Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-01
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
sPANIsH-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

The third Georgia was mustered out.
The first North Carolina was mus
tered out.
The Filipinos are unusually active
all around Manila.
The thirteenth Minnesota will sail
for home June 20.
Fourteen thousand more regulars
will be sent to the Philippines.
The Filipinos are building new in
trenchments north and west of Malo-
los.
Gomez declares that Cuba has no
need of any troops and will disarm her
soldiers.
Overtime" men on Raleigh petit
toned Secretary Long for their dis
charge.
Minnesota and South Dakota troops
had another successful fight with Fill
pinos.
General Lawton, with a flying col
umn, is clearing the jungles about No
watches
Senior Acuna, secretary of state of
the colonial cabinet of Porto Rico, has
resigned.
Intense heat prevails in Manila, the
thermometer registering 95 degrees at
noon yesterday.
General Otis cables to Washington
that the "better class of Fflipinos are
tired of war.
Admiral Dewey will search for Lieut..
Gilmore and his men and make terms
for their release, if alive.
General Gomez has decided to de-
clare in favor of an American protecto-
rate until Cuba is pacifed.
The Alfonso XIII. took 600 Spanish
citizens to Spain. Since January 1
10000 Spanish have returned from Gu
ba to the home country.
Porto Ricans are strongly opposed to
the reported plan of the insular COM
mission to put Americans at once into
all the principal offices of the island
Two hundred Filipinos attacked the
American outposts near Tagging, Lu-
zon, and were repulsed after several
hours fighting, leaving twelve dead on
the field.
The wreck of the Spanish torpedo
boat destroyer Pluton, which was sunk
by the Gloucester July last, has been
found by divers about three miles west
of Moro castle.
A Manila dispatch states that there
Is hope that Lieut.. Gilmore and his
party from the cruiser Yorktown may
have been rescued by Spaniards and
not captured, as reported.
General Miles, it is stated in Wash
ington dispatch, will demand court
martial for the members of the beef
court of inquiry if they report that
his charges against army beef are not
sustained.
Porto Rican commissioners petit
toned the administration for free
trade relations between the United
States and the island, and asked that
the people of Porto Rico be given tenn
porarily territorial form of govern
ment.
The president, after consultation
with members of his cabinet, decided
not to organize for the present the vol
unteer army authorized by congress.
General Otis was instructed to arrange
Tor the return 10 lie Uu1CGu OCdC0o VI
the volunteers in the Philippines.
General Gomez was Kissed by some
people who were standing on the roof
of a house overlooking Havana. They
waved Spanish flags and cried Long
live Weyler," Death to Gomez, .
Death to Americans" and passen-
gers and sailors on board the Alfonso
XIII. repeated the cries.
At Corinto, Central America, an
open boat containing the remains of
nine men who had perished months
before drifted ashore. Not drop Of
water nor particle OF food was in
the boat. The bodies are those of
Louis w. Malsen, three port officials
and FIVE boatmen, Who were carried
@ut to sea in a storm last December.