Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-05-28
WAR BREvITIES.
Saturday, May Fl.

WAR BREWTIES.
Saturday, May 81.
It is reported that France viii ask
the powers to protest against American
cable cutting.
A boy named Garcia. arrested at
Tampa on suspicion of being a Spanish
spy, has been honorably discharged.
The Fourteenth New York regiment
of volunteers, Colonel Fred Grant, went
into camp at Chickamauga Friday.
The regiments of the new Pennsyl-
vania Guard will be numbered so as
not to conflict with those now in SER
vice.
United States steamer Resolute left
the Brooklyn navy yard last night with
a crew of 100 men from New Jerseys
naval militia.
Business at Havana is almost at a
standstill in consequence of the block
ade, and a spirit Of depression has
come over the beleaguered capital.
According to a Key West dispatch
the steamer Tecumseh has landed two
parties on the Cuban coast, bearing i'm
portant messages to the Cuban insur-
gents.
Monday May 90.
The cost of the war to Spain exceeds
$28, 900 900 a month.
Coffee will not be taxed in the war
revenue bill.
over 10000 letters were delivered to
the troops encamped at Chickamauga
on Friday.
Volunteers of Washington state, now
at San Francisco, voted a unanimous
desire to be sent to Manila.
An unconfirmed report at Gibraltar
has 1t that the Spanish squadron at
Cadiz will sail for Cuban waters.
1t is reported that Admiral Cervera's
squadron will return to Fort de France
to coal from Spanish golfers now en-
route.
The single turret monitor Jason,
relic OF the civil war, left Philadelphia
for New York. manned by New York
naval reserves.
A Madrid correspondent of the Lon
don Times declares our government
cannot expect aid from Cuban insur-
gents.
Tuesday, May "a.
Horse flesh costs $3.50 a pound in
Manila.
A. C. Gray, son of the Delaware sena-
tor. declines an army commission.
The harbor of San Diego, Cal, has
been planted with mines and torpedoes.
A bill introduced in the national
house proposes large increases in the
navy.
The steamer Fenita is loading am
munition at Mobile for a Cuban ex-
petition.
There have now been mustered into
the service of the general government
1O7761 volunteers.
J. Castellanos, young man who
wrote 100 letters day, is under ar
rest as a Spanish spy at Key West.
Cuban insurgent officers deny charges
of inefiiciency, and say the Cuban army
viii distinguish itself by brilliant oper-
atoms.
Tie building of a navy equal, if not
the superior, of Great Britain's is being
agitated in congress, and has many
supporters.
Major General William NJ. Graham
formally assumed command of Camp
Alger, near Washington, yesterday.
There are IL, 900 men in the camp
The British steamer Ardanmhor was
seized off Cuba because of her sus-
picious actions 1t was thought she
was attempting to run the blockade.
Wednesday, May 20.
Five hundred Spaniards were killed
and 700 injured by the bombardment of
Manila.
The Ninth and Sixty-ninth New York
manga.
Reports from the state camps snow
that 900 men have been mustered
into the volunteer army.
Late advices from Hawaii confirm
the statement that the island has been
offered to our government as a base
of supplies
The third section Of the train car
rying Illinois volunteers ran safely
over a burning trestle near Birming-
ham, Ala Incendiarism is suspected.
The report that negotiations have
been opened for the transfer of the
Philippines to France by sale or lease.
says Paris dispatch, is absolutely
false,
II. G. Whitmore has been elected
captain Of William J. Bryan's com
pany, Bryan having withdrawn from
the contest because he could not be
elected unanimously.
Thursday, May go.
A special from Gibraltar says two
Austrian warships viii sail Saturday
for Cuban waters.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout the Canary Islands, and is
very rigidly enforced.
OF the $4,000 volunteers called for by
the president four weeks ago 10000
have been mustered in.
The volunteer army at Chickamauga
Park now numbers G5,914 men, and this
will be increased by 10000 by the close
Of the week.
1t is believed that Senior Puigcerver,