The labor world., 1898-08-27
NEWS OF THE week.
Interesting Items About tho
Late War With Spain.

Late war with Spatns
Commodore John A. Howell has been
promoted to rear admiral.
General Pando is in Spain, having
gone there direct from Mexico.
Five cases of yellow fever are in the
detention hospital at Montauk Point.
The Arizona, with General King and
1900 troops, has left San Fran cisco fo1
Manila.
Cubans at santiago are reported to
be in an ugly mood, and an outbreak is
q possibility.
I Forty thousand mon passed in re.
view before Inspector General Breck.
inridge at Camp Thomas.
General Miles will return at once tc
Washington, leaving General Brooke
in command at Porto Rico.
The president has announced his de.
cision to muster out Of the service
from 75, 900 to 100. 900 volunteers.
t. The Fifty.second Iowa has been sent
home, principally on account Of the
large number of sick in the regiment.
The president has directed that the
minimum Spanish tariff be collected
on all goods imported into Porto Rico.
The appropriations of the last session
of congress aggregated 1898 1881 ,615, in.
Guiding 1851 1855, ,9S7 on account Of the
war.
Private Paul Vergt of the Third Wis.
consin regiment, who was shot in the
stomach at the battle of Coamo, i.
dead.
All Catholic church property in Man.
ila has been decided, for the considera'
tion of 81, to Cardinal Gibbons of Bal.
timore.
General Alger, in a letter to Chaun.
cey M. Depew, ostensibly in answer tc
some questions, defends his conduct Of
the war.
The transports Peru and Puebla
having on board General Otis and
General Hughes and troops, have ar
rived at Manila.
Eight Americans were killed and
forty wounded in the fight at Manila.
Ono St. Paul man died of typhoid fever
before the battle.
Admirals Sampson and Schley have
been ordered to report to Washington.
Commodore Philip is temporarily in
command Of the feet.
Captain Bjornstad and Sergeant
Burnsen, both of the Thirteenth Min.
nesota, have died from wounds re.
ceived in battle at Manila.
New York gave SIMPSONS feet
royal welcome Saturday. The vast
throng along the banks of the Hudson
shouted themselves hoarse.
President Mckinley has cabled to
Admiral Dewey and General Merritt
his and the nations congratulations
upon their capture of Manila.
The naval reserves of Michigan,
Maryland and Rhode Island, now at
Philadelphia, have been sent home and
will be mustered out of service.
1t is stated that Theodore Roosevelt
will resign his command as soon as he
has conferred with Washington officials
regarding the situation at Santiago.
The dozen single turretted monitors
will be sent to Cuban and Porto Rtcan
harbors for guardships. Cubans will
be kept in order with grapeshot if nee
essary. -
Twenty soldiers Of the Thirteenth
Minnesota regiment were wounded and
one killed in the battle Of Manila. This
is nearly half the total number
wounded.
+! The steamer Olivette arrived at Fort
Monroe Friday from Santiago, having
on board 200 patients Of the Fifth army
corps, including % officers. While the
; Olivette was at sea six men died and
were buried.
One of the largest fleets Of warships
ever assembled in an American port
will be brought together within the
next few days at Fort Monroe. AL.
ready 81 warships are under orders to
rendezvous there, and the orders still
ito be issued will raise the total to the
of 70. 81
The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and
the ram Kahtadin will be ordered out
of commission. The Vesuvius never
hit any thing but the island of Cuba and
the ram proved disappointment. AL!
the colliers, repair and supply ships
will be retained and not sold, although
some of the yachts will.
The steamer Relief has arrived al
New York from Ponce. She brought
248 sick and wounded soldiers Ten
deaths occurred from typhoid on the
voyage. Nine of the victims were
buried at sea. The body of Major Sur
geon Lawrence Smith was embalmed
and brought to New York.
Sagasta is quoted as saying the pres
ent status is not peace nor war, but
merely a suspension of hostilities.
There are various complex questions.
Spain wants compensation for public
buildings and state lands, and insists