Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1898-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
ON ACCOUNT or THE LATE wan

OF the 1.400 soldiers wounded at San
tiago but II have died
Colonel Hood has taken possession OF
the city of Holguin, in Cuba.
Spaniards have accepted Jan. as the
1 date for the complete evacuation Of
] Cuba
An epidemic of typhoid broke out on
tie transport Arizona on the way to
Manila
The transport Berlin for Cuba and
Porto Rico, carried half million dollars
to pay troops.
The Columbus monument has been
removed from the Havana cathedral
and sent to Spain.
| The Merritt and Chapman Wrecking
company may conclude to make an eff
fort to save the Maria Teresa.
| Assistant Secretary Vanderlip will go
to Cuba to investigate financial condi-
tions and requirements of the island.
Spain will soon receive an offer for an
island of the Caroline group. This gov
eminent wants it for cable station.
Blanco has been authorized to draw
on Paris for an additional $4,000, 900
with which to pay Spanish troops in
Cuba.
The treasury department recommends
the free admission of quinine to Cuba
and Porto Rico. The Spanish tariff is
$13 pound.
w. w. Mohun, one of the stenogra-
pliers attached to the United States evac-
uation commission at Havana, is dead
of pneumonia
Aguinaldo has denied the request of
General Otis that he release friars and
civilians held in captivity throughout
the provinces.
Miss Jessie Schley has issued state
ment to the American press, in which
she takes the credit of influencing Spain
to sue for peace.
It is rumored that the ten regiments
of regulars recently ordered to be put
into fighting trim will replace volunteers
in the Philippines.
General Brooke cables from Ponce
announcing the death of Private George
Lafarce, Company K, Nineteenth in
fantry, of pneumonia.
Three of the Spanish war vessels sunk
by Dewey in Manila bay will be raised
and added to our navy. The cost is es-
timated at half million.
Admiral Dewey cables that the situa-
ton at noilo is critical. Insurgents are
in possession of all the island Of Panay
outside the capital, and are besieging
that.
Seven prominent Filipinos are now in
this country en- route to Washington to
present large claims for damages, in
CURED during the recent war with
Spain.
The transport st. Paul sailed ON Fri
day for Manila, with about 2, 200 tons of
supplies, of which 200 tons are Christ
mas presents for the soldiers in the Phil
ippines.
The mayor of San Juan, Porto Rico,
has resigned, because of the persistent
and unreasonable opposition of members
of the city council to my efforts in be-
half of the city"
The United States peace commission
ers have made final proposition to the
Spaniards rendering them $40 1000, 900
for the Philippines, and releasing them
from all war indemnity.
A dispatch has been received at the
war department announcing that the
hospital ship Scandal has sailed from
Manila for San Francisco, with about
~ ciolz SO1diorc ON board
Captain John Barneson, commander
of the transport Arizona, says Aguinaldo
has promised his soldiers to wage war
against the United States as soon as the
Spaniards leave the island.
Admiral Dewey, in letter to Profess
sor Brown of Norwich university, says
he hopes the entire Philippine archipel-
ago will be retained, as any other ar
will lead to no end of trouble.
Sergeant Price of the Thirteenth Min
nesota was probably fatally stabbed
and three other members of the regi-
ment wounded by disorderly Filipinos
they were trying to arrest. One Fill
Pine was killed.
Colonel Jacobs, in charge of trans
portation facilities at Santiago, testified
before the investigation commission that
the reason there was no camp equippage
and cooking utensils at the front at San
tago was that General Shafter had ex-
pressly forbidden it.
A Washington dispatch says General
Merritt will resume command of the
of the the East, with head
quarters at Governors Island, when he
returns from Europe, and General Shat
ter will go to San Francisco to command
the Department Of the Pacific.
Before the war investigation commits
sion General Young expressed the opin-
ion that our soldiers were treated too
well. The privations were not as serious
as in many Indian campaigns he had
seen. Soldiers like to be made babies
Of, !" he said, and some of them soon got
SO they would not eat their regular
rations."
FOREIGN NEWS.