Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1898 — Page 2

Elirgikt (Bounty Jkmotral ——--— tt. M«C. STOOPS,, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG* • - INDIANA The Portuguese government has authorized the importation of 60,000,000 kilogrammes of foreign wheat. The official wheat returns for New South Wales, covering the season just ended, show that 992,484 acres yielded 10,548,288 bushels. It was reported on the London stock exchange, on tpe 30th, that President Kruger of the Transvaal republic had been shot and killed.

Dr. A. Mo.viK Lesser, surgeon-in-chief, and Sister Bettina, head nurse of the Red Cros i society, who went to Cuba to assist Miss Clara Barton in establishing h nspitals there, returned to New York oa the 30th. Far Senator tion in the sen the conditions the president, steps to drive military forces K introduced a resoluite, on the 29th, reciting in Cuba and directing a his discretion, to take the Spanish naval and from the island. ——■ » Failures th reported by week ended A pared with 26t week last yeaf. urea were 23, Senor Sa»4 mier, in an dared he wool 4 ble to maintain “we cannot su the honor or i -oughout the country, as [>un <fc Co., during the pril 1, were 220, as coinfor the corresponding For Canada the failinst 42 last year. aira sta. the Spanish prerview, on the 31st, de“do everything possipeace, but,” he added, Nmit to any attack on ntegrity of the country.” TltE flying squadron is to remain in Hampton roa is, for the present at least. This announcement was made, on the 1st, by Secretary Long, and aet at rest the reports which had been current that a run was imminent. movement of the squadfir The most serpre earthquake felt in California sin 130a occurred on the 30th at 11:43 n. m. Considerable damage was done at many points. At Mare Island navy yard alone it reached 8130,000. Fortunately, though there were many narrow pseapes, no fatalities occurred. There wasj general rejoicing and sheering among the Spaniards in Havana, on the Spth, when they read the censored abstract of President McKinley's message accompanying the Maine report. Its niild tone was interpreted to |»dicate fear of Spanish resentment. 1'hk secretaj on the 30th, feenor Don M< minister pleni States, in pi liana, trausfei new minister few weeks. y of state wAs informed, of the appointment of lavicuna as the Chilian potentiary to the United of Senor Don Domingo red to another post. The S expected to arrive in a The administration at Washington received a communication direct from the Cuban insurgent government, on the 1st, asking- the United States government not jtjo intervene with force; the leaders feeling confident that they ieir independence without could gain th the sacrifice cfj American lives. The mcmlx of the Unite'l rs of the graduating class States naval academy it Annapolisj Sfd., have been ordered to prepare for final' examinations and in the 9th. Under ordinary conditions they would not graduate until Jupe. They will be assigned to duty iminydiately after graduation. It is announced from Havana that Lieut.-Col. B^aedicto, who commanded the Spanish forces which killed the insurgent leader Arangurea, while visiting the house of Dr. Francisco Vidal, at Guanabackm. has been wounded by a revolver shot in the back. The colored man who fired the shot succeeded In escaping.* Sccu members of the national guard as are employed in the Chemical national bank of New York city can answer a call to active service, in case it comes, without worrying over their positions and salaries while away. The bank will hold their positions for them and continue their salaries daring their absence. \

A Spanish column commanded bj Col. Escario. in the district of Manmanillo, province of Santiago de Cuba, had, it was announced by the Spaniards on the 30th.destroyed, during the pending three days. 94 farms, a sugar cane mill, a coffee plantation, some barracks and two hospitals. In addition Col. Escario's troops captured six insurgents.' The Spanish legation in Washington received full reports, on the 31st, from Capt.-Geu. Blanco, from the governors of all the provinces of Cuba‘and from the alcaldes and chiefs of police of the principal cities, as to the condition of the reconcehtrados. The worst accounts are not denied, but the effort is made to place the responsibility upon the insurgents. The case of the United States against Wong Kim Ark was decided in the United States supreme court, on the 23th, Justice- Uiray handing down the opinion of the. court, affirming the decision of the United States district court of California The decision confirms Wong Kim's citizenship because of his birth in this country, though of Chinese parentage. The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures during March shows that the total receipts were $32,938,750, a loss of about $3,000,000 as compared with March, 1897. The expenditures during the aame month aggregated $31,832,444, an increase of nearly $3,000,000 over March, 1897. This increase is largely due to the expenditures under the recent appropriation for the national defense.

APRIL—1898. Sun. 10 17 24 II 18 25 Tm. 12 19 26 ltd. 13 20 27 Thai 14 21 28 Fit 8 15 22 29 Sat 16 23 30 CURRENT TOPICS. THE HEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 28th, the president's message transmitting the findings of the Maine court of inquiry was received. Throughout the reading of the message and the findings of th. court there was not the slightest demonstration. At the close of the reading Senator Money (Miss.) obtained the floor and delivered a speech upon his recent observations in Cuba and his deductions therefrom. The death of Bepresentative Simpkins, of Massachusetts, was announced and the senate immediately adjourned_In the house one wave of applause swept from floor to celling upon the completion of the reading of the president's message, and then, the death of Representative Simpkins being announced, the house adjourned. Is the senate, on the 2S*th, Mr. Allen (Neb.) introduced a resolution recognizing the independence of the Cuban republic; Mr. Rawlins offered a resolution declaring war against j Spain; Mr. Foraker introduced a resolution for independence of Cuba, and Mr. Frye submitted ! a resolution demanding that Cuba be made j free. Mr. Mason (III.) obtained the floor and delivered his announced speech on the president's message, at the conclusion of which “4 | private pension bills were passed. After eulo- j gies on the late Senator Earle, of South Carolina. the senate adjourned......In the house the day was spent in consideration of private bills, no opportunity being afforded, under the I rul^s, of debating the all-absorbing topic. The I bill to pay certain claims for stores and supplies furnished to the Union army by loyal citizens of the south during the war was amended { and passed.

In the senate, on the 30th. the foreign relations committee was granted permission to sit during se>sions>of the senate. Mr. Allen's resolution for the recognition of the independence of Cuba was referred without debate to the foreign relations committee. Mr. Caffery (La.) concluded his speech on the national quarantine bill, after which the measure for the ciril government of Alaska was pas ed.... In the house Mr. Bailey attempted to pass a resolution recognizing the independence of Cuba, but the members of the majority refused to support him. the speaker himself tpaking an appeal from the chair to his party associates to stand firm. The only important Qction on the naval bill was the refusal of the chair to sustain a point of order against the provision for a floating dock for Algiers, La. | In the Senate, on the 3tst. most of the session was consumed in a discussion of the Cuban question, after which the sundry civil appropriations bi]l was taken up and 35 pages of it t\ere disposed of before adjournment: Tv.-.In the house, the naval appropriation bill being under consideration, a heated discussion of the Cuban question was precipitated and occupied much of the session Little progress was made with the naval bill; the only Important'amendment adopted being o&e appropriatlnfUOO.O'O for the erection of a new building for the naval academy. In the senate, on the 1st, nearly the entire session was held behind closed doors considering the resolution reported, on the 31st. from the committee on foreign relations for the acquisition of the Danish West India islands. The*resolution was finally withdrawn..In the house, after a turbulent session of six hours, the naval appropriation bill was passed. Provision is made for 12 torpedo boats. 12 tor-, pedo boat destroyers and* three battleships. The house adjourned until the 4th.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A Washington dispatch of the night of the 29th said that the president had sent a note to Spain demanding the independence of Cuba and insisting upon an immediate answer. The Madrid Pais, of the 30th, said that orders had been issued to mobilz e all the Spanish war ships, and that a second torpedo squadron was being prepared for sea at Cadiz. Ex-I^resident Benjamin Harrison left Indianapolis, Ind., for New York on the 30th. He went on legal business, and it was not his intention to visit Washington. The members of the New York cottop exchange voted, on the 30th, not to suspend business on Good Friday. The weekly statement of the bank of France, issued on the 31st. showed the following changes as compared with the previous account: Notes in circulation, increased 134.075.000 francs; treasury accounts current, increased. 21,925,000 francs. Gold in hand, decreased, 5,425,000 francs. Bills, increased, 221,150,000. francs. Silver in hand, increased, 1,300,000 francs. > Spain's reply to the propositions submitted by the United States was received by the president on the night of the 31st. Spain will not entertain the demand for the independence of Cuba; will not agree to a cessation of hostilities, and submits a counter proposition. The reply is not positive in its. nature, but smacks throughout of a desire to secure further delay. It was reported in London, on the 31st, that Japan had asked the United States to join Great Britain in supporting Japan's refusal to withdraw from Wei-Hai-Wei after the payment of the Chinese war indemnity, in view of the possibility of Russia seizing that port.• Because Bertha Aspiegle would not marry him, Wm. Hillman, a farmer, of Munhall township, near Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 31st, shot and killed her and then eut his throat with a razor. The girl was 15 years old, and refused Hillman on account of her youth. Inspector op Police Michael J. Schaack. of Chicago, who gained a world-wide reputation through his work in the Haymarket anarchist case, was reported, on the 3lst. dangerously ill with pneumonia. Slight hopes were entertained of his recovery. Steve Brodie, famous for his jump from the Brooklyn bridge, died, on the 31st, on a train at Adrian. Mieh. He had left Chicago suffering from congestion of the lungs, hoping to reach his home in New York. Ma.ny applications are being received at the engineer's office of the war department from small towns along the coast for the erection of som.* means of defense to withstand the assaults of foreign ships in the event of war.

The Madrid El Liberal of tbe 31sl said: “The moment of the denoument has drawn much nearer. There may yet be found means to delay matters, but we doubt it.” Li Huso Chang has been invested with full powers to proceed to Port Arthur to delimitate the territory recently released to Russia by China. Every ship in Capt. Sampson's squadron, off Key West, is in such shape that | she can be under way, with steam up and loaded guns, in one mir ate aftei ; orders are received. Every ship- is I cleared of all impedementa and i crammed with coal, provisions and am* munition up to the limit of her capacl* ty. Everything has been done but to declare war.

William K. Vaxderbii.t has decided, in the event of war with Spain, to prosent to the' United States government a warship to cost 35,000,000, following | in the footsteps of his grandfather, the I commodore, who, during the civil war, presented to President Lincoln the steamship Vanderbilt, valued at Si,* 000.000. Mrs. Elizabeth Ottex, who had lived the life of a hermit since the death of her husband. 14 years ago, was found dead, on the 31st, in her home in Chicago. The police found in the house deeds to Chicago and St. Louis property worth several hundred thousand dollars. Gov. Black of New York, on the 31st, in an emergency message, asked the legislature for a contingent war fund, and both houses promptly and unanimously passed a bill appropriating Si.OOO.ixi) for that p urpose. Although Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee. has been assigned to serve as naval aid to Secretary Long, the president has assured the captain that he will be given a first class command afloat as soon as one is available. A special cabinet meeting was held, on the 1st, beginning at five o'clock. All of the members were present except Secretary Sherman. An adjournment was taken at 6:20 and the announcement made that the only business under discussion was the president's forthcoming message to congress. The bill for the purchase of the Danish islands will pot be pressed any further, as it was apparent to its friends in congress that it eould not pass until after long debate. It has been practically withdrawn. The Spanish minister had a conference, on the 1st, with Judge Day. No new propositions were submitted, and no perceptible change in the situation resulted from the conference. Xhk Empire Transportation Co. announced, on the 1st, that it had added td its fleet of boats for the Yukon river four steamers and four barges which li had purchased from Morgan Bros. & Co., of Seattle. These boats, with those building at the Crescent shipyards, at Elizabethport, N. J., will give the Empire line a fleet of IS river boats and barges. In the Ohio legislature, on the 1st, a bill was introduced appropriating 31,000,000 to put the state of Ohio on a war footing, and a contingency fund of 350,000 for the use of the governor in case of war. The Iowa legislature, on the 1st, before final adjournment, passed a bill appropriating 3500,000 as a contingent fund in case of war. The Spanish cruisers Vizcaya and Almirante Oquendo left Ilavan, on the 1st, presumably to meet the torpedo flotilla at Porto Rico. The Spanish torpedo flotilla arrived at Porto Rico on the 1st. There was great rejoicing at Madrid on receipt of cable advices of their safe arrival.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. Db Thaddktts FiTznroH, 63 year* old, formerly postmaster at Kansas City, Kas., a cousin of Consul-General Lee, who fought with distinction in the confederate army, has, in a letter full of patriotism, proffered his services to President McKinley, expressing a willingness, if need be. to sacrifice his life in support of “the principles of the firmly united country.” Great Britain has demanded r lease of Wei-Hai-Wei, on theShan-Tung peninsula, after the Japanese evacuation, as a compensation for the disturbance of the balance of power in the gulf of Pei-Chi-Li. In diplomatic circles little doubt is entertained that China will concede the demand, which is believed to be favorably regarded by Japan. The statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 3d showed the following changes: Surplus reserve, increase, $1,869,335; loans, decrease, $1,437,200; specie, increase, $5,266,600; legal tenders, decrease, $4,250,700, deposits, decrease, S3,413,7o0; circulation, decrease, $4,100. Suawnbetown, III., was suddenly flooded, on the 3d, by water from the Ohio river bursting through the embankment, reaching from hill to hill, for the protection of the city. Early reports said that hundreds—possibly 1,000—souls had perished in the engulfing avalanche, which submerged the town to the depth of from 20 to iW feet. The announcement was made, on the 3d, upon authority of the chief architects of the Transmississippi exposition, at Omaha, Neb., that all construction work will be finished in ample time for the installation of exhibits and the perfection of concessions by the opening day, June 1. Lord Filling dox (Charles Henry Mills), chairman of the committee of London clearinghouse bankers, died suddenly in church at Wilton, England, on the 3d. He was born in 183d. was the son of the late Sir Charles Mills, bart., and was elevated to the peerage in 1886. From all the pulpits in Madrid, on the 3d, the priests read a letter from the bishop of the diocese announcing that he considered war to be imminent and ordering prayers for the success of the Spanish arms. A dispatch from Christiana, Norway, reports that the steam whaler Fridtjof has been secured for the Wellman polar expedition to Frans Josef Land instead of the Laura, previously engaged.

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PENSIONS FOR INDIANIANS. larj« Number of Claim* Passed Upon Bjr the Department. Washington, March SO.—Pensions have been granted to the following Indianians: Original—John H. Meyer, Cedar ! Lake. $6; Myron C. Harrington, Fowler, 18; Daniel E. Thomas, Center, 88; George W. Green, South Bend, 86; Thomas J. Robinson, Whitcomb, 86; William D. Harmon, Evansville, $6; Austin Davis, North Webster, $6; Michael Steinert, Ft. Wayne. 86; William Phelps, Ft. Wayne, 88; James B. Harrison, Evansville. 86; Gabriel Daniel, Indianapolis, 86; William Z. Nickline, Nead, £6; Timothy Stults, Goshen, 88; David Heminger, Monterey, 86; John A. Kersey, Marion, 86; Robert B. Williams, Fredericksburg, 88; Louis Miller, State soldiers’ home, Tippecanoe, 88. '* Renewal—Thomas J. Jennings, Indianapolis, 86. Increase—James M. Bohanon, Fredonia, 817 to $30: John G. Kolp. Clermont, 88 to $12; Levi Jetmore, Churnbusco, $8 to 810; Jacob Brandmeier, Madison, 816 to $17; Edward M. Salvard, Vincennes, Si- to 816; Theodore F. Sullivan, Vevay, 86 to $8; William Menke, Patriot, $8 to. 812; Mahlon n. "Stanley, Sheridan, 812 to $17; Robert R. Baker, Boonville, $6 to 8; Robert Hays. Todd, 816 to 817; John W. Brandon, Madison, S10 to 812; Joseph Mangans, Andersou, 86 to 88; Jas. P. Bennett, Indiana Mineral Springs, $4 to 88; Addison M. Johnson, Lafayette, $10 to 817; Joseph Treadway, Harodsburg, S16 to Si7; Geo. A. Vierling, Oakland City, 86 to 88; Nathaniel P. Drake, Smithville. 814 to 817; Wm. H. Kellerns, Ireland, 88 tot $10; Henry H. Miehaelree, Brazil. 810 to 814. Reissue and Increase—James Farley, Soldiers* home. Marion, SO to $8. Reissue—George M. Overhiser, Indianapolis, 814; Thomas'E. Francis, Indianapolis. 815; Nelson Culver, Huntington, $12; Charles W. Wheat, Indianapolis, 810, Restoration and Increase—Nathan S. Williams, dead. Chester. S10 to 815. Renewal and Increase—John S. Neiman. Indianapolis, 80 to 88. Reissue and Increase—William M. Parrott, Newton. $10 to 830. Original Widows, Etc.—Mary A. Bowersoqiv, Onion City. $S; Minerva Miller, Owensburg. 812; Hannah A. Williams, Chester, $8; Nancy J. Cox. Trinity Springs, 812: Amanda A. Fitzpatrick, Indianapolis. 80; minors of Andrew Epple, Huff. 816; Mary Pipp, Muncie, 88; Rebecca C. Carpenter. Elkhart, 88; Martha Bunton, Martinsville, 812. Mexican War Widow—Julia C. Noe, Bethlehem, 88. FIRST INDIANA To Be Fully Equipped for Active Service in the Field. New Albany, Ind., March 28.—Col. George H. Pennington, of this city, commander of the First regiment Indiana National Guard, has received instructions from the quartermastersdepartment to make requisition for saddles, blankets, medicine cases and other equipment for the officers of the regiment The regiment consists of 12 state militia companies in Southern and Southwestern Indiana. The object of issuing the order is to have the regiment fully equipped in case it is called into service in the event of war with Spain. Three Highwaymen. Indianapolis, Ind., March 2& —Edwin Drake and Lee Shoecraft were met in the central part of the city at early dusk Sunday evening by three colored men, who attempted to rob them. Drake showed fight and was struck with a brick, laying open his skull. The police gave rapid chase, and James Meredith, Kidd Lathers and E. W. Smith were arrested a short distance away as the alleged highwaymep. Drake is badly hurt.

Murder and Suicide. Lafayette. Ind., March 39.—At Otterbein,42 miles east of this eity Monday evening1 Frank Cunningham shot at Mrs. Emma Timmons with a Winchester rifle but missed. He then turned the gun on Bertha Timmons, a 13-year-old girl* who had run away from the house, shooting her through the head, killing her instantly. Then re-entering the house he shot and killed himself with a revolver.

Indiana Postmaster*. Washington. March 30.—The following Indiana postmasters were appointed: George B. Collins, at Altoga. Dubois county, vice E. Andrews Grant, resigned; Marquis H. Young, at Farlen. Daviess county, vice William T. O'Donald, resigned; Samuel A. Carson, at San Jacinto. Jennings codnty. vice Solomon Burchill. resigned; John C. Howell, at Iron Bridge, Warren county, vice A, S. Clay pool, resigned. U. A. R. Candidate*. Richmond, Ind., March 26.—The state encampment of the G. A. R. will be held at Columbus in May. The con- j teat for state commander promises to be an interesting one. The candidates so far are: B K Campbell, Anderson; { Rev. Daniel Ryan, Utica; R. P. Finney, New Albany; Daniel Brown, Indianapolis. Smead Thomas, Marion, is a candidate for junior vice commander. Heavy Lome* by Flood. Greensbcro, Ind., March SO.—The damage and loss from the flood in this county will surpass first estimates. It, is thought it will |-each to the $150,000 mark. The fatalities are larger than at first reported. Three members of the Walters family, in the Tanners Creek bottoms, are missing, and a farmhand, Albert Phillips, was a victim in the cloudburst at Moscow. There was only one fatality at Westport, the drownlag Of Claude Shane. Late reports indicate loss of life on Flat Rock, below St. Paul, at the junction of Coon's creek, where two members of ana family perished.

BANKS OF THE WABASH, the Levee ah Sullivan Breaks Entailing a Loss of 8100,000—A Calamity Second Only to the Great Johnstown Flood— Damage at Other Points. Sullivan, Ind., March 29.—The levee on the Wabash river went out Monday night with a break of 100 feet, entailing a loss of 5100,000. Twenty thousand acres of land are overflowed and hundreds of families are rendered homeless and destitute. Citizens are responding for miles i around in their effort to remove furaj ilies and stock. Hundreds of cattle and i horses are hemmed in. Such a rush of water was never knowiyin this section of the country before. A calamity, second only to the great i Johnstown flood, is upon us. The levee | is 11 miles long, and was built at a cost | of 5S0.000. The area of farm lands sub- | merged is about 20,000 acres. A grand | effort is £>eing made to rescue the families from their submerged homes. The Indiana and Illinois Southern railroad i suffers a serious loss. The road ofJ ficials are directing and rendering I every assistance in the work of relief. The water at 9 o'clock p. m., were makj ing a mad rush through the bottom I land, suprooting trees and taking every | thing in its path. It is feared that I many people, who were probable slow I to take warning, will meet death in I the flood. A;dispateh from Emerson says that j 1,000 bushels of corn and 65 hogs were swept away by the floods Monday. An Osgood special says: The It O. 1 S. W. rdilroad can not run trains over ! this part of the road. The track east i of here, between Lawrenceburg and ! Aurora, for three and a half mixes is four feet under water. Trains go to [ Cincinnati by North Vernon, via Big Four route. The Ohio is rising at the rate of four inches a minute with no immediate prospects of stopping. The conditions are alarming and fears that the levee will break at Lawrenceburg are entertained. The Wabash reached 22.7 feet Monday, this being the highest ever known, and is still rising. The= levees below the city which have stood the pressure gave way Monday afternoon and the lowlands of Lawrence county, already inundated by the overflow, will soon be a sea of water. The suffering and loss of property will be great. The lowlands of upper Vincennes and Decker townships are submerged by White river. The steamer Ownesboro left for Beal with relief party Monday evening. Three hundred people are water-bound and destitute. Owing to a break in the Evansville & Terre Haute at Emison. caused by the break at Lower Shaker Prairie, all trains on that line are abandoned. The first train on the Indianapolis & Vincennes road since Tuesday reached this city Monday. _ DISASTROUS FIRE Ball Broa.’ Fruit Jar Glass Factory Destroyed at a Loss of 860,000. Muncik. Ind., March 28.—One of the new tanks at Ball Bros.’ fruit jar glass factory No. 2 burst Sunday night and the 320 tons of molten glass flooded the. brick floor, firing the building, which was totally destroyed, entailing a loss of 560,000, with but 522,000 insurance. The building covers three acres of ground and is made of wood and sheet iron. What adds greatly to the loss is the 21 patent blowing machines valued at 5500 each, which recently displaced 100 blowers on two tanks, this having been the initial introduction of the patent that promises to revolutionize this important industry. Fortunately the 300 men employed in the factory were not working or some could not have escaped. The factory will be rebuilt ot ance, as this is the busy season, with a heavy demand for trade. The firm is now shipping a train load of jars daily.

Water in the Wabash Still KUlug. Princeton, Ind., March 28.—The water in the Wabash continues to rise at the rate of two-thirds of an inch an hour and the White and Patoka are rising %t about the same rate. Railroads are switching arbund every way to get to their destination but all connection will soon be cut off from here except to local points unless the waters soon recede. Thousands of dollars will be loat to the bottom farmers. Wont Oter st Madison. Madison. Ind.. March 29.—River 54 feet, rising slowly. The water has reached the shipyard, suspending operations. There are two feet of water on the floor of the railroad freight depot Sunday night’s rain caused the Kentucky river to run out heavily into the Ohio, causing a rise of two inches an hour here. The worst is now believed to be over, and the weather if clear and cold._ A Flood at Vincenne*. Vincennes, Ind., March. 26.—The Wabash river is higher than it haa been since 1884. Backwater from the Wabash and Embarrass rivers has submerged the lowland and people are going from this city to Lawrenceville, 111., nine miles away, in boat& Hundreds of' people are rendered homeless and the loss will be up in the thoussands.

Hosm* Struck by Lithtnlnc. Evaxbtille, In<L, March 28.—At New Harmony, Posey county, Sunday^ evening there was a terrible electrical rain and thunderstorm. The public library and several residences were struck and badly damaged, while a number of people were severely injured, Mrs. Danbury * being the most severely injured. The town is in total darkness Sunday night. Broke Hie Xeefc. Marxost, Ind., March SO.—John Deiss, a veteran, aged 65, of the soldiers* home, fell down stairs and broke his neck.

% The Spanish Torpedo Flotilla Has 9 Not Arrived at Porto Rico, as Cabled From Madrid. AT GAPE VERDE ISLANDS, TAKIN6 GOAL She Spanish Royal Family, Fearing a Car* Ust Uprising or a Pronnnelamento from Gen. Weyler and the Military Party, Hare Everything Prepared for a Hasty Flight.

The Spanish Flotilla Not at Porto Rico. - Madrid, April 3.—The statement cabled Friday that the torpedo flotilla of Spain had arrived at Porto Rico was taken from a newspaper here. Investigation shows the announcement to be erroneous. The Spanish flotilla has arrived at Cape Verde islands, and it ia said will proceed after coaling. It was after midnight Friday when the news first began to circulate that the fleet had arrived at Porto Rico, and the people went almost wild with delight over the thought that the fleet had arrived safely without damage by storm or obstruction on the part of the American fleet, and they are correspondingly depressed over the knowledge that they were deceived, and by one of their own journals, into an effusiveness that indicates only too plainly the anxiety to have a heavier naval force on the other side of the Atlantic. v As it has taken the Spanish torpedo flotilla nine days to make the Cape Verde islands from the Canary islands, which they left March 24, it should, figuring on the‘the same rate of speed, take the flotilla about 26 days from now to reach Porto Rico from the Cape Verde islands, supposing the flotilla was able to coal and start again at once, which is unlikelv, Spanish Royal Family Prepared far Flight, Berlin, April .—The German ambassador at Madrid, Herr Vo.a Radowitz, reports to the foreign office here that the Spanish royal family fears an outbr ak,unless the differences between * the United States and Spain are soon settled. The Carlist movement is assuming more active form, and the royal family fears especially a pronunciamento from Gen. Weyler and the military party. Everything is prepared in the royal castles for flight. The boy king, Alfonso, will be taken to San Lucar de Barameda, an Andalusian port, where a yacht is kept ready for sailing. The replies to the queen regent’s letters asking for the intervention of the European powers have been wholly unsatisfactory. A SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT. Sensational Utterances In a Report of the House Committee on Invalid Pensions. Washington, April 3.—A vigorous arraignment of Spam was made in the favorable report to the house by Representative Ray, of New York, chairman of the committee on invalid pensions, of theyghickering bill “to encourage enlistment^ of veterans of the late war during theanticipated war with Spain.’1 The repprt says: ! ‘‘Whenever the attention of Spain has been diverted from the Cuban colony the people have prospered and rapidly anvanced. but no sooner has considerable progress been made in civilization and the accumlation of wealth than the oppressive hand of the mother country has been placed on this people and oppression of the men and brutal and bestial outrage of the women has followed, while every form of taxation has been resorted to to rob the people of the fruits of their toil and keep them in a condition of abjec servitude. This oppressed people has struggled for a good government which has been repeatedly promised, but never given. A few years ago a cSban rebellion, promising success, was only subdued by pledges of reform, but no sooner had the rebels laid down their arms than every promise was broken, every assurance disregarded and every form of outrage resorted to. In the struggle for liberty now in progress this people has been subjected to almost every form of barbarity. The representative of the Spanish nation in Washington. while beguiling our executive with smiles of pretended friendship and promises of immediate measur es to end the horriole condition of affairs in Cuba, was writing and sending to Spain letters abusing the chief magistrate el this republic. Referring to. the Maine incident, the report continues: “Spanish officials alone had the means oi knowledge necessary to secure the explosion of that mine beneath the Maine. Mines and powerful torpedoes do not float about Havana harbor like bullheads in a pond. It is an incident of such magnitude that the civilized world shudders at its mention. American blood has been shed and our American homes desolated We are fully aware that the foot of that eruel, crafty, degenerate and bigoted nation has never been planted on a foot of God's green earth bub murder, misrule, outrage and desolation have followed." The Vizcaya and Oquendo Gone to Porta Rico. New York, . April 2.—The Evening World prints a copyrighted dispatch, dated April 1, on board the World’s dispatch boat Triton, via Key West, which says: “The Spanish warships Vixcaya and Oquendo no longer lie like big watch dogs across Havana harbor. They are on their way to Porto Rico. The World’s dispatch boat fbUowed them, Friday, until this was made certain.”

On the Alert. Key West, Fla., April 3.—A tug endeavored to pass the flagship New York too close Friday night and did not answer the signals of fhe waships, whereupon a four-pound shot was fired across her bows. Those on board the tug received a severe fright. Illinois Naval Reserves Ordered fto bo 1% Springfield, 111., April4.—Got. Tanner has been asked by the war department at Washington to have the naval, reserves in readiness, and has issuerorders to that effect. _