Willmar tribune., 1898-09-21
WEEKLY WAR HISTORY. .
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+, FRIDAY. sEPTEMBER 8. ~.
Owing to the danger Of war with the
Philippine insurgents. the war department
has decided to dispatch 1000 more troops
to Manila. ~, -
A committee Of three F'ilipinos, appoint
ed by Aguinaldo, have left Hong-Kong in
order to confer with President Mckinley
upon the future of the Philippine islands.
Secretary Of War Alger left Washing
ton to make an inspection of q number Of
the army camps. and will 60 as far south
as Jacksonville. Fla. before returning to
Washington.
Gen. Otis, in charge Of the United States
forces at Manila, wired the president that
he had given Aguinaldo, the rebel leader,
"a hours in which to evacuate the city. un-
der penalty of being fired upon.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10.
President Mckinley has decided that the
Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Iowa regiments
are needed and will be kept in the service.
Advices from Manila are to the effect
that Admiral Dewey considers the situa-
tion there as critical, Aguinaldo's exasper-
ating conduct calling for the most careful
management Of affairs by the American
commanders
Before leaving Washington to inspect the
army camps Secretary Alger directed that
an order be issued that instead of the rg-
ular allowance Of ten dollars for the burial
of a soldier s35 shall be allowed, and
the remains transported home at the gov
ernment's expense.
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 12
The senate of Spain has adopted the His
standing vote.
Positive orders have been issued by Gen.
Miles directing that Camp Wikoff be
broken as soon as possible.
The last of the Spanish prisoners at
Guantanamo, Cuba. except Gen. Pareja.
his staff and 80 men, who are very sick,
have sailed for home.
The American and Spanish commission
ers held their first conference in the hall
of the colonial parliament in Havana. The
proceedings were private.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 49,
Gen. Miles says that the troops to con.
stitute the garrison Of Cuba have not yet
been selected.
Gen. Wheeler stated at Decatur, Ala.
that he firmly believed that the war with
Spain "~as not over.
Rear Admiral Dewey says he considers
the situation in the Philippines critical and
he has asked for an additional cruiser and
a battleship.
The City of Rome, with Admiral Cervera
and staff and over LOO Spanish prisoners,
sailed from Portsmouth. N. H.. for San
tander, Spain.
In the Spanish senate Count d'Almenas
said that Gen. Weyler. Gen. Blanco, Gen
Primo de Rivera and Admiral Cervera
ought to be disgraced.
Gen. Miles is working out plans for the
reorganization Of the army. He contem-
plates the formation of four corps, COM
posed of 100000 volunteers, to be retained
in the service and the regular army
Reports submitted to Gen. Brooke by the
various commanders show that II per cent.
of the american army of II 900 men in the
island Of Puerto Rico are on the sick list.
The men are mostly afflicted with typhoid
malaria. The death rate is small.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IA.
The war department announces that no
more troops will be mustered out.
Only one regiment, the Sixth United
States volunteers, now remains at Chicka-
mauga.
Secretary Day says that the work of the
peace commission will probably be done in
six weeks.
It is reported that Gen. Maxine Gomez,
the insurgent commander in chief, had
rendered his resignation because he OBJ
jected to American control in Cuba.
Gen. Shafter called at the war depart
ment and submitted his report on the San
tiago campaign. 1t covers from beginning
to end the operations of the army under
his command in Cuba.
It is announced that at a cabinet meet
ing IL was OeClQeQ TO forever QOlQ the Is
land Of LuZon, in addition to the city of
Manila, and that definite instructions look
ing to such a policy would be given the
American peace commissioners.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Is.
The peace commissioners met in joint
session at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Word reached the navy department that
all the Spanish war vessels in Puerto Rico
had left that country.
Gen. Wheeler denied that he had said
that President Mckinley had said to him
that the war was not over.
The insurgent troops quartered in the
suburbs of Manila marched out in obedi-
ence to Gen. Otis ultima tum.
Michigan's newest regiment of volunteers,
the Thirty-fifth infantry, left the Island
Lake state camp for Camp Meade, Pa.
The newspapers reaching the state de-
partment in the official mails from the east
show that the almost universal express
sion in the public press Of Japan is in favor
of the United States holding permanently
and governing the Philippine islands.