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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-14
The Rescue of the Drowning.


In all methods which involve the grasp
ing of the helpless person by the rescue ,9,ls
the swimmer must rely upon three lilllps
to make her progress. Hence the ielt arm
is generally used TO support the drowning
person, thus leaving the stronger right 70
assist the legs in their battle WIN NV
waves.
Sometimes the rescuer swims with the or,
binary breast stroke, grasping the form ~ -.
the other just below the arm pits hLnH TINY
with her left arm, and towing the pouy
along beside her. parallel with her OWL \.
Occasionally. if the drowning person 10
light and the water not very rough. he may
be supported merely by the reScuers manu-
being placed underneath his chest. t nlsn
enough to keep his head out of water. I ia5
could not be done. however, if he struggieu
at all.
There Is another method. differing from
any of those yet mentioned. in that II allows
the rescuer the full liberty of both arms
as well as both legs. and, If properly man maj,
aged. binders her progress scarcely at AZ.
1t cannot be used unless the person VIM
is in danger of drowning has CONSCIOUSNESS
and self-command enough to obey orueIs'
but there are such cases as this; Tor eAdln
pie, when one who is himself s~lhIhsl
happens 70 be seized with cramp ana rSn-
dered helpless temporarily or becoInes - -.
hausted when at considerable distance
from shore. The method is for the eA
hausted person to face the rcScueT dl,-
allowing his body TO float forward. as !.
will. feet first, until il is extended alilOSss
horizontally under that of the swimmer; -. u
the helpless person refrains from pu lains
downward With his arms. and Just MALI ln-
tains a SUFFICIENTLY firm hold TO keep IL, 10
face outFof water. the swimmer VIII ps
able to- proceed with perfect comfort ~
meang of the breast stroke. This mas Dees
tried often. and proved 10 be an exceileH.
way of swimming with the weight OF an an
other. Those swimmers who nave hs s''o
tried il will find it interesting 10 pfactite'
and may be glad some day of the possess
sion of the skill thus gained.
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Company A, had been promoted to contract
surgeon. His new position is a lucrative
one and the duties require that he be de-
stached from this regiment DR.. Moses has
large friendship, and since detailed as
hospital steward has been untiring in his
labors He merits his promotion, and as
soon as the necessary arrangements are
made he will assume his new position.
A branch of the army Y. NJ. G. A. has
been established in this brigade, under the
direction of Mr.. Fl. L. Baright. Three large
tents have been erected. under which are a
number Ct tables. All kinds Of standard
literature and the daily papers from the
homes OF the various companies are kept on
lie. lnkstandS, pens, paper and envelopes
are furnished gratuitousy. making the life
of the soldier more pleasant. Band con-
certS. gospel meetings and Bible classes I'M
der the direction of Capt. c. S. Medbury,
chaplain Of the Observation-Disclosures
enth Indiana Regiment, are being planned.
A copy of the army and navy edition of sa-
triotic selections, will be given free to each
man. The order directing the movements of
the regiments in this vicinity is causing Il
great amount of uncertainty, and therefore
all the plans of Mr.. Baright cannot be fully
carried out until the regiments are perma-
nently located at Huntsville.
Private George Hoham. of Company M,
Plymouth is acting as mounted orderly at
Colonel Studebaker's headquarters to-day.
Each day mounted orderly is selected
from one of the companies until the twelve
companies have had their turn.
Yesterday Chief Musician Oscar Yer
We're. of South Bend; Color Sergeant How
Stradley, tuba player, and Private Bill
Borman, of the band made fishing ex
cursion and returned with the usual number
of fish stories. b. ]. l..
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C0URT-MARTIALED AND SHOT.
Wisconsin Volunteer Executed for
killing a Regular i'm Porto Rico.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug ia special
to the Journal from Marinette, Wis. says:
Word has been received here from Ponce,
Porto Rico, that Private La Duke, of the
Second Wisconsin Regiment, who shot and
killed Private Stafford, of the regular army,
during quarrel in a saloon at Ponce, was
court-martialed Aug. 3, found guilty and
shot on the morning of Aug. A.
Alexander La Duke was a member of
Company l. Second Wisconsin, raised at
Marinette and Thomss Stafford was a mem
Der of the Thirteenth Infantry, United
States regulars The murder of Stafford
was the result of quarrel in wine shop
in the mountains near Ponce, where the Sec
ond Wisconsin Regiment was in camp.
Strict orders were given not to leave the
camp or enter the houses but La Duke,
with two Others violated the order. In the
wine shop they encountered two regulars,
Stafford being one of them According to
witnesses, La Duke and Stafford Quarreled
and came to blows, during which he struck
Stafford with his fists, Furnishing him Sc
verely. The two men were parted but con-
tinued to quarrel. Stafford is said to have
have warned him to keep away or he would
shoot him. He is then said to have gone
into another room and loaded his rifle
When he came out Stafford again opened
the quarrel La Duke then shot him, the
bullet passing through his lungs and going
through the house into the yard, Stafford
dying instantly. La Duke surrendered him.
self and was taken to the military prison.
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WATER at CAMP WIKOFF.
One Well and Others to Be Driven
Arrival of Rough Riders.


NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.-At Camp Wikoff,
Montauk point there is now one thirty five
foot well, with a good supply of water. esti-
mated at present at sixty thousand gallons
day. When the three points are put in,
it will have a capacity of one million gal
Ions. Two more wells are to be driven, and
two fifty thousand gallon tanks will be
erected for storage. Six of the Rough Rid
ers from Tampa are in the general hospi-
tai They are Ira Wilson, Charles Renner
and John Rice. of Troop F, and Gerard
Sherad, John Billiard and Thomas Connell,
of Troop Fl. They are all from New Mexi-
co, with the exception of Wilson, who
comes from Pennsylvania. The men are ill
with fevers. So
A company of engineers from Camp Sheri-
dan, near Chicago, is expected at the camp
at once, to take charge of the laying out
of the infantry camps @N-t
Colonel ForWood is waiting to hear from
the authorities at Washington as to the
suggestion made by Health officer Doty to
remove the typhoid patients from Mon
tauk to the hospitals in New York Dr.
would insure the safety OF the camp from
About two hundred Rough Riders, por-
tions of Troops \, H, K, l., and M, arrived
in camp to-day, under command of Lieut.
WIKI, bringing tents and ammunition with
them. @h sE5
General Young to-day issued stringent
order that no visitors be allowed in camp
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-General Corbin
tonight received a dispatch from General
Young, at Montauk Point, announcing that
the transport Gate City had arrived off the
tine officers The troops will land to-mor-
row.
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German comment changed.

LONDON, Aug. 13.-The Berlin corre1
spondent of the Observer says: THE nature
OF the German comment on America for the
past four months is completely changed.
me mockery of the military institutions of
the Republic has ceased and sneers at the
pontlcal ideals Of it's people are no longer
heard. America has surprised and i'm
pressed Germany by her military and naval
power To that, added to material consid-
erations which render her friendship desira-
Die, may be attributed the tone of re-
spect, and even anliability, in which the
peace negotiations are discussed. The Co
logne Gazette even encourages by impli
cation the acquisition of large portion of
the philippines, snd says that Germany
ment. France. the most Interested power
would not move a finger to prevent it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-14
ANOTHER BLOW At BRITAIN.
LII Hung Chang VIII Give Russia Con-
troll of China's Customs.

LONDON, Aug. ia special dispatch
from Shanghai received here to-day says:
THE China Gazette states that the Russian
government holds Ii Hung Chang promise,
made during his visit to st. Petersburg,
that China would place the imperial GUS
toms under Russian control whenever the
interest of the two countries demanded the
change. Russians have obtained control Of
large tracts of land along the route of the
proposed New Chwang Railway"
VANCOUVER, B.. c., Aug. 13-It is ru-
mored here that the steamers Tartar and
Athenian are being held in the harbor for
the purpose of transporting troops to China
in case Russia makes any hostile moves.
Both vessels are splendidly equipped, and
each will carry r6Oosar 200 soldiers.
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VOLUNTEERS WAITING.
Soldiers at Camp Thomas Do Not
Know What Is in store for Them.

CEICKAMAUGA PARK, Ca, Aug. 49,
The men at Camp Thomas are now playing
a waiting game none of the officials SEEM
ing to know exactly what is in store for
them or their men. The regiments ordered
to new camps have received no orders ir-
dicating when they will get away. and the
men of other regiments have almost ceased
specializing on the disposition to be made
Of them Meanwhile the regular work goes
on. and all commands are being as steadily
drilled as when the war began.
The news that peace had been declared
was received at Camp Thomas to-day in
various ways. Some of the more enthusi-
astic arranged small demonstrations AMI
celebrated the event. Others plainly man
ifested their regret that they would see no
active service after their long and tiresome
training there, The majority seem to be
harboring hopes they will be mustered out
and sent to their homes in the near future
The health of the camp has materially i'm
proved during the last few days. The main
cause of the Improvement is believed to be
the removal and Encouragement of regi-
mental camps Nearly all the commands
nave moved to new ground admirably
adapted for camping purposes, and no two
are as close together as under the old ar
rangement.
The event of to-day was an informal re-
vision Of the First Corps by Brigadier GEN
eraf Sanger, commander of the division. The
following regiments participated in the cere-
monX: Eighth Massachusetts, Twelfth New
York, Twenty-first Kansas, Twelfth Mime
sota,! Fifth Pennsylvania, Ninth Pennsyl-
vania, Second Missouri and First New
Hampshire. At the conclusion of the cere-
mony the regiments lined up in column of
masses and were photographed. At least
1o.000 soldiers will be represented in the pic
ture.i together with the commanding and
field officers.
General Breckenridge has made up his
mind to have the entire army at Camp
Thomas pass in review again before the
Second and Third Division of the First
Corps are ordered to their new camp
grounds at Knoxville and Lexington. While
the time for this review has not been def
nitely decided upon il will probably take
place on Wednesday next, beginning at s
a. m.
Brigadier General Sanger and his staff
viii leave tomorrow evening for Lexington.
Ky. 10 arrange the new camp for the Third
Division.
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VIII Have Private Railroad.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
RENSSELAER,, Ind, Aug. 13.-Benjamn
]. Clifford, who owns thirty-three thousand
acres of land in this county, most of which
he has reclaimed from the swamps within
the last six years, has commenced the con-
struction of railroad through his own pos
sessions on his own private account. The
road will start from the Indiana, Illinois
q Iowa Railway, two miles east of De
Motto Station, in this county, and will run
in southeast direction seventeen miles all
on Mr.. Gifford's own land. The SUPPOSE
ton is that the road will eventually con-
meet with the Monon about Monon Station,
in White county, and will probably be con-
structed northwest to Chicago. Mr.. Gift
ford lives in Kankakee, and is a man about
sixty years old. He has in his lifetime re-
claimed thousands of acres of land in Kan
kakee Champaign and Livingston counties,
illinois, and built seventy-t1ve miles of rail-
road that is now part of the Illinois Cen
trail system, running from West Lebanon
IND. west to connect with the main line
of the Illinois Central.
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BORROwE, A ROUGH RIDER.
One of the Swells I'm Charge of a Dy-
Mantle Gun at Santiago.


New York Press.
Although Halett Alsop Borrowe is only
about thirty-six years old. his life has been
Of the truth of the phrase, Each in his
time plays many parts" Now he is down
before Santiago with the Rough Riders
and a dynamite gun, of which he appears
ported killed or wounded once or twice. but
a late dispatch from him says that he is
neither one nor the other, but all right and
expecting to remain so.
When Borrowe was young he thought he
would become a great artist and studied art
at the Columbia Art School. Then he
thought that law, and not art. was his Pc
culiar calling and entered the Columbia
Law School. After a while he decided that
neither law nor art was just what he was
cut out for. and went across the water to
see the world. He had already seen some
thing of IL on this side. His father gas
Samuel Borrowe, vice president of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society and
young Borrowe had the entree into New
York society.
In England and France HalIett Alsop was
put up at the most exclusive clubs and was
distinctly in the swim. When he returned
lard player crack shot and a man about
town generally. He was fond of dog fights
and all sorts of sporty things In short
the mild art student was thoroughly trans
formed into the gilded and giddy young man
OF the clubs and the inc0nSequenfiaI world
He stayed abroad a good deal and was at
tracing no particular attention IN this couu-
try, being regarded by his acquaintance as
neither better nor worse than the avera &c
man of his type. when suddenly came the
Inence of all the parties concerned fMrs
DTayton Was a daughter Of Mrs William
AEtorl and the challenge 10 duel lwhfrh
aia not take place. between ar. Drayton
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and Mr.. Borrowe kept society gossiping for
a long time.
Finally that passed away and Hallett
Alsop Borrowe was for time forgotten.
1t was said that he was living quietly
abroad. Suddenly II was discovered that
Borrowe had returned to this country, for
saken the ways of his former life and was
employed as car starter on the trolley
road in Newark He had started in to work
for living and had begun at the bottom
OF the ladder
He worked hard, and finally was made a
division superintendent at salary of $40 a
month For a time his doing in his new
sphere of action were written about and
talked about, and then the young man was
forgotten again. He not destined to
remain forgotten long, however. for in No
vember. 1885, it was announced that Bor-
rowe had married Miss Anna Wheeler
Corbin. Austin Corbin's youngest daughter.
1t seems that the Borrowe and Corbin
families had been intimate when Hallett
Alsop was a schoolboy and his especial
friend had been the youngest daughter.
The schooiboy love had remained through
all the intervening years. and Borrowe had
gone to work the trolley line to prove
that he had reformed and was living life
which made him worthy to marry his boy
hoods love.
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Fears of Postomce omciaIs.

WASHINGTON, Aug. BIT is feared by
the postoffice officials that with the advent
of a great number of letters containing
money to and from soldiers there will be an
increase in the amount of cash turned into
the dead letter office. Mr.. Merritt, the
third assistant postmaster, said to-day that
it was a curious fact that month after
month the sum turned into the dead letter
office was almost exactly 81 900. There were
slight variations, but it invariably closely
approached this sum. Last year the aggre-
gate was $11454. With the soldiers mail,
however, this monthly approximation may
be increased. 1t is recommended that now
that a great deal of money is being sent
through the mails that the correspondents
be more careful and see that their full
name and address is included inv each let
ter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-14
AMERIcANs IN HONOLULU.
The Third Generation shows that the
Race Has Not DeteriOrated There.

Review of Reviews.
The Sandwich islands have been the home
of a. considerable number of American fam
lilies for a long time. The grandchildren Of
the American missionaries who transformed
the islands are now mature men and
women. They send their children to an ex-
cellent American college at Honolulu that
has been in existence for many years, al
though it is the custom for young Ha-
waiian-Americans to obtain at least a part
of their educational training in this cQun-
try. Our race exhibits no sign of deterora-
ton in those ISLANDS. The men of the Sec
ond generation have Shown great ability
and the young men of the third generation
are worthy of their American ancestry 1t
is true, OF course, that the native Hawaans
and the Chinese and japanese. agricultural
labOrers constitute the bulk of the pOpula-
ton But the influences that have shaped
institutions and given type to the progress
and civilization of the islands have been
diStinctively American. There are by lar
more people of negro blood than of white
in South Carolina, but to say that South
Carolina is not an Anglo-Saxon community
in the strctest sense is to play with mere
verbal fallacies. The welfare Of all races
in the Sandwich islands requires that they
should be under white control. 1t is sheer
nonsense to talk of obtaining the consenss
of the entire population to annexation ;.
one means to include the great body OF
coolie, yellow skinned laborers who are
there not as domiciled families, but as m
dentured visitors, working on the nve-year-
contract plan, with the prospect OF either
voluntary or involuntary return. to tnelr
own homes at the end or the laDor peIIou::
These laborers have been much better OFT
under President Dole's government than IN
their own countries. If they have not been
allowed to participate in the administration
of Hawaii where they are only soj0urners,
1t is enough to reply that they do not III
fact, participate when at home in the gov
ernments of China or Japan AS 10 the
Hawaiian natives. they are. under the pres
ent Hawaiian constitution, accorded as
much political privilege as they are capaDie
of exerting. Their rights will be far pet
fer dkar Araar
they could possibly be under the govern
ment of corrupt and half barbarous mon
archs of their own race, easily swayed oy
L. Lii, LII
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Moyements of Steauers.

NEW YORK. Aug. 1S.-Sailed: Georgian.
for London; La Bretagne, for Havre.
Spaarndam, for Rotterdam; Etruria for
Liverpool; Palatia. for Hamburg
LIVERPOOL, Aug. 13.--Arrived: Luca-
mia, from New York. Sailed: Umbria, for
New York.
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 13-Arrived:
Southwark. from New York.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 13.-Sailed:
Waesland. for Liverpool.
BREMEN. Aug. 13.-Sailed: Friedrich der
Crosse, for New York.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 1S.-Saied: Gym
rc, for New York.
/ HAvRE. Aug. 1S.-sailed: La Gascogne.
for New York.
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Cleveland Leader.
Hello! ! didn't know you had been to
the war; Strange
Strange. I didn't hear of it when you
enlisted, Glad to see you
Glad to see you back alive, but, by
George, old man, you must have had a
tough time of it. Had the nnalarial fe-'
oh Yellow fever. Ell? Well, you're lucky
to come. out of 1t alive, anyway. Come in
side and have-
"Oh, pshaw! OF course. you. do. Have a
cigar, at least You smoke. / know, unless
you quit while you were in Cuba, and /
do that, seeing Cuba's the greatest tobacco
country in the world But, you do show the
sad effects of it, old man. I'm mighty glad
you pulled through all
certainly. here's light. AS 1 SAID I'm
mighty glad you pulled through all right
papers, for ! see by the scratches and scars
on you that you must have been in at least
one of those fights, down there, in addi-
ton to getting the fever Wen, of course
Excuse me, r"
You'll begin to enjoy the reward of
your bravery now. / tell you we can't do
enough for the men who had the nerve to
go to the front when they were needed
the past eight months as having been paid
feel that | ought to do a little something
more than TO just put up cents for war
tax 20, once in awhile. I'D give a good deal
'.Oh, no. Come now. there's no use in
being too modest about these things. I'd
give a good deal to be in your place-to
have gone through II all and to have got
back home alive and without having lost
a leg or an arm There's nothing that's
great fight down there-a fight that COM
ing generations will look upon in even
greater wonder than that with which we
regard ii now Say. how does it feel to be
hit by bullet, anyway"
I've tried to get chance to tell you that
you were mistaken. / haven't been TO war.
I've been out camping for couple OF
weeI-s."
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PACIFIC ISLANDS SEIZED.
Santa Cruz and Duff Groups Taken by
Great Britain.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 13-Mail adj
vices received here say that the British war
ship Mohawk has raised the British flag
over the Santa Cruz and Duff islands and
taken formal possession of them. The ISL
ands are in the South Pacific. The Santa
Cruz group has seven large islands. The
Duff or Wilson group, consists OF eleven
islands. Germany is reported to be trying to
annex Samoa. Premier Reddon, of New
Zealand states that such a rumor has been
current for some time, but the government
has received no official information on the
subject.
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Indiana Obituary.


RENSSELAER,, Ind, Aug. 13.-Dr Sam
uel NJ Caldwell one of the oldest physicians
in this part of Indiana. died at his home in
Mount Ayr, Newton county Thursday and
was buried here yesterday He had been
practicing medicine at the location where
he died for thirty-three years.
ROCKVILLE. Ind. Aug. 13.-Mrs. Lizzie
l.. Strain OFT, wife of Dick H. OFT, member
of the firm of OFT & West, druggists died
this morning. She was member of the
Presbyterian church. and only twenty-one
years old. She was a graduate from the
Rockville High School. ,s e.,,et p.
KOKOMO, Ind, Aug. 13.-Prof. Lyman
M. Gentry, a well-known Indiana educator,
died at a sanatorium near Upton Friday.
He is a brother of Prof. c. M Gentry, Of
the Kokomo schools, and taught last year
al Applegate, Wis His home is in Upton
county, near Elwood. a
ELWOOD, Ind, Aug. 13.-Thomas Clay
baugh, an old resident of this city died last
night after long suffering. There a
post-lnortem, and the doctors found cam
Ger in his stomach and the stomach solid-
fed