El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-15
MILITARY AID NAVAL. MOTIFS

The condition of the military hos
pital at Manila is said to I've salts.
factory.
The gunboat Machias has arrived at
livingston, Guatemala, a1d will pro-
/ tect American interests chere.
1t is reported that a regular band of
spies is operating in France in the in
Jerest of Great Britain and Germany.
Companies L and NJ of the twenty
third infantry, in the Philippines, con .
tain number of Sherman young men.
Sam WEIGH, Godfrey Turner. Lon
Taylor and Wenden Franklin are four
Mckinney boys in the army in the
Philippines.
Capt. r. w. Jones of the tenth cav
airy, stationed at Eagle Pass, has been
granted two months leave of absence
on account of sickness.
Prince Loewenstein, a European no
bleman, formerly an honorary aide-de-
camp on Gen. MiIler's staff at Iloi o.
was killed in one of the last Filipino
battles.
Firt Lieut.. William H. Simms of the
sixth infantry will return to his reg
iment at Fort Sam Houston, having
been relived at aide to Brigadier Gen
eral George w. Davis.
Admiral Dewey, in latter to Ver-
mont relative, denies that Aguina1do
or any other PHILIPPINE was on board
the Olympia the night before the bat
tie in Manila bay May l.
A ten-inch gun burst at the proving
grounds at Sandy Hook. N. Y, killing
H. V. Murphy, who had been recording
clerk at the testing of guns for ten
years, and injured another man.
First Lieut.. Edgar F. Koeh1er,
ninth infantry, is detailed on general
recruiting service and will proceed to
Knoxville, Tenn, and establish tenn.
Porary recruiting station in that city
The National eZitung of Berlin says
the German proposal of the partition
OF the Samoan islands may be regard.
ed as abandoned, owing to lack of re-
Spouse, particularly with Great Brit
ain.
Information comes from Porto Bar
rios that seven Kansas City fiIibuster-
ers who managed to slip through New
Orleans, arrived at Guatemala City,
Guatemala, were arrested, tried and
sentenced to death.
Commissary Sergt. Karl J. Thomp-
son, now at Fort Mott, n. j. is trans
ferred to Fort Robinson, Neb.; Com
missary Sergt. John a. Gosline, now at
Fort Robinson, Neb., is transferred tc
Fort Brown, Tex.
Men are being enlisted for the
United States ships Nero, Farragut,
Ranger, Pensacola, Brutus and Rowan
Owing to the scarcity of seamen the
Pensacola has been delayed several
weeks at Mare Island navy yard
Capt. James Mcqueen Forsyth, who
has been recovering in the naval hos
p1tal at Philadelphia from a severe
illness. received word from Washing
ton of his appointment to command
the cruiser Baltimore, now in the
Philippines.
In consequence of the stories re-
gardinG Mataafa having sanctioned
sectarian tyranny the German govern
ment assured Mr.. White that all its
influence would be eXerted against III
reference with the religion of any
sect in Samoa.
First Lieut.. Peyton c. March, fifth |
artillery, will proceed to San Fran |
CISCO for assignment to duty with |
troops en- route TO Manila, where he |
will report to Maj. en-. AGrthur Mac
Arthur, for appointment as aide-de-
camp on his staff
First Lieut.. II. Bash, twenty-fifth In.
fantry, is transferred to the thirteenth
infantry. Capt. Henry P Ritzius,
twenty-fifth infantry, is relieved from,
duty with that regiment and will pro-
coed to Fort Sam Houston Tex, and
report to the commanding officer sixth
infantry for duty as an acting field Of
fcer of that regiment
Col. Egbert of the twenty-second IN.
fantrv who ~, |
recent battles with the Filipinos.
served continuously as a line officer
Tor nearly forty years. During the
CIVIL war he was captured at Gettvs-
burg, but escaped, and was severely
wounded in the battle of Bethesda
Church, Va.
Comte Alexandra Damaze de Chau-
derby, the celebrated French dip,o-
matist, died at Paris France, in his
l3d year. Comte Chauderdy entered
he French cabinet of 1862 as under !
secretary. In 1868 he went as French
minister plenipotentiary to Madrid. He
commanded the Legion of Honor IA
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Timothy Reardon. who served as
gunner on the United States steamer {
>earsarse during its famous battle {
18th the Confederate privateer Ala
'ama. outside the harbor at Chebourg,
france, and who later served under c
'arraSut in Mobile bay, is dead in a
brooklyn. aged 81 years I
At every railroad station circulars
ave been posted, signed by the Fill
Dino chief, Antonio LII |
"a, ordering all spies and bearers Of S
ews to the enemy to be shot without 1
rial. and instructing that all hooters e
nd ravlshers be treated in the same b