Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-05-05

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chant. will discharge employees who
enlist. while P. D. Armour will give
his half-pay.
Commander John Wynne, [. 5. N,
retired, was appointed prize commits
sioner and will be stationed at he:
| West.
! The French cruiser Admiral RigauLt
de Genouilly, now at St. Thomas, has
! been ordered to Porto Rico TO guard
French interests.
1t has been decided to land in Cuba
10000 regulars, probably near Matan-
zas, to establish d base OF supplies
| for an invasion.
! Gen. Miles will invade Cuba. Vol
unteers, militia and raw, will be drill
ed and organized at least month De-
! fore being sent there.
The government issued orders clos
| ing the entrance to New YORK narpor
from Sandy Hook to Liberty light be-
tween sunset and sunrise.
Fifty-nine members of the class OF
'9S were graduated from West Point
ahead of the regular time, as the
government needs their services.
The swift cruisers Columbia and
Minneapolis left Newport and Boston,
going, it is thought, to meet the Paris,
which, however is now safe.
The senate foreign relations COM
mittee considered, but took no action
on proposition that United States
should annex the Hawaiian islands.
1T is the end of SPAIN said ex-
Premier Crispi in an interview caoled
from Rome. She has committed
monstrous sins, for which she is pay
ing now
Cows. Atkinson of Georgia and
Culberson of Texas want to lead
their state troops in the field, anu
Tanner of Illinois wants to be a ma
jorgeneral.
Martial law has been proclaimed IN
Porto Rico. The Americans on the
island are without protection and are
in danger. The authorities prohibit
the departure of refugees.
Lieut.. Andrew Rowan Of the United
States army has landed in Cuba to
communicate with General Garcia as
to covering a movement for the land
ing of American troops.
The naval strategic board decided
to have the flying squadron intercept
the Spanish fleet leaving the Cape
Verde islands. If the fleet is headed
this way Commodore Schley will De
ordered to sail Immediately.
Chairman Dingley says the war tax
measure is intended to furnish $780,
0GO,O0 revenue. The bill provides
for loans of $500, 100000, all of which
must first be offered as a popular
! loan.
An income tax bill Will be offered
as a substitute for the stamp tax
measure in the house. Senate silver
men resolved to prevent an issue OF
! bonds.
The scarcity of coal in Spain for
naval purposes is causing great anxi-
ETY.. The price of the native and
| foreign product has advanced 50 per
cent. within eight days.
Secretary of State John Sherman
resigned at the presidents request.
He was succeeded by Assistant Secre-
tary Day, who in turn was succeeded
as assistant secretary by John Bas-
sett Moore, at present professor of in
! ternational law and diplomacy in
Columbia university.
John Jacob Aston offered the presi-
dent at the white house an equipped
regiment of artillery. He will main
| tain it in the field. The president
i thanked him and the offer was
| accepted.
Cur Asiatic Squadron sailed from
! HongkCng for the Philippine islands
with orders to capture or destroy the
| Spanish fleet supposed to be at Man
| liza. An army of so, 900 rebels will at
| tack Manila by land while our fleet is
fighting the warships in the harbor
| While the newspapers OF Continen-
| tai Europe generally are sympathiz-
ing with Spain, the St. Petersburg
Viedomosti says that the long-stand-
ing friendship between Russia and
the United States excludes every
| 1uSci VI Slu uhll 4SAd1J dLLltuuS OpCLl
the part of Russia now.
! Assistant Secretary Of the Navy
Roosevelt resigned with a view to be-
! ing commissioned a lieutenant col
onel in a mounted regiment of cow
| boys which he and DR.. John Wood,
the presidents family physician,
will raise, and of which DR.. Wood
will be colonel
Havana is feeling the effect of the
blockade by Rear-AdmiraI Sampson
fleet. The city is completely out of
beef, and all the necessaries OF life
have gone up to unheard of prices.
| Gen. Blanco is giving the citizens
music and parades to keep their pa
| trlotism at war heat, and even boys of
! fourteen are being armed
Cable communication with Havana
has been cut off, preparatory to a de-
cisive blow by SIMPSONS fleet. Strict
censorship of dispatches has been
established. at Key West. The World
will get the news from other sources.
The Worlds Berlin correspondent
reports that the hostility of the
German press to America is not
shared by the German government,
which will follow England's lead in
! international action rather than that
Of Austria or France.
| SPANS defences at Manila are ex-
| treTnelv feeble She has ono 1O-;n,b