Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-08
NJ ARTHUR THE Man.
The Presidents Choice For
Philippines Campaign.
FORCE TO BE 10000 MEN.
Statement Prepared by the War Depart
ment Showed That Many Would Be at
NJ aniIa or Enroute There by Oct. 2e.
Lists of the Dead.
CHICAGO, Aug. s.-The Record today

CHICAGO, Aug. S.-The Record today
said:
According to regular army officer
who passed through Chicago Oh his
way to the Philippine service, General
Arthur Macarthur is President Mckin-
ley's choice for field commander of the
Luzon island campaign at the end of
the rainy season.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-A statemen c
prepared at the war department shows
that by Oct. 20 there will be at Manila
or OH the way to the Philippines $4,000
men. They will all reach the islands
before the beginning of the dry season.
The troops to be sent from this country
are ten regiments of volunteers amount
ing to $1,000 men; recruits for skeleton
regiments organized in the Philippines,
1900; recruits for regulars, $500; eight
troops Third cavalry, 965; marines, 400.
Beginning probably today and up to
Oct. ~ there will sail from the Pacific
coast Il transports with carrying ca
pacity of 693 officers and 1880 men,
which will include nearly all the organl-
cations above named.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-General Otis
cabledsthe following additional deaths
in his command:
MANILA. Aug. 6.
Adjutant General. Washington:
Following deaths since last weekly re-
port:
Cause unknown. April 8, Ralph G.
Coates, Company K, First California;
drowned, July IA. John Mullaney, cor
poral, Twenty-frst infantry; July IA,
William II. Murray, X, Twenty first in
fantry; Aug 3, Albert Boos, D, Six
teenth infantry; typhoid fever. July, IA,
Richard H Ralph, B, Utah artillery, on
Hancock at Nagasaki; dysentery, July
IL, Christian r. Spressor, corporal, 4,
Eighteenth infantry; July 80, William
R. Rasmussen, corporal, +, Twelfth in
fantry; July 30, Levi w. Mellinger,
corporal, F, Thirteenth infantry; Aug.
4, Edward L. BedelI, A, Twenty-first
infantry; malariaI fever, July 10,
James NJ. Dabney, G, First California;
July 30, John L. Garvey, L, Ninth in
fantry; Aug. 2, Thomas Burehill, G,
Twenty.second infantry; from wounds
in action, July IA, Michael Walsh, II,
Sixth infantry; July 20, Thomas Tot
ten, l., Fourth cavalry; July 81. Her
bert Tracy, K, Twenty-first infantry;
meningitis, July 80, Arthur Morse, d,
Eighteenth infantry; pulmonary tuber-
cuiosis, July 81, James McCarron, cor
poral, B, Twenty-first infantry; pneu-
monia, July 81, Thomas Conway, NJ,
Twenty first. infantry; volvulus ileoca-
ceum, Aug. 1, James McHugh, NJ,
Twenty-first infantry; suicide, Aug. 2,
Marvin r. Mcdenry, II, Fourteenth
infantry: appendicitis, Aug. 8, Clar-
ence Mason, band, Fifty-first Iowa
OTIs.
The war department received the fol-
lowing from General Brooke:
HAVANA, Aug. 6.
Death report-Havana hospital No.
l, Robert Bird, civilian, employe of
quartermaster, died Aug. 2, dysen-
terry; Santiago, James A. Hayes, quar-
termaster's employe, died Aug. 2, yel-
low fever; William J. Money, civilian,
died Aug. 3. yellow fever; Havana, Dun
can Marr, machinist United States navy,
died Aug 8, yellow fever. BROOKE.
WASHINGTON. Aug. S.-The following
dispatch was received from Admiral
Watson, in command of the Asiatic
station:
Secretary Navy:
Nazro, the commander of the Manila,
on July IL, re-esJablished lighthouse at
Cape Melville, Balabac, Philippine isl
ands; hoisted flag with appropriate
honors July 18th, ON his return, 13
Moros, under arms, were found to be in
possession of the lighthouse. Landing
part ycommanded by Ensign E. L. Bis
sett, encountered resistance. No cas-
ualty in our party. Loss in killed, one
officer and one man of the enemy.
Dieago Manalo, chief of the Balabac
Moros, was killed, seven taken prisoners,
two escaped. Chief of party was very
unpopular with the people of Balabac,
Philippine islands, owing to fear of him.
Light has been restored. Manila has
landed force. Charlestown on her way
to Balabac Will render all assistance.
WATSON