Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1898 — WAR BULLETINS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WAR BULLETINS.

Germany, it is declared, will not interfere in Manila. The cruiser Newark may be the flagship of a new flying squadron. Col. Torrey’s troops of cowboy cavalrymen will probably go to Porto Rico. Spanish ministers declare their country will not agree to an exchange of prisoners. James Hobson, a brother of the hero

of the Merrimac, is a candidate for West Point. It was again announced at Madrid that the Spanish reserve squadron had sailed from Cadiz. There have been seven deaths among the soldiers at Camp Alger at Falls Church, Va. The officers in command of the Porto Rican expedition will be Gens. Coppinger, Lee and Keifer. The Queen Regent of Spain has offered to abdicate, if such a step will allay popular discontent. Illinois troops in camp at Jacksonville

took a prominent part in the dedication of a Confederate monument; Correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, London, who visited Cuba, says stories of starvation are unfounded. Fresh calls for men for the army are constantly being made in Spain, and reenforcements are being hastened to various points. The Spanish torpedo boat destroyer Terror is reported to be in San Juan harbor, Porto Rico, utterly useless, pn account of burned boilers and a lack of means to repair them. Dr. Chan, a Chinese physicinn of Cleveland, Ohio, offers to organize in this country a regiment of Chinamen and to convert the Chinese of the Philippines into allies of the United States. ♦ A claim tor $200,000 waq sent to the War Department by Adjutant General Reece of Illinois, being the amount expended by the State for the arms and equipment of its troops.

SANTIAGO AGAIN UNDER FIRE. Fortifications Crashed and the Vizcaya Struck by a Fhell. Rear Admiral Sampson’s fleet bombarded the batteries at Santiago de Cuba for the third time at daylight Thursday morning. For hours the ships pounded the batteries at the right and left of the entrance, only sparing El Morro, where Lieut. Hobson and his companions of the Merrimac are in prison. The western batteries, against which the main assault was directed, were badly wrecked. One gun was utterly destroyed. In others many guns were dismounted. At first the Spaniards replied passionately and wildly, but impotently. Then most of the guns were deserted. Not a ship was struck nor a man injured on the American side. It is believed that the enemy's loss of life was heavy. It is reported from Madrid that “a shell from an American warship, falling from a great elevation, struck the Vizcaya, which, owing to its excellent armor, was not damaged.” As a preliminary to the hammering given the batteries, the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius at midnight was given another chance. Three 250-pound charges of gun cotton were sent over the fortifications at the' entrance. The design was to drop them in the bay, around the angle, back of the eminence on which El Morro is situated, where it was known that the Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were lying. Two charges went true, as no reports were heard—a peculiarity of the explosion of gun cotton in water. The third charge exploded with terrific violence on Cayo Smith. The destruction andAleath at the western batteries must have been appalling. OPPOSES RELIEF EXPEDITION. General Miles Says Military Is Needed for Other Purposes. There is decided opposition in the War Department to an expedition for the relief of the reconcentrados. Gen. Miles does not lend his support to the proposition, and he is said to have urged against the project at a White House conference. If supplies must be sent to the starving Cubans, it is Gen. Miles’ recommendation that steamers be chartered for the trans-

portation of material and the work of distribution be intrusted to the foreign consuls in Cuba. This is a mission, he holds, which could be discharged in all propriety by the representatives of neutral governments in the districts where succor is needl'd. War Department officials arg united in the opinion that this is not an opportune period for using the military in any such humanitarian pursuit. Blockade Is Maintained. Admiral Dewey reported to the Navy Department that he was still maintaining the blockade at Manila; that the rebels are making remarkable progress; that the city is entirely surrounded. He reports the rebels have taken 2,500 prisoners and are treating them humanely. Allotment by Btates. The allotment by States under the second call for troops was issued from Washington, based upon the proposition of filling out the regiments now in the field before other regiments are organized.

ADMIRAL CAMARA. Commander of the Spanish Fleet at Cadiz.

‘‘WRITING HOME TO MOTHER.” A familiar scene at Chickamauga.