FREELAND TRIBUNE. Established 1383. IM* BIJSIIEI> KVKHV MONDAY AND THURSDAY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited nun K. M vi> Sthkkt ahovk CKNTKK. SOBSCKII'TION HATES: I >|l? Year j six Months • Kour Months Two Months .•£"> Tito'lute which tin* subscription is paid to is >n the address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date becomes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in ■ advance of the presant date. Report prompt ly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. MuliC nil imritcu orders, checks. etc.. puf/uh/e In I lie Tribune Printing Co in /Mt n if. Limited. 11% KM LA ND. PA.. MAY lb. SUMMARY OF THE NEWS. The Philippine rebels asked Admiral Dewev for permission to attack Manila. He is said to have given the,in leave on condition iliat no excess should be com mitted. They informed him that they had no arms to attack the Spaniards with. The Admiral pointed to the arsenal he had cap tured at Cavite and told them, the story goes, to help themselves. Five thousand Spanish troops in Puerto Principe started for Moron under a thm of truce to engage against the Tinted States, lbe insurgents refused to respect the tla/ of truce, and 900 Spaniards were killed. President Masso has railed Gens. Gomez and Garcia to a conference on the Moron frorha. where the Cuban Army will be concentrated, The first engagement in Cuba between l uited States regulars and the Spanish army, which took place at the landing of lite Gussie's party, resulted in a decisive victory forthe Americans, who suffered no ) loss, while the enemy left three dead on the field when they retreated. President McKinley will ask France to ft xplain why messages from American ials in Martinique notifying our Govern ment of the arrival of the Spanish squad ron were delayed and the Spmisli vessels permitted to coal. Because of Spain's starving of non-com batants in Chha, Congressman Cooper, of Wisconsin, wants the Tinted Slates to for ever treat her as an outlaw among nations 1 and refuse to resume diplomatic relations. There is complaint at Tampa that inade quate preparations have been made for ar riving troops. Some were without water for fifteen hours, and one regiment wan there three days before it got any supplies. ' An expedition for the Philippines is be ing organized by the Spanish Government. , 4 Madrid dispatch reports. Forty thousand of the Spanish reserves are said to have j been called out. The Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer 1>- • strm tor blew tip in the Straits of Gibraltar and all on hoard are believrd to he lost, j she was on the watch for American ve.*>- j lels. A rigid press censorship is threatened by Washington >tli<-ials it the newspapers keep mi printing the news of the where- I a bouts of American war-hips. Three men held as prisoners .if war are ! said to he suspected of intentions to tain- i per with the mines in New York harbor ' arid cut them loose. Thrall and .tones, the two men who were raptured bv the Spaniards in Cuba, will be r xclinnged for two Spanish officers now on our hands. Kour members of Spain's Cabinet liav* ' resigned the Ministers of the Colonies. m Marine, of Foreign Affairs ami of Public Works. Wealthy and influential families of the Philippine Islands are asking to lie per mitted to swear allegiance to the Cnited States. Ma.jnr Smith, the Cuban leader, >.i \s thai in three years of service on the island he never saw a case of yellow fever in camp. Spain is reported in Halifax to have bought, through outsiders. 8.000 tons of coal, to he delivered on the Cape Breton i iast. An aggrc >sivr campaign is to he waged in Cuba, Washington reports. Tampa says the troops are to he sent in detachments. Washington officially and Paris semi officially denied that French artillerymen wore landed at Havana by the Lafayette. The Bev. A. C. Dixon, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. has started for l ampa, I'la., where he ii tu preach to the troops in camp there. George Downing, the Spanish spy ar rested in Washington, hanged himself in the barracks where hi- wa> confined. There was a rumor on the Paris Bourse that Russia had demanded Mr i hairilin lain's resignation. Commodore George Dewe\ was regular ly nominated a* Hear Admiral and the nomination confirmed. Admiral Sampson and his fleet, it is said at Washington, will soon return to the blockade of < 'nba. Captain-General Blanco declared a state of war in Cuba and revoked all the pari lie decrees. Spanish fours rose slightly in Kurope. The premium on gold advanced t-> 80 in Madrid. The new auxiliary cruiser Yale raptured the Spanish steamer Pita near Porto Ifico The overthrow of the present Spanish dynasty is expected hourly in Germany. The work of mustering in the New York militia was begun at Pcekskill. lEMISfICl 1 Concord and Boston Will Try j to Recapture the Ameri can Ship Saranak. WILL STRIKE AT ILOILO. j i The Rebels Prove Treacherous and j ! Useless to the United States as Allies Against Spain. C'avitn Ai srnul is Fun ntl to Ha liiipti. anil a Colonel ol Artillery 14ill* lliinnell' on Diii'iiverliiK Tlial 'I here I* No Ain muni tion Itlockaile of Manila i* Ex I remely Kigid, Several Foreign ship* Being 11*- !n**d Admit!mice. Hong Kong. May Iff.—The steamer F.s- ! nieralda, which has just arrived from Ma- f nila with 400 refugees, chiefly Chinese, re- ' ports that the Cnited Slates cruisers Con cord and Boston are going to lloilo, where they expect prompt capitulation, and to re capture the American ship Saranak, with a cargo of coal. The blockade of Manila is extremely rigid, and several foreign ships were not allowed to enter the port. The rebels are useless as allies of Ad miral Dewey. They are utterly disunited quite half of them being in favor of Spain \HMIKAI. fiKWKV'tf H.AUMIir n|.\ MI'IA. The Cavite arsenal was found empty. Colonel Miquel, of the artillery, commit ted suicide because he discovered the am- I munition was non-existent Captain-Gen- ! eral August! is trying to conciliate the I rebels and lias authorized the establishment I of native councils. The Archbishop of Manila, in a pastoral J issued on the Bth inst., said: ••Christians, j defend your faith against heretics who raise an insuperable barrier to immortal j souls, enslave the, people, abolish crosses from cemeteries, forbid pastors to perform ! baptism, matrimony or funeral rites, or to administer consolation or grant absolu tion." Fending the arrival of troops from the j Cnited Slates the Americans defer hostili lies ashore. lloilo is the chief town and the seat of the island of I'anay, one of the most im- i portant of the Philippines. Ii has a popu lation of 7.60U, unimportant as compared with the 1 do,ooo "f Manila, but neverthe less important on account of its position. | It is about 860 miles from Manila, and is | reached by an almost straight sailing I course through Mimloro Strait. It is near- ! ly due south of Manila and is situated on i the southeast coast of the island of I'anay. ! It has a large export trade in sugar, hemp, canes, sapati-wood and tobacco. It imports coal in large quantities and always has a large store on hand. It is ' ! probably for this reason that Admiral Dewey has decided upon its capture. I Spanish !•'I eel Loaves Curacao. Willemstad, Curacao, May 17.—The cruisersVizcaya and Maria Teresa left this port at 6 o'clock Sunday evening. Their destination is unknown. The four other Spanish warships which were off the liar j bor disappeared about noon, but this even- I ingone of the torpedo boat destroyers was ! sighted again. While here the two war ships took on a small quantity of coal and ! provisions. The departure was due to our government's requesting thein to leave, as ' provided in the decree of neutrality. Tin-re | were no colliers with the fleet. Nothing j i is known about the condition of their boil ers. A rumor which is not considered re liable says that there are some coal ships J in this vicinity. Worrylna Over the Philippine*. Loudon. Ihe Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent says that Japan intends to ' protest vigorously against the anticipated j Amerinan seizure of the Philippine Islands. I Japan seeks countenance in such a protest i from Bussia, with whom she has already ! communicated on the subject. It is he | lieved in St. Petersburg that Russia, France j 1 and Germany will support the protest. Conferences between fount Muravieff, the Russian Foreign Minister, and Banm 11 ay ash i, the Japanese Minister, are pro- ; eeeding. Seaport Town* Frightened. Boston. Mass. New Knglatid seaport , towns arc frightened at rumors of ap- | prfiaching Spanish warships, t Mders w.-re ! received from Washington to remove all women and children from Fort Warren, i i Boston harbor. The Navy Department says this order will be repeated to other forts, because it is believed that women j spies are giving Spain information about ; fortifications. Squadron* (taring fur lie.v W>l. Key West. Fla.—Advices received here ; are to the effect, that three squadron-, one of which is hostile, are racing Inward Kr \ West, each under full sail in order to he first at the goal. It is felt that a decisive ! j naval battle is impending, and it is ,i ques tion whether the two American fleets will I he able to effect a junction and engage the i i Spanish warships. WlnKtow Not Itarily ItHiliMßfil, Key West. Fla.- The crippled torpedo boat Winslow arrived here from t ardenns : under her own steam. She is only slightly ! damaged and will be ready for set vi. in , few weeks. iilw I.HVKI St. Tlioinu*. St. Thotnas.—The. American auxiliary , j cruiser Yale, which was here waiting for , orders, lias lett, sailing to the westward. j SPANISH CABINET RESIGNS. Will fir Culled I pun to Form Nfw Ministry. Madrid, May Iff.—All the members of the Spanish Cabinet have resigned. Senor Sagasta communicated the situation to the Queen Regent, who will intrust him with I the task of forming a new Ministry. ' ft is officially denied that these Cabinet j changes are connected with a peace niove j ment. Un the contrary, it is declared that j Premier Sagasta's Ministry, when the new Cabinet is formed, will continue to prose cute the war with the full resources of the country. j A Cabinet council has been held. A : minister who was interviewed on the sit uation declared that nothing definite had been decided upon as to changes in the Cabinet pending a conference between the Queen Regent and Premier Sagasta. The Cabinet which has just resigned was composed as follows: President of the. Council, Senor Sagasta. ! Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senor Gul- I 1"". Minister of Justice, Senor (iroizaid. I Minister of Finance, Senor Puigeervcr. 1 Minister of the Interior, Senor Capdc ' pon. Minister of War, General Correa. Minister of Marine, Admiral Beriuejo. Minister <>f Agriculture and Commerce and of Public Work, Count Xiquuiia. Minister of thr Colonics, Senor Moret. Spanish Tot-peilo Itoat. Disabled. St. Pierre. Martinique—The Spanish fleet was not seen today. The Spanish torpedo-boat Terror, with disabled boilers and without mon ey. and the Alacaute are still at Fort tie France. The United States cruiser Harvard is yet at St.. Pierre. It is not known when she is io leave. Repairs are be- , ing made on her. | After a protest by United States Con j stil Darte regarding signals on the hills ihe Governor sent a squad of gen j darmes along the mountain road on an I investigating tour. The men found no : signals. On Saturday night one signal flash- I cd for a few minutes off Carbet Point. I The general impression is that the Spanish fleet is off the island some where. waiting orders. It is report ed that one Spanish man-of-war was seen in the Dominica Channel. ('apt. Cotton, of the Harvard, is be ing treated very courteously by the au thorities. 1 The natives here are greatly excit ed over all the news. Strengthening Fort* at I lie CaiiHriea. Soul Hampton, May Hi The British | steamer Gaul, from Table Bay on April j for this port, via Teneriffe, Canary Islands, arrived here today. She left j Teneriffe on May !>, and that day mar ! tial law was declared on the island. A Captain O'Ponoghue. one of the passengers on hoard, who is on his j way to join the Cnited States Army, said there were seven hundred thous j and troops at Teneriffe. of which ntim | her one thousand are artillery men. j He adds that eight hundred engineers \ and six thousand men are working day and night, throwing up breastworks ! and bastions to double the strength of the fortifications at all vulnerable points. The captain' says it would require a strong fleet to take the isl and. He believes the waters of the harbor are not mined, and says the Spanish soldiers are of excellent phys ! ique, and as fine a body of men as he has ever seen. A I .fit it I ton vessel loaded with am munition had just discharged her car | go as the Gaul sailed. There were no signs of Spanish war 1 ships at Teneriffe. Troo|i .tliiatoreil In, Washington Sixty-five thousand troops have been mustered in. Orders were issued directing ."ill regiments of infantry, il light batteries of artillery and .'in troops of volunteer cavalry to Chickamauga. ft regiments and bat talions of infantry and 4 batteries of artillery to San Francisco, 1 regiment of infantry to Key West. 4 regiments of infantry and !> troops of cavalry to New Orleans, I regiment of infantry to Mobile. 14 regiments of infantry and 7 battalions of infantry to Washington and 1." regiments of infantry to Tampa. in consequence of the postponement jof the occupation of Cuba no more | troops will he concentrated at Gulf ports for the present. When the time j comes those at Chickamauga will have just as good a chance of going lo the island as have those at Tampa. 4 tit.Mil I'ixpc.lttion Abandoned. Key West- -The transport steamer Ottssie lias returned here and from here to Tantpa, and the expedition has been indefinitely postponed, if not en tirely abandoned. II has resulted, so | far as the purposes of the expedition : are concerned, in complete failure. None of the arms, ammunition and supplies destined to equip the Cuban army were landed. Thai the failure was unattended by any loss of life on our part seems due more to good luck than io good judg ment. When the war is over some comic opera librettists can find inspira ! tion in the adventures of the Otissie, whose movements front the time she left Key West until she returned were | as frivolous and flighty as her name. IteenncenlradoM Nearly All Killed. Key West. Fla., May Iti—The gun boat. Machias. just before her return to this port, caught two fishing smacks off Havana. The fishermen said there was little sickness in the Cuban capi tal. bin much starvation. | They said lite recnnrrntrados were nearly all dead or hHd been expelled from the city to die in the suburbs. Al! food is being reserved for the array 1 and many persons ere thus led to en- I list who would not lo so otherwise. ; CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH, ' Between the MIIM It Mfiin* Much tot h I lilted St at *s. ton don —England is our friend. On Saturday last Mr. Chamberlain ex pressed himself as follows: "All the powerful States of Europe have made alliances, and as long as we keep outside of these alliances we will he envied by all. suspected by all. and as long as we have interests which at one tinte or another conflict with the interests of all, we are liable to he con fronted at any moment with a com bination of the great powers, so pow ; erf til that not even the most hothead ed politician is not able to contem plate it without a certain sense of uneasiness. "It is impossible to overrate tho gravity of t lie issue. It is not a ques tion of a single port In China, not a question of a single province. It is a question of the whole fate of the Chin ese Empire, and our interests in China are so great, our proportion of its trade so enormous, that I feel no more vital question has ever been presented for the decision of a government and the decision of a nation. "One thing appears to me certain. If ilie policy of isolation, which has hith erto been the policy of this country, is maintained in the future, then the fate of China may he. and probably will be. hereafter decided without ref erence to our wishes and in defiance of our interests. If. on the other hand, we are determined to enforce the poli cy of the 'open door,' then we must not allow the jingoes to nrive us into a quarrel with all the world, and must not reject the idea, of an alliance with those powers whose interests most nearly approximate our own." < nling Station PtirrliHNed. Port an Prince. Hayti- United States Minister Powell is much impressed with the idea that the Island of (Son- Hives, in the Gulf of Longnne, or Con nives. the largest dependency of Hay ti, would afford the naval station which the United States lias so long desired to possess in these waters. The island was granted under very liberal conditions some years ago to three Haytians Nord Alexis, B. Ri viere and Dr. Aubrey. Only M. Alexis is now living, and the concession re mains uncxploited. The Island of Gonaives is almost in calculably rich in mahogany. It is mainly composed of picturesque up lands. which would also yield enor mously in coffee, if properly cultivated. The highest mountain peak rises about three thousand feet above the sea. In the interior a.re numeirous springs, while the dark soil is evenly moistened throughout the year, and has a fertility that is proverbial even in Hayti. The concessionaires or their heirs are very desirous of selling their rights. J. ('. Rtisselman. of Port au Prince, represents them, and is ready lo enter into any feasible arrangement with the United States government. Minister Powell, I understand, has al ready brought the matter to the atten- I tion of the State Department. Dewey Culture* Another Verne!. Washington. D. C. —This official ties- 1 patch was received today from Rear Admiral Dewey, dated Cavite, May 1 it. via Hong Kong today: "Maintaining strict blockade. Reason to believe that t.e rebels are hemming in the city by land, but have made no demonst rat ion. "Scarcity provisions in Manila. Prob able that the Spanish Governor will he obliged to surrender soon. "Can take Manila at any moment. Climate hot and moist. "On May I'J captured gunboat Cal lao attempting to run blockade. Have plenty coal. One British, one French, j two Gorman, one .Japanese VPSSPIS here observing. DEWEY." The Caliao is an iron gunboat of UnM tons, equipped with four modern gnus and carrying a crew of thirty-five. The ship was spick and span for the Ad miral's inspection on arrival. The American flag was promptly hoisted on the Cnllao, and she was added to Admiral Dewey's fleet. She will be useful for river work. " Hiii'knyM" First Ht ( hickttmalign. Chattanooga. Tenn.. Monday -The first of the big army of volunteers to, he mobilized at Chickaniauga are on the field tonight. The First Ohio Vol- i ttntecr cavalry, six hundred men, un der command of Lieutenant Colonel ! Day. arrived this morning and imme diately went to the Park. The troopers did not bring horses, hut will he sup plied by thp government here. The Ohioans are a fine looking body of young men. all of strong physique. ' and what some of them lack in niili- , fary training is made up in power of endurance and enthusiasm for fits work before them. Tlirnt' Hundred Spniiiai'iU Killed. Key West. Kin., May 10. A report of the second bombardment of Cardenas by the Wilmington, quickly following the de parture f the damaged Winslou. Ims reached here. The Wilmington is said to have silenced all the batteries. Landing parlies found I LI dead bodies behind the batteries. The total Spanish loss is placed at .'IOO. Hurrying to the Front. Washington. D. Sunday -The Seventy-first regiment Now York and 1 Second Massachusetts passed through j here this morning cn route to Tampa. ' They went South over the Atlantic j Coast Line find 1 tant system. The j train consisted of nine sections. Fit ylnijtti I.ee Ordered to Tumps*. Richmond, Ya. Major-General Lee. who caine here front Washington to spend Sun day with his family, has received orders to ; report at once at Tampa to take charge of i i the Seventh Army Corps. J PORIO I|flll Sampson's Guns Lay Castle Mono in Absolute Ruin at San Juan. EVANS IN HIS ELEMENT. lowa Opened the Attack and Fearful Kesults Followed the Discharge of a Twelve-inch Shell. Kfwii shot* Were Flreil by the American Fleet mid (rumbled Kuins Alone Tell the Tale —One Man Killed—SpnniHids Fought ItrHvely—Coventor's lhmgliter a Heroine—Sla.vn at Her Father's Side— Yulitnleem I'led. St. Thomas. May 19. Admiral Sampson has hammered the foils of Sail Juan de Puerto Rico to powder. Out of the gray of the dawn there flared from the halyards of the flagship New York that signal which is to make the war with Spain memorable among the battling of mankind: " Itemeiiiher I be Maine !" Then the stillness was shattered by a mighty sound. The crashing thunder of a great gun broke and boomed over the quiet harbor, reverberated among the hills, ind told all the Antilles that Uncle Sam had begun fighting in the West Indies. $ w CAI'TAIN CIIAHWICK, or THK Ni;W YORK. It was one of the great 12-inch guns on the lowa which began the bombardment •'Fighting Bob" Evans was in his element nt last, making an hc/oic effort to have the Spanish tongue recognized as the court language of hades. The shell struck home on the gnarled front of Castle Morro, the ancient lime stone fortress which guards San Juan as its namesake stands watch and ward over Havana. The Indiana opened from its forward turret with a thirteen-inch projectile, and the effect of the shot was like that of the famous first effort of a groat modern gun at Alexandria. The walls >f Morro seemed to go into vapor where the immense projectiles struck. Ruined masonry and mangled corpses told of the inadequacy of the scarps and bas tions of the older days to withstand the as saults of modern armaments. The castle made a feeble reply, but the firing indi cated a panic within t.ie fortifications. An attack on the land batteries and for tifications about the government buildings RIUI the palace then began. The volunteers fled, but Governor Macias stuck to his post, giving orders and assert ing that he would die. before he would sur render. A woman remained by his side. It was his daughter Paulina, the belle of San Juan. As the shells shrieked and burst, throwing the city into confusion, she was urged to go, but she elected to stay with her father. The bombardment of the torts l.ustcd three hours. The Spanish reply was ir regular and uusustaiucd, though they suc ceeded in placing several .shots among the , American vessels. A report Jftom Admiral Sampson states that one man was killed on the New York and seven slightly wounded in the fleet. Tried H Fifteen-Inch Hun. New London, Conn. The test of the new Jo-inch gun. recently mounted at Fort Trumbull," caused the city to qmoke, and many people, who knew nothing of the. trial, believed a hostile war vessel had entered Long Island Sound. The exact distance which the hall traveled on a straight line was o.HOO yards, according to the chart at the fort. The test of the gun was considered very satisfactory, and it. will be used mainly in protecting the mines planted at the harbor's mouth. Spain's i l 'iiil-, i Loudon.— A dispatch to the Central News ; from Madrid says that at the diplomatic reception given by S i,or Gallon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the opinion was ex pressed that if Spain sends au active squad ron to Iho Philippines it. will appear that she docs not lack friends. ItnnMivfilt'A Kotifrh Itiilers. San Antonio, Tex. The New Yorkers who came here to join Roosevelt's Rough Riders donned sombreros and flannel shirts and went into camp with their comrades from the Western plains, with whom they quickly fraternized. Weyler's Plots. Madrid. Weylcr is plotting to become dictator of Spain, and the Uarlists and Re publicans are working with hint, for reasons of their own, to overthrow the existing government. All are encouraging the an archists and the famishing to riot. Spain If an Secured a Louii of £20,000.000. London.—The correspondent of the Run ! learns from a good source that the Bank of J Spain has received an advance of 100,000,- 000 francs, probably from the Bank of France, though this latter statement cannot ' be confirmed at the moment. Seized l,y I In* Spanish, London. The Spanish authorities have seized the telegraph office on Grand Can ary Island. Only the simplest commercial messages will be allowsd to pass. The | coast and, harbor lights of the Canary Ulands have besn extinguished. 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