Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-23
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR NOTES.

friendly and the situation is improv-
ing.
The Cuban general, Mario Menocal,
will be appointed chief of police of
Havana.
1t is positively announced that the
peace treaty will be vitality amended
or rejected.
Filipinos at IIoiIo have sunk light
ers in the channel to keep out Ameri-
can warships.
Armed Filipinos drove back an
American force which attempted to
make a landing.
Cubans rejoice over an announce
ment that they will be granted COM
plete autonomy.
The Filipino committee at Hong
Kong has broken off relations with
United States Consul Wildman.
Gen. Eagan is to be removed from
office, placed under arrest and court
martialed without delay.
Forty-ffve thousand Spanish troops
are still left in Cuba-17,0 at Matan-
zas and $4,000 at Cienfuegos.
Laborers in the Guantanamo dis
+rict of Cuba have gone on a strike De-
cause the merchants discount their
wages.
Ex-Governor John Gary Evans of
South Carolina has been put in SUI
pervisory charge of the Havana po-
lice force.
Baron Won Bulow, German secretary
of state for foreign affairs, denies that
Ir To oi6
the Filipinos.
The mayor and city council of San
Juan, Porto Rico, have resigned be-
cause of alleged inability to raise suf-
fcient public funds.
Conditions continue critical at Man
lila, but it is believed that the Ameri-
cans are able to repulse any attack
which the Filipinos may make.
A cablegram from Manila states
that Aguinaldo has ordered his army
to act on the defensive. But there
are rumors that the Filipinos will
attack Manila.
General Corea, Spanish minister of
war, has cabled to General Rios at
Manila insisting that he shall secure
the release of the Spanish prisoners
held by the Filipinos.
Senator F'oraker's statement that
the administration does not favor
permanent occupation of the Philip
pine islands is said to have been made
without official authority.
Agoncillo, the agent of the Fill
pinos, has filed at the state depart
ment an official memorandum demand
ing independence and asking recogni-
ton of the United States.
It is reported that the Filipino gov
eminent at Malolos is willing to agree
to the establishment of an American
protectorate, provided independence in
a stipulated time is guaranteed.
Baron D'Estournelles de Constant
and NJ Leroy-Beaulieu, in interviews
in Paris, advocate a system of local
autonomy for the Philippines, with
American control on general ques
lions.
The first detachment of the 18th in
fantry left Columbus, Ohio, for the
Philippines. The departure of the
troops was the occasion of a demon
stration in which $4,000 people par
ticipated.
Subdivision of authority delays put
ting Havana in frst-class sanitary
condition. The sanitation of the GUS
tom-house was not carried out be-
cause of a misunderstanding az to
who was in authority.
Spain is preparing to resume Dip
lomatic relations with the United
States. The French ambassador has
been charged with the duty of find
ing out how various prominent Span
iards would be received as minister at
Washington.
At their own request Brigadier Gen
erals William w. Gordon and w. G.
Oates, of the volunteer army, have
been honorably discharged from the
military service Of the United States,
on the ground that there is no fur
= Their need for their services.
In Havana American notes and coin
are selling at / per cent. premium over
the regular rate of foreign exchange
for Spanish and American gold. Cen
tenes worth III New York 488 to 4S9
are receivable here for customs duties
at 1872 Consequently importers would
rather pay American currency at pre-
MUM than part with centenes at 6
or cents discount.
Commissary-Genera Eagan, in his
testimony before the war Investigate
Pc ing commission, denied General Miles
charges in regard to army beef, de-
nounced General Miles as 'liar," and
said he should be drummed out of the
service" The commission returned
to General Eagan his written state
ment with the request that he elimi-
nate all vituperative language.
President Mckinley has appointed a
special commission to investigate con-
ditions in the Philippines and to keep
him informed Of the needs Of the is
lands until congress shall have made
some disposition of them. The mem
beers of the commission are: Admiral
Dewey, Major General Schurman Of