Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-10-19
WEEKLY WAR HISTORY.
Complete Record of Events Told in
Few Lines Covering All
Important News,
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 2

The transport Port Victor sailed from
New York for Puerto Rico with large
quantity of commissary and Quartermas-
ter's stores.
Fla, for the Seventh corps to prepare at
once to go to Savannah. where it will be
embarked for Cuba.
Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will go to Ha-
vana the latter part Of this month to as
sumo command of the United States mill
tary forces in the Cuban capital.
Admiral Howell has been relieved from
tt command Of the North Atlantic squad
ron and his flagship. the San Francisco,
has been ordered out of commission.
Before the war investigating committee
Gen. Lee detailed the conditions prevailing
at the camp at Jacksonville. He said the
site was good one, the supplies were
plentiful. the men we'll taken care of. and
departments treatment of his command.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER g.
Admiral Sampson was reported to be ex-
tremely i'll in Havana.
The government has Informed Spain that
the evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish
army must be completed by December /.
A general order was issued organizing
new army corps and designating various
points. in the south where the troops shall
b. stationed.
The government has decided to make
Camp Wikoff a winter hospital camp, and
equipped hospital in the world
President Mckinley notified the United
States military commission at Puerto Rico
that the island must be evacuated by the
Spanish forces on or before October IS.
Gen. Greene, Col. Lee and Mai, Hersev
mittee in Washington that the vast ma
jority of complaints were exaggerated if
no. without foundation.
MONDAY. OCTOBER TO-
Japanese papers strongly favor the re-
tention of the entire Philippines by the
United States.
An official statement shows that in the
war with Spain II persons in the navy were
killed and 81 wounded.
The American evacuation commissioners
gave banquet in Havana in honor of the
Spanish commissioners.
The Sixth United States 0mmunes) and
the Forty-seventh New York sailed from
New York for San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Gen. Lawton. military commander of the
department Of Santiago. sailed for New
York on the transport Michigan. Gen.
Wood will succeed him.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER II.
The health of the American troops in
Puerto Rico is improving daily.
Wreckers have abandoned work on the
surken Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, having
discovered that she cannot be saved.
Premier Sagasta informed the peace
commission in Paris that Spain would not
give up sovereignty in the Philippines.
Advices received at the war department
indicate that the evacuation Of Cuba by
tor;ly and smoothly.
The Illinois naval reserves, about 20 in
number, that served during the war on
board the cruisers Newark and Cincinnati.
haG been given their discharges.
The next and probably the last exped1-
t;or to sail from San Francisco the
Philippines has been selected by Gen. Mer-
Ram AM, consists of 191 officers and 5,579
men.
The Spanish government received a dis
patch that the rebels in the Visayas, or
central Philippine islands. have again been
defeated by the Spanish troops, 200 of the
insurgents being killed.
At Jacksonville, Fla, the Seventh army
corps has been organized in two divisions
of two brigades each. In the new arrange
Bryan, is placed with the First Texas and
thu Second louisiana.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 70.
Col. Young's cavalrymen were mustered
GU. of the United States service at Fort
Sheridan, Ill.
Gen. Lees Seventh corps and the newly
organized First, Second and Fourth corps
will compose the army Of occupation in
Cuba.
West Virginia Is alone among all the
states in the union enjoying the distinction
O.. having all her troops kept in the federal
service.
The American troops raised the stars and
stripes over the custom house and in the
public square at Manzanillo, Cuba, and
took formal possession.
The Spanish government announces its
intention to maintain a strong force Of
troops in Cuba until the treaty of peace
with tt United States is definitely signed
The American military commissioners in
Cuba have notified the Spanish authorities
at Havana that the United States will as
sumo entire control, military and govern
mental, of the island Of Cuba December
The official board appointed to determine
IT, relative positions Of the ships engaged
in the naval battle at Santiago has COM
pleted its report, which says that the bat
tie was fought and won upon plans pre-
pared by Admiral Sampson.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10.
The Third Illinois infantry has been or
dered back from Puerto Rico.
Maj. Beebe, of the American commission,
died in Havana of yellow fever.
1t is officially announced that the Amer
lean flag will be raised over San Juan Oc-
tober Is.
The Vermont legislature passed a reso-
luton memorializing congress to restore
the rank of vice admiral and confer that
title upon Rear Admiral Dewey.
Because his men were not furnished with
rations Capt. E. V. Walsh, of company F,
First Missouri volunteers, marched his
company out of Jefferson barracks in St.
Louis and dismissed them-a thing uE-
paralleled in military history.
Blair Monument Unveiled.
Lansing, Mich, Oct. 13.-The bronze