Connecticut western news., 1898-06-23
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

The cruiser Newark went 10 sea from Hampton Roads to test her guns. A Madrid dispatch says that it ia per-
 sistently rumored that the sasasta cab. | inet will soon resign.
 James F. Gatewood, General Fitx- Hugh Lees stenographer, was killed by lightning at Pablo Beach, Fla The United States government on | Tuesday purchasedat auction the Span- ish prize steamer Panama for f4i, ,000. Large quantities of supplies were de- livered at Newport News on Tuesday to go to Santiago on the Yale and the Har-
 ward.
 The occupation of Porto Rico before
 the reduction of Cuba is regarded with
 disfavor by military authorities in Washington.
 President Mckinley on Monday nomi.
 mated Adelbert Ames of Massachusetts
 and Joseph w. Plume of New Jersey to be brigadier generals. Governor Black of New York has do. cided to keep the Seventh. Twenty-thIrd and Forty-seventh regiments and ten separate companies at home. David H. King of New York on Fri- day offered to the Red Cross relief com- mittee his house at Jekyi island, South Carolina, for use as a hospital. Don Carlos, in an interview, biamet the Spanish government for bringing on the war. He says that he will remain silent until the war is ended and will then take his revenge. The New York board of trade and transportation passed resolutions on Tuesday commenting the government for its policy in the present crisis and pledging loyalty and support Major Charles Thompson, U. s. A.. on Saturday received orders from Washington to muster in the Third reg. iment, c. N. C., as connecticuts quota
 under the presidents second call A vessel which arrived at Key West Tuesday from on Havana reported the blockade 10 be without incident, except ing the occasional firing of shots from
 Morro castle and the land batteriea On the Atlas line steamer AltaI. which arrived in New York on Tuesday from Kingston. Jamaica, and other ports. were a number of British subjects and
 several Cuban refugees, all from Ha-
 vana-
 Admiral Camara's fleet is reported to have divided after leaving CadiE. one
 squadron turning east. bound for the Philippines, and the other continuing
 west to attack cities on the Atlantic coast.
 Great indignation is felt in official
 circles in Washington over the refusal
 of General Blanoo to release Lieutenant
 Hobson and his crew in exchange for
 Spanish prisoners held by the United
 States.
 The prize of the St. Louis the British collier Twickenham, was brought to
 Key West with s,2oo tons of coal aboard and a Spanish lieutenant who boarded her at Martinique. shipping as a com mon sailor.
 General Miles returned on Friday to Washington from Tampa and had conference with Secretary Alger regard ing the campaigns in Cuba and Porto Rico, which it was announced would be pushed vigorously.
 Secretary Long gave names to s5 new
 vessels of the navy department. Among
 the names arc the Maine. Ohio. Mia.
 souri. Arkansas, Connecticut. Florida.
 Bagley, Barney, Riddle, Blakely. Do
 Long, Nicholson, o'Brion, Shuhrick,
 Stockton, Thornton and wilkea
 The sixty-ninth New York, the First
 and Fifth ohio, the First Florida, tho
 Michigan and the Thirtieth Pennsyivas
 mia were inspected on Tuesday nt Tam.
 pa, Fla, and were found in excellent
 condition. The regiments are rapidly
 recruiting up to thear limit.