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THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, lb92.
PLECRO PNEUMONIA.
-The Peace Rirer District in Canada Said
; ' . to Be Affectefl.
PRINCE OF WALES OFF THE TURF.
Storms in the United kingdom Increase
in Their Severity.
WF IMPORTANCE TO MARINERS.
Letter From the Pope Tbe Door
keeper Knocked Down Galen oft"
Portugal.
London, Feb. 19. A great sensation
has been caused in the agricultural
world by the report of a serious outbreak
of pleur j-pneumonia in the Peace-river
district in Canada. If the report be
true the outbreak will greatly affect
Scotch farmers, who largely import Cau-
- adian stock cattle in preference to Irish
cattle, owing to their immunity from
disease. The Prince of Wales has de-
' cided to close his connection with the
turf. All his entries have been can
celled for three months. He had sev
eral remarkable horses in training and a
handsome profit was expected for the
first time in the history of his stables.
Tacoma, Feb. 21. During the coining
summer, Bishop Paddock will perform
the ceremony of uniting in marriage
Miss Elizabeth P. Ferry, the eldest
daughter of Gov. Elisha P. Ferry, and
Hon. John Leary, of Seattle. A tele
- gram first announced the engagement,
which Mr. Leary, who is in the cit-,
readily confirmed when seen this after
. noon. "The arrangements for the wed
ding are not yet made," said Mr. Leary
in answer to a question. "However, it
will take place sometime during the
summer, probably in Trinity Episcopal
church, Seattle, but possibly in Tacoma,
if the bishop is unable to leave this
city." The engagement is very recent,
having been made but a few days ago.
They have known each other ever since
Gov. Ferry removed to Washington,
twenty years ago, ana .Hiss .terry was a
frequent visitor at Mr. Lenry's home
during the life of his first wife, who died
two years ago. She finished her educa
tion on the coast, and has traveled ex
tensively in this country. For many
.years her time has been largely devoted
to church service and works of charity
in both Seattle and Olympia. Hon.
John Leary is 50 years old, a reputed
millionaire, and is connected with many
of Seattle's leading business enterprises.
He came to Washington when a young
lawyer, and by enterprise and thrift has
gradually risen to the top round of the
ladder of success in professional and
business life. In 1S84 Mr. Leary was
elected mayor of Seattle, and served one
year. .Last night lie was again nomina
ted by the republicans for mayor of that
city, and his friends claim that his nom
ination means his election at the March
municipal election by a majority of at
least 1000.
Gibbs today. Machnca acknowledged
at the trial that he had been paid to
dress the Chinaman in Mexican fashion
and conduct him past the guards at the
river. . He was bound over in . the sum
of $500, and the Celestial ordered to re- i
turn to China. This border is so poorly j
guarded that Chinamen in number are j
reported crossing into the United States j
at different points without ; trouble. ;
The Rio Grande is scarcely knee-deep
most of the year, and affords no protec
tion, and there are hot a dozen, guards
between Nogalee, Ariz., and Presidio del
Norte, Tex,, a distance of .about (500
miles. ' . '- -
. Balmaceda Member Arrested.
New York, Feb. 21. A Valparaiso
special says that scarcely a night passes
iii Santiago without a street fight be
tween the dictatorials, as the Balmace
dists are called, and the adherents of
the victorious party.' Army officers are
continually subjected to insult in the
most public thoroughfares. Matters
have reached such a stage that the San
tiago judge of crimes yesterday ordered
the arrest of six members of Balinace
da's congress. It is rumored that the
government is about to adopt active
measures to repress in the future these
exhibitions of discontent for which, it is
said, no good reason exists. .
JESSE JAM; OUTDONE;
Sensational Train Robbery on tie Jew
- Tori Central.
PEXXOYER STOCK is -RISING.
I LONDON THEATER . TOUTS.
His Name. Prominently Mentioned for
Vice President.
TKOl'BLESOME TIMES IN CHILI.
Stealing Electricity Union Pacific, Rev
olution Threatened Bad State
of Affairs.
Charge of Stealing Electricity.
St. Louis, Feb. 21. Inacriminal caee
here brought by the Munical Electric
Light and Power company, electricity
was alleged to have been stolen by bridg
ing the wires entering a store before the
wires entered the meter. The point was
raised that electricity cannot be stolen,
inasmuch as to steal, there mast be an
absorption, which is impossible in the
case of electricity, as it is not anywise
under control, and therefore not the
goods, property or effects of anyone.
Judge Claiborne abruptly adjourned the
case until he could thoroughly investi
gate the matter.
Very Narrow Escape. "
BohTOK, Feb. 20. Members of sixteen
families, occupying a big block on East
Canton street had a narrow escape -from
asphyxiation last night. Early this
morning it was noticed that illuminating
gas was eacaping from the building.
The occupants were aroused and it was
found nearly 100 persons, mora or less,
were under the influence of the noxious
vapors. The physicians had a difficult
work to resuscitate several of the victims.
As it is, a number are very ill. But for
the timely discovery of the trouble, no
doubt nianv deaths Would have resulted.
Double Tax Quention.
Boise City, Ftb. 20. A case of pecul
iar interest to stockmen of Oregon and
Washington is that of E. P. Juner vs.
Owyhee county, now being beard here.
Juner paid taxes on sheep in Malhuer
connty, Or., and soon after drove the
animals across the line into Idahe, whsre
he was again compelled to pay taxes un
der section 142(5 of the laws of the Idaho
legislature of 1890-01. Juner s attorney
holds that the section is void and that
Juner having paid taxes on the sheep in
Oregon cannot be reassessed in Idaho.
Society Life at the Capital.
Washington', Feb. 21. Mrs. Harrison
gave a public reception this afternoon,
which attracted more people to the
White house than ever assembled there
before on a similar occasion. Sixty-one
hundred people entered the mansion,
and when the reception closed, hundreds
awaited admission. Mrs. Henry Green,
of Portland, who has been the guest "of
Mrs. Senator Dolph for several weeks.
Snow Melting Fast.
Boise City, Feb. 20 The Union
Pacific trains from the east and west ar
rived in Boise ten hours late today,
owing to, the serious washout at Ten
Mile Creek, between here and Nanipa.
The snow in the hills is melting rapidly,
and this, together with the heavy rains,
make all the streams bank high. The
damage to the roadbed is not very great.
East Portland 1 City Proper.
Washington, Feb. 22. Attorney-General
Miller has advised the treasury de
partment that while ths la-.v providing
for a public building at Portland, does
not legally prohibit the construction of
the building in East Portland, it is evi
dent the purpose and intent is the build
ing should be erected within the lines of
has had an unusual amount of social at- j tue city proper. The treasury depart-,
tention paid her, a number of luncheons j ment has not -vefc aotecl m t!ie uiatter.
ana dinners Having recently been given
in her honor. Recently Mrs. Dolph and
Mrs. Green attended a luncheon given
by- Mrs. Senator Stanford, which was
superb in all its appointments. The
night before they dined with Secretary
Tracy and Mrs. Wilmerding, who are
connections of Mrs. Green. Ex-Senator
and Mrs. Kelly, of Oregon, gave a din
ner last week in Mrs.. Green's honor.
Mrs. Bichard Nixon, Senator Dolph 's
married daughter, assisted Jlrs. Harri
son to receive at the White house recep
tion yesterday, and looked charming in
yellow brocade, with violets and
amethyst ornaments.
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No Mom on the JBack of Salem.
Salem, Feb. 22. Of the $10,000 capi
tal stock necessary for the incorporation
of a baseball association to back Salem
in the Pacific Northwest league, $7000
has already been subscribed. The
soliciting committee will make thorough
J. and final capvass today, and to night the
stockholders will meet to perfect an or
ganization, prepare articles of incorpor
ation and elect officers ' and a manager.
The citizens are taking hold of the mat
ter actively and there is no doubt that
Salem now will heve a league team.
Smuggling Chinese.
El Paso, Feb. . 21. Late last night
, Customs Inspector Duval captured
Thomas Machuca, a Mexican who was
attempting to smuggle a Chinaman from
Ciudad Juarez to this side of the river.
Both were arrested and held to appear
before United States Commissioner
Mm. Klaiue Winn Her Cane.
Peadwood, S. D., Feb. 20. Judge
Thomas has granted a decree of divorce
to Mrs. James G, Blaine, jr., with the
custody of her child, $1000 to pay the ex
penses of the suit, and $100 a month as a
permanent alimony. Mrs. Blaine will
leave Deadwood for Sioux Falls to-
I morrow.
Many Pretty Bed Coveriugs.
There are, and probably always will
be, many who prefer the all whit bed,
and for these many pretty bed coverings
are provided. Linen shams, with bor
ders of elaborate drawn work, are used
with plain white Marseilles spreads. An
tique lace of firm, fine texture is always
suitable and makes a dressy bed, used
either over white or some delicate color.
The figured China and India silks used
during the last year or two are also still
in favor for bed and bolster coverings,
but a newer material for this purpose is
the Hollywood sheeting, a fancy double
width material of soft, cream-white cot
ton, whose rough surface is exceedingly
effective when wrought with the simple,
showy patterns employed for this work.
A very handsome one designed for a
white and gold guestchamber has a con
ventional pattern scattered over it,
worked in shades of yellow and brown.
The pattern is first outlined with along
chain stitch, the leaves and shadings
marked, then the intervening spaces
filled with a simple filling stitch, which
is very rapidly done and is yet exceed
ingly showy. The spread extends over
the pillows, and a band of colored rib
bon, matching one of the lightest shades
of silk, is passed across the bed just be
low the pillows and tied in a handsome
bow. Chicago Herald.
Rochestek, Feb. 21. The shooting of
an express messenger on a New York
Central train, the rifling of a safe, the
flight of the robber on the engine of
another train from which he had driven
the crew at he point' of a revolver, a
running fight from the engine for miles,
followed by' another engine filled with
railway men, and the final capture of
the desperado by a sheriff's posse in a
swamp, alter a wild pursuit across trie
country, are some of the sensational
features of the most desperate attempt
at train robbery, in the history of the
Central railway, and which cast in
shade, as an exhibition of coolness and
nerve the fainons exploits of the Jesse
James band or the other outlaws of
Western fame. The train left Syracuse
at 5 this morning in charge of Conductor
Emil Laas, with Caleb Cherry as engi
neer. The coach was ou the rear of the
train and the money car just ahead.
When the train was near Westport the
conductor thought he heard the air
whistle sound very faintly. It aroused
him to the belief that something was
wrong on the express car. Going out on
the platform- he climbed into the cai,
and looking through the hole which the
bell cord comes through he saw the up
per part of a man, whose face below was
concealed by a red. flannel mask. The
messenger he could not see. He went
back and set the air brake and called
his two trainmen. Suddenly the man's
form appeared at the side door of the
express car. Revolver bullets whistled
past their ears, and a voice was heard
commanding them to signal the engineer
to go ahead or take the consequences.
The trainmen were unarmed. The con
ductor told one of his men to jump off
and run back to Jordan, and telegraph
along the line to. Rochester that they
had a train robber on board. An excit
ing chase followed his discovery, in
which he attempted to get away on a
stolen locomotive, and afterwards on
horseback, but he was finally captured
and has admitted he was the man who at
tempted the robbery. He is believed to
be the much-wanted Oliver Curtis Perry,
who robbed Express Messenger Moore ;
near Utica last fall. The car showed
signs of a desperate struggle. Money
packages and jewelry weie lying scat-j
tered about, and everything was stained i
with blood. Messenger Mclnery was j
Ivins bleeding from several wounds and
almost unconscious.
Bow Patrons Are Made Miserable by
Cloak, Programme and Other Fiend.
You have scarcely put your nose in
side a theater before you are seized upon
and called to stand and deliver. First it
is your coat. Men and women rush after
you and pester you for your coat. They
would rejoice if all were foolish enongh
to yield to their importunate demands,
and risk colds, coughs, influenza, and
bronchitis for the rest of their' natural
life. ' Why, it is madness to venture into
the stalls without 'a draft protector.
Modern theaters are so constructed that
they are mere draft traps. - :
If you are seated near the door you risk
a stiff neck. You must wrap your cloak
around you and be careful to protect
your legs from tue blasts of wind that
pour in from every crack and canny. If
you are in the center of the stalls, at
many theaters directly the ' curtain is
raised a tornado of wind rushes across
the footlights and catches you by the
throat. I often think that women are
mad who venture into theaters with low
dresses in winter time. It is bad enough
for men.
And yet these attendants get quite of
fended if we do not leave behind us the
only garments that will protect us from
sudden death. Remember that no one
is free from the theater highwaymen.
Even those who go in with orders cannot
get out of the cloakroom or programme
tax. At last they must pay. I remem
ber once going into a theater with a
friend who had a keen sense of the lu
dicrous. I think it must have been W.
S. Gilbert. It was a morning perform
ance and he was attacked in the usual.
wav: '
"Coat, sir!" '
"What do you want with it?" -"To
take it off."
"Very well," he murmured innocently.
The highwayman prepared to strip off
his coat, and beholdl my friend, who
had. prepared for the dodge, walked
away in his shirt sleeves! He had only
pet on bis overcoat, with nothing un
derneath it.
Unconcerned he was preparing to en
ter the stalls coatless. when the attend
ant rushed after him. ,
"Look here, sir, you must not go into
the stalls like that!"
"Why not?" he asked with a bland
and innocenair. "You asked for my
coat. You have got it. What more can
you want?'
The coat and cloak fiends having been
disposed of, you encounter the second
rank of touts. Now it is a ' programme
for which you" must pay. They inso
lently bar your passage. They dun you
and din into your ears, "Programme,
sir!" It is not a civil request to know
if you would like a programme or not,
but a demand with an implied threat.
The implication is that you are a stingy
person, who has no right to, be seen in
the stalls. . ' .
But this is not all. Having gone
through the first easy stages of theatrical
purgatory, you are worried all the even
ing with ice sellers and chocolate vend
ors and stale cake providers. If you are
in the stalls, safely wrapped up from
the drafts, these touts edge in between
the very: narrow and. uncomfortable
stalls and generally make hay They
tread on your toes, they disturb the lit
tle nest you have made, they make havoc
with the ladies' back hair, pulling out
confiding hairpins and crushing the re
sult of the maid's handiwork. They
don't care if they dig you in the eye
with an ice tray or powder you with the
refuse of sponge cako or bury you under
chocolate boxes.
Their duty is to make as much money
as possible for the speculating contract
tor. It is not their fault, poor' things.
They all get a commission on their
wares and it is their duty to tout
Clement Scott in London Graphic.
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Pennoyer Talked Of,
Washington, Feb. 21. Since Senator
Hill is liable to be the democratic candi
date the friends of Oor. Fennover are
beginning to think of him as a vice-presidential
candidate. Legislative clerk
Gilfrey, of the senate, who is a demo
crat and an Oregon man, has been asked
about Pennoyer and has spoken rather
flattering terms of him. Negotiations
are oeing conducted between him s
friends and the people of the various
states, and Oregon is oe of these, which
i to be looked after. Hill's idea, is to
have the few votes which Oregon will
east aUthe Chicago convention, taken
away from Cleveland in any event, and
placed to his credit, and in return Pen
noyer is to receive some vice-presidential
votes from some states controlled by
Hill. The purpose in bringing out Pen
noyer is to get the votes not only from
Oregon but from the other Pacific coast
states, and consequently break the
Cleveland combination. Hill has said
some very nattering things about Pen
noyer, and remarked upon his vote
getting power, and that the party might
do a great deal worse than to have him
the vice-presidential candidate. Gil
frey speaks ot Pennoyer as a man with
erratic ideas, which make him popular
among a certain class of people in Ore
gon, and indicates that he would be- apt
to pull at least one if not more, Pacific
states into the democratic column, if he
were the vice-presidential nominee,
with Hill at the head of the ticket, and
free silver as a cardinal principle of the
democratic platform.
Temporarily Suspended. ,
St. Petkesbubg, Feb. 21. The im
perial prohibition of the exportation of
grain is about to be suspended in favor
of the owners of the 10,000,000 poods of
oats now lying at the Baltic ports await
ing shipment.
Another Candidate.
" Manchester, Feb. 20. Ex-United
States Senator Henry W. Blair, who has
been conn ted as an advocate of President
Harrison for renomination, has declared
himself a presidential candidate. -
Sense In National Proverbs.
There is a deal of sonnd sense in the
proverbs of a nation. Carl Russell de
fined a proverb as being the wit of one
man and the wisdom of ' many, and the
aptness of this is well shown in the fol
lowing from the Spanish, "Since we
cannot get what we like, let us like what
we get." The thought is as old as the
race of mankind, but ages passed before
one man hit upon the happy expression
of it. This saying, from the Chinese, is
a whole homily on pride in one sentence,
"When a tree is blown down, it shows
that the branches are longer than the
roots."
For a concise expression of the lofty
aspirations of youth and the sober
achievements of riper years, take this
sentence from Henry D. Thoreau, "The
youth gets together his ' materials to
build a bridge to the moon, or perchance
a palace or temple on the earth, and at
length the middle aged man concludes
to build a woodshed with them." B. A.
Heydrick in Brains.
- The Planchette.
' The plai'jette was the popular craze
in the year 1887 in Japan. - Tbe instru
ment used there consists of three pieces
of bamboo of a specified length tied in
the middle to form a tripod, over which
is inverted a shallow circular tray of
lacquered ware about a foot in diame
ter. The legs are 1 foot 6 inches, Japan
ese, in length. All present put their
hands gently on the tray, and thecokuri,
as the object is called, or cokuri san, san
being honorific, is politely asked to an
swer the proposed questions by raising
one leg for "yes" and another for "no."
Or for "yes" by turning , around, many
such devices being used. The operation
will be seen to be more closely allied to
"table turning" than what we know as
the planchette. Philadelphia Ledger.
It Went On.
One of my fellow students oribe bought
an old gun, which he intended to use in
some private theatricals he was produc
ing. Several of his fellow comrades
were in his room one night and tbe gun
came up for criticism. One of them
picked .it up and pointed it. pulling the
trigger. - The others followed suit, but
after six or seven of them had tried it,
the next one pulled the trigger, the gun
going off and blinding one of the poor
fellows for' life, as well ag disfiguring
him. London Tit-Bits.
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Finest Line of Imported Key West and Domestic Cigars.
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