Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — Leaves Cuba for China. [ARTICLE]

Leaves Cuba for China.

The Second battalion of the Fifth United States infantry, Maj. Borden commanding. left Santiago, Cuba, on Monday for New York by the transport McPherson. The companies at Guantanamo and Baracoa were taken aboard en route. The officers have been told to prepare for a hard winter campaign. All the men, a dispatch says, are enthusiastic at the prospect of service in China. The Cuban Constitutional Convention elections will be held l about Nov. 15.