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SHORT SPECIALS. Quarantine officials have refused to permit the Seneca with wounded to land at Old Point, Va., for fear of yellow fever The bureau of construction and re$1,250,000 a month fitting pair upon is repairs. expending and refitting ves* sels for the war with Spain. The output of smokeless powder for the navy department is steadily increasing and the ordnance bureau is receiving more than 8,000 pounds daily for the big guns. Maj. Van Wroohem, of the royal of Germany, now cavalry department in Berlin, has written to the war his services to American in the war against tendering army the Spain. 17 of the have now been signal The corps companies volunteer recruited to their full strength. Each company consists of 63 persons, including officers and men, and a company is to be assigned to each division of the army. The president has signed the war tariff for Santiago and it takes effect Tuesday. It adopts in general the rates now Spain makes that there privileged and tariff given the uniform United for all countries, including States. The Italian men-of-war Dogali and Piemonte, arrived at Gilraltar Monday, the Piemonte proceeding almost at once en route for the Canaries. The Spaniards have erected new batteries armed with 6-inch guns at Ceuta and Tarifa Indications at the army building in New York are that the government rushing the Porto Rico expedition and is the quartermaster's department working night and day to fill the orders for large amounts of clothing and supplies. The Gov. Russell, a Boston, Mass., ferry boat, designed for blockade duty off Havana, being fitted out with rape id-fire guns, has arrived in New York She will probably leave port Tuesday carrying a detail of bluejackets to Norfolk, Va. The Buffalo, the cruiser bought by the United States from Brazil, will be repaired, fitted out with guns and sent into the war. She has been or dered to New York. Commander Hemphill, who will command the Buffalo, will be in charge of the work of fitting her for service. Santiago de Cuba under the American flag means the immediate resumption and a large increase in the future of the iron and steel trade with that section of the island, says the Baltimore correspondent of the Tribune. The stock of the Juragua and the Poncepo mining companies is largely held in Baltimore. The movements of the ships from Santiago to their new fields of action will begin at once, and it is probable that some of Adm. Sampson's ships were detached Monday and proceeded with Gen. Miles' first expedition toward Porto Rico. They will be needed to cover the debarkation of the troops on Porto Rican soil. Gen. John B. Gordon was shown the Tampa dispatch regarding the proffer to Cervera of a home on Tampa bay, at in The night. his residence general Kirkwood said: "If Monday Adm. Cervera would like to become an American citizen, I am sure the south and the whole country would welcome such a brave and honorable man." The temporary receivers of the out a ampton, Hampshire Mass. Savings have given bank, of North- statement to the effect that the defalcation of Treasurer Lewis Warner amounts to $400,000. With the $240,000 which Bank Examiner Ewer estimates were taken from the Hampshire County national bank, Warner's peculations amount in the aggregate to $640,000. Freeman Schley, cousin of Commo dore Schley, of the United States navy, died at bis rooms on Seventh avenue, Tampa, Fla. Sunday afternoon. Monday it was announced by the physician that he died from the effects of an overdose of morphine and inquiry developed the fact that twas taken with suicidal intention. Prof. Schley was teacher of languages here and had been for years. From Ft. Sheridan.