. Aw._,.>~fig.vzhwf.—,su, . . I ' ‘3' If you [want the best gGOds for the least money ' read the;ad.vertisements n the Gazette. VOL.V11I. no. 1996 ning nOiiwALk. dorm, MONDA"); EVENING. JULY 11,1898. _ ette. PRICE, ONE CENT ‘ @- Recogn'iz‘ed as Its ' family paperthecaz‘etteis _ advertising columns will Prove its value to you. - ' “v e't'ti' r. SANTIAGO SHELLED! BOMBARDMENT BY THE ARMY AND NAVY NOW GOING ON. I‘IREEUSED T0 SURRENDER. SPANISH PROPOSALS WERE SIMPLY A RUSE TO GAIN TIME. , SACKING THE "CITY. WASHINGTON, July '11.-——General Toral having refused to surrender un- conditionally, the bombardment of the city has begun. . . Early this morning the War Depart- ment gave out the following dispatch fromiG’enei-al Shafter: ’ ' Playa del Este, July 10. ' AdjutantaGeneral‘, Washington. Headquarters Fifth Corps, July 10.— Enemy opened fire a few minutes past -4 with light guns, which were soon silenced by ours. Very little musketry firing, and the enemy kept entirely in their intrenchments. Three men slightly wounded. Will [have con- siderable forces- tO-morrow, enough completely to blockjall the roads on the northwest. I am quite well. General Garcia reports that the enemy evacuateda little town called Doscaninos, about three miles from Santiago and near the bay. 3 Shafter. TORAL REFUSED TO SURRENDER. The following dispatches were 're- «ceived in the evening; Siboney, Cuba, via Hayti, July 10, 5:55 p. m. Adjutant-General, Washington, DC. Headquarters Fifth Army Corps, July 10.—-I have just received letter from General Toral declining uncondi- tional surrender. Bombardment by Army and Navy will begin as near 4 p. m. to-day as possible. Shafter, Major-General. STRONG REINFORCEMENTS FOR SHAFTER. Siboney, Cuba, July 10. Adjutant-General, Washington, DC. The St. Paul has just arrived with General Henry and his command and quartermasters’ stores. Humphries. Siboney, Cuba, July 10. Adjutant-General, Washington, DC. The Catania has just arrived with the let District of Columbia volunteers. Humphries. - The fact that the bombardment was scheduled by General Shafter to begin so late in the day Created some com- ment, but no explanation of it was offered. ' Information received by the War Department in the few days of truce indicates that General Shafter has materially strengthened this position. In the last week he has received rein- forcements of both artillery and in- fantry. Randolph’s battery of twenty- four guns, which left Key West last Tuesday at midnight, is now in posi- tion before Santiago, and, as one of the War Department officials said, “When those Long Toms of Randolph begin to talk something will happen in San- tiago.” General Shafter has nearly fifty siege guns and a large number of 7-inch mortars, besides lighter artillery, at his disposal. These guns taken in connection with the work that can be . done by the fleet, will, it is believed, carry terror and destruction toSantiago. General Shafter’s despatches show that he is engaged now in strengthen- ing his position, and to-day he w111 follow up his operations with a final assault upon” Santiago. , . Information is being constantly re- ceived which leads to the belief that the Spanish proposals are simply aru'se to gain time. Aside from Gen. Toral’s conditions Of surrender—which, by the 21¥way, are made in face of his frequent boast that he would not surrender while a Spanish soldier remained alive to defend the city—it is positively known that the Spaniards are making preparations to ’evacuate Santiago. With the Customary fine sense Of honor they are sacking the city before it falls into the hands of the Americans. Cuban families are not the‘only sufferers from the thievish propensities of the Spanish soldiery, who are plundering the houses of all the families, Spanish and Cuban alike‘, who fled from the city _ sunken Vizcaya, and all the surviving when the notice of bombardment was given. . . One particularly atrocious crime has been committed by the soldiersfSenora SAHIGH_K_I_GKER. A Lively Scene On West Ave- Rosa Chacon de Odis, a wealthy resi- dent of the city, refused to leave because her fortune, which consisted of gold, silver, and securities of various kinds, and her valuable jewels, were kept by her in her house. She thought that her property would be safer under the. protection of the Spanish soldiers than if she fled with other refugees to the American lines, taking her valuables with her. The fact that she had much property in her house was generally known to the soldiers, and last night some Of them went to her residence and assassinated her. Then they looted the house of everything valuable it contained. Horrible barbarities of every kind are being committed by the so-called‘ defenders of the'city. the details of which are brought to our lines bythe Cubans who arrive at Gen. Garcia’s camp. CERVERA AT PORTSMOUTH. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., July 11.—The big auxiliary cruiser St. Louis, Capt. Goodrich, U. S. N., with 692 Spanish prisoners, including Admiral Cervera and his entire stafi, Capt. Eulate of the officers of the wrecked Spanish fleet, numbering about 40, arrived'i'n Ports-’ mouth harbor at 8.30 O’clock this morn- ing. A few minutes later the great steamer let go her anchors about one mile below the navy yard. The har- bor was full of steamers crowded with excursionists and of small boats, their occupants eager to get a sight of the warship and its interesting passengers. FIRST CONNECTICUT TO CAMP. Orders for the First Regiment, Con- necticut volunteers, to assemble at Camp Haven, Niantic, preparatory to '- departure for Camp Alger, were issued _ yesterday by Gen. Gillespie, command- ' ing the Department of the East. The First Connecticut Regiment is . at the present time stationed at the ' following forts and _, camps: Head- quarters and Companies A, D, G and H at Fort Knox, Bucksport, Me.; Com- panies F and K at Fort Preble, Port- land, Me.;Company Bat Great Gull Island; Companies E and I at Plum Is- land; Company C at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, N. E; Company L at ‘ Meriden, and Company M at Danbury. BRIFF WAR NEWS. Admiral. Cervera, ' fifty-four officers and 692 men, captured when his squad- ron was destroyed, arrived at Ports- mouth, N. H., on the St. Louis. . General Shafter notified General Toral that the only terms he would make were “unconditional surrender.” The Spanish government. fearing the arrival of Watson’s fleet at an early date, wired orders. to all the coast cities to hurry the defences. ' Commodore Watson will probably seize one of the Canary Islands for a base before attacking Camara. Subscriptions for the Red Cross Society ‘have reached more than 57,000 f. in Paris. Captain John Bartlett will succeed Rear Admiral Erben in command of the auxiliary naval force. The War Department received a dispatch from General Shaftcr an nounc- ing that fighting was renewed at Santi- ago yesterday afternoon. The enemy opened fire, but their guns were soon Silenced. General TOral, the Spanish ‘ commander, refused to surrender the city. The dynamite batteries were ready to work havoc in gun and mortar the Spanish trenches before Santiago. Services of thankSgiving for victories and prayer for the speedy return Of peace were held in the churches throughout the country, in accordance with President McKinley’s proclama- tion. . . —‘—‘0-0'—‘———‘ . Frank N. Ferris. has completed his two week’s vacation and again has his hands and eyes on. the scales at' the, nue Sunday Morning. [A Horse Runs Away and Razes Fifty Feet ‘ ofine Methodist Parsonage Fence. IL. ' - i . W ,h’esterday morning, at about 10 o’clock, a horse with his heels flying high in the air and a driver hanging ontothe reins as if his life depended on his efforts,- dashed out of West street on to West avenue at a mad plaice, running ion the sidewalk from tlfe Crowe residence to Garner street. fl'It did not take an . onlooker long to decide: that it was a runaway, and that the animal in the shafts was a kicker offno small degree. Near the MethodiSt parsonage the vehicle struck a post and the driver was thrown into the street. The horse then paid his attention to the fence in front of the parsonage, and succeed- ed in completing the wreck of the. vehicle and razing about fifty feet of fence. . He then continued up the avenue and into the City of Norwalk, and de- spite his kicking was caught and placed under control. _ . _ The animal was purchased -‘ recently by its present owner, Mr. Luther Wright, and evidently lost no time in displaying what it was capable of do- ing, when he had the excuse of a trols ley car to incite him to renewed ac- tivity. , On this occasionhe was hitched up by Mr. James Lester who is credited with knowinghow to handle a horse, Tand‘Who at .th e start proposed breaking Ithe animal to 'a less- fear of electric cars, but with unfortunate results, both to himself and the turnout. Mr. Lester received a serious Kick on his left leg, during the runaway but pluckily held on to the lines until the first collision occurred. He also re- ceived several bruises about the head and body, but with great nerve jumped to his feet and essayed to start after the runaway. He was however, more seriously injured than he at the time wot of and was obliged to give up the chase. 1 Later, his wounds were cared for by ' ,-Dr. W. B. Bean. Burglars in Greenwich. Burglars Saturday night made an at- tempt to enter the house of Miss Annie Whitney in Greenwich, but were frightened off by neighbors, who fired several shots at them. Watchmen are now employed in the village for the first time in its history. Drowned in it Well. J ohnMoriarty,aged 36 years,while at. tempting to clean out a. well in Bran - ford yesterday morning was overcome by gas and drowned. The well is lo- cated on the place of B. F. Kevlan and has not been used for several years. ——-——————‘...’———_ Roton Point. The following excursions have been booked for Roton Point for this week: To-day, St. Matthew’s Lutheran church of New York; Tuesday, Second Reform church, of Hudson City, N. J .; Thurs-_ day, First Presbyterian church, of Elizabethport, N.J., and Stamford Bap- tist church; Friday, Swedish Lutheran church, of New York; Sunday, Fidelia Fish club, of Newark. —————-——‘O.-OD-—-—- The Relief corps Takes an Outing. The Women’s Relief Corps of Buck- ingham Post, G. A. R. is enjoying an outing this afternoon on trolley cars. . They may go out of town but they will come back. For all of which we ought teall "feel truly. thankful as they are IN, THE PULPIT. Gen. Woodford, Minister to Spain, Says the War Will Belt the World With Liberty and Humanity. General Stewart L. Woodford, U. S. Minister to Spain, who is visiting in. Stamford, delivered a stirring address. at a patriotic service in thePresbyterian church last evening. He spoke mainly about the war with Spain and in" the. course of his address said that no nit- tion had ever drawn the sword in a. cause like that which the United States 'is now fighting. He'dwelt brieflyr up?» on the victories of this country ‘hiilon the land and sea and praised the; men who have shown themselves heroes. He said that be firmly believed that the result of this war would be to belt the earth with liberty and humanity. The General spoke very earnestly and . the audience, which was a large one, applauded him frequently. General Woodford was a resident of Stamford. before the last war and was a member of the church in which he spoke last ' night. Thomas McMahonrwho wheeled to Boston last week returned home last night by train. He lost his companion rider Edward Kelly in the labyrinth of streets of that city. Mr. Kelly is ex- pected home to-day. The Weather. _ | Fair weather tonight and Tuesday. DEATHS. _ COX—In Bridgeport, July 8, Hannah M. Cox., WidOW‘ of the late Lewis ' B. COX, aged 87 years. ‘ ‘ CUNNINGHAM—In Bridgeport, July 9, Walter James, only child of Richard. and Mary A. Cunningham, aged 4 months. , . DOUGLAS—In Bridgeport, July 9, Sarah E., wife of Daniel. Douglas, aged 27 years. ' , LOUTS—I‘n Bridgeport, July 9, Katie J. Louis, daughter of- John and BM“ bara Louis, aged 12 years. - ' ' MURPHY—In Bridgeport, July .9, Ladies silk puffs, ‘19c - .1000'sheet, pkg. toilet, 3 pkgs. 240 Hair shampoo, for ladies, best made, 29c Standard glass fruit dishes, 25c 121110 lawns, Gic. Bicycle skirts, $1350. A few white waists, soiled; were 0: 75c» and 980~— etc. Duck skirts: 98c. Summer blankets, . 1490 Mexican hammocks, 980 $1.25 Crash skirts, Ladies’ bathing suits. flannel and brilliantine, 500 t02$5.00 . t. “it \ in" “fig 7 r. Men’s bathing suns, 000 to $0.00 Linen batiste waists, 980 a ' ' ’ ..~. .7: Crash skirts, Six stripes, $_-...-.o Corset covers, all sizes, 13, 1.9 and 250 9 Water bottles, 29c John H. Ferris coal yards. seamless—per p lir, engaged ina grand good work. :rAnnv Murphy, aged 70 years» i I :4..- Doll carriages, 25c to $1.25 Ladies’ lisle pants, 1251:; Croquet sets, 98c Utopia chair hammocks, 35.00. 8 bars white floating soap, 250 . 500 summer corsets, 38c. Screen doors, any size, 69 and 89c VYindow screens~~fit any windiyw ' i —23‘ and 296. White shirt waists, beauties, , A 98 and $1. 25. The - BOSton Store ! Faz‘rfield Cozmzfy’s Greatest ‘ ' Store. GOODS DELIVERED FREE IN ,WEST- PORT, GREEN’S FARMS, BRIDGEPORT, DARIEN, NOROTON, STAMFORD AND DANBURY. ' . TO make the dull months of Summer brisk we shall Offer this week,- bargains in every department All Odds and ends left- over from Spring trade will go at a sacrifice. ,, . Two Grand Values in Hosiery. 500 pairs Of ladies’ fine stockings, in lace, Rembrandt and Richielieu, fancy ribbed. Some all black, a few‘ with white feet and white heels and toes Not a pair in the lot worth less than 390. More of the better grades. While they last, your choice, 250. 120 doz. ladies’ fancy stockings. Half the lot have white feet—efast colors and 121k. I ‘ Lace caps, 124m, 25c, 39c to $1.25. Summer comfortables, I. -, "$1.00 Children’s straw hats, trimmed, . the 75c and 98c ones, . 50c Boys and girls crash hats, 259 Black brillian tine separate Skirts, $2.98 P. K. shirts, $1.00 to $2.25 , Lawn Wrappers, good ones, ‘,.,$1.00 Heavy imitation cut-glass, berry dishes, 10c Irish linen shirts, apron front, $2.25 The best 75c night dress in the market. Boy’s 25c sweaters, 15.. Boys’ overalls, the 350 kind, 256 350 Mens’s 45c outing shirts,
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