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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
JUNTA REMEMBERED HIM.
Cuban Testimonial to Family of First
American Sailor Killed.

| Fremont, O., Aug. 29-John Meek OF
this county, father of George B. Meek,
who was killed on the torpedo boat
| WinsloW at Cardenas, May IL, has re-
| ceived a letter and a check for S100
| The letter goes to show that young
Meek was the first American born
sailor killed in the Cuban war The
letter received by Mr.. Meek reads as
follows:
Washington, Aug. "a.
John Meek, Esq.
Dear SIr-Some months ago a Cuban
gentleman who signs himself Cam
bresis from the City of Mexico, sent
General Tomas Estrada Palma of New
York and order for 800 to be given to
the wife, children or parents of the
first Americana born sailor who should
die in the war to free Cuba. / have
just now been informed that your son,
George E. Meek, fireman of the first
class, on board the torpedo boat Wins
low, was the first hero to shed his
blood for the independence of our I'M
fortunate and dOwntrodden people. [
beg to enclose to you the check en-
trusted to my care, being a proof of
the gratitude of the Cubans for their
friends and allies, the Americans.
same in duplicate. Yours very re-
spectfully, to
"GONZALO DE QUESADA,
Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of
Cuba"
The check is dated May II and is
drawn on the Bank of America, to the
order of Tomas Estrada Palma, and is
signed Maitland. Coppell e Co. On the
reverse side it is endorsed. Pay to the
order of Gonzaio de Quesada. Tomas
Estrada Palma
Meek has not as yet had the check
cashed and has already been offered
much more than its face value by
parties who want it as a souvenir of
the war.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
DEATH IN THE BATH.
Prominent Railroad Man Terribly
Mutilated In a Vapor Apparatus.

Chicago, Aug. 29-H T. Higgins,
cashier for the Treasures Office of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
road, is dead from burns received by
the explosion of vapor bathing ap-
paratus, by which AIR. Higgins was
endeavoring to secure relief from hay
FEVER The. vapor bath had been pur-
chased III the hope it would drive away
the disease. In some unaccountable
manner the machine exploded while
Mr. Higgins was in it. The shock was
terrific, covering Mr.. Higgins with
scalding steam and. leaving scarcely a
portion of his body unframed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30

arms to the company of natives who
fired upon the Americans, presumably
inadvertently. The natives assert that
Aguinaldo forced General Merritt to
liberate them and return their weap
ons.
The Americans condemn General
Merritts conduct
The same correspondent cables that
the Americans are only partly pa
trolling the town.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
SOLDIERS BURROUGHS.
Manner of Service Meriting Leave of
Absence

Washington, Aug. 29.-At 11:3O
o'clock tonight the appended general
orders relating to the mastering out
of the volunteers and the granting Of
tUrloughs were promulgated by Adju-
tant General Corbin: To those officers
and men who have served beyond the
limits OF the United States. leaves of
absence and furlouShs for 90 days will
be granted. respectively, while to those
who have not served out of the coun-
try, the leaves of absence and fur
loughs will be limited to so days
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30

were. There We're Is cars in all. The
train started from Chickamauga Sum
day noon.
Grocery and restaurant men, assist
ed by many citizens, had sandwiches.
coffee, milk, lemonade and fruits ready
when the train arrived and kindly wo-
mems hands carried the food TO the
sick men.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Dread Spanish Supremacy.

London, Aug 30.-The Manila CORE
spondent of the Times says: The lead
ing commercial men here have signed
a memorial to Lord Salisbury, urging
him to use his influence to prevent the
Spaniards from regaining supremacy
in the Philippines.
The conduct of the American troops
is admirable. The town, since their oc-
cupation, has been wonderfully free
from disturbance. General Greene has
been ordered to return to Washington.
He will sail with General Merritt.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
DISTRESS IN RUSSIA.
Failure of Crops Brings Poverty to
the Homes Of the Gentry.

ST Petersburg, Aug. Glowing to the
failure OF the harvests in seven dis
tricts Of the government of Kazan and
in the provinces of Samaria, Saratoff.
Sibirik. Wake and Perma, where the
crops are almost worthless, even the
landed gentry are beginning to ask the
government for relief; the government
is adopting measures to relieve the Suf-
ferers The distress, however, is be-
coming more acute every day. The
peasants are denuding the cottages of
matches in order to feed their stock.
In spite of all that can be done. cattle
and horses are dying in great numbers.
The government is slow in getting the
relief measures into effect and the only
relief thus far has been the granting
of permission to the peasants to get
their fag2ots in the woods for fuel.
to collect dried leaves for fodder. The
peasants are exhausted from lack of
food. and unless the promised supplies
are speedily sent the suffering viii be
terrible.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
GEoRGIA's GENEROUS OFFER.
Atlanta Exposition Buildings Placed
at Our Disposal

Washington, Aug. 2e-Hon Hoke
Smith. ex-secretary of the interior,
Representatives Livingstone and Bart
lett We're at the war department today
ana offered the Atlanta exposition
buildings and grounds for quarters for
the troops. Mr.. Smith said the build
ings were in good repair, and that there
was plenty OF water and a lake of 20
acres. and that the buildings would
accommodate from 10000 to 5000 sol
dicrs. The buildings and grounds We're
offered free to the government if
they would be available. General Cor
bin at once directed that an investi-
cation of the place be made. to see If it
could be made available for the gov
eminent. Representative Bartlett said
That land at Macon and Brunswick had
been placed at the disposal of the gov
srnment for a camp, if it was de-
sired
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
YELLOW JACK SUSPECTED.
Two Deaths at Camp Wikoff That
Trouble the Doctors

New York, Aug. 29.-Fffteen soldiers
died at Camp Wikoff and in this city
today. There We're two deaths among
the men suspected of having yellow
fever and detained in the quarantine
department
The medical department has not an
nounced that they died of yellow fever.
because Of the dispute between the doc
tors as TO what the men in the hos
pital are suffering from Some of the
doctors assert that it is true yellow
jack, while others, including the ex-
perts, claim there is not yellow fever
case in the camp, and that the men are
suffering from malarial fever in its
worst form.
1hfee transports We're sighted to-
night. One is thought to be the Mex
leo, with General Shafter ON hoard
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
ONLY TWO KILLED.
Last Report of Casualties On the
Wrecked Soldiers Trail,

Birmingham. Ala. Aug. 29.-The total
death list from last nights accident on
the Louisville & Nashville railroad in
which a train bearing six companies of
the Sixteenth New York regiment was
wrecked, remains two-PriVate Potter
Farley and Quartermaster Sergeant
Frank Glennan. both of company NJ.
Sergeant J. j. Manning, of company
i, is suffering from a compound frac-
ture OF the spine, and is expected TO
die. None Of the others are thought
20 lie seriously hurt, although about rs
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Steamship Movements.

New York-Arrived-T from
Liverpool; ETHIOPIA, Glasgow
Marseilles- Sailed-AIesia. New York.
Arrived: Karamina, New York
Bremen-Arrlved - Bremen, New
York.
Rotterdam Sailed-Amsterdam. New
York
Hamburg Sailed - Pennsylvania,
New Yorl-
Southampton - Sailed - Koenigen
Louise. New York.
Hamburg Arrived Sardia, BaIti-
more
Qeenstown = Arrived = Rhynland.
New York
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Dewey Abundantly Supplied.

Washington, Aug. 29.-Admiral Dew
ey has informed the navy department
that he has an abundance of supplies
for the present needs of his squadron.
In a dispatch to the department today
he announces the arrival of an Aus
tralian refrigerator ship with fresh
meats and other provisions.
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partment will be distributed among the
poor General Wood said today:
1t seems impossible, that much des-
ttution could exist after the work of
the Red Cross society, the government
officers and Inspectors, but | find ex-.
IRENE distress in the lower quarters of.
the city, and am giving orders to have
all classes relieved upon a medical GER
tificate of necessity. Large quantities
of food are being distributed.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
BROUGHT on THE MAY.
lieutenant Warkhiser of Sixteenth
Among the Arrivals.


Among the Arrivals.
Newport News. Va, Aug. 2s.-The
yacht May, which went to Porto Rico
not long ago with supplies for the ma
tional relief commission, arrived in
Hampton Roads yesterday, and came
here this morning for coal The May
has on board Lieutenant Pancoast. Cor
PCTal Boyle and Privates Addison Kel-
ley, Overfield, Wilson Potter, Joseph
Knight and Dan Chester of battery A,
Pennsylvania artillery; Lieutenant
Markhiser. Sixteenth infantry; Colonel
Biddle and Lieutenant FuIlinSton, of
General Wilson's staff, and Privates
Clark and Childs of troop A, New York
cavalry.
Lieutenant Warkhiser and Privates
Chester. Clark and Childs have malar-
iai fever in a mild form
The other men are on a furIough, and
are well.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
THE PEACE CONFESSION.
Change In the American Personnel
Is Possible

Washington. Aug. 29.-There is still
possibility of a change in the per-
sonnet of the American membership of
the peace commission. Up to this mo-
ment it is, not yet definitely and abSo-
lutely known whether Supreme Court
Justice White will accept the commits
sion.
Mr. Macarthur, the assistant secre-
tary of the American commission, is
now in New York making arrange
ments for the sailing of the commits
sion on the 18th of September, so that
very little time intervenes to make a
change in the body in the event JUS
tice White declines the place. 1t is
suggested that Senator Lodge of Mass
achusetts is being considered to fill the
vacancy that would so exist.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
BANK LO0TER CONFESSED.
Statement wrung From Him On
Threats of Lynching.


Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. ga Pres
ton (Minn) special says: NJ. r Todd.
the cashier who wrecked the Fillmore
County bank, has confessed the theft
of all the banks deposit funds, to NJ.
T. Grattan, one of his bondsmen. Graf
tan told Todd that lynching was i'm
minent unless he made a full state
ment. Overcome by fear, he confessed
that just prior to the banks assign
ment he had taken all the money on
deposit and delivered it. to former
partner, who is now in La Crosse, Wis.
The La Crosse authorities have been
asked to arrest him, and further devel-
opments are expected. 1t develops
Todd is a forger. a spurious note hav
ing turned up in the banks papers.
Todd seems to have completely looted
the bank and his mother iA-iaw's large
estate. The feeling against him is very
bitter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Welsh Strike Ended

London, Aug. 29.-4At a joint mass
meeting of the Welsh miners today it
was decided to accept the EMPLOYERS
terms offered at the Cardiff conference
on Saturday, by which the miners get
an increase of 5 per cent in wages.
This ends the disastrous six months
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Alaskan Crew Saved.

Seattle, Wash. Aug. 29.-The steamer
South Portland brings news from St.
Mlchaeis, Alaska, that the crew of the
wrecked steamer Stickeen Chief are
safe The tug Fastnet, which had the
stlf,keen Chief in tow, arrived at ST.
Mlchaels Aug. IA. with the survivors.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Sick Soldiers Arrived.

Boston. Aug, 29-The United States
hospital ship Solace, having on board
"A sick soldiers and marines, has ar
rived from Santiago de Cuba.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
HAYS ADIEU TO VICTORIA.
Ex-Ambassador HES to Osborne to
Bid the Queen Farewell.


London, Aug. 29.-ColoneI john Hay.
the retiring United States ambassador
to the court of st. James, who has ac-
cepted the portfolio of secretary Of
state at Washington. in succession to
William r. Day. who has been appoint
ed one of the United States peace com
missioners, went to Osborne, Isle of
Wight, this afternoon. in order to dine
and sleep there and bid farewell to
Queen Victoria, who starts for Scotland
on Wednesday.
Colonel Hays letter of recall has NOT
yet arrived here. and probably viii be
presented by his successor.
Mrs. Hay was also invited to Osborne,
but was unable to go. owing to the
fact that she was absent, on the CONT
nent
The royal yacht will meet Colonel
Hay at Portsmouth, and will convey
him to Cowes.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
Convalescents to- Sail

Washington, Aug. 29-Surgeon Gener-
Al Sternburg has received a dispatch
from Santiago saying that 400 non-in-
fected conValescents, slightly i'll, Will
sail on the Roumania today, leaving
about 800 of the Sixth corps in San
tiagO
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
why These Miners Struck.

Hazelton. Pa. Aug. 29-One thousand
coal miners. employed at Beaver Mead
ow by the A S. Van Wrinkle trust,
went on strike today, TO enforce the
reinstatement OF a Hungarian miner
discharged after he had refused to pay
the company physician.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
TIME NOT SET.
War Department In No Hurry To
Muster Out Our Boys.

San Francisco, Aug. 29.-No orders
for the mastering out of troops at
Camp Merriam have been received by
General Miller, nor any intimatiOn of
an intention of the war department
to do so in the near future. The heavy
artillery will probably be retained in
the service. 1t is the prevailing Opin-
ion at headquarters that no action viii
be taken for a week or two.
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orivates are at the hospital, and are
suffering from bruises, shocks and
other minor injuries
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Three Millions On the Brinv.

Sydney Aug. 29.-The American
steamer Alameda, Captain Won Often
dorp, sailed today for San Francisco,
-~.-s--~- - r~n~ss 90 nnFn00 IN gold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
MERRITT IS CHOSEN
Selected as the Adviser of the Paris
Peace Commission.
BUT DEWEY WILL REMAIN
CAN SERVE HIS COUNTRY BEST
AT MANILA.

General Otis Will Act as Military
Governor of Philippines In Mer-
ritt's Absence-Desire of Filipinos
to Be Represented at the Peace
Commission.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-02

me-" said Mrs. Grein, according to this
letter. after viewing the picture of the so
called De Rougemont, is that of my hus-
band, Henri Grein. / have also heard
from him in England through relatives
there iit
Mrs Grein then entered into particulars
of her husbands assumption of the pen
name of De Rougemont. Cecil De
| Rougemont" she explained was an old
chum of my husband. Some years ago
the two men were engaged in business
among the Islands of the Pac1fc. Cecil
suddenly passed out Of Henrfs life, and
I am unable to say whether the man died
or is still alive and living in America,
as ! have sometimes suspected"
''AIy husband afterwafd adopted his
chum's name The stories told by my
husband are not altogether new 10 me.
When first met him in Sydney he was a
pearl fisher, and he used to tell some queer
tales of his early life among the Blacks
About one year after meeting him We
were married, at Newtown. This was in
1888
Henri used to relate stories of North
ern Australia, and tell OF his adventures
there His NARRATIVES were fully as re-
markable as those told by him to the peo-
pie of London. He was well posted on the
peculiarities of the natives, and he pro-
fessed to speak a number Of bush dia-
Iects His body was SCARED in places,
and these wounds were made, he claimed,
by spears and knives of bushmen into
whose hands he had fallen and was held
captive for six months, narrowly escap-
ing death at their hands. Last May my
husband left home, presumably for New
Zealand. / have not seen him since.
Ten years, it has been learned. Grein
was engaged In mining in Australia. He
used to visit the assay offices at Sydney
and Auckland. and relate stories Of his
adventures in search OF mountains OF gold
in a country so infested with fierce saw
ages that few white men had visited 1t.
He formed several corporations for de-
veloping mines and it Is said that he sue
ceeded in interesting great many people
Of Queensland and other cities, disappear
ing mysteriously about the time the mines
were found to be of little value.
II seems that De Rougemont, or Grein,
Is by no means commonplace man. but
one whose talent, II directed into legiti-
mate channels, would have brought him
into prominence in the scientific world.
He was an inventor OF merit. and well
versed in historical and scientific lore.
Mrs. Grein is the daughter of Queens
land property owner, and is connected
with some of the best families Of Aus
tralia.
There is in this sydney chapter Of the
De Rougemout romance sort OF ground
work of the stories printed in a London
magazine which discovered" the new
Crusoe. and which resulted in his being
taken UP by Sir George Newnes, who was
soon credited with taking the lead in fit
ting out an expedition at a cost Of $780,
600 to recover priceless treasures aban-
doned by the adventurer when ne left
desert island for one inhabited by canni-
balls.
This treasure, according TO De Rouge
mont, consisted Of three black pearls and
other gems which, II carried 60 London.
would be worth millions. And he told in
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detaH now he came to possess them and
10 leaVe them buried in an island AWAY
10 the northwestward OF Australia.
ne marked back to the days when he
saileu WIN capt. Peter Jensen In the good
anP VeieIland to fish for pearls In strange
waters. They were vastly successful. and
were rich men one day, when a monsoon
seized the vessel, carried her hundreds Of
hlles from her course, and left her a.
wreck awash Ia an unknown sea.
Capt.. Jensen and the other pearl fishers
were drowned, and there remained onIv
ne Ro1gemont, his dog and the priceless
gems. For days a current sWent along
the piece Of wreckage to which the shin
wrecked pearl fisher chung, until at LAST
ne was hung upon a surf-beaten island
There, mindful of Defoes hero he buiIt
MIN a hut Of debris and lived alone with
ms useless treasure. Years passed-one
IKE another. He could not number tbor,
accurately, but knew that he was growing
old. The pearls were undimmed nv limo
put the marooned adventurer grew vastly
weary OF unsalted fish and tough sea fowl
And then the waves brought to his island
a raft on which lay a man and woman
and two boys, all naked He padded out
through the surf and brought them In
after great exertons to nurse them back
to life. They were sayages, but Yamba
the woman, was fair to see and she helped
her rescurer to learn their language.
Yamba told him they had Ventured to
sea on their raft and had been blown far
from the island where their own people
lived. De Rougemont went 10 sea with
them, and for ten days padded and sailed
in the direction of their lost island.
A horde of naked cannibals welcomed
the returned wanderers and treated the
white man as a supernatural being. They
gave him hut and led before him beau
tiful girl. They placed a big club in mis-
hands He explained that he had scruples
about killing her, and many more about
helping 10 eat her. Yamba explained that
he was expected simply to tap her gently
on the forehead and that the girl would
then be his wife.
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D,RoUGEMONT OR GREINs
Letter From Woman Who Says
She Is De ROUgemOnt's Wife.

From the New York Herald
San Francisco, Cal, Oct S0.-Is De
Rougemont, who recently amused all Eng
land and half the world besides with
stories which out-Crusoed Crusoe, an i'm
poster or man whose adventures among
strange men in strange seas Guido all fc-
ton.
There is more news of him nova let
ter received from Australia, written by
a woman purporting to be his mystified
wife. From this ii appears that, as was
recently asserted in London, he is not
Louis de Rougemont at all, but Henri
Louis Grein.
Mrs. Grein's letter supplies a missing
chapter in the expose of the De Rouge
mont exploited in London, but while it
changes the name it reaffirms to some ex-
tent the weird adventures described by
the wanderer and proves that he was a
strange creature and mystery even In
her eyes.
The letter from Sydney appears TO dis
pose of the story that Grein, or De Rouge
mont, turned up in 1895, after thirty years
absence from the civilized world, but it
does not do away with his wonderful tales
of strange mishaps by sea and land. hid
den treasure, priceless pearls. cannibals
and yoyaging such as Stevenson wrote
about
The letter which arrived from Sydney,
N S. w. yesterday contained an inter-
view with Mrs. Grein and such details
as she could give of her husbands early
life. What she said was inspired by her
inspection of a photograph of the modern
Crusoe-or Munchausen.
"The portrait which you have shown
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DYSPEPSIA

Geo. 5. Scaiy of rs Nassau street, New
ork, says; For years have been troub-
led with rheumatism and dyspepsia, and
l came to the conclusion to try your pills.
ailineolalely found great relief from their
use; L feel like new man since | com
menced taking them, and would not now
ne without them. The drowsy. sleepy
feeling l used TO have has entirely disap-
peared The dyspepsia has left me and my
rheumatism is gone entirely. 1 am salts
ned if any one so afflicted viii give Rad
ways Pills a trial they win surely cure
them, for believe it an comes from the
system being out Of order-the liver not
doing its NNnrl
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nothing that we can say is likely to have
much effect on their folly. People who
consult palmists and fortune tellers are
likely enough TO take up any new craze.
AS a matter Of fact, the custom of scenting
the breath and the body by the use of
drugs Injected under the skin Is by no
means new, and there are many estab-
Fshments In Paris and elsewhere which
exists solely for this purpose. The mass
age shops would have adopted the idea
long ago, but their customers are exclus-
lively men, and mans folly does not run
IT. this particular direction. We have seen
neat little outfit consisting Of a hypo-
dermc syringe and a number OF cannuiae
obtained from one Of the Paris houses
and we have been made acquainted with
the formula Of che solutions EMPLOYED buf
IL would serve no useful purpose TO make
them public. We can only express a hone
that the apparatus is aseptic, or at an
events that II is occasionally washed FOR
if this precaulon is neglected there Is like
ly to be a pretty general dissemination Of
disease, and some Of the ladies' who now
find time hang heavily on their hands viii
be less pleasantly occupied than they had
anticipated.