The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-07-01
WAR PARAGRAPHS.
A Brief Compilation OF Daily
Occurrences.

landed at that place, together with
parts Of crews Of foreign warships in
Manila harbor II can also be stated
that the officials, from tho president
down, do not credit the reports.
Army officers say the Atlanta, Ga,
ministers are making O serious mis-
take In condemning the canteen sys-
tenn, and think they ought TO open
their eyes 10 the facts aud not insist
upon a course which will surround tho
camps with blind tigers and mean
whisky and bring Generalization and
disorder.
Surgeon General Van Reypen Of the
navy has received a report from the
surgeon with Admiral SIMPSONS feet
who cared for the dead and wounded
marines in which he denies thot the
dead were mutilated. Seven wounds
from a Muaser rifle ball we're mistaken
for multilation.
Another battleship "Maine" is to be
built aud Ensign Bagley's heroism is
to be marked by naming a torpedo
boat "Bagley" IL will be torpedo
boat No. "a and the Maine will be bat
tleship No. 10.
Quartermaster General Luddington,
Of the war department, has received a
telegram from Quartermaster Long at
San Francisco, saying that the third
military, expedition Of the Philippines
will leave San Francisco next Monday
on six transports, namely, the Ohio,
Indiana, City Of Para, Morgan City,
Valencia and Newport.
The first serious conflict between
our troops and the Spaniards in Cuba
took place within seven miles Of San
tiago. The Americans engaged con-
sisted of four troops of the First Cav
airy, four troops of the Tenth Cavalry
and eight troops of Roosevelt's Rough
Riders, less than a thousand men in
all. The Spanish forces numbered
1000
Reports received at the adjutant
generals Office of the war department
show that the formation Of the new
organizations of regiments, battalions,
ETC., under the presidents second call
for troops by the mastering in of the
volunteers, is now fairly under way.
Personally he is most DESTROYS of
being with the troops, for, as he says
to his friends, he has been with the
men for thirty years and his spirit is
with them now, although circum-
stances necessitate his remaining here
for time. There is a possibility that
he may go with General Henry's di-
vision when the Harvard and Yale
make their second trip from Newport
News, but this is quite doubtful.
In most of the states, the probable
ity is all the men necessary for the
new organizations should be obtained
in two or three weeks at the least.
Col, the Hon. w. j. Bryan is at old
Fort Omaha where, under the instruc-
ton of Col. Vifquain, a veteran of the
COS, he is studying regimental tactics.
Admiral Sampson is now in constant
and practically immediate cable COM
munication with the navy department.
Dispatches can be sent every half hour.
Secretary of the Navy Long has sent
to Assistant Naval Constructor R. p.
Hobson, in care of the commander in
chief of the North Atlantic squadron,
an inspiring letter, commencing him
for the extraordinary heroism he dis
played in sinking the collier Merrimac
in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
Tampa, Fla, is again to be made the
rendezvous for large force, and the
department is securing complete de-
tails with a view to centering another
large feet of transports there. With
the troops moving to THESE points and
the expedition well advanced, General
Miles will be free to join the army in
the field.
| Admiral Sampson has again notified
the state department that Lieutenant
Hobson and his men are all well. They
are confined in the city of Santiago
four miles from Moro
: Later advices state that sixtee1
Americans were killed in the battle o
La Quasina, fought by the Rough Ri
ders and Spaniards near Santiago
The list Of wounded will reach owe
sixty.
The Washington officials express
themselves as thoroughly Statistic,
with the result of the first real confic
in Cuba, realizing that war cannot b
! successfully waged without sacrifice o
life.
A Madrid newspaper publishes re
port to the effect that the peace condi
tions suggested by the government 0
the United States call for the posses
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