Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1898-05-27

= dispatches concerning the war had pee
q received, doubtless because our CORE
. spondents thought that the news wa
!. not OF sufficient value.
I 1t is believed that the last cable con
: nection between Cuba and Madrid wa
cut Wednesday.
The work of Transforming Ft. Thorn
: as, KY, into hospital is complete ant
the surgeons are ready to receive pa
tients.
Fifty car loads of rations are arriving
daily at Chickamauga and the camp
will soon be provided with provisions
for 80 days.
The president will soon appoint IL
second lieutenants for the regular army
from civil life. He has list OF $4,000
applicants to select from.
1t is said that Spain has sold the Ca
nary Islands to France for $50, 200, 600.
They have been practically mortgaged
TO France for long time.
Charles Heuser, of the Louisville Le-
gion, who went to Lexington with Co.
+, has gone insane-probably over war
excitement and a love affair.
Col. iowa, of the Cuban army, who
has just arrived at Key West, says that
when the New York attacked Carde-
mas, she killed over 500 Spaniards.
Dewey cables that there IL no change
in the situation at Manila, but other
reports say that food is becoming
scarce and high and riots are expect
ed.
] John Mcdonald, of the Kansas State
Teachers Association, states that of
the 5000 Kansas volunteers mustered
into service, fully 600 are school teach
ers.
1t is 80 miles from Key West to Ha.
vana and Key West is i59 miles from
Pensacola. From Cadiz to Manila is
5000 miles. From San Francisco TO
Manila is $500.
The presentation of the two hags by /
Gov. Bradley to the Bradley Rifles, OF
Lebanon, and the Bradley Guards. of
Frankfort, at Camp Collier was an i'm
posing occasion.
The President has issued a procla-
nation calling for 5000 more voiun-
teers. This will make the total strength |
OF the United States army, regulars
and volunteers, 2S0, 900 men.
The United Safes Navy last year con-
sumed 10000 tons of coal. The gov
eminent is coaling up for the ensuing
year and will lay in supply OF from
], 100000 to l, 80, 900 tons this year.
Gov. Bradley says that Eastern Ken
lucky will be allowed to furnish the
bulk of the States next quota OF vol
unteers. He will insist that one of the
regiments be composed of colored men.
Just as it departed for the South,
flag was presented to the I'd regiment,
after speech by Judge Morton Col.
Gather accepted it and in behalf of
the regiment made an appropriate
response.
Congress has passed bill providing
Tor the payment of volunteers from the
time of their enrolment, and authoriz-
Ing the secretary of war to pay troops
for Manila one month in {
advance.
The new British battlesbip Implac- !
able is to cost over $40, 0OO,O 900, the
largest sum ever spent in the building q
Of a man-of-war. The armor plate
alone will cost s2,25O, 900, and the guns
nearly as much.
The surgeons board has practically 7
its work Of examining the
members of the First Kentucky regi-
nent at Camp Bradley. OF the II 4
examined l43 men have been v
elected, or about Ii per cent. :
Capt. T. Il. Morrow, Company |,
has resigned as captain, on b
recount of serious and continued ill., h
less of MS wife. Il. +. Stevenson, late O
military instructor at Central Univer-
ity, will be elected in his place. n
Washington has Information that +
'pain's fleet at Cadiz is not expected To "
all under 10 days. Little doubt is now v
ntertained that its destination, il it
caves the Spanish coast at all, will be II
america, and not the Philippines. III