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is erected on Mcpherson Ridge, and Penn,
sy!vania troops paid for it.
The deficit in the Post Office Depart
ment for the fiscal year will be S4,6l1 - ).
Mrs Charlotte Stoneman Williams. sis
ter of the late Gen. Storeman. the great
cavalry leader, died in Buffalo. n. Y, last
week of pneumonia. She was Christian
Scientist. and refused To have physician
called until too late.
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Some humorist who does not yet know
what his calling is wants to tag the cats
in the District of Columbia, just as dogs
are tagged.
4 sailor aboard British warship at
| Colombo WAS firing Il 4th of July salute in
honor of the Albany and Cincinnati. which
were in the harbor. and his gun exploded,
killing him. The State Department, at
| the request of the Secretary Of the Navy,
expressed its sympathy to the London au-
thorities and also to the British COM
mander.
| Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, who died
| last week. left a fortune of n million dol
lars or more. and half Of it was given to
charity or public buildings. The largest
beGuest was that of S30O.0O0 for the es-
tablislment of school for choir boys.
Mrs. Johnston was Il strong Church OF
| England woman. She left Sg0.EO for
| scholarships for poor boys at Johns Hop
kins University: these are to be known as
the Henry f. Johnston. James Buchanan
Johnston and Henry L. Johnston. Jr..
scholarships. These are the names OF her
husband and two sons. Mrs. Johnston
also left Sl00.C00 to be used in erecting
monument to the memory Of her uncle,
James Buchanan, in or near Mercersburg,
Pa. If any of this sum is left it is to he
applied on a monument to Buchanan i'll
Washington. provided Congress gives a
site and makes an appropriation for the
same within 10 years. Most OF the very
fine paintings which filled her homes in
Washington and Baltimore are presented
to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. These are
very old and very valuable. II there is
Washington. the will provides that the
collection. which is to be known as the
Harriet Lane Johnston" collection, is to
be given to the National Gallery. Mrs.
Johnston gave sums running from S2.oGU
to 5000 to a dozen or more charities in
this city and Baltimore, and the remainder
of the vast estate went to relatives.
The District of Columbia has an ideal
set of officers. What you do not see, ask
for, and it will be handed to you. The
other day a perfect stranger walked into
the office of the Register of Wills of the
District of Columbia and asked to see the
will of Mr.. Shellan. It happened that
the deceased gentleman had made three
wills. and the Junior Deputy Recorder
handed them all out to the stranger. A
day or two later somebody who had a
right to see the wills called for them. The
Jacket was there all nicely tied up and put
tic MIA hrlt hn Will
"Where?" They are gone, and so is the
stranger, leaving no trace behind.
The Navy Department has sent the bat
tIeship Texas to Bar Harbor to receive
there under command of Vice Admiral Sir
Archibald Douglas, X. G. B., the com
mander of the British naval forces in the
North Atlantic and West Indian waters.
The British squadron. which is to pay
friendly visit to Bar Harbor, is composed
of the Retribution. the Ariadne. and the
Tribune. Representatives of the State
Department will also be there to welcome
the visitors.
The members of the House Committee
on Naval Affairs are off on four of the
stations and yards along the North Allan
tic coast. They are aboard the Dolphin.
purpose, but it was expressly stipulated
that none of that appropriation should go
for wine, cigars, or anything else of that
nature. There are plenty of ways to get
around a little thing like that. however.
President Dole, of Hawaii, has under
taken to remove some incompetent Terri
torial officers and has been brought up
standing by the Hawaiian Supreme Court,
which informs him that officers of the
Territory can only be removed by the Sen
ate.
The new cable to Manila was opened
by the President in great shape on the 4th
of July, but SO much taffy and treacle
went over it in the way of congratulat0ry
messages that it got all tangled up and is
said to be put out of the running for the
next Is days.
Capt Hemphill, commanding the new
battleship kearsarge, reports to the Navy
Department that that vessel on her recent
trip across the Atlantic broke all former
records made by battleship for that dis
tance.
It is rumored that "Fighting Bob"
Evans, now Rear-Admiral, will be made
President Of the Lighthouse Board.
Secretary Root has ordered the with
drawal from Cuba of four companies of
Coast Artillery. This discontinues the
present post of Cienfuegos and leaves in
Cuba the 18th and 10Th companies at San
tiaso and the Goth and 22d at Havana,
which latter companies will ultimately
garrison the two projected coaling sta
tions at Bahia Honda and Guantanamo.
The converted cruiser Prairie and the
training ship Topeka have been anchored
off the Navy Yard for several days, and
have been carrying on their wireless tele-
graph experiments.
The system used aboard the Prairie and
the Topeka is combination Of two of the
most approved systems-the De Forest
wireless, invented by recent Yale grad
uate of that name, and the Slaby-Arco,
another independent plan. By this ar
rangement messages are received and re-
produced on a narrow paper ribbon ex-
actly as stock tickers record quotations.
The experiments are regarded as having
demonstrated satisfactorily the great value
CT the wireless mechanism as an import
ant adjunct to the fitting out of all ships
In the navy.
Jesus Maria Gonzales, the only native
Porto Rican designated for appoint
ment to the Naval Academy, has failed in
his entrance examination. His failure was
probably due to his lack Of thorough I'M
derstanding of English and Gov. Hunt