Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-08
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WAR.


The administration demands that
Spain give up all the West Indies.
The Spanish troops at Caimanera,
near Guantanamo, have surrendered.
All business interests in Santiago
favor annexation to the United
States.
Red Cross Society in New York city
has ceased to send nurses to the
front.
Over twenty thousand Spanish
troops in the Santiago district sur
rendered.
Gen. Shafter cables the war de-
partment that customs are being
honestly collected at Santiago.
Lieut.. Col. H. G. Dunwoody has
been promoted to be colonel of the
signal corps in the regular army.
Capt. Higglnson's report of the
capture of Guanica commends Lieut..
Wainwright for special gallantry.
1t is estimated that Spain will de-
eide to go on fighting if America in
sists upon the control of the Philip
pines.
Lieut.. Hobson left for Washington
with contracts for work in raising
sunken Spanish warships off San
tiago.
Official reports of Admiral Samp-
son and other officers on the naval
battle off Santiago were made public
in Washington.
1t was reported from st. Thomas
that the Porto Rico volunteers at
Ponce had revolted and would not
fight the Americans.
Owing to the appeal made by Gu
bans in Cienfuegos it is believed
President Mckinley will direct that
that city be taken after San Juan.
Cuban couriers report at Santiago
that the Cubans and Spaniards in the
interior have met in battle, result
ing in the defeat of the Spaniards.
It is believed in London that Pre-
mier Sagasta knew what conditions
President Mckinley would insist
upon before he formally asked for
peace.
The administration is disposed to
give up the Philippines except coal
ing station. Sentiment in the army
and navy, however, favors their re-
tention.
The news that Hawaii had been
annexed to the United States reached
Honolulu by the steamer Coptic on
July Is. 1t was received with public
demonstrations of joy.
General Shafter reported that there
were upwards of 1000 cases of i'll
ness in the army at Santiago. OF
these {, 199 are mild cases OF fever.
The death rate is small.
Adyices from Manila up to July II
say the city had not surrendered to
Dewey at that time, but it is thought
in Washington not unlikely that since
then the city has capitulated.
Emile Boas, manager of the Ham
burg-American Line in New York,
announced that the steamship Scan
dia has been sold to the United
States to be used as a transport.
The Merritt & Chapman Derrick
and Wrecking company is sending
out the German steamer Senior, under
the German flag, to raise the Span
ish war ship Cristobal Colon.
The navy department has extended
the time for the submission of pro-
posals for the construction of sixteen
torpedo boat destroyers and torpedo
boats from Aug. 9 until Aug. 16.
An American expedition on the
Wanderer, carrying relief supplies for
the Cubans, was attacked by Span
iards while making landing, and
four of the Americans were wounded.
Colonel John Jacob Aston, bear
ing dispatches from General Shafter,
is held in quarantine on the Arkansas
at Tampa, yellow fever having de-
veloped on the ship after it left San
tiago.
The president and cabinet decide
upon the cession of Porto Rico to
the United States, recognition OF
Cuban independence and the cession
of coaling stations in the Philippines
and Ladrones.
British investors in the islands met
in London and cabled President Nc
Kinley and Senator Davis, protest
ing against the abandonment of the
islands to Spain.
The Berlin correspondent Of the
Daily News says: "The powers, with
the exception of Great Britain, have
agreed not to- allow an American
annexation of the Philippines or an
Anglo-American proIectorate over
the islands,
At a meeting of the cabinet in
Washington it was decided to reply
to Spain that peace will not be con-
sidered until all western hemisphere
possessions are abandoned by Spain
the other points of difference to be
settled later.
French government officials explain
that Madrid's appeal for peace was
presented at Washington by the
French Ambassador because he has
been charged with the care of Span
ish interests in America since Min
lister Polo withdrew.