Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1899 — ON HIS WAY TO MANILA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ON HIS WAY TO MANILA.

“Fighting Joe” Wheeler Is Now Bound for the Philippines. Gen. Joseph E. Wheeler stopped in Chicago a few hours en route from Washington to the Philippines on a mission the exact nature of which he says is unknown even to himself. “I am ordered merely to report to Gen. Otis and do not know what I shall have to do when I get there.” In answer to a direct question Gen. Wheeler stated that he did not know the

strength of Aguinaldo’s forces and that the published reports of our officers in Manila did not state them. He said that no doubt these officers and officials in Washington are well informed, but he had never had a conversation with any official in Washington on the subject and was quite ignorant as to the extent of their information. Gen. Wheeler was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Annie Wheeler, who goes to the Philippines as a Red Cross nurse without pay.

GENERAL WHEELER.