The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-05-20
WAR NOTES.

Admiral Montejo blameS the Span
fish government for his defeat at Ma
Mia, in not providing him with proper
ships.
There are 95, 900 regular and 100, 900
Spanish volunteers at Manila
A flag of truce is flying over Manila
and the people are allowed to proceed
freely to and from the ships.
The Spanish minister of marine says
the Cape Verde fleet is where it ought
to be.
Five million rations have been is
sued to the army.
Austria announces neutrality be-
tween Spain and America
The Weyler party is plotting for the
overthrow of the monarchy and MAX
ing Weyler dictator
The cruiser Charl ton has left San
Francisco with $50 tons of ammuni-
ton for Dewey.
The st. James Gazette looks for n
worlds war. with England and Amer
lea on one side and the rest of Europe
on the other.
The men killed on the Winsl ow
were buried in the Key West potter's
field alongside the graves of the VIC
Tins of the Maine.
A cablegram from Manila to New
York travels "A, 900 miles.
General Brooke is to command the
volunteer army.
The Catholic church in America has
declared strongly for the support of
the government in the war against
Spain.
The first expedition with arms and
ammunition for Cuba has left Tampa,
Fla.
The Michael Commission company,
Kansas City, has failed. Liabilities
500, 900 in excess of assets.
Don Carlos proposes to make Wey-
Ter communicating chief of the army
when he gets the Spanish throne.
The sailors of Dewey's fleet will get
about $50 apiece prize money. Dewey
will get over $4,000.
The torpedo boat Winslow engaged
three Spanish gunboats off Cardenas.
She disabled one and came out uE-
scratched herself.
May wheat in Chicago sold for 81. so
last Tuesday. July option dropped
10 cents to S1.O6.
The Spanish admiral and naval Of
ficers at Manila are to be court-mar-
tailed for allowing Dewey to take
them by surprise. They failed to take
ordinary precautions.
The House foreign committee stands
ii to in favor of Hawaiian annexa-
ton.
The insurgents outside of Manila
are reported as massacreing the
Spanish. Admiral Dewey is unable
to control them and has not men
enough to suppress them.
A Spanish torpedo boat destroyer s
boiler exploded near Gibraltar and ell
on board were drowned
1t is said that President Mckinley
favors the permanent retention of the
Philippines
The people of Spain are beginning
to realize their defeat and all but the
opposition political leaders favor
peace with the least possible delay.
Ninety per cent of the reflections in
the volunteer army is due to cigarette
smoking.
Spain is preparing a relief expedi
ton to the Philippines via the Sue7
canal 1t will take forty days to max e
the trip, and the governor general
has been instructed to hold out unit
! it arrives.
European diplomats say the Philip
pines are ours to keep.
Senator Sewall has declined the
major generalship. He did not want
to resign from the Senate.
The Hessville Powder mills, Ras'
Chicago, Ind, is working on an order
for 80, 700, 900 cartridges
japanese naval officers have ar
rived in San Francisco to take home
two cruisers just finishing in this
country.
The South feels sighted because
none of the army staff officers were
appointed from that section.