The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-09
NEWS ITEMS.

uetecuve and government spy, Allan
Pinkerton, has been called into the
government secret service to hunt for
| Spanish spies.
The Australians are as keen for the
success of America in the war with
Spain as the Americans themselves.
Advices by the steamer Moana show
that the war feeling is intense.
Q. Tow, a Chinaman, has enlisted at
Santa Ana, CAL, in the army, and will
| join Company l., of this city, now at
the presidio, San Francisco. Tow was
born in Sonoma county, CAL, 90 years
ago
A letter received from Paris says
considerable quantities of large and
small ammunition are traversing the
Pyrenees from France into Spain, and
that there is no attempt to stop the
traffic.
Capt Aunon, minister of marine, has
received dispatch from Adm. Ger
vera dated Friday, thanking the gov
ernment for its congratulations Adm.
Cervera does not mention fresh bonn
bardment
The plant of the Webster Manufac-
turing Co., West Superior, Wis, was
destroyed by fire early Friday morn
ing. The building was struck by light
ming about 12 o'clock. Loss, $500, 900;
partly insured.
Rev. j. H. Gillespie was elected pro-
fessor of Greek in the Brunswick Theo-
logical seminary at Fridays session of
the general synod of the Reformed
church of America, in session at As
bury Park, N. j.
| Az N;Syaehorra Do Job, Il Er;and
of Ft. Wayne, Ind, was sentenced in
court Thursday to eight months i'm
prisonment in the county prison. He
was convicted of defrauding local
merchant out of $1,000.
Philip Welton Stanford, of San
Francisco, is dead from pneumonia in
New York city, after an illness of only
three days. Mr.. Stanford was the son
of Col A. P. Stanford and nephew of
the late Leland Stanford.
The monitor Monterey left the Mare
Island navy yard Friday afternoon for
San Francisco. AS the vessel steamed
away from the dock she was greeted
: with cheers from hundreds of sailors
, and reople on shore who witnessed the
: departure.
Four la teries of heavy artillery
!, now stationed at the Presidio, will go
to Manila with the next expedition,
and their places at the Presidio will be
filed by men from the ranks of the
heavy volunteer force now in camp at
the Presidio.
The report that the Spanish troops
5 ship Alfonso Kill had been captured
by an American auxiliary cruiser is
without foundation. 1t is announced
: officially that the Alfonso KILL is now
> landing her cargo of provisions at
Porto Rico.
4 A dispatch to the New York World
from London says: Cardinal Vaughan
in a letter to Mr.. w. I. Stead on Anglo
American relations, rejoices at the
= prospect of closer friendship of those
: who are one with Englishmen in blood
o language and ideas.
e The Madrid correspondent of the
n London Standard says: After con
:. sulting with the law officers, SenoI
II Sagasta has arrived at the conclusion
n that there are no grounds to prosecute
Senior CASTELAR, for the article attac k
ing the queen regent.
# Secretary of War Alger and Capt.
h Mahan, of the naval strategy board
j, were the guests OF honor Thursd
S night at the dinner of the Farmers
n club given at A. j. Cassatt's Chester
!, brook farm, near Berwyn. Pa. NJ
d speeches were made.
t Thirty-nine Spanish prisoners, cap
tured on the Spanish steamship Rita
off Porto Rico, on May s, arrived il
+ New York Friday on the Clyde lin
>. steamship Seminole. They were turn
: ed over to the Austrian consul TO
!, shipment back to Spain.
: large consignment of campaigl
n hats. gauntlets, Berlin gloves, trumpet
- and ambulance guidons was shippe
Tuesday from the SchuyllSill arsena
to the United States quartermaster a
>. San Francisco, presumably for the us'
y of the Manila expedition.
- The directors of the Oakland Gal
board of trade have instructed Secre
tary Sharp to draft strong set G
- resolutions to be forwarded to tn
=, California senators urging them to us
every effort to secure Hawaiian ar
nexation as soon as possible.
In the Spanish chamber of deputie
" Friday Lieut.. Gen. Correa, minister @
W war. in reply to an inquiry as
IL whether Spanish expedition woul
IL be sent to the Philippines, said tn
government was celebrating on tn
!" matter and that troops would be pre-
pared ready to depart the momen
they were required.
er A sensation has been created in Oft
lis cial circles in St Petersburg by tn
r. news of an unexpected attack by loo
on natives on Russian post garrisone
On by 800 infantry at the town of And
jan, province of Ferghana, TurkestaI
1t is said that 30 of the soldiers wer
killed and that 1S were wounded. n
such reverse to the Russian army ha
tes occurred in central Asia in man
years.