Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — Page 3

STARTS FOR MANILA.

CRUISER CHARLESTON OFF TO >, JOIN DEWEY. Expedition Leaves fan Francisco to Support Admiral Dewey in the Philippine Islands. 7,000 Troops on the Way—Monitor Monterey Is Delayed. Go to Dewey's Aid. The cruiser Charleston is well ,on her way to Manila. She will call at Honolulu for coal and then proceed direct to the Philippines, and in less than thirty days at the outside she ought to report to Admiral Dewey. Though the monitor Monterey has been ordered to Manila, it will be several weeks, probably, before she can get away from San Francisco. Her executive officer, Lieut. Carlin, said the ship must wait for certain kinds of ammunition desired by Dewey. Fully 7,(MX) troops will soon be started for Manila. Those who did not go on the three steamers will go later on the China, Centennial, Colon and Zealandia. Three steamers—the Pekin, Australia and City of Sydney—started together. A fleet of transports will be met at Honolulu by the Bennington and thence convoyed to Manila. Every steam vessel in the harbor blew an revolr to Capt. Glass and his crew as the Charleston steamed out of the Gohlen Gate. None of the.forts in the harbor saluted the vessel, but the demonstration made by the (1,000 soldiers gathered at the Presidio was tremendous. When the vessel was sighted coming down the bay the soldiers gathered on the beach and cheer upon cheer rang out from the men

CRUISER CHARLESTON.

who were to soon follow the Charleston to the scene of Admiral Dewey's triumph. It was expected that the trip would occupy about twenty days. This allows for a somewhat lower rate of speed than is usually mode by steamers like the Pekin, Sydney and Australia, the authorities recognizing the necessity of economizing the coal supplies when eurrying heavy cargoes. The War Department is still negotiating for other steamers to be used for transport purposes between San Francisco and Manila. The Government at present has the services of five ships. It is believed, and. in case Congress shall decide to give American register to vessels of the Northern Pacific Steamship Company. the whole fleet of that company will be placed at the disposal of the Government on reasonable terms. *“ TO FORCE SIXAIN TO SUBMIT. Powers Sail to Be Resolved to Enter the War Soon. A dispatch from Madrid says that Senor. Castillo's reason for not joining the ministry is that Senor Sagasta is determined to carry on a vigorous war, while Senor , Castillo is aware that Spain’s friends in Europe, especially France, are resolved to insist upon her suing for peace at the first favorable moment. It is hoped that

MAT. GENERAL MERRITT.

Spain will be able to retain the Philippine Islands, which will be utilized in making political combinations later on. The disjtatch adds that the time is very near when Spain will be asked to propose pourparlers for peace. Friendly efforts will be made by the powers to induce the United States to rest satisfied with the independence or annexation of Cuba, and to abandon the scheme of retaining permanently or occupying temporarily the Philippines.

SPANISH FLEET AT CADIZ WHICH MAY GO TO THE PHILIPPINES.

CARDENAS ALMOST WRECKED. Town Suffered f ev?rely in Recent American Attack. Ernest Castro, a Cuban refugee, who was in Cardenas on the day that the Winslow was injured in trying to capture a Spanish gunboat, arrived in Key West, having been picked up off Cardenas. It will be remembered that the motive for the attack was a desire to capture three little gunboats which had been trying for several days to lure the American ships into the mined channels of Cardenas harbor. The fire that riddled the Winslow did not come from a masked battery, as was supposed, but from a gunboat. According to Castro, the other two gunl>oats were on the other side of the point, with their guns trained through the trees, which concealed them from the sight of the approaching Americans. These two boats, he says, were destroyed by the Wilmington’s fire. Most of their crews were killed or wounded. Castro snys that the port of Cardenas along the water is almost totally wrecked. All the wharves are burned, and the Spanish casino, a large building used as the headquarters of the infantry, was also destroyed. The troops and citizens all fled from town. Thirteen soldiers were killed- by one shell as they fled along the street. The* supposition was that the Americans were attempting a landing, and after the ships ceased tiring the soldiers returned to stand them off.

PANIC REIGNED IN CIENFUEGOS. Bombardment by the American Ships Terrified the People. Information has been received at Key West from Cienfuegos giving a graphicaccount of the excitement in that city when the encounter occurred between Spanish soldiers on shore and the cable-cutting expedition which resulted in the death of two and the wounding of five Americans. Cuban city was panic-stricken, the church bells were rung and the alarms were sounded on all sides. At the Hotel Siervo de Oro there was a riot and fight between Spanish volunteers, who refused to serve on patrol duty for the defense of the city, and the Spanish authorities, who were trying to force them to serve. When the Marblehead began shooting and knocked the lighthouse to splinters men, women and children fled to the country," many families leaving their houses open and abandoned in the haste of their flight. Since then many families have moved to Santo Quintera and Rodas, small towns near Cienfuegos. The Spanish government is unable to control the exodus. Shot Down Without Mercy. It appears from information brought by the Empress of India that the Spanish did a little bombarding on their own account in the Philippines about a fortnight before Admiral Dewey silenced their fleet. About the middle of April, says a Manila report, Spanish troops met no opposition on landing, the rebels having absconded before a shot was fired, taking with them, it is said, $200,000 in cash. About thirty natives were killed in the bombardment, but no European casualties are reported. Cebu, which ranks third in the cities in the Philippines, was wrecked by the bombardment. A massacre of rebels by the Spanish also preceded Admiral Dewey’s arrival.

Sixty Killed at Cartagena. Advices from Cartagena, Spain, say the explosion nt Castle San Julian caused a panic in the city. Arms and legs were picked up at a great distance from the scene of the explosion. The castle contained thirty-eight privates belonging to the artillery and infantry and 123 workmen, not one of whom escaped uninjured. The dead numbered sixty-tvTo, including the governor of the port. Dewey’s Blockade Is Effective. It is reported, via Hong Kong, that Dewey has captured a numl»er of Spanish steamers and several coasting vessels at the Philippines. No vessel has yet succeeded in running bis blockade.

DEFENSES OF HAVANA IN DETAIL.

FROM THE FRONT.

The battleship Oregon is the first warship that ever rounded Cape Horn. The Queen Regent of Spain has asked the Pope to bless the Spanish arms. The harbor of San Francisco has been thoroughly mined during the past few weeks. The railroad men in California have started a fund to build a battleship for the Government. A heavy rainfall at Key West has filled the cisterns and averted a water famine among the troops. In Havana meat is $2 a pound and coffee 25c a cup. First-class restaurants are guarded by troops. Food is getting scarcer every day in Havana and the insurgents threaten to cut off the water supply. Weyler and the Carlists and Republican leaders are deliberately planning to bring on a revolt in Spain. The Spanish defenses at Caimanera, Cuba, consist of an ironclad wooden shanty and an ancient cannon. The recruits for Secretary Roosevelt’s rough riders include football players, steeplechasers, clubmen and policemen. Great Britain has as many war vessels in Asiatic waters as France, Russia and Germany combined, and they are far more modern and powerful. Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of the Governor of Kentucky, asktxl to be allowed to accompany the first Kentucky volunteer regiment as a nurse. The Minneapolis lodge of a Jewish order, in memory of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, has offered a bounty of

The Hudson’s Smokestack.

This is how the smokestack of the Hudson looked when that battered gunboat returned to Key West after the fight at

RIDDLED BY SPANISH SHOTS.

Cardenas. This was pie engagement during which the Winslow was crippled and Ensign Bagley killed.

$25 and remission of lodge dues to all members who enlist for war against Spain. The Secretary of the Navy receiver! a despatch from Admiral Dewey expressing the belief that Manila could not hold out long against his attack. Many wealthy Philippine families are going back to the islands from Hong Kong and, are taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. Several decided improvements have been added to the plans of four new monitors for our navy which will render them practicably indestructible except by torpedoes. One of the United States officers sent to open communication with the Cuban insurgents is said to have planted the American and Cuban colors side by side on Cuban soil.

SILENCED MORRO. Scout St. Louis and the Wampatuck Engage Forte of Santiago. The Santiago bombardment which occurred Wednesday, May 18, is explained as follows: The St. Louis, acting under orders, proceeded to cut the cable at Santiago and Guantanamo. The Santiago engagement was lively. The Wampatuck accompanied the St. Louis and the cable was picked up within range of the Spanish guns on Morro, which opened fire, followed by two sand batteries and one gjortar battery. The men coolly handled the cable on the forecastle of the St. Louis during the entire engagement. The St. Louis replied With her total armament of four G-pounders and with the Wampa. tuck’s one 3-pounder finally silenced al! but two or three guns. Neither American boat was damaged seriously. The St. Louis’ topmast backstay was shot away and the Wampatuck’s pilot house was slightly splintered. One man on the St. Louis had a finger broken by the flying fragments of a shell while handling the cable. When work on the cable had been properly finished the boats proceeded twenty miles eastward to Guantanamo, where the cable was again picked up and cut. The batteries there opened fire, but being small and poorly handled, were ineffective. Two well placed shots from the St. Loais secured comparative quiet and the cutting of the cable was then peacefully finished. The officers and men were jubilant.

EXPENSES OF THE ARMY. Alger’s Supplemental Estimates for » Its Support the First Six Months. Secretary Alger has made supplemental estimates for the support of the armies for the first six months of tiie coming fiscal year. They are as follows: Expenses of the comanding gen eral’a office SI,OOO Contingent expenses of inspector general’s department 1,000 Signal service of the array 114.000 Pay, etc., of the array. 4,017,804 Pay of volunteers 25.020,266 Subsistence of the army 10,219,635 Regular supplies of quartermaster’s departmeast ’ 6,000,000 Incidental expenses of quartermaster's department 2,500,000 Horses for-cavalry and artillery.. 2,000,000 Barracks and quarters 750,000 Army transportation 20,000,000 Clothing and camp and garrison equipage 13,000,000 Contingencies of the array 50.000 Medical and hospital department. 354,000 Ordnance service 325,000 Ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies ....................... 3,394,000 Armament of fortifications ...... 130,510 Manufacture of arms 640,000 Equipment of engineer troops. ... 75,000 Civilian assistants to engineer officers 40,000 Total $88,638,840 Up to this time the estimates ami appropriations already made on account of the war aggregate $295,210,840.

RAN THE SPANISH GANTLET. Uncle Sam. Will Make Gunpowder from Captain Fulcher’s Sulphur. The British steamship City of Truro, Captain Fulcher, which sailed from Licata, Sicily, the day war was declared by Spain, with a cargo of 2,000 tons of sulphur for the United States, has arrived safely in port at New York. Sulphur, because of its use in the manufacture of explosives, is one of the articles declared by Spain to be contraband of war, and the Truro’s cargo was liable to seizure by any Spanish cruiser or privateer hovering about Gibraltar. Captain Fulcher was warned to keep a weatber'f'yeout for suspicious-looking craft and get out of the Mediterranean as quickly as he coulcd. The only armed vessel he sighted was an American cruiser playing a searchlight off Shinuecock, Long Island. Fine Body of Men. A correspondent writes from'Tampa: "The American soldier of to-day is incomparably better than his predecessor. Conditions of enlistment are more severe. He is more generously treated. His rations are improved hud he has facilities and privileges formerly unknown. He is offered incentives to manliness and seifrespect. How far these have been successful is indicated by the statement that among all the troops in this place I have not observed a single case of drunkenness or disorder of any description.” Keeps Money at Home. By the way of compensation for the money which the pursuit of Spanish warships is costing this country there is being kept in the country by the war many millions of dollars. In ordinary years this pwney goes to Europe and purchaws old silver, china, paintings, sculpture, specimens of the nobility and other luxuries This year it stays at home in America ana is either expended or invested here because Its owners do not feel inclined to leave the country while the present difficulty is unsettled. Ab a Base cf Supplies. Hawaii will not declare neutrality, President Dole considering such a course as a breach of good faith. He is confldcntly expecting the United .States to raise its flag above the islands and use them as a base of supplies. Hawaiian senators indorse President Dole's stand, and the.measure only needs ratification by President McKinley.

SAFE AT SANTIAGO.

ARMADA EVADES SAMPSON AND REACHES PORT. Madrid Report Faya Spanish Ships Have Reached Harbor on South Coast of Cuba—Admiral Sampson Joins Schley and His Flying Squadron. Now for a Battle. A report Friday from Santiago de Cuba by the way of Madrid said that the Spanish fleet baa reached that port in safety. While this news might have been given out for the purpose of confusing, it agreed with another dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, stating that a fleet of warships had been seen from Morant Point, on the east extremity of the island, passing north toward Santiago de Cuha. Cervera could have but two purposes in putting into Santiago de Cube. The first would be to get coal, of which Spain may have a supply there. The second, to relieve the Spanish garrison of 10,000 troops stationed there, who have been practically cu>t off from Blanco and from all supplies since the blockade of Clenfuegos. These troops were dependent on the coasting fleet for thesr supplies, as there is no railroad connection between Santiago and Havana, and the country between is held by the insurgents. It would be a natural move of the Spanish admiral to try to relieve this garrison and supply it, or remove the troops, if he considered that could be done witliout meeting the American fleet, for there has been no blockade at Santiago.. fampaon at Key West. Rear Admiral Sampson, with the division of the North Atlantic squadron under his command which attacked San Juan, Porto Rico, returned to Key West, where he effected a junction with the flying squadron. He has under his orders the battleships lowa, Indiana and Massachusetts, second-class battleship Texas and armored cruisers Brooklyn and New York, which makes him superior by two armorclads to the Spanish fleet.

SAILORS SLAIN. American Seamen Victims to Treachery of Philippine Insurgents. Advices from Manila by way of Hong Kong say that the insurgents are mutually at loggerheads. Some are eager to be freed from Spanish rule, while others resent the appearance of the Americans. It is reported that a party of rebels attacked the Americans near Cavite, killing some of them and driving the others out of the villages. They removed the American flag and replaced it with the Spanish. According to report the insurgent leaders who accompanied Admiral Dewey refused to disembark, apparently fearing that they would be repudiated. Another report says that some Spaniards professing to be insurgents fraternized with the Americans near Cavite and then massacred them. Polo Secures Coaling station. A dispatch from Montreal says Senor Polo y Bernabe has secured, by cable, a coal depot near St. Pierre Miquelon, the French colony off the south coast of Newfoundland, at which the Cadiz squadron will coal previous to attacking the Atlantic seacoast of the United States, while the Cape Verde squadron, commanded by Admiral Cervera, draws off the squadrons commanded by Rear Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley.

CYCLONES KILL SEVENTY.

Devastation Wrought in Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin. Killed. Injured. Rockford. 11l ••■l2 100 Freeport, 11l 3 30 Princeton, 111 1 Sheffield, 111 • 3 Dubuque, 10wa...... • .26 200 Wausau. Wis ....." 5 25 Antigo, Wi5....... 3 30 Rhinelander, Wis 17 00 Battle. Creek, Mleh 1 ... Ardmore, I. T/ 2 10 Total .70 455 Cyclones which whirled over vast tracts in lowa, Illinois and Wisconsin early Monday evening killed, it is now reported, alxmt seventy persons. The names of all of them could not be ascertained, as in every instance the damage was wrought in farming or village districts aiul telephone and telegraph connection in the afflicted sections was badly broken. The list of those injured will never be complete, only a few of the more serious eases being reported by name. A careful estimate fixes the number injured at about 450. Such havoc was wrought upon farm buildings, out of door stocks and orchards and upon live stock that the money loss, in wide belts of territory, in several cases clear across counties, will reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The damage was so great and widespread and means of communication so interrupted that it will be some time before accurate estimates can be made.

Told in a Few Lines.

At Marysville, Mo., a man recently sold a hog for $37 and tvith sl7 bought a good horse. Many people at Pine Bluff. Ark., were driven from their homes by the breaking of the levees. t Many stowaways are coming to this country, under the impression that the war will boom work. Japanese naval officers have arrived in San Francisco to command the two cruisers being built there for Japan. The States of Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and Alabama have more population than Spain, and vastly more wealth. Three hundred persons have been executed in Porto Rico on charge of treason. Many families are fleeing to the interior. The restoration of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, has progressed so rapidly that it is expected the formal opening of the historic structure can be held on the Fourth of July. The Queen of Greece has the unusual distinction of being the only woman admiral in the world. She holds this rank in the Russian navy. The appointment was conferred upon her by the late Czar, because her father held the rank of high admiral. At Sailors’ Rest, Tenn., Jane Allen, aged 18, jumped from a fast traveling passenger train and was instantly killed. It was her first ride on a train, and, when the brakeman called the station, she left her seat, and, not knowing that the train would stop or realising the danger, leaped to her death.

INDIANA GRAND ARMY

NINETEENTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AT COLUM3US. ' r Patriotic 'Societies Elect New Officer* and Transact Important Yearly Bus-iness-G. A. R. Resolves that Pension Commissioner Evans Be Removed. State Encampment of Veterans. The annual State encampment of the Grand Anny of the Republic, Woman’s Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans, Ladies* Aid Society of the Sons of Veterans and the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, which was held in Columbus, was the largest and most successful of the kind ever held. Fully ten thousand visitors were in the city. Daniel Ryan of Utica was elected department commander of the G. A. IL, R. S. Thompson of Rising Sun was re-elect-ed commander of the Sons of Veterans and Miss Addie Wallace was elected president of the Ladies’ Aid Society. Mrs. Olive Allison of Logansport is the new president of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and Mrs. Mary J. _ Hadley was chosen president of the Woman's Relief Corps. The main feature of the first day was the parade and grand review. About five thousand persons were in line. During the second day the various organizations were iu Intsiness session and the general business for the year of the different orders was cleaned up. At the morning session of the G. A. R. resolutions were adopted strongly condemning the action of Pension Commissioner Evans for not giving more liberal construction to the pension laws. The resolution demands his removal from office and copies of it will be sent to the different Congressmen and President McKinley. The Sons of Veterans adopted a resolution authorizing a committee of the division to recruit three or more regiments from Sons of Veterans camps to enlist on the second call in the war with Spain. This organization will also make an effort to have the Sons of Veterans recognized as a reserve force to “suppress insurrections and repel invasions.” The next encampment of the G. A. R. and W. R. C. will be held at Terre Haute. Next year the State meeting of the Son* of Veterans and Ladies’ Aid Society will be at Shelbyville.

ANOTHER WIFE HEARD FROM. Terre Haute Woman Fcara She Wa» Tricked and Swindled. Mrs. Olissa Thurman, who was the widow of the late Prof. Thurman of the Terre Haute High School, is in doubt whether she is now the wife of S. J. Slade or his dupe. Slade was a traveling agent of a Toledo firm when he became acquainted with Mrs. Thurman last Janutry. They were married a month later, and she made several trips with him hi this State and Illinois. He represented that he was a widower and that he owned fine proi>erty in Ohio, but as he could not legally dispose of it he wanted her to raise $2,000, which she did by selling her property. Slade left Terre Haute a few weeks ago. A few days ago the wife received a letter from him dated at Haskins, Ohio, and she says it was such as an affectionate husband should write. The same mail brought a letter from the Ohio authorities asking the police of Terre Haute to locate Slade, saying he was wanted by his wife, who lives in Maumee, near Toledo.

CHILD BURIED ALIVE. Mrs. Thompson Arraigned at Terre Haute for a Horrible Crime. At Terre Haute, Mrs. Mary Thompson vzaa arraigned for trial on the charge of burying her 4-iuouths-old child alive, to which she partly confessed about a year ago. She was jointly indieted with Geo. Cottom, whom she afterward accused of committing the crime, although she said she was present when it was done. Her husband had secured a divorce from her because of her infatuation for Cottom two years before. When a detective called on her to ask about the missing child she tvok him to a spot in the woods where four days before it had been buried. It was found in a basket in a shallow grave, but still alive, with its little hands chitehed in front of its mouth. Nourishment was given to it, and to-day it is walking about as healthy as any child of its age. Big Suit in Fort Wayne. The suit of the Guardian Trust Company of Cleveland against the Fort Wayne Consolidated Street Railroad, has begun in Fort Wayne. It involves about $500,000 and is for the foreclosure of the mortgage bonds. Frank De Haas Robinson and J. J. Shiperd took some of the bonds for security, and others bought the bonds in the Chicago and New York markets. Those purchasers claim rights over the Shiperd and Robinson claims. Robinson at one time alleged that Shiperd hypothecated a large number of the bonds and diverted the money obtained to his own private use, when it legally belonged to the street railroad company. The case is full of intricate questions.

His Moners Were Tested.

Mary Russell Mitford used to declare that there was no place in England like her “sunny Berkshire.” As to the country people, they were unmatched for their suavity, courtesy and respectful manners. One day Miss Mitford wan walking through a pasture with an Incredulous London lady. There was a lad driving a cow and his manners were to be tested. “Now,” said Miss Mitford, “you will see how gallant are our country folk,” There was a gate tabe opened and the boy opened it and the ladles passed through. The London . lady put a question to the boy: “You’re 1 not Berkshire, I’m sure?” And this was j the gentle boy's reply: “Thee’rt a liar, | vor I be.”—Chicago Daily News.

Odds and Ends.

In Egypt fans made of parchment or j feathers were used lu religious eete-M monies. ”1 In Australia spring begins Aug. 20, .1 summer Nov, 20, autumn Feb. 20, and ’ winter May 20. The wearing of orange blossoms as a | bridal decoration originated in the days | of the Crusaders. Gen. Boulanger's black charger, on J which he hoped to ride to a throne, now > draws a Paris cab.