Connecticut western news., 1898-06-09
THE WAR IN BRIEF.

Ex-President Harrison said that Hob sons deed was one of almost unpar- alleled bravery.
 More. than 124,000 volunteers have been mustered in under the presidents first call for troops.
 The monitor Monadnock was ordered from San Francisco to Manila. A mer- chant vessel is to accompany her.
 The auxiliary cruiser Yale took on coal and provisions at Newport News, Va, on Saturday for a protracted cruise.
 Senor Capote, vice president of the Cuban republic, arrived in New York, bearing dispatches to the Cuban junta.
 The navy department ordered the monitor Monadnock to Manila. The Monadnock Is now at the Mare Island navy yard.
 The war department secured several more transports for the Cuban army of invasion. Ships to carry 30.0O0 men are now available.
 Senor Sagasta Is reported to have as- serted at Sundays cabinet council that Spain does not expect the support of any foreign power.
 Five transports, carrying the Third and Twentieth infantry and part of the Second cavalry, left Mobile on Saturday for Santiago de Cuba.
 The United States cruiser St. Paul ar rived unexpectedly at New York Fri day. She took on 5000 tons of coal and 100000 gallons of water.
 The Fifth army corps, IS, 900 men. un- der General Shafter, and the Seventh corps, 5000 men, under General Lee, were formed at Tampa Friday.
 The gunboat Marietta, which accom- panied the Oregon large part of the way on her trip from San Francisco, arrived at Key West on Saturday.
 It was decided on Friday to release all the crews of the captured Spanish steamers at Key West and return them to Barcelona in the steamer Catalina.
 Major General J. ]. Coppnger arrived at Tampa on Saturday, accompanied by Brigadier General Simon Snyder. Gen. eral Coppinger reported to General Miles.
 Russia last week tried unsuccessfully to get both France and Germany to agree to a plan of intervention in the war between Spain and the United States.
 Seven companies of the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth regiment were mus
 
 The militiamen in the various armories are hoping for early orders.
 The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, former ly the Brazilian warship Nictheroy, ar rived at Newport News Tuesday. She will be armed and armored so as to make a formidable fighting ship.
 Brigadier General Frank, command ing the department of the east, with headquarters at Governors island, as- signed the volunteer regiments in his department to various seaboard fortif- cations.
 Captain Charles V. Gridley, com mander of the cruiser Olympia and one of the heroes of the brilliant victory at Manila, died on Saturday on board the steamer Coptic while en route home from the Philippines.
 Information reached the war depart ment in Washington Friday that two companies of the engineer battalion from Willets Point, N. T., which have been at Tampa, have left that place Tor Key West to prepare for Cuban inva- sion.
 The steamer Seminole, from Charles ton, arrived in New York on Friday with 39 Spanish prisoners from the steamer Rita, captured off Puerto Rico on May 8. The prisoners were turned over to the Austrian consul to be re- turned to Spain.
 letter from Lieutenant Carranza, formerly Spanish naval attache in Washington, showing the existence of an elaborate spy system in this country, was made public. The letter was cap tured at Montreal by United States se- cret service agents.
 Advices received in San Francisco on Tuesday state that the United States cruiser Charleston, en route to Manilla reached Honolulu on May 29, and that her officers and crew were accorded a most enthusiastic ovation by the people of the Hawaiian capital.
 Measles was discovered in the Twen- tieth Separate company of the First regiment at Camp Black at Hampstead, N Y, Friday, and the company was sent into quarantine. It Is rumorsd that the Twenty-second regiment is to be sent to the Philippines. ~
 The people of Pardoe, Mercer county, Pa, raised an American flag Friday with imposing ceremonies. Saturday it was found trampled in the mud. Sev- eral men who were thought to be dis loyal were accused of the act, when a fight resulted and several were shot. Two of the men, George Davis and John Danks, it is thought will die.