Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-07-20
WAR NOT ES,

Important cablegrams have been re-
ceived at the state department from
the Philippine commission and at the
war department from Gen. Otis, con-
corning new move in the direction of
peace. These dispatches have been in
the hands of the President for several
days but he has declined to make them
public because the ultra optimistic
views heretofore received from the
same source have not been borne out
by subsequent events. The latest dis
patches, however, are more encourag-
ing than the previous ones, but the
President wishes to have some positive
results before making them public
All that can be learned definitely
about them is that direct overtures for
peace have been made to Gen. Otis by
Aguinaldo and some of his principal
leaders.
Under command of Capt. McGraw
three troops of the 4th cavalry and the
gunboat Napidan, commanded by
Lieut.. Larsen, had an engagement
with detachment of 500 Filipinos at
Mantilupa, on the south shore of the
lake. The Napidan shelled the rebels
and party of 1875 Americans landed,
and by sharp running fight succeeded
in driving the rebels to the hills. Two
of the cavalrymen were wounded, and
the bodies of 10 insurgents were found.
1t is estimated that the enemy's loss
was 35.
The Encouragement has rendered
an opinion in which he holds, in effect,
that the Havana street railway fran
chise, known as the Tore concession,
on the evidence submitted, is superior
to all others, and is such as entities it's
owners to be permitted at their own
risk, under the permission of the mu-
nicipal authorities, to proceed with
the work of construction without the
injunction of the military authorities
Capt. p. S. Bonus, in charge of the
army recruiting bureau at Chicago eS-
pressed the opinion that the new 30th
regiment of infantry volunteers being
recruited in Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan and modified at Fort Sheri-
dan, would be full by Aug. Is and
ready to sail for the Philippines by
Sept. 90.
Andrew Fuller, Julian Baker and
Edwin Campbell, American civilian
clerks in the quartermaster's depart
ment at Cienfuegos, who were impli-
Gated in the recent ARRAY there be-
tween the Americans and Cubans,
have been ordered to return to the
United States by the first transport.
In order to replenish the stock on
the island of Cuba, it has been decided
to admit free of duty $4,000 head of
breeding cattle The question of com
muting rations for the needy Cubans
into draught cattle and agricultural
implements was brought up but no de-
cision was reached
Gen. Leonard Wood, in command of
the department of Santiago, issued
general order No. "a on the 18th estab-
fishing absolute quarantine. All Off
GERS of the government and employees
are forbidden to enter the city, with
the exception of those belonging to
the department.
The war department announces that
VIC Cuo0ohS ICCcipIS dI IHS poTl VI
Havana for June were 81, 012, 500. The
total receipts for six months of 1899
are, to be exact, SIS, lac, $780, The
monthly average for six months is
1857, $685.
The orders issued last summer which
allowed 60 cents a day per man for
soldiers undergoing hospital treatment,
have been revoked and an order issued
allowing 40 cents per day per man
from the subsistence of the army.
1t is the intention of the war de-
partment to supply the American
troops with dynamite guns to be used
in the fall campaign against the Fill
pinos.
The anniversary of the surrender of
Santiago de Cuba was observed at Ha-
vana on the 18th.
The yellow fever situation at San
tiago continues to improve