Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-05-26
WAR BREVITLES.
saturday, May 2I.

It is reported that France will ask
the powers to protest against American
cable cutting.
A boy named Garcia, arrested at
Tampa on suspicion of being a Spanish
spy, has been honorably discharged.
The Fourteenth New York regiment
of volunteers, Colonel Fred Grant went
into camp at Chickamauga Friday
The regiments of the new Pennsyl-
vania Guard will be numbered so as
not to conflict with those now in SER
vice.
United States steamer Resolute left
the Brooklyn navy yard last night with
a crew of 100 men from New Jerseys
naval militia
Business at Havana is almost at
standstill in consequence of the block
ade, and a spirit of depression has
come over the beleaguered capital.
According to a Key West dispatch
the steamer Tecumseh has landed two
parties on the Cuban coast, bearing i'm
portant messages to the Cuban insur-
gents.
Monday. May 90.
The cost of the war to Spain exceeds
$2S, 900 a month
Coffee will not be taxed in the war
revenue bill
Over 10000 letters were delivered to
the troops encamped at Chickamauga
on Friday.
Volunteers of Washington state, now
at San Francisco, voted unanimous
desire to be sent to Manila.
An unconfirmed report at Gibraltar
has it that the Spanish squadron at
Cadiz will sail for Cuban waters.
1t is reported that Admiral Cervera's
squadron will return to Fort de France
to coal from Spanish golfers now en-
route.
The single turret monitor JASON a
relic of the civil war, left Philadelphia
for New York, manned by New York
naval reserves.
A Madrid correspondent of the Lon
don Times declares our government
cannot expect aid from Cuban insur-
gents.
Tuesday, May "A.
Horse flesh costs $3.50 pound in
Manila.
A. C. Gray, son of the Delaware sena-
tor, declines an army commission.
The harbor of San Diego, Cal has
been planted with mines and torpedoes.
A bill introduced in the national
house proposes large increases in the
navy.
The steamer Fenita is loading am
munition at Mobile for Cuban ex-
petition.
There have now been mustered into
the service of the general government
1871 volunteers.
]. Castellanos, a young man who
wrote 100 letters day, is under ar
rest as Spanish spy at Key West.
Cuban insurgent officers deny charges
| of inefficiency, and say the Cuban army
will distinguish itself by brilliant oper-
atoms.
The building of navy equal, if not
| the superior, of Great Britain's is being
agitated in congress, and has many
supporters
Major General William M. Graham
formally assumed command of Camp
| Alger, near Washington, yesterday.
There are $4,000 men in the camp.
The British steamer Ardanmhor was
seized off Cuba because of her sus-
picious actions. 1t was thought she
was attempting to run the blockade.
Wednesday, May 25.
Five hundred Spaniards were killed
and 700 injured by the bombardment OF
Manila.
The Ninth and Sixty ninth New York
regiments are en- route for Chicka-
manga.
Reports from the state camps show
| that $4,000 men have been mustered
into the volunteer army.
Late advices from Hawaii confirm
the statement that the island has been
offered to our government as base
of supplies.
The third section of the train car
rying Illinois volunteers ran safely
over a burning trestle near Birming-
ham. Ala Incendiarism Is suspected.
The report that negotiations have
been opened for the transfer of the
Philippines to France by sale or lease,
says a Paris dispatch, is absolutely
false.
H. G.. Whitmore has been elected
captain of William J. Bryan's COM
pany, Bryan having withdrawn from
the contest because he could not be
elected unanimously.
Thursday, May 26.
A special from Gibraltar says two
Austrian warships will sail Saturday
| for Cuban waters.
Martial law has been proclaimed
throughout the Canary Islands, and is
very rigidly enforced.
OF the 125,000 volunteers called for by
the president four weeks ago 115,0O0
have been mustered in.
The volunteer army at Chickamauga
Park now numbers. 1894 men, and this
will be increased by 10000 by the close
| of the week.
1t is believed that Senior Puigcerver,
minister of finance in Spain's cabinet,
will provoke ministerial crisis at the
| next cabinet council.
| Major Russell B. Harrison, son of the
ex-president, has been assigned to duty
| on the staff of Major General Fitzhugh
| Lee.
The Madrid correspondent of the
| London Standard says a number of
merchant steamers loaded with coal
from England have arrived at BARGE