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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
REGIMENTS OF IMMUNEs.
Only Four of the Ten Allotted to Col
Ored Volunteers.

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Adjutant Cen
eral Corbin to-day made public an order
apportioning the territory in which are to
be raised the volunteer regiments of infan-
try (popularly called immune regiments),
for which the colonies have been appointed.
1t was at first announced that five of the
persons, but it is now said that this num-
Der has been reduced to four. The territory
apportioned is as follows:
For the Third Regiment, Colonel Ray, the
States of Georgia. South Carolina and
Florida; headquarters at Macon. Ca
For the Fourth Regiment, Colonel Petit,
the States of Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and the District of Columbla head
quarters to be designated hereafter.
For the Fifth Regiment, Colonel Sargent,
the States of Alabama and Mississippi;
headquarters at Columbus. Miss.
For the Sixth Regiment, Colonel Tyson,
the States of Kentucky and Tennessee;
headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn.
For the Seventh Regiment, Colonel God
win, the States of Missouri and Arkansas,
and so much of Tennessee as lies east of
a due north-and-south line running through
the city of Cincinnati, o.; headquarters
Memphis, Tenn.
For the Eighth Regiment, Colonel Hug
gins, the State of Kentucky all of Tennes-
see not otherwise allotted, and the Ohio
valley; headquarters Louisville, Ky.
For the Ninth Regiment, Colonel Crane,
the State of Louisiana; headquarters, New
Orleans, La.
For the Tenth Regiment, Colonel Lee, the
States of Virginia and North Carolina;
headquarters, Raleigh, N. c.
Each mastering officer is also to act as
quartermaSter and cOmmissary for the pur-
pose of subsisting the volunteers from the
time of enrolment to the time of rendez-
vous and for their transportat ton from the
place of enrolment to the place of rendez-
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GOVERNORS WIFE'S TRIAL.
Mrs. Atkinson Temporarily Released
by the Wheeling Court.

WHEELING, w. Va, June I'm the sec
ond trial of Mrs. George w. Atkinson, wife
of Governor Atkinson, on the charge of for
gerry, and jointly indicted with ]. P. Owens.
as accessory, Judge Blizzard to-day sus-
tanned the demurrer of the defense, which
was argued yesterday, and so far as Mrs.
Atkinson is concerned she is temporarily re-
leased. The decision was on a technical
point of law involving the necessity of all
leging the guilty knowledge" in the indict-
ment. The decision does not reach the merit
of the case, and does not preclude another
indictment. The trial of Owens will go on,
and Mrs. Atkinsons attorneys are assisting
in his defense.
1t will be remembered that Mrs. Atkinson
was indicted on a charge that she had
forged the signature of a previous husband.
the late Judge Gideon Camden, to certain
receipts and other papers given to Owens
in some real estate transactions, and that
on her first trial last winter the jury dis
agreed. AT the former trial the defense was
that Mrs Camden had proper authority to
sign her invalid husbands name to business
papers and practically handled all his bus
mess for him The prosecution claimed that
the papers, some of them, were given
after Judge Camden'S DEATH
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Reauest for sna,s7a.a5s.

WASHINGTON, June 2.-The secretary of
war to-day sent to Congress- a request for
appropriations amounting to $59,S79, 1858.
These appropriations will be used for the
equipment and maintenance until Jan. l.
1899, of the $1,000 volunteers recently called
for by the President. The several items are
given as follows: Pay of volunteers, $14 008,
44S; subsistence of the army $5,-.4,177; regu-
lar supplies of the quartermaster's depart
ment, 81, 500 600; horses for cavalry and ar
tillery, 81, O00, 000 barracks and quarters, ST.,
500 coo; army transportation $14, 200 900;
clothing for the army, $13,000000; contin-
engineer corps $4,000; signal service of the
army, $37 600; civilian assistants to engineer
officers $50. Co.,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
OBITUARY..
Samuel PlimsolI, Known in England
as the "SaiIOrH Friend"

LONDON, June S-Mr Samuel Plimsoll.
known as the sailors friend and orig
inator of the famous "Plimsoll mark to
prevent overlooking of ships, is dead.
The late Mr.. Phmsoll was born at Bristol
in 1924. He was educated at Penrith. %here
his parents moved when he was child,
by the curate of the parish and later at
Sheffield at a private school. He began his
business life as clerk in lawyers office,
and afterwards went into brewery as
clerk, where he became manager and re-
manned until 1853. in which year he went
to London and started in business for him
self. He successfully contested Derby in
the Liberal interest in 1868, and sat for that
town till 1880, when he gave up his seat to
Sir William Vernon Harcourt. He entered
Parliament for the express purpose of help
ing the sailors, and he gave up his seat fer
the same reason, thinking that Harcourt,
a Cabinet minister, might be able to ren-
der better service TO the sailors cause than
a private member could. While in Parlia-
ment he was instrumental in securing the
passage of several important acts amending
the shipping laws. He was at one time
president Of the National Amalgamated
Sailors and Firemen's Union of Great
Britain and Ireland.
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THE TRADE IN OLD BOTTLES.
A Firm That Handles Half "A Million q
Day, and n New Orleans Dealer.

Day, and a New Orleans Dealer.
New York Sun.
Almost half a million old bottles are ham
died every day by a single firm in New
York city. Most of them are wine and beer
botties, but there are also hundreds of
bottles used for catsup and other table
sauces. The mineral waters furnish large
proportion of the full number. None of
these bottles is washed or cleaned by the
firm that collects them, but they must not
6e old and or they will not be
country, and good many of them are sent
back to Europe. Those reshipped across
to Ireland, some beer or ale bottles sent to-
England. and wine and liquor bottles sent
to France. OF course these are re-employed-
The dealers here say that the French bottles
are the best made. The English come next
the American next, and then the German
Comparatively few bottles are lost In tran
SIT, either on board cars or in the collecting
wagons. When a wagon is loaded with
cases of "empties" the driver puts a straw
wrapper on each of the corner bottles at the
end of the wagons. 1t doesn't seem as II
this would be a very. great protection, but 1t
does serve as a slight buffer in case of
passing rubs and knocks.
The bottle shops of New York are not es-
pecially picturesque, but in New Orleans
there is one which has become noted. 1t is
visited by most tourists, many of whom
carry away some squat queer-shaped
liquer bottle by way of souvenir.
The Bottle Man of CONT Street owes his
fame to Mrs M. E. M. Davis, one of New
Oreans's literary women Mrs. Davis lives
only block or two from the haunt of the
bottle man, over in the old French part of
the city.
When Eugene Field visited there several
years ago Mrs Davis took him around to
Cont street to see the bottle man and his
treasures. Field and the bottle man were
mutually delighted over the meeting. The
shop is a great high sort of shed, reaching
from the street hack $50 feet into the block.
1t is piled with stack on stack of crates full
of empty wine bottles, while from the CELL
ing hang rows of dusty demijohns and jugs
There are shelves occupied by medley of
quaint cordial bottles, bright green and
blue, pot-bellied, f1at-sized eccentric, freak
ish things Field delighted in these shelves.
and used to poke around in the dust and the
shadows, hunting up new shapes, which he
carried off to add to the miscellaneous lot
of stuff he shipped home from there. But
there was one bottle with which he was
especially delighted. 1t was a brilliant blue
in color, with a very long, thin neck and a
fat body, pressed into a four-sided shape.
In the middle of side was a seal.
stamped in the glass. Every visitor in
Cont street nowadays hears about Fields
visits, and is permitted to gaze upon--or pur-
chase-one of the Field bottles. After his
return to Chicago Mrs Davis wrote the
poem, 1.-THE Bottle Man of Cont Street,
and sent it to him. Field replied in his
usual happy vein, and these autograph
verses are among Mrs. Dayis's treasures
to-day,
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over $4,000 Mustered In.

WASHINGTON, June "A few odds and
ends of the mastering of the first volunteers
called for by the President remain yet to be
caught up, but to all intents and purposes
the work has been completed Adjutant
General Corbin announced tonight a few
over 124, 900 men had been mustered. Iowa
filled her quota to-day, and the last of the
Kentucky troops have been mustered and
have received their orders to move.
Late tonight General Corbin ordered
Troop A, Capt. u. S. G. Perkins, and Troop
B. Capt. jefferson Prater, of Kentucky Cav
airy, to proceed to Chickamauga. Orders
were sent to Col. William G. Smith, of the
First Tennessee, and Col. John c. Lopez, of
the Fifty-first Iowa, to proceed with their
commands as soon as possible to San Fran
cisco. They will be sent to the Philippine
islands
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OUR HAWAIIAN FRIENDS.
The Island Republic Now an Ally of
the United States.

WASHINGTON. June 2.-The naval Of
ficials now calculate that Hawaii has be-
come an ally of the United States govern
ment in the present war with Spain, and
at this moment our government is response
BILE for the protection of the Hawaiians
from the cons equences of their friendship to
us. According to the calculations of the Of
fieials of the Navy Department, the United
States cruiser Charleston arrived at Homo
lulu last Saturday. She has probably COM
pleted the taking aboard of a full coal sup
ply and is now again on her way westward
bound for the Philippines.
The coal was accumulated at Honolulu by
United States Consul Haywood, and in al
lowing the Charleston to take on supply
to carry on operations against Spanish ter
ritory the government of Hawaii has cast
away all sembance of neutrality in the
present contest and has thrown in her for
tunes with the United States, for, unless
we protect her, she is subject to punish
ment at the hands of Spain. Moreover, the
offense against neutrality Dis to be repeated
for 1t is expected that the advance guard of
the transports carrying troops to Manila
are entering Honolulu harbor to replenish
their coal supply.
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Mail Facilities for Soldiers.

WASHINGTON, June 2.-The law pro-
hibting the locating of postoffice stations
or substations outside of city limits having
been suspended, the Postoffice Department
is taking steps to extend the service for the
army. First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath said to-day that station had been
eStanlshed at me dresiaio, Cal. ana three
such stations as far as possible under the
direction of the postmaster in the nearest
city. He will assign clerks to perform the
work. The soldiers will not be called upon
to handle the mail more than is absolutely
necessary. "A new stamp has been made for
the department 20 be used in stamping mail
sent by forces in the field. 1t will print the
following: SOLDIERS letter. Collect postage
from addressee."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
NO TROOPS EMBARKED.
Press Censorship Denial of Reports
Sent Out from WashingtOn


TAMPA, Fla, June 2.-There is but little
change in the general situation here 1t
can be stated positively that no troops have
been embarked at this point, and until def
mite and official news is received from the
fleets of Sampson and Schey it is the gen.
orally expressed opinion among the army
officers that no movement of troops from
here in the direction of Cuba will be or
dered- The powerful fleet of Admiral Ger
vera is still much of a factor. 1t is stated
that there is no intention on the part of the
authorities to assume any more risks than
absolutely necessary in sending a big fleet
of practically unarmed and therefore nearly
helpless transports into Cuban waters. For
this reason until the Spanish f1otilla is dis
posed of, or until a sufficient number OF
United States war ships can be spared to
insure protection for the transports from
Tampa to their destination, no move from
here is expected. When this will be is I'M
certain, but although nothing official can
be learned on this point it is not believed
any large movement will take place in the
immediate future.
With the esta blshment of general army
headquarters at Tampa, and with Major
General Mics on the grounds personally
directing the movements of the army, af
fairs here. almost stagnant for some time,
have again taken on a considerable degree
of activity. General Miles, with several
members Of his staff, to-day made a tour of
unteer camps around Tampa. The main
volunteer camp at Palmetto Beach was Wis
tied late in the afternoon, General Miles re-
viewing brigade drill of the Thirty-second
Michigan and First Florida regiments.
Col. Leonard Woods's volunteer regiment
of cavalry, better known as Roosevelt's
rough riders. $50 men all told, arrived in
Tampa tonight and bivouacked in the city.
Tomorrow the regiment will go into camp
west of the Tampa Bay Hotel, near where
the Third and Sixth Cavalry regiments are
located. BJth Colonel Woods and Colonel
Roosevelt accompanied the regiment, the
former coming in the first section and
the latter on the second. A little over 800
of the men are fully armed and equipped
and ready for service. This regiment has
been officially designated as the First
United States Volunteer Cavalry.
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BATTLE EXPECTED SOON.
SIMPSONS Combined Fleet and the
Insurgents May Attack Santiago.


WASHINGTON, June At was plainly
noticeable at the Navy Department to-day
that the officials were expecting news OF
the first Importance, but that they did not
look for 1t Immediately. The firmness with
which they have insisted that Schley could
have had no general engagement with the
Spanish forces ships and forts. at Santiago,
as was reported appeared to be based on a
full knowledge of the plans under which
the commodore is acting, and the greatest
concession they would make towards admit
ting that fight had taken place there Tues
day was to say that POSSIBLY Schley had de-
tected some earthworks going up and had
RACED them with his shells. They were con-
fident he made no attempt to enter the har-
Dor 1t is believed now. however, with SAM
son in the field and IN command off Santiago
with an augmented force, that interesting
events may be looked for. These are ex-
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MOBILE, Ala, June 2.-Orders and coun-
ter orders flew fast at General Coppinger's
headquarters to-day. The movement Of
troops will in all probability begin to-mor-
row. General Coppinger left this afternoon
for Tampa. 1t is said he will return in
few DAYS. as the formation of his corps
must be perfected here under his personal
direction. The Third, Eleventh and Tween
tieth Infantry regiments are packed ready
to leave. The Nineteenth Infantry and the
Fifth Cavalry were ordered to proceed to
Sa1 Francisco to embark for the Philip
pines, but the order was countermanded to-
day.
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WASHINGTON, June 2.-An evidence Of
the elaborate preparations that are making
for the subsistence of the troops modified
and to be sent to Tampa is obtained from
the fact that the commissary's department
has now on hand at that place 100000 ra-
tions. A ration is one days food supply for
soldier. On this basis there is subsist-
ence at Tampa for an army of $4,000 men
for one hundred days and for a smaller
supply is being increased daily in view of
the arrival of additional soldiers to be en-
ployed in the army of occupation of Cuba
and Porto Rico.
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SCHLEY'S FIGHT.
Concluded from Firat Page.)

the full strength of Cervera's fleet and some
of the seventeen are probably merchant
men. Six American ships lay off Santiago
harbor and ten were circling around. Com
modore Schley moved the blockading fleet
in shore.
On Sunday Admiral Cervera sent out two
torpedo boats, one of them the Pluton. After
exchanging shots with the Brooklyn, Com
modore Schley's flagship. and the battle ship
Texas, they returned safely into the harbor.
The lndefatigable is under orders again TO
proceed to Santiago, but she is waiting for
more surgeons
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
Request of Y. NJ. c. A. workers.

WASHINGTON June Eek Governor
Beaver of Pennsylvania. Col. ]. ]. McCook
and ex-Secretary John w. Foster had
long talk with the President about permit
ting Y. NJ. c. A. workers to establish
headquarters with the army camps when
they are moved to Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines. The tents of the organiza-
ton have been established at state and ma
tional camps up to this time, and much has
been done to furnish entertainment for the
soldier boys. The Y. NJ. c. A. desires to
keep up this work wherever the armies CO.
and seeks the consent of the President to
do so. The President has taken the matter
under adviSement,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
WILL FIGHT THE TAX.
Standard Oil Company May Decline to
Pay War Assessment.

NEW YORK, June 2-Solicitor S. C. T.
Dodd, according to an interview which the
World will print tomorrow morning is
of the opinion that the Standard Oil Com
pany win decline to pay the corporation tax
agreed on by the United States Senate as
the proper amount to be assessed upon the
companies dealing in petroleum. Mr.. Dodd' s
statement is phrased in language strictly
according to the forms of law and he ex-
presses the opinion that the matter will be
fought in the highest courts rather than in
the lower house of Congress-.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
Matrons for volunteer Regiments.

WASHINGTON, June 2.-Senator Faux
ner to-day introduced a bill authorizing the
secretary of war to appoint two matrons to
each regiment of volunteers to serve dur
ing the war with Spain. Their duty is pre-
scribed as follows: ITO mend, darn, wash
the clothing and see to the sanitary con-
me- ids. The bill provides that the matrons
must be between the age of thirty-five and
fifty-five and of good moral character
Senator Faulkner explained that the bill
was introduced at the request of a number
of worthy ladies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
The Alfonso XIII Not Cantured.

MADRID, June 2, Z p. m.-The report that
the Spanish troop ship Alfonso XIII had
been captured by an American auxiliary
cruiser is without foundation 1t is an
nounced officially that the Alfonso XIII is
now landing her cargo of provisions at
Porto Rico. The captain general of Porto
Rico cables that the question of subsistence
has raised no difficulty in the island, as
several vessels have entered the ports with
provisions.
Senior Polo y Bernabe. formerly Spanish
minister to the United States has been APP
pointed under secretary in the Foreign Of
lice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03

ATLANTA, Ga. June AT the meeting
of the Board of Education to-day the fol-
lowing resolutions were introduced by Hoke
Smith, its president:
Resolved, That. in the opinion of this
board, French should be dropped from the
course of study. for the Girls High School
and German substituted therefor:
should be taught in the Boys High School,
the choice between Greek and Spanish to
be left with each pupil"
The resolutions. according to the rule of
the board, go over for one month before
being considered
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
CORNELIUS HERBS CLAIM.
Documents Proving the Prosecuted
Doctors American Cifizenahin

documents Proving the Prosecuted
Doctors American citizenship.
LONDON, June 2.-Documents proving the
American citizenship of DR.. Cornelius Herr,
who was prominently connected with Pan
anna canal matters, are now on their way TO
Washington.
DR.. Herr, although born in France CT
French parents, was educated in New York
and at the age of sixteen years served in
the United States army. He married an
American woman and when his children
were born In Paris he caused them to be
registered as American citizens at the con-
sulate. On Jan. 10. 1893, while he was stop
ping at Bournemouth, Eng, with his wife,
he was arrested under extradition proceed
fngs on a warrant from the French govern
ment charging him with fraud and embez-
element, growing out of the Panama canal
scandal Under the law, prisoner wanted
Tor the extradition must appear at the Bow
street police court. DR.. Herr was confined
TO his bed by illness and so was unable to
appear. The case was kept open and he
was continued under arrest in his bed for
four years. Then the British Parliament
came to his relief and passed a special act
that permitted the magistrate to attend
Here's bedside and take his testimony This
was done and the magistrate promptly de-
clared that the charges were invalid and
scarcely deserving of notice. Herr was
the French government had Instituted
numerous proceedings against him in France
and confiscated all his property and that
of his wife. DIR. Herr alleged that this was
persecution pure and simple and that the
French government knew even before his
trial that the charges against him were
baselesS. Therefore claiming to have been
injured in name and health and in other
ways, he demanded that the State Depart
ment should prefer claim against the
mentioned no sum, the brief showed that he
demanded the sum of 100000 in a letter he
sent TO the President of the French Republic
never answered.
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Other nentI,s.

CLEVELAND, O.. June 2.-John F. Pank-
hurst, vice president and general manager
suddenly to-day of heart disease. Mr. Pank-
hurst was widely known on the great
lakes. He was siKty-eight years old.
LONDON, June Eric BIackay. the au-
thor, is dead. He was born in this city in
1851, and wrote a number of books, the most
prominent of which was Love Letters OF a
VfoliniSt'
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NJ. neschnneI Elected..

PARIS, June 2.-The Chamber of Deputies
to-day. on the second ballot. elected NJ.
Deschanel president of the House. The vote
stood 2S2 for NJ Deschanel and 27S for NJ.
Brisson, the former president, a majority
OF four against a majority of one yester-
day. NJ. Deschanel was the government
candidate and former vice president of
the Chamber OF Deputies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03

DENVER, Col, June 2,-The Chicago
Denver fast train of the Gulf-Union Pacific
Northwestern combination was wrecked by
the spreading OF the rails near Sedgwick,
Col, to-day while 1t was running at high
rate or speed. Fortunately no one was
beyond a severe shaking UP, and none was
seriously hurt. The damage 10 railroad
property was considerable. as all the
except the last sleeper, left the track and
were badly smashed.
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DULUTH, Mimi. June 2-The tug Rec
ord, one OF the Inman feet, and one of the
etanchest on the lakes, was run down and.
sunk IN the ship canal just before mid
night. Three of the tugs crew went down
with their boat. They were: Captain John
BrIcklet. Elmer Cook. of cheboygan. stew
ard. and George Riggs, Cheyboygan, engf-
neer The fireman. AL Davidson. was the
oNiy survivor.