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The herald., 1898-05-13

eve were making observations when the
enemy opened fire on US. The Wilmington
ordered us to go in and attack the gum
boats. We went in under full steam, and
there's the result"
Lieutenant Hudson when he said this,
and with the final words, pointed to beau
tiful American flag on the deck near by.
Under the Stars and Stripes were outlined
five rigid forms.
The Hudson's men believe they fought
against battery of four-inch field guns
and gunboats of 6, and 1-pounders. The
fortifications, as well as the gunboats,
were almost entirely hidden from view by
the sand heaps and warehouses. Four
thousand regular Spanish soldiers, they
say, are believed to be stationed at Car
denas. After getting an accurate range
on the American boats they descended
from the hills to lower ground and poured
in their fire before the Americans could get
their location.
Captain Newton estimated that his boat
fired 1876 rounds Of ammunition in thirty
minutes during the heat of the engage
ment. 1t is marvellous to him and his men
that they escaped as they did. They were
within 100 yards of the Winslow when the
shell which killed the men on board the
Winslow exploded, and they expected to
be blown to atoms. A few scratches on
the ventilators are all the marks the Hud-
son bears.
The Hudson reports that yesterday about
the same time the Cardenas engagement
occurred The Machias shot away the bat
teries and barracks on Diana bay, nine
miles from Cardenas. The Spaniards did
not return the fire and the details of the
bombardment are not yet known.
The herald., 1898-05-13

INDEX
TO TELEaRAPHIC NEWS

+ Downing, alias Rawlings, arrested !
r as a Spanish spy, avoids a trial by !
r hanging himself in his cell at Wash 4
+ ington.
+ Reports and denials of Intentions OF !
r European nations to Interfere Win
r American action in the Philippines;
+ England is admitted to be out OF the
r combine and Germany makes haste TO
+ express her intention to keep her mn
+ gers out of the fire.
+ The first American victims OF the
+ war with Spain are eight members OF
r the crew of the torpedo boat Winslow, .
+ five of whom are killed and three !
r wounded in an engagement on Carde- !
r mas, Cuba.
+ Major-General Merritt named as mill I
r itary commander of the Philippines 4
r and ordered thence to assume the du-
+ ties of his office; Dewey gets the cable !
+ and reports preparations to hold on to
+ what he has taken.
r Spanish torpedo boats reported .
r cruising about off the Atlantic coast; 1
+ the news not fully credited but pre- .
r cautions are taken to protect New .
r England towns. .
r The war revenue bill reported to the
r senate SO amended that its Republican !
+ trainers won't recognize 1t. 4
r. The senate passes a bill removing 4
+ the disabilities imposed on the yam :
r KEGS who rebelled in 1861. !
r All the Spanish so-called leaders are 1
r secretly fomenting riot and anarchy .
+ in hope of ultimate personal profit 4
r when the government is overthrown. 4
r Senator Hanna feeling the senate .
r pulse relative to settlement with .
1, Spain by which Cuba shall be held for .
1. the payment of Spanish bonds. .
+ Belgium the first nation to be caught 4
+ deliberately violating the neutrality .
+ laws. .
4. Before the Winslow retreated from
r Cardenas the town was set on fire and :
+ one gunboat sunk.
r Admiral Sampson has bombarded :
+ Fort Morro at San Juan de Porto .
1, Rico and now there is no fort there. .
+ An Armour elevator and million :
4. dollars worth of wheat burned at .
r Chicago.
4. The Spanish senate adopts the f1nan- .
4. cial proposals; the cabinet resign and :
+ Sagasta is busy forming another.
+ r. + + + + + + r + 4. + + + + + 4. + 3-fd
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low had been damaged and what repairs
they would be called on to make to place
her in active service again.
The surgeon general of the navy. DR.
Van Reipen, has complete preparations
made for caring for the wounded from the
Winslow. The hospital shipe Solace ar
rived at Key West only yesterday, so that
her splendid equipment is ready to give
every care to the wonnded.
Aside from the Solace, the navy depart
ment has at Key West, a temporary hos
pital 1t is the purpose Of the department
however, to use the Solace mainly for the
wounded. and to bring them north as fast
as their condition will permit, in order te
get them out Of the southern climate.
The herald., 1898-05-13
THE LATEST ACCOUNT
Of the First Engagement Fatal to
Americans

Of the First Engagement Fatal to
Americans
KEY WEST, Fla, May 12.-America's 8
first dead fell yesterday in a fierce and
bloody combat of Cardenas on the north
pieces and five we're wounded on the tor
pedo boat Winslow.
The dead:
WORTH BAGLEY, ensign.
JOHN vARvAREZ, oiler.
JOHN DANIELS, first-class fireman.
JOHN MEEK, first-class fireman.
JOSIAH TUNNELL (colored), cabin
cook
The wounded:
r. Z. COX, gunner's mate.
d. McKeown, quartermaster. y
j. PATTERSON, fireman.
+. GRAY.
LIEUTENANT ]. B. BERNADOU.
The battle lasted thirty-five minutes. II
was between the torpedo boat Winslow
the auxiliary tug Hudson and the gunboat
Wilmington on one side and the Cardenas
batteries and four Spanish gunboats on
the other. The Winslow was the main tar
get of the enemy and was put out of SER
vice. The other American vessels were
not damaged, except that the Hudson s
Two ventilators were scratched by flying
shrapnel.
The enemy's loss is largely conjectural.
One Of their gunboats caught fire and the
men of the Hudson think 1t sank. The fire
spread to the barracks and swept away
several small warehouses, and for time
the whole water front seemed to be ablaze.
The Hudsons crew also believe that two
Spanish torpedo boat destroyers were dis
abled, but they admit that their estimates
Of the damage is largely guesswork, as
the action was too sharp for outside obser-
vations to be made.
The Winslow was within 200 yards of the
shore when the shells struck her. How
she came to be SO close was told by hea1
commander, Lieutenant John Bernadou.
He said:
The herald., 1898-05-13
AUSTRIAN NEUTRALITY
Not Declared but Taken as a Matter Of
Course

BUDA-PESTH, May 12.-Baron Banffy,
replying to an Interpolation in the lower
house of the diet today, said:
"The government has not thought 1t nee
essary to issue a formal declaration Of
neutrality in the present war. Although
1t is unfortunate that the war could not be
prevented, it dees not follow that Austria
Hungary is called upon to adopt special
attitude in the matter. The friendly rela-
tions of Austria Hungary with the powers
will imply an unconditional neutrality,
without formal declaration. Moreover.
an official declaration would not corre-
spond with Austria-Hungary's practice in
similar cases, as she has only thrice done
so during the present century, and then
when the belligerents were Austria Hun
gary's immediate neighbors.
Count Goulouchowski, the Austro-Hun-
garian foreign minister, addressed the
budget committee of the delegation today
and referred to the Hispano-American war;
He observed that neither the Intervention
The herald., 1898-05-13
Rlauco's Report

. HAVANA, May 12. p. m.-Gov- Z
. ernor General Blanco received a cable Z
. message today from the captain gen. Z
. eral of Porto Rico, which says this Z
morning an American fleet of eleven Z
vessels opened fire upon the forts, Z
. which answered vigorously. The dis Z
. patch says that at the time it was Z
. sent, a. M, no personal losses had Z
. been sustained and little material Z
. damage done. Z
The herald., 1898-05-13

Naval Academy in September, 1891, from
the Fourth District of North Carolina.
He graduated June 30, last year. and was
appointed as Ensign on the day following.
While a, Cadet attached to the Academy,
he was assigned to make cruises in the
Texas, Montgomery, Indiana and Maine.
Upon being appointed an Ensign last June,
he was assigned to duty on the Indiana,
but in the following month was transfer
red to the Maine. He served on that ship
until November % last, when he was order
ed to the Columbia Iron Works for duty
in connection with the Winslow, which
was under construction at that time. When
she was completed and put in commission
last December, he was attached to her and
remained so until the moment Of his death.
The disposition Of the remains Of the
young officer await an expression from his
mother. but it is believed they will be
taken from Key West with detail Of
naval officers.
Lieutenant Bernadou
Lieut.. John Baptiste Bernadou, who was
reported as being wounded, is one of the
most dahhing and venturesome young off,
GERS in the naval service. 1t was because of
the command of the .Winslow, as it was
known that the service required would
be of the most hazardous character. Lieut..
Bernadou Is really an expert in torpedo
work. He watched the building of the
Winlsow almost from the time the keel was
laid to her trial trip as inspector in charge,
and took command of her Immediately
upon her. acceptance by the government.
He was born in November, 1858, at Phil
adelphia, and was appointed to the Naval
Academy by President Grant in 1876. He
was a midshipman in 1882. and an Ensign,
junior grade. in March 1888. In June of
the following year, he received his ap-
pointment as full Ensign. In 1892 he be-
came a Lieutenant, junior grade, and at
tanned his full Lieutenancy in 1896.
Ensign Bagley
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 12.-Ensign
Worth Bagley was one of the best known
men who ever came out of the Naval
Academy. He was bright and capable
man. His local fame here was chiefly on
the athletic field. he being the full-bacls of
the Academy eleven. He played in the
series of West Point and Naval Academy
games.
Badly Damaged
WASHINGTON, May 12-The first dis
patch given out at the navy department
was not complete, in that 1t left out refer
ence to the condition of the torpedo boat
Winslow. Liter the following additional
paragraph was posted:
''Winslow badly damaged. Will be sen,
here as soon as temporary repairs can be
made"
The bureau of naval construction at once
took steps to learn just how far the Wins
The herald., 1898-05-13

During the course of the trial not one
extenuating circumstance was adduced In
Barthelman's favor.
For some time previous to the tragedy
the couple had been separated. Barthel-
man had made repeated attempts to in
duce his wife to return to him, and upon
her refusing to agree to renew her un-
happiness he attempted to obtain possess
sion of their child. The tragedy is sup
posed to have been the result of an alter
cation between the two over the possess
sion of the child.
The herald., 1898-05-13
Killed Her Husband

MILAN. Mo-. May 12.-On the strength
OF coroner's jury verdict. Mrs. F. ].
Lumsden has been arrested charged with
numbering her husband, farmer. Lums-
denis skull and chest were mashed to a
jelly with heavy maui. Lumsden carried
$1,000 insurance policy payable to his wife,
who is twenty-five years his junior.
The herald., 1898-05-13
\ Magic Island..6anta Catalina

Of the pope nor the greatest complaisance
on the part of Spain" had been able to
avert a conflict. He expressed his regret
that the queen regent, a sovereign endowed
with the rarest qualities as ruler, and her
people had not been spared SO severe a
trial, and he hoped that peace on "the most
favorable terms that could be arranged
might be concluded at an early a day a.
possible.
The herald., 1898-05-13
THE FIRST OFFENDER
Belgium Deliberately Violates the Neutrality Laws by Selling
Ammunition to Spain


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The herald., 1898-05-13
Roman Tranquility

ROME. May ia semi-off1cial note is
sued this evening declares that tranquil
lity prevails throughout the kingdom.
MILAN.-The city has assumed it's normal
aspect. The public services have been re-
sumed and the schools will reopen tomor-
row.
The herald., 1898-05-13
The Aerial Service

RICHMOND, Ind, May 12.-Professor
John e. Baldwin, the aeronaut of Dalton.
this county, has received official notification
from General Greeley to be in readiness to
accept a call from the Signal Service Corps
as balloonist.
The herald., 1898-05-13
Austrian Neutrality

BUDA-PESTH, May 12.-1t was an
nounced in the unterhaus today that Aus
tria-Hungary does not think it necessary
to issue formal declaration Of neutrality
in the war between Spain and the United
States.
The herald., 1898-05-13

The crime for which Barthelman paid
the extreme penalty of the law was the
shooting OF his wife near Temple street
in this city, November 8, 1896, while she
was returning home from work, and was
as atrocious and cold-blooded murder as
ever took place in Los Angeles.
The herald., 1898-05-13

SACRAMENTO, May 12.-John F. Bar
thelman was hanged at the Folsom peni-
tentiary at 10 o'clock this morning. He
seemed resigned to his fate and said not
word on the gallows.
The herald., 1898-05-13

Ensign Bagley. who was killed, is a ma
tive of North Carolina. His mother, Mrs
W. H. Bagley, resfaes at 125 South street
Raleigh, m, c. fFAswas appointed to the
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28
CONFERENCE RENEWED.
Attempt to Postpone Col. Plcquart's Trial
Until Dreyfus Decision Is Given.

Paris. Nov 2L--There was a renewal
today of yesterdays conference be-
tween the premier, NJ. Dupuy, minister
for war. NJ. de Freycinet, and the min
lister Of justice, NJ Lobret, and members
of both chambers, regarding the request
of the committee of leftist senators, for
a postponement until after the decision
of the court of cessation in the Dreyfus
affair, for the trial of Col. Picquart,
charged with revealing important mill
tarV documents to his counsel As a
result of the conferences, it is under
stood M. Dupuy, who had promised to
refer the request to the cabinet and to
give a reply today, will decline to post
pone the Picquart court martial, His
decision will be announced in the cham
Der Of deputies tomorrow.
This afternoon NJ Dupuy had sew
eral conversations with NJ de Freyci-
net at the office of the minister of war.
He is supposed to have gone there to
inspect certain documents only obtain
able at the war office in connection with
the Dreyfus case. Gen. Zurlinden,
military governor of Paris, in an Off
cial note today repudiates the insinua-
ton that his decision to send Col. Pic
quart for trial by court martial, was
prompted or suggested by President
Faure. lie Soir asserts that the Pic
quart dossier contains new and unan-
swerable proofs of the guilt of Drey-
fus"
lie Jour- in a sensational article, de-
clares that the secret dossier consti-
tutes the only real proof of Dreyfus'
guilt. 1t gives details in a circumstan-
tial manner as to the documents in the
package, and promises further revela-
tiOnS
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28

not feel in so happy frame Of nina
this morning when he tries to burrow
through the rods Of drifts that lie be-
tween him and his office or store.
The church services of the city would
lead to the impression that Worcester
was in the heart of Ashantee land or
some other place where the forms of
Christianity are dispensed with. Seven
solitary Worshipers attended the first
mass of St Pauls yesterday where
there are generally more than that
number of hundreds. The First Bap-
fist Church had an equal number at lis
morning service, and the same rule hsld
good everywhere. In most of the
churches the evening services were
abandoned altogether.
A stranger in Worcester yesterday
morning might have believed himself
to have strayed in the "Auantis' of
Pliny or the Sweet Auburn of Gold
smith, for all the signs Of life that he
would have been able to observe The
streets were almost wholly deserted
except for a straggler now and then
who was bold enough to brave the
storm. The cars could not run. although
they made a brave attempt to do so,
and by noon there was not a wheel
stirring in the city.
There were no trains to be found that
pretended to be anything like on time,
and the Union station was full of peo-
pie who We're obliged TO walt there for
hours. Some of them We're unable to
get to hotels, and the restaurant keep
ers in the neighborhood made a for
! tune in dead shot coffee and sandwiches
of the type that drive excitahle people
to deeds they afterward regret
The snow that came down in Wor-
| cester was as light and feathery as cot
ton and fortunately did not hold
enough moisture TO make it stick TO wires
and trees. That accounts for the fact
that there was little actual damage
done within the city limits. But when
the snow did get down, it seemed to
settle into a hard, compact mass that
became almost ice wherever it was
trampled upon, and in some places was
great source of trouble to the men
the street railroads hired to clear their
tracks
But sill is the wind that blows no
body any good" and II the blizzard
takes lots Of dollars out Of some pockets
it puts an equal number into others
where perhaps the money will do mora
good Every body that has a sidewalk
knows that it does not snow anywhere
else in the neigtlbornood except on that
unfortunate walk, and no blizzard ever
illustrated this axiom more completely
than this one. So today there win be
tons of aqua frigida to be removed all
over the city, Crosgwalk and sidewalk,
highway and byway, and the lahoring
bird who cannot pick a Juicy worm out
of this fact will have to lie in bed all
day to miss it.
And 50 here it is. the first attempt
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28
Mr.. sTRAUs SUCCESSFUL.
Secured Travelling Permits in Asia Minor
After Long Efforts

Constantinople, Nov. 27.-The ener-
getic action of Mr.. Oscar Straus, the
United States minister, has obtained a
concession which the united powers had
been for IS months vainly endeavorlng
to secure, namely, the granting of
travelling permits to foreigners in the
interior of Asia Minor a privilege
which the ports had for a long time
stubbornly refused. The immediate in
centive to the action of Mr.. Straus,
was the porte's refusal of permits TO
American missionaries
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28
THE OPEN DOOR.


Washington, Nov. administration
officers do not expect that the so-called
"open door" policy will take an i'm
portant position in the discussions Of
the coming session of congress, but be
lieve that debate on this matter will
await the final disposition of the Philip
pines. A prominent official today said:
The phrase open door is Of limited
application and has been used only with
reference to the possessions of Eu-
rOpean powers on the coast of Asia.
Originating in the treaty for open
ports of China and Japan, the words
have been extended to cover ports
which China has leased or surrendered
to foreign powers.
The phrase means that in such ports
the alien government has in fact i'm
posed no determinations in tariff or
navigation charges against imports or
vessels of other countries. but has
treated them on the same plan as its
own imports and its own vessels. In
other words. foreign powers holding
Chinese ports by seizure or treaty have
merely announced that they will keep
open such ports, in the same manner
that China has opened certain free
ports to the commerce of nations with
out discrimination or favor.
The open door policy has been politi-
cally obligatory, as the reverse policy
would be in direct hostility to the pur-
pose Of civilized nations, steadily pur-
sued for years and cOncurred in by
China of opening the Asiatic trade to
commerce. The phrase open door has
no pertinence to the western hemi-
sphere and no relevancy to the West
Indies.
The matter has been completely mis-
understood by foreign newspapers Civ
ing the phrase an application to this
continent. The United States restricts
trade between American ports to Amer
lean vessels, precisely as the Domin-
ion of Canada restricts trade between
Canadian ports to British vessels. I'm
der the British law any nation which
elects to allow British vessels to en-
gage in its cOasting trade, can obtain
the privilege of entering the coasting
trade of Canada. The United States has
never awaited itself of this opportunity,
holding that the privilege TO be granted
is very much more valuable than the
privilege to be obtained.
The restriction of trade between the
United States and Porto Rico to Amer
lean vessels is based on the policy
which the United States has always
followed under all administrations, a
fact overlooked by the European press.
There seems to be no disposition here
to change this policy in this sphere,
from the mere fact that by the posses
sion of the Philippines the United
States must determine whether it will
follow the open door policy Of other
nations with possessions by seizure or
concessions on the east coast of Asia.
Commercially, the restrictions of the
trade between the United States and
Porto Rico is of relatively little mo-
ment, as the direct commerce is very
small and is absorbed by American and
Canadian vessels. The value Of Porto
Rico is as a fulcrum for the develop
ment of American commerce in the
West Indies"
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-28

Go where you would you would meet a
wind coming your way loaded with
flakelets that stung like pIru shot-
snovbird shetland if you turned, you
met the same wind coming back.
still the huge winding sheet of ma
ture grew apace and concealed an IN
a deadIv-white mantle that rose higher
and higher till in some places it was
really difficult to tell where the beaten
paths of traffic lay. Everything was
buried deep, the place where it was
necessary to dig something out, deepest
of all.
Fortunately, it was Sunday, and
most people were spared the necessity
of coming out in the early morning
hours into a blizzard that could lay
fair pretensions to being near cou-
sin of the real western article. Many
a man that would have made strug-
gle to get to his place of business on
time, had the day been any other.
breathed a sigh of relief when he real
lied that for once the weather had been
kindly disposed to him. But he will