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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-29
ESCAPED FROM CUBA.
Sentenced For a Crime, the Prisoner
Escapes to the Americans.
copyright by the Associated Press.

Copyright by the Associated Press.)
On board the Associated Press Dis
patch Boat Cynthia III, off Havana,
June 81, 4 p. H., via Key West. Fla,
june 2S.-9:1O Il. m.-Thcre is Il Cuban
passenger on one of the ships of the
blockadng squadron to whom the
phrase Cuba Libre." has taken new
meaning. He is an escaped murderer.
and he tells strange tale Of love
crime and war" His name is Pablo
Santana Bentis, 80 years Old. a native
of Consolation del Sure, province Of
pinar del Rio. Seven years ago he kill
ed a man as the outcome of love affair
Twenty-four years was the sentence
For seven Of these Bcntis lay in the
carcel de In Pauta, the Havana prison.
\ month and Il half ago he was put III
Il chain gang and set to work on the
Notifications. His duty was wheeling
sand at sand battery No. |, east on
MORO. They gave him nothing to eat
but n few beans, he said, and he was
almost starved Thursday last while the
guard was at lunch he and fellow CON
Wet made their escape. They ran INTO
the woods and were soon safely away.
For three days they made their way
through thicket and brush, GLIDING the
Spanish soldiers. until they reached the
water on Sunday. But at the last mo-
mcnt the other man became panic
stricken and ran back to the woods.
Bentis knew little of the war, but
when asked if he was II patriot. he re-
piled:
III fight for America" There are
between and four hundred men working
on the sand battery from which he es-
caped. he said. and big forces are at
work on all the Notifications around
Havana. Some information had been
given him as to the conditions prevail
ing in the Cuban capital. The poor
are starving in the streets, he asserted.
The Spanish soldiers are on half ra-
| lions. Bread brings sixty cents per
| pound. beef costs forty cents and pork
| is sold for 80 cents a pound
| Bentis has Il brother ut Palma, Isl
and of Majorca, The prisoner Will be
turned over to Commodore Watson.
The German warship Geicr has not yet
come out of Havana harbor."
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GOMEZ NEEDS SUPPLIES.
Has Received Practically Nothing from
Relief Expeditions.

Has Received Practically Nothing from
Relief Expeditions.
Key West. Fla, June 2S.-Gcneral
Julie Sanguilly and staff with an escort
of twenty-five cavalrymen We're on June
+ 20 three miles from the Cuban seat of
government, La Esperanza, province of
Puerto Principe. They landed at Banes
from the first Florida expedition and
were on their way to report to President
Masso. after which they expected to
join General Gomez. at Las Delicias, III
the district of Remedies, province of
Santa Clara.
General Gomez is in urgent need of
clothes. rifles and ammunition. Colonel
Bernabe. BOA. General Gomez chief of
staff who is in Key West, brought
from his commander list of supplies
needed by his army. He asks for each
of his brigades 800 infantry rifles, 600
cavalry rifles, one dynamite gun and
! 800 machetes. These arms, General
Gomez says. are needed for unarmed
men lie also asks for clothes, shoes,
medicine and food.
For thirteen months General Gomez
has received practically nothing from the
iilibustering expeditions, owing to the diff
ficuty of landing on the Santa Clara
coast, as compared with Santiago de
Cuba.
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spANIARDS FIGHTING HARD.
Two Attempts Against the Life of Agui-
naldO.

London, June 2S.-A dispatch to the
Daily Telegraph from Manila says:
The report that Germany will not
permit bOmbardment is exciting deel
irretation in the American fleet. Adj
miral Dewey intends to demand capitu-
lation the instant reinforcements arrive
He told Prince Henry, Of Prussia, thai
he would be glad to see the German Off
GERS Mt Manila. but it would be well to
caution them to keep out of the Ameri
can line of fire. 1t remains to be seen
whether Germany has really given such
promises as are pretended. Two at
tempts have been made on the life of
Agunaldo to secure the reward placed
on his head.
The situation is growing unbearable.
The beSieging force gives us no rest and
the work of the Spanish troops on the
line defence is terrible. They are
fighting with the desperation Of despair.
They have no nourishing food and Col
DAYS have been reduced to eating wild
birds and she'll fish, still with starvation
staring them in the face they held their
posts and fight with the courage of their
race.
''The population is in n state of terror.
No details have reached here as to- the
fate of Captain General Augustus fami-
ly. The provincial garrisons have been
starved into surrender. The belief is
entertained that Germany will interfere.
There are now seven German warships
in the BAY"
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SPIES BROUGHT TO THE FORT

Atlanta. Ga, June 2S.-Four suppos -
Spanish spies reached Fort Mcpherson
to-day. One Of them is Private Freder-
lex j. G. Lenhurst, of the Fourth Army
Corps. He is supposed to have entered
the army to enable him to carry on his
secret operations without attracting sus-
picion. He was arrested at Tampa and,
pending investigation of the charges
against him, was sent to Fort Nc
Pherson.
The three other suspects are officially
known as Thorbio Negrin, deserter
from the Spanish Navy, Jose MARTINEZ
and Juan Rodriguez, alias Spanish
john They are thought to have been
obtaining information about the fortii-
cations for the use of their government.
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SUPPOSED SPY CAUGHT.

New York, June 2S.-Jesus Asceved0,
n Porto Rican, who arrived here ycster-
day on the steamer Pretoria. from St
Thomas, ID. W. L., was arrested to-day
on suspicion of being a spy, and is held
pending an investigation.
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them. If they ned no more than can be
supplied from SIMPSONS fleet, they will
start according to orders from Santiago
but if further supplies and equipment
are needed. the vessels must be cleaned
first: then they probably will be sent
north to Hampton Roads. Meanwhile
there is no mistaking the earnestness of
the Navy Department in preparing this
squadron for the European service.
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Win your battles against disease by
acting promptly. One Minute Cough
Cure produces immediate results. When
taken early it prevents consumption.
And in later stages it furnishes prompt
relief. Heartt & HeaItt.
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THE VALENCIA FOR MANILA.
Sails With Seven Hundred Troops from
the DakOtaS

San Francisco. June 2S.-The trans
port steamer Valencia with 700 troops
from the Dakotas sailed for the Philip
pines at five O'Clock this afternoon. She
expects to reach Honolulu only n few
hours after the four vessels which left
this port yesterday.
General Merritt expects to sail on the
Newport tomorrow morning with the
Third L. $. artillery and Astor battery.
With the advantage of n faster boat
General Merritt will probably reach
Manila week in advance Of the Third
expedition. The Newport can easily
make IS knots an hour.
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QUARANTINE TO BE RAISED.

Jackson. Miss, June 2S.-Secretary
Hunter, of the State Board of Health,
announces that the quarantine will be
raised from the town of Gulfport to-
morrow. Secretary Hunter regards the
yellow fever epidemic at an end
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CAMARA'S FLEET IN BAD ORDER
Naval Officers Laugh at the Idea Of It's
Going to Philippines.

London. June 2S.-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Port Said, says:
"a distinguished naval officer, who
has examined Admiral Camara's ships
carefully, laugh at the idea of Admiral
Camara attempting to reach Manila.
The Spaniards, he says, are wise to
keep the feet out of the Americans way.
The battleship Pelayo and the armored
cruiser Emperador are in scandalous dis
repair, indeed are hardly seaworthy,
while it will be impossible for the tor
pedo boat destroyers to get far. The
Spaniards cannot keep the engines
trimmed
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A STEP FOR PEACE.

London, June 2S.-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Morning Post. says:
admiral Cervera, it is rumored in
personal circles, will Immediately under
take steps, the probable result of which
will be favorable to peace.
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Chapel Hill. N. G.
Guilford College, N. 6.

Five large buildings; faculty Of ten able
teachers, courses Of study leading to de-
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board and room So per month; in clubs SO
per month. Total expenses for year need
not exceed $133. and can be easily re-
duced to 500. Correspondent solicited.
Catalogue free. Address
GUILFORD COLLEGE, n. G.
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THE UNIVERSITY

Largest patronage and fullest equip
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dents, sos; 3 Academic Courses; 3 Flee
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Advanced Glasses open to women.
Tuition $50 a year; Board So a month.
Ample opportunities for self-help. Schol-
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mcr School for Teachers; "a Instruc-
tors. 1SJ Students. Total enrolment
60 For Catalogue. address,
PRESIDENT ALDERMAN,
Chapel Hill. n. G.
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For the Landing of Her Marines Z
Manila.

London, June 29.-The Berlin cores
pendent of the Daily News says:
THE following semi-oIficial note has
been published here apparently with the
object of preparing the world for the
landing of German marines at Manila
LAS vet no statement has reached here
about the landing of German marines at
Manila, but it is Il matter of course that
Admiral Won Diedrich will interfere rs
soon rs it may become necessary for
the protection of Germans there. Such
measure would have no political sig
nificance whatever. Neither at Wash
ington nor at Madrid have negotiations
occurred on this matter
'The assurance that a landing of ma
rineS would have no political significance
is very nice. The only question is wheth-
cr the United States and the powers will
share this opinion or whether the other
powers see in the landing an act of in
reference compelling them to follow
suit"
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camp all day preparing the ground o
and went into camp at
of Colonel Ferry They
week the here 1t took eighty cars an" Tour engines
bring them -. ,,, . H., has,
ing an honor discharge.
ball cartridges ISSUED 10 the
Carolina regiment to-day
TAR HEELS HAVE GUNS.
in the the hands of the
Inspector has pronounced them and recon-
Following this Genera" Burt ordered an in
a l. rshinger the
ordnance officer report showing 2 out 1872
drill On of them the ham
e loose and the stock vee
would dangerous for the man using them as Tor
M one on whom they were being used
would explode be otherwise rendered useless AFTER Jew
When that Spanish armed with Mauser
rifles and using nokess powder would be to
against them with Springfield rifles of the "
and charged with ordinary black powder ammunition NOT
but in attempting to do they
make target of themselves
this best
apri the condition of affairs here and
issued before the troops ordered into c
tive service
COLONEL cowLEs IN ANIMousIH ENDORSED
pleasure that Lieutenant Colonel CALVIN
D. Cowl appointed Recognizing him sol
distinguished service they rejoice that this
about him Since his appointment as n
tenant has not discharged
with ability but in such manner as to greatly eneal
Just twenynne years Point graduating
Since that time he has been from time to time
a Indian the West Al
tasks allotted to his varying rank
Bigadier General to him. will come
military ability and for political
No surprised than Colonel Cowes when was
Sunday that The North Gar9na desaSn Consres had Se
did disturb his calm de
WHO WOULD SUCCEED cowLEs
Anticipating Colonel cow appointment Colonel Amhed has Sgrapn
Pearson Davis now at successor Gov
a%ds for a sRs th sa eap @a 9 Ta W.
a bsss and a p"'ion cas-
Concord company smith ranking major and
captain captain R.a@ s as sas'a @ sS " "
A YELLOW SUNDAY.
10 Camp rnaa Cuba @ sp a thee cn g w o r sna
1906 with sharp Ps s ad S ns w an 1
the malara and not yellow fever
by the s seeiaenia Kettle
. sss n, that Psss Ts s H ss es S n
.na VT" o sis7s q 1as s aa % ,o%p. 9 ns'a o
A COMPLIMENTARY GERMAN.
Carolina brilliant german
at @'@ and 1 rsa a"f fos s 'a fha
While german Assistant Surgeon
Mrs. n aff"1" i1srss
Gibbons Mrs W Young
ng figures United
Hne received and 800 blankets for
entitled
SHINE s New York and a., Baltimore ins}os
mansuT for officers unior
NOVEL METHOD or PUNISHMENT.
there is continually in
trouble Captain lsnt has tried all sorts of punishment of which
the guard Captain Bessant had
all method
attracte
Mcneil of White Oak Robson sends package Of
much
An while bathing Pablo
After rescued sometime
izensof Portsmouth, News
handsome stand of co the Fourth Virginia regiment
SecondM "A is
blankets clothing Many them
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kind
TAR HEELS WATCHING GENERAL LAYTON.
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DENY GERMAN INTERFERENCE

London. June 2S.-Thc Hong Kong
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
telcgraphing Tuesday says:
Il have consulted with German author
tiles who declare unanimously and en-
phatically that the reports from Manila
of German interference are impossible.
Whatever the Spanish may have said,
the German admiral has held no such
hopes or promises"
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TAR HEEL. BOYS
NKED NEW GUNS
COL Calvin D. Cowles Unanimously Endors
ed For Brigadier General.
Yellow Fever Scare on Sunday-A Novel Method of Punish
nlen--Genera Lee Moving to Camp Accident
to Members of the Shelby Company
Camp Cuba Libre. near Jacl

Jacksonville, FTa june u
the Windsor hote
busy all day preparing the ground o
and went into
of oohe
eighty four engines
Major left for AhevIle to-day hav
ing honorable discharge
-'
CAROLYN to-day
The herald., 1898-02-27

Miss Arley c. Mott of Santa Paula a
member of the silver-meda class of June
1913, OF the Los Angeles Conservatory of
Music and Arts, gave an interesting piano
lecital Tuesday afternoon at the Y. M. c.
A.. hall. Earl B. Valentine violin; as
listed. The recital was given under the
lrection or Mrs. Emily j. Valentine. A
arge audience was present and Miss Mott
VINO is but IL, presented a program of am
bilious numbers, creditably.
The herald., 1898-02-27
Firearms Are Not TOYS

Two more deaths have lately resulted
from didn't know it was loaded" accidents
"a mother killing her babe, and a boy al
most having his head blown off. Revolvers
and guns are dangerous under all circum-
stances. Firearms are not toys. 1t is also
unsafe to trif1e with what are termed
minor ailments Insignificant though they
seem at first, they are likely, If precau-
tions against their further development are
neglected, or they are unwisely treated, to
develop into maladies of dangerous and
complex magnitude. The best way is to
arrest their progress at the start with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which checks
constipation, liver complaint and rheumat-
ism. malaria, kidney trouble and nervous
ness. A decline in health is something
we cannot afford to disregard. Nature al
ways exacts a severe penalty for contin-
uous heedlessness OF her warnings. In
dependently of Its sterling efficacy as a
specinc for chronic maladies tho Bitters
is a superb tonic and promoter of annetite
and sleep.
The herald., 1898-02-27

Wandering Soul" Chadwick, Miss Stone
man, Prof. Morrison and Mr.. Zinck So
prano, THE Abbey Portals. "Harriss; quar-
tet Come Holy Spirit. Come" Koschat;
organ, offertory. Petrali; quartet. 1.-THE
King of Love" Shelley; organ, procession
al march, Guiraud
Tho music at Plymouth Congregational
church this morning will be: Anthem.
'Benedictus." Cherubini; offertory, Hear
Our Praises" Holman: duet, Mrs. Wyatt
and Mr.. Coombes, The evensong music
will be: Anthem, 20, Gladstone Light,
Golden Legend), Sullivan; offertory, solo,
selected, Mr.. Huebner.
The music at st. Pauls church today will
include: Voluntary, War March of the
Priests" Mendelssohn; organ and orches-
ira, "Venite," Trenton; "Benedicte,
Best; "Benedictus." Staner; hymn
Christian, Dost Thou See Them?"; offer
tory, Deliver Me, o Lord" Suainer. Full
choral even song; Tails Magnifcat Nunc
Dimmittis," Garrett; offertery Lord God
of Abraham" from the Elijah.
The following program will be rendered
at st. Vincents church this morning
Gounods st. Cecilia mass entire. the solo
lists being Herr and Nine. Rubo. Mrs Toll
hurst, Mrs. Ibbetson, Messrs Osgood
Jochum, Weeks. Before the sermon I.u-
cantonis "Veni Creator will be sung by
Mrs Rubo. The offertory number, "Cujus
Animam, from ROssini's Stabat Mater
will be sung by Mr.. Osgood. Prof. Wilde
will preside at the organ.
The herald., 1898-02-27

lows, etc, which shelter young frs and
other trees. In fifty years the confers are
uppermost, and in 100 the other are dying
out beneath the pine wood.
The difference in the condition of the
throats of public speakers and singers since
the introduction of electric light is most
marked. They have less irritation and
less wearness during and after their per-
formanceS. This Is accounted for on the
| theory that gas and other flames dried out
the atmosphere, and consumed atmospher-
ical elements necessary to the best con-
dition of the organs In addition to this,
the temperature is more even and there is
less danger from gas currents. Where any
great number of gas jets are used, the air
at the ceiling of a room has the vitality
totally burned out of it and is heated to u
very high temperature. An open door or
window letting in fresh air creates violent
agitation in the air, and sometimes sets
gusts of air whirlng through the room,
especially at the somewhat raised portion
where the performers are situated A spe-
cialst In throat troubles thinks that what
is known as singers sore throat may be-
come less frequent when electric lights arc
universally adopted.
Ice has the property peculiar to bodies
which expand OH freozing--of liquefying
uilucl pressure anu SDliully lDB again Wncn
the pressure has been removed. Consc-
quently the weight Of any body moving
upon sheet of ice causes the formation of
thin layer of water, which separates 1t
from the ice, and thus, by reducing the
friction to a minimum. enables 1t to move
smoothly over the surface-i.e., makes the
ice more slippery" On glass, on the
contrary, this liquid medium is wanting,
so that the two solid and unyielding bod
les come into actual physical contact, caus-
ing friction, which, in spite of the smooth
ness of the glass, considerably retards the
motion of the body. If two smooth sheets
of glass be taken, and u few drops of
water sprinkled over the one, and the
other placed above 1t, thin layer of
water will be formed, and until this layer
has been pressed out, the upper glass will
move on the other as smoothly as If on ice.
This peculiar property of ice is due to the
effect of pressure in lowering the freezing
point of water, so that whenever ice is
subjected to great pressure it partially
meltS.
The herald., 1898-02-27
HANDWRITINGS

Rudyard Kipling writes a neat delicate
hand and Conan Doyle'S is as plain as the
proverbial pikestaff, but both use ma-
chimes. 1t would have saved deal Of
misery, and helped to perpetuate useful
art, IL other writers of eminence could have
been prevailed upon to type" Unfor-
tunately, the typewriter was too belated
an invention to affect many of the best bad
writer's Carlyle would not have struggled
with a keyboard, but it would have pre-
vented that miserable compostor fleeing
from Edinburgh to London out of his way
If he had. Carlyle's, however, was cop
per-plate to others that could be men,
toned. Hubo's manuscripts, we are told.
presented the appearance of a sort Of bat
tlefield on paper, In which the killed words
were well stamped out, and the new re-
cruits pushed forward in anything but
good order. Napoleon was unique in
everything, even in his handwriting. His
letters from Germany to Josephine were at
first taken for maps of the seat of war. And
his signature was an indiStinguishable
heiroglyphic. Byron and Dean Stanley
wrote atrocious fists" and it is said that
Sidney Smiths was no better, although he
used to chaff Jeffrey badly. He used to
say that he read Jeffrey from left to right,
and his wife from right to left, but neither
could make out syllable. Jules Janin
would rather rewrite than attempt to read
over what he had written, and Montague
could never read what he had written. The
acute thinker mended matters by employ
ing secretary-whose writing was abso-
lutely undecipherable. Balzac was as big
sinner, and Dickens microscopic charac-
ters, written on blue paper, with blue ink
appalled, many seasoned compositors. A
terrible hand had Henry Ward Beecher;
his daughter once declared that she had
three guiding rules in copying tiff let
ter was dotted 1t was not an a." and If 1t
was crossed it was not st." and word
with capital letter did not begin a SEN
tence.-London Globe.
The herald., 1898-02-27

The nervous system, says Prof. w. Fl.
Thomson, has u greater store of reserve
vitality than all the other bodily system
together, and is the only texture that does
not lose weight in death by starvation or
other cause. 1t is the last to grow old. AS to
the mind it need not grow old at all, provid-
ed 1t be supplied with the mighty stimulus
called interest, by which it will grow stead
lily, even while bone and sinew are wasting
through age.
The herald., 1898-02-27
Music at the Churches

At Unity church the music this morn.
mg will include: Serenade, Taft. ave
Stand in Deep Repentance" Mensslssobn
effertory. Now the Shades of Night Are
Cone" Morsell, Mr.. T. e. Rowan. ir
march, Silas. go
The Cathedral choir will sing the mass
N E-fat by E. Kretchmer at the 10 80 morn.
ing services today. The soloists arc. Miss
Eisenmayer. soprano; Miss Lille scanlon
eontralto; Mr.. Carl 8. Thrower, tenor ana
Mr Joseph Scott bass. For offertory Miss
Eisenmayer and Miss Scanlon will sing
The duet. "Quis Est Homo" from the STA
bat Mater. by Rossini. Mr.. A. ]. stamm
prganist.
A praise service will be given at Simpson
tabernacle this evening at 1880, with tho
following excellent quartet and soloists.
Mrs. peiphtne Todd Colby, soprano; Miss
Adele stoneman. alto; Prof. D. Fl. Morri-
ION, bass, and J. Haas-Zinck, tenor; Frank
II. Colby, organist. The following musical
purnbers will be given: Organ, informing. .
from Peer Gynt Suite" Grieg; quartet
God Is a Spirit" Bcnnet; tenor, "Cru-
ladsr's Song" Gade; trio. " o Cease My
The herald., 1898-02-27
Slow Errand Runners

Five years ago young Barkley Geary, son
of farmer living near Westmoreland, was
sent to bring up the family COW. Nothing
was seen or heard of him until last Satur-
day night when he drove the COW to the
barn, entered the house, hung up his cap
on its accustomed peg and told his mother
that he would milk after supper. He re-
fuses to tell where he spent the five years
beyond declaring that he was out hunting
the cow.-Kansas City Star.
Nine years ago Thomas Larkin of Morris,
Mimi. the son of widow, was sent on an
errand by his mother. Instead of doing the
errand Thomas disappeared, and nothing
was heard of him until last week. when he
returned with the article he had been sent
for. When Thomas was told to go to the
store by his mother he decided that he had
lived in Morris long enough and that he
would seek his fortune out in the wide
world.-Chicago Chronicle.