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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1898-8-11, Page 2IDE NE IN R NuTSDta. rHE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER, ee interesting Betas About Our Own Country, Creat Britain, the. United . States, cad All Partsof the Qlabe. Condense( and itexorted for Easy Beading. treeee CANADA. Stretford will build a new city hall. Lord and Lady, Aberdeen, are 'at ifiranc ouver. The nth 03attalion Band at Guelph has disbanded. The Bell Telephone Company has re- ewed its rates in London. fi;he O. P. R. land sales for July to- talled $9,500 cores, realizing $123,000, 'A couple of skeletons were dug up on St.Joseph street, Quebec), on Tuesday. Ieury Tandy has been appointed manager of the Kingston Locomotive Worms. Ti:e C. P. R. telegraph crates to the Kootenay have been reduced to $l for ten wards. Superintendent Frank Pedley of Immigration has started on a tour of United States agencies. Tea thousand acres of the Manitoba University land grant will be placed on the market this; year. A. laborer in Kingston named Thomas Walsh died on Friday morning from the effects of a. sunstroke. The crop outlook in Nova Scotia is very satisfactory. • There is a notable Increase in the acreage of wheat. A horse belonging to Contractor Cor- bett, of London, is dead there from lookja v, It stepped on a nail. The "peg -lege' so far arrested in connection with the murder of the Lon- don policeman Toohey, number 28. It is said that the session of the Que- bec. Legislature will not be held before the second week in January. • Sir Wilfrid. Laurier has been obliged to decline an invitation to lecture be - al the Y. M. C. A, at Detroit. n adertaking, firmis busy metal lined cof- o be shipped Dr. Coulter, deputy postmaster-gen- er4L warns parties using the special quick -delivery stamps not to forget te. acid the ordinary postage, which the letter should have. This defeats the object of the delivery stamp. The let- ter should have its regular postage as. as well asthe delivery stamp before the stamp becomes effective. • ' 1U IAT BRITAIN*. Emile Zola is traveling incognito in England, Prof. John Caird,D.D., I,.L,D,, Glee- gow, is dead et the age of 78 years The Irish local government bill pass- ed its third reeding in the House of Lords. The Irish Local Government hill has passed its third reading in the House of Lords, The postmaster of Searva, County Down, Ireland, Robert Taylor, is dead at the reported age of 119 years; Right Hon. James Bryce, M.P., has been selected as President of the re- cently formed Anglo-American League. The northwest of Great Britain has been swept by a violent storm which did much damage to the fishing fleets and to the crops. The famous Hope collection of paint- ings has been purchased by Asher. Wertheimer, a. London, Eng., dealer le works of art, for $607,500. The Earl of Winchilsea's counsel has published a letter denying Mr. Hooley's statement that he was paid $50,000 for noting as Chairman of a company, The Prince of Wales has started for the Solent. He was carried from his room in Marlboroug House on an am- bulance couch, which was planed bodily a hospital ambulance. The Princess of Wales want with him, and the royal yacht Osborne has been specially pre- pared for the use of the royal party. UNITED STATES. The shipments of Ca1i ornia green fruits so far this season, have exceed- ed these of last. Joshua Guest, a Canadian, is re- ported to have been killed by light- ning at Casoer Creek, Wyoming. Ferdinand W. Peck, of Chicago, will be United States Commissioner General for the Paris Ee--position of 1900. Four Sisters of Charity of the Delta County, Mich., Hospital are reported to be lost in the woods near Maywood, Mich. Over 200 labourers of the Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. at Lorain, Ohio, are' on strike for an increase of wages from $1:.25 to $i.50 per day. San Francisco paper says a -oon- -s been awarded for a cable to ' . United States with Ha- nes, the Philippines and Consolidated R, Pa, TREY TELL TIS STORY, WHAT THE BRAVE SPANISH OF— FICERS SAY O1 THE BATTLE. Very Itateresting Accounts of the $ca Eight off $antlaagorerr'e* 's .01eleerli hay About It. Spanish officers connecters With Ad- mixed Cervera's destroyed fleet .tell some ,interesting facts about the en- gagement. A correspondent of the New York Sun, writes the following from the U. S. S. Iowa:— Here is the story as told by the exec eutive officer of the Vizcaya: "Ad-. miral Cervera bad intended to make an attempt to escape from the har- bor at 11 p.m., on the night of July 2, but at a council of way held on the morning of that day it" was decided, thatthe risk of grounding in the narrow oleannel at night was too great It was then proposed and decided to go out at 9.30 a. n. or~ Sunday, while the crews of your ships would probably las at divine service.. 'THAT TERRIFIC FIRE. "Accordingly the flagship Infanta Maria led the way. We. in the Vizcaya, followed. The fire from your guns was terrific; shells were continually ,stripe ing us at all points, and it seemed as if each shell started a now fire wher- ever it struck. Our men were driven from theirguns by the rain of second ary battery projectiles and by the fire and smoke of burning wood on our ships, In twenty minutes fires hed.l started fore and aft. The decks and the joiner work in the officers' quar- ters, and all along the berth deck took fire, and it was no longer possible to keep our men at their guns. "What could we dor Beach .our ship and take to the boats was oux only re- sort. We ran the Vizcaya ashore, and found that every boat was smashed ox riddled. They sank as soon as they were lowered and many of us jumped into the water and struck out for land. Others remained on board and all awaited anxiously the arrival of your boats, which came promptly to our assistance. I am worn out with weeks of anxiety and care, weighed down with the consciousness of my responsibility and the knowledge that sooner or later, what has happened to- day must Happen." INTO BIND ELANDS. Another officer said.: "For twenty. es I have had no rest. Evers night we l soma kind of an attack. One you bombarded El Morro, aver the heights and ' -sr since the war this day nu; LATE PRINCE BISMARCK. eMIIIPPZIMS0.011:11Nenlit0611010010211115111.3.1.1641.1111.3.0.9 evere offering themselves u.p in mak-, in„ a desperate effort, and they chose to do it because there was only one alternative—that of giving up without a struggle. They played their last card and lost. As the first gun of our usual national noon salute was fired and our officers all stood up and uncovered, the Span- ish officers did likewise and their men :followed the example, all stand- ing in respectful silence until the last gun was fired. • , •• RORSES IN HISTORY. The Noble Aniaivat Has Played Many hn p,>rtant Parts. I't is hard to say with any near ap- proaoh to aecuracy h'w' long the horse has been a duinestiea�ed animal., We can only say that ho has beem so from time immemorial that is from the ear- liest tine: of which •sb'e have any re- cords. The Assyrian sculptures—and they are about the most ancient of which we know anything, for some of thein are estimated to 'bate from 4200 13. C, -contain more representations of caparisoned horses than'evenmen. Still, we do not get any examples of favor- ite horses until a long 'terns after this. 'Peen. the first example!, indeed, are rh. 'there is no battles of that civil disturbance a cou- ple of horses played important parts. These belonged to the great Earl of Warwick, the kingmaker. His first was Maleck, a beautiful gray, 'which he rode at the battle of newton. It was. this horse whose death turned the for- tunes of the battle, for Warwick, see- ing that his men were giving ground, deliberately sprang from his favorite horse and killed him. Then his men knew that the kingmaker was prepared to conquer, but not to fly. They tallied and finally won this battle. • There were two horses belonging to highwaymen which were famous in their time. One of them belonged to the celebrated knight of the road, Paul Clifford, He was called Robin and was Irish, In - color iron gray, he was re- puted by judges of horseflesh—and there were some who 'were quite as •conipotent to give an opinion, if not more so—as any of the present day—to be absolutely without blemish and to be second to none. Another famous horse, or rather mare, was Black Bess. Her owner, Dick Turpin, or, to give him his correct name, Nicks, committed a robbery in London at 4 o'clock in the morning, and fearing discovery, made fox Gravesend, ferried across the riv- er and appeared at the bowling green in York. the same evening, having ac- complished his ride of 300 miles in six- teen hours on one horse. At least, so says the legend, and this is certain— that on his trial the was acquitted, the jury considering it impossble that he could have got to York in that time. BABY , JTS OF BEUJT1iLITY. r-� SPANISH TROOPS WREAK VENGE- MICE OIC THE PORTO RICANS.. ideates nuc ILuin 144atrla I'kclr. litctreat— Mol+llera Wiring the Villages stud Mal- trenttng the women, and (ibfidrou as the Array Falls fpaek. A despatch from Police, Porto Rico, says;—The Spanish troops formerly stationed in.this part of Porto Rico are rapidlyretreating to the interior, leav- ing behind' them a broad path, of burn- ing plantations and desolated villages. Porto Rican refugees, who are com- ing into. Ponce in. great numbers, re- port that unparalleled outrages have been perpetrated by the Spanish sol- diers in the villages of Juan Diaz, Ca- meo, and Adjuntas. Wild with rage over the American invasion, the• Spaniards are reported to be wreaking vengeance .upon inaf- fensive non-combatants, firing their houses, and srnaltreating the women. mild children. Some of the acts of bru- tality reported here are shocking be- yond description. SOLDIERS MALTREAT WOMEN. The steady stream of terror-stricken refugees that began to pour into Ponce on Saturday night has continued. They are appealing to the United States'mili- tary authorities for protection. All tell the same stories of brutality and.vio- lence by the retreating Spaniards. It seems probable that the situation is worse at Adjuntas than at any other point. This is a small but important town, twenty miles in the interior. A messenger who arrived, said that many women had been maltreated and kill- ed, and their bodies oremnted in the burning houses. He also reported that the.Spanish garrison at Adjuntas, com- prising two hundred Hien, had aban- doned the place after twenty four hours of unbridled license. It is impossible to verify these re- ports, but reputable merchants here profess to _know the messengers Who bring the news, and declare that they are worthy of credit. General Wilson, the American mili- tary Governor, has questioned the re- fugees closely, but he cannot send any aid to the suffering Porto Ricans at present. He believes that it would be unwise to scatter the troops at his com- mand until reinforcements arrive here. Alarming reports that the Spaniards intended to attack this city on Friday night were calculated., and two lines of pickets were sent out, .but the night passed without incident, and the city still is quiet and orderly., A great majority of the citizens are unfeignedly delighted with the American occupa- tion of the city. Spanish sympathis- ers apparently are confined to native Spaniards and a few Germ in and French residents. These are keeping very quiet. SPANIARDS ARRESTED. Considerable excitement was caused on Saturday by the arrest of several Spanish volunteers. 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