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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-28
Madrid Newspapers Bitterly Lament
the Reluctance of Powers to
Intervene.
CRY FOR HONORABLE PEACE"
ARBITR ALTON OF THE WAR TO BE
ASKED AT FIRST OPPORTUNITY.
Former Captain General of Philip
pines Declares United states Can
Never Take and Hold Manila.

LONDON, May 2S-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says: Before
Senior Gullon. minister of foreign affairs in
the late Cabinet, resigned he ascertalned
complaints of any illegal war operations
such Spain is now making The Spanish
press bitterly laments the selfish motive
underlying the reluctance of the powers to
intervene. 1t is now seen that Spain is iso-
lated and the idea is growing that better
terms may be obtained by direct under
standing with President Mckinley"
The Madrid correspondent of the Daily
Mail who notes "a feeling in favor of an
honorable peace" believes that one of the
powers will suggest arbitration when fit
ting opportunity appears.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Times, commenting on the feeling
of sadness prevailing in SPAIN
says: 1T is less on account of ministerial
discussions, which are not really serious.
than On account of a fuller apprehension of
the difficulties of the situation, namely, that
it is hopeless to expect any assistance from
Europe. even France and Russia being,
since Mr.. Chamberlain's speech, averse from
doing anything to precipitate complications.
Spain now sees that she must trust to her
self alone in an unequal struggle that can
have only one end
Adjutant General Corbin announced to-
night that volunteers to the number of 100,
544 had been mustered into the United
States service. This number includes some
cavalry in addition to the first call for
troops. There is yet shortage in the call
from the various States of 1888 men, dis
tributed as follows: Alabama 1856; Iowa,
1.64O; Kentucky, L2SS; Mississippi, 1000, and
North Carolina, 400.
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Comments of the Spectator and
Speaker ON the Situation.

speaker ON the Situation.
LONDON, May 27.-The weekly news
papers agree that the policy of Spain is to
prolong the war. The Spectator says: 1T
is clear that Spain intends to delay the war
as long as possible, hoping that either
Americans will grow tired of spending or
that Europe, disturbed by the interruption
of commerce and the rise in the price of
wheat, will intervene and insist upon
peace" The Spectator, continuing, says it
is of the opinion that the government at
Washington has decided to make a land
attack on Havana while Admiral Cervera
is bottled up at Santiago de Cuba, and finds
1t difficult TO believe that the half-drilled,
half-fed Spanish conscripts will prove fight
ing superiors to the hardy American volun-
teers. Nevertheless, in view of the situa-
ton in the Philippines" the Spectator ar
CUES, the work before President Mckinley
is very serious, though it may not be dam
gerous and the Americans who expected
short war will be grievously disappointed"
The Speaker says: Probably the real
aim of Admiral Cervera's operations is less
naval than political and is meant less for
Use in America than in Europe. 1t is all
desirable for the Spanish Ministry to gain
time. The revolutioniStS cannot move until
a disaster comes Meanwhile Spain can
concentrates and bid Europe behold the
results OF American humanitarianism. There
is also the possibility of a European war
that would give Spain unexpected allies.
Every moment of delay, therefore, is gain
for the safety of SPAIN"
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NO WORD YET.


maximum price Spain expects to pay for
her indulgence in a losing war.
The Navy Department is making ready
for the purchase of a number of small steam
craft to supplement the mosquito fleets on
the coast. The chief of the mosquito fleets
Admiral Erben, at New York has sub
mitted to the Navy Department a list of
over one hundred such craft which have
partment was prevented from making any
purchases on this score because it lacked
the necessary authorization, but now that
Congress has passed and the President has
approved an act appropriating 100000 for
the purchase of such vessels it will begin
at once to acquire them They are needed
very badly just at present, not so much
for scouting purposes as for the protection
of the elaborate mine fields which the engi-
neer officers have laid in almost all Atlantic
ports. The reckless conduct of the COM
manders of vessels entering and emerging
from these ports has determined the au-
thorities here to deal summarily hereafter
with persons who disregard the repeated
warnings the local engineers have given the
shipping crossing the mine fields. The
mosquito fleet vessels will all be armed, and
interferes with the mines or even
jeopardizes their workings they will pay the
penalty.
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CERvERA CANNOT BE FOUND.
Whereabouts of the Spaniard I'm
known to the Americans.

known to the Americans.
LONDON, May 2S.-A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Kingston says: De
spite the most energetic search, the where
abouts of the Spanish Cape Verde squadron
remain unknown to the American authori-
ties. On Thursday last Cervera was re-
ported to be at Santiago de Cuba, and
Schley left Key West for that port The
next morning 1 learned where the squadron
was bound. and was enabled to follow
aboard the British ship Premier Since
then we have been engaged in a fruitless
search for the Spaniards in the gulf and
the Caribbean Monday morning we
came up with the American ships off Glen
fuegos, and learned that Commodore Schley
believed that Admiral Cervera was in the
Cienfuegos harbor, but, owing to the nature
of the port, it was impossible to learn from
the sea whether this information was cor
rect.
1.-The American squadron, which consisted
of the battle ship Iowa. Massachusetts, Tex
as, Brooklyn. Marbehead, Castine Vixen,
Eagle and Dupont maintained close block
ade of the entrance The topmasts of three
or four large ships could be seen in the har-
Dor over the promontory which conceas the
Vizcaya and the other cruisers under Ger
vera.
Tuesday evening the Cuban insurgents
sent boat with positive information that
the Spanish fleet was not in Cienfuegos har-
Dor, and just after sunset Commodore
Schley's squadron sailed away southeast,
bound for Santiago de Cuba. We followed in
the Premier and despite heavy gale from
the southeast, kept in touch with the squad
ron until p. M, Wednesday, A severe rain
squall then hid the vessels and when it
cleared we found they had altered their
course and disappeared. We stood along
towards Santiago, but as the gale increased
in severity and our supply of coal and
water dangerously low, the Premier
was obliged to run to Kingston, where she
arrived on Friday, at o'clock
After losing touch of the fleet we sighted
the United States gunboat Hawk, returning
to Cienfuegos from Santiago de Cuba, with
the news that the Spanish fleet under Ger
vera not at Santiago 1 am afraid there
is little chance of meeting the Spanish fleet.
! The probabilities are thai Cervera, after
| discharging the ammunition and supplies
| for Blanco at Santiago, put out again, ran
! down the Caribbean to Martinique and got
| out into the Atlantic by the same way he
| entered. In this way, it appears, the Span
ish fleet has completely outmaneuveTed the
American commanders and has succeeded
in concealing its movements. though the
| Americans have some seventy war ships
patrolling the West Indian waters. 1t is re-
| ported that severe lighting took place be-
tween the insurgents and Spaniards near
Cienfuegos on Sunday, i'll which the Span
iards lost three hundred killed and
| wounded
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COSTLY FIRE At DALLAS.
One Man Killed, Others Hurt and
Property Loss of $35O,OOO EntaiIed.

DALLAS, Tex. May 27.-At 2:4O o'clock
this afternoon fire broke out in the two
story brick building recently occupied by
j. f. Zang's furniture establishment The
ire spread rapidly, and by 4 o'clock 1t had
Quilted the building where it originated,
Dorsey's establishment, Lehman's whole
sale saddlery house. K. Shields, paints and
wall paper, Mistrot's mammoth dry goods
house and the New Home Sewing Machine
Company's office and warehouse Total
loss is about $S5O.O0O to 100000. fairly well
covered by insurance.
j. w. Cowan, married. aged twenty-five
years. salesman for K Shields & Co. lost
his life in an effort to save the books of his
firm. The walls of the Dorsey building fell
on him and crushed him to death. Edward
smith rushed to Cowan's rescue and was
knocked senseless. He was rescued by the
firemen and removed to the hospital Fire
man Burns was severely injured, and City
Electrician w. A. Frazer who was handling
Q hose. had both wrists broken and head
badly cut
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NEW YORK, May 2-How San Juan.
Porto Rico, was bombarded by Admiral
SIMPSONS fleet is told in a letter written
by Stephen Raybold petty officer on the
Indiana The letter, which is dated on board
the Indiana, off the Haitian coast May 10,
says in part:
I'VE left Key West at midnight on May
for Porto Rico to meet the Spanish fleet.
Off Porto Rico at o'clock on Thursday
morning all hands were piped to get coffee.
bareback and ham. The first shot was fired
at twenty minutes past 5 o'clock by the
Indiana and we finished firing about 10
o'clock. The Spanish had good guns and
plenty of them. and are poor shots. The
only ship hit was the New York-ventilator
broken, one man killed and two wounded.
Old Glory | saw with a shot hole in the
lower inside corner, but our flag was still
there
THE ships withdrew in good condition
to meet the Spanish fleet, but we cannot
find it. We do not want to sacrifice our
ships in taking the port. We want the Span
sh fleet. The Indiana blew the whole side
of the fort out with her thirteen-inch shells.
That dashng sea lion, John C. Fremont
on the torpedo boat Porter. fired his toy
pistol, one-pounder.'
Raybold is a native of Berlin, N. j.,
where his parents live. He is unmarried
and has been in the navy for about five
years.
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Mai. Gen. Lees stnH.

TAMPA, Fla, May 27.-Maj. Gen. Fitz-
hugo Lee, commanding the Seventh Army
Corps. announced his staff officers to-day,
as follows: Personal staff-First Lieut.. AL
gernon Sartoris. First Regiment United
States Volunteer Engineers; First Lieut.
Fltzhugh Lee jr., First Regiment United
States Volunteer Engineers. Corps staff
Lieut.. Col. ]. H. Dorst. assistant adjutant
general; Capt. r. E. L. Niche, assistant
adjutant general; Lieut.. Col. W. r. Liver
pool. chief engineer; Lieut.. Col. Curtis
Guild. jr., inspector general; Lieut. Col. ]
n Morrison, deputy judge advocate; Lieut.
Col. II. M. Maus, chief surgeon; Lieut.. Col
9. 2. Miller, chief quartermaster; Lieut.
Col o. r. Wood chief commssary
Pending the arrival of Lieut. Col. Miller,
Lieut.. Col. Wood is appointed chief commits
sary of the Seventh Army Corps. 1t is the
intention to place several more volunteer
regiments at Palmetto Beach, the main
camping ground of the volunteer troops
around Tampa. The First Florida, which
has been encamped on the old Fort Brooke
reservation, was moved to Palmetto Beach
to-day
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ARMY NOMINATIONS.
w. j. Mckee Made a Brigadier and ID.
+. Ravens "A Pay master.

WASHINGTON MAY 27.-The President
to-day sent these nominations to the Sen
ate:
To be brigadier generals-Col Robert
Hall, Fourth United States Infantry; Col.
Edwin f. Sumner, Seventh United States
engineers. Col. q. L. Gillespie, corps of
engineers; Col. Marcus p. Miller, Fifth
United States Artillery; Col. Jacob Kline.
Twenty-first United States Infantry; Lieut..
Col. Oswald II. Ernst, corps of engineers;
Lieut.. Col. Lloyd Wheaton, Twenty-nnth
United States Infantry; Lieut. Col. Arthur
Lieut. Col. Harry c. Hasbrough, Fourth
United States Artillery; Lieut.. Col. Wallace
Maj. Joseph T. Sanger, inspector general;
Frederick ID. Grant, of New York Four
steenth New York Volunteer Infantry; Har-
Iison Gray Otis, of California; Henry M
Dufiield, of Michigan Charles King, of Wis
consin; Iucius +. Garrison, of Minnesota ;
William Gordon, of Georgia; John A. Wiley,
Of Pennsylvania; William A. Bancroft, of
Massachusetts: William j. Mckee, of In
diana; Francis V. Greene of New York
Seventeenth Volunteer Infantry; Charles
Fitzsimmons, of Illinois; Joseph K, Hud-
son, of Kansas; James Rush Lincoln, of
Iowa; Michael Palmer. assistant adjutant
general.
man, of Illinois; George w Butler, of
Maine; Thomas f. Clark. of Massachusetts;
FIRST Lieut.. Gustav W. Stevens, Sixth
United States Artillery; Frank Lyman, jr
j.. Martin, of California; Frederick r.
Leigh of New York. To be first heutenants:
Charles E. Pellew, of New York; George H.
IiIey of MontanaJ Howard d. Coe. of
Ohio; Charles II. Martin, of Illinois, Pat
rick w. Crawford, of Arkansas; Charles
f. Walker, of Maine; Alger G. Thompson,
of New York; Edwin w. Winfield, of Arkan-
sas. To be second lieutenants: William E.
Davies, of Montana; Joseph d. Wood. of
Ohio; Elmo G. Lee, of Arkansas; Don A.
Palmer. of Minnesota; Walter S. Volkmar,
sergeant signal corps; Charles p. Kill
bourne. jr., of Oregon; Albert j. Dillon, of
Louisiana; Frank p. Tate, of Tennessee;
William Mitchell, of Wisconsin.
First Lieut.. William r. Semple Thr-
teenth United States Infantry. to be as
sistant adjutant general, with rank of cap
tain.
TO be assistant quartermasters, with rank
of captain-Cyril w King, of Iowa Lewis
" Williams, of Ohio; Edward E. Robbins,
of Pennsylvania.
To be commissary of subsistence, with
rank of captain-John f. Whitworth, of
Pennsylvania.
To be additional paymasters-Benjami F.
Ravens, of Indiana; James B. Houston, of
Connecticut.
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action off San Juan de Puerto Rico: Upon
approaching San Juan it was seen that none
of the Spanish vessels were in the harbor
/ was. therefore, considerably in doubt
whether they had reached San Juan and
again departed for some unknown deStina-
ton. AS their capture was the object of the
expedition, and as il was essential that they
should not pass to the westward. / deter
mined to attack the batteries defending the
port in order to test their strength and then
without waiting to reduce the city or sub
ject it to regular bombardment, which
would require notice, turn to the westward.
j commenced the attack as soon as ii was
good daylight. This lasted about three
hours, when the signal was made to dis
continVe the firing, and the squadron stood
to the northwest until out of sight of San
Juan. when the course was laid to the west
ward with the view of communicating with
the department at Porto Plata and learn if
the department had obtained Information as
to the movements of the Spanish vessels
At Cape Haitien l received word from the
department that the Spanish vessels had
been sighted off Curacao on the 14th inst
AS stated in my telegram. no serious injury
was done to any OF the ships and only one
man was killed and seven wounded
slightly -
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MRS. THRAWLEY'S STORY
HAS HELPED THE DEFENSE LITTLE
IN THE MURDER CASE.
Decatur County Bolts the Nashville
Convention and Claude Cambern
Is Nominated for Judge.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
RICHMOND, Ind. May 27.-The interest
in the trial of John Thrawley, the Henry
county man charged with the murder of his
neighbor, Rufus Shoemaker, was consdera-
bly, increased to-day. The defense opened
it's side of the case, but did not outline a
course of defense. The deposition of DR.. S.
S. Farris who was called to examine
Thrawley while he was confined in the Jail
at New Castle, showed that he found grains
of powder imbedded in the skin of the right
side of his face and the scalp. This was to
show the shooting took place during a scuf-
f1e. The most important witness was Mrs.
Thrawley, wife of the prisoner. She was
kept on the stand until $50 o'clock this
evening. She testified to the criminal rela-
tons existing between her and Shoemaker;
that she and her husband had agreed to
continue to live together and seek money
consideration from Sohoemaker. sell their
farm and move away where they were not
known, beginning life anew. On the morn
ing of the shooting she testified that Thraw-
ley went down to the road, and that she saw
Shoemaker coming along the road from the
east. She saw the quarrel, and said Shoe
maker put his hand into his pocket and
Thrawley then put his right hand into his
pocket, and as she stepped from the win
dow she heard a shot. On cross-examina-
ton by Attorney Jackson Mrs. Thrawley
Jared rather badly. He endeavored to show
that this claim of intimacy with Shoemaker
and alleged condition as the result of it was
simply a plan to get money, and he pro-
duced the testimony of Mrs. Thrawley be-
fore the coroner and the grand jury of
Henry county to show that what she testi-
fled to then ard now did not correspond. He
managed to bring out numerous seeming
discrepancies in her evidence. 1t was made
to appear that Mrs. Thrawley was attempt
ing to protect her husband, without regard
to what she may previously have said. 1t is
expected that Thrawley will be put on the
stand tomorrow, and probably the entire
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ofioers win be kept together as far

as possible.
AdjutaEt General Corbin announced to-
night that three of the brigadier generals
appointed b. the President to-day would be
officially designated as soon as the Senate
has contis5re6 their nominations. to COM
mand teoaps in the Philippines. The gem
erals selected for the Philippines expedition
are George A. Garretson. of Cleveland, o.;
Francis x. Greene of New York, and
Chalies King, of Wisconsin. Late this even
ing General Merritt, who is to be military
governor of the Philippines, wired General
Corbin requesting that General King be
sent with him to the Philippines The re-
quest was approved and forwarded to Gen
eIal King and so becomes to all intents and
purposes a command. General King is the
United States army. Generals Garretson
and Greene have already sgnified to the
War Department their acceptance of the
orders to proceed to Manila. Both are ex-
pgTienced officers of marked ability and will
prove of invaluable assistance TO General
Merritt. II is understood unofficially that
Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los
Angeles Times, who served with the Presl-
dent in the Sixty-third Ohio during the civil
war, and who nominated to-day to be
brtgadier general, will also 60 TO the Philip
pines. Early next week another list OF brig
adler generals will be sent to the Senate.
The list will contain probably from eight 10
twelve names. All of the officers nominated
Tor brigadier generals on the list will be
from the Southern States.
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Obituary.

CLEVELAND, o., May 27--Mr. Newton
r. Taylor, president of the cleveland Paper
Company and for many years an important
factor in the paper industry of the United
States. Is dead at his home No. 517 Prospect
street, this city. A compiled ton of diseases
augmented by extreme age and refusal to
retire from active business life caused his
death. He was seventy-five years of age.
For many years Mr.. Taylor was the ruling
spirit of the paper industry in Ohio and
western Pennsylvania.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27.-Mrs. Frank
NJ. Pixley, widow of the late prominent pol
itician and journalist, died last night at her
ranch. near Cortemadera, Marin county.
The cause of her death was heart disease,
from which she has suffered for many years.
Mrs. Pixley. who was born in Philadelphia
in 1888, was the daughter of Capt. John
Reynego. She was noted for her unostenta-
tious charity.
NEW YORK. May 27.-Prof. John Keyn-
ton, of Arlington, n. J.. died suddenly to-
day of heart disease. Professor Keynton
was well-known as an author. composer and
orator.
LONDON. May 27.-Lord Courtenay (Hen-
ry Reginald Courtenay), eldest son of the
Earl of Devon, is dead, aged sixty-three.
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D,suatches from Samson.

WASHINGTON May N-There is abund-
ant reason to believe that the naval Off
Gals tonight received dispatches from Ad-
miral Sampson, although at 1870 p. m. no
bulletins had been made public The AS
ISOLATED Press has already announced that
at o'clock this morning the dispatch boat
Dolphin, of Commodore Schley's squadron,
ran alongside the flagship New York, which
was then off Havana, and informed her that
she bore dispatches for Admiral Sampson
from Commodore Schley. 1t is considered
probable these dispatches contained infor-
nation of the precise whereabouts of the
Cape Verde squadron and quite naturally,
the information would be sent to the naval
authorities here as soon as fast boats and
telegraph wires could carry it. That the
naval officials have received this informal
ton is not doubted. but, as yet, they have
not admitted the fact.
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Escaped Missionaries Coming Home.

Escaped Missionaries Coming Home.
LONDON, May 27.-The American mis-
sionaries, Mr.. and Mrs. BURNER. Mr.. and
Mrs. Minshall, Mr.. Ward and Miss Mullon,
members of the United Brethren in
Christ, who survived the recent massacres
in the Sherboro district of Sierra Leone,
west coast of Africa, arrived at Liverpool
to-day from Freetown. Sierra Leone. They
gave thrilling accounts of their escape at
the time the mission house at Shengen was
destroyed in the rotings that grew out of
the dissatisfaction of the natives with the
hut tax. The governor of Sierra Leone, Col.
Sir Frederick Cardew. advised them TO re-
turn to America, believing that it would be
impossible to do any further effective work
for a year or two Mr.. BURNER says that
in addition to the white missionaries num-
Der of native missionaries, some educated
in the United States, were massacred. in
Guiding Mr.. A. r. Wilberforce and his en-
tire family, a brother-in-law of Mr.. Wilber
force, Mr.. Cole, Professor Clements, who
was from the United States, all who were
stationed at Danville. and the entire Hughes
family who were stationed at Avery. In
the opinion of Mr.. BURNER several hundred
fell victims to the wrath of the natives. The
entire party sailed for the United States by
the Etruria
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envelopes the enemy in a dense cloud
through which it is Impossible to see. Then
the torpedo boat approaches, destroys the
ship ard retires. Because of the inability
of the gunners to see through the smoke
they cannot prevent the advance of the tor
directed against them by the attacking
force. The invention is being considered at
Washington. Edison recently invented a
shell which makes a great light when ex
ploded and reveals the presence of an enemy
at night. Mr. Teeter has also invented
dynamite gun, has two tubes similar to
the pneumatic gun. The force employed is
gunpowder fired in successive charges.
which gradually increases the velocity of
the projectile The construction of the gun
jar to the pToiectiie by the explosion of the
charges The range can be accurately
gagged with this gun which makes it SUI
perior in that particular to the pneumatic
gun a..