Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-07-07
OUT AT MANILA,

The United States cruiser Charles
ton arrived at Manila Thursday with
the first expedition of American troops
for the relief of Admiral Dewey. All
were well on board. On her way the
Charleston seized La Guahan, capital
of the Ladrone Islands, which is to be
held as base of supplies.
The Unsted States dispatch boat
Zafiro, which left Bavite, Manila har-
Dor, on July 1, has arrived at Hong
Kong. She reports that the American
troops in the transports City of Sid
ney. City Of Picking and Australia,
conveyed by the Charleston, arrived
at Cavite on June 80. The Ladrone
Islands were taken on the way and
men left there. The Spanish governor
and other officials captured were
brought to Cavite. The troops began
to disc nbark at Cavite on the LIST.
The distance from Honolulu to Ma
from San Francisco to Honolulu is
2, 100 miles, which was covered in a
few hours less than seven days, a rate
of slightly more than 800 miles a day.
Twe ntY-eight days were required for
the longest Lalf Of the journey, q
speed of about zoo miles day, allow
ing for the stop at the Ladrone Islands.
The expedition consists of four com
'panles of regulars under command of
Major Robe; the 1st Regiment. Cali
fornia Volunteers, Col. Smith; the LIST
Segment, Oregon Volunteer, Col.
Summers; battalion of fifty heavy
artillery, Major Garry; about 100 sail
ors and eleven naval officers. The
fleet is loaded with supplies to last a
year, and carries big cargo of ammu
milton and naval stores for Admiral
De-" ey's fleet.
The Ladlone Islands, which are also
called the Marianne or the Mariana
Islands, a group OF about twenty is
lands belonging to Spain in the North
Pacific ocean. north Of the Caroline
Islands. They are between ATTITUDES
ID deg. and 81 deg. north, and longi-
tude IA deg. and 146 deg. west. They
have an area of 416 square miles, and a
population of about 10000.
When the Spanish missionaries sent
10y Queen Mariana, widow of Philip
~ of Spain. established themselves
on the islands toward the end of the
seventeenth century, the natives num-
bered 10000. The present inhabitants
are mostly des PENDANTS of settlers from
Mexico and the Philip pines.
The principal islands are Guahan,
Rota, Aguijan, Saypan and Tinian.
The seat If government is at San
Ignacio de Agana, on the Island of |!
Guahan. the most southerly OF the |
group, where there is good fortified |
harbor. Asuncion and Pagon on the |
north are noted for their volcanoes.
Magellan disco cred the islands |
shortly before his death in 1921 and |
named them the Ladrones, from the |
thievish disposition of the natives.
They we're afterward called the Laza-
rus Islands, AMI in 1867, when the |
Jesuits settled there, they were re- |
named Marianne or Mariana in honor |
of the reigning Spanish Queen.
There is more Catarrh in this section |
of the country than all other diseases put |
together, and uatil the last few years |
was supposed to be incurable. For a |
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease. and prescribed local rem
edies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local tire itment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to
be constitutional disease, and there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
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only constitutional cure on the market.
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