Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Roosevelt's rough riders are to be mustered out of service. Maj. John A. Logan is seriously ill with Cuban fever at his residence in Ohio. Howard Gould sent a check for SI,OOO to the Seventy-first New York regiment. The American postal system is to be extended to Porto Rico as rapidly as possible. Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler will continue in command of the'reguStr cavalry Under Gen. Shaft or. Gen. Brooke is in command of American troops in Porto Itico during the absence of Gen. Miles. Six new eases of yellow fever have developed at Santiago in Col. Sargent's Fifth immune regiment. Capt. Sigsbee lias been detached from the command of the St. Paul and ordered to command the battleship Texas. Secretary Alger and Gen. Corbin have asked the President to order a thorough investigation of the War Department. In an address to the rough riders at Camp Wikoff Col. Roosevelt urged his men not to |>ose as heroes and martyrs. On taking command of tha North Atlantic squadron, Commodore Philip was saluted with eleven guns at the Brooklyn navy yard. Unless his regiment can go to Cuba William J. Bryan lias signified bis intention of resigning his command to take part in the fall campaign. Eggs are selling for 25e each in Havana, and provisions generally are very scarce, notwithstanding that vessels now arrive daily with supplies. The real objective point in Gen. Merritt's return to the United States from Manila, it is rumored, is to get married to a lady in Chicago. Before his departure for Spain Gen. Toral visited Gen. Shaffer at Santiago and bade him farewell in a cordial and impressive manner. The attitude of the Philippine Insurgents is daily becoming more alarming and more troopa iVil! bo sent to Manila to the aid of Gen. Otis. About 500 American Hebrew families are preparing to emigrate to Porto Rico as soon as the United States Government will permit them to do so. Japan is anxious to buy the Ladrone Islands, whidh the United States captured from Spain recently. She wants them on account: of their fishing resources. A Manila dispatch says that the cruisers Olympia and Raleigh have goue to Hong Kong to lie docked. Admiral Dewey has transferred his flag to the Baltimore. The Auxiliary cruisers St. Louis, St. Parti, Yale and Harvard have been transferred by the Government to their owners, the International Navigation Company. , ,i , The United States iron cruiser Alert, noiv dn the Pacific const, is to be modernized and made thoroughly servieeabto at FraI * • *£fljf ni£h bwinfi"s"of Havana fovor she ahneifntion of Cuba to the United Siatei |*tort than the setting up of an independent government under the Cubans.