Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-22

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Sergeant Reginald |. Tonry of company c,
and Corporal Albert s. Tonry Of company L,
Fifth Maryland volunteers, now under com
mand of General Fred Grant, are grandsons
of Mrs. S%urratt, who died on the scaffold
for completely in the assassination Of Lin
coin, and whose daughter married william
+. Tonry, a soldier who served in the union
army during the civil war.
A Kentucky mountaineer appeared ut one
OF the recruiting stations and asked for a
place in the ranks. The examining physi-
clan jokingly asked II he could read. mo,
gol darn it, l can't" he replied. IL didn't
come up yere to teach skule. / come ter
fight" He was sworn in.
One of the engineers of the cruiser Balti-
more has written home an expert view OF
the lessons to be drawn from the Manila
battle. The Spanish forts and fleet COM
bined, he thinks, were equal TO the Amer
lean squadron. They had as many modern
guns approximating to the same size as we
had and more men to fire them. They should
have been able to have fred as much weight
of shot in a specified time as we did" Dur
ing the battle, indeed, 1.-The Spaniards fired
an enormous number of times. but with APP
parently the most impracticable aim. Shells
dropped all around our ship; we were in
action for over four hours, hundreds of shot
and shell fell close to u.s." The engineer
declares that in his opinion, had we manned
the Spanish ships. and had the Spaniards
manned our fleet, the American side would
have been as victorious as 1t was.'
The Chamber of Commerce Of Erie, Pa,
where the late Captain Charles Vernon
Gridley of the Olympia was born, has started
a popular subscription to erect a monument
to the gallant seaman.
Senator William e. Mason of Illinois has
received from the ships company of the
flagship Olympia a large Spanish flag cap
tured at Cavite, May 1, 1898. The splendid
trophy Of the battle was accompanied by Q
note from the ships company, in which the
donors say: ''This is sent as n token oil
our esteem for your patriotic utterances in
congress with regard to the Maine disaster
which sentiments find a ready echo in the
heart of every blue jacket serving under the
star spangled banner"
During the debate on Hawaiian annexa'
ltion in the house of representatives an anus
ing incident occurred which nearly floorec
the hair-trigger orator from Missouri
Champ Clark put in his chin in opposition
to annexation. "Mr. Speaker he exclaimed
"if this policy is pursued, as the jingoe'
want, and you are here presiding over TIT
house twenty years hence, you will be called
upon to recognize the gentleman from rata
gonia, the gentleman from Cuba, the gentle
man from Porto Rico, the gentleman iron
Greenland, the gentleman from Hong Kong
the gentleman from Fiji, and with fear an
trembling the gentleman from the Gambia
islands, as he gazes with cleaning eyes an
glistening teeth upon your imposing an
tempting self" This panegyric provoked
roar of applause, which was redoubled whe
it appeared that Mr.. Reed, who was single
/, out as a tempting morsel for the cannioais
was not presiding. Clark saw the <poin
and explained: at is unnecessary to say
prepared that for the regular occupant of tn
Il chain