead
ers is going to Washington.
1t is considered probable that the insur-
gent junta Of Hong Kong will send dele
gate, to the Paris peace conference.
Insurgents Visit Manila.
Aguinaldo remains at Bakor.
Hundreds of unarmed insurgents visit
ed Manila yesterday. Rear Admiral Dewey
has declined to permit the coastwise
steamers to resume running, pending set
tlement of the Philippine question.
Gen. Rios, the Spanish governor of the
visayas Islands, is reported to have pro-
claimed himself governor-gencral of the
Spanish dominions in the Philippine Is
lands. and to have invited the adherents Of
Spain to rally at Iloilo.
The remains of E. H. Rawson- Walker,
the former British consul here, which had
been temporarily lodged in the Catholic
cemetery were inferred today in the Prot
estant cemetery.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
REVIEWS THE CONTEST.
Potomac. Electric Power Comma
Asks. for Injunction

fOtOul0C. ELECTRIC rover Cn1nn0r, "
Asks for Injunction.
The Potomac Electric Power Company To-
day renewed it's fight against the United
States Electric Lighting Company by filing
suit in equity against the company and
the District Commissioners. Messrs. John
B. Wight, John w. Ross and Lansing II
Beach, asking that the Commissioners NAV
be enjoined temporarily and perpetuaIly
from granting to the United States Electric
Lighting Company any permits in pursu-
ance Of its several applications to Construct
any new, enlarged or additional conil1its in
the streets mentioned in the applications
The court is further asked to enioin tha
United States Electric Lighting Company
from proceeding under the permit issued to
it by the Commissioners August 20.
Further Injunction Is asked to restrain
the defendant company from LAYING con-
duits in any street, avenue, road or reser-
vation until Congress shall provide for n
conduit system, or except as Congress NAV
specifically authorizs by law, and that the
Commissioners be zenjoined from issuin =
permits for any work bf this charac ter
until such time.
Justice Bradley granted 4 Temporary re-
straining order. setting the case for q. hear
ing September L
Evening star., 1898-08-30
Two Wills Filed for Probate.

The will of James J. Flanagan, dated
June 10, 1893, was filed today for probate.
All of his estate is bequeathed to his daugh-
ter, Mary Eliza Flanagan. who is also nam
ed as eXeeutriX.
The will Of George o. CLAWS, dated May
2S. 1885, with codicil, was also filed The
American Security and Trust Company is
named as executor and the estate divided
among children and near relatives.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
Naval orders.

Chief Engineer J. L. d. Borthwick. re-
tired, has been relieved from duty at the
Chicago recruiting rendezvous and ordered
home.
Chaplain F. c. Brown has been detached
from the Columbia and ordered home.
Lieutenant H. H. G. Billiard. from the
Columbia to the Naval Academy.
Lieutenant G. H Stafford, from the Co
IL mbia to the Yankee.
Lieutenant ]. A. Updell, from the Lam
caster and home.
Lieutenant w. J. Maxwell. from the Co
lumbia to the Yankee.
Lieutenant W. 3. Duncan, from the Yam
kee and home.
Lieutenant F. L. Boyce. detached from
command of the Rainbow and ordered to
the navy yard, Norfolk.
Lieutenant p. Herndon and Lieutenant j.
8. Waters. from the Tacoma and home
Encign E. H. Gibbons has been honor
ably discharged.
Evening star., 1898-08-30
IMPORTANT ARMY CHANGES.
Gen. Merritt and Others Who vii
Leave Manila.

1t was learned at the War Department
this afternoon that several imuortant
changes are about 10 be made in the mil
itary service at Manila.
Major General Merritt. commanding, is
coming home to attend the peace. confer
eIce At Paris.
Brig. Gen. Greene of the volunteer. army
Is coming home to be mustered out. Brig.
Gen. Babcock has been ordered to- ft,,tsra at
San. francisco. Maj. Simpson of the adiu-
taat general's department has beem ar
9erea To " Washington for duty in the War
Evening star., 1898-08-30
PREMIERS MAY MEET
Possible Outcome of Emperor Mich
olas' Peace Proposal.
PERHhPSTHEO OOVEREIGNO THEMSELVES
Copenhagen Probably the Place
for the Conference.
Major DAVIS VIEW

LONDON, August 30.-The newspapers
here continue to devote a large amount of
their space to comment upon and criticism
of the czar's peace note. While. naturally,
differing in regard to the reasons actuating
the appeal. they generally agree that the
outcome will be conference of the pre-
sniers, if not of the sOvereigns themselves,
probably at Copenhagen which will be fol-
lowed by all expression of concurrence in
the humanitarian aims of the czar and a
report of the resolutions 10 their respective
governments. when the whole thing will be
shelved indefinitely.
The latest comments from Paris show
that there is intense irritation there on the
subject. The cars proposal is regarded as
being unfriendly- and inconsistent with the
Franco-Russian alliance
Curiously enough, in support of this view,
todays official Hamburg Correspondent
publishes g telegram from st. Petersburg
confirming the report that Emperor VII lam
Of Germany and the czar exchanged views
In regard to the establishment of lasting
state of peace, which was fully demon
Btrated by he identity of the monarchs
wishes
Evening star., 1898-08-30
Col. John o.Byrne Dead.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, August 3O.-Col
John O'Byrne is dead at his home in this
city, after a short Illness. He was born in
Dublin in 1925 and at the age of twenty
three entered the army in Ireland