Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.

killed and 400 wounded. The Ameri
can loss is not known The Manila
and Cavite batteries supported the
Spanish feet.
According to a Madrid dispatch Com
modore Dewey gave Captain General
Augusti "a hours to comply with an
ultimatum which demanded all war;
like stores and the entire stock Of coal
in charge Of the government officials.
The dispatch says it is believed in
Madrid that the government has all
ready cabled Captain General Anguish
to comply with the demand, no other
course being open. Grave events may
follow public knowledge of this COM
pliance.
The naval appropriation bill passed
| both houses.
A battery at Cienfuegos was bonn
barded by American warships.
The United States may be compelled
to annex Hawaii in self defense.
The cruiser Topeka, formerly the
Diogenes, has reached New York.
A Spanish sloop was captured while
taking news of our feet to Havana.
Spain is alleged to have very large
number of spies in the United States.
The warship Oregon has arrived
safely at Rio Janeiro from San Fran
cisco.
The West Point class of 1898 has been
graduated and will be Immediately put
in service.
Spain is said to have purchased two
moro foreign warships, but no details
are obtainable.
Governor Black has commissioned
Frederick D. Grant as colonel of the
Fourteenth New York regiment.
The emergency bill appropriating
$50, 720, 945 for war expenses to July l
passed both houses without debate.
About 1000 regular troops are now
modified at Tampa, Fla, preparatory,
it is supposed, to an invasion Of Cuba.
At the war department it is stated
that the idea of the employment of
Indians in the service would not be en-
tertained 81
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Madrid on account of the agitation
caused by the defeat of the Spanish
feet at Manila.
On rush order the Carpenter steel
works has sent 300 1S-inch proiectiles,
weighing LOO pounds each, to the
Brooklyn and Norfolk navy yards.
A movement is on foot among some
of the wealthy Jews of Ohio to pur-
chase warship and present it to the
government for use against Spain.
Hon. Jay L. Torrey of Wyoming will
be given permission by the president to
raise one of the independent regiments
provided for in the volunteer army act
The Spanish ship Guido was cap
tured by the Terror. She carried
money and supplies for the Spanish
army in Cuba, and is valued as whole
at $4,000
The auxiliary cruiser Yale, formerly
the Paris, has left New York under
sealed orders, carrying a full supply Of
stores for an extended cruise and 5000
tons of coal.
A Washington correspondent has it
that large number of torpedo boats,
probably near a hundred, are to be
rushed to completion upon orders from
the navy department..
Miss Helen Gould has written the |
president offering a gift of $100,O00 to |
the United States and expressing O |
to double the amount any
time the government desires it.
A special from Madrid says General
Weyler declares himself ready to re-
turn to Cuba and undertake the leader.
ship of an aggressive warfare against
the United States and head an army of |
invasion.
Governor Atkinson of Georgia re.
ceived letter from DR.. James L. Long
of Good Hope, Ca, saying that Span
ish spies were planning to wreck bridges
and blow up trains bearing troops to
Key West.
A general order h7t@ been issued from
the war department, thaE immediate
measures be taken to recruit the Segi-
ments of the regular army and tattal-
ion of engineers to full war strength of
II 900 men. @,@
All the S5 passengers on the cap
cured steamer Panama will be held as
prisoners Of war. They left New York
with the intentions Of belligerency, all
o. the men being on the way to join
she Spanish d rlpv- |
a deserter froTa the Spanish arm, IN
Havana says tho soldiers of the Span Oh
garrison are working like beasts mtk,
ing additional intrenchments end
Che earthworks already
thrown up about the city.
The entire eight batteries of artillery
ut Chickamauga Park have been sent
to Tampa, also the Twenty fifth in.
SautEy and the Ninth and Twenty.
fourth cavalry. Several companies
from Mobile and New Orleans have
also been sent.
The Russian Jewish farmers compos-
ing the Baron de Hirsch colony Of