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TOLEDO OREGON
PITOME OF THE DiSPATGH
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Plates Colled From the Press
Report of the Current Week.
LATER NEWS.
Lighthouses in Southern Philippines
have been re-established.
The transport St. Paul has arrived
in Manila from San Francisco with all
well on board.
Foreign vessels will be allowed to
enter the ports of Hawaii as usual,
pending revision of the United States
laws.
Schley and Gordon, commissioners
to settle the conditions for the Spanish
evacuation of Porto Rico, have sailed
for San Juan.
Being out of work and without means
to support his family, a Chicago drug
clerk turned highwayman, and in at
tempting to rob a saloon was forced to
shoot the proprietor.
Several vessels of the "Mosquito"
fleet are useless. The board of survey
has found upon examination that their
machinery and boilers are badly worn,
and "Will make a report condemning
them.
Tho annual session of the National
Irrigation Congress opened at Chey
enne Thursday. Ex-Senator Carr, the
president, delivered the annual ad
dress, urging the necessity for extend
ing irrigation facilities.
Eight lives were lost and considera
ble damage wrought by the Georgia
storm, which was more serious than
first reported. Lieutenant Morgan and
a crew of six were drowned by the up
setting of a yawl off Tybee island.
The mate of an Italian ship lost his life.
The American ship Baring Brothers,
from New York, has been burned in
the harbor of Kobe. About 3,000 tons
of matting was also destroyed. It is
intimated that the tire was of incendiary
origin. When the vessel arrived at
Kobe from Yokohama six of the crew
were in irons. Four were afterward
liberated.
' Orders have been received in An
napolis from the president directing
Cervera to make arrangements to pro
ceed with his officers and men back to
Spain immediately, in accordance with
instructions issued by the Spanish
ministers of marine. The officers were
very enthusiastic when they received
the news.
A passenger train on the New York,
Ontario & Western railroad, was
wrecked at Infills, near Saratoga. The
wreok was doubtless due to the dastard
ly work of tramps, who threw open the
switch at which the train was wrecked.
The dead are: Engineer B. C. Dowd,
of Oswego: Fireman William Hall, ol
Norwich; Brukeman A. L Osborne, oi
Walton. Eight were injured.
Cuban troops threatened to enter the
town of Gunantanamo, but were pre
vented by Colonel Ray.
Recent developments in the cele
brated Dreyfus case in France, it ,ie
said, may occasion a retrial which
would liberate Dreyfus and Emile Zola.
Wilhelniina Hellona Paulina Maria
has attained her majority, and became
queen of the Netherlands. Solemn
thanksgiving services were hell in
churches throughout the country.
Unknown incendiaries set tire to a
Chicago house. Their intention was tc
kill a woman and child who were with
in, but the intended victims were res
cued by a man who observed their
peril baiely in time.
The hospital ship Olivette, while
anchored near the quarantine station at
Fernandina, Fla., in some unaccounta
ble manner suddenly filled and went
down, Ki"i"t5 those on board barely
time to escape with their lives.
Strikers are determined to prevent
by force, if need be, the operation of
the coal mines at Para, 111. Six
thousand union men from other sections
ore about to join tho ranks of the
strikers, ana aid in enforcing their de
mands. William Ferriss, a wealthy resident
of Mount Vernon, 111., died, agod OS
years. Ho served on board an Ameri
can privateer in the war of 1812. and
subsequently was a member of the ex
pedition that cleared tho Gulf of Mexi
co of pnatus.
Tho convention assembled at Man
agua to form a constitution for a feder
aoy to consist of Salvador, Honduras
and Nicaragua has agreed upon 43 of
the 140 articles. It has been agreed
that the name of the confederacy shall
bo "Tho United States of Ceutral
America."
General Garcia is now without a
command. The Shatter incident led
to his removal at the hands of General
Gomez. His successor has been
named in tho person of Rodriguez, who
It has been decided to abandon Camp
tVikoff within the next three weeks.
James Wilson, "King of Tramps,"
has been commended for his bravery at
Santiago.
Fifty deaths and over one hundred
prostrations is the result of one hot day
in New York.
John Hills, a well-to-do New York
ice dealer, his wife and his sister-in-law,
Mary Conlin, have been poisoned
by whisky sent through the mail.
Private letters from our consuls
abroad indicate that the Philippines
must be retained if the United States
desires to maintain its position in the
world of nations.
The Iowa met with an accident in the
Brooklyn navy-yard dock. The engine
rooms are said to have been partly
flooded during the process of floating
the big battle-ship.
The Frenoh minister of war, M.
Cavaignac, has resigned. The resigna
tion is due to a disagreement with his
colleagues, who desire a revision of the
Dreyfus case. Thus a revision of the
case seems assured.
Oriental advices say that the recent
assaulting of an American missionary
in the Sorachi district, Japan, is caus
ing considerable excitement, especial
ly since the new treaties will spread
foreign residents all through the in
terior. According to native Japanses papers,
received in Seattle on the Kinshu Maru,
Marquis Ito's visit to China is liable to
result in his changing residence. It is
said that he has been offered a princely
salary to become general adviser to the
emperor.
More soldiers are soon to leave for
Honolulu. General Miller says three
regiments will sail from San Francisco
within a month. The First Tennessee,
Fifty-first Iowa and Twentieth Kansas
are the lucky men The 6th and 7th
California and California heavy artil
lery are to be mustered out.
Spanish soldiers have demanded their
pay, and they object to leaving Cuba
without it. Posters exhorting the
troops to refuse to leave Havana unless
the money is first forthcoming, were
circulated in Havana. The prevailing
sentiment is one of animosity toward
Madrid.
A Madrid dispatch says: General
Jademes, ad interim governor of the
Philippines, replying to the govern
ment's request for information as to the
true situation of affairs in the arohi
pebgo, reports that to resume establish
ment of Spanish sovereignty over the
islands would require a fleet and end
less quantities of material.
At least $1,000,000 prize money will
be distributed among American sailors
as a result of the war with Spain.
Rear Admiral Sampson of the North
Atlantic squadron will receive $40,000,
Dewey and his men are to receive $187,
500 head money. Appropriations lor
the purpose will likely be made at the
next session of congress.
General Shafter. says the surrender of
Santiago was a great surprise to him.
Retribution is not. quite complete.
Tho Cuban commissioners will make
an attempt while in Havana to ferret
out the persons who destroyed the
Maine. ,
Orders have been issued by the war
department that all the regular army
regiments now at Montank, which
were started previously east of the Mis
sissippi river, shall return to the same
stations.
A semi-official note fiom Berlin eayg
that peace having been re-established
between the United States and Spain,
orders have boen given that the German
naval force at Manila be at once reduced
to one or two ships.
A jeport is current in LonMon that
Great Britain and Germany have signed
a treaty of alliance for Germany's sup
port in Egypt. England will recog
nize Germany's claim to Syria as an
outlet for her surplus population.
Reliable information has been ob
tained by the Associated Press to the
effect that Russia intends to convene
the international peace conference at
St. Petersburg one month after the ad
journment of the Spanish-American
peace conference at Paris.
The monthly statement of the public
debt, shows that August 81, the public
debt less cash in the treasury, was
1,012,470,717, which is a decrease for
the month of $34,789,711. This de
crease is accounted for by a correspond
ing increase in the cash on hand, due
to the receipts from the war loan.
The Chicago Tribune prints statistics
showing the number of soldiers who
have been killed in battle and have
died of diseases in campduring the war
with Spain. While 850 ofliceis and
men have been killed in battle or died
of wounds received, there havo died of
disease in camp between 1,200 and
2,000 volunteers and regulars.
A Madrid dispatch says: All Cata
lonia protests against tho continuance
of the special war taxes, and insists
upon their immediate repeal, threaten
ing to dose all the factories if the de
mand is not complied with. The lower
classes are deeply and perhaps danger
f
BATTLE
GYPT
Taking of Omdurman by
the British.
COMPLETE ROUT OF DERVISHES
Masted Tribes Unable to Withstood the
Withering Fire of Modern Ordnance
Gallant Charge of the British.
will command tho Cuban army in San
tiago. Garcia's sending of his fainom ously impressed by the ghastly appear
letter to Shatter was a grave breach ol anco of the repatriated eoldiers from
discipline i Santiago de Cuba
Omdurman, Opposite Khartoum on
the Nile, Nubia, Sept. 6. The sirdar,
General Herbert Kitchener, with the
khalifa's black standard captured dur
ing the battle, entered Omdurman, the
capital of Mahdiam at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, at the head of the Anglo
Egyptian column, after completely
routing the dervishes and dealing a
death blow to Mahdim. Roughly, our
losses were 200, while thousands of the
dervishes were killed and wounded.
Last night the Ang'o-Egyptian army
encamped at Agaiza, eight miles from
Omdurman. The dervishes were three
miles distant. At dawn today,
the cavalry patrolling toward Omdur
man discovered the enemy advancing
to the attack in battle array, chanting
war songs. Their front consisted of in
fantry and cavalry, stretched out for
three or four miles. Countless banners
fluttered over their masses, and the
copper and brass drums resounded
through the ranks of the savage war
riors, who advanced unswervingly,
with all their old-time ardor. Our
infantry formed up outside the oamp.
At 7:20 A. M. the enemy crowded
the ridges above the camp and ad
vanced steadily in enveloping forma
tion. At 7:40 our artillery opened fire,
which was answered by the dervish
riflemen. Their attack developed on
our left, and in accordance with their
traditional tactics, they swept down
the hillside, with the design of rushing
our flank. But the withering fire
maintained for 15 minutes by all our
line frustrated the attempt, and the
dervishes, balked, swept toward our
center, upon which they concentrated a
fierce attack.
A large force of horsemen, trying to
face a continuous hail of bullets from
the Cameron Highlanders, the Lincoln
shire regiment and the Soudanese, was
literally swept away, leading to the
withdrawal of the entire body, whose
dead strewed the field.
The bravery of the dervishes can
hardly be overestimated. Those who
carried the flags struggled to within
100 yards of our fighting line.
When the dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge in front of their camp, the
whole force marched in echelon of bat
talions toward Omdurman.
As our troops surmounted the crest
adjoining the Nile, the Soudanese on
pur right came into contact with the
Remick, who had reformed under cover
nf a rocky eminence, and had marched
beneath the black standard of the kha
lifa in order to make a supieme effort
to retrieve the fortunes of the day. A
mass 15,000 strong bore down on the
Soudanese.
General Kitchener swung round tho
center and left of the Soudanese and
seized the rocky eminence, and the
Egyptians, hitherto in reserve, joined
the firing line in 10 minutes, and be
fore the dervishss could drive their at
tack home. The flower of the khalifa's
army was caught in a depression and
within a zone of withering cross-fire
f lom three brigades, with the attendant
artillery. The devoted Mahdis strove
heroically to make headway, but every
rush was stopped, while their main
body was literally mown down by a sus
tained cross-fire.
Defiantly the dervishes planted their
standards and died beside them. Their
dense masses gradually melted to com
panies, and the companies to driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled, leaving the field white
with Jibbah-clad corpses, like a Bnow
drift dotted spot.
At 11:15 the sirdar ordered an ad
vance ond our whole force, in line,
drove tho scattered remnants into the
desert to Omdurman.
Among the chief incidents of the bat
tle was a brilliant charge by the
Twenty-first Lancors.nnder Lieutonant
Colonel Maitin. Galloping down on n
"detached body of the enemy, they found
tlie dervish swordsmen massed behind,
and were forced to charge home against
appalling odds. The lanjers hacked
through the mass, rallied and kept the
dervish hordo at bay. Lieutenant
Grenfelt, nephew of Goneral Sir Francis
Grenfelt, was killed, four other officers
were wounded, 21 men were killed and
20 wounded.
The Egyptian oavalry were in close
fighting throughout with the Baggara
horsemen. For a short period the
enemy captured and held a gun, but it
was brilliantly retaken.
Tho heroic bravery of the dervishes
evoked universal admiration. Time
after time their dispersed and broken
forces reformed and hurled themselves
upon tho Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs
conspicuously leading and spurning
death. Even when wounded and in
death agonh-sthey raised themselves to
lire a last shot.
Among the wounded is Colonel
Rhodes, the correspondent nf n,. t
i ... . . . .
n nines, ana a brother of
Rhodes.
Cecil
PRESIDENT AT WIXOFF.
Cheered the Sick Heroes of the San
tlc Cniniuie.
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, N.
Y., Sept. 6. President McKinley spent
five hours in the camp today, bare
headed most of the time, visiting the
sick in the hospitals and inspecting
the well in their cantonments. He
made a speech to the assorubled in
fantrymen, reviewed the cavalrymen,
expressed his opinion of the camp to
the reporters, and issued an order di
recting the regiments to return to
their stations east of the Mississippi.
With the president were Vice-President
Hobart, Secretary of War Alger,
Attorney-General Griggs, Senator Red
field Proctor, Brigadier-General Egan,
commissary of the army; General Lud
ington, quartermaster of tho army;
Colonel Henry Ilecker, and Secretaries
to the President Porter and Cortelyou.
The ladies of the party were Mrs. Al
ger and Miss Hecker, a daughter oi
Colonel Hecker.
General Wheeler, his staff, and
nearly every officer of prominence in
the camp met the president at the sta
tion, except General Shafter, who is
still in bed, and General Young, who
fell and broke his arm last night.
After greetings and introductions on
the railway platform, the piesident
took General Wheeler's arm and went
to a carriage.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, of the
rough riders, was among a group of
horsemen nearby. Mr. McKinley saw
him and got out of the carriage to
tily dismounted and tusselcd with a
gauntlet for 15 seconds, so that un
gloved he might shake hands.
The column of oarriages wound up a
hill, escorted by the Third cavalry reg
iment, and the mounted band of the
Sixth cavalry. The party paused a
moment on the hill, and the president
looked out on the wide, undulating
oamp, water bounding each side and
whitened on the levels and hilltops by
the tents of 18,000 men, laid out in
geometrio lines. '
Mr. McKinley drove) to General
Shaker's tent in the detention camp.
The general, who was flushed and
weak from a mild case of malarial
fever, was in full unfiorm, sitting in a
chair at the door of the tent. He tried
to rise, but President McKinley said:
"Stay where you are, general; you
are entitlted to rest."
The president congratulated General
Shafter on the Santiago victory, and
after a few minutes' rest, proceeded to
the general hospital. The soldiers re
cently arrived on the transports and
detained in the detention section of
the camp lined up irregularly on each
side of the road and cheered. The
president took off his straw hat then,
and scarcely more than put it on for
more than a minute or two at a time
during the remainder of his progress
through the camp.
Miss Wheeler, a daughter of the gen
eral, happened to be in the first row of
the hospital tents, and she showed the
president through her division.
General Wheeler announced in each
ward: "Boys, the president has come
to see you;" or, "Soldiers, the presi
dent of the United States."
Some of the soldiers slept uncon
scious, some listlessly raised upon their
elbows, others feebly clapped their
hands. Mr. McKinley gently shook
hands with many, and at every cot he
paused an instant, and if he saw the
sick man looking at him he bowed in a
direct and personal way.
In the second ward the president en
tered, Soigeant John A. Alexander,
company D, First Illinois, who has a
fever, was rather startled to hear Gen
eral Wheeler announce the president.
The seigeant half raised upon his cot.
Mr. McKinley, attracted by the move
ment, took Alexander's hands and
said:
"I am sorry to see vou so sick. I
i hope that you are getting better."
lhank you; I think I shall get
well." b
"Do you wish for anything?" asked
General Wheeler.
"No, I have everything good for me,
I guess." Alexander replied wearily
"but I wish I were home."
"I hope that we may soon get vou
there," said Mr. McKinley.
He had many such bits of talk with
the men, and seemed to be in no
hurry. He almost outwore the pa
tienceofall his party by his alow
going through ward after ward.
Ambushed by Indluns.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 6. The
schooner J. M. Coleman, which arrived
on the Sound today from St. Michaels,
brings news that two prospectors were
ambushed while drifting down the Yi
kon in a boat. Indians fired on the
boat, killing one and wounding the
other. The wounded man escaped,
and reached a police camp. Police
started, and found the Indians enjoying
the prospectors' supplies. They were
brought to Dawson, where one of the
Indians made a confession.
Mr. Frank, who came on the Cole
man, says when he left Dawson there
was a stampede to Dewey and Samp
son creeks, from which fine reports
came. Both are in American territory.
Trouble In Lad rones.
Madrid, Aug. 80.-Negotiation8 have
iron opened with Washington to obtain
PermiHs.on for the Spaniards in tho
Ladrone islands to go to Manila, as the
.situation in the Ladrones is extremely
III
EQmo
Conditions in the Arroyo
Not So Bad As Paint J'
SOLDIERS ARE WELL
Ce Blames the Newspapers f. .
Stories of f r.,l .....i r.
. xiorrlbl. T.
iuout at WlkoO.
Camp Wikoff, Montank Po tt ,
Sent. 5. Maior.nn...i .
er gave the following to thJi1
"Headquarters United StatfisP.
Camp Wikoff, Long l8,an()
The fnllowincF ia n or,,.,i . ... ..
which urn innilaiL - , 5llt'i
the soldiers in the cam :
" 'In record
very uneasy about him on acconnu
, lv 'ci'ria oi ineprivni,,
and suffering inflicted
vates. Although ho has never ntte:
a comprint since he has been in I
army, wo hear from other sources oil
cruel and hnrrihln , .. !
upon our soldiers under the preterm
.. , ..ciRiiuors, ami th
whole country is in a stntn r .
excitement. I should not be ewrmJ
w,u ini8 oiiutuu iuuu io a revolo.
non ui some Kinu, lor 1 nmm w.
hear on all ruIca riia mn -i.i
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bitter denunciations of the war depart
ment and the administration. It j,
indeed, a great pity that the glorv oi
our triumphs should be dimmed' ti
such a shameful thing as tlie ill treat
muuii uiiu Hiurvauon ol our
OE3T. JOSEPH WHEELER.
soldiers, while tho Spanish prison
have the best treatment that the coil
try can ufford.'
"It will be seen that this letters;
that not a word of complaint liaekt:
received from this soldier, and wt
as my investigation goes, nocomplai
has been made by any of the taw
soldiers who have added glory to
arms in the Cuban campaign.
"A great many anxious fatltn
mothers, brothers or sisters, arrive k
from all parts of the United 8W i
look after their relatives, whom it
say tho papers tell them are sufferir;
and many of them have heard i'
their relatives aro in a condition'
starvation. Most of these people n
little able to expend the money fe
Birch a journey, and they are eurpiiw
when they come here to hmi i
relatives surrounded with everyil
to eat which can be produced byrww
and, if sick in the hospital, tliey
grateful and surprised to find thatk
are given every possible care.
jjici uiu.(;i oiiv. cv.v.
to Cuba regarded it that he,
a great and special privilege In l
permitted to engake in that camp
They knew they were to encounte'!'
low fever and other diseases, as y
the torrid heat or. the country, and i
were proud and glad to do eo. J
knew that it was impossible for v
to have the advantage of wngonW
portation, which usually accouir"
an armv. and vet officers and men'
glad to'go, to carry their blttiiket-
thnir rotinna nn Umir backs and Ms'
jected, without any shelter, to tH
and rains by day and the lie"."'
by night. They certainly kno
the Spanish had spent vears in erf
defenses, and it was their phc"
assault and their duty to capture
Spanish works.
"They were more than glad
these hardships and these
They went there and did their1'
each man seeming to feel that 1
can honor and prestigo was to be w
ured by his conduct. The b '
who won the victories did not corni
nf tlm npolunt nf tlie L'overniiie1"'
on the contrary, they seemed gr' j
to the piesident and secretary "
for giving them the opportunity
cur these dangers and hardship
realized that in the hurried onA
tion of an expedition by a gov" .
which had no one with any exi'
in such matters it was iropnej'
1... 4 1. : ,. .....I ii afii t0 Y
tion; and they will testify tMf
the circumstances, the condifn
much more perfect than 0I1.
have roason to expect, "
president and secretary of
others who planned and 1'BP
these expeditions deserve b'B
meudatiou.
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