Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1898 — FLEET TUANS TAIL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FLEET TUANS TAIL.

SPAIN’S CAPE VERDE SQUADRON FLEES FROM SAMPSON. £... . • . j[. ■ ( " ■ > Bugaboo Armada Reported as Having • Arrived at Cadia—Troops to Be Rushed to Cuba—Massacres Reported in Manila—Brief War News. Flotilla Has Fled. The Spanish Cape Verde fleet has turned tail and fled home to Spain. The Navy Department on Tuesday received apparently trustworthy advices that the Spanish fleet had arrived at Cadiz. Lisbon advices have affirmed that the Cape Verde fleet will be joined by the remaining Spanish ships at Cadiz, now being fitted out for service, and that all will then cross thf Atlantic to relieve the blockade of Havana or attack the American const. American naval experts consider this program Very doubtful, as before the Spanish fleet could cross the Atlantic the American fleet will probably have taken Porto Rico, thus leaving the Spaniards no base of supplies. To attempt to fight the American fleet off Havana without a chance to refit after a voyage of A,500 miles would be impossible. The question has been as to what Admiral Sampson will do if the Spanish fleet, for which he is searching, is still on the •other side. His orders were similar to those of Commodore Dewey. He was instructed to find the Spanish fleet and destroy it. Some of the naval officers are inclined to think that Sampson will obey his instructions if he is not recalled, that he will take San Juan, Porto Rico, wait for the Oregon, recoal and continue to look for the fleet, where he is most likely to find it, though he should have to go to Cadiz. This will, however, be the last move of the administration to eud the war.

TROOPS TO CUBA. Bixty Thousand Soldiers Under General Miles to Be Rushed Forward. President McKinley and his advisers at the cabinet meeting Tuesday decided upon an immediate invasion of Cuba. Troops to the number of tiOJXX) will be landed, it is stated officially, as soon as arrangements for transporting men, ammunition ami provisions are completed. The entire army stationed tit Chicknmauga park was ordered to the front. The First and Tenth Cavalry to New Orleans, the Second Cavalry to Mobile, the Third and Sixth to Tampa. The entire infantry goes to Tampa; President McKinley, it is said, lias constantly ojtposed immediate invasion, awaiting results of the expected engagement between Admiral Sampson’s fleet and the Cape Verde flotilla, but upon the receipt of official information announcing the arrival of four Spanish cruisers and two torpedo boat destroyers at Cadiz he

determined upon immediate invasion along the line suggested by Secretary Alger and Gen. Miles. Orders were at once sent to Ailjt. Gen. Corbin countermanding that portion of the general order issued for the concentration of troops, horse, foot and artillery, at Chiekamnuga from the States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Colorado, Kansas. Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Idaho, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota. These are ordered to proceed directly to Tampa, Fla., Mobile and New Orleans. The transport Gussie sailed from Tampa for Cuba amidst a din of cheers, bearing the first regular troops of the United States to Cuban soil. The docks were thronged with enthusiastic people, who could only guess what was going to happen next and when it would occur. The Gussie carried a large cargo of miscellaneous supplies for the Cubans... There were hundreds of cases of the old Springfield rifles, forty-five caliber, with accompanying ammunition, anil there were also large quantities of old army muskets, such as were used in the civil war. Powdoa and ball galore went with them. Hospital supplies of every description went with tin* hospital attendants. Twentytwo Cubans, clad in the new canvas uniform of the United States soldiers, went with the two companies of the First Infantry. MASSACRES IN MANILA. Oppressed Natives Seek Revenge on t Spanish Masters. According to Shanghai advices, massacres are reported to have occurred outside of Manila, the insurgents butchering even the Spanish women and children. It is reported that Admiral Monte jo, the commander.of the Sj>auish fleet, who escaped from Cavite by running along the shore to Manila with his two sons, was killed by the iiopulnce of the latter place. It is added that the Hospital of San Roque, filled with Spanish soldiers, was .accidentally set on tire by shells from the Boston, and that Sisters of Charity were killed by a native mob while removing the wounded.

GEN. NELSON A. MILES.