Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1898-05-20
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{" ANOTHER COMMANDMENT WITH LITTL
DAMAGE.
5 L. S. SEA COAST TOWNS NAY SUFFER
, WAR NEWS Is SCARCE AS THESE DI:
PATCHES SHOW.
MADRID, May l9.-Havana dis
patch says Santiago de Cuba was
} bombarded, but "little damage was
done"
LONDON, May ia Montreal
cable says that Polo has engaged
coaling station South of New Found
land for Cadiz fleet to attack the
seaboard, while Cervera draws of
Sampson and Schley.
HALIFAX, n. s., May l9.-Nine
warships reported sighted off In
dian Island, Nova Scotia, going
| South.
WASHINGTON, May l9.-Army
nominations sent in include AL
gernon Sartoris, son of Nellie Grant
Sartoris, and Fitzhugh Lee, Jr., to
| be first lieutenants.
There are now IL, 900 soldiers in camp
at Chickamauga.
a new Spanish cabinet has been
formed and vigorous war policy adopt
ed.
Gen. Castleman complains of the way
the army officers treat his volunteers
like men looking for jobs of work, and
not like gentlemen.
IL is again announced that soldiers
will soon be in Cuba, but the news
Of their going has been sent ont so
often nobody now pays attention TO it,.
The total war estimates and appro-
priauons now amount to 1926. 900. 900.
There is a growing feeling at Wash
ington that war will last a year or
more.
Reports to Adit. Gen. COrbin show
that %, 600 men have been mustered in
To Federal service. and that Is States
are ready with their quota for the vol
unteer army.
The president lays it on the strategy
board. which is known as the Board
OF Lethargy" and will appoint new
one to be composed of both army and
navy officers.
The Alabama battleship was launch
at Philadelphia, but there was no fool
ishness and but few saw Senator Nor
gan's daughter break bottle OF wine
over the prov.
Over score of lives were lost and
thousands of dollars worth of property
were destroyed by tornado which
swept Clinton and Jackson counties,
Iowa, Wednesday.
Col. Castleman announces the deser-
ton of five soldiers from the lst regi-
ment and posts their names a. cravens.
r. f. Campbell and James Green are
from Springfield.
After its long journey from San
Francisco all around South America,
it is good news to hear that the Ore
gon, the largest craft in our navy, is at
last safe in American waters.
The Spanish fleet at Cadiz is ready |
for sea and it is expected that it will
sail for the Philippines at the end of
the current month. 1t is reported that
ll.000 troops will accompany the feet.
Congress is beginning to express i'm
patience with the slow progress made
in army preparations for the invasion
Of Cuba and for following up Admiral
Dewey's brilliant victory in the Philip
pines.
Colored troops in the regular army
have been making trouble OF various
kinds at Chickamauga and Key West,
and they wantonly killed civilian at
Tampa. They ought to be put in front
Of the enemy.
Porto Rican refugees who have
'eached the Danish island of st. Thorn
Is report that during the bonn bardment
,f San Juan forts eight soldiers were
killed and "A wounded. Only two guns
we're dismOunted.
Gov. Holcombe of Nebraska ha. au-
horizsd William ]. Bryan to raise
egiment of State troops, which will be
'ifered to the government with Mr..
iryan as colonel, in case there is an
ther call for volunteers.