The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-01-31
HE GAINED HIS POINT
InSurgent WarShips Fire on United
States Vessels;
ADMIRAL BENHAM TOOK A HAND
Pumped six-Pouud Shell Into De
Gama's Flagship--The Latter Then
Surrendered.
ADMIRAL BENHAM TOOK A HAND

between the American fleet on one side
and the ships of the insurgents, under
Admiral De CANA. came as near being
precipitated in the harbor of Rio yester-
day as one could possibly be. Three
American barks notified Admiral Ben
ham they wished to go to the Sandro
piers, and they were assured they would
be protected. De Cana, learning this,
notified Benham that if the vessels at
tempted to go to the piers he would fire
upon them. Benham replied that the
vessels would go to the piers protected
by the entire American feet if neces-
sary. Early in the morning five insur-
gent tugs hovered about the American
barks, evidently waiting for them to get
under way, when they would fire on
them. Meantime great activity was
going on on the American warships.
The shrill whistle of the boatswsins
clearing the decks for action could be
heard coming from all the ships of the
American feet. At 5 o'clock the Detroit
hoisted anchor and with shotted guns
steamed alongside the insurgent war
ships Trajano and Guanabara, both of
which were lying close to the Good
News, one of the American barks. As
the Detroit took her position shot from
the Guanabara was fred at the Good
News. The Detroit at once sent six
bara, whereupon the latter replied with
what is supposed to have been a blank
shot. The Detroit then shot small
shell into the Guanabara's g sternpost and
was on the point of delivering broad
side at the Guanabara, when the latter
signalled she would stop firing. Mean
time an agent of De CANA had visited
all three of the American barks and
offered to tow them at the expense of
the insurgents if they would not go to
the piers. This they agreed to do.
This arrangement was signalled to De
Cana, who replied: SIT is too late;
the glass is broken. I must yield to
this foreign feet on superior force.
will resign and give my sword to the
American ADMIRAL 1t was expected
later in the day that all the insurgent
officers would seek an asylum on the
American ship, but the younger officers
would not yield. Benham said last
night that De CANA, by his failure to
surrender had lost an easy way out of
his trouble. He added: "However,
that's nothing to me. We have estab-
lished our principle"
LONDON, Jan. 30.-Rothschild's bank
ing house has received dispatch from
Rio de Janeiro saying that Admiral De
Cana has surrendered.
Baron Rothschild said his cable an
nouncing the surrender of Admiral De
Cana came from the most reliable
source. He had no reason to doubt its
accuracy. The Brazilian minister said
he had no doubt the news was true, and
that the final collapse of the revolution
was only question of few days. The
highest officials of the British foreign
Office expressed the opinion that De
Gama's surrender to the United States
admiral was the easiest way out of his
difficulty. The chief question was what
would Admiral Benham do with him.
He could not very well surrender him to
Peixoto to be shot, and could not very
well feed De Canals followers in
definitely.
During the epidemic of la grippe
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy took the
lead here and was much better liked
than any other medicine" II. M. BANGS,
druggist, Chatsworth, Ill. The grip is
much the same as a very severe cold and