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DOINGS OF THE WEEK
A Complete Eevlew of the Telefraphio
Newi of Thli and All For
elan Land.
The hospital-ship Belief baa arrived
in New York from Porto Eloo ith
ick and wounded soldiers.
: A resort In Stockton, Cul., known as
Jackson's baths, covering almost a city
block, was destroyed by fire Loss,
140.000.
The victorious fleets of Sampson and
Schley have arrived at New York,
They were accorded an enthusiastic
reception by the populace.
The Cubans are to disband. Orders
for the execution of such a movement
have been sent to the island emissaries
from the junta in this country.
The hardest fighting at the battle of
Manila was done by the Aster battery,
which led the advance. Brigadier-
General McArthur, commanding the
brigade, complimented the men in the
highest terms right in the midst of the
battle for their valor and success.
A cloudburst over a saw mill ran in
Pittsburg oaused a tidal wave in the
stream and endangered the lives of a
dozen persons. Five children were
drowned. They are: Irene Loftus,
Regis Loftus, Genevlve Shaughnessy,
Margaret Shaughnessy and Nellie Sauls.
There is considerable work ahead of
the new Cuban commission. The ad
ministration of the affairs of the island
will be no easy task, and the Cubans
must be held in check after the Spanish
troops are withdrawn. The notorious
practices oarried on under Spanish rule
are to be abolished and the co-opera
tion of Cuban leaders must be sought.
Nathan Hollenbeck, a deputy pound-
master of Oakland, Cat., was shot dead
by Quang Mon, a Chinese gardener,
who was watching for vegetable thieves.
Hollenbeck was passing through a oorn
patch, and was fired at four times by
the Chinese-, one of the shots proving
fatal. The murderer surrendered him
self.
A Madrid dispatch tays the govern
ment!) as resolved to insist that the
capitulation of Manila, after the sign
ing of the protocol, shall have no effect
in the peace negotiations unfavorable
to Spain. In any event the government
holds that capitulation, signed by the
commanders of the two forces, does not
entail the surrender of the whole Phil
ippines. A Ponce special says. Repoitsare
coming in from all directions of out
rages committed within the Spanish
lines. Doubtless many of these are ex
aggerated, but rumors of a massacre at
Ciales are confirmed. Some of the na
tives took refuge in the belfry of a
cathedral and fired on the Spanish
troops, but they were overpowered and
tuacheted to the number of 80.
Captain Clark, of the battle-ship Ore
gon, is seriously ill, and oannot at pres
ent be removed from the auxiliary
cruiser St. Paul.
The president has directed that the.
Twenty-third Kansas regiment, colored,
be dispatched to Santiago, to form an
army of oooapation in Cuba.
Congressman James G. Maguire has
been nominated for governor by the
Detuoorats of California. The fusion
plan carried almost unanimously,
Frank Gelding, an expert miner and
mineralogist, of Benton, Wis., com
mitted suicide by blowing himself to
atoms with dyuuinite in a powder
house. , ,' '
Gen. Merritt hasprepared a procla
mation to the Phlippine natives which
provides a scheme of government for
Manila and surrounding territory and
other islands placed in our possession.
Governor-General l3)anoo's orders to
his generals decree that property in
Cuba muBt be fully protected. The au
thorities at the various towns are in
structed to oo-operate wlith the Ameri
can military leaders for this purpose,
and to prevent pillaging by insurgents.
A site has been chosen at the Pre
idio reservation, San Francisco, for the
Red Cross oonvaloscent hospital, which
will soon be erected. H. O. Low,
Chinese consul, has forwarded to the
San Franoisco lied Cross Society S0,
contributed by the Chinese oigar
makers1 union.
The government intends to taka
vigorous measures to preserve peace
and keep order at Santiago and the
territory under United States control.
The einphatio order issued to Law ton
a few days ago will be followed by or
ders sending enough disciplined troops
to enable him to carry out the instruc
tions of the secretary.
A naval programme for presentaion
to congress involving the immediate
construction of IS warships, has been
adopted by the naval boards of experts,
to which the subjeot has been referred
by Secretary Long. It provides for
three battle-ships, three first, three Bee-tmd-clasa
and six protected cruisers,
each to be the finest and most formida
ble of its class.
Minor Newt Items.
Bismarck's personal estate, It is laid,
amounted to about 13,000,000.
The Pennsylvania alien tax law has
been declared unconstitutional and
void.
Twenty school yards in Boston were
opened as play grounds for children
during the summer mouths.
Cecil Rhodes it trying to get back at
the polls in the South African repub
lic the power he lost by the Jameson
raid.
LATER NEWS.
Orders for releasing 100,000 volun
teers have been issued by the govern
ment. John Polo was drowned by the cap
sizing of his boat during the fishboat
race at tLe Astoria regatta.
The supreme lodge, Knights of Py
thias, met in biennial session in the
hall of the house of representatives at
Indianapolis, Ind.
The British expedition in the Soudan
reports terrible scenes of slaughter by
the dervishes. Everywhere are evi
dences of misery and decay. .
The 24th annual meeting of the
American Banker's Association con
vened at the Broadway theater, Denver,
Cola, Tuesday. Most of the 500 dele
gates expected were present.
There are now in the hospitals at
Camp VVikoff, Montauk Point, more
than 1,200 men. Of these about 900
are in the general hospital in deten
tion. Many of those in the general
hospital are improving, and some are
now being discharged as well every
day.
The war news was suppressed at San
Juan, and the people did not hear of
Spanish reverses for weeks after they
had occurred. The truth about the
destruction of Cervera's fleet was never
published. The same secrecy was ob
served when Santiago fell. - News oi
the restoration of peace caused rejoio
ing among all classes.
Eight men were killed, possibly 10,
and five injured, two fatally, at the
Carnegie tunnel on Chartier's division
of the Panhandle railroad near Pitts
burg, Pa. The accident was due to the
wall of the tunnel caving in. The
dead are: John Jones, foreman; Felix
Mills, a laborer, and six unknown
foreigners.
General Merritt has sent word to the
war department that he needed no
more troops. This statement was in
response to an inquiry from the White
House. The president and his war
managers are well pleased with the
general's dispatch. They acoept it as
an assurance that the American com
mander has the Filipinos under his
control.
Coincident with the West Indian
sugar conference to assemble at Barba
does September 8, for the purpose of
protesting against the sacrifice of the
colonies, Jamaioa is preparing a plebis
cite to the British parliament, request
ing permission to endeavor to arrange
for annexation to the United States.
The promoters of this movement are
endeavoring to secure inter-colonial co
operation, but are not depending
upon it
The premier of Queensland, the pre
mier of New South Wales and the pre
mier of Victoria, met in conference at
Sidney, N. S. W., and discussed plans
for a Pacific oable. They decided to
make the definite offer that if Great
Britain and Canada collectively would
guarantee five-ninths of the cost of lay
ing the new cable, they would recom
mend to their respective legislatures to
contribute one-ninth each, asking New
Zealand to contribute the remaining
ninth.
The Manila cable is again working.
Major-General Miles is coming home.
Aocompa.iied by his staff he will leave
Porto Rico in a few days.
The natives control the water supply
)f Manila, and refuse to allow the wa
ier to run except for a few hours each
lay. They have demonstrated that
they are incapable of self-government.
The president has promoted Captain
Charles D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., now com
manding the St. Paul, by advancing
him three numbers on the list of cap
tains in the navy, for "extradordinary
heroism."
Dave Speagle shot and killed Bob
Penix at Wilbur, Wash. Speagle is
said to have been too intimate with
Penix's family. Penix started out to
kill Speagle, and the latter killed him
in self-defense.
A tremendous explosion at the plant
of the Chattanooga Powder Company,
at Coltewah Station, killed two men,
Lucius B. Engan and Harton Mortchke,
and injured seriously, if not fatally,
six others. The plant was destroyed
by fire.
A dispatch from Buda Pesth to the
London News agenoy says that while
a regiment of soldiers were crossing a
pontoon bridge over the river Moras,
near Homd, the bridge ' collapsed.
Three hundred men were immersed
and over 80 were drowned.
The monitor Monadnock has arrived
in Manila. On the way over she
stopped at the Lad roue island of Guam,
which had been seized by the first ex
pedition. She found that a Spaniard
had repudiated Amerionn rule, and set
up a government on his own account.
Captain Whiting, of the Monadnock,
promptly upset this new government,
and made the usurper a prisoner and
brought him to Manila.'
Our warships may soon coal at
Pango-Pango, The contract for the
building of a station there is to be let
immediately. Work will be carried
forward rapidly and completed next
year. Naval officers declaie the harbor
Booured by the United States is the
only land-locked port of refuge in
Samoa.
By the bursting of a waterspout at
Madiana, Spain, 40 persons were
drowned.
The tug Nimrod went down in a gal
off Cape St. Bias and 13 of her crew
were drowned.
The emperor of China has to fast 64
days in each year for the sake of relig
ion. Fire entirely wiped out the town of
Center Ridge, Ark., with a population
of 500.
HAVANA STILL HUNGRY.
Sltnatlon Much the Same a During the
Blockade
Havana, via Key West, Aue. 24.
The situation at Havana remains the
Bame as during the blockade. Provis
ions and other necessaries of life are
very scarce and prices continue high.
The colonial government imposed the
highest customs duties, which continue
in force, making prices higher and ren
dering the situation of the poor very
painful. The free kitohens which
have been established in Havana daily
furnish about 80,000 persons with food;
but owing to the great number of poor
in the city who are without food of any
sort, the amount of supplies handled
by the kitchens is quite insufficient to
relieve the distress to any great extent.
Women and children lie about the
streets, pale and emaciated, looking
more like corpses than living beings.
Considerable excitement and discon
tent exists among the insurgent sym
pathizers, vho oondemn strongly all
the acts of the colonial government,
and many of those sympathizers are
leaving the cities and towns to join the
insurgents. During the past few days
hundreds of uniforms have been sent to
the insurgents from Havana.
An immense majority of the Spanish
conservatives in the island, and the na
tives, favor the annexation of the is-
coloski, tons hat.
land to the United States, whioh they
consider the only means of securing
stable government in Cuba. Even the
most ardent Spanish residents now
favor annexation.
The rumors which have been put in
circulation, relative to the report that
the Spanish army would not obey the
government's decision and evacuate
Cuba, are entirely baseless.
It is reported that the insurgents
forces from the provinces of Piuar del
Rio and Matanzas are uniting in Ha
vana province, purposing to make a tri
umphal entry into Havana oity.
Auxiliary Fleet Smaller.
New York, Aug. 24. The United
States auxiliary naval force, which a
week ago consisted of 41 vessels in
commission, says the Washington cor
respondent of the Tribune, was reduced
to 25 vessels yesterday, and hy the end
of this week it will have disappeared
altogether until another war shall call
it into service.
Will Retain Their Commands.
Washington, Aug. 24. Sampson
will retain command of the North At
lantio fleet, notwithstanding bis service
on the Cuban military commission,
and Schley will continue in his present
naval command, although serving tem
porarily on the Porto Rican commis
sion. This statemut was made author
itatively at the uav.r department to
day. Over Twenty Thousand Surrendered.
Washington, Aug. 24. A dispatch
received by Adjutant-General Corbin
tonight from Geneial Shatter indicates
that, with the fall of Santiago, 23,726
Spaniards surrendered. Of this num
ber, a few less than 8,000 were guer
rillas and volunteers, making the total
to be returned to Spain about 21,000.
General Shatter recommends that trd
tho captured Mauser rifles and the am
munition for the same be shipped to
some arsenal in the North, with as lit
tle delay as Doisible,
LIBERTY PROCLAIMING PEACE.
PEARL OF THE PACIFIC
Old Glory Waving Proudly
O'er New Scenes.
HAWAIIAN REPUBLIC IS NO MORE
America's First Break Toward Terri
torial Expansion Iinpresalve
Ceremony at Honolulu
San Francisco, Aug. 24. The steam
er Belgio this evening brought the fol
lowing: '
Honolulu, Aug. 12. Precisely at
eight minutes to 12 o'clock today the
Hawaiian flag descended from the flag
staffs on all the government buildings,
and exaotly at five minutes to the same
hour, the Stars and Stripes floated on
the tropical breeze from every offioial
flagstaff.
The ceremony of today was a most
impressive one. To hear the strains of
"Hawaii Ponoi" for the last time, as a
national anthem, to hear the bugle
blow taps as the Hawaiian ensign sank
from its position, and to notice the i
emotion of many who had been born
under it and had lived their lives un
der it, was solemn. But then came
the bright call for raising Old Glory,
and the strains of the "Star Spangled '
Banner'' broke forth as that banner
was unfurled to the breeze.
Then the cheers broke forth, and eyes
which had been dim for a few mo
ments became bright and lightened up
when the Stars and Stripes blew out.
The picture presented in and around
the extensive building was most strik
ing. In the grounds and around all
the' approaches were crowds of onlook
ers of every station of a varied nation
ality. Notably remarkable was the
number of HawaiiauB. Within the
grounds the military and naval display
was fine. Hawaiian troops, United
States marines, the mounted patrol,
the polioe and the citizens' guard pre
sented a splendid appearance, while
the platform for the exercises and the
verandas of the executive building were
gay with brilliant summer dresses,
dancing feathers and ribbons and the
brightest faoes that Honolulu possessed.
The uniform of staff and navy officers
added brightness to the scene. A line
of these stalwart, well-dressed men,
stretohed across the first step from the
veranda and made a distinctive mark
in a massive grouping, which was in
itself worthy of special notice. The
weather was fortunately propitious.
The breeze came down Nuaauu valley
pleasantly, and made the noble flags
stream out in all their beauty.
A few minutes after the hoisting of
the official flag, others were raised trbin
the two side towers, and from the mili
tary headquarters.
Minister Sewall then read a procla
mation stating that President McKin
ley directs that the civil, judicial and
military powers of the government shall
continue to be exeroised by the officers
of the republic of Hawaii. All suoh
officers will be required to take an oath
of allegiance to the United States, and
renew their bonds to the United States
government. The powers of the minis
ter of foreign affairs will cease, so far
as they relate to diplomatic intercourse
between Hawaii and foreign nations.
The municipal legislation of Hawaii
and the existing customs regulations
will practically" remain in force until
the congress of the United States shall
otherwise determine.
Following the reading of the procla
mation, Minister Sewall made an ad
dress congratulating the residents of
Hawaii upon the accomplishment of
annexation.
Fatal Collision.
Hamburg, Aug. 24. The pearl fish
ing steamer Hamburg collided with the
English schooner Catherine in the
channel during a dense fog Sunday.
All of the Catherine's crew except the
helmsman and eight men were drowned.
One member of the Hamburg's crew
was killed in the collision.
SPANIARD'S FAREWELL.
Soldier's Tribute to a Victorious Foe-
He Loves Not the Cubans.
Washington, Ang. 24. A document
entirely unique in the annals of war
fare was cabled today to the war depart
ment bv General Shutter. It is in the
form of a congratulatory farewell ad
dress issued to the soldiers of the Amer
ican army by Pedro Lopez de Castillo,
a private Spanish soldier, on behalf of
the 11,000 Spanish soldiers. No sim
ilar document, perhaps, was ever before
issued to a victorious army by a van
quished adversary. The president was
very mch impressed by the address,
and after reading it carefully, author
ized its publication. Following is the
text of the address as cabled by Gen
eral Shatter:
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 24. H. C.
Corbin, Adjutant-General, U. S. A.,
Washington: The following letter has
jnst been received from the soldiers
just embarking for Spain:
"Major-General Shafter, Command
ing the American Army in Cuba Sir:
The Spanish soldiers who capitulated
in this place on the 16th of July last,
recognizing your high and just position,
pray that through you all the courage'
ous and noble soldiers under your com
maud may receive the greatest wishes
and farewell which we send them on
embarking for our beloved Spain. For
C ATTAIN OKSKItAL ATjOUSTI.
BptnUh Governor of the Philippines.
this favor, which we have no doubt yon
will grant, you will gain the everlast
ing gratitude and consideration of 11,
000 Spanish soldiers, who are your
most humble servants.
"PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO,
"Private of Infantry."
SPAIN'S COMMISSIONERS.
State Department Receives Notice ol
Their Appointment.
Washington, Aug. 24. The state de
partment today received a call from M,
Thiebaut, secretary of the French em
bassy, and in charge during the absence
of Ambassador Cambon, who bore a
notification from the Spanish govern
inent of the military commissioners for
Cuba and" Porto Rico.
Under the peaoe protocol, each gov
ernment was to name its militarv com
I missioners within 10 days, their meet
ing to begin within 80 days. The 10
days was up todav, and, accordingly,
Spain gave the official notice of the ap
pointments. They are as follows:
For Cuba Major-General Gonzales
Parrado, Rear-Admiral Pastor y Lan
dero, Marquis Montore.
For Porto Rico Major-General Or
tega y Diaz, Commodore (first rank)
allarino y Carrisco, Judge-Advocate
Sanchez del Agufla y Leon.
In England less than a century ago it
was not unusual for a man to sell bis
wife into servitude.
Seven Lives Lost.
Pittsburg, Aug. 24. A terrible ao
cident by which seven men lost their
lives, occurred early this mornjng in
the-tunnel of the Chartieis division of
the Panhandle railroad at Carnegie.
The work of tearing out the tunnel has
been pushed night and day by a force
i of 200 men. From the reports received
! it seems that, by using too large a
quantity of explosive in blasting, an
unexpected amount of earth aud rock
was loosened and caved in on the work-tuea.
REAR-
Frightful Accident on a Mas-
sachusetts Railroad.
THE SIGNALS FAILED TO W0EK
Seven People Killed and Twenty. Si
Wounded Scalded by Escap
ing Steam.
Sharon, Mass., Aug. 23. A frightful
rear-end collision occurred in the
Sharon station of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad, at 7:80
o'clock tonight, when an express train,
which was' running as the second sec
tion of a long train, orashed into the
first section, composed of looal cars.
As a result seven persons were killed
and 26 seriously injured. .. The injured
were nearly all removed to lioston on a
special train, which was met by ambu
lances and surgeons. The rear car of
the local train was completely demol
ished, and a portion of the second car,
while the engine of the express train
was crippled. The dead are:
Franklin M. Waters, Somervule,
Mass. J Mrs. W. J. Fitzpatrick, Boston;
Mrs. W. J. Fitzpatrlck's granddaughter,
Mary Fitzpatrick, a '10-year-old girl; .
Mrs. Fitzpatriok's grandson, 15 yjars
old; a woman, supposed to be Mrs.
WaHon, of Westerly, R. I.: Mrs. II. C.
BriHeo, Revere, Mass.; C. B. Frye,,
Revere, Mass.
The two trains which were in the
collision were usually combined into
one long train, but as the traffic today
was so heavy, it was divided, the first
section running as a looal accommoda
tion, while the Becond, which started
from Mansfield 15 minutes later than
the first, ran as an express. The local
train due at Sharon at 7:02 was IS
minutes late. It left Mansfield on
time, making two stops, and had lost
the 13 minutes between Mansfield and
Sharon. It was due in Canton Junc
tion, the next station beyond Sharon,
two minutes ahead of the express
train, which should have passed it
there. Sharon is situated on a curve,
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tracks are protected by electric block
signals.
After the accident it was thought the
block signal protecting the inward
track was set at danger, showing, as it
was intended, that there was a train in
the station. There was no warning:
given by the conductor of the Mans
field local, to show the approaching1
train that the track was not clear at
the station, and it was not until he was
within 300 feet of the station that the
engineer of the express noticed any
thing wrong. He immediately set alt
brakes and whistled a warning, but it
was too late to stop the express. It
crushed into the rear car, splitting it
asunder and completely demolishing it,
with , the exception of the roof. Its
speed was not slackened until the
engine had penetrated fully five feet
into the rear of the seoond car. The
escaping steam entered the car and
badlv scalded a number of the ooou
pants. The roof of the last car was
forced on top of the engine of the ex
press, and remained there as the only
portion of the car intact.
Engineer Getchell and Fireman
Holmes, of ' the express train, both
jumped. Getchell was cut and bruised
about the head. He stated after the
accident that he lift Mansfield prompt
ly on time and there was no inoident
until be was within 400 feet of tho
Mansfield train. Then he saw the red
lights of that train and shut off steam.
Meanwhile he had whistled for brakes
and used every effort to stop his train.
Every one of the killed and injured
was on the Mansfield train, and the
only explanation of the fact that tha
number of fatalities is not larger is
that the passengers were all in the
forward end of the car, and most of
them at the time of the accident were
either upon the front platform or stand
ing by the door. '
Mary Fitzpatrick, 10 years old, was
taken from the wreck unconscious, and
died just as the speoial train beai ing
the injured started for Boston. Twenty
one of the injured were taken on this
train.
The scene about the little station at
Sharon was a terrible one. A large
corps of surgeons and two undertakers
arrived soon after the acoident and im
mediately set to work to relieve the
Buffering and care for the bodies of the
dead. There were very few lights about
the portion of the track where the ac
cident occurred, and the surgeons were
compelled to do their work in almoBt
total darkness.
Fifteen ambulances waited the ar
rival of the train at the Park square
station, which brought the injured from
the scene of the wreck. A great crowd
had assembled, and a force of police
men were neoessary to keep them from
crowding onto the tracks.
Lined upon the plctforra were 14
stretchers, while 30 hospital attend
ants and a number of surgeons were on
hand.
Daniel C. McCann, an express mes
senger on the New Bedlord train, had
bis right hand and arm badly lacerated
and his right knee painfully injured in
extricating a man who was pinned be
tween the engine's head plate and the
flooring of the telescoped car. Just in
front of the prisoner lay his wife,
crushed and bleeding, and he was un
able to move hand or foot to help her.
The woman died in a few moments.
Steam was arising as in a Turkish
bath. The heat from the esoaping
steam was intense. Mr. McCann said
that many people were slightly burned,
though in their heroic endeavors to
assist the injured the workers did not
know it.
C. B. Frye, of Revere, Mass., one of
the injured brought to this city, is
Jad. making the total number seven.