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NUMBER 10.
HELD UP BY ROBBERS
Auollicr Train Ecli Up, By Mas.cfl
Men.'
UKGE AMOUNT OF MOXEY TAKEN
Scvcaty-Fve Thousand Dollars of Coal
DiiowV Wage White Tortured
By Indian.
Haro-K, Mich., Sept. 15. A trln
ou the Mineral Range roil road tu held
op between here and Calomet by three
masked men this morning, and robbed
of 170,000, Calumet & Hecla mine
money. Everything; ia in a tnrmoil.
5o bloodshed.
Tl " Mineral Bange road la a narrow
gau.c running between Houghton and
C'aluii with several branches. The
Calumet it Hecla mine employs 2,000
uit-n, and pay them on the 15th of the
mouth. The money today waa aent
from eastern banka. The robbera were
evidently acquainted with the circa ra
ttan oea. There were four highwaymen ;
two covered the enginemen, the othera
ordered the express messenger to pot
the content a of the sale in a bar which
tlie' robbera carried. The u t onger
banded oat $75,000. The robbera or
dered the engiorer to go ahead in
hurry, which lie did. The deed waa ac
complished o quickly that the passen
tert were nnaware of the trouble till
liter the train had started. The light
gaud and sheriffs are scouring the coun
try. It ia believed the robbera had
bone near, and a boat at the lake, to
Ukt tbera across to Canada.
Turturael ay ladlaa.
Knoxvim.r, Tenn., Srpt. 15. Two
brothera by the name of Clayton, from
Cherokee county, North Carolina,
reached here in a badly mutilated con
dition. Iurinir the eu turner thev fished
near an Indian camp. Thie ao angered
the Indiana that they decided to white
rap the Claytons. Each man waa tied
to tree and made to faet a week. Their
eyea, ears, nones and toe were then
U'Utilated, afLer which each man waa
lightly scalped. The Claytons left the
scene of their outrageous treatment
twenty days ago. They suffered an
nual privations on the road. Here they
sere supplied with meana to take them
to Texas, w here they have friends. The
ifortn Carolina Indians are Cherokeea,
who were not removed by the govern
ment at the time of the settlement of
the tribe in the territory west of the
Mississippi. They have not advanced
very rapidly in civiliration.
TllOISAM HOMELEM1.
Fierce Flree
Kaclnc
Forest.
la Wisconsin's
MtLWat'Keie, Sept. 15. Dispatches
this morning from a score of northern
Wisconsin cities tell stories of great loss
by forest fires. MarsbGeJd, Junction
City, lextervi!le, Prentis, Spencer,
Med ford, Khinelander, Stevens Point
and other places with a population of
1,000 to 8,000, are surrounded by flames,
and in the greatest danger of being
wiped out. No loss of life is reported,
tat that all the settlers in the burned
die ricta escaped is impossible. Every
jnare mile of the vast timbered district
of Wisconsin is as dry as tinder. The
flamus are sweeping without check.
The district already swept by fire and
that threatened includes nearly one
third of the state. Wisconsin is over
hang by pall of smoke reaching from
,lke Michigan to Lake Superior and
from the extreme eastern liordor of the
xtatelo the Mississippi river.
Two Children SalTvratvd.
MAiimiriELD, Wis., Sept. 15. Last
night, driven by terrific winds, two great
forest fires, one north, and one south of
the city, swept everything before them.
Once the fire reached the city limits,
but the bucket brigade stayed it pro
gress there. However, a station two
miles north, containing a dor.en families,
"s wiped out. The inhabitants barely
escaped with their lives. Two children
of Frank Codil are reported suffocated.
McMillan, five miles east, is surrounded
by fire, but believed to be saved. Many
settlers' families have arrived here, hav-
ng lost everything. The danger it be
lieved to have passed this city.
All hop of saving the village of Mc
Millan is abandoned. The town has
population of 600. The McMillan mill
ing plant ia valued at $150,000.
BKAIUTRlltri REPORT.
The EAats of the Lata Financial fttorni
New York, Sept. 15. Bradstreet't to
ft uorrow will say: Stocks of wheat in
le United States were about at the low
"t ebb last week, and now promise to
iiiorrasc, while t-upplion iu Europe have
already Ix-gtiii to grow. Hradatreet's
euitorially cxpresifd views on the
world's wheat supplies for 1SH3-94 are
that there is a small nominal excess of
total surplus as contrasted w ith the ag
gregate of deficiencies. The United
States and Canada are credited with an
export surplus of 140,000,000 bushels,
and the United States crop is placed at
440,000,000 bushels. Belief in a domes
tic crop of only 390,000,000 bushels, with
the present export movement, means
our exportable surplus will be exhaust
ed within seven weeks. We have
shipped abroad 65,000,000 bushels ot
wheat within the past eleven weeks and
the demand continues firm. Exports of
wheat and flour this week, both coasts,
equal 5,357,000 bushels, against 4,W)2,000
bushels the week before and as com
pared with 3,384,000 bushels in the
week one year ago and with 0,679,000
busbela two years ago. Business fail
ures in the United States show for the
third week In succession a heavy check
in the effects of the late financial storm.
Two weeks ago the number of failures
was t9. Last week it was 379 and this
week only 300.
TRIES TO SUICIDE.
Kittle ttmlth Afraid .r liar rather Lately
I'ardon.d Tha Stora, Kte.
Mitchell, Or., Sept. 12, 1803.
Camp meeting on West Branch has
been very successful. Eleven new mem
bers were immersed during the paat
week.
Kain has been falling almost continu
ally the last few days, until the ground
seems to be thoroughly soaked, and it
now running off every hillside in little
muddy streams.
E. E. Allen's building ia nearing com.
pletion. They mean to move in some
time this week.
Mountain roads are almost impassable
since there has been so much rainfall.
Persons desiring to get tbeir winter
wood are compelled to lay idle until
they are settled.
Camp meeting on Shoo Fly instead of
continuing three weeks, as intended,
only lasted three days.
Some threshing has been done, and
crops Lave proved to bi even better
than waa hoped for when harvesting.
Mrs. Bert Eaton of The Dalles has
een visiting her cousin, Mrs. Misner.
during the past week.
The first two weeks of our school was
almost a failure. Scholars could not at
tend on account of extreme heat.
Everyone seems to blame the other
for his misfortune in the shape of colds,
in a greater or less degree, and everyone
seems to be afiiicted.
The 25th of this month Kitty Smith,
on hearing her father had been par
doned, attempted to take her life by
taking a dose of poison, but she was
found and antidotes administered in
time to save her life. This is the
second time she has made an unsuc
cessful attempt to poison herself, in the
hope of being treed from the cruel tyr
anny of an inhuman father.
September Oth Mitchell was visited
by a very heavy thunder shower that
was almost a waterspout. Although it
was quite insignificant In proportions,
it was so evil looking, as onward it
came, reminding one of a huge serpent,
flashing in the lantern light (for it was
9 o'clock at night)', dancing and writh
ing, coiling and recoiling, springing and
receding, lapping as if with a monster
tongue ready to devour all and every
thing that chanced to get within its
angry, surging coils, as looming and
howling it takes its onward march in
Its work of uprooting trees, lifting huge
rin ks from their long resting place, cut
ting its way through new channels, lash
ing against boulders large enough to
resist its fury, gushing, gurgling and
foaming over some miniature cataract,
racing as if it were a demon let loose to
a wider, less turbulent channel. Such
an awe-inspiring thought of littleness us
comet over one as they gaze upon and
admire the vast proKrtiont so sud
denly collected and from such an inno-oent-Iooklng
thing as very small black
cloud that came and overhung the sky
but a very short time tfore the flood
gates were opened, as it teemed. With
all the suddenness of the storm, there
waa but very little loss of property; in
fact, none of which to make mention,
but it gave a great fright to many living
near the banks of the stream. Lanterns
were brought out, hurrying here and
there, in the hope of learning tha extent
of the danger, if any. Some looked on
with benched faces, for in the darkness,
and by lantern-light the stream, boiling
out of its banks, really looked frightful.
Sine we have had water-spouts here
before that have been the cause of the
loin of several lives and a great lost of
property, people are excusable for their
very just excitement. E. V. E.
Ask votir dealer for Mexican Silver
Stove Polish.
A RACE FOR HOMES
HMirci Tnonsand People Enst Into tie
Cncroiee Strip.
CRIME AXD ACCIDENT FOLLOW,
Cowboys, in a Fruitless Effort to Turn
Aside the Homcscckers, Set the
Prairie Afire.
Arkansas Citt, Kan., Sept. 16. One
hundred thousand people settled upon
the Cherokee strip today. At noon the
tignal wat given, and the great race be
gan. At far at the eye could reach in
either direction could be seen men
mounted, in w agons, and on foot, closely
packed together, making a solid column
200 feet or more wide in the middle, and
tapering away to mere streak of black
in the distance. Confusion reigned
everywhere. So closely were the con
testants lacked together, the start was
hazardous. Horsemen were unseated,
wagons overthrown ' and pedestrians
prostrated in the mad rush. Jamet II.
Hill, of Kingborn, N. J., was shot and
instantly killed bv a soldier at the south
west corner of the Chlloco reservation
He started into the strip before the sig
nal was given. The soldiers warned
him fo stop, but he did not heed the or
ders and they fired upon him. He had
$500 and it wat turned over to the
sheriff.
In the race many men were injured
and some killed. Of the latter, two
were murdered one stabbed and the
other shot through the head. Many
dead horses are on the prairie. Four
new towneites have populations esti
mated at 5.000 each. Others boast pop
ulations ranging from 1,000 to 3,000.
Every deefrable claim has at least one
claimant, and many have two or four.
Contests, of course, will be numerous.
The soldiers shot four sooneri near Still
water, O. T., and Arkansas City, Kan.
Wagons and freight traint loaded with
supplies followed the settlers Into the
strip. Camp fires dot the prairies in all
directions tonight. The drouth hss
dried up the streams, and those who
failed to provide themselves with water
are forced to endure suffering.
A Jealona Widow's Tarrlbls Iterance
ArorsTA, Ga., Sept. 16. A sentence
of six months in the county chain gang
was passed yesterday upon Mrs. Fannie
E. Denham, a widow of Terreoa, for dis
figuring the face of Mrs. Frank Hughes
by an application of vitriol. Frank
Hughes had been an admirer of Mrs.
Denham, and when he married a farm
er's daughter she sought revenge. Mrs.
Denham rode up to Hughes' house on
horseback and engaged the bride in
conversation. Then she threw vitnol
in her face, blinding her and leaving
her disfigured. The trial attracted
much attention.
OREGON NEWS.
Salmon are running light at Astoria.
The Oregon Tress Association meets
in Portland on the 28th, 29th and 30th.
Two cart for the world's fair, one
loaded with peart and the other with
frozen fish, were aidetracked at La
Grande several days awaiting the re
building of the "horseshoe" bridge.
At Heppner on Monday evening, the
case of Mary Luelling vs. Abraham
Luelling, asking for a decree of divorce,
waa heard. The testimony of the girl,
who is scarcely 15 years of age, showed
that she was forced into the marriage
by her mother and the defendant, and
as Luelling did not appear in defense,
the judge granted a divorce.
While walking across the foot-bridge
that spans the river from the Patterson
hop-yard, near Eugene, Miss Susy
Gibbs became dizzy and fell off into the
water. She wat seen to fall by the Par
sons brothers, who were at the hop
house about 150 yardt away, and they
ran to the rescue. When they arrived
at the river bank opposite ber, Zaeh
Parsons plunged Into the river, and by
hard swimming saved the young woman
from a watery grave. Before Mr. Par
sons reached her the had already sunk
twice. v
Eight Years.
Fossil, Or., Dec. 4, 1892.
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WASHINGTON SPARKS.
I'olltlcal Naw and 1'ersonal Mention
t tha National Capital.
Washington-, Sept. 8, t893.
Special Correipnndenre of Ths Chronicls
It 5s quite evident! that the senator!
who represent the administration in the
fight for the repeal of the Sherman law
will not listen to anything looking to a
compromise. If one it brought about it
will bo without their consent. The
course Mr. Voorheet it pursuing in not
attempting to restrict senator in their
right to discuss the measure to their full
satisfaction, but insisting that there
shall be no gaps in the discussion to
waste time, is approved of by all the
best parliamentarians and tactions in
congress. I hey regard it at a proper
course and at one calculated soonest to
bring the bill to a vote. The friends of
repeal believe that the discussion will
toon exhaust itself. They can make no
calculationi at to bow long the tilver
senators can talk, and some of them
think that it may be not until the last
week of this month that a vote can be
reached. Still the administration forces
have an impression that the discussion
Is liable to stop suddenly tome time and
a vote be reached when not expected.
A distinguished senator who called
on Mr. Cleveland a few days ago said
today : ' I told the president that I had
come to get from him a personal refuta
tion or corroboration of these everlast
ing ruu.ors of hit agreeing to a compro
mise of tome character on the silver
situation. The president said very de
cidedly, 'There is no truth in any
rumor or report of a compromise. You
may deny all such ntost emphatically.
This repoal bill must pass without con
dition, and it will pass without condi
tion, tie asked me when 1 thought a
vote would be reached, and I prophesied
two weeks. He said that such was bis
calculation also."
One national nuisance has been
abated. It waa a very considerable re
lief to find that the death of the venera
ble and greatly respected Hamilton
Fish, Grant's ex-secretary of state, was
not to be made the occasion of stupid
and unmeaning mummery. To drape
the public buildings in black calico
whenever a former cabinet officer passed
away was without justification from any
point of view. There it just one more
blot upon our national repute in this
connection that ehonld be sponged out,
and that is the funeral junket and the
funeral eulogy in the case of departed
congressmen. I he spectacle oi a car
load of congressmen flying across the
country arrayed in crepe streamers and
black kid gloves and surfeited with
champagne and cigars at government
expense has long ago established itself
in public contempt and reprobation.
Such proceedings simply make a jest of
death.
Secretary Carlisle has signed on be
half of the United States the interna
tional agreement negotiated with Canada
for the control of immigration through
Canada into the United States. Treas
ury officials discredit the statement tel
egraphed from Ottawa that the Cana
dian government had refused to ratify
the instrument. The document is re
garded as being of great importance to
both countries.
In the senate last week Mr. Teller
created somewhat of a sensation by
making a bitter attack upon the news
paper press of the country. He ac
cused the press of mendacity in dealing
with the silver situation, and said that
there are no longer any' great news
papers published in thin country ,or
great editors, such as Horace Greeley
and Raymond; that newspapers are
now run like manufactories for money
only. His remarks were listened to by
the senate with evident surprise and
created a visible sensation.
Treasury officials are very much en
couraged at the improvement in the
financial situation during the last few
dayt. The total receipt! of the govern
ment during thii month have been $5,
610,000, the expenses for the same
period were $5,803,000. These large re
ceipts, together with other evidences of
returning prosperity, are believed to
show that the financial cloud hat broken
and will gradually disappear.
Rumor it now making an effort to ad
just Mr. Blount't name to the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Hon.
Josiah Quincy. Cas.
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RECOVERS! MONEY
The Entire $10,000 Lost ia the Second
Train Robbery.
PLOT TO ASSASSINATE A EMPEROR
Francis Joseph Conies Nearly Being
Killed When About to Take a
"" Railroad Journey.
Hancock, Mich., Sept. 18. The en
tire $70,000 secured by the trainrobbert
on the Mineral Range road, on the way
to pay employes of the Calumet 4 Hecla
mine, hat been recovered. After secur
ing the booty, the robbert pat it In a
small trunk and sent it by one of their
number dressed at a miner to Houghton.
He induced the baggage-man of the Du
lutb, South Shore & Atlantic to check it
through for htm for a consideration of
50 cents. It ia not known whether he
was aware of the contents. Officers
learned of the transaction, took a special
train and overhauled it some distance
from Houghton, and recovered the en
tire turn. It hat become 'evident the
robbera had confederates among the
trainmen, and two firemen have been
arrested at Marqnette on suspicion.
l'lot ta Kill FraneU Jmeph.
Viinha, Sept. 18. Magyar-Hirlap, a
newspaper published in Buda-Pesth,
Hungary, gives the details of a plot to
assassinate Emperor Francia Joseph, of
Austria-Hungary. The story is to the
effect that-a Roumanian boy overheard
two men discussing the plot. They
were arranging to have the spikes re'
moved from the rails at a certain point
on the road over which the emperor wat
to travel on his way to the army ma
neuvers, wrecking the train, when, in
the confusion, the conspirators would
kill the emperor and tuite. Having
heard ao much, the boy became fright
ened, ran away and told hit parenta.
After consulting they informed the po
lice, and an investigation developed the
fact that spikes had recently been
loosened. Thereupon the road was care
fully guarded, inspected thoroughly and
arrangements made to send a private
engine in advance of every train, The
boy and his parenta were arrested and
held aa witnesses. One theory of the
plot is it was caused by the anti-Aus
trian preaching of a local priest of a vil
lage in Tragevlvania, in which the boy
and hit parents reside, where most of
the inhabitants, the Roumanians, are
oppressed by Magyars.
TUB NATION'S CAPITOL.
Anniversary of Laying; tiie Corner.
Stone.
Washington, Sept. 18. The centen
nial anniversary of the laying of t
cornerstone of tho national capitol, was
commemorated this afternoon. One
hundred years ago today George Wash
ington, "Worshipful master of lodge 22,
of Virginia," with Masonic rites laid the
corner-stone of the building. Washing
ton on that occasion wore a sash and
apron, woven by Lafayette's wife The
city was then a mere village, but, es
corteu by a small band of patriotic citi
zens and a troop of soldiery, the father
of hit country proceeded from the White
House along Pennsylvania avenue to
the east front of the capitol over the
same route taken today bv President
Cleveland. Chairman ' Gardner de
livered a brief address, succinctly
sketching the remarkable growth and
development of the United Slates dur
ing the past 100 years ; closing by intro
ducing as chairman of the ceremonies
the "worthy successor of Washington,"
the president of the United States,
Grover Cleveland. The president was
given a most enthusiastic greeting and
delivered a brief, characteristic and ap
propriate address.
LITTLE KSTHKK'H) IIOKOHCOPC.
If tha Stars Are to Ha Trusted, Hhe
Will ba DUtlnfulshed In LI fa.
New Y'oiik, Sept. 17. Little Misi
Esther, the new American Princes! of
the house of Cleveland, haa a future be
fore her that It romantic and a career
that la distinguished, if the portent! of
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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ABSOLUTEIY PURS
stars and tho signs of the heavens are to
be trusted. Her horoscope has been
cast, and the whole planetary system
seems to have done its prett'est to give
the new baby a placo in the future of
American annals. This is what the as
trologer said at the conclusion of her
study :
"It is, indeed, a fortunate nativity of
a baby destined to arrive at great emi
nence; to become noted and prominent
like her father. She is fated to be well
made, and a rather tall woman, more
closely resembling the mother, of com
pact and graceful frame. She will be of
light complexion, brown haired, with
high forehead and deep expressive eyes.
The planets toll of a courteous and gen
tlo disposition, and say that good nature,
mildness and charity will be her chief
characteristics. The forecast of tho
early part of her life shows sickness and
trouble of a critical sort. After that her
health will gradually improve, though
other critical times are to come. Her
intellectuality is very marked and there
is every sign of her becoming a notable
woman, the will have rare gifts of music
and song. She will take a place in pub
lic affairs in all probability. Wealth
she Is certain to acquire; if not through
her own mental exertions, through
marriage at any rate. The planets say
this will not take place before the Is 24,
and the will enter the marriage stage
only onco. The marriage will be one of
great worldly advantage. Her future
husband the signs make out to be of a
character not at all nnlike hers. In ap
pearance he will resemble herself. Tho
marriage is destined to be a very happy
one. They will have no more than three
children, and they are likely to be boys,
but there is danger of two ot them dying
in infancy. Miss Esther is destined to
a long life."
NEWS NOTES.
Yellow fever continues on the increase
at Brunswick, Ga.
Private reports from Kiseingen say
that Bismarck is worse.
The Mexican congress will begin its
autumn session today.
Russia has issued a ukase that no for
eign silyer can be Imported to be coined
into money.
The striking shopmen of the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad, returned ta,
work today.
Brazilians living in Buenos Ay res l&
lieve that the success of the revolution-,
means the restoration of the monarchy. .
Canada has refused to adopt the -United
States agreement for inspection,
of immigrants to this country and.
Canada.
The grape crop of western New York
is enormous. Thousands of women and
girls are earning $1 per day gathering
the crop.
Frederick Getchell, once the demo
cratic candidate for governor of Iowa,
died in Oakland, California, from blood
poisoning.
It is popularly believed that Franco
has consented to allow Russia to estab
lish a naval station somewhere on the
French Mediterranean coast.
L. S. Coffin, prohibitionist nominee
for governor of Iowa, declines on the
ground that republicans should bo united
this year. Bennett Mitchell will proba
ably be the new nominee.
At Villa Canat the death roll is said
to be appalling. The peasants sought
refuge from the waters in caves on the
hillsides for the night. When all were'
sleeping the waters rose suddenly,
flooded the caves and drowned the
sleepers. '
In a letter to General Wistar, presi
dent of tho academy of music, (luted
Falcon Harbor, August 20th, Lieutenant
Peary reports hit party in the best of
health and spirits, and adds everything
looks most encouraging for the success
of his work.
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