Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-08-25
WAR BREvITIES.
Friday, Aug. 10.


All volunteers will soon be ordered to
camps in their own states.
/ In Porto Rico the natives show a
disposition to prosecute Spaniards, and
several minor riots have occurred.
The transport Alliance sailed FROM
San Francisco for Honolulu with 325
officers and men of New York regi-
ment
The signs of contemplated upris-
ing of Carlists in Spain are becoming
more portentious.
The Paris Soleil declares that the
Americans will quadruple the value OF
the Philippines, and Manila will rival
Hong Kong.
Saturday, Aug. 20.
Senator Cushman X. Davis, of Min
nesota, has accepted a place on the
peace commission.
Steamer Mobile landed 1000 troops
from Santiago at Montauk Point, l.. l.,
of whom 300 are on the sick list.
The hospital ship Relief arrived at
New York with 24S sick and wounded
soldiers from General Miles army.
Volunteer troops at San Antonio
Tex, marched out of the mess hall in a
body as protest against inferior food
Warships are being ordered to Fort
Monroe, and it is expected that within
a month 70 vessels will be gathered
there.
Monday, Aug. %.
The steamer Arizona sailed from San
Francisco with 1900 troops for Manila
Generol Merritt reports that the sur
render of Manila includes only that city
and suburbs.
Major Perry Belmont, one of New
Yorks millionaire volunteers, has re-
signed from the army.
Many thousands of people are visit
ing the ships of Admiral Simpsons
! squadron off Stapleton. S. 1.
Before the end of the week over 5000
Pennsylvania volunteers will be as
sembled at Camp Meade. Middletown
Pa.
General Shafter reports that the
| transport steamer Mobile was not over
| crowded on her recent trip from San
tiago with sick and wounded soldiers.
Tuesday, Aug. 23.
Some of the troops of General Henry
in Porto Rico, are without shoes.
Captain Sigsbee, of the st. Paul. has
been advanced three numbers in the
| list of captains.
Captain Evans, of the Iowa. is at
Roosevelt hospital. New York. with
| typhoid malaria.
1t is Officially announced that there
has been no yellow fever at Camp
| Wikoff at any time.
Philadelphia hospital train reached
that city from the south with 102 sick
Pennsylvania soldiers.
The volunteer troops at San Fran
| cisco are circulating petitions urging
| that they be mustered out.
Lieutenant Hobson sailed from New
| York for Santiago to superintend the
| raising of Spanish warships.
General Miles is en- route for home
| General Brooke succeeding him a:
military governor of Porto Rico.
The Cuban junta gives out the report
| of General Garcia on the Santiago cam
paign. From reading the report one
| subordinate position.
Wednesday, Aug. "a.
| Admiral Sampson will return to Cuba
about Sept. 2.
Admiral Schley is ill at his home in
| Westport, Conn. Not serious.
The war department has perfected
arrangements for feeding the Cubans
who lack food.
General Rios is named by Spain as
| the governor general of the Philippines
| Jaudenes being a prisoner.
General Shafter has been authorized
! to bring home cannon captured from
| the Spaniards at Santiago.
Arrangements have been perfected tc
| take the vote of the Pennsylvanians
| still in camp on election day.
Brigadier General Castillo, of the
| Cuban army. declares that before the
fall of Santiago Shafter promised that
the city would be turned over to the
| Cubans.I