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Oregon City Courier. A, W. OHKMET, FublUber. REGON CITY OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Jatomatlnf Collection of Current Event la Conileined Form From Moth Continent. 8amuel Cozine, an old Yamhill ooun ty pioneer of 1843, died at bis home ia McMinnvillo, at the age of 73 yean. The Illinois legislature is considering bill giving free school books to all pupils of the public schools of the state. An east-bound Union Pacific passen ger train crashed into a freight train near Green River, Wyo., and severely Injured three men. The Neuvrei Presse of Vienna says that Great Britain has proposed that a collision between the Greek and Turk ish troops on the frontier of Thessaly be prevented by the formation of a neutral one a mile wide between the Qreek and Turkish soldiers, as was done in 1886. Mrs. Marcy Smith was dragged from the bedside of her dying son in Oak land, Cal., in a crazed condition. For a week alio had stood guard in a little oottago where her only boy, Harry, has been at death's door from pneumonia. The mother, worn out by much watch ing and suffering for want of food, gradually lost her reason and was taken way by force to prevent her doing harm to those who had come to nurse her boy. Police Telegraph Operator Harry lireenliofr, of the hast Chicago avenue station, narrowly escaped death while making a heroio rescue of a child from beneath the wheels of an engine on St. Paul bridge. So near did he become to being crushed that his coat was torn off. The child he rescued was but 4 years old, and had wandered on the bridge in front of the fast freight train, whon Greenhofl saw its danger and rescued it, t the peril of his own life. The question of opening the Cascade -timbor reserve for the hording of stock is creating a stir among prominent tockmen of Eastern Oregon. The vari ous stock associations in Wasco, Gil liam, Crook and Sherman counties pro pose to raise a fund of $500 to pay the expenses of a delegate to Washington to properly present tne matter to con gress. The question is a vital one to sheepmen, as the dosing of the reserve to them means such a scarcity of range that successful sheepraising in Eastern Oregon will be impracticable on a large Male. Theodore Durrant has by no means given up the light for his life. George A. Knight has been added to his coun sel, and is now preparing a petition ask ing the supreme court for a rehearing of the application previously made and denied, for a new trial. If this peti tion, which will be sumbitted without argument, be denied, as tho district attorney anticipates, there will only re main the possibility of securing the in terference of the federal courts in Dur rant's behalf. Failing in that, only the action of the president can step be tween the condemned man and the gal lows. Five men were in jural, two fatally, In a railroad acoident at La Grange, III. A meat train bound for Hammond jumped the track on the Belt Line of the Chicago, Hammond & AVestern road. The engine was ditched, two of the cars were telescoped, and tho re mainder of the train thrown from the track. . I A small band of unemployed work men have begun the construction of a boulevard in Golden Gate Park, San KranciBco, to pay for which public sub scriptions have been taken. Ex-Mayor Sntro warned the workmen to keep off his land, and as the boulevard extendi across Sutro's property, work had to be suspended. Sutro has promised to sign a deed for the strip, however. Miss Blanche Berard, tho oldest postmistress in tho country, who hus hold office for a half century, has re . signed. Administrations and presi- dents changed, postmaster-generals , came and went, postonlc.es were reor ganized and reclassified, great political ' upheavals annihilated every branch of the government, but she remained un disturbed at West Point. N. Y. A Havana special to tho Now York World says: Through Cubans here it is learned that strain currying Spanish troops was blown up by dynamite while passing over a deep gorge south of Can dclaria, Piiiar del Kio province, and neary 250 soldiers were killed or in jured. Tho locomotive and six ears were demolished. The tragedy occurred about the 10th inst. FIRST DAY OF DEBATE. the House Takei l p the Tariff Bill In Karnent. THE OAKES IS SAFE Washington, March 24. -The first day of the tariff debatd in tho house was rather tume, from both a spectacu lar and an oratorical standpoint. The galleries were well filled all day, and the members on the floor listened con scientiously; but there was un absence both of that sharp cross-firing which keeps the nerves on edge and that bril liant eloquence which inspires and holds the imagination. The opening of the debate was delayed over two hours by the full reading of the bill of 163 pages, and this, to begin with, had a some what depressing influence. The Repub lican leaders insistod on this to avoid the possible appearance in the future, should the consideration of the bill not be completed under the five-minute rulo, of a claim that the bill had not been read in full in the house, a thing whioh happened in the cases of both the McKinley and Wilson bills. Only four seeches were made at today's ses sion. JJingley, chairman ol tne ways and means committee, opened in an hour's speech for the majority, and Wheeler fired the broadside for the opposition. The plans of the Democrats had mis carried. Bailey, leader of the opposi tion, had decided to close the debate and McMillin had been selected to re ply to Dingier; but at the lust moment it was learned that McMillin had been nnuble to prepare liiniBelf, owing to the illness of his wife. The tusk, there fore, devolved upon Wheeler. The latter was unprepared, but, neverthe less, took the floor for an hour. Bell bluzed the path for the Populists. The only other speaker at the day session was Hopkins, a member of the ways and means committee. Bailey of Texas presented to the house tonight the minority report on the tariff bill. It wai signed by all the Democratic mombers of the ways and means committee, and gives the grounds of their opposition to the bill. It says: "This bill was framed with the avowed purpose of protecting the man ufacturers of tho United States against foreign competition, and it is perfectly obvious that, if it accomplishes that purposo, it must result in compelling the consumers of this country to pay more for their manufactured goods, and for this reason we think it should not pass. We rest our opposition on the broad principle that congress was in vested with the power of taxation as a means of collecting from euch oitizen his fair proportion toward the support of the government, and that it is a gross perversion of that sovereign power to employ it as a mdans of enabling favored classes to lovy unjust charges upon the great body of the people." The report says the disapproval of the bounty system, aa applied to the sugar industry, has been so pronounced that the committee dared not insert it in the bill, and, in the opinion of the signers, the payment of bounties is preferable to the tariff tax, as being more direct and simple. The report concludes: ' "We are unable to offer a substitute for the pending bill, because we have not been allowed a reasonable time to prepare one. Congress convened in ex traordinary session Monday, and this bill was introduced the same day and referred to the committee on ways and meuns, which met tho next morning, and on Thursday it was ordered to be reported to the house. The majority ' f. Arrives in New York After a Terrible Voyage. LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BURST Killed Engineer nnil Fireman, but I'm ongeri Knew Nothing of It. Chioago, March 23. The boiler of A TERRIBLE DISASTER the locomotive, which wus hauling the Exposure, Starvation, Mad- CREW STRICKEN WITH SCURVY six of tho committee had the three months of tho lust session of the last congress in whioh to prepare their bill, and yet they refused to allow the minority three weeks in which to prepare a sub stitute. We were unwilling to pro poso a measure that had not been care fully matured, and we must therefore content ourselves with protesting against the passage of committee's bill." Governor Rogers, of Washington, has issued his Arbor day proclamation, recommending that Friday, April 80, 1897, be devoted by the people of Washington to planting trees, shrubs and vines and in other ways beautify ing their homes. In connection with the governor's proclamation, State Su perintendent Brown bus prepared a programme to he rendered in the dif ferent grades of the public schools from the first to the grammar grade, inelu aive. Charles Rodutinsky, a farmer, with hia wife and baby, started from Omaha in a covered wagon with a gasoline atove. Tho stove exploded, the team ran away, and the occupants of the wagon were fatally burned. W. C Wills, of Hay creek, Crook county, acting upon the request of oiti aens of hia section, has a nod Gover nor Lord to intercede in behalf of the Eastern Oregon people in the matter of the exclusion of stin k from the Cascade reserve, by making a speciul request of the president. In the Senate. Washington, March 24. The senate today agreed to a resolution requesting tho president for information as to the death of Dr. Ruiz, in Cuba. Among the bills reported was the Lodge bill, restricting immigration. Pettigrew reported tho bill for free homes on public lands, and gave notice of an endeavor to Becuro action at the earliest possiblo moment. Several other bills relating to Indian u ITairs and public lands were reported and placed on the calendar Appointed by McKinley. Washington, March 24. Tho presi dent today sent the following nomina tions to the senate: Stato Joseph L. Bristow, of Kan sas, fourth assistant postmaster-general. Interior Binger Herman, of Oregon, commissioner of the general land office. Justice J. D. Elliott, attorney for tho district of South Dakota. Treasury Ernest G. Timme, of Wis consin, auditor for the state and other departments (fifth auditor). Navy Commodore Joseph N.Miller, ' to be rear-udmiral. : Men Died on the Pannage Cap- Vln'f Wife Took Her Tun at tlu Wheel. New York, March 23. The long overduo clipper'ship T. F. Oakes, which left Hong Kong, July 4, 1806, 259 days ago, with a general cargo, for this port, and which had been given up as lost, was towed into port this morning, by the British tank steumer Kuskeck,' Captain Muir, who picked her up lust Thursday. The crew were sick with scurvy, and six had died. The Kasbeck was bound from Phila delphia for Fiume, Austria, with a cargo of oil, and left the former port Saturday, March 13. On the following evening, at 11 o'clock, blue light" were seen. Cuptain Muir ordered the steam er b course altered, and tne steamer bore up to the distress signal. At 1 o'clock', Bhe was close ulongside the ship and stood by until daybreak, when signals were observed flying from tho ship, asking that a bout be sent ulong side, as the ship's crew were so help less as to be unable to man their own boats. Chief Officer C. P. Helshem and three seamen at once put off in the Kasbeck's yawl, and, when within speaking distance, heard a tale of suffer ing and sickness from those on board 'the ship such as made them shudder. Captain Heed, of the Oakes, reported that his crew were all laid up with scurvy, and that tho provisions wore well-nigh exhausted, lie was unable, to navigate the ship with the few hands he had at his command, and begged that he at once be supplied with fresh food, and vegetables and taken in tow for the nearest port. Mate Ilelshum returned to tho Kuskeck with the mes sage, und Captain Muir at once decided to ta'.ce the vessel in tow. T.ie weather, which had been threat ening, now became boisterous, and a northerly gale sprang up. Neverthe less, preparations were made to pass a hawser to tho Oakes, when the bout, with a loud of provisions was sent. Tho sea was rough at the time, but Chief Officer Helshem volunteered to attempt to board her, and, as the en gineers reported the propeller to be working well, it was decided to send a hawser aboard. Accordingly, a line was dragged by tho boat, and 'after a deal of hard work, two hawsers were made fust. Mr. Helshem and his boat's crew of three did most of the work on the ship. They found only the second and third mutes able to help them. The provi sions they brought were a godsend to the scurvy-stricken survivors of the ship's crew, and they began to gather hope that they might live to see land again. From the time the hawser waB passed until New York was reached, no incident of importance ocourred. Captain Reed, of the Oakes, told a terrible story of suffering and privation. When the Oakes sailed from Hong Kong the crew was apparently in the best of health, with the exception of Captain Reed, who had been ailing for some time, but who, under the careful nurs ing of his devoted wife, thought him- on tne road to recovery. When about six days out in the China sea, a torriflo typhoon was encountered, last ing several days, during which the fore and main topmasts were sprung. The j vesssel was obliged to run before the i gale, which had no sooner blown itself out than it was followed by a second typhoon, which blew with great fury for twenty-four days. . The vessel had then got well out in the North Pacific, and so far off her course that Captain Reed decided to shape his course via Cape Horn, rather than by Cape of Good Hope, hoping thereby to mako bettor time. The weather remained fine until Cape Horn was rounded, 167 days out. In tho meautime the Chinese cook had been tuken down with a severe cold and died November 11. Afterward a seaman named Thomas King was taken down with what appeared to be scurvy, and died December 20. In quick succession Seaman Thomas Olden was taken sick and died January 12; Chicago and Boston special, on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern road, blew up this morning, instantly kill ing the engineer and fireman and com pletely demolishing the engine. The dead are: Alexander Franks, engineer, of Chioago; Edward B. Smith, fireman, of Chicago. The enigneor was hurled 200 feet into the air through a network of tele graph wires that were stretched along the tracks and had his right leg torn off. , The fireman was thrown against a cattle car with such force that almost every bone in his body was broken. None of the rest of the train crew nor any of the pussengers were injured. The train to which the engine was attached is one of the fustost on the Lake Shore, and leaves Van Buren street, depot at 10:30 in the morning. The accident occurred about 11 o'clock, as the train hud just pulled out from ness, Then Death. LOSS OF THE V1LLE STE. NAZAIRE An Ocean Tragedy of Exceptional Horror Eighty Liven Loit Htorlet of Survivor. New York, March 22. Of eigty-two persons comprising the passengers and crew of the steamer Vine Ste. Nazaire, which Bailed from this port March 6 for Port au Prince, Hayti, only four are known to have survived the disas ter which befell the craft a few hours later. These four passed through an experience such as fortunately has been the lot of but few, seeing one after an other of the thirty-one others who left the steamer in a large bout perish of Eniflewood. and was runnim? at the rata : exposure to the cold or die of hunger, of twenty miles un hour. A peculiar i some suffering, during the seven days feature of the exnlosion was the fact i 1,1 whlch they drifted helplessly with that although the report was so loud it ' out Bail or cmpi"fl. P"1?" that drove was heard bv residents half a mile . them to madness before death came to BLOCKADE HAS BEGUN. Front away, and the force so great that the engine was literally blown to atoms, none of the passengerB in the rear part of the train heurd the report and were ! not aware that anything unuBual had I happened until they looked out after I the train had come to a sudden stop. The train went about 150 feet after the explosion took plane, and, although the stop was quite sudden, none of the pas sengers were thrown from their Beats, and not one of the coaches was dam aged by the explosion or by the sudden stop. The force of the explosion was ap parently upward and outward, us parts of the engine were thrown into the air 100 feet, and pieces of the boiler were tossed into a swamp, a distance of 250 feet, while tho baggage car, directly behind tho engine, wus not damaged i in any way. It is not known just what caused the their relief. Among the survivors is ScnorTagudo, a San Domingian, who was compelled to witness the death of his wife and four children without being able to ui leviate their sufferings. What became of the forty-four persons besides these mentioned above can only be surmised, although there is a remote' possibility that one or more of the three boats in which they left the sinking steumer in tho midst of a fierce storm off Capo Hatterus, has been picked up by a sail ing vessel. i The Ville Ste. Nazaire wns a single screw bark-rigged steumer of 2,040 tons register. She was owned by the Coin-pagnieTruus-Atluntique Qenorale. The accident vividly recalls the fate of the same company's steamer Ville de Havre, which went down November 23, 1873, with 226 people on board. Tho Ville Ste. Nazaire was commanded by Cap- explosion, officials of the road saying ! lllln -"'gnena, a saiiorol experience .ana that it will not be determined until ablllty- Hard weather was experienced what remains of the engine is taken i rom the timo the steamer left this port apart and examined. It wus thought at first that there was no wuter in the boiler, but this theory was abandoned, as it was a through train, and the en- ! gino had just been tuken from the roundhouse. It wus rumored that the boiler was defective in some respects, i but this was denied by officials of the road. The latter say the looomotive 1 was in good condition in every respect, I until the water begun pouring into und over her, and it was determined to abandon her. The passengers and crew took four boats, tho fifth having been crushed in the attempt to lower it. There had been no time to provision the boats. It was night, and in tho midst of a storm the transfer was made. Captain Berri, manager of the West Indian line of the Compagnie Trans- Oreek Ship Will Ite Prevented Approaching Crete. , Canea, March 23. The situation in Crete today may be descrilwd as one of expectancy. Thia morning tle fact that the blockade had formally begun was generally communicated from Canea to all points in the island in the telegraphic circuit. Pillaging still continues. Three Turkish soldiers who were caught in the aot of pillage Saturday night Hal epa fired on the gendarmes, who re turned the fire, killing ono of them. Some doubt is now 'expressed by offi cials here as to whother Colonel Vussos, commander of the Greek forces iit Crete, will be ablo to hold out long, owing to the scarcity of provisions. It is denied by the officials that there is friction between the admirals and tho consuls. Foreign Wanhlpi at Crete. Irtndon, March 23. The Athens correspondent of the Times gays a strong gale is blowing across the Agean sea, which will make tho blockade ex ceedingly difficult. ' It is reported the admirals purposely refrained from interfering with vessels whioh have recently landed provisions in Crete, one having discharged a car go at Akrotiri almost under the eyes of the admirals. The necessity of removing the Turk ish troops from the island becomes more and more imperative. Absolute ly nothing else, continues the corres pondent, will convince the Cretans of Europe's sincerity. It may be regarded as certain that they will even prevent the departure of the Greek army by force until the Turks have gone. There is no time to be lost. It is impossible that Greece and Turkey could long sup port the armies they have mobilized. Eaoh will favor provoking a struggle to seeing its troopB starve. . THE AMERICAN TARIFF. had been in .rvi,n nhnnt. var. Atiantique uencrale, was one ol the 35 and wus considered one of the fastest men who embarked in the larger of the emrines on th rond. "i na nPon m developed the that it wus pulling was ihe train known as No. 10, and is a through train from Chicago to Boston. PRESIDENT CISNEROS DEAD. Hano Becomes Head of the Cnban Itepublio. Havana, March 23. It is reported from Camaguey that Salvador Cisneros, president ol tho uuoan republic, is command oi that Iran reiugo tor so many souls. He, Senor Tagudo, Luutz, the third engineer, and Maire, the ship's doctor, are the only ones surviv ing. They were brought to Perth Am boy yesterday by the schooner Hilda, which came upon them March 14, as they were drifting at sea with the dead bodies of four of their fellow-passengers in a small boat. The survivors were almost dead from starvation and expo sure, and were too weak to relieve the dead; that Vice-President Bartlome small boat of the weight of the corpses, Masso succeeds him as president, and i The four rescued men were brought to that Dr. Capott, ex-professor of the Havana university, will be appointed vice-president. General Cjuintin Bandora has re turned to Camaguey. A largo body of insurgents is con centrated near Suncti Spiritus, and a combined movement of Spanish troops against them is expected. this city from Perth Amboy in the tug Idlewild Inst night. Captain Berri is being attended by Dr. L. Deplezzo, who entertains doubts of his recovery, and declares that he must have endured most terrible harships. Tho Ste. Nazaire cleared from New York for Port au Prince on March 6. On the following day, according to the For the last few days, Coptain-Gen- ! story told by one of the survivors, the Chlneae lilrls Will He Departed. San Francisco, March 24 Special agents of the treasury today arrested sixty Chineso girls, who, it is said, were improperly landed at this port while the Dick Williams investigation was in progress, and no Chineso inter preter was employed by the depart ment. All the women who have no registration papers w ill be deported. Kegalna lilt Freedom. Washington, March 24. Another American who has been held under ar rest in Cuba, has been released. He is Francis Cusseanas, arrested at Sugua, on February 13. The arrest was de nounced by Consul-General Lee as a great outrage, whereupon the state de- part men t begun at once to move in be- 1 half of the man, with the result that he was sent at liberty yesterday. The number of Americans now under arrest in Cuba is reduced to eight. , another seaman, was taken ill with cancer of the stomach, and later Mate Stephen Bunker showed symptoms of scurvy. Tho latter died February 4, and wus quickly followed by George King, on old man, who died on the 9th. On the 17th Judge succumbed, making in all six deaths. One by ono tho other sailors were obliged to quit work, until on March 1 nobody was left except tho second and third mates, tho captain and his wife. All were well-nigh exhausted, and when a strong northerly gale blew up that day, the brave woman was obliged to take the wheel, and for eight hours without relief and without as much as a drink of water, she kept the ship on her course. The provisions were running short, although a supply had been obtained January 12 from tho American ship Governor Robie, from New York for Melbourne, when off the island of Trin idad, and the crew was left without other than the barest necessities. A sharp lookout was kept for passing ves- j sels, but nothing was seen until the ; Kaskbeck hove in sight. The only ! vessel during the voyage, with the ex- i ception of the Kobie, was a northbound Lamporet & Holt steamer, which passed ' the Oakes off Pernambuco, but was too j far off to distinguish signals. eral Weyler Ins been greatly annoyed by a serious affection of the throat with supperation of the glands of the oeso phagus. On Wednesday, after a con sultation with his physicians, it was , decided that for a tiine the patient must have absolute rest. As he snf- j fered severely from dysentery when in the field, his medical advisers would j not allow him to return there for some j time on that account also. In addition to the lad Nelson, several j other American boys have arrived at Havana within the last few days with tho intention of joining the insurgent army, but the advice given thera is to return to the United States. The boy, i Hobort fcmmett Scully, of Somerville, N. J., who came to join the insurgents, will probably be shipped back to New York at the request of his family and Thomas Judge, ' of the American state department. I Caught by a Belt. Astoria, Or., March 23. Charles ! Seeley, an employe of the Young's River pulp mills, met a horrible fate at 4 o'clock this morning. Ho was one of the two men employed on the night shift. The belting that operates tho large grinders flew off the pulleys, and the signal was given the engineer to shut down until it was replaced. As this was being done, and while the shaft was revolving slowly, Seeley reached up and caught hold of the belt. It is supposed his arm went through a loop, and, becoming entangled, the young man was sent whirling with the shaft. The first revolution threw him against the ceiling, killing him. Be fore the machinery could be stopped the body hail been mashed to a pulp. Seeley was 20 years of age, and a na tive of Illinois. He had lived here alxmt a year and had relatives on Young's river. j Spanlah Official Report. Havana, March 23. During the ten leak was discovered, hut it was not thought to be sufficiently serious to war rant a return to port. By the middle of the second day, however, the leak hud increased to a dungerous extent, and a portion of the cargo on the port Bide of the vessel was damaged by the water, which had commenced to pour in in great quantities. A terrible storm arose on the night of the second day, and the heavy seas, together with the big leak, rendered the escape of the vessel from shipwreck an impossibility. Realizing that the ship was doomed, the captain ordered the four lifeboats to be lowered, and into them crowded the passengers and crew. The boats were soon swept apart by the wind and waves. The boat which was found by the Hilda six days after the sinking of the steamship is the only one of the four boats that has been heard of. Thirty five persons, it is said, were crowded into the boat from which the survivors were taken. One by one all but the four rescued men died from exposure or hunger, or were swept into the deep by waves which broke over the small boat. The bodies of the dozen who died in the boat during the first days of its ter rible voyage were thrown over board by the survivors. But those who with stood the elements and managed to live without food or drink, at last became too weak to rid the boat of its ghastly freight, and were compelled for days to gaze upon the stiffened corpses of their unfortunate companions. Agent Forget, of the French line, is doing all in his power to make the survivors comforta ble. Captain Berri, who is 53 years of age and a trusted employe of the French line, is under the care of a doctor. The physician found his patient's throat fearfully parched and his lungs in the same condition. After examination, the doctor said that with careful treat ment he might recover. It would be over a week, however, before he could take any solid food. The captain's Arouaei the German Fren to a Spirit of Animosity. Berlin, March 23. The German press displays Bpecial interest in the- new American tariff. The Cologne Gazette publishes the full text of the bill, and all leading newspapers pub lish extracts from it, and editorials on the Bubjeot. These hitter breathe a. spirit of fierce animosity, and a strong desire for reprisals. The Kleiner Journal says: If this bill becomes a law, Europe. and especially Germany, must feel it to be an intentional blow in the face. A large port of our exports is thereby prohibited, and exports of another part is rendered extremely difficult. Many of our industries will be forced to completely reorganize their system of production, raise the quality of their goods and specialize. This will require a period of experiment and delay. In the meanwhile, much of the commerce and industry will be lost. Referring to the currency plans of the United States, the Kleiner Journal says: "We deem silver to be a danger to gold countries, especially to Germany, even greater than the tariff. Tho re mainder of our commerce in America will be put on a shifting basis, and great losses are threatened to our finan cial investments in the United States. Our holdings in the Northern Pacifio railway alone amount to 2,000,000 marks, and billions of German capital will be imperilled." The Tageblatt, National Zeitung, Cologne Gazette, Weiser Zeitung, and Hamburger Nachrichten publish simi lar articles. A MURDER AVENGED. 88 who surrendered. They lost 164 The Oakes is a three-masted ship, j firearms and 1,000 Bide arms. The built by the late Commander Conine, I Span'90 lot during the ame period at Philadelphia, in 18S3, She regis-I three officers and twenty-four soldiers ters 1,897 tons. On March 13 she wai ' billed; sixteen officers and 268 soldiers days ending Thursday, the insurgents body is covered with bruises from being nave iosi ij Kineo, among mem Deing xnrown arxmt the boat while she was one leader, eight officers, besides eight tempest-tossed. privates who were taken prisoners and reinsured at 90 guineas premium. wounded. Decorated by the Pope. Rome, March 23. The pope has conferred decorations upon several French officers who saved Roman Cath olic religious houses during the fires j at Canea. Pearl Bryan's Slnyera Died on the ScaU'old. Newport, Ky., March 23. The mur der of Pearl Bryan, fourteen months ago, was avenged today. Scott Jack son and Alonzo Walling were executed at 11:45 A. M. from the same scaffold. There was a double trap, but only ono lever, ana when SiienH Plummer pullod the lever, both dropped the same in stant. Walling, however, lingered a moment longer than Jackson. The heck of neither was broken, and both struggled hard in the process of strangu lation. The arrangements were complete, and the performance was so perfect that it was without any incident unusual on, such occasions. Both men were nervy to the lust, and on the gallows protest ed their innocence, and died with their secrets, so that it may never be known, what was done with the head of Pearl Bryan, or where she lodged the two nights previous to her murder, or what part each took in the decapita tion, or whether others were implicat ed. There were over 800 men men within the enclosure to witness the ' hanging, and many thousands gathered around the jail yard, but the special deputies and police maintained order. The execntion was quickly dispatched, as neither man had anything to say on the gallows, except to declare his inno cence, and Rev. A. J. Lee was brief in hia remarks. Capitol Bill Tetoed. Olympia, Wash., March 23. The capitol building project has been put to sleep for two years more. Governor Rogers today refused to give the meas ure his official sanction, and stated as his reason that it was not legally passed. Destroyed by Fire. Ottumwa, la., March 23. A disas trous fire broke out this evening in a brick business block on Main street owned by the Seth Richards estate, and destroyed property valued at $180,000. After a hard fight the fire department succeeded in getting the fire under con trol The property destroyed was in sured for f 100, 000. The gardener should remember that harmless snakes are expert and vora cious bng catchers. 4.