= “+ 0000000000000 The Centre Dem and N.Y. 3t-WEEK Y LD four papers a w or $1.65 PER »~ AR. § H at CHAS. R. KURTZ, Ed. and Prop. Spanish Fleet Homeward Bound Not Very Anxious to Come to Cuban Waters to Meet Our Fleet DEWEY'S VICTORY COMPLETE An Aggressive Made on Islands---Spain is on the tack to be a Dynasty in Danger. ¢ war situation has ch portiat event was the news fr loss of a vessel or a man, 1 ith AS | We know a goo« ing and will ho > slg and inf try +11 mn 1p . VESSCIS and infaniry will soon eave sion of the Philippine islands That formidable Spanish fleet, off the ¢ Cape Verde Islands, again. They evidently heard an engagement, but they never cr An active campai As there i be trauss The news of Dewey's sweeg ment. Riots are the of being overthrown and the Many think the powers will inevitable : give up Cuba and le til a sufficient war indemnit, : Turn to pages 2 and 3 for the detail news of the past twenty-four hours: LATEST WAR NEWS. The through an official aunouncement made by Admiral Bermejo, Spain's Mivister of Marine at Madrid, that the Cape Verde Island fleet did not return to C Navy Department now knows, a- under orders. diz, Spain, but is at sea, Hence it is still boped that Admiral Sampson will be able to d near San Juan, the crushing should speedily end the war. his orders has been made country's al Sampson cauno to Rico he may | most efh the Spanish The Admini Spanish offer war, will insis Cuba ar Washington ficials were di that the Spanisl arrived at Cadiz, The safe is now completely assured and th pain ty of the Oregon r mutary wns in Cu is clear fo oper: On the other hand it is beii enduring peace can be Spanish navy has bees now that to de must the Spaniards. It was suggested by some of the mem. bers of the just a possibility that the Spanish squad. appears make up { war board that there was ron might make a quick passage into the Pacific through the Suez canal and at. tack Dewey at Manila. To take this course they would have a | long start of any pursuing fleet from our side of the Atlantic. lieved, however, that the Spanish are willing to take the great risk of exposing to our attack their own home ports by It is scarcely be. the withdrawal of so considerable a pro- portion of their naval strength as wonld be required to overmatch Dewey, Nothing was heard from Sampson to. day. Whether this means an Porto Rico or attack on not cannot be learned. The quartermaster general has gotten under merchant steamers for the transport of troops and roughly speaking these should carry about 20,000 Others are being procured as rapidly as possible. charter twenty-seven men, They're Purlous, Loudon, May 11, 10:18 a. m.—~A Ma- drid dispatch says that the people in that city are furious over the return of the Cape Verde fleet, asit strengthens the conviction in their minds that the Span. ish government is afraid to meet the Un. fted States in a battle. So great is the dissatisfaction that the mobs are again at work and rioting has been resumed in the streets of Madrid, Early Abandonment. London, May 11, 10:43 a. m.—At the exchange in this city this morning Amer. can securities opened weak, but they im. Cuban Campaign Havana---To Hold the Philippine warnews of { oath of allegiance | steamer, | Spanish torped | torpedo Started---Combined At- Run---Rioting and Revolt-- the week, proved when it became known that the Spanish Cape Verde fleet had returned to their own waters. The inference here is that this ret foreshadows urn trip of the Spanish the early abandon. the struggle by Spain, Miles Will Be There. « Fla., May 11,— The r Cuba shortly afte tothe United States. Spain's Destroctor Lost London, May 11.- fr A dispatch tothe Says British officially Globe : iO a reports 1 yassed that she § yesterday evening a o-boat destroyer, which was guarding Algeerias Bay and the Straits Shortly afterward all the lights of the destroyer were extinguished, a terrific explosion followed immediately, and the destroyer disappeared. She had three tubes, carried over 100 tons of | coal, and had a crew of £5 men. ——— Killed This Morning Crrwford Switzer, who lived or board. ed at State Col by the Bellefonte Central train at Bodle's curve, near Hunters Park He was a man about 60 years and partly deaf. He was an old soldier. The body was taken to Pine Grove Mills. lege, was struck this morning. — Faust, atthe opera house on Mon. day evening 16th, by Hubert Labadie as Mephisto. A car load of scenery and electrical apparatus accompany this at. traction, ~Miss Maud Frink, of Tyrone, isa pleasant visitor at the home of her cousin, Miss Jennie Stover, of this place. ~The price of the Centre Democrat and jtimes-a.-week World has been re. duced from $1.75 to $1.65 per year. This | is a great combination at a low price. We always farnish “The Most News for | the Least Money.” 13 cabinet Sheeffers, size photos gge. at 20 BELLEFONTE, PA. OUR BOYS AT MT GRETNA Stormy Weather and Rain Dur- ing the Week COMPANY B's GOOD RECORD opportunity leer service Sit, and Mah Governor D. H. Hastings did get the boys from his home and as he « amc shook hands with eve man in Company B after the muster and they left the field clore , and in the afternoon paid a visit to Company B's quarters and gave the men words of encouragement, and had the expected to take supper with His Burchfield and company but was called away place was taken by Col Col. E the officers of the company. Lieutenant Ider who dined with Sergeant Taylor got a furlough home on Friday morning, and private N. B. Spangler on Saturday evening, and both will be back early in the week to assume their duties. Private Griest is filling the position of company clerk nutil Spang- ler returns. Private Bottorf also got a furlough home on Friday evening on ac- count of his wife, s sickness and will be back early in the week. All the captains of the regiment have been ordered to recruit their companies Captain Taylor left for Bellefonte on Friday morning to bring out forty recruits, and the new com. pany recruiting back home, will have a chance to show their metal and demon. strate their sincerity for patriotism and defending their country’s honor and the flag, or as tin-soldiers only, as the eyes of Company B are upon them. The Fifth to eighty men Regiment furnished the Brigade guard | for the second time this week, Company | B having the honor again as the guard was in charge of a sergeant from Com. pany B. The health of Company B's men haa been remarkable, cousidering the iu. clement weather experienced since be- | ing encamped here, The only case 80 | far being private Bottor(" who had con "tracted a bad cold and spent Thursday , THURSDAY MAY 12, 1808. night in the hospital, but was out again on Friday morning. The friends at home may be in the formation of the regiment, that is how the companies line up in the regi. mental formation, and the writer here give it rst company oun ight, Company A righ 1 by followed by Company B color company, ( Mig iv F and ( H and in fore this war i be in the pink of Od W With the regular establis 1 meddle . ri rs Yee an ent recruit ed up to the full of its newly authorized strength and with the volunteers in the field the combined army is larger by 3, ooo than the total volunteers and militia in service July 1, and a half It is almost as large as the Army of the Poto- 1861, two months after Sumter surrendered mac in the Spring of '62, when McClellan began the Peninsular campaign When the cival war opened, the regular Army At time in the war did its strength exceed was only 14,000 strong. no 20. 000 Divided according to the arms of the service, the volunteers will make a splen- a gade of 5.800 cavalarymen, another of did army of 113,000 infantrymen, bri. 3,300 light artillerymen, and another of 4,000 heavy artillerymen, In the regu. | lars over half of the 61,000 are infantry, her so of foot soldiers we have all pearly 150,000. This is almost as uiiuy | as the total numberfof soldiers who fought on both sides of the thieg.day battle of | Gettysburg, If we should" have to put another army in the field,” Spain, by scudying oar history a little, may be sure | that we can do it quickly, After the dis. | asters on the Peninsula of i862 over 8o,. | 000 troops were enlisted, organized, arm. | ed, equipped and sent into the field in {less than a month. Sixty thousand | troops repeatedly went into the field in | the war within four weeks. Within 20 | days the States of Olio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and Wisconsin sent to the front go. ooo infantry. America can repeat these achievements, if necessary, able to be interested will the J- THE ADVANCE OF WHEAT Leiters Prophecy of $1.20 Wheat | Came True PWARD. 12.7 bushels wheat producti | at $428.8547.121. The tota + by duction of corn was 1.002.067.9011 valued at $501,072,052 The wheat Cr Pp of $30,000,000 bushels la vear may be increased this year millions, and then if prices are maintain ed the farmers, and through them all the people, may bave a year of unbounded prosperity .-—— . Wh About War Ships A battleship is a ship designed to fight in of battle. from a cruiser bits heavy armor plat. ing and slower speed B96, coi are classified with respect their tonnage and the numbe™ of guns they carry, Si. the ng of greatest tontiage and largest numhber of guns. + The United States battleships of the first class vAry in tonnage from 10, 228 to 11,585, The loss of the Maine left the navy with but one second class battieship, the Texas, with a tonnage of 6,37 The Vizcaya, of the Spanish navy, which recently paid a visit to New York, is an armored cruiser, of 6,50 tons. In the United States navy there are twn armored cruisers, the New York and wae Brooklyn, the former of g,13% tous and the latter of 8,840 tous, line and is dismiogeished first-class ——— Paul Kottsch on the St. Pasal, Paul Koitsch, Jr., who was the defend. aut in the recent murder trial in Clinton county, enlisted in the navy at Philadel. phia a few days ago. He was assigned on the St, Paul, which vessel sailed from { Camden, Thursday, with Captain Sigsbee "in command. During the year, 1997, there were printed U2 617 complete coples of THe Cesta Demo. CHAT, Or 202 each week lowing for misprints unl average Lion was aver 2.000 COPIES PER WEEK Intelligent L appreciate this statement UT L. Interesting aadvertisers VOL. 20, NO. 19 EXPENSE OF THE CAMP Information Concerning the Boys In Blue wunp Hasting Death of Miss Lillie M Miss Lillie NM daughterof I. M home of Kephar Kephart, at ae Dickerson, | May 4th meningitis Loanoke, Va.,on Wednesday, Her death was due to spinal The to the home of her uncle, CaleblH. Kephart, Fillmore. The moming body was brought at faneral took place in Half h cemetery, The remains were ac. companied home by her two sisters, Mrs 8. K. Dickerson and Mrs. W. C. Tate and their families, Saturday Interment od Rariread Contract Let Contracts were let this week for the building of thirty miles of the railroad work known as the Pittsburg extension of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Ten miles of this was let to the Penusyivania Construction and Invest. ment Co., of which A. E. Patton, of Cur. wensville, is at the head, and who is con. structing the first twelve miles Jot, in. cluding the big tunvel, ten miles to Thomas Collins & Co., of Bellefonte, Pa. and ten miles to C. J. Ryan, of New York. Keep the Sidewalks Repaired. The supreme court has sustained the decision of the McKean county court In the case of Jennie O. Miller vs. the city of Bradford. Miss Miller fell and broke her leg on a sidewalk in March, 18g¢s, | and the court awarded her damages to the amount of $3,000. Sa AIM in, S— Spring Time Is Here. | | So is Spring's Sarsaparilla Gt the Mood. Guaranteed better than the best. Four sale at Krumrine's Pharmacy. system
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