Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-04-30

1t is probable that Secretary of State
Sherman will leave the cabinet at an
early date; he sadly shows the marks of
age.
The body of Earl Sheldon. a lad who
disappeared from Burlington, VT, last
February, was found Friday by play
mate floating in the lake not far from his
home.
SUNDAY, APRIL "a.
observation-disclosures abandon the plan of
a pilgrimage to ireland in July and will
stay here to fight.
President Mckinley yesterday issued
proclamation calling for $4,000 vol
unteer troops to serve two years un-
less sooner discharged.
Ohio senate adopts the majority report
of the investigating committee, which
finds that Hanna was elected United
States senator through conspiracy.
A $500, 900, 900 loan is provided for in the
new war tariff bill in the form of per-
cent 1920 bonds. Certificates of indebt-
edness of $780, 900, 900, to bear percent
interest, are also provided for.
MONDAY, APRIL rs.
Seven prizes have been taken by the
American warships.
A decree is gazetted in Madrid, de-
clarng state of war between the United
States and Spain.
Mass meeting in Trafalgar square,
London, adopted resolutions for free
Cuba and cries of Good old Yankee
Chickamauga park, where the United
| States regulars are encamped. visited
l by many thousands of people Sunday.
| The president has sent a message to
| congress stating why it was desirable
that a formal declaration Of war be
made.
Charles M. Murphy and E. E. Anderson
are to try to make a mile a minute on
bicycles behind a Long Island loco
motive.
The navy department receives infor-
nation which points to an attack upon
Admiral SIMPSONS blockading feet by
the Spanish warships now at Cape de
Verde islands.
General Lee is anxious to go to Cuba
at the head Of force and to meet Blan-
cos forces; he had hoped the fighting
there would be ended before the rainy
season had set in.
TUESDAY, APRIL 26.
William Sexton, the billiard expert,
died suddenly in New York.
Democrats Of the ways and means COM
mittes favor an income tax as a substi-
tute for bond provision of war revenue
measure.
Under the presidents call for troops,
national guardsmen must resign as
members of the militia and enlist in the
regular army.
Lieutenant Carronza Of the Spanish
navy, former aid to Minister Bernabe,
challenges General Lee and Captain
Sigsbee to fight duels.
The president has ordered that no de-
tail of troops be assigned to guard the
White House. He feels it to be abso-
lutely unnecessary at this time.
Theodore Roosevelt has resigned as
assistant secretary of the navy to take
effect at the presidents convenience
after the commencement Of active opera
tons.
The president made his formal call for
troops from the several states; dsclara-
ton of war passed and signed; Secretary
Sherman resigned, his place being filled
by Judge Day, who was succeeded by
John B. Moore, professor Of interna-
tional law at Columbia university: the
war department decides to order an in
vasion Of Cuba, and the naval bill passes
the senate with provision allowing the
president to enlist men in the navy.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 81.
Commander Horace Elmer. recently
relieved by Admiral Erben as command
er Of the mosquito fleet, died in Brooklyn.
Lieutenant Rowan lands in Cuba and
starts for the camp of General Garcia
to secure his cooperation in the Cuban
war.
Movement of troops into Cuba may be
postponed; Secretary Ayers letter in
regard to volunteers may lead to con-
troversies.
H. NJ. Plummsr, a bank cashier Of
Scranton, Miss, and his wife, formerly
of Bangor, Ne, commit suicide at their
home by mutual agreement.