The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24
Yesterdays Developments.
6 definite has yet been


arrives at some cable station. The
belief was prevalent in Madrid
last midnight that the Spanish
government had received impOr-
tant news from Cuba, but its
nature was not made public.
The appointment of Col. Harry B.
Smith as temporary commander of
the Second Brigade of the Second
Division of the First Army Corps,
at Chickamauga Park, has been
sustained by the War Department,
which has decided he Is the senior
colonel of the brigade. Colonel
Smith has made Captain McCrea
his brigade quartermaster, and
will take his cOmmissary from the
Sixth Ohio. Rain fell yesterday,
much to the relief of the Indiana
soldiers, who have been suffering
from heat and dust. Pipe lines are
being laid, and the water problem
will soon be solved. Privates
Ste snhauer and Marvin are very
i'll, and may not recover. The
first division of the First Corps
was reviewed by Maj. Gen. J. III.
Wilson, and made a good appear
ance.
The One-hundred-and-if ifty-ninth
Regiment Indiana Volunteers,
which left indianapolis Sunday
night, has arrived at Dunn LOring,
Va, and will go into camp to-day.
No accidents or sickness are re-
ported.
Preparations for the first miIi-
tary expedition to Manila are
about complete. The transport
City of Peking was loaded with
troops yesterday, and other de-
tachments of volunteers and regu-
lars will go aboard the City of
Sydney and the Australia at San
Francisco to-day. The second ex-
peditiOn will await the arrival of
Gen. Wesley Merritt, who is now
on his way to the Pacific coast. The
general was i'm Chicago yesterday,
and soon after his departure his
engagement to Miss Laura Will
liams, granddaughter of the late
Judge John Dean Cation, was an
nOunced. His fiancee is but twen-
ty years of age.
Spaniards have n queer way of
doing some things. Captain Cen
eral BlancO, i'm one of his ''fairy"
dispatches to Madrid, said that
American war ships tried to de-
ceive the garrison at Guantana-
mo by hosting the Spanish flag.
fur. a Ia
teen miles inland from the port of
Caimanera) In the Spanish Sem
ate, yesterday, this "fairy' dis
patch was treated as true, and the
Americans were FOundIy de-
nOunced for their cowardIy and
iniGuitOus" action, the statement
being made that protest had
been sent to the powers ON the
subject. One senator wanted to
imm ediately retaliatc hy issuing
letters of marque to privateers.
- IT. is ~soasiIIe--tlse q -SElanssh govern
ment will attempt to make this al
legged incident an excuse for COM
mitting acts of piracy on the high
seas. but such action Will arouse
a storm I'm Great Britain, France
and Germany, whose commerce
would suffer most by privateering.
Our Navy Depa rtment has no ad-
vices regarding the flag incident,
but it's regulations state that the
use of "a foreign flag to deceive the
enemy is permissible, but that it
must be hauled down before a gun
is fired.
The British steamer Ardanmhor
was captured in Florida waters by
the auxiliary gunboat OsceOla and
sent to Key West i'm charge of n
prize crew. On arrival there the
captain entered protest at the
British consulate, and Commodore
Remey ordered the steamers re-
lease. On April ~. the ArdanmhOr
tried to run the Cuban blockade
with a cargo of cattle, but, after
being warned, steamed to New
York, disposed of her cargo, load
ed again for Nassau and Mexican
ports, and sailed May IL. She is
said to have been acting suspi-
ciously when OverhaHIed hy the
OsceOla. A steamer which has ar-
rived at Fort Thomas reports the
capture of "a Spanish bark by an
American cruiser.
Experts of the Navy Depa rtment
think Admiral Cervern's race is
about run. They do not see how
he can eIude Sampson or SchIey
much longer, because, they say, his
coal supply is short and he has no
Unless Spain has a feet of cOlIiers
hidden about the Windward ISL
ands, the naval experts cannot see
how Cervera can escape.
leaves San Francisco for the Phil
ippines she will probably he ac-
cOmpanied by a collier. If sufi-
Client coal can he carried for the
trip TO Honolulu. there will be no
trouble after that, for the monitor
can be cOaled on the lee of some of
the numerous islands i'm the South
sea. stop will probably be made
at the CarOIines, the Spanish pos
sessions east of the Philippines.
The voyage TO Manila Will require
over n month.
1t is denied positively at the State
Department that Italy or any other
nation has protested against the
blockade of Cuba ON the ground
that 1T is ineffective.
Spanish fOurs rose yesterday ON
rumOrs, it Is alleged Dy "a London
Dnner of an alliance between
France and Spain.
Two more Spanish "nrmndas,"
accnrdinn. tn snacinl disnn fCh