Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-07-29
WAR ITEMS.

Danish West Indies, states that
United States troops were landing
Monday near Ponce, Porto Rico.
Ponce is the principal commercial
city of the island, and there is said to
be a good road from that place to San
Juan. The distance between the two
places in straight line is torty-hve
miles and by the main road seventy
FIVE miles.
General Miles will have in Porto
Rico an army of $4,000 men-More
than General Shafter had at Santiago.
General Brooke, who will lie second
in command, arrived at Newport
News Monday, aud many additional
troops also reached that place to en-
bark. 1t is now likely that the expe-
dition will leave Newport News be-
fore Thursday or Friday.
General Hudson's new brigade, III
Guiding the Fifth Maryland, First
Florida and Second Georgia Regi-
ments, has been officially ordered to
prepare for service in Porto Rico,
and to hold itself in readiness to EN-
bark on transports at Tampa.
Seven thousand Spanish soldiers at
Guantanamo surrendered Monday.
Those at Baracoa and Sagua, which
were included in General Toral's capl
tulation, are yet to yield.
General Garcia has arrived at
Jiguany, Santiago province. An AS
sociated Press dispatch from Santiago
states that he did not, us reported,
have a fight with Spaniards after the
recent surrender.
Cubans who live in Cleniuegos nave
appealed to Admiral Sampson to cap
ture that city and rescue them from
starvation.
General Shafter cables that merch-
ants in Santiago refuse to accept
American silver dollars at their face
value, but insist upon discount OF
80 cents, as in the case Of Mexican
dollara
In dispatch to the War Depart
ment General Shafter reports that
500 new eases of fever developed in
his corps at Santiago on Sunday. One
more death from yellow fever is re-
ported. About $50 men who have
been i'll have returned to duty. The
fever is ofan unusually mild type, and
Gen. Shafter thinks the situation is
improving. The War Department
has abandoned, for the present at
least, its plan of bringing the army at
Santiago to the United States.
Four more japanese warships have
been sent to the Philippines. 1t is
stated that their officers have been
ordered to cooperate with the Ameri'
can and British adnirals in the event
of international complications.
The Cuban colonial government, 1t
is announced in Madrid, will confer
with representatives, of Gen. Maxine
Gomez, and nope that the conference
may result in the insurgents espous-
ing the Spanish cause.
They have Hobson engaged to
two beautiful young ladies, and all
the precincts have not been heard
from.
The Navy Department at Wash
ington has made public the detailed
reports of Acting Rear-Admiral
Sampson, Commodore Schley and
Captains Clark and Evans on the
naval battle off Santiago, which re
suited III the destruction Of the Span
ish feet. Admiral Sampson states
that he had very little to do with the
actual fighting, as his flagship, the
New York, was seven miles away
when the Spanish vessels came out of
the harbor of Santiago.
The army of Porto Rica invasion
is rapidly landing at Guanica, fifteen
miles west of Ponce, on the southern
coast of the island. The Spaniards
made but slight resistance and retired
after losing four men killed. None of
the Americans was hurt.
General Miles was not expected by
Washington officials to land at
Guanics, but at place remote from
that locality. News of his landing
came as surprise to the War De
partment, and Encouragement of
plans will be necessary. The cruiser
Dixie has been sent to Cape San
juan to notify General Brooke ofthe
change.
Premier Sagasta, when questioned
on the subject in Madrid Tuesday,
admitted that an American force