Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-05
GENERAL NEWS
Condensed from Happenings
Of the Past Few Days.
Brief Review Of the Work Of Both
Houses Of Congress.
War Items from Europe and the East
Accidents and Crimes.

For the past three days-how much
longer they have seemed tho greater
part of the State of Maine has been shut
off from communication with the outside
world. Telephone and telegraph wires
were down in many places, and on many
of the railroads no regular trains have
been run. Late, Wednesday afternoon,
the Maine Central railroad was again
opened up, and a train from the West
came in, loaded with mail matter, much
of which has been hung up on the way for
the past three days.
The journal editorial room is fairly
flooded with exchanges. AS our readers
know, the policy of this paper has been to
give its readers a complete and continuous
cures a valuable piece of news ahead of it,
the journal has never regarded that as
sufficient reason why it should fail to give
its readers, the greater part of whom may
never see the contemporary in question,
the benefit of that news. 1T the lateness
of the hour or the crowded condition of
our columns renders it impossible to pub
lish an important dispatch in full, the
journal endeavors to give its readers the
news it conveys, in a condensed and COM
prehensive form Thus, in our issue of
Tuesday morning, we gave, under the head
of ECHOES from the Flood, in condensed
form absolutely all the news contained in
no less than 26 different dispatches, which,
as originally sent, would have filled three
or four times that amount of space. Tie
task of rewriting and boiling down such
dispatches was great, but we believe that
it is essential to the most valuable kind
of new spaper work.
We shall endeavor in a brief way to give
our readers the benefit Of our exchange
list, and complete the Journals continu
Gus record of current events by reviewing
briefly the news of the outside world from
which the State of Maine has been cut of,
by storm and flood, during the past three
days. So far as this State is concerned
by the employment Of a large force Of
special reporters, and every available means
Of communication, we have been able to
cover the news, and even illustrate much
of it, with considerable degree of
thoroughncss.
Naturally considerable interest will cen
ter in events at the national capital. The
past few days have been quiat ones there.
The Senate passed BILL Monday provid-
Ing for the increase of the navy by the en-
listmcnt of 1000 additional men, and also
for the calling out and enlistment OF the
naval reserve, and the charter OF troop
transport ships, in cases OF emergency.
Senator Call introduced and urged, in an
able speech, the following resolution:
Resolved, by the Senate, that the
President of the United States be re
questcd to demand of the government OF
Spain statement of as to the truth of the
charges made in a letter as published in
the newspapers purporting to be from
Mr.. Gomez, late editor of La Lucia, a
newspaper In Havana, that he had been
tortured while confined in a dungeon on
the bare ground for two months in Ccuta,
the penal colony of Spain, to extort from
him evidence against Julius Saneuilly a
naturalized citizen of the United States,
and subsequently killing the said Gomez
also to insist on full report of the evil
dence and all the proceedings in an
alleged civil trial of Sanguilly, in which
1t is charged that the said Sanguily WAS
condemned to imprisonment for life at
Ceuta on suspicion only and without cvi-
dence; also to demand the release of
Charles Nicholson and Lorenzo Betan
court correspondents of tho New York
newspapers who are charged only with
entering within the Insurgents line to
obtain Information; also to demand of
spain that all American citizens who
shall be captured by the Spanish forces
shall he treated AS prisoners of war and be
accorded humane treatment, and to inforn,
the spanish government that the United
States will insist on this demaud.'
Referred to the committee on foreign
affairs.
Senator German introduced joint
resolution directing the secretary of the
navy to appoir4 a board of three naval
officers to examine the site for coaline
station for the United States navy on
Nvassa island, in the West Indies, near
the coast of Cuba
All tit' Housc, MunuaI, the concurrent
resolution relative to Cuba was passed by
Il vote of 1858 to L.
The report that United States Consul
General Ramon o. Williams mt Havana
has resigned is believed TO be correct
though the state department will MAKE
no statement in the matter The raust
Is said to be the annoyance felt by Mr.
Williams at the usage accorded Americans
p7 the Spanish authorities
The item in the agricultural bill Great
ing division Of agtostologv.n with A.;
chief at S2500 a year created a little broez,
IN the Senate, Tuesday. Senator Hal,
characterized the whole scheme of run
ming the agr cultural .terp,rtment as a,
abuse He asserted that for n. ,y,rs
which the agricultural department di1
and for the money it expended it had from
three to six times larger propnrtion y
large salaries than any other dens,tn,s,
OF the government.
finally compromise was nade bs
.ween the advocates and opponents of ~
division of spoils and of the division =
agrostoioRy. and the bill was passed
ASIDE from the reports of the ray.oes .
tne HOOD, which appears to have extende
pretty well over ths New England stu.
the general news of the country has ~