The Springdale news., 1898-07-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND
 REV. FATHER JOHN WILLIAMS, of Pittsburgh, Pa, who is reported among the lost on the French steamer La Bourgogne. was head of the order of the Holy Childhood association in this country,
 SECRETARY OF THE NAVY LoNG spe- officially and absolutely denies the ac- curacy of the reports of friction be- tween the army and the navy.
 As A result of the cabinet meeting on the Sth it was decided to dispatch a regiment of troops to Honolulu imme- diately, and the commandant at the Preside, Cal, has been communicated with to learn what forces are avail able.
 TIE president lntimated to the repre- sentatives of the European powers, on the Sth, in terms not to be misunder- stood, that no peace propositions will be considered unless made direct by the Madrid government. No Intermediary will be recognized.
 ON the 8th Admiral Camara, com mander of the Spanish fleet which was bound for the Philippine islands, and which recently passed through the Suez canal, informed the Egyptian gov ernment that he had been ordered to return to Spain. Therefore, his ships were allowed to coal, as they were to return home
 REAR-ADmRAL DEWEY has given no- tice that hc will not allow any more refugees to remove from Manila on board ship.
 CAPT FREDERICK SHARP, an expert diver, and the chief of the Merritt Chapman Wrecking Co.,. $ force, will have charge of the wreckiug outfit which goes from Norfolk, Va, to the coast of Cuba, with the hope of saving some of the vessels of Admiral Ger veras fleet.
 KING LEOPOLD of Belgium will start on long yachting cruise in August lie will make a considerable stay in the United States.
 TIE return of Assistant Naval Con- structor Richmond F. Hobson, of Mer- rimac fame, to his ship, the flagship New York, on the 7th, was marked by wild enthusiasm on the part of officers and crew.
 THE president has appointed Sena- tor Cullom, of Illinois; Senator Nor gan, of Alabama; Representative Hit, of Illinois; Sanford Dole, president of the Hawaiian republic, and W. F. Frear, of Hawaii, to be commissioners under the Hawaiian annexation reso- lutiOn.
 Gov. McCoRD of Arizona has re- ceived indefinite leave of absence as the executive of Arizona, and will take command, as colonel, of the regi- ment of infantry now being recruited in he four territories. ON the 9th the transports Yale and Columbia, with Gen. Nelson A. Miles and staff and l,7O0 men, intended as re- Inducements for Gen. Shafter, sailed from Charleston. $. c. ADMIRAL SAMPSON has cabled the navy department that Ln his opinion three of the Spanish vessels sunk of Santiago harbor may be saved The Colon is certainly in good condition, he reports, and there are reasonable hopes of saving the Maria Teresa and the Vizcaya,
 ON the 10th dispatch from Gen Shafter to the war department an nounced that Gen. Toral, who sue ceeded Gen. Linares in command of the Spanish forces in Santiago when the latter was wounded, had declined tc surrender internationally and that the bonn bardment of the town would be be- gun about D. m. Later the announce ment was officially made: The bom bardment of Santiago has begun"
 ON the 11th Ensign Palmer arrived in Washington bringing with him g series of reports from Admiral Samp son, including the reports of his sub ordinate officers, describing the engage mcnt resulting in the destruction o 1 Cervera's squadron.
 ADMIRAL GENERA says he lentereC santiago bay expecting to coal anc provision within 24 hours and get away again In this he was disap pointed by the indolent manner ot handling the coal.
 TIE Madrid correspondent of the London Times teiegraphed on the I1th "Sagasta has rendered his resignation advising the formation of new cabi net, largely consisting of the military element"
 ON the 11th ex-Senator Conger, O. Michigan, who had lived in Washing ton since he left the senate, died at Ocean City, Md.
 THOMAS q BELL, city auditor O Kansas City, Mo, aged 39 years, dieC on the llth, of typhoid fever, after a two months illness Before entering poll ties in the last city campaign Mr. Bell was a member of the Journal reporto rial staff
 l REAR-ADMRAL AMMEN, hero of the civil war, died at the naval hospital in i Washington, on the 1lth, aged 7S He { was an Obioan. At the reduction O. ! Port Royal, in 1861, he held the forts until the army took possession.