Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-14
FRIDAY, July STU,

Malarial fever is on the increase
among the L. :. troops at Santa
GO. Another hardship is dividing
their rations with the refugees.
Aguinaldo has proclaimed him
self President of the Philippines
Republic.
Roast is the correspondents or
der of the day. One gives it TO the
hospital department at Santiago,
saying many of the wounded are
left with the blazing sky for "A
canopy and are also rained on,
while staff officers recline unhurt
IN individual tents. Again, Cuban
stra .glers wounded in aimless wan
behring's are treated in tents, to the
neglect of the Americans, in many
instances.
Commodore Watson's Eastern
Squadron has been detached and is
preparing to go against the Canary
Islands, Spain and particularly af-
ter Camara's squadron. 1t will con
sist of the irst-class battleships
Massachusetts and Oregon the sec
ond-rate cruiser Newark; the aux
Hilary cruisers Yankee, Dixie and
Yosemite; a supply ship and six
GOLFERS.
Hobson and his seven fellow he
roes were exchanged Wednesday,
and the army and squadron simply
went wild over them.
The Spanish prisoners from Ger
vera's squadron will be held at
Seavy Island, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. Cervera and his officers
will be paroled and treated with
every c courtesy consistent with the
circumstances.
Spain has a cruiser and a trans
port each of the names Alphonso
Mi. and Alphonso KILL, hence
there is considerable confusion in
the news reports of the movements
of the four vessels. The vessel re-
Gently sunk in Santiago harbor to
block the channel is said to he the
transport Alphonso MIL, while the
vessel sunk near Mariel was the
transport Alphonso MI. The cruis-
ers Of those names are one in Ha-
vaua harbor and the other is in
Spain, the latter being a fine, new
protected warship.
Gen. Young refused to issue ra-
tons to the Cuban soldiers because
they refused to assist in the hos
pital, commissary and other work,
saying they were soldiers, not la
borers.
Admiral Villa nil was killed in
Cervera's defeat.
Major Gen. Nelson A. Miles left
for Santiago, via Charleston, 5. C.,
last Thursday.
A five-gun Spanish privateer is
soaring the coast towns of the
Northwest.
When Hobson AMI his men were
taken on board the enemy's prison
ship shortly after they became
prisoners Hobson walked up to the
commander, saluted and said: 81
demand whisky for my men, who
have been long exposed in the wat
err" They lived on rice and sar-
dimes most of the time. Hobson
had six eggs each day, though eggs
we're costly as iewelry. Cervera
visited Hobson frequently, bring,
ing him meat. The guards had
some grim fun making signs to
them that they would he hanged
The guards told them the Spanish
killed fourteen and wounded thir-
ty-seven of their own men firing on
the Merrimac.
Sergeant Mckinney, Co. b,
Ninth Infantry U. S. A, by special
permission fired two shots and
wounded Gen. Linares in the right
shoulder at San Juan hill. The dis
tance was over 1000 yards. Gen.
Toral then succeeded to the CON-
mand of the enemy.
Admiral Camara went partly
around the globe and then was or
dered home again. So Dewey loses
the chance for another great naval
battle with the Spanish.