The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-04
RAINING SHELLS.
Last Heard of the Brave
Commodore Dewey.
CABLE CUT FIFTY MILES OUT
Spain Will Throw Her Whole Naval
Strength Against the Squadron
in Cuban Waters.

Madrid Under Martial Law--Cabinet Crisis
tinue as 1t Now Is-Placing Responsible
ity for the Disaster to the Spanish Fleet
Patriotic Feeling Increasing in Mad
rid-Pope Prostrated by War News.
from Manila before the cable was cut
Madrid, May 4,-The last dispatch
said:
only the outlying native quarters
have suffered. They are now in flames
Occasionally a shell fell in the Euro
pean town, where a few houses were
struck The batteries of the Citaduad
especially large guns, are vigorously
replying to the American fire and have
inflicted considerable damage on the
fleet"
New York, May A Wall street
news agency sends out the following:
Hong Kong-Manila has fallen. The
stars and stripes wave over the Philip
pines"
London, May 4.-Inquiries made at
the offices of the Eastern Telegraph
company show 1t to have been impossi-
bic for any word to have come from
Manila since 10 o'clock Monday morn
Ing, London time, when the cable was
cut. The officials of the company say
that, according to their tests from
Hong Kong. the cable was cut fifty
miles from Manila. They think week.
or even a fortnight may elapse before
1t can be repaired, as there are no facil-
tiles there to repair the cable, and in
any event it will be a difficult task to
pick up the cable in deep water.
1t is announced in a special dispatch
from Madrid that there is no idea of
surrender there. either in ministerial
circles or among the populace. On the
contrary, it is added, the war is to be
pursued with greater vigor. This spe-
cial dispatch adds that 1t is even stated
at Madrid by those who are responsible
for the naval movements that IL has
been determined to avoid isolated COM
bats on unequal terms and with a SUI
perior enemy. and that they now intend
to throw the whole united naval
strength of Spain into one supreme ef-
fort to crush the American squadron in
Cuban waters.
Cabinet Crisis Averted.
The Madrid correspondent of The
Evening News cables the following
to his paper: Although Pre-
mier Sagasta's conferences with the
queen regent and Liberal leaders, Mon
tero and Rios. led to rumors of the
formation Of a national government,
the facts areNhat Senior Sagasta placed
the situatioR before the queen regent,
explaining that the significance of the
events in the Philippine islands indi-
Gated certain possible solutions for the
future. Thereupon the queen expressed
continued confidence in the govern
ment, which will continue as now con-
stituted for the present. Senors Gam |
aZo and Montero express the opinion |
that the present cabinet should con-
tinue I'm power. The ministers met at I
Senior Sagastas residence and the pre- |
mier communicated to them the result |
Of his interview with the queen regent"
Martial law has ben proclaimed in |
Madrid and troops are now patrolling |
the city. The proclamation Of martial |
aw was decided upon because of the
attitude Of certain political parties.
Second Spanish Squadron.
A Cadiz dispatch says that the Sec
,nG Spanish squadron, consisting of the |
Pelayo, Alfonso XIII and |
and a number of smaller ships
iave nearly completed it's preparations
or active service. 1t is reported, how
,ver, that great difficulty is expert
,nced in fitting out the ships, owing to |
| lack of money. The British engin- |
'ers have refused to serve on board of
hem, owing. 1t is said, to the belief that
hey are liable to severe punishment
lnder the foreign enlistment act. The
spanish auxiliary cruiser Guarda has.
I is announced, taken fourteen guns
N board. and is now on a trial cruise.
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