Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-07-14
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WAR

General Miles will shortly take com
mand Of the army around Santiago.
About 10000 reinforcements will be
hurried forward to General Shafter.
Hobson and his comrades were ex
changed and are now with the Ameri
can fleet.
The first expedition of troops ar
rived at Manila with the cruiser
Charleston.
One Austrian and two British war
ships reached Kingston, Jamaica, with
78 refugees from Santiago.
Commodore Watson was again Or
dered to hasten his preparations to
attack SPANS seacoast cities
The foreign consuls at Manila are
said to have suggested a neutral zone,
where fighting should be prohibited.
1t was announced the Yankee
casualties of the battle of Santiago
would reach LOO of which $50 were
killed.
1t is stated that an order from
Madrid called Cervera from the har-
Dor of Santiago and drove him to
his fate.
Admiral Camara's larger ships en-
tered the Suez canal, but the torpedo
boat destroyers started from Port
Said to return to Spain.
According to dispatches received
at Gibraltar from Madrid the Spanish
government has ordered Admiral
Camara to return to Spain.
Fifty Spanish prisoners on board
the Harvard made an attempt to over
power the crew and escape. Six were
killed and twelve wounded by the
guards.
General Shafter has cabled to
Washington that he had made a de-
mand for the surrender of Santiago
and that he believed it would sur
render.
The capture of Santiago the Paris
Temps regards as an irreparable
blow to Spain, which has mot an
hour to lose to negotiate for peace"
For two hours and a quarter the
guns of SIMPSONS feet pounded
MORO castle, and the destructive eff
fects were plainly apparent from the
feet.
from Gen. Shafter. In one Gen. Shat
ter said L feel that l am master of
the situation and can hold the enemy
for any length of time"
A Washington dispatch states that
active operations against the city of
Santiago will be suspended until a
plan for cooperation of the American
navy and army can be arranged.
Gen. Gomezs chief of staff, now at
Key West, reports him as saying
that he would move westward if he
had supplies, and that with a we'll
mounted army he could threaten
Havana.
At the instance of the Spanish min
lister Morocco declared her neutrality.
The Spanish minister has returned to
Madrid for additional instructions
concerning his conduct when Watson S
squadron is sighted.
Sampson, Shafter and Dewey made
the fourth Of July most glorious by
reporting to Washington three notable
triumphs-the destruction of CerVera' s
fleet, the complete investment of San
tiago and the capture of the LadrOne
islands.
An expedition of $50 Cubans, fitted
out by the United States, carried to
Gen. Gomez two dynamite guns,
1000 Springfield rifles and large
quantity of supplies, the first Gomez
has received since we declared war
with Spain.
Admiral Sampson was instructed to
permit Admiral Cervera and any of
his officers and men to cable any mes
sages home. Ceryera cabled his wife
that he was a prisoner, not seriously
wounded and we'll treated. His wife
refuses to believe the message.
Capt.-Gen. Augustin states that his
family have escaped from the in
surgents and are now safe in Manila.
He recently made a sortie for the pur-
pose CT repairing the aqueduct that
supplies the city with water, but was
driven back by the insurgents.
The destruction of the Spanish fleet
at Santiago has added immensely to
the prestige of our navy in European
eyes. The Pail Mall Gazette says
that since this last achievement the
United States might, if need be, die
tate terms to Spain in the bay OF
Cadiz."
Contrary to expectations, Gen. Shat
Ger did not lombard Santiago. He
gave satisfactory explanations to the
president that his men needed rest
and besides Gen. Pando had rein
forced the Spaniards with 5000 sold
lers. Shafter and Sampson were
ordered to confer and arrange for a
joint attack.
the Chapman & Merritt Wrecking
company Of New York for the rails
ing of the wrecks of the Spanish
war. ships strewn Out along the
coast of Cuba for a distance of &c
miles west Of Santiago harbor, and
wrecking tugs left Norfolk for the
scene of operations.
Even the ministry at Madrid were
led to believe at first that Cervera
had got his fleet safely away from
Santiago by the sacrifice of his two
torpedo-boat destrOyers. They were
soon set right, but they took great
pains to keep the people in ignorance
and the whole population in conse-
quence to rejoice in a FOOLS paradise
A censored despatch from Madrid
admits that the Spanish had aban-
doned their trenches and fallen back
on Santiago with heavy losses, among
the wounded being Gen. Linares and
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