Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-09-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATE WAR WITH SPAIN.

The leading Flipinos will petition
the United States for annexation.
Over 300 soldiers have died at Camp
Thomas since the beginning Of the war
Fever is increasing at Camp McKin'
ley (Des Moines1 in spite of all precau
tons.
General Brooke has reached Sau
Juan. Porto Rico, having marched
across the island.
Chaplain Mcintyre of the battleshir
Oregon is to be courtmartialed for crit
icizing superior officers.
Reports from Havana state that in
surgents throughout the island of Cuba
have suspended hostilities.
At Camp Wikoff, while walking,
General Young tripped on piece OF
wire and fell, breaking his arm.
Fourteen members of the Ninth Mas.
sachusetts died on board the transport
Allegheny between Santiago and New
York.
Insurgents at Manila have occupied
the trenches abandoned by the Ameri.
cans and declare they will have indie.
pendence or fight.
Orders have been issued to gradually
reduce the large force now at Camp
Wikoff. Three or four thousand men
will leave each week.
General Pando, who was falsely re.
ported to have fed from Havana for
Spain with large sum of money, has
arrived at New York.
The auxiliary cruisers ST. Paul, st.
Louis, Harvard and Yale have been
returned to the International Naviga.
ton company by the government
The hospital ship Olivette mystic.
riously sunk while at anchor at Fer.
nandina, Fla The hospital corps and
crew escaped hurriedly and in scant
attire.
The transport Panama has sailed
from Ponce for New York with 200
convalescents aboard. The men were
from hospitals in Ponce, Guyana and
Mayaguez.
The government steamer Msigs was
destroyed by an explosion while re-
moving the mines from the Mississippi
river near New Orleans. Four men
were killed.
The Hong Kong correspondent of The
Daily Mail says: United States Consul
Wildman has learned from General
Green that Chinese are not allowed to
land at Manila.
Admiral Cervera and all the other
Spanish naval prisoners scartured at
Santiago have been released and will
be taken home at the expense of the
Spanish government.
Orders have been issued by the war
that all regular army regi-
ments now at Montank, who were sta
toned previously east of the Mississippi
river, shall return to those same sta
lions.
The state department has been noti-
lied that orders have been issued to the
Spanish officials at Havana to remove
The mines and other distractions to
navigation in that harbor as rapidly as
possible.
The Madrid correspondent of The
Daily Chronicle says: The lower
classes are deeply and perhaps danger.
ously impressed by the CHASTITY appear
ance Of the repatriated soldiers from
Santiago de Cuba.
President Mckinley visited Camp
Wikoff, Montauk Point, Saturday, and
pent five hours with the heroes of Sam
iago. He went the rounds of the hos.
,itals and later addressed the troops
IN the infantry plain.
Christian Paulsen, q member Of |
Company D, Twelfth Minnesota, died |
It Lexington of q complication of fever
md kidney trouble. His case had not |
Oeen considered serious and he had not |
'een taken to the hospital.
The Spanish transport Covadonga, |
which sailed from Santiago de Cuba on
Aug. Il, with 2,l48- Spanish soldiers,
90 Spanish officers, A. women and 40 |
total OF 2.345 passengers,
has arrived safely at Santander.
According to table printed by the
New York Tribune $50 men and officers |
ave been killed in battle or died of
Wounds The same table shows that
1884 men have died of disease in camp
It en- route home. OF the total num-
Ter of deaths reported SIS were from
Uphold fever.
General Wheeler has given out a
contradicting the stories Of
tarvation and suffering at Camp
VikoH. He adds that the troops en-.
aged in the Santiago campaign OK.
'ected to face hardships before starting
or Cuba and they did so, bravely and
Without a murmur.
The war department. has given out
list of the volunteer regiments to be
mustered out and also those to be re.
aimed in service. The Northwestern
roops retained are the Forty.ninth
nd Fifty. first Iowa, the Thirteenth
nd Fifteenth Minnesota, the First
Iontana, the First North Dakota, the
irst South Dakota and the Third and
'ourth Wisconsin.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
The navy IS to be entirely supplied
nth smoksless powder.