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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
neuor Made a Dnctor nfI.aus.

Pittsburg, June 10.-At the annual
commencement exercises Of the West
ern university last evening the degree
Of doctor of laws was conferred on Ad-
miral Dewey. The announcement was
received by the audience with great
enthusiasm.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
=. X. Fuller Dead.

Chicago. June los. r. Fuller.
identified for 80 years with the lumber
trade of Chicago. Iowa, Minnesota and
Missouri, died TODAY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10

1t is estimated that more than 75, 600
fishermen go out OF New York every
Sunday and that they spend on an
average of 81 each on the sport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
Now He Can BE Du,y Hanged,

Berlin. Wis, June 10-August Nimpke.
Polish laborer. shot and fatally
wounded his wife, as a result OF a quar-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
The War Revenue Measure.
SANTIAGO HAS FALLEN.
According to Report Current on Turks
Island. One OF the Bahamas.


A man who arrived here yesterday in
schooner from Turks island, one of
the Bahamas, and about 10 miles north
of Hayti, said ii was reported there on
Tuesday that Santiago de Cuba had
been taken by the Americans. Gable
communication between Cape Haytien
and Cuba is still interrupted.
Washington. June 10.-It became ap-
parent yesterday afternoon that the war
department, through the energetic Of
fees of its censors. has succeeded en-
tirely in its purpose to keep the move
ments Of the United States troops a
secret; for, beyond question, at the
close of the day it was impossible to
learn here where are the United States
troops which had been for weeks
gathering under command of General
Shafter in Florida. Stories Of the ap-
pearance of a mysterious warShip in
Cuban waters floated through the navy
department during the day. The officers
quickly condemned them, declaring that
if the boats were Spanish they were
nothing more than small armed
launches, and not to be feared by any
number Of transports conveyed by such
fine gunhoats az the Helena and Ban
croft. But when these stories reached
the war department they were received
with a different spirit.
Transports Are Perfectly Helpless.
Nothing Is more helpless in warfare
than an unarmed troop transport full
of soldiers. She would fall an easy vic
tim to the smallest gunboat and the
soldiers knowing their weakness in this
! respect are loath to undertake
to cross the Florida straits un-
I'll these disa agreeable visitors have
been removed from the pathway With
| out respect to the character of the
strange craft that are said to be dodg-
| ing the blockaders at Havana they will
be removed from the scene of action in
short notice. as it is understood that
| Sampson has been made acquainted
| with the situation and viii be expected
| tc redeem his promise to provide safe
conduct to the army when called upon.
Sampson Might Take santiago.
| II was pointed out yesterday by a
naval officer that the admiral since the
arrival OF the marine battalion on the
| Panther has at his disposal what he
may regard as a sufficient force of men
! TO capture Santiago even before the
! troops arrive. The 500 marines on the
Panther added to the marines already
| With the fleet would make a total of
| about l,5e0 men. Without impairing the
efficiency of his shirs. Admiral Sampson
could spare 1.000 bluejackets for land
ing party, and with this total force of
| $500 men-if the insurgents who have
been armed by the United States gov
| ernment do their share-it seems pos
sibie for Sampson to capture Santiago
| at short notice. There seemed to be a
very decided air of expectation yester-
! day afternoon among the officials who
are acquainted with the government 5
| plans in the campaign that almost
warranted n conclusion an engagemer,
Of some kind was expected today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10

rel Nlmpke attempted 70 commit sui
ciGe when placed under arrest, but the
gun missed fire.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10

For that tired feeling you must en-
rich and purify your blood. Hood 5
Sarsaparilla is the medicine YOU need.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
Sea Fighters Have Done Their Part in Batterng Away
Cubas Southern Defenses
ALL is READY FOR THE LANDING OF TROOPS.
Big Fleet to Convoy Transports Significant Ut
terances as to the Present Situation.

and flowers. They were given an en-
thusiastic reception by the crowds
along the line of march to Camp Mer-
ritt and cheered by the troops on
arrival there.
The War Revenue Measure.
Washington, June 10.-The senate
took up the conference report on the
war revenue measure. Jones. OF
Arkansas. said as one of the conferees.
that he had not signed the report and
would vote against it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
ENGLAND's SIGNIFICANT POSITION.
Beady to Interfere for Peace or Defend the
United States.

London, June lO.-ln the house of
commons the government leader, Bal
four, in reply to the question. said
the government would gladly take a
favorable opportunity for promoting
cessation Of hostilities between the
United States and Spain if there was
reasonable prospect that the offer
would I've well received and likely to
lead to an agreement. But there was
not sufficient ground for believing
such u condition exists.
London. June l0.-The ST. James
Gazette this afternoon in a long edi-
torial points out the hopelessness of
furthur Spanish resistance. and sug-
gests that the Americans seek 4 set
tlcmcnt of the Cuban question by a
naval demonstration in Spanish
waters. 1t intimates that England
will prevent interference Of other
powers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10

san Francisco. June 10.-Thc sis,
Iowa volunteers arrived here this
morning. They are the best
equipped of any that have come. The
Red Cross society gave them hearty
breakfast and loaded them with fruits
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
Killed by "A Torpedo Explosion.

Chicago. June l0.-The News
Jacksonville, Fla. special says: while
party was at work wiring torpedoes
in the st. Johns river Is miles below
here today, torpedo exploded, kill
ing three men, and badly wounding
Lieut.. Hart, of the United States en-
gineer corps. How the accident oc-
CURED is not known
Cable Communication StiII INTERRUPTED.
Port Au Prince, Hayti, June 10
Cable communication with Santiago
de Cuba is still interrupted and no
war news is obtainablc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
CHART OF SANTIAGO HARROR
Obtained by Schley showing the Spanish
squadron There.

Chicago. June 1O-The Associated
Press has a copyrighted dispatch dated
off Santiago June 4 stating that After
driving the Spanish feet into q more
protected position in the harbor by the
bombardment of May 81 Commodore
Schley opened communication with the
insurgents. They were urged to OBJ
tain. if possible, the names and number
of the vessels of the fleet inside the har-
Dor. On Friday afternoon Lieutenant
Sharp, Of the Vixen, went to the place
of rendezvous and received from the in
surgents a map of the harbor showing
the entire Cape Verde fleet with the ex-
ception of the destroyer Terror inside
and close up to the city under the pro-
lection of the guns mounted on Blancc
battery at the northern extremity OF
the harbor.
The ships there. according to this
chart, are the Cristobal Colon. the Viz
caya, the Almirante Oquendo, the Maria
Teresa and the Reina Mercedes Tde-
stroyed by the American warships since
this dispatch was written1, all cruisers
of the first class and heavily armed, to-
gether with three torpedo boats. The
Gefiniteness of this information natural
ly gave Commodore Schley great satis-
faction. Although he had known that
several ships of the enemy were there
he was not certain that some Others
had not succeeded in getting away OF
had been sent in another direction"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
IN BOARD the Associated Press
- Dispatch Boat Wanda off Santi-

m BOARD the Associated Press
- Dispatch Boat Wanda off Santi-
ago de Cuba, June ., 4p. M, via
Kingston. Jamaica. copyrighted by
Associated Press The navy awaits
the army. The fighting ships Of
Sampson and Schley have battered
down the coast defenses of southern
Cuba and sealed up Cervera's fleet in
the harbor of Santiago by sinking the
collier Merrimac in the channel at the
entrance, which the guns of the fleet
cover increasingly. Scout boats, run
ming under the shadows of FL Moro, cut
the lIaytien cable and now hold 80 miles
west of Santiago, including Guanta
namo hzrbor. Under cover Of the
guns of the fleet, eastern Cuba NAV
be safely invested by land ami
sea, Cervera's fleet annihilated and
the entire province and its towns and
harbors seized and held after short
campaign. Guantanamo is an inn
portant place. 1t has six miles of
harbor, which will be Of great value
to the United States as an army and
navy supply station. coaling depot and
cable terminus.
Washington, June lO.-A powerful
fleet Of 10 ships has assembled in
Florida waters to convoy troop trans
ports to Cuba at once.
santiago Bombardment Again On.
New York. June lO.-The Ticker
service sends out the following:
"llavana-Thc American fleet bonn
bardcd Santiago again today, the en-
gagemcnt lasting from till IL. No
details are received -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
California frohini,iouis,s.

Fresno, Cal, June 10.-The state Pro-
h'bition convention yesterday nomi-
mated j. Z. McComas, of Pomona, for
governor. and Robert Somers, of San
Jose. for lieutenant governor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-06-10
Keifer Nominated for Major General.

Washington, June 10.-Among the nom
nations sent to the senate yesterday
was that of Warren J. Keifer Of Ohio.
10 be a major general of volunteers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
ENGLISH SCHEMES In AFRICA.

ENGLANDs proverbial success as colonzer
| seems about to achieve most notable con-
IL hrnation of her light to such reputation. The
great representative of Anglo Saxon prowess in this
field, Cecil Rhodes has been strong enough to tri-
umph that great error, the Jameson raid, which
would have been fatal to many strong less
strong than he, and is again planning like sort of
Bonaparte, for the colonial conquest of Africa
He has been reelected director of the Char
tered Company of London, and has met with re-
ception that shows confidence and willingness to
back him in his big ambitions. In his address to the
shareholders of that company he reused their enthu-
sasm1,vith the catching cry of Cairo to the Cape
The idea is to connect Egypt with the Cape of Good
Hope by rail, and that vertebral column
build an English Africa.
Rhodes purpose, as step in that direction, is to
borrow in England two million pounds to extend the
present railroad system of South Africa to Lake
Tanganyika which is the northern boundary Of the
English domination in the Dark Continent This
would bring the overland route from the Cape to
within less than 1900 miles of Khartoum, the place
to which the English expedition from Cairo under
the Srdar Kitchener is advancing to Gust the Der
wishes 1t is claimed that these points are at
tanned the remainder of the railway will be an easy
matter of attainment.
Six million pounds said to be already invested
in the combined enterprise and the British public
asked to put up the two millions more that are
needed to complete the undertaking. The sharehold-
ers are to be made secure in their investment by the
states assuming the money employed as a debt,
and for their profit Rhodes is to give the company
half interest in all the mineral wealth OF the country
traversed
If Rhodes design should be carried out and the
connection made of the Mediterranean with Eng
lands possessions in South Africa, the ambitious
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
AGNEWS IN BAD REPUTE.

REVELATIONS concerning the management Of
~ the asylum at Agnews are startling. To learn
that the existence OF gross immortality in a
State institution could be suspected is in itself
shock. The charges gain apparent strength from the
drectness with which they made, the confidence of
the accusers as we'll the nsinuation that the half
has been told but in due season will be given
publicity.
Regardless OF what may appear later il the allega
tons already OF record shall be proved in part the
asylum must be cleaned out, the guilty dismissed.
There is no middle course. Either the accused have
been cruelty sandered or they unfit for places of
trust Prompt investigation is urgent necessity.
II innocent, they will be glad OF vindication such
as can result only from the fullest and reest scrutiny
of all the evidence if they not innocent the de-
mand is equally urgent
The individuals especially concerned are Dr. Spon-
oge, T. T. Tourtilotte and Mrs. K Madigan.
Against these the charges definite, and in each
instance OF such that if established they would
leave no alternative but dismissal OF the trio. The
only proper course is to have the facts laid bare
through unbiased official inquiry. No whtewashing
is demanded by the OCCASION and effort to gloss
over the offenses will be tolerated. Nothing less
than an absolute conclusion will satisfy the people,
for the people have grown tired OF corruption among
their servants.
The truth is demanded, and in getting at it
should be protected by influence nor assaled from
motives OF revenge.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS.

F. q. Poor Of MERGED is stopping at the
Russ.
DR.. H. Lowe Of Knights Ferry is at the
Grand.
H. M. Streeter of Riverside is at the
Palace.
E. D. Gardner Of Red Bluff is at the
Occidental.
George H. wign1ore is q guest at the
Occidental
DR.. R. w. Hill of Los Angeles is stop
ping at the Grand.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Mcdonald Jr. are stay
ing at the Occidental.
William Simms, the banker, Of Winters,
is guest at the Russ.
Judge John NJ Fulweiler Of Auburn is
registered at the Lick.
R. Robertson. proprietor Of the Paradise
Springs, is at the Lick.
Thomas Smith has gone to Del Monte
for a six weeks vacation.
DR.. H. L. Pace and wife OF Tulare are
registered at the Palace.
Frank H. Buch and wife Of Vacaville
are staying at the Palace.
Thomas Flint Jr. and wife Of San Juan
are registered at the Palace.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS.

When the militia boys went up to the
fort they carried with them plenty of
ideas about what the regulars were going
to be like, and the regulars in their turn
were like a lot Of schoolboys at the be-
began to flock in. At present though the
rough edges of both sides have been
rubbed off The volunteers have found
out that the regulars are a fine lot of
men, who know their business and have
gray matter under their campaign hats.
The regulars, too, have discovered that
the volunteers like the excitement of run
ming the guard as much as they do, and
that they also know how to grumble
and complain one moment and how to
hurrah for their officers the next. That
is one of the first lessons the regular
learns, but his grumbling Is "all in the
family" If an outsider tries to make
remarks about the army to a regular
"doughboy," the man has fight on his
hands.
The recruits of the Twenty-second were
a source of constant amusement to the
regulars at Fort Slocum. They are used
to them now. though.
The first recruit was rather a surprise
to the regulars. He was dressed in
knickerbockers of the latest and most im-
proved style, his mustache was nicely
curled and his stockings were fairly de-
cent checker-boards. They thought he
was major general at least when he
asked the way to regimental headquar-
next day broad grin went around the
post when they found the major general
In an old suit of faded blue nonchalantly
peeling potatoes In the kitchen and throw
Ing in kindling wood. A few days later
they were even more astonished when
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
THE Happy FAMILY.

~ course the merry war in which Mcguire has
| Jbecome central figure is OF fight.
- We have the privilege of looking and OBJ
serving whether the ring tactics fair or foul,
moved by concern to whether the PopulstS get
hit below the belt or in this administer
knockout blow to the Democrats.
Popusts declare they have so shaped events as to
make impossible to Democrats any action save in
dorsement OF their Mcguire. Comforting as it
would be to see the wordy Congressman bowled over,
as he must be surely as he receive the indorse-
1nent for which his soul yearns and his jaw makes
plea we confess to inability to discern why the Dem
ocrats should feel under obligations submit the
dictation of the Popustic element in the political
happy family.
Mcguire was nominated by 1864 Populsts. With
great wagging Of boards they proclaimed him the
Moses to lead them out of the wilderness, and they
lay down the law that the Democrats shall do the
same thing They are willing to divide their Moses.
In the Democratic convention will be 700 delegates
Will these submit to the direction Of the laxative
handful? 1t does not reasonable. Perhaps they
will be found to have minds OF their and tell the
Populists to keep their little old Moses.
But in either case Republicans have nothing to
worry about We would be glad to Mcguire in
dorsed with whoop. From the standpoint of Dem
ocracy no worse move could be made Mcguire
would be defeated with an ease that would give him
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
SPANS DEGENERATION.

THE study OF the causes OF SPANS downfall is
one of the most instructive in history and with
her past three centuries OF descent before us it
is curious matter of speculation to how far that
degeneration is to go. Is her course that
will somewhere reach its lowest point and thence rise
again power? Or is straight fall, to end only
by striking bottom and staying there? Will it
tinue till she sinks from master into subject
ton and becomes merely sem-civilized, or will she
reform, as individuals sometimes do and start an
upward after her lessons have been made fit
tingly severef
Perhaps the fact will lie midway between these two
suggestions and Spans doom is conservatsm-to
find her ruin by remaining stationary, by proudly and
stupidity refusing to progress by the paths that the
successful nations pursuing 1t has been held by
some that such condition is impossible, that there
must be movement either up or down. but Turkey
is witness that in the modern world non-progres-
sive nation may be long permitted to live and to con-
tnue to perpetrate outrages There is little doubt
that if Spain deserved to have her nationality de-
stroyed, and the United States both could and would
destroy it, united Europe would stay the extinction.
So Spain may exist for centuries, like Turkey
object lesson, to teach national morality.
A baleful conservatism has been Of the chief
causes OF SPANS change from great to an nsg-
nihcant nation. Some conservatism is good but hers
was of the wrong kind She persisted in methods of
military conquest in her colonies when she should
have studied the of concliation She refused to
learn her lesson and change her policy, she might
have DONE like England. She persisted ir lettering
mems conscences after the enlightened nations had
found out the folly of it. She persisted in that form
of pride which made her strongest and most inteec-
tual despise industrial pursuits and seek careers
only in the army, the church in governmental po-
stons long after the successful peoples had begun to
H. A.
ufacturc and commerce.
Lastly that grasping rapacity, reaching out reck-
essy for all the gold there was in sight, which was
prominent among the qualities that first raised her
to dominant position among the nations, was con-
served of her main characteristics until COM
plete poverty resulted from her very greed So her
unwlingness, inability change has brought this
wreck upon her. Perhaps degeneration Is an map
proprate word to apply to Spain-she has remained
as she while others have gone ahead, and her
present plight is the inferiority of medievasm to
modern civilization.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
SCHOOL VACATIONS.

HE problem OF whether the public and other
schools should be continued without vacation
throughout the entire year is now up for discus
sion in the Eastern States, and prominent educators
and educational journals considering it. AS kim
dred question the need OF vacation schools is being
urged by some, among them President Eliot of Har-
ward
The problem is chiefly for the towns and cities.
1t has been said that the vacation OF country chill
dren is not subject the reasoning IS that of
the urban young folks, because when they not
going to school they are busy receiving a practical
education for the duties OF life by helping their
fathers and mothers the farms.
The city children are mostly idle during the vaca-
ton and the vacation is extended longer than the
needed rest there no good come of it Those who
favor long vacations say that the growing minds Of
the children already overtaxed and that teachers
seek to put into them more than they assimi-
late This question: like all Others has two sides to
it. but it is to be noted that the abolition of long
vacations will not be wholly experiment, for the
German schools all the year round, and the
results there said to be good.
Perhaps the solution of the matter that both par
ties might compromise on would be to do away with
correspondingly lessen the load that is laid on the
young minds by reducing their daily tasks and short
ening their hours of mental application. Thus they
would accomplish the progress during the year
and do it with far
There is no doubt that in very long vacation the
mind not only forgets large part of what it had
acquired, but it loses the habit of application and
power of attention. Long idleness is about bad
as entertaining. 1t is far arduous to start to
work after the relaxing OF long rest than to keep
at 1t with moderation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-07-15
HOW NEW YORK CELEBRATES.

II you're asking what the row is.
What the never-ceasing noise Is,
What the bursting boundless boom Is,
What the blunderbussian bang is,
What the flashing fiery fizz is,
What the whooping. whanging whiz is,
What the swinging, sweeping sizz Is
What the silence splitting sound is,
What the too terrific toot is
What the boisterous. breezy blare is'
What the horn, brassy blast Is,
What the much meandering march is,
What the fiawless. flying flag is.
Why the spruce gum OF Katahdin
Spruces finer than fiddle,
Why the cold New England Yankee
Booms the everlasting Doodle,
Why the blooming wooden nutmeg
Whoops itself to something greater,
why the knightly Knickerbocker
Knicks his books and books his knlcKer'
Why the mint of old Virginia
Coins patriotic julep
Why the Georgia watermelon
Bursts in red enthusiasm,
Why the tents that tickle Tampa
swell with pride and footing troopers,
why the old Kentucky bourbon
Turns it's weller into gladness,
Why the Texas cotton raiser
Raises other things than cotton.
why from Maine TO California,
On to Oregon and Klondike,
From the Philippines to Cuba,
Taking in the Sandwich Islands
And some other territory,
There is boom and bang and bolster,
There is fizz and fire and fervor,
There is Yankee Doodle-Dixie-
Uncle Sam will tell you briefly
That he's out to do some Fourthing,
Just q bit of Fourthing, mind you,
On his jolly July birthday:
That he's out to have pleasant
Little Uncle Sam-sam frolcl
That is all. Now II there's any
Body thinks that he can stop It
Say for instance let him try it-
Let him try it, right this minute.
Whoop-lai!
w. j. L. in New York Sun.