The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-05-19
DOINCS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened in the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
c,,lete Review of the News Of the
Past Seven Days In This and
All Foreign Lands.

.complete Review of the News Of the
Past Seven Days in This and
All Foreign Lands.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has
,.to,ad about 80 ships with ca
V"~ Of %, 900 men. They are to be
lrseJ to convey troops to the Philip
mines and Cuba.
The SPANISH government has no
money to buy war supplies. and will
therefore insist that the cortes sit con-
tinuouslv until credits are voted. Pro-
,';s;ons and especially wheat are becom-
inc scarce at Madrid.
correspondent of a London paper
.oro Saeasta knows Spain's cause IS
Lanolass He acknowledges the situa-
.;on - most grave, and again declares
tbot his country was forced into war by
fine United States.
The torpedo boat Winslow engaged
,b,ae cnanish gunboats off Cardenas
bav She disabled one, and put all
,hrop TO flight, and came out unscathed.
lieutenant Bernardo, Ensign Bagley
and the men of the Winslow thought
the odds of three to one fair.
II is asserted in Hong Kong that Adj
miral Dewey finds the insurgents at
tbe Philippines growing dangerous.
He cannot control them, nor can he en-
able the Spaniards to do so. Massa-
cres are said to have occurred outside
Manila the insurgents killing Spanish
women and children.
Under the law Admiral Dewey and
his meu have become entitled to rich
bountv. Even if the numerical i'm
nortance of the feet of Admiral Mon
teio has been overestimated, the Off
GERS and men OF the Asiatic squadron
will be entitled to share among them
something like $1S7, 900 bounty money.
Sir Charles Dixie, an eminent British
authC sty, when asked whether any
question of international law or prac-
tice affected the United States right
to retain the Philippines, said: None
whatever. The States will hold the
Philippines by the right OF conquest.
No power or powers will have the
slightest title to interfere.
TIE large number of reflections of vol
unteers has caused much comment in
the army medical corps The physi-
clans who have conducted the examina-
tons say that outside of the ranks of
cigarette smokers there are even fewer
pject0ns than there were in the days
of the civil war. Among habitual users
OF cigarettes, the reflections are about
30 per cent.
The senate has passed the postoffice
bill and bill providing for enlistment
OF 10000 lmmunes in the South.
A Madrid dispatch says orders have
been sent to the governor general of the
Philippines to resist to the death the
attack on Manila
Admiral Montejo, in charge of the
Spanish fleet at Manila, is reported to
have been killed by the populace after
having escaped from Cavite.
A dispatch from Bahia, Brazil, an
hounces the arrival there of the battle
snip Oregon. 1t is said her call ut
Bahia Was in accordance with instruo-
tons from Washington.
The cabinet has decided to inaugurate
an aggressive campaign against the
npanlards IN the Philippines and Cuba.
rive thousand troops will be sent to
Manila at once from the Pacific coast.
Later on Havana will be attacked from
The fer by the United States and in
suIseht troops. and by the fleet in
front.
Gable advices received from Rear
Aumlral Sampson announce his arrival
vi the coast OF Hayti with a division
VI HIS Heet' He will remain at the
punt Where ne is now located until the
department Or one of the scouts inform
MN OF the appearance of the Spanish
,Wr w which sailed from st.
vincent nine days ago.
Inc dons tricked Commander Lam
NJ NJ 'o1, saws a Manila dispatch to the
we" YORK Herald. He had been sent
" '"Ae oavlte arsenal. He demanded
.; Hef surrender, but they asked for more
o ,ln1 upon their request being grant
W tney improved their opportunities
~ - neeing to Manila and taking with
'ne Mauser rifles of the fort.
another tale of death on the Alaska
y "'' mas been received at Victoria, B.
flo twenty-five men were engulfed in
e waters OF an icebound mountain
~, Ian near Crater lake. OF the party
bs, oiie lie was saved The sudden
sao s"Nihs OF the ice on which ii gold
tbo aefS We're walking sent them to
my i' uoom without a moments warn
IS lhe names of the dead are UNI
IN 4he surgeon of the Castillo says that
ADM. pattie of Manila the Spanish
c aqniral Montejo was wounded. The
kila1 il' chaplain and 90 others we're
Ono p ana 6O wounded on the Castillo.
90 nuhdled and fifty were killed and
adn. Hounded on TIE Reina Cristina,
kiIlad iai Monteio's flagship. Five were
de- sa ana 20 wounded on the Don Juan
On ~ I; four killed and so wounded
Minor News Items.
held ~ en.ife gang of train robbers who
Graz Ihe Santa Fee train near Orc
oal., has been lodged in Jail.