Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-10
MOVING ON 70 san juan.
Gen. Miles Will Receive the Surrender
of the Spanish Forces.

NO MORE FIGHTING LIKELY-PORTO
RICANS HAVE ENLISTED IN OUR
ARMY AND ARD DOING GOOD SER
| VEGA SPANISH OFFICER KILL
ED DURING A SkIRMISH-THE
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS WILL END
| AGGRESSIVE OPERATIONS.
/ Ponce, Island of Porto Rico, August
Is evening-delayed in transmission.
General Henry, with the Sixth Hi
nois and the Sixth Massachusetts,, will
move tomorrow by way of Adjuntas
on Arecibo, which is about twenty
miles north of Adjuntas, as the crow
flies. A short stretch of the road that
troops will have to follow is in very
bad condition. Practically all of our
| troops will then be in motion, in four
columns, toward the capital of this ISL
and, San Juan de Porto Rico.
General Schwan is at Yauco, General
Wilson is near Coamo and General
Brooke is at Guayama.
The Porto Ricaus enlisted by Gen
eral Stone have been engaged with a
small Spanish outpost between Adjun-
tas and Utuado, on the road to Arecibo.
A skirmish took place last night and
during the exchange of shots one Span
ish officer was killed.
Major General Miles, with several
troops of cavalry, expects to follow
General Henry in day or two. If
peace is promptly declared General
Miles will be first to enter San Juan,
going by the railroad from Arecibo to
! the Porte Rican capital.
In view of the news received here
about the progress of the peace nego-
tiations, all the American army officers
appear to believe that there will be 40
more fighting.
The fleet is in the harbor of Ponce,
and Captain F. Rodgers, of the Puri-
tan, who is in command, expects Or
ders at any time to proceed to San Juan
! de Porto Rico.
Madrid, August 8, 5 p. m.-An oth-
cial dispatch from San Juan de Porto
Rico has been received by the minister
| of war. Lieut. General Correa, saying
that Spanish force under Col. Pinto
has entered the town of F'ajardo, pre-
viously occupied by the Americans, who
on retiring took their flag with them.
According to the same dispatch a
force of insurgents attempted TO sur
| prise the Spanish outpCsts at AreCabo,
| On the north coast of Porto Rico. but
were repulsed, several insurgents being
taken prisoners.
NO MORE REINFORCEMENTs.
Wash;n gton, D. c., August 9.-The
Secretary of War has stopped the dis
Porto Rico. General Miles reported by
cable this morning that the force at his
command was ample for the purpose Of
completing the conquest Of the island.
This leaves all of General Wade's pro-
visional army corps of eighteen regi-
ments still in the United States. 1t is
| believed that all of General Wilson's
division, except the Third Kentucky
and Fifth Illinois. have already sailed,
and they will be allowed to proceed
The two regiments above named are at
Newport News, and will be detailed
there until the department has arrang-
ed for their further detail.
There are six brigades under the
| command Of General Wade. The First
| brigade is composed of the First Rhode
Island Fourth Missouri, and Twenty
| second New York: the Second brigade
of the First North Carolina. First Ala
| bama and First Arkansas; the Third
| brigade of the First New Hampshire
| First Vermont and Fifty-secOnd Iowa;
| the Fourth brigade CT the First New
Jersey. First West Virginia and Third
Virginia; the Fifth brigade of the Sec
end Texas. First Connecticut and First
Delaware; the Sixth brigade Of the
First Maine, Third Tennessee and First
! Maryland
| None of the troops under General
| Wades command have yet started.
| The department was not actually in
| formed this afternoon as to which Of
Wilson'S troops would be held up IN
der this new order. but it is believed
that the Fifth Illinois, which has been
! four times disappointed by the revoca-
ton of orders to the front. is among
those which have not yet gone on
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