The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-07-28

1t now turns out that III letter ad-
dressed by General Garcia 10 General
Shafter. complaining Of the treatment
accorded the Gubans and advising
General Shafter Of General Garcia's
Resignation, Was prepared by a news
paper correspondent named Arms, who
Philippines, says the Maine should rot
be forgotten, and advocates a larger
navy and standing army.
Revised reports of the American losses
during the hostilties attending the taxi
ing of Santiago show the killed, wound
ed and missing as 1893.
Major General Shafter compliments
his army on the heroic endurance and
splendid courage displayed at Santiago
The Italian minister of foreign affairs
denies that the powers have considered
the possibility Of stopping the Ameri-
can fleet from acting in European waters.
Lieutenant Hobson arranged with
wrecking company in New York to try
to save the Colon after plans he pre-
pared.
General Gomez quoted as saying that
the Cubans would do whatever Presi-
dent Mckinley should say Garcia
wrote to him. declaring that the United
States government is unfriendly to the
Cuban cause.
The insurgent forces have left the
American camp in Santiago and gone
20 miles into the interior They have
been warned, under the threat of ex-
IRENE penalty. not to modest Spanish
tC . b. IL .
brigandage.
The 5000 troops at Guantanamo lay
down their arms
st. Thomas dispatch says General
Miles men deharked at Ponce, on the
southern coast of Porto Rico.
TUESDAY, JULY &c.
Spain sues for peace. asks what are
the American terms, through the French
ambassador; believed by cabinet mem
four days before the answer is given:
bers that both Cuba and Porto Rico will
be taken, but about the Philippines all
is in doubt. Sagasta says official peace
negotiations have no existence; Duke
Almodora declares that private nego-
tiations, due to private initiative, have
begun.
General Miles lands on Porto Rican
soil at Guanica; Gloucester enters the
harbor despite the mihes and begins
the trouble; Spaniards resist and four
of them are killed.
Shafter reports 800 new cases of fever
and one death at Siboney.
Some Cubans" of Cienfuegos appeal
for help to Admiral Sampson, saying
that old men. women and children are
dying from hunger; captain of the AL
fonzo XII says that Americans can't
shoot straight.
Pope Leo suggests conditions of peace
that seem to him equitable
A cabinet minister outlines the policy
of the president in regard to Cuba as a
republic under the protectorate of the
United States; terms Of peace now re-
tention of Porto Rico, Independence of
Cuba and. at least a coaling station in
the Philippines
General Shafter releases the Cuban
political prisoners at Santiago. many Of
whom had no charges against them.
General Miles was not allowed To land
at Guantanamo until he had shown 4
medical certificate to the effect that i'm
medately after his visit to the Santiago
army his person and his apparel had
been relentlessly fumicated The gen
eral of the army went 50 far as to sac
rfee his moustache to the exigencies Of
the occasion.
A dastardly attempt to blow up the
transport ship Port Victor with an in
fernal machine was nipped in the bud
by the vililance of her captain on July
IA, when the Port Victor was on her
way from New York to Tampa. The
machine was a box constructed of half
inch lumber, the joints of which were
tongued and grooved together outside.
Inside the box was clock so connected
with explosives by wire that it would
go off at the time set.
San Juan dispatch to Madrid says
American troops tried to land al Bahia
Hondo and We're repulsed with consider
able losses.
General Miles did not in any way SUI
persede General Shafter and had moth
ing to do with the surrender of Santiago.
WEDNESDAY, JULY q
London Daily Malls correspondent a
Madrid says the powers have reached
an agreement to oppose American am
nexation of the Philippines.
The Spanish Monitor in the City of
Mexico published an alleged dispatch
from Washington, saying that President
Mckinley invited Admiral Cervera L.
call upon him, and that the latter did
SO, but the moment he met the president
he drew a pistol and killed the prss'-
dent The dispatch was eagerly read
by Spaniards and found many believers
Help us, and not criticise us is
Gomezs appeal to the American poo
pie, as brought by one of his colonies
A strong feeling against the Cubans
exists among the troops at Santiago
Admiral Sampson says in his report
Of the successful attack upon Ceryera $
squadron: when all the work was
done SO we'll, it is difficult 10 discriminate
in praise
Surgeon General Sternberg said Il
have never wanted Red Cross nurses at
the front, for l do not think that that Is
the place for women, and the Red Cross
people have pushed themselves in
The news of the landing of General
Miles at Guanica on the southwest coast
Of Porto Rico came as a genuine sur-
prise to the war department. 1t had
been all carefully. planned that he was
to make landing at another place as
remote as possible from the place wher-
he actually landed
Spanish official report says tho
Americans We're repulsed near Bahia