The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
lntere sting Items About the
Late War With
Spain.

secretary AlEer mas ordered an H.
vestigation ct Camp Wikoff.
The leading Filipinos 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 Moines) in spite of all precau.
tons.
General Brooke has reached San
Juan, Porto Rico, having marched
across the island.
Chaplain Mcintyre of the battleship
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 a 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.
tion company by the government;
The hospital ship Olivette myste.
riously sunk while at anchor at Fer.
nandina, Fla. The hospital corps and
crew escaped hurriedly and in scant
attire. g..
The transport Panama has sailed
from Ponce for New York with 200
convalescents aboard. The men were
from hospitals in Ponce, Guayama and
Mayaguez.
The government steamer Meigs was
destroyed by an explosion while re-
the mines from the Mississippi
river near New Orleans. -Four men
were killed. ..e..: +.
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 cartured at
Santiago have been released and will
be taken home at the expense OF the
Spanish government. ~ 49,
Orders have been issued by the war
department that all regular army regi-
ments now at Montauk, who were sta
toned previously east of the Mississippi
river, shall return to those same sta.
tions.
The state department has been noti-
fed 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 pS1,aps danger
ously impressed by the ghastly appear
ance of the repatriated soldiers from
Santiago de Cuba. ,.-
President Mckinley visited Camp
Wikoff, Montauk Point, Saturday, and
spent five hours with the heroes OF San.
tiago. He'went the rounds Of the hos.
pitals and later addressed the troops
on the infantry plain.
Christian Paulsen, q member OF
Company D, Twelfth Minnesota, died
at Lexington of q complication Of fever
and kidney trouble. His case had not
been considered serious and he had not
been taken to the hospital.
The Spanish transport Covadonga,
which sailed from Santiago de Cuba on
Aug. /, with 2,148 Spanish soldiers,
100 Spanish officers, A women and 40
children, a total of 2,345 passengers,
has arrived safely at Santander.
According to a table printed by the
New York Tribune $50 men and officers
have been killed in battle or died OF
wounds. The same table shows that
1884 men have died of disease in camp
or en- route home. Of the total num-
Der of deaths reported 515 were from
typhoid fever.
General Wheeler has given out a
statement contradicting the stories OF
starvation and suffering at Camp
Wikoff. He adds that the troops ell
gagged in the Santiago campaign ex'
pected to face hardships before starting
for Cuba and they did so, bravely and
without murmur.
The war department has given out
a list of the volunteer regiments to be
mustered out and also those to be re.
tained in service. The Northwestern
troops retained are the Forty.ninth
and Fifty.frst Iowa, the Thirteenth h
and Fifteenth Minnesota, the First
Montana, the First North Dakota, the
First South Dakota and the Third and
Fourth Wisconsin.