The Monte Vista journal., 1898-04-09
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The rainy season has begun In Cuba
Chile will not sell na any yarshins


ton In this country.
Forty additional torpeiocs have been
placed In Havana harbc..
Mr.. d. L. Moody is holding revival
meetings at Evanston, Illinois.
The New York Legislature has vo;.
ed $1,OOO,OOO for war purposes.
Governor Richards OF Wyoming has
enrolled himself In the national reserve.
The Dcseret News says it is the duty
| Of the Mormons to volunteer In case OF
war.
Lincoln, Nebraska. suffered a loss
| OF $2DO,OOO by fire on the night Of
April 1st.
The autonomist scheme for Porto
Rico is said TO be n failure and riots
are reported.
Massacres OF men. women and chill
dren by Spanish soldiers in the Phillip
pines are reported.
The government bought ten large
ocean steamers on the 4th. They will
| be used as cruisers.
The benefi, performance at Madrid
on the 3lst for the Spanish navy re-
allied about $4,000.
Coin" Harvey has been very sick
from appendicitis. An operation was
successfully performed.
| The Chinese foreign office and Ii
Hung Chang are accused of accepting
heavy bribes from Russia.
Editor Brann and Captain Davis
We're buried at Waco, Texas. Monday,
and each cortege was n mile long.
The Wyoming K Dakota railroad
from Belle Fourche. South Dakota, to
Barrett, Wyoming. is to be completed
at once.
The Pnrnellite members of the Eng
| llsh House Of Commons have adopted
resolutions Of sympathy with the Unit
| ed States.
The Maryland Legislature yesterday
refused TO indOrse the gold standard
although 1t has Il Republican majority
! OF twenty.
President Mckinley was hanged In
e;tiey at Newport. Rhode Island. and
| mt Buffalo. New York. on the Both. be-
cause of his attitude on the Cuban
| question.
ON the LIST the Ohio Legislature np-
PioPr"teu Sl.v",pb To prepare the
| state militia for war and the Iowa Leg
isla'urc appropriated $4,000 for a
similar purpose.
The New York conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church has decld.
ed In favor Of equal representation
from each annual conference. The
vote was lis TO 50.
1t was frankly and openly charged
IN the Senate Tuesday by Mr.. Perkins
VI 'aiiIorhla. In set speech that
spain was responsible for tn. Maine
disaster. MS II had been brought about
by Spanish Vaccinations and Spanish
trcachcry.
The French Arbitration Society has
sent letters 20 the Spanish minister for
foreign Affairs. Senor Gullon, and To
the American secretary of state. Mr..
John Sherman. urging the advisabili,y
or the arbitration Of the differences be.
tween Spain and the United States.
The Cuban jun;a says that the In.
surgcnfs are prepared TO give material
aid TO the United States should war
with Spain bc declared. III the Unit
ed States will send us arms and mu-
nitions,' the attnche said. 1--WE could
II.
Havana. and raze the city or storm the
occupants into submission"
| The queen regent Of Spain has sent
mn autograph letter to the Queen OF
England. the New York World CORE.
spondcnt learns from high source, I'm.
| plorins help. Queen Maria Christina
| bcrs Queen Victoria to us. her infiu.
ence TO prevail upon the British gov.
crnmcni TO support Austria and France
| In an attempt to secure European med.
ia,ion.
| Grent Britain has demanded a lease
OF Wcl-liai-Wci, on the Shan-Tuuy
peninsula, after the japanese cyncua.
| ton. ms n compensation for the dis,ur.
bancc OF the balance OF power in the
Gulf OF Rechi Ii. In diplomatic cir.
cles small doubt is entertained thnt
China will conccdc the demand, which
Is believed 10 be fnvorably regarded BY
Japan.
The Chinese complain bitterly OF tho
fnct that they do not posses n war
port for the live wnrships which are
being built FOR them abroad and whIcl,
ARE due TO arrive In Chinese waters
this summer. Unless wci.Ilai-Wei.
occupied by the japanese. Is evacuated,
which IL doub,ful. the Chinese have ma
place Ia which TO receive their new
warships.
Brlgadicr General Grnham. com.
manding the Department Of the Guif,
has been directed by Secretary Alycr
Immediately 10 secure suitable camp.
Ing grounds for nj lens, 1O.OD iroops
In III. vicinity Of Atlanta and for small.
cr bodies OF soldiers ut Columbia.
South Carolina. ana at one or two 9th.
cr points nj railway ccntcrs nDuth Of
these points.
dispatch from Chris,iann. Norway.
reports that the steam whnicr Frid,Iof
has been secured for the Wcllmnn no.
lar expedition 10 frnnx Josef Land, In.
stead OF the Laura. previously engaged
The Fridtjof |. said by the Norwcr luu
agents TO h~ the fastest and sironges,
lee steamer Ia Norwegian waters. She
IL now being outiiiici md will le
ready 10 sail from Tromsoc for the Arc.
tic June LIST Lcxt.
Considerable" excitement exists on nc.
count Of the arrest NJ Las Cruces, New
Mexico. OF william McNcw and VII.
linn Carr upon ls.nch warrants issued
by the district Judge based upon com.
plant charging them with III. murder
of Albert j. Fountain on February !,
lA.M. Warrants nrc also out for two
other men charged with the sam,
crime. md n posse left Monday after.
noon for tho Sacramento mountains u