Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-17
MILITARY AND NAVAL NOTES

The state board of education appor-
toned the school fund for 1S9S-99, the
capita being fixed at $3.50
The Spanish government has char
tered a steamer and ferry boat" TO
bring home $500 troops from Cuba. ac-
cording to dispatch.
Mark Heath, member Of company
e, second Texas infantry, died at Mi
ami, Fla, of typhoid fever, and was
buried there. He lived at Mckinney
Col Luther r. Hare has returned to
Fort Sam Houston from north Texas,
where he has been for some time buy
ing horses fer the use of his regiment
Secretary Alger said that in accord
ance with the recommendation of Sur
geon General Sternberg he had decid-
ed upon the abandonment of the camp
near Falls Church, Va.
The saddles which were recently is
sued at Fort Sam Houston have been
condemned on account of being too
rotten for service, eSd will be replaced
by newer and better ones.
a man procured a newspaper twen-
ty-two days old at Dawson, in the
Klondike country, hired hall and
charged SO admission to hear read the
war news. He realized $1400.
The renort that the Isle of Pines is
furnished food supplies to Cuba is de-
MED. The island itself was denuded
of it's food resources a month ago and
its own inhabitants are starving.
A corporal who had charge of rails
ing the flag at reYeille at Fort Sam
Houston recently put it on upside
down The flagstaff had to be low
cred with pulleys to get the flag up
properly,
A special from Cavite says there are
nine little Spanish gunboats scattered
about there and the Caroline group of
islands, and when Manila shall have
been stormed and taken Admiral Dew
ey will look after them.
The transports Peru and City of Pc
king arrived on the 23d ult. at Homo
lulu. Three men with typhoid fever
were removed from the ships to the
hospital Lieut.. Hunt is one of those
who were reported sick.
The patrons of the Southern Express
company in Georgia will not in the
future be required to pay for the reve-
nue. stamps affixed to the bills of lading
Issued by the company. The company
will look after this matter.
The adiutant ge>sral's Office at Aus
tin has received the complete muster
in rolls of the fourth regiment of in
fantry at Houston. Three sets Of mus
ter in rolls are made, one going to the
war department at Washington, one to
the adjutant general at Austin and the
regiment retains the other.
A deDlorable accident occurred at
Fort Sam Houston recently as the
trumpeters were leaving the stables to
go to the drill grounds. Trumpeter
Roth, a member of troop M, was
thrown from his horse and his left leg
broken. The limb was afterward am
putated midway between the knee and
ankle. He stood the operation heroic
ally.
Carlton T. Chapman, Harper's
Weekly correspondent with the Ameri-
can fleet, writing of the battle of San
tiago, says: THE honors of the day,
While shared by the entire fleet,
must belong particularly to sAe Ore
gon, Brooklyn and Texas and their
brave officers and crews, who proved
themselves worthy to wear the nantes
of the heroes who have made famous
the American navy in time past"
W. R, Young, Denison. Tex, is in re-
ceipt OF letter from his son, Will
Young, Of the Denison rifles Company
*, third regiment, Texas volunteers).
Young writes that the company has ar
rived at Fort Morgan, Ala, and has a
fine location. His account of the fight
with mosquitoes in the swamps at Rig
Diets, La, says they were simply awful
and made life unbearable.
Inasmuch as it has been stated that
the archbishop of Manila has been di-
rected by the Vatican to place himself
and his clergy under the protection of
the American commanders, it may be
stated that such protection will be Of
fered on exactly the same terms and
conditions that it will be extended to