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LITTLE BULLETS There is no truth in the report that Chile has sold the armored cruiser QHIg gins to Spain gns General Miles will probably proceed to Santiago within the course of a week the exact date not having been determined A Spanish dispatch from Santiago de Cuba asserts that 3 of General Shatters troops have been attacked by the black plague Jesus Ascevedo a Porto Rican who arrived at New York from St Thomas was arrested on suspicion of being a Spanish spy Lord Wolseley commanderinchief of the British army has joined the Anglo American committee which is aiming to cultivate an entente 1 The central committee of the German Red Cross society appeals for means to send assistance to both sides in the HIspanoAmerican war It Is believed that the steamers Peru City of Pucbla Acapulco and State of California wi constitute the lotirui expedition I ex-pedition to the Philippines BiJjradier General R T Frank will be promoted shortly to the grade of major general and assignd to command a division divi-sion of the trQop operating agaInst the Spaniards in Cuba A dispatch received from Montevideo Uruguay sars the authorities there on the request of the Spanish government have sent to Cubaa quantity of Sanarelli serum fever to be used In combating yellow Captain Duval the army purchasing commissary at StLouis has sent 17 carloads car-loads qt canned tomatoes to Tampa whence they will be taken in transports I to supply troops on the way and those alreaay on the island of Cuba I Four Wyoming volunteers were left behind be-hind when the transports sailed from San Francisco on account of illness They are Harry Wells of company G W H Hplden company H Arthur Parker company G and Henry D George Governor Richards makes the statement state-ment that 10 per cent of the population I I of Wiominp of military age is now in j the army Wyoming has furnished three I times the number or men lecuired under i i j I her quota Ths is the best showing made j I I I I i by any state In view of the continued improvement I j of the military position of the United States the Russian newspapers are changing their lone to friendship for America and now speak with contempt of Spain the reason being it Is alleged the growing fear of a possible Anglo I American alliance I General Miles has also issued an order I 1 in accordance with the following regulations I regula-tions of the army regulations No ensign I en-sign steamer banner or other colors I I other than the colors prescrIbed by the I 1 I j army regulatons will be used by the I army or by any regiment or by any I I organization thereof I organizaton I i Three companies of the Eighteenth I Pennsylvania volunteers have been sent to watch for Spanish spies in the straits I that connect the waters of Lake Superior I with those of Lakes Michigan and Huron I The three companies are under command I of Major John C Kay and his orders require I re-quire nim to keep a strong guard about the locks nlcht and day I Senator Deboe and Mr Latham Anderson Ander-son of Kentucky called on the president in the interests of Mr Anderson for an army paymastership He Is a son of an exgovernor of Kentucky and a nephew of Major Anderson the hero of Fort Sumter He was not entirely successful but went away with the expectation that his services may be called for later I The sending of delicacies to the army will no longer be encouraged by the war department as I has been found that I such delicacies for troops in the field are injurious rather than helpful The secretary secre-tary of war suggests that donations of this character in future be sent to the hospitals1 only and that the surgeon general gen-eral of the army be consulted as to where they will be most needed I |
