The Florence tribune., 1898-05-28

" uoy run Manlia, reports that whenshe left there rioting had broken out and number of houses had been burned. Food was daily becoming scarcer, and horse flesh was sold at $l.5O pound. The Spanish volunteers were making angry demands for pay and food, which the Spaniards were utterly unable to satisfy.
 Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader, had a great reception on his arrival at the Philippines from Hongkong. Rear Ad- miral Dewey supplied the insurgents with two field guns and 300 rifles, and as the Japanese cruiser left, Aguinaldo was expected to make an immediate attack.
 The archbishop of Manila, announc- ing in pastoral that four Spanish warships were coming, promised vic tory for the Spaniards. A sanitary commission has been appointed at Ca vite under charge of the United States
 Consul.
 LONDON, May 25.-A special from
 Gibralter says two Austrian warships
 will sail on Friday for Cuban waters.
 PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI, May 25.-
 The report of the arrival of the Spanish
 Cape Verde fleet at Santiago de Cuba
 is correct. The correspondent here of
 the Associated Press has been able to
 obtain definite confirmation of this
 news but up to the present it has been
 impossible to obtain any details. Dis.
 patches sent from here to Santiago de
 Cuba asking for information on the
 subject remain unanswered.
 KEY WEST, May 25.-There is noth- ing definitely known here about the possiblesoperations in the east of Cuba
 but tine view is accepted here as fact that the Spanish fleet is blocladed 1T Santiago harbor. in which event th, , naval opinion here is that it has "com mitted suicide" It is now no breacl of confidence to say that Commodor, Schley and Admiral Sampson are be
 lieved to have Admiral Cervera within
 their reach and if the Spaniards are il
 Santiago harbor, they can be blockade, and starved out. A single heavy Amer iean vessel can hold the harbor' narrow exit through which the Span 9 iards could emerge only singly.
 WASHINGTON, May 26.-General La : cret, with his battalion of fCnbans, s, % ' stands of arms, a number of rapid-Hr . field guns, trains of pack mules and e large cargo of ammunition, has lande, e from the Florida on the Island of Cuba c A report to this effect was received to night. The expedition of the transpor
 Florida was much better managed tha 8 that of the Gussie. On the night SC for the departure from Tampa tn d censor took charge of the wires an d not only information about the Cuba e expedition, but all other matter, ws t suppressed. The censorship was s l. effective that it was not known fc e three days that the Florida had sailed !, The landing is understood to have bee [. made on the northern coast of Cuba r. in Havana Province.
 o KEY WEST, May 26.-The movement b of the American war vessels are no It shrouded with only slight uncertain e ty. The composition of the thrs
 squadrons has been changed, but Il i. exact complement and names of shiF Q under command is not permitted to 1 ,e telegraphed. Concerning the stat 5 ment that Admiral Cervera's ships al | bottled up at Santiago de Cuba, it h, ia been accepted that Commodore Sehle could maintain the blockade of the hal II bor there and annihilate the Spanis n fleet if it is found outside. The fa e that Commodore Schley is now thougl # to be outside Santiago de Cuba h, is given free rein to Sampson, who IF known to be in the Bahama Channel.