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eighth year
smoke a “Bill Arp’ warters Now Brand
GLORIOUS victory
Browned First Effort of
American Arms
ON MANILA’S SOIL.
Flower of Spanish Troops Beat
en by American Volunteeis.
Manila Bay, August 4, via
Hung Kong, August 10—The
soil of the Philippines has been
drenched with American blood .
On the night of July 31st at 11
o’clock the Spaniards made a
coaserted sortie from Manila
city on the outposts and trench
es of Camp Dewey, nuar Malate,
General Greene commanding
The attack was directed at the
American right Hank, held by
the 10th Pennsylvania troops.
Ten men were killed in the
tatnches and picket lines and
forty-four wounded. The dead
are:
Maurice Just, First California
volunteers: W. E. Brown,
company D. Tenth Pennsylva
nia : Will Burton, H. Stiilwag
ou, James Hull, Jr.,Jessie Noss,
all of company E. Tenth Penn
sylvania; John Brady, Jr., com
pany I, Tenth Pennsylvania; L
Dawson, battery K, Third artil
lery, United State* army; J. A,
Mclllrath, bittery K, Third ar
tillery, United States army ;
Charles Winfield, battery F.
Third artillery, United States
army,
Capt. Richter, First Califor
nia and Capt. Hobbs, Third ar
tillery were among the wound
ed.
Ihe British admiral reports
the Spanish loss to be th"ee
hundred and fifty killed and
nine hundred wounded,
Malate is located half way be
tween Cavite and Manila city.
Gen. Greene s force numbers
4,000 men. His line has been
advancing and entrenching. The
arrival ol the third expedition
tilled the Spaniards with rage
and they determined to give bat
tie before Camp Dewey could be
re enforced.
Ihe trenches extended from
the beach 300 yards to the left
Hank of the insurgents. Sunday
•as the insurgent’s feast day
'nd their left fl ink withdrew,
leaving the American right fl ink
exposed. Companies A and E,
01 the Tenth Pennsylvania, and
the 1 tah battery were ordered
to re-enforce the right flank.
In the midst of a raging ty
phoon with a tremendous down
pom of rain, the enemy’s force,
®d to surprise the camp. Our
pickets were driven in and the
trenches assaulted.
~ie Spaniards charg d the
Americans’ right and nearly
succeeded in cut ing off the
«nu 3 ylvania companies, but
Americans rallied and re
-1 1 «d the Spaniards after des
-1 fighting, the American
ne neaking the Spanish center.
* Spaniards charged again,
/unX 616 !’° rCOd t 0 retreat to the
iire g X Where thevke pt a heavy
le&dF. Ug °, n One of the roads
«s in o ß d° ‘ America »Btrench
tO pr * vent ™-enforce-
Ca|iL r ° m arrivi “g- The First
Util, ,e 8 1,n «nt and the
cry came to the rescue
THE ROME HISTLER-COMMERCAII
ROME GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, EVENING, AUGUST- 10. 1898. -
MERRITT REPORTS
Briefly RecapitJlates Recent
Events in Manila
THE DEAD A|fD WOUNDED
Number of Men In Philippines
and Where From
Washington, August 9 —The war
department today received the fol*
lowing cablegram from Hong
Kong:
“Adjutant General. Washing*
ton. —McArthur’* troops arrived
31st. No epidemic sickness. Five
deaths. Lieutenant K >rr, engineer
died of spinal meningitis.
“Landing at camp delayed on
account of high surf. To gain ap
proach to city, Greene’s outposts
were advanced to continue line
from the Camino Real to beach on
Sunday night. Spanish attacked
sharply. Artillery outposts behaved
well. Held position. Necessary to
call out brigade. Spanish loss ru
mored heavy. Our Uss killed:
‘Tenth Pennsylvania John
Brady, Walter E. Brown,
William E. Brintop, Jacob Hull,
Jesse Noss, William Stiliwagon.
First California—Mauric Just
t'hird artillery—Eli Diwion. First
Colorado—Fred Springsted.
“Seriously wounded. Tenth
Pennsylvania Sergeant Alva
Walter, Privates Lee Snyder, Vic
tor Holmes, C. S Caixor. Arthur
John son. First California—Captain
R. Richter, Private C. J. Edwards.
Third artillery—Privates Charles
Winfield. J. A. McElroth. Thirty
eight slightly wounded.
Merritt.”;
Secretary Alger regards the Ma
nila fight as the beginning of the
general attack upon the Philippine
capital. General Merritt’s force in
rhe Philippines consists of 460 of
ficers and 10,464 men.
AMERICAN FORCES AT MANILA
Washington, August 9—General
Merritt’s force in the Philippines
consists of three expeditions which
have arrived there, amounting to
460 officers and 10,464 men . They
are the First California, Second
Oregon. Tenth Pennsylvania,
First Colorado, First Nebraska,
Thirteenth Minnesota, First Idaho
First Wyoming, Fourteenth,
Eighteenth and Twenty-third
United States infantry, tne First
California battery, the Astor bat
tery, and Batteries A. and B. Utah
volunteers and batteries G. H K,
and L, Third United States ar
tillery.
through a withering fire and
never wavered, though several
were wounded and Capt. Rich
ter was killed.
The brave Pennsylvania men
never flinched, but stood their
ground under a withering fire.
The alarm spread, and the First
California regiment, with twe
companies of the Third artillery
who fight with rifles, were sent
up to re-enforce the Pennsylva
nia*. The enemy were on top of
the trenches when those re-en
forcements arrived, and never
was the discipline of the regu
lars better demonstrated than
by the work of the Third artil
lery. under Capt. O’Hara. Noth
ing could be seen but the flashes
of Mauser rifles.
Men ran right up to the at
tacking Spaniards and mowed
them d*wu with regular volleys
The Utah battery, under Capt.
Young, covered itself with glo
ry, the men pulled their guns
fi BLOCK OFFII/E
Arkansas Mob Liincfißd Thet
Mai;H egroe’.
MURDERED WAN’S WIFE
’ Xi I * I
Committed Suicide In Her Cel',
Three Negresses Lynched.
■—
Little R< ck Ark , Aug 10. — Five
negroes aie banging iron) the limb
of trees near the railroad Hack,
and the wdow of John 1\ Orris
da J in her cell.
Tins is the tragic denouement
of (he assassination of J hn T. t)rr,
a wealthy merchant, at Clarendon
a few nights ago. The wife died
from a dose of poison selfadminis
tered, while the negroes, her as
sociates in crime, ware strung up
by a mob of citizens.
The report of the lynching was
received here at an early hour this
morning as er telegraphic com
munication had suspended for the
night, and the only authentic de
tails of the affair cume from a rail
road telegraph operator at Claren
don, who saw the lynching,
Four bodies, two .women and
two men, ere hanging from the
limb of a tree not far from his of
fice and a few paces away dangles
the body of a another negro wo
man former cook in the Orr house
hold .
Miss Morris, implica
ted in the assassination, was not
hanged she having dis ppeared
last night.
Last Saturday night John T. Orr
was assaseiuated wnile making a
glass of lemonade. He had just
returned from Christ’s church
where his wife was organist.
Ihe aff-iir shrouded in mystery
until Miss Morris told somebody
that she knew who fired the shot.
A coroner’s inquest resulted in
the arrest of the five negroes and
Mrs. Orr and a warrant for Miss
Morris, ft was charged that the
wife had hired the negroes io do
the murder. «
Urr’e life was insured so. $ i 000
and it developed at the inquest
that Orr and his wife lived unhap-
I sly Mr. Orr was formerly a theat
rical man In 1890 the couple elop
ed to a summer resort in Wiscon
sin and were married. Later they
settled iu Clarendon, whera Orr
prospered in business and was
considered wealthy at the time of
h's death.
through mud axle deep. Twc
guns were sent around in fl ink
and poured in a destructive en
filading fi. e. 'The enemy was re
pulsed and retreated in disor
der.
Oar infantry had exh austid
its ammunition, and did not fol
low the enemy. Not an inch of
ground was lost, but the scene
in the trenches was one never to
be forgotten. During flashes of
lightning the dead and wounded
could be seen lying in blood-red
water, but neither the element
of heaven nor power of man
could wring a cry of protest
from the wounded. They en
couraged their comrades co flight
ind handed over their cartridge
belts.
On the night of August Ist
tb.e fighting was renewed but
the enemy had been taught a
'esson, and made tiie attack at
long range, with heavy artillery.
The Utah battery replied and
the artillery duel lasted an hour.
One man was killed.
He was Fred Springstad, First
Colorado. Two men were wound
ed.
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& SONS,
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