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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-28
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF NEWPORT NEWS. AUG. 9Th.
CBy telegraph
ARRIVED.
Steamer Robert Adamson. Galveston.
Barge ID. l. Tenney. Norfolk.
Barge Marnock. Norfolk
SAILED.
Steamer Rappahannock. Liverpool
Steamer NiitOria, 81. Lucia
Steamer Robert Adamson. Rotterdam.
PORT OF WEST POINT. AUG q. iseS
(By telegraph.)
ARRIVED.
Steamer Aceomack, Thompson. Norfoiks
passengers and general caYo.
SAILED.
Steamer Accomack. Thompson Nerfotxi
passengers and general cargo.
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spain,s Treatment of Columbus
nm the Mexico Two Republics.

From the Mexico Two Republics
 Some of the Spanish papers in the con- troversies of the past few weeks have ac- cused Americans of ingratitude toward the land which sent Christopher Columbus on his voyage of discovery. While Spain, or rather Queen Isabella, Is entitled to the credit of that great navgators achieve ment, the former has no special pride in re- calling her treatment of him.
 Columbus himself was not a Spaniard, and it was only after years of weary wait ing that he secured the authority and aid to make the first voyage. After the first excitement of his discovery wore off Colum- bus experienced all the fickleness, ingrati- tude and treachery of the Spanish charac- ter. From one of his voyages he was sent home in irons. After Queen lsabella's death the king Ferdinand, who never was friend- ly to the one man who made his reign fam- ous, treated him with shameful neglect, and Columbus, who had added a new world to the possessions of Spain, died in poverty and disgrace. It was characteristic of his adopted people and of the ingTate king that a pompous. funeral was accorded to the remains of the man, who, while living,
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NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON.
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Captain Sampson's squadron includes the following vessels: Batteships, Iowa and Indiana; armored cfdiser, New York; the monitors Puritan, Terror and Amphitrite the gunboats Nashville, Castine, Machias, Wilmington and Helena; the cruisers De- troit, Cincinnati and Marblehead. and the torpedo boats Cushing, Ericsson, Dupont, Foote, Winslow, Porter and MayhoWer
 The Iowa and Indiana are battleships or the first class.
 The Iowa Is the most powerful fighting ship in the North Atlantic squadron, and is a sister ship of the Oregon, which is on her way to join the squadron by way of Cape Horn. She has 11.S4O tons dsplace- ment and is 360 feet long, with beam of 72 feet Her maximum draught is 24.6, and her horse power Il ,O00. She was built at Philadelphia in 1897. and cost $4,OOo,OOo. She is protected by a belt of steel IA inches thick, and has @ deck plating of S.2h inches Her gun positions are protected by 15 inches of armor plate. The armament of the Iowa consists of four 13-inch guns, eight 8-inch guns, six 4-inch rapid-fire guns. twenty 6-pounders, four 1-pounders and four Maxims.a She has a speed of 16.6 knots, and her bunkers have a capacity for 2,000 tons of coal. Her crew consists of 800 men.
 The Indiana was built at Philadelphia in 1893 at a cost of $3,020,00). She displaces 1O,2SS tons, is 3iS feet long, and has beam of 69.3 feet. Her maximum draught is 25.6 feet and like the Iowa, she Is propelled by twin screws, which give her a speed of sixteen knots. Her engines have 300 horse power Her bunker capacity is 400 Z tons. She is protected by belt IS inches thick, and her guns are behind plates 6.17 inches in thickness. Her decks are pro- t..A1 laAA VIa1t 1tsa f- mament is precisely the same as the Iowa's.- Her crew consists of 425 men.
 The New York is an armored cruiser. She has speed of twenty.one knots, and is armed with six S-inch guns, twelve 4-inch rapid-fire guns, eight 6-pounders, four l. pounders and four Maxims. She is 3s0.6 feet long, and displaces S,2O0 tons. Her crew consists of 4S2 officers and men.
 The Cincinnati is a protected cruiser of 3173 tons displacement. She is 219 feet long, and Is propelled by twin screws Her en- zines have 10000 horse power, and her speed is nineteen knots. Her crew con- sists of 295 men, Her armament consists of one 6-inch gun, ten 5-inch rapid-fire rifles eight 6-pounders and two Maxims. She has one torpedo tube.
 The Detroit and Marblehead are unpro- tected cruisers of 2,0S9 tons disbursement and 5227 and 5,451 horse power, respective ly. They have ten guns each in their main batteries
 The Puritan, Amphitrite and Terror are double e-turreted monitors. They are low in the water and difficult to hit. and have powerful batteries. Their main batterie consist of 10-inch and 12-inch guns, and they are abundantly supplied with rapid fire guns and Maxims.
 The Helena Castine, Nashville and Ma cbias are fast gunboats Each Is propelled bv twin screws and has in it's main bat tery eight guns of various sizes.
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TWO HOSTILE FLEETS COMPHRED
IHE SPANISH FLOTILLA. GgEl

That part of the Spanish fleet which has made it's rendezvous at St. Vincent, in the Cape Verde group of islands, consists of thirteen vessels. Four of these are armored cruisers of the Yizeaya class, three are torpedo boat destroyers, three torpedo boats, and two transport ships.
 The battleship Pelayo completes the list She is Spain's only first-class battleship' She was launched in 1887, but has lately been practically rebuilt. She Is SSO feet in length and has a displacement of $500 tons. Her engines develop S,e0O horse power which propel her at a speed of 16 knots She has an armor belt of TEA inches or steel plate. with a gun protection of 19A inches of steel plate Her deck is protect ed with plates four inches in tmckness' The armament consists of two 12.6-inch rifles, two 11-inch rifles, one 6-inch rins' twelve 4.7-inch rifles, six rapid-ire guns and twelve machine guns. The Pelayo has very small coal-carrying capacity.
 Of the cruisers, the Vizcaya is we'll known for her recent visit to New York- Her displacement is 1000 tons, and her speed 20 knots. A crew of 800 Is on poaro'
 The AImirante Oquindo is an exact dupli- cate of the Vizcaya, while the lnfanta Maria Teresa excels them in speed, her record being 2O25 knots.
 The Christobal Colon is but slightly in- ferior in size, with a displacement of 6,4SO tonus. Her crew numbers 450 men.
 Among three torpedo boat destroyers, the Fulton is the largest, having displace- ment of 400 tons and speed or 5V knots' Seventy men are aboard her. The coal capacity is 100 tons Her two companion vessels, Furor and Terror, show 2S Knots in speed, and have 3SO tons displacement Their crows number sixty-seven men ana each ship can carry 100 tons of coal.
 Azor. Rayo and Ariete are the names Of the three torpedo boats. The Azor's dis placement, is 1Os tons. Her speed is "A knots, and she carries twenty-five tons o1 coal. The crew numbers twenty-three men, The Rayo and Arete, with equal coal ca pacity, have a displacement of ninety seven tons! In speed the Ariete has regis tered 26.1 knots, while the Rayo follows with 255 knots
 The transport ships are the Ciudad de Cadiz, which accompanied the fiotilla wher it left Spain, and the San Francisco, which arrived at St. Vincent with cargo of coal on MondayIlast. ,.
 Scarcity of coal is reported to have caused both delay and serious embarrass- ment to the movements of the feet some of the torpedo boats, it is understood, hao to be supplied with coal from one or the cruisers. , Latest dispatches are to the effect that 2OOO tons of coal, purchased in this coun- try, did not arrive as early as was expect ed cash purchase of 730 tons was made at St. Vincent on Saturday.
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Adios

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Land of garlic and tortillas, Land of xebecs and mantillas, Land of mules and smuggled bitters, Land of raisins and of fritters, Land of Pedro and of Sancho, Land of Wey1er and Blanco, Land of bull fights and pesetas, Land of dusky senoritas, Land of manners stiff and naughty. Land of Isabella naughty, Land of Bobadil and Hamil, Don't you hear your Uncle Sam'l?
 "Gitr
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had been turned out, like an abused and abandoned horse to die in penury and neg feet. The dust of Christopher Columbus now reposes in the, Cathedral of Havana. Should Spain be driven from Cuba 1t is to be hoped that in abandoning the last of her Amerl- can possessions she will leave on the soil of the new world discovered by him the remains of the great. explorer of whose achievements and glory she proved her. self unworthy.
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TInle

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Tourist (to country boy)-What time is it, my lad?
 Boy-About 12 o'clock, sir
 Tourist-I though it was more.
 Boy-It's never any more here, sir. It just begins again at 1.
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Patriotic Preferences

From Puck.
 His Wife-They must be very patriotic in Wall street.
 The Farmer-I suppose so.
 His Wife-Oh, yes, indeed! Here's a re- port with whole lot in it about "Ameri- can Sugar preferred' and American To- bacco preferred"
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l he
 Purifier

at this critical period-one which will purify and build up the system at the time For this pur- pose nothing can compare with Swift's Specific .(S. S. S). A few bottles just now will thoroughly cleanse the blood and renovate and strengthen the system, improve the appetite, and impart new life and vigor to the entire body It is the best system
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natures StOre-house. It IS not drug-shop preparation, and no tinkering drug-clerk can initiate it by mixing a few chemicals from his stock. Remember that there is no substitute for $. s. blood remedy. It is truly the
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the energies relax, and an unspeak-
 able languor pervades the wornout
 body. Every one knows the i'm portance of thoroughly cleansing the blood and purifying the system
 and thus avoiding the deadly ty- phoid fever and other dangerous diseases which crowd the path of summer. But it is equally impor- tant that the right remedy be taken
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Another Chance

From the Detroit Free Press
 "Going to the shore this season, Miss Eldery?''
 'Yes. Now that the coast defenses are to be improved, suppose that there will be some men there'' From the Chicago News.
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cry one at this season of the year. nergy and depressed, listless feel ing which takes possession of the
 system every spring and summer
 is caused by an impure condi- ton of the blood. The accumu-
 lated impurities of a year combat
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Skinned, at That

From the Philadelphia Bulletin Whats that Miss Gump is singing?" "I believe it's a Milking Song'" "Oh! Is it? though it sounded strain ed"
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IN THE SOCIAL WORLD
[continued from Twelfth Page.l

[Continued from Twelfth Page.l 
 tural and Mechanical college, Auburn, Ala, has returned to Auburn, after a visit to his daughter, Mrs. w. Harrison.
 On Wednesday a party of young ladies and gentlemen, chaperoned by Gordon R. Foster, enjoyed a picnic at Porter's Gap.
 The Baptist Young Peoples Union had a delightful social meeting at the home of Major G. A. Joiner, Friday evening.
 Mrs. s. H. Henderson is at home, after a weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. J. M. Hicks, of Montgomery.
 Captain Paul Gilardoh of Birmingham was in the city Thursday.
 Mrs. E. B. Wrenn and mother, Mrs. Green, have gone to Gadsden on week visit.
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builder because it is the best blood remedy-the only one, in fact, which is purely vegetable, and guaranteed to contain not particle of arsenic, mer-
 cury, potash or chemical of any kind. s. S. s. is far ahead of other blood remedies, for it does so much more. It promptly reaches and cures deep- seated, obstinate blood diseases, which other reme-
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SYSTEM
 BUILDER

natures effort to throw them off, a struggle to which the system is unequal, unless properly assisted. Boils and pimples and
 an incessant weariness tell the story. The appetite fails just when good one is needed,
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5. 5. s., and do not be Imposed
 upon by accepting an inferior ar
 ticle without merit or reputation A larger profit to an unscrupu-
 lous dealer will induce him to offer you substitute composed of harm full drugs and chemicals. $. 5. s. is natures remedy, being made from roots and herbs
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Called Suddenly

Called Suddenly From the Chicago News. ..What were your uncles last words?" ''He hadn't time for any; it was fold ing bed"
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Natural Restrictions

Natural Restrictions Jack Spratt could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, For they were at the Klondike, where The people live on snow and air, And meat is never seen.
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dies have no effect whatever upon It mat ters not what other treatment has failed
 s. s. s. cures Catarrh, Eczema, Scrofula
 Rheumatism, Cancer, and Contagious Blood Poison, even in their worst stages Insist on
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roots and herbs 2 a h ere d from
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Kid Gloves we don't want to carry over;
 they must be closed out out by 1st of May. if possible. We will therefore sell ali S1.25 and s1.50 Gloves (and 00A guaranteed for. .......... SVG
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"A Ladies' Tailor-Mad Suits that we are now anxious to close out before the hot weather sets in; are worth GA E0 $S.50 just as quick as.........VseaVV
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
WANT HIM DECLARED DEAD
To Sue the Bondsmen of
Hoboken's Missing
Treasurer.

Former Senator William D. Edwards
made an application to Justice Lippincott
this morning TO have Michael ]. Murphy.
former Water Registrar Of I4oboisa, ju-
dicially declared dead. Murphy disae
peared suddenly from FIoboken eleven
years ago. leaving a shortage Of saaagh-
The application was made by MIR l1d-
wards. who Represented Hoboken, III order
that the city nay be called to sue Mtlr-
phys bondsnaen who are living ard the
estates Of those who are dead for tie
amount OF the deficiency. Martin Stesses
and John Bruning were Murphy bonds
men during lis first term and ThcoDhil.s
Butts and Christie Clarke during 1lS
second term. Butts and Clarke are tolh
dead.
The impression prevails that MURPHY p
also dead. but there is no certainty of IT,.
Corporation Attorney Minturn made an
affidavit that to the best of his knowledge
and belief Murphy died IN 1894, but the
lawyers representing Mr.. Bptt's estate
produced efldavsts to show that he Was
alive two years ago The affidavit set
forth that Murphy was working on
stock farm IN Buenos Ayres TWO ssass.
ago. Justice Lippincott reserved deels-
n
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
SOLAR PLExus BLOW FOR WooLLEy
Joha P. La.aarine Answers shs Fse-
pu5licars Gaha:ts Criticisms.

John P. Landrlne takes his defeat philo-
sophically. He does not appear the least
bit down over It. When seen this morn
Tag ne refused to discuss the causes which
led 70 his defeat.
4 am willing" he said ito abide by
the decision Of the voters of the Ninth
ward. I am satisfied to retire to }rivate
life; in fact it is a great relief to be rid Of
the heavy responsibilities i have had
upon me for number Of years. It viii
be some time before shall take an ac-
tive part in politics again. While l do
not care to discuss my defeat there is one
statement made by Mr.. Wooley that / de-
sire to refute. He declared that we
used Republican campaign money 10 help
elect the Democrats. That is false
1T was his own followers who handled
the campaign funds. His men appointed
all the election officers and challengers.
and SO | told them that we did not e.re
Ito haze anything TO do with paying Tie
workers. It would have been a simple
case of our taking the money 10 pay
them Only in the Seventh precinct did
one Of our men take any money and there
John Mounsey was urged by the N-ooley
crowd to take the $15 necessary to pay
the eleciiSlI officers. He would not have
taken II had there been any other person
10 handle The money. In the other pre-
cInets the money was handled by Woolley
men. Edward Mitchell handled the MON
ey in the First precinct, Joseph McConn
In the Second precinct, A. S. Ferrine in
the Tilrd Alfred Blake in the Fourth,
David Gibson IN the Fifth and William
Ely III the sissth precinct. A. " Rake
tlid not handle one cent of the campaign
fund
.sWoolley declares that | was spcnser
the Boulevard I never stood for Rake.
He is not close to me as Woolley declares.
Even supposing / did stand for him,
wonder who stood for John Weastell
Woolley's right hand man, who has been
retained as Health Inspector?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
ARMY APPOINTMENTS.
All the Commissions Made During
Recess Submitted to the Senate.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9, 1SsS.-The Pres
ident sent to the Senate yesterday all
the army appointments made during the
recess The appointments include the
promotions in the regular army as well
as promotions an appointments in the
volunteer service; also a large number Of
second iieutenants appointed from civil
life.
Some of the men in the Regular Army
have been retired since the regular ap-
pointments were made and many in the
Volunteer servic have been honorably dis
charged. The more important, which have
not been heretofore announced, are:-
TO be Brigadier Generals of Volunteers
Col. Samuel Ovenshine, 2sd U. s. infanrry;
Col Charles MEG, Reeve. 18th Mime.
sofa Volunteers; Col. Irving Hale, First
Colorado Volunteers; Col. Richard
conba, Fifth U. s. Infantry; Col
Edgar r. Kellogg Sixth u S. Infantry;
Lieut.-Colonef E. P. Ewers, Ninth U. ).
Infantry Lieut.-Colonel g. S. Carpenter;
Seventh a. S. Infantry; Lieut. Colonel
John w clous. Deputy Advocate General.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
BIBLE s0ciETY'S ANNIVERSARY
Large Gathering CD tho Second Pres
bxteriau Clsurch.


The forty-sixth anniversary Of the Hud-
son County Bible Society took place last
evening at the Second Presbyterian
Church on Third street. The services We're
opened by the Rev. DR. Cornelius Brett,
and music was furnished by the choir.
The Rev. DR.. Cronin, of the Second Pres
byter;an Church, read the scripture, ard
prayer was delivered by The Rev. DR., Ma
bon.
The report of the Bible Society was
then read by the President, DR. Brett.
1t showed that during the past year Sl97
had been spent for free Bibles among
the churches in the county. About Slss
worth of Bibles were sold at the reposi-
tory. at No. Is Exchange place. The Rev.
Henry A. Buchtel. of East Orange, then
preached His subject was the His
tory of the Bible Societies. He stated that
the Continental Congress during the Re
yoIut.onary War had passed q resolution
for the printing of an edition of thirty
thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures,
and pledged the resources of the Colonies
to carry it out The work was never
done. but a Philadelphia printer having
produced a Bible, his publication was ap-
proved by another resolution. The Brlt-
ish and Foreign Bible Societies have
printed more than 275, 100000 volumes Of
the Holy Scriptures. in whole or in part,
in three hundred and fifty languages and
dialects.
At the close of the address the Rev. Fl.
G. C~onin moved that vote of thanks be
rendered TO DR.. 5Buchtel, and 1t was heart
;ly and unanimously adopted. Prayer was
then offered by the Rev. j. Francis Nor
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
TO TINKER D|NGLEYISM

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Chairman
Dingley of the Ways and Means Commit
tee has received a letter from the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue. Mr.. r.
Scott, recommending a number of amend
ments to the act of June 10, 1898, known
as the war revenue act. The recommen-
dations cover changes of an administra-
tive character under schedules A and B.
also for the monthly payment of excise
taxes on sugar refineries and for a PEN
atty for failing to stamp parlor car tick
cts. Further provisions are suggested as
to the examinations by internal revenue
Office of articles subject to internal reve-
J11ia taxes
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
Mr.. PRIGGE NEEDS LIGHT.
Twelfth Ward I'm o1ove1 es,s Assoeis- :
tion Con lens as Many Things.


The Twelfth Ward Independent Asso-
citation met at spitanagle's Hall, Beule
ward and Lincoln street. last night, with
President George Prigge in the chair.
Mr.. Prigge raaGe short speech IN which
he d.sapproved Of SO many holidays for
school children, alluding especially to the
closing of the schools from the Wednes-
day before Thanksgiving Day for the bal
ance of the week. SO as to allow teachers
to attend the meeting of their associa-
ton Nd Prigge did not think this was
justice to the school children. motion
was passed TO the effect that the atten-
ton of the Board Of Eduea.on be called
to the mater.
Mr.. Gardner called attention TO the fact
that most of the fire hydranss were COW
cred with snow and said that if q fire
should break out in that locality q ca
tastrophe might ensue The attention Of.
the Fire Commissioners Will be called to
the matter The subject of compelling
owners of buildings to clean snow from
the Sidewalks along their properties while
oys ners of vacant lots were not molested,
was discussed briefly. 1t was decided 70
notify the Police Commissioners
On motion Of yfce-P President Prigge it
was decided 10 request the Mayor and
members of the Street and Water and
Finance Boards to appear at a public
meeting TO be held some time III January
and tell the speonle Of that section Just
what they may expect from the city IN
the line OF Improvements.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
THIEVES SOON CAUGHT.
They Rob Grocery Store and Are
Soon Caught.

William Summerfield twenty-five years
old, of No s1S Fifth street; Edward Gil
lespie, twenty-five years old, of No. 1872
Ninth street. were arrested by Sergeant
Harrington and Patrolman ]. W. Murphy
of the Seventh street station early this
morning for robbing the grocery store
of Herman Behrens, No. 49 Coles street
Shortly after twelve O'Clock this morn
ing Mr.. Berhrens reported to the police
that the cellar door of his store had been
forced open and that $3.75, two counter
felt twenty-five cent pieces and guam
tity of cigars had been stolen. Sergeant
Harrington went out in plain clothes to
hunt for the thieves. He came across
the prisoners not far from the police
station. On questioning them he became
suspicious that they were the men he
was after.
With the assistance of Murphy, he arr
rested them. In the First Criminal Court
this morning they pleaded guilty and
were held in $500 bail for the Grand Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
PENSIONS FOR HERoS WIDOWS.
Interesting Story OF Two Officers
KILLED at Sar Juan.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1885 Some in
teresting history is attached to two bills
recently introduced in the House by Mr..
Underwood for General Wheeler The
bills are TO grant pensions to Mrs Mar
garet shipp widow of Lieutenant VIM.
- shipp, who was killed at the battle Of
San Juan Hill. and Of Mrs Louise Smith,
widow Of Lieutenant VIM. Fl. Smith. who
was killed at the same place.
There was a remarkable similarity in
the history Of these two soldiers. They
studied together at West Point, gradu-
ated together and after leaving the Acad <
emy both arose to the rank of lfeutenent.
They met their deaths In the same battle
within fifteen minutes Of each other and
finally these bills to pension their widaWs5
were introduced IN Congress smulran-
eOusiy
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
OLIVE PECK TRAGEDY.


NORFOLK, Va Dec. 8. 1s9S.-The death
warrant was read this forenoon to John
Anderson, condemned to be hanged for
the murder of the mate of the Olive
Peeker. He was calm and said that he
was ready to go.
Il shall die and go into the presence Of
God without blot or blemish Of guilt on
my SOUL he solennly declared. His
spiritual adviser, Rev. Mr.. Shenk, of the
First Lutheran Church and Rev. ]. B.
Merritt, of the Seamen's Bethel, were with
him. Representatives of the Anatomical
Society for Virginia made a proposition
for the body. Marshal Treat answered.:
mo, sir; nothing less than an order
from the Attorney General of the United
States will get IT,
anderson. he said, would be executed
between two and three o'clock this after