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) Clinch County News VO! . I. BATTLESHIP HUE BLOWN 18 PIECES. Catastrophe Opoured Without Warning' and While Most of the Ship’s Men Were Sleeping. llMWMmWMUl iSpanish Boats and Havana Firemen Go to the Rescue and Hive All Assistance Possible—The Catastrophe Creates Great Excitement Throughout the Country. The United Stat battleship Maine was blown up at 8:40 o’clock Tuesday night, in Havana harbor and totally ‘ As yet the cause of the explosion is nut apparent. According to a report to the nirvy department by Captain Bigsbee ”, those , n to . be saved Officers, 24, ‘ ) " u are: .- uninjnred, 18 wounded, crew, now on boaid A ard,line steamer, in city lios- Vn* ? m ' i'H'vi. »» Taras known, Air others want down on board or near the Marne Total lost or missing, 253. rhe explosion occurred under the ^nartw*,, well forward. The tfc ***‘ ,{$' r wholly sub- merged ami iirdwa purl of her stern I he explosion,**Inch shook the city ,fiom one end to another, created the tuldest excitement. All the electric lights were put out by the shock, hire engines rushed madiv from one dive- • “ion to another, and no one knew for from which direction the plosion came. Some of the crew who were able t ° support themselves by swimming Saved by the boats. The disaster is remarkable in only two officers lost their lives and these were of junior grades. were Lieutenant Freil Mb Jenkins and Assistant Engineer Darw in 15. See.,,.Moment of f:x„l.olon. » ‘he surviving crew and officers l>o Official Organ of Clinoli County. HOMERYILUE. 0A.* FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1898 THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON. Officials of the Navy Departmeut De¬ cline to Discuss Catastrophe. I Secretary of the Navy Long received J j Captain minutes Sigabee’s before the dispatch Associated but Press a few dispatches i'i;om Havana were handed , He received the nows with apparent , calm, and bis first act was to comply xvitli Captain Bigshee’s request that j assistance be sent from Key West. i )} p immediately wired Captain For- j „ ythc , at Key West, to proceed with , hp „ avtt l tender Fern to Havana har- | bor Secretary Long then sent for Cap- f a j n Dickens, ami the two discussed j Captain Tlie disaster Sigsbee’s brief the greatest telegram. which i is : has befallen the Arm ricau navy sinc e ! ^ le disaster at Apia many years ago. j While neither the secretary uor Cap- : tain Dickens are inclined to discuss j the probable cause of the accident, several suggestions were ventured i upon. j Later the secretary sent another tel- ' i-graui to K* v \V. do acting that tlm I tender Mangrove also be sent to Ha- vaua. ! n Vest ijjrnt ion Or<iuf* tl. j diute Secretary steps Long make 1ms investigation, taken imrno- : to an Late M’ednesday afternoon he tele- graphed to Admiral Bicard at Key ! West to appoint a board of naval offi- ,, er « to proceed at once to Havana, ,. -piii , • , gj - ■ *- MISS FRANCES WILLARD DEAD. I'ra.iil. nt of the W. C. T. 1. Purne* An. Suddenly In New York. l Miss Frances E, Willard, president t f the Woman’s Christian Temper ance vUnion, died shortly after midnight ▼riday night at the Hotel Empire in New York city. < Mies Willard has been ill for about three weeks with profound anemia, which was- the direct cause of her. •death. Frances Elizabeth Willard w as born in Churehville, N. Y., September 28, 1S39. She was graduated at North¬ western Female college, Evanston 111., in 1859, became professor of nat A i.ia! science there in 18t>2 and years she spent in foreign travel, giv- ing a part of the time to study in Paris and contributing to periodicals. In 1871-74 she was professor of esthetics in -Northwestern universite Mi and dean of the women’s college, ieve she de- veloped her system of self-government, which had been adopted by other ed¬ ucators. Miss Willard left her profession in 1874 to identify herself with the Wo¬ man's Christian Temperance Union, serving as corresponding secretary of the national organization until 1879, and since that date as president. As secretary she organized the home pro¬ tection movement and. sent an appeal from nearly 200,000 persons to the legislature of Illinois asking for the temperance ballot for women, the death t>f her brother, Oliver A. Willard, she succeeded him as editor of The (Chicago Evening Post. 1 u 1886 she accepted the leadership of the White Cross movement in her own unions which had beeu establish¬ ed through her intluence in twelve states for .the protection of w omen. In 1888 she was made president of the American branch of tho Internal tiona! Council of Women and of the World’s Christian Temperance Union, she i had i , founded .. , , „ five years , „ und She was repeatedly re-elected. l*i sides many pamphlets and centri- butnms to magazines am the press Miss M illard has published several volumes relating to temperance and other reforms. ANOTHER DISASTER AT HE A. i SENATOR MASON DEMANDS AN IM- I MEDIATE INVESTIGATION. j -8 SENSATIONAL DEBATE ENSUES. Much Warm Talk Indulged In Ilepiibli- cans K«*ply to Their Colleague From Illinois. A Washington special sars: In the *** m - **-»■ «*»■<* ^solution Maine disaster for an providing investigation for private of the a j-Mc. committee to make an investigation. Hale asked that the matter ho not pushed. - Mr. Mason, in reply, said that it was evident that facts in regard to Cuba were being concealed from the people of the country and from con- gross. Mr. Mason said that Bho policy of the government was delay, and noth¬ ing was flopping the murder of people in Cuba. The DeLome letter had not stopped the murders. The Maine disaster had not stopped them. It was time for tho ■•ivenato to act. Mr. Mason said he did not want the facts regarding the Maine locked up iu the executive depart¬ ments. Mr. Mason said we had waited while the diplomats have deceived us. They had sat at our table and misrepresent¬ ed the situation. Mr. Mason said that, while the diplomats delayed 250 of our brave seamen were lying in the harbor at Havana. Mr. Mason said the American peo- pie were tired of investigating behind ; d oor n, that w itl, 250 seamen ly- > ,\, g at bottom of Havana harbor thp 1( <)f the Unite(1 Htatos want . kuow whethe , sh « WIls blown up j, y he r enemies or from spontaneous ■ombustiou. Mr. Mason said that if 1 T esiilt was of found an accident that the the disaster people was would the , yte better satisfied if a committee SPANISH CRUISER AT NEW YORK. Extraordinary Precaution* Taken By Offi¬ cial* For Her Protection. The Spanish armored cruiser Viscaya is in New York waters on a “friendly visit.” She dropped her big anchors live miles south of Saudy Hook light¬ house at 5:30 p. in., Friday, after a thirteen day yoyage from the Canary islands. When her officers and men learned the startling news of the disaster to the American battleship Maine in Havana harbor and of the downfall of former Minister DeLome, they broke into a wild uproar of talk. r or u time all discipline on the great ship seemed to vanish to the winds. Men rushed below to tell their com- lades in the lower decks. Bear Admiral Mnnce has given final Dougherty, who will have charge of the patrol tugs,six in number,to guard levSv ' nng ‘‘ y ‘ n Each boat is to have on board, while ......... ” “ e 0 ftlCel ', ,f mann « S > ft onudsn an and , four . policemen of the While on duty the boa i t s will u patrol ii he waters carefully in the vicinity of the visiting Spaniard and no boat or person will bo allowed to approach the Viscaya without the sanction of the commanding othcer ol that vessel. At night i is intended to keep the N iscaya bnlhantly illuminated with eleetnc .girts and the watch boats will he also well lighted sir that there can be no possible means of approach- lug the vessel without detection. ALL FAVOR GOOD ROADS. People of Alalmiiia Have Been Spurred t'p liy Anni*ton Convention. The good roads convention at An¬ niston, Ala., lias, at least, served one good purpose. It has directed the at¬ tention of the people of Alabama to fact that they are far behind the march of progress iu the matter of good roads, and it has net tlieih to talking about, the best me MOkdv the difficulhgfli ’'i- Btt that the JP m : NO. 18. MANl RELIEVE THE MAINE EX¬ PLOSION WAS NO “ACCIDENT.” NAVAL MEN EXPRESS OPINIONS. Public Opinion Seems to He Crystaliiing In the Belief That Wrecking of the Warship Was By Design. A Washington special of Wednesday J SUy8 ’ Jt r , ,11, ; ftus a Ueav . >' uideiijmty . or war with bpain, for there seems now no good reason to doubt that the ter- rible tragedy that has east a gloom ITt^he^ ,’, ° ^ Hp “' , )e ltc t e Htrong eflbrts of those in ‘^tWiiy to create a contrary im- !’~e dM° hv^s'‘ "'T grown until it has become a convio- tiol) . The best thought iu th(> nft department now indorses this idea, nlul tho construction which experts iu these affairs put upon Captain Sign- bee’s cablegram seem:, to hear it out f u Uy [ A1 of ill0 oftkial uttel . ftnces ) mve been to the contrary. It has been given out iu a semi-official way that ,„c president, believes the wreck has (lup to 1K .cident, and the officials of the navy department have been kept j busy trying to put up a plausible story on that line. At first the public was inclined to take that view of it. But since these first statements there have been others, from the men whose views are valued most at the navy department, which have thrown a dif¬ ferent. light on the situation; and in eonpeijnence of tho belief that some Spaniard is responsible for the most terrible disaster that has ever over¬ taken this navy, or any other in time of peace, the feeling in Washington is running high. Nobody believes that the act was committed by authority of the Spanish government. But almost everybody ■now believes that the Maine was sent to the bottom by some Spaniard of