dence that the steamer's owners were wilfully and
knowingly guilty of aiding the enemy's fleet, and she was ordered
released. The cargo was condemned.

The names of the captains and commanders of the ships in Admiral Dewey's
squadron were sent to the Senate, by the President, for advancement
because of their conspicuous conduct.

The House of Representatives passed an urgency appropriation of nearly
eighteen million dollars for war purposes.

From Captain Clark's report, the Navy Department made public the following
extract relative to the extraordinary voyage of the _Oregon_:

"It is gratifying to call the department's attention to the spirit aboard
this ship in both officers and men. This best can be described by
referring to instances such as that of the engineer officers in
voluntarily doubling their watches when high speed was to be made, to the
attempt of men to return to the fire-room after being carried out of it
insensible, and to the fact that most of the whole crew, who were working
by watches by day and night at Sandy Point, preferred to leave their
hammocks in the nettings until they could get the ship coaled and ready to
sail from Sandy Point."

_June 3._ The collier _Merrimac_ was sunk in the channel of Santiago
Harbour, as has already been told.

_June 4._ Captain Charles Vernon Gridley, commander of the cruiser
_Olympia_, and commanding her during the battle of Manila Bay, died at
Kobe, Japan.

_June 5._ An account of personal heroism which should be set down in every
history, that future generations may know of what metal the boys of '98
were made, was telegraphed from Tampa, Florida.

Lieutenant Parker, who was in charge of the old clubhouse on Lafayette
Street, near the brigade headquarters, and which was being used by the
government as a storehouse, and Thomas McGee, a veteran of the civil war,
prevented what might have been a calamity.

While a force of soldiers was engaged in carrying boxes of ammunition from
the warehouse and loading them to waiting army wagons, smoke was seen
issuing from a box of ammunition. In an instant the cry of fire went up,
and soldiers and negro roustabouts piled over each other in their scramble
for safety. McGee, however, rushed toward the box, picked it up, and was
staggering in the direction of the river, some distance away, when
Lieutenant Parker, who had heard the warning cry, came to his assistance.
Together they carried the smoking box until it was poss