Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR NOTES.


Secretary Long will ask congress to
authorize the creation OF a national
naval reserve.
Maior-Gen. Roe says soldiers re-
turning from the war must go back to
their old commands.
Secretary Alger in his annual re-
port will recommend an increase IN
the size of the standing army.
Admiral Cervera is anxious to get
to Cadiz but has been Informed that
his presence in Madrid is necessary.
Gomez publicly proclaimed com
plete confidence in the solemn engage
ments made by the congress at Wash
ington.
The president has made several pro-
motions of regular army officers to
the grade of brigadier-general OF
volunteers.
Chicago's peace jubilee was held.
The 4th immune regiment has ar
rived at Manzanillo, Cuba.
Spanish peace commissioners are
trying to enlist the sympathy of the
Speeches were made by President Nc
Kinley, George R. Peck, Gen. Miles,
Gen. Shafter, Bishop Ireland, Samuel
N. Gompers and others.
Surgeon-General Sternberg, in a
letter to Alexander E. Orr, declared
so cents a day an excessive allowance
for food for sick soldiers.
Insurgents at Legaspi, Philippine
islands, refused to allow IN officer of
the cruiser Raleigh to land without
Aguinaldos permission.
General Horace Porter, United
Sta tes ambassador, gave a banquet in
Paris to the United States and Span
ish peace commissioners.
Advices received in Madrid from
Porto Rico state that all the high Of
ficials there have taken steps to be-
come naturalized Americans.
Rear Admiral Scnley has notified
the navy department that he will sail
from Porto Rico October "a and will
proceed direct to Washington.
The status of the $1,000 inhabitants
of Porto Rico as citizens of the United
States may be provided for in the
peace treaty or by act of congress.
Delegates from the six provinces of
Cuba met at Sagua La Grande, Or
ganizcd the national party of Cuba
and adopted a declaration of prin-
ciples
Brigadier General Hale says, in a
letter from Manila, that he believes
we are bound to keep the Philippines,
even though they prove to De a white
elephant.
The stars and stripes were raised
over San Juan Oct. Is and the
American commissioners formally
took possession of the government of
the island.
J. Pierce of New York was author
lied to carry the mails from Ponce to
San Juan, IS miles on a ten-hour
schedu =, each way. the cost not to
exceed 5000 a year.
Every navy yard in the country is
busily engaged in the work Of re-
pairing warships, and the amount eX-
pended monthly is several hundred
thousand dollars.
Phili0pi Agoncillo, representative
of Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader of
the Philippine islands, is now in
Paris. He says the Filipinos want
dDoOIuIG
In rejecting the Cuban debt and also
sovereignty over Cuba the United
States peace commissioners at Paris
are adhering strictly to the congress
sional declaration at the beginning of
the war.
Fifty young men who failed to meet
either the physical or mental require
ments received commissions as sec
ond lieutenants in the army. It is
possible they will not be confirmed by
the senate.
Because of a lack of transportation
facilities it is not believed that the
Cuban congress will not be able to as
semble at Santa Cruz until about
ten days after October 20, the date
originally fixed.
Spanish officials in Havana are
trying to prevent the taking of pic
lures showing the squalor in which
the poor of Havana live. Two Ameri-
cans have been arrested for taking
snapshots of this kind.
1t is probable some of the volun-
teer regiments which have been or
dered mustered out will be retained
in the service, in order to prevent too
great a reduction in the size of the
army at this time
The camp of the 22d Kansas vol
unteerS at Leavenworth, was wrecked
by storm of rain and snow. Nearly
all the tents were blown down, and
the soldiers were permitted to come to
the city to seek shelter.
The war department is advised that
if the Spaniards in Cuba had been
aware Of the condition of the United
States army they would not have
yielded, but would have continued
the war after the surrender of San
tiago.
In addition to the weekly cargo of
army stores and supplies sent to the
United States troop in Santiago and
Porto Rico, there are on the tran
sport, Berlin, which has sailed for
Santiago, 10000 rations for the starry
ing Cubans.
A special dispatch from Havana
says that a serious breach is threat
ened between the friends of General
Gomez and the friends Of President
Maso, the latter of whom considers
annexation preferable to a Cuban mil
itary government.
Rear-Admiral E. 0. Matthews, the
second ranking officer of the navy, re-
tired October 1S Paa r. & dn,iraI Tocanb