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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR.
Troops from Cuba reached New York
on the w*v to Fort Snelling.
Philipp. • Commissioners Denby
and Worcester sailed for home.
Two more fatal eases of yellow fever
have occurred o: Santiago, Cu'ba.
At attempt was made to mob ten
Spaniards at Pegla, a suburb of
Havana.
Bad feeling between Spaniards and
Cubans in Havana is decidedly on the
increase.
American wartLlps have begun u
bombardment of the forts on Subig
bay, Luzon.
Many deaths "from starvation are
occurring among the laboring class in
Porto Rico.
Gen. Otis cabled that Private Hoon
wa3 in prison for forgery, not for writ
ing to him.
The Cuban National league nomi
nated provisional officers for the hoped
for republic.
It is definitely arranged for Presi
dent McKinley to visit St. Paul and
welcome borne the thirteenth regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel John D. Miley,
Inspector-general, United States vol
unteers, died at .uanila of cerebral
meningitis.
The Chinese government has pro
tested at Washington against Gen.
Otis’s order excluding Chinese from
tiie Philippines.
A dispatch from Gen. Otis indicates
that the insurgent leaders are willing
to exchange prisoners, and have asked
for a conference.
The Cuban National League and Na
tional party Issued a proclamation call
ing upon Cubans to work for com
plete independence.
British steamships bound from
Manila to Hongkong were forced to
stop and account for themselves by
American gunboats.
LI Hung Chang suggests selling the
Philippines to Japan as the best
remedy for what he regards as the
mistake of acquiring them.
General Brooke reports the deata of
Private Bob Roberts, Company M,
tenth cavalry, who wan killed by a fall
at Canto, Santiago, Sept. 16.
The administration will soon be
called upon to provide a suitable
command for Admiral Dewey upon his
retirement from flag command.
The yellow fever outbreak in
Havana is fully under control. The
number of cases in all the hospitals
are nine soldiers and seven civilians.
The United States gunboat Paragua
had a sharp engagement w'.Ui in
trenched Filipinos at San Fabian, Lu
zon, driving them from their fortlflca
. tlons.
Sylvester F. Wilson, of the Aguin
aido junta In Hong Kong is well
known as a confidence man and black
leg in Kansas City, where he worked
many schemes.
The rnliatiiionts for the new regi
ments have reached 7,441. Returns for
the colored regiments are coming In,
the forty-eighth having 94 and the
forty-ninth BO men.
The navy department has directed
that the Kagle and Yankton be com
pleted at the rortsmouth navy yard by
October 17, as they are needed for sur
vey work about Cuba and Porto Rico.
Rear-Admiral Schley assured the
president of his willingness to obey
orders, and his assignment to the
south Atlantic station Is not likely to
be changed. He will attend the
Dewey celebration as a private citi
zen.
The war department has decided to
have the cable ship Hooker, which Is
on a reef on Corrlgedor Island, saved.
It will be taken to Cavite. It Is es
timated to be worth over $200,000. The
value of the cargo to be saved is over
$ 1 uu,uoo.
To ensure a proper representation of
the United States navy during the
ceremonies In Washington attending
the presentation to Admiral Dewey of
the sword awarded to him by congress,
Acting Secretary Allen has decided to
order the gunboats Marietta and
Machlas to that city.
Asa sequel to the recent difficulty
of the steamer Adula in regard to
landing Immigrants at Santiago de
Cuba they have been required
to produce certiflrat *i,, allowing
that they have had yellow fever. This
practically amounts to cheir exclusion,
and Is causing considerable excite
ment.
The Havana striae has assumed
serious proportions. It is now esti
mated that there are 62,000 striking
masons, painters. carpenters, cart
men and laundry workers, and if, as Is
threatened, the backmen, stevedo-es
and clganmakers strike within the
next few days there will be another
4,000.
At San Juan de Porto Rico the board
of charities taoulated statuses show
that out of a population of 91.81*4 there
are 291.089 Indigent and 11.85S sick.
The number of deaths as a result of
the recent hurricane was 219. One
peek’s rations were issued to i 3,147
persons, and tkte number of those
working for rations was u. 713.
O. W. Bird, superintendent of the
state, war and naWgl building presented
to President McKlAtey a gavel made
from ironwood from > the timbers of
the old Spanish fort at Playa del Kste,
Guantanamo bay, where the first light
between our forces and chose of Spain
occurred on Spanish soil. It Is In
tended to be used at the corner stone
laying in f’fclcago.
Plans for the Dewev celebration land
parade in New YorijAmst be changed
or the troops have done
t marching 'ill night. The
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chilli hr
Bhnless note
end of the line. Thirteen warships,
nine revenue cutters and five torpedo
boats will welcome '.he Olympia when
she enters New York harbor with
Dewey. The Dewey home fund has
reached the $30,000 mark and is ex
pected to pass $40,000 in a few days.
DOMESTIC.
A bad fire occurred at Los Angeles.
Army worms are destroying lawns
in Marinette, Wis.
The League of American Municipali
ties met at Syracuse.
Gov. Sayres’ trust conference in St.
Louis was almost a fizzle.
Men employed on the new federal
building in Chicago struck.
The International Council of Con
gregational Churches met In Boston.
Charles A. Pillsbury, the Minneapo
lis miller, died of heart failure, aged
57.
Charles Crandall, Dwight, 111., a
pioneer and leading citizen, dropped
dead.
A. L. Robinson, formerly of Chicago,
is reported to have been drowned in
Colorado.
Missouri bloodhounds were success
fully used inMetecting Eldora (Iowa)
burglars.
Paul Capeddeville has been nomi
nated by the democrats for mayor of
New Orleans.
Chicago’s autumn festival may be
called ofT because of the attitude of
organized labor.
Disastrous earthquakes, lasting a
week, are reported in the vicinity of
Juneau, Alaska.
Reports frcra all over Wisconsin
and Illinois indicate an unprecedented
scarcity of servants.
A conference of democratic national
committeemen in Chicago issued an
appeal for party unity.
The National Colored Baptist con
vention has selected Richmond, Va„ as
the next meeting place.
The headquarters of the democratic
national committee the next cam
paign will be in Chicago.
Bryan, in opening the campaign in
Nebraska, treated imperialism and
monopoly as the main issues.
A decision in favor of manufactur
ers of oleomargarine was rendered by
the Michigan supreme court.
Elijah Hall shot and killed his
father, Henry Hall, in Pike county,
Ky., for abusing his mother.
Governor Sayers of Texas says that
he is in favor of starting a movement
for the annihilation of trusts.
German Catholics are protesting
against the alleged desecration of
churches In the Philippines.
The director of 'the mint says he Is
unable to coin enough fractional silver
for the demands from small towns.
The Russian government is making
an effort to compete with the United
States for a share of the British cattle
•trade.
Alderman A. J. Linck of Racine has
disappeared from his home and his
relatives fear he has met with foul
play.
Napoleon, a 400-pound ostrich, acts
as the guardian of a farm in Jackson
ville, Fla., and Is greatly feared by
negroes.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd-
Fellows, in session at Detroit, chose
Richmond, V;., as its next place of
meeting.
The French line steamer La Bre
tagne, which arrived in New York
from Havre, brought i,073,6i0 francs
in specie.
Martin Coens and his nephew, May
nard Coons, farmers of Stuyvesant,
New York, were killed ny the Empire
State express.
O. T. Williams has been appointed
judge of the superior court, of Mil
waukee county, to succeed Che late
Judge Sutherland.
Advocates of Che plan to make Chi
cago a deep sea harbor say that great
interest has been created in Europe
over the project.
William J. Bryan and Hon. W.
Bourke Cookrau express themselves as
pleased with the results of the trust
conference at Chicago.
The Bibb county, Ga., confederate
veterans have decided to send a rep
resentative to the reunion of the blue
and gray at Evansville.
Colomi Hughes of Lindsay, has un
dertaken co raise a regiment of Canad
ians for service in the Transvaal
should war break out.
Edward Tuck of New York has
given Dartmouth college $300,000 to es
tablish the “Tuck endowment fund” In
memory of his father.
Arthur Goddard is declared insane.
He is the Chippewa Falls young man
•who killed James Prather at Dawson
City. He will be sent to an English
asylum.
Twenty-seven persons have been
lodged iu jail charged with having
taken part iu Che riots at Carterville,
111., where seven negro miners were
shot to death.
The British steamer Angalo cleared
WXh 168,172 bushels of com and 160,-
000 bushels of oats. This is the larg
est cargo of grain ever taken from
New Orleans.
Oakes A. Arnes, a member of the
well-known Ames family and a brother
of the late ex-Governor Oliver Ames,
died at his home in Massachusetts at
the age of 70.
\V. K, Vanderbilt was sleeted presi
dent of the New York and Harlem
railroad to succeed Cotneltds. William
Rockefeller took his tflace in the Cen
tral directorate.
Cardinal Gibbons had iialf an hour's
conference with the president rela
tive to the desecration of Catholic
church property In the Philippines by
our soldiers.
Nearly two hundred United States
senators and congressmen are ex
pected to be of tiie party that will
make a tour of the proposed national
Jjfcrk In Minnesota.
Ifttafejyila sent a circular letter to
every shop in the city where pattern
makers are employed, demanding a
nine-hour work day.
State Auditor Cornell began quo
warranto proceedings in the Nebraska
supreme court to prevent Gov. Poyn
ter from acting as head of the state in
surance department.
A test at Indian He<*.d of armor made
by the Krupp process showed that it
was superior to the Harvey plates.
Admiral O’Neil will recommend its
use by this government.
Some unknown persons set fire to
• he property of the Dayton, Tenn., Coal
and Iron Company at 1 o’clock, burn
ing down the power house, coal bunk
ers and other structures.
Rev. James C. Caldwell, a well
known Presbyterian minister, was in
stantly killed in a runaway accident in
Germantown. He was born in Elkins,
Ohio, and was 65 years old.
The navy is feeling the advance in
>.he cost of steel, and it is learned the
government may find it impossible to
secure bids for new warships unless
the price of steel is reduced.
Senator Burrows says Alger’s with
drawal will bring about harmony in
the party in Michigan. It is not
known whether Plngree will run
against McMillan for senator.
John G. Messiener fell in a fit at the
inquest 'into the death in New York
of Joseph Tetonia, then confessed
that he had given naphtha to George
W. Dorney, who poured it on Tetonia.
Gorge W. Bennett, a prominent mer
chant at Nicholls, Ga., was shot there
last night by W. A. McCray. Bennett
gave shelter to 'McCray’s wife, whom
the lat'ter, It is alleged, was abusing.
Rev. R. N. Dolliver made a plea for
the union of the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Methodist church
south In a paper read in the Methodist
ministers’ meeting in Chicago yester
day.
Howard Gould’s steam yacht Niag
ara, which left May 10 with the own
er, his wife and a party of friends on
a cruise by way of the Azores to the
British isies and northern Europe is
back.
At Tyty, In Worth county, Ga.,
while Mrs. J. S. Johnson was in a cot
ton field, two negroes approached.
One of them held her while the other
committed an assault. They are being
pursued.
Colonel Ruhlen has received instruc
tions ordering him to condemn for
military purposes the crown lands of
Kaheuki and of Leliehua, In Hawaii,
containing respectively 1,144 and 1,440
acres.
The Steger & Singer Piano company,
Chicago, has offered its employes a
guaranteed interest of 30 per cent, on
their earning capacity. This means
$20,000 more pay a year for 350 factory
workers.
The executive committee of the Na
tional Municipal League has accepted
the inv’.Cation of the Ohio state board
of trade to hold the next meeting of
tiie league in Columbus November 15,
16 and 17.
Leaders of the different railroad em
ployes’ organizations are considering
plans for the establishment of em
ployes’ grocery stores at the division
points of the various lines throughout
the country.
G. T. B. Howard, famous for swind
ling operations In connection with
European estates, and who was ar
rested at Horton, Mich., was taken
back to the Ohio peniCentiary to serve
out his sentence.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, presidenC of the
Chiekamauga park commission, an
nounced that the government has pur
chased another large tract of land on
Missionary ridge to be added to Chick
amauga national park.
Abraham P. T. Elder, manager of the
British-American Publishing c pany,
arrested in New York on a warrant
charging him with using the mails for
a scheme to defraud, will be brought
back to Chicugo for trial.
Joseph Deemer Taylor of Cambridge,
Ohio, died, aged 69 years. He was
for many years editor and proprietor
of the Guernsey 'l imes, and served in
the forty-eighth, fiftieth, fifty-first and
fifty-second congresses.
Andrew M. Maxwell, a real estate
man of St. Paul, was drugged to death
and robbed in a saloon at Spooner,
Wis. Maxwell recently bought a farm
near Spooner and went there with state
fair horses to stock it.
At Llucoln. Neb., Mrs. Henry Oliver,
prominent in social circles, died sud
denly after having received Christian
science treatment. Mrs. Oliver refused
to consult a physician until a few
hours before her death.
Minnie Hohnes, 12 years old, 6723
Yale avenue, Chicago, was waylaid and
robbed of her tresses while on her way
to school. A negro attacked her ait
Sixty-sixth street and Harvard avenue
and snapped off her braid.
Mrs. Grace Doyle, who shot her hus
band, Richard C. Doyle, at LaSalle
avenue and Indiana street. Chicago,
July 2. was found guilty of man
slaughter. Her punlshmen'. was fixed
at one year's imprisonment.
A proclamation has been Issued by
President McKinl y calculated to pre
vent indiscriminate admission to
Hawaiian registry of foreign bulk
ships which will later on become en
titled to United Slates registers.
Preslder* Ola* has asked his con
gress for twenty days’ leave of ab
sence to go to Chicago and proposes
Lye Ygnacio Marlscal. secretary of
foreign relations, to substitute him as
president during his absence.
Secretary and Mrs. Gage left Wash
ington for Arizona. While there the
secretary will make a trip to the
grand canyon of the Colorado. They
will return in time to meet the presi
dent and party in Chicago. Oct. 9.
Paul Johnston, a merchant and d’
rector of the Bank of Macon, Miss.,
and Edward eripplett, a negro, who
was riding wkh him. were shot and
killed by unknown persons while en
route from Macon to Singleton. Miss.
Judge B. J. Petevs, former chief
justice of Kentucky, aged 94, died at
his home, in Mount Sterling. Judge
Peters was a schoolmate of Jefferson
Davis at Transylvania, and was an in
timate friend of John C. Breckinridge.
Professor Swingle of the agricultural
department has gone to California for
the purpose of giving the fig growers
of that state who are attempting to
propagate the Smyrna variety of figs
the benefit of his information of this
subject.
Taylor Cook, under death sentence
at Topeka for murder committed ten
years ago, has petitioned Governor
Stanley to sign the death warrant.
He wrote that he would take his own
life If the death warrant should not be
signed.
As the result of a dispute over a suit
of clothes in Chicago Martin Walgren,
a bookkeeper, was killed and Theo
dor*. Walgren and George Clark slight
ly wounded by Fred Fisher, a tailor.
Fisher used a knife, and claims he
acted in self-defeuse.
Louis Ingerson of New York has
been elected supreme commandc of
the supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias.
A fall of rocks from the center of
the horseshoe falls at Niagara has had
the effect of restoring it to the shape
from which it derived its name.
Abner McKinley, brother to the
president, accompanies by Mrs. Mc-
Kinley, his daughter Mabel, and others
spent a day in Omaha en route for an
outing, which includes Denver, Mani
tou, Salt Lake, Portland, Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Victoria.
There is a move to abolish the pass.
Even employes and big shippers will
be shut off. The St. Paul, Santa Fe,
Union Pacific, Illinois Central, Wa
bash and Rock Island Railroad com
panies, it is said, are the moving
spirits n the proposed departure.
The forthcoming report of Land
Commissioner Herman will show the
past year to have been one of the busi
est in the history of the office. "More
homesteads have been taken and more
cash sales made,” said the commis
sioner, "than in any one of the recent
years.”
At the Methodist ministers’ meeting
in Chicago resolutions were adopted
expressing gratitude to the president
and secretary of state and trusting
that much good might result from
their efforts in behalf of religious
liberty for Protestants in South
America.
The San Francisco Evening Bulle
tin publishes a story to the effect tnat
the entire Crocker interests, 340,000
shares of the stock of the Southern
and Central Pacific railways, has been
sold Morris Speyer of New York,
who is supposed to be acting for the
Vanderbilts. .
The agent of the Uintah Indians re
ports to the secretary of the interior
that he has sent out his police to bring
in any Indians who may have left the
reservation. He adds that the reports
of an invasion of the old hunting
grounds of these Indians in Colorado is
greatly exaggerated.
The Standard Oil company has filed
its answer to the petition of the Ne
braska attorney general in the case
brought under the anti-trust law to
restrain the company from transact
ing business in the state. The com
pany, in its answer, denies that it is
in any sense a trust.
The two Griffins were moved from
London, Ky., to Barbourvilie, Ky., and
from there, under escort of the state
guards, they were taken to Manchester.
There were no demonstrations. The
guards, in accordance with Governor
Bradley’s orders, will stay at Man
chester until further orders.
Another strike was inaugurated at
Cramps’ ship building yards, when 150
ship joiners laid down their tools.
These men have presented demands to
the firm asking that nine hours con
stitute a day’s work and the pay be
thirty cents an hour, instead of a ten
hour day at twenty-seven and a half
cents per hour.
At Galnsville, Ga., a man named
Dudley killed Jim Smith and Berry
O’Kelly, whom he fount! with his wife
on his return from a business trip.
O’Kelley was found dead on the floor,
his head split open with an ax. Smith
was lying on the bed with his throat
cut. Dudley and wife have left for
parts unknown.
At the formal opening of the one
hundred and fifty-third academic year
at Princeton University President Pat
ton announced Fhat. SIOO,OOO had been
donated for establishing a chair in
political science. The name of the
donor was withheld, but popular
opinion ascribes the gift to former
President Cleveland.
At a joint conference of representa
tives of the operators and striking
miners of the Chicago & Alton sub
district and state officials of the United
Mine Workers an agreement was
reached and the strike, which has af
fected over a thousand men since April
last Is declared ofT. The agreement
is In the nature of a compromise.
David G. Shafer, promoter of bi
cycle races and for years a staunch
supporter of the L.. A. W., has, for the
present at least, cast his fortunes with
the riders of the National Cyclers as
sociation. This move Is a result of
Shafer’s difficulty in securing riders
for che bicycle meet being engineered
by the Arena athletic club, an L. A. W.
organization.
FOREIGN.
An anchor and buoy used by Audree
were found.
The mikado of Japan may go to the
Paris exposition.
Capt. Dreyfus 1? supposed to be on
his way to Nice
Nine people were injured in an antl-
Jewlsh riot in* Algiers.
The Venezuela insurgents have won
a Woody battle from the government
forces.
Jules Guerin, who has been defying
arrest in Paris, has agreed to sur
render.
Prince Henry and his German naval
squadron have arrived at Kiao Chou,
China.
The bubonic plague is raging in
Lourenco Marques, Buenos Ayres, and
Hong Kong.
Florence Marryat (Mrs. Francis
Lean), the novelist, is dying at Brigh
ton, England.
One story says that Dreyfus is com
ing to America, and another that he
can live only a few months.
The French Berate began trial ot
twenty-two men charged with con
spiracy against the republic.
The anniversary of Mexico's inde
pendence was celebrated with great
enthusiasm throughout that country.
M. Scheurer-Kestner, former Vice-
President of the French senate and one
of Dreyfus’ foremost champions, is
dead.
The czar is said to have decided to
close all important Russian ports on
the Pacific and Baltic seas to any but
Russian ships.
Mail advices from Peking report the
sudden and dangerous illness of the
empress dowager, and the accompany
ing report that Li Hung Chang has
been called upon to resume his old
rank and office.
Dreyfus has published the following
declaration in a Paris paper: “The
government of the republic has given
me my liberty. But liberty is nothing
to me without honor. Frcm today I
shall continue to seek reparation for
the frightful judicial error of which
I remain the victim.”
The plague has appeared in the Rus
sian province of Astraehan in anew
and alarming form, according to a re
port to the state depaitment frcm Con
sul Heenan, at Odessa. He says that
it there takes the form of a most mal
ignant and fatal pneumonia, yet ac
cording *to diagnosis it is but an ob
scure manifestation of the true bubonic
plague.
Before the Anglo-Venezuelan arbi
tration commission ex-President Ben
jamin Harrison continued his argu
ment in behalf of Venezuela, declaring
that both sides admitted there was a
common, co-tenminus boundary be
tween Guiana and Venezuela, and that
any idea of a space in which Great
Britain could advance was alien to the
views of her ministers and to those
expressed in the diplomatic corres
pondence.
Beth England and the Transvaal are
preparing for hostilities, although the
efforts for peace are also making.
President Kruger, in replying to the
latest proposals of the British govern
ment, states that the Transvaal ar
dently desires arbitration. President
Kruger is reported to have cabled a
long message to Queen Victoria beg
ging her intervention to prevent blood
shed. England is thrown into a war
panic by the latest reply of President
Kruger. A Berlin dispatch states
that Germany has informed Kruger
that he need expect no help from that
quarter in the event of war. The
boers are massing artillery at the en
trance to the Transvaal. War risks
on consignments to the rransvaal are
increased 50 per cent, in view of the
threatened war.
PLENTY OF FISH IN SAMOA.
One strange feature of this sea life
of the tropics is the regular recurrence
of migratory swamis of fish of very
small size that return in huge num
bers year after year with such abso
lute regularity that the natives calcu
late on the event on a certain date
in each year, and even within an hour
or two of the day. One such swarm of
fish foria.’ the occasion of an annual
holiday and feast at Samoa. The fish
is not unlike the white-bait for which
the English Thames has so long been
celebrated, and each-year it arrives in
Samoa on the same day in the month
of October, remains for a day, or at
the most two days, an l then disap
pears entirely untP the same day the
following year. Why it comes or
whence no curious naturalist has yet
discovered, nor has anybody traced its
onward course when it leaves the Sa
moan group; but the fact is unques
tionable that suddenly, without notice,
the still waters of the lagoon which
surround each island within the fring
ing reef become alive with millions of
fishes, passing through them for a
single day and night and then disap
pearing for a year as though mey had
never come.
A visit to Samoa enabled me to see
this strange phenomenon for myself,
and to witness the native feast by
which it is celebrated year by year. I
had been in Samoa for a month, and
in that month I had enjoyed almost
a surfeit of beauty. I had coasted the
shores of its islands in native canoes;
I had bathed in the warm, still wa
ters of its lagoons, fringed to seaward
by the white reef, on which the ocean
broke in golden spray, and to land
ward by the silver beach of coral sand,
flecked with the tremulous shadows of
the swaying palms. I had climbed
with my native wide the abrupt hills,
covered with dense forests of tropical
luxuriance, through the arcades of
which I caught glimpses of the flash
and luster of the ocean’s myriad smiles,
and again we had plunged into deep
valleys among the hills, where lj£tle
neadlong streams murmur under the
shaoe of the wide-spreading bread
fruit trees and wave the broad leaves
of the great water lilies of the Pacific
islands.—Lippincott’s.
THE STF ANGLING BUG.
Ttbe benacus grisens, the bug that in
tne east Is causing terror among the
tkulii under the terrible name of the
“straugling-bug.” It is probably the
giant vender beetle, and a mild. Inof
fensive >elng, according to a natural
ist. t
VETS WON'T PARADE
DEMAND POSITION OF HONOR IN
DEWEY PROCESSION.
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GOV. ROOSEVELT fGNORED
Committee Refuses to J&ive Grand
Army of Republic Piasi tic*. Before
Armed Division \pecisioa
Causes All Kinu~ c! Trouble —Rear
Admiral Howison Will Be Present.
New York, Sept. 23. —it Friday’s
meeting of the plan and scope commit
tee of the Dewey celebration committee
General Roe made a statement regard
ing the declination of the Grand Army
of the Republic to take cart in th£ Ad
miral Dewey land parade. >rfe said:
“At the request of a prominent Grand
Army man I asked O. How
ard to take command of tMs body, be
ing assured this was agreeable to the
state commander. At this interview,
afor some discussion, I informed them
that the Grand Army would be as
signed a position in the lead of the un
armed organizations. At a later inter
view between the commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R., state commander, Col.
Goulden and myself, practically a de
mand was made that the Grand Army
should head the column. Col. Goulden
stating that since the meeting of the
day before it was found that
it was the sentiment of the
Grand Army that if it could not lead
it would not parade. Their atten
tion was called to the fact that it was
not a Grand Army affair, but a city af
fair, and that that position was not
their proper one. I said: ‘Positively
and absolutely the Grand Army cannot
have the head of the column; where
upon they retired. I have the honor
to be a member of the Grand Army
of the Republic, George Wash
ington post,” The committee agreed
unanimously upon motion of Mr. Gug
genheimer to approve the action taken
by Gen. Roe. No mention was made
of the dispatch of Governor Roosevelt.
Gen. Roe declihed to give the text of
the dispatch <0 reporters. Gen. Albert
D. Shaw Friday night issued an ad
dress to the public in which he says:
“The reasons given in the letter from
Department Commander Kay, present
ed in person to Gen. Roe, embodies the
views I personally and strongly pressed
upon him, which said the proper place
for the comrades was at the head of
•the line in question. I made this re
quest, following the precedents of two
states. First in Chicago, at the jubilee
parade the veterans were accorded the
fight of the line and marched ahead of
all armed troops; second, on the return
of the IC'th regiment of Pennsylvania
volunteers from the Philippines the
Grand Army had the right of the line” -
in Pittsburg and was followed by the
president and governor and their staffs.
I felt wiien I made the pica that prec
edent se*t by the state of Pennsylvania
in having the veterans lead the line.
President McKinley and the governor
of the state following, was one that
might be followed by those controlling
the Dewey parade in New York.”
Maj.-Gen. Roe early Friday received
a telegram from Gov. Roosevelt direct
ing him to give the G. A. R. their
choice of any place in the parade. Im
mediately on receiving the telegram,
Gen. Roe had a conference witli Mayor
Van Wyck and then with Chairman
Guggenheimer. Mr. Guggenheirqjßr
said of the governor’s action: “It is
peculiarly Rooseveltian. It is most
impudent, unjustified and unwarranted
interference in a that is without
his province.” The plan and scop®
committee met later and took the, ac
tion stated above.
Roosevdlt Explains.
Utica, N. Y„ Sept. 23.—Regarding
tiie dispute as to the position to be ac
corded the Grand Army in the Dewey
day parade at New York, Governor
Roosevelt said last night: "I have ?
telegraphed Gen. Roe that if the pat
ter is one purely for the city authori
ties and in which I have hot
power, then of course I wlth>&
draw my former telegram. '• t'<
had understood that General Roe was
acting as major general of the national
guard in the management of the pa
rade. and in that event I of course hkd
the power to direct that the veteransV
be given the right of the line and ac*
cordingly did it. If, however, as ap
pears to be the case, it is a matter,-
purely for tiie city officials, I, of course, j
have nothing to say and no advice to i
give.”
Howison to Greet Dewey.
Washington, Sept. 23.—A message
has been received at the navy depart
ment from Rear Admiral Howison,
who is with his fleet at the Barbadoe%
that he will arrive at New York by the
time Dewey gets there. This will dis
place Rear Admiral Sampson as the
chief naval officer receiving Dewey, be
cause Howison outranks Sampson.
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