Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-07-16
WAR BREvITIES.
Friday, July 8.


General Young has left the camp
near Santiago for the United States,
seriously ill with fever
Off Santiago the auxiliary cruiser
Osceola captured a Spanish lighter and
$50, 900 worth of provisions.
Fifteen thousand starving refugees
from Santiago are being fed by the
Red Cross society at Ell Caney.
The Spanish schooner Gallito. loaded
with provisions, was captured by the
gunboat Eagle east of Cape Popa, Isle
of Pines.
Saturday. July o.
Admiral Sampson cables that three of
Cerveras fleet may be saved.
Food and water are scarce in Santi-
ago. One biscuit recently sold for S. in
gold.
The underclothing received at Chicka-
manga is sufficient to equip an army Of
40, 000
The only Spanish flee above water
has re-entered the Suez canal on its
way home.
The transports Iroquois and Cherokee
brought to Tampa. Fla, 450 wounded
men from Santiago
Monday, July IL.
Two hundred and thirty-five sick and
wounded soldiers reached the general
hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Ga, from
Tampa.
The Cubans report to General Shafter
that the Spaniards have evacuated the
little town of Doscaninos, three miles
| from Santiago
Admiral Camara has been allowed to
| coal at Port Said, provided he furnished
a written guarantee that he would re-
| turn directly to Spain.
The magnanimous conduct Of the
| American officers toward the Spanish
prisoners has greatly strengthened the
| tendency in Spain towards peace.
The tone of the Russian press is very
| bitter against the United States. One
paper characterizes the destruction of
| Cervera's fleet as brutal slaughter"
Tuesday. July IL.
The men who destroyed Cervera' s
fleet will get something over 100000
in head money"
Two wouldbe blockade runners were
captured while trying to carry provis-
ions to Spaniards in Cuba,
Auxiliary cruiser st. Louis arrived at
Portsmouth, N. H., with Admiral Ger
vera and 500 Spanish prisoners, sailors
and officers.
Much difficulty is being experienced
in caring for the refugees who have
passed into the American lines, all OF
whom are nearly starved.
Admiral Cervera says the destruction
of his fleet ends his career. Il shall
| 60 In ha he
killed or die in disgrace"
REPORTS from San Juan. Porto Rico
are to the effect that the people of thai
island are starving, necessaries of life
having reached famine prices.
In an unpretentious wooden boz
which arrived in Chicago YESTERDAY
were the ashes of Captain Charles V
Gridley, late commander of Admira
Deweys flagship the Olympia
wednesday, July Is.
The president has intimated that an
other call for troops will be necessary
The Third Pennsylvania regiment i
expected to leave Tampa for Santiago
today
The dynamite cruiser Nictheroy. .pur
chased from the Brazilian government
viii be turned into collier.
The First regiment, New York vol
unteers, destined for Honolulu, hal
reached Camp Merritt, San Francisco
Nearly all the people of South Amer
lean countries are in sympathy witt
Spain, and refuse to believe stories o
American victories.
For some reason known only to tn
military authorities the third eXpedi
ton to Cuba from Charleston, S. c.
failed to get off yesterday.