| Show Wednesday the Ban Jose sighted a llrltlih flagship northwoid bound about twentyIKe miles off the rher It was Impossible to make out her name The crJer Charleston at YnllJo Cal Is nearly refldy to receive her nen and we Into cOlllmllun Orders have not yt ben recolP from Wash Ington to this effect but It J ellvl she III be 1 ready for uses and service lnu few days She ha boon pointed th usual dark war color Work on the Yorktown and Ihlladelphla Is he Fair expedited The number of men emplocd at Mare Island navy yard during the pienent riuh Is 1 7CO The Iralnlnlf ohl Adllma Mot out of corn mlon alibly Friday lIer officers and men will co to the Charleston News has Just reached San Francisco of a terrible xpluolon of powder that WHS being carried by pack train to Col Unn Burns CllnnlArla nine In Mleo The eXIIololl look place on the road neordon VicontD stat of Hlnlll oil M 1111 4th list The pack train wan un UHu > lly large It consisted of over 110 mulls and the attendants numbered Plate forty Mexicans A part of the freight consisted of ammunition cnp and I oxes of powder It Is reported tht 1S box of powMrr and 2Q < w CUM exploded ex-ploded with such forcj that nruui men nod rlty mules were killed The San Francisco Call sals Theia Is I not the slightest doubt tint plans of the works commanding the hurbol of San rrAnclece life lit I tho pom11011 e > f the Spanishmllltar and naval au thorlllej anlghprnllitary mllltar nt I tache of the Spanish legation nt Wash Ington was In the city lost winter foe PoNerat weeks the truest of the Sp ullh onul nml Thile he nrom here hat am pIc nPlrIUnll ly to stroll about the batteries bat-teries M it n rdees to the enntrnry hnd then heen IssliMl since cglrary hoeer I thp defenses lme been ma trlally strenfctheneil by the addition ol rapid Hre guns The I Ime Point pii sltlon has been made exceedingly fur rnldable In 1 many ways during the past month Clone Sproekrls the ve11knuIn capitalist Is I lying at his home on Pn an Ne DnU San frnnclsc recovering re-covering from the effecti of an opera lion rendered necessary tbfpffL carbuntle on big bock 1111 frteuds ep 8 anxiety as to his condition About A fortnight ao Mr Hprcckel caugbt cold and wont to its ranch to roculre at While then he learned that the growth on his back uns 0 earbuncle and he hastened to the clt > to receive ledleol attention Dr L C Lane performed per-formed tire operation and under his care Mr Sprockel has ben slowl mendilng mendID The physicians now pro nounee him out of danger The fact that Air SIrckel h88 diabetes has 1010 generally known and ithen It it aa stated that he had had 11 calunel removed rumors became currentthot he was Hearing his end |
