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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 30. 1897.
VOL. VII.
NUMBER 9.
DEVOURED BY FLAMES
Thirtv Bnsmess iilocts in
Philadelphia Burned.
LOSS, TWO AND ONE HALF MILLIONS
A Bad Fire to Fight Firemen Greatly
Handicapped by the Intense Cold
Wanamaker's Store
Damaged.
Philadelphia. Jan. 26. The moet
- disastrous conflagration that baa visited
this city in recent years br6ke ont short
ly before 7 o'clock this morning in the
basement of the big grocery store of
- Hanacomb Bros., at 1317 Market street.
Property to the value of $2,500,000 or
more was destroyed.
The flames were first discovered by
John Wagner, reserve policeman. Be
fore the engines reached the scene the
entire rear portion of Hanscomb's store
- and Bennett's big restaurant were
: ablaze. A second alarm was sent in,
- and in a few moments later a general
alarm. . 1
, Immediately adjoyig Hanscomb Bros.
' on the west side was a five-story build
ing occupied by Blum Bros, manofact
nrers of ladies' cloaks. This was soon a
mass ot fiames. The water seemed al
most to freeze before it touched the
building.
The next building on the west to be
eaten up was that occupied by George
. Marshall as a restaurant, then came the
. hat factory of G. . Wells and the rear
, of the wholesale grocery . of Showell
. Fryer, at 1325 Market street.
&
.' . . While the fiames were sweeping west
. on Market street the umbrella manufac
tory of Hirch Bros, the largest in the
world. The inflammable nature of the
' immense stock of light silks added to the
flames' and in half an hour the building
was a mass of flames,
On the east of the Hirsch building, be-
tween 1309 and 1301 Market street, were
;' the following tenants: Mizpah reBtau
, rant, Sterner & Ball cigar factory, A
Nickolakly, confectionery, and the big
drug store of H. Hillman, the upper
Btory of which was occupied by Potter
Bros., as a photograph gallery.
North of Hirech Bros., immediately
across Silver street, stood the new seven
story building of Dunlap Bros. This
building extended from' 1306 to 1301 Fil
bert street, and was 100 feet deep. The
first floors were occupied by the Collins
... Carriage Company. The flamee swept
through this structure, gutting it com
pletely. .
" . The small buildings on Silver street,
which runs west from Thirteenth to
Juniper, were all gutted. The shop of
Contractor Lewis Havens caught fire
' from the rear of Blum Bros., and three
firemen were caught by a falling wall
Frank Piper, of engine company No. 30,
was the only man seriously injured..
At 8:io a. m., nre was discovered in
the tower of John Wanamaker's big dry
goods store. A stream of water from
one of the water towers was run up the
burning structure, but the supply of
water was either too small or the appar
atus defective, as the Btream did not
- reach the flames. The to wee contained
a handsome clock and chimes. At 9
o'clock the entire tower collapsed, the
. clock falling through first floor. Two lines
of hose were then gotten on top of the gi
gantic structure, and the flames which
threatened to destroy. Philadelphia's
most famous store were soon under
..control.
. ine nre had been confined entirely to
the Market-street front, and the loss sus
' tained by Wanamaker was principally
In the destruction . of the clock and
, chimes and the breaking of all the large
plate-glass windows on Market street.
The roof was ablaze one time, and it
seemed as though the whole structure
was doomed, but the hose operated by
employes of the big establishment kept
the fire within bonds. " '
Wanamaker was on the scene early
. this morning before the high wind car
ried - the flames across Market street
from the building in which the fire
originated to his store. He employs
4200 people, and as many of the men as
could be used in brigades were admitted.
This made the work of' the trained fire
brigade easy and effective.
Wanamaker said to an Associated
Press reporter at 9:30, that in three
hoars after the firemen are out of the
store seven-eighths of the store will be
' ready for business. Wanamaker was ap
' parently the least concerned man in the
great crowd. Meanwhile the firemen
were having their hands full confining
the flames to the original block.
Up to this time the flames bad been
confined to the block bounded by Filbert
street on the north. Thirteenth on the
east, Market on the south, and Juniper
on the west. The wind was blowing
from the west, and carried the flames
right into the rear of the buildings on
Thirteenth street. The first building
there to catch fire was that of Jacob
Miller's cents' furnishings. Fifteen
niher ehona and stores on North Thir
teenth were gutted.
The flames ate their way almost dl
rectly northwest from the rear of Blum
Rros. buildine. gutting the rear of
Showell & Frier's big grocery. The rear
part of 2 to 25 North Juniper street,
used as law offices and private reel
dences, was completely burned out.
OVER A PRECIPICE.
Terrible Accident to a Sledding; Party
in Pennsylvania.
Altoona, Pa., Jan. 26. At 10 o(clock
last night a sledding paity of 40 persons.
of Tyrone, drove into a quarry at Pern
beton, six miles below this place. The
sled, horses and pleasure seekers weie
precipitated 50 feet to the bottom of the
precipice, where they lay in a great mass
Twentv nerson were badly injured. As
soon as the news reached Tyrone
BDecial train was fitted oat and all the
doctors in town conveyed to the place.
The party was mostly made up of boys
and eirls. With arms and legs broken
and blood streaming from their wounds
they lay in drifts of snow. The mercury
stood at 3 deg. below zero, adding to the
horror of the catastrophe.
The following is a partial liet of the
injured :
Alice Hadden, of Little Washington
Jessie Stone, of Belton.
Eugene Crampton, of Tyrone. . ..
William Jones, of Tyrone.
Howard Templeton, Tyrone.
These were all badly hurt.
BALIOTINO AT OLIMPIA.
Cllae Give Up the Struggle
for Winsor.
and Votes
Olympia, Jan. 26. The 16th joint bal
lot, and the first today, resulted as fol
lows: Turner, 30; Cline, 39; Squire, 5;
Winsor, 1; Daniels, 11; Rogers, 3;
Denny, 26; Maple, 1; Alexander, 1
The result of the ,17th joint ballot was;
Cline, 42; Turner, 30;. Denny, 16;
Squire, 5; Daniels, 2; WinBor, 3;
Rogers, 2.
Cline voted for Winsor saying he did
not believe be could be elected himself,
and released his friends from further
supporting him. This follows out the
agreement that he was to be supported
for so many ballots only.
The assembly then adjourned.
FLBAD9 FOR CUBA LIBRE.
Tnrpie Continue. Hli Speech in Behalf
of the Cuban.
Washington, Jan. 26. In the senate
today Tnrpie continued his speech in
behalf of the struggling Cubans. He
made a strong plea for them, citing nu
merous instances in which the United
States had aided South American revo
lutionists.
Senator Hill, of the judiciary commit
tee, presented a report on the question
of- whether concurrent resolutions are
required to be submitted to the presi
dent, a fine point which arose in connee
tion with the Cuban and Armenian res
olutions. The conclusion reached was
that it depended on the substance, not
the form of the resolutions. If they
contained legislative matter they muBt
be, otherwiee not. .
Found In a New York Cab.
New York, Jan. 26. The New York
Club Company has in its possession a
tiara set with diamonds and sapphires
valued at more than $5,000. This oit of
leweirv was tound in one ot tne com
pany's cabs. There are two claimants
for'it. Miss Margaret Mather, the act
ress, and Mrs. H. J. Thompson ot .bos
ton. Each of these ladies rode in one of
the company's cabs the same evening,
and each discovered her alleged loss the
same time, and each made her appear
ance at the cab company's office at al
most the same moment. It will proba
bly require the services of the courts to
determine to whom the tiara belongs.
It is new to guarantee tea
satisfactory. Schilling's Best
is so guaranteed by your
grocer.
Why ? . Because we sup-.
ply him the tea. and the
money. ,'
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be glad to' get besides. .
A Schilling & Company
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CONSUMPTION CUBED
An Italian Doctor Finds
Specific.
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A VICTIM OF HYPNOTIC TESTS
The
Legislature Adopts . Resolution
Requiring Absent Members to .
Appear Today.
New York, Jan. 27. The unusual in
terest taken by physicians and the pub
lic in the treatment of pulmonary tuber
culosis, or consumption, as it is com'
monly called, will be increased by the
news that a serum has been discovered
which, it is claimed, will prove the ab
solute care for the disease in its stages,
and will greatly benefit patients and ar
rest the progress of the disease in its ad
vanred forms.
The serum is the discovery of Profes
aor Maria Glano ot uenoa, Italy.
smalt- quantity was brought to this
country and physicians "of St. Luke's
hospital began experimenting with it a
week ago. The serum is obtained from
the blood of horses which have been in
oculated with tuberculosis germs in
small quantities and continued under
this treatment for several months. Its
effect is to produce in the blood ot the
horses some quality of resistance to
death, which, when introduced into the
human system, sustains the resisting
ing power.
The serum theory is therefore exactly
opposite to the theory of vaccination
which introduces germs of the disease
itself into the system, and by producing
the disease in a mild form renders the
body impervious to its further attacks.
A VICTIM OF HYPNOTIC TESTS.
Suspicious Death of a
Youth at James
Y.
town, N.
Jamestown, JN. Y., Jan. 27. rit was
rumored that Spurgeon Young, 17 years
old, who died : Sunday night, had not
died from natural causes, but that his
death was caused from injuries received
while under hypnotic influence. CorO'
ner Bowers beard the rumors and de
cided to investigate. He empaneled t
jury which viewed the remains this
morning and adjourned until tomorrow,
when it will meet to take evidence.
It is a well-kLown fact that Young
had repeatedly been under hypnotic in
fluences, and that while in that condi
tion he had been placed with his head
upon one chair and bis heels upon an
other, all the time bearing the weight of
heavy man upon his stomach,. and
being subjected to a great variety of ex
periments by those who have used little
judgment in the matter, so long as it af
forded them amusement.
Parke Davis, a Yale college student,
whose. home is in this city; Daniel
brandin and (Jharles Wood are
charged with getting Young in a hyp
hotic state. It is said they could make
him do anything they wished while he
was under the power of any of them.
TO BRING IN ABSENTEES.
Resolution Adopted by the Benson
House. Today
Salem, Or., Jan. 27. The Benson
nouse managed to kill nearly half an
hour this morning by the reading of the
journal in full. Thirty-one were present
at the rollcall, but Misener of Crook
witndrew immediately alter. Ho one
raised the point - of no . quorum. A
cigarette petition was read, and also one
from Washington county to abolish all
commissions.
Crawford of Douglas here introduced
a resolution requiring the twenty-nine
unqnahfied members. - to appear and
qualify at noon on Thursday, January
28th. The sergeant-at-arms was di
rected to serve the delinquent membees
each with a copy of the resolution.
In explaining the resolution, Craw
ford said bis-parpose was simply to ex
haust every remedy . known to the con
stitution. If the members failed to. ap
pear, then the house would have a basis
for future action. On rollcall the reso
lution was adopted. Ayes, 27 ; ' says 1 ;
absent, 3.
The following bills were introduced :
Hogae, to amend code ; Hope, relative
to taxation of sheep; Hudson, byre
quest, relative to election of road su per-
visors; David, to amend game law;
Gratke, to exempt Astoria firemen;
Benson, to amend code; Crawford, reg
ulating railroad freights, Jennings, for
collection . of fees; Marsh, to amend
code ; Palm, to amend code ; Thomas, to
amend Portland charter; Conn, exempt'
homesteads from judicial sale; Brown,
to amend code;' Merrill, to abolish com
missions and relative to fees. -
Adjourned.'
MURDERED BY SPANIARDS.
An Insurgent Hospital Fired
' Inmates Cremated.
and Its
Key West, Fla., Jan. 27. News from
Weyler's advance column tells of a brief
but sharp fight near El Jobo, west ot
Guines, in which Weyler's vanguard
was forced back. A stronger column
was pushed forward and the insurgents
driven back. A hospital that they were
guarding was destroyed, and the wound
ed insurgents; 23 in number, two physi
cians and a female nurse were killed.
. This hospital was guarded by 200 in
surgents, under Captain Moragain, the
men being too sick to be moved. The
insurgents knew their danger, bat they
determined to sell their Jives dearly in
defense of their sick and wounded broth-ers-in-arms.
As one of the Weyler detachments
came near the town they were ambushed
and forced to retire, losing forty men
and one captain. Reinforements arrived,
and they came an hour later, and after
a desperate fight were about to retire
when another detachment of Spaniards,
attracted by the firing, came np and
drove the insurgents off. in confusion.
The two combined forces then swept the
field, with a Iosb of 100 men, all told.
They set set fire to the dwellings and
hospital building, which was soon in
flames. Few of the wounded men were
rescued, and nearly all perished in the
fiames.
Off for Charleston.
Washington, Jan. 27. Admiral
Bonce expects to sail with his squadron
February 22 for Hampton Roads, bound
ior Charleston, which port will be block
aded as part of the naval maneuvers of
the squadron. The squadron will be
largely reinforced before sailing or very
soon after the ships arrive off Charleston.
The big monitor Puritan, on her maiden
cruise, will leave New York Saturday
next to join the squadron. The marble
head will follow about the same time,
and the Terror will be ready by the 6th.
Altogether the demonstration, which
will last about two weeks, promises to
be the most formidable in character un
dertaken by our navy since the war.
-Sherman's Successor'
Chicago, Jan. 26. The Post's Wash
ington special says : Senator Sherman
said today : "My acceptance of the
portfolio of secretary of state was with
out any reservation or conditions.
Governor Bushnell has six weeks yet
before it will be necessary to appoint
my . successor in the senate. There
seems to be a general desire that Hanna
should be - selected for the seat, and,
while I have no assurance on that point,
I believe Governor Bushnell will appoint
him."
Another Cold Wave Expected.
Washington, Jan. 26. Weather bu
reau advices show 20 to 30 degrees below
in the Northwest and the freezing wea
ther extends to the Gulf . coast. ; In the
middle and South Atlantic states indi
cations are the sun will aid materially
today and tomorrow in mitigating the
effects of the cold blasts irotn the west.
The high barometer out West is thought,
however, to presage another drop in
temperature later in the week.
Furnished Ball for All.
New Yobk, Jan. 27. Abraham I. Elk-
ins today appeared in court at the gener
al sessions with power of attorney for
Herbert B. Seeley, Theodore Rich and
James H. Phipps, indicted yesterday on
a charge of conspiring to procure inde
cent exposure on the part of Little Egypt
and Minnie Benwood, who figured at the
recent dinner at Sherry's and pleaded
not guilty. He took the privilege of
withdrawing his plea, and furnished bail
in the sum of $500 for each defendant.
Fatal Fight In Kentucky.
Albany, Ky., Jan. 27. David Hoff
man and W. J. Leonard, of Campbells-
ville, who have just returned from, the
Cumberland mountains, state that Tues
day, in Morgan county, Tenn., a mob of
men went to the farmhouse of Mr Gage
to chastise his son for immoral conduct.
Young Gage had a friead in the mob,
John Porter, who, after they arrived in
the yard, declared they should not touch
Gage. A fight followed, in which John
Porter was stabbed and killed. When
Porter fell young Gage ran ont . of the
house with a revolver in each hand, fir
ing at the members of the mob, who ran.
One of them, whose name is not learned,
fell mortally wounded. The bodies oi
the dead men were left lying on the
porch all night.
Still Colder at Pittsburg.
Pittsbubg" Pa., Jan. 26. Last night
the mercury in the signal service ther
mometer dropped to 5 deg. below zero,
bat more exposed thermometers regis
tered 10 deg. lower.. The cold caused
great suffering among the poor. Mrs.
Mary Morris, colored, was overcome on
the street and died in a few minutes.
Frostbitten hands, feet and ears were
frequent among trainmen.
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PROPHECY AND ITS FULFILLMENT
James Cummins' Former Wife Had a
Dream.
Ran Fbaxcisco, Jan. 26. Jas. Cum
mins, an aged capitalist, mining en
gineer and promoter of various enter
prises, died in Alameda recently. Dnm
rains was married in Salt Lake City
twenty-eight years ago, and three
months after his wedding bis wife de
parted for San Francisco on a visit to
relatives.. From that parting until a
few months ago hnebandand wife never
saw or heard from each other. Cam'
mins' whereabouts became effectually
swallowed up. in mystery, ' and Mrs.
Cummins, after the lapse of a few years,
daring which she. became convinced
that her husband must "be dead, re
moved to Oroville, where she still re
sides. Some years later she discovered
her husband had secured a divorce
without her knowledge, whereupon she
married an undertaker named Sov
ereign.
A few months ago she dreamt that her
former husband was about to return to
her; that he would soon thereafter die,
and that her husband, the undertaker,
would bury bim. Remarkable as this
may seem, the strange propbecv has
been fulfilled. .
On his deathbed Cummins produced
two keys,' stating that they fitted his
safe-deposit box in Pueblo, Colo., in
which were $150,000 in United States
bonds, and his safe-deposit, box, In
Denver, which contained the balance of
his securities. He left $10,000 to Mrs,
Sovereign ' and the remainder of his
property, eetimated at almost $1,000,000,
to their son, J. W. Cummins, who has
been made executor, and who has de
parted for Pueblo to take charge of
affairs. ' ' '
Conference BUI Taken Up.
Washington, Jan. 26. The senate
has taken up the bill for an international
monetary conference. White spoke in
derison of Wolcott's trip to Europe. He
read an extract from Chandler's paper
which referred to Sherman1 as a great
leader who would solve the problem of
bimetalism.
White said the effort to secure bimet
alism in this way would prove futile,
but it might satisfy its promoters with
the idea that they were keeping their
promises.' ' '
. Water Famine at Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 26. This city
was swept all night by a 60-mile, breeze,
which made the weather seem more
severe, aitnougn tne coia moaeraiea.
At. 8 a. m. today the thermometer was
12 deg. above. Buffalo is again experi
encing a water famine, owing to slush
ice in the Niagara river, which, is sucked
in at inlet pier and clogs the pumps.
, British Warships Coming;.
Washington, Jan. 27. News has
reached here that the admirality of Lou
don has given instructions for the Hot
epur, coast-defense vessel, and the Mon
arch, third-class battle-ship, to be com
missioned at an' early date for service to
Bermuda. ; As there are at present more
British armored vessels on the North
Atlantic station than the West Indian
Sqnadron, this action of the admirality
is taken to mean the British government
means to make a considerable ; inc.-ease
in its etnength in North American
waters. . -
Bun Down by a Train.
South Noewalk, Conn., Jan. 27.
Five men were killed this afternoon by a
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freight train near East Norwalk station. -It
is supposed that while walking upon,
track they stepped from in front of the
express train directly in front of the
freight.
The dead are ; James Powers, section
foreman; John Griffin, John' Shea;
Spleen, and , and unknown man. All
were instantly killed except Shea, who
survived five minutes. -.
The men were engaged under the di
rection of Foreman Powers in work upon
the road bed, and stepped from one track
to avoid the approaching express, to an
other upon which the freight was bear
ing down. .';-.. . .
Hereurv Dropped Again.
, Chicago,' Jan-. 27. The. temperature
in Chicago registered 2 deg. below zero
at 11 a. m.,a drop of 1 deg. since 2 a. m.,
when the highest point was reached.
The signal service states the tempera
ture will probably remain about zero
mark the rest of the week. A fine snow
is falling. .
The work of relieving the destitute is
still being actively carried on and con
tributions of money, coal and provisions
are pouring in. Warehouses for the.
distribution of supplies have been
opened in various parts of the city to
expediate the work.
' He Gave Himself Up.
St. Louis, Jan. 27,-s-A shabbily dressed
laboring man, about 35 years of age, en
tered the office of Chief of Detectives
Desmond, at. police headquarters and
stated that he had come to give himself
up. He was escorted to an inner room,
and while talking to a detective the
stranger thrust a penknife blade into his
throat, severing the jngular vein and
died in a few minutes.
He told Dresmond his name was James
Kelly, but refused to say where he lived.
He was 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark hair
and blonde mustache. . --- .
Found Dead in His Bed. -
; M'Minnvillb, Or., Jan. 27. W,
Smith, who lived about two miles
H.
east
bed
His
of Amity, was found - dead in his
yesterday morning by neighbors.
death was the result ot heart disease,
and the coroner's jury so found. The
old man bad built the morning fire . and
evidently returned to bed, as the fire
was still burning in the stove when
those who found him entered the house.
Smith was a bachelor, and lived on a
little patch of ground for several years
past. He was about UU yeare ot age, ana
an eccentric character.
Over Cleveland's Yeto.
Washington, Jan. 26. A bill to pen
sion Jonathan scott, ot tne rncn iowa
cavalry, now living at Oswego, Kan.,
was passed over the president's veto by
the house todajr,
Senator Palmer's Prophecy.
' St. Louis, Jan. 27.- -A special to the
Republic from Washington says :
"The two wings of the two old parties
will, in myjudement, be" united in the
next campaign," said Senator Palmer
today.. "The sound-money Democrats
and the sound-money Republicans will
form one, and the silver Democrats and
silver Republicans will constitute an
other party."
"When the official harass is removed
from me," he continued, "I will resume
the practice of law at my home in
Springfiield."
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