The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-05-13
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY announced on
the 4th to a delegation of congress-
men that he would shortly pardon
Capt John D. Hart, of the flibuster-
ing steamer Laurada, now serving a
two-years' sentence in the penitentiary
for his Cuban filibustering operations.
The Spanish mail found on the Ar
gonauta and sent to Washington in
cluded letters containing information
indicating that it was the intention of
Gen. Blanco to evacuate the eastern
end of Cuba and much of the southern
coast and concentrate his military
forces in Havana, Matanzas, Mariel
and other northern cities.
A SPECIAL to the Chicago Journal
from Washington on the 5th stated that
Senator William ]. Sewell, of New Jer-
sey, who has been appointed a major
general by the president, may be Sc
lected to act as military governor of
the Philippines.
The senate has confirmed all the
brigadier generals and the other mill
tary nominations recently made by
the president
The first assistant postmaster gen.
eral on the 9th said that friends and
relatives of soldiers in the field in ad-
dressing letters to them should mark
plainly the company and regiment to
which they belong, as by doing so the
distribution of the mail will be facili-
tated.
REPORTS to Washington from the
south showed that the appointment of
eX-Confederate Generals Lee and
Wheeler to be major generals in the
volunteer army was resulting in cor
dial commendation of President Nc
Kinley's course in this high recogni-
ton of representative men of that
great southern army which fought
against him and the union which he
now represents and showed how COM
pletely sectional lines and the spirit
of the contest of 1865 had been merged
into the common cause of loyalty to the
nation.
Miss HELEN GOULD, of New York,
sent to Secretary Gage on the nth her
check fer 500, 900 as a contribution to
the war fund of the government and
it was accepted.
SECRETARY LONG, of the navy depart
ment, cabled to Commodore Dewey on
the 18th the thanks of the president for
his overwhelming victory at Manila
and his appointment as an acting ad-
miral
The administration at Washington
received a report from Commodore
Dewey on the 18th, giving details of his
victory over the Spaniards at the Phil
ippine islands. He destroyed Il ves-
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sion of Cavite, destroyed the fortifica-
tions at the bay entrance and paroled
the garrison. The Spanish loss was
$50 killed and Dewey had $50 Spanish
sick and wounded he was assisting.
Manila was at Dewey's mercy, but he
had not taken it for want of men.
Dewey's squadron was uninjured and
only few men were slightly wounded
ADJT. GEN. CoRBIN, according to a
Washington dispatch, stated that in
nearly every state unau thcrized organ
izations were forming and men who
joined them were made to believe that
the government would accept them
for service in the war with Spain. No
further increase in the quotas of states
will be made, all rumors to the con.
trary Notwithstanding, unless con.
gress provides for an additional call
for volunteers.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEIKLEJoHN,
of the war department, has been placed
in charge of the military secret service
of the government He will see tina,
strict surveillance is kept over every
person suspected of being connected
with the Spanish government or fur
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to the interests of the United States.
THE president on the 9th sent a mes
sage to congress warmly commencing
Adm. Dewey and his men for the vic
tory at the Philippine islands and rec
ommending that the thanks of con
gress be rendered to Adm. Dewey, hi.
officers and men.
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