The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-02
NEWS ITEMS.


near Mons. Belgium.
A special to the New York Herald
FROM Provincctown, Mass, says: The
cruiser San Francisco is bound for
Boston with Is of her men i'll.
Friday afternoon fire destroyed
property at Dallas Tex, to the amount
of between S35O,00O and $4OO, 600. A
number OF business houses were gut
ted.
Reports from the northwestern
states indicate that President McKin.
ley's second call for volunteers, asking
for $4,000 men, will meet with hearty
response.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Standard says u mum Der of
merchant steamers loaded with coal
from England have arrived at Barce-
Iona, Cadiz and Bilboa
The steamship India, which will
probably be chartered by the govern
ment to carry troops to Manila, arrived
at Seattle, WASH, Thursday night, SO
days from Philadelphia.
Blanco cables that the destroyer Ter.
ror has arrived at Fajardo. Porto Rico
She intended to 60 to San Juan but
found four American war ships cruls-
ing ID front of the harbor.
A private cable from a reliable per.
son In Port-au-Prince, Hayti, dated
May 25, asserted that he had positive
information that at that time Adm.
Cervera was in the harbor of Santiago
De Cuba.
Lieut.. Meyler. U. S. A., who has
been intrusted with the work Of plant
ing the mines in San Diego arbor,
announces that the work has been
completed and the entire channel is
now protected.
London Daily Mail who notices "a
feeling in favor of an honorabl
peace" believes that one of the powers
| will suggest arbitration when a fitting
opportunity appears.
One-half of the Chicago naval re.
| serves, consisting of 2O3 men and three
officers, under command of Lieut.. 5.
w. Stratton, arrived at Key West,
Fla, Friday afternoon on the steamer
Mascotte from Tampa.
A crew of naval militia from Sar
|
dered to the Mohican at Mare Island
navy yard which will depart soor
with ammunition and stores for the
| Hawaiian naval station.
Information received at Armenian
Colony, Nashua, N. H., shows that AZ
entire klondike party of seven mer
from that city and Haverhill, Mass.
were drowned by the breaking of the
ice in Frazer lake on May ..
The First Arkansas regiment, Col
Elias Chandler commanding, left Lit
tie Rock, Ark, at o'clock Wednesday
evening for Chickamauga. The Sec
ond regiment is complete and is ready
to move when orders are received.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from St. Thomas, Danish West Indies
says: Private advices which hav,
| reached United States Consul Ham,
from Porto Rico show that new mine
are being laid in the karbor of Sal
Juan.
The Academy of Music in Brooklyn
was filled Thursday night with tn
friends OF Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford
United States minister to Spain. Tn
| oSSuoich " GO u iSSOp pIioh eSht'SiSN hiH
by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts an,
Sciences.
The official trial trip of the TORPEDO
boat Rowan will probably take plac
next Monday or Tuesday off Seattle
Wash. Lieut.. Commander Charles
Perkins, commanding the Mon adnock
has been designated as president of tn
trial board.
Capt Concha, of the ill-fated Spanisl
cruiser Don Juan dc Austria, destroyed
at the battle of Manila. says that tn
Spanish commanders were quite awar
that fighting was hopeless, but wer
forced to it by the state of public opir
ion at Manila.
The state department has been not
fed by British Consul Gollan, at Ha
vana, that the exchange of prisoner
has been effected and the Maple wit
Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones. tn
American correspondents on board, ha
sailed for Key West.
Mrs George NJ. Pullman has re
nounced the terms of her husband
will and chosen her dover right Th
share which, under the dover arrange
ment, will fall to her. is conceded t
be materially greater than under tn
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