Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-05-12
War Items.


tugal, last Thursday that the Span
ish fleet from Cape Verde had ar
rived at Cadiz, Spain. That may
be an Intentionally misleading re-
port of the enemy. There were two
squadrons, which left about the
same time. The big one started
towards the West Indies, and the
other soon put back at it's starting
point, but left again. The small
squadron of torpedo boats may be
the one that returned to Cadiz.
Germany's policy is said to be to
trade a declaration of neutrality
for reciprocity tariff agreement.
The Senate passed bill suthor-
izing the Cuban insurgents to be
supplied with arms and equipments
so as to make them available for
allies.
Great Britain and Russia are dis
tinctly friendly TO the United States
in the war, though declaring ncu-
trality.
Two field batteries of the Penn
sylvania National Guards were or
dered to guard the Newport News
shipyard, where the battleships
Kentucky, Kearsarge and Illinois
are building.
In addition to the five first-class
battleships and some twelve or
more torpedo boats approaching
completion, the U. S. Navy will be
further increased by three first
class battleships, four coast defense
monitors, sixteen torpedo boat de-
stroyers, twelve torpedo boats and
one gunboat by the law recently
enacted. That will give the new
Navy twelve first-class battleships,
one second-class battleship, ten
coast-defense monitors equivalent
to second-class battleships), two
first class armored cruisers, sixteen
protected cruisers (3 first-class)
three third class cruisers, seventeen
gunboats, one dynamite cruiser,
sixteen torpedo cruisers, thirty. six
torpedo boats and one harbor ram,
beside The r~~.es of improvised
vessels OF the-sHiIi.ry -asst and
many sefvlcable vessels of the old
navy.
The Lexington merchants are
protesting through Congressman
Settle against the War Department
buying supplies in Chicago for the
State volunteers modified at Lex.
ington.
Capt. Chas. d. Sigsbee, of the ILL.,
fated Maine, is now Captain Of the
auxiliary cruiser st. Paul, that can
put up stiff fight with her six
inch rifles and can out-run any
warship of the enemy except the
small torpedo cruisers.
British Consul F. W. Ransom at
Santiago, Cuba, for distributing
the American supplies left in his
care was attacked by a mob, one OF
whom he killed. He was impris-
oned, but some British warships
induced the Spanish to release him.
New Orleans renamed Spain
street Dewey street in honor of the
hero of the Navy.
Gen. FItzhugh Lee and Gen. Jo.
seph Wheeler, both famous ex-C Con-
federates, took the oath and we're
commissioned Major Generals in
the U. S. Volunteer Army.
Admiral Sampson left Cuban
waters last week to cruise around
Porto Rico with the Iowa, Indiana,
Puritan, New York and several
small vessels and wait to hear
where the Spanish feet is. Com
modore Watson is in charge of the
Cuban blockading feet, which in
cludes the monitors Terror, Am.
phitrite and Miantonomoh, with
the balance of the N. A. Squadron's
cm ullcT Nceccie.
The little boats Dupont and Hor-
net shelled the two block houses at
the entrance to Matanzas harbor |
last Friday.
The enemy began last week with
drawing troops from the interior
into the western cities of Cuba.
The French liner La Fayette,
captured BY mistake of the Gov.
srnment in not notifying the Ha-
Vana blockading squadron that she
had a permit, was released with an
apology.
The enemy captured the Amer
can schooner Ann Louisa Lock
vood, loaded with logwood, off
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