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AMERICAN SQUADRON Reported Repulsed While Attempting to Land at Porto Rico. HURRYING TROOPS FORWARD — Secretary Long Sends Admiral Dewey the Vote of Thank* Passed by Congress. Third Brigade Failed to Get Away From Chickamauga as Expected—Japan’s Warships Receive Orders. Madrid, July 20.—A private dispatch i from Sail Juan; Porto Rico, says a strong American squadron has appeared before Bahia Honda, but that the American attempt to disembark was repulsed witli considerable loss. [General Miles was expected to arrive off the coast of Porto Rico Sun-! day night or Monday morning. News | from him not expected before this i evening.] HURRYING TROOPS FORWARD. War Department Exerting Itself on the | Porto Rican Expedition. Washington, July 26.—The war department was busied yesterday hurrying the dispatch of tbe remainder cf Miles' expedition against Porto Rico. Such progress was made that it is hoped all of the troops will be on Porto Rican soil within a week at latest. General Miles is not expected to defer his lauding until that time, but presumably will pick out a suitable place for encamping his troops and establish himself ashore, awaiting the arrival of the other detachments now on their way. War department officials expect that the first news received from General Miles will come through the press dispatches, as the general has not with him, so far as is known, any dispatch boats. It was expected at the department that General Brooke and General Haines would sail yesterday from Newport News to join Miles and that most of General Brooke’s command would be embarked by tomorrow. The work of embarkation at Hampton Roads is being conducted with much less difficulty and delay than was expected. Tbe secretary of war has ordered all of General Grant’s brigade, 3,000 men, from Chickamauga to Newport News. It is not expected that all of the transports required for their accommodation will have arrived there by the time the I soldiers get in, but they will be en-1 camped on suitable ground there and it is believed will be benefited by the change from Chickamauga, Secretary Long has forwarded to Admiral Dewey the joint resolution of congress extending the thanks of congress for the victory achieved at Cavite. The resolution was beautifully engrossed and prefaced by a formal attestation of its authenticity by Secretary of State Day, the whole being enclosed in richly gilt and ornamented Russia leathei covers. The letter of Secretary Long is as follows: Navy Department, ( Washington, July 25. 1898. j SlK —The department has received from the secretary of state an engrossed ami certified copy of a joint resolution of congress. tendering the thanks of congress te you and the officers and men of the squadron under your command, for transmission to you, and herewith encloses the same. Accompanying the copy of the joint resolution the department received a letter from the secretary of state requesting that there be conveyed to you his high appreciation of your character as a naval officer and of the good judgment anil prudence you have shown in directing affairs since the date of your great achievment in destroying the Spanish fleet. This I take great pleasure in doing, and join most heartily, on behalf of the navy department, as well as personally, in the commendation of the secretary of state Very respectfully. John D. Long, Secretary. Rear Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy. Commander-in-Chief ol United States Naval Force, Asiatic Station New Fever Cases at Santiago* Washington, July 26.—The war department has posted the following: Santiago, July 25, 1898. Adjutant General United States Army, Washington.: Number of new fever cases on the 24tli instant about 500. At least 450 returned to duty. Actual figures will be given hereafter. Notwithstanding figures situ ation seems somewhat improved. Ont death, Sergeant J. Larnnen, Troop C, Third cavalry, yellow fever, Siboney. Shafter. JAPANESE WARSHIPS. Comnmuder Instructed to Co-operate With | British aud American Admirals. Loudon, July 26.—A special dispatch from Shanghai says the Japanese warships Washino. Chiu-Ye, Itsukushima and Sai-Yen have boen hastily dispatched to Saeseho to reinforce the Japanese squadron there, making it the strongest in those waters. It has been ordered to co-operate with the British and Americon admirals in the event of international complications. While the dispatch does not explain the matter, it is inferred the squadron is desired to be in readiness for 1 hil-' ippine operations. Carlist Exodus From Spain. London, July 26.—The Pans corvesnondent of the daily News says: ’The prefect of lower Pyrenese reports a Carlist exodus from Spain. Saint Jean de Luse. Bayonne and Biarritz are alive with Carlists. The prefects of the Pj ■ | renese have been ordered to place certaffi Carlist chiefs under surveillance, and to notify the French government it any organization for giving arms ammunition is discovered.

bakbedwireinwar' HOW IT DIDN’T STOP SHAFTER’S ADVANCE ON SANTIAGO. Spaniards Thought to Catch Yankee Troops In a Yankee Trap, but They Reckoned Without the Yankee Wire Cutter — Cubans Vied Machetes. It is likely that General Linares did a heap of chuckling when he fortified the approaches to Santiago with American barbed wire and reflected that American troops would bo caught by an American device. Linares isn’t doing much chuckling today. He has learned that Yankee ingenuity was not exhaust- '' V"* /Mv‘ HOW WE DESTROYED LINARES’ BARBED WIRE TROCHAS. ed when it invented barbed wire. The brain that conceived the poison alsc brought into existence an antidote. Barbed wire and wire cutters came into use in the United States about the same time. It seems that the Spaniards heard of the barbed wire a long time before they learned of the wire cutters. It is a thorough education we are giving the Spaniards, hut a somewhat fatal one. For months before war was declared one of the chief imports from the United States into Cuba was American barbed wire. Tons and tons of it were sold toWeyler by enterprising Yankee firms. It was understood that he was using it to strengthen his alleged trocha. Not until Shafter’s advance lines began the march toward Santiago was it realized that the crafty dons had conceived the brilliant idea of using American barbed wire against American troops. No less than nine lines of barbed wire, strung in a series of concentric circles about 150 feet apart, xvere drawn around Santiago. Behind this thin but formidable looking defense were dug the rifle pits. The outer line was a complete circle but the inner ones were made with openings in them, so that the Spaniards might have outlets if a retreat was found necessary. I suppose the wise dons concluded that the Americans would rush blindly against that barbed wire and impale themselves like so many pigeons on a spit, there t > wriggle until they had been filled ’'all of Mauser bullets. But, like so many other Spanish plans, this one went sadly aglee. Just why the Spaniards should suppose that any American wouldn’t know a barbed wire fence when he saw it no one but a Spaniard could tell. Th3 American troops did recognize the barbed wire in spite of its unfamiliar surroundings, and they didn’t rush on it at all. Shafter just sent back a burr order for many thousands of wire cutters. With these unique implements of warfare he armed his skirmish line, and when the advance came up to a barbed wire fence they used their pliers dexterously for a minute or two, and, 10, the trocha was wiped out! No less than 5,000 of these cutters have been distributed among Shafter i troops. The cutters have three sets of knives, any one of which will cut through any kind of wire which the enemy has strung. The cutters are ten inches long and have a plier attachment on the end, so that after the xvires have been cut they can be dragged out of the way. The Cuban war offered the first opportunity for the use of barbed wire. The charge of the Cuban cavalry was so \\ w- - ’a A NEW IMPLEMENT OF WARFARE, destructive to the Spanish that the latter hit upon utilizing the modern barbed ■wire fences of the plantations to insure additional protection to their trochas. The same weapon, however, which made the charge of Cuban cavalry so terrible, the machete, rendered tbe barbed wire fences of no avail as against the Cuban infantry. One blow of the machete will sever a wire fence as easily as a cutter will. Over in the Philippines the Spanish also have corraled their defenses with barbed wire, and so we have sent to our army in the faroff south, seas cutters to spoil the game of the enemy. We, too, have sent barbed wire there to enable our forces to hold against the Spanish whatever places they will take. Capmix T. B. Francis.

FIGHT OF BRAVE MEN CAPTAIN THOMAS TELLS OF ROUGH RIDERS’ DARING DEEDS. Captain Capron, Dying, Watched the Fighr. Sergeant Dell, Painfully Wounded, Fought On—“I Am Wounded,” Was AH Hamilton Fish Said When He Fell. Captain John R. Thomas, Jr., of Chicago, who had charge of Troop L of the rough riders after Captain Capron was killed, was the first of the wounded soldiers who arrived on the Olivette the other night to reach New York. He was met cn board the Olivette by his father, Judge John R. Thomas of the United States court, Indian Territory, and Miss Thomas. Judge Thomas had obtained a leave of absence for his son from the secretary of war. Captain Thomas told an interesting I story of the fighting of the rough riders, j “I am sorry,” said he, “that I did not have a chance to see more of the fighting, but what I saw was of the warmest kind. On the 24th of Juno I was with Troop L at Quasimas under Captain Capron. We formed the advance guard and went out on a narrow trail toward Siboney. On the way we met some of the Twenty-second men, who told us that we xvere close to the enemy, as they had heard them at work during the night. Captain Capron, with six men, had gone on ahead of us and had come across the body of a dead Cuban. Ten or fifteen minutes later Private Thomas Isbell of Indian Territory saw a Spaniard in the brush ahead of him and fired. This was the first shot from our troop, and the Spaniard fell dead. Isbell himself was shot seven , times that day, but managed to xvalk back to our field hospital, which was I fully four miles in the rear. He was I painfully but not dangerously wounded | and is now on the hospital ship City of [ Washington suffering from a badly in- i , jured thumb. "It has been said that wo xvere am-1 , bushed, but that is not so. Poor Cap-1 tain Capron received his death wound [ early in the fight, and while he was lying on the ground dying he said, ‘Let me see it out; I want to see it all. ’ He I lived an hour and 15 minutes after the bullet struck him, and up to the mo- . ment that ho fell had acted fearlessly and had exposed himself all tho time to , tho enemy’s fire. “I was then next in command of the ! troop, and I noticed that some of our men lay too closely together as they were deploying. I went down tho line ; ordering them to their proper distances, ‘ and as I passed along poor Hamilton ' Fish was lying, mortally wounded, a few feet from me. When he heard my voice, Fish raised himself on his elbow and said, ‘I am wounded, I am wound- , ed. ’ That was the last I saw of him in I , life. He was very brave and was very popular among the men of the troops. “Sergeant Joe Kline of Troop L was wounded early that day, and was order- ' ed to the rear with several other wound- , ed men. On his way to tho rear Kline discovered a Spanish sharpshooter in a tree and shot at him. The Spaniard fell dead, and Kline picked up a silver mounted revolver which fell from the dead man’s clothing as a souvenir, which he highly prizes. Several of the Spanish sharpshooters had picked up , cast off clothing of the American soldiers, and they wore these while they were at their deadly work. “Sergeant Dillwin Bell of our troop, who is a son of M. E. Bell, supervising architect of the treasury at Chicago, was badly injured from an exploding ■ shell while on the firing line. Ho was ordered to the rear, but quickly came back again. He was ordered away a second time, but a few minutes later he , was to the front again firing away. For a third time he was sent back and once more he insisted on going to the front, and when the other men saxv him they ■ greeted him with rousing cheers, and he fought till the end of the day, although painfully wounded in the back. "1 cannot speak too highly of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. He is every ' inch a fighter and led a charge of dis- ' mounted cavalry against men in pits at San Juan successfully. It xvas a won-1 derful charge and shelved Roosevelt’s I grit. I was not there, but I have been told of it repeatedly by those who saw the colonel on the hill. Colonel Leonard Wood, who is now brigadier general, walked up and down the firing line in the first fight in the most fearless manner, all tho while giving commands to his men. Ke was absolutely fearless, and, though very much exposed, escaped without injury. After the first fight xve found a number of Spaniards on the field and in the chapparal, but they were all dead. Our men shot well and most of their bullets took effect “While lying in the hospital I heard a young man named Hall of Carlisle, Pa., who belonged to the Twenty-sec-ond infantry, tell a story which will illustrate better than anything else the accuracy of the American shooters He and five other men had crossed a bend in a road to get some water in their canteens. As they got into the open they were attacked by 32 Spanish cavalrymen, who cut them up badly with their sabers Hall was the only one who was not killed. He was badly trampled by the horses and had some saber wounds on his body. Later on Hall was picked up by some comrades, to whom he told his story. These men located the Span- ! iards who had done the work and opened j fire on them. When they had ceased firing, there were 30 live horses, two I dead ones and 32 dead Spaniards This ] was pretty good shooting, wasn’t it?” i Captain Thomas while he spoke was nursing his right leg, which was bandaged up. He was wounded in the first fight at La Quasimas when the fight had lasted but two hours. He was struck in the right leg with a Mauser bullet and was unable to take an active part in rhe fighting after the first day. —New York Herald.

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NEGRO CAVALRY. Praised For Their Bravery at La Ouasina by a Regular Army Officer. The arrival of a number of sick and wounded soldiers at Fort Monroe has brought in no real news, for everything of that nature had been well covered by the official and newspaper correspondents, but the comments of some of them, as reported, are interesting. One noncommissioned officer of the regulars is quoted as paying a high tribute to the negro troops. “Iwas standing near Captain Capron and Hamilton Fish, ” he remarked, “and saw them shot down. They were with tho rough riders, and ran into an ambuscade, though they had been warned of the danger. If it had not been for the negro cavalry, the rough riders would have been exterminated. I am not a negro lover. My father fought with Mosby’s rangers, and I was born in the south, but the negroes saved that fight, and the day will come when General Shafter will give them credit for their bravery. ” —New York Evening Post. The Revolutionary war cost $135,193,703 and 30,000 lives: the war of 1812, $107,159,000 and 2,000 lives; the Mexican war, $74,000,000 and 2,000 lives; the Indian wars and other minor wars, $1,000,000,000 ami 49,000 lives, and the war between the states, $8,500,000,000 and 544.000 lives

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