Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1898 — GARCIA IS ACTIVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GARCIA IS ACTIVE.

The Cuban Leader Occupies Gibara, Near Santiago. i SPANIARDS EVACUATE THE lOWN. They Leave Their Sick and Wonuded Behind —Geu. Lawton to Command the New Army Department of Santiago. Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 11. —Lieut. Col. Jane, of Gen. Calixto Garcia’s staff, has just arrived from the front with dispatches announcing the occupation ■ of Gibara, on the north coast of the 1 province of Santiago de Cuba, by Gen. Garcia’s troops. Gibara was evacuated i by the Spaniards. They left :t thousand sick and wounded, who are beingtaken care of by the Cuban commander. Gen. Garcia,with 8,000 troops, is besieging Holguin, now occupied by the Spanish general, Lugue, whose sur- 1 render has been demanded. New Army Department. Washington, Aug. 11. —A department , of the army, to be known as the de- j partment of Santiago, was created j Wednesday night. Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton is assigned to its command. 1 Brig. Gen. Wood will continue in com- j mand of Santiago city. Gen. fihafter returns to this country w'ith the Fifth | armj corps. He will be in command j until he departs. Sent to New Campa. Washington, Aug. 11. —Adjt. Gen. j Corbin ha 3 issued the following state- j

ment: The secretary of war has ordered one division of the Fifst army corps from Chattanooga to Knoxville, Tenn., and another division of the same corps from Chickamauga to Lexington. Ky. A division of the Fourth corps, now at Tampa, has been ordered to Huntsville, Ala. The Second division (Gen. Davis’) of the Second army corps, now at Manassas, Va., has been ordered to Middletown, _ Pa. The advisability of marching the "troops from Chickamauga to Lexington is under consideration. The movement of these troops is in accordance with the plans of the war department to break up the large camps and spread the troops about the country. Says We Were Repulsed. Madrid, Aug. 11.—An official dispatch received here from San Juan de Puerto Rico says: American forces returning from Guanamo attacked the heights of Guanamo. A guerrilla force under Maj. Cervera kept up a continual Are for an hour and held the position, the enemy’s attack being ultimately repulsed. We suffered no loss. The enemy’s losses are not known. The village of Gamao has been attacked by a largely superior force, and had to be abandoned. Our troops are retreating. Sailed from Santiago. Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 11. —The Spanish hospital ship Alicante sailed for Spain Wednesday with 1,000 sick Spanish soldiers on board. The Spanish steamer Isla de Luzon arrived here and will take 2,135 Spanish soldiers. She has bed capacity for 230 sick. The St. Louis sailed north Wednesday with the Ninth and Tenth infnntry. Help for Cen. Merritt. Washington. Vug. 11. —Gen. Mcrritt’k force in the Philippines is to be increased by the 7,000 troops now at San Francisco, which will be sent hb soon as transports can be obtained. Secretary Alger said Wednesday that 2.0(H) troops would "tail at once. The department has not sitfficient transports at hand to convey the remaining 5,000 at present, but the secretary says with those already arrived and on the sea, together with the 2,000 which are to leave San Francisco at once. Gen. Merritt will have a force of 18.000 and there will be no hurry for the embarkation of the remaining troops The department has had an offer of two ships to transport the troops, but considered the price asked excessive and it is probable the return of the transports that first went to Manila will be awaited. The secretary cabled Gen. Merritt asking him when it was expected the transports would return

j to San Francisco and if they are Jtke- ' ly to reach that point within three weeks, their return will be awaited, as | it will take at least that length of time to get new transports in readiness to 1 carry troops. Many Victims of Typhoid. I Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 11. —Five privates, i all volunteers, died Wednesday.of ty- , in the general hospital at Fort McPherson. Their names are: Charles W. Allen, company M, Second 1 New York; Elmer Childers, company M, Second Kentucky; Charles W. Baker, company C, Second New York; Charles Morrison, cotapany D, Second New York; Benjamin Bourne, company A, Third Ohio. There are now 018 patients in the big hospital here. Of these 400 are suffering from typhoid fever. Tampa has sent 250 typhoid patients, 158 came from Chickamauga and 160 from Fernandina. UrKtiiiu at Cuyon River. Coamo, Puerto Rico, Aug. 11. —(Via Ponce.) —Troop C, of New York, pursued the party of fleeing Spanish engineers. after the capture of Coamo, a distance of four miles along the road to Aibonito. The Americans were checked at the Cuyon river, where the Spaniards had blown up the bridge, and were shelled from a Spanish battery on the crest of Asoninte mountain. The dismounted cavalry returned the fire, receiving no damage and holding the position. A battalion of the Third Wisconsin volunteers came to ‘their support. Gen. Wilson’s column is resting, repairing the bridge and reconnoitering the enemy’s position." There are formidable gorges on either side and the Spanish works are on the crests of mountains commanding the road. The Spaniards have several guns mounted, among them two

machine guns sent back into the cduntijy from the torpedo boat destroyer Terror at San Juan.' These positions it will be difficult to flank. All the men wounded in Tuesday’s fighting will recover.

MAP OF MANILA AND ITS ENVIRONS, SHOWING THE SCENE OF THE FIGHTING JULY 31 AND AUGUST 1 AND 2.