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DOINGS OF THE WEEK
A Complete Review of the Telegraphic)
Newt of This and All For
eign Landa.
The embarkation of Toral's troops,
it is expected, will have been accom
plished by August 15.
The government of Hayti hag de
clined to permit this government to
erect a weather station on its domain.
Havoc was caused by lightning at
Bed Oak, Neb. Three persons were
killed and considerable property de
stroyed. Orders have been received at the navy
yard, Charlestown, Maes, to expend
910,000 in lepairs upon the old frigate
Minnesota.
Nearly all the people of South Amer
ican countries are in sympathy with
Spain and refuse to believe stories of
American victories.
A Madrid telegram to the London
office of the New York Herald says the
government has received a telegram
announcing the surrender of Manila to
.Admiral Dewey.
' Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Soott has ruled that in the oase of
mortgage notes on real estate, where
payments are made on the installment
plan, a separate revenue stamp for each
payment will not be required.
The North sea whalers are again at
work. Operations near Point Burrow
were resumed April 15. Inlund Esqui
nios are starving and coming to the
coast for food. A deer station is to be
established at Point Barrow.
The oavalry is anxious to prooeed to
Porto Rico, but will be obliged to re
main here until the Spanish prisoners
of war have been transported to Spain,
which it is believed will have been ac
complished before the next month is
well advanced.
An attempt by the crew of the
steamer Wanderer to get men and arms
' for the Cuban army ashore at Bahia
Honda was defeated by the Spaniards.
The Americans !were forced to retreat,
with five wounded. The Spanish re
port of the affair says the American
losses were considerable. , '
The northeast coast of England has
' been swept by a groat storm. Fishing
fleets have had narrow escapes, being
obliged to relinquish all their gear and
nets and run to the harbor for shelter,
where many other vessels were com
pelled to seek refuge. North-bound
trains have been delayed by the force
of the wind, which has caused consider
able damage inland, crops having been
flattened. There were some minor
wrecks in the North sea.
A powder mill at Elmira, N. Y.,
blew up, killing the owner.
Two men were killed as the result
of an explosion in the Coney mine,
near Skykoinish, Wash.
The Illinois circuit court has ruled
that the express companies must pay
the tax on express packages.
The alleged charges of bad faith
. against the United States attributed to
Premier Sagasta are discredited by
Washington authorities as inventions
designed to prejudioe the successful
progress of the present peace negotia
tions. A Madrid dispatch says General Cor-
rea is arranging for the leception of the
Spanish troops which suirondored at
Santiago de Cuba, and prepaiing sani
tary stations to prevent the introduc
tion of diseases into Spain.
Strict neutrality is to he maintained
by England, and Watson will And no
"facilities" at Gibraltar. The British
governor thero has so assured the Span
ish consul. Spaniards are busy putting
the hay of Gibraltar in a more com
plete state of defense.
The Hong Kong correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says the viceroy of
Canton has announced to the foreign
office the complete suppression of the
icbellion in those districts. He hts
announced also that four cities have
been reoocupied by the imperial troops.
With the understand I ng that no in
demnity will be demanded and that the
Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines
will be respected, the Spanish news'
papors oonsider the terms of peace at
trihuted to President McKinley as be
ing acceptable. The papers, however,
protest against hostilities being con
turned by the United States after
Spain had sued for peace.
Admiral Dewey, at Manila, has dis
patched the Raleigh and Conoord to
gather up 11 Spanish craft, which, ao-
cotding to information sunt him by
lonsui-uenoral Williams, are at vat
one places in the Philippines. Among
these vessels are three gunboats at San
Miguel, Luzon island, and four at Port
Royal, Palawar island. Four mer
cIihii tnu'ii with oargoes of tobacco are
reported at Cayagan, Luzon. The same
dispatch reports that the English traders
at the coal mines at Batan, Luzon
island, have been imprisoned and sub
jected to ill treatment otherwise by the
Spaniards tuere.
Minor News Items.
A dude fights nearly as well as
cowboy, and a cowboy fights better
than anything else on earth.
Over 500 men aie at work on the
cruiser xorn town at Mare island navy
yaid, San Franoisoo, rushing her to
completion.
The United States government will
establish an extensive weather bureau
in the Caribbean sea for the use of all
nations whose interests lie in that
tegiou.
LATER NEWS.
General Merritt has asked to have
his command increased from, 20,000
to 50.000 tibops.
The Peruvian government is sending
agents to Europe to purchase warships
for the par pose of strengthening her
navy.
The designs of the three new vessels
of the Illinois type are to be changed
so as to make their minimum speed 18
knots an hour.
If the ooal operators of the Pittsburg
district do not conform with the terms
of the Chicago agreement by August
10, 5,000 miners will be ordered to
strike.
President McKinley, it is said, will
call an. extra session of both houses of
congress as soon as Spain accepts the
terms of peaoe offered by the United
States,
The steamer Humboldt has arrived
at San Francisco from St. Michaels,
bringing down about 40 people from
the Klondike. The purser says that
about $1,000,000 from the gold fields
was brought down on the steumer.
Lieutenant R. P. Hobson, of Merri
mao fame, is with his mother at Lithia
Spnngs, Ga. The meeting between
mother and son was a pathetic one.
The son kissed Ii is mother, who threw
her arms around his neck and for sev
eral minutes rested her head on his
Bhoulder, shedding tears of joy.
Following is an official statement
given out by authority of the president
on Tuesday as to the tor in a of peace
offered bv the United States: "In
order to remove any misapprehension
in regard to the negotiations ae to peaoe
between the United States and Spain,
it is deemed proper to say that the
terms offered by the United States in
the note handed to the French ambas
sador on Saturday last are in substance
as follows: The president does not
new put forward any claim for pecuni
ary indemnity, but requires relinquish
ment of all claim of sovereignty over
or title to the island of Cuba, as well
is evacuation by Spain of the island;
session to the United States and im
mediate evacuation of Porto Rico and
other islands under Spanish sovereign-
tv in the West Indies and like cession
of an island in the Ladrones. The
United States will oocupy and hold the
city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend
ing the conclusion of a treatv of peace,
whiob shall determine the control, dis
position and government of the Philip'
pines. If these terms are accepted by
Spain in their entirety, commissioners
will be named by the United States to
meet commissioners on the part of
Spain for the purpose of concluding a
treaty of peaoe on the basis above in
dicated." The United States oomimssioners
who are to prepare a code of laws for
Hawaii will sail on the Mariposa,
August 10.
Advices from Havana confirm the
report that General Garcia has relin
quished his command and gone home
to Camaguey.
Intrigue among the powers of Europe
to shut us out of the Philippines is
said to have been checkmated by Pres
ident McKiuley's oourse.
A Madrid correspondent says that a
band of 800 Carliats recently appeared
near Seo de Urge, in Catalonia, and
the tioops are pursuing them.
The London Times announces that
the Royal Ulster Yacht Club has ar
ranged to challenge for the America's
cup. The New York Yacht Club will
be notified of the decision immediately.
General Merritt has sent notioe to
Washington that he was about to com
bine with Dewey in a joint demand for
the surrender of Manila, thus forestall
ing the insuigents, and this movement
may cause a rupture.
President McKinley's proposal has
reached Madrid, and the Spanish cabi
net met Monday to consider and decide
upon the reply to be made. The terms
offoied, it is quite likely, will be ac
ceded to immediately. Hostilities in
the Antilles in that case will be sus
pended at once.
The governor-general of Manila, tele
gur phing to Madrid, says that aid is in
dispensable to resist the imminent at
tack of the American forces under Gen
eral Merritt. The foreign warships in
the bav, the dispatch save, answered
the salute in honor of the queen's saint
day, and the American vessels display
ed the American flag.
Some of the members of the Spanish
conservative party question the utility
of preserving the Philippines because of
the enormous exponsse that a suppres.
Bion of the insurgents would entail. The
latest dispatches from Captain-Geneial
Augustin are so despondent about the
resources at his disposal that it is sur
mised that the fall of Manila is immi
nent.
General Greely announces that he
is now in direct communication by
cable with General Miles' headquarteis
at Ponce, having sent the cable mstru
ments from St. Thomas. The British
officials who control the cable are will
ing to tarnsmit messages (or the United
States government over it, provided
our forces are in possession of the oable
terminals, but they will not allow
their cables to be used if the instru
ments are out in at any intermediate
point
The dynamite cruiser Nictheroy pur
chased from the Brazilian government
will be turned into a collier.
Richard Votaw, of Washington
county, Ky., who shot four persons at
a tent meeting in Meioer county, was
shot and instantly killed by Sheriff
Jeorge Coulter, of Danville.
Albert C'.'Uoni, nephew of United
States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of
Illinois, suddenly expired in Chatta'
nooga, Ga., drug store, whither he had
gone to purchase mediome for himself.
ENEMY IN CAMP
Aguinaldo Has Trouble
With Americans
at Manila.
COMPLICATIONS ARE AHEAD
tnaurgent Chief Drank With the Wine
of Sucoeae Warned by General An-
demon Haa Atiuuied the Role of
Dictator.
London, Aug. 8. A dispatch to the
Times from Cavite says: It is becom
ing more apparent daily that there are
serious complications aneaa, me
Americans never made a greater 'mis
take than in bringing Aguinaldo and
the insurgent leaders here giving them
arms and ammunition for free use from
the Cavite arsenal. Aguinldo, fearing
annexation by the Americans, openly
opposes them.
Either he has been : enoouraged by
some foreign power, or he has a false
notion of the strength of the Philip
pine revolutionists, failing to roognize
that their reoent successes are due to
the concentration of the Spanish
strength at Manila, consequent upon
the presence of the Americans. , Al
though he admits no foreign recogni
tion, he talks of his government and
dictates to the American authorities
in absurd and inflated terms. He haB
compelled the natives of the southern
approaches to Manila to register their
bullocks and ponies, and instructed the
owners not to supply them to the Amer
icans for transportation without his
sanction. -
Brigadier-General Anderson prompt
ly adopted firm measures, warning
Aguinaldo that force would be used to
impress the means of tiansportation,
which were ultimately forthcoming.
Aguinaldo's attitude makes future
operations against Manila problemati
cal. In my opinion, with the aid of
the fleet, the city might have been
already American. Nothing but the
complications with the natives pre
vented an advance.
I am convinced that the Filippinos
will never capture Manila unaided, and
if the Americans withdraw, the fate of
the natives under Spanish role would
be worse than before.
Inaane Miner's Deed.
Seattle, Aug. 8. A ejwsiol to the
Times from Roslyn, Wash , says An
drew Warge, an Aiut'i'n miner, this
morning shot his wife and two small
children and then killed himself.
Warge was insane.
Forto Rlcant Protested.
London, July 80. According to a
dispatch from Berlin, a newspaper there
professes to know that the Porto Rioan
POUT OF KIPS.
Map showing location of the Important
port won by th expedition under Command
er Cowlea,
colonial legislature has adopted a reso
lution protesting against American oc
cupation of the islands as a violation
of the principles that the United States
went to war to enfoice.
Smuggled Shell Exploded.
Playa del Este, Guantanamo Bay,
Aug. 8. The body of Karl J. Ander
son, a seaman on the United States
cruiser Brooklyn, was buried ashore
here today. Anderson was killed by
the acoidental discharge of a Spanish
one-pound shell smuggled from one of
the destroyed Spanish cruisers, against
the orders of Captain Cook. The
hell exploded Tuesday while Ander
son was hammering it in an effort to
separate the cartridge and shell,
SCHLEY IS GENER0U3,
Willing to Divide the Hnnori With Hit
Brother Officer.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 3. Shortly
after the great naval victory off San
tiago, in which Cervera's fleet was
pursued and destroyed by the American
vessels of war under Commodore
Schley, Captain John Schley, cousin of
the oommodore, wrote a letter of con
gratulation for the victory won. Today
be received a reply, whioh, in part,
was as follows:
"Flagship Brooklyn, Off Santiago do
Cuba, July 23, 1898. My Dear John:
The victory of July 8, so complete in
its results and so rich in glory for our
country, was the joint product of every
one fortunate enough to be engaged,
and I ought rather to thank you in
their name than to appropriate the con
gratulations to myself. ' ,
"Surely, it was large enough to win
laurels for all, and I assume no other
GENERAL JUI.IA.V PARREDA.
Spanish Commander at Guantanamo Who Re
fused to "Capitulate."
pride in it than the lucky place of this
ship in the line was where the first
heavy assault was made, and afterward,
by her speed and her direction, she
was enabled to keep in the 'scrap' to
the finish.
"The sweetest thought and the great
est satisfaction comes from the fact
that our conduct t at day has won the
THE ISLAND OF PORTO RICO.
people's love and earned the nation's
admiration. It is this which encourages
us in the public defense, no mattei
with what risk to ourselves. If it
means peace to out beloved land and per
mits us to return to our loved ones, and
to our people, our efforts were well
directed.
"Thanking you again, my dear cousin
and schoolmate and friend, I am always
very sincerely yours,
"W. S. SCHLEY."
AUGUSTI WILLING.
Will Surrender aa Soon aa He Can Do
So Honorably.
London, Aug. 3. A special to the
Daily Mail from Hong Kong, dated
August 1, says: Admiral Dewey has
received word fom Captain-General
August! that he is willing to surrender
as soon as he can do so honorably. It
is believed he will only make a show of
resistance. Dewey expects to take the
city without losing a single man.
Should Dewey and Merritt begin the
attack, Angusti will propose to capitul
ate on these terms: The Spanish
troops to march out with the honors of
war; the soldiers and officials to be
permitted to return on parole to Spain,
and an assurance to be given that the
lives and property of Spanish residents
will be protected from naval attack.
The Spanish officer who reported in
Manila the destruction of Admiral
Cervera's squadron was treated as a
traitor and threatened with death.
While riding near Malate the other day,
Geneial Anderson narrowly escaped
being shot by the enemy.
Populace Enthuilaitio.
Ponoe, Porto Rico, via S. Thomas,
D. W. I., Aug. 8. Colonel Hulings,
with 10 companies of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, has occupied Juan Diaa,
about 10 miles from Ponce, on the way
to San Juan
The American flag was
raised, and great was the enthusiasm
of the populace.
The protected cruiser Columbia went
ashore while attempting to enter the
harbor of Ponce, but it is expected she
will be floated toiuoriow.
General Brooks arrived this evening.
During the evening the seven compan
ies of the Nineteenth regular infantry
arrived on the Cherokee. .. '
Cable communication was opened to
night, but the line will not be in tall
operation for several days.
Some people are disagreeable because
they can't attraot attention any other
v.
JuA i Ita.it ffoatCt
MILES MARCHING ON.
Meeting But Little liealatance in Forto
Klco.
Ponce, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas,
Aug. 8. General Miles hourly expects
the arrival of transports having on
board Brigadier-General Schwan's di
vision of 6,000 men, and also the Mo
hawk, with the Fifth regular cavalry.
General Heniy's division, consisting
of 8,400 men, and including 86 pieces
of artillery, has been ordered to march
immediately to Yauco from Ponoe to
be ready to join the movement north
to San Juan on the 16th. The Penn
sylvania regiment was lent this morn
ing toward Juan Diaz, eight miles north
of Ponoo, en route to San Juan.
' Miles says he has no intention of
making a landing of troops at San Juan,
especially as the place is only a road
stead, where transports are liable to
suffer from prevalent storms.
The railroad from Ponce to Yauco is
now in possession of our troops. Gen
eral Stone found five mines on the
track. These were destroyed and the
track is uninjured.
Our troops found 17 Spaniards in the
Yauco hospital, all of whom had been
wounded in Tuesday's fight.
A proclamation has been issued by
the authorities of Yauco as a United
States city, expressing delight at an
nexation and the administration of
General Miles and welcoming our
troops. The mayor of Ponoe has called
upon residents of that place to exercise
calmness and circumspection under the
new and desirable conditions.
Miles lias issued lengthy orders of
instruction to General Wilson, military
governor of Ponoe province and oity,
until General Brooke's arrival. It is
of the same tenor as the instructions
which Miles gave to Shatter at Santi
ago, both orders being based on the
administration instructions given .o
General Merritt regarding the govern
ment of the Philippine islands.
CHICAGO HOLOCAUST.
Several Killed aud Injured in a Hotel
Fire.
Chicago, Aug. 8. Three killed and
14 injured is the record of a fire that
broke out at 2:80 o'clock this morning
in the Berwin hotel, North State street.
Starting in a bicycle repair shop ad-
joining the hotel, flames spread to the
basement of the hostelry and then, eat
ing their way to both the front and rear
stairways, cut oil escape to a dozen
guests. Some in the panic that ensued
jumped to the sidewalk and sustained
broken legs and arms; others waited
in their apartments and were rescued,
while most of the guests made their
way out of the building by means of
fire escape leading into an alley.
When the fire was discovered, it was
burning fiercely on a lower floor. Pe
destrians raised a cry of warning, which
aroused the guests, and they appeared
at the upper windows of the hotel in
their night attire.
Freah Meat for Shafter'e Army.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 3. The trans
port Michigan sailed yesterday from
Port Tampa and crossed the bar of the
bay today. She was loaded with fresh
meat for General Shafter's army, be-
sides a auantitv of other supplies.
General Coppinger, of the Fourth army
corps, with headquarters in this city,
received orders to go to Porto Rico.
Hawallana Still Allena.
San Francisco, Aug. 8. Hart H.
Noith, commissioner of immigration at
this port, has received instrutions from
Washington, to treat all immigrants
from Hawaii as alien immigrants until
such time as laws can be perfected to
govern them. This rule will settle all
questions as to the entrance of certain
races for the time being, and will be a
warning to steamship companies.
England makes $30,000,000 a year
out of its postoffice. ,
C0. Jtl. COPPINGER
CONQUEST IS EASY
Porto Rican Expedition
Meets With Little
Resistance.
VOLUNTEERS SURRENDERING
Supplies in Abundance for the Amer
ican Troopa Revenue From Custom
Houae People Are Overjoyed at the
Arrival of the Army.
Washington, Aug. 2. General Miles,
In command of the Porto Rican expedi
tion, sent the following dispatch to Sec
retary Alger, which was made public
at the war departmental 10 o'clock to
night: 'Ponoe, Porto Rico, Aug. 2. Secie-
lary of War. Washington, D. C. :
Four telegrams received, and answered
bv letter. Volunteers are surrender
ing themselves with arms and ammuni
tion. , Four-fifths of the people are
overjoyed at the arrival of the army.
Two thousand from one place have vol
unteered to serve with it. They are
bringing in beef, cattle and other sup
plies. The castom-nouse has already
yielded $14,000. As soon as all the
troops are disembarked, they will be
in readiness to move. Please send any
national colors that can be spared, to
be given to the different lnunici;1!!-
ties.
"I request that the question ill the
tariff rate to be charged In the parts of
Porto Rico occupied by our foroes be
submitted to the president for his ac
tion, the previously existing tariff re
maining meanwhile in foroe. As to
the government and military occupa
tion, I have already given instructions
issued by the president in the oase of
the Philippine islands and similar to
those issued at Santiago de Cuba. 4
"MILES,
"Major-General Commanding."
DESERTING TO AMERICAN CAMP
Spanieh Volunteers Glad for the Clmnce
to Lay Down Their Anna.
Ponce, Porto Rico; via St. Thomas,
D. W. I., AuguBt 2. No forward
movement of the army is expected for
several days. The transports with
General Brooke's army corps and the
remainder of the First corps are arriv
ing slowly. Our trjops will probably
remain quiet until the bulk of the
army has disembarked. Only three
transports have arrived since yesterday.
They have just appeared in the offing,
and only one has been made out. It
has on board the Fifth Ohio cavalry.
General Miles will retain his head
quarters at the custom-house at the
port of Ponce,' while General Wilson
will be in immediate command of the
troops in the city.
General Wilson posted General
Ernst's brigade, consisting of the Seo
ond and Third Wisoonsin and the Six
teenth Pennsylvania regiments out a
mile and a half on the military road,
after dusk last night, retaining two
companies of the Sixteenth to act as
provost guard in the oity.
Captain Allison has been appointed
provost marshal, and, with the aid of
the looal oonstabulary, has preserved
excellent order, although most all the
entire population of the oity remained
in the streets celebrating the arrival of
their American liberators until long
after midnight.
Many of them had been forced into
the service of Spain to escape perse
cution. Business in the city has enjoyed a
great boom since the arrival of the
Americans.
TROUBLE WITH GARCIA.
He Waa
Invited to the Flag-Ralalne
at Santiago.
Washington, Aug. 2. The war de
partme. t has received the following:
"Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 2, Secre
tary of War, Washington: I have the
Sun of Saturday, July 23, in which
comments are made as to my treatment
of General Garcia. I desire to say that
General Garcia was invited by me per
sonally to go into the city of Santiago
at the time I entered it, biat he declined
on the ground that the Spanish oivil
officers were left in power. It was
fully explained to him that those offic
ials were continued in power until it
was convenient to change them for oth
ers. General Garcia's assistance to me
has been purely voluntary on his part
and he was told at the beginning that 1
did not exercise any control over him,
exoept such as he chose to give. The
trouble with General Garcia was that
be expected to be placed in command
at this place; in other words, that we
would turn the city over to him. I ex
plained to him fully that we were at
war with Spain, and that the question
of Cuban independence cculd not be
considered by me. Another grievance
was that, finding several thousand men
entered the city without opposiiton
from General Garcia, I extended my
own lines in front of him, and closed
up that gap, as I saw that I had to de
pend on my own men for the invest
ment of the place. SHAFTER."
Alaaka Steamera at Baa Francisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 2. The steam
ers Charles Nelson and Samoa arrived
today from St. Michaels. Both of
them brought considerable wealth
from the Klondike country, but dis
charged most of it at Seattle. The
Nelson is one of the transports engaged
to earry the First regiment of New
York volunteers to Honolulu.
Some girls admits that engagement
are failures, but they hava there doubt
as to marriages.