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The times., 1899-04-07
FRIDAY. APRIL I, 1888.
Why Typhoid Ragged.

Inc quick ueNeiOpfUcIl ana SpItdu OI
typhoid fever in the camps during the
Spanish war puzzled the medical profess
sion. The various medical commissions
reached the conclusion that the pollution
OF the water supply in some instances and
the failure to disinfect the refuse in the
shallow trenches whence infection was
carried by the flies. were largely respon-
sible for the rapid progress. Still. it was
recalled that the soldiers were robust
young men who should have been able TO
throw OF the poison.
Perhaps we have an explanation in the
testimony of witnesses before the Court
af Enquiry Dr. Currie the lieutenant
colonel Of the Second New Jersey. said that
he was in charge of one hundred and
sixty-eight men at the rifle range at Jack
sonyilie They ate refrigerated beef and
the next morning only twenty-four were
able 10 report for duty. He found salicylic
and boric acids in the meat.
Lieut. Col. L. NJ. Maus. chief
surgeon of the Seventh Army Corps, said
thar one entire company Of the Second mi
nois was made sick by eating refrigerated
beef Many of the men were made vio-
Iently sick, the gastro-intestinal organs
being affected. 1t was noticed that an
unusual proportion of these men went
down with typhoid fever"
There is a great deal more evidence Of
The same kind. OF two persons exposed
10 the same infection, one may be struck
down and the other escape. II depends
very much on the general state of the
health whether a person becomes vic
tim If he is robust and well nourished.
he is likely to resist the specific poison.
1t is beyond doubt that person who has
not been properly fed or who has
aeen affected by such acids as are used to
preserve refrigerated beef. will be in
the greatest danger of typhoid fever if
subjected 10 contagion.
The American soldiers who depended
chiefly on refrigerated and canned roast
beef we're not well nourished. All the men
lost enormously in weight and in strength
The mere climatic Influence could not fully
account for this. Having become debii-
tsted through lack of nourishing food they
easily succumbed TO the infection OF ty-
II old fever 1t was sad day for the
American soldier, for the country, and for
the Government. when il was decided 10
Iuy Chicago meat for our gallant sons in
cuba and in the American camps. The
evidence supports The opinion that mauy
OF the soldiers paid for it with their lives
and others with their health. The appli
cations for pension on the ground Of per-
fpanent general debility and OF organic
disease acquired in the army are already
numerous, in some cases fully third OF
all the men of a regiment being perma-
ii,n ntly disabled.
II appears from an Armour letter that
The Chief Commissary and the Secretary
of War knew that chemicals were used To
preserve the meat Evidently they took
10 steps to determine whether the chemi-
Gals were harmless. If an analysis had
been made then. instead of now. the dan-
ger could have been averted. After the
warnings of Mr. Marshall, the retired
rscker. it was an obvious duty 10 have the
meat examined
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TRACKING MURDERERS.
The LAW and Order Element of
bloody Tangipahoa Aroused.

New Orleans. April 6.-Four hundred
men. armed with rifles. and a large part of
them mounted for two days have been
securing the parishes of TangipahOa and
Washington in search Of the men who re-
Gently assassinated Mr.. Magee. ofJthe BAN
ner Lumber Company. at Kentwood. in
TangipahOa. TIE Magee assassination Is
one of dozen that have occurred in the
parish. and il seems to have at last aroused
the law and order element. Bloo1hounds
were obtained and the trail Of the assas-
sin followed. Since then the parish has
been like an armed camp. Several posses
set cut for the desperadoes who are led by
Mambert and Gill, who have been several
times arrested for murder
The desperadoes were found. but fortified
themselves in a house and drove OF the
posse. which returned to Tangipahoa for
re-enforcemsnts. The desperadoss retreat
ed into Washington parish. where some
forty or fifty of them assembled in house
fifteen miles east Of Franklinton, Two
posses frCm Tangipahoa surrounded the
house to-day. but found that the men had
deserted it. taking refuge in the swamp on
Pearl River. on the boundary line OF
Louisiana and Mississippi. These swamps
will be searched tomorrow
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AFTER HINKEY. DINK.
I'm Honest Majority Combination of
Chicago Aldermen

Chicago, April 6.-If compacts that were
entered into today by aldermen of both po-
litical parties and those elected as indie
headed by ''Hinkey Dnk' Kenna. Bath
house" John Coughlin. and johnny Pow
ers Will be left helpless and there will
be some hope that Chicago will have mu-
ncipal legislation that will not be tainted
by the bOodlers. The first formal step was
taken this afternoon. when forty-two mem
beIs OF the new council. irrespective OF
party held a caucus at the Grand Pacific
Hotel and pledged themselves to unite on
all matters in which the city's interests
are at stake in opposition to the gang
which has ruled the city and levied black
mail for each measure passed by the coun-
ell during the past year.
This honest majority as this combina-
tion will be known. is not quite strong
enough to pass measures requiring a two
thirds vote-the council. numbering sixty
eight men-but it is powerful enough TO
defeat corrupt legislation. Mayor Harri-
son announces that he is entirely in sym
pathy with the cooperation of Republi-
cans. Democrats. and Independents for
honest municipal legislation. 1t remains to
be seen whether he is sincere in his pro-
testations. Johnny Powers. the Democrat
ic leader in the council, has called eau
Gus of his cohorts TO be held tomorrow. but
he is in such a hopeless minority that
any organization that he can form at pres
ent will be unavaiiing as against the hon
est majority" Harrison owes his election
largely to Republican voters who opposed
Zena r. Carter. because they believed him
a machine" candidate and the mayor is
expected to give large recognition to the
Republican aldermen on the committees
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BOLD ROBBERS.
They Hold Up Town. hut Fail to
Loot s BrnL.

Toledo. April 6.-Shortly after three
o'clock this morning five men made des-
perate though unsuccessful attempt to loot
the Sheets Bank, al Botkins. west of here.
There was $4,000 in cash in the bank
The citizens of the town were startled by
hearing two successive explosions early
this morning and an investigation showed
that fye men had taken possession Of the
town and were methodically setting to
work to rob the bank. The men had over
powered the guard in the one fire engine
house so that no alarm would be given
from that source Two of the men worked
inside the bank while three paced the
streets as guards. The robbers blew on
the outer doors of the vault, three expio-
sions being necessary TO accomplish the
work. After the first explosion, citizens
rushed to their doors but We're driven back
by the men on guard. Phillip Sheets. son
of the president of the bank, crept out of
his house and watched the operations of
the robbers from back of log. The third
explosion aroused most of the inhabitants
of the town and the robbers made prepara-
tions to flee They had stolen a team of
horses and Il carriage from livery barn
and when they saw that matters We're
getting uncomfortable they climbed into
the carriage and drove out OF the Town.
A posse of twenty-five men followed them
and shots were exchanged between pur-
suers and pursued for twenty minutes. but
no one was injured. The front OF the bank
building was wholly blown in the fur
niture demolished and the vault ruined.
One of the pieces of the safe was blown
through the window of a hardware store
across the street. and was embedded in
the rear wall. Another piece went through
the side of a residence goo feet away.
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for permanent American administration.
1t is not rash TO predict an appeal to this
country for annexation eventually, but it
now appears that the island must be the
victim of crude experiments and painful
failures before the advantages of annex
alton are seen TO outweigh the pride cf
independence. Under the sovereignty of
this Government Cuba would make won
derful advance in the enlightenment of its
people, in the development of public en-
terprises. and in an unparalleled prosperity.
1t is possible that the successful admin
istrstion of the Americans may make these
benefits so plain as to win the favor of the
people for. annexation.
1t needs no array of facts to prove that
self government in Cuba without the su-
pervision of the American Government
must cause great deal of dissatisfaction
and some material and visible distress.
No matter how intelligent a particular
class of the people may be. the success of
a popular form of government depends
on the enlightenment of the people. Where
they lack education and experience the
demagogues who take the short cut TO
everything are pretty sure either to run
the government or obstruct its course. We
are pledged to allow the Cubans their in
dependence. but they would be wiser TO ask
for annexation
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The HnIr Of Irusfs

The positive affirmation that the trusts
not only cheaper production, but also
lower prices and increase the wages of
labor. has been going unchalIenged until
now Governor Pineree is about the first
10 say ii is not true. However that may
be. the trusts have monopoly of the bust
ness in their respective lines. They buy
up all the small and all the large establish
ments and If any one of them should
refuse TO sell, il would be crushed and
ruined by Il cutting of rates. Then the
trust in each case has a monopoly and
can put on any price it may decide OH.
Are they benevolent institutions run for
the benefit of the people? If not. why
should they be expected to make prices
any less than they can get without making
il worth while for other large capitalists
TO go into the business Why should they
increase wages above the market price OF
labor? They have never been accused of
having a conscience Their motto is "Busi-
ness is business" II they have not put up
prices We may be sure they wili and
it is Just as certain they viii not make
wages higher than they have 10.
Republican Legislation has freed them
from foreign competition and by form
ing trusts they have stifed domestic com
petition, which was the solitary obstacle
in the way of he.hiGhest prices and lowest
wages. Unless they are, unlike the pro-
tected interests, influenced by the Golden
Rule, they Will make all they can with
safety. The people VIII never get the ben
eft of the cheaper production. But the
people will suffer from The employment of
fewer hands. The Mckinley prosperity is
on us, but there seem TO be as many
persons out OF employment as before the
wave Of prosperity struck us. There will
be more when the hundreds OF new trusts
close up the small establishments still
surviving
The success % the trusts is demonstrat-
ing something for the enlightenment of
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For n Mess of po,tage.

The laughable suggestion of our suffer-
ing friends and fellow creatures in Jamai-
ca. that the United States shall give the
magnificent empire of the Philippine archi-
pelago to England in exchange for their
little old wrecked West Indian island, their
holy terror Maroons. and their interesting
selves. is actually being taken with
seriousness by such foreign newspapers as
the New York Herald" and advocated as
a good thing.
The Herald and perhaps a few other
and unimportant influences and persons
may regard the American people as so
green that they are in eternal danger of
being eaten by cows, and possibly they are
| a trife verdant on occasion. But we CO
not think they are suffering from buco,ics
severely enough to quite shut their eyes
to the business end of an average trade
proposition. That being true. we do rot
expect them to give up great deal for
next to nothing. as would happen if the
jamaican hope were realized.
However. there is no sense in being surly
or greedy in such matters. If the English
colcnists want to come in with their pau
per labor Jamaica rum TO take the
bourbon out Of the mouths of our down
trodden Kentucky. distillers. and the anti
expansionists insist upon annexing them
why, deal ght be fixed up. Say we Of
fer Queen Victoria an equivalent in the
equally desirable island known as the Dry
Tortugas, and If Her Most Gracious MAZE: ty
should demand any boot that we apply it
to old Agoneillo Hoar and project him in,
and also out, A fair exchange is no rob
hery
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Cuban Annexation.

The fever OF annexation has seized upon
considerable class of Cubans They are
men OF substance and influence. They are
moved by growing doub; as TO the sort OF
government they are likely to have on the
withdrawal of the Americans and the or
ganlzation Of Cuban political parties. 1t
has been shown in the discussions of the
late Assembly that there are shrewd DEM
agogues who know how TO play on the
preIudiees of the great body of the in
hsbitants and who viii surely seek political
power largely for their own selfish pur-
poses and with little regard for the well
fare Of Cuba. While this country can have
great Influence in the formation of a Gu
ban government. il can offer no protection
against the future success of demagogues
whose ideas of administration were gained
in the Spanish school. If they choose to
pose as patriots and to encourage the polit-
zeal persecution OF those who formerly
sympathized with Spain. there is no sure
means of defeating them.
There are many more cubans who would
welcome annexation than those who openly
advocate ii. They know the popular SEN
iiment is in favor OF independence, which
IS fostered by every politician who cares
more about his own advancement than
about the prosperity and peace and happi-
ness Of the people. Therefore they do not
Tant to invite animosity by coming out
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FsTERHAzY TO FAURE.
Threatening Letters Written to the
Dead President Published.

London, April THE Chronicle" this
morning prints the text OF the letters writ
ten by Esterhazy to President Faure. which
were mentioned in Estsrhazy's screed. pub
lshed by the "Chrcnicle" on March A ard
6. These three epistles are dated October
80 October II, and November ). 1897. and
were according to Esterhazy written by
him from Du Patty de CLAIMS dictation. In
them the writer appealed to President
Faure to save him from an infamous plot
against his honor, and said that if the ap-
peal was unheeded he would be compelled
to use ali the means in his power to de-
fend himself The first letter threatened
if the appeal was. not needed. to appeal to
my heraldic chief and sovereign OF the
Esterhazy family, the German Emperor.
who will know how to defend the honor OF
a soldier
The invocation of the Kaiser implies an
intention TO hoCdwink NJ. Faure into be
lieying that the Esterhszys were a Ger
man family, whereas they are really Aus
trians. This letter not being answered
another followed declaring that Esterhazy
possessed a photograph sCf a certain docu-
ment that had been stolen by Colonel Pie
quart from a foreign legation, which great
ly compromised diplomatic personages
This it was threatened, would be imme-
diately published if the writer was not pro-
tected. The second letter was likewise ig-
nored and the third was sent. This ad-
vised the President that Esterhazy he'd
document proving the Dreyfus canaillerie
the publication OF which. with 4 fac-simile
of the writing, would cause France To hui
initiate herself or declare war. The letter
wound up with 4 threat to publish the doe
ument.
If Esterhazy's version Of the affair can
be relied upon it is thus evident that Du
Patty de Clam. at the instigatiOn Of the
officers of the general staff, threatened the
President of the Republic with the armed
intervention of a foreign power to save
themselves from exposure. According to
the Chronicle" it was the copies OF the
foregoing letters to which Judge Bertulus
referred in his evidence before the Court
of Cessation as Estsrhazy's seif-: tylei
''imperial guard
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Lcgi.Inti,. Cnrruntion.

The most discouraging fact about the
senatorial scandals is that the discovery of
corruption in the interest of candidate
does not cause a single supporter to aban-
don him. In Pennsylvania there is no
longer the least doubt about the offer of
money for votes. OF course. it is not es-
tablished that Quay was a party to the ne
gotiations or even knew of them Yet 1t
would be supposed that really honest men,
with high regard for their party and an
interest in public morals would refuse TO
vote for a man in whose behalf bribe was
offered. II for no other reason, then to
insure the defeat of the wishes of the men
who attempted to buy votes. In Montana
the exposure of attempts at bribery even
the knowledge that men. had sold their
votes, made no difference in the ballots.
The fact seems to be undeniable that
the moral tone Of the Legislature in many
States is very low in Nebraska there have
been shocking revelations of me efforts of
Legislators to sell their votes, their pur-
pose being to induce others TO rob the
State treasury. 1t is mistake TO take leg
islative corruption as an indication of the
moral condition OF the people. Except in
Pennsylvania, and perhaps even there, a
popular belief in mans dishonesty would
insure his defeat in popular election
There is too little attention paid to the
choice of candidates for the Legislature.
When the ticket is made up the majority
of men will vote with their party. There
seems TO be no practical way to prevent
the selection OF men the price of whose
honor is low for the citizen who does not
go with the machine is helpless in the pri-
maries. Yet rhe evil is growing and de-
mands remedy There is everything 10
encourage laxity in politics. beginning with
the surrender of the Republican party to
the protected Industries and the trusts that
are their natural product
About the only nope is that the scandals
viii be so fully exposed that wave of pop
ular disgust will overwhelm the party that
is in power and tolerates the evil 1t is
matter of experience shat when a sue
cessful party becomes bold and shameless
in its dishonesty The rival party has a
yirtuous seizure which carries it into
power. With the lesson of defeat comes a
degree Of reformation all around
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THE HARRtsBURe SITUATION.
Growing Belief That Quay VIII Yet
Withdraw.

Harrisburg, Pa. April 6.-Once more
the scenes have shifted in the senatorial
drama and fthel principal actors have left
the stage for the week. They declare that
there will be no important developments
until next week probably Tuesday. and
intimate that the change then will be en-
tirely satisfactory to those who have been
insisting that The continuous performance
is too tame. Senator Magee is the enc who
is keeping the others guessing. He has
been in frequent consultation with former
senator Quay this week, through trusted
mutual friend. and when this friend came
back from Philadelphia with message last
night there was at once the announcement
that the break of Magee and his friends
with Quay will be deferred until next
Tuesday or Wednesday. The fact that
Colonel Quay did not come to Harrisburg
this week, as his friends announced he
would, and the further fact that Magee has
not broken away from him leads to the be-
lief that there is something in the story
that Quay has agreed to withdraw in
Magee's favor after the opening of his trial
in Philadelphia next Monday. Today the
anti-Quay men voted for Charles Tubbs,
former member of the House from Tioga
county. Quay was the usual seventeen
short of an election.
The bribery investigators developed
nothing sensational
Senator William Flynn. who is Senator
c. l.. Magee's politca! partner in Alle-
gheny county, and the leader of the anti
Quay Republicans in the Legislature said
tonight: AN extraordinary restlessness is
apparent tonight among the Quay and
Democratic members OF the Legislature.
You hear on all sides expressions favor
able to the election OF United States
Senator TO fill the vacancy caused by the
expiration of the term of Senator Quay.
Revelations of an important character in
this line are expected next week and those
who are expecting them will hardly he dis
appointed 1t has been and is admitted by
even the Quay members that there is no
possibility CT Senator Quay's election by
this Legislature and the fear of the de-
feat of many of the Republican candidates
in the interior counties where the party
margin is close has been instrumental in
the almost unanimous expression now
heard favorable to the election of a United
States Senator Particularly is this the
case with the members from the interior
counties, upon whom the future success
of local tickets largely depends. The pro-
nounced stand editorially by many of the
prominent Republican papers of the State
number constantly MISUNDERSTANDING
that Quay should be dropped in view of the
fact that the impossibility of his election
has been demonstrated, is having a most
beneficial effect. The next two weeks will
witness many interesting and striking
scenes. / believe We will elect a United
States Senator and that Senator will not
be Matthew Stanley Quay
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KILLED HIS sIsTER-1N-LAw.
Ran Her Out of Her Home and Shot
Her in the Back.

New Brunswick n. j.. April 6.-Phoebe
Elizabeth Shoemaker aged twenty-three
years, wife of Charles Shoemaker, was
Shoemaker, shortly before 1 O'Clock this
afternoon while trying TO elude her de-
stroyer. The crime took place upon the
road between Menlo Park and Iselin eight
miles frCm this city The murderer was
quickly arrested and acknowledged his
guilt. Charles Cooper. OF Iseln, discov-
cred the body OF Mrs. Shoemaker lying in
ditch while driving to his home about
| o'clock. He found that the woman had
just died, and recognizing her as the wife
Of Charles Shoemaker. went Immediately to
notify him. Suspicion at once pointed to
Albert Shoemaker. an eccentric fellow of
twenty-six, brother Of Charles, who had
often qUarreled with Mrs Shoemaker This
suspicion was strengthened by the fact
that Albert had attacked no less than
three people during the morning for no
cause that could be ascertained. Word
was sent 10 Metuchen, two miles distant.
and Constables Gedney and keenan, had no
difficulty in finding Albert wandering about
near the railway station. He offered some
resistance, but was speedily handcuffed and
taken to Metuchen. Shoemaker admitted
that he had killed his sister Flaw and
said that he did it because she and her
husband were trying to do him out" of
some property which he claimed belonged
TO him. He told the coroner that he went
TO his sisterin-law in order to renew the
subject of his living with them again. He
had failed more than once to secure this
privilege, and he became very angry when
Mrs. Shoemaker declined 10 permit him
to live in her house, He drew a revolver
and threatened Mrs. Shoemaker, who ran
out OF the house Four hundred wards
away she was oyertaken by her pursuer.
who then shot her in the back