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■ I 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. ;Future comfort for present* ; teeming economy, but buy the ; [ tewing machine with an esUb-; J tithed reputation, that guar* [ antees you long and tatisfac*; >tory service, J* J* J* J* J*' ITS PINCH TENSION . . AND . . TENSION INDICATOR,; , (devices for regulating and; > showing the exact tension) are; > a few of the features that! ( emphasise the high grade \ character of the white. Send for our elegant H.T, [catalog, : White Sewing Machine Co.. < cuvoanb, o. 1 *'*”#*, 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.