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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1896..
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TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events ot the Day In a Con
denied Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL HEADERS
Item of Importance From Domestic
vd Foreign loured Oman
of the Dispatches.
Fire destroyed block of ten house
in Pittsburg, Pa., rendering ten fam
ilie homeless, end oeusiug a los of
8,0000.
The Commercial and Saving bunk
of San J 00, Oal., bai closed it door.
The depositor, it i wild, will be paid
in full.
The dofeue at Esquimau, B. O.
re again being atrengtbened. Seven
new heavy broeoh-loadlng gun bave
just arrived from England.
Tbe oollapee of the rear ot a frame
factory building in Chicago resulted
in seriously injuring Ave peraona and
norly 100 otbera bad narrow escapee,
Four men were killed and one In
jured by tbe blowing np of anengine
ou the Delaware, Susquehanna &
Bohuylklll railroad at Gum Run, Pa.
There bave been floodi in the Alpine
diatrlota of tbe Tyrol and in Bohemia,
with avalanobee and landtlidee on the
railway. It i feared that many Uvea
bave been loat "
A projeot ia on foot in Vancouver, B.
O. , to bold a Championship profeeeional
regatta at the time of the meeting of
tbe Northwest Paoiflo Aiaooialton of
Amateor Oarainon.
In Oakland, Oal, two children, aged
10 and 6, were run down by an eleotrio
oar and instantly killed. The children
were daoghtora of Frank E. Booth, a
commission morobaut doing business in
Bad Franlcso,
Jamea Duggan, a well-known oitlaen
of Denver and live other bave left
there for the Alaskan gold fields. The
praty will number fifty and they will
go iu a chartered vessel, and carry sup
plies for a two yean' itay.
President Cleveland held bla Bret tri
weekly reoeptton to the publlo at tbe
White Uouie, after a suspension of
nearly two years. About 800 peraona
took advautage of the opportunity to
shake handa with tbe president
In Ban Franoiaoo 800 palntera went
on a strike. They ask for an increase
of DO oeut a day, making their wages
tainataed of IX 6a The atrike was
ordered by tbe Painter' union, and
wa decided upon some day ago.
Tbe president haa pardoned Nathan
Blum, oouvloted in Oregon of smug
gling and conspiracy, but whose sen
tenoe was suspended, and F. M. Baula
bury, convicted in Oregon of misusing
peualty envelopes, and fined 1800.
i South Australia, which feared the
construction of the British Paoiflo cable
because it might injure its land line,
will be oonoillated by the offer ot com
pensation to maintain revenue from
the transcontinental line at the average
level of the past five year.
John L. Sullivan and Parson Daviea
are preparing to head a movement to
plaoe pugilism on a paying basis again.
Sullivan beliove sporting men should
oragnise and refuse to cast their bal
lot for legislators or congressmen who
wonld not agree to let piraefightera go
numolested.
Robert Edgren, thea well-known uni
versity hammer-thrower, haa broken
the world' record for throwing tbe
Id pound hammer. On the Berkley
campus, in Berkely, CaL, he threw the
missile whlob has made him famou
147 feet and 7 inohea. The world's
record wa US feet.
The disreputable women who infest
Morton street and St. Mary's Plaoe, in
San Francisco, are in a state of terror
on aooount of the murder ot two of
their olaas within a month. Both
women were . strangled to death in
their rooms, and in both oases the mur
derer have escaped. .
Tbe National Armenian relief com
mittee of New York will aend 910,000
to Constantinople. It is stated by the
oommittee that the distribution of
money is being now made among the
Armenians, and at the present time the
greatest obstacle to the work of relief
la laok ot fuuds rather than opposition
by tbe lultan.
A dispatob from Barcelona says that
tbe merchants of the olty bave agreed
not to sell Amerioan products in the
event of Cleveland approving the Cuban
belligerency resolution. They bave
also opened a subscription toward a
fund, whioh I to be devoted to the
purohate of warships,
Beoent advices fully confirm the re
port of the overthrow of the pro-Jap-aneee
government in Corea and the es
tablishment of a distinctly Russian
ministry, the members of the late cabi
net having, with one exoeption, been
put to death with horrible bararity,
inolualve of cannibalisms The fortun
ate member ot the late govenrment to
save his head wa the minister ot war,
who ia believed to have come to Amert
oa in exile. . ,. ,- j
Delegates from the various oommer
oial organization of Ban Franoisoo held
a oonferenoe as to the best means of
protecting San Franiosoo'a trade with
- Eureka and other North Paoiflo way
port against Portland' competition.
A oommittee was appointed to wait
upon the O. R. & N. and North Paoiflo
steanishlip oompanies, and ask them to
dlsootinue their services between Port
land and , Eureka and intermediate
point.
The plan for the reorganisation of
the Oregon Bhort Line & Utah North
ern Railway Company, agreed to by all
ooutending interest, baa been offlolally
issued. It oal Is for a foreclosure and a
new oompany to be known aa the Ore
gon Bhort Line Railway Company. It
preserve the entire system, and also
the control of a block ot Oregon Rail
way A Navigation stock, which 1
secured by 118,000,000 oollateral trust
bonds, the new Bhort Line Company
paying the assessment upon tbe Navi
gatlon (took.
An attempt wa made to wreok tbe
Union Paoiflo, Butte Bait Lake ex
pre one mile from Pooatello, Idaho.
When within a short distance of the
last switch, Engineer Andrewa saw a
man throw the switch and ma away.
The engineer Immediately reversed hi
engine. Tbe train left tbe traok, but
fortunately tbe oar remained upright,
and no one wa injured. There i a
deep fill, at this point, and bad the
train not been promptly, stopped, it
wonld bave dashed down the steep
grade. No motive la known for the
deed.
The atrike of 12,600 Berlin jointer
waa ended thia week. The workmen
bave obtained higher pay and aborter
hours.
While aitting in his cabin at Elisa
bothtown, N. J., Jeff Bailey waa blown
to atoms by the explosion of 65 pounds
oi giant powder,
Tbe British oolonial office haa
been asked to aanotlon a chartered oom
pany to exploit Ashantee, but it ia un
likely it will oonesent
To escape arrest for embecslement of
government funds, Frank Mapea, post
master of Kansas City, Kan., com
mitted inioide at hi reaidenoe in that
olty.
The Anglo-German loan ot 100.000,-
000 taels haa been leaned at 84, with
interest at 8 per oent - Tbe oontraot
stipulate that the ouatoms administra
tion ia to remain unobanged.
Aooording to report on the organ
ised militia of the United States, just
prepared by the war department, the
United Btatea in case of need, can put
0,467,894 men in the field. -
Tbe senate of Cambridge university,
London, by vote of 180 to 171, haa
rejected the proposition to appoint a
oommittee to consider the qneation of
conferring degrees upon women.
During February, the exports of gold
coin and bullion amounted to $8,188,-
700, and the Imports to 811, 669,039.
For the eight months, the exports were
$68,643, 998 in exoess of the imports.
Two hundred fishermen, belonging
to Reval, near St. Petersburg, Russia,
with their horses and oarta, have been
blown out to aea on Boating loe. They
have only one day'a provisions with
them.
A disastrous oolliston between a
freight train and a anowplow ooourred
on tbe Berkshire division of tbe New
York, New Haven A Hartford rail
road, near Kent furnace, Miiford,
Conn. Two men were killed and
seven or eight others injured.
A Moscow oorrearjondent of the Lon
don Naura KaIIavm it trn. that tha ruirtA I
has deoided upon the expulsion of the
British and Amerioan missionaries in
Asia Minor. "Such a measure would
be oonsonant with the wishes of
Russia," the correspondent adds.
At the request ot the state depart
ment at Washington, tbe United Btatea
embassy at Berlin haa formally invited
all tbe German universities to aend
delegate to the Princeton
celebration
in Ootober next Borne ot them, in
cluding the university of Goettingen,
have aooepted.
One hundred students of Muhlenberg
oollege, Allentown, Pa.
participated 1
in an nu-opanian demonstration,
They paraded the oollege corridor and
oampua, singing patrloUo songs and
oheering, and ended by burning the
Bpanian nag ana Hanging uenerai i
Weyler in effigy.
The Pope Manufacturing Company'
building, Boston, waa completely gut-
ted by fire, necessitating a general
alarm. The loaa ia between $860,000 '
and $400,000. The block waa five-
story stuoture of brick, profusely orna-
men ted with terra ootta trimmings,
Seventeen thousand bloyolea and part
were destroyed in the flame.
Lord Dnnraven presided at a meet
ing ot the Yacht Racing Association
held In London. Before the meeting
waa called to order, the question of
the advisability ot making a reply to
the New York Yacht Club in regard to
the expulsion of Duraven waa inform
ally diouased, and it waa decided that
it would not be good taste to do so.
The matter wa dropped.
A terrible tragedy ooourred in Beneoa
Fall. N. Y. It wa the murder of a
highly respectable young girl. Miss
Mary Mantel, by Thomas Pelklnton, a
farm hand. Pelklnton, Immediately
after the murder, and with the same
weapon with whioh he oommitted the
murder, took his own life. The girl
received two bullets in the bead, one
entering the brain. , . ,
The Gould will not be oom pel led
to pay taxes on $10,600,000 assessed in
New York for tbe year 1986. Five
suits had been filed against the estate
of Jay Gould and hi sons and daugh
ter to enforce the finding of the com
missioners of taxes and assessments.
The defendanta pleaded non-resideaoe.
The corporation oounsel baa announced
that it ha been deoided to abandon
the suits. ....... ., , . ,
The whole of the republio ot Hon
duras ha been plaoed under martial
law, pending the settlement of theoivil
revolt in Nioaragua, , in whioh the
president ot Honduraa haa espoused the
cause of the Zelaya government against
the rebels. The near approach ot the
contending foroea in Nicaragua to the
Hondura frontier, and the disposition
of the president of Guatemala to Inter
pose for the settlement of the war, are
the, consideration that made the step
seem advisable of plaoing the country
under martial law.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Items ot General Interest
From All Sections.
DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS
All the Cities and Towns of the Peolne
States and Territories-
' Y Washington.
, New Wbatoom is determined to bave
a federal appropriation for a fish hatch
rr
mere are 180 women and 400 men
in tbe Bteilaooom asylum. There are
164 at Medical Lake.
bast year tbe Htanwood oreamery
produced 16.862 pound of butter, and
the Monroe oreamery, 80,000 pounds.
Attorney-General Jonea ha rendered
an epinion to the effect that tbe faculty
of the state normal school baa the
power to expel pupils.
Mrs. Isaao G. Morgan died in Seat
tle, at the age of 88. Her remain
will be embalmed and sent to Ban
Franoisoo' to be cremated.
The amount of timber standing on
the left fork of Gray's river, Wahki
akum county, ia said to be 860,000,000
feet Thii, after a oareful estimate by
oompetent cruiser.
W. E. Peck, of Cosmopolis, ba re
ceived legal notioe that he ia one of
the few heirs to a large estate in New
York state. The will ia to be probated
the last of this month.
A burglar entered the reaidenoe of
Judge Arthur In Spokane, smoked
some of the judgea best cigar, took
what (mall ohange be oould find and
made off with tbe judge' trousers.
Tbe Belliugham Bay Improvement
Company, of New Whatoom, ia put
ting in new boiler and making other
improvement with tbe view to extend
ing Its oargo capacity. A large timber
planer will be added.
The Fidalgo cannery baa oompleted
one building and a second is well ad
vanced. The Anaoorte cannery ha
finished one building and work ia being
pushed on a second. Maohinery, net
material, eta , are beginning to arrive.
Although a persistent search has been
made to discover the whereabouts of
George W. Lysle, who left Bt Joseph's
hospital, Fairhaven, over a year ago,
no traoe ot bim has yet been found.
Relatives and friends are still search
ing afor him, but it is doubtful if they
find any due till the waters beach
bis remain.
A suit ba been instituted in the su
perior oourt of Franklin county by J.
B. Hubriok for f 900 damage on ao
oount of a non-oomplianoe on the part
of the railroad oompany to open their
draw across the Columbia during the
flood. Mr. Hubriok was tied up for
nine day with the steamer Uncle
Richard, and olaima $100 per day.
The Taooma oounoil haa voted against
the adoption of the amendments of the
proposed charter providing for levying
taxes for support of tbe publlo library
and park, and against the section pro-
I blbitlng tbe olty treasruer from invest
. ing publio funds in city warrant. The
' amendment taking confirmatory power
. fwm tlia Artnnnil l a a a immii aA aa n.nau
u-- k-.udv.i.. ., u
works. .
Tbe reduction made by the county
commissioners of Thurston will result
in a monthly uflrni of tin in tha
auditor's office.. tlO in tha traaanrer'a
offioe, 810 in the sheriff's offioe, $10 in
the clerk ' offioe, $10 on the janitor,
ao at the Jail, and $40 In the aurvey
or'a offloe, a total of $110 per month.
County Surveyor Ruth will probably
oontest in the oourt the right of the
oommiasionera to out off bis per diem,
A number ot Indiana have made a
great oatch of muskrata on the Colville
river bottom during the past few day,
Stephen H. Hockett, aged 68, died
on Kalama river last week, of oon-
sumption. He came to Washington in
1888. His wife died in 1888. At his
own request, an autopsy was held on
hla body, after death, and showed that
hia lungs had been suffused with a
large quantity ot water.
A Spokane newsboy, Ralph Delaney,
waa tried in the police oourt of that
oity the other day for stealing newspa
per, on oomplaint of the Spokesman
Review. After the evidence, which
showed the boy' guilt plainly enough,
wa all in, the attorney for the defense
moved a dismissal of the charge on the
ground that the paper or paper alleged
to have been stolen were not the prop
erty of the Bpokesamn-Review at tbe
time, a they became the property of
the subscriber a aoon a they were de
livered at hi door. On tbi technical
ity the case wa then dismissed.
Oregon.
It i expected that the 8oio oreamery
will be in operation by April 1.
Coo oounty is calling in its war
rants issued np to January, 1891.
Tbe Bandon lighthouse recently put
to work, ha a foghorn in connection
with It -
Artesian water ba been found on a
farm near The Dallea at . a depth of
thirty feet
The widow of the late Samuel P.
Sturgii, of Pendleotn, haa received the
$6,000 for which hia life waa Insured.
The beacon light in the new light
house at Bandon waa for . the first time
flashed out over the Bandon bar last
week. ' '
The oontraot for oarrying the mail
between Ashland and Klamath Falls
ha been sublet to Austin Blah for
$2,800.
Circuit oourt tor Baker bounty has
adjourned until March 19. In the
oaae of the Baker City National ' bank
vs. C. H. Stuller, a verdiot wa ren
dered in favor of the plaintiff for
$2,646.40.
Tbe oounoil of Grant' Pas ba
paased an ordinance prohibiting noisy
parades through the streets by God'
Regular Army.
Spring i backward on Young'
river, but a big hay crop ia expeoted
and no bard time are troubling the
Young'a river people. ,
The order of the mayor of Milton,
dosing cburohe and prohibiting other
public gathering beoauae of soarlet
fever, has been revoked. .
Tbe Nehalem valley is in a prosper'
ous condition, and stock is looking very
fine, the winter having been mild.
Tbe ground is yet too wet for plowing,
but the farmer anticipate a good sea
son
Tbe Caldwell lumber mill at Grand
Rapids wa broken into and all of the
olroular saws were stolen. No traoe
of the thieves has yet been discovered.
The loss will amount to several bun
derd dollar.
Umatilla's oounty oourt refuses to
offer bounties on squirrels or to fur
nisb poison to tbe farmer for fighting
the pests, on tbe ground that the state
law does not authorize suoh aotion re
garding squirrels, though other animals
are expressly mentioned.
A very large gray eagle was killed
near Philomath a few daya ago. It
measured seven feet and one inch from
tip to tip, and had a beak four inches
long; the distance between its eyes waa
three inohea, and it wa four inches
aoroas tbe top of tbe bead. It waa
parched on the top of a barn when
killed.
A petition to the Umatilla county
oourt set forth that Robert Kinsman
baa built a man trap on the Wild
Horse road in the shape of tunnel
under the publio highway for the pur
pose of allowing hi hog to pass from
one field to another. The man trap
will be investigated.
Fred Paul, tbe young man of Walla
Walla, who left that oitv last week in
rather an abrupt manner in order to
keep from fulfilling a matrimonial en
gagement, and whose whereabouts has
sinoe been a mystery both to the Inter
ested young lady and the young man's
parents, has been fonnd at last on the
Umatilla reservation.
Jonathan Stout, who died at his
borne near McMinnville, was 83 years
old. He crossed tbe plains to Oregon
in 1862; in 1866 he went to Yamhill
oounty and settled on the homestead
where he died. His wife died soon
after they arrived in Oregon. He waa
the father of eight children, five of
whom are still living.
Horaoe Dun lap returned to Lakeview
last week from his trip to New Or
leans, where he took two oarloads of
mules. He did not find the market as
good as expeoted, but will try it again
in the near future. Next time he will
take mares, as be know wbat he can
do with them. He followed the South
ern Paoiflo road, going via Lo An
geles, El Paso, San Antonio, Houston
and other Southern points.
Idaho.
The Star mail service between Fra
ser and Leyburn has been ordered dis
continued. Special mail service from South wick
to Crescent in Latah oounty ba been
ordered discontinued March 81 next
The mines dosed down by tbe recent
freeze-up are gradually resuming work.
They will be running in full blast
again shortly. .
A petition is to be circulated in the
Coeur d'Alenee asking the Oregon
Railway Navigation Company to run
Sunday passenger and mail trains. ,
It ia scarcely possible to read a paper
published anywhere in Idaho without
reading of new mine disooverie or in
creased prosperity in the mining indus
try. Thia year will unquestionably;
show a largely increased gold produc
tion for the state. In many oasee
plaoer mining will be 'carried on a
larger scale than ever before, with
more modern method and better ap
pliances. New mill are being con
tracted for in many districts, and from
the Coeur d'Alenes to the Owyhee more
men will be engaged in prospecting
than ever before. The faot is patent
that all the disooverie yet made in
Idaho amount to almost nothing com
pared with future possiblltiea,
- Montana.'
The largest popular n on political con
vention ever held in the state has
dosed it labor in Helena. It wa the
immigration and mining convention,
called for the purpose ot effecting a per
manent organisation that shall work
for the development of Montana by
securing the immigration of desirable
farmers and the enlistment of capital
in mining enterprises. Every county
was represented. For two days there
waa a aeries of papers by specialists
from all over tbe state, setting forth
the resources of their respective sec
tions. Never was theie suoh a resume
of the advantages of Montana pie
pared. Emphasis was laid on the faot
that there are thousands of aorea of till
able land in the state. A very large
per rentage of the farm products and
supplies nsed in the larger cities are
imported from other states. The oity
ot Butte alono sends outside $800,000
annually for butter, eggs and flour.
Scarcely 10 per oent ot the pork prod
not oonsunied in the state are pro
duced at home. Resolutions were
adopted declaring that no more invit
ing field for immigration exists than
Monatna. The state had an abundance
ot the finest graaing lands and a great
number ot rich valleys, whioh will pro
duoe crops in abundanoe. Besides, the
state ia rich in precious metals. A
permanent bureau will be organised
for the preparation of authoritative
statements and the ditsemiation ot in
formation and literature among farm
er and capitalists.
WILL NOT INTERFERE
The European Powers Would
Not Help Spain.
THAT IS IN THE EVENT OF WAR
Madrid JlUpatrheii Hdjr. McxJco'f lJol
. tlon Make. ffr Vanguard
AgMlit.t Yankee Kncroeuhment..
London, March 18 Tbe Berlin cor
respondent of the Times says the Ham
burger correspondent, who is often
used as an official mouthpiece, be
lieves tbe powers would refuse to in
tervene iu support of Hpain in tbe
Cuban affair against the United States.
Madrid, March 18. The attention
of the newspapers of this city has been
attracted to the fact that long inter
views have been taking place between
the Mexican minister here and the
Spanish minister for war and minister
for foreign affairs. Tbe papers declare
that the ties between Mexicans and
Spaniards tighten daily, and that
Mexicos' position makes her naturally
the vanguard against "Yankee en
croachments upon Latin America."
The press and publio there express
disappointment aud impatience at Gen
eral Weyler' failure to suppress tbe
Cuban insurgents.
Havana, March 18. Dr. Jose Man
uel Delgado, the Amerioan citizen re
ported to have been shot and nearly
killed by Spanish troops under the coin -
amnd of General Melquiz, arrived here
yesterday. The captain-general has
promised prompt inquiry into the oir-
oumstances, and has given assurances
that the guilty persons will be most
severely punished. Dr. Delgado is said
to have been bound hand and foot and
shot without trial and without any
justification. The doctor-was left for
dead, and eight of bis father's employes
were killed. The United States oon-
sul-general, Ramon O. Williams, has
taken the matter in hand.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
(Jeneral Booth Formally. Welcomed
Back to Kngland.
London, March 18 Tbe Salvation
Army in London was in a state ot ex
citement today, the occasion being a
mass meeting at the Crystal Palace, to
formally welcome back to England,
upon his return from his journey
around the world, General William
Booth, commander-in-chief of the
army.
General Booth, in his address, refer
red immediately to tbe action of Bal
lington Booth, in America, saying he
had returned to meet one of the heav
iest trials he had ever been called upon
to face; but even darkness bad a silver
lining. The Salvation Army, he as
serted, stood almost to a man true to
bim, and assurances of unoeasing de
votion had been pouring in from every
quarter of the globe.
At the conclusion of his address, the
Booth-Tuokers, who have been com
manding the army in Iudia, were called
to the front ot tbe platform. Two
officer of the army held over them tbe
stars and stripe.', and the Salvation
Armv blood-and-fire ensign. Tbe gen
eral took each of them by the band and
dedicated them to the new work in
i merica in a few words, which greatly
stirred the immense audience of 20,008,
all of whom joined in an outburst of
cheers for the Amerioan flag.
RIVALRY OF NEWSPAPERS.
One Fill tor Swallowed PoUon to Get
Ahead or the Oppotltlen Paprr j
Omaha, March 18. A special from i
Midvale, Neb., says:
Because a rival paper "scooped" him
on an important item a week ago, John
Merchant, the editor of a Midvale
weekly, wrote a thrilling aooount ot
his own suicide for publication in last
Monday' issue of his own paper and
swallowed poison half an hour after
his contemporary had gone to press.
Merohant was evidently in earnest in
his effort at aelf-destruotion, for be
locked himself in his offioe to give the
fatal drug time to take effect, and re
fused admission to hia foreman, who
rushed to his assistance aa soon as be
discovered what hia employer had done.
Appalled at his obstinacy, the fore
man lost no time in bursting in th
door. Then he summoned a physioi.in.
With the letters' help the newspaper
man was finally saved. The opposition
came out late with an extra giving a
full account of the affair, including its
happy termination, but Merohant is
much consoled bv the thought that the
original and really only authentio an
nouncement was on tbe street in bis
own paper several hour before bis
rival was able to reaoh its subscribers.
' The Careon Mint Robbery
Carson, Nev., March 18. The oase
of John T. Jones, charged with the
robbery of the Carson mint, will go to
the jury soon. During the trial 'the
attorney for the defendant expressed
bis willingness to submit the oase to
the jury without argument, but ooun
sel for the government would not oon
Bent The United States distriot attor
ney. opened and spoke particularly of
Jones rapidly acquired wealth since
his employment in the mint. Jones
said this was made by dealing in min
ing stocks, but the evidenoe and looks
of the bank and brokers show that he
actually lost in suoh details during that
time. To this tbe attorney for the de
fense replied that the prosecutions'
own witness said the fact that Jones
had made large sums of money by
stocks was a matter of common knowl
edge, and that it ia very common for
people to handle their stock transac
tion through other people.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of tha Doings ot the
Nation's Lawmakers Senate.
Washington, March 14. Senator
Sherman and Hill were tbe conspicu
ous figures in the Cuban debate in the
senate today. The New York senator
forcibly urged the mercenary character
of the pending resolution, while Sher
man upheld them with another grapbio
arraignment of Spain and Weyler. It
waa the fourth day of the debate on
; the conference report, and yet there
wa no evidence of a near approach to
a final vote, although Sherman an
i nounced that he wonld press for a vote
j at the earliest moment Mitchell in
I trod need a joint resolution in the sen
ate allowing the engineers to use $20,'
000 of tbe unexpended balance for the
cascade locks, to be used tor making
a protection walL He made a brief
talk, asking the committee on com
merce to report the resolution as speed
ily as possible.
Washington, March 16. Tbe excite
ment of the Cuban debate gave way to
Cockrell today, his elaborate speech on
the financial question occupying four
hours. There wa a spirited reference
to Cuba early in the day, when it de
veloped during an explanation by
Lodge that the oommittee on foreign
relations had received from Secretary
Olney a statement by Senor de Lome,
the Spanish minister, giving the Span
ish view of the case. This brought out
animated suggestion from Hoar and
Wolcott that tbe senate be put in pos
session of this important testimony.
Cockrell' speech wa an elaborate
presentation of tbe financial question
from the silver standpoint, so muoh so
that Hoar stated that it was the ablest
silver speech be bad ever listened to.
Washington, March 13. The senate
had an hour of spirited Cuban debate
late today, after the early part of the
day had been given to let speeches by
Lodge on Immigration and fuga on
silver. Tbe Cuban discussion was
mainly important in bringing out the
full reading of a statement of tbe Span
ish side of the case by Senor Dupuy de
Lome, the Spanish minister. 1 This
had been referred to some days ago,
but could not be made publio. Today,
however, Morgan read a letter from
Secretary Olney saying the Spanish
minister gave his permission for the
public use of the statement It claimed
to detail the insurgent methods of
guerilla warfare, the burning of cane
fields and the disorganized character of
the insurgent bands.
' House.
Washington, March 14. In tbe
house today, during the morning honr,
on motion of Johnson, a resolution
was adopted by which the claim of
Coleman, republican, of the second
Louisiana distriot, to the seat of Buck,
was decided in favor of the latter.
Daniels called np the contested elec
tion case of Aldricb-Robbins, from the
fourth Alabama district in which the
republicans recommended the seating
of Aldrich. Three hours and a half,
he said, were to be allowed on each
side for argument Moody denounced
in forcible languarge what he termed
the crimes against honest elections in
Alabama. Several' others spoke on the
subject, but it went over.
Washington, March 16. Provisions
for putting several craft of tbe navy
into condition for service aa soon aa
possible waa made today by the house
oommittee on naval affairs. Commo
dore Hichborne, chief of the bureau of
construction and repairs of the navy
department, made a request for a spe
cial appropriation of $850,000, to be
availalbe for nse immediately, explain
ing that several gunboats and other
craft could be put in shape to go into
commission, if needed, for compara
tively small expenditures, and the de
partment considered it advisable that
the work should be done at once. To
partly balance the allowances for Com
modore Hichborne' bureau, tbe gen
eral appropriation therefor waa ont
down from $11,000,000 to $12,500,000.
There are twelve boat which the de
partment will put into condition for
service, and for which the appropria
tion is asked. Some of them are new
craft, and others old onea now out of
commission. - -
Washington, March 18.' This was
suspension day in the house, and sev
eral bills were passed. The most im
portant was the Oklahoma homestead
bill, which relieves homesteaders in
Oklahoma of the payment of the pur
chase price of their homesteads. The
house also deoided, at the request of
Hitt, chairman of the oommitteee on
foreign affairs, to consider the resolu
tions censuring Ambassador Bayard on
Friday. A bill was passed granting to
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company the right of way
through the Sao and Fox Indian reser
vation. Bills were passed granting to
the First National bank ot Sprague,
Wash., the right to ohange its location
to Spoakne, Wash , and to increase the
rank and pay of tbe judge-advocate of
the navy when appointed from tbe
navy. . - '
The Hungry Miners.
Erie, Colo., March 16. It the ooal
war has been a boon to consumers, it
has been death to the miners, bringing
a reduction of inoome, and bare subsist
ence in all oasee, and destitution in
not a few. It may result in aotual dis
tress in in many families. The win
ter has not been a favorable one for
ooal miners. The weather has been
mild and the demand correspondingly,
light Hence the miner earned small
wages, not to exoeed $25 per month.
Many have earned nearer 1 10 or $12 a
month. The outlook here ia anything
but bright, and while there is as yet
no starvation, it is only a matter of a
short time when there will be hungry
men, women and children unless a
speedy turn of affairs ia taken for the
better. .: - . ' 1 .
The world-famed Oronte river i
only 840 mile long.
PEACE REIGNS AGAIN
Italy Has Passed Out. of Its
Impending Crisis.
ALL RIOTING REPORTED ENDED
Italy Breathe freer Because of the
Change From Blank Detpalr to
Oreat Hope In the Future.
Rome, March 16. Out of tbe storm
of popular anger, which swept Italy
when news of the defeat of the army
under Barn ten arrived, but little re
mains of the feeling against the Italian
commander. All rioting has oeased.
Tbe reserves who fled from tbe oountry
sooner than go to Africa at the call ot
tbe government for the olasa of 1872,
are returning, and it ia not thought
any steps will be taken to punish them.
Negotiations with Menelek have been
opened. It is anticipated that peace
will be concluded before long, and the
war office has countermanded the in
structions sent to various pointa for the
hurrying forward of reinforcements to
Africa. The new cabinet is settling
down to work and the finanoial situa
tion is brighter than anticipated. Un
der these circumstances Italy breathe
freer tban for some time past, and
there ia a feeling of gratitude for those
who have aided, in Berlin, during tbe
past few days, in bringing about the
change from blank despair to great hop
in tne future.
The conferences which have taken
plaoe here recently, between the Mar
quis di Rudini, the new premier, and
the Duke of Sermoneta, their audienoea
with King Humbert and tbe constant
exchange of telegraphio messages be-
tween thia oity and the German oapital,.
bave been coincident with the meet
ings in Berlin of tbe Austrian minister
for foreign affairs. Count Golnohowskl;
the German foreign minister, Baron
Marschal von Bieberstein; the Italian
ambassador to Germany, Count Lanza
di Busca, and the imperial chancellor,
Prince Hobenlohe, supplemented by
audienoea with Emperor William.
Out of all these exchanges of views it
ia believed haa grown a healthier state
of affairs. .
A FIVE HOURS' BATTLE.
More Desperate Fighting Reported In
Nicaragua. f
Managua, Nioaragua, March 16.
Desperate fighting, lasting five hours,
ha occurred at PitaL The rebels
made a stubborn resistance, but were
finally beaten. Two hundred were
killed and wounded. There ia great
rejoicing here, church bells ringing
and cannons fired.
New York, March 16. A dispatch
to the Herald from Managua says:
One thousand rebles were defeated
at Pital, near Momotombo. The battle
lasted four hours. The government
troops were commanded by Generals
Pais, Pablo and Reyes. The rebel loea
waa heavy. The enemy waa pursued
by the government troops. An engage
ment in whioh the rebels were defeated
also occurred Thursday, at El Jaliton,
between La Paa and Nagarote. The
insurgent loss waa thirty-five killed
and eighty wounded. Forty-two pris
oners were taken by President Zelaya 'a
men. One cannon and a quantity of
arms and provisions were captured.
The principal families of Leon have fled
to Honduras.
TO LEARN THE FACTS.
Secret Agent Bald to Bave Been Bent
. By Cleveland to Cuba. .
New York, March 16. A Herald
special from , Washington - says: . A
rumor ia current that President Cleve-
land haa sent an army officer to Cuba
a a seoret agent of the government to
supplement the report of the consular
offloer by professional reports ot tbe
military operations in the island and
the condition of the insurgents, aa
viewed from a military standpoint It
ia said that reports from thia offloer
have already arrived; that more are to
follow, and that the president will
make nse of the information they con
tain in deciding upon the course to be
followed by the administration, or in
framing any message he may send to
congress. No official confirmation of
this report oould be secured in either ,
tbe state department or the war depart
ment, but for obvious reasons, if any
army offloer had been detailed for thia
duty, the adminsitration would wish
to keep the fact secret
Subject to Taxation. ;
Olympia, , Wash.. March 18. The
supreme oourt today affirmed the judg
ment in the case of Thurston county,
respondent, vs. the Sisters ot Charity
House of Providence, appellant The
sisters are the owners of a block of
land in Olympia, whereon ia situated
St Peter's hospitaL The remainder of
tbe land ia used to raise vegetables for
tbe use of the hospital. In 1891 the
entire property waa assessed, and a tax
levied thereon at the established rate.'
In 1894 suit wa instituted to collect
the tax ao levied, the same being delin
quent by foreok sure of the tax lien,
and sale of property to satisfy the tax,
penalty and interest The defendant ;
objeoted to entry of judgment, because
the premises were nsed exclusively for
the purposes ot a hospital for the siok,
and waa exempt from taxation. The
oounty then canceled the tax upon the
building, but not upon the land. Judg
ment waa obtained from this tax;
hence this suit The supreme oourt,
holding that the w venue law of 1891
in exempting thia class of publio build
inga did not exempt the land also.
The Columbia river of Canada ia
1,400 miles in length; the Columbia
ot Oregon ia 600,