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The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
The Paris correspondent of the Stan.

The Paris correspondent OF the Stan.
dard says: Critics here regard the
occupation of Guantanamo harbor as "A
master stroke and the fact that 5000
Spanish allowed the landing as omin.
ously significant.
General Miles has telcgraphcd to
Deputy observation-disclosures Kim
ball at New York to forward To Tampa
at once Il large quantity of intrenching
tools. 1t is supposed they are needed
Tor immediate use in the Cuban in.
vasion. The order called for pickaxrs.
spades. AIDES. hatchetS, grindstoncs,
slcdEchamfncrs. croSscutSaws, black.
smith tools. carpenters tools. nails.
rope. marlin spikes. sets of tackle and
bush scythcs.
Lieutenant Colonel Il. W. Hunting.
tons battalion of marines. which
landed from the transport Panther on
Friday and cncamped on the hill
guarding the abandoned station at the
entrance of the outer harbor of Guan-
tanaino. has been engaged in heading
off a rush attack by spanish gucrrillas
and regulars since three o'clock Satnr.
day afternoon. The fighting was al.
most continuous for thirteen hours
until u o'clock this morning. when re-
Inducements were landed from the
Marblchcad. Four Americans were
killed. The attacking force of Span.
iSh numbered between o and 1000.
The Spanish loss is not known, as they
carried the dead and wounded away
when they retrCatcd.
Every ~prccartion has been taken by
the government to insure the safety Of
the troops en- route To Cuba. The
transports will be kept rs closely to-.
gether a. safe navigation will permit.
and the warships will be disposed
ahead. astcrn and on either flank. The
The fccteSt scouting vessels, will he
hrown far ont in advance and to the
rear of the transports. ready to signal
the heavily armed cruisers at the first
sign of an approaching foe. The state
ly batticship Indiana. it is expected
will lead the procession of ships. which
Will be the most nuInerously gathered
IN American waters since the civil war.
The troops should arrive off Santiago
by Wednesday night. supposing the
fleet proceeds at eight knots speed. and
landing operations should begin by
Thursday. for General Shaftcr will not
keep his me-: cooped up on shipboard
u longer than necessary.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
MANILA HAS NOT FALLEN,
Cablegrams From tho Islands Say Nothing
Of the Rumored Surrender.

OF the kumOred Surrender.
LONDON, June l+.-Sccrctary Briggs
II the Manila Railway company, who
IL in constant communication with
Manila. d~iscredits the rumors in circu-
lation as to the surrender Of that
place. He received n cable message
from Manila yesterday via Hong
Kong, reporting that the Dad was
working. No mention was made
Of the city having surrendered.
Mr.. Briggs believes the Spaniards
would surrender to Rear Admiral
Dewey in preference To being on
quered by the insurgents. The Sec
rotary is informed that a full under
standing exists between Admiral
Dewey and the insurgents and it is
general believed ut Hong Kong and
Manila, that before A~guinaldo. the in
surgent leader, consented to return to
Manila he secured pledges that the
United States would not leave him in
the lurch by returning the Philippine
islands to the Spaniards.
Referring TO the Spanish tales Of al
legged insurgent atrocities, Mr.. Briggs
says they are utter nonsense. He adds
that the natives of the Philippine
islands are the mildest people in the
world and asserts that all the Euro
peans there were surprised that they
mustered up courage enough TO revolt.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17

The Aston battery from New York
will join General Merritts expedition
to the Philippines,
The first Tennessee regiment Of vol
untecrs went through Nebraska sun
day en- route 10 san Francisco.
Major Edward g.. Fechet. who for
two or three years was inspector of
the y. y. g., with headquarters at
Lincoln, has been ordered before "A re-
firing board.
The Rome correspondent Of the
standard says: Owing To the serious
news from the Philippines the pope
wired the queen regent of Spain, plac-
ing his services at her disposal if she
considered that the time had arrived
for the Intervention of the powers in
favor of Spain. The queen regent. in
reply, photographed her thanks, saying
that ut an opportunc moment She
would feel the pope's offer to be very
precious"
Captain George Stang of the royal
Swedish artillery, called on l.ieuten.
ant Olson of the "a Neb. Vol. l.. Cap.
tain Stang is here 10 study the Amcri
can army and has been made an
honorary member of General Brooke's
stan. lie resembles Nansen yer,
much.
Intense excitement was caused n
Fort Monroe last night shortly after
o'clock by n dispatch received from tn,
signal station at Cape Henry, stating
that spanish warships were lurking il
that vicinity. A short while later f.,
message was received from Washing
ton instructing the commandment o.
the fort to Ice on the alert. II 1
thought the ships were not Spanish,
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
they Have Met the Prince.

LONDON, June IA The Prince OF
Wales held Il levee to-day. The United
States ambassador, Colonel John Hay;
the secretary of the embassy, Henry
White; the second secretary, j. Il. Car
ter, and Chauncey NJ, Depew, who
spent Sunday at Blenheim with the
Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, at
tended the function. c. Richardson
OF Washington, Bradley Martin, jr., J..
Stock and r. Ward of New York, r.
Ii. Litchfeld of Brooklyn and Marshall
Field, jr,, Of Chicago were presented
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
BRIEF WAR NOTES
CONDENSED SKETCHES OF
ACTUAL HOSTILITlES.
rlain. Un,arnisied Paragraphs Portray
ing Truthful News of Events as They
Have or VIII Happen Movements OF
Army and Navy Departmental Doings
Wednesday. June y.

The cruiser Columbia /, again ready
for service.
Colonel Bratt Of the First Nebraska
has been made president Of the court
martial.
Brigadicr-Gcncral I. W. Colby has
been assigned To General l;rOOltc.~
staff at Chickamauga.
The Monterey left san Francisco
Yesterday on its trip To Manila accom-
panied by the collier Brutus.
From all indications the cable be-
tween liayti and Cuba has not worked
since Monday at midnight. 1t is prob.
ably cut.
Secretary Alger has accepted The
services of the American National Red
Cross as an auxiliary 10 the hospital
service of the army.
The Third regiment Of Nebraska. it
Is understood, will not be called ont
until the two regiments now in the
field are filled up 10 full complement
Of 100 men. When il is called its des.
tination will be the Philippines.
The major Of each battalion of the
volunteer army. accompanied by four
men. has set out to recruit the rcgi-
ments up to 100 enlisted men. The
first and second Nebraska will need
something over 600 men.
On Monday morning last Admira
SIMPSONS fleet bombardcd the coa,t
defenses of Santiago commencing at
T:45 and lasting for three hours. 81
fenced all forts, destroyed all the
earthworks, and rendered Estralla
and Cayo batteries. the principal fort
itications, useless. IL was reported
that he cruiser Rcina Mercedes was
sunk or badly disabled and her COM
mander. who is second in command
under Admiral Ccrvcra. was killed.
The Spanish soldiers who have been
captured at Manila by the insurgents
nre a sorry looking lot, and if u fair
sample they will be no match for the
American troops. ~Aguinaldo's treat
ment Of Spanish prisoners is cxcmp-
larry. Few excuses are reported. Adj
miral Dewey is not assisting the rebels.
but II is due to him that Aguinaldo's
forces avoid excuses. II il the insur-
gent chiefs desire to form a republic
in the Philippines under American
protectoratc.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
THE MARINES HELD THE FORT
Spaniards Eepulsed by the Americas, GaA
rison at Santiago.

rison at Santiago.
Mole Sr. NICHOLAS IIayti June Il.
Lieutenant Colonel X. W, Hunting
tons battalion of ta..ri,es. which
landed from the transport Panther on
Friday and encampcd on the hill guard
ing the abandoned cable station ut the
entrance tn the outer harbor of Guam
tanamo. has been engaged in heading
off a rush attack by Spanish guerrillas
and regulars. The fighting was almost
continuous for thirteen hours, until 8
o'clock Sunday morning, when rein
forccments were landed from the Mar
bIchcad. -Four of our men were killed
and n wounded. The advance pick
cts under Licutenants Neville and
shaw are unaccountcd for.
Among the killed is Assistant Sur
geon John Blair Gibbs. son of Major
'tibbs of the regular army. who fell in
the Custer massacre. His home was at
Richmond, Va, but he has been prac-
ticing in New York and he entered the
service since the war began. lie was
Il very popular officer.
The others killed are Sergeant Chas.
ii. smith of Smallwood, Private viii.
lam Dunphy of Gloucester, Mass, and
Private James McColgan Of Stoneham,
Mass. Corporal Glass was accidentally
wounded in the head.
The Spanish loss is unknown, but 10
was probably considerable. The
splashes of blood found at daylight
at the positions the Spaniar Dis oc-
cupied indicate fatalities, but their
comrades carried off the killed and
wounded.
The engagement began with desul-
tory firing at the pickcts, u thousand
yards inland from h camp. Captain
Spicer's company vas doing guard
duty, and was driven in. finally rally
ing on the camp and repulsing the en-
envy at 3 o'clock. The bodies of pri-
Yates Michigan and Dunphy were
found, both shot in the head. The
large cavities made by the bullets,
which. inside n range Of 500 yards,
have a rotary motion, indicate that tho
victims were killed at close range.
The bodies were stripped OF shoes,
hats and cartridge belts and horribly
mutilatcd with machctes. When they
were brought in, the whole battalion
formed three sides of a hollow sluars
bou the camp on the hilltop.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
THE WAR BILL Is A LAW.
The President Signed the War Measure
Yesterday Afternoon.

WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE War bill
received the signature Of the President
this afternoon, Immediately on re.
ccipt of the information, Secretary
Gage issued u circular, explaining to
the public the proposed bond issue.
Approval at last.
johnson has finally done something
that all who know him will applaud"
you don't say so, What Is III" "He
has decided TO move away"
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
SATURDAYS. june II.


From information just coinc to light
it is learned the administration hasdc-
tcrnined upon "A state policy %
corning the Philippines. 1t i, the evil
dent intention of this government to
annex the islands. This policy has
not been hastily decided upon. and it
was decided before Admiral Dewey be
gan his operations. II will be opera
tive as 500 of Hawaii is annexed. This
accounts in a measure for the vigor
with which the president is pushing
the annexation of Hawaii. The Phil.
ippine policy will then he outlined to
the powers.
An associated press dispatch from
Kingston. Jamaica. says it is bclicv.N!
the navy will follow up the landing of
troops by forcing the passage of the
narrow channel leading to the harbor
of Santiago de Cuba. fishing up the
sunken mines and compelling Admiral
tervera to make IL stand. II the de
struction of the Spanish fleet is sue
ccssfully carried out it will end the
last vcstige of Spanish dominion in
eastern Cuba. The harbor OF Guanta-
namo is completely under the control
Of the American fleet and the landing
of marines ut that poin, is expected To
occur simultaneously with the landing
of troops at Santiago de Cuba.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
LETTERS DEAL C0lLAPSES,
Immense sales by Him Smasi,cs the Chi
cage Marke..

CHICAGO, June li-Ail interest on
The board of trade to-day centcred in
the doings of Joseph Letter and the re.
suits of his famous big deal in wheat.
A tremendous slump in prices was
generally attributed to immense sales
FOR him. According To one authority.
Mr.. Letter ordered all his trades closed
out at the opening of the days trans.
actions in the wheat pit, and it was
stated that at least 5000. 900 bushels of
wheat were ~liquidatcd for him in the
chicago market alone. The scverest,
breaks in prices, however. were in tho
Northwest, where it was said lie tier
had his big lines.
Cash wheat in Duluth went off 10
cents and in ~Minncapoli, II cents.
Half an hour before the clos. Letters
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17


Five more transports are needed to
transport all the troops necessary for
the Philippines.
The Westminster Gazette in n
special edition says Manila has fallen
into Admiral Dewcy's hands.
The advocates of the dynamite II
as a weapon of warfare are urging
the authorities To give the dynamite
cruiser NcSrvius n ccancc 10 demon.
stratc its ability against Notifications.
The torpedo boat Porter found two
torpedoes ioating near Santiago har-
Dor, One was secured, the other being
worthless, sank. The good one is "A
modern Whitehead, worth s 5000.
The boys of company L, I'd Neb. V.
l., are rejoicing over the receipt of "A
$50 check from DR., b. l.. Paine of Lin.
coin, sent them To rcplrnish their meat
supply. Fresh meat i, Il luxury in
camp, as only II or two rations per
week are issued.
Gen. A. W. Greedy tonight issued a
general order to the cable companies
that hereafter no news CONCERNING the
movements OF American vessels or Am.
erlcah troops would be permitted 10
De sent To foreign countries. The
orders cover both press cublcgrams
and private messages.
One company of the Second regiment
Of volunteer engineers will be recruit
ed with Omaha as the hcadquartcr.
for mastering. The men and officer,
will be drawn from Nebraska. low;
and two Dakotas, Col. William Young
who will command. is II graduate @
the military academy and resigned
several years ago from the %servic.
while captain IN the engineer corps.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
Thursday. June ~.

IL is officially admitted by Spain that
the Rcina Mercedes was sunk by Am
orleans ut Santiago.
The remains of Captain Gridlcy. of
the cruiser Olympia, were crcmatcd at
iokohoma and will be forwarded TO
the United States.
"A New York dispatch from Hong
wong says Manila has fallen, and is
now occupied by the Philippine in.
surgents under A%guinaldo.
The auxiliary gunboat Lcvdcn hangs
around Cardcnas and blaIrs away AT
Spanish boats or ON the defensive
works whenever She sees IA movement
made
The president has decided that there
is no immediate need for a regiment of
sharpShootcrS, and consequently Ne
braskanS who want to enlist in such
capacity will have to wait.
A special from Kingston. Jamaica.
reports that the Spanish cruiser Wis
caya and the torpedo boat DESTROYER
turor were badly damaged during the
b~ombardmcnt OF Santiago's dcfcnses
on Monday.
The president has asked for n full
i'port oI tne pailant actlOn OF Lieu
tenant Hobson and his men AT SANTA
go. When such is received, he will
send a special message to congress,
recognizing the action.
A Cape Hayticn, Hayti. dispatch SAYS
SIMPSONS fleet bombarded the town
of Caimanera. in the bay Of Gautona
mo. The bo~mbardment DESTROYED a
little house which sheltered the last
connection of the French cable mt
'iamanera. though whether by the ex-
plosion of bombs from the warships.
or by explosives used by "A party sen,
for that purpose, is not known.
At noon Wednesday the army of in.
v'~ion under Major-Gencral Shafter
sailed from Tampa bound for santiago.
n it is expected to reach there Fri.
day night or Saturday morning. II
consisted of II 600 infantry. "A battalion
OF engineers, u detachment of the sig
nal corps. five %squadrons of cav airy,
four batteries of light artillery and
W batteries of heavy artillery.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
American Landing n "Masterstroke."

LONDON, June 1.-THE Paris CORE
spondent of The Standard says; Crit
les here regard the occupation Of Guam
tanamo as a masterstroke and the fact
that 5000 Spanish allowed the landing
as ominously significant"
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
SueIng "a Kings Daughter.

LONDON, June IA dispatch from
Vienna says the creditors of Princess
Louise of Saxe.Coburg, wife of Prime
Philip, who is accused of forging the
signature of Crown Princess Stephanr
To the extent of 81, zoo, 600, are bring
ing action against her to o the
money,
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
A sIo,OOO,OOO Brewery.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June l4.-Word>
has been received here from Lieuten.
ant Drcher, son of Anton Dreher, the
millionaire brewer of Austria, stating
that il had been decided To locate a
$40, 900, 900 branch of the Dreher brew,
cry in Milwaukee.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17
New Genet Is Discovered.

LICK OBSERVATORY, Cal, June IA
A comet was discovered here last even
ing by Mr., C~odd!ngton, fellow in as.
tronomy. 1t is in the constellation OF
Scorpio, about one degree north of tho
bright star Antares.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17

REV YORK, June 1.-THE Natiorm.
titg bank and the Central Trust Com
pany of New York and Vermilye & Co
nave informed the secretary of the
treasury that, in order TO insure the
immediate sacccSs of the wa loan,
they viii subscribe for the entire loan
OF 500 900, 900, or such part thereof as
may not be subscribed for by tho
nnhlin
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17

senator w. N. Allen reviewed the
Second Nebraska volunteers last even
ing. The troops made AN excellent
appearance and the senator Has great
" pleased. Judge Hayward of Ne
braSka CITY was also a spectator.
Colonel Bills. brigade commander. ac-
companicd the senator in the review.
senator Alien said today that he be-
lirvcd tn" war was over. The
Nebraska boys might go To Cuba or
Porto Rico, but only ns an army of
occupation. no fighting being required
of chem. senator Allen will return to
Washington tomorrow night.
Sergeant Clarence Culver of Troop
Il. GriggSby'> volunteer cavalry. and
II friend named Fred Butcher Of the
Third Illinois light artillery started To
walk down incline No. l.. When about
half way down culver slipped OF an
oily tie and shot down between them
on his way through the culvcrt into
the ravinc hundreds of feet below.
Fortunately his hand struck The cable
and he chung to the greasy wire until
his friend could draw him up. He was
u pretty weak boy when he sat down
upon the ties after his experience. 1t
was u narrow escape.
The Red Cloud chief., 1898-06-17

WAsnINGroN, June ll.-Japan has
entered u strong protest against the
duty on tea provided for ia the war
rcvenu bill.
The age-herald., 1898-06-05
All Hail to Hero Hobson.

Dewey deonsated bravery nearly
  violent death He M
  Spanish fire
  Shells n of balls  threw the channel sink n the position 7
  a a
  it elghtgo onn
  less They therefore  rendered ards amazed the that cea the Spanish admiral
  which under flag of truce to Admiral smp the outside oonsratuans him on the bravery of him and offering
  they friend In fighting for the life blood in what termed a fl in in  their For Hobson his have
  all a of Alabama a once. of the 
  such brave States couldc the hail to o
The age-herald., 1898-06-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News
 The meaner man is the more agreeable he tries to be.
 A chainless wheel is the far more de- sirable than a chainless dog.
 Hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and take what comes.
 A poet says that hunger acts as stimu- lant to original thought.-
 The young woman who possesses a mill lion certainly has good figure.
 There is nothing so apt to make a man economical as the lack of money.
 It takes a clever woman to obatin infor- nation without asking questions.
 Some girls sing like nightingales, and somes others like gales in the night.
 It's a pity that man can never see him. self in poker game as others "see'' him. An Ohio cyclst claims to have completed ten centuries in four days This lowers Methuselah's record.
 The first thing a widow does after mak- ing up he mind to appoint her late hus- bands successor is to make up her face
 It is harder for q photographer to make a baby look pleasant thanfit is for the baby to make the photographer look un- pleasant.
The age-herald., 1898-06-05
It lends c tuster A larger dare to our great enterpr.se.
 Shakespeare.
Nebraska and Alabama.

Nebraska sends six congressman to Washington, her population being in round figures half million less than Alabama,s: ana yet under the second call for volun- teers she is to be permitted to raise new regiment, as the following telegram from Secretary Alger to Governor Holcomb, of that state. shows:
 There will be accepted from your state one additional regiment of infantry of a. maximum strength, under the law, not to exceed 1928 of all grades as per your re- quest"
 What can be secured for Nebraska, even out of compliment to MT. William Jennings Bryan, can be secured for Alabama, if steps are taken to lay the facts before the war department.
 There seems. to have been no hesitation in granting the request, although the fl ling of the new regiment will leave the states two regiments at minimum strength. The war department Is evidently acting wisely. hiving heed to the circumstances of each state. Instead of adopting an iron rule fer all it very plainly intends to do what is best in each locality. Alabama should gain the right to raise white and color ed regiment, and the Nebraska d,cision shows that well-directed movement VII accomplish the task. Secretary Alger is certainly open to conviction; and The Age Herald expresses the hope that no action will be taken by the state until every effort has been exhausted to lick the second call into a shape that admits of speedy and satisfactory enlistments throughout the state.
The age-herald., 1898-06-05
The Iron Industry.

Iron circles have of late been agitated by the apparent and practical consolidation of the largest ore interests in the west and the largest furnace interests in that sec tion, in the hands of the omnipresent Rock efellers MT. John D. Rockefellers son, 1t is said, is to be the president of the Illinois Steel company. The stock of the company has gone iron A, where it stood in April, to 59 and the tendency is upward. A change of some kind is plainly going on in the great property; and 1t is believed the Min nesota Iron company and its best GUS toner, the Illinois Steel company, are to be harnessed together. The Illinois Steel con- pany took from the Lake Superior mines of the Minnesota company last year 2257,- 0O0 tons of iron ore.
 In this connection 1t may be interesting to glance at the leading producers of iron in this country The leader is the Carne- gie Steel company, capitalized at $250Oo,0OO It produces annually 2,2OO,0OO tons of pig iron, and it's capacity for finished product is even greater. It is easily the leading company of the industry. The Chicago Steel company comes next in the list, it's capitalization being $1S,65O 695. Its annual product of pig iron is about ,0OO tons, and its capacity for finshed product is high CT still. The third organization in the coun- try is the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road company, capitalized at s21, ,0O9 ,00O. It can produce 1,052,O0O tons of pig iron year, but 1t is weak in finished product. This will be remedied when the new steel mill at Ensley is built. The Pennsylvania Steel company Is a poor fourth, its annual pig iron capacity being only 65S,OOO tons. The Cambria Steel company comes next, fol- lowed by the Bethlehem Iron company, and the Colorado Iron and Fuel company the Iast-named producing each year about 2Oo,- GOO tons of pig iron.
 These seven companies turn out each year about seven-tenths of the iron out put of the country, and nearly all of the steel, and large proportion of the fn- Carnegie is in the east, the Illinois Steel company is in the west, and the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad company in the south.