Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1898-09-02
WAR ECHOES,

Gen. Weyler has announced that he
will enter Spanish politics.
Among the soldiers at Lexington
there were l43 typhoid fever cases
Tuesday.
In Cuba there is no further COM
plant from Spaniards of trouble with
the insurgents
When Admiral Cervera returns &c
Spain he will be met at Southampton
by Spanish fleet.
Gen. Wheeler has received peremp-
tory orders to have the Rough Riders
mustered out at once.
The Fourth Kentucky has been as
signed to the Third Brigade, Third
Division, First Army Corps.
A Pennsylvania concern is still run
ming night and day manufacturing pro-
jectiles for the army and navy.
Gen. Merritt has left Manila osten-
sibly for Paris, but the real objective
point is the United States. He is
shortly TO wed a Chicago girl, 10 years
his junior.
The hospital.ship Olivette sank mys-
teriously at Fernandiua, Fla, while
anchored off quarantine. The Hos
pital Corps OF 30 and crew OF 10 escap-
ed in scanty attire.
Within a day or two hospital trains,
furnished by the State, will be on
their way TO Chickamauga and 10 Fort
Monroe TO bring home the Kentucky
soldiers who are sick at those places.
B. V. Brooks, of Springfield, a pri-
vate in Company X, lst regiment, was
drowned Saturday while crossing a
ford near Ponce, Porto Rico. Two ma
tives who tried TO save him were also
drowned.
The war department Issued orders
mastering out nine regiments, embrac-
ing ii ,22l officers and men. OF these
regiments there are two now encamped
near Lexington. They are the lst and
9TH Illinois.
Fourteen of the soldiers on the AL
legheny died on the way from Santiago
to Montauk Point and were buried at
sea. The inspecting officers say the
Allegheny is a cattle ship and not fit
even for we'll troops.
Soldiers arriving at Lexington from
Chickamauga tell horror stories of the
hospital system and say plans are form
Ing for lynching a brutal surgeon OF
the Second Kentucky when the regi-
ment is mustered out.
Gen. Merritt granted Aguinaldo's
request that he be permitted to send a
to Paris TO be present
during the meeting Of the Peace Com
and he selected Col. Agon-
clio. one OF his personal friends.
John II. Meek, OF Fremont, o., faith
err of the first born sailor
killed in the Spanish-American war,
has received check for 800 from a
grateful Cuban, sent with great for
mality through the Cuban junta.
Admiral Cervera and the other Span
ish naval officers at Annapolis have
been informed that they are no longer
prisoners of the United States. The
prisoners at Portsmouth, captured
from Cervera's fleet, are also released.
The Eastern Kentucky Cavalry are
again on native soil and will remain at
Lexington until mustered out of ser.
vice. Troops A and b were mustered
into service last May and have been
part of Griesby's Rough Riders en-
camped at Camp Thomas, Chicka-
Park, all summer.
Gov. Bradley is making strong efforts
20 get the Kentucky sick from Chicka- J
nauga. He has wired Secretary AL
ger offering To equip special trains If
cave is granted him TO bring the sick
nome. The State has no funds for |
such purpose, but the Governor will
borrow TO meet the expense.
The Kansas City Stars Porto Rican }
furnishes copies of Off
,ial dispatches that, while Secretary |
Alger in official dispatches recognized
Miles authority as the senior in com
nand during his residence at Santiago,
ne at the same time sent TO Gen. Shat
er a dispatch, also official, but conceal
ID from Gen. Miles knowledge at the
lime, telling Shafter that it was not
Intended that Miles should in any way /
.nnercade him The Stars corresnond. J