Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Lewis Baker, editor of tj»e St. Paul Globe, and ex-minister to Nicaragua, died at Washington, aged 67. The State Department has withdrawn any objection it may have entertained to the dispatch of Spanish troops front the Philippine Islands to the Carolines. Rear Admiral Howell has been relieved as senior member of the naval retiring board. He will be succeeded by Admiral Schley. Captain Cook has been ordered to duty as a member of the naval examining board. Commander W. W. Meade has been ordered to the command of the Brooklyn. ■ - r ”