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The evening times., 1898-09-23
SPAIN LIVED IN A DREAM.
Comment by Admiral Cervera When
He Reached Mndrfd

Madrid. Sept. 23.-Admiral Cervera ar
rived here yesterday. The marked cool
ness of the admiral and his officers to-
ward the minister of marine Senior Au-
non, is much commented upon. Senior
Aunon and his staff. in uniform. met Ad-
miral cervera and his party at the rail-
road depot. The admiral halted before
the minister. saluted and said stiffiy:
81 am at the orders of your excellency
l shall present myself at the ministry to-
day, as is my duty"
The admiral then started to leave, after
embracing Capt. Eu.ate. the former COM
mander of the Vizcaya, and his other
comrades.
The minister of marine offered the use
of his carriage to Admiral Cervera but
the latter declined to accept it and en-
tered another carriage
In an interview the admiral said he had
clear conscience regarding Santiago.
But, he added. Nations grow great by
their victories and not by their defeats,
however glorious they might be"
Spain. he continued, had lived in a
dream, and she now had to face reality"
The Spanish admiral added that his war
ships were not destroyed in battle, but
were destroyed by fire
Gen. TOral. the Spanish commander
who surrendered his forces at Santiago
de Cuba, has also arrived here He did
so without attracting any attention He
is now i'll.
The rumOr that the Rothschilds are to
lend Spain large sum of money when
the treaty OF peace is signed is denied
here officials of the Spanish government
affirm that the Bank of Spain is able 10
supply the immediate demands of the
government,
The evening times., 1898-09-23

The Due d'Orleans, pretender to the
throne of France. has seized upon the
Dreyfus excitement to bring himself and
his ambition into public notice. On such
an occasion a manifesto is natural
enough. but the one in which the prince
attempts TO exploit himself is extremely
unfortunate for his hopes. In it he seeks
to place himself at the head of the
French army element, which rests its
claim 10 popular favor upon a savage,
bloodthirsty and wholly idiotic passion
to persecute the Jewish population of
France; forgetting that that population
has furnished the nation with many of
the French marshals, statesmen and phi
lanthropists whom history delights to
honor: 1t will be long time before
young Louis Philippe's head will rest
uneasily on account of a crown.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1898.
Havana's Loud Cry.

The dispatches from Havana this
morning repeat that the complaints
against the prolongation of the presen;
situation are many and vigorous The
intelligent class Of citizens. the mer-
chants and the capitalists whose plan
tation establishments were destroyed by
Weyler, and who are eager to begin op-
eratiOns again, can find no adequate
reason for American federation of Gem
eral Blanco and his destructive system.
This is not surprising, since there is no
such reason. Merchants. bankers and
business men Of all nationalities. IA
miliar with the terms of the protocol.
have made appeals to the American
Commissioners to expedite the eyacua-
ton and tC use their authority or at
least their influence to make such
changes in the Blanco rules as will en-
able them to transact business and re-
store something like prosperity TO the
afflicted city. They have urged that
every days delay in the removal of re-
strictions that are virtually prohibitive
condemns an increasing number of peo-
pie To prolonged idleness and suffering.
while a sane system would soon make
the Cubans self-supporting and relieve
the American Government of the cost
of maintaining them in mischieyous
idleness.
These are reasonable appeals, protests
and complaints. and as the representa-
tives Of the American Government. and
charged with the duty of getting rid Of
Blanco and Blancoism. the Commission
ers are the proper officials to receive,
consider and as far as possible respond
10 the demands of these people. The
practical business men Of Havana. with
large interests at stake and with deem
concern for the welfare of the island
and the lives of the citizens are almost
frenzied by the continuation Of SPANS
oppressive ~ule which is quite as terri
bic and destructive now-months after
the advent of peace-as it was under
Weyler, and far more injurious to the
business interests of the principal COM
munity. Yet their pathetic appeals and
their indignant protests are treated
alike with utter Indifference by the
Commissioners. These agents of the
American Government profess to be too
busy with the details of the evacuation
which is not to be completed until
seven months after the signing of the
protocol. and probably two months after
the Peace Commissioners at Paris shall
have done their work-as though any
thing connected with the ending of
Spanish sovereignty could be half as
important as this
We hope the President will realize the
Importance of directing the Commits
sioners to treat these appeals of the
citizens Of Havana as an essential part
of the subject of Spanish evacuation,
which they really are.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
ABUSES IN THE ARMY.
"ehcral Sanger Advocates Revis-
ion of Military Laws.

Lexington, KY, Sept 23-Brigadier
General Sanger is preparing a report on
army abuses. He holds that Congress
should revise the army laws so that a
general commanding could actually com
mand
Under the present system, he says, if a
brigade quartermaster, for instance,
makes contract for supplies. the quar-
termaster at Washington can annul it.
The same thing is true of many other
operations necessary TO insure the sue
cess of campaign or the maintenance OF
the health of an army
Gen. Sanger thinks the division hOspit-
al should have trained nurses He apple l
for them at Camp Hamilton but the de-
paTtment refused. AS a result he had 10
detail unfit men from regiments. He
knew that many of them drank the whis-
Ky intended for patients; that they de-
serted their posts and slept when they
should have been attending the sick. He
punished the Offenders with the guard
house. but 1t had little effect.
Brigadier IGendral Waites today reit-
Grated the charge made to Secretary AL
gers face. ut will not do" he said.
for the War Department to try to sad
die the blame on the officers of the vol
unteer army. who were appointed from
civil life While many of them may be
green at the business of war, they Save
with few exceptions, been Jealous in try
ing TO protect their men. They have been
met at every turn with red tape and ar
my regulations"
The evening times., 1898-09-23

find the resources of the country wisely
utilized, and we find that where hoses
and mules cannot be had for the carry
ing of baggage, the camel and the ele-
phant are pressed into service. with ma
tive drivers. We find a man sent to
hospital because he has a disabled foot.
We find that the tribulations of the
army in India are mainly due to the
inevitable defectsfof. .ehlnate. to the
character of turbulent natives, and (as
in this country occasionally to the bad
judgment of the war Office in trying to
rule country which 1t does not know
We do not find, however, that mex
perienced colonels or staff officers, or
quartermasters are appointed for politi-
cal reasons, or because they happen to
be the pet of somebody in high place.
The British government may have done
those things in other years: it may oc-
casionally do them now; but too much
depends on the military prowess of
Great Britain for her to undervalue her
army. 1t is just as bad Judgment to
starye a soldier as it is to starve a
horse, to say nothing of the ethics of
the thing, and the short-sghted people
who are trying to make themselves
necessary affections of the soldier will
do well to retire for little while and
think.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
BoTHERING THE POLICE.
Fear distractions of Papers From
DIR. GUiiford's House

Bridgeport, Conn, Sept. 23-The police
We're ohagrined this morning when they
learned that during the night some one
had entered the home of Mrs. Nancy
Guilford, the local doctress under suspi-
cion of completely in the Yellow Mill
Pond crime. When Mrs Guiford left
this city so suddenly on Tuesday. Sen
tember l3, the day following the discov-
cry of the dismembered body in the pond
she closed and locked every door and
window in the house. The police are
troubled because they fear that some one
entered the house and carried off some
discriminating article the property of the
doctreSs
Her hunchback son, Harry, who made
an effort to enter the house yesterday
was captured He evidently wanted some
thing in the house very badly as that
was his second attempt to enter the
place.
A detective working on the case said
today that Mrs. Guilfords every move
ment was watched, and that the local
police can have her arrested within an
hours time. He said she might be brought
into the case later.
Walter Foster. Charles Plumb and Har-
ry Guilford are still held at police head
quarters.
Supt Birmingham said this morning
that it was probable Plumb would be re-
leased today. The obvious purpose of the
police in arTesting Plumb was to secure
from him some valuable information
which he possessed. Although he told
several falsehoodS a. first, he finally came
to the conclusion to tell the truth and
clear himself. which he did.
A strong chain of circumstantial evil
dence is gradually being forged against
Foster. He was the man with whom Miss
Gill was infatuated. They were seen in
each others company frequently. When
Miss Gill left her home in Southington
for the last time she had been traced by
the police to New Haven.
While in some house on the outskirts of
that city she was visited frequently by a
young man whose description tallies with
that of Foster.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
Saks and Company,
Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh Street.
VISITATIoNS BY A SPooK
Masses to Lny "a Ghost in an Italian
Qunrfer


New York, Sept 23-The italian popuIa-
tion of White street West Orange. y. J..
is in a state of Mysteries. Men and
women are almost prOstrated, and chill
dren sob and cry at a strange visitation.
The people believe it is the ghost of old
Peter ChristianO, who was murdered on
New Years eve. and so confident are they
that the dead man is not at rest that
they have determined to have mass said
tomorrow in the Church of St. Michael
the Archangel here for the repose Of his
soul.
Because of the disturbance. one family
has moved out of the big rambling white
frame tenement structure, which is own
ed by Mrs Maria Hennessy of East Or
ange- II was in a back room of the house
that the murder occurred. \ New Years
Lorenzo CorbO, an old grinder and his
son, who Ii we'd down stairs. complain
ed of the noise to the landlady, who was
at the house 10 collect her rent.
She told the Christianos that the dane
ing must stop. A row ensued between
them. and the Corbos. and as a result
NHtiSNidHO WdS SldDDeC- Ola Larry Cor
DO escaped but his son. Michael Corbo
was charged with the murder. and ar
rested. About three months later the old
man was found, and admitted having
stabbed Christiano. He was sentenced TO
q long term in prison and his son reIeas-
ed
After the murder everything seemed to
be all right in the old house until Mon
day night Mary Petro. the fourteen
year-old daughter OF Frank Petro. was
going upstairs with a lamp in her hand
when two sharp raps sounded on the
boards of the partition at her side Thor
oughly frightened the girl Went back TO
the first floor. where the family were eat
ing their evening meal, in the rear of the
grocery store kept by Petro. The girl
told of the raps. and the entire family
consisting of father. mother. and eight
little Petros. of whom Mary is the eId-
est. went to investigate: They all heard
the raps.
Sometimes the noise came from the low
er part of the stairway, again from the
middle and top. The raps were generally
from the partition. but occasionally they
seemed TO come from the stairs
AS a last resort, the Italians went to
the Rev. Father D'Aquila pastor OF the
Church of st. Michael the Archangel and
had him bless the house. He went there
Wednesday night. prayed. and sprinkled
holy watetr on the walls and floors. While
he was in the house the rappings were
not heard. but he had been away scarcely
ten minutes when the noises commenced
again, and continued yesterday.
The evening times., 1898-09-23

loss of a few lighters-two at that time
and others from Mobile later. To prove
that it was wholly practicable and not
particularly difficult to use small boats
effectively, the Red Cross agent details
the experience of his society 1t is
known that Red Cross agents had hos
pital supplies which-on the refusal of
an army surgeon to accept anything
from society which General Stern
berg did not approve-Miss Barton con-
veyed to an improvised Cuban hospital.
The question was frequently asked why,
If the Red Cross could land articles. the
agents of the Government could not.
The testimony printed this morning
shows that the captains of the trans
ports declined to risk a wetting for their
men by using small boats, such as the
volunteer society had managed success
fully. The agent is positive that the
provisions for the army could have been
taken ashore and carried to the front
with much less difficulty than our he
roes experienced in getting there
This is the opinion of every competent
newspaper correspondent in the field
Better still-Or worse, as Mr. Sans has
pointed out-a pier was easily con-
structed, subsequently, exactly where
the representatives of the quartermas-
ter's or transportation department said
1t was impracticable. and many supplies
were actually taken ashore without
lighters and under the same conditions
after the pressing need was passed.
When Congress comes to an investi-
cation Of this bitter, shameful business.
it will be shown that ordinary enter
prise and reasonable degree of eff
cheney would have saved our soldiers
from an experience that made of them
easy victims of disease.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
smalI-SOuIed Chatterers

AFTER talk with Adjt Gen. Corbin
one Steele, an Indiana legislator. has
come out in an interview ridiculing the
hardships of the soldiers after this
manner:
Imagine If you can, how ridiculous il wouId
be il. for instance, the newspapers printed q
story that !, George Steele enlisted in tho First
Indiana, had gone into camp at Chickamaug,
where had folding bed with \ feather mat.
tress; had then gone 10 Tampa in 4 parIor c,r.
had experienced some slight trouble in loading
the transport, but had large. comfortable roor,s
on the transport. and had a delightful VOYAGE
to Cuba. with all the comforts 0; home. had
landed without difficulty. with nv folding hod
and feather mattress; had umbrella TO keen tbe
rain off, went into the trenches without ppttiny
hit, and then captured Santiago. returning to tha
United States on my commodious transport and
occupying psrlor on the Journey from Nom
tauk to Indiana. That would be rather an ideo,
war, wouldn't it? And how absurd il is IN or.
pect that our soldiers could have such accommo
dations! The men who went into this war had
no such idea, and now that it is all over they
or their friends should not complain.
There has been more or less of this
sort of fool talk. and when it is boiled
down it amounts to just this: Because
soldiers are not supposed to have Iuxu-
ries. therefore they should be left with
out the necessities of life. 1t is not
much of IAN argument, but it weighs
with people who do not like to think.
All that the troops in Cuba expected
at any time was sufficient care
TO prevent unnecessary loss of life. The
way in which these stay-at- home Off
clais talk reminds one of the bank cash
Ter who runs away to Canada and rev.
els in the possession of other people's
money by lighting his cigar with a ten
dollar bill. 1t is just as sensible. lust
as honest, and just as civilized. That
we have thousands of brave young fell
lows who are ready to give their lives
to the service of their country is no rea-
son why one of those lives should ba
wantonly thrown away through the
greed or Incompetence of a uuartermas-
ter That is not the way for us to be-
come great military power. The Brit
ish army has reached its present per-
fection because its soldiers are. so far
as possible, taken good care of. Their
self-respect is not destroyed by kicking
and beating from their officers, as in |
the German army, nor is their health |
undermined by insufficient, moIdy. |
and decayed food. Kipling's soldier |
stories are enough to prove this In |
one We find an officer seriously COM |
promised because in a moment of sud-
den passion he struck a private. We
find hospital tents, the men provided with
cots, away up in the Khyber hills. We /
The evening times., 1898-09-23
FURY OF A MANIAC SAILOR
ferocfous Attack Upon the Captair
OF the Niagaru

New York Sept. 23.-In a mad frenzy.
presumably caused by the refusal of cant.
Prime, of the auxiliary cruiser NIAGARA
now lying at the Brooklyn navy ward m
grant his request for promotion from or
uliiary seaman TO seaman, Thomas
y oDonnell, one of the ships crew. vio-
ientiy assaulted Capt Prime. ATTEMPTED
to use knife, and was finally overDovr-
cred and placed in irons only after a
fierce struggle.
Capt Prime last Monday evening after
dinner had Just risen from a chair on
which he had been seated on the deck
"hen ODonnel rushed up 10 him and
without word of warning. struck him a
violent blow in the face, nearly KNOCKING
him down.
y ODonnel at once renewed the attack.
and the captain grappled with him bur
the sailor had the strength of four men
ana was fast overpOwering his superior
officer when the officer of the deck came
10 the captains aid, and with the assist
ahce OF several marines Overpowered
O'DOnneH
During his struggle with the marines a
long, keen-bladed knife fell from the sail
ors clothes and stuck in the deck. O'Don-
nell was then taken below and placed in
d StralShtJacket. 1t required the assist
ance OF all the men that could MANAGE
TO lay hold of him to accomplish the
feat.
ODonnen by the exercise of almost
superhuman strength, managed 10 break
out of the jacket. and rushing to the side
OF the ship. threw it overheard. An
other struggle then took place, and this
time he was put in irons IL was forI2d
necessary to chain him to the deck to
keep him from doing himself injury.
When Capt. Prime was seen al the ward
yesterday he said he could not account
for the assault in any way except that
couple of months ago O'DonneA had
come TO him and asked to be promoted
from ordinary seaman TO seaman, and
that the request being refused, broOdinz
over the matter had made him insane.
Capt Prime still showed the effects Of
the assault IN a blackened eye and bruis-
ed cheek
O'DOnnen is now in the yard hospital
under guard. awaiting orders from Wash
ington as to the disposition TO be made
of his case.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
EFFORTS TO STEAL A PRELATE,
Americans Protect the Archbishop
of Manila

Paris, Sept. 23.-The following appears
In the Herald's European edition:
The schemes of the Spanish clerical
party have divided the Filipinos beyond
the hope of reconciliation.
On Sunday, when the Archbishop of
Manila went to Gaco to administer the
rite of confirmation, a party of rebels
attempted TO kidnap the prelate. The
success of the plot was only prevented
by the interference of the American SOL
dlers who are stationed there
The purpose of the kidnapers was to
take the archbishop to Mololos, where
Aguinaldo is holding four Spanish priests
as prisoners.
Seven Filipinos We're detected yesterday
at Santa Ana. with money received from
some Spanish priests. They were arrest
ed on a direct order from Aguinaldo, de-
spite the protest of Pic Pillar. the COM
mander-in-chief of the district. They will
be shot tomorrow.
Privates Currier, Dennis, and Schultz.
of the Thirteenth Minnesota Regiment.
have died in the hospital this week. The
regiment has forty-five men on the sick
list.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
yellow Jack and Religion.

The present scare about the fever down in
Mississippi has caused a revival in religious cir
cles greater than would have been produced by
a series OF protracted meetings. Some weeks ago
if you saw man in raiment which proclaimed
undoubtedly that he knew it was Sunday and
was glad to be out of work a-day clothes, YOU
knew that he was bound to see some girl. The
query on the subject always met the same reply:
Il am going to see Miss So-and-So" or "Bob's
going to take me around to see his girl Now
however the same butterfly answers 81 am GO
ing up TO such and such a church, or ''Miss
Blank and are going up to hear DR.. Somnolent
preach And all this revival is the fever. Not
that men are really afraid. If they were they
would be talking of their fear in Nova Scotia
somewhere. The men are just anxious, that is
all, and they think their religious feryor may
keep yellow jack away. The first hard frost will
cause change of destination Sunday evenings
that is for a number of young men.
The evening times., 1898-09-23
THE VIXEN.
She Returns From Cuba to North
ern Waters.

New York, Sept. 23-The auxiliary gun.
boat Vixen, formerly the Widener yacht
Josephine, arrived at this port yesterday
this being her first appearance in North.
erh waters since she went South to join
the blockading fleet
Inc vessel is from Guantanamo, from
which port she sailed last Saturday, She
brings three sick men from the fieet-two
from the repair ship Vulcan and one
from the Newark. She also has on board
prisoner. Lorenzo Pierce, one of the
marine guard of the Newark Pierce was
court-martialed for being asleep on watch,
and was sentenced to one years impris-
onment. Chief Machinist Kelly, one OF
the Merrimac heroes, is also on board the
Vixen.
Lieut.. Alexander Sharp, who commands
the Vixen. said that he would remain at
his present anchorage, off Tompkinsville
until instructions as to the future move
ments of the vessel have been received
If these orders will admit of It. he will
give his men a run on shore as quickly as
possible
Ihey have well deserved this rela axation,
as the duty from which this converted
pleasure vessel returns has not been one
of very pleasant sort. AS one of the
blockading vessels at Santiago, 1t was her
duty to lie close to the entrance of the
harbor at night as guard against any
sortie of the Imprisoned destroyers, and to
attack and destroy them should they
make any attack on the armorclads or
the cruisers
TO keep the destroyers In and to give
prompt warning of their coming out it
was necessary for the Vixen and her con-
sort. the Gloucester, to lie within a very
snort distance OF the Morro-the GIouces-
ter on one side of the harbor entrance
the vixen on the other. To these dam
gerous positions the vessels would steam
when night shut in and would then be-
gin a vigil that lasted until dawn, when
they would withdraw out of range of the
batteries, to resume their stations again
at night
The night of July 2 found these two yes
sells lying hushed and alert under the
shadow of the bluffs, on either side of
the harbor entrance. The battleships.
playing their searchlights on the entrance
were careful never to sweep the lights
along shore, as that would have disclosed
the preence Of these two vessels to the
Spanish artillerymen. Morning came and
the Vixen and her consort stood seaward.
the Vixen taking up position four miles to
lhe westward of MORO and two miles off
shore.
That was the morning Cervera's fleet
came out. The Vixen, Immediately she
detected the direction the fleet was head
ing, stood OFF shore so as to leave unob-
structed the fire of the Brooklyn Had the
Spanish fleet turned to the eastward. In
stead OF the westward Lieut.. Sharp would
nave had the opportunity of engaging the
uestroyerS, an opportunity which VAIN
wright so well improved