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1 lEsbeuillc Jfaito (Ra-cttc. ..... . r - Wn InAshevOI YoIIII; So 76, ASHEVILLEr N. 0, SATURDAY MQBNBre, MAY 7, 1898. Pri 5Ce to. Sffll ffl imD wm, FlBEn (jju,- 28 SOUTH MAIN ST. S RELEASED UUUJlllUil i CUB FROM HfflYU IT YET mm Shirtwaists, "-;' SMI Waists. Sh prettiest Lot. Prettiest Styles. Lowest Prices. Organdies. No need to delay purchases, we offer them at bargaia prices now. Linings; Valenciennes, Laces, and every quality, width and shade of Rihhons to match. American printed Organdies, copied from French designs, ioc and 15c Genuine French Organdies, large lot of exclusive Dress Patterns at 20 cts, 25 cts, 29 cts and 35 cts. Silks. Newest things in fancy wash silks for W aists and Dr esses, Blick Moire Velvours with diagonal satin and also Bayadere stripes, $1.25 quality at 1.00. Sraw Sailors. Plain and fancy styles, fancy prices; large variety. minus FLORIDA. Guava Jelly, five pound t pails One Dollar and Seventy-five cents each. Just the thing you want. U. A. GREER. I MM. LADIES' OXFORD TIES ! We have marked all of our $2. 50 grades of pointed toe Oxford ties down to $2 a pair. li you have a small narrow foot ' yuwill save 25 cents on, every dollar you spend with us. Call in and see what we hava. J. 0. BLANTON & CO. irt Waists. 39 Patton Ave. Though Despatches from China Continue to Report the Capture and Manila At was hington it is Declared Come from Manila Since Began on Washington, May 6. The air was full Of rumors today about the condition of affairs at Manila, but despite all asser tions to the contrary high officials in sist that not a line ha! come from Dew ey since he sailed from Hons Kong. Secretary Long has assured your cor respondent that he is without advices. He has directed the officers of the bu reau of navigation to furnish the press the report of Dewey as soon as Jt is translated from the secret cipher with out regard to the hour of day or night. HONG KONG DISPATCH. Hong Kottg, May 6. News froiri Ma nila is awaited with intense interest here, but up to the time of sending this dispatch, 10.30 p. m., nothing has been heard regarding affairs there since the destruction of the Spanish fleet there by Admiral Dewey. Two American ships have arrived from Manila, both of which sailed on April 23 two days before the declara- Jtion of war by the Unite-fJt&4s. Some time after they had cleared the harbor a Spanish gunboat started in pursuit but was not speedy enough to overhaul f them. CABLE NOT WORKING Hong Kong, May 6. Communication between this city and Manila by cable is still closed. GREAT CONCERN IN ENGLAND. London, May 6. English and general European interest and impatience over the absence of news from Manila is al most as great as in America. The only facts from the ' Philippines that can reach Europe and America is over the cables of the Eastern Telegraph Com pany and your correspondent is in formed that not a word of later date than Monday morning regarding the lines to the present writing. London, May 6. Private dispatches received in this city from Singapore confirms Commodore Dewey's capture of Manila. ' FIRST DESPATCH. Washington, May 6. Secretary Long received this morning the first dis patch from Hong Kong since the bat le of Manila, which reads as follows: 'Cortez, Rosairo, Donseaga and Basa, who are among the wealthiest families of the city of Manila, have tendered their allegiance and petitioned for cit izenship." N This is accepted as meaning that Commodore Dewey is safe and that the Philippine islands are in his possession. SHANGHAI REPORT. London, May 6. The report that Commodore Dewey has bombarded Ma nila, killing a large number, has reach ed here. It was received here this morning as a cable message from Shanghai, and further than this there is nothing to prove the authenticity of the report. AMMUNITION FOR DEWEY. Washington, May 6 The havy de partment will ship 200,000 pounds of powder to Commodore Dewey to add to the stock he now has left. This with ESTABLISHED 1888. TBI wmm A Special Private Treatment of Lang KARL von RUCK, ML rates, sjsa.so PER WEEK and upward, according to t&e room selected, in clude eerytJUM excepting Wedkines, which ere suppjwKl at coat. A cer tain number of rooms are reserved at a lower rate tor patients whose finan cial circumstances require it, and to such the mfdlfltnaii ate also included. Patient can enter and leave at any time. Advanced resee not admitted. Received at London Desruction of t no Information has Mo the large number of 8-inch ajrmor piercing projectiles, shells and 6 and 5 inch rifle balls, wiU make the shipment of ammunition a very large one. Tie powder and shot together will give 500 rounds for the big guns and several thousand rounds for the rapid-fire rifles. RESTING ON ARMS AT TAMPA. Tanitfi May 6. Great haste is being made in the final preparations at Port Tampa. Guns, ammunition and stores are to be put aboard the transports to morrow, so that the troops and horses may be embarked without delay. The men of General Shafter's com mand are practically resting on their arms; drills and inspections are daily held, but nothing outside the routine transpires. All sorts of rumors are afloat tonight concerning the departure of ships. ' The Tampa Bay Hotel was exceed ingly gay t?ightThiI4teth iafanter regiment band gave a concert on the veranda while a musicale for the bene fit of the Cuban volunteers was given in the music hall of the hotel. The hotel is the centre of life at pres ent. Generals Shafter and Wade, of the United States army, and General Sanguilly, of the Cuban army, and members of their staffs are prominent among the numerous guests. FURIOUS STORM Van Buren, Ark., May 6. Water spots and tornadoes played havoc here last night. Houses we're blown down and bridges swept away. The Arkan sas river is twenty-five miles wide in places and four inches higher than in 1892, which was the highest on record. All nights boats were busy in the bot toms rescuing thousands of inhabit ants. It is feared many were drowned. TO FIRE AT SUNRISE. Havana, May 6. The monotony of the blockade is wearing on the men. The officers and crews of the fleet are rejoicing over Commodore Dewey's brilliant victory. The Hornet reports that a Spanish flag is flying from a sand pit on the coast at the entrance to Matanzas and that two guns had been mounted there. The Hornet "has been ordered to fire at sunrise tomorrow and stop work on the fortifications. Work has begun on many cane fields between Matanzas and Havana. NEWARK IN COMMISSION. Newport News, May 6. The cruiser Newark has been ordered into service. Captain Baker has been placed in com mand of the vessel. TOPEKA WILL SAIL Washington, May 6. The Topeka, Which was formerly the Diogenes, has been ordered to sail tomorrow. WATSON TAKES CHARGE. Key West, May 6. Watson's flag was today hoisted over the protected cruis er Cincinnati. MNIMIDUM, Institution for the end Throat Diseases. MedH -.-v.V";-; I te tha Winyah Hotel and Sanitarium Co. mm to Escape the Blockading Weft. Release Ordrprt Yw th- nr.m mm . : "s j : Department. jn' ' :-v . lo west, ..'Jay The big French yette, which was brought in- West this morning by the Wil- was examined by the prize . umjxussion. sso contraDana or war 'waf "?eund on board, and under orders from the navy department Commodore of the blockading squadron, Sen ordered to release her. Thli Lafayette had left Corunna, Spain, April 23. Her capture was ef fected late yesterday afternoon. She was seen heading for Havana and was boarded by an officer of the Annapolis and warned not to enter , the port. The gunboats Wilmington and Newport had come up. The warships were astonish ed, when the Frenchman put on full steam and started straight for the en trance . to Havana harbor. In a mo ment .Jb.e crew of the Annapolis were jat quarters and the muzzle of every gun of the starboard broadside was pointfng at the runaway,. The big after gun sent a shot across her tipf and the liner again stopped. Afte; a Jong exchange of signals be j. twee 11 st and. the Wilming- ton sent to the stranger made arii examination and sent aboard the La- fayette. ".'-Then' the1 captain protested again, and tried to frighten the Ameri cans with the French flag and declared that the detention of the steamer would become an international episode. PREVIOUSLY ARRANGED Washington, May 6. The seizure of the French steamship Lafayette when attempting to run the blockade, excited the liveliest interest in diplomatic cir cles and the state department. Her re lease was ordered owing to a previous arramgemnt With the French embassy that she. be allowed to touch at Havana en route to Vera Cruz to land pas sengers and mail and take off French citizens. This was only allowed on the understanding that no goods be land ed. JEFFRIES WON San Francisco, May 6. Jim Jeffries, theyoung heavy weight of Los ,An geles, got the decision over Tom Shar key, the sailor pugilist, in a twenty- round fight tonight. Sharkey was quicker arid more ag gressive but the superior weight and the weH directed blows of Jeffries gave him the advantage all through. SAILED LAST NIGHT. Key West, May 6. The Lafayette sail ed this evening for Havana under es cort of the nionitor Miantonomah. FENS GARDEN JORNeOf&: ; SEEDS AT H. C. Just try a box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. 49-tf Like everything else, there are all kinds. We keep only the good kind. Your choice from an excellent assortment for and your money bac not satisfactory. PHARMACY, f East Court Square t College Street. t PHONE 83. Her -isrm------ .1--3", 1 MilTTilMll thp officre 1- A.t ' m' 1 'm ih 11 iwtzercrew was e 4 ? TOOTH BRUSHES 25 c kif fit WAY'S Press Censorship at Key West Very Strict and No Information Allowed to Pass Through. Believed that Sampson's Fleet is making for Porto Rico to Capture that Port. 11 r . i wasmngton, May 6. Nothing has been received by the adminisrtation to to indicate the whereabouts of the Spanish fleet. The belief of naval strat egists that the enemy had in view the Interception of the Oregon and Mariet ta has not been changed, but it is now intimated that no surprise would be caused if an attempt to overcome the American ships occurred in the eastern exremity of the West Indies instead of off Brazil. There is every reason to believe that Sampson with the ironclad division of his flee is proceeding to Poro Rico in the hope df meeting the Spaniards in that vicinjfy. No importance is at tached to the report that the Cape Verde fleet was seen somewhere off Barbadoes. Under the strict censorship at Key West and the strict guarding of news here there is no means of knowing what ships Sampson has. If Spain's ships return to the Canaries the capture of Porto Rico and the occupa tion of that place will follow immedi ately. FJSHWIG FUpET WRECKED IN GALE A fleet of fishing schooners and dories, lying off this coast, suffered terribly in the storm of last Monday. The dories Mary and Carrie swamped and five men in them were drowned. The schooner Empire fouled the schooner Ella Johnson in trying to get clear of the fleet, and four men of the former and three of the lat ter were knocked overboard and drowned. It is feared that the schoon er Mystery, with ten men who were on board, is lost. AMERICA PROTESTS. Madrid, May 6. A dispatch received here from Lisbon says that the Amer ican government has protested to Port-lifi-al fl.ira.inst the disDatch of 900 cases of ammunition and a quantity of praVi visions for the Spanish fleet at St. Vin cent, Cape Verde islands. The United States charges the shipment was made on April 23, two days after the Ameri can declaration of war. DU B0SC LECTURES. Toronto, May 6. Senor DuBosc, late first secretary of the Spanish legation at Washington, lectured to 2,000 people tonight on the causes of the present war. The lecture was in aid of the Bed Cross society work, and "was delivered in a private capacity. The senor made a severe attack on the American peo ple. He spoke of American senators as "border ruffians, whose illiterate boor ishness is only equaled by their venal ity and ludicrously pompous conceit." He urged that American cupidity for conquest constituted a grave danger to Europe, Canada and Mexico, and concluded by contrasting the queen re- I See Our Window To-Day j 1 And take advantage of J the Bargains we are offering in t Smoking Tobacco, f I SNIDE RSI I 6 Court Sq. j x gent of Spain with "the bloated poli ticians, whose countenances depict tfc lust that is in their hearts." CONGRESS WAITING. Washington, May 6. Congress is waiting on democratic senators. The Dingley revenue bill has been revised and there is hope for a Joint resolution in favor of the annexation of HawarL The cabinet assembled at 11 o'clock this morning and decided to publish Commodore Dewey's report as soon as it is received, at whatever hour it may be. Rear Admiral Sampson's move ments are still an official secret. SPANISH DECEPTION. London, May 6. Despatches received from Madrid say that the Spanish au thorities are intimating that Commo dore Dewey was entrapped by Spanish gunboats which were concealed outsid the harbor of Manila. It is believed here that it is a foolish attempt on tb part of the government to delude tft infuriated populace. FROM JAPAN. London, May 6. A despatch from Shanghai published today purports to give a Japanese report of the battle of Manila, which says: "Commodore Dewey, after, thrashing the Spanish fleet and silencing Cavite, bombarded Manila and the city was sooh ' ablase everywhere. -The work .otidhsjsd! gents resulted b great Itls Spanish resident" v " : "' "- ' 1 tee rrc mm. ' N Washington, May 6. Major General Sewell will command the volunteers to be mobilized at Washington. Major General Wheeler will be placed in com mand of another force of volunteers. General Fitzhugh Lee will go to Cuba. SMALL MUTINY. Key West, May 6. A small mutiny among the firemen and coalers occurr ed this morning. It was quickly and effectually suppressed. The Alamo sailed from here carrying a party of West Point engineers to Cuba. POWERS SNUBBED. London, May 6. England this morn ing snubbed the powers who are advo cating intervention in the Spanish- American affairs. SCH00NER HALTED. New York, May 6. A Fort Hamilton gun put a shot across the bow of a schooner which tried to enter the har bor last night. QUEEN WILL NOT ABDICATE. London, May 6. The Spanish embas sy denies that the queen regent will abdicate. GUNBOAT SAILS. Buenos Ayres, May 6. The Spanish gunboat, which has been at this port for some time, sailed this morning. TO ATTACK CANARIES. London, May 6. The admiralty has been officially advised from Washing ton to remove all British subjects from the Canaries. It is expected that Ad miral Sampson win attack the islands. NORTH CAROLINA GEMS. 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