Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-06-02
CONDENSED WAR HISTORY.
Complete Record of Events Told IN
Few Lines and Covering All
Important News.
WEDNESDAY, NAY 2s

| WEDNESDAY MAY Is
All the telegraph cables through which
| Madrid could get tic lgs from Cuba have
with one exception. been cut
Admiral Dewey cables Washington on
eials that he is maintaining a strict block
/ ade at Manila. Foreign residents were
fleeing TO Cavite 10 gain protection Of the
American feet, feal Ing an outbreak on the
part Of the Spanish soldiers.
The battleship Oregon arrived at Jupiter.
on the east coast of Florida.
Starvation and suffering In Cuba have
reached an alarming state and people are
dying by hundreds. Gen. Blanco has con-
| centrated all his forces In the coas, cities
Cabinet officials have decided that Gen.
Merritt for the present shall not iisturb
the existing form OF government n the
Philippines until he has acquired a thor
ough knowledge Of the condition and sces-
stiles of the people.
Gen Miles says the lives of American SOL
diers will not be needlessly risked, either
by disease or bullets, in a too hasty in
Vasion OF Cuba, and he urges that the army
OF liberation be big one.
Americans continue to occupy stations
OUTSIDE OF Havana. cienfuegos, Caroenas
and Santiago de Cuba. There are nov 10
American warships before Havana
THURSDAY. MAY &c.
The administration has decided on al,
immediate military invasion of Puerto
Rico and Cuba
Ahree transport ships sailed from San
Francisco for the Philippines with 25OO men
and ammunition and supplies for one year.
President Mckinley issued a proclama-
ton calling for 1900 more volunteers. This
WIZ make the total army strength. regular
and volunteer $4,000.
Persons arriving at Kingston, Jamaica.
from Havana declare that Cuba is able to
resist only one month longer, owing to
scarcity OF provisions.
Madrid officially reports that Cervera and
his heet are at Santiago de Cuba, and that
an American (Schley's) squadron is patrol
ling the entrance to the bay.
SIMPSONS fleet of ironclads is or Havana
IN position to lombard the city and has re-
ceived detailed instructions and is pre-
pared TO pave the way for the landing of the
military expedition for the invasion OF
Cuba
FRIDAY MAY q.
The states are readily responding to the
second call for volunteers
The queen regent of Spain was urged to
nee from that country in fear of threatened
revolution.
Capt. Clark reached Key West with the
battleship Oregon and is rapidly getting
into shape for active work.
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet returned to a
point near Havana after six days of scout
ins for hostile ships along the Cuban coast.
Twenty-one of the % Spanish prizes in
Key West harbor were condemned by the
Judge and ordered to be disposed of by the
marshal
Commodore Schley cabled to Washington
that he had the Spanish armada under Ad-
miral Cervera securely cooped up in the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
Arrangements were being made at San
Francisco to send the second and third de-
tachments of troops to aid Admiral Dewey
at Manila without delay.
President Mckinley, Secretaries Long
and Alger. Gen. Miles and others held an
important conference al which, # is said.
the bombardment of Havana and Puerto
Rico was agreed on.
ENJOYS fIom Gen. Garcia sent 20 Wash
ington to arrange plans of cooperation
with the American forces say there are be-
tween 10000 and $500 Cubans now in the
field.
The Universal Peace union, through its
president, Alfred H. Love. OF Philadelphia,
sent an appeal to the queen OF Spain to ac-
knowledge Cuban Independence in the in
terests of peace.
The work OF mastering the volunteers
into the service of the United States under
the presidents first call for troops is prac-
tically completed.
SATURDAY. MAY 2s
Spain has abandoned hope OF aid from
European powers.
President Mckinley has nominated 28
brigadier generals for the volunteer army.
The gunboat Zahre arrived at Hong
Kong from Manila and rep orted that all
was quiet at Admiral Dewey's station.
A letter from Tampa, Fla, says 10000
men have sailed for Cuba and ere this
have effected junction with the insur-
gents.
Gen. Blanco telegraphed to Madrid that
Ceryera's squadron was at Santiago, but
definite information had not reached
Washington.
Ofhcials in Washington decided to make
no forward movement of troops either
upon Puerto Rico or Cuba until fun and
definite information is received as to the
location of the Spanish squadron and its
possibilities factor in the aggressive
movements of Spain.
In the senate in Madrid Marshal Primo
de Rivera, former captain general of the
Philippines, said: THAT rag called the
American flag shall never float over the