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i IMG TOST VOL. VI I. RALEIGH, 1ST. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6 1901 No. 76 TAMMANY IS DEEP by 1.800. In Ansonia Stephen Charter, Democrat . and Labor candidate for Mayor, won over William; A. Wood. Republican. , .," j ; i :-- ' V Republican Gains In Nebraska Lincoln, Nor. 5. A raw morning kept PARKER OPENS Republicans Appear tO r " Have, Carried Every thing E xcept Vir ginia and Ken tucky. V .Nesv Yc.rK, Not. 5. Seth Low has men elet-etd mayor of th-3 -c'lty of New- York 1y a plnraLty in round amoibers JS.00O. William Trav-ers 'Jerome.1 fu- n. has defeated Hcnrv W. Younger, ranimany, for district attorney of New j ork county by albout 10.UOU plurality, is a sweeptng victory for the fusion- tctj in sr U tha rnrviifrhe ht ( :t Jiipens. The Tammany cou.nty. tu-hrt fearfnlly and wonderfully scraii h.vi. The vote of the boroughs for n::t.' ir s in i-ound unmlwrs ns -follows: Manhattan and the Br--iix Iow 138, Shepard 1?4.810. Brooklyn Iow 113.4R5: Shepard 80.095. -.Queens Low ''c??.3 -H'K oiiaiu, .o. j.vw Mer cuty- oi j om t io t oi : nrd. 2S.0'i2. The entire fusion city ticket goes f.n with Low. The fr-ion candidates for trough president It p beon ffie-c-ted in ; Manhattan, BrooKim ana lucnmona. a considrable part of which came This gives the fuslnnists full control lai , flx)m thQ section inhabited almost er iho boara of estimate. The board of aidrm?n wiM stand-! ""siveiy by negroes. Pu?ionrsts, 36: Democrats 34, with :iiree di.trict.s in do-.ibt. ! Fetersbtirg. Va., Nov. 5. The state The new. icity government wili be as .'nows. sotne few of the returns btl.ng subject to Terision: .... : j .uayor. ft.eiu uvw, l'usnu; jui jii in- i .'lor. Edward M. Gixut, Fusion: Presi dent of tho Board of .Aldermen. Charles V. Fom- Fusion- Prr-ient of the 1". , - 1 t t T i t j I nifrniisa or -Mnnnaticnx, j'.icoo .v. ;iniir. i-usrn: i nsiuent or tne torougnc oi , Bronx. Lowis F. Haffen. Tammany: l-'i r.n . - ' . , , , - . - . i 0U7S m tne noam ni psumaie . aua 1 ap ortionniont Comp'.-oller and PrcfC-1 dent 'of the Board of Aldermen, three 1 p.tcn: i-TosHients 01 Mannatran ,i w Brooklyn two each: Presents cf the Bronx. Queens and R.chmond, ceo each; ; total. 10 vor?s, of which fusion has 12,' Tammanv 1 and the Democrat 3. ' ' Vow Yor'k conntv ofP-cprs: Justices of he Supreme Court Morgan J. O'Brien, "miicn and Tammany; "Samuel Green- Ai;tornef, William leavers Jrinrje, Fjision: Sheriff; John T. Oakley Tam nany; Register, Frank J. !oodwin, Tammany; Coroners Manhattan, '; Ed ward T. Fitzpatrick, Tammanr; Ed wnrd W. Hart, Tammany, Jacob E. Bau?ch. Tammany. Antonio . Zncca, Tr.inti'.any; I'ronx Tliomr.s W. Lynch, l'.-'nimany, John Bosrrs. T:mnr"" -. Preiilent Cromwell, of Richmond 1 i(.ni:h. in defeating Nicholas Muller, t.'i1 Tammany candidate, by 247 r-t?-, i l"'at the strongest man Tammany ! ulcj put in the field. Muller 'is -the riu'ht hand man of Croker in llichmond -nuty and bad regarded his electiou as .1 foregone conclusion .Seldom has any , candidate been' cut so niciviles-sly as was Mayor Van 'yck. In every assembly district, in cluding his own, the 22u, be ran be- T. .1.1 . . 1 1. i i. : i . i. .. 1. . I A. 6 UCKei' nnu ur "eitul tNUa", .ld",uwu' ,UIV1S 1,uu v '"X. . for him. In carrying the ninth assembly dis trict for Low the fusionists avenged John C. Sheehan, leader of the Greater New York Democracy, and forced a birTe'r pill down Croker'-s throat. Cro- rtr .iiaa rvi,eenan aeposeu from tne I'.-osulMit of the Borcmgh or Brooklyn, j )ai-s Char es T-f' tT .vV' .1. Edward RwaiwtJOiii... Fusion -nresi- j Democrats, 'ere elected" to the lower' lent of the borough of Oueenj;. Joseph ; h - f the leKis!atllre from the clty ( assidv. Deniocrat; President of the t , . , . . TT P.orough of Richmond, George Cromwell. f Petersburg. C ap am A. B. Hobbs, 1. siiuM, r uMuvyj4Ju "h.w u "bers -s.no probably more. Neiaon lCLfS :?SJrl?-Z t' bas gone Republican for,- the ... . ' . t.me in rts history, also the town ., T .. . . . . . - ftalem. I he' sontuwest, not fully hear Tammany: leadership in 1000 and madebr0ght to the attention of the super Councilman Frank J. Goodwin, tne 1 Tjsors thev issued instructions that all . . . 1. ion kj: 4.V.n 1... .. . rogister-elect,- the leader. Since then Sheehan has never ceased in his ef l'oi ts to defeat- Croker. New York Nov. 5. Asssemblymen npr? elcctrd in nil districts r the tf today. There was no election of a new senate as senators are . elected once in two years only. . Ex-Senator Charles L. Knapp, Re publican, was elected to congress to day to fill th vacancy caused by the death of the late Colonel A. D. Siiaw. of Wntert own. Municipal elections were held in al most all the cities of New York state. The result in Rochester was close, the Democrats probably having a small majority. I Ruffalo Knisht) Repub. bean, scored an unexpected victory; Mayor McQnite, of Syracuse, was de feated by the Fusion candidate Al bany went Republican. Republican mayors were elected in Binghampton, Cohces and Yonkcrs, and Democratic mayors in Kingston, Oneida and Utica. New Jer- 'Tnb'imi, Tfew Y'ork, Nov. 5. Returns from New Jersey came in very slowly, but at midnight the returns pointed sure'ly to the election of Franklin Murphy as governor by several thousand plurality. The Republicans have a safe majority in both branches cf the legislature Jersey City elected a Republican may" 07. Adolph . Leu tering, Democratic candidate for mayor iu Hoboken i3 elected by. 1,500 plurity. Of the Senators chosen this year the Republicans elect six out of seven! Robert C. "Hudspeth, of Hudson being the only successful Democrat.- In the Assembly ; the Republicans vf 11 have forty-five menibers to the , Democrats fifteen. Murphy's plurality is about 15.000. Jersey City, "ov. 5. Mark M. Fagan, J fpnhuiean. was elected mayrr of , s?y City today, defeating. Georg Jer- e l. Smith, eastern agent of the Pennsylva nia. RiJlro-ad - Company. Richmond, Nor. 5. A'irginia has been caivled. by the Democratic gubernnto- rial ticket by a majority estimated-at- laminations, me vote ; was it-rnt between thirty and forty thousand. A'- throughout the State, hundred and twenty-one members of. Xew Haven, Conn., Nov. 5. Connec th'e legislature were elected, and of ticut today had an election in every tliMP'tha Tieniiblic.uvs . seciirpd ten nr town and district m the State for delc- twelvc. The negroes did not go to the polls at fln in manv parts of the state, and j theiv w4H certainly be a great falling i off Jn the toraivotV cast.- . inrnoo rntP w - VJ . fist Tav'or (Democrat! rrrpived n majority of 5S.000. , The vote ' this j are epubiicans,, 4J democrats and li year will probably not exceed 140,000 i non-partisan, the latter being .delegates with n corresponding reduction in the endorsed by both Republicans and Dem majority of the Democratic candidates. ! oclats- The failure of the ne stops to vote is?' The delegates will meet at the ca;?itol ascribed in part to the belief that their would or bo 5f -st nml in ran to .me rear r i.it nr vnnnz Tnerr .;,. . I VI TiA (111 Mr If SS' 1 1 I T () I ill I 'Til It fl VOl" 17 nH constitutional convention to disfran- cl use them. The city of Richmond gave a Democratic majority of 5.000. taction here toiMy passed off very nijetly. Montague's majority over Hoge, Republican, for governor, was -i -mj Tb. tntnl ivto Mit in ho n'tv was 1,44$: -William B. Mcllwaine, . J-'emocrat, was .elected to tne state n . a 4 ...... . .1. n. It rt i.-uaic nuui use uimmii vLiiiiiuei j sed of, rne city or retersourg ana tne county o?' Dinwiddie. and Messrs. 'Richard B. jemocrai, is eiecifa to tne spnaie T I 1 11 : 1 . . - k . t ; . ...... .i . . v . ' jjuui mr iu;n tumiMotu ui counties of Prince .George,: Surrey, Sussex and Gree:vi!le, over Mallory, ' fcdepeadent RepnWican-Prooibitionist, b abo,,t 400 IMjor!ty . , v,,. - T , ao y, . Ufel. not changing the majority of the gubernatorial ticket, show that the I Republicans have made great gains in i;hc legislature, electing twenty .mem- coun- l first! of ' fiom may increase the gains of the Republicans in the legislature. R?tibiraiit Vein to Hire Itlaryland Baltimore, Nov. 5. Never oef ore in the history of local elections was there ! such a mix-un as in today's contest. ! Some of the Baltimore ballots will not be counted before sun-up. 1 At midnight indications were in fa- v..r rf the Itr;n'.lilicans Baltimore. ' I The first and second legislative districts (n3 caii can i( viw--V. nun me iwaiiica ui favor of the Republicans. The latter : are sure of the third. Contrary to special' expectations, the I election was on? of the quietest cs- ,..;rl l.Prf. fnr lrtncr tin,o thm, I the interest in the outcome, was intens. 1 The new election law was being tested j and this, together with the peculiar! construction 01 a long - Dauot, maae voting.; anything but an easy task. Early in the day it was thought that there was going to be trouble, because many of the tickets had been blurred by the printer. As the new law con tains a clause making void any ticket with a mark other than made by the voter the discovery caused no little cPtinHnn Whpn the matter was the blurred tickets were to be counted The colored voters who, it was thought, would be stumped by reason of the new election law, surprised the natives by the ease irU which they overcame all obstacles and cast .beir vote. La te tonight the Republicans received word that Washington county, Senatoor McComas' home, had gone Republi can, as had also Talbot and Cecil. r ! Democrats Carry Kentneky Lexington," Ky., Nov. 0. Detailed re ports with correct figures on county majorities are ncugre at this hour, but op the face of the returns a Democratic legislature has bctu elected and Re publican Senator W, J. Deboe wild be succeeded by a Democrat. ( Repu'lCieans charge that in Lexington a jiumber of inriorteid voters, chiefly roce-horse touts from Gincinnati, were used at the polls, and in 'many in-stan,ees men of 23 and 24 had tne assurance to finter the boorhs and impeisonate of fifty and feixty years. When chal ltniwi thev stepped to the door to a witness.", and when once there fled at the top of -their speed. t Frankf oit elected James C. Darnell, Democratic mayor. -. Frankfort, Ky., Nov.. t. Friends of James B. McCre&ry-claim that he has secured a majority of the Democratic members of the assembly and that his nomination for senator as insured. Louisville. Ky., Nov. 5. Returns of 73 of the 190 counties in Kentucky show a net gain of ten representatives and one senator for the Democrats. If the Republicans reject the rest of thciir 1Tr.ir5ent!l'tirf.!B , null uunntniu tlia l.nrrlca- 1 lature wi'Jl have 70 Democrat am I 30 tion of 1878 by which England, in turn lowed to occupy Syria If the report rs . There is - no doubt ab.out that. It was Republicans i-a the lower house and 27 for the cession of Cyprus, guaranteed tn e it accounts for the boldness of M. ; a critical time and the. Hying Sauadron Democrats and 11 Remtblicans In the to the sultan the integrity of his Asi-: Deleasse, tQie French minister of for- was then within sight 'of the hill which Senate, which insures a Democratic I no-seion - The Ottoman gov- cigp affairs, in reasserting French shielded the enemy. The receipt of this senator to succeed - W. J. Deboe, the J8 PnlP' Mrivlene a- Turkish' pwstige ; in Turkey-despite German dispatch caused the: greatest anxiety Lrpub ican rncumbent. Four of the frnment e"s,'le "u nd the Sp0 susceptibilirr. and also of the condemV n the councils of onr nation. He con- nusrval ,wi fWiTi,.fc. us.i..- t t nch nnssessions. Buelow's policy. t 'to that end. Now, Captain Look and Tame Affair iu Conurctlcut Hartford, Conn., Nor. jo. Connecti- early returns. Returns have so far cut elected delegates to a constitutional been received from but fifty precincts convention, which will assemble in th--s,in the State, and these give a slight Re city Wednesday. January; 1. In maB7 '.publican gain j over last; year. This towns the election had no political char- "cter, hile in others -both parties made I gates to the constitutional convention, : and in two cities, Bridgeport and- An- soma, they also held city elections. Up to midnight 104 towns had been heard i from on the election of constitutional ! convention delegates, and the result Was , tnat oi tne lbl delegates! chosen l.U ; , i .. ,,. . . . . , , in Hartford in the first week in Jan ary .Jtnd frame a new constitution for ,""",-"-"t- wiuusiua m iue ucw i nnn,t5rt!r. mncn ci,. u n - vvuv. i. t oviifcut : - IWJ Democrats and not a few Republicans W1" he tne one relating to increased representation in the General Assem- bly. The surprise in today's; election for delegates included the defeat of Gen. Stephen W. Kellogg, of w'atorbnry, an old Republican war horse and a" former Congressman, by Patrick Gilfoile. , a young Democrat. la Bridgeport and Ansonia, where they had city elections, the Democrats made uuu cieuiiuus, iue iviiiorrais mailt; a,V Bridgeport Mayor ill I-1 iiiii;. tr- it ii in ii-jh ii. i Ji! I f Pi H I .11 r , -,. ' ' !" Boer Losses Were i - . 1 l : - Benson and Guiness Shot at) the Guns Invasion of Bushman's Land by Maritz London, telegraphs the War Office under yes- terday's date that owing to a rainstorm tue attack 'by the Boers ; on Col. son's rear guard near Bethel was not tacked and defeated six hundred mixed noticed until the burghers had reached English troops and .Kaffirs under Ma a position on the ridge within close jor Gendwyne, taking 120 prisoners. range of the guns, from which point I luey Riior. aowii ine escort aim me j;u . 1 1 .. , - 1 i. .1 . 1 . i horses. Col. Benson and Lieut; Col. Guiness were both shot at the guns. Loord Kitchener adds:-' "The- Boer losses are undoubtedi'y heavy, but 110 correct estimate has yet beeu obtained. a. 111 A ' 7 y-H vppem-u nmcu r I Chris Botha wounded. The Boers are "ported to have behaved badly toward U1S Whl.V rqwu IU;U1C Gce GeiK Kitchener says - that sines THE FRENCH PORTS The Sultan Requests England , to Send Her Mediterra nean Squadron to Prevent French Aggression Paris Nov. 5. The French squad-j a: Mitylene. ! I f "London, Nov. 5. A dispatch toite er Turkish ambassador, who had in Central News from j Taris says it is formed the porte that the chamber ntinnnrd 'this afternoon that Admi- would disavow the government, and ral Cail'-ard's fleet arrived at Smyrna , ' ; - this morning and .seized Uiree prmci. pal ports of Micykne. Pa,ris. Nov. 5. Alfonso Ledcux, the Vi?t4 Vi.onrh fli-rKTim :1 n ! !t the Con- i . . . i i . i stan tmopie em massy, wno nas ut--vjt lene.. today.! If Admiral Caillard does not -receive instructions! from Pans that the sultan has yielded completely oiirtTP aifM-r dom.ind Tiedoux will proceed to Constantinople to de- liver an ultimatum. ! If the porte fails to recognize this Admirab Calllard : will : occupy Smyrna. Paris. Nov. 5. A Constantinople i dinatch to the Echo de Paris says 1 . . . . '1 l. T-,intn the porre nas reqnestea: ?rL r-n fnln'l the conditions Oi tue mmcu. -i- ii.. . cnfi, ith-a Sun Aiirnu mm an tinthnnMnve men nwaiiMig me irevtroiimfuis oi cu. V. ; " , maae - for several weeks in the Piraeus, win source mat luuui. u:inueiun, nx ; ject- 1; "TAT I Inin Anmimi I ill tin TUPT ilT iri.,- viciimm uu..vv..w., - ..-'ii in down the rote in the cities "and towns of the State, but In the county districts 'maty of the farmers abandoned their coalfields! to vote. A falling off of 20 per cent from last year, when 250.00 J votes were -east, is indicated by he j means that the State will be verr , ciose Mr. Bryan : stopped off j on his wax home to lunch to cast his vote. He had failed to register because of ab sence from the city, and was compelled to swear in his vote. It took him b-t a moment to mark his balot, indicating ' he voted it straight. He signed another mans certificate who' announced Tum- J self as a Drmocrat. j Lincoln, Neb.. Nor. 5. Returns are I coming'. in very slowly. Fifty precincts i oi j.,uvu snow a .uepu'ancan gam oc ...... -t trr . 1 t . r five to a precinct, indicating that tha Republicans have carried the State by from 8,000 to 12,000. Republican State Chairman Lindsay says the State has gone Republican by a sijfe -majority. Populist ; Chairman DeFrance admits that the returns show! Republican gains, but too meagre upon which to 'bas? miT n.diction I " ' b NW 1 YW hundred in Nebrkau lGW m Nebraska out or l.ouu give Lincoln, precincts SodgewJ-ck. Hepul-Mca.n. f for snnreme iiuW mT77 TTnllPTdepl- Fusion 8,419. The Republicans make gains in almost every precinct on a total vote of 12 per cent less than last year. This indicates that Republicans carry the state by, from S.000 to 10.000. JVIassaehna?tt Kcpublican, a Usnal Boston, Nov. 5. Governor William Murray Crane and the entire liepubli- (Continued on Second Page.) Undoubtedly Heavy ; -'. ; 1 f1 wounded and 2 v made prisoners. Theve were also; 28 surrenders. I Cape Colony, east of the western railway,., is clear, of all but four hun dred of ' the burghers. The -Hague, Nov. 5. A. report has I HArtAkft Kama' -t n 4-V. r TA AAn-.wnl 1 Q n r XiflPitf onracfirl ncn ?ii on c I ortn northeast of Cane , Cunei with fcrtv men. By the end of August his com- Ben-,mando had increased to 1330. He at- iCommandUnt Maritz liberated all the . I 1. . T." CC ! ... V. A .. . . yiiuux;i& csicin iuk iouu 9, uu ncic found guilty of spying, and these wera shofc ' He found documents at th3 headquarters of the English ordering the seizure of farmers horses. The Boer commander says this has caused the revolt to spread. It is also stated that the Boer losses in the fight at Fort Itala in Zftluland. where Col. Murray was killed, were 19 W.-,Mi.cu a,u:,wuu. "'"I""' (command of the Boers. SEIZE IN MITYLENE fSai feZt the Levant to prevent aggression by the French fleet A dispatcb from Athens says that; sels of the British Mediterra- controversy upon the point I shall di -nA mmnnii nt . regard that dispatch, and refer to a n- five ves Vr t ' TUi.,..r -.ii-i ; other one .the receipt of which is ac in'ince Ijouis of Battenberg, wnicli " sailed for the Gulf of Volo, an inlet of 'the Aegean Sea. . Speaking of yesterday's! debate in the confidence JJltea at they were not consis- the intriguers of Munir Bey, the form- . . . . . ; 1 i , tnat a minis-tenai ensis , wouiu ensue, , a ne rigaru auus ru11JaLuBt::been off thg soutn-coast of Cuba and 'attitude of , the powers toward ranee jhfld learned the situation there ve-y uesTioys tne surtan s ia divpo oi European , complications tTi Paris, Nov. 5. The correspondent of j oppose r renew acvion inxurK, - rr i-.. : out receiving . in return ; a cmit-e.u for the Bagdad railway, ; and that Em- Dcror William had to formally , com-, lnand a cessation of this policy. A curious report which is current. an j well informed circles is persistent enough to deserve notice. It is to the ; effect that a -secret compact exists be- j tween t rance, iuisia aun mk; j under the terms of which Russia-is to Ki laft ltl.l rvofll I I V- IT! UnnPhllHn. fr,TSr ; - -" i ,o al- " f?jr --- Hr. Hanna Concludes His Argument He Insists That Schley Is Guilty of Disobedience Washington,' Nov. 5. When the Schlev Court met this - inr.rnino- Afr. Hanna resumed his argument against jnen the retrograde movement was the applicant. He said in opening that started. ' ; v he would take up soecification five, re- I "Tb nest statement a very sur lating to alleged disobedience of orders. I prising one. 'Can ' ascertain nothing Te- "Now the fifth specification of the precept," Mr. Hanna said, "relates .o the disobedience of orders, and in -order to determine whether an officer has dis obeyed orders it is necssary to. ascer tain under what orders he was supposed to be acting. The orders- received bv Commodore Schley before he left Cien fuegos may be reduced to a very simo'e statement. On the. morninsr of the 22n o May he received by the Dupont letter 7- That , i was an order to stay there under ex - 15 Jns conaitions. un tne next morn- ! . "B. ece,vea oy ,lQe urucr i. o. inat was an orasr to iro- tv' 1,,ul lauumj,. ceed to Santiago with all dispatch lis i"? tbis offer, however, the opportu soon as satisfied that the Spanish fleet tityto learn the situation was ignored was not in Cienf uegos. Accompanying by Commodore Schley. Now he con No. 8 and delivered by the Hwk wa i tinues: 'Will leave the St. Paul here.' the memorandum written at Havana ; And that was done. The St. Paul was nnder circumstances of great emergen- Rt,nt back on the 27Uh to the gates of cy, as has been set forth, and statins: 1 Santiago. The signals on this subject 'Be at Santiago on the 24th; that order being, of course, of later dale, would, in so far as it conflicted therewith, can- three days.' Theanswer of the' St.; eel previous orders. It did not, in anv I'ul was: 'Then where? 'Follow in way sugest delay. On the contrary, it , structions of the department,' return suggested speedy departure and prompijed the flagship. Captain Sigsbee took arrival at Santiago. Therefore, when ' a parting shot at the tommodore by Commodore Schley left Cienfuegos he saying r-'Instructions are to wme and was under orders to proceed with nil' meet you here.' " -dispatch to Santiago, bscause he was Referring to Schley's dispatch to' the satisfied that the Spanish fleet was nor at Cienfuegos. "Under fbese circumstances,' and be ing under such, orders to proceed with dispatcb, on the 26th. the squadron was. by signal, headed for Key West, and Schley's testimony upon this pijint. the retrograde movement was begun Contbjuing, h saiU ''Tbere are four. That was on the evening of if.e 23 tU possibly five, reasons stated which are at. about 8:30, according to th? signal not included in the report to tjhe dc book, . and according to the testimony.rf p.airiment on thje subject. .Tifere is a During the night the squadoa -proceed signal, rnstrttctlng a Sigsbee, -wherf, he ed towards Key West, being- delayed was severed ;from the' siuadrcm' and only by the difficulty of towing the col- sent back to Santiago, on the 27th to Her. .There was apparently nothing report as follows: Tf Sampson comes else. If there is anytthiug that shows here tell him one-half the squadron that the squadron would not have gone out of coal and collier's engine broken further but for the accident to the col- j down.' Now, Commodore Schley on lier, it-is not rhown by the testimony. the stand -says he could not ihave made ; Proceeding that way during the nigh; hat signal because it did not contain and stopping a number of hours at mid- j a statement of facts, and I deem it night and into the next mcrning, the only just to him to state, that he con Flying Squadron was intercepted by the sidt-r-s there must be some mistake Harvard, a dispatch boat, bearing dis- . about it. It appears on the -record as patches from the Secretary of the ' a signal isent by the Brooklyn and Navy.""Thes9 dispatches were deliver-j received by the St. Paul. In the even, ed on board the flagship at 9:30 on ths ing of the 27th conditions changed, morning of the 27th. The commanding l and coaling operations were begun, officer of the Harvard to:k them to . 'jfae Texas was first copied, coaling all Commodore Schley. : Unght; the Ma rblehead coaled by boat,- "By reference to page 204 of the re- j ot,d during tlie following day coaled cord it appears that Captain Cotton alongside the collier. Other ' ves-sels at that time delivered a dispatch which coaled during the day and the squad he had himself received at Mole St. ron abandoned the retrograde move Nicholas but a short time before. Thii: uient returned toward S-antiago, and dispatch reads: 'The Flying Sauadron rrived some time on the evening of at Santiago,' etc., (Mr. Hanna read the the 28th; remained off Santiago in dispatch.) That dispatch has been read cruising formation that night, and the before in court. Captain Cotton has xiext morning the Ccfon was discov testified that to the best of his recol-j ei-ed. The Colon was seen on. the lection and belief it: was one of the dis- morning of the 20th by most of the patches that he, delivered to Commodore vessels of the squadron." Schley that morning. Mr. Beale who Mr Hanna then read thc snecific:J translated the cipher, has identified it tfon ond Teferred to 'the fact that Cap as the dispatch which he had tran . . ,fiW -nJlf1 snnl, sit,Mir,-thV lated and handed to Captain Cotton on board the Harvard. There is a con nect of evidence as to when this dis patch -was received, and there being a Continuing his argument, Mr. Hanna dwelt at length upon the question of securing coal, combating the testimony given iu evidence that there was great . 11C LKKJ tent with actual situations when the were sent, and he said, referring to tbe statement of Commodore (now Admiral Schley that it was not possible to coal wvuitj ma l Cape Cruz, "Captain McCalla had CaDtain McCalla to.u the commo- dore that the ships might coal eff Cane f'nu T the record - I find a stateme it by Admiral Schley on this srib- eferring to a telegram on May which Commodore Schlev had reported to the department: 'Will then go to Gonaives Bay,' the admiral was asked: 'Then you concluded that yo:i cqxia roai there?' The answer was. 'Well, I had in mind that the smaller vessels could coal Jn the port whil th3 iarger ones might coal on the outside. ftff- the coast.' That was the impression ne joined from the report of Cartain uotton. iiut tne dispatcii . siates to e contrary. Then comes this state- man . T Jo .rPoHO.l that thi 'TZXC , ui-c.i mv-m. viutio ..i. FOR SCHLEY others have testified that they knew nothing about the retrograde mow ment until it was actually begun. Th2 suggestion that other officers h'ad knowl edge of this fact is brought - into this matter for reasons that seem to be somewhat obscure. Why does be us9 the word 'we?' 'I am forced to return to Key West by the Yucatan passage for coal,' is the net statement But on returning to Key West his vessels coaled on the open sea, and after leav ing there and getting to their statio i ! the coal supply was as badly off as 1 meeting the situation at Santiago. Now the testimony added here sh'ows that the commodore had a very great and important opportunity to ascertain the. state of affairs at Santiago. Mr. Beale, now out of the naval service, stated that upon the receipt of the de partment's dispatch he volunteered to make a landing and try to ascertain the situations He considered it the ! f pportumty of his life. Mr. Beal . opened his plan to hk commanding of ! nnrl nted th-at the commodor onnbrtunity of his life. Mr. Beale 1 ncer and asked that the commodore "si touuuiuiicuicu o 7 7"" ' . vf 1 are interesting. The flagship signalled first: 'Remain., where you are two or ; department, Mr. Hanna said that, in teresting as it was, it did not contain Commodore Schley's ivasons for diso- ledienee of orders in 'fuming toward Key West., He then -read Admiral" vessel and to 'tfie testimony which went ft) siiow that he was surprised when he saw her there said: "Bin ths vessel had been seen before his signal was given. She appeared . to 1 have been lying moored in the nar row entrance of the harbor, as subsequent developments .showed, about 1,200 yards inside the entrance to the harbor. She was so situa-red . that she could be seen plainly, but only at certain points. There she lay 5n plain view from the morning of the 29th, all day on the 30th, and until about noon -on the 31st before any thing ws done, being almost within range. About noon on 'the 31st the vessels of the flying squadron were' taken in and passed rapidly before -tha narrow entrance, and for two minutes, according to the testimony, the ships were firing at the Colon. Tben 'they passed to the eastward; the vessels were turned in such manner as to bring them farther off, and passed back again, and for two minutes more the Colon was under fire, the range given being 7,000 yards, but according to the testimony, the hiis did not go in that far. At any rate the range was too great on the run across the en'trance that our, .shots all failed to reach her. The ranges testified to varied from 8,500 to 11,500 yards. The description given by Commander Schroeder of the first shot fired by the Massachusets is very interesting, the Massachusetts being the flagship. "One of the issues before the court is, what was the purpose of this en gagement whether its purpose was to destroy the Colon or .whether i:s pur pose was a reeonnoissance. A number of witnesses, including Admiral Hig ginson and Commander Schroeder, states that they heard Commodore Schley say as he came on board that - ' ' (Continued on Page 7y '.''." .1 : . , j i . , , ....
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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