OREGON CITY COURIER
OREGON CITY HERALD
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A. .CHENEY..... PublisfiCT
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Fait Week
Called From the Telegraph Columns.
The Spanish government has decided
not to sell the Caroline islands.
Tbe secretary of war has given orders
for the mustering out of tbe Third regi
ment of imrounes, now stationed at
6antiago and vicinity.
The fortifications appropriation bill,
as it will be recommended by the com
mittee, canies $4,744. 198, as against
estimates of $12,161,198.
It is said the administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at
Apia, in his selection of Malietoa Tan
as as king of tbe Samoan islands.
The secretary of war reports tha
sickness in some of the American regi
ments in the Philippines is high as 17
Der oent, but the average is about 10
per oent.
The teport of the war investigating
commission is in the hands of the pres
ident, and the commission is dissolved.
During the investigation 500 witnesses
were examined.
Many accounts of deaths from freez
ing are reported from the East. At
Bloomington, lnd., J. W. Hinkle, who
has served several terms as sheriff, was
frozen to death while going to his
home. Near Dayton, 0., Martin Duffln
ger suffered a like fate while feeding
bis hogs.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued a statement in whioh it is
claimed that the American soldiers
precipitated the recent battle at Ma
nila, and that the bombardment of the
towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana and
Malabon oaused the slaughter of 4,000
women and children.
A contract has been let for two 12,-000-ton
steamships for the Paoiflo Mail
steamship Co. They will be the larg
est so far built at an Amerioan ship
yard, their dimensions being greater
than those of the American liners St.
Louis and St. Paul. They are to ply
between San Francisco and China.
Chinese rebels are raiding Christian
churches and driving out missionaries.
At Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ko
man Catholio chapels have been burned
and the houses of the native churoh
members have been destroyed. Several
hundred children under the care of the
Roman Catholics, aie said to have
been drowned by the laiders near
Kueifu.
There seems to be an idea in Paris
that Japan will make trouble for the
United States by surreptitiously aiding
the Filipinos.
Many of the recently disbanded Cali
fornia volunteers are enlisting in the
regular army, being desirous of going
to the Philippines.
The controller of the currency has la
med a call for reports of the condition
of all national banks at the close of
business February 4.
It is reported that the executive com
mittee of the Cuban assembly willl oall
Domes to aocouut for accepting the
proposition from this government rela
tive to disbanding the Cuban army.
A freight train on the O. R, & N.
was wrecked near Corbett, Or., by
running into a landslide. The fire
man and a tramp were injured.
Fifteen cars were piled up in a heap.
Duke d'Arcos, formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico is likely to be legis
lated by the Madrid government as its
minister to Washington to exchange
the ratifications of the treaty of peace.
Wolff & Zwicker, the Portland ship
builders, propose to build a floating
tlry-dook capable of raising a 5,000-ton
vessel, providing the state of Oregon
or the oity of Portland will guarantee
bonds to the amount of $250,000.
It is reported from Washington that
the war investigating committee will
severely criticise General Miles on his
conduct during the late war with Spain.
The committee will report that Miles'
statement about chemically prepared
beef is not sustained by any evidence
before the committee.
Four happy Dawsonites passod
through Skagway recently with a can
vas sack of Yukon gold that weighed
100 pounds dead weight, and which
came from French gulch diggings on
Eldorado creek. They are all Canadian
citizens rind II rat came to Alaska dur
ing the popular Klondike rush of De
cember, 1897.
The steamer Moana Loa, which has
arrived at San Francisco, brings infor
mation from Honolulu that it has been
definitely determined that the wreck
on the Kahaln coast was the four-mast-ed
Btoamer Nomad, Captain MoAllep,
which sailed from Shanghai for Puget
ound in ballast 10 months ago. The
vessel was a new one, and belonged to
Hall Bros., of San Francisco. Captain
AloAllep was accompanied on the trip
bv his wife, daughter and thiee sons.
.All are undoubtedly lost.
Minor New Hums,
tA bargo loaded with a large quantity
of cordwood, consigned to a Portland
dealer was lost during tbe recent
freshet in the east fork of the Lewis
fiver.
A carload of green onyx marble, the
first shipment of dimension stone from
the .quarries of the United States Mar
ble Company, near Valley, in Stevens
county, Wash,, was on the truck in
r-pokune recently for a few hours, eo
route to Chicago.
LATER NEWS.
Nearly 2,000 Spanish prisoners left
Manila for Spain on the 12th and 13th.
One man waa killed and five serious
ly injured in a powder explos:on at
Mossgrove, Pa.
Four Chinese have died from in
juries sustained in the San Franciaoo
Chinatown fire Sunday.
Silas Jones and six children were
Domed to death on the Richardson
and May plantation, at Cornerstone,
Ark.
II. M. S. Leander has been ordered
to proceed with all speed to Bolivia to
protect the property and lives of Brit
ish residents during the revolution.
Fire in Cincinnati destroyed the
clothing houses of Kahn & Felthmeyer,
H. A. Heinsheimer and Sanford, Stern
& Sarner. The loss is nearly $500,000.
There is a rumor in Paris that ne
gotiations are taking place between the
Panama canal company and the Wash
ington government, looking to the com
pletion of the canal.
Thirty-five persns have died of small
pox in tbe Cieek nation within a few
weeks. The victims were negroes and
Indians. All of Western Oklahoma
has quarantined against the infected
district.
The recently arrived Filipinos, Gen.
Riego de Dios and M. Rivera, are on
their way to Montreal to urge Agon
cillo, the Philippine government repre
sentative, to go to Washington and sue
for peace.
The buildings of the G'eer Ma
chinery Company and the Whittle
Trunk Company, at Knoxville, Tenn.,
with their contents, were destroyed Ay
fire. The loss is estimated at between
$75,000 and $100,000.
In the United States senate Tuesday
the MoEnery resolution, declaring that
the ratification of the peaoe treaty is
not a declaration on the part of the i
United States to permanently hold the
Philmninfl islands, was no used hv a .
vote of 26 to 22.
There was a celebration in Salem on
the 14th, tbe occasion being the 50th
anniversary of the extension of the I
laws of the United States over the Ore
gon country, and the 40th anniversary
of the admittance of Orogon into the
Union as a state.
A cablegram comes from New Zea
land stating that when the cruiser
Philadelphia reaches Apia, King Ma-
taafa will be forced to give up his
throne to Maliteoa Tanus. The Brit'
ish end American consuls will declare
the latter, the king, and their declara
tion will be enforced by British and
American marines.
Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an
nouncing the death of Captain Oliver
Peiry Smith, commissary, from acute
nephritis.
Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and
Will Johnson, Collins county farmers,
were frozen to death Saturday night
near Dallas Tex.
The senate has passed a bill creating
the office of admiral of the navy.
Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood,
will be named for the position.
On Monday an ocean liner in dis
tress was sighted off Dread ledge, in
Swampscott bay, Mass. The life-sav
ing crew could not reach her on ac
count of the ice.
The outbreak at Manila has enliven
ed business at the United States re
orultlng office in Portland. Nineteen
more men mustered out of the Eighth
California were enlisted last week.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of C. J. Bell, assistant secre
tary of the treasury, and that of Lieu
tenant-Colonel F. M. Coxe, ' to be as
sistant paymaster-general of the army.
The army and navy captured Ilo Ilo,
the second oity of importance in the
Philippines Saturday, without the
loss of an Ameiican soldier. The Pet-
tel and Baltimore shelled the city,
which forced the insurgents to evuou-
ate.
Otis wires the war department a list
of deaths in his oommand since Febru
ary 4, not including those of men killed
in action. They number nine. Among
the names appear those of Private Dan
iel Kyger and W. Chonwood. First
Washington, and Michael P. Crowley,
Second Oregon.
Speaker Reed was not at the cnpitol
Monday, and swnt word he thought it
advisable to adjourn on account of the
Btorra. Lees than a hundred membeis
were present, and those who braved
the storm refused to adjourn, and went
on with consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
There is reported a serious hitch in
the work of the Anglo-American com
mission. The obstacle is said to be a
demand made by the Canadian com
mission for the cession of the town ol
KkauWHV. AIuhUh. Tim Amrlinn mi.
missioners have definitely refused to
ceded that gateway to the Yukon.
Terrible blizzards swept over the
South, East and Middle West Sunday
and Monday. The winds went bo high
on the Atlantio seaboard that ocean
Bteamships were BtOrm-bound in the of ditches and canals, of special inter
harbors. Nine big Atlantio liners due est to mining seotions, and the other ia
at New York Saturday had not put in a bill to withdraw oertain school landa
their appearance Monday, Intense
oold accompanied the storm and muoh
Buffering is reported The cold wave
extends from the AVlantio to Western
Texas
A deposit of earth strontinn has
been found on Put-in-Bay island in
Lake Erie. It ia many acres in extent.
The citrate of strontia is of pure white
color.
Tho Hamburg-American line steamer
Adda arrived at Kcw York Sunday
from Hambnrir after a most teninestons
30. Captain Levetzoi', while tiying to
go from
the bridge lo the cabin, was
thrown down into tm) cabin passageway '
and killed. i
SALEM LEGISLATURE.
The BUI to Fix Interest on' Loans From
School Fund Recommitted The
Btate Fair Appropriation.
In the Oregon senate Wednesday the
Vote was reconsidered by which the bill
to ieduoe interest on loans from the
Btate ecbool fund waa passed Tuesday
in order that the rate might be fixed
absolutely at 6 per cent, the bill as
passed authorizing 8 per oent if it could
be obtained. It was deemed an objec
tion to leave the matter open to pos
sible brokerage arrangements. The
bill was recommitted for amendment.
Dnfui's bill to extend the privileges
of the Soldeirs' Home to the wives and
widows of old soldiers was lost, receiv
ing only six votes.
The following bills were passed: To
reduce the salary of the Wasco county
judge to $800 and that of the treasurer
to $600; to do away with the neoessity
of personal service or posting notice in
case of attachment of real property; to
create the office of recorder of convey
ances for Polk county at a salary of
$1,000 per year; to provide the man
ner of releasing sureties who may be
come dissatisfied with their risk; to
provide that surety companies may sign
bonds; to cure defeots in certain deeds
and judioial sales; to amend the law
so as to retsriot credits to the sheriff
on the tax list charged against him.
Btate Fair Appropriation Knocked Out.
The Wednesday forenoon session ol
the house was devoted largely to reports
of committees and first reading of bills.
Twenty-seven committees made reports
and 68 bills were reported on.
The principal business to occupy the
time of the house in the afternoon was
the consideration of the general appro
priation bill. The house went into
committee of the whole and the various
items were taken up one at a time.
11)6 most important item KnocKea out
"as the state, fair appropriation, by a
Vote OI AV to rfU.
Other bills passed were: To pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of adul
terated commercial fertilizers; to
authorize county courts to levy a spe
cial tax of 10 mills and a road poll tax
of $3 for the road fund; to prohibit the
sale of deer and deer hides from August
1 to Deoember 1; to give laborers in
mines and supply agents furnishing
supplies a lien on mining property for
claims; to change the time of court
terms in the second district; to fix sal
arles of county judges and to place the
clerk of the supreme court upon a sal'
ary of $8,000 and give him two depu
ties at $70 and $50 per month respec
tively. In the Oregon senate Thursday,
Harmon's registration bill waa passed
by unanimous vote. The merits of
the bill were discussed at length on
Mitchell's motion to recommit which
finally received only his own vote. In
debate the expressions were generally
unfavorable to the Hill bill, which;
passed the house a few days ago by a
decisive vote.
The pure food bill passed the senate
by a unanimous vote. There was no
Objection to the main feature of the
bill, but a slight amendment was
made eo as to exempt from making an
nual reports persons selling less than
25 pounds of butter weekly; specifying
tbe number and the pay of employes
of the legislature, including committee
clerks, was passed without discussion,
only six voting against it.
Other bills passed were to incor
porate Eugene, Carleton, Burns, Prine
ville and Canby, the two last named
being house bills.
Daly Bohool Law.
Two Important measures came before
the Oregon senate Friday, and neither
reachod a vote. Amendments to tho
Daly school law were discussed for hall
an hour, and the matter being difficult
to understand, in its present form, the
entire bill was ordeied printed again
with amendments.
The bill to encourage the use of wide
tire wagons on public roads was passed.
The bill to repeal the section appropri
ating $5,000 for the state fair was dis
cussed half an hour and then made a
special order, for Wednesday morning.
The pure linseed-oil bill was lost, 13 to
11; the bill providing for the Torrens
system of registering land titles passed
with only three negative votes; the bill
for an irreducible school' fund in Doug
las county passed without question;
the bill to reduce the salaries of the
county clerk, olerk of the circuit court
and reooidor in Multnomah county from
$3,500 to $3,500 each was passed.
New bills were introduced as fol
lows: To authorize tbe state school
land board to oontract loans now out at.
6 per oent interest for the futuie; to
provide for the appointment of three
Bupreme court commissioners.
The vote by which Stanley's bill to
regulate the praotice of dentistry in
Oregon was defeated Thursday, was re
consideied in the house Friday, and
the bill passed by a vote of 84.
Two other important bills were
passed.
One ia an amendment to the
mining laws to facilitate the building
from pnbllo sale and reduce the inter
est on loans ol school luiuts In con
formity with recommendations of the
governor in a recent message to both
houses of the legislature.
In the house Thursday the following
bills were passed: Senate bill provid
ing for a separate board of county com
missioners for Clackamas county; to
authorize county courts and school dis
tricts to display flags on courthouses
and schoolhouscs, to amend the codo
lelative to the loan of school funda by
leduoing the intorest rate to 6 per cent,
and providing foi foreclosure proceed
ings whenever interest becomes In ar.
rears six months: to rmmlnta tha In !n.
ina of sheen from one ot.rintv ta anntha-
and directing insne.ition:-
THE DALY TEXT-BOOK BILL.
It Was Temporarily Defeated In the
House.'
In the Oregon house Monday the
Daly bill for a text-book commission
failed by three votes to pass, but a mo
tion for reconsideration was carried
by a decisive majority.
The greater part of the day waa
taken up in discission of the bill.
The anti-crimping bill, which was
referred to the Multnomah delegation
last week, waa reported back to the
house and referred to the committee on
commerce.
The afternoon session ws given up
to the consideration of charter bills,
the following being passed: Michell,
Dalles City and Moro; Kelly,' Browns
ville and Lebanon; Smith, Burns;
Howe, Carlton; , Proebstel, Weston;
Dufur, Dufur; Fordney, Enterprise.
Gray secured the passage of a resolu
tion authorizing the secretary of state
to give each member and officer of the
house a oopy of the session laws of
1893, and a histoiy of the cr'y Indian
wars.
The following bills were passed: To
protect salmon in Alsea bay and its
tributaries; to create the office of clerk
of the justice court in cities of 50,000
population or over; to authorize Mult
nomah oounty to lease the upper deck
of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company's bridge; to provide for the
sale of tidelands; revision of the laws
relating to negotiable instruments; to
proteot salmon in Rogue river; to reor
ganize the state board of horticulture;
to proteot salmon in Curry county; to
piovide for the oreation of park com
missions in cities of 8,000 population
or over; to require county clerks to ad
minister oaths without charge in pen
sion matters.
Kuykendall's bills to provide for
county eleotiona and upon the running
at large of stock, and Cameron's bill to
prohibit the running at large of certain
animals, were defeated.
The house concurred in the senate
amendments to the Curtis fish hatch
ery bill, reducing the amount of the
appropriation from $25,000 to $15,000.
In the Senate.
In the Orgon senate Monday the bill
to provide for the reclamation of arid
lands under the Carey act of congress
was passed by a vote of 21 to 8, after
being amended so as to prohibit any
one party from taking moie than 150,
000 acres.
The seaate committee reported a
substitute for Hawson's house bill for
artesian wells, the substitute appropri
ating $2,000 for an experiment in the
county whioh will offer the greatest
money inducement, instead of $42,
000, as provided in the original bill.
Stillman'a bill to withdraw school
landa from sale and plaoe interest on
school-fund loans at 6 per cent, passed
with only two opposing votes.
The sugar-beet bounty bill was re
committed to the judiciary committee
for amendments, and the bill to regu
late build'ng and loan associations was
indefinitely postponed, because another
bill covered the same ground.
The bill to appropriate $25,000 for
salmon hatcheries passed by a vote of
17 to 11.
THE CAPITAL BILL DOOMED.
Not Enough Votes to Pass It Over the
Governor's Veto.
In the Washington legislature Mon
day it developed that it would be im
possible to muster enough votes to
pass the capitol building bill over the
governor's veto.
The senate waa in session but 15
minutes In the morning and adjourned.
A resolution was adopted, expressing
sympathy for the parents of Sergeant
Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger,
jr., of Walla Walla, members of com
pany I, Washington volunteers, who
died recently at Manila.
Bills introduced were: Creating a
state board of tax commissioners, con
sisting of the auditor, secretary of state
and land commissioner, to assess rail
road property for taxution; providing
that $3 worth of poison be furnished
by the oounty to each farmer to kill
ground squirrels.
v In the House.
The Washington house held sessions
both morning and afternoon. At the
morning session billa intioduced were:
Releasing personal property from cus
tody, pending appeal; prohibiting the
taxing of attorney fees as costs; pro
viding for the county licensing of ped
dlers; providing for the appointment
of a hop inspector; relating to state
school taxes; exempting from taxation
property of religious, charitable and
educational institutions; prescribing
the powers and duties of wreck mas
ters; relating to the disqualification of
judges; providing for the foreclosure
of chattel mortgages without suit; pro
viding for the appointment of an ex
officio surveyor-general and deputies;
relating to assessments for local im
provements. The bill empowering colleges to issue
normal diplomas waa indefinitely post
poned after a long debate.
At the afternoon session nine laid
over, nine read a second time, and four
sent back to oouimittees.
Bills introduced were: Regulating
fishing industry; making state fish
commissioner ex-offlcio game warden.
Bills passed wein: . Giving cities
power to define and punish vagrancy;
relating to .the method of decreasing
the capital stock of corporations; com
pelling railroads to fence rights of way,
and to pay for stock killed; designat
ing the last Friday in October as the
date for holding supervisors' elections;
regulating the sale of hotter and
cheese; providing for the organization
of diking and ditohing distriots; giv
ing electrio railways the right of emi
nent domain; granting rebates on road
taxes to farmers using wide-tired ve
hicles. A light earthquake was felt at Chilli
cothe, O., and in East Tennessee Monday.
STILL INTRODUCING BILLS.
Washington Legislature Took In a
Large Number Tuesday. ,
The Washington house Tuesday con
sidered 45 bills Three were passed, 21
indefinitely 'postponed, 16 advanced
from second to third reading, two or
dered printed, one tabled, one made a
special order for Friday, and one re
committed. Bills introduced were: Providing
for the organization of mutual fire in
surance companies; providing for the
general sohool tax levy; reducing the
oost of the administration of small es
tates; making Indian war veterans el
igible to county relief; abolishing capi
tal punishment; appropriating $392 for
the relief of the Olympia Light &
Power Company; ' providing for con
demnation 'proceedings for irrigating
companies; prohibiting the poisoning
of honey bees;) fixing the length of a
school day providing for the systematic
improvement of public roads; relating
to county surveyors; relating to the
location of mining olaims; relating to
the duties of oounty surveyors; regu
lating common carriers, relating to
liens on logs.
Field's bill relating to lode and pla
cer claims was made a special order for
10:55 A. M., Friday.
Bills passed were: Providing for
the investment of the state permanent
school fund in 8 per cent state bonds;
investing the permanent school funda
in state warrants; preventing the Bale
of trout.
In the Senate.
In the senate Tuesday, bills indefi
nitely postponed were: Relating to
the escheats of property; relating to
services of summons.
Senate bills passed were: Provid
ing for the issuance and sale of bonds
to pay the cost of local improvements;
requiring road ' supervisors to destroy
Canada and Russian thistles.
The senate, after a long debate, by
nearly a unanimous vote, refused to
concur in the house amendments in
creasing the normal school appropria
tions from the amounts fixed in the
senate bill. The house has refused to
recede, and a conference committee
will be appointed.
Bills introduced were: Relating to
the state's share of tiquor licenses;
prescribing sleeping-car rates; defining
and prohibiting trusts; providing for
the transportation of freight over con
necting roads, and prohibiting discrim
ination; to regulate mutual fire insur
ance. The house amendments to the bill
appropriating $1,600 for the commis
sioner of pablio lands were conourred
in.
The entire afternoon session of the
senate was given up to the discussion
of the bill oreating the oounty of Ferry
from a portion of Stevens oounty. The
bill passed, with amendments, by a
vote of 24 to 5.
OREGON'S ADMISSION. DAY.
The Anniversary Observed by Kzercises
at the Capitol.
The 50th anniversary of the exten
sion of the United States laws over
Oregon, as well as the 40th anniversary
of the admission of the state into the
Union, was celebrated by tbe legisla
ture Tuesday with joint meetings in
the hall of representatives, to which
many pioneers and prominent citizens
and the public had been invited, and
probably 1,200 persons were able to
crowd within the uhamber and listen
to the speeohes and music.
The meeting was presided over by
Governor Geer. Three-auarters of an
lioui was ocoupied with an address by
Hon. L. B. Cox on "The Relations of
tho Legislature to the Constitution."
The choral union sang, "America,"
and another selection by the orchestra
closed the morning exrecises. In the
afternoon, after a solo, "Two Grena
diers," by W. P. Babcock, George H.
Williams delivered the occasional ad
dress, which was a comprehensive sum
mary of the political histoiy of the
early years of Oregon's statehood.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway spoke
on "The Influence of Pioneer Women
in the Making of Oregon." which was
listened to with close attention and
was liberally punctuated with ap
plause. Hut Little Business Transacted.
The admission day celebration in
terfered with work in the Oregon legis
lature Tuesday.
The senate convened for general bus
iness in the evening, after the joint
session. The report of the special
committee appointed to confer with the
state board of agriculture relative to a
state fair appropriation reoommended
that the appropriation be discontinued,
and that the affairs of the State Agri
cultural Society be wound up. There
port was filed.
The following bills wore passed: To
amend the charter of Salem; to legu
late horse-shoeing in Portland; to tax
bicycles for the support of bicycle
paths, after an amendment exempting
18 counties from the operation of the
law; to turn into the general fund re
ceipts from a 2 per cent tax on the
gross earnings of ioreign insurance
companies, whioh now go into the
school fund.
In tho House.
1 Aftei the adjournment of the joint
session the house took up the third
reading of house bills, whioh led to
a controversy as to the best method of
expediting business. During the dis
cussion a motion to adjourn prevailed.
In the senate Tuesday, on Roberts'
house bill to provide for state normal
schools at Asliland and Diain, one of
the notable contests of the session was
had. First it came from the com
mittee with a recommendation that
$10,000 be allowed tbe Ashland echool
and $7,500 to Drain. This was amend
ed to allow $7,500 to each. A few
minutes later the bill was taken up
under a suspension of the rules and put
on its final parage. It was carried Ly
a vote of 19 to 10.
The American Forces Struck
the Blow Saturday.
NOT AN AMERICAN WAS LOST
The Petrel and the Baltimore Bom
barded the Town, Which Caused
tbe Insurgents to Evacuate.
Manila, Feb. 15. The United States
gunboat Petrel ariived late last even
ing with dispatches from Brigadier
General M, P. Miller to Major-General
Otis, announcing that Ilo Ilo had been
taken by the combined miltary and
naval forces Saturday morning.
General Miller, on receipt of his in
structions from Manila, sent native
commissioners ashore from the United
States traniport St. Paul, with a com
munication for the rebel governor of
Ilo Ilo, calling upon him to surrender
within a time stated, and warned him
not to make a demonstration in the in
terval. The rebels immediately moved their
guns and prepared to defend their po
sition. Thereupon the Petrel fired two
warning guns, and the rebels immedi
ately opened fire upon her.
The Petrel and the Baltimore then
bombarded the town, which the rebels,
having set on fire, immediately evacu
ated. The American troops were
promptly landed and extinguished the
fires in all cases of foreign property,
but not before considerable damage was
dona
It ia believed the enemy's loss dur
ing the bombardment was heavy, but
no American casualties are reported.
The Official Report.
Washington, Feb. 15. Shortly be
fore midnight, Adjutant-General Cor
bin made publio the following d'spatoh
from Major-General Otis, reporting the
capture of the town of llo Ho by tha
Amerioan forces under General Miller,
on the 11th inet. :
"Manila, Feb. 15. General Millet
reports from Ilo Ilo that the town wae
taken on the 11th inst. and held by
troops. Insurgents were given until
the evening of the 13th to surrender,
but their hostile actions brought on the
engagement during tbe morning. In
surgents fired the native portion of the .
town. But little losses to the property
of the foreign iuabitants. No casual
ties among the troop's."
A dispatch also came from Admiral
Dewey telling of the capture of the
city. It was a brief recital of tbe facta
of the oase, but it is said contained sub
stantially the same information as that
sent by General Otis. It was sent to
the navy department, and ia expected
to be made publio in the morning.
GREAT STORM IN THE EAST.
It Extends From the Atlantio to West
ern Texas.
New York, Feb. lo. Tho fearful
storm which prevailed all day yester
day and last night has increased in vio
lence, and, together with the snow.,
which has drifted in many places, has
almost paralyzed traffic. Trains on all
the steam railroads have been delayed
for five hours by the storm. Nine At
lantic liners due at this port Saturday
have not put in an appearance.
Freight steamers, the voyages of
which are growing uncomfortably long,
are the Eastern Prince, 24 days out
from Shie'ds; Deike Reikmers, 25 day
out from Havre; Salerno, 26 days out
from Newcastle, England, and the
Catania, 18 days out from St. Michaels.
The Alm:da, 65 days out' from
Shields, has been about given up as
lost with all on board.
There ia no doubt that a large fleet
of steamers has arrived in tbe vicinity
of Sandy Hook, and is waiting outside
for the blizzard to pass.
Four Lives Lost.
Marlboro, Mass., Feb. 15. A po
liceman who went to a small house in
the rear of a shoe factory tonight to
investigate a fire found the house full
of smoke, and in a room off the kitchen
four persons lying on a mattress, which
had been placed on the floor, all dead,
and in the kitchen three other per
sona in a state of insensibility.
In the South.
Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 15. The South
ia today enveloped in a storm of un
usual severity. From the Gulf north
ward, and from the Atlantio coast to
tbe western boundary of Texas, a cold
wave has settled heavily on the ooun
try, and produced the lowest tempera
tore ever known.
Fifty Below In Manitoba.
Washington, Feb. 15. The weather
bureau today issued a special bulletin.
It shows that 50 degrees below zero
waa recorded at Minnedosa, Manitoba.
The outlook ia there will be a marked
though gradual rise in the temperature
east of the Rocky mountains after to
day. Disoredit the Andrea Story.
London, Feb.15. Accoraing to a dis
patch to the Standard from Stockholm,
Nansen and Nordensjold, the explorers,
refuse to credit the story from Krasno
yarsk of the finding, in the province of
Yeniseisk, of the bodies of three men,
supposed to be of Audree and his com
panions. Rome, Feb. 15. Prince Napoleon
Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippie
Bonaparte, third son of Prince Lucien
Bonaparte, prince of Canino and chief
of the older branch of the Bonaparte
family, is dead. He was born in Roini
in 1835.
A report comes from Washington
that the subcommittee of the American
members of the joint high commission
Will concede a Portion on Lrnn ronni.
Alaska, to Canada in return for fish
ing concessions on the Eastern coast.