The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-30
Yesterdays Developments.

The Navy department has received
"a dispatch from Commodore SchIey
stating that the "armada" is in
Santiago de Cuba harbOr, and the
ships have beer seen and recOg-
nixed by the commodore. The
news was received with much joy
in naval circles. The President
also has received advices from a
reliable source stating that SchIey
had the spaniards Gagged. Now that
the uncertainty has been removed
Admiral sampson will probably be
called on to convoy an army to
Porto Rico. 1t is said General
Shafter has already received or
ders to embark the greater por-
tion of his forces at Tampa.
Indiana volunteers had a hot
time in Chickamauga Park sun
day, the mercury having crawIed
up almost to an unbearable notch.
There is not, however, one case of
serious sickness among the 5000
or more HOosiers I'm camp. Rev.
Christensen and Major Skinner are
improving. Division Surgeon
Charlton has been ordered to do
nothing more towards establish
ing hospital. This order is be-
Iieved to indicate an early move
ment of the troops further south.
Reports are current that the en-
tire First Corps, including all the
Indianians, will soon leave for
Florida. The Light Artillery has
received another consignment of
r. In
ty visited the camp on Sunday.
The One-hundred-and- fifty ninth
Indiana Regiment, at Camp Alger,
has been brigaded with the Third
New York and the Twenty-secOnd
Kansas. Colonel Barnett is in COM
mand of the brigade. Mai. T. G.
Stunkard has been placed I'm
charge of the medical department.
of the First Division of the Second
Army Corps, aud DIR. Eugene Haw-
kins has been made executive off,
Ger of the same division. VIII Da-
Wis, of Terre Haute, is the only
doctor left i'm the medical corps of
the old First Indiana. The health
of the troops continues good. The
HOOsier boys were reviewed by
Senator Fairbanks yesterday.
The cruiser Columbia, "Queen of
the Navy" as she was called after
her trial trip, when she beat all
records for speed, has been seri-
Ously damaged in a collision with
the British steamer FOscOIia, Off
Fire island. The steamer sank,
but the crew was rescued by the
Columbia. The latter has a hole
in her side ''Iarge enough to drive
a team of horses through" but
steamed safely to the Brooklyn
navy yard. 1t is not known vvheth-
er any of her crew suffered. There
was a thick fog when the cOIli-
sion occurred.
A new Baron Munchausen has
turned mp at Madrid with the
'yelIOwest" story of the war. FL
PrOgressO prints an alleged dis
patch from Paris giving details of
n battle near Jamaica in which
two American war ships were
sunk, another captured and
Spanish vessel disabled. AstOnish-
ing feats of reckless bravery are
attributed to the officers of Admit
raj Cervera's feet. The fact is
that neither sampson nor SchIey
was near the scene of the alleged
engagement ON the date men
toned, and both have been heard
from since the battle is reported
to have been fought. The story is
discredited at Paris, where it is
al tn a.
also treated as pure fake by
the naval authorities at Washing
ton. General BIancO cables to Mad
rid that twelve American war
ships were off Santiago de Cuba
Saturday, but that most of them
disappeared yesterday. The infer
ence to be drawn from his message
is that Cervera's fleet is still in
side the harbOr.
Henry Norman, editor of the Lon
don Chronicle, In an interesting
dispatch from Washington to his
paper, tries to fathOm the future
policy of the United States. He
says ~ question of paramount i'm
pOrtance must soon be decided by
this cOuntry-whether it will stand
by its traditions or branch out as
an empire. Mr.. Norman thinks
opinion is crystallizing in favor of
retaining the Philippines and 9TH
er territory that may he wrested
from Spain.
Since the reconnaissance of Ad-
miral Sampson I'm the harbor of
San Juan de Puerto Rico the peo-
pie of that city have been in con-
stant fear that the Americans will
return and destroy the place. Ar
rangements have been made for
depOpuIating the city on short no
tice.
Gen. A. w. Greedy, chief signal
officer, has secured several mill
tary balloons and will send them
to Florida for use in the Cuban
campaign.
The authorities at jamaica, a
British colony, seem to be stretch
ing the neutrality laws i'm favor of
the United States. The auxiliary
cruiser Harvard, which put in at
Kingston, was permitted to coal to
her full capacity, for the reason
that her boilers were dirty and
her stearing gear not in perfect
working order.
The Spanish torpedo gunbOat
Terror, which cOaled from the
"hospital' ship Alicante in the
harbOr of Fort de France, Mar
Unique, and then put TO sea, is
safe at San Juan de Puerto Rico,
having eIuded the American
scouts.