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, 1898-08-10
AND STILL NO PEACE
BUT SECRETARY LONG THINKS
THE MATTER WILL BE SET
TIED TOMORROW.
Spain Must Answer the Presidents
Note Yes or No by Tomorrow
Night, and If No Answer Is Re-
ceived Sampson Will Be Ordered to
Sail to Spain With a Squadron Of
Twelve Ships.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 10.-(Spe-
ial.)-Secretary Long. after visiting
the White House this morning, when
asked if peace would come today, said,
Il think not, but the matter will be set
tied one way or another tomorrow"
1t is stated on the highest authority
that Spain must answer the presidents
original note yes or no by tomorrow
night. If no answer is received by that
Admiral Sampson will be ordered
to sail to Spain with a squadron Of
twelve ships. Sampson, it is said, can
be read to sail on two hours notice
and he is now in instant touch with the
department.
, 1898-08-10
w. c. T. U.
Edited by Mrs. Z. S Boyd.

Edited by Mrs. E. S .Boyd.l
The canteen war wakes hot. General
Graham has closed all the canteens at
Camp Alger. He tried camp life with
Out intoxicants for a month and things
were so much more quiet that he did
not wish to try the old way again.
Three regimental canteens have been
closed at Camp Thomas. Colonel W. A.
Montgomery of the Second Mississippi
would not give his signature for the
establishment of a canteen, SO that
regiment has had none. Some regi-
ments have had three and four thou
sand dollars kept out Of their pay for
beer checks advanced while in camp.
Colonel Shandrew of the Fifteenth Min
nesota volunteers is another officer
who dares to stand for the right and
the good OF his men. He has issued Or
ders prohibiting all intoxicants, aid
has served a vigorous notice on the
public that any violator OF the order
will be dealt with in a summary man
ner. Ten bishops of the Methodist
church have added their names to the
protest Of the w. C. T. u. Several con-
gressmeI and representatives are also
in line.
Three cheers for Old Glory; by the
flag we will stand;
Three cheers for our country say we.
The horrors Of war we'd avoid if we
could,
But Cuba, we say, shall be free.
All honor to Dewey and Hobson. the
brave,
And Sampson and Schley on the sea:
They're fighting for freedom as Gods
righteous cause,
Three cheers for the brave and the
free.
We're %neishbors, we're brothers with
calls nearer home,
And losses more grave than the
Maine,
Its cost was four million, yet we sink
that each day,
Shall the mourners and crew cry in
vain?
Aye! two hundred and more every day
Go down to poor drunkards graves
And these are our boys. You love them
you say,
Oh! what are you doing to save?"
, 1898-08-10
DOES NOT ACCEPT.
Spain Probably Will Have to Be Whip
ped Harder.

Washington, D. c., Aug. 10.-tSpe-
cial.)-All the evening papers have be-
gun issuing extras on the peace condi-
lions. All are based on reliable au-
thority that Spain does not accept the
terms to such an eXtent as to bring
about immediate peace. The president
has taken such exception to parts of
Spain's note that a further exchange of
cable communications and much longer
delay will be necessary before he will
to the armistice.
, 1898-08-10
WILL IGNORE NEW QUESTIONS.
Spain Must Accept or Reject the Origi-
nal Conditions.

Washington, D. c., Aug 10.-(Spe-
cial.)-It is reported that President Nc
Kinley will ignore the new questions
raised by Spain and that Secretary Day
will prepare a protocol on the line Of
the original conditions. If Spain accepts
this. an armistice will be declared;
otherwise the war will be vigorously
pushed.
Observation-Disclosures Cambon has
been instructed to tell the Madrid gov
eminent that the terms of the protocol
as agreed upon must be accepted or re-
jected at once 1t is in the nature of an
ultimatum, and unless Cambon is in
structed to agree, all negotiations are
off. The administration continues to
impose the following conditions as a
basis of peace:
~First-Spain to relinquish all SOW
ereignty over and to Immediately
evacuate Cuba.
Second@ede to the United States
and imediately evacuate Porto Rico.
Third-Cede to the United States
Guam Island in the LadroneS.
Fourth-United States to occupy and
hold Manila bay, city and harbor, pend
ing the conclusion Of a treaty and the
final disposition of the Philippines.
Fifth-When Spain accepts these
conditions in their entirety peace COM
, 1898-08-10
GERMANY TO HELP ENGLAND.
Wants to Take a Hand in Any Com,
plications in China.

London Aug. Answering a ques-
ton in the hOusg Of commons today,
the parliamentary secretary fCr the for
eign office, Mr. CurZon, said the British
minister at Pekin had reported that
the Chinese government, replying to
Great Britain's message saying she
would support China against any power
committing an act of aggression in
China because China had granted a
British subject permission to aid on.
build a railroad or ether public works,
as announced in tn house of commons
on Aug. !, had EXPRESSED gratitude at
the promise CT support and had assert
ed that no threat Of aggression had been
made.
Mr.. Curzcn also said that Baron Won
Bulow, the German minister for for
eign affairs, had sent a memorandum
to cher majesty's government, saying
that Germany had never claimed ex-
elusive privileges in China. had made
no attempt 10 exclude other nations
free competition in the Shang-
lung peninsula and had merely in
formed China that if she required or
desired foreign assistance in the Shanr-
Tung peninsula, she should first offer
the work to Germany.
, 1898-08-10

Duboic Casino, a full-blooded Sioux
Indian. stopped at Noblesville, Ind,
while on his way home to North Da-
kota from a visit east. While at the
place named he imbibed too freely and
suddenly began to cheer for Spain and
the Spaniards. A few patriotic pale
faces quieted him in a vigorous fashion
n some time must elapse before the
doctor will allow the warrior to re-
sumo his homeward journey.
, 1898-08-10

Washington. D. c., Aug. 10.-(Spe-
cial.)- The Cuhans are fighting the
SpaniaTds in the western provinces of
the trOcha near Las Villas, in which the
men were engaged on both sides. The
while the Cuban loss will be a hundred
and thirty. The Cubans captured a
large supply of arms and stores.
, 1898-08-10
SAMPSON AND SCHLEY.
The President Has Decided to Make
Them Admirals.

Washington. d. c.. Aug. 1O.-(Spe-
a l.)-The president this afternoon de
cided that Sampson and Schley are to
be made rear admirals. and that Clark
and Wainwright will be moved up more
numbers than any other officers.
, 1898-08-10
ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT.
Fifth Illinois Volunteers Ordered to
D~isembark.

Newport News, Aug. l0.-(Special.)-
The Fifth Illinois volunteers were all
on board the transport OLDHAM. ready to
sail for Porto Rico, when orders were
received from Secretary Alger that they
disembark this afternoon. They are
now filing ashore. This is the regiment
which almost muuiniZd at Chickamauga
because they had been ordered to Porto
Rico six times and had the orders re-
voked.
, 1898-08-10

Captain Whiting Of the Monadnock
is called the Havana Mascot because
he was there when Kemeheha V died
and Lunalilo assembled the throne, and
also when Lunalilo died and Kala-
aua assembled the throne; he attended
kalakaua in America in 1876, was in
Honolulu in 1898 at the time Of the
change in government, married a Ha-
waiian, and was there when congress
passed the annexation law,
, 1898-08-10
missioners will conclude a peace trea-
ty as above.
THE TODAY.
War Is Still on and There Are No Pros
poets of Immediate Peace.

Washington, D.. c., Aug. 10.-(Spe-
cial.)-The war is still on in all its
fury. Fighting in the Philippines, Gu
ba and Porto Rice still goes on and no
acceptance of peace terms has been Of
tied to it. This is the situation today.
, 1898-08-10
"PECOS BILL" OF SANTIAGO.
What Kind OF a Man General William
Rufus Shafter Is.

Nine-tenths of the men in the regu-
lar army from major generals, brig
adiers. officers of the line to ordinary
troopers, always refer to the command
er of the American forces at Santiago
as "Pecos Bill" Shafter. He is known
by that title from Vancouver barracks
to Tampa. The sobriquet is a remi-
%niscence of the old days in the south
a colonel of infantry, chased Indians,
rode hard, tramped harder. and made
the hardest sort of military life pleas
ant for everybody around him.
/ The hero of Santiago was a slender
young man in those days. could ride
his sixty miles a day, day in and day
out, or tramp along at the head of the
troopers under him for a week on army
rations without complaining.
They tell a hundred stories in the
army to prove that 'iPecos Bill Shat
ter is a real soldier: not one of the
sort that likes a military hop as well
as he likes a scrimmage with an enemy.
They say of him hal he is hard"
They don't mean, of course, that he is
hard" in a moral or humane sense,
because he is as gentle as a woman
and as rigid in his views of life as a
Puritan father. But he is a hard SOL
der, hard fighter and a strict disciplin-
arian.
"'BilI Shafter always has his o
off when there is anything doing" is a
saying in the army. The last time he
was seen by the writer "Pecos BilI'
not only had off his coat but his sus-
of a mule pack train a lesson or two
about their business and the accomp-
anying art of p~ersIading mules to do
things at Port Tampa.
In order to fully appreciate his en-
ergy it should be remembered that Gen.
eral Shafter is a sure enough heavy
weight. He admits hat he weighs
something over 800 pounds" The re-
ports from Santiago a that the big
general assumed direct command Of
his men: that he rode in the field with
his coat off and yelled orders just as he
used to do in the old days, when bait
ing renegade Indians was the extent of
the nations military undertaking.
bill" Shafter is known as a plain
man too. There are no frills about
him. He went off to Cuba no. a whit
better equipped as far as clothing was
with him and sweltered under heavy
blue cloth uniforms. A friend h was
with him at Tampa suggested that he
have Il of the fashionable khaki uni
forms constructed for himself. Most
of the generals and staff officers with
him present very naUty figures, and the
bluff old Indian campaigner admired
them in a way.
They are just the things for a mill
tary ball" said he. But he added.
Il don't want n of them in mine. I
guess | will go just as | am. | will fit
in among the boys better"
So "Bill' Shafter went off to the war,
in a regulation uniform of dark blue
cloth, of the same quality as the clothes
worn by the private troopers. The only
difference was that upon each of his
shoulders there We're two gold stars
the insignia of a major general of tho
United States army. He endeared him.
self to the troops in his corps by advis-
ing the regimental commanders to take
off and leave off their coats. And he
left his off during the "trip from Tampa
to the landing place in Cuba.-Boston
Post.
, 1898-08-10
AT POINT.
Hundred Recruits for Shafter
Arrived There Today.

New York, Aug. 10.-CSpecial.)-A
heavy n~ortheaster struck Montauk
Point this morning, driving the troop
ers into shelter.
Twelve hundred recruits arrived from
Fort Mcpherson, Ca, today. These are
to fill vacancies in the ranks of the San
tiago troops, so that every regiment in
Skaters command may have its full
complement of men,.
, 1898-08-10

Edwin-You would not take that
uncle of mine to be a sensitive plant at
all, would you? Reginald-He certain
ly does not look 1t. Edwin-Well, he
Is. Attempt to touch him. mad he closes
up Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
, 1898-08-10


of The American sh"arpshuJD"IS pick
ing off Spaniards wa heard uocIstunal-
ly. That ceased after sunrise. when the
weary troops were relieved. and the re
covery Of the dead began. The Span
iardS carried off their dead as they re-
treated. None were found ON the field.
but their loss must hdy, been heavy.
as the ground over which they charged
was covered with clOtr"i bloud as |
went over it.
Besides Mausur bullets thr Spaniards
shot brass-coated nnun The Astor
battery did not go nto action as its
gun cartridges were rammod in trans
fer from the transport to the beach.
The mel were compelled to lie in camp
and fume while the lighting proceeded.
Today Captain Mach is krcpiug men
busy putting dry powder into tn. shells.
General Green mas issued an order
thanking officially the Pennsylvania.
California and Utah artiIIorvmeu and
nhe Third artillery for bravery in ac-
tiCn and steadiness under fire.
The Nebraska and Eighteenth in
fantry held the trenches last night
About 10 O'Clock the Standards opcned
fire from Malite. Private G. l.. Lewis
of Company +, Nebraska rcpim4nt
was killed bv shrapneI. in the trencba.
Seven men of the Nebraska regiment
were wounded. George Harrison Of
Company A seriously bv the same shot
that killed Lewis. The Spaufsh loss ia
to have been very heavy The
Spaniards were Two hours carving off
their dead. Early This morning nrairia
dogs were seen from the American lines
on Spanish bodies Private
Winfield of the Third artillery and pri-
vate Schneider of the Tenth peunsvI-
vania %Oluntee suCcumhed an ,ug
The Spaniards renewed the assault
the intrenchments last might. Our
works were held by the Third battalion
of the California and Colorado regi-
There was heavy c~annonading
to turn the American right. where
trenches now protect.
Private Fred Springstead of Comnany
FIRST Colorado Volunteers was
killed. Private Ed Rachery, CcmDany
G, First Colorado volunteers. was
wounded in the thigh.
Private Fred II. Field of Comnany
+, First California, was wounded in the
shoulder. Both the Injured men are
only slightly wounded.
Although the engagement scarcely
attained the Importance of n battle If
thoroughly tested the quality of the
States trcops and had an excel
lent effect, stimulating their zeal and
enthusiasm and inspirinr Them with
confidence.
The Standards whose losses in tho
gen are NOT known are ADMIT
ing tactics intended to irri,ate the
Americans Evarv rirbt tb.v moi,.,i,
an annoyinp fire They have now eot
fbe true range of tho york. and
their shell and shrannaI is very ac-
cunatc
On Nondav rioht rbo american loco
was one killed and five vourie, and
on Tuesday ricb, ,ra LilroJ an, civ
wounded This narcart,go !. boovv
oo,siaor;ra ,bo. H., 49,,
,rencbed and ,bo, thor, bo- ,o,, hord
" o,v fab,ira IN ,ho o,o,
Cenera1 Noc,r.brr.. hrir,aa ,,,io,
arrived crrdar :, ,,,Iin- ,aao.
through tho heavy surf Hotbira mora
serious than ? ,borouab w.,,i,a hos
occurred vol, sl,bougn tba oror,,ior i,
w;.hor, a,a9tIoma,, I,.-.
Hardly any eases y, sickness 70
norteJ
AMERICANS I'm At N,ru,
Cor,or,1 w !, pr,un -, ,ha ra.,h
.Pennsvlvania
Private Rradv of rho Ta,,b po,,uc,
, 1898-08-10
CHAFFEE ARTILLERY GOES.

Denver, Colo. Aug. 10.-(Special.)-
The Chaffee Light artillery was at noon
ordered to proceed to New York
Thursday night.
, 1898-08-10

DON CARLOS TO ENTER SPAIN.
London, Aug. 10.-tSpecial.D-A Bar
celona dispatch says that Don Carlos
will enter Spain neAt week and head a
revolution.
, 1898-08-10

When you neaS anything in ~ NJ
u Job printing and stationery. call a
The Republican ofncA
, 1898-08-10
TIRED AND WEAK
Hardly Able to Drag Around the House
What a Change.

HELENA, MONTH was tired and
weak and did not feel able to drag myself
around the house and do my work. I
concluded to get a bottle Of Hoods Sar-
saparilla and after I had taken this medi-
cine a short time | found it was doing me
. great deal of good. recommend Hoods
Sarsaparilla to all in need OF a strength
ening medicine" MARY WELCOME.
Aood,e Dill. act easily. promptly and
1OOA ! AAio effectively. - cents.
, 1898-08-10
DETAILS Of FIGHT
NINE AMERICANS KILLED IN THE
THREE DAYS ENGAGE
MENT.

One Wyoming Man Among Them-ln-
surgents Did Not Take Part In the
Battle-The First Nights Fight
Was Almost a Hand to Hand Con-
fiict-Many %Spaniards Killed.
, 1898-08-10

A daily paper for bU cents per month
s SO cheap that you cannot afford to b
without It
, 1898-08-10
CUBANSWONAF|G
DEFEATED A SPANISH FORCE
LAST SUNDAY NEAR LAS
Villas.

Six Thousand Men We're Engaged On
Both Sides-Spaniards Lose Eight
Hundred Men, While the Cuban
Loss is Reported at One Hundred
and Thirty-Cubans Capture Large
Supplies of Arms and Stores.
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~mmissione Sale.

No. ' ~ b. pfr "a. EFT ALL lcoSuhnin' T nsSIy
MRs. iiERniNA ELLISON, EFT AL. ~. Miss.
by virtue of the suthority vested IN me, by
u decree. OF The cbancery court OF jackson,
county, Mississippi rendered February Is,
1898, ~ the regular February term thereof, [
Will sell at public Outcry to the highest bid
der, for cash, ut the front dOOr Of the court
house. in the town Of scranton, Mississippi.
on the
First Monday The second day IF Nay, 1904,
within legal hours, the following described
property, tO-wit:
a certain tract or parcel OF land situated
In section II, tow nslip y south, range o vest,
IN Jackson county, Mississippi. to- wit: Be
ginning at the northeast corner OF the tract
or parcel Of land acquired by H. Communy
ct al, from Mrs. Jean Henry Martin, as per
deed Of record on pages $50 to 25a, Book -.
Record OF Deeds OF said county, where
said corner touches the section line between
sections II and IL In said township ana range,
and running from thence north cIghty-One
degrees and thirty minutes west, fOrty-tw0
aud 4O-lO chains to corner; thence north
eight degrees and thirty minutes west fvo
thirty minutes cast forty-two and 4O-l0O
chains to said section line; and thence souSh
on said section line five chains To the place
Of beginning. The said trnct Of land having
been surveyed n plated by r. n. Ramsay,
surveyor. AS per map or plot on page 5. OF the
records Of maps or surveys OF said county.
Said lands will be sold by the lots or SMALL
est subdivision thereof, As shown on said
mar or plot thereof. made by 4. W. Ramsay,
and hereinbefurc referred TO.
Witness my hand this 9th day OF March,
A. d. 1888.
+. H. LEWIS,
..,, ,ooo Special commissioner.
hDGILl IL. ltv6, lsDt
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-29
FIRST FIGHT
SP~ANISH-AMERICAN WAR.
First Blood for America-..The
American Ships Pour Shot
and Shsl Into the Forts at
Matanzas for IS Minutes.

New York, April 27.-Thc Hcrald's
Key West special says: Admiral
Sampson this afternoon bombardcd,
silcnced ana pretty wei! destroyed the
Spanish batteries in position and in
course OF construction at the entrance
Of the harbor Of Matanzas. Hc did ii
with the flagship New York, the mon
itor Puritan and the cruiser Cincin-
natl. Not one of the American ships
was struck, the Spanish gunnery being
wild. I have no means OF knowing
the numbcr Of dead and wounded on
the Spanish side. 1t must be consid-
cradle. While the New York, Puri-
tan aud Cincinnati were r%cconnoiter-
ing forthei purpose Of destroying the
formidable demonstrating constructed
the flagship was fired on by the bat
terieftdn Point RubaI Cava and Point
Maya, guarding the entrance to the
harbor. The New York instantly re-
piled. The Puritan steamed in be,
hind the New York and engaged the
fertilization On Point Maya, while the
New York went to starbOard close uI
to the land and poured her shells into
Rubal Caya The Cincinnati, which
remained well astern under orders,
signalcd forpermission to engage and
received it, and soon was firing her
guns at the fort on the west side OF
the bay. The batteries fired cxplo.
Siye shells and most OF them fell wide
OF the mark. One burst just behind
the stern Of the New York, and q
s~chrapncl shot exploded above her.
1t took the khrce ships just eighteen
minutes'to Silence the batteries.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-29
Commissioners Sale.

j. ALpRlcH SMITH !. Chancery Court,
No. 7G0 VS.. jackson county, Mis-.
WM. FARLEY, EFT AL. sissippi.
by virtue Of the authority vested In me by
u decree OF the chanccry court Of Jackson
county. Mississippi. rendered on the 18th day
OF February. ls9S, at the regular February
term thereof, ! will sell Mt public cutlery to
the highest bidder. for cash. ut the front door
Of the courthouse, In the Town Of Scranton,
Mississippi, on the
First Monday, the second day of Nay. 1898,
within legal hours the following described
property. to-wit:
All the timber. or growing trees upon the
following described tract or parcel or land
situated IN jackson COUNTY, Mississippi, To-
wit: sl OF swh, section 2. and So Of sen Of
section 3. township 3 south, range $ west.
Witness my hand this s9th day IT March,
a. ID. lS0S.
r. II. LEWIS,
Special Commissioners.
Anril I l3la .st
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1898-04-29
IN TUE TWILIGHT OF THE CENTURY.

The knell that announces the pass
ing OF the nineteenth century warns
that the days Of Southern chivalry
are numbered. The "old South" with
her galaxy OF knightly me and gentle,
womanly women will soon be relegatcd
to the pages of southern poesy and
history, fields purcr and more fruitful
than those Of ancient britannia. No
knights Of the Round Table could
compare with our chivalric southern
heroes, who risked all for the Lost
Cause" and in the terrible hour Of
defeat were still knights without
fear and without reproach."
When Generals John B. Gordon and
+. G. Walthall and their contempora-
ries fall asleep the last representa-
tives of the old south will be no more.
The courtly manners and customs
of the ''old regime" will be but men,
cries of the past. We who stand on
the dividing line between the old and
the new look back lovingly to the hal
cyon days 50 full of sweet memories
aud romantic aspirations and sigh tn
think the end so near. In dreams we
hear solemn, mournful reQuiems that
al our souls with awe, but with the
waking morning hours come glad
tones, prophetic of happy days for gu,
fair Southland.
1t is with fearful eyes and thr0bblng
hearts we bid farewell tn the beauti'
ful south OF the past, crowned, even
in death, with wreaths immortal and
turn to welcome the radiant south of
to-day, whose destiny is yet a problem
un iOl ,ed. God forbid that chivalry's
shrine be displaced by that of NAM
mon, that all that is pure and emo
bling be sacrificed to utility. May
the happy ean be found and our
country's best good secured as we keep
step to the martial music OF the age
and shout together, sin the name OF
our God we will set up our banners"
The foregoing words we're scarcely
penncd when the sad tidings reached
US, General Edward Carey Walthall
is no more" One by one our beloved
heroes ARE crossing over the river,
carth's battles ended, life's tolls done.
mississippi mourns her departed
statesman, his legacy to her, the State
OF his adoption, a name the synonym
of all that Is pure and lofty, an exam
pie that will be an inspiration to our
eager young heroes pressing toward
the vanguard of our mighty army of
the present.