Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE president on the 9th sent mes
sage to congress warmly commencing
Adm. Dewey and his men for the vic
tory at the Philippine islands and rec
ommending that the thanks of con-
gress be rendered to Adm. Dewey, his
officers and men.
The entire army stationed at Chick
amauga park has been ordered to the
front. Gen. Miles will go with the
first military expedition to Cuba. The
war is to be pushed from now on, as
President Mckinley desires to cele-
brate our victory over Spain by July 4.
SECRETARY LONG received dispatch
from the naval attache at London on
the 10th confirming the state depart
ment's cable that the Spanish Cape
Verde fleet had gone to Cadiz. Spain.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Shanghai
said that it was reported there that
Adm. Monte 10, the commander of the
Spanish feet, who escaped from Cavite
by running along shore to Manila with
his two sons, was killed by the popur
lace of the latter place.
GEN. MILES has caused to be pre-
pared by war department experts
table showing in concise form what
is necessary in the way of equipment
of every organization in the service
from a company to an army corps, as
some volunteer battalions have laid up
enough equipment to load an entire
freight train and others have gone to
! the other extreme, emitting things
| that are absolutely necessary to com
fort and health in camp.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEIKLEJOHN
on the 10th chartered about 80 ships,
with a capacity for $4,000 men. They
| are to be used to convey troops to Cuba
and the Philippines.
ONE regiment of infantry from Kan
| sas was ordered on the 18th by the
government to proceed at once to San
Francisco and go with an expedition
to hold the Philippine islands.
The cruiser Charleston was ordered
| to sail on the 18th from San Francisco
without waiting for the rest of the re.
lief steamers and supplies for Adm.
Dewey at Manila. She will carry a
| large stock of ammunition and sup
| plies for the Asiatic fleet.
In an action in Cardenas harbor on
the 18th between Spanish gunboats
| and shore batteries and the blockad-
| ing vessels, Ensign Bagley and four
of the crew of the United States tor
| pedo boat Winslow were killed and the
vessel knocked helpless by the enemy.
| The Hudson threw the WinSlow a line
and towed her to safety.
| IT was rumored in wel1-in formed
London circles that Queen Victoria
| had personally appealed to the queen
regent of Spain to sue for peace on the
ground that the longer war continued
the more her sons prospects would be
| jeopardized.
| A REPORT from Port-au-Prince on
| the 18th stated that Adm. Sampson
| had bombarded San Juan de Porto
| Rico and in a few minutes had reduced
Moro fort to heap of ruins. Thou
| sands of the population and the for
eign consuls, it was said, had sought
refuge in the interior of the island.
| A Hone KONG special on the 18th
said that trading vessel from the
Philippines reported having witnessed
the destruction of a Spanish warship
by the United States gunboat Concord
at Iloilo. The fight is said to have
| lasted two hours, at the end of which
time the Spaniard went down with
| colors flying. There were no casual
ties on board the Concord and no danl-
age was done the gunboat.
| LLoYD's agent at Manila cabled to
London on the 18th from Hong Kong
that the blockade of the capital of the
Philippine islands was strictly main
tanned by Adm. Dewey and that the
cable was aboard an American vessel.
The Spanish flying squadron was
said to be off Martinique, w. L, on the
| 18th and Adm. Simpsons fleet was on
| the lookout for it and a great naval
battle was expected in a day or two.
| Commodore Schley's fleet received
sealed orders to sail and it was thought
| his squadron would either GO to help
! Adm. Sampson or maneuver around
the coast of Cuba.
DIRECT orders were given Gen.
Miles on the 18th to suspend the move
ment of the army to invade Cuba IN
til after the expected battle between
the United States and Spanish fleets
in West Indian waters.
THE war department on the 18th is
sued orders for the assembling of 90
OS7 volunteers at Chickamauga- This
| embraced 20 regiments of infantry and
five batteries.
THE London Evening News pub
lished on the 18th dispatch from the
West Indies stating that San Juan de
Porto Rico surrendered the previous
evening to Adm. Sampson. Immense
damage was done to the city by the
American bombardment,b but the Amer
leans did not attempt to take possession
or destroy the city beyond razing the
Notifications The battleships Iowa
and Detroit, according to the dis
patch, fired $50 shots with terrible eff
D feet.
MISCELLANEOUS.
FIVE lives were crushed out and sew
il