The Forrest City times., 1898-12-16


terry to the National cemetery at
Arlington, near Washington.
At Santiago de Cuba. on the 18th.
Juan Castillo, former Cuban officer,
accompanied by two negro subordi-
mates, rode into the Spanish club
rooms, and with their machetes
smashed several lamps and did other
damage.
Gen. Lee said before leaving Savan-
nah, Ga, on the 18th, that he did not
expect to formally enter Havana be-
fore January 1, when he will enter
with the troops and take possession of
the Cuban capital in the name of the
United States.
Clement B. Stern, of the Atlas flaur
mills of Milwaukee, says he expects
the big flour combination to be in OPP
Grafton shortly. He says that the trust
will have an initial capitalization of
$50, 100000. A syndicate of English and
American capitalists will back the en-
terprise.
Maj.-Gen. Miles appeared before the
house committee on military affairs,
on the 18th, for hearing relative to
the proposed reorganization and in.
crease of the army. He said the new
duties assumed by the government,
seemed to make an increase. within
bounds, necessary.
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Commander Snow has submitted a
report to the navy department show
ing that the sanitary conditions at
San Juan, Porto Rico, are very bad.
In compliance with the request of Civil
Engineer Menocal. appliances have
been sent to him for use in the reno
walton of the station.
Gen. Joubert, the commander of the
Boer expedition sent against Chief
M'Pfeu, of the Magatos tribe in the
Zouttansborg district, is i'll, and with his
forces in a state of semi-mutiny, is re-
turning to Pretoria. The Beers have
been guilty of wholesale butchery OF
women, children and unarmed natives
The situation in Porto Rico prom
Uses to force on the government, for a
time at least, the experiment of fed
eral ownership of telegraph and tele-
phone lines. The war department now
controls all lines in Porto Rico and in
the evacuated sections of Cuba. The
latter, however, is looked upon as
merely transient.
The United States peace commits
sioners in Paris gave a banquet, on the
evening of the 18th, at the Hotel Con
tinental, to the United States ambassa-
dor. The banqueting room was fes-
TONED gaily with American flags. The
company toasted President Mckinley
Ambassador Porter and the United
States peace commissioners.
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
ordered to proceed to Hong Kong, to
supervise the reconstruction OF the
cruisers Don Juan de Austria, Isla de
Cuba and Isla de Luzon. lie desired a
short leave, but the department was
compelled to refuse the request be-
cause of the necessity of getting him
TO Hong Kong as soon as possible.
Gen. Calixto Garcia, the Cuban gen
eral, who came to the United States
AT the head of the Cuban delegation
from the Santa del Sur convention. to
confer with the American authorities
died in Washington on the 18th. He
IN
days before. Owing to his advanced
age there had been little hope of his
recovery from the first.
The resignation of Police Commits.
sioner Ralph Phelps, Jr., of Detroit
Mich, was demanded, on the nth, al
a mass-meeting of representative citi
zens held in one of the leading
churches in that city. The action was
toward the enforcement of law and
abolishing vice by the Good Govern
ment league of Detroit and others.
The Madrid impartial publishes an
other inf1ammatory article on the sub
iect of the Maine charges. The paper
intimates that the explosion was tn,
outcome of an intense desire upon tn,
part of certain factions in the United
States TO see the outbreak of war
which was unpopular with the major
ity of Americans" The inference being
that those people blew up the vessel Il
create sentiment against Spain.
The Filipino insurgents attacke,
Iloilo on the night of December l. an,
captured all the Spanish trenches eN
cept one. On the other hand. tn
Spanish transport Isla de Luzon re
ports that the insurgents around Iloil
were repulsed with great slaughter O
December 6 while attempting t
storm the last entrenchment. Accord
ing to this story 500 insurgents wer
killed or wounded by the machin
guns