The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-01-07
AND NAVAL NOTES

The eighth Massachusetts, is the only
regiment left at Americas. Ga.
Maj. Gen. John r. Brooke. military
governor of Cuba. has arrived al
Havana,
Newspapers at SantandeN& Spain
have suspended owing to the severit,
of the press censorship.
The fourth Texas, stationed at San
Antonios are comfortably situated in
their winter Quarters. They are ems
joying excellent health.
TIE palace clerks at Santiago pre-
scented Gen. Wood with a magnificent
gold-mounted, tortoise-shell walking
stick, in mahogany case.
1t was said at the Brooklyn navy
yard that Commodore ]. W. Philip will
succeed Rear Admiral Francis M.
Bunce, retired, as commandant OF the
Brooklyn navy yard on Jan. is.
The new pond for the aquatic birds
at Fort Sam Houston quartermaster's
depot is nearly completed. 1t is to
have an island in the center for the
use of the swans.
The flags captured by the American
army and navy in the late war will be
placed in the museum at the naval
academy at Annapolis and added to the
interesting collection already there.
The American evacuation commits
sioners at Havana issued a proclama-
ton to the Cubans. The proclamation
gave the programme for the transfer
of sovereignty.
The war department has been asked
to grant concession for public works in
Cuba and Porto Rico to. the amount of
nearly $1O,GO0.O00 They are mainly in
the way of electrical improvements,
says Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn.
Capt. John NJ. Tobin, until recently
quarteTS,aster of the first brigade of
the division stationed at Camp Poland,
near Knoxville, Tenn, committed
suicide by firing a pistol into his
mouth.
There is no foundation whatever for
any charges that the United States au-
thorities have interfered or are inter-
fering with religion in Porto Rico. All
Gen. Henry would do is to prohibit the
infammatory utterances of Spanish
priests.
Ensign George L. Fermier, who
fought bravely at Manila, died on
board the gunboat Petrol at Shanghai.
Deceased had suffered with stomach
troubles, which finally developed into
paralysis. He was an Indianian, aged
: 20, and graduated at Annapolis in 1889.
Don Carlos, pretender to Spanish
throne, who is in perfect health, de-
sires to deny absolutely the report that
he contemplates Indicating. On the
contrary, he says he is more resolved
than ever to fulfill his role to the end.
Members of two companies of the
first Mississippi regiment, recently
mustered out at Columbia, Tenn, bit
terly and vehemently deny that they
discharged firearms while en- route to
their homes. One CON- any claims to
have only had two drunken soldiers on
the way.
Maury Sutton, member of the six
tenth United States infantry, who
was stricken with typhoid fever at Mon
tauk Point and sent to Miss Helen's
Gould's hospital, has SO interested that
lady that she has purchased a law
scholarship for the young man and he
will enter on his studies.
A farewell banquet was rendered at
Cairo, Egypt, to Lieut.. Gen. Sir. Fran
els Grenfell, the recently appointed
governor of Malta. who now retires
from the supreme command of the
Anglo-Egyptian forces in Egypt. Unit
ed States Consul General T. H. Harri-
son was present
A subscription for the benefit of the
late French officer. Col. Henry, who
committed suicide at Paris, after con-
Tossing to having forged documents in
the Dreyfus case, has been started and
over 100000 francs have been SO far
raised. in parts of France.
Mesdames Day, Davis. Frye, Reid
and Gray, wives of the American peace
commissioners, said they were most
charmingly entertained during their
sojourn in the French capital, being
paid all the attention that could be de-
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