Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-25

Washington. Oct. 24.-The navy de-
partment, today, received the follow
ing:
San Juan. Oct.23.
To the Secretary of the Navy:
Evacuation Of Porto Rico completed
by sailing of last detachment of Span
ish troops, today
SCHLEY.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived at the war department:
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. "a.
Telegram directing occupation of
Holguin received. Troops sail, today.
to occupy Gibara, now unocupied. 1t
is an important customs port and esa-
port of Holguin. From Gibara occu-
pied. Holguin can be made by railroad
moment Spaniards evacuate.
(Signed) WOOD, Commanding.
The above dispatch refers to one sent
by the war department directing the
occupation of Holguin. city in the
province of Santiago. about 80 miles
from the sea coast. Gibara is on bay
on the northern coast. Holguin is the
seat of a judicial district.
Postmaster-General Emory Smith
has concluded his speech making tour
OF three weeks in the West and return
ed to Washington. today.
Lieut.. Col. Robert O'Reilly, chief
surgeon, has been ordered to report to
Major Gen. James F. Wade, in Ha-
vana. for duty on his staff The fol-
lowing surgeons have been mustered
out, their services being no longer re-
CURED: Maj. w. Grille, appointed from
Ohio; Major Schuyler c. Graves, an
pointed from Michigan; Major Samuel
w. Kelly.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceived at the war department.: Ma
Mia, Oct. 23.-To adjutant general,
Washington: Following deaths since
last report, Oct. IS: Quartermaster
Sergeant w. D. Gillespie, 1st Idaho,
gunshot wound; Oct. 16, Corporal
Christopher Rockefeller, 23rd Infan-
try, drowned; Private Jonas b. Adams,
Band 18th Infantry, alcoholism; Oct.
II, Private George F. Hansen, 1st Ne
braska, typhoid fever; Oct. 90 Private
Ira Griffin, 1st Nebraska, typhoid
fever; Charles H. Ruhl, 2nd Oregon,
meningitis; Oct. 81 Corporal William
H. Jones, LIST Idaho. dysentery; Mu-
sician Thomas F. Fitzgerald, 23rd In
fantry, diarrhoea; Private Sage F.
Preston, LIST California, pneumonia;
Oct. %, Private Daniel McElliott, LIST
Montana, dysentery; date unknown,
Sergeant John A. Glover 1st Nebras-
ka, pneumonia; Privates Henry A.
Stubbe, 1st California, dysentery;
Frank w. tucker, 23d Infantry, ty-
phoid fever; Edward S. Fiske, Hospi-
tai Corps, dysentery; last four died
between Manila and Nagasaki on
transport Rio Janeiro. Otis"
The payment of $546,262 for the per
cent bonds, Saturday, leaves only
about SS,000,000 to be received and only
about the same quantity of bonds to be
distributed. If the whole of the loan
were paid for today the cash balance
of the treasury would be about $313,-
100000. The actual balance, in the alb
sence of the final bond payments,
stood, Saturday, at 5000, 1895, ISL. About
$40,000,000 of this amout is due to the
effects of the new revenue law and
1872, 100000 to the bonds. AS matters
stand, the treasury is SO well supplied
with funds that it has been able to
transfer 93,199.9O1 to the national
banks in order to prevent stringency
in the money market.
The President has approved the sem
tence of court martial dismission from
the naval service Chaplain Mckinney
of the Oregon for remarks made in a
lecture at Denver rejecting on Admir-
al Sampson and others.
Government receipts from customs
today: $6lS,S69; internal revenue, 81
53S, 653; miscellaneous, $51, 1873. Expen-
ditures, So, Ash, 900.
The coast survey steamer Black.
under Lieut.. Wainwright, brother of
the commander of the Gloucester, has
been ordered to Porto Rico to map the
coast of the island.