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BANNER-MESSENGER.
VOL. XV.
OO I: l I S 1
ftear Admiral and Eis Fleet
Off to Meet the Expected
Spanish Vessels.
BIG BATTLE LOOSED FOR
Believed That the Next News From
the American Warships Will Tell
of a Victory Similar to That
Won by Dewey Sunday.
Kky West, May 4. —This harbor is
again empty. Rear Admiral Sampson’s
fleet has sailed and the situation is one
of renewed expectancy.
There is a strong impression pro
vailing that the next news from the
fleet will tell of an important
gagement of the same character ns
the Asiatic squadron's Manila vie
tory.
Until then no interesting develop
ments are expected, except possibly the
bringing in of new prizes. ' *
ENGLISH ADMIRAL TALKS.
Bays Nothing Can Detract From the
Daring of Commodore Dewey.
Lc'noon, May 4.—Vice Admiral Philip
Howard Colemb, retired, the inventor
ot improved systems for ..... signalling at „
sea and the author of a number of naval
works, in an interview on the subject
of the splendid victory of the United
States fleet at Manila, is quoted as say¬
ing:
“I doubt if there ever was such an ex¬
traordinary illustration of influence of
sea power. A superior fleet has at
tacked and beaten a Spanish fleet sup
ported by batteries and, it now lias appears,
it passed those batteries and taken
up an unassailable position off Manila,
The boldness of the American com
mander is beyond question. Henceforth
he must be placed in the Valhalla of
^ crpit tvivpI r*nrninniHf>r’ detract*from
“Nothin”- can the dash
and vigor of the American exploit, or
dim the glory which Dewey has shed
upon the American navy. It may bo
bad for the world, for assuredly the
American navy will never accept a sub¬
ordinate place after this exhibition of
what it can do.”
DOLE OFFERS US HAWAII.
President of Sandwich Islands Wants
to Help America.
Honolulu, April 27, via San Fran¬
cisco, May 4.—President Dole has sent
a long communication to Presi lent Mc¬
Kinley, offering to transfer the Hawaiian
Islands to the United States for the pur¬
poses of its war with Spain, and to fur¬
nish the American, ships of war in the
Pacific waters with large quantities of
coal, supplies and ammunition.
This action was taken by the execu¬
tive after a secret conference of the Ha¬
waiian cabinet, called to discuss
position to be assumed by the govern¬
ment toward the two belligerents.
Tho news of the declaration #f war
by the United States against Spain
received here today by the Mariposa,
which arrived from the Australian col¬
onies with advices from the
States to the sixteenth inst.
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lU'Cll ANAN, HARALSON (BOUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY :> is;ts.
).
DEWEY IS CONGRATULATED.
Commodore Receives Words of Cheer
From Americans In ILmg-ivong.
New York, May 4.—A dispatch from
Hong-Kong to The Evening World says:
Congratulations from Americans to
Commodore Dewey in the shape of a
number of cable dispatches were fir
warded to the daring comraaudei today
by the British cruiser Immortalite,
which has left for Manila.
The cable to Manila is still inter¬
rupted.
No definite news of the engageme nr.
of Sunday or the reported bombaidnu /.t
of Manila has been received.
American and English residents arc
jubilant or or Dewey’s splendid victory.
BRITISH YACHT IS STONED.
The Lady of (Tomell Forced to Reave
a Spanish Port.
Gibraltar, May 4 — A British steam
yacht, the Lady of Ciomell, owned by
A. M. Wilkinson of London, has just
arrived here from Malaga, Spain, from
\\Lii(h port she was obliged to depart
suddenly owing to the Spaniards mob
l bing and stoning her.
j A dispatch, dated 8 a. m., has been re
\ ceived here from Madrid. It makes no
mention of the alarmist stories of the
j alleged assassinations of Sen or Moret,
minister for the colonies, and Marshal
Martinez de Campos, the former cap
tain general of Cuba. But it says great
e -\citi-ment pie vails at the Spanish
Cai>lta1 '
_
War Revenue Measure Up.
Washington Washington Mnv May 4. i - 1 Thn he senate tn
committee on finance resumed its con
sideration of the war revenue bill at 11
o’clock today. The Republican mem
bers of the committee were in confer
enee at the capitol until 11 o’clock last
night. It is understood that the pur
pose of this meeting was to devise means
fro“7hebnf ereve,me tobedor,Ted
Department In the Dark.
Washington, May 4.—Rumors that
Commodore Dewey s report Lias been
received here are denied by navy de
partment officials. Nothing officially is
known of the arrival of the dispatch
boat at Hong-Kong.
j Dispatch Boat From Dewey.
Hong-Kong, May 4.— The United
rtes dismteh boat Hno-h ,? MY-CnlW-fi '*,
has , arrived at Mirs bay. , It is said she
^ft Manila before the battle.
Greenville, S C., May 4.—The three
companies from the Fifth regiment, as
signed to the South Carolina regiment
of volunteers, left today for Columb
the place of rendezvous. The companies
are the Butler guards and Green vi 'le
teer company from Anderson.
The Tennessee Troops.
Nashvjlu?, May 4.—Two battalions
of the Third regiment reached here from
Knoxville and Chattanooga under com
mand of Mai or E. C. Ramage and Major
j. P. Fyfe. The hirst regiment, under
oommand of Colonel W. C. Smith, had
already gone into camp, and Camp Bob
Tavlor is now peopled by 8,000 vol nn .
teers.
The Mississippi Troops.
Jackson, Miss., May 4.—Governor
McLaurinhas issued au order for the
State ^_ volunteers to rendezvous at Jack- ,
son on Tuesday next. Eighteen com
panies have so far volunteered.
Georgians at Chlckmauga. %
Atlanta* May 4.—It has been de
eided that the Georgia volunteers will
camp at Cluikamauga instead , of ..... in this
Cltv '
? r- i«r
in wbui' ;T . I
ikn mi Mi item
P ■ «wmdf Vb
u r.
Epain Will Soon Send Every
Vessel She Possesses to
American Waters.
WANTS ANOTHER CHANCE
The Cape Verde Squadron doing the
One Now at Cadi/ and the Two
Will Shortly Star, For the
l in ted States.
Lisbon-, May 4.—Nows has boon re
ceived here to the effect that the Suan
ish Cape Verde squadron has returned
to join the Spanish fleet near Cadiz,
which is nearly ready for sea.
At . added that the combined See5
is
°f Spain will shortly start lor Ameri
can waters.
The Spanish fleet, which was at the
Cape Verde islands, consisting of the
Viscaya, Almira ate Oquendo Crist->b il
Colon and Maria Theresa (all first-class
cruisers), accompanied by the torp- !o
boa i destroyers Furor, Terror and Pm
^ ' »'<»**• Cape Verde is
lauds> on April 29, destination
The distance from the Capo Verde
islands to the Canary islands is about
876 miles and the distance from the Ca¬
nary b-lami.s to Cadiz is about 70S) miles,
or 1,570 miles from the Cap- Verde to
Cadiz. The Spanish squadron, being
^m^ie CadSbv this time'steam'",-* uses
a little over 12 knots an hour.
But the Lisbon dispatch does not sav
distinctly that the squadron has reached
Cadiz. It announces that the squadron
“has returned to join the Spanish fleet
near Cadiz, ” which may mean that the
? islands ews Comes possibly from the Canary
or from some source at Madrid,
At Cadiz, the Spaniards are under
stood to be fitting out the battleship
i e a>o .tud the fii htiJass ci insoi*s Can.
Ual Cisneros, L. mpereir Uarlus X Gi u
*-T pe Garibaldi and Altouso wi ll, oo
Destructor Uf “f warships and several Numanem, auxiliary V itora, cruis
ers and a number of torpedo boats and
torpedo gunboats,
PEADY * TO HANOI F Mqiue *“ *
The Associated Press Charters Still
Another Dispatch Boat.
New York, May 4. -The fast dis
*** Kate b P t ' nccr ’ wUlch lofl
Jacksonville on Monday night to go into
tlie . ot .. the Associated . ..... Press,
service
rived at Key West this morning. The
Spencer will operate in conjunction
with the famous dispatch boat Daunt
less, which has been operating in Cuban
waters for some weeks in carrying news
f H 'Associated Woeinled Press Press from Horn tno the hloek block
ttdmg fleet to the cable station at Key
West tor filing.
The widening scope of operations in
the West Indian waters made necessary
the chartering of a third dispatch boafi
for the A {*°& atw J ^ re8 ® and the fas*
ocean yacht Wanda has been chartered
f or this purpose and sailed from here to
day, having on board Correspondents A.
W. Lyman and Alf Cecil Goudie. The
Wanda is recognized in her class, with
one exception, as the fastest ocean steam
yacht in these waters.
On board the Kate Spencer are How
ard N. Thompson and J. W.
tho well known correspondents from
<>. 1A
Press. On the Dauntless are .Tudson
and Oscar Watson of the New York
office. At Key \\ est a>e Albert E. Hunt
ol‘ OhUudelpnm ::ud Byron K. Newton
of ButYaio. On the fl.igsuu) Now York
is William V. M. Goode ot Now York
and on the flagship Brooklyn is Georg®
E. (Jim ham of Albany; with the trooos
at l'ampa is A. XV, Cupp 01 the Chicago
office.
In addition to these correspondents,
each m his way among the best known
writers on the Associated Press force,
staff correspondents are at other impor¬
tant points of cable communication n
the West Indies as follows; Elmer 1.
Roberts at Kingston, Jamaica; Harold
Martin at St. Thomas. Danish West In¬
dies; R. 13 Duvenpovtiv Port a.i Prince,
Tlayti; F. J. Hilgert a. Havana.
The Associated Press has personal
representatives with the fleet at Manila,
at <-’ape Verde island-, Hoag Kong, Kin
do Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Madrid and
outlie Freu‘h frontier, ,n addition to
which it has Tie exclusive use of the
news facilities of the Reuter, Havas and
Wol.f services throughout Europe and
Asia,
Movements of War Craft.
Newport, R. L, May -f.—The cruiser
New Orleans sailed at 10 o’clock this
forenoon for Hamilton Ranks to join
Commodore Schley's flying squadron,
to which he has been attached in p act!
of the Columbia. The New Orleans has
been receiving an outfit here. The
cruiser Minneapolis arrived here at 8
a - n k mid tine bored in the hurl g.r. The
l n 1,,lS '' r oau 1 vaneisco arrive! in the
Vnneetown , Mass ) harbor at 7 o’clock
* J u 1 }®. Yd nun east iroiu J 1 uv he Harbor, j iui>oi Me., olumbui at :3C
I
* ~k this morning.
Not Caused by Spaniards.
Santa Cruz, Cal., May 4.— There is
ao evidence to indicate that- the recent
explosion in the powder mills here was
, . s
now *•<**> P<nmdsof sumkelc.s^and l.JOtl
onh p T'iv (U .lay , i < iumu by rT- the disastei m . will T h
)e ? n * u ‘ m.'iimaetmv ot infantry
smokeless, . but there is enough of this
now on band to supply 60,000 men foi
three months.
Japan Deeply Interested.
Yokohama, May 4.—The situation
created ... by the ., deffut ot the Spanish „ .
fleet an Manila is regarded as being
deeply interesting to Japan, as it is
taken for granted that it presages the
downfall <>;' Spanish power in the east
anii freedoax of the Wulipum
ici ull ds
kLSOLl TIO.NS (OMMtMOK.vm U.
To Hm-hauan Methodist Sunday School:
\ onreommitlee appoinu-d to draft res
, ’!\ iiouinVr llu ‘ , ' s . c ' , \ ,,l "* ”*' 1 n,<>, ' !U!v 1 t ' aV( ut t! “‘ ake lito the ul
"The "'.Kje't i - -' 1 l ‘ ‘ ■'» ll|
of'tlns nn-mori d was bv
I i,L J“ f ! 1 ' V tu •* ’ <u ’'
fluty assigned , to her . ns a dew,.ted im in
fi ( . r ,,f our Sunday selmol.
As nianuisi and teacher, she v 'as ever
r, ’ : "lv and l*i - ;*mpt in the disebai.->-e of l»«r
n,ems lu-r'deatli, begTmVio--iy*in Id!' !ind *V-V'iVi'-nunor
until was but the, (dooming
an< * hiding >t a flower, vet it domonstiat
0(1 l "‘ 1 ' devotion to Sunday school work
., nd pninteil r „ a# . ilrvei . tu!1 of us ,. ln1llB . s
if her liie had been spared, i: it tbere
fore resolved,
First, That this Sunday school-,ud the
church have ’
sustained an irreparable
loss in the death of our beloved associate
and eo-worker in the .Sunday school
cause.
Second, That we deeply svmnnthizo
with the husband and family of t ho de
ceased in their great affliction.
Third, That a copy of these resolutions
bespread upon the minutes of this school
Also, published bur.e. in the Uannku-Mksskn
GERand 1 r,
Mrs. Price Kuwacic i
Mrs. J. S. Kidomll. Com