Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-08-24
WAR NOT ES,


United States troops now serving in
Cuba are to be brought TO the United
States for the purpose of giving the
men a change of climate and an oppor-
tunity to recuperate. All the regi-
ments will not be brought home at
once, but arrangements will be made
so that a battalion of the different or
CARNATIONS may be absent at one time.
When they have remained what is
deemed a sufficient period in this
country, they will return and relieve
their comrades in the regiments, this
practice being kept up until the entire
body has enjoyed a rest in this country.
Gen. Brooke is to be recalled TO
Washington for consultation with the
secretary of war. There is posi- bill
ity of his remaining in this country
and his duties in Cuba being assumed
by Gen. Wood. The war department
officials profess the utmost confidence
in the ability of Gen. Brooke to admin
lister the affairs of the island and say
that his recall TO Washington is not
significant of change in the admins
trative affairs of the Cuban metropolis.
While detachment of the u. s.
troops were accommodating on the Goth
they encountered 100 of the enemy in
trenched OF Tibuan, Negros mountains,
and drove them from their position
with the loss of two lieutenants killed
and three privates slightly wounded.
Nineteen dead insurgents were counted
in the trenches when the enemy was
routed, and six rifles and a quantity of
reserve ammunition were captured.
1t is officially announced that Col.
Smith, with 10 companies of the 18th
regiment and two guns of Battery E of
the LIST artillery, under Lieut.. HENLEY,
attacked $500 strongly entrenched in
surgents at the southern approach to
Angeles on the 10th, and drove them
back after a sharp fight. The Ameri-
can troops had two men killed and IL
wounded The insurgent loss was
estimated at 200 men.
Owing to the determination of Secre-
tary Root to rush the new troops to
the Philippines, the original schedule
prepared in the quartermaster de-
partment has been entirely disar-
ranged, and it is the departments in
tention to have not only the first 10
regiments afloat by the last of October,
but also those to be raised under the
last order.
The transport Siam has sailed for
Manila with $50 mules, which will be
used for military service in the Philip
pines. The vessel will stop at Homo
lulu for several days and the mules
will be given a run ashore as rest
from their steamer voyage.
While a accommodating party of the
cath infantry, under Capt. Crane, was
crossing the Mariquina river on a raft
on the 21st, the hawser broke. The
current, very swift at that point caused
the raft to capsize, drowning nine en-
listed men,
Eight hundred insurgents attacked
Angeles on the 18th, but the 18th regi-
ment drove them into the mountains.
Three ditched locomotives were captur-
ed. None of the American troops were
injured. The insurgent loss is not
known.
The United States transport Tartar,
from San Francisco July "a, with Gen.
Jos. Wheeler and his daughter, troops
of the 10th infantry and more than
$1,000, 900 in coin, has arrived at
Manila.
1t is announced that Secretary of
War Root is closely following the adj
vice furnished by Gen. Miles; more
troops will be sent to the Philippines
and reserve force maintained.
The insurgents recently cut the
cable in Laguna bay, leading to Ca
lamba on the south shore of the lake,
but the break has been repaired.