Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-07-07
TELEGRAMS in BRIEF.
WAR.

OF $l,ouu,VOV.
Agents OF banking syndicates arr
paying factory hands 80 cents to :;
for bidding on $500, the bonds to b.
turned over to the syndicate wher
allotted.
Gen. Miles may go to Santiago te
personally direct the land attack OF
the city, owing to the anxiety al
Washington to make the first battle
q victory.
Nine vessels flying foreign flags have
been bought by the war department
for the Porto Rico expedition and Will
be sent to New York as soon as pos
sible to be fitted out.
1t Is stated upon reliable authority
that the dynamite cruiser Vcsuvius
entered the harbor several nights ago
easily passing to one side OF the
sunken coaler.
The German ambassador at Wash
ington has given assurance that mis-
government will not interfere In any
Objectionable manner with our occu-
patton OF the Philippines.
Six OF the Rough Riders who were
Neft ut Tampa are In jail and Alice
May is dying OF a pistol wound In
flicted by one of them. One OF the
riders was shot in the arm.
Admiral Montejo, In an interview
In the China Mall, bames his govern
ment for his defeat at Manila He had
repeatedly asked It for suitable ships
and torpedoes, 'but nothing came"
Four picked crews from the Dolphin
and Marblehead fred and removed
,even contact mines from the channel
In Guantanamo harbor. Spanish
gunboats hidden up the bay will now
be destroyed,
Dispatches to Madrid said an
American war ship appeared off San
Juan but was driven off by the
cruiser Isabella, gunboat and the
Terror. One Spaninrd was killed ana
three wounded
General Shafter sent word to Wash
ington that the landing Of his army
near Santiago had been completed
Stray shots, which did no harm, were
fred by the Spanlards AZ the troops
left the ships.
The Indiana democratic convention
made no mention Of annexation or
acquisition OF territory by conquest,
and the Ohio republican convention
merely approved the proposed annexa-
ton Of Hawaii
A report from the surgeon with
ADMIRAL SIMPSONS fleet leads to be-
lief that the supposed mutilation Of
marines killed at Guantanamo was
caused by the peculiar motion OF
Mauser rife bullets.
Senators opposed to the annexation
OF Hawaii decided to carry on the
fight indefinitely. Friends of tho
scheme express fear that they VIII
not be able to hold the Senate to-
gether to get vote.
Four men of Colonel Torreys reg
iment OF cavalry were killed at
Tupelo, Miss, in railroad wreck,
The Spanish transatlantic liner
Montevideo Is reported to have left
Havana the 23d, Guiding the block
nders.
Captain Sigsbee Of tho st. Pau
warned a British ship from seeking
to enter the harbor of San Juan de
Porto Rico on the ground that 1t was
blockaded. No formal notice has yet
been given OF the blockade OF this
port.
Count Cassini, Russia's new am
hassador to the United States, comes
with friendly message. lie says
Russia will not oppose tho occupa-
ton of the Philippines by this coun-
try, but he Believes England should
not get the islands.
The First National bank of Chicago
OF which Secretary Gage was former
ly president, Is said to be seeking
pro forma subscriptions to the bonds
In Iowa, but this Is denied In Chi
cago. Mr., Gage says he does not
know anything about the matter.
The French and Austrian ambas-
sailors at Washington, Spains diplo-
matte representatives here during the
war, will ship homo the crews and
-combatants OF the prizes taken
by United States warships, the ut
torney- general having ordered their
release.
Mr.. Depew, explaining In London
his changed opinion In regard to
Keeping the territory we wrest from
Spain, said that our people certainly
never would return any colony to
Spain, and to transfer them to any
other European power. would lead to
European war in sixty days
The government ut Washington
satisfied that the Cadiz fleet really
Ia ut the Suez canal, and confident
that Dewey who will soon be rein
forced, can serve that fleet as he did
Montejo's, has planned to send our
best warships to lombard the Span
ish coast as soon as Cameras squad
ron is fairly inside the Suez canal.
In a fight within FIVE miles OF San
tiago 1000 men of tho tenth cavalry
and rough riders engaged 1000 Span
ish infantry. The Spaniards sustained
heavy loss and were driven back to
the city. The Americans hau 90 killed