Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1898 — WAR BULLETINS. [ARTICLE]

WAR BULLETINS.

Henry Watterson’s sons have enlisted. Spain has sent troops into Porto Rico from Cuba. Gen. Blanco has practically abandoned the minor cities of Cuba. ' The St. Paul has been ordered to sea for scouting duty. A thousand Johns Hopkins students have enrolled for military service. The Spanish torpedo boat destroyers continue cruising in the straits of Gibraltar. The harbor at Key West is so full of prize ships that no more can be accommodated there. The Philadelphia cemetery association

offers to fill the graves of militiamen killed in the war. The Treasury Department has‘ordered the Saturnina, Spanish, seized in Bolixi harbor, released. The naval prize court began its sittings at Key West Wednesday. Proceedings are secret. A dispatch from Manila says the Spaniards have captured the American bark Saranac, loaded with coal. Work on the old monitors is being rapidly pushed to completion at League Island navy yard, Philadelphia. The four-masted American .ship Shenandoah, reported captured by’ the Spanish, arrived in Liverpool safely. The accident to the Cushing was the first serious breakdown she has experienced in her nine years of service. A Worcester’ (Mass.) foundry has just secured a Government contract for making 10,000 shells of 3.6 caliber. The French residents of San Juan sought refuge on board the Frenclj cruiser Admiral Rigault de Genouilly. Famine and smallpox are killing men, women and children in Porto Rico. The conditions in the interior are horrible. Yokohama journals urge Japan to consent to America buying Japan’s two cruisers now building tn the United States.