The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-10-05
WEEKLY WAR HISTORY.
Complete Record Of Events Told In
Few Lines Covering ALI
Important News.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER q.

| IL is said that france mas promised 10 rec
ognize the Filipino republic IN the Philip
| pines,
The city of Santiago is cleaner and health
| Ter than ever before in lis history. No
cases OF yellow fever are recorded.
The American evacuation commission In
| Cuba has been officially notified that Man
| zanillo Will be evacuated by october z.
Col. William Jennings Bryan, of the
| Third Nebraska regiment, was unable TO
| leave Washington on account OF illness
Radical autonomist deputies at Havana
| have signed document declaring their al
| legiance TO the new political status" IN
| Cuba.
Gen. Gomez has appealed TO the United
| States TO help the Cubans In Santa Clara
province, where dozens are reported dy-
| ing daily OF starvation
The report that Spain will demand that
she retain her sovereignty In the Philip
| pines and have Manila restored 10 her be-
| lore she ratihes the treaty OF peace Is con-
drmed.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 2s.
All the British, French and German war
| ships have left Manila.
The government has decided not TO fur
nish food TO Cuban insurgents who are
| under arms
Upon instructions from Washington the
schools in Santiago will be opened on the
first Monday in october.
The battleships Oregon, Capt. A. S.
BARKER, anu lOMdI Ndpbs OloS iS-
ceived orders TO sail for Manila.
1t has been decided to establish the head
quarters OF the several American com
mands in Cuba at Havana. Puerto Principe
and Santiago
The Cuban-American league in New York
urges President Mckinley TO prevent the
remains of Christopher Columbus being
taken 10 Spain.
The national conference in Oakland.
Neb of the Swedish Baptist church petit
toned President Mckinley to keep the en-
tire Philippine Islands.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER %.
The United States peace commission went
into session in Paris.
Gen. Merritt's report of the battle Of
Manila has been received at the war de-
partment.
There are only three regiments in Camp
Wikoff, Long Island, which month or
two ago had $4,000 men.
Secretary Alger returned TO Washington
and said he was much gratifed with the
conditions of the camps he had inspected
The Spanish government cabled TO Gen.
Blanco instructing him 10 disband all the
local volunteers and auxiliaries In Cuba
The transport Chester sailed from New
York for Ponce and Santiago de Cuba with
100 tons of medical stores and $50 tons OF
subsistence stores.
The royal Spanish standard that was
hauled down from the governors palace in
received at the navy department from
Admiral Dewey.
Official reports received by the war de-
partment show that the total number Of
deaths in the American army Of 265,00o men
in the war with Spain has been 262i. or
a little less than one per cent.
The war department has decided that
states are entitled 10 reimbursement for
expenses incurred from the date the ma
tional guard responded to the call for vol
unteers until they were mustered out.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 80.
A Paris dispatch says Premier Sagasta
will ask the United States 10 pay $780,
600, 600 for the Philippines.
Capt. Gen. Blanco has ordered the re-
lease of all the political prisoners now un-
dergoing confinement in Cuba.
The American and Spanish peace commits
sioners met for the first time in Paris The
meeting was purely of social character.
The administration has ordered that all
sick soldiers OF Gen. Brookes army in
Puerto Rico be transported 10 the United
States
surgeon General Sternberg says reports
received at the war department show that
mortality in the army camp is decreasing
rapidly.
Capt Gen. Blanco has issued an order
for the Spanish troops 10 concentrate at
the ports in Cuba from which they will
sail for Spain.
The war department has issued an order
that sick or wounded soldiers granted fur
loughs are entitled TO $50 per day commu-
tation and transportation when travelling.
The war department received informa-
ton from the evacuation commission in
Cuba that by October all the Spanish SOL
diers will have been removed from Man
Zanillo.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER /.
1t has been decided that the American
army shall begin its movement into the
island Of Cuba as early as October 10, II
possible.
Admiral Dewey reports that Manila is
far from being an unhealthy city, and says
the climate is as fine as that of any place
In the tropics.
The United States peace commission has
taken possession Of its working quarters
IN Paris, a suite Of seven rooms on the
ground floor Of the Hotel Continental.
Gen. Shafter in letter says the attacks
of portions of the press upon him and
others of the adm niStration are simply
outrageous, and that the articles are filed
with untruths.
The movement OF troops from Camp
Meade, at Middletown, Pa, to the south
will begin October 10 and be pushed rap
idly. Secretary Alger is anxious TO get
them away before the cold weather sets in.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8.
Gen. Shafter reached New York, and
will take charge of the department of the
east.
Rev Thaddeus s. *. Freeman, of Lo-
gansport, Ind, chaplain Of the cruiser Bal
timore died at Manila.
The war department has decided TO
send officers 10 Cuba TO investigate and re-
port upon locations Of camps for the army
Of occupation.
Impressive military services were held
over the graves of the soldiers buried In
the detention hospital cemetery in Camp
Wikoff, Long Island.
Agoncillo and Lopez, the representatives
of Aguinaldo, the Philippine insurgent
leader, called at the white house and had
a private conference with President Nc
Kinley.
The president issued an order creating
the territory Of Puerto Rico into a new mil
itary department, to be known the de
partment of Puerto Rico" with Mai Gen.
John r. Brooke in command.
Col. Hay sworn In.
Washington, Oct. 1. - Col. John
Hay was sworn into office as cretary