Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-11-12
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
LONfE AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
WAR NEWS.

Preparation is being made for the
troops to spend the winter at Hunts
Vile, Ala. A contract involving the ex-
penditure of $55,O00 has been let for
the erection of mess halls and sheds.
The customs receipts in Santiago in
October under American management
amounted to $69,6o0, an increase over
October. 1897 of over $4,000.
The Illinois naval reserves who are
still in the service have been ordered
home to be mustered out. There are
about 100 of them.
The Spanish steamer Montserrat ar
rived in Cadiz from Santiago de Cuba
with repatriated troops. There were
os deaths on board during the voyage.
The Sixth Virginia, negro regiment,
mutinied at Knoxville, Tenn, because
white officers superseded negro officers,
who had resigned under pressure.
The Spanish authorities are prepar-
ing to close all matters of the admins
tration of the island of Cuba during
this month.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin announced that the
war department would proceed at once
to bring back to the United States the
remains of such soldiers as have died in
Cuba, Puerto Rico and at Manila during
the late war.
The American commissioners went to
the Colon cemetery in Havana and
placed flowers on the graves of the vic
tins of the Maine explosion.
The Spanish military commissioners
in Havana notified the American COM
missioners that the province of Puerto
Principe would be evacuated before No
vember 22
Admiral Dewey cabled the navy de-
partment that the Charleston had sailed
from Manila for Iloilo, on the island of
Panay. This is the last seat of Spanish
power in the Philippines.
The cruiser Buffalo left Brooklyn for
Manila with 700 bluejackets, who will
replace the men in Admiral Deweys
fleet who have served out their terms
of enlistment.
Direct evidence connecting Gen. Wey-
ler of Cuban fame and memory with
the wholesale looting of the Philippine
treasury has been unearthed in Manila
The gunboat Helena, Commander
Swinburne, has left the Boston navy
yard for the China station by way of
the Suez canal.
Secretary Long says that the govern
ment will take no further step to raise
the rest of the Spanish warships de-
stroyed by Admiral Schley's fleet off
the coast of Santiago
The transport Pennsylvania with the
Fifty-first regiment of Iowa volunteers
on board sailed from San Francisco for
Manila.
1t was reported that Premier Sa-
gasta had instructed the Spanish peace
commissioners in Paris not TO give up
the Philippines,
Spain rejected the United States
proposition regarding the Philippines
at Joint session of the peace commits
sion in Paris, but the Madrid represen-
tatives did not withdraw from the con-
ference. Premier Sagasta, in an inter
view at Madrid, practically admitted
his country must finally yield. The
United States are prepared to resume
hostilities at any moment and admins
tration officials declare the navy and
army in better shape than at any time
during the war.
Eight companies of the One Hundred
and Fifty-eighth Indiana volunteers
were paid off and mustered out at Indi.
annapolis.
Seventeen Cubans arrived in New
York on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm,
having been released from the Spanish
prison at Ceuta recently.
The cruiser Maria Teresa, Admiral
Cervera's flagship raised at great ex-
pense at Santiago by Lieut. Hobson and
added to the American navy, foundered
of San Salvador in u storm and went
to the bottom. Those on board were
saved.
Advices from Madrid say that Spain
will sign the peace treaty under pro
test.
The transport City of Puebla sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, carry
ing COS men and officers.
The Fourth Ohio infantry, which
passed through Washington en- route
from Porto Rico to Columbus, was paid
the compliment of a reception at the
white house.
Yellow fever is rapidly on the in
crease in Havana and is causing great
anxiety among the American officials.
DOMESTIC.
The business portion of Divide, Col.
was wiped out by fire.
Jennie Holderman killed herself at
Pryor Creek. |. t.. because her Indian
lover, John Watka, met death while re-
sistng arrest
BY dynamite explosion in the Trio
mine at jamestown. Cal David Stewart
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