Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-05-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


camped at Cheyenne.
TlA monitor Miantonomah has gone
to join the blockading fleet
Utah's rough riders will furnish a
troop for Torrey's regiment.
All the s5O,OOO,OOO war appropria-
ton has either been expended or allot-
ted.
European papers speak of the naval
engagement as humiliation, not vic
tory.
Another German warship has left
China for the Philippines. making
three in all.
Colonel Cortijo, captured on the
mail steamer Argonauta, is Weyler's
brotherin-law.
Judge Torrey's rough riders will be
equipped with ropes instead of sabres
if Torrey's request is granted.
The emperor of China is preparing
to flee from Peking, being afraid Of
losing his head in possible uprising.
The Stock exchange at London in
terprets the news from various points
to mean that the war will not last
long.
In case troops are sent TO the Phil
ippine islands, they will be sent in
ships now engaged in the Klondike
trade.
Commodore Dewey carried a large
store of war munitions, so large that
the battle at Manila scarcely dimin-
ished it.
The Don Juan Austria, the Spanish
ship blown up in the battle, carried
1913 men, most all of whom are sup
posed to have persisted.
Two thousand Greeks have volun-
teered to enlist in the United States
navy, many declaring they would be
willing to pay their own fare to this
country.
The reply of the Spanish governor
general of the Philippines to Dewey's /
demand to surrender the guns, torpe
dos and war munitions was to come
and face them"
The Yale. formerly the Paris, has
sailed from New York under sealed or /
ders. She carried full supply of mu-
nitions and 5000 tons of coal, enough
to last for long cruise.
The Mississippi valley was storm
swept Sunday night. Several lives
were lost by drowning. At several
places the storm almost developed in
to the velocity of tornado.
Armed men are guarding the Aetna
powder mills at Miller station, Indi-
ana, to prevent the possibility of its
distinction by Spanish sympathizers.
No new men will be employed.
A second Spanish fleet, it is an
bounced, is about ready to sail from
Jadiz. Included in this feet is the
oelayo, probably the most formidable
lighting machine Spain possesses.
The rough riders who are being en-
listed for service under Roosevelt and !
Wood, will be sent to Western Cuba
o work with Gomez The other
orces are to be landed east of Havana.
The Southern Pacific transport ships
eft New Orleans Tuesday for Tampa,
ARRIVING horses and mules for the army
f invasion. They have imperative
riders to reach Tampa by Friday morn
lg.
The formation of new Spanish
ministry as the result of the two-round
out in the Philippines is altogether :
robable. The Spanish feel the de- :
eat very keenly, and blame the min
'try for it.
Commodore Dewey, according to
John Hay at the Court of I
t. James, is very affable and one of
lie most pleasant of men to meet,
dmiral Montijo to the contrary not n
Il
Captain Cadarzo of the Spanish !.
ruiser Reina Maria Christina. who
as killed and whose vessel was
nong those destroyed at Manila, be- ?
ngs to a Madrid family, who are
'oud of the manner of his death. !,
German papers do not comment up @
J the American victory at Manila,
1t the opinion prevails in political
iarters that the United States has
aimed the prize she had in view, as it f,
-omised not to annex Cuba, but gave h,
promise in regard to the Philippines. >,