Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-06
TROUBLE IS AlPDEHENDED.
Palace and Minister Houses IN Madrid are
Strongly Guarded.
spanish Finance. on the Verge ~ Collapse
Contcnding Parties Looking for
an uphsasai..

New York. July "a dispatch 20
The world from Madrid says;
Police and military squndrous
around the palace, the ministers
houses and public Offices have been re-
doubled by special orders. Trouble Is
evidently apprghsndcd.
Financial circles aud the newspapers
show disposition % provide the gov
eminent with plausible prrtcxt for
mootlng the idea u peace. The war Is
now costing Spain issooooo0 a month.
and this pace she cannot keep up for
ok months without Huaponding all In
tcrcst on her sinking fund ana her
debts. She has already ceased 10 pay
the same la gold, ohliglng the bond
holders 10 take posctha AZ No. The gov
urumont " on the eve 81 issuing one
hundred million of national treasury
bonds. since April the bank of spain
has advanced tiO.OOOoo0 on treasury
bonds guaranteed by the states reve-
MUGS and Ii5.0OOOOo ut nominal four
per cent interior stock issued express
iy Tor that purpose.
gtatrB the imperial treasury had guar.
anicrd sis1.OUu 900 OF Cuban bonds and
Spanish custom bonds issued Tor the
expenses lf puttiIE down the CUBAN
and Philippine inHurf,cu1ua,
The spanish revolutionary parties
/ republican and Cirlil,-ars IN hourly
,xpSeiiti1n Oh an opportunity 10 make
mischief lut ~ the patriotic discomfort
with IA. AlfouaiHt dynasty. whose
. councillors arr accused ~ having lost
| phs colonies. Another group OF pollil-
clans. headed boy clnnl'lla aud tho
/ great Independent papers. the lioraldn,
/ the impartial and the Liberal aiN9-
| cato "ueE men, new naflys new pol-
! isy," with "a cabinet under senior fola-
Another group, headed by Robledo.
| ok minister 90 the United states al.
| vDcltr the military Dictatorship ~
Internationally these Intermediary
parties plly into the hands uf the car
lsts and the republicans, because they
! weaken the monarchy with iis two
original parties. liberals and cunrcrVa.
I uyps. whose only aim la 10 st1yr on
surrender until me crushing force 9t
national rryersea ana financial cmhlr-
rissmrutH provides the queen and the
liberals with a preteNt 20 make peace
Charge on gath Infantry.
Santiago do cuba Sunday July ..
per Associated Press Dispatch boat
Dandy % Port Antonio, Jamaica. via
ltngftou. Monday July A.-lcupy.
rIghted. 1895. by tho Associated Press
4Ihe spanish made a desperate night
attack uuan our lcft shortly before 10
O'Clock Saturday night Tho assault
| WAS directed 200 the position that had
boon carried hy Con. Kenrs men, The
| Sp,uIards lrf the trenches and
charged across thr optn, striking
heavily upon con, Wyk1ns brigade,
CONSISTING eff the Nlnth, Thirteenth and
Tw5nty- fourth Infantry, They were
reinforced by % heavy fire all along
/ thplr lime uf suns and batteries and
succeeded ln driving some 0i our men
from the trenches. but the heavy fire
the Americans In turn poured ln stag
rered tho spanish llne and sent II reel
ms backward with heavy loss,
The Americans h1d advanced from
the trenches. for the first time, and
| while the SplnIlrds were in the open
some of our eItl'ngs on the extreme
| loft ala some terrible execution,
, The casualties uWuus our mon were
not hclvy cen. Hawkins was shot
ln The foot. over 200 additional wound
ed were taken % the rear durlng the
nlght, one batch consisting OF igO.