1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
489 
The War. 
to include American barbed wire among 
the munitions of war ! 
BRIEF NOTES FOR BUSY PEOPLE. 
DIARY OF THE WAR. 
Admiral Camara’s fleet is at Port Said. It cannot 
reach Manila before July 22, by which time Dewey 
will have received reinforcements. The Harvard 
sails from Newport News with 1,600 volunteers for 
Santiago. Two steamers reported to have run the 
blockade from Havana. Advance guard of our 
army within sight of Santiago. No further news 
from Gen. Shafter, Sunday, June 26. 
A flying squadron under Commodore Watson is 
to be sent to attack the Spanish coast. Third 
Manila expedition sailed from San Francisco. 
Spain preparing a squadron to repel American 
invasion. Situation in Cuba unchanged. Heavy 
artillery being landed at Baiquiri. Targe bodies 
of troops are being moved south, Monday, June 27. 
Our forces have advanced within sight of San¬ 
tiago, and have cut off the water supply of that 
city. Blockade extended, by President’s procla¬ 
mation, to the south coast of Cuba and San Juan, 
Porto Rico. Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer, 
Terror, disabled by the St. Paul. Admiral Cam¬ 
ara’s drafts have been refused as payment for 
canal dues, and he cannot obtain coal at Port 
Said. The Spanish troops in the Philippines are 
deserting, and the provinces are surrendering to 
the rebels. Rumor that Aguinaldo may ask the 
European powers to guarantee the indexjendenee 
of the Philippines, Tuesday, June 28. 
Dispatch from Admiral Dewey states that our 
first expedition has not yet arrived. Aguinaldo 
is established at Cavite. Gen. Merritt sailed for 
Manila. Camara’s fleet still at Port Said. St. 
Louis and St. Paul engage two Spanish warships 
off Porto Rico; reported that our ships were re¬ 
pulsed. Two Boston ferryboats are being fitted 
with four-inch guns, for blockade duty, Wednes¬ 
day, June 29. 
Expedition to Porto Rico to be commanded by 
Major-General John R. Brooke. Report that the 
Porto Ricans will resist American invasion. 
Spanish fleet not allowed to take on coal at Port 
Said, and ordered to leave that port. Santiago is 
mounting Red Cross flags on a number of the 
most prominent buildings. American lines are 
advanced to Aguadorcs, Thursday, June 30. 
The Spanish cabinet has decided to 
courtmartial Admiral Montojo for bis 
share in the Cavit6 disaster. He appears 
to be a brave man who was hampered by 
a weak and inefficient equipment, and 
who committed the error of underesti¬ 
mating his foes. 
Tiie public were, at first, disposed to 
he impatient at the long delays in be¬ 
ginning operations in Cuba. Events have 
fully justified the policy of the Govern¬ 
ment in moving slowly. The army has 
been gathered and well equipped, and 
great precautions were taken to have the 
men ready before a hard blow was struck. 
There has been a great rush during 
the past week for the new revenue 
stamps. The supply has been limited, 
and it is hard to buy the stamps in large 
quantifies. In this city, long lines of men 
were formed before the places where the 
stamps are sold, and the deliveries were 
slow. Every one seems good-natured, 
and but little objection is made to the 
taxes. The objections will come later. 
A Long Island man has offered the 
Government six cats to help clean the 
rats out of the Government granaries. It 
is said that the Government really needs 
good mousers to protect its grain. The 
quartermaster at New York makes a 
statement that anybody having cats, 
either male or female, of human intelli¬ 
gence or even less, which they desire to 
present to the Government, can he easily 
accommodated. 
While the Spanish ships at Tort Said 
were seeking permission of the Egyptian 
government to take coal, United States 
Consular Agent Broadbent succeeded in 
buying up all the available coal at that 
port. This amounted to 20,000 tons, and 
it is in a good place to he shipped to 
Dewey, to serve as a base of supplies for 
Commodore Watson’s eastern squadron 
when it enters the Mediterranean, or to 
coal any American vessels that may pass 
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IN A SAFE RETREAT. F i g . 2 2 0. 
This is the view the English humorous paper, Judy, takes of the situation of the Spanish admiral, 
Cervera. There’s no doubt that he’s just as safe as a rat in a trap, and the most the Americans 
have been able to do so far, is to watch him with hungry eyes. But how long can he keep up this 
sort of security ? It would appear to the casual observer that the end must come soon. 
Great battle at Santiago, in which both land 
and sea forces participated. Gen. Lawton ad¬ 
vanced and took possession of Cabona, a suburb 
of Santiago. Morro Castle and the other forts 
bombarded by our fleet. The Spanish fleet in 
the harbor fired on our troops. The enemy re¬ 
treating. Our loss heavy, Friday, July 1. 
Cervera’s fleet in Santiago harbor is entirely 
destroyed. The Spanish made a dash for liberty, 
fighting desperately, but all the fleet was totally 
destroyed except the Cristobal Colon, which was 
captured. Spanish admiral, 70 officers and 1,600 
men prisoners. We lose one man; ships unin¬ 
jured, Sunday, July 3. 
A number of Spaniards have surrend¬ 
ered to our troops in Cuba. Such desert¬ 
ers are at once put to shoveling coal on 
the warships. It would seem as though 
this would dampen even a Spaniard’s 
ardor for serving under the Stars and 
Stripes. 
The United States Senate has publicly 
thanked Lieutenant Hobson and the 
seven men who with him sunk the Mer- 
rimac. It is certainly right that common 
soldiers and sailors should be mentioned 
in this way. Such men make possibilities 
for the officers. 
One consequence of the war tax on 
beer is the introduction of a machine for 
selling the beverage by weight, one 
pound corresponding to an actual pint, 
which is often an elastic measurement. 
Perhaps the war tax may have a sober¬ 
ing influence, in the literal sense of the 
word. 
Santiago is surrounded by barbed 
wire trochas, and wire-cutters now form 
a recognized part of the equipment of 
our troops in Cuba. The first large con¬ 
signment of cutters was sent with the 
Shafter expedition, and since then, cut¬ 
ters have been sent to all the camps from 
which troops are likely to be sent to 
Cuba. One of the papers raised a smile 
by suggesting, soon after the outbreak 
of war, that, in view of the Spanish 
barbed wire habit, it would he well to 
supply our troops with can-openers. The 
Spaniards are, perhaps, the first nation 
through the Suez Canal, if it should he 
decided that it is permissible for war¬ 
ships to take on coal at Port Said. 
The naval Hoard of Inquiry, examin¬ 
ing into the collision between the cruiser 
Columbia and the British steamship Fos- 
colia, which resulted in the sinking of 
the latter off Fire Island May 28, has ap¬ 
proved the claim made by its owners. 
The amount demanded is .$218,889. The 
Columbia disregarded the rules of the 
road in omitting lights and fog signals, 
which might have prevented the colli¬ 
sion, but this was done because of the 
exigencies of war, and not through care¬ 
lessness. 
There has been quite a little contro¬ 
versy over the use of negro soldiers. The 
negroes have been willing to volunteer, 
but have demanded officers of their own 
color. North Carolina and Virginia have 
appointed colored officers, and the 
chances now are that our army will con¬ 
tain a brigade composed entirely of 
colored men, from generals down to water 
carriers. The negroes have had a reputa¬ 
tion as soldiers for a good many thou¬ 
sand years, and they will certainly do 
good work in any hot-weather war. 
It is stated that the primary object of 
Commodore Watson’s expedition to the 
Spanish coast will be the destruction of 
three armored cruisers now being built 
in Spanish shipyards, and the destruc¬ 
tion of dockyards at Ferrol, Carraca 
and Cartag’ena. It is also rumored that 
he may shell Canary Island cities, and 
take possession of Ceuta, Spain’s penal 
settlement in Africa, that it may be used 
as a coaling station. He will be accom¬ 
panied by three colliers, but as coaling 
at sea is not very satisfactory, he may 
seek the shelter of a Spanish harbor for 
the operation. His squadron will con¬ 
sist of nine ships, the cruiser Newark, 
battleships Iowa and Oregon, auxiliary 
cruisers Yankee, Yosemite and Dixie, 
and colliers Scindia, Alexander and 
Abarenda. This expedition is likely to 
call out much international comment, 
and it will be interesting to observe the 
European attitude towards it. 
President McKinley has had a good 
time presenting commissions to any num¬ 
ber of officers. Now Yale College has 
turned about and made him a Doctor of 
Laws. 
The speculators and business men in 
Wall Street, find fault with the new 
Revenue bill because it will make them 
pay double taxation on loans. Many 
loans are made on short time. The 
banks lend the money for one day or 
more,and the borrower gives a promissory 
note, and also a mortgage for security 
Under the bill, taxes must be paid at 
the rate of two cents for each $100 on 
the note, and also a heavy tax on the 
security mortgage. This tax will, prob¬ 
ably, do something to prevent specula¬ 
tion, and a committee of business men 
has just decided that it must all be paid 
by the customer. 
The new Revenue bill puts a tax on 
what is known as blended flour. This 
flour is ordinary wheat flour in which a 
quantity of the white southern corn 
meal has been mixed. This fine corn 
meal is known as flourene, and is said to 
be quite largely used by northern millers 
for adulterating their flour. The new 
Revenue bill compels manufacturers to 
take out a license costing $12, and brand 
every barrel of the blended flour as such, 
and also to stamp each barrel with a 
certain amount of revenue stamps. This 
places blended flour in much the same 
position as that occupied by oleo in the 
eyes of the Revenue Department. 
It is a long distance from Harrisburg, 
Pa., to Cuba, but Pennsylvania soldiers 
having gone to the front, the authorities 
at home purpose to keep them in good 
health. The Pennsylvania Department 
of Agriculture sends out a pamphlet 
with this startling heading: “Soldiers! 
Beware of the Manchineel Tree!” This 
tree is said to grow in Cuba, and is said 
to be rather more dangerous than our 
poison ivy or poison oak. The poison 
affects the skin, nose, eyes and lips. 
N. Y. State Fair, 
SYRACUSE , N. Y., 
August 29 to September 3. ’98. 
$25,000 in Premiums. 
New Buildings. 
New Water Plant. 
Great Attractions. 
PREMIUM LISTS NOW READY. 
APPLY TO 
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Special railroad facilities, reduced rates, and 
all exhibits unloaded from cars on the Fair 
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