The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1898-06-11
LATEST WAR NEWS.

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A dispatch to the New York
World, June 9th, from Hongkone
says: A report has reached here
that Manila has fallen. It 10 eaid
to b now occupied by the Philip
pine insurgents, commanded BY
Aguinaldo. @ 1855
The army of invasion, II 900 in
number, left Tampa for Santiago
de Cuba at noon Wednesday. Gen.
Shafter is in command of the force,
which is conveyed by the battleship
Indiana and the gunboat Helena,
while the training ship Bancroft is
Gen. Skaters floating home. The
transports were due at Santiago
Friday night or this Saturday.
morning, aud the landing will be
attempted tomorrow. This should
be effected without difficulty, and
no doubt by Sunday, at the latest,
the stars and stripes will float over
Santiago de Cuba.
The American aeet Tuesday
morning engaged the Spanish bat
teries defending the entrance of the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba and
after q three hours bombardment
silenced nearly all the forts, de.
stroyed several earthworks and
rendered the Estralla and Cavo
batteries, the two principal FORTH.
cations, useless. Throughout the
engagement no American ship was
burt and 20 American was injured.
The Spaniards stuck to their guns,
and all evidence to the contrary,
their loss must have been heavy.
The monitor Monterey sailed
from San Francisco harbor for
Manila Tuesday.
At the suggestion of Gen. Wheel
er, the cavalry which will invade,
Cuba. will be provided with Calling
guns. -s
There is no truth in the report
that an explosion occurred on the
United States cruiser Baltimore at
Manila.
Weyler is represented as being
anxious to 60 to Cuba, and if sent
be declares hs will invade the
United States.
A list of Spanish spies in the
United States has been secured by
United States secret service detect
ives at Montreal.
The Spaniards are filling the har-
Dor of Cardenas with old hulks,
boilers and distractions in order
to prevent an effective entrance of
American ships.
A British cruiser has left Kings
ton, Jamaica, for Santiago, having
on board q number of surgeons
who will watch the impending bat
tie and render aid to the wounded,
if necessary.
As good water is scarce in many
parts of Cuba, it is proposed to Or
ganize a corps of well-drivers to
accompany the army. The troops
at Chicamauga are supplied by
wells driven at short notice.
General Merritt complains that
the government is dilatory in pro-
viding transports for his troops.
So far be has been supplied with
transports for only one-fourth of
his effective army of 10000 men.
The Philippine insurgents have
received 1000 Mauser breechloaders
and 200, 900 rounds of ammunition.
and at last accounts were getting
their men together. Gen. Aguinaldo,
the insurgent commander, is conf
dent of having 5000 men in the
field before July /. Starvation or
surrender is Manila's alternative.
Measures are to be taken which
will render Manila hsrbor impreg-
nable against Spanish attack. The
City of Peking carried with her to
the far east for planting in the bay
of Manila apd vicinity a large num-
Der of mines containing Fifty pounds
of gun cotton, of the same charac-
ter as those which were sent to the
North Atlantic squadron at the re-
quest of Rear Admiral Sampson.
Back of these mines will be placed
the monitors Monterey and Monad-
mock. which will shortly start for
the far east.
The stars and stripes in the shape
of the largest flag in the world will
float over MORO Castle, Havana,
when Blanco surrepders. The inn
mense flag designated for this
duty is already prepared, and may
be seen draped at the front of an
empty store room at 147 Fulton
street New York. A patriotic Wall
street man has had the great flag
made. It is 100 feet 10 length and
434 feet in width, and it is believed
that it breaks the record for size.
It ia 80 big that special bunting was
made for it in Boston. The flag
weighs $50 pounds.
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