Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR AFTERMATH.


nands of Spain the entire Philip
pines
Chaplain Freeman, of the cruiser
Baltimore, committed suicide by
drowning
Gen. Garcia has taken a position
under the American administration
at Santiago.
II is expected that Americans will
be in full control of Porto Rico with
in three weeks.
General Lawton reports 1,091 cases
at Santiago.
The 50 Wisconsin regiment has
been ordered to leave Porto Rico for
the URited States.
DR.. David J. Hill of Rochester, n. Y :,
has been appointed first assistant
secretary of state.
Major-Gen. Lee visited West Point
10 say good-by to his son. He expects
to be in Cuba very soon.
General Wood proposes to collect
local taxes in Santiago and use them
for public improvements.
A board of army officers has rec
commended sites for military camps in
Georgia and South Carolina.
Ex-senator J. ]. Ingalls, of Kansas
EsTors the retention of conquered ter
ritory by the United States.
A Manila dispatch states that pop
uIar opinion in the Philippines now
favors autonomy for the islands.
The Cuban national party will send
O memorial to President Mckinley,
declaring for absolute independence.
The transport OLDHAM, which had
sick soldiers on board, returned to
Santiago with her coal bunkers on
fire.
The president will recommend that
and that Dewey be appointed to the
office
General Wood, military-gen of
Santiago province, proposes to create
Cuban mayors, constables and other
officials.
Gen. Wade is to be given chief COM
mand in Cuba, while Gen. Lee will be
in charge of some of the western
provinces.
Camp Cuba Libre at Jacksonville,
Fla, is to be abandoned as unsuited
for a permanent camping place for
soldiers.
dispatch was received at army
headquarters ordering Gen. King and
detachment now at Honolulu to pro-
coed to Manila.
A naval training station will be es-
tablished at San Francisco for the
instruction of apprentices enlisted on
the Pacific coast.
The war inquiry commissioners de-
cided to admit only representatives of
three news associations and three
stenOgraphers.
General Joseph Wheeler testified
before the commission Investigating
the conduct of the war. He found
very little fault.
The war department has directed
two additional regiments of infantry
and one of cavalry to be sent TO Porto
Rico for garrison duty.
Gen. Lawton will punish Cubans
who have been committing depreda-
.tions and outrages upon Spaniards
IN Santiago province.
The Spaniards seek to delay the
peace settlement and the United
States may find it necessary to make
a naval demonstration.
General Merritt made before the
American peace commissioners in
Paris a long statement as to condi-
lions in the Philippines.
Charges against the management of
Camp Wikoff, at Montauk Point, were
filed with the commission Investigate
ing the war department.
The war department will send a
ship to Cuba and Porto Rico next
month to bring home all dead Ameri-
can soldiers on the two islands.
The Spanish governments offer of
free transportation home for the
families of officers in Porto Rico has
led to a great increase in weddings.
The Philippine national assembly at
Malolos voted Aguinaldo a civil list
of $4,000, but he refused to receive
anything until his army has been
paid.
Residents of Matanzas, while sub
sisting on rations from the United
States steamer Comel, are signing a
manifesto opposing American control
3n Cuba.
A Washington dispatch states that
all of General Miles recommendations
an regard to the disposition of troops
have been rejected by the war de-
Dartment
Agoncello the representative of the
Filipino insurgent government, has
been notified that he will be given a
hearing by the American peace COM
missioners in Paris.
A Filipino junta will be established
IN Washington, constituted in part
of Seniors Agoncillo and Lopez, who
are now in the United States as rep
resentatives of Aguinaldo.
Gen. Rafael Cerero Saenz, one of
the Spanish peace commissioners, is
quoted as predicting that the United
States will seek alliance with Great
Britain and Japan in the orient
The Spanish government has au-
thorized the minister of marine to
sell the Spanish war vessels remain
ing in Cuban waters to the Dominican
or other republics desiring to pur-
chase.
Chaplain Mcintyre of the Oregon,
testifying in his own defense, says
he had been taking quinine and
brandy and did not know what he