VOL. LXXI.
DEWEY'S GREAT VICTORY.
FULL STORY OF HOW HE DID UP
THE SPANIARDS
He Controls Maunlls Harbor, and Wants
More Men to Take the Philippines.
Destroyed 11 Spanish Vessels and
Captured Many More.
Commodore Dewey arrived off Ma-
nila bay Saturday night, April 30, and
decided to enter the bay at once. With
all its lights out the squadron steam-
their igo slackened, On Balsbing this
the Stat and 2 they had “been
at the guns two hours with only one
cup of coffee to sustain them. Action
ceased temporarily for a time, the oth-
er ships passing the flagship and cheer-
ing lustily. Our ships remained
yond range of the enemy’s guns until
10 minutes past 11 o'clock, when the
signal for close action again went up.
The Baltimore had the place of honor
in the lead, with the flagship follow-
ing and the other ships as before,
be-
o'clock, making a series of hits as if at
guns. This was the order of the squa-
time of the first battle.
the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Ral-
eigh, the Petrel, the Concord and the
Boston,
It was just eight o'clock, a bright
moonlight night. But the flagship
target practice.
Raleigh, the Boston,
harbor and destroy all the
ships. By her light
Petrel was enabled move within |
1,000 yards. Her firing swiftly, but]
enemy's
draft the little
to
passed Correigidor island without a |
sign being given that Spaniards were
aware of its approach, Not until the |
flagship was a mile beyond Corregidor |
island was a gun fired; then one heavy
shot went screaming over the Raleigh |
and the Olympia, followed by a sec-|
ond, which fell further astern. The |
Raleigh, and Concord aud the Boston |
replied, the Concord’s shells exploding |
apparently exactly inside the shore |
battery, which fired more, Our |
squadron slowed down to barely steer- |
way and the men were allowed to sleep |
alongside their guns. Commodore
Dewey had timed our arrival so that
we were within five miles of the city
of Manila at daybreak.
no
We then sighted the Spanish squad-|
ron, Rear Admiral Montejo, command-
ing, off Cavite. Here the Spaniards |
had a well-equipped navy yard called
Cavite arsenal. Admiral Montejo's
flagship was the 3,500-ton protected |
cruiser Reina Christiana; the protected |
cruiser Castilla, of tons, was |
moored ahead, and astern to the port |
battery and to seaward were the cruis- |
ers Don Juan de Austria, Don Anto- |
nia de Ulloa, Isle de Cuba, Isle de Lu- |
zon, Quiros, Marquis del Duero and
General Lezon. These ships and the
flagship remained under way during |
most of the action. With the Ameri- |
can flag flying at all their mast heads,
our ships moved to the attack in line
ahead with a speed of eight knots, first
passing in front of Manila, where the
action was begun by three
mounting guns powerful to
send a shell over us at a of
five miles. The Concord’s guns boom- |
ed out a reply to these batteries with
two shots. No more were fired,
cause Commodore Dewey could not en-
gage with these batteries without send-
ing death and destruction into the]
crowded city, As we neared Cavite
two very powerful submarine mines |
were exploded ahead of the flagship.
This was six minutes past 5 o'clock.
The Spaniards evidently had
judged our position. Immense
umes of water were thrown high in|
the air by these destroyers, but no
harm was done to our ships. Commo- |
dore Dewey had fought with Farragut |
at New Orleans and Mobile bay, where |
he had his first experience with torpe- |
does. Yot knowing how many more |
mines there might be ahead, he still |
kept cn without faltering. No other |
mines axploded, however, and it is be |
lieved that the Spaniards had only |
these two in place. i
Protected by their shore
and made safe by close attack by shal-
low water, the Bpaniards were in a
strong position.
They put up a gallant fight. The
Spanish ships were sailing back and
forth behind the Castilla, and their
fire was hot. One shot struck the Bal-
timore and went clean through her,
fortunately hitting no one. Another
ripped up her main deck, disabled a
six-inch gun and exploded a box of
three-pounder ammunition, wounding
eight men. The Olympia was struck
abreast the gun in the ward room by a
shell which burst outside, doing little
damage. The signal halyard were cut
from Lieut. Brumbay's hand on the
after bridge. A shell entered the Bos-
ton's port quarter and burst in Ensign
Dodridge’s state room, starting a hot
fire, and fire was also caused by a shell
which burst in the port hammock net-
ting. Both these fires were quickly
put out.
Another shell passed through the
Boston's foremast, just in front of
Capt. Wildes on the bridge. After
having made four runs along the Span-
ish line, finding the chart incorrect,
Liet. Calkins, the Olympia’s navigator
told the commodore he believed he
could take the ship nearer the enemy,
with lead going to watch the depth of
water,
The flagship started over the course
for the fifth time, running within 2.
000 yards of the Spanish vessels. At
this range even six-pounders were ef-
fective, and the storm of shells poured
upon the unfortunate Spanish began
to show marked results. Three of the
3,200
|
batteries
enough
distance
ber
mis- |
vol-
batteries
accurately, she commanded eveything
Only a few minutes later the shore]
| battery in Cavite point sent over the
flagship a shot that nearly hit the bat-
tery in Manila, but soon the guns
a better range and the shells began to |
strike near us or burst
from both the batteries and the Span-|
| ish vessels, The heat was intense and |
| men stripped off clothing except their
As the Olympia came near-
er all was as silent on board as if the
|ship had been empty except for the |
| whirr of blowers and the throb of
got
close aboard |
it rousers,
en
gines,
The Olympia was now
new the fight.
his chief and staft
and myself,
Lieutenant Rees
‘alkins,
to
Dewey,
ready re-
Commodore
Lam-!
with Ex-|
commander,
| berton, and aide
ecutive Officer
Navigator Lieutenant (
and
who
on the forward bridge. Capt. Gridley
was in the conning tower, it
| thought unsafe to risk losing all the}
senior officers by one shell. “You may
fire when ready, Gridle,” said the com- |
| modore at 41 minutes past 5 o'clock.
At a distance of 5,500 yards t star- |
board 8-inch gun in the
ain Was |
he
forward tur
Presently similar guns |
and the
shells hurling
the Reina C
The Spaniards
Spanish forts.
| from the Baltimore Boston
toward |
hiristina
for accuracy. seemed
knowing ex-
while we had to
guess theirs,
Their ship and shore guns were mak-
ing things hot for The
often
bursting of time fuse shells
y would the
us, plercing
by the
lash water like
ng.
shell
at the
bridge fortunately fell within lesa than
cut the |
actly over the heads of Lam- |
berton, and myself. Another
struck the bridge gratings in line with
it. A third passed just under Com- |
hole in |
the deck. Still the flagship stood in |
the center of the Spanish line, and, as
One large that was coming
One fragment
He ]
fire.
ommo- |
received most of the Spaniards’
Owing to her deep draught C
dore Dewey felt constrained to change
{and run parallel to the Spanish
umn.
“Open with all guns,”
the ship brought
col-
he said, i
her port broadside |
The roar of all the ship's 5- |
was followed by al
deep diapason of her turret eight-inch- |
ers.
and
Soon our other vessels were equal- |
not very far north of Manila, Saturday |
afternoon, April 30, all the command. |
them by the commodore. The
was executed reflects equal credit upon
of battles
Never in the history
harm to the victors, Not
American was killed. Every
can ship is ready to fight another sim-
action tomorrow morning. The
{ complete victory was the product of
forethought, well-balanced
ment, discipline and bravery,
the Spaniards,
one
cool, judg.
The po-
bad
Ug
tage.
aim of the Spanish
| from a terrible
Where every vessel in the American
fleet proved itself so efficient 1 cannot
Only our good luck or the
gunners saved
Joss of life,
draw distinctions, but when the ships
over
those for the
were given to the gun-boat
| During the first hour of the figis
Spanish torpedo boat was seen sneaking
of the
the heartiest cheers
heard after commodore
ahead Olympia.
and plucky dash at the
| flagship. The commander of that Span- |
been ignorant of |
modern guns or utterly
indifferent to death. Not until she had |
have
power of
di
she reached the
pia's sect 1 the daring
little
mdary battery
boat turn back.
drowning. Two other Spanish torpedo | f
boats made more cautious attempts to
harbor to attack us,
but one was immediately
fire and the other abandoned the at-
i
|
i
i
}
|
As Gov, Gen, Augusti failed to com-
ply with Commodore Dewey's de ynand
to Hong
after Sunday's battle, the eo
for the use of the cable Kong |
wnmodore
cable on Mon-
Documents captured in the ar-
the
day.
senal at Cavite show that the Spanish |
war had ded
make their fight against the Americ
h
aniages for
naval council of deci to
mn
Subig
a place
adv
found in Manila bay.
ships in bay, wing
much stronger nat
Comm odore
Dewey's promptness in
Mirs bay
to this |
-
fleet from
prevented them fre mov
ion,
yn ing
posit
i ars — —
Marriage Licenses,
The f{
were
marriage lic
the
11 agri
Hiowing CNR0E
issued duriog pasi week:
Sweeny,
Potter tw Pp. :
Worth
Taylor twp.
Gertrude
Samue I Woodring, of twp.,
and Minnie L. Btiner, of
H. Herbert Stover and Sty- |
Adam Yearick, of Marion twp., and |
Mrs. Louisa Stover of Miles tow nship.
Jacob C. Runkle and Ada Allen both
of ro twp.
. Johnsonbaugh, of Bellefonte,
Li H. Stover, of Aaronsburg.
Harter, of Mill- |
of Hartle- |
(100,
Washington
and Emma Vanatta,
(eo,
heim,
(:. BSwabb and Georgiana!
of Bellefonte.
No More “Unknown \
‘hen the men of the regular and
volunteer armies go into action they |
Harry
EE a
of aluminum, by which they may be
THE WAR HAS AFFECTED THE OP-
POSING SENATORS
the Great Naval
Victory of Dewey ~Troops to be Sent
to Manila at Once to Occupy the
Island,
WASHINGTON, May 9.
could scarcely further
than when it caused Senator Hanna,
thusiasm go
received Commodore Dewey's official
destruc- |
the de-
nila harbor, resulting in the
molition of heavy shore
the placing of the Philippine Islands |
under the stars and stripes, to propose
three ! They
crowd
Department,
cheers for Dewey
gath-
ered in the Navy inciud-
ing many newspaper men and Sena-
tor Tillman. But even more gstonish-
than (
that his victory was won
ing ‘ommodore Dewey's report
without
f
| loss of a man, or the injury of
and with only six men
what followed.
Hanna, two men
wounded,
Senators Tillman and |
different
be
ns
could
i
{
i
widely
everything as possibly
arms
House
wked
White
together,
walked over to the iF
victory with Mr. McKinley.
seeing that the most of us are
ry
or any sort of a miracle
Secretary Long, in the
abled
name
Commodore
Admiral,
, and Cong
reas
the thanks of the people
|
ommitiee ten-
of C
additional
in order that the
on can be given to Dewey.
ers have been issued for t
from the House naval ¢
the thanks ONngress
also a bill creating an
admiral in the navy,
it
he for-
ten thousand troops from
the Philippine
lands at the earliest
Ord
San Francisco to
possible
are that they
The
prize
ares
tation
15th
bi
and present expec
ig
the inst,
{ Philippine Islands are a bigger
Their
t!
| than most pre ple BU ppose
cent, greater than iat of
New York, New Jer-
and Delaware combined,
is ten per
Maryland,
and their estimated populs
The fact
known, either,
the commerce of the
the U
The next important
ted to come
it may come
>
tion 1% about
is not
than
islands
generally
that more half of
is with
. RB,
war
vicinity
It
from the
hour.
the
a
is
any
easier to get a commission in vole
unteer army than it is to get direct
it from officials of either the War or
Navy Deg but they c
disguise their expectancy.
Admiral
sieved to be
hit
the wart ment,
fleet, which is Ix in the vi-
{ with the double task of whipping the
The first sec.
i
i
i
i
i
and
ba.
Camping grounds for twenty- five or |
ed ia Virginia, several miles from
of the Na-
Mr. McKinley stood up well
social and political
{ brought to bear upon him in favor of a
our shélls were making Cavite harbor |
hotter for the Spaniards than they had
made the approach for us.
Other ships were also doing their
whole duty, and soon not one red and
yellow ensign remained aloft, except
on a battery up the coast. The Span-
ish flagship and the Castilla had long
been burning fiercely and the last ves-
sel to be abandoned was the Don An-
tonia de Alloa, which lurched over
and sank. Then the Spanish flag on
the arsenal staf was hauled down and
at 12.30 o'clock a white flag was hoist-
ed there. Signal was made to the Pe-
trel to destroy all vessels in the inner
harbor, and Lieut. Hughes, with an
armed boat crew, set fire to the Don
Juan de Austria, Marquis Duero, the
Isle de Cuba and the Correo, The
large transport Manila and the many
tug boats and small craft fell into our
hands.
“Capture or destroy Spanish squa-
dron,”” were Dewey's orders. Never
were instructions more effectually car-
ried out. Within seven hours after ar-
riving on the scene of action nothing
remained to be done.
On the day he sailed from Mirs bay
to go in search of the enemy, Commo-
dore Dewey remarked to the officers
grouped around him that he proposed
to fight the Spaniards on the very first
believed would be the following Bun-
enemy's vessels were seen burning and
day. When we arrived off Subig bay,
battle. In the last war it was often
impossible to properly identify the |
dead, and thousands were buried in
graves marked “unidentified.” The]
war department has prepared this sys. |
tem of identification, and it has been |
decided that on each tag shall be the!
numeral assigned each man on the |
muster rolls, with the letter of his
company, battery, or troop, and his
regiment. These tags will be sent to
the troops in the south when it is evi-
dent that a fight is on hand.
School Eatertainment, -*
The grammar school will hold an
entertainment Saturday evening in
the auditorium in Grange park. Plays,
tableaux, mucie, recitations, ete., will
be on the program. The scholars have
been rehearsing for several weeks and
an interesting program has been pre-
pared. Admission 10 cents,
Fatal Wreek,
Twenty loaded freight cars on the
Bald Eagle Valley railroad, near Mill
Hall, were wrecked Tuesday afternoon
by a broken axle. Two tramps who
were riding tn a box car were killed
and their bodies are beneath the wreck-
age.
To Purchase a Flag,
The school board is considering the
purchase of a large flag to float from
: ®
in the volunteer army, and shut them
men
for those positions, all from the regu-
erals—Fitz Lee, of Va, Joe Wheeler,
{of Ala., Senator Sewell, of New Jersey,
and James H. Wilson, of Del., all of
whom were generals in the late war
and three of whom are graduates at
West Point. But, unless the reports
that such men as young John A. Lo-
gan, known only as a loud dresser and
horsey social zwdll, and Russell A.
Harrison, known to the tcadies when
his father was President as “Prince
Russ,”’ who has made failure after fail-
ure in the business world, are to be
commissioned as colonels and given
staff’ positions, are untrue, he is going
to fall down in making the staff ap-
pointments. Good staff officers are
considered as necessary to the success
of an army by military men as good
generals,
Secretary Gage was the man who
was credited last year with saying
that no changes should be made in his
department solely because of politics.
There have been numerous changes on
account of politics in his department,
but Mr. Gage has always been able to
escape responsibility by saying that he
nates as being ‘for the good of the ser-
the belfry of the school building.
vice.” Now, he has shown the cloven
:
i
]
foot by making a change
himself, in forcing the resignation
Worthington C. Ford, chief of the
reau of Statistics, and
to O. P, Austin, an attache of
publican National
had been thrown out
of
ju-
giving the piace |
the
Committee, who
by the
headquar- |
1
FVO~
of a job
closing of the Washington
Senator Jones, of Ark., who is a
member of the Fingnee committee, in-
ently made by Republicans that the
Democrats on that committee have de-
WAT revenue
before the
He who js |
responsible for the de Jay by calling at-
| tention to the fact that the of the
bill has
bill, which has been Com-
A week, hows
time
practically
ing
all been spent in consider-
z amendment proposed by Republi-
can Senators,
Conic
LL
War Talk,
Lo
between
“
massed at
and 50,-
rps for
New Major-Generals, ¥Fitzhugh
“Joe” Wheeler and J. ¥. Wil
Between sixty and eighty thousand
landed
Washington Post,
The
be
15.000
are
the
BOL.
men will be al once, says the
in Cuba.
Madrid
The troubles in Spain are be-
entire cabinet at in
IH
coming more threatening.
The English press lauds Dewey's
The first det Hx)
Ameri-
sun-
hment, 61.1
vade Cuba on
spain is in despair ; no work, no
Tai no bread ; {
but lots of
In the riot at
twelve persons were killed.
intri
i yr
ney, Ligue
rioting. Linares,
hanks for
$ 1
and the Manila victory and
y Rear Ad- |
Congress passed a vote of t
Dewey
provides for his promotion t
Four prisoners escaped from jail at |
hole
sing a rope
ibury by cu a through
i ladder.
wall and u
At
her |
Crew
did
were
Spaniards are treachers
Manila a
flag
nis people
lowered
Fae
sent to take possession of her.
the
Spanish ship
and then
fired at a al's
~he
r
wal our
her
not hit boat, | guns
and tore
ti
MW
10 pieces. |
went to the bot with yl |
prop-
Hi
board, and thus her perfi Was
y
ished.
With the and the
sels eaptured in the Cuban water
Manila fleet
cle has bagged
Spanish ships with rich cargoes.
It
Sam Over a soore
that
been sneaking
would seem Spain's Cape
around |
to do ori
fleet has
what
to avoid commodore
Sampson fleet. When
yank of them then
hear interesting news and the
fhe war.
ther to RO
and
Hes
his the
ACTOsS you'll
end
fleet, instead of going
Sampson's fleet
went to catch it, is reported to have
It isthought it may
be bound for Manila by way of the ou-
The Bpanish
fp Api
TALK OF PEACE. i
i
From Washington: As a result of
members of the Diplomatic Corps. ren-
of the great powers of Europe, have
unofficially exchanged views on the!
opportuneness of a movement, dedica-
ted by the most friendly spirit and in|
the interest of peace, towards urging |
upon Spain the futility of further pros-
ecuting the war, and inducing her
0
quishment of Cuba, the promise of a]
war indemnity, and the occapation of
Manila by Admiral Dewey until the
war indemnity is paid.
While expressing this with
much positiveness, it was put forward
only as tentative, and not as a move
which the European powers had act
ually begun. At the same time it in.
dicates a new trend of feeling among
leading foreign representatives in
Washington.
minal ——
Wheat Soaring Up.
Mince last week wheat has been on a
jump upwards, and has now reached a
figure that it has not touched for many
years. Tuesday it was quoted in Cen-
tre Hall at $1.25, but Wednesday it
took a drop to §1.20. The market is
wild and higher prices are still prediet-
ed. Bellefonte's quotations are £1.05,
and at Zion §1.40, a difference of 15 and
20 cents compared with our home mar-
ket. Bpring Mills has been paying
$1.25 for several days this week.
view
Fire at Bellefonte,
Yesterday afternoon fire was discov-
ered in the cellar of Joseph's store at
Bellefonte. The cellar was filled with
a large surplus stock of goods, carpets,
oil cloths, clothing and other goods,
and before the fire was extinguished
all the goods were It was a
dangerous fire and at one time it look-
ed as though the entire store would be
gutted. The loss is very heavy.
NO. 19
LOCAL ITEMS,
Cullings of More than Ordinary Interest
from Everywhere.
ADIOS !
Land of garlic and tortillas,
Land of xebecs and mantillas,
Land of mules and smuggled bitters,
Land of raising and of fritters,
Land of Pedro and and of Sancho,
anc ho,
Land of bull-fights and pose tas,
Land of manners stiff and haughty,
Land of Isabella naughty,
Land of Boabdill and Hamil,
Heit !
May it stay up—wheat,
No damage to crops as yet.
All glad : very fine da
Oliver P. Wilson,
an increase of pension,
y Monday.
Hublersburg, has
$6 to $10.
The grange committee have
17, &
Recleimnoer 12- or their
nic
A
mportant
Tuowday,
at this place,
ly number fron
FOO
business
show-day.
Our town can boast of 1
no other t
Owl can,
dwellings are tasty,
Rev. 1. P. Neff, lat
Lutheran churches at
ville, is now residing 1
The frequent wet spell
t fifteen days have
outdoor work.
Drug
‘ ino
WL Sporn
Murray
a ora n
Spe Ali
last summer,
Farmers g
year, ha
all other channels,
inst
prospers the cot
Rev. Rearick’
May 16:
at 5 ri ng Mil
nunion T mayvilly: f
2 $11, of
Miller. of
we I
§
t
’ & triad i% ’ Le
I'he aged mother of Jerry
this place, of whose illness nade
oes
14 i ROGITIO
menlion some BELO, I8
weeks
proving any ; she is
person in tl
118 sect
J.
Our townsman,
y be dressed in a suit
are compl
Hum
pages,
3
niargements
Fells All phreys
tells all abo
isease with Humphreys
Free at
request,
Specifics, drug stores, or sent
Medicine
MN. YX.
on Humphrey's
ir. William & John sts,
A spe
says il is repo
h from
fch from
Shan
irted at Admiral
Montojo, the commander of the Rpan-
ish fleet, who escaped from Cavite by
running ng the to Manila
with his two sons, killed 1
populace of the latter place.
The and Porto
{ico by Ay DOW
| looked for within a few days, and wil
finish up the job in Cuban waters, and
our fleet will then A the Canary
dispa ghai
ial
iad
there th:
alo shore
was iw the
capture of Havana
bombardment, be
rations against Spain itself.
& ‘ y
At the Centre Hall W er Uousyar
ny’s election held on 9, the followin
officers and directors were ot TN
the ensuing year: President, —\
Treasurer, J. D. Murray ;
D. F. Luse. Directors,
Spangler, J. D. Murray, J. F.
D. F. Luse.
Creek town-
last dug
He
retary, SN
Kurtz
Fred Beaver, of Pine
Clinton county, week
up his last year's crop of potatoes.
got about 100 bushels and it is said
that they are in fine condition. If any
of our farmer readers have tried this
plan we would be pleased to have
them report.
Parties at Spring Mills and Rebers-
burg who wrote the Reporter their ap-
preciation of war despatches sent from
this office, have our say, glad we could
favor you. Despatches received by the
Reporter office were also transmitted
to Runkle’s hotel, Kramer & Son's
store, and to Potters Mills, thus bring-
ing important news within immedi-
ate reach of many points,
Samuel Parsons, Jr., lately Superin-
tendent of Parks in New York City, is
perhaps the highest American author-
ity on the making and beautifying of
parks. His article, “The Parks and
the People,” in the May Magazine
Number of The Outlook, is thoroughly
readable, and is notable also for its
abundant and charming illustration.
($8 a year, The Outlook Company,
257 Fourth avenue, New York.)
Burglars broke into the railroad sta-
tion at MiMinburg, Friday night, and
opened the safe and stole the contents,
The burglars evidently knew the com.
bination to the safe. They no doubt
were experts, as they were prepared
with explosives, which in their haste
they left behind. There is no clue to
the burglars. The amount stolen could
uot be learned.