The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21
nd Oregon are to be sent to


General Miles is sick with fever He
has been ailing for some time.
Colorado. silver men will keep John
c. Bell in Congress another two years.
General Schofield has declined to serve
on the Alger investigation commission.
Ali of the Spanish prisoners at San
tiago have been sent home except eight.
Joe Wheeler will be reelected to Con-
gress from Alabama without opposition.
General Wheeler says that Camp Wi
koff will be occupied for week or two
yet
The National CoIored Baptist Assoc-
alton will send colored missionaries to
Cuba.
California railroad commissioners are
making an effort to reduce Pullman
rates.
Governor Tanner has decided that
wine will be used in christening the bat
tleship Illinois.
Maine Republicans suffered a loss of
25 per cent. of their party vote in the
recent election.
The government will sell the 5000
Mauser rifles captured from the Span
iards at Santiago.
United States Senator Kenney, of Del
aware, is again being tried for completely
in bank wrecking.
Three new battleships have been or
dered. They are to be named the Ohio,
the Missouri and the Maine.
Around the Navy department there is
talk of reviVing the Office of vice admiral
and appointing Dewey to the place.
Speaker Reed has been reelected to
Congress but by majority several thou
sand less than he has ever received be-
fore.
New Jersey corporation with a cap
ital stock of $200,0O0,OOO admitted that
it had only $4,000 on which to begin busi-
ness.
At his own request Capt Bob Evans
has been relieved OF command of the
Iowa and has been given leave Of alb
sence.
Hobson and Schley are troubled with
women who insist on kissing them, but
Mark Hanna and Alger are not afflicted
that way.
The reasons why certain prominent
men refuse to serve on the war investi-
cation commission would make interest
ing reading.
The WOlcott Republicans of Colorado
will be unable to get their ticket on the
ballot unless the Supreme court gives
them authority to do so.
An American syndicate is building a
9O0-mile railroad in China. The Wander
bilts, Brice, Rockefeller, Carnegie and
Levi P. Morton are interested.
General Otis telegraphs that the situa-
tiOn is much better at Manila. The in
surgents are respecting and obeying the
orders Of the American officers
After reviewing his troops at Colum-
bus, O., last Friday Brigadier General
Haskell of the regular army, dropped
dead. He was stricken with apOplexy.
Roosevelt's rough riders have been
mustered out, Many of them will stay
in New York where they will hustle for
Teddy for the nomination for Governor.
The battleship Oregon caught fire
while lying in the Brooklyn navy yard
last week. It started in the coal bunkers
and was due to spontaneous combustion.
At Manila last week Aguinaldo's army
numbering $4,000 gave public parade
and then evacuated the suburbs in ac-
cordance with the request Of General
Otis.
Senator Bill Mason, Of Illinois, has
Joined the critics of the war manage
ment and his criticisms, like everything
else emanating from him, are very Wig
orous
Another rebellion has broken out in
the island of Formosa, which was ac-
quired by Japan from China as the re-
suit of the late war between those two
nations.
The United States peace commission
has sailed for Paris to begin its work