El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-06
MILITARY AND NAVAL NOTES.

OldleS SOuSul w IiildIHS dl
Manila says the climate, there is fairly
healthy.
Duke d. ARGOS, the new Spanish min
lister to the United States, will stop at
Paris on his way to Washington.
were yearning for an opportunity to
engage in hostilities, but now they are
engaging in exhibitions Of the utmost
friendlineSs.
The administration has notified the
Cuban planters delegation that mort
gage obligations in Cuba will be ex-
tended for one year.
Private James Black, hospital corps,
at Fort Sam Houston, Tex, is assigned
to duty with the hospital corps de-
tachment of the tenth cavalry.
Emma Nevada, the American singer.
was jeered by a Spanish audience in
Seville. She thinks the time is not ripe
to send an American minister to Spain.
Senior Larrea, now Spanish consul at
Antwerp, is transferred to Havana; Sc
nor uBella, now at Shanghai, is ap-
pointed to Manila, and Senior Uriarte
goes to Antwerp.
Baron Ketteler, for many years con-
nected with the German legation at
Washington and at present envoy to
Mexico, has been temporarily appoint
ed as German representative at Pekin.
The Franco-Italian demonstration of
friendship at Cagliari, Island of Sar-
DINA, are fully in accord with the i'm
pulsive nature of the Latin races. A
few weeks ago the Italians and French
corps, Fort Clark, Tex, is assigned to
duty with the hospital corps detach-
ment of the tenth cavalry. He will re-
port to the commanding officer of that
regiment at Fort Clark, Tex, for duty.
The little cruiser Montgomery, which
has recently been overhauled at the
navy yard, has sailed. Capt. Colby and
Capt. J. P. Merrill, U. S. N, are aboard.
The Montgomery, it is given out, is
destined for San Lucia, West Indies,
and she will go from there to the South
American coast.
who called on President Mckinley sew
eral days ago, and consulted him re-
garding the disposition Of church prop
erty in the Philippines, is said to be
to turn all the Catholic church prop
erty in the Philippines over to the
American hierarchy.
Influential members of the dip1o-
matte corps at Washington, who dep
rcate the prejudice that has been
shown toward the Mexican ambassa-
dor by some of the representatives of
certain European mOnarchies, have ar
ranged for a general clearing of the
diplomatic atmosphere.
The Paris Patrie printed an interview
with Col. Morel, who was president of
the court-martial which convicted
Dreyfus. The colonel is quoted as say
ing he is satisfied the case was tried,
and we'll tried, and his conviction of
the guilt of Dreyfus could never be
shaken by any revelations.
The naval school at Annapolis is de-
scribed by the London Morning Post as
turning out young prigs utterly I'M
able to understand and command
men," and who are so filled with their
own Importance as to treat the old Of
f1cers in the most insubordinate man
ner"
Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota
has written a letter to the president
requesting the return of the Southern
Dakota volunteers now in the Phil
ippine islands. He says that under the
law they are entitled to come home,
and that they should not be retained
against their will.
Gov. Gen. Brooke's order abolishing
import duties for municipal benefit and |
licenses will decrease the municipal |
revenues, it is estimated, so per cent |
Its effects will be the closing of the |
public schools and the stopping Of all |
public improvements. This, at all !
events, is the prediction of the local |
press at Santiago.
Capt. A. B. Kelly and John E. Ho-
man, late of the second Texas infantry,
started movement at Fort Worth to
regiment of Texans for ser
vice in the Philippines. The officers
and soldiers are to be selected from
the best men of the five regiments re-
Gently mustered out. The regiment is
to be known as Bucks Rangers, named
after the late major in the second Tex
as regiment
Calvin Sherman, living east Of Car
ney, Ok, enlisted in the army to fight