SAW TWO TORPEDO UNDER BOATS. New York, May 14.—The British steamer Menantic, which arrived yes­ terday, reports that two torpedo-boats were passed near Nantucket shoals yes­ terday. Captain Mann said: “At about 1 o’clock on the morning I of May 11, in latitude 40:50, longitude (18, a long, low-lying craft was seen ap­ proaching under the shadows of the Menantic’s smoke. It came along rap­ idly and was seen to be a torpedo-boat. AMERICAN SHIPS UNHURT It flashed a light on us.and crossed ENSIGN AND FOUR MEN KILLED under our stern, going to the east, and tired a rocket, which was unswered by Battle-Ship I owh Fired the Firt*t Shot dot-and-dash flashes. The night was Gunboat« Wilmington and Hudson Wern — Itespoiige From Moro Fortress Was in the Fight but Were Uninjured— too dark to distinguish anything of tire Very Weak — Populace Fled to the Head anil Wounded Taken to Key nationality of the stranger. Interior for Safety. Went—Caused by Carelennueen. “At daylight, about 20 miles east of Port Au Prince, Hayti, May 14.— Nantucket south shoal lightship, an­ Key West, May 14.—America’s first other torpedo-boat was seen in the line Tiie Americfan tleet under Rear-Ad­ of the sun which dazzled the water too dead fell yesterday in a fierce and miral Sampson, bombarded San Juan much to make her out plainly. She bloody combat off Cardenas, on the de Porto Rico today. was of the destroyer class, and a very north coast of Cuba. Five men were The bombardment began this morn­ large boat with a large funnel. Guns blown to pieces and five were wounded ing. Rear-Admiral Sampson, with were mounted on the bow. She op- I on the torpedo-boat Winslow. The l>eared to be one of the recent English dead are: nine warships, arrived before San type of torpedo-boat destroyers, and I Worth Bagley, enBign. Juan just before sunrise. At a signal, am sure there is no vessel of her class John Varveres, oiler. the battle-ship Iowa tired the first i in the American navy. The Menantic John Denfy, first-class fireman. shot, which took effect. The battle­ ran close to the lightship on Nantucket G. B. Meek, first-class fireman. ship Indiana then opened fire. In a and reported to the presence of the E. II. B. Tunnell (colored), cabin few minutes more, Morro fortress was torpedo-boats.” cook. DEWEY RAISING GUNS. Ted need to a heap of ruins. The fort Four were wounded. made little effort to respond and was Securing Those on the Sunken Span­ The battle lasted 35 minutes. It silenced almost instantly. ish Ships. was between the torpedo-boat Winslow, The Spanish steamer Rita was cap­ Washington, May 14. — Secretary the auxiliary tug Hudson and the gup- tured by the auxiliary cruiser Yale, Long this afternoon received the fol- boat Wilmington on one side, and the Torpedo Boat Damaged By Spanish Fire. BOMBARDMENT OF SAN JUAN BY THE ATLANTIC SQUADRON. Snlrlde ot » Spanish Spy. ChMfd by a R pan far 4. Washington, May 14. — George Downing, the Spanish spy arrested here several days ago, committed suicide this morning by hanging himself at the barracks in which he was confined. Halifax, May 14.—Captain Brunet, ' of the German steamer Sophie Rick- mers. rei>orted that while crossing the Newfoundland banks be was chased by a Spanish warship. The latter was very speedy and fired three shells at the Rickmers, but the latter, being an 18-knot boat and the weather becoming haiy, got away. Captain Brunst says the Spaniard was a torpedo-boat with three funnels, and was very low in the water. The Ricxmers has proceeded to I New York. Auburn, Cal., May 14. —George Downing, the suspected Spanish spy, who hanged himself in Washington, is belie veil by many here to have been at one time a resident of this place. He was a barber and had a shop at Newcastle. FIRE Sail Juan'* Forts Were Riddled—Slight L.« i «4 ou American Side. Spanish War Vessels Sighted Off Nan* tucket Should. lowing dispatch, dated Hong Kong: •which took her crew on board. “There is little change In the situa­ Morro fired but three shots from her heavy guns. There were but seven tion since my last telegram. I am shots fired from the big guns of the transferring to transports the steel American squadron. These left Morro breech loading rifles from tire sunken castle a crumbling ruin. Hei guns Spanish men-of-war. All the stores were mute and her gunners killed or in from the arsenal are in my possession. I am maintaining a strict blockade. flight. Then began the attack on the land Add the Argos to the list of destroyed batteries and fortifications about the vessels. The El Correo is probably the government buildings and the palace. El Cano. DEWEY.” Here the cruisers did effective service The dispatch is evidently a few and soon the postoffice and palace of days old and does not show that Dewey the governor were tumbled about the has jxrssessed himself of Manila or that eais of the officials, the guns dismount­ I he has received the last orders of the ed or abandoned, wreck, ruin and death department. The nature of these or­ ■everywhere. The Spaniards pluckily ders in indicated by the assignment of served their guns as long as there was two such jiersons as Major-Generals any hope, but their fire was slow and Merritt and Otis to command the wild. I troops to be hurried to the Philippines One Arneircan seaman alioard the as.rapidly as steam will take them. flagship New York was killed and nine General Merritt is the senior general in wounded. Not a single American ship the United States service after General was harmed. Miles, and in ordinary cast's is entitled The city had been deserted by mer­ to the most im]K>rtant commands, so chants and non-combatants. The for­ his designation for this work may be eign consuls had followed the refugees taken as an evidence of the president’s into th* country and the troops were estimate of the importance of this ex- reported panic stricken. The volun­ I pedition. teers had fled. THE CABINET CRISIS. But Governor Macias stuck to his post, giving orders and asserting that Four of tlie Spanish Ministers Have he would die before he would surren­ Already Resigned. der. A woman remained by his side. Madrid, May 14. — It is said that It was his «laughter Paulina, the belle Senor Moret, secretary for the colonies, ■of San Juan. When other women fled and Senor Gullon, foreign minister of in yellow fear, she remained. As marine, and Count Xiquena, minister great shells shrieked and burst, throw­ of public works, are also said to have ing the city into confusion, she was resigned. urged to go, but she elected to stay by According to the last forecast, the her father. As the terror-smitten vol­ new ministry will consist of Senor unteers rushed pell-mell through the Pagasta, president; Senor Groizard, etreets, disordered and leaderless, she , minister of justice of the dissolving appeared and tried to rally them. cabinet, as minister of foreign affairs; As a last resort she urged the men to Senor Aunon, minister of marine; Senor .stand by the mines which have been Romero Giron, minister of justice, and laid under San Juan’s streets, and to the Duke of Veragua, minister of pub­ blow the Yankees into the air if they lic works. ehould succeed in effecting a landing. The whereabouts of the Atlantic But her importunities were in vain, squadron still remains undivulged, the and the story, as it is told here, repre­ ministers refusing to give any informa­ sents the Spaniards as eager to surren­ tion on the eubject. der before the city itself is battered Official dispatches from Havana con- down i firm the reports of an American repulse The Garrisons Surrender. at Cienfuegos. They assert that the London, May 14.—The Evening News firing lasted eight hours, and that the says: San Juan de Porto Rico surren­ American losses were heavy. Accord­ dered at fl o’clock yesterday evening. ing to these dispatches, great enthusi­ The dispatch adds that damage was asm prevails in Cuba. done to the city and that a number of Took Carbolic Arid. important buildings collapsed. Long Creek, May 14.—Word comes The Iowa and Detroit, according to from Canyon City that Jack McDonald, thia dispatch, fired 430 shots with ter­ | a prisoner in the county jail, commit- rible effect. ' ted suicide Tuesday night, by taking The New York was hit once, and one carbolic acid. McDonald was arrested seaman was killed and four wounded. . several months ago for assaulting a The Iowa was hit once and two men Chinaman with a deadly weapon. He were slightly wounded. The dispatch was sentenced Tuesday to two years in winds up with announcing that the the penitentiary, and immediately after American fleet is now outside San Juan on being taken to his cell, lie swallowed awaiting the coming of the Spanish a half ounce of oarbolioe acid, expiring fleet. 10 mintues later. , HOT Cardenas batteries and four Spanish gunboats on the other. The Winslow was the main target of the enemy, and was put out of service. The other Ameican vessels were not damaged, except that the Hudson’s two ventilators were slightly scratched by flying shot. The enemy’s loss is large­ ly conjectural. One of their gunboats caught tire and the men of the Hudson think it sank. The fire spread to the barracks and swept away several small warehouses, and for a time the whole waterfront seemed to be ablaze. The Winslow was within 1,500 yards of shore when the shells struck her. How she came to be so close was told by her commander, Lieutenant John B. Bernadou. He said: “We were making observations when the enemy opened fire on us. The Wilmington told us to go in and attack the gunboats. We went in under full steam and there is the result.” He was on the Hudson when he said this and with the final words he point­ ed to a huddle of American flags on the deck nearby. Under the Stars and Stripes were outlined five rigid forms. The land batteries of Cardenas sup­ ported the fire of th-r Spanish gunboats. The engagement commenced at 2:05 P. M., and lasted for about an hour. The Wilmington and Hudson were ahead, and opened fire on the Spanish boats, which were lying at the dock. The firing began at a range of 3,500 yards. A few minutes later, the Winslow came up and also opened fire. In an instant, the entire attention of the Spanish gunboats and land batteries was directed upon her. From all sides, shot and shell poured in on the little torpedo-boat The Wilmington and Hudson still kept up their fire. The crew of the WinBlow never faltered for a second. At 2:85, a solid shot crashed into the hull of the Winslow and knocked out her boiler. In a moment, she began to roll and rock helplessly. Then there was a moment of awful suspense. A fierce cheer of triumph went up from the Spanish on the gun­ boats and in the batteries. The storm of fire was continued upon the helpless boat. The gunboat Hud­ son, lying near by, started to the as­ sistance of the Winslow. After about 20 minutes, the Hudson approached near enough to throw a line. Ensign Hagley and six men were standing in a group on the deck of the Winslow ready to catch a rope. A line was thrown, and at about the same instant a shell buret in the very midst of the group of men on board the Winslow. Bagley was instantly killed and a few others dropped about him. Half a dozen more men fell groaning on the blood stained deck. One of the men plunged headlong over tire side of the boat, but hie feet caught in an iron rail, and he was hauled back. Bagley’s body was stretched on deck, with bis face completely torn away, and the upper part of hie body shattered. When the shell burst, another wild shout of triumph went up from the S[>anish boats and batteries, and again a heavy fire was opened on the torpedo- boat. Finally, the Hudson succeeded in getting a line on board the Winslow, and was towing her out of the deadly range when the line parted and again both boats were at the mercy of the , Spanish fire. OREGON’S SUGAR INDUSTRY. I — The Tran»-MI..I».lppi Fair Wilt fn- doubtfilly Give It Great Impetus. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Trude Conditions in the Leading Cities of the World. On Board the Flagship Iowa, off San A proposition on foot at the Omaha ' [Reported by Downing, Hopkins & Co., Inc., Juan de Porto Rico, May lfl.—The Trans.Mississippi fair this summer Board of Trade Brokers, 711 to 714 Chamber of enemy’s loss in the attack by part of winch is of vital interest to Oregon i Commerce building, Portland, Oregon.] Samjison's fleet on the forts of Sanjuan turn.er-. is the mannfactuie of sugar, A combination of circumstances has illustrated by a plant in operation on is believed to be heavy. The American the ground. The complete process, it been at work to make Leiter’s position loss is two men killed and seven men is said, will be iPustrated and all in wheat comparatively easy. Supplies grades of the staple article will be the world over are light, and the foreign injured. After three hours' firing, the ad­ ! made in plain sight of spectators. stocks are in such a condition that In connection with this project, ao- j France and Italy have been forced to miral withdrew the fleet, heading for I tivo interest has been manifested by ! Key West. He said: the Oregon commissioners. Special takeoff their imjiort duty of 37c. Spain “I am satisfied with the morning’s representatives of the commission have ' has prohibited exports and imports and work. I could have taken San Juan, visited the Grande Rondo valley and Germany and Austria are considering but I have no force to hold it. I only the Willamette valley, and have ac­ the advisability of removing or reduc­ wanted to' administer punishment. quainted those interested with the plan j This has been done. 1 came for the for showing the progress made in late ing their import duty. Admitting that Spanish fleet, and not for San Juan.” years at utilizing the most plebian- ! supplies are low and the price of bread The men killed were: looking plant known to the agrical- , everywhere is high, flour being up to $7 Seaman Frank Widemark, of New ! turist. per barrel, the question arises, does the York. In a general way it is stated the sub- j real condition of supply and demand A gunner’s mate, of the Amphitrite. ject of sugar beet growing will be treat­ warrant an advance of 40o to 53c a The latter died from the effects of the ed from the time the seed is planted bushel in the leading markets in a week? extreme heat. until the crop is matured and will be j If so it must be admitted that prises Of the injured men, three were on | practically exemplified. the Iowa and four on board the New Arrangements have been made to j have been too low fl>r months. If there Yoik. The names of those slightly in­ demonstrate at the fair that Oregon’s is not manipulation behind it. Short jured on the Iowa are: Seaman i wondefully fertile soil is especially I sellers are chiefly responsible for the Mitchell, Private Marine Merkle, Ap­ adapted to the growing of the beet, advance, but, even taking into consid­ prentice Hill. Injured on the New and that if capital in tlie middle west- York: Seaman -Samuel Feltman, seri­ I ern states is seeking an outlet in this eration the light stocks in store in Eu­ rope, there is no sound argument in the ously; Seaman Michael Murphy. ' promising industry, Oregon offers the The four above-named were injured ■ best advantages and every inducement 1 supply and demand theory, to sustain by the bursting of a shell on the New to come here. It will lie the purjiose $1.70 for wheat here, when it is consid­ York. This is a complete list of the of^fhose in charge of Oregon's exhibit ered that over 40,000,000 bushels are killed and wounded. to explain what has been done for the afloat for Europe, against 17,000,000 The American ships are uninjured. industry at La Grande and to show The engagement began at 5:15 A. M. that Willamette farmers will do the bushels a year ago. If all other grains were equally scarce, there might be and ended at 8:15 A. M. The enemy’s same for a factory here. batteries were not silenced. The town .sound argument in the assertion that The agricultural college faculty, in the rear of the fortifications probably which has enlisted its support in a wheat was worth fancy prices. Specu­ suffered. The ships taking part in the gratifying way, will arrange complete lation is more responsible for these action were the Iowa, Indiana, New exhibit of Oregon soils with scientific prices than the actual demand, as values York, Terror, Amphitrite, Detroit, analysis. This will be displayed in the Montgomery, Waumpautuck and Porter. horticultural building at Omaha and | are up to a famine point, and higher The enemy’s tiring was heavy, but all queries relating to soil and crops than during the wild speculation that wild, and the Iowa and New York will be answered in a most complete prevailed at the time of and following were probably the only ships hit. and satisfactory manner. Whatever the close of the civil war, allowing for They went right up under the guns in shall be accomplished for Oregon at the the premium on gold. One dollar and column, delivering broadsides and then Trane-Mississippi fair will be practical, returned. They passod in front of the as the commissioners have had that fifty cents for cash wheat in Liverpool forts, pouring tons of steel on shore. It end in view in all they have under­ and $1.85 for it in Chioago, when the freight charges from Chicago to Liver- is impossible to judge the amount of taken to do. damage done to the buildingsand forts. R. D. Inman, of Portland, who is I>ool, which are about 80c, including They appeared to be riddled with shot, largely Interested in working for the the cost of selling there do not strike but the Spaniards were plucky. success of the Oregon display, says that the public as indicating a sound condi­ The after-turret of the Amphrite got he is satisfied that the Omaha exiiosi- out of order temporarily during the en­ tlon is to be a great success and that tion. gagement, but she banged away with Oregon will reap beneficial results in Portland Market. her forward guns. Wheat—Walla Walla, 93@94c; Val­ greater proportion from the fact that After the first passage before the the exposition city lies in the path of ley and Bluestem, 95@9flo per bushel. forts, the Detroit and Montgomery re­ thousands bound westward after gold Flour—Best grades, $5.00; graham, tired, their guns being too small to do or a home this season. It is nearer $4.85; superfine, $2.75 per barrel. much damage. The Porter and Waum- home and the attendance at the fair Oats—Choice white, 40@42c; choice pautuck also stayed out of range. will be drawn from all the trans-Mis- gray, 88 @ 40c per bushel. The smoke hung over everything, sissippi etates and the East. If the Barley—Feed barley, $23; brewing, si>olling the aim of the gunners and Paoific coast states want more people $24 per ton. making it impossible to tell where our to settle in their borders, additional Millstuffs—Bran, $19 per ton; mid­ shots struck. The officers and men of capital and fresh industries, Mr. Inman dlings, $25; shorts, $19. the shijo behaved with coolness and most heartily believes this is the time Hay—Timothy, $12@ 13; clover. $11 bravery. The shots flew thick and to let the world bear from us. Too @12; Oregon wild hay, $9@10 per ton. fast over all our ships. Eggs—Oregon, 11c per dozen. much cannot be done for immigration, The men who were hurt during the for u;xin future immigration depends Butter—Fancy creamery, 82 % @85c; action were injured by splinters thrown Oregon’s advancement. fair to good, 25 @ 80c; dairy, 25 @ 30c by an eight-inch shell, which came per roll. through a boat into the superstructure, The General Exhibit. Cheese—Oregon full cream, 12^o; and scattered fragments in all direc­ The succes of the Oregon display at Young America, 13® 14c. tions. The shot’s course was finally the Columbian Fair at Chicago will lie Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00 per ended on an iron plate an inch thick. repeated on a far more comprehensive dozen; hens, $4 00; springs, $2.50@8; Merkle was struck in the arm and may scale at the Trane-Mississippi Exposi­ geese, $6.OO@fl.5O; ducks, young, $t>@ lose it. A fire was started in the boat, tion, which opens in June. The state 7.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12 @ 18c but was quickly extinguished. commissioners appointed by Governor per pound. Morro battery, on the eastern arm of Lord, having in charge the work of Potatoes—Oregon Burbanks, 80@ 40c the harbor, was the principal point of preparation have gone actively to work per sack; sweets, $1.75@2 per cental. attack. Onions—Oregon, $2.25@2.50 per and not a day has been lost. Funds Rear-Admiral Sampson and Captain are pledged, there is over 6,000 feet of sack. Evans were on the lower bridge of the space contracted for on the ground Hope—5@12^o per pound for new Iowa, and had a narrow esca|>e from floor of the department buildings at the crop; 1896 crop, 4@6o. the flying splinters, which injured exposition, and everything is progress­ Wool—Valley, 14@16c per pound; three men. Eastern Oregon, 8@12c; mohair, ing toward a successful end. The Iowa was hit eight times, but From the time the subject was first 25c per pound. the shells made no impression on her broached the proposed Oregon exhibit Mutton—Grose, beet sheep, wethers armor. The weather was fine, but the at the fair has met with popular faVor, and ewes, 4o; dressed mutton, 6)£c; heavy swells made accurate aim diffi­ The advantages to be derived from the spring lumbs, 10c per lb. cult. The broadsides from the Iowa advertising which every section of the Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $4.25; and the Indiana rumbled in the hills state will receive there this year, seem light and feedere, $3.00@4.00; dressed, inshore five minutes after they were to be clearly realized. The advan­ $5.50@6.50 per 100 pounds. delivered. Clouds of dust showed tages, it is believed, will be greater in Beef—Gross, top steers, $3.50@ where the shells struck, but the smoke pioportion than came from the Colum­ 4.00; cows, $2.50@3.25; dressed beef, hung over everything. bian fair, although in that world’s con­ 6}-»@,7c per pound. The shells ecreeching overhead and gress of wonderful eights Oregon did Veal—Large, 6*^c; email, 6c dropping around showed that the Span­ appear aB quite a factor. The salmon per pound. iards still stuck to their guns. fisheries of the Columbia, the wool­ Seattle Market. At 7:45 A. M., Admiral Sampson growing industries, the mines and Potatoes—Yakimas, $11@12 per ton; signaled “cease firing." “Return” stock of Eastern and Southern Oregon, was sounded on the Iowa, and she the fruits from Hood river and the natives, $8@10; sweete, 2>^c per pound; headed from the shore. The Terror fertile Willamette valley, and the box of 60 pounds, $1.75. Butter—Fancy native creamery, was the last ship in the line, and, fail­ varied other lesources of this state will brick, 21c; ranch, 10@12c; dairy, ing to see the signal, she banged away be represented. 15@16c; Iowa fancy creamery, 21c. alone for about half an hour, the con­ Cheese—Native Washington, 11@ An exhibit at the Trane-Mississippi ceit of shore guns roaring at her and the water flying high around her from exposition which will be noted with 12c; Eastern cheese, 12c. Eggs—Fresh ranch, 14)£o; California the exploding shells. But she [>os- the deepest interest by the entire medi­ sessed a charmed life, aud reluctantly cal fraternity will be the baby incuba­ ranch, 14c. Meats—Choice dressed beef steers, tor, and the progress of the poor, puny, retired at 8:15. As at Matanzas, the unsatisfactory little lives that will inhabit it will be 8c; cows, 7@7>$c; mutton, 8c; pork, conditions, the smoke and the dis­ watched by thousands of eyes. The 7>»c; veal, small, Bo. Poultry—Chickens, live, per pound, tance, prevented any in>[>ortant con­ invention is designed to assist nature clusions being diawn. The town of in preserving the lives of newly born hens, 14c; dressed, 16c; turkeys, San Juan must have suffered. Al­ balies wiio are too frail to battle for ex­ live, 14c; dressed, 17@18c. Freeh Fish—Halibut, 6@7c; Bteel though somewhat protected by the istence, and tlie records show that hills, the high shots must have reached since 1891, when it was firBt Intro­ heads, 7@8c; salmon trout, 9@10c; it. No traces of ‘the bombardment duced, it lias saved several thousand flounders and sole, 3@4o; tom cod, 4c; were discernible on the forts, except human creatures by forcing pure ozone ling cod, 4@5c; rock cod, 5c; smelt, 3@ small tires, which were apparently ex­ into their lungs, providing an even 5c; herring, 4o. Olympia oysters, per sack, $3@3.25. temperature for their sensitive little tinguished before the fleet left. Corn—Whole, $25; cracked, per ton, bodies, and protecting them against Madrid Expect. an Encounter. the thousand and one dangers to which $25; feed meal, $25 per ton. Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton, London, May lfl.—The Madrid cor- these tiny newcomers in this world are $2(1; whole, $25. res|s»ndent of the News says: There exposed. ________________ Flour—Patents, per barrel, $5.25@ are signs of manifest anxiety at the Australian Coal for Japan» 5.50; straights, $5.00; California government offices. One high personage The price of coal in Japan has risen brands, $0.25; Dakota brands, $5.00 is convinced that the hostile squadrons are in sight of each other and that an very greatly of late, far beyond any @$5.75; buckwheat flour, $0.50. Millstuffs—Bran, per ton,$17; aborts, encounter is probable within a few expectation. Australia has been ship­ ping coal to Japan and owing to the per ton, $18. hours. high price of the commodity has found Feed—Chopped feed, $21 @22 per Bahia Rontla Bombarded, the venture u paying one, notwith­ ton; middlings, per ton, $18@19; oil Madrid, May lfl.—A dispatch from standing the proximity of the Chinese cuke meal, j