The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 21, 1895, Page 1

WA A2/ ICE FIVE CENTS. SURVIVORS OF ARNIES Men of the Potomac and Virginia Meet as Brothers. THE SOUTHERN SOLDIER. Glowing Tribute Paid by Lead- ers to His Courage and Devotion. COLONEL OATES GREAT ORATION Closing Exercises In the Dedication ol the Chickamauga Mijitary Park. CHATTAN night’; Army of A, TexN., Sept. 20.—To- of the survivors of the d that portion of the that fought at Chat- t to a close the programme he National commission in with the dedication of the and Chattanooga Military Park. The meeting was held in the tent and ed over by General E. C. Wal- ator- elect from Mississippi, who against Hooker in the clouds on kout Mountain. Addressing his re- to ‘‘ladies and fellow-soldiers” he delivered a glowing eulogy on the Southern ier, who, he said, symbolized courage, tancy and devotion in war, self-respect- ing dignity in defeat, and in peace the same fidelity to this Government that the Southern soldier bore to that for whose permanert establishment he fought four years in vain. Colonel Lewis R. Stegman of New York followed. nel W. C. Oates, the one- armed Governor of Alabama, better known for his long Congressional career, was the next speaker. Governor Oates, addressing his remarks to ‘‘the soldiers of the lost cause and successful defenders of the TUnion,” made some exceedingly pointed comments upon the causes of the war. Among other passages were the following: “Let the blasphemous mouths of the bloody-shirt shriekers be closed and the truth be told and our cause and the hero- ism which sustained it for four immortal years will illuminate the brightest chap- ters of the true history of that great con- flict. There never was a war wherein the object of the invader was anything short of extermination, in which there was more involved, or the result of which was fraught with greater consequences; nor was there ever a war the real cause of which was so imperfectly understood by other nations and many even of the Amer- ican people. One of the underlying causes of the conflict of arms was that in our. ci izenship there were two distinct types of civilization—the cavalier and the Puritan. The intermeddling of the Puritans and the hot-headed impulsiveness of the cavalier leaders, notwithstanding they were largely in the minority, stirred up the strife, set fire to the forest and caused the great con- flagration and saffering which ensued. “The presence in our midst of the African race, for which they are in no wise responsible, has ever been the Pan- dora’s box of our American politics. Slavery, it must be conceded, is contrary to natural right, but it wasa lawful State institution and was so recognized by the constitution of the United States. Being a State institution, it was the right of the State in which it existed to continue or abolish it. The responsibility, moral and otherwise, for its continuance belonged to the people of the State wherein it existed. It was abuse, threats and impending as- saults upon the rights of the State to regulate its own local and domestic affairs voiced by the leading men of the Puritanical type who abused and traduced justices of the Supreme Court for deciding that slavery was lawful, and who de- nounced the institution of slavery and polygamy as twin relics of barbarism, as the sum total of all vulainy, as a league with death and a covenant with hell until their doctrines incited a band of fanatics to believe that they were inspired by heaven to light the torch of revolution in Southern homes and to invade a Southern State for the purpose of inciting the slaves to insurrection, arson and indiscriminate murder of white people, and when the chief of tbese malefactors was executed church bells were tolled in some of the Northern cities to canonize him as a martyr. “These were the irritating causes which aroused the feelings of indignation and prepared the Southern people for secession from the Union, Then when a great and growing political party, confined alone to the Northern States, whose slogan was hostility to the institution of slayery and whose orators were full of intemperate de- nunciation of the Southern people, suc- ceeded in electing their President, who had proclaimed irrepressible conflict—that this country must all be slaveor free labor—the apprehensions of the Southern people were awa d to a common danger—not about slavery alone, but that their ancient and well-defined right to govern their own in- ternal affairs in their own way would be denied and destroyed, not directly, but by attrition under the guise of law and con- stitutional administration. Thus was pre- sented a great issue which, unfortunately, our constitution provided no umpire to peaceably adjudicate, and hence the ques- tion was necessarily submited to toe ar- bitrament of arms—the court of last resort among nations. It was not for slavery as such, for the majority of our men never owned a slave. A large majority of our soldiers were poor laboring men. They were horrified at the jdea of our emancipated slaves being turned loose in their midst, raised to their equality of citizenship, invested with the elective franchise and brought into com- petition with them as free laborers; the pride of race superiority snd the usurpa- tion of their right of local or State govern- ment offended the dignity alike of these men and the slave-owners; they stood united and fought like devils, as every Union veteran will testify, and their flag floated triumphantly on nearly a hundred fields of battle. We fought with the same spirit of our Revolutionary sires, who bought with their precious blood the liber- ties we now enjoy. We fought for the their own affairs free from the dictation of | others, and to form such compacts and as- | sociations with each other as would serve | to preserve their mutual rights of loyal | government. We fought for the Govern- | ment. We fought for the right as God | gave us to see the right; State allegiance | and State pride which sprang from the | love of home and its sacred precincts sent | ourgallant men forth with the prayers and blessings of wives, mothers, sisters, daugh- ters and sweethearts, armed with stout hearts and willing hands to meet three- fold their number in the death grapple of | red-handed war. “‘Conceding equal patriotism and bravery to those who bore aloft the standards of the Union, the imperishable glory of the Confederates conspicuously appears in the inequality of numbers, resources and ap- pliances cf war. Just tbink of that in equality! Eight millions on our side against 25,000,000 of people on the other, and the whole world to recruit from. You, with a Government of unlimited credit, exhaustless resources and amply with the bestarmsand munition and a commerce but little disturbed. The Confederacy, deficient in all these and her ports closed and blockadea; without even the nucleus of an army or navy; without | arms or ammunition; without a commis- | sariat; without wmoney; without credit; without factories, and accustomed only Howard and Logan. INCLUDED A FROCESSION. Exercises Commemorative of the Battle of Chickamauga. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept. 20.—The proceedings of ghe third and last day of the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park were participated in by a crowd fully as large as that on the preceding days. On first judg- ing from the crowd that thronged the streets it would seem asif to-day’s proceed- ings were perhaps the most attractive of the series. Every one’s attention was centered upon | the meetings in this city. The military | demonstration by the regulars and the State militia was the attraction that drew | many residents of the surrounding ter- ritory into town. There was a slight re- lief from the oppressive, almost over- whelming heat of the past few days, | whereby existence was rendered more com- | fortable. The procession formed on Market street, | the principal business thoroughfare of the city, and marched through the principal sireets to the Grant University, in front of which the reviewing-stand had been erected. General Fullerton, president of the Park Commission, was the grand mar- shal. On the reviewing-stand were Lieu- tenant-General Schofield and Vice-Presi- THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS. [In enduring bronze sculptors have portrayed scenes of the great engagement.) to the peaceful pursuits of husbandry, were armed with nothing at the beginning save our own stout hearts and the manly resolve to vindicate our rights at every hazard. Alabama, with a white popula- tion of 52 1, equipped and sent to the 6000 who fought on the Union side, while we left at home 436,000 slaves.” He closed as follows: “The effect of the war upon the charac: ter of the Federal Government was terse expressed by the Supreme Court of th United States in a_single sentence: n indestructible Union composed-of inde- structible States.”’ Something over two years ago, at the great naval review, when the Dolphin, with the Secretary’s flag fly- ing, passed out of Hampton Roads and by the long line of splendid ships of our new navy, fifteen in number, each fired a sa- lute of seventeen guns; and when the longer llne of foreign ships was passed, old admirals, with uncovered heads, dipped field 100,000 brave Confederate soldiers and | dent Steverson, the reviewing officials and aJarge body of distinguished visitors and prominent citizens. 4 > The procession disbanded shortly after passing the reviewing stand. The battery | proceeded to Orchard Knob, on the sum- mit of which was fired the Union salute of | forty-four guns at noon. At that hour began the exercises in the tent intended to commemorate, in connec- tion with the dedication, the battle of Chattanooga proper. Vice-President Stev- son presided. The proceedings opened | with ‘prayer by Rev. Samuel J. Nicholls, | D.D., of 5t. Louis. Hon. G. W. Ochs, Chat- : tanooga’s eloquent executive, welcomed | the visitors. | General Bate, the Senator from Tennes- | see, was the first speaker. His address | presented the Southern view of the causes leading to the war. He maintained that | the pesition of the South was ethically cor- rect, but declared that the result of the war ! forevér adjudicated the questions at issue ¥ 113 s ) i 'flmfiti AT o AR O e ‘;'\‘lrf"l\(_i\ i AT g X333 3> U BRI v o 0 A THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA IN THE NIGHT FIGHT. [One memorial tablet just dedicated on Lookout Mountain battlefield.] their colors and each fired seventeen guns; and the forts in the harbor gave forth like salutations to a man who stood upon the forward deck of the Dolphin in plain citi- zen’s attire. With his left hand he could not uncover his head in acknowledgment of these salutes, for it hunglimp by his side in consequence of a wound he re- ceived at the Wilderness in 1864, when he was trying to dissolve the Union. Under the old moribund statutes he was ineligi- ble to even a lieutenancy in the army oz navy; yet, he is the commander of all the powerful ships and skillful officers of the United States navy. “Who was this man and how did he ob- tain that position? Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama, an old Confederate colonel. He obtained the position from the same hand that made a distinguished Union general Secretary of State. Gresham and Herbert— Union and Confederate—the Blue and the Gray—all distinction on account of the side a man espoused in our war—stricken down and all alike again citizens of this great republic. Thank God and Grover Cleveland. We recognize that the Union and the constjtution are one and insepar- able and forever. While we moisten with our tears the ashes of our fallen comrades we can say: The graves of the dead, with the grass overgrown, Shall still be the f0otstool of Liberty's thione.” The last speaker was General J. A. Wil- liamson of Iowa. He related the events in the battle of Lookout Mountain, Mis- sionary Ridge and Ringgold, Ga., in which he took part and reviewed the character of the commanders of the Army of the He paid a glowing tribute to the soldiers of both sides. General Bate was followed by General Grosvenor, Republican representative in Congress from Ohio. gl SENATOR PEFFER INJURED. Among Those in a Railroad Accident on ZLookout Mountain. CHATTANOOGA, TEexx., Sept. 20.—One truck of a passenger train on the broad- gauge road to Lookout Mountain, while | coming down the grade this evening, was thrown from the track and the car dragged over the ties for two or three hundred feet. The passengers were badly shaken up and bruised, but none of them were seriounsly hurt. Senator Peffer of Kansas received acut over the right eye which required a | few stitches by the surgeon to close. A report was received at the police sta- tion this evening that three men had gone into the cave under Point Lookout yester- day morning and had not vet returned. The cave has never been fully explored, it is said, but its galleries and chambers have been penetrated a total length of three or four miles. R e S A GREAT MEMORIAL TABLETS, Two of the Most Conspicuous Placed on ZLookout Mountain. ° Among the most important memorial tablets in commemoration of battles of the Civil War are two panels which are to be securely bolted on the granite cliffs of Lookout Mountain. The first, by B. M. Pickett, presents a scene from the famous engagement above the clouds; the other, right of our States to regulate and govern | Tennessee, Grant, Sherman, McPherson, | by Frederick Monyhan, a night attack on General Smith’s Federal position, Mr. Pickett’s panel, according to the New York Tribune, shows the advanced skirmishers placing the scaling ladders against the precipitous rocks leading to the summit. The work is executed in low relief. The panel is seven by ten feet in size. Itwas placed in position on the 18th inst. The side of Lookout Mountain confront- ing Hooker's command, which was a de- tachment of Eastern troops, embracing Smith’s brigade of Geary’s division, from the Army of the Potomac, was rugged, heavily timbered and full of chasms, mak- ing it exceedingly difficult and nazardous to advance with tropps, even in the ab- sence of an opposing force. Geary of Pennsylvania was the general to make the movement further up the mountain, while Osterhaus and Grosse were engaging the attention of the enemy 1n other directions. heavy mist at this time obscured the enemy from the view of the Union troops. On November 24, 1863, Geary crossed the creek at the base of the foothills, captured the pickets on guard near by, forty in number, and then began the ascent of the mountain directly in his front. By this time the enemy was seen coming down from their camp on the mountain slope and filing into their rifle pits to contest the capture of the bridge over the stream flanking the hills. While these operations were going on Geary was pushing upward over great obstacles, resisted by the enemy directly in his front and in face of the guns on top of the mountain. Supports soon arrived, and the whole command pushed up the hill driving the enemy in advance. Meanwhile Hooker’s operations were not visible, but afterward the enemy in torce abandoned their position above the clouds, and the engagement about Lookout Moun- tain paved the way to the subsequent vic- tory at Chartanooga, one of the decisive battles of the war. Monyhan’s panel describes itself, depict- ing one of the night engagements and sur- prises so frequent in the conflicts of the Army of the Cumberland. TALK CF A THIRD TERM. It Seems That Cleveland Would Accept the Nomination. Favored by Embassador Bayard, Who Would Like to Continue His Mission Abroad. NEW YORK, N.Y.. Sept. 20.—The de- sire of President Cleveland to be a candi- date for a third term is being talked of more and more each day. Comptroller Eckels tacitly acknowledged the fact, Sen- ator Gray of Delaware almost boldly an- nounced it, and other politicians high in the council of the administration have hinted at the fact of the President’s ambi- tion. : General James, H. Wilson, who was in the city yesterday, pointed out a pertinent fact in connecticn with ‘the third-term talk.” General Wilson is one of the mdst influential Republicans in, Delaware. He it was who captured Jefferson Davis when he fled from Richmond. He said signifi- cantly, in speaking of Senator Gray’s in- terview, printed yesterday, in which the Senator practically nominated Cleveland for a third term: “Senator Gray, when he gave that famous interview, in which he said that Cleveland was eligible because he had not served two consecutive terms, had just returned from Europe. He had doubtless talked with Embassador Bayard when abroad. I do not doubt that Embassador Bayard and Senator Gray held a council in London, and that they decided to support the Presi- dent for a third term. The Senator’s ut- terances then may have been upon the advice of or by a prearranged agreement with Embassador Bayard. Of course, I take it that Mr. Bayard would not hesitate, it he had a chance of spending four more years in England” as the representative of this country. Therefore, when Senator Gray’s remarks were printed—and they were of such an unequivocal character that they could not be mistaken—I do not think that Embassador Bayard was surprised.” General Wilson also referred to the recent speech of Embassador Bayard, in which the latter said that the President of the United States stood among a violent and ofttimes willful people; that it took a man to govern them, and that they had such .a ruler in Grover Cleveland. e = UPHELD THE BLUECOAT. A Policeman Not Reprimanded for Send- ing Home a Bloomer Girl. MINNEAPOLIS, MInN., Sept. 20.—Miss Eleanor Beatrix Morton appeared on Nicollet ayenue, & leading business street of the city, clad in knickerbockers of an advanced type, and riding a wheel, on Tuesday. Policeman Tapper saw her and his sensibilities were so shocked that he compelled her to dismount and go home by a back street. Miss Morton yesterday made formal complaint to Mayor Pratt. The city offi- cial asked to be shown the_ objectionable costume, whereupon Miss Morton began to take off her skirt to show his Honor the knickerbockers concealed beneath. The Mayor blushed, called a halt and directed the young woman to ldppen before him vesterday. She was on dress parade yes- erday before the Mayor and the Chief of Police. Chief Smith said the officer had been sustained by his superiors and would not be reprimanded. Furthermore, Miss Morton was directed to wear her bifur- cated garments somewhat longer and fuller in the future. —_—— Pasteur Institute Stations. NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 20.—Henry B. Wesselman, an attorney for the Pasteur Tnstitute, has bought thirty-five acres near Tuxedo, on which will be established an experiment station. It will be stocked with cows, horses, sheep, mules and goatl, which will be bred with the express idea of producing anti toxine for the prevention of cancer and diphtheria. The station 1s well located, and one of its features will be.a house in which the patients of the institute will be treated. A new station is'to be established on the Erie Railroad, near New York, which will be known as Pasteur. —_— . One Million Dollars Capital. - CHEYENNE, - Wyo., Sept. 20. — The Wyoming Irrigation and Land Com- pany filed articles of incorporation to-day; capital stock $1,000,000. The trustees are illiam G. Melyille, Louis Kunz, Thomas Knight, Roland Hughes, C. E. Cook of Cheyenne; Henry D. Barte of Kansas City and E. R. Bowman of Leavenworth, Kans. The company will improve a tract of Union Pacific land in Sweetwater County under the Carey act [TALY'S GREAT DAY, Celebration of the Entry of Troops Into Rome. PREMIER CRISPI TALKED. Eulogized Victor Emmanuel and.Garibaldi as the Saviors of the City. NO COUNTER DEMONSTRATIONS. The United States and England the Only Nations to Float Embassy Flags. ROME, Iravy, Seot. 20. — Buildings thoroughout the city were literally covered with decorations to-day and the streets were thronged with people eager to witness the ceremonies on the principal day of the series of celebrations commemorative of the entry of Italian troops into Rome. It was noticeable, however, that only the em- bassies of the United States and of Eng- land displayed flags. All the other embas- sies and legations abstained from any par- ticipation in the fetes whatever. The Pope went last evening to St. Peter’s, where he spent an hour in prayer. His Holiness will perform a similar act this evening and again to-morrow. The chief event of the day was the un- veiling of a monument to the memory of Garibaldi on Janiculum Hill in the pres- ence of 50,000 persons. King Humbert, the royal family and all the court digni- taries, Cabinet Ministers and numerous deputations of veteran Garibaldians, the latter with banners and bands of music, occupied places of honor. Premier Crispi delivered the oration, eulogizing Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi as the saviors of Rome. He declared that there was no truth in the allezations that the fetes were intended to be offensive to the Pope, who, as head of the church, he said, needed no artillery to secure its existence. In accordance with the recent decision of the Cabinet, amnesty was granted this morning to a number of the leaders of the socialistic disturbances in Sicily and Massa de C rrara. Among those receiving free pardons were Barbato atd De Felicis, both of whom were elected members of the Chamber of Deputies on the last day of Angust. A number of the minor rioters .also received commutations of their sentence. “The Holy Father received to-day a large number of strangers and others who had sought audience of him during the past month, but who haa been requested to de- lay. their visits until to-day, so that they might be regarded as a pfotest against the national fetes. In accordance with the advice of the Pope, the Italian Catholics generally abstained from making any counter demonstrations. A procession of great length marched this evening to the open space about the Porta Pia. A thousand flags were carried by the paraders. At the head of the pro- cession marched numerous deiegates from the provincial communes. Next came pupils of the military schools and delega- tions from the Italian colonies abroad. These were followed by various bodies of Free Masons, after which came a long line of military-political and workingmen's societies. A feature of the parade which attracted much attention, was a group of American riflemen, who carried Italian and Ameri- can flags. The whole procession made a magnificent and imposing spectacle. As the paraders passed the Austrian embassy there was some hooting by the men in line, which was caused by the fact that the embassy, like the embassies of France and Russia, displayed no flag in honor of the occasion. e CELEBRATED IN AMERICA. Religious and Other Suitable Services at New York and Chicago. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 20.—To-day is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Italian revolution, and throughout the Cathclic world the faithful will commemorate the annexation of the Roman provinces to the kingdom of Italy with prayers for the peace, prosperity and final triumph of the church and for the freedom and indepen- dence of the Holy See. Cardinal Gibbons bas sent an appeal to all American Arch- bishops, Bishops and priests, and as a result many of the latter have issued cir- culars calling special attention to the day and the event it commemorates, an action which, it is said, is something new in the history of the church. Archbishop Kain of St. Louis, in an ad- dress to the clergy, reminded them that, as the festival which opens throughout Italy to-day is intended to glorify the downfall of the Holy See, it should be made a day of special prayer by all the children of the church. An address some- what similarly worded was also issued by Archbishop Corrigan of New York. It was on September 20, 1870, that the Italian army entered the Eternal City, but not without vigorous resistance from the pon- tifical zouaves, whom, at last, the Pope commanded to desist in order to prevent bloodshed. By his order the white flag was raised and the Italian army was per- mitted to take possession of the Quirinal. The day following, September 21, 9000 zouaves, after receiving the pontifical bless- ing in the square of St. Peter’s, marched out of Rome, and the Pope's temporal power ended. * Italians who are loyal to their temporal King will celebrate the occurrence of twenty-five years ago with rejoicing, but throughout the Roman Catholic countries the faithful will pray for the restoration to their sovereign pontiff of the powers which his predecessors enjoyed. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 20.—The twenty- fifth anniversary of italian independence in Rome was celebrated by the Italian residents ‘of Chicago and their friends to- day. The first festivities began this after- noon with a banquet given to representa- tives of the daily press and the executive committee on celebration, consisting of Consul A. L. Rozadowski, Dr. G. Rona, Artus Stefani, Charles Griocchio, Savola de Stefano and Francal Angaloro. 'The cele- bration will not be over until after the parade Sunday, in which 4000 Italiansin gay native costumes will form in line and march over the city. The 25,000 Italians in Chicago will be well represented by the procession, and September 20, 1870, the day that Italian troops entered Rome, will be marked with proper observances. This evening at'8 o’clock a reception was held in the rooms of the Italian Club, where Dr. Camillo Volini delivered a historical speech on the independence of Italy from the time of Vietor Emmanuel’s triumphal entry into Rome, through a quarter of a century to the present rule of King Humbert. Count Rozadowski received ceremonious recogni- tion as Royal Consul of Italy. Every prominent Italian of Chicago was present. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 20.—Ital- ians of Washington to-day celebrated the unification of their country. The celebra- tion began with a street parade, and was conducted by the local society known as the Union et Fralanzia Italian. Baron de Fava, the Italian Embassador, received the society, about 400 strong, at his residence on Connecticut. avenue and gave a luncheon. Patriotic speeches were made and a message to King Humbert, congrat- ulating him on the unity of the Italian States, was sent by the society through Baron de Fava. CREATED A SENSATION. Exposure of the Scheme of Democratic Oolonization in Ohio. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 20.—A special to the Herald from Toledo, Ohio, says: The exposure of the Democratic coloniza- tion scheme to carry the Ohio Lggislature this fall has created a sensation throughout the State. The plans are well laid and it looks as if it would win. It was denied by Brice leaders, but subsequently admitted when proofs were cited. It is proposed to put enough men at work on railroads controlled by Senator Brice in Wood, Putnam, Henry, Hancock, Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert, Mercer, Darke, Preble, Montgomery, War- ren, Franklin, Delaware, Knox, Holmes, Wayne, Summit and many other counties to secure the election of legislators in most of them who will vote for Brice's return to the United States Senate. WILL SOON WED THE DUKE Announcement of the Engage-~ ment of Miss Vanderbilt To Mariborough. The Nuptial Knot to Be Tled Toward the End of the Year In New York. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 21.—The fol- lowing is published this morning: Miss Consuelo, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, has promised her hand and heart, and possibly her fortune, to the dap- per young Duke of Marlborough. The an- nouncement of this engagement was made last night at the Hotel Waidorf. The person through whom the interest- ing information was made public was the Duke’s valet, and although it is not con= sidered proper form for one to authorize one’s valet to give publicity to news so essentially important to one’s self, the | Duke, knowing that he had in his valeta most trustworthy person, permitted it. The Duke attended the theater last night, ard when he returned to his hotel he was all smiles and quite as genial as a person could be. He greeted the reporters pleasantly, and when asked if his valet had stated the truth, picked at his little mustache for a second, and said the state- ment was correct. Then he said, with a little show of seriousness, that he desired the announcement should be made in this way: “It is officially announced that a marriage has been arranged between the Duke of Mariborough and Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt. Theengagement was arranged by Mrs. Vanderbilt’s friends and those of the Duke of Marlborough. The wedding will take place toward the latter part of this year in New York.” i, Tl S, MINING PROPERTY IN MEXICO. An Interesting dwit Involving Five Mil- lion Dollars. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 20.—John J. Delaney, ex-Assistant Corporation Counsel John A. Sullivan and Felix T. Murphy have brought suit in the Supreme Court against Francis J. Herron for mining prop- erty 1n Mexico valued at §5,000,000. Delaney and his associates say that on June 7, 1895, Herron made a contract with Miguei Franck ot Mexico by which Franck agreed to deliver to him the Ixtapon del Oro mines in consideration of $50,000 cash before July 21, 1895, $450,000 in time pay- ments and the transfer of $500,000 worth of stock in a company to be formed with a capital of $5,000,000. J % elaney, Murphy and Sullivan induced J. Brunner & Co., bankers of Brussels, and Marius Bidon of Paris and the Lyonaise Mexican Concessions (limited) of Paris and London totake the property for $75,000 cash and $1,500,000 in stock. A few days before the deal was closed Franck died in Mexico and pending ne- gotiations with his heirs Herron an- nounced to Delaney, Sullivan and Murphy that he had raised $25.000 and taken the property for a syndicate. The plaintiffs claim that they are entitled to one-half of Herron’s interest. Judge Beekman yesterday vacated an order for Hefton’s examination before trial on the ground that the plaintiffs had sufficient facts on which to base a com- plaint. e PUT UP A BRITISH FLAG. But the Hotel Man Was Soon Compelled to Raise Old Glory. NEW HAVEN, Coxx., Sept. 20.—The proprietor of the Majestic Hotel, where the Cambridge athletes are stopping in this city, excited the wrath of the New Haven citizens yesterday morning by run- ning up the British flag above tne stars and stripes on his hotel. People coming downtown to business saw the British flag floating above the United States flag, and immediately protested. At first Mr. Gay, the owner of the house, refused to take the flag down, saying that he put the English flag uppermost out of courtesy to the Cambridge men. This did not satisfy the protesters, and after a com- mittee of merchants had waited upon him, demanding that the stars and stripes have the first Elnce, he yielded. The British flag was hauled down and the siars and stripes put on top. One Body From the Mine. CENTRAL CITY, Coro., Sept. 20.— After weeks of pumping in the flooded Sleep Hollow and Americus mines, the first of the thirteen bodies of thedrowned miners was discovered twenty feet below the 400 level to-day. It was identified as that of Thomas Williams. For Paélfic Coast Telegrams see Pages 3 and 4. SOON T0 FREE CUBA, General Gomez Sends Cheering News to Patriots. STARTING THE REPUBLIC Natives of the Exiled Island Expect Deliverance From Spain’s Yoke. GENERAL CAMPOS CAN'T WIN, Leaders of the Insurgents Say That Re-enforcements Wiil Come Too Late. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20.—A letter was recgived to-day in this city which was written on August 30 by Gen- eral Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban army, at his headquarters in Aca- maguey. The letter, addressed to the secretary of the Cuban revolutionary party in the United States, sums up the condi- tions of the military affairs in the exiled island, and, being on the eve of the consti- tuting of the revolutionary Government, declares it is the intention of the Cubans to raise loans for the republic in the United States. The full text of the letter follows: Dear Compatriots: We are on the eve of the constitution of the Government. The representatives of the State of Santiago de Cuba—Majot Rafael Poctuondo, Dr. Joa- quin Catillo, Dr. Manduley and Civil En- gineers P. Aguilera and Major Sanchez— have arrived already, and those of Cama- guey, headed by the Marquis of Santa Lucia, are waiting only for those appointed by the State of Las Villas in order to form the Assembly and elect an executive and Cabinet and appoint, with sufficient pow- ers, our Ministers abroad, especially the diplomatic agent in the United States, who will be authorized to raise loans for the repubiic. “The later defeat of General Martinez Campos at the hands of the brave General Maceo has caused the prestige and fame of the Spanish captain-general to suffer a great loss and the morale of his troop to be endangered. Campos has not been able, not even with all his sagacity and studied malice, to hide, or beteer, efface the effect of such a failure. They want to unsuccess- fully explain his defeat and have people think that he has attaned his object, but any military man versed in our kind of warfare will laugh at the futility of such pretensions. 4We cannot give you a detailed account of our operations—it would be long and tedious. I can only tell you that in the five months of the campaign the enemy has been able to measure the wonderful strength of the Cuban forces, and thus it is that General Campos has hurriedly called for large re-enforcements. My opinion as a military man, given without passion or vanity, is that they will arrive too late. The revolution is assured. It does not make any difference whether I fall and others die also, the revolution will go on till it triumphs. “The country from one end to the other is hostile to Spain; those who serve are forced to do so, and forced service isnot a guarantee for the stability of any Govern- ment. i " “This is our situation, and I can make it public to the whole world without fear of contradiction. I do not know how to lie. I respect myself enough not to descend to such low acts as our adversaries do. Morality and discipline in our ranks is ex- cellent, and we take care to correct the least fault which . would detract from the nobility of our cause. “GENERAL MAXIMILLIMO GOMEZ, Commander of the Cuban army.” e AFTER GEESE WITH BIG GUNS. Fighters of Oklahoma Hired to Fight for the Cubans. GUTHRIE, O. T., Sept. 20.—For several days recently the following advertisement has appeared in a newspaper here: ‘WaNTED—Five hundred men to hunt geese on the Gull of Mexico. Must be able bodied and furnish Colt's revolvers and Winchester rifles, both of caliber 44. None but men of nerve need apply. CoLONEL ROBERT MCREYNOLDS. The idea of hunting geese at this season of the year, especially by 500 hunters with 44-caliber rifles and Colt’s revolvers, so im- pressed - the authorities at Washington that they immediately telegraphed Mar- shal Nix of this Territory to keep an eye on Colonel McReynolds. It was found that men were being quietly sent to Gal- veston, where they reported to an agent and were sent to the eastern coast of Cuba. Marshal Nix informed the colonel that his operations would have to stop or he would be obliged to arrest him for viola- tion of the neutrality laws. Since then freebooting characters have quietly disap- peared, and there is a suspicion that the officials here are ignoring whatisgoing on, for it is rapidly riading the Territory of its turbulent characters. Colonel McReynolds is a-man of integrity. He has spent a lifetime upon the frontier, and 1s imbued with all its spirit of adventure. In his efforts in the direction of Cuba Mec- Reynolds manifests no concern. He claims that if he wants to take a body of men and hunt geese on the Gulf of Me xico he hasa perfect right to do so. —_— FUNERAL OF AN ADMIRAL. Burial of One of the Drowned Officers of - the Sunken Warship. HAVANA, Cusa, 3ept. SMOKE : LaBelle Creole CIGARS, 3 for 25c--10¢ Straight--2 for 250 ASK DEALERS FOR THEM. RINALDO BROS. & CO.,* Pacific Coast Agents, 300-302 BATTERY ST., S. F. 20.—The funeral