Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-01
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WAR;.

General Smarter reports mat lie VIII
have $4,000 prisoners to return tc
Spain.
The rebels were repeatedly repulsed
in attacks upon the Spaniards at
Manila.
Portugal has sent troops to he1
frontier, expecting a revolution in
Spain.
Lieutenant Hobson arrived in Wash
ington with the report of Admiral
Sampson.
Lieut.. Hobson has made arrange
ments for the early raising of the
Colon.
Spain has sent draft for a large
sum of money to Admiral Cervera
at Annapolis.
Gen. Blanco has cabled the Spanish
government that he will resist TO the
bitter end.
The Spaniards in Manila believe
that Camaras fleet is still on it's way
to relieve them.
The Carlists are becoming unusually
active and Madrid fears an attack
if peace is declared.
Aguinaldo has proclaimed himself
dictator of the Philippines and de-
clared martial law for all the islands.
porto Rico will be kept by the
United States" was the semi-ott1clal
statement given out at the white
house.
A Paris paper has a report that
Spain is sounding the United States
as to the terms upon which 1t Will
agree to peace.
The condition of the troops around
Santiago is rapidly improving. There
are many cases of yellow fever, but
few are fatal.
Contact and observation mines in
New York harbor are all exploded by
the government and danger to- navlga-
ton removed.
The London political weeklies see
in our war with Spain that the United
States will soon dictate to the rest
of the world.
Commander Todd of the Whining
ton has made an official report OF the
destruction of eight Spanish ships at
Manzanillo July Is.
A dispatch from Madrid reported the
capture of insurgents of Gibara, the
seaport of Holguin, on the northern
coast of Santiago.
Admiral Sampson reports that the
Spanish warship Maria Teresa will
be raised and that the Reina Mercedes
can probably be saved.
The British steamer Newfoundland,
with a rich cargo, was captured by
the Mayfower while trying to enter
the harbor of Cienfuegos.
Governor General Blanco now disa-
vows that General Toral surrendered
with his permission, and General
Toral will be court-martialed.
Admiral Dewey cabled to Washing
ton that he had been joined by the
second expedition of troops, making
5000 American soldiers at Manila.
lions.
In a speech from the balcony of his
palace, Gen. Blanco promised several
thousand people that he would destroy
the American navy if it attacked
Havana.
Ambassador Won Holleben has
completely satisfied the president that
Germany is friendly to this country
and will not embarrass us in the
Philippines.
The Cuban junta sent dispatches
to Gen. Garcia and other Cuban of
ficers disappearing their action in
resenting Gen. Skaters conduct of the
surrender of Santiago
Business is being resumed in San
tiago. Supplies in large quantities
have been landed. The sanitary con-
dition of the city is much better than
at first reported.
Governor Tanner has been asked
by commanders of provisional regl-
ments to prohibit wholesale enlist
ments of Illinois men to fill quotas
of southern regiments.
Prof. Duncan Campbell Lee, head
of Cornell's department Of orato1y,
has enlisted as private in the New
York volunteers. Col. Schuyler will
appoint him a sergeant.
Three more of the Spanish prisoners
from Cervera's fleet, now at Seavey's
island, in Portsmouth harbor, died and
were buried in the little cemetery
back of the stockade.
The transport steamer Tito arrived
at Charleston from New York. She
comes to carry away the 500 negro
laborers who were engaged for wharf
and road building in Cuba.
1t is announced by Secretary Long
that the expedition to Spain has not
been abandoned, but has been deferred
until the Porto Rico campaign permits
the withdrawal of the ships.
War department onicia1s have de-
cided to send no more arms or
ammunition to Cuban insurgents, and
are considering the advisability OF
cutting off all their supplies.
At a meeting of the cabinet it was
decided to instruct Gen. Shafter to
include Gen. Garcia and the other
Cuban officers in his councils and to
make every effort to conciliate them.
Madrid corrncoOndant cah1oS that