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WEEKLY r j VOL. X THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1900. NO. 38 FENIAN SCARE AT VICTORIA, B. C. ONE NEGATIVE VOTE CAST ENDED HIS AGUINALDO OR HIS ADJUTANT SHOT BOXERS NOT SUPPRESSED OUR COMMERCE WITH THE ORIENT OWN LIFE Reports That Attempts Were to Be Made to Blow Up Buildings Caused Ex citement Victoria, B. C, Jane 1. (Special to ne Telegram. ? Daring the celebration of last week number of report were oinz the rounds to the effect that an attempt was to be made in this city by Boer sympathizers or Fenians, to do damage to the forts and public buildings the theater on the night of the big patriotic concert of Wednesday last be in? particularly spoken of. As a rule not much credit is given to these reports, bat this time there was good foundation (of them. Ou Monday of last wetk word was re ceived here from the British consul at San Francieco that men had left there with the object of doing damage to the forts and theater. Previous information from the same source bad proven so cor rect that some alarm was felt among the naval and military official?, and thope civilians to whom it was necessary to convey the news. Strong guards were placed on all the naval and military works: the old ones being changed with out a moment's notice; the theater was searched from the basement to the dome before the concert commenced and three Pinkerton detectives who had descrip tions of the men reported to have come North, stood at tbo entrance and closely scrutinized each person who passed in. It is not known that the men were seen here, but it will be admitted the authorities had reason to feel alarmed when it is stated that just before the blowing up of the Welland canal, a re port was received from the same source in San Francisco that attempts were to be made to blow up public buildings and public works throughout Canada. A few- days after the canal explosion occurred an attempt to get Into Fort Macauley was frustrated by the guard. Military authorities here state their belief that Fenians have headquarters in San Francieco. AFOUL MURDER AT PORTLAND Mrs. Naomi Moss Murdered la a Lonely Park Husband Suspected of the Crime. Portland, Or., Telegram, June 1. Mrs. Naomi Moss, better known as Mies Naomi Clute, wifeof Riley M. Moss, was shot through the heart and killed near Willamette Heights park between 10 and 11 o'clock last night. - Susplcian rests upon the woman's husband, and jealousy is believed to have been the motive. Uflicers are seeking Moss, but the search thus far has been in-vain. Mrs. Moss was the daughter of Charles Clute, well known in Portland, where he has lived several years. The conductor of a Washington-street car recalls having taken Mrs. Moss and a man who answers the description of her husband to the entrance of Ilia park atabmt 10 o'clock last evening. The couple left the car and tat down on a bench near at hand. The car then started back down town. A few moments later a woman's screams for help, followed by two pistol shots in quick succession were heard. The police were notified and thorough search of the park made, but without avail. This morning the woman's dead body was found. . Nit New I'lagos Cane. Francikco, June 1. Health offi eers report that no new cases of plague, either alive or dead, have been reported this morning. The work of cleansing "is town Is proceeding, and it is the opinion of leading physicians that the Plttue, if it really exists, cannot possibly 'P'ead nnder the reirima now beinir '"Mowed by Ue Health Board and its eiiinlovea. Machinist' fttrlk. PuiLAhKi piiia. June 1. Machinists of this city have fur pome tim hepn tirennp. ,nI for a strike in the event of the failure l their emnlnvera In or.nl limit- namij. There are 13.000 of them in this city, and today they presented a p'nand lor an eight-hour instead of nine-hour day, at the tame rate of wages. " Trimmed hats and natterna at coat for the net thirty days at the Campbell A ""son mminery parlors. 23-tf Littlefield Anti-Tust Bill Passed by the House Maoo of llliaois Voted "Xo." Washington, June 2. Only one vote was cast in the House today against the Littlefield anti-trust bill to amend the Sherman anti-trust act to make it more effective in the prosecution of trusts, their agents or attorneys. Mann (Rep. 111.) cast the negative vote. The bill, ac cording to the statements of the repub lican leaders, goes to the limit of the authority of congress under the co.ieti tution. All the democratic minority amendments, except one, were defeated. That was an amendment declaring that nothing in the act should be constructed to apply to trades unions or labor or ganizations. All except eight republi cans Aldrich (Ala. J, Allen and Little field (Me.), Bailey, Long and Calderhead (Kan.), end Cannon and Hitt (III.), voted for it. The bill amends the Sherman anti trust law so as to declare every contract or combination in the form of a trust or conspiracy in restraint of commerce among the states or foreign nations il legal, and every party to such act or combination guilty of a crime punishable by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5000, and by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than two years. It provides that any person in jured by violation of the provisional provisions cf the law may recover three fold damages. The definition of "per son" and "persons" in the recent law is enlarged so as to include the agents, of ficers or attorneys of corporations.' For purposes of commerce it declares il legal all corporations or associations formed or carrying on business for pur poses declared illegal by the common laws; provides that they may be per petually enjoined from carrying on inter state commerce, and forbids them the use of the United States mails. It pro vides for the production of persons and papers, and confers jurisdiction upon United States Circuit and District courts for the trial of cases under it, and authorizes any person, firm, corporation or association to begin and prosecute proceedings under it. Hrltlah Hold Back. London, June 2, 3:15 a. m. Lord Roberts continues silent regarding Pretoria, probably because he cannot wire of events from his own . personal knowledge. Lourenco Marques, where all the news from the Boer side is re handled, cables that communication with Pretoria is now suspended. Some messages by courier have reached Lourenco Marques, but none of later date than Wednesday. These assert that the burghers are in a state of panic, and that Pretoria is being con' trolled by a vigilance committee. Lour enco Murques again sends the report that President Krnger has been captured A dispatch from Vryburg, dated May 30, says : "During the occupation of this place by the Boers, they flogged the natives for slight offenses. A whip and several cords knotted and salted were found at the police station. A boy who brought a letter toa woman received twenty-five lashes, and another who sympathized with him received fifteen." I.ot in the Itouae. Washington, June 1. The house of representatives today after a lively de bate extending over two days, defeated the joint resolution proposing consti tutional amendment empowering con gress to regulate trusts. Jt requires a two-thirds vote under the constitution to adopt an amendment to the consti tution. The vote stood ayes 154, noes 131. The affirmative vote, therefore, was 88 short of the requisite two-thiids 192. Five democrats, Campbell (Mont.), Naplien (Maes.l, Scndder ( N. Y.), Sibley (I'enn.), and Thayer (Mass.), and one silverite, Ne lands (Nov.), voted with the republicans for the resolution, and two republicans, Loud (Cat ), and Me Cull (Mass.) with the democrats. These were the only breaks from party lines. The populists Jvoted solidly against the resolution. Itdllrf aiKl I'rnalon lllll. CnicAdo, June 1. An elaborate relief and pension plan was submitted to the employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad company today. The plan embraces all the best features of the relief department of tho Baltimore A Ohio, and the pension fund of the Pennsylvania company. Use Clarke A Falk'i qiimine.l ir tonic to keep dandruff from the head. Conscience Made a Coward of Murderer Moss Last Chapter of a Tragedy Stricken With Terror for the Conse quences of His Crime, He Effectually Escaped Hanging. Okkoonian, June 3. Riley L. Moss tne man who murdered his wire in Willamette Heights Park Thursday night, put an end to his earthly troubles last evening by eending a bullet through his own heart. He had carried the burden of his awful crime for two dars Then, forgetting what might be beyond in his mad desire to escape from con science and from self, he used the one remaining borrowed bullet to close the last chapter in his eventful life. At 7:30 o'clock he entered the Silver State lodging-house, corner of Seventh and Washington Btreets. Passing along the hallway, he entered a closet in the rear, and there he killed himself. He is said to have been seen a short time be fore, sitting on the curbstone on Seventh street, just opposite the house, engaged in conversation with someone, but who this was could not be ascertained. Moss did not have a room in the house, and was unknown to theoccupants. He is supposed to have used the entrance and stairway leading from Seventh street. Mrs. Lena Bordaraco, the landlady, states that she was in the kitchen, en gaged in lighting a lamp, when she heard the report of a pistol. She immediately hurried in the direction from whence the sound came. She was unable to open the door leading to the closet, so she telephoned to the police station for as sistance. Policeman Quinton was at once dispatched to the scene, and, on break ing in the door, discovered Moss lying on his back, dead, Dudley Evans, who was sitting with his wife in a millinery store downstairs, heard of the occurrence, and sounded the alarm. Coroner Rand was summoned, and also the police patrol wagon. The news quickly spread, and soon a large crowd of'people surrounded the building, and the question asked by everybody was, "Was it Moss?" The Identity of the man had, up to this time, not been diecoveied, no examination of the body having been made, pending the arrival of the coroner. The crowd was therefore eager and expectant, but with the universal certainty of conjecture that it must surely have been Moss. The people did not have long to wait, as Coroner Rand soon came, and a hurried investigation disclosed that the crowd had guessed correctly, and that Moss had paid the penalty of his awful crime. A search of his clothing brought forth the picture of his wife, which he had carried in an inside coat pocket. An inspection of the revolver with which he had killed himself showed that it tallied with the description of the one recently purchased here by Moss, and persons who knew Moss were soon at hand and positively identified the remains. The dead man wore a gray coat and vest, black trousers, a checked shirt, bow tie, and a gray cap. ' These were the articles purchased of the second-band dealer on Third street Tuesday morning. A large crowd followed the remains to the morgue, where for an hour or two a throng of curious people filed in and out, viewing the lileless form of the dead dead man. Wlter llaa lie Keen? The detectives have been unable to tell just whero Moss spent the time between Fridad morning, when seen on Third street, and yesterday evening. Rumors were received from time to time at police headquarters that he had been seen, but the oflicers were unable to lot-ate him or to bin! those who were sure they had st en him. Only a few minutes before the report of the suicide had been received by the police, Detective Ford had been informed that Moss had been seen in the vicinity of the Silver State lodging-house. He was on ills way there when he heard that the man he wanted had killed him self. Impending Strike. Dknvkh, Col., June 1. A strike Is de pendent upon the result of a conference being held today between the master and journeymen plumbers in this city. The men ara receiving tl per day. Recently they struck for an advance, but were induced to return to work until today to permit the contractors to complete work eontracted for under the old conditions. Subscribe for Tuc Ciiuomck. Companions Took Him Away Richly Caparisoned Horse Was Left, With Saddle-Bags Containing Insurgent's Dairy and Papers. Yig an, Luzon, via Manila, June 3. Major March, with his detachment of the Thirty-third regiment, overtook what is believed to have been Aguinaldo's party on May 19, at Lagat, about 100 miles northeast of Yigan. -The Ameri cans killed or wounded an officer sup posed to be Aguinaldo, whose body was removed by his followers. Aguinaldo had 100 men, Major March 1-5, the American commander reaching Li Boagan, where Aguinaldo had made his headquarters since March 0, on May 7. Aguinaldo had fled seven hours be fore leaving all the beaten trails and traveling through the forest along the beds of streams. Toward evening, May 19, Major March struck Aguinaldo's out post about a rujle outside of Lagat, kill four Filipinos and capturing two. From the latter he learned that Aguinaldo had camped ther for the night, exhaused and half starved. Major March's men entered Lagat on the run. They saw the insurgents scat tering into the bushes or over the plateau. A thousand yards beyond the town, on the mountain eide, the figures of 25 Fili pinos dressed in white with their leader on a gray horse were siihout'.ed against the sunset. The Americans fired a vol ley, and saw the officer drop from his horse. His followers flsd, carrying the body. The Americans on reaching the spot, caught the horse, which was richly saddled. Blood from a badly wounded man was on the animal and on the ground. The snddle-bngs coiitaiutd Aguinaldo's diary and some private papers, including proclamations. One of these was addressed : "To the Civil ized Nations." It protested against the American occupation of the Philippines. There' was also found copies of Senator Beveridge's speech, translated into Spanish and entitled: "The Death Knell of the Filipino People." Major March, believing that the Fill pinos had taken to a river which is n tributary of the Chico, followed it for two days, reaching Xiao, where he earned that a party of Filipinos had deecended the river May 20th on a raft with the body of a dead or woundid man upon a litter, covered with palm leaves. There Major March reviewed his command, shoeless and exhausted, and picked out twenty-four of the fresh est men, with whom he beat the sur rounding country for six days longer, but without finding any trace of the insurgents. The Americans pushed on, and arrived at Aparri May 29. The officer shot was either Aguinaldo or his adjutant, and as the horse was richly caparisoned it is a fair presump tion that it was Aguinaldo. Riortrl By Itolxrtn. London, June 2. A cablegram from Lord Roberts, dated Johannesburg, May 31st, but which was not dispatched from there until 8:30 a. m. of June 1st, has been received by the war office. It snys : "The occupation of' Johannesburg passed ofT quite satisfactorily, thanks to the excellent arguments made by Dr. Krans, the Transvaal commandant here, and order prevailed throughout the town. Dr. Kraus met me on my entrance to Johannesburg, and rode by my side to the government offices, where he introduced me to the heads of the several departments, all of whom r.c- ceded to my request that they would continue to carry on their respective duties nnlil they could be relieved of them. "Johannesburg Is very empty, but a good crowd of people assembled in the main square by the time tho British flag was being hoisted, A royal salute was fired, and three cheers f.ir the queen were given. At thn end of the cere monies the Seventli and Eleventh divisions marched paet with the naval brigade, the heavy artillery and two brigade divisions of the royal field artillery, (ion. Ian Hamilton's column and the cavalry division and mounted infantry were too far away to take part In the ceremony. Tho Fourteenth and naval brigades have been left in Johan nesburg to pieserve order, while the remainder of the force is encamped not tli of the town on the Pretoria road." Wanted. A girl to do general house wqrk In- quire at the Dalles Lumbering Co.'s office. niav2it.lw Clarke A Falk have on sale a full line of paint and artist's brushef. Eight Americans Missing From One Mission They Have Bestrojed a Thousand Mission Houses Tbeir Number is Increasing. , Tien-Tsin, Sunday, June 3. Two more of the party of foreigners a ho fled from Pao-Ting Fu have arrived here. One of them was badly injured. The relief expedition has returned, and the Cossacks returned this evening. Thev report that they had a Sght with tho Boxors at Tuii, killing sixteen and wounding many. Lieutenant Blenskev Dr. Hamilton, a trooper and a civiliat wero wounded. It is reported from Pao Ting-Fn Ilia eight Americans and three members ot the China Inland Mission are missing, The missionaries are in great danger. No further news has been received ro garding the missing refugees. Who the lloxera Ar, Chicago, June 4. Rev. Dr. D. Z Sheffield, president of the North China College of the American Board of For eign Missions, who has been selected by the First Congregational church to be its paid missionary in foreign lands, gave a lecture at the church last night. He has been in China thirty years. Speaking of the present situation in that country, he said : "I have the gravest apprehension of danger to the mission stations in North cm China. The Boxers are not upheld openly by the government, but secretly The Boxers are also known as the Society of the Great Knife. They are banded to gether for the preservation of conserva tism. They are religious fanatics, claim ing that spirits urge them on, and that they are immuned from death or injury as long as they remain loyal to the silent voices. At first they attacked the native churches belonging to the Roman Catholic Missions, but soon began to wage war on the Protestant churches and missions as well. "They have destroyed 700 houses be longing to the Roman Catholics and 300 belonging to the Protestant denominn tions. They are adding to the numbers, and it will take the most strenuous efforts on the part of the Chinese govern' ment to suppress them. "I am glad the marines were landed, but they will find their time occupied in protecting the cities alone. Foreign intervention will result in the overthrow of the present govern ment." Catarrh Cannot be Cared with local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take inter nal remedies. Hall s Catarrh (Jure is taken internally, and acts directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for yee-s, and is a regular piescription. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the l)C8t blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chkney & Co., Props., Toledo O. Sold by drrnggists, puce 75c. Hall's Family Pills nre the best 12 Mm. Jiihn Sherman DamiI. Mansfield, O., June 4. Mrs. John Sherm in tiled at midnight, aged 72 years. She was Mi?s Margaret Cecilia Stewart, only child of the lute Judge Stewart, of this city. She was married to Mr. Sherman December SI, ISIS. There were no children. She, was born here, and w ill be buried here. Could not express the rapture of Annie E. Springer, of 1125 Ho.vunl St., Phil adelpl ia, Pa., when she found that Dr King's New Discovery for Cor.snmption had completely cui ed her of a hacking cough that for many years ha made lite a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, tilt she s.iys of this Royal Cure "It soon re moved the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, something I can scarcely remember doing before. I (eel like sounding its praises throughout the universe." So will every one who tries Dr. King's New Discovery for any trouble of the throat, chest or lungs. Trice 50c and $1. Trial bottle free at Blakeley A Houghton's drug store; every bottle guaranteed. 5 Yon will not have boils. if you take Clarke A Falk't cure cure for boils. Its Astonishing Development During the Last jYcar Import Trade Was Doubled. Wahiiinoton, June 2. United States Cousul-General Good now, at Shanghai, has transmitted to he state department an interesting statement in regard to the .Chinese commerce last year, which the consul savs was characterized by an as tonishing development. The net value of the import trade for 1809 was $188,103,778, double that of 1890. The importation of opium was over 1,- 000,001) pounds in excess of the import! during the preceding year. The trade in cotton goods, which had remained practically stationary for three years, made a g'eat advance, rising from $54,255,057 in 1898 to $73,571,917. la piece goods a great increase in the im parts of American product was noted, al though it was considerably checked by the high prices ruling dining the last quarter of the year. The importation of sundries rose from $06,058,167 to $79,318,726. The value of the flour imported was $2,206,138, and all of it came from the United States. The yalue of last year's exports from China is estimated at $139,105,123, and this amount, as in the case of the imports, is more than double that shown in 1890. China's exports, it is eaid, are at present checked by price and inferior quality, due respectively to the cost of trans portation and the heavy taxation, and to adulteration aud faulty methods of prep aration. Prices will come down, and the demand for Chinese wares increase, says theconsnl, when railways bring the goods more cheaply ami the government takes steps to prevent the adulteration now rampant. The exportation of tea to the United States was 5,000.000 pounds in excess of the amount sent out in 1898. "It is a humiliating fact," says Consul General Goodnow, "that of the total tonnage of vessele entering and clearing from Chinese ports last year, the United States only contributed one percent of the total tonnage, the American flag floated over only three per cent." TRAINMEN'S PLUCKY FIGHT Exciting Hold-up Sixty Miles From St. Louis The Engineer Escaped to His Engine and Kan Away With the Train Bloodhounds After Robbers. St. Loris, June 4. A special to the Post-Dispatch from Longview, Texas, says the northbound cannon ball train on the International and Great Northern was held up after midnight near Price's Switch, sixty miles south of this city, aud but for the plucky tight of Express Messenger Rutherford and Baggage Master Strong and the strategy of En gineer Rich, another robbery would. have taken place. The engineer saw a pile of cross lies; and lumber on the track and stopped. He was ordered down by three masked men, w ho forc d the engineer and fire man to uncouple the mail, baggage and express cars and pull about two miles from the remainder of the train. The robbers then commanded the messerper to open the door of ins cur and failing to get any response, made fireman Love- break n hole in the end with a coal pick. While this w as being done the fire man begged the messenger and baggage men not to shoot. The messenger, whr was well protected hy a barricade, said he would kill the firnt man w ho entered the hole. Love was forced in and the messenger Bbouted : "Gel aside, Love !" as he tired through the hole. His htf. just missed the robber?, who undertook to kill the messenger by shooting through the eide of the car. In the c .in fusion reenlting, Engineer Rich crawled upon his engine, pulled the tiirotlle wide open and left the robbers behind. A quick rwn wos nude to Jacksonville, fifteen miles north. At daybreak Mm penitentiary bloodhounds were brought from Rusk and put on the trail. This hold-up occurred near the lace where the samo train was robbed five years ago. Ivy poisoning, poison wound and all other accidental injuries may be quickly cured by using DeWitt's Witch llaa-1 Salve. It is also a certain cure for j ilt" and litin diseases. Take no other.