The Somerset reporter., 1898-06-02
WAR CHRONOLOGY.
THURSDAY, MAY 20.

TIL thursday, MA 70.
Conference held at the white house
to consider the invasion of Cuba and
Porto Rico.
Rhode Islands volunteer regiment,
1907 strong, starts for Camp Alger, Va.
Decision to invade Porto Rico reached,
and 10 900 soldiers to be landed without
delay.
Spains squadron at Cadiz will not
leave that port under 10 days. Authori-
tative information to this effect has
reached officials IN Washington. 1t is
indicated that the destination OF the
men-of war is not for Manila, as Mad
rid has repeatedly stated, but that the
feet is intended for home defence.
According to advices received from
Manila, the Spanish are still in close
negotiations with the rebels, and have
supplied them with rifles and ammun-
ton to assist the fighting Americans.
IT congratulate you in advance. be-
lieve you are going to meet and defeat
the Spaniards. Those were the words
that fiuttered from the flagship New
York last Thursday night. when squad
ron of the finest ships of the American
navy sailed out from Key West toward
Cuba in charge of Schley.
The Madrid government publishes
dispatch from Admiral Cervsra, describ-
ing his arrival at Santiago and his re-
ception; says the boats there are the
Vizcaya, Oquendo Colon, Maria Theresa,
Pluton and Furor.
Spaniards have massed their troops in
the cities and on the coast, abandoning
Tvs C,Yha
First pension voucher under the law
applying to the disaster issued to the
mother of Seaman William Montfort,
who went down with the Maine.
Congressman Sprague preents a flag
to the Sixth Massachusetts regiment and
Colonel Woodward's command had a flag
raising at Camp Alger
FRIDAY, MAY q.
Informal suggestion said to have been
made to the state department by an am
bassador that Spain would abandon
Cuba if the Philippines and Porto Rico
were not seized.
Secretary Ayers estimate Of war de-
flciency fixes the amount at 81, 400, 900.
The sum asked for to date is 1912. 2S5, 900.
McCalla of the Marblehead lands am
munition and shoes for the insurgents
and destroys four blockhouses near Glen
fuegos.
Universal Peace union sent an appeal
to the queen regent and Spanish premier
to yield the independence of Cuba.
All idea that France Will intervene is
abandoned in Madrid, and hopes are
fixed upon the possibility that the new
minister of foreign affairs Will find IA
fitting occasion on which to take the
initiative.
Spanish government has ordered all
the Spanish steamers from 1000 tons up
capable of steaming a minimum of IL
knots to be impressed as auxiliary cruis-
ers.
George Fred Williams offers his regi-
ment of volunteers to the governor of
Massachusetts, who says that he will de-
eide later.
Representative Acheson of Pennsyl-
vania has introduced a bill increasing
the pay of enlisted men, who in the time
Of war serve outside the territorial limits
of the United States. 100 percent of the
rate as fixed by law during the period Of
such service.
Information from trustworthy source
says that a consignment of 40 Krupp
guns suitable for forts or battleships has
been sent from Essen, Germany, to
Cadiz.
Spanish sympathizers in Acapulco,
Mex, were driven from a wharf by
bayonet charge in order that the Alert
might be coaled.
SATURDAY, MAY 28.
President Mckinley reviews the Second
army corps at Camp Alger.
General Primo de Rivera. former gov
ernor of the Philippines. says that rag
called the American flag shall never float
over the walls of Manila"
Charles Thrall and Hayden Jones, the
American correspondents. exchanged
for four Spanish prisoners.
Ninth regiment of Massachusetts or
dered to Camp Alger in Virginia
The Spanish press laments the selfish
motives" of the powers in refusing to
intervene.
There is a shortage in the call for vol
unteers from the various states of 5633
men, distributed as follows: Alabama,
1855; Iowa, 1910; Kentucky, 1238 Mis-
sissippi. 1000; North Carolina, 400.
The commander of the Sixth Massa-
chusetts thanks the people of Baltimore
for the reception during the trip through
that city.
Owners of American vessels on the
Pacific have now offered TO the govern
ment a sufficient number of vessels to
transport all of the troops which ii is
contemplated to send to the Philippine
islands.
An amendment proposed to the war
revenue bill by Senator Lodge for the
annexation of Hawaii.
A bill to punish the sisturbers of har-
Dor mines WAS prepared by Secretary
Gage.
Holland, the inventor OF the sub-ma-
rlne torpedo boat, offers to blow up Ger
vera feet himself.
Representative Cummings of New
York has introduced a bill to authorize
the secretaries of the navy and war to
either employ or enlist for service in con-
nection with hospitals or hospital ships
100 women. who shall be graduate nurses
SUNDAY, MAYS.
Insurgents active In assisting our
forces off the Cuban coast, and messages
are exchanged daily.
The cruiser Harvard reaches Kingston,
Jam, and reports that Il American ships
are on guard at Santiago and the Span
ish fleet is in the harbor.
Admiral Dewey notifies Secretary
Long that the blockade of Manila is