Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1898, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEFT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Ave., Cor. 11th St., by The Evening Star Newspaper Company. S.H. KAUFF MANN, Pres’t. Rew York Office, 49 Potter Building, = Si ts served to subscribers {n the per weel per month. Copfes at the counter. 3 Ry mall—anywhere In the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents T mouth hy P Saturday Qu Sheet Star, $1 per year, with el 08 |. $3.08, Gre dnpr at Washington, D. C., os smanst be paid in advance. made known on app!itation. Che Lvening Star. No 14,235, HOLY COMMUNION ——— Bishops Partake of Sac- fament Today, ee THE SCOPE OF THE CHURCH Clerical and Lay Deputies Ar- gue for its Enlargement. BISHOPS DIVIDE ON DIVORCE CANON Members of the Convention to Visit Virginia Cities. PROC ZnEDINGS TODAY All the t America ir »ps of the Episcopal Church triennial convention in this ‘din heiy communion at St. rch this morning. Although the 300 k. there was a and the service was un- and significant. of Maine was the celebrant. m of Duluth read the Gospel Loc Right Rev. Anson Rogers Grav D.D., LL.D. Bishop of the Pl and F Brown, the bishop-coadjutor of Arkansas, read the Epistle. These bishops were attired in sock, rochet, chimere and stole, with the hoods of their doctor- ates. There was no music. The service was in accordance with a resolution of the house of bishops, recently adopted. that its members should celebrate holy communion at least ence a week, and Thursday v cted. their usual ec- rvice last was no nvenes. of t yuse >on any Chure of the the of It wa: extraordin Right Rey. Bis! Bo Vincent, D.D.. Southern Ohio. a Christian n view. resolution that puties, shall sit next, as a joint tee on Christian education. Special Order, nade a special order for tomorrow ock, at which hour they will take the consideration of the various pro- i@ and det2rmine the order jn ¥ shall be discussed and voted ® canons are exclusive of the jage and divorce, taken up w of the pressure for im- fon. © Was appointed composed of 8 of South Dakota, of Newark entral Pennsylvania, to nominate rustees of the gen- relief fund. This fund supports rm cr disabled clergymen, and the deceased minis- ts not very large and has not many pensioners. Most of the large dioceses, h as New York Connecticut, them- selves support their aged and infirm mem- bers. At 3 o'clock the bishops went into council. In House of Sishops Yesterday, Although the sessions of the bishops are sed ¢ mar separately medi deri in secret and no information is officially given out until final action upon a complete measure has been obtained, The-Star is able to present reliabie details of: the ses- sion beginning at 3 o'clock yesterday after- noon, at which the proposed c2aon of mar- riage and divorce was gen: y attacked and several of the paragraphs succumbed to the opposition. ‘The bishops are divided in two parties up- on this canon, although many of both have diverging views of their own, while untting in their support of or opposition to the in issue, which is the indissolubility of marriare. Question at Issue. The third and last para of the canon suggested in the majority report of the joint commission on revision, and the sraph one which has provoked the conflict of opinion, is- “No minister of this church shall sol- emnize the riage of either party to a divorce during the lifetime of either part It was moved that this be adopted yes- terday afternoon, and at once the two Right Rev. Jno. Mills Kendrick, D.D., Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona. r contention. op Potter of New York offered the amendment suggested by the minority of the joint commission, which he Icads, as follows: “No minister of this began the church shall solemnize the marriage of any 1 di- vorced hushand or wife living. This shall not apply to the innocent party in a di- vorce suit on his or her filing with the s evidence of such innocence, a d transcript of the record, ministe: legally cert showing a final judgment or decree of a ourt of record having jurisdiction on the warding him or her a di- ter, . ‘a vinculo matrimonii,) on th nd of adulte upport of shop Potter argued that ed by the majority of the nd ill-advised 1 his amendment was in mmon sense, conscience, and the history of the church. He said it would keep people out of the church and would place a_ stigma upon many t members of the church. It could not help being post facto in moral effect at least, and, he would be null and void because the great majority of the clergy cannot and will not observe it. titute Offered. Bishop Seymour of Springfield offered to amend the proposed m: canon by substituting the following: E minister, after due ing shall lemnize the marriage of any persen who has a divorced husband or wife still living, if such husband or wife has been put away for any cau: this canon arising after marriage. But 1 not be held to apply to ing to be united ses the officiating of the atisfy the legal proclamation that in tke eyes of the law man planation Bishop Seymotr said: s amendment provides for cases which are classed as marriages null and Right Rev. Bishop of Neva Abiel Leonard, ‘tab and Wes: Dw plorado, It also recogniaes the fact of state in the e law they are of God, by narriage aim the to part causa a riage. § before m: He said that he knew a case where a man marrie: a young woman, belleving her single, but later he learned she had a husband living at the time he married her. He got a divol and although inrocent of wrong- doing, he would, if the majority canon pre- vailed, be the Episcopal Church Bishop Doane, the father of the majority canon, was willing to acc2pt this amend- ment, but his principal adherents, who were part of the majority of the Joint com- mission, protested. Bishop Potter, however, took the amend- ment and incorporated tt in his minority non, making it read as follows: “No min- ister of this church shall solemnize th» rearriage of elther party to a divorce who has a busvavd or wife living, if such hus- band or fe has been put away for any cause arising after marriage.” Amendments Proposed. The bishop of Chicago offered an amend- ment to do away with any discipline for the innocent party in a case of adultery who is remarried by some other clergyman than one of the Episcopal Church. In the debate Bishop McKim of Tokyo said prevented from remarrying in am in favor of the canon reported by the majority of the joint commission as amended by the bishop of Chicago. This amendment is to do away with any dis- cipline for the innocent party in a case of adultery who iv remarried by some other clergyman than one of the Episcopal Church. This seems to me to be the ra- tional solution of the difficulty.” Other amendments were offered, but no final action was taken on the completed canon. Other Sections Dispased Of. Previously the bishops quickly disposed of other and less important sections of the same canon. The chairman of the joint commission first moved the adoption of paragraph 1, as folléws: “No minister shall solemnize a marriage the parties to which are within the degrees of consanguinity and affinity defined in the “(Continued on Third Page.) WASHINGTON, D. 0, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1898-FOURTEEN PAG ES. TW O CENTS THE PLUCKY EAGLE|S™RICKEN WITH PaRALysis} THE FIGHT AT VIRDEN Work of the Converted Yacht During : the War. ENGAGEDIN THE FIRST NAVAL BATTLE Reported Warships Which Délayed Shafter's Departure. THE STORY OF THE CHASE Just what foundation there was for the report from the Navy Department of the presence of Spanish warships off the Cuban coast which operated to delay the dispatch of Gen. Shafter's expedition from Tampa last June is fully disclosed in an official re- port to the Navy Department from Lieut. W. H. H. Southerland, who commanded the auxiliary cruiser Eagle throughout the war, ‘The lieutenant, in speaking of this instance, says: “At 9 p.m. of June 7 a bright white light was seen bearing N.N.W. The Eagle was headed for it at full speed, when it im- mediately disappeared. After running some time without seeing anything the chase was abandoned. At 9:45 p.m, a similar light was seen bearing N. by E., 1% E. Again the Eagle started in chase and soon made the private night signal, keeping it up for not less than two minutes, during which inter- val the white light disappeared anda ves sel’s hull could be distinguished. No wer was made to the signal from this v sel. After running for ten minuttes longer the gle again made the night signal for not less than two minutes, but again re- ceived no reply. Within a very short inter- val, however, a white light appeared from the chase, apparently a truck light, and vas immediately answered by three white about equal distances astern, all going out almost immediately. ‘The the meantime had been going light at full speed, and could now be made out, the first and third seeming of large size, the second and fourth quite small, The Chase. “The Eagte now, fully expecting to be attacked, headed for the third vessel in the tine, intending to attempt to destroy the last one if att d by all. When a of the third vessel and within a distance of a mile the last vessel of the four moved up the line tov ard the first one. The Eagle then turned toward the vessels and ran parallel with them, within less than a mile, for over half an hour, during which ft v observed that the first and thi ssels carried white stern Hghts, and that all were going at a speed not much over seven knots. During this interval the moon arose and these vessels could be quite distinctly lon board of gle. “t that the private night signa which must have been plainly seen, w not answered (an omission which would have been almost criminal on a United States man-of-war), the white signals, and the white stern lights, all went to prove these vessels to be possible enemies, in con- sequence of which the Eagle turned to the westward and hastened to Key West with information for the benefit of the con- voying fleet, speaking the collier Lebanon en route, and thus sending word to tne blockading v s off Havana. When some distance away from these vessels the look- out aloft reported one of the small vessels in chase, but it could not be seen from deck. Shortly after the arrival of the Hagle at Key West the U. S. S. Resolute arrived and reported having been chased by four vessels a short time after the o currence narrated above, and in the vicin- ity.” First Naval Fight of the War. It was not commonly known, probably because Dew great achievement over- shadowed the fact, that Lieutenant South- erland with the little Eagle fought the first then Eagle in toward the first four vesse naval engagement afloat of the war, but such was the e. This was the morning of April 29, the Eagle being part of a little squadron composed of the Marblehead and the Nashville besides herself, off C.enfue- gos. After the Nashville had captureu the Argonauta, prize, Captain McCalla signaled the Eagle to proceed off the mouth of Cien- fuegos harbor. Arriving fifteen hundred yards off the light house, the Spanisa tor pedo gunboat Galicia and a small gunboat left the harbor and steamed out toward the Eagle, each one, in addition to a second small gunboat within the harbor, commenc- ing a well-dire a number of thelr shots falling q to the Eagle. This attack d_imme¢ from the varying from such good eff enemy retir ately $ six-pounders at a range 4,000 to 2,200 yards, and to that in fifteen minutes the the Galicia having been hit twice, once through her smoke pipe and once through her boiler. Within a few rainutes one of the gunboats again appear- and with the forts on shore opened fire on the Eagle, which was promptly re- turned, the Fagle in the meantime having steamed a little clcser in toward the har- bor entrance. The Eagle's fire during the second attack was of short duration, as the Marblehead, which upon the firing of the first gun had started full speed to the Eegle's assistar d within a few minutes, and with a well-directed fire from her splendidly handled battery scon silenc- ed the enemy’s fire ashore and < The first of these attacks on tie brought on the first naval. engagement afloat of the war, during which a small converted yacht, armed with four six- peunders and two small Colt’s guns, de- feated and put to flight an enemy's force censisting of one torpedo gunboat and two small gunboats. The Galicia was of su- perior size to the Eagle and was armed with two inch rifles, four six-pounder rapid-fire guns, one machine gun and two terpedo tubes. Information received later fiom the insurgents was to the effect that the injuries inflicted on the Galicia by the Eagle's fire were such as to require over five weeks to repair. Other Events. Lieut. Southerland’s report deals with many other interesting events that occur- red during the blockade of the Cuban port, the capture of prizes and the numerous attacks on the Spanish forts along shore. "The little vessel was engaged as part otf Sampson's fleet in firing upon the Spanish fcrts at Aguadores during the Janding of the Shafter expedition, One of the most interesting events, how- ever, Was the capture by the little gunboat of the big Spanish armed steamer Santo Domingo, which she drove ashore and burnt north of the Isle of Pines. This Spanish vessel was not only well armed herself, but had two big twelve-inch rifles in her ‘hold, intended for the Havana. for- tifications. She was destroyed directiy in sight of a small Spanish gunboat. Lieut. Southerland says that in five months and four days of her service the Eagie covered 13,605 miles. During this interval the health of the ship company was excellent, notwithstanding the facts that the men did not have their hammocks, but always slept under cover on deck near their guns, ——————_+ 0+ ARGENTINE’S NEW EXECUTIVE. Inauguration of General Julio A. Roca. The Secretary of State today received a cable message from Minister Buchanan at Buenos Ayres saying that Gen. Julio A. Roca was Inaugurated president yesterday. He adds that Alcorta remains minisier for | and the army officials, foreign affairs. The Wife of Ex-Secretary of State Sherman Attacked. The Entire Right Side Affected—Re- ported as Somewhat Better This Afternoon, Mrs. John Sherman, wife of the ex-Secre- tary of State, was stricken with paralysis this morning and 1s in a serious condition. Dr. W. W. Johnston end Dr, Franck Hyatt are in attendance. Mrs. Sherman arose at her usual early hour this morning, and about 7 o'clock, while in her bath room, finishing her toilet, was heard to fall heav- ily on the floor. Mr. Sherman, who was in an adjoining room, hastened to her and found ker helpless. Several doctors were hastily summoned, but it was after 8 o'clock when they reached the patient. The entire right side is affected, and great alarm was felt during the morning that a fatal ending would result. This afternoon, however, she was considered somewhat im- proved. Mrs. McCallum, the adopted daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman, is with her parent Mr. and Mr: from the Virg'! Sherman returned Tuesday Hot Springs, where they had spent four or five days. With that exception they had been in| Washington since theic return early in July from their trip to California and Alaska. Mr Sherman has enjoyed the best of her life and especially of late seldom ever required the care of She has been particularly ac- ng for the sick, and during the I summer took care of the little chil- dren of a relative who was ill with fever. Mrs. Sherman is one of the best known women in Washington, where she has re- sided during all of her distinguished hus- band’s public career. Few women have evoked such genuine admiration because of the firmness of her friendships and the sin- gular evenness of her disposition. No pub- lic man has ever had a truer helpmeet. One of her distinguishing characteristics was a great distaste for anything approaching ostentation or display, and nobody unac- quainted with herself or her husband would have supposed that she was the wife of a rich man. Her cordial but quiet- ly dignified manner never faltered, and this refreshing indication of the simplicity which accompanied her thraugh life has been always her greatest charm. —_> AGREE sps NISH TO LEAVE. Willing to Evacuate Perto Rico by October 18, The military commission sent to Porto Rico to supervise the evacuation of that country by the Spanish forces amd its com- plete surrender to the United States gov- ernment in accordance with the peace pro- tocol has practically completed its work. The commission consists of Maj. Gen. Brooke, U. S$. A.; Rear Admiral Schley, U. S. N.,.and Brig. Gen. Gordon, U. 9. A. The practical completion of thelr mission is shown in the following telegram from Gen. Brooke, which was plaeed on the bul- lectin board at the War Depactment this morning: SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, October 18, 1898. cretary of War, Washington, D. C.: ‘The United States commission has inform- ed the Spanish commission that the United States expects to have complete po: ion of Porto Rico on October 18. The Spanish commission assent to this anfl say that it is expected the evacuation will be complete on or before that day. If not, they will concede possession. The Unicd States com- on has practically completed the de- of the evacuation, and the joint com- sion has had its last session and ad- journed without day. The United States troops will be placed in San Juan and the flag hoisted at noon October 18. (Signed) BROOKE, Major General. +04 CURRENT POLITICAL GOSSIP, Democrats — Protessing Confidence Ab New York. The democrats are talking very confi- dently about the polit ‘al situation in New York just now. Adviccs from democratic sour in that state declare that the Roosevelt boom Is declining, and that the regular old-time betiing men, who have no entiment, but are out for what they can win, are taking up the bets that are of- fered on Roosevelt, and this is resulting in a shrinking of the odds at first offered. The democrats think that n Wyck’s letter of acceptance, achering to state issues and associating Roosevelt with the enforce- ment of the Raines law, which is unpopular in certain quarters, is having a distinctly advantageous influence for the democrats. Representative Jones of Virginia disputes the proposition that there is any chance of the republicans making any congres- sional gains in Virginia this fall, He says = democrats are in excellent shz nd will probably elect a delegation to Congr For the first time, Georgians thirty years the Georgia state senate composed entirely democrats. Th publicans hive heretofore had alway member of the state senate, and of i the populists have had several r credit, as high at one time as As a result of the election cently held in Georgia there is not a re- st in the senate. 1 pect to give the demo- crats a bad shaking up in North Carolina this fall, and it is evident that the demo- crats recognize that they have a hot fight before them in the state. The republicans and the populists have a fusion, and such a fusion proved very strorg in the last election. Col. Barnes, one of the old-time democratic émployes of the Senate from North Carolina, who has just returned from home, says he thinks the demecrats will win. He says that the republicans are making great claims in the siate and are working hard, but still he thinks the dem- ocrats are all right. He says ‘that the effectiveness of the fusion between the populists and republicans ts marred to Seme degree by the fact that the populists do not like the nomination by republicans of negroes for some of the lecal sffices. ——+ 0+ PRESIDENT OFF TO ST. LOUIS. He Leaves Omaha With Wis Party Early This Morming. OMAHA, Neb., October 13:-—Amother per- fect autumn day greeted thefPresident this morning. Mr. McKinley arose atthe Oma- ha Club at 8 o'clock and breakfast2d with Secretary Bliss and his young nephew, James McKinley. At 9 o'clock the President was driven to the station, escorted by a platood of police and mounted members of the Ak-Sar-Ben. Ths ride to the depot was a repetition of the enthusiastic scenes of yesterday, peo- ple lining the streets to obtain a glimpse of the President. A large delegation accom- panied the party to tha. train, including Senators Allen and ‘Thurston, Mayor Moores, President Wattles, Governor Hoi- comb, and many others. ‘The train which takes President and no more stops Party to St. Louis will en rout3 than is absolutely necessary, mak- ing a through run and arriving there at an early hour Friday morning.; The great re- ception at St. Louis will take place Friday. ‘Phe northwestern party, that of Gen. Miles, will leave for Chicago. The party will include the diplomatic r>presentatives Gen. Greely and the ladies. The Casualties Were Ten Killed and Twenty Wounded. THE TOWN ALL QUIET TODAY State Troops Disarm Both the Strikers and Special Detectives. BAD FEELING STILL EXISTS eee A sharp fight took place yesterday after- noon at Virden, Hil, between the coal miners on strike there and a force of de- tectives employed by the mine owners. The fight was precipitated by the arrival at Virden of a train loaded with men, mostly negroes from the south, to take the places of the strikers. Governor Tanner had, earlier in the day, refused to send state troops to the scene where trouble was expected, asserting that the men who were being brought in to take the places of the strikers were ex-convicts and worthless characters generally, who would likely become charges on the state. After the fight took place he ordered troops to the scene of the disturbance. VIRDEN, PL, October 13—After a care- ful investigation of the results of yester- day's fight the list of dead and wounded remains at ten killed and twenty wounded. It was believed that the list of injured would be found larger than reported last night, but with the exception of the eigh- teen men taken to Springfield and Eyester there is only one wounded man remaining here. His injuries were slight and he was on the streets today enthusiastically cham- pioning the miners’ cause. Coroner John Hart today went to the stockade and subpoenaed a number of the company’s miners as witnesses. It is a question as to whether any violence will be offered the stockade miners when they come from their barricade to attend the inquest. Coroner Hart expressed himself as positive that no demonstration would be made, saying that all feeling had at least temporarily been subdued by the presence of the soldiers, but at the same time adding significantly that the subpoe- need miners would be looked after care- fully while en route to the town hall. Town is Quict Today. The town is as quiet as a country church- yard today. Two Gatling guns of the Galesburg Battery on the public square and a blue-caped infantry man at in the business district evidence of “h corner about the only ot, except some O'Neill hom ‘Y-a In the fi of this humble s 1 fi covered coffins, on of which ple rest. Coroner Hart has impaneled a jury and will endeayor to pla bility for the shooting. Colonel McKaight of the governor's staff, accompanied by Adjutant General Reese. at midnight visited the stock: of Chicago-Virden Cc: pany and serv formal notice on Manager Lulkins, who | been inside the stockade throughout the trouble, that the soldiers would visit the stockade today and disarm all inmates. Colonel McKnight says that no objectt: were offered to this proposition. "He antici- pates no trouble at that point, and he ex- presses his opinion that there will he no further outbreak on the part of either the union miners or guards at the stockade. While martial law has not vet been de- clared, the town {s virtually under control of the state troops, under Gaptain Craig of Battery B, Ist Ilinois Artill=i Upon arrival of the soldiers from Pana two Gatling guns were taken ta the public square, where they command the business plate engraved th the words section. Guards were thrown out and the remainder of the soldiers were quartered in the ope house. Adjutant General Reese expects Troops A, B.C and D of the 1: Cavalry and four companies of Sons «f Veterans from Rockford, Dekalb, Oregon and Ma- comb today. On their ival the special guards in the stockade will be di and the soldiers will take possession. Striking Miners Disarmed. Two hundred of the striking miners, who have been sleeping in the miners’ union hall for se 1 weeks, were somewhat sur- prised on coming from their quarters at daybreak to find soldiers on picket duty at the door. med Each man was met with: “Hold up your hands.” was good- naturedly as: 3 ch man thoroughly searched fruitl arms. Among the crowds were negroes, and from outw the best of feeling existed" between the white and black union miners. “General” Bradley, a unique character among the mine workers, and leader of a delegation of sixty miners from Mount Olive, returned home teday with the re- mains of the dead Mount Olive miners. “I think this has been one of the most infernal outrag ever perpetrated on a laboring public,” he said. “Our men were shot down like dogs. Our men had ord to talk the matter over with the mine pec ple when it came to a crisis shoot unless fired upon. trating the question, I 1 for home with a baggage car iull of dead men. “I do not expect any further trouble in Virden for the present, but I cannot an- swer for the future, for there is a day of reckoning coming, When the laboring man will be given bread instead of bullets.” There is a feeling among the people of the town who ar mines that the V: sponsible for yesterday’s tragedy. citizen e: d his views in a very em- phatic manner, saying that all the trouble had been caused by outsiders who came here and induced the local strikers to acts of violence. A striking incident that bears out this statement is the fact that in yes- terda: bloody work not a single Virden miner was killed and only one slightly in- jured. Latest reports are that J. F. Eyster, su- perintendent of the Climax Trading Com- pany, the establishment controlled by the Chicago-Virden Coal Company, who was so severely beaten in the scrimmage, has im- proved slightly. Crowds at the Public Square. Notwithstanding the raw, cold wind that swept the dust in blinding clouds through the streets, crowds began to congregate today in the vicinity of the public square. The people, however, were kept moving by the soldiers patrolling the streets. Soon the white tents of Battery B dotted the square and the commissary served hot coffee to the shivering members of the battery. An incident, showing the intense feeling of the miners, developed when word was passed that a man from the stockade was in a barber shop on Jackson street near the square. In @ few moments a crowd gathered in front of the place. Word was passed by the soldiers of the picket duty to headquarters, and reinforcements seat on the double quick to disperse the gather- ing throng. The man returned to the stockade unmolested. Adjt. Gen. J. N. Reese came from Spring- field with the militia last night. He said that ex-Police Lieut Preston was not killed by the militia. He said that when the guard at the stockade had dodged into the entrance at the militia orders of “Hands up" a revolver was fired from the darkness and Preston fell mortally Wounded. Gen. Reese said the militia did not fire a shot. Evidences of the Fray. The rear of the Climax Trading Com- and not to stead of arbi- not connected with the len miners are not re- One pany’s store and adjacent buildings bear evidence of the terrific firing that took place yesterday afternoon when J. F. Eyester wa the target springing across the roofs. Th plate glass windows in the front of the store are broken. Jn the rear the building is riddled with bullets and buckshot. All the window panes bear bullet holes and the roof of the coal shed is mowed by a charg of buckshot that was fired at Eyester jus as he sprang through the skylight into Miners’ Hall. Gun wads and cartridge shells Ne scattered around the rear of the store in the alley. Sixty feet from the rear door of the Cli- max store stands the covered delivery waz- on in which E > the trip to the stockade with ) s sterday after- noon. A load of buckshot has riddled the rubber <urtains; dents from bullets are visible the sides of the wagon. The tongue is broken off short and the stub end blood-staine It is learned the team of horses was shot, and, goaded to madness by the wounds, broke thc tongue and ran. ad. They went t © blocks and both fell d The windows in the store ander the mine hall were breken in as the mob drag: Eyester into the street. Aside from t there are nu cther buildings damaged. May Use United States Troops. The Secretary of War has approved the request of Governor Tanner of I be allowed to use the ois to th Regiment of Ili- nois Volunteer Infantry for the suppr sion of rioting among the miners at Virden and the restoration of peace and good or- der. The Sth Illinois was formerly part the National Guard of the state, but in re sponse to the President’s call for volun- teers for the war with Spain it was mus- tered into the service of the Unite es It was one of the regiments selected to be mustered out and is now on furlough awaiting disbandment. Until formally mustered out it is subject to the orders of the President of the United States, and could not have been utilized in the present emergency without his consent. Secretary Alger’s Telexram. Secretary Alger sent the following cis- peteh to Gov. Tanner: “In the event that the National Guar of the state proves insufficient to cope with the difficulty in protecting life and prop- erty and maintaining order in your stace, the 5th Ilinois Volunteer Infantry, now at Springfield, will in that emergency’ be sub- ject to your orders.” Detective Guards Disarmed. ST. LOUIS, Mo., October to the Post-Dispatch says: Capt. Charles A. Fervier, commanding Company B, Sons of Veterans, of Elgin, Ill, 1s in charge of the stockade built by —A special from Virden, IIL, the Chicago-Virden Coal Company. With part of his men and di he entered the rmed the Thiel de- is and the local depu- ties emplo: p operators. The men within the de offered no objections to Captain Ss command to lay down their arms. In an ante room to Mr. Lukens’ office lay the body of Thomas Preston, the dead Thiel detective, whose home is in Chicago. Mr. Lukens, general mana ager of the mines, accorded an inter- view to th. newspaper men present. Mr. Lukens’ Statement. Mr. Lukens said: “The trouble of yester- day was not of our making. The strikers surrounded the stockade. On the side and south side there must have been at least 1,000 miners. They were in an orchard and were higher than we, and they opened fire. Considering the fact that we only had one man killed and six slight- ly wounded, I consider it a miracle. There Were thousands upon thousands of shots fired. The strikers began the firing when the train bearing the miners arrived. In a short time their shots were directed at the train. After it pulled out the strikers turn- ed on us. We returned the shots. I de- piore the matter as much as any one. I never supposed such a thing would result when we brought the negroes here.” “In view of the result, Mr. Lukens,” he was asked, ‘do you expect to import other negroes when the soldiers leave?” “I do not feel disposed to answer that question.” “All these stories about us having port holes and shooting out of the tower are absolutely false,” concluded Mr. Lukens. Mr. Lukens today asked Captain Fervier’s east permission to go up town to have a con- sultation with Adjutant General Reese. The permission wax accorded and ten militia- Ten were detailed to escort him. — Mr. .ukens knew of the bitter feeling that the miners had for him, and at the last min- ute decided that it would not be wise for him to attempt ihe trip. Instead he sent a request for General Reese to visit him at the stockade. Deed of a Brave Man. Ed. Cahill is the president of the Virden Miners’ Unicn, and is thirty-three years old, and he does not look as though h cculd hold an infuriated band of 1,500 de- termined men back from wrecking what they considered rightful vengeance. Yet this is what he did yesterday afternoon. A number of strike leaders were advocat- ing the storming of the stockade after their companions had been killed and wounded, They knew the troops were com- ing and wanted to destroy the stockade be- fore the soldiers arrived. The mob was already collecting when Cahill appeared among them. He was cool and collected. He told them that if they precipitated the battle this time they would lose all they had gained. They had at- tained their object of keeping cut the col- orefl miners, though the cost was fearful. “There were fully 50) strange miners in wn yesterday,” said Cahill. “They were around the stockade. Our men were main- ly around the north switch, as we expected the train to stop there, and the trouble, if any occurred, would be there. The deputies on the train began firing. We could only return it. “I am sorry about that Eyester affair. They us2d him too roughly. But then he was the man who was stationed in the tow- er at the stockade and killed most of our men. When they saw him they could not restrain themselves. Sheriff Davenport is largely responsible. He sided with the operators and e them 200 rifles to fight citizens of the state with. We tried our best to get him to stop this train and let us have peaceful conferences with th: ne- groes, but he ‘refused all peace overtures and did just as Lukens wanted him to. I guess all trouble is over, t2mporarily, of course. If, after the soldiers leave, they attempt to import other negro>s, I cannot be held responsible.” List of the Casualties. The following is a full and corrected list of casualties: Dead—Edward Walsh, miner, Springfield; Frank Bilyen, miner, Spring- field; Albert Smith, miner, Mount Olive; Jos. Kitterly, miner, Mount Olive; Ernest Kautner, miner, Mount Olive; A. H. Bren- naman, miner, Girard; Ed. Green, miner, Mount Olive; Will Harmon, miner, Girard; Jos. Baston, miner, Mount Olive; D. H. Kiely, deputy detective, Chicago; Thomas Preston, deputy, Chicago; A. W. Morgan, deputy, Chicago. Wounded—Anse Ankel, miner, Mount Olive; Gustav Wiesiep, miner, Mt. Olive; Ed. Upton, miner, Springfield: Thos. Jen- nings, miner, Springfield; Jos. Haines, min- er, Girard; Jos. Punk, miner, Girard, shot in stomach, dangerously; Jos vs min- er, Mt. Olive; Jehn Swan, miner, Wirden; Jos. Reickes, miner, Virden; Albert Smith, miner, Mt. Olive; Bart Tigar, engineer, Chicago and Alton, shot in arm; J. F. Eyester, superintendent company’s store, shot and beaten, dangerously; W. A. Clark- son, guard, Leavenworth, Kan., fatally; Irwin Ryan, negro, shot in head; Wm. Messer, deputy, St, Louis, shot in head; Jas. Palmer, deputy, St. Louis, shot in head and arm; Patrick McNair, deputy, Virden; Henry Gristill, deputy, —; J. J. Snyder, deputy; James ‘kles, deputy, Chicago; Thomas Wilder, deputy, Chicago: Thos. McIntyre, deputy, Chicago; J. W. ———————— SW (Continued on Second Page.) ————X—X—XSXSXSXSXSXSXSX—X; The regular permanent family circulation of The Evening Star in Washington is more than double that of any other paper, whether published in the morn- ing or in the afternoon. As a medium for unobjec- tionable advertisements it there- fore stands unequaled and un- approachable. THERE WAS SHORTAGE Lieut. Col. Hoff Describes Conditions at Camp Thomas. MEN CROWDED IN HOSPICAL TENTS For Several Weeks Were Insufficient. Medicines MAJOR SEAMAN SUMMONED ~— Lieut. Coi. J. G. Hoff, chief surgeon, United States Volunteers, appeared b the war investigating commission today 10:30 o'clock and testified regarding cx tions at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park, Ga. Col. Hoff is a regular army officer, having been a surgeon, with the rank of major, in the re r army establishment He entered the volunteer service May and has since served as chief surgeon with the 3d Army Corps mas, re- maining with that it was reduced in numbers, lered to Anniston, Ala. After remained in Camp headquarters until September 14 reported to the surgeon general in this city where he was taken sick with malarial fever and went on sick leave. He is now under orders to go to Porto Rico Ex-Governor Beaver—"What were the qualifications of the surgeons who reported to _you for auty there Col Hoft— far as their professional qualifications were concerned, 1 wa. im- pres with their excellence far as their mi! qualifications were concerned, they simply had no experience Col. Hoff said that a system of instruc- tion for regimental medical officers was adopted. Such instruction was given at a designated place. Surg were instructed in camp sanitatic nd in first aid work and things of that kind E Beaver—“How did the regi- mental officers attend to their business Rock Prevented Pre Col. Hoff—“I was impressed with the idea that they attended to their duties best of their ability. I do not think the camps were in the best possible sanitary condition. They were in as good cx as the peculiar circumstances of permitted.” Ex-Gov. Beaver—“What do you mean the peculiar circumstances of the case per- mitted?” Col. Sinks. dition the « Hoff explained that the Arm Corps was camped on ground which ed cn rock. The soil varied in eighteen inches to four et That 7 2d the digging of proper sinks. The sinks could not be mude deep enough. Later this rock was blasted. Another tr they had was in getting the men the sinks, That Sa trouble wi green troops, a n't se2 that it could be prevent®d a The responsibility for this, he s d on the soldiers themselves Ex-Gov. B2aver—“‘Were the medical sup- plies in store at Camp Thomas sufficient when the troops arrived?” Col. Hoff—“At the time of the arrival of the troops there was not a full supply of medical stores. as th They came in as rapid! y could be brought in. That defi ciency, however, was anticipated by the surgeon general's office, and in order to meet that shurtage I have positive knowl- edge that the surgecn gensral telegraphed to governors of states requesting that they send a sufficient amount of medical supplie with the regiments to last unui a full sup- ply of medicines could be provided by the government. After a short tim supplies were exceedingly amp! was no suffering, so far as 1 know, be« of lack of suppli> Some of the regiments, the witne said, did not come to the camp with sufficient medical supplies, and in some of the r ments he thought medicine was not on hand for trectment of diarrho-a. When Typhoid Appear. The witness said the first case of typhoid fever appeared in the 3d Army Corps two or three we into camp. v. Beaver- in Camp Thomas? 1. Hoff—"No, sir. The regiment in which it appeared had had typhoid fever after the regiments came “Did that case originate in its state camp before coming to Chicka- mauga. witness said the hospitals were i after disease began to spread rap- the reason that they could ne wet canvas for tents rapidly enough. eht men were frequently in a tent during this period, Ex-Gov. Beaver—“Was It necessary any time to put en on the floor beca ot a lack of b Col. Hoff—“There may have been on one -or two occasions such instances. 1 cannot state positively. I think it was r d to me that it was necessary to make up beds at for some sick men on the floor. Col. Hoff said that one of the t difficulties they had to meet w use ot the lack of trained nurses did not know of any cases of brutality on the part of the nurses, Of the total number of cases of sick in the hospitals the mortality had been less than 1 per cent. Tents Needed for Six Weeks. Ex-Governor Woodbury—“How long did the shortage of tents you refer to last?” Colonel Hoff—"It lasted six we I know that during July there was a great demand for tentage which could not be met.” Ex-Governor Woodbury—“Colonel Lee chief quartermaster at Camp Thomas, tes- tified here that he hed tents for issue at all times to be given out on requisitions made for them. How do you account for that?” Colonel Hoff—“I don’t know Ex-Governor Woodbury—“Were your requisitions properly mad Colonel Hoff—"1 think they were. I know they were. I had them prepared.” Ex-Governor Woodbury—Were sick men allowed to lie outside of tents?” Colonel Hoff—“In one or wo cases we had to keep them outside of tents a short time. Ex-Governor Woodbury—“Were they al- lowed to lie out during the night time” Colonel Hoff—“I think so. On one occa- sion we had a man out at night?” Ex-Governor Woodbury—“Did you go yourself or send any one to the depot quar- termaster to ascertain the reason why you could not be supplied with tents?” Colonel Hoff—“My impression is that the quartermaster and division chief surgeon both sent to ascertain why these tents could not be secured.” Ex-Governor yourself?” Colonel Hoff—“My impression is I did go. Have a marked impression that I wrote a letter to the corps commander about it.” Medicines Short for Weeks. Ex-Governor Woodbury—“How many days were you without sufficient medicine for the sick?” Colonel Hoff—“Probably several weeks. The shortage was before the vequisitions were fully accomplished. We did not have a full supply for several weeks. Ex-Governor Woodbury—“W hat classes of medicines were you short of?” Colonel Hoff—“Medicines for diarrhoea. There was a shortage of quinine at ono time. I received authority from the sur- Woodbury—"Did you go