Connecticut western news., 1898-09-29
ECHOES OF THE WAn.

All the British. French and German warships have left Manila.
 Admiral Cervera and General Toral arrived at their homes in Spain Thurs day. j peace commission aboard, arrived at Queenstown Friday.
 Ten thousand Spaniards in Porto Rico have demanded that the Spanish gov ernment take them home.
 The war department is hurrying preparations for sending re-enforee- ments to General Otis at Manila.
 The president has demanded that the Spaniards begin the evacuation of Cuba by Oct. 15 and complete it by Dec. 31.
 It was announced In Washington Sat- urday that a new military department embracing Cuba and Porto Rico is to be created.
 The two delegates from the Philip pine insurgents arrived in Washington Tuesday in company with General Francis " Greene. They are endeav- bring to obtain an audience with the president. They say they have not ye< received their instructions from tho Philippine government.
 Lieutenant Colonel Rush s. Huide- Roper, who as chief surgeon at Camp Thomas was accused of incompetency. has resigned from the army.
 A detachment of the marine corps which served at Guantanamo. Cuba, ar- rived in Washington Thursdo" and war reviewed by President McK1ey.
 President Mckinley has ordered bar racks built in the largest cities for the accommodation of the troops during the winter One Is being secured in Boston.
 The Third United States cavalry went from Montauk Point. N. Y.. to New London. Conn.,, by transport Thursday and then took trains for Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.
 Captain General Blanco has appointed a commission to arrange for the trans portation of the remains of Columbus from Cuba to Spain.
 Plans have been made for the dispatch of two divisions of United States troops to Cuba, one in October and one in Mo- vember. The two divisions will number about 12.000 men.
 The pension office has rece.Si about 500 applications based u>on claims growing out of the war with Spain. They will be referred 10 a new division for rapid action.
 Aguinaldo finds great difficulty in reconciling the various factions Of the Filipinos. The proposition to lay taxes for the support of his army has been strongly resisted.
 Corporal John Ashton Boyle of the Twenty-second infantry, who is said to have captured the first Spanish flag taken in Cuba, has been made a second lieutenant in the regular army.
 James Twisby and Lindsley P. Holt, members of the Tenth cavalry, colored. quarreled Sunday night at Camp Wi koff over the ownership of Spanish coin. Holt shot Twisby, who died Mon- day morning.
 The United States transport Yucatan arrived in New York Monday from Ponce and Santiago Rith 134 officers and privates and civilians. The vessel was not detained at quarantine. as she had been at sea during the full period of yellow fever incubation.
 Typhoid fever Is spreading so rapidly in the Two Hundred and Third regi- ment at Camp Meade that 1t has been decided to move the command away and isolate 1t. Only $50 men were fit for duty Monday morning. Two deaths have occurred In the engineer company.
 Senor Montero Rios, president of the Spanish senate and peace commission. in an interview published in Madrid Wednesday, declared that the war was . mistake, and that 1t was useless for the different political parties to seek to lay the blame for the nations disasters upon each other. all being responsible.
 The navy department Is concerned as to the disposition that will be made of the Spanish naval properties In Cuba by the military commission. It is now believed that 1t will not be necessary to send a large army of occupation to the island and that the movement of our troops will begin toward the end of Oc- tober.
 Secretary Alger. in an interview at Chattanooga Thursday. spoke of the press criticisms of the war department and said the trouble was that the peo- pie could not appreciate the immenst problem of forming an army of 260.0f0 men without notice. He said that in competent officers would be held to strict account for their misdesds.
 General Calixto Garcia entered Santi- ago city on Thursday and was enthusi- astically greeted by the inhabitants The Cuban chief was escorted by Gen eral Wood, with a portion of General Lawton's staff and other American off, cers, and was received at the door of the palace by General Lawton in per- son. In the evening at a brilliant recep- ton in his honor at the San Carlos club General Garcia delivered a speech ex- pressing gratitude to and admiration for the United States.