PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Items of General Interest Cleaned
J'roin the Thriving uoiUn
States.
M"heat Grniln.
Regarding the grading of Washing
ton wheat by the Portland Chamber of
Commerce at 59 pounds per bushel, a
dealer in Walla Walla says in the
Union of that town: "Oregon otight
to have a state board to grade wheat,
instead of throwing the responsibility
onto the Portland Chamber of Com
merce. It now costs 75 cents for ati
Eastern Washington whtat raisM to
have a car of wheat inflected at Ta
coma. In Portland it rosts nothing
a slight premium for having rheat
shipped to Portland. As a matter of
fact, the law of Washington in regard
to the inspection of wheat is unconsti
tutional, i could take tl.not) or $-3,000
ami knock the law out. That is tiio
opinion of some of the best legal talent
of Tacomi. I have to pay a tax on
warehouses, and n second" one for in
spection. That inaeka it a double tax,
and unjiiRt. Just because wheat
weighs 58 pounds to tho bushel don't
cause it to bring the highest price. We
have to pay more for the heavier
wheat, that, (or instance, which goes
pounds to the bushel, classed as
choice milling. Even after wheat lias
been inspected at Tacoina and found
to go 58 pounds to the bushel, heavier
wheat has to be mixed with it in order
that it may pass as No. 1 in foreign
markets. That niakos more trouble
for the wholseale wheatbuyer."
The Shingle Market.
In commenting on the present con
dition of the shingle market, the Ta
coma Lumberman says the good effects
ot the closing-down proposition are al
ready being felt. The prices are firmer
and there are practically no shingles
on the market. Eastern buyers are in
the field trying to contract for round
lots. They are using argument to
prove to the mill man that he should
contract now, "beoause shingles may
be weak in the spring." If he really
thought so he would not try to buy
now. The mill man is gotting a little
wiser each year. He knows more
about tho shingle business than he did
a few years ago. He knows that the
big Eastern buyer, as a rule, lays for
him and ambushes liim when he can.
The line yard man of the East who is
not in any genes a jobber buys out of
season, always, when the market is off.
If the mill men will remain closed
down until February 1, start off with
moderate prices and raise them as tho
trade demands, the year 1899 will be
the best one the shingle men have ever
Been.
No Corner In Salmon.
When the salmon pack on the Fraser
liver -was definitely announced this
vear, a report was circulated to the
effect that an attempt would be made
by certajn well-known packers and cap
italists on the Pacific coast to "corner"
the market. "No such attempt lias
ever been made to .my knowledge,"
says a packer in the Vancouver (B. C.)
Province. "The Fraser pack this sea
son amounted to only 197,000 oases,
but still I think it would be almost im
possible to comer the market. Taking
into consideration the whole pack of
the Paoifiu coast, it would require about
$350,000 to control the market.
As a result of the small pack on tho
Fraser this year prices are slightly
higher. We do not look for much of
an advance, however.
Prepared to Carry on Work.
Otto Hansen, having leased the Ira
Erb sasdi and door factory, of Salem,
and equipped it with now machinery,
is now prepared to carry on work in
that line in keeping with the growing
demands. Mr. Hansen has already in
place a new turning machine and a new
mortice machine, both of the latest pat
terns, and has now on the road from
tho manufacturers two other new ma
chines a Universal woodworker for
jointing and facing and a door and
blind clamping machine with sash at
tachment. John S. Ponnebaker will
be Mr. Hansen's foreman and busiuess
manager, and they have alrady every
assurance of prosperous patronage.
Stinnon Mill Not Sold.
There is no trnth in the report that
the old Port Madison mill, which has
been shut down for several yeais, had
been purchased by the Stimson Mill
Company, of Ballard, and that tho com
pany would run the old mill on a scale
far exceeding tho palmiest days of the
old Madison Mill Company. A flat
denial is given these rumors bv C. D.
Ktirnson, of the Stinison Mill Company,
who says that there is not the slightest
foundation for such a rumor.
After Portland Husiness.
Advices from Butte, Mont., are to
the effect that the Great Northern
Railway Company contemplates the
construction of a cut-off from tiiat city
west to Lewiston, Idaho, to connect
with the extension of the O. K. & N.
Co., and thus secure advantageous and
direct means of sharing Portland's
traffic.
Reported Removal.
The sash and door factory at Rainiei
will probably bo temovod from that
place, and in anticipation of this ac
tion the citizens of the two Washing
ton towns, Kelso and Castle Rock, are
making efforts to secure the plant.
Logging camps above Palouse are
making rapid headway in getting out
the large number of logs which will be
floated down the river next spiing, and
the snow remains on the ground, the
record for large drives will be broken
this winter. While a little more snow
would be beneficial and would be ap
preciated by the lumbermen, there is
enough on the ground to make good
sleighing, and the clear, cold weather
for the past three weeks baa been ideal
for cutting and hauling logs to the river
bank.
Seattle capital is back of a new con
cern being organized in Spokane for the
purpose of putting up pickles, catsopi,
saucus, vinegar, jellies, jams, etc.
The enterprise will be known as the
Falls City Pickle Works, and having
secured a six years' lease on a three
story building, have workmen engaged
in getting it in shape to begin business.
II. M. Stone and F. P. Sheasgieen,
of Oakville. who shipped carload ol
prunes to Des Moines, have received re
turns from the same. There were 80,
000 pounds, for which they receded
4 1-10 tents net.
WANTS NO NICARAGUA CANAL.
Russia Launches Campaign Against
tile American Scheme.
Kew Yoik, Jan. 2. A disprtch from
Paris save: . The Herald's European
edition prints the following:
Russin is evidently beginning a
campaign against the Nicaragua canal.
The Novoe Vremya publishes an article
not only warmly advocating the Pana
ma scheme, but filled with bitter dis
like of the United States.
The writer says the predominance of
the United Statos would have been de
sirable for Russia a few years ago, but
all this has ohanged since the last
war. Ho goes on to say that, having
despoiled poor Spain, the United States
has become a colonial party and an
Asiatic power.
"Forgetting the Monroe doctrine of
America lor Americans, which implies
the other doctrine that American do
minion must be confined to America,
the Yankees," he says, "ate now enter
ing into open competition with us in
China and Corea. They have no
scruples over an alliance with their
traditional enemy, England, and with
Japan for this purpose.
"For this reason Russian financiers
and diplomats ought to" give their sup
port to the French undertaking when
it conies to seriously discarding tho
neutralization of the Panama canal and
placing it under the general control or
guarantee of tho European powers."
The writer declares the Panama route
would be more beneficial to Russia
than the Nicaragua route.
"This lattei canal," he adds, "even
supposing its completion possiblo,
would be a purely American undertak
ing, whereas the Panama canal remains
in the hands of our allies, the Frenoh,
or it may become an international en
terprise with the addition of a strong
American element to its shareholders."
The Novoe Vremya eays:
"Russia must therefore, be on her
guard against the United States, es
pecially in view of the enormous
wealth of its Pacific shores and strat
egical position occupied by Americans
in the Sandwich, the Philippines, the
Samoan and the Mariana islands."
WILL NOT RETURN.
General Merrill's Official Connection
With the Philippines Has Censed.
Chicago, Jan. 2. Major-General
Wesley A. Merritt and bride are in
Chicago. They will spend the holi
days here and then go to New York,
where the general will assume his po
sition as commander of the department
of the East.
The general says that his official
connection with the Philippines has
oeased. He thinks this government
should ignore Agoncillo, the Filipino
representative. According to the gen
eral's belief Agoncillo is trying to hold
up the United States.
General Merritt smiled when the
question of "embalmed" beef was
brought up.
"What fresh beef was furnished us
at Manila came from Australia," Gen
eral Merritt says, "but most of the
meat furnished the army was canned,
and a good share of it was taken with
us. We did not experience the least
trouble with it. Myself and my staff
lived on canned meat part of the time,
and we were in the best of health."
MRS. BOTKIN GUILTY.
Convicted of Murder In First Degree
Life Imprisonment the Penalty.
San Franoisco, Jan. 2. Rather to
the general surprise of those who have
followed the Botkin trial, and to the
entire dismay of the defendant and her
attorneys, Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was
tonight found guilty of murder in tho
first degree for caiming the death of
Mrs. John P. Dunning, by sending a
box of poisoned candy to her in Dover.
Del. The condemned murderess will
be spared an ignominious death on the
gallows, however, the jury that found
her guilty imposing also the penalty
of life imprisonment. The verdict was
unexpected. An acquittal was co.ifi
deutly awaited by the defense, while
the prosecution feared a disagreement.
Itlg Gold Strike.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 2. Considerable
excitement was caused in mining and
smelting circles here today by the ar
rival of authentic information of one of
the biggest gold strikes yet made in
Northern Mexico. E. U. Beauchamp,
who arrived today from Baccreac, feo
noro, by way of Casas Grandes, Chihua
hua, reports the discovery of an im
mense fissure vein of free milling gold
ore 20 miles south of Bacereac. The
ore is lepoited to contain 18 ounces of
gob) to the ton, and the vein has been
traced for several miles. American
prospectors in Casas Grandes and sur
rounding districts are arriving on the
scene in large numbers.
Fastest Train In the World.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 1. As a result
of a meeting of division superintend
ents of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern railroad, just held here to re
arrange time-tables, it is announced
that the new fast mail, which is to
be started next Sunday between New
York and San Francisco, will be the
fastest regular train in tjie world.
That is to say, there is no other train
which goes so great a distance in as
short a time every day in the year.
The total redaction in tune between
New York ami San Francisco over the
present schedule is a little over 13
lion r s.
Atlanta. Ga.. Jan. 2. The memor-
able sentiment regarding the nation's
care of Confedetate dead expressed in
President McKinley's now famous fra
ternizing speech before the Georgia leg
islature has crystallized into an order
to ascertain the location of all the Con
federate burvinir grounds in the South,
ami this work liar already begun.
(Jenrtria has been called on for a list
of these places, the adjutant-general of
the state having received an omciai
letter from Washington requesting
full list of the Confederate cemeteries.
T3 ton bum. Ti.. Jan. 2. A wholseale
poisoning is reported by telephone Iroin
Shelby, Austin county. irana i
mack, his wife and five children, were
the victims. Two are dead, and it is
thought that none of the others can re
cover. Arsenic was placed in their
coffee by unknown persons.
Manila, Jan. 2. The schooner Albi
reports the massacre of the Spanish
garrison by the combined natives
forces at Panopi, Caroline islands.
Henry Naoti, an educated chief, has
been elected to be the ruler. He ii
said to be favorable to the Americans.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes. $15 17.
Beets, per sack, 75c.
Turnips, per sack. 50C0c.
Carrots, per sack, $1.
Parsnips, per 6ack, $1.
Cauliflower, 5075o per doz.
Celery. 3540o.
Cabbage, native and California
tl.001.50 per 100 pounds.
Apples, 8550c per box.
Pears, 50c$l.BO per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Butter Creamery, 27c per pound
dairy and ranch, 1822c per pound.
Eggs, 27c.
Cheese Native, 1212c.
Poultry Old hens, 12c per pound;
spring chickens, 12c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beef
steers, prime, 67c; cows, prime,
6Vc; mutton, iy3c; pork, 67o; veal,
08o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $22.
Oats Choice, per ton, $24.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.00
11; choice Eastern Washington tim
othy, $15.
Com Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.60.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$2425; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
straights, $3.25; California brrnds,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.60; whole wheat flour.
$3.76; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped food, $1921 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla, 60;; Valley,
G2c; Bluestem, C3o per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.20; graham,
$2.65; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 8940c; choice
gray, 88 39c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $2224; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $10 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $17; chop, $16.00
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $910; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hay, $6 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 55 60c;
seconds, 5053c; dairy, 4550o store,
80 35o.
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll13o:
Young America, 15c; new ciieese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.253
per dozen; hens, $3.504.00; springs,
$1.253; geese, $6.007 00 for old.
$4.505 for young; ducks, $5.00(3
5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 15
16c per pound.
Potatoes 60 70c per suck; sweets,
2c per pound.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $1 1.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 8c per pound; celery.
7075c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per
box; peas, 33c per pound.
On ions Oregon, 75c (S$l per sack.
Hops 1618c; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 812c; mohair,
26c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wetherf
and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton, 7,'g'c;
spring lambs, 7J-c per lb.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $4.25;
light and feeders, $8.004.00; dressed,
$5.005.60 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steors, 8.60$3.75:
cows, $2.503.00; dressed beef.
5 6 JgC per pound.
Veal Large, 60jc; small, 7 8c
per pound.
Ban Francisco Market.
Wool Smim; Nevada. 0rai2c nei
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val
ley, locgiic; jNoitnern, llc.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1821.00;
bran, $15.501.60 per ton.
On ions Si I vereki n, 50 75c per sack .
Butter Fancv crnnmerv. 2Rrv
do seconds, 25 26c; fancy dairy, 26o;
ao soconus, au23u per pound.
Eggs Store, 25 30c; fancy ranoh,
8437c.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valoncia, $2
2.50; Mexican limes, $66.50; Cali
fornia lemons, $2.00.800; do choice
$3.50 4. 60; per box.
OurseUes and Our Clothes.
"Happily," said Mr. Stoggleby, "wt
do not realize the change in our par
sonal apearanco as we would grov
older, the change is eo slight from daj
today; and then, as a matter of fact,
we are, to ourselves at least, ever af
young as we feel. But it is not s
about our clothe1!; we cannot maki
them even feel young, as they grow
old, to say nothing of keeping then,
looking so they will get woin ami
threadbare. And we are likely to for
get about that, and to give no thought
to the impression they may make upoi
other people. There we make a mis
take. We should keep an eye on out
apparel; and, as to trimness, at least
have that in keeping not with our gra.i
head, but with our fresh and ever
youthful heart." N. Y. Sun.
A Claude Duval In Hklrts.
A St. Petersburg con espondent of tht
London Telegraph devotes much epact
to the curious case of a highway
woman, who operates in the districts
ofKutais. Baibara Danelia is bei
name. She disappeared some ten yean
ago from the village of B.indza, am!
since then has held a whole country
side in terror by her operations on the
road.
"This curious highwaywornan," vn
are told, "is one of the most artisth
riders in a country which has produce!
the best human substitutes for Cen
taurs that the world has yet seen. Sin
will jump anything. She is also at
excellent shot and can hit the edge of
a Russian silver coin, smaller than oui
sixpence, with a rifle bullet at ar
astonishingly long distance.
"Barbara Danelia is a Georgian, am'
her beauty, therefoie, rnav be inon
easily imagined than described. Shi
is very popular among Lei own people.
Flour Mill to Htart I'p.
The flour mill at Tumwater, Wash.,
lias been leased by P. 11. McMasters
and will lie started up after having
been idle for several years. Two year
ago it was thoroughly refitted with irn
pioved machinery by a stock company
who manufactured for a while an ex
cellent grade of flour, but becoming in
volved in litigation lost the plant
The soil of Puerto Rico is said to r
well adapted for the grow dug of cotton
nd the climatic conditions are favor
able to the manufacture of cot tor
fabric.
BEGORD OF A YEAR"
Important Events Crowded the
Past Twelve Months.
MUCH HISTORY MADE.
The Year 1898 Will Be Remembered as a
Most Notable One.
A Chronological Review Shows It to
Have Been Remarkable in Many Respects-War
with Spain Takes Fore
most Place in the Interesting Record
ConcUe Story of Hut Victorious
Conflict International and Internal
Dissensions Among European Coun
tries Disister and Death at Home
and Abroad.
To him who is concerned with history
in the making there very rarely comes a
year more heavily laden with important
events than the year 1898. It has seen
every state in Europe, except peaceful
Scandinavia and the Dutch communities,
face to face with either war or internal
dissolution some of them within "meas
urable distance of both. Yet the greatest
effects have not been lu Europe; 1898 has
seen the United States forced, not by any
greed of power, but by its humanitarian
ideals, to take its part in European rela
tions. A brief but glorious armed conflict
with Spain has been begun, prosecuted to
its end and settled by a treaty of peace
upon which the ink is scarcely dry. The
Inception of great political changes has
been witnessed in China; two European
rulers have -ome to their death; several
men and women prominent in statecraft,
military affairs, reform, literature and
music, .iave passed away: the year has
been marked by some terrible marine dis
asters, causing great loss of life; and fire,
Hood and storm have numbered their vie
time by scores and caused extensive loss
of property.
The war between the United States and
Spain was the foremost event or series of
events in the year's history. It was the
sixth war waged by the American people
against foreigners, was declared April ITi
1898, and continued until Aug. 12. alioi,
four months. The United States employ
ed over 200 warships, of all classes, and
2(10,000 regulars and volunteers, nearly
200.000 of whom, however, did not see
active service against the Spaniards. The
United States forces won all the battles
of the war; the most notable engagements
being Admiral Dewey's destruction of
the Spanish Eastern fleet at Manila bay,
Admiral Sampson's destruction of the
Spanish Cape de Verde squadron at San
tiago, and Cen. Shaffer's capture of San
tiago. The American naval forces lost
not a vessel, and but 17 killed and 07
wounded; but the army lost 210 killed and
1,437 wounded. The Spanish navy lost
35 warships valued at $.'10,500,000, more
than 1,000 sailors in killed alone; and the
army lost nearly 3,000 in killed, besides
wounded. Spain was obliged to relin
quish Cuba and to cede all its remaining
West Indian possessions to the United
States; also the island of Guam, one of
the Ladrones, nnd lost sovereignty over
practically all the Philippines." The Unit
ed States expended about $300,000,000 in
prosecuting the war. Spain was com
pletely bankrupted.
The chronological table that follows
gives the most important happenings of
1898, foremost among which are those of
the war with Spain.
CONFLICT WITH SPAIN.
Events of the War Lately Won by the
United States.
Tinu.-irv.
25-IJ. 8. battleship Maine, Cnpt. C. D. Slgs
bee, U. S. N., Is ordered to Havana,
Cuba.
February.
8 The publication of a letter written by
Senor Dupuy de Lome, Spanish minister
to the United States, speaking dispar
agingly of President McKluley, leads to
the Minister a resignation of Ills post
and the appointment of Senor Luis Polo
y Berniibe.
15 The U. B. battleship Maine, lying In the
uaruor or Havana, is destroyed nnd sunk
by an explosion between U and 1U o'clock
p. m.
17 Kenr Admiral Slcard, commanding the
worm Atlantic squadron, orders a court
of Inquiry Into the loss of the Maine,
10-The request of the Spanish offlcluls in
Hav-iinn for n Joint Investigation into the
loss of the Maine Is declined.
21 The United States Senate orders an in
vestigation into the Maine disaster.
March.
8-9-Congress votes to place $50,000,000 at
the unqualified disposal of President Mo
Klnley as an emergency fund.
16 Spain remonstrates against the presence
or trie united states neet at Key West
and against other measures of defense
by our Government.
17 Facts concerning1 Cuba stated In the
Senate by Senator Proctor, of Vermont,
as the result of personal observation.
28 Court of Inquiry's report ou the Maine
sent to Congress.
April.
5 Consul General Lee recalled.
10 Consul General Lee leaves Cuba.
U President McKluley sends a message to
Congress recommending armed Interven
tion in Cuba.
15 Army ordered to mobilize.
10 Senate belligerency resolutions passed.
IS Congress votes against Cuban recogni
tion. 18 Congress passes resolutions demanding
the wltbdruwirl of Spain from Cuba.
20 (Jucen opens Cortes with war speech.
Government announces Its opposition to
privateering, l'renldeut signs notifica
tion to the uutlons of luteuUou to block
ade. 21 Our minister at Madrid, Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford, informed by the Spanish
Minister of Foreign Affairs that diplo
matic relations between Spain and the
Lulled States are terminated. .. .Presi
dent McKiuley cables our ultimatum to
Spain, demanding a reply by April 2.'!.,,,
Seuor I'olo y ilernabe, Hpauish minis
ter, receives bis passport and leaves
Washington.
22- Crulser New York, Sampson's flagship,
captures I'edro, 2,000 tons, fifteen miles
east of Havana. .. .Cuban ports block
aded by the American squadron.
23 The President Issues bis proclamation
calling for 125,000 volunteers.
24 (.Sunday) A Spanish decree declaring
war against the United States was
gazetted at Madrid.
25-Coogress passes a resolution declaring
that the stats of war existed from
April 21.
2fl-l(eiTul:lng volunteers began In New
York City.
27 Failed States vessels bombard Miitnn
s.is. .. .Seventh New York Regiment de
clines to enlist.
2- Commodore Dewey's fleet sails from
ilockong for Manila.
28 Spanish squadron sails from Cape Verde
for the West Indies. .. .New York shells
Cabanas forts.... U. S. cruiser Yale
(Paris) arrives In New York.
10 Commodore Dewey's squadron arrives
off Manila. .. .Flagship New York tires
on Spanish cavalry sharpshooters off
Havana.
May.
1 t?. H. ero'ser Tnpeka arrives st .New
Yoik from Falmouth. .. .Commodore
Dewey's squadron destroys the Spuulsn
fleet st Manila.
2 Cable fr no Manila to Hongkong cut by
Commodore Deey.
4 Halt eshlp Oregon and gunboat Marietta
anil from Klo Janeiro.
T Ccmiiii.d re Dewey Informs Hints Dt-
parimeut of Ibe seizure of Cavlte.
'.ingress Hunks Hear Admiral Dewey.
10 Tb Gussie exutUitiua sailed (rout
Tan ua.
11 Kns'gn Worth Rngley nnd four of the
crew of the torpedo beat Wluslow killed
by a shell from the Spanish forts at Car
denas 12 Admiral Sampson's squadron bombards
the forts at Siin Juan, l'orto Klco
The Spanish Cape Verde fleet arrives ot
I'ort de France, Mur.luique. . . .Gussie
expedition repulsed.
13 Cumnii .dure Schley's fleet stills south to
meet the Spanish sqll :l (1 on.
'14 Spanish Cape Verde fleet sighted off
Curaeoa.
15 Hear Admiral Dewey reports on fall of
Man, la Sigista's cabinet resigns....
Spanish torpedo-boat destroyer Terror
disabled at i'ort de France, Martinique.
....Spanish fleet leaves Ciirneoa. .. .Gen.
Merritt ordered to the Philippines as mil
itary governor. .. .Gov. Hlnck authorizes
reorganization of disbanded Thirteenth
Itcgiment.
17 Sngnsta's new cabinet announced at
Madrid.
18 N'.nety thousand troops ordered to mobil
ize in Chlckiimaugn.
20 Spanish fleet arrives at Santiago de
Cuba.
22 Cruiser Charleston sails for Manila.
23 Troops A nud C arrive at Camp Alger,
Falls Church, Va.
24 The Spanish fleet is bottled up at San
tiago 25 Three transports with 2,588 men start
for Manila.... President Issues a call for
7",000 more volunteers.
20 Oregon arrives In Key West. .. .One of
Spain's cabinet ministers said the coun
try was willing to accept "an honorable
pence.". .. .Commodore Schley Is In touch
with the insurgent leaders. .. .Florida
expedition landed without opposition
near Guantanaino, Culm.
27 Spanish scout ships chased by American
worships near Key West.
20 Commodore Schley reports the trapping
of Cervern in the harbor of Santiago de
Cuba Cruiser Columbia arrives at
New York, having been In collision with
the British steamship Foscolla, which
sank.
!I0 Troops embark at Tampa for Havana.
81 Kenr Admiral Sampson's fleet bombards
forts of Santiago de Cuba.
June.
1 Transports for Manila arrive at Hono
lulu, Hawaii, and the Boys lu Blue be
come the guests of the city. .. .Monitor
Monadnock ordered to Manila from San
Francisco.
2 Spain again appeals to the Powers to
Intervene.
8 American squadron bombarded Santiago
de Cuba.
4 Lieut. Hobson sinks cruiser Merrlmac
In the mouth of the harbor of Sautlugo
de Cuba.
6 Fortifications of Santiago de Cuba re
duced. 7 American squadron bombards and si
lences batteries at Santiago. .. .Monitor
Monterey and collier Brutus sail for
Manila.
8 Assault on fortifications of Guantanaino
Bay.
0 House agrees on war revenue conference
report.
10 Admiral Sampson reports he has held
Guantauamo harbor siuce the 7th....
Senate agrees on conference report on
war revenue bill.
11 Four Americans at Caimanora are killed
In a light with the Spaniards.
13 Thirty-two transports with Shafter'g
troops sail for Santiago. .. .President
McKluley signs the war tax bill.
14 Two Americans and several hundred
Spaninrds killed lu a battle at Cal
nianera. 15 Second expedition sailed from San Fron
cisco for Manila.... Great destruction
results to Santiago forts through the use
of the dynamite guns on the Vesuvius.
17 Spanish squadron sulled from Cadiz and
passed Gibraltar.
20 Transports with Gen. Shafter'g troops
arrive oft Santiago.
22 Part of Shutter's troops landed.
23 Balance of troops landed without acci
dent. .. .Admiral Camera's Cadiz fleet
arrives at Island of Pantellarlu.
24 Slxteeu American soldiers killed and
for!y wounded lu driving back Spanish
soldiers at Santlngo.
27 Commodore Watson to command fleet to
nttack Spanish home territory. .. .Presi
dent McKluley recommends thanks of
Congress for Lieut. Hobson, aud that be
lie transferred to the line.
28 President proclaims blockade of South
ern Cuba from Cape Frances to Cape
Cruz.
20(ien. Shafler reports he can tnke San
tiago In forty-eight hours The Senate
thanks Lieut. Hobson nnd his men, nam
ing each one nei-a inallv.
20 F.gyptlan Government refused to let
cumura coal Ills fleet at Port Said.
July.
1 Shaffer's army began the assault upon
Santiago de Cuba, capturing the enemy's
outer works.
2 Shafter renewed the nttack upon San
tiago, Ins'ug about 1,000 In killed mill
wounded, and making 2. tint) Sp.""'sh
prisoners. The Spanish casualties .b
alily exceeded those of the Americas.
3 Cervera's fleet destroyed at Santiago,
with great loss of life.
0 Sjianl.-h transport Alfonso XII. blown
up off Muriel by American guulioals. . . .
Hobson, the hero of the Merrlmac, and
bis comrades exchanged for Spanish
prisoners outside Santlngo.
7 President signs Hawaiian annexation
resolution. ...Admiral Dewey took. Sublg
and 1.3(H) prisoners.
11 Cruiser St. Louis brings Admiral Cer
vers and 7-(() prisoners to Portsmouth,
N. H. .. .Admiral Sampson's fleet bom
barded Santiago.
13 Announced that yellow fever has broken
out lu Gen. Sliafter's nruiy.
14 Gen. Torul aud the Spanish army sur
rendered Santiago at 8 p. m.
17 "Old Glory" raised over Santiago at
noon.
18 President Issues a proclamation provid
ing for the government of Santlugo...,
Seven American vessels bombard Muu
zaulllo and destroy seven Spanish ships.
21 Gen. Miles, with 8,415 men on trans
ports, convoyed by warships, sturls to
take Porto Itlco. .. .American guiiboals
capture Nlpe and sink the Spanish cruis
er Jorge Juan. .. .-Gen. Culixto Garcia,
commander of the Cuban anny of East
ern Cuba, owing to discontent because
tho American Government has Ignored
Mm and his troops In the surrender of
Santiago, withdrew, . . .News reached this
country that the second expedition to re
enforce Admiral Dewey bad arrived at
Cavlte.
22 Agulmtldo declared himself dlctutor of
the Philippines.
23 Another expedition for the Philippine
Islands sailed from San Francisco.
25 Gen .Miles and :i,5';0 men reach Guan
Ico, Porlo Klco, nnd effect a lauding.
20 Secretary Day, M. Cauilion, French am
bassador, and bis first secretary, M.
Thlebaut, confer with President McKln
ley In regard to terms of peace.
27 The port of Ponce, Porto Uleo, surrend
ers to Capt. Davis, of gunboat Dixie.
30 News of Gen. Merrltt's arrival at Cavlte
received at Washington. .. .Dewey In
forms the President tbat Agulniildo, the
Philippine Insurgent chief, assumed a
delimit attitude.
81 The Spanish forces at Cavlte made a
sortie during a fierce slorrn on the Amer
ican troops In the Malate trenches. They
were repulsed with heavy loss. Ten of
Gen Merrltt's men were killed aud forty-eight
wounded.
A nvnst.
2 President McKluley makes public the
terms of peace offered to Spain by the
United States.
4 The monitor Monterey and Its consort
Brutus, arrive at Manila. .. .Gen. Shat
ter and his subordinates ask that the
fever slrlcken army at Santiago de Cuba
lie removed north.
5 Formal orders Issued for the removal of
Gen. Shufler's nrmy to this country.
0 Spain accepts the terms of peace offered
by the Frilled 8 ates. . . .Guayarrio, Porto
Klco, captured by Gen. Haines' forces.
Three Amerlrans cornered.
8 Spain accepts President McKinley's
peace terms. Certain representations
were made regarding Cuba which were
not accepted, however. .. .Spaniards at
Guantauamo lay down their arms and
surrender to Itrlg. (Jen. Kwers.
0 (en. Krnst's brigade captured Cosmo,
Porto Klco, after a lively tight, In which
seven Pennsylvania volunteers were
wounded. Two hundred Spaniards were
takeii prisoners. .. .Spaniards attempt to
retake the lighthouse at Cape Han Juan,
but are repulsed with heavy loss.
10 A protocol covering the pesee terms of
the I. nlteti males lias neen agreed upon
by M. Cambon, represenllrig Spain, and
President McKluley. .. .Gen. Hchwun's
forces defeat Kpan sh troops at Maya
guez. Porto Klco. Loss on our side two
killed and one wounded.
11 Spain's cabinet formally approved Pres
ident McKintey a peace protocol and s
cablegram was sent to M. Cambon au
thorizing hlrn to algn in behalf of Spain.
12 M. Campion, French ambassador to the
I'nlted States, signs the protocol and a
cessation of hostilities Is ordered.
13 Surrendi r of the city of Manila, afler
stiff bombardment by Dewey.
30-Gcn. Merritt leaves Manila for Paris to
aid Ibe Peace Commission.
rr plemlier.
tll'MCJI UrnlHHiHlH. I
9 Gen. Otis, I nlted States commander st
Manila, demanded the removal of th
Insurgents from l bat clt
10 Spanish Senate adopts the peace proto
col. 12 The situation at Manila reported crit-ie-il.
13 PnanlshChamb rsof Deputies adopts the
pehve protocol.
10 Spanish Peace Commission appointed,
wish Senor Kins, President of the Sea
ate, as President.
17 The Peine Commission of the United
States sails for Par's.
19 Spanish Government Issues nn order tor
nil troops lu the West Indies to return
home.
20 The evacuation of the outlying positions
In Porto Uleo begun by the' Spanish.
20 American and Spanish Commissioners
meet In Paris.
October.
1 American and Spanish Peace Commis
sioners hold their first session.
4 American Peace Commission receives
the report of Gen. Merritt lu Paris.
18 Formal ceremony of raising the United
States flag over San Juan takes place. . . .
American Commissioners refuse to as
sume any portion of Cuban debt.
24 Gen. Ortega, with the last of the Span
ish soldiers, sails from Porto Uleo for
Spain.
28 Spanish soldiers captured at Manila
during the war are released by United
States.
27 Spanish Peace Commissioners accept
condition of the non-nssnniptlou ot Cu
ban debt by United States.
November.
28 Terms of peace accepted by Spain.
December.
10 Treaty of peace with Spain signed at
Paris.
GENERAL CHRONOLCOY.
Record of Events that Hove Occurred
During; the Post Year.
January.
1 Oflleerg of the Cuban provisional gov
ernment sworn In.
2 Six persons burned to death at Jersey
City, N. J.
3 Thirty persons killed by collapse of
floor lu city hull at London, Out.
7 Theodore Durrant hanged for murder nt
St.. Quentln prison, California.
8 Six HK'ii killed by explosion of an Ohio
River towbout near Glenfleld, Pa....
Fifteen men drowned oft Bauduc by
foundering of a French steamer Six
lives lost lu a mine explosion near Pitts
burg, Kan.... Death of Muj. Moses P.
Haudy.
12 Forty lives nnd $1,000,000 worth of prop,
erty destroyed by a tornado at Fort
Smith, Ark.
10 Death of Hon. BenJ. Butterworth, Uni
ted States Commissioner of Patents, at
Thomusville, Ga.
10 Bread riots at Anconn, Italy.
20 Fire loss of U00,000 at East Grand
Forks, Minn.
22 Marriage of Uev. T. DeWItt Talmnge
end Mrs. Col. Collier. .. .Destructive
sto.-m over the West and South.
25 Many persous burned to death in a con
flagration at Spokane, Wash. . . .$1,5(10,
000 worth ot property at East St. Louis,
HI., Including Union elevator and Bur
lington freight depot, destroyed by fire.
27 January wheat sells for $1.05 lu Chi
cago. .. .Steamer City of Dululh lost off
St. Joseph, Mich.
20 Several persons killed In a smnsh-up on
the Maine Central Hallway at Orono....
Ten men killed by caving lu of North
west laud tunnel In Chicago.
February.
1 Six lives lost by burning of the Alvord
House, Gloversvllle, N. Y. .. .Schooner
Brlggs wrecked off Little Nahuut aud
eight lives lost.
2 $.100,000 lire loss In Winnipeg, Manitoba.
8 Six persons killed lu railway collision
near Boston. .. .Fire destroys $225,000
worth of property at Scrantou, Pa.
4 Si ven killed lu railroad wreck at Glas
gow, Scotland.
0$uO,noO fire at Albany, Ind. .. .Holland
American steamer Veendum wrecked lu
mid-ocean.
0 Adolph L. Leutgert sentenced to life Im
prisonment for wife murder in Chi
cago. .. .Assassination of President Bar
rios of Guatemala. .. .$250,000 tire loss
nt Fort Worth, Texas.
10 Thirty-eight lives crushed out by full
ing walls at Pittsburg.
11 Nassau Chambers In New York burned;
loss, $500,001) French ship Flachat
goes down off Canary Islands; 87 lives
lost.
17 Fire damp explosion In a colliery nt
Hiimnieerly, Prussia, kills 50 persons.,..
$100,0(K) lire at Plttslield, Mass. ... Brit
ish steamer Legislator burned at sea.
18 Death of Miss Frances E. VVIllnrd In
New York Clly. .. .Large lire at Pitts
burg. 20 New wharf nnd custom house nt Tam
p'co, Mexico, burned; loss, $2,000,00(1.
25-NatIoiial Tobacco Company's works at
Louisville, K.V., burned; loss, $2,000,000.
20 Nine lives loBt In a teuenieut house tire
nt Charleston, H. C... Seven persons
killed at Blue Island. III., by the collis
ion of a train and nn omnibus. .. .Ten
persons killed nud five Injured by nn
explosion and Are In Hall Bros.' labora
tory at Kalamazoo, Mich.
27 Death of Win. M. Slngerly, proprietor of
the Philadelphia Uecord.
March.
2 Six men killed by boiler explosion near
Brewloa, Ala.
8 Nine drowned by the foundering of the
schooner Speedwell off the Florida coast.
7- Fire causes $1.10,000 ihs In Brownell &
Field Co.'s building at Providence, it. I.
....$r..(M.xi,liiH) lire loss at Manila, Phil
ippine Islands.
11-Death of Gen. W. S. Itosoerans.
13 Eleven men burned to death lu Bowery
Mission, New York.
10 Death of Aubrey Benrdsley, the nrllst.
....Many persons killed lu a flro at 213
Wnbash avenue, Chicago.
17 Death of Blanche K. Bruce, Register of
the Treasury.
19 Six convicts killed In a mine nt Pratt
City, Ala.
21 Several persons killed In a hotel fire at
Butte, Mont.
22 Forty lives lost by sinking of bark
Helen Aliny off San Francisco.
25 Death of James Pnyn, English novel
ist. .. .Death of Truman P. Handy, of
Cleveland, Ohio, oldest banker la United
States..,. Wisconsin Industrial School
for Boys at Waukesha damaged $100,000
by fire.
23 Forty eight sealers of steamer Green
land perished on Ice floes.
26 Heveu persons burued to death at Kent,
Minn.
27 Death of Congressman Slmpklns, of
Massachusetts.
April.
8 Fifty lives lost lu flood at Shawnee
town, in.
4 Fifteen men killed by explosion of pow
der near San Vicente, Mexico.
7-Sudden death of Marguret Mather, tho
tragedienne.
11 Oxford Junction, Iowa, visited by $100,.
000 lire.
12 Peuri glass works at North Irwin, Pa.,
horned, kiss, $7."0,0oo.
15-Aiiacondii Copper Mining Co. at Belt,
Mont , suffers $250,000 fire loss.
17 Fire, following a dust explosion, de
stroys grulu elevator at Bos. on; loss,
$000,000.
1ft Death of George Parsons Lnthrop.
1 rest master General Gary resigns and Is
succeeueir uy t'linrle Emory Smith....
Death of Senator Walthall, of Missis
sippi. 25-Secrelary of Btute John Sherman re
signs. 20 Win. R. Day appointed to All the va
cnucy. ,. .Glasgow, Scotland, visited by
a $T50,000 tire.... Powder mill at Santa
Cruz, ( ill., blown up, causing loss of
eleven lives.
28-Atlantle Powder Co.'s works at Dover,
N. J., wrecked by an explosion.
30 Heavy damage done by tornadoes In
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa nud South Da
kota. May.
2 Thirteen persons killed by tornado at
Jerlco, Mo.
8 Schooner Crown wrecked off St, Johns,
N. F., and 11 men drowned.
$r.'5,(ioo fire loss at Cleveland.
7 Three hundred persons killed In a riot
at Milan, Italy.
8 Diiliith, Minn., suffers a $100,000 Are.
11 Wool warehouse burns at Bullurdvllle,
Mass.; loss, $.'(XI,()iSi.
12 Burning of Armour's elevator D and
several lumber yurds causes $1,000,000
loss In Chicago,
II '1 hoiisnnds killed by cyclone on Rum
ba wa Island, Malay Archipelago. ... Ed
ward Kemenyi, violinist, fulls dead In a
Han Francisco theater. .. .Ball Bros.'
glass works burued at M uncle, I ml.;
loss, $2M.000.
10- Fllrit mill i,f Mining k Mill Co., at East
Liverpool, Ohio, burned; loss, $I0O,Iki0.
17 Great damage done and many people
hurt by cyclone In Nebraska.
18- Business section of Attleborn, Mass.,
destroyed by lire. .. .Destructive cyclone
sweeps through Iowa, Kansas, Illinois
and Wisconsin.
I!l-i.-sth of William E. Gladstone.
22 -Death of Edward Bellamy . . . . Mine Are
at .ollern, Prussia; 45 miners perish.
2H Dalian cabinet res'gns.
81 Nw cabinet formed lu Italy.
June.
1-Data ot tragedian Taos. W. Keeae....
Transmlsslppl exposition opens at
Omaha. x
4-Denth of Capt. Chas. V. Grldley, of the
cruiser Olympla at Manila.
7 Plant of Hurgess Steel Co.. Portsmouth.
Ohio, burned: less. $400,000.
11 Case Power Building In Detroit burned.
M Collapse of Joseph Lelter's wheat deal.
I 15--Iteslgantlnn of the French ministry.
1:8 First parly cabinet formed In Japan.
20 Formation of the Pclloux cabinet la
Italy.
July.
2 Strike of stereotypers causes Chicago
papers to suspend for four days.
4 French liner La Bourgosno goes down
off Sable island with 5.1'J passengers.
0 Hawaiian resolutions adopted by the
Senate.
8 Steelville. Mo., almost obliterated by a
waterspout. ..-.Congress adjourns sine
die.
11 Sagasta nilnls'ry In Spain resigns....
Eleven men killed in water tunnel at
Cleveland, Ohio.
10 Powder mill at Oakland, Cal., blown up
l y a Chinaman and seven lives lost.
30 Death of Prince Blsumrck.
August.
1 Martin Thoru executed at Sing Sing.
N. Y.
8 Bismarck. N. D., destroyed by fire....
Death of Georg M. Ebers, Egyptologist
and novelist.
12 United States flag ofllclally hoisted over
Hawaii.
13 Twenty lives lost by cloudburst In Haw
kins County, Ky.
15 Iteslgnatlon ot ministry nt Lisbon.
20 French steamer La Coquette sunk off
Newfoundland by the Norgej 1U lives
lost.
21 Seven persons killed in railway collision
nt Sharon, Mass.
22 Eight laborers killed hy collapse of a
wall In Carnegie tunnel, Pa. . . .Carter-
vllle. III., visited by a $250,000 (ire 300
miners drowned at Nience, Silesia....
Death of King Malletoa ot Samoa.
23 Destructive tire at Logansport, La.
25 Ex-Gov. Claude Matthews stricken by
paralysis at Mehnrry's Grove, lad.
28 Death of ex-Gov. Claude Matthews of
Indiana.
30 Small pox breaks out at Tut-ln-Bay Isl
and, Lake Erie.
31 Wllhelmlna becomes Queen of Holland.
. .. .Confession and su'clde of Col. Henry,
principal wltueEj against Ciipt. Dreyfus,
at Paris.
Fepteni ber.
2 Pres'dent Wllford Woodruff, of the Mor
mon church, died nt Snn Francisco....
The British captured Omdiinnan, oppo
site Khartoum, lu the Souilaa.
4 British troops occupied Khartoum. .. .M.
Cavaignac, French Mlulster of War, re
signs. 5 Twenty-eight people killed In collision
of tralu with trolley car at Cohoes, N. Y.
....Gen. Zurllndeu appointed French
Minister of War.
0 Wllhelmlna crowned Queen of Holland
nt Amsterdam. .. .Thirty men killed by
falling of a bridge over St. Lawrence
River, near St. Regis Indian village....
Many killed lu riots In Crete. .. .Opening
of G. A. It. national encampment at Cin
cinnati. 10 Assassination of Elizabeth, Empress of
Austria, by nn Italian anarchist at
Geneva, Switzerland. .. .$200,000 lire at
Llverniore Fulls, Me.
11 Fire wiped out New Westmluster, B, C,
and Jerome, Ariz.
12 Death of Judge Thos. M. Cooley at Ann
Arbor, Mich. .. .Hurricane on Island ot
St. Vincent, West Indies, killed 300 per
sons and destroyed much properly.
14 Lorenzo Snow choseu head of the Mor
mon church.
18 Death of Dr. John Hull. .. .Death of
Miss Winnie Davis.
20 Ten persons burned to death in an ele
vator fire lu Toledo.
22 Thirty-six men drowned by sinking of
French boat Vllle de Fecamp off Fecamp.
23 Fifty miners entombed lu coal shaft at
Brownsville, Pa.
24 Several persons killed nnd much prop,
erty destroyed by windstorm at Lima, O.
20 Tornado destroys properly at Tonawan
da, N. Y arid kills live at Merrllton, Out.
....Death of Miss Fanny Davenport.
27 Clnremont, Ml tin., destroyed by lire.
28- Death of ex-Secretary Thomas F. Bay
ard. .. .Riot at Puna, ill.
20 Death of Queen Louise of Denmark.
30 Hundreds of lives lost py floods la
Japan.
Octol-er.
1 Great fire In Colorado Springs, Colo.
2 Flerec gale on South Atlantic coast.
5 In attempting to quell the rebellion ot
the lnd ans nt Bear Lake, Minn., arrcrul
soldiers were killed and wounded.
8-Grent fire In Sidney, N. S. W.
l)-$2(io,()0i) lire at Atlantic City, N. J.
Ill -Great tire nt Dawson City, Alaska,
20 Seven men killed by boiler explosion on
torpedo boat Davis near Astoria, Ore.
23 Ten men killed In a race war at Har
persvllie, Miss.
24 Fire on the Brooklyn, N. Y., water front;
loss, $475.01)0.
25 French cabinet resigns.
31 New French cabinet formed. .. .Japan
ese cabluet resigns.
Govern ber.
8-Eleven men killed by collapse of new
Wonderland theater at Detroit. .. .Seven
men crushed to death iu a mine uear
Wllkestiarro, Pa.
6 Capitol at Washington wrecked by gns
explosion. .. .Death of David A. Wells,
economic writer.
7 Resignation of the Greek ministry.
8 General election.
I) Organization of Japan's new Silnlstry
completed.
10 New ministry formed In Greece. .. .Pres
ident Masso and secretaries of Cuban re
publ'c resign.
11 Hank at Klrksvllie, Mo., robbed ot
$.T-',( 00.
17 British ship Atalnnta sinks off Oregon
const; 2(1 lives lost.
18 Death of John W. Keely, the Inventor.
....Twelve laborers killed by train at
Hackeiisack Meadows, N. J.
10-Death of (ien. D. C. Hindi.
23 Burning of the Baldwin hotel and the
ater In San Francisco.
21- 20 Great atorin sweeps over tho coua-
try; many lives lost nt sea.
27-Deiith of Actor C. W. Couldock. .. .Six
persons killed by boiler explosion near
Fourteen Mile Slough, Cal.
28Dynamlte explosion In Havana kills 15
persons aud injures 25 others.
December,
5 Opening of Congressional session.
10- Death of William Black, novelist.
11- Deiilh of Geii. Culixto Garcia at Wash
ington, 15 Death of ex Senator Calvin 8. Price....
Six persons killed In railway wreck at
Madison, Flu,
10-Slx persons killed by a train nt Allen
wood, N. J Department store of (1.
llartsteln's Sons burned at Milwaukee;
loss, $00,001).
17-Death of Duron Ferdinand James de
Rothschild In London. ...Twenty lives
lost lu steamship collision lu the North
Sen.
10-$1,1)00,000 fire nt Terre Haute, Ind,
.'VW't'lf1
; v -iT'.74ji i, r -. -
It was in the army. Tho boys hail a
meal of licet that liiul been cornel by a
luitii iu a salt-liorHe barrel. Tliey ail
thought it a treat until one of the pnrty
remarked: "A little mustard wouldn't
go bail." ''That reminds nu," said ao
otlier; "you jtmt wait a few minutes." A
quarter of an hour Inter he returned, ami,
priiilin lng a screw of paper, lie salil: "Oh,
yes; here's that inustiinl." "Where did
3 oil get it?" Hiibl tin; others, in clinniH.
"I'p at the surgeon's:. Tho sick-cull, you
ii'iiicinlier, soiiiiilei as we were talkhur
about the niustaiil. It occurred to rue
Hint a little niiiKtaril for my lame hack
woitlil he just the thing." "Itut you
haven't got any lame buck." "lint I
have gut the mustard." (
A soldier who entered Sanliago with
(Ictieral Shafter tclis this story iu the
New Orleans Times-I tcrnocrat: "A few
ilaytt after the place was Mtirrenilcreil I
went into a small simp to get some to
bacco. Tho proprietor was a fat chap,
all hows nml smiles, '(lot any 'haccjV I
aslteil. 'Si, seiiiir,' he said; 'yes, sure; ver
line toliac. Hot time in r.e ol' town to
night, Kinor.' I took a paper of tine-cut
ami tlie fat rascal chareil rue one dollar.
When I inrnle a numcst kick nt such high
way robbery he humped up his shoulders
anil spread out his hnnils. 'Well, seuor,'
he aalil, 'you mu' remember those.
Maluea.,M . , .
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