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V The Hood acier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. . VOL. X. - V VnOOD RIVER,' OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1898. SO. 15. LATER NEWS, WHAT SPAIN HAS LOST. , m V Happenings Both at Horn? and Abroad.- A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED Interesting; Collection of Item I From Many Places Culled From the Press , Reportfl of the Current Week. Gamara's decrepit squadron, all that , fs left of Spain's navy, has arrivod at Ferrol. j Dewey has transferred his flag to the cruiser Baltimore, the Olympia sailing for lions Kong to be . docked and cleaned. The United States poace commission, is composed of Senator Davis, Senator Frye, Whitelaw Reid, JuBtice White and Secretary Day. William K. Vandorbilt and the cap tain of his half-rater were thrown into Newport harbor by the capsizing of their craft, and had. a narrow escape from drowning. Senator Hoar may bo our. next am bassador to Great Buitain. President MoKinley will, it iH said, make the ap pointment if given assurance that it will be accepted. In a statement by General Shafter he says the Santiago campaign was fault lessly conducted. And the man who bo conducted it was Shatter, who Is not too modest : to say so, and incidentally to reply to some reflections which have been made upon his method of doing things. ' General Aguinaldto, interviewed at Bacoor, declared that he was anxious . to support tiie authority of the United States in those isarnls, and ho had per suaded the other leaders to accept his views. Once Spanish rule is ended, he fators the disbandment of , the insur gent army. A translation of General Blanco's latest proclamation to the people of Havana has reached Washington. It says: Property-owners in Cuba should refrain from all hostile manifestations and put their trust in the United States, which will do them justice and protect them as regards their private interests. The United Statea and Germany are not in harmony regarding the govern ment of Samoa. Em peroi William, it is said, is jealous. A desire to absorb the islands prompts Ids course. Corre spondence now in progress between Washington and Berlin may lead to Berious friction. The United States maintains a firm attitude with regard to the recent extension of the bounda ries of Apia district. ' There has been a aorious clash at Cavite botween Uni'ted States soldierB and insurgents. The riot resulted in the killing of one soldier, and the seii ous wounding of another. The man killed was Trouper Geo. Hudson, a member of the Utah battery. Dis mounted cavalrymen charged and final ly dispersed the natives, killing ' tour and wounding several. A band of natives . engaged in plundering a wrecked gunboat was charged by Amer ican troops, who killed one and wound ed another. - . S Secretary Alger, while on a visit to Camp Wikoff, ordered a fnrlougb for a sick soldier. 1 . ' Acting Secretary Allen says there is ' no prospect that the battleship Oregon will return to the Pad do coast in the near future. ' By. the explosion of the boiler of an engine used to operate a thresher on the farm of J. P. Kirk, 15 miles west of Eugene, Or., one man was instantly killed and five terribly scalded by 'escaping steam. At Middletown, N. Y., ioe cream prepared with lemon extract, : pur chased from a traveling salesman, caused the death of three persons and' a score of others aie sick, and more fatal ities are expected. '.""" '.-'." A serious insurrection baa broken out at Nadao, in the interioi of the Hainan islands. The American missionaries and native converts have sought refuge in safe territory. The French may interfere if rebels are not suppressed. . TheThinvalla line steamer Norge, which has arrived in New York, re ports that she sunk the French fishing schooner La - Coquette, of Bayonne, France, Saturday last, on the Grand JJanks. The captain and eight seamen were saved and 10 went down with the vessel. . . . Spain is apparenty willing that Cor vera's men remain in Amerioa. Sagas ta's refusal to aooept McKinley's offer is now regarded with suspicion, and the prisoners in consequence may i not fare so well in the future. No offloers will be liberated unless the sailora accom pany them. , j i Two passenger trains came together at Port Huron, Mich., with serious re sults. Many persons were seriously hurt.' A panio among the passengers' followed the collision and in the rush for the doors and windows of the cars many women were trampled under foot, many slight injuries being thus in flicted. , ! . Mna Hundred UpanUti Fugitive) FoN ably Drowned. The Hong Kong Dally Prew fa authority for the statnment that 000 Spaniards, including 10, priests, lest thoir lives several weeks ago, whan the Spanish gunboat Leyote was captured by a vessel belonging to Admiral Dewey's squadron. The gunboat Layta undertook to tow three transports t0 Manila bay, where the Spaniards aboard them were to surrender to Ad miral Dewey. A heavy storm oama up, making it necessary for the gun boat to out her tows loose and proceed to Manila for assistance. Before got- ting there she was captured by tha Americans. An American vessel wal dispatched to find the three transports, but failed to discover any traoa of them. The Hong Kong Press finally reached the conclusion that the Teasel foundered with all on board. Fifteen soldiers died at Camp Wikoff and in New York city Tuesday. The Americans have collected over 1100,000 at Santiago in customs. According to the directory figures for. 1808 Portland, Oregon's, population la 02,875, a gain 01 5,000 over 1897. The general commission of the na tional peace jubilee has selected Octo ber 18 and 19 as the dates for holding the proposed celebration in. Chicago of the return of peace. Conditions in Porto Rioo are beoom ing most serious, and medical authori ties agree that unlosa barracks are promptly piovidod for the troops and the sick men biought home the oouse- quenoes may be terrible. A Jewish rabbi was kicked to death in Chicago. The murderer is a 17-year old Chicago youth, who was abusing a woman and two children, and when or do red by the rabbi to desist kicked the hitter into the street, and aided by other boys killed him. For the first time in the American army, a woman has been appointed a member of the medical staff. Dr, Anita Newcomb MoGee, of Washing ton. D. C. , a daughter of Professor Simon Newcomb, formerly of the naval observatory, was regularly sworn in as an noting assistant surgeon. The Cubans havo already selected their civil officers to govern Havana. A setback is inevitable, and the Amer ican military commission will ' be forced to disarrange the plan and un seat the self-appointed governor, Do- minguez. "General Rodriguea has for bidden pillaging by soldiers of his com mand. In spite of the precautions taken by the San Franoisco military authorities, the health conditions at the local camps are worso than ever. Tuesday the total number of sick was the largest yet known. The total was 808, 5 of those bolng in private hospital1), 63- out on furloughs, 11 in outlying hospitals, and 208 in the division hospital proper. The Seventh California is still to the front with 82 oases. Blanco proposes to regulate the duties at Havana so as to make tbem conform with the rates already in effect at San tiago. Russia's plan for an international conferenoe to perpetuate universal peace is not likely to be favorably reoeived at Washington. It is officially announced that there were 2,800 deaths from plague last weok in Bombay presidency. The epi demic is spreading. A clash is already imminent between England and Russia. The Chinese minister at St. Petersburg says the former government made demands on the latter which will not be considered. Admiral Dewey says be wants to be at Manila in case war is resumed. He will not attend the sittings of the Paris commission unless positively command etd. to do so, and has written the presi dent to this effect Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, is informed of the arrest at Texarkana of two men believed to be implicated ia a counterfeiting scheme. The arrest ia the sequel of a case which the eeoret service has been working on since April last. ' . i .- -. The military commissions are to assume full control, and Cuba and Porto Blco will be governed like Santiago and the Philippines. The commissioners instructions, received from the presi dent are the same as those given Shaf ter and Merritt. Control of the entire Island of Cuba is to be taken. Admiral Schley will keep his flag flying whil serving in. the commission. i Owing to tho failure of the harvests in seven districts of the government of Kasan and in the provinces of Samara, Saratoff 81 berk, Viatke and Perma, Russia, where the crops are almost worthless, great distress prevails. . An imals in great numbers are dying of starvation. Unless the promised gov. emmoDt supplies are speedily sent, the suffering will be terrible..-:;..; Lieutenant Haines, commanding an artillery platoon under Captain Potts, in Porto Rico, w'aa;woun,'Jed on August. 12, the day the', war' en'ddd!' He is now in St Luke's hospital in New York city. He says the artll'ery platoon be commanded was in the thick of the conflict. Several men of his command besides himself, were wounded and two were killed bv the deadly Are of tha Spaniards. ; : Misunderstandings Liable to Cause Trouble at Manila. SITUATION BECOMING SERIOUS English Correspondent Criticises Amer icans Salisbury Urged to Prevent Bpain llegrainlng- Control. London, Aug. 81. A dispatch from Manila to a news agency, dated August 27, via Hong Kong, today says: "The friction between the Americana and natives requires exceptional ability to avoid total alienation. I find that several high American officials, of mediocre education, are utterly an acquainted with Oriental ideas, and unable to understand the primitive races. Most of the Americans are de ficient in patienoe, and numerous trifl ing misunderstandings intonsify the iriotion. 1 believe the Americans too hard. The American censor absolutely prohibits the sending of a single word about the Cavite incident of yesterday, and he threatens to expel any corre spondent who mentions it. "A deputation from the press is go ing to General Merritt to protest against his action. The affair began in a drunken American shooting, and native sentries tried to shoot him. In consequence of the melee, four natives and one American were killed, and it is now generally misreported as being a deliberate inauguration of hostilities, General Merritt returned their arms to the company of natives who fired upon the Americans, presumably inadvert ently. . The natives assort that Aguin aldo forced General Merritt to liberate them and return their weapons. "The Americans condemn General Merritt's conduct." The same correspondent cables that tho Americans are only "partly patrol- lng the town. A Different View. , London, Aug. 81.' The Manila corre spondent of the Times says: The leading " commercial men here have signed a memorial to Lord Salis bury urging him to use his influence to prevent the Spaniards from regaining supremacy in the Philippines. The conduct of the American troops is admirable. The town, since their occupation, has been wonderfully free from disturbance. General Greene has been ordered to return to Washington. He will sail with Goneral Merritt. DENBY AT DETROIT. Ex-minister to China Talks on the All- Absorbing Theme. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 81. Colonel Charles Denby, who was minister to China for 13 years, and who was re lieved from his post a few weeks ago, arrivod here yesterday direct from San Francisco. In ' an interview Colonel Donby said: In my opinion China will never be dismembered among the great European nations, as I do not think the United States, England and Japan will permit it" ; Colonel Denby said that the Chinese trade of Russia, Franoe and Germany was small in comparison with that of the United States and England. j Both China and Japan, Colonel Denby said, favored the retention of the Phil ippine islands by the United States, While on the Philippine subject, Col onel Denby took occasion to remark that Admiral Dewey's victory had add ed greatly to the dignity and influence of his office as United States minister, the Chinese heretofore having believed the United States to be a great commer cial nation, incapable of gaining such viotories. Colonel Denby Btated that the famous battle had much the same effect on Japan. Hawaiian annexation was something Colonel Denby said he had favored for some years. - Schley In Washington. Washington, Aug. 29. Rear-Ad- rairal Winfleld S. Schley reaohed Wash ington at 4:10 this afternoon over the Pennsylvania road. He was quickly noticed at almost all of the stations alongUhe line, and throughout the trip was greeted with cheers by the crowds. When the train pulled into the depot here, ho found a compaot mass of spec tators which filed the depots and over flowed into the train shed. The ad miral and Mrs. Sohley, whon they ap peared, were greeted with cheers and shouts of "Hurrah for Schleyl" . Everybody joined in the shouting, and, the depot attaches crowded , about the admiral and insisted on a hand shake. :," .Potato Blots tn Barbadoes. Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. 81. Ad vices reooived here today . from the island of Barbadoes. belonging to Great Britain, report widespread potato riots. Riotous gangs of men have been loot ing the produce of the plantations dur ing the night Following the recent shooting of the speaker of the house of assembly, in mistake for an obnoxious landlord, these demonstrations are con sidered to be of a serious nature, and more trouble is anticipated. .The total shaded portion represents .nn:u irum cyum, ae cuwpuruu wua iu area or tne motner country. Tn aoubiy ehaded portion represents the population of the captured possessions as compared HAVANA OF TODAY. Many Vessels With Cargoes and Bations in the Harbor. Havana, Aug. 81." The bay of Ha vana again presents an unusually active aspect. Numerous vessels with cargoes and rations from the United States are riding at anchor. Close to what re mains of the wrecked Maine is moored the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIII. She is at tho same buoy as she was on the night of the explosion. The wreck has settled two feet or more in the muddy bottom. ' Early this morning Senoi Fernandez de Castro, civil engineer of Havana, accompanied by the chief inspector of the harbor police, visited the Red Cross' steamer Clinton, remaining nearly an hour. The meeting took place in the saloon of the steamer. Senor de Cas tro, who is a young and handsome man, sat beside Miss Barton, fanning her. Around them were grouped the Red Cross nurses, the whole presenting a picturesque soene. . Miss Baiton says the governor is- a most charming man. She thinks him endowed with splendid qualities, and she acknowledges the ex cellence of the measures he has adopted to relieve want in the city by establish ing kitchens, which distribute over 86, 000 rations daily. "With such ' a man," says Miss Barton, "almost any thing is possible." . f : ' A part of the Red Cross relief will,be landed here, and a part at Matanzas. After1 his visit to Miss Barton, Gov ernor do Castro paid a visit to the Comal, where he was entertained by Captain Niles and Major Nisker, to whom he gave letters of introduction to Senor Montoro, secretary of finance in the Spanish colonial cabinet, recom mending that permission be granted to them to distribute 1,000,000 rations free of duty. , t . ' The plan is for'the Comal to lemain at Havana as a central floating ware house, and to forward relief to the in terior by rail, pack' mules and other means of transportation. 1 Yesterday morning the first CI the "WRITING HOME American soldiers landed from the Comal and took breakfast ashore. Their appearance excited universal curiosity, large crowds following from the wharf and commending their quiet and gentlemanly conduct. The attitude of the people here of all classes toward the American soldiers and correspond ents and toward Americans generally is one of courtesy and politeness. An assignment of IS men from the Comal visited the graves of the vio tims of the battle-ship Maine. Cap tain Stewart Brice, son of1 ex-Senator Brice, and aide-de-camp to General Shafter, also visited the cemetery, and several soldiers placed flowers upon the tomb. Americans are anxious to see a monument erected as soon as possi ble to commemorate the resting place of the heroes. - La Luoha, in an edi torial today on the , future, of Cuba, says: "Ther6 are four solutions of the problem independence, annexation, a Spanish protectorate or an American protectorate. . As for an American protectorate, t would be the most servile and humili ating form of government that could' lie offered tn an enliehr.ened race." 9 . p R A fl C the amount of colonial 'territory ire hnre AROUND THE WORLD. The Cisar'g Peace Circular Causes ' Sensation. London, Aug. 81. Tho papers, are filled with discussions, comments and opinions as to the circular of Emperor Nicholas. The most world-shaking event could have hardly produced such a coup as the suggestion, the fruition of which is regarded on all sides as an absolute impossibility. This being holiday season, it is diffl cult to obtain the opinions of public men on the subject. The religious world, however, loudly welcomes and praises the czar's noble initiative. Numerous bishops have already ex pressed their views in that sense. The pope wired his congratulations to Emperor Nicholas immediately, and offered every assistance in his power to promote the proposed conference. Distanced by tho Czar. London, Aug. 81. The Berlin corre spondent of the Daily News says: Ger many will accept the suggested confer enoe, but expects nothing will result from it ,. . ' Mr. Jackson, the secretary of the em bassy, does not believe in the practica bilityof the proposal. He assured me that, speaking for himself only, he felt sure that Ainorica would not permit the Philippine question to be submitted to such a conference, nor did he believe it would be possible for any power to be gin the work of disarmament.- The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says: "A diplomat assures, me that Emperor William intended to re yert ' to the subject of disarmament while at Jerusalem, in the coming autumn, to attend the dedication of the Church of the Redeemer. "Irraddition to taking the wind out of the kaiser's sails, the czar ia the only Russian sovereign who has tra versed Siberia, and he must have seen such a population of political malcon tents as might easily be induced by American, Japanese and English influ ence to declare for independence. TO MOTHER." . Willing to Try. Berlin, Aug. 81. The North German Gazette', referring today to the czar's peace 'conference proposals, remarks: "Ouif armaments were never intended for selfish ends, but only for-our own protection and for the maintenance of peaoe We are willing to give a fair trial to another method of attaining the object at a smaller cost." ' ' ' ; As Viewed at Home. .:- St. Petersburg, Aug. 81. The news papers heredeolare that the czar's man ifesto will probably constitute a turn ing point in history. : .. General Booth's Congratulations. London, Aug. 81. General William Booth, of the Salvation Army, sent the following telegram to Emperor Nicholas this afternoon: "May it please your majesty, I have received with profound thankfulness to God the news of your imperial majes ty's wise, beneficent and Christian-like proposal in favor of universal peace." Thanks From Zionists. 1 I .... o. 1 1 A . . i mi . uajDU oniizimiaiiu, Aug. Ol. Axle Zionist-convention has passed a resolu- nun eAiireHHiug iih pruiuunu UIHI1KS to the czar fox issuing his peace note.' Czar Invites Military Powers ' to a Peace Conference. : APPEARANCE OF SINCERITY Likely to nave Important Besults, Among Others the Beduction of Ex cessive Armaments. St. Petersburg, Aug. 80. By order of Eraporer Nicholas, Count Muravieff, the foreign minister on the 22d, hand ed to the foreign diplomats at St.-: Petersburg a note declaring that the maintenance of peace and the reduction of the excessive armaments now crush ing all nationa w the ideal for which governments ought to strive. The czar oonsiders the presont mo- K ment favorable for the inauguration of a movement looking to this end, and invites the powers to take part in an international conference as a means of thus insuring real and lasting peaoe and terminating the progressive in crease of armament' ' Text of the Note. , London, Aug. 80. The czar's propo sition is likely to produco a sensation throughout Europe, and coming from,: such a quarter and with such sincerity ot purpose, it is likely to have import ant effects. It is thought that France and Ger many will follow Russia. - The text of the note follows: . ( "The maintenance of general peace, and the possible reduction of the expen sive armaments : which weigh upon all nations present themselves in existing , conditions to the whole world as a,n ideal toward which the endeavors of all governments should be directed. 1 The humanitarian and magnanimous ideas of his majosty, the emperor, my -august master, have been won over to these views in the conviction that this lofty aim itf in conformity with the ; most essential interests and legitimate views of all the powers, and the im perial government thinks the present moment would be very favorable to seeking the means. "International discussion is the most effectual means of insuring all people's benefit a real, durable peace, above all, putting an end to the progressive development of the present armaments. , "In the course of the last 20 yoars, the longing for general appeasement has grown especially pronounced in the consciences of civilized nations; am the preservation of peaoe has been put forward as an object ot international policy. ; It is in its name that great - states have concluded among them selves powerful alliances. It is the . better to guarantee peace that thoy -have developed, in proportions hitherto , unprecedented, their military forces and still continue to increase them without shrinking from any sacrifice. Nevertheless, all these efforts have not yot been able to biing about the bonefi- cent result desired, pacification. The financial charges following the upward strike at the very root of pub-liff- prosperity. The intellectual and. . physical strength of the nation's labor and capital are mostly diverted from their natural application and are un ' productively consumed. Hundreds of' millions are devoted to acquiring torri- ble engines of destruction, 1 which, though today regarded as the last work of science, are destined tomorrow to lose all their valuo in consequence of some fresh discoveiy in the same field. National culture, economic prog ress and the production of wealth are either paralyzed or checked in develop ment. Moreover, in proportion as the armaments of each power , increase, tho ; less and loss they fulfill the object the governments have set before them selves. The economic 'crisis, duo in. great part to the system of armaments. l'outrance, and the continual danger which lies in this massing of war ma terial, are transforming the armed peace of our days into a crushing bur den, which the peoples have more and more difficulty in bearing. - It appears evident that if this state of things were to be prolonged it would inevitably lead to the very cataclysm it . ia desired to avert, and the horrora which make every thinking being shudder at in advance. To put an end to these incessant armaments and to seek the moans of "' warding off the calamities which aro ' threatening the whole world such is the supreme duty today imposed on alU states. ' - - . ; ; - - Filled with this. idea, his majesty . has been pleased to command me to propose to all the governments whose- . representatives are accredited to the imperial court the assembling of a con ference which shall occupy itself with this grave problem. ' This conference ' will be, by the help of God, the happy 1 presage for the century which is about ' to open. It would . converge into one - powerful focus the efforts of all states sincerely seeking to make the great conception of universal peace triumph over the elements of trouble and dia- . cord, and it would, at the same time, cement their agreement by a corporate concentration ot the principles of Eu rope and right, whereon rest the se curity of states and the welfare of peo ples."'' ' '