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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16

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on, 'he spanish wes, indies. Is receiving
very earnest confederation ln onclal quar-
tyrs ani "a, the white House
To-day the preslden, raw a number OF
caller. in reference 10 this Reconstruction
In our new dependencies
Acting Secretary Ancn. OF tho navy. saw
tho prr-ldcn, concerning cuban AFFAIRS
I, r. probable thar on American naval
yy.-cl vlu 20 TO Havana harbor before
l1ong and "a, 'eas, TWO naval vessels will be
ordered 90 Havana when the military
commission assemblies there 20 determine
upon tho details % the spanish eyacua-
zion.
London Aug 5-Thc Westminster Ca
Ec;,c has received from a London business
mouse report 10 'he '"''' 'h'' M'n'''
ha. faHcn. ana that the American forces
are w ''" possession OF 'h' city
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
THE INSURGENTS DISSATISFIED,

Hong Kong, Aug, lj-The Spanish con-
sui here has not sent to Manila the news
that the protocol has been signed and
probably the Spaniards at Manila will dis
credit the account to be brought them by
the British steamer Australia, as she was
chartered by the Americans. The opinion
here Is that the Germans have arranged
matters with General August
Tho insurgents now at Hong Kong are
not satisfied with the terms of peace pro-
posed by the Americans.
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ing the valley Of the Rio Grande tneT
were fired upon from the hillside BY .
force OF 1.5O0 Spanish. who were retreaiinE
toward the north. The fire was returned
and the Spanish were repulsed With. IL
Is expected. considerable loss.
Colonel Soto. commander Of the Maya
guese district. was wounded and was az
terwards overtaken in a wayslde cottage
He was attended BY two sargents. who
surrendered. The Americans suffered ne
loss General Schwan had not received the
news OF the signing OF the protocol when
the action occurred. but obtained 1t yes
terday afternoon.
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BuRYINe THEIR DEAD.

Santiago, Aug. l5.-The embarkati0n OF
Spanish prisoners Is being pushed xitA
great activity. This is rendered impera-
tive by their horrible condition The
mortality is so great in the Spanish
camp. where disease is rampant. thar no
longer are the dead buried. a funeral pile
Of ten or twelve dead bodies is made
saturated with kerosene. and set on hre.
cremating the bodies in the open air.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
RLANCo RESIGNS.

Madrid. Aug, l6,--5 p. m.-The govern
mcnt has received from Captain General
BlUnco dispatch rendering his resigna-
ton. The reason given by General Rlanco
for resigning is that he does not wish to
superntend the evacuation of cuba.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
ArGusrIN IN HONG KONG.


Hong Kong. Aug. li.--Generl Augustin,
captain general OF the Philippines. ar
rived by the iulscrin Augusta today lie
refuses to be interviewed and will say
nothing more than that he is going 10
Spain az the first opportunity.
II is significant fact that, while the
fastest German cruiser has brought Gen
cral AuSustin she brings only a small
package OF mail FOR the German consul
Tho consul ls now In Canton and his mail
matter remains unopened.
The precise facts are not known, but Is
supposed that General Augustin lied from
the Philippines,
General Augustus wife and family ae-
companed him,
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the Cuban army and that the United
States should pay the men OF. This will
involve the expenditure Of S1j,OOOOO0. but
It Is most important TO the prosperity OF
the island. where the wealth is entirely
agricultural. and nobody daring to culu-
vate his lands while the insurgent bands
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
LEE FOR SENATOR.

Washington. Aug. l5.-1hs Post tomor-
row will say; General Fitzhugh Lee will
enteer the senatorial race In Virginia. This
announcement can be made without any
qualification. 1t is authorized by General
Lee himself
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16

The government is also informed ina;
General August governor general OF the
Philippines. will leave Manila for Spain
By the Tirst mail steamer. giving his COM
mand TO the second In rank.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
REGATTA PROGRESSING FAVOR
ABLY.
Governor Lord and Stan. General Beebe
and Stan. VIII Leave Thursday Morning

Portland. Aug. l5.-The committee
having incharge thePortlandend OF the
Astoria regatta held meeting this af-
ternoon. Reports were received show
ing the regatta to be progressing
rapidly and favorably.
The Astoria general committee sent
word that neither pains or expense
would be spared 10 make the visit OF
the Portlanders to Astoria a memorable
one.
1t was decided to have the COMMITTEES
and state officers leave Portland at 8
O'Clock Thursday morning. They will
go down in Admiral Days flagship
Sadie B. and r. d. Inman's launch
Hoo Hoo,
The marine band will be in attend
ance, and the guests will include Gov
ernor Lord and stan. and Brigadier
General Beebe. Oregon National Guards
and staff.
Articles Of Incorporation Of the Nat
i've Sons Of oregon were filed In the
county clerks office today.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-08-16
ANOTHER BATTLE IN PORTO RICO

Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. l5.-General
Schwan's column was attacked before Ma
aguese and Lares. AS the Eleventh in
fantry, under Colonel Burke. was descend
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ANOTHER DEWEY SUNDAY GIVES MANILA TO US
Reconstruction Of Affairs in Cuba, Porto Rico and Throughout
the Spanish West Indies Has Begun.
SPANISH COMMANDER AT MANILA WAS RESCUED BY THE GERMAN ADMIRAL
HeD
Want Superinen the Evacuation
DiscusiOn-A Be
The Island Will Be Ganisoned by the
Trop-News GreatRe
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reason does not explode the bursting charge, the force of the impact certainly will. The space covered by the flight of the missiles is called the area of disper- sion and at 200 yards this area is about thirty by forty feet. The missiles have enough penetratoive power to use up any man or men within that area
 CAN'T SEE THE MODERN SHELL.
 Speaking generally, the modern shell moves at the rate of about half mile second, and practically in a straight line. In the civil war a soldier under fire could actually see the shells in the air and could
 often dodge them successfully; but one could no more dodge the shell of today than he could get out of the way of a stroke of lightning from heaven. On strik- Ting armor the shell and the armor become red-hot and a sheet of flame bursts forth A shell bursting near a man tears his clothes off, merely from the windage. If it comes very near, but doesn't touch him, it will kill him from the shock.
 The bursting charge of a shell Is little less than half the charge of powder in the gun. Thus, eight-inch shell requires 800 pounds to send it forth from the gun and a bursting charge of 12o pounds. The pro-
 
 'and 250 pounds twelve-inch, 1000 and 520 pounds; and the big sixteen-inch gun, to be finished soon, 2,350 and 050 pounds.
 SMOKELESS POWDER. FOR ARMY.
 The cruiser New Orleans, which was bought abroad with her armament and ammunition, is the only one of our men-of- war besides the Newark which uses smokeless powder. In the army at the outset of the war, a small amount of smokeless powder was issued, but now nothing but the smokeless kind is being sent out by the Ordnance department. In small arms the Krag-Jorgensen rifles and carbines use Smokeless powder in their cartridges, and the Springfields of the vol unters are fired with the ordinary powder, which makes a telltale smoke greatly to the disadvantage of our men.
 Shrapne can be fired from the naval guns and from the larger siege guns, but its only use in the navy would be in she'll ing land Notifications at a comparatively short range. For this purpose common shell usually is used. In the fatal fight of the Texas with the Socapa battery at the entrance to Santiago harbor the day of the landing of Shafter's corps, the supply of common shell had failed and the bat tleship was forced to use the armor-pierc- ing shell, which, though explosive, was not as effective as the common shell would have been. When the Texas had done her work and drew off inquiries were signaled from the flagship if she wanted any help, and the reply was that not help, but com mon shell, was wanted
 From the siege guns and the field artil- lery used in the land bombardment of San tiago shrapnel and common shell were fired, the former at the Spanish soldiers and the latter to destroy the batteries, and houses in which the enemy had taken refuge. c. S. RUSSELL.
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shell has blunt point. It is exploded eith- CT by time fuse or by percussion fuse, or both, in which case the fuse is called a combination fuse. The time fuse Is cut to burn a certain number of seconds, vary ing with the time required for the shell
 to pass over the distance from the gun to the object aimed at The percussion fuse eXplodes upon impact, and the princi-' pie is the same as the percussion cap used on the old muSketS of the civil war days.
 The deadliest shell known is the shrap- mel, named from its inventor, Colonel Shrapnel, of the British army who devised it in 1903. In brief, it is hollow projectile filled with lead balls, which are scattered by an explosion caused either by a time fuse or by percussion fuse, or by both, in a combination fuse. The head and base of the shell are of cast iron. The fuse is placed in either end, and in the larger shells it is inserted usually in the base~ A five-incb~ sl.rapnel contains 2S0 half-inch
 neiis, and altogether 344 separate pieces. The shell itself with all 1t contains fur nishes over $50 implements of death. The balls separated by conical holders, which keep the balls rigid till the moment of dispersion, and which contribute their is effective at a range of more than two, miles, and the best time for it to explode is when the shell is six yards above and fifty yards in front of the enemy. sf,nt.,.,s
 Like the common she'll the fuse of the. shrapnel is usually of the combination kind, so that if the time fuse for any
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FEARFUL HEAT ON WARSHIPs.
Two Hundred and Five Degrees Regis
 tered on the Cincinnati.

A dispatch from Washington to the New York Tribune says: That a mans enemies are sometimes they of his own house. hold' finds apt illustration in the severe conditions which surround in their own vessels the gallant defenders of the stars and stripes at sea. To the flood of heat poured down by an incandescent tropic sun there are added the temperatures ,al- most beyond belief and seemingly beyond human endurance, produced by the fur naces in the firerooms.
 A naval officer once wrote, describing conditions on one of the monitors: "The scene in the fireroom that morning was not of this earth. The heat was almost destructive of life; tools, ladders, doors and all fittings were too hot to touch, and the place was dense with smoke escaping from furnace doors, for there was abso- lutely no draught. The men collected to build up the fires were the best of those remaining fit for duty, but they were worn out physically, were nervous, apprehensive and dispirited. Rough Irish firemen, who would stand, in a fair fight, until killed
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which has restricted their speed has lim- ited also their engine power and the num- Der and volume of their furnace fires. As a result there is, relatively speaking, less heat to be conducted through greater mass, with, as consequence, a lower temperature throughout. Even in these ships, however, the spectacle is daily pre- sented of the blowers pumping "cooling" air at temperature of 100 degrees into the firerooms.
 ically speaking, is the cruiser Cincinnati. In his report for the year 1895 the surgeon general of the navy referred to this ship as follows: Tn the frerooms the average temperature under the above conditions (badly arranged and closed ships) may range from 124 degrees in ships with only one set of fires in each fireroom like the Charleston, to 1S9 degrees (within 23 de- grees of the boiling point of water) when the freroom is between two sets of fires, like the Cincinnati and Amphitrite In the case of the Cincinnati, when only one set of fires is used in each fireroom, the aver age temperature is reduced from 1S9 to 150 degrees
 These, it should be noted, were the tenn peratures of ordinary cruising condi- tions," with everything possible done to reduce them Since war has come this ship has shown what she is capable of in registering a temperature of 205 degrees in the fireroom-a fact easily explainable when one notes that she has 10000 horse power on displacement of 3,213 tons, was at full speed in tropic sea and is inade- quately ventilated. She is now undergoing repairs at Norfolk and it is hoped that before she sails again means of lowering her excessive temperature will be found. In reviewing not only the dangers in &C., tion, but the absolute suffering in the long days betwen, which seamen endure the nation maxwell be proud of the men who have won its victories on the sea.
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in their tracks, were crying like children and begging to be allowed to go on deck so completely were they unnerved and un- manned by the cruel ordeal they had en- dured so long, Hell af1oat' is a nautical figure of speech often idly used, but then we saw it."
 It is both just and pleasant to say that before this ironclad, the Amphitrite, be- gan her service in the present war changes were made in her ventilating system which gave marked improvement in the tenn perature below. Her latest reports give temperatures of 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the engine. room and 14S degrees in the fireroom. Monitors especially are sinners with regard to the excessive heat which may be regarded as almost element of service upon these low-lying buildings of the sea. The figures for the Amphitrite have been already quoted The latest tenn peratures reported from her sister, the Terror, are b5 degrees in the fireroom and 40 degrees in the engine room, while on the Miantonomoh these temperatures are, respectively, 149 degrees and 1SS degrees. A bare statement of these facts gives some idea of the steadfast fortitude and heroic resistance which American human nature
 is opposing in this war to the adverse con- dtions which environ it.
 It is, however, not only the men behind the furnace fire who suffer. The man behind the gun" works also. The con- mander of one of the monitors, who was lately stricken by apoplexy arising, doubt less,f from his arduous service, reported some months since that his ship was al- most unbearable for her crew, and that there was no place on her for weary men to rest. With the suns ray from above, the roaring fires beneath. her deck was but ar oven-plste. Without Ns, superstruc- ture to interpose a blanket of air between them and the baking deck, the suffering of the men was something which the lay men in naval matters cannot measure The conductivity of the hull also carries the heat in the living quarters of the officers It Is reported that the chief engineer of the Terror was able but twice in fifteen months to sleep in his berth owing to the uncomfortable temperature of his room.
 On battleships life is more worth living They have greater freeboard, are loftier between decks, have superstructure be- tween tn turrets, and, finally, the policy
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had fair knowledge of artillery ten years ago and has not kept pace with the ad- vance in the art of war cannot have a clear idea of the modern gun and projectile.
 Leaving the gun out of the question, 1t Is here the purpose to tell how a projectie does its work By projectile is meart-a shell which contains a charge sufficient to explode it. Solid shot is used in warfare no longer This is, first, because such a shot cannot be used for shellianS, a,4S sec ond, even if it is not dest1e1 to use it as e shell it is>st,ff necessary to leave hol-
 the inside, for shot so construct sp6d is tougher and less subject to strain in its penetratiye powers -
 Shell is of three kinds-armor piercing. common, for use mainly against land for tifications, and case, or, as it is called now adays, shrapnel.
 As to the first essential of armourpierc- ing shell, it's power to penetrate the best armor made, this is secured by two means -the process of construction by which the projectile is sufficiently hardened, which process it is not necessary to give in detail here, and the soft cap on the head. The first requires merely the special hardening process on the part of the steel manufacturer.
 USE OF THE SOFT CAP.
 But when in all other respects the pro- jectile was made which would enter and break up the best quality of armor plate, it was found that 1t would not deliver an effective glancing blow. Such an impact caused the projectile to slide off This was a serious objection and for a time no way of overcoming it could be devised. But after a while American ingenuity found the way. We all know how a needle may be driven through cent merely by pressing 1t first through a cork until the point of the needle is flush with the end of the cork. This holds the needle upright, and insures the force of the blow being de- Hvered directly upon the point. So a wise man discovered that by placing a soft metal cap upon the end of the hardest pointed projectile the entire force of that projectile would be exerted a/the point, and this independent of whether the blow was direct or glancing. Besides this, the enormous heat generated by the impact melted the lead cap, which greased the way, of the projectile, and made the work of penetration easier.
 As has been said, nearly all armorpierc- ing projectiles are shells, and, therefore,
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LEMONS AS MEDICINE.

ghey regulate the Liver, Stomach, Bow els, Kidneys and Blood as prepared by Dr. H. Mozley, in his Lemon Elixir, pleas ant lemon drink. It cures biliousness, con- stipation, indigestion, headache, malaria, kidney disease, levers, chills, impurities of the blood, pain in the chest, heart failure, and all other diseases caused by a torpid or diseased liver and kidneys-nine-tenths of all diseases of the south and west are caused by the failure of the liver and kid neys to do their duty. It is an established fact that lemons, when combined properly with other liver tonics produces the most desirable results upon the stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and blood. Sold by drug gists. 50c and $ bottles.
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MONUMENTS.

If you want a nice monu- ment or tablet gotten up in artistic style at very low fig ures do not fail to come to corner 1st ave. and 18th st.
 su-tf Jager & Stockmar.
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explosive. This latter result is caused in two ways-by the heat of impact. and as is far more often the case, by what is called a delayed action fuse. This Is so con- structed that 1t begins its work at the moment of impact, but does not complete 1t for an appreciaBle length of time after the shell has passed through the armor.
 Without entering upon a detailed descrip- tion of the fuse, it is enough to say that at the instant of impact the hammer causes the ignition of the primer, and the
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HoW "A SHELL
 DOES ITS WORK.
the Srapne1No More
 

Not one man in a thousand who talks and hears about smelling" the enemy has any but the vaguest idea of how smelling is done, either with reference to the gun or the shell. Old soldiers can tell some thing about the operation, but their knowl- edge is confined to the round shot of the civil war, a projectie which is not used at all now, having been displaced by the conical projectile. Indeed, the man who
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MOzIey's Lemon Elixir

Cured me of case of heart disease and indigestion of four years standing. I tried dozen different medicines. None but Lemon Elixir done me any good.
 TULES DIEHL, Cor. Habersham and St. Thomas Sts.,
 Savannah, Ga.
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flame is communicated to flat washer of prepared powder, which burns from the edge toward the center, so that second or two is required. to communicate the flame to the bursting charge, the explosion of which breaks up the-shell It is just. such shells as ths~--f t = -ssasa-55y our fleet -i--uuuuuuIIlIf7 Dseeras. s. This siief tne best armor of a ge.s l 1-9 times its own diameter.
 z HOW COMMON SHELL EXPLODES. : Common shell is made of cast iron, and
 contains a large bursting charge This
 shell is not intended for armor piercing, but rather for use upon land Notifications where it is necessary to destroy objects of ! only ordinary resisting power, and incl
 dentally the men around those objects. The
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MOzIey'S Lemon Elixir

Cured me of indigestion. I got more re- lief, and at once, from Lemon Elixir than all other medicines. J. c. SPEIGHTS,
 Indian Springs, Ga.
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MozIey's Lemon Elixir

Cured me of long-standing case of chills and fever, by using two bottles.
 J. c. STANLEY Engineer E. T.. V. & Ga. R. R.
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MozIey,s Lemon Elixir

Cured me of sick and nervous headache I had been subject to all my life.
 MRS. N. A. M'ENTIRE,
 Spring Place, Ga.
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MOzIey's Lemon Elixir.

l fully indorse it for nervous headache, indigestion and constipation, having used 1t with most satisfactory results. after all other remedies had failed. J. w, ROLLO
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"A SIMPLECATARRHC CURE

have spent nearly fifty years in the treatment C. Catarrh and have effected more cures than any spe cialist in the history of medicine. As 1 must soon retire from active life, will from this time on send the means of treatment and cure as used in my practice, Free apd post-paid to every reader of this paper who suffers from this loathsone. danger which anyone is free to accept. Address, PROFESSOR A. Lawrence, 1I4 West 32d St., New York.
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