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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1898
Page
2
Dispatch from Guantanamo Cuba reports two nights of hard fighting by the Marine Battalion with the flag still flying over the encampment. Marines exhausted and unable to rest as relief troops approach, fleet guns protecting them from Spanish attacks near Santiago de Cuba.
A. N. Wilson of Barr Warcbar Maine has designed an aerial camera for battlefield use to capture distant land views at night or in thick weather from vessels offshore. He has corresponded with Secretary Long and is encouraged to perfect the invention for the Navy.
Washington special notes that by week’s end General Shafter is to land about 15 000 US troops in Cuba and begin the siege of Santiago. Also reports Spain’s fear of uprisings and Cervera’s possible attack on Havana as US forces grow. A coal mine disaster in Wilkesbarre, Pa. leaves ten miners badly hurt and damage to the shaft.
Six hundred marines pitched tents amid burning ruins as the American flag rose over Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Capt Clark and the battleship Oregon led the first successful landing with 400 marines before Panther arrived with 1,000 troops under Lieut Col Huntington. The force cleared the Spanish camp, set fires, and began advancing up the hill to seize the fortifications while awaiting reinforcements.
The War Department publishes extracts from its bureaus detailing contracts for transportation, ordnance orders, rations, engineer operations, and all records showing provisioning of the army since the war began. It includes Gen. H. V. Boynton’s dispatch refuting claims that Camp Thomas is unhealthy and that troops suffer from food, clothing, or water.
Marines under Lieut. Col. Huntington defended the outer harbor approaches at Guantanamo as Spanish guerrillas and regulars attacked from a hilltop position. Reinforcements from the Marblehead arrived after a long siege with four Marines killed and one wounded. The action began with minor skirmishes near the camp and escalated to a main assault at midnight, which was repelled with heavy rifle and machine gun fire.
The Navy Department ordered Admiral Sampson to inform Admiral Cervera that if he destroys his four armored cruisers and two torpedo boat destroyers to prevent capture, the United States will demand indemnity at least equal to their value. It has long been feared he might scuttle rather than surrender, but officials hope to deter this by the indemnity argument.
British cruiser Talbot reports flour famine and general food scarcity in Navana after reaching Kingston from Havana. Havana’s starving populace mobs a well stocked baker who refused to honor contracts once the blockade began. Blanco's troops remain unpaid and hungry with only the smallest rations for over nine months.
The army plans to abandon Tampa as a camp for regulars and volunteers. Orders direct Gen Coppinger to move remaining forces to Jacksonville or Fernandina for embarkation to Porto Rico. Gen Lee’s command at Jacksonville will depart simultaneously for the same destination. Surgeon General Sternberg warns Yellow Fever menace in Cuba and Santiago.
The new war revenue bill, signed Monday, taxes many business lines. It imposes annual license taxes on bankers brokers importers of tea and tobacco, manufacturers of flour and cigars, public show proprietors, pawnbrokers, brewers, cigar makers, and more, with stamp taxes on bonds, notes, deeds, and various commercial documents.
Preliminary returns indicate total spring and winter wheat acreage around 3.5 million acres above last year with 16.8 million acres planted for spring wheat and 215.2 million acres winter wheat. States including Minnesota Nebraska North and South Dakota Oregon and Washington show gains, while conditions for spring wheat reach near record highs, and winter wheat prospects remain strong with high averages across multiple states.
The United States farmers surpass prior records with fiscal year exports likely to top 835 million dollars. Agricultural products lead this surge, with breandstuffa exports near one million dollars daily and total agricultural exports well above 800 million. A substantial year over year gain is reported, signaling strong international demand for farm goods.
A public auction in Key West offers prizes from several vessels including Steamer Argonauta and Brig Frisgalta with cargoes of rice flour beans codfish sugar sardines vermicelli and macaroni cigars steel bundles mineral water beer canned goods paper and wine. Also the cargoes of the listed vessels including numerous sacks of rice flour beans and other provisions will be sold at the same time.
A naval intelligence report outlines Russia plans for a vast canal linking the Black and Baltic seas. The project would shorten transit by rail and sea, enabling rapid concentration of forces. The canal would span about 1080 miles by river, 125 miles of artificial construction, with an estimated cost near 97 million dollars.
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