in the series entitled "The Navy in the Civil War" (New York, 1883).

Capt. W. L. Carpenter, U. S. A.

WATERTOWN, N. Y., July 11.—Capt. William Lewis Carpenter of Company B of the Ninth New York Infantry died at Madison barracks yesterday, aged fifty-four years. He was ill for a long time, and was unable to go to Tampa with his regiment, which went on April 19. His remains will be taken to Washington, D. C., to-morrow.

Capt. Carpenter enlisted in the Second United States Artillery July 29, 1864, and became a Second Lieutenant in the Ninth Infantry on April 5, 1867, since which time he has served continuously with his regiment on frontier duty and in the East. He became a First Lieutenant on December 1, 1873, and reached his present rank on October 2, 1887. At the time of his death he was No. 42 on the list of captains of infantry.

N.Y. Post
Capt. S. B. Porter, July 11/88
COLUMBUS, O., July 11.—Capt. Stephen F. St.

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ures to encourage the belief that we have
obtained a bargain from the commercial
point of view in assuming the responsi-
bility of governing Hawaii.

Mr. Platt came to town on Saturday
to take personal charge of his machine,
and at once publicly repudiated the do-
ings of his Quigg and other confidential
agents. This was a thoroughly charac-
teristic performance to which the agents
are hardened. He sets them at various
kinds of work, which they perform in
strict accordance with his orders, and
when it happens that the results are not
such as to bring credit to him, he repu-
diates all responsibility, and says the
agents acted without authority. The
election-legislation question has become
so complicated, threatens so seriously
to create antagonism between the city
and country Republicans, that Platt does

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