Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR NOTES.


Custom receipts at Manila have risen
to $40, 900 a day.
Gen. Brooke begins reforming edu-
cational methods in Cuba.
A report left by the late Col. Warlng
shows the horrible sanitary condition
of Havana.
Grover Cleveland in statement op-
noses the administrations policy OF
expansion.
tt is stated in Madrid that thous-
and monks in the Philippines nave
died of ill-treatment by Aguinaldo.
A personal encounter between Gen.
sanguilv and Havana's mayor would
have caused riot but for our provost
guard.
A dispatch from Havana says that
all the Spanish soldiers have now leTt
the island.
General Polavieja and Senior ollvela'
conservatives, are expected to form d
new Spanish cabinet.
An effort will be made to retain the
immune regiments in the service as a
mart of the regular army.
Cubans are angry because the BANK
of Spain has been appointed American
fiscal agent in the island.
A dispatch was received at Santiago
resembling the order concentrating
customs revenue at Havana.
Cen. Miller has been ordered to land
at rIoflo. Secretary Alger says the IN
surgents may fight or run.
The alleged exposure Of the men
who plotted the blowing up OF the
Maine is doubted in Havana.
Cen. Gomez is ambitious to unite
China. San Domingo and Hayti in one
republic, to be second only TO the
United States.
Aguinaldo has gone to Iloilo to put
himself at the head of the F1llplnos'
with a view of possible fighting with
the Americans.
President McKinley's proclamation
declaring authority OF the unlCeo
States over all the Philippines was
published at Manila.
An unconfirmed report is circulated
in Havana that torture chamber mas
heen found at the residence OF the
Spanish military governor.
Cant Sigsbee has been awarded
s976 as prize money for capturing the
British coal ship Restormel, in the ser
vice of Cervera, during the late war.
The cabinet considered the matter
of the Santiago customs receipts. Cen
oral Wood will receive an allowance
sufficient for the needs Of the province.
The Filipino governors OF Luzoh
provinces went to Malolas, Manila
naper reports, to offer their lives and
nrOperty in the cause Of independence
An army board is considering rec
concentrations for the award OF pre-
vets. medals and certificates to soldiers
who distinguished themselves in pat
tie
r,o~rAsnondence between the state
daDartnents and consuls show that no
pledges were made to Aguinaldo OF an
iudependent government of the Phil
ippines.
The United States guards at San
Severine fortress, Mantazas, found a
prisoner in an obscure cell who mad
been three days without food. me
Standards had neglected to release
him.
Aguinaldo issues a manifesto pro-
testing against Gen. Otis calling him
self military governor of the Philip
pines. He urges his followers to per-
severe in their efforts to achieve indie
pendence.
Col. San Martin, who was in COM
mand of the Spanish garrison at Ponce
when Gen. Miles invaded the island
and who abandoned the place without
resistance, has been sentenced to i'm
vrisonment for life. We may interfere,
Colonel Henry Sharp of the commits
sary department, who served at Camp
Thomas and Porto Rico, testified pc
fore the investigating commission yes
terday that all beef he had handled
was equal to any he had seen IN the
army.