The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10
NEWS ITEMS,


the London county council, represent
ing Wandsworth.
Capt Marcy II. Randall, of Murray,
Ida. well known mining expert, died
in Jacksonville, Fla, Thursday.
The Carlists have issued manifesto
announcing their intention to take
part in the coming elections in Spain.
Emperor William embarked Thurs
day on the first-class battleship Kur-
furst Friedrich wilhelm and proceeded
to sea.
The Pekin correspondent of the
London Times says the Anglo-German
loan of Gl6, 900. 900 has been ratified by
imperial decree.
The cable dispatches from Madrid
deny the reports that the fotilla of
Spanish torpedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers are to come to Cuba.
There is continuance of the activ-
ity at the New York arsenal. The
shipping of shells and other proiectiles
to the Notifications about the harbor
continues.
1t is announced in Berlin that the
czarina, who is said to have been suf-
fering from slight inflammation of the
lungs. following an attack of measles,
is improving.
beginning next Monday the Carpen.
ter steel works, Reading. Pa, will 60
on double turn, working on projectiles
for the government aud employing $50
instead of 225 hands.
Twenty-Five Englishmen bound to
the Yukon gold fields arrived at Hall
fax Wednesday on the steamer Lake
Huron. They brought with them 20
trained Belgian dogs.
Col. Henry, one of the witnesses
called in the recent trial of M. Zola in
Paris to contradict minor points of tes-
timony given by Col. Picquart, has
challenged the latter to duel.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Hong Kong, says the rebel chiefs
there have received letter from Ma
nila, soliciting their support for an
other rebellion against Spanish rule.
Capt. Begouen. of the general staff,
who wrote an outrageously insulting
letter to ex-Minister Tarieux, one of
the witnesses at the Zola trial in Paris,
has been punished by being trans
ferred to the staff of the Sixth army
corps.
Mai Gen. Dickinson has issued or
ders for the inspection of all the ma
tional guard of California in the near
future. The naval militia is also to be
inspected and both branches of the
service placed in readiness for any
emergency.
The house committee on naval af-
fairs Friday agreed on the Boutelle
bill for the relief of the victims and
survivors of the Maine disaster and
authorized the chairman to report it
to the house with a recommendation
for its passage.
Granville Stuart. until recently
United States minister to Uru-
quay and Paraguay, who was with
the president of Uruguay, Juan Borda,
when the latter was assassinated,
arrived in New York on the steamship
Alliance from Colon.
The Russian admiral, Skrydloff, who
will command the Russian squadron
in Cretan waters, arrived in Athens
Friday and had an audience with King
George, to whom he handed a letter
from Emperor Nicholas. He will pro-
ceed to Crete Saturday.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Philadelphia Record Pub
fishing Co. Thursday John w. Bailey
was chosen president in the place made
vacant by the death of William NJ.
Singerly. Mr.. Bailey has been man
aging editor of the Record for over ten
years.
A number of beautiful wreaths and
floral pieces were sent to the Colon
cemetery, Havana, Friday by the
Americans of the city to decorate the
graves of the victims of the Maine dis
aster. The scheme will be continued
and the flowers will be renewed when
withered.
Manager McVittie, of the Detroit
Dry Dock Co., said Friday night: "We
shall soon build dry dock in the vi
cinity of Detroit of sufficient size to
accommodate the largest ships on the
lakes. We have not decided whether
to locate it abreast the city or at Wy
andotte."
The tenth commencement of the Car.
Isle Indian Industrial school was held
Thursday, when fully 5000 persons
witnessed the presentation of diplomas.
There were "a graduates. Visitors
were present from all parts of the
country, including Alaska, and con.
gress was we'll represented.