The Holly chieftain., 1899-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


DRs. LAPPoNI nd MazzoIi issued an
)ther formal der al at Rome on the
'th OF the disq ting stories circu-
atcd about the rOpe's health. They
declared that he iDllowed mis- usual oc-
'upations, grant audiences daily and
celebrated mass every morning.
The United States delegation to the
'zar's disarmameHt congress, which
VIII meet at The Hague in the latter
part of May, consists of Andrew d.
White, United states am bassador at
Berlin; Mr.. New, United States min
I-ter to the n herlands; President
seth Low, of Columbia university,
New York; Capt rozier, ordnance de
partment U. s. a, and Capt A. T.
Mahan, retired, s y.
THE exchange VI ratitications of the
treaty of peace !, tn Spain will soon
take place at thr white house, in the
presence of Pres dent Mckinley, Secre-
lary Hay, Amblssador Cam bon and
Ithcr officials.
y CHICAGO dispatCh stated that Will
lam j. Bryan is 20 publish a book en-.
titled "Repnblic Yr Empire-the Phil
tppine Question, n which he discusses
territorial expan >On from every stand
point, his arguneut being supplement
I'd by chapters ocaling with the vari
Dus phases of the subject by other
statesmen and scholars
The Cuban Renarals met at Marianac
and officially decided to reinstate Gen.
GOmez as comma uier-in- chief.
1IrnIE ha ~.
the southern Kyntucky bar, dropped
lead at Hopkins lie. Ky, on the 9Th
after concluding i three-hours' argu
ncnt in court
TASUMADILI MALIEToA has been
crowned king OF samoa
ARCHBISHOP Ireland had n parting
interview with the pope at Rome and
received an autograph letter from his
holiness to conyey to President Nc.
Kinley.
The situation IN the Philippines was
discussed ut the cabinet meeting at
Washington on the 9Th and Il telegram
was read to the effect that Aguinaldo
was reorganizing his army north of
his late capital
REPREsESTATIy Lands, of Indiana,
has been urging upon representatives
Of the administration at Washington
the desirability Of publicly declaring
its antagonism to trusts. In talk
| with Secretary Gage and others he
said that the people in the middle
west were aroused in antagonism to
the trusts and that the trust question
promised to maxi a more exciting is
sue in Indiana than the money ques.
| ton did in the late presidential elec-
| ton.
SECRETARY ALGER left Porto Rico
| for New York on the 9th. While in
the island the secretary received many
petitions from municipalities asking
financial help and relief from excess
| sive taxation.
JUSTICE STEPHEN J. FIELD, of the
United States supreme court, retired,
died at Washington on the 9th of kid
uey duplication. aged s3.
AGuINALDo. the Filipino leader, is
sued a decree declaring that Spanish
shall be the of3c al language through
out the Philippines.
| GEN. LAwTOS started from Manila
on the night Of the 9th with an expe-
dition to capture the city of Santa
Cruz and sweeping the country south.
SANTA CRUZ was captured by Gen.
Lawton's expedition on the 10Th and
the rebels were driven into the noun
tains. The Anne ericans HI j six wound
ed and the Filipinos lost 6s men and
had 40 others wounded.
II. A. w. TABoR, the Colorado min
ing magnate and cx-United States SEN
ator, died at Denver on the 10th of D.
pendicitis, aged G9 years
The trial of ex senator Quay and his
son, on charges Of conspiracy in the
misuse of funds of the Peoples bank
in Philadelphia, began on the 10th be-
fore Judge Biddle.
An uncensored telegram from Ma.
nila said that Il was the opinion of
army men that 700, 900 American sol.
diers would be needed to quell the re.
bellion in the Philippines and that the
volunteers were eager to return home,
as they did not enlist to fight mig
gers,n and wanted to be relieved by
regulars as soon as the Spanish treaty
was formally ratified.