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IIILLSBORO, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898.
NO. 39.
vol. v.
The
EVENTS OF HIE MY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Item Front
th Two Hi.iiiUph.rtil I're.ented
In a Condensed Form.
Three people -wore burned to doatli
In a 6 re in Brooklyn flat.
P.A.l.timi MnKiiilnv will muka I
lour of Porto Rico and Culm.
I Only two men were killed in the
Wardner (Idaho) mine disaster.
Ten dentin as a result of mioide,
and accident ii the record of one Hun
day in Greater New York.
Germany it now laid to be Reeking
an ally and wants the friendship of
Cnole Sum. Gorman Ambassador von
Holleben has been ooiumisHionjd to
settle whatever differences exist. .
An area of 30 blooks in the 28lh
wartLin Brooklyn was inundated by
raging waters, which wanhed out the
fundat Ions of houses, tore down trolley
and telegraph poles, imprisoned people
iu their homes.
Chailes VV. Milter, of Chicago, last
year's six-day champion, won the great
bicycle race at Madison-Square Garden
again this year, beating the world's
record (his own) by 24 miles. He male
9,007 miles, and rested but 24 hours
in the 143.
Unpreodentod secrecy obtains as to
the conditions of tiie construction of
the Shamrock, the challenger for the
America's cap. Not merely are the
ost strict precautions taken to pro
tent a leakage of the details of hor con
struction, but even the place where she
is being built is kept secret.
The foreign eihihitors have been seri
ously affected by the deuixiun o( the
'Paris appeal court in rejecting the suit
of a Swiss embroiderer againet a Frenoh
manufacturer who copied his designs.
The effect of the decision is that de
signs and patterns in the ore inn ex
hibits of 1900 may be copied with im
pnnlty by French manufacturers, uu
lessthe exhibitors posBesss a manu
factory in France.
The battle-ship Massachusetts struck
a reef or sunken obstiuotmn near IJia
mond reef, off Castle William, Govcr
nor'a island, N. Y., while on her way
from the navy-yard to the navul an
ehoraxe off Toinpkinsville, S. I. Tin
damage wrought was considerably
greater than was at first supposed,
and it is believed fully 00 days will be
required to put the vessel in condition
to go to sea, even if she is not vitally
hurt.
The pottery trnst has completed its
oroanization under the laws of New
Jersey; capital, $20,000,000.
Steamer Roumania has sailed fiom
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 beon entered
in the courts of California by a Mon
tana syndicate against prominent Cali
fornia capitalists.
In a recent publio address In Wash
ington Count vonOoetzcu said that the
only good volunteers among the United
States troops during the late war were
the Bough Riders.
It is now understood that Major-General
James F. Wade, president of the
United States eradiation committee,
will be appointed by President MoKin
ley military governor of western Cuba.
The supreme oourt of Nebraska has
deoided that the bondsmen of ex-State
Treasurer Bartley will have to make
good that official's shot tages and steal
ings from the state, amounting in all
to about $700,000.
D. H. Howard, a New Mexico cattle
dealer, with two detectives, is on the
trail of Gilett, the Kansas plunger, on
whom Howard is 140,000 short. How
ard will ask the governor of Kansas to
issue requisition papers for his extradi
tion to New Mexico.
The British Columbia mills are again
receiving lumber orders from Cape
Town, South Africa, after a period of
two years, ' during which little or no
lumber was shipped to that district.
Two vessels are at present under way
to Victoria to receive cargoes for Afrioa.
Sam Smith, trainrobber, has been
sentenced to be hanged at Eldorado,
Kan., for the. murder of oitlzen Bel
ford, who was one of a posse that resist
ed Smith and his partner, Tom Wind.
Wind pleaded guilty to seoond-degree
murder and was sentenced to 30 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
gross. "Spain has been treated by, the
conqueror with unexampled cruelty and
is resigned to her fate; but she can not
' tolerate President MoKinloy's accusa
tion, for she Is conscious of her com
p'ete, innpoen.ee.'! ;
Minor News Items.
The will of the late Edward Austin,
of Boston, bequei.hs tl, 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 geneious grant for the relief
of the distress and damage caused by
the recent hurricane in the West Indies.
J
Colonel William 3. Bryan has d
lared hiiunolf as opposed to expansion.
Spaniards opened fire on a Cuban I
funeral procession in Havana, and
wounded several. Oi'O will probably
die.
By the explosion of a shell at Fort
Constat. tine, at Cronsta.lt, Russia, nine
soldiers were killed and three officers
and seven soldiers wounded.
By an explosion in the lirint mill at
Pottysvflle, Nate Thomas and Clarence
Ktiinions were killed outright and Will
Markley was futally injured,
The president and party have left
Washington for a week's trip through
the Ckuth, tiie primary object being to
attend the peace jubilee in Atlanta,
0. ,
Chicago packers will spend large
amount of money in erecting Immense
cold-storage plants in Santiago and Ha
vana for the reception and storing vi
fresh meat.
Simon,, the new senator from Ore
gon, lias been placed upon tiie ionow-
rig committees: Mines and mining,
rrlgation, 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
arsenic fumes from tiie smelters. Many
people who can do so are leaving the
city to get out of tne smoke.
It is probable that Secretary Bliss
will, within a siiort time, tender his
resignation to the president. He has
had the step under consideration for
some time, deeming it necessary that
he should bo free to devote mure time
to bis largo business interests.
The Brooklyn, Texas, Castine and
Resolute huve 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 par
feot subjection.
The Clearwater Short Line Railway
Company, which is the official title of
the branch Northern Pacific cut-off,
lias filed certificates in the office of tK"
secretary of state at Olyuipia, designr
ing Thomas Cooper as its agent
Washington, and showing the route
the proposed road, now under oonstri;
tion.
Word has been received from Unit
States Consul Allen that John C. Fla
agan, the ooufldeoUal clerk of Geor
W. Lake, a rich merchant of Chemt
po, who was murdesed August 29, h
been sentenced hy a consular court
imprisonment for life. Flanagan hi
been robbing his employer lystemati
ally and committed the crime to oov,
up his misdeeds. ' s
Two men wore killed by the explo
sion of natural gns at Cannonsville, lnd.
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 company G, First
Florida, stationed at liuntsville, Ala.,
were killed in a camp 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 18110. It is
believed something like 200,000 of
them have gained circulation.
Senator Davis, ol the Paris peaoe
commission, in an interview wun 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
interests north of the equator.
Charles Tracy, aged 16, shot and
instantly killed Tim Connors, custodian
of Greenlawn cemetery, Indianapolis,
lnd. Tracy with a number 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 Kunsas City, Mo. About 150 dele
gates from all parts of the country were
present; also William Thorne and Wil
liam Inskip, of London, representing
the British tiadee-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 district. This
wns recently announced privately by
Mr. C. Settlin, premier of British Co
lumbia, to Gold Commissioner W. J.
Runt, who has just arrived in Seattle
from Atlin.
Rossland's 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 5 each in the LeRoi Company, ltd.
The purchase price is 060,000, paya
ble in cash in fully paid shares, leaving
50,000 for the working capital.
. The, United States government Is not
awave that any arrangement has been
made for the transfer of the title of the
SaraoAn, islands to Germany, and beirif
one or the parties to the tripartite
agreement under which Samoa is 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 Favier. who fought under
the
great Napoleon, has just celebrated bis
06th birthday at Philadelphia.
' The president frf the municipal coun
cil of Paris has informed Mine. Sara
Bernhardt that the council has accept
ed her recent offer to take a
the Theater des Nucions.
reparations are on iooi in iionoium
.. . . i ,
to test me appiioaumiy ui me vuneu
States imiuig ration laws to the Hawa
lian islands by the importation to the
cane fields of 1,000 Corean laborers.
LATER NEWS.
THE TREATY OF PUIS
Outline of the Seventeen Ar
tides Agreed Upon.
GUARANTIES TO SPANISH TRADE
Treaty Must lie ltatifled Within
Mouth. In Order to It
Minding.
Six
Paris, Deo. 15. Extraordinary pre
cautions are maintained by both the
peace commissions to preserve seorecy
as to the contents of the treaty. Each
commission has two copies, but even
the commission attaches are not per
mitted to petuse 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 3 provides for the cession of
Porto Rico.
Article 8 provides for the cession of
the Philippines for $20.000,000 as com
peusation.
Article 4 embraces the plans for the
cession of the Philippines, iuoluding
the return of Spanish prisoners now in
the hands of the Tugalos.
Artiole 5 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 citizens of
each 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 hy ber for political
offenses committed in the colonics ac
quired by the United States.
Artjole 9 guarantees the legal rights
of Spaniards remaining in Cuba.
Artiole 10 establishes religious free
dom in the Philippines nnd..'iarnntai
la-
Aiticle 15 grants to Spanish co
merce in UuDa, t'orto Kico ana the
Philippines the same treatment as to
Amerioa for 10 years, Spanish shipping
to be treated as coasting vessels.
' Article 18 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 Soored tiie Maritime Canal Com
panyA Scheme of Confiscation.
Washington, Deo. 15. Today's ses
sion of the senate was largely consumed
in discussion of the Nicaragua canal
bill. Turpie made the principal speech
in opposition to tho hill, 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 aeionueu tne uui ana
the Maritime company, 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
buildina and this and several other
bills were passed;
The house passed the District of
Columbia appropriation bill without a
single amendment. Hie bill carries
13,350,950, which Is 1 76,600 leas than
was cur.'ied by the hut bill, and 2,
871.857 less than the estimates. The
bouse also passed the senate bill, which
was under consideration yesterday, to
amend the laws relating to seamen
All the amendments were rejected.
OAS TANK COLLAPSED.
Flood of Water Followed, Carrying
Death and Destruction.
New York, Deo. 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 5:80 o'clock this
afternoon. It went down with a crash
and ronr like a great explosion. Ma
sonry of granite blocks and brickB to
the height of 50 feet fell like a ohild's
toy hoiiwO of blocks, and loosened from
bondago, C.000,000 of gallons of water
deluned 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
wore killed and Jnjured.
Movements of Lee's Corps.
Savannah, Ga., Deo. 15. Two bat
talions of the Second Illinois regiment
of Lee's eorps arrived on the transport
Miohigan, tonight, and will sail tomor
row morning for Mariana. The trans-
lease of Port MoM'f) arrived today from Phila
I delphia, and will sail Sunday with the
ln..u 1 1 ..J B!W.,-Ai.t lnillini
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. Third battalion of
regiment
the Second Illinois.
Over 100 miles of telegraph wires
ran through the sewers of Pat is.
SNOW SHOVELERS KILLED.
Hun Down by a Fait Train on the
York Central,
Buffalo, New York, Dec. 15. Nine
men were killed and three injured at
Winspor bridge, near Corfu, on the
New York Central railroad, today.
They were Poles, with the exception of
John ttarnes, their foieman, who is
among the killed. The men were en
gaged in shoveling snow. All were
frightfully mutilated. The men stepped
from the track to avoid an approaching
trai.i, right in front of a fast express
train, running in the same direction as
the first, and were literally ground to
pieces, hngineer bmitn, ol the ex
press, in an interview, suid:
"I could see nothing ahead of me,
but 1 thought the pluce 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 1
slapped on the air the minute I beard
him. He had seen a man beside the
track, though be 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
side, 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 bad been
thrown. I did not see them until after
we had struck them. I did not see
them come on the track, and until my
fireman yelled I did not know they
were there." 'y
MEXICO'S OFFER TO SPAIN.
Colonisation Scheme That Will Benefit
Both Parties.
New York, Dec. 15. A dispatch to
the Press from Washington says: The
Mexican government has 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
Ihe Spaniel) soldiers and provide them
with 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
oeitain tract of the public lands in
Mexico will be provided for coloniza
tion purposes.
The government, in turn, is to take
a Hen upon the products, and exact a
return, of 20 per cent each year until
the supplies ar e 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 hnve
beon made by the government of Mex
ico to supply a large number of Span
ish soldiers with labor on the publio
works and in the mines, at the rate of
$18 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 reoently attacked a village, sur
prising the people and looting the
place. They burned 87 houses. A Jap
anese police inspector and six consta
bles perished in repelling the attack,
One constable was captured alive. The
insurgents fastened ou his neck the
bloody heads of his companions and
drove him before them into the woods.
Reinforcements were sent to the vil
luge, where the mutilated bodies of the
victima were found. One constable,
who escaped, killed his own wife and
child with his Japanese sword to pre
vent them from becoming captives. Ho
was then killed by the savages.
There is much disquietude among
the inhabitants of Hankow einoe the
recent fire, in which 8,000 people lost
their lives. Several smaller fires have
oocurred siiioe, all believed to I be the
work of incendiaries. The Shanghai
Daily . Press says five Chinese were
caught in the act of igniting as ninny
dwellings. They were thrown into tlio
flames and burned alive.
Tortured by Filipinoe. t
- San Francisco, Deo. 15. Th Manila
correspondent of the Hong Kong Press
gies details of the shocking treatment
of friars and other prisoners capiur d
by the insurgents in the northern part
of the island of Luzon. General Ley-
be, who was sent by Aguinaldo to at
tack the cities in the extreme north of
Luzon, sent a report to his chief that
he had brought the entire section raid
ed completely under the control of the
Filipinos. Ley he also mentions in his
report the capture of 124 friars and lay
brothers, many Spanish soldiers, with
their arms and property, and silver and
gold valued at $800,000.
The Press correspondent states thtt
from Spanish sources have come reports
of terrible atrocities oommitted by the
rebels, who aie 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 for several hours.
The natives were forbidden to render
the friars any assistance. During thei'
greatest sufferings, while hungry and
naked in the broiling sun, Chinee and
natives furtively supplied them with
food and water. One aged friar was
placed upon a horse's saddle and
'jumped' until blood poured from his
mouth and nose. Anothor, it is said,
clothed only in a rain coat, was carried
in triumph for 200 yards, then oudg
eled to death mid savage ories. Nuns
in the convent were subjected to shame
less treatment."
RIOTING IN HAVANA
Cubans and Spanish Mix,
With Fatal Results.
THREE KILLED, MANY WOUXDED ,
Trouble Canned by an Effort to Close
Theaters on Aeconnt of Gar
cia' Death.
Havana, Doc. 14. After the news o
General Garcla's 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 mny
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
Spanish officer, who struck him across
the face with the flat of his swoid.
Then there was a collision between the
Cubans and Spanish military men,
more hlows were struck on both sides,
and many persona 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 woundeu man broke into the
room occupied by Lieutenant Fitzhugh
Lee, son of the famous general, and the
former consul-general here, demanding
protection. General Greene and sev
eral members of bis staff, who had been
out on a balcony watching the crowd,
heard the uproar in the hotel, and went
into the corridor. So soon as the Span
ish officers saw General Greene, who
was in uniform, they stopped the pur
suit of the Cubans, saluted and retired.
In the meantime, Eastaquino Lemus
bad been fatally wounded in the street,
and Pedro Blesa and Senor Jiminez had
been killed.
Shortly after the Spanish guards on
duty swarmed in from the neighboting
streets, and order was restored.
At the time the Cubans and pursuing
Siimiards 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 they stood, and two others
splintered the stairoase.
R. S. Howland, editor of the Provi
dence Journal and Mr. W. L. Reilly, a
New York contractor, were jostled by I
the sudden rush of shouting and light-1
ing men. General Julio Sanguilly was
sitting at a table in the lobby. The j
violent scenes 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 Aroerionn 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 crowds. 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
n...lnn.l ... n ., ( in,, wl 1 A ara Via.
t ' ,1 -. ,:.. Thr,
airests were made., A few minutes
n,o i.tu i,,Di .;k'
nl natron, and finnan, gathered
around General Greene asking if he
would protect them. He assuied them
he believed they were safe, but the only
recognised authority in Havana was
the Spanish exeoutive. He then sent
Captain Cole and Lieutenant Stevens
to General Castellanos to inquire what
was being done to preserve order. The
lattei replied that the cafes had been
ordered closed, and the streets oloared,
while troops in sufficient numbers to
keep the peace had been posted in the
squares and thoroughfares. Two of
the aids of General Castellanos called
opon Ueneral ureene and gave mm
further personal assurances.
Telephone messages describing the
occurrence were sent to General Wade
in Elvedado, and General
Greene
cabled to Washington a brief statement
of the facts. What was taking place in
the city was all unknown to the Amer
ican warships and
harbor, nor did th
transports in the
i news reaoh there
until this morning.
The United States evacuation com
missioners and General Greene sent
General Clous and Captain Hart at
noon today to exchange views with the
Spanish comm.ssioneis. It was ar -
rangeu tnai mi uie uuan uimne uu
soldiers, including General Julio
San -
guilly and Jose Laoret, should go to
withdrawn. Mr. Jerome, the British
consul, nan already caueu at me paiace
on the same mission.
AitonlsliiiiR Chineae Reform.
London, Dec. 13. The Peking
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 Kiang Si, and confers.
uninese nonors on tne missionary ior
his tact and forbearance in the matter
The edict astonished the Chinese and
u ... h ,ia,.aor u
liksly to have a salutary effect. I
fclJV BUtlUU VI U VUuJd w vv ae
EXPANSION OPPOSED,
Senators
Vest and Boar Desire K
Philippines.
Washington, Dec. 14. Discussion of
two questions, each of importance and
( interest at this session, was begun by
the senate at Its session today, terri
torial expansion and the construction of
the Nicaragua canal occupied the atten
tion of the body dm ing the greater part
of the afternoon.
As soon as the routine morning busi
ness bad been disposed ot, Air. Vest
;Dem. Mo.) called up his resolution
offered last week, declaring ii to be un
constituional for this government to
acquire foreign territory except for coal
ing stations or some like purpose, on
less its intention was to confer state
hood upon the territory and citizen
hip upon its inhabitants. Mr. Vest
declared it was a basio principle ot this
government "that the powers of the
government were derived from the con
tent of the governed," and maintained
that the federal government bad. no
authority either in moials or in the
constitution to go beyond that princi
ple. He held that the principle had
been sustained by the supreme court in
various deoisions, and that no publio
man of prominence and no recognized
tribunal had ever been reckless enough
to controvert it.
Mr. Morgan opened the debate on the
canal bill with a three hours' appeal
for aotion at this session. The whole
country, he said, would be disappoint
ed if congress 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 excepting the canal from neu
trality with regards to any country
with which the United States might
be at war.
TO RELIEVE VOLUNTEERS.
Six Regiment Designated for Service
at Manila,
Washington, Deo. 14. The war de
partment lias begun in earnest tne re
lief of the volunteer troops now sta
tioned at Manila by regulars. . This
afternoon Secretary Alger signed an
order designating for this purpose six
regiments of the United States infantry
out of eight held in reserve for service
to tropica! 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 can 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 tbey sail
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 in
ti e order in which tbey reached that
city.
Beer-End Collision
Pendleton, -Or., Deo. 18. Rushing
down the mountain grade of the O. R.
& N. Co.'s main line a heavy freight
train crashed 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. Three men were injured David
Filler, an old man of 64. who was on
; bj8 way to the coast from Montauk,
j m,. jay Adams, of San Francisco,
general Paoiflc coast agent for the
Nickel Plate road, who was cut and
scalded; Louis Pleohner, traveling
salesman for the wholesale house of
Gi,,terman Bros., St. Paul; and Fire
man Harry Burrows, of the freight
train, who received a out on the fore
head.
Isle de Cuba Leaves.
Manila, Dec. 14. The Isle de
Cuba, one of the ships sunk by Dewey
I in thn hnttle of Manila, and which he
subsequently caused to be raised, start
ed tot H fong today under hex 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.
The Mare Island Fleet.
Vallejo, Cal.. Deo. 14. The rebuild
ing of the United States oruiser Ranger
at Mate 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 takr
charge of the Monadnook.
Father and Son Killed.
Denver, Deo. 14. A speoial
to the
' i News (rum 'fitarkville. Colo.
says:
Minhaal Tereso and his 15-vear old son
Antonio were killed today by a cave-in
in the coal mine in which tbey were
working.
Fonr Burned t0 Delltn,
New York De(J i4.The flre which
d t a the apartn,ent-house at 184
. ' p, Brooklvni laBt night,
. rannB .7nmli W. Nob-
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leu, nit wue, ijib who a uivjiiiui, mi
Stothern. and John Winee. The other
for.
To Welcome the Fighting Machine!.
Lima, Peru, Deo. 14. Cubans resid
ing here are prepaiing to give an en
thusiastic reoeption to the United
States battle-ships Oregon and Iowa, on
their arrival in the northern passage
aiong tne coast, en rouie 10 join jusw-
ey's squadron at Manila.
Aged Argonaut Dead.
, Vni.t rw li.T)r ' Rdwarrl
gl)al, , , ,d dead t hi.
u (Ml 5,; aoaA 'or. Ha
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,na n f InlifAtmia nn dhnnto in lkdU
IlLOILO IS ASSAULTED
Insurgents Stormed City the
Night of December i.
CAPTURED ALL BUT OXE TRENCH
According to a A pun I ill Report, They
Were Finally Kepolsed With
Great Loss.
Manila, Dec. 13. According to re
liable advices received from Iloilo,
capital of the island of Panay, in the
visayas group, the insurgents attacked
Iloilo the night ot December 1 and cap
tured all the Spanish trenches, except
one. They then notified General Rios
to remove the Women and children,
and threatened to renew the attack on
the following night.
When these advices left Iloilo, Gen
eral Rios was expecting reinforcements
and field guns, and the plan was for
the Spanish gunboats to shell, if the
insurgents effected an entrance. Tiie
foreign residents were greatly alarmed,
and all merchantmen have been ordered
outside the harbor.
Meanwhile the Spanish authorities
have been advised that the Tulisanos
troops are looting, in disobedience of
orders, and cannot be restrained.
On the other band, the Spanish trans
port Isla de Luzon reports that the in
surgents around Iloilo were repulsed
with great slaughter December 6, while
attempting to storm the last entrenoh
ment. According to this story, 600
insurgents were killed or wounded by -the
machine guns.
Deathi at Manila.
Washington, Dec 13. Major-General
Otis, commanding at Manila, has
made the following report of deaths in
bis command:
"December 8 Fred J. Norton, pri
vate, comany F, Second Oregon, dysen
tery; Frank M. Hibbs, private, com
pany A, Second Oregon, dysentery, heait
failure. .
"December 9 Harry G. Hibbards,
corporal, company K, Second Oregon,
typhoid fever."
FILES HER PROTEST.
Spain Accept, the Consequences lit
Naturedly.
Madrid, Dec. 13. The government
entirely approves the memorandum of
protest against the action of the United
States commissioners, filed by Senor
Montero Rios, at Paris.
The memorandum protests against
the refusal of the Americana to surren
der the securities deposited in the treas
uries of Cuba and Porto Rico by private
Spaniards, remarking that "never has
a civilized nation committed such an
aot of violence." ,
Secondly, it protests against the ulti
matum demanding the Philippines.
Thirdly, it protests against the posi
tion in which those Spaniards., are
placed who desire to remain in Cuba.
Fourthly, it protests against the ref
erence to the destruction of the Maine
in President McKin ley's message to
oongress. On this point the memoran
dum says:
"Spain has proposed arbitration, but
the United States has refused to give
her the right which is gianted to a
criminal; namely, the right of defend
ing herself. The Spanish commission
ers leave the care of fixing the responsi
bility for the explosion to the entire
world, which will say whether those
are responsible who desire the truth, or
those refusing to seek it."
The newspapers generally express re
lief at the signing of the treaty. The
independent organs, most of the provin
cial papers and the Carlist and repub
lican journals attack both political par-
ties, conservative and liberal, reproa ih
ing them equally with having brought'
the country to the present pass.
El Imparcial alone publishes the
contents of the treaty, which produces
a less unfavorable impression than had
been expected, owing to the commercial
and other concessions to Spain.
El Liberal says: "The Paris negotia- k
tions offer a far sadder spectacle than
the ships which are bringing, back our
repatriated soldiers, deplorable as the
condition of the latter is."
Several members of the United States
commission were inolined at first to
publish the text of the treaty, but'.Sen-'
ator Frye made a strong plea yesterday
for the observance of oourtesy toward. -the
United States senate, and bis ar- .
guments prevailed.
Further details, however, have been -
Innrnad as to the wordinec
which provides that Cuba
1! ' 1 .1 . I. .. . Dn,n
liiiluiDiivv. mil way w
Philippines are to be
Americans are to pay for the repatria- .
tion of the Spanish troops from all the
colonies. The Spaniards are to return ''
all prisoners held by them. They are ;.
to retain possession of ail military",
stores and munitions of war in the
not been captured. The commnroial .-
treaties between the two nations, which
the war ruptured, are to be lenewed at
me convenience ui iiiu two nations.
Arrowsmith. 111., Dec. 10, The
private bank of Taylor & MoClure was
last night entered by robbers, who i
and escaped.
Newport News, Dec. 18. Henry Re
fltt, private, company I, Fiist Ken
tucky regiment, was killed, and Henry
U. Brebm, private, company B, same
: regiment, wag seriously woundea last
night by a sentinel who was stationed
nt me BtuigpinnK or tne iranoyur
lin, which brought the regiment from
Porto Rico. The men started to leave
the transport, but did not have a pass.
J"" XtZlSt
try to stop, and when they attemptea
t0 Dass Mm. ! .trucK eacn Ol U1BU1
' " . .
over the head with his bayonet.