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VOL. VIII.
THE -DALLES. . WASCO COUNTY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 18S8.
NUMBER 43.
GREAT DAY
AT ASTORIA
YESTERDAY
Tie Beipnting of tie Annual Regalta
at That
CROWNING OF THE
. REGATTA QUEEN
Will Xot Take Place Until Today The
Opening Spoiled By Showers The
Rowing Race the Principal Event
of the Day.
Astoria, Aug. 19. Immense crowds
of visitors and anxions Astorians were
disappointed this morning, as the time
for the opening ceremonies of the regat
ta arrived with a drizzling rain. Neces
sarily the main parade and crowning of
tbe queen was postponed.
Admiral Day's flagship took its posi
tion off the grandstand, hoisted the sig-
nal and the sports commenced. There
were Tndian canoe races, high dives,
punt races and tab races. Gaily be
decked yachts and launches covered the
bay and followed the judges' boats, close
ly observing the different events.
The event of the morning was the
rowing races between the Alameda and
the San Francisco Sou 1 11 End clubs. The
boats came up to the line in fine shape,
the crews well matched and well trained,
anxious to settle old ecores. In starting
the Alamedaa lost their rodder. The
boats turned and the Alamedas agreed
to row without a rudder. There was
goodwater, raining slightly, when the
second start was made, at 11 :50. The
South Ends had a little the best of the
- start, and in the first quarter of a mile
pulled a little over two lengths ahead,
both crews bad a beautiful stroke, and
Hearing the first stake buoy the Alame
das gained perceptibly on the South
Ends, turning the stake buoy two and a
half lengths ahead.
. On the home stretch the Alamedas
came in with a beautiful stroke, crossing
the line first, and closely followed by
the South Ends; time 10:54. The
crowds on shore and on the boats
cheered loudly, while whistles tooted
and flags waved.
The weather has cleared, and the land
and water events will proceed according
to program. A big day is expected to
morrow, as the program will have to be
increased by additions on account of
omissions today.
TROOPS WILL BE
MUSTERED OUT
Corbin Will Send From 75,000 to 100,
000 Volunteers Home as Fast as
Possible.
- Nxw York, Aug. 19. A special diB
patch to the Tribune from Washington
says: .. .
Adjutant-General Corbin said in an
- interview that be was going to master
out between 75,000 and 100,000 volun-
. teers as soon aa practicable. The selec
tion of the regiments will not be made
arbitrarily, but having in mind, firBt of
all, the reports of the regular aimy
officers now with the volunteers. The
highest consideration will be given the
wishes of governors, aa well as of the
regjments themselves. The interests of
the national government demand the
disbandment of troops secured under
the second call in. certain instances, and
in other cases regiments raised under
, the first call, which have bad service
and which have been materially reduced
in efficiency thrgugh sickness, will be
the first to go. .
It witl not be feasible to issue a gen
eral order or to prepare a complete list
couering all the forces to be mustered
out for some to comev On the contrary
as soon as an agreement is reached re
garding any particular regiment, it will
be immediately sent to the state camp.
and as soon as the property can be
turned over to the government and its
accounts eettled, the individual records
of its officers and men will be completed
and they will be discharged from service
under the United Stales.
The only mustering out orders issued
up to the present time relate to the
First Vermont infantry.
TARS WERE -
EXPECTED HOME
Fleets of Sampson and Schley Due at
New York Enthusiastic Recep
tion to Be Accorded Them.
New York, Aug. 19. Rear Admirals
Sampson and Schley and the six vessels
of the North Atlantic squadron that are
coming to this port are expected to ar
rive some time this afternoon. This is
according to. naval officers' reckoning,
bnt there is a possibility that the squad
will not be here until late in the evening
or perhaps tomorrow morning. If it
arrives off Sandy Hook this afternoon it
will be met by a flotilla of excursion
craft and escorted up the bay to the
inan-of war anchorage off Tompkins
yille. As the warships pass in at Sandy
Hook the guns at Fort Hancock will
belch forth a salute. At Forts Wads
worth and Hamilton more salutes will
be fired, eo that the arrival of the squad
ron will be announced to the citizens of
New York, who are waiting to do honor
to the returning sailors.
The officers and men on the warships
are unaware of an reception preparing
for them, and P.eur Admiral Sampson
will be informed by a meesage sent down
in a dispatch-boat as soon as he arrives.
The tars will then have to bestir them
selves in preparation for the parade
which is to take place tomorrow. The
parade, if the warships arrive on time,
is to start at 10 o'clock from the anchor
age off Tompkinsville. The warships
will steam slowly np the Hudson river
to Grant's- tomb, where . a national
salute of twenty-one guns will be fired;
They will make a wide circle and slowly
steam back to the man-of-war anchor
age. The excursion steamers, it is ex-
petted, will wait for the warships to
paBS by and then follow in their wake,
making a long and picturesque proces
sion, .hvery veseel will be gay with
bunting, and it is expected that there
will be more Stars and Stripes afloat in
the harbor than were ever seen at one
time before. As the vessels pass CaBtle
William a salute will be fired. This
salute will be equivalent to an an
nouncement that the parade has started.
The vessels in line will be the New
York, Brooklyn, Texas, Massachusetts,
Oregon, Indiana, Iowa, St. Paul and
Nahant. - ;
General Gilespie, commander of the
department of the East, was ordered
yesterday to have the forts salute the
vessels, and be in turn issued orders to
the officers in command at the forts.
DEATH CAUSED
BY A CLOUDBURST
Five Children Lose Their Lives in
Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 19. A cloud
burst over a saw mill run this morning.
caused a tidal wave in the stream and
endangered the lives of a dozen persons.
Five children are missing and are sup
posed to have been drowned. - They are:
Irene Loftue, Regis Loftus, Genevieve
Shanghnessey, Margaret Shaugbnessey
and Nellie Sauls. "
The water in the run began to rise
this morning, and at 9 o'clock a great
volume of water came down. The miss
ing children, with some other persons,
were standing upon the porch of a tene
ment house in tbe rear of the stream,
near West Uaeson. This porch over
hung the ran, when a great wave, 20
feet high, came down, and the porch
was carried away and tbo people went
with it. The adults managed to scram
ble out, but the children disappeared in
the floating debris. Parties of men are
searching for the bodies of tbe children.
There was a heavy and continuous
downpour of rain throughout Western
Pennsylvania ' from midnight until 8
o'clock this morning, and considerable
damage was done by washouts and over
flowing email streams.
THE CLATSOP
EXCURSION,
Tbos Attending the Regatta Visit
Clatsop. Eight Thousand People
on the Beach.
Astoria, Ga., Aug. 21. Five thous
and people went from here today on the
Seaside excursion, and the town is prac
tically deserted save for a few strollers.
Four trains carried the crowd over to
the beach. Tho first one left at 7:45,
tbe eecond at 8 :50, the third, the through
Portland train, at 11:45 and the fourth
at 1 :15. Each of these trains was made
up of from 10 to 15 coaches and observa
tion cars and all were crowded to their
limit with tbe exception of the last one,
which only carried over a-small num
ber. - The Portland train carried over
1000 people, all through passenger, and
was packed to the platforms. The Ma
nila Guards and the First t egiment band
went over on the 8:50 train. Strange
to say, hardly 50 persone all told got off
at way stations, all going through to
Seaside. Between tbe visitors and the
residents of the beach, probably 8000
people were scattered between tbe depot
and the Seaside house. This is as many
if not more people that have ever been
at tbe beach at one iime, and tbe scene
resembled the far-famed gay Coney isl
and. As soon as the excursionists
reached the beach they made for the
most part, a straight line for tbe sands
by the sad sea waves. . As far up and
down the beach as the eye could reach,
the sands were thickly dotted with hu
man beings of every size, shape, color
and age imaginable.
COSTIiY BItAZE
AT
Four Costly Buildings
and Another
BAKER CITY, Or., Aug.
disastrous fire occurred here.
pied by A. C. Shinn as a hardware store; Rust's opera house
and two frame buildings were destroyed, and Rust's cold
storage building was badly damaged. The loss is about
$20,000.
The flames were first discovered in Shinn's hardware
store, at 2:15 o'clock. In a few minutes the building was a
roaring mass of flames. , "Explosions, of powder and cart
ridges kept the firemen away from the . burning structure,
and it was totally destroyed.
The flames had meantime
ings and Rust's opera house,
ashes. Rust's cold storage plant, a brick structure, was bad-
y damaged. The Brewery was
TROUBLE FEARED
: IN PORTO RICO
Attempts Being Made to Stir Up Strife
. Among the Porto Ricans-Coming
of the Commission Awaited.
New York, Aug. 22. A dispatch to
the Herald from San Juan eays :
Order prevails, although some tevil-
disposed persons are trying to stir up
racial and religous differences among the
ignorant population. The sooner the
commission arrives to settle matters and
dispel doubts the better for the future.
The' streets are filled with furniture-
laden carts returning from the suburbs.
At the palace aud - other government
buildings the work of - packing the
archives is going on. Telegraphic com
munication was opened yesterday with
all parts of the island. ; .: -
It is still impossible for iaree ships to
enter the harbor and there have been no
importations. Some scarcity of food
supplies exists. The mines in the har
bor bave been raised so as to allow ehips
to enter. .
A REAR-END
COLLISION
Frightful Accident on a Massachusetts
Railroad Seven People Killed and
Twentvbix Wounded.
Sharon. Mass., Aug. 21. A frightful
rear-end collision occurred in the Sharon
station of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad, at 7:30 o'clock to
night, when an express train, which
was running as tbe second eection of a
a long train, crushed into the first sec
tion, composed of local cars.
As a result, seven persons were killed
and twenty-six seriously injured. The
injured were nearly all removed to Uos-
ton on a special train, which was met by
ambulances and surgeons. Tbe rear car
of tbe local train was completely de
molished, and a portion of the second
car, while the engine of tne express
train was crippled.
The two trains which were in the col
lision were usually com blued into one
long heavy train ; it was divided, the
first section running as a local accom
modation, while the second, which
started from Mansfield 15 minutes later
than the first, ran as an express. Tbe
local train due at Sharon at 7:02 was
thirteen minutes late. It left Mansfield
on time, making two stops, and had lost
the thirteen minutes between Mansfield
and Sharon. It was due in Canton
Junction, tbe next Btation beyond
Sharon, two minutes ahead of the ex
press train, which should have passed it
there. Sharon is situated on a curve,
and both the outward and inward tracks
are protected by electrie block signals.
BflKEH GITY
Completely Destroyed
Damaged.
20. Early this morning a
The McCord building, occu
spread to two frame build
all of. which were reduced to
saved by hard work.
A DISPATCH
FROM SHAFTER
Over Twenty Thousand Spaniards Sur
- rendered at Santiago.
Washington-, Aug. 22. A dispatch
received by Adjutant-General Corbin to
night from General Shafter indicates
that, with the fall of Santiago, 23,726
Spaniards surrendered. Of Ibis number
a few less than 3000 were guerrillas and
volunteers, making the total to be re
turned to Spain about 21,000. " Genera
Shafter recommends that all the cap
tured Manser rifles and the ammunition
for the same be shipped to some. arsenal
in the North, with as little delay as pos
sible, in order to prevent rust. There
are several million rounds of this am
munition, he reports,-and probably 10,
000 to 12,000 stands of the3e arms. A
large number of those turned over . by
tbe Spaniards' were Remingtons, - and
other inferior weapon. General Shafter
reports that there is no sickness among
the incoming regiments. '
- . - ' ; .
SPAIN'S 1NSTRUC- .
HONS TO ITS
COMMISSIONERS
Rules for Cnban and Porto
Rican Commissioners.
INSURGENTS TROUBLESOME
Germany May Take a Hand in the
Philippine Matter Captain-Gen
eral of the Canaries Removed.
London, Aug. 22. The Timea corre
ependent in Madrid says :
"A conomitiee, consisting of Duke Al
modovarde Rio, the foreign minister;
Senor Romero Giron, minister of the
colonies; Lieutenant-General Correa,
minister of war', and Captain Aunon,
minieter of marine, is preparing instruc
tions for the Cuban and Porto Rican
commissioners, which will be dispatched
August 31, so as to arrive within the
time fixed by tbe protocol.
"In these instructions attention will
ba called to the distinction between ces
sion 01 territory ana cession or sover
eignty. In tbe latter case, it seems to
be maintained here that buildings and
public works will here remain the prop
erty of the sovereign power until thev
are paid for by the government.
"Certain members of the cabinet are
of the opinion that the commission will
have first of all to determine some local
and administrative modus vivendi dur
ing the transitional period until the
evacuation is completed.
"Meanwhile, the government will
probably call theattentionof the cabinet
at Washington to the fact that while the
insurgent leaders profess to accept the
armistice, their subordinates continue
to tarry on hostilities against ootiying
Spanish garrisons.
"While the government thus devotes
its attention for a moment chiefly to the
queetions of detail relating to the An
tilles, much anxiety is felt withjreeard
to the Philippine queetion, which is like
ly to create much more serious difficul
ties. On this subject very little guid
ance is afforded by tbe 6tudiously vague
terms employed in the protocol. These
words have been carefully examined
with the aid of all available dictionaries,
not only by Spanish ministers but also
by the diplomatic representatives of sev
eral foreign powers,, and all seemed
agreed that in drafting this part of tbe
protocol. President McKinley's aim was
simply to keep a free band for himself
until be should have time to collect in
formation and decide wbat policy tbe
United States should adopt in the Far
East.
'All possible questions regarding the
future of the archipeligo are thus left
open, and both government and pub
lic opinion seems in doubt as to what
line shall be taken by Spain in the forth
coming negotiation.
"The ministers still declare that offi
cial dispatches respecting tbe capitula
tion of Manila have . not been received ;
therefore, tbe Angnstin incident is ex
plained. "Mail advices explain tbe transfer-
ernce of administrative authority from
General Auguatin to the governor of
Vizcayas island."
The Sure La Grippe Core.
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right remedy. You are having pain all
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order, have no appetite; no life or ambi
tion, have a bad cold, in fact are com
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only remedy that will give yon prompt
and sure relief. They act directly on
your Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, tone
up the whole system and make you feel
like a new being. Tbey are guaranteed
to cure or price refunded. For Bale at
Blakeley & Houghton's drug store, only
50 cents per bottle. . - 1
A Russian Spy Arrested. ' .
Vienna, Aug. 20. A sensation has
been caused by tbe arrest of an alleged
Russian spy at Jaroslay, near PremyBl.
The prisoner is a baron and an ex-officer
of the Austrian army, who resigned bis
commission ana sacretly entered tne
Russian service. .'" '.
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MILITARY
OCCUPATION
PROCLAIMED
General Merritt Proclaimed
Government of Manila.
SPANISH TREASURY SHORT
Only Eight Hundred Djllars Left The
Firmness of Our Commander Saved
Manila From Pillage.
London-, A-ig. 22. The Manila corre
spondent of the Daily Ttleram, in a
diepatch dated Sunday, eays :
General Merritt has proc'aimed a rov-
ernment of military occupation. The
news of tbe armistice arrived on the
15th. It is feared that the Americana
may restore the Philippines to Spain
and thus reinaugurate a fresb period of
tyranny, extortion and rebellion.
The Americans foonJ $S00 in the
Spanish treasury.
Foreign opinion is loud in. praise of
the action of tbe American commander
n excluding armed rebels from the city..
It is believed his firmness saved Manila
from pillage. A week ago there ap
peared to be a possibility of a collision
with the rebels, but tbere is no danger
now. Eeverything is extremely quiet
at present. -
WRECKAGE AND
DEAD BODIES
Ghastly Evidences of a Disaster Sighted
by the Steamer Corinthian.
BosfoN, Aug. 20. Captain Pritchard, '
of the Cunarder Corinthian, which has
arrived here, reports passing on August
17th a quantity of wreckage and tbe
bodies of five persons on which were
life belts, on the Grand Banks. One
body was that of a man of unusual size.
life buoy of foreign make was near
the body.
Note The Turkish wrestler Yousouf,
familiarly called the "Terrible Turk,"
was believed to have been lost in the
Bourgogne disaster and the body men
tioned might have been his, as Yousouf
was of large physique.
Persons troubled with diarhoea will
be interested in the experience of W. M.
Bush, clerk of the hotel Dorrance, Prov
idence. R. I. He says : "For several
yearB I have been almost a constant suf
ferer from diarrhoea, the frequent at- .
tacks completely prostrating; me and
rendering me unfit for my duty at this
hotel. About two years ago a traveling
salesman kindly gave me a small bottle
of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarhoea Remedy. Much to my sur
prise and delight its effects were imme
diate. Whenever I felt symptoms of the
diseaee I wonld fortify myself against
the attack with a few doses of this val
neabla remedy. The result has been
very satisfactory and almost complete
relief frem the affliction." For eale by
Blakeley" & Houghton.
. More Troops Arrive.-
" Manila, Aug. 21. The American '
transports Peru and Puebla, having on
board Generals Otis and Hughes, ar
rived here at 8 o'clock this morninp
There was no serious illness op beard
either of the vessels.