The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-17
OUR WAR WITH SPAIN.


phia the other day for Porto Rico.
Italy is the first country to congratu-
late America on the termination of the
war.
Col. Roosevelt and his Rough Riders
have arrived at Montauk Point from
Santiago.
The paymaster at Chickamauga paid
out $1.000.000 to the troops assembled
there. last week.
Fifty thousand men will constitute
our force in the new military depart
ment of Havana.
one hundred and fifty cases of dys-
cntery exist among the American
troops at Cavite.
/. General Polavieja may succeed Sa-
gasta as premier of Spain after peace
has been declared.
Spanish officers at Santiago are re-
luctant to go home, fearing trouble
when they get there.
Forty thousand troops were review
ed by Gen. breckenridge at Chicka-
mauga last Tuesday.
From July so to August 13. s5S,44524
was taken in as custom duty at san
tago by Gen. Shafter.
Eight hundred Spanish prisoners
sailed from Santiago for Madrid on the
Alicante last Tuesday.
Ros. the Spanish civil governor of
Santiago has been deposed TO the
satisfaction of Cubans.
The London Times praises President
Mckinley for his craftsmanship eN-
hibited during the war.
Seven thousand troops will leave
San Francisco for Manila as soon as
transports can be obtained.
There were larger percentage of
Rough Riders killed by Spanish bullets
at Santiago than by disease.
Three thousand of Skaters men left
Santiago on five transports for Mon
tauk Point. l.. l., last Monday.
President Mckinley is the recipient
of many congratulations on the ending
of the American-Spanish war
The merchant vessels of the world
are now free to enter and leave all
Cuban and Porto Rican ports.
Paris has been selected as the meet
ing place for the peace commissioners
of Spain and the United States.
BY the latter part of the week all of
Gen. Skaters troops will have left
Santiago for Montauk Point, l.. l.
A surviving Spanish officer says the
American soldiers fought like demons
at the battle of FL Caney on July /.
The administration purposes to
SUI ply with rations the Cuban soldiers
who served under Generals Gomez and
Garcia.
Spain hopes that the United States
will govern Cuba and not allow the is
land to fall into the hands of the in
surgents.
General Shafter expects all the NOV
able troops to be out of Santiago in a
few days and encamped at Montauk
Point, l.. l.
Ambassador Hay may succeed Judge
Day as Secretary of State as soon as
the latter assumes his position on the
peace commission.
SIMPSONS fleet will be welcomed at
New York by great public demon
stration as soon as the vessels can
leave southern waters.
Col. Hulings and Lieut.. Col. Biddle
of the sixteenth Pennsylvania troops
have been praised for their bravery at
Porto Rico by Gen. Miles.
Five thousand tons of food will be
shipped to Gen. Merritt at Manila in
a few days. All these stores will be
purchased on the Pacific coast.
The army will now be reduced to
| 100000 men, which will be of sufficient
number to garrison the various places
occupied by the United States.
The Navy Department has sent out
orders to stop further recruiting for
! the navy. The enlisted force Ia 27,076
and the authorized war strength Is
/ $1,000.
! All the American and Spanish COM
mandcrs in Cuba and Porto Rico have
acknoW lodged the receipt to their re-
spective governments, of news pro-
/ claiming peace.
| in erip Of n fra on
three of the blockading American
vessels without warning and shot big
hole into Commodore Howelrs flag
ship San Francisco.
Two members of Company A, Texas
volunteers uuarreled at Dallas. Tex.
last Tuesday. The result was that J.
NJ. Bryan plunged a bayonet into the
body OF ]. NJ. Appling killing him in
stantly.
The United States may for a time
be obliged to feed the Spanish soldiers
in Cuba and Porto Rico. The Spanish
| government, in that case, will be ex-
pected TO reimburse the United States
for its outlay.
II peace negotiations are not quickly
concluded the government may parole
the Spanish prisoners now at Ports
mouth, N. ii. The government Is de-
sirous of getting rid OF these men as
their maintenance Is proving very ex-
pensive.
Unknown to the troops on board, fire
ragged for several days in the hold ol
the transport Morgan City bound fol
Manila, The crew battled unsuccess.
fully with the flames, and not until
Manila was reached was the fire ex-
tingulsled.
General Fitzhugh Lee Is to head tho
Cuban commission. having for his
associates Gen. Wade and Admira
Schley. Gen. Brooke is slated to pre-
side over the Porto Rican commission
and Secretary OF State Day over the
peace commission.
Sergt. Koeffler OF the Thirteenth u
S. Infantry was found hanging In ,
vacated regimental canteen Sunda,
morning at Tampa, Fla.