Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — FROM THE FRONT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM THE FRONT.

Lieut. Carranza is mysteriously missing from Montreal, Que. A great military hospital under tents is to be established at Fort Monroe. Steamer Valencia, with 700 Dakota troops, sailed for Manila Tuesday. Commodore Schley’s flying squadron has been merged into the fleet under Admiral Sampson. Government paymasters arrive at Chickamauga Wednesday with money for the volunteers. London journals speak in highest praise of the bravery shown by the United States troops in Cuba. A balloon ascended from the American camp and made a reconnoissance of the enemy at a considerable elevation. It was published in London that the United States has purchased five ocean liners of 7,000 tons each in Europe. Flans are being hurried to move the First army corps, ordered South from

Chickamauga, and Gen. Brooke is to command. Weather bureau officers left Galveston to establish stations along the Caribbean Sea, to notify the fleet of approaching storms. A force of 30,000 men is to be kept constantly on our Southern coast to serve a« re-enforcements for our troops in CubcJ if needed. It has been decided at Washington that no war revenue stamps are needed for money orders, the extra charge being made at the time of issue. It is reported from London that the Spanish Government is preparing to send additional troops to Porto Rico by the fastest steamers available. The War Department has instituted * system of bulletins for the benefit of the pnblic, giving quick and concise information of importhnt happenings. The London Daily Mail says that the United States must hold the Philippines to prevent a wild scramble for coaling stations among the European powers. The Attorney General of Great Britain has ruled that in evicting the Spanish spies from Canada the Canadian government is not liable to be sued for damages. The defenses of Santiago are characteristically Spanish, consisting, as they do, of lines of barb-wire fence back of which arc rifle pits and then block houses or forts. An island known ns the Marcus of Weeks, between Honolulu and the Philippines, flies the United States flag and has been offered to this country as a coaling station. k White at Honolulu an American flag was presented to the cruiser Charleston by the Queen Dowager Kapiolani of Hawaii, in token of friendship for the United States. The Madrid story that the South and Central American republics are about to form an alliance against the United States is pronounced absolutely false by diplomatic representatives of those countries in Washington. Peace or war Is the all-absorbing topic at Madrid, and the desire for peace on any terms seems to be unanimous among the masses of thef people, as continuation of the war will practically result in national destruction. It is reported from Madrid that Premier Sagasta is planning to provoke a crisis, form a military ministry, proclaim the whole of Spain in a state of siege and appeal to a friendly nation, prohaMy France or Russia, to secure terms of

BRIGADIER GENERAL LAWTON. Commanding the Second Division of Shafter’s Army the first to laud.