Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-07-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR.

1853 officers and sailors of Cervera' 5
feet arrived at Santiago.
Commodore Winfield S. Schley
cabled: Victory belongs to every
officer and man Of the fleet.
Detacnments of Wisconsin troops
left Chickamauga for Charleston
where they may sail for Cuba.
Surgeons with the army at San
tiago complain Of the poor quality Of
drugs furnished by the department.
France rendered to Spain the good
offices of the French ambassador at
Washington in opening negotiations
for peace.
An uncOnfirmed rumor reached Key
West that General Blanco attempted
suicide when he learned of CerVera's
defeat.
General James H. Wilson may be
sent to Cuba to set UP new govern
nent to take the place Of the Span
ish authority.
There is no food in Manila except
canned meat and -four. They are kill
ing cavalry horses and selling the
meat at As cents pound.
1t was announced at Washington
that General Miles would at once or
ganize an expedition of 10000 troops
at Santiago for the invasion OF
Puerto Rico.
Portugal is watching internal events
in Spain very closely. Preparations
are being made as rapidly as possible
to move troops to the Spanish front
Ter. 1t is feared that an uprising in
Spain will be followed by like move
ment in Portugal.
A dispatch from Santiago says
General Duffeld is in the isolation
hospital and is in very serious con-
dition. The nature of his ailment
is not stated.
The submarine. mines for the pro-
lection of coast cities have been
ordered removed from all rivers and
harbors in the United States.
Capt. John R. Bartlett has been
ordered to take command of the
auxiliary fleet of the United States,
succeeding Admiral Erben.
The first New York regiment of
volunteers has been ordered to the
garrison at Honolulu. The Hawaiian
Islands have been made part of the
department. Of California.
In an address before Clark uniyer
sity summer school Senator Hoar re
buked Prof Norton, of Harvard, for
his anti-war speeches and his low
estimate of the American people.
Stephen Crane, in a dispatch to
The World, says the battle of San
Juan was won, not by the officers, but
by the gallant bravery of the men.
He declares that the Cuban allies are
worthless.
A Gibraltar correspondent cables
that a steamer just arrived from the
Mediterranean reports having sighted
Camara's squadron headed toward
Cartagena and busily engaged at gun
practice.
Spain is ready to get out of Cuba,
the London Star says, if we will as
sumo the Cuban debt, and to let
Germany have four Philippine Islands
If she is guaranteed possession of
the rest.
General Shafter reEcrts that in
the action of July Is at Santiago
killed, eighty officers and 1908 men
were wounded, and that eighty-one
men are missing.
Harriet Lane Johnson, niece of
President Buchanan, was a guest at
Windsor castle by special invitation
of the queen. England's sovereign
expressed the hope that the war
would end soon.
A Madrid despatch reports that our
terms of peace are possession of
Cuba and Porto Rico, with a port in
the Canaries; $24O,OO0,O00 indemnity
and retention of the Philippines till
the indemnity is paid.
Robert Mather of Chicago, who
offered the Union Leagues brigade to
Mr. Mckinley, quoted the president
as saying that unless Spain immedi-
ately begs for peace he will call for
100000 more volunteers.
Major Webb of the thirty-third
Michigan volunteers, Stephen Crane,
the writer, and Burr Mcintosh, are re-
ported TO be among the passengers If
the city of Washington who are
stricken with yellow fever.
Major De Grandpre, military attache
of the French embassy, who has
just returned from Santiago. says
the fighting qualities of the United
States forces are not matched by those
of any other country in the world.
The Spanish government is ready to
seize the first opportunity to solicit
peace, Madrid correspondent cables,
but is striving to have some of the
European powers ready to under
take to dictate to us about condi-
taions.
The Worlds Madrid correspondent
cables that Germany positively has
assured Spain that she will lead
Europe in a coercive effect to main
tain Spanish rule in the Philippines
and to limit us to a coaling station in
the Carolines.
SPANS money and munitions of war
are exhausted, the Worlds Madrid
correspondent reports, and if the
war party keeps up its agitation she
will publicly confess her extreme
poverty. showing that she cannot even
feed her troops.
According to the official report of
the auxiliary gunboat Vixen. Admiral
SIMPSONS flagship reached the Colon
an hour and seven minutes after the
Texas had signalled 'the enemy has
surrendered" a signal not acknowl-