Dewoeraiic: Wat.
mony indeed ! The Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral of the State is too big a man to be
beaten in a contest for his own county’s
Terms, $2.00 a Year, in Advance. | endorsement and PHIL WoMELSDORF had
— | him on the run so fast that there was a
Bellefonte, Pa., August 12, 1898. great danger of his tumbling and breaking
= ————————————"——| his political neck. Accordingly he sum-
P. GRAY MEEK, : > Eprror. | moned WOMELSDORF to Bellefonte and
the two signed a paper in which Gen.
REEDER promised to retire and conceded
the conferees of Centre county to the little
man from over the mountain, whom the
Governor had hoped to punish for his ob-
streperosity at Harrisburg, by bringing
REEDER out against him. The condition
imposed upon WOMELSDORF was that he
should not work for ARNOLD on this side of
the mountain. Thus, you see, Col. REED-
ER was either sacrificed for the postmas-
tership, or his withdrawal is a tacit admis-
sion of defeat.
WOMELSDORF is for ARNOLD, however,
“and don’t you forget 1t.”’ The other side
of the mountain will come in solid for the
man to whom our friend HARTER has been
inditing blank verse on sobriety, ever since
he came hack from that last trip to DuBois
with his little post office hoomlet busted.
What this side will do remains to be seen,
but it looks very much as if the Republi-
cans have scented the selfishness that has
made bed fellows of the monumental wob-
blerand the man whose brother can't get it.
—
The Democratic State Ticket,
FOR GOVERNOR,
GEORGE A. JENKS,
of Jefferson.
FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM H. SOWDEN,
of Lehigh.
FOR SECRETARY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS,
PATRICK DELACEY, of Lackawanna.
FOR SUPERIOR JUDGE,
CALVIN M. BOWER, of Centre.
WILLIAM TRICKETT, of Cumberland.
FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE,
J. M. WEILER, of Carbon.
FRANK P. IAMS, of Allegheny.
Democratic District Ticket.
For Congress,
J. L. SPANGLER,
Subject to the Decision of the District Conference
For Senate,
W. C. HEINLE,
Subject to the Decision of the Dictrict Conference
Democratic County Convention.
ROBT. M. FOSTER, State College.
J. H. WETZEL, Bellefonte.
Prothonotary, —M. 1. GARDNER, Bellefonte.
District Atty,—N. B. SPANGLER, Bellefonte.
County Surveyor,—H. B. HERRING, Gregg Twp.
Assembly,
Porto Rico as a New Possession.
That in the end we will have Porto Rico,
as one of our possessions is now about as
certain as is the fact that we have been at
war with Spain. When the trouble about
Cuba began, such an idea as laying claim to
any Spanish territory would have been
scouted as unfair to our sense of justice as
a government ; but conditions change, and
ideas change, and purposes change, and
change so rapidly that the individual who
would object to the policy of demanding all
of the islandsin the West Indies, under the
control of Spain, as payment for the costs
of the war, would be accused of disloyalty
and be treated as an enemy of the govern-
ment.
As we are stronger than Spain, we can
enforce our demands, and as the President,
his cabinet, the Senate and Congress, the
army and navy, the newspapers and the
people so far as one can judge from their
expressions, demand it, Porto Rico, is sure
to be ours.
And then what have we got ?
The island is about 90 miles long by 36
to 40 miles wide, and is nearer to the
dimensions of Connecticut than any other
American State. With about 3,500 square
miles of land area, it has a population of
some 820,000 souls, while Connecticut,
with a land area of 4,845 square miles, has
747,258 inhabitants, or did have in 1890.
Thus Porto Rico is much more densely
populated than Connecticut—the figures
being 234 persons to the square mile in one
case aud 154 in the other. Likeall popula-
tions in equatorial climate, 1t is a ‘do-less,
shiftless, lazy, lot of Spaniards, negroes
and half-breeds, who have acustomed them-
selves to live on little or nothing and who,
when they work, are content with wages
far below the pittance averaged by the coal
miners of this State.
Its acquisition will furnish no labor for
any American workman, for labor is so
plentiful on that island that it commands
no price at all. On the other hand, it will
i enable corporations and monopolies to im-
port the cheap labor it furnishes into this
country, without any restrictions and then
use it to further reduce the scanty wages
alrealy paid our own workingmen. From
these facts the laboring men will under-
stand exactly how much they will be bene-
fitted by the acquisition of Porto Rico.
One of the principal exports is tobacco,
raised by this same cheap labor. It isa
superior tobacco, and is produced at one-
half the expense that tobacco can be raised
in any section of this country. There will
be no duty on it when Porto Rico becomes
ours, and the tobacco raiser of the Susque-
hanna valley, of Lancaster county, of Con-
necticut and other sections of this country,
can figure out what their crops will be
worth when they come in direct competition
with the pauper worked tobacco of this
island.
Evidently its acquisition will not benefit
American tobacco raisers ?
Who then will it benefit? This ques-
tion we will try to answer a little later on.
—
Gobin’s Campaign Issues.
Politics Make Strange Bed Fellows.
The greatest struggle for supremacy, that
has ever shaken the Republican organiza-
tion of Centre county, is being fought out
this week and it remains to be seen wheth-
er the modern colossus of ‘‘wasted op-
portunities’’ will prevail or whether his
flag will be trampled upon by men who
have nothing better than he has to offer
the people, but who, at least, have the vir-
tue of being able to espouse a cause and
stick to it.
The story of the fight might truly be
described as a story of a contest to name
the Bellefonte postmaster. Governor Hacz-
INGS probably did not expect too much
from Washington when he asked for the
honor of naming the postmaster at his home
town. A man occupying the exalted posi-
tion he holds in the State had a right to
think that his wishes in the matter would
be heeded, but when he began jumping
from the support of one aspirant to another,
with the same deplorable disregard for
stamina that led him to desert QUAY, then
grovel back to him, only to find himself
the victim of a political gold brick scheme
which drove him out of the boss’ camp
again, it was little wonder that Congress-
man ARNOLD stepped in and asked to have
a man of his choice named. ARNOLD'S
man has been endorsed by both Senator's
QUAY and PENROSE, but the Governor has
hung on with the determination of despair
and, through his friend, postmaster-general
CHARLES EMORY SMITH, has been -able-to
hold-up the appointment of ARNOLD'S man
until this time.
Now the situation is this. ARNOLD
wants a third chance for congressional
honors in the Twenty-eighth district. He
has secured the endorsement of Clearfield
and Clarion counties. If he can get that
of Centre he will be a winner. But Gov-
ernor HASTINGS says he shall not have
Centre county. Not that the Governor
cares a rap about who is to represent the
district in Congress, but because he thinks
if he can beat ARNOLD out here it will
have the effect of showing to the President
that the latter is in bad repute and conse-
quently strengthen the Governor’s hand in
the post-office game.
Another player struts onto the stage in
the person of CLEMENT DALE Esq., who is
‘‘sour-balled’’ ali over because his brother
AL could not get the post-office. A year
ago Mr. DALE posed as the leader of the
QUAY faction in Centre county, but last
week he said : “Understand, that ARNOLD
is not a very grateful man for services ren-
dered’’ and now he asks the reputable Re-
publicans of Centre county to bear him out
in the vindictive business he has under-
taken, merely because his brother wanted
to be ‘post-master. His somersault has
bas been so complete that he has landed
right in the same bed with Governor
HASTINGS, who has about as much love for
him as an old hippopotamus has for the
bearded lady in the circus. There CLEM
lies and grins and looks wise, but all his
wisdom doesn’t point out to him the fact
that even should he get Centre county’s
endorsement, the administration forces will
name his conferees, and when it comes to
the district conference he will have about
as much show as a cat without claws in
the infernal regions. He is there, though,
hard and fast with the fellows who have
kicked and abused him for twenty years
and he is asking his friends to rally to him.
Mr. DALE'S friends seem to have more
sense than he has, however, and they don’t
relish joining in with him merely because
heis mad at ARNOLD for not appointing
his brother. This state of affairs has alarm-
ed the HASTINGS faction lest DALE won’t
be able to carry the county and so thor-
oughly frightened have they become that,
on Wednesday night, the Governor came
home himself, to line up his forces. All
day yesterday the little lieutenants and
feeders at the Harrisburg crib were busy
running out to get their orders from the
man whose capers warrant, even such an
extreme suggestion, that if ARNOLD downs
him he will try to crawl under the tent of
the triumphant Congressman.
The real sensation of the whole fight was
sprung Wednesday morning when Deputy
Attorney General WILBUR F. REEDER
hauled down his colors and said he would
give up his ambition to he State Senator
for the sake of *‘party barmony.” Har-
With the object, no doubt, of giving a
warlike aspect to their state ticket, so that
it might comport with their object of mak-
ing the war with Spain one of the leading
issues of the state campaign, the machine
managers put G. P. S. GOBIN on their
state ticket as their candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor. The General showed that
he was ready to play his part in the war
issue, that is to be sprung on the State, by
stepping forward in full uniform at the re-
cent meeting of the Republican state com-
mittee and declaring that ‘‘it seems to be
the mission of the Republican party to step
out into new lands, into the isles of the
sea, to plant a new liberty, a new civiliza-
tion and christianity under the guidance of
the party, and we should present a solid
front on these measures and uphold the
policy of the party.’
This is a proposition that will somewhat
surprise the people of Pennsylvania. It
has occurred to them that what is most
needed in connection with the pending
state election is the reform of a very bad
condition of the state government. But
instead of turning rascals out of official po-
sitions which they have abused, and stop-
ping their raids on the state treasury,
General GoBIN thinks that the proper
thing to do in this campaign is ‘‘to step
out into new lands and the isles of the
EE eee
sea.” He also talks about planting “a
new liberty, a new civilization and
christianity,’ and this is to be done under
the guidance of a party that has looted
every treasury, state and national, that it
has been able to break into, and is now
making a big kick against being choked
off.
General, it won’t do. This is a cam-
paign in which the machine rascals are up
for trial before the people, and they can’t
dodge that issue by wanting to “‘step out
into new lands and the isles of the sea,’’
and by working off a fake about ‘‘a new
civilization and christianity.” The voters
won’t be thrown off the true issues of a
state campaign by such machine tricks.
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Money Bags Won After All.
And now it is leaking out that the $200,-
000,000 bond issue, that closed about a
month ago with such a blowing of horns
about its popularity and how the smaller
bonds were gobbled up by the people,
wasn’t such a thundering popular loan
after all. It wasn’t the people’s money
that went into it. In some instances and
the loan was taken by banks, corporations
and other interests, that are eternally try-
ing to keep the government in debt in
order that there may be a safe place for the
was a nice scheme on the part of the money
to curtail the supply of a circulating me-
dium by the withdrawal of the greenbacks,
to leave the impression that money was
plentiful in the country, and as evidence
loan of $200,000,000 was gobbled up in a
few days by the common people in bonds
of less than $500 each. But facts are stub-
born things, and the facts in this case show,
according to the statement of the New
York Times, that nine tenths of the pur-
chasers of these bonds were individuals,
who, acting in the interest of moneyed insti-
tutions, allowed their names to be used as
subscribers, and have since transferred
their bonds to the banks, brokers and com-
panies that furnished the money to pur-
chase them. That paper says :
“The ‘nearly two hundred thousand’
their small savings in government bonds,
one-tenth, of these names are those of persons
names of persons who were paid or induced
to subscribe by financial institutions and cor-
bonds.”
fe —
Protocol Prepared and Was
Signed Yesterday.
Peace
Our Terms Stand—Spain Yielded and Struck Out
Her Conditions—Hostilities to End.
WASHINGTON, August 10.—The prelimi-
nary negotiations looking toward the con-
firmation of peace advanced a long step to-
French Ambassador agreed upon the terms
upon which future negotiations for a treaty
are to be conducted, and reduced these to
the form of a protocol.
This protocol, it is true, is yet to he
signed, and is to be submitted to the Span-
ish government before the formal signa-
tures are affixed, but the administration's
view as to the progress made to-day was
set out in secretary Day’s sentence: ‘‘It is
expected that this protocol will be exe-
cuted.”’
WILL BE A SHORT DELAY.
There must be a delay—possibly from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours—before
the next step can be taken and the protocol
made binding upon both the United States
and Spain by the attachment of the signa-
tures of the plenipotentiaries, secretary
Day for the United States and M Cambon
for Spain. The delay will be largely at-
tributable to physical causes. The proto-
col is long; it must be translated and
turned back and forth into code and simple
language no less than five times hefore it
reaches Madrid through the French foreign
office.
ACCEPTS ALL OUR TERMS.
As to the character of the protocol it can
be stated on authority that the terms are
in all practical points those set out in the
abstract of the President’s conditions pub-
lished in the WATCHMAN a week ago.
From this fact it is deduced that the extra
i conditions or qualifications sought to he
imposed by the Spanish government were
abandoned, at least in large part, by the
French Ambassador.
It is believed that the protocol carries
within itself provision for the cessation of
hostilities. On this point the naval contin-
gent is urgent that our government adopt
the Napoleonic policy of refusing to enter
into an armistice without acquiring some
substantial pledge tosecure the consumma-
tion of peace. What they particularly de-
sire is that our government shall demand
as a condition of the cessation of hostilities |
the surrender to the United States military
forces of Morro Castle at the entrance of
Havana harbor and some such points of
vantage of the other important ports, in
the territory soon to fall under our control.
The End of War in Sight.
LoNDoxN, Aug. 11.—A Madrid special
says that the Spanish cabinet regards the
peace project satisfactory. Authority to
sign it will be sent to M.” Cambon. It is
expected that hostilities will cease imme.-
diately.
NEW YORK, August 11.—A Washington
special says that the secretary of war has
cabled General Miles, Shafter and Merritt
to make no further movements against the
enemy.
ee ——
The Cristobal Colon’s Condition is Bad.
PLAYA DEL ESTE, Province of Santiago
de Cuba, Aug. 8.—The Merritt & Chap-
man wrecking steamer Potomac has ar-
rived at the scene of the hattle of July 3rd
and has visited the Cristobal Colon. The
wreckers report her to he in a very bad
situation and they fear it is impossible to
save her. The Maria Teresa has not yet
been floated.
The auxiliary gunboat Vixen has re-
turned to Guantanamo bay from Santiago.
Otherwise there has been no movement of
the vessels composing the American fleet.
The warships are ready to sail at twelve
hours’ notice.
in a few localities, small sums were sub-
scribed for by individuals, but the bulk of
investment of their surplus capital. It
powers, that for years has been attempting
of its plentifulness, point to the fact that a
names of subscribers to the bonds in sums of
$500 and less are not the names of farmers
and workingmen and wage-earners investing
Not one-fourth, we venture to say that not
who are buyers of bonds as a permanent in-
vestment. The great bulk of them are
porations, who took this way to make sure of
getting some of these cheap and desirable
day when the Secretary of State and the |
Sharp Battle Fought Near Manilla Last
Week.
The Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment Distinguished
Itself in its First Engagement With the Span-
ish—The Spaniards Were Repulsed and Sus-
tained Heavy Loss.—The Spanish Made a Very
Sharp Attack.—On the American Outposts, but
They Were Held in Check by the Artillery Un-
til a Brigade of Infantry Came Up and Took
Part in the Engagement—Several Pennsylvaria
Boys Were Among the Kiiled and Wounded—The
American Soldiers Fought Well and Held Their
Position—Our Troops Lost Thirteen Killed and
Forty-Seven Wounded—It Has Been Impossible
to Ascertain the Exact Losses of the Spanish—
The Fighting Lasted Four Hours..
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The war depart-
ment to-day received the following cable-
gram from Hong Kong :
Adjutant General, Washington :
General McArthur’s troops arrived on
the 31st. There was no epidemic of sick-
ness, but five deaths occurred. Lieutenant
Kerr, engineer, died of spinal meningitis.
Landing at Camp was delayed on account
of high surf.
To gan an approach to the city Greene’s
outposts were advanced to continue the
line from Camino Real to the beach on
Sunday night. The Spanish attacked
sharply. The artillery outposts behaved
well and held their position. It was nec-
essary to call out a brigade. The Spanish
loss is rumored to be heavy.
Our loss :
Killed—Tenth Pennsylvania, John
Brady, Walter E. Brown, William E. Brin-
ton, Jacob Hull, Jesse Noss, William Still-
wagon ; First California, Maurice Just ;
Third artillery, Eli Dawson ; First Colo-
rado, Springstead.
Seriously Wounded—Tenth Pennsylva-
nia, sergeant, Alva Walter, privates Lee
Snyder, victor Holmes, C. S. Carter and
Arthur Johnson ; First California, Captain
R. Richter and private C. J. Edwards ;
Third artillery, privates Charles Winfield
and J. A. McElroth. Thirty-eight were
slightly wounded. MERRITT.
Secretary Alger regards the Manila fight
as the beginning of the general attack on
the Philippine capital.
CAVITE, Manila Bay, Aug. 4, via Hong
Kong, Aug. 9.—The attack on Manila
awaits the landing of the American troops
now in the harbors. The monitor Monte-
ray has arrived, and Admiral Dewey is
more than ever the master of the situation.
All the strain caused by the possibility of
German interference has been removed by
the arrival of the fighting monitor.
At the same time the hope that Governor
General Augusti would surrender without
a fierce battle has been dispelled. Com-
pelled by the arguments of the military
officers under him, forced by the martial
demands of the archbishop of Manila, and
perhaps prompted by the sullenness of
Aguinaldo and his insurgents, Augusti or-
dered the fierce assault on our lines during
the storm of Sunday night, J uly 31st.
Malate is a fortified town on the road
from Cavite to Manila, and it represents
the closest approach of the attack on the
city proper. The insurgents had invested
the place and fought hotly there, losing
many men. Then they gave way and the
American forces were pushed into the place
they vacated.
The Americans under General Greene,
| entrenched themselves, threw out pickets
and began a slow, but systematic advance
while awaiting the arrival of reinforce-
ments. On Sunday the Spaniards saw that
the Americans were getting ready to add a
superior force and that every few days
brought them reinforcements. So an at-
tack was ordered.
A typhoonhad “set in, the rain was de:
scending in torrents and the night was
black as a hole in the universe when 3,000
Spaniards attacked the American position
on its right flank. The insurgents had
withdrawn for feast day celebrations and
their withdrawal left our right open. But
a line of vigilant pickets was out, and
these men fired on the Spanish advance
and then retreated slowly, firing as they
came in.
At once there was a great stir in camp,
but no confusion. The Tenth Pennsylva-
nia bore the brunt of the attack and
checked the Spanish advance until the
Utah battery, the First California volun-
teers and two companies of the Third artil-
lery, fighting as infantry, could get up to
strengthen the right of line. It was a
dreadful night, and the Spaniards came on
boldly through the dark night up to the
American entrenchment. The volunteers
fought back like veterans, though this was
the first time they had been under fire.
Captain Young got his Utah battery into
position with some difficulty, on account
of the mud, but he soon was enfilading the
enemy’s rank.
The Americans were outnumbered, but
they did not yield an inch and their fire
was fearfully destructive. After a stub-
born fight the Spaniards were beaten off on
the run. They reformed, however, and
came again. By this time the Americans
were in a position and under complete dis-
cipline, and their fire was all the more
deadly. They poured volley after volley
wherever the Spanish rifles flashed and
again the enemy retreated. They tried a
third attack, but it was very feeble and
some of the Americans pursued the retreat,
doing much execution.
The loss was more than ordinarily dis-
proportionate, though the exact Spanish
figures cannot be obtained. The British
admiral says the general estimate in Mani-
la was that between 300 and 400 Spaniards
were killed and nearly 1,000 wounded. The
figures are altogether possible, even in a
night engagement, as there was between
three and four hours of continuous fighting
some of it hand to hand, and all of it at
murderous range.
It must he remembered that there were
from 2,500 to 3,000 Spaniards in this at.
tack and only 900 Americans, and that the
Spanish were veteran troops, while all but
two companies in the defense were Ameri-
can volunteers, under fire for the first
time, but the American victory was com-
plete.
Then, too, the Spanish had the advant-
age of artillery. When the first California
and the Pennsylvania reserves advanced to
the support of the right wing, where the
main body of Pennsylvanians were battling
like heroes, they were subjected, both on
the Camina Real road and the beach, to a
heavy fire. But there was no flinching
nor wavering. They found that the Tenth
Pennsylvania had but four rounds of am-
munition remaining when the reserves
brought up fresh supplies. The Spaniards
had, by a rush gone 150 yards through and
beyond our right flank when the regulars
of the Third artillery, armed as infantry-
men, pushed them back in confusion, the
Pennsylvanians and Utah artillery aiding
gallantly in the work. The Astor battery
tried its best to get into action, but its am-
munition was useless. It had been wet
during a capsize at the landing, and in the
fearful downpour of storm would not ex-
plode. After the attack on the right wing,
which began at 11 o’clock at night, had
been repulsed, the second Spanish attack
at 2 o’clock in the morning was directed
against our left wing. After 30 minutes
of fighting the enemy was again beaten off,
and the rain seemed to he so heavy as to
make futher attack impossible.
But at 3:50a. m. the battles was resumed
at longer range, the Spanish sharpshooters
firing from the trees and the bat-
teries firing constantly, using brass-
coated bullets. The Americans, soaked
and powder-stained, stuck to their guns
for 14 hours without relief.
The hospital of the Pennsylvanians, 200
yards in the rear of their line, was con-
stantly under fire and riddled by bullets.
No lights were there, or none could be
shown and the accommodations were en-
tirely inadequate.
The Spaniards resumed firing on the
night of August 1st, but the battle had by
that time settled down into an artillery
duel.
SCARCITY OF FOOD IN MANILA.
MANILA, July 30, via Hong Kong, Aug.
9.—The scarcity of food now affects even
the richest class in Manila. There is no
meat, bread or flour, except very small re-
serves chiefly laid under requisition for the
Spanish troops.
The newspapers, though rigidly censured,
claim that the famine and the unprece-
dented rains are causing an epidemic.
They pretend that the disorders are trivial
intestinal ailments, but it is believed most
of them are dysentery, due to wretched
food and the dangerous character of tke
water. A number of important persons are
ill.
An abattoir has been established for
slaughtering horses and dogs. The news-
papers admit that the military bakers are
reduced to the necessity of using rice, the
stock of which will soon be exhausted.
The stock of fuel, too, is exhausted and
the bakers are burning doors and window
frames. It is impossible to eat uncooked
rice.
A decree has been issued, authorizing
the entry of private premises and the seiz.
ure of cattle and horses there for a nominal
Payment made on worthless drafts. Sever-
al animals belonging to British owners have
been taken, though there were plenty with
Spanish owners that had not been seized.
An attempt was made to seize the indis.
pensable pony of the consular physician
and considerable indignation has heen ex-
pressed. There may possibly be some
trouble over it.
Se ———
Our New Guard.
General Stewart is Preparing Orders Regarding
the Same.
HARRISBURG, Aug.—General orders are
being prepared by Adjutant General Stew-
art announcing the formation of the new
National Guard of Penusylvania. The re-
cruitment was supervised by General
Stewart and is practically completed. The
uniforms for the new organizations are be-
ing manufactured by the State arsenal un-
der the direction of Major William F.
Richardson. Springfield rifles and Webb
cartridge belts will be issued to the troops.
The First brigade will be composed of
battery D, of Philadelphia; Second troop,
Philadelphia city cavalry, and Nineteenth
and Twentieth regiments. These two reg-
iments will be composed of twenty-one
companies in Philadelphia and one each at
Norristown, West Chester and Chester.
The Second brigade wiil be made up of
battery E, of Pittsburg ; Second Sheridan
troop, of Tyrone, and Seventeenth and
Twenty-first regiments. The Seventh will
consist of eight companies in Allegheny
county—one each at New Brighton, Union-
town, Washington and one yet to be mus-
tered in. The companies'for the Twenty-
first regiment are located at Oil City, In-
diana, Meadville, Warren, Bradford, Hol-
lidaysburg, Butler, Sharon, Erie, Franklin,
Huntingdon and Beilefonte.
The Third brigade will be constituted as
follows : Battery F, of Pheenixville ; Sec-
ond Governor’s Troop, Harrisburg, and
Seventh and Eleventh regiments. The
Seventh will comprise two companies at
Wilkesbarre, one each at Williamsport,
Sunbury, Hazleton, Wananie, Plymouth,
Pittston, Shickshinny, Tunkhannock,
Meshoppen and Allentown. The Eleventh
will consist of three companies at Seranton
and one each at Reading, Lancaster, Car-
lisle, Easton, York, Harrisburg, Lebanon,
Honesdale and Pottsville.
Ee ———
Second Army Corps.
It Will Be Permanently Encamped at Thoroughfare
Gap, Va.
WASHINGTON, August 8.—The Second
army corps will be permanently encamped
at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. The Second di-
vision, now at Bristow, Va., will start on
Tuesday. The first division, now at Dunn
Loring, will have to wait for wagon trains
and probably cannot start before Sunday.
Thoroughfare Gap is about twelve miles
from Manasses Junction.
General Davis has announced that the
Second division will be camped at Beverly
Mills, Thoroughfare Gap, Va., where an
abundant supply of water can be secured
for all purposes.
General Butler will move the First di-
vision from Dunn Loring to Thoroughfare
Gap, at the base of Pond and Bull mount-
ain, which is traversed by Broad run.
There is a sufficient supply of water at this
place.
Much relief is expressed at the rapid de-
cline in the number of typhoid cases.
There were only sixteen to-day, and there
is almost no other sickness in camp.
Death of Brigadier General Poland.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The war de-
partment to-day received notification of
the death of Brigadier General John S.
Poland, of typhoid fever, at Asheville, N.
C., thismorning. He was born at Prince.
ton, Ind., October 14th, 1836, and was
graduated from West Point in 1856. He
served through the civil war and at the
outbreak of the present war he was in com-
mand at Columbus barracks, O., and
promptly offered his services, and at the
time of his death was brigadier general,
commanding the Second division, First
army corps, at Chickamauga park, Ga.
General Poland wasa very able and zealous
officer and conscientious in the discharge of
every duty.
Lawton Succeeds Shafter.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—A department
of the army to be known as the department
of Santiago was erected to-night. Major
General Henry W. Lawton is assigned to
its command. Brigadier General Wood
will continue in command of Santiago city.
General Shafter returns to this country.
He will hold the command until he departs.
Fever Immune Red Coats Volunteer.
CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 7.--Many of the
Canadian American legion are fever im.-
munes, having served in the British army
in Egypt, India, South America and the
West Indies, and yesterday volunteered to
relieve our troops at Santiago.
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Notes from the Camp of the Fifth.
Telegraphic Flashes of How it Fares With Our
Soldier Boys at Chickamauga.
Camp THoMAS, CHICKAMAUGA, Ga.,
Aug. 9.—Improvements of the sanitary
condition of regimental camps is the chief
work being done here now, and within a
day or two the camp will be under new
and very rigid regulations as regards the
disposition of garbage and refuse matter
and the preparation and serving of food.
All drinking water will be boiled, and it is
hoped to have all tents provided with
board floors. With the purpose of adding
to the health conditions, practice marches
are being arranged for. The regiments
will be sent out by brigades in heavy
marching order for a four days’ absence
from the park. The march will cover
about sixty miles, going and coming, and
the men will occupy shelter tents at night.
The members of the Fifth Pennsylvania
regiment are greatly disappointed at not
having heen ordered to join General
Wade’s Porto Rican expedition, and the
men feel that their last chance to go to
the front has disappeared. It seems possi-
ble now that the regiment will remain here
until mustered out of the service. Lien-
tenant Colonel Elder had charge of laying
out the new camp ground, which was oceu-
pied on Monday.
The Fifth received its pay to-day. Ma-
jor Webster C. Weiss, a member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, who was pay-
master, is well known to the officers of the
regiment. The pay rolls have been cor-
rected and $25,000 was paid the men.
The Fifth has a chaplain now. Francis
Murphy, the noted evangelist and temper-
ance leader, arrived Sunday morning at
Camp Thomas with his commission as chap-
lain of the regiment.
Lieutenant George L. Jackson, of Com-
pany B, Fifth, is spending ten days at his
home in Bellefonte, Pa.
It is reported that several regiments will
be sent from here for a week or two weeks’
stay in the mountains. The march will be
a valuable experience and the change will
be beneficial to health. The Pennsylvania
men hope to be among the first to start.
Lieutenant John C. Dunkle, of Company
A, Fifth, has been granted a fifteen days’
leave of absence and will visit his home in
Huntingdon.
Last Friday morning there were thirty-
one new sick cases, making a total of 147
enlisted men and two officers off duty.
Colonel Burchfield has received a com-
mendatory letter from the secretary of the
Epworth League of Lewistown, Pa., re-
garding his position on the ‘‘canteen”’
question. The letter states that at a pub-
lic meeting Sunday evening, July 3lst,
1898, of the Epworth League, chapter
11,938, of the Methodist Episcopal church
of Lewistown, the secretary was instructed
by a unanimous vote to extend to the colo-
nel thanks for his action in refusing to es-
tablish an ‘‘army canteen’’ in the camp of
the Fifth regiment.
The musical instruments for the new
Fifth Regiment band have been shipped
from Chicago, but have not yet been re-
ceived. The boys are anxious to get a
good band and with good reason, for noth-
ing helps to relieve the monotony of camp
like good music and plenty of it.
The Third division ordered to Lexing-
ton, consists of the Twelfth Minnesota,
Fifth Pennsylvania, Eighth Mississippi,
Twenty-first Kansas, Twelfth New York,
Ninth Pennsylvania, Second Missouri,
First New Hampshire.
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General Miles’ Model Campaign. -
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Up to this
point not the slightest complaint has
reached the war department respecting the
management of the Porto Rican campaign,
a tribute to General Miles ability. No
word has come of soldiers without food or
ammunition or of sick men without doc-
tors or medicine, nor is the movement of
the American army delayed for lack of
artillery, owing to General Miles’ insist-
ence upon keeping his artillery in the very
vanguard and giving personal attention to
the commissary and quartermaster depart-
ments.
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Colored Soldiers Sent to Santiago.
SPRINGFIELD, III. Aug. 7.—Governor
Tanner has received a telegram from the
war department stating that the Eighth
Illinois infantry, colored, had been ordered
to Santiago de Cuba to replace the First
Illinois infantry.
Names of Committee Announced.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 9.—The committee
which will formally notify George A. Jenks
and his colleagues on the Democratic ticket.
of their selection as party candidates, was
announced this morning by Permanent
Chairman Levi McQuiston, of the Altoona
convention. It includes the names of
many of the most prominent Democrats of
the State, but does not by any means in-
clude the names of all who will he present
at the gathering at Bedford on Aug. 17th,
when the notifications proceedings occur.
Reduced Rates via Pennsylvania Rail-
road for Mt. Gretna Farmer's
Exposition.
From August 15th to 19th, inclusive,
the Pennsylvania railroad company will
sell, for the above occasion, round-trip.
tickets to Mount Gretna and return af rate-
of one fare for round trip, from principal
stations between East Liberty and Bryn.
Mawr ; on the Northern Central railway
north of and including Lutherville, and on.
the Philadelphia and Erie railroad division
east of and including Waterford. These
tickets will be valid for return
until August 22nd, inclusive.
For information in regard to train ser--
vice and specific rates application should
be made to ticket agents.
Reduced Rates to Grangers’ Picnic at
Williams’ Grove via Pennsylva-
nia Railroad.
For the accommodation of persons desir-
ing to attend this interesting picnic and
exhibition the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany will sell excursion tickets from Aug-
ust 27th to September 3rd, good to return
until September 5th, inclusive, at the rate
of one fare for the round trip, from principal
stations between East Liberty and Bryn:
Mawr ; on the Northern Central railway
north of and including Lutherville, and on
the Philadelphia and Erie railroad division:
east of and including Waterford. . ]
For information in regard to train service
and specific rates application should be:
made to ticket agents. 43-31-3t.
——The associate society of the Red.
Cross of Philadelphia, will carry to indi-
vidual soldier in Porto Rico only, any con-
tributions friends and relatives may desire:
to make, provided the contributions weigh
at least fifty pounds, all clearly directed
and are delivered not later than Monday
noon, at 1501 Chestnut street, Philadel-
phia.
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