Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1896 — FIRED ON FRIENDS. [ARTICLE]

FIRED ON FRIENDS.

SPANISH TROOPS SHOOT INTO EACH OTHER. Each Thonght the Others Were In* ■argents Seventeen Killed and Eighty-Four Wounded— Meeting at Midday. Blunder of Spaniards. Another terrible mistake attended with loss of life and resulting in many soldiers being wounded has taken place in Cuba. In some manner unexplained two columns of Spanish troops opened fire upon each other at midday. According to the few details received, the columns of troops commanded by Gen. Godov and Col. Holguin at Santa Rosa plantation, near Lsperauza, province of Santa Clara, mutually mistook each other for insurgent forces, owing, it is said, to the thickness of the sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire upon the other, and for ten minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of 17 soldiers, among them being Lieut. Col. Fuenmayer, of the vas battalion. In addition five officers and 84 soldiers were wounded. Two of the latter have since died, six others are mortally wounded, and 32 are seriously injured. Lieut. Col. Fuenmayer died while leading his troops on and shouting, “Long live Spain!” Owing to the fact that the meeting between the two columns took place at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and a courtmartial will follow. AUSTRALIA TERRIBLY SCOURGED Heat Waves, Fevers, Fires, Hurricanes and Earthquakes. The most violent climatic disturbances still prevail in the antipodes. A second heat wave sent the thermometer upward, the mercury climbing to a point never before readied. At Adelaide the temperature reached the highest point yet recorded, while at Melbourne deaths front heat, apoplexy and sunstroke have readied an alarming number. Numerous fires also took place, started by spontaneous combustion, and at all the factories double guards have been placed to prevent combustion through heat generating in closely stored goods. In the country large ranges of bush have been set on fire and surrounding settlements are threatened. At Alexander. Waterloo and Wagga typhoid fever is raging, the mortality being very great. The epidemic is caused by impure water, owing to the wells being dried up. At Melbourne the Typhoid epidemic has assumed alarming proportions: the fever watds in the hospitals are full and large numbers are turned away. MORTON BOOM LAUNCHED. New Y'ork Republican Delegates Pledged to the Governor. New York State Republicans held their State convention Tuesday, and the feature of the gathering was the speech of Seuator Parsons, of Rochester, presenting Leri P. Morton as a presidential candidate, and the subsequent election of delegates pledged to 11101. Following were the nominations: Delegates-at-Large, Thomas C. Phut, Warner Miller. Chauncey M. Depew, Edward Lauterbach; alternates. Hamilton Fish, G. 11. Babcock, Frank S. Witherbee, Daniel McMillan. The financial plank of the platform declares: “Until there is a prospect of international agreement as to silver coinage, and while gold remains the standard of the United States and of the civilized world, the Republican party of New York declares itself in favor of the firm and honorable maintenance of that standard.”

VENEZUELAN WARSHIP BURNFD. Eight of the Crew of the Mariscal de Ayacuche Killed. News has reached New York from La Guayra, Venezuela, of the burning last Sunday night, off Margarita, of the Venezuelan warship Mariscal de Ayacuche. Eight men were killed by the explosion. The remainder of the crew was rescued .by fishermen. Th# warship was burned to the water’s edge, but the hulk was saved and taken in tow to La Guayra. MRS. DRAYTON DIVORCED. » Decree Is Granted by Chancellor McGill for Desertion. At Trenton, N. J., Chancellor McGill filed a decree granting an absolute divorce to Mrs. Charlotte Augusta Drayton from her husband, J. Coleman Drayton, on the ground of desertion. Mrs. Drayton is the daughter of the late William Astor. None of the evidence taken in the ease is on file in the chancery clerk’s office, all being in the possession of the chancellor. Wants Cash Found in a Well. At Port Worth, Texas, Mrs. H. Adicock is about proceeding to recover $lB,000 found in a "well in Houston County, near Fort Valley, Miss., by a well digger. She claims her husband, a Confederate soldier, buried the money during the war, end; afterward being killed, did not reveal the hiding place. No Hope for Peace. Rome advices say that on account of the ■excessive pecuniary demands made by Menelek, it is improbable that peace will be concluded. Signori Ricotti and Itudini, who are in accord with the king, will refuse the payment of any money indemnity. Wants Resolntions Recommitted. Mr. Sherman gave notice in the Senate that he would move to recommit the Cu- . -ban resolutions to the conference committee.' -v-V-v * Certain Now, He Has Had Enough. twenty years of wedded life, a divorce, a remarriage and eight years ibote..of connubial bliss, Jacob Hoxie, of Sioux jCity, Itiwa, has again sued for a separation from his wife. He says if the court will grant his prater there will be so occasion >for its interference again. Will Not Admit Women. By a vote of 107 to 7 the Wilmington, Del., conference voted against the admission of women as lay delegates to the general conference. ißlaters Establish an Orphans’ Home* The buildings erected at Vermilion, S. D., several years ago by Rev. J. B. Garland, of New York, for use as an orphans’ home, have been sold to the Benedictine Sisters of the Roman Catholic Church, •nd will be supported for a similar purpose by the Roman Catholics of the State. Fatal Fend in Arkansas. A tragedy was enacted at Westville, Ark. Charles Foreman went to the store of John Holland, postmaster, to settle an Old feud. Foreman fired several shots and the postmaster shot him twice in the back, killing him instantly. Both were fOherokee citizens.