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VOL. VIII. NO. 1900
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TROOPSADVANCING!
THE AMERICANS ARE CLOSING
IN ON THE CITY OF SAN-
TIAGO.
SHAFTER CON FIDENT.
ARMYAND; NAVY OFFICERS EAGERLY
AWAITING NEWS OF THE
FALL OF MORRO.
HOBSON IN GOOD HEALTH.
PORT ANTONIO, JAMAICA, June 30.—
The preparations for a general advance
of the American troops 011 Santiago de
Cuba are being pushed steadily forward.
and troops of all branches of the ser-
vice are being hurried to the front.
General Kent’s division, consisting
of the brigades of General Hawkins,
Colonel Pearson and Colonel Worth,
has joined General Lawton’s division,
and, with the cavalry division of Gen-
eral Wheeler and four batteries of
light artillery, will now be strung out
in the rear of General Lawton’s divi-
sion.
The front still rests on the second
crossing of the Rio Guama, on the
road to Santiago de Cuba, in the rear
of the crest Of the Sevilla Hills, and a
mile and a'half back.
The brigade of General Bates and
the 33d Michigan Regiment and a bat-
talion of the 34th Michigan Regiment,
which were landed Monday by the
auxiliary cruiser Yale, remain at J ura-
gua or Siboney.
The delay in the general fo1 ward
movement is due to the inability to
get subsistence stores to the front
rapidly enough. The advance, it is
will not be ordered, until every
rations in 1115
said,
man has three days’
knapsack. This”, however, is impos-
sible until the road is passable for
wagon-trains. The pack-trains can only
convey one day’s rations in a day.
SHAFTER CON FIDENT. ,
WASHINGTON, June 30—The Opinion
prevails here that within a day or two
at mostGeneral Shafter will have be-
gun his attack upon the city of Santi-
ago proper.
The important event of: yesterday
was the General’s announcement that
he could take the city in ferty-eight
houis, but at considerable loss. '
Advices are mOmentarII y expected
from General Shafter 01 from Admiral
Sampson that Morro Castle and its
neighboring batteries on the eastern
side of the narrow entrance to Santiago
Harbor, including the works at Estrella
Point and Santa Catalina, have been
occupied by the American forces, and
that the Spaniards have been driven
from the fortifications on the west at
La Socapa, Canones Point and Smith
Cay.
CHASED AGROUND BY VVAR-
SHIPS. '
MADRID, June 30.——The cruiser An-
tonio Lopez, while trying to enter the
River San Juan, near San Juan de
Porto Rico, secretly with a cargo of
provisions and war material, was de-
but
escaped by swiftly changing her course.
Her captain, determined to land his
cargo, headed for the shore at Salinas.
The shock of grounding explOded the
tected by two American warships,
boiler. his not known whether there
was any loss of life.
The Spanish gunboat Concha Isabel-
la went to the assistance of the Lopez,
whereupon the Americans Owithdrew,
and the cargo of the Lopez was landed.
HOBSON IN GOOD HEALTH.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, June Bile—“The
Age-Herald” prints today a special
dispatch from Greensboro, Ala., the
home of Judge Hobson, father of the
hero of the Merrimac, giving the fol-
lowing cable dispatch received from
his son at Santiago.
Santiago de Cuba, June 28.
My health continues good. Feel no
uneasiness about me.
MERRITT SAILS FOR MANILA.
SAN FRANCISCO, '30.—‘The
speedy steamer Newport, bearing
Major-General Wesley Merritt, Mili-
tary Governor of the Philippines, and
his staff, besides the Astor Light
Battery and Companies H and K of the
3d United States Artillery and de-
tachments from the Signal COrps, is
June
TOD.
‘v—
now on its way to Manila, having
sailed yesterdav. .
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CAMARA MAY SAIL To-DAY.
LONDON, June 30.—~The Port Said
correspondent Of‘ ‘TheDailyChronicle,’
telegraphing Wednesday, says:
“Admiral Camara expects to sail to
morrow, leaving the “torpedo-boat de
stroyers here.
“The repairs to the Audaz
occupy another ten days.”
will
CA MARA AND COAL QUESTION; _ '
PORT SAID, EGYPT, June 30.—Ad-
miral Camara expects the arrival, on
Saturday or Sunday, of the Isla de
Luzon, the Ignacio Loyola and the San
Augustine, with car goes of coal fOI his
squadi on .
The Spanish Admiral has decided to
leave his torpedo-boat destroyers here;
One case of smallpox was landed from
one of the ships ofvthe Spanish squad .
The patient was placed in a.
hospital here.
SQUADRON’S CANAL DUES PAID,
LONDON, June 30. ———The Madrid.
correspondent of “The Times” says: '
“According to ‘El Imparial’ the de-
mand for a cash payment of the canal .
dues delayed Admiral Camara’s
squadron. The dues, to
less than 400,000 francs, are now paid.~
“Duke Almodovar'dc Rio, Minister
of Foreign Afiairsfienied in the council,
‘El Imparcial’ says, that Italy has-Are:-
fused to coal Admiral Camara.
“If‘the United States imagines that
the threat to bombard Spanish ports
would induce the Spaniards to recall"
peace the
amounting
Camara and to sue for
Americans are bound to be disappoint-
ed. The threat has only tended to
excite the bulldog qualities of the
Spanish national charactei. When
these are aroused p1 udence and. logic '
are alike pOwerless. The peace pros-
pects, the dew, me much less bright
than they were a week ago.”
BRIEF WAR NEWS.
Shafter is waiting for heavy artillery
before attacking Santiago, but says he
can take the_city within forty-eight
hours.
lPando is fifty miles from Santiago
with 8,000 Spanish troops and a pack
train. ’
Four of Garcia’s
died from overeating after joining the
Ameiican forces.
The flying squadron has been
banded and Commodore Sehley assign-
ed to the second division of Sampson’s
starving soldiers
dis-
squadron.
Commandcr McCalla may take Guan-
‘ tanamo without waiting for troops and
open the port to commerce.
' Admiral (Jamai'i. will leave his tor-
pedo boat destroyers behind.
. Major General Wesley Merritt sailed
from San Francisco to assume his
duties as Military Governor. of the
Philippines.
Washington authorities are appre-
hensive of the effects of German in-
fluence. upon the insurgents in the
Philippines.
The advance Of the Ar my on Santia-
go is delayed by poor facilities for cai-
rying rations to the troops and by the
delay in the arrival of the siege guns.
Aguadores will be taken as a base of
supplies before an attack is made on
Santiago.
The Egyptian Government has re-
fused tO allow Admiral Camara to coal
his squadron at Port Said. . The Span-
ish Admiral expects colliers to join his
fleet in a few days.
The Navy Department ieceived adis;
patch from Admiral Dewey, rep01t1ng
the situation at Manila on J one 23. It
is believed that the first expedition
has reached the Philippines.
The Queen Regent of Spain has sign-
ed a dec1 ee for the formation of an
auxiliary cruise1 division at Cadiz.
: VA 7‘
Fire in Bridgeport.
About 500 feet of the stables of the
Bridgeport Driving association, which
are 1,000 feet long, at Nutmeg park,
burned at an early hour this morning.
Loss $2,000. NO horses were burned
and nobody injured. The races will
go on as usual to-day.
NORWALK, CONN., THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1898.
TO NEW HAVEN.
The First Trolley Train to
Run Between Stamford and
the Elm City To-morrow.
Will Carry Town and Citv Officials and
Members of the Press.
The first trolley train over the
electric roads between Stamford and
New Haven will start to-morrow.
'Promptly at 6 O’clock in the morning
a Nogwalk Tramway car will leave
:SOuth Norwalk and a1 rive at Mill Hill
a few minutes afterwards. The car
will contain the Mayor and city officials
'of South Norwalk and representatives
of the press. '
. 1- At Mill Hill the Norwalk mum and
‘city officials and members of the press
will join the party, when the car will
be run on the Westport tracks to that
town.where another car containing the
Westport Officials will be attached.
I {From VVestport the train will be Inn
to :Brid gepO1 t, where another car con-
taining the town and city officials of
that place will be added.
The next stop will be Milford where
the fourth car containing the officials
of that town will be added to the train.
From Millford the train will proceed
to New Haven and take on another car
of officials, thus completing the train.
After a ride about New Haven and a
visit to the “Green,” the train will be
run back to Compo, 0
will be given the gue
ofiicials.
where a dinner
sts by the tiolley
As soon as the feast is over the guests
will again enter the, cars and the entire
train will be run through to Stamford,
the present terminus Of the electric
roads.
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“Alice in Wonderland.”
Probably one of the prettiest lawn
fetes ever held in town was that at the
home of Rev. Dr. Beard in East Nor-
walk, yesterday. The lawn was artis-
tically decorated and the happy conceit
Of “Alice in Wonderland” was pre-
sented by a corps of young ladies in
costume, in full keeping with the pleas-
ing features that "Alice and the Won-
derland” offer. A neat little sum was
realized for what is known as the War-
ner Library fund.
PRICE ONEOENT
Enforce the Bell Law.
The attention of the police of the
Twin Cities is called to Chapter CXXX
of the- public acts, which require the
use of bells on bicycles. A number at?
narrow escapes have occurred withina
few days owing to the neglect of the
riders to p1 ovide themselves with
bells, and the police should see that
the law is enforced.
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——F1r‘eworks Display. ’ C
Thel rgest and tea assortment of
firewor‘ Lowest prices, at J. T.
’HayeS’, No. 5Main St. Norwalk. J ’94:“.
' losie’s Narrow Escape.
Miss Josie O’Brien a young lady" who
lives on Mott avenue, was yesterday
after,noon in company with two lady
friends} 'bowling” down West strains
on her bicycle. Miss O’BIienand her
wheel hugged a Street Railway .car too
closely with the result that the rider
of the wheel was thrown to the street
near Courtland place. Miss O’Brien
had miscalculated the distance between
the running board of the car and the
pedals of her bicycle. Fortunater
she escaped'injury, and in a very lady-
‘lIke manner statedtothe conductor'on
the car that the fault of the accident
was entirely due to herself.
The Weather.
Fair to-night and Friday; warmer
to-night. ’
BOSTON STORE.
@ FAIRFIELD OOUN TY’S GREATESTS
PURE. 1&1
SEMI-ANNUAL CLEllllNG $111: 1.,
779.4 f rsl half of 98 2'5 aboul gouo.
W 6 hope the uoxl lull] will be more plousuul. Rolu al—
most the out-ire Spn'ug/Jus left us wll/Z u lug slack. W 6 must dour u away; we won t cor-ry-
zf'll.
Here goes for llzo G‘REO‘I TES 7 5541.5 Fau f old Couuly over had.
V THURSDAY, JUN E 30,1898,
GRAND HALF PRICE SALE.
1,, every depurlmoulsomelhzug wzll be out m bulf. ”Rood l/u's partial llsl carefully, lulug it
will) you as a guide.
T/Jo prloes are for Thursday only, z'f, however, 21‘ should rain that day
we skull continue the solo on Friday. Yell l/lo lady in the next louse uboul zfll
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, wash“ Goods.
All this seasons productions beauti-
ful' 1n teiiture and rich in designs.
40 inch Organdies blue and black
grounds 1211c quality, 610.
12% cent 32 inch 01 candie G1 ena-
dine, 6&0.
12%- cent fancy Lawn plaids for shirt
waists, file.
12% cent Vassar checks, . 61c.
12% cent Organdie lawns, 61c.
Look at this line of goods, they will
make nice outing d1 esses, house d1ess-
es and shirt waists.
6 cent best Inge prints, lo.
6 cent best Mourning prints, 4c.
I 40.
6 cent best Grey prints,
Wrappers.
$1.50 Wrappers, 750. $1.25 and 980.
Toilet and Fancy Things
At Half Price.
All five cent soaps, at 2410.
5 cent toilet paper, 2er.
10 cent toilet paper, 5c.
.15 cent box of writing paper, Sc.
25c.
50 cent fans,
35 cent box (3 cakes) violet soap, 180.
10 cent battle machine oil, 5c. '
39 cent hair brushes, 19c.
19 cent glass photo frames, full
size, 10c.
75 cent silk gloves, all shddes, 380.
380.
75 cent 10-inch bags,
Ladies’ Spring Jackets '
AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE. .
Any jacket on our racks, the $10. 00
and $13.50 as well, all will go at the
small figure, $5. 00.
Tailor Made Suits.
Don't let this chance slip by, you can
buy a beautiful suit at less than the
cloth costs.
"$15. 00 tailor made suits, half price,
7. 50
$13. 50 tailor made suits, blouse 01
square fiont jacket, $7. 50
$10.00 ladies’ cloth suits, black, green
and navy, $7.50
$12 misses suits half price, $6.
capes.
$8.00 black silk Old ladies’ capes, $4.00
$6.50 black diagonal braided capes, $3. 75
$10.00 black silk capes, $5.00
$8.00 black velvet capes, $4.00
For Men.
1000 fancy outside shirts, none better
made, sizes from 14 to 19. Real value
75 cents, a great bargain, each, 380. .
500 men’s white unlaundried shirts,
the regular 50 cent kind, not many of a
size, while they last three for $1.00.
Men’s Random and Egyptian ribbed
shirts and pants, worth 38 cents, all
perfect, all sizes, great value, each 19c.
100 pairs men’s fine grey seamless
socks, shawknit finish, regular price
15 cents, half price, 8c.
For Ladies and Misses.
85 doz. Ladies’ summei vests. neck
t1 immed with silk, in pink, blue and
white, made of pure Egyptian cotton,
regular price 25 cents, come quick.
may not last out the day, half price 1211c.
100 dozen Ladies’ White vests, low
neck, sleeveless, legular price 10 ets. ,
only . 50.
200 dozen Ladies’ black seamless
stockings exti a elastic, cut full length,
good value at ]5cents, half price, 80.
Give anOther high-grade Wheel away Saturday Night.
50 dozen Boys’ and Girls’ plain rib-
bed stockings, aclean up of the sea~
son's buying, values from 17 cts. to 22
cts., pail, 12ic. ‘3
150 Boys’ Waists, regular prices 35
cts. and 45 cts., each 25c.
500 fancy blouses and white, all new,
values 65 cts. and 75 cts., for this sale,
each 50c.
Boys’ grey shirts and drawers, regu-
lar price 38 cents, each 19c.
150 26-inch Umbrellas, great bargain,
each' 4150..
100 dozen wash club ties, regular
price 10 cents, each 5c.
Colored Dress Goods.
15 cent fancy plaids, Sc.
49 cent 42-inch all wool ‘pin
check, . 250.
25 cent Bourette plaids, '1 ' 1211c.
49 cent wo‘ol'checks, 25c.
50 cent Byadere stripes, 250.
'5 cent fine all wool stripes in
grey tones, 37c.
Domestic Goods.
Where in the history of the country
was domestlc goods sold so cheap.
7'cent fine heavy soft sheeting, 4c.
.8 cent full bleached sheeting, 5c.
5 cent toilet crash. 3elc.
8-4 bleached heavy sheeting, 1245c.
8-4 unbleached sheeting, 12110.
9-4 bleached sheeting, 15c.
9-4 unbleached sheeting, 15c.
50 inch Turkey table“ damask, 121k;
10 cent domet flannel, 5c.
10 cent yard wide percales, 5c.
Lonsdale corone’tcambrice, 6c.
10 cent outing flannel, 5
THEBOSTON STORE. NORWALK.
Norwalk Chronicler