Work Ahead For Our Navy

Washington, Oct. 5.- The new navy will have plenty of work to do for the next year, the new foreign policy which Secretary Hay is to initiate will keep the ships of the fighting line in active service in mauy quarters of the world. The situation in the Philippines and the threatened troublé in China, added to the prospect of trouble in Turkey, cali for a decided increase of the American navy in eastern waters. Secretary Hay and the president have decided that there is to be no more delay in adjusting the claims of citizens against Turkey. The latters' repudiation of responsibility for the Armenian trouble, in which American citizens lost over $100,000 in property, will not be accepted by the state department. ructions have been sent to the ürinister to Turkey, Mr. Strauss, to make this clear to the sublime porte. The minister is to be aided in his demand by a naval demonstration around the Golden Horn should this be neeeasary. More veteéis are to be sent to Asiatic waters in addition to the .battleships Oregcn and Iowa and the cruiser Buffalo. Several gunboats' will be added to the fleet under Admiral Dewey. The Wilmington, the Helena and the Bancroft will be at his service as soon as they can be sent. The Bancroft is now at Honolulú. ■ She can reach Manila in three weeks. The Helena and the Wilmington will probably follow, if they do not accompany the battleships on their trip around the Horn. Secretary Hay and the secretary of the navy have held several conferences lately with the president on the situation in the east. Minister Conger's vblegrams on the serious crisis in China have determined them to take a decisive stand. If there is to be an occupation of Pekin by the European powers the United States will have a hand in it. It will have the Baltïmore and the Petrei alongside the foreign men-of-war at Tien-Tsin, and in any occupation of Peking will have a voice. Minister Conger is expected to ask the administration for a naval guard for the United States legation. It will be there ready for him. STANDS BY SHAFTER. "jflghtlng Joe" Wheeler Before War Investigating Commisslon. "Washington, Oct. 5.- The war investigating commission began its examination of witnesses today by placing Gen. Joseph Wheeler on the stand. Chairman Dodge stated to him the scope of the coinmission's duties and asked Gen. Wheeler whether he had any objections to being sworn. The general replied that he had none, and Maj. Mills.recorder for the commission, administered the oath. Gen. Wheeler in his testimony said Gen. Shafter deserved great credit for the zeal he displayed. Gen. Wheeler said, in response to a question, that Cervera's neet was the objective of the campaign. There was no reason why the Spanish. troops should not have made a sortie from Santiago, and he had asked Gen. Toral afier the surrender why he had not attacked. The latter replied that the failure to do so was because his men were f&otsore. Yet Gen. Wheeler could noi accept this explanation, for the Spanish soldiers were not footsore. Gen. heeler's opinión was that the Spanish conimander was not able to face the Americans in the open. Disiussing the p!an of campaign, he said lic 'juuted whether any more effectivt plan could have been adopted. of the medical department, he said that at tirnes there was complaints, bat that they were not serious. On occahions there was a shortage of surgeons, some uf the surgeons being sick ur. wounded. According to Gen. Wheeler's belief, the wounded in battle were proniptly cared for by the surgeons. Returning ito the Santiago campaign, he said that only two regiments had reported a shortage of rations, and he had immcdiately telephoned to the rear and the shortage which was due to accident had been adjustecl. There was suffermg where the men were compelled to lie on the brastworks. Blaze at ï.owell, Ind. Crown Point, Ind.,_Oct. 5. - Fourteen business houses in the business district of Lowell. twelve miles eouth of this city, were destroyed by fire early this morning. The blaxe broke out in Dr. Bacon' barn, in the rear of Main street, and as the town has no fire protection the flames spread rapidly and laid a whole block In aslies. The loss will prohably reach ?i0,000, with little intfuranee. New York Bauk In Trouble. New York, Oct. 5. - At the clearing house this morning it was said that the Tradesmen'e national bank at 200 West Broadway had failed to clear. It ■wap declared that the bank had gone Into liquidation. The Tradesmen's national bank is one of the oldest institutions in the city and has for a long time been identified with the wool exchange. 4. Work for Gen. García. New York, Oct. 5.- A dispatch to the Herald from Santiago says: "It ia learned on good authority that Gen. Calixto García has aecepted a positioa with the American administration here as was predicted. He is to receive $500 a month and all expenses. He will act as a commissioner to go through the country and conduct negotiations with the Cuban army with a view to its disbandinent. He will start in a few days and will be gone on his trip three or four weeks. On his return he will go to the United States with Gen. Wood to confer with the authorities in Washington." Thlnk Actlou Was Arbltrary St. Louis, Oct. 5. - As a result of a difference of opinión, Grand Master Workman W. H. Miller of the Ancient Order of United Workmen has removed from office Walter F. Mclntyre, hairnian of the committee on finance. The matter will most llkely be taken before the grand lodge íor final adjudication. Members of the order question the right of the grand master to remove Mr. Mclntyre. Evacuatlon of Porto Rico. San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. 26.- The American commissioners to arrange for the evacuation of Porto Rico have been eminently successful in their dealings with the Spaniards, and it is believed that within three weeks at the farthest the last of the Spanish troops will have sailed for home and the stars and stripes will be unfurled over San Juan. Gen. Mlle I After ludlow. Washington, Oct. 5.- Gen. Miles has asked that Gen. Ludlow be called before the investigating committee, intimating that he is responsible for the absence of engineering facilities for landing troops.