Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR ECHOES.


lives at Ballston Spa, N. Y.
fleet of Spanish war vessels will
escort Columbus bones from Havana
to Cadiz.
A quantity of arms destined for the
Carlists has been seized In a house at
Bilboa, Spain.
The gunboat Helena passed through
the Suez canal on it's way TO join Ad-
miral Dewey.
The transport Vigilancia, With about
800 American troops on board, has
arrived at Manila.
A box of dynamite exploded near
the Reina battery, Havana, killing
and tnjuring 40 persons.
The Navy Department will endeaVer
to raise Cerveras and Montojo' S
sunken ships.
Aguinaldo is said to insist on alb
solute independence for the Philip
pines or fight to the DEATH
The Cuban society of Santiago Will
ask President Mckinley to withdraw
the negro troops from Cuba.
In letter to the investigating COM
mission Col Roosevelt scathingly crit
fcised the management of the war de-
partment.
Spain is credited with a plan to sell
all the remaining Spanish islands IN
Oceanica and may even part with the
Camaries.
President Mckinley has decided to
divide fairly between the army and
navy the ordnance captured in the war
with Spain.
Mail advices from Nassau, N. P, re-
port the cat on the cruiser Maria
Teresa refused to be taken ashore by
Cat Islanders.
A notice that $50 fine would be i'm
posed upon promoters of bull fights or
cock fights was issued by General
Wood at Santiago.
Postmaster General Smith in his re-
port says that in Cuba, Porto Rico
and Manila the American mail service
has followed the flag.
The Red Cross Society will send a
steamer to the Philippines with a view
of obtaining the release of the Span
ish prisoners there.
Spain agreed to give UP all the Phil
ippines and the Sulu islands just to
the south also. The work Of the
peace commission is about over.
The war department has received
a second dispatch from Gen. Brooke
saying the reports of disturbances at
points mentioned are unquestionably
false
A dispatch from San Juan, Porto
Rico, states that it has been found
that dummies" have been carried on
the pay-rolls of the harbor works de-
partment there.
Spanish officers at Guines, Havana
province, destroyed the Office of La
Justica because of an editorial cen
surfing the military commander. The
editors fed.
Admiral Schley gives out some in
teresting information regarding the
destruction OF Cerveraas fleet, showing
that Admiral Sampson had left him in
command of the American squadron.
An English Carlos army will take
the field in Spain soon after the treaty
is signed. He declares that loan
has been fully financed, that lis di-
vfded between France and England.
It is sale that friends of Gen. Fred
d. Grant in Porto Rico are pressing
his claims to be named as military
governor of the island to succeed Gen
eral Brooke, who will come home in
January.
The naval court of inquiry to in
vestigate the detention of the cruiser
Buffalo exhonorates Commander
Remphill and Chief Engineer Beig
The ship sailed from New York fol
Manila via Suez.
Gen. Butler, of the Cuban evacua-
ton commission has been ordered tC
report to the secretary of war a.
Washington, 1t is supposed the presi-
dent wishes to consult with him re-
garding the progress the commission
is making in it's work.
The London Times in an editoria
in praise OF the foresight of the United
States government in increasing the
army, says: Looking to immediate
needs, Mr.. Ayers estimate of 100000
is below rather than above the mark
for considerable forces will be re-
quired to bring the new populations
into subsection"
Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant sec
rotary of the treasury, arrived III
Porto Rico from the United States
Saturday on the revenue cutter Gresh
am. He has come to inquire into an(
report upon the Porto Rico currency
system, the lighthouse service, the
coast survey establishment and the
other matters falling under the juTis
dictiOn Of the United otates treas
ury department, He will go to Cuba
before returning to the United States
The court of inquiry has entirely
exonerated Lieut.. J. G. Fennessey
quartermaster OF the 9th Massachus
etts, Of charges of cowardice and fail
ing in his duty as quartermaster
brought against him by officers Of
that regiment, but holds that four o.
these oficers-Capt. George F. H
Murray Capt. John H. Dunn, Second
Lieutenant James A. CuIlv-are sub