The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1898-09-17
NEWS OF The week.
Interesting Items About the
Late War with
Spain.

Admiral Ce1vera and his men !:n
sal ed for Spain.
Major General Wilson has left Pouc:.
Porto Rico, tor the United States.
Spanish gunboats, it is reported, hav.
sunk a Philippine insurRent dotila.
The American military commis<lr.:
has held its first meeting at Havans.
The Third United States infan,..
has left Camp Wikoff for Fort sne
ing. ...... e.. ..=
Gen eral Shafter denies that fric>i
exists between General Miles and h.:
self. :.
Ell. Senator Manderson has declir..'
to serve on the war investigating co /.
mission. ..
Spanish war expenses approxima1cGi
$s78, 300, 900, aside from the loss OF CO.
onies and ships.
The Eighth Ohio, participants in the
Santiago campaign, have arrived at
their home cities.
The Fourth Wisconsin regiment has
been ordered from Camp Douglass to
Southern camp
The Spanish senate has adopted the
Hispano.American protocol by sitting
and standing vote.
The battleships Oregon and Iowa
will leave for the Pacific coast about
the end Of September.
General Shafter called on the presi.
dent Saturday and gave the details Of
the Santiago campaign.
Yellow fever has broken ont among
the American troops in Porto Rico.
One death has been reported.
I Senator Gray of Delaware has accept.
ed the fifth place on the peace commits.
sion. which is now complete.
President Mckinley. in answer to q
request, announces that no more troops
will be mustered out at present. "
All the volunteers, except the sick,
have left Camp Wikof. Thirteen
Thousand regulars are still there.
General Miles, it is said, declares a
larger army is necessary and will rse-
ommend Q plan Of reorganization.
Wild scenes occurred in the Spanish
cortes on the opening day, resulting
from discussion Of war and peace
President Mckinley has been pre-
sented with a Spanish flag captured by
American troops at Coamo, Porto Rico
The sick and wounded American sol.
diers in the Philippines sailed for home
Monday on the hospital ship Rio Jan.
eiro. III
Secretary Alger has requested the
president to order a thorough and
searching inquiry of the war depart.
ment. =,
Admiral Dewey considers the situa-
ton at Manila so critical that he has
asked for an additional battleship and
cruiser.
Senior Canalejas, in q speech in the
Spanish cortes, violently attacked. the
Liberal ministry for their conduct Of
the war.
The Santiago daily death rate has
dropped from 70 to 20 in the month
since General Wood has taken charge
of affairs. +.
The First and Second Wisconsin vol.
unteer regiments have returned home
from Jacksonville and Porto Rico. re.
spectively. :.a.. &s.
The United States evacuation COM
missiouers have arrived at Havana. An
official call was made on Captain Gen.
eral Blanco.
The transport Missouri has arrived
at Montauk Point from Santiago with
261 men on board. Thirteen deaths
occurred on route.
Relations between the Americans
and insurgents in the Philippines is
becoming more strained and a crisis is
considered near atshand.
The plan of having parade in New
York Of the troops returning from
Porto Rico and those at Montauk has
been definitely abandoned.
A committee Of three Filipinos, ap.
pointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong
Kong in order to confer with Presi-
dent Mckinley upon the future Of the
Philippine islands.
The military examining board ap.
pointed to investigate conditions at
Camp Thomas has reported. 1t finds
the sickness to have been due to mis-
management and poor sanitary ar.
rangements. l.,
The sick soldiers of the Twelfth and
Fourteenth Minnesota reached St.
Paul Saturday on board hospital
train. The seriously i'll were taken to
Twin City hospitals and the Others
sent to their homes.
General Miles, on arriving at New
York from Porto Rico, admitted tina;
recent published interviews with him
were substantially correct. In Uphold.
ing his position he gave lengthy
statement to the press.
The president has appointed a com.
mission of n1ne to investigate the; con.
duct of the war, asffollows: Robert
T. Lincoln, Commander. in. Chief Sex
ton of the g. AR, General Schofeld,
Daniel S. Lamont, General John B.
Gordon, ex. Senator Manderson, Daniel
C. Gilman. General Granyille M.