Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-11
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
OUR ISLANDS.

Porto Rico needs agricultural laws.
Yellow fever cost Havana 1913 lives
in 1899.
A Filipino at Manila is supposed to
have bubonic plague.
Capt. Leary will abolish slavery in
the island of Guam Feb. %.
Filipino threaten trouble if the
friars are permitted to return.
Wood released forty persons wrong
fully imprisoned in Cuban jails.
Colonel Richard Comba was assign
Ell to the command of Fort Sheridan.
The American campaign to subdue
the Filipinos south OF Manila has be-
gun.
Archbishop Chapelle papal delegate
TO the Philippines, has arrived at Man
liza.
Aguinaldo has issued decree order
ing the liberation of all Spanish pris-
oners.
American citizens have claims
against Spain amounting to over ST.
100000
Aguinaldo has issued a decree free
ing all Spanish prisoners still held by
Iilipinos.
Fourteen soldiers were declared in
sane as result of campaigning in the
Philippines.
The military commands in Cuba will
probably be completely recognized
this month.
A bill has been introduced to pay the
widow of Colonel Stotsenberg a pen
sion Of $50 a month.
President Mckinley will recommend
rewards for naval officers who took
part in the hattie of Santiago.
Gen. Wood, governor of Cuba, has
freed 40 men who have been held
prisoners without adequate cause.
Governor-General wood of Cuba has
selected his new cabinet nnd his
selections meet with general approval.
Aguinaldos wife and sisters have
surrendered to Major March of the
United States army, at Bontoc, Luzon.
The government is believed to have
been robbed of from $4,000 to $40, 900
a day by frauds in Havana's custom
house.
Congressman Cooney wants con-
stitutional amendment to forbid the
admission of territory not contiguous
as states
Cheers for President Mckinley and
Governor General Wood were slgnifi-
cant incidents of a new year process
sion in Havana.
Native spies have informed Ameri-
cans that there are more than 1000
Filipino soldiers within a mile Of linus,
in Cavite province.
Filipinos plotted to throw bombs
among the foreign consuls at Gen.
Lawton's funeral, hoping to produce
International complications.
1t is probable there will be a COM
pete reorganization of the military
commands in Cuba, and the four de-
partments into which the island Is
now divided will be reduced to two.
Americans, while searching for Re-
carte, Filipino leader found ex
plosive bombs and quantity of arms
and ammunition in Manila residence,
said to have been placed there in an
ticipation of an uprising.
ne transport NlCJOIld is now 10
days out of San Francisco for Manila
and shipping men are fearing that the
vessel has gone to the bottom. She
carried a crew of ffty-two Europeans
and was valued at $150,000
Captain Concas, Admiral Cervera's
chief Of staff. has written his opinions
concerning the naval battle off San
tiago. He takes occasion to roundly
score his critics in Spain. incidentally,
he points out a few of Admiral Samp-
sons alleged misstatements.
In Havana a large crowd of negroes
gathered to demand the body of Gen
eral Dionisio Gill, the colored briga-
der, who was killed by the police after
he had wounded two of their number,
but after few shots were taken at the
mob IL 1iSDprSp1 in diSordar