.
Victory for Americans
the Result. .
SEN. ERNST CAPTURES COAMO
I
jtjjwan'i Brigade Encounters the En
emy Near Mayaguci Two Men
Killed, One Wonnded-Th Spanlah
Commander Wiia Killed.
Washington, Aug. 13. Tbo war de
partment late today gave out the fol
lovting delayed telegram:
"Ponce, Aug. 11. Secretary of War,
Washington: The fo'lowing has been
received from General Wilson: Gen
eral Ernst's brigade captured Coamo at
3:50 this morning. The Sixteenth
Pennsylvania, Colonel Hulings com
manding. led by Lioutenant-Colonel
Biddle, of my staS, having made a
turning movement through the moun
tains, striking the Aybonito road half
mila hflvond the town, captured the
entire garrison of Coamo, about 150
cen. The Spanish commander, Illoca,
and Captain Lopez were killed. Our
to is six wounded, only one severely.
The men and officers behaved excel
lently. Colonel Ilulinga and Lieutenant-Colonel
Biddle are especially com
mended. This is a very important cap
ture and was . well executed. The
names of the wounded will be sent us
soon as received here. "
General Miles reports from Ponce
that five men were wounded, though
none seriously, in the Sixteenth Penn
sylvania regiment in the skirmish be
yond Coamo, August 0,
'A dispatch has been received at the
war department from General Schwan,
commanding a brigade under General
Miles, in Porto Rico, saying he had
an engagement a few miles from Maya
goez with a large Spanish force, in
which two privates were killed and
Lientenant Byron, of the Eighth cav
alry, was wounded. One of the pri
vates killed was Hernbergor, of the
Eleventh infantry.
General Schwan repots:
"Most, if not the entire Spanish gai
rieon of Mayaguez and tbo surrounding
country, consisting of 1,000 regulars
and 200 volunteers, took part in the en
gagement. We drove the enemy from
their position, and, it is believed, in
flicted heavy loss. A wounded Span
ish lientenant was found in the field
and brought into our lines. I propose
to continue the march to Mayaguez at
an early hour tomorrow."
TALK OF INTERVENTION.
FtBDoe't Slice of China Already Marked
OnU
Paris. Aug. 13. The rumors .ire full
1 significance of the Chinese question.
ine.uatin says:' "In China the great
est game in the world is being played,
and French intervention should be
efficacious and decisive."
The Soir has a sensational article
headed: "War between England and
Russia is imminent,"
Tbe Journal desDebats says: "Eng
land is now seeking an arrangement with
Russia. That understanding ia ininns-
sjble, unless Russia remains mistress of
we north and England is insured her
influence in the Yang-Tse river. In
8Wt, the lines of the section are be
fj'uning to be marked along which the
disruption would occur whenever China
llsto pieces. Clearly neither Franco,
Germany nor Japan could hold aloof
iromsuch an agreement."
Hie article hints that France would
8"PPort Russia in event of war. and
Wn conclusion: "France will be
wHent with the southern provinces
l'deringon Tonquin."
TROUBLE IN ALASKA.
oral
Merrlam Ordered to
Send
Battery to the Yukon.
ft -
oan Francisco, Aug. 13. The Call
... ..WMM.W JU IUO IlitGI JVI
J1 Alaska is apprehended by the United
aten government ' Food riots ar
"M at Fort Yukon and other up-river
WntS. ffrnunnfi nni l v,a nl
transportation companies to get
applies in there, by reason of the pre
filing low water.
Acting on insructions received from
Washington, Major-Gewal Merriam
i quickly dispatch a baattery of ar
""ry to Hf miv,i w j
"j6 having orders to proceed at once
UP tbe Yukon river to Fort Yukon and
"Pen up a military post for the coming
nter. The expedition will also carry
8nnr.li quantlty o extra provisions and
-ucb to relieve distress.
. Mftilvlil T. ,
inri u penco a 'oregwo conclusion,
ne general impatience to
a tflrm ! no. in i i . 1 1 1 : .
enm"0 tne P'oa'amme for the peace
JJm8ion, at which it U believed
i Sonr Moret or Duke Almodovar
' o will preside. It la believed
nr a if 11 Avlnn.l ntn
- woond half of September.
President's Prn.m.i
Washington. Am, istv .
j i . . " Auo presi
dent issued the following proclamation:
By the president of the United
Statps of Amenca-A proclamation:
hereas, By a protocol concluded
ami signed August 15, 1898, by Wil
liaro R. Day, secretary of state of the
Lmted States, and his excellence Jules
Cambon, ambasdor extraordinary and
r Plenipotentiary ot France, at
Washington, restively representing
for the purpose the government of the
United States and the government of
Spam, the United States and Spain
nave formally agreed upon the terms
on which the negotiations for the estab
lishment of peaoe betweon the two
countries shall be undertaken; and j
"Whereas, It is in said protocol'
agreed that upon its concession and'
signature hostilities between the two
countries shall be suspended, and no
tice tJ that effect shall be given as soon
as poesible by each government to the
commanders of its military and naval
forces,
"Now, therefore, I. William McKin-'
ley, president of the United States, do,'
in accordance with stipulations of the
piotocol, declare and proclaim on the
part of the United States a suspension
of hostilities, and do hereby command
that orders be immediately given
through the proper ohannels to the com-'
manders of military and naval forces of
the United States to abstain from nil
acts inconsistent with this proclama
tion. 'In Witness thereof I have liervnnLn
set my hand and caused the seal ni
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the OitV at WnflMneinn
tbuj 15th clay of August, in the year of
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-eight, and of the independ
ence of the United States the w.d hun
dred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
President
WILLIAM P DAY,
Secretary ot State,"
HOSTILITIES SUSPENDED.
Orders to American military and Naval
Commanders.
Washington, Aug. 15. The oiders to
General Merritt to suspend hostilities
were as follows:
"Washington Merritt, Manila: The
president directs all military opera
tions against the enemy suspended.
Peace negotiations are nearing comple
tion, the protocol having just been
signed by the two countries. You will
inform the commanders of the Spanish
forces m tbe Philippines of these in
structions. Further orders will follow.
Acknowledge receipt.
"B? order of the secretary of war.
"CORB1N, Adjutant-General."
Tbe orders sent to Miles and Shafter
were identical with the above. As the
order states further instructions will be
sent each general. General Merritt
will be directed to confer with the
Spanish commandant at Manila to carry
out the terms of the protocol and to oc
ciipv Manila immediatelv.
General Milei will put himeelfin com
munication with the chief authority in
Porto Rioo for the purpose of having
the Spanish forces turn over San Juan
and other points to him, preparatory
to evacuation.
Owing to the conditons in Cuba, the
orders to Shafter will be different from
those to tbo other generals. Orders
were issuod thi"s evening to the naval
commanders at the several stations on
duty in Cuba and the Philippines, car
rying into effect the directions of the
proclamation. The navy department
not only transmitted the president's
proclamation in full to the several com
manders-in-chief, but also direction's as
to tbe dispositions of their vessels.
Tbe following orders are in that sense
self-explanatory:
"Navy Department, Washington,
Aug. 15. Sampson, Santiago! Sus
pend all hostilities. Blockade of Cuba
and Porto Rico is raised. Howell is
ordered to assemble his vessels at Key
West. Proceed with the New York,
Brooklyn, Indiana, Oregon, Iowa and.
Siassaobusetts to Tompkinsville. Place;
tbe monitors in a safe harbor in Porto)
Rico. Watson transfers his flag to tha
Newark and will remain at Guanta-j
namo. Assemble all cruisers in safe
harbors. Order the marines north in
the Resolute, ALLEN,
"Acting Secretary."
"Navy Department, Washington,
Aug. 15. Remy, Key West: In ac
cordance with the president's procla
mation, suspend immediately all hostil
ities. Commence the withdrawal of
vessels from the blockade. Order block
ading vesels in Cuban waters to assem
ble at Key West. "ALLEN,
"Acting Secretary."
The notification to Admiral Dewey
was not made public, but Assistant
Secretary Allen stated that besides be
ing in possession of the president's
proclamation, he was ordered to cease
hostilities and raise the blockade at
Manila. , .,'
'Incompliance with orders sent, Ad
miral Sampson and Commodore Rerny
will each send a vessel around the
coast of Cuba to notify the blockading
squadron that the blockade has been
raised. . l r, i.
Admiral Schley, being on the Brook
lyn and included in the orders to that
vessel, will come north with her.
Washington, Aug. 15. -President
McKinley has been the recipient to
niaht of warm congratulations foim al
parts of the country on the successful
termination of the war.
u
People Panic Stricken
During; Lite Battle.
MANY SHOTS ENTERED TOWN
Spaniard! Bent on Obstinate Resistance
Foreign Consul Negotiating for an
Armistice Insurgents Aided Amer
icans With Good Affect.
Manila, via Hong Kong, Aug. 12.
The rumor is current here that the in
surgents, fearful that peace will be con
cluded between .Washington and Ma
drid and that the Americans will with
draw from the Philippines, are conse
quently the moie strenuous in their de
sires and efforts to capture Manila.
Sunday night there was a heavy bom
bardment with heavy modern shells.
It is generally believed in the city that
the Americans assisted, and the papers
publish lists of Americans alleged to
iuc uouu niueu, luciuuing some
names of rank.
There is also a report that half the
Americans have succumbed to fever,
and this misstatement, with others
like it, encourages the Spaniards to
maintain their suicidal resistance.
On Sunday many shots entered the
town. Several reached the citadel it
Belf, and it is reported that some ladies
were killed. There was a frightful
panic inside the walls, women and
children shrieking in their terror the
whole night through. One shot caused
20 casualties at the Luneta battery;
another exploded at the Malate barracks,
killing five. The troops turned out
just in time to save Malate forts and
the magazine. The insurgents show
ered large and small shots with such
precision that the garrison believed
the whole Amerioan army and fleet
were concentrating their fire. Many
Spanish had previously resolved to
cease fighting the moment the Ameri
cans began, but the insurgents have
subsided and the forts have been rein
forced from the barracks. There has
been little fighting in other directions.
The total Spanish losses are probably
100, but many houses have been seri
ously damaged.
On Monday evening there was a furi
ous fusilade in every diiection. Tele'
phonic inquiries were sent out from
headquarters to various outposts. No
answer was received from El Paco and
accordingly a squadron of horsemen
hastened thither. In the darkness
and storm the sentries fired and wound
ed two. Probably in the panic , they
imagined that the horsemen were
Americans.
A few such nights would drive the
Spaniards inside the citadel, and there
would be the ghastly prospect of pro
longed devastation and slaughter, with
the' inevitable destruction of the town
and its inhabitants unless the Ameri
cans hastened to close in.
On Sunday 1,500 houses at Tondo
were burned, and the flames, driven by
a strong gale, threatened the whole of
Manila, but they were finally extin
guished, mainly through the efforts of
the fire brigade organized by the Brit
ish merchants at Manila.
The British consul died of dysentery
yesterday, but his remains cannot be
buried in the Protestant cemeteiy on
account of the insurgents.
For four days a typhoon has raged.
The suburbs have been flooded, tie
trenches swamped and the sand banks
dissolved. Disease is raging. Mere
infants of 12 years of age are enlisting.
They become officers and fight in the
trenches. The newspapers applaud
what they should condemn' as a crime.
The British 'vice consul, supported
by tbe French consul, who is the dean
of the foreign representatives, took the
initiative in unofficial "feelers" look
ing to an armistice, pending peace;
but the Americans are not used to ac
cept anything except euirender, and
the Span ish will never surrender. The
latter hope to endure until peace is de
clared between Washington and Ma
drid. The hardships are oontinually
pressing upon the natives and foreign
ers; the officials and the military can
monopolize the food aupplieB, and,
though a quarter of a million of the
population starve, this fact goes practic
ally unheeded.
The 10,000 Spaniards in Manila are
confident of their safety. They believe
that the strong walls of the city will
resist for three months, and they are
resolved, regardless of the fate of the
women and children, finally to sell
their lives dearly In wreaking theii
hatred upon the English, the Ameri
cana and the Filipinos. - t
American Warship for Gnotemala.
San Francisco, Aug. 12. The United
States man-of-war Albatross, formerly
tha flacshlD of Admiral Miller, hai
been ordered to San Joaede Guatemala,
and will saU for that port today. Sev
eral months have elapsed since an
American warship has been Btationed
in Guatemalan waters. The Albatross
will remain south until the troulbeJ
ther nbsida.
FIGHT IN CORTES BAY.
Bancroft in a Skirmish With Spaniards
One American Killed.
Key West, Aug. 13. One more name
has been added to the smau list of
navy vitcims. News has reached here
tnat tin annul T. Kourlourie, a coal
passer on the gunboat Bancroft, was
shot and instantly killed during a Bharp
engagement with Spanish riflemen in
Cortes bay, in south Pinar del Rio,
August 2. It is not known how many
Spaniards' lives paid for his, but the
Spanish loss was undoubtedly severe.
Tbe Bancroft was cruising about
Cortes bay, on blockade duty, when a
sail was seen close to the land, about 10
miles to the northward.
The gunboat's steam launch was
armed -with a one-pounder, and Lieu-
ten nt Henry B. Wilson, with 14 men,
all carrying titles, was sent in to inter
cept tbe stranger. She turned out to be
a Spanish schooner. When first ob
served, the Spaniard lay near the wreck
of the Santo Domingo, recently sunk
by the Eagle,
By the time the steam launch
reached that point, the schooner had
worked into a port, and a party of
Spaniards was attempting to haul her
ashore. The launch stood boldly in,
and a brisk fire from her one-pounder
scattered the crowd. The Spaniards
took refuge in high grass on the right
shore, but in spite of tbe faot that the
party in the launch was ignorant of the
enemy's strength the Americans went
ahead with their work with admirable
coolness.
James Monroe, a first-class appren
tice, swam to the schooner and made
a line fast to her in order to pull her
out. At tbe same time, Valdemar
Ilobengren, an ordinary seaman,
dropped over the side of the launch
and made for a pier, where a small
sloop-rigged boat was moored. The
launch then commenced to haul off the
schooner, but the line parted, and
while another was being run to her, the
Spaniards, who had sought shelter in
tbe woods, poured in a murderous rifle
fire. Kourlourie, who was leaning
over the side of the launch, was shot
through the breast and fell dead. For
tunately no one else was even injured.
Instantly tbe men in the launch began
a rapid return of the fire with rifles,
while Lieutenant Wilson maneuvered
the launch so as to take a line from the
steamboat, which bad shoved off from
the pier. Her bow was pulled out and
the one-pounder was opened, on the am
buscade with such well-directed aim
that the Spaniards were routed without
a chance to return the American fire.
The schooner bad, in the meantime,
gone hard aground, and so damaged as
to be almost useless. Enough shells
were sent into her to finish her destruc
tion. Sne was loaded with green corn,
grain and rum.
Commander Clover warmly praised
the gallantry of the launch party,
w'bich did not falter under -heavy fire,
but directed all its energies to rescuing
Hohengren, who alone on the whuif
was in a perlious position.
Kourlourie was buried at sea the
same afternoon.
BURLINGTON TRAIN HELD UP
Robbers Reported to nave Secured a
Big Hani.
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug. 18. The
south-bound Burlington exposition flyer
was held up two miles north of the
city at 9 o'clock tonight by five men
well armed, who rolled the Adams Ex
press Comppny's safe out of the express
car and attempted to haul it away,
They abandoned their task sooq after
without getting any money, it is said,
The safe was recoveied two hours after
the hold-up.
Engineer William Gardner obeyed
the signal to stop, and one of the rob
bers cut loose the engine, running it
down the track 200 yards. Conductor
William Ilea ton was ordered by the
robbers aboard the smoker and re
raained there. Dilteen shots were
fired to terrorize the passengera No
attempt was made by the robbers to en
ter the coaches.
Express Messenger Frank Iiogue
offered no resistance when the bandits
entered his car. The robbers were but
a few minutes in rolling out the small
safe and quitting the scene of the rob
bery. Though the railroad and exprees
men here state that the robbers got
nothing, it is repoted that considerable
booty waa secured.
Kansas City, Aug. 18. A railroad
official who ought to be well informed,
made the statement that the robbers
secured $8,280 from the safe whioh
they took from tbe Adams Express
Company's car.
In a Drunken Pit.
New York. Aug. 13. Police Officer
Henry M. Ilawley, of the tenderloin
station, while in a fit of drunken rage
today, shot his wife, his mother, Mary
Hawley, his son, 4 years old, and his
daughter, 0 years old. He then . shot
himBelf in the head. He was taken to
the Bellevue hospital, where he died
soon afterward. The others were taken
to the New York hospital. The two
children died soon after reaching the
hospital, and Mrs. Mary Hawley, the
mother or the policeman, died tonight
Her body and those of Hawley and the
two children were taken to an under
taking estaolishment, where they were
viewed by hundreds of the morbidly
uurious.
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Reported by Powning
Hopkins (Si Co., Inc..
11 to 714 Chamber of
Hoard ol rradc urokers
Commerce building,
Portland, Oregon.
Wheat is being held back by farmers,
who refuse to &-dl at present figures.
It must not be expected that there will
be a fiee movement until the 'spring
wheat starts. The majority of the
wheat delivered in tbe past 80 days
has gone to exporters to fill contracts
made months ago. The buying to fill
these contracts has taken the bulk of the
arrivals, so that millers and elevator
people have had to compete most of the
time with exporters. The July deal is
now out of the way. Foreigners are heav
ily short of September and December,
and until receipts increase the export
ers will find it difficult to fill their con
tracts unless they have taken advan
tage of the breaks to cover. Every one
admits there is more than enough
wheat to go around, and the trade U
extremely light.
Prospects in the northwest are for a
200,000-bushel crop or about the same
as harvested in 1895. Elevator men
there are also hedging here.
In Europe the crop situation, as com
piled by Broomhall of the Liverpool
Corn Trade News, was given as follows:
Trio tr'n rm hrnnff- . 0 I. I T7;.;
ted Kingdm of the past 17 days has
been of almost inestimable value to
farmers. The ceral crops at the same
time have come in at a great pace, and
f only a cotinuance of bright sunshine
could be assured for another 17 days,
harvest would be in full swing in many
important distriots. Unfortunately the
weather is now unsettled indeed, the
summer seems to be completely broken
again.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 68c; Val
ley and Bluestem, Olo per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.60; graham,
$3.10; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 42c; choice
gray, 40c per Dusnel.
Barley Feed barley, $21; brewing,
$22 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $15 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $15.
Hay Timothy, $1112; clover. $10
11; Oregon wild hay, $910 per ton.
Eggs Oregon, 14o per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 35 40c;
fair to good, 82o; dairy, 2530o
per roll.
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12c;
Young America, 12 o.
Poultrv Chickens, mixed, $3.50 per
dozen; hens, $4.00; springs, $2.00 3;
geese, $3.004.50; ducks, young, $3
00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10
12c per pound.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 50G5c
per sack; new potatoes 60 65c.
Onions California red, $1.25 per
sack.
Hops 512o per pound for new
crop; l BOO crop, 4 Go.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 812c; mohair,
25c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3)c; dressed mutton, 7c;
spring lambs, 9c per lb. -
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.75;
light and feeders, $3.004.00; dressed,
$5.506.60 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 3. 00; dressed beef,
66c per pound.
Veal Large, 56c; small, 78c
per pound.
Seattle Markets.
Vegetables Potatoes $12 16 per
ton.
Beets, per sack, $1; turnips, 75c;
carrots, f 1.10O; radishes, 12c; Call-
fornia onions, $1.10; cabbage, lgC
Fruits California lemons, fancy,
$5.00; choice, $3.60; seeding oranges,
$1.501.75; California navels, fancy,
$33.25; choice, $2.502.75; ban
anas, shipping, $2.252.75 per bunch;
Btrawberries, $1.60 per crate.
Butter Fancy native creamery,
brick, 22c; ranch, 14lGc; dairy, 12g
15o; Iowa, fancy creamery, 22c.
Cheese Native Washington, 11
llc; Eastern cheese, llllc.
Meats Choice dressed beef steers,
prime, 7c; cows, prime, 6o; mut
ton, 7c; pork, 776o; veal, 68c
Hams Large, 10 c; small, 11c;
bieakfast bacon, 11.
Poultry Chickens, live, per pound,
14c; dressed, 16c; spring chickens,
$2. 60 8. 76.
Freeh Fish Halibut, 84o; steel-
heads, 78o; salmon trout, 9 10c; '
flounders and sole. 34o; herring, 4c
Oysters Olympia oysters, per sack,
$3.50, per gallon, solid, $1.80.
Wheat Feed wheat, $21.
Oats Choice, per ton, $26.
Corn Whole, $24; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $24.
Feed Chopped feed, $17 21 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil
cake meal, per ton, $35.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$Q5;. whole, $24.
Flour Patent, $4.10, bbl; straights,
$3.85; California brands, $5.50; buck
wheat flour, $6.50; graham, per bbl,
$4.25; whole wheat flour, $4.50; rye
flour, $4.25.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $8 10;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
15,