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Tamhill County Reporter ». H. BARN HA KT, Fubllaher. IfaMINNVILLB OREGON. Interesting Collection of Item* From Many Fiacre Culled From the Free« Reports of the Current Week. Minor Mew« Item*. NEWS. Orders for releasing 100,000 volun teers have been issued by the govern- inent. John Polo was drowned by the cap sizing of his boat during 1 tile fishboat race at the Astoria regatta. The supreme lodge, Knights of Py thias, met in biennial session in the hall of the house of representatives at Indianapolis, Ind. The British expedition in the Soudan reports terrible scenes of slaughter by tire dervishes. Everywhere are dences of misery and decay. The 24th annual meeting of American Banker’s Association veiled at the Broad way theater, Denver Colo., Tuesday. Most of the 500 dele gates expected were present. There are now in the hospitals at Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, more than 1,200 men. Of these about 000 are in the general hospital iu deten tion. Many of those in the general hospital are improving, and some are now being discharged as well every day. LIBERTY PROCLAIMING PEACB. M PEOPLE WERE KILLED Rear-End Collision on a Mas- saohusetts Railroad. WOUNDED NUMBER TWENTY-SIX Several Scalded by Eacapliig Steam — The Injured Were Removed to But- ton—Signals Failed to Work. Sharon, Mass., Aug. 23.—A frightful rear-end collision occurred in the Sharon station of the New York, New- Haven & Hartford railroad, at 7:30 o’clock tonight, when an express train, which was running as the second sec tion of a long train, crashed into the first section, composed of looal care. As a result seven persons were killed and 26 seriously injured. The injured were nearly all removed to Boston on a special train, which was met by ambu lances and surgeons. The rear car of the local train was completely demol The war news was suppressed at San ished, and a portion of the second car, Juan, ami the people did not hear of while the engine of the express train Spanish reverses for weeks after they was crippled. The dead aie: had occurred. The truth about the Franklin M. Waters, Somerville, destruction of Cervera’s fleet was never Mass.; Mrs. W. J. Fitzpatrick, Boston; published. The same secrecy was ob Mrs, W. J. Fitzpatrick’s granddaughter, served when Santiago fell. News of Mary Fitzpatrick, a 10-year-old girl; the restoration of peace caused rejoic Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s grandson, 15 years ing among all classes. old; a woman, supposed to be Mrs. Watson, of Westerly, R. I.; Mrs. H. C. Eight men were killed, possibly 10, and five injured, two fatally, at the Brisco, Revere, Mass.; C. B. Frye, Carnegie tunnel on Chartier’s division Revere, Maes. of the Panhandle railroad near Pitts- The two trains which were in the burg, Pa. The accident was due to the collision were usually combined into wall of the tunnel caving in. The one long train, but as the traffic today dead are: John Jones, foreman; Felix was so heavy, it was divided, the first Mills, a laborer, and six unknown section running as a local accommoda HAVANA STILL HUNGRY. SPANIARD'S FAREWELL. foreigners. tion, while the second, which started from Mansfield 15 minutes later than i Roldier’s Tribute to a Victorious Foe— General Merritt has sent word to the Situation -Much the Same a« During the the first, ran as an express. The local Blockade. He Loves Not the Cubans. war department tiiat he needed no Havana, via Key West, Aug. 24.— more troops. This statement was in Washington, Aug. 24.—A document train due at Sharon at 7:02 was 13 It left Mansfield on response to an inquiry from the White The situation at Havana remains the entirely unique in the annals of war minutes late. time, making two stops, and had lost Old Glory Waving Proudly same as during the blockade. Provis House. The president and his war fare was cabled today to the war depart managers are well pleased with the ions and other necessaries of life are ment by General Shafter. It is in the the 13 minutes between Mansfield and O’er New Scenes. general's dispatch. They accept it as very scarce and prices continue high. ! iorm of a congratulatory farewell ad Sharon. It was due in Canton Junc an assurance that the American com- The colonial government imposed the dress issued to the soldiers of the Amer tion, the next station beyond Sharon, mander lias the Filipinos under his highest customs duties, which continue ican army by Pedro Lopez de Castillo, two minutes ahead of the express in force, making prices higher and ren-1 HAWAIIAN REPUBLIC IS NO MORE a private Spanish soldier, on behalf of train, which should have passed it control. dering the situation of tiie poor very | the 11,000 Spanish soldiers. No sim there. Sharon is situated on a curve, Coincident with the West Indian painful. The free kitchens which I ilar document, perhaps, was ever before and both the outward and inward sugar conference to assemble at Barba- have been established in Havana daily | America’s First Break Toward Terri- issued to a victorious army by a van tracks are protected by electric block tori al Expansion — Impressive does September 8, for the purpose of furnish about 30,000 persons with food; ; quished adversary. The president was signals. Ceremony at Honolulu. protesting against the sacrifice of the but owing to the great number of poor I After the accident it was thought the very mach impressed by the address, colonies, Jamaica is preparing a plebis in tiie city wiio are without food of any block signal protecting the inward and after reading it carefully, author cite to the British parliament, request sort, the amount of supplies handled San Francisco, Aug. 24.—The steam ized its publication. Following is the track was set at danger, showing, as it ing permission to endeavor to arrange by the kitchens is quite insufficient to er Belgio this evening brought the fol- text of tire address as cabled by Gen was intended, that there was a train in for annexation to the United States. relieve the distress to any great extent. the station. There was no warning eral Shafter: The promoters of this movement are Women and children lie about the I lowing: given by the conductor of the Mans Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 24. — H. C. Honolulu, Aug. 12. — Precisely at endeavoring to secure inter-colonial co streets, pale and emaciated, looking field local, to show the approaching operation, but are not depending more like corpses than living beings. I eight minutes to 12 o’clock today the Corbin, Adjutant-General, U. S. A., train that the track was not clear at Washington: The following letter has upon it Considerable excitement and discon Hawaiian flag descended from the flag just been received from the soldiers the station, and it was not until he was within 300 feet of the station that the The premier of Queensland, the pre tent exists among the insurgent sym staffs on all the government buildings, just embarking for Spain: engineer of the express noticed any^» mier of New South Wales and the pre pathizers, ./ho condemn strongly all and exactly at five minutes to the same “Major-General Shafter, Command thing wrong. He immediately set all mier of Victoria, met in conference at the acts of the colonial government, hour, tiie Stars and Stripes floated on Sidney, N. 8. W., and discussed plans and many of those sympathizers are the tropical breeze from every official ing the American Army in Cuba—Sir: brakes and whistled a warning, but it The Spanish soldiers who capitulated was too late to stop the express. It for a Pacific cable. They decided to leaving tiie cities and towns to join the flagstaff. in this place on the 16th of July last, crashed into the rear car, splitting it make the definite offer that if Great insurgents. During the past few days The ceremony of today was a most Britain and Canada collectively would hundreds of uniforms have been sent to impressive one. To hear the strains of recognizing your high and just position, asunder and completely demolishing it, guarantee five-ninths of the cost of lay the insurgents from Havana. “Hawaii Ponoi” for the last time, as a pray that through you all the courage with the exception of the roof, Its ous and noble soldiers under your com speed was not slackened until ing the new cable, they would recom the An immense majority of the Spanish national anthem, to hear the bugle mand may receive the greatest wishes engine had penetrated fully five feet mend to their respective legislatures to conservatives in the island, and the na blow taps as the Hawaiian ensign sank contribute one-ninth each, asking New tives, favor the annexation of the is- from its position, and to notice the and farewell which we send them on into the rear of the eecond car. The embarking for our beloved Spain. escaping steam entered the car and Zealand to contribute the remaining emotion of many who hail been born ninth. under it and ha«l lived their lives un badlv scalded a number of the occu pants. The roof of the last car was der it, was solemn. But then came The Manila cable is again working. the bright call for raising Old Glory, forced on top of the engine of th’e ex Major-General Miles is coming home. and the strains of the “Star Spangled press, and remained tiiere as the only Accompanied by his staff he will leave portion of the car intact. Banner” broke forth as that banner Porto Rico in a few days. waB unfurled to the breeze. Engineer Getehell and Fireman Then the cheers broke forth, and eyes The natives control the water supply Holmes, of the express train, both which had been dim for a few mo- jf Manila, and refuse to allow the wa jumped, Getehell was cut and bruised : merits became bright and lightened up ler to run except for a few hours each about the head. He stated after the when the Stars and Stripes blew out. lay. They have demonstrated that accident that he left Mansfield prompt The picture presented in and around they are incapable of self-government. ly on time and there was no inoident the extensive building was most strik- until he was within 400 feet of the The president has promoted Captain i ing. In the grounds and around all Mansfield train. Then he saw the red Charles D. Sigsbee, U. 8. N., now com the approaches were crowds of onlook lights of that train and shut off steam. manding the St. Paul, by advancing ers of every station of a varied nation Meanwhile be had whistled for brakes him three numbers on the list of cap- ality. Notably remarkable was the and used every effort to stop hie train. tains in the navy, for “extradordinaiy number of Hawaiian». Within the Every one of the killed and injured heroism. ” grounds the military and naval display was on the Mansfield train, and the Dave Speagle shot and killed Bob wa6 fine. Hawaiian troops, Unite«! only explanation of tiie fact that the Penix at Wilbur, Wash, ! States marines, the mounteil patrol, Speagle is number of fatalities is not larger is the police and the citizens’ guard pre- said to have been too intimate with that the passengers were all in the CAPTAIN GENERAL At'OlTSTL sented a splendid appearance, while Penix’s family. Penix started out to forward end of the car, and most of Fpanlib Governor of the Philippines. COLOXKL JOHN HAT. the platform for the exercises and the kill Speagle, and the latter killed him them at the time of the accident were in self-defense. Ian 1 to the United States, which they verandas of the executive building were this favor, which we have no doubt you either upon the front platform or stand consider the only means of securing gay with brilliant summer dresses, will grant, you will gain the everlast ing by the door. A tremendous explosion at the plant dancing feathers and ribbons and the Mary Fitzpatrick, 10 years old, was of the Chattanooga Powder Company, stable government in Cuba, Even the brightest faces tiiat Honolulu possessed. ing gratitude and consideration of 11,- at Coltewah Station, killed two men, most ardent Spanish residents now The uniform of staff and navy officers 000 Spanish soldiers, who are your taken from the wreck unconscious, and favor annexation. most humble servants. died just as the special train beaiing Lucius B. Eagan and Harton Mortchke, A line “PEDRO LOPEZ DE CASTILLO, The rumors which have been put in adileil brightness to tiie scene. the injured started for Boston. Twenty- and injured seriously, if not fatally, of tiiese stalwart, well-dressed men, “Private of Infantry.” one of tiie injured were taken on this six others. The plant was destroyed circulation, relative to the report that the Spanish army would not obey the stretche«! across the first step from the train. by fire. SPAIN’S COMMISSIONERS. government’s decision and evacuate veranda ami made a distinctive mark The scene about the little station at A dispatch from Buda Pesth to the Cuba, are entirely baseless. in a massive grouping, which was in Sharon was a terrible one. A large State Department Receive. Notice ot London News agency says tiiat while The It is reported that the insurgents itself worthy of special notice. 1 corps of surgeons and two undertakers Their Appointment. a regiment of soldiers were crossing a forces from the provinces of Pinar <lel weather was fortunately propitious. Washington, Aug. 24.—The state de arrived soon after the accident and im |M>ntoon bridge over the river Moras, Rio and Matanzas are uniting in Ha Tiie breeze came down Nuuanu valley mediately set to work to relieve the near Hoiud, the btidge collapsed. vana province, purposing to make a tri pk asantly, aud made the noble flags partment today received a call from M. suffering and care for the bodies of the Thiebaut, secretary of the French em stream out in all their beauty. Three hundred men were immersed umphal entry into Havana city. lead. There were very few lights about A few minutes after the hoisting of bassy, and in charge «luring the absence the portion of the track where the ac and over 80 were drowned. Auxiliary Fleet Smaller. the official flag, others were raise«! trom of Ambassador Cambon, who bore a cident occurred, ami the surgeons were New York, Aug. 24.—The United The monitor Monadnock has arrived the two side towers, and from the mili notification from the Spanish govern compelled to do their work in almost in Manila. On the way over she States auxiliary naval force, which a tary headquarters. ment of the military commissioners for total darkness. stopped at the Ladrone island of Guam, week ago consisted of 41 vessels in Cuba and Porto Rico. Minister Sewall then read a procla Fifteen ambulances waited the ar which had been seized by the first ex commission, says the Washington cor mation stating that President McKin Under the peace protocol, each gov pedition. She found that a Spaniard respondent of the Tribune, was reduced ley directs that the civil, judicial and ernment was to name it« military com rival of the train at the Park square bad repudiated American rule, and set to 25 vessels yesterday, and by the end military powers of the government shall missioners within 10 days, their meet station, which brought the injured from up a government on hie own account. of this week it will have disappeared continue to be exercised by the officers ing to begin within 80 days. The 10 the scene of the wreck. A great crowd Captain Whiting, of the Monadnock, altogether until another war shall call of the republic of Hawaii. All such days wa9 up today, and, accordingly, had assembler!, and a force of police men were necessary to keep them from promptly upset this new government, it into service. officers will be required to take an oath Spain gave the official notice of the ap crowding onto the tracks. and made the usurper a prisoner and Will lletniu Thrir Comiuand*. pointments. They are as follows: of allegiance to the United States, and Lined upon the |platform were 14 brought him to Manila. For Cuba—Major-General Gonzales Washington, Aug. 24. — Sampson renew their bond« to the United States stretchers, while 30 hospital attend Parrado, Rear-Admiral Pastor y Lan- will retain command of the North At government. The powers of the minis Our warships may soon coal at ants and a number of surgeons were on Pango-Pango. The contract for the lantic fleet, notwithstanding bis service ter of foreign affairs will cease, so far dero, Marquis Montore. For Porto Rico—Major-General Or hand. building of a station there is to he let on the Cuban military commission, as they relate to diplomatic intercourse Daniel C. McCann, an express mes tega y Diaz, Commodore (first rank) immediately. Work will be carried aud Schley will continue in his present between Hawaii and foreign nations. senger on the New Bedford train, had “ allarino y Carrisco, Judge-Advocate naval command, although serving tem The municipal legislation of Hawaii forward rapidly and completed next bis right hand and arm badly lacerated year. Naval officers declare the harbor porarily on the Porto Rican commis and the existing customs regulations Sanchez del Aguila y Leon. »nd hie right knee painfully injured in secured by the Uni ter 1 States is the sion. Thia statemut was made author will practically' remain in force until In England less than a century ago it extricating a man who was pinned be only land-locked port of refuge in itatively at the navy department to the congress of the United States «hall was not unusual for a man to sell his tween the engine's head plate and the day. otherwise determine. Samoa. wife into «ervitude. flooring of the telescoped car. Ju <>v»r Twenty Thousand Surrendered. Following the reading of the procla Seven Lives Loit. front of the prisoner lay his « Bv the bursting of a waterspout *< Washington, Aug. 24.—A dispatch mation. Minister Sewall made an ad Pittsburg, Aug. 24.—A terribly ac crushed and bleeding, anti he wae tin-1 i Madiana, Spain, 40 persons were received by Adjutant-General Corbin dress congratulating the residents of cident by which seven men lost their able to move hand or foot to help her. drowned. tonight from Genetal Shafter indicate« Hawaii upon the accomplishment of lives, occurred early this morning in The woman died in a few moments. The trig Nimrod went down in a gale that, with the fall of Santiago. 23.726 annexation. the tunnel of the Chartiers division of Steam was arising as in a Turkish Fatal Collision. off Cape SL Blns and 12 of her crew Spaniards surrendered. Of this num the Panhandle railroad at Carnegie. bath. The heat from the escaping ber. a few les» than 8,000 were guer Hamburg, Aug. 24.—The pearl fish The work of tearing out the tunnel has steam was intense. Mr. McCann said I were drowned. rillas and volunteer*, making the total ing steamer Hamburg collide«! with the been pushed night and day by a force that many people were slightly burned, The emperor of China has to fast 64 to be returned to 8p*ta about 21,000. English schooner Catherine in the j days in each year for the sake of relig- General Shafter tecoiuinends that /l channel during a dense fog Sunday. of 200 men. From the reports received though in their heroic endeavors to it seems that, by using too large a •Mist the injured the workers did not i ion. the capture,! Mauser rifles and the am All of the Catherine's crew except the quantity of explosive in blasting, an know iL Fire entirely wiped out the town of munition for the Mme be «hipped to helmsman and eight men were drowned. unexpected amount of earth and rock C. B. Frye, of Revere, Mass., one of | Center Ridge, Ark., with a population some arsenal in the North, with a* lit One member of the Hamburg'« crew was loosened and caved in on the work the injured brought to this city, la tle delay *s oostible. , of 500. wa* killed iu the collision. men. I J««d makin» the total number seven. The hospital-ship Relief has arrived in New York from Porto Rico ■with aick and wounded soldiers. A resort in Stockton, Cal., known as Jackson’s baths, covering almost a city block, was destroyed by fire. Loss, «40,000. The victorious fleets of Sam peon and Schley have arrived at New York. They were accorded an enthusiast!«) reception by the populace. The Cubans are to disband. Orders for the execution of such a movement have been sent to the island emissaries from the junta in this oountry. The hardest fighting at the battle of Manila wae done by tiie Astor battery, which led the advance. Brigadier- General McArthur, commanding the brigade, complimented the men in the highest terms right in the midst of the battle for their valor and success. A cloudburst over a saw mill run in Pittsburg caused a tidal wave in the stream and endangered the lives of a dozen person b . Five children were drowned. They are: Irene Loftus, Regis Loftus, Genevive Shaughnessy, Margaret Shaughnessy and Nellie Sauls. There is considerable work ahead of the new Cuban commission. The ad ministration of the affairs of the island will be no easy task, and the Cubans must be held in check after the Spanish troo|>g are withdrawn. The notorious practices oarried on under Spanish rule are to be abolished and the co-opera tion of Cuban leaders must lie sought. Nathan Hollenbeck, a deputy pound master of Oakland, Cal., was shot dead by Quang Mon, a Chinese gardener, who was watching for vegetable thieves. Hollenbeck was passing through a corn patch, and was fired at four times by the Chinese, one of the shots proving fatal. The murderer surrendered him self. i A Madrid dispatch rays the govern- menth as resolved to insist that tire capitulation of Manila, after the sign ing of the protocol, shall have no effect in the peace negotiations unfavorable to Spain. I/i any event the government holds that capitulation, signed by the commanders of the two forces, does not entail the surrender of the whole Phil ippines. A Ponce special says: Repoits are coming in from all directions of out rages committed within the Spanish lines. Doubtless many of these are ex aggerated, but rumors of a massacre at Ciales are confirmed. Some of the na tives took refuge in the belfry of a cathodrui and fired on the Spanish troops, but they were overpowered and marketed to the number of 80. Captain Clark, of the battle-ship Ore gon, is seriously ill, and cannot at pres ent be removed from the auxiliary cruiser St. Paul. The president has directed that tba Twenty-third Kansas regiment, colored, be dispatched to Santiago, to form an army of occupation in Cuba. Congressman James G. Maguire has been nominated for governor by the Demoorats of California. Tire fusion plan carried almost unanimously. Ftauk Gelding, un expert miner and mineralogist, of Benton, Wis., com mitted suicide by blowing himself to atoms with dynamite in a powder- house, Gen. Merritt has prepared a procla- mation to the Phlippine natives which provides a scheme of government for Manila and surrounding territory and other islands placed in our possession. Governor-General Blanco’s orders to his generals decree that property in Cuba must be fully protected. The au thorities nt the various towns are in- attracted to oo-o|>erate wiith the Ameri can militarv leaders for this purpose, •nd to prevent pillaging by insurgents. A site has been chosen at the Pie aid io reservation. San Francisco,for the Red Cross convalescent hospital, which will soon lie erected. H. O. Low, Chinese consul, has forwarded to the San Francisco Red Cross Society *50, contributed by the Chinese cigar makers’ union. The government intends to take vigorous measures to preserve peace •nd keep order at Santiago and the territory under United States oontrol. The emphatic order issued to Law ton a few days ago will lie followed bv or ders »ending enough disciplined troopa to enable him to carry out the instruc tion« of the secretary. A naval programme for presentaiou to congress involving the immediate construction of 15 warship«, has been adopte«l by the naval board« of experts, to which the subject has lieen referred by Secretary Long. It provides for three battle-ship«, three first, three sec- ond-clas« and six protected craisers, each to be the finest and most formida ble of its class. Bismarck’s personal estate, it is said, •mounted to about *8,000,000. The Pennsylvania alien tax law has been declared unconstitutional and void. Twenty school yards in Boston were opened as play grounds for children during the summer months. Cecil Rhodes is trying to get back at the polls in the South African repub lic the power he lost by the Jameson reid. LATER