Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-07-27
War Notes.

w 0E NOtCS.
Spain has 2OO, 900 troops ready for
action.
Several German warships have left
Manila.
Secretary Long is willing to grant
Cevera a parole.
300 cases of fever among American
troops at Santiago.
On account of y elbow fever all mail
from Cuba must be fumigated.
The remaining troops at Camp
Merritt will likely come east.
Watson's squadron is ordered to
sail for Spain early next week.
10000 troops are expected to be on
Portorican soil within ten days.
Webb Hayes, son of the ex presi-
dent was wounded at Santiago.
140 cases of ammunition exploded
in Porto r co killing fourtesn.
Cuban refugees IN this country
are already starting back to Cuba.
For Sanitary reasons the troops
may be moved from Tampa to
Chickamauga.
General McKinnin of California
has been appointed military govern
or of Santiago.
A member of the Spanish cabinet
says that moves have been made to
seek peace with honor.
Gomez the Cuban leader is in San
ia Clara province at the head of 5 900
poorly armed and illfed patriots.
The next move will be to capture
Porto Rico. Two weeks will be re-
qnirsd to put the army in readiness.
1t is fortunate for our navy that
Santiago surrendered before the
hurricane season in the West Indies.
Justice Brewer visiting his son-in.
law HI. 2: Jetmore in Topeka gave it
as his opinion that the war is soon to
end.
Secretary Alger has appointed
new bureau, that of transportation,
to transport the -25,000 captured
Spaniards across the ocean.
The American forces that have
arrived at Manila occupy the Span
ish quarters at Cavite. Dewey will
not attack Manila until Merritt ar.
rives.
The rescue of deported Cubans will
be included in Watson's mission to
Spain. Many of these unfortunates
are imprisoned on the island of Fer
nando Pc. near the coast of Africa.
The Merritt Chapman Wrecking Co.
announce that the wreckers bave ar
rived at the scene of the wreck of the
Spanish vessels near Santiago and are
already at work in their effort to save
them.
Three million rounds of ammu-
milton were used by U. s. soldiers
at the battle of Santiago and three
thousand missed to every one that
hit the mark. The Spaniards were
behind breast works.
The inhabitants of Porto Rico, are
terrorized. They expect the Ameri-
cans to lombard the city any day and
they are fleeing into the interior. The
city and suburbs are practically de.
serted.
The queen OF Spain has purchased
q new explosive known as daza and
the Pelayo and the Carlos v are
armed with it. American experts
say it is abont equal to crude dyna-
mite or bad gun cotton.
The third Philippine expedition
will land ea,ly in August. Dewey
and the insurgents are waiting their
arrival. 1t is difficult to restrain
the impatient insurgents from assaut-
ing Minila. $4,000 are said to have
laid siege to the city.
The arms of the Spanish soldiers
captured in Eastern Cuba were all
turned over to General Shafter. Not
only the arms of those engaged in
the battle of Santiago but of all
Spanish soldiers in the surrendered
territory.
The final report of the casualties
in the army since it landed in Cuba
three weeks ago have been forwarded
TO Washington. It shows an sggre.
gate OF 1.914 officers and men killed.
wounded and missing. The killed
numbered 249, of whom twenty one
were oficers; wounded, 1884, of
whom ninty- eight were officers, and
missing "a m nhnx,c 49,.