Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-07-01
LATER NEWS.

tive point OF Camara's fleet is not Ma
Mia, but Hawaii and finally San Fran
cisco.
A Madrid dispatch this afternoon
says the Spanish government Is active
ly preparing to dispatch reinforcements
to Porto Rico by the first available
transportation.
A special dispatch from Fiume, a
seaport town OF Austio-Hungary says
an Austrian vessel is on her way to the
| Philippines with 500 torpedos, Fin
tended for the Spanish fleet"
The navy department on Monday
posted the following bulletin: Com
modore Watson sails today on the New
ark to join Sampson, when he will
take under his command an armored
squadron with the cruisers and proceed
at once off the Spanish coast" Wat
sons Eastern squadron" consists OF
the Newark, Iowa, Oregon, Yosemite,
Yankee, Dixie and three c~olliers. They
leave Santiago Immediately.
-Four batteries Of American artil-
lery and a gatling gun have been
placed on a hill overlooking the basin
in which Santiago lies. The American
troops were within 200 yards of the
Spanish entertainments last Sunday
night. 1t is believed that more
artillery will be necessary before an
assault can be made upon the Spanish
works. All the hills about Santiago
are covered with block houses. There
are "a lines OF intrenchments and be-
hind them are four lines of rifle pits,
while the fronts are secured by rows OF
barbed wire.
A dispatch from Port Antonio SAYS
that while the dynamite cruiser Vesu-
vius was making observations along
the inner harbOr Of Santiago a few
nights ago. ample evidence was dis
covered that the sunken collier MerIi-
mac does not completely blockade the
channel. Further information develops
tn fact that two battle-ships can enter
the hrarbor abreast, one passing on
each side Of the Merrimac. This will
be OF great advantage to Sampson when
the final attack on Santiago begins.
Lieutenant Hobson and his men are
still in communication with the fleet.
There is little prospect that they will
be exchanged before the attack on
Santiago is made.
Blanco has issued a proclamation an
n~ouncing that any one daring to en-
press an u~nfavorable opinion of, or sus-
pected of being dissatisid with the
present policy Of the government, will
be summarily shot without trial or
investigation. This proclamation, it
appears, caused dissatisfaction among
the members OF the police force, who
threatened to revolt if full rations were
not given them. 1t is expected that,
as the police is a numerous body, tlou-
BILE will result. Spanish infantry and
artillery soldiers are maintaining guard
over them at every corner. Famine, it
seems, is imminent, and stories of sup.
plies for Havana coming via Batabano
are reported to be untrue.
Thursday a detachment OF ITO Gu
bans collided with the Spanish rear
guard. The Cubans lost two men kill
ed. The Spanish loss is not known.
The navy department has received
a cablegram from Sampson, saying the
Spaniards at Santiago report that Hob
son and his companions are well. They
are confined -four miles from Moro.
Thursday night, the American army
OF invasion had reached on its advance
the edge OF the table land on which the
harbor of Santiago de Cuba lies. Here.
seven miles from Moro castle, the
main body of troops united, and the
Spaniards We're in full retreat towart
Santiago.
Admiral Sampson is now in con,
slant and practically immediate cable
communication with the navy depart
ment. Six dispatches were received il
rapid succession through the early
hours Friday morning. They showed
that only half an hour elapsed between
the filing OF the message by the admira
and the receipt of 1T in Washington.
General Lawton's brigade, which
rested Thursday at Demajayabo, fou
miles west of DaiQuiri, resumed it.
march at daylight. Before noon hi
brigade, consisting OF the Second Mas
sachusetts, the Twelfth infantry, tn
First battalion OF the Fourth infantry
two companies OF the Tenth infantry
and the Second battalion of the FourtI
infantry, occupied Juragua, five mile
beyond, and the American flag wa
hoisted there. The Spaniards retire
before the advance of the Americans
which was covered by Cuban skirmish
ers, burning the block houses as the
went.
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