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Show 1 OLD GLORY K JPr & ,H PHr A . r y I low waves.over I flie Philippines, KB Commodore Dewey's 'I Glorious Victory. I The War News of the i week, f ' l . New York, May 2 A dispatch to the I Herald from London says : The Asiatic f squadron of the United States, Cora- JB inodoro Dowoy commanding, Sunday K engaged ami completely defeated the B i Asiatic squadron of Spain in the harbor E ,, W. , of Manila, in the Philippine Islands. JA ' ' All the news of the great naval battle 4. thus far ia comming from Spanish sour- J& '4-at ila has hot'yettbcoittaUonTjy IhcAiner,- S ilf ' ican forces and that the cable lines arc R' 'Pr atill undor the controll of Spain. IT From the fact that even the advices I . received from Madrid show that the u& American warships fared the bcst.thetc W is hardly any doubt that when complete H ft m details ars obtained, it will be learned $ " thatit was a crushing defeat for Spain. H Reports of the battle thus far are coming -' in piecemeal. jj , ' Havana, April 27. fConyiightcd by , " the Associated Press) The Spanish -coasting steamer Cosmo Herrera which f ran the blockade on Saturday, last it 7 nppears is not the only vessel that has reached this port since the blockade was . ' established, as the an ival of i ho steamer steam-er Avilea from Neuva Vistas is also le-ported. le-ported. It is announced from Oayo Frances, near Caribarion, that two United Un-ited States monitors captured two sc- " v hooners loaded with coal, but discovering discover-ing that they were German vessels, released re-leased them. Now York' April 30, Tko United , -fltatesaxlliary cruiser Yale, formerly the American lino steamship Paris, has I eluded the Spanish warships and will bo at her dock this morning, with her I 150 passengers. She was sighted offFiro I Island at 2:47 o'clock this morning, I The liner, about which Bush doepanxic- ty has been felt, sailed from Southam-I Southam-I ton one weok ago yesterday, at -1 p m. I She was under command of Captain B Watkins, and carried besides iior pass- ongors, a cargo made up mostly, of H munitions of war, for tho United H States. Key West. Fla. Apn'l 287 :40 a m B Tho United States monitor Terror, Cap. B I tain N. Ludlow, captured tho big Sp(in-H Sp(in-H ish steamer Guido, bound from Corum-g Corum-g na, Spiin, for Havnjia, early yesterday, If "Tho prize had on board. a. largo cargo of t B provisions and money intended for the Spanish troops in Cuba. The capture took place ten miles off Cardenas, after a desperate chase, during which the Terror and the gunboat Machias fired, almost blowing tue Spaniard's pilot house into the water. Kny West Fla. April 27 The Arabro-so Arabro-so Bolivar, a little Cuban ccastin, steamer' taken by ihe monitor Terror last night, oil Cardenas, ariived heie tonight. The Bolivar looked like a toy boat as the prize cievv brought her in But the light Spaniard was richer than she looked, us was learned, when $70000 of silver specie was found stored away in her, besides a cargo of bananas mid 000 casks of wine. Shu was bound from Port Limou, Costa ltica, for Havana, by way of Cardenas, with Tpussongeis and a crew of 10. One blank shot ftom the Terror brought the steamer to. Upon her arrival at Key Wefet the silver was tainsfered to the naval station, whero it it is under strong gu.vrd. About the timo this capturo was made the Norwegian steamer Uto, Captian Dydo, '"Oil Ph irdelphia, for Caidenas wuh J.'DO to.is of coal, attempted to ruu tlie blockade, and land her cargo, bat she was summarily turned back to Key Webt, whe-e sue arrived this afternoon. after-noon. The moui.or Ten op, on Sunday took a little pnzo, the news of which was first received today the Spanish schooner sc-hooner Saco, with a cargo of sugar. On board the Flagship New York. OfTMntnnzan,, Apr. 27. y jnfCopj-righted, jnfCopj-righted, 1SDS, by the AssdA Press. Tho New York, the PuiL.jVnd tho Cincinnati bombarded thtVVl (tat tho nhouiriMafa'rizaa h'nrWMJ'y after-noou after-noou . There were no cast, C M'pn our side, but in is believed thak5 jflAuil of irdn which pouitded the fort Yt have caused loss of life to the Spanuds, but nothing is known df finitely. The engagement commenced at 12:57 and ceased at 1 :15. The object of tho attact was to prevont tho completion of the earth works at Puita Gorda. Washington, April 30. Today marks tho tenth clay of the thus far bloodless war between the United States and Spain a war that has been principally characterized by preliminaiy work and tho advantage, although small, has all been on the side ot the United States. A 6mmery shows that the ships of tho blockading fleet have captured a dozen merchant vessals flying the Spanish flag. Of these five aro steamers of considerable con-siderable tonnage and one of them, the Panama, auxiliary cruiser, carrying Btnall rapid-fire guns. Tho other captures cap-tures and small coasting schooners. All the prizes, with tho passengers and crews, who aro M prisoners of war,' are at Key West. The Spaniards hp,vo to their credit one American vessel, a coal nark, taken in tho Philippines. The week just ending saw the Spanish batteries at Matanzas east of Havana reduced by tho American fleet and'there Is an unconfirmed report that the batteries bat-teries at Caidenas, n short distance east of Matanzas, suffered a similiar fate. Yesterday a small battery -at Port Cabanas, west of Havana, was destroyed. |
