Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-08
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
sPPANIsH-AMERICAN ISLANDS.

Several hundred recruits sailed
from San Francisco for Manila.
President Mckinley greeted the Of
ficers and men of the Raleigh in New
York.
Anti-imperialists meet in Chicago.
M. Mambon will accept the $20,O00,-
600 Philippine indemnity on behalf of
Spain.
More than 100000 will soon be
spent on sewerage and paving for
Havana.
The second Illinois volunteers, the
first to leave the state, returned to
Chicago.
Gen. Miles may ask for a congress
sional investigation Of his beef
charges.
Senior Herminio Diaz, secretary of
justice for Porto Rico, has prepared a
list of suggested reforms in the laws
of the island.
Rear-Admiral Schley has been APP
pointed president of the naval retir-
ing board, succeeding Rear-Admiral
Howell, detached.
President Mckinley sent a message
of congratulations and thanks to the
army in the Philippines.
General Brooke is considering the
issuing of a decree prohibiting lot
teries and raffles in Cuba.
The latest returns from the Span
ish senatorial elections show a gov
ernmental majority of forty.
A nigh officer of the German foreign
Office admits the truth of COghlan's
story of the irritation at Manila.
Gen. Otis does not relax his prepa
rations to prosecute the war pending
negotiations with the rebels for peace.
Fifteen hundred Filipinos moved
against Taguig, seven miles southeast
of Manila, but were driven off after
conflict.
General Henry, military governor Of
Porto Rico, has issued an order d.
recting alcaldes or mayors to improve
the moral conditions in their towns.
It is asserted that the Spanish min
lister of finance, Marquis Villaverde,
is preparing a tax, at high rate, re-
placing many existing taxes on various
classes of revenues.
At Madrid the prospect of peace in
the Philippines is hailed with salts
faction, as likely to lead to the early
Liberation of the Spanish prisoners in
the hands of the Filipinos.
1t is expected a few months will
see a new system Of sewers in Havana.
Several miles of streets are being
paved and suburban roads bettered
There are 5000 men in the engineering
department..
While the queen regent was attend
ing the performance at the NEEDY
theater in Madrid, man, armed with
a revolver and a dagger, was arrested
among the audience. He is believed
to be a lunatic.
Advocates Of free trade with Porto
Rico claim that the collection Of
customs duties on goods imported
from the United States is illegal. They
will appeal to the courts and test the
tariff law enforced by the military
authorities in the island.
The American troops, under Gen
eral Macarthur, crossed the Rio
Grande river at Calumpit, Luzon, and
defeated Filipino army which was
intrenched there. The victors had
two men killed and the natives lost
between thirty and fifty.
German officers claim that Admiral
Won Diederich's answer to Admiral
Dewey's threat at Manila was: "Clear
for action and quietly steam through
the American lines into the harbor."
The fifteen men captured from the
Yorktown are alive and in the hands
of the Filipinos.
Filipino peace emissaries want to
refer the matter of cessation of hostil-
tiles to their congress-, but Gen.
Otis, in an interview says he told them
nay. He does not recognize the rebel
government and will listen to no
terms but absolute surrender. The war
is obviously very near an end.