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VOL. XV.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FltlDAY, SEPTEMIiEll 9, 1808.
NO. 38.
DOINGS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN 15 THE TRUSS DISPATCHES
V CompUto Review of tha News of tha
I'u.t Savon Days In Thin and
All Vorelga Laud.
Lighthouses In Southern Philippine
hare been re-established.
Tlie transport Bt. Paul has arrived
in Manila from Ban Francisco with all
well on board.
Foreign vessel will bo allowed to
cuter tba porta of Hawaii a usual,
pending- roviilon of the United Btatui
low.
Schley and Gordon, commlMilonnrt
to settle the condition (or the Spanish
evacuation of Porto Hioo, have lulled
for San Juan. . , 'i
Being out of work and without means
,to support his family, a Chicago ding
clerk turned liighwaymun, and In at
tempt inn to rob a saloon win forced to
hoot the proprietor.
Several vessels of ths "Mosquito"
fleet are uaeleae. The board of survey
has found upon examination that their
machinery and boiler are badly worn,
and will make a report condemning
them.
Tbe annual session of tlio National
Irrigation Congress opened at Chey
cune Thursday. Ex-Senator Cnrr, the
president, delivered tiro annual ad
dress, urging the necessity for extend
ing irrigation facilities.
Eight lives were lost and considers
ble damage wrought, by the Georgia
storui, which was more serious than
first reported, liientenant Morgan and
a crew of all were drowned by the up
setting of a yawl off Tyboe island.
Tha mate of an Italian ship lost his life,
Tha American ship Baring Brothers,
from New York, hat been named in
the harbor of Kobe. About 8,000 ton
of watting waa also destroyed. It la
intimated that the fire was of incendiary
origin. When the vessel arrived at
Kobe from Yokohama six of the crew
were in Irons. Four were afterward
liberated. ,
Orders bare been received In An
napolis from the president directing
Cerver to make arrungementl to pro
coed with bis officers and men back to
Spain immediately, In accordance with
instructions Issued by tbo Spanish
ministers of marine. The officers were
very enthusiastic wheu they received
: the news. .. ... . . . iv
A passenger train on tbe New York,
Ontario & Western railroad, was
wrecked at Ingalis, near Saratoga. The
wreok waa doubtless due to the dastard
ly work of tramps, who threw open the
switch at which the train waa wrecked.
The dead are: Kngineor B. C. Dowd,
of Oswego; Fireman William Hall, ol
Norwich, Brakeman A. L Osborne, ol
Walton. Eight were injured.
Cuban troops threatened to enter tha
town of Unnantanamo, but were pre
vented by Colonel Ray.
Recent developments in tbe) cele
brated Dreyfus case in France, it li
said, may ocoasion a retrial which
would liberate Dreyfus and Emile Zola,
Wilholmina Ilellena Paulina Maria
has attained her majority, and became
queen of tbe Netherlands. Solemn
thanksgiving services were held in
ohurclies throughout the country.
Unknown inoondinries sot lire to a
Chicago house. Their intention was to
. kill woman and child who were with,
in, but the Intended victims were res
cued by a man who observed their
peril barely in time.
The hospital ship Olivette, while
anchored near the quarantine station at
, Fernamllrm, Fla., in some unaccounta
ble manner suddetly filled and went
down, gWing those on hoard barely
time" to escape with their lives.
'Strikers are determined to prevent
by force, if need be, the operation ol
the ooal mines at Furn, 111. Bix
thousand anion men from other boo turns
are about to join the ranks of the
strikers, ana aid in enforcing their de
mands. William Ferrlrs, a wealthy resident
of Mount Vernon, 111., died, aged OS
years. He served on board an Ameri
can privateer in the war of 1812, and
subsequently was a member of the ex
peditiou that cleared the Gulf of Mexi
co of pnates.
The convention assembled at Man
. agua to form a constitution far a feder
uoy to coiiHist of Salvador, Honduras
and Nicaragua has agrcod upon 43 of
the 149 articles. It has been agreed
that the name of the confederacy shall
be "The United States of Central
America." ,
General Garcia is now without a
command. The Shatter Incident led
to his removal nt the hands of General
Gome. ' Ills successor has been
nutned in tha person of Rodriguez, who
will command the Cuban ormv in San
tiago. , Garoia't sending of his famous
letter to Shafter was a grave breach of
discipline.
Minor I tain.
The United States government has
pluced an order in England for 10,000,
000 cartridges.
Regulations have been Issued con.
cernlug military taxes to ba collected
in the Philippines.
Sir William Augustus Frazer, bart.,
the author and one of the queen's body,
guard for Scotland, is dead.
Tha subsistence department will have
plenty of supplios reudy to forward to '
rmh in eai it Is found nocossiuy.
LATER NEWS.
It lias been docidod to abandon Camp
wikoff within the next three weeks.
Jnines Wilson, "King of Tramps,"
has been commended for his bravery at
Santiago,
Fifty death and over one hundred
prostrutlons Is the result of one hot day
in Now York.
John Hills, a well-to-do Mow York
ice doaler, his wife and bis nlfljer-in-law,
Mary Conlin, have been poisoned
by whisky sunt through the mail.
' Private, letters from our consuls
abroail indicate that the Philippine!
must be retained if the United States
desires to maintain its position in the
world of nations.
The Iowa mot with an accidont in the
Brooklyn navy-yard dock. The engine
rooms are said to have been partly
flooded during the process of flouting
the big battle-ship.
Tha French minister of war, M.
Cavalgnac, has resigned, The resigna
tion is due to a disagreement with his
colleagues, who dosire a revision of the
Droyfus case. Thus a revision of the
onse scorns assured.
Oriental advices any that the recent
assaulting of an American missionary
In the Sorachl district, Japan, is caus
ing considerable excitement, especial
ly since the new treaties will spread
foreign residents all through the in
terior. .According to nntivo Jnpnnses papers,
received In SeattU on thoKinshu Marti,
Marquis Ito'i visit to China la liable to
result In his changing residence. It la
aid that he has been offered a princely
salary to become general advisor to the
emperor.
More soldiers are soon to leave for
Honolulu. General Miller says three
regiments will sail from San Francisco
within a month. The First Tennessee,
Fifty-iiret Iowa and Twentieth Kansas
are the lucky men The 6th and 7th
California and California heavy artil
lery aro to bo mustered out.
Spanish soldiers have demanded their
pay, and they object to leaving Cuba
without It. Posters exhorting tbe
troops to refuse- to leave Havana unless
the money Is first forthcoming, were
circulated in Havana. ' The prevailing
sentiment Is one of "animosity toward
Madrid.
A Madrid dispatch says: General
Judemos, ad Interim governor of the
Philippines, replying to the govern
ment's request for information as to the
true situation of affairs in the archi
pelago, reports that to resume establish
ment of Spanish sovereignty over the
islands would roqulre a fleet and end
less quantities of material.
At least 11,000,000 prize money will
be distributed among American sailors
as a result of the war with Spain.
Hear Admiral Sampson ol tbe North
Atlantio squadron will receive 1-10,000,
Dewey and his men are to receive 187,
6W head money. Appropriations lor
the purpose will likely be made at the
next session of oongross.
' General Shafter says the surrender ol
Santiago waa a great surprise to him.
Retribution Is not quite complete.
Tbe. Cuban commissioners will make
an attempt while in Havana to ferret
out the persona who destroyed the
Maine, r
Orders have boon issued by the war
department that all the regular army
regiments now at Montauk, which
wero started previously east of the Mis
eissippi river, sliull return to the same
stations.
A semi-official note from Berlin says
that peace having been re-established
between the United States and Spain,
orders have been given that the Gorman
naval force at Manila be at once reduced
to one or two ships.
A report la oorrent In London that
Great Britain and Germany have signed
a treaty of alliance for Germany's sup
port in Egypt. England will recog
nise Germany's claim to Syria as an
outlet for her surplus population. -
Reliable information has been ob
tained by tha Associated Press to the
effeot that Russia Intends to convene
tho international peace conference at
St. Petersburg one mouth after the ad
journment of tbe Spanish-American
peace conference at Paris.
The monthly statement of tbo public
debt, shows that August 81, the public
debt lees cash in the treasury, was
f 1,018,470,717, which is a decrease for
the month of 134,780,711. This de
crease is accounted for by a correspond
ing increase in the cash on hand, due
to the receipts from the war loan.
The Chicago Trlbuno prints statistics
showing the number of soldier who
have been killed in battle and have
died of diaeaBosIn camp during the war
with Spain. While 8S0 officers and
men have been killed in battle or died
of wounds received, there have died of
disease in camp between 1,200 and
2,000 volunteers and regulars.
A Madrid dispatch says: All Cata
lonia protests against tbe continuance
of the special war taxes, and insist
upon their immediate repeal, threaten
ing to close all the fuotories if the de
mand is not complied with. The lower
classes are deeply and perhaps danger
ously improsaed by the ghastly appear
anco of the repatriated soldiers from
Santiago de Cuba.
Andrew Carnegie Jiag offered tha
town oonncil of the town of Dumfries,
Scotland, the sum of 10,000, to baild
a public library.
Tbe attorney-general of Ohio has de
cided to bring an action against tba
American Steel and Wire Company,
under the anti-trust law.
The reported death of Mrs. Terriss,
widow ol the actor who was murdered
by Richard Arthur Prince December 1
last, proves to have been an error.
Mrs. Terriss is seriously ill in London.
TAKING OF OMDDRMAN
Kitchener Defeated Khalifa
After a Bloody Battle.
GALLANT CIIABOE Off BRITISH
Mawed Tribe Were Unable to With'
stand Mi Withering fire of
Modera Ordnauea.-
Omdnrman, Opposite Khnrtoum on
Hie Nile, Nubia, Sept. 6. The sirdar,
General Herbert Kitchener, with the
khalifa's black standard captured dur
ing the battle, entered Orudurrnan, the
capital of Mubdlam at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, at tho bend of the Anglo
Egyptian column, after completely
routing the dervishes and doaling a
death blow to Muhdlm. Roughly, our
losses wero 200, while thousands of the
dervishes were killed and wounded.
Lust iilgbt tho Ang'o-Egyptian army
enoamped at Agalza, eight miles from
Omdurmun. Tbe dervishes were three
miles distant. At dawn today,
the oavalry patrolling toward Onidur
man discovered the enemy advancing
to the attack In battle array, chanting
war songs. Their front consisted of in
fantry and oavalry, stretched out for
three or fonr miles. Countless banner
fluttered over their masses, and the
copper and bras drum resounded
through the rank of tbe savage war
riore, who advanced unswervingly,
with all their old-time ardor. Our
Infantry formed tip outside tbe camp.
At 7:30 A. M. the enemy crowded
the ridges above tho eump and ad
vanced steadily In enveloping forma
tion. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire,
which was answered by the dervish
riflemen. Their attack' developed on
our loft, and in accordance with their
traditional tactics, tbey swept down
the hillside, with the design ol rushing
our flunk. But the withering fire
maintained for IS minutes by all our
line frustrated tho attempt, and tha
dervishes, balked, swept toward our
center, upon which they concentrated a
fierce attack.
A largo force of horsemen, trying to
face a continuous ball of bullet from
tbe Cameron Highlanders, the Lincoln
shire regiment and the Soudanese, waa
literally swept away, leading to the
withdrawal of the entire body, whose
dead strewed the field.
The bravery of tbo dervishes oan
hardly be overestimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
100 yard of our fighting line.
When the dervlsbos withdrew behind
the ridge In front of their camp, ths
whole force marched in echelon of bat
talions toward Omdnrman. .
A our troops surmounted the crest
adjoining tbe Nile, the Soudanese on
our right came iuto contact with the
Remiuk, who bad reformed under cover
of a rocky eminence, and-had marched
beneath the blnck standard of the kha
lifa In order to make a supreme effort
to retrieve tbe fortunes of the day, A
mass 16,000 strong bore down on tha
Soudanese. -
General Kitchener swung round the
center and left of the Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence, and the
Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined
the firing line In 10 minutes, and be
fore the dervishas could drive their at
tack home. Tbe flower of the khalifa's
army fas caught in depression and
within a Bono of withering cross-tiro
from three brigades, with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Muhdis strove
heroically to make headway, but every
rush waa stopped, while their main
ho ly was literally mown down by a sus
tained cross-fire.
Defiantly the dervishes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to com
panies, and the companies to driblets
beneath tbe leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white
with Jibbah-clad corpses, like snow
drift dotted spot.
At 11:15 the sirdur ordered an ad
vance and our whole force, in line,
drove tha scattered remnants into the
desert to Omdurman.
Among the chief incidents of tbe bat
tle was a brilliant chargo by tba
Twenty-first Lancers, nndur Lieutenant
Colonel Mai tin. Galloping down on a
detached body of the enemy, they found
the dervish swordsmen massed behind,
and ware forced to charge home against
appalling odds. The lan Mrs haoked
through the mass, rallied and kept the
dervish horde at bay. '- Lieutenant
Grenfelt, nephew of General Sir Francis
Gronfelt, was killed, four other officers
were wounded, SI men were killed aud
30 wounded.
The Egyptian oavalry were In close
fighting throughout with the Bnggara
horsemen. For a short period the
enemy captured and held a gun, but it
was brilliantly retaken.
The heroic bravery of the derviahe
evoked universal admiration. Time
after time their dispersed and broken
force reformed and hurled themselves
upon the Anglo-Egyptians, their emir
conspicuously leading and spurning
death. Even when wounded and in
death agonies'they raised themselves to
fire a last bot .
Among tbe wounded is Colonel
Rhodes, the correspondent of tha Lon
don Times, and a brother of Ceoil
Rhodes. "
Four Young Womea Drowned .
Erie, Pa,, Sept. 6. By an acci
dental jibing of the sail of the pleasure
yacht Carmenca, on Presque Iala bay
this morning four young women were
swept off into the water and drowned
before assistance : could be rendered
thorn. 'Their names are Mary, Delia
and Ella Faradine and Jessie Moore.
Madrid. Sent. 6. The government
has decided to pay the next coupon of
thn fiubi.n debt, nendlna the settle
men' Uh the United States,
PRESIDENT AT WIKOFF.
Cheered tha 8Uk Ilero of tha an
. . tlago Campaign.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N.
Y., Sept. 0. Presldont MoKinley sjient
five hours in tho camp today, bare
headed most of the time, visiting tho
sick in the hospitals and inspecting
the well in their cantonments. He
made a speech to the assembled in
fantrymen,.reviewed tho cavalrymen,
expressed his opinion of the camp to
tho reporters, and issued an order di
recting tbe regiments to return to
their stations east of tbe Mississippi.
With tho president were Vice-President
Hobart, Secretary ol War Alger,
Attorney-General Griggs, Senator Ifod
ficld Proctor, Brigadier-General Euan,
commissary of the army; General Lud
ington, quartermaster of. the army;
Colonel Henry llecker, and Secretaries
to the President Potter and Cortelyou.
Tho ladles of the party were Mrs. Al
ger and Miss Becker, a daughter ol
Colonel Decker.
General Wheeler, bis staff, and
nearly ever officer of promluenoo in
the camp mot the president at the sta
tion, except General Shafter, who Is
still in bed, and General Young, who
full and broke bis arm last night.
After greetings and introductions on
the railway platform, the piesident
took General Wheeler's arm and went
to a carriage.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the
rough riders, was among a group ol
horsemen nearby. Mr. McKinley saw
him and got out of the carriage to
speak to him. Colonel Roosevelt has
tily dismounted aud tueselcd with a
gauntlet for 15 seconds, so that un
gloved he might shake bands.
The column of carriages wound ud a
hill, escorted' by the Third cavulry reg
iment, and tbe mounted band of tbe
Sixth cavalry. The party paused a
moment on the hill, and the president
looked out on the wide, Undulating
oamp, water bounding each side and
whitenod on the levels and hilltops by
the tent ol 18,000 men, laid out in
geoinetrio lines.
Mr. JdoKlnley drove to General
Shatter's tent In the detention camp.
Tbe general, who was flushed and
weak from a mild case of malarial
fever, was in full nnfiorm, sitting In a
chair at tbe door of the tent. He tried
to rise, bnt President McKinley said:
"Stay where you are, general; you
are cntitlted to rest."
The president congratulated General
Sbaftei on the Santiago victory, and
after a few minutes' rest, proceeded to
the general hospital. The soldiers re
cently arrived on the transports and
detained In tba detention section of
the camp lined np Irregularly on each
side of tbe road and cheered. - The
president took off his straw hat ihen,
and scarcely more than put it on for
more than a minute or two at a time
during tbe remainder of bis progress
through the camp.
Miss Wlieeler, a daughter of the gen
eral, happened to be in the first row of
the hospital tents, and she showed the
president through her division.
General Wlieeler announced in each
ward: "Boys, tbe president has oome
to see you;" or, "Soldiers, the presi
dent of tbe United States."
Some of the soldiers slept uncon
scious, some listlesslv raised upon their
elbows, -others feebly clapped their
hands. Mr. McKinloy gently shook
hands with many, and at every cot ho
paused an instant, and if ha saw tbe
sick man looking at him he bowed in a
direct and personal way.
: In the second ward tbe president en
tered, Sergeant John A. Alexander,
company D, First Illinois, who has a
lever, was rather startled to hear Gen
eral Wlieeler announce the piesident.
The sei genu t half raised upon histcot.
Mr. MtKinlcy, attracted by the move
ment, took Alexander's hand and
said:
"I am sorry to see you so sick. I
hope that you are getting better."
"Thank you; I think 1 shall get
well."
"Do yon wish for anything?" asked
General Wheeler.
"No, I have everything good for me,
I guess," Alexander replied wearily,
"but I wish I were home."
"I hope that we may soon get yon
there," said Mr. McKinley.
He had many such bits of talk with
the men, and Beemed to bo in no
hurry. He almost outwore tbe pa
tience of all liiaf party by hi slow
going througii waid after ward.
Ambuauad by Indiana.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 6. The
schooner J. M. Coleman, which arrived
on the Sound- today, from St. Michaels,
brings news that two prospeotor were
ambushed while drifting down the Yu
kon in a boat. Indians fired on the
boat, killing one and wounding the
other. Tbe wounded man escaped,
and reached a police camp. Police
started, and found tbe Indians enjoying
the prospectors' supplies. They were
brought to Dawson, where one of the
Indians made a confession.
Mr. Frank, who came on the Cole
man, says when he left Dawson there
was a stampede to Dewey and Samp
eon oreeks, from which fine reports
came. Both are In Amerioan territory.
Troubla in X.adronaa.
Madrid, Aug. 30. Negotiations have
bean opened with Washington to obtain
permission for the Spaniards in tbe
Ladrone islands to go to Manila, as the
situation in the Lad rones is extremely
oritical. ' '
mown Up b a Torpedo.
New Olreans. La., Sept. 6. The gov
ernment steamboat John I. Meigs waa
today destroyed by an explosion at St.
Philip. She had aboard Lieutenant
Jervey and a party engaged in remov
ing the torpedoes laid in tha Mississip
pi river during the beginning of tba
war. Lieutenant Jervey had a narrow
escape. Tha killed are: Charles Starr,
commander of the boat; Sergeant John
Newman, ol tha engineers; Pat Carlos;
Ralph Rogers. Those wounded ar
Frits Koch and D. B. Keddy.
NOTSOBAD AS PAINTED
General Wheeler Describes
Army's Condition.
HE BLAMES TUB KEWSPAPEES
Says tka Soldier, at Camp WlkoSr
Ava Cwntantd aud Wall
Traatad. -
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N. Y.,
Sept 6. Major-Genoral Joseph Wheel
er gave tbe following to the press to
day: "Headquarters United States Forees,
Camp Wikoff, Long Island, Sept. 6.
The following Is a sample of the letter
which are constantly received regarding
the soldiers in the campt
" 'In regard to my stepson, we feel
very uneasy about him on account of
the newspaper reports of the privation
mil Buffering inflicted upon the pri
vates. Although he ha never nttered
a complaint since he has been in the
army, we hear from other sources of the
oruel and horrible treatment inflicted
upon our soldiers under the pretense of
humanity for our neighbors, and tha
whole country is in a Btute of terrible
excitement. I should not be surprised
if the fueling should lead to a revolu
tion of some kind, for I assure yon I
hear on all sides the most violent and
bitter denunciations of the war depart
ment and tbe administration. It is,
indeed, a great pity that tbe glory of
our triumphs should be dimmed by
such a shameful thing a the ill treat
ment and starvation of our brave
9. iosBPH wBr.Er.ta.
soldiers, while the Spanish prisoner
have the best treatment that the conn,
try can afford.'
"It will be seen that this letter say
that not a word of complaint has been
received from this soldier, and so far
as my Investigation goes, no complaint
has been made by any of the brava
soldiers who have added glory to oot
arms in the Cuban campaign.
"A great many anxious fathers,
mothers, brothers or sisters, arrive here
from all parts of the United States to
look after their relatives, whom they
say the papers tell them are suffering,
and many of them have heard that
their relatives are in a condition of
starvation. Most of these people aie
little able to expend the money for
such a journey, and thej are surprised
when they oome here to and 4heir
relatives surrounded with everything
to eat which can be produced by money,
and, if sick In the hospital, they are
grateful and surprised to find that they
are given every possible care.
"Every officer and soldier who went
to Cuba regarded it that he was given
a great and special privilege in being
permitted to engage in that campaign.
They knew they were to encounter yel
low fever and other diseases, as well a
the torrid heat ot the country, and they
were proud and glad to do so. They
knew that it was impossible for them
to have the advantage of wagon trans
portation, which usually accompanies
an nrmy, and yet officers and men were
glad tb go, to carry their blankets and
their rations on their backs and be sub
jected, without any shelter, to the sun
and rains by day and the hecvy hazes
by night. They certaluly know that
the Spanish had spent years in erecting
defenses, and it was their pleasure to
assault and their duty to capture tha
Spanish work.
"They were more than glad to incur
these hardships and these dangers.
They went there and did their duty,
each man seeming to feel that Ameri
can honor and prestige was to b meas
ured by his conduct. Tha brave men
who won the victories did not complain
of tho neglect of the government, but,
on tha contrary, they seemed grateful
to tha piesident and secretary of war
for giving them tha opportunity to in
cur these dangers and hardships. They
realised that in the hurried organiza
tion of an expedition by a government
whioh bad no one with any experience
in such mattetB it was impossible to
have everything arranged to perfec
tion; and tbey will testify that nnder
the oircumstances, the conditions were
much more perfect titan any one would
have reason to expect, and that the
president and secretary of war and
others who planned and dispatched
these expeditions deserve high corn
mendation. - "I have just finished my daily in
spection ol the hospitals. With rare
exceptions the sick are oheerfuL ; I
have nurses and doctors to care for
them, and in all my tour I have not
found a single patient who made the
slightest complaint It is true there
has been great suffering. The climate
of Cuba was very severe upon all our
soldiers, but instead of complaining
the hearts of those brave men are filled
with gratitude to tbe people for the
bounteous generosity which ho been
extended to them,"
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Bank Clearing Larfeat Vvar Kaawa
. for Aug-uat.
New York, Sept. 5. B. G. Dun &
Co.' weekly review of trade says: The
smallest failure ever recorded in any
month for five years were those ot
August No other month sinoe tha
monthly report were commenced by
Dun' review, exclusively, lias shown
defaulted liabilitie as small, within
$1, 000,000, and the ratio of such de
fault to solvent business, represented
by exchanges through all clearing
houses, only f 108.70 in $100,000, is
smaller by 26. 6 per cent than in any
previous month. The clearings have
been the largest ever known in August,
and 23.0 per cent larger than In 1892.
The enormous volume of business in
a month usually one of tha most in
active of the year, demands attention.
Postponement during tha months of
war of soma contracts and purchases
which have not oome forward explain
pait of the increase, and the strong;
absorption of securities explains part,
but there has also been a great decline
in the average of price ot all com
modities, so that It take a much larger
volume of business in tons or bushels
to make up transactions amounting to
a million mora than in 1893. It is,
therefore, strictly true that business is
larger than in the very best of all past
yeais, and yet there la every prospeot
of much further increase.
There is no room to doubt that the
wheat crop, even though it may fall a
shade below some estimates, will prove
the largest ever harvested, and al
though Beer boh m estimate Europe'
crop at 232,000,000 bushels mora than
tbe last year, that would be only about
an average yield, while other evidence
is less favorable. Foreign buying ha
been strong, Atlantic exports tor tha
week having been 8,826,878 bushels,
against 5,684,757 bushels last year,
and Pacific export 458,881 bushels,
against 268,651 bushel last year. But
receipts at tba West are increasing,
and the price has dropped 5 cent for
spot, though the September option I
7-8c lower tor tbe week.
Tha improvement in the lion indus
try has not only-continued, but , be
comes more impressive because enor
mous business sales have satisfied the
needs of great consumers for months
to oome, the demand for produota is so
great that both materials and produota
gradually advance In price.
Bessemer pig has arisen to 1 10.55 at
Pittsburg; local coke at Chicago, and
anthracite foundry at the East, are
strong, and also bars and plates ad
vanced a share, with most structural
and plate mills filled with order for
months to come, and 25,000 tons of
rails sold at Chicago for delivery next
year. Tbe advance in tin plates, in
spite of production far greater than
was thought possible not long . ago, is
evidence that the consumption of steel
in that branch will be heavy. The
wiN-nall works also report a better de
mand, and tbe output of Connellsville
coke has started up, gaining 10,000
tons for the week.
. The woolen mills have rather better
orders this week, bit not enough a
yet to warrant running nearly full
force, with tbe price of wool held at
the West much above Eastern mar
kets, and by those markets above lc
higher 'than tbe mills are bidding.
Failures for the week have been 171
in tbe United States, against 191 last
Tear, and 23 in Canada, against 25
last year.
DYNAMITE 'EXPLOSION.
Fonr Maa Killed and Many Injured at
Klonmlngtoa, Ind.
Indianapolis, Sept. 5. -A special to
tbe Sentinel from Bloomington, Ind..
says: A horrible accident occurred at
StintBville this afternoon, In wbicb
four men were Instantly killed by a
dynamite explosion, and many others
were seriously injured. The men were
blasting rock for new pike when the
explosion occurred, instantly killing
tbe following:
John William, John Grtibb, Buck
Wampler, Edward Watts.
The fatally injured are: Ben Fyffe,
Milton Hike and Willie Liford.
The injured were brought to Stints
vllle, and the coroner waa summoned
from Bloomington. The' men killed
and injured were well-known oitiaens
of this county. All had families and
tome had grown children. Tbey
ranged in age from 40 to 50 years.
Hike lost an arm and leg, and I dying
tonight - '
London Railway DImater.
London, Sept. 6. A teirible acci
dent baa taken place at Welling
borough railway station, on tbe Lon
don & Northwestern road, near Man
chester. Two boys pushed a loaded
luggage van on the traok just as the
express ttain waa approaohing at a
speed of 60 miles an hour. Tbe train
was derailed and fearful scenes ensued.
The railway oarriagea caught fire; the
engineer,' the fireman and two passen
gers were killed, and many others were
seriously injured.
: Million Feet Lot..
San Frariscisco, Sept 5. What was
left of the big raft, which was started
down the coast for the Bibb Lumber
Company, and which broke in two off
Point Reyes a few days ago, waa towed
into port this morning. Almost 1,000,
000 feet of lumber was lost, but the
section saved will cover the loss and
expenses.
Yellow fever gpraadi.
Washington, Sept. 5. The marine
hospital service was officially advised
today of 10 new cases of yellow fever
which have been discovered at Orwood,
Miss.
Fever at Mlnton Station.
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 5. -The board
ot health has received a telegram from
Inspector Grant, stating that yellow
fever baa appeared at M in ton Station
No report ot the number ot oases.
BIG PACK EXPECTED
Fall Fishing Season Soon
to Open.
GOOD PRICKS ABE PROMISED
Haarly All tha Lowe Columbia Can.
nerlee Will Operate Packer
Offering Two Centa,
Astoria, Sept. 8. From present in
dications, the fall fishing season this
year will be the most important in tha
history of the salmon industry. Nearly
ell the canneries on tiie lower Colum
bia will operate, and it ia probable a
large pack will be put up. The pack
ers are offering 2 cents per pound for
fish, but tba price will, no donbt, be
raised before tbo season is over. Tha
shortage in the spring pack is nearly
100,000 cases, and all tbe canneries are
oversold. To make up this deficiency
a large quantity of fall fish will be
packed.
. The canner will have lively compe
tition in the fall fishing industry. An
agent of a big Portland cold-storage
concern has been in the city for some
days past, and haa notified tbe fisher
men that be will pay 5 cents a pound
for silversides and steelheads delivored
in Portland. Hi company supplies
the Eastern market, whore the supply
of salmon is never equal to the demand,
and the price is correspondingly high.
Doubtless the cold-storage people wifl
be able to get all the fish they can
handle, as the prioa offered by them ia
much higher than that offered by tba
packers. This will probably result in
a decrease of the snpply for canneries.
During the spring season the boats
belonging to the canneries sold at leant
one quarter of their catches to tbe cold
storage companies, and it is more than
likely that this action will be repeated
during tbe fall season. Tha packers
who operate trap will not be as seri
ously handicapped as those who depend
entirely upon tbe gillnet fishermen.
The packers cannot possibly pay 1
cents for .fall salmon, if, as they claim,
that price cannot well be paid for
spring fish, so the cold-storage people
will get the bulk ot tbe season' catch,
if their offer bold good.
Every indication points toa good ran
of salmon, which are large and of ex
oel'ent ' quality. Many fishermen,
trappers and seiners, are ready to begin
fishing September 10.
Shipments of spring salmon to East
ern and European markets continue,
mostly on sales made early in tbe year.
Most of tbe salmon goes by rail, al
though the San Francisco steamer
take large quantities south.
Asa result of the short pack, the
price of Columbia river- salmon has
been on the rise, and tails are now
quoted at 11.15. It -Is expected tho
price will reach still higher figures.
Yesterday the Union Fishermen'
Co-operative Packing Company ship
ped a carload of salmon to Pittsburg.
NO TIME FOR INQUIRY.
Sternberg Opposed to avk Inveatigatlaa
at the Fraeent Time.
Washington, Sept 8. -Surgeon-Gen
era! Sternberg today sent tbe following
letter to a New York niedior.! publica
tion which bad made inauiries of him
concerning tbe conduct of the war with
reference to tbe medical department,
and especially about the subject of hav
ing an immediate! investigation of his
bureau. Be Bays:
"I am ready at any moment for a
complete investigation with reference
to my administration of the affairs ot
the medical department, but the war
department ia not . disposed to make
audi an investigation as the result of
sensational newspaper articles. There
is at present an evident craze to criti
cise, without regard to truth or justice.
I have no doubt there will be a congres
sional investigation into the conduct of
the war, but I do not lee) at liberty at
present to insist upon an investigation
for my own vindication, "because it is
contrary to the general interests of the
service. It would be wrong for me to
give up all the important official work
which at present almost overwhelms
me, for the purpose of devoting myself
to a presentation of tbe facts relating to
my administration. It would make it
necessary to take, clerks away-from
their daily tasks in order to look up the
documentary evidence on file in my
office, and In tbe meantime important
matters would necessarily be neglected
and the sick in all paits of the country
would suffer. It would make it neces
sary to call upon the medical offioera,
who are now urgently needed for tha
care of the sick in our various camps
and hospitals, to come to Washington
as witnesses, and all this to satisfy the
clamor of irresponsible newspaper re
porters. There has been no official
campaign with reference to my admin
istration of tha medical department '
"With, regard to Mantauk point, I
intend to send at once, Lieutenant
Colonel Charlo Smart, an experienced
officer and the professor of hygiene in
our army medical school, to make a
thorough sanitary investigation. ' To
go myself, much as I should like to do
so, would be to neglect important offi
cial duties in connection with tha sup
ply of hospitals, tbe movement ot my
hospital trains, of hospital ships, etc."
Baa Franelseo Caetoin Douse.
San Francisco, Sept 8. The custom-house
receipts for the port of San
Franoisco for the month of August
amounted to $567,273.49, the largest
receipts for a single month in the rec
ords of the department.
Corunna. Sept. 8. The Sr.anifh
transport Isla da Panay, from Bantiaao
about August has arrived here wi.n
a dotaohroent of anrrendird Ppnnwb
troop. - There woie 17 d.iutls on t!
teatner during the vorvi'.