The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-06-02
WAR BREvITIES.
Wednesday, Nav Is.

regiments lNuNS hot 'fhNhe-
mauga.
Late advices from Hawaii confirm
the statement that the island has beer
offered to our government as a. hass
Of supplies.
The third section OF the rraiu car
rying Illinois volunteers ran safely
ever a burning trestle near Birming-
ham. Ala. Incendiarism is suspected
The report that negotiations have
been opened for the transfer Uf the
Philippines to France by sale or lease,
says a Paris dispatch, is absolutely
false.
II. G. whitmore has been eleatcd
captain OF william J. Bryan's COM
pany. Bryan having withdrawn from
the contest because he could not hs
elected unanimously.
Thursday, May go.
A special from Gibraltar saws two
Austrian warships will sail Saturday
! for Cuban waters.
Martial law has been proclaimed
very rigidly enforced.
| 1t is believed that Senior Puigcerver, d.
minister OF finance in SPANS cabinet,
will provoke a ministerial crisis At the
next cabinet council.
/ Major Russell y. Harrison. son Of the
| ex- president, has been assigned to duty
| on the stan Of Major General Fitzhugb
Lee.
The Madrid correspondent OF the
| London Standard saws number Of
merchant steamers loaded with coal
from England have arrived at BARGE
Iona, Cadiz and Bilbao.
| Friday, MAY 81.
| Many influential Spaniards are ure
Ing that the government sue for peace
The government has begun the man
| ufacture OF war equipments at the IN
| dianapolis arsenal.
! Pennsylvania's 5000 men on the sec
ond call will probably be modified AT
Mt. Gretna.
| Admiral Sampson is reported % rtavt
captured the Spanish coal deposits a.
Cayo France, Cuba.
| A picked regiment OF mounted rife
men. 500 strong, in Colorado. has ten
dered its services to the government.
A Gibraltar dispatch says that Il
Krupp guns have been smuggled into
Spain and Germany labeled 'Sitcher-
furniture"
saturday. MAY IS.
The Hawaiian Star declares that the
Hawaiian government has undoubtedly
offered the islands to the United STATES
, The statement that James Enruitt
an American, had been shot by Nrde;
Of General Garcia is authoritatiyeIS
, denied
English newspapers print MAN.
arguments TO prove that the Spaniarl;
, are courting DELAY IN order to avert
! internal uprisings.
, off Cardenas harbor lies a gunboa'
4 placed there to prevent the escape OF 3.
couple Of so-caIled Spanish gunbostS
reported bottled up in that port
General Charles King the novelist
I @. A. Garretson OF Cleveland. FranCi-
! V. Greene OF New York and HarrrsCy
q Gray Otis will be Merritt's brigade,
p generals In the Philippines.
Monday. May 30.
There are now IS 900 men in voluu-
teer camp at Camp Alger. near Wash
ington.
portion OF General Corners army
entered Remedies. Cuba, captured 3oi
= Mauser rifles. 30 900 rounds OF ammu-
milton and large quantities OF provis-
, ions and retreated after a brief battle
I with Spaniards.
4 In pursuance of the order from the
2 war department recently issued thas
all volunteers be vaCcinated. Chief Sur
geon Hartsuff at Chickamauga. has
received 40, 900 vaccine points. OF which
1 he has already distributed $4,000
= The hours Of labor at the Frankfort
( arsenal. Philadelphia, will be increased
r from Is to 20 hours a daSS which viii!
| permit the turning out. OF zoo 600 rounds
of ammunition per day. Later the
hours will be extended to three shi;,s
Of eight hours each.
There were three deaths at Chicka-
: mauga park Sunday. Pierce Collyer. OF
the Fourteenth Minnesota. and Harry o.
Burnham. OF the Eighth Massachusetts,.
died Of pneumonia. and L. Bohne-t. OF
the Fifth Illinois Of blood poisoning
Tuesday, May al.
The total number OF troops encamped
At Chickamauga last night was ASl2
The authorities at Mole ST. Nicolas.
Hayti. forbid the signaling OF any ship
/ In sight
: General Greeley. chief signal officer.
is making arrangements for eniisting
the volunteer signal corps authorized
by congress.
The government has leased 1000
acres Of land near Boyce Station. -four
miles from Chattanooga, on which
troops will be encamped.
In the Spanish chamber Of deputies
Senor Puigcerver, minister of finance
presented q bill to prohibit the sx-
portation Of silver money.
The cruiser Harvard has sailed from
Kingston, Jamaica, to Join Commodore
Schley's squadron. She took Q pilot
familiar with the south coast Of Cuba.
Surgeon General Sternberg has taker
the initiatory steps for securing q hos
pital train for the transportation Of the
invalided troops from the front. This
train 10 to consist Of ten tourist sleepers
and one dining car