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EVENTS OF THE DAY
CHURCH NO TICK*.
A K IK Y iK ’ C H l’ K *11. - -SK K V H ,K8 KVK KY
' Sunday at 11 a, m. and 8 p. m. and Thurs-
uy at 2 p. in. Sabbath school every Sunday at
9:45 a. m. Monthly m eeting at 8 p. m. the first
Tuesday in each "month. Quarterly m eeting
the second Saturday and Sunday in February,
May, August and November. Woman’s For
eign Missionary Society meets third Saturday
in each month at 3 p. ni.
A LFR ED T. WARE, Pastor.
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■ HI R( H 8ERV 1< EH, SUNDAY 11
THE
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
CHURCH. SERVICES BV-
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ery two weeks as follow s: February 7th
1 « In t .r # « t lD | C o lle c t io n o f I t e m . F r o m
la ■ O o n d .n .e d
F o rm .
/CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 8ERVICE8 EVERY
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The Shasta Route
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO.
—AND—
SECOND-CLASS
8 L K K P IN O
CA RS
Attached to all through trains.
Through ticket office. 134 Th ird street, where
through tickets to all points in the Eastern
States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at
lowest rates from
J. B. K IR K L A N D ,
Ticket Agent.
A ll above trains arrive and depart from Grand
Central station, Fifth and Irv in g streets.
Y A M H I L L D IV IS IO N .
Passenger depot foot o f Jefferson street.
A irlie mail (tri-weekly).
9:40 a. m. Lv.... ... Portland... .... Ar 8:06 p. m.
I V....
.... Lv 12:15 p.
5:10 p. m. Ar.... ....A ir lie ...... .... Lv 7:30 a. m.
Sheridan passenger (da ily except Sunday)
4:30 p .m . L v ....... Portland......... Ar 9:30 a. in.
..... Lv
Lv....
7:40 j>. m. Ar
Sheridan.. ..... Lv 6:20 a. in.
♦Daily, f Daily except Sunday.
R. KOEHLER, Manager.
E. P. ROGERS, Asst. Gen. F. A: P. Agent,
Portland, Or.
THE GREAT
GOI í D m ° S M E H
C O U N T R IE S
OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AND
EASTERN OREGON
ARE
ALL
REACHED
-V IA-
T he 0 . R. & N.
No Change of Cars Between
d o d t i a un
a
t BAKER CITY
PORTLAND «"d |sp 0 K A N E
Shortest Line to Spokane
Connecting with
ALL RAIL ROUTE to...
TRAIL, ROSSLAND, MARCUS
NELSON, and All Kootenay
Mining Camps...
Low R a te «
and
Through T ick ets
'* + f ror /m iphlets and Detailed Inform ation,
W rite to
W . H.
HU RLBU RT.
G*n. Pan. A f ' l o. R. * X. Co., Portland. Or.
O L I V E * A COLCORD, Agents,
N i i r i i i o , O r im io n .
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Dr. Langley Hall, 83 years of age, a
pioneer of Oregon, died at Oakland.
The office of the Pittsburg Post was
almost totally, destroyed by fire.
The
loss is |60,000, well insured.
Harry Banquist was knocked over-
hoard by the boom of his fishing-boat
and drowned in the Columbia near As
toria.
J. Danach, a traveling man, was held
up and robbed of $70 by three masked
men while driving through a grove near
Roseburg.
Capt. Clias. Swanson, of the pilot
schooner Jessie, was drowned in As
toria harbor while attempting to board
his vessel from a small rowboat.
Cuban sympathizers held an open-air
meeting in Tacoma and denounced Pre
mier Canovas. The Spanish flag was
trailed in the mud and then burned.
A resolution was adopted praying that
Weyler might be subjected to the same
torture by his victims.
The arrangements for the inaugura
tion of President McKinley are rapidly
nearing completion, and the indications
are that in point of brilliancy ami at
tractiveness the ceremonies, the decora
tions and the festivities incident to
inauguration week will be more lavish
than those of former years.
A prominient church member of Pen
dleton. Or., has headed a subscription
list with $5 for the relief of Jim Hems-
worth, the Rosslaml miner who saved
the lives of his two companions by
thrusting his arm into the cogs of a
rapidly turning windlass and in that
way prevented a heavy bucket of ore
from falling on the heads of his com
panions in the shaft below.
Charles Frohman and his manager,
C. B. Dillingham, of the Garden thea
ter, gave a special performance of
“ Heartsease” (by courtesy of Henry
M iller and his company), to the clergy
men of New York. The theater was
closed to all except the clergy, and no
seats were sold. The box office men
and ushers were dressed in long black
coats and black ties, and the playhouse
and its strange audience had every ap
pearance of a church.
There were
1,062 ministers and their friends pres
ent, including a number of ministers
from New Jersey. The only denomina
tion that sent regrets was the Metho
dists.
The sale of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Com|>any’e property and transfer
to the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, the purchase', has been fully
completed, Judge Jenkins, of M il
waukee, having entered an order in the
United Pattes court confirming the ac
tion of Master Carey in executing deeds
transferring the property and sanction
ing the disposition of porceeds as made
by the master. This is the last act in
the dispoeition of the property, but
years will elapse before the court is
done with litigation.
COLXTY,
REPORTED.
Call
a
Washington, Feb. 23.— The bill re
cently passed by the senate, authoriz
ing the president to appoint commis
sioners to represent the United States
in an international monetary confer
ence to secure the fixity of relative
value between gold and silver as money
by means of a common ratio, or, in his
discretion, to call such a conference,
was reported to the house favorably to
day by a unanimous vote of ten mem
bers of the house committee on coinage.
The same factions which voted for the
bill in the senate voted for the bill in
committee.
An amendmenet was
offered by Stone, and adopted by the
committee. It is as follows:
"T h e president is authorized that,
if in his judgment the purjawe speci
fied in the first section hereof can thus
better he attained, to appoint one or
more special commissioners or envoys
to such of tlio nations of Europe as he
may designate, to seek by diplomatic
negotiations an international agree
ment for the purpose specified in the
first section hereof; and in case of such
appointments, so much of the appro
priation here made as shall be neces
sary shall be available for the proper
expenses and compensation of such
commissioners or envoys.
“ Section 3. That so much of an act
approved March 2, 1895, entitled ‘ An
act making appropriations for the sun
dry civil expenses of the government
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
.1896, and for other purposes,’ as pro
vided for the appointment of delegates
to an international conference, and
makes an appropriation for their com
pensation and expenses, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.”
The debate was very brief.
th e T w o H e m is p h e r e « P r e s e n te d
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, lias
\ i second and fourth Sunday at 10 a. m. and fixed March 20 as the date for the exe
7:30 p. m.
cution of Jackson and Walling, the
TARKK METHODIST. PRAYER MEETING murderers of Pearl Bryan.
.T »-very Thursday at 7:30 p. m. Sabbath
school every Sunday at 10 a. m.
The Havana authorities, in view of
A t E. CHURCH.—SERV’ ICES SECOND, TH IR D the scarcity of beef, have decided to re
i l l * and fourth Sundays o f each month at 11 quest the government to allow the free
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school every Sun
day 10 a. m. At M. E. church, Fafayette, first importation of cattle from the United
States and Mexico.
and fitfh Sunday o f each month.
R. A. ATK IN S, Pastor.
Frank Castile, a stockman, stabbed
S A L V A T IO N ARMY* - MEETING AT BAR- and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
racks on Main street as follow s: Tuesday
for soldier converts and 'recruits; Wednesday, Wash., in an altercation at a mas
public; Friday, holiness, for Christians o n ly ; querade ball.
Castile surrendered him
Saturday evening, pul lie; Sunday, all «lay,
commencing with 7 a. m., knee d rill; holiness self to the sheriff and claims the act
meeting 11 a. m.; fam ily gathering at 3 p. m., was one of self-defense.
and grand free and easy in the evening. Ev
Dr. Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis
erybody welcome.
millionaire, who on February 13, 1894,
shot and killed his wife and child in a
SOCIETY NOTICES.
tit of drunken rage, in that city, was
J OF TH E WORLD.—NEWBERG CAMP, NO. hanged in the courtyard of the county
• 113, meets every Monday evening.
jail in Union. He broke down at the
W
T. r.-B U S IN E S S MEETING THE SEC- last moment and confessed to the crime.
! i i ond and fourth Wednesday in each
Secession has entered the porceedings
month.
of the convention of the League of
O. O. F.—SESSIONS HELD ON TH U RSD AY
American Wheelmen, now being held
.* evenings in Bank o f New berg building.
in Albany, N. Y. Colorado w ill take
AND L. OF S.—NEWBERG COUNCIL, NO. the initiative and will probably be fol
• 168, meets every Friday evening in Ma
lowed by California and several other
sonic hall.
states. Sunday racing is the bone of
F. AND A. M.—MEETS E V E R Y SATUR-
contention.
• day night in C. V. Bank building.
Before the legislative investigating
O. U. W. - MEETS E V E R Y TUESDAY
evening at 7;3Ü p. in. in I. O. O. F. H a ll.
committee on trusts in New York, John
F. Searles admitted that the average
margin of profit between raw and re
EAST AND SOUTH
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was .8534 of a
-V IA -
cent a pound and during the subsequent
five years 1.96.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La Paz, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress w ill declare
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war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed on a
war footing, and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
Trains leave and are due to arrive at Portland:
A special train form Chicago to Den
ver, a distance of 1,026 miles, made the
LEAVE.
FROM OCT. 1, 1896.
1 ARRIVE.
run in 18 hours 52 minutes. The jour
C Overland Express.— "l
ney goes into history as the greatest
| Salem, Albany, Eug-
¡ | ene, Roseb’g, Grants j
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
i Pa.-*, Medford, Ash-
train was a special conveying Henry J.
jp .m . ^ land,
Sacramento, )■
) j Ogden, San Francis- ¡
Mayharn, a mining broker of Chicago,
j co, Mojave, Los An- ,
to the death bed of his son. He arrived
j i g«*les, hi Paso, New
I [Orleans, and hast....J
a few hours too late.
Roseburg A: way stations * 4:40 p .m
(V ia Woodburn, fo r -)
The battleship Oregon has returned
Daily
¡ Mt. Angel, Silverton,
Daily
to San Francisco after her first long
except
<( West Scio, Browns- > except
Sunday.
atron and i Sunday.
I ville, Natr
cruise. She went as far as Acapulco,
[Springfield..
*4:00 p.m. Salem and way stations *10:15 a. m. Mexico, and has been absent five weeks.
f7:30 a. in. Corvallis «V: way stations f 6:20 p .m
During her voyage she practiced with
f4:45 p. m. M cM innville & way sta’s f 8:25 a. m
her guns and has been tested as a fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
D i n i n g Car s on O g d e n Itout e.
vessel proved satisfactory in every re
spect. She w ill soon proceed to Seattle
PULLMAN
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and enter the drydock.
BILL
Y A M H IL L
A u th orisin g the r r e tld e n t to
M o n e t a r y C on fe r en c e.
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school Sun
days at 10 a. m. Prayer m eeting Wednesday
evening at 7:30 o'clock.
REV. (i. F. JERARD, Pastor.
I
and 21st, March 7th and 21st, and April 4th and
18th.
J. E. D AY, Pastor.
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B e s l l s g R s tle es w i l l be I s t f r i H a t
U c rata e f T e a re a té par M as.
Aldrsa*. Utu r a te , Newtwrg, Oregon.
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OREGON,
F R ID A Y ,
SHIPS OPENED FIRE
The Foreign Fleet Bombarded
the Cretans,
AXD
The
THUS
AIDED
Insurgents
Tu rkish
W ere
Garrison
T11E TURKS
Attacking
Near
a
Can ea
W h e n th e I r o n c l a d s I n t e r f e r e d .
Canea, Feb. 23.— An engagement has
just occurred just above the village of
Miurniea, between insurgents and a
Turkish hand.
A t 4:45 P. M. the insurgents from
Akrotiri, having attacked the Turkish
garrison at Halepa, the joint fleet bom
barded the Cretans for twenty-five
minutes. The insurgents fled, taking
their flag with them.
Later reports are to the effect that
the English men-of-war opened the
bombardment. The others followed.
The Kaiserin Augusta tired melinite
shells. The commander of the Greek
man-of-war Hydra cleared for action in
case the necessity should arise. Some
shells fell in the town of Canea, rais
ing clouds of dust. It is rumored sev
eral persons were killed and wounded.
When firing ceased, the Greek flag
was still flying over tlio insurgent
samp.
London, Feb. 23.— A dispatch to the
Daily News from Canea, dated Sunday
says:
Smart firing was heard today in the
hills to the eastward. The reply of the
Turks was feeble, and it was obvious
that they must abandon their position
if pressed. The gun practice from the
redoubt on the outer lines was ludi
W ILL A P P O IN T HANNA.
crous. The chief Cretan jxisition was a
hamlet on a ridge of hills 4,000 yards
G overn or B u shneli Makes a P u b lic i
from the flagship.
S t a t e m e n t.
A t 4:30 o’clock this afternoon signals
Columbus, O., Feb. 23.— Governor' were made to H. M. S. Revenge, to
Bushneli tonight gave out the follow gether with one Italian, one German
ing statement to the press:
and Russian ship, to open fire upon
“ It has been my intention to make the Cretan position where the Greek
no announcement in relation to the ac flag was hoisted some days ago. The
tion I would take in the matter of an British ships fired forty and the foreign
appointment to fill the prospective va ships thirty shells at the village, and
cancy in the Ohio representation in the ruined the house held by the Cretans.
United States senate until the vacancy The flag was soon lowered, and the
actually existed. But, on account of order “ cease firing” sounded after ten
the manifest interest of the people, and minutes. Thereupon, the flag was re
their desire to know what w ill he done, hoisted.
Tlio rocks around were
I deem it best now to make the follow crowded with Cretans. The Turks,
ing statement:
encouraged by the fleet, now opened a
“ When Senator Sherman resigns to lively fusilade, while the Cretans had
enter the cabinet of President M cKin not replied during the whole perform
ley, I w ill appoint to succeed him Hon. j ance. It was a somewhat melancholy
Marcus A. Hanna, of Cuyahoga county, j spectacle.
to serve until his successor is chosen j
A d m i r a l * W a r n e d Vassos.
by the seventy-thiril general assembly I
Canea, Crete, Feb. 23.— The foreign
of the state. I trust this action will
admirals have warned Colonel Vassos,
meet the approval of the people.
commander of the Greek forces on the
“ Asa S. Bushneli.”
island of Crete, of their intention to
H a n n a N o t i fi e d .
attack his troops with four men-of-war
Cleveland, Feb.
23. — Chairman anchored off his camp. Aghoi Theodori,
Hanna was at the Union Club this should he attempt to advance to the
evening, when he was shown the dis interior of the island.
patch from Columbus containing Gov
Athens, Feb. 23.— It is stated that
ernor Bushncll’ s annoucement of Mr.
Hanna's appointment as senator to the warning of the foreign admirals
succeed Sherman. This was the first given to Colonel Vassos only referred to
Colonel
intimation Mr. Hanna had of the sub a Greek attack on Canea.
ject. Of course he was pleased at the Vassos will continue to occupy strategic
termination of the controversy, but he points in the interior of the island of
showed his pleasure only by a genial Crete.
smile. Asked if he would discuss the
F l r e i l B l a n k Shota.
governor’s action, the chairman de
Canea, Feb. 23.— British torpedo-
clined to say anything, remarking that boats have captnreil and brought to
he could not talk about the matter for this port the small Greek steamer
publication until he received official Laurium, which was carrying victuals
notice of his appointment from Gover and tents for the insurgents.
nor Bushneli. Mr. Hanna remained
The forts fired two rounds of blank
at his club during the evening anil re cartridges yesterday at the Greek gun
ceived the congratulations of such of boat Peneus. A Turkish fiigate also
his friends as had heard of his ap discharged blank shots at the Greeks.
pointment.
The Greek gunboat Peneus quickly
replied to the blank shots fired by the
M ILITIA ON GUARD.
Turkish frigate.
The frigate then
withdrew from the scene of operations.
P l o t t o B l o w U p t li o N o w M e x i c o F e n
The German flag was hoisted on the
I te n t l u r y .
ramparts here on the arrival of th*
Santa Fe, N. M., Feb. 23.— Gover cruiser Kaiserin Augusta.
nor Thornton has placed the local com
pany of infantry on guard at the j>eni- j
T o o I * oo r t o F i g h t .
tentiary on account of the discovery of ! London, Feh. 23.— A dispatch to the
a plot to blow up the building by the Daily Mail from Berlin says:
friends of the four members of the ' The queen of Greece recently sent a
Borrego gang of assassins, who were I message to the czar requesting his sup
condemned to be hanged next Tuesday, port for the national cause of Greece.
but who have been granted a respite The king also wired the czar, stating
for thirty days by President Cleveland, that he would declare war on Turkey
in disregard to an appeal from the gov and himself lead the army before he
ernor and other authorities to let the ! would yield to European coercion.
law take its course. Another ominous Princess Marie, of Greece, also tele
feature of the trouble is the appearance j graphed her fiancee, Grand Duke
of the cabalistic chalk figures “ B.-302- George of Russia, that the action of the
40” on the pavements and on the doors powers against Greece was infamous.
of officials, which the knowing ones
Another dispatch says:
recognize as similar to the call for
The Nord Deutsche Zcitnng asserts
meetings of the secret Button gang, that the Turkish cabinet last week de
which appeared frequently in 1892, cided to declare war against Greece.but
just prior to the assassination of ex- the saltan vetoed the resolution, on
sheriff Frank Chavez.
account of the government's financial
condition.
T h « T e a c h e r Smoked.
An Athens dispatch says the Greek
Denver, Fen. 23.— Mrs. Louisa Pitt
government has decided to send a part
Yokum, Dolores county superintendent
. of schools, has refused a teacher’ s cer of the fleet on a cruise along the S|*»r-
tificate to Professor Victor C. McGirr, j adis islands, while another portion of
principal of the Rico public school, be the fleet will go to Ainbracia to pre
cause he smokes. Mrs. Yokum takes vent the Turkish attack on the Greek
frontier from Prevesa.
Troops from
the ground that a person who smokes
all parts of Greece are hurrying to the
is disqualified to teach in the public
Turkish frontier. The call for naval
schools because teachers in this state
volunteers had been more than amply
are required by law to instruct the
children against the use of tobacco. An answered. The policy of Greece w ill
appeal w ill probably be taken to the 1* defensive on land, but aggressive
state board of education by Professor by sea.
McGirr, who is a graduate of the To
Bachelors are now safe at least an
ronto university, and is very popalar other eight years, seeing that 1900 will
not be a leap year.
in Rico. __________________
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BATTLESHIP.
W i l l B e P r o v i d e d f o r in t h e
propriation Bill.
Navy
Ap
Washington, Feh. 22.— The navy ap
propriation hill for the fiscal year has
been practically completed by the house
committee on naval affairs, and may be
reported to the house by Chairman
Boutelle tomorrow. The bill carries
abont $33,000,000, which is about $3,-
000,000 more than the appropriation
for the cunrrent year. The committee
decided to put in the new battle-ship
recommended by the subcommittee. It
is to cost, including hull, armor and
machinery, not more than $3,750,000.
Propositions for new drydocks at A l
giers, La., and Mare Island, Cal., were
voted down. The appropriations for
navy-yards include $66,000 for the
Mare island yard, of which $30,000 is
for extending the seawall, $20,00 for
dredging, and $10,000 for grading and
paving about the drydock. The Puget
sound naval station gets $60,000 for a
wharf and $10,000 for grading. The
total for repairs and preservation of
navy-yards is $400,000. There is an
item of $50,000 for modern machine
tools at the Mare island yard.
The new appropriations for the ma
rine barracks are: Erection of building
at Port Orchard, Wash., $1,000; offi
cers’ quarters, $5,000, and grading pa
rade grounds, $3,000.
The appropriation for armor for ves
sels authorized from 1890 to the present
date amounts to $7,720,000, and for
hulls, outfit and stearA machinery, $5,-
925,000.
New steam tugs are provided for Port
Royal and Puget sound, each to cost
______
$50,000.
NO
VOTE
Washington, Feb. 22.— The senate
adjourned at 8:85 tonight, after having
spent almost eight hours in continuous
executive session on the arbitration
treaty. No result was accomplished
beyond voting down the motion made
by Nelson to postpone further consid
eration of the treaty until March 5
Sherman made repeated efforts during
the day to secure a vote on the ratifica
tion or to get the senate to fix the day
and hour when it would agree to vote
upon the' treaty. Ho was defeated in
both purposes, and when tlio senate at
last adjourned, because of the absence
of a quorum, he did not say whether he
would make another effort again this
session to secure further consideration,
but it is supposed that lie w ill renew
the motion for an executive session to
morrow. Tho feeling through the sen
ate among the friends, as well as the
opponents of the treaty, is that any
effort to secure a vote will be (utile.
TUMBLED INTO THE BASS DRUM
aud
In vo lun tary
Acrobat
Feat
o f an
Sun Francisco, Feb. 22.— An acrobat
at the Orpheum fell forty feet from a
trapeze yesterday and crashed through
the big bass drum. Incidentally lie
caused two women to faint, broke two
music stands, scared the wits out of,
hut did not kill, a fiddler, as he might
have done, and bruised himself slight
ly. The acrobat is one of the Rente
brothers, who perform a number of
daring feats on high tra)>czu suspended
in front of the curtain over the orches
tra. The trapezes are suspended at
opposite Bides of a horizontal rectangu
lar frame. From one trapeze Jules
Reufe hangs by his feet, while his
brother Jacques swings from the other
trapeze, his back turned to Jules.
When Jacques has obtained sufficient
impetus from his swinging lie lets go
the trapeze bar and so flies to the out
stretched hands of his brother.
They were i>erforming this feat yes
terday evening, when, somehow or
other, Jacques succeeded in getting
only an insecure hold of one hand.
Jules could not hold on, and made a
straight drop.
W i l l H a u l NuppllflR F r e e
San Francisco, Feb. 22.— The com
mittee of the India famine relief fund
announces that the privilege of free
transportation for food supplies with
which to load the steamer provided by
the United States government has been
granted by the Southern Pacific for Pa
cific mast points, slid for donations
from Eastern contributors by the ('cu
tral and Union Pacific mads, in connec
tion with the Rock Island, Burlington
anil Milwaukee & St. Paul roods.
Contributions of supplies, which will
be received all along the lines, are
earnestly solicited at once, and w ill he
received for shipment at McNear’s ware
house, Port Costa, Cal.
F a t » I Train W rec k .
Kinmundy, 111., Feh. 22.— A freight
wreck occurred on the Illinois Central
railroad near Boskydell, III. The ttn-
gine and fourteen cars with contents
were demolished. The engineer, fire
man and one brakeman were killed.
The cause was the breaking of an axle
mt the engine drivers.
F i r « C r u m # * P a n i c In a S c ho ol .
Boston, Feh. 22.— Fire in the Everett
school building this morning caused a
panic among the pupils. The police
ambulances were quickly on hand ami
within a few moments thirteen injured
victims were on the way to the city hos
pital. The fire was extinguished with
out any considerable damage.
Although the salary of the King of
Greece is four times greater than that
of the president of the United States,
it is said to I# smaller than that of any
other European monarch.
▲ drertU la« Bills Colleotad Monthly*
FORCED 1I1E TR0CH1
Gomez is Now
Between
Weyler and Havana.
A DECISIVE BATTLE EXPECTED
W eyl.r,
lit.
H owever,
lu .u rg.n t
ll«u
Are
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Leader
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and
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Retreat.
Jacksonville, Fla., Feb. 22.— A spe
cial to the Citizen from Key West says:
Private information has been received
of tho whereabouts of General Gomez.
He has succeeded in slipping by Gen
eral Weyler and is now between him
and Havana.
General Gomez gave the command
for an advance, with strict orders that
any man that struck a match would be
court-martialed. He then advanced on
the Moron trooha, in the eastern end of
the island, with 5,000 cavalry and 10,-
000 infantry. lle advanced on the
fort at midnight, and when he saw he
was discovered by the Spanish, who
fired on him, ho order«! tlio cavalry to
charge. They swoo|>ed down upon the
fort aud captured it, and the whole
army went through the trocha. A ll of
the arms and ammunition of the fort
was captured. The army then contin
ued to march, and was encamped at
Veguite when the news was sent to the
city by a courier. His order in taking
the fort was to use tho machete only,
and the cavalry made a gallant fight.
Havana, Feb. 22.— If official reports
are correct, the insurgent army under
General Gomez has been divided into
small corjis and Gomez himself is in
full retreat before tho continued ad
vance of Weyler.
Dispatches from
Ciego de Aviel say the insurgent com
mander-in-chief with 4,000 men re
crossed the military line in the prov
ince of Puerto Pineipe, extending from
Jucaro to Monon, and is going eastward
through Puerto Pineipe in the direction
of the oapital of the privinoe.
General Ualixto de Garcia, Gomez’
second in command, was reported four
days ago in the vicinity of Puerto Prin
cipe, retreating towards the same point
as Gomez. Weyler arrived yesterday
at Saneti Spiritus, the most important
town in the eastern part of the province
of Santa Clara, near the lioundary of
Puerto Principe, in the territory where
the insurgent headquarters were re
cently located. Weyler will push for
ward to Moron, Ciego de A viel and
Juraoo, thus seemingly sweeping across
the island with a large force, anil driv
ing the enemy before him. He expects
to entrap Gomez between two wings of
tlie Spanisli column and force a decisive
enuggement before tho mills put un end
to the military operations.
The Cu
bans believe, however, that Gomez
will, us sual, slip through the cordon
before being completely developed.
DROWNED
IN
DEEP CREEK.
P a lm e r W iln ir, a F ifte e n -Y e a r-O ld Boy,
A ccid entally Drowned.
Skamokawa, Wash., Feh. 22.— News
has readied Skamokawa of an accident
that took place on Deep river, in the
lower part of Wahkiakum county, last
Saturday evening, by which Palmer
Wilinu lost liis life. It seems that
Wiline, who was about 15 years old,
and another boy of the same ago, Max
Long, had gone to the postofflee at Deep
river, to get their mail. Having se
cured their mail they started for their
homes in a small iaiat, taking witli them
a man, John Long. The boat was one
of those little skiffs used On the creeks.
It was barely safe for one person to
travel in, much less three, and in
changing seats it was capsized and the
occupants thrown ont. None of them
could swim, but John Long hung to the
capsized bout,while tlio two boys strug
gled to get ahsore, which was only 100
feet away. Their cries for help brought
George Garey to their assistance with
a boat, and lie succeeded in suving the
two Longs.
The boy Wilme went
dow n and his body was not recovered
until Sunday, when it was found near
the scene of the accident.
W ilm e’s sister was drowned neai
Astoria about nine years ago.
ALL
ALONG
THE
LINE.
W a itin g for the O p en in g o f the C o lv ille
lleeervntton.
Wilbur, Wash., Feb. 22.— This town
and others along the sontli half of the
Colville Indian reservation are filled
with strangers, awaiting a proclama
tion opening that section to mineral
entries. There are a number of men
on the reservation now, and they huvo
located mineral claims, and in some
case« have been prosecuting work there
on. In a letter to Spokane, one of the
miners on the outside says that the gov
ernment offieiala are interested with
companies in locating valuable mineral
claims. It is said that the Indian po
lice stand in with them. One location
on the reservation bears a paper which
has the signature as witness of Sam
Vinson, deputy United States marshal
at Spokane. New York and Spokane
companies have the "cin ch ," according
to the writer, on all of the beat claims,
and, where their agents are seeking
new discoveries, all other miners arc
kept off the land.
CLIMAX
P h ilip p in e
IS
AT
HAND.
I.la rd .
R e v o lt
U pon a C o llap «e .
V t rg la g
New York, Feb. 22.— A dispatch to
the Herald from Manilu «ays:
General La Chambre, who has occu
pied Santo Domingo, is now advancing
on Silling, Cornell and Marina and
w ill attack the rebel forces within
three days. The number of troop« em
ployed is not published. Tho batteries
employed are two Krup 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 artil
lery of eight centimeters.
From all reports it would seem that
if the Spaniards are lucky enough to
inflict a decisive chastisement ui>on the
rebels in Cavite, the entire revolution
w ill collapse. Tho absence of a real
leader nmst tell upon the rebels, and
all their principal men are either in
the fortress here or have been shot by
the authorities. Francisco Rojas, the
millionaire and friend of General
Blanco; Rizal, the doctor and idol of
the Philippine Indians; Luna, the ar
tist whoso picture won a gold medal at
the Paris exposition, and every other
native or half-caste of wealth or influ
ence in the Catipuna or inner circles of
conspiracy, which the natives created
for their own purposes inside the lodges
of Masonry, into which tho Spaniards
confidently initiated them years ago,
are in the toils of tho law and may he
shot any day.
An immense amount of suffering ha*
been inflicted on their families by
these misguided men. In dozens of
cares large estates of those implicated
have been embargoed by the govern
ment, and people formerly opulent are
reduced to poverty. Even some native
Catholic priests are among the prison
ers, seven at least having been tempted
into the plot.
The machinations of tho rebels seem
to have permeated all quarters, and
they have taken in their withering,
grasp natives and half-breeds in every
station of life, from the millionaire
property-owner, local governor, govern
ment clerk, official doctor or professor
in college, to the most ignorant and
poorest fisherman and domestic servant
in foreign or Spanish employ. Indeed,
it would be difficult to find a parallel
for such widespread 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
w ill have plenty to eat, nothing to do
and pay no “ cedula” or other tax to
anybody. This is tho simple argument
which the agents use everywhere to
heat up recruits and get tho peasant* to
join their ranks.
Their ideas are:
largely socialistic.
As an illustration of these delight
ful tenets the washermen, who have
mostly all turned rebels, walked off
with half the wardrobes of male and fe
male Manila, for every one uses white
tropicnl clothing the yenr round, and
consequently for a time the rebels were
the best dressed gentlemen in the Phil
ippines, while their lackless customers
were getting now clothes together.
WAS
ONCE
A
MARINE.
M u rd *re r B u tle r Served >■ Seam an on
H oard 11« M . S. T riu m p h .
San Francisco, Feb. 22.— Butler has
been a marine in her majesty’s service,
in addition to his other occupations.
Ho has been identified by two of his
former shipmates. John Conway and
Thomas Collins, of this city were at
one time sailors on board II. M. S.
Triumph. There was a marine on board
by tho name of Ashe. When the old
sailors saw tlio picture of Butler they
recognized the face. Collins was posi
tive the man was their old shipmate
Ashe, and to make snre Conway went
to see him a few days ago.
Asho was with Conway and Collins
in 1888, when the Triumph, while on
her way out here from England, put
into Chile. While there a detachment
of men was put on board from the fillip
Liffey, which was then doing duty as a
prison ship for the confinement of
minor offenders.
Ashe was among
these. He had been confined on hoard
the Liffey for stealing a ring.
A t Victoria, Conway and Collins,
whose terms had expired, left the ship
and lost sight of Ashe. A t the city
prison Conway and Butler recognized
each other immediately ami talked for
some time. To Conway it is understood
Butler outlined his proposed defense
when he returns to Australia, and said
he has his reasons for being known as
Weller.
_ _ _ ______________
SAVED
BY
THE
PARROT.
F e e p le In a B u rn in g D w e llin g
o f T h e ir P e ril.
W arn e d
Oakland, Cal., Feb. 22.— Nine lives
were saved by a parrot in Piedmont
yesterday. The shrill screams of the
bird aroused the Hniue family from
«lumber to discover that their mansion
on Piedmont avenne waa in flame*.
George W. Hume, the well-known ship
owner, was the first one alarmed. lie
and his Ron Edward got the ladies of the
household safely out of doors. Edward
tried to telephone to the fire depart
ment, but as he called he was com
pelled to leave the instrument, being
driven out by smoke and flames.
Tho beautiful home, with much of
its valuable contents, was totally de
stroyed. Within s sort time after the
fire was discovered, nothing was left
but a blackened mass of ruins.
Geropian L o au e-C on rerslon B ill.
G asoline En gin e E xploded.
Warsaw, Ind., Feb. 23.— The explo
sion of a gasoline engine caused the de
struction of the county infirmary, locat
ed ten miles east of here, this morning.
Though the building burned to the
ground, all of the inmates were res
cued. The loss is $40,000.
14.
W e y l e r In P u r s u i t o f G o m e s .
REACHED
A rbitration T re a ty A g a in
C o n s id e r e d
In K x e c u t i v e Session.
Un us ua l
NO.
Han I n t o a W a s h o u t .
Cincinnati, Feh. 23.— The Enquir
er’s special from Ashland, Ky., says:
Today the eastbound
Norfolk &
Western express ran into a washout
near Lovelette, wrecking the engine,
baggage car and two coaches.
The
slee|ier escaped. Engineer Pennington
and Fireman Mayfield were both dan
gerously injured, and a brakeman,
whose name was not learned, was fa
tally inju r«!.
Several person* were
•lightlv in hired.
Washington, Feb. 22.— Senor Du-
puy de Lome, the Spanish minister,
has received the foliowring telegram
from the president of the chamber of
commerce of Havana:
“ The sugar plantations in the larger
manufacturing districts are grinding
cane. Railroads ar t telegraphic com
munications are regular. Fernandez."
The larger sugar producing districts
of Cuba, it is explained, arc in Eastern
Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzaa and
Santa Clara
K y l e W aa E l e c t e d .
Berlin, Feb. 22.— The German loans-
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 22.— On the sen oonversion bill passed its second read
atorial ballot today, the Republicans in ing today in the reichstag, after several
the house voted almost solidly for Kyle. amendment* proposed by Herr Richter,
The Republicans of the senate began the people’ * party leader, had been re
at once to change to Kyle. Before the jected.
revolt was announced enough changes
fta lv .e te u Strike S e ttle *.
ha<I been made to give Kyle 65 votes,
Galveston, Tex., Feb. 22. — The
three more than were necessary. With
the solid Republican vote and a few street car atrike waa settled this morn
Populists who stayed with him, Kyle ing. The men returned to work at the
secured enough votes to pull him scale in effect prior to the trouble. Th*
agreement is to last a year.
through.
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