Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department is rushing supplies to Admiral Dewey. Twenty thousand six-pounder shells were shipped from Norfolk the other day. ( The State Department has received informal notification that Austria-Hungary is about to raise its legation in Washington to the rank of an embassy. This Government will reciprocate by advancing the rank of the American legation at Vienna. The American reply to Spain’s refusal to give up the Philippines sets forth that the demand for the island is in lieu of partial indemnity for the cost of the war to the United States, estimated at $165,000,000, and that Porto Rico was not enough. Admiral Schley, having asked again for sea service, has been promised the command of the European squadron, which will be re-established in a short time with some of the finest cruisers in the navy, to exhibit the American flag creditably .to the European nations. Gen. Miles’ report, now made public, covers his connection with the war from its inception to its close. His story is told in great part by dispatches, consecutively arranged. A large part of the report, however, is made up of an account of the movements of Gen. Miles at Tampa, at Santiago and in Porto Rico.