| Show AT HOME AND ABROAD chickamauga national military park ga june 15 the report that 15 regiments are to leave camp thomas for tampa pla fla in the next few days is the main topic of conversation in camp today and it is being eagerly discussed by both officers and men it is impossible to confirm the report as the army officials refuse to discuss it but nearly every man in camp now be alieves it when the news of the movement gained circulation there was general rejoicing among the soldiers the greater portion of them have been very anxious to go to the front and now that there is a fair prospect of a large number of regiments leaving the boys are all anxious to know just who will be included in the order this is not known and will not be made public bubli until major gen brooke issues an order it is understood that the ath ath and new york third and fifth illinois first fourth fifth ninth and sixteenth pennsylvania ath ohio and eighth massachusetts will be among the first to lead head to the front in addition to these regiments there are many others which lack only a small amount of equipment and each could be equipped for operation without much trouble the rains which have fallen since sunday have added materially to the comfort of army life and afforded an excellent opportunity tor for active work today every regiment is drilling and maneuvering and the field is covered with thern them washington june 14 the last lingering doubt that may have ex histed an to the presence of cerveris Cerve veras rals fleet in its entirety in santiago harbor was removed when admiral sampsons Samp sons despatch reached the navy department last night up to that time information as to the number and character of the vessels bessels lying in the harbor shielded from observation by the hills had been obtained through cuban sources supplemented ted by such glimpses as could le be obtained by the naval officers from the outside entrance now however according accordi fig to lieutenant blue the ships have been actually seen by an american officer counted and inspected arc an n points of vantage afforded by bythe the high hills surrounding the harbor the officials here are ace full of praise for blues achievement victor blue has been long known know in the navy as an enterprising and daring young officer but it required a good deal beal of sustained courage for him to go ashore in a hostile country and alone make this reconnaissance he asin the eye of military law nothing more or less than a spy and had he been captured by the spaniards he would have been tried by a drumhead court martial and executed new york june 16 A special from rey key west says junta advices advises from the headquarters of the cuban civil government in la canaja canaba in Cam aguay report that more than spanish volunteers and many regulars from puerto principe and neu vetas garrisons have deserted to the patriot army the immediate cause ca use of desertion was the fear of the american fleet blancos blancas Blan cos general castellanos Casti llanos has removed most of his artillery inland to puerto principe city santa cruz del sur has been invested by fhe be cubans and communication with sail boat has been established with jamaica champ camp mccalla guantanamo bay june 16 p m via kingston june 16 q a m copyrighted 1898 by the associated press the brick fort and earthworks earthworms earth works at Cai Cal mahera at the end of the railroad leading to the city or of guantanamo were demolished today by the bombardment of the texas marblehead and suanee the war ships opened fire at 2 p m and the bombardment lasted one hour and thirty minutes the texas steamed slowly up the channel leading to the fortifications followed closely by the marblehead the texas fired two shots as range finders both fallin short and to the right the marblehead stood off to the right side of the bay and opened with her 5 inch guns knocking down part of the wall the texas then threw in some twelve inch shells tearing down the wall of the fort and throwing the bricks and mortar thirty feet in the air atter badly damaging the fort the marblehead stood further in to shell the ithe earth works and bax barracks racks at the west end of the harbor she knocked thern them into the air and when the spaniards fled from the fort they were shelled by the st paul and driven into the bushes the spaniards fired only five shots which did no damage after the ships steamed out into the harbor the spanish in the bushes opened fire on the Marble Marblehead heads a launch which replied vigorously orous ly the shawnee then turned back and shelled the bushes driving the spaniards inland denver june 16 passenger trains no 5 westbound and no 6 eastbound on the atchison topeka santa fe railroad collided on a siding at conroy colo today the engine of the eastbound train and the combination baggage and express car on the westbound train were badly damaged anil ana the wreckage delayed traffic ten hours express messenger travis had a leg broken and six passengers whose names were not learned were slightly injured constantinople june 17 the outbreak of the albanians at berane near the frontier of montenegro the gravity of which is comparable to the troubles preceding the bervia mon benegro war against turkey in 1876 is due to revenge taken by some christians upon the albanian murderers of a christian notable last autumn the albanians in remote districts participated in the recent outrages in consequence of the renewed representations of montenegro supported by russia the sultan has dispatched troops to the disturbed districts from there was fighting all day thursday and many were killed or wounded on both sides according to the report many women and children fleeing toward montenegro have been killed manlia manila june 6 5 via hongtong Hong kong china june 17 it at I 1 Is s now officially admitted here that the lack of food supplies has become a serious matter gunboats Gun boats conveying volunteers sent into the lagoon to search for food tor for the city on friday june 3 returned here today sunday and reported the total failure of their mission 01 letter it has now been officially admitted that the troops have been thir ty six hours without food the insurgents sur gents are gaining everywhere and are now firing into manila itself the commanders of the gunboat also report that every lagoon and town is hostile and that their garrisons have probably been massacred the spanish fleet was unable to effect a landing in spite of prolonged firing upon the part of all the gunboats gun boats No nobody noboa bod however hoever was killed this removes the last hope of provisioning manila during the week sal all the garrisons were simultaneously overpowered or surrendered as prisoners the latter are well treated in the northern sections the insurgents have united near basig near the basig river separating the spaniards there were a few casualties the zone of hostilities is a magnificent defensive country thickly wooded having an unlimited number of natural ambus eades cades and innumerable block houses and trenches any average army could easily defy ten times their number on all sides can be seen the spaniards retiring moving the soldiers soldie zW el effects and dismantling the barracks prematurely evidently anticipating defeat as a matter of course the soldiers are brave and desperate and hate to retreat but they are hopelessly incompetent and shamefully underfed under fed many of them have assured the correspondent that they have never been at target practice in their lives still they are eager for an opportunity to display their valor and are confident that the enemy to is equally unpracticed whole companies of spaniards have had nothing to eat for two days and some of them are literally crying it is a pitiable sight the native peas santry charitably assist the starving soldiers without compulsion and some englishmen yesterday gave a treat to the soldiers guarding the outpost they bought a wandering hawkers store of Ta eatables tables for a few shillings and gave the food to the soldiers who said it was waa the first food they had tasted tor for thirty six hours the insurgents yesterday rushed the of the zapota river and also descended from the lagoon took the spaniards on the flank aud and captured several guns the spanish soldiers made a good stand until they were ordered to retreat probably their ammunition was inadequate it is almost impossible to understand how such magnificent positions can be abandoned without a struggle the insurgents sur gents today captured las pinas Pa Tun galo Mal mallabar labay all on the coast line the spaniards lost 90 men killed and wounded and several thousand returned here unhurt the insurgents are now firing into the southernmost part of df manile manila and a mile and a halt from the center place containing the forts mag abines telegraph office and club house the insurgents are also in every outlying quarter of manila awaiting the si signal al to advance tt at Calo a suburban railroad station there are a few spanish troops in ridiculous little entrenchments the village is full of insurgents and the railroad line is broken outside the station eta the ties have been carefully removed by the insurgents who promised to replace them after the war new york june 17 A special cablegram from hongtong Hong kong to the journal says gays the most severe and important battle since admiral deweys deleys annihilation of the spanish fleet has occurred at manila one thousand insurgents attacked 2000 spanish inflicting heavy losses and almost forcing the entrance io to the city the insurgents under gen aguinol do and the american bailors and marines of admiral deweys deleys fleet completely surround manila danils the foreign residents have tied fled to the ships admiral Admill al montejo and governor general augustl have placed the women the caldren and the priests in the forts for safety general agusta to is te reported deported to be willing to surrender to the americans in order to prevent the insurgents from capturing the capital it on fire and killing the spanish the archbishop however is in opposed posed of to sur mw render and has overruled augusti Au guati the success of the insurgents la is wonderful the spaniards taken prisoners in the two weeks campaign aggregate including 2000 soldiers of the regular army prominent among them are generals garcia and cordoba havana june 17 copyrighted 1898 by the associated press the following Is a spanish report of the bombardment bar dment of santiago de cuba on june 16 at 6 5 am fire was opened on the coast batteries of santiago de cuba by four american battleships two ironclad cruisers and a protected cruiser while one yacht opened fire opposite Agu adores beach the cannonade was violent and tearful fearful and lasted one hour and a half the americans fired over 1000 projectiles and temporarily disabled two Hon torla cannon at la socapa covering them with earth the pars parapet et was destroyed by a shell me one cannon of morro castle was damaged by the american projectiles all the damages were repaired today the americans suffered severe damage shells from the spanish batteries were clearly seen to fall on the american ships which were approximately two miles males off the spanish losses at the morro were one artillery corporal killed and one second lieutenant suan juan arbel eight soldiers and two sailors of the watch service wounded at af the battery two artillery alery sailors were killed and becony second lieutenant rickard or of the navy and two sol soldiers illers were wounded tho the Span spanish taft soldiers were unharmed h d kate ajen linares eulogizes the behavior of ahe troops and capt gen blanco 10 reward several off officers leero asid and soldiers wounded toda today yand and in iii the engagement of june ath he will also recommend for special reward col of the artillery madrid june 17 2 pm the governor of santiago de cuba has sent a cable dispatch to the government describing the bombardment of yesterday in which he said the americans fired 1000 shots several spanish shells hit the vessels our losses are three killed and twenty one wounded including two officers fibers the spanish squadron was not damaged madrid june 18 4 p m it is said here that capt gen augusti august has resigned I 1 the military leadership at manila so that the capitulation of that place may be signed by bai a person of less importance tance than the captain general of at trie the philippines st otili lune june 18 A special to the post pos dispatch from brunswick mo says details of last nights night jk tia tragedy gedy in which mayor J H helsel shot and killed richard ashby the city marshal who la in turn fatally wounded the mayor are coming to light W J helsel heisel brother of thi the mayor was standing in a saloon when marshal ashby and his son joseph ashby entered both grabbed heisel and began beating him with their fists fiks joseph claiming wat helsel heisel had beaten and choked one of his sisters marshal ashby had a revolver in his hand W J helsel heisel finally broke loose from the ashbes ashbys and ran out of the saloon shot but it was testified that ashby fired last just as he fell dying helsel heisel with ash assistance latante walked to his room in mayor helsel heisel who was present and the marshal then began tiring firing at each other at the coroners coio coroners ners inquest jhb he evidence does not show who fired the first tha janle block hut way today he be Is not expected to recover as aa one shot pho passed his ff bigno W aaa tale the other tb ruh Us abdomen 4 london LOAn june 27 ra r A special dispatch from madrid to the dahy mall ay senor sagasta replying in the cortes today to a question as to whether manila had bad fallen replied in the negative but he added that the situation there was of the gravest character the dispatches from madrid agree that this statement together with the report that the rebels are attacking the walled city has caused intense depression key west fla june 20 1130 am it is learned from naval officers here that captain general blanco has notified the american blockading fleet that he will hereafter recognize no flag of truce adding that every vessel within six miles range will be fired upon whether flying the stars and stripes or a white flag another government vessel which arrived here this morning reports that morro castle keeps firing heavy shells at the blockading squadron and it is not believed that such accurate shots can be fired by spanish gunners on friday a 12 inch shell exp eap elded in the neighborhood of the american warships raising EL a column of water and smoke feet high A vessel arrived here from the blockade this morning and reported all quiet along the line she brought an officer of the cuban army and a pilot who are carrying important ralma dispatches to senor Be estrada palma of the cuba junta from general alexander rodriguez the insurgent commander of havana province the cubans were taken on board on saturday last from an auxiliary gunboat which bieh had picked them up the messengers of general rodriguez gave a very interesting account of their experiences perien ces atter after leaving the insurgent 1 camp they plade made their way into the city of havana spent several days there proceeded to a 4 small inlet in the neighborhood stole a small email boat and rode out to sea la in the hope of coming across an american vessel they bey were three days in the boat before they were picked up the cubans report that there are no supplies of rice maize potatoes or eggs in havana flour they say costs fifty cents per pound and the army has been placed on half rations the messengers class as false the report that vessels have succeeded in entering havana harbor with supplies they assert that since the blockade began ga only three small fishing vessels hav haap v 4 entered the harbor and that no food whatever |
