The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-26
LITTLE BULLETS.

The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius sailed at
4:30 pm. yesterday from New York. Her
destination is not known.
The class of '9S will be graduated at
West Point today. The cadets will prob
ably leave for Chickamauga or Washing
ton tonight.
Already $1,000 citizens of California have
signlf1ed to Adjutant General Barrett
their desire TO be allowed to fight in de-
Tense of the nation.
Cablegrams are being transmitted as
usual between Havana and Key West,
! but subject TO the United States censor
ship at Key West.
The Irish women of San Francisco have
. ORGANIZED society to equip a corps Of
their sex as auxiliaries to the Irish resi-
ment of volunteers now forming.
The battleship Oregon and the gunboat
Marietta are coming up along the east
coast OF South America and will probably
touch at Rio Janeiro in Il few days.
According to a special dispatch from
Shanghai, Admiral Dewey of the Asiatic
squadron has been ordered to await def
ME instructions before attacking Manila
AT the naval recruiting Office in San
Francisco there IS an average of. 40 ap-
plicants day. of which about p per cent
are chosen. There is an urgent demand
for machinistS, seamen and ordinary sea-
men.
Commodore Schley has received orders
that the port OF Hampton Roads must be
considered in a state of blockade from
sunset to sunrise, and no vessel must be
allowed either to depart or to enter be-
tween those hours.
Congressman James r. Campbell of Nc
Leansboro, Ills. has had an interview
with Governor Tanner and rendered the
services of a full volunteer regiment. Mr..
Campbell says he will resign as congress-
man as soon as the services of his regi-
ment are accepted.
From the fact that the state department
has not been called uDon so far TO pre-
pare any proclamation giving notice of a
blockade of either Porto Rico or the
Philippines. it may be set down as a fact
that the naval forces are not vet ready
to move in that direction.
The New York heralds correspondent
in Rio Janeiro says that 800 Americans
there have expressed q wish TO go as sail
ors on board the Nictheroy when she
starts for the United States. The bat
talon formed by the Spaniards now in
clrdes more than 500 men.
The war department got notice that
John Logan, son of the late Senator
Lo-an had raised cavalry regiment,
which he offered TO the government under
his own command. II is hoped that this
can be accepted as part of the quota of
men to be furnished by Illinois
The steam lighthouse tenders Manzanila
service of the treasury department along
the North Pacific coast. are to be trans
ferred to the navy department. Both ves-
sells go on dry dock at Tacoma Tor an
overhauling and to be painted from their
present white to the regulation lead color
officers and crew of the captured ship
Buenaventrra have been given their lib
erty after a consultation of navy and
army officers in Key West. The captain
and ~..rser as well as the crew. were
compelled to shovel coal into the Helena,
Notwithstanding their strenuous ob1ec-
tons They were not held as prisoners
of war because they were captured on she
high seas before war had been formally
declared.