The Springfield herald., 1898-12-23
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buried in Guba.
Formosa rebels are reported to be
committing atrocities.
Brigadier General Wood has been
made major general.
| Active preparations to send transports
| to Manila are being made at San Fran
cisco.
Madame Barrios, widow of the late
president of Guatemala, is coming to
San Francisco.
The Pope has decided that the Spanish
policy of the Vatican shall be anti-
Carlist and not neutral.
A New York diamond smuggler has
been let Off from going to Jail by pay
ing the government $4,000.
Spanish officials and the Spanish
press express Indignation at President
McKinley's allusion to the Maine in his
message.
Spanish soldiers. unrestrained by
their officers, looted the towns Of Santo
Domingo and Batnbano, Cuba, before
they withdrew.
1t is reported at Madrid that Ger
many wishes to buy the Spanish is
lands of Fernando Po and Annobom, in
the Gulf of Guinea.
Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen,
discoverer of the N-rays. has declined
the professorship recently offered him
In the University of Leipsic.
General Lee and staff sailed for Cuba
on the 11th on the transport Panama.
General Lee will remain outside of Ha-
vana until January 1st, when he Will
enter the city.
| 1t is reported that the Spaniards. upon
| evacuating Moro and CreGa de Avila
in Cuba poisoned the wells. Scores of
Cubans. 1t is said, died from the effects
of the poisoning.
| Count ItsI. n young Japanese recent
ly came to Lincoln and announced his
purpose of adopting William Jennings
Bryan as his father, according to the
japanese custom.
The Farmers National Congress
which met at Fort Worth last week
will hold the next meeting mt Boston.
A socialist has been elected mayor of
Haverhill, Massachusetts.
William Z. Stead proposes that pill
grimage in favor of the Cars peace
proposal be started from San Francis
co to journey to st. Petersburg, gather
ing delegates from all countries as 1t
proceeds
The court of inquiry concerning the
abandonment of the Infanta Maria Ie-
resa during the storm of October 10Th,
finds the abandonment was not due to
any fault or neglect on the part of any
officer of the navy.
Advices from Samoa say that the
supporters of Mataafa having elected
a king, certain chiefs lodged caveat. |
which the chief justice decided in their |
favor. 1t is now understood that Ia |
masese will be nominated.
A German chamber of commerce 10
about to be established at CONSTANT
nople with a view to conserving and |
extending the benefits to German trade
which it is expected will accrue from
his majesty's recent oriental trip.
TON },ns- -nnmci Grover cleveland, AMI
drew Carnegie, George +. Edmunds
and other prominent men as vice presi-
dents. Mr.. Cleveland wrote in re-
sponse: II am emphatically and intense
ly opposcd to American expansion.
A dispatch from Madrid says the po-
sitIon of the Cabinet Is most crlucal
and that the resignation OF the MINIS
try is expected rs soon as the treaty OF
peace is signed. In commercial circles,
If is added. the fall of the Cabinet has
been discounted, as shown by the dull
state of business and the heavy TAXA
ton.
Secretary Alger has designated Gen
eral Ludlow to act as first military
governor of Havana City. with full
powers to deal with all local questions
He will leave for his post shortly. Gen
eral Greene, at Havana, will remain
there until relieved by General Lud-
low, when he will come home to be re-
tired.
The Canadian Steamship Company
has bought from the North German
LLOYD Steamship Company the express
steamers Werra and Fulda. The YES
sells are to be delivered in January, af-
ter the expiration of their lease to the
Compania Transatlantica for the trans
portation of Spanish soldiers from Cuba
to Spain.
Forty-one Pullman sleeping cars have
been engaged to carry the First Ken
tucky volunteers from Newport News
to Louisville, Kentucky. Half the men
in the regiment have never Travelled in
Pullman car in their lives, but their
friends will doubtless appreciate the
consideration of the War Department
| in looking after their comfort
A Havana dispatch of the 11th says;
The ashes of Columbus will be trans
ferred with military and sacredotal
ceremonial tomorrow from the cathe-
dral to the Conde de Nenado, and the
cruiser will sail for Cadiz, conveyed by
two gunboats. BY the end of the week
probably 5000 American troops will
be encamped at Playe de Marinnao.
An imperial rescrlpt just issued SEN
tences to death Chinese literatus who
wrote threatening letters to n foreign
missionary in Kiang-Si and confers
high Chinese honors on the missionary
for his tact and fOrebearance in the
matter. The edict astonished the Chi
nese. and the action of the Empress
Dowager is likely to have salutary
effect.
The United States commissioners Al
Paris have been almost overwhelmed
with offers of dinners in England
prompted by the desire of prominen
Englishmen to emphasize the Anglo