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|c<2<>0(>a>oc<x>oc<^^ ON TO CUBA!- HOW SCHLEY BOTTLED UP THE SPANISH FLEET. ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. The postmastership at Marine falls int« the hat of Oscar Gehrs. Rains hare interfered materially with farm work in many parts of the State, A new $350 building is being erected on the Iroquois County farm, near Watseka. The State convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians was held at Peoria. The First Methodist Church of Galena has recently celebratod its sixty-ninth anniversary. At Galesburg, the men in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy shops now work ten hours a day. The body of Axel Swanson, 13 years old. was fonnd in a shallow pond near Irving Park police station. George W. Cromer of Delaware Coun­ ty was nominated for Congress by the Eighth district Republicans. Thomas Griffin of Chicago was killed by a baseball bat wielded by Charles Perry in a fight. An old feud existed be­ tween them. ' , An Elgin chapter of the. Daughters of the, American Revolution has been or­ ganized. with Miss May Cynthia David­ son as regent. Gov. Tanner has appointed J. E. Reid of Chicago a member of the Illinois board of dental examiners, vice George Bing­ ham, resigned. The Democratic congressional conven- tiontof the Eighteenth district was held at Litchfield. Thomas M. Jett was re­ nominated by acclamation.' The State Board of Health, through its secretary, Dr. J. A. Egan, has commenc­ ed a crusade against physicians said to be practicing medicine without licenses. Charles E. Biller of Chicago, a jewelry salesman, died at the Harper House in Rock Island. The authorities say there is evidence of prison and probably suicide. The Board of Supervisors of Macoupin County has refunded the county court house indebtedness of $720,000 in 4% per cent bonds for a term of twelve years. Boyd A. Hill of Belvidere was awarded the West Point cadetship for the ninth congressional district in a competitive ex­ amination held at Freeport, and Harry Edwards of Dixon was named as alter­ nate. Capt. Daniel H. Brush has gone to Tampa, Fla.. to join his regiment, the Seventeenth United States infantry. Capt. Brush has been at the head of the depart­ ment o,f military science in the University of Illinois for three years. The remains of Michael J. Schaack, in­ spector of police, were Interred in Rose Hill cemetery in Chicago, after imposing funeral rites in Masonic Temple, Thou­ sands of people viewed the cortege, which was led by five companies of police. Archibald Means, president and gen­ eral manager of the Illinois Zinc Com­ pany at Peru and owner of great lead and zinc mines at Galena, died of bronchitis at a sanitarium in Chicago. He' wasi prominent in the G. A. R. and Loyal Le­ gion. Major B. Bradley Ray, secretary of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com­ mission, who was recently appointed pay­ master in the United States army, has boon requested to report to the Adjutant General at Washington, with an intima­ tion that he will be assigned to transpor­ tation duty. An attempt to organize an independent Polish Roman Catholic Church on the South Side in Milwaukee resulted in a small-sized riot, in which Father Vincent Zalewski of Chicago received a beating, and but/for the prompt interference of the police would have been severely in­ jured. When Father Zalewski addressed a meeting held in Miller's Hall in support of the project John Olejuiczaka, a con­ tractor, sprang to the platform and as­ saulted the priest. The meeting broke up in confusion and Olejuiczaka and Father Zalewski were taken to the police station, the latter to sarve him from further in­ jury. Three hundred of the Second Illinois regiment from Chicago narrowly escaped death while en route from Springfield to Tampa, Fla. When the third section of the train bearing the troops was near Adamsville, Ala., on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, the engineer on rounding a curve discovered that a trestle fifty feet high over a moun­ tain gorge was burning. All available steam had been crowded on preparatory to climbing a grade just beyond the tres­ tle, and the engine must have been mak­ ing forty to fifty miles an hour. It was too late to stop, and the engineer, seeing that the rails were still in place, pulled the throttle wide open and dashed through the fire. The train crossed in safety, the burning section falling just as the last car passed over it. The fire was so fierce that trainmen on the rear platform were forcr ed to flee to the interior of the car to es­ cape being scorched. There were 300 troops and several car loads of mules oa the train, but few if any of the soldiers •knew-of the incident. w * , The annual convention of the United Catholic Societies of Illinois Was held at Peru. Tbe delegates assembled at the opera house and were welcomed to the city by Mayor Horner. At St. Joseph's Church pontifical mass was celebrated and a sermon by the Rev. Zumbuehl was delivered. A general meeting was held in the evening at the opera house, where addresses were delivered by Bishop Spald­ ing and Messrs. N. Draper, F. P, Kenkel and August Benz of Chicago. Adoiph Weber of Racine, Wis., president and sec­ retary of the Central Association of Ger­ man Catholic Societies of the United States, was among the notable visitors. It was decided to hold the next annual convention at Freeport. The following officers were elected: Protector, the Rt. Rev. J. Janssen of Belleville; commissar, the Rev. H. J. Thiele of Chicago; presi­ dent, J. A. Bedel of Belleville; first vice* president, J. W. Freund of Springfield; secoud vice-president, P. Trost of Peru; corresponding and financial secretary, Nicholas P. Miller of Wilmette; record­ ing secretary, F. W. Heckencamp, Quin­ cy; treasurer, J. Bordols, Danville; exeeu- tice committee, William J. Brees, Peoria; Joseph Miller, Alton; Henry Rochling, Chicago. More granite will be used in the con­ struction of the new government build­ ing at Chicago, says Architect Henry Ives Cobb, than ever was used in the building of any structure in the United States. Two young farmers in Brooklyn town­ ship engaged in a fight in the public road the other evening and Charles Hardin was fatally shot by Andrew MeKelvie. The quarrel was the outgrowth of a fam­ ily feud. The day previous to the shoot­ ing Hardin's father was thrashed by young MeKelvie and the son in seeking re­ venge met his death. Paul Dustin, high diver in the Fore- paugh-Sells show, leaped from the Sui­ cide" bridge in Lincoln Park, Chicago, t6 the water, seventy^ve feet below, land­ ing safely. The site of the hospital for the incura­ bly insane at Peoria is likely to be chang­ ed. President Mencke- said that if the village of South Peoria did not abandon its present policy of attempting to keep the asylum board from having water pipes placed through the village to the asylum grounds the board weald either abandon one of the proposed.buildings and erect a water plant or the Governor would ree- "ommend that the site be changed, to some other section of the county. C<)C<X^XNX<XXXX)C<XXX> OCXXJOO THE vanguard of the army of Cuba has moved at last. Many of the soldiers who have been grumbling at Tampa and Mobile over their unwelcome inactivity embarked on the transports which have been lying idle at those points so long. Gen. Miles has left Washington for the front. Soon stirring news will come of victories won over Spanish troops. jThe work of liberating Cuba, to which this country pledged itself more than a month ago, has been commenced in earnest. Dec­ oration Day was made memorable not alone by the ceremonies attaching to its observance and by the reunion of the vet­ erans, both of the blue and the gray, un­ der the same flag, and of the volunteers also under the same flag in defense of a common cause, but by the good news which came from Commodore Scnley that at last the Cape Verde fleet was definitely located in,Santiago harbor. This officer asserts he has seen the vessels, and the evidence of one's eyes does not need fur­ ther confirmation. The receipt at Wash­ ington of the news that Admiral Cervera's fleet was in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba with Commodore Schley at the en­ trance, ready and able to fall on it if it. attempted to escape, dispelled those fears of the Spanish vessels which have kept the army on American shores, so lougi. When it was learned authoritatively that Cervera was bottled up and could not in­ terfere with the transports or with the landing of the troops, the forward move­ ment began. The military invasion of Cuba began Monday. Almost immediately following the receipt of definite information as to the presence of the Spanish fleet at San­ tiago, Gen. Miles went to tbe War De­ partment and issued telegraphic orders putting the troops in motion and thus starting the forward movement of the mil­ itary arm of the service. At an early hour the troops.that have been gathered at the gulf ports began to break camp and march aboard transports waiting to carry them to the enemy's territory. About twenty- five of these ships, the biggest and fast­ est that could be obtained suitable for the purpose, had been gathered ready to re­ ceive the troops. They accommodate aboUt 30,000 men, for in a short voyages like that from one of the gulf ports to Cuba, it is possible wfth safety and com­ fort to carry a much larger number of men aboard ship than would be admissi­ ble in the case, for a cruise to the Philip­ pines, for instance. How many troops started and where tliey were bound were questions which the directing spirits of the campaign re­ fused positively to answer. They had no desire that the Spanish should have op­ portunity afforded them to gather forces SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH­ FULLY RECORDED. Fortifications of El Morro and Socapa Battered Down by the Yankee Fleet. Two of Illinois' Brave Soldier Boys Die at Chattanooga^-Burning of a Chicago Elevator Causes $40,000 Itoss--Gay Boy Deserts the Widow. Americans Accomplish Their Task Without Loss of a Man . or Damage to a Ship. Two Illinois Soldiers Die. Private Ross Gibl>ons, Company L, Pe­ oria, Fifth Ilinois, died in the regimental hospital at Camp Thomas, Chattanooga, Tenn., of "convulsions caused by eating canMed corned beef. Gibbons was sick less than twenty-four hours. He com­ plained of inability to digest the fat meat which is the staple article of the army ration, and was given some canned moat from the left-over travel rations issued to the regiment. The meat proved to be poisoned from; the decomposition of the tin. Gibbons was attacked with violet convulsions soon after breakfast, and he died almost immediately. Lieut. Charles E. Almond of ROckford, as fine an officer as ever drew a sword, .is-another who has finished his fight. The big, stalwart fellow contracted pneumonia from exposure at Camp .Tanner1;' He struggled for a week, actualy weeping-when told, that he prob­ ably would never see his camp again. The crisis came and the best of the skilled staff of St. Vincent's hospital was.power­ less. The body was returned to Rock- ford for interment. CiNCo REflie; fjt Washington special: THE distinction falls upon Commo­dore Schley for striking the first hard blow in the Atlantic. The out­ er fortifications of Santiago de Cuba are in ruins, the formidable Morro fort1 being practically wrecked, and Admiral Cer­ vera's flagship battered and her plates broken and her machinery injured is no longer the dangerous battle craft that •crossed the Atlantic to lead the Spanish fleet against the American worships. The imported French and German gunners sent the projectiles from the Ivrupps close to our ships, but they did not land. Not -one shell struck Schley's vessels. According to advices received by way of Kingston, Jamaica, the Marblehead first made certain of the presence of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. The light was a sequel to its discovery. The Marble- head, cruising close to the harbor en­ trance, found four Spanish cruisers, two torpedo-boat destroyers and the old Reina Mercedes skulking behind the .batteries at the mouth of the harbor. Schley at -once deterlnined to draw the fire of the batteries. His object was to make the Key West special: - ' It was reported.in Key West that the big Spanish troop ship Alfonso XIII. had been captured off the eastern coast of Cuba by the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul. The story told was that the troop ship tried ker utmost to get away, but the speed of the St. Paul was too great aud the Alfonso XIII. was compelled to sur­ render. The St. Paul, it is reported, fired seventeen shots before the Spanish flag was hauled down. The news of the cap­ ture was brought by a dispatch boat from Commodore Watson's fleet before Ha­ vana. It was reported that the Alfonso XIII. had but few Spanish troops aboard, but was full to overflowing of supplies and coal. It was believed in the blockading fleet that the Alfonso had but recently left Cienfuegos and was bound for Porto Rico. Another story was that she was endeavor­ ing to steal into Santiago past Schley's fleet and break the blockade of that port. It is also reported that the Spanish ship also had trans-Atlantic mails aboard for Blanco and Cervera. MATAKZAS BLOCKHOUSE RAZED. Pnjbt.- C<X<W ' t/THjtiAHOl S/r/W/Hjti OS CUBQ ft 6? As* A»roy PKHHDt Murderer Goes Mad. William Perrir.e of Oarlinville, the self- confessed murderer of his daughter Anna, aged 15, may yet cheat the gallows. Re-, cently he| informed his fellow prisoners and the ja\l attendants that he was suffer­ ing from the bite of a mad dog. Later he became violent, barking and snariing like a dog, biting a^d tearing his clothes to pieces and giving every evidence of the rabies. He is of herculean proportions and his spasms were terrible. Finally he was overpowered aud heavy opiates ad­ ministered; If he was shamming his pre­ tense was an excellent imitation. His crime is the most loathsome of any in the criminal calendar of Macoupin County. fJ/X#0£H0. FROM THE FRONT. National Bank Is Subjected to a Heavy Run, The condition of the Bank of Spain is considered in Madrid as more serious than any reverse of the war, as if it cannot help the Government the war cannot be continued. The financial outlook of Spain is dark. The Government has intrusted the Bank of Spaiu with the negotiations for a loan of 1,000,000,000 pesetas ($200,- 000,000) at 4 per cent, which sum is to be raised as and when required. The bauk will endeavor to raise the loan at home and abroad. There was a long procession at the Bank of Spain during Wednesday. All classes of people were represented, and many women were in line waiting their turn to change notes into silver, fearing the notes would soon be subjected to a discount. There is danger of the bank's stock of silver becoming exhaust- 4*d, which would compel the Government to resort to a forced . currency, issuing notes of small denomination. The statement from Madrid, in what seemed to be almost semi-official form, of the aeuteness of the financial stringency there, and the plain intimation that the Bank of Spain, and consequently Spain, were neariug ihe enu of their financial resources, was regarded at the State De­ partment in Washington as of more real significance thaty many of the stories of battles on land and sea that have been coming over the cables for the past few weeks. The effect of this notice may l>e to hasten the operations against Porto Rico, lest the prize slip from our grasp through a sudden and unexpected termination of the war. CUBAN ARMY A MYTH. .The cable between Cadiz aud Iloilo has been cut. Every regiment is to have twenty-five nurses and this will bring the total up to 3,750. ^ - Reports from Key West say the rainy season has begun in Cuba and rain falls daily. A shipping company has been commis­ sioned to carry mails from Manila to Hongkong. The standing toast in Havana just be­ fore the war was: "Here's to the patriot who blew up the Maine." The Eighth New York regiment lias many new German recruits, nearly all of Grain Elevator Destroyed. One of the twin elevators at 31st street and Stewart avenue, Chicago, belonging to L. M. Fairbanks of Mansfield, was burned the other night. The loss will not exceed 940,000. The fire started in the drying room of elevator No. 1, near the Fort Wayne railroad tracks. It was not discovered until the flames burst through the roof. After a hard fight the fire was kept from spreading, Elevator No. 1 was 150 feet long, 50 feet wide and 60 feet high. Its capacity was 75,000 bush­ els. It contained 8,000 bushels of grain, which belonged to Geist Bros. Tugs Uricas and Leyden Fire on the Fortifications. It was discovered a few days ago that the Spaniards had. built a new blockhouse at the entrance of Matanzas harbor, east of Pedro light. It was determined to de­ stroy the fort, which was a small affair, mounting only one gun, and manned by a small company of Spaniards. The tugs Uncas and Leyden were ordered to do the work. A't noon on Monday they steamed within a half-mile of the fort' and opened fire with their six-pounders. The Span­ iards replied with one shot, which went wild. Both boats continued pouring shells right at the fortifications, nearly every one of them hitting the mark. The hot fire completely demoralized the garrison. The shot riradled the fort and completely destroyed it. Twenty-eight shots were fired. The tugs then withdrew. The •Spanish loss is believed to be ten or twen­ ty dead. HOW SAMPSON BATTERED THE ANCIENT FORTS OF SAN JUAN~ Weds a Widow and Goes. Philip Schmidt, a Belleville young man who a few months ago married Mrs. Mary Rau, a winsome widow of Maseoutah, is mysteriously missing. The youngfman fit first mp.de love to the widow's aretty daughter, but wheal the mother objected he became attentive to the widow herself and later married her. The unexpected turn of affairs caused the daughter to leave home. Now Schmidt is missing, and it is said that his wife, who is his senior, will apply for divorce. Brief State Rappcnlngau Perry Matthews has been appointed postmaster at Pierson Station. The Illinois Conservatory of Music at Jacksonville graduated a class of eight. Lombard University at Gales burg held its annual commencement exercises a few days ago. June 14 is the day set for tin? next con­ vention of the Illinois Republican League at Springfield. June 21 has bee% decided upon as Illi­ nois day at the Trans-Mississippi and In­ ternational Exposition at Omaha. At Charleston, the price of broom corn has increased $15 a ton. Little now re­ mains in the hands of the growers. William Ivurzenknabe committed sui­ cide in the Brevqort House, Chicago, by. shooting himself. No motive can be as­ signed. Eight hundred employes of the Ameri­ can Glucose Refining Company have gone on a strike. They are employed in the Peoria plant, the largest in the world, and the principal plant of the trust. About 1,500 men are directly affected. The Right Rev. Abbot P. N. Yeager of Chicago and a host of Chicago priests officiated at the laying of the corner stone of the new Sacred Heart French Catholic Church at Aurora. The new church be­ ing erected by the Sacred Heart congre­ gation, Rev. E. J. Thierien, pastor, will be a handsome structure, and will dost about $15,00®.. The recent State convention of the Ep- worth League selected Peoria for the con­ vention of 1900 and the following State officers were elected: President, the Rev. Samuel Van Pelt, Onarga; first vice- president, Frank W. Osborne, Quincy; .second, H. H. Crozier, CSrmi; third, John W. Matheny, Newton: fourth, Bertha Loclchart, Danville; junior superinten­ dent, Libbie R. Hamsher, Monmouth; corresponding secretary, Oscar E. Roeck- er, Chicago; recording secretary, Mary Chad wick, Moline; treasurer, Alfred Dixon, Chicago... The other night, while the east-bound express on the Baltimore and Ohio South­ western Railroad was passing through a thickly wooded spot west of Carlyle, an unknown person threw, a stone at the train, which passed through the windows. The company's special detective was de­ tailed to work the case and captured George Jaski, a young farmer, who con­ fessed that he threw the stone. He said that another young man with him asked him to "see if he could throw it between the coaches as they passed." The penalty is not less than three years' confinement in the State penitentiary. Gov. Tanner has commuted the sen­ tence of the Meadowcroft brothers, Chi­ cago ex-bankers, who were convicted of embezzlement.. The commutation pro­ vides that the two brothers shall pay the costs of the trials. The contract for the construction of the buildings of the asylum for the incurable insane at Peoria has been let to E. Glea- son & Sons of Chicago for $179,876. Work is to be begun at once at another point on the' site from that occupied by the abandoned building put up under the Alt- geld administration, which was built over an old coal mine. Fifteen complaints were made at Chi­ cago detective headquarters by firms who had been swindled with forged checks by a hatless and coat less man who rushed in and asked for cash, always claiming to be employed by a neighboring firm. The colors of-the sophomore class of the Areola high school are of a Spanish hue, and when the class made its appearance on the streets the members of the senior class and otl^er pupils made a rush for them, tearing the streamers off and liter­ ally cutting them to pieces. A vehicle which was decorated with the colors was chased by. half.a' dozen boys on bicycles and finally captrfted and relieved of the colors. SCOUTS SEEN OFF KEY WEST. COMMODORE W. 8. SCHLEY. Spanish Auxiliary Cruisers Arc in American Waters. ^ The reported presence in Key W^st waters of two Spanish auxiliary cruisers appears to be true. Tuesday night, while the Detroit was steaming along with all lights out, a steamer was made out out­ lined against the sky, and in the moon­ light was made out to have a black hull and light colored smokestacks, the chief characteristics of the convert<Hl Spanish merchantman. The Detroit immediately, under full stoam, set out in pursuit* but to attack our soldiers as they land. The the suspicious steamer was fast and read- start was made from Tampa and Mobile il.v escaped. This is supposed to have and in each case the tleets of transports beeitone of the two ships which have been converge at Key West to pass under the cruising around in the neighborhood of convoy of the warships which Admiral Key West. Sampson provided to insure the safety of the troops during the passage across the Florida straits and to guard them against attack at the hands of some stray Span­ ish cruiser or gunboat. Arrangements have been made to util­ ize the services of the insurgents to the largest possible extent. The Government already sent expeditions to a number of points on the island and landed arms for the insurgents. Most of the parties suc­ ceeded perfectly in their object, and it was said at the War Department that a sufficient number of the insurgents have been armed to constitute an effective sup­ port for the troo]>s as they land. Although the officials will not .^te how many troops are available for active ser­ vice, it is roughly estimated that there are about 20.000 regulars and 13,000 volun­ teers at Tampa. These include seventeen regiments of regular infantry and four­ teen regiments of volunteer infantry, twelve battalions of artillery and five reg­ iments of regular cavalry. The volunteer FORT DESTROYED HY SCHLEY. force, regular and volunteer, is about 28,- ~TT " " 7 .--~ --~ 000, the cavalry about 4,000, the artillery anan government that this method of ^ 1 200 BacfeTthis force are other xation will be acceptable as a way of available regiim;Ills ;lt Mobile, New Gr­ ig under the protection of the Arner- ]e.ins ajjd Qthor points casilv accessible to ag' Tampa. Still farther back is the large "Peace Union's" Sympathy. volunteer camp at Ghiekamauga, compris- s people of Philadelphia are indig- ing about 40,000 infantry volunteers, 1,000 to the point of physical violence cavalry volunteers and three regiments of 1st a society of old fosilized Quakers artillery volunteers. n as the "Peace Union,"- which has It is understood to be the plan to have >ied a room in the very cradle of lib- the troops at Ghiekamauga take the place -Independence Hall--free of charge, of those at Florida ports as fast as the rriting a letter of sympathy to the latter leave for active service, thus keep- n Regent of Spain, treasonable in ing a large force always ready for em- The "Peace Union" has been com- bakkation from Florida. Aside from the 1 to vacate the cradle of liberty forth- troops already specified,-there are 18,000 2 men at Camp Alger, near Washington, ~ and lesser bodies of troops on Long Island Fome of the Costs of War. an(j jn various States. The 75,000 volun- estiinate for a deficiency appropria- teers under the recently issued second call of $11,400,000 in the expenditures constitute still another reserve, which, ic quartermasters department for however, is yet to be organized and urrent year was ,sent to the House eauinDed f V i i o n n i r t i m l f i ! O A A A I V enemy reveal the location of the new masked batteries and to compel the Span­ ish fleet to come out and fight. When the American fleet advanced the Cristobal Colon lay across the entrance to the har­ bor, her port broadside, facing the assail­ ants. Schley wanted to be in the midst of whatever was going to happen, so he transferred his flag from the Brooklyn to the Massachusetts at noon. Two hours later the Massachusetts, New Orleans and Iowa, not more than a cable length •apart, steamed up to the harbor mouth within 4,000 yards of Morro castle. Two miles further out to the sea the Brooklyn, Texas and other ships of the blockading fleet rode the Graves with just headway enough for steering purposes. Six min­ utes' steaming would have brought them into the fight, but they got no invitation and lay there to the end. The Massachusetts .opened fire, taking the Spanish flagship for its first target. An eight-inch shell was thrown. It was not a good shot, quite as bad as the shot that answered it. Then the Massachu­ setts tried its thirteen-inch guns. The roar of these was a new voice. Even the ships near trembled with their shock and the water seemed to hum like an immense sounding board.' The Cristobal Colon and four batteries, two on the east side, one •on the.w^^fed one on an island in the niidd&y|H^Hk&aniicl, made fitting re­ plies,/^^^^^Hjynnd twelve-inch Ivrupps sent sho|9HH&for t.he American sixes, eights, -thirteens. It was a noisy ami wjHHpif'. scene, but not effec­ tive on citffl^^^^H^thc outset. Both sidcswj^^^^Hto'be unable to get the range. Tlt^^^^HRbis steamed across in front of full speed, cir­ cled and passeqHPtov Both sides found the range on the second passage aiid be­ gan to shoot close. Several shots burst over the Iowa, three fell very near the New Orleans and one sprayed the bow of the Massachusetts. But the American fire ate into the fprts steadily. When they got the range there were few shots wasted. The walls «of Morro crumbled iu many places, and its fire slackened first. Two men stood on the high parapets during the first part of the engagement watching our fleet with telescopes. They disappeared in an explosion of one of the Messengers from Gomez Bring Dis­ cordant Reports. Gen. Shafter has been given a startling demonstration on the amount of reliance that can be placed on the statements of Cubans with regard to their position on the island. Two commissioners, both of tiiein in possension of credentials from Maximo Gomez, arrived in Tampa with "information" about the size of the chief's army and like matters. One of these com­ missioners. Maj. Smith, reported that Go­ mez had 10,000 men trained and disci­ plined and that he needed an equal num­ ber of rifles with the same number of saddles. Emile Cardela. the other mes­ senger, informed Gen. Shafter that Go­ mez had instructed him to saythat he had 2,000 men in hand and 3,000 horses suita­ ble for cavalry. Well-informed and trust­ worthy people who have penetrated to Go­ mez' hiding place describe the old leader's camp as the tenii>orary dwelling place of a guerilla leader with probably 200 men at call. They have been told that Gomez' From a photograph taken after the bombardment. This shows much of the damage done by the shells of the American fleet. Old Castle Morro was the greatest sufferer, so far as visible effects are concerned, but many of the more modern fortifications were hammered with equal effect. whom are veterans of the Emperor's army. The English Marquis of Ripon has ex­ pressed himself as much in favor of an Anglo-American alliance. Five vessels captured by our warships in Cuban waters have been condemned and ordered sold by the prize court. The captured Spanish ships Panama, Guido, Buena Ventura and the Pedro are to go to New York, to be gold as prizes. The Government needs war horses and will soon invite bids for the supply that may be wanted. Dealers all over the To Seize Hawaii. There are indications that the admin­ istration intends to take possession of Hawaii whether Congress passes the an­ nexation resolution or not. The President has the power to take possession of the islands as a war measure, and it is said that he already has assurance from the ENTRANCE TO HAVANA HARBOR--MORRO CASTLE IN THE DISTANCE country have lieen notified that desirable stock is required. Prices are liable to go up. Count Eugene A. Van Waldick of Hol­ land has enlisted in the United States army at Cleveland, Ohio. A report is current in London and is extensively believed that an alliance has been formed', between France and Spain. Iowa, Missouri, Louisiana and Arkan­ sas are the only States west of the Mis­ sissippi which are not required to furnish troops for the Philippine Island expedi­ tion. " The French Government is making strenuous efforts to remove the bad im­ pression 'made in this country by the ven­ omous denunciation of the United States by Paris newspapers. An official dispatch to Madrid from Ha­ vana says: "The food supply is assured for a long time. Vessels are arriving here from all parts, even from the United States, with provisions." Walter S. Barker, who was American consul at'Sagua la Grande, Cuba, is to be commissioned colonel of men who have had. yellow fever, to be sent to Cuba with the first division of troops. .The' French Government has issued an official denial of the rumors of the occu­ pation, cession or sale of any-Spanish ter­ ritory to France. Cuba and the Phip- pines were mentioned in the rumor. After an idleness of thirty years, the shops at the Allegheny arsenal, at Pitts­ burg, Pa., have been started up. and a large force, of men put to w ork manufac­ turing leather equipments for the volun­ teer army. army was stationed around the surround­ ing hills and valleys, to be summoned whenever it became necessary. But no­ body on whose word anyone cares to rely has found a very easy way out of the per­ plexity caused by these conflicting re­ ports. Gen. Shafter notified Washington that the great body of men supitosed to Old Monitors Rebuilt. The old monitors, wfiicii did such effec­ tive service in the civil war, have been practically rebuilt at the League Island navy yard, Philadelphia, and rendered far more formidable than they were original­ ly. Iu addition to full equipment of mod­ ern appliances, they have been furnished with rapid-fire . batteries to supplement their big old-style guns, which are tre­ mendously effective at close range. HARBOR OF MATANZAS. Spain Will Fijrht to the End. Before leaving for Paris to again as­ sume charge of the Spanish embassy Senor Castillo was notified by Sagasta that at present Spain could not consider any terms of peace which implied a loss of territory. Spain, it is said, will not seek the intervention of the powers until she is completely beaten. Insurgents Capture a Town. Insurgents under,command of Gen. Car- illo captured the town of Iiemedios, 300 rifles, 30,000 rounds of ammunition, and 10,000 rations. Later the Spaniards se­ cured reinforcements and drove them out. The Spanish forces lost nearly 100 men killed and wounded; the Cubans four killed, three wounded. GKS. MAXIMO GOMEZ. be with Gomez is a myth, and that the couriers who have been arriving from l Cuba >are jlhoroughly untrustworthy.