OREGON CITY COURIER
OREGON CITY HERALD
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A. V.CHENEY.
Publisher
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Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening! of the Fait Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
Three people were burned to death
in a fire in a Brooklyn flat.
President McKinley will make a
tour of Forto Rico and Cuba.
Only two men were killed in the
Wardner (Idaho) mine disaster.
Ten deaths na a result of suioide,
and accident is the record of one Bun
day in Greater New York.
Germany is now said to be seeking
an ally and wants the friendship of
Uncle Sam. . German Ambassador von
Holleben has been commissioned to
settle whatever differences exist.
: An area of 20 blocks in the 28th
ward in Brooklyn was inundated by
raging waters, which washed out the
fundations of houses, tore down trolley
and telegraph poles, imprisoned people
in their homes. ' .
Charles W. Miller, of Chicago, last
year's six-day champion, won the great
bicycle raoe at Madison-Square Garden
again this year, beating the world's
record (his own) by 24 miles. He made
2,007 miles, and rested but 34 hours
in the 142.
Unpreodented secrecy obtains as to
the conditions of the construction of
",he Shamrock, the challenger for the
America's cup. Not merely are the
most strict precautions taken to pre
vent a leakage of the details of her con
struction, but even the place where she
is being built is kept secret.
The foreign exhibitors have been seri
ously affected by the decision of the
Paris appeal oourt in rejecting the suit
of a Swiss embroiderer against a Frenoh
manufacturer who copied his designs.
The effect of the decision is that de
signs and patterns in the foreign ex
hibits of 1900 may be copied with im
punity by Frenoh manufacturers, un
lessthe exhibitors possesss a manu
factory in France.
The battle-ship Massachusetts struck
a reef or sunken obstruction near Dia
mond reef, off Castle William, Gover
nor's island, N. Y., while on her way
from the naiy-yard to the naval an
chorage off TompkinBvllle, S. I. The
damage wronght was considerably
greater than was at first supposed,
and it is believed fully 90 days will be
required to put the vessel in condition
to go to sea, even if she is not vitally
hurt.
The pottery trust has completed its
organization under the laws of New
Jersey; capital, (20,000,000.
Steamer Roumania has sailed from
Savannah for Havana with the first
regiment, North Carolina, to help gar
rison the turbulent city.
The Paris oourt of cassation has
granted a stay of proceedings in the
Pioquart trial, and thereby invoked the
fury of the anti-Dreyfus press.
A mining suit involving property
valued at 13,000,000 has been entered
in the courts of California by a Mon
tana ayndioate against prominent Cali
fornia capitalists.
In a reoent public- address in Wash
ington Count von Goetzan said that the
only good volunteers among the United
States troops during the late war were
the Rough Riders.
It is now understood that Major-Gen-
eial James F. Wade, president of the
United States evacuation committee,
will be appointed by President MoKin
ley military governor of western Cuba.
The supreme oourt of Nebraidca has
decided that tlia bondsmen of ex-State
Treasurer Bartley will have to tnake
good that official's shoitages and steal
ings from the state, amounting in all
to about 1700,000.
D. II. Howard, a New Mexico cattle
dealer, with two detectives, is on the
trail of Gilett, the Kansas plunger, on
whom Howard is f 10,000 short. How
ard will auk the governor of Kiinsiis to
issue requisition impels for his extradi
tion to New Mexico.
The British Columbia mills are again
receiving lumber orders from Cape
Town, Bouth Africa, after a period of
two years, during which little or no
lumber was shipped to that district.
Two vessels ate at present under way
to Victoria to receive cargoes for Africa.
Sam Smith, trainrobber, bus been
sentenced to be hanged at Eldorado,
Kan., for the murder of oitizon Bel
' ford, who was one of a posse that resist
ed Smith and his partner, Tom Wind.
Wind pleaded guilty to second-degree
murder and was sentenced to 20 years.
The Spanish government has issued
the following semi-official note relating
to the president's reference to the loss
of the Maine in his message to con
gress. "Spain has been treated by the
conqueror with unexampled cruelty and
is resigned to her fate; but she can not
tolerate President MoKiuley's accusa
tion, for Bhe is conscious of her coin
p'ete iunooenoe."
Minor New Items.
The will of the late Edward Austin,
of Boston, bequeaths (1,100,000 to
public uses.
The czar has recently issued an edict
ordering a trial by jury in Siberia
after January 1.
The British government has decided
to make a goneious grant for the relief
of the distress and damage caused by
the receut hurricane iu the West lu
1U, ! . .
LATER NEWS.
Colonel William 3. Bryan has de
clared himself as opposed to expansion.
, Spaniards opened fire on "a Cuban
funeral, procession in Havana, and
j wounded several. ,,One will probably
die. ft. y.,
By the explosion of a shell at Fort
Constantino, at Cronstadt, Russia, nine
soldiers were killed and three officers
and seven soldiers wounded. ... .
By an explosion In the grist mill at
Pettysville, Nate Thomas and Clarence
Emmons were killed outright and Will
Markley was fatally injured.
The president ' and party have left
Washington .for a week's trip through
the South, the primary object being to
attend the peace jubilee in Atlanta,
Ga. V.
Chicago packers will spend a large
amount of money in erecting immense
cold-storage plants in Santiago and Ha
vana for the reoeption and storing of
fresh meat.
Simon, 'the new senator from Ore
gon, has been placed upon the follow
ing committees: Mines and mining.
rrigation, revolutionary claims, Poto-
mao river front and trespasses upon
Indian lands.
Five - deaths occurred in Butte,
Mont., which are claimed to have been
caused by the dreadful sulphur and
arsenio fumes from the smelters. Many
people who oan do so are leaving the
city to get out of tne smoke.
It is probable that Secretary Bliss
will, within a short time, tonder his
resignation to the president. He has
had the step under consideration for
some time, deeming it necessary that
he should be free to devote more time
to his large business Interests.
The Brooklyn, Texas, Castine and
Resolute have been ordered to Havana.
While there is not the faintest desire
to convey a threat in the dispatch of
these warships to Havana, it may' be
noted that when they lie within the
harbor they will hold the town in per
fect subjection.
The Clearwater Short Line Railway
Company, which is the official title of
the branch Northern Pacific cut-off,
has filed certificates in the office of the
secretary of state at Olympia, designat
ing Thomas Cooper as its agent in
Washington, and showing the route of
the proposed road, now under oonstruo-
tion..
Word has been received from United
States Consul Allen that John C. Flan
agan, the confidential clerk of George
W. Lake, a rich merchant of Chemul
po, who was murdered August 29, has
been sentenced by a consular court to
imprisonment for life. Flanagan bad
been robbing his employer systematic
ally and committed the crime to cover
up his misdeeds.
Two men were killed by the explo
sion of natural gas at Cannonsville, Ind.
One man was killed and several
fatally wounded at a school entertain
ment at Charleston, W. Va.
Henry J. Nelligan,' oook, George W.
Beverly, both of oompany G, First
Florida, stationed at Huntsville, Ala.,
were killed in a oamp quarrel.
A smooth gang of counterfeiters is at
work in the Mississippi valley. The
counterfeit is of the standard silver
dollars. All of which have so far been
discovered bear the date of 1890. It is
believed something like 200,000 of
them have gained circulation.
Senator Davis, of the Paris peaoe
commission, in an interview with a
London Daily Mail correspondent, de
clared in favor of a triple alliance be
tween the United States, England and
Japan, for the protection of all their
nterests north of the equator.
Charles Tracy, aged 16, shot and
instantly killed Tim Connors, custodian
of Greenlawn cemetery, Indianapolis,
Ind. Tracy with a numbor of other
boys was near the cemetery throwing
snowballs at pedestrians. Refusing
to desist he was killed by Connors.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor met
at Kansas City, Mo. About 100 dele
gates from all parts of the country were
present; also William Thome and Wil
liam Inskip, of London, representing
the British tiudea-union congress.
The British Columbian government
has made a crown reserve of all town
sites and land outside of the mining
fields in the Lake Atlin diatriot. This
was recently announced privately by
Mr. C. Settlin, premier of British Co
lumbia, to Gold Commissioner W. J.
Rant, who has just arrived in Seattle
from Atlin.
Ro8slund'i famous Le Roi mine is at
last before London investors.' The
London Globe Corporation and the
British Amerioa Corporation have in
vited subscriptions to 200,000 shares
of 6 eaoh In the LeRot Company, ltd.
The purchase prioe is 950,000, paya
ble in oash in fully paid shares, leaving
50,000 for the working capital.
The United States government is not
aware that any arrangement has been
made for the transfer oi the title of the
SamoAii Islands to Germany, and being
one of the parties to the tripartite
agreement under which Samoa 1b now
governed, it is not conceivable that
any change in the status of the islands
can be made without the knowledge of
this government.
Leon Fayier, who fought under the
great Napoleon, haa just celebrated his
Utith birthday at Philadelphia.
The piesidont of the municipal coun
oil of Paris has informed Mmo. Sara
Bernhardt that the council has accept
ed her recent offer to take a lease of
the Theater dea Nacions.
Preparations are on foot in Honolulu
to test the applicability of the United
States immigration laws to the llama
Han islands by the Importation to tli
cane fields ot 1,000 Corean laborers.
Ill
Seventeen Articles Agreed
i Upon . at Paris:
GUARANTIES TO SPANISH TRADE
Treaty Hut Be Ratified Within Six
Months In Order to Be Binding Two
Copies for, Each Coniuiiiluu.
Paris, Deo. 15. Extraordinary pre
cautions are maintained by both the
peace commissions to preserve seoreoy
aa to the contents of the treaty. Each
commission has two oopies, but even
the commission attaches are not per
mitted to -peruse the documents. A
press correspondent, however, has ob
tained from a source usually reliable
the following outline of the treaty:
: Article 1 provides the relinquish
ment of Cuba.
Article 2 provides for the cession of
Porto Rico.
Article 8 provides for the cession of
the Philippines for (20.000,000 as com
pensation.
Article 4 embraces the plans for the
cession of the Philippines, including
the return of Spanish prisoners now in
the hands of the Tagalos. ' "
Artiole 6 deals with the cession of
barracks, war materials, arms, stores,
buildings, and all property pertaining
to the Spanish administration in the
Philippines.
Article 6 s a renunciation by both
against each other and the oitizena oi
eaoh other.
Article 7 grants to Spanish trade and
shipping in the Philippines the same
treatment as to American trade and
shipping for a period of 10 years.
Artiole 8 provides for the release of
all prisoners of war held by Spain and
of all prisoners held by her for politioal
offenses committed in the colonies ao
quired by the United States.
Artiole 9 guarantees the legal rights
of Spaniards remaining in Cuba.
Artiole 10 establishes religious free
dom in the Philippines and guarantees
to all churches equal rights.
Article 1 1 provides for the composi
tion of courts and other tribunals in
Porto Rico and Cuba.
Article 12 provides for the adminis
tration of justice in Porto Rico and
Cuba.
Article 13 provides for the continu
ance for five years of Spanish copy
rights in the ceded territory, giving
Spanish books admittance free of duty.
Article 14 provides for the establish
ment of consulates by Spain in the
cedod territory. -
Article 15 grants to Spanish com
merce in Cuba, Porto Rico ,hnd the
Philippines the same treatment as to
America for 10 years, Spanish shipping
to be treated as coasting vessels.
Artiole 16 stipulates that the, obliga
tions of the United States to Spanish
citizens and property in Cuba' shall
terminate with the withdrawal of the
United States authorities from the
island.
Article 17 provides that the treaty
must be ratified within six months from
the date of signing by the respective
governments in order to be binding.
CALLED IT 'A FRAUD.
Tarple floored the Maritime Canal Com
panyA Scheme of Confiscation.
Washington, Dec. 15. Today's ses
slon of the senate was largely consumed
in discussion of the Nicaragua oanal
bill. Turpie made the principal speech
in opposition to the bill, attacking it
on the ground that it is in the interest
of the Maritime Canal Company, which
he characterized as a fraud and bank'
rupt. He moved a postponement of
the matter until after the holiday re
cess. Morgan defended tne bin and
the Maritime oompany, and opposed
the motion to postpone. Berry and
Rawlins both offered amendments ma
terially affecting the bill.
Previous to the proceedings upon the
canal bill, Morrill made an address in
support of the bill authorizing the pur
chase of a site for a supreme court
building and this and several other
bills were passed.
The house passed the District of
Columbia appiopriation bill without a
single amendment. The lull carries
(3,850,950, which is (176,600 less than
was car-'ied by the last' bill, and (2,
871,857 less than the estimates. The
bou8? also passed the senate bill, which
was under consideration yesterday, to
amond the laws relating to .seamen
All the amendments were rejected.
GAS TANK COLLAPSED.
Flood of Water Followed, Carrying
Death and Destruction
New York, Dec. 15. The great steel
gas tank of the Consolidated Gas Com
pany at Avenue A and Twentieth
streets, the largest of its kind in the
world, collapsed at 6:30 o'olock thi
afternoon. It went down with a crash
and roar like a great explosion. Ma
Bonry of granite blocks and bricks to
the height ot 60 feet fell like a child'
toy houjo of blocks, and loosened from
bondago, ,000,000 of gallons of water
deluged the streets, and in a 10-foot
tidal wave carried death and destruc
tion through the surrounding neighbor
hood. It , is not known how many
were killed and injured.'
Movements of I.es Corps.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 15. Two bat
talions ot the Second Illinois regiment
of Lee's corps arrived on the transport
Michigan, tonight, and will sail tomor
row morning for Mariana. The trans
port Mobile arrived today from Phila
delphia, and will sail Sunday with the
One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana
regiment and the Third battalion of
the Second Illinois.
Over 100 miles of telegraph wiret
run through the sewers of Paris.
SNOW SHOVELERS KILLED
Ran Down by a Fast Train on the Mew
York Central, f I
Buffalo, New York, Dec. 15. --Nine
men were killed and- tliree Injured at
Winspur bridge, nAr Corfu, on the
New York Central railroad, ftoday.
They were Poles, with the exception of
John Warnes, their rfpieman, who is
among the killed. The men. were en
gaged in shoveling snow. i All were
frightfully mutilated. The men stepped
from the track to avoid an approaching
traii), right in front of a fast express
train, running in the same direction as
the first, and were literally ground to
pieces. Engineer Smith, of the ex
press, 1n an interview, said: .
'I could see nothing ahead of me,
but 1 thought the place looked bad and
blew my whistle. I had my hand on
the whistle when 1 heard my fireman
yell. He did not call for brakes, but I
lapped on the air the minute I heard
him. He had seen a mifn beside the
track, though he had not seen anyone
struck. A moment after I applied the
biakes I saw a man shoot up into the
air on my side of the cab. He was as
high as the smokestack when I saw
him. He came down on the freight
train which was running along on that
ide, and was carried a mile before he
fell off. My train stopped in about
two train lengths, and the sight that I
saw when I got out was the most horri
ble I have ever witnessed. The dead
and mangled were lying on both sides
of the track just as they had been
thrown. I did not see them nntil after
we had struck them. I did not see
them oome on the track, and until my
fireman yelled I did not know they
were there."
MEXICO'S OFFER TO SPAIN
Colonization Scheme That Will Benefit
Both Parties.
New York, Dec. 15. A dispatoh to
the Press from Washington says: The
Mexioan government" haB submitted a
colonization project to the Spanish au
thorities in Havana, by which it pro
poses not only to aid the Spanish gov
ernment, but to give great assistance as
well to the Spanish soldiers who have
served in Cuban warfare and are soon
to evacuate Cuba. '; '
The proposition of the Mexican gov
ernment is to organize bands among
the Spanish soldiers and provide them
th free passage to . Mexico, where
necessary tools, seeds and implements
for agricultural work will be furnished
and in addition oxen and small houses
will be given to the immigrants and a
certain tract of the public lands in
Mexico will be provided for coloniza
tion purposes. .
The government, in turn, is to take
a lien upon the products, and exact
return of 20 per cent eaoh year until
the supplies are paid foi by the colo
nists, after which the lands will be
come their own.
For those who do not care to accept
this proposition, arrangements have
been made by the government of Mex
loo to supply a large number ot Span
sh soldiers with labor on the publio
works and in the mines, at the rate of
118 a month.
IN BARBAROUS FORMOSA.
Terrible Atrocities Committed by the
Rebels.
San Francisco, Deo. 15. Oriental
adivces are that terrible atrocities have
occurred in Formosa. Two hundred
rebels recently attacked a village, sur
prising the people and looting the
place. They burned 87 houses. A Jap
anese police inspector and six consta-
bles pensned in repelling the attack
One constable was captured alive. The
insurgents fastened on his neolt tho
bloody heads of his companions and
drove him before them into the woods.
Reinforcements were sent to tho vil
lage, where the mutilated bodiesot the
victims were found. One constable
who escaped, killed his own wife and
child with his Japanese sword to pre
vent them from becoming captives. He
was then killed by the savages.
There is much disquietude among
the inhabitants ot Hankow since the
recent fire, in which 8,000 people lost
their lives. Several smaller fires have
occurred since, all believed to be the
work of incendiaries. The Shanghai
Daily Press Bays five Chinese were
caught in the act of igniting as many
dwellings. They were thrown into tho
flames and burned alive.
Tortured by Filipinos.
San Francisco, Deo. 15. The Manila
correspondent of the Hong Korig Press
gies details ot tne shocking treatment
ot friars and otiier prisoners tauiur
by the insurgents in the northern part
of the island of Luzon. Uuimrnl Ley
be, who was Bent by Agulnaldo to at'
tack the oitios in the extreme north ot
Luzon, sent a report to his chief that
he had brought the entire section raid
ed completely under the control of the
Filipinos. Leybe also mentions in his
report the capture of 124 friars and lav
brothers, many Spanish soldiers, with
their arms and property, and silver and
gord valued at (800.000.
The Press correspondent states thit
from Spanish Bources have come reports
of terrible atrocities oommitted by the
rebels, who are said to have looted the
churches in the town of Cagayan and
Apari. The correspondent says:
"The bishop was subjected to the
grossest indignities. The friars were
beaten with sticks, kicked and hung up
in the torrid sun lor several hours.
The natives were forbidden to render
the friars any assistance. During their
greatest sufferings, while hungry and
naked in the broiling sun, Chinese and
natives furtively supplied them with
food and water. One aged friar was
placed upon a horse's saddle and
'iuuioed' until blood poured from his
mouth and nose. Another, it is said
olothed only In a rain coat, was carried
in triumph for 200 yards, then oudg
elod to death mid savage cries. Nans
in the convent were subjected to shame
less treatment."
iffiiin mix
Rioting in Havana,-
With
' Fatal Results!
THREE KILLED, MANY WOUNDED
The Trouble Was Canned hy an Effort
to Close the Theaters on Aeounnt
of Garola's Death. .
Havana, Dec. 14. After the news of
General Garcla'a death spread through
Havana early yesterday afternoon, the
Cubans wished to have all the places of
amusement closed, They suceeded in
Closing two places frequented by
Cubans, but the management of the
Tacon theater, where there were many
Spanish officers among the audience,
refused to close the house. Thereupon
Allegretto, a former captain of the
Cuban troops, got into an excited argu
ment with the manager of the theater,
and was escorted to the sidewalk by
the police on duty. There Allegretto
entered into a heated discussion with a
Spanish officer, who struok him across
the face with the flat of bis sword.
Then there was a collision between the
Cubans and Spanish military men,
more blows were struok on both sides,
and ' many persons from the cafes and
park cheered for Spain and brought
crowds of people to the spot from ad
jacent streets and squares.
Suddenly a shot was fired, whether
by a .Cuban or by a Spaniard, inten
tionally or accidentally, cannot be said,
and the Cubans retieated into the Ho
tel Ingleterra. More shots were filed
on both sides, and Arturo, a French
citizen, born in Havana, was shot and
seriously wounded while sitting at a
table.
More shots were fired, and Cubans
ran through the hotel office and made
.their way upstairs. Jesus Solongo, a
Cuban, fell wounded on the stairs, and
Another wounded man broke into the
room occupied by Lieutenant Fitzbugh
Lee, son of the famous general, and the
former consul-general here, demanding
protection. General Greene and sev
eral members of his staff, who had been
cut on a balcony watching the crowd,
heard the nproar in the hotel, and went
into the corridor. So soon as the Span
ish offioers saw General Greene,, who
Was in uniform, they stopped the pur
suit of the Cubans, saluted and retired.
In the meantime, Eastaquino Lemus
had been fatally wounded in the street,
and Pedro Blesa and Sonor Jiminez bad
been killed.
Shortly after the Spanish guards on
duty swarmed in from the neighboring
streets, and order was restored.
At the time the Cubans and pursuing
Spaniards ran through the Hotel Ingle
terra, General Humphreys was in the
lobby, talking to Majoi Martin, of Gen
eral Greene's staff, and other gentle
men. A bullet shattered a mirror near
which they1 stood,' and two others
splintered the staircase.
R. S. Howland, editor of the Provi
dence Journal and Mr. W. L. Rellly, a
New York contractor, were jostled by
the sudden rush of shouting and fight
ing men. General Julio Sanguilly was
sitting at a table in the lobby. The
violent soenes in the office and on the
stairs lasted, however, for only a few
minutes. On the outside the Spanish
soldiers were clearing the great square
and streets in the vicinity. The hotel
was full of Amerioan officers and civil
ians, and some of them with their
wives were standing on the balconies at
the Imminent risk of being hit by bul
lets fired at an upward angle to scare
the orowds. From that point they
watched the spectaole in the electric
lighted square.
It is reported that in addition to
those killed and wounded who have
been previously mentioned, 14 are be
ing oared for in private houses. Three
arrests were made. A few minutes
after the shooting in the hotel fright
ened patrons and Cubans gathered
around General Greene asking if he
would protect them. He assured them
be believed they were safe, but the only
recognized authority in Havana was
the Spanish executive. He then Bent
Captain Cole and Lieutenant Stevens
to General Castellanos to inquire what
was being done to preserve Older. The
lattet replied that the cafes had been
ordered closed, and the streets cleared,
while troops in sufficient numbers to
keep the peace bad been posted in the
squares and thoroughfares. Two of
the aids of General Castellanos called
upon General Greene and gave him
further personal assurances.
Telephone messages describing the
occurrence were sent to General Wade
in Elvedado, and General Greene
cabled to Washington a brief statement
ot the facts. What was taking place in
the city was all unknown to the Amer
ican warships and transports in the
harbor, nor did the newa reaoh there
until this morning.
The United States evacuation com
missioners and General Greene Bent
General Clous and Captain Hart at
noon today to exchange views with the
Spanish commissioners. It was ar
ranged that all the Cuban officers and
soldiers, including General Julio San
guilly and Jose Laoret. should go to
the camp near Mariano and remain out
of the city until the Spanish forces were
withdrawn. Mr. Jerome, the British
consul, had already called at the palace
on the same mission.
Astonishing Chinese Reform.
London, Dec. 13. The Peking cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: An
imperial rescript just issued sentences
to death a Chinese literatus who
wrote threatening letters to a foreign
missionary in Kiaug Si, and confers
Chinese honors on the missionary for
his tact and forbearance in the matter.
The edict astonished the Chinese and
the action of the empress dowager it
likely to hare a salutary effect.
EXPANSION OPPOSED
Senators
Test and Hoar Desire No
Philippines.
Washington, Dec. 14. Discussion of
two questions, eaoh o importance and
interest at this session,, was begun Dy
the senate at its session today. Terri
torial expansion and: the construction of
the Nicaragua oanal occupied the atten
tion of the body dunng the greater part
of the afternoon.
As soon as the routine morning busi
ness had been disposed of, M. Vest
(Dem. Mo.) called up. his resolution
offered last week, declaring H to be un
constituionai for this government to
acquire foreign territory except forooalr
ing stations or some like purpose, un
less its intention was to confer state
hood upon'' the territory ' and citizen
ship upon its inhabitants. Mr. Vest
declared it was a basio principle of this)
government "that the powers of the
government were derived from the con
Bent of the governed," and maintained
that the federal government had no
authority either m morals Or in the-oonstitution--to
go beyond that princi
ple. He held that the prinoiple had
been sustained by the supreme court in
various decisions, and that no public
man of prominence and no recognized
tribunal had ever been reckless enough
to oontrovert it.
Mr. Morgan opened the debate on the
canal bill with a three hours' appeal
for action at this session. The whole
country, he said, would be disappoint
ed if oongress did not act. He was;
willing to take any measure which
would result in the building of the
canal. In the course of his remarks,
he agreed to accept an amendment spe
cifically exoepting the canal from neu
trality with regards to any country
with which the United States might
be at war.
TO RELIEVE VOLUNTEERS.
Biz Regiments Designated for Service
at Manila.
Washington, Deo. 14. The war de
partment has begun in earnest the re
lief of the volunteer troops pow sta
tioned at Manila by regulars. This
afternoon Secretary .Alger signed an
order designating for this purpose six
regiments oi the United states infantry
out of eight held in reserve for service
to tropical countries. , The regiments
are the Twentieth, at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan.; the Third, at Fort Snell
ing, Minn.; the Twelfth, at Jefferson
barracks, Mo., and Fort Riley, Kan.; .
the Seventeenth, at Columbus barracks,
O.; the Fourth, at Fort Sheridan, and '
the Twenty-second, at Fort Crook, Neb.
. They will go forward to Manila as
soon as the transportation oan be pro
vided. It may be that the two regi
ments still held in reserve, the Twenty
fourth and the Twenty-fifth infantry,
will join the others before they Bail. -These
regiments were selected in the
reverse ratio to the loss sustained 'by
them in the Cuban campaign. The
volunteers in Manila will be retried ir
the order in whioh they reached that
city. '
Bear-End Collision.
Pendleton,- Or., Deo. 18. Rushing
down the mountain grade of the O. R.
& N. Co. 's' main line a heavy freight
train orashed into the rear end of the
overland fast mail and piled up the
cars and engine in great confusion.
The mail train was at the time station
ary. Tliree men were injured David
Fileer, an old man of 64, who was on
his way to the coast from Montauk,
111.; Jay Adams, of Sau Francisco,
general Pacific coast agent for tho
Nickel Plate road, who was cut and
scalded; Louis Pleohner, traveling
I salesman for the wholesale house of
! Ginterman Bros., St. Paul; and" Fire
I man Harry Borrows, of the freight
train, who received a out on the fore
head. Isle de Cuba Leaves.
Manila, Dec. 14. The Iale do
Cuba, one of the ships sunk by Dewev
in the battle of Manila, and which he
subsequently caused to be raised, start
ed for Hong Kong today under her own
steam. She is of 1,030 tons displace
ment and 2,200 indicated horse-power.
The Raleigh leaves for home Thurs
day via the Suez canal.
As a result of an altercation before a
fruit stand yesterday, a California vol
unteers was stabbed and two natives
shot to death.
Tbe Mare Island Fleet.
Vallejo, Cal., Deo. 14. The rebuild
ing of the United States oruiser Ranger
at Mare island is progressing rapidly.
The Wheeling came out of the dock to
day. She will receive her supply of
coal and provisions in a few days, and
will then sail for the northern seas.
The Iroquois has been thoroughly over
hauled and in readiness to go into com
mission. Commander Henry Nichols
has been ordered to Manila to take
oharge of the Monadnook.
Father and Sea Killed.
Denver, Deo. 14. A special to the
News from Starkville, Colo., savs;
Michael Tereso and his 15-year old son
Antonio were killed today by a cave-in
in the coal mine in which they were
working.
Fonr Bnrned to Death.
New York, Dec. 14. The fire which
destroyed the apartment-house at 134
ProsDect Plaoe. Brooklyn, last nkhr.
killed four persons Joseph W. Nob
lett, bis wife, his wife's mother, Mrs.
Stothern. and John Winee. The other
missing persons have been accounted
'or ' '
To Welcome the Fighting Maehlnes.
Lima, Pern, Dec 14. Cubans resid
ing here are preparing to give an en
thusiastic reoeption to the United
States battle-Bhips Oregon and Iowa, on
their arrival in the northern passage
along the coast, en route to join Dew
ey's) squadron at Manila.
i Aged Argonant Dead. ,
New York, Dec. 14. Dr. Edward
Shall, a noted physician, is dead at his
home in this city, aged 60 years. He
was a California goldbunter in 1849.