Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1898-09-22
WEEKLY WAR HISTORY.
Complete Record Of Events Told IN
Few Lines Covering Ala
Important News.
TUEsDAY. sEpTEAlEER e.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER i3
Rear Admiral Dewey says he considers
. the situation IN the Philippines critical and
he has asked for az additional cruiser and
q battleshIp.
The city Of Rome. with Admiral Cervera
ana stan and over l,700 Spanish prisoners.
/ sailed from Portsmouth. y. H.. for San
/ lander, Spain.
ia the Spanish senate Count d'Almenas
! said that Gen. Weyier. Gen. Blanco, Gen
/ Primo de Rivera and Admiral Cervera
1 ought to be disgraced
/ Gen. Miles is working out plans for the
REORGANIZATION of the army. He contem-
| plates the formation of four corps, COM
1 posed Of 100000 volunteers. 10 be retained
/ in the service ard the regular army
Reports submitted TO Gen. Brooke by the
! various commanders show that II per cent.
/ Of the American army Of il 600 men in the
! island OF Puerto r. are on the sick list.
4 The men are mostly afflicted with typhoid
I malaria. The death rate IS small
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER a.
! The war department announces that no
more troops Will be mustered out
Only one regiment. the Sixth United
States volunteers. now remains at Chicka-
Secretary Day says tina, the work Of the
peace commission will probably be done in
six weeks.
It Is reported that Cen Maxine Gomez.
rendered his resignation because he OBJ
jected TO American control in Cuba.
Gen. Shafter called at the war depart
| ment and submitted his report on the San
fiago campaign. 1t covers from beginning
10 end the operations OF the army undes
| mis- command in Cuba.
II Is announced that at a cabinet meet
ing Il Was decided 10 forever hold the Is
iaEf Of Luzon. in addition to the city OF
Manila, and that definite Instructions look
ing to such a policy would be given the
American peace commissioners.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Is.
The peace commissioners met in Joint
session at San Juan. Puerto Rico.
Word reached the navy department that
all the Spanish war vessels in Puerto Rico
had left that country
Gen Wheeler denied that he had said
that President Mckinley had said to him
that the war was not over.
The insurgent troops quartered in the
suburbs of Manila marched out In obedi-
ence to Gen. Otis ultimatum
Ghe newspapers reaching the state de-
partmeut In the official mains from the ca st
show that the almost universal express
sion in the public press of Japan is in favor
OF the United States holding permanently
and governing the Philippine islands
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER is.
At his own request Capt. Evans has been
relieved of the command of the battleship
Iowa, and Capt Silas Terry succeeds him.
The American and Spanish military COM
missioners are carrying on their negotia-
tons with the utmost cordially in Havana
Reguisr troops are to be modified in
the southern camps preparatory to send
Ing armies of occupation to Cuba and
Puerto Rico.
Gen Miles was confined to his bed in
Washington with a touch of malarial
fever resulting from exposure In his re-
cent campaigns.
Secretary of Navv TnrC Ia
the battieships Iowa and Oregon were I'M
der orders to proceed to Man la to reen-
force Rear Admiral Dewey's command
The predominant feature of the situa-
ton in Cuba is the feverish and wide
spread agitation ii the Cubans in favor
Of the absolute Independence of the island
at all costs.
orders nave been issued by Secretary
Long disbanding the eastern squadron and
assigning its commander, Commodore J.
G. Watson, 20 duty commandant of the
Mare Island navy yard In California
Secretary Long has directed that the
battleship which is TO be built by the
Union iron works in San Francisco shall
be named The Ohio. The Cramps will build
the Maine and the Newport News company
the Missouri.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER L.
The North Atlantic squadron is to be
reduced from force of about 100 vessels
to 80
been
appointed Montero Rios. president of the
senate. will preside.
The queen regent of Spain has signed the
DEGREES ceding territory to the United
States. thus making complete the terms
of the protocol
Gen ToraI. who surrendered the Spanish
army at Santiago to the Americans, ar
rived at Vigo. Spain, and was greeted with
4 storm of Kisses and abuse
A telegram from Gen Otis at Manila
states that the insurgents have acceded to
all demands imposed by him and that they
have evacuated the entire city
The Philippine national assembly was in
augurated at Malolos and in an address
Aguinaldo. the nsurgent leader. said his
followers desired complete independence.
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 19.
The Society of the Army of Santiago was
organized at Camp Wikoff, Long Island.
with Gen. Shafter as president
Gen. Lawton reports to the war Depart
ment that all but eight of the Spanish
prisoners in Santiago have been returned
TO Spain.
The United States commissioners to con-
clude the terms of peace with Spain sailed
from New York on the steamer Campania
for Paris.
President Mckinley has fixed the army
of occupation for cuba at $1,000 men, that
of Manila AZ 20,000. Puerto Rico II coo and
Honolulu 5000
The supreme council of war in Spain has
suspended Admiral Montijo, whose squad
ron was destroyed by Admiral Dewey in
Manila ha. and has summoned him to
come to Madrid ait once.
The work OF the military commission In
San Jlan is practically over all arrange
mcnts for the evacuation by the Spanish
troops and the receipt OF soy eminent
property having been determined upon
Died Suddenly.