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lllLLSBORO, OREGON, TUTJItSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1898.
NO. 20.
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What Has Happened in the
ClviUzed World.
; GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
aft A Complete) Review of th N.va of th
- I'ul Seven Days In TliU and
Z All Foreign I.anda.
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The einbarkutlon of Toral's troops,
t it in expected, will have been acooiu
;: )iIhIkm1 by August IS.
f Tlie government of Haytl tins de-
f oIIikm to permit this government to
M A eroot a weather station on its domain,
T Havoc win caused by lightning ot
Red Oalc, Nob. Throe persons wore
I killed and considerable property do
; stroyed.
Orders have been rooeived at the navy
; yard, Charlestown, Mam, to expend
j f 10, 000 in tepalra upon the old frigate
; Minnesota.
j Noarly all the people of South Amor
( Ivan countries aro in sympathy with
t Spain and refimo to believe stories of
American victories.
' A Madrid telegram to the London
s? office of the New York Herald Bays the
government has received a telegram
r announcing the surrender ot Manila to
Admiral Dewoy.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Soott baa ruled that in the case of
mortgage note on real estate, whore
payment! are made on the installment
plan, a aeparate revenue stump for each
payment will not be required.
The North aea whalers are again at
work. Operations noar Point Harrow
wore resumed April 16. Inland Esqul
moa aro atarving and coming to the
count for food. A doer station Is to be
established at Point Harrow. '
The cavalry la anxious to proceed to
Porto Rico, but will be obliged to re
main lioro until the Spanish prisoners
of war have been transported to Spain,
which it la believed will have been ac
complished before the next month it
woll advanced.
An attempt by the crew of the
steamer Wandorer to got men and arnja
for tbo Cuban army ashore at Bahla
Honda wus defeuted by the Spaniards.
The Americana were forced to retreat,
with five wounded. The Spanish ro
port of the affair aaya the American
losses wera considerable.
The northeast coast ot England has
boen swept by a (treat storm. Fishing
Moots have had narrow eaeapoa, being
obliged to relinquish all their gear and
neta and run to the harbor (or shelter,
whore many other vessels were com
pelled to seek refugo. North bound
trains have been delayed by the force
of the wind, which has ontisod consider
able damage inland, crops having been
flattened . There wero aome minor
wrecks In the North sea.
A powder mill at Elmira, N.
blew up, killing the owner.
Two men were killed as the result
of an explosion in the Coney mine,
near Hkykomish, Wash.
Tho Illinois circuit court has ruled
that the express com panics must pay
the tax on express packages.
The alleged charges of had faith
against the United States attributed to
Premier SagBSta aro discredited by
Washington authorities as Inventions
designed to prejudice the euocossful
progress of the present peace negotia
tions. A Madrid dispatch Bays General Cor
rea Is arranging for tlioioceptiorr of the
Spanish troops whioh surrendered at
Santiago de Cuba, and prepniing sani
tary stations to prevent the introduc
tion of diseases into Spain.
Strict neutrality la to be maintained
by England, and Watson will find no
"facilities" at Gibraltar. The British
governor there has so assured the Span
ish consul. Spaniards are busy putting
the bay of Gibraltar In a mora com
-"' 'rdatfl state nf dafanaA.
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The Hong Kong correspondent of the
London Daily Muil aaya the viceroy ot
Canton has announced to the foreign
office the complete suppression of tho
rebollion in those districts. He his
announced also that four cities have
been reoocupied by the imperial troops.
With the understanding that no in
demnity will bedemandod and that tho
Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines
will be respected, the Spanish news
papers consider the terms of peace at
tributed to President McKinley as be
ing acceptable. The papers, however,
protest against hostilities being con
tinued by the United States after
Spain had sued for peace.
Admiral Dewey, at Manila, haa dis
patched the Raleigh and Concord to
gather up 11 Spanish craft, which, ac
cording to Information sent him by I
Consul-Genoral Williams, are at van-1
ous places in the Philippines. Among !
these veasels are three gunboats at San !
Miguel, Luzon island, and four at Port !
Boyal, Palawar island. Pour mer
chantmen with oar goes of tobacco are !
reported at Cayagan, Luzon. The same 1
dispatch reports that the English traders 1
at the coal mines at Baton, Luzon '
island, have been Imprisoned and sub-1
jected to ill treatment otherwise by the
npnmurus were.
Minor Newi Items.
A dude fights nearly as well aa a
cowboy, and a oowboy fights better
than Anything else on earth,
Over 600 men ate at work on the
cruiser Yorktown at Mare Island navy
yard, San Francisco, 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
legion-'
LATER NEWS.
. General Morrltt haa askod to hare
his oommand Increased from 80,000
to 60.000 tioops.
The Peruvian government is sondlng
agents to Europe to purchase 'warships
tor tho purpose of strengthening her
navy.
The designs of tho three new vessels
of the Illinois typo are to bo changed
so as to make their minimum speed 18
knots an hour.
If tho ooal operators of tho Pittsburg
district do not oontorm with the terms
of the Chicago agreement by August
10, 6,000 minora will be ordered to
strike.
President McKinley, it is said, will
call an extra eossiori of both houses of
congress as soon as Spain accepts the
terms ot peace offered by the United
States.
The steamer Humboldt has arrived
at San Francisco from St. Michaels,
bringing down ubout 40 people from
tho Klondike. The purser says that
about 1 1, 000,000 from the gold tlolds
wui brought down on the steamer.
Lieutenant It. P. Hobson, of Merrl
mao fame, is with his mother at Litliia
Spiings, (J a. The meeting betwoen
mother and son was a pathetic one.
The son kissed his mother, who threw
her arms around his nook and tor sev
eral minutes rested hor head on his
shoulder, shedding tears of joy.
Following is an official statement
given out by authority of the president
on Tuesday as to tho terms of peaco
offered by tho United States: "In
order to remove any misapprehension
in regard to the negotiations at to peace
between tho United States and Spain,
it is deemed proper to say that the
terms offered by the United Status in
the note handed to the French ambas
sador on Saturday last are in substance
aa follows: The president dooa not
now 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, aa woll
as evacuation by Spain of the island;
cession to the United States and im
mediate evacuation of Porto Itico and
other Islands under Spanish sovereign
ty in the West Indies and like cession
ot an island in the Ladrones. The
United States will occupy and hold the
city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend
ing tho conclusion of a treaty of peace,
which shall determine the control, dis
position and government of the Philip
pines. If these terms aro accepted by
Spain In their entirety, commissioners
will be named by the United States to
meet commissioners on tho pait of
Spain for the purpose of concluding a
treaty qf peace on the basis above in
dicated."
Tho United States commissioners
who are to prepaie a code of laws for
Hawaii will sail on the Mariposa,
August 10.
Advices from Havana 'confirm the
roport that Genoral Garcia haa relin
quished hia command and gone home
to Uamaguey.
Intrigue among the powers of Europe
to shut us out ot the Philippines ia
said to have been checkmated by Pres
ident McKlnloy'a course.
A Madrid correspondent aaya that a
and of 800 Carlista recently appealed
near Seo de Urge, in Catn Ionia, and
the tioops are pursuing them.
Tho London Times announces that
the Boyal Ulster Yacht Club has ar
rangod to challengo for the America's
oup. The Now York Yacht Club will
be notified ot the decision immediately.
General Merritt has sent notioe to
Washington that he was about to com
bine with Dewey in a joint demand foi
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
offered, it is quite likely, will be ac
ceded to immediately. Hostilities in
the Antilles in that case will be sus
pended at once.
The govornor-eeneral of Manila, tole-
garphlng to Madrid, says that aid is in
dispensable to resist the imminent at
tack of the American forces under Gen
oral Merritt. The foreign warships in
the bay, the dispatch says, answered
the salute In honor of the queen'a Baint
day, and the American vessels display
ed tne American nag.
Some of the members of the Spanish
conservative party question the utility
of preserving the Philippines because of
the enormous expensse that a suppres
sion of the insurgents would entail. The
latest dispatches from Captain-General
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' headquarters
at Ponce, having sent the oable instru
ments from St. Thomas. The British
officials who control the oable are will
ing to tarnsmit messages for the United
States government over it, provided
our forces are in possession of the cable
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.
Bichard Vutaw, of Washington
county, Ky., who shot four persons at
a tent meeting in Meioer county, was
shot and instantly killed by Sheriff
George Coulter, of Danville.
Albert Cullom, a nephew of United
States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of
Illinois, suddenly expired in a Chatta
nooga, Ga., drug store, whither he had
gone to purchase medioine for himself.
ENEMY IN CAMP
Aguinaldo Has Trouble
With Americans
at Manila.
COMPLICATIONS ARE AHEAD
Inaurgent Chief Drunk With the Win
of Suoceaa Warned bjr General An
deraon II ai Aaamned th Kola of
Dictator.
London, Aug. 8. A dispatch to the
Times from fcavite rsays: It is becom
ing more apparent daily that tbero are
serious complications ahead. The
Americans never made a greater mis
take than in bringing Aguinaldo and
the insurgont leaders bore giving them
arms and ammunition for free use from
the Cavite arsenal. Aguinldo, fearing
annexation by the Americans, openly
opposes them.
Hither he has been encouraged by
some foreign power, or he has a false
notion of the strength of the Philip
pine revolutionists, failing to roognize
that their rooent 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 has
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 transportation,
which were ultimately forthcoming.
Aguinaldo's attitude makes future
operations against Manila problemati
cal. In my opinion, with the aid of
the fleet, tho city might have been
already American. Nothing but the
complications with the natives pre
vented an advance.
I am convinoed that the FilippinoB
will never capture Manila unaided, and
if the Americans withdraw, the fate of
tbo natlvos under Spanish rule would
bo worse than before.
Inaane Miner'" Deed.
Seattle, Aug. 8. A irwyjial to the
Times from Roslyn, Wash , says An
drew Warge, an Austrian miner, this
morning shot his wife and two small
children and then killed himself.
Warge was insane.
Porto Rlcana Pro teat ed.
London, July 80. Aocording to a
dispatch from Berlin, a newspaper there
professes to know that the Porto Rican
Post of bipb.
Man ahowlna location ot the Imnortant
part Von by th expedition undr Command
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colonial legislature has adorrted 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 entorce.
Smuggled Shell Exploded.
Playa del Este, Gnantanamo 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 accidental discharge of a Spanish
one-pound Bhell smuggled from one of
the destroyed Spanish cruisers, against
the orders of Captain Cook. The
shell exploded Tuesday while Ander
son was hammering it in an effort to
separate the 'cartridge and shell.
SCHLEY IS GENEROUS.
Willing to Divide th llonora With Ilia
Brother Officers.
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 8. Shortly
aftei the great naval victory off San
tiago, in which Cervera's fleet was
pursued and destroyed by the American
vessels ot war under Commodore
Schley, Captain John Schley, cousin of
the commodore, wrote a letter of con
gratulation for the victory won. Today
he received a reply, which, in part,
was aa follows: .
"Flagship Brooklyn, Off Santiago de
Cuba, July 22, 1808. My Dear John:
The victory of July 8, so complete in
its results and so rioh 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 largo enough to win
laurels for all, and I assume no other
8XNXBAL JULIAN PABREDA.
Spanish Commander at Quantanamo Who Bft
luaod 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 hci speed and her direction, she
was enabled to keep in the 'scrap' to
the finish.
"The sweetest thought arrd 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 matter
with what risk to ourselves. If it
means peace to our 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 as Soon aa He Can Do
So' Honorably.
London, Aug. 8. A special to the
Daily Mail from Hong Kong, -dated
August 1, says: Admiral Dewey has
received word from Captain-General
AugUBti that he is willing to surrender
as soon as he can do bo 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
attaok, August! 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 proteoted from naval attaok.
The Spanish officer who reported in
Manila the destruction ot 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 Bhot by the enemy.
Populace Knthualaatlo.
Ponoe, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas,
D. W. I., Aug. 8. Colonel Hillings,
with 10 companies of the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, has occupied-Juan Diaz,
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 ia expected she
will be floated tomorrow.
General Brooks arrived this evening.
During the evening the aeven compan
ies of the Nineteenth regular infantry
arrived on the Cherokee.
Cable communication was opened to
night, but the line will not be in tull
operation for several days.
Some people are disagreeable beoause
they can't attract attention any other
way.
MILES MARCHING ON.
Meeting But Little Reaiatance In Porto
Rico.
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 0,000 men, and also the Mo
hawk, with the Fifth regular cavalry,
General Henry's division, consisting
of 8,400 men, and including 86 pieces
of artillery, has been ordered to march
immediately to Yauco from Ponce to
be ready to join the movement north
to San Juan on the 10th. The Penn
sylvania regiment was lent this morn
iug toward Juan Diaz, eight miles north
of Ponce, on route to San Juan.
Miles says ha has no intention of
making a landing of troops at San Juan,
especially as tire 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 lias been issued by
the authorities of Yauco as a United
States oity, expressing delight at an
nexation and the administration of
General Miles and welcoming our
troops. The mayor of Ponce has called
upon residents of that place to exercise
calmness and circumspection under the
new and desirable conditions.
Miles has issued lengthy orders of
instruction to General Wilson, military
governor of Ponce province and city,
until Genoral Brooke's arrival. It is
of the same tenor as the instructions
which Miles gave to Shaffer at Santi
ago, both orders being based on the
administration instructions given to
General Merritt regarding the govern
ment of the Philippine islands.
CHICAGO HOLOCAUST.
Several Killed and Injured In a Hotel
Fire.
Chicago, Aug. 8. Three killed and
14 injured is the record of a lire that
broke out at 2:80 o'clock this morning
in theBeiwin hotel, North State street.
Starting in a bicycle repair shop ad-
joining the hotel, flames spread to tin.
basement of the hostelry and then, eat
ing their way to both the front and rear
stairways, cut off 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 a
fire escape leading into an alley.
When the fire was discovered, it was
burning fiorcely on a lower floor. Pe
destrians raised a cry of warning, which
aroused the guests, and thoy appeared
at the upper windows of the hotel in
their night attire.
Freah Meat Tor Shafter'a Army.
Tampa, Fla., Aug. 8. The trans
port Miohigan soiled yesterday from
Port Tampa and crossed the bar of the
bay today. She was loaded with fresh
meat for General Shatter's army, be-
GEN. JOHN J. COPP1NGER.
sides a quantity of other supplies.
General Coppinger, of the Fourth army
corps, with headquarters in this city,
received orders to go to Porto Rico.
Hawailnns Still Aliens.
San Francisco, Aug. 8. Hart II.
North, 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 makos $20,000,000 a year
out of its postofiico.
i Kail ffoadi,
CONQUEST IS EASY
Porto Rican Expedition
Meets With Little
Resistance.
VOLUNTEERS SURRENDERING
Supplies In Abundance for the Amer
ican Troops Revenue From Cnatoni
Houae People Are Overjoyed at the
Arrival ef the Army.
Washington, Aug. 2. General Miles,
fn 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:
"Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 2. Secre
tary or War. Washington, D. C.:
Four telegrams received, and answered
by letter. Volunteers are surrender
ing themselves with armB 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 custom-House 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 municipali
ties. "I request that the question of the
tariff rate to be charged In the parts of
Porto Rioo occupied by our forces be
submitted to the president for his ac
tion, the previously existing tariff re
maining meanwhile in force. As to
the government and military occupa
tion, I have already given instructions
issued by the president in the case of
the Philippine islands and similar to
those issued at Santiago de Cuba.
"MILES.
"Major-General Commanding."
DESERTING TO AMERICAN CAMP
Spanish Volnnteera Glad for the Chance
to Lay Down Their Arms.
Ponce, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas,
D. W. I., August 2. No forward
movement of the army is expected for
several days. The transporta 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 ba madarrat 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 Sec
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 constabulary, has preserved
excellent order, although most all the
entire population of the oity remained
in the streets celebrating the arrival of
their Amerioan liberators until long
after midnight.
Many of them had been forced into
the Bervice 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 Was Invited to the Flag-Raising
at Santiago.
Washington, Aug. 2. The war de
partment 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, but 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 aa he ohose to give. The
trouble with General Garcia was that
he 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 bim fully that we were at
war with Spain, and that the question
of Cuban independence , could 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. SH AFTER. "
Alaaka Steamers at San Francisco.
San Franoisco, 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 ia one of the transports engaged
to carry the First regiment of New
York volunteers to Honolulu.
Some girls admits that engagements
are failures, but they have there doubts
as to marriages.
FLEET AT WORK.
STeavltaa Bombarded by the Ameriraa
Warships.
Key West, Aug. 2. Reports have
reached here that Neuvitas, on the
northern coast of the province of Puer
to Principe, Cuba, has been boriibardtid
by the ships of the blockading sqmnl
ron, evacuated by the Spanish and sub
sequently burned. No details are
known, and the only information of
the affair was that given to Captain
Maynard, of tiro gunboat Nashville, by
Lieutenant-Colonel Rojas, of the insur
gent focres at Gibara, last Tuesday.
Colonel Rojas himself has the news at
second baud.
The only American ships known to
have been in the vicinity of Neuvitas
lately are the Prairie and Badgnr. The
latter captured three Spanish ships
coming out of the Neuvitas harbor, and
took them to Dry Tortugas. All were
flying Red Cross flags, but when board
ed were found to contain a number of
Spanish soldiers, only three of whom
were sick. The Badger is expected
here shortly.
Tho Nashivlle reported at Gibara on
Tuesday, when she captured the schoon
ers Gibara and Expresso. On entering
the harbor, she was met by the ex
United States consular agent and pres
ident of the railroad line to Holguin.
He told the Americans of the evacua
tion of Gibara two days before by Gen
eral Leqne and his 1,800 Spanish troops,
who feared a concerted attack by Amer
icans and Cubans. They fled to Hol
guin by rail, and afterward store up the
tracks. General Lequez left in the
Gibara hospital 635 sick and wounded
Spanish soldiers with a request to Ad
miral Sampson to see that they were
properly oared for.
The next day the Cuban forces, con
sisting of 600 cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel
Rojas, and 200 infantry,
made a triumphant entry into the town.
They were received with acclamations
by the Cubans, and the town held fes
tival that day and night. The insurg
ents took formal possession, establish
ing police system and sent out scouting
parties, and when the Nashivlle ar
rived, the best of order was being main
tained. The invaders had, however,
neglected the schooners in the harbor,
and the American ships took possession
of them.
When Ensign Snow left with a
prize crew to bring the Gibara here, it
had been determined to raise the Amer
ioan flag over the town.
SORROW IN GERMANY
All Interest Centers In the Death of
Prince Bismarck.
Berlin, Aug. 2. The news of Prince
Bismarck's death, which became gen
erally known only through special edi
tions of the papers, produced profound
sorrow, as so sudden a realization of the'
(euro ot hie demise was not expected.
Several papers this morning published
special articles with mourning borders,
expressing, in feeling terms, the na
tional sorrow, and dwelling on the bril
liant and immortal services of the
prince to the fatherland, his heroic
greatness and his truly German charac
ter. Sorrowful sympathy over Prince
Bismarck's death ia manifested in
many ways. The news is constantly
discussed in publio places, and a feel
ing of sadnessprevailsamongall classes
of people. Particulars of the last mo
ments of the prince and other cicrum
stances attending his death are eagerly
sought. Many private houses show
flags at half mast. Secretary of Stato
Von Buelow will return from Siemmer,
ing, Austria, immediately.
The President'a Condolences.
Washington, Aug. 2. By direction
of the president, the following dispatch
was sent tonight to Hon. Andrew
White, United States ambassador to
Germany:
"Washington, Aug. 2. White, Am
bassador, Berlin: The president
charges you to express, in the proper
official quarter, to the bereaved Ger
man nation and to the family of the
deceased statesman, the Borrow wirich
the government and the people of the
United States feel at the passing away
of the great chancellor, whose memory
is ewer associated with the greatness
of the German empire. ADEE,
"Aoting Secretary."
Pay Train Wrecked.
Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 2. From
offloialsof the Southern Pacific railroad
in this oity details of the wreck ot pay
train of that railroad three miles west
of Benson, Aria., were obtained tonight.
Xiie aocident occurred at 6:20 this
morning. The engine jumped the
track on a onrve. Fireman A. J. Tay
lor was killed, Engineer Walker was
badley scalded and Conductor Crowder
was injured internally and will proba-
Diy die. ine other trainmen and offi
cers of the road on the car were sliaknu
up, but were not seiiously hurt. The
engine was a complete wieck and the
pay car was consumed by fire, but tho
records and money were saved.
Kx-Chlef of Polioe to Hang.
Chicago, Aug. 2. George H. Jacks,
ex-ohiefof polioe of Muskegon, .Mich.,
was this afternoon found guilty of
murder in this city, and his punish
ment fixed at death. Jacks killed An
drew McGee, a collector, 60 years of ago,
who was supposed to have had a huge
sum of money. By means of a letter,
Jacks and a confederate decoyed McUee -into
a house and slew him.
French Steamer a Prixe.
Charleston, S. 0., Aug. 2. The
French steamer Manonvia was brought
in aa a prize today. She was captured
by the Dixie off the south coast ot Porto
Rico on the 24th ult. She is now at
quarantine here.
Reno, Nev., August 2. The town of
Beckwith, Cal., having a population of
about 500, on the Sierra Valley rail
road, 86 miles north of here, was almost
. wiped off the map yesterday afternoou
'by fire. Loss, $40,000.
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