Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-05-27
War Notes.

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The Irish leaders very naturally dis
favor an Anglo-American alliance.
1t is expected that the L. s. army
will reach 1874 900 by the 1st of June.
SPANS flying squadron has at last
"lighted" Now for handful of salt.
1t is said that the battle-ship Oregon
has joined one OF the Cuban squadrons.
A signal corps is to be organized in
connection with the Washington regi-
ment
The United States is ready to stop
the war now if Spain will give up
Cuba.
Madrid dispatches say that revolu-
ton will surely follow another Spanish
defeat.
Congressman Jerry Simpson wants
to go to war as Colonel of II Kansas
regiment.
1t now turns out that thousand
Spaniards were wounded in the de-
Tense of Cienfuegos.
The government has authorized
an advance to the Manila troops of one
months payment for service.
Sixteen submarine divers were en-
ployed at Key West to scrape the bot
toms of Sampson and Schleys fleets.
Rioting exists at Manila over scar
city of supplies. Horse flesh sells at
$l.5O per pound, and is scarce at that.
Major General Wheeler, of Alabama
has asked the President to appoint
William J. Bryan to q high position
on his staff.
The populace OF Manila is reduced
to the alternative of eating horse flesh
or starving and the prospect of relief
seems far distant.
An epidemic of measles and pneu-
monia has broken out in the Fifth
Regiment Missouri Volunteers, at
Jefferson barracks.
The total number of troops mus
tered into the service of the United
States under Presidential calls up to
Tuesday was 10000.
Sir Henry Irving, at a banquet in
New York for the newspaper press,
made graceful reference to the Anglo
American alliance project.
Manila used to be spelled with
double |, and the reason given by an
exchange for now using but one is,
that Dewey knocked ell out of it.
In the army there is chance to
rise from the volunteer ranks to the
highest command. In the navy no
sailor can hope to become even an en-
sign.
Rear Admiral Dewey has supplied
the insurgents with two cannon and
300 rifles, with which to conquer a
peace with the insolent Spaniards at
Manila.
The Spanish government announces
its intention of arming the heaviest
and fastest steamships belonging to
the Compania Transatlantica, which
has 81 vessels.
A well-drilled company of Indians
belonging to the Puyallup reservation
school, has volunteered its services to
Uncle Sam. The company has its
own brass band.
The Fanita, 4OO-ton steamer, left
Mobile Tuesday, with cargo of am.
munition, presumably for Cuba, as
Brigadier-General Rodugnez, and forty
five Cuban patriots were on board.
The sympathy of our government
for the oppressed Cubans finds de-
cided chill, when we find that they
possess little if any appreciation of the
service that is being rendered to them.
The President issued another call
for troops, Wednesday. This makes
the aggregate number under the
three calls that have been made,
united with the regular force, $4,000.
Now that the warship Oregon has
safely reached the American fleet, and
is safe from capture by some tramp
Spanish gunboat, let us save our
anxiety for some occurrence more
likely to happen.
A London cablegram says that the
British government has served notice
on France that she must renounce all
claim in the African interior within a
month and withdraw her expeditions
and other representatives.
1t is reported that Adjutant General
Ballaine will take a commission as
First Lieutenant of Company l., First
Washington Regiment, in place of r.
A. Koonts, who has resigned in con-
sequence of illness OF his wife.
The firing of the Spanish cruiser
Isabella ii on the British collier
Roth, at San Juan, just after the bonn
bardment, promises serious conse.
quences, which the Spaniards seek to
avert by declaring it an accident.
Last week special trains were con-
tinually passing over all the transcon-
tinental roads carrying U. S. troops
bound to San Francisco, en- route for
the Philippines. About 5000 were
ready for the ocean transports Sunday.