| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD washington Waa hington may 25 the president today issued the following proclamation by the president of the united states A proclamation whereas an act of congress was approved on the day of april 1898 entitled an act declaring that war exists between the united states and the kingdom of spain and whereas by an act of congress entitled titi edAn an act to provide for temporarily increasing the military establishment of the united states in time of war and for other purposes approved april 22 1898 the president is authorized in order to raise a volunteer army to issue his proclamation calling for volunteers to serve in the army of the united states now therefore I 1 william mckinley president of the united states by virtue of the power vested in me by the constitution and laws and deeming sufficient occasion to exist have thought fit to call forth and hereby do call forth volunteers to the aggregate number of in addition to the voli un called forth by my tiou of the day of april in the present year the same to be apportioned as far as practicable among the several states and territories rieB and the district of columbia Columb according to population littion and to serve tor for two years unless sooner bomier discharged the tha proportion of at each arm and the details of enlistment and organization will be made known through the war department in witness whereof I 1 have hereunto set et my hand and caused the seal of the united states to be affixed done at the city of washington this day of may in the year of out om lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight and of the independence of the united states the one hundred and twenty second WILLIAM mck mckinley NLEY by the president WILLIAM R DAY DAT secretary of state secretary alger said this afternoon that the additional recruits will not be recruited from the bat lonal guard as were the first but that the en will be open the regulations referred to in the proclamation under which the enlistments will be conducted have not i yet been prepared and it la Is thought that there Is no occasion for hurry in this matter until the full dratt draft called for in the first proclamation has been secured tt it Is in further stated that the decision to issue an additional call for volun tee feign was not reached until the cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon therall Thee the call all it Is supposed here indicates a deter defer ml to press the campaign active tive ly and vigorously from now on washington way may 26 25 secreta secretary tong long was waa at the white house this morning to see the president ev bending ending only 9 a few minutes each time on leaving the second time he made silde the important announcement of f th the safe arrival of the battleship oregon at jupiter inlet fla abbet midnight I 1 fast ast night at the same secretary long while expressly stating that no official id ad vices had apen received of the bottling ing up of the spanish fifles it in the harbor at santiago de cuba oy y commodore Soh Sch leys squadron announced that there was every reason to th bell believe th t such wai was the case cape there abere is so BO little worn rom for na the report that admiral cervera cerver a and his vessels are penned in the harbor by commodore Sch leys squadron that secretary longs long s statement that there was every reason to believe it was supplemented by the president who in reply to inquiries from congressional callers sald said that it was undoubtedly true secretary loong long had only a brief talk with the president deAt over the situation the sate safe arrival of the oregon at jupiter had been discounted to some extent by previous announcements of its safety commodore Sch leys catching up with the cervera fleet was a source of much congratulation for in the conferences feren ces that took place in the white house there was a feeling that it brought the end of the war much nearer asked as to the possibility of a ruse of some sort arising from admiral cerveris veras deliberately entering the harbor under the circumstances secretary long said the purposes purpose of the spanish could be only conjectured but that hat it might be they went into santiago for coaling while refraining from discussing specifically the matter of reinforcements and the dispatch of admiral sampsons Samp sons fleet now asserted to be in the neighborhood of havana to santiago secretary long has no hesitation in saying commodore schley could have whatever aid he wanted port au u prince hayti may 25 copyright 1898 by the associated press frees the report of the arrival of the spanish cape verde fleet at santiago de cuba to is correct the correspondent here of the associated socia ted press has haa been able to obtain definite confirmation of this news but up to the present it has been impossible to obtain any details the dispatches sent from here to santiago de cuba asking for information 1 0 n on the subject remain unanswered aw ered st johns N F may 26 an unknown steamer is ashore thirty miles mile south of this port and to is likely to be a 1 total wreck the british steamer cobin captain fraser ITra xer trading between st johns and montreal which arrived here this morning reported ported rd that the steamer ashore to is painted fainted lead leafa color has haa a yellow smokestack and looks like a warship this theory however how eved is in very doubtful b taul iron mountain aunt in web mien may 28 26 the residence of A rechter on west went B street was wae destroyed by fire last night A boy aged 9 years and a girl aged 11 burned to a crisp and two othet children aged 4 and 6 whirl a girl and a bo afy y were to b badly adly burned that th they cannot live it if its Is not known how abb fire originated natel but the firemen suspect that it was caused by the ex j of a lamp in an incubator 1 richter anahis and tola and nine small children occupied bleeding bleeping Ble apartments on the second floor the children were seven sefan managed to escape five of first aroused before an alarm had been givin elvett them uninjured but two were fatally burned richter end and wife escaped by bi lumping aping through th fough a window the former having his arm so badly cut by glass 19 that he came near bleeding to death thic chicago go may 26 A special to the leiis ft from ofal washington says the german and french consuls tit at honolulu haw have I 1 accordi according to information c P n received at thi th istatt estate apont joined I 1 in w 9 b J faint f to 6 tabi go govern aft mente agi against d nit M the alie alleged gd favo favoritism ri shown by the dole republican alican governs govern ment of hawaii to tu the united states St atess the protest has hag aroused the greatest interest in congressional and diplomatic circles jefferson city mo may 26 governor stephens today sent the following telegram to adjutant general bell at st louis if reports are reliable I 1 am not satisfied with the treatment our missouri volunteers at are receiving ce delegate a reliable man in my name to visit the caann and wire the war department tor for an improvement of the present conditions governor stephens stated today that missouri would furnish one colored and two white troops under the last call tor for volunteers hazardville Haz ardville conn may 27 the corning mill of the powder company in which fus fues are prepared exploded today alfred D lun don was killed and foreman forean james colby was seriously injured the mill was a small building one of a hundred the hazardville Haz ardville companas comp anys plant spottsville pottsville Pott Potts aville ville pa may 27 while miners minera were working in the red ash vein if the kaska william colliery about ten miles east of here yes yesterday A large body of water was struck and 1 six men vre are supposed to have been drowned they are william morgan margana married wife and two children I 1 william derr tingle single 17 years ot of age martin Nal ochle peter durkin wife in poland paul kosinski Kosins kl wendele it to is possible that derrand MOM morgan may be rescued but there is no hove hope for the others I 1 off the northern coaston Coa cuba may 27 2 a m via key west at 10 last night the dolphin ran alongside the flagship new york her light showed that she bore dispatches dispatch for rear admiral sampson the commander of the dolphin shouted through the megaphone 1 I have dispatches from Com commodore schley to the commander in A cheer went up from the crowded decks commodore Sch leys dispatches were dated off cienfuegos absolutely nothing definite can be said was the reply which Capt captain chadwick of the new york made ke to a question as to what had trans transpired pW pd sinde since he heard of admiral Cerver fc arrival at curacao rear ad hav sampson has repeatedly wd said he be moved the Stani spaniards ards would go to cienfuegos or santiago to prove drove Ar arnelle Amert nerle ca admiral was i almost sure t spanish would be caught the can be divulged without a breach b ay confidence conna ence when the ships ot 0 Sch schleps loys civial division on were sailing attl ou w key west under reer rear adm admiral aaa sons orders the admiral set this nal nai to Cap captain teAn phillips of th the e T you are going to nab the 8 and good luck to you since then rear admiral I 1 has been crud cruising sing around aro und as a purely I 1 precautionary measure mease re he t thoroughly bor bougan bell believed Wed commodore schley wo would CLOT bottle battle up the spaniards eer in cle fuegos or at Sant santiago fago but he took all measures to guard against a P possible evasion of commodore CommodoreS schley ehley by buet emlay enemy and any attempt to make agai ha vana through lugh the eastern or western weso 9 passage though there is in little 01 doubt I 1 that tire the commodore bad he met t I 1 sh ships ps could have d defected horn 1 there Is reason to believe front I 1 a stra strategic bevic want t pr blew i UA ca n 40 ka zy 0 uie te wn up in ti aig than in nw gai paiement gement ga ement which though it would result in victory for far the americans might have resulted in some damage to our ships in the harbor of santiago the span spam aab ish fleet will be helpless the channel leading into the harbor is narrow and the enemy can either be kept a prisoner there by sinking a few hulks in the channel or he can be destroyed by a superior force butte mont may 27 W P F bowen while attempting to bid his brother goodbye good bye on the departure of the troops for san francisco fell beneath the military train and was killed key west fla may 28 am copyrighted 1898 by the associated press it is now almost certain that commodore schley has the spaniards bottled up in the harbor of santiago there is so ao little doubt about this that the naval campaign is proceeding anthe n the assumption that admiral cervera is incapable of doing any harm within a few days the exact conditions at santiago will be known without a shadow of doubt in spite of assertions aas ass ertons to the contrary commodore schley was not absolutely sure of his gam ewhen he last communicated with rear admiral sampson and the com acdore will not take up active steps to block up the entrance of santago go harbor until he is perfect ely certain that admiral cerveris veras ships are inside however he may have done this already as commodore aschle Sch leys Ys last couii com auni muni cation forwarded on tuesday only reached rear admiral sampson yester tay day the commodore commodare stayed three days at cienfuegos he signalled signal led to his ships 1 I believe the spanish fleet is in the harbor harbon on this belief a message was sent to the american admiral the details of how commodore schley found out that I 1 he was mistaken are not known at iii any rate the admirals instructions the commodore then moved east arriving outside santiago wednesday morning may 26 25 the topography of cienfuegos and santiago is almost identical both harbors as are abbout six miles long with ith narrow entrances about yards wide and protected by highland A whole fleet ebule lie in the harbor of either place and be invisible from the outside j after his exper experience dence at cientuegos cienfuegos it is in probable thai commodore schley V was very conservative in deciding wh whether erther or not he had caught admiral cervera from frain the tone of his dis 1 patches it Is evident that the commodore soon gained much second hand and external evidence which pointed to admirl admiral Cerve cerveris veras rals presence in the in ser b harbor arbor this evidence was alpar fitly strong enough to make the corn com I 1 eodore feel certain the object of his trip had been accomplished but in 1 j yiew view of his previous out experience he would not risk a decisive statement until after ascertaining the fact for I 1 himself I 1 before this dispatch is published it IS fit likely that commodore schley has sent mome vessels into the entrance of fan santiago tiago and obtained from a rel reliable lable source ashore information as to the exact t number and the names of the anish spanish warships sheltered by the hills bills bout about the place contrary axy to the generally geroe rally expressed pinion opinion santiago harbor Is poorly protected like havana and tand san juan de porto rico it has its morro castle which to I 1 even k a better target than those of Iff havana avana and san juan the only dani I 1 ger fer to be feared to is from the mines which hach have been laid in the channel of santiago since war was waa declared but countermining counter mining would probably render ader these mines minee harmless harm leaB should it prove desirable for commodore Sch leys ships to enter the harbor such a step however Is unlikely in this connection it may be noted that since the commencement of the naval operations the moral effect of the mines has been great this condition promises to continue and will probably mark the naval operations to a greater extent than ever imagined in the past A prominent naval authority said to the correspondent of the associated press the moral effect of torpedoes and mines will prove far superior to their actual effect in fact so great is their moral force that I 1 doubt whether their powers of execution will have an opportunity to be judged in this war the blockade of northern cuba continues uneventful and is apparently successful now that the element of uncertainty regarding the spanish ships where is almost entirely removed the ships which were solely occupied in watching tor for the spaniards have become an additional force for the blockade and without any inconvenience in the change of position commodore schley has been reinforced but his position was clearly so strong that the fein reinforcement which he received made no difference to the strength of the fleet in northern cuban waters the rumors of the sailing of a second secand spanish squadron did not worry rear admiral sampson in the slightest degree his feelings on the subject were aptly expressed recently when he said 1 I am perfectly satisfied that we have bagged those fellows referring to admiral cerveris veras fleet rear admiral sampson does not cross his bridges until he comes to them and when that time comes his unconquerable patience and strategic ability can be relied upon to see him safely across for the second time since war was declared the admiral has been notified that the army is ready to move this is good news to all the naval officers the two branches of the service have been playing a game of wait the army resting until the navy disposed of the spanish fleet and the navy unable to occupy much needed bases until the troops were ready for debarkation in view of the fact that the spanish fleet was far faster than the american and that the former had no desire for an engagement this policy of inaction however farsighted it may be temporarily produced much natural irritation among the naval |
