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Evening star., 1898-08-06

.PABST' FOLLOWS OUR FLAG
When the stars and Stripes were iais-
ed over Santiago Pabst Famous Milwaukee
Beer Immediately entered that mort IL
keeps pace with the nations progress
PABST BREWING co, t'b n. Cap ST.
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Arlington & Return. on sundays, I5e
during summer. Electric trains, 13l. & Pa ay
-AdNerfiSenent.
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whfte House Walls Are BenutifuI.
Yours Will be also II We do the papering
Rooms, 81 UP. Nolte, SO 9Th st. 1t
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Reduced seven fine Gas Ranges, s11.75 to
$3.50 each, iron pipe connection and guar
antee included.
12O4 G. C.. A Muddiman & Co. GIG 18th
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$1.2S To Baltimore and Return ri
Via Pennsylvania Railroad
Saturdays and Sundays during August: !:
good to return until the following Monday.
All trains except the Congressional Limited
advertisement.
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On account of this occasion the Baltimore
and Ohio Road win sell excursion tickets
to Frederick and return, August and o.
valid for return until August 10 at one
fare for the round trip.-Advt.
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Nothing to Eat.

Thursday, July al shall try and finish
this letter today and mail it, though l
don't suppose it will reach you for two or
three weeks. AS stamps are impossible to
procure, | shall send it as soldiers mall"
Have not had anything to eat today, and
it is now 1 pm. i feel rather tired and
have not the energy to write much. | am
also mentally fatigued so anything strange
you run across don't wonder at.
1T rained pitchforks here yesterday even
ing and | got soaking wet: hence the ap-
pearance of the first pages of this letter.
Caldwell has just come in from the city
with the startling information that if u
peace is not established We VIII probably
be moved twenty-five miles back into the
mountains and remain there until fall in
order that we may become acclimated ana
hardy for the Havana campaign. ii they
do anything like that l don't beiieyo they
would have half of the regiment lets There
is great deal of dissatisfaction al. through
the regiment on account of the uncertainty
of our position. Here We are supposedly in
quarantine for five days, but with really
no apparent end in view other than 10
await the pleasure of the officials in Wash
ipgtOn.
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Money to lend at > and 6 per cent on real
estate. Frank T. Rawlings, 1895 Pa. ave
Advertisement.
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FOR YOUR ICED TIE.

FOR YOUR ICED TEA
Use ''Kenny's Cheon," the best SOC. tea in
America Pure American-refined Sugars
sold at cost.
c. D. KENNY. city stores.
GENTS SUITS CLEANED.
A F. BORNOT, 1103 G st.
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Prediction for California.
SPANISH SOLDIERS ESCAPE.
Eleven Confined in Santiago Jail
Succeed in Their Attempt.
cial Cable Dispatch to The Evening Star

Special Cable Dispatch 10 The Evening Star.
Copyright. 1sas.l
PLAYA DEL ESTE. July 26.-At Santi-
age last night eleven Spanish prisoners
escaped from the city Jail. 1t is alleged
that they overpowered the guards.
The Cubans claim that the keepers, who
are also Spanish, set The prisoners free.
Gen. Shafter recently appointed a prison
commission to inspect the Spanish prisons.
They were found to be in the most terrible
condition.
Prisoners were discovered in some of
them who have been confined for years
without trial, for crimes the maximum
punishment for which, under Spanish law,
would be two months. The commission
will sit daily until these cases can be re-
viewed.
Several of the Spanish justices have sent
in their designations to Gen. Shafter. say
ing that they cannot take the oath of al
legiance The high courts OF Justice will
b, closed until other appointments can be
made
A large sum OF money is missing from
the Santiago branch of the Havana Bank
INQUIRIES arc being made for it. Otherwise
great tranquility prevails.
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miles from this port, is to the eastward OF
the harbor In addition. the water at
Ponce is too shallow for the transports to
be able to get close in shore. Then, again.
Ponce itself is some little distance from
where the troops would have been able TO
land if that point had been selected for
the debarkation of the expedition.
One advantage of this place is that it is
situated close to the railroad connection
with Ponce, which means of transportation
our troops hope to secure today.
The RecOnnofter.
Early this morning the Gloucester. In
command of Lieutenant Commander Vain
wright, steamed into Guanica harbor, in
order to reconnoiter the place. With the
fleet waiting outside the gallant little fight
ing yacht Gloucester braved the mines
which were supposed to be in this harbor
and found there were five fathoms of wa
ter close in shore.
Guanica bay is a quiet place. surrounded
by cultivated lands. In the rear are high
mountains and close to the beach nestles
village o fabout twenty houses.
The Spaniards wers completely taken by
surprise Almost the first they knew of
the approach of the army of invasion was
in the announcement, contained IN the nr-
ing of a gun from the Gloucester demand
ing that the Spsniards haul down their
flag. which was floating from flag stein
in front of block house standing 10 the
east of the village. The first couple Of
three-pounders were fired into the hills
right and left of the bay, purposely avoid
ing the town, lest the projectiles nurt wo-
men or chill lren.
The Gloucester then hove to within
about COO yards of the shore and lowered
a launch having on board Colt rapid
fire gun and thirty men, under the COM
maid of Lieutenant Huse, who was sent
ashore without encountering opposition.
Quartermaster Beck thereupon told Yeo-
MAJ Lacy to haul down the Spanish flag,
which was done and they then raised on
the flagstaff the first United States flag to
float over Porto Rican soil.
Spaniards Fired.
Suddenly about thirty Spaniards opened
fire with Mauser rifles on the American
party. Lieutenant Huze and his men re-
sponded with great gallantry, the Colt gun
doing effective work.
Mormon. who received Admiral Cervera's
surrender. and Wood, volunteer lieuten-
ant, shared the honors with Lieutenant
HUE.
Almost Immediately after the Spaniards
fired on the Americans the Gloucester
opened fire on the enemy with all her
, and 6-pounders which could be brought
to bear, shelling the town, and also drop
ping shells in the hills west of the port,
where a number of Spanish cavalry were
TO be seen fastening toward the spot
where the Americans had landed.
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STARVATION AT CIENFUEGOst
The Appeal to Sampson for Aid ca
not Now BE Answered. y

(Copy right, 1885, by the Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY, July 25.-The {, OIL
lowing pi.iful appeal has been addresses' by
the starving people of Cienfuegos to lkear
Admiral Sampson:
Honorable Sir: The Cubans, old zen,
women and children, resident in the tfwn
of Cienfuegos and this neighborhood sare
all dying of hunger. The young men Fare
all in the field with the Cuban troops, sand
have not shoes, neither food. All the bro
visions in this town are in the hands of. the
Spaniards. Cubans cannot obtain Fleece
OF bread, it is necessary to send eviry-
thing to the field. The Weyler system rs in
their way. The situation is terrible.s II
you, honorable sir, do not come quick 2ith
your squadron in our help and take po:sses-
sion of this town we shall be lost. Wetbeg
you to precipitate your operation. ABOUT
5000 old men, women and children ffhall
die of hunger in this town. Some of these
old men have four or five sons fghtingt for
freedom. This is our situation, horsfble
situation. II the great people of the UrSited
States do not come quick in our heIn we
are lost. For Gods sake, come quick
SOME CUBANS.''
Nothing can be done for the peoph of
Cienfuegos until that place is captured.
This Will not be for some time.
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GRANTS BRIGADE THE NEXT
1t Will Leave Camp Thomas Today for New
port News.
Troop NJ, Illinois Cavalry, Named as
Gen. Wnde's Guard of Honor
The Soldiers Mail.

CHlCkAMACGA-CHA MA
TlONAL MILITARY PARK, Ga, July 26-
Ihe &c Brigade. 1st Division, 1st Corps.
commanded by General Fred Grant, now
loading at Rossville Station leaves this
afternoon for Newport News
1t Is composed of the 1st Kentucky. Sd
Kentucky and 9th Illinois. The brigade will
be accompanied by the Third Battalion of
the ION pennsylvania, which arrived after
the departure of the regiment for Porto
Rico. The route to Newport News will be
over the Queen and Crescent and Chesa-
peake and Ohio, via Lexington, KY, and
Richmond, Va.
WIN the exception of the regiments
which go out tomorrow and which are
busy today packing, all commands are
haro at work drilling. The weather is cool
and pleasant and it is being fully taken ad-
vantage Of
Major Skunk. chief engineer of the I'd
DIVISION. lst Corps, is now lecturing the
commissioned and non-commissioned Of
hcers OH the art of constructing hasty field
fortificat,cns
MAJOR Nye, commissary of subsistence of
the local military supply depot has shipped
eighty cars OF provisions to the park dur
ing the last forty-eight hours.
Judging from these heavy shipments it
would appear as though more troops would
shortly arrive at the park
Major Nye has not received any orders
up to the present writing to provide travel
rations' fcr troops that are going to leave
the park Nineteen cars of potatoes ar
rived from Columbus Tenn. today
An enormous quantity of letter mail is
now being handled at the Chickamauga
postal station of the Chlekamauga post
Office All of the soldiers mail goes to this
office, and all civilian mail is sent to the
Lytle, Ca, regular post Office. At the
Chlckamauga station branch over 10000
letters are handled each day. This includes
ooth the incoming and outgoing mails, re-
quir1ng force Of seventeen clerks to dis
tribute and make up the mails. In addi-
tion TO these letters an average of 25.O50
mah packages. including papers, boxes.
etc. are handled each day. This makes up
over 2oO sacks of paper mail every twenty
Tour hours The mails are now being re-
ceiVed and dispatched without delay, and
much credit is due the postal authorities.
DIR. c. M. Drake, former surgeon of the
Southern railway, has been transferred
from the Sd Corps to take. charge of the
lst Division, 1st Corps, Hospital. There
are number of patients in this hospital
left by the commands which are now en-
route to Porto Rico.
Troop NJ 1st Illinois Cavalry, from Chi
cago, has been named by General Wade as
his guard of honor. The guard will go on
duty as soon as Gen. Wade decides upon
the location of lis headquarters.
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HONOLULU TO BE FORTIFIED
Major Langftt Ordered to Make Preliminary
Survey Of the Harbor.
Troops Going on the st. Paul to
Manila This Week-More Trans
ports Engaged.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26-Major Lang
| fit. who is to go to Honolulu with a b-t-
| talon of volunteer engineers, has received
| instructions from General Merriam to cause
a preliminary survey to be made of the
harbor at Honolulu and its surroundings as
| the initiative of fertilization plans. He is
to prepare plans for barracks and officers
quarters, which will be final after they
| have been approved by the War Depart
ment. They will be subject to change by
General Merriam before being sent to
Washington.
General Merriam has selected Lieutenant
Colonel Lee Slower Of the 1st South Dakota
Infantry to command the troops going to
Manila this week on the steamer st. Paul.
They will embark on Thursday or Friday.
Two battalions of the 1st South Dakota
left for the Philippines on the steamer Rio
de Janeiro last Saturday. The remaining
battalions of the regiment is to go on the
ST. Paul. In addition, General Merriam has
decided to send the recruits for the list
Colorado and 10th Pennsylvania
Private W. H Dubbs of Company X, 7th
California, is dead at the Marine Hospital
of pneumonia. Private Lyon Hull OF. Com
pany D, 1st South Daketas is dead at the
division hospital of catarrh pneumonia
fantry, who died Sunday night at the Ma
rine Hospital, has been buried in the Pre-
sidio cemetery.
The 7th California has sent in the past
twenty-four hours five cases of measles to
the field hospital Two of the victims, Pri-
Yates Marske and Hount of Company G,
are in a dangerous condition.
DR.. F. H. Demey of the 18th Infantry h: )
been taken to the French Hospital i'll with
pneumonia.
A special to the Chronicle from Vancou-
yer, B. c.. says that the Canadian Pacific
steamships Tartar and Athenian are an
chored in Vancouver harbor, having been
taken off the klondyke route Their stores
are being removed and they are to be-
come United States transports.
AS they British naval reserve boats,
they cannot be transferred to the Amer
lean government directly, 50 they vii! pass
through the hands of the Pacific Coast
steamship Company. being converted into
troop ships by Uncle Sam. The Athenian
is registered at 1900 tons, and is cen
structed to carry 1,5O0 men; the Tartar is
4,OOO-ton ship, built to accommodate
LOO Both ships can travel seventeen
knots an hour
SEATTLE, Wash, July 28-The steamer
Charles Nelson, which arrived here Mon
Cay from st. MichaePs, has been chartered
by the government for transport The
government has also chartered the steam
er Samoa. Both vessels will leave for San
FRANCISCO within a day or two. It is un-
derstooG that they are TO be used in car
rying troops to Honolulu
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COURSE OF THE SoLACE.
Will Dfstrfbute DeIicacies md COL
lect Sick and Wounded

The following bulletin was posted at the
Navy Department today:
THE ambulance ship Solace will sail in a
day or two from New York for Admiral
SIMPSONS squadron. While at the navy
yard she has had an additional ice ma
chine installed, and has been supplied with
earbonater and brown canvas awning by
the Rhode Island Relief Association and an
&-ray apparatus by the National Society of
Colonial Danes. She will go to Key West
and take on board all the naval sick or
wounded in the hospitals or on the vessels
in port and will assist all the vessels on
blockade duty around the Island of Cuba,
taking on board their sick and wounded
and leaving them ice, fruit, delicacies and
stores for the sick, comfort bags and cloth
ing, contributed in kind Or purchased with
money 81 pplied by various patriotic socie-
ues throughout the country. AS soon as
she receives her complement of sick and
wounded she will bring them to one of the
northern naval hospitals"
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sHAFTER At CAMP WOOD.
Gen. Wood Remains at Santiago to
Govern It's People.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July 26.-The 1st
United States Infantry. under Lieut.. Col
Bisbee, went to Guantanamo yesterday
afternoon, in order to occupy that place.
General Shafter and stan left this city
yesterday for Camp Wood. The military
governor. General Wood. remains here
Company F of the SD Michigan Yolun-
teers. will publish today, with General
Shafter's consent the first American paper
published in Cuba. 1t is edited and printed
by members of the company and will bear
the title Company F Enterprise"
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THE STAR DY MAI.

Persons leaving the city for any
period can have The Star mailed to
them to any address in the United
States or Canada by ordering Il at
this Office. in person or by letter.
Terms: I3 cents per week; Is cents
for two weeks. or 90 cents per
month. Invariably in advance. SUBJ
Ecribers changing their address from
one Post-office to another should
new one.
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sPANIARDs KEEP GOOD WATCH.
Flash and Smoke Signals and Shots
Followed a Dispatch Boats Course.


KEY WEST, Fla, July ga squad of
Spanish soldiers three miles west of Bahia
Honda, province of Pinar del Rio, yesterday
afternoon fired half a dozen shots at the
Associated Press dispatch boat Dandy
which was passing that point two miles
out.
Flash and smoke signals also marked the
progress of the Dandy along the shore,
which seemed TO be exceliently watched.
The country from a point west of Bahia
Honda to Havana is IN high state of cul-
tivation.
The red hull of the Spanish steamer AL
fonso XII, sunk near Mariel, is a conspicu-
Gus landmark.
Cape San Antonio light, at the western
extremity of the Island of Cuba, is burn
ing, and Havana was brilliantly illuminated
last night.
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Passed Forty Icebergs.

NEW YORK, July 23.-The new British
steamer Masconomo of the Menantlc
Steamship Company arrived in port today
from Sunderland, fresh from the dock
yards. Capt. Jenkins reports that he pass
e, about forty icebergs, some very large.
between latitude 500. longitude 46, and lat
itude IS. longitude 45. One Of the bergs
mad lofty pinnacle.
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MILES MEN LANDED
Their Short SkiTnish With
the Enemy
NO AMERICANS WERE KILLED
Four Spaniards Killed by the
Gloucester's Marines.
PORT GUhNICA THE LANDING PLACE
Sharp Advance to Capture the
Ponce Railroad.
PORT GUANICA THE LANDING PLACE
ASHORE ON SOUTH COAST


PORT OF GUANICA, Island of
Porto Rico, July 25-2 p.m.-via
the Island OF St. Thomas, Danish
West Indies, July 26-Morning.-
The United States military expedi-
ton under the command Of Major
General Nelson A. Miles, command
ing the army of the United States,
which left Guantanamo during the
evening of Thursday last, July Fl,
was landed here successfully today
after a skirmish between a detach-
ment OF Spanish troops and a crew
OF thirty belonging to the launch OF
the United States auxiliary gunboat
Gloucester, formerly Mr.. ]. Pierpons
Morgan's steam yacht Corsair.
Four of the Spaniards were killed
and no Americans were hurt.
The American troops were push
ed forward promptly in order TO cap
ture the railroad leading to Ponce,
which is only about ten miles east
O this place.
Gaanica is small town of 900
inhabitants on the southern coast,
about six miles south of Yauco, OF
which city it forms the port, and
with which it is connected by a good
road, practicable in dry weather. 1t
is situated on the Bay of Guanica.
which is one of the best ports in
the whole island.
The banks to the right are steep,
and form a good natural wharf
Three vessels can lie alongside and
unload by means of gang plank.
Vessels Of thirty feet draft can easily
enter the bay and proceed close in
short There are no Notifications or
mines.
From Ponce there is an excellent
military road running eighty-hve
miles north to San Juan.
The whole of General Brooke's
force, with the New Orleans, An
napolis, Cincinnati, Leyden and
Wasp, expected here within twenty
four hours.
lilies on the Yale.
The ships left Guantanamo bay
suddenly on Thursday evening with
the Massachusetts, commanded by
Captain F. ]. Higginson, leading.
Captain Higginson was in charge OF
the naval expedition, which consist
ed Of the Columbia, Dixie, Glouces-
ter and Yale.
General Miles was on board the
last named vessel The troops were
on board the transports Nuecez, Co
manche, Rita, Saltwater City of
Mancon and Specialist This was
the order in which the transports en-
tered the harbor here.
The voyage from Guantanamo
bay to this port was uneventful.
At noon yesterday General Miles
called for a consultation, announcing
that he was determined not to go by
San Juan cape, but by the Mona
passage instead, land here, surprise
the Spaniards and deceive their mil
itary authorities. The course was
then changed and the Dixie was
then sent to warn General Brooke
at Cape San Juan.
Port Guanica has been fully described by
Lieut.. Whitney OF General Miles staff, who
recently made an adventurous tour OF
Porto Rico
Ponce, which is situated tex or fifteen
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Ihe commissioner of patents has estab-
nshed new division. to be numbered 36
Inc classes Included in this division are
class 81 (drfers), certain subclasses from
class % dnstruments) and several SUBJ
classes from the printing class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-26
Local Patents.

Patents were granted today to tie fol-
lowing residents of the District OF Column
bia: Philip H. Deis, cover for commodes:
VIM. n. Moore, acetylene gas generator
lamp; Eldridge j. Smith, assignor to Smith
Flexible Chair Company Of Virginia, chair.
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Champion Hackney,
Dead.
Banquo, the

TORONTO. Ont. July 2e.-Banquo. the
champion hackney stallion, belonging to
Robert Beth. II. p, is dead.
Rock Island Argus., 1898-11-21
; closed the days work.
CHRISTINA Is TO ABDICATE
According to n Diplomatic Rumo"-Fil
ipinos Insist on Independence.

According to n Diplomatic Rumo--Fil-
ipinos Insist on Independence.
London, Nov. 21.-A curious report in
regard to Spain's future government is
current in diplomatic circles. which,
from its source, is entitled to weight. 1t
is that there will be a change of dy-
nasty; but a peaceful change. The
queen regent is said to be convinced of
the hopelessness of her son ever reign
ing and has upon the advice of the en-
peror of Austria decided, soon after the
peace treaty is signed at Paris (and
every one now regards this as only a
question of days., to quit Spain with
her family and Don Carlos will be pro-
claimed king. Everything is reported
to be already arranged, and the army
and clergy are alleged to be eager for
the change. According to the pro-
sramme Don Carlos, so soon as things
are running smoothly, will abdicate in
favor of his son, Don Jaime.
There is much agitation among the
Filipino representatives in Europe over
the Philippine situation. Agoncilllo, the
representative of Aguinaldo, who has
been in Paris watching the proceedings
of the peace commissions, started for
Washington Saturday. 1t is learned
that on Wednesday last he called a
meeting of all the Filipinos in Paris and
London to meet him in Paris, when a
committee was formed with the object
of doing everything possible to induce
France to recognize the so-called Fill
ipino republic. a telegram was sent to
AguinaIdo asking for instructions, and
the following reply is said to have been
received:
Insist upon absolute independence.
Otherwise fight to the death. We are
all united and the government is pro-
crossing smoothly. All the independent
tribes of the mountains are submitting
to AguiDaIdo and the chiefs are bring
ing presents of gold" The statements
made by General Merritt in reply to the
appeal of the Filipino junta of Hong
Kong to the American people have
caused Indignation among the Filipinos.
The Filipinos of Paris are sending a
to President Mckinley pro-
testing against the assertions made.