Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1898-05-11
BIG BATTLE EXPECTED.
Though Possibly the Spanish Ar
mada Has Tnrned Back.
SIMPSONS FLEET WENT To MEET IT.

SIMPSONS FLEET WENT To MEET IT.
While In the Neighborhood Sampson May
Take Possession of Porto Rico and
Big Coal Supply There.
Especial to the Argus)
WASHINGTON, May 10.-Up to the
time Secretary Long started to the
cabinet meeting today he was with
out any information from SIMPSONS
fleet OF concerning any action. The
state department gives out the fol-
lowing: "Official information has
been received that four Spanish cruis-
ers and three torpedo boat destroy
ers have returned to tadiz.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-News has
just reached the navy department
that the Spanish Cape Verde fleet has
arrived at Cadiz.
MADRID, May 1O.-Blanco cabled a
request for considerable supplies and
provisions for Havana.
TAMPA, May 1O.-Command of the
troops at Tampa today was turned
over to Major General Wade by Ma
jor General Shafter in conformance
with orders received from Washing
ton. 1t is said no change in plans re-
garding the movement of troops from
this point toward Cuba are contem-
plated. Shafter will command the
army on Cuban soil and direct the
conflict against Havana.
CHATTANOOGA, May 10.-At Chicka-
manga Park today the officers and
men of the regular army regiments
are rushing as they have not been
called upon to do since the war be-
gan. The entire army is ordered to
pack up and go to the front. This
was announced at O'Clock and since
then things have been moving at a
tremendous pace. Railroads have
been running all availableca to the
park and as rapidly as they are run
there are loaded with camp equip
ments, horses, supplies, etc. The
work of moving the big command
within the next few days is an i'm
mense job. Five hundred passenger
coaches TO carry men to Tampa will
be available tonight.
WASHINGTON, May 1O.-Assistant
Secretary Meiklejohn today chartered
thirty ships with a capacity OF $1,000
men. They are to be used to convey
troops to the Philippines and Cuba.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-Gen. Miles
and his entire staff will leave WASH
ington tonight for Tampa to accom-
pany the first military expedition to
Cuba, unless the present plans are
changed.
BAHIA, BRAZIL.-The Battleshfp,
Oregon, arrived here at $40 this
morning. 1t is said she is acting
KEY WEST, May 5.-The dispatch
boat Leyden, sent TO Cuba by the
United States government early in
the week, returned this morning with
| four of the six Cuban scouts who left
here last Monday. Other scouts were
landed with those who have returned
and communication was established
with the insurgent forces under Gen.
eral Pedro Delgado. The Leyden
and has marks on her smokestacks.
The Spaniards who opened fire on
the dispatch boat were driven back
by the insurgents.
1t is officially reported that no
Americans or Cubans of the expedi-
ton were killed or wounded.
| MOBILE, Ala, May Capt. T. E.
Marshall of the American bark John
r. Stanhope, which has just arrived
from Mandanillo, Cuba, reports that
when he left the Cuban port 10000
ragged, starving Spanish soldiers
were concentrated there, having
been driven there into the shelter of
the city by the patriot army. Their
food is totally inadequate; they sleep
in the streets, under verandas Of ho-
tells, altogether like cattlein in a stable
s.