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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

commencement day ranked 18th in his
class. ''' ~ Il Il
The winner of this years medal was
Miss Lily Hohfeld, OF San Francisco,
twenty-five years old, daughter of Ed
ward Hohfeld, musir teacher. Miss
Hohfeld is said to have attained the
highest percentage ever received by q
graduate of the university. Rose
Hohfeld, twin sister of Lilly, stood
second in the class. The two sisters
took the same course and always
worked together.
The Hohfeld girls are charming,
fresh faced, comely young women,
whose brows are unmarked by o
single line, and whose bright eyes,
thick hair and fresh coloring are
refutation of the worn-out prophecy
that higher education would be ruin
ous to female health and looks. All
through school the Hohfeld girls have
had the same record, sweeping every.
one and everything before them.
From the time when. as tots of six,
they went out of tn cir fathers house
swinging little sacks which held thei1
states and primers they have stoo Of
the head of their classes. They do
not know what it is 10 stand anywhere
else, and Lily has always been first
and Rose second. Teachers say that
they are equally bright, but Lilly is a
trihe more ambitious and self-assertive
than Rose.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

A new style of cravat that is both
novel and becoming is made of white
tulle and lace. The knot is under the
chin, but the two loops stand up at
the right side of the face and the two
n-shaped ends continue the slope.
Another ruche arrangement that is
pretty with an open jacket fastens
with a soft knot at the throat, the
long ends being confined at the waist
with another knot. Halfway between
these two is third knot. which is also
Of tulle. The tulle BOWS are made
pretty with centres of Hack velvet.
The new style of four-;n- hand is be-
coming more popular inan ever. 1t
is tied to leave puff above the knot,
and fastens with little chain and gold
tasscl OF pendant.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

ment felt that glory was a hideous
thing, and yet it is q great privilege
to have seen men die so. The mem
DRY of it will make one stronger and
better"
There are constant rumors coming
in through prisoners that the insur-
gents ammunition is giving out.
Nevertheless, on the advance to Ma.
lolos, whenever one was captured
with gun and ammunition, he had an
abundant supply, often over two hun
dred rounds. One sharpshooter had
four hundred.
Thus far not woman or Guild has
been injured, to the knowledge of our
men; and yet the entire population of
the villages from Caloocan to and be.
yond Malolos, much over forty thou.
sand helpless people, has been car.
ried back by the insurgents. They
set fire to the town of Polo on evacu.
ating it, and two bedridden old people
were burned to death our boys made
gallant fight to save them when they
were discovered, but it was too late.
Some of the Nebraska men saw what
appeared to be q woman leaving a
trench and ceased firing, but sharp
| sighted fellow saw gun partly hid
den by the dress and captured the
fugitive. In was found he was a
| sharpshooter, who had relied on this
disguise to escape, after lingering long
| enough to make some sure hits. "Did
Won shoot him ." nNawt ,ve kiola al
him hard and sent him to the rear"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24
/ NEWS AND NOTES
B FOR WOMEN.
Cuban Women in Mourning

If there is one sight more pitiful in
Cuba than any other, it is the women
in black. Frequent as they are in
Havana, where perhaps in some re-
mote part of the city they even ven
ture to hold out their hands to you as
they pass-women of refined appear
ance, too--tho women in widow s
weeds are the commonest sight in the
small towns and cities. It is hard to
tell where they got their mourning
garments. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that of dozen women on a street
in any Cuban village nine will be in
mourning. And their faces sad with
grief and thin with hunger even
months after the war had ceased!-
Harper's Weekly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

The American automobile is already
achieved. What it needs next is .
well articulated system of roads to
run on, along which the inns and re-
pair shops will spring up in immedi-
ate response, as they have done al
ready in answer to the more modest
needs of the American bicycler.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

Not less trying is the sight of the
actual ceremony of interment. We do
not smoke long cigars at funerals, nor
do we chatter ceaselessly thereat; both
these things are done by Filipinos.
But then, they do many things that
we do not do. They wash rice in the
dirty Paslg. Girls of ten and twelve
years smoke cigars. Females, old and
young, wear the same dropping-off-
the-shoulder cut of corsage. That is,
perhaps, an advantage for a man of
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24
Victory For Twin Sisters.

At the commencement of the Univer-
sity Of California the women of the
graduating class carried off all the
college honors. Not only was the
medal won by young San Francisco
woman, but the second, the third and
the fourth places in the class were
occupied by women, and the only
young man from the academic depart
ment who had place as a speaker on
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

The United States circuit court of
appeals at Chicago has held that the
directors of bank are not liable for
the mismanagement of funds by a
president who takes advantage of his
position to speculate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

heroes, nobler and braver than the
average American. "They were," he
declares, common, everyday sort
of boys, with no peculiar sort of virtue
over others. 1t was simply theirs to
have privilege and opportunity that
other men at home, often by force of
circumstances, had missed or been
denied" Here is the passage by
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

was not mere soldiery out here; it
was incarnate Americanism. He
calls his companions 'those who on
the Manila roads and in the Luzon
rice fields fought desperate fight,
asking no why's or wherefores; who
shook out the old flag further from
home than it had ever been before,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

I saw such n

cemetery. I saw such a heap of
Jones. 1t must have contained the
skeletons of scores of forgotten peo-
pie. AS one officer expresses it, "It
is case of 'Requiescat in pace pro-
vided your friends have a paid-up
ninety-nine-year lease on a box for
you."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

1t has recently been found possible
to make use of glass for pipes, and it
is announced that firm of glass
manufacturers in Western Pennsyl-
vania is now ready to furnish glass
tubes that can be used for oil, gas,
water, or sewage. Naturally the glass
does not corrode, and it is quite i'm
pervious to electrolysis when used un.
derground in the vicinity of electric
tracts or conduits. 1t is also claimed
that it is more durable and less likely
to leak than iron. An Ohio company
is putting in line of glass pipe, and
this will afford practical test of its
advantages, as the line is to be about
100 miles in length.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

Professor Rodolphe Virchow deliv-
cred an important address before the
tuberculosis Congress at Berlin, Ger
many, rejecting the theory of heredi-
tary tuberculosis. "The doctrine, -
he declared, sis contradicted by all
my pathological researches. I have
never found tuberculosis in unborn or
newborn infants, though it might be
contracted during the first days ez-
istence."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL,

After long trials of the German,
French and English systems it has
been decided by the German Govern
ment to adopt the English Thornycroft
system of water-tube boilers in all
German men-of-war.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24
Wheat Grown in the United States,

Nearly quarter of the wheat raised
in the world is grown in the United
States
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

Ice storms are commonly believed
to be due to rain falling on surface
cold enough to freeze it. The fact
that the objects iced are often COM
paratively warm makes this simple
theory insufficient, and observations
during remarkable ice storm last
October, in Germany, have proven to
DR.. w. Meinhardus that the phenom-
enon is one Of the singular conditions
of liquids known as Supervision. In
this state the liquid has a freezing
temperature butts kept from solidifying
by some special circumstance. In the
storm observed, reports from elevated
stations showed that the moisture was
condensed in an upper air-stratum
above freezing point in temperature,
and that the rain fell through colder
stratum, becoming chilled to freezing
temperature, but remaining liquid un-
til the drop was deformed by striking
a resisting body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

Frigotherapy is stated to be already
in vogue at several places in Europe.
The treatment consists in standing the
patient, well protected with furs, in a
freezing box cooled to 200 degrees or
more below zero, this daily cold bath
being continued ten minutes. The
head is allowed to protrude from the
box, as breathing of the intensely cold
air would be dangerous. The effect
is to powerfully stimulate the circula-
ton, creating an immediate and raven
GUS appetite, and tending to Danish
dyspepsia and various kidney and
liver diseases, as we'll as nervous ex-
haustion and its attendant melancholy
and depression. The whole body is
aroused to vigorous action.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

Professor J. B. johnson, of Wash
ington University, st. Louis, has made
some interesting tests of the behavior
of iron or steel stirrups, as used for
hanging hoor-beams from brick walls,
when exposed to fire, and finds that,
under such circumstances, they soon
become red-hot, and then burn their
way rapidly through the end of the
beam, whlic, at the same time, they
soften and bend down, the result be.
ing that the beam drops out OF its
bearing in fifteen or twenty minutes
after the fire reaches it. Most archi-
tects are careful to see that such sup
porting members are fireproofed with
wire-lath and plaster; but it may be
well to call attention again to the i'm
perative necessity for doing so.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

A singular bacterial disease proves
to be the cause of decay of ancient
metallic implements and other objects.
1t appears in the form of small ex-
crescences or "ulcerations, which be-
come the centres of rapid oxidation,
and DR.. w. Frazer, an Irish antigua
rian, finds that all antiques of copper
or its alloys with tin are liable to be
infected. In bronze, emarkable dis
integration is produced, the metal be-
ing gradually reduced to an amorphous
powder. The disease is believed, with
great reason, to have infective powers,
spreading like leprosy through the
metal, and even being conveyed to
fresh surfaces from the affected spots.
Counterfeiters have not overlooked
the spots of bronze disease, from
which, it is asserted, they have inocu-
lated their false antiques to impart a
genuine appearance.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-07-24

performing thankless duty, know.
ing full we'll the reward
"'Tne blame of those ye better;
The hate of those ye guard"
and he denies that they were picked
The record-union., 1899-08-23
TRANsvAAL QUESTION.
A Parliamentary Paper Dealing
With the Subject.

LONDON, Aug. 22.-A Parliamentary
paper dealing with the Transvaal crisis
was issued to-day. 1t details the ef-
fcrts of the Boer Government during
the past year to have the question OF
suzerainty of Great Britain submitted
to arbitration and Great Britain's re-
peated refusals to discuss the basic
point.
The document adds that Sir Alfred
Milner, High Commissioner to South
Africa and Governor of Cape Colony,
writing to Mr.. Chamberlain, the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, last June
said: 1.-The way in which the Secre-
tary of State juggles with the conven-
tion of 1884 is rather irritating to a
plain man"
The final dispatch from Chamberlain,
dated July 13, 1899, to Sir Alfred Mil
ner, concurs with the latter's views as
to the untenable Transvaal contention,
adding that the British Government
had no intention to continue to discuss
the suzerainty with the Transvaal
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SACRAMENTO MARKETS.
Trade Continues Quiet at I'm
changed Prices.

Sacramento, Aug. 22d.
Trade continues quiet in local produce
circles at unchanged quotations.
Following are the retail prices for the
various articles mentioned:
FLOUR+Family Extras, $1.95 per 100
FRUIT Oranges. SOC per dozen;
Lemons, 25@3oc;; Lines, 1Oc;- Pfums, SC per
40Q50c per box; Apples, &c per ID; Apri-
cots, sc per fb: Pineapples, 40@50c each !;
Blackberries, &c per 10; Strawberries, SO
SC per ID, 65@75c per box; Grapes, &c per
10; Watermelons, 15Q20c each; Cante-
loVVPsGSF VPRGFga Sg1qs s1FshTomatoes 9ssh. &c per n.
Caulifower, 10c per head, Carrots. Let
tuce, Radishes, Ieek, Green Onions, 1215c
per dozen bnnches pun hes Onions, &c per p;
Beans, sc per 10; Peppers, &c; Potatoes,
&c per 10; Rhubarb, sc per 10; Green Corn,
lS925e per dozen: Guc9Smbers, Zoe per r. doz: oz
Okra, 10c; Lima and Shell Beans, &c;
Sweet Potatoes, &c; Alameda Peas 3 lbs
MEATS Beef-Prime Rib Roast, 121Ac
per 10; Corned Beef, S012c; Sausage, 121ac;
Vienna Sausage, 15c; Bacon, 15c;. Loin
Steak. 122al5e: Rump Steak, Steak 1oc; Chuck
Steak, 1Oc. Veal-Loin. and Rib Chops,
15c; Roast Veal, l2c; Mutton-Leg. 11Q
lse Lon and sSa,do RIB Chops Gons 12c Mgt5on
9Q1212c; Ham, 12Q1312c.
POULTRY-Hens Coo each; Spring, soc
81. 80 each; Tame Ducks, 50Q65c each; Tur-
keys, tic for e.and zoe for dressed per
10.
EGGS-California 25c per dozen.
DAIRY PRODUCE-Butter-Pi zoe
per 10; Mountain, zoe; Valley Roll, zoe;
Petaluma, 45c per roll; Creamery, 55c per
roll Cheese California, 15c per fb
Young America, lie: Eastern Creamery.
5G20c; Genuine Swiss, 40c; American
Swiss zoe; Neufchatel, 10c.
HAY AND GRAIN--Oat or Wheat Hay,
45@50c; Alfalfa. 40c; Whole Barley, 81;
Ground Barley, s1I5 Feed Oats, $1,000
IS: Middlings, 81; Shorts. 95c; Bran, 90c;
Straw, 50c Corn, large, $1.35; Small, s1.50;
Cracked Corn, S1.45; Ground Corn, s1.35.
NUTS-New Walnuts, 15c per 10; New
Almonds, 15020c; New Brazils, 121ac; Pc
cans, Ice; Filberts,. 15c: Chestnuts 15c
per 10; Pine Nuts, 25c.
COAL OIL-Pearl (cases) lie; Star 17c,
Eocene, 19c; Extra Star, 21c; Elaine, 23c;
Water White (bulk), 12c.
ELECTRIC LIGHT CANDLES-10 o.,
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CITY OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.

approve of or reject the plan proposed
under the regulations prescribed and con-
tanned in the Specifications governing
the construction of all awnings construct
ed or to be constructed in the City Of
Sacramento" and which said specifica-
tions were duly approved and adopted
September H. 1898, by the Board OF Trus-
tees in and for the City of Sacramento.
Sec. 8. This Ordinance shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
passage.
Passed July 6, 1897.
CHAS. z. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
Approved July 9, 1897.
c. II. HUBBARD, Mayor.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
office of the City Clerk at the southwest
corner of Fourth and j streets up to 5
o'clock p. m. of AUGUST 2S, 1899, for
the construction of a temporary sewage
pumping plant at foot of street. i'm
this city The work to be done consists
of constructing a steel pipe ,sump in the
brick sewer, engine room and boiler room
with concrete floor and a corrugated iron
building; the placing in position of three
boilers belonging to the old plant; also of
,hree pumps and. two engines and motor:
laying twenty-four inch discharge pipe
TO levee and connecting to present dis
charge pipe through levee; also of con-
Meeting to present twenty-four inch dis
charge pipe, and constructing box in
said steel pipe sump of iron or steel to
contain gate and two strainers, all to
conform to plans and specifications on
file. A certified check, made payable to
City Clerk, for an amount not less than
ten per cent of aggregate of proposal,
must accompany each bid The Board
of Trustees reserves the right to reject
any and all bids
NJ. ]. DESMOND. City Clerk.
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COMMERCIAL.
WHEAT MARKET QUIETER AT
SAN FRANCISCO.
Barley Weak, Future Having 6
Sharp Decline-Oats Dull and
and Prices Easy.
San Franciseo. Aug. 22d.

san FRANCISCO, Aug. ZZQ.
The local Wheat market was quieter.
Call Board prices were lower, following
another decline in the Chicago market.
Spot Wheat was easy but the quotations
were not disturbed. Barley continued
weak, futures having a sharp decline. Re-
ceipts were 64,646 centals, including 5S,261
centals on the British ship Rosshire from
Fort Costa for the United Kingdom Oats
We're dull and easy Receipts were LAO
centals. Corn was quiet and nominally
unchanged Receipts We're 600 centals
Eastern Corn.
Receipts of Hay for the past "a hours
were 5S7 tons. The market continued
very weak. Dealers find it quite difficult
to obtain the top quotations given below.
Receipts of Bran were 1000 sacks and the
market seemed to have regained its
steadiness. No Middlings were received.
Rolled Barley is weak in sympathy Win
the raw product.
Strictly fancy Creamery Butter IS helo
higher by most houses and there IS no
The record-union., 1899-08-23
ORDINANCE NO. 426.
Amending Section 1, of Ordinance No

The Board of Trustees of the City of
Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section l. Section l of Ordinance num-
Der Three Hundred and Ninety, entitled
AN Ordinance to prohibit the cutting or
trimming or mutilating trees on certain
streets in the City of Sacramento, with
out the consent of the owner in writing,
and fixing a penalty therefor, passed
June 27, 1895, is hereby amended so as to
read as follows:
Sec |. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son or persons to cut, trim, mutilate or
fasten wires to any tree on any OF
the streets In the City of Sacramento;
unless the consent in writing or
the owner or authorized agent of the
property in front of which said tree
stands shall first be obtained; provided;
however, that nothing herein contained
shall operate to prevent the aff1xing 10
any such tree or trees of all such wires
as may be necessary in the maintenance
of the Fire Alarm System, the Police
Patrol System, or for the use, conduct,
maintenance or management of any
other department of the City Govern
ment.
Sec. 2. This Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage.
CHAS. E. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
Approved May 29, 1896
IT HTIRRARD MayOr.
The record-union., 1899-08-23
SAN FRANCISCO STOCKS.

San Francisco, Aug. ed
Morning Session-Alpha, &c; Andes, Ice
Belcher SAC: Challenge, Sac; Chollar, 34c
G C v, 81; G & C, 40c; H & N, &C., Potosi
35c; S Nevada, 75974c; Yellow Jacket, 32c
60c; Cholar, 33c; Belcher 32c; S Nevada
zoe; Utah, &c; Overman, 10c; Union, 24c
Challenge, 32c; Andes, &c; Point 22e
Andes, I4c; Belcher, 30c; B & B, 5Sc: Bull
ion. &c; Caledonia, Soc; Challenge, BIC
Chollar, 32c; Confidence, 75c; G G Y. I.So
Imperial, 1c; Point, 21c; Eureka, SOC
G. & C, 37c; H & N, S2c; Julia, &c; JUS
tice, 12c Kentuck, &c; Lady Washington
lc; Mexican, 4Sc;. Occidental, 1sc; Ophir
17c: Scorpion, &C. S Belcher 4c; S Ne
vada, Csc; Silver Hill, &c; Standard, $2.55
Union, Ac; Utah, Sc; Yellow Jacket, 2sc
Syndicate 7c
The record-union., 1899-08-23

won, Lucky Star second, Hampden
third, Time, 1:0S55.
Mile, ST. Clair won. Galahad second,
Sir Hubert third. Time. 1:4411a
Six furlongs, Grand Union Hotel
stakes, Maribert won. Gonfalon second,
Mesmerist third Time. 1:1512
Five furlongs, Miss Marion won.
Sparrow Wing second, Caoutchoue
third. Time, 1024
Mile and half hurdle, Ben Edef
Won, Article second. Premier third
Time, 2:49.
AT HIGHLAND PARK.
DETROIT, Aug. 22.-Ed. Moore
Looram hung up a new track record at
Highland Park to-day when he reeled
off seven and half furlongs in 1:344,
with 104 pounds up. The weather was
ideal and the track fast. Results:
Six furlongs, selling. Rey Salazar
won, Aguines second. Mamie Callan
third Time, lilo.
Five furlongs, year-olds, Water
Bottle won, Cariboo second, Onoto
third. Time, 1:01A.
Mile and a sixteenth. allowances, Jim
Megibbon won, Branch second, Top
Gallant third. Time LAS.
Six furlongs, two-year- r-olds, Dissolute
won, Marie Orendorff second, Phallas
third. Time, 1:1512.
Seven and a half furlongs, selling,
Looram won. Brulare second, Rotter-
dam third Time. 1:34A.
Six furlongs, selling, King Carnival
won. Juanetta second, BY George third.
Time, 1:14%
The record-union., 1899-08-23
Two Trainmen Murdered.

MARSHALLTOWN Qa.), Aug. D.
Three tramps stealing a ride on a Chi
cago and Great Western freight train
that left here shortly after midnight
shot and killed Brakeman J. E. Wilson
and Conductor Matthews, and threw
their bodies under the wheels. The
murderers escaped, but an armed posse
at once started in pursuit.
The record-union., 1899-08-23
Reed Has Resigned.

AUGUSTA (Me.), Aug. 22.-The res
ignation of Fhomas B. Reed as Con-
gressman in the First Maine District
was received by Governor Powers to-
day. The resignation is to take effect
September 4th, and it has been accept
ed by Governor Powers.
Mr.. Reeds letter was as follows:
Portland, Me.
ITO the Governor of Maine, Augusta,
Me-: 1 hereby resign the position of
member of Congress from the First
District of Maine, to take effect on
this date september 4th). Very truly
yours, T. 3. REED"
The record-union., 1899-08-23

dinanCe NO. oZ4, Relating 10 the Con-
demnation, Construction, Alteration
and Curbings, Passed October 8, 1898.
The Board of Trustees of the City of
Sacramento ordain as follows
Section /. Section 2, of Ordinance No.
1924 entitled IAN Ordinance amending
Section 2, of Ordinance No. 312, relating
to the condemnation, construction alter
alton and repairs of sidewalks, bulkheads
and curbing passed October 3, 1S93,' is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Sec g. No sidewalk in the City of Sac
ramento, situated within the present linn
it's of said city, shall hereafter be con-
strueted. altered or renewed with any
material other than concrete or artificial
stone. or other similar material, except
that property owners may construct
Sidewalk and bulkheads of wood on the
east side of Front street from the south
side of M street to r street, and on the
east and west side of Front street from
r street to street, and on the north and
from Front street to the alley, between
Front and Second streets; the work to
he done in such manner, and the ma
ferials to be of such class and quality as
shall be approved by the Street Superin-
Sec 8. All Ordinances and parts of Or
dinances in conflict herewith, are hereby
Sec 1. This Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage. ,eo7
CHAS. E. LEONARD,
President of the Board of Trustees.
Annroved December s, 1897.
G.. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
The record-union., 1899-08-23
Meat Market.

Following are the rates for whole car
casses from slaughterers to dealers:
BEEF-Steers. first quality 7RG7Ac;
other grades, 6Q7c per fb; young Cows
and Heifers, 61hc; old Cows, 51496c per 10.
VEAL-7@Sc for large and 81aQ912c per
10 for small
MUTToN-Wethers, 714QSc; Ewes, 10
715c per 10.
LAMB-SG9c per ID for Spring.
PORK-Live Hogs, 57sQ6c per ID for me-
dunn, 5&Q57sc for small, 5SsQ515c for
large: dressed. 71aQS34c per ID.
The record-union., 1899-08-23
Secretary of War Root.

PLATTSBURG IN. ", Aug. o.
Secretary of War Root arrived to-day.
He had a large bundle of papers, indi-
President would be long one. The
Secretary said he could not say def
nitely when he would return to Wash
ington. General Merritt probably will
be present at the conference.