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The Somerset Herald
SDWaBD Krtitor and Proprietor.
WKDNEbOAY.
June . 1898.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
GeVEKXOK,
WILLIAM A. KTOXE.
LIKi rtSAST tOVIKXOK.
J. P. K. GOBIX.
eSCBETABY (It IM'EKSAL AFFAIRS,
JAME-S W. LATTA.
jrDdi or sci-ekiob oorRT,
WILI JAM W. POKTER.
COSGKEXSllIVAT-LAKbE,
UALfiSU A A. URoW, SiM'L DAVENPORT
COUNTY.
OUM.HESS,
K. J. KOO-ER, of Somen.
Su'i.ect to decision of Imlrict Conference.)
STATK SENATE,
J. J. HOULITZELL. Meyeredale.
(Subject U decision of listrict Conference.)
AHSRttR LY,
W Jl. H. kWS n; Somerset.
K. A. K.KXDAIL. Meyenxlale.
AjvKK lATt Il lM.E,
A. F. DICKEY, Koiiieibct Tuwaship.
M.STKKT A1TOKSET,
RCFTS E. JlEYfcKS, Somerset.
POOR DIKEC.OR,
ADAM S. MILLER, t-oui rsct Township.
The lone star in Cuba's flag is shin
Ing very brightly tLese summer days.
Uncle Ham's war bonds know their
worth. They do not even upeak to
HpanUh fours.
Eveiiv tiatlle thai adds lo the list of
the Amerieau dead adds U the roll of
American heroes.
It is just as well for this country
that ex-Prefideut drover Cleveland is
not running this war.
The Cubans are now fighting better
than they ever fought before, for they
see thai their day of freedom is at hand.
Perhaps the news that the Philip
pines contain vast gold mines has given
Bryan's silver brigade conseieuiious
doubts about recruiting.
Admiral Camara's squadron is offi
cially announced to be sailing for the
Philippines. It will probably reinforce
Spain's submarine fleet already at that
point.
The Republican couferrees of the
Tweuty-seventh Congressional district
met at Kane last Thursday afternoon
and unanimously nominated C. V.
Stone to succeed himself in Congress.
The foreign lingers reported to lie so
eager to dip tnemselves in the United
HLates Philippine pie ought not to be
disap!ointed if they And it has an ar
mored crust, with dynamite trimmings.
Those patriotic planks in the Ohio
Republican platform are all strong and
sound, an honor to the State and to the
party, and a fitting tribute to Ohio't.
honored son, the President of the Uni
ted States.
The Democratic State convention
will meet to-day at Allodia, and
nominate George A. Jenks, of Jefferson
county, for Governor. The opposition
to Mr. Jenks seenn to be comvntrated
in Judge Gordon, of Philadelphia.
A report comes from Cuba that Ad
miral Cervera is planning a surprise
Perhaps it will be like the surprise that
Spain gave out would come with the
first naval battle. The surprise occur
red, but the most surprised ones were
the prophets.
How ridiculous is this Spanish re
port about a South American alliance
against the United States. Those re
publics south of us are none too strong
of themselves, but they all know that
Uncle Sam is the best friend they have
i n the wor.d.
Ot'R army of invasion is going to
have some hard work in Culm, but it
lias begun welL Its landing was well
made, and proved that it had the right
"'rt of men in command. They evi
dently mean to push the campaign vig
orously, and that is what the people
want.
Chairman Klkin says he has col
lected news roost carefully from every
county in the State, especially in regard
to dissatisfaction and disaffection rela
tive to the Republican ticket, and he is
ready to predict that Stone w ill have
as large a majority or plurality as has
ever been given a Governor of Penn
oylvania. At the Cambria county Republican
primaries Saturday the Barker people
won everything in sight, and nomina
ted the following ticket: Congress, Al
vin Evaus, Esq.; Prothouoiary, Col. 8.
W. Iavis; Register and Recorder, X.
15. Jones; AssemH;-, II. I. Rodgers,
Capt J. Swan Taj lor; District Attor
ney, M. B. Stephens.
The ITanna faction had complete con
trol of the Ohio Republican conven
tion June 21-U2, and nominated the fol
lowing ticket by acclamatiou: Secretary
of State, Charles Kinrwy; Supreme
Judge, V. T. Spear; Clerk of Supreme
Court, Joiah B. Allen; Food and Dairy
Commissioner, Joseph II. Blackburn;
Member of the Board of Public Works,
W. G. Johnson.
It is a pleasure to record the fact
that the surgeon with Admiral Samp
son's fleet denies that the marines kill
ed at Guantanamo were not mutilated
by the Spaniards, ttut that the appa
rent mutilation was the work of the
peculiar bullet used by the euemy.
There was some excuse, however, for
believing the tale, considering the cru
elties practiced by the Spaniards in
Cuba.
General A. H. Coffkoth has vol
untarily taken himself out f the race
for the Democratic gubernatorial nom
ination. As the General was not book
ed for a p'ace, and was running with
the field, his retirement will not help
to break the ice that will be liberally
used at Altoona. The Somerset county
delegates and others instructed for Mr.
CoflrotU will, in all probability, tie for
George A. Jenks, who swallowed the
Chicago platform, bead and tail.
A letter from Madrid says that the
general sentiment is now in favor of
peace, and though the people are will
ing to uphold the monarchy, the ua
tion must be saved at the expense, if
necessary, of the dynasty. If this rep
resents Spanish public opinion cor
rectly, it U evident that a revolution is
taking plaoe there which will bring the
country more in line with modern ideas
on the subject of the relative obliga
tions of the dyiaty and people.
The stry of a college professor of
moral philosophy, ethics and logic who
burned down one of the college halls
oat of revenge, is one of those bits cf
fact which read like imaginative fiction.
Yet this is the actual case of a member
of the faculty of a Pennsylvania col
lege, who has descended from the chair
of philosophical morals to a jail cell.
Novels and the stage do not stint them
selves in such Instances, lut when they
otvur in real life Wf are apt to find them
rather startling. Learning, ability and
opportunity only make such cases the
more inexcusably guilty.
Til E enemies of the Republican party
in Pennsylvania, says the Harrisburg
Telegraph, have been trying to g to
gether for some time in the hope that
they could defeat the Republican ticket,
but the trouble with them is that they
all want to be "It" with a big I, and
that is the rock they split on. Why
don't they behave themselves and take
their licking with a good grace? They
are sure to get it as good and hard as
they did two years ago when President
McKinley was elected. Do the enemies
of the Republican party think the peo
ple are going to desert President Mc
Kinley this year of all years when he
most needs their encouragement and
sympathy? Not much. It can never
be said that in war times the people of
the patriotic State of Pennsylvania
placed the enemies of the President in
power to hamper hitn.
At the Cambria county Republican
primaries Saturday Alvin Evans, Esq.,
received the endorsement for Congress,
which completes the list of candidates
who will go into the district confer
ence. The candidates from the four
counties composing the congressional
district are the same as two years ago.
Hicks has the conferrees from Blair,
Thropp from liedford, Kooser from
Somerset, and Evans from Cambria.
In view of the last conference we would
suggest to the several candidates that
they go to work af the earliest practica
ble day and knock out a-nomination.
There should be no monkey business
this year like that of two years ago;
and the Republicans of this district
are not likely to tolerate with patience
a repetition of the disgraceful proceed
ings that characterized the congres
sional conference of lsirti.
How Feaoa Knit ks Xad.
From The New York Tribune.
The latest aonouut of Spain's sentiments
on the su ..jeot of peace-making rurports
u come from the private secretary of th
Spanish prime minister, and is published
through the medium of Le Petit Bleu, o f
Brussels. The gist of it is that Spain
wants peace, that she would especially
like to get it through French or Austrian
mediation a: d tLat she Is "ready to accept
any peace proposal submitted, on the ex
prescndition that it does not emanate
from the enemy."
It is natural that she should want peace,
for she must realize -the hopelessness of
further conflict with the power she once
despised and threatened to crush. It is
natural that she should desire the good
oinora of either Fran-e or Austi ia, for the
ore is her next neighbor and chief credit
or and the other is of close dynastic kin.
Perhaps the final proviso is natural, too.
But it must be natural to nothing but the
most purblind pride and incorrigible in
fatuation. For, whatever conditions of peace may
or may not be granted, that one assuredly
will not be. Xo matter what mediator
Spain may or may not ge", the pest'w
proposals she must newpt will lie those
that emanate from th enemy. Let that
Iss unfailingly lionie in mind. The Uni
ted S'Htes ami no other power is at war
with Spaio, in a war of Spain's own seek
ing; and the United States and no other
power will settle the terms of peace.
Some other government may serve as a
go-letween, to facilitate negotiations, but
it will have no voice in declaring terms
of peace. It will merely report to Spain
the proposals that "emanate fron. the
enemy," and report back to the United
States her acceptance or rejection of
them.
It has been Spain's misfortune to have
other experience and observation. She
has had her own affairs settled by con
ferences of the powers. She has seen
wars ended and peace restored by con
certed action of the powers, over the
heads of tb belligerents. And she seems
to have got the notiou that all wars, with
whatever power, may be settled in that
way. The sooner she gets rid of that
notion the Itetter for her. It is erroneous
and mischievous. The power with which
she has now so madly and wickedly pro
voked a war if one that joins no concerts
and accepts no dictation, but tights out
its own quarrels, and at the end makes its
own terms of peace.
Late War News.
The Navy Department posted a bulletin
yesterday morning slating that CapL
Siirsbee repot ta that on Wednesday after
noon the St. Paul, while otf San Juan,
Porto Rico, was attacked by a Spanish
unprotected cruiser and the Spanish
torpedo boat destroyer Terror. The SL
Paul bit the Terror three times, killing
one officer and two men. The Terror got
under cover of the fortifications and was
towed into the harbor in a sinking condi
tion. By proclamation issued by the Presi
dent yrxterdav the blockade has been ex
tended to include all the ports on the
south coast of Cuba and the port of San
Juan in the island of Porto Uioo.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken to prevent the escape of Admiral
Cervera's squadron since it waa learned
that the wreck of the M err i mac docs not
completely block the Santiago ahanneL
Ail the big ships of the fleet are kept on
duty far otf shore. Some of them are
standing off six miles froia the eutrance
of the harbor. The Texas, the Iowa and
Oregnu ara less than four miles off. The
small vessels are much closer in shore.
The Suwanee, CapL Delehanly. to-day
ran within a mile and a balf of the en
trance and paraded up and down in front
of Morro castle aud in front of all the
land batteries for hours, but could not
draw the Demy's fire. The Spaniards,
however, could be seen standing at their
guns.
Professor Plied Toroh.
KA.STOX, Pa., June 21. George Her
bert Stephens, for four years a member of
th Lafayette College faculty as associate
prufeor of ethics and logic, who was
dropped from the roll a year sgo, occu
pies a cell in the Kaston jail, having eon-
fomied to setting fire to Pardee Ball, tar
ring the chapel and other grave crimes.
lie has revealed plans laid for future de
struction, including the burning of all
the college buildings except the gymna
sium.
Professor Stephens' sole idea was to
square accounts with President E. D.
Warfield for the loss of his position.
Woaiaa Spy's Htai Psaad.
CiscissATi. O., June 21 The blowing
up of the King Powder Mills, at the vil
lage of King's Mills, last Sunday night,
was partly the work of a female Spanish
spy. Her left hand is in the possession
of o (Boers as a memento. She had at
least two accomplices, one who lost his
right hand, and another who lost his life.
These people are believed to be a part of
the body of Spanish-bought agents who
blew up the mills of the California Pow
der Company, and also of the Hammond
Powder Company, of Illinois,
SHAFTEB HAS 23,000
TROOPS' II LINE.
all Beady Par as Immediate Adtaaoe on
Santiago.
JOIXXD IT OaKCIA'S BEBELS.
General ShaT.er's entire armr has land
ed on Cuban soil. He has 17,000 Ameri
can troops, and General Garcia has put
under the command of General Shatter'
COM Cubans, and will put 4,000 more un
der his command.
The lanuing of the United States troops
from the transports began at Baquiri iron
j ier, twelve miles east of the city of San-
'jago de Cuba, at 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning, June M. Simultaneously the
American fleet made a diversion toward
Morro Castle, at Santiago, and westward.
However secretly the plans were kept,
the Spaniards seemingly had full warn
ing of the hour and place for the landing
of the troops.
BfRSISO OP THE TOWJC.
The transports and their convoys as
sembled off shore during the night, Nit
before dawn the houses of the village
were fired, proving that Captain-General
Blanco's standing orders, always to burn
a place before deserting it, were being
faithfully carried out. With wonderful
fatuity they burned the cottages, house
and factory of the iron company, but left
Its pier, vital to the United States author
ities directing the landing, standing and
uuinjured.
At dawn the New Orleans, SL Louis,
Detroit, Wasp, Tecumseh and Suwanee
steamed within rifle shot of the shore.
but they were not molested. During the
conflagration ashore there were several
loud explosions, either from dynamite or
ammunition left behind by the Span
iards. laylight showed the Spanish flag haul
ed down, and, gathered in a ci-cle of
about six miles, were thirty American
transports wallowing in the heav swell.
1H KRIEI) AKIIOHK IM SMALL BOATS.
At 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon 6,000
trained American soldiers were encamp
ed on the hills in and around Baquiri,
and 10,000 more rest on their arms on
hoard the transports off shore; ready to
join those who have debarked as soon as
the available launches and small boats
can carry them ashore.
As the big warships closed in on the
shore to pave the way for the approach of
the transports and theu went back again,
three cheers for the navy went up from
10, 00 throats on the troop ships, back
again; three cheers for the navy went from
ship after ship as the troopships moved
in to take their share in the hszardous
game. It was war, and it was magnifi
cent. The Cuban insurgents bore their share
in the enterprise honorably and well.
Five thousand of them, in mountain fast
nesses and dark thickets of ravines, lay
all night on their guns, watching every
road and mountain path leading from
Santiago de Cuba to Guantanamo. A
thousand of them were within sight of
Baquiri.
A little before 9 o'clock the bombard
ment of the batteries of Juragua was be
gun by the ships of Rear Admiral Samp
sou's fleet. This was evidently a feint to
cover the real point of attack. Jaragua
being altout half-way between Baquiri
and Santiago de Cuba. The bombard
ment lasted a! out twenty minutes.
L.VNIH.VU THE TROOPS fXPKR I'IRK.
The scene then quickly shifted back
again to the great semicircle of the trans
port fleet before Baquiri. At tt:40 o'clock
the New Orleans opened fire with a gun
that sent a shell rumbling and crashing
against the hillside. The Detroit, Wasp,
Machiss and Suwanee followed suit, and
s'n the hillsides and the valleys seemed
to be ablaze, as shot followed shot in swift
succession, amid the wild and excited
cheering of the men on the transports.
Iu five minutes the sea was alive with
flotillas of small boats, headed by launch
es, speeding for Baquiri dock. Some of
the boats were manned by crews of sail
ore, while others were rowed by the sol
diers of the service.
READY TO V1UHT OX RKACUIXH SHORE.
Each boat contained six tee a men, every
one in lighting trim, and carrying three
days' rations, a shelter tent, a gun, and
two hundred cartridges, ready to take the
field on touching the shore, should they
be required to do so. The firing of the
warships, however, proved to be a need
less prex-aution, as their shot were not
returned, and no Spaniards were visible.
General Shatter, on board the Segu
rarica, closely watched the landing of the
troops.
Brigadier General Lawton, who had
been detailed to command the landing
party, led the way in a launch, accom pa-
ided by his staff, and directed the forma
tion of the line of operation.
The Kighth Kegular Infantry was the
first to land, followed by General Shaf-
ter's old regiment, the First Infantry.
Then came the twenty-fifth Infantry (col
ored , the Twenty-second Infantry, the
Tenth Infantry, the Fiftieth Infantry, the
Seventieth In antry, and the Twel'th In
fantry, the Second Massichusetta Regi
ment, and a detachment of the Ninth
Cavalry.
The boats rushed forward simultane
ously from every quarter, in good-natured
rivalry to be first, and their occu
pants scrambled over one another to leap
ashore.
As the boats tossed about in the surf
breaking against the pier, getting ashore
was no easy matter, and the soldiers had
to throw their rifles on the dock before
they could climb up themselves, and
some hard tumbles resulted, but nobody
was hurt. At the end of the pier the
companies and regiments quickly lined
up and were marched away.
General Lawtou threw a strong detach
ment for the uight about six miles west
on the road to Santiago, and another de
tachment was posted to the north of the
town among the hills. The rest of the
troop were quartered in the :own. The
town was deserted when the troops land
ed, but the w uuen and children soon ap
peared from the surrounding thickets and
returned to their homes.
The sun-bronzed s ddiers, in their
F loueh hats and servioe uniforms, quickly
searched the utiildings and beat op the
thickets after landing, in search of lurk
ing fM3s, and marched into the unknown
country beyoud ax nightfall with long,
swinging strides and the alert bearing of
the old frontier army men, ready to fight
the Spaniards Sioux fashion or in the
open, wherever they could be tound
'J he Oueera of their comrades still wait
iug on the transports and o( the bluejack
ets and the strains of "Yanaee Doodle"
from the bands on the troopships saluted
them as they disappeared from view over
the hills of BaquirL
The landing was accomplished wilt out
loss of life.
Kt Veceuity of Being Blind or Deaf.
Moaern science restores the ear to
healthfulness in hundreds of cases which
in the past have been considered incura
ble. Putting off the necessary treatment
causes serious damage In hundreds of
cases which might be wholly restored.
In 1ST7 Miss Annie Rolfe, 2.'.7 Forty
fifth SU. Pittsburgh, came nnder the
treatment of Dr. Sadler, 804 Penn Ave.,
fur a polypus and discbarge from the ear.
The condition was perfectly cured, and
in ISsr;, she expressed, unsolicited, her
great satisfaction for the perfect cure that
bad lasted so many years, and will be
glad to answer any who may desire to
communicate with her. From the first of
the year. Dr. Sadler has s?ated m itb
him an eminent F.uropean physician. Dr.
A. Sigtuann, of the University of Vienna
Austria, who has had an extensive expe
rience in all the very latest knowledge
relating to medicine, and all who consult
Drs. Sadler A Sigmann will get the bene
f t of their combined skill and experi
ence, the best known to this age of progress.
Bongk Eiders Shot Proa Ambask.
The initial fight of Col. Wood's Rough
Riders and the troopers of the First and
Tenth cavalry regiments will be known
in history as the battle of La Qaasio a.
That it did not end in the complete
slaughter of the Americans was not due to
any miscalculation in the plan of the
Spaniards, for as perfect an atnbuseade as
was ever formed in the brain of an Apsche
Iudian was prepared, and Lieut. CoL
Roosevelt and his men walked squarely
into it. For an hour and a hAifthey held
their ground nnder a perfect storm of
bullets from the front and sides and men
Col. Wood at the right and LieuL CoL
Roosevelt at the left led a charge which
turned the tide of battle and sent the
enemy flying over the hills toward
Santiago.
It is now definitely known that 10 if sn
on the American side were killed, while
60 were wounded or are reported to be
missing. It ia impossible to calculate the
Spanish losseM, but it is known that they
were far heavier than those of the Amer
icans, at leist as regards actual loss of
life. Already 37 dead Spanish soldiers
have been found und buried, while many
others are undoubtedly lying in the thick
underbrush on the side of the gully and
on the slope of the hill, where the main
body of the enemy was located. The
wounded were all removed.
A complete list of the killed on the
American side, revised to 4 o'clock Satur
day, is as follows :
AMKKICASS KILLED.
CapL Allyn K. Capron, First United
States volunteer cavalry ; Sergeant Ham
ilton Fish, Jr., Troop L, First United
States volunteer cavalry; Sergeant Do-
berty, Troup A, First United States vol
unteer cavalry ; Sergeant Marcus Russell
Troop G, First United States volunteer
cavaliy. Sergeart Russell lived in Troy,
N. Y., and was formerly a colonel on Gov.
II ill's' staff. Private Legfett, Troop A
First United States volunteer cavalry;
Private Harry Heffner, Troop G, First
Uuited States volunteer cavalry ; Private
Milden W. Dauson. Troop L. Fin4 United
States cavalry; Private W. T. Irvin, Troop
F, First United States volunteer cavalry ;
Private Slennok, Troop F, First Regular
cavalry; Private Krupp, Troop B, First
regular cavalry; Private Stark, Troop A,
First regular cavalry : Private Dix, Troop
K, First regular cavalry ; Private Kelbe,
Troop K, First regular cavalry.
That the Spaniards were thoroughly
posted as to the route to be taken by the
Americans in their movements towards
Sevilla was evident, as shown by the
careful preparations they had made. The
main body of the Spaniards was posted
on a hill, on the heavily wooded slopes of
which had been erected two blockhouses,
flanked by irregular entrenchments of
stone and fallen trees. At the bottom of
these hills run two roads along which
LieuL CoL Roosevelt's men and eight
troops ot the First and Tenth cavaly,
with a battery of four howitzers, advanc
ed. These roads are but little more than
gullies, rough and narrow, and at places
almost impassable. In these trails the
fight occurred. Nearly half a mile sep
arated Roosevelt's men from the regulars,
and between them and on both sides of
the road in the thick underbrush was
concealed a force of Spaniards that must
have been large, judging from the terrific
and constant fire they poured iu on the
Americans.
The fight was opened by the First and
Tenth cavalry under General Young. A
force of Spaniards was known to be iu
the vicinity of La Quasina, and early iu
the morning LieuL Col. Roosevelt's men
started off up the precipitous bluff ba-k
of Siboney to attack the Spaniards, Gen
eral Young at the same time taking the
road at the foot of the bill. About half
mile out from Siboney some Cubans,
breathless and excited, rushed into camp
with the announcement that the Span
iards were but a little ways in front and
were strongly entrem.he. Quickly the
Hotchkiss guns out in the front were
brought to the rear, while a strong scout
ing line was thrown o L Then cautiously
and in silence the troops moved forward
until a bend in the road disclosed a hill
where the Spaniards were located. The
guns were again brought to the front ar d
placed in position, while the men crouch
ed down in the road, waiting impatiently
to give Roosevelt's men, who were toil
ing over the little trail along the crest of
the ridge, time t ge. up.
At7:.'a. in. General Young gave the
ooinn:and to the men at the Hotchkiss
guns to open fire. That mmand was
the signal for a, fight that has seldom been
equaled. The instant the Hotchkiss guns
were fired, from the hillsides command
ing the road came volley after volley
from the Mausers of the Spauiards.
"Don't shoot until you see something to
shoot at," yelled General Young, and the
men, with set jaws and gleaming eyes.
obeyed the order. Crawling along the
edge of the road and protecting the n-
aelves as much as possible from the fear
ful fire of the Spaniards, the troops, some
of them stripped to the waist, watched
the base of the hill, and when any part of
a Spaniard became visible, they fired.
Never for an instant did they falter.
In the meantime, away off tothe left
?ou!d be heard the crack of the ritles of
Colonel Wood's men, and the regular.
deeper-toned volley-firing of the Span
iards.
Over there the American losses were
the greatesL Colonel Woid's men, with
an advance guard well ont in front and
two Cuban guides before them, apparently
with no flankers, went squarely iuto the
trap set for them by the Span i'h, and only
the unfaltering courage of tho men in the
face of a fire that would mako even a vet
eran quail, prevented what might easily
have been a disaster. As it was. Troop I.
the advance guard uuder the unfortunate
Capron, was almost surrounded, and but
for the reinforcements hutriodly sent for
ward, every man would have probably
been kiilod or wounded.
"There must have beeu nearly fifteen
buudred Spanish in front and to the sides
of us," ssid LieuL Col. Roosevelt to-day.
when discussing the figbL "They held
the ridges with rifle pits and machine
guns, and hid a body of men in ambush
in the thick jungle at the sides of the
road over which we were advancing. C'ur
a iTAnce guard struck the men in ambush
and drove them ouL But they lost Cap
tain Capron, Lieutenant Thomas, and
about fifteen men killed or wounded.
'The Spanish firing was accurate, so ac
curate indeed that it surprised ine; aud
their firing was fearfully heavy.
'I want to say a word for own men,"
continued LieuL Col. RoosevelL "Kvery
officer and man did his duty up to the
handle. Not a man flinched."
From another ollicer who took a prom
inent part in the lighting more details
were obtained. "Wbeu the firing began,"
said he, "LieuL Col. Roosevelt took the
right wing with Troops G and K, under
Capts. Llewellyn and Jenkins, and mov
ed to the support of Capron, who was get-
ling it hard. At the same time Oil.
Wood and Maj. Brodie took the left
wing and advanced in open order on the
Spanish right wing. Maj. Brodie was
wounded before the troops had ad
vanced 100 yards. Col. Wood then took
the right wing and shifted Col. Roosevelt
to the left.
"In the meantiiis) the fire of the Span
iards had increased in volume, b t, not
withstanding this, an order for a en era!
charge was given and with a yell the men
sprang forward. Col. RoosevelL in front
of his men, snatched a rifle and ammu
nition from a wounded soldier and.cheer
ing and yelling with his men, led the ad
vance. For a moment the bullets were
singing like a swarm of beet all around
them and every instant sonu poor fellow
went down. On the right, wing CapL
McCormick had his leg broken by a bul
let from a machine gun, while four of his
men went down. At the sa-ne time CapL
Lun! lost nine of his men. Then the re
serves. Troops K and E, weeordered np.
There waa no hesitation. Col. Wood,
with the right wing, charged straight at a
blockhouse aliout yards away and j
Col. Roosevelt, on the left, charged at the .
aanie time. Up the men went, yelling
like fiends and never stopping to return
the fire of the Spaniards, but keeping np
a grim determination to capture that
bbs-khouse.
"That charga was the end. When
within : yards of the coveted point the
Spaoiards brcke and ran and for the first
time we bad the pleasure which the
Knauiard had been experiencing all
through the engagement of shooting
with the enemy in sigh."
Hough Biders 8hoL
Amcapores, June 2t, Tla Playa del
ETen of Roosevelts Rough Riders
were killed in an engagement this morn
ing with a Spanish force that ambushed
them. These troops bad requested that
they lie sent to the front at once, and thy
were ordered to march over tb foothills
from Baquiri last nigiiL
After a forced march the troopers dis
mounted. Tbey were then eight mil.is
distant from Santiago. They heard the
Spaniards felling trees a short distance
from t hem, and they were ordered lo ad
vance upon the enemy.
The country about is covered with high
grass and chaparral, and in this a strong
force of the Spaniards was hidden. As
the Americans moved forward they were
met by a withering fire.
Cel. Leonard Wood and Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt led the charge with
great bravery. They scorned to hide
themselves in the grass or underbrush aa
the enemy did, and ultimately they drove
the enemy back toward Santiago, inflict
ing heavy losses upon them.
The Rough Riders were supported by
the Second Massachusetts Volunteers and
the First Regular Cavalry. g
The American loss is 10 killed and 37
wounded.
A number of Cubans took part in to
day's fighting, and forty of them were
killed.
Kdward Marshall, a correspondent of
the New York Journal, was at the front
with the Rough Riders, and was seriously
wounded.
The Rough Riders have received high
praise from General S nailer for the gallant
style in which they defeated the Span
iards. The euomy was utterly routed.
Highwaymen on Wheels.
A wheelman of West 4i!th Street, New
York, was not long since attacked, rob
bed and left senseless by two highway
men mounted on bicycles in Central
Park. Repeated accounts of rohteries by
men mounted upon the swift revolving
wheel have appeared in the papers in
vaiious parts of the country. In each
instance, so far as learned they have
evaded the police. Those depredators of
the health, diseases of the kidneys and
bladder, will likewise in all likelihood
escape arrest, and pursue their atrociou-
career unchecked, unless they are arrest9
ed in the outset by the potent interven
tion of Hosteller's Stomach Bitters, the
finest diuretic, as well as tonic, known
to modern times. The genial pre
ventive named is the best known
medicinal safeguard not only against
renal, but also rheumatic and malarial
disorders. It is at the start that di sease
is the more easily aud completely over
come. The use of the Bitters is followed
by the happiest results in cases of dys
pepsia, constipation, liver complaint and
rvoustifiM.
Conor and Virtue In Hanila
Captain Frank Wilde, of the cruiser
Boston, writing under date of May 11, to
the Cumberland Club, of Portland, Me.,
in acknowledgment of congratulations
sent Dewey and himself by the club.says
among other thiugs: "Women and child
ren have left the cily to a large extent.
A good story is told of the British Con
sul, to whom a Spanish lady came with
doubts and fears and inquiries as to
whether the Americans were such as de
scribed in the captain general' procla
mation. The Consul said: "Madame,
honor and virtue are safer in Manila to
day than they have been for three hun
dred years.'
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Popular
Kxcursiou to the Seashore.
No other summer outing appeals so
strongly to the people of Western Penn
sylvania as the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company's popular excursion to the At
lantic seacoasL For years they have
been looked forward to as the holiday
event of each summer. The secret of
their great popularity is the phenome
nally low rate and the high character of
the service. The limit of twelve days
just tits the time set apart for the average
vacation, and the dates of the excursion:
are most conveniently adjusted. There
is also the widest field for choice in the
selection of a resorL Atlantic City, Cape
May, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, N. J.,
Rehoboth, Del., and (an City, Md.,
are the choicest of the Atlautic coast re
sorts, and any one of them may be visit
ed under these arrangements.
The dates of the excursions are July 7
and 21, and August 4 and IS. A special
train of Pullman parlor cars and day
coaches will leave Pittsburg on above-
mentioned dates at Sc-Vi a. in., arriving at
Altoona lilr p. in., where stop for din
ner will be made, reaching Philadelphia
6:25 p. m. and arriving at Atlantic City,
via the Delaware River Bridge route, at
8:.1 p. in., making the run from Pittsburg
to the seashore via the only all-rail route
in eleven hours and forty-five minutes.
Passengers may also spend the night in
Philadelphia, and proceed to the shoreon
any regular train from Market Street
Wharf or Broad Street Station the fol
lowing day.
Tickets will be sold from the stations
at the rates named below :
Kate. Train IraVes.
ConnellKVille 110 0) 7:: A. M.
Johnstown . S -it
fhilaildphln Arrive 6ri P. M.
Atlantic City Arrive :1U "
Tickets will also be good on regular
trains leaving Pittsburg at 4:-'t0 and M:I0
p. in., currying sleeping ears through to
Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
For detailed information in regard to
rules aud lime of trains apply to lickct
agents, or Mr. Thomas K. Watt, District
Passenger Agent, Pittsburg.
Reduced Bates to Nnhville vis Penntyl-
nia Bailroad, Account Christian En
deavor Convention.
)n account of the Christian Kndeavor
International Convention, to be held at
Nashville, Tenn., July 5 to 12, the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company will sell ex
cursion tickets of theoontinuous-passage.
ironclad -signature form, from stations on
its line to Nashville, at rate oi single fare
for the round trip. Tickets will be sold.
nd good going, July 2 to 5 ; returning.
tickets will be good to leave Nashville to
July I., inclusive, except that by deposit
ing ticket with agent of terminal line at
Nashville on or before July li, return
limit may be extended to leave Nash
ville to August 1, ISM, inclusive.
Young People's Society Christian
En-
deavor, Nashville, Tenn.,
July 5 to 12.
BALTIMORE A OHIO RAILROAD.
For this occasion tickets will be sold at
low rate of one fare for the round trip
from all points on the Baltimore A Ohio
R. B, Tickets will Ihj good going July 2
to 5, inclusive, and good to return until
July 15 with privilege of extension nntil
August 1st, if ticket is deposited with
Joint Agent at Nashville on or before
July
Solid Vestibuled Trains with Pullman
Sleeping Cars, Obsrvation Cars aud Un
excelled Dining Car Service from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington to Cincinnati and Louisville.
Solid Vestibuled Trains with Pullman
Parlor Cars and Sleeping Cars from P'tts
burg and Columbus to Cincinnati.
Call on agent Baltimore A Ohio Rail
road for tickets and full inf.H-mation.
A good opportunity is lsing otferf d Iy
Sitr.ird t Kuykeudall to those who have
small rooms or halls to rrpt, as a large
niimlsr of Beuitiania are being closed
out at a very low pric.
WILL STIR 0?
THE SPA!
Uncle Sam's Squadron Ordered to Start for
Spain st One
C0KM0D0ILB WATS05 TO C0XXAHD.
Washixotov. June 27. The Navy De
partment at 11:15 o'clock posted he fol
lowing bulletin :
"Commodore Watsou sails to-day In the
Newark to join Sam pon, when he will
take under his commaud ar. armored
squadron with cruisers and proceed at
once off the Spanish coasL"
Commodore Watson's squadron is de
signated the eastern squadron, and is as
follows :
Flagship Newark, battleships Iowa and
Oregon, cruisers Dixie, Yosemite and
Yankee, aud the colliers Scaudia, Aber
enda and Alexander. The start will be
made at once from otf Santiago.
Tb administration to-day finally came
to a decision to send an American squad
ron to the Span ishcoan and into the Med
iterranean. Several times siuee the war
broke out rumors to this effect have cir
culated, hut the project had not matured.
It required the Spanish movement toward
the Philippines by Camara's squadron to
decide the Navy department to adopt this
bold stroke. The first announcement to
day, through a bulletin posted at the Navy
Department of the government's iutenlion
was received with incredulity. There was
a suspicion that the story was being
floated to deceive the Spanish govern
meuL However, when later in the day the de
tail of the vessels selected to constitute
Commodore Watson's Eastern squadron
was anuouncod and official orders were
giveu to provision the fleet for four
months, it became apparent to the last
doubter that the government was in earn
est in .its purpose to despatch the fleet to
Europe.
The determination to send this squad
ron against Spain waa the outcome of di
rect official advices reaching the Stale
and Navy Departments as to the prog
ress of Admiral Camara's squadron.
These advices give a list of the Span
ish ships now Hearing the Suez canal.
BIO BATTLE IJJMINEST.
Spanish and American Troops Almost
Touching Shoulders.
L itest dispatches from the front bring
the intelligence that the American army
has advanced on Santiago until the doom
ed city is ouly four miles distant and in
plain sighL It is believed that a great
battle is imminenL The Spanish are
strongly entrenched, occupying block
houses on the top of every hill north and
east of the doomed city, whence they can
view the approach of the American army.
Earth-works have been thrown np com
pletely fencing every approach to the
city. The trenches have been dug as the
conformation of the ground admitted,
and upon these works modern guns have
been mounted. The American officers
do not overestimate the Lisk before them,
and the general opinion is that more ar
tillery will be necessary before it is safe
to make an assault on the Spanish works.
Hot Weather Beading.
For 5 and 10 cent magazines, as well as
the 25, 35 and 50 cent ones. Fashion Maga
zines, and a largo general stock of light
literature for the hot summer months, go
to Fisher's Book Stokk.
Enjoy Tour Fourth of July on B. t 0,
The Baltimore A Ohio R. R. will sell
excursion tickets to and from all points
east of the Ohio River, within a radius
of Si) miles (but not to and from stations
east of Baltimore, Md.), for all trains
July 2d, :!d aud 4th, valid for return pas
sage until July ot! , inclusive, st Greatly
Kkihtko Rates.
VALUABLE HINTS.
Which Suggested Themselves to tha
Writer while Conversing with tha
Employe of an Undertaker.
It is astonishing th.it men live when we
read of the history of their disorders. It
is more astouishiiig that they die when we
read of "cure-alls." Yet death neither
spares a Napoleon who supplied subjects
by wholesale, nor physicians who help
the work along by retail; not even the
grnvc-dicger. who has meiit a lifetime in
covering up the good as well as the bad
deeds of hm neiglilsirs he at last is ct'O-sigm-d
to his bed of clay, aud is covered
by his own shovel, to be succeeded by a
younger member who awaits the same
doom. As our representative interviewed
Mr. A. E. Sturgen, of corner of JefTcrsou
and Connecticut streets. Rochester, near
Reaver. Pa., with Mr. Jos. Rcuo. iu the
undertaking business. Die nbore thoughts
sugg.tsted themselves to him from the
osuiug sentences of that iuterview. "I
believe." said Mr. Sturccu, "thai quite
a percentage of the people would Dot be
carried to the graveyard if they had
known of Iloan's Kidney Pills.. Just
what brought on uiy ailment. I do not
know, but I have suffered for the past two
years, on and off, with a heavy, aching
and bearing down paiu through the Miiail
of my buck. The secretions became ir
regular, high - eolonsl. aud debited a
rwiilisb sediment. I was also bothered a
food deal with headaches and vertigo. I
ceiild not reet well ut uight. and found it
dithcult to get iuto a comfortable posi
tion, and I rose tinrcfrcfcbcd iu the morn
ing, i was advised to try iKmn's Kid
ney Pills, and pr.H-ured them at a drug
store. I uM-d theui. mid found almost
immediate relief. I have u-ed several
boxes, and I urn now as well as 1 ever
sin."
I loan's Kidney Pills, for sale by all
dealers. Pri.-c 50 cents. Mailed by
F-wter-Milbuni Co.. Buffalo. N. Y , ole
S routs for the U. S. Ileiiicmlier the name
lloau's and lake no rul s:iuitc.
May we ho inquisitive einitir!i to
ak you just one question?
Can you afford to miss inve.sti-
;atin the goods-awi-price methods
of this Pry Goods store, which con
stantly says it is
'determined to make it
pay you to buy here?"
Suppose wc do make it pay
you are you goin; to miss finding
it ont? costs nothing to investi
gate. Samples sent free.
Send for samples of 33-incli
fine White Madras 15c a yard
just the goods for shirt waists
and take that as evidence of wheth
er we're as determined as we say
we are.
And samples of all the Silk
Warp Crepes rich, lustrous half
silk, 20c a yard, fine for summer
gowns variety of colorings.
New India Silks 25c to $1.00.
Choice Wash Silks 25c.
Ladies and Misses wash skirts
linen color crash or white duck,
50c. White P. K. Skirts, 75c.
Other handsome Wash Skirts, $1.00
to $G.50.
Let the goods and prices prove
what we sav.
BOGGS & BUHL,
Allegheny, Pa.
Terrible Pains
In tho Stomach -Dreadful Head
aches Face and Neck Covered
With Boils -Cured by Hood's Sarr
saparilU-Skin is Now Clear.
w I a as covered w it h bo : Is all over m y face
and neck. I had dreadful headaches and
peim in mj stomach. I took medicines,
but wis not much t nested, and 1 pro
cured six bottles -of Hood s Sar-aparilla.
After taking the first botUelcould see an
improvement. W hen I had taktii a few
mow bottles the boils had all gone, my
skin was clear, my appetite retained, and
my health was entirely restored. I am
thankful I ever found such a blood puri
fier as Hood's Sarsapsriila. I paid out a
good deal of money for useless medicine
before taking Hood's Sarsaparllla." W. F.
Beckwith, Horlock, Msryland.
If yon decide to try Hood's Sarsaparilla
do not be induced to buy any other.
HOOd'S Spaaa
Is the Roit-ln fact the One True Blood Puri
fier. Be sur to set Hood'. Price St. six for .V
I , ntt are ttie only pilH lo take
nOOCl S PlUS withHoodsSarsaparllta.
Gibbs Imperial Piow,
Made at Canton, Ohio, the best plow
on earth, can now be seen at J. B.
Holderbauin's Hardware Store.
Light to handle aud very durable.
MA AT
OHIO.
SKE Ol'R.....
Disc Harrows.
Steel Rar Lever
Spike Tooth Harrows.
Steel Bar I-ver
Spring Tooth Harrow With Wheels
Old Style
Wood Frame Harrows,
plated front and under frame with wash
ers to protect bolt beads.
Steel Bar Lever
Corn and Garden Cultivators,
five, seven and nine shovels, with Ilill-
era and weeders.
T Bar Steel Pulverizer Land Roller
Corn Planters,
with fertilizing attachment.
Champion Hay Rakes.
Farmers' Favorite Grain Drill.
McCormick's Mowers and Binders
Engines, Saw Mills and
Threshers.
Just Unloaded for Spring Trade.
i Car Wire Nail.
i " Barbed and Smooth Wire
i " Imperial Plows.
i Harrows,
I " Kramer Wajrons.
i " Spring Wagons.
5 Buggies and Carriages.
Call and examine my stock before yon
buy,
J. B. Holderbaum
SOMERSET, PA.
TOTICK OF INfORPOIiATIOX.
The Trntee of the ItoekwoMl Church
Ev-irtt'!iil 4.wfe-eilLim. wtil tvlV to the
Court l MMiierwt, somerset Couuly, for
I ueoripomlmu.
Ily order of f Ho nt,
J. 1.MI1-I.KR.
ls.-reiary.
Jos. Home & Co, j
Three Specials j
in Black Silks. ;
The prodigious quantity of
Black Silks we have sold this sea- 4
son placeM silk selling of paat sea- j
sons far in the rear. The les .
price for guaranteed qualities i
abound iu our Silk Home. 4
500 yards plain black Kreneh J
Glace Tatreta that we have boeu J
selling right aloug at the cloae price '
of l.iayd. 3
marked SI a yd j
These are not ilks for lining. Hit- ,
elegant sort finish silka for the j
baudsoine skirt or gown. 1
10 pieces 27-inch Blsck Satin
Ducbetwe our regular 1.U qual- i
Uy' 78c a yd. J
Kindly notiee the width of this
Satin Ducuts throe-quart jis of a J
yard wide. .
All that are left of the 7.Vj B'.ack
Broche Silk Grenadines, go ou the
counters marked to ,
45c a yd. 4
Yon know how handsomely those ,
sheer grenadine make up. .
Black Dress Stuffs.
T l.j lil. tn - hlm-k- .
I)ren cbiwii from oin particular
ly high-graile novelty we open the
way by this quotation :
Lot of high-clans Novel tie here
tofore selling at $10U, fi."0 and
$! i a yard, go on sale marked
$1.50 a yd.
The price tl.M is merely nomi
nal. It H tar below the cost. Send
for aaiupleM.
525-527 Ptso A.
PITTSBURG, PA
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Kitchen- Coo:
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$125 PER MONTH
WE WANT A FEW MORE M!
AS THAVEI-I 0,1
GENERAL 1
OUTFIT FHEK. Ayply at oucc for territory, of :
A. n. & CO., Qener.
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JXECUTOIVS NOTICE.
Estate of John . CiaVm-in, Ile of Vlusia
buuiuK. lownatiip. oiiwrt Lo.. fu, J-'1.
I-tU-rn tMtamrnlary oil Ui atve r(ate
hnvltix bwn Tntl o tno unii-n!ul f
the proper authority, notice 1 bcreliy i-eti
to all p-rnon lnil-u-l unsaid mtate Ut umk
tmmtolUte payment, an.! ttume havin eiUn
axuiut trie mine to prvaent them duly u-llieiilK-ateil
for M-tlleiiasnt mi or b. for ttur
ilav July -t, t my oillew In tn borough
ut rC.miTl, fa or ul the lat re-IUcuce or
uld.-d. JvME-tUPnm.
Kxecutor of John ii. 'olenum. Uee'd.
lmblea tk lr f a rlT.
A linPcarriairediKibW'bepIeauaireof (Int.
Ina-. Intending bujera of arrmire or har
ness can we dollar by wndire l tha
lar-r. f r entilnru of th Klkhart Carna-
mai Harness Mftf. Co tlkhart, lad.
KEEP YOUR
USE a new Proems Blue Flame Oil
Stove, wick or wickless, burns
common lamp oil, cheaper than coal.
One, two or k three burner. Sec them
in operation at
P. A.
Sche
THINK OF EVERY
Cood po'nt a perfect cookin? app
8ould havr th-n examine the.
CINDEREbbV?
kV.STOVES & RANGES
Makea Kitchen Work s Pleasure.
GOOD BAKEES-PERFECT BOAST.
SOLD WITH THAT I'X DEIiSTAN DIN
$125 PER
cStoty. f Salesman the year roc
ILi
fcttt IkftTi totJ dinet to tiM er-
tlaoMV a prorata, ship tap
m b for inn nine a.
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PHAEMACY.
Where you secure help and protection in all purchases made wi:
Our stock la clean and complete throughout.
P:rc (brzigs, Chemicals & Toilet Art::. -
.....BENFORD S FOR EXPECTORANT
The largest aud best bottle of Cough Cure ever put on the mark
25 cents. Kery bottle guaranteed.
BenforcTs! rL !io cents
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Testimonials Given on Application.
line Citjars 'of Horeign $ Domestic Wrm
Chewing tSum and Lime Tablets. Fine Confections of elegant
ity and variety.
Columbus Royal Flush,
PRICE $50.00.
CRANK BOX
Our crank box an seen in illustration i 2 if '
in diameter, which prrmiU us to n our patent i"
Inflation ball reUiuer aud wparator. Thin i
device with which we use i halU, holds ihem in y
and reduvHt the friction ;
No Noise :
No Breaking of Balls.
.For Sale By..
J. D. SWANK,
SOMERSET, PA.
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
A tan Orphans' ftrart h.-M at Som--;
on the 7t It day ol June, !. the uiu
wah duly appointed auditor U
exe-pli.inn tiled to tlw aemunl ' '
J. J. Walker, adiuimtrHUni irf J'c
er, dee'd, alo, i4;enaln advam""
make a distribution of lue fund in
of the anid adtniuiHimtor U ;"
tliOM) imlly entitled thereto, ,''r.'
liDtu e 1 lutt be will attend to the ' ".
alnive appointment on Tueatlay, the
of July. Iw. al hia otllro in the '
mer-l. Fit., when and where "
Interested cuu attend if they ee p"" i
JOHN It-
WANTED ACTIVK MKN T;
HAKlOSon cMiimiwIou. Excellent
tunlty forro"l pn.rim. Men ei-'i'Vf- .
hkIo of anculiun! Implement a
nimr rod preferred Adiire-w rn"
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