Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-07

important news IN Washington to-day
was the ratification OF the peace treaty
and the receipt of lists of casualties
from Gen. Otis.
Prompted by Gen. Otis promise Of
last night to send along the list of cas-
ualties at the earliest possible moment,
the friends of the soldiers at Manila
besieged the War Department to-day
by telegram and word of mouth for in
formation from the scene of the battle
in the Philippines. The list was long
in coming, a fact explained by the cut
ting of the telegraph wires along the
American front, which prevented early
reports from the division commanders.
In the meantime came a short cable
gram from Admiral Dewey that caused
some temporary commotion by creating
the impression that hostilities had been
renewed by the insurgents. Up to the
close of Office hours, however, nothing
had come from Gen. Otis to confirm
this inference, and such cablegrams as
did come from him touched upon other
matters entirely, so it was assumed
that there was no foundation in fact
for the apprehension.
When Gen Otis casualty lists began
to come over the cables they were
somewhat confusing, probably due to
the fact that there are nineteen differ
ent lines between Manila and Washing
ton. The immediate effect was to
cause some errors to be made in the re-
ported list Of killed. After great diff
CULTS the officials of the War Depart
ment arranged the previous casualty
lists into the following single list,
which is believed to be substantially
accurate and was made up as an official
sublist for the prior lists:
First brigade, First division, Tenth
PENNSYLVANIA T. Brierer, flesh
wound arm, slight; Lieut.. Albert j.
ButtermOre, flesh wound, slight; G. II.
Sergeant and Joseph Sheldon, slight
flesh wounds; Private Hiram Conger,
abdomen penetrated, serious; Private
Edward Caldwell, lung penetrated, seri-
Gus; Private Default, flesh wound,
Slight
First Montana-Private Reynolds,
wound in ear; Private Charles Rum
mels, flesh wound in leg, slight; Cor
poral Hayes, missing, propably killed;
Private John Serensen, head waunded,
probably dead; Private Mayersick,
lungs penetrated, serious; Corporal
| Skinner, slight thigh wound.
First Colorado-Priyate orion TIVE
yer, wounded left thigh; Private Chas.
! S. Morrison, wounded left thigh; Pri-
vate Elmer +. Doran, killed, shot in
| chest; Private C. D. White, missing,
supposedly drowned; Private Char
Lesson, killed, shot in head.
First South Dakota-Private Horace
J. McCracken, killed; Private Fred E.
Green, killed; Private William J. Liss,
killed.
| Third artillery-No one killed.
Fourteenth, infantry Corpor-
al Guy B. Soden, Corporal Henry F..
! Thompson, Privates Jesse A. Hale,
Maurice L. Seman. Louis V. Dietz,
James Harvey knight, Charles W..
Douglas, Frank H. Issinghausen, Chas.
A. Seitz, AIphonse Bonner, Peter NJ.
| Storment.
Sixth artiIIery-Killed: Private W. A.
! Goodman.
First Idaho-Killed: Major Ed. Nc
| Conville; Corporal Frank r. Calwerel,
Private James Frazer.
| First California-Killed: Private j..
| ]. Dewar, Tom Bryan, Joseph Maher.
| First hington-Killed Corporal
! George W. MCGOWAN, Privates Ralph
w. Simonds, George B. Reichart, Frank
Smith, Matthias H. Cherry, Sherman
Harding, Edward H. Perry, Walter N.
Hanson, Arno H. Meickel.
| Lieut.. James Mitchell, Fourteenth
infantry, died of wounds at POS p. m.
February G.
| Private G. W. Hall. Co. C, First
Idaho, died Of wounds.
Col VIM. c. Smith, First Tennessee,
died OF apoplexy at the head Of his COM
mand of firing line February 5.
| As to the change in conditions
wrought by the ratification OF the
treaty to-day there is a variance of
views. and Adiutant General Corbin
| and Second Assistant Secretary Adee,
of the State Department, were giving
I the matter attention with the idea OF
being able to send full instructions for
his future guidance to Gen. Otis imme-
diately. The extreme view on one side
/ is that until the Spanish government
ratifies the treaty it is not of local
effect. According to that view there
fore, the United States government is
estopped from proceeding beyond their
/ lines at Manila for the time By the
other extreme view the United States
i government is free TO do just as it
pleases in the entire group of islands
and will therefore proceed at once to
complete the military occupancy OF the