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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-19
FEVER AT KEY WEST.
Naval Base Changed to Newport News
on Account of "YellOw Jack"

KEY WEST, Fla, Aug. 1S.-With the ex-
cepton of the gunboat Princeton and the
monitor Miantonomoh, which have been
sent to the Dry Tortugas, all the ships of
the fleet have been ordered to Norfolk with
cut delay and many have already departed
The naval base has been transferred from
Key West to Norfolk. The reason for this
is the appearance of yellow fever here
There are now ten cases in the marine bar
racks. all the victims being marines. Forty
persons. in all. are in the building, which is
an old cigar factory, and a most rigid quar-
antinc is being maintained. AT this writing
only one of the cases is said to be serious.
Whether there are any scattered cases
throughout the town is not known, but this
will be determined by a house-to-house in
spection. The marine hospital and local
physicians are confident that the disease
will be confined to the barracks and that
there is no danger of an epidemic The ut
most precautions are being observed, how
ever and State Health officer Porter, who
arrived on the Mascotte to-day, refused to
permit that steamer to leave the port on her
return trip to Tampa. He will tomorrow
decide whether or not a quarantine of Key
West shall be declared. Later in the even
ing the Mascotte. which carries an immune
crew, was allowed TO sail, but without any
passengers.
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TARRED AND FEATHERED.
Six Women and Three Men Punished
and a House Dynamited.

PARKERsBURG, w. Va. Aug 1S-
About 25O or 800 men. disguised as White
Caps. visited the house of Susie Colston
near Smthheld Wetzel county, and
dragged the inmates, six women and three
men, cut of bed in their night clothes No
time was given them to get their clothes or
valuables The house was then blown 10
pieces with three sticks, of dynamite The
inmates were taken down Morgans run and
tarred and feathered, and then taken to the
Shuman House and all locked in room to-
gether till daylight. No apparent effort was
made to discover who committed the out
rage, and the popular sentiment is that
nothing wrong was done. A piano player
who was in the house. but escaped the
White Caps, says he recognized two or
three of the most prominent citizens Of
Smithfield. The Coston woman is an octo-
room and was born in Clarksburg and has
been a keeper of disreputable houses in New
York. Cincinnati. Chicago and other places.
She has a wide reputation for personal
beauty,
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SheIIs for War Shins.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The Ordnance
Bureau of the Navy Department to-day
opened bids for large amount of heavy
ordnance for the war ships. The aggregate
OF the contracts will reach about $4,000.
These are for cast steel shells of the follow
ing dimensions: 1000 13-inch, 1000 Pinch,
and 600 1O-inch. Also forged steel shells as
follows: 5000 S-i1fch, 5000 6-inch, 5000 finch,
and 1900 5-inch. With this increase of naval
ordnance the navy will be well supplied
with material if, by chance, the present
peace negotiations are not brought to sue
cessful contamination All of the leading
steel and ordnance firms bid in the compe-
tition to-day at prices somewhat lower than
have ruled heretofore
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sickness Increasing, and Two Hun
dred More Bodies of Dead Span
ish Prisoners Burned.
WHEELER At CAMP WIKOFF
WILL BE IN COMMAND UNTIL GEN
ERAL SHAFTER ARRIVES.
Seven Cases of Yellow Fever in the
Hospitals - Roosevelt and His
Rough Riders Released.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 1S.-The
statement is made on good authority that
General Shafter will leave on Saturday.
General Wood to-day ordered the sale of
whisky, beer and wines stopped everywhere
and provided severe penalties for infrac-
tons Of the rule. Restaurant keepers are
greatly depressed by this order of General
Wood, which confines their sale of drinks
to coffee and lemonade This morning Gen.
Wood increased the local police force
with additions from various regiments
There has been some trouble from soldiers
who have disobeyed orders, and there has
been some thefts, several street fights, at
least one murder, and n good deal of drunk
enness. so that an exceptionally large force
Is needed to preserve order. This morning
the Eighth Illinois Volunteers. colored, en-
tered upon patrol duty.
The First Infantry left to-day by the
transport Miller There are seven Spanish
transports now in the harbor awaiting the
embarkation of Spanish troops, of whom
more than two thousand will leave to-day.
The general appearance of the men is pitt
full There has been much sickness among
them. and within the last two days over
two hundred bodies have been burned
Four thousand Spanish troops have al
ready Deen shipped ana the transports Villa
Donga and Estrada Panai will leave to-
morrow with three thousand more. General
Toral says more transports will be needed
than have been provided Six thousand
Spanish at Guantanamo bay cannot leave
before the last of the month. Sickness is
increasing among them.
The death rate in the city is about sew
enty per day. The heavy rains increase the
fever among the soldiers and the inhabit-
ants alike.
The Massachusetts Aid Association hos
pital ship Bay State is expected to arrive
tonight from Guantanamo bay. Hospital
supplies and nurses are much needed
Large quantities of supplies have already
been distributed by Or. E. c.. Bracket, of
the Aid Association. who arrived two weeks
ago. All the hospital ships leaving here are
under orders to return as the number of
sick is too large for the present service
The fever is increasing among the remain
ing troops.
The Third Regiment of immunes, under
Colonel Ray, arrived this afternoon on the
Minnewaska.
Miss Clara Barton, of the American Red
4, Cross Society, with a large force will leave
the first of next week.
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PublicLib 1899
! bay in possession

- atnTee IlOHtHSp anu
ten thousand American troops near the city
for month past were unable to cause the
surrender of the city, it is not believed that
they will be very formidable against the
forces of General Merritt
Nothing has been heard from General
Merritt as TO the casualties last Saturday
except that he estimated the killed and
wounded at fifty. Another point on which
the officials are without definite information
is as to the extent of our present authority
in the Philippines. Under the peace protocol
the United States was given the occupation
of Manila, with the bay and harbor until a
permanent disposition of the Philippines
question was reached. But. according to
press dispatches. which are so circumstan-
tial as to be credited in most official places,
General Merritt and Admiral Dewey re-
ceived the capitulation of the entire Philip
pines archipelago. There appears to be
some doubt, therefore, even among officials,
as TO whether our present authority and
jurisdiction covers Manila only. as provided
by the peace protocol or covers all the Phil
ippines. provided by the reported terms
of capitulation to Merritt and Dewey. There
is a disposition to await fuller official infor-
nation before laying down policy as to the
extent of our jurisdiction in the islands.
heard nothing official of the surrender of
the entire Philippine group. At the same
time the secretary did not discredit the
curacy of the press advices stating that
the capitulation had this far-reaching effect.
Pending more definite information the atti-
tude of officials is to assume that our all
thority covers Manila city, Manila bay and
harbor and also sucn other territory as
may be occupied by the military and naval
forces. The latter phrase is elastic enough
to cover any or all of the Philippine islands
that may have been brought under our au-
tkority by the recent surrender. The in
structions sent to General Merritt have in
view the expansion of possessions be-
yond the terms mentioned in the protocol,
as they distinctly state that this govern
n ent is in possession of Manila and that its
authority to preserve peace and order will
be exerted within the territory occupied
by their military and naval forces" The
Cabinet meeting tomorrow is expected to
deal with the many detailed questions con-
corning the Philippines Cuba and Porto
Rico which have arisen since the peace
protocol was signed.
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AUGUSTIN HAD NOT ADVOCATED.
He Was in Authority at Manila Up to
Aug. 4.

HONG-KONG, Aug. 1S.-A belated dis
patch from Manila dated Aug. explains
that Governor General Augustin had not
quite abdicated,' and says: The govern
or general only declined to be responsible
for the consequences when he found that
Spain was not sending him help. He re-
tanned his position, but practically washed
his hands of the fighting. A Madrid dis
patch construes this as INSTRUMENTATION. and
the Gazette will publish an order to
supersede him. 1t is rumored that confden-
tial instructions have been given to his sue
cessor to resist to the utmost, hoping to
gain the worlds admiration and possibly as
sistance in securing a favorable termina-
ton.
"A telegram arrived Sunday ordering the
Americans to proceed Immediately to ex-
tremities, whereupon General Merritt and
Admiral Dewey issued an ultmatum, allow
ing forty-eight hours for the removal of
noncombatants, but declaring that they
would begin the bombardment earlier if the
SpaniardS made any attack. The governor
replied Immediately, thanking the Ameri-
can commanders for their humane senti-
ment, but saying they were useless because
he was surrounded with rebels and had no
place of refuge for the great number of
sick and wounded, and women and chill
dren.' The governor thereupon convened
the consuls, begging them to use their in
nuence with the Americans TO get them to
grant him time and facilities for the re-
moval of the refugees and suggesting the
use OF the American troop ships, but he
was unwilling to allow them food from
Manila He seemed Indifferent to the fate
of 10000 natives The British consul made
powerful appeal to the governor to sur
render, clarifying the heroism hitherto
shown by the Spanish, but demonstrating
the kopelessness of further resistance The
other consuls Endorsed his appeal with the
exception OF the German consul. who said
that, as a military officer, he should hesi-
tate to assert that the Spaniards had done
enough yet To-day the consuls will visit
Admiral Dewey to convey the governors
request. but it is probable the reply will be
too late. 1t ought to have been made long
ago.
THE rebels made final effort to cap
ture the city on Tuesday, but failed. The
Americans are preparing to act and 10 avoid
trouble in entering the town. There has
been slight fghing for four days, and II is
reported that twenty Americans were killed
and sixty wounded. This fighting is purely
preliminary.
In consequence of the American uIti-
matum the Governor ordered the artillery
he suspended an officer at Malate for dis
obeying his orders. There is still a little
firing at night.
"A Spanish commercial deputation to-day
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SPANISH NAVAL PRISONERS.
Only Three Released So Far-Cervera
Has Not Asked for Leave

Has Not Asked for Leave.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1S.-Admiral Ger
vera will not return 10 Spain for the pres
emf. and reports from Annapolis stating
that he would leave for Washington to-day
are said at the Navy Department to be Cue
to misapprehension. The admiral has made
no application to leave, and it is the belief
that he will be the last of the Spanish pris-
oners to go home, as he mas shown father
ly regard for all the other offics's unl men,
and appears to be DESTROYS Of seeing them
on their way homeward before he leaves.
The Navy Department has not taken up the
question of the final disposition of the Span
ish prisoners, although it has passed upon
one or two special cases in which the cir
cumstances made speedy action advisable.
One of these was the case of Dr. Jurada,
the venerable Spanish naval surgeon, held
with the other Spanish prisoners at Annap-
Oils The doctors reported that Dr. Jurada
was very feeble, and that while he may be
able to reach Spain if released now, he
would not be able 10 make the trip month
hence. The Navy Department accordingly.
directed his release, and the Spanish chap
lain will be allowed to accompany DR.. Jul
rada to Spain. The case of Captain Moreau
commander of one of the cruisers of Ger
vera's fleet has also received special action
by the department. 1t appears that Captain
Moreau is not only an officer of the navy,
but is member of the Spanish Parliament.
With the prospect that the Parliament
would reassemble at an early day, Captain
Moreau was DESTROYS of returning to Spain
and participating in the sessions. In partic-
ular, he expressed the desire of telling the
Spanish Parliament of the generous treat
ment accorded to him and all other Spanish
prisoners by the United States The officials
here feel that such a statement from Capt.
Moreau will have salutary effect. His re-
lease was accordingly ordered.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 1S.-Capt. Emilio
Diaz Moreau. of the Spanish cruiser Cristo-
bal Colon and Sergt. Antonio Jurada ac-
companied by Spanish Chaplain Riera, left
here this afternoon for New York. They
sail on Saturday for Spain.
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No Court of Inquiry.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s-In reference to
a report that Surgeon General Sternberg
had asked the secretary Of war for a court
of inquiry, he states that on Aug. last
in letter to the secretary of war the sur
geon made a full explanation with refer
ence to the deficiency in medical supplies
at Santiago showing that ample supplies
had been sent with the troops from Tampa,
but owing to difficulties connected with the
landing at Siboney considerable proportion
of the supplies had been left on the trans
ports. In the same letter the surgeon gem
eral requested that if this statement was
not considered satisfactory a court of in
quiry should be appointed to ascertain if
there is any responsibility on his part or
that of the officers to whom the orders for
supplies had been sent. There is no sug-
gestion that court is to be ordered
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1S-Colonel
Riches regiment of immunes, which was
largely raised in Texas, and has been
camped in this city for some time, left here
over the Southern Pacific road for Calves
ton, to which city the command was re-
Gently ordered The command left in poor
spirits, owing to the reports from Wash
ington that it is likely to be disbanded in
stead of being sent to Santiago, which had
some time ago been named as it's destina-
ton. The officers of the command are anx-
ious for a court of inquiry to settle def
nitely the truth of the charges made of the
conduct of the Texans here, and of the poor
discipline they have shown.
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Young. The vent of the day. outside of the
arrival of General Wheeler, was the dis
charge of the Rough Riders and Colonel
Roosevelt from the detention camp. There
was not a suspicion of serious illness
among the men and all were much improved
by their stay in the camp. Colonel Roose-
welt has been allowed the freedom of the
camp since yesterday afternoon, and last
evening he was in the third house for some
time comforting with a number of friends.
who made no secret that their mission was
political.
Colonel Roosevelt said to-day, when asked
what he thought of the political situation
after reading the newspapers, which he had
been doing with apparent great interest re-
piled that his lips were sealed, so far as
politics was concerned, by his uniform.
While he wore the uniform of the United
States army he could not discuss politics
or personal matters for publication Col.
Roosevelt visited the camp of the Rough
Riders. who had remained in Florida, while
he and the others went to Santiago and
was received with demonstrations of de-
light Colonel Roosevelt will leave the
camp on Saturday for a four days visit to
New York.
sergt Alfred N. Judson, of the Rough
TNlutIS, ul6u lO-Qdy Vi typiiOiu. Inc bOhS Vi
j. Knox Green, the Rough Rider who died
and was buried since coming to Montauk,
will be shipped later to Gonzales, Tex,
where his mother resides
The remaining companies of the Seventy
first New York came ashore to-day and
went to the detention camp. Things are now
getting into shape in the camp and there is
more or less endless routine and total alb
sence of the rush and hustle of the first few
days in camp The supplies are arriving rap
idly and in order.
Three more transports arrived at Camp
Wikoff tonight. The first to get in was
the Mobile, having on board parts of the
Second Massachusetts and the Second regu-
lars. The Comanche anchored shortly after
wards and the third anchored well out after
dark. 1t is not certain what she is, but it is
supposed she is the Olivette.
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Cubans May RetaIiate.

CITY OF MEXICO. Aug. lS.-United
States Minister Clayton has notified the
foreign relations department of the conclu-
sion of peace preliminaries with Spain and
Minister Mariscal formally replied. con-
graduating the United States government
that peace is now assured. 1t is predicted
that the Cubans will have many scores to
pay off against Spanish volunteers in Ha-
vana composed of a. low class of Spaniards
engaged in trade there, as these men have
been more brutal in their treatment of the
Cubars than the Spanish soldiers 1t will
require a strong hand on the part of the
American military commander in Havana
to prevent an outbreak Of long depressed
rage of Cuban patriots against these volun-
teerS
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-The naval fleet
In southern waters is rapidly being moved
north. and the naval orders issued to-day
show that no less than eighteen war ships,
mainly of the small auxiliary type were or
dered yesterday from Key West to Fort
Monroe. They are the Hornet Viking, Syl-
via, Apache, Tecumseh, Mckee, Marietta
Castine, Topeka, Stranger, San Francisco
Uncas. Oneida, Bancroft, Fish Hawk, Siren
and Hawk. The Buccaneer, Helena, De-
troit. Osceola and Eagle arrived at Key
West The Iroquois arrived at Mare island
the Ericsson at Charleston, the Minneapo.
lis at League island, the Cincinnati at ST.
Thomas. the Wampatuck, Manning and
4ankton at Key West, the Montgomery at
Caimanera, and the Dolphin at Fort Mon
roe. The Minneapolis sailed from Newport
News for League island.
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YELLOW FEVER AT CAMP wIkoFF.
Seven Cases in the Detention Hospi-
taI-FurIOuGhs for Shnffer,s Men

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-The physicians in
charge of the detention hospital at Camp
Wikoff reported to-day that there had been
no increase in yellow fever cases since yes
terday There are seven cases in the hos
pital. Altogether there are three hundred
men in the different hospitals Additions
are being received every day and they
take the places of men who are discharged.
The average number of patients, the doc
tors say, is about three hundred. Two cases
of scarlet fever have appeared in the hos
pital.
General Young, in accordance with orders
from the secretary of war. gave a thirty
days furlough to-day to every man asking
for leave.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler tonight took COM
nand of the camp. succeeding General
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Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-Western senti-
ment against the surrender of the Philip
pines is having an effect on the administra-
ton. The President still sees difficulties and
objections in the way of our permanent oc-
quent occasion to remark on the develop
ment of popular feeling in favor of holding
the far Eastern territory on which Dewey
and Merritt have filed a claim in the name
of the United States. and he is clearly i'm
pressed with the strength and volume of the
impulse The seizure of Manila by our mill
tary forces before news of the signing Of
the protocol could reach the American COM
mander gives this country a decided dplo-
matte advantage. Under the terms of the
equalization the acting Spanish governor
general surrendered the entire Philippine
group. BY virtue of the protocol the juris-
diction of the United States is confined, for
the time being, to Manila city, bay and har-
Dor. the remainder of the Philippines being
still nominally under Spanish sovereignty.
If the peace commission should fail to
agree on treaty the United States would
ind itself in possession of the whole group,
by virtue of the military surrender, and
put in position where it must defend its
own against the world. Spain is thus virtu-
ally so situated that she must take what
the American commission in it's generosity,
sees fit to give her, or stand out against
the American proposal and get nothing.
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FIGHTING IN SOUTH LuzoN.
Five Hundred Natives Massacred by
the Spanish Troops.

LONDON, Aug. 19.-The Singapore CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says: The ma
tive rebellion in the Philippines has extend
cd to the hemp provinces, in south Luzon.
Heavy fighting occurred at Paglatuan Pillar
and Ponsol, the immediate cause being out
RACES committed by the Spaniards at Pag-
latuan. The Spanish also burned Pillar and
massacred five hundred natives TIE in
surgents are concentrating at Albay with
the object of cutting off the retreat of nu-
merous Spaniards in the Camarinas prov
ince.
A German cruiser has been carrying dis
patches from the captain general of the
Visayas islands to the district between
Cebu and Iligan and the Spanish military
depot at Mindanao. The steamer Rosario
flying the German flag. has also been trans
porting troops thence to Iloilo After the
island of Masbate had been taken by the
insurgents the latter Indignantly refused to
allow the German steamer Clara to enter
any ports under their control
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ALL THE ARCHIPELAGO.
English View of Terms of CapituIa-
tiOn-Jaudenes Found in "A Church.


LONDON, Aug. 19.-The Hong Kong cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: The
terms of the capitulation of Manila, as
agreed upon Saturday. between General
Jaudenes and General Merritt. includes the
cession of the Philippine archipelago to the
United States. An American naval officer,
who arrived from Manila on the Zafiro, tells
me that the Americans practically walked
into Manila. The operations, he says, were
confined to the Malate side of the city,
where the Spaniards had fort and two
lines of trenches. The troops waded through
the Malate river and walked up the beach
as though going to lunch, meeting practi-
cally no opposition. i learn that when Gen.
Merritt went ashore after the capitulation
of Manila he experienced some difficulty in
finding General Jaudenes, who ultimately
was found in a church among a crowd of
women and children"
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NEW ORLEANS, La, Aug. 1S.-The mon
itor Passaic, with the Louisiana Naval Re-
serve, in command of Lieutenant Bostick,
on board, arrived in front of the city this
afternoon and was given rousing recep-
ton by the craft in the river and the thou
sands who gathered on both sides of the
Mississippi. The men on board are reported
to be generally in good health. The Passaic
has been on duty at the jetties and was re-
Gently ordered to New Orleans Yesterday
the monitor was intercepted with orders
to proceed to Pensacola, but the exchanges
here are urging the Washington authori-
ties to order her to remain here permanent
ly for the use of the naval reserve.