Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-11
GENERAL MILES ADVANCE.
War Department Expects to Hear OF San
Juans Fall Soon.

Juan's Fall Soon.
Washington, Aug. II. - The war de-
partment expects to hear within the
next two or three days of an attack on
San Juan. Porto Rico, followed prompt
ly by the captulation Of the city.
All the recent adVices from General
Miles indicate that the three separate
detachments of his force arekadvancing
steadily toward the capital under cir
cumstances which give hope of a speedy
and successful close of the Porto Rico
campaign.
The dispatch stating that in the opin-
ion of General Miles no more troops are
necessary either for the subjugation or
the garrsoning of the island leads the
administration to believe that the cam
paign Is we'll in hand.
A message was received from LIEU
tenant Colonel James Allen Of the army
signal corps informing General Greedy
the chief signal officer, that he was hay
ing good success in maintaining tele-
phonic and Geographic communication
between Ponce and the advancing de-
tachments of the army of invasion.
Good use has been made of all the de-
vices which the signal corps could COM
| mand, even to the employment or the
| ha rbed wire defenses of the Spaniards
as telegraph lines.
What disposition is to be maze OF the
| regiments composing General Wade
provisional division whose orders 10 go
TO Porto Rico have Seen revoked, is not
known, but it is probable that they VIII
he reassiened to their original brlsaoes
| divisions and corps.
| Adyices from Porto Rico are to the Ell
| feet that Coamo was occupied by tne
troops of General Ernst's brigade altel
a lively skirmish of half an hour ana
| that i'm an encounter five miles outsloe
| ne Guayama on Monday five or the
Fourth Ohio volunteers were Wouhueu
The Ohio troops were ampusne" anu
were only saved from annlhilatloh ny
tho arrival of re-enforcements ana the
dynamite guns, .., -,
II was o'clock in the afternoon o.
Monday when the alarm was spread II
Guayama that Companies ana VI
the Fourth Chic had encountered u
.,huscade. The inhabitants or th'
town went into hiding at once he-ei'
rorcements hurried forward to the sc ~
of the conflict. 1t vas fouho az '''
nrst ambuscade was ade at P'ae'
where the road turned twice "lth'h oo
wards. The troops were thus expo
IN a cross fire from the Spahlal"S Nv
wore located in a b'ockhousH "ni W
hind earthwurks on top or NH VI
tho arrival Of help TIE American
charged the hill and drove ire Fn M
back aided by the shells from III, ny a
lilo Guns which had been dragge'
from the town by hand.
m. affair was brought about ny IN
.ooutine expedition Of Colonel Cont MI
,au Dean and Lieutenant Wardmah
Conara1 Rrooke's staff to f1nd out II III
cnoniards had mined the bridges an
: 10 road to Cayey the elective pom
; w -, prooke's command. Captal
,.ss,o If Company c was overcome "
n.u' uo+ in the conflict, and his p.ac
wv .o,,e,, NV Lieutenant Wardman.
va ~ hal,eved that the s. aniards WI
resist the advance. lhia''''S
number of 400. $50 cavalry anu az -. .;,a
we're reported to be "lth'h NY ,ao
NJ Guayama. Three bridges l''u ~,
examined by the scout 'ns pa y, - va
thew had not been mined Oh
!, with. All Of our troops are ~" oct si,,
q with the Krag-Jorgenseh r'''e' ''''
!, smokeless powder. Con Ina
n ,s said that the ROAD u ~ g.
II PRESENTS great natural ad'ah'ass ae 20
essa General Brooke mas "rse
~anaro, Miles to assign to MN squat
. ~ New York and the Philaue -,
!. civ troop. hut it IS not tlousn.
49,. the renuesc will he grah'eu'
s go report asserts that the e"e''
! h.s reoccupied Fajardo'