Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1899-01-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
ON ACCOUNT OFF THE LATE WAR

The Yorktown has sailed from San
Francisco for Manila.
Captain Leary has been appointed
naval governor of Guam.
Spain will probably sell the Ladrone,
Caroline and Pelew islands.
Private Shotwell, Company d, Forty
ninth Iowa, is dead at Havana of APP
pendicitis.
The Filipinos at noilo are becoming
friendly and the situation is reported
improving.
American soldiers in Havana quieted
a disturbance caused by Cubans stoning
Spanish flag.
A South Dakota volunteer at Manila
shot two natives who had attacked and
wounded him.
The transport Manitoba, with the
Seventh cavalry on board, has sailed
from Savannah for Cuba.
The United States revenue cutter Nc
Culloch has arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu and Manila.
Cubans of Santiago province rejoice
over an announcement that they will be
granted complete autonomy.
Spaniards report that Filipinos are
concentrating about Manila with the
intention of attacking the city.
It has been decided that soldiers killed
in the war with Spain may be buried in
the National cemetery at Gettysburg.
1t is stated that General Eagan is to
be removed from Office, placed under
arrest and courtmartialed without de-
lay
Four companies of the Maine artillery,
now at Savannah, Ga, have been or
dered to Havana by the first available
transport.
At their own request Brigadier Gen
erals William W. Gordon and w. G.
Oates of the volunteer army, have been
honorably discharged
In its forthcoming report the war in
vestigating commission, it is said, will
censure officials and generals right and
left, from Alger down.
The transport Ohio has arrived from
the Philippines, with $50 soldiers re-
turned for various reasons, quite num-
Der of them on sick leave.
The colossal task of putting into
proper sanitary condition every house
in Havana has begun. Over 1000 per-
sons are engaged in the work.
The postoffce department has decided |
to issue new set of stamps for Cuba
and the bureau of engraving and print
ing has been called on for designs.
General Miles has received an en-
dorsement of his course in the contro-
versy with Commissary General Eagan
from the Baptist ministers of Boston.
The war department is negotiating |
for the charter of the steamer Centen-
NAL, now at San Francisco, to carry,
stores and commissary supplies to Ma
Mia.
The acting controller of the treasury
has decided that governors of states
will not be reimbursed for expenses in
Cured in organizing volunteer reg1-
ments.
Among the passengers arriving at
San Francisco on the steamer Nippon
Maru from Hong Kong and Yokohama,
via Honolulu, were three emissaries Of
Aguinaldo.
General Henry, governor of Porto
Rico, promises certain concessions to
the councilmen of San Juan, and the
latter, therefore, have withdrawn their
1t is stated that a commission to in
vestigate and report upon the proper
to make of the Philippines
will be appointed by President McKin-
ley, Admiral Dewey to be president.
President Schurman of Cornell has ac-
cepted place on the commission which
President Mckinley will appoint to in
vestigate the conditions now obt9 ining
in the Philippines. The investigation
will be along economic and social lines.
The cabinet of Cubans who will adj
wise with General Brooke in the govern
ment of the island are as follows: De-
partment of government, Domingo
Mendez Capote; department of finance,
Pablo Desvrenine; department of justice
and public instruction, Jose Antonio
Gonzales Lanuza; department of agri-
culture, industry, commerce and public
works, Adolfo Saenza Yanez.