Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-10-13
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief:
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE From ALL PARTS
WAR NEWS.

Spanish troops continue evacuating
territory in Puerto Rico and the
American troops take possession of 1t
as soon as evacuated.
It is stated on authority that the
various stories published relating to
the work of the peace commission now
in Paris are purely speculative.
The Spanish government has sane
toned the sale, to South American re-
publics, of the Spanish gunboats lying
in Cuban waters.
It is announced from Madrid that
Admiral Cervera will be appointed
life senator.
Secretary Long has named the four
new monitors contracted for as fol-
lows: The Connecticut, the Florida,
the Arkansas and the Wyoming. :.
Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will go to
Havana the latter part of this month
to assume command of the United
States military forces in the Cuban
capital.
Admiral Howell has been relieved
from the command of the North At
lantic squadron and his flagship, the
San Francisco, has been order cred out of
commission.
The transport Port Victor sailed
from New York for Puerto Rico with
a large quantity of con,lnissary and
quartermaster's stores.
Orders were received at Jacksonville,
Tia, for the Seventh corps to prepare
at once to go to Savannah, where it
will be embarked for Cuba.
Before the war investigating COM
mittee Gen. Lee detailed the conditions
prevailing at the camp at Jackson
vile. He said the site was good one,
the supplies were. PLENTIFUL, the men
we'll taken care of, and he had no COM
plant to make of the war depart
Dent's treatment of his command.
Gen. Calixto Garcia left Santiago de
Cuba for the interior On his mission of
disbanding the Cuban insurgents. =;
Gen. Greene, Col. Lee and Maj Hersey
testified before the war investigating
committee in Washington that the vast
majority of complaints were exagger-
ated, if not without foundation.
"A general order was issued organic
ing new army corps and, designating
various points in the south where the
troops shall be stationed.
President Mckinley notified the
United States military commission at
Puerto Rico that the island must be
evacuated by the Spanish forces on or
before October 10.
The government has decided to make
Camp Wikoff a winter hospital camp,
and will erect there the largest and
hest equipped hospital in the world.
The government has informed Spain
that the evacuation of Cuba by the
Spanish army must be completed by
December 1.
Admiral Sampson was reported to be
extremely i'll in Havana.
The American evacuation commits
sioners gave a banquet in Havana in
honor of the Spanish commissioners.
An official statement shows that in
the war with Spain II persons in the
navy were killed and 81 wounded.
Gen. Lawton, military commander
OF the department of Santiago, sailed
for New York on the transport Michi-
gan. Gen. Wood will succeed him.
The Sixth United States (mmunes)
and the Forty-seventhe New York
sailed from New York for San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
japanese papers strongly favor the
retention of the entire Philippines by
the United States. ...