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TO ATTACK SPAIN.
Warships, Under Command of Commodore
Watson, Ordered to Spanish Coast.
AMERICAN GUNS TRAINED UPON SANTIAGO.
General Shafter’s Forces Are Making Preparations
For a Move on the City-They are Confronted
By Strong Spanish Defenses.
A Washington special says: The
navy department at 11:15 o’clock
Monday posted the following bulletin:
“Commodore Watson sails today in
the Newark to join Sampson, when
he will take under his command an
armored squadron with cruisers and
proceed at •once off the Spanish
coast.”
The squadron is designated the
‘‘Eastern Squadron,” and is as fol¬
lows:
Flagship, Newark; battleships,
Iowa and Oregon; cruisers, Yose
mite, Yankee and Dixie and the col¬
liers Zendin, Abarenda and Alexander.
The start will be made at once off
Santiago.
The posting of the bulletin is the
beginning of the movement which will
probably end the war.
As has been frequently predicted, as
soon as the situation at Santiago was
satisfactorily and the preparation for
the occupation of Porto Rico has suffi¬
ciently advanced, it was the intention
of the administration to send a fleet to
attack the Spanish at. home.
The time has now arrived when this
movement may be undertaken and the
purpose is to lose no time in bringing
the war home to Spain, in a way that
will make the Spanish realize the
absolute futility of resistance.
It is doubtful whether this order to
Admiral Watson was hastened by any
fear of danger threatening Admiral
Dewey from an attack by the Cadiz
fleet, reported at the mouth of the
Suez pine!. canal on the way to the Philip¬
The formation of this squad¬
ron for an attack on the Spanish coast
was a part of the general plan for the
prosecuting of the war, decided on
some time ago.
The movement was held in waiting
only for the landing of troops at San¬
tiago, and the development of the sit¬
uation there to join the squadron.
The officers of the eastern squadron
are as follows:
Commander in chief, Commodore
J. C. Watson; battleship Iowa, Cap¬
tain R. D. Evans;,battleship Oregon,
Captain Charles E. Clark; flagship
Newark, Captain Albert 8. Barker;
cruiser Yosemite, Commander W. H.
Emory; .cruiser Y’nnkee, Commander
W. H. Brownson; cruiser Dixie, Com¬
mander C. H. Davis; Collier Seneca,
Commander E. W. Watson; collier
Alexander, Commander W. E. Bur
well; collier Alarenda, Lieutenant
Commander W. H. Buford.
When the American fleet sails for
Spain it will take with it complete in¬
formation as to the entire stretch of
Spanish coast, with detail maps of
‘every harbor and its fortifications.
TO ADVANCE HEROES.
President flcKinley Sends Special
Message to Congress.
Moudav President McKinley sent
two special messages to congress pro¬
viding for recognition of the services
of Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the
Merrimae. and of Lieutenant New¬
comb and crew, of the revenue cutter
Hudson, which rescued the torpedo
boat Winslow at Cardenas; Captaiu
Hodgson, of the dispatch boat Hugh
McCulloch, which figured in the bat¬
tle at Manila, and Naval Cadet Joseph
Wright Powell, who held the steam
launch under the bluffs at Santiago
harbor searching for the crew of the
Merrimae.
The Hudson’s crew are to be given
a vote <i thanks and medals of com¬
memoration. Captain Hodgson is to
be suitably .recognized.
The president mentioning Hobson
cites the iaet that the erew with him
already have been promoted.
BIG MOVE ORDERED.
Thirty Thousand Men at Camp Thomas
Go at Once to Cuba.
A Chickamauga special says: Thirty
thousand troops, more than half the
big army at Chattanooga have been
ordered to Cuba. The srmy will be
under the commaud of Genqpal J. R.
Brooks, aud the entire first corps and
twenty-seven regiments will go.
The orders to the full twenty-seven
regiments were issued Monday.
This enormous movement is the
largest since the present w ar began.
It means that the campaign in Cuba
is to 'be pushed to a quick and certain
end.
Advices of Monday via Kingston,
Jamaica, state that the advance forces
of the American army were then rest¬
ing on Ria Guama, a small stream,
with the city of Santiago de Cuba four
and a half miles westward in plain
sight.
Sunday night the outposts, consisting
of two companies of the Seventh infan¬
try, under Major Collidge, occupied
positions at right angles to the road,
guarding the crossing a mile and a
half beyond Sabinalla, where three
regiments of General Lawton’s divis¬
ion were camped, the First, Fourth
and Seventeenth, with the Eighth,
Second and Twenty-second Massachu¬
setts, with the rough riders, Tenth
cavalry and portions of several other
regiments strung out behind them to
J uragua.
About 800 Cubans, under General
Gonzales, were camped around Gen¬
eral Lawton’s headquarters, but less
than fifty of them did scout duty Sun¬
day night.
Monday morning General. Wheeler,
with the First, Second and Tenth
cavalry and the rough riders, with
dynamite guns, moved up to where
General Lawton’s outposts had beep.
Four batteries of the third artillery
and four gatling guns, with a special
detail under Lieutenant Parker, were
brought up and planted on the brow
of a hill overlooking the basin in
which Santiago de Cuba lies.
Not a shot was fired from the Ameri¬
can side during the moving, though
the front of the American line was not
2,800 yards from the entrenchments
where the Spaniards proposed to com¬
bat the advance on Santiago de Cuba.
The top of every hill and mountain
north and east of Santiago is occupied
by blockhouses, from which the Span¬
iards can view the movements of the
American army as it advances beyond
Sabanilla, while to the eastward of the
city, gashing every knoll and bit of
high ground are Spanish entrench¬
ments. The correspondent of the As¬
sociated Press from an elevation to the
right of the American line counted
thirty-four of these entrenchments,
completely fencing every approach to
the city. The trenches have been dug
as the conformation of the ground ad¬
mitted. The ends of the trenches
overlap where breaks in the line occur,
thus securing comparatively the safest
retreat from rifle lire in case part of the
trenches are captured.
Upon one of these works modern
guns have been mounted. They can
be plainly seen with the naked eye.
Spies report that inside the en¬
trenchments are four parallel lines of
rifle pits, shoulder deep, and in front
of them are marked ranges and several
rows of barbed wire fences.
The general opinion is that more
artillery will be necessary before it
will be safe to attempt to make an as¬
sault upon the Spanish works as the
five of the rifle pits must necessarily
be deadly and sufficient to demoralize
any force, no matter how brilliant in
its courage, when halted by wire ob¬
structions.
The problem now confronting the
army is the transportation of supplies.
SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
Three Men, Thought to Be Spanish
Spies, Caught at Tybee.
Three, men, supposed to be Spanish
spies, were arrested Monday at Tybee
island and sent to Fort Pherson as
prisoners. The arrests were made at
the instance of Captain Bailey, in
command of the battery of heavy ar¬
tillery stationed there. Two of them
only reached Tybee last week and
were at once arrested. The other has
been on the island for two or three
yearsaud is know n as “Spanish John.”
QUIET r RElQ5rAT r MANILA.
The American Troops to Re-Enforce
Dewey Not Yet Arrived.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Hong Kong states that up to the time
the dispatch was sent the transports
from Sau Francisco, having on board
American troops intended to re-en¬
force Rear Admiral Dewey, have not
arrived here, and there is no change
in the situation.
The insurgents have not made any
further advance and the Spaniards
have beeu continuing the construction
of sand bank fortifications and the
planting of sharpened bamboos around
Manila for the purpose of stopping in¬
surgents’ advance.
Evil Rings of Feathers.
Witch wreaths have been steadily
losing prestige since old colonial days,
when witches were burned and old la
dies of taciturn nature were supposed
to take midnight rides upon long, ra¬
kish-looking broomsticks. The Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, however, re
cently received a veritable— witch
wreath of the old sort. It was present¬
ed to the university by Dr. George B.
Kline of Pittsburg.
The curiosity consists of a matted
ring of chicken feathers, and is about
three inches in diameter. It is common
belief among ignorant residents of
parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
that the witch wreath is an instru
ment of evil. The legend is that the
wreaths form in pillows subjected to
evil influences, and that a person sleep
lng on such a pillow will surely die.
The superstitious put bibles under
their pillows to prevent the evil cir¬
cle from forming. The wreath present
ed to the university was' found in the
pillow of a resident of Pittsburg, who
died while using the pillow.
Manila Relic in California.
The San Diego Society of Natural
History has an old relic of Manila in
the shape of a cannon cast there 100
years ago, and brought to Old San Di¬
ego to assist in defending this port
against the Mexicans, this country then 1
belonging to Spain. The Mexicans got
the place, and in turn, tried to use the
cannon against Commodore’ Stockton.
He sunk all the rest of the cannon but ,
saved this one called “El Jupiter,” and
gave it to the patriotic people of Old
San Diego with which to fire fourth of
July salutes. Some twenty years ago
the old pieces exploded while being fir¬
ed, but the pieces were put together,
and it fell into the . hands , of . the .. society. . ,
It bears the inscription: Carolus Fer
ttus Hispaniarum et Indian,arum rex,
Manila anno de 1783.”—St. Louis (Mo.
Globe-DemoCrat.
A Naval Hero’s Story.
From the Times-Herald, Chicago, III.
Late la 1861, when President Lincoln is¬
sued a call lor volunteers, L. J. Clark, of
Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, was among
the first to respond. He joined the mortar
fleet of Admiral Porter just before the me¬
morable operations on the Mississippi River
began. It was at the terrific bombardment
of the Vicksburg forts, that the hero of this
story fell with a shattered arm from a
charge of schrapnel.
After painful months in the hospital, he
recovered sufficiently to be sent to his home
at Warren, Ohio. Another call for troops
fired his patriotic zeal and Clark soon en¬
listed in Company H, of the 7th Ohio Vol¬
unteers. In the army of the Being Potomac, he l
was in many engagements. wounded !
in a skirmish near tbencehome. Richmond, he was sent j
to the hospital and
Soon af¬ !
terward he !
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A Wounded Hero. where he j 1
now has a wide practice, is a member of
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Se V years ago Dr. Clark’s old wounds
began ’ o trouble him. He grew weak and
emaciated, and his friends despaired of his
life. He finally recovered sufficiently to be
out hut was a mere shadow, weighing only
90 pounds. The best medical attendance
failed to restore his lost strength and vigor.
“A friend gave me a box of Dr. Williams’
Pink Pills for Pale People,” said Dr. Clark,
“and they helped me so much that I bought
a half dozen boxes and took them. I soon
regained pounds and, my except strength, for injuries now weigh that 190 j
can :
never be remedied, am as well as ever.
“I consider Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for
Pale People the best remedy to build up a
run down system, and heartily reeommend
them to everyone In heed of such aid.”
Clerks Living Near By Come Late.
"One of the many peculiar things
about departmental life,” observed an
old clerk, "is that the nearer the clerks,
men or women, live to the department
in which they are employed the more
difficulty they seem to have to get to
their offices in time in the morning.
The trouble is that they seem so sure
they will be on hand on time that they
are never in a hurry, and the result is
that they are frequently some minutes
late and very seldom at their desks !
many minutes before the clock strikes. ;
Four-fifths of the clerks probably re- '
side in the cjhrr proper, the others liv- I
ing in the suburbs and suburban
towns. The further away they live
the more ginger they put in their move- j
ments, and they can desks be depended minutes upon j I
to appear at their some
before they are required to be there.”—
Washington Star.
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ROUGH RIDERS WALKED IBTO AHBUSG
Trap Was Set By Gunning Spaniards—Only Undaunted Bra,
of Americans Saved the Day,
INTEREST IS BEING CENTERED IN WAR DEPART!*
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Brief Dispatches Prom Shatter Cause Eagerness On the p
For More and Puller Particulars, a
Officials
A Washington special says: Interest
shifted sharply Saturday from the navy
department to the war department,
The newspaper reports, brief and
graphie, telling of the short, bloody
little engagement between the Span
iards defending Santiago,^ and the
Rough Riders, the romantic fighters
in the American army, had aroused
popular interest to a high pitch. Con
sequently the war department scarcely
opened for business before a crowd of
interested persons filled the hall and
vicinity of the bulletin boards, seeking
for some official information that would
supply data missing from the press
accounts.
It was nearly noon when the first
cablegram came from Shatter, and
then, to the disappointment of the de¬
partment it was even more meager
than the press reports.
i here was a general expression of
grief at the loss sustained by the sol¬
diers in Friday’s fight.
During the day Seer tary Alger and
General Miles held several controver¬
sies, not so much to go over the strug
gle * of Friclav * as to give every military
repaTati<m £or the great struggle yet
to come.
As a result, heavy re-enforcements
will go forward at once, both from
Tampa and from Newport News.
Simultaneous with this General
Henry’s division will be moving along
the Atlantic coast and thence to San
tiago.
In all, the reinforcements from
Tampa and Newport News will be in
the neighborhood of 12,000 to 14,000
men.
Drafts on Chickamauga are likely to
follow so soon as the hurry orders re¬
cently given have led to the full equip¬
ment of several commands. The war
department is acting on the theory
that it is not politic to take any possi¬
ble chance of a serious reverse near
Santiago. reaching the
The latest information
authorities at Washington shows that
the Spanish navy is greater than has
been estimated thus far. Lieutenant
Joyce, of the regular army, reported
to General Miles Saturday giving much
information as to the number and lo
cation of the Spanish troops. Before
Joyce entered the United States army
^ le had served with General Garcia and
had traversed a good part of Santiago
province. He was on the ground only
a f ew " weeks ago, leaving there in
April, and at that time he had oppor
tunities to get an accurate idea of the
Spanish forces at the eastern end of
island,
He reports the number at 37,000, of
which 12,000 are in Santiago, 10,000
Holguin and 15,000 at Manzanillo,
HONDURAN SHIP CAUGHT.
Was Attempting to Run the Blockade
Out of Havana.
A two-masted vessel, the Amalapa,of
Trujillo, Honduras, was brought into
Key West Saturday morning, flying
the American flag and in charge of
Ensign Zeen, of the Vicksburg.
She was captured while leaving Ha¬
vana and attempting to run the block¬
ade. She was quickly overhauled by
the Vicksburg and was found to have
over thirty women and children and a
number of men on board, crew and
passengers, all refugees. There was
no sickness on board the Amalapa,
she was detained in quarantine.
SPANISH COAST NEXT?
An Interesting Proposition Is
Quietly Discussed By Officials.
A Washington special says: The
proposition to attack the coast of Spain
itself, while not having progressed to
any definite stage, has not been aban
doned by the administration. On the
contrary, it has beeu the subject
some earnest discussion in administra
tion circles, though it has gained no
serious attention in the deliberation
the cabinet as a body,
MONOTONOUS BLOCKADE.
-n, e Squadron Guarding Havana Hav
ing Uneventful Time.
A special of Tuesday via Key West
says: For the first time m four weeks
a newspaper dispatch boat visited the
blockading fleet off Havaua Monday.
conditions were found to be as
peaceful , . the waters of the gulf
as
stream were turbulent. Since the
good P ractice b Y the Spanish gunners
against the Montgomery the other day,
particulars of which were cabled at
the time, nothing has occurred to
break the monotony of this peaceful
blockade.
FINE JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY-
Further Associated Press adviJ
from Juragua, Cuba, via King
state that the initial fight 8t0 ,
of Colon,
Wood’s Rough Riders of the Fi rat
Tenth regular cavalry wifi h e
in history the battle 0 ''
as of La On, ^
That it did not end in the ^
slaughter of the Americans compid
due to any miscalculation in
of the Spaniards, for as perfect auaa
bnscade as was ever formed in tt
brain of an Apache Indian was
pared his and walked Lieutenant squarely Roosevelt!!
men into it.
For an hour and a half they y
their ground under a perfect storm,
bullets from the front and sides a *
then Lieutenant Colonel Colonel Wood Roosevelt at the right’
left led charge which at t
a turned tW
of battle and sent the enemy kj
the hills toward Santiago. "
over
Sixteen Americans Killed.
It is now definitely the American known that s'J J
teen men on side *
killed, reported while to sixty be missing. were wounded J
are It j 8 los] y
possible to calculate the Spanish fJ
es, but it is known that they were
heavier thau those of the America ijjy J
at least as regards actual loss of
Thirty-seven dead Spanish soldiert
wepe found and buried, while IDM
others, undoubtedly, were in the thicil
underbrush on the side of the gulM
and on the slope of the hill, where ft,
main body of the enemy was located
The wounded were all removed.
Two Battles Fought.
Practically time—one two battles were fought! J
at the same by the Eon coal
Riders under the immendiate
maud of Colonel Wood on the top®
the plateau and the other on the hill
sides, a mile away, with the regular
with whom was General Young. I
General Young’s plans contemplate
the movement of half of his comma*
along the trail at the base of the ran*
of hills leading back from the coaslL
so that he could attack the Spaniard! Eoughl
on the flank side while the
Riders went off to follow trail!
leading over the hill to attack them in I
front. This plan was carried oat com¬
pletely. The troops left J uragua at 1
daybreak.
The rough riders entered into the
spirit of the expedition with the great¬
est enthusiasm. It was their first op¬
portunity for a fight, and every man
was eager for it. The weather grew
swelteringly hot, and one by one the
men threw away blankets and tent
rolls and emptied their canteens. The
first intimation had by Colonel Wood’s
command that there were Spaniards is
the vicinity was when they reached s
point three or four miles back from
the coast, when the low cuckoo calls
of the Spanish soldiers were heard is
the bush. Spaniards
A little further on the
j were seen in the bushes for a moment.
It not^untd then that than® ,
j was
At this time the sound of firing vas
heard a mile or two to tho right, apP a ‘
rently coming from the hills bejfflw
the thicket. It was tho regulars re¬
plying to the Spaniards, who had op® -
ed on them from the thicket. In addi¬
tion to the rapid rifle fire the boom ®
the Kotchkiss guns could bo heard.
Hardly two min utes elapsed bofon
the Mauser rifles of the Spsni* 11 "
commenced to crac— a — t®
a hundred bullets w Br idled over 8
heads of the Rough Riders, cutting
leaves from the trees and sending chip 8
flying from the fence posts by the si 8
of the men. The Spaniards had open -
ed and they poured in a heavy
which soon had a most disastrous e
feet. The troops stood their grouBG
with the bullets singing all arouo
them. block
The Spaniards retreated to
house, but were immediately clislodg
and scattered among tho brush UP 8
hill in the direction of Santiago
the battle was at an end.
CANDLER MAY FAIL.
Judge’s Physical Qualification Qu**’
tioned By Mustering Officer.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., sS f
Candler _
Although Colonel John S.
been only appointed by the g 0 ^ D
to command the Third Georgia Y oin \
teers, and had received in a “ vaI
from Washington assurances tha
appointed he would be mustered m
service, his physical qualification 5
lead a regiment have been question 8.
by the mustering officer, Major ■
Mills, who represents the war dep
ment in the enlistment of this re c
i ment.
