Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-13
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
cpAN1sH-AMERICAN SITUATION.

SPANISH AMENlCA4N ~
Admiral Schley was presented WIN
magnificent medal in Baltimore.
An agent of the United States vii
90 TO Cuba and pay the Cuban army
Desultory fighting between the
Americans and Filipinos continues al
Manila.
The gunboat Concord burned
schooner laden with supplies for the
Filipinos.
Dewey cabled for all the light
draught war vessels available ana
will get them.
Cen. Ots cables that the Fillplnos
howe NOT captured any Americans as
prisoners of war.
Natives of the islands of Mabate
and Ticao have asked Gen. Otis to
send troops there.
syndicate of capitalists has pough'
fourteen cigar and cigarette factories
in and about Havana.
A Madrid paper asserts that the jap
anese have been furnishing the Flllpl-
nos with arms and ammunition.
It is reported from Manila tnaI
Aeuinaldo's army is disheartened by
the result of the recent fighting.
President Mckinley will probably
adont Gen. Gomezs suggestion, and
enlist Cubans in the United States
army. =, -.
Rhodes predicted that we will holo
all we have taken from Spain and Will
get by conquest all of America south
of us.
The European junta of the F1llplnos
has issued a statement alleging that
the natives at Manila hold 600 Amerl-
can prisoners.
Gen. Maxine Gomez visited the
grave, near Havana, of Gen. Antonio
Maceo. who was killed while leading
Cuban soldiers.
At the request of Germany the
United States takes the lives and prop
erty of Germans in the Philippines I'M
der it's protection.
Gen. Henry temporarily suppressed
the Democratic, leading paper at
Ponce, Porto Rico, for printing an at
tack the military authorities.
Spanish Admiral Montejo is impris-
oned because he didn't whip Dewey.
Gen. Linares, in command of the
Spanish troops at Santiago, will be
prosecuted.
r. Agoncillo, the representative OF
the Filipino junta to the United States,
was a passenger on the Labrador,
zod off q ri
No lives we're lost.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Merce-
des, sunk in the channel of Santiago
harbor during the bombardment by
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet June 6, has
been raised and pumped out.
Admiral Sampson refuses to discuss
the charge that he suppressed dis
patch to Admiral Schley whereby he
endeavored to keep the latter at Glen
fuegos when the Spanish squadron was
at Santiago.
A number of witnesses, mostly from
volunteer regiments, testified before
the court of inquiry that the canned
roast beef supplied to the army was
not a suitable ration and caused sick
ness among the soldiers.
John Sherman is going to Cuba and
Porto Rico to get material to oack
up his original declaration that the
people on those islands were not
worth fighting for and certainly are
not capable of f-gOvernment.
The president signed the bill Great
ing the rank of admiral in the navy.
The honor has been conferred upon
Rear Admiral Dewey, who thus be-
comes the highest ranking officer in
the service. HIS pay is $14, 800 year,
Premier Sagasta presented to the
queen regent the designations of the
Spanish cabinet on account Of the OPP
position in the cortes to the peace
treaty. Senior SilveIa, the Spanish
conservative leader, formed new
cabinet.
The Cuban assembly has requested
the newspapers not to publish any
thing they may learn regarding the
assembly's secret sessions. 1t is
claimed that most of the sessions are
spent in insulting Americans and Gen.
Gomez and in collisions between the
members.
Secretary AIger has ordered part of
one regiment of artillery and five reg
iments of infantry to Manila. This
is the beginning of the work of sub
shutting regulars for volunteers, in
anticipation of the final ratification of
the treaty of peace which is expected
within few weeks.
DOMESTIC.