Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — WOOD WILL HAVE COMMAND. [ARTICLE]

WOOD WILL HAVE COMMAND.

Former Governor of Porto Rico to Be Supreme In Cuba. Despite his not being officially known as the “civil governor” of Cuba, Gen. Leonard W ood, according to a W ashing - ton correspondence, will be invested with all the powers of that office. He will be military governor, in sujireme command of the island. In the absence of insurrections or trouble his duties will chiefly be civil. He is to have the rank of major general aud outrauk the army officers who remain under his command. President McKinley will make several promotions to brigadier generalships in the regular army. Gens. Lee and Wilson are to be thus favored. - Gen. Wood displayed fine administrative abilities while in charge of the medical departments. He refused $30.01*0 a year to act as superintendent of a street railway company in Washington in order to go to Cuba. His headquarters will soon be established in Havana.