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Meagre News from Miles and His
Army at Guanica.
MADRID HEARS OF REPULSB
The Troops Which Landed Monday Said
to Have Engaged the Spanish and
Fallen Back. Ponce is the Second City
on the Island and Miles Will Probably
Surround It. It is 22 Miles from the
Landing Place.
Washington, July 29.--Acoording to
dispatches from Captain General Ma-
cias of Porto Rico to the Spanish gov-
ernment the American troops which
landed at Guanica on Monday began
their advance toward Yauco on Tues-
day and engaged in some skirmishing
with a force of 700 Spanish regulars
and volunteers under Colonel Puig on
the evening and night of that day. At
daybreak yesterday, according toGen-
eral Macia’s report, the Americans re-
turned to the positions which they had
formerly occupied.
.T-he Porto Ricans, according to Gen-
eral Macias, are indifferent to the re-
sult of the American invasion.
'A' dispatch from Madrid by way of
Biarritz, says that as soon as Minister
of the Interior Sapdepon learned that
Premier Sagasta had publicly admitted
'the successful landing of General Miles
at Guanica, he issued an order forbid-
ding the transmission of the statement
to the provinces.
The distance from Guanica bay,
Where General Miles landed, to Yauco,
is only four miles, but there being no
roads along the intervening marshy
plain, our troops will have to overcome
considerable obstacles before they
reach Yauco, at the foot of the low
mountains of the interior. Once there,
the advance of the army will be com-
paratively easy. From Yauco a rail-
road runs twenty-two miles to Ponce,
the secOnd largest city in Porto Rico.
It is General Miles’s intention to seize
this road and operate it.
A dispatch from Madrid says that the
authorities at San Juan have sunk a.
vessel in the narrow channel of the
harbor so that entrance is effectually
blocked.
\Varshlp Goes Astray.
Off Cape San Juan, July 28.-—One
transport of the Porto Rico expedition
has lost the others. This is the Mo-
bile, No. 21, which sailed from Charles-
ton on Thursday with 1,200 troops of
the Sixteenth Pennsylvania and the
Sixth I‘ lin-ois regiments under Colonel
Willis Hulings, aboard of whom thir—
ty- -five are sick with typhoid.
last night the cruiser Cincinnati
from New York, accidentally found her
within range of the cannon of San
Juan.
The Cincinnati, running up to wa1n
the Evening Post dispatch boat that
the guns ashore could shoot eight miles
and that she had better stand out to
sea, came also upon the Mobile, led her
seaward, stood by her all night, and
then convoyed her down the Ramillics
passage to where the Mobile expected
to find the remainder of the expedi-
tion. ‘
It is unlerstood that the rendezvous
will be off Fajardo, just south of Cape
San Juan, instead of Guanica.
The Mobile was the last of the three
transports which left Charleston last
week for Porto Rico. She sailed from
Charleston, S. C., on Thursday, having
on board the Sixteenth Pennsylvania,
two companies of the Sixth Illinois and
an ambulance corps, in all about 1,200
soldiers. There were also about nine
hundred mules and 2,500 tons of stores
on board. At the time she sailed it
Was understood that General Miles
would land his expedition at a point
on the north shore of Porto Rico, near-
er San Juan, instead of at Guanica,
which he selected for a landing place
after leaving Cuba.
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Says All Are Stealing.
San Francisco, July 29‘.’--Qu-a.rtermas-~
ter Sergeant James M. Young of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment has been
ordered under arrest by Colonel Funs-
ton, charged with embezzling govern—
ment property. He is alleged to have
sold stores issued as food for the regi-
ment.
Young admits his guilt and gives the
excuse that he was doing only what
every other-commissary officer of Camp
Merritt has been doing all along.
The regimental commanders deny
that such a state of things exists in
their commissary departments, but the
matter will be investigated at once.
Formal Contracts Now.
Washington, July 29.--The army ord-
nance ofiice is engaged in making for-
mal contracts with firms throughout
the country which have already receiv-
ed provisional orders for steel and cast
iron shell gun forgings and powder. In
the haste of placing these orders dur-
ing the early weeks of the war, there
was no time to draw up the documents,
which, under the war department sys-
tem, are quite elaborate. The contracts
thus made represent an expenditure of
several millions.
Gold from the Klondike.
Sattle, July 29.--Mo’re than $2,000,000
in gold arrived at Seattle -yesterday
from the Klondike on the steamer
Humboldt. This makes about $12,000,-
000 brought down from the gold fields
since the first of this month, the Hum-
boldt being the sixteenth treasure ves-
sel to arrive. There were 169 Klondik-
ers on the steamer.
Quarantined for a Week.
Tampa, July 28.--Five transports are
now in quarantine here, which have
arrived from Santiago to transport that;
part of the Porto Rico expedition in
camp here. All will be required to re»
main in quarantine here for seven days
so that‘the Porto Rico expedition from
here cannot sail before ten days.
Increased Receipts.
Albany, N. Y., July 29.--Excise Com-
missioner Lyman announces. that the
total receipts from the issue and trans-
fer of liquor tax certificates and from
fines and penalties from May 1, 1898, to
date, were $12,007,994.81, which is $291,-
000 in excess of the total receipts for
the same period, of last year. ,1”... .
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SITUATION IN HAVANA.
a Resident of That Fated City.
Key West, July 28.--The following ex-
tracts from a letter received here
shows the terrible condition of affairs
in the city of Havana. The letter bears
the date of July 12.
“The government has no money. It
owes troops pay for six or seven months
and the soldiers’ food is scarce as pos-
sible and of bad quality. It cannot be
understoodho W they can fight in this
condition, as they are not fighting for
a" principle. Public order has not been
disturbed in Havana except a few days
ago, When there was some trouble over
want of bread. The effect of .the block—
ade has been very bad on the city. We
have no rice, no lard, no garlic, 1‘10 011-
ions, etc., and I say we have not this
because the little there is is selling at
these prices: Twenty-five pounds of
rice,,390 gold; lard, $10 to $15.90 per can
of 25 pounds; head of garlic, 40 cents;
quart of oil, 40 cents; Cuban potatoes,
$9 per 100 pounds; 25 pounds sweet p0-
tatoes, $7.50. . Other vegetables are
very scarce and very dear. Beef sells
at 60 cents a pound.
All other eatables are so dear that it
is impossible for people to live. Pub-
lic houses have suspended giving food
to children, thus compelling 5,000 chil-
dren to be without food. Omn'ibusses
are circulating very little, because there
is no food for horses. It is a sad sight
to see the poor beasts fall about the
streets in the shafts, dying of starva-
tion. Street car lines are also running
very few cars and are feeding their
horses with rice, peas and palm tree
seeds. Carriages are very scarce, and
if you hire a hack it goes only as fast
as a man can walk.
“We can be satisfied if we have for a
meal a plate of consomme, a little corn
meal, beef and one other dish. We have
no bread. This, as we say in Spanish,
costs 'us an eye of our head. I went
the other day to see a family of friends
who were in good circumstances before
the war, and I found the father pros-
trated in bed. The daughters, who
could not find any work, were in a
most sorrowful condition. They only
live by eating a little corn meal, cook-
ed with salt once a day.
“One of the young women was so
weak when I saw them that she fainted
while talking with me of her troubles.
[f I don’t die of hunger, as might hap-
pen, and if the Americans determine to
bombard Havana and it is my fortune
to escape with my family uninjured, I
think we will be together very soon un-
der the redeemed flag of our free coun-
try."
Relics of Ocean Disaster.
St. Johns, N. F, July 29.—-The schoo-
ner Delight, Captain McDonald, arriv-
ed here yesterday and reported passing
through a quantity of wreckage from
the lost French line steamer L'a. Bour-
gogne off Sable island.
Captain McDonald launched a boat.
and rowed to some dead bodies which
he descried floating about the wreck-
age. He found several male ‘and fe-
male bodies, from which he removed
rings, watches, pocketbooks and other
property which would help identify the
bodies from which the articles were ta-
ken.
Captain McDonald proposes to turn
the property over to the government
here, with'whom the relatives and
friends of people lost on the steamship
should communicate. All the bodies
were too much decomposed to permit
a. description of their features.
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Spanish Army Concentrating.
St. Thomas, D. W. 1., July 28.--The
Spanish troops in Porto Ric-o are be-
.ng withdrawn fromthe outlying towns
and are concentrating upon San Juan.
The defences of the capital are be-
ing strengthened.
Every effort is'workin-g by the Span-
lsh to defend San Juan. Unless an ar-
: mistice is declared there will be a hard
fiat-he
fought before General Miles’s
' forces can take the city, even with the
' 11d of our powerful warships.
'ked burglars broke
Masked Burglars Get Booty.
W’ilkesbarre, Pa., July 29.--Five mas-
into the general
, store of Jenkins and Company early on
yesterday morning, and bound, blind-
folded and gagged two of the man who
slept over the store. They then ran-
sacked the apar-tment and after taking
211‘ the valuables went to the store room
. below and blew open the safe with 11i—
troglycerine, securing about $200 and
watches and jewelry worth about $200
more.
ON THE DIAMOND.
Games P1113 ed Yesterday,
At Louisville:
New York.. 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 O-v 4
Louisville... 4 0 .0 O 0 0 2 0 *-- 6
Batteries, Warner and Rusie; Kil—
tridge and Cunningham. Umpires, Gaff-
ney andB rown. Base hits, New York
7, Louisville 9. Errors, New York 2,
Louisville 1.
At Cincinnati:
Brooklyn... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-—1
Cincinnati.. 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 1 *--7
Ba'ttries, Grim and Kennedy; Peitz
and Hawley. Umpires, Emslie and
Hunt. Base hits, Brooklyn 8, Cincinanti
11. Errors, Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 2.
At _.St Louis:
Boston” 200200002-—6
St.Louis...0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0--2
Batteries, Nichols and Bergen; Hug-
hes and Clements. Umpires, O’Day and
McDonald. Base hits, Boston 10, St.
Louis 7. Errors, Boston 2, St. Louis 3.
At Pittsburg:
Philadelphia 1 0 0 0 0' 0 2 3 1—-7
Pittsburg... 0 0 0 0 0 ‘0 0 0 0--0
Battries, Platt and McFarland; B-ow-
erman and Rhines. Umpires, Swart-
wood and Wood. Base hits, Philadel-
phia 14, Pittsburg 8. Errors, Philadel-
phia 1, Pittsburg 2.
The Cleveland-Baltimore game, that
was transferred from Cleveland to Phil-
adelphia, was postponed on account of
wet grounds.
Standing of the Clubi.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P.C.
Cincinnati ........ . . . . .. 58 29 .667
Boston 54 30 .643 '
Cleveland .. . . . . .. . . . . . . 52 32 .619
Baltimore .............. 49 32 .605
Chicago ................ 47 40 .540
New York 44 39 .530
Pittsburg ............ . . . 44 42 .512
Philadelphia ........... 39 42 .481
Brooklyn ........ . ...... 33 48 .407
Washington ............ 31 53 .369
Louisville 31 55 .360
St. Louis ............... 24 64 .273
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A Picture of Twin 12 sult'erii g Drawn by ,
The President’s Policy in Regard
to Porto Rico and Cuba.
SITUATION IS ‘UNCHANGED
The Members of the Cabinet Are Agreed
an to Everything Except the Philip-
pines. The Spanish Government Will
Probably Pursue 11 Policy That Will
uradually Bring the People to Realize
How Much Must Be Given Up.
Washington, July 29.--The peace
question is still hanging in mid air.
There is nothing to change _in the ac-
count given in'these dispatches yes-
terday of the general form of the prop-
ositions which will be laid before the
cabinet as a basis for the response of
the United States to the overtures just
made by Spain.
As to Cuba and Porto Rico, the mem-
bers of the administration are abso-
lutely of one mind, and our demands
as to those may be set down as the
foundation of an ultimatum from which
we shall in no event recede.
The future of the Philippines is the
all importantquestion now, and Pres-
ident McKinley is hourly being made
acquainted with the sentiment of the
American people on the question of
whether they should be retained or re-
linquished.
That they must never be given back
to Spain is undoubtedly the determina-
tion of the American people without re-
gard to party or faction, and through
the medium of thousands of telegrams.
personal interviews and the columns of
the newspapers the president and sec-
retary of state are being made aware
of the popularity of the policy that W51
retain the Philippines in the posses-
sion of the United States.
Since the announcement of Spain’s
desire to accomplish peace, much has
been said about the embarrassment
that the administration would encoun-
ter in an attempt 1to_ hold the Philip-
pines by the opposition of’ the powers
of Europe. This consideration, how—
ever-{it canbe stated on the very high—
est authdrit’y is a bugaboo. The Uni—
ted States government has long since
convinced itselfby direct and unmis-
takable assuranct that the powers wil
not interfere in any way to prevent
the United States from taking and
holding the islands.
Germany, France, England and par-
ticularly Russia, it is thought her-e,
might enter a protest should the Uni-
ted States undertake to turn the Phil-
ippines over to any European power
after Having taken possession them-
selves, but that objection would be
raised to their retention 'by the United
States is made impossible by the guar—
antee given to the department of state
by the representative of each of the
great powers of Europe.
The president is taking pains to learn
the sentiment of the people generally,
the cabinet members. He has cabled
to Admiral Dewey for a full statement
of the. conditions political--milita-ry and
material-rat Manila to-daY, and will
govern himself largely by what infor-
mation is furnished him. Surprise is
expressed in many quarters that the
president should be willing to announce
to the world his policy with regard to
the future of the Philippines, but those
who profess to know that he will reply
fully and freely to Spain, explain that
he is led to this course by his desire
to forestall a counter proposition from
Sagasta or the foreign minister that
would lead to a long drawn out diplo—
matic discussion.
Meanwhile the impression strength-
overtures me only tentative at their
present stage.
Public men who are best acquainted
with Sagasta and his methods, believe
that he will at first go through all the
forms of being shocked at the idea of
giving up Porto Ric-o as well as Cuba,
and will withdraw from the negotia-
110115 with a theatrical sigh which will
be heard all over Europe. This he ex-
pects to have its effect upon the minds
of other continental governments, and
possibly stir them into coming forward
with a demand that the United States
shall offer better terms.
That scheme having failed, he will
wait, it is thought. till General Miles
has reduced San Juan, if that comes
soon, or till General Merritt has taken
actual possession of Manila and the is-
land of Luzon, and constructive posses-
sion of the whole Philippine group, or
till Commodore Watson appears at Ca-
diz. and then propose to yield Porto
Rico and stickle on the Philippine pro-
position.
By accustoming the Spanish people
piecemeal in this way to the idea of
heavy concessions for the sake of
peace, it is supposed. that he hopes to
bring about the desired change with-
.out an actual revolution. _
No Neivs from Dewey.
Washington, July 29.--Secretary Dag.
said yesterday that he had not heard
from Manila nor had he any confirma-
tion yet of the reports that the city
had surrendered to Admiral Dewey.
The most conservative authorities
place General Merritt and his force in
the Philippines. For the past two
days officials have been expecting a ca-
blegram announcing his arrival at Ma—
.nila.
I General Merritt left San Francisco
' on June 29 on the Newport. The trip
should require aboutthree Weeks, but
allowing for all delays, it is thought
that General Merritt has reached his
destination before this.
The general opinion among army and
navy officers is that Admiral Dewey
will demand the surrender or? Manila
shortly after General Merritt and his
forces arrive. Some believe that the
city is already under the government
of General Merritt.
General Merritt and Admiral Dewey,
it is thought, will have little, if any
trouble with Aguinaldo and his army
of insurgents. The dispatches of Ad-
miral Dewey show that he thoroughly
understands the leader of the insur-
gents and do not intimate that he has
had any difficulty in dealing with him,
The Illness of the Spanish King,
Madrid, July 29.--The king’s attack
of"‘mcasles is taking its normal course
and there are no complications.
.hxm.
and is getting in detail the views of‘
ens in Wash .ington that the Spanish'
"Push-um
she Turned the Tables.
It seemed to him an excellent time to
impress the lesson upon 11121.50 as he
made a move for his hat he said to
her:
“Suppose you had wanted me to
spend the evening with you before we
were married, and I had planned to do
something else. You wouldn’t have
sulked, would you ?” he asked. '
“No- -0, I suppose not,” she replied
hesitatingly. ’
“You wouldn t have got cross and .
been disagreeable about it. would
you?"
“Probably not!”
“You would have been just as nice
and sweet and cleve er as you possibly
could be ” he asserted. “You would
have been both lovable and loving, and
would have tried to coax me to give
up my other place. Isn’t that so?”
“Perhaps it is,” she faltered, “but-—"
grand total, eleven and a half miles.
"Never mind the ‘but’s,”' he inter-
rupted, feeling that he was gaining his
point. “What I am trying to impress
upon you is that a woman doesn’t seem
to think it worth while to try the same
arts on a husband that she does on a
lover. That’s where you’re both fool-
ish and unjust. Now, you admit that
before marriage—”
“Before marriage,” she broke in, “if
you had spoken. of going anywhere and
I had pouted just the least little bit,
what would you have done?”
“Um—ah—well, I suppose—”
“If you had noticed What seemed to
be even the merest traces of a tear
what would have happened?”
“W11y, my dear, I——”
“If I had merely looked at you pleads
111eg what would you have done re-
garding that other engagement?”
“Really, you don’t give me time to
answer. I must confess that in all
probability I would have—"
“Given it up, of course,” she prompt-
ed. “Isn’t it worth while to make the
same sacrifice for a. wife that you do
for a sweetheart?”
Somehow he couldn’t help feeling
that his little lesson was lost on ,her,
but it is worthy of note that he told a
business associate the next day that
any man who went on the theory that
a. woman can’t reason as clearly as a
man, was laying up a large store of
‘ trouble for himself.
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Useful] Morocco Cases.
A recent bride spared some of her
morocco cases and other jewellers’
boxes, which came to her holding gifts,
to pass around among her young wo-
man friends, who promptly utilized
them, for the boxes are by no means
the useless articles which they are
sometimes regarded as being. The
morocco case, usually satin lined, can,
it deep enough, be easily converted into
a handy handkerchief box. Flat ones,
that have held spoons or forks, make
good tie boxes, or can be used for veils.
The lining is taken out and any stiffen-
ed partitions removed. A pad of sa-
chet powder is then slipped in and the
satin replaced. A little ingenuity will
adapt to excellent service almost any
one of these cases.
Straw Sevvlhg.
Deft-handed women find that it pay:
them to take a few lessons in straw-
sewing. The woman. who learns saves
many a penny by making her own hats.’
The hand-sewed hats with lined rims,
if made in the fashionable designs, are
always expensive. There are no mark-
cdodown sales of them until they be-
come cheap by being out of date. It
is here that the amateur straw-sewer
finds a. chance for thrift. For a few
cents she can pick up a hat sewed in an
old season's style, and with this supply
of braid she can qaickiy resew it in any
shape she elects. '
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