Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1899 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gen. Lawton in his flanking expedition to the northeast met some difficulties. The chief of these is the inaccurate map, many roads o® it not being in existence. Gen. Otis finds it impossible to maintain telegraphic communication with Gen. Lawton. Small bands of the enemy cut the wires as fast as the signal corps can erect them. Gen. Joe Wheeler will not go to the Philippines. That has been definitely decided. He will probably be placed in command of the department of Texas, which is to be revived. A Spanish prisoner brought into the American lines states that Gen. Hale’e brigade inflicted terrible losses on the Filipinos during the fight at Quingua. He says that more than 200 Filipinos were killed in the fight. The three brigadier generals who will go to the Philippines are Gen. Fred Grant, who is now on his way from Porto Rico; Gen. Bates, recently military governor of Santa Clara province, Cuba, and Gen. S. M. B. Young'. Official dispdffhes from Manila say that ths Spanish garrison at Baler continues to hold out against the insurgents. Gen. Otis declined to accept the proposal of Gen. Rios to send Spanish troops to the relief of the beleaguered garrison. He decided to send an American force to rescue the Spaniards. At Pnlilan, a few miles east of Catampit, Wheeler’s troqp of the Fourth cavalry, while reconnoitering, encountered a small body of insurgents, who failed to return the Are of our soldiers. Instead they raised a white flag, and in the parley which followed explained that thdy had strict orders to stop fighting pending the negotiations for bn armistice; The Americans gate theta half an hour to get away. Another ernsade against sparrows has been inaugurated in Boston, the victims this time being the feathered tenants of the new South Station. It seems that great numbers of the birds have built their nests in the network of steel in the traiashed, and as fast as the nests are destroyed they are rebuilt. A few of the wiser sparrows have invaded the peak of the tower, and there they will remain until some device whereby they may be removed shall have been found. „ , A burglar in Detroit stole the piano and a stove tram the house he robbed.