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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-19
NO DELAY AT SAN JUAN.
United States Flag May BE H0isted
i'm Three Weeks.

SAN JUAN DE PUERTO RICO, Sept.
1S.-The preparations for the embarkation
Of the Spanish troops are reported to be
complete, although the American commits
sioners have not been officially advised to
that effect. Two ships of the Compania
Transatlantica are expected to arrive here
on the 18th inst. Five vessels will be re-
quired to transport all the troops, with
their luggage, and the field artillery and
equipments. The Porto Rican troops are to
be landed near Cadiz.
The United States commissioners have
agreed that such troops as desire to remain
here may do so, and practically all the vol
unteers and some of the regulars whose
families and interests are here will remain
If the necessary ships were here the island
would be evacuated and formally in our
possession within thre days. The American
commissioners are highly gratifed with the
spirit shown by the Spaniards. Tho unex-
pected has happened Where it was expect
ed that opposition and delay would be en-
countered none has been found. In good
faith the Spanish commissioners have met
the Americans and arranged with them The
terms of evacuation. Our commissioners
expect TO see the American flag hoisted and
the Spanish flag hauled down forever with
in three weeks.
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VIII Visit Both Old and New Camps
and Return to Washington the
Middle of Next Week.
COL. GUNDER'S MEN ARE MOVED
INDIANA REGIMENT WINS ILL WILL
OF TWELFTH NEW YORK.
More Troops Leaving WiIxOff and the
Camp Will Soon Be Deserted
Gov. Pingree Criticised.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1S.-Capt. Allyn
Capron. First Artillery, died at his home
near Fort Myer, Va, to-day.
Captain Capron was one of the best
known officers in the regular army. He had
devoted himself particularly to the artillery
branch of the service, having been an honor
graduate of the artillery school in 1873, and
was regarded as an authority on artillery
tactics. When General Skaters corps went
to Santiago Captain Capron accompanied it
and his battery did notably fine work in the
battel of Santiago. During the drst days
fight before the city Captain Capron's son,
Capt. Allyn K. Capron, of the "Rough
Riders" was killed. The death of his son
preyed on the fathers mind, but he never
swerved for an instant from his duty dur
ing the terrible days that followed. The
seeds of disease were sown in his system
during the Cuban campaign and he returned
to his home at Fort Myer, near this city,
only to be stricken down with typhoid fever.
His death occurred about II o'clock to-day.
Captain Capron was born in Florida and
entered the Military Academy as cadet in
1863 After graduating he was made a sec
ond lieutenant of the First Artillery on the
18th Of June. 1867, and was an officer of that
regiment until his death. He was commits
stoned as captain on the 4th of December,
1885,
1t is probable that Captain Capron will be
buried in Arlington National Cemetery, but
no definite arrangements for his funeral
have been made
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RIOT In HAVANA THEATER.
French Officers Thrown Out for Hiss.
ing n Dreyfus Play.

HAVANA, Sept. 1S.-At the Tacon Thea
ter last night there was produced a play
based on the Dreyfus trial, in which
Dreyfus was portrayed throughout as an in
nocent victim of conspiracy in the French
army. From the start the sympathy of the
audience for Dreyfus was plainly mani
tested. Four Frenchmen, one Of whom is
supposed to have been an officer of the
French gunboat Fulton, now lying in the
harbor, occupied box in the first tier. All
of them carried boatswains whistles, and at
the first insinuation against the honesty of
the trial they began to blow the whistles
and loudly hiss the players.
"A scene of indescribable tumult followed
the entire audience rising in defense of
Dreyfus The Frenchmen were forcibly
elected and the performance was continued
without further interruption. One of the
Frenchmen. he who was thought to be an
officer of the Fulton, refused to give his
name at the station house. to which the
party was taken after being elected from
the theater and was locked up over night
General Blanco has prohibited the future
production of tie play in Havana
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GOV. PINGREE SCORED.
Col. McGurrin Says the Governor In
terfered with His Regiment

ISLAND Lake. Mich, Sept 1S-After
four months service ir camps at Tampa
and Fernandina, Fla, and Huntsville Ala,
the Thirty-second Michigan Infantry reach
ed the state camp ground late tonight. The
train was in four sections. 1t was expected
to arrive early this afternoon, but there
were several hours delay last night at
Louisville, caused by orders given by rail-
road officers to merge the four sections into
three, which Colonel McGurrin opposed. 1t
was nearly 10 o'clock when the first section
arrived here, and the men remained in the
sleeping cars all night The regiment
rostered 1,S2S men when it left here and
brought back 1,O39. Twenty officers and
men had been left in charge of the division
hospital at Fernandina. OF the remainder
Few are dead, many are on furloughs and
few were left in hospitals. Cars contain
ing seventeen sick men were transferred to
Detroit. None of the men is seriously sick
and most of them in good health
Colonel McGurrin said there had been less
sickness in the Thirty-second than in any
other regiment of volunteers in the service.
The colonel is feeling decidedly bitter
against Governor Pingree for what he as
serts was the Governors interference in the
regiment in various ways. Said he: mo
HeinDer Oh tnlS regiment can say treated
him with anything but fairness. The whole
trouble has been that too many outsiders
have been trying to run this regiment but
1 never allowed them to do it,"
Concerning his alleged refusal to read a
certain dispatch from the Governor to his
command and to let some of his sick go home
on the Michigan hospital train, and also
Misrepresentation of the number of sick,
Colonel Mc(xurrin asserted that ba bad Iaa,,
lied about and misquoted by newspapers.
and that Governor Pingree had sought to
make political capital out of the regiment
When mustered out he claims he will make
complete showing of his side of the diff
ferences between himself and the Governor
The latter thinks the coloners anger is
chiefly because he (the Governor) suggested
that the Thirty-first remain in service while
the Thirty-second be mustered out
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tation for our immeasurable loss, like a
faithful echo of all that moves my own
soul. From my deeply sorrowing heart I
thank all for this new pledge of devoted
sympathy. If the festive peals which should
have greeted this year must remain dumb
there yet remains to me the memory of
innumerable proofs of loyalty and deep
sympathy, the most precious gift which
could have been bestowed upon me. Our
common grief weaves anew an intimate
bond between the throne and the father
land"
Another imperial rescript founds new
order and medals of st. Elizabeth in men,
ory of the deceased will be conferred on
women and girls meriting distinction in the
various vocations of life or in special re-
ligious, humanitarian and philanthropic
works. The Emperor is invested with the
sole right of comforting the order, which
comprises three grades, with a grand cross
for the first and second classes bearing an
enameled picture of st. Elizabeth of
Thuringia. The first recipient of the order
was the Countess Szapary who has re-
ceived an autograph letter from the En-
peror comforting on her the grand cross of
the order in recognition of her devoted
services to the dead Empress in her last
hours
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Regiment That Was Cut to Pieces in
Santiago Battle.

Santiago Battle.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 18.-The most elab-
crate arrangements have been made for the
reception of the Sixth Infantry on its re-
turn to Fort Thomas tomorrow. Members
of the Chamber of Commerce and others
went to Parkersburg to-day to meet the
regiment at the state line. This regiment
was one of the first called out and it suf-
fered the most severe losses. Colonel Coch-
ran retired soon after the regiment
reached Tampa and Lieutenant Colonel Egg
bert succeeded. When the regiment was cut
to pieces at Santiago Colonel Egbert was
shot through the lungs and now the regi-
ment returns with Major Miner command
ing. Col. Egbert is here anxiously awaiting
the regiment. OF the 4S3 who went with this
regiment in April less than $50 return The
regiment has been recruited so that 49o
are now in line. Fifty members of the regi-
ment are in the Fort Thomas hospitals and
some are away on furloughs, but many
We're buried in Cuba. AS Fort Thomas is
now occupied by hospitals the regiment will
camp on adjoining territory on the site
where the Union troops camped under Gen.
Green Clay Smith, when General Kirby
Smith marched through Kentucky in his
raid on Cincinnati, thirty-five years ago. In
addition to the organizations of Cincinnati
Covington and Newport, the First Ohio that
returned last Thursday and over one thou
sand immunes from Fort Thomas will be
in the escort line at the depot when the
regiment arrives over the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad.
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Now Located in New Camp-Regi-
ment Has Lost Five Men.

Correspondence of the Journal.
LEXINGTON, KY, in camp with the One
hundred-and-sixtieth Indiana Volunteers,
Sept. 18.-At the boom Of the drum yesterday
morning all the tents of the regiment sud-
denly dropped to the earth and were loaded
in the wagons which, chuckIing as they
rolled, started for the new camp. The
wagon train carried the possessions of the
men. the tentage, the commissary outfits
and the headquarters belongings down
under bridge, along the creek, past the
line Of the Third Kentucky Regiment, to
the Frankfort pike, where the marchers
formed and hit off the miles toward town.
Past the workhouse they went, where
large-mouthed negro stood and answered the
witticisIns of the soldiers grinning in ever
widening good humor; past a thick-grown
game preserve and in sight of the Clay mon
ument along the front of the Pepper dis
tillery, where halt was made to take cup
of cold water that was kept running for
the thirsty. Then while the men were yet
fresh. they formed in open order and parad-
ed between lines of citizens. No halt was
made in the city, but beyond, under cooling
leaf-canopies, the men munched sandwiches
and drank cold coffee. When the column
again moved it was along fine wall
hedged pike where matrons and bright-eyed
girls smiled from imposing gateways or
waved flags from shaded porches.
The men were sorry to leave the camp
north of the city just as they were we'll To-
Gated but now all are contented i'm new
quarters, where the sanitation and water
are excellent and where a camp had been
left by the Twelfth Minnesota boys, who
were taken home. The Fifth Pennsylvania
boys south of the regiment. The One
hundred d-and-sixtieth is now in the First
Brigade. Third Division, First Army Corps.
Previous to this change the organization
was in the First Brigade, Second Division
and in the Third Brigade, First Division.
The latest change of base is due to the COM
ing of a brigade OF colored regulars. who
are to have the camps of the late Fifth
Illinois, the Third Kentucky and the One
hundred -and-sixtieth Indiana.
Men of the Twelfth New York are hostile
to the Indianians on account of the defeat
OF drill squad Of picked ''noncom" officers
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from the ''Bowery'' regiment by Company
c, of "ours." Then, again, provost guards
from the Hoosier regiment have arrested
many New York law breakers, and the
soreness has been infamed in other ways.
No trouble is looked for. but no regiment
ever camped near the New York soldiers
without mixing with them disagreeably.
The men, who have had but two drills a
day of late, would like to return to the old
routine, but here there is no suitable drill
ing place.
The body of Sergeant Silas c. Sapp. of
Company III, Warsaw, was taken home
Friday. Sergeant Sapp was victim of
typhoid fever, being the second member of
Company II to die in the service. The first
was Private Bruce Paul, who died in his
tent at Camp Thomas, of spinal meningitis.
Five men of the regiment have died since
leaving Indiana
Private Fisher of Company L, was injured
in fight in the city Friday. He is at di-
vision hospital with a fractured skull.
The boys look forward to the reviews sure
to come, now that General Breckenridge is
here Arrangements are made for the event,
which, it is said will occur Monday.
Winter clothing will soon be issued to the
regiment. Full new outfits. including over
coats, gloves, arctics and heavy underwear.
have been drawn. G. S.
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VIII Go Through the south and Reach
Washington in Ten Days.

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 1S.-After a
weeks vacation at his home Secretary AL
ger left tonight on his inspection tour of
Southern camps and hospitals. General AL
ger, accompanied by his aid, Major Hop
kins, started for Cincinnati on the 10 p. m.
train via the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton. Governor Pingree, Brig Gen. Duffield
and Colonel Gardner, of the Thirty-first
Michigan, saw the secretary aboard his car.
Colonel Gardner will join the general on
Wednesday at Lexington and go with him
to inspect his regiment at Knoxville. The
camps to be inspected are at Fort Thomas,
Lexington, Knoxville, CEickamauga, Annis-
ton, Ala, probably Huntsville and Jackson
Vile and Charleston. Secretary Alger ex-
poets to reach Washington a week from
next Wednesday,
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AN UNCLAIMED CORPSE
POLICE RECAPTURE BODY SUPPOSED
TO BE MISS PERKINS.
Another Effort Started to Unravel the
Gruesome Mystery of the YeI-
low Mill Pond.

MIDDLEBORO, Mass, Sept. 1s-After
much telegraphing and telephoning a mem
ber Of the Bridgeport police to-day gained
possession of the woman's dismembered
body found in Yellow Mill pond and brought
here by Frank w. Perkins, who had mis-
takenly identified it as that of his daughter
Grace. The town was scarcely awake this
morning when Detective George Arnold, Of
the Bridgeport police, arrived. The first
thing he did was to call on Undertaken Will
liams, who brought the remains of the un-
known woman from Taunton last night,
and request that they be delivered to him.
Mr.. Williams informed the detective that
he intended to hold them until he received
definite orders from the coroner at Bridge
port to give them up, supplemented by a
sworn statement from Mr.. Perkins that the
fragments of the body in the box were not
those of his daughter.
At noon a telegram was received from the
coroner addressed to Undertaken Williams
and containing an order to give up the body
to Arnold Mr.. Perkins was induced to sign
the statement demanded by the undertaken
With the two documents Arnold again pre-
serted himself at the undertaker's and OBJ
tanned the body, which was in an advanced
state of decomposition.
Miss Perkins appears very much uncon-
cerned regarding the whole affair and looks
on it all as more of joke than anything
else. She kept indoors all day, and although
the house was well surrounded by curious
people, few caught even a glimpse of her.
The Bournes are even closer mouthed than
the Perkins family, although denying en-
phatically that the two are married. They
have intimated that at the proper time a
statement will be made as to Charles
Bourne and Miss Perkins.
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SCOTTISH RITERS ARRIVING.
Biennial Session of the Supreme
Council Meets Tuesday.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 1S.-There were many
arrivals to-day for the biennial session of
the Supreme Council of the Thirty-second
degree Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern
jurisdiction of the United States. Although
the Supreme Council does not convene till
Tuesday the visitors were well entertained
by local Masons to-day and the entertain
ment committee has an elaborate pro-
gramme for tomorrow as we'll as for other
days of the week. On Wednesday and
Thursday the Thirty-third or honorary de-
gree, will be conferred. The sixty-eighth an
nual assembly of the Grand Council of Ohio
convenes here Sept. q and on the two sue
ceeding days the eighty-second annual con-
vocation of the Grand Chapter of Ohio,
when General Grand High Priest Reuben
c. Lennon will be rendered reception.
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DESERVING CAMP wIKoFF.
Parts of Two Regiments and Two Bat
teTtes Left for the West.

NEW York, Sept 1S.-The military camp
at Montauk Point, l.. l., will soon be de-
serted. In all 1,4O0 soldiers from Camp
Wikoff reached this city to-day or the
transport Chester and the ambulance boat
ShinnecocS. The troops brought by the
Chester being in fair health, were placed
on trains in New Jersey and are now on
their way to the posts assigned to them
in the different parts of the. country. The
men Of the Sixth United States Infantry will
do duty at Fort Thomas, at Newport. XIV,
and the Tenth United States Infantry is
proceeding to Huntsville, Ala. Batteries A
and b, First Artillery. will do duty until
further orders at Hilton Head, Port Royal
S. G. The transfer of the men was rapidly
accomplished. When the transport was
made fast to Pier 4. North river. to-day.
several big floats carrying baggage and
stock cars came alongside.
The baggage of the soldiers, the cannon
and the horses were transferred to the cars
while the members of the two regiments and
of the two batteries were being loaded on
ferryhoats. The Sixth Infantry was sent
CONTINUED ON second PaRel
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SQUALL ON THE RIVER
Upset a Boat and Drowned Three Men
Returning from Church.

MIDDLETOWN. Conn, Sept 1S-Three
persons were drowned in the Connecticut
river off Moramus this afternoon, the vic
tins being Patrick Kelly, aged twenty-six,
William Kelly, tWenty-four. and William
German. eighteen. These young men, with
John Hines, rowed up from Moramus this
morning to attend services at st. Johns
Church, in this city. They were on their
return and had almost reached home when
a sudden squall came up and in the storm
the boat was upset. The accident occurred
in sight of Germans hcme and was wit
messed by members of the family. AS soon
as possible party went out to assist the
men, but they had all disappeared except
Hines. who was picked up exhausted.
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SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE.
Odd Fellows Assembling i'm Boston for
Weeks Session.

BOSTON, Sept. 18.-With the coming Of
the morrow the Odd Fellows Of the United
States will own this city. They have come
as representatives to the Sovereign Grand
Lodge and incidentally to enjoy a week of
pleasure under the direction of the Grand
Lodge of ssachusetts. Practically all the
Grand Lodge representatives are here pre-
pairing for the opening session. To-day the
visitors spent the time chiefly in sight see
ing, although the Sovereign Lodge attended
divine service at the church of the disciples
where Rev. DR.. Everett Hale preached on
Odd Fellowship and delegations attended
several other churches where the services
had a bearing on the events of the coming
week
Tomorrow the first sessions of the high
body of the order will be held with public
exercises chiefly in the nature of welcom-
ing addresses and responses Then the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge will meet and transact
routine business leading up to the election
of officers which will be followed by ban
quet.
The Rebekahs will also figure in the early
ceremonies. While a programme has been
arranged for each day, that of Wednesday
is the chief figure. The parade will be held
then, and $4,000 are expected to be in line.
The Grand Lodge attended morning
service at the Church of the Disciples to-
day. and Rev. Edward Everett Hale
preached an interesting and eloquent SER
mon on 1.-THE Universal Brotherhood of
Man"
After an historical discourse DIR. Hale said:
in conclusion: Gentlemen of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge-We meet at the end of one
of the great wars of the ages. In one hum
dred days God has set forward the civiliza-
ton of the world one hundred years. The
lesson of the war is like the last fash of a
thunderstorm the lesson of peace on earth,
good will among men,
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NEGROES NOT ATTACKED.
Reported that Georgia Regiment As
sauIted the COIOred TPoops.

CAMP POLAND, Knoxville, Tenn, Sept.
ia sensational report was circulated last
night and this morning charging the First
Georgia Regiment with having made an
attack on the North Carolina negro regi-
ment An official investigation to-day re-
suited in the finding that no attack was
made, and no one was killed nor injured.
as reported. The foundation for the report
was the fact that several drunken soldiers
who CHANGED to pass near the North Caro-
lima camp yesterday afternoon fired their
pistols, and the negroes believed this to be
a challenge for a fight. The officers gave
the report no credence however, and sue
ceeded in quieting the colored soldiers sus-
picions and fears by assuring them pro-
lection in the event of any trouble. No
attack has been made by either the Georgia
or any other regiment, and all fear of such
an attack is ridiculed by the officers of
all commands.
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sternberg win Join Alger.

CINCINNATI, o.. Sept 1S.-Gen. George
M. Sternberg, surgeon general of the United
States army, and Gen. M. p. Luddington,
quartermaster general of the army arrived
here tonight from the East to join Secre-
tary of War Alger on his arrival tomorrow
morning from Detroit. They join Secre-
tary Alger on his itinerary of the Southern
camps They begin tomorrow with an in
spection of the hospitals a. Fort Thomas,
and on Tuesday go to Camp Hamilton, at
Lexington, KY, thence to Knoxville, Chat
tanooga and other Southern points where
troops are and have been in camp.
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THREE DESPERATE ROBBERS.
Lake Manawa Train "HeId Up and
the Conductor Shot.

CHICAGO, Sept. 1S.-A dispatch to the
Times-Herald from Council Bluffs, Ia,
says: Three men held up Lake Map@wa
Railway train returning from the lake to
Council Bluffs this evening. The robbers
bearded the car at the lake. When about
half way in they drew revolvers on Con-
ductor Morris and ordered him to throw up
his hands. He grappled with enc OF the
men and another fired. The ball grazed the
conductors neck. inficting a slight wound.
His face was badly burned by powder. He
was then overpowered and his pockets
searched, the robbers getting less than 500.
While two of the robbers held the con-
ductor on the rear seat the other went
through the car, which was but partly hlled
and robbed three Of the passengers OF small
sums. The robbers jumped off and started
across the bottoms in the direction OF
Omaha.