Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-11-15
THE ARMY ARD NAVY.

Brig. Gen. VIM. S. Worth. e. s. A..
has been placed upon the retired lis;
apon his own application. after 3,
years service.
Gov Adams of Colorado. has received
telegram from Adjutant General Cor
,in to the effect that the volunteer regi-
nents now doing duty in the Philippines
IRE TO be ordered home as soon as the
roops DOW en- route for the islands reach
here to take their place.
The Spanish transport Legazpi wen
ashore, at l o'clock Monday afternoon
II Punta Boca VILLAINS. near Cienfue
eos, province of Santa Clara, Cuba
nd was totally destroyed All the
members of the crew We're saved.
The first intimation that there had been
anything like a conspiracy to prevent tn,
'alling Of the cruiser Buffalo reached tn
aaVy department through the newspapers
and 1t must be said the officials give very
little credence to the story. They say /;
frequently the case when vessel is
hurried away from the navy yard after
TASTY repairs, as was the Buffalo. things
20 wrong to such an extent as to excite
suspicion in some minds mat eyil-mindeo
PERSONS are responsible.
Lieut.. Herman G. Dresel of the Unit
ID States navy. committed suicide ir
the Carrollton hotel, Baltimore, Mon.
lay, by shooting himself. In one of his
pockets was found an order from Secre.
-ary Long detaching him from the L
). s. ship Essex and ordering him t.
epair to San Francisco from which
,oint he was to go to Hong Kong ane
hence to Manila to join the Zafiro.
Private CASTOR of the Sth illinois
volunteers (colored). who was recently
eourtmartialled at Santiago de Cuba.
or a rnufderous assault on a corporal
md sentenced to three years impris-
,nment, was released a few days ago
rom the city Jail by the warden, who
nistook him for another man. All eff
orts to recapture him have proved fu-
lie. 1t is believed that he has reached
he northern part of the island.
The Santiago Chamber of Commence
has requested Gen. Wood to turn over
20 lis treasurer all moneys. received
IS taxes ON shipping for harbor i'm
)rovements, proposing to undertake
the future collections and to take
tharge of the harbor work without
government supervision. 1t is no,
probable that Gen. Wood will accede tc
his request without a personal repre-
sentative in the Chamber and he will
undoubtedly retain a veto power HIM
self.
Among the Yucatans passengers at
New York from Havana, was Col j. II
Bliss of the subsistence department OF
the United States army Col. Bliss has
oeen in CUBA locating camp sites for the
army; He was recently relieved from
this duty and Is now on his way to re-
sume his old position on General Wilson
starr. Col Bliss will remain in New York
until Tuesday at, noon, to comply with
me quarantine regulations, and later Will
20 to Washington to report on his work
Col; Bliss says that they have succeeded
n locating the places for camps in and
around Havana, Matanzas and Cardenas
md that when he left the commission ex-
oected to finish this work within 10 days
Corporal Daniel Kalar of Co. E, of
Portland, while working at his forge
Saturday, was struck by fragment Of
steel which penetrated the thigh and
which the doctors We're unable to dis
cover. The missile was almost red hot
when it entered the body and for that
reason, although the wound is exceed
ingly painful, no danger is apprehended
as the heat destroyed any poisonous
substance which might adhere to the
metal The random shot is almost the
size of Mauser bullet, but Kalar said:
Il did not expect | would have to wait
until got back home to get shot,
The demand for American vessels to
load at United States ports for Cuba
is steadily increasing and during the
past few days several schooners have
been chartered through Boston brokers
for voyages to the island The schoon-
er Frank 7. Stinson, which has Just
had four new masts stepped at Bos-
ton, will load at Philadelphia or Balti-
more for Cienfuegos. The schooners
Charles L. Davenport and Henry K.
smith have been engaged for similar
voyages, while the four-masted
schooner Alice f. Clark, the yesse,
which recently rescued the passengers
and crew from the burning Clyde
steamer Croatan. has been chartered
to load coal at Philadelphia for Ha-
yana.
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