Mesa free press., 1898-08-26
LATEST WAR NEWS.
Resume of Events on Land and
Sea During the Week.

| The peace protocol was signed at
Washington at 4:23 D. M. August 12.
Secretary of State Day representing
the United States and M. Cambon, the
French ambassador, representing the
Spanish government.
Washington, Aug. The protocol
provides:
First-That Spain will relinquish all
claims of sovereignty over and title to
| Cuba.
Second-That Porto Rico and other
Spanish islands in the West Indies and
an island in the Ladrones to be Sc
lected by the United States, shall be
ceded to the latter.
Third-That the United States will
occupy and hold the city and bay of
Manila, pending the conclusion of a
treaty Of peace, which shall determine
the control, disposition and govern
ment of the Philippines.
Fourth-That Cuba, Porto Rico and
other Spanish islands in the West
Indies will be Immediately evacuated
and that commissioners to be appoint
ed within ten days shall within thirty
days from the signing of the protocal
meet at Havana and San Juan respec-
lively, to arrange and execute the de-
tails of the evacuation.
Fifth-That the United States and
Spain will each appoint not more than
five commissioners to negotiate and
conclude treaty of peace. The COM
missioners are to meet at Paris not
later than the first of October.
i Sixth-On the signing of the pro-
tocol hostilities will be suspended and
notice to that effect will be given as
soon as possible by each government
to the commanders of it's military and
naval forces.
of the protocols contents as prepared
and given to the press by Secretary
Day.
General Garcia has occupied Gibara
on the north coast of Santiago de Cuba
province.
Spanish papers print lists showing
that the American navy has destroyed
in all thirty-five Spanish ships.
The transport Chester, with the First
Regiment of Volunteer Engineers,
numbering 1900 men has sailed for
Porto Rico.
Secretary Alger has cabled orders
to all military commanders that the
protocol of peace has been signed and
to cease hostilities.
According to a Madrid dispatch a
number of men from Castellon ap-
peared at Sarratella, where they pa
raded the streets cheering for repub-
lie.
The Secretary of War announces,
with regret, that there is no law under
which the local regiment of Canadian
American immunes can be accepted at
this time.
Typhoid fever has already broken
out among the soldiers at Montauk
Point camp. Fifteen cases are report
ed The fever developed on the way
from Tampa and Fernandina.
The scarcity of food now affects even
the richest classes in Manila. There Is
no meat, bread or -four, except very
small reserves chiefly laid under req
uisition for the Spanish troops.
The London Times thinks the United
States has a hard nut to crack in the
early government of Cuba. The Amer
lean war Office, it adds, is the subject OF
ties.
Five privates, all volunteers, died OF
typhoid fever in the general hospital
at Fort Mcpherson. There are now
61S patients in the big hospital. OF
these 400 are suffering from typhoid
fever.
The Madrid press believes that 1t
will go hard with the monks in the
Philippines, as it is an open secret that
both the natives and Americans con-
template putlIng an end to their sway
in the Spanish Pacific possessions.
The signal corps of the army has
constructed about 250 miles of land
telegraph and telephone lines in Porto
Rico, and more than half the island Is
now equipped with means of prompt
! communication. The central tele-
graph Office is at Ponce.
| It matters not whether peace or con-
tinued hostilities is in store for the fu-
| ture, the troops now encamped at San
Francisco will go to the Philippines.
| Secretary Alger has cabled Gen. Mer-
ritt at Manila to send all available
transports back to San Francisco at
| once.
The war tax of 81 per barrel on beer
has resulted in 100 saloons being closed
in St. Louis. AS each saloon pays a
tax of $500 per annum, the annual loss
to the city and state is 100000. The
saloon-keepers say the war tax has
been shifted to their shoulders by the
breWeries.
The department of the army to be
known as the Department of Santiago
has been created, with Maj Gen.
Henry w. Lawton in command. Brig
Gen. Wood remains in command of
Santiago city. Gen. Shafter will re-
turn to the United States with the
Fifth army corps.
General Alger told correspondent
that he had cabled to General Merritt
to hurry all available transports now
at the Philippines back to San Francis