Griggs courier., 1898-09-22
WEEKLY WAR HISTORY.
Complete Record of Events Tela IN
. Few Lines Covering All
Important News.

sailed from Portsmouth. N. H.. for San-
tander, Spain.
In the Spanish, senate Count d'Almenas
said that Gen. Weyler. Gen. Blanco. Gen.
Primo de Rivera and Admiral Cervera
ought to be disgraced.
Gen. Miles is working out plans for the
reorganization of the army. He contem-
plates the formation of four corps. COM
posed Of 100000 volunteers, to be retained
in the service and the regular army.
Reports submitted to Gen. Brooke by the
various commanders show that II per cent.
of the American army Of 11.000 men in the
island of Puerto Rico are on the sick list.
The men are mostly afflicted with typhoid
malaria. The death rate is small.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER II.
The war department announces that no
more troops will be mustered out.
Only one regiment, the Sixth United
States volunteers. now remains at Chicka-
manga. ~
Secretary Day says that the work Of tho
peace commission will probably be done in
six weeks.
1t is reported that Gen. Maxine Gomez.
the insurgent commander In chief, had
rendered his resignation because he OBJ
jected.to American control in Cuba.
Gen. Shafter called at the war depart
ment and submitted his report on the San
tiago campaign. 1t covers from beginning
to end the operations of the army under
his command in Cuba.
1t Is announced that at a cabinet meet.
ing it was decided to forever hold the is
land Of Luzon. in addition to the city of
Manila, and that definite instructions look
ing to such policy would be given the
American peace commissioners.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Is.
The peace commissioners met in joint
session at Fan Juan. Puerto Rico.
Word reached the navy department that
all the Spanish war vessels in Puerto Rico
-, 14$k hot ptvNy
Gen. Wheeler denied that he had said
that President Mckinley had said to him
that the war was not over.
The insurgent troops quartered in the
suburbs Of Manila marched out in obedi-
ence to Gen. Otis ultimatum.
Ihe newspapers reaching the state de-
partment in the official mails from the east
show that the almost universal express
sion in the public press Of Japan is in favor
of the United States holding permanently
and governing the Philippine islands.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16.
At his own request Capt. Evans has been
relieved of the command of the battleship
Iowa, and Capt. Silas Terry succeeds him.
The American and Spanish military COM
missioners are carrying on their negotia-
tions with the utmost cordiality in Havana.
Regular troops are to be mobilized in
the southern camps preparatory to send
ing armies Of occupation to Cuba and
Puerto Rico.
Gen. Miles was confined to his bed in
Washington with a touch of malarial
fever resulting from exposure In his re-
cent campaigns.
Secretary of the Navy Long stated that
the battleships Iowa and Oregon we're un-
der orders to proceed to Manila to reen-
force Rear Admiral Dewey's command.
The predominant feature of the situa-
tion IN Cuba is the feverish and wide-
spread agitation of the Cubans in favor
of the absolute Independence of the island
at all COSTS
Long disbanding the eastern squadron and
assigning its commander. Commodore ].
c. Watson. to duty as commandant of the
Mare Island navy yard in California.
Secretary Long has directed that the
battleship which is to be built by the
Union iron works in San Francisco shall
be named the Ohio. The Cramps will build
the Maine and the Newport News company
the Missouri.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II.
The North Atlantic squadron is to be
reduced from a force of about 100 vessels
to 90.
The Spanish peace commission has been
appointed. Montero Rios president Of the
senate. will preside.
The queen regent of Spain has signed the
DEGREES ceding territory to the United
States thus making complete the terms
Of the protocol. &
Gen. Toral, who surrendered the Spanish
rived at Vigo. Spain, and was greeted with
storm of Kisses and abuse.
A telegram from Gen. Otis at Manila
states that the insurgents have acceded to
all demands imposed by him and that they
have evacuated the entire city.
The Philippine national assembly was in
augurated at Malolos and In an address
Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader. said his
followers desired complete independence.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.
The Society of the Army of Santiago was
organized at Camp Wikoff, Long Island,
with Gen. Shafter as president.
Gen. Lawton reports to. the war depart
prisoners in Santiago have been returned
to Spain.
The United States commissioners to con-
clude the terms of peace with Spain sailed
from New York on the steamer Campania
for Paris.
President Mckinley has fixed the army
of occupation for Cuba at $4,000 men. that
Honolulu 3,000
The supreme council of war in Spain has
suspended Admiral Montijo, whose squad
ron was destroyed by Admiral Dewey in
Manila bay, and has summoned him to
come to Madrid at once.
The work of the military commission in
San Juan is practically over, all arrange
ments for the evacuation by the Spanish
troops and the receipt Of government
property having been determined upon.
Died Suddenly.
Columbus, o.. Sept. 17.-Brig. Gen.
Joseph T. Haskell died suddenly at his
home here yesterday, aged GO years.
He commanded the Seventeenth in
fantry at the battle of Ell Caney. Cuba.
and was twice wounded. He also
served with distinction in the civil
war.