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London, Aug. S.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Times, telegraphing

London, Aug. S.-The Madrid corre
spondent of the Times, telegraphing
Sunday, says:
To-day, all the best authorities
agree that the government has decided
to accept the American conditions. The
American reply to Spains request for
explanation reached Madrid Friday
evening. The text has not been given
out, but 1t Is known that 1t brought
little consolation.
president Mckinley turned a deaf
ear to the suggestion that Porto Rico
might be left to Spain and compensa-
tlon gotten elsewhere.
Regarding the Philippines the reply
was not altogether satisfactory. but 1t
was OF such nature that there was
no longer any necessity for postponing
n decision on the main question.
Meantime SenOr Sngnsta's extcn-
sive consultations seemed to leave no
doubt that the nation wants peace. !
do not mean to say that NIL declared
this In plain language. On the contra
ry, there was n good deal OF reticcnce.
Some persons had more or less clearly
expressed the idea that the best men
In the country would patriotically for
get for the moment NIL personal and
party considerations and cordially and
disintercstcdly endeavor to assist the
government In Its difficulties"
London, Aug. S.-The Madrid corrc-
spondent OF the Daily Mall. telegraph
ing Sunday. says:
1.-THE answer of the Spanish govern
ment declares that Spain cannot dis
cuss the American proposals, but only
accepts them because they are imposed
on her by force. Only a few unset
tied changes In the American demands
We're asked for. and II IL now expected
that President Mckinley will refuse
them.
"a commission composed OF Span
inris and Americans will decide the
question OF the Cuban debt, the dates
and manner OF cvacuating Cuba and
Porto Rico. and the protection OF Span
iards and Spanish interests In these
places. The commissioners will also
decide whether Spain is to In allowed
TO withdraw her artillery and the re-
mainder of her arms and ammunition
from the colonies, while the question
OF the future of the Philippines will be
settled by the same body. The treaty
will be signed subject to approval by
the Cortcs. which will he convokcd Inn
mcdintcly. The Cabinet council to-
night will appoint Spanish commission
ers to meet the Americans to arrange
FOR the future of the Philippines and
other details"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-08-11
SPAIN HAS YIELDED.
HER ANSWER ON THE WAY.
There Are Supposed to Be Some Minor
Concessions Asked for-Dstails Will BE
Known Tuesdly.

Madrid. Aug. 10 p. m.--The Cab
met council terminated after having
completely approved the reply to the
United States. which. 1t is said, ac-
cepts the American conditions.
The reply will be telcgraphed to
Senior Leon y Castillo, the Spanish
ambassador to France. tonight SO that
NJ. Cambon. the French ambassador ut
Washington, will receive II tomorrow.
The government Is fully convinced
that the note will be satisfactory to the
Washington government, and that n
suspension of hostilities will be Its
immediate consequence.
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Work of the Pension Office.

| The report of certificates issued for the
week ending June % shows
| Army invalid: Original, As; increase and
additional, 255; reissue, So; restoration and
| renewal, 80; duplicate, II; accrued, 10;
total, 5l3.
| Army invalid (act June y. 1900: Original,
| So; increase, 3OS; additional, e5; reissue,
| so; restoration and renewal 63; supple
mentals, 3; duplicate, 20; accrued, 129;
| total ,236.
Army widow, ETC.: Original, 67; reissue, i;
| restoration and renewal, 1; duplicate. 2;
accrued, 2; total, "a.
| Army widow, etc. TACT June 81 1S90):
Original, PSI; increase and additional, 8;
| reissue. S; restoration and renewal, 8;
supplementals, 4; duplicate, 6; accrued, g.:
total 300.
Navy invalid: Original, 3; increase
and additional, 4; total T.
Navy invalid (act June u. 1920: Original.
z; increase and additional, d; restora-
ton and renewal, 1; accrued, 5; total Il.
Navy widow, etc.: Original, 1.
Navy widow, etc. (act June y, 1900:
Original, 8; reissue, /; total, 8.
Army nurses: Original 1.
Indian Wars-SurvivorS: Accrued, 2.
Indian Wars-Widows: Original, ?.
Old War Invalid: Accrued, l.
Mexican War-Survivors: Original, 2:
increase and additional, s; duplicate, 2;
accrued, 8; total, 20.
Mexican War-WidOws: Original, I.
Totals: Original, $50; increase and adj
ditional, 677; reissue, rs; restoration and
renewal, 101; supplementals, !; duplicate,
80; accrued, 263. Grand total, 2.196.
Fo. the week ending June Is the report
OF certificates was:
Totals: Original, 1,025 increase and adj
ditional, 627; reissue, 80; restoration and
50; SupplementalS, 8; duplicate,
So; accrued, 28i. Grand total, 2,170.
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PERSONAL.

c. NJ. Hadley, OF Litchfeld, Mich, has
received letter from Gen. Alger, Secre-
tary of War, notifying him that medal of
honor has been granted him for gallantry.
During the siege of Knoxville, Tenn. in
Move mber, 1863, Comrade Hadley, then
Sergeant in the 9th Mich. Cav, volunteered
to carry through the enemy's lines i'm
portant dispatches to the Union Com
mander within the besieged city OF Knox
vile. With one comrade he made the
perilous journey, but on their return they
were fired upon and their horses captured.
His companion was taken pr soner, but
Comrade Hadley delivered the reply to Gen.
Grant.
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Too much cannot be said in praise of
Roosevelt's Rough Riders 1t is true
that they have only done what millions
of other patriotic young Americans have
done, in enlisting as private soldiers,
insisting on being sent to The front, and
at tie first opportunity putting up an
exceedingly plucky, successful fight.
Yet there is something much more in
the example they have given of fine
young fellows, sons of rich fathers, and
belonging TO the most exclusive social
circles, giving all that up, for the positions
Of priyates in the ranks, where they have
done their whole duty in the most ex-
emplary way. The effect is magnificent.
1t is genuine Americanism, and sort of
Americanism that cannot be too highly
honored. In every way one of those
privatcs is worth a score Of a youth who
took advantage Of some little pull that
be might have to get himself a "s0ft -
place on the staff The more We praise
the Rough Riders the higher we raise
the standard of genuine American man
hood.
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CORRESPONDENTS talk in one breath
about political Brigadiers." and in the
next speak about Regular Army Colo
nels who have never seen the whole OF
their regiments together" The National
Guard Colonels are quite accustomed to
seeing the whole of their regiments to-
gether, and to handling them in camp,
On the railroad trains and ON battalion
drill. National Guard Generals are
equally accustomed to the command Of
brigades and divisions, and many Of
them have handled them very creditably
in tough places.
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THE SIEGE OF SANTIAGO.

So far the advance upon Santiago
has been conducted with splendid energy
and ability. Although the best reports
give the Spanish commander force OF
$4,000 regular soldiers our lines have
been advanced, with the greatest rapidity
and with astonishingly little loss Of life,
until now they are within less than two
miles of the main Spanish intrenchments.
1t seems marvellous that go much has
been accomplished in less than week
after landing, and at a cost Of only %
killed and so wounded.
There can be nothing but praise for a
Generalship which has secured so much
so quickly and easily.
We are now at the second stage of
the operations, and very important
turning point. 1t may be that the
Spaniards will show more soldiership
behind earthworks than they have dis
played in bush-fghting. The only
creditable fighting they have done in
modern times has been in the defense of
the walled cities of the Peninsula. 1t
may be that Gen. SIiafter will encounter
something in the shape of strong re-
sistance.
But the probabilities to-day are that
he will make quick work of it. The
Spaniards have a long line to defend
from Castle Moro to Santiago, and it
can be penetrated somewhere, COM
munication between the castle and the
city cut off, the castle and other defenses
at the mouth Of the bay soon reduced,
the Navy admitted into the bay, and
then the Army and Navy combined
will finish up Cervcra's fleet and the
City of Santiago in short order.
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GEN. SKATER is an illustration of
The stuff that the privates of 1S6l'5
were made Of He has shown himself
one Of the ablest of Generals. Yet he
enlisted in 1861, raw country boy,
from his fathers farm necr Kalamazoo,
Mich. He showed he had the stuff in
him, however, and was soon Lieuten-
amt in the 9TH Mich. He was pro-
NOTED into the 18th Mich, taken
prisoner at Thompson's Station, and
commanded a colored regiment during
the last year Of the war.
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easily watched and defended by the
forces at the disposal of Gen. Linares
Everywhere the coast is rugged in out
line, and readily defensible by a.smal
force. Had Linares been man Of
ability he could easily have made such
dispositions as to cost our landing party
dearly, if not actually driven it off.
But he was completely outgeneraled.
He was threatened along a line of &c
miles SO seriously that he could not de-
termine at which point we were really
aiming, and though for month or more
he must have known that we knew that
Baiquiri was the best landing place, yet
he left that point defenseless and con-
centrated his resistance elsewhere. In
consequence, we got ashore with no other
loss of life than two men who were &C.
cdentally drowned. This is as astonish-
ing as our escape from fatalities in
Dewey's victory.
The next element of greatness is that
10000 men were thrown ashore in less
than two days, and took up a superb
position for offense and defense.
There are very few instances in the
history of warfare where so large a force
has been landed on a foreign shore in
the face of an enemy, and none in which
it has been done more successfully. In
1901, the English, under Sir Ralph
Abercromby, successfully landed large
force near Alexandria, in Egypt, in the
face of the French army. March IS,
1917, Gen. Scott, by a most brilliant
operation, landed 10000 American sol
d!ers at vera Cruz, In the face OF the
Mexicans, who made little or no resist
ance. In 1854, the Anglo French army
was landed at Euratoria for the siege of
Sebastapol, meeting with no resistance
by tie Russians, who had been success
fully deceived as to the landing-place.
These are about the only comparisons
with the exploit Of Gen. Shafter and
Admiral Sampson. In none of these,
however, were the advantages SO sig
nally on the side Of the defenders as at
Santiago, and we can take a just pride
in'the consummate ability with which our
army and navy were handled.
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IT Is one thing to start a war, and
quite another TO say what direction ii
will take. 1t is safe to say that no
great war ever took precisely the direc-
ton at first proposed.
Our Revolutionary War did not at
first contemplate independence of Great
Britain-merely the securing of our
rights as British subjects.
There was little if any thought Of
securing the Pacific Coast when VIC
started into the war with Mexico.
We sOlemnly protested that we were
not going TO interfere with slavery when
the war of the rebellion began. We
only intended to repossess the United
States forts and other property, and re-
establish the Federal Courts.
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The story is miracle of progress.


ANOTHER SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT.
The landing Of the American Army
on the coast Of Cuba is another glori-
Gus achievement, fit to rank with
Dewey's victory at Manila. 1t shows
TO the world that we are masters of war,
in the highest sense.
The most difficult things in the
science CT war are:
1. The passage of a large river;
2. The passage of mountain defle
3. The landing upon a ea-coast-
defended by powerful and watchful
enemy. In all these the advantages
are strongly with the defending army
They are perhaps more strongly with
him in the landing upon coast than
in the other two instances. If The
enemy is capable adversary, he car
infict terrible losses upon the aggressor
with comparatively little injury to him
SELF
AT Santiago the advantages were IN.
usually strong on the side of Spain
We were restricted to comparatively
short stretch of coast, which could be
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One great trouble with Spain is that
the doesn't know when a thing becomes
a chestnut. She played it on us in
great shape for some weeks with Adj
miral Cervera's feet, and then thought
she could repeat the joke with Camara's.
Now We simply join the world in laugh
ing at her.
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VERMoNT's sons have heretofore
shone most conspicuously ON the battle
field. Now she has a naval hero to be
proud of, and to place alongside the
best that any ether State can show.
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THE Commander Of the Kansas
Division, Sons Of Veterans, claims that
that Division is furnishing more soldiers
than any other patriotic organization in
the State.
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THE expert French and German
artillerists who were brought into San
tiago by the Montserrat seem to be as
bad marksmen as their Spanish COM
rades As to the French, il is not sur
prising. No Frenchman ever could
shoot well. But the Germans have
generally been good marksmen.
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IT is estimated that fully 40 per cent.
Of the Ohio Division, Sons of Veterans,
are already in the field. This is a'good
showing for that portion of the brethren
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WE buy nearly 100000 worth Of
mahogany year. Next year this will
be domestic product, produced under
our own flag in Cuba and the Philip.
pines.
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IT is said that in Spanish Moro
means "over-hanging lip Spaniards
generally seem to be badly overhung
with lip.
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ENTERED At WASHINGTON posTofHcs sseo0np-olss MATTER
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
MORE NEWS FROM sHAFTER.
He Answers an Inqdlry Regarding Gus
toms Duties at sautlago-No Money
There TO Transact Business.


Washington, July 9S The war de-
partment made public the following
dispatch received from Gen. Shafter
in response TO query by the depart
ment as to ships being turned away
from Santiago;
Santiago via Hayti, July 27,-Adjutant Com
eral u 5 A., Washington; Press reports not
true only know Of three ships having mr.
rived one from Kingston, the others from tho
United States The Bratton has sold It's cargo:
the other, ship from New Orleans, has sold
only part OF II and tells me he Is going away
Tonight think he will soil before he leaves
The truth is they did not expect to pay any
duty and arrived here without money. The
spanish customs rs applied TO Spanish sub
lects mas only been collected and the 20 cents
per ton as ordered by the secretary dscov-
cred this morning an attempt on the part
OF the municipal authorities to collect n
local tax Of 10 cents per 100 lSlos, In this In
stance amounting to u, 500 had already sot~
Tied this matter by ordering It's non-collectiOn.
The fact is there is no money here TO do BUSH
ness ana merchants are very tlmid about
making purchases, fearing the effect OF tho
ked Cross supplies, who really are feeding the
town. The New Orleans man, for instance,
brought 20 head OF cattle which he sold at Ga5
per head the person buying kills one day,
selling the meat mt 20 cents per pound. OF
course only u few people buy. The first week
we were here people were starving TO death
and think few now are suffering the effects
OF starvation. | am positive however, thnh
the customs have been honestly administered
-Shnfter, Major General
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
HONOLULU HEARS IT.
Great Rejoicing In HAwAirs Capital July
IS When News OF Annexation
Renohed There.


Honolulu, July 20, via San Francisco,
July 2S.--The steamship Coptic arrived
from San Francisco on che evening of
the 18th instant with the important
news that the United Vtates senate
had ratified tho Newlands resolution
making Hawaii part of the United
States. The fire whistle and the
whistles Of foundries, mills and steam
ers were turned loose and pandemo-
mum reigned. Fireworks were set Off
In the midst of the noise 100 guns
were fired on the grounds of the exec
utive building. At the same time the
Hawaiian bands started out and
marched through the streets to the
wharf, playing American patriotic
airs. An immense procession was
formed and march was made to the eX-
ecutive building. Capt Sealby, of
the Coptic, was presented with silver
cup by the citizens of Honolulu for
bringing the news, The people here
have decided not to have any formal
annexation celebration until the Phil
adelphia and Admiral Miller arrive
with tho flag. The leading men of
Honolulu met yesterday and recon-
mended Harold M. Sewell, United
States minister TO Hawaii, for gov
ernor of the islands, 1t had been gen.
orally thought that President Dole
would be their choice.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
Says the Tax Is Illegal.

Emporia, Kan, July 27.-The Empo-
ria city council passed an ordinance
taxing the premium stamp association,
which has branches in many cities Of
the union, 81, 200 per year for the priv
ilege of doing business in this city.
w, L. Wise, the manager, refused to
pay the tax. He was arrested for vio-
lating the ordinance, but got out q
writ of habeas corpus, and hearing
was had before Judge Randolph, Of the
district court, who released Wise, de-
claring the ordinance unconstitu-
tional, because it was virtually pro-
hibitive.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
BATTLE OF JULY THIRD.
A Name Has Mt Last Been Found for the
Remarkable Naval Engagement
on Santiago,


Washington, July 2s,-A name has
been found at last for the remarkable
naval battle between the American
and Spanish fleets that resulted in the
destruction Of Cervera's squadron, The
absence of name has been felt in the
clumsy attempts made in official re-
ports to refer to the engagement.
Lieut.. Whittlesey, of the navigation
bureau, has evolved name that Is
likely to be formally adopted for the
engagement 1t is "the battle Of July
3d." He does this for the reason that
some of the most famous battles that
the world has known have been
christened us of the date upon
which they were fought. Thus
"the battle of July LIST" was at
tached to the famous naval engage
ment fought in mld.ocean between
Lord Howe's fleet on one side and the
combined French and Spanish fleets
on the other, which resulted in the
memorable victory for the British
navy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
NAVAL Omoera Mnl,o Rnnnrta.

Washington, July 49, - The navy do
partment Tuesday, besides making
public the report of Admiral Sampson,
published the reports of Commodore
Schley, Capt. Clark, of the Oregon, and
Capt. Evans, of the Iowa, on the bat
tie of July 3, which resulted in the de-
struction of Cervera's squadron, Yes
terday the department gave out the re-
ports of Capt Chadwick, of the New
York; Capt Taylor, of the Indiana;
Capt. Philips, of the Texas, and Lieu-
tenant Commander Wainwright, of the
Gloucester, on the same matter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-08-04
HE NEEDS ATTENTION.
Catholic Bishop of Havana EnioinV Loyal
Spaniards That 1t Ia Their Duty to
Resist Il .hs Last

Havana, July THE bishop of Ha.
vana, Mgr Manuel Santander v Frutes,
has published pastoral that has been
read in all the churches, in which he
says that there are times when war is
justifable and reminds his people how
Saint Louis, Saint Maurice and Saint
Fernando became perfect in military
exercises. The pastoral proceeds:
The war which Spain Is sustaining against
the United States is u just war Spain Is ,lo-
ing nothing but to defend her rights over this
possession When the United States provolEes
n war TO take away Spanish property, what
should brave proud and righteous people dor
1t is sweet TO die for ones country and In behalf
of Gods justice Life without honor is u thou
sand times worse than death 1t Is impossible
TO ask the heroic Spanish army to lay down It's
arms without struggle The Catholic religion
does not enioin upon its votaries such humility
as that Otherwise nations would be but
the playthings of those who do not believe in
God. The right TO repel force by force is not
merely permissible right; 1t is obligatory
right In this case 1t is all the more so because
the United States declared the war In the
days OF Pelayo and the times OF Cabella, Span
iards cared nothing about the number Of their
enemies II was shame TO surrender, and
they did not give up their rights. They fought
to the death Neither the army nor the peo-
pie is the authority to settle the issues in-
volved. When the word goes forth for resist
nnce to invasion, all must obey without MUIR
muring without finding fault