Dayton 7 Herald
FOR PORTO RICO
DAYTON
The Vanguard of the
America» Army
Has Sailed.
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
•Iga Laa«s
the navy is steadily inareasiag, and the
The fifth Manila expedition, com ordnance bureau is receiving mese than
prising 8,000 troops, is about. ready to 8,000 pounds daily for tbs big gene.
leave San Francisco.
The allied armies at Santiago are Mt
Shafter's refasal to
' The transports Peru and Puebla have on friendly terms
left San Francisco for Honolulu with allow Garcia’s troops to enter the cap
tured city has served to criden the
troops for the islands.
breach.
The San Francisco Examiner says the
The schooner Throe Belle and tbei
Bennington has gone North to consort
sloop
Pilgrim, captured by the gunboat I
Alaska treasure ships.
Dixie, near Manaanillo, an July 0,
Unde Sam has bought an Australian have aiilved in Key West under prim
liner, the steamer Culgoa. She is now crews.
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being transformed into a cruiser.
The Spanish flag no longer waves
An island known as the Marons of over Caimanera.
The town and har-
Weeks, between Honolulu and tho Phil
bor, together with 5,000 I
ippines, flies the United States flag and have surrendered to officers
has l>een offered to this country as a Marblehead.
nnaling anation
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President McKinley has given ex-
piession to a strong hope for an early
peace. Rea|>ondihg to oongratulationa
on the success of the Santiago cam
paign, he said: “I hope for an early
peace now.”
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The transport steamer Pennsylavnia,
with the First Montana regiment and
300 recruits for the First California
volunteers, has railed iron San Fran
cisco for the Philippines.
Four Oregon volunteer officers are in
trouble at the Philippines.
Captains
Both nations are reaping benefits
Heath, Wells and Prescott and Lien- j
from the Anglo-American friendliness.
! tenant Telfer are likely to be court-
The non-conourrenoe of Great Britain
martialed for having overstayed a leave
in the proposal for European interven of absence.
tion between America and Spain, it ie
The cruiser Buffalo, our purchase I
claimed, thwarted the designs of the I
from Brasil, is to be fitted out at once I
fiowers.
for service. Commander Hemphill will I
LPremier Ragasta is quoted as saying*
superintend the work of repair and I
“Spain wants peace, but it must be an
command the vessel when she goes into I
honorable peace, as Spain ileservea.
The army is anxious to resist to the commission.
lust, but the government cannot con
From Oakland, Cat, comes a report
sent to such useless sacrifice. Had we of a terrible deed committed by a Chi
our fleet, the situation would have been nese murderer.
Brought to bay in a
very different.’’
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powder magasine, he blew it up and
A decree has been published suspend wrecked the entire plant, killing six
ing throughout Spain the rights of indi- persons besides himself.
vidifals as guaranteed by the oonstitu- I
pear. The publication of the decree is
accepted aa proof that peace negotia
tions are actually in progresa.
A special dispatch from*Madrid quotes
Premier Sagasta as saying in an inter-
v*iew that he.- thought tho Americans
would “get the reinforcements they
required, which would enable them to
take Santiago.’' The premier is said
to have added: “Though the American
.warships may destroy onr squadron in
the harbor, yet we will pursue the war.
There are in Culm 100,000 men toady
to die in its defense. ”
Advices from Honolulu state that
several mild.cases of measles have
broken out since the arrival of the Pa
cific coast troops.
General Shafter has asked the war
As one important result of the op-
ture of Santiago, the iron and steel
mines are to resume operations at one«.
American companies will handle the
output of the Cuban mines as was the
! care before their operation was suapt nd
ed- by order of the Spanish officers.
The war department has received a i
dispatch from General Shafter, saying
that the raster of prisoners has been
handed in by General Toni, and that
the total is 83.789 men.
General
Shafter’s dispatch added that the pris
oners turned over to him tar exceed in
number the strength of his own army. I
The Madrid public are not satisfied
A London correspondent of a French i with the surrender of Santiago. The
journal says the powers will intervene 1 terms exacted of Toral are regarded as
and the United States will ba robbed being too severe.
of the Philippines,
It ie calculated by government offi
While at Honolulu an American flag
cials that Commodore Watson will reach
was presented to the cruiser Charleston
the Canaries about August 1 and be
by the Queen Dowager Kapiolani of
ready to strike a blow at the Spanish
Hawaii, in token of friendship for the
1 coast a few days later. ,
United States.
The United States will take »wr
News of the defeat of the impérial
hoops near Woo Chow Is confirmed in diate steps to collect eatoms revenue at
Hong Kong. The loss of the imperial | Santiago as a war contribution, and a
forces is probably more than 1.500 I government customs office will be
opened there and be ready for Imalnrm
killed.
at once. Thia action will be taken
A beautiful American flag has been
pending final settlement of the ques
sent by the steamer Alameda to the Ha
tion of the status of Cuba after the
waiian chamber of commerce to be un-
close of the war.
fnrled at the ceremonies of raising the !
flag in that city. It was the gift of the |
Riots have broken out in the Hyanish I
»chamber of commerce of San Francisco. province of Huelva,
in Adalusia.
By the explosion of a boiler in the The inhabitants marched to the muni
Niagara starch works the building was cipal buildings, shouting for cheep
wrecked and six persons were killed bread. Rioters to the number of 4,000
and 20 injured. Two others are miss racked many private houses. They I
ing, who are supposed to have perished. were finally dispersed by the artillery. I
Of the persons in the building, only and energetic measures will be taken
two escaped. Most of the injured were to prevent a renewal of the disturb- I
persons outside the works. Scaroely ances.
a house within 1,0^0 feet of the works
A statistical report regarding the
escaped being hit ffjth bricki, twisted
commerce of Porto Rico has been ini 1 '
iron orjieavy timbers.
by the department of agriculture. |
A dispatch to the London Daily Trade is increasing, and a comparative I
News f;om Gibraltar tells a long story statement of the imports and exports of I
of a pseudo wealthy Mexican Who was Spain’s easternmost Wset Indian poe- |
lionised fur six weeks at Madrid, and session in the years 188« and ISM I
that its commerce is well worth I
Cadis, dined with Admiral iCamsrs, shows
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inspected the fleet and defenses, and in having
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and its growth constant.
every way won the oonOdenoe of the
The advance guard of the Porto '
officials, only to disapfiear the moment
a warrant was issued for his arrest. Rican invading expedition, commanded '
He afterward confessed to the oorre- by General Miles, has sailed from
sfMmdent that he was a captain in the Siboney. Four batteries of artillery
Second Texas Hangers, and was acting and a few seasoned troops compose it.
as the confidential agent of the United General Brooke reported that his army
was reedy to proceed immediately with
States government
the occupation of Ure island. The en-
The first and most daring train rob- tiré expedition, it is thought, will em
bery in years on the Truckee division
bark from Newport News within the
ol the Central Pacific occurred two
next fortnight.
miles cast of Humboldt Two masked
Word has reached San Francisco from
robbers held up the East-bound ex
press train. The engineer and fireman St. Michaels that the steamer Cboe-
were taken off the engine and compelled maugh from Seattle, wm overtaken in
to go to the express car, the robbers Behring sea by a hurricane, and that
climbing over the tender and covering her tow. a river steamer laden with
them with revolvers and a Winchester storea, was lost. Two barges towed bv
rifle. The robbers blew open the ex a steamer of the Alaska Commercial
press car door with dynamite and also
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blew the safe open, The car wag coin- They poet about *20,000. A similar
pletely demolished.
The amount se- fate overtook a new river boat towed
card is not known.
No one was hurt by the Nations! City. The low in the
* in the explosion.
last case was *50,000.
Four of Garcia’s men have died from
Spain is arming a third fleet and ex« over-eating, and three others who went
peets to have it at sea in five weeks.
swimming after gorging themaeiveo
President McKinley will take no wore found dead.
vacation nntil the war crisis is passed.
Maj. -Gen. Shafter holds a medal off
The harbor pal ml Easels. Governor honor awarded to him for distinguish«!
Russell, East Boston, Arab and Apache, agllantry in the battle of .Fair Oaka.
Va„ May 81, 1803.
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will join the blockading squadron off
Cuba.
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The defenses of Santiago are charac
Methodist missionaries are to be sent teristically Spanish, consisting, as they I
into the different Spanish possessions do, of linea of barb-wire fence hark of
which will soon pass to American con which are rifle pits and then block I
trol.
houses of forts.
Swift A Co. have been awarded a
Captain Harrington, detashed from
contract to furnish about 100,000 pounds command of the monitor Puritan, is in I
of meat daily to the army*
the hospital at Key West, having been I
stricken with paralysis.
‘Miwamal -Shafter and hie escort, aooom
Yantad fiy General Toral, rode ttirou¿h
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Ita-«tv-usknig formal ptrreeesion. The
imd taren eaoked by the Spaniard*
Voeeost.
M fitter stage setting for a
tama«tti -epnuric it Would be difficult
*> amagare. The palace, a picturesque
m M ftedimg tn the Moorhiti style of
Siri Ilian th- fretnteii building with bioad
weaandea, tie club of ban Carlos; on
"its«- other • building of the same de-
wentem. Hre-Qde de là Venus.
■wuatoy hand. In the «treat facing the
1*ffiSMteed a picked troop of the Sw-
•«d oroaity with drawn sabers, umier
ommuand df Captain B h U Massed
' Mte-tausstffaggh« hetween the band
mdtaret ha roemtn were the brigade
cmaasatewi of General Shafter’s dlvi*
Am ttttt. fih&wteSs. Un the red-tiled
■waWlffif Meyuhra, stood Captain Mo-
XsttenA. lAeotmamt Miley and Lieu-
-auMUl Wheeler.
immediately above
them « tire flagstaff was tire ille-
roxnaaari hpanMh arurt and the legend
mm«: tioarn citewra of our troops. (
®waudaw»yy mume to “older arms"
.mManawt inter, after tire flag was up
M^Atar. ted played “Italiy ’Bound
te««g. ffiqyB.” Inetantiy. General
•eSMtaati calisS for three ctreerr for
Gmiasal HLafter, which were given
I^BA^saat -enthaaiasm, the band pl«r
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jtouimit, 1 know pon-
»«ore rnconv«ni lent
MUggumubi*- tn th«- German aaMnet
the Unwed State*.
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*f the press here ridiculing, as
the report* iff the
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Ont of" ! 40 colored volunteers exam
ined at Topeka, Kaa.. M were acrent-
underweight Tho average young negro
was six feet tall, but isHite
lighter than the average white
the
•am* height