Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-04

matte representatives here during the
war, will ship home the crews and
non-combatants of the prizes taken
by United States warships, the at
torney-general having ordered their
release.
Mr. Depew, explaining in London
his changed opinion in regard to
keeping the territory we wrest from
Spain, said that our people certainly
never would return any colony to
Spain, and to transfer them to any
other European power, would lead to
a European war in sixty days.
| The government at Washington,
satisfied that the Cadiz fleet really
! is at the Suez canal, and confident
| that Dewey, who will soon be rein
=, forced, can serve that feet as he did
Montejo's, has planned to send our
| best warships to lombard the Span
| ish coast as soon as Cameras squad
ron is fairly inside the Suez canal.
In a fight within five miles of San
tiago 1000 men of the tenth cavalry
and rough riders engaged 1000 Span
ish infantry. The Spaniards sustained
| heavy loss and we're driven back to
the city. The Americans had % killed,
including Hamilton Fish, Jr., and Cap
tain A. K. Capron, while 80 men were
wounded
Gov. Voorhees, of New Jersey is
afraid that draft will be necessary
if the state is to furnish it's quota of
troops. The physical examinations
are so severe that sometimes 60 per
cent. of the volunteers are rejected
The governor telegraphed to Washing
ton, asking that the surgeon be al
lowed more discretion.
Captain General Blanco explains
that he has refused to exchange Lieut..
Hobson and his comrades of the Mer-
rimac because they have seen too
much of the defenses of Santiago.
Gen. Blanco says also that he made
the six-mile limit for fiag-of-truce
boats at Havana to prevent American
officers from getting close enough to
Notifications to sketch them.
Attorney General Fits has rendered
decision declaring vacant the seat
of Representative Joseph Wheeler in
congress from the eighth Alabama
district, owing to the fact that Gen
eral Wheeler has absented himself
from Washington, having accepted
commission as major general in the
army and being at present with Gen
eral Skaters command in Cuba.
A Spanish general told a CORES
pendent that before Don Carlos can
cut any figure in Spain there must
be such defeats in her colonies as to
bring on a revolution which would
sweep away the monarchy. A pro-
visional government, probably re-
publican, would then be set up, and
after long, bloody civil war the
Carlists would be vanquished.
The amount of $53,OO0,OO0 for
transportation in the deficiency bill
causes much criticism in Washing
ton. 1t makes a total of $59,0O0,OO
for moving troops in less than nine
months This is three times the cost
OF subsistence. 1t is figured out that
an army of 275,OOO men, with all
equipments and supplies, 1000 miles
at regular railroad rates would cost
only $12,OO0,OOO.
The Spanish cortes, closed by
royal decree after tempestuous ses-
sions in both branches, adjourned
without giving the customary cheers
for the throne. Gen. Campus, speak
ing in the Spanish senate, declared
that if the liberals are turned out of
power and the conservatives will not
undertake the responsibilities of gov
eminent, he himself Gin order to
maintain the dignity and honor of
Spain, will pick it up, even out of the
gutter" This means that he would
step into the breach as he did in
1874, when he put down both Carlists
and republicans and sat the present
Kings father on the throne. A chap
ter of surprises and decisive events in
Spain will follow the close of the
Cortes and the fall of Santiago and
Manila, Senior CASTELAR, predicts. The
queen regent burst into tears when
she heard the reports of Admiral
Cervera and Gen. Lineras on the sit
uation in Santiago. Madrid is in a
state of extraordinary excitement
The principal generals regard the
prospect so threatening that they
have offered to protect the cabinet
and the diplomatic corps.
Admiral Sampson cabled to Sec
rotary Long that he would begin fir
ing on the Notifications at the en-
trance of Santiago harbor and con-
tinue his bombardment until the last
Spanish gun shall have been silenced
Admiral Sampson cabled that, under
flag of truce, he learned that Hob
son and his men are no longer con-
fined in MORO, but four miles away,
in the city of Santiago. The ad-
vance guard of Gen. Skaters army
occupied Juragua, seven miles from
Santiago as the crow flies The Span
iards fed to Sevilla, six miles west.
There was little resistance to our
advance. Five thousand Cubans
from the west of Santiago, under