Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-30
|rELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
,PANIsH-AMERICAN SITUATION.

Fighting is reported on the island
Negroes.
The United States took formal pos
session of Wake island.
Cuba's army is found to have shrunk
from $4,000 to 1929 men,
A British naval officer attempted 20
induce Philippines rebels to submit.
The United States battleship Oregon
arrived at Manila ready for service.
The American force in the Philip
pines has been entirely reorganize1.
Havana police have checked the ef-
forts of the Nanigos to wipe out the
force.
Fifty persons were seriously hurt in
a row between police and citizens in
Havana.
Aguinaldo heheaded one of his gen
erals for trying to convince him of the
folly of resisting the Americans.
The female nurses who have been at
the Camp Ship field hospital, Annis-
ton, Ala, have been discharged.
Volunteer sailors who served during
the war with Spain and were honor
ably discharged are entitled to extra
pay.
The Americans may have to dis
arm the Cuban army by force.
A movement is on foot at Santiago
to make San Juan hill public park.
General Otis cables that the Amer
lean loss was 80 in the fighting near
Manila on Monday.
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the Cuban assembly
Gen. Joseph Wheeler denies and re-
flutes the stories published as to his
actions in the campaign against San
tiago.
Col. Davis, of the army beef court
OF inquiry, is said to have admitted
that Gen. Miles charges have been
proved.
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador
will aat as the representative of Spain
in the tnal exchange of Publications OF
the peace treaty.
: Thej mob violence in Havana has
beer checked after the killing of three
policemen and five civilians. Many
were wounded.
Commissary- Sergeant Mason gave
direct testimony before the Wade eourt
of inquiry that army beef had been
treated chemically
Rev. Felix CULLEN, an exiled frial
from Manila, tells story of terrible
atrocities practiced upon the Spanish
priests by the Filipinos under Aguin-
aldo.
The British government will be
urged to make a claim for the family
of Mr. Simpson, an Englishman who
was accidentally shot by American
soldiers at Manila.
Senator Stewart OF Nevada, in an
interview with President Mckinley
declared that Gen. Otis course in the
Philippines has been as brutal as Wey-
ler's methods in Cuba.
Gen. Young, in announcing and APP
proving fM sentences of the mutinous
( members Jf the fifteenth Minnesota
regiment, severely roasted the officers
whom he holds largely responsible for
the outbreak.
Filipinos who attacked the American
army posts at Taguig, near Pasig, were
routed with heavy loss, ana were driv-
en- back eleven miles, the Americans
losing three killed and twenty-five
wounded. Over 200 Filipinos were
wounded.
The Cuban assembly will vote on a
motion providing for the disarmament
of the army and the dissolution of the
assembly itself, at the same time au-
thorizing the soldiers to accept any ar
rearages OF, pay offered to them by the
United States.
Gen. Greeley of the signal corps is
trying to solve the problem of how to
manage the telegraph system of Cuba
and Porto Rico. which is in the hands
OF 500 volunteers with 800 regulars who
do not know anything about telegraph
ing, and little about the management
of telegraph lines.
DOMESTIC.