The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-12

CHRONICLE WAR NEWS.
Resume Of Important Naval and Other Operations
as Reported Each Day to Us by Wire.

The has ended and the country already enosed with
tails looking to the resumption of business at the old stand
What great country this of that set down it's dinner
the fence catch mighty Latin bragart by the slack
of his nationality annhe him. and then proceed pacdy eat
and oget Three months OF pretty exciting has had only
functional effect the national physoogyust such small
leyiathans wher In there little to employ
the armand while they arang the kingdom OF Spain
that officers had to get quarrel among themselves
And yet there still little persuasive muskety firing going
herehe farewell fusades that pecede the cleaning
and clearing out of things before the boys marching home
Matters having got well the to general breaking apart OF
material and dispatch bulletins and there being further
fighting sight unless ourse the CHRONICLE de-
parment this page will with these vdcory forewarnngs
and the space will be occupied by something better not good
deal worse
Indeed we would up this the previous
but happened that last week interested readers had fol
lowed headong right into of the ccad hedges OF Porto
Rico where had leave them because had to
graph This week here to untange them
We left General Miles horseback with the mayor Of of the
capuad beseecng the general accept the city hall and
buttonhoe The American commander chiefs prog
uninterrupted triumph He had taken fifteen towns
without any other difficulty than that OF finding for all
of them and everywhere the people focd from
the settlements and embraced the soldiers At the soldiers
fokd from the ranks and embraced the people Meanwhile Gen
eral Miles embraced another town.
OF course having considerable obstacles and Spanards APP
peag been that part Porto Rico the departure
of Veasquez early the sixteenth century, the march Of the Am
commander toward the interior became rapid make it
extremely difficult for the fine charger which he rode keep abreast
his Before had half covered the distance San
1000 Porto Rcan patriots volunteered to enlist the Ame
army condition that there be fighting during
the At points there knowledge of the existence Of
hoss and the general and his staff taken for troop of
military pcknkers prospecting for backbees In locality did
the commanding general fail to evoke special observation and
because of the sanlessness of his linen and the nch pary of
his fine soldiers for pineapple cider All the me the general
kept embracing Rcan and the Porto can ownpeo
pie embrace the looking young the
army
seemed last dawn the few remaining Spanars of the
island who hidden under the Coamo that the Amer
program conquest embodied the swift cosoage the
territory before the pending peace could nepoe and
stop the lightning progress the American armed movement
the wild and unressng expanse of the late West Indian colony
the kingdom SPAIN and accordingly the garrison Coamo
determined deadly defence of that fortified municipality This
Spanards however expired just thirty
the appearance General Miles, when few Americans
quickly sauted the corporation with loaded guns The Spanish
mander killed. many his troops killed and wounded and
hundred made prisoners The Americans had five
slightly wounded.
the Spanish acceptance of the American said
to be the hands the authorities Washington and these like
all nteceden peace premina probably embody cessation of
hose pending negotiations it reasonably assumed in the light
situation that the campaign Porto Rico has terminated
succumb under agreement
be said of General Merrs engagement Maate
near Manila July 81 which sixty
Spanards killed and wounded night attack by the
who appear have been tempted to battle by the retirement Of
Agunao the dontenented nsurgent chief from their 'front.' and
who probably connvd the assault upon the American lines We
shall believe that the American will allow
single additional American life be useessy sacrificed within
its possession disposal clearly power honoray
and indefinitely discontinue the flow of precious blood in this