Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President McKinley has issued a proclamation reserving lands for naval docks and wharves pt Honolulu. Texas electors gave a majority for the constitutional amendment authorizing the pensioning of ex-Confederates. Col. Amos Webster, a member of Cten. Grant’s personal staff in the campaign around Richmond, is dead at Washington, lie was 62 years old. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and “Corporal” Tanner were among the distinguished guests at a banquet given by the Washington lodge of Elks in honor of the members of the lodge who served in the late war. The Secretary of the Interior has received unofficial advices that the Creek Indian nation in Indian territory has ratified the agreement reached between its commission and the Dawes Indian commission in the reorganization of Indian territory. The War Department has issued a general order for the movement of troops to Cuba. The first troops will leave on or about Nov. 22, and will comprise a brigade under Brig. Gen. Carpenter. The brigade will be taken from the Seventh army corps, and one of the regiments to go will be the Third Georgia. The brigade will be sent to Neuvitas, Porto Principe. An explosion occurred at the national capitod at Washington in the basement beneath the Supreme Court chambers, and caused a fire which consumed a part of the Congressional law library, a priceless collection, and.destroyed the furnishings of the Supreme Court chamber. The explosion was caused by the ignition of illuminating gas. The damage is irreparable. The damage to the building will amount to about $200,000.