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Yamhill County Reporter LATER THE NEWS. CONTROL OF CUBA. The Question Ia Now Recei ving Earnest FINAL BATTLE IN PORTO RICO Schwan*. Forces Were Attached Sunday Colonel John Hay, ambassador to Eng Consideration. —Spaniards Repulsed. land, has been offered and accepted F. H. BARNHART. FublUh»r. Washington, Aug. 17.—The recon Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 17.—Gen the office of secretary of state. struction of affaire in Cuba, Porto Rioo, eral Schwan*« oolumn was attacked be Augustin’s departure from Manila OREGON. MeMINNVII.LE and throughout tbe Spanish West In fore Mayagüez and Lares. As the . is said to have been due to his having dies, ia receiving earnest cosideration Eleventh infantry, under Colonel been superseded by general Jaudemes in official quarters and at the White Burke, was descending the valley of I as military governor. House. Today the president saw a the Rio Grande, they were fired upon I A special dispatch from Madrid says number of callers in reference to this j from a hillside by a force of 1,500 Span tbe surrender of Manila is officially an reconstruction in our new insular de ish, who were retreating toward the nounced. The United States troops immediately occupied the city. pendencies. north. The fire was returned, and the Interesting Collection of Items From Major-General Fitzhugh Lee in com Spanish were repulsed, with, it is sup The American bark C. C. Funk. Cap Many Places Culled From the Frees tain Nisson, bound from Tacoma for mand of the Seventh army cor ¡a at posed, considerable loss. SAN FRANCISCO WAS STRUCK Report, of the Current Week. Melbourne, was wrecked off Flanders AUGUSTIN FLEI) TO HONG KONG Jacksonville, came here on a special Colonel Soto, the oommander of the Secretary Alger has cabled order# island, Tasmania, with the loss of 11 telegraphic summons from Secretary Mayagüez district, was wounded, and to the military commanders to oease lives, including those of the captain, Large Hole Torn In the Cruiser's Stern Spanish Conaul Had Mot '♦•■nt Notice ot Alger, and it was with the latter that hostilities. his wife and two children. —No One Aboard Ship Was Ilurt— Signlug of the Protocol—Xaermau ne conferred for an hour with the presi The government has at last succeeded American Vessels Steamed Out of Scores of dead bodies are still in the It is generally expected that Launch In Walting Aided Anguatiu dent. in securing a smokeless powder adapted wrecks of the Spanish warships at San Range as Rapidly as Possible. to Escape—Acknowledge,! in Madrid. General Lee will head the military for Springfield liflea, and ia laving in tiago. The Almirante Oquendo has commission which will adjust affaire in Key West, Fla., Aug. 16.—The flag a supply. Hong Kong, Aug. 17. — It was ru Cuba, and also he has been strongly broken in two and cannot possibly be ship San Francisoo, the monitor Mian- saved. The American colony at Sidney, N. mored here last night that Manila had urged for the governorship of that tonomoh, and the auxiliary yacht Sil 8. W., has cabled Washington, praying An older has been issued mustering surrendered, but no information was ob island, after the functions of that com the government to retain possession of out of servioe about 60,000 of the vol tainable from tiie Spanish oonsul. mission cease. On both of these points, via, weie fired upon by the Havana the Philippines. batteries shortly before 5 o’clock yester unteer army force. The troops to be Governor-General Augustin refuses to however, General Lee asserts he knows The United States government has mustered out will include all the vol speak. The German consul was called nothing. He admitted, however, that day morning. One 10 and two 12-inch he had been talking over matters in purchased the British tank steamer unteer cavalry and volunteer artillery shells struck the San Francisco’s stern Lnciline for a water-boat, tne «ODSid- in the United States at tiie present upon, and he informed the correspond Cuba generally. Then he added: as she turned to get away out of range, "The first work which will have to j time, and a large number of infantry ent that the outskirts of Manila were eration being $225,000. and tore a hole about a foot in diam be done in Cuba will be to make ar regiments. bombarded by the Amenoans, and that An order has been issued at the rangements by which all the municipal eter, completely wrecking Commodore Additional details relative totbe ter the city had surrendered. No damage office of the adjutant-general of the machinery can be put in operation in Howell ’s quarters and smashing his rible cloudburst in Hawkins county, was done to the city proper, only the United States army, granting one all the towns, and governmental ma bookcases into fragments. No one was month’s furlough to the sick and Tenn., show that the disaster was outskirts being bombaided. chinery throughout the island. There injured, and, being under orders not to wounded soldiers and transportation to greater than at first reported. The will have to be a military control, I | Figan family, numbering 14, was lost, their homes. j attack the batteries, the ships departed suppose, until such a time as the peo as fast as their engines would carry It is reported that 40 Bannock In Figan himself escaping It is now esti ple interested can organize, and put them. dians from Idaho, who are killing elk mated that 32 persons became victims into operation, a government which The flagship and the Silvia lay in Jaokson’s Hole, have successfully re of the downpour. should be stable and strong enough to BR IG» GENERAL FBANCTS V. GBEEVE. parallel to each other, not more than Uncle Sam has no intention of reduc sisted arrest. Secretary Bliss has is impartially protect the interests of | sued orders for the Washakie authori ing his navy to a peace footing. The Spaniards, Americans, Cubans and the was afterward overtaken in a wayside a mile from Morro castle, and separ hired ships are to go, but those owned ties to drive the Indians back. people of other nationalities now on the cottage. He was attended by two ser ated from each other by three-eighths MANILA by the government, to tiie number of island, or who may hereafter go there.” geants, who surrendered. The Ameri of a mile. The Miantonomoh layabout The steamer Victoria, just arrived at “Is there a pobability of Spanish in cans suffered no loss. The artillery was three-quarters of a mile to the rear of Victoria from the Orient, brings news st least 100, will be retained in the terests suffering there through the not engaged. General Schwan had not ■ the others. All were within range of of a frightful accident in Yokaharna servioe at least temporarily. Tiie rev Cubans?” received news of the signing of the pro the Spanish batteries, and tiie tempta harbor, whereby two lady missiouaries enue cutters will be turned back to the MANILLA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. treasury department. “ The Spanish property-holders, of the American mission board. Miss tocol, when the action occurred, but tion was too strong for the Spanish to At San Francisco, P. J, Corbett, date of the bombardment was unknown merchants and all other classes of obtained it yesterday afternoon. The resist. Simmons and Miss Allen, lost their The first glimmer of dawn was break lives by drowning, being run down father of James J. Corbett, the pugilist, to the German consul, wluj refused to Spaniaids naturally would unite with all repots from General Miles are meager. ing through tiie eastern skies when, the best of the conservative inhabitants shot and killed his wife and then say any more. by a Chinese junk. An Unfortunate Belief. without an instant’s warning, the look for the presevation of the interests of The question of the acceptance of the turned the weapon upon himself witli Hong Kong, Aug. 17.—Belated mail out on the flagship saw a jet of smoke General Augustin told a lady that all the citizens, and I think they will fatal effect. It is believed the mur protocol having been settled and its sig Admiral Dewey demanded the nur- help the natives and the Americans to information from Manila is to the effect puff from one of Morro’s big guns. Al nature authorized, the Spanish govern derer was demented. He lias been in that there has been renewed activity most before he could pull himself to extremely poor health for some time. render of Manila in an hour. The maintain a strong, safe government. ment is now considering tho domestic on the part of the Spaniards of late, gether sufficiently to make a report of This would be nalura), for no olass of situation for the beet means of alluying Deatli was instantaneous in both cases. Spaniards declined to surrender, and the incident, 10and 12-lnch shells were Captain John '.V. Phillip Will be de- Dewey began the bombardment and excitement and propagating the idea screaming all around. Tiie Spaniards UNCLE SAM ’ S NEW TERRITORY, AS A RESULT OF THE WAR. that Spain’s surrender is not so com tached from the command of the bat the Spaniards hoisted a white flag. had the range, and apparently were plete as indicated by the bald terms of tleship Texas and Captain Charles D. General Augustin immediately jumped grimly in earnest in their last efforts Sigsbee will succeed him in command. the protocol. to wreck injury on their too mighty into a German launch, which was in euemy. Shells fell between the San A serious mistake came to light at a Captain Phillip’s detachment is due to waiting, and went to the Kaiserin Au Francisco and the Silvia. Some fell funeral in Cincinnati. The remains the fact that he will reach the flag gusta, which sailed before the bom short, a few went over them. The of Captain W. D. Sherman, a Kansas rank, the grade of commodore, upon bardment was .concluded. The bom the retirement of Admiral Shard on volunteer, wounded at Santiago, were flagship signalled the Silvia to get out bardment occurred on the 18tb. receiving the bOria) honors intended September 3. of range without delay, and both ships Department Notified. The president has appointed two swung around and made for the sea. for the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Winkle Washington, Aug. 17.—The depart It was then that the shell struck the man, an aged woman. Both caskets commissions to adjust the evacuation came by ex pi ess, and the wrong one of Cuba and Porto Rico. They are ment of state has just issued the fol San Francisco’s stern. Commodore The following dispatch has got to the funeraL made up as follows: For Cuba—Major- lowing: Howell was on deck with Captain General Janies F. Wade, Rear-Admiral just been received at the department Leary when the shell struck. With , Admiral Cervera and a number of his W. T. Sampson, Major-General Mat of state from Consul Wildman, Hong the utmost Bpeed the fleet moved oiU- officers, who are Dow prisoners at the thew C. Butler. For Porto Rico— Kong: abont three miles. Here the men on naval academy at Annapolis, were in Major-General John R. Brooke. Rear- “Augustin says Dewev bombarded the flagship patched up the ragged hole terviewed at their station in’Annapolis Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, Briga Manila Sunday; city surrendered un in the vessel’s stern. All the shells for the first time sinue their arrival. dier-General William W. Gordon. conditionally. Augustin was taken fired at the vessel fellaround the ships. Admiral Cervera was reserved in his by Germans in the launch to the Kai One of the Silvia’s men stood calmiy comment, but his officers were more It is rumored that Blanco has escaped serin Augusta and brought to Hong on the deck of the yacht, watch in outspoken. All were very grateful for from Havana. Kong. I credit report.’’ hand, and counted them. the treatment whioli they have received. General Miles* troops will remain in The informarion contained in Consul Morro castle fired several of the mis The above map shows the territory that has been, or will undoubtedly be, added to the siles, but how many is not known, Advices have been received at Wash Porto Rico until peace negotiations are Wildman’s brief message aroused in United States as a result of the war with Spain—Cuba, Porto Hico, the Island of Guam, ington that the revolution In Guate- concluded. tense interest, but created no surprise Tiie others came from two sand bat or Guahau, la the Ladrones, and a coaling station and port In the Philippines. mala has been suppressed aud jieuee teries near Morro. The firing lasted The O. R. &. N. Co., will build a among those officials who read it For reigns. new steamer, the Spokane, to run on two or three days news of tire fall of people would be more interested than due to the belief that American re 20 minutes. Manila has been expected, The last they are in maintaining property and sources have been exhausted and that The one-sided engagement had scarce The only fortified port in Porto Rioo Snake river. dispatches received from Admiral all other rights. is San Juan, and not more than 8,000 McKinley is suing for peace. Accord ly ended when the men of the Silvia Mail advices received at Hong Kong fighting soldiers are on the island. The report recent activity on tiie part of the Dewev and General Merritt indicated “The most difficult problem is the ing to the same authority the insurgents were treated to another surprise. The that it was their purpose to force a first organization of a preliminary form throughout the island of Viscaya are little yacht gunboat is manned by the sentiment of the natives is entirely in Spaniards at Manila. surrender of the city has soon as possi ’of government, as later the island will reported to have signified their inten New York naval militia. Her crew favor of the United States and against Miss Percy Wing, of Washougal, ble. Spain. There is plenty of food. be very rapidly Americanized, and all tion of joining Aguinaldo. The Ger had barely recovered from the excite Wash., was drowned Monday in the It is believed that they joined in a such questions will take care of them- man cruiser Kaiserin Augusta has ar ment when the flagship called the ves- Spain is increasing her defenses and surf at Clatsop beach. note to General Augustin in demand selves. As to tiie probability of the rived here, having left Manila Satur eei over, and Captain Bellers was given guarding against any possible Anglo- ing the surrender of Manila, threaten Cubans attaining a stable goverment, day. She reports the situation there a packet of private documents, which Monday was the hottest day known American combination near Gibraltar. ing to make a combined sea and land I presume that as soon as possible a unchanged, but her officers are ex he was ordered to take into Havana in London in years. Up to 2 o ’ clock Forty guns have been added, and the attack upon the citv unless the de proclamation will be issued, setting tremely reticent. under a flag of truce. The white flag garrison force between Carbonero and the prostrations numbered 150. was hoisted over the Silvia, and she Guadalmina reinforced. A new line of steamers to Honolulu mand was acceded to. While no infor apart a date for the holding of a general mation other than that received in Con started towards the guns which had CUBAN ARMY TO DISBAND, election for a chief executive of the It appears that the Cnbans under from Seattle has been instituted, The sul Wildman’s dispatch has been re just given her such noisy greeting. As island, and for a legislative body, to first will start for the islands on the Gomez have determined to forestall the ceived by the department, it is in a which all matters affecting the future Report That the United States Will Fay the Silvia approached to within a mile the Men Off. American oommander in the operations 25 inst. measure confirmed by brief dispatches jf the island will be referred. of Morro, the character of the flag float in tiie vicinity of Holguin, as they have A report to the effect that Manila tonight from Madrid. Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 17.—A secret ing from her foremast was discerned^, Spaniards Are Leaving. already occupied tiie small towns near has fallen and that American forces are meeting was held tonight at the palace and the castle signalled: If the report of General Augustin be Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 17.—The between the commanding officers of the Holguin and are still pressing forward. in possession of the entire city and the true, and its accuracy is not questioned “What is your purpose?” here, the probabilities are that official Spanish steamer Isla de Luzon sailed American army, and the Cuban leaders. To this the Silvia answered: “We Three men dead und a woman dying forts is in circulation in London. During a terrific thunder storm, dispatches will be received by the gov this morning for Spain, having on The strictest secrecy was maintained, have papers to deliver.” is the result of a shooting affray at The but it can be said with good authority Morro did not resume the conversa Central City, 8. D., Thursday. Judge lightning struck Camp Hobson, Ga. ernment in a day or two at the latest. board 2,136 Spanish soldiers. steamer Isla de Panay will probably that General Garcia was present. The tion and for some little time the gun The flight of General Augustin from Seven soldiers are in tiie hospital seri J. P. Giddings, Ed Shannon and Jack Wear are the meD, and Mrs. Ed Shan ously hurt. The same company was Manila created some amusing comment sail to-morrow and she will be followed meeting lasted an hour and a half. boat rocked on the waters almost under non is tiie woman. All the parties in a wreck a week ago at Fort McPher tonight. As one official expressed it, by the De Satru<setegui. The Monte The information obtained is to tiie the still-smoking cannon of the enemy. video arrived this morning and will effect that the Cuban situation was Presently, however, a Spanish gunboat son. are well-to-do. begin loading at once. Tiie embarka thoroughly reviewed, and it was re drew out of the harlror and came close A tornado Sunday night struck near At Truckee, CaL, an explosion in a tion of the prisoners is being pushed solved to disband the Cuban army, ami to the Silvia. It was the Martin y freight car containing two tanks of Canby, Minn., killed seven people, de with great activity. This is rendered the United States should pay the men Pinzon, and cariied a much stronger naphtha, caused by a tramp lighting a stroyed many buildings, and did great imperative by their horrible condition. off. This will involve the expenditure battery than the American ship. The cigarette, resulted in the burning of 11 damage to,crops. The entire family of The mortality is so great in the Span of $15,000,000, but it is most important customary formal salutations were ex Jos. Hutchinson, including hit wife cars of merchandise and 1,800 feet of ish camp, where disease is rampant, to the prosperity of the island, where changed, and Lieutenant William G. snowsheds. Three men were seriously and four children, were killed. Tiie that no longer are the dead buried. A the wealth is almost entirely agricul Ford, the executive officer of the Silvia, burned and all passenger trains were storm was not wide in extent, but very fuueral pile of 10 or 12 bodies is made, tural. nobody daring to cultivate his boarded the Pinzon and delivered the violent. Seven people are missing, delayed. saturated with kerosene and set fire to, lands while tne insurgent bands are in documents. and some of them are supposed to be cremating the boJies in tiie open air. the field, laiding and burning. The ceremony occupied *no more Eight hundred Spaniards at Cape killed. Colunibun I* Blamed. time than the physical act involved. San Juan, attempted to retake the Sutro Wan Insolvent. The coal Miner’s lockout at Pana, run of ruiLippixK insurgent «. London, Aug. 17.—The Madrid COT- lighhouso, which was guarded by 40 of San Francisco, Aug. 17.—The Even The American officer returned to his respondent of the Times says: The ing Post says that the $3,000,000 estate ship, and the vessels went on their re our sailors, commanded by Lieuten III., reached a climax Monday. Sev ant Atwater, Assistant Engineer Jenk eral hundred union men congregated “Had he maintained his position, hard dominant tone of the press comment is of the late Adolph Sutro is insolvent, spective ways. ins, Engineer Biownson and Gunner neai the mine In an endeavor to induce as it was, until the arrival of the news philosophical resignation. The educat and that unless the creditors agree to Kan Into a Washout. Camplxdl. The Spaniards wore driven the nouunionists not to go to work. of peace, he would have been a hero; es! classes are not making any attempt withdraw their claims for the time be Chicago, Aug. 16. — Battery A, Colo but he fled, and he now will be branded Two non union men, rode upon horse to find scapegoats or to console them ing the estate will be hopelessly rado light artillery, passed through back by shells from the Amphitrite, selves with vituperation of the victori swamped. Much of Sutro’s property is Chicago today on the way to Fort Han Cincinnati and Leyden. It is reported back and emptied their revolvers into as a coward. ’’ tiie crowd,. Three union men were that 100 Spanhtrde were killed. ous enemy. The colonies, instead of mortgaged, and interest and other nec cock, N. Y. The troops arrived over Acknowledged at Madrid. seiously wounded. Further trouble enriching, have impoverished the ooun- essary expenditures are eating the estate the Santa Fe road just too late to make Madrid, Aug. 17. — According to La In official oicHes at Madrid the reply may ensue. Columbus, in discovering the up very rapidly. The executors of the connection with an eastbound tram. Correspondencia de Espana, the sur- trv. of tire United States to Spain iu the A carload of lemons and other fruit render of Manila occurred after the New World, was not Spain’s bene estate say that if time is given them They were delayed by an accident. A matter of peace negotiations ia regarded factor, but her evil genius. Therefore every posible demand will be met and washout occurred near Nemo, III., and as satisfactory. Sagasta, however, de obtained by the efforts of the Red Cross last attacks made upon the city. one leading paper opposes the sugges that there will be a large residue for the ' to the speed of the train the men owe Society was on Monday forwarded from nies that lie autliorBed the French am tion that his remains should be brought heirs. The attorneys for the estate their lives As the last tourist car Skeptirwl ^panlnrdi. bassador at Washington, as a represen San Francisco to the sick soldiers of Hong Kong, Aug. 17.—The Spanish home from Havana. deny that there is another will, and passed over a small cowpit, the roadbed tative of Spain, So make any change General Shafter’s army. It is con American Bicyclist Wins. say that Mrs. Kluge’s claims are collapsed and the car plunged from tiie in the Spanish answer. As regard« signed to Colonel J. Morris Brown, U. consul here has not sent to Manila the Paris, Aug. 17.—C. W. Miller, the groundless. rails. Every man on the train was certain conditions Which might create 8. A., Staten island military hospital. news that the protocol has been signed, awakened, but before it came to a differences during the oourae of negotia Besides lemons the ear contains grape and probably the Spaniards at Manila American cvclist, won the 73-hour bi Anthracite coal discovered at historic stop, a guard rail caught the rear truck tions, the premier added: "If any fruit, oranges and other fruits. The will discredit the account to be brought cycle race today, covering 1,873 kilo car is elaborately decorated with bunt* King ’s moutain. North Carolina, shows of the sleeper and threw it on the them by ths British steamer Australia, meters; Frederick, the Swiss cyclist, changes are to be made, the govern ing and bears several patriotic placards. as she was chartered by the Americans. was second, covsnng 1,870 kilometers. an analysis of 95 ;>er cent of carbon. track. i ment itself will make them.** Monument to Wolfe Tone. Flag« of Truce. Collided With a Yacht. General Shafter says it would have Minor New. Item.. Why Blanco Keilfned. Dublin, Aug. 17.—The whole city Guayama, Porto Rico, Aug. 17.-— Boston, Mass., Aug. 16.—The sloop The army of invasion to Porto Rico oost 6,000 live« to have taken Santiago General Brook sent Colonel Richard to Madrid, Aug. 17.—The government was en fete today in connection with yacht Leona, with 17 men aboard, by toree. will number 35,000 when completed. has received from Captain-General the laying of the foundation stone of the Spanish lines yesterday under a flag while anchoted outside of Boston light, Artillery is being concentrated in ! ’.There are about 300,000 persons to of truce, with a notification of the sign Blanco a dispatch tendering his resigna i the monument in memory of Wolfe was run into by a barge in tow of the whom Isinds under the government's the Northern Sierra, in Spain, where a, ing of the peace protocol. He was met tion. The reason given by General Tone. Thousand of excursionists weie tug Honeybrook ami five men were popular loan will be allotted. Carlist uprising is feared. by Commandant Cervera in person. Blanoo for resigning is that be does not present and delegates were in attend swept from the deck bv the heavy tow Rev. Samuel Small, the famous evan After the communication had been wish to superintend the evacuation of ance from the United States, Austra One of our first-class battleships, line. Two of the number, C. W. Sell probably the Oregon, will be sent to re- | gelist, hae l>een appointed a chaplain read, felicitations and cigars were ex Cuba. The government is also in lia, South Africa, France and Italy. man and A. Nordell, were drowned; ' in the volunteet army. change,!. Flags of truce are flying formed that General Augustin, gover There was an immense procession to another, A. Caspeison, was killed by inforce Admiral Dewey at Manila. Governor Pingree, of Miohigan, ’ Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, over our outposts. It was suggested nor-general of the Philippines, will the site of the monument. Theobold being jammed between the tow line favors establishing republics in oolon* ' is at Fort Sill, in the Indian territory, that they be also planted over the Span leave Manila for Spain by the first Wolfe Tone was the real originator of and the fleck, while the two others, iaa captured from Spain, the United •nd spends most of his time playing ish lines, and the '■»•aestion was so steamer, giving his command to the the Irish movement that culminated in Peter Nelson and J. Harkinson, al monte. He is 90 years old. second in rank. < the rebellion of 1798. oepted. States acting as guardian though sustaining injuries, were rescued. Luzon’s Capital Boni barded by Dewey liver a Parting Shot.