PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. ESTABLISHED JONE 23, 18(>2—VOL. 35. MAINE, MONDAY PORTLAND, MORNING, MAY 16, 1898. iffiBiKSAMBSSEl PRICE THREE CFNT8 at such a time between sympathy the peo- and will themselves. Mr. Chamberlain machinery sail with a crew of WAR SEWS SUMMARY. ple shows COmen. sound statesmanship in taking CABINET advantage The OUT. of the on both sides gunnoat Oneida, Lieut. Wm G present, feeling of tho Miller, comamnding, which Atlantic to indicate the great part which was’ the UNITED Illawarra MOVE. yacht of the union jack and the stars and stripes private Boston, mounts four one-pound rapid lire has may play If the two peoples are wise in rille, her cabnet crew, and awaits sailing orders. The entire the new conditions whioh are rapidly FLEET She Spanish AT CURACOA. out tomorrow. SPAINS The creeping over the world.” may go Lancaster Entire Spanish Ministry Has is also ready for sea. has resigned. Extraordinary Activity at Key The Gussie returns to Key Resigned. West having failed to land FROM-DEWEY. West. arms for the insurgents. Another attempt was made Madrid, May 15, (via Paris.)—All the Purchased Coal and at General Blanco Tries members of the cabinet have re- Another Gunboat To Key West, Fla., May 18.—This hat to entrap the blockading Spanish Spanish Supplies Entrap will been a Sunday of unusual off signed. Senor Sagasta tonight com- Blockading activity hew squadron Havana, by Squadron. and it is than an municate the situation to the Queen Re- Captured. apparent important out but Port. strategic movement is vessels, will entrust him Venezuelan sending decoy gent, who with the task being planned. Commodore it failed. of forming a new ministry. Watson arrived on the gun- On the Board Associated Press Despatch boat from The Spanish cabinet, which has re- Dolphin the blockading fleet The steamer McCulloch just Boat Kate 02 Hong Kong, May 15.—The United Spencer, Havana, May 14. oH Havana, signed, was composed as follows: Orders came thick and fast States boat —8 p. m., via Key West. Fla., May 15. — has arrived at desptuch Hugh McCulloch, from and Hong Kong President of the Council—Senor Sagasta Captain General Blanco, two hours before Washington the naval station arrived here today from Manila with de- ■v-'.Hhv., authorities with from Dewey Minister of Foreign A Hairs—Senor Gul- sundown tonight, attempted to execute a were instructed to make despatches for the United spatches States govern- ruse, which if successful would have quiok who announces that he has lon. preparations to call the big ships. ment. She reports that the Spanish gun- cleared the front of Havana of six It is Minister of Justice—Senor Groisard. ships thought that there will be no occa- of coal and has cap- boat Callao from the Caroline The Hears From on that blockading station. islands, and He Is sion to plenty Minister of Finance—Senor Department Dewey begin coaling before Tuesday or Again a Puigcerver. Though clever soheme it was practical- tured a recently entered the port of Manila, being Spanish gunboat. Minister of the Interior—Senor Cap- ly a repetition of the trick by whioh the Wednesday, although it would not be ignorant of the outbreak of hostilities be- The Manila is said depon. gunboat Vicksburg and the little coverted surprising were the work to begin to- populace tween and Spain the United States. An Weil. revenue outter Morrill were last week de- night or tomorrow. to be reduced to horse Minister of War—General Correa. Doing Quite eating American warship fired across her bows coyed by a fishing smack under the big Minister of Marine—Admiral The ships already in the harbor have Bermejo. Krupp guns of Santa Clara batteries. flesh. and signalled her a demand for her sur- Minister of been ORdered to get up steam without de- Agriculture and Commerce Late this afternoon the ships on the The situation in HavanaTs render. The demand being disregarded, but the officers and of Public Works—Count Xiquena. Havana station were dumbfounded to see lay; say they’aro Ignorant the American 6hlp fired direct at the two steam out of of All the reconcen- Minister of the Colonies—Senor Moret. ships Havana harbor what this may indicate. The an, pitiable. Spanish gunboat and the latter surren- and head east. Dense smoke was steam- The Liberal cabinet under Senor Sagas* Louncement from the north of the com- tradoes are dead. dered. ing like blaok ribbons from their stacks was formed lng of the ta, shortly after the assassina- and a showed that flying squadron, strengthens The Manila Has Not But He Taken glance they were under The boat populace of Manila is reduced to Has the held Spanish torpedo tion of Senor Canovas del Castillo, who Capitulated a full head of steam. Bv aid nf trln.aana theory here that a united move, horseflesh and the of re- i error is ar dis- eating prospect Commodore of ment of some kind lviarunique was assassinated on August 8, 1897. Lilly the Mayflower, whioh is being contemplat- was the Cana* Conocte occnmnJ /-a Another Gunboat. flying pennant, made out the ed. The chief --o--- uutuu factor in the situation is abled. uu VZVjLU UOl Spanish The MoCulloch also that larger vessel of the two, whioh was 200 confronted Hugh reports the whereabouts of the i, by the.troubles in Cuba and feet and Spanish fleet, The cable at San Juan, the to Rear long about 4500 tens displace- in the Philippine insurgents applied understood to be off the Venezuelan Philippine islands. One of the ment, to be the cruiser XII. coast. Admiral his of an at- Alphonso Porto Rico, has been cut Dewey for approval It is contended by first steps taken by Senor Sagasta was to and the small one to be the gunboat by naval men that were taok them the The admi- by upon city. Legazpi, both of which were known to be Cervera's to meet the Sampson’s fleet. recall Qen. Weyler, the then oaptain-gen- squadron detached ral, it appears, approved of the plan, pro- bottled up in Havana harbor. eral of who was succeeded blockading squadron oft Cuba, while Ad- The Maine Cuba, by Gen. At infantry regi- vided no excesses were committed. The first he supposed that they were Blanco. But the situation did The off the are Horse Flesh But There Has miral Sampson’s ships were coaling here not im- People City Eating taking of the absenoe of the ment has been to then that they had no advantage assigned insurgents pleaded a disastrous blow be inflicted; and prove. Spain refused to regard the situ- heavy fighting ships and were making a might at arms', with the exception of machetes to Been I© Pillaging as Fleet Passed Camp George H. Thomas ation from a humanitarian and business- Reported—Sampson's bona fide run for the open sea. As su- it is^believed the plan now under consid- which the admiral perior officer, he replied: immediately signalled eration is to'obviate any such and the like standpoint, and diplomatic rela- at Fast Accounts—The An- the other warships on the the possibility, Chickamauga artillery “Help yourselves at the Cavite arsenal. Cape Haytien Flying Squadron station, tions with the United States were broken Vicksburg, Annapolis, Wasp, Tecumseh Extraordinary precautions are being battery to Mobile. The of however, has not and Osceola, which were in to city Manila, chored Offf S. C. Bar—The Entire Cab- moving taken for the of West har- off on April 81, last. Even thrn there Charleston, Spanish form a column. The little squadron protection Key will remain at the yet been attacked. About 5000 Spanish moved in toward the Sagasta were rumors of trouble in the Spanish obliquity flying bor, although the rnmor lately ^circulated are the road from inet Has and Will Form a lew One. Spaniards, keeping up a running lire as head of new troops guarding leading Resigned Sagasta here that the fleet is the Spanish cabi- cabinet and after the brilliant vlotory of they went. The Alphonso and her con- Spanish heading thl3 Cavite to Manila. sort circled in shore about live miles be- the United States fleet under way is scouted by the officials. net. It will the Commodore low Havana and after in for prosecute There is no^truth in the reported mas- running half on the a mile headed back for Morro Castle. war Dewey May 1, situation became FROM SAMPSON’S FLEET. vigorously. sacre of a number of Americans. There Our gunboats and the vessels of the more and more strained. The minister mosquito fleet did not follow them in. has only been a inoldent cruisers Maria The fleet is still at trifling during Curacao, May 15.—The Spanish Teresa, Vizcaya, % Commander saw the The St. Juan Porto Rico Cable Has Been Spanish of marine, Admiral Bermejo, the minis- Lilly wily Spanish police duty and nobody was hurt, Almirante and Cristobal and the boat ruse and the return was made in fine Cut. Curacoa, Venezuela, where ter of war, Gen. Correa, and especially Oquendo Colon, torpedo destroyers f ahead parallel with tbe shore. Com- mander Lilly had not been mistaken. As coal and the minister for the colonies, were repeat- Pluton and Terror, have arrived off the harbor are still here. f the th^y bought pro- WITH SCHLEY’S FLEET. yesterday morning his ships oame abreast of the Santa Clara (Copyrighted 1898,by AssociatedPress. edly attacked in parliament and out of battery, the big guns opened and fired Puerto visions. the Maria Teresa and the were admitted to have * Plata, Domican Republic, May ! Only Vizcaya port.