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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-27

commander of the ships detached 20
make the effort to enter the port open
ed the eyes of the naval authorizes ne
navigating his ships in with impunlty.
the powerful guns at Fort YORK anu on
McNabs island being helpless 10 pre-
vent it, as solid shot aimed at the
cruisers would be liable to strike the
opposite fertilization.
The naval officer said that new foft
which was Just finished on McNans
island was partly constructed with a.
view to repairing this terrible blunoef'
Some of the ordnance mounted there is
of the heaviest and most modern type
but it has not yet been demonstrated
that this work can correct the mistake.
Great reticence is maintained upon the
subject and it is well nigh impossible "a
get the high officers to say one word
on the subject.
There seems to be no doubt the dis
covery stated was made and the con-
sternation it naturally created among
those who supposed Halifax was an
impregnable naval base explains the
hasty construction of the new fort on
McNabs and the appropriation recently
made for the new work, which It IS
proposed to erect at the harbor's mouth
to ensure the port.
Great doubt exists whether Halifax
is safe at present from sea attack ana
unusual interest attaches to tomors
rows naval and military manoeuyres
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HEAVY SOUTHERLY GALE
Sweeps the New England Coast-very Heavy
Rainfall Reported.

Boston, Oct. 26.-The smart south
east storm which began in New Eng
land, this morning, and continued all
day. mad not fairly blown itself out by
midnight, and nearly every point along
the shore from Nantucket to Eastport
reported a stiff gale. while all over the
section especially in this city, the rain
fall was very heavy.
Up to s o'clock tonight, nearly 11a
inches of rain had fallen in Boston, the
heaviest in New England. although
Portland reported 1.34 inches Eastport
1.12, and Nantucket "A of an inch. The
wind. except at exposed points, was not
especially severe except in Vermont.
which was near the storm center, ana
as most of the shipping had received
sufficient warning there We're very few
coasters caught off shore and up to
midnight no wrecks had been reported.
The storm. the center of which at
O'Clock, was over Lake Champaign
seems destined to move down the st
Lawrence. tomorrow morning. dragg-
ing after it high westerly and north
westerly winds with clearing weather
tomorrow noon. and drop of 25 or 80
degrees in temperature, tomorrow
night.
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The Storm in the Northwest

Chicago. Oct. GA wintry storm.
which was central over the southern
end of Lake Michigan, prevailed
throughout the northwestern states the
past "a hours. To the west of Chicago
snow fell TO the depth of from two to
eight inches. and here and to the east
there was a heavy rain which changed
to a heavy wet snow at midnight
The greatest drop in temperature re-
ported in the south. was at Abilene.
Texas, where the mercury fell &c de
grees in few hours. At Springfield.
ILL.,. and Springfield, No, the tenlpera-
ture dropped Is degrees during the af-
ternoon: at Davenport and Dubuque.
Ia, 26 degrees and at Chicago, % de.
grees; Springfield, ILL.,, %; Springfield
Mo-, 81: Davenport. 80; Chicago, 81:
Abilene, 80.
The rainfall in this section so far this
month is one inch more than the nor
NAL for October.
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GLAD TO REACH HOME.
Relief Ship So!ace Landed Some Very Sick
Men at Philadelphia.

Philadelphia. Oct. 26.-The hospital
ship Relief which arrived here last
night, from Ponce, Porto Rico, has on
board 246 sick soldiers. Fred r. Good
house. Co. d, Sd Wisconsin Volunteers.
died, Monday night, from heart fail
ure following typhoid fever. OF the
other sick soldiers $50 are convalescent,
but 96 of the men will have to be taken
to the hospitals on stretchers. The
work of removing the men from the
ship has not yet begun. The National
Relief Commission is supplying the
men with milk and delicaces.
Among those who came on the re-
lief was Lieut.. Col. r. S. Huidekoper.
who has been in Porto Rico as chief
surgeon of the United States troops.
Col. Huidekoper will go to Washington
in a day or two and says that after
giving testimony before the war in
vestigation commission he expects to
return to Porto Rico.
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Scituate: G Colwell, CoIwell. Rocknorf.
ID w Il, Holder, New Haven.
Ar. 18th. schs Rowena, Stevens, Beyer-
ly: Riverdale, Urquhart, RockpOrt: NeIlik.
Walters, Granville, Boston, Cora b. Bur.
Ter. Boston; Harvard II Hayey, Scott.
New Haven
CID 2sth, stm st croix, pike, Boston.
schs Roy. Sabean. Salem; s A Fownes'
Nickel. New York; Pariee DeIon9 "a
lem: Three Sisters, Price. Boston.
MESSINA--Oct ID, ar, sch SpinaWay. 81
Johns.
Spoken.
Sch American. st John, N b, for Buenos
Ayres, Oct 10, lat s, Ion 26.
Disasters.
Michigan city. Ind, Oct. 2s-Tha
steamer II. A. futile. grain laden from
Chicago, is sunk in the mouth Of The
river a total wreck. The crew were taken
off by the life savers after 70 hours OF er-
trenc peril.
Oscoda. Mich, Oct 2s.-Steamer r n
Gould went ashore in "a furious gale. tn
day The crew were taken ashore BY the
life savers.
Portland, Me-. Oct. 26--Capt. James
j.. Garnett and his crew Of three men
Of the Calais schooner Terrapin. ar
rived in Portland. Tuesday night. i'm
dories. having abandoned their schoon-
er which had sprung leak eight miles
off Cape Elizabeth. She sank Is min
utes after they left her She was
bound from Weehawken, N. j., for St.
George. n. b.. with a coal cargo and
the vessel was insured The crew all
belonged in Calais.
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OF NO AVAIL.
CONTINUED from page ~

In the face of American pretensions
which are daily becoming more arrog-
ant, Spain finds herself with a minis
try without authority. Never has she
needed more imperatively a strong
government, one more watchful or
awake to outside questions. Instead of
this, miserable internal quarrels are
distracting the attention of those who
now ought to have no other pre-occu
pauons than the salvation of their
country"
The meeting of the commissioners
lasted an hour and five minutes ana
was adjourned until tomorrow. Both
the Spanish and American commission
ers were more reticent after this ses-
sion than ever before. The Americans
fully appreciate not only their own Sc
rfous responsibilities but also the deli
cate position of their Spanish col
leagues, to the burden of whose duties
here is now added the critical political!
situation at Madrid. which may COM
pei the president of the Spanish COM
mission (who is also the president of
the, Spanish senate) Senior Rios, 20
leave Paris.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Temps. in confirming the report that
Premier Sagasta and the Queen Regent
have prevailed upon the minister of
war, Gen. Correa. to definitely post
pone his resignation, pending the con-
ctusion of the peace negotiations, says
that they represented to the general
that his withdrawal might entail not
only the fall of the cabinet but cause
the resignation of certain members of
the Spanish peace commission, includ-
ing Senior Rios. and thereby gravely
compromise the issue of the peace
negotiations.
The correspondent of the Temps
adds: THE net result is that an open
crisis seems to have been avoided until
the conclusion of the treaty of peace.
In any case this has done away with
the necessity for an ad interim govern
ment, which was lately suggested as
likely to be the only solution of the
present difficulties"
The Philippine question may be dis
cussed at tomorrow's session, which
will be the first occasion, during these
negotiations of joint session of the
commissions being held on succeeding
days, which fact is in some degree sig
ni6cant.
A feeling distinctly more peaceable
regarding the Fashoda affair prevailed
in Paris, this evening. President
Faure is taking the crisis quietly and
the belief is stronger than it was yes
terday that M. Brisson fell because he
wished to fall. 1t is now rumored that
Gen. Chanoine resigned the war Of
flee portfolio out of picque at the re-
fusal of the general staff committee to
give him command Of an army corps.
Extraordinary police precautions have
been ordered against possible disturb
ances at the court of cessation, tomor-
row, when the Dreyfus revision appeal
will be heard.
The Soire hears in diplomatic circles
that France is prepared to evacuate
Fashoda, with the reservation that she
shall receive some compensation, to be
hereafter arranged.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Sir John Bramston and Admiral Sir
James Erskine, the royal commissioners
on the French shore question, will leave
ST. Johns, n. F.. for England, Saturday,
having completed their work.
The Gah<len party of Fresno. and the
White party of Michigan, representing 90
persons. have returned TO Vancouver
river country. after travelling through 1909
miles of rough country and undergoing
many hardships. They returned empty
of territory. They found evidence of gold
everywhere, but not one pan would pay
A rear end collision on the Union Pa
cific near Omaha, Neb., Wednesday,
resulted in the death of three men and
the serious injury of one other. The
dead are Samuel Hindman. engineer,
VIM. Ranan. fireman.; B. S. Shannon,
brakeman. Seriously injured, John
Griffin, fireman.
f. p. Ripley. president of the Santa Fe
system, says in reference TO the supreme
court decision against the Joint Traffic
Association: las a lawyer. l do not care
to express an opinion as to the law laid
down by the supreme court of the United
States. but as a matter of equity ! con-
slider the decision an outrage. The treat
ment of railroads by the government is
outrageous. a railroad is either private
corporation or a public corporation: If
the former, it should be left alone; if the
latter, then it should be protected and
this the government does not do"
While Joseph Harper was calling on
a boarder at the house of Samuel Will
liams in the South End, Boston,
Wednesday evening, he became invol-
we'd in a quarrel with the latter and
stabbed him in the breast. Williams
died on the way to the rospital wrile
Harper escaped. Both were ,o,ored
men and Williams was married. 1t is
said that Harper is employed by for
nler Councilman Isaac B. Allen.
The intercollegiate golf tournament in
which golfers from Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton and Columbia universities took part.
began on the links of the Ardsley Golf
Club. New York. under most unfavorable
weather conditions. The conditions were
six men TO each team, IS holes at matcn
play. and the two winning teams to PLAY
in the. final round. Thursday. AS re-
suit of the draw for the matching of
teams. the Yale men We're pitted against
Columbia's experts and the Harvard
golfers faced the Princeton men None
of the Princeton or Columbia men were,
returned as winners and Yale and Har-
ward had a clean sweep. This was NOT
an unlooked-for result, as the victorious;
teams had been sized UP as sure winners.
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KITCHENER AT MARsEILLES.
The Zero Of Khartoum Given Warm Wei
come on Arrival.

Marselles, Oct. 26.-General Lord
Kitchener of khartoum and Capt.
Baratier the bearer OF Major Mar
chand's Fashoda report arrived here
from Egypt, today, on board the Mes
sageries steamer from that port. Dur
ing the voyage the two officers dined
together and conversed on the customs
of the tribes and peoples. The British
consul here met General Kitchener Oh
landing and Captain Beratier received
an affectionate greeting from his
mother and brother. General Kitche-
ner and Capt. Baratier left for Paris
on the same train. A crowd which as
sembled on the platform cheered Cap
tain Baratier and a delegation from the
Naval and Commercial schools pre-
scented him with a bejewelled insignia
OF the rank of officer of the Legion OF
Honor to which his appointment has
just been announced.
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HALIFAx'S DEFENCES.
The Sea Attack. Today. Will Demonstrate
Their True Value.

Halifax. n. s.. Oct. 26-The Associa-
ted Press correspondent is informed
by a naval officer that the sea attack
of Halifax. tomorrow, in connection
with the annual attack and defence Of
this stronghold of Britain's supremacy
on Atlantic trade routes will decideS&
serious point of concern respecting the
effective location Of the chief forts
commanding the approaches to the
port.
A recent experiment on the part of a
SECTION of the torpedo fleet and a cruz
ser is said to have developed the alarm
ing discovery that a hostile fleet could
safely enter the port without mourning
great risk by pursuing ziz gag course.
steaming in a straight line from one
Tort tn the next and so on, it being a
rule Of warfare that the guns of one
fertilization cannot be discharged in
the lircc tfon Ct another.
The reasont alpabie and the shrewa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-27

The Skowhegan Woman's Club hello
it's first meeting of this winters series
in the Library parlors, Wednesday
afternoon. The subject of the meet
ing was Our Flag and very profit
able afternoon was spent on this fertile
subject. The meetings for the winter
will be entirely on American subjects
among which are the following: The
American Navy" Thanksgiving Day,
The Growth of Our Country, "Ameri-
can Honor American Art Ameri.
can Political Problems, American Wo.
men," abraham Lincoln" American
Inventions, and Picturesque Amer
ica." With such subjects as these fo,
the years meetings it is expected thai
this winter will be one full OF interest,"
for the members.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-27
Will Our Children Think Our
Ways as Strange as We
Think Our Foefathers'
Chance for implement Still, in
ManyIThings.
Perfection na. ben Reached in Many
others.

S,,nnose youhere obliged to go to
New York? Vbuldn't it seem strange
to you to getinto an old-fashioned,
musty -smellinS jolting stage coach
1t was not sci many years ago that
people had to Tavel that way.
Think of thsfinconveniences, think OF
the hardshipsE even, they We're Obliged
to suffer; and think of the time con-
sumed. We doubt whether these ex-
periences tended to lengthen their
lives.
1t is just so with hundreds of other
things. A great Improvement is an
nounced We marvel at 1t for a few
days, and then accept it as matter OF
course. N(w, if it is necessary to go
to to someldistant city, we are made as
comfortable, if not more so. than
though Ne remained right in our
homes, Snd a few hours brings us,
without fatigue, to our destination.
There is not man living who would
prefer the old way. after he has ex-
perienced the delights of modern
methods.
But 1t is not in travel alone that i'm
provements has been made. There are
many other things much more vital to
the ultimate good OF man than easier
methods of going from place to place.
and nothing. probably. will illustrate
this better than the much-talked-of
Vinol. for in Vinol we see what has
formerly been a necessity, attended
with the most disagreabie features.
transformed into what is really a
luxury.
In Vinol we have the elements Of
what has been the greatest medicine
known TO man for the cure of wasting
diseases of every description. namely,
cod liver oil; but in Vinol we have none
OF the Objectionable features that at
tended cod liver oil.
AS Mr.. o. G. Webster of the well
known firm of Bowditch, Webster *
Co, of our city, who has connected
himself with the New York firm of
chemists producing these goods, Will
tell you, and as many other druggists
in town would endorse him. Vinol is
the essence of all that is good in cod
liver oil. Vinol is not a patent medi-
cine: hence it's popularity with physi-
clans as we'll as the public. The man
ncr of producing Ninol is a new dis
covery. 1t is the result of special
process by which the curative and
medicinal elements are extracted from
the liver of the live cod. leaving behind
the fat and grease.
Just the right proportions needed of
this extract is dissolved in delicate
table wine. and so today in the line of
medicine, all who have found it neces-
sary to take cod liver oil, may do away
with all the disagreeable features of
the old way, discarding the horrible
grease which may be likened to the
numbering and unhealthful vehicle of
travel of the past, and take instead, as
Mr. Webster himself, in speaking of the
matter, described it, 1.-The elegant and
modern vesti5uled train of medicine.
finding in Ninol the elements so much
needed to restore health, entirely dis
guised and much more rapid and Elf
cient in the manner that they operate.
than could have been expected in the
old and cumbersome way in which this
valuable remedy was formerly taken.
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THE ARMY AND NAVY.

the Rough Riders. died at the city hos,
pital at Boston: "Wednesday. lie had
been suffering from malaria he came
from Hancock, Mich.
THE American authorities at Manila
have released some of the Spanish sailors
captured during the war. The authorl-
ties at Iloilo have cabled to Madrid. eX-
pressing their loyalty to the Spanish
crown.
Advices received at Havana from Car
denas. province OF Matanzas. announce
81 men belonging to the Cuban forces un-
der the command of Gen. RoJinas. Ihese
men asked for their discharge in order to
enable them to return to the cultivation
of their property.
At a meeting at London. Wednesday,
of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co,
the, Marquis of Tweedaie, the chairman an
United States for cutting the Manila
cable had not yet been admitted. The
f the up american rro forces f added. had
given a great impetus to the project of
building a PACING cable. but nothing def
mite had yet been arranged.
The United States cruiser Montgomery
sailed from Nassau, N p. for Charleston,
"Wednesday. having on board the .com-
mission headed by Smith NJ. Weed and
President Haueraux of San Domingo 1t
| is understood that all the negotiations
| have been concluded on a satisfactory
basis. The commission headed by Smith
| M. w eeu Is not Il governmental DOuy-
| Weed represents an American company
4 which is said to control all the railroads
of San Domingo.
| In pursuance to the special order of the
! war department, converting a court of in
quiry upon the petition of Lieut.. Jeremiah
| G. Fennessey, quarteraster Sth Mass. In
fantry. l.. s. V. to investigate his con-
duct while in discharge of his duty az
| regimental quartermaster before Santiago
and at Siboney, the members OF the court
assembled at the office of Col. Hyde, chiei
quartermaster, Boston, Wednesday. Ow.
ing to the absence of the recorder, who
| is away on leave. the president OF ths
court. Col. McCrea. ordered an adjourn.
ment until Thursday.
The Indiana will sail from San Fran
cisco for Manila, Thursday. with the Is
and I'd Battalions of the Kansas regimen
on board. The LIST and Sd Battalions O
the 1st Washington will sail on the OHIO
Col. Funston will be in command of tn,
former expedition, and Col Wholley O
! the latter The 5lSt Iowa has been as
: signed to the Pennsylvania which vesse
: will carry all of the regiments The Yea
5 landia will be ready by Sunday. To III,
! vessel will be assigned the 81 Battalion o
: the Kansas regiment. and possibly bat
talon Of the Tennessee regiment Wit
II the departure of the ZeaIantisi and New
= port, there Will be left of the troois orr
: about 200 men. who will be sent on d sma
At 1880 PM. Wednesday. 1t Lake Mas
sasabesic. n. H.. Edward Moore. aged
- 49, fsanrcxs Green
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Kitchener at Paris.

Paris. oct. 26.-Gen. Lord Herbert
Kitchener, commander of the Anglo
Egyptian forces in the Soudan, and
Capt. Baratier, the French officer who
brings Major Marchands dispatches
from F'ashoda. arrived here. at 10
o'clock this evening. Gen. Kitchener
left the railway station unnoticed
Capt. Baratier received an ovation
from hundreds of members of the Pat
riotic League and others. The demon
STATIONS continued until Capt. Bara
tier had reached his residence. There
was no further incident. The city is
calm, this evening.
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quartermaster at Santiago, said that
for time it had beeen impossible to
get full rationS to the front.
Major H. S. Thomson, surgeon of
the SD Michigan, who had served in
the general hospital at Montauk after
Aug. l, said that in August there were
600 patients in the hospital and that
there We're often eight in tent. He
had heard no complaint of i'll treat
ment from patients, but there was
criticism from outsiders. He thought
death was caused by the removal of
patients before they We're in condition
to be moved. Yet the removals were
made to make places for others whe
were still sick and who otherwise would
not have found place in the hospital.
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THE WAR COMMISSION
Opens Investigation at Huntsville, Ala
Several Witnesses Examined.

Huntsville, Ala, Oct 26.-The war
investigating commission. today. be-
gan the inspection of Camp Forsee,
preparatory to the inquiry which will
be instituted here later
The commission began the examina-
ton of witnesses with Gen. Louis II.
Carpenter, who is in command in Gen.
Wheeler's absence. He had been at
Chickamauga, Tampa and Fernandina
before coming here. He said the camp
at Chiclamauga was too crowded. That
at Tampa was unsatisfactory but it
was not intended to be permanent.
That at Fernandina was ideal. The
camp supply had been ample through
out. but quarter,naster supplies were
generally slow and there had been
especial trouble in securing tents
There was more difficulty in getting
supplies at Tampa than elsewhere. be-
cause of railway congestion.
Charles Grandy the surgeon who was
in charge of the medical supply depot
at Tampa, said he had been able to
fill all reasonable acquisitions for medi-
cal supplies with promptness, but
many bulky articles for which substi-
tutes could not be had were not supplied.
Regular troops We're easily satisfied
but the volunteers were eXacting. He
had fitted out the Shafter expedition
for Cuba and thought that in the main
the expedition was fairly supplied
This was especially true of the first
requistion. Half of the supplies he
had on hand had been packed for Cuba
and he had afterwards made a supple
mentary shipment of tVo wagon loads
He had afterward heard that many OF
these stores came back to Tampa il
the hold of the Iroquois. He gave the
name OF Capt. Munson as authorit,
Tor this latter statement and he wa:
sure that Capt. Munson would testif,
willingly and fully.
During the afternoon session a mum
Der OF officers who served in the San
uago campaign and in Florida wer
examined. Gen. G.. S. Carpenter sal,
the sick at Santiago had suffere
somewhat on account of a deficiency o
medicines and medical supplies, bu
TINS was the only deprivation of whic
he spoke.
capt. George Cartwright, who ha
peen aide to Gen. Kent to the SAINT
ago campaign. said that doubles
some of the men had been hungry s
times, but he thought the exciteme1
OF battle had sustained them. On II
hight of July l he had half a ha,
'acK Tor supper and the remaining
ear the next morning. He though
ena. under the circumstances the cor
assary department had been oui