The Yale expositor., 1898-09-02
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

resigned his command in the Cuban
insurgent army.
About 81 600, 900 in gold and silver
coin was taken to Manila on the Scan
dia to pay the troops.
Secretary Alger reports that he found
the situation at Camp Wikoff, Mon
taulS Point, reasonably satisfactory.
The Corbett-McCoy battle, postponed
because of the tragic death of Corbett's
parents, is slated for Oct 1, at Buffalo.
Miss Helen NJ Gould has given $685.
600 to purchase food and delicacies for
the i'll and wounded soldiers in Camp
| Wil5off.
The Spanish-American peace COM
missoners, upon their arrival in Paris,
will be the guests of the French gov
ernment.
At Newmarket, Ont, Minnie Sexton
shot and killed her older sister, Susie,
because she was going to marry. They
were orphans.
Brig Gen. Haines has been ordered
home from Porto Rico and Brig Gen.
Grant now commands the Second brig
ade, comprising the Fourth Ohio and
Third Illinois,
The Spaniards in the Ladrone islands
have asked permission of Washington
| to go to Manila, ''as the situation is
! extremely critical" The nature of the
trouble is not known at Washington.
The secretary of war has sent tele-
| gram to Gen. Shafter at Santiago APP
proving his request to be allowed to
! bring home the cannon captured from
the Spanish army at and near Santiago.
Madrid: Upon receipt of kilograms
from Capt. Zen. Blanco in which he in
forms the government that Cuban in
| surgents continue attacking the Span
ish everywhere, the council instructed
Gen Blanco to resume an offensive at
titude toward the insurgents only.
Spanish soldiers have committed foul
outrages on Porto Ricans within their
! lines. At Gales 90 defenceless men
and women were butchered and many
young girls outraged. In revenge the
! Porto Ricans burned large amount of
Spanish property about Yauco and
Juan Diaz.
Spanish will be added to the list of
studies taught in the Chicago schools
! if DIR. L. Benjamin Andrews, the new
superintendent, has his way. He be-
lieves that with our acquisition of
large Spanish territory that language
becomes of as much Importance as
French and German.
Illness among the troops in Porto
Rico is on the increase. and there are
now nearly 900 cases of malaria and
| dysentery, with few of typhoid fever.
Surgeon General Greenleaf has recon-
mended that the sick be sent north as
rapidly as possible. Rumors of yellow
| fever at San Juan are not confirmed.
Secretary Alger made trip to Mon
tauk Point to inspect Camp Wikoff and
see how much truth there was in the
rumors of lack of facilities for caring
for the large number of troops as
sembled there. Col HeclSer and Maj.
| Hopkins, special war department
agents also went to Camp Wikoff to az
range for the comfort of the troops.
Havana authorities have declined to
allow the landing of a number of
| American correspondents. Gen. Blanco
says their presence, prior TO the arrival
! OF the military commissioners, might
! prejud ice the work of the commission
ers. and it would be impossible for the
authorities to guarantee the safety of
the correspondents against fanatics.
The Cuban military commission will
! sail Sept 3 either from New York or
! Fort Monroe, on the cruiser New York,
if she can be made ready in time. Adj
miral Sampson says that the mines will
| be removed from Havana harbor be-
fore the commission enters 1t is not
known whether or not the United
States will insist also that MORO castle
be put under its control.
The Thingvalia line steamer Norge,
arrived at New York and reported that
she sunk the French fishing schooner
La Coquette, of Bayonne, France, on
| the Grand banks, Newfoundland. The
captain and eight seamen were saved,
but 16 of the crew went down with the
unfortunate vessel. This accident oc-
Cured near the spot where the terrible
Burgoygne disaster took place.
The convention which has been en-
gagged in formulating constitution
for the United States of Central
America" embracing Salvador, Hon
duras and Nicaragua, has concluded
its work. Commissioners were APP
pointed to convene at Amapala, Hon
duras, on Nov. to make preparations
for the election on Dec. of a president,
senator's, representatives and federal
! judges for terms of four years, and for
the installation in office of those elected
on March 1, 1899.
Brig Gen. Joaquin Castillo. who ac-
companied Gen. Shafter to Cuba as a
representative of the Cuban army and
the Cuban civil government, has just
returned to New York. When asked
as to the friction existing between
Americans and Cubans at Santiago he
said that the latter had been grossly
exaggerated and that so far as Cubans
| ara oonrarnad fhCv hava tha utr,os+