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THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER G, I89X
NUMBER .K
THE FAMINE IN CHINA
pctlc and Cauls li? Ennflrcfls Dyinz
cf SlanatioL
KLOi.il' AM CHOLERA PKEYAILIXG
laputa and Crew of a Steamer Killed
tn Chinese PassengersCatholic
Mission lk-strotrd.
s Fat Sept. ). The steamer
China arrived Ironi Hong Kong and
Yokohama yesterday, liringing the fol
io ing advice:
Wry d accounts of fl'iod and famine
come from North China, and the dis
tre among the people ia terrible. In
Jlo i.'tin men, omrii, children and
fir re dying of staivation by ban-
ilrr.U, ..nd M uiany a 30 fatal case ol
I,.. -in are reported a taking place in
!, city daily.
While the Dutch steamer Kajah At-
jeli,. trading ltn Penang and the
t-l const of Acheen. i making a trip
m-ently, the Chinese paasrnger roue
and attacked the crew. They killed the
English captain and mate, and 22 othert
ho were presumably Aiati- Tbey
lito wounded 1 other of tho aasen
mix! crew. After this slaughter the
1 Chinese left the steamer in boat, tak
inf with them several captive. The
teunar, afterwards, fell into Putch
hamk
Aeas has been received in Hong Kong
rfthe destruction, daring a riot by the
sttivea, of the Catholic mission near
Mien Yang. Itev. Mr. Stanley, a ho
lias been resident of Tien-Tsin for 3
Teara, in a recent letter say:
"Since the murder of the Swede, the
viceroy of ranking ha ent woru lo
some ol tne missionary lamines, at
their summer resort, some 10 mile dis-
Unt, that be could not protect them
there, and they have come in. The
i tuple meaning of thia waa, liberty to
any rjogh to go and kill them if they
remained, and nothing would be done.
Somebody else wiil t warned next, and
ki it will go on. It ii a schema to get
werybody out of the Interior or kill
fcrru, and then possibly tbey will try
at can be done at the port. Prob-
fcy aomething of thia sort i necessary
lo arouse foreign powers."
I iMii rna a Waltrr Urtvfl.
Nxw Yokk, Aug. 31. Seven men,
ho thanked God they felt land again
beneath their feet, went ahore yester
day from the bark Tillid, when the ar
rived from Fernandina, Fla. They were
Captain McDonald and tbe crew of the
schooner Annie 8. Cooaut, which wa
wrecked and abandoned at ea. Thev
had been afloat for three day on a
deckhouse, without food or drink, with
the ware dashing over them all the
time. The Tillid, early laat Friday
morning, wa in lat. 25. long. 73:14, or
ttiout aizty-two niile southeast of Cape
Hat teres, when the lighted an appar
ttly abandoned wreck to the eastward. !
There wa oo ign of life on it, but a
(1 wreck lay right in the path of tbe
a, the Tillid held her course for a short
time until a better view of the wreck
could be secured. The mate presently
Biade out buinan forms on the deck
house. The wind wa ugly, and after
tacking for four hour, the Tillid got to
indward of the wreck at noon. The
r k wa a bad one. The rigging of
tlx ship bad all been carried away. Tbe
okt were washed with the sea. On
''" afterhouae, which wa the only
thing completely above water, wa col
lected seven famished and almost dis
tracted men. The mate of the Tillid
and one seaman were sent in a dory to
tke off the crew. Twotrip were made,
and in a short time seven men, two dogs
and a cat bad beed transferred from the
allowing hulk to the deck of the Tillid.
They proved to be Captain McDonald,
his mate and steward and seaman Cbas.
(iirard, and three other sailor answer
ing to the name of Philip, Frank and
Pred. "Give n water," shouted each
man a be wa helped on board the
Tillid. A soon a he wa on deck each
nan sank down helple and wept.
They bad been for three day without
iood or water and were nearly famished.
Keaarta trmm Haagary Alarsnlaf.
Lorn), Kept. I. Seven death from
cholera ocenrred in Katilm vaatanliv
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Keporti from Hanirarv cot) tin ne alarm.
In 18 counties of northern Hon
wy 138 new case and 87 death were
reported yesterday. Private aivi.
'rom Rotterdam say the real extent of
"e cholera in that city ia being sup-
jressea by the authorities. The situa
tion is much worse than admitted. Pit
awe were reported to tbe British an-
""Title from various part of lrm.r.v
domilis tha r.at Ikrxi t... T . I
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number of j ! along the Phine, sur
veillance has been established to prevent
the introdui tion of cholera. It is report
ed from. Tangier that cholera has broken
out among the Jeddah pilgrims on an
island off the city of Mogailor.
THE MlttK IIKH.4TE.
Vmri Harakala t airar of r r ( alums.
WasiiiNtiToK, Sept. l.--The senate
took up the house bill to repeal the
silver-purchase clause ot the Sherman
act with the Yoorhees bill as a substi
tute. Yauce of North Carolina, one of
the minority members of the finance
committee, spoke in opposition to the
bill and in favor of free coinage. A
large part of bis sjieech was devoted to
showing the inconsistencies of the
friends of repeal in both parties, in view
of the bimetallic declarations of both
the national platforms. lie quoted
from these, commenting in an ironical
train on the a ay in w hich the pledges
were being fulfilled. He said they
seemed to think the only way to main
tain tbe parity tietween gold and silver
was to first strike silver a death blow,
and unconditional repeal would be a
death blow, for it was known that
Cleveland would veto any silver coinage
bill. The effect on the condition f man
kind following the destruction of half
the currency, aggregating 7,5OU,OOO,0tX),
it would be impossible to accurately de
scrilie. He gave the history of the de
monetization of silver, and declared that
every government which had demone
tized the white metal did so when it
was at a premium. When coinage
stopped in India, the effort to have it
stopped in the I'nited States began,
aided by the influence of the moneyed
power of all the world and our govern
ment. If coinage stopped here, silver
would cease to live throughout the com
mercial nations of the earth. The fall
in the prce would be greater than that
following the stoppage of coinaite in
India. Repeal without a substitute
infant an end of ailver money for this
generation unless a revolution o( the
people should restore it as it did after
the fraudulent demonetization of 1873.
Iet bo man doubt the proposed repeal
was tbe result of a conspiracy among
the money-holders of tbe world. He de
clared the Sherman law did not drive
out gold, else why did gold return with
it still in force? Tbe democratic plat
form, be said, denounced the Sherman
act as a cowardly makeshift, yet thia
bill for it repeal, striking silver a harJer
blow, wa more cowardly and more of a
makeshift. He closed with a delaration
for the free coinage of silver.
( holria OrlDf Wtm.
Yixsa. Sept. 1. Twenty-eight death
from cholera have occurred at Delatyn,
Austrian, Galicia. The disease is rap
idly spreading In that vicinity. The
custom-house at Delatyn is cleared. All
intercourse with the building is forbid
den, as several officer who have quar
ter in it have been stricken with the
malady. Tbe law courts are also closed
and business in the town is at a stand
still. The inhabitants are in a state of
panic, and all who are able are hurry
ing from the place. Advice from
Smyrna report a similar state of affairs
there.
A 1'hlaesa Blarderar Hnftd.
Sa Rafael, Cal., Sept. 1. Iam,
Doon, a Chinaman, was banged here'
this morning for the murder of William
Sbenton in 1W. Sbenton was painting
a house where Lee Doon wa employed
and had a quarrel with the Chinaman.
As Shenton was driving away in a wg.
on, Lee Ioon shot him in the back.
Sheuton fell to the ground and the
Chinaman tired three more shot into the
prostrate man's body. t
Lee Doon died without a struggle, his
neck being broken by the drop. He
was pronounced dead in 13 minute.
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after an attack of "la grippe," when
various other remedies and several phy
sician had done her no good. Robert
Barber, of Cooksport, Pa., claims Dr.
King' New Discovery ha done him
more good than anything be ever used
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THOUSANDS ARE DEADi
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j Awful Details cf Its Recent Ter-I
i rific Stora. !
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illlKYlXC, THE DEAD IX CKOtPS!
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Xo Attention Paid to Collins The Con- j
i dition of the Stmivors Very !
Pitiable.
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1 Savannah, ept. -. S. Friedling,
; of the wholesale grocery firm of S.
I (itii kenheimer V Son, returned from
I Beaufort last night on a special tug.
Mr. Friedling says that at least S00 per
sons were drowned off the islands in
! that vicinity, and that when all reports
'are in, upwards of 1000 person will be
found to have perished. The coroner
had held inquests on "00 bodies, 37 of
I which were buried in one pit and 50 in
another. It is impossible to procure
coffins. Capt. H. E. Elliott's place
'on Cane island suffered severely from
the storm. As it grew worse Captain
Elliott brought his family out of the
house and fastened them to trees with
lifelines. 1. I. I)ensler Ion his building
and contents on Paris island, and he
and Ids wife spent fonr honrs on the top
of a tree.
The aggregate loss at Peaufort wiil
exceed $."00,000. The phosphate indus
try near Beaufort has been ruined, and
the crops on the sea islands are a com
plete loss. Unless immediate relief
comes, the suffering will be indescriba
ble. Attempt at identification of the
bodies has been abandoned. All that
is desired now is to get tbe bodies out
of the way as quickly as possible to
prevent epidemics resulting from their
rapiu decomposition. No very accurate
record is kept of the number of dead,
and the statistics of the disaster will
never be known. On each island and
mainland the survivors are burying all
the remains of the victim that can be
found. Coroner's certificates are out of
the question. Searching parties make
their way around the plantations and
houses, and as soon as a body is found
it ' put under ground. Wherever any
whites are with these parties same sort
of a record is kept, but the greater
number of burials are made by negroes.
The black licit on the coast bas lost not
less than 1,000 of its negroes, with a
probability that it is over that number.
It will be a week before all the dead
are found, as there is overflowed water
on the island beneath which are un
doubtedly many bodies. The sea is
slowly giving up its dead. The condi
tion of tbe survivors is pitiable in the
extreme.
A Hteamboat Maa Mardvrrd.
Seattle, Sept. 3. New reached here
this evening of a brutal murder last
evening at Chico. a little town in Kitsap
county. William S. Fletcher, a well-
known steamboat man, wa shot twice
and instantly killed bv Servius Rutten,
rancher. Rutten shot Fletcher's dog,
and the latter went to the cabin where
Rutten wa and demanded $10 payment
for the dog. He cursed Rutten and said
he would lick him, and finally told him
be must pay for tbe dog next morning
or be would fix him. Rutten thereupon
fired both barrels of a shotgun into
Fletcher's bead and neck, tearing away
the side of his head and almost severing
the head from the body.
He then ran along the beach about 100
yards, when CapW. B. Seymour, in at
master of the steamer Grace, on which
Fletcher had been mate, ran out and
stopped him with a revolver. He put
him aboard the boat and lashed him to
a mast until the sheriff, who was sent
for, had arrived. The people in the
town gathered arobnd the boat and
threatened to lynch Rutten, but Sey
mour told tbem he would not permit
him to be lynched. When the sheriff
arrived he turned over the prisoner. A
justice of the peace was sent for and an
inquest and preliminary hearing were
held. Rutten was brought to Seattle
and lodged in jail tonight. Fletcher wa
a halfbreed but very popular. Rutten
is a sullen German.
The Wamlc Schools.
A letter from F. S. Gordon to Kupt.
Troy Shelley ia as follows:
I am pleased to be able to state that
the deed for our school building and
grounds, wa executed today. The
building is 24x00 feet, and two stories.
The carpenter will begin putting in tbe
sill window tomorrow. The new dis
trict Urt in practically free from debt.
It I a great pleasure to know that the
signer of the petition have stood firm
thronghont In thi matter, and that the
officer elected at the meeting, sre all
liberal-minded, representative men.
Tbey have taken hold of thia work in
manner that assures success to our
school.
NEWS NOTES.
A Chinese commercial company has
purchased 2")0.000 acre of land in
Mexico, and will establish a colony.
Forty to fifty tlwiusand men paraded
Chicago yesterday, I.aW day. Mayor
Harrison headed the procession as hon
orary marshal.
A jkjII of the senate of the repeal bill
has been given out as the one submitted
to President Cleveland for his personal
information: It gives 47 for retieal, HO
against, and 8 doubtful.
Provisions instead of financial aid will
in tho future lie given the Xewr York un
employed by the trade unions, as it was
discovered that the landlords got all the
benefit of financial aid.
Emin Pasha has been given up for
dead. He md his party were attacked
by natives, set on by Arabs, while mak
ing his way to the coast, and the entire
party ln-headed and eaten by the sav
ages. The cholera outbreak in Jersey City
has caused a scare among the congress
men. It may do much toward shorten
ing the session. Official of the marine
hospital service do not fear a general
outbreak.
An active campaign for woman suff
rage has been started in Kansas under
the leadership of Susan B. Anthony,
Helen Gouger, Mrs. Lease, Anna L.
Diges, Mrs. Emma Devoe, Mrs. Sands
and others.
The cholera outbreak in Jersey City
has caused a scare among the congress
men. It may do much toward shorten
ing the session. Officials of the marine
hospital service do not fear a general
outbreak.
Mrs Blackburn, widow of the late
Geo Luke Blackburn, is very angry
because Congressman Breckinridge
introduced his mistress, MisePollard in
to society through her, and declares that
were her hustiand alive he would hold
Breckinridge personally accountable for
the indignity and insnlt she had been
offered.
The Sherman repeal bill has been in
formally laid aside in the senate, but
before that was done the chairman of
the finance committee, indicating his
determination to press forward all next
week with the real and earnest purpose
of bringing the senate to a formal vote
with a little delay as is consistent from
full discussion.
Ex-Senator Ingalls has re-entered pol
itics, and his programme is laid down
on the most aggressive lines. He will
appear before the republican state con
vention a year hence a candidate for the
nomination of governor, and at the close
of tbe term, should he be elected, he
will be a candidate for Peffer' seat in
the senate.
The Rocky Mountain News today pub
lishes a letter from T. M. Peterson, its
editor and part owner, dated Washing
ton, coLtaining a declaration that the
cause of silver and the relief of the in
dustries of the west rests .with the peo
ple' party, and announces his allegiance
henceforth to that political organization.
Near Mound Valley, Kan., at 4 o'clock
this morning, three men held up the St.
Louis & San Francisco passenger train.
Express Messenger Chapman was shot
and killed. Failing to secure money
from the express car the bandits robbed
the passengers. It is estimated the
amount of booty secured fell not short of
$o,000.
Secretary Carlisle has about made up
hi mind to ask congress to authorize
the coinage of the silver bullion at pres
ent lying in the treasury. This amounts
to 52,000,000 in round numbers. By
it coinage the government would es
cajie the deficit which now threatens,
and have enough money to tide it over
to the time when the income will once
more equal or exceed the expenditures.
Tbe secretary does not believe there will
be much opposition to the request.
Senator Peffer has introduced a bill
which i in the nature of an amendment
to the constitution. It directs the sec
retary of the treasury to print and issue
to state government $5,000,000 for each
100,000 inhabitant, or at the rate of $20
per capita. State are prohibited from
lending it in exces of an interest charge
of 3 per cent. No person shall borrow
more than $2000. Corporations aru not
allowed to lend money. The time for
which the money Is lent is 10 years, and
one-fourth 1 to be paid every four years.
Interest will be collected at the end of
each year. No fee or commissions shall
lie charged on a loan. All lands and
improvement forfeited for non-payment
of principal or interest hall go in to the
public domain. Other money, other
than the metal now outstanding, (hall
be called into the treasury and destroyed.
The secretary of the treasury is required
to print 5,000,000 50-cent bills and the
same number of 25-cent bills, to be sold
by postmaster.
DEATH IN THE FLAMES
FiYe Lives Are Lost in a Bnrning
Workshop.
A XIMBER ARE FATALLY INJURED
Thousands of People Destitute by the
Recent Storm A Terrible Con
dition of Affairs.
London, Sept. 4. A shop on Fulhain
road took fire this morning. The blaz
ing stairways prevented persons work
ing in the buildings escaping. Some
jumped from the upper windows and
were crushed on the pavements, others
fell back into the flames, am. the tire
men rescued the others. Five are
known to have perished. The work of
rescue is in progress.
Ieti(ut anil hlarviM.
Coh mkia, S. C, Sept. 4. Phosphate
Inspector Jones returned Saturday
night from Beaufort. He reports to
Governor Tillman that he believed the
number of dead will go away over 1,000.
The aggregate loes to the phosphate
companies is close to $350,000. With a
liberal policy adopted by the state and
concessions granted, the Coosaw farm
ers and Beaufort companies can resume
operations in about 60 days, if money
and labor can be secured. A large
number of the phosphate hands had
built their own homes on Coosaw
island. With strong glasses, Inspector
Jones could not see a single house.
There is danger of a water himino all
over tbe islands and even in Beaufort
county, as all the wells and cisterns are
filled with salt water.
The bodies of the dead are being
mutilated by carrion, and are very
offensive. They have not begun to find
even a portion of the bodies. Some of
them are swept up in the marshes
where men cannot go. At Caines Neck
there are deer, cows, hogs, snakes and
all kinds of wild animals piled up to
gether, making the section so offensive
that no one can go near it. There are
not enough provisions on the islands to
last the people a week. They are dying
from starvation. It is not money the
people want as much a provisions and
clothing. Their needs are immediate.
Lots of persons had to tie themselves to
trees in order to keep from being swept
away. The people act like maniacs,
and are crying for bread. Some have
on nothing but shirts.
A PESSIMISTIC l'ASTOlt.
K'oonnrti th Krpubllran Party and
Bnrlrs All Hope.
, Dknvkb, Colo., Sept. 3. The Rev.
Robert Mclntyre, formerly of Chicago,
pastor of Trinity Methodist church, the
largest in the west, from which be re
ceives $8,000 a year, formally renounce
the republican party and declares a new
financial party will be formed and
sweep the country. He gives up hope
of legislation favorable to silver, and
thinks ruin, desolation and riots will
come this winter all over the country.
The tariff, he believes, will also be re
moved. He denounces the metropolitan
press as a "liars' trust," and says city
people of the east seem to hate the west.
He says they took opera glasses to his
lectures and viewed him as a curiosity.
The Rev. Dr. Mclntyre. was for several
years pastor of Grace Methodist Episco
pal church of Chicago, anil has some
reputation as a poet and pulpit orator.
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and dyspepsia. It Is an excellent rem
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M astekson, Sheriff of Bibb Co.. Ga."
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Olinger At Bone s stages en route to
Cloud Cap Inn will locate campers at the
best fishing point in Hood River valley,
where one can reach Mt. Hood in a few
hours and get their mail and provision
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MITCHELL NEWS.
Mlnrrtun l,y Klrr-.S. K. Allen's 11 U-hap--iw.
N'itfl.
Campmeeting on Six Shooter will 1)0
held two or three weeks.
Mr. Sasser, of the firm of Sasser & Co.,
has suspended work on his hotel and
store for the present.
The last few days the atmosphere has
been very smoky from fires, possibly
started from sheep or hunters' camps.
Lou Keeling passed through here on
his way to The Dalles with a very nice
looking horse, w hich he means to try to
dispose of in that place.
At about noon today a span of fright
ened horses came tearing through town
kicking at the harness ami parts of a
wagon that were slill attached ,to them.
They belonged to Mrs. Bracket, a widow,
whose song had been using them and
the wagon. In some way the coupling
pole became detached, frightening the
horses, which started to run and threw
the boys out, hurting one on the shoul
der, but not seriously. The wagon is
scattered from starting to stopping
point.
Misfortunes never come singly, or so
it seems in the case of Mr. Minor, who
lives with his family ten or twelve miles
below hero. During the haying season
Mrs. Minor, to save a man's wages,
since they were needy, tilled a man's
place in the field. Scarcely had they
the satisfaction of looking on the results
of their work before fire, in some mys
terious way, caught the barn and stacks
and entirely consumed them. Their
winter's support was gone, for their hay
meant food and clothing. Last Satur
day fire caught in the house, and raging
in ail its demoniacal fury, consumed
everything they possessed, not anything
being saved. The first destruction was
not enough, their all must go. The
people of Mitchell showed a disposition
of true charity , ami soon donations of lum
ber, household goods, clothing, etc., were
sufficient to build them a house and
keep them from want, at least for a
time. Only with tears could the unfor
tunate couple thank te donors and
smile a blessing to them
S. F. Allen returned . ely, but not
without a slight disaster on the road.
One night he made his camp i'1 Ante
lope canyon, two miles and a baif from
Antelope. Some time alter he ws
awakened by distant thunder. Looking:
to the east there was a dense cloud and.
a stiff breeze from that direction.
Thinking he would be deluged soon un
less he found u place of safety and shel
ter, he took up his bed and walked up
the side hill and found the shelter of a
friendly juniper. But he had only set
tled himself to wait patiently for the
coming storm, when ho remembered he
had left some of his goods exposed and
he must return aud put them under
cover. Bv this time all was mkv dark
ness; sage brush, grensewood, junipers,
etc., rose up before him in unexpected
places; and last, but not least of all, an
uncommonly large badger hole must bo
in the road, and to be sure S. F. A,
stepped directly into it, consequently he
went headlong down the hill, scratch
ing and grabbing at everything and any
thing to gain a footing, but he tumbled
to the bottom and came out unhurt save
a bruised shin or two. But the rain did
not come. E. V. E.
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