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TEE PESTILENCE RAGETH.
Passengers Removed From the
Pest Fleet to Fire Island.
.Sandy Eook Occuuied by the
Quarantined Immigrants.
TV.* situation on board tho pest fleet detained
in th? Lower Quarantine, New York
Harbor, was, at last reports, decidedly encouracin*.
The latest victim of cholera in the Quarantine
fleet was Scholea Chazm, a youn?
Syrian womaD, who was a steerage passenger
on the Bohemia. She became ill just aft?r
dusk, an i was taken to Swinburne Island.
BIRDS-EYE VIEW*
"Where Quarantined Passengers Aro Quarcere.i
on the Cholera-Infected Ships Thht
She went in the same boat with the bodies
of Regina Gushoff, sixty-six years old, who
-died of heart failure, and Christine Olsen,
eight years old, whose death was due to
marasmus. They were cremated.
Secretary Foster wired Colonel Weber
that if Dr. Jenkins saw fit to discharge the
Noree. her 700 steeraze Dassensers could be
received at Ellis Island." She~is the first
vessel coming in under the President's
twentr-iays' detention order.
The ninety-six cabin passengers of the ;
Rugia, %vho had been sojourning on the New ,
iiarnpshire for a week, were released. The i
Cephus came alongside at 5:35 p. m. and j
took all hands aboard. The iron steam- |
boat touched at Quarantine half an J
Lour later. The passengers were
given three cheers as the Cepheus staamei
to the Hamburg-American Line dock in Hoboken.
The passengers were landed without
trouble. They were glad once more to
-touch terra firms.
The Bohemia's cabin passengers were next
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aav craasierreu wj mo iion ua.iipunc, uu-*
the Wyoming's and Scandia' 8 steerage passengers
were taken to Hoffman Islana to
take the places of the Normannia's and
Rugia's steerage passengers sent to Camp
Uow.
The Moravia's steerage passengers were J
?ent to Hoffman Island as soon as the
Scandia's were washed and disinfected.
On the Moravia all are well; on the Normaunia
all are well. Each ship will be dis- i
infected with special regard to her fire- 1
room. Many of the cases of illness reported 1
among the stokers from incoming ships is 1
the resuit or carelessness, not cuoieraiu j
troubles. i
From the Bohemia one staerage passenger ]
was taken to Swinburne. It was a twcyear-old
child suffering from pulmonary i
trouble. I '
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SIGNALLING AN INCOMING STEAMER.
There are no new cases of cbolera, but j
eleven oases of measles. These latter cases j
are in number below the average or arrivals f
for any month.
Prom Fire Island comes the report that J
there has been no disturbance except of an
electrical nature. Something happened to v
the telegraph wire, ana mere was no means ^
of sending dispatches except by boat to the
mainland. The alarmists declared that s
the wire was cut by baymen. n
Captain G. D. Russell arrived about noon ?
on the Ripple with seventy-eight men of the ?
Thirteenth. They make the full number of p
soldiers now there 23 J, besides the thirtyfive
policemen, a force which seemed to be
almost absurdly large in view of the peacelol
attitude ef the baysiders.
The passengers were very anxious to know
how long they were to stay there, but could srat
no satisfactory information. All hands
were furious at the retention. 3
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Beebe, of Boston, who
are among the Wyoming's passengers de- a
tainedat Fir? Island, took the Wyoming ?
to avoid the cholera, and are much ?
chargined at their ill luclt. Mr. d
Ernest Jolly, a Paris journalist, ?
came over for a short vacation. Now 51
be will be obliged to return to France in the P
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1 BIRDS-EYE
VIEW O!
Where a Camp Was Prepared for Ei
firs: steamer be can get after getting to New
YoriC. He is disgusted at his experience ]
and declares that if La'ayette had been <
<*Mn?an>in<^ '?n KL- atriirul nc ho hn 1 hftATI 1
V^uai axibiUCU v/*? uio ui * * V IM, mu ><v mm* I .
he woul 1 never have fought America's bat- <
ties. i
';'ne three Parsee merchants and the Par- 1
see journalist from Bombav are filled with 1
wonder at rn-ir treatment. They regard
choleraniuc.i as we would resrar.i measles. ,
'i'fce sanitary arrangements have been
preat.y imp:\?ve.J. Dr. Vou;ut is to be congrnia.ate.l
on tlie e.'licient winner in wh cj
ne has .'ooke t after matters. A.11 ^arnage nas
been < arri? 1 away and buriei, anldismr'ec;ants
have oeeu freely used everywhere.
N<?i-n??iiiiia's l*a?>en^t'rs Itel^asetl.
A l o: tue .S'oriu iiin:a?s cibia pis-ten xers
were ?uselarred iron tjairanti-ie untie
SIX AT A BIRTH, i
The Wile of a North Carolina Mountaineer
Beats ttie lJecortl.
The wife of Charles Billings, a poor mountaineer,
living in Ashe County, North Carolina,
twenty-eight miles from the nearest
railroad statioD, has just given birth to sis
children, all boys. They weigh from four
and a half to nine pounds each and all are
alive.
Mrs. Billings is of medium stature, and
thirty-one years old. She has four other
children, but they were all born singly.
Billings depends on game, fish, etc., for a
'living, but since the arrival ot the sextet he
I has been accepting congratulations and
{.donations extended by rural hospitality.
third day after tbeir landing on Fire Island.
Four hundred and fifty of them, together ;
with some of the officers and cabin stewards, j
were brought from Fire Island and landed on
the Hamburg-American Company's wliarf
in Hoboken. The others, about fifty In
number, by special consent of Governor
Flower, crossed the bay to Babylon from
Fire Island, an 1, protected by a detathment
of militia, went to New York City by rail.
No one who has not passed through a similar
terrible experienc5can begin to realize
how gl:id these people were to be released
from imprisonment. They danced and
shouted and sang and cheered. For more
tban two weeks they had been penned up in
a cholera-stricken ship, in whica peoole were
dying every day from the deadly nestilencs.
For another week, they had been tossed on
heavv sea?, deprived or sleep, nearly starred
and finally confronted with an excited mob
that threatened parsonal injury if the
pass engers were landed where the State authorities
had decided to temporarily confine
them. The last night of their detention was
something of a jubilee. In the big parlors of
OF FIRE ISLAND.
After Their Release from Imprisonment
Are Anchored in New York Bay.
the Surf Hotel musicales were given, followed
by dancing, and there were also formal
gatherings, at wtiich very pretty speeches
were delivered when soma member of the
ship's crew or some person who had especially
earned the gratitu le of the passengers
was presented with a gold watch or a handsome
cash contribution.
The Sandy Hook Itetnge.
The opening of Camp Low, Sandy Hook,
N. J., which had baen sat apart for the reoption
of immigrants from the infected
vessels and from Hoffman Island, was deayed
for several days after its oreparation
lad been completed, but it was finally
arouzht into use.
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MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF FIRE ISLAND
AND SANDY HOOK.
Dr. Hamilton say3 that he was forced to
postpone the opening of the camp, because
She New Jersey authorities refused to allow
the New Jersey Central Railroad to run
freight trains to the camp, as they had
oromised to do. This compelled the authorities
to use tugs for the transmission of supplies.
The United States marines have comnonpjvi
cu&rd dutv. The revenue cutter I
jr^nt, with Dr. Efamilton, 8urgeon Croner
ind Captain Smythe, was anchored near by.
Sixteen women attendants are in charge
under command of Mrs. P. H. Dunkinson,
in energetic middle-aged woman, the
daughter of J. R. Johnston, who during
war times was Mayor of Hoboken.
The formal opemng of Camp Low and the
declaration of strict quarantine within its
lines, within less than twenty-fonr hours,
burned a deserted beach into a small
town, alive with the stir and bustle
}f 1056 people, speaking nearly
averv language under the eutL The
rOO detained persons who were landed from
Hoffman Island include forty-five Americans
who were cabin passengers, but were
compelled to return home in the steerage
iwintr to the lack of DroDer accommodations !
provided for the summer traffic by the Ham- |
jure-American Packet Company.
The camp was reinforced next morning
>y the arrival of the steamer William
Fletcher with 356 people from the Hoffman
Island detention hospital. The new arrivals
vere very indignant at the Hoffman Island
luthorities, who sent them away from there
it 5:45 o'clock without anything to eat or
trink. It was 10 o'clock before they could
?feJ.
The latest report received from Camp
/)w was of an alarming nature. It was as
ollows: "Cholera has broken out in Camp
x)w. Francesco Mareno died at 9 p. m.
rorn the terrible disease. His death was reported
by iSanitary Officer Rouch at midlight.
"A widow, the mother of four childreto,
rasalso stricken down. She was isolated
ut she died in a few hours.
"It is a singular fact, as announced by the
anitary authorities, that both the dead i
lan and the stricken woman were passen- |
era on the Normannia who have been quarntined
eighteen days. The utmost anxiety
revaite and fears of a panic are enterlined."
The Plague Abroad.
The total number of cholera cases at Ham*
urg, Germany, up to the time the last bul(tin
was given out had been 10,470, of which
110 ended in death.
The reports for this day indicated a rapid
batementof the disease in all except two
r three suburbs. Th i numoer of fresh cases
ad been 621, or eighty-two less than the
ay before; the number of deaths 187; the
umber of ouriais, 292. In public institutions
there were on this evening 2739 cholera
atient8.
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P 8AXDT HOOK.
nigrants from the Infected Ships.
The steamer Urauvw, which arrived at
Hull, England, from Hamburg, was duly
ixamineu by the Health authorities at Hull
an.l pronounce-1 free from infection. Next
lay one of the firemen was taken suddenly
ill with Asiacic cholera, which had remained
latent duriug the short voyage from Hamburg.
The physicians who examined the seaman
suppose I to have cholera on the steamer
Eppleton, wnich arrive 1 at Queanstown
from Newcascle, have decided thit the case
is not one ot' Asiatic cholera. The vessel
has been release!.
Fifteen people are at pr>?sent un ler treatment
for cholera in' Antwerp, Belgium, bat
no new cases have been reported.
The railway companies have cancelled all
arrange.turn's tor provincial excursions to
l'.tris in oan-ction with the National fetes.
KILLED HiS SISTER.
A Ten-Year-Old Lad Sets Fire to Hei
Clothes.
George Gould, a ten-year-old boy, burne 1
his sister Grace, aged six years, to death
near Masontown, Pena.
The lad had been carrying coal fron their
coal mine to the house, a short distance, and
when his mother said she would sen 1 Grace
to helu him he said he would burn Grace if
she came.
The sister went along to the mine, however,
and there the boy sat her on fire with
a pit lamp, and after "watching her clothes
burn for a while he ran off. The child diei
in a few hours in terrible agony.
I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
The National Convention of Republican
Leacue Clubs close i its session in Buffalo,
N. Y. President Clarkson and the other
officers were re-elected; at a mass-meeting
in the afternoon Whitelaw P.eid and others
spoke.
An operation was performed on Mrs.
n t^,? r.ol-o v v and the
doctors declared her condition to be slightly
improved.
Labor Commissioner Peck and his stenographer,
Egbert Rogers, were arrested at
Albany, N. Y., on the charge of destroying
the documents used in his recent labor report,
which alleged that the McKinley bill
had increased wages.
Wesley Warren killed his sweetheart,
Lizzie Peak, in Mount Holly, N. J, by
stabbing her in the neck with a carving
knife.
The two little children and the servant
girl of Robert Craven were burned to death
by the upsetting of a coal oil lamp at Ashbourne,
Penn.
A fire in the machine shop of the Brooklyn
(N. Y.) Navy Yard damaged the machinery
of the new United States cruiser
Cincinnati about $40,000 and caused a loss
on belting, castings and buildings of $20,000.
An apparent attempt was made to blow
up Governor Flower, of New York, with an
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internal macmne coocsaieu m a
which was sent to him at the Windsor Hotel,
New York City.
Mrs. Simon H. Wessler and her only
daughter, Kate, a young woman of nineteen,
were instantly killed by a train at Blairstown.
N. J.
Tiie Harris New York State Light Cavalry
Veterans dedicated at Gettysburg,
Penn., the monument which marks the position
held by them during the battle. The
invocation was made by Chaplain Buell, of
Cumberland, Md., who also performed the
dedicatory rites. The oration was then delivered
by Eugene B. Traves, of Peekskill.
The Fifteenth Regiment left Homestead,
Penn., tor home. There were many regrets
expressed by the people at the Carnegie mill
at seeing the regiment leave. About two
hundred of the men iu the mill quit work
when they heard that tha soldiers were ordered
home.
Senator Hill, of New York, formally
opened the Democratic campaign by sneaking
bafore a large audience in the Acacemy
I of Music, Brooklyn. ^
Edward Fotter acciaenraiiv saot onu mstantly
killed his wife at New Haven, Conn.
He was cleaning his gun in his wife's bedroom,
when it was discharged and the bullet
struck her in the neck.
Viola. Porter Chappelle, cdlored, died
at her home in Ellington, Conn., aged 109
years. She was born in Balchertown,
Mass., but had lived in Ellington seventy
years. She was the oldest woman in the
State.
South and West.
Four men were killed and two injured in
a head-end collision between a freight and
an accommodation train,near Marsballtown,
Iowa.
Teomas H. Watts, ex-Governor of Alabama
and Attorney-General in the Confederal
Pfthinet. died at Montgomery, Ala., a
few days since, after several" weeks' illness, j
The convention of the People's Party and I
the Jeffersonian Democracy at Birmingham,
Ala., nominated candidates for Congress
and Presidential electors.
William Dunphv, the pioneer cattle
king of California, died at his home in San
Francisco a few days ag;o, agei fifty-four
years. He was worth $15,000,000.
Eight persons were injured in a rear end
collision between two sections of a G. A. R.
excursion at Kent, Ohio.
The Hawaiian Consul, D. A. McKinley,
brother of the Governor of Ohio, died of
naralvsis a few days aco at Son Francisco,
&aL "
Brad D. Slaughter, United States Marshal
for the District of .Nebraska, has resigned,
because, he says, the Government is
too slow in paying his bills.
Couriers from Pine Ridge (South Dakota)
Agency said that the Indians were
again dancing at secluded cam os. The Brules
especially^are surly and defiant.
The People's Party of Arkansas withdrew
four of the eight name? on its ticket
for Electors-at-Large. Their places will be
filled by four Republicans, This is a fusion
against Democracy.
Thousands of dollars' worth of property
has been swept away by the fierce prairie
tires which have been raging north and east
of Newcastle, Col., ror some time.
Albert Fuller and Henry Casper
fought a du?i at Gold Ridge, Ala., Casper
being killed and Fuller fatally shot. An old
quarrel caused the affair.
The Chinese Six Companies have issued
from San Francisco, Cal., a second proclamation
warning their countrymen not to
comply witn the registration law and
threatening them with evil if they do.
Washington.
Minister Ryan telegraphs to the State
Department tnat, by a decree of the Mexican
Government, corn, cornmeal and bean9
will continue to be admitted free from tariff
duty until the 30th of next November, and
after that until the last day of. January,
1893, Bubject to reduction of seventy-five per
cent, of tbe tariff duty.
Thousands of visltore began flocking into
Washiugtoa, which was gayly decorated
with bunting from one end of the city to
the other in honor of the Grand Army encampment.
The Bureau of the American Republics
at Washington has been informed that on
and after January 1, 1892, the Republic of
Guatemala will remove all import duties
upon printed books not bound.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs announces
that the Cho.taw troubles in Indian
Territory have been temporarily quiecea.
Sixteen Indians have surrendered for trial
and the armed bodies are disbanding.
The Interior Department announces that
the Kiowas and Comanches are ready to
take lands in severalty. This will result iu
the opening of more than 2,000,0C0 acres to
settlement.
The body of John Hackman, a member of
Phil Sheridan Post Nb. 110, of Newark, N.
J., and a member of tho Newark Fire Department,
was found in the James Creek
Canal at Washington. When tho body was
found most of his money, his watch and his
overcoat were missing. Foul play was suspected.
Foreign.
Candahar, India, is completely demoralized
by cholera; consequently the Governor
ha? postponed the dace of the proposed
attack on the Bazaras.
The Mexican Congress was opened by
President Diaz.
A passenger train was wrecked about
thirty miles from Torres Novas, Portugal.
Nine were killed ana eigne were injurea
severely. The cause of the accident was a
loose rail.
General L. Nueilla, late in command
of the revolutionists in Spanish Honduras,
who was recently captured, was shot at
Truxillo, after having been found guilty of
treason by court martial.
. The Spanish Government has declared
October 12 a perpetual National holiday in
commemoration of the discovery of
America.
Emi.v Pacha was reported to be in power
of the Arabs at Lake Albert E.lward Ny
anza, Ainca.
Kike destroyed 100 houses "in Olkusz, Austrjit.
Fourteen persons were burned to
death and eight others were fatally injured.
Thk scarlet fever epidemic Is assuming
serious proportions in London.
Late >-edorts from the cholera-infected
cities 01 Europe showel a slight though general
decrease in the progress of the disease.
The eviction of tenants was resumed by
several landlords in Ireland.
Thk influenza lias spread with alarming
rapidity at the port of Lurio, Peru, and the
deaths are counted by the dozens daily.
The epidemic also prevails in the Pachamac,
Cionguilla, Huyacan and Manchay valleys.
Thk German military bill will provide for
doubling the strength of military companies
and that the consequent Increase of expenditure
for military purposes will exceed
^ $25,OOO.QOO.
THE G. LI ENCAMPMENT ;
Monster Parade of the Veterans
at Washington.
Details of the Order's Twentysixth
Keunion,
The first day of the twenty-sixth annual
encampment of the G. A. R., held this year
at Washington, opened with fair weather,
crowds of veterans and visitors and many
| interesting ceremonies.
The feature of the day was the dedication i
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or liraDrt Array fiace. ine om ?uii? iuu,
just south ot the Executive Mansion. The i
ceremonies were preceded by a parade.
The procession consisted of five brigades,
commanded by General Eugene A. Carrusa,
as follows: Troop of the reeular army, naval
batteries and marine.?. District National
Guard, Post of tha Department of the
Potomac, G. A. R. and Sons of Veterans.
It started nt ten o'clock from Second street
west of the Capitol and proceeded up Pennsylvania
avenue to a stand in front of the
Treasury, where it was reviewed by VicePresident
Morton.
At neon Commander Palmer, in a short
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address from the gratia sraua, aeciareu mo ,
encampment opened. He then read the fol- I
Jo wing telegram from President Harrison:
Loon Lake, N. Y., September IS. 1892. i
General John Palmer, Commander-in-Chief
G. A. R:
1 had looked forward with much interest
to the great rehearsal in "Washington next
Tuesday of the victors' march of 1863. I
would have esteemed it one of the highest
honors of my public life to have welcomed
to the National Capital and to have received
in its historic avenue this representative assembly
of the men who not only saved the
city from threatened destruction, but made
it the worthy political capital of an unbroken
Union. It would also have been one of the
most favored and tender incidents of my
private life to have taken these comrades
again by the hand, but all this has been denied
to me by the intervention of a sad and
imperative duty, and I can only ask you to
give to all my cordial greetings and good
wishes. Accept my sincere thanks for your
very kind and sympathetic message.
Benjamin Harrison. I
oriMAiinnfl'l fitof. VIA hurl I
VTCUCia* X U1IU71 ttUU7U.ivvv? ?UMV ?w
received word from the President that he
was compelled with great regret to withdraw
his invitation to the Grand Army to
a reception in the White House, but
that the house and grounds would be
open. The formal dedication address was
then delivered by Vice-President Morton.
The programme was closed with brief addresses
by Secretary Noble. Attorney-Gen*
eral Schoiield and General J. W. Keifer.
Second Day.
The second day of tbe encampment was
devote i to the grand G. A. R. parade.
Tnrough dense lanes of thousands of people
who lined the pavements and side
streets, past buildings whose lavish display
of fluttering banners, flags and streamers
attested the cordiality of the welcome of
their owners, cheered on by the fresh voices
of hundreds of school children singing patriotic
airs.
Q, A <imT? f Ua PaniiWi'n manv
OU LUC urauu AlUiJ U1 bucxn^uwiiv, W41?UT
thousand strong, marched up the broad,
smooth, asphalted Pennyslvania avenue,
along whose rough cobblestones, as members
of the greatest of modern armies, they
had marched twenty-seven years ago.
The entire line of march was decorated
with banners, bunting, corps insignia and
flags until each side of the long stretch between
the Capitol and the Treasury Department
was as picturesque and gay as the
decorators' skill could make it.
The weather wa3 perfect at the beginning,
one of those rich autumnal days for
which Washington is famous.
At 10:10 o'clock the head of the procession
swung around Pennsylvania avetiue, up
Fifteenth street past the Treasury Building.
Their wheel around the corner was a
signal for the 800 young school girls on the
neighboring grand stand, led by several
conductors oiowju< uujiiouo auu uuica, uutui
young voices burst forth, fresh and strong;,
and in unison, singing "America."
The District Old Guard and the Albany
Battalion, which formsd the escort to the
Commander-in-Chief, presented a fine appearance.
After General Palmer and hi!
staff came the Carter Bind, of Boston,
leading the Sixth Massachusetts and the
First Defenders, of Pennsylvania, who, at
the first comers, had the right of line ot all
the Grand Army posts. They marched in
double-line formation, which avoided any
dispute over precedence.
Tae Illinois Department^of ^he G. A. R
headed the State posts. The State was very
well represented and they presented an attractive
appearance. Secretary Rusk was
one of the leading figures of the staff of the
Wisconsin Department, which followed.
The Keystone State was the banner State
of the procession in number?, and thirtyfive
of her crack cavalry men rode past at
the head of the long line of Pennsylvanlans,
who took up the whole of the avenue atone
time. There were probably 10,000 of them in
line, and it took an hour and a half for
them to pass one point.
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uuio'3 marcuers wero uisi/iuuuvo iu
way and were probably absolutely unique as
a marching body, for in their ranks, stepping
briskly along lika the plainest citizan,
was ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes.
President Hayes received great cheering
along the whole line of march. He marched
afoot, and his bat was in bis band most of
the time, waving a courteous response to
the kindly greetings he constantly received.
There were 5000 Onio men in line.
The Empire State posts followed close upon
the Ohio veterans, and in one of two carriages
at their head rode Generals Sickles,
Slocum and Rosecrans. The New York City
and Brooklyn posts led the New York detachment.
New York also had many battle flags in her
procession, and one collection of about
eighteen carrie 1 in a body, was everywhere
^rested with applause. It took New York
just one hour to pass, and the Empire S:ate
representatives would have been much
longer in going by were it not
for tho fact that by direction
of the Commander-in-Jhief orders had been
eiveu to close up the ranks, waich theretofore
had been rather open. There were ap?
proximately 8000 of the New Yorkers.
Connecticut's troops, about 2 )00, were all
neat and tine-looking men, with good large
bands.
Finally, at 0:03 o'clock, tho last veteran
had passed by, the grand parade of the
twenty-sixth annual encampment of the G.
a. R. was over, and was ready to be written
nu unqualified success in the page of
ti. A. R. history. Iu every way ic had
equalled the expectations of its projectors,
ixore men were in line than at any other
J rand Army parade. An estimate close on
:o 50.0iX) men would not be far from the
mark. The appearance of the men was
highly creditable to to the organization.
Third Day.
Boon after eleven o'clock Benjamin Palmer
opened the encam pment in due form. After
orayer by the Chaplaiu-in-Ci)i?f, Rev. S. B.
Paine, of Ocean Grove, N. J., the Committee
on Credentials reported the delegates
present; then the Commander-in-Caief becan
readine his annual address:
The first part of General Palmer's address
wns devoted to speakin? of the apnropriateness
of Washington as the place of reunion
for the veterans of the war, and to reminiscences
and associations connected with
the spot. Speaking of the return of the
Union Army on its disbandment to civil
duties and avocations, he said that every
avenue of business life numbers former
soldiers bv thousands and tens of thousands,
and that ho believed that the key to
the soldiers' success %vould be found in the
school of discipline and training from which
they graduated twenty-seven years ago. A
review of his work while Commander-inChief
followed. All thnt he said on the subject
of pensions was as follows:
The nassace of the Disability bill under
date of Jane 27, 1890, was so munificent in
its scope, providins pensions to all honorably
discharged soldiers suffering from mental
or physical disabilities, recognizing the
service of a class who by lapse of time were
unable to furnish the testimony of their
comrades as to the origin of their disabilities,
requiring only the certificate of a phy
sician and the examination oy a jjbupjuu
board, that no additional legislation was
sought by the last National Encampment.
The Pension Committee have endeavored to
have corrected certain inequalities in the
ratings which were not commensurate with
existing disabilities, from which many comrades
are suffering, all of which will be
given to you in detail by the committee."
At tbe conclusion or the address the reports
of the Adjutant-General, Quartermaster-General,
Burgeon-General and
Judge-Advocate General were submitted.
The report of Adjutant-General Fred
Phisterer gives the total expenditures of bis
office during the fiscal yeaj as ?11,800, and
as the per capita tax of two cents per nember
produces an income of but $8000, the
Adjutant-General says that the tax should
be at least three cants per memT>er per an
IiliLii. XiW tyixya tuui) soiui-uaauai iciuiua
from posts aud departments are unnecessary,
and that annual reports will suffice.
He also calls the present inspection system
unsatisfactory and cumbersome, and
thinks that the instaliiug officer of a post
could also act as its inspector. " A revision
of the present rules and regulations is also
recommended. The number of persons entitled
to seats at the present encampment is
stated at 1148, of which 453 are representatives-at-!arge
and apportioued according to
membership December 31 last.
During the last calender year there was a
gain of 229 in the number of posts, making
the total number 7508, There was a gain in
momhaMhin nP Ai d'11 hnt; f.Vio Inasoa woro
06,109, leaving the number of members in
good standing December 31 last 407,781, an
apparent loss of 1703.
Tbis loss is said to be apparent, because in
one department it was found that nearly
three thousand had been added without authority
and the returns previously made
were incorrect, so that there wa3 actually a
gain of about twelve hundred in the total
strength of the organization. During the
year the deaths numbered 6404; honorably
discharged, 18 i9: transfers, 9460; suspensions,
34,387; dishonorable discharges, 467,
and delinquents, 13,582. Commenting on the
losses, the Adjutant-Ganeral says:
"Practically it may be said that the membership
of the Grand Army is now at its
highest point. It, no doubt, will reman about
the above numbers for a few years to come,
when, necessarily, it must decr3ase, and the
will V?a rini/1 "
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Departmental returns show that from July
1, 1891, to December 31, 1891, $96,011 was ex*
pended by the various posts for the relief of
unfortunate comrades, soldiers' widows and
orphans and the total expenditure on that
score from July 1,1871, to June 3J, 1891, was
$2,221,704. The Adjutant-General believes
that these figures are not correct, and says
that thero is no doubt the actual amount was
larger.
The annual report of QuartermasterGeneral
l'aylor to the Adjutant-General
shows the total expenditures of the organization
during the last year to have been
$30,216, leaving a balance on hand of $7543.
The amount realized from the caput tax was
813.051. and from sale of supplies $22,147.
The largest item of expensa during the year
was ?12,357 for postage and incidentals.
The total amount to the Grant Monument
Fund Is $11,378.
B. F. Stevenson, Surgeon-General of the
G. A. R., in his report says that at the close
of the fiscal year June 39, 1892, there were
870,078 pensioners on the rolls, and that the
appropriations aggregated 5139,133,887. In
addition to these vast expenditures the annual
appropriation for the numerous Government
homes was $2,633,840. There are
nion 173 (rorernment cemeteries kept up by
Government appropriation.
The most important and interesting feature
of the afternoon session wa3 the selection
of Indianapolis as the place where the
next annual encampment will be held.
Lincoln, Neb., announced that she would
not mate a contest, and after Governor
Chase, of Indiana, had made an address extolling
the advantages of Indianaapolis,
that place was selected by acclamation. The
encampmnnt then adjourned till 9 o'clock
next morning.
LATEBNEWS,
The Venezuelan Government ch&rtsrod a
swift 1000-ton steel steamer in New York
City and decided to arm hoe and send her
after the South Portland, which left New
York a few days ago with contraband sup
plies, and win suoaequenciy euipiujr uu as a
cruiser on the Venezuelan coast.
The South Carolina Democratio State
Convention met at Columbia. It was composed
of 234 Tillmanltes (Farmers' Alliance)
and fifty-six Conservatives. A platform
was adopted which pledges the support of
the State party to Cleveland and Stevenson.
Governor Tillman and the Incumbent State
officers were then renominated with the exception
of Attorney-General McLauria, who
recently received the nomination for Congress
in the Sixth District, in whose stead
District Attorney-General Townsend was
nominated.
Ex-Governor Pokter, of Indiana, while
in Washington, said that the report that he
had resigned the position of Minister to Italy
is true.
The whaling bark Cape Horn Pi goon, of
New Bedford, Mass., has bean seized by a
Russian man-of-war as a prize sealing
schooner for whaling in the open Okhotsk
Sea, and has been taken to Vladivostock.
Edward Pabkeb Deacon, the Amerl.
can who killed M. Abielle, Mrs. Deacon's
admirer, has b?en pardoned by President
Carnot of France. _ ^
THE LABOR WORLD,
New Yore has a woman cobbler.
In Japan the women load the vessels.
Maine barbers go from house to house.
Fitchbukg, Mass., ha3 never had a
strike.
New Yoke's "L" road employes receive
their pay in gold.
fiincivpvTn OnK la aairi to be the best
organized city ill this country.
The British Trades Union Congress favored
an eight-hour day ma'ie compulsory
by law.
The Canadian Labor Conzrsss advocatel
paternalism and also the exclu^on of tas
Chinese.
There is a movement ainon^ the London
domestic servants for extra pay tor work
on Sundays.
The six-dav law has been adopted by t' e
priULtfl S 1L1 i uiauci^uia, a uc pwu***wj iui
violation of the rule is $5.
Of about 100 strikes forty-seven were
fai.urcs in Italy Jast year. "Over 148,009
men participated in these strikes.
Laboii speeches nre delivered by means of
the phonograph in many meetings of the
political labor campaign in Queensland,
Australia.
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x Jtifc auvcrauicut uauji uuicau uu 10ban?,
Australia, has about 0O0O applications
for work every week, of whom hardly onetentli
can be placed at very low wages.
Many of the sawmills in the lumber regions
of Michigan are idle, the men employed
to operate them having gone on
strike to enforce a demand for better wages.
Tbe Amalgamated Society of Engineers
has declared by a vote of 54, GOO out of 70,U00
members that overtime is an evil dammental
to workmc-n generally and should be
abolished.
The daily wage of a regular hand at the
Hungarian mines is only thirty-two cents to
forty cents, and of a temporary hand
twenty-eight cents. Boys are paid from
twelve cents to twenty-four cents a day,
and women from twelve cents to twenty
cents. In the coal mines the wage3 are
rather hightr; men are paid from fortyeight
cents to sixty cents a day, boys twenty
cents to twenty-eight cents, and women
eighteen cents to twenty cents.
SFDT EACH OTHER,
A Bloody Hand-to-Hand Fi^jht Be- I
tween Mississippi Kiver Boatmnn.
The City of Sheffiel-i took to St. Louis,
Mo., a few nights ago the mutilated bodies
of Britton Johnson, of Eastport, Tenu.,
and William Johnson, of Rivertown, Ala.
The two men were employed on the boat,
and had quarrelled.
When they met on deck each drew a revolver
and began tiring. Each fired a shot
iuto the other's body and then clinched and
continued firing;.
At the eighth shot Britton st?2gered, but
with a last desperate rally lunged at William.
threw his arm about his neck, thrust
the muzzle of his revolver in his face and
fired. Both fell dead together, each with
five tullets in his body. I
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W?AVEB AND FIELD.
A Joint Address Accepting the
People's Party Nomination.
GENERAL JAMES B. WEAVER.
Generals Weaver and Field, the People's
Party candidates for President and VicePresident,
accept the nominations of their
party in the form of an address to the
people of the United States, which was
given out for publication in Pensacola, Pla.
After announcing their hearty accord with
the Omaha platform, they say:
"We have already, one or both of us,
visited fifteen States in the Northwest aud
South, and if health and strength are
spareu we intend to continue the work until
the campaign is closed.
"We have been received by the great body
of the people with marked cordiality. The
enthusiasm-manifested everywhere is simply
without parallel and extends to every part
of the Union thus far visited.
"By contact with the people we have become
acquainted with their wants, their
sufferings, and have been brought lace to
face with the manifold perils wbich so seriously
threaten our civilization and the overthrow
of popular government. The people
are in poverty, their substance is being aevnnr?t
hv heartier monoDolists. trusts.
pools and money sharks. Labor is largely
unemployed, and when work is obtainable
the wages paid ara for the most part unritcunerative.
"The old parties are in hostile camps
arranged on sectional lines and represent
the bitterness and cruelties of the past,
every four years discussing the issues of the
late war, which should long since have been
allowed to pass from the political discussions
of the day. Notwithstanding the
bitterness existing between them, they vie
with each other in their subserviency to
capitalistic and corporate greed. They ara
incapable o" dealing sincerely with tha vast
problems evolved by the growth of the past
quarter of a century.
??TT?v-m tha nrnat. ennnnmio rmestions of the
v a- ?
ape taey are practically one in purpose, differing
just enough to enable them to carry
on a sham battle, while the work of robbery
and spoliation proceeds unabated.
"In the meantime the farmers and planters
North and South and wage earneis everywhere
are proscribed, maltreated, brought
into competition with convict labor, an 1 in
many instances are shot down by hired mercenaries,
acting under orders of arrogant
corporations, which have unblus :ingly
usurped the function* of government an i
presumed to act in its stead.
"These corporations dominate thedailj
press and control the lines of daily communication
with the people."
After denouncing the imparity of elections,
North and South, the address says iu
conclusion: "All who desire the revival of
business, all who wish for the return of prosperity
to our countrv, all who desire to relieve
the depreised industries and wage
workers of our common country, all who desire
an adequate increase of our currency
and the free coinage of silver, all who desire
the abolition of banks of issue ani constitutional
control of the great instruments
of commerce by the Government of
the United States, all who desire
that the laws of taxation shall be
equitably adjusted to the property of the
country, all who desire that the public domain
snail be sacredly held in trust for the
people, all who desire that the highways between
the States shall be rendered sub
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servient to me popuiai kwu,
all who desire the restoration of fraternity
among the people and the obliteration ot
sectional animosities should at onca regard
it as their conscientious duty to align themselves
under the banner of this great industrial
and fraternal movement."
BUINS AT BOOKAWAY.
The Famous Resort Almost Totally
Destroyed By Fire.
Rockaway Beach, one of the most popular
and famous of the seaside resorts in the vicinity
of New York City, was almost
completely destroyed by Are a few
afternoons ago. Nearly every
hotel and place of amusement' in the
town, all the stores and several cottages
?seventy buildings in all?were swept
away with a loss of over a million dollars.
From the railroad station to the beach, and
along the shore for a quarter of a mile,
there remains only a neap of charre 1
ruins. And somewhere in those 160
acres of ruins lies the body of a woman. Mrs.
Phillips, whose escape from the building
where the fire broke out whs cut off by the
flames. A man, William O'DonnelJ, who
attempted to rescue her was horribly burnt,
although his injuries were not necessary
fatal.
The fire started in John Cornish's Seaside
Dime Museum, on Seaside avenue, about
half way between the station and the beach.
Iq quick succession the flames attacked
nth?r hotels alone the beach and
on both sides of Seaside avenue.
Among the principal buildinsjs which
went were: Collins's Hotel, Murrav &
Datz?9 Grand Ocean Hotel, the New York
Hotel, Peterson & Barry's Hotel, Meyer's
Hotel, navilion and pier; the CoJumbus
Hotel, F. Roach's Hotel, the annex of Wain
wrigbt & Smith's notei, nainwrigut oc
Smith's bathing pavilion, Barcheli'sgrocery
store, R. Simpson's Hotel, Kruse's Hotel
Dr. Pull's drug store, Peterson's pool room
and the Glooe Hoce!, the Are tower, the
electric light station. Garrison's Hotel, ani
on the beach thn Hotel Stuttgart, the Ocean
House, the Columbia, Schuber's Hotel,
Morrison's Hotel, tne Grand Republic
Hotel, the Hotel Albermarle and the St.
J ames-on-the-Boulevard.
Bsside those buildings, which are all largo
size, a host of smaller ouLldir.gs, occupied as
drug, cigar, Ice cream and candy stores, and
shooting galleries, were destroyed. vVith
tnem went merry-go-rouuus, wuuiwii, u\#boggan
slides, and the dozens o? similar deVices
always lound at seaside resorts.
THE NEW GUN,
The War Department Approves the
lleport on Magazine Arms.
General Grant, acting Secretary of War,
has approved the report of the Board on
Magazine Arms. The Board tested in all
fifty-three guns, including, besides the products
of different private firms, both
American and foreign, the small arm9
adopted for the armies of Austria-Hungary,
Rplcnum. Denmark. Easrland, France, Ger
many, Japan, Portugal, Roumania, Russia
and Switzerland.
After a careful examination they
are unanimously of opinion that the
arms in which the magazine can
bo changed and then held in re?
serve while single Are is delivered?magazine
fire being, however, available at any
moment?are more suitable for oar service
than those of the merely repeating type.
Further, they find that an arm showing itself
to be an efficient single loader and a
rapid magazine arm, with a cut-off
plainly indicating to the officers
which clas3 of fire is being delivered, and a
system adaptable to either a beaded or a
flangeless shell, is the weapon most suitable
for our military service. Such a system,
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Lutjy rupurb, wuoiuuuu m w? iuog-i?u>geusen
guns No. 5, as improved, and they recommend
their adoption.
A if agent 01 Baron rurscn is now traveling
In Central America, selecting tites as settlements
for Russian Hebrew colonists.
THE ANARCHIST'S DUE.
Twenty-two Years In Prison For Mr.
Frick's Assailant.
The trial of Alexander Berkmann, the
anarchist, who attempted to kill ?L C.
Frick on Jnly 23, was called before Judge
McClungin Criminal Court at Pittsburg,
Penn. No one not having business in the court
room was permitted to enter. Berkmann,
when brought in, meintained the same indif
ferent demeanor that has characterized his
conduct since his arrest. He had no attorney,
and did not cross-examine witnesses.
He had no witnesses for his defence. The
prosecution was conducted by District At
torney Burleigb, who in his opening speech
presented the sevon indictments, char (ring
Berkmann with offences ranging from felonious
assault and battery down to carrying
concealed weapons.
Mr. Frick, Chairman of the Carnegie
Steel Co.. and the victim of Bergmann'? assault.
was the first witness. He described
the location of the Carnegie offices, and
stated that the assault was made between 2
and 3 o'clock on July 23. The witness saw
Bergmann pacing the hall outside of ;his
office when be entered. Shortly after
Bergmann was announced, and when
he came in he shot at the witness, who
fell to the floor. Mr. Prick said that be
tried to ri8?, hut received another bullet
wound. A photograph showing the disarranged
furniture as it appeared after the
shnnHntr ctaq cVincrn aq xaq a I art tfia ninth
injr that Mr. Frick was wearing at that
time.
Berbmann was then asked if he had any
questions to ask. and said: "No." Then he
said in broken English: "You think that I
wanted to shoot Mr. Leishman. too?" Mr.
Frick said he did not know about that, and
left the stand.
Mr. LeishmaD, Vica-Chairman of the Car*
negie Steel Company, who was in Mr.
Frick's private office at the time, said that
he did not see Berkmann nor know of his
presence until he heard the revolver shot.
He grappled with Berkmann, who trietl to
shoot him, but the weapon missed fire. Mr.
Frick came to Mr. Irishman's assistance, and
together they grappled with Berkmann, who
then drew the knife an I stabbed Mr. Frick
several times.
Berkmann S3id: "That statement is un?
true." and asked Mr. Leishman. "Are vou
positive I triei, to shoot your "I am
positive my .statements are correct," was
Mr. Leishman's answer.
Here t&e prosecution rested, and Berkmann
asked for an interpreter, which was
granted. He then said, "lam notgulty.
I have a defence," and then he began to read
irrelevant matter from a large roll of paper.
The statement was an anarchistic and inflammatory
address, written in German,
iierkmann continued his harangue from
11:45 until 1:03 o'clock, when the Court shut
him off. The District-Attorney did not
make an address, saying that argument was
unnecessary.
Judge McClung made a brief charge, and
the jury retnrne l a verdict of guilty on all
seven indictments without leaving the box.
The Judge pronounced sentence at once, aggregating
twentyone years to the penitentiary
and one year to the workhouse.
Just before sentence was passed Berkmaun
said he bad not obtained justice, nor had ha
expected it.
f!TTT!T!T*S FOR mT.TTMRTTa.
Cornerstone ot His Monument Laid
| in New York City.
A hundred Italian societies, headed by
bands of music, escorted from Washington
Square, New York City, the tracks bearing
the parts of the Columbus monument to the
place where it is to be erected, the circle at
Eighth avenue anl Fifty-ninth street. The
Columbus monument is the gift of the
United Italian Societies, to the city of New
York. It was made in Italy and brought to
this country on the royal Italian transport,
Garigliano. The sixty trucks, drawn by
horses, six in some cases, fourteen in others,
according to the weight of the section to ba
transported, moved up Fifth avenue.
Drawn ui> in a circle around,the beautiful
white Washington Arch, the companies of
tha Italian societies. the trucks eavlv deco
rated with the Italian and American flags
intermixed, the floats of magnificent and
ornate workaunship made a magnificent
picture in the clear September morning.
The day was observed as a holiday by the
Italians of the city, and thousands of people *
who were abroad, moved hither and wither
as bands of music arrived, and took their
position in the forming procession.
The parade was headed by a squad of
mounted police and they were followed by
about one hundred cavaliers, some in uniform.
Following the cavaliers was a float bearing
Italian veterans, (hen more cavalier?and
members of committees, and after these toe
various Italian societies, some of which
paraded as military bodies' in uniforms of
the Italian army. The societies came not
oaly from New York, but from Brooklyn,
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The societies were followed by the trac ts
carrying the various parts of the monument,
preceded by the oSeers of the war
ship Garigliano, which brought the monument.
The route was up Fifth avenue to Fiffcyointh
street, thence to Eighth avenue, whara
the ceremonies took place
When the proc?ssion reached the circle,
where a grand stand, profusely decorated
with American and Italian flags, has been
erected, the men formed arouni the
spot where the monument is to stand
and listened to speeches. Chevalier
Barsotti gave an eulogy of Columbus
in English, and was followed by Commissioner
of Accounts Wan a, representing the
Committee of One Hundred, who delivered
the address or t&e nay. Arcaoisaup
rigaa then blessed the monument, ani ia
the absence of Mayor Grant, Commissioner
Tappan laid the cjrnar stone vrita a silver
trowel. In the stone were place 1 newspapers
and coins. The Rev. Father Da Sant!,
and Mr. Luigi Roversi followed witb
speeches in Italian. "The Star-Spangled
Banner," and toe Italia National eir.
CONDITION OF CBOPS.
The Government Statistician's Ke?
port for September.
The Statistician's report, submitted to the
Department of Agriculture, shows that
there has been a decline in the condition of
corn for September. In comparison with
September reports of the past ten yeara,
only three were lower?lSiM. j?>$i ana 133&
The September average condition of
wheat, as harvested, is 83.3; of winter, 87.6,
and spring, 81.3 Although these figures
show a slight decline from those for wheat
for the corresponding mooth in 1891, it is
nevertheless higher than for fiva years in
the preceding ten.
The condition of oats is very unfavorable;'
there being a decline since June. The consolidated
county returns of the present
month show a decline of more than seven
poin?s, the average of 78.9 reported for the
month being the lowest, with one exception,
ever reported.
The condition of rye and barley has
changed but little, although the harvest
season has been badly handicapped by rain
and storms.
The condition of potatoes is very unfavorable,
the average being, with two exceptions,
the lowest ever reported for Septem*
ber.
Cotton is lower than in any September
sines 1633.
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Jt'ATAL .LArijUSIUi^,
Seven Lives Lost by the Bursting of a
Boiler.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred in
Force & Dickinsons stave mill at Staples, a
small village on the Laimington and St.
Clair Railway, four miles from Comber,
Canada. Seven men were instantly killed,
one was fatally injured and about twenty
others more or less severely hurt.
The cause of the explosion is not definitely
known. Some contend that the exploded
boiler was old and not fit for use, while one
of the employes of the mill says that it was
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lieves that scales had formed on the plate
and interfered with the working of gome of
the valves.
The boiler was carried fully two hundred
feet, passing in its flight between two
residence*. Bricks and other debris were
scattered in all directions, but the houses in
the neighborhood escaped with a few broken
windows. ,