Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-03
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
THE COLONIES.

Three American soldiers died of vel
low fever in Cuba.
Mr.. Holden of Minneapolis quoted
Dewey as an expansionist.
The contributions to the Dewey
home fund aggregate $1O,19O.
The biggest rebel army yet organized
is LAYING siege to San Fernando.
Ger. Del Pillars brass band OF eighty
two pieces was captured near Manila
The hospital ship Relief left Manila
for San Francisco with ESQ SICK aoroau
Mckinley has no immediate lnten-
ton of sending Miles or Wood 10 Ma
Mia.
coneral Davis has issued an order es-
tablishing the writ Of habeas corpus IL
Porto Rico. do
General Otis has asked the war de-
nartment for four expert Spanish coul
stenographers. +bo
Dewey's welcome at Ceylon was the
most cordial he has yet received slllce
he left Manila. no
Gov Roosevelt telegraphed Mr. MIC
vin1ov an offer of New York troops
for service in Asia.
Cubans claim the only way to pfotecl
them against bandits is for Americans
to garrison every town.
T7ba yellow fever in Havana IS oe-
7iovod tn he comfortable by tine eAel-
else of strict precautions.
The nresident, it is expected, viii au,
.horize the recruiting of ten addltloP'l
sooiments for the Philippines.
General Davis insists on establlsnlns
the new provisional court OF appears -
PORTO Rico despite protests.
Dr McOueston, lately of Gen. otlS
atoff saws it will take from lOO,OoO "
4so nm men to save the Philippines
The transport Centennial, bound lot
1koni1a grounded temporarily on PolhC
Enoano Iiuzon, and 100 tons OF her
sunnlies we're thrown oVerooafu'
The Filipino army south OF lmus us
onnoorod in swamps and hills. F1llplno
owen wrote Otis that when the men
more killed they would keep up the
fight .,.4o COW
General Leonard Wood, military gov
NOR of Santiago, has been offered the
presidency of the Traction anu AIoo
tric company of Washington OUT n''
declined. ,.+o,,+
r is denied at the war department
+bo+ General Otis reports in regard "
the losses of his army IN pattle dnc,
~, disease are changed or suppressed
by the department. D,,fora
The United States transport hulu. y
arrived from Havana with 81 caOin
nassen gers, 20 Cubans, seven destltuOe
Americans and SO discharged sololei0
and government employees.
THE administration, it is stated la
vors the creation of a colonial bureau
- have charge of affairs in the ISLANDS
oodod tn the United States by spain
Robert P. Porter will probably De Cne
head of the department If 1t IS eSCao-
lished. -, o,,,,oo
The war department will announce
what franchises and concessions Ill
porto Rico can be granted by nllllatly y
authorities and what can be granted
or1v nv congress. Army engineers VIII
,,,onare mans showing the wharfage
and dockage needs.
republican member OF congress
from the south says that congress- d.
i+e naxt session, will not undertake 10
mass LEGISLATION in regard to the Fhlllp-
mines. but that the president Will pe d.
lowed to continue operations until 'n7
Filipinos are subdued.
Senior Rivera has sent a letIer W AZ
+orney-General Griggs requesting oil
oninion from him in regard to the sCa-
&c of Porto Rico since it was acquired
nv the United States, and ASKING
whether the island is not enutled u
free trade with this country
At Santiago de Cuba 33 cases OF vel
low fever, with five deaths, have oeeh
officially reported since the beginning
Of the present outbreak. One OF cne
deaths occurred in the fifth lnIanCry'
The other four we're civilians. Capt
Fabricius. a popular medical othcer'
died.
At Havana, the society of veterans OF
indenendence. organized by the leaders
of the former military assembly, con-
Times growing and enlisting all VINO
are willing to work unitedly. IL IS
comnosed of three classes-members OF
the army. civilians who acted as agents
in the Cuban cities during the war, and
those who we're deported by the Span
iardS.
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