Show OLYMPIA CUTS CABLE IN MIMIC WAR JUST AS DEWEY DID IN MANILA SAY BAY WOODS WOOD'S HOLLE Ma Mass Mace Sept L The United States cruiser Olympia Deweys Dewey's flagship at the battle of oC Manila Ma Ma- Manila nila nUa dashed Into this port this forenoon landed a force forca and seized all telegraph and cable stations thereby thereby cutting cutting off all tIl communication with Marthas Martha's Vineyard Vineyard Vine VIne- yard ard and Elizabeth Island Of or course the seizure and the destruction destruction destruction de de- de- de of telegraphic and cable facilIties facilities facil facil- were Il figurative and It required the decision of an nn umpire to make plain whether or not the point attempted b by Admiral Higginson on had been won As made male the telegraph the tho landing landing- was way and telephone were entered l b by sufficient force to have destroyed the pr property perty or at least the Instruments A An At the tho same time lime a a. boats boat's crew had lo located located located lo- lo the cable with grappling hooks hooles and had held a sufficient period to have allowed for the cutting of them there seemed to have been no question but that tho the move had been entirely suc suc- c stul The Olympia appeared off this port suddenly this morning and immediately two boats put off toward shore One wa was waa a launch and the other a whale whale- d b b ty Y dr tr M iy It s' s v 7 t Y t ROCK ISLA ISLAND D R R. R I. I L. L Sept 1 H HAfter t tAfter After Arter a bombardment df two P H hours and a a. quarter A Admiral V K 1 fro Higginson today captured the H r t signal and wireless telegraph H It Itt I t stations on Boston Hill and Is isnow It C It now holding holding- the great Salt Pond It Itt t t harb harbor r. r The sl signal nal corps abandoned aban- aban I K I doped cloned the station and escaped P. P tI I The fleet under Admiral Higgin- Higgin ln- ln It ItI I son Is anchored off ort the break break- I V It wa water ter V. V I Y l boat and In them was a detachment I under L L. M. M Everhardt The launch landed here while the whaleboat whaleboat whaleboat whale- whale boat lay off shore and at once began grappling for th the cable The men under under un un- der er Everhardt rushed to the office of the Marthas Martha's Vineyard Telegraph company compan and then tf to the telephone station station station sta sta- tion and carried out their orders to tomake tomake tomake make the seizure Having accomplished this work they returned to their launch Joined the whaleboat and antI returned to their ship This Tills move cut off ort the only communication with the Islands of or Nantucket Nantucket Nantucket Nan- Nan nn and 1 Marthas Martha's Vineyard which I are very important observation sa- sa sea sta |