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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1895.
NUMBER 5.
AND NOW THEY LI
A Mexican Dissected While
Still Alive.
THE BUTTE DISASTER AFTERMATH
Railroad Men Rnevr Powder Was Stored
in the Burning Building Insur
ance Wal Very Small.
City of Mexico, Jan. 18. Ihe peo
' pie of Mexico are greatly excited over
the dissection of Antonio Vangose, while
still alive. The supposed corpse sprang
to its feet shouting, "Don't kill me!
whereupon the dissector endeavored to
pnt back t ht pieces of flesh and sew up
the incision--. The man was a genuine
corpse in tw lays.
The Uutte Disaster.
Butte, Mont., Jan.. 18. Hour after
hour the disaster has been putting on
more distressing proportions. The real
weight and extent of the terrible calain
ity will never be know. The list of the
known dead has swelled to 53, and there
are at least four in the hospitals wh
cannot recover, John Sloan, Char
Ash ton, W. L. Miles and William Bow
Others were fatally injured. To the list
of missing Charles Hoffhaner was added
today. A few hours before the explo
sion he was up town and purchased a
new pair of shoes, and on his way home
he evidently stopped at the fire. One
of the new shoeB, which he had under
his arm, has been found a quarter of a
mile away from the scene of the catas
trophe, but not a fragment of Hoffhauer
has been found.
Including the list of 53 today are four
t the missing firemen Dave Moses
Samuel ABh, P. J. Norling and Ed
Sloan but not Hoffhaner, nor any other
of the missing. No doubt many were
blown to atoms who will never be heard
of.
Among the debris was found a number
of letters addressed to William Moffett
463 Tremont street, Boston. Thejetters
were from Canada, and were signed Am
brose Allen. It is supposed he is among
.the victims. A number of bills from
the lumber company to T. Mackie were
also found. Another letter found was
one from Portland, Or., signed E. C
Smith. Only a portion of the letter
was found, and the letter closed with
"If you see P. C. W. give him my best
regards."
A portion of a body has been found
supposed to be that of J. D. Cameron,
fire marshal, but the identification is
not certain, there being nothing to dis
tinguish it but a belt which was exactly
similar to that worn by the assistant
chief, whose body was also unrecogniza
ble.
Every hour brings additional reports
of the injured. Fully 100 have been
heard from, many being in a serious
condition. Evan Evans was on the
Bcene directly after the first explosion
and started to assist in removing the in
jured. When the second explosion oc
ured he was picked up and carried
some distance in the air, and far from
the scene. All his clothes were torn
from his body, but the only injury he
sustained was a punctured right cheek
and a cut in his left side. The flash
was seen and the concussion of the ex
plosion severely felt at Belgrade, on the
other side of the mountain range and 85
miles from Butte.
T I a. .
joroner rucnaras naa impaneled a
jury, but County Attorney Wines was
not satisfied with its complexion, and
ordered it discharged and another, made
up of representative business men, is to
be impaneled. The dead bodies were
viewed and an inquest of them post
poned until Monday, owing to the un
settled state of public feeling. Funerals
of the dead firemen will be held tomor
row. All business will be suspended,
and the public officials and military and
civic societies will participate. The
work of relief was Set in progress today
and nearly $12,000 subscribed.
It is significant, in looking for the
cause of the explosion, that nearly all
the railroad men who were employed
about the Montana Central yards, fled
when . the fire began. Most of them
knew there was a large quantity of pow
der stored in the neighborhood, and
they ' informed everybody they met to
that effect. There was but $6,500 in
surance on all the property destroyed,
outside of that owned by the railroad
companies. Although the owners of the
warehouses where the explosions oc
curred state they had less than 150
pounds of giant powder in their build
ings, it is estimated by mining men who
are familiar with explosives that at
least twenty tons of powder were in the
house. The law limits the storage of
powder within one niile of the city limits
to 150 pounds, but the penalty for its
violation is only a nominal fine. . The
citizens of Butte, however, are deter
mined to fix the blame where it belongs,
and the investigation at the inquest will
be thorough.
Revolution in Greece.
London, Jan. 18. At the banking
house of the Rothchilds it was said today
a telegram had been received on the
stock exchange saving a revolution had
broken out in Greece.
London, Jan. 18. The Greek consul
here has heard nothing of the insurrec
tion in Greece, but a dispatch received
in Paris says disturbances occurred last
evening in front of the chamber at
Athens, and the situation is said to be
grave.
Paris, Jan. 18. A rumor that a rebel
lion had broken out in Greece is current
UDon the Bourse in this city, and at
Vienna and Berlin. . Nothing has been
received direct from Athens on the sub
ject.
The latest bourse rumor includes a re
rxrt of the abdication of the king of
Greece, Georgius I. The report, how
ever, is not connrmea.
Chilian Cabinet Formed.
Washington, Jan. 18. Mr.'McGarr,
bur charge d'affaires at Santiago, Chili,
has informed the state department a new
ministry was announced there December
7. and bad since been installed. The
cabinet is liberal, composed as follows
Ramon Barros Luca, minister of the in
terior and chief of the cabinet; Luis Bar
ros Borgone, foreign relatione, worship
and colonization; Osvaldo Renjifi, jus
tice and public instruction; Manuei
Salustii Fernandez Haciend, treasury;
Carlos Rivera Tofre, war and marine ;
Elias Fernando Albane, industry and
public works. ...
Secret Treaty Alliance.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Jan. 18. A
Guatemalan envoy who had arrived here
brought, it is reported, a proposition for
a secret treaty alliance between Guate-,
mala, Honduras and Nicaragua, primar
ily against Mexico, but if there is no war
with Mexico, to attack j conquer and di
rect Salvador. His success is unknown.
The press predicts a revolution, due to
the bad state of business, financial diffi
culties of the government and increasing
taxation. Many people are moving to
Salvador.
The Wrecked Union Bank.
St. Johns, N. F., Jan. 18, Sharehold
ers of the Union bank last night elected
as directors, to replace those Dy whose
mismanagement the failure of the bank
was brought about, five keen businss
men. Four of the ex-directors owed
$1,750,000 on overdrafts and exchange,
of which the bank loses $1,000,000 hope
lessly. The bank is expected to pay
about 60 cents on the dollar when wound
up. This will take two years.
Burricance in the FIJI Islands.
Auckland, N, Z., Jan. 18. Advices
from the Fiji islands report that a terri
ble hurricane swept over the whole
group, doing great damage to shipping.
Lives were lost and a number of build'
ings destroyed and plantations ruined
Five churches at Suava collapsed. The
Anglician church was unroofed. Some
of the bonded stores were wrecked, but
the sugar mills were not injured.
Porto Rico Sugar Goes to Canada,
Madrid, Jan. 18. Porto Rico has
asked that it be not included in the
modus vivendi between Spain and the
United States upon the ground that
Porto Rico sugar goes to Canada, not the
United States. Some deputies, it is said,
intend to attack the cabinet, accusing the
ministers of having yielded to the men
aces of Cleveland.
To Raise Funds for Revolution.
San Francisco, Jan. 13. Colonel Ma
rina Pinto, who came from" Salvador
several months ago to join General An
tonio Eseta, has gone to Paris to consult
with Carlos Ezeta and negotiate funds to
overthrow the Salvadorian government.
Ezeta's friends say. an army can be
raised for him as soon as funds are se
cured. " v
Knights of the Maccabees.
The State Commander writes us from
Lincoln, Neb., as follows : "After try
ing other medicines for what seemed to
be a very obstinate cough in our two
children we tried Dr. King's New Dis
covery and at the end of two days the
cough entirely left them. We will not
be without it hereafter ,as our experience
proves that it cures .where all other re
medies fail." Signed F. .W. Stevens,
State Com. Why not give this great
medicine a trial, as it is guaranteed and
trial bottles are free at Snipes & Kiners
ley's Drug Store. Regular size 50c and
oo. . .
All pain banished by Dr. Miles' Fain Pills.
BAYONETS WERE USED
Militia Forced to Charge the
Strikers in Brooklyn.
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN WOUNDED
Strikers Are Thought to Have Made
Arrangements to Confer With
the Railroad Officials.
Brooklyn, Jan. 19. Three thousand
men are under arms in Brooklyn to
night. Rioting has been the order of
the day, and the strikers had some ser
ious clashes with the militia. In many
instances non-union men were badly
hurt, and so fierce were the attacks of
the strikers tonight that the soldiers had
to resort to the bayonet. Several strik
ers or sympathizers were bayoneted, and
the situation is considered the gravest
that has confronted she authorities for
many years. The board of mediation
and arbitration 'has given' up its attempt
at reconciling the two factions. Com
missioners Robertson and Pnrcell have,
apparently, abandoned any hope of
effecting a compromise.
Rumors were abroad throughout the
day that the elevated road men would
go out in' sympathy with the surface
men. It is stated by elevated leaders
that it was not unlikely that a general
strike would be ordered Monday. Grand
Master Sovereign is expected in Brook'
lyn tomorrow, and will attempt to do
what the board of arbitration baa failed
to do conciliate the presidents of the
roads. There was a conference of police
captains tonight, and it was decided to
rigidly enforce the excise law tomorrow.
Superintendent Campbell, of the police
tonight issued a statement that he had
been notified that the Brooklyn Railroad
Company will put their lines in opera
tion tomorrow. The superintendent of
police, in conjunction with the militia
will make special preparation for the
opening of this line. Notice is given
that a further force of the militia will
not be ordered, the impression having
obtained tonight that the strikers had
made arrangements to meet the railroad
officials on their own ground.
The militia at the Jamaica car stables
were forced to charge a big mob three
times since 6 o'clock this morning. The
first time the strikers gathered around
the stables in the streets and jeered the
soldiers. Colonel Eddy, who was in
charge, drew his men up in line and
gave an order to charge. The mob was
driven back to the houses on the oppo
site side of the street, and fell pell-mell
through the doorways and down cellars
and, in fact, wherever they could find a
place of escape. One person, Charles
' Wilson, was injured by being stabbed in
the back with a bayonet. He was taken
to a hospital established by Assistant
Surgeon Belcher in one of the empty
carhouses, where his wound was dressed
At 7 :10 a. m., and again at 1 :15 p. m.
the militia charged the mob, which had
become again threatening. The strikers
and their friends who had begun to
gather in front of the carhouses, jeered
the soldiers. There were several per
sonal encounters between the guards
and the mob, which began to close
around the carhouses. Colonel Eddy
called on his reserves, formed them into
line, stretched them along the street for
a distance of 250 feet, and then gave the
order to advance. Some of the strikers
and their sympathizers took issue with
the militia and stopped to argue the
point. The temper of the crowd neces
sitated a charge. Again the soldiers ad
vanced on the mob and drove it from the
street at the point of the bayonet. A
second man was wounded. ' His name is
Thomas Nolan, a compositor. He fell
and was struck on the knee with a bay
onet. He was removed to his home.
Late tonight, before the talk of a con
ference, the strikers rioted for three-
quarters of an hour in the vicinity of the
car stables on Jamaica avenue, in the
twenty-sixth ward they hurled bricks
and stones in every direction. The mil
itary scattered the crowd time and again.
Several men and women were wounded.
Eugene Williams was stabbed in the
back by a bayonet. Phillip Tighe was
also stabbed by a bayonet. A women,
whose name could not be learned, while
attempting to pass through tLe line, re
ceived a similar wound by a guardsman,
whose bayonet was pointed in the direc
tion of the fleeing crowd. The militia
drove the rioters, down Alabama and
Georgia avenues several times, chasing
them for four blocks. Several ambu
lances were sent to the scene, and af one
time the situation was thought serious.
Pain has no show with Dr. Miles' Pain Pills,
The Sale Con (armed.
Corvallis, Or., Jan. The recent Ore
gon Pacific sale was confirmed today.
December 22d the road was sold to Bon
ner & Hammond for $100,000. Jaunary
4th the court convened in special session,
at which time objections to the confirm
ation were presented and final action in
the matter postponed, at the instance of
Vallis Nash, representing an English
syndicate which proposed to deposit
$50,000 . as an earnest that at least $200,
0(10 would be offered at a resale. Mr.
Nash expected to be in a position to
make the necessary deposit today, but
failed to do so for the reason, as he
claimed, that the mails had been de
layed by storms on the Atlantic.
Mr. Nash and Mr. Watson today filed
objections to the confirmation, alleging,
principally inadequacy of price. Judge
Burnett, for the purchasers, objected to
the filing of objections at this time for'
the reason that the time for so doing
had elapsed.. The court allowed the ob
jections to be filed, and then read three
telegrams iron) New York parties
asking that the confirmation.be delayed
or that a new sale be ordered. He fur
ther said that Mr. Clark, the present re
ceiver, had informed him that the road
would no longer pay running expenses
and had run behind during December,
While there might be something in the
objections just filed, he did not think it
would be advisable, to postpone the or
der of confirmation or order a resale,
and would therefore order the sale to
Bonner & Hammond confirmed.
' This announcement brought forth
round of applause from the spectators
Attorneys Nash and Watson filed notice
of appeal. An order was made, how
ever, instructing the sheriff to turn over
the property to the purchasers, they to
assume all liabilities incurred since De
cember 22d, the date of purchase. -
The1 Oregon Pacific went into the
hands of the court October 26, 1890
During this time Colonel T. Egenton
Hogg, E. W. Hadley and Charles Clark
have presided over the destinies of the
property . with varying euccesB. Eight
different times it has been offered for
sale by the sheriff and only three bids
made. At no sale was there any com
petition in the bidding. Colonel Hogg
bid $1,000,000, and failing to complete
the purchase, forfeited $25,000. The
Blair-Wharton faction bid $200,000 and
the sale was set aside. Lastly Bonner &
Hammond took the road for $100,000,
The proceeds of the sale will be applied
first, to the court expenses, which are
estimated at $15,000 ; next to the pay
ment of delinquent taxes, aggregating
in the neighborhood of $60,000. There
are about $10,000 in receiver's certifi
cates, issued under the Hadley adminis
tration, for insurance, which were given
priority of payment. This last item
may be contested, but local attorneys
are of the opinion that it will be impos
sible to defeat their priority. This will
leave about $15,000 to discharge $1,250,-
000 of obligations contracted while the
road was in the court's hands. All par
ties in interest will probably contest for
priority of payments.
Edwin Stone has a power of attorney
from Bonner & Hammond, and is now
in charge of the property, although the
necessary documents have not been
signed. To an Oregonian representative
Mr. Stone said tonight :
Charles Clark, l&te receiver, will be
retained as superintendent for the pres
ent at least, and no change will be made
in the personnel of present employes,
The road will be operated as heretofore,
until the arrival of Mr. Hammond, who
is now in New York, and is expected, to
reach Corvallis within the next two
weeks." .
Idle for Ten Tears.
Sandwich, Mass., Jan. 20. Fires will
be started Monday morning in the plant
of the Sandwich glassworks,, which have
been idle almost 10 years. Repairs will
be made and everything put into Bhape
for operating the works at. once. This
movement is the result of action taken
by the citizens. At a meeting held last
evening, a sufficient sum was subscribed
to start the works, which will be run for
the present on the co-operative plan.
Discovered Vast Treasure. .
SanXuis Potosi, M., Jan. 19. Child
ren playing here discovered a cavern.
Several men explored the cave, revealing
an iron chest filled ' with Spanish gold
coin, amounting to over $250,000. It is
believed - the money was placed in the
cave by Franciscan monks.
Liberal Successor to Baron Banffy.
Buda-Pesth, Jan. 21. Dr. Jeisiderius
Denzalogy, liberal, formerly , minister of
justice, has been elected president of the
chamber of deputies in succession to
Baron Banffy, now premier of Hungary.
Earthquakes In Italy.
Rome, Jan. 21. Shocks of earthquake
were felt in a number of places in Mes
sina last evening. .The damage done
is unknovn. , . : -
TROOPS IN KENTUCKY
Have Been Ordered to
Held in Keadiness.
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NEEDED AT MOUNT STERLING
Both Fatally Wounded A Marshal
Murdered by Robbers stabbed
With a Pocketknlfe A Bur- , '
' glar is Killed.
Lsiington, Ky., Jan. 21'. Adjutant
Sharley has received a -telegram from
Colonel E. H. Gather, of the Second
regiment, state guard, ordering him to
have in readiness 40 members of com
pany D., of this city, until Tuesday,
The colonel has been telegraphed to for
particulars, but none have come, and
the officers of the militia here do
not know what the trouble is. 6ne
theory is that the troops will be wanted
at Mount Sterling during the sitting of
the circuit court, which begins there to'
day. It is said that detectives have
fastened the lynching of Tom Blair on
15 men, and that they will be indicted
by the grand jury. It is said that
Mount Sterling officials have received
threatening letters declaring that the
town will be burned unless Blair's mur
derers are punished. Blair was taken
from the Morgan county jail January 1
and hanged by a mob. He was charged
with the killing of Captain J. L. Bomar
in Mount Sterling, but was acquitted on
the trial.
A Fourteeu-Storv Building Falls.
Caicago, Jan. 21. Daring the heavy
wind storm today the Dearborn building,
corner of Clark and Monroe streets, was
wrecked. Timbers were blown from
position, and falling fourteen stories
buried two men and injured a number
of others.. J. D. Burke, ticket broker, is
thought to be fatally injured. Others
seriously injured are: A.J.Donaldson
clerk, shoulder crushed : Frank Wood'
wary, teamster, arm crushed ; William
Luyius, printer, scalp badly bruised; H.
H. Irwin, clerk, dangerous internal in'
juries ; George Bey, stenographer, head
badly cut.
Chicago, Jan. 21. About 2 o'clock
30-foot flagstaff on Kingsley's hotel.oppo
site the government building, was torn
from its base and hurled into the street,
dangerously injuring Edward Harper,
an expressman. It was thought his
skull was fractured. A heavy plate
glass window in the Hartford building,
at Dearborn and Madison streets, was
blown in. James Heneon was struck by
a large section of glass and cut almost in
two. He died in a few minutes.
Mo Appropriation to Be Made for 'Re
printing Treasury Notes.
Washington. Jan. 21. An important
meeting of the bouse appropriations
committee was held today in which Sec
retary Carlisle took part at the request
of Chairman Sayres. The conference
was over the adoption of a policy by
which the secretary hopes to pnt into
circulation an increased volume of silver
certificates of small denominations in
place of treasury notes. The committee
decided to strike from the sundry civil
bill the stipulation that for several years
has been added to the item-, providing
for printing treasury notes to replace
those received at the treasury.
The Chicago building bill passed the
house by a vote of 197 to 51.
In the senate today Lodge offered a
resolution declaring the United States
should keep a 'warship at the Sandwich
islands, and that measures should be
taken for the construction of a cable
from San Francisco to Honolulu and for
annexation of the Sandwich islands to
the United States. Blackburn objected
to its present consideration, and the res
olution went over. At 2 o'clock the
Nicaragua canal bill came up, but was
also set aside for the consideration of the
urgent deficiency bill. Hill discussed
the elimination of his amendment rela
tive to the income-tax questions.
Catherine Glng's Murderer.
Minneapolis, Jan. 21. The trial of
Harry' Hay ward, for the murder of
Catherine Ging, was formally begun to
day. Harry Hay ward went to his seat
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
ABSOE.ar&rEE.v pure
blithely, as if entering the theater. He
chewed gum vigorously, and played with
bis spaniel while waiting for the pro
ceedings to begin. W. W. .Irvin, al
ready well known from his connection
with the Homestead and Debs' cases,
and John Day Smith, a local attorney,
represented the defendant. County at
torney Frank M. Nye, the humorist, and
Alfred H. Hall are the prosecutors. It
was deemad significant that the attorney
of Glaus Blixtsatnpon the prosecution's
side of the table. . Soon after' the pro
ceedings began Miss . Julia Ging, twin
sister of the murdered woman. ' Took a
seat not six feet" from the 'prisoner.
The county attorney moved . the case of
Blixt be reset for February" 5, and this
was agreed to by Blixt's attorney. It
is believed the w6rk of securing a jury
will consume a week.
Bis Windpipe Severed. 1
Los Angeles, Jan 21. A serious cut
ting affray occurred in this city at about
5 :30 o'clock last evening in a, saloon at
the end of the Cmtral-avenue electric
line. Two carpenters named Taylor
and Vaughn, while drunk, quarreled at
their boarding nouse on Flower Btreet,
and adjourned to meet at the saloon
named to fight it out. Tayior, who is
the larger man, was getting the best of
the fight, when Vaughn pulled a pocket
knife, stabbing Taylor in four places,
once in the throat, barely escaping the
jugular vein, but severing the windpipe.
Another blow was in the back, making
a wound three inches long and four in
ches deep. Two bad cuts were also
made in the right arm. Taylo'.'s in
juries are pronounced serious. Vaughn
was arrested.
Opium Smuggler Arrested.
San .' Francisco, Jan. 21. Deputy
Surveyor Ruddell and his assistants in
the government service were successful,
Saturday night, in unearthing frauds
that have for some 'months been eus
pected. The government officers found
30 five-tael tins of opium concealed in
the trunk of John Clifford, a fireman of
the donkey engine on the Alameda. It
is suspected that fireman Charles John-
son, of the Alameda, is the chief con
spirator in the smuggling. "' The opium
was seized , and uiinord was arrested.
but Johnson has not yet been found.
Oakland Water Front Case.
Washington, Jan. . 21. The . railroad
wins the Oakland water front case. The
United States supreme court will dis
miss the case, and will eav that it is not
a lederai question, and that it has no v
jurisdiction in the premises. Today is
the day Bet for handing down decisions,
and it is not improbable that this-case
will be among them, though the an
nouncement of the decision may be de
ferred for some time yet. '
Killed by a Detective.
Los Angeles, Jan. 21. Detective
Auble shot and fatally wounded William
Beane, a young Englishman whom he
detected entering a fruit store at Tem
ple and Hill streets. Beane made a
dying statement, in which he claimed to
have come from Pueblo, Colo., in search
of work, which he could not find.
Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
Washington, Jan. 21. The supreme
court rendered an opinion in the case of
the Sugar Trust Company vs. E. C.
Knight and others, involving the valid
ity and constitutionality of the Sherman
anti-trust law. The decision holds the
law to be inapplicable to the cose in
hand, and confirms the opinion of the
circuit court. -
A Meeting of Monarch. ..
London, Jan. 21. A court circular
says the queen will go to Darir adc in
April, where she will meet the czar and
czarina, the emperor and empieES of
Germany, ex-Empress Fred, irk, the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe-C-.' u c and
the Duke and Duchess of CiiniH-runt.
Eloped With an American.
Berlin, Jan. 21. Count Bfiistororf, a
member of a wealthy family prominent
in Berlin society, has eloped with Sophia
Harrison, an American performer in the
Winter Garden variety theater. The
affair created a sensation in society.
Italian Troops In Kgypt..
Massowah, Egypt, Jan. 21. General
Barateiri and the bulk of the Italian
troops have arrived at Azamara,' on
their way to the coast.
Duke of Argyle's Illness.
London, Jan. 21. The condition of
the Duke of Argyle is unchanged."
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