Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-06-23
LATER NEWS.

from Manila says the INSURGENTS hoid
1000 Spaniards and 1000 natives
prisoners with their equipments.
Spain positively refuses to give mp
Lieutenant Ilohson and his men, ana
to emphasize that refusal, Blanco an
nounccs that he Will hereafter recog-
nize no flag OF truce.
Havana's Moro castle has fired on
our warships The fusillade contin-
ue,i at intervals. all day Saturday and
the shots were fairly well aimed, indi-
eating the presence Of imported gunners
Affairs are growing worse at lla-
vana. TIE insurgents are raiding the
province from all directions. They
constantly harass the city, cut OIL sup
piles and destro the roads. An at
tempt by Spaniards to delodge the Gu
bans resulted disastrousy.
The blockade is to he strengthened.
The fleet will be reinforced after the
debarkation Of the troops at Santiago.
Tine ships are to close up, and naval
officials say that all danger OF Spanish
vessels running the blockade Will thus
be eliminated.
Food is reported scarce in Porto Rico.
Prices have advanced and starvation Is
/ imminent among the lower classes
Since the boInbardment Of San Juan by
Sampson : warships, the inhabitants OF
the city live IN terror OF a repetition OF
the awful experience, and reliable news
/ - upnht uit,uIl Il. i'm tho island
The Cubans report food supplies in
I Havana extremely scarce, and that the
/ Spanish army has been placed on half
rations. a Cuban officer who has ar
rived in Key West says that III two
weeks the whole population of Car
denas will he starving. He described
the people as living on palm buds and
dog meat, which he claimed is con
slderel "a delicacy.
The Philippines have been declared
free. Insurgents have proclaimed a
provisional government at Cavite and
renowned Spanish authority. There
were great ceremonies and formal dec
laration Of Independence was read.
Aguina|do was made president and Don
Pirondo vice-presiicnt. The insurgent
government will not oppose an Ameri-
can prOt"ctorate or occu patton.
Preparations are being FASTENED for
the third expedition to the Philippines.
Five steamers loaded with troops will
probably sail from San Francisco for
Manila about July /.
An engine and tender on the north
bound freight on the Langdon line OF
the Great Northern jumped the track,
fatally injuring Engineer Peterson,
Conductor Cohen and brakeman.
A Havana dispatch says no exchange
OF prisoners has been authorized at
Madrid, and Blanco therefore declines
to enter into negotiations looking to
the exchange OF IIohson and his crew.
For the purpose OF testing the eff
cheney Of the mines in Hampton roads
the burned schooner Shenandoah was
blown. The ship wac torn into
thousand fragments. An officer in the
fort set the mines off by electricity.
Spanish power is crumbling in the
Philippines. General Pena and 900
Spanish soldiers have surrendered at
santa Cruz and similar surrenders have
occurred at other places. The insur-
gents propose 10 form republic under
Anglo-American tu;elage.
The Hawaiian annexation resolution
has been favorably reported upon by
the senate committee on foreign rela-
tons. There is now u probability that
the islands Will have been formally an
nexed to the United States before two
weeks have elapsed.
The achievement of the Vesuvius at
Santiago Is regarded as remarkable, and
opens new era in warfare The effect
Of her giant shells upon the fortitica-
tlons with which they came in contact
was destructive to a degree heretofore
unequaled by any death-dealing ma.
chine in existence.
The captain OF German steamer
which has arrived in Gibraltar reports
having sighted the Spanish Cadiz fleet
off the north coast of Africa, opposite
Gibraltar Friday evening. The war
ships were going in an easterly direc-
ton. The fleet consisted of two battlo-
ships, four large cruisers and four tor.
pedo-boat destroyers.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arna of the On
ban army. who has just arrived in Key
West. says that as soon as war between
the United States and Spain was de-
clared, the Spanish guerillas in Pinar
def Rio province went through the
country districts butcherng the pacifi-
cos, women, children and old men.
whose bodies lie in the roads and fields
unburied to this day.
special cable from Hong Kong to
the New York Journal saws that the
most severe and strong battle since
Dewey's annihilation of the Spanish
fleet has occurred at Manila. One
Thousand insurgents attacked 1000
Spanish, inticting heavy losses and al.
most forcing an entlsnce to the city.
Marines from Dewey's warships and
insurgents have the city surrounded
and cut off from every possible source
of food supply. Foreign residents
have fled to the vessels in the harbor.
Dewey is prepared to take the city "a