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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-22
No Date Fixed Yet for the Departure
of General BIanco's Troops
for the Peninsula.
MANY DEATHS FROM HUNGER
CONDITIONS AT MATANZAS CONTINUE
TO BE DEPLORABLE.
La wv ton Well Satisfied with Affairs in
Santiago de Cuba Proyince-Gar-
cia to Visit This Country.

WASHINGTON, Sept 21.-GeneraI Miles
has entered protest against sending any
more American troops into Cuba in the near
future. The protest is provoked by the an
nouncement that the President was going to
begin about the 18th of October to send an
army of occupation into Cuba numbering
between 10000 and 60, 900 men. General Miles
is of the opinion that it will not be safe to
send men there before the middle of No
vember or the 1st of December. He holds
that while the rainy season is practically
over by the middle of October, the season
Immediately following a cessation of rain
fall is the most unhealthy of the year and
the hardest upon unacclimated people. The
President has no intention of sending
large army into Cuba before the 1st of De-
cember. He will probably put a few regi-
ments into Havana and other large towns
in northern Cuba between the 18th and last
of October by way of notice to the Spaniards
that the time is up and that they must be
removed. The main army of occupation will
not go till later.
1t is stated at the War Department to-
day that no determination had yet been
reached as to whether the evacuation of
Cuba by the Spanish should begin at the
west or east end of the island, although the
inclination seems to be that the evacuation
should proceed frcm west to east 1t is
known that active preparations are being
made for the occupation of Cuba by the
United States troops, each bureau of tie
War Department shaping affairs to that
end The troops destined for Cuba will be
paid before embarkation, and the subsst-
ence and quartermasters' officers are max
ing ready to supply transportation and food
for them. Just when the occupation will
begin, it is said, will depend on the evacua-
ton by the Spanish. This is indefinite but
the department is uGder the impression that
it will begin very soon.
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EMBARKING AT SAN JUAN.
Spanish Soldiers Leaving the Island
of Porto Rico for Home.

of Porto Rico for Home.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Sept. 2.-The
repatriation of the Spanish soldiers began
yesterday -Four hundred men. of whom two
hundred were sick and two hundred be-
longed to the engineer corps, sailed for
Spain on board the French steamer Chateau
LATTE. Eight hundred infantry belonging to
the Asturias battalion may sail to-day on
board the steamer San Francisco. The
water front was crowded with thou
sands of people when the Spanish engineers
marched down to the music of the Spanish
quick-step to the wharf, where they were
receiver by Captain General Macias and
General Ortega. The captain general did not
make a speech, but he shook hands with the
officers and men. There was no demonstra-
ton made by the people. Some Spanish field
pieces are already on board the San Fran
CISCO but question has arisen in the COM
mission concerning the disposition of some
of the guns and it was not settled when
this dispatch was fled
The captain general has given notice to
the Spanish troops to retire from Abonito,
Baranquitas and Barros on Sunday and
from Humacao, Guamina and Cayey on
Monday. Our troops will move up and oc-
cupy these towns as soon as they are evac-
uated and the Spanish troops in position
near the capital will enter the city in order
to be ready to embark on the arrival of
the transports here
The residents of Porto Rico and some of
the Americans here are alarmed because
the Spanish ships returning from Cuba stop
at this port They believe there is danger
of the introduction of yellow fever into the
land from the Spanish steamer City of
Cadiz, as some of the men sick on board
of her were too i'll to proceed and were
brought ashore. Our commissioners will pro-
test if there is a repetition of this.
The volunteers have all been dsbanded
and the Spanish soldiers are engaged in dis
mantling the armories and barracks and in
boxing the guns and ammunition. They are
rejoicing over the prospect of an early re-
turn to their homes.
Read Admiral Schley has refused to pur-
chase the coal stored here and it may be
purchased for the use of the United States
army.
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WASHINGTON, Sept H.-The Navy De-
partment has been informed by Captain
Goodrich. of the Newark at Guantanamo.
that Commodore Watson sailed yesterday
from that place for New York, turning over
the command of the naval ships on the sta
ton to Captain Goodrich. The captain says
that the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa, on
which the wreckers are working. did not
come off yesterday. as was expected. but
that she surely will be raised successfully
No word has come to the Navy Department
respecting the result of Constructor Hob
sons efforts to float the Colon and some
apprehension Is expressed that the ship will
60 TO pieces In the heavy weather that is
due along the south coast OF Cuba.
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Gen. Lawton,s HeaIth Renort

WASHINGTON. Sept. H.-General Law
toms report of the health condition of the
American troops at Santiago tonight indi-
Gates distinct Improvement. The number
of sick has been reduced more than four
hundred during the past two days and only
one death is reported. General Lawton's S
dispatch to the War Department is as fol-
lows:
Sick ....... ............................ .766
Fever ............ .434
New cases ............................ Is
Returned to duty ...................... So
Death-Private Frederick William, Com
pany X, Ninth United States Volunteer In
fantry, Sept. 20. cause not known. No re-
port received from Fifth United States In
fantry and Ninth United States Volunteer
Infantry.
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Welcomed to Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. 21-Secre-
tary AIger and party reached this city to-
night from Knoxville at $3.50 o'clock The
party was met at the depot by the mayor
of the city and a large number of citizens
and were conducted TO the City Auditorium,
where 5000 people had gathered to meet and
receive them. Secretary Alger was greeted
with the most cordial applause. He made
short speech, thanking the people for their
courteous reception. He said, with REFER
ence to charges of mismanagement: That
some mistakes have occurred l admit, but
that the medical department, the commits
sary department and the quartermaster'
department have done their full duty, af-
firm
Secretary Alger and party will spend the
day at Chickamauga Park tomorrow, visit
ing Letter and Sternberg hospitals and in
spectng the camp sites of the various regi-
ments of the Camp Thomas army.
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is proud. 1 tell people who talk with me
about the Rough Riders that you left the
boats in squads of twenty or thirty inquir-
ing the way to Santiago, and that you
hardly stopped until you arrived there.
You have not only done wen." he said, 'but
I have no doust you would all be willing to
again serve your country in an emergency"
The response was that they would to a
man. 1--WE want our colonel to raise
brigade instead of a regiment next time"
said one of the younger members of the
party.
The President also congratulated the sol
diers on their good fortune in receiving
competent officers to lead them. and met
with hearty response to all that he said
about Colonel Roosevelt and Generals Wood
and Young.
The delegation comprised the following
named members of the regiment: Captains
w. III. Llewellyn, T. Fuller, r. C.. Day and
NJ. Luna; Lieutenants w. E. DAME, ]. N.
Carr, Thomas Fl. Rhynning E. S. Keys. -
Coleman: Corporals Llewellyn. Fries. Den
ry, Caldwell and Keithley and Troopers
Knox, Couton and Wood.
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Surgeons to Be Subject Hereafter to
the Orders of Commanding OFF,
GERS at the Various Camps.
SPEECH BY GENERAL ALGER
AFTER INSPECTING CAMP POLAND
AND CONTEMPLATING M'KEE.
Blame for Sickness and Hardships
Placed on Officers Who Failed to
Report to the Secretary.

LEXINGTON. KY, Sept. 21.-A prominent
gentleman. close to the national administra-
tion, as we'll as to the officers here at
Camp Hamilton, says the present tour of
inspection of the Southern camps by Secre-
tary Alger, Quartermaster General Luding-
ton and Surgeon General Sternberg will
likely develop numerous charges from regi-
mental and general field officers against
both the medical and the quartermasters S
departments. and especially against some
commissaries. The talking was begun here
by General Sanger against the medical de-
partment, and by General Waites against
the quartermasters. and it is expected that
officers at other points will add very ma
terially to this testimony before the tour of
inspection is completed. Secretary Alger
stated that all of this information and all
other evidence that he could secure would
be presented to the investigating commits
sion at Washington.
AT the conference here last evening of
Secretary Alger with General Breckenridge,
the commander of Camp Hamilton, and
other officers, General Sanger said while
the division hospital may be a good thing,
that as it was conducted it had been a dis
grace to the service that it had deprived
the regiments of their surgeons and caused
hardships on the sick who Should have had
better attention at the proper time. Sur
geon General Sternberg, in reply. insisted
that all acquisitions had been honored in
Washington and that any medical men
failing to do their duty should be reported.
General Waites told Secretary Alger that
the neglect of some qu1'termastsrs to fur-
nish supplies was criminal. While in Chick
amauga he frequently made acquisitions
which were not honored. An imperative or
der had been sent to have all water boiled.
He had made a requisition ON Quartermas-
ter General Lee for water boilers. No at
tention was paid to his requisition, and
after he repeatedly urged Quartermaster
General Lee to send the boilers and telling
him how the men were contracting typhoid
fever, he was met with a reply which read:
1.-THE War Department does not furnish
boilers" General Waites then purchased
the boilers himself, but the seeds of typhoid
had been sown, and the daily report showed
the list of deaths and of the cases in the
hospitals. Pointing at Quartermaster Lud-
ington, General Waites said: 'These men
cannot say it was somebody else's fault. 1t
was the fault of Quartermaster Lee and 1t
was the fault of Quartermaster Ludington,
who is standing right there" Ludington
made no reply to Waites, as Sternberg had
done to Sanger.
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of acting secretary general when DR.. Con-
gesto leaves for Europe.
LAwToN AND THE CUBANs.
The General Not Expecting Trouble
Gnrcin.s Visit to SnnfingO.


NEW YORK, Sept. PA dispatch to the
Herald from Santiago de Cuba says: Calixto
Garcia has arrived at Jiguani on his way to
Santiago. He will probably go from here
to the United States, where his daughter is
i'll. He will come to Palma Sorania to-day,
reaching here tomorrow. General Lawton
intends to receive General Garcia to-mor-
row as an honored guest. AS he now holds
no official position in the Cuban army, he
will be treated by the American commander
as a distinguished private citizen and
great soldier. General Wood will go to the
outside limits of the city TO welcome the
Cuban leader, and a guard of honor will
meet him and escort him through the town
to the palace. where he will be received by
General Lawton. A levee will be held. at
which the various American officials will be
presented to Garcia. The Cubans in the
town, who are also planning a reception,
are greatly elated, contrasting General
Lawton's action with General Skaters.
In an interview Ge neral Lawton expressed
himself as we'll satisfied with the position
OF matters in the province under his COM
mand. He secuted the idea of the likeli-
hood of any trouble arising in connection
with the Cuban army, now practically III
process of Gisbandment. He said: Il don't
DGlioV6 any IflcllOn Is likely 10 occur. GSu-
eral Castillo's command has already been
dispersed, and the otLer bodies of insurgent
troops will be gradually got rid of by grant
ing them long furloughs. The men will be
allowed to take their arms but no trouble
need be anticipated en- this account III a
few months iii this climate those arms are
practically useless. They have little ammu-
milton now, and l shall take care that they
get no fresh supplies. TO make an attempt
to take away their arms is simply to give
them too great an idea of their own impor-
tarce. 1t would give some trouble, and in
the end would defeat the object III view
They would secrete their arms and attach
more value to them.
81 do not anticipate any evil results fol-
lowing the letting loose on the country of
a large body of armed men, accustomed 10
predatory habits. OF course, there will be
a little trouble, but we will deal sternly
with offepses against the public order, and
time, believe, will solve all matters / at
tach good deal of Importance to General
Castillo's visit to Santa Cruz. Ee knows
our views various matters, and he is in
thorough accord with us. He will be able
to 90 a great deal to smooth over any little
matters which may arise"
The Infanta Maria Teresa is not yet
afloat. When she was pumped out last Sat
urday it was found that she was still hard
and fast on a rock, which had penetrated
her bottom. Another ten days delay will
result.
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CaIixto Garcia Coming.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2l.-It is expected
by members of the Cuban delegation here
that Gen. Calixto Garcia, second in COM
mand of the Cuban forces during the war,
will come to this country in the course OF
the next two weeks, visiting New York.
Baltimore and Washington. His coming is
looked forward to with much interest in
view of the prominent part he took in the
military operations around Santiago, and
the unfortunate clash between him and
General Shafter following the surrender Of
the city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-22

DETROIT, Mich. Sept. 21.-Specials from
several towns on the Lake Shore Railroad
say that Major General Shafter, who is on
his way to Constantine, Mich, is receiving
ovations from the citizens. At Hudson the
car which General Shafter occupied was
filled almost to suffocation by a crowd of
citizens anxious to shake hands with the
general. So large was the crowd that
number were unaole to get off the train and
we're carried to the next station.
WHITE PIGEON Nich Sept. 21.-Gen-
eral Shafter arrived at Constantine, Mich,
tonight, and tomorrow will attend the re-
union of his old regiment, the Nineteenth
Michigan. A large crowd of visitors is at
tending the reunion
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ROUGH RIDERS CoMPLIMENTED.
Delegation of ROOsevelt's Troopers
Greeted by the President.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-President Nc
Kinley to-day formally received a delega-
ton of about a dozen members of the
Roosevelt Rough Riders regiment ma
jcrity Of the delegation are from New Mex
leo and are en- route home. They were all
PRESENTED by Delegate Ferguson, of that
Territory, who stated that New Mexico had
furnished four of the captains and 440 of
the men constituting the regiment. Each of
the callers was presented individually to the
President, who after greeting them person.
ally, talked with them and to them as a
body in an informal manner He spoke
with earnest enthusiasm of the work of
the regiment in the Santiago campaign,
saying that he was pleased to have the OPP
portunity on his own behalf and on the
behalf of the country at large TO thank the
regiment through the present delegation for
the work it had done. Your record is
one" he said, "of which the entire Nation
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made no reflection whatever upon Surgeon
General Sternberg. and ssnat 7 did say
about Colonel Huidekoper was that he is
graduate of reputable medical Institutions
and holds diplomas from good medical col
leges.'
1.-The order to the Twenty-frst Kansas to
proceed to Topeka to be mustered out was
suspended this morning by Secretary Alger.
He was so favorably impressed with the
regiment that he desires it to remain in
sarxyiceo
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Would Not Drink Boiled water.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-The quarter
masters department of the army states that
the claim made by certain officers that
boilers were not furnished for boiling water
at Chickamauga is not true. On the same
date that Chief Quartermaster Lee tele-
graphed for the boilers 1000 were sent and
a little later 500 more. 1t is also stated that
the soldiers would not drink the boiled
water because it had a fiat taste. and pre-
ferred and drank the fresh water.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-22

LONDON. Sept. 2l.-A special dispatch
from Paris says the deputy representing
French Guiana in the Chamber has received
a dispatch announcing that mutiny has
taken place among the convicts at Cayenne,
the capital of French Guiana. The mutt
neers, it appears, overpowered and MUIR
dered their guards and then stormed the
military storehouse and seized the arms and
ammunition there. They are now. accord
ing to the dispatch, besieging the principal
prison, and it is feared they may succeed
in freeing the four thousand convicts con-
fired in the building. Reinforcemcnts have
been telegraphed for to the Island of Mar
Unique, but it is said they will not arrive in
time to suppress the mutiny.
Devils island, where Albert Dreyfus. the
former captain in the French artillery. Is
confined under sentence for having sold se-
crets of the War Office to a foreign gov
ernment, is but a short distance from
Cayenne 1t is possible that the revolt OF
convicts may be the death-knell of the
prisoner whose condemnation has so stirred
up the French nation, for his guards are
under strict orders to kill him If any at
tempt is made to release him or If there is
any possibility of lis escaping.
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Col. Henry,s Case.

LONDON, Sept. 22.-The Daily News says
1t hears from a good source that the Italian
ambassador at Paris. Count TernollI-
Brusali di Vergano. obtained assurances
from the government in January that Col
Henrys forgery should be withheld
from publication, but the newspapers get
ting hold of the contents of the document,
NJ. Cavaignac. the minister of war, was con-
fronted with the choice of either exposing
Colonel Henry or having the matter ex-
posed from the outside. The paper also says
il is alleged that no razor was found IL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-22

NEW YORK, Sept. H.-Among the pas
sengers who arrived to-day on board the
North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser
Friedrich from Bremen and Southampton
were Clyde Fitch the playwright; H.
Josephy, the pianist; Consul F. Ritch; Hen
ry Willard. of New York; Captain White
house, United States navy; Beriah Wilkins,
Of Washington. and Col. c. W Darlington.
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BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Sept. 2l.-George
E. Green. president of the Commercial
Travellers Home Association of America,
has started 10-cert endless chain of letters
for the purpose of raising money to COM
plete the home, the cornerstone of which
was laid on South mountain, in this city,
Oct Q 1894
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-The President
is being subjected to considerable pressure
from frightened politicians to retire Secre-
tary Alger and thus put the stamp of his
disapproval on alleged abuses in the man
agement of the War Department by bureau
chiefs and officers in charge of camps and
transportation of troops. The President
gives no encouragement to those who talk,
write or wire him in that vein. He is conf
dent the approaching investigation into the
management Of the commissary, quarter
masters and medicine bureau will result in
complete vindication of Secretary Alger
and the administrators conduct of the war.
He may change his mind about General AL
ger. but his present disposition is to stand
up for him and give him full support.
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FINDLAY. o., Sert. H.--On the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton tonight, at the
junction near here, freight engine and
fourteen cars were ditched and Engineer
Popp and Brakeman Moriarity, of Lima,
o.. were killed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-22
ANOTHER DREYFUsITE sACRIFIcEn
ON THE MILITARY ALTAR.
Former French Colonel Sent to Prison
ON the Charge of Forgery and
Using Forged Documents.
A SENSATIONAL STATEMENT
MADE BY THE LATEST VICTIM or
THE NOTORIOUS ARMY CLIQUE.

said He Did Not Intend to Commit sus-
1t Would BE a Case of Murder.
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GeneraI wiley Misauoted.

CINCINNATI o., Sept. PA special to
the Enquirer from Lexington. KY, apropos
of the testimony of officers to the secretary
in regard to the bad state of affairs at
Chickamauga. says: THE visit of Secretary
Alger yesterday and the stories of suffer-
ing and mismanagement in Camp Thomas
told him by officers were the topics dis
cussed by soldiers at Camp Hamilton to-
day. Brigadier General Wiley Is considera-
bly, annoyed at a statemen. published in
Cincinnati paper this morling. L am
quoted, he said TO the Enquirer. as having
said that General Luddington was to blame.
! did not say SO, nor do / think he was. I