Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-11
WAR BREVITIES.
FRIDAY. June 8.

The Spaniards are filling Cardenas
harbora with hulks and other obstruc-
tions.
OF the ten regiments Of immunes for
The invasion of Cuba four win be com
posed Of eolored persons.
The tug Leyden attempted to engage
three Spanish gunboats at Cardenas,
but they ran away from her shots.
Additional transports, with capacity
for carrying 5000 men, have been Sc
cured. making total of 30 vessels.
which can carry 10000 men.
Senior Polo de Bernabe, formerly
Spanish minister to the United States.
has been appointed Under secretary in
the foreign office at Madrid.
Eleven seamen of the cruiser San
Francisco have been landed at Boston
because of Illness. They have been ac-
customed to warm climates.
Saturday, June A..
The peace party in Spain is rapidly
growing.
Many of the volunteers at Mobile are
ragged and without shoes.
Whigham and Robinson, the English
war correspondents captured in Cuba,
have been released.
The president is considering General
Lew Wallace for appointment to a
major generalship of volunteers.
Thirty-nine Spanish prisoners, cap
tured on the steamer Rita. off Porto
Rico. have arrived at New York.
battalion of engineers, some siege
and field trains, and a few companies of
infantry are said to be on the way
from Florida to Santiago.
The commercial bodies of San Fran
cisco have protested against the gov
ernments alleged discrimination against
that city in the purchase of army sup
plies.
Monday, June g.
Large numbers of prominent autono-
mist leaders have fled from Havana to
Mexico.
An unconfrmed dispatch reports the
sinking by our warships, at Santiago,
of the Spanish torpedo boat destroyer
Terror or Furor
Captain Charles Vernon Gridley,
commander of Admiral Deweys flag
ship, the Olympia, died at Kobe, Japan,
while en- route home, invaiided
The troopship Resolute and the May
flower left Mole St. Nicholas Saturday.
Blanco issued decree forbidding the
presence of any foreign correspondents
In Cuba
Lieutenant Parker and Private MCGEE,
now with the volunteers at Tampa, ar
the risk of their lives threw a burning
box of ammunition into the river, thus
averting an awful explosion.
San Juan letters sent to Madrid re-
port that the Spanish losses during Adj
miral Simpsons bombardment were
seven killed and 70 wounded The gov
ernor generals residence was among
the buildings damaged.
Tuesday, June Z.
The urgent deficiency bill, carrying
Stats for war expenses, passed the
national senate.
Two war balloons from France are
en- route from Jersey City to Tampa,
for the use of the Cuban invading army.
There is already talk of promoting
Lieutenant Hobson from the staff to
line officer, from which he may rise to
admiral.
The national senate voted for amend
ments to the war revenue bill providing
for bond issue and to coin the silver
bullion in the treasury.
A bill providing heavy penalties for
destroying submarine mines or photo
graphing Notifications was introduced
in the national senate.
The senate confirmed Leonard w.
Colby of Nebraska Roy Stone of New
York, Henry T. Douglas of Maryland
and Harrison Gray Otis of California
as brigader generals.
Wednesday. June 3.
The monitor Monterey and the col
lier Brutus sailed from San Francisco
to join Admiral Dewey's feet at Manila.
Company F, of the Eighteenth Penn
sylvania volunteers, is guarding gov
eminent construction work at Alliance,
Ohio.
Lieutenant Commander z. w Sturdy.
commanding the collier Pompey, died
while sailing from Norfolk to Key
West, aged 81.
The British government has decided
that newspaper dispatch boats may Sc
cure supplies at Kingston, Jamaica, de-
spite Spanish protests.
Thursday. June 8.
Governor Hastings is to visit the
Pennsylvania troops at Chickamauga,
Camp Alger and Wilmington
1t is now believed that there will be
no big volunteer camp in the east, as
had been suggested.
The United States government Will
award a contract to raise the spanish
vessels sunk by Dewey's fleet in Man
lila harbor.
George Edward Vanderbilt, supposed
to be a Spanish spy, was taken from
Tampa, Fla, to the military prison at
Atlanta, Ga.
Commander Miller, whose boat, the
Merrimac, was sunk by our heroes in
Santiago, will succeed the late Lieu
tenant Commander Sturdy in command
of the collier Pompey.