LATER V. H. BiKNUAKT, Publisher. M c M innville OKEGON. I NEWS. General Merritt has asked to have I bis command increased from 20,000 I to 50.000 tioopa. The Peruvian government is sending agents to Europe to purchase warshij« ' for tire purpose of strengthening her navy. SCHLEY IS MILES GENEROUS. Willing to Divid* the Honors With Hi* Brother O dicers. lleetlns MARCH'NG ON. I.lltle Ite.l.taao. In Porto Bleu. Ponce, Porto Rico, via St. Thomas, Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 3.—Shortly aftei tbe great naval victory oil (Sail Aug. 3.—General Miles hourly expect* tiago, in which Ceivera’s fleet was tbe arrival of transports having on pursued and destroyed by tbe American board Brigadier-General Schwau’s di­ vessels of war under Commo-lore vision of 0,000 men, and also the Mo­ Schley, Captain John Schley, cousin of hawk, with the Fifth regular cavalry. General Henry’s division, consisting the commodore, wrote a letter of con­ I gratulation for the victory won. Today of 8,400 men, and including 30 pieces he received a reply, which, in part, of artillery, baa been ordered to march immediately to Yauco fiorn Ponce to was as follows; COMPLICATIONS ARE AHEAD "Flagship Brooklyn, Off Santiago tie be ready to join the movement north Cuba, July 22, 18U8.—My Dear John: to San Juan on the 16th. The Penn­ The victory of July 3, so complete in sylvania regiment was lent this morn Insurgent Chief Drunk With the Wine its results and so rich in glory for our ing toward Juan Diaz, eight miles north of ftticce»»—Warned by General An­ country, was the joint product of every of Ponce, en route to San Juan. derson—Hoe Assumed the Hole of one fortunate enough to be engaged, Miles says he has no intention of Dictator. and I ought rather to thank you in their name than to appropriate the con­ making a landing of troops at San Juan, especially as the pluce is only a road­ London, Aug. 3.—A dispatch to the gratulations to myself. Times from Cavite says: It is becom­ “Surely, it was large enough to win stead, where transports ure liable to ing more apparent daily that there are laurels for all, and I assume no other suffer from prevalent storms. The railroad from Ponce to Yauco is serious complications ahead. The now in possession of our troops. Gen­ Americans never made a greater mis­ eral Stone found five mines on the take than in bringing Aguinaldo and track. These were destroyed and the track is uninjured. the insurgent leaders here giving them Our troops found 17 Spaniards in the aims and ammunition for free use from Yauco hospital, all of whom had been the Cavite arsenal. Aguinldo, fearing wounded in Tuesday’s fight. annexation by the Americans, openly A proclamation has been issued by opposes them. 1 the authorities of Yauco as a United Either he has been encouraged by States city, expressing delight at an­ nexation and the administration of some foreign power, or he has a false General Miles and welcoming our notion of the strength of the Philip- troops. Tire mayor of Ponce has called pine revolutionists, failing to rcognize upon residents of that place to exercise that their recent successes are due to ¡calmness and circumspection under the the concentration of the Spanish new and desirable conditions. strength at Manila, consequent upon Miles has issued lengthy orders of the presence of the Americans. Al­ instruction to General Wilson, military though he admits no foreign recogni­ governor of Ponce province and city, tion, he talks of his government and until General Brooke’s arrival. It is dictates to the American authorities ; of the same tenor as the instructions in absurd and inflated terms. He has which Miles gave to Shafter at Santi­ compelled the natives of the southern ago, both orders being based on the approaches to Manila to register their administration instructions given *.o OKXZBAl JULIAN PAUREDA. bullocks and ponies, and instructed the .r*nlsb Commander at Guantanamo Who Ro- General Merritt regarding the govern­ owners not to supply them to the Amer­ fustal to "Caplrulate." ment of tiie Philippine islands. icans for transportation without his sanction. pride in it than the lucky place of this CHICAGO HOLOCAUST. Brigadier-General Anderson prompt­ ship in the line was ’where the first ly adopted firm measures, warning heavy assault was ma le, and afterward, Several Killed and Injured In a Hotel File. Aguinaldo that force would be used to by her speed and her direction, she Chicago, Aug. 3.—Three impress the means of tiansportation, was enabled to keep in the ‘scrap’ to 14 injured is the record of which were ultimately forthcoming. the finish. Aguinaldo’s attitude makes future “Tbe sweetest thought and the great­ broke out at 2:30 o’clock this morning operations against Manila problemati- est satisfaction comes from the fact in the Berwin hotel. North State street. ln my opinion, with the aid of that our conduct t at day has won the Starting in a bicycle repair shop ad- The designs of the three new vessels of the Illinois ty|>e are to be changed so as to make theii minimum speed 18 knots an hour. Interest In jr Collection of Items From If the ooal ojrerators of the Pittsburg Many Places Culled From the Press district do not conform with the terms Keports of the Current Week. of the Chicago agreement by August The embarkation of Toral’s troops, 10, 5,000 miners will be ordered to it is expected, will have been accom­ strike. plished by August 15. President McKinley, it is said, will The government of Hayti has de­ call an extra session of both houses of clined to permit this government to congress as soon as Spain accepts the erect a weather station on its domain. terms of peaoe offered by the United Havoc was caused by lightning at States. Red Oak, Neb. Three persons were The steamer Humboldt has arrived killed and considerable property de­ at Sun Francisco from St. Michaels, stroyed. bringing down about 40 people from Orders have been received at the navy the Klondike. Tbe purser says that yard, Charlestown, Mass, to expend about *1,000,000 from the goldfields *10,000 in lepairs ujxm the old frigate was brought down on tbe steamer. Minnesota. Lieutenant R. P. Hobson, of Merri­ Nearly all tbe people of South Amer­ mac fame, is with his mother at Lithia ican countries are in sympathy with Springs, Ga. The meeting between Spain and refuse to believe stories of mother and son was a pathetic one. American victories. The son kissed his mother, who threw A Madrid telegram to the London her arms around his neck and for sev­ office of the New York Herald says the eral minutes rested her head on bis government has received a telegram shoulder, shedding tearH of joy. announcing the surrender of Manila to Following is an official statement Admiral Dewey. given out by authority of the president Commissioner of Internal Revenue on Tuesday as to tbe terms of peace Scott has ruled that in the case of offered by the United States: “In mortgage notes on real estate, where order to remove any misapprehension payments are made ou tbe installment in regard to the negotiations as to peace plan, a separate revenue stamp for each between the United States and Spain, payment will not be required. it is deemed proper io say that the The North sea whalers are again at terms offered by the United States in work. Operations near Point Barrow the note handed to the French ambas­ were resumed April 15. Inland Esqui- sador on Saturday last are in substance mos are starving and coming to tbe as follows: The president does not coast for food. A deer station is to be new put forward any claim for pecuni­ ary indemnity, but requires relinquish­ established at Point Barrow. ment of all olaim of sovereignty over The cavalry Is anxious to proceed to or title to the island of Cuba, as well Porto Rico, but will be obliged to re­ ■is evacuation by Spain of the island; main here until tbe Spanish prisoners session to the United States and im­ of war have been transported to Spain, mediate evacuation of Porto Rico and which it is believed will have been ac­ other islands under Spanish sovereign­ complished before the next month is ty in the West Indies and like cession well advanced. of an island in the Ladrones. The An attempt by tbe crew of the United States will occupy and hold the steamer Wanderer to get men and arms city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend­ for the Cuban army ashore at Bahia ing the conclusion of a treaty of peace, Honda was defeated by the Spaniards. which shall determine the control, dis­ The Americans were forced to retreat, position and government of the Philip­ with five wounded. The Spanish re­ pines. If these terms are accepted by port of tbe affair says the American Spain in their entirety, commissioners losses were considerable. will be named by the United States to The northeast coast of England has meet commissioners on the part of been swept by a great storm. Fishing Spain for the purpose of concluding a fleets have bail nurrow escapes, being treaty of peaoe on the basis above in­ obliged to relinquish all their gear and dicated.” nets and run to the hartor for shelter, The United States comimssioners where many other vessels were com­ who are to prepaie a code of laws for pelled to seek refuge. North-bound Hawuii will auil on the Mariposa, trains have been delayed by the force August 10. of the wind, which has caused consider­ Advices from Havana confirm tbe able damage inland, crops having been report that General Garcia has relin­ 'flattened. There were some minor quished his oommand and gone home wrecks in the North sea. to Camaguey. t .A powdef mil| at Elmira, N. Y., Intrigue among tbe powers of Europe blew up, killing the owner. to shut us out of the Philippines is Two men were killed as the result said to have been checkmated by Pres­ of an explosion in the Coney mine, ident McKinley’s oourse. near Skykomish, Wash. A Madrid correspondent says that a The Illinois circuit court has ruled band of 800 CarliBts recently appealed that the express companies must pay near Seo de Urge, in Catalonia, and the tax on express packages. tbe tloops are pursuing them. The alleged charges of bad faith The London Times announces that against the United States attributed to the Royal Ulster Yacht Club has ar­ Premier Sagasta are discredited by ranged to challenge for the America’s the fleet, the city might have been Washington authorities as inventions cup. The New York Yacht Club will already American. Nothing but the designed to prejudice tho successful be notified of the decision immediately. complications with the natives pre­ prog:ess of the present jteace negotia­ tions. General Merritt has sent notice to vented an advance. I am convinced that the Filippinos A Madrid dispatch says General Cor­ Washington that he was about, to com­ will never capture Manila unaided, and bine with Dewey in a joint demand fot rea is arranging for theleception of the if the Americans withdraw, the fate of Spanish troops which surrendered at the surrender of Manila, thus forestall­ the natives under Spanish rule would Santiago de Cuba, and prepaiing sani­ ing the insuigents, and this movement be worse than before. tary stations to prevent the introduc­ may cause a rupture. tion of diseases into Spain. Insane Miner’ll Deed. President McKinley’s proposal has Seattle, Aug. 3.—A special to the Strict neutrality i* to lie maintained reached Madrid, and the Spanish cabi­ by England, and Watson will find no net met Monday to consider and decide Times from Roslyn, Wash , says An­ “facilities” at Gibraltar. The British U|>on the reply to be made. The terms drew Warge, an Antfwn miner, this governor there has so assured the Span­ offered, it is quite likely, will be ac­ morning shot his wife and two small ish consul. Spaniards are busy putting ceded to immediately. Hostilities in chi’dren and then killed himself. the bay of Gibraltar in a more com­ the Antilles in that case will be sus­ Warge was insane. pended at once. plete state of defense. Porto Ricans Protested. The governor-general of Manila, tele- The Hong Kong correspondent of the London, July 30.—According to a garphing to Madrid, says that aid is in ­ London Daily Mail says the viceroy of <■ anton has announced to the foreign dispensable to resist the imminent at­ dispatch from Berlin, a newspaper there professes to know that the Porto Kican office the complete suppression of tho tack of the American forces under Gen­ rebellion in those districts. He has eral Merritt. The foreign warships in announced also that four cities have the bay, the dispatch says, answered beeu reoccupied by the imperial troops. the salute in honor of the queen's saint With the understanding that no in­ day, and the American vessels display­ demnity will liedemanded and that the ed the American flag. Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines Some of the members of the Spanish will be respected, the Spanish news­ conservative party question tiie utility papers consider the terms of )>eace at­ of preserving the Philippines because of tributed to President McKinley as be­ the enormous expensse that a suppres­ ing acceptable. The papers, however, sion of the insurgents would entail. The protest against hostilities being con­ latest dispatches from Captain-Geneial tinued by the United States after Augustin are so despondent about the Spain had sued for |>eace. resources at his dis,M>sal that it is stir, Admiral Dewey, at Manila, has dis- ntised that the (all of Manila is mimi- natehed the Raleigh and Concord to nent. gather up 11 Spanish craft, which, ac­ General Greely announces that he cording to information sent him by is now in direct communication by Consul-General Williams, are at vati- cable with General Miles’ hendquarteis ous places in the Philippines. Among at Ponce, having sent the cable instru­ these vessels are thtee gun I stats at San ments from St. Thomas. The British Map .bowing location of th. Important Miguel, Luzon island, and four at Port officials who control the cable are will­ port won t>y th. aipedltlon under Coinmnnd- Royal, Palawar island. Four mer­ ing to tarn emit messages for the United •r Cowlta. chantmen with cargoes of tobacco are State* government over it, provided re|>orted at Cayagnn, Luzon The same our force* are in possession of the cable colonial legislature has adopted a reso­ dispatch rejKirts that the English traders terminals, but they will not allow lution protesting against American oc­ at the coal mines at Batan, Luzon their cables to be used if the instru­ cupation of the islands as a violation island, have Ireen imprisoned and sub­ ments are cut in at any intermediate of the principles that the United States jected to ill treatment otherwise by the point. went to war to enforce. Spaniards there. The dynamite cruiser Nictheroy pur­ Smut|lr.l Shall Ksploded. Minor Now. Item». chased from the Biaxilian government A dude fights nearly as well as a will be turned into a collier. Playa del Este, Guantanamo Bay, cowboy, and a cowboy fights better Aug. 8.—The body of Karl J. Ander­ Richard Votaw, of Washington son, a seaman on tbe United States than anything else on earth. county, Ky., who shot four persons at ciuiser Brooklyn, was buried ashore Over 500 men ate at work on the a tent meeting in Meicer county, was cruiser Yorktown at Mare Island navy shot and instantly killed by Sbeiiff here today. Anderson was killed by the accidental discharge of a Spanish yard, San Francisco, rushing her to George Coulter, of Danville. one-pound shell smuggled from one of completion. Alber. Cullom, a nephew of United The United States government will States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, of the destroyed Spanish cruisers, against Tbe establish an extensive weather bureau Illinois, suddenly expired in a Chatta­ tbe orders of Captain Cook. in the Caribbean sea for the use of all nooga, Ga., drug »tore, whither he had shell exploded Tuesday while Ander­ nations whose interests lie in that «one to purchase medicine for himself son was hsmtuering it in an effort to separate the cartridge and shell. region. AUGUSTI WILLING. Will Surrender as Soon km He Can Do So Honorably. London, Aug. 3. — A special to tire Daily Mail from Hong Kong, dated August 1, says: Admiral Dewey has received word from Captain-General Augusti that he is willing to surrender as soon as he can do so honorably. It is believed he will only make a show of resistance. Dewey expects to take the city without losing a single man. Should Dewey and Merritt begin the attack, Augusti will propose to capitul­ ate on these terms: The Spanish troops to march out with the honors of war; the soldiers and officials to be permitted to return on parole to Spain, and an assurance to be given that the lives and property of Spanish residents will be protected from naval attack. The Spanish officer who reporter! in Manila the destruction of Admiral Cervera's squadron was treated as a traitor and threatened with death. While riding near Malate the other day. General Anderson narrowly escaped being shot by the enemy. joining the hotel, flames spread to the basement of the hostelry and then, eat­ ing their way to both the front and rear stairways, cut off escape to a dozen ■ guests. Some in the panic that ensued jumped to the sidewalk and sustained i broken legs and arms; others waited in their apartments and were rescued, while most of the guests made their way out of the building by means of a fire escape leading into an alley. When the fire was discovered, it was burning fiercely on a lower floor. Pe- I destrians raised a cry of warning, which aroused the guests, and they appeared at the upper windows of the hotel in their night attire. Fresh Meat for Shafter’» Army. Tampa, Fla., Aug. 3.—The trans­ port Michigan sailed yesterday from Port Tampa ami crossed the bar of the bay today. Sire was loaded with fresh meat for General Siiafter’s army, be­ Populace Enth 11«ia«tIc. Ponce, Porto Hico, via S». Thomas, D. W. I., Aug. 8.—Colonel Holings, with 10 companies of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania, has occupied Juan Diaz, about 10 miles from Ponce, on tire way to San Juan. The American flag was raised, and great was the enthusiasm of the populace. The protected cruiser Columbia went ashore while attempting to enter the harbor of Ponce, but it is expected she will be floated tomorrow. General Brooxs arrived thia evening. During the evening the seven compan­ ies of the Nineteenth regular infantry arrived on the I lierokee. Cable communication was opened to­ night, hut the line will not be in toll operation for several days. Some people are disagreeable because they can't attract attention any other w«v. Miles’ Easy Conquest of l’orto Rico. VOLUNTEERS SURRENDERING Supplies in Abundance for the Amer­ ican Troops—Revenue From Custom House— People Are Overjoyed at the Arrival of the Army. Washington, Aug. 3.—General Miles, tn command of the Porto Rican expedi­ tion, sent the following dispatch to Sec­ retary Alger, which was made public at the war dejtartment at 10 o’clock to­ night: “Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 2.—Secre­ tary of Wur. Washington, D. C.: Four telegrams received, and answered by letter. Volunteers are surrender­ ing themselves with arms and ammuni­ tion. Four-fifths of the people are overjoyed at the arrival of the army. Two thousand from one place have vol­ unteered to serve with it. They are bringing in beef, cattle and other sup­ plies. The custom-nouse has already yielded $14,000. As soon as all the troops are disembarked, they will be i in readiness to move. Please send any i national colors that can be spared, to be given to tire different luunici^li- ties. “I request that the question endence could not be considered by me. Another grievance was that, finding several thousand men entered the city without opposiiton from General Garcia, I extended my own lines in front of him, and closed up that gap, as I saw that I bad to de­ pend on my own men for the invests^ merit of the place. SHAFTER.” Alaska Strainer* at San Franrl.ro. San Francisco, Aug. 2.—The steam­ ers Charles Nelson and Samoa arrived today from St. Michaels. Both of them brought considerable wealth from the Klondike country, but dis­ charged most of it at Seattle. The Nelson is one of the transports engaged to carry the First regiment of New York volunteers to Honolulu. Some girls admits that engagement* England makes *30,000,000 a year ' are failures, but they have there doubts out of its postoffice. as to marriages.