The Monticellonian., 1898-06-03
OTHERWISE TNNOTICED

\ Ire at tayeluei MO, sunday, Qe- stroyed five business houses and two dwellings.
 Whitecapsin Rockwell county. Tex, have ordered all the negro inhabitants to leave.
 The League of National Republican clubs will hold their annual meeting at Omaha in July.
 It is reported on reliable authority that Admiral Gamara's fleet has not yet sailed from Cadiz.
 The public funeral of Edouard Re- menyi the yiolinist, took place Sunday at the Lenox iyceum, New York
 The date for the great monetary con- gress, to be held at the Omaha exposi- tioh, has been set for September l3.
 St Louis shoe manufactures expect to capture big contract for army shoes. They are the lowest bidders.
 Probable terms of an Anglo-American alliance have been suggested They include strong features for both coun- tries.
 Hoodlums set fire to the clothing of a man named Better while he was asleep in St. Louis saloon, and he was badly burned.
 Rigid censorship at Key West and Tampa may be extelded to the mails. unless the correspondents curta1 their ambition.
 Maj. Gen. Shafter has been ordered to embark his army corps at Tampa The place of landing in Cuba has been designated.
 It was Capt. Sigsbee of the sb Paul, formerly Of the ill-fated Maine, who discovered the Spanish ships in Sun tiago harbor.
 RearAdmiral Dewey does not pro pose to be taken off his guard. He is fortifying Gorregidar island and min ing Manila harbor.
 The price of canned tomatoes is ad- vaneing rapidly on account of the gov ernmeHt demand for supplies for the troops in the south.
 tis believed that now that the Span ish fleet has been bottled up in Santia= go, the invasion of Cuba will be com meuced in earnest
 The Salvation army has purchased tract of land near Mentor, O. and will provide poor people with small homes on the coIoHizati Jn plan.
 European dispatches indicate that Spain has been utterly abandoned bv the powers. who now seem to openly side with the United States.
 Commodore Schley has wired the war department that he has Cervera locked in Santiago harbor; that the spanish ships have been sighted and rccor= nized.
 Henry Norman, the London editor, says that the American government is rapidly drifting into policy ef tcrel- torial aggrandizement which it is un- able to avoid
 \ Chinese ship was caught at Hong Kong giving supplies to the American auxiliary cruiser /adro The Chinese craft was promptly seized by the Brit ish authorities.
 The Rough Riders have left san An tonio for Tampa, Fla. One hundred eass 9aro necessary to transport the regiment. Col Wood expects to reach Tampa by Wedne sday.
 New York police believe that they at last nave liIdl HoLt)Elblb DAT tli bRE- glars and highway robbers, "the tall man and the short man. who are wanted ut seyeral points
 Dispatches received from Manila say that the insurgents, who are now massed at Cayite, are being organized and drilled, in anticipation of an early land and sea attack upon Manila
 In even greater haste than she was prepared for her first evcntful cruise and with equal secrecy, the auxiliary warship St. Louis was made ready, Sunday, for another long voyage
 Percy Moore, son of George Moore, assistant manager of the Planters h5- tel, St. Louis who recently enlisted in the Second regular cavalry, has been promoted to the position of battalion adjutant in the First regiment, Mis- souri volunteers