The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Charles Emory Smith has been CON
frmed as postmaster general.
Mr.. Carmack, of Tennessee, retained
his seat in the house by a vote of 1S0
to 100.
A revolution has broken out In the
Ponce district OF Porto Rico, and there
Is rioting all through the island
The war ship Nictheroy bought by
United States from Brazil, leaves inn
mediate!y with 5000 tons of coal.
In the lobbies OF Spanish parliament
Thursday afternoon all deputies agreed
America must be resisted to the ut
most"
AT San Francisco, Jim Jetfries Fri.
day mig ht defeated Peter Everett, bet
ter known as Mexican Pete" in three
rounds.
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows Available cash
Sio0, 024.5i
The Hamburger correspondent an
nounces that the United States has
bought three Chinese cruisers that are
building ut the Vulcan yards.
The Atlantic naval division of the
French northern squadron is under or
ders to keep in constant proximity to
the Antilles during hostlitics.
The Spanish embassy has Notified
Madrid OF the departure of the Paris.
1t is probable that fast cruisers from
Cadiz will try to intercept her.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Daily news says the govern
nlent h;i, instructed Gov. Gen. Blanco
to declare the armisticc in Cuba ended
The United States government has
established censorship of kilograms.
forbidding the transmission of code
messages to or from Havana This be.
gins at once.
A soldier named Wheeler. of Com
pany *, Sixth cavalry, u s. A., en-
route from Fort Riley, kas.. tell from
Mo, and was killed.
special dispatch from Madrid says
War Minister Correa has been author
ized to call out $4,000 reserves. Three
vessels loaded with troops left Cadiz,
destination unknown.
Gen. stewart L. Wood ford, the
United States Minister to Spain, ac.
companied by the party with which he
left Madrid. arrived in Paris at 7:45
o'clock Friday evening.
Two additional cruisers will be
placed in commission within the next
month. These are the Newark, at the
Norfolk navy yard, and the Charleston,
at the Mare island yard
The American squadron at Hong
Kong has sailed for Manila. 1t is re.
ported that priests and the commercial
classes favor surrender but the mill
tary are determined to resist.
At Middletown, Wesleyan stude to,
carrying Cuban and American flags,
paraded Thursday night and created
much enthusiasm. Gen. Weyler was
hung in etfigy and burned in big
bon fire.
Representative. Hull, chairman OF
the military affairs committee. has in.
troduced a bill to increase the ef.
ticiency of the United States army in
times OF war by organizing field tele.
graph corps.
The officials of the foreign office at
Berlin confirm the report that the
Spanish government has asked Ger
many to sell ordnance and army sup
plies. They add that the request has
been refused.
The Libre Parole, of Paris, Friday,
published violent article attacking
Great Britain's attitude toward Spain,
and characterizing Great Britain as
the "Hypocritical accomplice of the
United States"
he Fourth regiment from Fort Sher.
idan, Chicago. has arrived at Tampa.
The Twenty-first, Seventeenth and
part of the sixth arrived Friday over
the Plant system, making about 3,70O
men landed here since Thursday morn.
ing
When the train bearing the United
States troops en- route to Chickamauga
arrived at the depot in Los Angeles,
Cal, they were greeted by fully 5000
men. women and children, who ex.
hausted themselves in cheering the sol.
dier boys.
The president has prepared proc.
lamation to Spaniards in the United
States, giving them one year to dis.
pose of their property and leave the
country. after which time their prop.
erty will be confscated according to
law.
-Not since Vancouver was destroyed
by fire in 1856 has there been such a
confiagration as that which took place
early Thursday morning. The fire
started in one end of the building on
st mson's wharf and soon assumed dis
ustrous proportions