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prominent men in the encampment is said
TO sustain this viey of the contest-ths
night now depends on the support actually
pledged to Gen. Stewart and the gains
made today by Gen. Black and Col Nc
Elroy. All the superficial indications of
the encampment point to gains for Gen
Black.
Reports on Pensions.
Next In Interest to the delegates was the
special report made by the committee on
pensions. This consisted of report sent
the President OF the United States after
the investigation into the methods of the
pension bureau made here several months
ago. in substance this second document
crttcises adversely the attitude Of Com
missioner Evans, particularly as to the op-
erations OF the medical division of the pen
sion bureau, urges President Roosevelt to
take such action as will remedy the alleged
abuses set forth, and states that Commits
sioner Evans was removed shortly after
this report was transmitted TO the White
House.
As the Grand Army of the Republic Is a
secret society, the proceedings of its ma
uonai convention are necessarily held be-
nind closed doors. Before the formal OPEN
ing or the encampment, however a view
OF the meeting place was permitted a limit
Cd numbers visitors.
The auditorium has been hung with large
American flags. On the plaform built out
from the regular choir stalls, are tables
and seats for the following officers of the
sncampment: Gen. Ell Torrance. comman-
Aer-in- chief; Col. John McElroy. senior
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vice COMMUNICATIVE chief; Col. James
ODonneu junior vice commander-in-c CHER
Gen. Henry NJ Dufield, judge advocate
general DR.. William R. Thrall, surgeon
general Rev j. B. Starkey. D. D., acting
chaplain-in chief. and General Torrance's s
three chief assistants-Gen. Silas III. Tow
Ter. adjutant general; Col. Charles Bur
rows quartermaster general, and Col. A
Noel Brakeman, senior aid-de-camp.
Mr.. Warner Presents Gavel.
Chairman Brainard H. Warner of the cit
izens' executive committee addressed the
delegates before the assembly was con-
vened, and said, in part:
Again, not only the thirty-sixth national
encampment, but an unnumbered host Of
comrades in the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie have assembled at the capital of the ma
ton. Grand Army yet it is. although hun
dreds of thousands of heroes of Gettysburg,
Shiloh. Fort Donelson, AppomattoX and
more than 1000 battlefields have been gath
cred to eternal campfires. 1t has brought
visitors from hill and hamlet. from palace
and cottage, from factory and field from
every department of business and social
life. We have doubled our population with
out excitement great disaster, and the
great throng that came incident to
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DISPOSITION OF THE TROOPS.
Protective Measures in Lackawanns
and Wyoming Valleys.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, October 9.-The en-
tire third brigade. under command of Cen
eral Goblin, Is in the Lackawanna and Wy
oming valleys. and in control of the terri
tory from Wapwallopen and Mocanaqua on
the south and Forest City on the north,
stretch of sixty miles Most Of the troops
arrived during the night. The last to get in
was the 4th Regiment, which arrived this
morning, General Goblin was on the rail-
road nearly all night, but Notwithstanding
his fatigue he was busy today placing his
commands.
For the present the regiments. with one
exception, will be kept intact. The Sth, 9th
and 18th Regiments, which have been in
the field for some time, will remain in their
present camps. The Sth is at Duryea, half
way between Wilkesbarre and Scranton, the
9th Is in camp here, and the 18th is located
at Olyphant six miles above Scranton. The
18th Regiment was sent to Providence, Two
miles from Scranton, one battalion of five
companies of the 4th to Nanticoke, eight
miles south Of Wilkesbarre, and the other
battalion Of five companies to Plymouth
which is a few miles below here on the op-
posite side of the Susquehanna river.
Two Sections Of Artillery.
Two sections of Battery c, with one gat-
ling gun for each section, will camp with
the 9th Regiment, and one section with one
other four regiments. The I'd Troop, Phfla-
delphia City Cavalry, has been assigned
to do duty in this city, with the 9th Regi-
ment. and the Governors Troop of Harris
burg was sent to Olyphant, to the camp of
the 18th. Brigade headquarters have been
established in the coal exchange building
in this city. The principal offices Of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company in the an
thracite regions, well the offices of
several smaller coal concerns, are located
in this building.
Gen. Goblin said that for the present the
troops will remain where he has stationed
them. and as the necessity arises he will
distribute them. The generals attention
was called to statements made by company
superintendents that the production OF coal
depends altogether where the troops are
placed to protect workmen, and he was
asked if his men will do police duty He
replied that he would do whatever Gov
Stone ordered him to do.
The arrival Of the troops and the dash
of the Philadelphia cavalry through the
city streets to their camp livened up mat
ters in the city. which has been very quiet.
The soldiers were respectfully received
everywhere in the valley.
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ALL IN SESSION
Grand Army and Affiliated
Bodies Meet Today
REPORT OF OFFICERS
Condition of Organization
Shown to Members.
QUESTION OF PENSIONS
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COM
MITTEE ON THIS SUBJECT.
All Meet Behind Closed Doors
The Gathering This
Morning.

The thirty-sixth national encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, the as
sembly to which all the festivities of the
current week have been dedicated, convened
this morning at the First Congregational
Church. The attendance was somewhat
more than LOCO delegates. representing all
forty-two departments of the order, and
the proceedings of the morning sessions
were marked by singular unanimity Of
opinion.
Important business has already been
transacted by the encampment, with these
results That the annual address of the
commander-in-chiefh has been received and
approved; that the encampment has, by
unanimous resolution, expressed Its great
confidence in the President of the United
States; that two special reports on the pres
ent national system of pensions have been
received; that a special order has been
adopted directing that at 3 o'clock this
afternoon the convention shall proceed to
elect its national officers for the ensuing
year.
On adopting the action last named many
Of the delegates left the hall to discuss the
prospective election with much earnestness
1t seemed to be accepted that no poll of
the encampment in which any confidence
relative strength Of the four men proposed
Gen. John C. Black OF Illinois, Col. John
McElroy of Washington, d. c.. Gen. Thos
NJ. Stewart Of Pennsylvania, Gen. Daniel
NJ. Sickles of New York-was regarded en-
tirely matter of conjecture.
Conjecture as to the Commandership.
But there was manifestly an impression
that Gen. Black and Gen. Stewart would
poll the heaviest votes. Gen. Sickles' cam
paign has been entirely receptive. His
managers have been aggressive only for the
past day or two. Meanwhile friends of the
three other men have been surprisingly
active. Col McElroy has assembled con-
siderable support. Gen. Stewart came to
Washington with many scores of delegates
pledged.
Gen. Blacks candidacy has been In the
hands of the Illinois delegation and has
grown In favor with every day of the con-
vention. Very few votes thus remained for
any receptive candidate. Unless a dead
lock should be produced, therefore, 1t is ac
tirely problematical.
strong feeling crops out in nearly every
conversation that the encampment must
choose man with good war record. This
eltmintes Gen. Stewart from the fight. His
service was confined solely to work done
away from the front. and his enlistment
dates only from March, 1865. If this spirit
prevails-and the influence of the most
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Personal Nsntioa.

Mr.. B. E. Pollak Of Cincinnati and DR.,
A. J. Rice of Boston are at the Arlington.
Mr.. E. H. Hinton OF Nashville. Tenn,
and Mr. M. E. Smith Of Denver, Col, are
at the New Willard
Mr. F. A. ingalls, Of Chicago and Mr.. E.
W. Lyon of Greensboro, N. C., are at the
Raleigh.
Messrs. Jonas RAIDER. Hary Garfield
Dean and Howard Robert Weir Of Warren,
Ohio, are the guests Of fsWafren s. Young
at 1923 l street.
Lieut.. Col. w. E. Waters, U. S. A., re-
tired, who recently made his home in
Maine, has taken up his residence in this
city at 1915 Connecticut avenue.
Representative E. S. Gambler, jr, of Mis-
sissippi, who has been nominated without
opposition for reelection, Is stopping at "a
B street northeast
Assistant Secretary Allies has returned to
his duties at the Treasury after a short
fishing trip up the Potomac. W. w. Lud-
low OF the Treasury Department returned
with Mr.. Allies.
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this city today OF President Mitchell of
the Mine Workers and of several promi-
nent men who have been more or less iden-
titled In recent efforts to settle the coal
strike led to many rumors that such an
end had been attained or that negotiations
that held fair promise of settlement were
under way. 1t has been impossible, how
ever, to verify these reports. Mr.. Mitchell
himself after a busy morning of secret
conferences with unknown parties, posi-
lively declined to make any statement, and
several of the most prominent of the coal
operators when questioned replied that so
far as they knew nothing had been done.
Senators Quay and Penrose of Pennsylva-
mia and Senator Platt of New York, who
were in conference during the forenoon,
were reticent as to the cause of their coun
Gil in the latter's office, and Senator Quay
himself, in interview confined his ex-
pressions to purely political matters.
From Mr.. Mitchell nothing could be OBJ
tanned beyond the bare statement that he
would return to Wilkesbarre tonight
Rumors Cannot Be Verified.
In no responsible quarter has it been pos
sible to obtain even an admission that
new set Of negotiations were on foot, though
there were various rumors that a settle
ment of the anthracite coal strike was in
sight.
Mr.. Nichols. one of the anthracite dis
trict presidents, said:
president Mitchell has the power to set
tie the strike only in the event that all the
demands Of the men are granted. If these
demands are not granted the question must
be referred to a convention. In view of this
1t is pretty certain that the miners will not
be at work by Monday was rumored to-
day. l do not take much stock in the va
rious peace rumors. While it Is possible
that the strike may be settled by Monday,
Ii is highly improbable.
President Olyphant of the Delaware and
Hudson road said that so far as the opera
tors are concerned the situation is un-
changed
Senator Penrose after the conference in
Senator Platt's office said that there had
been nothing accomplished at the confer
ence that would lead to settlement Of the
strike. He and Senator Quay he said,
were contemplating returning to Philadel-
phia today.
This afternoon Mitchell was in confer
ence with his district presidents at his
hotel.
Edward Lauterbach, who was also a
party to the conference between Senators
Platt, Quay and Penrose, called on ]. P.
Morgan during the day. He said that he
expected to see Mr.. Morgan again this
afternoon and also expected to see Mr.
Mitchell. Governor Oden was also party
to the conference.
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submitting machine made reports that are In
the highest degree unreliable and unsatis-
factory.
1T is we'll known that examining sur
geons in their zeal for their patrons con-
stitute themselves in many instances the
agents of claimants.
Under the present system Of appoint
ing examining surgeons there is no assur-
ance that the best qualified will receive the
appointment. The chances are always in
favor of the least qualified.
This sweeping and wholesale indictment
Is directed against q large body of honor
able and respected physicians located in
every part Of the country-appointed by
the commissioner Of pensions and subject
to his discipline-paid by the government,
whose servants they are. and solemnIy OBJ
ligated to discharge their duties faithfully
and impartially.
This bitter assault may have been deem
ed necessary in Justification of the fact
that within the past three years 2S5 317
cases have been rejected by the bureau on
medical grounds alone.
Condemn the Evans Administration.
I'VE respectfully submit that it cannot
reasonably be expected that the pension
laws will be fairly construed and justly ad-
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ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.
Naval Officers Not Involved So Far as
Known Here

1t is stated at the Navy Department that
the criminal prosecutions of certain butch
ers and provision men In connection with
the alleged conspiracy fn bidding for sup
plying the Norfolk navy yard were un-
earthed there, notwithstanding the bidding
was conducted in Washington, and that the
entire prosecution Is In the hands of Nor
folk officials. Some secret service men from
the Treasury Department were detailed at
the request of the NavysDepartment to as
sist in the development of the case. Blu.
beyond that the department had no con-
necti0n with it. So far as Known at the
department no naval oaicer has been in
volved in the prosecution
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THE STAR BY MAIL.

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed to
them to any address in the United
States or Canada. by ordering It at
The Star office or al any Postal Tele-
graph office. ALI OF which are branch
offices of The Evening Star. Terms:
13 cents per week; % cents for two
weeks. or 30 cents per month, IN
VARIABLY IN ADVANCE The
address may be changed as frequent
ly as desired by giving the last ad-
dress. as well as the new one.
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GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED.
Swiss Workmen's National Committee
Take Action,

LONDON. October "a dispatch to a
news agency from Geneva. Switzerland. to-
day, announces that the workmens ma
tional committee has decreed a general
strike throughout Switzerland in sympathy
with the strike Of the street car employees
there. Troops are held in readiness to deal
with any disorder.
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Russell Sage Improxing.

LAWRENCE, L. l.. October 9.-Russeil
Sage had another very good night and his
physician said today that his patient would
soon be about as ussaaa The doctor again
said that Mr.. Sage would probably not go
to New York city until the beginning Of
next week.
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NOTHING DEFINITE oBTAINABLE
Mitchell and the Operators Are All
Non-Committal.

fsy the AssOtlateu PresS.
NEW YORK. October 9.-The presence In
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Mr.. Hartman the Go-Between.

Mr.. Mitchell and Senators Quay and PEN
rose spent the forenoon in the Office of
W. T. Hartman at 120 Broadway. Mr..
Hartman acted as the go-between for Mr..
Mitchell with Mr.. Morgan and the oper-
ators. Governor Odell and Senator Platt
were at 40 Broadway, stated, with Mr.
Edward Lauterbach their interme diary
with the operators. The most intense in
terest was displayed in Wall street ever
the conference, and the market continued
strong on the prospect of good news.
q NJ
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-03-08
IHE WAIF'S REVENGE.
A MI street 81, Geitrl'. wy .ef Gtsttine
Even with : sfan who Wouldn't q
~ Ruy Her Wares.I 4 =

-.r
This amusing story is told by the
president of New Bedford bank;
writes the, Chatterer, in Boston Her
aid. One day, not long ago he and
other officers and directors were en-
gagged in a business meeting, held in
the directors room Of the bank, and a.
they believed themselves secure from
intrusion they were much surprised
to see poor little wait enter the room
something which any man of bust
ness affairs would not dare to do I'M
der such conditions. The little girl,
shabbily clothed and pinched looking,
had all unconsciously entered on, for
hidden ground, but this she didn't real
ize, and at once went to the men seat
ed about the big table, offering them
small cakes of soap for sale.
The very first director whom she
approached shook his head, impatient
at the interruption of business, and
said, sharply: II never use it," The
tiny peddler, unabashed, went from
man to man-all the others, out of pity
for her wan little figure, buying of her.
AS she started to leave the room, after
thanking each purchaser, the girl
hesitated a moment in front of the d.
rector who never used soap, according
to his own declaration, and, looking
him over from head to foot, said, dis
painfully: SWELL, yer look it'll" and
then she swept out like a duchess.
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LIGHTNING, ROASTs FOWL.
A Bolt from the Heavens Quickly
Cooks q Hen While She Sits on
Her Nest.

The freaks of lightning that have
been observed and recorded are almost
beyond computation, but a recent one
where a setting hen was in fraction
of a second thoroughly cooked is en-
titled to a place in the catalogue of
wonderful things done by the bolts,
says the Chicago Chronicle.
The farm of Cyrus Barnhart, near
Greensburg, Pa, was chosen. for the
demonstration. Cyrus has tree and a
hen. At the foot of the tree she made
nest and laid eggs in it. Then she set
about Matching them. -.
A thunderstorm came up. The tree
was struck by lightning and demol-
ished. The eggs were broken. The
hens maternal designs were vetoed.
The hen was cooked thoroughly, in
stantly. One second she sat contem-
plative on her dozen of eggs. The
next, before the flash had died away.
she was roast chicken. Not feather
was disturbed, but the flesh was as we'll
cooked as if it had passed an hour in a
hot oven or kettle.
Practical persons in the neighbor-
hood sent this first example of light
ming cookery to the Carnegie institute
at Pittsburg.
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QUEER FORM OF HYSTERrA.
Remarkable Manifestation. nv Won,
en- i'm a Turkish Town in /
Asia Minor,

DR.. Dimopoulos, a medical practi-
TONER of the town of Kutahia, in Asia
Minor, sends to a Smyrna journal
particulars of an "epidemic" among
women of that town, which has prob
ably no parallel in modern expert
ence, says correspondent of the
London Pail Mall Gazette. About
three years ago a young women be-
came subject to a form of hiccough
like the crow of cock, which re-
sisted treatment; soon after a second
began to hiccough like cat mewing.
and in six months there were 60
women in the town affected with
what may be described as animal hic-
coughs, exceedingly varied. Braying,
barking, and sounds like those made
by the fox are included in the list.
DR.. Dimopoulos says that to be in a
room among a number of these
women was like an experience of the
forest or a menagerie. Some men are
affected, but the victims are mostly
women, which Is ineligible if the
doctors theory is correct, that the
disease, for which he vouches, is a
form of initiative hysteria.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1902-03-08
They May Be Avoided by the Follow
ing Exceedingly Simple
Device.

The distressing flow of tears as
we'll as the smarting of the eyes that
attlict those preparing onions for
cooking or for the table may be
easily avoided by means at the COM
mand of everyone. The pungent odor
which affects the delicate membrane
surrounding the eyes is due to
sulphurous oil which volatilizes rapid
ly when the tissue of the vegeta BILE
is broken in any way. To avoid the
effects of this vapor is easy. if
small pared potato is stuck in the
end of the knife with which the cut
ting is done. A chemical affinity at
tracts: the fumes and their presence
is not manifest to the operator till
the potato has reached a certain de-
gree of saturation, when it can be
readily replaced by another. l.
Onions are among the finest nerve
tonics we have, and if spring onions
ore chopped and spread between:
sliced bread and butter they form q
sandwich which, If eaten at supper
time, will do. great deal toward in
surfing good nights Sleep: "a. :s .a
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No. 1877. al
NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RE
DEMPTION PERIOD.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
To B. F. Moore:
Take notice that the following
County. state of Minnesota 1aso c viz:
Northwest. quarter OF Northwest quarter of
Section 9, in Township IS, Range West, was
on the Sth day Of May, a. d. 1900, sold for
the sum of Eight Dollars and five cents
pursuant to a real estate tax Judgment
entered in the District Court in the
Counties of Lake and Cook, on the 21st
day Of March, 1900, in proceedings to
enforce payment of taxes upon real
estate which became delinquent in and
prior to the year 1897 for said Cook
County. That the amount required to
redeem said lands from such sale,
exclusive of the costs to accrue upon
this notice. is the said sum of
Eight Dollars and FIVE cents
with interest thereon at the rate of one
per cent per month from the day Of
said sale to such time of REDEMPTION
and subsequent delinquent taxes, pen
alties and COSTS with interest thereon
yided by Section 1902 of the General
Statutes Of Minnesota of 1894; and the
time within which said lands can be
redeemed from said sale will expire
sixty days after the service of this
notice and proof thereof has been filed
said Cook County.
Witness my hand and official seal this
Path day Of February, A. D. 1902.
(SeaD CHRIS. MURPHY,
County Auditor.
Cook County. Minnesota.
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NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF r.
DEMPTION PERIOD.
STATE OF MINNESOTA. COUNTY
of Cook-ss.
To A. H. Hedderly:
aessrSed no efece e0a' the parcel aS70~9 IF
County. S state of Minn saso C via:
An undivided TIRES fourths interest in lot 2, of
Section 6 III Township Is, Range West was on
the eighth day Of May, A. D. 1900, sold for
pursuant to q real estate tax jud gment
entered in the District Court in the
Counties of Lake and Cook, on the 21st
day Of March, 1900, in proceedings to
enforce payment of taxes upon real
estate which became delinquent in and
prior to the year 1897 for said Cook
County. That the amount required to
exclusive Of the costs to accrue upon
this notice, is the sa1d sum of
Two Dollars and eighty five cents
with interest thereon at the rate Of one
per cent per month from the day of
said sale to such time of redemption
and subsequent delinquent taxes, pen
alties and costs, with interest thereon
to such time Of redemption, as pro-
yided by SECTION 1902 Of the General
time within which said lands can be
redeemed from said sale will expire
sixty days after the service of this
notice and proof thereof has been filed
in the office of the County Auditor of
said Cook County.
Witness my hand and official seal this
oath day of February, A. D, 1902.
(SeaD CHRIS. MURPHY,
County Auditor,
Cook County,, Minnesota.