Connecticut western news., 1898-10-13
ECHOES OF THE WAR.

The American flag was formally hoisted over the public buildings at Manzanillo. Cuba, by Colonel Ray on Tuesday.
 The deaths of six American soldiers from smallpox and eight from typhoid fever are reported from Manila. An artiileryman was killed by a sentry.
 Cuban tobacco manufacturers will send 8 representative to Washington .o protest against the proposed new Amer. ican tariff as 1t relates to tobacco.
 Owing to protests of the merchants of Manila, General Otis postponed the operation of the new American customs regulations In Manila until Nov. 10.
 President Mckinley has promised to attend the peace jubilee ball at Chicago on the 18th, and ex-Presidents Cleve- land and Harrison may also be present.
 The body of Colonel Wikoff, who was killed at Santiago and for whom the camp at Montauk Point was named. Is to be brought to his Pennsylvania home for burial.
 Major General John c. Breckinridge
 was mustered out of the volunteer
 service Monday and will resume his duties as Inspector general of the reg ular army.
 A German warship was mistaken for an American man-of-war by the Caro- line islanders. An American trading vessel was seized by the Spanish garri- son of the islands.
 Three major generals and 26 brigadiei
 generals were honorabiy discharged from the volunteer army Friday. the re- duction of the force having left no need of their continued employment.
 Major General FItz-Hugh Lee received
 orders Friday to move his command
 from Jacksonville. Fla. to Savannah, Ga. and get 1t In readiness to embark for Havana by the end of the month.
 The cruiser New York Is provisioned for long cruise and Is ready to sail at
 any time. The nasty preparations on
 this and other vessels lead some naval
 officers to believe that demonstration ist to be made against the Spanish coast.
 Thomas Greenwald.- private in Bat tery I, Seventh artillery. was shot and instantly killed Sunday night while try
 ing to escape from Fort elocum, near New Rochelle. N. Y. Private John Coates of the same battery escaped the bullets fired after him, but was arrest ed before he got away. President Mckinley has cabled the United States commissioners in Porto Rico that the island must be evacuated by Oct. IS and that they are to take possession of the government on that date if the Spaniards have failed to ss- cure transportation, Our oommission- CTS in Havana have been notified that the Spaniards are expected to svacuats Cuba by Dec. 1.
 Private Nygren of the Twelfth New York was shot by Provost Guard Kitch- en of the Third Kentucky in Lexington, Ky. on Sunday night, and Monday night Nygren's comrades In camp planned to seize train and break into the city jail to lynch the guard They were overpowered by offioers. and sew eral arrests were made. Lexington was virtually under martial law Monday night.
 Major General Henry W. Lawton. military governor of the department of Santiago, will sail for the United States
 in the course of few days, having been granted three months' leave of absence because of Ill health. His duties as mill | itary governor will be discharged by General Leonard Wood governor of the city of Santiago. most of whose official duties will in turn be discharged by Ma jor McLeary.
 A general order was issued by Gen. sral Miles Friday recognizing the II army. The Third. Fifth and Sixth corps are discontinued. The First. Second and Fourth corps are remodeled and are commanded respectively by Major Generals Breckinridge. Graham and Wheeler. The headquarters of each | corps win be: First corps. Macon; Sec ond corps. Augusta, Ga. and Fourth corps, Huntsville, Ala.