Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-10-15
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
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THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
MAR NEWS.


Spanish troops continue evacuating
territory in Puerto Rico and the
American troops take possession Of it
as soon as evacuated
1t is stated on authority that the
various stories published relating to
the work Of the peace commission now
in Paris are purely speculative.
The Spanish government has sane
toned the sale, to South American re-
publics, of the Spanish gunboats lying
in Cuban waters.
II is announced from Madrid that
Admiral Cervera will be- appointed
life senator.
Secretary Long has named the four
new monitors contracted for as fol-
lows: The Connecticut, the Florida,
the Arkansas and the Wyoming.
Mai. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee will go to
Havana the latter part of this month
to assume command of the United
States military forces in the Cuban
capital.
Admiral Howell has been relieved
from the command of the North At
lantic squadron and his flagship, the
San Francisco, has been ordered out of
commission.
The transport Port Victor sailed
from New York for Puerto Rico with
large quantity of commissary and
quartermaster's stores.
Orders were received at Jacksonville,
Fla, for the Seventh corps to prepare
at once to go to Savannah. where it
will be embarked for Cuba.
Before the war investigating COM
mittee Gen. Lee detailed the conditions
prevailing at the camp at Jackson
vile. He said the site was good one,
the supplies were plentiful, the men
well taken care of, and he had no COM
plant to make of the war depart
ment's treatment of his command.
Gen. Calixto Garcia left Santiago de
Cuba for the interior on his mission of
disbanding the Cuban insurgents.
Gen. Greene, Col. Lee and Maj. Hersey
testified before the war investigating
committee in Washington that the vast
majority of complaints were exagger-
ated, if not without foundation.
"A general order was issued organiz-
ing new army corps and designating
various points in the south where the
troops shall be stationed.
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 1s.
The government has decided to make
Camp Wikoff n winter hospital camp,
and will erect there the largest and
hest equipped hospital in the world.
The government has informed Spain
| that the evacuation of Cuba by the
Spanish army must be completed by
| December 1.
Admiral Sampson was reported to be
extremely i'll in Hayana.
The American evacuation commits
sioners gave a banquet in Havana IN
honor of the Spanish commissioners.
An official statement shows that ir
the war with Spain II persons in tho
navy were killed and 67 wounded.
Gen. Lawton, military commander
of the department of Santiago, sailed
for New York on the transport Michi.
gan. Gen. Wood will succeed him.
The Sixth United States (immunes)
and the Forty-seventh New York
sailed from New York for San Juan
Puerto Rico.
japanese papers strongly favor the
retention of the entire Philippines by
the United States.