The San Juan times. (Farmington, N.M.) 1891-1900, 1898-09-09
CONDENSED PARAGRAPHS.

The National Irrigation congress
met in Cheyenne the lstinst.
General Shafter arrived at Montauk
Point on the transport Mexico, on the
lst inst.
Thomas F, Bayard is falling steadily.
His physicians say that death is a mat
ter of a few days only,
Miss Winnie Davis, the dau- hter of
the confederacy, is critically Ill with
gastritis at Narragansett Pier, r. I.
The Philippine insurgents are cap.
turing everything possible prior to a
settlement Of the peace conditions.
Major j. NJ Walsh ex- commission
er of the Yukon district, estimates
this seasons gold outpu5at 81, 100000.
The national encampment Of the
Grand Army of the Republic met at
Cincinnati, Monday, and continued
four days.
All the torpedoes pla"ed at the en-
trance to the harbor Of Havana have
now been removed without accident
of any kind.
The heat has been intense in the
eastern states for the past week and
number Of pro5,rations have occurred
in New York, Chicago and other east.
ern cities
General Wheeler received a tele-
gram from Adiutlnt General Corbin,
on the 3lst ult, directing him to mus
ter out the Rough RIDERS at Camp
Wikolf at once.
L L. Shackelf0rd of Wellsvile. was
nominated for congress last week by
the Republicans OF the Ninth Missouri
district Hswas Congressman Champ
Clark.7 opponent.
A submarine cattle is to be at orce
lald connecting all the islands Of the
Hawaiian groop, 10 be followed by Il
main line to San Francisco as soon as
congress acts on the mater.
The coronation of Queen Wilhel,
nina Of Holland, occurred in Amster
dam Mondoy afternoon in the pres
ence ofa great ooucourse Of people
The procession was gorgeous.
Col. DENLY late United States min
istor to China, has arrived at San Fran.
CISCO on leave cf absence He says
both China and Japan favor the reten
tion Of the Philippine islands by the
United States
The thirteenth annual convention
Of the National Editorial association
began Tuesday in the Lyceum theatre
Denver, three hundred delegates be-
ing pre- ent, representing 10, coo news
papers in the United States.
Miss Helen Gould notified the hos
pitai authorities Monday at Camp Wi
kon, that she had provided quarters
TOR twenty sick soldiers at her place
at Irviagton, ON the Hudson. That
number OF sick men were sent there.
The god reserve in the United
States treasury reached the highest
point in history last Friday, with a
total reserve of S2l9,32O,372. The high
est previous amount was $2lS, ,O0O,OOO
which was recorded in March, 1888,
According to Madrid dispatch of
the Sd inst the impartial says the
cabinet at yesterdays council appoint.
ed SCnor Montero Rios, General Ger
ero and Senior Nillarutia Spanish min.
lister to Belgium, as members of the
peace commission.
According to one of Aguinaldo's
closest advisers, the Philippine leaders
nov in council will pass resolutions
favoring annexation to the United
States. A delegation, headed by Ag-
uinaIdo himself, may be sent to Wash
ington to press the matter. The insur
gents have been made acquainted with
the increasing sentiment in the United
States in favor of annexation, and
they hope to profit by it,
France has been wrought up to the
highest pitch Of its excitable nature
for the past week by the addition of
another chapter to the Dreyfus affair.
Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who was
one of the principal witnesses in the
trial against Captain Dreyfus, and