Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-12

WulCu lulllCdteu tu6 superiority OF the
American navy, gun for gun, expecta-
tons that the war would not last
long, stocks have advanced the average
of prices for railroads $2.7O per share.
The general condition of business has
been materially improved.
War News.
Commissioner George P. Blanchard
of the joint traffic association denies
that he has been offered a brigadier
generals commission.
Governor Budd of California has been
warned Of what is alleged to be plot
against his life by Spaniards.
Owing to international complications
growing out of the war between the
United States and Spain, the British
government is arranging to fortify St.
Johns.
A dispatch from Madrid says Gen.
eral Correa, minister of war, and Ad-
miral Bermejo, minister of marine, are
organizing reinforcements for the Phil
lippines.
The war Department. is having trouble
in securing transports to take troops to
the Philippines. The owners of trans
ports say that the terms offered are not
satisfactory.
The latest advices from Porto Rico
show that the disturbed condition of
the island continues. Political arrests
are being made. The authorities are
trying to get more coal there
Anna Held, the French actress, Fri
day, at Springfield, presented General
Charles Fitzsimmons, of the First
brigade, Illinois National Guard, with
an American flag. She herself made
the banner.
w. l.. Please. a counterfeiter sent up
from st. Joseph, and 16 other United
States prisoners have forwarded pc
tition to President Mckinley asking
pardon and that they be permitted to
serve in the army against Spain.
The deaf and dumb cadets at the
state school at Fulton, Mo-, the only
company Of its kind in the world, have
offered their services to Governor
Stephens, to fight the Spaniards. This
company is fully equipped and well
drilled.
Riot is still rampant throughout Spain
and continually threatens to break into
revolutionary war. More and more it
is apparent that the Sagasta ministry is
afraid to act heroically The mobs are
temporized with where it is feared that
shooting will lead to more serious dis
turbances.
The son of the late William T. Sher.
man, the Rev. Thomas Sherman, has
been appointed chaplain of the Fourth
regiment, Missouri National Guard.
Father Sherman says he considers it
his duty to serve his country. He is
familiar with camp life, having spent
considerable time with his father dur
ing the last war.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath says that the friends and rela-
tives OF soldiers in the field in address
ing letters to them should mark plainly
the company and regiment to which
they belong, as by doing so the distr i
button of the mail will be facilitated
This applies to both the regular troops
and the militia volunteers.
The officials of the Newport News Ship
Building and Dry Dock company have
been notified by Brigadier General E.
I. Frank, commandment of Fortress
Monroe, that two field batteries had
been detached from the Pennsylvania
National Guard and ordered to New
port News to be stationed at the ship
yard to guard the battleships Kearsage,
Kentucky and Illinois, now building
there.
Captain Wilcox, U. S. A., Friday
began mastering in the one regiment Of
infantry and two troops of cavalry, re-
quired of Colorado under the presi-
dents call for volunteers. The two in
fantry regiments of the Colorado ma
tional guard have been consolidated
into one, and from the three troops of
cavalry in the guard one has been
formed. Both the infantry and the
cavalry will be recruited up to the
maximum limit.
Aquestion has arisen at the war depart
ment in connection with the appoint
ments to military places in the volun-
teer army of persons who now occupy
federal positions. 1t comes up particu-
larly with reference to Assistant Sec
Rotary Roosevelt, Consul General Lee
and Representative Wheeler of Ala
bama. The judicial authorities of the
war department say that when per-
son holding civil Office returns to the
duties thereof, after having been sworn
into the military service, ne ceases to
be an officer of the army
Senior Du Bose, late first secretary of
the Spanish legation at Washington.