Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-06-10
EP|TOME OF THE DISPATCHES
interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Quilted From tho Tress
Reports of the Curront Week.

Report of the Curront Week.
Madrid newspapers maintain that
Cervera's fleet is sailing in the direc-
tion of the Philippines
The secretary of wal has sent con-
gress a request for appropriations
amounting to 500. 879, 1853. These APP
preparations will be used for the
equipment and maintenance until June
l, 1899, of the 1876, 900 volunteers re-
Gently called for by the president.
Santiago is to be invested by a land
force. Government officials think a
naval attack alone might not be effect
i've. Haste is essential, as the prospect
of the early approach of the cyclone
season makes Schley's stay in the open
sea perilous. Secretary Alger intimates
that the invasion of Porto Rico will
promptly follow the fall of Santiago.
The state department and the attor-
ney-general, by direction of the presi-
dent, are working hard in the prepara-
tion of a form of government for Cuba
after the Spaniards are driven out. An
effort is being made to have a complete
plan for these operations ready to be
put into effect as soon as peace is de-
clared.
Loaded with wealth but deserted and
starving, John Rochel. once a we'll
known manufacturer of Sioux City, Ia,
persisted last April on the trail between
Dawson and Dyea. Alaska. The news
of his death reached Sioux City in a
letter to his widow by Richard Hen
erickson. from Seattle. He was aban-
doned by his comrades and left to die.
In the engagement at Santiago the
Spanish flagship Cristobal Colon was
struck twice by shells from the Massa-
chusetts and the batteries were badly
damaged by the firing of the cruiser
New Orleans. Three hundred shots
= were fired by the Americans. No
American vessel was hit and no one on
the ships injured. The Spanish loss
was not heavy.
Chas. w. Post, who has lust re.
turned from Hong Kong, says that pre-
vious to the battle of Manila, Admiral
Dewey had a social passage at arms
with Prince Henry, a brother of En-
peror William of Germany. Prince
Henry sighted the United States at s
series of toasts rendered at a banquet,
and was made to apologize to the hero
OF Manila. The apology was written.
A World dispatch from Madrid saws:
Spain will yield no territory, and will
not listen to peace overtures on such a
basis.
The schooner Jane Gray, which left
Seattle for Kotzebue sound with a party
of prospectors, on board has been
wrecked off Cape Flattery.
The converted yacht Wasp reports
having gone into Cieniuegos harbor
and sighting three Spanish cruisers,
probably of Cervera's fleet.
Secretary Alger. in a letter to con-
Gress says that 10, 900 or 90, 900 troops
will go to Cuba at once and be follow
ed, as soon as possible, by so, 900 more.
Two volunteer regiments will en-
bark ut San Francisco this week. The
troops selected to go Immediately are
the First Colorado and Tenth Pennsyl-
vania infantry. The coming campaign
at the Philippines is being carefully
mapped out.
The Florida expedition is now safe
with Garcia's army. A letter has
been received in Key West from one of
the American members of the party.
which was written after the landing
was made.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by two Spanish torpedo boats to des-
troy the ships of Schley's fleet, but
they were repulsed and took shelter
beneath the guns OF the forts. This
engagement, it is said, was the first
hostile movement off Santiago.
The Wal department is massing RI.
tions for 80 days for the troops assem-
bled ut Jacksonville under the com
mand OF Major-General Lee. Officials
decline to say how many men are to
be concentrated there, or whether they
will stay Mt that place for the full 80
days for which rations are provided.
a French correspondent ut Madrid
says he learns ON the highest authority
that Cervera is we'll on his way to
Manila, The vessels IN Santiago har.
Dor, he says, are Nillamil's torpedo
boats. The Cape Verde squadron is
due at Manila shortly. Cervera's or.
ders are to destroy Dewey's fleet, and
TO intercept and capture or destroy the
American transports en- route from San
Francisco.
Amid the music of a hundred bands,
the cheers of hundreds of thousands OF
people, the blasts OF many whistles
and the waving of innumerahle flags.