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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.”
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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
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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.
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