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DOINGS OF THE W EEK 1
What Has Happened in the
Civilized World.
GIVES I S T H E P R E S S DISPATCHES
* C o m p le te R e v ie w o f t h e N ew* o t th *
l ’a e t S e v e n D a y * I n T h l * a n d
A ll F o reig n Land*.
Manzanillo, Cuba, is now fully con
trolled by tlie American anthorities.
A plan to dismember th e republic ot
Switzerland is nmler discussion in
Europe.
Twelve men, it is said now, were
killed and 28 wounded in the riot at
Virden, 111.
Mrs. Nanov Geer, wife of the gov
ernor-elect of Oregon, expired suddenly
of heart diseaso in Omaha.
All Spanish civil courts in Philippine
territory now subjeot to American oou-
trol have resumed business.
The government now has 65 warship*
in course of construction. When com
pleted, the United States navy will
rank third.
Secretary Alger has wired Governor
Tanner, of Illinois, placing the Fifth
Illinois volunteer infantry at T ann er’s
orders, in case the state m ilitia is in
sufficient to end the coal troubles.
The Spanish mail steamor Kelna
Maria C hristina has sailed from Ha
vana for Spain w ith 1,073 officers and
troops, 651 cases of military archives
and a heavy cargo of ammunition.
As a result of eating canned lobsters,
shrimps, and clams, two Knights of
Pythias, J. I. Jones and Charles Young,
who live near Rainier, Or., are dead,
ami Walter Furrow, of the same lodge
and town, is critically ill from the same
poison.
The government lias apportioned the
prize money for the men of our war
ships.
Sampson gets tire lion’s share,
Dewey the next largest sum, while
Schley will receive less ttian some of
tire captains.
The men will reoeive
from $30 to $200 each.
The im perial Chinese government
has granted to the Peking syndicate of
London
the right to open and work
emu
¡s and to construct and operate
roads in tire empire free from C hi
nese control. Tlris is the first conces
sion ever granted by the Chinese gov
ernm ent to a toreign syndicate.
The annual report of Land Commis
sioner Hermann aatiinates that over
11,000,000,000 feet of public timber
lias been destroyed by fire during the
past 25 years. Tim report says forest
fires form the main subject for the at
tention of the land office, now threaten
ing, as they do, not only the growing
forests bnt the forest lands whose pro
ductiveness they retard indefinitely.
The repott th at the treasure of the
khalifa was found at Khartoum and
forwarded to Cairo is w ith o u t founda
tion.
Alexandria advices received ot Lon
don say th a t the troops who have just
returned to Khartoum are dying off
like flies from enteri* disorders.
Jesse James, j r . , son of tire notorious
bandit, lias been placed under nrrest
for complicity in the many train rob
beries in tlie outskirts of Kansas City.
The anniversary of tlie death of
Charles S tuart Parnell wrs observed in
D ublin with a procession and exercises
at the grave of the home rule leader.
Marquis Ito, the Japanese states
man, has expressed the opinion th a t
tlie anti-foreign policy recently adopt
ed liy China would be modified upon
representations being made by th*
powers.
An unknown w hite man was burned
to death in a negro church at La Flore,
Miss, hy tlie negroes, who thought
th a t because tlie man was ill he must
be affeoted with yellow fever. Th*
church was entirely destroyed.
The Bear Island or Pillager Indians
will surrender, and tlie threatened
war has bee averted. Tlie recalcitrants
have agreed at a conference to como
into tlie agency as soon as details of
tlie terms are arranged.
NEW BE RG, YAM HILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 18!>S.
VOL. X.
A ddress, Q a a r u i a N ew uer*. U reaoa.
LATER
N EW S.
Tbe Oregon legislature adjontned sine
He Saturday.
A genuine blizzard visited the Middlo
Western states, doing considerable
damage.
A Polish priest has sued the Catholio
church for (50,000 for excommunicat
ing him.
.
It is said In London th a t tho French
must either withdraw from Faslioda or
go to war w ith England.
The Germ an government has now
decided to appoint permanently a naval
attache at Washington, who will reach
his post in January.
The British ship Blengfelt, from New
York, burned off Margat, England,
early Monday morning. Eleven of the
crew, besides the captain's wife and
children, perished.
Seven barges, containing 800,000
poods of naphtha have been burned at
the petroleum port of Astrakhan, Rus
sia. Three persons were killed in tho
conflagration, and several others in
jured.
Tho war departm ent has received a
detailed description of the fortifica
tions of Havana.
Besides old guns,
there are 43 new guns. These guns are
principally oi the Hontoria and Ordonez
pattern, but there are a few Krupps
among them.
In a head-end collision between two
freight rains near Grent Falls, Mont.,
due to a misunderstanding of orders.
Engineer Charles Goddard and Brake-
man Robert T. J u n e were killed, and
Firem an A. L. Ritchie was probably
fatally injured.
Tlie government will undertake tlie
transportation of Christmas boxes for
soldiers at Manila.
A steamer will
start from flan Francisco early in No
vember. so packages must be forwarded
soon. Only sm all quantities of sweet
things will be accepted.
It is announced th at Montreal and
Quebec are to bo thoroughly fortified
as part ot the scheme for tbe defenses
of Canada. Colonel Dalton, chief of
the imperial defense commission, is in
Montreal, completing plans for the
fortifications of the cities.
A curious method of aiding charities
has been iqitiated in Paris, where, it is
announced, the saloons of the high
aristocracy, which have hitherto bean
extremely exclusive, will be opened to
strangers, on reception davs, foi a
money ct.isideration, which will be ap
plied to tlie charitable works of which
tlie lady of tlie house is a patron.
A reception was tendered the army
heroes at tlie Omaha exposition.
Colombia will risk no future trouble
and diplomatic relations with Italy
have been reversed.
It is reported th a t Gen. Maximo
Gomez lias been selected for president
of tho Cuban rcpublio.
A military plot against tho French
government was discovered and fius-
truted by prompt action.
Tlie
International Typographical
Union in biennial session at Syracuse,
N. Y., voted to abolish the referen
dum.
A cabinet crisis hns occurred in Cape
Colony, Soutli Africn, and tlie assembly
lias voter) a want of oonfldenoe in tlie
government.
Murderer John Miller was hanged at
San Quentin, Cal., for tlie killing of
Jam es Childs in San Francisco, in No
vember, 1896.
Tiie American peace commissioners
were entertained in Paris w ith a pri
vate theatrical performance, arranged
in their honor by Figaro.
Frauds amounting to millions of dol
lars have been discovered in theCliilean
arsenal. Senor Navarre, tlie chief ac
countant, lias committed suicide.
The Paris peace commissioners can
not agree over the Cuban debt ques
tion. The Americans claim the m atter
is Irrelevant, beoauM the United States
is not annexing Cuba.
It is reported in Manila th a t Macab-
uious, chief of the five northern prov
inces of the Philippine islands, has
rebelled against Aguinaldo, and th a t
fighting lias taken place between tiie
opposing factions.
News to the effect th a t large n u m
bers of political prisoners have been
horribly tortured in Ecuador by order
A terrible experience is related by of the government, has been brought
Samuel Ensign, an American.
He to San Francisco by tbe steamer P a n
was deprived of his liberty for 18 long ama.
years, and robbed of all his worldly
Han Ky, tlie Corean minister of
possessions, and thrown into a Cuban
dungeon. He finally escaped and re justice, has been dismissed for having '
perm tited the brutalities perpetrated i
turned to his n ative land.
by tlie populace on tlie bodies of tbe
Two bloodless uprisings have occur men recently hanged for conspiracy to
red at Guam since American ruls wal poison the emperor,
established. Both were qniokly quel
Ciiief Sweenie, of the Chicago fire
led. Spanish priests incited the na
tives to deeds of violence. Tho Amer department, while directing his men at
ican flag was hauled down on each oc work on a fire, fell into a manhole and ;
casion. but soon replaced by the local was severely injured. The engineer of
police. A young sailor is now running tlie building, Jo hn Meldrum, was
killed, and two other men were scalded
things for Uncle Sam.
by escaping steam.
A rear-end collision between two O.
Lieuteuan Briands has written a let
R. A N. trains occurred at Sullivan’s
gulch, near Portland. Two engines ter saying that tbe voyage of the Obdam
were wrecked, four box cars smashed from Forto Rico was not fraught with
The sensational
into kindling-wood and the caboose of danger or suffering.
the first train wrecked and thrown newspaper stories of fire on tbe tran s
down a steep embankment into the wa port and to tiie effect th at tlie wounded
ter.
Almost miraculously no live* and sick soldiers being brought home
were lost. The trainm en saved th em were badly fed. are denounced as u n
founded and ndipuloue.
selves by jumping.
F irs t
f ft« in «.
B o d ies
SE TT L E D
BY
THE
PROTOCOL
A m e ric a n a P o sitiv e ly D eclin e to A s
in i n e lle a p o n s ib ility for tlie C tibau
D e b t —T w o W e e k a ’ L a b o r s .
Purls. Oct. 18.— The American and
Spanish peace commissions closed their
first two weeks of labor lieie today,
and tlie progress made has been chiefly
by negative action, owing to tlie a t t i
tude of the Americans.
The first article of tho protocol pro
vided that "S pain will relinquish all
claim to sovereignty over and title to
C uba.” Tlie Americans opened their
case by tlie assumption th at little or no
action was necessary regarding Cuba on
tbe ground th a t its disposition was
infinitely fixed by tlie terms of the pro
tocol. N otw ithstanding at the meeting
last Thursday, the Spaniards subm it
ted
suggestions
and
propositions
amounting to holding that tbe United
States should take over all or part of
the Cuban debt. Tuesday, Senor Mon
te ro Rios, president of tbe Spanish com
mission, verbally repeated It at length,
and reiterated the same in summarized
form.
The Americans at their own session,
Wednesday, took up the Spanish pres
entation and determined the formula
tion of tlie answer of tlie United States.
Careful, exact, and full was the prepara
tion of the answer, and, therefore, it
became impossible, as intended, to
serve a copy of it on tlie Spanish before
tlie hour of opening the session, so that
th e
oral
discussion might begin
promptly.
Whatever may have transpired at yes
terday's session, wiiethor the Spaniards
were or wore not advised 't h a t the
United States deolined to assume tlie
Cuban debt, it may be distinctly said
th a t with such light as it now has. the
United States commission will consist
ently and to tlie end refuse to assume
all or any part of the Cuban debt. Tlie
Spaniards will, if indeed it has not al
ready been done, have.impressed upon
them tiie fact th at by tlie signature of
tlie protocol, they utterly relinquished
all claim of sovereignty over and title
to Cuba.
Thus possibly progress lias been
achieved negatively, for, with the pres
en t light, the Americans decline, or
will refuse the responsibility of a single
peseta of the so-called debt.
F IR S T
AT
SAN
LIZ A R D
WRECK.
o f M a n y o f t h e V ictim s
B een R ecovered.
fla re
London, Oct. 18.—The Atlantic
Transport Company issued the follow
ing statement this evening regarding
the fate of tlie passengers and crew of
the steamer Mohegan, which was
wrecked last Friday evening off the
Lizatd, between tlie Manacles and Low
lands:
“ Of tlie passengers, 11 have been
saved. 10 bodies have been recovered,
and 83 are missing. Of tlie orew and
cattlemen, 89 have been saved, 14 bod
ies have been recovered, and 51 are
missing.”
8ince this statement was issued, nine
Dthei bodies have been picked tip, in
cluding two th at have been identified
as those of passengers. The reports of
tlie various correpondcnts differ widely
as to the rescues, recoveries and losses,
though none agree as to tbe exact n u m
ber of those saved or ol tlie bodies r e
covered.
Tbe bodies of the following passengers
have been recovered: T. W. King,
Edna King, Master King, Mrs. Weller,
Jam es Blackey, Miss H. M. Cowon, M.
Fallows, B. ¿’ranklin Fuller, Mrs. L.
M. Luke, Geoige Seymour, Miss L. H.
Warrener.
The latest advices from Falm outh
this evening say* that 38 bodies have
been identified, mostly tlie bodies of
sailors. Four are as yet unidentified,
including those of two elderly ladies.
Ono appears to be German. She wore
a watch and wedding ring, botli en
graved “ 1871.” The other wore a sil
ver brooch with the letters “ D ” in
pearls. This is probably the body of
Mrs. Charlos Duncan. Nino of tlie bod
ies have been brought to Falm outh;
tho others were taken to the village
church at St. Keverine.
Tlie rescuod passengers aro being
sheltered in cottages along the shore,
and tlie crew at the sailors’ home at
Falm outh,
Tugs have been cruising in the vicin
ity all day, despite tho very rough
weather, in tho hope of pioking up
otlior bodies.
The cause of the disaster remains the
profoundest mystery.
Nobody a t
tempts to explain how the Mohegan got
so far north of her true conrso— from
six to seven miles. There was no fog
at tlie time, while the wind on tier port
quarter was not sufficient to prevent
her answering tho helm. It hag been
suggested th at her compass wus faulty;
but daylight lasted long after Eddy-
stone light was passed. The sailors
say the fact that the Lizard light was
visible should have served to give tlie
alarm.
D em and of S pain Is
F latly Refused.
GOMEZ
IS
O B S T IN A T E .
T lie C u b a n G e n e r a l R e f u t e s to
H is A rm y .
JUAN.
D isb an d
New York, Oot. 18.—A dispatch
from Havana says: It is generally bo-
lieved n serious breach has taken place
Washington, Oct. 18.—Tlie follow- between tho executive department of
ing dispatch was receivod at tlie war tlie Cuiian rcpublio ami tlie leaders of
departm ent this evening:
the military forces. Word was received
‘‘San Ju an . Oct. 18.—The Forty- hero th a t General Wood lias received u
seventh New York arrived at San Ju an communication from President Mnsso,
at 6 P. M.
EDDY, Colonel.”
advising th at nothing he done hy tlie
It is presumed by the war depart Americans th a t can be construed as re
m ent officials, inasmuch as nothing is cognizing tho Cuban government. Mas
said to the contrary, that tlie regiment se lias been joined by ids colleagues in
was permitted to land at Sun Junn. It declaring th at tho time has arrived for
was feared objection might bo raised hy disbanding tho Cuban forces.
This
tlie Spanish offioiala to tiie landing ol course will bo vigorously combatted by
th e regiment at San Juan before formal General Gomez.
possession was yielded to the American
General Ju an Dneasse, one of tlie
forces on the 18th inst.
The Forty- j closest advisers of Gomez, lias arrived
seventh New York has tlie honor ol in Havana to consult tiie opponents ol
being tlie first American organization Masso and all those who fuvor a Cuban
to enter tlie capital of Porto Rico.
republic and oppose further American
intervention. General DueaBse declares
C o m m a n d s o f t h e D istric ts.
Ponce, P. R., Oct. 18,i—Tho Btnr*i th at Gomez will lead tho insurgents
and Stripes will be formally raised at back into tho field before lie will sub
San Ju a n Thursday.
Brigadior-Gen-[ mit to disarming them while tlie A m er
eral Fred G rant will be given command ican and Spanish soldiers remain in
of the district of San Juan, comprising Cuba.
Colonel W aring’s first inspection of
the jurisdictions of Arecilio, Bayaino
and Hnmaooa. with tho adjacent tiie city filled him witli surprise. Con
islands.
Brigadier-General Guy V. ditions are mucli worse than lie expect
Henry will be given command of tlie ed. Everything Is favorable for an out
break of fever. In normal times deaths
other portions of Potto Rico.
in Havana nnmlier aliout 300 a week.
T H E C R IS TO B A L C O LO N .
They now nverage fully 100 a day.
Ilo h so n
I s C o n f i d e n t o f R a i s i n g t h s Tiie deaths are mostly the result of per
nicious fever.
S p a n is h C rn iser.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 18.—Naval
A N A R C H IS T P L O T .
Constructor Hobson, who has arrived
here from tlie wreak of tlie Spanish K i n g H u m b e r t , a « W e l l a n t h e V n -
p e r o r , W a a t o l i e A fl«»R «lnated.
cruiser Cristobal Colon, will leave to-
moirow for G uantanam o on business
London, Oct. 18.—The Alexandria
connected with th e Infar.ta Maria correspondent of tlie Daily Mail, tele
Teresa, which ho expects to get off to graphing regarding the anarchist plot
tlie United States before the end of the against Emperor William, which was
month. For the last few days he has discovered Friday, says:
been engaged in preparing to raise the
Tlie plot against tlie kaiser is hourly
Cristobal Colon, a work which la prac proving more important, eacli arrest
tically impossible from the sea because disclosing new ramifications. Tho doc
of the dangerously heavy swell.
The uments found disclose a plot to kill
operations will, therefore, be conducted King H umbert already well matured.
from the shore. Mr. Hobson has built F ifteen persons, all Italians, have been
a trolley line out to the ship, a distance arrested.
The original plan was to
of 150 feet, w ith a suspension bridge; throw a bomb of guncotton and ful
and the compressed air pump is now in minate of mercury on Erniieror Wil
position.
On his return from G uan liam's carriage in a narrow street of
tanamo he will push liisoperations vig Cairo. When the Egyptian trip was
orously, as he feels absolutely certain abandoned,elaborate arrangements were
of raising tlie bull uninjured.
made by the conspirators to semi con
federates to Jerusalem to carry oat tho
Tbe naval hoard appointed by ths
plot during the dedication of tiie G er
president to investigate disputed pointl
man Chtirch ot Onr Redeemer.
in the conflict which resulted In ths
In su rg en t* O v erd o It.
destruction of C ervers’s fleet, find that
Manila, Oct. 18. —The insnrgetns at
"although the American fleet in th*
battle off Santiago on J u ly 3 obeyed Lagaspi have prevented the American
the general orders of Rear-Adibiral steamer Hermanos from loading or u n
Sampson, given in advance to meet loading, on the grumid that there are
just such an emergency, it was essen Hpaniards on board. They also refused
tially a ‘captains’ fight. ’ ”
Much to allow any of the rnen of the United
credit is given th e battle-ship Oregon Htates cruiser Raleigh to land without
permission fiom General Aguinaldo.
for its good work.
N ew Y o rk R e g i m e n t K ilters t h e C a p ita )
o f P o r t o I t I o o .
K la rtrle S h o c k K ille d H im .
Tbe French wheat crop is estimated
Seattle, Wash., O c t 17.—Louis Kay-
at
128,000,000
hectoliter*,
th
e
largest
Dr. G. Q. Colton, the noted Ameri
ser, aged 88, an engineer, was killed
can dentist who died in Rotterdam since 1874.
Owing to tbe overproduction of yarn, this morning in the Sesttle steam
some tim e ago, bad pulled over 1,000.-
laundry, as a result of a shock received
000 teeth in the course of hi* practice, th e ingrain carpet spinner* of th e | while putting In an incandescent lamp.
and was the first dentist to use "lau g h Pennsylvania district have decided to
•h nt down their mills for an indefinite
O r« B a rg e * s n k .
ing gas” In practice.
period.
Chicago,Oct. 17.—The barge C hurch
Robert Roberts, an English w riter
At white lake, near Forestport, N. ill. loaded with ore from Duluth, sank
on religions affairs, the anthor of over
100 books ami editor of tbe Christadel- ! . . a deer hu nter while sta'king mls- in tlie rough water off Waukegan to
phia, of Birmingham, England, was ook a moving object in tbe wood* for day. Captain Kane, of Detroit, and a
found deed in his room in San Fiam.it- i deer and fired, *HHn* instantly bi* deck-hand, John Hanaen, were drowned.
16-year-old eon.
| The barge was valued at $10.000.
so from h eart disease.
M in o r
THE
PARIS PEACEMAKERS
j
THE
O ppn«d
PEACE
W ith
JU BILEE.
» ■ le rv l« «
S itin g .
•f
Thank«-
Chicago, OcL 13.—Tbe
national
peare Jubilee, of Chicago, was tonight
inaugurated with a thanksgiving ser
vice at tiie Auditorium.
President
McKinley attended and listened to ad
dresses by s Jewish rabbi, a Roman
Catholic priest, a Presbyterian clergy
man and a noted colored orator. The
applause for tbe president was terrific,
W R ECK OFF TIIE LIZ A RD
NO. 48.
riH A FTE R
lie
To!.t
AT
O MAHA.
L o ti
How
th e
S p an ia rd .
S an tiag o .
Omaha, Oot. 17. — Major-General
William K. Shatter was accorded a
most generous welcome by Omaha to-
iay. When his train arrived in the
morning a large number of people hail
gathered at the station to greet tiie
OVER 150 PERSON'S DROWNED tiero of Santiago. latter, upon tlie ex
position grounds, the manifestation of
iove and respect for tlie general were
This after
M o h e g a n * F r o m L o n d o n t o N e w Y o r k , sveiywhere in evidence.
noon, in tlie auditorium, General Shut
S t r u c k t h e R o c k « In a
ter addressed an audienoe th at filled
T e r rib le G ale.
every inch of available space In the
great building.
His address was a
London, Oot. 17. — The Atlantio plain, matter-of-fa"t discussion of tiie
Transportation
Company’s steamer i Cuban campaign, and tho simple pre
Mohegan, formerly tlie Cleopatra, of sentation of facts was far more effective
tlie
Wilson-Fuiiiess-Leylaml
line, than the most exalted oratorical effort
which left London for New York yes from one who had not participated in
terday with 50 passengers nnd a crew of the struggle.
150, is ashore off tlie Lizard, between
One or two statements ninde by tho
the Manacles and the lowlands.
general are new. He said th at witli
It is rumored th at tiiere has been a tlie capture of El Caney tlie campaign
gieat loss of life.
j was prnctioally over. It was simply
. A coast guard messago reports that | necessary, ho said, to convince the
tiie passengers are "drowning like Spanish commander th a t Ilia ease was
ruts.”
hopeless.
Anotliei account, says: "Bodies are
" W h y the Spaniards surrendered
washing ashore, one being tliut of a when they could have abandoned their
lady lashed to a plank, with both lugs position nnd kept up the w a r ,” he
severed.”
said, " I do uot understand, hut I be
Particulars of the disaster are diffi lieve it was because they had been in
cult to obtain.
It appears th at when formed th a t tho Spanish government
tiie Mohegan struck a gale was blowing had decided to give up the fight and
ami the sea was running high.
surrender their soldiera in the eastern
Lifeboats put off from tlie Lizard and part of tlie island. ”
from Fulmoutli, one returning filled
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
with passengers. Several were drowned, John made an able eddteas, commend
however, it is reported, on tlie passage ing Nebraska’s part in the late war
of tiie lifeboat to tiie shore.
Another and denouncing tlie traduoere of the
lifeboat saved six persons.
army. Wu Ting-Fang, the Chinese
Tlie coast at that point is extremely mininster, was given a cordial recep
dangerous, and lias been the scene of tion.
Senator Thurston spoke elo
numerous wrecks.
Some years ago quently.
there was a movement set on foot to get
D A W S O N Q U A R T Z M IN ES.
a lightship plaoed there, but it failed.
A dispatch from F alm outh says tho
Mohegan foundered and was probably F u t u r e o f t h e C i t y D e p e n d s U p o n T h e i r
D ev elo p m en t.
blown ashore by tlie heavy east wind
Vancouver, B. O., OcL 17.—J. II.
after iter machinery was disabled.
All tlie Falm outh tugs went out but Hold, of Chicago, who Is just down
from Oassiar, says a gold strike has
were unablo to approach tlie vessel.
A lifeboat lias lauded 8Uof theMohe- been mado on F riday river. Throe
; a n ’a passengers and returned for more. men took ont (85 each from a river bar
Olio lady died after she was brought In one week.
H. M. Sinclair, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
ashore. It is rumored that tlie position
of tlie Mohegan is serious and assistance who lias just arrived from Dawson,
says the future of Dawson will depend
is urgently needed.
According to a dispatch just received largely upon tiie opening of quartz
from Falm outh, out of 200 passengers mines. There have been upwards of
constituting the passengers and crow of 400 quartz claims teoorded at Dawson
the Mohegan, only 31 have been saved. and some claims in the vicinity of the
This intelligence was forwarded from city are attracting considorablo a tte n
the coast guard hy telephone to FuL tion, not on account of tho high grade,
moutli. Tire coast guards are watch hut of tlie immense deposits of gold-
ing for bodies und wreckage. Tlie life bearing ote.
C. C. Black, who has just returned
boats have gone intc Port nonstock.
from Pencil rivet, states that several
Tlie steamer Moliegan, then the Cleo prospectors up theie stole provisions
patra, arrived at New York on August cached hy a tribe of Imiintis which had
12 last, on hor maiden trip from Lon always lieen friendly to tlie whites.
don. She is a single-screw steel vessel Tho red men wore not long in retaliat
of 4,510 tons register, 480 feet long by ing. They fired tho grass in tbe dis
52 feet beam, and nbout 80 feet in trict for miles around. The result was
deptli of hold.
She hud accommoda disastrous to tlie unscrupulous white
tion for 125 passengers nnd a capacity men. Their horses died of starvation,
for between 7,000 and 8,000 tons of and, half-starved themselves, they fled
freight and 500 cuttle.
H er com from the country and returned to Oinl-
mander is Captain Griffiths, commodore necn. Had they not loft the district
of tlie Atlantio Transportation Com tlie Indian hostilities would have boon
pany's fleet.
Slio is one of tlie five carried still further.
vessels recently purchased from tho
W h a t A l a s k a N r fids.
Wilson-Furness Leyland lino hy tho
San Francisco, OcL 17.—Thomas 8.
Atlantic Transportation Company to
repluce tlie Mohawk, Mobile, Mars, Nowoll, a prominent citizen of Boston,
Michigan and Mississippi, wliioh were who lias ju st returned from Alaska,
Bold to tlie United States government to where he has spent four months an-
naully for tbo last 18 yoars, savs th at
be used as transports.
tlie district should have a representa
C O M M E R C E O F T H E PACIFIC. tive in congress and should have tiie
protection of adequato land laws. lie
t V l l l 11« I n c r e a s e d li y t h o H o i e n t l o n o l
nleo thinks Hint tlie prohibitory liquor
t h e rtilllp |> ln e « .
law originally enforced to protect the
Seattle, Wash., Oot. 17. — D. B. Indians, hut now possible of evasion
Brown, general agent of tlie Canadian with a great population of white men
Pacific Railway A Steamship Company and thousands of miles of nnguarited
at Hong Kong, speaking today ot the seacoast, should bo replaoed by high
growtli of trade betwceen this country license, producing a revenue sufficient
nnd the Orient, said:
to pay many expenses of tlie tenltory .
"T h e trade of tho last five year*
should more than double In the noxt
DARK DAYS F O R FRAN CE.
five years, owing, in tlie first place, to
increased transportation facilities, and R e v o l u t i o n M i g h t f i r i n g o n W a r W i t h
E ngland.
In tiie second place to tlio close rela
tions th a t will have to exist hereafter
London, Oct. 17.— The situation In
between this country and tiie Orient as Paris is regarded in well-informed
tlie result of holding the Philippine quarters as being more serious than at
Islands. We are perfectly willing th at any tim e since the commune. The St.
the United States should hold on to Jam es’s Gazette this afternoon says:
the Philippine islands, and when onoe
" A military revolution, howevor
tiie matter is definitely settled, and peaceful, which replacos the Brlsson
business is again in full swing, it will oabinet with nominees of generals,
not be long before tlie conunerco of the would imperil tho relations between
Pacific will be as great as th a t of the England and France almost to tlie
Atlantic. Especially will tills be tlie breaking point.
Semi-official and
case wiien railroads shall open up China paitly inspired Paris papers are still
to the commercial nnd industrial world, protending th at negotiations are pro
and make tills Northwest coast its ceeding between the two governments,
landing point.”
and France believes it, although «very-
body in England knows the statenMut
P lo t A |K ln a t R m p e ro r W illia m .
to be ridiculous. Even supposing Major
Alexandria, Egypt, Oet. 17.—Th*
Alexandria police have arrested nine Marchand is unconditionally w ith
drawn from Faslioda, the difficulties
Italian anrachists since last night, and
have thereby frustrated a plot against w ith France will In no way end. B e
Emperor William, now on his way to hind it lies tlie whole question of Bahr-
sl-Ghazal, the richest prise in the Sou
the Holy Land, to be present at the
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consecration of tiie Church of theSaviot d a n . "
A tlantic S te a m e r F oundered
W ith G reat Loss ot Life.
at Jerusalem. The first arrested was
a cafe keeper, a well-known anarchist,
in whose house tlie police discovered
two wire liomlis of great strength and
full of bullets. This arrest was made
in consequence of the notification from
the Italian consul-general at Cairo that
two anarchists had left Cairo for Port
Said.
A S o u th ern
PaclA c
R rakem an
K illed .
Ashland, Or., Oct. iu .—Charles S ny
der, of Ashland, a Southern Pacific
hrakeman, was Instantly killed at Zn-
leka, on tlie sonth side of tlie Hiskyona,
near tlie state line, in California, last
nig h t
An extra freight train was
switching, and in jnmping'npon a mov
ing car he missed his footing snd was
thrown under the oar wheels, which
F r a n c e J o in « A b j««liil».
Rome, Oct. 17.—The Italo says: completely severed his head from his
"F ian ce ha* concluded a treaty with body, besides cutting off one leg and
Abyssinia against England in tin- Fa- one arm and otheiwise shockingly m u
tilating his body.
•hoda affair.”
R u sh in g W o rk on G unb o at« .
Lmrgm A m o u n t o f B o n d « S t o l e n .
Boston, OcL 17.—The gunlioat Wil
mington has received sailing orders for
■exl Tuesday, and simultaneously tne
lavy-yatd officials got word to rush
work on her nnd have her ready by that
la te without fail even if it was neces
sary to work overtime in all depart
ments to do so.
Her sister ship, the
Helena, is under orders slready to Mil
for China the following Tuesday and
work has been pushed on her rather
than on the Wilmington.
Minneapolis, Oct. 17.— It has ju st
leaked out that a week ago buiglars
broke into the office of tlie Consolidated
Milling A Hardwood Company, and
after breaking open a safe, escaped w ith
$56,000 worth ol United States bonds
of tbe recent issue. President Georg*
C hristian received a letter offering to
retain them if a reward was advertised
in one of the local papers. The matter
has been placed in th* bands *f th*
local authorities.
Atvsrttstag BUI* Oollacta* Moathlf
THE COAST DEFENSES
G eneral W ilson’s S tatem en t
to th e Com m ission.
WHAT
B urgeon
THE
ENG IN EERS
SPENT
HofT*« T e s t i m o n y
a « Bo
C ondition« P re v a il In* a t
C am p Thom as.
th e
Washington, O c t 15.— Tho state
ment made by General John M. Wil
son, tlie chief of engineers, to tlie com
mission investigating tlie oomluct of
tlie war, was made public today. D ur
ing tlie progress of tlie war, the follow
ing additions were made to the coun
try armament:
A rmam ent was placed In positioin
for six 12-inoh guns, 29 10-inch, 56 12-
inch morturs, and 35 rapid-fire guns
and additional platforms were made
ready for a still larger number, nnd ad
ditional emplacements are under con
struction for still more.
According to
this report, when all tlie works begun
aro completed, the armament will con
sist of 80 12-inch mortars, and 79 rapid-
fires. Tiie emplacements wete under
construction at 25 different liarbora
August 31, and there were double shifts,
woikiug at each place.
The total expenditures on account of
gun and mortar batteries during the
period of tbe war amounted to $4,821,-
600.
Among the purcliasoe for harbor de
fense wero 400 miles of cable, 150 tons
of high explsolves, 1,650 new torpedo
cases, 44 searchlights, etc. Twenty-
eight harbors were mined, 535 mines
being planted.
Tlie expenditures on
harbor defenao lor tlie period wore $1,-
661,000. Intrenching tools were pur
chased ami stored at Willet’s point
sufficient fur an army of 80,000 men.
H o s p i t a l s In C h lo k R in an g M .
Washington, Oct. 15.—Lieutenant-
Colonel L. J. Hoff was before tlie war
investigating commission nt tlie fore
noon session.
He is a regular army
officer, nnd was chief surgeon in tlie
Third army corps at Uhiokamnuga.
Hoff did not consider the cauip to have
boon in the best sanitary condition, but
expressed the opinion th at it ootild not
be hotter, under tlie circumstances. In
tlie beginning, tlie camp was short of
medical supplies, due to tlie expecta
tion th at urriving troops would bring
supplies of medicines.
Continuing, Dr. Hoff said tho capa
city of tlie division hospitals was often
doublod nnd trebled. It sonietimes oc
curred th at there wero eight men In
tents which were Intended to accommo
date six, because of delay in securing
tentngo to oaro for tlie increnso of dis
ease, which was unexpectedly rapid.
On one or two oocasions patients were
necesaaiily placed in beds made upon
tlie floors, because of a temporary de-
floeincy in cots. As a rule the nurses
were without training, and this fact
occasioned some difficulty in dealing
with typhoid ousos. Yet he knew of
no speoifio cases of suffering on this ac
count. Hu specified tlie case of a man
affiictod with an Infectious disease,who
had been compelled to lie in the open
air one night on acoount of lack of te n t
age. The doctor was sure th at no in
jury resulted, as tlie weather was pleas
ant. Dr. Hoff said that the shortage
in medical supplies hnd continued for
several woeks, but theie was generally
sufficient to meet the immediate ’de
mands. He also said th at some requisi
tions had been returned hy the Wash
ington authorities because impro|>erly
filled, and lie was under tho impression
th at there had been complaints of some
■offering on this account.
There was
considerable delay in securing flooring
for the tents.
ORDERS
TO
DISBAND.
M as .* » W i l l H . n d t h a C n b a n S o l d i e r s
H u m « b j l t . q n . . t of C u lu n e l K .jr.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 15.— Senor
BartolomO Mnsso, accompanied by two
momliersof Ills staff, arrived this morn
ing at Manzanillo from Santa Crnz del
Snr, In Puerto Principe, ahout 75 miles
from Manzanillo, whore tbo Cubans
now liavo their headquarters, and
where, October 20, the Cuban assembly
will meet to olect a new president and
to decide as to the plans for disband
ing the army, if disbandment is con
sidered advisable, and as to other im
portant matters.
He called at onoe on Colonel Ray,
who received him oourteously, expressed
pleasure at tlie opportunity ol an i n
terview, and said be hoped Senor Mas
so would arrange for disbanding the
Cuban* under General Rios in the
neighborhood of Manzanillo, so th a t
work In tbo field could liegin. He
also earnestly advised the president of
tlie Cuban provisional government to
disband tlie Caban troopa at ail point*
now in possession of the United State*
forces, in order th a t th* men might
give the assistance so greatly needed to
plaoe the oountiy in a position to re
cover from tlie evils of the three-year
war.
Senor Masso readily agreed to oarry
ont Colonel Ray’s request, and said
th a t General Rice would reoeive orders
immediately to disband his men.
“ I believe,” said Senor Masso, in
terminating tiie interview, " t h a t Cuba,
in two years, will be moie prosperous
tiian ever before.”
Tlie interview lasted about an hour,
and apparently was satisfactory to
both. Senoi Masso leaves tomorrow
on hia return, going by the insurgent
steamer Fernando.
B l a i r S ta ia * r a v e l l e d .
Lansing, Mich., O c t 14.— Upward
of 80,000 residents ol other portions ol
the state were present today at tbe u n
veiling of a statue erected to the mem
ory of Austin Blair, Michigan's fatnon*
wai governor.
General Shaftei was
present and received an ovation.