The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-31
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Owing to the severe weather prevail
ing many vessels have been driven
ashore on the Danish coast.
Representative John Simpkins, of
the Thirteenth district of Massachu-
setts, died Saturday night at his resi-.
dence in Washington, l71T X street, of
heart failure, induced by gastritic
complications
At Pekin NJ Pavloff, the Russian
charge d'affaires, signed Sunday the
agreement regarding the lease of Port
Arthur and Ta-Lienwan and the rail-
way concession. Port Arthur will be
given over Monday.
The fifty-fifth annual boat race be-
tween crews representing Oxford and
Cambridge was rowed Saturday over
the usual course from Putney to Mort
lane, four and one-quarter miles, and
was won by Oxford.
At dinner formation at the Annapolis
naval academy Sunday an order was
read directing the first class of cadets
to report at the medical department
Monday for physical examination, pre-
paratory. it is supposed. to sea orders.
Chin Chow will remain Chinese ter.
ritorv. but the Russians will establish
small station in the environs China
will retain sovereign rights generally,
and Port Arthur and Ia Lien Wan
will be open to the war ships of all ma
tions.
By unanimous vote of the executive
committee of the Society of the Army
of the Cum oerland Gen. David s. Stan.
ley has been designated to act as pres
ident of the society vice Gen. Rose
era ns deceased, until the next annual
reunion.
The French line steamer La Bour-
gogne, which arrived Sunday from
Havre, brought 5.s7O,OOO francs in
specie. Among the passengers were
H. Cissac, the French bicycle rider.
and Jasp Eden, the champion rider of
Holland.
Alexander II. Revell. of Chicago. has
offered, through the industrial art de-
partment of the Central Art school,
prize of 81, 800 for color sketch which
shall present the most practical sug.
gestions for the decorating of a public
school room.
Gen. Daniel Butterfield has advised
the secretary of war that his old regi.
ment, the Twelfth New York, has,
through its commander Col. Leonard,
by letter to the governor of New York,
rendered its services for the war, in
case war comes.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Madrid says: At late hour your
correspondent finds that the Spanish
reply to the United States will not be
anything like what the sanguine OPP
timists expected, and the outlook, con-
sequently, is decidedly serious.
Col. James j. Van Horn, of the sth
infantry, with headquarters at Fort d.
A. Russell, Wyoming, has been given
command of the department of the
Colorado during the absence of Gen.
Otis, who is presiding at the court
martial of Capt Carter, at Savannah,
Ga.
E. E. Clark, grand chief of the Order
OF Railway Conductors, who has just
returned from business trip to Den.
yer. says the rumors that President
Burt, of the Union Pacific, will reduce
wages all along the line and that EN-.
ployes were preparing to strike have
no foundation whatever.
There was an enthusiastic mass meet
ing at the court house, Astoria, Ore,
called for the purpose of forming
naval reserve corps. One hundred
names were signed to the rolls which,
with the three divisions in Portland,
assure bigade for Oregon and the as.
'ignment here of a training ship.
Commander Eugene d. F. Heald,
United States Navy, in command of
ships at the naval academy, died sud-
denly at pm. Sunday of Bright's
disease. Commander Heald entered
the service in 1868. Mrs. Heald and
her son Eugene were with him at his
1eath. He was out walking with a
party of friends at o'clock.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Frankfort Zeitung says: "Senor Gull
on. the minister of for eign affairs,
las informed me that an extremely |
threatening note has arrived from
regarding the cessation |
If the war in Cuba. He added, no |
natter how one regards the affair, a |
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