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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1898.
NUMBER 41.
IS
1 torn Battle
Is On In
Americans are Attacked - Spaniards Repulsed
American Loss n; Spanish 500.
HONG KONG, Aug. 9 The first news of a severe en
gagement, was brought today by a German steamer which
left Manila on August 6th. The Spaniards attacked the
Americans near Manila. The Americans were victorious,
and lost only eleven killed and 37 wounded. The Spanish
losses are not known but are reported to be heavy. The in
surgent forces remained neutral.
The attack was made on the American camp between
Cavite and Manila, during the night of July 31st The
Spaniards, who numbered 3500 men, made several desperate
charges on the American lines, but each time the fire drove
them back, and finally broke the Spanish center, causing
the enemy to retreat.
Later, however, the Spaniards made a second attack,
but were again repulsed and retreated into the bushes, keep
ing up an incessant fire on the roads leading to Manila, over
which they apparently expected the American troops to ad j
vance.
Some estimates place the
killed and wounded. '
Washington, . Aug. 9. A dispatch
from Manila gives' the following con
cerning the fight near that place :
The advance of the third expedition of
General Green's troops toward Manila
made the Spaniards wild, and, after
having 4000 of his men tormenting
them for some time, they determined to
fight. For 300 yards trenches extended
to the left flank of the insurgents.- As
Sunday was a least day for the insur
gents, the left flank withdrew and the
American right flank was exposed.
In the midst of a tremendous down
pour ot rain, the enemy's force, esti
mated at 300, attempted to surprise the
camp. Oar pickets were driven in and
the trenches assaulted. The Pennsyl
vania men stood their ground under a
" withering fire, until the First California j
regiment, with two companies of the
Third artillery, reinforced them.
- The enemy was on top of the trenches
GEN. MERRIT
REACHES CAVITE
Arrived With Three Transports Escort
ed By the Monterey.
San Francisco, Aug. 9. A special to
the Call from Cavite, dated August 6th,
says :
The three transports which sailed
from San Francieco with General Mer
ritt, but which were delayed at Honolu
lu, arrived today. The monitor Monte
rey also arrived.
ITS DISPOSITION
IN DOUBT
How Will Adolph Sntro's Fortune Be
Disposed Of ? The Lawyers Will
Probably Get More Than Their
Share. r -
' j San Francisco, Augi 9. the final dis
position of the fortune left by the late
Adolph Sutro is still in doubt. When
Manila
Spanish losses at over 500
when the reinforcements arrived, and
when the Third artillery under Captain
O'Hara got to work nothing could be
seen but the flashes of Masuer rifles.
The men ran right up to the attacking
Spaniards and moved them down.
The men of the Utah battery. Captain
Young, pulled . their guns through the
mud axle deep, and did grand work.
Two guns in the flank poured in a de
structive fire. Our io fan try had ex
hausted its ammunition, but the enemy
was repulsed, so was not followed.
On the night of August 1st the enemy
made the attack at long range with
heavy artillery. The Utah battery re
plied, and the artillery duel lasted an
hour. Fred Springstead, of the First
Colorado, was killed, and, others
wounded.
On the night of August 2d the artillery
duel was renewed. Two men were bad
ly wounded, and are this morning re
ported dead, which brings the total dead
up to 13, with 10 in the hospital mor
tally hurt.
Dr. Emma Merritt was appointed guar
dian of her father last February the
Sutro estate was appraised at $2,349,572.
Its real value, however, is believed to be
much more. 'It is said that the -sons
and daughters will share equally in its
distribution. '
It bad long been ex-Mayor Sntro's
desire and intention to give the Sutro
Heights property and the Sutro library
to the people of San Francisco. Whether
the conditions of his illness prevented
him from carrying out his plan Is yet to
be known.
DOLE TO BE
THE GOVERNOR
Senator' Morgan, of the Commission,
" ' Says Hawaii Is to Have , the For
mer President as Governor. - -
San Francisco, Ang. 9. Senator Mor
gan, of the Hawaiian commission, is
quoted by the Call as Baying that ex
President Dole will be the first governor
of Hawaii, and not Minister Sewall, as
recently reported.- The senator added
that he had the best of reasons for be
lieving that Admiral Miller was carrying
Dole's commission to the island.
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That I what it was medc for.
ARRAIGNMENT
' OF SAMPSON
Chaplain Mclntire Makes a Fearless
Denunciation of the Admiral-Also
Attacks "Fighting Bob" Evans.
Denver, Colo., Aug. 9. In a lecture
delivered here, Chaplain Mclntyre, of
the battle-ship Oregon, spoke as follows
of Admiral Sampson's report of the
battle with Cervera's fleet:
"Sampson reported himself within
four miles of the Cristobal Colon when
she pulled down her flags. He did not
get a share of the prize money, for the
ship must be within four miles to share
in the money. Sampson will therefore
get $10,000 of the prize money, while
Captain Clark, whr fought with the
Oregon as never a man fought with a
ship before, will get only $500, and you
who have had just exactly as much to do
with the battle as Sampson will not get
a cent."
Mclntyre further said that when the
Spanish ships ran out of the harbor
the Iowa was within two mues
of them and the Oregon about three
miles. The Oregon, he said, tore up to
the front like a shot and met the Iowa
moving to the rear, where, he added,
Evans kept her throughout the battle,
The chaplain offered no explanation of
this alleged maneuver of the Iowa.
Mclntyre boldly stated that the reason
eastern-made ships did not come up to
expectations was that the contractors
who made tbem got the contracts
through political pulls, and did not care
how much they cheated the government
The Oregon was the only one made hon
estly, he added. . '
MILES NEEDS
NO HELP
Can Complete the Conquest of the
Island With the Force Now in
Command Troops Will Move, in
Four Columns.
WASHiNGTON.'Aug. 9. The secretary
of war has stopped the diepatch of fur
ther reinforcements to Porto Rico. Gen
eral Miles reported this morning that
the force at his command was ample for
completing the conquest of the island.
This leaves all of Gen. Wade's provis
ional corps of 18 regiments still in the
United States. It is believed all of Wil
son's division except the Third Ken
tucky and Fifth Illinois regiments have
already sailed, and they may be allowed
to proceed.
Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 8. General
Henry, with the Sixth Illinois and Sixth
Massachusetts, will move tomorrow on
Arecibo. Practically all our troops will
then be then in motion in four columns
toward San Juan. -
General Schwan is at Yauco, Wilson
is near Com mo and Brooks is at Guay
ama. The . Porto Ricans enlisted by
General Stone, have been engaged with
a small Spanish outpost between Ad
juntas and Utuado on the road to Are
cibo. A skirmish took place last night
and one Spanish officer was killed.
WILL GIVE UP
THE PRISONERS
This Offer on the Part of the United
States Received Only a Brief Ac
knowledgment from the Spanish
Government- - - f -
New York, Aug. 9. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says :
The United States has magnanimously
offered to parole the 1,300 Spanish naval
prisoners taken at the destruction of
Admiral Cervera's fleet, whenever Spain
is ready to repatriate them. With the
exception of the officers, who are en
joying American hospitality within the
limits of Annapolis,' the bulk of these
prisoners are confined to the naval sta
tion at Portsmouth, where they have
the liberty of a large, picturesque island
and are comfortably quartered and fed
in temporary buildings erected for their
use. The offer of this government was
made regardless of the approaching col
mination of peace negotiations and
simply with a view of sending a larger
number of national guests, who had
considerably overstayed their welcome
and become burdensome upon the host.
These Spaniards have suffered scarce
ly any of the restraints usually imposed
upon prisoners of'war, but have been
cared for as tenderly aa though they
were Americans.,
DETERMINED TO
Capture Manila
Insurgents Renew Their Efforts Panic
Inside' the Walls Spanish Loss
Estimated at ioo.
Manila, Aug. 3, via Hong Kong, Aug.
10. The insurgents, thinking that peace
will be concluded between the United
States and Spain) and that the Ameri
cans will withdraw from the Philip
pioes, are the more strenuous in their
desires and efforts to capture Miller.
Sunday night there was a heavy bom
bardment with heavy modern shells.
It is generally believed in the city that
the Americans assisted and the papers
publish lists of Americans alleged to
have been killed.
There is also a report that half the
Americans have succumbed to fever, and
this misstatement, with others like it,
encourages the Spaniards to maintain
their resistance. ' : '
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several . reached the citadel
itself and it is reported that some ladies
were killed. There was a frightful
panic inside the walls, women and chil
dren shrieking in their terror the whole
night through. - .
The insurgents showered large and
small shots with such good aim that the
garrison believed the whole American
army and fleet were concentrating their
fire. Many Spanish had previously re
solved to cease fighting the moment the
Americans began, but the -insurgents
have subsided and the forts have been
reinforced from the barracks. There
has been little fighting in other direc
tions. The - total Spanish losses are
probably 100, but many houses have
been seriously damaged. -
WILL NOT DRILL
ON SCANT FARE
Company M, at San Francisco, are in
Open Mutiny Object to the Fare
Furnished.
San Francisco, Aug. 10. After the
noon meal forty-five men of the 62 in
Company M, Tenth Pennsylvania vol
unteers, informed the acting command
er, Sergeant Shaw, that they would not
drill on the scant fare furnished triem.
Sergeant Shaw reported to Lieutenant
Colonel Barnett, who promptly arrested
all the malcontents. Up and down the
camp they were marched for three
hours. They had been stripped of their
rams and were guarded on all sides by
sentinels from the other companies. A
court martial seems imminent.
Adolph Sutro's Will Discovered.
San Francisco, Aug. 10. It is now
certain that Adolph. Sutro left a will,
which is in the bands of Attorney Ren-
ben H. Lloyd. It will be offered for
probate within a few days.
'The funeral service, which will be pri
vate, will be held at Sutro Heights.
Rev. Jacob Kieto, rabbi of 'the congre
gational . Sherith Israel, will officiate.
The remains will , be taken to Odd Fel
lows' cemetery, where the cremation
will be performed. Later the ashes will
be interred in the family plot at Cypress
Lawn cemetery.
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Spaniards Attempt to Retake One of. the Most
Important Lighthouses in Porto Rico.
NEW YORK, Aug. 11. A special to a morniDg paper
i. "
Cape San Juan, Porto Rico, Aug. 10. There was a two
sa3rs.
hours fight before daj'break
iards attempted to retake the lighthouse, which was guard
ed by forty of our sailors, commanded by Lieutenant At-
water, Assistant Engineer Jenkins, Engineer Brownson and-
Gunner Campbell. The Spanish were driven back by the
shells from the Am phithrite, Cincinnati and Leyden.
Refugees report 100 Spaniards killed. The lighthouse
is one of the most important
FIVE NEGROES
WERE LYNCHED
Clarendon, Arkansas, in an Uproar
Wife Accused of Instigating the
Murder of Her Husband Commits
Suicide.
Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 10. Word
was received here at an early hour this
morning of the hanging at Clarendon of
five negroes three men and two women
by a mob. The victims were accused
of complicity in the murder of John T.
Orr, a wealthy hardware merchant of
Clarendon, who was shot by an 'assassin
several nights ago: The prisoners were
taken from the jail during the absence
of Sheriff Jackson, who was ill, Deputy
Sheriff Milwee, in charge of the jail,
being u a able to resist the mob.
Clarendon has been the ecene of great
excitement since the killing of Orr, and
the lynching of the five negroes charged
with complicity in the crime is no great
surprise to the citizens. Orr was shot
in the back through a window while in
his home last Friday night, and died the
following day. There was no clew to
the murder and even bloodhounds that
were immediately put on the trail were
unable to run down the assassin. -
After an inquest extending over two
days a verdict was returned charging
bin. Orr, the murdered man's wife,
with belngr the instigator of the crime.
Mies Rachel Morris, a prominent 'young
Jewess, Manse Castle, - Will Sandere,
Dennis Ricard, Rilla Weaver and Susie
Jacobs, were charged with complicity in
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.
the western provinces has reached- here, one of the battles
was the result of,, the success - of the attempt of General
Gomez, with 3000 men, to force' the -trocha between Las Vi-
as and Camaguey, to make his' headquarters with the offi
cers of the government of the Cuban republic at.Camaguey. .
The,' trocha . at this point was guarded by 4000 Spaniards
under General Castellanos. .. The Spanish soldiers made a
stubborn resistance but in the afternoon their main body
gave way before a machete charge of the Cubans. Ihere
were many wounded on both sides. Spanish prisoners were- -
iberated after being deprived
yesterday. Eight hundred Span
on the island.
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ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
the crime. All were placed under ar
rest except Miss Morris, who fled.
After the arrest of Mrs. Orr and the
five negroes Mrs. Orr made a confession.
She admitted that she had eaid to her
cook that she wished ber husband dead
and that she would be willing to give
$300 to any bo Jy to kill him. But she
said that this WaT uttered while in a fit
of anger and that she was innocent of
any criminal intention. Her husband
abused her, she eaid, and once struck
her, and she being of high temper her
self sometimes Baid th;ns in anger that
she did not mean.
Mrs. Orr committed suicide by taking
poison in the city jail last night, so that
the only survivor of those charged with
the murder of Orr is Miss Morris.
Sequel to a Wyoming Tragedy.
Bakeb City, Or., Aug. 10. Peter
Due, a section man working for the O.
R. & N. Co. at Weatherby, was yester
day brought to this city and lodged in
jail. lie is charged with murder, com
mitted in -Fremont county, Wyoming.
One Minute Coug-h Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.
News of Cuban victories in
of their arms.
Battle Kear Las Vilas
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