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The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
FLYING SQUADRON
Left Hampton Roads and Is Sailing
Under Sealed Orders Toward
Spanish FlOtilla.

OLD PoINr COMFORT, Va, April 13.-
Orders were issued this morning to the
Flying Squadron at Hampton Roads to
sail south at 2 o'clock.
The orders under which the squadron
sailed were sealed.
Shortly before O'Clock a gun was fired
and the signals set calling all hands on
board. Commander Schley meanwhile
had gone ashore to say goodbye to his
wife and daughter.
1t is given out officially that the flying
squadron is merely sent out on forty
eight hours practice cruise. Those who
are in position to know assert that the
true mission of the squadron is to inter-
cept the Spanish tlotilla and warships.
1t is the impression at the department
that the squadron will go outside OF the
capes and there await.any further orders
which may be sent to it by despatch
boat.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
GOVERNMENT SHIPS.
The Gloucester and Fairfax Now In
the Service OF Uncle sam.
Built Here.

The board of naval officers appointed
by the Navy Department to examine
merchant craft, with view OF acquiring
those which are suitable for naval pur-
poses, has recommended to the depart
ment that the steamers Howard, Glou
cester and fairfax, of the Merchants and
Miners Transportati Company Of
Baltimore be purchased by the govern
ment and added to the fleet of auxiliary
cruisers.
These vessels are built of steel and are
moderately fast, their speed being esti-
mated at about Is knots. Their descrip-
tiOns are:
Howard-G Gross tonnage, 2,55l.3S; net
tonnage l,757l6; length, 270 feet; beam.
l.: feet; depth, l6 feet; nominal horse
power, 2,4O0. She was built in 1925 by
Harlan 4 Hollingswortl Company.
Gloucester--Gross tonnage, 2,o4l 81;
net tonnage, 1869; length, 272.7 feet;
beam, AZ feet; depth, l6 feet; horse
power, $500. She was built by the
Maryland Steel Company, at Sparrow's s
Point, in 1893.
Farfax-Gross tonnage, 2,551.39; net
tonnage, 1,075.3l; length; 270 feet; beam,
AZ feet; depth, 1862; nominal horse
power, ., 400. In 1891 she was built at
Wilmington by the Harlan K Hollings
worth Company.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
UNDER HEAVY BAIL.
DR.. James Ii. WEIGH Charged With
Criminal Malpractice, Gives Bond
in the Sum of $4,000.

In Municipal Court yesterday morn
ing DR.. James Il. WEIGH, of this city,
was arraigned on the charge of murder
in the second degree, in causing the
death of Ella McCarraha, OF Philadel-
phia.
The woman died in the Philadelphia
Hospital on Monday last, as the result,
she alleged, OF criminal operation per-
formed on her in Wilmington, on March
25 last, by the defendant.
John Biggs ESD, represented the
physician and waived hearing for the
upper court.
Deputy States Attorney Cooper asked
that DR.. Welch be held in $1,000. The
bail asked was 81, 900 for murder in the
second degree and ~, 900 for malpractice.
Mr.. Biggs considered the bail excessive.
Bal! was fixed at $4,000.
William Forbes and Tax Collector
Eugene Sayers became bondsmen-ior DR..
We,ch
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
APPOINTMENTS MADE.
Pastors Who Will Labor In Delaware
Under the Decree of the Mary
land Conference.

On Tuesday evening the seventietf
annual session of the Maryland Confer
ence OF the Methodist Protestant Church
came to an end at Lafayette Avenue
Church, Baltimore, with the reading o.
the list of appointment by President A.
D. Melvin.
Rev. T. O. Grouse, who was left with.
out pastorate by the congregation Of
Chatsworth Church, resolving to enter
the Methodist Episcopal Conference, was
sent to Harrington, Del, succeeding Rev.
J. L. Straughn, who goes to Delmar.
In Washington Rev. r. s. Rowe sue
ceeds Rev. Louis Randall at North Caro-
line Avenue Church, the latter going to
Dover, DEL, where he succeeds Rev. T.
P. Revelle, who is sent to Alexandria. J,
Other Delaware appointments were:
Clayton, J. E. Nicholson; Delmar, ]. i.
Straughn; Dover and Leipsie, Louis Ran
dali: Frederick, G. II. Farrins; FELTON,, +.
B. Taylor; Frederick, W.. Livingston;
Georgetown, D. c., W. s. Hammond;
Georgetown, DEL, J. H. s. Ewell;
Georgetown Circuit, (To be supplied J
Grove, w. B. Judetind; Greenwood, A.
8. Beane; Laurel, +. C. Klein; Seaford, S.
J. Smith; Sussex, q. r. McCready;
Union Bringe, J. ]. Murray; Union B. F.
Jester; Wilmington, G. L. Wolf.
The committee on church extension re.
ported that First Church, Wilmington,
had declined further aid from the funds
of conference, and Chincoteague and
Queen Anne's would not ask for outside
aid for their pastors.
Georgetown, Del, was recommended
to be set off as a charge for a married
man, while the appointments-Hebron
and Providence - are constituted as
Georgetown Circuit. .
Jones Memorial, Bethe! and York
Road Mission were left in the hands Of
the president for his care. Violettsville
was made a separate charge.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
SPANS DEFIANCE
Their Cabinet Refuses to Acknow.
ledge the Rights of the United

MADRID, April l3,--At meeting o
the Cabinet last night the message o
President Mckinley was considered
Senor .Gullon, Minister OF Foreign AT
fairs, afterward made report to his de-
partment 1t was that the Spanish
Government refuses to acknowledge the
right OF the United Stats to interfere in
Cuba. 1t adds:
"The doctrines contained in the mes
sage are incompatible with the sover
eighty and rights of the nation, and are
an interference in the internal affairs OF
this country. r
'The Spanish Government, however,
expressed the opinion that it is not called
upon to take action until the recon
mendations Of President Mckinley have
become specific acts."
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
ON THE COLD, COLD World
10
Letter Mailed In Strict Conf
dence'' Is Published.
AND THEY WERE FRIENDS
What Will Fred Eden Bach Say
When the .Git-TOgether Club
Meets on Saturday Now
the Question.

1t is an open question whether the
Git-Together Club" or the Lincoln
Club, all alleged Republican. organiza.
tion will long survive the existence
which it has maintained since February
II of the present year. NJ
Althoug gh Mayor II. G.. McLear, Of the
city of Wilmington, is the supposed
president the gentleman who appears tc
have all the git" in him at this time is
apparently Fred Eden Bach, who has
charge fthe rural postal stations under
the supervision OF Uncle Sam.
Fred recently issued an absolute con-
tidence" letter to the dissatisfied Office
grabbers in the "Git-Together Club
They, instead OF sharing the strict
confidence imposed in the epistle,
"peached," and yesterday the full text
Of tie letter was given out for publica.
ton.
Mr.. Bach states in the communication
that the inception OF the organization
dates as far back as February 18th, 1893
that it has secured ample headquarters
at 90S King street, Wilmington; that its
members have pledged themselves to be
banded together for three years, and
that the principle object of the Cit
Togethera is to recruit the Republican
party in this county and state and thus
secure victory at the polls at every
future election.
How Mr.. Bach and "Yours in abso-
lutte confidence friends" can expect to
do this when the first letter issued is
thrown on the cold, cold world bv these
friends is a question.
The many dissatisfied Office and would
be office holders in the Lincoln Club
have many sins to answer for, and they
will no doubt find this out when they
are forced to meet Mr.. Bach at a regular
session OF the club to be held on Satur-
day evening. :,
It is predicted that disruption will
follow and the "Git-Together Club" be-
come thing of the past through the dis
loyalty Of tie party or parties giving the
letter to publication. =.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
SUIT NOT PRESSED.
A Forfeiture Case Discontinued by
the United States District
CNurt

In the United States District Court
yesterday morning H. II. Ward, ESQ.,,
who was counsel for Captain Ed
ward Murphy and Ralph De Soto in a
recent suit, entered the court room, and
United States District Attorney Vande-
grift instantly moved that the case Of
the United States VS.. Murphy and De
Soto, an action to recover on bond, be
discontinued.
Captain Murphy had been accused Of
filibustering, and been held in 81, 500 bail
to appear for trial last June, Mr.. De Soto
becoming his bondsman.
The defendant failing to appear at that
time, his bond was declared forfeited.
He appeared later, however, and was
tried in January, when he was acquitted.
The forfeiture suit was brought for the
purpose of collecting the amount of the
bond. Capt. Murphy having been &C
Quilted of the charge of filibustering, the
government decided not to press the for
feiture suit.
Mr.. Vandegrift's application was
granted.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
DOUGHERTY'S SURETIES
Report of SettlementiWitht the Gem
tlemen on Bond of Ex-Tax
" 9xsot,a.xc,,. yYeniad N
COLLECTOR Denied .

''The report Of the settlement Of that
case is not correct" said a gentleman
Yesterday, whose acquaintance with the
whole situation qualities him to speak
with reference to the matter of ex-
Tax Collector John j. Dougherty's sure
ties. ..
Within q year Chancellor Nicholson
handed down his decision in the case,
deciding that the bondslnen must pay
to the levy Court about $4,000 with
interest, making in all about $22, 900,
Judgment was suspended pending the
hearing Of an appeal by the Supreme
Court.
After the decision was given the Levy
Court appointed Commissioners White
and Gallagher to confer with the sure
ties, whereby a settlement might be Sc
cured. That committee has no informa-
ton from the sureties up TO the present
tine. The bondsmen are the Beers +,
McMenamin's and StOeckle's estates,
Bernard Bonner, Hugh Lynch, John
McClafferty and Thomas Toy.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
RECEPTION BY MACBINISTS.
International Association of Will.
mingtOn Lodge Receive Friends.
Address by s. Il. Glenn.

Wilmington Lodge, No. 1874, Inter
national Association of Machinists gave
a reception to the members and friends
in Turn Hall last evening.
S. b. Glenn, of Chicago, ILL.,, made nm
eloquent address on labor. He dwelt on
the strike which occurred at the Armour
Packing Company in 1893, and said the
cause Of the strike was on account of a
reduction of Is per cent. in wages, and
before the men went tC work again they
demanded an increase OF 10 per cent,
which was granted.
lie also stated that he was in Wash
ington last week, and was assured that
the eight hour bill as amended, would
soon become law, and concluded by
urging everybody to Join the association,
after which refreshments were served.
The committee in charge were J. G.
Collins, Robert Lee and William Diffen'
DALI
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
In Municipal Court.

Thomas l.. Cox, appeared before Judge
Ball in Municipal Court last night and
was fined s and costs for disorderly
conduct. The case Of Joseph Dngan
charged with the larcency Of wire from
Coolspring Park was dismissed. Yester-
day morning John Cummings twas
charged with disorderly conduct and
was fined $40 and costs. John Smith,
colored was charged with disorderly
conduct and was fined $3 and costs.
Officer W. J. Massey charged Signal
Thompson with being drunk. He will
60 over for term of thirty days. Edward
SewalI was charged with being drunk.
He was rated ut 81 and costs.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
Fourth Anniversary.

st. Andrews Council, Legion OF the
Red Cross, celebrated its fourth anniver-
sary on Shipley street last evening with
a very pleasing musical and literary en-
tertainment. Selections on the mandolin
and guitar, by q. w. Andrews and his
four children, and violin solo, by his
daughter Miss Ross Andrews, were all
we'll rendered. II. Howard Carver sang
two very pretty solos; Supreme Coun-
cllor made q very appropriate address;
A. NJ. d. Mullinix, OF Chester, enter
tained the guests for half hour with a
phonograph concert. After which re-.
fleshments we're served to all present.
The evening was enjoyed by all.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14

opinion Of your committee that the de-
struction of the Maine was compassed
either by the official act Of the Spanish
authorities or was made possible by a
negligence on their part SO willing and
gross as to be equivalent in culpability
to positive criminal action"
Senator's Foraker, Lodge and Lindsay
spoke. Senator Lindsay wanted the
United States to join its forces with the
Cubans in the prosecution OF war on the
Spaniarls.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
A APREACHER HELD.
w. j. Fisher, COlOred, Remanded to
Jail in Default of Bail Oh u
Serious Charge.

Rev. William J. Fisher, n well known
colored character of this city, was given
hearing before Judge Ball in Municipal
Court Yesterday morning on the charge
Of breaking into and entering the house
of William Hunt, at No 5l5 West Sixth
street, with intent to commit y ielonious
assault. He had Harry Whiteman called
Monday to defend him. Mr.. Whiteman
refused to have anything to do with the
case.
Fisher claimed that he vas cha ed by
q crowd and took refuge in yard, where
he was caught.
The defendant, who has served a num-
Der of years in Jail for similar offenses,
was lemanded in default Of bail for the
upper court.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
PRESIDENT AUTHORIZED
TO INTERVENE
By an Overwhelming Majority the
House of Representatives de-
clares ITSELF

Special to The Sun.
WAsHIxtyroN, April 13.-Preceded by
a lengthy preamble the following joint
resolution was passed by the House at
$50 by a vote of 322 to 70:
Resolved, ETC., That the President is
hereby authorized and directed to inter-
yene at once to stop the war in Cuba, to
the end and with the purpose OF secur-
inc permanent peace and order there
and establishing by the free action OF
the people thereof stable and inde-
pendent government OF their own IN the
island OF Cuba, and the President IS
hereby authorized and empowered to
use the land and naval forces OF the
United States to execute the purpose OF
this resolution.
In the Senate warlike talk was in
dulped in, over Senator Davis resolution
reported at noon from the Foreign affairs
committee. 1t reads:
Whereas, The abhorrent conditions
which have existed for more than three
wears in the island of Cuba, SO near olr
cyn borders, have shocked the moral
sense of the people of the United States,
2 have been disgrace to Christian civill-
zation, eliminating as they have, in the
destruction of United States battleship,
with two hundred and sixty-six of its
{ officers ana crew, while on friendly
visit in the harbor Of Havana, and can
not longer be endured, as has been set
forth by the President of the United
: States in his message Of April II, 1898,
and upon which the action OF Congress
was invited, therefore. i.
Resolved, First-That the people OF
the island OF Cuba are and of right ought
to be free and independent.
Second-That it is the duty OF the
United States to demand and the Gov
ernment of the United States does hereby
demand that the Government OF Spain
at once relinquish its authority and gov
Nernment in the island of Cuba and with
z draw its land and naval forces from Cuba
n and Cuban waters.
Third-That the President OF the
United States be, and he hereby is, di-
rected and empowered to use the entire
land and naval forces of the United
States, ana to call into the actual service
! of the United States the militia OF the
several States to such extent az may be
necessary to carry these resolutions into
effect.
IN the report Of the Foreign Relations
Committee are these words: ut is the
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
SENATOR kENNfY
WILL n! Be Interested
Statement Made. Regarding the
Looting If a Bank =
PROMINENT MEN IMPLICATED
Sensational Trial Promised in
the First National Bank
of Dover.
The Petit Jurors to Be Discharged
Until the Grand jury is Ready
to Make RepOrt---LOOters
Noticeable by Their Absence.

"You can say that United States Sena-
tor Richard Rollins Kenney OF Dover,
will be greatly interested person in the
looting of the First National Bank of
Dover, after the trial of William N.
Boggs and his fellow looters." These
were the words of gentleman promi-
nently identified with the cases now
before the Grand Jury Of the United
States District Court.
1t was not very hard to understand
the meaning ofthe person interviewed,
and it is quite possible that Mr.. Kenpey.
with other prominent citizens of the
State OF Delaware, will have become go
implicated lin the affairs of the bank,
that the allegation iss made that their
arrests will follow.
Senator kenney has so far displayed
spirit OF alleged braggadocia in the mat
ter OF the looting of the bank, but
whether he and others will follow the
same course after trial is mooted ques-
tion.s
The gentleman who made the opening
paragraph OF, this item promises sensa-
tion after sensation during the progress
Of and after the trial and says that the
people Of Delaware will be astounded by
the testimony that will be submitted,
and the many persons who are ''inter-
ested."
All of yesterday was consumed by the
jlry in going over number of the in
dictments against Mr.. Boggs, Col Ezekiel
T., Cooper, Charles H. Butler, John r.
McGonigal. Amos Cole, Harry Ford and
Thomas S. Clark.
Their labors in this direction will not
be concluded today and when the petit
jurors make their appearance this MORN
ing, United States District Attorney ,
Lewis G. Vandegrift will ask for their
discharge until the Grand Jury has gone
over all ofthe indictments presented in
the cases. vi
This practically means the continu-
ance Of the cases until next week when
the respective defendants, it is said, will
be tried.
During the session of the Grand Jury
yesterday afternoon and morniug, I.
Edward Ross, public accountant of
Philadelphia, c. r. Page OF Philadel-
phia, who was connected with the
brokerage firm OF f. B. Cuthbert 4 Co.,
Mr.. Dunlap of the Philadelphia National
Bank and H. A. Richardson, president
OF the First National Bank, Dover, ap-
peared and gave their testimony.
The defendants in the Boggs case were
not in the court room in the Federal
building yesterday, nor were their attor-
neys.
John III. Rodney and Peter L. Cooper,
Jr., counsel for Amos Cole, and ex-Sena-
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
Smashed the fsIcycle.

Last evening willis Rea H. Creamer
was riding bis new wheel on Washing
ton street, an unknown man who was
riding at high rate OF speed, crashed
into Creamer at Ninth street, breaking
his wheel, The unknown person did
not wait to see how much damage he
h;d done, but proceeded up the street at
the rate of ten miles an hour.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14

Chicago, April l3.-The 25th United
States Infantry, en- route from the North
west to the amy rendezvous at Chicka-
mauga Park, passed through Chicago to-
dav
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
Troops For Chickamau ga.

Fort WORTH, Tex, April 13.-Thc
United States troops stationed at Fort
Bliss have received orders from the War
Department to start for Chickamauga to-
day.
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14


the National House of
this evening at $50
Its history
attenpts to frustrated
Only during short time the
graceful
Brumm of Pennsylvania
undersood
,x,ate,v threw tBrumm hitting him the head
Bailey debate unless action to be taken
passed 322
us to the deberang
Forakerre resolution
in tonight 1t feared that the Senate
which
The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-14
Congress Authorizes Mckinley
to Act Immediately.
BIC VOTE STOOD 322 TO 20
UNPARALLELED Scene Among the
Members on Floor OF
the House.

Resolution Will Go to the Senate Today-That Body Now
Debating on the Foraker observation-disclosures Lind
say Wants to Join Forces With Gomez
and the Fighting Cubans
Situation More Critical
Than at Any Other
Time
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
BRIGHT BITS.

They Are Game-"I want to say one
thing for them Spanierds, said the fat
man with the celluloid collar. "They
amt never tried 10 blame it on the UNI
pire. Cincinnati Enquirer.
-Preoocupied.- -@Aren't you afraid your
husband win be jealous if talk to you
so long?"
Mrs. Tarrington No. Dear old Jack!
He never thinks of me when he has on
his golf suit.-Brooklyn Life,
He Had Not Settled 1T s'pose YOU
noticed that the war had quite a religious
favor?"
NO. In what way?"
many of the rumors were conf1rmed."-
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
After a quarrel with his wife, who vi
olently expressed a wish that he were
dead, an Irishman said:
"Oh, it's a widow you're wanting to be,
is at? Bedad, IN take good care you're
no widow as long as L liver-Tit-Bits
Poor old Ii Hung Changw exclaimed
the man whose sympathies are easily ex-
cited at long range. HE is always be-
ing called on to give up something or
other.'
Yes" replied Senator Sorghum, ''but
Ii understands his business. He always
manages to put 'em off with a yellow
jacket or peacock feather, or some such
trife. He hangs on to his bank account
and his pull with the Russian government
right along. Washington Star.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
Wanted-A Wound.

Roosevelt got back with a wound, and
that is what every soldier wanted to do,
says the New York Press. It reminds me
of Baron Won Mosseau in our civil war.
He hurried here from his light cavalry
troop in Berlin to see war without car
ing which side he fought on. 1t happened
that he got with Mosby. II want TO go
home with a wound" he said every few
minutes. 81 will never go home without
one. Iy people will believe I never
fought" One day Mosby blew his car
whistle for charge, and the guerrillas
found themselves tangled up with Major
Reeds California battalion There was no
holding the Baron. With a saber about
the size of a carving knife he sailed into
the Westerners far ahead of his compan-
ions in arms, and before they knew IL had
a bullet through his right breast fired by
Major Reed himself. AS he rolled from
his sadie Lieut.. Col. Chapman, of Mosbys
command, shot Reed through the heart.
Won Moseau fingered between life and
death for a long time, but was happy of
his wound and when he got well bore it
back to Germany with great pride. When
last l heard of him he was on the staff
of Frederick Charles of Prussia, in the
war with Austria in 1866 1t is more than
likely that he was with the Red Prince
at Metz in 1870