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The evening times., 1898-08-23
MORE SICK MEN AT HOME.
The Transport Leona Arrives With
Troops From Santiago.

Camp Wikof. Montauk Point. n. Y,
Aug. 23.-The transport Leona arrived
here last night from Santiago.
The Leona reported that when she sail
ed from Santiago on August I6 the trans
port City of Mexico was waiting In the
harbor to receive Gen Shafter and his
stan and bring them to Montauk. The
I-eona did not bring word of when the
City of Mexico would sail.
AT the time of the Leona's departure
from Santiago the Yale and the Catania
were In the harbor taking on troops and
were expected to follow within two or
three days. The Leona brought 52S men
or the Twelfth Regular Infantry. Ninth
Cavalry. Thirty-fourth Michigan yolun-
teer Infantry, Battery C of the Fourth
Artillery, and one battery of GatIinp
guns one hundred and four men are sick
OF malaria fever. but none of the cases
was reported as serious. There were no
deaths on board the ship on her VOYAGE.
anu her Dill OF health is clear of yellow
fever.
The number of tents erected already a,
botn hospitals is sufficient To receive all
the sick. The Ohvette sailed FOR Ros,nn
Yesterday with three hundred SICK on
BOARD and today the Rio Grande will
san FOR New York with as many more
The Red Cross yacht also left the bar-
Dor this morning with her fourth load of
twenty typhoid fever cases. Today thirty
patients who are conva!escent after ma
iar.al fever were discharged from the
hospital and returned TO their regiments
Three hundred in all will be discharged
this week
Last night the City of Macon attempted
TO get TO the iron pier without the aid NJ
tug. and ran aground few rods from
shore. The ship remained on the reef
with her soldiers within a stones throw
of shore. This morning the tugs PuIyer
and Brittanica pulled her Of
Among those released from quarantine
yesterday was Capt. William Astor Chan
Ter. assistant adiutant general on Gen.
Wheeiers stan. Capt Chanler resumed
his stan duties Immediately upon his re-
lease. He looks the picture of health
although he has had fever. Capt Chan
Ter likens the Cuban fever to African
jungle fever. but said that the Cuban
fever Is the more enervating of the two
and is oftener fatal.
The evening times., 1898-08-23

The New York newspapers are respon-
sible for the positive statement that the
regulars at Camp Wikoff, on Long Island,
are suffering for the necessaries of life.
They have received no pay for three
months and many are penniless. They
hang about the big luncheon counter at
the railroad station picking UP fragments
of sandwiches, drinking the heel taps OF
glasses of milk and the dregs of cups of
coffee" The supplies sent TO these poor
fellows. who fought so well at Santiago.
by philanthropic citizens. are directed to
the use of the contract surgeons. Is II.
then, impossible 10 treat our heroes like
the brave men that they are? No won
der the country is indignant and on the
verge of rebelling against incompetency.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
BELLBoY's sHREWD TRICK.
Secures S2.OOO From the Cashier of
q Chicago Hotel.

Chicago. Aug. 23.-A dozen detectives
are securing the city for young man
who armed with only a bright face and a
bell boys suit, accomplished a most sue
cessful robbery in broad daylight, and in
the presence of fifty or more people. ].
X Sebree. proprietor of the Hotels Nor
rison and Saratoga, is the loser.
Mr. Sebree yesterday gave Mrs. Bar
ber, cashier at the Saratoga, a check COW
ering the pay rolls of both houses. She
secured the cash at the bank and set to
work dividing 1t and putting it into sep
arate envelopes. She had barely COM
pleted her task when a good looking
young man, dressed in bell boys suit
and cap. stepped up to the desk and said:
"Mr. Sebree says to send him the payroll
and the money" The request was not
unusual, and the unsuspecting cashier
handed out the bundle of money-filled
envelopes. The bogus bell boy slipped
them into pocket and has not been seen
since.
The amount secured is not known, but
It is supposed to be about 5000.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
POLITICS IN NEW YORK.
ROOscvelt's BGGm Growing and Den.
Ocrats Never More HaI mOnfOus.

New York. Aug. 23.-Republican lead
ers are still talking about the governor
ship Black and Roosevelt are about the
only two names mentioned, although
Hamilton Fish is spoken of as a pos
sibility.
Leaders of the Citizens Union. which
last fall polled more votes for Seth Low
than the Republicans did for Gen. Tracy,
were sounded yesterday and found
TO be generally wiling TO support Roose-
Welt on Republican ticket. They would
not promise, however, to- support the
Republican candidates for State senate
and assembly. An effort may. be made
to use Roosevelt as bait to line them up,
for the whole ticket.
Roosevelt's boom up in the State is
growing rapidly. The Oneida obnniy
committee reports that the whole coun-
try side is calling for Roosevelt and SIM
liar expressions have been heard from
other places.
Elliott Danforth is the Democratic as
pirant with the most delegates to da.e.
but William Astor Chanler is reputed 20
be Croker's choice and can have the
Tammany delegation II he wants 1t.
There Is more harmony in the State De-
mocracy than there has been in years
and places on the ticket are regarded
as winning prizes by men who last year
begged off when offered them.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
FUsILLADES AT PHoEBUs.
Riots Near Newport News QueIfed
by Regular Troops.

Newport News. Va, Aug. 23.-Enough
shots were fired in Phoebus last night TO
kill fifty men, but fortunately no one
was fatally wounded. The disturbance
was precipitated by the shooting of a
sailor Sunday afternoon by a saloon
keeper.
Yesterday afternoon Sundays riotous
acts were renewed. AT o'clock Sheriff
Curtis went 10 Phoebus 10 restore order
and several members of the First Mary
land were locked up.
By S O'Clock a large crowd of soldiers
had gathered in Phoebus for the purpose
of liberating the prisoners.
Sheriff Curtis and his deputies had
been at the Jail but a short time when
the soldiers appeared and made a rush.
firing several shots. Sheriff Curtis gave
the order TO fire. The soldiers fell back.
After this skirmish the soldiers lef, and
soon afterward they had battle with
negroes. A number of shots were fired
and CHARLES Smith. a young negro, was
shot through the thigh. The soldiers as
sert tina; the negroes attacked them
None of the volunteers were injured.
Help has been asked for from Fort Mon
roe and detail of two hundred men
marched as rapidly as possible to Phoe-
bus. arriving there at 10 o'clock. Al II
o'clock comparative order had been re-
stored,
The evening times., 1898-08-23
MIsTooK WIFE FOR RoBBER.
A Sons Timely Help Saved Hi,
MOtser's Life.


Gloucester City, Pa, Aug. 23-While in
a somnambulistic state last night, John
Davidson arose from bed at his home, No.
726 Hunter Street. He imagined he heard
burglars, and his movements aroused his
wife. His talk about burglars led Mrs.
Davidson to believe that he had really
heard someone in the house, and she ran
into the adjoining room to arouse her son.
Meanwhile Davidson had procured his
revolver from a bureau drawer and start
ed to look for the marauders. Just as he
was leaving his room, Davidson, still
STEPPED in slumber. encountered his re-
turning wife. She then guessed the truth,
but before she could do anything to help
herself her husband pounced upon her,
crying:
Thief! burglar!''
The sleeping man beat his wife with
his fist and the butt of the pistol. Real
izing the horrible situation, young David
son sprang to the rescue. His parents
were in a terrible struggle within the
room. The blood was flowing from cuts
in his mothers head, and she was rapidly
becoming exhausted. The son frantically
cried to his father and grappled with him,
and held his arms. 1t was some time,
however, before the man could be awak-
ened from his strange stupor. When he
did awake finally and learned what had
happened. he was frenzied with grief and
unable to believe his senses.
DIR. Bake. a nearby physician, dressed
Mrs. Dayidson's injuries, which consist of
severe bruises of the head, but they are
not serious. Her sons prompt action un-
doubtedly saved her life.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
A Sensitive Admiral.

There was once a school in which
the scholars were required. when they
did anything wrong, to write a note to
the teacher and tell what they did and
give some excuse for it. The excuses
which some of the students at that
school manufactured, after years of
conscientious practice, were marvels of
beauty and ingenuity.
1t seems as if some of Admiral
SIMPSONS friends must have gotten
their education in this way. They
are now engaged, for the most part,
in making excuses for Simpsons con-
duct and the Navy Departments be-
havior in rewarding him for what he
did not do. The latest specimen Of
their work in that line begins some-
what in this way:
Admiral Sampson is very sensitive
man. His feelings have been greatly
hurt by the criticisms which have been
printed about him. The President ap-
preciates this-fact, and he knows that
Sampson is good man, and does not
deserve that his feelings should be
hurt. The way in which wicked news
papers persist in puncturing Sampson
with their horrible steel pens is griev-
ing the President very much. 1t is also
grieving Admiral Sampson. He is a
very sensitive plant, and the cold wind
of disapproval is bad for his nerves.
Consideration has been claimed for
a great many men in this war. on ac-
count of many and various things. The
War Department has claimed consider
alton because 1t did not know it's busi-
ness. The hospital service has asked
consideration because it did not know,
apparently, that there were going to
be any wounded in war Of humanity.
Some newspapers have asked consid-
Grafton because they did not get the
news when they ought to, and had to
copy it from their contemporaries who
were on the ground first. But this is
the first instance in which 1t has been
claimed that a man ought to be ad-
vanced eight numbers, over the heads
Of his elders and betters, because his
The evening times., 1898-08-23
Inconvenient yixftors.

When an American consul goes to a
country where there are many Ameri-
can residents, he has, of course, the
advantage of Engl;sh-speaking society,
and that is very pleasant. But there is
at least one consul in the service who
thinks that that state of affairs has its
evils like any other. There is near his
station a large colony of American
missionaries. He does not object to the
missionaries: far from it; they are
very nice people. and they own some of
the property which he is supposed to
protect, and some Of them, possibly,
think they own him. OF course they
do, SO far as a right to his services
Is concerned. He is there for the ex-
press purpose of taking care Of the
interests of his own countrymen.
1t happens. therefore, on account of
the number Of the missionaries and
their close proximity, and their interest
The evening times., 1898-08-23
Railway Travel in Vienna.
vienna letter to London Post.)


Though only part Of the new Yiennese Metro.
politan Railway has been opened, complaints Of
the treatment of the public the part of Of
ficias and the management appear in the news
papers. The German mind appears scarcely to
have yet conceived the notion of n railway in
any other light than a medium for the I'M
position of impressive regulations. There is a
fine for getting into the wrong train, there is
another for having no ticket, another for riding
with a ticket unpunched, and another for PIE
suming that you getting out at the proper
station when you have as a fact already passed
it. Mitigating circumstances are inadmssible in
this list of offenses. and the cuprit is promptly
ordered out Of the carriage, to be summarily
brought before the inspector on the plato m and
fined there and then, without the opportunity Of
making any effective protest. A woman passen-
ger has already made a sacrifice to this delight.
fully interesting system. The ticket was unpunch
ed through no fault Of the trembling culprit
policeman fetched. the woman taken pris-
oner and not released until she paid fine Of 5
shillngs The worst feature is that the victim
has no redress.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
HOMECOMING TROOPS.
Baltimore VIII He.or the Maryl.n
volunfeers.

Baltimore VIII Honor the MARYLAND
Volunteers.
Baltimore. Aug. H.-The plan to give q
public reception to Maryland's soldiers
and sailors on their return from the front
was Enthusiastically indorsed at meet
Ing held at the city hall yesterday after
noon.
Every prominent commercial and pa
triotic organization in Baltimore was
represented at the meeting, and there
was unanimous chorus Of approval over
the project
The meeting was held in the mayors
reception room. and large as that apart
ment is IL was none too large to accom-
nodate the number of BaItimoreans vbo
wish to honor in some way the brave
Marylanders who went to the front at
the call Of their country
The meeting was called on very short
notice. the cards of invitation not hay-
ing been sent out until last Friday, but
tho responses in person were generous
indeed. nearly 100 gentlemen attending as
representatives of over a score OF organ
izatfons. and these latter are the most
prominent institutions In the city, ranging
from the stock exchange to the business
mems Improvement associations in the
various parts of the city.
1t was just few minutes after I:3o d.
m, the advertised meeting hour, when
Mayor Malster walked into the room.
and. taking his stand at the chairman's
desk. raped for order. The mayor then
briefly stated the object of the meeting
Il need not tell you." he said. why
we honor these brave Maryland soldiers
&c NOT hScl n,%
les are doing the same thing, but be-
cause we feel II is our duty that we
should do IL. These young warriors are
In many cases our own blood relations
and we. therefore, feel an intense per-
sonal interest in the matter. But even
more. they are the representatives of our
glorious city and State and while they
have not had the chance TO distinguish
themselves as other troops have done
they were ready and anxious for the op-
portunity.- Tney showed that they were
made OF the right sort of stuff and have
reflected so much credit on our city and
State that we would be ungra;eful not
to recognize IL.
THAT Is why We are here today-to
begin planning for the reception of the
troops and sailors in a manner most be-
fitting the occasion"
Mr.. Malster then suggested the speedy
election of officers and appointment Of
comittees. so that work on the details
could be commenced at once The time
for preparations was short, he said, and
haste was necessary.
When the mayor finished speaking he
Capt. F. X. Ward of the
Fifth Regiment Veteran Corps, who an
that his organization had been
for some time to act as escort
TO the Fifth Regiment on its return from
the front. and that its members would
be most happy to join hands with this
general committee in furthering the
proposed reception. He also announced
that the Veteran Corps has been in cor
respondence with Col. Coale. of the Fifth
Regiment. relative to the date of its re-
turn. and would be glad to furnish any
1t received regarding this
important point TO the new committee.
The evening times., 1898-08-23

An appeal is made in behalf Of political
prisoners still confined in the jails at San
tiago. This is surprising. since a commits
sion began an investigation of the
charges against the inmates Immediately
after the surrender. The conditions were
purely Spanish. There were men In Jail
of whose trial and sentence no record
could be found and of whose alleged
crimes the prison oficials were ignorant
They had been kept there so long that
most of them were insane. 1t was sup
posed that every prisoner whose o1ense
was political had been released. Now the
statement Is made that Cuban sympathiz-
ers are still incarcerated in the filthy and
unwholsome cells. owing to the retention
of the local officials who are of Spanish
sympathies. II this Is the case, the Gu
bans have good cause to complain Of
American administration.
The evening times., 1898-08-23

in the consulate, that they make fire.
quent calls at the residence OF this off,
cial. They drop in Informally. just az
other English speaking residents do.
for in a foreign land all Americans are
at least half-brothers, even II one of
them comes from Maine and another
from Arizona, and q third from Chi
cago OF New York. The consul is. per-
sonally, glad to see them-especially
when he knows they are coming. But
he is a cheerful soul. and all Of his
friends are not missionaries. He has
the reputation Of making the best cock
tail in his part of the country, and that
American cocktail has cheered the soul
of many a weary pilgrim-not Bum
yam pilgrim-in a thirsty land. His
wife is interested in art. and some Of
her pictures are by Burne-Jones and
Watts, and the naughty French school
who draw Trilbys. And both the con-
sui and his wife are afraid that the
missionaries would not understand
these things. So they keep a small
boy on top of the house at all times
when callers are possible, and when
he sees a missionary coming he fits
downstairs and reports. and there is
wild scramble to get those decanters
and those nymphs into dark closets
and under the sideboard before the
visitors arrive. 1t is rather hard on
the consul and his wife to be kept in
such a state of qui vive. but there
seems to be no way out Of 1t. The
missionaries are influential, and the
consul does not want to hurt their
feelings. On the other hand, there are
other influential people in the camp,
and if the consul became converted
and put away all cocktails and all
Burne-Jones pictures, then his friends
who were not missionaries would de-
sert him. This is one more evidence
that the life of consul, when his head
is loose and not sure to stay on. and
his constituents are various, is not all
beer and skittles.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
DEWEY CUTS THE PRICE.
Rope Will he Cheaper by Half Be-
cause of Manila Victories.

Pittsburg. Pa. Aug. 23.-It is believed
that Dewey's victories at Manila will re-
duce the price of rope and cordage over
80 per cent, by releasing thousands of
bales of hemp which have been lying a,
Manila. destined for New York, Boston
and Philadelphia.
Oil operators who purchase corda pe
here will reap benefits from the victories.
although 1t will probably be six months
before the new stock is received in this
country.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
HAVING FUN WITH A SHERIFF
Escaped Prisoner Telephones He
Will Return Soon.

Bloomburg. Pa. Aug. 23.-William Hol-
ler one of the prisoners who. in compa-
ny with Stephen Mensinger, escaped from
the Columbia County Jail on the night of
August 13, is having considerable fun with
Sheriff Black just now. The sheriff has
had posse out securing the country for
him ever since his escape.
A few days ago ne wrote the sheriff a
letter and he telephoned from Haucks.
Pa, to the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad station agent at this place. and
told him to inform Mr.. Black not to give
himself an uneasiness. as he would come
back soon. He was in jail charged with
breaking into and. robbing store. and
also wanted by the United States au-
thorities for robbing the postofice at Nu-
remburg. a small town near Hazleton.
The county commissioners about
week ago offered "a reward for the appre-
hension of the prisoner. but no one has
been able to locate them. Mensinger's
wherea bouts are unknown to the au-
thorities. He is the young man who was
last spring tried and acquitted for the
murder of his father.
The evening times., 1898-08-23
Spain Wants to Know.

The Spanish ministry also wants
more light on the extraordinary state
of things at Manila 1t is disturbed by
the report that the insurgents are still
fighting, though who is the fightee they
do not know. Also. the dispatch from
General Jaudenes that the Americans
are generous" is source Of perplexity,
since the word generous is too mild to
convey an idea of the degree of BROTH
erly affection that marked the alleged
surrender The whole business is con-
fused, and an attempt to unders and it
without further information means
nervous prostration.
The Americans and SeDhiards are in
side the city, the former-in considern-
ton of the agreement to provide the
latter with rations-being in charge.
The Spaniards, however, are not pris-
oners to the Americans, and have
stacked arms only temporarily. with
out losing the ownership of guns. am
munition and other materials OF war.
The insurgents, in full panoply, are
masters of the suburbs, and not even
General Merritt can leave the city for
a stroll in the country lanes without
a pass from Aguinaldo. In effect, the
insurgents have both Americans and
Spaniards shut up in the town and can
cut off the water supply at will.
Whether General Merritt's commissary
issues rations to Aguinaldo is not stat
ed, but it is altogether probable.
If there is any object in having the
good will of the Spanish officials and
people, Madrid should be informed of
Jaudenes. We are prodigal of friend
ship. There is one danger, however. in
allowing Spain to know the terms Cen
eral Merritt made at Manila The
Spaniards are almost certain to as
sumo that General Merritt doubted his
ability to capture the city and agreed
to anything General Jaudenes was dis
posed to suggest in order to give de-
lusive appearance of surrender; and
that hunger alone, which the Ameri-
cans consented to appease. induced the
Spanish general to go through the form
Oh cdpItuldlloii. AZ SdSdStd uOtN hol
feel bound by the signing of the proto-
col to effect a treaty of peace if cir
cumstances favor a renewal of hostili-
ties, this may stiffen his spinal col
umn.
Spain believes Toral allowed himself
tiago, and it is not clear that this is
not true. There is suggestion of a
court-martial for that officer. 1t must
appear to Spanish eyes that Jaudenes
also was over-persuaded, as there was
not fighting enough to make his defeat
positive: but he made much better
terms than Toral In any light it is all
a very funny business and more Ike
sham than real war in its results.