Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 May 1898 — Page 6

Consul-General Williams* Report on the Products and Trade of the Philippine Islands. -.- COMMODORE DEWEY’S 6REAT PRESENT. iag^v“. Aim or the blends ud Population of the Croup, end of the City of Mantle—A Practical Monopoly of the Foreign Trade Already Knjoyed by Catted States. Wxshisgtox, May 5.—The understanding at the state department is That Consul Oscar F. Williams, our representative at Manila until the recent war began, is now aboard the flagship Olympia in Manila harbor, haring accompanied Dewey from Hong Kong, so that advices may come from him to the •(ate department as well as from Commodore Dewey to the navy department. A mail report from Consul Williams reached the state department recently -under date of Manila, February 38 last It gives a full description of the Philippine islands, their resources, .growth of American trade, etc., and * will be incorporated in the next volume issued by the bureau of statistics of the state department. 1

-....—- ln£ steel rails, stone culverts and Ea» jlisb engine* There are four steamship lines to Hong Kong and a monthly line from I Manila to Liverpool. Besides these direct reports from the | United States consul, the state depart* meat also has a gazetteer, published at Hong Kong, which gives a full account of the conditions in the Philippines. It shows by the last census the population of Manila whs 160,000 natives, 61,000 Chinese, 11,600 Spaniards and 350 Europeans other than Spaniards. The town is made up of low buildings, as the people are in constant dread of earthquakes. One of these convulsions killed 300 people, and the last one, in 1880, wrecked most of the town. The city proper is within walls, where the government buildings are located. The residence and business portions are in the suburb. The Escotta is the main business street and is lined with European stores and bazars. OUR CHAUNCEY ON THE WAR. I So Mock In Favor of Peace That He Bo. Uevee la Prosecuting the War Vigorously. i _ Cleveland. O., May 5.— Hon. Cbauncey M. Depew. w ho was in Cleveland yesterday attending the meeting of the Lake Shore and Nickel Plate railways, in speaking of the war, said: “1 am of the opinion that had President McKinley been left to himself we

THE FIRST ROUND—AT MANILA.

“Take that? ye ee»*ly Spaniard, To start the thki( aioan And If jre want another Ye’ll Kit It Kood and at rone?”

Mr. Williams' report says: “Local ami European authorities esti-' -mate the area of the Philippine islands at 150,000 square miles and their popu-, tatioa at 15.000,000. The island of Luaoa. on whieh the city of Manila is1 - situated, is larger than New York and Massachusetts and has a population of S.000.000, and the island of Mindo is nearly, if not quite, as large. There are scores of other islands. “An idea of the extent of the po-nla-lion of the Philippines may be formed when it is stated that the six New England states and New York, New Jersey, Maryland ami Delaware have tea per cent, less area and population.” Mr. Williams states that S3 consulWins, representing the leading com- j merclal countries of the world, are established at Manila, lie adds the surprising statement: “The volume of the export trade coming under my official supervision equals that of my 31 consular colleagues combined.” He then shows in detail how the trade of the Philippines with the United States exceeds that of ail other countries combined, and is growing at a remarkable rate. As indicating the extent of this trade, hesays:

“To-day, I hare authenticated in* voices for export to the United States anouatin^ to 9138,066.** lie says the exports to this country 'average 91,000.000 a month. The. report states that 216,000 bales of hetnp were exported during1 the last three months. Of these 139,793 went to the United States and 78.000 to Great liritsun and other countries. Mr. Williams shows from this that the United States has 6t per cent, of the export trade from the Philippines, as against 36 per cent, for Great Britain and other countries. He says that last year the increase ot shipments to the United States was 133.003 hales, and the decrease to Great iirit--ain 72,000 bales. He adds: “Of the increased shipments from the Philippines those to the United States were 54 per cent, greater than to all other countries combined.** He also gives details of the large ahipments of sugar, cigars, tobacco, •ad woods, hides, shells, indigo and coffee. In the item of sugar, which is second in importance, the shipments to the United States were 96 per cent, of the total to all points In another report Mr. Williams gives -the railroad aU ocean steamship 'facilities of the Philippines. The main saili iad from is first class. hsv*

, should have had no war. The trouble ! ! is that in congress there are a number ; of men who are clamorous for a fight. ; No, I do not think they would go to I the front, but war talk is sometimes ’ excellent political capital. Sooner or later they would have embroiled the the nation in a war, over the Cuban question whether the Maine incident ] had happened or not. <j?*Now that we have engaged in war,** he continued, “I believe it should be prosecuted with vigor worthy of a bet* ter opponent. The contest should be made short, sharp and decisive. Not solely with a view to speedy victory over Spain, but because of the object lesson it would afford European powers. They will respect us more if they see that when we engage in a fight we are a united people with but oue end in view, and that the uphold* mg of our national honor. “I believe that the friendship of the English people for us, which has been so cemented during the present crisis, will result in something more than a mere understanding between the two nations in the future. It would be a glorious alliance—that of the two great Anglo-Saxon races standing together for humanity and peace."

A SPANISH SPY ON BOARD. Am Important Capture on the Steamship St. Paul, t apt. St a* See* New Command. at Cramps’ Yard. Philadelphia. May 5,—The report ! that a supposed Spanish spy had been ' captured aboard the auxiliary cruiser St, Paul at Cramps’ yard Tuesday night. is confirmed. Who the man is 1 | Capt. Sigsbee refuses to state, and all | that is known of him is that hia | father is a Spaniard, and that his mother was born on Cuban soil. The susi pect enlisted some days ago as an oiler, aad almost from the time of his enlistment was under suspicion on account of his peculiar actions. Late Tuesday night a marine who was on watch below decks near the powder magazine, discorered the man acting i n a suspicious way around the magazine he marine lost no time in bringing the man to gronnd and a short and severe fight followed. The guard overpowered him, but not before the suspect bad received a grea t gash on the right aide of the face. He was taken before Capt Sigsbee for examination, and the captain committed him to the “brig” for the nigbk A thorough investigation is being made.

mssiuMi Full Particulars of the Wonderful Engagement in Manila Bay. 6REATEST NAVAL BATTLE EVER FOUGHT, I Only the Hand of Providence Could Hare Produced Such Beaults -Spanish Navy Utterly Destroyed and Land Batteries Reduced—Not an American Sailor Killed, and but Six Slightly Injured. [Copyright, 1808, by the Associated Press.] Hong Kora, May a—Among naval men, military men and civilians, Eaj ropeans and natives here to-day, there \ is only one subject of discussion, the I brilliant, dashing, annihilating victory of the American fleet under Commodore Dewey over the Spanish fleet commanded by Admiral Monte jo in Manila bay on Sunday last. Owiug to the fact that the cable beI tween this port and the Philippine isl- ! ands was not in working order, having been cut, it is said, some distance | from the capital of the islands, there has been delay in obtaining a detailed account of the battle, and the facts in the c^se were only available when the United States gunboat Hugh McCulloch arrived here Saturday, and even then the tremendous pressure of business suddenly thrown upon the cable ! company necessarily made the earlier accounts of the engagement somewhat brief. Commodore Dewey's orders were to capture or destroy the Spanish fleet, and never were instructions executed | in so complete a fashion. At the end { of seven hours there was absolutely | nothing left of the Spanish fleet but a few relics.

The American commander bad most skilfully arranged every detail of the action, and even the apparently most insignificant features were carried out with punctiliousness and in railroad time-table order. At the end of the action Commodore Dewey anchored his fleet in the bay before Manila, and sent a message to Uov.-Uen. Augusti announcing the inauguration of the blockade, and adding that if a shot was fired against his ships he would destroy eve^y battery about Manila. 11 The position occupied by the Spaniards, the support which their ships received from the land batteries and the big guns they had ashore gave them an enormous advantage. Therefore, when it is considered that the Spaniards lost over 600 killed and wounded, that all their ships, amounting to about fourteen, were destroyed and that their naval arsenal at Cavite was also destroyed with its defenses, it will become apparent that the victory of the American commodore is one of the most complete and wonderful achievements in the history of naval warfare. Not a man on board the American fleet wjys killed, not a ship was damaged to any extent, and only six men were injured slightly on board the Baltimore. This grand achievement is quite as much due to the generalship of Comn.jdore Dewey as to the tact that American gunners, ships and guns are superior to anything in the same line afloat anywhere. Ureat credit must also be given to the fullest extent to the officers under Commodore Dewey, for, to a man, they seconded their gallant commander in every way possible, and thus helped him win the laurels whieh are justly his. The order of battle taken up by the Spaniards was with all the small craft inside the stone and timber breakwaters of Cavite harbor. The larger ships of Spain cruised off Cavite and Manila.

The American fleet entered Manila bay on Saturday night with the greatest of ease. The Spaniards had not established a patrol, and there was no searchlights at the entrance of the bay. In fact the American ships would probably hare passed inside the bay without any challenge had it not been that some sparks llew up from the McCulloch's funnel. Thereupon a few shots were exchanged with the batteries on Corregidor island, but the fleet did not slow down, and soon took a position near Cavite, awaiting dawn in order to commence hostilities. The early hours of the morning revealed the opposing ships to each other, and the Spanish flagship opened lire. Her action was followed by some of the larger Spanish war ships, and then the Cavite forts opened up. The Spanish vessels brought their guns into play. The squadron which had been led into the bay through the channel by the flagship Olympia, did not reply, though the shells of the Spaniards began to strike the water around them, but moved majestically onward. When nearing 1 laker bay a sudden upheaval of water a short distance ahead of the Olympia showed that the Spaniards had exploded a mine or a torpedo. This was followed by a second and similar explosion.. They were both utterly unsuccessful. The American fleet was then drawing nearer and nearer to the Spaniards, whose gunnery was very poor, ;rthe shots from the Cavite batteries and from the Spanish ships being equally badly aimed, either falling short or going from the mark. When the American fleet entered the bay, coining through the southern ! | channel between Cabaalo Frile inlets. I the following was their order: The! flagship Olympia, the Baltimore, the j Raleigh, the Concord, the Boston, the ltetrel and the McCulloch;, with the two store ships, the Nanskan and the Zaflro, bringing up the rear. And in that order they swept grandly before the city and faced the enemy in column line. Though the Spaniards had opened Are at 6,000 yards, the Americans renerved their fins until within 4,000

yards of the enemy, when the real baa tie began. The Reina Cristina, Castilla, Don An* tonio de Ulloa, lsla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon and the Mindanano were in line of battle outside of Cavite at that time, with four gunboats and the torpedo boats inside the harbor. The American ships- then passed backwards and forwards six times across the front of the Spaniards, pouring in upon the latter a perfect hail of shot and shell. Every American shot seemed to tell, while almost every Spanish shot missed the mark. After having thus scattered death and demoralization among the Span- | ish fleet and in the Spanish batteries, the American fleet retired for break* fast, and, incidentally, u council of war was held on board the Olympia. By this time the Span sh ships were in a desperate conditiot. The flagship Reina Ci stina was rid- | died with shot and shell, one of her steam pipes had brust, itiad she was believed to be on lire. Th s Castilla was certainly on fire, and soon afterwards their condition became worse and worse, until they we; e eventually burned to the water’s ed,je. The Don Antonio de lllloa made a most magnificent show of desperate bravery. When her com mander found she was so torn by the A: aerican»shells that he could not keep her afloat, he nailed her colors to the mast and she sank with all hands fty itiug to the last. Her hull was completely riddled and her upper deck hat been swept clean by the awful fire >f the American guns, but the Spaniards, though their vessel was sink ng beneath them, continued working- the guns on I her lower deck until she tank beneath

the waters. During the engagement a Spanish torpedo boat crept along the shore and round the ofliug in an a ttempt to at* tack the American store is hips, but she was promptly discovered was driven ashore and was actual!/ blown to pieces. f ; The Mindanano had in the meanwhile been run ashore to s ive her from sinking, and the Spanish small craft had sought shelter from the steel storm behind the breakwater. The battle, which was started at about 5:30 a. m.. and adjourned at 8:30 a. m.. was resumed about noon, when Commodore Dewey started in to put the fitiishing touches on his glorious work. There was not much fight left id the Spaniards by that time, and at 2 p. m. the Petrel and Concord had shot the Cavite batteries into silence, leaving them heaps of ruins and floating the white flag. The Spanish gunboats were then scuttled, the arseual was on tire, and the explosion of a Spanish magazine caused further mortality amoug the defenders of Spain on shore. On the water the burning, sunken or seen, while only the cruiser Baltimore had suffered in any way from the fire of the euemy. A shot which struck her exploded some ammunition near one of her gnns and slightly injured half a dozen of the crew. Several shots passed dangerously close to Commodore Dewey, but little | or no damage was done on board the flagship. On the other hand, about 150 men are said to have been killed on board the Spanish flagship, which was totally destroyed. Admiral Montejo, the Spanish commander, transferred his flag to the Isla de Cuba, when his ship caught fire, but the latter was also destroyed in due course of time. The Reina£Cristina lost her captain, a lieutenant, her chaplain and a mid- | shipman by one shot which struck her ' bridge. About 100 men were killed and 60 wounded on board the Castilla. Indeed, some, estimates place the num- j ber of Spanish wounded during the en- i gagement at over 1,000 men. The Olympia was struck live times i about her upper works, and a whale- j boat of the Raleigh was smashed. Although the Krnpp guns on the ; esplanade of Manila were tired continuously during the engagement, ■ Commodore Dewey did not reply to ] them, and the battery afterward hoisted a white flag in token of sur- j render. destroyed vessels could be

FIFTY BUILDINGS BURNED. A Jewish Cplonjr Destroyed While Its Members were Assembled Fraying for American Success. Duluth, Mian.. May 9.—Fifty frame building's on Minnesota Point, just above the ship canal, were burned yesterday afternoon. An hour after the tire started 2,000 people were homeless. The fire took 12 store buildings front- | ing on lower Lake avenue, just below j the “Under the Hill” district, and j swept from there back to the lake I shore. The distance was populated by the j poorest people in the city. Many of j the upper parts of the two-story and j three-story buildings were occupied as tenements. They were inhabited as j closely as the people could cluster, and j bacK of the line of buildings fronting j on the street were shacks huddled all too close for health and safety. There are no particularly large indi- j vidua l losses. The total is thought to be : OTer $100,009. Among the sufferers t were 50 families of Jews, members of a eolouj-, who were at a mass-meeting j praying for the success of the Aineri- j can army in the war with Spain, j There were many escapes from death, j ONE VICTIM BLOWN TO ATOMS. Awful Results of Finding An Old Cub of ^Nltro-iilyecrtno—Screml Puc- >- mhu Injured. Denver. CoL, May 9.—By the explosion of a can of nitro-glyeerine, ! found near the old powder mills on the , outskirts of this city yesterday, Fritx Smetzger was instantly killed, his body being blown to atoms, and Peter Lehi, Peter Schmear and Henry Lone were badly injured. While the others were retreating Smetzger dropped a stone in the open top of tbs can, causing the explosion.

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