Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-09-20

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Admiral Dewey's official welcome home
will taxi place in Washington when the
magnificent sword voted to him by Con-
gress will be presented to the hero of Ma
Mia bay on the steps of the Capitol.
there will be official delegations from the
Senate and House, under the leadership
or Senator Proctor of Vermont and Rep
resentatiye David b. Henderson of Iowa,
the next Speaker. Most of the State
Governments will be represented official
~. The ceremony Of presenting the sword
by President Mckinley will take place on
the east front of the Capitol, on the spot
where the Presidents are inaugurated,
n the plaza between the Capitol and
the Congressional Library will furnish
standing room for the thousands who are
expected as spectators. At night there
will be a general illumination of the city,
and a ~torchlight pGcade of troops and
civic organizations. The ceremony will
take place Immediately after the reception
in New York.
An informal understanding has been
reached for q temporary agreement on
the Alaskan boundary. The boundary
line is to form a temporary barrier only,
and its location will not prejudice the
Government case of either country. The
niodus viyendi provides for a line run
ming just northward of Kluckwan, and
it bars out Canada entirely from the Lynn
canal. Arrangements of a temporary
character may yet be made, however, to
permit the Canadians to get their goods
across the border, but tne protocol +; ) now
drawn does not provide for such a free
port. The boundary line under the modus
vivendi is Il slight concession to Canada,
but it is still far inside of the British
claim and is in substance the American
line. So
Chinese missionaries, some Of them at
present at home, are back of a scheme
to transplant a modern sawmill from
New York State to WI HUI, China. Amer
lean, English and Chinese residents of
WI Hu are said to take kindly to the
proposition, and Ii Hung Chang is quot,
ed as having given his consent, and along
with it a check for $1,000 for stock in
the new enterprise. There is no modern
sawmill in all China, and lumber is saw
ed there by the most %antiquated methods.
1t is said that the value of the proposed
mill as an object lesson for the natives
will be important, and that for this rea-
son the Government is looking upon the
plan with favor.
There was more gold in the treasury
Thursday han the Government has ever
had before at enc time. The net gold
aud bullion, including 500. 100000 re-
served for redemption of United States
notes, as reported at the Treasury De-
partment on that day was $251 CTS, 1872.
The amount never reached $1,000 200
until August last year, when it was a
little more than $217, 900, 700. The actual
amountof gold coin in the treasury Thurs
day was $195, S12,S40, and OF gold bull
lion $12S, 904 ,321, making a total of $324,-
1861, against which gold certificates
to the value of $1,000, 500 are outstand-
ing.
According to official reports at the
State Department, steps have been taken
to break down he uinine trust, organic
ed by German manufacturers. Recently
some of the largest and most influential
planters in Java have organized to control
the supply in such a way as to keep the
raw material out of the hands of the syn
dicote and have begun to encourage direct
trade with the United States.
Factories have been established in
Java, and since last January, when the
new trade begun, 6 5000 ounces of sui
phate of quinine have been shipped direct
to this country.
The people of Florida and Georgia are
urging very strongly upon the Secretary
of War the organization of c0lored .egi-
ments for service in the West Indies or
the Philippines, claiming that he black
race is peculiarly fitted for service in the
hot countries. In Georgia alone it is
claimed that ten regiments of colored
troops could be raised within twenty
days. United States Senators, members
of Congress and Governors of States are
back of the movement and have united
in q petition to the Secretary.
1t will take more than half a million
dollars to repair ships of wal during tho
current fiscal year. The available appro-
priation amounts to So, 1000 1000, and Rear
Admiral Hichborn, the chief constructor
of the navy, says that sum will not SUI.
fee for a longer period than six months
He will endeavor to make it hold out
until Congress meets in December, when
the Navy Department will submit a de,
f~iciency estimate of fully $3,00O,000 tC
carry the work on until July, 1900.
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When Gen. Shafter retires as a briga-
der general in the regular army mex
month he will be continued as a major
general of volunteers as a reward for his
services around Santiago. The vacant
brigadier generalship will probably go to
Gen. Lawton. Brig. Gen. Anderson and
Maj. Gen. Merritt of the regular estab-
lishment will retire in the next six
months, and this will make two new brig
adiers, who are likely to be Macarthur
and Wheaton.
The blanks for writing the names in
the Cuban census are twice as large as
the blanks for the same purpose in this
country. This grows out of the fact that
tbs Spanish names are usually about
vice as long az American and English
names. III Spain II - TIE EeAls.gAl GUS
tom to give a child the surname vf his
father and of his mother. and this Gus
tom has been followed in Cuba for q
great nan years.
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Arrangements have been made through
the regular diplomatic channels for the
resumption of commercial relations with
Spain. To this end Minister Storer at
Madrid has been instructed to take such
steps as will lead to the usual CONNER
eial treaties between this country and
Spain.
LED BY THE SOUTH.
Section Furnishes More Volunteers
than Docs the North,
Adiutant General Corbin is making up
n statement showing the contributions of
the various States and territories to the
volunteer army. He makes the surpris-
announcement that Georgia has fur