Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-06-10
WARlNEWS.
Resume of Events on Land and
Sea During the Week.

Sweet potatoes are being planted at
Havana to keep the residents from
starving.
Negotiations have been re-opened
for the purchase of the Danish West
Indies.
Col. Harrison Gray Otis of Los An
geles has been appointed Brigadier
General by the President.
It is alleged that the peace-at-any-
price party Is trying to get the Presi-
dent to delay the invasion of Cuba.
A dispatch from Havana says busi-
ness is completely suspended. If p,o-
pie could leave, rs per cent would go.
The Salvation Army is preparing to
send a missionary expedition to the
Klondyke for the benefit of the gold
seekers.
A special from Rome says Spain has
sent another note to the powers invit
Ing them to protest against the block
ade Of Cuba.
Advices received from Manila via
Hong-Kong say riots are frequent in
that city and houses are being burned
by rioters daily.
The Spanish spy captured on the
Panama has been identified positively
as Lieut.. Sobral, the former naval at
tache at Washington.
Private advices have reached the
United States from Porto Rico show
ing that new mines are being laid in
the harbor of San Juan.
Important improvements are to be
made at Stanford University this sum-
mer. Plans for new building to cost
$15O,OOO are being made.
A special from Gibraltar says the
feet and military expedition assembled
at Cadiz is not going to the Philippines,
but will go to Algeciras.
Madrid dispatches say the news
papers there urge cutting the Ameri-
can cable connections across the At
lantic If the Cuba cables are severed.
A special from Madrid states that
the Spaniards have only just now
awakened, to their danger from lack
of provisions and war stores at Cuba
and Porto Rico.
A Paris correspondent says: "The
report that negotiations have been
opened for the transfer of the Philip
pines to France by sale, or lease, is
absolutely false"
The formation of all regular and
volunteer troops massed in Florida in
to corps, divisions and brigades has
been completed in general order is
sued by General Shafter.
M. H. Ackerat, a soldier from Ogden,
stuck an arm from a car window to
wave flag as his train neared Sacra-
mento. He was struck by mail
pouch post, the blow fracturing his
arm.
Baseball League has been completed.
1t consists of 165 games, that are to be
played from May 1 to November 20, in
elusive. Some Of these have been post
poned.
The steamers Australia, City Of Pc
king and City of Sydney, with $500
soldiers on board, left San Francisco
for Manila last week. They took sup
plies for year. and naval stores and
ammunition for Admiral Dewey.
A spirit Of nervousness exists In
Paris and France in regard to Ameri-
cas- real sentiment toward France.
The Paris press now realizes that it
made sad mistake when it attacked
the United States at the outset Of the
war.
The War Department has chartered
the steamers China and Colon, of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
NJ, xuifh ho Han%onnio1 4hn zao1-
andia and the Ohio, will comprise the
next expedition to the Philippines.
They will carry 5000 men.
An official dispatch from Manila an
nounces that the majority Of the chiefs
who took part in the past insurrection
have presented themselves to the
Spanish governor-general, Offering
their aid to Spain. It is said here that
the Spanish prisoners Of war in the
United States have again complained
that they are treated as convicts.
A cablegram from Madrid says that
Spain Is on the eve of revolution,
which will sweep everything before 1t.
The bread question continues to be the
danger point, and the distress caused
by the high prices has already resulted
in riots in the provinces. Bakers will
soon raise the price Of bread, and it is
believed that this will bring on a civil
war. The queen regent is very un-
popular with the people.
It is semi-oficial1y denied that there
Is any truth in the story from Manila
regarding the German Consul threat
ening Rear-Admiral Dewey for not
permitting the landing Of provisions
from German ships. 1t is being claimed
that the Consul said he would land
them with the aid of German cruisers
and that the American commander in
return threatened to fire upon German
warships If they interfered.
Gen. Merritt, carrying out the policy
already decided upon by the govern
ment, will open the Philippine Islands
to American merchants. All articles
Of commerce shipped from the United
States to the Philippines will be adj
mftfed free Of dutv This 20 &nJ~@~ -.