Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1898 — DEWEY IN CONTROL. [ARTICLE]

DEWEY IN CONTROL.

No Need of Anxiety Over the Ad< miral's Position in Manila Bay. The American dispatch boat Hugh McCulloch, attached to* Admiral Dewey’s squadron, arrived again in Hong Kong, bringing dispatches from Manila. She reports that there has been no change in the situation there. Pood is getting scarcer in the city and famine is prevailing. A Spanish revenue cruiser entered the harbor of Manila and was captured. The Spaniard had been cruising around the southern islands for sixteen months and did not know that war had been declared. When Admiral Dewey learned of his promotion he hoisted his flag with the usual salutes. Consul Williams landed at Cavite last week after the Spanish garrison had evacuated the place. The insurgents, who had hastened to occupy the town, greeted him with enthusiasm. He was followed through the streets by a crowd numbering 2,000 persons, nil shouting, “Viva ios Americanos!” Spaniards arc convinced that a British merchant steamer piloted the American squadron into the bay, and comments friendly to the United States, published in Manila English papers in other cities of the East have the hatred felt for the British.