Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — SPAIN WILL SUBMIT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPAIN WILL SUBMIT.

Sagasta’s Cabinet Accepts the Terms as Dictated. PEACE IS ASSURED. Belief that the End of the War Has Practically Beea Reached. Principal of the American Condition* Acceded To by the Spanish Government Answer Is Forwarded to Washington Through Phria—Labors of Mixed Commission May Delay' Actual Signing of the Treaty, bnt the Preliminaries Are Full of PromiseHostilities May Cease Immediately. Madrid special: Spain accepts conditions of peace set forth by the American Government and only the peace details are needed to cause all hostilities to cease at once. The wwr is now over, so far as the two countries are concerned, and a peace delegation will be chosen at once to confer with the representatives of the United States. The peace conditions set forth by President McKinley were discussed at length Tuesday by Premier Sagasta and the cabinet, and at the conclusion it was given out officially that the terms of the United States would be accepted. Their only reservation was with retard to the method of putting the conditions in force. Spain is in the mood to grant everything, and merely hopes to save herself some slight degree of humiliation. The news of the Sagasta cabinet’s determination to accede to the American demands was permitted to leak out, evidently with the intention of testing the temper of the people. The populace, wherfe not apathetic, seemed heartily glad that the strain is OTer.

TOOK TWO TOWNS.

Stars and Strines Raised Over Arroyo ana 6uayama. Arroyo and Guayama, two Porto Rican towns, were seized Tuesday and the American flag hoisted by Captain Goodrich of the St. Louis. A detachment landed at Arroyo from the Gloucester and the Wasp and met with no opposition. After entering the town and placing it in charge of his men he moved on to Guayama, four miles west. Here he found that the Spanish troops had abandoned the place several days before. Guayama mny be used as a supply depot for our troops. SPANISH MALTREAT WOMEN. Troops Burn Property and Bhoot Down Porto Ricans. Spanish troops retreating to San Juan left behind them a path of ruin and desolation. Angered beyond control by the American Invasion, the Spaniards wreaked vengeance on the inoffensive natives by burning property and maltreating women and children. In many instances the natives were shot down in cold blood. Gives Wheeler Credit. A correspondent of the Associated Press sayß that but for Gen. Joe Wheeler the American forces would have retreated

from before Santiago on the evening of July 1. He was advised to do so by many brave regular army officers, but he replied: “No, the Spaniards are worse off than we are. Pass that word along our lines.” Colonel Compelled to Beg. . El Heraldo de Madrid says that Don Pedro Verdie, a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish army, has been compelled to stund on the street corners in that city and beg for alms in order to keep his wife and children from starvation. He commanded a regiment in Cuba, and, having been severely wounded, was sent home. Being unable to collect his pay, he was reduced to beggary. War Assessment Is Levied. The fraternal beneficiary order, the United Workmen, has issued a call on each full-rate member for a war assessment of 50 cents to provide for payment of the certificates of members who have died or may die in the service of the United States during the waravith Spain. Bpapish Prisoners Escape. Eleven Spanish prisoners overpewered their -guards and escaped from the Santiago jail. The Cubans claim the keepers, who were also Spanish, set the prisoners free. News of Minor Note, Lieut. Hobson says the cost of raising the Spanish warships at Santiago will be about $500,000. were picked up injGuanijg-go bag near Santiago, by 0&e jfptaipi W|]2»jpkd*r at Rome says the vVar will continueif the United States pearists in holding Porto Rico. Sickness Lb on the increase among oar •oldienl at some of the regiments having a sick list numbering hundreds. *

PREMIER SAGASTA.