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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY. OREGON. SATURDAY. JUNE 12. 1897. VOL. VII. NUMBER 2& MAY COME TO A FIGBT Jap: an Seeking Trouble With Uncle Sam. SHE CUT OFF HER BABY'S HEAD The Steamer City of Everett Chartered by the Government to Carry Food to India, Balls Saturday. London, Jane 8. St. James Gazette thi. aftarnnan commenting upon the dispute between Japan and Hawaii which it describee as a corrupt little re- nnhlic. rnn bv a handful of American i - filibusters, says: "As Hawaii has no resisting power the qnestion arises, will the United States government see its protege through its tronble? The Japanese may land an armed party at any moment. Then what will the Philadelphia do? Japan since she smashed the Chinese is 1 lieved to be spoiling for a fight with a white power, and she may find America ready to oblige ber sooner than she ex pects." ' Insane Woman's Awfal Crime. Indianapolis, Ind., June 8. Mrs, Jerry Holcomb, the young wife of t West Franklin, Posey county, farmer, sacrificed ber 4-year-old daughter while laboring under the hallucination that the Lord commanded ber to do so. She bad been regarded as partly in sane for a year, bat was never regarded aa dangerous. On Sunday while the husband was absent, she took her daugh ter into the bedroom, and after a few moments walked into the kitchen with her child's bead in her hands and ex hibited it to the cook. The latter fled in terror. When Holcomb arrived bis wife was bound with cords. ' A butcher knife as sharp as a razor was fonnd concealed in her dress. The child's head was severed from the body just above the shoulders. Food for Starving Hindoos. San Fbancisco, June 8. The City of Everett, chartered by the government to carry food to the starving Hindoos, will sail for Calcutta Jane 12th from this city. The cargo will consist almost entirely of corn contributed by people of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, nnder the leadership of the Christian Herald of New York. On reaching Calcutta, the grain will be sent immediately to the American missionaries, and will be dis tributed by them directly to the starr ing people. A Cemetery in the Heart of New York. New Tosx, June 8. A human skele ton and bashels of bones were found by workmen who were excavating for the foundation of Astor's 30-story buildiDg on the site of the structure at Broadway and Rector street, in which Jay Gould and Russell Sage used to have their offices. At first the workmen thought they bad discovered a clew to some great crime, bat a bystander declared it was only the overflow from Trinity church yard, which embraced what Is now Rector street and the land south for several hundred feet, while to the west it ran down to the North river in a splendid lawn-like park. These bones, be declared, may have been thoje of illustrious New Yorkers, for some of the first families of Trinity parish who had been interred there were evidently overlooked when the contents . of the southern portion of the church--: yard were taken op to make room for Sector street and the pavements. The skeleton found today lay facing the east, fully six feet below the oldest foundation stones o' the old bnilding. It was below the sewers of Broaday, and lower than the private vaults of old Trinity, not fifty feet away. OPENINU OF 1HI GATEWAY. Effects ol tbe Move Are Becoming Far- Reachtng. Omaha, June 8. Results of the open ing of the Ogden gateway and of the dis ruption between the Union Pacific and tbe Oregon Short Line are appearing in railway circles almost daily. One of the latest and most important is tbe report ed purchase and completion of tLe Salt Lake & Ogden railway by tbe Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific jointly. The Salt Lake & Ogden railway is bull and in operation over 20 miles, beging ing at Ogden, to Fairmount, 17 miles north of Salt Lake. It is rumored that the Union Paicfic and the Southern Pacific are negotiating for the purchase of the Salt Lake & Ogden railway. When acquired the railway will be built through to Salt Lake, and the "overland route" will have a line into the Utah capital independent of the Oregon Short Line. TBI CRISIS AT MADRID. Peril of the Situation Abated. by No Mean New York, June 8. A special to Herald from Madrid says : the The whole country is stupefied by the extraordinary solution of the crisis. The liberal feeling is violent against Senor Sazasta. The majority of the liberals call him a traitor, accusing him of secretly refusing the queen's request to accept office. Great excitement pre vails. .The peril of the situation, so far from being abated by the conservatives continuing in office is considered as only just begining. Tetuan Most Remain. Madrid, June 8. The Epoca, the of' ficial orean. says it does not deny the possibility of changes in the cabinet. adding, however, that it is impossible for the Duke of Tetuan, minister for foreien affairs, to resign in view of the Dosition of the negotiations between Spain and the United States. Maher Is Ready. New Yoek, June 8. Peter Maher, the Irish champion, is ready for the sound of the gong on Wednesday. The Galway cvcle has run and romped about the Westchester hills for seven weeks, and he feels that be has become sufficiently robust to withstand the onslaughts of Sharkey. The tall Irishman is bright of eye, clear skinned, flexible of muscle and light footed as an antelope. His training exhibits have not only wrought this desirable change in bis physical condition, but his large staff of trainers have become hollow-eyed and thin-faced in their efforts to keep pace with the Herculean boxer. Road work has been the principal fea ture of Maher's training. Every morn' ins shortly after breakfast he has started on a jaunt of fourteen to sixteen miles. Sharkev also announces himself in perfect condition. A Meeting; of Democrats New York, Jane 8. The Tammany Hall committee, which is to confer with similar committees of Democratic or ganizations of Kings, Queens and Rich' mond counties, as to the baBis of repre sentation in the Democratic city conven tion as well as to call the convention, has been named by Chairman James J, Martin, of the executive committee. The members of the committee are John Sheehan. James W. Boyle, James P. Keating, Randolph Guggenbeimer, James McCarthy. George W. Plunkett and Andrew J. White. James J. Mar tin, William Sohmer and August W. Peters are members ex -officio. It is stated that seven out of ten mem bers of the committee supported Bryan and the Chicago platform. The Work of Ghouls. Indianapolis, June 8. The discovery has been made by a farmer that Lick Creek cemetery, five miles southeast of here, has been almost emptied recently of buried bodies. - At least 50 bodies have been taken. Tbe farmer saw lying near a new grave the shroud in which a body bad been buried. Today a number of graves were opened and in eight out of ten the bodies had been stolen, and in three the coffin, clothing and all were missing. Every one who has a friend buried is preparing to open the grave. Desertions in the Navy. Boston. June 8. More than three score of men have recently deserted from the warships New York and Massachu setts, together with those who left the Texas wmle she was here last week. Twenty-eight men took French leave . of the Texas, and thirty are missing from the New York. It is not. known how many are missing from the Massachu setts. In every case the deserters are of foreign birth. Do von want your windows cleaned, carpets taken up, beaten and re laid, or janitor work of any kind done by a first-class man? If so, telephone Henry Johnson at Parkins' barber shop. 'Phone 119. alO-tf Until July ist every Schilling's Best yellow tea ticket entitles you to two guesses at the missing word. July ist to August 31st one guess to a yellow ticket. Rales of contest are published in oar large advertisement about the first and middle ol each month. AS DURRANI'S CHANCES Murderer Still in the Shad ow of the Gallows. ATTORNEY-GENERAL IS IN DOUBT If He Decides tbe Execution Would Be Legal It May Take Place on Hext Friday. San Francisco, June 9. It would be a difficult matter to conceive a case more complex than that of Theodore Dnrrant. the condemned murderer of Blanche Lamont. His attorneys wholly rely upon his application for a writ of habeas corpus which they hope to make to the supreme court of the United States in Augnst. Tbe fact that tbe circuit court of ap peal, while denying the writ, asked for last week allowed the appeal, has been construed as negativing the decree of death of the state court for the present. but the attorney-general is in doubt, and although he has had several con ferences with Warden Hale, of San Ouentin prison, within tbe past few days, baa not rendered a decision. Darrant's attorneys claim that should Warden Hale proceed with the execu tion of their client Friday, he would be guilty of "legal" murder. Attorney' General Fitzgerald entertains no such view of the matter, but whether or not he would be justified in ordering that the law take its course is a problem which has not yet been solved. Should he decide to' do so Darrant's attorneys would be compelled to have recourse to an application for an injunction to the federal courts. If this were denied a new problem would De ouerea, inas much as the action itself would be an indirect admonition to the warden to proceed with the execution. It is argued that Warden Hale should persist in hanging Durrant on Friday the supreme court would be called upon to pass on a "moot" case, but that off! cial says that he has not yet decided what be will do. Another conference between the warden and the attorney- general will be held today, when it is expected that some conclusion will be reached. HOCK DUEL RESULTED FATALLI New York Lad Accidentally Brother. Shot Bis New York, June 9. The sons of Clar ence L. Nelson, secretary of tbe Newark Gas Company, fought a duel in play at their borne, and as a result one of the boys is dying from a bullet wound in bis left breast. The boys, Clarence, aged 16, and Ber tram, 14, decided to prepare in part for tbe celebration on July 4th, and went to their rooms to clean and oil the two revolvers which had been given them for use on the holiday. They laid the wea pons aside again shortly, and when they picked them up to replace them in tbe box Bertram said to his elder brother, 'Let's fight a duel." Clarence was delighted with the novel suggestion, and tbe lads, standing back to back with the revolvers by their sides, waited until Bertram counted "three," and then gravely took four paces in op posite directions. "'Bout face!" called Clarence, and the brothers turned on their heels, wea pons extended, and, smiling at eacn other as they squinted along the glisten ing barrels. Both barrels fell and from the muzzle of Clarence's weapon shot a little line of fire. There was a report, and Bertram, clutching his chest, fell forward on the floor. Clarence was frightened, and ran screaming down the stairs and the members of the family went to the boys' playroom. A physician was called, and found that the bullet bad entered Bertram's breast, penetrating the lung. He said the wound was fatal. THE EASTERN SITUATION. Great Britain Opposed to Turkish Re tention of Thessaly. Constantinople, June 9. It' is re ported that strong pressure will be needed to overcome the resistance of Turkey to the retrocessions of Thessaly. Reports that Great Britain is opposing, on religious grounds, Turkish retention of Thessaly, are being circulated here with a view to exciting Mussulman fa naticism. The powers contend that, as they guarantee the integrity of Turkey the latter must respect the integrity of others. In a memorandum submitted to the Turkish government, the powers propose that the crests of mountains on Greek frontier be occupied by Turkish instead of Greek troops and also that the indemnity be in proportion to the resources of Greece. It is further pro posed to modify the capitulations, or special privileges enjoyed by Greek sub jects in Turkey, with a view to abolish ing certain abuses which have been the subject of complaint upon tbe part of the Turks. Tbe two latter questions will be entrusted to a commission of ex perts and the limiting of the frontier will be executed by an international military commission. Cretans to Hold a Conference. Canra, June 9. The Cretan delegates will meet at Armyro in order to discuss the proposed autonomous form of gov ernment for the island. Delegates from the western districts of Crete are willing to accept autonomy if the Turkish troops depart.,- ' JAPAN HAS WEAKENED. Her Effort to Bluff the Hawallaas a Total Failure. . Was San Fbancisco, Juno 9. Advices have just been received from Honolulu per steamship Australia to tbe effect that the Japanese minister, Shimamura, has changed his attitude to some extent since the last advices from the Hawaiian capital. After the departure of the steamship Peru several conferences were held between Ministers Cooper and Shimamura, with the result that the Japanese representative made proposals of a much more reasonable nature than those which were first offered. Originally Japan demanded an in demnity lor the total number ol immi grants turned away from the islands, Now, however, it is understood that she is willing to accept damages in such cases where the immigrant was illegally rejected. This proposition the Hawai ian government will accept. The origin al demand was for 320.60 ven for each man refused a landing. The Hawaiian government admits that among a thousand or more immi grants a few errors may have been made, and it any such appear upon a thorough investigation, expresses readiness to pay for such mistakes upon the part of its officials. v At tne instance 01 a. if. JKitnet, a wealthy shipowner of San Francisco, the sugar planters of the island republic are considering several propositions tending toward independent action, and throw ing off the yoke of the sugar trust. One is understood to be tbe establishment of a refinery at Vancouver, B. C, in case the reciprocity treaty is abrogated. The Canadian government is willing to grant a concession to Hawaii in re turn for business, and the Canadian Pa cific road will furnish special terms for transportation to the Atlantic seaboard, should the scheme be carried out. In any eyent, however, the planters are resolved to light the. trust, and should the treaty not be interfered with it is proposed to ship all sugar raised in Hawaii to New York or Philadelphia. If th Hawaiian output is shipped round the Horn, the large sailing fleet now ply ing between tbe islands and San Fran cisco will be withdrawn and an oppo sition line of steamers, backed by Hawai- ians, substituted. It is understood that the cause of the trouble between the planters and the Spreckels' combine is the increase rate demanded by the latter for hualing Ha waiian sugar, namely, 01 a cent per pound. The Hawaiian government has refused to renew the exclusive cable contract with Z. S. Spalding, expiring the 1st of May. It is now said they will contract with tbe first company making a legiti mate oner. Fatal M inning; Accident. , Peoria, 111., June 8. Onno Eilts, a miner, was instantly killed in an explo- sinon at Shell's coal mine, three miles south of this city, and William Peiper, a companion laborer, was seriously, in jured. While at work a mile from the mouth ot the mine they set a blast and returned to the room just as tbe explo sion occured. An immense pile of stone, coal and earth was hurled against them. Peiper crawled a mile on bis bands and knees and notified those on the outside of tbe accident. Eilts was aged 44, and leaves a widow and six children. Judge FltsOerald Dying-. St. Mast's, Kan., June 10. Judge J. W. Fitzgerald is dying at his home here. Judge Fitzgerald came to Kansas from Cincinnati 10 years ago, and since then has practiced law and been an import ant factor in politics. He was at one time very prominent in Irish affairs. His name is sometimes confounded with that of John Fitzgerald, former presi dent of tbe Irish Land League of Amer ica. Hundreds of thousands have been in duced to try Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy by reading what it has done for others, and having tested its- merits for themselves are today its warmest friends For sale by Blakeley & Houghton. WEYLER MAY LEAVE Belief on His Recall Becom ing General. MARIN TO TAKE COMMAND NEXT Campos or Blanco Likely to Finally Supplant Him More Victories for the Insurgents. New Yore, June 10. A dispatch the Herald from Havana says : to It is believed here Bince the long sup pressed news' of the affairs in Madrid have been made public that General Weyler'a return to Spain will be the most important result of Cauovas success in retaining power. f mate telegrams have been sent to persons here in which it was distinctly stated that Campos, Dominquez and Pidal bad given their support to Canovas only with the plain stipulation that General Weyler should go. In fact, it is felt here that General Campos, who is now in. power in Spain and fills the popular eye, would not on any account lend himself to the contin uation of General Weyler's policy. The plan is to send General Marin here from Porto Rico and then supplant him in turn by General Blanco or Campos. WEYLER'S RECALL ASSURED. Opinion of a Retiring- Spanish General In Cuba. New Yoek, June 10. A dispatch to the Journal from Hayana, says: Another of Weyler's generals, Lono, inspector-general of tbe civil guard, in Cuba and military governor of Havana, has resigned in disgust, and expects to leave the island by the transatlantic liner sailing on Jane 30th for Spain di rect. Lono regards Weyler's early recall as quite assured and thinks Blanco or Lopez Dominguez will come out as his successor. Both are unusually intimate with Martinez Campos, to obtain whose support in the recent ministerial crisis Canovas is known to have made im portant concessions. Weyler is reported to have cabled Can ovas insisting that Minister Dupay de Lome demand from the Washington government the extradition of Nunez, Cartava and Arteaga, alleged filibusters recently captured by the United States authorities on the Florida coast, alleging old criminal indictments against three of them, said to be still pending in the courts here. Opposing; Commanders Met. Havana, Jane 10. The Herald's cor respondent in Sagaa La Grande reports that just previous to General Weyler's return to Havana, he encountered some of Gomez' forces near Sancti Spiritus, under command of Gomez himself, and was forced to rt treat, leaving fifty dead on the held and 100 prisoners in the hands of tbe rebels. This matter has been neglected in official reports. MORE CUBAN VICTORIES. Spaniards Defeated by Insurgents in Sereral Mlnsr Battles. New York, June 10. A dispatch to the Juournal irom Havana says. Four thousand insurgents from the Eastern department, led by General Rodriguez and Quintin Banderas, have crossed Matanzas, entered Havana prov ince and are now menacing the town of Guineas. Pinardel Rio advices report a hot fight three days ago within sight of the town of Consolation del Sur. Two Spanish captains, a lieutenant and six privates were killed, but tbe rebels were compell ed to retire in great disorder. In an engagement upon the La ' Luisa sugar estate, near Port Cabanas, between Mariel and Bahia Honda, the Spanish column lost 30 killed and upward of 100 wounded. This is in Weyler's so-called pacified district. The insurgents, after the fight, retired into their fortified positions in Maceo's old stronghold, the Rubi hills. Weyler telegraphed, ordering six col umns to march against them, bnt not a word of the defeat at La Luisa had been cabled to the war department at Madrid. AMERICANS TO SCALE ST. ELIAS. Henry Q. Bryant and Party at the Mountain's Base. Port Towxsekd, Waeh., Jane 10. News comes from Alaska that Henry G. Bryant has arrived at Yakutat, which is at the base of Mount St. Elias, with a party of five, who will scale the mount ain. Bryant is a Philadelphia, and scientific enthusiast, and Lis name has many times before been connected with expeditions in which adventure . has I been by no means a subordinate quality. MHO- Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for Its great leavening strength aud bealthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brandB. Royal Baking Powdke Co. New York. He headed a party of exploration in Lab rador in 1891, and was the first man to measure and photograph the great falls in that country. He was a member of the Peary relief expedition in 1894, and and was commander of the Peary auxil iary expedition which brought Mrs. reary uacK to toe uuneu oiaiea. . Bryant is accompanied by S. J. Entri kin, who is an old Peary expedition veteran, and the government is sending E. B. Latham of Atlanta, who is a mem ber ot the United States coast and geo detic survey corps, to take official meas urements and data. Bryant has had the ascent of Mount St. Elias in view for years, but was de terred from the attempt by the refusal of the government to send a representa tive. It is his intention to plant the stars and stripes on the summit ahead of the Italian prince, Luigi, who has gone nortn to carry the Italian flag to the mountain's top. SHELL BLEW UP IN THE RIFLE. Terrific Explosion of Gun Cotton at Indian Head, Md. Washington, June 10. The Btate of Maryland trembled last evening as the result of an explosion of 330 pounds . of gun cotton at the government proving grounds at Indian Head. A 12-inch breech-loading rifle weighing 101,000 pounds and worth $25,000, was blown to pieces. The armor-covered "oomDprooi in which the spectators take refuge while testB are made, was wrecked and a doz en naval officers and ordnance experts narrowly escaped with their lives. The final test was being made of a gun cotton shell invented by a Chicago man, and through some unaccountable acci dent the shell exploded in the gun, wrecking the monster and its carriage and throwing some of the pieces more than a mile down the Potomac. Colonel O'Neill, tbe chief of ordnance for tbe navy, and several United States naval officers and naval attaches from the various foreign legations had for tunately taken refuge on a navy-yard tug a boat a mile from shore. Lieutenant Aoderson, who had been directed to fire the gun by electricity when the signal was given from the tug, bad gone behind a big earth bank or- "butt" about 300 yards from the gun. He and other spectators were unhurt, though a mass ive piece of the gun, weighing many tons, flew through the air with frightful velocity and struck tbe water within 100 feet of the tug. If tbe spectators bad gone into the bombproof," as they usually do, when such tests are made, they would all have been killed, for a big piece of stoel struck it and ripped through the 12-inch armor as if it had been so much paper. A great hole was torn in the ground where the gun stood and the.buildings at the proving grounds were badly shaken. Not a particle of the massive gun or its carriage remained. First there was a rumbling of t he earth and then the full clap of the awful ex plosion broke. . A thick smoke covered the earth, and the next instant a huge piece of steel came hurtling through the . air and struck the water, throwing the spray in every direction. As the men looked, they saw a great hole where tbe gun had stood with the smoke floating away in tbe air. For several minutes the sound of the explosion reverberated through tbe surrounding hills. This was the largest charge of gun cot ton ever fired or attempted to be fired from a powder gun. The government paid about $25,000 for tbe gun blown up, and it was built especially for these tests. A shell shot from this gun was expected to perforate 21 inches of steel at a dis tance of 1500 yards and to travel from six to ten miles before losing its mo mentum. 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