Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-05-26
President MCKINLEY will Soon ,ssne +,

President Mckinley will soon issue a
call for troops, including a request for
10000 negro volunteers. The admins
tration believes that colored troops will
be of great advantage in Cuba and Por-
to Rico.
The commerce destroyer Columbia
which has been at anchor at Tompkins-
vile, coaling and provisioning after a
tour of duty with the North Atlantic
patrol weighed anchor and proceeded
to sea Sunday night.
Over 40 cases of ammunition were
found on the Spanish ship Argonauta,
captured during the first days of the war.
1t was on board this steamer that Lieu
tenant Colonel Cortijo, brother-in-law
of Weyler, was captured, with other
Spanish soldiers now prisoners at Fort
Mcpherson.
One man is dead and two fatally in
jured as the result of wreck Saturday
morning on the Chattanooga, Rome &
Southern road, between Chattanooga
and the volunteer camp at Chicka-
manga. The dead and injured all be-
long to the First regiment, Missouri
volunteer infantry.
A beginning has been made toward
the organization of the independent
volunteer forces under authority con-
ferred upon the president by special
resolution. The national guard will
have no part in these organizations,
which will be made up of engineers,
immunes and electricians.
A dispatch from Havana says two
American ships have bombarded Guam
tanamo, and adds that the Spanish gun
boat Sandora and a regiment Of marines
repulsed attempts made to land there.
AS usual. according to the Spanish YER
sion of such affairs, the Spaniards did
not suffer any loss and the Americans
retired.
Spanish ministers declare nothing is
officially known of the result of the ne
gotiations which have been going on
with the Cuban insurgents in order to
induce them to make common cause
with the Spaniards against the Amer
leans, though some of the ministers
claim to believe the negotiations will
succeed.
Secretary Alger received brief tele.
gram from General Brooke confrmin 6
the report of the accident at Chicka-
manga to train carrying Missouri vol
unteers. He stated that one man was
killed and four injured, and that the
remains of the one killed have been
sent to his friends in Missouri. He
also says the injured men are being
cared for at the hospital
The naval strategy board, rechris-
tened OF late the war board, is to lose
rne of its most active and valuable
members in the person of Captain Bar
ker. He left Washington Monday for
Hampton Roads to take command of
the fine protected cruiser Newark,
which has just been extensively re-
paired at the Norfolk navy yard. 1t
is expected that the Newark will join
SIMPSONS squadron in the West Indies
as soon as she can get there.
Washington officials dismiss as pure
invention the story from Montreal
that Former Minister Polo has sue
ceeded in securing for Spain coaling
station on one of the French islands OF
st. Pierre and Miquelon, off the New
Foundland coast At the French en-
bassy the report is treated with indlg-
nant contempt as the French decree of
neutrality is binding on the French
governor of these islands, and effect.
ually prevents the granting of such ex.
ceptional privileges as coaling stations.
Colonel Grigsby's cowboy regiment
passed through Chicago from Sioux
Falls, s. D., Saturday. Large crowds
greeted the train and the locomotive
slowed up to allow the crowd to ex
change compliments with the soldiers
who, leaning from the windows, cheered
and waved flags and in other ways
demonstrated their appreciation of tbs
reception. There were two companies
containing altogether 1856 men AL
were dressed in regular cowboy costume
broad sombreros, ETC., with long pistol:
strapped to their sides.