Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-04
KILOGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WAR.

The monitor Monadnock left San
Francisco for Manila.
Miss Helen M. Gould has subscribed
for $125,OO0 of the new bonds.
The Massachusetts legislature pass
ed a bill providing for war loan
of $1,5OOOOO
Another expedition for Santiago is
expected to leave Tampa in a week
or ten days.
1t is Officially denied in Hawaii
that an attempt was recently made to
assassinate Captain General Blanco.
F. I. BlakeIey, the naval apprentice
who was killed by Spanish shell
on the Texas, was buried at sea.
Premier Sagasta, according to a
Madrid dispatch, states that the Cadiz
squadron is on the way to the Philip
pines.
The powers are said to be waiting
will urge peace on Spain and the
United States.
The yacht Alfedo, first to fly the
Cuban flag, passed out Sandy Hook
with Capt. Johnny O'Brien, the
noted f1libusterer in charge.
Lord Lansdowne, the British war
secretary, in a London speech, strong
1y approved Mr.. Chamberlain views
on the Anglo-American alliance.
The government bought seven
steamships for about $4,OO0,0O for use
as transporta on the Atlantic. One
vessel was bought on the Pacific
coast.
The steamer Peru arriving at San
Francisco spoke the transports carry
ing the second expedition to Manila
near Honolulu. All ON board were
well
Agents of banking syndicates are
paying factory hands so cents to So
for bidding on $500, the bonds to be
turned over to the syndicate when
allotted.
Gen. Miles may go to Santiago to
personally direct the land attack on
the city, owing to the anxiety at
Washington to make the first battle
a victory.
Nine vessels flying foreign flags have
been bought by the war department
for the Porto Rico expedition and will
be sent to New York as soon as pos
sibIe to be fitted out
1t is stated upon reliable authority
that the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius
entered the larbor several nights ago,
easily passing to one side of the
sunken coaler.
The German ambassador at Wash
ington has given assurance that his
government will not interfere in any
Objectionable manner with our occu-
patton of the Philippines.
Six of the Rough Riders who were
left at Tampa are in jail and Alice
May is dying of pistol wound in
ficted by one of them. One of the
riders was shot in the arm.
Admiral Montejo, in an interview
in the China Mail, blames his govern
ment for his defeat at Manila He had
repeatedly asked it for suitable ships
and torpedoes, ''but nothing came'
Four picked crews from the Dolphin
and Marblehead fired ana removed
seven contact mines from the channel
in Guantanamo harbor. Spanish
gunboats hidden up the bay will now
be destroyed.
Dispatches to Madrid said an
American war ship appeared off San
Juan, but was driven off by the
cruiser Isabella a gunboat and the
Terror. One Spaniard was killed and
three wounded
General Shafter sent word to Wash
S1Se hot bo 0F L;
near Santiago had been completed
Stray shots, which did no harm, were
fired by the Spaniards as the troops
left the ships.
The Indiana democratic convention
made no mention Of annexation or
acquisition of territory by conquest,
and the Ohio republican convention
merely approved the proposed annexa-
ton of Hawaii.
A report from the surgeon with
Admiral Simpsons fleet leads to a be-
lief that the supposed mutilation of
marines killed at Guantanamo was
caused by the peculiar motion of
Mauser rifle bullets.
Senators opposed to the annexation
Of Hawaii decided to carry on the
fight Indefinitely. Friends of the
scheme express a fear that they will
not be able to hold the Senate to-
gether to get a vote.
Four men of Colonel Torrey's reg
iment of cavalry were killed at
Tupelo, Miss, in a railroad wreck
The Spanish transatlantic liner
Montevideo is reported to have left
Havana the 23d, eluding the block
aders.
Captain Sigsbee of the st. Pau
warned a British ship from seeking
to enter the harbor of San Juan de
Porto Rico on the ground that it was
blockaded. No formal notice has yet
been given of the blockade of this
port.
Count Cassini, Russia's new am
bassador to the United States, comes
with friendly message. He says