Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Page 6

TO MOVE ON HAVANA.

Ml BAN capital will be at* TACKED IN THE FALL. * Army of 150,000 Men to Storm : Blanco’* Stronghold—Shafter** Men Will Come Home for Heat Before the Decisive Fight* of the War. Miles Will Lead the Army. Fashlngton apodal: Gen. Miles as commander-in-chief, aidS id by Gens. Shafter. Brooke, Loe and I Jruham, with a combined force of 150,00 men, are to take the field against Havana in the fall. Meanwhile Shafter’s S »en will be recalled to the United States tor recuperation, three regiments from Campa going to Santiago to take their Hace, in company with the immunes now Shere. | “Gen. Shafter and his Fifth corps Will lake the field against Havana in the fall. Until then they will rest in the United States. As soon as the Spanish prisonin are well out of the way/Oen. Shafter, with the whole Fifth corps, will be ordersd back to the United States, perhaps tp Montauk Point, L. 1., or some such suitable place, where they will rest and recuperate, so as to be ready for the cam-

GEN. NELSON A. MILES.

paign in the fall against Havana.” This Statement was made by one of the trusted Counselors of the President. The statement was further made that not one of the regiments now in Santiago would be Went to Porto Rico; that it was thought by the administration that in all of them there was some danger of fever infection. But Gen. Shafter will remain until the vanish prisoners are disposed of, according to the plans of the Government. Many northerly camp sites are being tow considered by the Government, Sea Girt, N. J., among them. It may be necessary to bring more of the Southern troops north, but they will not be brought imless it is necessary. The Fifth corps «f hardened veterans is also to be put

DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF DEWEY'S SHELLS IN MANILA BAY.

* ’ The sketch from which this picture was redrawn was made by T. T. Jeans of | the British navy for the London Illustrated News. It gives a clear idea of the I tremendous execution of the American gunners on the Reina Cristina, Admiral i* Montejo’s flagship. It will be remembered that this ship was crippled by the | Olympia's heavy guns Apd was on fire before she reached the shore, where she ‘ sank in the shallow wmers of Cavite bay.

Into shape for the Havana campaign. The JPorto Rican army also will be by fall hardened to field and fire, and, together /with the Fifth corps, which will then join it, about 50,000 seasoned men will move upon Havana. (• This is now the plan of the administration. These 50,000 men will form the nucleus about which 100,000 more volunteers now in this country will be formed. By the fall these volunteers, it is expected, will be in prime condition, both as to equipment, arms and uniforms. If the ‘Porto Rican campaign is to be a deliberate one, the campaign against Havana is to be a more deliberate one. In order to relieve the regiments of the Fifth corps as soon as possible after the Spanish prisoners have been placed on jthe transports', Gen. Coppinger has been bordered to send three regiments from the ■Fourth corps, at Tamjai, to Santiago at bonce. The regiments designated are the Fifth Maryland. First Florida and Second Georgia. These regiments, with the Immune regiments already ordered thith«r, will be sufficient to hold Santiago and tire surrendered territory, and they may operate against Holguin and Manzanillo. It is likely that an attempt will be made to occupy both of these towns if health ■conditions favor, and Senor Quesada says <he insurgents will be active during the blazing the way for the great coming campaign. K Gen. Miles will be cbrnnfander-in-chief ■of the Havana campaign, and will start «in with two trained major generals in Miens. Shafter and Brooke. Lee will follow with another division, and Graham with the Camp Alger troops and the 2,(XX) mien left in Chickamauga will help make dip a grand total of 150,000 men. KILLS FEW MEN. "Yellow Fever About Santiago Is of a Mild Type. i A dispatch received by Adjutant Genveral Corbin says that 396 new cases of fever of all Classen were reported in his •camp before Santiago Sunday. As the dispatch reports only four deaths—and none of them from yellow fever—from among hundreds of cases of fever > 'known to exist in the camp, the war auMhorlties are more than ever inclined to ♦the belief that the cases of yellow fever

IT WAS AWFUL,

A Spanish Officer's Verson of the Fisht at Santiago. In describing the naval battle of Santiago after his arrival at Portsmouth the other day, Capt. Mashrohon, second officer of the Maria Teresa, said: “As we came out of the channel, we opened fire on the Brooklyn, and the Texas answered it, but her shot fell short. Otherwise she would have struck us, for it was a straight line shot. The Brooklyn and the lowa then fired, but neither shot hit. Again the Brooklyn and the Texas fired. The Brooklyn’s shell went into the admiral's cabin and. exploding, set fire to the after part of the ship. The shell from the Texas pierced our side armor and exploded in the engine room, bursting the main steam pipe. We signalled to the engineer to start the pumps, but got no reply, and then found that all below in that part of the ship had been killed. At that time shells were* bursting all around us, and the ship’s hull was being riddled below. Then, for the sake of humanity and to save life, we beached the ship. Just as our captain gave the order to haul down the colors he was struck by a shell and killed. Meanwhile the Vizcaya had run between us and the Texas and was then engaging three ships—the Brooklyn, Oregon and Texas. She made a desperate, but hopeless, fight. Now that we have learned that we lost between 800 and 1,000 men and the Americans lost only one man, it amazes us. It is incredible. We cannot comprehend it It does not seem possible. And yet we must believe it. Have we not seen with our own eyes the utter wrecks of our ships and how yours were not hurt, even the smallest injury, that we could see?”

DESTROYED HIS EAR DRUMS. Detonations from an Eight-Inch Gun Make a Lieutenant Stone Deaf. Among the patients on board the naval relief steamer Solace is Lieut. Harrison of the Oregon, the drums of whose ears were destroyed by detonation caused by the firing of an eight-inch rifle upon that ship. He was in command of a thlrteenincl: gun, and put his head out of a hatchway to get a breath of air, so that it was within a few feet of the mouth of a rifle upon the upper deck when it was fired. The concussion was so severe that he fell insensible, and it was several hours before he recovered consciousness. He is stone deaf, the membranes of both ears having been lacerated. EUROPE TO BE IMPRESSED. WatsonS Fleet Is Intended to Ferre as an Object Lesson. A Washington correspondent declares that the administration has a greater purpose in view in dispatching the eastern squadron to Spain than to make an attack upon the ports of that country. The real object is to impress Europe with the ability of the United States to form a squadron whose strength will be such «S to compel respect and prevent interference with

its plans in regard to the demands to be made upon Spain as to the price of peace. The squadron will be the strongest that can be gathered and will include all of the battleships, a large number of protected and auxiliary cruisers and perhaps the armored cruiser Brooklyn, although this is not definitely stated. It will be under orders to first proceed to the coast of Spain and destroy Camara’s fleet, after which it will bombard Spanish ports and harass Spanish commerce and, if need be, part of it will proceed to the far east should there be any question by a third Government of the disposition the United States will make of the Philippine Islands. DYNAMITE SHELLS IN CANNON. Process Invented to Throw Them by Means of Gunpowder. William S. Isham of the City of Mexico laid before the ordnance bureaus of the War and Navy Departments an astonishing proposition. He has invented a process by which shells charged with dynamite may be safely discharged from a piece of artillery by force of gunpowder, the shell bursting by impact. The ordnance officials were somewhat skeptical at first. They said that if Mr. Isham could successfully fire dynamite with gunpowder he could do something that nobody else had ever done. Mr. Isham insisted that he not only could do it, but had done it. He produced letters from the Mexican Secretary of War, Gen. Berriozabgl, and the United States minister, Gen. Powell Clayton, both testifying thot they had witnessed the experiments with the new process. i F panlsh Arms to Be Used. The ordnance bureau is busy with preparations for using the Mauser rifles captured from the Spaniards. It is probable that the Mausers will be used to replace the Springfield rifles, with which many of our volunteer regiments are at present equipped. Expelled .‘‘Yellow’’ Correspondents. Gen. Shafter has reported to the War Department that he directed the expulsion of the correspondents of a New York paper for placarding Santiago city with advertising posters, which bore the inscription, “Remember the Maine.” «

OUR SPANISH PRISONERS. They Presented a Pitiable Spectacle on Landing at Portsmouth. The Spanish prisoners captured by the American navy at Santiago rarived at Portsmouth, N. H., Sunday and the following day were taken ashore, where they are confined in huge barracks on Seavey’s Island. A correspondent gives this description of the landing from the St. Louis: The first prisoner to land was slender and about medium height, with a black beard. He wore two articles of clothing, a soiled canvas jumper and a pair of dirty canvas trousers. He was without hat or shoes, and looked with a curious, shifty glance at the oM farm house and apple trees which monopolized the land view. Behind him came the procession of prisoners. They were nearly all dressed in duck trousers and jumpers, although some had duck caps and a few blue shirts or ragged flannel coats. Nearly all were barefoot. As ttiey formed in irregular groups on the side of the steep mcline they looked like castaways. They were a thin, hungry looking lot. without baggage and generally with dark, unkempt beards. They did not seem dissatisfied With their lot. The spectacle whfch the captured Spaniards presented when they came ashore was so pitiful on the whole, that the Yankee crowd expressed good will and pity rather than hatred.

TORAL WILL BE TRIED. Madrid Government Gave the Spanish General No Instructions, Madrid advices say that the conditions of surrender agreed to by Gen. Total are opposed to the military code, and have created a painful impression in the army. Captain General Blanco repudiates responsibility for the capitulation. The ministers do not believe that the troops outside of Santiago were included in the surrender, and they anticipate that some of them will refuse to lay down their arms. Gen. Toral will be court martialed for surrendering Santiago to the Amer-

GENERAL PANDO.

icons, but it is not probable that he will be punished. The Government did not authorize the surrender, but instructed Captain General Blanco to leave the initiative to Gen. Toral. The military code prescribes imprisonment for life for any officer who surrenders the forces of fortified posts which, although dependent upon his command, are not included in the action causing capitulation. Total’s surrender will be submitted to the supreme military council. All the ministers repudiate responsibility for the surrender of Santiago and other places in eastern Cuba.

TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. It Han Been Such that Not a Single Cane of Blood Poisoning la Reported. As soon as a surgeon reaches a wounded man his first act is, to bathe the wound with bichloride of mercury and dress it with antiseptic gauze, and Dr. Van Reypen, the surgeon general of the navy, says that thus far in the-war not a single case of blood poisoning had been reported. Among the 450 wounded men at Fortress Monroe there is not one who is suffering from inflammation nor one whose wounds are discharging pus. The merenry kills all germs, keeps the lacerated flesh sweet and clean and causes it to heal rapidly. No lint is used in dressing; sterilized gauze is found much better in all respects. MANZANILLO BOMBARDED. Seven American Warship* Attack the Headquarters of Pando. Manzanillo, which is on the western coast of Santiago province, about ninety miles from Santiago, was bombarded Monday by seven American warships. Two Spanish gunboats—the Delgado and the Paraja—-resisted the attack and were set on fire by shells from the American vessels. The gunboats were burned to the water’s edge. Many.of tire Spanish sailors were killed by the explosion of the oh al ls

WILL CARRY THE WAR INTO SPAIN.

COMMODORE J. C. WATSON. The commander of the new eastern squadron and his captains.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.

In the Philippines the insurgents and Americans are acting independently. Heavy sentences are imposed at Chickamauga on sentries who sleep while on duty. A dude fights nearly as well as a cowboy, and a cowboy fights better than anything else on earth. The cruiser Eagle recently destroyed the large Spanish steamer Santo Domingo at Cape Francis. Gen. Aguinaldo, the leader of the Philippine insurgents, is fighting for annexation to the United States. The dynamite cruiser Nicthercy purchased from the Brazilian GoverShxent will be turned into a collier. Admiral Dewey is managing the Germans with great diplomacy and does not exi>ect serious trouble with them. Over 500 men are at work on the cruiser Yorktown at Mare Island navy yard, San Francisco, rushing her to completion. Orders have been received at the navy yard, Charlestown, Mass., to expend $lO,000 in repairs upon the old frigate Minnesota. Advices from Havana state that conditions are constantly growing worse and that shark meat is regarded as a dainty there. Nearly all the people of South American countries are in sympathy with Spain and refuse to believe stories of American victories. The repairs to dry dock No. 3 at the Brooklyn navy yard have been completed. It can accommodate the largest vessels in our navy. The I JDd Cross Society is feeding the people of Santiago, where thousands are destitute, the supply of food in the city being exhausted. Yellow fever is decreasing in the army at Santiago, though the sanitary conditions in the captured city are such as to invite an epidemic. Gen. Total may lay claim to a .high pinnacle of fame as being the only Spaniard up to date who had sense enough to know when he was trouneed. The Spanish steamer Panama, one of the first of the enemy’s vessels captured after war was declared, has been refitted for use as a transport. Gov. Lowndes of Maryland hns announced that the State will present a sword of honor to Commodore Schley, who is a native of Frederick County. Ex-Senator Don Cameron of Pennsylvania has offered to the Government for a Military hospital the free use of his fiw€ estate on the South Carolina coast. The United States Government will establish an extensive weather burbaw in the Caribbean sea for the use of all nations whose interests lie in that region. Pythians who would engage in active war service have beefl notified that their certificates of endowment and all claims thereunder will be considered null and void. During the naval battle at Santiago, in which Cervera’s fleet was destroyed, the Oregon alone fired 1,776 shells. The destruction caused by some of the shots was fearful. Captain McKettrick.

Captain William McKettrick, the man who raised the Stars ana Stripes over the palace of the conquered Santiago de Cuba, is a son-in-law of Gen. Shafter and a member of the general’s staff. Manila Ready to Give Up. Advices brought by the Empress of India indicate that Manila is ready to surrender. Intimations come from many sources that the military officials are willing to haul ddwn the flag, but that the civil and church authorities are opposed to capitulating. Output of F mokeless Powder. The output of smokeless powder for the Navy Department is steadily increasing, and the ordnance bureau is receiving more than 8,000 pounds daily for the big

PICTURE OF DEJECTION.

How Cervera Looked When He Arrived at Portsmouth. Of all the prisoners, writes a correspondent in detailing the events at Portsmouth, N. H., Sunday, when the Spanish prisoners arrived there on board the St. Louis, chief interest centered in Admiral Cervera. He is not Spanish in type, being short and thick and wearing a full gray beard. He was the picture of a brave, resolute man enduring a misery that is unbearable. He spoke slowly, and in referring to the events at Santiago gaye the impression that he would have wished to be with the gallant but dead Villamil. He speaks English to some extent. Admiral Cervera was dressed in a blue serge undress uniform, the coat of which was much too long for him. It was loaned by Lieut. Commander Wainwright of the Gloucester, who foupd him swimming in his undershirt and took him into a boat. He appeared to feel his humiliation terribly. During the trip north he was accustomed to stand for hours leaning against the rail and gazing very far sealward—beyond the vanishing point, as it appeared. Every officer and man on the ship lost no opportunity to show their kindly feelings. From the yotingest sailor to Capt. every American, by look, aet or word, did what lay in hl» power to lighten the sorrows of this old maVg heart.

SLAPPED SHAFTER. Newspaper Correspondent Gains an Unenviable Distinction.' Sylvester Scovel, who has won for himself the unenviable distinction of being the only civilian in history who slapped the face of a major general hi that officer* s hour of supreme triumph, is a newspaper reporter who is possessed of undoubted daring and recklessness. ' Mr.

SYLVESTER SCOVEL.

Scovel tried to push his way, against orders, to the roof of the palace in Santiago when the Stars and Stripes was being hoisted, and was forced back. After the ceremony he made his way to Gen. Shafter and struck that hero in the face with his palm. He was arrested at once, and the rules of war allow that he may be drumbeaded and shot. -POISONED WITH HASH. . Fifteen Soldiers at Camp Al arer Expected to Die. Fifty-five men of Company A, 22d Kansas infantry, at Camp Alger, were poisoned by eating hash. The meat used in making the hash was cooked in a tin-lined kettle. The corroding kettle spoiled the meat, and is ascribed as the cause of the violent sickness experienced by the'men. Surgeon Duncan diagnosed their affection as a severe case of ptomaine poisoning. Fifteen of the men are seriously ill and are not expected to live. SAD HAVOC IN HAVANA. Disease and starvation Decimating Spanish Soldiers, ' Starvation and disease are working dire havoc with Blanco’s soldiers in Havana. Refugees from Havana reiterate and confirm the tale of suffering. Food for the poorer people is scarcely obtainable,' deaths from starvation occur daily, while the Spannish soldiers stalk famished through the streets, going from house to bouse of the wealthier class begging for food. ■ ’ „ ' EXPEDITION REACHES GOMEZ. Spaniards Resisted Landing at Tunas and Were Whipped. Reports from the south coast of Cuba say that the first attempt of the Florida and Fanita to land troops and supplies for Gomez resulted in a sanguinary battle, and Captain Nunez, brother of CoL Nunez, and several others were killed. The Fanita returned the fire and forced the Spanish artillerists to retreat to tbe woods, but it was decided not safe to land there, and the boats went to Lag Tunas, where a landing was effected . ... v. r '

PLEADS FOR PEACE.

OVERTURES MADE BY AMBASSADOR GAMBON. Eagasta Realizes that War Is Hope* lea* for His Country—Terms Not Sug-gested-Host: lit lea Are to Be Con* tinned Until Spain Gives Up. Spain on Her Knees. Washington special: x Poor old Spain is on her knees at last, bogging for peace. She has had enough of war and cries quits. She has laid aside her Castilian pride and approached the White House as a suppliant. She has lost her hau. htincM and assumed a proper spirit of humility. She has not had the presumption to suggest terms. She has humbly asked whether the President will deign to discuss terms of peace and end a war disastrous to Spain and full of glory fol the United States. The Madrid authorities have finally realized that it is useless to keep the Spanish people longer in ignorance of the actual results of the war. The fulminations of bombastic Blanco have come to be regarded at their true worth in the capital of the peninsula. They have ceased -o delude even a small portion of the Spanish people. Premier Sagasta, appreciating the utter hopelessness of the situation from his standpoint, comes now holding out in one hand the olive branch, while with the other he presents.a petition for clemency to President McKinley. There was an important conference at the White House Tuesday afternoon. The participants in that meeting, tvhich is likely to become famous in history, were President McKinley, Secretary Day, M. Cambon, the French ambassador, and M. Thiebault, the first secretary of the French legation. The conference lasted for more than an hour, and when it adjourned the American Secretary of State made the following official announcement: “The French ambassador, on behalf of the Government of Spain and by direction of the Spanish minißter*‘of foreign affairs, presented to the President this afternoon at the White House a message from the Spanish Government looking to the terBsinatioa of the war and settlement of terms of peace.” When it became known throughout the eity that Spain bad formally sued for peace there was more excitement in diplomatic and administration circles in Washington than there has been at any time since the news came that Santiago had surrendered to the American forces. The indication* from Madrid are that Spain will try to negotiate peace, on the basis of the independence of Cuba. That proposition will be met with the demand that Spain shall withdraw from the Western hemisphere, where her government of colonies has been so ruinous and cruel as to engender strife and anarchy. She must withdraw from both Cuba and Porto Rico. As to the Philippines, the administration is ngt qeady to declare its policy or formwlatero demand. That will depend largely upon the situation at Manila after the surrender, and on public opinion in this country. . ° There will be no armistice pending any negotiations that may be entered upon. The campaign in Porto Hie© will be pushed with the same vigor. Gen. Miles is in Porto Rico, and the American flag has be<»n"unfurled there. That campaign will continue. The war there will be waged until Spain surrenders the island and withdraws her army. Porto Rico must be under the dominion of the Stars and Stripes and remain there. No peace negotiations jjjl be considered that do not concede that island to the United States in part payment of the indemnity which Spain must pay for this war. It is suspected that Spain made this sudden move to check the Porto Rico campaign. If so it will be a flat failure.

KAISER 18 FRIENDLY. Send* Message to the President A taunt the Philippines. President McKinley received a message from Emperor William of Germany which is understood to be of a highly gratifying character, in view of the disquieting rumors of German action at Manila. The message was communicated to the President by the German ambassador. It was read to the cabinet, and was considered to be of such importance that its tenor has been guarded with unusual care. All that is known of it is that it was satisfactory, and leaves the impression that the situation at Manila, as far as the Germans are concerned, may be left to Admiral Von Diedrichs and Admiral Dewey, without the necessity of the German or the United States Governments taking up the case in mutual representations. COURT-MARTIAL FOR SOLDIERS. Riot in Camp at Jacksonville to Be Rigidly Investigated. At Jacksonville, Fla., several members of the First North Carolina and First Wisconsin regiments are in the guard honse, under arrest, and will probably be court martialed for participating in a riot which nearly caused bloodshed in the eamp. The trouble began when a North Carolina soldier broke through the Wisconsin ranks and started a fight. Comrade# of the Southern soldier came up with rifles and were met with loaded arms by the Wisconsin men. The free fight, in which heads were cracked and many blows struck, was brought to an end by the Second Virginia regiment interfering. WILL REORGANIZE THE FLEET., Auxilary Vessels to Be Kept Available for Service. When the naval auxiliary fleet goes out of commission it will be in such shape that if at any time in the future it should be needed again it can be placed in ser- s vice at forty-eight hours’ notice. Captain J. R. Bartlett, its chief, is anxious to thoroughly reorganize the service, and this is about the only reason the fleet is being kept up. SPANISH DESERTERS GIVE UP, Say a General Feeling of Despair Prevails Among the Enemy. The United States gunboat Castine brought to Key West three deserters from the Spanish gunboat Aguila. These men are Spaniards and their desertion and voluntary surrender to the American forces is perhaps the best indication of the existing state of affairs in Cuba. Bad treatment, poor food and the general de■pair prevailing in the Spanish naval force caused tfieir desertion. 1 1 re I .» y* .