Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1898 — WAR NEWS IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

Gov. Pingree has offered to shoe Michigan soldiers. Gen. Blanco lias given notice to all correspondents to keep out of Cuba. Mr. Knight, the London Tinies correspondent, lias been released from Havana. An auxiliary mo>rtar fleet will probably lie organized to bombard Havana fortifications. Advices from Gen. Garcia of the Cuban

army indicate that he has 10,000 men in his command. Spain will issue a perpetual interval debt on a thousand million pesetas to secure creditors. Forty Krupp guns have been smuggled from Germany through France into Spain as kitchen furniture. The French cable running from Cuba to Hayti has been cut by the crew of a United States naval vessel. Congress has passed a bill providing for the establishment ot post offices at military posts and camps. The commanders of Admiral Dewey's ships have been promoted for bravery at the battle of Manila. Owing to the difficulty in shipping horses so far, it is likely that no cavalry will be sent to the Philippines. William A. Pinkerton, the famous detective, has been called into Government service to hunt down Spanish spies. It is reported that large quantities of arms and ammunition are being sent across the Pyrenees from France to Spain. It is reported that United States Ambassador White is much pleased at evidences of strict neutrality on the part of Germany. , Michael O’Connor Roche, of Company G, Seventh Regiment, Illinois National Guard, died at Springfield Tuesday of pneumonia. British Colonial Secretary Chamberlain thinks an alliance between the United States and Great Britain is certain in the near future. France is disturbed by the misguided attack of Paris newspapers on thej United States and by fears of an Anglo-Ameri-can alliance. The United'States hospital relief ship, now undergoing transformation at the Brooklyn navy yard, will, when finished, be the first boat of the kind ever put afloat.

Mrs. L. Z. Leiter of Chicago has purchased the Crawfish Springs Hotel at Chickamauga aad will 'present it to the Government to be used as a military hospital. President Love of the Philadelphia branch of the Universal Peace Union has issued an explanation of the letter of sympathy sent by him to the Queen Regent of Spain. The converted yacht Wasp, doing scout duty off Cienfuegos, Wednesday night entered the harbor and discovered three Spanish war ships, believed to be a part of Cervcxa’s fleet. .

HARBOR OF MATANZAS.

STREET SCENE IN SANTIAGO.