Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-18
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
" AR.

No more troops W. be sent TO
Porto Rico, Gen. Niles having
enough.
The Spaniards at Guantanamo laid
down their arms and surrendered TO
Brigader General Ewers.
1t is annouced at Madrid that Sa-
gasta will resign Immediately after
signing the peace treaty.
Porto Ricans fight the Spaniards.
The war has lasted 105 days and
cost us $140,5OO, 900.
The Spanish government formally
accepted our peace terms.
Colonel Hay is named as possible
successor to Secretary Day.
A thousand sick Spanish soldiers
sailed from Santiago for Spain.
General Miles, having heard that
the roads were mined, has changed
his route for moving on San Juan.
The transport Lampasas arrived at
FoN Monroe from Ponce, Porto Rico,
with 1O4 typhoid and malaria suffer
ers.
Gen. Garcia, with 5000 Cubans
arrived at Holquin, the pa tish
stronghold, and demanded it's surren-
der.
IN his official report to Madrid Ad-
niral Ceryera blames Captain Gener-
al Blanco for the destruction Of the
Spanish fleet.
The rough riders under command
# Colonel Roosevelt and the list Reg
uIar cavalry sailed from Santiago
for the United States.
Many business men sailed for Porto
Rico on the steamship Sylvia. The
island is said to offer golden oppor-
tunities to investors.
1t is said Japan has made an offer to
aid the Philippine insurgents with
arms and ammunition in case Ameri-
ca abandOns the islands.
Advices from Porto Rico say Gen
eral Miles army is advancing on San
Juan in four divisions only twenty
five miles from that city.
An order was issued in WASH l. IN
creating the military department Of
Santiago Major General Henry w.
LaWton to be in command.
influential citizens of the Philip
pines have appealed to President Nc
Kinley not to allow the control of the
islands to revert to Spain.
The President is firm in the deci-
sion that neither the United States nor
the republic of Cuba shall assume
any portion of the Cuban debt.
1t is reported at Washington that
Of oti mis-
Secretary Day will retire. He will
resume the practice of law in Canton,
Ohio.
The United States revenue cutter,
Walter @. Gresham, arrived at Bos-
ton, having sailed from Chicago
through the great lakes and ST.
Lawrence River.
President McKinleys friends say he
has become an enthusiastic ''imperi7
alist" since the war began and that
he has no fear of the result of the
extension of territory.
M. Cambon is said to have assured
President Mckinley that Spain will
comply with the peace terms of the
United States, but desires time to
understand all of them.
The first battle in Porto Rico is eX-
pected at Aybonitas, where more than
1000 Spaniards under Gen. Otega are
intrenched. No engagement is looked
for, however, for several days.
The Cuban Land and Colonization
company was chartered. It's capital
stock is $250,000. The company is
organized to run excursions to Cuba
and Porto Rico and colonize the lands.
Miss Jesse Schley, who went to
Spain to negotiate peace with the
queen regent, has cabled her father,
Charles Schley of Milwaukee asking
for 500 to enable her to return to
Paris.
An inspired article in a Madrid
newspaper urges that SPANS debt of
$555, 100000 incurred in trying to
suppress rebelliOns in Cuba be foisted
somehow upon the future Cuban re-
public.
The Madrid police are inquiring in
to a reported anarchist plot to assas-
sinate "a high parsonage" (presum-
ably Premier Sagasta), the ami
versay of the assassination of Premier
Canovas.
1t is feared by the wrecking COM
pany which has sent men to the
scene Of the battle Of July for the
purpose of raising the Christobal Co.
lon that it will be impossible to save
her.
Tho Norwegian steamer Franklin.
of 500 tons, bound from Vera Cruz
with a cargo of food supplies, was
captured by the converted yacht
Siren Monday off Francis Key, near
Caibarien.
Special Agent Robinson, in charge
OF the United States mail service in
Porto Rico, has reported to the de-
partment that all mail for the island
should be sealed with wax to insure
its safety.
The foreign consuIs at San Juan.
Porto Rico, advised Capt Gen. Ma
cias to surrender the island, but he
refused to do so. The consuls will
establish a neutral zone for he ..cn-
combatants.
Admiral Sampson, who will be in
command of the European squadron.
which is to be formed after the be-
ginning Of peace negotiations, NAV ~
sent to Constantinople to intimidate
the Turks.
Major General S. NJ. D. Young,
who recently returned from Santiago
where he was stricken with climatic