The Advocate and news., 1898-06-29
War Notes.

More Michigan troops leave Camp AL
ger to reinforce Gen. Shafter.
The monitor Monadnock has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila.
Teddy Roosevelt showed that he could
fight in the affair near Santiago Friday.
The War department seems to have
all kinds of confidence in General Shat
ter.
General Miles will go to Cuba and
direct the military operations In the
field
The Senate is considering a bill to
increase the number of quartermasters
by twenty.
Thursdays dispatches say that Garcia,
with an army of 1900, has reinforced
General Shafter.
Captain Charles Stackhouse left To-
peka Saturday with seventeen recruits
for his company.
Official order was issued at San Fran
cisco for the embarkation Of troops for
the third Manila expedition, to sail Mon
day.
Gen. Miles will accompany a second
army to Cuba. This force is to consist
of $4,000 men. 1t is General Coppinger's
corps.
The orders given to Spanish soldiers
who are holding the outposts around
Santiago is retreat If heavy losses seem
probable.
The Cuban army of invasion is ham
peTed with lack of artillery. This arm
of the service will doubtless be pushed
forward rapidly.
The Vicksburg overhauled the ANA
psla when 1t was trying to slip out Of
Havana Friday night. 1t was brought
into Key West
Orders have been issued forbidding
the coaling of Admiral Camara's feet
at Port Said, the Mediterranean end of
the Suez canal.
Spanish troops have been ordered to
fall back to Santiago as the Americans
advance and avoid battle until the
city is attacked.
J. c. Colville, Of Topeka, well-knOwn
silver Republican, is one Of Teddy
Roosevelt's rough riders and he is now
in business near Santiago.
Private Harry Pepper, of Company I,
Twentieth Kansas, died at San Fran
cisco last Sunday of quick consumption.
His home was at Silver Lake.
A dispatch from Admiral Sampson re-
ceived last Friday says that Hobson and
his companions are safe at Santiago,
four miles from Moro castle.
Col Wood and Teddy Roosevelt led
the charge on the blockhouse near San
tiago. They did their part WELL and the
rough riders seem to be all right.
A cable from Rome says that the
Spanish minister there says that Ad-
miral Camara's cruise is ruse and
that he will soon return to Cadiz.
B. X. Bruce, a teacher at LeaVenworth
and nephew of ex-senator B. X. Bruce
is likely to be captain of the company
of colored troops to be organized there
Gen. Skaters army is advancing on
Santiago, and combined attack by the
American naval and land forces upon
the Spanish stronghold is looked for in
few days.
The auxiliary cruiser Harvard left
NCWpOlI ANGWo Will kllS ANllbu MdooeS-
chusetts and two battaliOns of the Thir-
ty-fourth Michigan last Sunday. They
go to Cuba.
The Cuban insurgents may be all
right, but they need more discipline.
In the fight near Santiago they failed to
be on time when their cooperation was
desired and arranged.
One of the unsatisfactory and at the
same time remarkable things about the
Ho5son affair is that Burke was not
there. Murphy and Kelly got along very
we'll without him, though.
The soldiers who were afraid that
thoy were never to reach the big mobil-
ization camps are now convinced that
they will find plenty of business in Cuba.
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