| Show WAltSIIII IVIOVIC31ENTS I The lolltgOmer end IImokl Eon Eo-n I1t at Lisbon Wahlngton Feb 4Th navy department 1arlmnt has received a telegram from i Capt Converse 01 the cru Iser Montgomery Mont-gomery announcing the arrival of that vessel at Matanzas Cuba yesterday yester-day The captain said that he fired a salute which was duly responded toby to-by the Spanish forts that lslts were exchanged between himself and the local I lo-cal oll1clIJ and that he had been re niveil with the greatest comtesy rv erYlhlng wn unusually qUilt nt Ida tanzus added Cap Converse lie NNIII leave the place In the Monlgomery tomorrow for Santiago on i the south side of the Island and his stay there will be brief I The Urooklyn which Is I hound for a cruise In the Windward island and then through the Caribbean sea willd Inlr up at Colon Balled today fror the Nw York nayy yard for Hampton Hood for coal She will make hr next stop after leaving Hampton Roads at st Thomas and her Itinerary Itin-erary does not carry br < Into any Cuban Cu-ban ports The training ship Annapolis ha arrived at SI Croix and the gunboat Wilmington bas sailed from there for Grenada II Is said at the navy donarlment that the vessels of the European squadron will rendezous at Lisbon In a short time When Commodore Howell How-ell passed through Washington recently recent-ly on his way to take command 01 the Buroean station be asked It the navy department 1 objected to his making a northerly cruise with his squadron He was told that the shlpl had been kept I In the Mediterranean by Admiral Self ridge 01 his own volition after the subside sub-side o of the disturbances resulting from he Turkoflreclan war and that the department left the movement of his ships entirely to himself lie therefore there-fore mas granted the pennlllSlon he sought a not has announced that be would bring his force together at Lis loon A cablegram i from i him IInnounc that he relieved 1 Admiral SelfrldRe and took command 01 the European station nt Genoa on the 2nd Int and It Is expected that he will take his flagship flag-ship the San Pranclico and the gunboat Bancroft around to Lisbon very soon I |
