The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-05-20
UP-To.DATE MISCELLANY.
Matters and Things That are Occupying
the Public Thought.

the Public Thought.
Spanish As sold at SO in London on Wednes.
day morning, but fell to 5214 later in the day.
A rigid censorship Of press dispatches was
established at Tampa by order of the War
Department.
| The work of getting part of the auxiliary
fleet ready for sea has been pushed with great
activity at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
DIR. N. G. Jarvis who is in chargs of the re
cruiting depot for the hospital corps, an
nounced that the corps is still open to recruits
as more men are needed
Mr.. Toru Hoshi, Japanese Minister, denied
| the statements that Japan would or had pro
tested against the occupation of the Philip
pines by the United States.
Morristown Chapter Daughters of the Reyo-
luton resolved to respond most promptly and
heartily to any demands upon it for aid to oul
| sick and wounded of the war.
William E.. Gladstone. the most notable
4 statesman of our day. died at Hawarden, Eng
land. his elegant manor, on Wednesday at
O'Clock, after several months illness, aged 81
years.
| William Jennings Bryan, late Democratic
candidate for President, has been commits
stoned a Colonel of Volunteers in the United
States Army, and has recruited a regiment for
service.
Comptroller Golfer notified William Walton,
the Deputy Commissioner of Public Buildings,
Lighting and Supplies of the borough of
Brooklyn. to take charge of the 18th Regiment
armory in behalf of the city.
Ex-Assistant Secretary of War Theodore
Roosevelt. lieutenant-colonel of regiment Of
rough riders made of wealthy and influential
young Americans, has now nine hundred men,
and has declined many applications.
Ensign Worth Bagley Of North Carolina,
the first victim of the war, who was killed
during the action off Cardenas. Cuba, last
week, on the Winslow, was buried at Raleigh,
N. c.. with military and civic honors.
The LIST regiment New Jersey Volunteers
were ordered to report at Falls Church, Va,
and the Bird, reported as having been assigned
to Gen. Merritt's command, is supposed to be
intended for service in the Philippines.
Sixteen destroyers and twelve torpedo boats
have been ordered by the Navy Department to
be completed, the first within eighteen months
and the latter within twelve, and the contracts
will be let as soon as possible, so that there
will be no delay.
The United States battleship Alabama was
launched on Tuesday at Philadelphia. Unlike
any similar ceremony since the beginning of
the new navy. the launching of the Alabama
was strictly private The Alabama is a first
class battleship of II, 525 tons displacement.
An evident determination of the crew of the
prize Spanish steamship Catalina at Key West
to run the gauntlet of warships and escape
with their ship was reported by members of
the guard placed abroad her by the United
States marshal and was cleverly frustrated.
The provision for $500, COO. 900 of 5 per cent.
ten twenty-year bonds contained in the House
bill was eliminated by the majority of the Sem
ate Finance Committee, but New York adyfc-
es say that enough Senators will support the
bond feature to result in its passage by the
Senate.
Including Bolivia, twenty countries have an
nounced their neutrality in the present war,
OF the Latin American republics those that
have signifed their intention not to take sides
In the contest are Columbia, Mexico, Argen-
tine Republic Uruguay. Peru, Guatemala.
Brazil and Bolivia.
Senator Allison estimated that the war reve-
nue. bill as reported to the Senate by the FL
nance Committee. independent of the Demo-
cratic amendments, would produe $3.50, 1000. 600
in annual revenue and that the Democratic
amendments would if Incorporated in the act
increase the amount by SIS, O0e,O0O