The western recorder., 1898-05-05
WAR NOTES.


|
The War Department has ordered
4 10000 canvas uniforms
| The prize court began consideration
Of the cases on the md. 1t SITS nj hey
West
| On the 25th Congress adopted resolu-
| lions that war had existed since the
! 21st.
The torpedo boat Foote exchanged q
I few shots with a Spanish gunboat on
| Cardenas on Friday-
The Spanish torpedo fleet left the
/ Cape Verde islands on the 18th Wnere
! they went IL not known
The big battleshlp Oregon, having
reached Rio Janeiro. Is expected 10
Join Admiral SIMPSONS fleet about the
10th.
Judge ]. L. Torrey OF Wyoming i
organizing regiment Of cowboys ana
frontiersmen He has headquarters at
Fort Russell.
The cruiser Albany. bought from
| Brazil before II was finished, cannot
be brought from England until the
present war Is over.
The government is stationing armed
guards at the big powder mills as 1t Is
nov believed that Spaniards caused
the recent explosions.
The Red Cross society's ship State OF
Texas. with nurses and medicines,
reached Key West Thursday from New
York. She will proceed 90 sagun Ia
| Grande.
Secretary Alger has practically de
cided TO accept several hundred colored
volunteers from the southern states,
who are anxious TO participate ir the
Cuban campaign.
The news OF the safe arrival at Llv-
erpool of the big American sailing ship
Shenandoah was gladly received at the
department. Consul Boyle at Liverpool
forwarded the Information.
The lighthouse tender Mangrove cap
tured the big Spanish steamer Panama
on the 26th. The Panama was on the
way from New York to Havana with
passengers and a big cargo.
Preparations for the organization OF
| the large volunteer army of 125,O0O
men are now completed and by the 9TH
at the latest the whole force will be at
their respective points Of mobilization.
The American fleet of seven warships
practically destroyed the Spanish fleet
| in Manila bnrbor on the 1st. The
| Spanish ships were assisted In the fight
by the guns OF the forts but could not
/ successfully defend themselves.
Captain Charles silva. who since the
beginning of the Cuban war has been
employed by the junta in plotting 1li-
clustering expeditions to the island, has
been ordered by the Navy Department
to report for pilot duty to Admiral
| Sampson.
The secretary of the treasury has
received from the secretary of war es-
Inmates of deficiencies in appropria-
tions for the use of the War Depart
ment for the remaining two months of
the present fiscal year. aggregating
| S34, ola, ,99T.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th
says 1t is practically settled that the
President will issue his call for 10,-
600 yellow fever immunes during the
coming week. All OF the soldiers who
| will be sent to Cuba will be inoculated
with the yellow fever anti-toxines.
| The Treasury Department has or
dered the release of the Spanish vessel
Saturnna, recently seized in Biloxi,
| Mississippi, harbor. Under the Presi-
| dents proclamation such vessels are
allowed thirty days in which to leave
port. hence the order.
The Navy Department has complete
| ly ceased It's purchase of ships for con
version into war vessels. owing to the
exhaustion of the S5O.OO0,0O0 war
fund. 1t is confidently expected that
| Congress will come TO the relief. as the
department is still in need of auxiliary
vessels.
The Havana correspondent of the
| Daily Mail. teieErnphing on April 20th,
| says Captain General BlaDco has de-
.Is.f.x ..f
Havana In Mntanzas 10000 soldiers
are engaged day and night in throwing
up earthworks and encompassing the
entire city in segment of a great cir
| Gle.
Arrangements have been completed
by this government to supply the Gu
ban insurgents with arms and ammu-
| milton. The government Is preparing
now to land in Cuba from 25.00O to 30,-
| 600 stands of improved Springfield
rifles. n number of artillery batteries,
rapid-fire Maxim guns and an abun-
dance Of ammunition for the effective
use of them.
Every endeavor is being put forward
by the War Department to organize
the volunteer army and increase the
regular army to its full strength. Mus
tering rolls of the companies OF the
volunteer army have been prepared in
the War Department and sent to the Of
ficers who have been detailed to form
ally lnduct the state troops into the
service of the national government
With few notifications they are the
same as those used in the late war.
Great things are promised for the
Holland submarine boat by Its invent
or, who proposed to the government to
go to Key West, join Admiral Samp-
sons squadron, and with his own crew
enter the harbor of Havana by night
and throw dynamite bomb into Nor
ro castle. Mr.. Holland will undertake
this II the government Will guarantee
to purchase the vessel at the conclus-
ion of the performance. The govern
ment has closed the bargain for the
boat