The Somerset reporter., 1898-06-09
WAR CHRONOLOGY.
THURSDAY, JUNE 2.

The French Cable company publishes
| at Cape Haytien. a bulletin confirma-
tory of the details of the Santiago bonn
bardment, which the Spanish celebrated
as a victory Jamaica dispatch says
| that the chief fort is In ruins, Spanish
battleship destroyed. and that the Amer
leans had no casualties.
The Ninth Massachusetts arrives at
| Camp Alger. 1t is encamped about three
miles from the Sixth Massachusetts and
with the Thirty-third Michigan and
| Seventh Illinois.
CORPORAL Stewart of company NJ,
Eighth Massachusetts. and Bugler Stop
ford of the First Vermont die at Chicka-
| manga of pneumonia Colored Private
William w Ruby of company A. First
Maine, nearly lynched by Kentucky
troops. whom he riled by his color and in
dependence.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3.
Hawaii has violated neutrality by al
lowing the Charleston to coal. SO UnGle
Sam must defend the island republic.
France shipping arms and ammuni-
ton to Spain through the Pyrenees.
Each of the Manila commanders ad-
vanced from fve to 10 numbers.
Charges against the deputy marshals
and prize commissioners made by Cadet
Jones found to be unsupported; Span
iards testified they had been treated
splendidly.
Many prominent men petition the
governor and legislature of Massachu-
sets to keep up states quota of troops
/ ,fa1 hill to-
| for any emergency and to pay bay state
volunteers s. month.
Ruby incident at Chickamauga closed,
| the trouble over the colored man from
| Maine being due to mistaken identity;
| Eighth regiment makes fine showing in
extended order drill: health of New
Hampshire and Vermont men improv-
ing.
Spain protests against British sales
| of coal for the American navy, but
| Britishers find it goes from private
parties to private parties. and they say
where it goes after that is none of their
business.
SATURDAY, JUNE4.
The bond proposition was accepted by
the senate. as was Wolcott's amendment
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and issue certificates against 1t.
Eight men take the collier Merrimac
over the mine field in Santiago harbor.
She is sunk by torpedo and the men are
prisoners in Spanish hands. The harbor
Is blocked.
Spanish prisoners in Key West paroled
and will be sent home on two Of the re-
leased vessels.
Governor Wolcott sends q message to
the Legislature concerning the voting OF
soldiers in the field.
General Merritt wants 500, 900 for use
in the Philippines.
The English correspondents, Messrs.
| Whgham and Robinson, recently cap
tured on Cuban soil after having been
landed on the coast from yacht. have
| been released from custody.
Great exodus of troops from Mobile to
Tampa.
named Fort Greble.
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt in Tam
pa with his cavalry.
Madrid fears that Gomez has stopped
fighting, and will neither help nor hinder
the Americans until he knows whether
or not the Cuban republic will be recag-
nized.
Count de Rascon, SPANS ambassador
at London speaks houefully of peace
full outcome.
Advices from St Nicholas say that a
combat took place between three Spanish
and four American ships off the Haytien
coast, the Americans Withdrawing.
The senate passes the war revenue bill
by vote of As to %.
United States gunboat Marietta safely
reaches Key West from San jose Cal.
SUNDAY, JUNE ).
Sampson sends an official dispatch, in
which he says he succeeded in sinking
the Merrimac in the channel of Santiago
at a. m. June 3; also that GerVera
offers to exchange the prisoners because
of their bravery. Great enthusiasm pre-
walls in Madrid over the Spanish victory;
they say that Admiral Cervera personal
ly saved the Americans who were swim
ing in the water.
Uncle Sam lodges a formal protest
with the British government against the
future stay of Spanish spies in Toronto
and Montreal. Lieutenant Carranza.
the founder of the spy system, wrote to
Spanish minister, saying that he ad-
vses that Cuba be given up, the United
States to assume the Cuban debt, other
wise, he says, I'VE shall be ruined for
so years"
Drilling of the Eighth Massachusetts
at ChckSmauga declared as good as
that of regulars; Major Eldridge's
mother sends $3.50 to the boys of his bat
talon; Burns and Small of the New
Hampshire regiment, who served in a
chain gang, sentenced by field court
for absence: Vermonters receive uni
forms.
Porto Rico Is reported panic stricken
by Mr. Emerssohn, the German CORE
spondent, who escaped from the Spanish.
Government decides to utilize four of
the prizes as transports.
The ambulance ship Solace arrived at
Brooklyn, having on board 81 wounded
and sick. some of whom had been trans
ferred from the American warships in
Cuban waters and others taken from the
hospitals al Key West.
Eight Spaniards killed and Moro cas-
tie damaged by the bombardment Of
Santiago.
All cables connecting Cuba with tele
outside world have been cut by General
Greelys men.
General Miles finds that the volunteers
are not prepared to go to the front be