The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-06-10
WAR PARAGRAPHS.
A Brief Compilation Of Daily
Occurrences.


ron has sailed for the West Indies, a. |
ho believes Admiral Ceryera can de.
fend himself alone.
A considerable stir was caused |
among the six volunteer regiments at /
Mobile by case Of smallpox reported /
in the First Alabama. Investigation |
developed that Private Hall, Of COM
pany 4, Huntsville Ala, had a mild |
attack Of varioloid. He has been re-
moved 10 the pesthouse; his messmates
we're quarantined and all clothing and
bedding destroyed. Regimental sur
geons fear no spread Of the disease.
since all the soldiers have been vac
cinated
According to Admiral Schley's re-
port 10 the navy department, his pur-
pose in attacking the approaches TO
Santiago was 10 learn the strength and
position Of the Notifications. He
found that they had fortified we'll and
carefully, having a number Of modern
English or French guns which will
render necessary a heavy lombard
ment to dislodge them.
The people Of Madrid consider San
tiago de Cuba as perfectly defended,
as its Notifications were planned by
the expert artillerist Ordonez.
Seven more transports have been
chartered to rush troops to the front.
These boats will accommodate 1000
infantry or three cavalry regiments.
They are TO report Immediately at
Tampa. The chartering will be con-
tinued until we have enough transports
to move the entire army at once.
Admiral Sampson having decided to
block the channel into Santiago de
Cuba harbor, thus preventing the es-
cape Of any of the Spanish or the en-
trance of any vessel to aid them Lieut.
Hobson with seven volunteers sailed
the iron steamship Merrimac with her
cargo of coal through a heavy fire from
the forts to the desired spot and there
by exploding a torpedo which opened
sides sunk her Immediately. He and
his crew were made prisoners by the
Spaniards.
1t is announced at Washington that
the cable cutting expedition fitted up
and sent out by Gen. Greedy has been
successful, and that Cuba is no longer
in cable communication with the out
side world.
The balloon section of the United
States signal corps for the present will
be attached temporarily to the fifth
army corps at Tampa, Major General
Shafter commanding, and will be I'M
der the direction of Lieutenant Col
onel James Allen, United States vol
unteers, now serving on the staff of
General Shafter
Lieutenant .Hobson, who won re-
nown in connection with the sinking
of the sinking of the Merrimac in San
tiago harbOr, is an Albanian. He is
about twenty eight years old and was
born and reared at Greensboro, Ala. ,
his father being among the best in that
aristocratic little city.
Thirty-fve members of the 1899
class of cadets from Annapolis have
reached Tampa and will be assigned
to duty on the signal corps as officers.
Miss Annie Wheeler, daughter of
General Joe Wheeler, may 60 to Cuba
as a Red Cross nurse, as she has filed
an application for such a position.
Miss Wheeler says she cannot remain
at home while her father and brother
are at the front. She hopes to arrange
with Miss Barton as a nurse
The Fifth army corps at Tampa is
now complete. Lieutenant Colonel B.
F. Pope, chief surgeon of the corps,
has prepared a complete set of instruc
tions in regard to the preservation o.
the health of soldiers during the cam
paign in Cuba. The rules have beer
printed and every soldier has been fur.
nished with copy with instructions
to study them carefully.
The Nebraska regiment has beer
authorized by the secretary of war ant
William Jennings Bryan will be it,
colonel.
Colonel Leonard Woods volunteer
regiment of cavalry, better known a
Roosevelt's rough riders, 900 men al
told, has arrived in Tampa and gon,
into camp west of the Tampa Ba,
hotel, near where the Third and Sixth
regular cavalry regiments are located
The people in Madrid consider San
tiago de Cuba impregnable, basinl
their belief on the fact that the de
lenses of that place were CONSTRUCTED
by the celebrated artillery expert, Or
donez.
The monitor Monadnock, from Por