Show LITTLE BULLETS Twentylive British bottoms have been Offered to the war department for transport trans-port purposes Governor Richards of Wyoming will remain re-main IP i fcn ranclsco until the troops from that state leave for Manila With the addition of SCO recruits for Minnesota 150 for Iowa and 10 men of the Astor battery the force of troops at Camp Merritt has been Increased to 12 200 I 200The development of diphtheria and cerebrosplnal meningitis at Camp Merritt is causing considerable alarm There are also a number of cases of I pneumonia In the hospital The Spanish prize steamship Panama which was captured by the light house tender Mangrove off Havana April 25 was sold at auction at New York and was purchased by the government for 41000 The Sixtyfifth New York Seventh Ohio and First New Jersey regiments returned to Camp Alger after staying over night across the rer on a practice march They were attacked on their way back by the First Now York cavalry which captured cap-tured several wagons Both the United States and Spain have accepted the proposals Switzerland made two months ago that the belligerents should adopt throughout the duration of hostilities the additional articles of the Geneva convention extending that convention con-vention to naval warfare The extent to which the Cubans have been exposed to action is shown by the report reaching the navy department that 30 wounded Cubans have been placed on the Solace at Santiago This is believed to be considerably more than the wounded from the American marines No distinction distinc-tion will be made between Americans or Cuban army or navy Jn the relief which the Solace is able to extend relef C 1 a |