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| USS Olympia (C-6). |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Monday, May 9, 1898.
GLORIOUS VICTORY.
Such Was
the Achievement of Commodore Dewey.
STILL
FURTHER DETAILS.
Every
Spanish War Vessel Was Completely Destroyed.
HONG KONG, May 9.—Further particulars of the
glorious victory achieved by Commodore Dewey at the Philippine islands have
been received here. With all its lights out the American squadron steamed into
Boca Grande at 8 o'clock on the evening of April 30, the crews at the guns. The
vessels composing the squadron were the flagship Olympia, the Baltimore,
Raleigh, Petrel, Concord and Boston. Not until the flagship was a mile beyond
Corregidor was a shot fired. Then the Spaniards on Corregidor island opened fire
on the squadron. The Raleigh, Concord and Boston replied, the Concord's shells
exploding apparently exactly inside the shore battery which fired no more.
The squadron then slowed down to barely
steerage way and the men were allowed to sleep alongside their guns.
Commodore Dewey had timed his arrival so
when daylight arrived on
Sunday
morning, May 1, he was within five miles of the city of Manila. Then the
Spanish squadron was sighted off Cavite composed of Admiral Montejo's flagship,
the Reina Christina and the cruisers Don Juan de Austria, Don Antonio de Ulloa,
Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Quiros, Marquis del Onero and General Lezox.
As our ships passed in front of Manila, the
three batteries of mounted guns on shore opened fire upon the American ships.
The Concord fired two shots in reply, but Commodore Dewey stopped the firing
because it would endanger all the inhabitants of the city.
As the American vessels neared Cavite two
very powerful submarine mines were exploded ahead of the Olympia, but did no
damage. Then the shore batteries opened fire on the American vessels, supported
by the Spanish squadron. All this time the American warships were pouring hot shot
and shell into the Spanish vessels.
Three of the Spanish vessels were seen to be
on fire.
This was kept up for two hours, when
Commodore Dewey withdrew the squadron out of range of the Spanish guns to give
his men breakfast and a little rest.
At 11 o'clock the attack was renewed. The
Spaniards replied very slowly, and the commodore signaled the Raleigh, Boston,
Concord and Petrel to go into the inner harbor and destroy all the enemy's
ships. By her light draught the little Petrel was enabled to move within 1,000
yards. Here, firing swiftly but accurately, she commanded everything still
flying the Spanish flag. Other ships were also doing their whole duty.
The Spanish flagship and the Castllla had
long been burning fiercely, and the last vessel to be abandoned was the Don
Antonio de Ulloa, which lurched over and sunk. Then the Spanish flag on the
arsenal staff was hauled down and at 12:30 o'clock a white flag was hoisted.
Signal was made to the Petrel to destroy all
the vessels in the inner harbor, and Lieutenant Hughes, with an armed boats
crew, set fire to the Don Juan de Austria, Marquis d'Uero, the Isla de Cuba and
the Correo.
The large transport Manila and many tugboats
and small craft were captured.
"Capture or destroy Spanish
squadron," were Commodore Dewey's orders. Never were
instructions more effectually carried out. Within seven hours after arriving at
the scene of action nothing remained to be done and not one red and yellow
ensign remained aloft except on a battery away up the coast.
The cruiser Baltimore suffered the most of
any of the American ships. A dozen shots took effect on her, but none of her
officers or crew was seriously hurt. Only a few slight injuries were suffered
by the American fleet, the worst of which resulted from an explosion of
ammunition on the deck of the Baltimore. The other ships of the fleet were practically
unhurt.
After the fighting was over Commodore Dewey
sent an ultimatum to the city battery, ordering it to cease firing or he would
bombard.
The Petrel chased a gunboat up the river
Pasig, and the Spanish captain came in a boat to negotiate condition of
surrender. The American captain replied: "Unconditional surrender or
fight." To this the Spanish captain answered: "We are willing to
fight. Please allow us to send for ammunition because our store is
exhausted."
On a proposal to the existing authorities to
continue temporarily under the American flag, pending the termination of the
war, the Spaniards delayed their decision and kept wiring to Madrid. The
Americans requested the privilege of using the wire, and when this was refused
they cut the cable.
The Esmeralda from Hong Kong arrived right
in the middle of the battle.
During the
adjournment for breakfast an American cruiser was detached to meet her, as it
was believed she might be a Spaniard. When it was found that the new arrival was
a British vessel she was warned to keep away. The Esmeralda, therefore, moved
up the bay 10 or 15 miles.
There are still two or three Spanish
gunboats about the Philippines, but no resistance from them is probable. One
recently captured an American bark loaded with coal.
SPANISH
ACCOUNT.
Six
Hundred and Eighteen Killed and Many Wounded.
MADRID, May 9.—An official dispatch from
General Augusti, governor-general of the Philippines, sent by the way of the
island of Labuan, says:
"The enemy seized Cavite and the
arsenal owing to the destruction of the
Spanish
squadron and established a close blockade. It is said that at the request of
the consuls, the enemy will not bombard Manila for the present, provided I do
not open fire upon the enemy's squadron, which is out of range of our guns.
Therefore, I cannot fire until they come nearer.
"A thousand sailors have arrived here
from our destroyed squadron, the losses of which number 618."
A conference of the authorities have been
held at which it was decided to send influential emissaries to the provinces to
raise the spirit of the people especially those provided with arms, and
endeavor to induce them to abandon the insurrection.
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| Admiral George Dewey. |
DEWEY'S
FUTURE.
He Will
Probably Await Instructions From Washington.
HONG KONG, May 9.—The United States gunboat
Hugh McCulloch which brought the dispatches from Admiral Dewey, officially
announcing his great victory over the Spaniards, has left here on her return to
Manila after, it is
understood, receiving many urgent dispatches from Washington. But it is
believed the McCulloch will first go to Mirs bay to await the final
instructions for Admiral Dewey as to how he is to deal with the Philippine
islands.
According to reports current here, the
American admiral still insists, by force if necessary, upon the Spaniards
accepting at least a temporary protectorate to the United States, the desire
being, it is alleged, to avoid disturbing the present administration, as it is
pointed out, the insurgents of the Philippine islands are quite unfit to
participate in their government.
However it is believed here that if the
Spaniards don't meet the views of
Washington
in this matter, that the American admiral will take prompt steps to administer
the islands for the United States, so soon as he receives the necessary troops
and supplies from San Francisco.
CUBAN
INVASION.
No Troops
Will Be Landed Until the Spanish Fleet Is Destroyed.
TAMPA, Fla., May 9.—Captain J. H. Miley,
senior aide to Major General
Shafter,
left Tampa very quietly for Washington and will report to General
Miles. It
is said on good authority that he bears with him the report of Captain J. F.
Borst as to the results of the latter's meeting last week with General Dolgado
of the Cuban insurgents near Havana.
Captain Miley also has Lieutenant Colonel
Lawton's report on his meeting at Key West Friday with officers of the American
blockading squadron. Major General Shafter's recommendations as to the plan of
campaign in the contemplated Cuban invasion and plans of Lieutenant Colonel
Ludlow, chief of engineers, regarding fortifications, etc., at the point of
landing in Cuba.
No American troops will be landed on Cuban
soil until the question of superiority in the Atlantic is settled between
Admiral Sampson's squadron and the Spanish fleet. High army officials make this
statement. They say it would be taking needless chances to send an army into
Cuba before the Spanish fleet is disposed of.
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TWO—EDITORIALS.
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In an editorial on "The
Catholic Church and the Flag," the New York Times says: "Nobody who
has had occasion during the jubilee of Archbishop Corrigan to pass within sight
of the white and tapering spires of St. Patrick's cathedral can have failed to
observe floating between their minarets the American flag. Very few Americans
indeed can have noticed that sight without gratification. There are prelates of
the Roman Catholic church in this country at whose jubilees the exhibition of
the American flag would be incongruous. There are others at whose jubilees the
exhibition would be entirely superfluous. But that it should be made so
conspicuous just at this time at the jubilee of the archbishop of New York is a
matter for general gratulation [sic]. It shows anew, and conspicuously, what
only a few bigots have over disputed, that it is entirely possible for a priest
to be a citizen and a 'good Catholic' to be a 'good American.'
"One of the broken reeds upon which
Spain has been leaning was the assumption that Catholics of the United States
were Catholics first and Americans only afterward. That is an assumption that
was made 300 years ago, when the armada descended upon England. There was some
ground for it then, because the English Catholics had been subjected to real
persecution in England as they have never been in the United States. But even
then the assumption was found to be quite baseless. The English Catholics were
found to be Englishmen first and Catholics afterward. As Hallam eloquently says
of them, 'In that memorable year when the dark cloud gathered around our coasts,
when Europe stood by in fearful suspense to behold what should be the issue of
that great cast in the game of human politics, what the craft of Rome, the
power of Philip, the genius of Farnese could achieve against the island queen
with her Drakes and Cecils, in that agony of the Protestant faith and English
name, they stood the trial of their spirits without swerving from their
allegiance.' The vigorous and patriotic speech of Bishop McQuaid at the jubilee
banquet shows that American Catholics are not less Americans for being
Catholics, as the flag between the spires of St. Patrick's is a visible sign of
the compatibility of allegiance to the Catholic church and to the American
republic."
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Let no indignities or insults or
rudeness be offered to any Spaniard in
America.
That will be too much like the foolish and childish Spaniards themselves. Treat
citizens of Spain in the United States with extreme courtesy. We have no call
to treat them in any other way. It is not their fault that the government of
Spain rushes on to its own ruin.
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| Gen. Maximo Gomez. |
SUPPLIES
FOR GOMEZ.
NEEDS ARMS,
AMMUNITION AND FOOD SUPPLIES.
Then the
Spaniards Can be Driven Out—Cuban Troops are Famine
Stricken—Ten
Thousand Revolutionists Have Died in the Last Four
Months—Twenty
Thousand Cuban Troops Ready for Action and 80,000
More
Will Fight If They Can Secure Rifles and Cartridges.
NEW YORK, May 9.—The World, in a special
dispatch from Key West gives the substance of a communication just received
from General Gomez as follows: Gomez wants rifles, food, clothing and United
States troops in the order named. Armed and supplied he promises to drive the
blockaded Spaniards out in six months. Cubans in general wish arms and American
troops to bring them. Gomez formally declares his readiness to co-operate with
Miles and Sampson, and now the United States have available the principal land
forces necessary to take Havana without risking many of our soldiers. Hunger in
the fields almost equals Weyler's cemetery towns. Ten thousand Cuban
revolutionists have died in the last four months. Gomez' own forces in Santa
Clara are now living vicariously on small game. Other portions are worse, and
but 20,000 healthy soldiers remain. Using transports simultaneously in
different points in the narrow island he can in two weeks put them in Havana.
There are 12,000 men in eastern Cuba under
Garcia, 2,000 in Santa Clara, Carillo; 1,500 in Matanzas, Betamour; 1,500 in
Havana under various small leaders; there are 3,000 in Pinar del Rio. Pedro
Diaz and Mayia Rodriguez are under the experienced and skillful Gomez, and
there are fully twice 20,000 more Cubans anxious to fight if armed, equipped
and fed by the United States.
Exampled by a few regular troops the most
moderate estimates are 40,000 resolute Cubans, of which at least half have heard
bullets before. The condition of the blockaded island beggars description.
MINISTERIAL
ASSOCIATION.
The War
Question Discussed at the Monthly Meeting To-day.
The May meeting of the Cortland Ministerial
association was held in the
Y. M. C.
A. rooms to-day. At the morning session, Rev. G. H. Brigham of Cortland
delivered the sermon, and was tendered a unanimous vote of thanks. This was
followed by a discussion of the war situation, in which nearly all present took
part. This afternoon each minister present gave a brief outline of the sermon
preached by him Sunday. The ministers present were as follows: Rev. Messrs. O.
A. Houghton, John T. Stone, John Kenyon, W. H. Pound, W. J. Riker and G. H.
Brigham of Cortland, L. Eastwood and J. A. Hungate of Homer, A. C. Smith and G.
W. McDonald of Preble, N. S. Burd of McGraw, W. S. Warren of Blodgett Mills,
Edson Rogers of Cincinnatus, B. Franklin and Frank Fletcher of Virgil, W. S.
Bull of DeRuyter, F. H. Dickerson of Varna, W. G. Reed of Cuyler and L.
Heinmiller of Scott.
Operation
for Appendicitis.
Mrs. Patrick Dillon of 14 Railway-ave. was
last night taken to the hospital and this morning was operated upon for
appendicitis. The operation was performed by Dr. S. J. Sornberger, assisted by
Dr. C. D. Ver Nooy and Dr. Miller of Syracuse. A large quantity of pus was
found in the appendix and a solid concretion as large as the tip of one's
little finger. The patient stood the operation well and is said to have a fair
chance to recover.
CORTLANDS
WON AGAIN.
DEFEATED
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY IN A CLEAN GAME.
Both
Teams Played Swift Ball, but the State Leaguers Were Superior to the Collegians
—Gildea
Was In Fine Form and Allowed the Visitors but Three Scattering Hits
—The Locals Certainly Played Winning Ball.
The Cortland State league baseball team
played its second game Saturday afternoon, and by the score of 4 to 1 was
victorious over the men from New
York
university. The game was a remarkably clean one for so early in the season, and
was a pretty one to see. Both teams were in one form and played with a will to
win if possible. The collegians are good ballplayers, and are thorough gentlemen
on the diamond, which added much to the pleasure of looking at the game.
Cortland scored two runs in the first inning
on a hit by Ketchum, a double by Polhemus and a batsman hit by the university
boys' pitcher. Another was added in the third and one more in the fourth, which
ended the run getting so far as Cortland was concerned.
So perfect was Gildea's pitching and the
support accorded him that but seventeen men walked up to the plate in the first
five innings, and in four of these innings the visitors were retired in one, two,
three order. Two hits and a sacrifice in the sixth brought in the only score for
the visitors. Craft, the catcher for the New Yorkers, is a clever little
backstop. In fact the whole team played good ball, but they showed that they were
inferior to the [semi-pro] leaguers.
Gildea's pitching was the subject of very
much favorable comment among the fans. Wise was as perfect as ever behind the
bat, and Captain McGuirk at first covered his territory well and very
acceptably. Friel covered second base in matchless style, Roussey being
temporarily laid up with inflammatory rheumatism. Delaney at third is
acknowledged by all to be a very clever third baseman. He handles himself
easily and is strong at the bat. Shortstop Deisel played an excellent game with
the stick Saturday. Hanscomb, Ketchum and Polhemus also come in for a large
share of laurels in assisting in the victory. The team as a whole showed a most
decided improvement over the game of a week ago. They are really doing good
work in practice games, and if they do not make some of the other teams in the
league hustle down from the top of the percentage table, it will be nothing
surprising.
To-morrow afternoon they will play the team
from St. John's Military school, Manlius, and it is expected that the Shamrocks
of Syracuse will be down again Wednesday.
The State league season opens Thursday, when
Cortland plays at Lyons. Friday Cortland goes to Canandaigua and on Saturday
will occur the first game in Cortland, the opposing team being the
Canandaiguans.
The score of Saturday's game:
The team was at the fair grounds twice
to-day, when Captain McGuirk gave them good practice in signs.
On the first trip of the team, M. T. Roche
of the board of directors will accompany them and arrange for hotel
accommodation for the season. He will go with the team to Lyons on Thursday. Some
member of the board will accompany the team on its first visit to each town.
Village President Arthur F. Stilson will pitch
the first ball over the plate in the game with Canandaigua Saturday. It is
expected that Friel will pitch the game
Plummer will probably pitch against the St.
John's men to-morrow, and Kelley against the Shamrocks on Wednesday.
BREVITIES.
—The Epworth league of the First M. E.
church will hold a business meeting at 7:15 sharp this evening.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Baker
& Angell, Shoes, page 8; Stowell, Dover Egg Beaters, page 6.
—A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barry
of New York City last Thursday. Mrs. Barry was formerly Miss Rose Neary of
Cortland, a sister of Dr. P. M. Neary.
—The meeting of the board of directors of
the Y. M. C. A. will be held at 7:15 o'clock to-night instead of at 8 o'clock,
so as to permit all to attend the lecture at the Presbyterian church.
—Mr. Sanford Kingsbury, a native of
Cortland, died Friday night, May 6, at his home in Norwich at the age of 86
years. The greater part of Mr. Kingsbury's life was spent in Sherburne.
—The [teachers'] institute conductors of the
state are having a week's vacation, and consequently Conductors Welland
Hendrick and D. L. Bardwell are spending the week in Cortland. The last
institutes for the spring occur next week.
—Walter Smith Page, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Tracy R. Page of 31 Charles-st., died Sunday at the age of 1 year, 2 months and
8 days. The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock to-morrow afternoon and burial
will be made at Groton.
—Dr. E. F. Eldridge of Grand Junction,
Colo., a nephew of Mr. O. F. Eldridge of Cortland, and a former resident of
this place, has just published a little pamphlet of poems, the leading one
being "Alkazar, the Moorish Alchemist." The poems are excellent.
—For several nights recently the
incandescent lights have been shut down from midnight till about 4 o'clock
instead of running all night as usual. This was to admit of certain needful
repairs at the powerhouse. The shut down will continue for a few nights more,
and then the all night service will be resumed.
HOMER.
Gleanings
of News from Our Twin Village.
HOMER, May 9.—Much complaint has been made
by people on the streets about the pace which Cortland bicycle riders make on
the walks of Main-st. on Sundays. Several people came near being hurt yesterday
by the fast, reckless riding of these wheelmen, and such abuse of the walk
privilege will soon cause the trustees to pass laws forbidding our own wheelmen
from the use of the walks entirely. Several of the wheelmen here are in favor
of prohibiting riding on the walks Sundays between the hours of 9 A. M. and 2 P. M. If such was the case
the walks would not be as crowded as the church people would be home by that time.
We are on the side of the wheelman, but would like the rights of pedestrians
respected.
A small celebration was participated in here
Saturday evening from 10 to 11 o'clock on account of Admiral Dewey's victory
over the Spanish navy at Manila.
Mr. William Crandall spent Sunday at the
home of his parents at East River.
Considerable interest is manifested here as
to whether Admiral Dewey ever resided in Homer. Since the interview with I. W.
Brown in The STANDARD last week several of the residents here remember distinctly
of a young man here by that name.
Geo. Ripley sent up a large balloon in front
of his store last Saturday evening which attracted a large crowd. On the balloon
was a card attached stating that finder will please return same and receive as
a prize a $1.25 baseball. The winner was Geo. Southerd of Blodgett Mills.
Rev. Dr. Taylor of Binghamton occupied the
pulpit at the Congregational church yesterday.
Dr. E. W. Hitchcock of Philadelphia was calling
on friends and relatives in town Saturday while en route for Cleveland, O.
Thieves are at work on the west road to
Little York. They are stealing produce, blankets, robes, grain and nearly everything
they can find. The parties are believed by some to be pretty well known and if
the surmises are correct it is said that legal proceedings will soon be
commenced against them.
The funeral of Mrs. Maria Christina Flor was
held from her late home on Cayuga-st., Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. J.
A. Hungate officiated.
Mr. O. B. Andrews is in Syracuse to-day on
business.
Mr. Geo. Ripley has taken the agency of the
Palace Star laundry of Cortland and will be pleased to have his friends and
patrons leave him a bundle for trial.
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