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SECRETARY LONG MAKES THE
WELCOME ANNOUNCEMENT
Battleship Left San Francisco About
Seven Weeks Ago and Has Traveled
Over 13000 3liIes Spanish Fleet to
Go to the Philippines
Dons Didnt Get Her
Washington special
Secretary Long gave out the welcome
information Wednesday that the battle
ship Oregon the second largest craft in
the American navy had successfully com
pleted her long trip from San Francisco
making the entire circuit of South Ameri
ca and was safe The rigid secrecy of
the navy department was relaxed only
enough to make known the best news the
navy department had received since the
battle of Manilla as it meant not only
the Oregon was out of harms way from
a concerted attack on this one ship by the
whole Spanish squadron in southern
waters but also that her great fighting
strength would be added to Admiral
Sampsons force
The Oregon left San Francisco before
the war had opened and at that time it
was not admitted that she was to join the
ships in Atlantic waters She stopped at
Callao for dispatches and then went
round the Horn and up the east coast
of South America In all the trip cov
ered 13000 miles The last stretch from
Bahia to the Windward islands was fol
lowed with anxiety by naval ofiicers for
by a strange coincidence the formidable
Spanish squadron of armored cruisers and
torpedo boats approached the Windward
islands at the very time when the Oregon
was due there It had been suspected that
the Spanish admiral would try to inter
cept the battleship with -his superior force
and before leaving Bahia Capt Clark of
the Oregon was warned to keep a close
lookout for the Spanish fleet In reply
COMMODOKK W S SCHLEY
In Command of the Flying Squadron
Capt Clark expressed his confidence in
being able to hold his own single banded
with the Oregon against all the Spanish
cruisers The only apprehension -he felt
was as to the torpedo boats under tihe
Spanish admirals command Notwith
standing Capt Clarks assurances the
navy department continued to feel that a
meeting between the Spanish squadron and
the American battleship on such unequal
terms was far from desirable and might
bring most serious results For this
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128000 MEN READY
Great Volunteer Arniy Mustered in
for the Cuban War
Washington special
Nearly the whole of the 128000 volun
teers have now been mustered in There
will yet be slight delay in filling out some
of the quotas but the great volunteer
army is substantially complete
The army is not yet in condition for an
immediate forward movement however
Not all of the volunteers intended for the
invading army have gotten as far as
Ohickamauga and fewer have arrived at
Tampa The war managers have found
the national guards woefully deficient in
arms ammunition uniforms and other
equipments and artillery batteries are
reported without guns carriages horses
or harness The war department is bend
ing afll its energies to remedying these de
ficiencies but it takes time It has es
tablish a supply deot at Chickainau
ga and will probably have another at
Washington
The war department finds the country
is short on the modern arms adopted by
the regular army It finds difficulty also
in getting promptly because of
the unexpected emergency Some of the
Chicago packers even went so far as to
reimport cargoes of provisions that had
been sent to England In foreign coun
tries where large standing armies are to
be counted on all the time there is am
ple provision for meeting the demands of
the soldiers
There is a tendency to criticize the
President and the war department for the
slowness with which the volunteer army
is being organized but neither of thean is
to blame The President will insist on
having the raw recruits properly equip
ped organized into brigades divisions and
corps before ordering a movement on
Cuba Military men say this may take
two or three weeks but the government
is applying Yankee energy to push the
work as rapidly as possible This frank
statement of the unsatisfactory condi
tion in which the national guard has been
found must not be taken as a reflection
on the patriotic militiamen They have
given their time and money to the ser
vice and are now offering their lives and
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con the official information reaching the
authorities telling of the Oregons safety
was a source of most hearty congratula
tion
SieRC Train for Army of Invasion
Arrangements are being made by the
New York quartermasters department
for a siege train to be shipped to Cuba
and to follow in the wake of the invading
army The train will be able to carry
00000 pounds of artillery and will be
used for supplies in the bombardment of
interior towns
Escapes from 3Iorro Castle
Lieut Senor Don Carlos Argamonte
who fought under Gen Maceo and was
made prisoner by Gen Weyler and who
was confined in Morro Castle has escap
ed and arrived in Tampa bringing impor
tant dispatches including full fortifica
tion plans with him
Will Take Merritts Place
Generaf Merritts successor as com
mander of the department of the East will
be Brigadier General Royal T Frank
lately commandant of the artillery school
jit Fort Monroe
if their equipments are lacking it is not
their fault
As a Base of Supplies
Hawaii will not declare neutx ality
President Dole considering such a course
as a breach of good faith He is confi
dently expecting the Unitfcd States to
raise its flag above the islands and use
them as a base of supplies Hawaiian
senators indorse President Doles stand
and the measure only needs ratification
by President McKinley
Force Landed at Manila
The North German Gazette has advices
from Manila to the effect that Admiral
Dewey has taken all the artillery rifles
and ammunition from the forts at Cavite
and Corregidor Island He has also land
ed men to cut off the Manila garrison from
the interior of the island of Luzon
Deweys Blockade Is Effective
It is reported via Hong Kong that
Dewey ias captured a number of Spanish
steamers and several coasting vessels at
the Philippines No vessel has yet suc
ceeded m running his blockade
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DEFENSES OF HAVANA IN DETAIL
Shot Down Without Mercy
It appears from information brought by
the Empress of India that the Spanish
did a little bombarding on their own ac
count in the Philippines about a fortnight
before Admiral Dewey silenced their
ADMIRAL CERVEBA
Commander of the Spanish Fleet
fleet About the middle of April sajs a
Manila report Spanish troops met no op
position on landing the rebels having ab
sconded before a shot was fired taking
with them it is said 200000 in casih
About thirty natives were killed in the
bombardment but no European casual
ties are reported Cebu which ranks
third in the cities in the Philippines was
wrecked by the bombardment A massa
cre of rebels by the Spanish also preceded
Admiral Deweys arrival
PANIC REIGNED IN CIENFUEGOS
Bombardment by the American Ships
Terrified the People
Information has been received at Key
West from Oienfuegos giving agraphicae
count of the excitement in that city when
the encounter occurred between Spanish
soldiers on shore and tie cable cutting
expedition which resulted in the death of
two and the wounding of five Americans
The Cuban city was panic stricken the
church bells were rung and the alanms
were sounded on all sides Atothe 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 Mairblehead began shooting and
knocked the lighthouse to splinters men
women and children lied 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 Oienfuegos The Spanish govern
ment is una ble to control the exodus
RAN THE SPANISH GANTLET
Uncle Sam Will Make Gunpowder
from Captain Fulchcrs Sulphur
The British steamship City of Truro
Captain Fulehcr which sailed from Lica
ta Sicily the day war was declared by
Spain with a cargo of 2600 tons of sul
phur for the United States has arrived
safely in port at New York Sulphur be
cause of its use in the manufacture of
explosives is one of the articles declared
by Spain to be contraband of war amd
the Truros cargo was liable to seizure
by any Spanish cruiser or privateer hover
ing about Gibraltar Captain Fulcher
was warned to keep a weather eye out 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 Shiunecock Long Island
SPAIN IS ANGERED
Doesnt Like the Speech Made by Jos
eph Chamberlain
The speech made by Mr Joseph Cham
berlain the British colonial minister at
Birmingham Friday night has produced
very unfavorable comment in Madrid
His references to Spain have created a
bad impression Prime Minister Sagasta
and Senor Gullon minister of foreign af
fairs held a conference on the subject
after which Senor Sagasta said If we
had said what Mr Chamberlain said Eu
rope would have regarded us as reckless
Both the prime minister and Senor Gullon
believe the speech indicates that a war
is being prepared for with an Anglo-American
alliance
CUBANS FAILED TO APPEAR
Captain Dorsts Expedition Proves to
Be a Failure
The steamer Gussie which was to have
lauded an expedition in Cuba with a large
quantity of arms and ammunition return
ed to Key West without having accom
plished its purpose The reception which
our men met from the Spanish was very
hot and on account of the Cubans who
were to have met Captain Dorst and par
ty failing to put in their appearance at
the appointed time and place the expedi
tion returned t
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SPANISH CABINET QUITS
Members of the Sagasta Ministry All
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All the members of the Spanish cabinet
have resigned The liberal cabinet un
der Sagasta was formed shortly after the
death of Canovas Del Castillo who was
assassinated Aug 8 1897 by an Italian
anarchist named Golli Gen Azcarraga
the then minister of war was first ap
pointed president of the council and for
a time the cabinet remained unchanged
But Sept 29 it resigned and Sagasta as
sumed office Oct 4 confronted by the
troubles in Cuba and in the Philippine
Islands
The minister of marine Admiral Ber
mejo the minister of war Gen Correa
and especially the minister for the colo
nies were repeatedly attacked in parlia
ment and out of it and rumors of resigna
tions tendered or to be tendered were in
dustriously circulated The difficulty it
appears is to find men who are willing
to assume office under the conditions
which now prevail in Spain An empty
treasury internal disorders and the loss
of the Philippine Islands Cuba and Torto
Rico are not the only problems confront
ing Spanish ministers and it is not as
tonishing that under the circumstances a
military dictatorship under possibly Mar
shal Martinez Campos has been discussed
The new Spanish cabinet has been form
ed as follows
President of the Council Senor Sagasta
Foreign Affairs Leon y Castillo
War Lieut Gen Corres
Marine Senor Aunon
Colonies Romero GIron
Finance Lopez Puigicerver
Interior p r Capdepon
Justice c Groizard
Public Instruction Gamazo
FROM THE FRONT
The battleship Oregon is the first war
ship 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 cof
fee 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 Republi
can leaders are deliberately planning to
bring on a revolt in Spain
The Spanish defenses at Caimanera
Cuba consist of an ironclad wooden shan
ty and an ancient cannon
The recruits for Secretary Roosevelts
rough riders include football players
steeplechasers clubmen and policemen
The Minneapolis lodge of a Jewish or
der in memory of the expulsion of the
MAJ GE2TEBAI MEBRITT
Jews from Spain has offered a bounty of
25 and remission of lodge dues to all
members who enlist for war against
Spain
Great Britain has as many war vessels
in Asiatic waters as France Russia and
Germany combined and they are far
more modern and powerful
Many wealthy Philippine families are
going back to the islands from Hong
Kong and are taking the oath of alle
giance to the United States
Several decided improvements have
been added to the plans of four new mon
itors for our navy which will render them
practicably indestructible except by tor
pedoes
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
The bodies of twenty four of the heroes
who lost their lives in the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor on the night of
Feb 15 have been buried in the potters
field at Key West
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ARMADA EVADES SAMPSON AND
REACHES PORT
Madrid Report Says Spanish Ships
Have Reached Harbor on South Coast
of Cuba Admiral Sampson Joins
Schley and Hia Flying Squadron
Now for a Battle
A report Friday from Santiago de Cuba
by the way of Madrid said that the Span
ish fleet has 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 Cuba
Cervera could have but two purposes in
putting into Santiago de Cuba The first
would be to get coal of which Spain may
have a supply there The second to re
lieve the Spanish garrison of 10000
troops stationed there who have been
practically cut off from Blanco and from
all supplies since the blockade of Oienfue
gos These troops were dependent on the
coasting fleet for their supplies as there
is no railroad connection between Santi
ago and Havana and the country be
tween 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 without meeting the
American fleet for there has been no
blockade at Santiago
Sampson at Key West
Rear Admiral Sampson with the divis
ion of the North Atlantic squadron under
his command wbich attacked San Juan
Torto Rico returned to Key West where
he effected a junction with the flying
squadron He has under his orders the
battleships Iowa Indiana and Massachu
setts second class battleship Texas and
armored cruisers Brooklyn and New York
which makes him superior by two arnior
clads to the Spanish fleet
SAILORS SLAIN
American Seamen Victims to Treach
ery of Philippine Insurgents
Advices from Manila by way of Hong
Kong say that the insurgents are mutual
ly at loggerheads Some u e eager to be
freed from Spanish rule while others re
sent 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 Ac
cording to report the insurgent leaders
who accompanied Admiral Dewey refus
ed to disembark apparently fearing that
they would be repudiated Another re
port says that some Spaniards professing
to be insurgents fraternized with the
Americans near Cavite and then massa
cred them
Polo Secures Coaling Station
A dispatch from Montreal says Senor
Polo y Bernabe has secured by cable a
coal depot near St Pierre Miuelon the
French colony off the south coast of New
foundland at which the Cadiz squadron
will coal previous to attacking the At
lantic seacoast of the United States
while the Cape Verde squadron com
manded by Admiral Cervera draws off
the squadrons commanded by Rear Ad
miral Sampson and Commodore Schley
CYCLONES KILL SEVENTY
Devastation Wrought in Illinois Iowa
and Wisconsin
Killed
Rockford 111 12
Freeport 111 3
Princeton III l
Sheffield III
Dubuque Iowa 26
Wausau Wis 5
Antlgo Wis 3
Rhiuelander Wis 17
Injured
100
30
7
3
200
25
30
50
Battle Creek Mich l
Ardmore I T 2 10
Total 70 455
Cyclones which whirled over vast tracts
In Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin early
Monday evening killed it is now reported
about 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 and tele
phone and telegraph connection in the
afflicted sections was badly broken The
list of those injured will never be com
plete only a few of the more serious cases
being reported by name A careful esti
mate 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 wiue Dens or Territory in several cases
clear across counties will reach hundreds
of thousands ofrdollars The damage was
bo 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 IInes
At Marysville Mo a man recently sold
a hog for 37 and with 17 bought a good
horse
Many people at Pine Bluff Arkf were
driven from their homes by the breaking
of the levees
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 cruis
ers being built there for Japan
The States of Pennsylvania New York
Illinois and Alabama nave more popula
tion than Spain and vastly more wealth
Three hundred persons have been exe
cuted 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
Hie historic structure can be held on the
Fourth of
The Queen of Greece has the unusual
distinction of being the only Avoman ad
miral 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 Tenu Jane Allen
aged 18 jumped from a fast traveling
passenger train and was instantly killed
ft 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 realizing the danger leaped
to her death I
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ALPHONSO BETROTHED y
Is Only Twelve Tears 01d ailJ
His Fiancee Is Fifteen
A cable dispatch says that Frauds
Joseph Emperor of Austria -will short
ly announce the betrothal of the Arch
duchess Elizabeth his little grand
daughter to Alphonso XIII the King
of Spain
The Archduchess Elizabeth seems to
hare been born to trouble Her little
life has been often clouded Tragedy
has chased scandal and scandal trag
edy Her father was the Crown Prince
Rudolph whose tragic death murder
or suicide at Meyerling after a life of
escapades was one of the most extraor
dinary stories of his generation Her
mother the Crown Princess Stephanie
is the daughter of the King of Belgium
a woman erratic as the wind whose
acts have frequently given rise to scan
dals and who has never shown a motu
ers love for her child Were it not for
the affection of the aged Emperor whe
lms been not only a father but a com
panion and playf ellow of the little heir
ess to his throne her life would have
been far from happy But the Empe
ror and to a less extent the Empress
have played the parts of father and
mother and shielded her to the best of
their ability
She was born the child of a loveless
marriage on Sept 2 1883 and was
named Elizabeth Marie Henriette Ste
phanie Gisela She took her first com
munion when 12 years old in the chapel
of the Imperial Palace at Vienna At
the conclusion of the ceremony she gave
her mother the cut direct and walking
up to the old Emperor of whom she
was passionately fond was clasped in
his arms and covered -with affectionater
kisses
The Austrians and Hungarians both
of whom were very fond of good-natured
but profligate Rudolph Unser
Rudi as they called him gave his
place in their hearts to Elizabeth
-whom they called Our Little Lady
By Rudolphs will she was made the
ward of her grandparents and nobody
was surprised or displeased unless ifc
was Stephanie herself who never show
ed any signs of anger at this post-mortem
evidence of the Crown Princes sen
timents regarding his wife
Should she become the consort of the
youthful King of Spain who is three
years her junior she will likely find
more trouble awaiting her in trying to
rest easy upon that tottering throne
New York World
Natures Gardens in Alaska
The most expensive least spoiled and
most unspoilable of the gardens of the
continent says John Muir in the At
lantic are the vast tundras of Alaska
Every summer they extend smooth
even undulating continuous beds of
flowers and leaves from about latitude
G2 degrees to the shores of the Arctic
Ocean And in winter sheets of snow
flowers make all the country shine odi
mass of white radiance like a star Nor
are these Arctic plant people the pitiful
frost pinched unfortunates they are
guessed to be by those who have never
seen them Though lowly in stature
keeping near the frozen ground as If
loving it they are bright and cheery
and speak natures love as plainly as
their big relatives of the South Ten
derly happed and tucked in beneath
downy snow to sleep through the huge
white winter they make haste to bloom
in the spring without trying to grow
tall though some rise high enough to
ripple and wave In the wind and dis
play masses of color yellow purple
and blue so rich they look like beds of
rainbows and are visible miles and
miles away And in Septem
ber the tundra glows in creamy goldenr
sunshine and the colors of the ripe
foliage of the heathworts willows and
birch red purple and yellow In pure
bright tones are enriched with those
of berries which are scattered every
where as if they had been showered
down from the clouds like hail their
colors with those of the leaves and
stems blending harmoniously with the
neutral tints of the ground of lichens
and mosses on which they seem to be
painted
Leather Coats
Leather coats are made of sheepskin
of horsehide and of dogskin They are
lined with corduroy with flannel and
with sheeps wool The corduroy lined
coats are made reversible so that thej
may be worn either side out The coatT
Df sheepskin are usually finished black
the horsehide and dogskin coats russet
colored A leather coat of sheepskin
corduroy lined costs about 5 horse
hide coats sell fox- 12 to 15 and dog
skin coats for 18
Leather coats are worn in the West
by truckmen and policemen and hunt
ers and lumbermen The leather coaf
Is serviceable and warm without great
bulk The duck shooter lying per
haps for hours in a battery waiting
keeps warm in a leather coat The
sportsman after big game wears a
leather coat It keeps the wearer warm
without impeding his movements
A leather coat is sometimes worn un
der another coat for the sake of its
warmth as perhaps by a policeman
And thedeather coat may be worn with
the corduroy side out so that mora
leather coats are worn here in cities
than might be supposed
Tea the Curse or Thibet
The Times of India declares that teo
drinking is the curse of Thibet The
people it says have such an insa
tiable craving for the beverage that
they will sell their houses their llocks
their very children to procure it II
ever an apostle appears in Thibet he
will have to preach a crusade in ravoi
of whisky drinking in order to wean
the inhabitants from their national
vice
After a woman passes a certain age
attempts to renew her youth by curlins
and powdering often
result in a su
Sfcion of Immorality
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