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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1898)
AMERICAN TROOPS ON CUBAN SOIL. A Force Is Landed Under Protec¬ tion of Sampson’s Guns. ARE CLOSE ON SANTIAGO. Another Bombardment of Forti¬ fications Is Reported. A special received at New York from Cape Haytien Monday reports that at daylight, under cover of Admiral , Sampson .... s guns, a force of United States troops were landed at Aguadores, a short distance east of Santiago harbor. Another dispatch direct from Cape Haytien states that at 3 o’clock Mou day morning strong cannonading was heard from the direction of Agua dores, a little east of Morro castle, which defends the eastern entrance of the harbor of Santiago. A quarter of an hour later the noise of the cannon ading greatly increaaed, and firing ev idenely proceeded from guns of largest caliber The bombardment was of the port, the fortifications and the neigh boring B landings, particularly 1 Agua dores. A Havana dispatch says: Sunday Colonel A Idea, with a Spanish force, sustained afire near Punta Cabrera from the insurgents on the land side and from the American ships. The Spanish warships are well intrenched on die line from Siooney to Aguadores, and Monday they checked an attempt of the American forces to land and re pel led them. A dispatch to the London Financial Chronicle from Cape Hatien dated Monday says: "At daylight this morn¬ ing the American troops landed at Aguadores, a few mifes east of Santi¬ ago de Cuba, under cover of Admiral Sampson’s guns. The batteries were first silenced, after a sharp bombard¬ ment.” MORE PRISONERS FOR EXCHANGE Hobson and His Brave Crew Will Soon Bs Released. A Wnshiagton special says: The war department, lias supplied to the navy department the list of names procured from the commandant at Fort McPher¬ son, Ga., of the Spanish prisoners of war there. The department Monday morning sent this list to Admiral Sampson and the admiral himself will enter into communication with Admiral Cervera respecting an exchange of prisoners. Cervera will be allowed to select from the list of persons whom he will take in exchange for Naval Constructor Hobson and the gallant crew^ that manned the Merrimac on her last, run. Hobson’s rank, relatively, is that of lieutenant, junior grade, and he stands at the head of that grade in his corps. By the ordinary rules of exchange he would be about equivalent to a captain in the army. The highest grade officer muon <• the Spauisli captives at Fort McPherson is a lieutenant, so that in order to equalize the exchange it may be necessary for Admiral Sampson to throw in with the first lieutenant one of the dozen second lieutenants among the prisoners. Hobson’s crew, none being of the commissioned grade,can be exchanged man for man for six Spanish private soldiers, among the prisoners of w ar. When Sampson and Cervera have arranged the details, the list of pris¬ oners to be exchanged will be submit¬ ted to the war department, which would direct the commandant at Fort McPherson to send them to Key West to be placed aboard a naval vessel and sent to Santiago for transfer. PRAISE OF ENGLISH PRESS. London Newspapers Applaud Lieu¬ tenant Hobson’s Brilliant Coup. All the London newspapers refer in terms of the highest praise to Naval Constructor Hobson’s daring exploit at Santiago de Cuba. One paper says: "All English sailors will join with the Americans in admiration of this exploit under the point blank fire of the Spanish batteries.” If the United States rail count on self-sacrifice of that kind in great emergencies the Santiago forts will be powerless to prevent Admiral Sampson reaching the Spanish squadron should that measure seem good to him.” HONORS FOR HOBSON. Brave Lieutenant Now In Line of De¬ served Promotion. A Washington dispatch says: promotion in store for Lieutenant Hob son, the hero of Santiago, is under con aideration by the navy department. Acting Secretary Allen and Cornmo dure Hichborn, chief of the bureau of javal construction, have already talked over the matter. The department ia desirous of knowing what would be most acceptable to Hobson himself, and when that is learned, a recom¬ mendation will be made to congress, which will doubtless carry it into effect without delay. NEWS FROM SAMPSON. ^ The navy department posted at Washington Saturday afternoon the following bulletin, containing a dis patch from Admirrl Sampson: "Moi<e, Hayti, .Jnne 4.—Succeeded in sinking Merrimac in the channel off Santiago at 4 p. m., June 3. This was carried out most gallantly under the command of Naval Constructor Hobson and seven men. By a flag of truce from the Spanish admiral, Cer vera, sent in recognition of their bravery. Iam informed all are prison ers of war, two slightly wounded. "Request authority to approve ex¬ change if possible between these and Santiago jarsafrs. unable to avoid being cap tured or destroyed. (Signed) Sampson. w The action in sinking the Merrimac is applauded at the navy department as a very brilliant strategic move. It is the opinion of naval officers that now that the entrance to the harbor is thus effectively blocked, a couple of monitors with a swift cruiser and two or three small torpedo or gunboats will be sufficient to guard the en trance, while Schley and Sampson can go along to convoy the troops to Porto Rico and elsewhere. In the engineer ing department it is said that it would be impossible for the Spanish fleet to attempt to clear the channel of the wreck of the Merrimac, as a few Q f our vessels stationed outside the har bor could shell the Spanish fleet and compel them to retire. It is said it would take several weeks to raise an obstruction snch as that caused by the hull af the Merrimac. BiANCO o- *Mrn NOW mow nmi IS OLATED. ATPn All Cables Reaching Cuba Are Cut at Last. It developed at Washington for the first time Saturday that an important cable cutting expedition, projected by General Greely, chief of the signal ser vice, and in charge of the strategic su pervision of cable and telegraph lines, had met with success, and that Gen eral Blanco was probably isolated from the outside world, particularly from the Spanish authorities at Madrid. The advices received woreinde pendent of those by the Associated Press dispatch boat via Kingston, but they bore out the dispatches and gave additional details. They show that the French cable, from Santigo to Hayti, was interrupted at 6:30 Friday night, aiftl no messages have passed over that line since then. Word has not yet come as to the in¬ terruption of the two British cables, leaving Cuba by way of Jamaica, but General Greely is satisfied that these have also been cut. He conferred with Secretary Allen at noon Satur¬ day, and the two exchanged congratu¬ lations on the indications that this much desired purpose of isolating Blanco had been accomplished at last. CAPT. QR 1 DLEY IS DEAD. Was One Of the Heroes Of the Brilliant Manilla Battle. Captain „ . . Charles , V. , T Gridley, n • n com mander of the Olympia, and one of the heroes of the brilliant victory a MamHa, is dead. The announcement of Ins death was received by the navy department late Sunday afternoon in a cablegram from Paymaster Galt, of the navy, dated Kobe, Japan, June 4, and directed to Secretary Long. As the commander of Admiral Dew¬ ey’s splendid flagship and one of the American’s chief advisers, Captain Gridley achieved distinction at the battle of Mauila bay and added to his laurels by winning high praise from his superiors in the service for dis¬ tinguished gallantry and ability. It was not known for several weeks after the engagement that, Captain Gridley had suffered from it, aud even now the precise nature of his trouble is not disclosed. WALHALA ALMOST DESTROYED. South Carolina Town Suffers Disas¬ trously From Fire. Flames completely destroyed the business portion of Walhala, S. C., Saturday evening. The fire started in the store of M. W. Wright and rapidly spread until twenty-three houses were destroyed. The Masonic temple,post office aud seventeen business houses were burned. Also livery stables and bank and drug store of Darby’s. Loss between $40,000 and $50,000;insuranee about $13,000. MARIETTA ARRIVES SAFELY. Gunboat Snows Up at Key West After a Long Voyage. The United States gunboat Marietta. Commander Simmons, arrived at Key West early Saturday morningfrom San Jose, Cal., which port she left on the 16th of March. The trip was unevent Uil and there was not even a case of sickness aboard. Much of the voyage was made iu compauy with the battle s bip Oregon, and the first question of the Marietta’s officers was as to the Oregon's whereabouts. ,The Marietta left Rio Janeiro on May 3. The men on board had heard no war news later than the bulletin of Rear Admiral Dewey's victory at Manilla. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS, A study of , the *>»»£f . oI .„| in |„ by Picaud shows that the o o effects increase with the molecular weight, A bar of lead cooled to about 300 degrees below zero, according to an experiment of M. Pietet, gives out when struck a pure musical tone. Not less than thirteen comets of H hort period are due to return to peri j^elion within the next two years, but se veral of them will be likely to es cape observation. The Societe des Laboratoires Bour ^ and chemist will be taught in the laboratories, the courses being adjusted to the practical needs of the s tudents. B ft decree of the Cza] » the metric s ^ stem of we ights and measures has ad ted for uge throughout the Russian empire, and a commission has also been organized to consider the reform of the Russian calendar so as to harmonize with thaj; prevailing in the other civilized countries. 8 , ... , „„„ ^in ; n the hospitals for n n e women womeii in the the, ^ ^om J ° the ^ seeds e \ C °\. of the white \ “Pote | t has b „ P^ven more satisfying than anything P^ous^ tr^.asi produces a W q congestion ml slee P* ^ have hlle ceased c J eat ^ since its , use " as e S uu - It has been suggested that as ice at only 12 degrees below freezing has a specific insulation of over 1000 megohms, it might be possible to have hoHow conductors which coukl be placed in a trench filled with water and used to carry brine for purposes of ice-making and refrigeration. The frozen water would actas the insulator, and calculations have been made show bl g that the arrangement is feasible on a commercial scale, ^ new mechanical movement, the idea of Mr E M _ Bowden of London, consists of a stout inner wire sur romide d by a close coil of another AV j re tbe j nner w j re projecting and” be _ yond the others at each end hav i ng the projecting ends passed through lloles too 8mad fol . the passage of the coil 0 n pulling the inner wire out 0 j the coil at one end it is drawn in at the other, Power may be thus transmitted around corners or between points not fixed, the flexible conduc¬ tor of motion hanging loosely and even tied in a knot. The mechanism was designed at first to operate a bicy¬ cle brake. A Fair Rebel. "There is one thing I want distinctly understood,” said the only daugh¬ ter of the household as she cornered her parents and looked as though she were issuing a proclamation of war. 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