The Holly chieftain., 1898-03-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

were eAtTtahlNg q restraining = Lnuu u y
on spain to prevent her committing a
breach Of the worlds peace and to n
duce her to accept the inevitable with
out resort 10 force The creditors OF
Spain, who we're IN large measure re-
sponsible for this dipIomatlr pressure
ryrried bV their governments, have de
e.Ged.y warned Spain she must not
make war with America and that if
she does the money 10 carry on opera
tiou7 must come from the people of
Spain and no, from them. The effect
Of this pressure has been to cool down
spain.
A SPECIAL dispatch 10 the Chicago
Chronicle from Washington on the 10th
stated that President Mckinley had
completed the draft Of a special mes
sage 20 congress 600 which he recon.
mcnds the recognition Of Cuban inde
pcudcncc. which hr ssIL soon send 10
congress.
THE so. 600. 900 appropriated by con
gres, for III" national defense can be
taken from the treasury without ser!-
Gus Inconvenience Secretary Gage
some time ago estimated that he could
spare SIS. 900. ono for Immediate war
purposes and have enough available
cash l.tt 10 safely conduct the business
IF the nation
THE lower house Of the Iowa lcgisla-
ture Mt Des Mo.ucs adopted rcsolu-
tiou favoriug freedom for Cuba. No
word Of opposition eva= offered TO the
resolution and applause followed its
adoption by unanimous vote
TIE secretary Of war has issued an
order creating a new military depart
ment-thc department OF the south
The department Of Texas is abolished
and the headquarters. which have been
At san Antonio. Tex. are abandoned
Gen. Graham the late commander Of
the Texas department, is made com
mandcr OF the new department with
headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. The de
partmCnt includes South Carolina.
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, MissIssip-
pi, Louisiana and Texas.
GES. W. 5. RosECRANs died at his
home near RcdondO, Cal. on the Iith.
aged IS years. The old warrior was
stricken with no particular disease,
but his end came through a gradual
weakening of his system.
THE military departments OF Texas
and Missouri have been abolished and
the departments Of the lakes and the
gulf take their place. In the depart
ment OF the Platte, Kansas, Missouri.
Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, the Indian
territory and Oklahoma are included
with headquarters at Omaha. Neb.
4 SPECIAL to the Chicago Tribune on
the 18th from Washington said that
Spain had become impressed bv the
hostile preparations of the United
States and had begun secret negotia-
tions to withdraw her troops from
Cuba, Spanish secret agent having
interviewed President Mckinley and
proposed that the Cuban insurgents
should accept independence in every
thing but name. The president re-
ferrcd the secret envoy to Secretary
Quesada, who represents the Cuban in
surgents in Washington. II as stated
that the envoy afterwards left for New
York TO see Estrada Palma, the head
Of the Cuban junta.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY has had a CON
sultation with Secretary OF the Treas
ury Gage and Chairman Dingley, of
the house ways and means committee.
on raising funds should war become
necessity. Plans adopted during the
civil war period will be largely fol.
lowed and the first taxes will be levied
on bank checks, legal papers, propric'
tary medicines, etc.
Consul. GENERAL. LEE notified the
state department at Washington on
the l4th of the death at Sagua la
Grande. Cuba, of the wife of Senator
Thurston, of Nebraska, on board the
yacht Anita. Mrs. Thurston was in
excellent health when she left Wash
ington Il short time ago for the trip to
Cuba.
SPAIS has practically given notice
to the United States that she will dis.
pute the verdict from the court of in
quiry II it is to the effect that the
Maine was destroyed by an outside cx-
plosion and that an international board
OF inquiry will be demanded
SENIOR BERSABg, the new Spanish
minister at Washington, denied en-
phatically on the l4th the report that
secret agent of the Spanish govern
ment had made overtures for settling
the Cuban trouble, and that Senor
Ceballos, who was said to have made
the overtures, was not entitled to
speak for the Spanish government.
WALTER WEILMAS telegraphed from
Washington to the Chicago Times Her.
aid on the 18th that President McKin-
ley had not heard anything about the
report of the court on the Maine dis.
| aster nor had any member of that tri-
bunal written a line to the president t
or conveyed any information whatever
to him, directly or indirectly. The
members of the presidents cabinet
were also without knowledge of tho
cause of the disaster.
MiSCELI.ANEOU1.
The Debs colony OF the cooperative
commonwealth brotherhood near Bel.
fast, Skagit county, Wash, is being