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PORTABLE ARMY HOSPITALS.
QuRrtermastar General Opened Bids for
sixty Sectional Buildings.


New York. Sept 27.-Colonel Amos
S. Kimball, deputy quartermaster gem
eral, yesterday opened bids for sixty
portable hospitals, some of which will
be erected at Fort Hamilton.
Many of these hospitals will! be made
ready to be sent to the island of Porto
Rico.
The only difference essential in the
construction for use in the colder tenn
perature of the north is, those used
up here will have double floors, heed
in between with felt.
Each hospital will accommodate for
ty patients, and is to be nineteen feet
three inches wide and 121 feet long,
to be constructed in sections, there he
ing, according to the specifications,
seven sections of width and forty-four
sections of length.
Some of the sections will be hinged
to allow of speedy exit in case of fire.
There will be ample ventilation by
means of traps in the ceiling.
These hospital buildings are to be
constructed of North Carolina pine set
on cedar posts eighteen inches from
the ground, and the roofs are to be COW
cred with painted canvas.
Air ducts are to be provided, espec-
tally for those in which it is expected
to erect stoves. Bidders were required
to state the number of days in which
they can finish the work.
Five of these portable hospitals are
to be delivered at Fort Hamilton, and
five at Washington Barracks, D. G.
These are to be set up. The remain
der are to be delivered to the quarter
master here, Grated and ready for ship
ment.
These new structures will increase
Fort Hamilton's hospital accommoda-
lions by 200 beds, leaving portable hos
pital accommodations of two thous-
and beds to be sent to Porto Rico or
Cuba.
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London, Sept. 26.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Hong Kong correspondent tele-
graphs:
Although there is no positive infor-
nation, all the evidence tends to the
conviction that the emperor is dead,
A private dispatch says he died on Sep
TENDER 81, directly he issued the edict
giving the dowager empress the regen-
cy. Nobody doubts that Yang and
Chang Yin Huen, who was minister at
Washington in 1895, are both innocent
of the charge of poisoning the emper-
or"
The Pekin correspondent of the Daily
Mail says:
THE head eunuch at the palace in
forms me that the emperor is seriously
indisposed and that his death is not I'M
likely"
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Matteawan, N. Y, Sept. ga tres
tie twenty-five feet high, spanning
part of swamp traversed by the Phil
adelphia, Reading and New England
railroad, a mile west of Pine Flairs,
near here, has sunk completely out of
sight in the bog.
In another part of the swamp a tele-
graph pole alongside the track has dis
appeared completely.
Sixty men are at work with cOnstruc-
ton and gravel trains, piling 100 car
loads Of gravel and stone a day upon
the road bed, which sinks faster than
filled in. On Wednesday night the
road bed was fourteen inches lower
than on Tuesday. Saturday it gradu-
ally sunk out of sight.
A piece of pipe used for sounding
was driven one hundred and twenty
five feet into this bog and no bottom
was found. The road bed looks as if
it had been twisted by an earth
nn1
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sickness at Dawson.

Port Townsend Wash. Sept. 27.-The
steamship Topeka has arrived with
$50 Klondikers, the most of whom
have brought little gold.
They estimate that there were three
thousand cases of typhoid fever in
Dawson on September g. Deaths Occur
daily of which no record is made.
Among the TEpeka's passengers was
Joseph Ladue, the founder of Dawson
He admits that there is much sickness,
but says that when anyone is taken
sick anywhere along the Yukon he is
sent to Dawson, which gets the credit
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Tonawanda, N. Y, Sept. 27.-At
about five o'clock last evening this
city was visited by a tornado which
demolished houses, uprooted trees, ov.
erturned freight cars and swept a clear
path about two hundred yards wide
for a distance of ten miles.
The tornado swept ever Grand u.s.
land before reaching this place, and
it is reported that several people were
killed on the island.
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Pittsburg, Sept. 27.-There was con-
ference of district and national miners
officers here yesterday to prepare a
march into the fourth pool on the Mo-
nongahela river, where the scale is
violated The strike will open to day
with a march against the pits, headed
by brass band.
The big victory of the miners in the
third pool has aroused diggers all ovel
the district to a high pitch of enthu.
siasm and one of the hottest strikes in
the history of the district is threat
ened,
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Havana, Sept. 26.-The captain gen.
erals booy guard at eight o'clock this
morning win form in the Plaza risto
and. headed by a band, VIII proceed
TO the Cathedral to render military
honors during the removal of the
bones of Columbus from the monument
where they now rest and their trans
portation to Spain.
General Maxine Gomez some time
since arrived at the camp of General
Rojas, in the Santa lara province.
General Gomez gives emphatic denial
to the published report that he has pre-
scented his resignation as commander
in-chief of the Cuban army.
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Havana, Sept. 27.-At nine o'clock
yesterday morning the remains of Co
Eumbus were eXhumed in the presence
of General Bldnco, Secretary Gown, thu
civil governor, the bishop, the dean OF
the cathedral and other authorities
The general public was excluded
from the cathedral at eight o'clock
The entrance was guarded by force
of Orden Pubiico, which kept back the
crowds which had assembled in front
of the edifice.
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WAR INQUIRY BEGUN
FIRST MEETING OF THE INVESTI-
eating COMMITTEE HELD.

Eight Members of President McKinl'y VS.
Investiga Ina Committee Present at
the First Meeting in tie Capital. Two
H,urs Listening to His Instructions
Washington, Sept. 26-President NC
Kinley's commission to investigate the
conduct of the war, held it's first meet
ing in the quarters of the board OF
ordnance and Notifications in the war
department Saturday
There we're erght members of the
commission present. They were Ma
ior Grenville NJ Dodge of New York,
olonel ]. A. Sexton of Illinois, Captain
e. P. Howell of Georgia, Major Gen
eral ]. M. Wilson, chief of engineers OF
the United States army, Charles Den
nv of Indiana, former minister to China
former Governor Urban A Woodbury.
of Vermont, former Governor James A.
Beaver of Pennsylvania, and Major
General Alexander Med. McCook, U. ..
A., retired.
In addition to these men, DR.. Phin-
cas- D. Conner of Cincinnati, Ohio, has
accepted an appointment as the medi-
cal member of the commission, the
membership of which has thus been
filed. DR.. ConnorS appointment was
recommended by DR.. Keen of Philadel-
phia, when he declined.
Before their first meeting at the war
department the eight commissioners
and Major Mills of the inspector gen.
erals department, who has been Or
dered to duty as recorder to the com
mission, visited the White House and
called on President Mckinley.
They were with the president nearly
two hours and received from him in
structions outlining the scope of the
investigations he desired them to
make.
When they left the White House they
had instructions to make an investi-
CATION of a much more far reaching
character than might seem to hav:
been indicated by the wording of the
presidents kilograms to the men who
were first asked to serve.
AS was indicated by this telegram,
the quartermaster's commissary and
medical departments, being the ones
most severely criticised, are to be iE-
vestigated most thoroughly, but the
commission is not to be confined to
these. but is to go into the general
conduct of the war.
The commission remained in session
at the war department until half past
one o'clock perfecting an organization.
General Grenville M Dodge was cleo
ted president Of the commission; Ma
jor S. c. Mills, u. S. A, recorder, and
! Mr.. Richard Weightman of Washing
| ton, secretary. Three army officers
will be chosen as sergeant-at-arms.
The scope Of the work and the meth
cd of procedure were not decided upon.
The commission will meet at ten o'clock
this morning to lay out it's plan Of
work. 1t is expected that DR.. Conner
will be present.
After the adjournment of the meet
ing General Dodge said that the meet
ings would be secret for the present.
and it had not been decided whether
persons would be examined in public.
r. three committees SO that the inves-
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E'rsnce 4 Fiiiptan A!iv.

London, Sept. 27.-The correspondent
of the Globe at Hong Kong telegraphs
that he has learned from a trustwor-
thy Filipino source that France has
promised to recognize the Filipino re-
public.
1t is asserted that negotiations to
this end are now proceeding at Ma
Mia, where there are three French
warships.
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tary of war himself.

ldIy VI wal IllIIlSClls
He told the commissioners that he
was receiving a large number of let
ters from different parts of the country
saying that no investigation was need
ed, but that Secretary Alger should be
dismissed.
He gave them to understand that he
could not for an instant consider the
dismissal of the secretary of war before
a thorough investigation had been
made, and the secretary had been Civ
en- eveIy opportunity to be heard.
This vas interpreted ~. some of the
members of the commission to indicate
that their investigation is r. t to stop
short Of the secretary of war; and that
the political fate of Secretary Alger
will depend upon their action.
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Patohen and Gentry to Race.

st. Louis, Mo-. Sept. G.-President
Robert Aull of the st. Louis Fair As
ISOLATION has arranged to have a match
race between the famous PAGERS, John
r. Gentry and Joe Patchen, held at
the fair grounds on Wednesday, OctO-
Der 5.
The Fair association will put up a
purse of 5000 for the race.
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New York. Sept. 27.-It is asserted on
high authority that a successor to the
late Rev. DR.. John Hail as pastor of the
Fifth avenue Presbyterian church has
been chosen and that the man is the
Rev. DR.. George 7. Purves of Princeton
Theological seminary.
DR.. Purves is one of the most emf
nent divines of the Presbyterian faith
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A Circus Train Wrecked.

Huntington, w. Va, Sept 27.-Sells
Brothers & Forepaugh's circus train
was wrecked at Wilsondale, on the
Norfolk and Western railroad yester
day. James Doyle of Philadelphia and
Harrison Kipps of Virginia were fatally
injured. Patrick Forepaugh was seri
ously hurt. A car with elephants roll
led down an embankment, and the ami
mails were injured, but none killed.
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New Wkatcom, Wash, Sept. 81
The party sent out to search for Wal
ter Schroeder, the young ST. Louis art
list, who was lost in the Mount Baker
hills, has returned without finding
him. The searcheFs found his outfit,
which they brought in. They say that
further search is impossible on account
of the snow.
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The Victoria LublIes bridge.

Montreal, Sept. 27.-There are about
three hundred and fifty men at work
on the Victoria jubilee bridge and the
extension of the tracks at both ends
of it, with view to having it as near
ly completed as possible before winter
sets in.
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Springfield, ILL.,, Sept. 27.-The forty
fifth annual exhibition of the Illinois
state board of agriculture opened yes
terday at the state Iair grounds. II
point of numbers and merit the exhlb-
it's this year surpass those OF any for
mer year. The fair will close next Sat
urday night.
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The Death of Fanny Davenport

New York, Sept. PA dispatch re-
teived in this city last night from Dux-
bury, Mass. announced the death at
1890 o'clock Of Mss Fanny Davenport.
Miss Davenport died at the home Of
her husband, Mr.. Mcdowell, where
she had been seriously i'll for many
weeks.
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Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 27.-Naval
Constructor Hobson says that he can
raise the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Co
lon with air bags in a week II given
authority to do so. Hobson says be
expects to return to New York on the
Colon
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SCHOOL TAX NOTICE.
NIHOUL IAN NVIIOI1'
-otice to Taxpayers of the Town of

Notice to Taxpayers OF the Town OF
Bradford, Vt.
A School Tax of 70 cents of the dollar
of the grand list of the town of 1898, is in
my hands for collection. A discount of
1 per cent will be allowed on all taxes
paid within 90 days from this date said
time expires October 30, 1898. After DC
tober 80, 1898 taxes will be paid to the
Collector.
F. III. EVERETT, Treasurer.
Bradford, Vt, Aug. l, 1873. ~
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5 Cents. 5 Cents

Price has been reduced on the
original, old-fashioned Dohbins'
Electric Soap. So that il can NOW
be bought at ) cents for full
sized bar. Quality same as for
last thirty-three years, BEST OF
ALL" Ask your grocer for it.
No one has eUer found FAULT with
its quality, no one can nOV find
fault with its price. 1t stands as
it has for thirty-three years, in a
class by itself, as TO quality, puri-
ty and economy, but is now in
class with common brown soaps
as to price.
It is the original Electric and is guaran-
teed to be worth four times as much as any
other soap ever made. For washing any
thing, from the finest lace to the heaviest
blanket, it is without peer.
DoBBINs SOAP M'F'G Co.,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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. as to price.

Notice to the Taxpayers of the Town of
Bradford, VT.
A town tax of 30 cents and a highway
tax of 90 cents on the dollar of the grand
list of the town, of 1898, is in my hands
for collection. A discount of per cent
will be allowed on all taxes paid within
90 DAYS from this date said time expires
October 30, 1898. After October 30, 1898,
taxes will be paid to the COLLECTOR.
BARRON HAY, Town Treasurer,
Bradford, Aug. l, 1898. ~
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Tn. EraeuatIon of Cuba

Havana, Sept. 27.-The American
evacuation commission has been otitci
ally notified that Manzanillo viii be
evacuated by October z.
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sIeWict'= Lille Early Risers,
gns i-cIs.4s II.gse pills.
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TAX NOTICE.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-17
Chicago Girls Walk Little,

"You are from the east,"' said the
manicure, according to the Chicago
Times-Herald. Eyes? I thought 50.
How did l know it? You said Won
walked down. Eastern girls walk so
much more than western ones. I am
from the east myself. Why, at our
boarding house, l can hardly ever get
Chicago girl to walk to the park with
me, although it is only few blocks
they always want to ride.
II notice the difference in our GUS
toners. A Chicago girl never forpets
her purse, but always takes it with her
wherever she goes, because she thinks
she may need car fare. Now the east
ern girl leaves her purse at home un-
less she is on definite errand which
requires money, and very often has to
borrow money from her friend, who has
hers along, in case an emergency
arises.
doctors advise walking so much
nowadays that the western girls walk
more than they used to, but it is gener-
ally with definite object, scarcely ever
because they like it, just for the sake
of the walk, as eastern girls do"
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Manila Is Ours!

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE following
was received at the state department
last night from Consul Wildman, Hong
Kong: "Augustin says Dewey bonn
barded Manila Saturday; city surren-
dered Internationally Augustin was
taken by the Germans in launch to
Kaiserin Auguste and brought to Hong
Kong. l credit report"
The information contained in Consul
Wildmans brief message aroused in
tense interest but created no surprise
among those officers who received it.
For two or three days news of the fall
of Manila has been expected. The last
dispatches received from Admiral Dewey
and General Merritt indicated that it
was their purpose to force surrender
OF the city as soon as possible. 1t is be-
lieved that they Joined in a note to Cen
eral Augustin demanding the surrender,
threatening to make combined sea and
land attack upon the city unless the de-
mand was acceded to.
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house and they all persisted miserably
in the flames"
Fugitives were hunted down with
bloodhounds. In addition to slave
dealers, slave trainers, and slave task
masters, the planters employed com
mittee of man-hunters who trained q
breed of ferocious hounds for the es-
pecial purpose Of recapturing de-
serters, who were generally dragged
back to their owners and knotted to
death in the presence of their fellow
captives as an example in terrorem.
An epidemic of suicide supervened, and
in less than so years a population vari-
ously estimated from 3,500,000 to 5,000,-
900 had become entirely extinct
Felix L. Oswald, in Chautauquan.
Kaiser WilheIm's Aim In Life.
| have known few men so free from
brag or hypocrisy as was the Ger
man prince when he assembled the
imperial throne. On the Christmas i'm
mediately preceding the death of his
noble father he wrote letter to a
friend 5000 miles away. | have no
right to make this letter public, but
shall be forgiven for this much: The
writer dwelt earnestly upon the year
that was closing, and particularly re-
ferred to the problems Of the future,
little dreaming that he was the one
who would be called upon to assist
in their solution. In this letter he con-
fessed that the ambition of his life was
to improve the condition of the work
ing people, to reconcile the rasping
conflict between those who have and
those who have not, and above all. to
make the Christian religion real thing.
He went on jokingly to lament that
some of our American millionaires did
not see fit to leave him legacies for
this purpose; for he was, he said, al
ways hampered for want of necessary
funds.-Poultney Bigelow, in Century.
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MANILA IS TAKEN
City Falls After Dewey Again Bombards It
Fifty Thousand Troops to be Mustered Out

some hereafter has arisen as to coffee.
Porto Rico has large export trade in
that article, which under Spanish rule
was protected by high tariff. Under
our present laws coffee Is admitted to
the United States free Of duty, and If
that particular feature should be made
applicable to Porto Rico 1t is asserted
that the practical destruction of the
coffee plantations on the island would
be the inevitable result. What may be
done hereafter for the relief of this
situation cannot now be foretold.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-08-17

visit to United States warship, on
which his son is stationed, complains
of the food dealt out to the men, and
adds that it is not as good as served
on the officers tables. AS several hun
bred Chicago boys are now serving
their country aboard warships their
friends at home may be interested in
knowing the nature of their food
Every man aboard government
ship receives the same amount and
class of food, be- he landsman or an
admiral. It's financial equivalent is
nine dollars per month, and no au-
thority below an act of congress can
change the quantity, unless in emer-
gency cases, when the captain may or
der short rations. The bill of fare at
sea for one week includes salt pork,
beans, picked beef or salt horse"
as it is known on shipboard, bareback,
coffee, sugar, pickles, salt, pepper,
-four, raisins, vinegar and molasses.
SO many ounces are dealt out to each
man, and if he ever goes hungry it is
from some other cause than INSULT
cheney of food.
Each mess has it's own cook, usually
landsman, who, besides being re-
lieved from deck duty, receives his own
board free by having his rations COM
muted, that is, drawing nine dollars
month instead of the ships provisions.
& l. Il ho, Il Of in hn &c q
given the money equivalent of an eX-
ira ration and sometimes a ration and
half.
Breakfast will consist of "scouse,"
or bread hash, which is very palatable:
good coffee, with sugar, but no milk;
bareback, or set biscuits, which are
made of the best flour and in taste and
hardness resembles the Bent water
crackers. At noon there is plenty of
good pork and beans, bean soup, coffee,
pickles, bareback and such extra
dishes as the cook can prepare with
his limited means. Supper consists of
what is left from dinner made into
soups, hashes, ETC., with bread and
coffee and pickles on the side.
The other foodstuffs first mentioned
are served on other days. Fresh bread
is always on hand. if the cook knows
how to make it, and he generally
learns. Duff, buildings and like dishes
are served with molasses. When the
ship is in port fresh beef, potatoes,
yepetab les of all kinds are served three
times a week.
If a man could always have as good
food as the American man-of-warsman
gets he could count himself fortunate
He would grow fat and never know the
pangs of indigestion.
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A Terrible shock.

Mrs. O'Brien-Arrah! and it's the
terrible shock the Widow Kerrigan
got. Do viz reminder the blackt thorn
bush she bought on the Bowery and
planted on her husbands grave?
Mrs. O'Grady-Oi do thot. Has it
been shtolen?
Worse than thot! Win she visited
the grave to-day she found three or
anges growing on it."-Puck.
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According to the Pediatrics, there is
law in France forbidding the giving
of solid food of any kind to infants
under one year of age without the writ
ten consent of physician. The use
of feeding bottles with long rubber
tubes is also forbidden by law.-Scien-
tific American.
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such a body of men against law and
order Is formidable. This hysterical
people demands suppression with an
iron hand. While still in embryo, this
influence is already felt among certain
classes, who refuse to work or serve
the government until clear statement
of the freedom and independence of
their country is made clear. A knowl-
edge of this condition is imperative to
the moulding of future policy, and to ex-
plain whatever harsh steps may be rem
dered necessary in dealing with the in
surgents.
Judge Days Resignation.
Washington, Aug. 15.-Just when
Judge Days resignation will take effect
nobody appears to know. 1t is certain,
however, that he will cease to be secre-
tary Of state before the American peace
commissioners sail for Europe. Almost
coincident with his resignation will come
that of John Bassett Moore, who sue
ceeded Mr.. Day as assistant secretary
when the latter went into the cabinet.
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Republican Town Caucus.

The legal republican voters OF the Town oil
St. Johnsbury VT, are requested to meet in
the Town Hall of said Town, on Saturday.
August 90 at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon. for
the purpose Of placing in nomination a can.
didate for Representative to the General
Assembly, to be voted for at the coming
September election.
FREEMAN A. PIERCE,
GILBERT E. WOODS,
PHILIP II STONE,
Republican Town Committee
Dated at St. Johnsburv, Vt,
August 10th, 1898.