Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-19
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
OUR COLONIES.

Admiral Sampson says our navy
should be increased.
Gen. Gomez bids his army farewell.
He is dangerously i'll.
All opposition to the acceptance of
the United States 100000 in Cuba
ends.
The president thinks it will not be
necessary to raise provisional volun-
teer army.
Mayor Lacote of Havana made an
unsuccessful effort to settle the cab
mems strike there.
Recruiting officers are instructed to
enlist as many men for the Philippines
as they possibly can.
Forty per cent. of Gen. Lawton's
men were overcome by heat in driving
rebels south from Manila.
General Halls brigade marched
from Morong to Taytay, Luzon, en-
countering little opposition.
Maj. Sears, of the army engineer
corps, stationed at Duluth, has been
detailed for duty in Porto Rico.
General Otis cables that the result
of the campaign in Morong province
was to drive the Filipinos to the
hills.
General Otis has enlisted about 200
Filipinos as scouts and guides, but, it
is stated, will not enlist any as SOL
diers.
A dispatch from Havana states that
four Cubans have been selling bogus
Of in In
tionary army.
Professor Schurman Of the United
States Philippines commission, will be-
gin trip among the southern islands
of the group this week.
Aguinaldo proclaimed himself die
tator and dissolved the Filipino con-
gress in order to obtain better terms
from the United States.
The Philippine commissioners, it is
learned, are working tremendously.
Gen. Otis intends to crush the rebel
army in the province of Cavite.
Irreconcilable Cubans are credited
with design to burn the island from
one end to the other if the Cubans are
not granted independence within two
years.
Governor-G General Davis of Porto
Rico is planning radical changes, in
Guiding a reduction of expenses
through the dismissal of number Of
officials.
Brigandism is on the increase in
Cuba, and reign of terror prevails in
towns where no United States troops
are quartered. The bandits are most
ly negroes.
sued orders appointing Senior Con
zales de Queseda special commissioner
for Cuba at Washington, with a sal
airy of $4,000.
At Havana feeling is very bitter
against former Spanish soldiers. A
Cuban soldier said that when the re-
public was formed it was the inten-
ton to kill all the guerrillas.
There is no truth in the statement
that the president has decided to recall
the Filipino peace commission. Sec
rotary Hay also denies that the cabinet
is considering new Philippine policy.
At Singapor, the United States cruis-
er Olympia, with Admiral Dewey on
board has arrived from Hong Kong.
Admiral Dewey's health continues to
improve. The Olympia will probably
leave SingapOr June 16.
The committee in charge of the fund
to purchase a home for Admiral Dewey
is preparing to make an appeal to
wealthy men. Unless subscriptions
come in more rapidly, it is feared the
project may result in failure. Only
a paltry sum has been received thus
far.
An official report from Holguin de-
scribes the Iynching of Antonio
Garcia, bandit chief, who was taken
from the gendarmier by indignant cit
liens and hung. Holguin is one of
the most laWless districts in Cuba, and
this summary punishment, under all
conditions, is regarded as favorable
symptom.
Gen. Leonard Wood, military COVER
nor Of Santiago province, has been
granted leave Of absence in order that
he may bring his family back to the
United States. They will come to
Long island, but it is expected that
Gen. Wood himself will soon return
to his post at Santiago, where his adj
ministratiOn has been a matter for
qualification to the war department.