St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 24, 1898

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- Old City Hall. Send all contributions to the Post- | Dispatch Soldiers’ Supply ? Room 23, Old City Hall. to contributtons wi!] he it the Post-D'‘s- Depot, Room 4 re) 6 | ° | SUGGESTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS. ‘ Serviceabie walking shoes. Underwear. Socks B. ndana handkerchiefs. Blue flannel shirts. Small kits of toilet Toilet soap. Sewing mater'als. Rubber pillows. Hand mirrors. Shaving tmiaterials. Shoe brush and blacking. Paiamas, light material. Pieces of mosquito netting about 9 square feet, hemstitched.. Witchhazel extract. Borated talcum powder. Lead pencils, pens, ink, writing paper and postage stamps. Canned frults and vegetables, Rooks, magazines and newspapers. Evaporated cream, Condensed milk. Select groceries. Cigars, chew :ng and smoking tobacco and pipes. Matches Canned salmon and sardines. Sugar cured hams Lime water. Chocolate. Cakes. Oatmeal Chewing gum. Sauces. Pickles. Canned meats. Fausages. (“heese. Fruit. articles, ~ BRUTALLY BEAT A CHILD SLEEPING BEFORE MURPHY. Goseph Kern Gets One Year in the ‘Workhouse and $100 Fine. Was Sent to Jail for It. Joseph Kern, who brutally beat his 7-year- old stepdaughter, (rissie Kern, as told in the Post-Dispatch, was found guilty of as- S maximum by Judge Murphy and is e m sentence. He will remain is ,a Baker. The ghila. frail and slight Ella Harding, wife of Isaac Harding, a prisoner on the charge of criminally as- saulting a lftie girl, called at the Four Courts early Friday morning to see her hus- band. She wandered into Judge Murphy's court- room before the openin Af of court, and atretched ow upon a table in front of the bench. ere ehe was soundly sleeping when the day’s docket was ope ned. When Mrs. Harding was aroused it was evident that ehe was under the influence of @ fierce brand of liquor. ‘This is contempt of court,” sald Judge Murphy, “‘and I will send you to jail for five days.”’ Bhe cried loudly as the jail door clicked upon her. Bhe doesn't belleve her husband is gullty. Ehot His Wife and Himself. ST. PAUL, Minn., June %4.—A Lamour (N. D.) special fo the Dispatch says: At Ed ley, a small place near here, | orkhouse, in addition to a and intelligent. er handkerchief while at play. her preptather that alee te on little Criasie's body had were seen by Jud Mur- was in the Female Hos- wer beaten. The child e City Hospital, where Dr. Fatally Bitten by a Severed Snake. to the Post-Disapateh. oven June 4.—At Sydney, Com- An ags -a @ , | been cut in two Oy Fes 1 alive, SEEM BENT ON A FIGHT. Bakers and “Howards Ada Forces at Barbourville, Ky. Special to the Pos.-Dispatch BARBOURVILLE; Ky., June 24.—The trial of the Bakers was to-day postponed | until to-morrow on account of absence important witnesses Additions to the forces on each aside of the feud are hourly arriving and each still holds the respective hotel in which it is} quartered practically as a fort. It is not believed that any power can prevent a fight of the two factions. eee THE WEATHER FORECAST. FAIR—CONTINUED WARM. For St. Louls and vicinity—-Falr and e tinusd warm Friday night and Saturday. For Missourl- Generally fair Friday night and Saturday; cooler in west portion by bight For Illinois -Fair Friday night and Saturday POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. e ao! on- Saturdar administered a brut gent {0th ; injuries were serious. Fs COA aah, 2 De pot, ? | Nelson ‘ment of reinforcements for Gen. o—-0—0—-0-—-0-—-0-—-0--0-—-0-—0--0—-0-— 0-0 | ee oS -6- ee re 2-0 O-O-0-O _ FRIDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—JU eee ee te cn AX St. Louis, One Cent. i Vutside S¢. Leouwis, Two ‘Cents. _—_——_— — — — COPPINGERTO HAVE DIRECT COMMAND. Post-Dispatch. Fla., June 24.- 10 days if the nsports use Special to TAMP A. within the next There will be un tne com ~—~There is to be another embarkation of troops at Tampa War Department does not countermand its orders. about 25 tra i in conveying the expedition, which is to be mand of Major-General Coppinger. Tampa it is generally le! Amon aition Zz army men at believed Gen. Miles will lead the Some troops from C} The total number me eo , iS.thn so go on the expedition. th the 4th Army Corps will not divisions. much the lickamauga may al n that will go wi be three ‘orps will fall better equipped than is the army have heavy regulation uniforms of the hing has now been received here. Of shoes, mn the men will hoive tents and hammocks. n. Shafter’s corps, not a full regiment was Of all the in the corps the only iformity or fitness the rough riders 4th Army be men now eight ample we men in the fter rhe but the Light be an who nt clothing or pproached in (Cuba canvas ciot there will supply. The he 14,800 troops with .Ge« troops were with S iltabie Ss 10es., equipment a ul £ GUARDING AGAINST CERVERA'S COCAPE. -_--- ’ Admiral Sampson’s Sienificant Order to His Ship Captains. ——_——__ ——_- --e-— Admira! ns covering the landing oi Gen. Prose days’ Sampeon’s instructions to the officers Shaiter's BAIOQUIRI, June 24.—In of the fleet in regard to operat army. occurs this significant passage: “The attention of commanding officers of all vessels engaged in biock ading Santiago de Cuba is earnestly called to the necessity of the utmost vigi- lance from this time forward, both as to maintaining stations and readiness for action and as to keeping a close watch upoa the harbor mouth. Ii the Spanish Admiral ever intends to attempt to escape that attempt will be made a ' good prophets tn the past. ‘and the intense heat - SHAFTER’S. ADVANCE GUARD HAS TAKEN JURAGUA. -_ | es The Americans Are Now Within Seven Miles of Morro Castle. —~S~ CAMARA’S FLEET REPORTED SAILING TOWARDS MANILA, > _— The News Creates No Alarm at Washington; Dewey Can Easily — Destroy the Spaniards. _. — MADRID, June 24, 2 p. m.—Dispatches from the Spanish military commagyaee.. at Santiago deny that the forces are inadequate. Gen. Linares has twelve battalions of infantry and several batteries of & and all the strategic positions around the city are strongly occupied and await the “4. attack of the Americans. The Spanish commander at Siboney was killed during the recent fighting there. BAIQUIRI, CUBA, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF INVASION, June 24.— The American Army will soon occupy Santiago. The advance guard of Gen. Shafter’s corps to-day occupies Juragua, seven miles from Morro Cut at the mouth of Santiago harbor. As the army advances the Spaniards desert their outposts, and it - plainly evident that Gen. Linares, the Spanish commander, will make no determined re- sistance outside the defense of Santiago. Present indications are that the advance column of Gen. Shafter’s army will be in front of the earthworks of Linares’ command to-morrow. It is probable that the first battle will take place in capture of the forts on the east side of the harbor entrance. PUSHING ON TO SANTIAGO. WITH THE ARMY OF INVASION, JURAGUA, CUBA, SEVEN MILES FROM MORRO CASTLE, June 24—The advance of the American army has reached the edge of the table land in which the harbor of Santiago” de Cuba lies. Here, seven miles from Morro Castle, as the crow flies, the main body of the troops are waiting the next movement. The Spaniards may attempt a surprise, but a de- cistve engagement is not expected for several days. Gen. Lawton’s Brigade, which rested last night at Demajaybo. four miles west of Baiquiri, resumed its march at daylight. Before noon his brigade, consisting ot the 22d Infantry, the Ist Infantry, the 2d Massachusetts Volunteers, with companies of the 8th Cavalry, half of the 4th Cavalry and several companies of the 25th colored cavalry, occupied Jaragua, five miles beyond, and the American flag was hoisted there. The Spaniards retired before the advance, which was covered by Cuban skirmish- ers, burning the blockhouses as they went. Col. Wagner. with a small reconoitering detachment of about 40 men, brushed against the flank of a retreating Spanish column 200 strong, at Firmezaz. A dozen shots were fired by the Spaniards, as Col. Wagner fell back. Before Gen. Lawton could bring up the 22d, the vanguard regiment, the Spaniards retreated westward. Juragua was abandoned by Gen. Linares and 1200 Spanish troops with such haste that they had no time to burn the town, though an ineffectual attempt was made to destroy the. locomotives of the railroad and the rolling stock. Gen. Linares retreated to Sevilla, six miles west of Juragua, by road, and nine miles from Santiago de Cuba. A detachment of 170 Cubans, under Col. Aguirra, had a skirmish with the Spanish rear guard. The Cubans lost two men killed and seven men wounded. The Spanish loss is not known. Gen. Chaffee. with the 9th Cavalry, the remainder of the 8th and 4th, 7th, 12th and lith Infantry reported at Juragua at dark Gen. Bates, with the reserve of the 20th Infantry, and Col. Woods’ rough riders, dismounted, with a dynamite gun, hurried forward from Baiquiri at 3 o'clock, but when they arrived Juaragua had been taken. Dispatches from Gen. Linares, which have heen captured, Spaniards were ordered to fall back toward Santiago de Cuba. The Cubans expect the first stand to be made at Savilla and they have proved Gen. Lawton's men are badly fagged by rapid marches Their rations ace almost exhausted. They started with three supplies. A pack train will be sent forward Strong outp sts are maintained in order to prev also under the protection of the guns of the warships. Gen. Garcia's army of 4000 men is to be conveyed by erensootte from Acederros indicate that the ent a surprise, and Jaragua is _and landed at Baiquiri to-morréw to join the 1200 men under Gen. Castillo and co- operate with the American troops. This movement amounts to a change of base. The land attack will evidently be made from the east. - SPAIN’S CRY IS‘STILL NO . Special Cable te the Post I Copyright by the Press Publishinys MADRID, June 244.—No surrender” is still which says: “We will go on, even if we lose all « Sagdsta is fast hurrying to a close the sittings of the situation. With the help of the army the « by a royal decree suspending the constitutional Castelar, in his summer retreat, near Alicante, for Spain will close with the fal) ~ Manila and 5 ‘"P ENDER,