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The New Age.
VOL. IV.
PORTLAiND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1900.
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ant llnppcnlni; of tho 1'Kst Week
Culled From the Telocrnph Columns
Dr. Loyds is bolng lionlzod in Perllu.
I'coplo of China nro said to take
impcriitl changes with great equani
mity. Willinm .Tonuinga Bryan will nccopt
.tho Populist nomination for tho presi
dency.
Lord Paunccfoto will rotiro aa am
bassador of Great Britain to tho United
States, April 1.
Tho interatato comnioreo commission
has sued tho Northern 1'iioiflo to on
forco disregarded lawa.
Senators aro Hiiid to want no change
in tho manner ot their election. Tho
Iiouho favors popular vote.
Dundonald'H forces, for whom fears
woro entertained, aro nufo on tho houth
bank of tho Tugula rivor.
Five business men of Walla Wnlhi
woro victimized by a smooth forger,
who cashed bogus checks.
Tho I'rinco Regent of Bavaria has
conferred tho Order of St. Michaels,
llrst-clasB, on Dr. Nansen, the explorer.
lit Ciiiciuuati, Cliarlos HarlrutF, a
tanner, killed his wife, his sou and his
daughter and then tried to hot tho
houso on fire.
A funeral traiih arranged by tho
Southern Pacillc, will convey tho re
mains of General Lawton and Major
Logan to tho Hunt.
James II. Hritton, ox-mayor of St.
Louis, and for many years one of tho
leading bankers of tho Wost, died at
Ardloy, N. Y., aged 83.
London papers scathingly criticizo
tho language of lluller's report, and
accounts of buttle from Hour sources
aro accepted as correct.
Judge li an ford has discharged lb of
tho 23 jurors who had boon serving on
tho regular panel in tho federal court
at Tacoma. Tho remaining members
will report again ou March 20.
Captain C. II. Stockton, prosidont
of tho naval war college, says: "Com
mand of tho sea on our North Pacillo
coast and tho waters of the western
basin of tho North i'aoillo should bo in
our hands in peace and war timo.
This can only bo effected by readiness
of a propor and sutliciont naval forco
either ou tho spot, or to bo furnished
from tho Atlantic through an tin
tramelled canal. In addition to this,
and ready for (ombining, should bo tho
available forces normally attached to
tho Philippines and thu waters about
China, Japan and Covca. In other
words, tho I'aoillo ocean, from Samoa
northward, should bo within our
control."
Tho plight of Kimberloy is urgent.
Tho kaiser's birthday was colohrated
in tho usual way throughout Germany
Puller's Army has H'trated to tin
Fouth of tho Tugela, with heavy lossos.
Revolution iu Venezuela, under tho
leadership of Hernandez, is spieadiug.
Firo in Minneapolis destroyed a four
story brick building, causing a loss of
$120,000.
Kdgar Oswalt, u (I-year-old boy of
Astoria, was run over by a street car
and fatally injured,
Tho Hank of Dcorflold, Dccrflold,
Wis., was robbed of about if 1 7,000.
The vault was blown open by dynamite.
Firo destroyed tho works of tho Kloo
trio Improvomout Company at San
Jose, Cal., entailing a loss of '$100,000.
Samuel Gompers, in a conforouco
with President MuKinley, advocated
an eight-hour law for all' government
work.
It is said that Lord Roberts favored
leaving Ladysmith to its fate and
marching ou liloemfoutoin, capital of
Orango Free State.
Tho surgeon-general of tho murine
hospital service bus shipped to Hono
lulu 1,000 doses of halirkino prophylac
tic, a plague serum.
Phil Armour Jr., son of tho Chicngo
millioiiaiie, died suddenly iiutr Saiitu
Uarbara, Cal. Deatli was duo to con
gestion of thu limns.
Dr. Leyds, diplomatio agent of tho
Transvaal, says tho Poors do not need
to apply for mediatiou, us everything
was going splendidly.
Three masked men entered tho fac
tory of Dr. Peter Fahruoy & Son, at
Chicago, blow open the safe aud escaped
with $1,700 iu currency.
Tho senate committee on Puerto
Pico, has decided that thu island shall
bo known as Porto Pico, and not
Puerto Kico, as fixed by a recent execu
tive order.
Tho weather in the vicinity of Mel
lourue, Australia, has broken all ru
cords for heat recently, On Now
Year's day five deaths occurred from
nroHtratioii. Tho thermometer stood at
' 114 in tho shade, and 150 iu the sun.
LATER NEWS.
Tho Boera orodlt divino providence
with their Tugela victory.
No rivor and harbor bill will bo pre
sented at this session of congress.
Genoral Correa, formerly ministor of
war for Spain, is dead at Madrid.
Tho Uritish parliament has reassem
bled. No disorder was manifested.
Aloxandor Dunsmuir, tho coal king
of tho Paeiilo co.ist, died in Now York
city, agud 47 yours.
Servicos in commomoratiou of tho
martyrdom of Charles I, of Kugland,
woro hold in Boston.
Tho transport Missouri, on routo to
Sau Francisco from Manila, has 17 in
Hiino soldiers aboard.
Firo destroyed tho business portion
of tho town of Winllold, Kan. Hun
dreds of peoplo aro hmnoless.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill do
scribes tho buttlo of Spiuukop aa tho
hardoht .light of tho South African war.
All is quiet in Samoa. Tho tmtivos
nro inoro sottlod than at any timo sinco
tho disturbance- hotween tho native
factions.
Tho EhoriiT of Colfax, "Wash., has
o (Toted a roward of $500 for tho capturo
of Clemens, tho murderer of a man
named Poland.
A special dispatch from Capo Town
says 150 American scouts, who arrived
thero as muleteers, have eullstud in
tho British forces.
A cold wnva is prevailing east of tho
Kooky mountains. Tho temperature is
oiglit degrees below zero at Chicago nnd
six below at Omaha.
Tho Fergus Printing Company, of
Chicago, ono of thu oldest printing
houses in thu citv, was thrown Into tho
streets for non-payment of rent.
Great Northern ollleials and em
ployes' grievance committee hold a
conference aud it is announced thoro
will bo no strike, all diil'eruuces being
Bottled.
Governor Taylor declares that a state
Df insurrection now prevails in Ken
tucky. Ho has ordered tho legislature
adjourned, but tho Democrats have re
fused to obey his edict.
It. V. Wilson has been arrostod in
San Francisco on tho charge of having
embezzled a paokago containing $1100,
while ho was agent for tho Great
Northern Express Company at Frank
lin, King county, Wash.
Leu Gong, a Chinaman of Fargo, N.
D., who alleges St. Louis is his home,
appealed today from tho United Stilton
court to tho soorotary of tho treasury,
iixl was released on bail. Ho was tho
Irst of thu 70 Chinamen charged with
I'iulating thu exclusion act, to ho heard
jy tho courts.
Plague at Honolulu is under control.
Dawson ovil-doors aro forced to saw
ivood.
Genoral Pallor's position is becoming
precarious.
Surveyors aro now nt work on tho
Oregon Midland railway routo.
A big steol mill was wracked iu
I'ittsburg by a boiler explosion. j
j mn was wiiroiiucuu in congress to
provide mining laws for Capo Nome.
Money is now ready for tho purchase
Df thu Salem, Or., federal building situ.
Census Supervisor Kelly has loft for
Alaska to enter upon his duties thoro.
Owing to a split in tho National
League, Paltimoro may losu her hasu
ball club.
An attempt to rob tho Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway train at Holdeu,
Mo., was frustrated.
Tho United States transports City of
Pueblo and Senator havo arrived at
Sau Francisco from Manila
Near Coruuua, Spain, a torpedo boat,
imiiiu and nationality unknown, has
been totally lost, with all on board.
Quarantine nlllcurs in Sau Francisco
tru adopting stringent measures to pro
tect that Krt from tho bubonic plague.
Tho Union hotel; at Povolstoko, II.
C, was totally destroyed by firo, tho
blaze originating iu the furnace room.
The German steamer Hemus bus been
wrecked near Aarhaus, Denmark,
uhero she was lxmud. Thu captain
and 13 men perished.
Colonel Charles F. Williams, com
mandor of thu United States murine
corps at Maro Island, died suddenly of
hemorrhage of the stomach.
"Nick" llaworth, suspocted murder
er of Night Watchman Saudall, at
Kaysvillo, Utah, attempted to commit
Hiiicldo at Salt Laku by bleeding.
Robert Fitzsimmous now claims he
was drugged when be mih whipped by
James JoiTrius for the championship
)f thu world at Coney Island, last June.
A runaway olecti io car on tho Day
ton & Xenia traction road, at Dayton,
(J,, left thu track at a sharp curvu and
was demolished, killing tiireu persons.
An American scouting party of tho
Twenty-fifth was caught iu ambush by
Filipinos and an ofllcer aud three men
killed. Insurgents lost 40 iu killed and
wounded.
Senator William Goebol, of Ken
tucky, was shot and seriously wounded
by a crazed Keutuckian, two shots pas
sing entirely through thu Democratic
leador's lody.
BY
Attaok Upon Scouting1 Party
of the Twenty-fifth.
FOUR AMERICANS WERE KILLED
Insurgi-nM Lost Forty In Killed nnd
Wounded Company In tho Heitr Ko
colored tho Undies of Americans.
Manila; Fob. 1. A scouting party
of tho Twenty-fifth infantry, while op
erating near Subig, was ambushod by
Insurgents and a lieutenant and three
privates woro killed and two or thrco
privates wounded.
A company somo distance in tho
rear, on hearing tho firing, hurried to
tho scotio and recovered tho bodies.
The local papers assort, although tho
statement is not continued, that tho
insurgents lost 40 iu killed and
wounded.
FOR THE FILIPINOS.
Hi'iiiitor Uui'on of (Jcurclii Spoko on
Ilia Iti'Holiitlon.
Washington, Feb. 1. For mora than
tbreo hours today Bacon of Georgia oc
cupied the attention of the senate with
a discussion of the Philippine question.
His argument, which had for its basis
his own resolutions declaratory of tho
government's policy toward tho Phil
ippines, was llstonod to carefully by
his fellow-senators and by a largu gal
lery audience. Ho maintained that
! u'utou niates owes as much to ino
j H""w h It 1ooh to tho Cubans, to '
' whom- b-v " f congress, Mill-1
government has been promised, and ho ;
I nimiiij uii'ii iiiiii, inn lUMiiiiuuiin, uu- i
. olarlug it to bo tho intention of this
government to confer thu right of gov-1
eminent upon thu Filipinos, bo adopted I
its a means not only of terminating the I
war, but of extending to tho struggling
peoplo justice aud freedom.
In thu IIimihc
The houso was in session a llttlo over
ono hour today, and only business of
minor importance was transacted.
F.ddy (Rep. Minn.) rose to a ques
tion of privilege, calling tho attention
of tho houso to fraudulent representa
tions mado by alleged agents of tho set
of books known as "Messages aud Pa
purs of thu Presidents of tho United
States." Richardson (Dcm. Tenn.).
who compiled tho volumes upon tho
order of congress, explained that con
gress had voted him a copy of the
plates for thu volumes for his labor,
and lie had mado a contract with tho
publisher, from whom ho received a
small royalty. Ho was as much op
posed to fraudulent representations as
any ono. r.ddy disclaimed any inten
tion of rellectiug up mi Richardson.
Resolutions were adopted calling
upon tho secretary of the navy and thu
secretary of war for information as to
tho amount of money expended aud thu
amount for which tho government ia
liable remaining unpaid, for equip
ments, transportation, supplies and
naval operations in thu Philippine is
lands from May 1, 1808, to November
1, 180U.
Under tho call for enmmit'eos, a hill
to authorize tho secretary of ,var to ac
cept a site for a military jwst near Des
Moines, la., was passed; also a bill to
extend tho timo for tho completion oi
tho incline railway ou West Mountain,
Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas.
At 1:10 P. M. tho houso adjourned.
ht'iuitor (JihOm'I Shot Dunn.
Frankfort, Ky., Fob I. While walk
lug tluouL'h tho capitol grounds, on his
way to tliu capltol uuildlug, at 1 1 : iu
u':ioek tliis morning, William Goebol,
thu Democratic contestant for governor
of Kentucky, was shot down aud very
dangerously wounded.
Harlaud W'hittakor, a farmer from
Putler county, the home of Governor
Taylor, is now in jail in Louisville,
charged with tho crime. There is no
direct evidence against Whittakor, and
ho was place under arrest more because
ho was caught arotu'ul thu capitol build
ing when thu shots were fired than fot
any other apparent reason. Ho denied
iu thu most positive manner that ho
had any connection withtho shooting
or know anything about it. He was
running toward tho scene of thu shoot
ing, and not axuy from it, when ho
was caught aud arrested.
llnMilluu Hill 'iiiilotiwl,
Washington, Feb. 1. Thu Hawaiian
bill has been praotically completed by
thu housu committee ou territories, aud
Chairman Knox, with a subcommittee, I
is preparing a oiait oi tnu revised out
with thu intention of presenting it to
thu housu this week, SuvorpI imix)r
taut changes have been rrlijdo in thu
measure. The chief of tlinso is thu
striking out of any and all property
qualifications for eleotors to thu senate.
Another ohangu eliminates tho super
visor! given to?tho supremo court of
Hawaii over Jtfie election iu tho senate
aud houso and makes each thu judge ol
its own elections, Thu omission of thu
property qualifications for electors is
in thu interest of thu natives.
The Pandon Rocorder Bays that Co-
quillo cattlu buyers havo been ou thu
riser thu past week, offering $14 per
head for choice last-spring calves, aud
0 couts per pound for dreaded beof.
I
II
STATE OF ANARCHY.
CJovernor Taylor Drclaron Sfnrtlnl Imw
nt Frankfort.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 2. Novor wa
thero a mora copmlicatod political aitu
ation than that which tonight con
fronts tho politicians of Kentucky, and
never was thoro ono of which it seemed
so difficult to form an accurato guess
at tho outcome
All day through tho streets of Frank
fort fioldlors marched and counter
marchod. Drills in tho street woro
frequently hold, in ordor that tho men
might bo warmed by exorcise nftor
they had lomaincd in tho biting wind.
Around tho penitentiary was n lino of
troops, iu front of tho opera-houso was
a guard, three companies stood nt rest
iu tho opon space in front of tho Capi
tol hotol, sentries patrolled every sldo
of tho building in which ox-Governor
Bradloy resides, and a detachment of
infantry held thu courthouse against
tho possiblo coming of tho members of
tho legislature with tho intention of
declaring that not tho living William
S. Taylor, hut tho diyng William Goo
bol, was the lawful head and chief exe
cutive of thu commonwealth of Ken
tucky. It was largely n matter of sentiment
with tho Democarts which led thorn
to make such desperato efforts to crown
their king before ho died. They want
ed him to leave tho world a victor be
fore tho world.
Tho (lovt'rimr'n rroiiliiiiiiitlon.
Governor Taylor at 10 o'clock thla
morning Issued tho following proclama
tion: "To tho General Apsombly, Com
monwealth of Kentucky: Whereas, a
statu of insurrection now prevails in
tho stale of Kentucky, and especially
in Frankfort, tho capltol tliuteof, by
virtue of authority vested in mo by tho
constitution of Kentucky, I do hereby
by this proclamation adjourn at ouco
tho general assembly of thu statu of
Kentucky to meet at Loudon, Laurel
county, Ky., Tuesday, tho 0th day of
February, 1000, at IS o'clock.
"(ilven under my hand at Frankfort,
Ky., this 111st day of January, 1000, at
0 o'clock P. M. W. S. TAYLOR,
"Governor of Kentucky.
"Py Caleb Powers, Scctotaryof Stato."
(Iim'IikI Hivnrn In. -
Frankfort, Ky., Fob. 2. William
Goebol was shortly before 0 o'clock
tonight sworn iu as governor of Ken
tucky, and J. C. Peckham a few min
utes later took thu oath as lieutenant
governor. Tho oath was administered
' t !' "" I'J C'hiof
Justice Hazel-
rigg, of the court of appeals.
MAY FLOOD THEM OUT,
IIimii- rroptiNti to Irani tint Klip V.lvrr
llflow I.lllt,! Nlllltll.
Loudon, Feb. 2. Tho supplemental
lists of casualties till two columns iu
nonpareil typo iu tho mniniug papers,
making l.JIOl) roortod thus far from
General lluller's uporulimw north of
tho Tugela. Thu Daily Clironiclo esti
mates that tho total exceeds 2,000.
Tho 40 per cent loss jit Spionkop is
gieater than any llritlsh forco over
sulVoied, except lxissibly alA Alhuunt,
Spain, in 1811. . N ''
Tho corresjK)udont of tho Times at
Lourenco Marques, telegraphing yester
day, says:
"Information has been received horu
from thu Transvaal that tho war de
partment, convinced that it would bo
useless to storm Ladysmith and that
thu bombardment will continue in
tellective, has decided upon a chanu'o
of tactics. Huge quantities of timber
and sand bags aud hundreds of Kafllrn
havo been sent from Johannesburg and
Pretoria for tho purpose of damming
Klip river, some miles below Lady
smith, thu idea being to flood tho town
and to drive tho soldiois and inhabit
ants out of the bomb-proof caves, so ait
to oxihiso them to shell tire. The
Portuguese authorities aro at last exor
cising stricter surveillance. Tho gov
ernor lias unfilled the consuls that they
must personally guarantee that appli
cants lor passports aro not going to as
sist tho Doer army before p.insportH
will bo granted. It is rumored that ho
has also conveyed a hint to 1 1 err Pott,
thu TransMial consul, of set ions conse
quences if lie continues to infringe thu
uoutiulity of thu port."
A I'miliiii I, nun,
St. Petersburg, Feb. 1. It is serni
oflicially announced that tho govern
ment, at tho request of tho government
of Persia, aud iu view ofiliu good rela
tions between tho two governments,
has authorized thu Loan bank of Persia
to take up tho loan of 22,500,000 rubles
about to bo issued in Persia under tho
designation of the 5 per cent Persian
gold loan of 11)1)0. Thu Loan bank,
theiofore, has contracted to take up tho
loan, which is repayable iu 7fi years,
guaranteed by all the Persian customs
receipts except tho ro opium iir tho
custom-house at Pars and the custom
houses of the Persian gulf, In thu
event of a delay iu the payments, tho
Loan bank will havo the right to con
trol thu custom-houses. Russia guar
uitoos thu bonds of thu Persian loan. ''
Clilnitxn A in ,V(it Niill.lliol.
Shanghai, Jnuj- .11. Tho dotHvdtion
of Kinperor Kwangeu creates great dis
satisfaction among Chinese ollleials in
thu Vang-Tso valley, aud merchants
aro considerably disturbed, fearing
trouble, it is rumored that lie will bu.
reinstated iu one vear
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