= & [} oa 5 The Centre Democrat and N.Y. 3t-WEEK WORLD four papers a week for $1.65 PER YEAR. Ihe Centre CHAS. R. KURTZ. Ed. and Prop. Awaiting Another Engagement The Spanish Fleet is Now Sailing in Cuban Waters, SAMPSON AND To Give SCHLEY READY Battle to the Pride of Spain’s Navy---The Battle- ship Oregon is Safe---Active Preparations to Invade Cuba---The Naval Battle lief for Dewey. During the past week no startling events have occurred in the Since our last issue two engagements took place. Must First Take Place---Re- war with Spain. Sampson's squadron, while hunting for the Spanish fleet, took time to bombard the fortifications at San Juan harbor, Porto Rico, and practically reduced them. Another engagement took place at Cardinas, Cuba, blood was spilled. five were killed and others wounded. licted on the § that the Spanish damage was also infl The announcement aroused much anxiety. them. definite can Since be learned as to the icipated any moment and there seems we annihilate these visitors honor will be satisfied and, at fully yield. In case we lose, it means The boat was completely disabled. fleet, Both Sampson the government has refused location to be from across the the suggestion of the other where the first American A shell from the enemy burst on the small boat Winslow and Great Spaniards. atl was in the Cari and Schley's squadrons are now after 1 to give out any information, An engagement is an. little doubt as to the result. Should quite certain that Spain's ast, bbean sea, nothing of the vessels. sea, itis powers, she will grace. more fighting and a proi longed war Active preparations are being made to send reinforcements to Dewey, from the Pacific coast at once While this is going on, the Cuban invading army is being rapidly assembled at our southern sea coast towns, ready to move on the island. t also is quite probable that the President may The War News, of the past week, will be found ou pages 2 and 3. ed i the past twenty-four hours is embrac LATE NEWS, New Cabinet Sworn In. Madrid, May 18-The cabinet took the oath of office this even. ing. new Spanish Flying Squadron at Kev West Key West, May 18—The flying squad- | Wednesday. | | follows: ron arrived at Key West All are well. For Colored Troops. Washington, May 18-—It is stated that in the next call for troops the president will ask for 30,000 negro volunteers. Sampson After the Spaniard. A Washington despatch says that Ad- miral Sampson has been informed of the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet, and that he is hot on the chase. All Cuban Cables. Il Cuban cables, except those runn- ing to the United States, will be cut. The naval board intends to cut Blanco from all communication with Madrid. Welcome the Oregon. Washington, May 18.4It is réported here that the battle ship Oregon has safe- ly joined the squadron of Admiral Samp- son who was sent south to meet her. More Ships, Washington, May 18.—~The navy partment this moming issued a circular asking for bids for the construction of three first-class battleships, sixteen tor- pedo boats and four harbor defense mon- itors. de- Peansyivania at Manila, Washington, May 18.—The ppme expedition has been increased by the ad. dition of the Tenth Pennsylvania regi- ment of volunteers, Reports on file at the war department shows the Tenth to be in excellent con. dition. It is thought that it can start for San Francisco tonight or tomorrow. The Alabama Launched, The new battleship Alabama was suc. cessfully launched from Cramp's ship yard at noon Wednesday. There wasno large demonstration. This fine battle- ship, with arms and armor, will not be ready for commission for about a year, Spanish Fleet For Philippines. Gibraltar, May hil 18.-~The first-class battleship Pelayo, the armed cruisers Emperado Carlos V Alfonso XIII, the reconstructed cruisers Vittoria and Gir. alda, the auxiliary cruisers Rapido, Al- fonso X11, Buenos Ayres and Antonio Lopez and three torpedo fboats, now at Cadiz, are ready for sea.) They are expected to sail for the Philippines before the end of this month with 11,000 troovs, They Blew in the Money. Williamsport Times: Miss Puella Domblazer, superintendent of Bureau of Associated Charities, has received a let. ter from a family which recently moved from Nittany valley to this city, request. ing the loan of §5. The family is located in the upper end of the city and the hus. band is without work. The superintend.- ent happens to know the previous repu- tation of the family and the request will not be complied with. It is said that on a former occasion they received $18 from a poor board pion Pov went to Bellefonte, spending the money in car fare and for an oyster supper in the city, call for another 100,000 volunteers. The news of the following dispatches : Odd Fellows Reunion. The Odd Fellows reunion to be held at Hecla Park, on June Sth, promises to be well attended, by members of the orders from Centre and Lycoming The complete programme of speakers aud entertainments will soon be furnish. ed. The committees for the event are as Transportation : W. H. Fry, Pine { Grove Mills; W. M. Cronister, Bellefonte: S. 8. Crissman, Philipsbary. Entertainment: A. Lukenbach and W. H. Musser, Bellefonte: Dr McCor- mick, Hublersburg. Speakers: C. H. BE E. W. Meyers, Boalsburg; C. man, Millheim. Finance : HB. sllefoute; | D. Brown, S . : (eber Howard. Amusements: F. BE Will Conley, Rebersbury Printing: 8. S. Miles, Mos G. Burket, Stormstown: 1 Blanchard. Music : J. C. Smith, Williams, Lemout; 1. Hall. ~ SW State College; W. Han. vey, Naginey and J Bellefonte; C. L. Gramley, rt Mati « W. Gl Ira ssner, Ida Bellefonte; John S. Rowe, Centre .—— THE FLYING S01 ADROY, Now the world is shook by eanne ing in a warmer clime, And we hear of sailor heroes Who'll be honored through all time: And we hear of vessels captured Aud of deeds that fire the soul, But what of the Flying Squadron ? Why we just burn coal m Boom When the sallor lads of Dewey Later tell of battles won, How the Spaniards talked of fighting But were whipped ere they begun ; We lads of the Flying Squadron, When we're to our homes returned. Can't we say one word of fighting * Must we brag of coal we burned? We've been longing, waiting, hoping For a little brush with Spain We don't want to be tin sailors And in Hampton Roads remain Lf the'll send the fleet to battle It will please us, every soul, And the'll find we'll handle powder, Just as well as we do coal. Haney A. McCaLnen, Hampton Roads, Va. May 15, 1508, The above was furnished Ly a youny | man who until recently lived at Nittany, and left home to join the navy. He now is one of the crew of the U. 8. Minneapo- lis, in Commodore Schley’s Squadron, and is at one of the 8.inch guns. wan The Oil Industry. Oil was first struck in America in 18g | and since that time the United States has received for its petroleum product about | $2,000,000,000 in hard cash. The indus- | try in this country is more extensive than is generally supposed, there being no | less than 225,000 men employed in the production and refining of oil. The capital invested in oll wells, machinery, tanks, Pipe Ii fines, fefustien, etc., aggre- gate £825,000 —— Distance Between Spanish Port. It is 700 miles from Cadiz, Spain, to the Canary Islands; 876 from the Cana- ries to Cape Verde islands and, 2,300 miles from the Cape Verde islands to Puerto Rico, 1t i8 1,1000 miles from Ha- vanna to Puerto Rico, aud 1,250 miles from Hampton Roads to Puerto Rico, Gladstone is Dead, London, May 19.1 a.m m, ~The report has just reached here from Hawarden that Gladstone is dead, counties, | { of the guard, who had dove so much, place them second to none in the union, ! ! were to stay at home ax | awarded others. | Gobin and Wiley were visibly ! The writer heard { return to H 4 BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY MAY 19, 1808. C0. B GOING TO CHICKAMAUGA Mt Gretna the S Left on Sunny South THE OFFICERS AND PRIVATES S. bh Writes Home tor Our Readers What Our Correspondent, Gettig, Esq The Last All are Well and in Jeliefonte's Donation Ap- Days at Mt Gretna Good Spirits preciated ONTO CHICKAMAUGA On Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock two long trains passed westward through Tyrone at high speed carrying the sth Regiment from Mt Gretna to Chicamau- a, Tenn., where the invading army for a Cuban campaign is being assembled. Some of | hard-tack | written, the boys on which their At stopped | short time and got a lunch and then s { on their names were Altoona they a ped long journey Came D. H. MT. GRETNA, PA Fditor Kurtz —Another and mud in camp Hastings, HASTINGS, , May 1 day though not as bad as it was } ast Sunday. Our com- pany street, since shovel day moming, does not get as mud has remained vice and solid all day withstanding the continuous rair the JASSC week Guard o nia has j d out of | forat | part of the Volunteer | States history, ime at least, and is now 2 Army of the United Oue of the grandest sights ever witnessed in Pennsylvania took place pass. | ed in review before the Governor for the he 0 last Friday, when t entire guard | last time. Many an eye was dimmed at the thought that this was the last ti me that Pennsyivania’s well organized and | finely equipped soldiery would pass in and that ber guard had been disrupted and would be no more ; review before anyone, and that the old commanders to 1d their commands Generals Snowden, affected. Ms; ivania's soldi Thompson say the it had &0 that Pennsy ery Was best he had ever seen, and that demonstrated it by which Pennsylvania's full gq fed by the Presid 138 : ,000 cal mustered in, and that the Natio should have Maj. mustering officer stationed here, been mustered Thompson was 1 Saturday morning the Di First, Second and quarters, vision, » Head. taken down and shipped and and their staffs went home with sad hearts, yen. Schull the colonelcy of hird Brigade were the to Harrisburg Generals excepting ( who had accepted the Sixth reg but his staff went howe riment, Captain Taylor was the first captain to camp with and therefore the first to have his company | filled to the required number as per orders. These recruits had a great ex- his recruits, | perience, one they will probably never forget, as they and mud morning, but the members of the company soon had them in toe and got them into their tents and did the best by them they could, which of course was a great deal better than to have landed here and no place to get in. to and keep at least partially dry. On Monday merning they had their first ex- perience at police daty, helping to carry off the mud from the company street, but all got to work with a willing hand, ex. cepting two or three, French leave during Sunday night, evi. dently having gotten tired of soldier life and in all probability returned to their homes, landed here in the rain last Sunday : | now, and will leave the whole matter with | | them. On Monday forenoon the examining board inspected these recruits and sever. {al of them were rejected, and others | could not get into the company, there not | | being room for them, and all returned | | home, excepting Clyde Smith, of Centre | { Hall, who got into company “D"’ of Wil. | liamsport in the Twelfth regiment, ang | John E. Ghaner, of Benore, who got inte company *'E.” of Clearfield, in our regi- ment, On Monday evening all those who had said “mo,” or were rejected by the ex- | | amining board, left for home. In addi- | | tion to those named last week, were A. D, Smeltzer, on the request of his parents, and Joseph Thal and J. C. Jodon rejected by the doctors, Some of those who had been rejected by the doctors broke down when taking their leave from their old comrades in arms. They were accom. panied by Albert Roberts and all those of the recruits brought out by the cap- tain, save those already named or those whose names will appear in the roster of the com herewith enclosed. The follwing is the roster of the com. pany, as it was mustered in last Wednes- Tuesday for threw off pieces of who had taken | The writer will not name them | | day afternoon by Maj. Thompson, to | gether with the post office address of each man from where Carrain—H. 8S. . Taylor, 18T LIBUTENANT Bellefonte. ND LIBUTENANT Bellefonte, SERGEANTS ly, J. WW. color sergeant, quartermaster pany, James Morris fople he eulisted, viz: Bel George lefonte Jackson, - Charles J. Taylor, Philip F. Garbrich—order- Alewandes a ri (Ge Alexander, Charles Garis S. D. Gettig, 1. W. Lose sergeant of the com Qi, Qi CORPORALS Keeler, Harry hams, all of Be MusiCiaAns--Frank H. 1 fonte ; Samuel Shope, Al PRIVATES William H, Bayard, William T. Barnes, A inhizer, D. Oliver Hazel, Kellerman, Charles H Thomas C. Mallory, George P. Jobin Morrison, Samuel Morrison, drew Meiss, Clarence H. Osmer, uel R. Poorman, David E. George W. Sunday, N. B. Spangler, Edward R. Taylor, all ot Bellefonte, Samuel P. Bathurst, James L. Curtin, Clyde R. Cox, of Roland, William 8. Bradley, John M. Hazel Axemany, John H. Crain, of Port Matilda. George W. Cadwalader, Edward Davis E. Erb, Ex iward T. Ebock, U.S. horn, Samuel M. Graham, Willi Hess, John P, i? ohnson, Robert P Ll Jacob A. Mc Aawrence Ritten. dase, mes rC She Jacob J. Spotts, riff yy Waring, of George H siefonte berhart, avior, looua. Roger T. H. Em. Hickman J. Kase, Jr, Miller, An- Lem. Rothrock, LT AlICD, , of John 8. Gos 1 M. loyd. Philig nuola, jamin W Harry H . Redding, Harrison G { Howard Man burg Wil Neff Wi Frederick away, of Penn James O Noll, , Hor ace dy Lucas, Jan es H. Parsons, i H. Rhoads, Oscar A Shirey, all of Fleming line J. Gren. oble, of Vieasant Ga; Millbeim fohu IL OTe Savder, Sandoe, Sherloc , Two of the shortly of Milesbur g M. Harper, S. Arthur T. R idle, Harry M. Hoy, Johastoubaugh, ( of St , College of Centre Hall, Altoona above of of named privs be appointed to fifth corporals, as those places are still vacant, Who they Say, captain Un will be the cannot th but they will bv the Tuesday com vost guard was on pro- at Lebanon, and the boys had the opportunity of seeiug the city and had a general good time and retarned to carp on Wednesday Wednesday was the when he Fifth regi i astered into the United States service, and company “'B ment was Was sworn 10 at was - £3 nour: and +d y “I do” be the reply, cause we were from Centre county fh regi- nited un On Thursday and Friday the Fi ment furs gua 4 Arn rd at the and shed the States mustering ofhic Company furnished the sergeant, who had also to act as officer of the guard Roger T. 0. P. Gherett of company to Ma) 8,000 of Pennsyl into the States, and it | gotten, Mothers, sisters and g their speed while , and appointed any “RB” “a Thompson, The vania's brave sons service of the was a sight never to be for- Bayard of comp and Aas order. lies wriler saw over sworn United and never will be forgotten. sweethearts were loved God- givin ones a hearty being sworn in; and then again others crying and sobbing, while hundreds, yes thousands of people, were standing around watching the proceed. fags. There were no divine services held in the Fifth regiment last Sunday, but this | evening Chaplain Hartman held services in the YY. M. C. A. tent and it was crowd. ed. The VY. M. C. A. has been dong ex- cellent work here. On Saturday evening the several com- panies having had to stand unusual long at attention and parade rest, three of company ‘B's men were obliged to drop, but were shortly able to be around again and as hearty as ever. They were Cor. poral Ryan, privates Daley and Sandoe. Sergeant Gans, in addition to being | the color sergeant of the regiment, has al=o been appointed mail carrier for the regiment, Rev, D. L. Jones, : of Bellefonte, paid Thursday evening mustered in as the Chaplain of the Eighth regiment, {| The camp is full of rumors as to the [time we would leave here, but there is | leave, but will in all probability be | away from kere by the last of this week, | going %» Chickamauga, Tennessee, by | | way of Altoona, Pittsburg and Cincinnati, | and my letter next week will be from the Sunny South, On Thursday R. F. Jodon, whose father telegraphed for him to come home, was excused as the company was full been away on a furlough when the com. pany was mustered in, and Henry Vita. line, the company cook, went home. Ed. ward Davis from Philipsburg is now com. pany cook. The provision, so kindly sent by the Continued on page 4. our company a couple of day's visit in | | the early part of the week and was on without him, and Linn Bottorf who had | 0 THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO Sampson's Fleet Destroyed the Old Fortifications AN [IMORTANT POSSESSION Can be Take be Held of the Time isn Country i Why Brief n Any it Should an by th Descrip- tion Island and its Resources A Des Naval Depressed by Spain irable Station jurdened and Ac hand, ording to the most reliabl Admiral vessels at nine DAMmps appeared off San Juan de Porto Rico last Thursday morning, and, he ately not having encountered Spanish “a R \' ] : 2 Cape de Verde fleet, imme pro- ious of that His § control ceeded to invest the fortificat city, and soon reduced them. re. duction of the aefenses of the island, as all defenses are weak and can reduced whenever the >» give his attent opportunity te he Before : does 80, however, undoubtedly aave tried conclus Spain's Cape de Verde fleet ghted off Martin 1 juan, 3 ue wi i france, ana e Med urkey and Rus lerrane bands { a powerful, rich nation can easily be turned into a preguable , and 1 so situated that it practically here ald ui: fortress and base of supplies is no other place Co be made mto a rival. In case with any South European 1 Ame 1} makes the distance fron much horter an to Amer fare above enemy enemy ail vantage, except able circumstance, is censure the trinm? $ ino two way MOILEORS Lani a sca wh coutrol the caragua canal of the highest not "at nalion exce nai must uncontro pt the Unite to bold that We cannot exercise the that no must be permitted t control authority wit and the as the Indies, in out a foothold in the West the only really good group In that group Great Britian owns a fine coaling station and position West Indies is the known Greater Antilles. military, naval and commercial base in the Island of Jamaica the $s of San San Domingo is controlled by two independent re. Havyti, tefl nia. Domingo and be free, public Cuba will and whatever ence her position will have on the con. trol of the canal and oe commerce through it will be almost directly under the hand of the United States. The pos- session of Porto Rico thus will complete a chain of defense which will bring the control of the water.-way the the world directly under two ¢reat Anglo-Saxon nations of That those two nations will common from year is clear, for the European Powers are follswing policies which bid fair to make it a question soon of Great Britain and America against the world, industrially, at least. With | Hawaii on the Pacific side, and Porto Rico on the Atlantic entrance, the great. er part of the commerce to the Orient is have more interests in lo year other same enormous influence on the world that Great Britain does now through her control of the Suez canal. -——— - DESCRIPTION OF PORTO RICO, About 1,000 miles due soutieast from | Havana, soo from Maisi, the eastern tip | of Cuba, opens northward the magnifi. | | nothing definite as to the time we will | Pe (Ue and horses, ~Saint John of the Rico, or Noble Port, distant from New York about 1,600 miles, {and from the Danish island of St | Thomas but 60 miles, the last-named lying that much farther to the eastward, | Porto Rico was discovered by Colum. bus, 1a 1493, on his second voyage, when on his way from the southern West In. | dies to his original landing place on the | coast of Haytl. Fifteenlyears after the passing of Columbus came another navi. gator, one Jaun Ponce de Leon, the gov. ernor of a province of Santo Domingo, 60 miles distant. The Indians of this section told him wenderidl stories of the rich island across the channel, and in the year 1508 he landed at Aguadilla \ of iin, 4 _Du . - hw t. al } mn Was ve 4 s \ ‘4 2.000 COPIES PER WEEK hh ho Intelligent advertisers will | mountains, | ulation of about During the year, 1877, there vere printed Yo el7 com plete oples of Tue Centre DEMO. RAT, Or FIL each week, al wing for misprints, our act Average cireuia over rou Tn appreciate this statement VOL. NO. 20. with a force of men and a pack of blood. hounds, bent upon its conquest Ponce de Leon lives in history as the woblest and the gentlest of those galliard adven. that is BOLIC Aa 1 Was . was that day. 4 un Agueyn and overtool He was t} mn he was the Ind in troops present , and the most ound there to-day a lle gle the quistador and or of the govern with the Casa i surround aut C4 at St. Augus those of 2] . - Gown | they similar to Havana before her walls were torn he penin- 1 which the moro and the es f Sap sts m= - . Kes O ribbean, and on the guarding the p and acid waters of a be land locked harbor. hart me of the finest the Indie and capable of scoommodating number of any r anchorage Fain por within the ice is only obtain rateways, vet there nT. the Maring od th hare ADO LC whare are ngs of the inner city are of stone, mas- sive and substantial, like those of Hava. na and the City of Mexico As to local conditions, San Juan is not an attractive under its present management, owing to its filthy streets It is from and jack of attention to sanitation likely to have a year g to its situation, as not be kept at a visit every Yellow Jack, when, owin he might as well dis. tance But San Ju there if One other of the harbors that large and is only one port and fine, island, are some are as locked not as land. on the north coast is Arrecibo; on the east are Humacao and Fajardo, the Agunadilla and Mayaguez, as beautiful as the heart of man could desire, with their gushing springs and background of poioted and on the south coast are Guayanilla, and Ponce. This last is the largest, the city having a pop- with a vast ex. port trade, chiefly in sugar and molasses. A fine post road conmects it with San Juan, running diagonally across the is. on west Arroyo, 35,000, | land, with a daily diligence between the two. A system of railroad is in course of construction that will soon connect all the chief coast towns and open up por | tions of the interior, in our bands and we will exercise the | : { by : coast line, | group of mountains, | to the mountain crests the hill | | The island is about gs miles in length j50r 40 in breadth, and as nearly rectangular as nature will allow in its The interior is one vast The soil every. where is very fertile and cultivable, even pastures of Porto Rico being celebrated for their succulent grasses, upon which feed cat. which are favorites cent harbor of San Juan de Puerto Rico | | throughout the islands south. These are shipped in large nnmbers, | and constitute the chief wealth of a great many people engaged in the business. Among the hills also are thousands of cafetales, of coffee estates, for here the coffee finds congenial soil and climate for its perfect development, and is a source of profit to many planters who prefer a life of comparative leisure to the bustle of the town and city. In the valleys grow the sugar cane, cacao, ba. nannas, plantains, and, in fact, all sorts of tropical fruits. With its beautiful scenery, its almost perfect climate, its boundless exuberance Continued on page 4,
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