The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-06-17
WAR PARAGRAPHS.
A Brief Compilation Of Daily
Onourrnnnna.

All the food at Santiago has been /
seized Tor tho army and troops and
sailors are on half ralions.
The Chattanooga Car and Foundry
company has nearly completed q CON
tract fof ten carloads Of mine anchors
awarded them two months ago. They
viii be delivered az Norfolk, Mobile
and New Orleans for mining the
waters adjacent,
Owing 10 herumors that four Span
ish waFships sailed from Barcelona
some days ago aud a number Of Span
ish war vessels are rushing about the
waters between Florida and Cuba the
government has collected q feet OF
war vessels with tho battleship Indiana
at its head 10 convoy the transports to
Cuba.
To Captain Clarke, Of the battleship
Oregon, belongs the honor Of accom-
plishing the first successful landing Of
the war. Forty marines from that
battleship went ashore and occupied
the left entrance TO the bay until the
troopship Panther arrived with 600
marines.
The Letter hospital for the govern
ment at Chickamauga is ready for use
aud is placed under the command OF
Surgeon Captain Carter Of the United
States hospital service.
The Marblehead, Yankee and ST.
Louis have cut the Haytien cable run
ming into Guantanamo bay. The ends
have been buoyed and Rear Admiral
Sampson can establish communication
with Washington direct.
There are sufficient prisoners, and
to spare, at Fort Mcpherson, Ca, to
exchange for Lieutenant Hobson and
his crew.
According to instructions sent ont
by the war department a recruit must
be between Is and 40 years old,
weight 100 to 1875 cavalry, and 100 in
fantry; a regiment to number all
grades, infantry 1926, cavalry 1885;
a company, infantry 106, cavalry 100,
light artillery 173, heavy artillery 200.
There is much interest in the an
nouncement by Adiutant General
Corbin that married men will not be
accepted in Colonel's regiment This
is understood by some to mean that
that while there is no such thing as an
immune, this regiment, having assum-
ed to be so, will be treated as if com
posed of men actually enjoying immu-
nifty from yellow fever, and will be
put in the places most exposed to vel.
low fever. On this account, some
think, men with families dependent
on them will not be allowed to 60 as
immunes.
The First Tennessee volunteers
Colonel w. G. Smith commanding
left Nashville for San Francisco il
four trains over the Louisville anC
Nashville, via st. Louis. An i'm
mense crowd witnessed their depart
ure.
The first land battle has occurred OIL
Cuban soil. Spanish guirilIas attack
ed force of marines landed from tn,
transport Panther. Four Americana
were killed. Spanish loss unknown
The navy hospital ship Solace ha
sailed for Santiago. The army hos
pital ship Revis is at New York, no
yet completed, but the Solace will re
move both sailors and soldiers to tn
general army hospitals, which will re
ceive sailors as well as soldiers.
Admiral Sampson has sent an off
cial report to the navy department re
garding the heroic act of Lieutenan
Hobson and his men in sinking tn
Merrimac. The admiral accords tn
highest praise to the Alabama boy.
The president has authorized came
salmon to be added as one of the mea
, components Of the army ration. Oh
dinarily fresh beef will be issued t
the troops six days in ten, salt meat
three days in ten, and canned salmo
one day IN ten.
Several Spanish generals declar
> that they can continue the war fc
two years more and that peace shoul
not be considered unless it means
! return to all conditions as they wei
before the war.
= The United States postal service hG
been extended to Cuba and the Philil
q pines. The Cuban Office will be nj
der the supervision of the New YoI
city postofice, called "The New Yol
Il Military Station No. l." The PHILIP
2, pine office will be under the care
j, the San Francisco office and known
?. ''The San Francisco Military Static
" Nc, ]. These two places have rlen'
of clerks able to care for the numerol
money orders that may be handled.