The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-09-07
MOVEMENTS TOWARD PEACE.

Camp Wikoff will be dissolved by
October I.
President Mckinley visited Camp
Wikoff last Saturday.
More than 900 men have died in the
Chickamauga camp since May /.
Most of Germany's ships have been
withdrawn from Philippine waters.
General Macias. of Porto Rico. has
offered General Brooke the use of his
private residence.
Smokeless powder will hereafter be
used In the navy. Contracts were let
few days ago.
Gen. Miles with 1900 soldiers has
left Porto Rico for New York. He left
10000 troops behind.
Philippine insurgents are sacking
villages and robbing Spaniards on the
outskirts of Manila.
Admiral Sampson, with other men,
bers of the Cuban peace commission,
left for Havana last Monday.
The troopship Roumania arrived at
Nc cntauk from Santiago last Sunday.
Seven deaths occurred en- route.
Already five thousand patients have
been attended to at Montauk Point
hospitals. The deaths number eighty.
Soldiers sentenced to death by Agui-
naldo. the Philippine insurgent, were
reprieved at the request of Gen. Ander-
son.
The post office department has sent
a commission to Porto Rico to arrange
for the establishment of offices On the
island.
DIR. Sem, chief surgeon of the United
States volunteers, holds Gen. Shaftar
responsible for the epidemic at Santi-
| ago.
The Eighteenth Pennsylvania regi-
ment may go to Cuba with the army of
occupation to be commanded by Gen.
| Sheaf.
Gen. weyler is anxious to place him
| self "at the head of the people In
tkeir struggle for the salvation of the
country"
| The hospital ship Olivette, sank at
Fernandina, Fla, few days ago. All
| ON board escaped. No one knows what
| caused the accident.
Admiral Schley left New York on the
Seneca last Wednesday for Porto Rico,
where he win act as one of the military
peace commissioners.
| Private John Wagner, of the Seven
teenth regular infantry, hung himself
| while delirlous from fever at Camp
Wikoff last Wednesday.
Commodore Watson cables from San
tiago that the cruiser Marblehead sue
ceeded in raising the Spanish gunboat
| Sandoval, sunk in Guantanamo.
| Soldiers are being rushed home from
Porto Rico Many of them are sick
I and the government is doing all in its
power to avert another Santiago hor-
| ror.
Cornelius w. Bliss, secretary of the
interior, defends secretary Alger Of the
war department. He says no secretary
| of war has ever devoted more time,
energy or care to the welfare Of the
soldiers than has Alger.
When Dewey some months ago cap
tured the gunboat Leyte, that vessel
4 was towing three boats laden with SOC
fleeing Spaniards. Nothing has ever
been heard from these boats and 1t is
believed they were lost at sea.
The last of the Spanish troops in
Santiago, 1900 i'm all. sailed Tuesday
for Spain. Seventeen of the number
died on the wharf while waiting to be
placed on board the transports. The
only Spanish soldiers now at Santiago
are Gen. Toral and his staff.
La Lucha, a Havana paper in an edi-
torial says that the problem in Cuba
involves absolute independence or an
nexation, but that the proposed protec-
torate would be an indignity. 1t ad-
vises Cubans to adopt one of the two
solutions independence or annexation
Secretary Alger snubbed Genera
Miles again by ordering that the Porte
Rican troops be not reviewed on theil
arrival in New York as the general In
command had wished. An open rup-
ture between the men is expected
when General Miles lands.
Private Alexander Laduke, Compan,
I, Second Wisconsin volunteers, was
placed in the Federal prison at Leav'
cEworth. Kan, to remain for life fol-
the murder of Private Thomas Stat
ford, of the Thirteenth United States
infantry, in a saloon row at Ponce
Porto Rico.