Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-03
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
PEACE POINTERS.

OIL the oregon duu low " 1ldulLd.
Gen. Wade reported that the yellow
fever season in Havana is practically
over.
SPANS commissioners will issue a
circular note to the powers regarding
the Cuban debt.
The Filipino insurgents have as
sumed a threatening attitude toward
the Americans.
The disbanding of the Cuban vol
unteers by General Blanco is pro-
ceeding rapidly.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany wants a franchise for a cable
line to Porto Rico.
Three hundred persons at Glen
fuegOs have issued circular pro-
claiming Cuban independence.
Spanish officers in Cuba are said to
be practicing more and more corrup-
ton as evacuation draws near.
The Philippine insurgents are obey
ing the American command to with
draw from the suburbs Of Manila.
The American Commission at Paris
declared that the United States would
assume no part of SPANS Cuban debt.
Gen. CaliXtO Garcia has been chosen
temporary chairman of the Cuban ma
tional assembly at Santa Cruz del Sur.
One hundred and thirty men of the
4th Wisconsin regiment are reported
sick at Admission. Of these 103 are
unfit for duty.
War expenses since April q, $751;
529,94l, or a trife over 100000 a
day. Civil war, $3,065, 413, 425, or
$1,685, 156 daily.
A cabinet crisis at Madrid is
OF power it is believed that Polavieja
would succeed him.
The Cuban assembly met and will
send committee to ask Mr.. Mckinley
if he intends to observe congress-
pledge Of independence.
The president approved the findings
OF the court-martial which sentenced
Chaplain Mcintyre, of the Oregon, to
dismissal from the service.
INDIGESTION over construction in Cuba
OF permanent landing-places shows
the administration has not decided on
long or short occupation.
Two six-inch guns from the bat
teries of El VedarO, Cuba, were re-
moved BY Spaniards in spite of the
agreement to let the matter rest.
A Spanish gunbOat forced steamer
flying the American flag to return to
Manila. The steamer started out
again with the McCulloch as a con-
yoy.
The Spanish chief of finance for the
Philippines has arrived at Marseilles
and started for Paris to give techni-
cal information to the peace commits
sion.
Ii is reported l.. Washington that a
naval demonstration will be made at
Havana to compel the Spaniards to re-
spect and comply with American de-
mands.
The United States transport Man
itOba, carrying the Sd Wisconsin vol
urteer regiment, arrived from Ponce
aud the boys were at once brought
home.
In his report OF naval operations
leading to the bottling up OF Cervera,
Admiral Sampson condemned mont
tors as inefficient and said their shoot
ing was bad.
Major General John c. Brecken-
ridge returned to Washington and as
Sumed his regular duties at the war
department as inspector general of
the army.
Corporal c. \. Bell, of Company NJ
"a
sent back sick from Honolulu, died
on the steamer Corona just as she
reached San Diego.
Guam, one of the Ladrone islands,
which was captured by the Charleston
on her way from San Francisco to
Manila, was definitely ceded by Spain
to the United States.
Gen. Pho del Pillar, an insurgent
leader in the Philippines, has been
arrested by AguinaldO for disregard
ing the latter's authority and attempt
ing to defy the Americans.
The American peace commissioners
are reported to have decided upon
line OF policy in regard to the Philip
pine question, but their decision has
not been made public.
Orders were issued at the war
department directing the 9Th in
fantry. now at Fort Thomas, Ky, to
proceed TO points in Texas, with
headquarters at San Antonio.
Captain W. A. Chadwick of the I'd
Illinois Infantry, who had been i'll
with typhoid fever at Jacksonville,
Fla, died at Chattanooga, while on
his way to his home in Chicago.
The report of Gen. John NJ. Wilson,
chief of engineers, says the operations
OF our fleet in the West Indies show
that land defenseS will insure our har-
bors' safety in case Of attack from sea.
The reason why the time for the
evacuation of Cuba has been extended
from Dec. / to Jan. l, is that it is
physical impossibility for the Spanish
troops in Havana, numbering $4,000,
to be shipped home before then.
In his annual report Secretary Long
viii recommend the addition of more
battleships and torpedo boats for the
navy, and will also urge that armored
cruisers, OF the type of the Spanish
vessels destroyed at Santiago, be pro-
yided for.
me second and third battalions of
the 18th Kansas regiment embarked
on the transport Indiana at San Fran
cisco. The Indiana will sail for
Manila as soon as her human cargo is
aboard. At the same time the Ohio