The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.


tered a steamer and ferry boat" to
bring home $500 troops from Cuba.
Failures for the week have been 198
in the United States, lgainst 2s7 last
year, and 81 in Canada against 80 last
year.
Fridays statement of the condition
of the treasury shows: Available cash
balance, s257, 523, $50; gold reserve,
$lss, 6ss.77l.
Thursdays statement of the condi.
tion of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, 1857, 125, 1894; gold re-
serve, Slss, ,OT9,927.
The London Statist predicts a great
wave of American prosperity after the
war and active European business in
American securities.
The president has decided to make
practical use of American rights at
Pago-Pago harbor, Samoa, and the es-
tablishment of fully equipped naval
coaling station there will be under
taken at once.
The torpedo boat Mackenzie, built
at Hillman's ship yard, Philadelphia,
was given trial Friday by her build-
ers and succeeded in making an av-
erage of about 2S knots an hour.
Her contract required at least 20
knot speed.
An official dispatch from San Juan
de Porto Rico says that Col. San Mar
tin, who was in command of the Span
ish garrison at Ponce, has been court
martialed and shot for abandoAing
the place without resistance. Lieut..
Col. Puiz, of the second command, com-
mitted sui.ide.
1t is reported in London, in con-
nection with the Anglo-American
movement, that strong endeavors are
being made to get the prince of Wales
to visit the United States and Canada
next summer, and it is added that en-
couragement has been given the idea in
responsible quarters.
The official Reichsaneiger says that
after Fridays religious service in the
Emperor William memorial church in
memory of the late Prince Bismarck,
the emperor assembled the imperial
chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, and the
cabinet ministers in the vestibule and
made them long address,
Within the past few days Gen. Garcia
expressed his opinion that the welfare
OF Cuba depended on her joining the
sisterhood of the United States. Part
ly on account of his attitude and part
ly on account of the same reasons
which led to his conversion, many OF
his officers now side with him.
The new torpedo boat destroyer
Farragut, built according to designs
of and by the Union iron works, prom.
ises to be the fastest craft ever con.
structed in America or plying Amer
ican waters, and will eclipse any naval
vessel in the world This has been in.
dicated in the first run it has ever
made.
A rowboat containing Mrs. Otto
Frohwein, her three children aged 4,
IA and IL years, respectively, and An.
ME Sic benliehm and manned by three
sailors from the yacht of Col. Rupert.
whose guests they were. was capsized
Thursday night ia Raritan bay, drown.
ing the three children and Miss Sieb
enliehm.
The national relief commission will
forward by the yacht MAY" about SC
tons of supplies These consist of
drugs, rubber ice caps, ru bber bath
tubs, hypodermic syringes and other
articles or the use of the sick and
wounded which will be turned over tc
Porto Rico and vicinity.
The Merritt-Chapman wrecking tug
William Z. Chapman and the Centra
railroad of New Jerseys ocean going
tered, are at the Stapleton dock of the
wrecking company ready to proceed t.
Cuba with the pontoons from Boston
which are to be used in an effort tt
save the Christobal Colon.
The steamer Manuenz has arrived
at Victoria, B G. from ST. Michaels
Alaska, with 260 passengers and be
tween Sl5O,OOO and 100000 in golt
dust. OF the list of passengers only 81
| were miners who had spent as much
as one winter in the mines, the re
mainder being those who had gone in
this spring and concluded not to re-
main.