Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1898 — FOR MANILA VIA THE SUEZ. [ARTICLE]

FOR MANILA VIA THE SUEZ.

Expedition of Three Wegimenta Will Roon New York. The next regiments to start for Manila will embark nt New York about the end of this month, and will go through the Suez canal, unless present plans fail. This expedition will consist of three regiments of regular infantry, distributed between two of the largest converted transports owned by the Government, with perhaps a convoy of two warships. The decision to use New York as the point of embarkation Instead of San Francisco was reached after a careful review of a number of considerations, chief among which was the urgency for hyste. At the present time the Government is wholly without available transports in the Pacific ocean to meet the emergency. Albert Ham, a farmer of West Dresden, Me., lias an apple tree in his orchard which measures 9 feet 10 inches in circumference, 1 foot from the ground, and nt the height of 6 feet the trunk branches into four limbs almost ns large. The tree Is oyer n century old. ami has Itorne well each year for the forty-seven it bus been In Mr. Ham's possession. Col. Hanna, at San Juan, ,Porto Rico, says that codfish is the principal food article Imported into that island, and that Nova Scotia dealers In codfish consider Porto Rico tb<tir best market.