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Spanish Fleet
BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSDAY MAY 5s, 1808.
PHILIPPINE |
ISLANDS |
the officials fatten the natives are left to
die like cattle if epidemic disease breaks
out among them, or to if
crops fail. There are as a rule no roads
There
except for those able wo pay liberally for
starve
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| worthy of a name. is po justice
their |
‘CONCLUSION
OF COURT
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John I. Thompson et al, ex'rs of Moses
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Continued,
The Southern The
al 4
yaieutine iron
Demolished |» sr vescipion of never
it, and worst of all, there is no opportuni.
A Great Victory at Manila for Commodore
Dewey's Fleet,
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ARE OURS
One of the Most Brilliant Naval Feats of Modern Times---
The Stars and Stripes Floating Over Spanish Posses-
sions--- 1 he
---The Latest News.
It is with tidings of great joy that thi
The triumph of the American Navy aod the surprising
brave sailors have completely annihilated the Spanish fleet in the
firmly planted the Stars and Stripes on the Philippine Is!
has sent a thrill around the globe, aroused every true meric
joicings and cast consternation, confusion and
until the throne itself is tottering and by
Commodore Dewey and his men did
large Spanish fleet has been sunk, |
remnants scattered while our brave
the islands.
During the past week the battle
waters the same ‘‘peaceful-blockade
were captured and there was some
Communication has been established
and food will be furnished and rein
It
Cuban water
As a result of the bitter
is Spain’s boast that
and throughout Spain.
son, as well as leading officials are in great danger
old Spain.
5 1Ssue goes tou!
s for one desperate struggle.
defeat at Manila
Violence is threatened an
Her glory is departed and her possessions are f
Situation Summed up in a Few Words
1s many anxious readers
news that Uncle Sam's
Pacific and
ands, is a message that
an heart with re
1iot in the Spanish capitol,
this time may be no more,
last Sunday at Manila
Durned
nsurgent le
ent there se
before she will vi
anxious for the fr;
there
al up rising in }
»
ves of the Ogee
J
J i the li n
Great is the distres
orever |
11 the important events of the past week are briefly tol
All
very latest dispatches of the pas
t 24
L 24
LATEST NEWS,
So alarming was the spread of riotous
outbreaks in Spain yesterday that mar.
tial law had to be proclaimed in several
provinces. Troops fired on the mobs in
Gijon, and the artillery was ordered out.
The Jesuits’ religious house at Talafera |
was burned, as were also several private |
dwelling houses and railway cars. Mad-
rid papers resumed their gloomy and
anxious tone, and even Premier Sagas-
ta's official organ, EI Liberal,
to the very ominous aspect of affairs |
Talk of Sagasta's res. |
throughout Spain.
ignation was renewed, but after a hot |
debate in the Cortes the
unitedly promised to sustain the Govern.
ment in carrying on the war.
Revolt in Spain.
London, May 4
rid say that the Carlists are very active,
and bave possession of the
streets of the city.
The assassinations of Minister of Colo-
that mobs
nies Moret and ex-Captain General Cam.
pos, of Cuba, have been reported. Prime |
Minister Sagasta and his Ministry had to
flee for safety.
The Queen Regent, Maria Christiana,
and her boy King are likely to seek ref
uge by fleeing to the country
The end of the Regency is in sight.
Queen Regent May Get Out.
London, May 5.—~A dispatch
from Vienna says that the idea of the
resignation of the Spanish Regency by
Maria Christina is seriously considered
there, in the hope that it may save the
throne.
Monarchy will be Overthrown.
London, May 4.—It is certain that
Spain is greatly stirred up and it is pre.
dicted that unless Spanish arms are soon
successful, the government and perhaps
the monarchy will be overthrown.
Sampson's Fleet Sails,
Key West, May 4, 1:12 p. m.~This
morning activity was seen among the
vessels of admiral Sampson's fleet, and
shortly after they sailed away from
those waters. From the reports in cir.
culation, the fleet goes to meet the Spau-
ish ships. An important engagement is
looked for at any time in the near future.
The fact that the big battleships and
monitors coaled to the fullest capacity
before steaming away is taken to indicate
a plan occupying considerable time.
The vessels which came here were the
flagship New York, the Indiana, the
Towa, the Cincinnati, the Detroit, the
Mayflower and the Marblehead. The
Puritan had been in Port for several
days.
Famine Racking Havana,
Key West, Fla.,, May 4.—~Havana is on
the verge of a famine. Food is bringing
fabulous prices and the people are con-
sequently starving. The soldiers are
seizing whatever provisions are accessi-
ble, and citizens are burying their food
in yards and cellars,
Spanish Spy Captured,
Philadelphia, May 4, 3:16 p. m.—The
report that a Spanish spy had been cap,
tured on board the liner St. Paal 1s con,
firmed today. He was caught acting
suspiciously near the powder magazine.
| morning.
referred |
i
Couservatives |
Reports from Mad. |
hours are given below
The Oregon Leaves Rio.
Rio Janeiro, May 4.—The battleship
Oregon and gunboat Marietta sailed this
The ex-Brazilian dynamite
| cruiser Nietheroy follows to-night. Her
| purchase by the United States greatly |
pleased the Brazilian Government. The
{ diplomatic corps is surprised at the pres.
ttige of American interests secured
through the act of the American Diplo-
| matic and Consular representatives.
The Spanish torpedo cruiser Temerario
is still at Buenos Ayres.
Mobbed a Yacht.
Gibraltar, May 4, 2:26 p. m.—Spanish
hatred against British interests exhibited
| itseli today in an attack upon the British
Lady of Clemel
{stormed by a
yacht, The yacht was
mob, Stones and othe:
hurled at the
that
leave the harbor at Malaga, Spain
| missles were craft with
such violence it was compelled to
Eagland Sends three Warships to Coba
Kingston, Jamaica, May
~-SCTIOUS outbreak
nas occurred in
reports ; rming chara
ter that it 1 necessary to
| send three war ships to that place. The
| vessels have started on their i
> Br
| was attacked by t}
urney
itish consul at Santiago de Cuba
‘he consul
| in resisting kill niard. The mob
| seized the official, dragged him: away and
placed him in prison. The town is in an
uproar and the natives are badly fright.
ened.
It is reported that the Alert has orders
to demand the release of British Consul J
W. Barnsden, and if the demand is not
complied with Sautiago is to be bom
barded.
Flotilla Returaed to Cadiz
May 4.~It is rumored here
that the Spanish Cape Verde fleet has
returned to Cadiz,
Lisbon,
Manila Beat at Hong Kong
Hong Kong, May 4.—The revenue cut.
ter McCulloch has arrived at Mirs Bay.
She left Manila before the battle.
Was Formerly » Lineman.
Toe man Malia, who fired the first gun
when the Buena Ventura was captured
near Key West last week, was formerly
an employe of the Telephone company,
About two years ago, while unscrewing
the bolt that fastened the cross arm to a
when he removed the bolt he fell with
the stick to the sidewalk.
verely injured,
enlisted in the navy,
—— —-
A Philipsburg Boy.
Lieutenant Henry W. Whitney of the
Fourth United States artillery,
on April 28, is a sort of Rev, W., P. Whit.
ney a former Philipsburg pastor and a
brother of Miss Mary Whitney of the
Philipsburg telephone exchange.
Tell your peighbod that be can get
The Centre Democrat and 3timewa-
week World (making four papers a
week) for $1.65 per year. Here is a har.
gain, if you only know it,
pole one day, be sat astride the arm, and |
He was se- |
After he recovered he |
who |
reached the camp ofthe Cuban insurgents |
Big Prize
MANILA AND ITS PEOPLE
The Philippine Islands Under
trol for Several Centurie
People Resou
Will Be Held by Us
ant Class of
ducts
harbor of Manil
to these fara
before has
1aval operation
own shores,
Luxon is the
f Pennsylvania sz
lation of this State
Ct nodore Dewey
neutral telegraph t
The cable from Manila to
unaer Spans con
;
received
far
Spanish censors,
fact, however, of a great victory
Americans and the destruction
Spanish fleet,
Manila, the capital of the islands and
the centre of Spanish power, is on the
southwestern side of the island of Luzon.
It contains with its suburbs a population
of 350,000, of whom 10,000 are European.
These include the soldiery, clergy, offici.
als and foreign business and professional
The Eaglish-speaking
The city
sut rounded by a massive stone wall more
men. residents
do not exceed 600 proper is
than 200 years old, asd it is sparsely
The
wall do not num
mounted with obsolete cannon
3
ving inside
g the
peop.e
)
wr more than 25,000 It is however, for
a tropi extremely busy
defenses
a was founded
The city of Ma:
1 and establi
aptured by
the Spanis
ion, about the sam
the Ameri
nder at
Maui
the British captured it ransomed the town
The Sp: a when
for $4,000,000, besides delivering up all
naval The
Jritish commanders accepted bills for the
the
Spanish government, but when the bills
the military and stores
amount of the ramsom drawn on
were presented the ministry refused to
pay them, and the victors lost their share
The British fleet, however,
did not return empty handed, as soon
of the spoils
after the operations at the Philippines it
captured ships
valued with their cargoes at $3,000,000,
two Spanish treasure
One of them, with $5,000,000, was the
richest prize ever brought into a British
port, If the British commander nearly
150 years ago exacted $5,000,000 as the
ransom of Manila, Commodore Dewey
may enforce a like business adjustment.
As to the eight or ten millions popula.
tion of the Philippine islands the infor.
mation is vague. They are mostly of
Malay extraction, the exception being a
race called the Negritos. The latter are
dwarfish blacks dnd degraded to a de-
gree that can hardly be imagined. The
tribes of Malay origin vary in develop.
| ment from a state of absolute yavagery
to civilization. A measure of the intelli. |
gence of the lowest tribes is their knowl.
their fingers and toes. The more civiliz.
ed natives are classed as adherents to
the Catholic church, and are held in strict
that church, They are kept in extreme
| poverty by the heavy burden of Spanish
taxation. If the islands were given a
stable, enlightened government they
would quickly become rich and prosper.
ous. Spain however, has used the islands
only as a source to draw a revenue from,
The condition brought about is described
by a high authority as follows: ‘While
[]
| made,
ty for education except in one or two
They have
The Jos
nese, in whose
tries of the
necessary
governn
that the
Fart
oa
app!
it will go hard
Spanish population, as the
reckoning to make
-— -
WON'T FIGHT IN THE OPEN
Soldiers Not
Form of
Spanish Favorable to his
Warfare
When the troops of the United States
are landed in Cuba they will not find the
Spanish regulars drawn battle ar.
to
open has never beer
up in
ray receive them. Fighting in the
Spain’s stroug point
stand
of the American
and the ins
and the dons would poor show of
success with the flower
they will mes
rite mode of war
ies vialsls
myYanany
great battles they
have
guerrillas up to the
If they won no
east held their own ground pre
or
ed the enemy from ox
ver, things
The Spaniards met their
if not their the in.
They
driven bck, and in all the bush fighting
equals,
superiors in
surgents, have uniformly been
have been regularly whipped
The physical features of the country
are in the highest degree favorable to
The land
is traversed by gregt mountain ranges,
the slopes of whigh are covered
Therein
corpse may securely conceal itself from
an enemy only a few feet away. The
roads are so rugged and universally bad
that regular military operations can he
the operations of guerrillas.
with
dense forests, a whole army
carried on only with the utmost difficul. |
ty. The rough country roads generally
follow tortuous mountain streams and
are consequently so full of bends, turns
and windings that the making of an am.
buscade is easy at almost any point, and
in every mile many almost insurmount.
able obstacles to the marching of troops
may be put up.
- ———
Tyrone Bottle Works.
The Tyrone Herald says:—Fiiday
morning the glass blowers for the Tyrone
| Glass works arrived, and immediately
| edge of mathematics. Their numerals |
| usually stop at three, but their teachers
| count up to twenty by making use of |
started to work. As a batch was in
readiness to be blown, a good force was
kept busy during most of the day and a
large quantity of very good bottles was
indications it will not be many days un.
til another successful industry is in
operation in Tyrone, This is very good
news to many of our citizens who took a
particular interest in the establishment
of this plant,
We never thought a bottle factory
could flourish in that place as one-half
the population are professional cork
snappers and empty flasks are abundant,
of
The equipment of the plant will |
| be at once completed, and from present
subjection by the friars and priests of |
Sent to Jail for 6 Months
MANY CIVIL CASES DISPOSED
The Second Week Was
fences
ments
Specially fo
kenth
that
he
10 gather or re-
cleanly condition and Was care.
ful not to allow anything
main on the premises that would have a
tendency to become offensive. Several
physicians were called who testified that
the healthfulness of the nearby residents
«ted. The
Friday morning, rendered a
Was in no way an jury, on
verdict of
guilty of maintaining a nuisance
Rev. |. H
ad
r aduilery | prosecutor John
Com. vs Erdmar
§ HM
ii
The Com. alleged and proved
defendant registered and
the Bush House Jan
:
raman and wife
it she wa
i was known as ‘Mrs. Rosso
er,
w married The
gui He was
afternoon by ti
as not
verdict of
costs of Prose
t in the
prisonment
a pen x
h ATH
ed w
th stealing chickens, tarkeys and
other produce from farmers in that vicin
ity and selling them to hucksters
evidence was heard which clearly estab.
lished their guilt and then they all
Some
were
The
prosecutors were John Caiiigan, Sr., and
his son James.
allowed to enter pleas of guilty.
The latter was implicat-
ed in the stealing but turned state's evi-
dence William Johnstonbaugh plead
guilty to stealing 251bs of butter from the
State College creamery. He was sen-
tenced to the Huntingdon Reformatory.
The rest plead guilty to stealing chickens,
etc. Frank Gross and Tames Corrigan
| were sentenced to the Huntingdon Re-
formatory. Willis Stevens, John Gillen,
I. F. Sowers and John Corrigan were
sentenced each to §1 fine, cost of prose.
cution and 30 days in jail.
SHCOND WEEK
Court called at g a. m. Monday morn.
| ing with Hon. Jno. G. Love on the bench.
After the presentation of petitionsjby
| the attorneys, the court called over the
| trial list for the week and disposition was
made of the following cases.
et al. This case is svecia]l and on
account of the inability of securing a
judge at this time, the case was contin.
ued.
Koller & Hawlk va. B, C. Tuten. Coun-
tined,
D. H. Bean vs. D, T. Cowher and ©.
W. Cowher, Continued,
Mrs, A. R. long vs. Cyrus Gordon.
Continued,
Frank P, Blair va. George R. Boak.
Continned.
Use of W. H. Black vs, A. M. McClain
& Co. Continued.
Judgment confessed by defendant for
David |
Rothrock, adm'r, vs. Henry Rothrock |
| away on the train.
| eyes and bruising his nose.
L. Olin Meck vs, John E. Murray, |
B Ard and 1}
Pine Grove Water Com
\ .
yOiunlary nson-sail entered
Dale,
Clement
fC
Verdict
Kate M
of A. Blanche Hoy
Dale and A
de
use
vs Blanche Hoy
d; assumpsit
tin favor of plaintiff for $2187.12.
ex'rs Dale, Jr.,
Executors of etc., of Christian |
VK Clement Dale and
t, under the evidence, was found
against J. C. Henderson and the two
Kline's Attorneys for Mr.
were granted a rule to show cause why
Henderson
the judgment before entered on the ver.
dict should not be opened as to himself
This was argued at March argument
court awd judgment was accordingly
opened as to J. C. Henderson, This case
practically was tried on the same line of
evidence that was the case at January
court, the plaintiff alleging that the de.
fendant signed the note in question, and
| the defendant denying to have ever sign.
| ed such a note.
| verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the
The jury rendered a
sum of $340.20,
J. Edward Mastin vs. J. H. Eskridge ;
assumpsit. Verdict in favor of plaiutif
in the sum of $5187.42.
.--——
LANDED IN JAIL,
Two Woodsmen Who Were in a Fighting
Humor,
The Lock Haven Democrat says: Fri.
day evening Isaac David went to the
station with relatives who were going
After the train left
he met Albert Kulins, of Eagleville, who
wanted to meet a man named Smith,
against whom he had a grudge. David
informed acquaintances in the vicinity
that if they saw Smith they should put
him on his guard. This angered Kuhns
and he pitched into David, blacking his
In the mean.
time Smith appeared and Kuhns turned
on him, and Kuhns got the worst of it.
His face was badly batiered and he was
kicked in his stomach. The police were
summoned. Upon their arrival Smith
skipped out, but Kuhns was lodged in
jail,