The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-05-26
ADMIRAL CERVERA.

vera s1 Santiago de Cuba. This dis
patch was subsequently confirmed Our
war department is sadly lacking in
military supplies, and many delays are
inevitable. The French government
gave ample assurance OF friendship for
our government. The Spanish torpedo
boat destroyer Terror y ready for sea
at ST. Pierre, Martinique, but while
the Sphniard was coaling the American
| auxiliary cruiser Harvard, for which
vessel the Terror was supposed to be
in waiting. quietly slipped Off to sea.
4 The cruiser Charleston. which left San
Francisco with supplies for Admiral
Dewey. put back with her condensers
out OF order. Senator sswell formally
resigned his appointment In the volun-
teer army, declaring 1t his duty to serve
his state as senator. though he would
prefer to so to war.
On Friday an unconfirned dispatch
declared that Admiral Cervera's Span.
ish squadron, which had been reported
at Santiago de Cuba, had suddenly put
t. sea. Other dispatches declared that
the fleet had not gore to Santiago. and
still later Il was declared that the fleet
wns yet az that place. In the Spanish
senate Premier Sagasta declared tina,
she policy OF the new cabinet would be
Nar to the utmost. On the Spanish
sSeamer Argonauta, captured during
the first days of the war, a large guam
tiny of ammunition was found secreted
A Havana dispatch to Madrid declared
that the rebels have pronounced in
favor of SPAIN
n IiGn nfHh rn T.
West told of the chasing of three
small Spanish gunboats off the north
coast of Cuba by the cruiser Mont
gomery. The Spanards escaped. Our
cruiser Minneapolis which was coaling
at Charlotte Amalie st. Thomas ISL
and, was ordered away by the Danish
governor, as she had been in the port
over "a hours. General Merritt, who is
to be the military governor of the Phil
ipplnes, left Washington for San Fran
cisco. A few unimportant Cuban lead
ers have accepted the offers of the au-
tonomist government, but Gomez and
Garcia firmly refuse.
Sundays news added nothing definite
In regard to the movements OF our
fleets, but II was generally admitted
IN Washington and among naval off,
GERS at Key West that a fight with
Admiral Cerveras Spanish flying
squadron might be expected at any
time. 1t is believed the conflict will
be most desperate one. Spaniards /.
in Hong Kong and Manila boast that a
Spanish fleet Is en- route to annihilate /
Dewey's fleet. An unconfirmed report
from Port Tampa declared that several .
hundred United States volunteers, ma /
tive Cubans, left that place to invade .
Cuba and are probably now with the .
insurgent army. The cruiser Charles
ton finally got away from San Fran
cisco with cargo Of ammunition for
Admiral Dewey, at Manila. 1t is as
serted that Senor Castillos reason for
refusing a place in the Spanish cabinet
Is the fact that France will soon insist
upon Spain suing for peace. Castillo
is Spanish ambassador to France.
The Exchange OF Prisoners of War.
Atlanta, May 24.-Colonel Vincent de
Cortijo and DR.. Isidore Julian and two
Of the Spanish privates, all OF whom
have been under arrest at Fort Nc
Pherson barracks, We're taken away
from Atlanta late Sunday night. The
prisoners will be taken to Key West
and thence to Havana, where they will
be exchanged for the American news
paper correspondents, Thrall and Jones.