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The times., 1898-09-05
DISTRESS here At home
Needy Families of the District
Volunteers.
NOBLE WORK OF RELIEF
The Committee Baving the Work III
Charge Is Searching Out Those
Who Are Without the Proper
Necessaries of Life-Wide Field of
LabOr-Many Sad Cases Found

Quiet but effective work is being ac-
identified with the proposed reception of
the First District of Columbia Volun-
teers The COMMITTEES IN question orig
mated in the thoughtful mind of Major
Richard Sylvester, chief of police. 1t is
designated as the relief committee, with
Capt Edward ]. Roche as acting chair
man. The other members are DR.. Will
liam Young, Major Brooks, Mrs. Ellen
Mussey, and Mrs. Catherine North.
The work of the committee is to inves-
tigate the present condition of the fam
lilies of the District volunteers; to secure
employment for the soldiers upon their
return, and to aid them financially until
they are strong enough and well enough
to work, and also to assist the business
committee in procuring employment for
the men at their trades or other oecupa-
tions.
The Need of Funds.
1t Is proposed that the money for this
purpose shall come from the surplus Left
over from the reception fund. From
present indications. every dollar con-
tributed by the appreciative citizens of
the District will be needed in tnis work
of relief.
I'VE do not look upon this as matter
of charity" said Capt. Roche yesterday.
''It is a matter of business and duty, and
the returning heroes, weak and Ill, de-
serve every cent they may receive"
Mr.. Nota McGill made the motion at a
meeting of the general committee which
brought about the appointment of the re-
lief committee, and he is in hearty CO.
operation with its humane work
The instructions upon which these in
vestigations were begun were written TO
each member of the relief committee by
Major Sylvester. His letter read:
Il will be pleased if you win acquaint
yourself with the condition of the fam
lilies of the members of the First District
of Columbia Volunteers whose fathers
husbands, sons and brothers are employed
at the various trades"
Since the above letter was written II
has been decided to extend the scope oi
the committee and have Its members in
vestigate all cases. whether they are those
of mechanics or not.
The times., 1898-09-05
Mother Did Not Know Him.

On the arrival of the troops at Camp
Wikof, Quinn says. they were treated
well The sick were given plenty of
healthy, nourishing food and proper med
ieal attention. and within few days its
effect was observable on all.
As soon as he was able to travel ne
applied for a furlough, which was grant
ed him. About that time James T. Petty,
auditor of the District of Columbia, ar
rived in camp, and through the good Of
fees of Commissioner Ross, to whom
Mrs. Quinn had applied to have her son
fUrloughed, he went direct to the cap
tain OF the company to intercede for
him. The furlougf had been already
granted, but Mr.. Petty took great interest
in the sick boy, and did all that he could
to make his trip home as comfortable as
possible.
Mr.. Petty telegraphed Mrs Quinn that
her boy was on his way home, and it was
in response to this information that she,
accompanied by a lady friend, went to
the depot to meet him His mother did
not recognize him, and it was not until
her attention was called to a sick. stag
gering soldier by her friend that Mrs.
Quinn knew "Dick" had come
The times., 1898-09-05
A Pftial,Ie Cnse.

SnSe.
Some of the cases investigated by Capt
Roche are, indeed, pitiable. One of the
District volunteers is lying in a critical
condition in a Brooklyn hospital, suffer-
ing with typhoid fever and dysentery His
family. consisting of wife and six chill
dren, are penniless in this city During
the absence at the front of the father
and husband their sole income was de-
rived from the pittances earned by two of
the boys who worked as telegraph mes
sengers.
The wife and mother having learned
that her husband was critic ally i'll in the
Brooklyn hospital is on the verge of in
sanity. and constantly PAGES the floor
crying for her dear one. She wants to
go to her husband and see him before he
dies, but is without the means to do SO.
Capt. Roche learned of the deplorable
case, and is trying to arrange for the
wife to go to her husbands bedside
Watching for Their Boy.
Another sad case is that of a young
District volunteer, whose father here is
aged, infirm and unable to work He
is supported by his wife, who ekes out an
existence by sewing
The aged couple are anxious for the re-
turn of their boy, who will smooth the
rough cares of life and earn a livelihood
for them during their few remaining
years.
There are two young volunteers
brothers, who will be homeless when they
ceturn to Washington, weak and ILL.,
They were living, with their sister when
they enlisted for the war in the District
regiment During their absence she went
away, and now when the young soldiers
return they will have no home to go to.
The Committees Charge
1t is this class of cases that the relief
committee is looking after. The above
are only few of many similar cases,
and Capt. Roche and the other members
of the committee hope there will be
large surplus left over from the reception
fund with which much good can be done
Messrs. Woodard Saks. and other
prominent business men have promised
the relief committee to do all they can
to assist in providing aid and employ
ment for the returning volunteers
For the present the headquarters cf the
relief committee will be at Capt. Roehe's
residence, No. II L Street northwest.
The times., 1898-09-05
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Washington. ID.
confdentiaIly.
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Aid is Given.

Since Quinn's return home his mother
says her neighbors have been very kind.
and have done all they could to help her.
She notified Major Sylvester of her boys
return, and told him of her circum-
stances. Major Sylvester's response to
her appeal was prompt. He Immediately
sent two of the ladies of the relief COM
mittee 70 see her son. and they provided
him with necessary nourishment. The
ladies of the local branch of the Red
Cross Society have also been informed of
the condition of affairs at the Quinn
home, and will no doubt act promptly
this morning.
The times., 1898-09-05


The great dramatic feature of the con-
gress was Dr. NoTdau's brilliant grafton,
in which he recounted the story of mod
ern Jewish martyrdom throughout the
civilized world, referring to Russia and
Roumania as the classic lands of Jewish
persecution and dwelling upon England,
America. Holland and Belgium as the
only countries free from the taint of anti
SemitiSm.
He lamented the utter lack of solidarity
within the Jewish ranks and said that
while the Jews of France. with few excep-
tions. seemed to shrink in the background
before the terrible passion of today, it
remained for a few heroic Christians TO
stand forth in defense of DreyfuS, the
Jewish victim of injustice. No wonder.
he added, that there was widespread sus-
picion that the Dreyfus campaign was be-
ing carried on by a syndicate of Jewish
capitalists, for, although the charge was
absolutely untrue, there was some ground
for such interference from the cowardly
silence of those Jews who would have
been the first to stand forth in behalf of
auv poor wretch whose defense did not
involve the public defense of Judaism and
the seeming exculpation of Jewish
wrongdoer.
He uttered, amid thunderS of applause.
the names of Zola, Scheurerkestner La
bori, Col PicGuart and Minister Trarieux.
and then. pointing TO Bernard Lazare. he
said: He alone has stood forth as a Jew
in defense of a Jew.
Whereupon the multitude leaped to It's
feet and Lazare was lifted on the shoul-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
MORE ABUSES
Discovered by the War Investigation
Commission-.-Ice to Be Had for
Money---Thirsty Patients Ordered
to Shut Up.

Boston, November 29.AThe war in
vestigation commission began its hear
ings in Boston to-day, all the members
being present except Col. DENLY. Gen.
McCook acted as president.
Leonard w. Johnson, of North Cam
bridge, contract nurse, was the first
witness. His testimony bore on the
treatment of sick passengers on board
the City of Berlin, by which steamer
he returned from Ponce, P. l. Johnson
testified that no one was taken on
board the City of Berlin who was not
able to take care of himself, but in
spite of that he and Mr.. Saunderson
were ordered to look after twelve men
who were sick. Their orders were TO
keep all at work under penalty of being
themselves as we'll as the delinquents
placed in irons The witness said that
though he was sick he was obliged to
attend the others night and day.
DR.. Bracket, of the Massachusetts,
Voluteer Aid association, thought there
were medicines enough on the Segur-
ance. There was, however, almost no
prepared food nor any kind of food for
convalescents. He and Captain Nc
Cook bought the ships supplies and
gave them to the men. There was ice
on board to be had once day by pay
ing for it.
DR.. Richard CADET of Boston, declar-
ed that the hospitals in Porto Rico
were admirable.
Corporal VIM. Reminds, Seventh in
fantry, testified to being wounded in
three places in the battle of Ell Caney.
He remained under a tree and it was
two days before he was discovered.
Eight days afterwards he went aboard
the Olivet. He did not get his wounds
dressed until he reached Long Island
Private B. F. Houston, Seventh in
fantry, who was wounded in the ac-
ton at Ell Caney, told of his exper-
fences in a hospital at Siboney. He
said that when the wounds came to be
dressed it was found that the primary
bandages had been lost. He said that
in the general hospital at Sibony the
wounded men suffered extremely. They
suffered on the way owing to the
springless wagons having no straw in
their bottoms.
In the hospitals the greatest diff
Guilty was getting food of proper ma
ture for men in their condition.
Witness testified to hearing the men
call out for water and then hearing
the nurses in the adjacent tents shout:
Shut up for reply. One Of the
wounded died after calling for water
in this way.
The board adjourned until $50
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
PREPARED FOR THE CRASH.

Kansas City. Mo-, November 20
The liabilities of Grant C. Gillette, the
Ascending Kansas cattle plunger. con-
tinue to grow and the belief that he
had prepared for the crash months
ahead. becomes stronger.
Gillette must have taken hundreds
of thousands with him." said promi-
nent member of one OF the caught COM
mission firms to-day. 1T was at first
supposed that, finding himself in
straights for the first time, Gillette
had simply thrown up everything and
left penniless. But we know now that
he owed over a million and a half dol
lars and we cannot find where he in
vested or spent more than half that
sum-"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
REPUBLICAN FACTIONS
Engage in a Fatal Alteration at a
Chicago Ward Meeting.
ONE MAN SHOT DEAD AND SEVER
AL OTHERS SEVERELY WOUND
ED-ONE FACTION HAD POSSES
SION OF THE HALL WHEN AN
OTHER CAME, INTENT ON DRIv-
ING THEM OUT.

CHICAGO, November 2s-An attempt
to break up the annual meeting of the
Eighteenth Ward Republican Club at
Bricklayers' Hall at Peoria and West
Monroe streets, this evening, resulted in
the death of one of the attacking party
and the wounding of several of those who
participated in the fight The dead:
CHARLES LATTIMER, a bricklayer, in
stantly killed.
The wounded: VIM. Mahoney. police
man at the Desplaines street station.
shot in both arms and in the side; will
recover
John W. Landers, laborer finger shot
off,
John Prince janitor of the building,
shot in the left leg; not serious
The club held it's annual election to-
night and there was much rivalry be-
tween factions. headed by Coroner Berz
and John Rogers, an ex-member of the
city council, over the offices.
Some time ago it became known among
the Rogers sympathizers that the Berz
faction intended putting through its
ticket. 1t was then decided to ignore
the regular convention announced for
Bricklayers' Hall. Accordingly meet
ing of the Rogers supporters was held
this evening and it was decided to visit
Bricklayers' Hall and demand represen-
tation.
A large crowd accordingly left the Rog-
ers meeting and marched to Bricklayer s
Hall. The greater part remained in the
street, but Butch Smith, Frank Mat
uska, VIM. Haines, George Callahan and
few others, entered the hail.
Stories differ as to what followed, but
the members of the Berz faction in the
hall and the two police officers who were
stationed at the door of the room in
which the meeting was being held assert
that the men of the Rogers faction came
noisily up the stairs having revolvers
in their hands. Officer Mahoney COM
manded them to halt. but they paid no
attention to him and just as they reach
ed the door some one fired a shot. In
stantly pistols were drawn on every side
and the firing was promiscuous. Coroner
Berz was one of the first to fire when the
trouble started. Almost at the first shot
Lattimer threw up his hands and rolled
down the stairway dead.
His companions continued the fight
only a short time, and then they fled
down the stairway. At the first shot a
crowd of the tsaEx-fastsoH came pouring
from the hail. intent upon attacking the
intruders. but the fight was over in an
instant and the Rogers sympathizers were
gone.
The story told by the Rogers crowd is
that Lattimer knocked on the door and
demanded admission. He attempted to
force his way in, was shot down and the
fight followed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
AN ELEVATOR COMBINE.

Chicago. November 29.--The Post to-
days says: The consolidation ofelayator
manufacturing concerns may now be
considered a fact Before the week
ends, Reuben t. Crane, president and
principal shareholder OF the Crane
Elevator Company, viii, have disposed
of his stock in that corporation and its
affairs will be in control OF the combine
which has been incorporated with a
capitalization Of s11. COG, 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
TW ENTY.SEVEN VESSELS
Driven Ashore and Wrecked in the Neigh.
bochood OF Provincetown.

Driven Ashore and wrecked In the Neigh
borhood OF Provincetown.
Provincetown, Mass, November 90
Twenty-seyen vessels were driven
ashore and totally wrecked in this
neighborhood. From the majority of
these the crews were saved, although
several lives were lost Four or five of
the wrecks were coasters and the rest
were fishermen. During the storm
shipping was destroyed and the beach
was strewn with wreckage, streets
were flooded and wharves drifted out
to sea- Four ice houses and a lobster
hatchery situated at Beach Point were
destroyed
Several bodies have drifted ashore
near Highland Light and part of YES
sci marked Steamer Portland"
The Wood Island life savers made sew
eral gallant efforts yesterday to reach
a schooner. Jordon l.. Mott, bound from
New York to Rockland, with coal and
finally succeeded. The Mott put in here
on the 18th for a harbor and sank early
the same night The captain with crew
of five men took to the rigging. A terri
BILE sea and gale prevailed at the time.
The captain. Charles E Dyer dashed his
father, c. G. Dyer. who acted as stew
ard, to the mast. For eighteen hours they
were exposed thus before assistance ar
rived. When the Wood Island crew made
their successful luanch and came within
hailing distance of the Mott. Captain
Dyer said:
Il can hold on. save my crew. My
father is frozen TO death at the mast
Do not wait to cut his body down, for
the crew are freezing.
The three-master Lester A. Lewis Cap
tain Kimball. from ElizabethporI. n. j..
for Bangor. with a cargo of phosphate
and guano, came in shortly after the
Mott. and Captain Dyer. of the latter.
thinks both capsized and sank about the
same time The captain and crew of the
Lewis could not have had any warning
for they all persisted together
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
WITH ESSES
Who Are to Testify Against Mrs.
Botkin, Leave Dover for San Fran
cisco.

Dover, Del, November 29.-The wit
nesses who will testify against Mrs.
Cordelia Botkin, whose trial for the
murder of Mrs ]. P. Dunning and her
sister, Mrs. j. d. Deane, will begin in
San Francisco next week, left for Cali
fornia this afternoon. The party ex-
pect to arrive in San Francisco early
Sunday morning
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
LOYAL LEGION BANQUE :
Social Pleasures at Mauiia-News from the
Philippines.

Social Pleasures at Mauiia-News from the
Philippines.
Manila, November 29.-At the Loval
Legion banquet here yesterday even
ing, sixty-four guests were present.
Nearly every commandery was repre-
scented.
Gen. Anderson presided and Rear
Admiral Dewey was received by a
guard of honor from the Oregonian.
The speakers were Generals Ander-
son, Harrison, Grey, OtA, Reeve, King
and Macarthur, Captains Glass and
Coghlan, and Col Hawkins.
The Concord has sailed for Canton.
The steamer Clugea has arrived here
from Sydney, N. S. W.. with supplies.
She has been transferred to the Amer
lean flag.
The transport Zealandia has arrived
here with reinforcements. There are
other transports expected daily.
1t is reported that a section of the
insurgents called the Guards OF Honor.
who are opposed to Aguinaldo, have
captured San Ignacio, in the province
of Pangasinan, island of Luzon, at the
instance of Spanish priests.
Advices from Iloilo say the natives
of the Visayas islands have established
a republic, independent of Luzon.
In some of the islands hostilities are
proceeding between rival republics.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
KILLED HIMSELF.

Fred w Ganter Crazed With Grief Over
His Young wife's Death Shot Himself.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, November %
Fred W. Ganter, the champion bicycle
rider of Northern New York, killed
himself at his home at PAMELA to-day.
Ganrer's wife died this morning while
giving birth to child. The husband
took Winchester rifle and went to
the room where his wife's remains had
been laid out and shot himself. Death
was instantaneous. Ganter was -
years q ase and had been parried !
year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
THE PORTLAND LOST.

Authentic Information of the Destruct ion
of the Big Ship and the Drowning of All
on Board.
Boston, November pa special to
the Herald from North Truro says the
steamer Portland, of the Boston and
Portland Steamship Company, plying
between Boston and Portland, was to-
tally wrecked at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning off Highland Light, and the
entire crew and passengers persisted
within short distance of land A
large quantity of wreckage, including
trunks and other material have come
ashore, and at dark last night four
bodies had been recovered from the
surf by the life saving crew at High
Head station. One body was that of a
woman.
The news of the disaster was brought
to the Herald through the agency of a
special train, as communication to
Boston by wire from points on Cape
Cod is impossible on account of the
havoc wrought by the storm.
There were IA persons on board the
Portland, including the officers and
crew.
The Portland was built in Bath. in
1890. and was a side wheel steamer
of 1917 tons net burden. Her length
is 230 feet; beam AZ and depth Is feet.
She was valued at S25O,O00 and is
fully insured.
Following is partial list of the pas
sengers said to be on board the Port
land when she sailed from Boston Sat
urday night:
Oron Hooper, H. Truehoper, Isiah
Frye, Miss Ruth Frye, Miss Maud Frye,
Miss Maud Sykes, Mrs. Ezekiel Dennis,
Mrs Theodore Allen. Miss Allen. Miss
Cole, of Springfield, Mass, Mrs. Daniel
Rounds, Fred Sherwood, Miss Ross.
Miss Edna McCrillis, c. F. Wilson. of
Bethel, Me-, Hon. F. Dudley Freeman.
D. o. Getchell, of Boston, Miss Sophie
Holmes, Miss Helen Langthorne, Miss
Emma L. Plimpton, of Charles River,
G. w. Cole, Miss Burns, Charles Wig
gin, NJ c. Hutchinson. Miss Hutchin-
son, Mrs George o. Chickering. Wey-
mouth, Mass, and sister, Mrs. Wheeler,
of South Weymouth, Mass. NJ. L. Sew
ell, of Portland. Fred Sherwood, of
Portland. Charles H. Thompson. Mrs.
Thompson and child, of Woodfords.
Me-, VIM. NJ Chase and Master Philip
Chase. Worcester, Mrs. Kate Coy. East
Boston, Arthur F. Hersom and Mrs.
Hersom, of Chelsea, Mass, Mrs. Alice
Swift, of Portland, Me-, Harry Smith.
81 Marion street, East Boston. Mrs.
Cornelia n Mitchell and Miss Jennie
Hoyt, North Easton. Mrs. ]. A. Carroll.
of Lowell, Miss Jennie Edmunds. Of
Marion street. East Boston. Mrs. Anna
Rounds, Portland. George B. Kennison,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30

Boston, November 29.-The passing
hours do not bring an end to the re-
ports of wrecks and loss of life up and
down the New England coast as the
outcome of Sundays terrific storm.
From Cape Cod the most terrible ac-
counts of ruin and death are coming,
and of these the loss of the steamer
Portland, side wheeler plying be-
tween Boston and Portland, with all on
board, nearly 100 souls, overshadows
all. The graveyard of the coast, the
treacherous bars and rips on the out
side of Cape Cod, have claimed victims
without number. Miles and miles of
coast line are piled high with wreck
age, most of which is ground so fine
by the waves that Identification of
hapless craft is impossible.
AS the fury of the wind was as great
on bleak sand hills which make up the
Cape, it will be many hours before all
places are heard from. Telegraph
wires are down and railroads cannot
break out the snow drifts. and this
feature is distressing as much suffer
ing from cold and hunger must ensue
among the poorer people in the nearby
hamlets.
Tonight the only means Of reaching
Cape Cod is by steamer across Massa-
chusetts bay, disagreeable voyage, as
the sea is yet boisterous. Word from
Provincetown tells of nearly thirty to-
tai wrecks, with the number of lives
lost unknown.
Matters are improving slightly along
Vineyard Sound. so far as means of
communication are concerned. The
best summing up of the disasters in
that section is made by Captain Hard,
Jr., of the revenue cutter Dexter, who
has cruised along shore all day.
He says that in Vineyard Haven
hulls are piled upon shore and those
vessels which are afloat seem mere
Jhells. The Dexter reports possible adj
dftions to the wreck list in two
schooners sunk off MenemsEa Blight,
and two big ones sunk abreast of Pres
que Isle. The fate of their crews is
unknown. Three wrecking steamers
are around the Fairfax ashore on Cow
and Pigs reef.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
AN AGED LADY DEAD.

Special to the Register.
NEW CUMBERLAND. " Va. Mo-
vember 2s--word was received from To-
ronto this morning that Mrs. Emily
Campbell. OF this place. aged about 20
years. relict Of the late Squire John
Campbell. died from pneumonia at the
residence OF her son Elmer Hamilton.
where she was visiting her daughter
Emma and Rev. Watson, OF Bellaire,
were married in Toronto on Thanksgiys
Ing day. Mrs. Campbell remained ~
Toronto, visiting her sister, Mrs J. T.
Daniels. and her son. VIM. Hamilton.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

LEXINGTON. KY. November IA
conference considered Of great import
ance to Kentucky was held to-day be-
tween ex-senator j. G. S Blackburn,
Col. Jack chinn and Hon VIM Goebel.
author Of the famous Goebel election
bill. The canvass OF returns Of the reg
uiar election will be made tomorrow The
constitutionality of the Goebei bill is by
no means assured. Blackburn and GoebeI
have been personal enemies for years
The conference Is Thought to have been
held to placate III feeling between them
50 that the Goebel bill may be declared
constitutional and Goebei b elected Cow
er1,oe.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-11-30
AGAINST THE NEGROES.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. November 2e.-The cell
ebrated Alton school case was to-day de-
eided to-day in the circuit court at Ed
wardsville. H.. which returned a verdict
against the colored people who had pro-
tested against separate schools.
Recently because of new order issued
by the school authorities of Alton. Ill,
white and negro children were assigned
to different public schools. The colored
people resented this and refused to send
their children to school.