Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-19

ing Dy the camp OF the soldiers al
Mobile where they get their drink
ing water.
Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, a
descendant of the naval hero whose
name he bears, son of the late
banker August Belmont, an ex-
Congressman from New York City,
husband of the divorced wife of
VIM. h. Vanderbilt, step-fatherin-
law of the Duke of Marlborough,
and a graduate of the Annapolis
Naval Academy Offered to build and
equip "A swift dynamite torpedo
boat and lend il to the Government
provided he be permitted to com
mand il. The offer was declined.
There was rioting of the common
people, caused by the high price of
bread, AT many places in Spain. AT
Linares Sunday the guards fired on
and killed from seven to ten of the
mob that attacked them.
The Madrid Chamber adopted
the war credits May 10th.
The GOODNESS of the attitude of
the Spanish American republics to-
wards this nation is due To the idea
industriously propagated by Span
ish sympathizers that the United
States desires ultimately to annex
the whole Western Hemisphere.
Nothing but the soundest mate
rial is desired in the army. Hence
a large percentage Of reflections of
volunteers is made.
On May 9th the torpedo boat
Winslow brought on in Cardenas
harbor, Cuba, what is pronounced
the first naval engagement in Gu
ban waters. Three of the enemy's
coast guard gunboats attacked her
and she ran for assistance to the
gunboat Machias, who chased them
to shelter.
Major Gen. Brooke was ordered
to send the 5000 regulars in camp
at Chickamauga Park to Tampa.
THURSDAY, MAY 18TH.
The plan is reported to be for
$4,000 regulars to embark under
convoy of warships for Cuba Mon
day, May 10th. These are to be
quickly followed by $4,000 volun-
teers. Gen. Miles will be on the
ground in command of all forces,
which with the insurgents will
number near 100000.
The reflections among the volun-
teers who habitually use cigarettes
number about 80 per cent, though
otherwise the reflections are less
than during the Civil w.
Secretax- anger wants a call for
ry;vuU more volunteers so as to
provide for emergencies.
Reports are persistent that Ger
many has her back arched over u.
s. occupation of the Philippines
and what not, but there appears no
reliable confederation of them.
The second-rate cruiser Charles
ton was ordered Immediately to the
Philippines, without waiting to
convoy the Pekin with troops. 1t
will be a two weeks trip.
Gen. Wesley Merritt will CON-
mand the army of occupation of
the Philippines and will be Military
Governor.
The common people of Spain are
reported to be DESTROYS of food and
not war. A Cabinet minister in
Madrid is quoted as saying that
everybody at heart wishes peace,
but none is brave enough to say so,
and he thinks Cabinet change
will be in the interest of peace.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler reported to
Gen. Brooke at Chickamauga for
duty May 10th.
Hudson Maxim, of London.
brother of Hiram Maxim, the gun
inventor, offers to this nation, his
native country, plans for a torpedo
cruiser costing $500, 900 that will be
more than a match for any battle
ship afioat, so he thinks. 1t ia to
be armed with guns throwing one
half to one ton of explosives five to
nine miles. He thinks ten such
cruisers may be built for the cost
Of one battleship, and being swifter
each will stand the chance 100 to /
of destroying its antagonist.
A British steamer at Gibraltar
reports witnessing the explosion
and sinking of the Spanish torpe-
do-boat destroyer Destructor, prob
ably from her boilers.
A lot of rioters headed by women
repulsed a cavalry charge at Lo-
grono, Spain.
The reported poisoning of the
water at the soldiers camp at Mo-
bile is pronounced a fake.
FRIDAY, MAY 18TH.
Incoming foreign vessels have
recently reported Spanish warships
near the New Foundland banks on
the route usually taken by steam
ers to and from English ports.
The correspondent for the New
York Herald and Courier-Journal
reports that the formidable Spanish
squadron that left Cape Verde Is
lands April 10th appeared off St.
Pierre, Martinique, Thursday, the
destroyers Furor and Terror having
put in at that port and sent dis
patches back to Spain. Five of the
squadron were sighted, apparently
bound towards Cuba. This is the
squadron reported arriving at Ca
diz, Spain, in Wednesdays dis
patches.
The squadron reported off Mar
Unique, West Indies, Thursday, was
followed by the Herald Courier