Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-07-18
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WAR.


The President has decided to send
a regiment to Honolulu.
The Spanish exchanged Lieutenant
Hobson and his men.
The orders to move troops from
Chickamauga are countermanded.
The Spanish gunboat Leyte surren-
dered to the McCulloch in Manila
bay.
A Spanish privateer is reported to
be lowering off the coast of British
Columbia.
The foreign press is almost unit
in advertising that Spain should sue
for peace.
Admiral Dewey was reported to have
planned an attack on Manila by land
and sea.
President Mckinley asked the
American people to give thanks for
their recent victories.
A London correspondent cables that
Europe is exerting strong, united
pressure to bring about peace.
Spain is said to have coded coal
ing station TO Germany in the Philip
pines before the present war.
The president has nominated Perry
Belmont of New York to be inspector
general with the rank of major.
President McKinley's cabinet re-
CARDS the situation as more favorable
to peace than at any previous time.
The Austrian fleet is concentrated
rear Ragusa ready to start for Spain
in case Of danger to the queen regent.
Gen. Skaters official report places
the casualties at Santiago July l and
2 at $50 dead, 1924 wounded and 70
missing.
Austria is said to be contemplate
ing proposals for immediate interven-
ton by the European powers in be-
half of Spain.
Gen. Miles issued an order to the
army having for its purpose enforced
abstinence from the use of intoXi-
eating liquors.
Seven Spanish guerillas who killed
Red Cross physicians at work in the
battlefield have been captured and
may be shot
General Shafter still wants the fleet
to force the entrance to Santiago, but
Admiral Sampson does not consider
it advisable at present.
General Randolph with 5000 men
and six batteries of artillery of four
guns each were landed near Santiago
to re-enforce Shafter.
Admiral Dewey confirms the re-
ported arrival Of the first expedition
at Manila and the capture of the
Ladrone islands.
The London Outlook asserts that
Germany has decided to seize one Of
the Philippine islands, but has not
picked one out yet.
Army plans in Washington indicate
that the president and his military
advisers believe the war will last
till late in the fall.
At a church meeting at Peru, Ind,
resolutions were adopted appealing to
the president to prohibit the canteen
at all army and navy camps.
Russian newspapers think it is time
to stop the war. The Novosti sug-
gests that Britain, as our best friend
in Europe, offer to mediate.
Admiral Sampson has reported that
a board headed by Lieut.. Hobson has
decided that the Maria Theresa can
be raised and added to our navy.
The foreign consuls have left San
tiago, and $500 refugees, mostly
French, have gone to FL Caney to es-
cape the expected bombardment.
The cruiser st. Louis reached Ports
mouth, N. H., with Admiral Cervera,
fifty officers and 692 sailors, all from
the Spanish fleet destroyed July at
Santiago.
A member of the British consulate,
who left Havana for Kingston, says
the poor are dying of starvation and
that there is neither flour nor meat
in the city.
A cable from the Spanish consul at
Hong-Kong to Madrid stated that the
Philippine rebels had revolteN against
the Americans and that shots had
been exchanged.
Gen. Miles is at Santiago relieving
but not superseding Gen. Shafter, who
is i'll. After the capture of Santiago
Gen. Miles and $4,000 men will be
taken to Porto Rico.
The monitor Monterey and collier
Brutus started from Honolulu for
Manila, but abandoned the trip be-
cause of the bad condition of the
boilers of the Brutus.
Gen. Draper, ambassador to Rome,
in Washington on leave OF absence,
says Italy is more friendly to the
United States than any European
power except England.
Shipping men hope that now Ger
veras fleet is ours the secretary
of war will order the removal of the
mines in New York harbor and stop
the blockading of the port.
1t is said at Madrid that peace ne.
gotiations are cons idered urgent, the
hopelessness CT the wal situation be-
ing recognized. There is no confidence
that the powers will interfere.
Col. Wood of the rough riders was
promoted to brigadier general and
is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt,