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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
THE PASSING OF THE POPE.

Those who have charge of the bulletins
concerning the health of the Pope seem to
be pursuing the usual policy of concealing
the patients true condition 1t was so in
the cases of Gladstone and Bismarck both
of whom were reported not seriously i'll
up to within day or two before the end.
The physicians and friends of distinguished
invalids should learn to tell the truth if
they tell anything On Saturday dispatch
from Rome said the Popes physician had
succeeded in restoring him to his accus-
that he had held reception of prelates.
robes and representatives of Catholic asso-
Citations, at which he appeared to be in good
spirits, and although it lasted an hour and
half he showed no signs of fatigue" This
is incredible of man in the middle of his
eighty-ninth year, and if it were true it
would argue great lack of discretion on the
part of his physicians to allow him to de-
vote his waning strength to such purely
conventional functions. The Pope has not
been strong for years, and at his advanced
age the welfare of the Catholic Church as
we'll as his own comfort requires that his
strength should be carefully husbanded No
man or woman at the age of lightweight
enjoys a public reception of an hour and a
half duration, nor of any duration whatever.
| If they submit to it from a sense of official
or public duty it is with feeling of repul-
| sion at the requirement and of relief when
| the duty is performed. Pope Leo XIII is
| human. He was a man before he
was Pope, and it is absurd for
| his physicians in attendance to rep
resent him as enjoying asceremony which, if
he really did go through it, must have
taxed his strength and exhausted his vital
| ity to the last degree. The Pore is fast
nearing his end. and he should be permitted
to pass away in peace and not represented
| to the world as a man who is regaining his
! health and who enjoys public ceremonialS.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
REBELS STILL ACTIVE
INSURGENTS WORRYING sPANIARDS
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Message from General Jaudenes That
Caused a Long, Exciting Discuss
sion in Sagasta's Cabinet.

MADRID, Aug. 22.-General Correa, min
lister of war. has received a cable from Gen.
Jaudenes, dated Aug 20, in which he refers
to four dispatches giving details of the
fighting at Manila and the surrender. These
have not been received. 1t is supposed that
the Americans intercepted them General
Jaudenes says he has not received the gov
ing of the protocol and he asserts that the
insurgents continue hoStilties against the
Spaniards.
The Cabinet was in session for three
hours this evening. 1t is reported that ex-
cited discussions took place regarding in
ternational politics and the dispatch from
General Jaudenes. The government is still
without advices from General Rios, the gov
ernor general of the Viscayas islands
Tie opposition, supported by the press and
public opinion are urging the government
to resist the American pretensions in the
many, Russia and France will oppose Amer
ica's annexing any considerable portion of
the archipelago.
An official report from Santiago de Cuba
announces the sailing of the steamers Isla
de Panay and Villa Verde with General
Ordenez and large number of officers and
men,
The Gazette publishes DEGREES conferrlng
Del Case. Duke Almodovar de Rio has
had conferences with M, Patenotre, the
French ambassador to SPAIN and Sir Henry
Drummond Wolf, the British ambassador.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
QUEER OHIO STORY.
Democratic 'BOss" Mclean Said to Be
Booked for Secretary of War.

DAYTON, o., Aug. PA special to the
Cincinnati Times. reprinted in the papers
here tonight, says that John R. Mclean
would not be represented by Chairman Nc
Conville, Lewis G. Bernard or any other of
his former lieutenants who are at
this convention, and the reason for
him not taking part was said to
be due to the report that John r.
Mclean is to succeed Gen. r. A Alger as
secretary of war in McKinleys Cabinet.
This has caused more stir among the dele
gates than anything that has happened for
years at Ohio conventions. Although Nc
Lean was prominently before the last Dem
ocratic convention for the presidential NOM
ination and would have been elected sena-
tor in place of Hanna If the Democrats had
carried the election last November, and his
paper, the Cincinnati Enquirer, was consd-
cred a leading advocate Of Bryan and free
silver, the story about Mclean probably be-
coming the successor of 4Alger was believed
by many delegates. They cited the case of
Hayes in appointing Key, Southern DEM
ocrat as his postmaster general, and later
of Cleveland, making Gresham his secretary
of state, and said that Mckinley had APP
pointed Lee Wheeler and other Democrats
to leading places and that greater surprises
in politics than this had happened. It was
conceded if Mclean should become McKin-
ley's secretary of war and the Cincinnati
Enquirer an administration paper that it
would cause political revolution, as NC
Lean and his paper have been the most po-
tential factor in this State as well as in
Kentucky, Indiana and other States for free
silver. All other usual issues have been over
Swallowed tonight by the discussion of the
reports about the attitude of Mclean and
the Enquirer. While some delegates are
busy denouncing 1T as an ante-convention
sensation and ridiculously absurd, it is GER
tainly commanding more attention than
other matters which are not disputed. The
Brice. Sorg and other elements seem to be
circulating very studiously the Mclean
story. whether they believe it or not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
CRIMES NOT CLASSIFIED.

The misguided youth who attempted to
carve his name at the top of the soldiers
monument is a representative of an aston
ishingly large class of persons whose am
bition it is to place their names in conspicu-
Gus places. regardless of the consequent de-
Placement of public or private property
Custodians of the monument of the State
house and of all public buildings have to
be constantly on the watch for such mis-
creants. and the curious feature of the mat
ter is that the offenders are usually greatly
surprised when interfered with and in
formed that they are amenable to the law.
They have, apparently no conception of the
right of the public to see that public prop
erty is not damaged. The same feeling, in a
different form, is manifested by the numer-
Gus people who deface books in public Ii
braries by scribbling on the margins of the
pages. writing. perhaps, their own inconse-
quential names, or. perhaps. comments on
the text that only irritate and do not edify
the next reader. To write a line in a book
of which one is not the owner proves the
writer to be a person lacking all sense of
propriety; to cut such book-not an I'M
common act-is an inexcusable offense. The
cutting of bound newspaper files is so COM
mon a proceeding. both in libraries and
newspaper offices. that their custodians are
apt to regard all persons, however high
their character for honesty in other re-
spects, with a suspicious eye. and to decline
to trust them alone with the volumes TO
cut newspaper file Is nothing less than a
crime. since the missing column or page
can seldom be replaced. A single newspaper
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
MOVEMENTS OF WAR SHIPS.
six Vessels Ordered from Hampton
Roads to Boston.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Orders were is
sued by the Navy Department to-day which
will prevent the assemblage of any large
fleet at Hampton Roads. The large war
ships will be. sent to New York and Boston
and torpedo boats to Newport, r. 1. The
only ships to remain at Fortress Monroe
are auxiliary cruisers and tugs. These or
ders were issued owing to complaints of
steamboat companies that a large fleet in
the harbor of Hampton Roads would inter-
fere seriously with navigation The Detroit,
Helena, Topeka, Wilmington, Castine and
Marietta were to-day ordered to Boston.
All but the Wilmington are at Hampton
Roads, having just arrived from Key West,
and on the arrival of the Wilmington the
start will be made for Boston. 1t is expect
ed that Boston will be reached the latter
part of the week. affording an opportunity
10 the people of that city to see some OF the
ships that did the fighting on Cuba. The
ships will undergo repairs at the Boston
yards
The naval movements announced to-day
include the arrival of the three monitors,
Amphtrite, Puritan and Terror, at Guam
lea, Porto Rico: A large number OF the
auxiliary craft which have been ordered to
report to Hampton Roads have arrived
there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
NEW YoRK,s COMMERCE.

Under an act of the last Legislature the
Governor of New York has appointed a
commission to investigate and report on the
it's decline and the means of its revival. 2 he
facts fully justify such an investigation, for
they show a large decrease in the foreign
trade of New York, relative ID the entire
trade of the country. In other words. the
commerce of New York is not increasing as
RAPIDLY as that of other ports Thirty-five
Years ago the commerce of New York AS
70 per cent. of the total of the Nation; now
it is barely more than As per cent. In the
thirty years since 1866 the population and
the foreign commerce of the country have
each doubled. but the foreign commerce of
New York has practically stood still since
1850, while that of Boston mas increased by
more than SOS 900 a.year, that of Calves
ton by SAL, 100000 year, and the commerce
of Newport News has grown from nothing
to $2S, 100000 last year. New York lost last
year an amount of commerce equal to that
Of Philadelphia and one-half that of Bos-
amount of commerce and still have 45 per
cent. of.the entire commerce of the country
has a pretty secure status as the CONNER
cial metropolis of the country, and yet
there is reason to fear that the more rapid
increase in the commences of other ports
may affect it's pre-eminence. The indications
are that large proportion of the grain
trade of the Mississippi valley will here
after seek foreign outlet by New Orleans
and Galveston, and it is doubtful if New
York can ever recover that trade. Never
theless, the relative decadence of it's COM
merce is a subject of great Importance, and
deserving of careful Investigation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
STATEMENT BY GARCIA
OPERATIONS OF THE CUBAN ARMY
ABOUT SANTIAGO.
He Retired from the City After the
Surrender Because His Work
There Was Finished.

NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-General Calixto
Garcia has sent his first official statement
concerning the Cuban operations al Santi-
ago to the Cuban Junto in this city. The
messenger bearing General Garcias state
ment arrived to-day and Horatio S. Rubens,
counsel for the Junto, gave out transla-
ticn of the statement.
After telling of his conferences with Ad-
miral Sampson and General Shafter and re-
counting the work of his troops in cooper
ating with the American army in the attack
on Santiago, General Garcia says:
On the 9th of July the armistice con-
evacuate' the city and retire to Holguin
General Shafter replied that he would sub
NIT the proposition to his government. L
pointed out to General Shafter the unwis-
dom of allowing evacuation in that FORM
/ had reliable information from Holgun
that a strong force under General Mario,
to the assistance of Santiago de Cuba. In
view of this l covered all the roads APP
preaching our rear guard to prevent the
vent those who were besieged from making
a sortie to reach Holguin. / reinforced all
that part of my line at points wne ere t tns
l repeated the order that the forces or
Camaguey, which were in the east. and the
two divisions of Holguin, should so place
themselves as to cut Mario of.
'On the 10th l advanced my i1ghC Hank
to completely close the circle ana az II
o'clock the armistice came TO an end.
ordered my forces to execute flank move
ment that the enemy might think IN,
tended to surround their position and
trenches of Dos Caminos and compel them
to give them up. The operation gave good
results The enemy, in great haste, aban,
doned the villages of Dos Caminos and Ell
Cobre, and all the forts and trenches on
this side of Jarago With this evolution the
circle was completed the west of the city
being occupied by the forces of the division
of Cuba as far as the shores of the bay,
including the cemetery.
On the 11tn, General Garcia says, the
Cubans dug trenches and mounted two can
Mons He recites the details of the surren-
der and says that with the surrender or
the city of Santiago and other towns which
will be evacuated shortly, the territory OF
the First Army Corps will be free, and that
of the Second Corps nearly So General
Garcia closes by saying: THE American
government has decided to occupy the city
of Santiago at present with two regiments,
and as General Miles has not given me or
ders to cooperate in any further opera
lions, ] retire with my forces to their re-
spectiye territories. / give the correspond
ing orders that the 1,500 men you have asked
for from Oriente be put at the disposal of
Gen. Juan Ducasse in the manner that he
may desire.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
AN ABSURD CONTENTION.

Dispatches from Madrid indicate that the
| Spanish government is preparing to make
| all sorts of unexpected demands in the COM
| ing peace negotiations Some of these may
have a basis of justice, as many points of
| detail were necessarily left uncovered by
| the protocol, while others which are fore
| Swallowed are absurd on their face. Among
( the latter is the claim that there is dis
| tinction between cession Of territory and
cession of sovereignty. and that buildings
and public works in Cuba remain the prop
erty of Spain until they are paid for by the
Cuban government In other words, the
| Spanish diplomatists propose to insist upon
| a distinction between the abdication of po-
litical sovereignty in Cuba and the abdica-
| ton of public buildings. They will evacuate
the island, but not the railroads and public
works, unless they are paid for them. Com
menting on this claim the London Times
| says: ITO enter upon the negotiations in
this carping spirit will not conduce to a
speedy conclusion of them. In fact, altogeth-
er Spain appears to be raising rather alb
| surd contentious
To refute all such claims as this it is only
which says: Spain will renounce all claim
to all sovereignty over and all her rights
over the Island of Cuba To say that this
| leaves her free to assert sovereignty over
or any sort of claim to the public build
| ngs and works on the island is absurd If
| the protocol had provided that Spain should
| renounce "all sovereignty over the Island of
Cuba and the public buildings and public
works thereon the whole world would
| have laughed at our secretary of state and
| the French ambassador for signing so rides
uously worded a document. Article of the
| protocol provides that Spain will imme-
| diately evacuate Cuba, Porto Rico and the
other islands now under Spanish sovereign
ty in the Antilles" The present contention
that Spain still retains sovereignty over the
public buildings and islands suggests the in
quiry, how does she expect to assert such
sovereignty after having evacuated the ISL
| ands? Her remuneration of sovereignty over
the Island of Cuba is equivalent so far as
she is concerned, to recognizing the indie
! pendence of the insurgents as much as if
they had gained it by war If they had
gained it in that manner all the public build
ings and works on the island would have
become theirs by right Of capture. So now,
the property of whatever government may
be established in Cuba The fixtures go with
the real estate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
LANDED AT CAMP wIKOFF.
Well and III Soldiers from the Santi-
ago Battle Ground.


NEW YORK, Aug 22.-The remainder OF
the troops on the transport Rio Grande
were landed at Camp Wikoff, Montauk
Point. to-day There were 696 men on the
Rio Grande, about thirty of whom are SICK
The City of Macon, having on board 462 of
the Seventeenth Infantry, of whom " were
sick, and the Marterra, with BIZ OF the
Twenty-first Infantry, of whom 20 are sick,
both of which arrived yesterday, are wait
ing to unload. The remainder of the Seven
ty-first Regiment New York Volunteers in
Guiding Colonel Downs and staff, and con-
tingents from several companies of the regi-
ment were released from quarantine to-day.
Colonel Forwood, chief of the land quar-
antine and hospitals, reported to-day that
he had about 600 patients in the general hos
pital and 800 in the annex. He had been in
formed by the surgeon general that he has
about 800 cots not in use at Forts Columbus.
Hamilton and Wadsworth, New. York
harbor, and that convalescents might be
sent there. In consequence, Colonel ror-
wood is going to have the Rio Grande ntted
UP to take sick soldiers to the forts.
There were three deaths yesterday,
George A Alderman, of the Second Massa-
chusetts; an unknown man, VINO dled on
the dock he was being taken OH trans
port, and Frederick Farman, or the second
ssachusetts.
DR.. Nunez, the yellow-fever expert, has
relieved the anxiety of soldiers ana reia-
tives of soldiers by the statement that at
no time has there been case Oh yellow
fever in the camp.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
WORK OF THE RED CROSS.
Miss Barton Will Go to lFavana--Sup-
plies Landed in Porto Rico.

NEW YORK, Aug. PA cabegram re-
ceived by Stephen K. Barton yesterday an
nounced that Miss Barton would leave San
tiago for Havana on Sunday and upon her
arrival there would notify the committee of
the exact needs of the western provinces.
She regards the present information COM
ing from that part of the island as being
unreliable.
A cabiegram from Mr.. Barnes, the Red
Cross agent who sailed for Porto Rico on
the Concho the 18th of the month, an
nounces his arrival and the landing of the
Red Cross supplies. The supplies were val
ued at $4,000. He wires that there is need
of light food, groceries and delicacies for
FIVE thousand men for four months. This
will be about one hundred tons, and the
need for the food. Mr. Barnes says, is urg-
ent. Arrangements will be made by the
Red Cross Society to send the supplies on
the first available transport.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
ACCIDENT In A TUNNEL.
Seven Men Killed by Fall of Rock
at Carnegie, Pa.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. pa terrible ac-
cident by which seven men lost their lives,
occurred early this morning in the tunnel
of the CHARTERS division of the Panhandle
Railroad, at Carnegie. The work of tearing
out the tunnel has been pushed night and
day by force of two hundred men. Much
blasting has been done and although it is
said every precaution had been taken to
prevent casualties. from the reports re-
ceived at the hour of writing this it seems
that, by using too large a quantity of ex-
plosives. an unexpected amount of earth
and rock was loosened. which caved in on
the workmen. The first report was that ff-
teen of the men had met death, but it was
later learned that but seven of those en-
quilted by the fall of a mass of rock and
earth received fatal injuries. Further par
ticulars not obtainable at this hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23

The great fear in army medical circles has
been that yellow fever would break out in
the Southern camps and among the soldiers
in Cuba but yellow fever would hardly have
caused more deaths than have occurred
from typhoid. The chances were few that
yellow fever would trouble the troops, but
conditions in most of the camps have been
such that typhoid was invited and its COM
ing inevitable. If we ever have another
war-which the Lord forbid.-the lesson
taught by this one should be put in practice,
end pure water and good sanitary arrange
ments be provided before the troops are as
senlbled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23

An incident which has just occurred
shows how false and exaggerated reports
regarding the treatment and sufferings of
our soldiers are disseminated. On the 18th
inst the steamship Mobile arrived at Mon
tauk Point with soldiers from Santiago. i'm
Guiding several hundred sick men. The next
day a New York paper contained dispatch
from Montauk Point headlined as follows:
Horror Ships Reach Montauk Point; Mo-
bile Packed with Sick and Wounded Sol
diers. is Like a SHAMELESS; Many Left in
Ocean Graves" The body of the dispatch
was on this line. Another New York paper
hsadlined the same news: .Shipload of Sick
Men; Sixteen Hundred Soldiers Packed on
the Transport Mobile Suffered Terribly:
Ten Died on Voyage Home" The refuta-
lion Of these falsehoods came very quickly.
The Journal OF yesterday contained dis
patch from General Shafter. in which he
said that the captain of the Mobile assured
him that. with crowding. she could carry
three thousand men, and two thousand
comfortably. General Shafter put on board
"a few less than 100 He says the vessel
was carefully inspected by board OF offi-
GERS and doctors and pronounced not over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23

Grand total of appropriations $685., 81 .615
OF - amount 1851, S59, 20 are to meet
expenses on account of the war with Spain.
In addition to the specific appropriations
made contracts are authorized TO be entered
into for the construction of new battle ships
and other naval vessels, five new dry docks
and various other public works requiring
future appropriations by Congress to the
amount of $24,173,656. The total number of
new officers and employees specifically au-
thorized amount to 30l 1888 at a cost of
$40, .9l1, of which number 274909, at a cost
of SAB, $40, $50. are for the military establish
ment, and 1886. at a cost of 1854 ,109. for
the naval establishment on account of the
war. Adding other war increases of clerical
force, several of the executive departments
and deducting the offices and employments
abolished, 269 in number at an annual cost
of $28S. $50. the net result shows sub
Stantial change in the number of offices and
employmentS provided for the fiscal year
1898. The number of salaries and compen-
sations increased is 206, of which 179 are tor
the military establishment and II for the
diplomatic and consular service. The num-
Der reduced is five.
A comparison of the total appropriations
for 1899, excluding the war appropriations
for 1898, shows an increase Tor 1899 of
81 .636 Cos.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-23
Engineer Menocal retired.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-The Navy De-
partment announces the retirement of Civil
Engineer A. G.. Menocal to date from Sept.
under the age provision of the law.
Engineer Menocal has been prominently
identified with the development of the Mica
ragua canal project At present he is I'M
der suspension from duty as a result of a
court-martial investigation OF his connec-
ton with the defective construction OF the
New York dry dock. The retirement be-
came operative, it is understood, without
reference to the suspension.