The Republican journal., 1898-09-29

OF business on nanu. Slck claims to
the amount of 500 We're presented and
favorably acted upon. These will all be
paid within the next few days. The
steel cargo steamer Winifred, built by
the Bath Iron Works tor New York
firm, was given its trial trip Sept. 10Th
and made satisfactory run, the engines
developing Ills knots per hour. The
steamer will leave for New York in a few
days and will be used on the Porto Rico
route.
IN BRIEF. An exchange says that the
Rev. Smith Baker, D. D., pastor of the
Maverick Congregational church, East
Boston, has resigned his pastorate, his
resignation to take effect Oct 3 DR..
Baker has been pastor of the Maverick
church for four years, and his resignation
came as great surprise to his congrega-
ton. At a meeting held to take action
on the pastors resignation committee,
| with Capt. George Parker as chairman
waited upon DR.. Baker and asked him to
/ withdraw his resignation, but he gave no
| assurance that he could do so. Mr.
Robert 7. Porter who is in Cuba on
special mission from the United States
government in relation to the financial
and economic aspects of the situation, in
home. Advices from Matanzas state that
between the first of January last and
September - there were reported 81
births and 1901 deaths. OF the latter.
eighty per cent. were due to hunger and
distress. The conditions at Matanzas con
tinue deplora bic. .... Hon. David A. Tag
CART, assignee of the defunct Granite
State Provident association, stated Sept.
2lst that in his opinion the association
would be able to pay from 23 to 30 per
cent. This statement it is thought will
non plus those brokers who are trying to
buy up claims at II II per cent. on the
dollar. One Chicago firm, in particular
has been very active in making this l. II
per cent. offer throughout Maine and New
Hampshire. Barring Star Pointer, the
two fastest harness horses in the world,
Joe Patchen and John K. Gentry. had a
match race at the Readyille, Mass, track
Sept 22d and the Marks horse Won in two
straight heats. \ stiff wind blew from
down the stretch and held t. e horses
back SO that the time was slow, the first
heat being il :. 05 j4, and the second in
2.04 ....AlIeady the customs receipts
at Manila are double what they We're
under Spanish administration. The
officers Of the L. 5. 5. Gloucester have
presented to the city OF Gloucester the
first American flag raised over Porto
Rican soil. This flag was the one carried
by the Gloucester at the battle of Sant-
/ ago. Resolutions of thanks to Lieut.
Commander Wainwright Tor the gift
were adopted by the board OF aldermen Of
Gloucester....T The four masted schooner
John +. Randall, Capt Crocker, arrived
at Santiago, Cuba, Thursday, after pas
sage of Is days from the kennebec She
has a cargo of POO tons of ice for the
hospitals and troops remaining there.
, The work OF setting the wheels OF bust
ness in motion in the harbor Of Manila
has been entrusted to Capt. Glass of the
! cruiser Charleston. One of his first
| duties is taking an inventory OF all the
shipping which fell into Dewey's hands
on the 18th inst Its value is about a
million and half dollars... Everything
regarding the evacuation OF the island of
| Porto Rico by the Spanish troops is pro
ceeding satisfactorily. Mail advices show
| the West India hurricane to have been as
| destructive as pictured in the dispatches.
| On the island of st. Vincent alone 800
lives were lost, not counting the loss to
shipping. On the island of Barbados 49,,
600 houses We're swept away and 100 peo-
pie killed. go. Leading London financial
houses have received dispatches from
Santiago de Chill and Buenos Ayres, an
nouncing that all the differences between
| Chill and Argentina have been overcome
and that the boundary question will be
submitted to arbitration... The Twentieth
| Kansas Regiment, now stationed at San
Francisco and soon to start for Manila,
| will have a chance to vote for State
officers and Congressman, but the polling
place is likely to be on ship board near
the middle of the Pacific oceap.... Rich
ard Malcolm johnson, the lecturer and
novelist died at Baltimore, Friday, after
an illness of several months.
WASHINGTON WHIsPERINGs. Presi-
dent Mckinley Sept. 21st informally re-
ceived delegation of about a dozen
members of the Roosevelt rough rider
regiment. A majority of the delegation
are from New Mexico and are en- route
home. Each of the callers was presented
individually to the President, who, after
greeting them personally, talked with
them and to them as a body in an informal
Manner. The navy department has
ordered 400 sailors to be sent to Admiral
Deweys squadron at Manila. The men
will be sent from San Francisco on a
| merchant steamer. This detail does not
amount to a reinforcement of the forces
at Manila, for the men are to take the
places of sailors whose terms of service
have expired. .... Gen. Joe Wheeler has
been assigned to duty in the Cuban army
of occupation; he will have under him six
regiments of regular cavalry. In
answer to many inquiries as to when the
navy department may be expected to
finally dispose of the prize moneys earn
ed by the United States sailors during
the war, Judge Allocate General Lemly
said today that the department is waiting
only for the certitication of the facts from
the prize courts, and until they are at
hand the department is powerless to
proceed with the distribution. The de-
partment of justice has been called upon
to supply this information from the rec
ords of the prize court. Gen. Merriam,
who recently returned from Honolulu,
says there is no truth in the statemen,
that the troops in Hawaii are without
sufficient food supply.....Mr. Adee is
now actually secretary of state, the
President having issued special commits
sion to him as secretary of state ad in
terim. The law provides that in the
absence of the secretary the first assistant
shall act as secretary, but makes no pro-
vision for such case as existed when
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