Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-29
WAR NEWS NOTES.

Admiral Sampson is in daily COM
munication with the Cubans under
Colonel Cebraro, who are investing
Santiago on the land side and are
continually skirmishing with the
Spanish outposts.
The auxiliary cruisers Yankee and
Yosemite are now scouting for the
Spanish steamer Purisima Concep-
ton, which left Kingston on Thurs
day morning flying the Spanish flag
with food and ammunition.
Governor Stephens of Missouri has
selected Lieutenant Letcher Harte-
nah of the Tenth L. S. cavalry for
colonel of the new Sixth regiment of
Missouri volunteers to be organized
under the second call for troops.
General Linares now commands
| the military forces in Santiago,
where there are 5000 regulars con-
centrated. The civilians are starving,
and their deplorable condition will be
more and more aggravated from day
to day.
The United States cruiser Column
bia, which has been undergoing re-
pairs at the Brooklyn navy yard
since Decorat ton day, left the yard
in command of Captain Sands at
o'clock Sunday and passed out to sea
| an hour later.
| Representative Davenport of Penn
| sylvania has introduced bill
granting a pension of 500 per month
to Harriet V. Gridley, widow of the
late Captain Charles V. Gridley, who
commanded the flagship Olympia in
the battle at Manila.
Adjutant General Corbin characters
ICES as absurd the published report
that he would be given an important
command at the front and in a meas
ure succeed General Miles in the di-
rection of military affairs. Such a
thing, he said, had never entered his
mind or, so far as he knew, that oi
anyone else in authority.
DR.. Wylie G. Woodruff of Lawrence
Kan, received orders Monday morn.
ing to report at Fort Riley as con-
tract surgeon in compliance with hi:
recent appointment to that corps ot
the United States army. DR.. Wood.
ruff expects to soon be assigned te
active service. He will keep his of.
flee here open and return after the
war.
Three large cargoes of supplies ART
known to have run the blockade al.
ready and great quantities of food
are smuggled to Havana by way oi
the Isle of Pines, Cienfuegos and
other ports on the southwest coast
having direct railroad communica.
tion with the capital. 1t is believed
however, that nothing reaches Santi,
ago from any of those points.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Times says: Spain's refusa
to exchange Lieutenant Hobson and
his companions of the Merrimaq Il
easily explained and justified. With
out any intention of acting as spies
: they must have seen many things il
or around Santiago about which thu
American naval and military author
tiles would gladly have informa ton
The British steamer Yuen Sang
which arrived at Hong Kong from
, Manila on June IA, reports that /;
railway director, who went out on tn,
line on locomotive, was fired on b.
insurgents at the barracks four XII
ometers outside of Manila. The Yuel
Sang also reports that the railroad
station is being fortified. The Span
iards, it is said, are demoralized an,
it was expected when the steamer lef
} that they would retire to the citade
by the 10th. On leaving Manila tn
Yuen Sang sighted a number of yes
sells believed to be american trans
ports.
For several days the French Cabl
company has been trying to re-es
tablish its broken cable between Mol
st. Nicholas, Guantanamo and San
, tiago. Its repair steamer Mancel fin
ally sailed Saturday from Mole ST
Nicholas to make the repairs, so tha
commercial business, which has bee
, interrupted for the past ten DAYS, ca
: again be accepted by the French ca
! bic lines 1t is understood that tn
a United States authorities viii permi
. this cable to be worked commercial
under the supervision of the censor
: as is the case with the cable betwee
Havana and Key Vest. .-