Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-26

The Navy Department hears
from the Oregon, probably in West l
Indian waters, and says she il safe.
Gen. Mrrritt's force To occupy
The Philippines will consist of ) 600
regulars and 1000 volunteers.
SIMPSONS bombardment of San
Juan, Porto Rico, killed eight sol
diers. wounded thirty -four and dis
mounted two cannon.
The invasion of Cuba at an early
date is again said to he decided on.
The British steamer Elwick was
taking on a cargo of sulphur at
Huelva, Spain, for Baltimore. When
the people learned of il they tried
to mob the captain and drove the
ship away half loaded. Some tor
pcdo- boats chased her after she
left port. Great Britain may call
on Spain for satisfaction for the
outrage.
A falling hattie. hatch came near
killing Fighting Bob Evans, Cap
tain Of the battleship Iowa. He
was badly bruised on the right
shoulder and arm. The accident
was caused by the hswser of a towed
ship knocking it down a hatchway |
onto Evans.
Sylvester Scovell, the New York
World correspondent who has been
active in Cuban affairs nearly ever
since the instruction began, was
barred from further access to war
ships and naval stations because
he slowed himself away on ship
in disobedience Of orders.
FRIDAY, MAY 2OrH.
Cervera's squadron is reported
through Spanish sources, and
seemingly cerroborated, TO have
reached the well fortified harbor of
Santiago, on the southeastern coast
of Cuba. The enemy says two of our
warships were there and they cut
their lucky like a ghost with a tin
can to its tail. They needed to.
Sampson and Schley have united
their squadrons at Key West, Flor
ida. If they have time they will
clean the bottoms of their ships to
make greater speed.
The Paymaster General estimates
that il will cost $30,000,000 to
maintain the army of 100000 for
six months.
The news of each succeeding day
largely contradicts what was sup
posed to be new and true the pre-
ceding day.
The Charleston, which started 10
Join Dewey's squadrnn- had to put
hack at San--Fiancisco for two
-aays, owing to her condensers leak
ing.
The report is now that Cuba will
not be invaded until the quietus is
put on Cervera. Oh, no, the war
will not necessarily be over before
blackberry time.
Mutual explanations disclose that
officially everything is lovely be-
tween the United States and France.
Journalist Robineau, of Paris, eX-
plains that the luminosity to this
nation in France comes from the
common people who have invested
their small savings largely in Span
ish bonds and are terrified at the
prospect of loss to them so soon af-
ter the bursting of the Panama
bubble when they lost so heavily.
That is the reason also for the hos
. tile utterances of the minor French
press.
A romance of the Cuban war is
the marriage engagement of Miss
Evangelina Cossio y Cisneros, the
young Cuban girl rescued from
] prison by Carl Decker. to an ex-
banker of Havana, Carlos Carbonel,
who helped rescue her. Carbonel
has been nominated Lieutenant
on Gen. Fitzhugh Lees staff by
President Mckinley.
Nine supposed Spanish warships
are reported off Cape La Have, Nova
Scotia. 1t lie reported that Spain
! has secured of France a coaling
station near St. Pierre, Miquelon
colony, off the south coast of New
. Foundland.
Several of the recruits at Lex
ington have deserted before being
mustered In, due principally to dis
satisfaction over the failure of
company officers to pass the exam
, ination or to their removal. Some
} object to the bardships of the camp
in the way of food and quarters.
} The company from Hopkinsville,
two cavalry troops from upper
J Licking river, and some of the Lou
isville companies are more or less
demoralized from these causes. Col.
/. Castleman, of the Louisville Legion
First Regiment), is Disguised be-
cause so many of his fine soldiers
were rejected for what are alleged
to be trivial reasons. There are
likely, too, to be some court-martial
trials for INSTRUMENTATION and other
offenses. Gov. Bradley says I'M
> mustered deserters can not be pun
ished because they are not actually
in the service of the State nor Uni
ted States, drawing pay from nei-
Their.
The daily rations to the troops
at Lexington in ounces are about
z of bacon, fresh beef 9, dried beans
2, potatoes ID, onions 8, coffee IT,
sugar 2t, some salt, pepper and
, vinegar, soap 2-5, candle (one) 2 OF.
The cable-cutting fight at Glen
fuegos caused loss to the enemy
of about 800 men.
4 Government censorship of press
dispatches is getting so strict that
no news of important army and