Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-06-04
WAR NEWS.

Spanish spy captured on the steam
ship Panama has been identified as
Lieut.. Sobral, formerly Spanish naval
attache at Washington.
Lieut.. Meyler, U. S. A., completed
planting The mines in San Diego harbor
and the entire channel is now pro-
tected.
Persons arriving at Kingston, ia
maica, from Havana declare that Cuba
is able to resist only one month longer,
owing to scarcity of provisions.
Three transport ships sailed from San
Francisco for the Philippines with $500
men and ammunition and supplies for
one year.
Madrid officially reports that Cervera
and his fleet are at Santiago de Cuba,
and that an American (Schley's) squad
ron is patrolling the entrance to the
bay.
The administration has decided on an
immediate military invasion of Puerto
Rico and Cuba.
SIMPSONS fleet of ironclads was off
Havana in position to lombard the city,
and had received detailed instructions
and was prepared to pave the way for
the landing of the military expedition
for the invasion of Cuba.
President Mckinley issued proclama-
tion calling for $4,000 more volunteers.
This will make the total army strength,
regular and volunteer, 2S0,000.
Spain sent note inviting the powers
to protest jointly against the blockade
of Cuba, but no replies were received.
Capt. Clark, has reached Key West with
the battleship Oregon and is rapidly
getting into shape for active work.
ENJOYS from Gen. Garcia sent to
Washington to arrange plans of coop
GRAFTON with the American forces say
there are between 10000 and $4,000
Cubans now in the field.
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet has returned
to point near Havana after six days of
scouting for hostile ships along the Gu
ban coast.
Arrangements were being made at
San Francisco to send the second and
third detachments of troops to aid Ad-
| miral Dewey at Manila without delay.
Congressman b. q. Colson, of the
Eleventh Kentucky district, has been
commissioned to raise two regiments o
volunteers from his state.
The states are readily responding t.
the second call for volunteers.
The Universal Peace union, through
| its president, Alfred II. Love, of Phila
delphia, sent an appeal to the queen o.
Spain TO ackncvledge Cuban independ
ence in the interests of peace.
President Mckinley, Secretaries Lonf
and Alger, Gen, Miles and others held
| an important conference at which the
| bombardment of Havana and Puerto
Rico was agreed on.
The queen regent of Spain was urged
to flee from that country in fear OF
| threatened revolution.
Commodore Schley cabled 10 Wash.
| ington that he had the Spanish armada
under Admiral Cervera securely cooped
up in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
Twenty-one of the twenty-nine Span
ish prizes in Key West harbor were
condemned by the judge and ordered to
be disposed of by the marshal.
Spain has abandoned hope of aid from
European powers.
| 1ne gunboat Zafire arrived at Hong
Kong from Manila and reported that all
was quiet at Admiral Dew, s station.
Starvation and suffering in Cuba have
reached an alarming state and people
are dying by hundreds. Gen. Blanco
has concentrated all his forces in the
coast cities.
OF the 5000 Kansas volunteers mus
tered into service fully 600 are school
teachers.