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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
HOOSIERS AT SAVANNAH
COL. DURBIN'S REGIMENT AT ITS
NEW CAMP IN GEORGIA.
Halt of General Lees Corps Away
from JacksOnville-TrOO at Lex
ington to Move Next Week.
speclal to the 1ndianapolis journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Oct 24.-The One-hun-
Observation-Disclosures Indiana Regiment ar
rived here from Jacksonville at 10:30 o'clock
this morning and marched at once to its
new camp two miles northeast of the city.
Six regiments of the twelve composing the
Seventh Army Corps are now here. The
Fourth Missouri will be left at Camp Cuba
Libre to do provost guard duty and to as
sst in the care of the sick left behind.
There are now about 500 patients in the hos
pitals there. A large percentage of these
are convalescents. and as fast as they are
able to travel they will be sent home on fur
loughs or back to their commands.
Colonel w. j. Bryan, who is here with
his regiment. the Third Nebraska volun-
teers, is i'll at the Desoto Hotel. He is
suffering with fever, but his condition is
not regarded at all serious.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

HALIFAX, N. s., Oct. "a. = The COM
manders of all war ships of the British
North American squadron have received or
ders to mobilize at Halifax. The Pallas,
Talbot and Indefatigable will come here at
once, together with two torpedo-boat de-
stroyers now at Bermuda. The torpedo
boats at the dock yard are being over
hauled. The crew of the flagship Renown
will be sent to LAWYERS island this week
for field practice. The Renown went to
sea this morning for heavy gun practice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
AGED WARRIOR Welded
GEN. WESLEY MERRITT AND MISS
LAURA WILLIAMS MARRIED..
The Bride Was Ill, and the Ceremony
Took Place in the Drawing Room
of the Savoy Hotel, London.

LONDON, Oct. M-Gen. Wesley Merritt
and Miss Laura Williams, of Chicago, were
married at o'clock this evening at the
Savoy Hotel. 1t had been planned to have
the ceremony take place in st. Andrews
Church. Westminster but Miss Williams
contracted slight illness during the voy-
age, which necessitated the simplest pos
sible ceremoney and the avoidance of cxer-
ton and excitement. Consequently, only
few most intimate friends were present.
They were Mrs. Norman Williams, the
brides mother: Norman Williams, jr.,
brother of the bride; Lord and Lady Arthur
Butler, Henry White, the United States
charge daffaires, and Marshal Dodge.
A less ostentatious wedding could not be
imagined. The general strolled from the
Metropole to the Savoy unattended. wear
ing q beaver hat frock coat and a white
tie. The party gathered in the drawing
room, which had been beautiaed with few
flowers. The Hon. Rev. John Northcote,
rector of st. Andrews oficiated. The bride
entered on the arm of her brother, who
gave her away. She was attired in white
satin and wore the usual veil and orange
blossoms. Though looking ILL., the bride
stood throughout the ceremony and pro-
nounced the responses in Il strong voice.
After the ceremony Mr.. White proposed the
health of the bride, which was drunk with
enthusiasm, and the members of General
Merritts staff entered and congratulated
the newly-married couple. Their frieDds
afterwards departed and Mr. and Mrs. Mer-
ritt dined alone.
The brides illness, which for time it was
feared would develop into typhoid fever,
was the cause. as stated. of the abandon
ment of the ceremony which wos to have
taken place in st. Andrews Church. In
fact, yesterday it was thought the wedding
would have to be postponed indefinitely. but
Miss Williams was so improved This morn
ing that it was decided 1T noon lot 10 de-
lay the wedding but abandon the proposed
ceremony in the church. Then the RED tape
of English law threatened to be another OBJ
stacle. but, thanks to the friendly offices of
Mr.. White, it was overcome. When General
Merritts aid-de-camp applied to the reg
lister for certificate he was informed that
four days notice was necessary. Mr.. White
was then applied to. He had just returned
from visiting Mr.. Balfour. the first lcrd of
the treasury, in Scotland, and he spent the
afternoon in impressing on the officials the
Importance Of waving formalitics Alter
much driving about and many interviews,
Mr.. White succeeded i'm obtaining TIE de-
sired document, though the expectant
couple was kept waiting an hour after the
time fixed for the ceremony. The illness
of the bride has not proved az serious as
expected. and General and Mrs. Merritt will
be able to carry out their plan of going to
Paris at the end of the week. They will
proceed to the Philippine islands after the
adjournment of the peace commission.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
war Prepnrntions at TouIon.

PARIS, Oct A.-The municipal authorities
of Toulon have been notified that place will
be the center of important naval and mill
tary preparations, and have been instructed
to arrange for. the immediate reception of
four battalions of infantry, 1900 marines
and GOO artillerymen. The municipal council
has decided to close the schools. and the
schoolhouses will be used for lodging the
troops. The naval authorities have been
ordered to expedite the preparations for the
Quitting of the new squadron.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Oct. A-While no
further orders have been received regarding
.the movement of the Second Division to
points further South, it is definitely under
stood that it will begin on Oct q. The
First Brigade, consisting of the Fourth
Tennessee, Thirty-first Michigan and Sixth
Ohio, is slated to move first, going to At
lanta. The Southern Railway will carry
the men to Chattanooga. and that road and
the N. c. & st. l.. will divide the business
between there and Atlanta 1t is not ex-
pected that more than one regiment will get
away in a day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

CAMP MEADE, Middletown Pa, Oct "a.
Governor Bushnell and staff will visit the
camp of the Ninth and Tenth Ohio regi-
ments tomorrow on their way to the Phil
adelphia peace jubilee A review of por-
tion of the troops will be given in their
honor The boys are complaining of the
cold weather. Ice formed last night in the
little streams running through the camp.
General Graham says he will remain here
until all danger of a yellow-fever outbreak
among troops in the new Southern camps
is passed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

MADRID, Oct M-The Impartial to-day
says: mo victor ever treated the van
quished as the United State is treating
Spain. The government has received a
grave dispatch from Porto Rico announcing
that the American general there is acting
toward Spain as the European nations have
treated China He ordered a Spanish steam
er to embark the remainder of the Spanish
troops at Porto Rico in spite of the protests
Of her captain. who had orders to go to
Havana to embark sick soldiers. Our gov
ernment will probably protest against such
action"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
ELEVEN NEGROES DEAD.
One Wounded, and others i'm Danger
of being LNnched hv !. Mnh

FOREST, Miss, Oct. 24.-Eleven dead ne
groes, one dead white man and one negro
end three white men seriously wounded Is
the result at this writing of the bloody war
being waged between the white and black
races in the Harperville neighborhood of
this (ScotD county, Several of the rioters
We're captured and lodged in jail at Forest
to-day. but the others escaped into the
swamps. Large crowds OF white men are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
1eoth Indiana win Move.

LEXINGTON. KY, Oct. A.-The move.
ment of troops from Camp Hamilton &c
camps in the South will begin next Sunday
when the division commanders and their
STATS leave. The regiments begin leaving
Nov. at the rate of one each day.
Private Will Williams. Tenth United
States Volunteers (colored), died of pneu-
monia to-day His home is in St. Louis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
Insurance. License ReyoI.ea.

LANSING Mich. Oct. 24.-State Insur-
ance Commissioners Campbell to-day revoked
the license of the Liverpool. London and
Globe Insurance Company This action was
taken after an investigation of charges
made by Detroit merchants and manufac-
turers that stock fire insurance companies
are violating the Michigan anti-compact
law. This law does not apply to Michigan
companies, bat only to outside ones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

LIVERPOOL. Oct. 24-Higher rates are
being demanded for cargoes to French ports
and some ship owners have refused such
cargoes. The average increase is Sd to rs
Sd per ton on the net register. 1t is report
ed that several large vessels have been en-
gagged on French account to load grain at
American ports
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
A London Rumor.

LONDON, Oct. PA dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company from Paris
says the American peace commissioners,
at Fridays joint meeting, will definitely in
sist upon the annexation of the Philippine
islands to the United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

TOLEDO, o., Oct. 24.-The last of the
victims OF the Union elevator fire were ac-
counted for to-day, when the men VINO were
removing the grain found the charred re-
mains of Samuel Alexander and portions
OF another body, believed TO be that Of the
son Of Superintendent Parks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

Fashoda and that NJ. Delcasse, the French
foreign minister will do his utmost to
facilitate a pacific solution.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25

Minister COrrea Resigns.
MADRID. Oct. 24.--GeEeral Correa, min
lister of war has resigned.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
Expenses of the War.

One Of the largest telegraph bills ever
rendered will soon be presented to the
War Department as a result of the war
with Spain. Nearly all Of the cores
pondence Of the department has been
carried on by telegraph, the mail cor
respondence having been practically
abandoned. Orders for supplies, equip
ments, enlistments, movements Of
troops, mastering out, assignments of
officers, transfers Of moD, and orders
Of every description were sent by wire.
Since the beginning Of the war the
small telegraph Office at the War De
partment has sent and received l25,0 900
telegrams, some of which bad nearly
1000 words in them. Besides these
messages thousands were delivered by
the telegraph companies by messenger,
and il is impossible to tell at this time
the exact number handled. 1t cost the
Government 5000 TO notify Generals
Miles, Shafter aud Merritt of the sign
ing of the protocol which provided for
the suspension of hostilities. The toll
TO Manila is 81 % per word, to Puerto
Rico $1s4, and to Santiago 20 cents.
The cablegrams to the generals of the
army contained over eleven hundred
words. Aside from this, Admi-
rails Dewey and Sampson and other
naval commanders had to be notified,
and, altogether, il was rather an ex-
pensive, though welcome, act on the
part of the Government.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
DrapedL dLincOln's Coffin.

Inelosed in a moth-proof glass case
in Secretary AIger's Office Is fsg
with history. This emblem was used
to drape the easket Of President Lin
coin when his remains lay in state in
the rotnnda of the capitol in April,
1865, and enyeloped the easket on its
long journey through the states TO its
final resting place at Springfield, Ill
After the ceremonies had been COM
pleted the flag was removed from the
casket and shipped to Washington,
where it was draped and placed in the
case in which are moth balls TO pre-
vent, as far as possible, its decay.
The flag is draped as only experts
employed by the government know
how do this work, and on the case is
an inscription recitiDg its history. The
cowardly assassination Of the war
President Immediately after the cessa-
ton Of hostillties might properly be
called the last act CT that great drama,
and by a strange coincidence, in the
next room. which is occupied by the
adjutant general, is found the base Of
the flagstaff, from which flew the Stars
and Stripes when Fort SImter was
fired upon, and thus the relic Of the
beginning and ending of the greatest
modern war repose within few feet
of each other.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
Peizs Money On Nen-Of-War.

The commanding officer Of the fleet
or squadron receives one twentieth
part.
The commanding officer Of division
of a feet receives one-fiftieth part and
a fleet captain receives just one-half as
much.
The commander Of a single vessel re-
ceives one-tenth part Of all prize money
awarded to the vessel under the COM
mand, if the vessel was under the conf
mand Of the commanding officer Of
fleet or squadron OF division and three
tweniieths if his vessel was acting in-
dependsntly Of such superior officer.
After the shares of the commanding
officers have been deducted, what is
left is proportioned and distributed
among al others doing duty ON board
the ship in proportion to their respect
i've rates of pay in the service. In this
way il is seen that every officer, ma
rine and Jack Tar in the service Of Un-
Gle Sam has a personal interest as well
as a patriotic motive in advancing the
cause Of his country on the high seas
in time of war.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
Peoples Party Ideals.

From the New York Press.
From the platform Of the Cincinnati
convention of the Peoples party, Of
which copies are being sent broadcast
mo self-respecting Populist would be
content with anything else), il appears
that the main point Of their contention
is that the day is to be looked forward
to with hope when the human family
shall possess a governmental, full legal
measure of value made Of paper that
will expand side by side with the
growth of wealth and population. Then,
says the platform, and only then, will
the people realize the full benefits Of
civilization and the world be made a
garden Of delights for mankind. The
platform also is opposed to individuals
fastening themselves like vampires on
the people, and it denounees the scheme
of some villain mot named who would
sell the kingdom of heaven for a mess
of pottage.
This clear and specific statement viii,
no doubt, make many votes. Though
the platform Is a little vague as TO the
proper steps to be taken, in order to
bring into being the garden Of delights,
there can be no question about the
necessity of immediate action in regard
to the vampire.
II is pleasant to find the Populist can
didate for Governor Of Pennsylvania
joining hands with his western broth
ers in denouncing everything. He has
discovered that Pennsylvania is on the
verge of political and moral ruin, and
that the money power is blight as in
exOrable as gravity. Ii has remained
for the POpulists to discover that grav-
ity is q blight, and it is a matter for
surprise that they did not insert a
clause in their platform Objecting to
It No doubt it is their proper opposi-
tion to the laws Of this blighting law
that makes the Hon. Simpson and the
Hon. PETER so anxious to hoist them
selves into the air by puliing on their
bOot-straps. Their heads, being eharg-
ed with material lighter than the sur
rounding air, naturally strive to over
come the gravity which keeps their feet
anchored to the soil, and all thinking
persons will sgree that a suspension Of
the law in their case would be a good
thing.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
Food for Troops.

For troops in garrison the regulations
provide for 100 men 125 pounds of fresh
beef, or l25 pounds of fresh mutton, or
70 pounds of pork or bacon, or 1877
pounds of salt beef; when 1t is not pos
sible to procure any of these, 81 pounds
of dried fish, or ll2 pounds of picked
fish, or ll2 pounds of fresh fish. In
breadstuffs, ll2 pounds OF -four, or in
lieu of -four, any one of the following !:
1l2 pounds Of soft bread, 100 pounds Of
hard bread, or l25 pounds of cornmeaI
and pounds of baking powder.
The same number of men also re-
eeives Is pounds Of beans or IS pounds
of peas, 10 pounds of rice or 10 pounds
of hominy; 100 pounds of potatoes are
supplied; though sometimes this
amount is reduced to so pounds and 20
pounds of onions added, or the issue
will I've 20 pounds of potatoes and 80
pounds OF canned tomatoes or eabbages
or beets.
The same 100 men get 10 pounds Of
green tea or pounds Of roasted coffee,
. pounds of tea, Is pounds of sugar or
, gallons of molssses or sirup, gallon
of vinegar, 1 pounds of salt, onequar-
ter pound Of pepper.
Troops on the march are obliged to
accommodate themselves to a reduced
ration, says the American Kitchen
Magazine, and their haversacks at
times are the only larder, and all they
boast is hard bread, bacon, coffee, su-
gar and salt. These ingredients, by
means of tin mug. tin plate with a
handle to make it a frying-pan, and its
cover, they must make into food 10
keep soul and body together till some
thing better il furnished.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
Prize Captures of War.

The Panama brought about sl00, 600.
II was taken April . by the Mangrove.
The first naval capture made after
the declaration Of war with Spain was
the Buena Ventura, a Spanish mer-
chairman, which was taken by the
Nashville, April p.
The prize ipture that was valued
the highest Of any taken during the
war was the Pedro. She was taken hy
the New York, April -, and was sold
at an appraisement Of $4,000 to the
Navy Department.
On May L the Spanish steamer Rita
was brought by the auxiliary cruiser
Yale into Charleston, and, with her
cargo Of coal, condemned. She has
since been purchased by the War De-
partmept on an appraisement Of Sl25,-
O0O, for use as s transport.
OF twenty-seven steamers captured
between April - AID August 10 (inclu-
sive) ten were condemned and e.even
released. What the action was in fOuI
cases has not been learned, and two
cases are yet pending.
The Guido, a joint capture of the
Maehias and Terror, with her cargo
was sold for $4,000. She was a steam
er Of over 1000 tons, carrying valua-
ble cargo Of provisions and a consider
able sum of money for the pay Of the
Spanish troops.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19

Washington star.
'.The majority Of people when asked
to name the most precious metals usn-
ally mention gold as first, platinum as
second, and silver rs third, y said the
proprietor Of a large assay and refining
establishment in New York TO the
writer recently. "If asked 10 name
others SOME might add nickel and
few aluminium 70 the list. Now lei us
see how near the truth they would be.
Gold Is worth about $40 per pound
troy, platinum $50. and silver about
SIP. Nickel is worth about 50 cents
and pure aluminium from 50 cents to 81
to the troy pound.
Eve win now compare these prices
with those Of the rarer and less we'll
known metals. To take them in alpha
beticai order, barium, the metal which
Davy isolated from its ore, baryte, in
1895, sells for $3.50 pound. when it is
sold at all, and calcium is worth 81 500
pound. Cirium is a shade higher
its cost is $3.50 an ounce, or sl,920 per
pound These begin to look like f:abu-
lous prices, but they do not reach the
highest point, chromium being $500 an
ounce. Cobalt falls to about half the
price Of silver, while didymium, the
metal isolated by Mssander, is the same
price as calcium Then comes gallium,
which is worth 50, go an ounce. With
this metal the highest price is reached,
and it may well be called the rarest and
most precious Of metals.
aGiucium is worth $3.50 per ounce,
indium $50, iridium S65s pound. jan
thanium $40, and lithium $3.50 per
ounce. Nidium costs $l2s per ounce,
osmium, palladium, platinum, POTASH
um and rhodiam bring, respectively,
S6lO, 500, $3.50, S32 and SIP per pound.
Strontium costs SIPS an ounce, tantaum
SlIf, tllurium 50, thOrium S272, vana-
dium $3.50, yttriuln Sl4i, and zineoni-
um 500 an ounce.
''Thus we see that the commonly re-
ceived opinion as to what are the most
precious metals quite erroneous Bar
ium is more than four times as valua-
ble as gold, and gallium more than l62
times as costly, while many of the
other metals mentioned are twice and
thrice as valuable. Aluminium, which
cost s. and 50 a p 'und in 1850, is now
produced as cheaply as iron, zinc, lead
and copper"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19

PASSING OF SUMNER.

Summer is goiag-her footsteps fall
In the deepening shadow OF hedge and wall,
But the breezes signing kind refrain,
kiss herand lead her through Hollyhock lane
summer Il goI higher blnshes fade
Where the riotous climbing roses played.
And her withered gariands are tossed aside
In the painted splendor OF Autumn's pride.
Summer is goilg-her Junetime days
Were the swee test notes In my song OF praise,
SO my heart has fashioned them into tune
That measures its Joy in her buoyant moon.
summer is going-she leaves me bere
With the harvest gold and its crimson cheer.
But my heart 10 the sorrowing rose tree ciings
And ever its fettened passion sings.
Summer is going why may not
With her 10 eternal roses ny?
oat there In the garden OF endless June.
Where life leads over Loves path, rose-strewn.
Summer Is going--dOwn Hollyhock lane.
But the cavalier asters are nodding in vain !;
Forwith quickening pace viii she yet with
stand
The furious fires OF Poppy land
summer is going only seems
Her departure ends as 1t starts-in dreams
But the corn leaves know-'tis broken
spell
Like the heart that is sObbing Farewell :
hrewelIF'
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
SOMERSET. Pa, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1898

1t was singular behavior on Eliza
beth's part. Captain Rylance, however,
knowing nothing of the courthouse ac-
cident, put it down merely as the freak
of vivacious and charming young
woman. But still more singular was
the conversation which took place that
evening between Alden, at the rear
window of the prison, aad Elizabeth in
the shadow below.
"Did Captain RyIance send you
enough silver ?" asked Elizabeth.
"Yes. But how did you happen to
think Of such clever rRse?p
''Oh, it was quite by accident. You
see, could not bring myself 70 help
one of my country's enemies escape,
bat l thought that ifCaptain RyIance
wished to do it no one could blame me.
I had the coins in my niuf $3.50 that
if--well, 1 had them there any way,
and suppose some OF them must have
slipped into the snoxballs when I
made them.
This was not all their talk, but the
rest is Of no Sconsequence to US at this
late day. Alden did make the key, and
he did escape long before his death
warrant was signed. How he met
Elizabeth on two other different occa-
sions before the war was ended how be
carried her away at last in spite of the
efforts of Captain Rylanee and her
father, are matters l need not relate in
detail.
may add, though, That one OF the
most valued treasures Of the dear gray
haired, gray-eyed old lady who told me
this story is crudely fashioned key of
silver which was given to her by her
mother, whose eyes were gray and
whose married name was Elizabeth
Alden.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-10-19
The Sure La Grippe Cure.

There is no use suffering from this
dreadful malady. If you will only get
the right remedy. You are having
pain all through your body, your liver
is out of order, have no appetite, no
life or ambition, have a bad cold, in
fact are completely used up. Electric
Bitters is the only remedy that will
give you prompt and sure relief. They
act directly on your Liver, Stomach
and Kidneys, tone up the whole sys-
tenn and make you feel like new be-
ing. They are guaranteed to cure or
price refunded. For sale at ]. n.
Snyder's Drug Store, Somerset, Pa,
and G. w. BraIlier's Drug Store, Ber-
lin, Pa.