Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-07-29
SPAIN ANXIOUS FOR PEACE
France Engaged in War With Natives
in China,
ManzanlllO BOmbarded by Seven American
ShipS-0ther War Items and Latest
General News.

A member of the Spanish
Cabinet asserts that the Govern
ment is seeking an honorable
peace with the United States.
Ell Impartial quotes a member
OF the Ministry as declaring that
negotiations for peace are only
possible so far as Cuba is con
cerned. To demand more would
be to say that Spain must commit
suicide.
The Austrian Government is
endeavoring to exert pressure on
England to learn the terms of
peace America will be disposed to
dictate. Drummond Wolf has
drafted terms which in his opinion
would be fair. The Ministers,
however, declared that the terms
were such as Spain could not
accept.
Seven American warships hea
vily bombsrded Manzanillo on
July Is. Three steamers were
sci on fire. Several gunboats that
issued out of the harbor for tn.
defense of the town were strand
ed. Guns were landed from a
steamer aud used in the defense.
The gunboats Delgado and Pareja
were burned. Blanco telegraphed
congratulations to the Mapzanillo
commander and ordered him to
resist to the last.
In a conference with Weyler
the Queen Regent tried to dis
susde the "hyena" from violently
adopting the Carlist cause and
taking his military adherents with
him.
The London Chronicle says:
"Spsin's anxiety as to Gibraltar is
quite ground!ess, but if she insists
on planting batteries to threaten
our harbor aud coaling station we
shall be obliged to stop her."
There was great jubilstion on
the American fleet when the an-
nouncement was made that the
enemy had surrendered Santiago.
The Signal Corps wigwagged the
uews to the ships, aud the cheers
that followed could be heard for
miles.
A movement has been started at
Port Tampa, Florida, to present
Admiral Cervera a home on Tampa
Bay in recognition of his humane
and chivalric treatment of Hob
son and his crew and a desire to
save him from insult and possible
death should he return to Spain.
Lieutenant John j. Blandip,
who was officer of the watch on
the battlesbip Maine at the time
of the explosion, died at an asylum
in Baltimore on July l6 as result
of the shock to his nervous system
he then suffered. Lieutenant
Blandin was also with the Ameri-
can feet at the time of the Samoa
catastrophe.
Admiral Camara's squadron and
his transports have finally reach
ed Spanish Mediterranean ports
on their return from Port Said.
Eighty sailors were landed
from the French cruiser Eclaireur
at Shanghai and began pulling
down the wall of an unused GENE
terry in the French settlement. A
large mob of natives attacked the
police station. The French police
and marines fired twice on the
mob. Twenty natives were killed
and thirty wounded. The peace
full natives have quilted the French
settlements, fearing incendiarism.
Two hundred Italian sailors have
landed. Thus far everything is
quiet in the English and Ameri-
can settlements. The trouble
arose over the changing of the site
of joss house by the French. 1t
was the repository of corpses
pending their fual burial. The
object of the French was the
double one of removing a nui.
sance and improving a road. 1t
was when the Chinese refused an
offer of money and a new site for
the joss house that the sailors
were landed.
Advices received in st. Peters
burg report that on July l an in.
surrection occurred in Kansu, the
most northwest province of China,
arising from dissatisfaction with