Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-02

bled and the powers can appeal to
our generosity to spare a PROSTATE
foe.
Major General Merritt, who is to go
to the Philippines as military govern
or, is expected TO govern the islands
under martial law until congress de-
cides what shall finally be done with
them.
It is possible that the next great
naval battle will be an attack by the
/ American ships upon Santiago de
Cuba in the effort to dislodge the
Spaniard, and the task will lot be an
easy one.
The report of heavy cannonading
heard at Mole St. Nicholas and Port
de Paix was confirmed. 1t seemed to
come from the north of Cuba and may
have been the reported bombardment
of Guantanamo.
The first applicant for pension on
account of the Spanish war is Mrs.
William H. Hook of Oshkosh, Wis,
the widow O private who died Of
stomach trouble at Camp Harvey,
near Milwaukee.
Official advices to the effect that
Admiral Cervera's Spanish fleet has
been cooped up in the harbor of San
tiago de Cuba by American armor-
clads are said to have been received
in Washington.
Representative Pierce of Missouri
has introduced a bill for the building
of five frst-class cruisers, ten torpedo
boats, fifteen torpedo boat destroyers
and fifteen steel gunboats at a total
cost of about $40,000,00O.
Lieutenant Meyler, United States
army, who has been intrusted with
the work Of planting the mines in
San Diego harbor, announces that
the work has been completed and
the entire channel is now protected
A rumor on the London stock ex-
change that a Franco-Spanish alli-
ance is to be announced soon enabled
the deprecated Spanish As to rally
somewhat, the st. James's Gazette
says. Washington contradicts that
rumor also.
One hundred and fifty thousand
| dollars in prize money is the sum Ad-
miral Sampson will realize from the
sale of the six principal ships and
| cargoes captured by American men
of-war since the beginning of the
conflict with Spain.
The post Of minister of foreign
affairs in the Spanish cabinet, which
Senior Leon V Castillo declined, has
been accepted by the Duke Almodovar
de Rio, a Spanish grandee, who says
that he takes the position from pa
triOtic motives.
Colonel Vincente Cortejo, brother
in-law of General Weyler, and DR..
Isidio Julian, Spanish prisoners Of war,
were sent from Atlanta to Key West
to be exchanged for Messrs. Thra1I
and Jones, newspaper correspondents,
now in prison at Havana.
Mrs. Hit, wife of Congressman
Hit, chairman of the house COM
mittee Oh foreign affairs, is now en-
during the hardships of the life of an
army nurse at Fort Myer, hoping to
save the life of Private PIP. Stevens
of Company NJ. of the sixth Illinois
regiment. Stevens is i'll with typhoid
pneumonia
The Spanish government, according
to special cablegram from Gibraltar,
/ intends to send the cruiser Carlos V.
and two torpedo-boat destroyers to
Cuba, provided that Admiral Cervera
can set into Havana. An order to
part of the reserve squadron to pro-
ceed to the Philippines is said to
have been ssued.
Special cable dispatches from Ma
drid report a crisis is rapidly ap-
preaching, and a storm of revolution
or of anarchy may burst at any mo-
ment. In short time a bread fam
| inc will confront the restless people.
and already the masses are waiting
! for leader to arise and pilot them to
a successful revolt against the present
! dynasty.
An order was issued at Tampa, by
order OF General Shafter, requiring
every newspaper correspondent at
Tampa to furnish headquarters with
copy of the paper which the re-
porter represents. A strict watch will
be kept on ali matter printed under a
Tampa date and any prohibited mat
ter will result in refusal by the
censor to pass upon matter written
for the offending paper.
The reported use of the Spanish
| flag by some of our warships in
Guantanamo bay to deceive the gar
rison was roundly denounced in the
senate at Madrid. SPANS minister of
the interior announced that the al
| legged incident had been called to the
notice of Europe. Naval officers at
! Washington say the use of an enemy's
| flag is permissible under international
law provided it is hauled down before
shot is fired.
DOMESTIC.