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commanders authority to arrange practice
marches to the Potomac river has given
great satisfaction to the men. Any change
in the programme of routine work is well
ony of camp life has become irksome and
practice marches will be a novelty, besides
being educative.
Chaplain Weaver has been overwhelmed
with work of sending money home for the
men of the e-hundred-and fifty-ninth
The greater portion of the money drawn
from Uncle Sam is now back in Indiana.
Among the many ex-residents of Indiana
who came out TO visit the Hoosiers Thurs
day of this week were the following we'll
known people: General ]. ]. Reynolds, DR..
w: L. Chamberlain, Major L. P. Williams,
John r. Weather, Hon. John c. CLANCY,
Major Marion t. Anderson, w. P. Brown,
Capt; B. Reynolds, u. j. Brownson, Warner
Rose, DR.. L. c. Purman, Jno j. Freeland,
yno: Morrison, Miss Sarah Morrison, Capt.
b. p. Liebhart Henry Weber, Miss Ida
Weber, L. T. Tarrabee, w. "A. l.. Gresham,
Frank c.. McClelland, c. ]. Morrison, Miss
Jennie Davis. Miss Helen Stockton, Miss
Winnifred Stockton, Robert McKahn, w.
D. Dodd, c. S. Wheeler. j ohm II. Benton, T.
A. Mays and Mrs. T. A. Mays. Representa-
tive &C. B. Lands was also a visitor. He
spent the night in camp and met all the
1t is announced that the troops will soon
be fitted with duck uniforms for service in
a warmer climate.
The regiment has been supplied with can
teens
Albert Robbins, of Company c. drank
some milk Thursday night and was under
the care OF the hospital force for several
hours. 1t was thought he had been poisoned
ne was ABOUT again next day. Several men
were mustered yesterday by Adjutant Geb-
since 1t 1T home awaiting a chance.
G. w B.
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COL. SMITHS REGIMENT.
Shaking Up of the Hospital Corps
''Fresh Fish" I'm Camp.

correspondence of the Journal.
CAMP THOMAS, Chickamauga Park
June 16-The brown" men of the One
hundred-and-ffty-eighth are had at work
policing camp. Inspection comes Friday
morning and regimental drill has been de-
clared off and every man in the regiment
has been put to work Every rake and
broom has been called for and the camp is
being literally swept from one end to the
other. The field to the west and south of
us is being cleaned half way to the next
regiment Colonel Smith and Colonel
Thayer have gone into the city to meet
Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Thayer, who arrived
in Chattanooga this morning Major Rich,
being in charge, declares that he is going to
have clean camp and has put all the men
al work. DIR. Christensen and Adjt. William
B. Poland are also in Chattanooga visiting
friends. Mr.. Poland put on his newest uni
form, and his friends fear that he is in dam
ger.
The hospital corps it at last assuming
shape Hospital Steward Wright has been
assigned to this regiment Hospital Stew
arr n. c. Newland has been assigned to
division headquarters and is clerk to Major
Hysel, the division surgeon. Hospital Stew
ard Harry Moore has been assigned to the
reserve ambulance corps. Like arrange
ments are being made of all hospital stew
ards in the corps. DR.. Fred Charlton, by
order from the chief surgeon of the First
Army Corps, has been designated surgeon
in charge" of the Second Division hospital.
DR.. II. J. Jones has been left in charge of
this regiment as acting regimental surgeon,
and II is understood that DR.. Paul Barcus
VIII be assigned TO the ambulance corps.
This Will give the surgeons of the One
hundred-and-ff ty-eighth very desirable as
signments. Our division hospital is now re-
ceiving patients, the first ones having been
sent in to-day. BY recent ruling OF the
War Department every hospital steward is
mounted and the government must furnish
him a horse, saddle and bride. Our old
hospital stewards are rejoicing because Of
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FAVOR TRIPLE ALLIANCE.
Japanese Want to Join Great Britain
and the United States.

SEATTLE, Wash. June 1S.-According to
the advices received by the imperial Jap
anese steamship Kinshiu Maru, which left
Yokohama June 1. the Japanese favor
triple alliance between England. the United
States and Japan. Her vernacular papers,
both subsidized and independent. are filled
with arguments in favor of the PROPOSE
ton. Closer relations, commercially and 9TH
erwise, with the two great English-speak-
ing nations is demanded by her public men
Lieutenant Fujita. of the Japanese navy.
who came here to superintend the construc-
ton of the two powerful cruisers which
Japan is having built at San Francisco and
Philadelphia. says: Public opinion in ia
pan is all in favor of better understand
ing between Japan and the United States.
We are not opposed to your country hold
ing the Philippines and annexing Hawaii
We expect America to become factor in
the East, commercially and otherwise. ia
pan America and England should be fast
friends. We are democratic in our ideas,
as much so England"
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for pillow. ! went to sleep almost as soon
as my head touched the saddle, and slept
for several hours.
FOUND HIS FATHER.
''Then the orderly walked me and told me
that my father had come. raised myself
up. and about fifty yards away, about
fire, saw group OF officers. among whom
was General Grant. He was sitting upon a
campstool drinking from a tin cup filed
with coffee which the soldiers had just
brought him. AS ] came up he seemed
greatly surprised. and said:
why, Fred. thought left you safe on
the boat?'
We'll, then, how did you manage to get
II. told my story, and as 1 finished my
father smiled and said: Very well, you
thereupon. went on with MS conservation
with the officers about him. A little later
he went to an abandoned house about half
a mile away, and there General Grant
stayed for the night. I remember I lay
down on the floor among the men, and
slept soundy until morning. From that
time on until the end of the siege / stayed
with the soldiers. Much of the time / was
with father and much of the time with
General Logan. Often / was alone. / was
III a number of skiTmishes and battles, and
[ saw war as it really is.
II have been shot twice. My first wound
received in this Vicksburg campaign in a
skirmish near the Black river. The Con-
federates had retreated TO the river, and |
with number of others was running after
them. l was on horseback. and when l got
to the bank of the river l many OF
the Confederates swimming to the opposite
shore. / stopped my horse and was watch
ing these fellows when some one on the
other shore fired at me, hitting me on the
thigh. My leg is now paralyZed at that
point The first sensation was that of
great blow followed with smarting pain
almost like that of a bee sting. | thought
| was killed and must have grown very
pale, for Colonel Lagrow, who came dash
ing UP at that time, asked what was the
matter. l told him / was killed-a state
ment which evidently surprised him, for ne
asked me where / was shot.
II replied, i'm the Leg and he thereupon
asked me if 1 could move my toes. l tried
it and found that could He told me th9t
/ was not badly hurt and / afterwards
found that he was right 1t was only 4
flesh wound, though it caused me great
deal of trouble since then. AS II was [
wrapped a cloth about my leg and Kept IN
the saddle until the battle was over.
MY fathers character, said Fred Grant
in conclusion, "is almost a part of my re-
ligion. revere it so much that l can hard.
ly discuss it, He has ever been my ideal
of all that is true and good. have BOY
who is everything to me, and whom want
to bring up properly. | tell him that the
most 1 can do for him is that he may be
as good a man as his grandfather was.
That boy. in accordance with the request
of his grandfather, will enter West Polnt
next year by the appointment OF PRESIDENT
Mckinley.
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May Go to Fernnndfna.

WASHINGTON, June Interpretations
are being made looking to an early move
ment of troops from Camp Alger for other
quarters Supplies are being issued to the
regiments expected to leave as fast the
quartermasters can ascertain the correct
ness of acquisitions. This afternoon there
was parade by the Second Brigade of the
FIRST Division and this move is expected to
be the final inspection of the men The hri
gade embraces the Sixth Illinois, Sixth
pennsylvania and Eighth Ohio. The men
gre ready to move at an hours notice, being
TWO hundred rifles in the Sixth Illinois.
winch have been condemned and will be re-
placed The destination of the brigade is
gaze of the First Division is also expect
ing 10 move but if an order for a two-dav
march to the Potomac river on Monday is
carried out, it's departure will be delayed.
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TO TERRIFY sPANIARDS.
Arguments For and Against a Naval
Dash to the Coast of Spain.

NEW YORK, June 18-A dispatch to the
Times from Washington says: New reports
of the approach of Spanish vessels to the
coast of the United States and the flutter
of concern the reports cause serve to in
crease the interest of the naval war board
in the plans of Assistant Secretary Roose-
velt now for many weeks laid on the shelf
to make a dash at the CanarieS and the
Spanish coast by way of interesting and oc-
cupying the Spanish people with their own
affairs. There are some differences of opin-
ion among those who direct the operations
OF naval vessels concerning the practicable
ity and effectiveness of raid on the Span
ish coast. 1t is believed by those who have
looked at the matter carefully that the
moral effect of such a demonstration would
be to terrify the people who live on the
shore of Spain and would serve to bring
the Spaniards to terms earlier than if the
forces of the United States were not SO en-
pic ed.
AN objection urged in the Navy Depart
ment against the immediate dispatch of a
fle ct to Spain is that it would bring the war
to a close before the administration could
complete some of the work ii has cut out
It is desired that the occupation of the Phil
ippines shall be completed and Porto Rico
gained before Spain sues for peace If
before Spain is to be visited, it might not be
before August that the fast vessels OF the
United States navy could be used to knock
at the doors of CadiZ or to sail into the
Mediterranean and sound the defenses at
Port Mahon.
THE answer made TO this argument by
naval officers who believe our patrol fleet,
or a part of 1t, might be put to better use
than 1t is now, is that to wait for the fight
ing ships TO be ready for service in Spain
will be- to lose the chance to carry. out the
ceaSeleSs activity campaign which Mr..
Roosevelt desired as careful reader and
disciple of Captain MaEan. They call at
tention to the fact that people living along
the coast Of the United States have been
frightened out of their summer habits by
mere phantom ships that appeared in the
newspapers one day and disappear the next,
as elusive and impossible to describe as the
sea serpent The presence. of the Columbia
and the Minneapolis along the Spanish
coast for week or two, and the capture by
them or few vessels in the coaStwise
trade, 1t is urged. would engage the strict
est attention of the Spanish Cabinet, and
would put an end to reports of the proba-
blity OF Admiral Camara and his Cadiz
squadron crossing the Atlantic.
Naval officers also admit that the Span.
ism government could quiet good deal or
the talk or this proposed dash TO Spain by
permitting two real ships to run over to-
ward this side OF the ocean. and just show
the Spanish flag out Of range of American
batteries. A bold axst like that would at
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THREE GREAT BATTLE SHIPS.
Builders Asked to Submit Proposals
for Constructing Iron CIads

Builders Asked to Submit Proposals
for Constructing Iron CIads.
WASHINGTON June 1S-The Navy De-
partment to-day issued advertisements call
ing for proposals for building the three
great battle ships authorized by the last
naval appropriation bill. These bids will be
opened at the department on Sept 1, and
thirty-three months will be allowed for the
completion of the ships after contract. That
is the maximum, but bidders are invited to
specify the time within which they can
complete the constructions, which, of
course, indicates the purpose of the depart
ment to regard a speedy constructiopsas one
of the determining factors in awarding the
contract. The time allowed by the depart
ment is about three months less than the
period fixed in preceding contracts for the
construction of vessels of this class.
Generally speaking, the three big ships
are to be patterned closely after the Hi
EolS class, such as are now building at New
port News. In the judgment of the depart
ment experts, the best features of the Iowa
and the Indiana have been combined in this
class. Further substantial Improvement
might nave been made, especially in the
matter of speed, but to include the de-
tails in the specifications and designs would
have involved not only some additional ex-
penSe, but considerable loss of time in the
letting of contracts. 1t was this last con-
sideratlon that influenced the bureau chiefs
to omit the improvements referred to- The
advertisements calling for the building of
the monitors are withheld owing to a diff
ference of opinion among bureau chiefs as
to the turrets to be placed on these mont
tors. One element faVOrS vertical turret,
while another, led by the chief constructor,
insists that nothing less than the best and
most modern inclined turrets will serve.
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ILLNESS AT CAMP ALGER.
The sickness Due Mainly to Surface
Water and Vaccination.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CAMP ALGER, Va, June S-All OF the
surface wells about the quarters of the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS fty-ninth Indiana Regi-
ment have been ordered filled up, the sur
geons having decided that some of the ILL
ness is due to bad water from these wells.
The sickness in the regiment is giving the
medical officers a great deal of concern at
present. BY a careful investigation to-day
two-thirds of il was traced TO vaccination.
There are no cases at present which are
considered serious. About fifteen more men
were transferred from the regiment to be
assigned TO the hospital corps.
The resignation of Lieut.. Hollingsworth,
Company M, Evansville. was accepted to-
day. The first recruits for the regiment ar
rived in camp to-day. They came from
Bloomington and vincennes and made the
trip without accident.
Chaplain Weaver was notified Of the
death OF his father at Pittsburg. He was
granted four days leave OF absence and
left at once for his home
The order issued Thursday giving brigade
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THE USE OF THE FLAG.
Lyman Abbott Thinks No Disrespect
Is Shown by It's Excessive Use.


Is Shown by It's Excessive Use.
New York Tribune
When DIR. Lyman Abbott was asked yes
terday if he thought that the to which
women are putting the national banner and
colors-in the excess of decorations, per-
sonal and otherwise, now displayed-could
be interpreted as token of disrespect to
the flag he replied
show real disregard for the significance OF
the flag or that any irreverence can be
meant by the most excessive display of the
colors, and even in an apparently exag-
gerated way OF personal adornment. lt
must never be forgotten that it was a
woman who designed the American flag.
that Women'S hands SeWed together the
stripes and inserted the stars, and that
countless women'S hearts since then have
whose last earthly thought was of that flag
as It waved over his closing eyes in a bene-
diction
LAS in every religion there is one uni
versal prayer. so over every land waves the
nations emblem, -signifying the concerted
sentiment of every loyal heart. The most
desecrate the flag than she would her book
of prayer. There is an Unborn reverence for
both, and / believe it to be true feeling
of patriotism which seeks expression In any
use of the stars and stripes"
Mrs. Abbott said that she felt in every
respect as her husband does on this sub
ject, and she further added:
For myself, 1 should like to possess one
of the sofa pillows have heard of as being
TO me any homelike decoration of the kind
has peculiar sacredness, combining the
sentiment which shows an appreciation of
peace and security with that which will
vafiantly fight for the cause which is just
and right. As memento of this in
our history. f1ag-covered pillow. bearing
in embroidery the figures 1893 would be held
In future years as a symbol of woman
work and Woman's patriotism. and 1t would
be looked upon by father, brother, husband
and son as the sweet and pathetic express
Sion<of a Womans desire TO do what she
could, and TO keep near her. even in her
sleep, the flag her heroes would die for. 1
think the year 1898 should be woven or en-
broidered in all flags used or made into
mementos of this war. They will then have
special meaning, and hereafter will stand
as emblems of the patriotism felt and
shown in this particular struggle"
Still another Brooklynite said
Il would as soon think of tearing leaf
out of my prayer booksto roll my cigarette
In as to use the flag for any part of my
wearing apparel. Pie other day, on car
! saw man take~oUt and use pockethand-
kerchief whichghad the United States nag
stamped in each corner. Probably that man
was expressing his deepest feelings OF patri-
otism by,using that handkerchief should
treat the flag in a different way, but, after
all ,xsKny patriotism might not be greater
than his. 1t is all how one feels personally
in these matters
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Cadiz Fleet stiIl Moving Eastv

WASHINGTON, June 1S.--Word came to
the Navy Department that the Spanish
Cadiz fleet was still headed eastward to-
day. The basis of the report is not known.
but it is probably from the skipper of some
merchant vessel which has passed the
squadron. fos the ships, of course. have
long since escaped the range of observa-
ton of the lookout at Gigraltar. All the re-
ports relative to the movements of this mys-
terious squadron are received by the naval
ofncials subject to confirmation, for expert
ence has taught them that the Spanish are
freely available themselves of the rather
puerile device of sending our numerous
false reports of naval movements in the
nope to mislead our campaign directors.
Therefore, in the case of this last report, il
may turn out to be unfounded.
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Red Cross Money from France.

WASHINGTON, June 49, - The general
secretary of the Red Cross Society of
France has written the French embassy
here detailing the plans of that organization
to aid in the relief work in Cuba AS soon
as the war broke out the French branch of
the society determined to give equal
amounts to both countries and on April %
notice was sent to Miss Clara Barton, presi-
francs would be sent as the first contribu-
ton. This amount was sent early in May
through the house of Rothschild Brothers,
knowledged the French society asked the
embassy to make inquiry and the embassy
in turn has asked the State Department to
learn if the $500 was received by the Amer
lean society
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caxunltiea at ramna.

TAMPA, Fla, June 1s.--Private Carter,
Company B. Fifth Maryland Volunteers,
while handling a gun to-day carelessly
caused its discharge, the ball going through
three tents and striking Private Ostercamp,
of Company Ct, same regiment, passing into
the abdomen and through the right lung.
His injuries have been pronounced fatal.
During skirmish drill Wenzel Mattusch,
of Troop H, Fifth Cavalry, was painfully
injured by his horse running away with
him.
Teddy's rough riders had their first mount
ed drill this morning with Cuban machetes,
with which they We're equipped Yesterday.
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vention and a county committee of fifteen
for the ensuing year. The McKisson men
in Army and Navy Hall did the same. The
state convention will decide which delega-
ton shall be seated and the courts will
probably have to decide which committee
of fifteen was legally chosen
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More Men than Can BE Used.

special to the Indianapolis Journal
PRINCETON, Ind, June 1S.-Lieutenant
Mccoy Sergeant Thorn and Private Strick-
Iand' of the One-hundred- and-fifty-ninth
indiana now at Falls Church, Va, opened
a recruiting office here this morning to OBJ
tam twenty-four more men for Company K.
winch was organized here One hundred
ana ana nifty. applicants thronged the door of
the recruiting office to-day and the required
NUMBER was easily obtained. The men left
to-nlgnt for Camp Alger, while the recruit
ing ofhcers went to Washington, Ind. to
OBTAIN men for ComnanY d ~
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lIslana Ravagcd by the plague.

VICTORIA, British Columbia. June 1S.-
According to mail advices through the
Orient BY the steamer Miowera. the island
of Lpu, one of the Loyalty group is being
ravaged by the plague, believed TO be either
black plague or Asiatic cholera. II threat
ems to exterminate the islands, On March
Is the worst earthquake experienced in years
In New Hsbrides occurred making assures
eighty yaYds long and sixteen inches wide.
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Vincennes Squad Leaves.
Special 70 the indianapolis Journal.

special 70 the Indianapolis Journal
VlNCENNES, Ind, June ia squad of
thlrty-three recruits left here last night to
JOIN Company A, One-hundred-and-fft
ninth, at Camp Alger. They were mustered
IN IN by recruiting officer Lieut.. Charles D.
Mccoy Recruiting for Company L. the
Vincennes University cadets, begins at
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Hanna VIII BE Absent.

WASHINGTON. June Ex-senator Hanna
announced tonight that he would not at
tend the Columbus convention owing to the
pending Hawaiian debate in the Senate.
Major Dick left for Columbus tonight.
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Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.

bptCIdI 20 lTt IndIdnapOIlS JOurnaI
HARTFORD CITY, Ind, June ia
squad of thirty artillerymen for the Twenty
eighth Indiana Battery passed through this
city this morning from Fort Wayne en-
route to Chickamauga, They were given a
rousing reception at the depot. Private
Phrot Liggett was in charge of the squad
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Kokomo Recruits Gone.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
KOKOMO, Ind, June 1S.-Corporal Bird
enstein, who has been here from Chicka-
manga recruiting Company L, One-hundred-
and-fifty-eighth Indiana, left for Georgia to-
day with the required twenty-Six men.
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Fhree Minera sunoc,,tel.

GREENSBURG. PA. June lS.--Three
Polish miners were suffocated last night by
smoke and steam from a fire In the Unity
coal mine near Latrobe. Their names
We're Jehn Anger, Albert SchebeEk and John
Wilkeg The fire was caused hS garments
ixniklng the coal
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Mistoolx Hi. WING for a Rurglar.

MOLINE. Kan. June lS.-Mrs John P
Sawyer has been shot and killed by her
husband, who mistook her for a burglar.
Mrs. Sawyer had arisen and stepped on 10
the rear porch. Sawyer. who is prominent.
may lose his mind
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least make it apparent that an American
undertaking of like character would have
had its merits"