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YOL. XY. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1888. NUMBER <;
War Is Declared.
Congress Issued Formal Declaration of War
Monday, April 25
FIRST GUN FIRED APRIL 22, 11 P. M.
^ SOME VALUABLE PRIZE* TAKEN. -STATE FORCE* MOBILIZING AT OLD
PORT OMAHA.—DISPATCHES OF THE WEEK.
The congress of the United States made a formal declara
tion of war on Monday last, the resolution passing both houses
without debate, or without a single dissenting vote, it being
passed as a matter of fact, war having already been in oppera
tion for several days. The first gun fired at the enemy in fact,
was fired by Spain from Morro Castle, near Havana, the guns
from the Castle opening on our fleet at eleven o’clock the night
of the 22nd, but no vessels were struck.
The fleet is closely investing the several seaport towns of
Cuba, and no vessel is allowed to enter their ports. Many rich
prizes have been captured by our fleet. Insurgent General
Gomez, and General Miles are planing to work in concert with
forces of the Insurgents, and the land and naval forces of the
United States. A decisive battle between our fleet and that
ot Spain, now in the vicinity of the Philippine Islands was ex
pected to take place yesterday.
The following is the associated press dispatches as re
ceived by the Northwestern, showing the condition of affairs
at the seat of war, from day to day./—by H G McVicker,
night editor State Journal,
Special to the Northwestern.—Lincoln, Neb. Apr. 22
6 p. m.—President McKinley issued a proclamation to-day for
authorizing the blockade of Havana. This being the first
actual declaration of war. The North Atlantic squadron
sailed immediately from Key West for Cuba with orders to
bombard Havana. On their way out they sighted a Spanish
merchantman loaded with coal and provision for he Spaniards.
She was ordered to surrender and upon refusal two shots were
fired at her which had the desired effect, she surrendered to
our fleet, and a prize crew was put on board and she was run
/back to Key West, The squadron proceeded on her way to
A Cuba. They will reach Mantanzas or Havana this evening
* and a naval battle is looked for tonight or in the morning.
Lincoln, Neb., April 23., 10: a. m.—President issued his
proclamation blocking all ports of Cuba and fleet was ordered
to Cuba waters to enforce proclamation. Spanish fleet is still
at Cape Verde. All U. S war vessels ready to move.
Special to the Northwestern—Lincoln, Neb., April 23,
12:00 m.—The North Atlantic Squadron is now at Cuba carry
ing out the proclamation of the President to blockade all Cub
an Ports and capture all Spanish vessels possible. The flying
Squadron is at Fort Monroe, Va. with steam up ready to sail
at a moments notice. Cuba insurgents reports .'15,(X>0 men
armed ready to co-operate with the U. S. aud 25,(XX) more if
arms can be supplied them. Jacksonville, Fla. Dispatches
Report naval battle at 10:00 o’clock last night 25 miles off the
coast, but not given much credit.
Special to the Northwkstkiin.—Lincoln, Neb., Apr. It
3 p. in.—Situation unchanged. Paris ship is safe, cannot be
overtaken now. Oregon also, has been noli fieri of state of
war. Blocka«le of Tuba ports effective.
Special to the North wkstkrn —Lincoln, Neb., Apr. 1*5,
H a. in. Rumored capture of the Alphunao Mil by the flag
ship New York. Kearnev. Ordand Broken llow militia ordered
to Fort Crook, Neb. where stale militia is mobilizing. 133,*
OUO voulenleera called for by the President, Nebraska's
quota is 3,100.
Lincoln Special, April 33, 0 30 p m.—-Coogreea has is-tu
cd formal declaration of war Blockade of Havana t 'em*
plots Mempsou asks permission to ItomlMird the city No
vessels known to be captured by the Spani«h yet Our fleet
tiff llavaua cspturss 7 vessel* and one of them a war ship
Worru Castle bombarded the diet, **> far no t«n*el* struck
Luucola special. April 3*Hk,—Port snd Batteries reduced
to ruins, made so by Uun bard ment began yesterday evening
Port first tired at fiagshin New York, Cincinnati and Puritan,
came to her rescue and these cruisers shelled the town with
terrible effect ltiport<d halsy hundreil killed but this may
!
be exaggeration, known to have been loss of life however, firing
lasted 20 minutes. American fleet comes out without a scratch:
Shells from enemies batteries either fall short or go over head:
Purpose of reducing fort said to be permanent, to land 50 thous
and troops. Monitor Terror all but sunk Spanish ship Guido
which tried to escape when signalled to surrender, captured at
daybreak today. McKinley has told Portugal to order Spanish
fleet out of her waters or she will be considered ally of Spain
and we will act accordingly, Spain running short of coal pur
poses preying on American Merchantmen. Asiatic squadron
moving directly on Philippines, should reach there tomorrow.
BEST PBIZE OF ALL
SPANISH AUXILIARY CRUISER
YIELDS TO INEVITABLE
MANGROVE TAKES HER
From Stats Journal
Key West. April 2fl, I :.'J0 p in.—
The light house, Tender Mangrove
puffed proud ley into Key West har
bor this morning with the richest
prize of war thus far. The captive
was the Panama, Captain Quevedo,
a big trans-Atlantic liner, and an
auxiliary crusier of tbe Spanish
navy, which has been plying of late
between New York and Havana.
She had twenty-nine passengers and
crew of seventy-two.
As the Panama carried two twelve
pounders she could easily have an
militated the little Mangrove and as
tbe latter came into barber with her
prize there was not a craft but that
saluted her with rousing cheers.
The Mangrove under Lieutenant
Commander Everett, was cruising
along the Cuban coast shortly before
<1 o’clock last evening, about twenty
miles north of Havana. At f>:45
p. in. she sighted the Panama and
scudded towards the stranger.
When the latter came within range
a shot from the Mangrove's twelve
pounder was sent across her bow,
but the Spaniard ignored the chal
lenge and went on. Another shot
followed without result, but the Man
grove was drawing nearer the stran
ger, who calmly proceeded on her
course, apparently without any in
tention of running away.
When the first shot was fired the
Mangrove was within a hundred vards
of tbe Panama, and Lieutenant-Com
mander Everett shouted to the deuk
officer that if she did not surrender
be would sink her. The Mangrove’s
otlisers admit that they expected
tbe enemy’s twelve-pounder to open
on lh»‘ii in response to the threat,
but the Spaniard promptly came to.
Knsigu Pastou, the senior officer of
the Mangrove, iioarded the prize.
The battleship Indiana had seen
the capture aud meanwhile diew up
to the Mangrove, giving her a lualy
sheer. Lieutenant-Commander Ev
erett reported to Captain Tay lor of
the battleship aud tbe latter put a j
prize crew ou the captive. They
then proceeded to the flagship,
where a formal rejxirt »n made.
The Panama Is of about ‘J.-ho
ion* burden and her passengers were
inslulv tvpauish refugee* flying from
New York and other point* in the
Putted State* to Havana t'aptaii
tjuevvslo was grief *tr<> Sen ann
igreatly humiliated lievatiae of the
I capture tbe passenger* declared
they knew nothing of tbe Woeknde
and that wben they m* tbe *»•arch
lights u( the Mangrove they thought
|lt *•* a Spanish in >u of »>
The ttr*t shot changed their Joy to
| apprvhet «u*s, the wo**il and thud
[ * Vented a panic• Th** women two
iscreaming I i shelter fh-ut the vs*
| my • gun* and the captain tu*b*>(
I litgwtl *i»l;»nly in hi* cabin
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A Rain of Gold Lead.
FIRST IILOOIMHKI) OK THK WAR
ON CUBA'S COAST.
MANTANZAS BOMBARDED.
From State Journal
OFF MANTANZAS- April 27,
2,p. m.—The New York, the Puritan
and the Cincinnati bombarded the
forts at the mouth of Mantunzas har
bor this afternoon. There was no
•asuulties on the ships, but it is be
lieved that the hail of iron which
pounded into the forts must have
mused loss of life to the Spanish,
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though nothing is known definitely.
The engagement commenced at
12,0-7 and ceased at 1; 15 p. ra. The
object of the attack was to prevent
he completion of the earthworks at
Puntu Gorda.
A battery on the eastward end of
lie bay opened flre aud was also
shelled. About twelve eight-inch
ihots were tir«d from the eastern
'orts, but all fell short. About five
>r six light shells were fired from
he half eompleted batteries. Two
>f these whizzed over the New York
me fell short.
The .ships left the bay for the open
ica, the object of discovering the
vhereahouts of the batteries having
leen accomplished. In the neigh
jorliood of 300 shots were put on
and from the three ships at a range
>f from t,000 to 7,000 yards.
Hear Admiral .Sam nan n when
isked if he was satisfied with the re
mit, said: “Yes, I am: I expected to
>e.The half completed Spanish
urthworks anil battery were uppear
mtly all ploughed up bv tbe shells.
Yll the ships engaged showed excel
ent marksmanship throughout the
•ngageinent, and when they were
iring with the shortest range nearly
very shell took etfect.
The forts which were bombarded
were on a tong lying point and were
■oualdered merely earthwork. They
lid not make a good target, yet when
be big gnus were tired at tbe abort
at range portions of the fort eoutd be
•een Hying in the air at every ahot.
The Hagahip returned to Havana
mil the Puritan and I’ineiniiaii were
eft on the .Maulan/ia station.
ASHTON LOCAL NEWS.
W. M #n*|»»r went to letup i’ll) i
I H •"I n • truing, in atlrud Masonic'
l.o*|g«, reluming on Wedneadat '»
•arly train
I tt Si It* 141*|s a new house la going
ip rapt Ut under the manage m-nt of ;
Mr Lett s eiupp a* carpenter
II J Holmes of Kiln. w*» in!
iu«u Thtiitday, in behalf of Allen
Mitt a fee
Min I,non i \% il» in, till fkmeUi t
•Hinting f«» Way** whet* aha will
ill«tHl I he si tie Norma! Hvhoul,
Ml I‘it a* It* uah i*aen i oniplatvd
* l«nu f| •cHomI i the Milter that
I il-ia* iaal Ibattes eevui* let betv .
* •*•*! «**«***» a* a I*arbet
M»*a Sui dipibit u| It * Ina. wa*
•tele \\ elDtalti. Miik tUng fur Mur* j
of Cuba," and from reports had fair
ly good success in interesting our
people in the book.
K. G. Taylor was seen walking
with a cane Friday, and Saturday
morning he resorted to crutches, the
i.'ause being u very badly sprained
nnkle.
Miss Maud Beliel, went hrne and
spent. Saturday and Sunday, her sis
ter Blanch returning with her for a
short visit.
Mrs. A. N. Conklin is reported as
being on the sick list.
Clias. Beushotisen went to Grand '
Island Saturday Failed to learn
when he expects to return
Mr. Springer, of North Loup, was
in town Sunday.
K. G. Taylor moved into the house
known as the Bly property, Monday t
i»f which he is the owner..
Kind Beuschousen, drove to St,
Paul, Saturday.
Frank Hanson alia Rubber Neck,
is on the sick list.
A tenifieexplosionl!! Friday'even
ing in the early twilight. A terrible
explosion occurred in the southern
suberbs of our city, and upon exam
iuatiou found that L. A. Wilson had
cut his bicycle tire nearly in twain,
mid ii burst with a loud report.
C. (J. Miles was seen moving into
Lhe house formerly occupied by E.
Ii. Taylor, on Monday last.
llev. Alfred Snowden delivered a
very able sermon on “obedience" at
the Presbyterian Church on Sunday
evening.
A fish weighing 12 pounds, avoir
dupois, was takeu from Oak Creek,
last Saturday. The captor began to
think that ire had hooked a whale, or
mugged the bottom of the creek.
E. tl. Taylor is building a new barn
>n the sight of his new home.
More bicycles—two more new ones
this week, Mendyk and (lappa be
ing the two lateat purchasers. J. E.
Donkiiu bought the gents wheel sent
L). H. Thotle. Four more orders are
still out, still they join the rank and
file. Some one claimed the other day
that cycling was going out of fash
ion, and we would like to introduce
that party to the Ashton cycling fra
ternity.
Mr. J. p. Taylor left for St. Paul,
3n the passenger train Tuesday.
Mr. II. and W. M. Smelaer went
to Loup City Tuesday evening.
Ashtnu is quit worked up, almost
to fever heat, over the war, and the
number of people who never take a
daily paper, who hasten to the traiu
to secure the latest war news is ama
zing, and cries of Journal, Bee, and
Herald, are heard every evening at
the train.
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TIME TABLE.
LOUP CITY. NEBK
Lincoln, Denver,
Omaha, Helena,
Chicago, Butte,
Si. Joseph. Salt Lake City.
Kansas City. Portland.
St. Louis, San Francisco,
anti all points and all polut*
East and South. West
TK A INS LEAVE AS FOLLOW*
UOINtl EAST
No M Passenger 7..V, a in
No no Freight .it mi p. tu
UOINU WEST
No At Passenger I.15p.iu.
No 5V F■ eight lliMta. in
sleeping dinner and reclining chair cars
seats frcei on through trains Ticket*
•old and lieggnge checked tu any point In '
llie I'mted Stales or Canada
For Intorinatloii, inane, time tame* and
ticket* cali on or write to A. F. Wert*
Agent or J. FU ANUI*. Ueu'l. Passenger
Agent. Omaha, Nebraska,
V. F. HAH.WAV
No. tat leave* dally except kanday (pass
enger). It'S lit
No Wt leaves Monday. Wednesday and
Irtday, m xed, tHag
No > leave* Tuesday, Thursday am'
Saturday, mixed 4 *■ n u
No *; arrive* dally except Sunday tuntedi
II h a in
No Aarrlve* dally exewpt Sunday ipne*
■i«get< inly*
STioi cm** serv it* and close eonneeltoae
a*e, went and euutu
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EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS.
The Work of Cartier, Champlain and Oth
er- In the (treat Lakee.
W. S. Harwood writes in 8t. Nicho
las of "The Great Lakes." Mr. Har
wood says:
Jacques Cartier, who shipped from
St. Malo in 1684, explored the coast of
Newfoundland and made the circuit of
the gulf of Ht. Lawrence, and he did
much else, too, for New France in open
ing up negotiations with the many tribes
of Indians who thronged thousands
strong and friendly from all the regions
in and about (Juebec and Montreal and
Ottawa and Kingston. Another mariner
of St. Malo—Francis Grove—began the
colonization of the land. About 1670,
in France, Samuel de Champlain was
born, and when he reached the age of
early manhood he, too, joined in the
new world exploration in the region
above the great lakes. The king* of
France were much interested in the
new land and did all in their power not
only to explore the region, but to oolo
nize and develop it Champlain, in
1616, made an expedition npthe Ottawa
river and penetrated as far as into
Georg iau bay, thns touching on the wa
ters of Lake Huron.
in 1618 Etienne Brule, an old inter
preter, came into Champlain’s camp
with the nows of the discovery of Lake
Superior. Lake Erie, with Ontario, was
probably discovered some time earlier
than this. Nicollet, in 1684, started in
a cauoe from the bead of Georgian bay,
skirted the eastern and northern shores
of Huron and ut last found himself at
Sanlt Ste. Marie, or the falls of St.
Mary, now shortened to “Soo”—the
nrst wmte man, it is Denevou, to reach
this key to the noble lake beyond. He
went as far as Green bay, on Lake Mich
igan, and so the various lakes at last
came into the actual knowledge of the
explorers and were no longer myths.
But as these French explorers con
tinued to develop new and hitherto un
dreamed of possibilities of empire the
English began to take deep interest in
the region—an interest little less marked
than that they were then taking in
their schemes of colonization in Vir
ginia and Massachusetts. Again and
again through the years that follow the
threads cross and reoross, not weaving
a beautiful garment of harmony, bnt
tangling in a wretohed snarl, a patch
work of disputes between the nations.
Entanglement followed entangle
ment, wars harassed the land, until at
last the English were masters at the
northern lake region for all time—un
less some day we shall see the stars and
stripes floating from the heights of
Quebec
IN NEW YORK’S EARLY DAY8.
n* Bowery Was the Resort of Wealth,
Beauty and Fashion.
"A pleasant picture ooours to me of
a aummer progress of the family of
Governor Stay vesant to and from the
meeting honse, for divine worship in
the fort near the Battery, New York, ”
writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in Tht
Ladles' Home Journal, describing
"When Fashion Graced the Bowery.”
"In a brave coach, drawn by shining
horses, is ensoonoed the governor him
self, whose long, laoed ooat half hides
bis wooden leg banded with silver. He
wears a carefully curled peruke and
bolds his bat upon his knee, in order to
oourt the cool sea breeze that fans bis
rugged visage. His lady, sitting in state
beside him, is, in their staid and phleg
matic community, aooonnted a brilliant
personage; her gowns came out from
her native Paris, and her silken hood is
worn over frizzled and powdered hair;
1._I-; sums) kink koalnsl
■hoes, her rings, bracelets and loolcets,
with the gorgeously bound book of de
votions impended by a golden ohaia to
her waistband, may be depended upon
as models of the very latest modes.
Mrs. Bayard, the widowed sister of the
governor, oooupiss a sent in the ooaoh
facing them.
"After servioe in the bare colonial
ohnroh—where the dominie’s sermon,
however eloquent, was always brought
to an end by three rape from the olerk’s
stick at the momsut when the mnds of
the hourglass had announced that the
preacher's limit of time had been reach
ed—the Btuyvaaant party passes out be
tween rows of reepeotful gazers"
lAtfl SjfB
In The Windsor Magazine Mrs. Seta
relates an incident shout the last maga
sine article ever written by the late
George A ugustue Sale " As I re-entered
bis study that afternoon, " she writs*
"be gave me over the three slips of a
oloeeiy written MS on thmay foreign
sole paper and said: ‘Taka them, dear
est I aiu so tired 1 don't think 1 dsll
ever write euuther magazine arttoia
Fat the sheeta in yoar dispatch bos and
Mulsh them for nw> Wheu I am dead,
you wilt perhaps waul bread, and then
you . an sell "ltudrotaas un Wheels, "
Pure ..tough tl was just as be so sadly
prophesied. for often since , r»« death
same between as I bar* wanted let the
ewsuaMW aa emarvee f life dartag many
weeks aad muatae uf wtariame and ill
health **__
A nstsht Wed.
The (Mikss is as itkely ta shsai Me
heet as to make It bat this fact dans
n»t take from the point uf the Mlew
tag paw paused free* dh»W1 da If tea.
A fvune ■nditshsaaa hslag ashed at
dtwaes whetfMS ba wash! bare ana#
bird s a«si pmMlag retd, Ins*tag Is
bis buetass, '• Ah. fm. bud e east pad
dtad- usd what kind uf a bud usgp
%•»* mad# i£l
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