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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
KILLED IN THE UNION WAR.
The Estimated Number Varies Ac
cOrding to Different Authorities.


Sandusky (O.) Register.
A question frequently asked is. how many
men were killed in battle during the war
for the union on the Union side? The num-
Der given varies according to different au-
thorities from 650O0 to as high as 5000.
There were 2,262 distinct battles and en-
gagementS. We lost 70 Union generals killed
in action and 80 died of disease. The total
number of Union officers killed was 6,365.
The number of gunshot wounds treated in
shot wounded who died in hospitals was
1858. The wounded who did not die inn
mediately from the effect of wounds was
275,175.
The total number of deaths was as fol-
lows, according to the best estimates that
can be made-that is, deaths directly during
the war: Killed on the field or died of
mortal wounds, 110,070; of disease, 1879 720;
deaths from all other causes, 49, 73S, making
a total of S59,52S. 1t is now generally I'M
derstood that this does not include all who
included in the number of died of disease,
and that instead of 1853 0O0 the aggregate
should be close to 100000. Soon after the
was the estimate of the number who died
in prisons was very much below the actual
number Subsequently a corrected estimate
was made but even that was believed to
be below the actual number.
1t has often been stated that there was a
very large percentage of the Union soldiers
of foreign birth, but that is not true. Sew
enty-fiVe per cent. were American born, 8
per cent. were Germans, per cent Irish,
az per cent. British-Americans, and 51a per
cent all other nations. Nearly one-half of
the total were farmers, the actual number
as reported being AS per cent. Reduced to
a three years standard the number of
troops credited to the different States and
Territories during the war was 1859, of
which Ohio furnished S131S0, being out
ranked only by New York and Pennsyl-
there were over 100000 Union soldiers I'M
der arms and ready for duty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Tales of the Home Folks.

'Tales of Home Folks in Peace and War
Is a title that we'll describes the dozen
stories and sketches by Joel Chandler Har-
ris that have been gathered into this
volume Some of them are pictures of life
in the South before the civil war; some
touch upon incidents of the war, others be-
long to later period In nearly all of them
the negro figures more or less prominently
and Mr.. Harris is doing service to litera-
ture as well as to history in depicting this
race rs it was before it was caught by the
wave of progress and began to change it's
characteristics. Whatever may be gained by
the race itself through education and adj
vancing civilization the population of the
country loses in the passing of the old-time
negro an element of picturesqueness for
which there is no substitute. Apart from
this feature these unpretentious stories have
an interest of their own. Published by
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Publishers, Notes.

G.. p. Putnams Sons announce a new
series of publications forming the .Munson
System of Shorthand"
The Independent of New York contem-
plates a change of form to the size of some
of the prominent monthly magazines.
Mr. David Williamson. the editor of the
Windsor Magazine (London), has prepared
a nonpolitical life of Gladstone The BOOK
will be published Immediately by M. +.
Mansfield, of New York
The new book on 1.-The Art of Taxidermy''
about to be published by d. Appleton &
Co. is by the well-known authority, Mr.
John Rowley, the head of this department
in the American Museum of Natural His
tory
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis's 1.-THE Kings
Jackal' Will be published in book form by
Messrs. Scribner on the 25th of this month.
The scene of this story is laid at Tangier.
where Mr.. Davis laid the scene of one of his
best short stories The Exile
The Scribners have purchased "The I'M
pregnable Rock of Holy Scripture by the
Rt. Hon. w. E. Gladstone, Recent Re-
search in Bible Lands edited by H. "
Hi precht. and conta ming con ,ributions from
noted Palestine explorers. and Hints on
Bible Study by wel-known Biblical
scholars, all of which were also until re-
Gently published by the Sunday School
Times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

The boy stood on the backyard fence,
Whence all but him had fed;
The flames that lit his fathers barn
Shone just bove the she'd
One bunch of crackers in his hand,
Two others in his hat.
With piteous accents loud he cried,
II never thought of that!'
"a bunch of crackers to the tail
Of one small dog he'd tied;
The dog had sought the well-fflled barn
And mid it's ruins diedD
The sparks flew wide and red and hot;
They lit upon that brat;
They fired the crackers in his hand,
And exc those in his hat.
Then came a burst of rafting sound
The boy! Where had he gone?
Ask of the winds that far around
Strewed bits of meat and bone
And scraps of clothes, and knives, and tops
And nails, and hooks, and yarn
The relics of that dreadful boy
That burned his fathers barn!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
The Imported bridegroom.

The name of Abraham Cahan has been
known for some time to magazine readers
as a writer of stories concerning the Rus
sian Jews of New Yorks East Side, or, as
he puts it, of the New York Ghetto" Il
is several of these stories that he has col
lected into volume. 1t is a curious pic
ture of semi-foreign life here presented, for
while the incidents may be imaginary the
setting of the tales is plainly realistic. The
transition from alien ideas and beliefs into
modern Ar 'ericanism is shown in the con-
trast between the elder men and women
who cling to the old customs and spec
only Yi,ldish among themselves, and the
younger generation, who having been to the
public schools, have imbibed new thoughts
and are impatient of the fashions of the
fathers. There is a pathos in this evolution.
even though the new life be a betterment
of the old. Published by Houghton, Milf
film & Co., Boston
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
IN CUBA.

1t is a maxim of the commercial world
that trade follows the flag but there is
something else which in these days must
precede trade. That is mail communications
The country has not heard much of the
Postoffice Department during the last two
months, but no doubt it has been keeping
step with the War and Navy Departments
and establishing mail facilities for the new
camps and naval stations as soon as possible
after they were formed. The American SOL
der writes and receives letters. and reads
newspapers ii he can get them. and it is
the business of the Postoffice Department
to see that he L. enabled TO do so. Wherever
the United States flag goes mail sacks fol-
low soon. Within a few days after our
army is landed in Cuba q United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Madam of the Ivies.

Phipps Train, will be remembered by many
readers for her "A Social Highwayman''
and The Autobiography of a Professional
Beauty" She is good story-teller, has a
vivacious style and the faculty of skating
safely on thin ice in the treatment of deli
cate topics and situations. Madam of the
Ivies' relates the experiences of an English
girl who, answering the advertisement of a
lady of wealth for companion, finds her
self amid environments which make her the
heroine of series of interesting events
which finally end in her happy marriage
Some of the situations border on the sensa-
tional, and the story, as a whole is rather
painful, but it is interesting. Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Co.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

postofice will be established there. the first
enced postal official and clerks have already
been designated to take charge of the Office
and handle the mail which will follow the
army. Since the outbreak of the war no
mail has gone from this country
to Cuba or come out of the island
to the United States, but in few days mail
communication will be established, never to
be closed again. The censorship of CORE
spondence and papers will cease as the
United States flag advances, the sacredness
of a sealed letter will be observed, United
States postage stamps will become familiar
in Cuba, and there will be a beginning of
a new order of things.
1t is not difficult to predict the final out
come of this. 1t means that United States
soldiers, adapting themselves with charac-
teristic aptitude to their new surroundings,
seeing the natural resources and productive
ness of the country, and correspondence
with friends at home, will like Cuba so well
that many of them will remain there after
the war closes, perhaps coming back to
AiioiAy AAicliSdH 6IlS anu take tHelH " the
island, inducing friends to do likewise, and
to settle and remain there. With the close
of hostiBties and the establishment of regu-
lar mail facilities American capitalists will
reopen business correspondence abandoned
plantations will be brought under cutiva-
ton, American agents and correspondents
will go there to look after American inter-
acf Ctrl1o
canized. This is what the establishment of
the first United States postoffice on Cuban
soil, this week or next, will foreshadow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

Debris. the annual publication of Purdue
University, is an ambitious number and
comes in a neat red cloth binding and re-
plete with information and pictures AS a
university record it is invaluable Typo
graphically ii is an excellent example of the
bookmakers art. and as to quantity, moth
ing is lacking. There is a complete list of
the officers ard faculty, the entire 9S class.
all of the societies and clubs, and photo
graphs innumerable. One of the most in
teresting features of the book is the series
of queer quaint and curious sketches which
bedeck the pages, utterly regardless of the
dignity of the place which they occupy
Many of them are apt, and all have merit
The book in itself is one of interest even to
persons in no way connected or interested
in the university
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

The case of Poultney Bigelow VS.. the
United States, in which the defendant was
charged with criminal neglect of the army
in its care, has gone to the jury. The
prosecuting witness was the only one, and
a number of reputable witnesses for the de-
Tense gave such testimony that the public
is not even interested in the verdict. The
attorneys for, the defense did not even
think it necessary to put OH any witnesses
for rebuttal after the prosecution had fin
ished its little case, but followed the ex-
ample of the plaintiff and submitted the
case without argument. The jury viii not
be out long.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

A demand for the poems of the late Eu-
gene Field in daily school reading in week
ly exercises, in school entertainments. ETC..
has led to the compilation by Mary E. Burt
and Mary B. Gable of volume containing
a number of his best-known poems and sew
eral of his letters to his children. The
poems are admirably adapted for memoriz-
ing and recitation by children, and while
they are not instructive in an educational
way they are full of good feeling and cal
culated to develop gentle and kindly
thoughts in the young. The compilers are
teachers. and the selections are very judi
ciously made. There is an Introduction by
Mr.. George w. Gable. New York: Charles
Scribner'S Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant.

In a very prolix preface to the two vol
umes of plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, y
the author, Mr.. Bernard Shaw, states, with
superfiuity of egotistical verbiage, that
after failing as writer of fiction and con-
siderable service as newspaper critic of
art, music and the drama, he took to play
writing. His aim was to establish a new
drama which should discard old ideas and
methods, and deal with the problems and
conditions of life in a realistic way. A So
cialist, Bohemian in his tastes and a
cynic regarding all the conventionalities of
life, yet withal a keen critic and brilliant
writer, he has sought to embody his peculiar
views in the half dozen plays embraced in
these volumes. Some of them were acted
with more or less success. They are clever
and brilliant in way, and read good deal
like modern purpose novel of the society
or yellow school. Chicago: Herbert S.
Stone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
HAWAII AND TERRITORIAL
EXPANSION.

If, as the opponents of the annexation of
Hawaii declared in the House last week, the
acquisition Of those islands is the beginning
of general territorial expansion, and indi-
viduals should seek new party associations
upon that issue, there would be new
alignment of parties which would bring men
long hostile into the same organization
Speaker Reed and Representative Henry u.
Johnson would find themselves with the
Democrats of the nearly solid anti-Ha-
waiian South. insisting that annexation is
unconstitutional. Here in Indiana, accord
ing to the vote. Messrs. Johnson and Crum-
packer would go to the party opposed to
annexation, and Mr. Grifiths, Democrat
would stand in line with Messrs. Henry,
Lands and Overstreet, while Mr.. Zenor,
who answered present but did not vote
would stand open to conviction. On this
question, as voting in the House, the Popu-
lists would be divided into two equal parts
and be absorbed by one side or the other
In the silver-producing States the author of
the Hawaiian resolutions has bitter OPP
ponent in a Colorado representative. Out of
Congress Mr. Bryan opposes the general
theory of territorial expansion, while the
great organ of Mr.. Bryan's party in New
York urges the annexation of Hawaii in it's
largest type and choicest adjectives. The
Pittsburg Dispatch, independent Republican,
denounces. and the Kansas City Star, free
trade, advocates annexation. All Kansas is
reported to be in favor OF territorial expan-
sion. and Missouri. outside of two cities. is
opposed to it.
Those who made speeches in the House
assumed that the annexation Of Hawaii is
but the first step, but it is step which
commits the country to a new policy of
territorial expansion. The President having
been reported as DESTROYS of Selling Porto
Rico before Spain sues for peace, the OPP
ponents of the annexation of Hawaii dis
cover in his anxiety a purpose to annex
On the other hand, the advocates of the an
nexation of Hawaii deny that the acquisi-
ton of those islands has any relation to a
general policy of taking. by conquest or pur-
chase, territory in distant parts of the
world. The Journal, so far as it has in
formation is of opinion that the acquisition
of Hawaii does not commit the country or
any political party to territorial acquisition
any more than did the purchase of Alaska.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

Graduates of Princeton College or those
who have attended that institution long
enough TO become attached TO it will be in
terested in a little work entitled princeton
Old and New by James w. Alexander, an
alumnus of the college A subtitle calls 1t
'Recollections of Undergraduate Life" and
it consists chiefly of descriptions of the
Princeton of former times compared with
the present There are quite a number of
illustrations. including the buildings, old and
college life, the three presidents Drs Mac
lean. McCoSh and Patton. the grillroom OF
princeton Inn, and other scenes and persons.
Incidentally, the work has some historic
interest New York: Charles Scribner'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

1t is said that one of the prisoners cap
tured by Aguinaldo In the Philippines is
named Farragut.
Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey. of Washing
ton, D. c.. is the attorney for the National
Red Cross, of which Miss Clara Barton is
the president
President Andrews, of Brown University
is likely to become the superintendent Of
the public schools Of CHICAGO, according to
town talk in Providence
Whistler, the well-known artist, was a
student at West Point in the early ffties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

promote trade and facilitate exchanges be-
tween the United States and the other coun-
tries. 1t took Congress a long time 10
recognize the wisdom of the suggestion, but
at last the Senate has passed a bill for
the incorporation of such a bank, and it is
hoped it will pass the House. There is a
great field for the extension of the trade of
the United States in the countries of Cen
trail and South America. and the establish
ment of a bank of this kind is an essential
preliminary
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
A New Puzzle for Calamityites.

Topeka CdpltaI.
The embarrassing debtor who borrowed a
thousand dollars either three or five years
ago when wheat was worth from IS to 80
cents, now finds that where he borrowed
obliged to pay back only from 600 to 1000
bushels. We venture the prediction, how
ever, that there is not a moralist IN the
fore the wheat raisers and call their at
tention to the dishonesty they are exhibit
ing in paying back only 1000 bushels Tor
nocent and oppressed and down-trodden
creditor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

A Cornell professor now in Germany says
that one of the charges made by educated
Germans in their attacks on the United
States is that we are a heterogeneous
people. That is true, and we are rather
remember that we should be less hetero-
geneous if we had not received so many
foreign immigrants. including Germans If
they would visit the United States and see
how Germans and Americans fraternlze at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

What has become of the standing jokes
about the unseaworthiness of battle ships
and the certainty of their sinking if they
went out of sight of land? If the trip of
the Oregon left any room for doubt as to
the stability of our fighting machines, the
cruising of the other vessels for months
without disablement would remove any
veStiee of annrehenSion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
a "kommersy they would discover that we
are pretty homogeneous after all.

The bank clearings the past week were 2o.4
per cent. in excess of those of the corre-
spending week of last year, the total being
81. 1863. 100000. This means a volume of bust
ness through the banks of over $66, 600 600, 900
year-an amount much exceeding the total
of any other year. In view of this fact, it
will require monumental audacity on the
part of the makers of the platform of the
Democratic State convention, which meets
this week, to raise the wall of hard times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The army has no Stanton behind IL. But
II has a soldier at the head of IL. General
Miles knows his trade thoroughly and he
has been supplying the deficiencies ever
since he reached Tampa. The general COM
handing the army would be In more nat
ural position landing in Cuba with the army
OF invasion than doing the undone work OF
the War Department at Tampa. But some
ono In authority has to straighten things
out and see that they are done. General
Miles Is able TO do this. and he Is doing
IL. At the present moment he could not be
eral commanding Is to do the work III the
secretary of war all through the campaign
II Is only fair that he should have the title
as we'll as the task.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

II Col. Bryan could be induced to take a
few government bonds in part payment of
his salary we might look for his speedy con-
version to the gold standard. No bondholder
wants to receive his interest or principal in
h0-cent dollars
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Now Astrnnnmr.

The American Book Company (CincinnatiD
issues "A New Astronomy" by Prof David
P. Todd, of Amherst College. The work is
designed to meet the present requirements
of schools and students for a practical and
scientific textbook in astronomy, and the
authors mastery of the subject has enabled
him to produce a valuable book free from
technicalities and full of interesting infor-
nation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

Public sentiment has so changed since 1896
that the Democratic managers in Indiana
will not this year seek the services of Mr..
Eugene V. Debs to make campaign
speeches. Two years ago they were eager
TO secure him. The Debs variety of politics
is not in demand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

If the opponents of Judge Hackney could
demand of each candidate a full declaration
of faith in 10 to /, as did the committee in
Illinois, they could draw upon him his let
ter now a few weeks old. ia which he re-
pudiated that heresy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

To those who understand the meaning Of
words in the English language there seems
no ground for the attempt of certain hungry
Office seekers to insist upon an interpreta-
ZION Of the law relative to appellate judges
which will cause them to be voted for in
November. The law means another thing.
and those who enacted it intended a four
wears term
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

More than two weeks have passed since
Lieutenant Hobson and his men, after sink
ing the Merrimac in the mouth of Santiago
harbor, were taken prisoners by the Span
iards, yet the Spanish authorities have re-
fused to exchange them. making one ex-
cuse after smother. They are keeping them
rs q. protSc.icn for MORO Castle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

The arrival of the transports and troops
off Santiago will end the tedious waiting by
Admiral SIMPSONS squadron, but the be-
ginning of army operations on land will
impose new duties on the navy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

There will be no 16-to-a silver men among
the purchasers of the new bonds. Any per-
son who holds government bond wants it
paid. principal and interest, in the best
money of the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20
Labor Saving.

''You don't seem to take any interest in
this discussion on the pronunciation of
Spanish names "sra-ik rgea
Whats the use? The chances are that
there won't be any Spanish names in a
month or two.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

A London cablegram says the reports Of
the destruction caused by the dynamite
guns of the vesuvius have created a great
sensation there. and British naval experts
regard it as marking revolution in naval
warfare In the matter of bringing out
novelties your Uncle Sam is strictly up to
d.+o
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

II Col. William ]. Bryan's regiment is
InusfSred into the United States service to-
day he will acquire great honor, but it
win be at the sacrifice of his right to make
nnIiticaI. sneeches
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-20

Senator Butler, of North Carolina, who is
chairman of the Populist national commit
tee, held his majority at the recent meet
ing by ruling out proxies which were against
him. When this was done he had majority
of only three votes in total of one hum
dred. AS it was. the middle-of- tne-road ele-
ment forced Butler to approve resolution
calling the national Populist convention
several months in advance of the Demo-
cratic. In nearly all of the States in which
the Populists are positive factor in politics
the midde-of-the-road faction seems the
stronger