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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18

They Included Eleven Regiments OF
Infantry, One Regiment of Cav
airy and Five Batteries Of Light
Artillery - The Assignments for
the First Division of the Sixth
Army Corps Completed-The Ma
Mia Expedition-General Merritt
Denies Reported Interviews.
News of the Land Forces.
Chattanooga, Tenn, May 1.-THE
First West Virginia infantry arrived at
$50 o'clock. The regiment has twelve
companies Of 1,011 officers and men,
and is in command of Col. B. d. Spill
man. The regiment left for the park
at 10 o'clock tonight and will bivouac
on the Snodgrass Hill tonight.
Chickamauga National Park, Ca,
May 17.-At o'clock this evening IL
regiments of infantry, one of cavalry
and five light artillery, 10000 men all
told, had reported to Gen. Brooke, in
command Of the Chickamauga army.
The different regiments have been pro-
vided with camping grounds, tents
and equipments as rapidly as possible
and the historic battlefield begins to
present proof of what the United
bNag volunteer armies when the
necessities of the government require.
Gen. Brooke this morning completed
the assignment for the first division Of
the sixth army corps, Major General
games H. Wilson commanding, as fol-
lows:
First brigade-Brig. Gen. A. S.
Burt; First Ohio. Col. Hunt; Third
Wisconsin, Col. Martin T. Moore; Fifth
Illinois, Col. J. S. Culver.
Second Brigade-Brig. Gen. G. e.
Compton; Fourth Ohio, Col. A. B. Colt;
Third Illinois. Col. Fred. Bennett;
Fourth Pennsylvania, Col. D. B. Case
Third Bridage-Brig. Gen. H. w.
Eawton; Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Col.
HuIing; Second Wisconsin, Col. c. A.
Born; Seventeenth Indiana, Col. Geo.
w. Studebaker.
The Third Pennsylvania, the crack
Pennsylvania regiment, eight compan-
les, $50 officers and aa5.S arrived here
this afternoon.
Col. Robert Ralston is in command.
The Third presented a fine appearance,
they were handsomely uniformed and
equipped and attracted attention be-
cause of their resemblance to regulars.
The Sixteenth Pennsylvania light
cavalry and about 800 officers and
men, arrived this morning. The regi-
ment is in command of Col. Huling
The command was uniformed and pro-
vided with arms.
Brigadier General W. S. Lawton to-
day received orders to report to Tampa,
and Col. Willis J. Huling, of the Six
teenth Pennsylvania being the senior
officer in Camp Thomas, was assigned
to the Third brigade of the First di-
vision.
To-day is one Of the busiest in the
history Of Chicamauga Park. A num-
Der Of regiments which arrived yester-
day afternoon and last night remained
in their cars over night, and since early
this morning have been hard at work
pitching. tents and arranging their
camps. Special trains are arriving
hourly, and the park is fast filling up.
The work of equipping the volun-
teers is keeping the ordnance officers
buster than they had probably ever
been before. The majority of the vol
unteers are unequipped, and immense
amounts of supplies must be issued
them. Several special trains with arms
and equipment are now en- route.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
Governors Island. N.
Hon. Russell A. Alger, Secretary
LIEUT.. YOUNG PROMOTED.

Washington, May 17.-First Lieut..
Charles Young, of the Ninth cavalry,
has been relieved from duty at Wilber-
force University, o., in order that he
may accept the position of major of
the Ninth battalion Of colored Ohio
volunteer infantry. Lieut.. Young is
the only colored officer in the line of
the army. This is said to be the first
instance in which colored officer has
been given the command of battalion
of troops in the army.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
The SPANISH. FLEET.
Reported From Curacao That It
IS Now Supposed to Be Off the
Coast of Venezuela or Colom-
b;a.

tain provisions, cattle and coal.
which were purchased here.
onfirmation was obtained Of
the report that the Spaniarsd left
one of their torpedo gunboats at
Fort de France. Island of Martin
ique.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS.

New York, May 1.-THE Anglo
American Telegraph Company, this
morning, issued the following notice:
Pending further decision by the chief
signal officer, we will accept press mes
sages without restrictions"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
SITUATION AT MANILA.
The Blockade Extremely Rigid.
The Rebels Are Useless to Adj
miral Dewey---American Yes
sells Going to Iloilo.

Manila, in a pastoral issued on the
Sth instant, said:
Christians, defend your faith
against heretics who raise an IN
suparable barrier to immortal souls,
enslave the people, abolish crosses
from cemeteries, forbid pastors to
perform baptism, matrlmony or
funeral rites, or to administer con-
ISOLATION or grant absolution."
Pending the arrival Of troops
from the United States the Amer
leans defer hostilities ashore.
New York, May IA special
dispatch from Hong Kong says that
Consul Wildman has returned there
from kowloon Bay, where he took
the insurgent leader, Gen. Aguin-
aldo, and his cabinet on the McCul-
loch. An arrangement was made
for the insurgents to storm Manila.
The dispatch adds that it is abb
solutely necessary that more Amer
lean warships and a strong military
force be sent to Admiral Dewey's
aid at once.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18

Washington, May 17-Early consid-
Grafton Of the Hawaiian annexation
resolutions in the House seems prob
able. AS soon as they were reported
to-day Representative Hit, chairman of
the committee on foreign affairs, had a
CONSULTATION with Speaker Ree3 and
other members of the committee on
rules with a view to having the COM
mittee report a special order for the con-
sderation of the resolutions. After the
conference Mr.. Hit said no positive as
surance had been given but ne was do
ing his utmost and was hopeful of Sc
curing early action by the House. 1t
is understood that Speaker Reed, while
personally opposed to annexation, is
not inclined to resist the pressure for
immediate and favorable action which
comes from the President and prac-
tcay united party in the House and
the Senate.
Chairman Hits majority report of
the committee on forcing affairs in
favor of the annexation by joint reso-
h,ion, states that the proposition is not
new to either government. For fifty
Years it has been apparent that so
small and feeble a government mus. be
merged with a stronger power.
The report states there is no undue
pressure on the part of the United
States as a greater power; no surprise
Of any one; no possibility of objections
by other governments. 1t is simply the
obvious result of the natural course of
events through a long period of years
thus completed with the cordial con-
sent Of the sovereign power OF both
governments. The only question in
yoIyed is whether the proposed posses
ZION Of the Hawaiian islands would be
slyantagesous to the United States"
The strategic Importance of the is
lands is then discussed, also the risk
Oh delaying acquisition, as there is
sanger Of the islands falling under
'apanese influence and control. Amer
ean commercial interests would be
Promoted and annexation, the report
@yS, would do away with foreign COM
paeatcns of the island.
Inc minority report, signed by
NFSSIs. Dinsmore, Clark, Williams and
inward sets out eight resolutions
'salnst annexation, and offers a sub
@''lle resolution practically establish
Ds prOtectorate over the islands.
lucy declare that the Hawaiian peo-
VIC nave not been consulted nor the
,N'7flcan people, charging the only
wye Tor annexation is under the cry
war emergency" before the people
'A pc consulted. The other counts
'N'''ieu against annexation are that
'-eAallon in the manner proposed
mo unconstitutional; the islands too re-
n9F and furnish too much additional
4N' line to be defended; the popu-
s'"n Is not racially nor religiously
olherwise homogeneous with our
i., polltieal dominion over the
- 8"US Is not commercially necessary:
NV stands are not from a. naval or
d. vary standpoint necessary to our
,o. ,sDse' and that admitting that its
II 81 occupation would be dangerous
~. and that there exists a single
MAJ. wiling in the face of our re-
pos;.. 0'plomatic declarations of our
wiz 5''on' to incur the dangers of war
~ IN order to seize or hold them"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
A new REGIMENT v. VAN. c.
Reported That Governor Atkinson will
Authorize 1t,

Also That an Independent Regi-
mont of United States Volunteers
Will Be Formed by Col. G.. w.
Curtin OF Sutton, a Member of the
Governors Staff-The Six Com
panies Left Out Of the Volun
teer Regiment Will Form the
Basis for the New National Guard.
membered-Da ElkinS off on a
+ through.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
NEGRO IMMUNES OFFERED.

Especial Value of This Glass of Sol
diers for Cuban Campaign Pointed
Out
Washington, May IA delegation
of prominent negroes called on the
Secretary of War and urged that all
of the ten regiments of immunes to
be sent to Cuba be made up of colored
men THEY point out the especial
service the colored troops, bred in the
southern climate and most of them
used to the conditions similar to those
to be confronted in Cuba, would have
in the campaign Secretary Alger
gave assurance that several of the reg
iments would be composed of men of
their race. The delegation also urged
the appointment of Capt Thomas S.
Kelley, of Louisiana, as a colonel of
one of the immune regiments Capt
Kelley, it is said, has the endorsement
of Gen. Miles.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
The Weather.

WASHINGTON, May 17-For Wesv
Virginia Western Pennsylvania and Ohio
Fair and warmer Wednesday, light ware
liable winds, becoming southeasterly.
Mr.. g. Schnepf the Opera House druse
gist, made the following observations Of
the temperature yesterday: Z a. M, 40; .
a. g. M, IS; Y M, y; p. m. 70; p. M. GO.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
The HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Reports for and Against Their Annex
alton Offered the House.

Immediate Action on the Resolu-
ton to Act at Once and Make
Them Part of the United States,
VIII Be Urged by Friends Of the
Measure - A Conference Held,
Looking to the Briging in of a
Rule to Force Early Ccnsidera-
tion-Comments on the Action
of the Hawaiian Government.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
50. COO MUSTERED IN

WASHINGTON, May T.-Eighty-two
thousand volunteers have now been mus
tered in and are being sent to mobil-
izing points.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18

Curacao, Dutch West Indies, May
1.-THE Spanish fleet is now sup
posed to be off the coast of Vene-
zuela OF off the coast of Colombia.
Only a portion of the fleet was al
lowed to enter this harbor to OBJ
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
MERRITT DENIES
The Stories Printed About Him by New
York Newspapers.

Washington, May II. Secretary AL
ger this afternoon received the follow
ing telegram from Gen. Wesley Mer-
rift:
Governors Island, ~ Y.
Hon. Russell A. Alger, Secretary Of
War, Washington:
| desire you to know that the inter-
views published in the New York pa
pers this morning are in every way in
correct and unauthorized. / had in
tended to take no notice Of them, but
| understand the articles are taken SER
iously in Washington
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-18
TWELVE THOUSAND MEN,
Had Arrived at Chickamauga National
Park Last Night.

They Included Eleven Regiments OF
Infantry, One Regiment of Cav
airy and Five Batteries of Light
Artillery - The Assignments for
the First Division of the Sixth
Army Corps Completed-The Ma
Mia Expedition-Gen Merritt
MES Reported Interviews.
News of the Land Forces.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Advices from Havana show that the
divers have secured further proofs that
the Maine was destroyed by an external
explosion. The naval board may not
be able to name those who committed
The outrage, but it is declared the mat
ter is now in such shape that Spain will
be required to show who was respon-
siblc
It is said Japan is ready to seize the
Philippine islands should the Cuban
question result in hostilitics between
Spain and the United States.
Governments of Japan, Germany and
Sweden have asked the state depart
ment in Washington for names of their
subjects who were among the victims
Of the Maine disaster.
1t is estimated by the Nicaragua
canal commission that the cost of the
work will lie Sl00,00O,0OO.
In the Philippine islands rebel chiefs
are said TO be plotting for another re-
bellion against Spanish rule.
In "A storm four fishing vessels be
longing to Memet, Prussia, were
wrecked and ten fishermen were
drowned.
Arabs pillaged the Jewish quarters
at Tatza, Morocco. killing many OF the
men and abducting the women.
The court Of inquiry into the Maine
disaster reached Havana from Key
West and went to work promptly to
finish what business remains to be done
at the earliest possible date
United States Consul Walter r.
Baker, at Sagua Ia Grandc, Cuba, has
resigned.
In Havana Americans are making
hurried preparations to leave on ac-
count of the rumors Of the warlike at
titude of Spain and the United States.
Some so persons lost their lives in a
burning mine in Breslau, Prussia.
Frank Jackman and Fred Fivccoats
were sentenced at Creston, Ia, to i'm
prisonment for life for attempted train
wrecking. Both are young men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
FROM WASHINGTON,

The government has ordered the
cruiser Montgomery and gunboat Nash
vile to carry supplies TO the starving
rcconccntradoes in the vicinity Of Ma
tanzas and Sagua Ia Grande, Cuba.
Lieut.. Sobral, who was attached to
the Spanish legation at Washington
and made himself popularwith Amer
leans by a ready use Of his tongue,
has sailed for home.
The government viii send an cXpedi-
ton to find practicable route up Cop
per river, Alaska, to the Yukon basin.
In February the government receipts
amounted to SOS, 81, 35S, being an excess
over expenditures of S945,35S.33.
A dispatch to Secretary Long from
Admiral Sicard informs him that the
court of inquiry into the Maine disas-
ter will be unable to reach any conclu-
sion as to the cause of the explosion I'M
til after further investigation by the
divers now at work upon the wreck.
The court has returned to Havana to
resume the investigation there.
While the United States is not seek
ing war, the government is preparing
for any emergencies that may arise,
says Secretary Long.
4 reward of $3.50 was offered at a
cabinet meeting in Washington for the
arrest of the murdercrs OF Postmaster
Baker, ut Lake City, s. c.
The president has refused a request
from the Spanish government that Con
sul-General Lee be recalled from Cuba.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
VICTORY for Railways.

Washington. March S.-A long and
hard fought battle was brought to an
end in the supreme court of the United
States Monday when the Nebraska
maximum freight ease was decided
against the state and in favor of the
railroads, on the ground that the law
authorizing the establishment Of the
rates was in conflict with the four
tccnth amendment 10 the constitution
Of the United States. The case was in
stituted to test the validity Of law
passed by the Nebraska Legislature in
1898. prescribing the maximum rates
for the transportation of freight by
railroads within the state. The act APP
piled specifically TO freight whose trans
it begins and ends in the state, and
there was no effort in its enactment to
control the interstate freight.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
MESr AND SOuTH.

The bursting of an engine boiler
near Brewton, Ala, killed William
kclso. Andrew j. Enright, Arthur At
kins, Peter Thomas, David Aston and
& W Thomas. laborers.
Eight culorcd roUstabouts were
thrown into the river and four were
drowned rs the Bostonia steamed out
from her wharf at Cincinnati for Louis
Vile.
Near Canton, Ga, an attempt was
made TO wreck the south bound passen-
ger train of the Atlanta, Knoxville &
Northern railway.
For the survivors of the Maine and
the families of the victims, President
Dole of Hawaii sent $500 TO the navy
department in Washington.
\ bill passed the Ohio Legislature au-
thorizing the governor to appointwom-
en- notarics public and is now law.
At Texarlana, Ark. largo dry kiln
fell in. killing five persons.
Mayor John NJ Good, of Springfield,
O.. has been ousted for violation of the
Garfield anti-corrupt election practice
act.
OF Marqucsas. Fla. the schooner
Speedwell capSiled. and three chill
drcn Of Capt Collier and the entire
Nichols family, consisting Of IA
Their, mother, grandmother and three
children. all Of Bridgeport. Conn, were
drowned
st Curlele. Ga, Shop Wood, prom
ineut young farmer. shot and killed
Ills brother Thomas in a quarrel and
then killed himself
The largest elephant in captivity, Di-
almond, died nj Peru, Ind. He was val
ned at $4,000.
In a refrigerator car Mt Fort Worth.
Tex, four tramps were asphyXiated
They built a coal fire in a stove and
were overcome by the gas.
Judge Hughes has retired, after serv-
ing as United States Judge in the Nor
folk (Va) district - years.
Dispatches from Tacoma. Wash. say
that 10000 persons are moving across
! Chilkat and White passes toward Klon-
dixie.
| At Hot Springs. Ark. kid" Mccoy.
/ Of Indiana, champion middleweight pu-
1 rilist of the world. defeated Nick Bur
/ ley, OF California, in the second round.
4 mob lynched VIII Jones (colored)
at Lake Cormorant. Miss, for assault
/ ing a colored woman.
Judge John Newton Hendren. ex-
/ treasurer of the confederate states, died
/ in Staunton, Va. aged IS years.
/ At the age of ia years Aaron Hen
bricks died at Blue Springs, Ark, on the
/ farm where he was born and had lived
| his entire life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10

The Underwater, reported to have
been lost while en- route to Havana, has
reached the Charleston Is. c. harbor
after rough passage.
In Chicago Adolph Kraus, ex-presi-
dent of the civil service commissions;
Dudley Winston, Hampstead Wash
burne and Robert Lindblom, members
of the commission, were indicted by the
grand jury on charges Of violation Of
the civil service law.
In Cedar Rapids, Ia, Alfred s. Healy,
a 25-year-old stonographer, killed To-
year-old Libbie Brauschand and then
killed himself No cause for the trag-
edy is known.
1t is said that 80 United States war
ships will be at Key West and yicini-
" within the next 30 days.
c. ". Wood murdered Mrs. Irene
BREEDER and aiterward sent a bullet
through his own brain at Ottawa, III.
Jealousy was the cause.
From the Jail in Chicago Adolph L.
Luetgert was taken to the state prison
at Joliet under life sentence for the
murder of his wife.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
PLEASED WITH HIS TRIP.
Cen. Nerritt's Inspection of Our
Southern Fortificatious

zen. Merrltt'S Inspection of Our
Southern FortincatIons
New York, March 4. - Gen. Wesley
Merritt has returned from his tour OF
inspection of the southern Notifications
in the department of the east. Prob
ably within a week he will start for Key
West. Gen. Merritt was especially in
terested in the work now going on in
the New York arsenal. During the past
few days hundreds of eight, ten, twelve
and thirteen-inch proiectiles have been
shipped from the arsenal to Fort Preble,
Me. Speaking of his tour, Gen. Mer-
rift said:
II am pleased to say that I found the
troops in excellent condition The mer
were all the picture of health, and the reg
ulations were working perfectly. I first
went to Fort Mcpherson. at Atlanta. Ga.
Then we went down to Fort Barrancas
and Pensacola. From there we journeye6
to New Orleans, where l stopped over two
days to inspect Jackson barracks. I did
not so 10 Fort St. Phillip. for the reason
that none Of my troops are garrisoned
there. l may have a few suggestions for
the improvement Of some Of the posts
visited, but l do not care to discuss thai
just now. l have nothing to say on the sub
jet of the Maine disaster, more than that
It was lamentable and deplorable in the
extreme
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
| DOINGS OF A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
Of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN TIE PRESS DISPATCHES
FlETYEIETH CONGRESS.

Proceedings of First Regular Session.
favorable report was made in the
United States senate on the Cd on the
joint resolution for an investigation of
the recent killing of the colored post
master Mt Lake City, S. c. 4 long de-
bate took place on the Alaskan home
stead and railway right of way bill
The house spent the time in debate upon
the Loud bill relating to second-class
mail matter.
In the United States senate on the Sd
the house amendments TO the bank
ruptcy bill were nonconcurred in and a
conference committee was named. The
resolution for a congressional investi-
cation of the murder Of the postmaster
at Lake City, S. c., was referred TO a
committee In the house the Loud bill
&c correct alleged abuses of the second
class mail matter privilege was laid on
the table by a vote of lG2 to 119.
The United States senate on the 4th
passed the bill extending the homestead
laws and providing for right of way for
railroads in the district of Alaska. In
the house the pension and consular and
diplomatic appropriation bills were
passed and sent to the president. At
the night session 80 pension bills and
nine relief bills were passed. Adjourned
TO the 18th.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-03-10
KILLED IN A DUEL.
Fatal Encounter OF Sig. CavRIottI,
Italian Statesman.

Rome, March 7.-Signor Felice Carlo
Cavalotti, poet, dramatist, publicist
and the well-known radical member of
the chamber of deputies for Corte-
Olona, was killed here Sunday after
noon in duel with swords with Signor
AIacola, member of the chamber of
deputies and editor of the Gazzetta di
Nenezia. The encounter was the out
come of a press polemic in the columns
of the Milan Secolo and the Gazzetta di
Nenezia. 1t took place at an unfre-
quented spot outside the Porta Maggi-
ore.
Signor Cavalotti made his will inn
mediately after the duel, which was
the thirty-second he had fought. The
body will be embalmed and lie in state
at his residence. The sword entered his
mouth and pierced his tongue.
Though political opponents, signor
Cavalotti and Signor Macola were per-
sonal friends. For this reason their
seconds tried to avoid the duel, but the
matter becoming ridiculous in the pub
lie eyes, the principals decided that
they must fight The death of Cavalotti
is a great loss to the radical party.