The silver star., 1898-12-22
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Heavy SHOWS fell in New Mexico on
The body of General Garcia ID to be
ouried in Cuba.
Formosa rebels are reported to be
committing atrocities.
Brigadier General Wood has been
made major general.
Active preparations to send transports
to Manila are being made at San Fran
cisco.
Madame Barrios, widow Of the late
president of Guatemala, is coming to
San Francisco.
The Pope has decided that the Spanish
policy Of the Vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
A New York diamond smuggler has
been let off from going to jail by pay
Ing the government $38, 600.
Spanish officials and the Spanish
press express indignation at President
McKinley's alluslon to the Maine in his
message.
Spanish soldiers, unrestrained by
their officers, looted the towns Of Santo
Domingo and BatabanO, Cuba, before
they withdrew.
It is reported at Madrid that Ger
many wishes to buy the Spanish is.
lands Of Fernando Po and Annobom, in
the Gulf Of Guinea.
Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen,
discoverer Of the X-rays, has declined
the profess0rship recently offered him
In the University of Leipsic.
General Lee and staff sailed for Cuba
on the 18th ON the transport Panama.
General Lee will remain outside of Ha-
vana until January LIST, when he will
enter the city.
1t is reported that the Spaniards, upon
evacuating M0rro and Crega de Avila
| in Cuba, poisoned the wells. Scores OF
| Cubans, it is said, died from the effects
Of the poisoning.
Count Itsu, a young Japanese recent
| ly came to Lincoln and announced his
purpose of adopting William Jennings
Bryan as his father, according to the
| Japanese custom.
The Farmers National Congress
| which met at Fort Worth last week
will hold the next meeting at Boston.
A socialist has been elected mayor Of
Haverhill, Massachusetts.
William r. Stead proposes that pill
grimage in favor Of the Cars peace
proposal be started from San Francis
| co to journey to st. Petersburg, gather
| ing delegates from all countries as II
| proceeds.
The court Of inquiry concerning the
abandonment of the Infanta Maria Te-
resa during the storm Of October 10Th,
finds the abandonment was not due to
any fault or neglect on the part Of any
officer Of the navy.
Advices from Samoa say that the
supporters of Mataafa having elected
a king, certain chiefs lodged n caveat,
which the chief Justice decided in their
favor. 1t is now understood that Ia
masese will be nominated.
A German chamber of commerce ID
about to be established at CONSTANT.
nople with view to conserving and
extending the benefits to German trade
which 1t Is expected will accrue from
his majesty's recent oriental trip.
A dispatch from Madrid says the po-
sition Of the Cabinet is most critical
and that the resignation OF the minis
| try Ii expected as soon as the treaty Of
peace Is signed. In commercial circles,
| 1t IL added, the fall Of the Cabinet has
been discounted, as shown by the dull
state Of business and the heavy taxa
tion.
Secretary Alger has designated Gen
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governor Of Havana City, with full
powers to deal with all local questions.
He will leave for his post shortly. Gen.
eral Greene, at Havana, will remain
there until relieved by General Lud-
low, when he will come home to be re
tired.
The Canadian Steamship Company
has bought from the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company the express
steamers Werra and Fulda. The YES
sells are to be delivered In January, AZ.
ter the expiration of their lease to the
Companla Transatlantica for the trans
p0rtation Of Spanish soldiers from Cuba
to Spain.
Forty-one Pullman sleeping cars have
been engaged to carry the First Ken.
lucky volunteers from Newport News
to Louisville, Kentucky. Halt the men
in the regiment have never Travelled in
Pullman car In their lives, but their
friends will doubtless appreciate the
confederation Of the War Department
In looking after their comfort.
An imperial rescript just issued sen.
tences to death Chinese llteratus who
wrote threatening letters to a foreign
missionary in Kians-Si and confers
high Chinese hon0rs on the missionary
for his tact and forebearance In the
matter. The edict astonished the Chi.
nese. and the action of the Empress
Dowager II likely to have saiutary
effect.
The United States commissioners At
Paris have been almost overwhelmed
with Offers Of dinners In England.
prompted by the desire Of prominent
EnglIshmen to emphasize the Anglo
American entente, but they will remain
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