As soon as a hut is found the invalids are put to death and the nurses
taken prisoner.

To fire upon or in any way attack a hospital is against the rules of
civilized warfare, and this new horror of General Weyler's adds one more
to the long list of his crimes.

* * * * *

The Mississippi River has not begun to subside yet, and the floods grow
daily more serious, as fresh levees give way, and allow the waters to flow
over new districts.

There is, however, some hope that the greatest height of the flood wave
has been reached, and that the angry waters may begin to go back in a few
days.

There is still fear that the city of New Orleans may be swept by the
flood.

* * * * *

The vexed question of the Bering Sea seal fisheries is coming up again.

The Bering Sea divides America from Asia, and is bordered on the American
side by the State of Alaska, and on the Asiatic side by Siberia.

Up to the year 1867, Alaska, or Aliaska, as it was called, belonged to the
Russian Government.