The San Francisco call., 1898-07-07

1 i in America"
 MOUNT vERNON-s., City. In TAI | Lawrence Washington, half-brother of l George Washington, was with Admiral | Vernon as captain of a company of four l battalions sent to capture Cartagena, a strongly fortified port of South America. i Upon his return to America and after the | death of his father Lawrence received | the family home in Virginia and named | 1t Mount Vernon for the admiral he l fought under.
 OLD-TIME FIGHTS-Pugilist, City. It was in 1852 that John Morrissey beat | George Thompson (Bob McLaren) in eleven rounds in sixteen minutes at Mare | Island, California. The fight took place on the S1st of August. stake $400O. Tom my Chandler beat Dooney Harris for s5000 and the middle-weight championship of America in twenty-three rounds in l twenty-eight minutes near Point Isabel, Contra Costa County, Cal, April B, 1867. 1 CREELMAN-EnQ., City. James Creel- man, the war correspondent of the yellow journal of this city, who was recently wounded at Santiago de Cuba, is the same for the New York World, in company with Frederick W. Lawrance, correspond- ent for the New. York Journal. was on the 7th of May, 1896. expelled from Cuba by order of Captain General Weyler. The reason for the action against Creelman was indignation of the Spanish over the
  Campo Florido.
 OCEAN RECORDs-F. M, Portola. San Mateo County, Cal The record by steam CT between Liverpool and New York was by the side-wheeler Baltic (American) in 1853, time days IS hours and 3S minutes; by a screw steamer between the same ports was by the Etruria (Cunard linel ! going to New York in 1887, time days 19 hours and AT minutes. The fastest pass age from Queenstown, Ireland to New IuCania tober, 1894 Distance sailed, 2779 knots; mean time, days hours and 23 minutes. | Queenstown was by the same steamer in | September, 1894. Distance, 2S10 knotSi time, days 8 hours and 38 minutes.
 THE LADRONE ISLANDS-E.. Oak l land, Cal. The Ladrone Islands, recently seized by the commander of the Charles l ton, are divided into two groups by g. | broad channel. These contain a total area 1 of about AT square miles. The northern i group, known as Gani, consists of ten l islands, uninhabited. In the southern | group there are five islands. all but one
 Cuahan C7 Spanish Guaian, the San Juan
 of old Spanish chartsl. Rota, Aguigan,
 Tinian and Saypan. The only town in | the colony is San Ignacio de Agana, on l the island of Guahan. And there Is the l fortified harbor of Umata. The climate is humid, saluhrious, and the heat. tem- & i at the Philippines. The mean tempera-
 ture at Guahan is S1. August and Sep
 tember are the warmest months. The 1 population consists of descendants of | the original inhabitants. called Chamor-
 ros, of Tagal settlers from the Philip | pines and a mixed race from the Spanish l and the Chamorros. All the inhabitants | understand and speak the Spanish lan- 1 guage.
 l GERMANY'S vESSELS-A s., San Luis Obispo. Cal. The German fleet in the Asiatic station is composed of the following named vessels: First-class
 cruisers, Deutschland, Kaiser, Kaiserin Augusta; second-elass cruisers, Irene, | Gefon, Princess Wilhelm, and third-class
 cruiser Arcona The Deutschland is of .7319 tons displacement, iron hul armor,
 ten-inch belt, eight-inch gun protection and two-inch deck protection; her speed is 14.5 knots, and her armament thirty
 eight guns; Kaiser 7531 tons, iron hull,
 ten-inch belt, ten-inch gun protection, two-inch deck plate, speed 4.6 knots, ar
 mament twenty-eight guns; Kaiserin Augusta, steel hull, 6331 tons, three and a two-inch deck plate, speed, 14.6 knots, ar
 mament thirty guns; Irene, steel hull
 4400 tons, three-inch deck plate, speed 198 l knots, armament twenty-seVen guns: l Gefion, steel hull. 4207 tons, three-inch
 deck plate, speed twenty knots, arma- l ment tWenty-seven guns; Princess Will helm steel hull. 4400 tons, three-inch deck
 guns; Arcona, wooden hull, 2373 tons, 1 speed fourteen knots, armament twenty 1 five guns. The armament on these yes l selS is guns of 10.2 caliber, 5.9 4.3 Al {
 and 1.9. Those of smaller caliber are | quick-f1ring. These vessels have also a 1 number of machine guns varying from
 two to twelve on each.