The Philipsburg mail., 1899-07-28

| occH uIueIeu " lHc llillpplHeS.
The Navy Department has received
the LOO bronze medals authorized iy
Congress for the officers and men who
participated in the battle of Manila
bay.
According to general order issued
by the War Department. sales may be
made on credit to officers and enlisted
men who have not been regularly paid,
or who are in the field
| The French ambassador, NJ. Cam
bon, is about to receive from the Uni
| verSity Of Harvard the degree of Lii.
d., i'll recognition of the public ser
vices he performed in the negotiations
which restored peace between the Unit
ed States and Spain.
The board of construction of the
Navy Department has decided to over
haul the converted yacht Viking. which
was used as an auxiliary cruiser dur
ing the war with Spain, to fit her for
service in the navy. This work will
| cost about $4,000. 1T is the present in
tention of the Navy Department to as
I sign this little vessel to duty in South
American waters.
According to Il report made to Chief
! Hichborn the battleship Kearsarge is
/ ninety-One per cent. advanced toward
completion: the Kentucky is eighty-nine
/ per cent; the Alabama. eighty-tive per
cent; the Wisconsin. seventy per cent;
the Illinois. siXty-live per cent: the
Maine. five per cent. and the Ohio. five
per cent. The Albany. building in Eng
land, is eighty per cent. advanced.
| General Leonard Wood, military gov
ernor of Santiago province, has been
| offered the presidency of the Washing
| ton Traction and Electric Com
| pany. The company has been form
| ed recently and owns and controls
directly and indirectly, all the street
railroads in the District of Columbia,
with the exception of the Capital Trac-
| ton Company. 1t also OWNS the two
electric light companies.
Senator Clark of Montana is Il most
unassuming man. He came to Wash
ington shortly after his election, with
| his two daughters. stopped at one of
the principal hotels for three days,
went about the city sightseeing. sat
| for part of an afternoon in the Sen
ate gallery. and nobody suspected that
| he was Il SIJ.NNO.Dn senator. When he
returns from Charlottesville. he in
tends to select a house to occupy next
! winter.
There is still hope that satisfactory
settlement of the Alaska boundary can
| be reached before the 10th of August,
which is the date set for the reassenl-
bling of the high joint commission. be-
cause all Of the other questions have
been set aside and postponed until this
most important controversy is deter
| mined. A modus vivendi. or temporary
settlement. has finally been accOmp-
| lished by the negotiations of Mr..
! Choate and Sir Julian Paucefote in
London which is acceptable to Canada.
General Otis army is to be increased
to $4,000 men. Although he has not
asked for reinforcementS. the President
has thought best to send them to him.
| General Otis has been assured repeat
edly that he could have all the troops
he wanted. but he has reported that
10000 were sufficient. and has never
! asked for more. After a Cabinet con-
sultation. however the President came
to the conclusion that it would do no
harm to reinforce the army in the Phil
irpineS. and 5000 more regulars will
be sent at once.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Taylor has announced the acceptance
of the offer Of George II. and Edw in
S. Monroe of Il lot 12OX15S feet as the
site for the public building at Joliet,
the price paid for the lot being So
600. 1t was also decided by the treas
Ury officials not to prosecute condemn
alton proceedings to acquire the proper
ty of ]. Klein at Freeport, Illinois, as
the site for the public building at that
| ,,1o h, Loft nffnr T
StrattOn at $17,5OO has been accept.
ed.
The Navy Department has received
the LOO bronze medals authorized by
Congress for the officers and men who
participated in the battle of Manila
! bay. The Bureau of Navigation will
see to the distribution of the medals,
those for the officers al.;. alen OF the
Olympia and Raleigh being given to
them in this country, while those for
the men on the ships still at Manila
will be forwarded. The medals are
handsome products of the jewelers.
art one face showing a baS-relief of
Admiral Dewey. while the reverse
shows the idealizel head of the Ameri.
can sailor.
Under the most favorable circulf..
the government to increase it's army
in the Philippines to the $4,000 limi,
before the 1st of August. About 6,ON
of the troops destined for service il
the Philippines and included in the pro
posed $4,000 force are still in this cOun
try and will not be able to reach the
scene Of action for five or six weeks
The officials of the War DpnS rtfnent
are making every effort, however tt
expedite their departure and to thai
end have arranged Tor the immediate
transportation of the troops on the
transports Pennsylvania. Sheridan
Iealandia and Valencia.
) Secretary Wilson in his report to the
President on the work of the depart
, ment during the last fiscal year pro
posed that the department should re
ceive from time to time graduates OF
agricultural colleges who should come
to work in the scientific divisions O
the department and at the same time
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