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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-30

These they have confined in the old fort at
Cavite. There the admiral has allowed
them to establish headquarters. Starting
from there as a base, they have driven back
the SpaniardS in series of skirmiSheS and
assaults on their numerous small forts. Now
the insurgents have possession of all the
coast on this side of the bay and all the
territory around Manila, except to the
northwet, which is reputed to be very pro-
Spanish in its sympathies.
For several days the insurgents attacked
the forts at Malata, which is the last forti-
fled place outside of Manila, on the bay
south of the city. They finally captured it
and are now ready to advance on the city
as soon as Admiral Dewey wishes to COM
mence operations against it. The Spaniards
admit now that the insurgents alone could
probably take the outskirts and new part
of Manila, but of course without artillery
could make no impression on the. heavy
walls of the old city, which could Withstand
a siege of months. 1t will require the heavy
guns of the United States fleet to breach it
If the inhabitants do not surrender on the
demand of Admiral Dewey.
Three small steamers flying the insurgent
flag arrived yesterday. having on board
about four hundred wounded and captured
Spaniards. These were all taken in a cam
paign around Bahamas bay, which is some
distance south of Manila bay and quite a
stronghold of the Spanish.
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BETTER CARE OF TROOPS
WAR DEPARTMENT WILL LOOK AFT
Err THE SICK AND WOUNDED.
Hospital to Be CONSTRUCTED at Mon
tauk Point for Skaters Men-Con-
cessiOn to FurIOughed Fighters.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Dhe care of the
sick and wounded and steps looking to their
greater comfort has engrossed officers of
the War Department during the day. An
officer has been dispatched to Montauk
Point, L. L., to prepare hospital for the
sick of General Skaters army when they
shall have arrived again. in the United
States. Orders also havegbeen issued Took
ing to the accommodation of sick soldiers
on furlough enabling them to visit their
homes and return with greater dispatch and
convenience. 1t has been determined to
send a commission to visit the hospitals of
the various army camps with a view of
ameliorating the condition of the sick. A
surgeon of the army and Major Hopkins, of
the adjutant generals Office, will compose
this commission, with perhaps some other
officer of the army. Major Hopkins is Sec
rotary Ayers military aid. The surgeon
generals Office also is considering the ad-
Instability Of allowing a number of women
as nurses in the hospitals at the large
camps The surgeon general has been
averse to having women nurses in the field,
but it is said that the large rendezvous
camps cannot be considered as field serv
ice, and that the objection to women does
not apply as it would in active service.
General Shafter was heard from this
afternoon in a message relating to the
transports in Santiago, which wanted
to carry additional forces to Porto Rico.
He reported that they were being un-
loaded as fast as possible, and that the
Yucatan, Allegheny, Comal and San Mar
Gus sailed for Tampa yesterday, while the
Seguranca, Miami and Matawa were to sail
to-day. The department wants at least
three of these boats at once at Tampa to
load on the artillery and cavalry of Cop
pingers division. General Coppinger tele-
graphed to-day that so far these troops
have left Tampa: Eleventh and Nineteenth
Infantry, under General Schwan; Batteries
C and M, of the Seventh Artillery; Troops
B, Second Cavalry, and A, Fifth Cavalry.
The following troops are waiting trans
ports: Batteries K and NJ, Fifth Artillery;
E, of the Sixth; H, of the Seventh, and 0,
of the Fourth. The Fifth Infantry, Fifth
Cavalry, General Hudson's brigade, consist
ing of the Second Georgia, Fifth Maryland
and First Florida, and General Snyders
headquarters, as well as the division head
quarters. -- ar
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AGUINALDo's PLANS.
Rebel Leader Now Dictator, and VIII
Establish a Capital Near Manila.

Rebel Leader Now Dictator, and VIII
Establish a Capital Near Manila.
Correspondence of the Associated Press. Copy
ri~hted)
CAVITE, Manila bay June 10. via Hong
Kong.-The insurgent chiefs from all over
the island met at Cavite yesterday to form
the provisional government. Gen. Aguinal
do is head of it and is practically dictator.
They intend to establish the capital in a
small town in the interior not far from
Manila. Aguinaldo is going to take the field
in person. The insurgent army is well
armed with Mauser rifles. either captured or
bought and has plenty of ammunition. Be-
sides the insurgents have proved that they
have great courage and remarkable energy.
A few days since, during a raid around
the city by Aguinaldo's forces, they cap
tured the wife and children of General
August governor general of Manila, who
were living in small suburb and Admiral
Dewey was requested by the archbishop to
use his good offices to procure their release.
The German vice admiral arrived yester-
day on the Cation and saIuted the Spanish
flag This has not been done by any other
nationality except the Japanese. The first
of the latter'S ships to arrive after the bat
tie did this through a misunderstanding of
the condition of affairs. Now, of course,
1T is we'll understood that the blockading
fleet is blockading Manila and only allow
the foreign men-of-war by courtesy to go
into the city.
Since commencing operations Immediately
after the capture of Cavite by the Amesf-
cans the insurgents under Aguinaldo have
taken 200 Spanish soldiers prisoners.
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Regulations Governing Burroughs
Modified for Sick and Wounded.

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Two orders
have been issued by the War Department
which are of Importance to the sick and
wounded troops and their friends. One au-
thorizes men who have been furloughed
from hospitals to report to the nearest gov
eminent post instead of being compelled to
report to the hospital from which they were
furloughed This will allow the soldiers to
be transported from the nearest post to
their regiments at the expense of the gov
eminent Before this order was issued a
soldier on furlough from a hospital could
not go home without being compelled to
pay his fare back to the hospital point. This
will apply to men from the regular army as
we'll as to volunteers.
Another order allows a man furloughed
who has not been paid on account of his
regiment being away in Cuba to go to the
nearest quartermaster and obtain from him
transportation to his home, the cost will be
charged against him through the pay de-
partment of the army. Many wounded SOL
pay on account of the absence of their regi-
ments and when their furloughs were OBJ
tanned could not go home because they had
no money. AS some of them have not been
paid for two or three months they cannot
take advantage of the Burroughs granted
them and go to their homes These two or
ders will allow soldiers furlough to go
home and return without the difficulties
they have experienced heretofore.
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OBITUARY..
DR.. William Pepper, One of the Coun-
try's Most Eminent Physicians.

OAKLAND, Cal, July 29-Dr william
Pepper, of Philadelphia, a prominent East
ern physician, died at O'clock last night
at Castle VNona, the country seat of Mrs
Phoebe Hearst, in Pleasanton. The cause
of death was heart failure. Dr. Pepper was
very old friend of Mrs. Hearst and at
her invitation was spending the summer
months in the country. The remains were
ernbalmed and shipped East this evening.
William Pepper was born in Philadelphia,
Aug. "a, 1S43, was graduated from the Uni
Versty of Pennsylvania in 1862 and in medi-
cine in 1864. He has been chiefly connected
with various hospitals, and was largely in
strumental in the establishment of the Uni
versfty Hospital. In. the University of Penn
sylvania he was a lecturer from 1868 to 1876
and professor of clinical medicine from 1876
to 1877, when he was elected TO the chair of
theory and practice of medicine. In jan
nary. 1881. he was elected provost of the
university. He founded the Philadelphia
Medical Times. and was it's editor in 1901
and was medical director of the Centennial
Exposition For his services in connection
Herewith he received from the King of
Sweden the decoration of knight commander
of the Order of ST Olaf He was a fellow
the American Philosophical Society, of the
Pathological Society of Philadelphia and Of
the American Chronological Associa ton.
he published number of books on medical
subjects, and contributed many papers to
leading medical Journals.
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ARMY SURGEONS PROTEST.
One Brigade Ordered to Pitch Tents
ON a Vacated Camp Ground.


Correspondence of the Journal.
CAMP ALGER, Va, July 2s.-Lieutenant
De Loss Albin, adjutant of the first bat
talon, has been appointed instructor in
guard duty for the Observation-Disclosures
ninth Indiana Volunteers.
There has been quite a protest in this
brigade over the order issued Monday to
move its camp on the ground just vacated
by the regiments of the First Division. The
order is opposed by all of the surgeons on
account of sanitary conditions. They claim
that the present site is bad enough, but such
a change would be worse as the ground just
vacated by troops is full of old sinks and
cess pools of which the new occupants have
no knowledge The doctors urge a removal
CT the camp to some ground in the
The very rapid increase in the cases of
typhoid fever has increased the pressure of
the surgeons to move from Camp Alger al
together. Since Monday for the first three
days of this week thirty-Six cases of fever
have been sent to the Fort Myer Hospital.
Many Of the regiments which have not yet
been bothered are developing new cases
now. There are many cases of measles in
the One-hundred- and fifty -ninth at present
but all are very mild.
Owing to the excessive heat the afternoon
is called at 3:45 instead of p. m. The
weather is very warm, the only redeeming
feature being the frequent rainfalls
Pay rolls for the month of July have al
ready been received and made out.
CIV. B..
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WHAT sCovEL SAYS.
His Version of the Difficulty Between
Him and Shafter.

Norfolk, Va, Special in Baltimore Amer
The explanation of the personal encounter
between Correspondent Sylvester Scovel
and General Shafter, which led TO the ex-
pulsion Of Scovel from Cuba. as related by
the correspondent himself, upon his ARRIVAL
at Fortress Monroe, is interesting:
Mr.. Scovel said: Il had been standlng
with the crowd in front OF the CIV civil paiaf &c
be raised when it occurred to me THAT
could get a better view from the roof, so
up 1 went. Lieut.. Miley ordered me GOWN
peremptorily. / obeyed leisurely and ne
had Shafter send company to dlslodge
me- / got down first, however, and going to
Gen. Shafter, / suggested tnat the men ne
given q chance to cheer the flag just raised.
They were anxious to dc it, and he agreed.
Going to a general officer, he spoke rev
words and the officer Immediately turned
and called for three cheers for Shafter.
The intelligent regulars responded family.
The mistake of the general officer had
placed General Shafter in the light of call
ing for cheers for himself. and he was an
grv While he was in that frame of mind
I unfortunately approached him and ex-
planned that while / was the man on the
at the same time | had not mean to in
trude myself, or even to get near the Off
cial party. He replied with volley of
oaths "You correspondents he
you are the biggest nuisance of them all"
He turned away and / said: General, l
am correspondent, also gentleman, ana
you cannot use such language TO me-"
Turning quickly, he struck me with his
open hand on the left cheek. l was a light
weight college champion for four years.
and to strike back was as natural as
breathing let fly with my right Whether
struck him or not / do not know, bat
my knuckles are sore. / was promptly
placed incommuncado. I can prove the
generals language in any court. civil or
military. He used an old army trick to make
me strike back, and / am sure he had rea-
sons for wishing me out of Cuba, and used
that opportunity to expel me-
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WASHINGTON. July 29.-The troops at
Camp Alger. comprising the Second Army
Corps. numbering 1900 men, under COM
mand of Major General Graham. will be
given practice march within few days
Orders for the march have already been
issued by the War Department. When 1t
will be made has not yet been determined
by General Graham. 1t is probable that the
march will be of three days duration. The
troops will march from Camp Alger to Fort
Myer the first day. from Fort Myer to
Washington and return TO Fort Myer the
second day. and from Fort Myer to Camp
Alger the third The President and other
war officials will review the troops in Wash
ington.
There were two deaths from typhoid last
night--Corporai Braytou Flint. Company C.,
Twenty-second Kansas and Private Stan
ley b. Swartz, Company E. Eighth Penn
sylvania. Fifteen new cases were reported
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race Trouble in Camp.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, July 29.-Friction
between the Eighth Regiment (colored) and
the Ninth Regiment (white) showed itself
by unpleasant incidents of almost daily
occurrence. Tonight Captain Wright, the
regimental adjutant; Captain Buck, acting
sergeant major; Walter Williams and C.. NJ
Barnes, the orderly of Colonel Campbell
all of the Ninth, were grossly insulted by
the negro sentinels They had returned
from the city, and though, as officers, they
the guardhouse, where they were released
by. the officer of the guard. Captain Buck
on Nexpostulating with the negro sentries
the Eighth, being the assailant, it is all
legged. p
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LONDON, July 29.-Denials of the allega-
ions made by Ernest Terah Hooley, the
company promoter, in the Bankruptcy
Court, continue to be published here. The
Duke of Somerset writes that he was, of
course, ignorant that his co-directors had
accepted money until he read Mr.. Eooleys
evidence, and then, he adds, needless to say,
he forthwith retired from the directorate
of the Dunlop Company. The Earl of War
wick also emphatically denies that he re-
ceived a penny of the Hooley money
The Earl of Albemarle, Baron Greville
and Baron Saville deny that they received
rectors. The Earl of Albemarle adds that
Mr.. Hooley, some time after he the earD
became a director, voluntarily sent him a
check for $4,000 ($45O00), which the earl I'M
derstood was the result of deal done for
me on Mr.. Hooley's responsibility in another
undertaking."
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MANY WORTHLESS CLAIMS.
Pay Dirt Not Found in Every Digging
in the KEOndike Region.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.-E. Lewis, of
Circle City, Alaska, who came down on the
steamer Portland, brings over $4,000 He
states that only one out of every ten claims
around Dawson are paying wages. Those
that pay at all are paying big money. On
Eldorado creek, he says, there are about
three miles of really rich ground. and on
Bonanza creek, every foot of which has
been advertised as paying, there are more
than twenty miles of absolutely worthless
claims. Captain Iindquist, of the Port
land, reports that on the 18th inst. he
sighted the steamer Tillamook. with the
Rideout in tow just off ST. Lawrence. On
the 18th the steamer Navarro, towing the
State of Minnesota, was sighted ten miles
north of Unalaska. When the Portland left
Dutch harbor on the 18th the steamer
Brunswick, the tug Holyoke and three
bargeS were in port.
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Departure of Another TRANSPORT.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 29.-The third
battalion, First South Dakota Volunteers,
and the Minnesota and Colorado recruits
sailed to-day to join their comrades in the
Philippines. A fleet of tugs. steamers and
launches gathered about the st. Paul and
acted as an escort, and on shore the
wharves were lined with people who waved
farewell to the departing troops.
Major Rubin, chief Quartermaster, and
two physicians on the government board of
inspection inspected the Lakme and North
Fork to-day. The Lakme will not get away
before Monday. She will carry the first
battalion of the New York volunteers and
the battalion of engineers will be trans
ported on the North Fork. The second bat
talon of the New York regiment will follow
on the Charles Nelson and the third bat
talon may go on the Mariposa or wait until
another transport has been secured.
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to-day. of which some are defined and 9TH
ers suspected. The patients at Fort Myer
Hospital are said to be doing WELL
Private GAY charged with rif1ing the
mails, will be tried by court-martial on
Monday.
The new fever patients are: Privates p.
G, and T. A. Burke Company A, Twelfth
Pennsylvania; G.. c. Jockey, Company 3,
Sixth Pennsylvania; H. N. Nicholas and T..
r. Ross, Company f, and j. w. Fowiers
and y. vigue Company Comp 9o, b First Rhode
tennessee: c. Oponauberger, Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas: e. Denton. Company b. Thir-
ty-third Michigan; E. j. Boney, Company
III Twelfth Pennsylvania, and Corporal
Charles Alger, Company F, Fourth Mis-
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Cable Notes.

Sir Charles Bean Euan-Smith. formerly
British minister to Morocco has been APP
pointed British minister to Colombia.
The Irish local government bill passed
its third reading DIN the British House of
Lords yesterday with some unimportant
amendments.
Paris Figaro announces that the govern
ment has received an official dispatch re-
porting the assassination of the French
Captain Cassemajou and the massacre of
his Senegalez court, midway between the
Niger and Laute Tohad.
The officials of the British Admiralty say
they have heard nothing of the report cir
culated by the London Daily Mail that
British transport. having on board a de-
tachment of Grenadier Guards bound for
Gibraltar, was recently stopped In the Bay
of Biscay by an American cruiser They
say that If such thing had occurred they
would undoubtedly have heard of it.
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MRS. DRUCE'S CLAIM.
Says Her Son Is the Duke of Port
lands Rightful Heir.

LONDON, July 29.-The chancellor of the
iocese of London has ordered that applica-
-ion should be made to Sir Francis Henry
Jeune, president of the Probate, Divorce
and Admiralty Division of the High Court
Of Justice, to say whether the faculty
ought to issue an order empowering Mrs.
Anna Maria, bruce to open the vaults and
inspect the coffin which is alleged to con-
ain the remains of T. C. bruce. who, the
applicants assert, was really the fifth Duke
If Portland.
Mrs Anna Maria bruce claims that the
ather of her late husband was the Duke of
Portland, who was supposed to have died
Unmarried, and that her son is the rightful
Duke of Portland. She asserts that her hus-
Oands alleged death and burial under the
lame of bruce were receptions. and that
he died after having been In a lunatic asy-
UNI as Dr. Harmer.
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Funeral of the Murdered Brant.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, July 29.-Charles A.
Brant, who was mysteriously murdered
Monday night was buried to-day under the
direction of Mrs. Sutton, the dead man s
sister, in California. The Interment was in
St. Marks Cemetery. After an interview
with the coroner. Roger Harding. father
to the remains. in view of a telegram re-
ceived from Mrs Sutton, in which she adj
hered to her purpose to have the body
buried near those of her parents In the
meantime the police are still searching for
the men who killed Brant. but without sue
cess.
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Philadelphia Record.


Why does Spain protest against Uncle
Sans conquest of Puerto Rico? By what
means did Spain herself secure the island?
Sixteen years after Columbus first discov-
cred the fertile island, with its peaceful in
habitants. the ruthless Spaniards invaded
it's soil with mere thirst for plumber, and,
incredible as 1t may seem. killed 100000 ma
tives within a few years. Such q record
of murder is unique In the annals of even
Spanish invasion. So complete was the ex-
termination of the original Puertoriquenos
that not relic of them was for long
time found German archaeologists have at
last unearthed certain reminders of these
pre- Columbian people. which curiosities now
repose in the Berlin Museum
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The Powers Must stand Back.

New 7 OK Evening sun.
Not until the continental powers shall 81
told in language as plain as that In which
Andrew Jacksons state papers were framed
that we intend to settle our differences witt
Spain according to our own determination
will Sagasta sue for peace. If the governl
ment has decided. or shall decide, to hold
the Philippines, the people of the United
States will support 1t; If the government
shall decide to retain coaling station there
the people will acquiesce; but the people,
resent insolent interference whether by onl
or all the powers. The people are with thl
President, and they trust him to maintaii
their rights in the face of all opposition.
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IDLY General Wood, it is understood. ha
taken this precautionary measure owing Il
the fact that night before last a Spanis'
cavalry officer made himself very objeo
liquor several American officers. None O
the Americans paid any attention to hin
but later the Spaniard got into troub
with some American soldiers. on duty ar
was locked UP in the guardhouse for forty
eight hours. General Wood will report tn
case to General Toral, saying that he doe
so because he would wish a report made
to him by General Toral if any American
officer were guilty of similar offense
preliminary to strengthen the case Gen
Wood has instituted the officers patrol.
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Surrender of Manila Not Confirmed.

PARIS, July pa telegram from Madrid
to the European edition of the New York
Herald says a cable dispatch has been re-
ceived at the Spanish capital announcing
the surrender of Manila to Admiral Dewey.
MADRID, July 29-Nothing is known here
officially or otherwise concerning the re-
port that Manila has surrendered to the
American forces.
LONDON, July 29.-The agent here of
Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader in the
Philippines, has received a cable dispatch
dated Hong-Kong GAO p. m to-day, but it
makes no mention of Manila having sur
rendered to Rear Admiral Dewey.
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Detroit Tribune.

Il
The thing 10 be considered I'm the Philip
pines is solely our own interests. For that
reason coa1ing stations will satisfy every
ambition we may have. Anything further is
more liable to be detriment than bene-
tit. 1t is well enough to talk about bringing
the blessings of peace to the people of all
the earth; but everybody knows the story
of the boy that went ragged while his moth
er sewed for the heather. The western
hemisphere affords a tolerably big field for
work IL we care to cultivate it,