Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-09-15

they ought to be stripped Of decora-
aticns and hung by their sashes.
Miss Jessie Schley o. Milwaukee
Wis, Admiral Schley's cousin, who
went to Madrid on peace commission
Iast July as a delegate Of the Wom-
ans International Peace association,
has arrived at Havana from Spain.
She is IN Cuba in connection with re-
lief work AID will have an interview
with Blanco.
The Bashi-Bazouks. thu naive
IT ops Of Crete. are committing ex-
c5sses. ard the Christians in and near
Gambia are waiting fr assistance.
There are eight warships in the har
Dor and a flesh bombardmeOt is ex-
pected. The British, German and
Spanish c0nsulates have been looted.
Thus far 300 native Christians and 81
British subjects have been killed.
The PHILIPPINE insurgents are con-
vening a mass-meeting to assemble
shortly at Maloles, thirty miles north
Of Mania, for the purpose Of deciding
from their standpoint upon the future
Of the Pm lippine islands. Aguinaldo,
the insurgent leader, insists that the
insurgent forces should remain in
their strategetic positions and
strengthen them, lest the Americans
withdraw from the islands, in the
meantime overlooking Manila, COM
mandilg the railroad, aud threatening
the food supply.
The British war o ice has received a
| dispatch from General Sir Herbert
Kitchener, the commander Of the An
glo-Egyptian forces. dated from ON
durham, saying that 500 Arabs.
mounted On camels, were dispatched
after the fugitive, Khal ia Abdullah
Officers have been counting the dervish
bodies On the field and report the
total number Of dead found at about
! 10,800. From the numbers Of wound
| ed, who have crawled to the river and
| town, it is es ,imated that 10000 were
wounded. Beside the above between
300 and 400 dervishes were killed in
Omdurman when the town was taken
The collision between the Mussal-
mans and Christians in Gambia, Crete,
resulted in the killing of 20 persons
and the wounding Of so. The British
vice consul, M. Carlochino, was killed
during the fighting. He was burned
to death in his home. A British SOL
der on guard at the tax office was
suddenly stabbed in the back, and he
dropped his rife, which exploded kill
ing a mussulman This started the
| trouble. The firing then became gen
eral, and a party Of twenty British
blueJackeIs from the British torpedo
gunbOat Hazard was almost aanihil-
ated before the sailors could reach
their ship.
It is the intention Of the war de
! partment authorities to establish a
military rendezvous at Honolulu
Major General Merriam. commanding
the department of California, is now
in Hawaii for tie purro- of asc srta. n
ing how large a force can be comfort-
ably accommodated in the vicinity Of
Honolulu. 1t is hoped that General
( Merriam will report that as large "a
force as 5000 men can be safely ira as
ferred to Honolulu. If he does 50 re
port the following regiments will be
s5nt from San Francisco to Hawai-:
the sixth, seventh, and eighth Cali
fOrnia, fifty-frst Iowa, twentieth Kan
first n mo ;oI+
battery, the Utah troop of cavalry, and
one Wyoming battery Of artillery
! These troops are now in the vicinity
Of San Francisco and under the com
mand of General Merriam.
A report from Constructor Capps a
Manila, states that aside from the
small gunboats which have been ra' sed
and put into the service of Admiral
/ Dewey, none of the Spanish ships OF
war engaged in the battle of Manila
| bay is likely to be raised. Mr. Caps
was sent to the Asiatic station es-
pecially to assist in putting the squad
i ron in frst-class condition for any
merg6ncy. Already the flagship
Olympia and tie gunboat Ralsigh have
been dccked and cleaned at Hong
/ Kong, and the Boston has arrived
there for the same purpose. Within
the course of a few weeks, at the ont
side, Admiral Dewey's squadron will
have bsen Thoroughly renovated Re
.nforced as it has been by the Mon
terey and the MonadnOck, and with
other iron-clads within easy reach, the
admiral will be IN shape to meet any
who may threa EN- to sturb his pos
session of Mari a.