The Holly chieftain., 1898-09-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mai
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


/ \ MADRID dispatch said the queer
regent was paving daily visits TO The
/ sick soldiers who have returned from
/ the colonies. She ordered that the
/ convaicscents be conveyed in the roya
carriages to the Cosa del Campo, in the
royal park, and she WAS paying from
her own purse for proper food for the
| inyalids-
! HAVANA dispatch said there was
widespread agitation throughout Cubs
in favor OF the absolute indepe ntenct
of the island.
/ The five peace commissioners, Day,
Davis, Frye, Reid and Gray. held 4
/ final conference at the white house on
the 18th and received final instructions
regarding their work n Paris. There
wa absolute secrecy regarding the
nature of the instructions. The com.
mIss.oncrs sailed for Paris on the 18th.
GEN. OTIS cablcd from Manila on the
18th that the insurgents were with.
drawing in response To Americas de-
muuds- No concessions were granted
the Insurgents. General good feeling
prevailed. business was progressing
rapidly and no trouble was antici.
patrd.
TmE boundary dispute between Chill
and Argentine will be submittcd TO the
arbitration of Queen Victoria.
Is the Connecticut republican state
convention Gov. Louns bury was re.
nominated by large ma jority over
his opponent. J. Addison Porter, pri.
vatc secretary to President Mckinley.
PARIS dispatch on the 18th said
the Drcyfus scaudu, threatened to in
vOlve France in Il revolution.
Is an interview at Havana Gov. Gen.
HIanco talked bitterly Of the war the
| nitcd States had waged against
spain. He complimented the gallant
America an arrogant nation and hoped
she would be punished.
Al his own urgent request Capt
Roblcy d. Evans, OF the battlcship
Iowa, was relieved of command and
was assigned to duty on the naval in
spcction board The new commander
of the Iowa is Capt Silas Terry.
A MANILA dispatch on the 10th said
that isabelle Artacho, former rebel
chief, was leading an army of Is, 900
against AguinaIdo A Jesuit priest
had been shot for persuading rebels to
desert AguinaIdo.
The Associated press CORES pondcnt
had an interview with Aguinaldo. the
Philippine insurgcnt leader, at Malo-
los. He protested his undying graft
tude to the American troops, but said
they had come to the Philippines only
to fight Spaniards, and as that task
was ended, he expected and wanted
the American troops to evacuate the
island.
THE war department received an
other telegram from Gen. Otis on the
10th. lie said no further force would
be required at Manila, Military gov
crnment was being gradually per.
fected and Il large force was policing
and cleaning the city. The monthly
expenses of the Philippines will ag-
gregate $3.50, 600, nearly one-half OF
which is required to subsist Is. 900
Spanish prisoners. Tariffs and duties
would almost double former Spanish
duties.
Miss WINNIE DAVIS, the Daughter
Of the Confederacy," died at Narragan.
sett Pier, r l., on the 18th. She had
been i'll for several weeks with mala.
rial gastritis. She was born at Rich
mond, Va, in 1868.
The work of the military commits.
sion in Porto Rico was said to be prac-
tically over on the 18th, all arrange.
ments for the evacuation of the island
by the Spanish troops and the receipts
of government property having been
determined upon.
THE attending physicians at Dedham,
Mass, on Thomas +. Bayard, ex-United
States ambassador to England, gave nc
hopes of his recovery on the 18th.
AN order was sent from the war de
partment on the 10th for certain regi.
ments at San Francisco to get ready
to go to Manila. Among those going
is the Twentieth Kansas.
SENATOR C. j. FAULKNER, of West
Virginia, has been appointed by the
president to the position on the Cana
dian commission made vacant by the
retirement of Senator Gray when he
was transferred to the Paris peace
commission.
The present calculation at the war
department is that the American army
of occupation will sail for Cuba about
October 10 and will number abou 30, 900
men. The troops will land at Havana
and Santiago, for the most part, and
be distri buted throughout the island
from those points.