Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-12
Spanish War Notes.

Tho torpedo boat Foote left Old POINT.
Norfolk. Va. ut 1i.@p A. Nj. Friday. for
Key West She passed out the capes at
I2-3n.
Further endorsements OF troops have
sailed from Santaudcr for cuba. There
Is iii.
The United States cruiser Nashville
sailed from Key West. Friday morning.
for the TortugaS islands, with $50 cases
of oil for the feeet.
The veterans of the civil War living in
Oakland, Cal. have decided to offer the
services of fun company 10 the govern
ment in case of war with Spain.
The American Ordinance factory at
Lynn, Mass. is running night and day
on orders tor government ammunition
and extra men have been put TO work.
The works where proiectiles are made
will be enlarged and the production Will
be expanded as much as possible.
Torpedo boats Talbot and Gwin arrived
at the torpedo station at Newport, RI
at > p. NJ, Friday. and We're at once
| turned over to Lieutenant Commander
Mclean. commandant OF the station.
having been accepted by the government.
They will receive their equipments and
supplies at the station and go into COM
mission in few days.
The battleship Maine relief fund started
by Mrs. Long and other ladies. amounts
now to $926S. Payments are being made
from the fund MS ordered from time to
time by the committee to needy families
of the sailors and marines lost in the
Maine. Contributions in addition to
those already published have been re
ceived from President Mckinley, Sccre-
tary Bliss and other public men.
The coal barge Edith Howe, which was
recently purchased from Dempsey, Son "
Co. by the government has been taken
from Cramps ship yards at Philadelphia.
after having been sheathed with iron
plates. She will carry about 400 tons of
coal to Key West. She has a maNimum
capacity of 1000 tons. The Howe has no
| machinery and will be towel by the gov
eminent Jug SamoSet.
| The Springfield, Mass. Union will say,
| Saturday. the news that Lieut.. Col.
| Arnold comman liant at the United States
| armory in that city received. Thursday
| evening. Geographic orders from Gen.
| Flagler. chief Of ordnance, to work the
| armory to its fullest capacity. taking on
! extra shifts OF men as soon as salts
| factory arrangements can be made and
| also to expedite all work now on hand
Four Pinch steel breech-loading NOR
| tars weighing about Il tons each. ar
rived at Willimantic, Conn. Thursday
night. by rail. 1t was learned at the
freight depot that the guns came from
! Providence but who shipped them could
not be learned. The guns are consigned
| to commanding officers. proving grounds.
| Sandy Hook, N. j., and ii was stated
that they would probably be shipped
there, Friday.
| Orders were received by the recruiting
| officer OF the Vermont at New York to
| enlist scamen and landsmen. mechanics
| and tirernen as rapidly as possible. Seven
| 6-inch rapd-fire guns We're received at
| the navy yard. Friday. from Washing
| ton. They are for use in arming the aux
| Hilary cruisers if such an emergency
| arises. The Marietta will take a cargo
| of so tons of fixed" ammunition to Fort
| Lafayette Saturday.
The hattlpsLip Orauon I>z.
| cisco, IS to receive at once 100 tons of am