The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-12-22
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vana has been opened.
The cruiser Cincinnati ran on rock
at full speed in Santiago Harbor.
When the Isthmian canal is built it
shall be fortified by the United States.
-.ntonio e. Terry, who married Sybii
Sanderson as his second wife, died 10
Paris.
Our Peace Commissioners left Paris
10 take the steamship st. Louis for New
York
Russia has borrowed $50, 5,5l2, 900 In
France, to be spent for G, 900 rapid-fring
a'lns.
The Peace Commissioners have taken
leave of the French President and
Foreign Minister.
The bill to incorporate an Interna-
tlonal American bank was defeated in
the House.
Chinese rebels in Western China are
slaughtering and prosecuting Christians
with impunity.
Admiral Dewey said at Manila: II
am ready to hold this position against
the whole earth"
Cubans had "a triumphal parade and
festival in Mariana to celebrate Span.
ish evacuation.
The New York State Health Board
favors Senator Spooner's bill for Ma.
tional Health Bureau.
Sir William Veraon Harcourt has re-
signed the leadership of the Liberals
w the House of Commons.
Grip epidemic is said to be spre.d-
Ing. From Connecticut and New Jersey
points come reports of the disease.
II Silvela succeeds Sagasta, as diplo-
mats predict, Dupuy de LONE is likely
to be made Spain's Foreign Minister.
The French Premier has refused to
submit the secret Dreyfus papers to the
civil court without a guarantee of priv
acy.
Aguinaldo's agent, about to sail from
London to New York, says the Filipinos
want us for allies, but are bound to be
free.
Chicago Aldermen have defeated the
proposed Doodle franchise legislation.
The fight will now go to the Legisla-
ture.
The American engineer sent to China
to survey routes says that railways can
not be built there without the aid OF
troops.
Gen. Brooke defended Camp Thomas
before war investigators, and threat
ened one of his critics with court
martial.
A bank clerk lost negotiable stocks
worth $34, 300 in front of the New York
Clearing House, and they were recov-
cred by policeman.
Havana business is at a standstill.
banks and merchants fearing the effect
of the change from the Spanish to the
American currency policy.
Henry Wake, rich merchant of
Norfolk, Va, stopping at Waldorf
Astoria, New York, went to Brooklyn
and killed himself in an area.
A British soldier has died from bu
bonic plague at Bangalore, the canital
of Mysore. The barricks were aban-
doned Immediately after his death.
A proclamation to the Filipinos,
modelled after that to the people of
Eastern Cuba, will be issued on the
Presidents return from the South.
United States Military Commission
ers in Cuba have asked for $4,000
troops, and the War Department is pre-
pairing to comply with the request
John p. Dunning, principal witness
In the Botkin murder trial in San Fran
cisco, Cal, was arrested for contempt
of court in refusing to answer questions.
Mrs. Botkin, on trial in San Fran
cisco, Cal. for poisoning Mrs. John P.
Cunning, broke down under the strain
of the trial and is under DOCTORS care.
Testimony connecting Mrs. Cordelia
Botkin with the purchase and mailing
Of candy and poison was produced in
her trial for murder in San Francicco.
Mayor Diehl, of Buffalo, has appoint
sd a provisional committee to take de-
.,isive action relative to holding Pan
American exposition in Buffalo In
1901.
Gen. Rios, Governor of the visaya
Islands, cables that the troops at Minas
rebelled, and that the mutiny was
suppressed after six of the soldiers had
been shot.
Two passengers and the crew of the
wrecked schooner Deer HILL rescued
under thrilling circumstances, were
brought to New York by the Steam
ship Pawnee.
Forty-five of the crew Of the aban-
ioned steamship Londonian were land
ed at Baltimore by the steamer Veda-
more. The remaining twenty-five were
lost with the ship.
Lord Salisbury's bringing Britain
and the United States together in three
years after the Venezuelan quarrel
alone entities him to British confidence,
Lord Selborne says.
The City Council! of Alton, ILL.,, unan.
/ imously adopted resolutions for cur
few ordinance, and for an ordinance
requiring a heavy license fee from re-
tail dealers in cigarettes.
The steamer Alameda has arrived at
San Francisco from Honolulu with the
second detachment of the First New
York Regiment, which is en- route to
New York State for mastering out.
Major Simpson who has been at
Manila, asked by the House Military
Committee If he expected our soldiers
to shoot down natives, said: "Yes, If
they do not maintain peace and order"
According to Senator Morgan, Chair
man of the Senate Committee on the
Nicaragua Canal, the outlook for def
nate action by the United S'"tes in
making it Government enterprise is
very bright.
'Tom" O'Brien, the once noted
"King of Bunco Men," is dying of
Bright's Disease in New Caledonia, the
French penal colony to which he was
transported for life for the murder of
"Kid" Waddell, in Paris, in 1895.