Morris tribune., 1898-08-10
NEWS OF The y nnA
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.


Boston.
There were 15 deaths in Shafter''
army Aug. 4.
Captain Clark of the Oregon has
been invalided home
A general advance of American troops
In Porto Rico has begun.
Troops sailed from San Francisco
Saturday to garrison Hawaii.
Roosevelt and his rough riders have
sai4ed from Santiago for home.
Generel Wood has decided to regu-
late the price of provisions in Santiago.
One thousand sick and wounded SOL
diers have sailed on the Alicante for
Spain.
1t is stated that the Spaniards at
| Manzanillo, Cuba, are anxious to sur.
render.
An official Spanish report states that
seventeen Spaniards were killed at the
taking of Guayama.
The people of Cardenas, Cuba, have
given it out that the town will not re-
Bist an American attack.
A large amount of arms and ammu.
milton for the Cubans has been success.
fully landed by the Wanderer.
The Spanish ship Maria Teresa has
been foated and is proceeding to New
port News under her own steam.
Captain Sigsbee will command the
battleship Texas. Captain Philip of
the Texas has been assigned to shore
duty.
Aguinaldo, it is said, will not insist
upon independence for the Philippines.
He has become more friendly to Amer.
leans.
Brigadier General John S. Poland of
New York, died at Asheville, N. c., of
typhoid fever contracted at Chicka.
manga.
The cause of Don Carlos is said to be
lost. Weyler will support the present
dynasty, as will also the European
powers.
A large number of claims. have been
filed for Americans whose property
was damaged during the Cuban insur.
rection.
Skaters army is being shipped north =.
and 5000 immune troops have gone to
Santiago to take the place of those now
being removed.
1t is stated that if Spain's reply is in
conclusive, President Mckinley will .
withdraw his peace terms and substi. .
tute severer ones.
The London Statist predicts a great
wave of American prosperity after the
war and active European business in
American securities.
Eastern Porto Rico has fallen into
the hands Of the Americans without
resistance. Cape San Juan is the
latest town to be occupied.
President Mckinley will not listen to
a suggestion made by Spain that Porto
Rico be left to that country and COM
pensation sought elsewhere.
It is reported that the Carlists, who,
for the first time, are supplied with
money, will rise as soon as peace comes
and the Spanish colonies go.
Brigadier General King has an.
nounced his intention of sailing with
the troops on the transport Arizona,
which he expects will be ready this
week.
General Wood, military governor of
Santiago, in order to put stop to
buses, has fixed the value of the Span.
sh dollar at 50 cents in American
money.
Spanish troops at Manila attacked
The American forces, but were repulsed
after three hours fighting, with heavy
loss The Americans lost about IL
killed and so wounded.
The government has ordered the re.
ease of the steamship Manouidia of the
Compagnie Generate Transatlantique of
France captured by American warships
n West Indian waters.
The California state board of trade
las adopted a resolution asking Presi.
lent Mckinley to appoint citizen of
he Pacific coast on the peace commits.
ion which is to decide upon the future
# the Philippines.
The Spanish government is stated to
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Rico not to force resistance to the ut.
most, the main idea being to secure
erms like those obtained by General
Coral at Santiago.
The San Francisco labor council has
dopted resolutions opposing the an.
exation of the Philippines on the
rounds that the conditions existing
here would be menace to us and
you'd especially injure the working
eople.
Captain Goodrich of the St. Louis,
eized Arroyo and Guayama and hoist.
d the Stars and Stripes over both
laces. By this stroke General Miles
I'LL be able to land troops and cut off
orty miles of the march upon San !
uan. There was no opposition.