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Evening star., 1902-08-28
GENERAL MILES BACK
BRIEFLY DISCUSSES HIS TRIP TO
THE PHILIPPINES.
Will Be a Visit to the Army-Regrets
Absence During the G. A. r.
Encampment.

General Nelson A. Miles, accompa MED by
Mrs. Miles and his aids, Coils. Whitney and
Maus, will leave Washington for the Phil
ippine Islands next Wednesday. Two short
stops will be made In the journey to San
Francisco, where the party will arrive in
time to sail on the transport Thomas, which
leaves port on the 18th of September Mrs
Miles may not go farther than San Fran
cisco with the general, but may conclude to
accompany him across the Pacific.
A Visit to the Army.
General Miles discussed his trip briefly to-
day. He had just arrived from his eastern
inspecting tour, and said that there were SO
many things to do in arranging his office
affairs that he had not as yet outlined in
detail his trip after he should reach Manila
Il regard the trip as merely a visit to the
army there" he said. "It may be called an
inspection tour, and l shall make it point
to visit probably every army camp in the
islands, although, as l have said, this mat
ter has not yet been determined upon
Regrets Absence During Encampment.
The general expressed regret that he
should not be here during the Grand Army
encampment My spirit will be here, but
the bones will be somewhere else he re-
marked. Il regret this very much, as
should be delighted to be here with the
comrades of 81, because it will probably
be the last reunion of the army which is
never to be recruited, to be held in the ma
tons capital"
General Miles says that his visit to the
Philippines will consume from thirty to
sixty days. Before going he will make his
annual report to the Secretary of War and
unless a special report is made on this in
spection tour it will not be reported on
until year from the coming October.
The transport Thomas, on which the gen
eral and his party will saii has recently
been overhauled and fitted up, making her
one of the most eIegalt and comfortable of
the army transports 1t is likely that the
return trip will also be made on her
Evening star., 1902-08-28

good Burgundy, good cigars and enjoys his
food. He is appreciative of paintings, tapes
tries and old bronzes. He owns a yacht
that is practically steamship and spends
a great deal of time on it, Every PROPOSE
ton which is presented to him must come
in it's crystallized form. In character and
life he is the exponent of the commercial
tendency of the age
Mr.. Morgan believes that the age of cen
tralization and combination is in its incip-
iency He does not fear political interfer-
ence because he believes that finance has
superseded politics and stateeraft in power
and influence in this country. n. o. M
Evening star., 1902-08-28
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 II at
The Star Office or at any Postal Tele-
graph office. all OF which are branch
offices OF The Evening Star. Terms:
Is cents per week; 25 cents for two
weeks. or so 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.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
SHIPS TO BE orERHAu1Ep.
Those Engaged in the Maneuvers on
the Eastern Coast,

Upon the conclusion of the joint army
ana navy maneuvers practically all the
SHIPS engaged will go to New York harbor
and from time to time they will be docked
ana overhauled preparatory to the work in
"nlch they Will be engaged during the
maneuvers in the Caribbean next winter
only few of the ships need extensive re-
PAIRS out all of them will be better fitted
for cruise In the Caribhean afterFa thor
ough cleaning of their hulls in dry dock.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
DUTCH STEAMER SUNK
Engineer and Nineteen Passengers
Drowned in MALAGA Straits

NlCIoRIA' b. C., August 2S.-A SInga-
pore telegram of July 8 to the Chinese l5oiI
says collision occurred in the Straits of
-nai"d Yesterday between the Dutch mail
Steamer Frinz Alexander and the British
steamer Ban Hin Guin. The Prinz Alexan-
uel tea,, saLk ana the first engineer and nine
teen passengers and crew were drou-,a5
I"enty passengers, including the CAPTAIN.
TT were saved by the Ban Hin Guin. The Ran
mn Gum, which was badly damaged, was
loWeu INTO Singapore and beached.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
PLAGUE IN THE ORIENT
Epidemic Of Cholera Carries
Off Thousands.
COAST CITIES STRICKEN
FOUR EUROPEANS AMONG THE
VICTIMS.
Disease Extends From the Island of
Java to Japan-China
a Sufferer.
CITIES STRICKEN

VICTORIA, B. c., August 2S.-The epi-
demic of cholera is reaching alarming pro-
portions on the other side of the Pacific,
the outbreak extending further and having
more victims than ever before reported. 1t
extends from the Island of Java to Japan,
and almost every city on the coast and
many from the interior are affected. The
disease, too, is being contracted by Euro
peans as well as natives. In Hong Kong,
from the first Ct the outbreak TO August 6,
there had been 523 cases, six of the pa
tients being Europeans; oil deaths, Of whom
four were Europeans In Tien Tsin the last
report placed the number of cases for the
year at 1,049 and T64 deaths within the city
walls and / ,O15 cases and 5G3 deaths out
side the city walls. In other places in
China the proportion of cases and deaths
is just as great. A dispatch says hundreds
have died in Java.
A writer from Kuelin, Kwansi province,
says: II write from a city stricken with
a violent epidemic of cholera. People are
dying by hundreds daily. Outside the city
over 1000 have died. Whole families are
reported to have died
Disease Works Havoc in japan.
In Japan the disease is working fearful
havoc. American engineers are in Shang-
hal preparing for an early start on the
construction of the Canton Hankow rail-
way for which an American syndicate has
a concession.
The Universal Gazette states that at
tempts on the part of Great Britain and
America to make foreign powers receive
the Chinese indemnity on silver basis
have proved "a failure and that, therefore,
China has to pay her indemnity on a gold
basis.
According to telegram from Chingsha,
anti-Christian disturbances have broken
out in the prefecture Of Nung Chow Flu,
Hu Nan province. resulting in the destruc-
ton of a chapel.
1t is said that the order to WI Ting Fang
to remain in Washington was issued al the
suggestion of Niceroy Yuan Shih Kai, who
memoralized the throne, saying that since
the appointment of WI Ting Fang to the
ministry he had done things to the great
benefit of China: that, in his opinion, no
other official was better qualified for the
post and that. therefore, he Strongly recon-
mended that Wa be given another term Of
ministry.
Storms and floods visited China and
Japan during July and the early part of
August. The greatest damage was by
floods along the West Rivers. Several viii
lagos were entirely swept away. many per-
sons lost their lives and thousands were
rendered homeless. The water in many
places reached the roofs Of the houses.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
To End the Strike

HAZELTON, Pa, August 2S-A call was
issued here today for general convention
of the Peoples Alliance of the six anthra-
cite coal counties and the cities of Phila-
delphia and New York, to be held in this
city on September 4. 1t is stated that a
movement will be set on foot to terminate e
the miners strike
Evening star., 1902-08-28
ARMY Orders.

Capt. Beverly w. Dunn, ordnance de-
partment, has been ordered to the Scovin
Manufacturing Company, Waterbury,
Conn.,, on business pertaining to the inspec-
ton of shrapnel cases TO be manufactured
for the ordnance department.
Evening star., 1902-08-28
Assistant in Soil Survey.

The civil service commission will, on Sep
tember 80, hold an examination for the
position of assistant In soil survey. bureau
of soils, Department of Agriculture, at a
salary of $720 to $1,000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
The Reason Why.

The Lyndonville Journal under its
new management quickly acquired a
reputation as the gutter snipe of Yer
mont newspaperdom. It,has been free
with its charges and insinuations, and
in one particular instance violated all
the unwritten rules and ethics of the
craft in its references to a certain
publisher. Last week the Journal
asked its neighboring contemporary,
the St. Johnsbury Republican, ques-
ton. The query and the answer make
such interesting reading at this stage
of the campaign that they are given
below.
VIII the editor of the st. Johnsbury
Republican deny that on several occa-
sions he stated in substance that he is
in this governorship fight for what there
is in it, and would support the candi-
date who would pay most literally ,
[Lyndonville Journal.
Yes, sir We do most emphatically deny
it. Look at the absurdity of the Jour
nails idea. The Republican is supporting
Proctor Were the above implication
correct We ought to be supporting Nc
Cullough, for not many months ago the
present editor of the Journal acting as
the alleged and accredited agent of Nc
Cullough's campaign managers, offered
us more money If The Republican would
support his candidate than we have ever
had proffered us before or since by all
the other candidates for all the offices
put together. But when he found that
The Republicans editorial opinions were
not for sale, and that the same thing
was also true of our neighbor, The CAL
edonian, he did the only thing left for
him to do, If he wanted newspaper sup
port for his candidate in this section,
and that was to so to Lyndonville and
purchase the Journal.
This is the whole story in a nutshell.
The Journals ghost stories are getting
to be quite a feature of the present cam
paign.-[St. Johnsbury Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16

the fact that it is an effort to set a
back fire on McCulloughs original
straddle.
The question is not whether Gen.
Mccullough or Mr.. Proctor would or
would not veto a high license bill. 1t
is where the men stand-what are
their personal convictions Mr.. Proc
tor is a prohibtionist. His life record
is that way, and he has said so
squarely in his letter What he would
strength of the prohibitory law should
be imperiled is a logical deduction
from these facts. Gen. Mccullough,
on the contrary, has no record that
anybody knows of, either as a high Ii
cense man or a prohibitionist In the
Senate in 1898 he deliberately lodged
a vote on this question, and when he
was asked where he stood at the same
time that Mr.. Proctor was asked, he
declined to say whether or not he had
any convictions In plain English, he
straddled. What the logical deduction
from this would be in case of Gen Nc
Cullough's election as governor every
man must figure out for himself-if
he can.
Who is the author of this who is
the Dodger?" circular? Where does it
come from? Who pays for its circula-
tion by the ten thousand? 1t is not
signed; there is no indication of it's
origin; it is apparently a bastard with
no father who cares to own it, How
do the temperance people of the state
how does any honorable fair-minded
man-like this sort of campaign
methods?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16

Candidate Clement holds up the
White River Junction murder by the
malodorous spotter as one of the ex-
hibits of prohibition, and asks dra-
matically. Whose fingers drip with
human blood?" as he charges prohibit
tion with being responsible for the
murder, and with the defeat of JUS
tice through allowing the shooter to
escape with an Indictment for man
slaughter. He does not directly charge
the Anti-Saloon League with response
bility, but he weaves in the name of
that organization so closely that the
natural inference drawn is that the
spotter was one of the leagues spies.
Mr.. Clement is not alone in making
this mistake Some of the Vermont
newspapers continue to refer to the
spotter who did the shooting as an
agent of the league. There are many
good temperance men of the state who
do not approve of the methods of the
Anti-Saloon League, but that organiza-
tion is absolutely free from connection
with the White River Junction case.
The responsibility for hiring the rat
tle-headed youth with the. gun rests
with a certain public official of Wind
sor county.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
In Memory of General Estey

The Vermont Society of Sons of the
American Revolution has issued an
"In Memoriam" folder in suitable
recognition of the death of its presi-
dent, Gen julius Jacob Estey. The
folder contains the record of Gen.
Estey's connection with the organiza-
tion from his enrolment as a mem
ber in 1889, his service as one of the
board of managers, as vice president
of the Vermont society, as its presi-
dent, as its delegate to the national
congress for four successive years, as
member of the general board of man.
ayers, and as member of the commit
tee on national parks. The official let
ter of President John Logan of the ma
tional society to the Vermont society,
expressing his regret and sympathy at
the time Of Gen, Estey's death, is
given, and also the resolutions adopted
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
Call Will Be Issued in a Few DAYS for
Meeting June 1e at Montpelier
Rules for the Caucuses.

The call will be issued in a few days
for the Republican state convention. to
be held at Montpelier Thursday June 49,
at 10 "A. m. for the purpose Of placing
In nomination candidates for state offices,
to be elected in September. state COM
mittee for the next two years will also
be chosen. Representation will be fixed
on the basis Of one delegate for each city
and town, and one additional delegate for
each 100 votes. and each fraction of 100
votes exceeding 50, cast for governor at the
state election in 1900. Delegates must
be chosen at primary meetings called by
the Republican committee OF each city
and town, and must be credited with
proper credentials duly attested by the
respective secretaries of the primary
meetings at which they are elected and
the credentials must he filed with the
state committee Immediately upon ar
rival Of the delegations in Montpelier.
The state committee, at its last execu-
tive meeting. adopted the following reso-
luton: Resolved, THAT in the election
of delegates to the state convention,
the state committee will recognize such
delegates as shall be elected by plura-
lity vote, properly certified by the secre-
taries of the respective caucuses."
1T is further recommended bv the
state committee: THAT the Republican
city and town committees respectively,
take such measures they deem ef-
fectual to prevent any but legal Republi-
can voters from taking part in the res
pective caucuses. that they prepare a
check list for use al such caucuses. and
that all delegates be elected by ballot:
That the primary meetings for the
election of delegates TO the state con-
vention be held in each city and town
not later than Saturday, June T. 1902:
THAT the respective city and town
committees for the two years next en-
suing he eleced at the respective caucuses
held for the election Of delegate
10 the state convention. and that such
committees he reported to the state com
mittee forthwith on blanks which will
be furnished by said committee for such
purpose"
The convention Of the second Congress
sional district will he held at MONTPELIER
Wednesday, June Is. at 2 p. m The
basis of representation will be the same
as in the state convention. Under this
apportionment the towns Of Windham
county will be entitled to delegates as
follows: Athens l, Brattleboro g. Brook
| line l, Dover 2. Dummerston @ Grafton
;, Guilford q Halifax 2, Jamaica . Lon
donderry 3, Marlboro 2, Newfane g. Put
ney 3, Rockingham Z. Somerset l. STRAIT
ton l. Townshend 8. Vernon 2. Wardsboro
2. Westminster 3, Whitingham ?, Will
mington 3, Windham 2.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
Some Things Mr.. Clement Didn't Say

Mr.. Clement put the emphasis of his
address on the contention that the sale
and consumption of intoxicating
liquors is an inherent right He said
nothing about the right of fathers and
mothers to have their children protect
ed, or about the right of the com
munity to protect itself against it's
most menancing evil.
The whole tone and tendency of his
address was in favor of the free use
of beer and intoxicants. Not a word
was said in behalf of a restraining in
fluence on the young and means of
keeping them from their worst and
most destructive temptation.
He inveighed against the gross
abuses of the prohibitory law under
its old fees and moieties provisions,
and ignored the fact that those
abuses have been done away with by
wiping out the fee system and put
ting the states attorneys on salary.
He rallied against the violation of
the prohibitory law. and did what
every high license advocate always
does-ignored completely the patent
fact. known to every resident of every
license town in license states, that a
license law does not enforce itself
and that there is as much fragrant
evasion of the law under high license
and local option as under prohibition
1t was not an address calculated to
win the approval OF fathers and moth
ers with boys and girls to bring up,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
Jackets, Suits, Skirts,
Petticoats and Waists

Our Cloak and Suit Rooms on Second
Floor have been thoroughly refitted during
the month with new hard wood floor, fresh
paper and paint. as well as electric lights,
and we are in better condition than ever to
show our large and varied assortment of
Ladies', Misses and Children's Jackets.
Suits, Capes, Raglans, Petticoats, Silk and
Cotton Shirt Waists, Cotton Underwear
and Wrappers, and we invite all to a tour
of inspection of this stock, which is the
most complete of any in this section of
New England.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
Do You Like That Way?

The latest, probably the final, effort
of the Mccullough men to offset the
disastrous effect of Gen. McCullough's
letter on the temperance question, has
appeared this week in the form of an
anonymous circular sown broadcast
over the state, headed, who is the
Dodger?" This circular gives Fletcher
Proctor's original letter frankly de-
claring himself a prohibitionist, and
Gen. McCulloughs "straddle" letter.
With these letters appears one from
j, S. Stiles of West Derby, asking Mr..
Proctor whether, as governor, he
would or would not veto high license
bill if passed by the legislature, fol
lowed by Mr.. Proctor's reply, in which
he says, in substance, that he believes
his position on this question is fully
covered by his original letter. With
these letters as a basis, the attempt
is made to show Mr. Proctor to be a
dodger or straddler. The whole busi-
ness is too transparent to require Sc
rious attention. 1t carries on its face
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
Some Mccullough Methods.

If Gen Mccullough does not win in
this campaign it will not be because
every possible method of campaign
work has not been used against Mr..
| Proctor by his adherents. Some of
! these methods would not be counte-
nanced for moment by the people
of Vermont if they knew their origin
and animus. At present. apparently
as a desperate resort, a concerted eff
| fort is in progress to array the work
| ingmen of the state against Mr.. Proc
| tor by baseless charges that the Yer
mont Marble company, of which Mr..
! Proctor is the president, is the enc
my and oppressor of labor A small
! strike in one of the company's mills
| is being used as a pointed illustra-
ton" although the strike, which was
over an incidental matter, was quickly
arranged. and the men went back to
their work of their own accord, under
exactly the same terms and conditions
as they left it.
The most disreputable of the meth
| attitude of the company in the man
agement of its affairs at Proctor as
! systematically expressing it's en-
ployes. The charges, by insinuation,
are in substance that thousands of
men are compelled to work for a mere
| pittance. that their slender wages are
| relentlessly absorbed at the company's
store. and that in the matter of medi-
cal attendance and in other ways the
men are subjected to heartless oppres-
! sion.
None of these charges or intimations
| has any basis of truth. At Proctor, as
| in every other great manufacturing
concern of its kind, unskilled labor re-
ceives comparatively small wages
| Though relatively as high here as any
where), but skilled labor commands
good pay, practically at it's own price
| The company owns general store, a
cardinal principle of whose manage
ment is that the necessaries of life
/ shall be kept at the lowest possible
/ price. No compulsion is used to COM
! pei the men to trade on orders. This
| store has no monopoly, but is in COM
| petition with other stores. Clean. com
! Portable, attractive houses with mod
ern appointments are provided at low
monthly rentals, with privilege of pur-
chase. For the benefit of the men and
their families an extensive modern
! system of water works was put
in at the company's expense
A system of insurance is main
| tained by the company without 'ex-
pense to the men, under which, in case
of accident or sickness, the employees
are assured certain proportion of
their daily wages during the term of
disability. A commodious and we'll
equipped hospital, provided by the
company, is for all intents and pur-
poses free hospital, only those men
who have no families being required to
pay for treatment, and then not unless
their means permit it. In addition to
the hospital, district nurses are pro-
vided, who visit without charge all
cases of illness in the village among
the companys employees.
The Vermont Marble company prob
ably does not set itself up as a phil
anthropic concern, but in its practical,
everyday management it is run to make
the conditions of life for its workmen
as helpful and tolerable as possible,
and to relieve them from hopeless bur-
dens lin case of accident or sickness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
The People Who are Thinking.
IFrom the st. Albans Messenger.

~NAftfAiN
Keep your ears to the ground for the
true public sentiment in this matter
of the choice of a Republican candi
date for governor. This bewilderment
of noise in the air is made by the poll
ticians and the newspapers, and every
body knows that during his avowed
canvass of five years, and Heaven only
knows how long a still hunt before
that. General Mccullough has succeeded
in tying up a great many politicians
and newspapers TO his side. General
Mccullough has been after the Vermont
governorship long enough to develop a
pretty fair test of true inwardness of
public sentiment toward his canvass,
and yet within twelve weeks of the nomi-
mating convention he found 1t necessary
to distribute thousands of phamphlets
to let the Vermonters know who he is
and what he is and what he has done
for them. What franker confession that
his Vermont citizenship is IN doubt could
be asked for? What palmer admission
that the people have not called him and
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
New Things for Summer " Every Department.
Elegant Foulard Silks

In all the fashionable shades and choicest
patterns brought out this season. The
most popular fabric for Ladies fine After
noon Toilettes. Dainty Patterns in Wash
Silks---cream white with corded effect and
a large variety of artistic combinations; just
the thing for making into the new designs
of Shirt Waists. Staple Dress Silks in
Taffeta, India, Peau de Sole, and all the
weaves most wanted in Black, White and
Colors. Each line at our we'll known
popular low prices.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-16
NO. 20.
tie understand who he

do not even quite understand who he
really is?
DO not be deceived by noisy claims
that Mccullough is simply going to
stampede the state. Back in the quiet,
away from the confusion Of the poll
ticians. in the towns and hamlets of
Vermont where the Vermont people
live and the Vermont idea is still the
ideal of citizenship somebody is do
ing tremendous amount of thinking,
and those thinking somebodies come
pretty near having their own way when
the actual test comes. politicians or
no politicians.