Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-12
ON LAND AND SEA.
Bits OF News from Our Gallant Soldiers and
Sailors.

a dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Co. of London, from Paris says that the
United States and Spanish peace commits
sioners are at entire variance regarding
the question of the disposition of the
Philippine Islands and that they have re-
ferred the matter to their respective gov
errmentS.
Miss Annie II. Fowler. who served as
q Red Cross nurse in Cuba, is to be
married to Albert Vanshelle, a Belgian
aobleman. delegate general of the Red
Cross Society on the staff of Leopold
II. Miss Fowler is the daughter of DR..
e. S. Fowler of Springfield, Ill.
The Spanish government announces its
intention TO maintain a strong force of
troops in Cuba until the treaty, of peace
with the United States is definitely signed.
Immediately after peace is signed, the
Cortes will be convened and measures
dealing with the reorganization of all the
state departments viii be submitted to
Parliament.
The United States dispatch boat Dol
phin with Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Allen on board dropped anchor
in Provincetown harbor at 1.15 Tues
day afternoon. She remained there
that night and is expected to leave at
A. NJ, Wednesday, for Boston.
The secretary of the navy has yielded
Philadelphia and has given orders for the
attendance of several of the United
States warships at the peace Jubilee to
be held in that city on the 18th inst The
vessels selected have all seen the hardest
service during the war and include the
New Orleans. Marblehead, Texas, Topeka,
Mayflower ard Winslow.
West Virginia MS alone among all the
states Of the Union in enjoying the dis
tinction of having all her troops kept in
the federal service. The 1st and I'd Regi-
ments will be sent to Cuba and Porto
Rico shortly and the 4th u. S. V. DIM
munes) are to sail for Manzanillo, Cuba.
from Ferna ndina. Fla. The latter regd-
meEt was recruited in West Virginia,
District of Columbia and Maryland
Red Cross Agent Barnes cables Stephen
E. Barton of the executive committee at
New York, that all volunteers in Porto
Rico have been ordered home and 10000
viii be sent from The United States 70
take their place. He predicts that the
troops in Porto Rico. 10 days after their
arrival, and states that he needs large
amount of stores for them ana to stock
the vessels starting North with troops.
| General Merriam will send to Manila,
Battery A Sf the California Heavy Ar
| tillery. CoK Wholley, of the Washing
ton regiment has been instructed TO
f, make all necessary preparations for
| embarking his command on or about
| Tuesday, Oct. Is. The Senator will
carry the 23d Battalion, the oregon
recruits and Battery D. of the Califor-
ria Heavy Artillery. Men going on
this expedition will not be compelled TO
subsist On the regular rations, but con-
siderable variety of food viii be al
lowed on the voyage.
Col. Dudley, assistant judge advocate
general, has made a report to the sec
rotary of war upon the trouble which
occurred on board the Harvard soo1
after the naval fight at Santiago. A
that time some 500 or 500 Spanish prls
oners were on board this ship under thu
guard of Massachusetts and Michigan
volunteers. A riot occurred among thu
prisoners. and the soldiers shot severa
Of the Spaniards before quiet was re
| stored. The SDaniards claimed tina
| the Americans were to blame, whit,
the American officers defended the ac
ton of their men. Col Dudley sustaln
the contention of the American officer
and soldiers and places the blame 70
the trouble upon the Spanish prison
ers. The entire report will not be mad
public at the present time because o
the reflections upon the conduct of tn
Spanish prisoners.