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4 ; J 1.1 M I .F t - w 4) J 4bt 7. 5 f 7 Vol 3:1 116 129. ASHEVILLE, H.: CL,SEDNESDAX UOElilNG; JIJLY 6,: lCSa 7 a ; 1 t h ) ' 5 . ' i f . - Price '5 Cents -NX .OurjoneweeWs slaughter in ail departments created xjuite a tirHh vSlioppmg cir cles, 'and v the; Good Wor jjoe oniiasjwefirid toolmany Goods ta - undertake an In ventory yet? Wer ax? deter mined to Iknif e right and left till a minimum point v is reached before taking Stock. FOR THIS WEEK We otter these "Lucious Ripe Plums, "which should . be plucked at once One gentle touch ' lands them in your basket. SHIRT WAISTS, X : TABLE LINENS, - r NAPKINS, " TOWELS Heady for use Sheet V nnd Pillow -v. ? . -i Prettiest llnLace Cur I tains ever $een 1 . Iaimgler prices of above named Goods look on page, 7, Columns i & 2. OESTREICHER& CO , 28 BouthOMain St. Not what ", - We Say I But what ; ." You KnoW ! Is what counts, And if - you have used a, Z Banana Ham, you know 'tis X good. The, price isjac per I X lb. for large ones and 13c lb. X for small ones. , All sizes at X all times and al4 fresh. I G. A. GREER, ' Fine Groceries t IS NEXT. 1 , Watson Will Start Out in a c 7 Spanish Force Lefti - V 'J Washington, July 5. -Within a wpek . : Commodore Watson's eastern squadron mm J consisting of the Newark, Iowa" and : r . : Oregon,' TTankee,!: Dixie aiid , '' Yceraie, the colliers Abarenda, Scindia and Al ' "exander,. and perhaps the supply, ship, ' Delmonico, will sail from Santiago ac? - ; cording to 1 the expectation of the navy department, to seek and capture or de,- - troy the Spanish fleet ; under 'Admiral Camara.' -':3 ; ' f - t ' ' ; It has been determined that the squa ; ron shall! not .delay to bombard ports in ? Spain or the ; Canaries, but , shaU pro i'y .: ceed after Camara aa clipping rate.,' r ' .Both jcplliers at Santiago - are fuU of coal and with the Abarenda, the . squad- ron will have plenty of fuel for a long ... voyage.' There ia more coal waiting In the Mediterranean and along the route . v : to the Philippines. ' -L , -, -; : r OfQclal information" reached the gov t -ernment today that'Admlral Camara's ' vessels with the exception of the three destroyers entered the Suez canal today ?s !v : .floilll 11 l II UMlklnl U JJIUIUU Santiaeo Reported to De- - ,MUirt.., : M W W. I , -r:t 'j r-rr - -r J" we:.io ourrnaerg, K v x' ...WYw Fulb Account of How- ;SenVto Destruction Pendent Aboard th Texas. Credit for the Victory "Said Schleyi-His: Flagship Brooklyn In the Fight Everj Minute-He Caught the Colon. Spanish Officials Made Men Stick ta Guns at JPistoFs Point-- Shot Those Who Didn't-LGaye Wine and Liquor to Instill Drunken Courage--Odast strewn With Wreckage and Cqrpses, ' .Off Santiago,. July 4. Early this morning The Sun's despatch boat start ed; down the coast to make a closer in spection, of the ; wrecked Spanish war ships than was: possible: yesterday when flrewas sweeping over them. The Almirante Oquendo was first in- HANDS ACRO DEWEY TO SAMPSON, spec$ecL -She was run ashore in a small bay and .lies well up on the beach where she is likely to-stay until time com pletes the work begun by the American guns. Her sides are scarred by many shots and on her port bow is a tremen dous hole made by a ' thirteen : inch shell. .'' ' . : ' . Tour correspondent pulled ashore in a small boat : Dead N Spaniards were floating about in the water, s They wer stripped, to waist as they, had stood to man the guns. - - . , About this time the Suwanee came up and Lieutenant Blue' started ashore in a whale boat to round-up the prisoners. Finally" twenty-nine men were found huddled together The , newspaper rten made them prisoners. Most of the pris oners were woundecl.' - - 'V- " 1, . They told how the gunnery of Amerl- cans became more fierce u andt deadly jmtll the Spanish crews . deserted their guns," when . they had , been shot down by .their own officers. 5 . , . " 1 I Aa the, battle grewNnore and more des perate the!-wlnesf and liquors , of , the officers were' handed out to the 'crews so that.' with drunken courage they would keepup the hopeless fights . --7 ,- ' o X At. last even' the officers gave up and ordered the sea, valves opened nd the shlps driveri on the beach, t ,r -"',- Sixteen of Jhe prisoners were from "the Vlzcayav'six '.from, the. Oquendo' and seven from the Teresa ' Maria.' They E3TADLI3HED 1CC3 Treatnent of Luns f ' - , HAC& tb BUCK, XX. V ' BATES, PES WEEH l&l QTwmsfl, eoC?3 t rCCOk 3ctt2, O- riTK wfrrfl?- srTnrf.? ttW!!?-' Moi a-rak m matt. A CeT- ' dudea. tala mKn&er cl rooms, ar rwerrtd eai ciroasnstanees require It, ana t3 Patl&t cia ctcx 23 Izit at aay 8 " - a a a V 'a A A" A Cersteras Ships Wer Frdmi a, Gorres- ,- t to ; Belong to Commodore were -iann a.uuaru ine aespaicn uuai whicjheaded for '.the fleet. x When the" flagship was reached Ad miral Sampson thanked the newspaper men and asked that the prisoners be delivered to the St Louis, which was done. Eulate "and Cevera were on the SS THE SEA "SHAKE, OLD MAN!' St. Louis. Then the despach boat visited the wreck of the Vizcaya which had great holes in her bow and tangle oflron work on deck.' 1 .is . Off Santiago, July 3. At half past nine o'clock this .morning ' the Texas was lying directly In front of the har bor, when the' nose of a ship poked out from -behind the Estrella battery. Clash! went the gongs, ' calling the ship's company to general quarters. Full speed was put on and ahead plunged the Texas toward the enemy and, signalled "Enemy trying - to es cape.". j Ti ; Jirooklyn, low and Oregon re-sponyded- Jmmediafely all heading , to wards" the; mouth of the harbor. The first of the Spaniards to come into view was the flagship, Oquendo, closely ' fol lowed by the Colon.'; Thent "tame - the Vizcaya and Maria Teresa. ' v fv . ; Almost before the leading ship was clear of Morro's shadow, the fight had. begun, Admiral Cervera starting it by a' shell from tbJs ship. The big guns of the Texas belched forth: followed by: a heavy fire from other ships. "V i'i' IThe Spaniards turned .'westward at full steam, pouring-a constant fire on our ships. -The Brooklyn turned -t her course parallel with, that of the ' Span lards and began -a running fight - The (Continued on Fifth Page.) 1 and Throat Diseases. DXedieal IHretor. at a lower rat Car ptlea ifSsom Caaa- wtxtZ) Cua latwcim re also fcasnsax . AtssiC3 czsa act tZzzlttsl, - w'Jbyah. Hotel ea3 CasItrXsi Ca. ""' Xa'a A A A1 Have Telegraphed thePerr mission of Madrid and Blanco to Lower : the Flag. : Hard TimesLittle Food 'and Water-Stray ShQts Enter tte' City Eight Hundred Spaniards Killed at r San Juan One Thousand at - EtCaneyw J Kingston, - Jamaica - July. 5. The British cruisers, Pallas and Alert, and the Austrian cruiser, Maria. Teresa, ar rived this afternoon from Santiago with refugees. The warships "brought the intelligence that: stray shots had en tered dooryards in the city of Santiago and that it was dangerous to walk th streets. . A conference was held in Santiago yesterday between 1 the ' archbishop, icivil governWi'ind.161ur3r. ''govrnor at which it was resolved to telegraph to the government at Madrid and to Cap tain General Blanco, asking-for- permis sion to surrender the city and thus pre - ... s , . . . ! Thei; Spaniards are suffering , greatly, Owing jbthe scarcity-of food and jirtnk lng water. The H hosplfals; are uljgr,of wounded "and sick soldiers.yr It is esti mated that the Spanish los in the fight on July 1, at San Juan was, eight hun- dred killed. General Delcey and all of his staff and more than a thousand men are reported have been killed at El Caney. - ; MILES TP : STAY HOME Snafter Will Remain Su preme in the Coming Battle: ;; " - t Naval Prisons at Annapolis' -and ' Portsmouth . v Washington, July 5. It can be said tonight on indisputable authority that General Miles will not go to Santiago at all. On Sunday he telegraphed Gen eral Shatter he would join him - within a week. The ostensible reason for -the change is that General Shafter is com pe tent to conduct the campaign and the sending; of Miles might seem a'reflec tion on Shaf ter's ability, r . Admiral Cevera and the 1600 prison ers will be broughCto the United. States for' safe, keeping this week;,. The .jrnva prison will '.be -located either at ; Anna- -3t TWtwnAnth.-- tsl tt . possibly; at both places. No, dispoeitlpa has" been manifested by "the government to exchange Hobson for Cervera ' V GAVE THE QUEEN A PAINr - JLiondon,' July 4. The : Madrid corres dent of the. Standard saysj .' - - V , "The 6fllcial"dispa,tches wltii.' reference to the fighting at Santiago' de .' Cuba have caused' a painful sensation. The Queen Regent has1 sent an expression of her sympathy to Senora i4nares," wife of, Geii. Lmares, , who;; is residing in Madrid. The greatest anxiety Is felt by all classes r - - Tv .: t! . t...'ivl ' J "V 'irisuRGEfrrs5vAnTCo;:suLS, Hong Kong, July 5. -The v Philippine insurgent cabinet is very anxious that the American 1 Consuls'' rWildman . and Williams shoulcT .bejln 'the commission to organize thY provisional government The cabinet fears that new men7 will not understand tbem nor the local - sit- The president Advises Shafter Hold Off Tilf the Xomirig of-,: Aiding Army Before Beginning the Filial Assault on Santiago. Decision , Reached Mainly Because of the News From the Front That Paindo had Joined Linares-Fourteen , i L Thousand Soldiers Start for Santiago . , Thursday. V; Graphic, Thrilling and Complete Description of the Fight ing on the Outskirts of Santiago.-How Booseyelt and His Men Charged the ffeights of San Juan. Washington; July S. The desire to observe great prudence in the campaign against Santiago led the president and his advisers today to suggest to Gen eral Shafter the postponement of the assault until the arrival of reinforce ments. .-... : .-, ., . ;' General Shatter's belief;, expressed in A message Sunday-that'?thOuhe badvthe town well invested on the' north :,. ,jT- - -. -. . . . . and east his line was very thin and, that ivWoulL be impossible .to carry ,.Jt'. by storm without reinforcements i& b lieved jto hold good ; now, despite lh f act :of Adn4raTervra,s destruction, 1 uajLs- yuujut.iiaciur n arnying''ai the decision to postpone", the bombard ment was the information from General Shafter today that General Parido had Joined the Spaniards in Santiago cityf bringing the total force in the city up to 16,000. . ' ' ; . ; . It is regreted somewhat that . General Shafter sent his ultimatum for 'surren der under the .penalty of bombardment at noon today although tgarrlval of the enemy's reinforcements excuses him from fulfilling the threat. ., The government is now more thad ever resoleved to lose no time in send ing reinforcements and it is expected that additional troops will have left their camps tonight and embark tomor row or Thursday for Santiago. About 14,000 men will be sent. The Garreston brigade will leave immediate ly. The Sixth niinols and Sixth Mass- chusetts are going from Charleston on the Tale arid Harvard arid, the Eighth Ohio from New York on the St.: Paul. The First Rhode Island will go from Newport News on La Grande Duchess Two brigades " will go from Chlcha- mauga, embarking' at Cnarlestori and Savannah, i . - ? v' STORY OF FIGHTING. The Laff an Bureau, correspondent in his account of the fighting that preced "ed: the arrival of the American, troops at their last station, Immediately in part, Gen. Shaf ter's "men" were In their f FLOUR One I &x load: j list r - - ..'.V , . i : - . , r . ' received direct -irom the mills. J Wholesale , ; or iveraii; s 14 ' ' UK 1 4s . -3 - ' 6 Ccart q. PILLS BURY .Prudence and That 1 v. 4 3 front of the Santiago intrenchments, where our commanders demanded , the r ' surrender of the city, writes as follows v " under "date, July S: Just a week after the battle near Be- V villa n which the Rough-Riders "took positions for attacking the - Spaniards, r, . I Six miles from the sea at the head of - -what is practically a. salt "water lake: . . . lies Santiago, surrounded oii all sides by- - high mountains which rise almost ' straight ; up 'frpnj tb Wter. 'Theee. ' mountains stand in fridgeS. practlcatfy v " running paralel with the coas.tl",' t'Be-" V tween the' first and second ridges is ' 5 Santiago. , - . 1 : s. . Two and a half miles east of the en trance is Aguadores, directly south of Santiago itself. Southeast of Santiago, - on the top of a hill, is San Juan,'frora ' which place this despatch is sentl ' About three miles northeast of the cltj - -is El Caney. Santiago is a walled city, -, , arid Aguadores, San Juan, and El Ci- -" ney are its outposts on the east.' -' ""v ' Gen. Shaf ter -believed that' Santiago would be besttaken by compelling its , capitulation by siege, but he finally 'r yielded to arguments In favor of attack-' ;. " ing the place. It was decided to make'' the .attack all along the line, arid to . ' never stop fighting until Santiago was V taken. ' ' ' ' ' ;t , On Thursday the Americans had the - . city practically surrounded. The plan r of attack comprised & Joint assault by ' ? the fleet and army on Aguadores, and v " a military attack alone on El Caney and 1 San Juan hill, .east of the eminence on y d . which the little town of San Juan stands, the fleet diverted the attention of the enemy by occasionally bombard- ' Ing. ' "'J- " ' The forces under Gen. Lawton were r. sent north to make the attack on El . , Caneyi' Geri. ' Wheeler's" cavalry, under " Sumner, Gen, Wheeler being 111, had the r -center of the linei up the valley which' . the town of San Juan overlooks, while ! ' Gen. Dufileld was at the seaside to fight .?' in con junction, with the fleet and the', Michigan Volunters against Aguadores. r , 1 The Seventy-flrst. New York,- 'the rough riders and CoL Wheeler's Mass- ' (Continued on Seventh Page). ' " I'- . ' '. ' . '. ' . During a number of years of experl- ? ments, which demanded large outlays of cash, we have been trying to produce . , . the native North Carolina v gems, cut ' . and, xriounted, at a figure to compete ,v; with the ordinary Imported semi-pre- , clous sionea ' We hare 'Just succeeded r . : in accomplishing what we consider - a very important and. dllfieult task and we can now offer to the public a beau , tlful. line o 'i natlT North .Carolina gema that are' better' propobned ari - polished. than any we have ever had,, at prices about, oqs half 13 than for merly. It Is always ocr ts2y and ds ' Eire to frrrilzh'td put"ic with the clszr . of Jewelry and silver we art known cS handling !at the Tcry' lowest znarket- llj Jewtlsr, -
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