The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-08-19
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

created Dy Qlrect1On OF tuc preSiocA'
to be known as the department OF
Santiago. Maj Gen. Lawton has
been assigned to the command.
The president has determined to
recommend to congress that Acting
Rear Admiral Sampson be advanced
eight mum bers and Commodore Schley
six numbers. This will make each a
rear admiral, but with Schley ranking
Immediately below Sampson.
THE war department has decided not
to move any more troops from state
camps The regiments now in state
camps will be the first to be disbanded.
THE administration at Washington
received Information on the 18th that
the Madrid government had approved
the peace protocol and that M. Cam
bon, the French ambassador to the
United States, would receive instruc-
tions to sign the document on behalf
Of the Spanish government.
GEN. LUoUE, commanding the Span
ish garrison at Holguin, Cuba, has Of
fered to surrender to Gen. Calixto
Garcia. This information was received
at Washington in a private dispatch.
Finding himself without any hope of
relief, his soldiers being on the verge
of starvation, he sent to Gen. Garcia a
proposition to surrender.
THE war department posted tele-
gram on the 18th stating that Maya
guez. a port in Porto Rico, had sur
rendered to Gen. Schwan and his
troops had entered the city.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY was the re-
cipient of warm congratulations from
all parts of the country on the sue
cessful termination of the war.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY on the 18th is
sued a proclamation stating that a
protocol had been signed by the United
States and Spain for the establishment
of peace aud that he commanded that
all hostilities with Spain be suspended
at once and orders given through the
proper channels to the army and navy
commanders to that effect.
The protocol for peace was signed at
the white house at 1923 p. m. on the
18th, Secretary Day affixing his sigma
ture to the document on behalf of the
United States and M. Cambon, the
French ambassador, signing for Spain
by authority from the Spanish govern
ment.
BRIG. GEN. EZRA P. EwERs, of the
volunteers. has been appointed gov
ernor of the city of Guantanamo, Cuba.
SECRETARY DAY will be appointed as
United States judge for the Sixth cir
cult as soon as he retires from the cab
met This was learned from reliable
authority at Chattanooga, Tenn.
bassador to Great Britain, viii, it is
said, succeed Judge Day as secretary
of state.
WORD has been received at Washing
ton that the Cuban insurgents have
accepted the armistice and are no
longer fighting the Spaniards.
WITH the coming of peace the COM
missary department of the army has
been ordered by the administration at
Washington to supply rations to the
troops which have been under Gems.
Gomez and Garcia, as we'll as to any
surviving reconcentrados. The prob
lem of the Cuban insurgent soldiers is
recognized as being serious. as many
of them have no homes to return to
and for time there will be little
prospect of their making living.
The president has practically de.
termined upon Gen. Wade, Gen. But
Ter and Admiral Sampson for the mill.
tary commission for Cuba and Gen
Schwan and Admiral Schley for the
Porto Rican commission.
A DISPATCH was made public Al
Washington on the 18th that Admira
Dewey had bombarded Manila and the
city had surrendered, the Spanish cap
tam general escaping to Hong Kons
on board German warship
THE president has decided that tn,
United States shall hold permanent,
the bay, port and city of Manila 81,
is prepared to instruct the American
members of the peace commission t,
this effect A dispatch from Wash
ington said further consideration viii
develop whether the United State
shall take more.
The president has decided to appoin
Whitelaw Reid ambassador to London
it was reported. Mr.. Reid takes tn
place OF John Hay, who comes hom
to be secretary of state. succeedin,
William R Day on September
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY is canvassin,
public sentiment as to the needs O
military organization in the time q
peace and has consulted q number O
visitors as to how much of an arm
they think should be kept up after tn
treaty of peace is executed. No cor
clusion has been reached on the point
but that the United States is to hav
q more effective military establish
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