The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 27, 1899, Image 1
VOL. XIV.
NEWS DOCTORED. I
"
The Public Kept in the Dark as
to the Philippines.
THECORRESPONDENTS KICk
'
They Charge that the Facts
Have Been Systematically
Suppressed by General
Otis' Orders.
The constantly increasing strictness
of the censorship of press dispatches
c \i :i- 1 * i . i
irum iuuniiu, wuion nas prevented tnc i
cabling to tlio United States of anything
that did not reflect official views
of important events and conditions, resulted
in a united effort on the part of
correspondents at Manila to secure an
abatement of the rigor of the censorship.
The initiative in this direction '
was taken a month ago and resulted in ,
tho framing of a statement which was
presented on .July 9th to Maj. Gen.
Otis, commanding the military forces
of the I'nited States in the Philippine
island, with a request for permission to
telegraph it to the United States. Tho
correspondents also asked that they be
allowed to cable to their respective papers
all facts and the different phases
of events as they transpired at Manila.
The correspondents had two long interviews
with Gen. Otis, in the course
of which tl.cy complained that the evident
purpose of tho censorship was not
to keep information from the enemy,
but to keep from the public a knowledge
of the real condition of affairs. It was
also asserted by the correspondents that
?- newspapers printed in Manila, which
reach the enemy quickly, are permitted
to publish statements similar to thoso
which correspondents are forbidden to
cable. It was made clear to Gen. Otis
that the objection was to the system
and not to thtLcensor.
Gen. Otis finally promised greater
liberality, agreeing to pass all matter
that he might consider not detrimental
tn lin infnrnufu fl?n I
vv/ V??V iiiivivuit) v/? tnv UUiVVU k'lUl'jn.
Gon, Otis appointed Capt. Green, of
his staff, censor. The statement of the
correspondents is as follows:
"The undersigned, being all staff
correspondents of American newspapers
stationed at Manila, unite in the
following statement:
"We believe, that owing to official
dispatches from Manilo made public in
Washington, the peoplo of the United
States have not received a correct impression
of the situation in the Pnilippincs,
but that these dispatches have
presented an ultra-optimistic view that
is not shared by the general olliccrs in
the field.
"We believe that these dispatches in
correctly represent the existing conditions
among the Filipinos in respect to
dissension and demoralization resulting
from the American campaign and
to the brigand character of their army.
"We believe the dispatches err in
the declaration that 'the situation is
well in hand' and in the assumption
that the insurrection can bo speedily
ended without a greatly increased
force.
"We think the tenacity of tho Filipino
purpose has been underestimated
and that the statements are unfounded
that volunteers are willing to engage in
further service.
"The censorship has compelled us to
participate in thismisrepresentation by
excising or altering uncontrovcrtcd
statements of facts on the plea, as (Jen
Otis stated, that 'they would alarm the
people at home,' or 'haver tho people of
tho United States by the ears.'
"Specifications: Prohibition of bos
pital reports; suppression of full reports
of field operations in the event of failure;
numbers of heat prostrations in tho
t* . 1 _1 - . . ..... *
neiu; systematic minimization ol naval
operations ami-suppression of complete
reports of the situation."
(Signed) John T. McCutcheon,
Marry Arthstrong.
Chicago Record.
Oscar K. Davis,
R. 0. McDonnell,
New York Sun.
Koboit M. Collins,
John I'. Dunning,
L. .Jones,
Tho Associatoid Dress.
John F. Rass,
Will Dinwiddle,
New York Herald.
E. S. Kccnc,
Scr i pps M c liac A spoliation.
Richard Little,
Chicago Tribune. '
CAUSES A SENSATION.
The publication of tho above document
caused a sensation in the departments
at Washington. Regarding the
statement that war. and other news had
been censored contrary to (he usual
custom, Adjutant General Corbin today
said:
itrx ft ccnsuro of the so called censored
press is without just cause; and
evidently made under misapprehension
of facts. There has been no information
reccivod from Gen. Otis that has
not been given to tho press promptly
on tho bulletin boards in the hall of
this office.
"The standing instructions of tho
president and secretary of war arc that
tho publio shall bo given all informs
inn urn rnnniun Tt.:? i -i i
.. U .uvv>iw> -? 1110 nan ucuu UUI1U
a.id will continue to be dono. Of
courso plans of campaigns that would
be of help to Aguinaldo and other rebels
have not and will not be promulgated,
but ull facts of events
transpired have been given in fullness."
ENGLISH COMMENT.
A dispatch from London says most
of the morning papers comment upon
tho ^oint statcmont of the American
oo^ .spondenta at Manila regarding tho
censorship thcro.
3
Tho Times saj s: "Gen. Otis oanr.ot
conceal nor explain away the great
fact that he fails to bring tho war to an 1
end. lie might just as well censo playing
the ostrich and allow the correspondents
to tell tho public what they
see."
The Daily News says: "The moral of
it is that the correspondent will turn i
when you tread too hard upjn him and
that his determination to let the eat out
of the bag may still prove a blessing to
modern states."
WILL NOT UK RK(IAIII)KI).
Tho President and Cabinet has do- ;
eided to iguoro tho complaint of the ,
correspondents, and let Gen. Otis do
as he pleases about the matter.
THE BATTLE OF HONEY HILLAn
Address to the Survivors of That
Noteworthy Engagement.
T > iV.e Survivors of the Hattlo of |
Honey Hill.
On Nov. 150, 18(H, a battle was fought |
at Honey Hill, S. C., ami won by
southern vulor. This was a particularly
brilliant alfair. in which about 1,">00
Confederates defeated about 6, ">00
northern troops, preventing them from
seizing the Charleston and Savannah
railroad, near Grahaniville, and from
cutting olf retreat for Hon. Hardee's
army from Savannah, Ha. In this engagement
nearly 1.000 of the enemy
were killed and wounded.
It s due the men who won this vict<M>
that their achievement be placed
on n c ird ir. order that historians may
li id material in the future from which
to construct a complete history of our
country and State.
It is hoped by the writer of this notice
that survivors of the battle wili
forward him through mail such infor- \
motion concerning this fight, that there
may ho prepared an accurate narrative
of Honey Hill, where Georgians and
Carolinians, regulars and militia, otlicors
and men, distinguished themselves
and added to thn limtrn of <(iiilliom
arms by dofoating a bravo and determined
foe, where the odds were four to
one.
An effort to this end has been made i
by a more worthy son of Carolina but |
abandoned through lack of informa- |
tion relating to tho Georgia troops; not
however, until lie had contributed to '
history much of value and inti rest. Of
the battle day Capt. Courtonay ould 1
not write, for which scanty information^
ho was unwilling to lower his high ideal
of what the battle narrative should be
in order to meet the importunity of
friends urging him on.
Surely survivors of Honey Hill can
be induced to break silence by a consideration
of their obligations to their
posterity, and will furnish information
to place for them on record brave deeds
of valiant sires! Also perfect histories
of (ioorgia and South Carolina require
the narration of these deeds of
patrio' ic sons.
No time Bhould be lost, for veterans
of the war answering to roll-call here
are fast crossing over that river from
whose other side no message can return.
Survivors of the light at Honey Ilill
are earnestly invited to write clear
f.nd accurate information of tho battle,
supplying names of their company, battalion,
regiment, officers and men, that
participated in the battle; timo when
each command joined the fight; place
occupied with reference to the road intersecting
the breastworks; what service
was rendered by his command and
officers: any instances worthy special
mention of individual usefulness or valor,
etc.
Address such communications to
m.i i- ii in ? ^ ?
uiiitnus i/. v^iiicuuKi I lay vine i". n.| D.
C. . '
A Pitched Battle.
The report is confirmed that fiyo men
were killed in n pitched battle in Clay
county, Ky., last week. The battle
occurred at Hacker's school house, on
Little Goose Creek Wednesday morning,
Deputy Sheriff Hacker had arrest-'
cd Robert Phil!pott. Whilo before a
magistrate, preparing to give his bond,
somebody shot at him from behind.
The firing then bocamo general. When
it ceased Robert Phillpott, I'M. Fisher,
Aaron Morriss, Hugh and Jim Griffin
were dead. Gre,co Griffin was mortally
wounded and Granville Phillpott was
seriously injured. Nearly all the county
is in the saddle, heavily armed and
more battles are expected.
The First Bale.
The first bale of cotton of the present
season's crop has been shipped
from Sinton. Texas, to Governor Saycrs
to be sold for tho benofitof tho Toxas
flood sufforcrs. It is proposed that it
shall be sent to various exchanges and
auctioned, and that the money thus
raised shall be devoted to the relief of
the flood victims. It is expected that
not less than $10,000 will be raised
thfousrh these sales.
. Too Sensative.
A Philadelphia murderer was so sensitive
that ho committed suicide .opJuly
0, because the jailer woujd not ,
let him attend his wifo's funeral. She
was, says tho Boston Pilot, the porson
whom he had murdered?whijh rominds
us of the Fronoh parrioide who
pleaded for mercy "bccauso he was an
orphan."
Long Lived Family.
There is a long lived family in Columbia.
Little Paulino Green, daugh
tcr of Mr. Win. Green and' grand
daughter of Capt. Joseph Green, is the
proud possessor of two grandmothers,
two grandfathers and great grand
mothers, all living. What is more
Mis".Paulino lives in the same houso
with two great grandmothers and one of
the grandmothers and one of thegrandfathcrsr--State.
m i
CONWAY. S. C
THE TRUTH TOLD
As to The Doctoring of the News
by Gen. Otis.
FACTS ARE REVERSED.
Creelmnn, Correspondent of the
New York Journal, Refused
to Send Dispatches
Because Forced to
Falsify.
Appearing simultaneously with the
"round robin'' of the American newspaper
correspondents at Manila, oomplaining
that (ionoral Otis is suppress
ing the facts and keeping the people of
tho United States in ignoranco of the
alarming conditions as they exist in the
Philippines, .lames Urcelman, the famous
war correspondent of the New York
Journal, cables from London his observations
during a recent two months'
stay in Manila and on the tiring lines
in the archipelago. lie charges (Jen
cral Otis with incompetence, and with
"doctoring" press dispatches to paint
the conditions as optimistic, when in
reality they are and have been just the
reverse, and with reporting "imminent
success'" when in reality, caused by his
own mismanagement, "imminent failure"
has been the result. Mr. Crccltnan's
letter goes into detail. It follows:
MR. CllKKI.MAN'S LETTER.
After having spent several months
with our troops in the Philippines, I
am firmly convinced that unless (Jpncral
Otis is removed and a competent
general put in command the whole campaign
will be a failure.
I have beer, in tho Cuban campaign
as well as in the Philippines, and 1 can
say honestly without the slightest prejudice
that (icncral Otis is much more
responsihle for the disastrous humiliating
condition of affairs in the cast than
(icncral Shaftcr was for the calamities
in Cuba, for the war department furn
ished General Otis with a perfectly
equipped, well fed army, and he had
months of dry weather in which to fight
against an imperfectly organized enemy.
To be perfectly plain, General Otis is
a fussy old 'man, unaccustomed to anything
but regimental command, and
saturated with the ideaH and methods
of a routine clerk. lie is a man who
has grown old serving in a regiment,
and his experience and abilities do not
go outside of regimental lines. Now
that he finds himself in command of a
large army intrusted with the government
of a large archipelago, it is no
wonder that things arc as they are.
It is bccauso of this knowledge that
Admiral Dewey, without consulting
General Otis, privately cabled to President
McKiulcy asking him to send to
Manila a small commission of men
skilled in statesmanship and diplomacy.
It was apparent to him, as to others,
that General Otis was not omnipotent to
deal with the far reaching, intricato
problems involved in a war with the
natives.
Again and again Admiral Dewey expressed
at the beginning of the present
hostilities his dissatisfaction over the
failure 1o make any advance against the
enemy.
When finally, in despair of any action
by Otis, Dewey began to take possession
of other islands, Otis wrote lo
the admiral a bitter letter complaining
that the navy was forcing the campaign
too fast.
. OFFICERS DENOUNCE OTIS.
1 was there then and I remember how
generals and other officers on the firing
line bitterly denounced General Otis
in private for immersing himself in
,w>?t? ? i
I'vivvj uuuuio in in?111 iuijmi iiuiiiiM, army
contracts and custom house cases, while
our firing line was stretched twentytwo
measured miles around Manila,
lying idly before an enemy growing
stronger and more expert in infantry
fire every day, whilo week after week
of dry weather slipped away and the
rainy season approached,
Kven before the first insurgent attack
on our troops, Aguinaldo was throwing
up strong earthworks in sight of , our
lines. . Major General Anderson, commanding
the first division, .insisted that
his troops were beiYrg endangered, and
asked permission to stop the Filipinos
from buiiding fortifications.
"We will do nothing," said General
Otis, "unless the Filipinos commit
some act of war."
"Hut they are entrenching themselves
again?t.us," replied General Anderson,
"and the moment a man puts a
spado in the ground with hostile intent
he has committed ah act of war."
Anderson's arguments wero useless.
The entreaties of other generals to be
permitted to put an end to the belligerent
work of Filipinos were of no avail.
When 1 reached Manila a few days
after the bloody outbreak the whole
army was laying in trenches, being
fired at night and day, while General
<w;n ?.i
v/iiD nns 11)191/^ IIU'I III [UinillC UUVItllH
phat ar^ army clerk could have douo as
well,. He refused to allow tho army to
make any advance. So insistent was
General Anderson that the only way to
destroy the. enemy. was to light them
that General Otis treated him with open
hostility and finally hadithis splendid
soldier return to the United States.
General Otis' principal thought
seemed to be to prevent real facts being
tclcgrapcd to the United States, and his
abuse of censorship has been almost incr6diblc.
Whilo tbe army in the field wa,s anxiously
awaiting orders during the advance
on Malolos, ho spent a whole
hour reading iirVy dispatches to The
Journal striking out names of officers
mentioned for gallantry, changing descriptive
passages, erasing all mention
of tho part playod by tho navy and oven
f ? , , /, /
liovvtt
!.. THURSDAY. .JULY
occupying five minutes in selecting a
single word.
This is tho sapio oxpcricnoo which
other correspondents have had during
tho war. General Otis has wasted hours
of valuablo time during tho most critical
days in revising press dispatches,
eolorinc them to suit his own viows.
NEWS COM I'I.ETEI.Y REVERSED.
On the night of tho charge at Talihan
river 1 went toGoneral Otis' palace,
having ridden in from tho battlefield.
Titn onnnrol inuiutn/1 /?n /?l.nn.?in.?
. Itv uoiovv>V4 \MI Vjiinumil^ lliu
dispatch I submitted to him, and actually
struck out the name of Colonel
Funston, whose regiment swam the
river under firo that day, saying:
"I proposo to mako all tho heroes
! that arc mado in this war."
Colonol Thompson, tho press censor,
! has refused to allow mo to mention
regiments distinguishing themselves in
battle, saying he was ordered to do so
by General < His.
During General Wheatson's advance
to l'asig and beyond with the Flying
brigade Otis ordered all press dispatches
I stopped unless they described tho
enemy fighting furiously and said onor1
moils losses were infliotcd by our
| troops.
Asa matter of fact on this occasion
tho insurgents were contemptible in
numbers and ran away except in eases
: of one <r two small bands, and their
losses were very slight.
General Otis' conditions for press
dispatches wcro so outrageously dishonest
that 1 refused to send any dispatches,
preferring to let The Journal
be beaten rather than to telegraph of>
ficial lies.
The most extraordinary thing is that
up to the time I left Manila, which was
after the capture of Manolos by McArthur
and Santa Cruz by Lawton,
I General Otis had never been at the
front.
Imagine this jealouselerk, who never
went outside the city, directing with
absolutely tyrannical exactitude the
operations of divisions commanded by
| soldiers like Lawton and MeArthur!
1 know from my own association with
both division in the field that General
Otis treated the generals as though they
1 were school boys.
; > *1.-1 i
tv Iivu IV nao aiiiiuuiiuuu liiilt liik? KMl
was on Ins way to the Philippines to
| command all the troops in tho field as
corps commander, every member of the
littooli'iuo surrounding Otis was busy
! belittling Lawton.
When Lawton arrived < His refused
I to assign him to any command for fivo
| days, although there was heavy fighting.
Lawton begged permission to take
part in it, offering even to carry a musket
if necessary.
I asked Otis what Lawton's status
was and why he was not assigned.
"General Lawton is merely an officer
reporting to me for orders," he replied,
"and when I got ready to givo him ori
ders he'll know what his status is."
Otis' jealousy of Lawton was so plain
as to be childish. For several weeks
Otis never consulted him, nor gave him
the slightest information regarding tho
plans of the campaign.
The truth of tho situation is that
General Otis is regarded by practically
the whole army, officers and privates
alike, as an incompetent officer who
sacrifices everything to serve his own
vanity and jealousy.
1 do not speak with the slightest fooling
agaimt Ooncral Otis, whom I believe
to be painstaking, industrious,
and, according to his own light, patriotic
OTIS SIMPLY A CLERK,
lie has accomplished a groat deal in
regulating the municipal alfairs of Manila,
but his conduct, or rathor nonconduct
of tho military campaign has
been a serios of blunders, duo partly to
timidity and lack of experience, partly
to jealousy of other officers and partly
to his incurable habit of wasting his
time correcting press dispatches and
uoing a clerk s work, whilo generals in
tho field, powerless to movo without
his orders, tire waiting for him to make
up his mind in his ollice how to fight
the enemy.
When I complained to General Otis
that he was striking out of my dispatches
things I had witnessed with my
own eyes and which the American pcoplo
had a right to know, he said:
"1 don't propose to allow the American
public to know anything about this
campaign that will agitato or excite it.
So long as I am in command here the
people of the United Statoa will know
only such facts as I doom advisable to
be known.
"Any man who writes anything
abouo this campaign contrary to my
wishes will be expelled from the Philippines.
We are not going to havo any
public agitations about this campaign
if I can prevent it."
8auses Many Deaths.
Tho returns from the Fourth of July
celebrations all over the country demonstrate
that it is timo our people
were instituting some more rational
manner of observing the day. Tho
Chicago Tribune s casualty list includo
returns from 250 cities and towns. The
leading figures are: Dead 33, injured
730, fire losses $233,070. injured by
cannon orackers 731, injured by powder
explosions 257/ injured by toy cannon
250, hit by stray bullets 00.
Another LessonA
dispatoh from Savannah, Ua., says
Mrs. Annie McGuire. white, and Anna
Cook, colored, are dead as a consoqucnce
of two stove explosions. In
each case the woman started to light
tho firo in tho stove with kerosene oil.
Uoth were horribly burned.
Pretty Good Pay.
Admiral Powcy's salary amounts to
$37.50 per day; President McKinley's
is,equal to $131 a day;cabinet officers,
tho vice prosidont and the speaker of
tho house got $22 22 a day; sonators
and*congressmen, $13.90, and the ohiof
justice of tho supreme court $29 a day.
Wim
27, 189U.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
Chartered in the First Six Months
of the Year.
INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR.
Over a Million Dollars of Increase
in Stock. A Number of
Cotton Mills Projected.
Sinoo the first of the your charters
have been issued concerns in this State
representing an aggregate capitalization
of nearly livo million dollars. Of this
amount $2,22(1,700 represents new concerns,
and $2,(112,000 the capital of or
ganizations increasing their capital
stock; a total of $1,820,700. Those figures
were obtained froiu the semi-annual
statement of Mr. .), T. (iantt, chief
clerk in the ofiicc of the secretary of
State. There was great progress in the
State last year, but Mr. (lahtt's comparative
statement shows that, between
Jan. 1, 1808, and July 1 of the satno
year, charters were issued to concerns
capitalized at $1,880,700 against $2,220,700
this year?a gain of $227,000.
Hut while the aggregate capitalization
of new oonecrns is very cnoouraging,
thero is even greater reason for congratulation
on account of the wonderful
amount of capital stock increased. Tho
first six months of this year South Carlina
enterprises increased their capital
stock from $1,2-17,000 to $2,012,000; a
total increase of $1,22(5,000.
In order to obtain a charter, tho originators
or "corporators" must (irst obtain
a "commission." This instrument
authorizes thorn 10 solicit capital st(o'\,
ete. After a certain per cent, of tho
canital stock lias been mihsor'l?nit n
charter may be obtained. It is under a
charter that a joint stock concern can
do business. A commission is rarely
obtained, however, unless the company
means business and does afterwards obtain
a charter. So much in explanation
of the fact that the figures above
quoted represent joint stock companies
which have actually raised the capital
stock. Thcro were 117 proposed companies
which liled "declarations" for
commissions and have not yet sent in
their "returns" for charters. Last year
in the same time there were 00, representing
a proposed capital stock of
$11,049,560, against $5,14118,400 this
year. This does not includo the societies,
etc.. which arc chartered hut havo
no capital stock.
K NT Kit I'll IS EH 1*10 >.l ECTEI).
The enterprises projected and not
yet chartered are listed as follows:
1898. 1899.
Warehouses '1 10
Lumber companies 1 4
Land and improvement companion
4 1
Building and loan Associations
5 4
Tclephono companies 4 5
Oil mills 0 11
Compress companies 1 2
Water, light and power companies
2 4
Hosiery and carpet mills... 1 1
Mining companies 8
Construction companies.... 0 2
Hanking and investment
cnnnvini/'H '-1 ?
Cotton mills 1 7
Other manufacturing plants 10 20
Mercantile establishments,
cto 19 18
CHARTERS flRANTED.
Charters wero in the first six months
of last year issued 52 eoneerns capital
ized at $1,889,700; against 71 companies
with an aggregate capital of $2,220,700
this year.
Following are the enterprises put on
foot since .Jan. 1:
1898. 1899.
Warehouses 2 9
Lumber companies 1 5
Land and improvement companies
4 4
Building and loan associations
2 I
Telephone companies 0 2
Oil mills 0 5
Cotton compress companies. 0 1
Water, light and power companies
.' 2 2
Mining companies....... . 2 2
Banking p.nd investment
companies 5 2
Cotton Mills 2 5
Other manufacturing plants 8 G
Mercantile establishments,
etc 22 22
STOCK INCREASED.
The following gives the namos of the
concerns whioh havo increased their
capital stock; the figures given first representing
the amount of stock at present
and those givon second showing the
increase over the former capitalization:
Georgetown Grocery Co. $75,000; in
crease of $25,000.
Daggett Printing Co. $10,000; in
crease of $2,000.
Clover Manufacturing Co. $200,000;
increase of $50,000.
Whitney Manufacturing Co. $850,000;
increaso of $84,000.
Abbeville Cotton Mills $400,000; increase
of $100,000.
Farmers' Loan and Trust $75,000; inoroaso
of $25,000.
Palmotto Ice Co. $75,000; increase
of $40,000.
I. J. Phillips Co. $28,000; inoicaso
of $5,000.
Anderson Light and Power Co. $175,000;
increase of $75,000.
Mills Manufacturing Co. $550,000;
increase of $450,000.
Warren Manufacturing Co. $500,000;
increaso of $800,000.
Kxcclsior Knitting Mills $50,000; increaso
of $40,000.
Carolina Manufacturing Co. $80,000;
increase of $20,000.
Mario Mills $100,000; increase of
$50,000.
Total. $2,0111,000, increase of $1,220, ,
000.
NKW COTTON M 110.8. I
Tlio following are tlio cotton mills
chartered and thoso projected since
fan. 1:
Capital
.Stock.
\ cHta Mills, Spartanburg $ 250,000
Valley halls Mfg. Co., Lolo, .
Spartanburg county 75,000
Spritigstcino .Mills, Chestor 100.000
Olympia Cotton Mills, Coluiubia
1,500,000
Orr Cotton Mills, Anderson. 100,000
Helton Mills, Helton 250,000
The Florence Cotton Mill,
Florence 200,000
n
$2,875,000
SKVF.llAI. (?ll. MI1.1.S.
There has boon an unusually largo
number of nil mills chartered and commissioned.
They are located as follows:
Fair Forest Oil Mill Co., Fair
Forest $ 25,000
Victor Cotton Oil Mill Co.,
Oatluoy 25,000
Fountain Inn Oil Mill Co.,
Fountain Inn 15,000
liowndesville Cotton Oil Co.,
Ijowndesville ...... 12,000
McCormick Cotton Oil Co.,
McCormiek 15,000
Cross Anchor Oil Co., Cross
Anchor . 12,000
Hishopvillo Cotton Oil Co.,
Hishopvillc. 20,000
llonca Path Oil Mill, llonca
Path 15,000
Catnpobcllo Oil Mill, Campobollo
15,000
Atlantic Cotton Oil Co., Sum
ter 100,000
Cl'nton <)i 1 and Manufacturing
Co., Clinton 20,000
Total capital stock $271,000
Tho whole State hoouis to be swinging
forward and upward to resume its
accustomed place at, the front. The H
development is not confined to one sec- t
lOtl Kilt nvoftr "o.i.J ?? ~ * ~ *
vi vi/ v wuiit) nuuuin m HO
tonditig upward.? State. I
t
Scorches Alger. li
The London Times editorially says: !!
"Alger has run the war oflioo as a po- .
litical machine. Military posts have
hocn bestowed upon political friends 1
without regard to iitnoss or the inter- '
chts of the country, l'ishonosty and '!
corruption have heen rampant where- (
over there was public money to ho '
handled. Amorican soldiers were-kill- .
cd by thousands on American soil by
sueh agcneics as embalmed beef and 1
Hoandalous neglect of olemcntary sanitation.
As the head is, so wo expoct ,n
suhordinatcs to be. They were chosen
without regard to fitness with every
regard to political service. Naturally
they act as the politicians they aro 1
rather than as soldiers and administrators,
which they are not, The new im 1
porial policy of the United States is 1
thus discredited by association with a 1
system of more than common corrup- N
tions. MeKinloy, for some reason or 11
other, is incapable of ridding himself ?
of tho incubus of his secretary, who, 1
evidently regarding himself us having 1
the president in his pocket, serenely 1
defies tho public indignation that has r
been aroused by his mismanagement." ^
What Next? 1
,11
The new usos which aro being devel- ?
oped for glass are manifold. Church
bells of the purest tone aro now being
made of glass; it is superceding gold for j
tho filling of teeth; glass rails are said j
to be superior to -teel, giving a smoot h- j
er running surface and being less affect
ed by the elements; Now York has a
factory built of glass, slated with glass,
and with a 100 foot glass chimney, a
part of tho working machinery also ^
being constructed of glass, and Knglisb (
cities are considering its adaptability j
for paving and roadway purposes, its j
advantages being sot forth as oleanli
ncss, durability, non-slippcrincss, and ,
tho retention of beat io winter arid ?
cold in summer. I
All Drowned.
A special to the lice from Tekamah. ]
Neb., .says: Word has been received <
of the drowning in Northwestern Iowa, |
near the Minnesota line, on Monday
night, of A. W. Blades, his wifo and [
eight children while en route to Minne- (
sola in an emigrant wagon. The family
was encamped for the night on a t
creek, when a cloudburts raised the ]
creek twelve or fifteen feet, and the 1
family, team and wagon wero swept
away. No traco of them has been found
save parts of the wagon, which were |
found in trees some distance down the ,
creek. <
Victims of a Poisoner.
<
A special from Dallas, Texas, says: |
Two girls, one eight years old and the ;
other ten, daughters of the widow of |
.John Moore, lost their lives by drinking
poison, which, it is claimed by the
police authorities, was prepared for '
their mother, who is an important State ,
witness in the case against the men ao* ]
cuscd of lynching tho Humphreys. The |
poison was placed in a water pitcher
in tho house of Mrs. Moore, llcr little
girls bocamo thirsty and their
motlior gavo each a drink from the
pitcher. Death followed almost instantly.
Ifto
t Absolutely 1
Makes the food more d(
NO. 2.
what it Vosts"
n Valuable Lives to Subjugate the
Filipinos.
VOLUNTEERS' HEAVY LOSS.
Comparative Statement that
Show tho Deaths and Wounds
Suffered by Our Gallant
T roops.
Tho return of tho Orogon voluntoors
iti'l tho prospective homo-coming of all
ho other State troops who liavo been
iclping to down the Philippine tobclion
gives additional interost to a renine
of the casualties in tho insular
lampuigns. Full records of tho leases
>y death, wounds, sickness and othervise
since the beginning of operations
here early in tho summer of 1898 show
hat the Minnesota regiment was most
uaccptihlo to the baneful influences of
he tropical climate, 34 of those volunecrs
having expired in the hospitals up
o the last Fourth of July. Oregon
vns next, with 24, and Nebraska third,
using 21 men from sickness. The Ne>raska
regiment lost more men in action
hnn any other organization engaged,
ixcopt the 14th infantry; 20 members
o dng their lives at tho front from that
>tuto, against 28 of tho regulars.
A comparative showing of tho regincnts
which lost most heavily, as cotn>iled
from the press roports, is as folows:
Killed 11th infantry. 23; Nobraska,
! !; Kansas, 2f>; South Dakota, 25;
iVashington, I'd, 3d artillery, I'd; Oroion,
II; Pennsylvania, 13; 18th infanry,
13; Montana, 11, 22(1 infantry, 1).
Wounded -Nebraska, 183; Montana,
32, Kansas, 121; Washington, 109; 3a
irtillery, 93, South Dakota, 87; Minuo(tf
u mi ( li'nrrAiv *711 I t* * ?j ??I ** r\ ?f!Q
"*??, v/M.guii, i i UIIIIOJI vauiil, VtT,
!2d infantry, 07; California, fit!.
Kxolusivo of the deaths cn tho trans*
>orts, tho total number of tnon to loso
lioir lives in tho Philippine war wan
!! .'{. Of this number 050 woro killed
ir succumbed to wounds or discaao.
The number wounded in aotion was
,f>91. Five committed suicide; one,
bo oolonol of tho Tennessee regiment,
lied of uppoploxy in un engagement
nd 1 ! wore accidentally drowned. In
lotail the report, a< given in tho Assoliatcd
Press <lispatehos from .Juno 30,
898, whon the first military expedition
anded at Cavite, to -July 1, 1890, shows
ho following items:
Killed in action, 283; drowned, 19;
Lcoidental deaths, 1 I; suicides, 5; apodexy,
1; sickness, 275, wounds, 92.
Total deaths, 089.
Wounded, 1,591; missing, 4. Total
lasualties, 2,284.
Nearly twice as many voluutecrs as
cgulars were killed, although the volintcor
regiments wore only one-third
noro numerous than tho regulars. The
'oluntccrs were, however, engaged for
i longer period than the regulars, nuuirous
regiments of the latter not havng
arrived in the Philippines until afer
some of tho most serious engagononts
had occurred. The number of
cgulars wounded was 513, against 1,078
'oluntccrs. Sickness carried off inoro
ban twice as many volunteers as reguars,
the respective totals being 180 and
If). Tubulated us to branches of tho
orvioo, tho showing of killed and
rounded is as follows:
Keg. Vol.
tilled 114 109
tied of wounds 24 08
tied of sickness 95 180
Total dead 417
Wounded 513 1,078
Amoug the regulars), the 23d infanry
lost iiftocn by discaso and the 14th
welvo. A tabulated statement of tho
ossch by organization by disease folows:
Regulars 23d infantry, 15; 14 infanry,
12; iHth infantry, 10; 3d infantry,
5; 4th infantry, 8; 22d infantry, 8;
lospital ojrps, 7; 20th infantry, 5; 3d
irtiilcry, 4; Oth artillery, 4; 12th infan
ry, 4; signal corps, 2; Oth infantry, 2;
1st artillery, 1; 8th artillery, 1; 4th oavilry,
1; 17th infantry, 1; 10th infantry,
1; 21st infantry, 1. Total, 05.
Volunteers Minnesota, 31; Oregon,
M; Nebraska, 21; South Dakota, 10;
Colorado, 15; California, 13; Montana,
10; Idaho, 8; Washington, 8; Kansas;
i: Pennsylvania, 5; Tennessee, 5;
North Dakota, 4; Iowa, 3; I'tah, 2;
Wyoming, 2; Astor Dattery, 1; Nevada,
I; unknown, 2. Total; 180.
It is noticeable that the only casual,
ty in the Nevada troops was tho single
loath from sickness. None from that
3tato wore oithoir killed or woundoi..
Tho proportion of volunteers to sue*
jumhto thoir wounds was nearly three*
to ono regular. As in other casualties'
Nebraska leads in this feature, having
lost twelve men from their wounds.
Montana lost ton from injurios, and
Kansas and Washington oight each.
I'hc greater loss among the regular army
men was in the 3d artillery, five members
of which diod from tho effects of
thoir wounds.
There has been money enough spent
in patching up the State House to com
? i. 1J i J
I'iuia; it tvriuu. it wuuiu ut* IUUUQ/ ??vuu
to tho people in the long run to complete
tho building.
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