Chronicle.
VOL. X
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1897
NO 34
el)c Dalles
THE CLIMAX AT HAND
Philippine Islands Revolt
Verging Upon a Collapse.
KEBEL FORCES GROWING WEAKER
Spaiiloli Commander rrcpartnsr to Strike
A Decisive Itloir by Attacking
the Insurgent Stronghold.
New Yokk, Feb. 18. A dispatch to
the flerald from Manila says :
General La Chambre, who has occu
pied Santo Domingo, is now advancing
on Silling Cornell. and Manna ana will
Attack the rebel forces within three
davs. The number of troops employed
is not published. The batteries em
ployed are two Krnpp batteries of eight
centimeters, one battery of nine and two
mortars of fifteen centimeters. With
General La Chambre is General Marina,
who takes one battery of artillery of
eicht centimeters.
From all reports it would seem that if
the Spaniards are lucky enough to in
flict a decisive chastisement upon the
rebels in Cavite, the entire revolution
will collapse. The absence of the real
leader must tell upon the rebels, and all
their principal men are either in the
fortress here or have been Bhot bv the
authorities. Francisco Kojas, the mil
lionaire and friend of General Blanco;
Rizal, the doctor and idol of the Philip
pine Indians; Lund, the artist whose
picture won a gold medal at the Paris
exposition, and every other native or
half-caste of wealth or influence in the
Catipunan or inner circlee of conspiracy,
which the natives created for their own
purposes inside the lodges of Masonry,
into which tbe Spaniards confidently in
itiated them years ago, are in the toils of
the law and may be shot any day.
An immense amount of suffering has
been inflicted on their families by these
misguided men. In dozens of cases
large estates of those implicated have
been embargoed by the government, and
people formerly opulent are reduced to
poverty. Even some native Catholic
priests are among the prisoners, seven
at least having been tempted into the
plot.
The machinations ot the rebels eeem
to have permeated all quarters, and they
have taken in their withering grasp na
tives and half-breeds in every station of
life, from the millionaire property
owner, local governor, government clerk,
official doctor or professor in college, to
the most ignorant and poorest fisher
man and domestic servant in foreign or
Spanish employ. Indeed, it would be
difficult to find a parallel for such wide
spread treachery.
If the rebels on the island can get rid
of the Spaniards they can run the coun
try and pay no more taxes. Every one
will have plenty to eat, nothing to do
and pay no "cedula" or other tax to
anybody. This is the simple argument
which the agents use every where to beat
op recruits and get the peasants to join
tbeir ranks. Their ideas are largely
socialistic.
As an illustration of these delightful
tenets, the washerwomen, who have
mostly all turned rebels, walked off with
half the wardrobes of male and female
Manila, for every one uses white tropical
clothing the year round, and conse
quently for a time the rebels were the
best-dressed gentlemen in the Philip
pines, while their luckless customers
wre getting new clothes together.
MOVKD IK XHK BKNBON BOUSE.
faioliuion to Declare Vacant Seat! of
Absentees.
Salem, Feb. 18. In the Benson house
today Crawford introduced a resolution
declaring vacant the seals of those mem
wrs who have not qualified, thus pre
venting the enactment of certain leglela
t'on. After some discussion tbe resolu
tion was laid aside until afternoon. The
bouse then adjourned.
Tulrty-nve Came la.
Salem, Feb. 18.-Only 85 members
e present at today's joint convention.
if".6 we read from Representative
jodeon, Mitchell Vaugban saying they
It,"?t,U 111 nd PreMlng the hope
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In the House.
Salem, Feb. 18. In the senate today
Brownell introduced by request a peti
tion for the passage of a law licensing
the practice of midwiferv. A number of
bills were reported and ordered en
grossed for the third reading. Among
them was Daly's bill abolishing the rail
road commission.
Harmon, of the committee on com
merce and navigation, reported a sub
stitute for Michell's bill relative to the
portage railway between The Dalles and
Celilo. The substitute Teduces the
amount of the appropriation asked for
fnm $195,000 to $130,000. There are al
so several other minor changes. The
substitute was referred to the committee
on railroads.
Tbe senate then adjourned.
BE TUMBLED INTO THE BASS DBUK.
Unusual And
IoTolnntary Feat
Acrobat.
of an
Sax Francisco, Feb. 18. An acrobat
at the Orpheum fell forty feet from a
trapeze yesterday and crashed through
the big bass drum. Incidentally he
caused two women to faint, broke two
music stands, scared the wits out oi, but
did not kill, a fiddler, as he might have
done, and bruised himself slightly.
The acrobat is one of the Eenfe broth
ers, who perform a number of daring
feats on a high trapeze euspended in
front of the curtain over the orchestra.
Tlie trapeze are suspended at oppsite
sides of a horizontal, rectangular frame.
From one trapeze Juels Renfe hangs by
his feet, while his brother Jacques swings
from the other trapeze, with his back
turned to Jules. When Jacques has ob
tained sufficient impetus from bis swing
ing he lets go the trapeze bar and so
flies to the outstretched hands of hiB
brother.
They were performing this feat yes
terday evening, when, somehow or other
Jacques succeeded in getting only an in
secure hold of one hand. Jules could
not 'hold on, and made a straight drop.
Iianuu Hue Decided.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 18. It is defi
nitely settled Hanna will not go into
McKinley'e cabinet. Hanna announced
this morning that he ie determined to
remain in Ohio, He will contest the
legislature next winter for a full term in
tbe United States senate. In fact, Han
na's supporters have already organized
his campaign. Hope that Governor
Busbnell may appoint Hanna to fill the
unexpired term of Sherman has practi
cally been abandoned.
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Gomez Recedes Before Weyler's Con
tinued Advance.
Havana, via Key West, Feb. 18. If
official reports are correct, the insurgent
army under General Gomez has been di
vided into small corps and Gomez him
self is in full retreat before the continued
advance of Weyler.. Dispatches from
Clego de Aviel sav the insurgent com-mander-in
chief with 4000 men recrossed
the military line in the province of Puer
to Principe, extending from Jucaro to
Mor.on, and is going eastward through
Puerto Principi in the direction of the
capital of the province.
General Calixto de Garcia, Gomes' sec
ond in command, was reported four days
ago in tbe vicinity of Puerto Principe,
retreating towards tbe same point as
Gomez. Weyler arrived yesterday at
Sancti Spiritus, the most important
town in the eastern part of the province
of Santa Clara,' near the boundary of
Puerto Principe, in the territory where
the insurgent headquarters were recent
ly located. Weyler will push forward to
Moron, Clego de Aviel and Jucaro, thus
seemingly sweeping across the island
with a large force, and driving the enemy
before him. He expects to entrap Go
mez between two wings of the Spanish
column and force a decisive engagement
before the rains put an end to the mili
tary operations. The Cubans believe,
however, that Gomez will, as usual, slip
through the cordon before being com
pletely enveloped.
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Transvaal Indemnity.
London, Feb. 18. The secretary of
state for the colonies Joseph Chamber
lain, announced in house of commons
today that an official telegram had been
received from the British agent at Pre
toria, capital of the Transvaal, on Tues
day, conveying a bill of idemnity pre
seted by the Transvaal asa result of the
Jameson raid. The bill is divided into
two heads. The first asks for the pay
ment of 677,93S 30s 3d as a material
charge, and under the second head the
Transvaal asks for 1,000,000 for moral
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private claims which may be advanced.
The telegram of the British agent also
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Pierce, S. D., Feb. 18". On the sena
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the house voted almost solidly for Kyle.
The Republicans of the senate began at
once to change to Kyle. Before the re
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been made to giye Kyle 65 votes, three
more than necessary. With the solid
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