The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-06-17
BOMBARDED AGAIN.
Standards Claim TO Have Repulsed
Sampson's Attempt to
$FEEt1 & Land Troops,

Madrid, June n.--Noon. An official
dispatch received here from Havana
dated yesterday, Friday, June 10, says:
This morning eight Of Admiral Samp-
SON ships recommended the lombard.
merit of Santiago de Cuba. At the same
time number of boats. towed by a
steamer, appeared and attempted TO make
landing. The cannonatte lasted three
hours. The Spaniards, skillfully posted,
repulsed the attempted landing and tho
Americans drew OF. No damage was
caused by the shells from the ships,
which kept distant, evidently afraid to
venture within range of the guns OF the
fortxs ..c(E
Washington, d. G., June 1.-There
We're rumorS at the navy department to-
day that cablegrams had been received
IRON Sampson via Port Antonio, lanai
ca. The foundation for these was prob
ably the arrival Of the St. Louis of the
coast of Jamaica, leading to the natural
presumption that she had brought dis
patches from the commander-in-chief Of
the blockading squadron. The depart
ment officials would make no statement
about these dispatches, and in fact would
not admit that any had been received,
but there is reason for the assumption
that in any case they related to nothing
more important than notice from Samp-
son that certain ships had been designat-
ed to supplement the convoy for the troop
ships. and also an announcement from the
commander of the St. Louis that he had
captured a prize.
How Time May be Saved.
As time is believed to be an important
point just now in the movement of troops
it is suggested here that something might
be saved in this direction if the trans
ports start from Tampa bay with the
small convoy already available, and ar.
powerful convoy from SIMPSONS fleet
somewhere in the neighborhood of the
Windward channel. If any danger at all
exists for the troops in the shape of Turk
ing Spanish gunboats, it is not believed
that there is any reason for apprehension
eastern extremity of Cuba, and if this
course be taken, full thirty-six hours may
he saved in the time required for the
transports to reach Santiago.
The bulletin relative to Hobson's feat
posted this morning at the navy depart
ment shows from it's date that mail ad-
vices have been received by the depart
cials have nothing further to commune
cate than the facts collected in the bulle-
tin. *
The arrival of the Monterey at Cor
onado island, two days out from Mare
island, as reported in the press dispatch
es from San Francisco, came as a sur
prise to the navy department., showing
that the stop was not included in the
monitors itinerary. The loss of $50
tons of coal by being washed overheard
is said by the officials to be inconseQuen-
tial and not sufficient reason for the
stop. The collier Brutus, which is ac-
companEing the monitor, has on board
400 tons of coal, enough to tow the
Monterey around the world, so that it
must have been because of some slight
accident aboard ship that the Monterey
went into Coronado.
:Monterey's Loss of Coal.
The great circle that the captain of the
Monterey has selected as the line upon
which he will proceed to the Philippines,
If started afresh from the present loca-,
ton of the ship, would bring the Mon
terey very close to the Caroline islands
ell route and it may be that she will stop
in there to coal in some sheltered har5or
if it is found desirable to do So 1t is
said. however, by persons familiar, with
the present disposition of the administra-
ton that the plans do not contemplate the
seizure of these islands by the Monterey
nor yet of the island of Guajan. the prin-
cipal one of the Ladrone group, by the
Charleston. The latter ship may, as was
sailed from Mare isisad. touch ID at the
Ladrone islands en- route, just as the
Monterey maysdo in the case Of the Caro-
lines, but it is not the present intention
to formally, occupy any of these islands.
Of course it is realized that the develop
ment Of our foreign policy may in tie
end lead up to some such acquisition as
necessary ports of coal and coaling sta
tons on the long route from San Fran
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