5 OREGON MI
ST
VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1896.
NO. U.
TELEGRAPHIC RESUM
Events of the Day In a
dented Form.
Con
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Importance Wtom Domestic
and Foreign lni-OrtM
of tli Dispatches.
Two young men, named Montgomery
and Fox, rlvili in a love affair, (ought
a duel with revolver on Birob oreek,
Alaska. Fox reoelved two wounds,
neither of tbem fatal.
Complete arrangements have been
made by the Prinoeton Athletlo A wo
olatlon to tend a team to represent
America in the Olympian games, to
be held in Athena, Ureeoe, April
to 11.
A Cairo dlspatoh tayi the Egyptian
troop have atarted for Wady Haifa
where the entire Soudan expeditionary
foroe is expeoted to assemble April
when the advance on Dongola will be
oommenoed.
Kid Thompson, convicted of partlol
panoy in the Rosooe train robbery,
wa aenteuoed by Jndge Smith, in the
Lo Angele superior oonrt, to be
hanged at Folsom on May 93, between
the hour of 10 and 4 o'olook.
The eaae of the United State vs. the
atate of Texas, involving the owner
ahlp of Oreer county, haa been dooided
la favor of the United State. Juitloe
Harlan handed down the opinion. The
ease Involves 1,600,000 sores.
The New York Herald oorrrespondent
in Kio Janerto ssys that the Brazilian
government will present to oongress an
agreeement with rranoe upon tbeqnea
tion of the oon tested territory in
Amspa, on the border of Frenob
Uniana.
A powder mill wbloh give employ
meat to seventy-flvs men at Kiflon,
Ulster oounty, N. Y., blew up. The
mangled bodlea of five men bav been
found In the ruins. The same mill
blew up eighteen mouths ago, killing
onr men.
Mayor Broatoh, of Omaha, Neb., has
sent oat letters to BOO mayors of otties
. in the trans-Mississippi valley, asking
them to present the matter to the oouu
oils of their respective municipalities,
and nrglng the adoption of resolutions
favoring the exposition that is to be
held ia Omsha during the summer and
fall of 1898.
In Chios go, J J. Colvin, promt
Bent manufacturer of galvanised iron
oornloe, was superintending the work
of the new station on the Lake-street
elevated road, when the temporary
scaffold on whloh he stood waa struck
by a train, and he waa burled into
the street being almost instantly
killed.
Dr. Brown, of Ban Franolsoo, haa
been aoqulttod on the charges of iro
morslity and oeusured for unmlnlstar
ial oonduot He considers himself
vindicated of all the charge preferred
against him. The Congregational
oounoil haa been in session tor the past
three weeks trying the ohargos agatnat
Dr. Brown.
Fire in canton, Wia., inntcted a
loss of from 175,000 to $100,000. The
Urge stock of general merchandise of
Crosier Brothers is total loss; also
the Y. M. O. A. fixtures, and the
buildings snd stocks of several other
firms. The fire is the seoond one whloh
haa occurred reoeutly, and ia believed
to have been Incendiary in Its origin.
The Kentucky legislature haa ad
Juurued, after sixty-day session. The
legislature failed to aooomplish the two
important act It bad, before It the
election of a United State senator and
the enactment of legislation to save
the atate's financial reputation. Gover
nor Bradley has refused to order a spe
olal session, and the state Is In a bad
way.
The United States supreme oonrt
ha reversed the deolslon of Judge
Maxey, of the Texas federal oonrt, in
the oaae of Consul Ornalea, of Mexioo,
asking for the extradition of certain
men claimed to have been engaged in
the Garas inaurreotion of 1881 and
1898. The decision haa the effect of
holding them aubjeot to extradition.
Chief Justloe Fuller read the opluion.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon ia pre
paring his report in favor of an amend
ment to the constitution providing for
the election of United State senators
by dlreot vote of the people. At its
last meeting the oommlttee on privi
lege and elections, by vote of Ave to
four, ordered a Joint resolution looking
to a ohange in this particular to be re
ported to the senate. It is Mr. Mitch
ell's Intention to press the resolution
for consideration.
A sensation has been caused by th
announcement made by M, Berthelot,
minister of foreign affairs, in a Frenob
cabinet meeting, that he had asked the
British ambaassdor, the Marquis of
Dofferin, for Information regarding
the proposed advance of BritishrEgyp
tlan troops np the Nile, and had point
ed out to him the serious oonsequenoes
of snob an advance. Thla warning
note may be a preliminary to a moro
decided step.
In Kalamaaoo, Mioh., non-union
molders who had taken the plsces of
striking union men at the foundry of
Clarageft Son, attaoked two onion
molders from an adjacent foundry, and
in turn wore attaoked by a big orowd
of nnion molders who were lying in
wait for them. The non-union men
were armed with iron bars, and in the
fight that followed one of the union
men had his head out open and two
others received broken noses. The
trouble resulted from an aasanlt on a
non-union molder on Saturday nlgntj
by striking molders. The non-union
men were finally vanquished.
The raoe lor the Hirosh cup in Nioe,
a total distanoe of thirty mile, Satan
its won, Alias second, Britannia third.
The sobooner Noyo, from Ban Fran
olsoo for Fort Bragg, oollided off Point
Arena with the stesmer Pasadena. The
Noyo was damaged.
The German reiohstag oommlttee
has concluded the first reading of the
sugar bill, and fixed the Import duty at
40 marks per 100 kilos.
Ex-Chief of Polios Thomas M. Speers
died in Kansaa City of heart disease,
sged 59. He ws chief of police In
Kansas City for thirty -two years.
Th miners employed at the Win
throp mine, in Ishpemlng, Mioh., quit
work, boosnse the management wanted
thein to work ten-honr shifts, Instead
of eight.
The Prinoe of Monaco ha renewed
hi oonoesslon to the Monte Carlo
Casino for fifty years, on oondition that
bia annuity be inoresaed from $300,000
to f 400,000.
In Ban Franolsoo, C. F. Mars, a
lathing oou tractor, was aasaulted and
beaten by strikers, who claimed Mars
wss working for less than nnion rate.
He died from the effeotaof the injuries.
William U. Judge, of the Tbeoso-
phist Society, died in New York, after
an illness of two yesrs. He has been
slnoe the death of Mine. Blavatsky, the
moat prominent Tbeosppbist in this
oonntry.
A Washington dispatoh ssys the or
der soon to be issued drawing into th
oivll servioe a large number of offloers
of the government who are now exoept-
ed la still under deliberation by the
president
The strike of the special -order, or
custom tailor, ia already practically
broken. About forty of the shops
olosed hsve opened, the oontraotors
having ligned the contract drawn np
by the men. Th strike begun with
reported number of 1,000.
The bia- suit of Swift & Co.. the Chi
oaso packers, againat the Grand Trunk
railway, whloh baa been pending slnoe
1899, waa dismissed by stipulation.
Swift A Co. sued for 1800,000 on ao-
count of alleged excessive obargea for
freight on shipment esst from 1887 to
1889.
The scheme of adding the latest
weather forecasts to the regular post
marks on letter will be oommenoed
by the postofflc department July 1.
Applications for this servioe from over
forty pustoffloe hsve been filed, and It
will be lntrodnoed In Ubioago and
other large cities.
New baa reaobed New York from
Luayra, Veneauela, of the bursting of
the magaslne of the Veneauela war
ship Marsoale Aysouobe. Eight men
were killed in the explosion. The re
mainder of the crew were rescued by
fishermen. The warship was burned
to the water's edge.
A dispatch to the London Globe from
Cairo aaya the Kalifa baa proclaimed a
Jehad (holy war) againat Egypt, and
called on all dervishes capable of bear
ing arms to enroll under his banner.
It is said Osman Dlgna la to leave
Caasala and join the dervishes now
mustering at Dongola.
In Chicago the cupola in the shed of
the iron foundry on Ashland avenue
fell from ita supports. Molten metal
waa hurled in every direction. Michael
Donovitoh and Peter Rovitoh were
fatally burned, and Edward Davla,
Miles Conway and Alexander Cameron
were seriously Injured.
That trade between the United State
and Asia la increasing is Indicated by
the heavy trana-Paoiflo malls now ar-
lvlng and departing. The steamship
Viotoria that aalled from Taooma, car
ried the largest mail ever taken out by
Northern Pacific liner. There were
48 aaoka of papers, amounting to 9,860
pounds, and 8,600 letters.
In Cleveland, O., the fishing tugs
Jessie Ens and Helene went out on
the lake, and after gathering the nets,
set ont the night before, started baok.
When outaide the breakwater, a bits-
sard struck them and they- were soon
hemmed in by dense staoks of floating
Ice, The powerful harbor tug Baoon
forced her way to the resone, and, after
hard battle, brought the Hoiene in.
The Baoon put baok to rescue the Jessie
Enaa, but the effort waa nnany aban
doned. The British ship Auldglrth, whloh
arrived in Cork recently with a cargo
of wheat from Portland, Or., reports
having passed in latitude 68:09 south,
longitnde 71:81 west, two large ioe
bergs, about five mile long and about
500 feet high. On the following day,
in 58:37 south and 88:08 west, sue
passed eight loebergs from one to
twelve miles long, and from 100 to 700
feet high. There were light northeast
winds at the time, and fine weather.
The loebergs were right in the truck of
ships.
Edison ha succeeded, with the aid
of the Roentgen ray, in penetrating the
hnman body with the naked eye, the
auooessful experiment having been
made at laat He looked Into the
lungs and heart, and examined the
arteries, musoles and blood vessel of
one of bis assistants. With the pow
erful cathode light placed behind the
subjeot he looked through a screen of
prepared ohemloals, and ia said to
have plainly seen the working of the
various organ of the body. , , . . , . :
A boy named Swlneheart, 18 year
old, was arreated In Bnrlington, Ia., at
the leader of a gang of youthful ruffians
who attempted to burn alive small
boy against whom they had a grudge.
They persuaded the little fellow .to en
ter the oellar of an empty house and
then tied him securely to a post After
torturing him with tales of death in
various form, they set fire to the
building and ran away. Parties passing
ssw the fire, broke in and extinguished
it and rescued the almost nnoontoious
child, tied in the oellar.
GROWING NORTIIWES
Progress and Doing in the
Pacific States.
CONDEN8KD BUDGET OF NEWS
from All the Cities and Town, of th.
Faelfle States and Territories
Washington,
The grip is prevalent in Rosalia and
vlolnity.
Governor MoGraw was visitor at
the normal school at Cheney laat week,
About 100 sacks of potatoes were
shipped from Cowllts oounty last
week, about 600 saoks going turn
Lewi river and 600 from Kelso.
Very few oriminal oases will be tried
at the present term of the superior
court of Lincoln oounty, most of them
having been continued till the next
regular term.
The nnion revival services at Spokane
have olosed. Eleven hundred and
sixty-six cards were handed in with the
name of those who are anxious for
their soul' welfare.
Judge C. M. Kinoaid, of Colfax, aays
that the cold weather did not hurt the
squirrel in the least; that they are a
fat and numerous aa If they had been
stall-fed all winter.
After paying all the expense Inol
dent to purchasing the army post, the
Spokane oommlttee bad left 7 per oent
of the oasb subscribed to return to
those who donated It
Some of the Indiana on the Cplvllle
reservation have been angered by ami
teur prospectors staking off aa olalma
the well-cultivated garden patobe of
the members of the tribe on the reserva
tion.
ine taus oi 1,000 squirrel were
laid on the commissioners' table in
Spokane one day laat week. They
were taken up in th regular order of
business, and the bounty of one oent
apieoe paid.
Formal notioe has been reoelved at
Walla Walla from the Interior depart'
ment that the land for the site of the
United States penitentiary has met
with approval, and that the purchase
price will soon be forwarded.
i wo renegaae wanna, known aa
"Billy" and "Diok," brothers, were
arreated in Walla Walla on a charge of
attempted arson, In having set fire to
the large barn belonging to "Boston
Charley," who lives near Walla Walla,
The town of Marcus is booming, a
barber shop, saloon and restaurant be
ing among the new enterprises, while
East Marcus is forging ahead with a
new blacksmith shop and saloon, with
several other new bualness ventures in
sight
King county's delinquent personal
tax ia now $31,849.48, and there, is no
immediate prospect that it will be
paid. The oolleotor recently sent ont
by County Treasurer Maple gathered
in about $6,000, and about an equal
sum waa secured by letters sent from
the offloe.
Mr. Posey, a Leavenworth barber's
wife, successfully performed a very
diffloult opeartion on a chicken laat
week. The ohioken had swallowed a
toadstool, and it waa noticed that in a
day or two ita orop blackened and the
fowl seemed sick. Mrs. Posey opened
the orop, oleaned it out and sewed it
np again. The ohioken is now in bet
tor shape than ever, and is taking the
cure lor the toadBtool habit
a a Moore, sentenced to Walla
Walla from King oounty for burglary,
has been pardoned by Governor Mo
Graw. Moore escaped a few years ago
and went to British Columbia. He re
tunred of hia own aooord on oondition
that be would be released at the end
of his term, aa originally fixed. His
time had really expired and the par
don wa only the carrying ont of the
agreement made at the time of hia
voluntary return.
A Mr. Crilly, of Blaine, ha been
making experiments with fir bark,
with view to utilising it in the manu
facture of useful and ornamental ar
ticles . He haa a polished block of this
material oovered with a coat of var
nish, whiob, for riohness of oolor and
beautiful markings, is truly admirable.
For dock oases, glove, handkerchief
and oollar boxes, eta, thl material
would work np well, and would be a
novelty whiob would secure a ready
sale in the notion store of the Eaat
Colonel Molntyve, an Irrigation and
oivll engineer of Seattle, is the invent
or of a new system of wagon roads,
whloh he thinks will revolutionise
country travel. He calls it the "steel
wagon road." He got his idea from
observing that the drivers of every
vehicle seek the street oar traoks in
preference to the beat gravel or paved
street Mr. Mclntyre estiamte that
the ooat of single-traok rural steel roada
will not exoeed 11,000 to $3,000 per
mile, while the cost of maoadamiaed
wagon road average over $8,000 per
mile.
Oregon.
Clatsop oounty is about to oall in ita
warranto up to July 1, 1894.
Trout are taking the fly in the north
fork of the lower Coos river.
- A farmer of Lake oounty ssys that
he expeots to shear80,000 aheep this
season.
At the last term of oourt in Baker
oounty no oirminals were sent to the
penitentiary.
The firm of Shea A Co. haa pur
chased grounds near Albany and will
start a creamery.
At Corvallla last week, 8,000 bushels
of wheat waa sold at 57 oents, free on
board the river steamer.
S. Merton, of St Paul, Marion
oouunty, has contracted 10,000 pounds'
vt uvyw mw u toih F" yvuuu, iui m.v
years.
An ordinanoe forbidding women in
saloons and providing punishment for
its infraction has gone into effect at
Astoria. ,
It i proposed- in Pendleton to or
ganize an "artesian water": club, to
raise fnnds to bore for artesian water
in that vicinity.
Harney county sheepmen will drive
a great many bands of tbeir sheep to
the railroad before ahearing, and thus
save freight money on the wool.
Captain Wand has informed The
Dalles Chronicle that the dredger will
open ohannel entirely through the
look within two week, so that boats
may pass.
The steamer T. M. Rlohardson baa
taken the plaoe of the steamer Volants,
destroyed by fire lsst week, and Is car
rying passengers, mall, etc., between
Newport and Yaquina City.
The Oregon Central & Eastern is
making arrangements to rnn a mixed
train from Yaquina to Detroit, in one
day, and. baok the next, one of the
trains now on being dispensed with.
A lot of salt marsh lands in Warner
valley, Lake oounty, was sold recently,
under the saline aot, and purchased by
a man who will erect a refinery and
manufacture sal tots first-class quality.
Several counterfeit $5 pieces that
have been in circulation in Baker City
have been turned over to the deputy
United States marshal by the business
men who took tbem in the course of
trade.
Pendleton bloyolists have atarted a
good-roads campaign, their first object
of attaok being the highway to the
UamtilU agency, which it is desired
to put into a permanently good oon
dition.
Hop are very slow in Washington
oounty. There are several lots scat
tered through the oounty whose own
ers are holding for a higher prioe.
Two cents were advanoed on two oar
loads recently sold. -
The sawmill of the Oregon Lumber
Company at Baker City has resumed
operations. A large aupply of loga ia
on hand, and there will be nothing to
prevent a oontinuoua operation of the
mill for many months.
About $11,000 has been paid into
the oounty treasury, at Grant's Pass,
as taxes thus far. The total amount to
be collected from taxayer of Josephine
oounty for all purposes is $43,000. Of
this the O. & C. railroad ia down for
$7,601.18.
Gilliam county farmer do not be
lieve fall gra'n was injured by the late
freeze. The ground was oovered with
snow, which protected the grain from
the oold. Everything indicates that
that oounty will produoe an immense
yield of wheat this season.
One hundred and eighty-seven of the
1,700 taxpayers in Benton oounty have
so far paid their taxes for 1895. It Is
sssertod by officials that penalty ia to
be added after April 1, and that after
that date oounty warranto will not be
aooepted In payment of taxes.
Idaho.
The powder house of the Sandrea'
mine, near Bnrke, waa blown up last
week, and not a vestige of it remains.
All the window on one aide of the oon
oentrator were shattered, but fortun
ately no one was injured.
Charles Well, Jiving across the river
from Fort Sherman, haa Instituted suit
for damages against Colonel Hall, the
commander, and Lieutenant Brown,
the quartermaster. In harvesting ioe
for the post the military teams cross a
narrow neck of Wells' land, and he
wants $500 from the government for
the passage of the teamrs.
The work of constructing the irri
gating ditches on the flats aoross the
Snake river from Lewiston is the most
important faotor in the develoment of
this city and immediate aeotion, aays
the Lewiston Tribune. All of the pre
liminaries have been arranged and the
oon tract let The Western Lumber
Company, of Portland, with whom ne
gotiations have been carried on for sev
eral weeks, has been given the contract
for the lumber (Oregon yellow fir) to
be used in the flumes. About 1,600,
000 feet will be used, and more than
100 oars will be required for its ship
ment A special boat will bring it np
from Riparia and unload at the month
of Asotin oreek.
Montana.
President Hill of the Great Northern
railway, has purchased 800 acres of
land on the west side of Great Falls.
This will no doubt be made the termin
al grounds of this company.
It ia said that the Union Lumber
Company, whloh is the trust combina
tion controlling the output of Flathead
oounty, haa been awarded the oon ta ret
for furnishing the lumber for the
Blaokfoot agency at prioe of $19 per
1,000. feet
Shonld the long-oontemplated rail
road be built into the old deserted
mining camp of Castle, there will be a
genuine revival of mining interest at
that point The hill surrounding the
old town are full of rioh quarto veina
and it requires a railroad to make the
ores available.
Montana's citizens' are beginning to
realise that the livestook industry is
bound to become one of the largest and
most profitable of their resources. The
shipments from Montana for 1895
amounted to 806,480 head of cattle,
valued at $11,083,560, or an average
of $36 per head.
The citizens oommittee of Dillon axe
considering the advisability of building
several roada during the summer in
order to attraot the trade to that point
Thla oommlttee haa Just made a report
on the prospective road to Argenta and
have estimated that with an expendi
ture of less than $3,000 a first-olass
road can be oonstruoted over which
heavy loads may be hauled at all sea
son of the year.
MOST MAKE ANSWER
Self-incrimination No Reason
for Refusal.
DECISION OF THE UPPER COURT
Rights of Courts to Compel an Answer
to Questions In Interstate Com
merce Matters Sustained.
Washington, Maroh 36. A decision
was rendered by the supreme oourt of
the United Btatee today in the case of
Theodore F. Brown, Involving the
right of the oonrt to compel an answer
by a wltnesa to questions in interstate
com me roe matters, notwithstanding
that he may plead self-incrimination
as a result of the answer. The deci
sion wss opposed to Brown's oonten
tion, that he waa protected by the con
stitution from this requirement, and
toe decision oi the oourt below was
affirmed.
The opinion was 'handed down by
Justice Brown. Justloes Field, Shiras,
Gray and White dissented, holding the
oonstitntional provision waa sufficient
to relieve Brown from all requirements
to answer.
This waa advanoed on the docket of
the supreme oourt on motion of the attorney-general
made at the instanoe of
the interstate commerce commission.
It was considered a test case, and the
olalm was set forth in a letter written
fur the commission that a large number
of similar cases must wait upon its
final decision by the oonrt The case
osme to the supreme oourt on an appeal
taken by Brown from the decision of
the circuit oourt for the western dis
trict of Pennsylvania in refusing to
grant a writ of habeas corpus, and
arose from a proceeding by the Inter
state commerce oom mission against the
Allegheny Valley Railway Company,
of which Brown ia an officer He was
a witness before the grand jury for the
commission In this case and refused to
answer certain, questions propounded
to him, on the ground that in so doing
be might incriminate himself. He
was then proceeded against for con
tempt of oourt, found guilty and aen
tenoed to imprisonment Brown
pleaded his constitutional right of si-
lenoe, bnt the ataute of February 11,
1893, requiring answers in such ques
tions, waa invoked against him and
held to be valid by the circuit oourt.
In announcing his opinion. Justice
Brown said the question involved was
ss to whether the law of 1893, specific
ally relieving witnesses In interstate
oommerce oases from prosecution, when
they reveal faota which might incrlmi
nate themselevs, operates to take from
witnesses in such case the privilege of
silence as guaranteed by the oonstitu
tion, and the conclusion was that it
did. He said this aot was in the na
ture of a general amnesty in such cases,
and had been so regarded and upheld
in half a dozen decisions in the state
oonrts.
HORRIBLE STORY AGAIN TOLD
An Armenian Refugee Tells of the Mas
saero In Marsovan.
New York, March 85. Mharim Dal
majlan, an Armenian refugee who re
oently escaped from Turkey and haa
juBt arrived here, aaid last night:
The massacre in Marsovsn oocurred
November last The first thing done
on the morning of the massacre waa to
put a guard of Turkish soldiers around
the American college. This waa to
protect the college from attack. Two
or three houses in the town in which
the naturalized American citizens lived
were also guarded. The Turkish sol
diers began by killing In cold blood all
the Armenian whom they found in
the market They did this partly with
guns, partly with bayonets and partly
with hatchets.
Then they killed all the Armenians
whom they found in the streets. They
did not, however, enter any Armenian
bouses, exoept four, where several
women were assaulted and killed.
"Meanwhile eaoh of the five mosques
In the town had a Turk crying out
every few minutes that the Armenians
were sacking the mosques and killing
the Turks. This added greatly to the
public exoitement and added the Turk
ish populace to the soldiery.
"Over 1,000 persons were killed in
all the maBsaores in Marsovan. It waa
freely acknowledged by the soldiers
that the Armenians were killed by di
rect orders from Constantinople. There
are altogether 600,000 Armenians
under Turkish dominion and if they
remain under that rule for ten years
longer they will be exterminated or
converted to Mohammedanism.
"Between 30,000 and 40,000 Armen
ians have been massacred np to the
present time. The governor of the dis
trict is now busy arresting all the
young Armenian men whom the sol
diers or police find in the streets. The
result of this massaore ia that all the
young men are keeping in the houaea
and sending out the old men to buy
food."
The Distribution of Seed.
Washington, Maroh 38. The secre
tary of agrlonlture, In aoordanoe with
the mandate of oongress, has prepared
a circular letter to be sent immediately
to all known reputable growers and
dealer in Beed throughout the United
States asking them to furnish at rea
sonable prices to the department 10,
000,000 packets of garden, field and
flower seeds, beginning with asparagus
and ending with wheat
The number .
of paoketo will give to eaoh member
and delegate in the honse, and to eaoh
senator, 15,000 paoketo for distribu
tion among his constituents, after de
ducting one-thrid of the whole amount
In aooordanoe with law for distribu
tion by the secretary of agrionlture.
All seed must be delivered on or before
thirty days from the 17th of Maroh.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS,'
Condensed Beeord of the Doings of the
Nation's JGawmekere Senate.
Washington, Maroh 19. The Cu
ban debate in the senate is drawing to
a close, and the expectation is that a
final vote will be taken In a day or
two. Sherman is keeping the ques
tion before Che senate continuously, so
that the speeches are not likely to last
mnoh longer, Mills and Piatt are yet
to be heard, but their remarks will not
be lengthy. Morgan oooupled almost
the entire day, speaking nntll nesrly 6
o'clock tonight in support of the reso
lutions. It waa mainly an argument
without dramatic interest The sen'
tor severely arraigned. Minister Dnpuy
de Lome, of Spain, for impropriety in
criticising senators. He also recited
many evidences of the cruelties snd
atrocities with whloh Spain was prose-
outing the war. Morgan aaid be feared
that the fanaticism of Spain would
lead her to take np the gage of war,
no matter bow mild and proper the
oonrse of oongress might be.
Washington, March 31. Cuba had
the entire attention of the senate today,
speeches being made by Gray, Chilton
and Ca fiery, the debate being enlivened
by many spirited inoidenta. Gray 'a
plea for Cuba brought on a running
cross fire of comment and inquiry from
Hale. The Delaware senator caused
much amusement oy referring to Hale
as the senator from Spain. A fresh,
vigorous contribution to the debate
oame from Chilton, who haa seldom
addressed the senate. He urged that
there wa abundant work at home to
occupy the attention of oongress, in
stead of enlisting in humanitarian
oruaades abroad, with their possibili
ties of war. Caffrey also, opposed the
Cuban resolutions. A resolution an
thorizing the nse of the unexpended
balance of the appropriation for the
canal and locks on the Columbia river,
uregon, amounting to 920,000, waa
adopted.
Washington, March 83. During the
Cuban deabte in the senate the floor
was yielded temporarily by 8herman to
Allen, to atate bis views on the claim
of Dupont The statement had more
than a passing interest, for the six
Populists votes are regarded as decisive
in the contest, and this wss the first
expression of a Populist senator. Allen
contended that Dupont was not entitled
to a seat without a certificate or cre
dential from the executive of the state,
and when this was lacking, as in this
case, the oonrts of the state oould 00m
pel the iasnanoe of credentials by the
governor. A resolution, offered by
Chandler, waa adopted for an inquiry
of the naval oommittee of the desira
bility of building one turret above an
other, after which the following bills
were passed: For the relief of settlers
within the indemnity limits of the
grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company; for the disposal of lands in
the Fort Klaamth hay reservation, Or
egon; fixing the rank and pay of the
judge-advooate-general of the navy;
for the survey of the mouth of the Yu
kon river, Alaska.
Home.
Washington, Maroh 19. The house
devoted the day to the bill to amend
the administrative tariff aot of 1890,
and passed it without substantial
amendment The purpose of the bill
is to strengthen the aot of 1890, some
weak spots having been developed dur
ing the six years it ha been in opera
tion. The bill wa drawn after exten
sive hearings and upon the advioe and
with the ass is tan oe of the treasury de
partment, the board of general ap
praisers, importers and others with
praotioal experience on the subjeot
One of the most important changes
makes increased duties and penalties
for undervaluation, oommenoing at the
point of undervaluation, and not at 10
per cent above the undervaluation, aa
provided by the present law.
-Washington, March 81. In the
house today Boutelle introduced a
resolution amending the constitution
by making a provision therein to meet
the contingency of the death of the
president-elect after the electors have
oast their votes in January, and before
hia Inauguration in Maroh. It pro
vides in snob cases that the person
elected aa vice-president shall be Inaug
urated and hold offloeaooordingly. The
resolution proposed by Wright wss
adopted by the house Paoiflo railroads
oommittee oalllng for the appointment
of a oommittee of five to review all
plans for the settlement of the Psoiflo
railroads debt presented and to recom
mend a bill to co-operate with the sen
ate oommittee. '
Washington, Maroh 33. The house
today, after three days of debate,
adopted a resolution censuring Thomas
F. Bayard, ex-seoretary of state, and
now ambassador to the oourt of St
James, for utterances delivered in an
address to the Boston, England, gram
mar school, and an address before the
Edinburgh, Sootland, Philosophical In
stitute, last falL The vote stood 180
to 71 in favor of the first resolution,
and 191 to 69 in favor of the seoond.
Five Republicans broke away from
party lines snd voted against the reso
lution of censure, and aix Democrats
voted for it All the Republicans and
nine Democrats voted for the seoond
resolution.
Chairman Gideon, of the League of
American Wheelmen, aaya aotive steps
will be taken to prevent amateur riders
from violating the rule of tbeir class.
He insists that Southern and Northern
California must be regarded as two
, distinot states by the L. A. W. and the
raoing board, and an amateur resident
of either division oannot oompete out
side the boundary of his division at a
distanoe of over 100 miles from bis
borne. He olaims that the greatest
abuses of the league's rulea and the
Paoiflo board' oonfldenoe are commit
ted by these men who obtain their ex
penses and other concessions aud yet
seek to remain smsteurs.
GLENMORAC AGROUND
The Ship High and Dry on
North Beach.
TWO OF THE CREW WERE KILLED
The Captain Lost Bis Hearings In a
Dense Fog, and the Vessel Was
Beached at High Tide.
Astoria, March 38. The British
ship Glenmorag, Captain Archibald
Currie, of Glasgow, bound for Port
land, In ballast from Callao, went
ashore on North beach, about three
miles north of Ocean Park, at 8 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Two of the crew
were killed and four injured. The
ship struck about high water, and now
lies with her port side to the shore.
From Captain Currie, it is learned
that the first indication of danger waa
the cry, "Breakers on the port bow I"
from the man on the lookout The
captain immediately attempted to wear
around, and had almost suooeeded
when the ship struck and swnng round,
broadside on, with her head to the
southward. The after-port and star
board boat were at onoe cleared away
and lowered, both reaching the water
about the same time. The mate, who
wa in the lee boat, attempted to pull
out to sea, but was forced to let her
drift inshore. The boat which had
been lowered on the weather side, in
rounding the stern, was caught by a
tremendous sea and dashed up under
the ship's oounter, crushing the ooeu
pants in cruel manner and smashing
the boat considerably, the air-tight
tanks with which she was provided
alone keeping her afloat The captain
next set about lowering the forward
boat and reached the shore In safety,
about an hour later.
On landing he discovered that two
men had been killed. James Adams
and John Keedy, and four injured.
The Injured were removed to the hotel
at Ocean Park, where every attention
was given them.
The Glenmorag ia an iron full-rigged .
ship of 1,667 tons register, and is
owned by R. & C. Allen, of Glasgow,
the same owners as the Strathblane,
whloh went ashore bn the same beach,
but five miles below, just four years
sgo. Captain Currie has been In 00m
maad of her for the past nine years,
and up to yesterday haa never had a
serious accident The crew speak
highly of him as a man and a skillful
navigator. The. crew consisted of
twenty-six men.
On receiving word at the Dwoco life-
saving station, the crew immediately
left for the scene of the disaster, drag
ging with them their life-boat snd
other apparatus. As It Is nearly seven -miles
from the wreck, the life-saving
crew are to be commended for their
arduous work in dragging the boat
which weighs 4,000 pounds, the long
stretch. They arrived too late, how
ever, to be of any assistance in land
ing the orew.
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
General
Trade for the First Quarter Is
Disappointing.
New. York. Bradstreet' review of
trade saya:
General trade throughout the United
States for the first quarter of 1896 is
disappointing. When the improve
ment in Industrial and commercial
lines between Maroh and September,
1896, la recalled, occurring as it did.
two years after the panic of 1893, rea
son would seem to have been behind
the oonfldenoe that the current calen
dar year will bring a general revival. .
But the most favorable reports at this
time are those which declare the vol
ume of business only eqnal to, and in
few instances, in excess of the like
total one year ago. The faot that in
terior merchants are buying more free
ly in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and
parts of Nebraska, where the snow and
rain has prepared the soil for the crops,
oonstitu tea almost the only favorable
announcement for the week. In almost
all other parte of the oonntry east of
the Mississippi, stormy weather haa
tended to oheok the volume of business
and still further restrict mercantile
collections, which have now been ex
ceptionally alow for more than a
month. . -
The usually large number of business
failures taking place during the first
quarter of the current year promises to
mske a record. The total fox the cur
rent week throughout the country is
300, or 18 more thsn last week; 86
more than in the like week in 1895;
103 more than the corresponding week
in 1894 and 98 more than the corre
sponding week In 1894 and 98 more
than in the third week of Maroh, 1893.
There ia a sharp decline in total ex-
ports of wheat flour inolnded, from
both ooasts of the United States this
week, the total amounting to only 1,
693,000 bushels against 8,401,000 last
week. This is the smallest grand to
tal of exports of wheat floor inolnded,
since the last week of July, 1895.
King Menelek's Demand.
New York, Maroh S3. A special to
the Herald from Rome says:
King Menelek demands an indem
nity of 40,000,000 lire from Italy. .
This oondition is of course . unsooept
able, and further complicates the situs-,
tion. The negus forces now threaten
to surround Asmara, while continuing
to advanoe upon Massowah.
The Marquia di Rudinl is evidently
losing ground. It is believed that in
case the oredit he has asked for Is re-'
fused he will dissol re parliament A
royal decree for this purpose has al
ready been drawn np and only awalfai
promulgation.
The Hudson river, from its month
to the lakes, is 400 mile In length.