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MAX X kl READING PROOFS Approved the Book Which Slurs Admiral Scliley. WILLING FOR INVESTIGATION Walnrlsht Answers An Official InquirySecretary Long Is Tired of the Controversy Referring to Maclay's naval history, which has boon criticised on account of statements considered objectiona ble, Hear Admira. Sampson, In an In terview at Boston. M.irs.. Mnndav. , , , said: "In one way, possibly, I was respon sible for the statements mado In tho "history. I was commander In chief of the squadron, and was responsible bo far as reading tho proofs goes. If th, historian has taken facts from my of ficial reports to the navy uepartment, that Is all well and Rood. I stand by first reports and official communica tions. "I would welcome an investigation of this whole matter by congress or by tho navry department," he said, "but I Bee no hope of Its being taken up. "Schley's flBst statement regarding the battle of Santiago," continued the admiral, "was moderately correct. The Interviews given out some time after wards were not at all correct. They were entirely different from his first accounts and were written In a differ ent spirit, I think. An interview pur porting to have come from Admiral Schley published, I believe, on January Cth, was entirely Incorrect. Soon af ter this statement armearert in r.rint he came aboard my ship and told me that he had been incorrectly quoted. The reporter to whom the interview was granted was a tnend of mine, and he afterwards told me that he had pub lished Schley's words precisely as they had been spoken." Wainwright Answers Inquiry. Commander Walnwrlght, command ant of the United States naval acade my, under the date of July 20th, has made the following reply to the navy department's Inquiry concerning the use of Maclay's history: "Having seen so much in the paper? in regard to the third volume of Ma lay's naval history, and having re ceived also fin official letter from you on the subject, I think It right to put you in possession of a full knowledge of the case as existing at the naval academy. "There has been no proposition to adopt this third volume as a textbook or reference book, either from the head of the department of English, the acad emic board, or any person within my knowledge. There Is no intention' here of requiring the cadets to study the history of such recent events as the Spanish-American war, and their time is too limited to require them to study a lull volume on any one war. 'Maclay's naval history was adopted with the consent of the department in 1899, when the English course here twas extended far beyond its former limits. Long Is Tired of Discussion. Secretary Long Monday afternoon .ndicated to the newspaper men who ailed upon him that he did not desire b discuss further the revival nt the amnsnn-Kchlpv rnntrnverov Tin eoM ft 1 - ... - . , . .... j . J . j .J l. 1 M , lowever, that he had received a letter om Mr. Maclay in which the author the naval history of the United ates agreed to his (the secretary's) iatement that only the third chapter his book (that relating to mobiliza- in) naa oeen n aced in the' secreta- s hands before the publication of work. Admiral Schley Is Silent. Admiral Schley -was seen Monday bt at the Great Neck, L. I., where is at present stopping. He declared would have nothing to say at the ;sent time, no matter what was said others Indorsing Maclay's history, added that later, when others had I all they wanted to he might issue ;atement, but that this was uncer- ALMOX TRUST ORGANIZED. pany With Capital of $25,000,000 Chartered In ew Jersey. e Pacific Packing and Navigation any, the salmon combine, to deal llmon and other fish, was lncorpo l at Trenton, N. J., Saturday after 1 The authorized capital Is $23, 30, divided into $12,500,00 7 per 'preferred stock and $12,500,000 Ion "stock. mi Killed By Heat at Chicagro. j, dead, one man driven insane Ire prostrations showed the result Inday's sweltering heat in Chi- I'Jitor Angus Charges fecretnry Long and Admiral Sampson as Abetting Conspiracy. A Washington special says: The secretary of the navy has decided that the volume of Maclay's hintory of the Spanish-American war shall not be used as a textbook at the naval acad emy unlcHH tho obnoxious languago it contains in characterizing the action of Hear Admiral Schley is eliminated. The secretary says that It would be manifestly Improper to have a history containing such Intemperate language as a textbook for the cadets. He will inform both Commander Walnwrlght, who is In command of the naval acade my, and Employe Maclay, the author of the history, of hla decision. In this connection the secretary says that the proofs of the entire volume were not submitted to him by the his torian. He received only the proofs of the third chapter, that relating to the mobilization of the fleets, which con tained a summary of the orders which he, as secretary of tho navy, had is sued in making the naval preparations for the war. That chapter was satisfactory and he returned it to Maclay with an Indi cation of his approval. He says he never saw tho account of the battle of Santiago and tho criticisms of Rear Admiral Schley until the book was published. Mr. Maclay was appointed to his present position Jn the New York navy yard about four yet78 aK Agnus' Hot Roast. General Felix Agnus, publisher of The Baltimore American, has tele giaphed the following to President McKInley: "William McKInley, President. Can ton, O. 'Maclay's History of the Navy' is .the standard in use at the naval academy. In the third volume, Just is sued, the historian charges Rear Ad miral Schley with being a coward, a liar, a caitiff, an Incompetent and in subordinate. In an interview in The American this morning Maclay, the historian, who is a navy department clerk, classed as a laborer and attach ed to tho Brooklyn navy yard, says that proofs of this third volume, which should have told the most glorious his tory in all our naval annals, were sub mitted to Secretary Long and Admiral Sampson and approved by them in ad vance of publication; also that Long put him In his present position after he had read and approved this scurril ous attack upon Admiral Schley. These proofs were also submitted to Admiral Dewey, who refused to read them. "If aught were needed to convince, any fair-minded man that a clique la the navy department has conspired to traduce the hero of Santiago and that the conspiracy was carried into execu tion while that brave and gallant offi cer was suffering extirpation on the fever-infested coasts of South America, this should furnish it. Will you, Mr. President, in view of all this, sit quiet ly by and permit these conspirators to continue their diabolical work? Ev ery justice-loving American appeals to you to intervene in the name and for the sake of fair play. Next to being right all the time, which no man ever was, the best thing is to find out as soon as possible that you are wrong and right yourself Immediately. "FELIX AGNUS, "Publisher Baltimore American." IMPORTED 31 EN LIBERATED. Two Machinists Imprisoned at Ameri cus Succeed in Paying Out. After remaining in prison fifteen days at Americus, Ga., because of their inability to give an appearance bond of $100 as witnesses In a misde meanor trial, John Schmidt and Chris tian Balsh, machinists imported to take the place of strikers in the Sea board shops, were linally released Fri day afternoon. The company owed the foreigners money for June work, but a settlement was not effected until the time of their release. Great Jlonoy-llakins: Scheme. A negro iif Liberty county, Georgia, whose daughter worked in the post office at Limerick, made her fill out post office orders as he needed money. These he cashed, and now he lan guishes in jail. CIOARMAKERS ARE FIRED. Internationals Take Places of Mem bers of La Heslsteneia. More than one hundred Internation al Cigarmakers broke the La Resisten cia strike at the factory of Cuesta, Rey & Co., at Tampa, Fla., Monday. The La Resistencia struck because the house opened a branch in Jackson ville. The Internationals commenced work Monday morning under a heavy guard of deputy sheriffs. The general strike, which is now threatened, will affect more than 4,000 people. Hi) (MiPM,lIuE Hi THE BIG STRIKE Battle Hust Be Fought to a Conclusion. J. P. MORGAN DENIES A RUMOR Report of Settlement Is Without FoundationTrust Has No In tention to Conceding. A New York special cays: J. T. Mor gan gave positive denial Friday to ru mors that the steel strike had been set tled. Ho made this statement to the Associated Press: "There Is not a word of truth In it There ha3 been no settlement and there can be no compromise on such a question. The position of the operat ing companies is perfectly simple and well understood and, so far as I am concerned, has my unqualified ap proval." Mr. Warner Arms, vice president of the American Tin Plate Company, made the following statement Friday to a representative of the Associated Press: "Mr. Shaffer wants these companies to sign for all the non-union mills. A wage agreement Is a contract entered into voluntarily between two or more per -ns representing certain interests. Mr'shaff: has no rlsht t0 thos" mn0nin- m sign ail agreement witH) him for nersnns- He docs not represent These companies a. -e not antagonistic to labor and have prove d it by entering- Into wage agreements in v. khe past with Mr. Shaffer for those that he repre- mi sented. This year the America Plate Company entered into an aci e' ment for one year from July 1st, but Mr. Shaffer violated that agreement by calling"out the men on a sympathetic strike when they had no grievances." No Change In Situation. A.Pittsburg dispatch says: The strike situation cannot be termed ma terially changed. Many rumors are in the air to the effect that a settle ment of the trouble is imminent, but none of these reports have been veri fied. At the offices of the Carnegie company and at the headquarters of the manufacturers the usual silence Is preserved. President Shaffer, of the Amalgama ted Association, expresses hla pnrl-.-o satisfaction with the progress of tbo Battle, and says the workers h gained steadily, while the manufactur ers have lost contlnuallv sin tha strike began. He says un to the nre. ent the Amaleama tp1 a a forces contemplate no change In their programme, being fully satisfied with the showing their people have made. President Shaffer says the advance in wages offered the tube mill wnrVnra at McKeesport Friday, while seeming ly large, will not bring the pay up to the union scale. Commencing In a dav or twr wecirW bulletins will be iss tied frn m A m o 1 rvn mated headquarters to give the work ers and strikers official news of the exact condition of strike affairs. From the storm center at Werisvillp O., comes word that the striking mill men in that vicinity spent an uneasy, restless day. The American Sheet Steel rmrv has many of the town's largest mer chants back of it in its flehf ninc- the workmen, the merchants fonrw that if the present trouble goes along mucn iurtner the Wellsville plant will be moved across the line into Ponncvi. vania. Grocers, clothing men and oth ers are trying to show the strikers that they are wrong and foolish in keeping up the fight. Fx-Senalor Pho-Ii is itMtoi. Former Senator Pugh, of Alabama, who has been critically ill in Washing ton, has improveu considerably. His physician now believes the senator has a god chance of recovery. Sentence of Doers Commuted. Advices from Cape Town state that Lord Kitchener has commuted the sen tence of death passed on thirty-four Boer prisoners to penal servitude for life at Bermuda. WILL PROBE TKOUULES. Italian Ambassador to Investigate In ternational Difficulties. Marquis Mallspanl, the new Italian ambassador to the United States, has written from Rome that he will arrive at Washington early In September. This is earlier than he expected and is probably due to the desire to have the ambassador take up the several impor tant International questions which have arisen of late between Italy and the United States, Including the levy ing of 'a differential duty on Italian sugar, the killing of several Italians io Mississippi and the negotiations for ar Italian treaty of reciprocity. iVOLO(lY TO ITALY. Uncle 5am Forward Note Deplor ing Lynch in;; of Italians In Hisslssippl. A Washington facial ays: Tim acting secretary of state Monday Hcnt a communication to Mr. Carlgnanl, tho charge ol tho Italian embassy, express ing the regret of this government at the lynching of two Italians recently in Mississippi, and Informing him that efforts were being made to bring tho perpetrators to Justice. Attention was ulrccted to tho tact that it had not been established officially mat tho men lynched were Italian subjects. Tho same information as that con tained In tho note to the Italian charge was forwarded to Mr. Iddlngs, the charge of the United States embassy at Rome, with Instructions to lay It bo fore the Italian .orelgn office. Gover nor Longlno, of Mississippi, has advis ed tho Italian consul at Vlcksburg of the steps he haa taken to apprehend the guilty persons. The letter details the active steps the government has taken to appre hend those guilty'cf tno outrage. "The governor, who has been to the scene of the affair, Is apprehensive of con siderable difficulty in locating the guil ty parties, as he states that the crime was committed at midnight by masked men, who departed quickly and quiet ly, leaving no trace of their move ments.' Governor Longino left Jackson, Miss., Monday night for Greenville, wnere he will consult with the crimi nal Judge touching the assassination of the Italians at Erwln, and a special term of court will doubtless be speed ily called. E. Calvalli, the Italian con sul at New Orleans, Is said now to be at Erwln, making In investigation. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH, List or 'ew Industries Established During the Past Week. The more important of the new in- dutrles reported iCT tIie Past week Include" a '2.00 bridge' .tompany at Seabreeze Fla-' a W00 c& fac" tory at Dj'rh m- N- C- a $100,00? cl factory at Tar,.",pa' 'la-i a cal min.'ng comnanv at Kovu "omb, Tenn .: a collar and harness factor " at Hickory, N. C.; a $110,000 cotton com.T)ress at Helena, Ark.; a cotton compres at Houston, Tex.; a $25,000 compress' a' Paris, Tex.; a $100,000 copper min"n8 com pany at Little, Rock, Ark.; cotO11 gins at Goodwater, Ala., and Emory and Wilmer, Tex.; a $100,000 cotton mih1 at Aberdeen, Miss.; a $100,000 cotton ml?l at Uraham, N. C; electric light plants at Tryon, N. C, and Culpepper, Va,; a furniture factory at Fort Smith, Ark.; a $25,000 furniture factory at Hickory, N.. C; gas works at Birmingham, Ala.; grist mills at Eulaula, Ala., Cofflnton, Ga. and West Nashville, Tena.; $30, 000 hardware companies at StatesvUIe', N. C.,. and San Antonio, Tex.; ice fac tories at Ashburn and Douglas, Ga.T Hopkins ville, Ky., and Kentwood,. La,; a $100,000 lumber company at Pensa cola,. Fla.;; a $30,000 lumber company at Plaquemine, La.; a $125,000 lumber company at Woodlawn,. N. C, antf a $50,000 lumber company at Maerali Wells, Tex..;: a $25,000 land company at Douglas, Ga..;; $5,000 machine- shops at Clarendon,. Tex.;- marble works at StatesvUIe,. N. C; a $30,000 mining company at Harrison, Ark.;, a $50,000 mining and mineral company at Wax ahachie, Tex.; $200,000 motor wnrk nt- New Orleans, La.;- a $100,000 oil com pany at Hunsville,. Ala.; a $200,000 oil: company at Beaumont, Tex., and an other with capital of $300,000: $300 000 o.4 company at El Paso, Tex.; a $30.- 000 oil company at Fort Worth, Tex.; a $250,000 oil company at Paris' t ou ana gas companies at Flemings - 1 iwumgs- burg, Ky., and La Porte, Tex.; an oil' mm at Laurens, C. C: a SSO.non nil mill at Sulphur Springs, Tex'.; an $84, 000 oil and cotton company at Whar ton, Tex.; a pottery at O'Quinn, Tex.; a $25,000 quarrying company at Shef field, Ala.; $50,000 rice mills at New Orleans, La., and Bay City, Tex,; roof ing works at Nasnville, Tenn.; a $50, 000 sash, door and hli HT l Ml m i Nashville, Term.; saw mills at Spring 1 v,, i j a. l rim, ia, ana Coffinton, Ga.; a stave factory at Qulggstown, Ky.; a trunk factory at Macon, Ga.; a $20,000 wagon factory at Winterville, N. C, and a woodworking plant at Athens, Tena. Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) TTMI 1-1 JOIST "CAItRYNATlOJilZED." Topeka TYomen Swoop Down Upon SundayBeer Dispensers. At Eldorado, Kans., Sunday seven women, headed by Mrs. II. T. Grover, president of the local Woman's Chr:s tlan Temperance Union, entered a "Joint" run by a man named Busch, in a tent In the center of town, and de molished a tub full of bottled beer. They took samples of the liquor to th sheriff, who later ordered the "'jolnt ist" to quit business. Five hundred people gathered while the raid was In progress. A "jointist" in another part of town loaded his stock Into a wajoa and disappeared. THE TORRID 7AYE AGAIN PREYALEHT This Time Almost Whole Country Swelters. A RECORD-BREAKER CN SUNDAY Many Prayer (lo Up In K.msai and MIssourl Churches-Farmcrs Plant Grasses In Corn Fields. Saturday was an exceedinly hot day In Kansas. The mercury ranged from 106 to 109. Farmers ar beginning to plow the early rulnd corn fields and sow them in wheat and alfalfa to make pasture fields for the stock in the fall J and winter, but the Kansas river, run ' nlng through Topeka, is so dry that green grass is growing in the center of the river bed. Most of the streams of the state, except th larger ones, have gone dry, and there Is a poor prospect for stock water. The weather bur at Washington Issued th following bulletin Sunday night: i "Practically the entire country was covered by hot wave today, except the immediate Pacific coast and in the states of Iowa, Missouri and Illinois narly all previous records were ex ceeded. The maximum temperature line of 100 degrees encircles the en tire great corn belt. At Davenport and Bubuque, Iowa, and at Springfield, 111., tho maximum temperature of 106 de- grees were 2 degrees above the hlgn est previous record, while at St. Lou's the maximum of 106 has been equaled but once before, on August 12, 1881. At Chicago the maximum of 102 do-! gi'ees equals the previous high record of July 10th of the present year. In the states of Iowa, Missouri and Kan sas the duration of the present heated term Is without precedent, there hav ing been practically no interruption to temperature of 90 or over since June 1Rrh a neriod nf thlrtv-fnilf davs. Oil eighteen days of this period th P131); mum temperature at Kansas City w5a W V more- "The." ar6 7et n0 lndIcatlons of any relief tnfi abnornAl heat. No rain has fallen In the oorn belt for the throa Aav and novie Is In sight. It is, of course,' probable? that scatter- d Innol tTiiinrtoretnT'mtf W'fc Ich are al- e,d local thunderstorms, wh. va opnnmranlmpnta tit Tt -otracted '. V. w.n,r f-.ll IT n ' eS, DUX no hvP6 caQ 06 entertained at time o. f- any general rains or pei ma" nent rel 'ef" Hcttv ,8t at Omar,a Since 1894. With tht ' excePtion of July 26, 1894, on whlcb 4 tne temperature reach- , ed 105 degrv SunIay feas been the hottest day (X 11aba' Neb-- haa expert- mi. - enced la twenty fmnm a 1 A 41 V). There was not a trace of rain here ln tne vicinity and what little wti d there was camo from the south and L nstead of belnS a relief added to the df "omfrt. Three Deaths at K aneas City The heat at Kansas- C broke a11' records., trtm tfrniwrntnra . 't 4 p. m. be ing 104. Thermometers- i tho street recorded 93. In Kansas City, Kans.. tht ee dea8 from heat were reported; &u. rmg day. ed the in nearly all the churches' In Kansm ' City and generally throughout Kansas. Goes to 108 at St. Louis. On the day (Sunday) that Govern or Dockery designated for fasting an praying to God that the present drought might be broken in Missouri. I all records for hot weather in St. Louis icLuiua lur uui wuauier in st. Liouii were broken, the weather bureau ther mometer on the custom house register ing 108 degrees. On the streets and in' exposed places the mercury went many degrees higher. Tho record bro ken was that of 106, made ln the early eighties. This was the second" proclamation of the character ever made in the hlstory of Missouri. In.1875. a time nf u nine ui uiuugui and grasshopper pest, Governor Charles II. Hardin called upon the Deo- pie of the state to pray for relief. This, call was also generally observed. Chicago Records 103. All heat records since the establish ment of the weather bureau in Chicago thirty years ago, were broken, the gov ernment thermometer registering 103 degrees. Down en the street it was, from 3 to 5 degrees hotter, and, to add to the suffering, a hot, snifllng wind like a blast from a furnace, blew all day from the southwest. From 5 o'clock in the morning, when the thermome ter registered 77, a gradual rise fol lowed until at 4:30 Sunday afternoon the top notch had been reached. Prostrations were numerous and po lice ambulances were kept busy tak ing care of persons who were over come on the streets. 106 at Decatur III. At Decatur. 111., It was the hottest day ever known. The government thermometer registered IOC. 4 n r ii