The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-06-02
THE NEWS EPITOMlZED.
Washington Iterns.

General Scholield is directing army move
ments as the chief military adviser OF the
President.
Eulogies of the late Senator George, OF
Mississippi were delivered in the Senate.
The War apartment has decided to raise
the six regiments OF yellow fever immunes
authorized by act Of Congress from twelve
States in the South, as follows. The first
from Louisiana. the second from Texas,
the third from Georgia. South Carolina and
Florida, the fourth from Virginia, west
Virginia and Maryland, the fifth from Ala
bama and Mississippi, and the sixth from
Tennessee and Kentucky.
1t has been agreed that the State volun-
teers shall be paid blythe Government from
the time they were ordered to camp, and
the State will pay seventy-three cents
day extra to each enlisted man up to the
time they were mustered into Federal ser
vice.
Senator Elkins, IN original peace man,
saws the Monroe doctrine is antiquated,
tnat we should hold the Philippines, Porto
Rico and Hawaii and acquire a coaillS
station in the Mediterranean.
The Government has bought 80 900 Mex
lean silver dollars at forty-siX cents apiece
for use in Manila, where they pass current
ut their face value
Representative AchpsOn. OF Pennsylvania.
has introduced bill increasing the pay Oh
the enlisted men who in time OF war serve
outside the territorial limits OF the United
States 100 per cent. OYER tho rates as liked
by law.
Vounteers will receive pay from the
date Of their enrolment. and those deS-
tined for the Philippines will get months
pay in advance.
The Treasury Department is making
preparations for the collection o. tarin
duties in the Philippines.
President Mckinley has nominated Will.
lam W. RockhiIl Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Pienipotcntiarv to Greece. He Is
now Consul General. The President NOM
mated the Consuls at HonckOng, Stock
holm and Antwerp to be Consul -GeEerais.
The state Department has made formal
response to the Austrian Government rs to
the Hungarians killed at Hazleton, Penn,
in thr riots OF last fall. The position
taken by our Government is that it WIS
not responsible, under the circumstances,
for the killing.
The Carnegie and Bethlehem companies
furnished bids for supplying armor for the
battIcshipS Alabama, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin at 800 4 ton.
ezuela and Canada have declared their
neutrality.
The Secretary Of War asked 5000. .OOc
for subsistence of the army, making SOL
900 900 for the War Department to be IN
cludei in the General Deficiency bill.
Mrs William H. Hoax, whose husband,
private in Company F, Second Wisconsin
Volunteers. died at Camp Harvey, May l5,
has applied for n pension. This is the first
application since the breaking ont OF the
war Mrs. Hoax will receive 2l2 month.
Representative Robbins, OF Pennsylvania,
has been appointed n captain and assis-
tant Quartermaster in the volunteer army.
Captain T. II. c. Leutze has been assigned
to the command Of the monitor Monterey,
which is to join Admiral Dewey's fleet
General Miles recommended that Lieu
tenant \. s. Rowan be made lieutenant
colonel as Il rewarl for services rendered
in his re."ns trip to General Gomez.