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Refused Second
Demand
Fl*gs of Truce Were Again Ban
Up Pending Negotiations.
Gen. Wheeler Bore
the Messages.
An Associated PresB dispatch ot
Monday from Siboney, via Kingston
says: A concerted movement has been
made by the United States army and
navy against the eity of Santiago de
Cuba, which the American officers be
lieve will result in the almost immedi
ate fall of the city.
The fleet, lying off Aguadores, three
mileB east of Morro, began the bom
bardment of Santiago on Sunday after
noon, and continued it Monday morn
ing. Notwithstanding the fact that
onr ships had to fire at an extreme
elevation and although the range was
nearly five miles, the aim was so ac
curate that many of the shells fell in
to the city and set fire to it in fonr
places.
One shell struck St. Michael’s
ohurch, in which n quantity of pow
der was stored, and blew it to pieces.
During the bombardment from the
sea the army extended its lines and
drew closer to the city, so tlint at noon
Monday every road and trail leading
out of the city was guarded and the
escape of the Spanish soldiers seemed
impossible. The only way they can
get out of the city is to ferry across
the bay to the western side of the har
bor, nnd even then they could not got
into the interior without encountering
American troops.
During the time the warships were
bombarding Santiago tho batteries of
artillery on the hills facing the city
shelled tho Spanish entrenchments
and received but a feoble response.
The American sharpshooters also
sent in a deadly fire, and the Span
iards fell back to their last entrench
ments, offering but little resistance.
The Americans suffered no loss.
At about noon General Shafter com
municated by signal with Rear Admiral
Sampson requesting the latter to cease
firing. Then the genernl sent General
Wheeler into the Spanish lines, under
a flng of truce, with a message to Gen
eral Toral, the Spanish commander,
reciting the fact that the American
ships had given complete demonstra
tion that they could throw shells into
the city and destroy it at will, that the
American troops had tho city practi
cally surrounded and there were
18,000 Spanish and Cuban refugees
starving to death at El Caney, and
also pointing out that our army had no
means of feeding them.
Genernl Shafter the demanded tho
unconditional surrender of the city,
and coupled this demand with the
statement that unless General Toral
acceded the assault upon the city, both
by the land and sea force, would be
renewed at once. Several hours elaps
ed before any reply was received from
General Toral,and then he sent a mes
sage to General Shafter to tho effect
that the matter was of such great im
portance that he had been obliged to
refer it to the Madrid government,and
that he would send his final answer as
soon as he could receive instructions
from Madrid.
Torn! Again Refuses.
Tuesday morning General Toral sent
out a reply to General Shafter’s second
demand for the unconditional surren
der of Santiago made by tho latter
Monday afternoon:
In his reply General Toral referred
to his refusal to accede to the Ameri
can demand made on Sunday.and
again reiterated bis determination
to resist.
A Signal Evidence of Supreme ConB-
'dence on Paid of the Government
Am to the Future.
The secretary of war has ordered
the removal of all submarina mine*
which now protect the harbors of the
United States against the entry of
hostile ships. ThiB action was de
cided upon at Tuesday’s cabinet
meeting. For weeks past, in faot al
most since the beginning of hostili
ties, the war department has been de
luged with protests from the com
mercial interests of the country againBt
the continuance of these mines, which
operated to the great detriment of
commerce. In certain cases influences
were brought to bear that secured an
abatement of the rules, but this only
increased the dissatisfaction in locali
ties where they were rigidly applied.
Practically it has been impossible
for shipping to enter or leave any of
the harbors of the United States
during the last two months during the
hours of sunset and sunrise. The de
cision of the cabinet to remove these
mines now is one of the most signifi
cant manifestations of the supreme
confidence of the government in the
future and the protection of the
United States from attack at the hands
of any hostile power. After thoroughly
considering the subject, it has been
decided by the engineers that the
safest and quickest meauB of removing
the mines is by exploding them and
the orders to do this have been pre
pared for transmission to all the United
States engineer officers in charge of
harbor defences throughout the coun
try.
While the mines proper are to be
removed, all the incidental attach
ments necessary to their attainment
and retention will be left, such as
switchboards, etc., so if it is found to
I replace the mines it will be done on
] short notice.
CARRIERS MUST PAY.
REPLETE WITH WAR LEGISLATION
Total Appfropropvlatloni Were •000,000,-
000 of Which 0.1110,000,000 Wee
Solely For War Purpose*.
STARVING AT GUANTANAMO.
Fifteen Deaths Dally Among the Be-
Lcagured Inhabitants.
Advices received by Commander
McCalla, of the Marblehead, from the
city of Guantanamo, show that the
Seaths from starvation there average
fifteen daily. General Perez, the com
mander of Guantanamo, has given up
hope of succor and the town could be
readly taken were it worth while to
risk the lives of the American troops.
The entrance from the upper to the
lower bay is patrolled nightly by steam
launches. The gunboats in the upper
bay have not shown themselves for
several days.
A Decision ns to Who Shall Furnish Be-
qiilrnri Revenue Stump.
A Washington dispntch says: In
answer to references from the com
missioner of internal revenue, all
bearing upon tho question as to
whether the shipper or carrier shall
pay for and affix the required revenue
stamp t6 bills of lading, etc., Assist
ant Attorney General Boyd has held
as follows:
“The law makes it the duty of every
railroad and steamboat company, car
rier, express company or corporation,
or person whose occupation it is to act
as such, to issue to the shipper,consign
or or his agent, or person from whom
any goods are accepted for transporta
tion a bill of lading, manifest of some
other evidence of the receipt of goods,
or merchandise received from carriage
and transportation, and this bill of
lading, manifest of memorandum re
quires a revenne stamp of the value of
one cent nffixed to it and cancelled.
In case of failure to isque such bill of
lading the law imposes a penalty of
850 upon the carrier guilty of such
failure.
“The penalty for failure to so affix
the Btamp is not more than $100. The
purpose of the law is clear. It was to
tax the carrier, and not the shipper,
and these provisions undoubtedly fix
upon the express companies and other
carriers the duty of providing, affix
ing and cancelling the stnmp, and
their failure to so provide, affix and
cancel such stamp subjects them to
the penalties provided by law.”
CAPT. GRIDLEY’S ASHES
En ICnutc to Erie Enclosed In Vnpretelt-
tloua Receptacle.
In an unpretentious wooden box
which arrived in Chicago Tuesday
were the ashes of Captain Charles Y.
Gridley, late commander of Admiral
Dewey’s flagship, the Olympia.
The box was transshipped over the
Chicago and Erie railroad to Erie,Pa.,
the home of the late commander. No
escort accompanied the urn.
DEVOLVES UPON SAGASTA.
Conservatives Are Not Prepared to Accept
Cabinet Pogftions.
A Madrid special of Tuesday says:
The crisis hangs fire. The ministers
still meet in council and the difficulties
of retirement seem even greater than
the difficulties of remaining in office.
The conservstives are not prepared to
accept office, and it is hard to imagine
a liberal cabinet without an undisputed
liberal leader.
Senoi- Sagasta, on being asked
whether a decision had been taken
regarding peace, replied:
“No, but what remedy can there be
but to make peaoe?”
The passing of the second session of
the fifty -fifth congress marked the
close of the first war congross in a
quarter of a century. Associated with
fne first hostile conflict with a nation
of another continent einoe 1812, the
annexation of Hawaii and contempo
raneous with a further movement for
territorial expansion, though with few
important changes in the domestic
scheme, the oougresB just adjourned
outranks almost any other that has ev
er assembled.
It began with a widespread clamor
for sympathetic action for suffering
Cuba, but there was apparently thou
no expectation of an ariuod conflict.
But when the trend of eventB culmi
nated, the emergency was quickly mot
and necessary legislation enacted. The
first few but significant war measures,
suddenly needed, were framed and
made law, but with the issue made
clear there was a flood of bills and
resolutions that fairly submerged tho
two branches of congress,
Hawaiian annexation, Spain and
Cuba war appropriations and war reve
nue legislation, organization of the
vast volunteer army and expansion of
the navy, a new bankruptcy law—all
these were features of the session.
Urgent deficiency bills, carrying
millions of dollars, were rushed through
with far Icsb delay than marked the
course of an ordinary measure of littls
importance.
The total appropriations footed al
most 8900,000,000, and upwards of
$350,000,000 of this was for purely
war purposes. It was tho largest ag
gregate bv any sossion siuco the civil
war and the general deficiency was the
largest separate measure since $750,-
000,000 was appropriated in 1803.
The naval appropriation bill pro
vided for three new battleships, four
monitors, sixteen torpodo bont destroy
ers and one gun boat. The urgent
deficiency bills all oarriod provisions
for aggressive work in the progress
of the war. Tho general deficiency,
enacted in the last few dnyB, carried i
provision for refunding the indebted
ness of the central and western Pacifi
railroads to the government.
Cuba and Hawaii were tho import
ant matters of debate and provoke-
the most widespread interest.
There were a number of message
from President McKinley bearing •
the Caban situation, ranging from the
submission of a report upon the Maine
disaster and the consular reports to
the coll for a declaration of war.
The first real war legislation was
when congress placed, without limita
tions, $50,000,000 in the president’s
hands as an emergency fund for na
tional defense.
Party linos were strept away and
both houses unanimously voted its
confidence in the administration.
Soon after a bill reimbursing the
survivors of the Maine disaster for
their losses, not to exceed a year’s
pay, with a similar amount to those
Who perished, beenrne law.
April 11 the president in a message
left the Ctibnn issue in the hands of
congress. Resolutions were soon en
acted and became a law April 19 de
claring that tho people of Cuba ought
to bo and are free and independent,
and demanding that Spain relinquish
its authority nnd withdraw its land
and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban
waters, and directing the use of onr
land and naval forces to enforce the
resolutions.
The declaration of war was pass at
by congress and approved on Apri
25th. Three days before the declars
tion President McKinley had approv
ed the volunteer net Under it all th*
soldiers massed against Spain mustep
ed in the entire volunteer army have
been raised, embracing 125,000 met
under tho first and 75,000 under the
second call.
One feature the session was the en
actment of a war revenue law. Its
framers expected it to produce $150,-
000,000.
Thero was much minor war legisla
tion effected.
Other legislation, asids from war,
included:
Prohibiting the killing of fur seals
in the Northern Pacific, and importa
tion of seal skins into this country;
prohibiting foreign vessels from carry
ing merchandise directly or indirectly
between United States ports; an
Alaskan homestead and right of way
act: encouraging railroad construction;
appropriaing $200,000 for the relief of
the Yukon miners suffering frors
the fierce winters there; appro
priating $473,151 to pay the Behrinp
sea awards; adjusting the old land dis
pute between the United States and
the state of Arkansas, the oompro-
mise calling for a payment from the
latter of $160,672.
VESSEL’S RUDDER SHOT ftWflY.
Brief Compilation of
Ooourrenoes.
The American losses at Santiago are
now estimated at 1,7000 killed and
wounded.
While the cases at MoHenry have
been under treatment surgoons of the
marine hospital service have been in
specting and watching carefully many
other points where it was thought
possible the fever might appear lint
no cases have developed.
A belief is current in Madrid that
the United States warships Now York,
Oregon and Texas are now on their
way to Spain, and precantions are be-
I ing taken at all the seaports to avoid a
1 surprise.
I Paymaster General Stanton, of the
army, has recommended to Secretary
of War Alger tho appointment of
twenty-five additional paymasters for
the volunteer arm of the service.
There are now on the rolls seventy
paymasters in the volunteers and
twenty-five in the regular army, bnt
this force is inadequate for the work
at hand.
The armistice at Santiago cama to
an end Sunday at noon and bombard
ment was promptly begun.
Owing to the disorders that have
followed the payment of the soldiers
at Gamp Thomas, Chiukamauga, Gen
eral Brooke has recently issued a
ia of the Courage
* Durlif*
’keying Ordeal,
A dispatch to The New Tork Herald
ffotn off Santingo, Cuba, rays;
Your correspondent saw Mr. Hob
son after lie had made his report to
Atniral Sampson and he oonsented to
give The Herald a fuller interview
about his experiences.
He spoke in glowing terms of Hie
courage aud bravery of his crew.
“We have been 33 days in a Spanish
prison,” snid Mr. Hobson, “and the
more I think about it the more mar
velous it soems that we ore alive.
“It was 8 o’olook in the morning
when the Merrimnc entered the narrow
channel and steamed in uudor the
gunB of Morro oastle. The stillness of
death prevailed. It wbb so dork that , atfingant order allowing only two men
we eould scarcely see the hoadland.
We had planned to drop onr starboard
anchor at a certain point to the right
of the oliniinel, reverse our engines
and then swing tho Merrinum around,
sinking her direotly across tho channel.
“This plau was adhered to, bnt cir
cumstances rendered its execution im
possible. When tho Merrimao poked
her nose into the channel our troubles
commenced. The deadly silence was
broken by the wasli of a small boat
approaching' us from the shore,
made her out to be a picket boat.
from one company, troop or battory.
to be absent at one time, and thiB or
der is being rigidly enforoed.
The London Observer's Vienna cor
respondent says: “Tho Spanish re
verses have canses here a fresh out
burst of sympathy with Spain and
there is a greater pronpoct of interven
tion now than at any previous period
of the war. ’’
The mon who have boon fighting
with General Shafter, near Santiago
j : de Cuba, will soon hear the merry
1 jingle of ooin. . Eighteen paymasters
"She ran close up under tho stern | **“ v ° Rono 1 ?“ pa ’,‘ a , king w ‘‘ h 1 the ™
of tho Merrimao and fired several I * he mo "7 (o u r , tho Bold ‘? r *’ w >>
shots from which it seemed to 1)0 " j be considerably over $1,0 0,000 and
three-pounder guns. The Merrimoc’a I * h,s raone 7 w ! U . b ® t,,k ? n direct to the
rudder was carried away by thiB fire
That is why the collier was sunk
across tlie oliniinel.
“We did not discover tho loss of the
Santiago battlefield, where it will be
given to the soldiers.
Superintendent L. M. Terrell, of the
railway mail service, has gone to San-
mdfier until Murphy onst anchor. Wo tiB K° to arrange for tho establishment
then found that tho Merrimao would of a line of mail steamers between Key
not answor to the holm, nnd wore com- | Wost and Cuba for the purpose of
pellod to moke the best of the situa- ! carrying mail to the land nnd naval
tion, i forces who nre now invading the island,
“The run up the channel was very ■ William Jennings Bryan’s regiment
exciting. The picket boat bud given 1 of Nebraska Infantry lias been ordered
tho alarm and in a moment the guiiR to join Genornl Fitzhugh Lee's corps
of tho Vizcaya, tlie Almirunte Oquendo at Jacksonville.
nnd of the shore batteries wero turned I The water M uppl 7 for the great army
on ,JL s ’ , at Chickamauga hnH been satisfactorily
Submarine mines and torpedoos ; provided for. General Boynton, of
also explodod all about ns, ndding to tll0 pnrk oommiBHion, states that tho
the excitement. Tho mines did no fl ve well-digging ontflts at the park
damage, although we could hoar rum- would sink at onco an artesian well in
ntJ d could feel tho ship tremble, every one of the regimental camps not
We wore running without lights B0W having one, and this in addition
aud only the darkness saved us from the water received from Chicka-
utter destruction. Wlion the ship was i mnuga river by the pipe line will give
in the desired position nnd wo found i ample supply for a much lnrgqr force
that the judder was gone, I called the , than is now in camp.
men on deck, Whilo they woro launch
ing the Catamaran I touched off the
explosives.
‘’At the same moment two torpedoes
fired by the lieina Mercodes, struol
the Merrimac amidships, I cannot so)
whotlior our own explosives or tli<
Spnnish torpedoes did tlie work, buv
the Merrimnc was lifted out of th
water and almost rent asunder.
“As she settled down we scramble
overboard and cut away tho Catamaran
A great cheer went up from tho forte
Two hundred and thirty-five of onr
soldiers wounded at Santiago are now
at Fort McPhorson, Go., undergoing
treatment in the general hospital.
They give thrilling accounts of thoir
experiences in the great conflicts of
June 1st and 2d.
The fear is expressed among officials
•t Washington that during tho nrmis-
tioe a majority of the Spanish soldiers
escaped after looting the houses of
the refugees. It is feared that Shafter
DANISH AUTHORITIES KICK.
and warships as the hull of the collier i Permit the parleying to lost, too
foundered, tho Spaniards thinking tho
Merrimnc was an American warship.
“We attempted to get out of the
harbor on the Catamaran, but a strong
tide was running and daylight found
us still struggling in the water. Then
for tho first time tho Spaniards snw
us, and a boat from the Beina Mer
cedes picked us up. It then was
shortly after 5 o’clock in tho morning,
and we bad been in tho water more
than an hour. We were taken aboard
the Beina Mercedes and later wore
sent to Morro caHtle.
“In Morro we were confined in cells
in the irinor sido of the fortress and
long, thns affording an opportunity
for osonpe with arms and provisions.
At El Coney there are 10,000 miser
able refugees from Santiago, old man,
women and children whom the Span
iards hare permitted to go to our lines
to get food. The plight of those help
less people is heartrending. The
Americans are doing all they oan for
them.
The British sloop Wary, a blockade
runner captured on tlie 2d instant by
tho St. Louis, has arrived at Key West
under a prize crew. She is a twenty-
one-ton vessel ami was loaded with
provision* of a miscellaneous cliarac
were thero the first day the fleet bom- 1 ter, bound from Kingston for Cape
barded Morro. I could only hear the 1 Cruz. She was boldly attempting in
whistling of tlie shells and the noise j the face of all risks to land a cargo for
they made when they Htruck, but I j the starving Spaniards,
judged from the conversation of the j A r6vlBe rt an( l corrected list from
guards that tho shells did considerable 0en Bhafter of the American casual-
damage.
“After this bombardment,Mr.Bmns-
den, the British consul, protested,and
wo were removed to tlie hospital.
There I was separated from the otbe:
men in our crew aud could see ther
only by special permission. Montagu
nnd Kelley fell ill two weeks ago, suf
fering from malaria and I was permit
ted to visit them twice.
"Mr. Bamsden was very kind to u.
aud demanded that Montague am
Kelly be removed to better quarter
iu the hospital. ThiR was (lone.
“As for myself there is little to say.
The Spanish were not disposed to dc
much for the comfort of any of the
ties before Santiago July 1, 2 ami
3, shows 1,596 men killed, wounded or
missing.
The board of survey appointed to
investigate the condition of the Span
ish ships snnk near Santiago reported
that only one can be saved.
Gen. Blanoo cabled Madrid that the
volunteers are anxious for the war to
continue.
Spaniards threw overboard and dis
abled guns on Ccrvera’s ships after
they had surrendered.
The Rome correspondent of the
London Dnily Mail, recorded tho in
terchange of tolegraras between the
prisoners at first, but, after our arm) j Vatican and Madrid, with a view of
had taken some of their mon as priso- llrg j ng the queen regent in the direc-
ners their treatment woh better. Food tion of peace, says: “The action of
is scarce in the city, and I was told ■ Vaticau has been very cautious in
that we fared better than the Spanish or(ler to 8 void ^pleasing the Uuited
officers.” I state9 .”
Refute to Let United Htfttea Here Coal
Httlonirlnic to Thla Government.
A special cablegram from St.
Thomas, Danish West Indies, to Thq
New York Journal reports that the
Danish authorities have informed
United States Consul Van Horn that
coni, of which tho United States has
8,000 tons in the harbor of St. Thom*'.,
is contraband of war, and that it* 1 re
moval by the United States sc long aa
this government is at war with Spain
will not be tolerated.
Governor Lodcrman informed the'.’
consul, according this dispatch, that ”
any attempt to remove this coal would
resisted by the German, Freucb and
Italian warships in the harbor and
wators near by.
Consul Van Horn is said to have re
ferred tho subject to the authorities at
Washington.
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Major de Gramlpre, military attache
of the French embassy at Washington,
has just returned from the Aiuerioau
headquarters, near Santiago, where he
has been observing for bis government
the progress of militnry operations.
He paid n glowing tribute to the fight- ,
ing ability of onr soldiers. ''"'■JPIfip'
Official orders have been issued an*
nounoiug that Lieutenant J. B. Her*
nardou, who was in command of the
torpodo bont Winslow in the action at
Cardenas, in which Ensign BngU#
was killed, lias been advanced 4IM
numbers in kiH grade. v ;
Colonel Smith, deputy quarterm**-
ter general, stationed at St. Loqia,
has received orders from Washington
to secure 200 teamsters for service ip
Cnlm. In addition to these men’,
are wanted immediately, Colond
Smith is instructed to secure
more mule puckers.
In official circles it is said that
Spain Iiiih only one chance now to
save the Canaries, that one being to
mio for peace before Commodore Wat
son sails. Once bis fleet crosses the ’
Atlantic it will-not return until the
Canaries are held us a guarantee of
the war indemnity.