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CO ft . THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 189G.- VOL. VI. NUMBER 6. MmSi&tfl , nam $J MONTGOMERY HANGS The Boy Murderer Exhibited Wonderful Pluck. FREELY CONFESSED HIS GUILT And Made a Written Statement in Which He Implored PorsWe ness For the Crime Albany, Or., Jan. 31. Lloyd Breson Montgomery, the self-confessed murder er of hia father and mother and D. Mc Kercher, was hanged at 7 o'clock this morning in the enclosure of the jail yard. The prisoner exhibited wonderful pluck, and did not flinch upon the scaf fold. About half an hour before the ex ecution Montgomery said he would con fess all. "I am guilty." he eaid "I killed them all. I will write it out." He then wrote out the following state ment: "I did it, I am guilty. Oh God, have mercy on me 1 Take me as I am, a poor sinner! I am sorry for what I have done; God, do have mercy on my poor soul for my sake do, and forgive all my sins each and every one of them, and forgive those who sin against me. Oh God, help precious souls to 6ee the way oflife;'for my sake do help them and guide them through this life. Amen." As he left for the scaffold ne said : "I want you people to know I am sorry for what I have done. I am ready to die. I deserve it." After stepping upon the platform, Montgomery said : "Friends, I am sorry for what I have done, and I hope you will all forgive me, and 1 hope the Lord will be with you, and I ask God to have mercy on me as a poor sinner, and I ask you to pray for me." I Earnest prayers was then delivered by Rev; J. E. Snyder. After being securely pinioned, the doomed boy said: 4'Oh Christ ! forgive me, and I hope you will all meet me in heaven, and I ask God to take me as I am." The sheriff then adjusted the black cap and rope, and stepped back, when Montgomery said: "Oh, God! have mercy on me, a sinner. Take me as am. My friends, farewell, farewell." " Sheriff McFeron then pressed the trig ger, and the body shot downwards full six feet. There was no struggle, only a slight tremor. The head was bent for ward and to one side, and the neck was broken. At fourteeen-and-a-half min rates the heart ceased to beat, and at six teen-and-a-half minutes he was . pro nounced dead. The body was then cut down. It will be placed in the court h6use for a short time, and will be turned over to doctors for an autopsy before burial. His relatives refused to take possession of the body or bury it, A CHICAGO BANQUET. In Commemeratlon of the Birth Alexander Hamilton, Chicago, Jan. 31. The annual 'ban quet of the Hamilton Club, in commem - oration of the birth of Alexander Ham ilton, was held in the Auditorium to night. The great dining hall of the hotel was decorated in a lavish manner for the occasion, and fully 300 of the most prominent men in the city were present. -Many notable men from other places were also at the board. Presi dent Samuel W. Allerton, of the club, acted as toastmaster. It had been ex pected that Governor Morton, of New York, ex-Secretary of the Interior Noble and Senator . Foraker would be present, but they were unavoidably absent. Gov ernor Bushnell, of Ohio, responded to the toast of "Republicans of Ohio," and Bishop Chase Cheney, of Chicago, to "The Patriot."- 'An .Execution at Kalama. Kalama, Wash,; Jan. 31. Charles Asimera, a hunch-back, was hanged here today for the murder of James Goed wood last September.'' At exactly 9:30Asimers came out of hia cell and walked between two deputy sheriffs up the steps ot the Bcaffold. As soon as he was In position en the drop, he commenced ' talking in a hesitating. disconnected manner. His words were : '1 must die, I am all right, sheriff ; be good man, I must die, I'm all right." While he was saying this deputies were strapping his arms and legs and adjust ing the noose. With the last words, Sheriff Watson touched a lever at 9:32 and the body dropped nine feet. - He was pronounced dead at 9:36 and cut down at 9 :37. ' Every detail passed off in the smoothest possible manner. About thirty people witnessed the exe cution, mostly sheriffs, doctors and newspaper men.' '; -, Lively in Louisiana. : New Orleans, Jan. 29. -The meeting of the republican state convention today ";;"'VV;:---"'V resulted in one of the most exciting ses eions in the history of the party in this state. The fight between the McKinley and Reed forces for the four delegates at large to the national republican conven tion at St. Louis is becoming lively. NcKinley captured tLe four delegates iD the districts yesterday. This made the Keed men, led by ex-Governor Kellogg, universally anxious to capture the four delezates at large, to be selected by the convention. The McKinley forces gained control of the temporary organization ot the convention.but the Reed men wrest ed it from them today in the convention Out ot the convention 600 delegates the seats of 290 were contested. The convention took a recess until the ere dentials committee could report. A NEW COMrLICATIOS. Britain Laws Claim to Prince Edward Island. - Montreal, Jan. 29. A special to the Star from London says : Lord Salisbury and Right Hon. Mr, Chamberlain have been considering th result of the inquiries into the records here made on behalf of British Colum bia, which show that the United States has no right under the Anglo-Russian treaty of 1825 to the 3,000,000 acres of land of Prince of Wales island in the Pacific coast, which is of great strategic and commercial value, and which the United States has usurped since buyin Alaska. The records of the dispatches of Bagot to Lord Canning show that Clarence straits and not Portland inlet is the correct boundary. It is suggested that the Canadian members of the Alas kan boundary commission have been misled into assuming the correctness of the United States assumption. No Funds to Draw On. Los Gatos, Cal., Jan. 29. Theodore K. Murray was brought by Sheriff Lyn don from San Jose this morning at the instigation of G. L. Turner, of the Bank of Los Gatos, on a charge of forgery in getting a check for $500 cashed when funds were to his credit in Visalia. Fairfield Items. Editor Chronicle: Since my last letter we have had quite a change in the weather. About fourteen inches of snow has fallen, but has since almost entirely disappeared. Our weather is all that can be dtsired. A warm rain has beea falling, which turns all enow to water, The ground id not frozen and the soil is getting the full benefit of the moisture consequently we are looking ahead for a good crop the coming season. But if the combination still keeps is suing more bonds what avails the rais' ing of good crops, for farmers will still be beggars. It appears to the writer as though there is a craze for taxation amongbt the American people. Per haps they are watching the workings of our congress and have become somewhat plutocratic. Some of the people in this section are thinking that way just now in regard 1 3 our board of school direc tors, as we are having a warm discussion over the raising of a fund by taxation to pay the indebtedness of the district. We are thinking- Very seriously of forming a social club, whose duty it will be to raise funds for the construction of alms house, where all the poor, delin quent and over taxed, may meet in a social way and have all things in com mon, Oh, what a gathering there will be, and as poverty is the mother of invention, we -may there and then de- vise ways and means to lift us out of this pool of despondency. Health is generally good in this sec tion, with the exceptions of two. Mrs Jacob Obrist is in very poor health. Al though Mr. Obrist took her to Califor nia and made an extended tour to the principal medical waters and infirmarys, which seemed to benefit her for a short time, on her return she has grown worse. Although she is helpless, she is not dangerously ill. She deserves the best of care, which goes a long way in alleviating her sufferings. Our other patient is Wm. McMsaus who is stop ping with W. Babcock during the win ter. He has been very eick, but at last accounts is somewhat better and we look for an early recovery. R. F. "Wickham. None Bnt Ayer's at the World's Fair. Ayer's Sarsaparilla enjoys the extra ordinary distinction of having been the only blood purifier allowed on exhibit at the world's fair, Chicago. - Manufact urers of other aarsaparillas sought by every means to obtain a showing of their goods, but they were all turned away under the application of the rule for bidding the entry of patent medicines and nostrums. The decision of the world's fair authorities in favor of Ayer's Sarsaparilla was in effect as follows : Ayer's. Sarsaparilla Is not a patent medicine. It does not belong to the list of nostrums. It ia here on its merits. " :: '.''.-' I BOND BILL SUBSTITUTE Long Contest in . the Senate Brought to a Close. SEVEN MAJORITY FOR FREE COINAGE A Tote Was Beached After Three Honrs of Canstle .Debate and Sharp Parliamentary Fencing. Washington, Feb. 1. The long con test over the silver bond bill is at an end in the senate, that body having passed the free-silver coinage substitute for the house bond bill by the decisive vote of 42 to 25 a majority of seven for free sil ver. This result was reached at - 3 o'clock today, after three honrs ot caus tic debate and sharp parliamentary fencing. The public interest in, the culmination of the protracted struggle was shown by crowded galleries, and a full attendance on tfte floor, 77 senators being present, and the others paired. Baron von Theil mann, the German ambassador, who oc cupied a front seat in the diplomatic gallery, showing keen interests in the final vote. Members of the house crowd ed the chamber, filling available seats and standing room in the rear and side areas. The result was such a foregone conclu eion that little excitement or surprise was occasioned by the announcement of the passage of the substitute. The early hours of the session, begin ing at 11 o'clock, were given to the clos ing speeches, including that of Morrill the octogenarian of congress, who is still vigorous in speech and thought. The other speeches were under the five-min ute rule, being breef and snappy. Lind say took occasion to say that in his judg- ment the president bad fulfilled the full measure of Jiia duty in financial affairs and should do no more. If calamity came as a result of the congressional in action, the president should leave the responsibility where it belonged, on the shoulders of congress. Another interesting incident occurred when Gorman was urging that the legis lation was fruitless, as it could not re cei ve execu ti ve approval. Morgan'called attention to the "fact that the duty of congress was to act without executive in' fluence or direction, to which Gorman with much earnestness replied. "I fully agree to that proposition, and only regret that there has not been closer adherence to it in the past. The senator from Alabama cannot go farther then I to resist encroachments of the executive in giving any suggestions be yond those he is bound to make by the constitution of the United States, and due weight should be given to whatever rec ommendations he makes, without fear of political power and patronage from the president." Mills, who had voted with the silver men on all test motions, changed his vote at the last and recorded himself as against the passage of the free-silyer bill, CONFIRMATIONS. After several hours' contest in execu tive session today, the senate confirmed the nominations of General J. J. Coppin- ger, colonel in the army, to be brigadier general, by the decisive vote of 44 to 17. The nomination was sent to the senate very soon after the conveying of congress, but had scarcely been made public when protests against confirmation began to pour in from the A. P. A. societies in all parts Of the country. After a delay of six weeks, the senate committee on mili tary affairs made a unanimously favor able report to the senate. The opposi tion was led today by Burrows, Gear, Perkins, Teller, Pettigrew, Squire and Wilson, all of whom made speeches dur- the conrse of the day's session. Hawley, Bate and Palmer, all members of the committee,' championed the general's cause, detailing the results of the in vestigationof the committee, which they said were entirely favorable to General Coppinger. - ' ' i . The opponents of confirmation based their course of action almost entirely npon the fact that General Coppinger had been promoted over the heads of 13 colonels who were hia seniors in rank, which was dwelt upon as an unjust pro ceeding. When they were met with the statement that . Coppinger was selected because of his superior military record. they asserted that tbwe were others of equally meritorious records. They also made the point that, in case of war, the probabilities were altogether favorable to younger men coming to the front. The vote favorable to' confirmation in cludes all the members of the committee on military affairs, who were supported by the more conservative senators, who generally follow committee recommenda tions It was also noticed that all ex- Confederates in the senate voted for con firmation, as did all except one or two of the Union soldiers. . ... . . . THE TRUE STORY OF ELIZA. 'Which Formed the Baals of One of the In cidents of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The incidents which formed the basis for the story of the escape of Eliza, the slave mother, with her child, across the Ohio river on the ice. which is fa miliar to readers of Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," were told by Eev. S. G. W. Rankin in Hartford re cently. The incidents came within the personal knowledge of Mr. Rankin, and he said that he gave them to Mrs, Stowe and that she used a younger woman, who escaped at nearly the same time, to complete the picture and make it more attractive and dra- matic. As Mr. Rankin tells the story, his fa ther's family, living1 on the bluffs on the river, were well known as in the business of helping1 runaway slaves, and slaves knew them as friends. -It was one Christmas week that Eliza, a stalwart negro woman, came to the Rankin house in the night, having brought her husband across the river in a boat. lie was covered with ice from the river, the night having been intensely cold, and the man, who was not as bright as Mrs. Stowe's George Harris by any means, had fallen into the water in getting' out of the boat, Eliza was very religious and very de termined, and had planned to send her husband ahead to Canada, intending1 to join him with his children afterward The husband was sent along- and Eliza crossed the river to Kentucky that same night, returninsr to her mother. She fixed a date, two months ahead, when she would again come to the Rankin house. True to the arrangement, she crossed the river one night in Febru ary, when the river was in a treacher ous condition, carrying her young child in a shawl strapped to her back. The ice was in broken floes, and she carried a board with a rope attached to it by which she passed from one cake to another. She got across and was sent to Canada to join her husband. She still had five children in slavery and said to the Raukins that she was going back to Kentucky after them the following June. On the June day in question she appeared in Mr. Rankin's garden, and she was disguised as a man and sent across the river, where she made her way to her former master's planta tion and. hid beneath the currant bushes in his garden. Here she was dis covered by her oldest daughter, a girl of 17, and at nightfall was hidden be neath the floor of her old cabin in the negro quarters. Sunday, after dinner, her master and his wife went several miles away to visit a friend, and Eliza, following the example of( the Israel ites when they despoiled the Egyp tians, .took blankets and household goods to the amount of about 200 pounds' weight, divided them into bundles for the . five children, and started on an 11-mile walk to a point on the river which she was to reach at two o'clock Monday morning. She had been told to bring nothing but the children, but she had so overloaded them with the packages that the small er ones gave out, and she was obliged to carry one child a little way, a bundle a little way, and then go back after another child and another bundle, un til she was so delayed that the river was not reached until six o'clock in the morning, and the boat that was to carry her over was gone. It was very foggy, however, and by walking about a mile and a quarter in the shallow water of the Kentucky side of the river, to throw off the scent of the blood hounds, she reached an anti-slavery man's house, where she remained all day. That morning," said . Mr. Rankin, "when we exacted to have "Eliza and her children safe in Ohio, after the fog lifted, we saw 31 men 'on horseback, with dogs and guns, across the river, hunting this defenseless woman with five children, after a reward of $1,300. Communication was opened with Eliza during the -day and lie was told what to do. At nightfall 'Mr. Rankin, disguised as a woman, with a party of young fellows,, made a. feint on tne Kentucky shore, a few miles farther up the river, and gave the negro hunt ers a lively chase, they suppos ing they had track of Eliza. The hunters were evaded, and at the same time a trusted boatman had ferried the woman and children across to the Rankin house, where she remained in hiding for two weeks, being finally taken to the Quaker settlement in a load of flour and bran. She escaped to Canada and lived for years there with her husband and six children." Hartford Courant. It is a big thing to say but neverthe less true, that a great multitude of peo ple have Crowned Simmons Liver Regu lator, the "King of Liver Medicines." There is nothing like it for Malaria, Rheumatism, Chills and Fever, Consti pation, Biliousness, Sick Headache, In digeston and all troubles arising from a sluggish or diseased aver. Simmons Liver Regulator is the prevention and cure for these ailments. Subscribe for The Chbonicle. GOMEZ AND MACEO The Insurgent Leaders Hare Effected a Meeting. GENERAL MARIN ODTMANETJVERED He Cannot Prevent the Rebels From Going- Where They Choose Re cent Movements of Gomez. Key West, Feb. 3. (By mail from Havana). Gomez and Maceo have met. The meeting, it is said, took place at a plantation near Artemisa, in the pro vince of Pinar del Rfo, at the very time that Acting .Governor-General Marin was looking for the rebel chiefs, only 14 miles to the northward, near San Anto nio de los Banos. It was supposed that they had guarded tjieir line from Ha vana to Batabano to prevent the meet ing, Dut tromez crossed the line, and Maceo, with a comparatively small part of his forces, made a quick march from the westernmost point of the island and kept bis tryst. The next campaign of the insurgents must have been decided upon by this time. "1 have seen Morro's light every nigh for a week," Gomez said recently. OUTWITTED by GOMEZ. General Marin Mo Match for the Insur gent Leader. New York, Feb. 3. A dispatch from Havana says : Maximo Gomez, accompanied by 400 mounted men, succeeded on Thursday in recrossing the trocha, or military line established by the Spaniards between Havana and Batabano. He crossed few miles south of Bejucan, near Buena Ventura, which is about 10 miles north of Qaivican. At the same time he de stroyed a cnlvert, cut the telegraph wires and crippled the railroad between Rincon and Quivican. People wonder how Gomez evaded the Spanish columns and how it was possi ble for him to practically cut the "wall of men" ot which the Spanish generals expected so much. At the time Gomez played this trick on the Spanish guard along the trocha, General Marin, who had left Havana the same day at the head of the best equipped force put in the field during the present rebellion, waa slumbering quietly, surrounded by his troops, at San Antonio de los Banos, about 10 miles east of Guanajay. While Gomez was coming east, and approach ing the tiocha, General Marin and his corps were going west on a train from Rincon toward Guanajay. Gomez's route of march was parallel with the railroad used by Marin, and, not more than from six to ten miles distant at any time, yet the Spaniards did not learn until the following morning (Friday) that Gomez was in the east again. The first intimation received here waa by telegram fram Quiyican. A large number of people have been leaving for Cuba the past fortnight, and it seems the exodus has only begun. Each steamer from Havana carries hundreds of families to the United States and Mexico, and to South Amer ican and West Indian ports. Steam ship agents talk of putting on extra steamers. Business ia practically at a standstill. Some sugar plantations in the extreme eastern provinces are grinding. All that are grinding are doing so under strong military guard, and are compelled to feed the troops, and the profits are small. One or two plantations, it is said, obtained permission from Gomez to start their machinery. " - At Constanzia 300 regulars and 500 civil guards are encamped on and about the plantation to protect the men at work. 8 mall atone fortresses have been -built at equal distances around ' the plantations, all being connected by tele fphone. : .' Blew Bis Brains Ont. Seattle,-Feb. 3. A. A. Merrill, head of the local merchants' police patrol, committed suicide - this, morning by shooting hia brains out. He was ar rested Thursday morning last charged , Highest of all in Leavening Powen -Latest U. S. Gov't Report J - with an nnnameable offense and gave bonds Saturday evening in the sum of $500. He leaves property valued at $ 10- 000 -. . Charged With Manslaughter. Pendleton, Feb.3. Dr. L. F. Inman was this morning bound over to the grand jury in J 1,500 bonds for man-' slaughter. He is charged with perform ing 8 criminal operation.- - Hie examina tion before the justice continued three days. ' A DOG'S CURIOUS ACTION. Appeared to Surmise That His Master Flad Been Bart. L. C. Meaclnmp, living above Homer, La., on the edge of Arkansas, is a groat hunter and has a lino deer hound, Don, of which he" i? justly pvoud. A few days ago, says the Philadelphia Times, Mr. Meacharap was going squirrel , hunting, and in order to keep Dan at home he was compelled to tie him tip. The hound whined and begged, but, finding his master was obdurate, he at last lay quite peaceably before the ken nel al! day. At five o'clock in the afternoon, how ever, when Mrs. Meachamp was be ginning to look for her husband's re turn, Dan became so unusually restless that she went out to sec what v. as 1 lie matter. In spite of her repeated ef forts The could do nothing to pacify him, and at last, to her utter astonish ment, he broke' the rope end bouuti&d away over the fence and irto the wooils. lie wa gone probably a half hour when he came running back panting and al most breathless with his master's hat in his mouth. Mrs. Meachamp became at once alarmod, and, calling her son. they set out to find Meachamp, the dog all the time bounding along iu front and lead ing the way. At last they came upon Mr. Mcnchamp lying helpless in the. woods, where at precisely five o'clock he had fallen in a little ditch and broken a small bone in his leg. The , dog's knowledge of the accident at the very moment of its occurrence seems almost incredible, but the; truth of this, is beyond dispute. A FEATHERED MONSTER. Strange and Gigantic Bird Killed by at Man in West Virginia. Elias Midkif, of Hamlin, Lincoln county, was in Charleston the other day, and proposed to the State His torical and Antiquarian society that if it would send a taxidermist to Hamlin the society would secure a monster bird, of a kind never seen before by anyone in West Virginia. The feathered monster, says the Baltimore American, is described by Jlr; Midkif, from meas urements taken by himself and W. W. Adkins, of Hamlin, who killed the bird at the mouth of Vannatters creek, with five bullets from his rifle, while hunting deer recently. The bird is seven feet four inches from tip to tip, four feet from tip of bill to tail, flat bill four inches long and three inches wide, somewhat similar to that of a duck; web feet, covering nearly a square foot of area each; neck 19 inches long, legs about 11 inches long, and aboutone and a half inches through- below the feathers; plumage- dark brown,, re-. lieved on the wings and breast by light blue shading. The bird when first seen was circling high in the air, but came down very quickly and alighted in the water, where Adkins got a good shot at it, crippling its wing. Adkins at tempted to capture the strange fowl alive, but it was so vicious that he couicT not get near it; without killing it, which required five bullets.' How's This. We offer f 100 reward for any case of Cattarh that cannot be cured by Hull's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. ' We, the undersigned, have known F, Cheney for the last 15 years, and be- leve him perfectly honorable in ail business trdnpaclionB and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Einnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia taken internal- . ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi monials eent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. 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