Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1898 — WAR BULLETINS. [ARTICLE]

WAR BULLETINS.

There are believed to be only 13,000 Spanish troops in Porto Rico. It is said that the populace of Manila is reduced to eating horseflesh. Spaniards in the Canary Islands live in dread of bombardment by the American fleet. The wonderful submarine torpedo boat Holland has been bought by the Government. , The war has caused an Immense * decrease in first and second-class ocean travel. A dispatch from London says Queen Victoria favors an alliance with the United States. Marine insurance companies are greatly agitated over Spain’s new threat of privateering. France is worrying over the possibility of an alliance between Great Britain and the United States. All our revenue cutters have been under fire in Cuban waters and have proved their great usefulness. Several of the cannon captured at Manila will be sent to Annapolis Academy to be added to the trophies. A high fence has been erected around the Carpenter steel works at Reading, Pa., as a further protection from spies. The Philippine insurgent chief Aguinaldo has issued a proclamation to bis followers nt Manila to obey the orders of Admiral Dewey. To maintain an army of 200,000 men for six months will cost $30,000,000, according to estimates prepared by Paymaster General Stanton. Our troops in Florida are hampesed by lack of water and how to supply the transports that will convey them to Cuba is a serious problem. The American cable companies in Landon have issued instructions to |beir agents to refuse to transmit any Spanish Gswernment messages. Tampa is 250 miles from Havana. The transports can land troops near the latter eity in twenty-four hours after sailing from the former rendezvous. A United States cruiser is said to hare had a narrow escape from destruction in Hampton Roads by a floating mine cut adrift at night by Spanish spies.

Before Dewey’s arrival at Manila the Spanish fleet bombarded Cebu and massacred about 100 natives at Tonde.a suburb of Manila. - A strong detachment of troops has been detailed to guard the United States powder works, near Dover, N. J., against Spanish spies. The talk of an Anglo-American alliance seems to have had a marked effect in Europe. Friendship for the United States is now being displayed by powers which before were believed to be intensely hostile to this country.