The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 7, 1898, Page 6

a City Before He Gets Some Reinforcements. PANDO’S TROOPS GET INTO SANTIAGO. Cuban's Fail to Hold Back the Reinforce- ments for Gen. Linares, So Gen. Shafter | Thinks It Unwiseto Carry the City by | Assault Just Yet—Sampson May Enter the Inner Bay. WasuinGTon, July 5.—There will be no bombardment of Santiago to-day and possibly not during the present week. This is the opinionof members of the eabinet as expressed on leaving | the white house after the cabinet meeting. Secretary Alger and Long have been in almost constant com- | munication with Gen. Shafter and Ad- miral Sampson upon the situation and the conclusion has been reached that it would not be advisable to attempt to carry the city of Santiago by storm with our present force. Gen. Shafter in a dis- patch received last night confirmed the report that Gen. Pando with about 6,000 Spaniards had arrived in the city and were already distributed among the fortifications. This reinforcement makes the Spanish forces defending the city from 16,000 to 18,000. The very great advantage of being in-/ f trenched adds materially to their | strength and, in the opinion of miti ry men, makes their effective fighting force from a third to a half greater than our own. Gen. Shafter, in his dispatches, states that the excessive heat and rains of the last two weeks have contributed nearly as much as the Spanish bullets to the ineffective- ness of our army. Under these cir- cumstances it is his opinion it would be unwise to carry the city by assault. This view is shared by the oflicials here and also, it is understood, by Ad- miral Sampson, in command of the fleet. At the cabinet meeting the president directed telegrams to be sent to Gen. Shafter and Admiral Sampson, suggesting that they confer as to the situation and particularly as to the advisability of the admiral’s at- tempt to force a passage into Santi- ago bay and so be in readines to ren- der effective ald in the assault upon the city. It is known to be Gen. Shafter’s de- sire to have the fleet enter the harbor. Orders were given looking to the im- mediate dispatch of troopships from Tampa with reinforcements for Shaf- ter, and others now off Santiago will be brought here at the earliest possi- ble moment to aid in the transporta- tion of reinforcements. It is probable that at least 15,000 will be sent for- ward as rapidly as transportation can be provided. Thus augmented, there seems to be no doubt that the forces under Gen. Shafter will be able to storm and take the city without de- lay. These are the views entertained by members of the cabinet who talk freely on the subject. Nevertheless the orders under which both the army and navy are now operating gives the commanders wide discretion and it is not doubted that should changed cumstances seem to warrant it an gressive movement will be begun. A senator who talked with the mili- tary officials said there was no doubt of the outcome if the American fleet could get inside of the harborand thus play on the city between the land and sez bombardments. The arrival at San- tiago of Gen. Panda with reinforce- ments for Linares occasioned some comment on the course of Gen. Garcia and his Cuban troops in not holding Pando back, particularly in view of the fact that Gen. Lawton brigade was co-operating with Garcia, but it is believed the latter left Law- ton in an embarrassed position. At the same time the disposition of the authorities was mainly to meet the situation now present rather than to question how it had come about. In meeting this the most active steps toward gettYng large reinforce- ‘ments to Gen. Shafter were in prog- ress. Three regiments of Gen. Garret- son’s brigade go from Camp Alger— one of them, the Eighth Ohio, under Col. Curtis V. Hard, proceeding to New York, where they will embark immediately on the St. Paul. The | other regiments of this brigade—the Sixth Illinois and the Sixth Massa- chusetts—go to Charleston, S. C., where they take the cruisers Harvard and Yale. At the same time the b gades of Gen. Ernst and Gen. Hains, now at Chickamauga, will move with all possible dispatch to Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and other coast points, there to take transports for { Santiago. Sampson to Try to Enter the Inner Bay. WasutneTon, July 5.—It is regarded as likely that Sampson may attack | fortifications outside harbor of Santi- ago and attempt passage to inner bay to-day. Another Rallroad for Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., July 5.—Withina short time the St. Joseph & Grand Is- land railroad will be running freight and passenger trains into Kansas C ity. The entrance of this road will make Kansas City the greatest railroad cen- ter in the world, with 1 tems and 29lines. The St. Joseph & Grand Is- land will reach Kansas City over the Santa Fe tracks from St. Joseph to —— enEeennenieeeeen nna, ON ON The Question Being Discussed as to NPALATABLE TUESDAY'S resolution Th: ARMY AT SANTIAGO, PREPA Gen. Shafter May Not Bombard the h Punishment. AH INCREASE IN THE NAVY WANTED. , rited States Will Soon Have One of the Short Statement EXCURSION STEAME Strack by a Squall Goes Quickly to Dozen Persons Drowned. ' | The President Telegraphs the of the United nitely refused such responsib consuls ex chievements of i over the splenc the Amer army and navy return to S said, was d : last desper Associated ead ue ce) in annibilation plunging fire bor from the An Increase in the Navy Wa the old prayer e president consul has Shafter’s Casu | a hotel in Norway: “Bath! Fisk hotel, Mia GERMAN EMPRESS pop How She Looked When She Regiment in Review, If Kaiser W t " She is of theip because she does not at her “oon: ad is in the \merican womag rd her regi Mperor conf eau. After rs went by {i f bugles andeig horses, fp wy ets and to view, fj and four behind the ‘ode alone Her hg ! habit were e breast of her gh ng jacket a row of» a sash of a royal onler over one shoulder, two lumes streamed little cocked hat ang oved hand she held a sword, “There wasag rst of applause ag by,” said the Ameria an who saw it all, and saw, toa | said, the fiery young emperor's face lax for a moment, as well it might, the sight of his wife's graceful fi ing face and her perfect coy 1imal she rode. adays, that there are no vies to claim her hourly attes 1 most of her boys are at school, a press goes with her husband ony ly all his tours abc jermany, and every unv ng, Ship's launching, mi tary review or dedication she takes 2 but attractive part. It wasig city of Hanover, not long since, w the royal pair unveiled a statue same day a big German steamer xm he launched. Arrangements were m that by pigeons news of the launchiy should be sent to the emperor, J , as usual, the empress stood alo nd rather conspicuously while 1usband reviewed the body of the troops. All at once a flock of whit” ray pigeons swept over the he of the crowd, not to their home loft, ball directly to where the empress stoofia ind settled, fluttering and cooing, er shoulders, arms and hands, it was too much for the se Germans, who fell to cheering! gorously.—Chicago Qhronicle, > PENSIONERS’ COMPLAINTS, of the Queer tters Ke ceived by the Bareau, A good many queer letters are te ceived at the pension office, nearly all of which are tucked away in the fil which contain papers relating to a mil lion cases Some time ago a widow who haf] worked ham! to get a pension became possessed of the idea that the postmig tress of her town was her enemy. Hen is the letter she wrote the commissiona of pensions: “I wan tel ye bow old sojers widow are treted by our Redbeded postamistrs she are only fourth class anyhow, and keeps a stoar redenge all the posta cards & letters too, wich we camt not tel she have the same red repoarts to Com. Pew my husben died of devik ment wich are a lie he die of the army an he war more piouser then our Ret heded postmistris.’ A Kansas man writes the penslos office the following: “I see by the newspapers that yor you are going to try to get congress ® put a stop to the present opportunitie h the law offers to women to ire pensions for life from the United States by marrying an old soldier, What the devil do you mean, sir? Do jot want to hose your scalp? Of courm you will be opposed. We were assurel last fall that in case of McKinley’seler tion that his administration would friendly to the old vets, and now yet propose to deprive many of us of oa y chance of ‘helping to perpetuate a race of heroes’ and the pleasure of eventually being petted to death bys nice young woman. Do you think the people will tolerate such an outrage! But, my dear sir, if you must recom mend such a law, can't you makesne® ception gf old bachelors—that'sa boy. Two of my near neighbors and myself settled here in the wilderness at the close of the war, and when the country became settled ten years later we had ‘lost our grip.’ I am 55 yeast old, and the other fellows are past #. “And now, oh! comrade! do not, f pray thee, attempt to deprive us of om hope of ever securing the consol so necessary to gladden our declisr ing years. For of course you know there is nothing about old fellows like ourselves to induce young women id marry us if they cannot get a pensiow —Washington § Hotel Rales in Norwar- The following notice is displayed ® class bath. Can a bath. Warm and cold. Tub bathasé and work on Peffer Will Raz | mon respectively. No visitor who # neeler Will Nurse Fler Fat! Plattsburg, Mo., where the Kansas City & Northern Connecting railw: will be intercepted, and from there | will run into Kansas City. i . _Has Sampson Entered the Harbor? Wasutxeron, July 5.—An operator at the cable station at Playa del Este | reports to the signal office here th he has heard that Sampson bom di Morro and Socapa this morni succeeded in getting into the harbor. He also speaks of Pando being in San- tiago, : : | claimed to retire. No visitor is all | within himself dog, or the same kind j With bananas will support 25 ” many people as the produce of an sey | planted with wheat, er bath. At any time. Race urday. Ey two hours forbor® this is the notice that was 1p recently in an art exhibition okio, Japan: “Visitors are req at the entrance to show tickets fori spection. Tiekets are charged ten com and two cena, for the special and co mad or intoxicated is allowed to ent if any person found in shall Bj to carry in with himself any umbrella, stick and the like, except purse, and is strictly forbidden to beasts. Visitor ig requested to : good care of himself from thierely-— N. ¥. Tribune. 6r% pases io —The banana js the most prolifie of The produce of one ecre plan