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OREGON VOL. 13. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 189G. NO. 24. n vl 1ST EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News ot the World. TICKS K TICKS FROM THE WIRES An lutoro.tlng Collootlon oHtoui From the Two Iloinlapharoa 1'ra.eaUd In a Uoudonaod form. Petitions are being tent from all tint town of Booth Africa to the govern ment of the Booth African republic in favor of lenienoy to the return pris oner. ( ... Mrs. Murk Froat, the wife of prominent farmer. realdittg ut Cleve- laud, Mo,, drowned, ber two children ud herself last evening. No oaus ii . kuowu. ; : ' At Denver, Cola, A. B. Baghei rode a mile unpaoed lu 1:04 1-5, mak ing a new world's amateur bicycle rec ord. The greateat previous record was 8:05 1-6, by Clark, of Denver. A i tor in struck Caiio, 111. There was terriOc wind ud lata. The opera house and union depot were unroofed. The furry boat Kttthrine oa pulsed in the ; Ohio river and nearly all on board were drowned. Owing to the faot that oongress has decided to traosform the battlefield of Bhllou into a national park, the offioers of the Hhiloh Battlefield Association have tendered their resignations for the purpose of disoontuiog their associa tion. ; A dispatch to the London Times from Athens says the Greek cabinet has de cided not to send warships to the island of Crete unles it beooines absolutely necessary. It is added tnat twenty-nve Christians have been killed in the mas sacre in Crete. A Valparaiso dispatch says: The supervisors of aooouuts have discovered that the telegraph ot the government has been defrauded of more than 100, 000 pesos, and it is thought that a oloser investigation will bring more roguery to light. James Ellington was banged In Boise, Idaho, tor the murder of Charles Brtggs. Deoeuiber 80, 1894, Ellington shot Charles Briggs In front of the latter's home in Boise. Ellington met his victim, passed and then tunred and hot him in the back. Captain John Wilson, the hero of Lookout mountain, who has been suffer ing from a cancer on his face, died at his home at Station oainp, Kentnoky, aged 74. He was the man who first planted the federal Bag on the summit of Lookout mountain. The event of the Queen's birthday eleebratlon at Rowland, B. C, was a miner's drilling oontest tor a purse of $160. Five teams were entered. Gog gin and Rellly, of the . War Eagle, drilled a hole 81 X inohes in IS min utes, winning thereby. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has re ported favorably from the oommittee on postoftloes and postroads the bill to increase the pay ot letter-oarrlers throughout the United States. The bill is similar to tbeoue already favor ably reported in the house. A Havana dispatch says: The local guerilla force of Ban Antonio de los Benesbas killed nine insurgents with side arms, besides the leader Collaoio. General Berafloo has focght the insur gents near Bau Cristobal, Piuar del Klo. They had eight killed and oar ried off many wounded. Lieutenant John Miley, in charge of the heavy artillery at the Presidio, Ban Francisco, has just completed the work ot mounting a 60-ton rifle on the ridge near Fort Winfleld Soott This is the second modern rifle to be added to the heavy artillery on this ooait within two years. Q. B. Palmer, a farmer living near Atwater, CaL, walked into bis stable and slapped a horse on the baok. The horse kicked him, one boot landing squarely on his chest, the other on his ear. . Palmer died, suffering untold agonies for many hours. He was 80 years old, well known and generally respected. General Wheaton, who "has just re turned to Denver from Arizona, says that if the arrangement now under con sideration by the state department at Washington can be concluded, the depredations ot Apaohes in Arisona will be quickly stopped. It is pro posed to let the federal troops in pur suit of the redskins oross the line into Mexico and give the Mexican troops the right to oross the line into Arisona. The state department at Washington is officially informed that all oontraots for Cuban leaf tobaooo entered into be fore the publication of the order of Captain-General Weyler, prohibiting its exportation, will be respected. Uni sons ot the United States proving them selves bona tide owners of suoh tobaooo prior to the promulgation of the order, will be pormitted to export the same as heretofore. , It is believed in shipping circles in 8an Franolsoo that the BritUh bark Cambusdoon bus been lost at sea. She left Java January! for Vancouver, and has neither been slanted nor heard from slnoe. She has been out HIS dam The London underwriters have offered 85 per oeut for reinsurance of the bark and her cargo, which oarry about $300,000 insurnnoe. Bhe was com manded by Catpain McDonald, and car ried a orew oi thirty men. Two troops of cavalry have been or dered form Fort Custer to round up the Cree Indians so they may be deported to Canada in accordance with recent federal legislation. The Crees say they will not go unless Canada proclaim amnoaty for their partloipation in the Kiel robelllon. They fear death sen tonoes if they return to Canada, and prefer the alternative of fleeing to the mountains and becoming "bad" In dlana. Nine four-horse teams, loaded with Yakima wool, sheared within four miles of a Northern Faolflo railroad station, passed through Goldendale re' cently en route to The Dalles to save freight Prominent sheepralsers say that, unless the Northern Pad Ho oomes to time, there will be 8,000,000 pounds of Yakima wool hauled to The Dalles, as there is a saving to the grower; There are now being sheared 100,000 sheep near Goldendale. The entire olip will be marketed in The Dalles. . - Col. R, P. MoGliuoey, a promiuent politician and agriculturist, of Ban Jose, has been murdered. MoGlinoey's body, with a bullet In the bead, was found in an outhouse on his ranch, near Campbell's Station, sis miles from San Jose, in the townabip of Los Gatos. A neighbor named Page found the body, and, upon going into the bouse, found the body of MoGlinoey's son, Mrs. MoGlinoey, and nor daugh ten Minnie Bbesler, a seravnt, and Robert Brisoo, a hired man. The tragedy was enaoted by the son-in-law ot Mrs. MoGlinoey, James Dunham. The only survivor of the family is Dunham's baby, who was found sleep ing peacefully by the side ot his dead mother. George Bohaeble, another hired man, barely escaped the fate of the others. ' The Greolao government, in a oir oular note to the powers, repudiates re sponsibiltiy for the rebellion in Crete unless the porte restores Cretean au tonomy. ,. ,,.: A Nuremburg dispatch says the first four prises in the international ohesi masters tournament, to begin July 80, have been inoreased to $760, $500, $875 and $360 respectively. It is reported in Windsor, Out, that the tug Lorimer, of Detroit, owned by Alexander Buell, has gone down in the middle ground off Pelee island and all hands lost. The report oannot be verl fled. John F. Caples and R. A. Booth, of Oregon, were on a visit to Cleveland, O. , and presented a gold nugget to Mark Hanna, MoKinley'a manager. Speeohes were made by Mr. Hanna and the Ore gonlans. The Diario, published in Buenos Ayres, says that when oongress has ap proved the unification of the Argen .tine debt, Dr. J. Romero, the minister of flnanoe, will elaborate a scheme for the conversion of the paper money. In Los Angeles, Qui., an electric oar ran over and killed an inmate of the Soldiers' Home, whose identity is un known. The belief is that the old man was plaoed on the track by hoodlums, though it was apparently a oase of soioide. -, ; - The Pittsburg and Indiana manufao turers have olosed down all the win dow-glass faotories in the territories ooutrolled by them. This throws 4,000 skilled workmen and about 1,600 la borers out of work a month earlier than usual The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard says it is made a con dition of the French and Spanish bank ers, who are largely interested in Bpaniah railways enterprises, to assist the government to obtain loans for the Cuban campaign. The Bank of New England, of Man chester, N. H., baa suspended business for the first time, being by a vote ot its directors and with the consent of the bank commissioners of the state. Creditors are being paid with an idea of clearing np the deposits. The bank had not recovered from its loss in 1898. Judge Hanford, of Seattle, has signed a decree foreclosing the mortgage held by the Bay State Trust Company on the Washington & Idaho railroad, and or dering the sale of the entire property of the road. The mortgage was dated Reptember 8, 1889, and the entire amount of indebtedness is now $5,877, 878. . ' In Berlin, it is said a resolution paased by the socialist evangelical con gress, warmly approving the coarse of Dr. Stoeoker, may be regarded as a pronunoiamento againat the emperor's dispatoh ot oensure against the former court chaplain. The passage of the resolution has caused the greateat sen sation there. ' An Athens dispatoh says: ; The be siegers of ,Venioa have rejeoted the terms offered by the foreign oonsuls, that the arms and supplies be surren dered and that the garrison ot troops be removed. A high Turkish official who was an eye witness ot the Canes massaore, admits that a Turkish sol dier deliberately shot the Greek oavass dead. , ., . ,'".: ;.. y-: A private letter received in Prescott, Aria,, from South Africa confirms the telegraphic news of the killing of H. N. Palmer and W. H. Johnson, near Buluwayo. They were in the mines thirty miles from Buluwayo, when the party was attacked and maasaored. Palmer was one of the best known min ing and mill men on the ooast, and was a warm personal friend of John Hays Hammond. - The body of a woman was found floating in the Columbia river, in front of Astoria. The head and neok had been horribly mangled with some sharp instrument, presumably an ax. There was a large gaab extending from the top ot the forehead to the bridge of the noee, and there were several other wounds on the baok of the head, any of them anflloiont to cause death. The woman was identified as Ember Gun ion, a quarter-breed, who is said to have been living in a scow near Wood ly island with Sam Maylandt, a fisher man. It is thought that the latter murdered ber. THE STORM'S PATI Fatalities Will Approximate 400 in the Two Citiei. MILES OF WRECKED BUILDINGS welling tow the Id Hondrod Are HumIui-City to Darkn.M Too Klver Disasters. St Louis, May 80. When darkness temporarily interrupted .the search for storm viotims tonight, 815 people were known to be dead on both aides of the river, and, although the oomplete death list will never be known, it is believed it will approximate 400 in the two cities. The number of injured is larg er, and many of the maimed oannot survive. The property loss will reach well into the millions, but insuranoe people, firemen and police alike refuse to bawrd a guess at accurate figures. The uncertainty rewarding the loss of life and property is due maialy to the wide extent of the havoo wrought by the storm. inemuosoi wreokea buildings as yet unexplored, and the more numerous ool lapsed factories, toward the invest! gation of which little progress is made, may bide almost any number of bodies. as toe ponce nave Men unable to se cure anything like an accurate list ot the missing. In the factory districts, many of the employes on duty at the time the storm broke were without rel atives in the city, and their disappear anoe would scarcely be noted, even though they be buried in the ruins. It is believed by the police that, owing to the suddenness with which the crash oame, many tramps and homeless ones sought shelter among the build ings which were leveled, and nothing will be known of their death until, perhaps weeks hence, their bodies are found." The list of known dead in St Louis is 160, and In Kast St Louis 146. The oity is in darkness tonight, the stringing of the eleotrio light wires having soaroely begun, and but tew of the trolley lines are running. All over the strtoken district the debris-choked streets are crowded with sightseers. and through the dim, gas-lighted aisles 01 tne oity morgne, at Twelfth street. a oonstant stream of people is urged forward by lines 01 police. Hundreds of homes are in ruins; dosens of manufactnlrng plants have bean wrecked; many steamboats ate gone to the bottom of the river, and others are dismantled; railroads of all kinds have suffered great loss, and wire and polo-using oompanies have weeks 01 toil and a large expenditure of money to face before they will be in satisfactory shape again. The most serious work of the storm was along Hutger street, Lafayette and Choteau avenue and the contig uous thorougfarea east of Jefferson ave nue. The houses are in the streets with their roofs underneath, buried by brick and mortar. Under the briok and mortar are household goods of every description, and on top of all are uprooted trees and tangled masses of wires. There is not a tree standing in Lafayette Park. The wreck of the oity hospital is so surrounded by wreckage that it is barely possible to reach it By Ut the most remarkable freak of the storm was at this many winged house. About 800 patients were scattered thorugb the wards when the tornado struck, but, although the entire upper story was out off clean and one wing raaed to the ground, but one inmate was killed. The victim was located in one of the upper stories, and was killed by flying brioks when the walls fell out The roof oame straight down upon the foundations, and, thereafter resting on sound bed-castings, enabled the patients to be rescued without se rious injury. The entire building was rendered , useless, and the tottering walls will be torn down and a new struoture built - Many of the handsome residences in Fourtenth street and about Lafayette Park are ruined, but the most damage was done on Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth streets, south along Choteau avenue and in the tenement-bouse dis trict Houses are to be seen in all atages ot demolition, from the loss ot roof to oomplete destruction. In some of them, the front walls bad fallen out, and the tenants performed their household duties, oared for their inju ries or mourned their dead in view of the orowds on the streets. From the doors of many, of the partially wrecked houses fluttered blaok badges of mourn ing, and there is soaroely a house in all the distriot that did not have some Injured, relative, friend or neighbor within its wind-battered walls. The path ot the storm is about halt a mile wide and over four miles long, sweeping through the thiokly populated southwest portion of Eastland and across the river into East St Louis. Colonel Wetmore, manager ot the Liggett & Myers tobaooo plant, wbioh was wrecked, estimates the entire prop erty damage at $36,000,000, whioh will be, be says, almost a total loss, owing to the lack ot oyolone insuranoe. Other estimates range from $15,000,- 000 to $80,000,000, but the majority of them are close to that made by Col onel Wetmore. East St Louis is in ruins. The oy olone whioh swept down on the oity last night obliterated block after block of business houses and dwellings, and left behind it a red trail of death, soorea ot human beings buried beneath the walls of flattened buildings or crushed to death in the streets by fly ing debris. The improvised morgues and hospitals are fairly ohoken with dead, some crashed and battered out of all human shape, and through them flow a . steady stream of hysterical women and grim-faoed men looking for their missing ones. ; It is almost impossible to make an accurate esti mate ot those killed. At the various morgues and at St Mary's boepital there are 66, six are in the Big Four freight house ruins, but how many more there are scattered about the city in private houses it is impossible to telL A conservative estimate would plaoe the total at least 150. The scene is simply appalling. From the river bank to the national stockyards, a distance of over a mile, scarcely a building is left standing. The greatest slaughter was done on the island so-called. Here was located the Vandalia freight house and general offices, the river boats' warehouses and bumble abodes of workingmen. Noth ing is left standing, the places where formerly houses and freight depots stood being literally swept by the fury of the storm. In the Vandalia general offloei alone there are from twenty to twenty-fire killed, the bodies of some of whom are still buried beneath the broken rafters and bricks. The monetary loss cannot be esti mated, but it will run into the millions. The storm struck at the big eleva tors, 800 yards below the Eads bridge, followed the river to the Eads bridge, started diagonally toward the relay depot and ooutinued on to Collinsville avenue, then lifted and dropped again at the National stokyarda. In comparison to its size, the fatali ties in East St. Louis greatly exoeed those on this side of the river. The larger part of the central portion of the oity is razed to the ground, while on the flats along the river bank north ot the Eads bridge, not a house is left standing. The loss of life is terrible. Soaroely one family seems to have es oaped without some member being killed, while many households were wiped out of existence. Nothing whatever remains of Broad way from the river to the viaduot, and on the east side, for a width ot probably 600 yards, there is absolutely no semblanoe of a house, freight shed or oars left standing. Cars in the yards were thrown on their sides, ends, on top of each other, into the ponds abounding on the island, and com. pletely wrecked. At the Vandalia yard the loss of life and the number injured is very gTeat Nothing remains of the relay depot to mark where it stood. The river front for over 1,000 yards is a great mass ot wreckage. Steam boats, ferryboats, transfers and tugs are piled up in an indiscriminate pile, some partly submerged, others high and dry on the shore. Every undertaking establishment is an improvised morgue, and the hos pitals are full of the injured. At St Mary's there were probably 60 pa tients, with some so seriously hurt they cannot recover. One little suffer er lay moaning. She was picked up in front of a house without a stitch of clothing on ber little body. She is in ternally injured and will die. The mother lies near, badly hurt At the police station little oould be learned but that oould be seen at the hospitals and morgue. It will be several days before the ex act situation is known. The search for the dead is still going on, but it is slow work. There is yet too muoh oonf nsiou to proceed systematically. Tho steamers Pittsburg, of the Dia mond Jo line, the City of Vioksburg, and City of Providence, of the Colum bia Excursion Company, the City of Monroe, of the Anchor line, and all aorts of amall oraft were pitched and tossed about until a final blast sent them from their moorings. They were swept across the river and struck the Illinois bank a few blocks from each other. The loss of life on these boats is thought to be slight, as everybody was cautioned not to jump and they would be brought safely to land. The City of Vioksburg is almost a total wreck. " The City of Providence was blown up on the Illinois bank. Her rudder is gone and oabin and smokestacks were blown away before she parted from her wharf. The Harvester, of the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company, was blown from its dock and oarried down Vhe river. A river man said that $1,500,000 would not repair and re place the boats -alone that figured in yesterday's disastrous storm. As an inatanoe, it may be stated that two large barges belonging to the Mississippi - Valley Transportation Company, and holding 104,000 bushels of wheat, the property ot the White Commission Company, were blown away. There must be a great number of people , imprisoned in the destroyed buildings who oannot be gotten out for hours, although thousands of oitiaens have offered their aid to the police de partment to help the work of rescue. A few minutes after the oyolone passed fires broke out 11 over the oity. Alarms were sounded, but usually in vain, as the fire-engine houses oould not be communicated with. The fire men had to piok their way through blinding rain among masses of tangled live wires to the soenes ot the fires. Then many water plugs proved useless. Rain helped materially in quenching the fires, - and by midnight all fires were reported under control. Four hundred members of the Mis souri National Guard, in addition to the same number of St Louis polioe, are patrolling the wreoked distriot to night. By tomorrow many more mi litia will be on duty. This is in ac cordance with an order issued by May or Waldridge this evening, and is done to prote'ot the exposed parts of the oity, whioh attraot the oriminal ele ment from all over the surrounding oountry. In Roumania, women both study and practice medioine. - THE MOSCOW HORROR Fatalities Greater Than at First Supposed. PEOPLE'S MAD RUSH FOR FOOD Two Thou.and Bellevad to Have Boon Trampled to Uaath In tho Awful Btampsda, Moscow, June 8. A terrible panic, resulting from the great crnah of people at the popular feast here today, in bon r of the coronation of the czar, caused the trampling to death of many people, including a woman delivered of a child during the excitement. It is eeti mated that over 1,1 00 persons perished In anticipation of a grand holiday and a popular banquet on Hodynsky plain, tens of thousands of people be gas trooping toward Petrovsky palace, In front of whiob the plain is situ a ted, this morning. In fact, thousands reached the grounds last evening and camped tnere, or in the immediate vi oinity, in order to make sure of obtain ing good positions today. On the plains long lines of rough tables, flanked by rougher benches, had been erected. It was first arranged to accom modate 400,000 people, but in view of the immense crowds assembled in and about the city at the coronation fete, extra tables and benches were erected and every effort made to provide meals for 500,000 people. To feed the multi tude an army of oooks and waiters was gathered together, the army bake houses were taxed to the utmost and 500,000 mugs, each bearing portraits ot tne czar and czarina, were ordered for presentation to the people taking part in the banquet Thousands of cattle, trainloads of provisions and shiploads of liquid refreshment were sent to the plain, and this morning all was in readiness for the gigantio event , In anticipation of the assembling of an immense crowd and the possibility of disorder a strong force of polioe were detailed for duty on the plain three miles outside the city, on the road to St Petersburg. Several detachments of infantry and cavalry were stationed in the vicinity to support the polioe snouid suoh a step be necessary. By dawn today the mass of peasants about tne tables was really enormous, and all were desperately hungry, some having fasted for nearly 84 hours. The police did everything possible to keep back the crowd, but suddenly the masses pressed forward and swept ev erything before them. They over turned benches and tables, trampling hundreds under foot and crushing the me out 01 a great number. Among the dead found on the plain were ladles evidently of high rank, dressed in the finest silk and adorned with jewels. The police barracks to which the bodies of the dead were taken by the authorities are besieged by persons seeking news of friends and relatives. The scene at the barraoks is terrible in the extreme. The remains of the dead will be conveyed to the cemetery, where a large morgue is located. A Catar Aocouut. Moscow, June The disaster on the Hodynsky plain yesterday is con stantly gaining in proportion, as the investigation by the authorities con tinues. These are made under diffi culties, as the recovery of the viotims was onduoted by hundreds of volun teers, and many were oarried away be fore they were enumerated. Many ad ditional deaths ot the injured are oc curring, whioh are only added to the enumeration after some time. It is said now the fatalities will amount to between 8,000 and 8,000, but it is impossible as yet to learn ex aotly the extent of the disaster. The official statement this morning places the dead recovered at 1,836, and the seriously or fatally injured at 868. But, in contrast with this offioial state ment, there are 1,888 corpses lying this afternoon at the oemetery. besides the many dead and dying that are known to have been removed from the ill-fated field by friends. In awful oontrast with the scenes ot death and desolation was the continua tion of the fetes and the brilliant ball of the French embassy, whiob was at tended by the czar and osarina last evening. It is said that $70,000 were expended on the supper alone. . Rare viands and delioioua fruits and vege tables were brought from the most dis tant climes to add to the delights of the feast, while France furnished the oostliest and most elegant fabrics and furniture to set off the beauties ot the palaoe where the ' embassy is lodged. The osarina was not informed of the disaster at the time, owing to her deli cate condition. . While the danoe in the French em bassy oontlnued, among all the aooom paniments of luxury and gaiety, dis consolate friends and relatives wan dered over the desolate plain among the dead, the suffeirng and dying, looking often in vain for their missing. The work ot identification is most difficult, both on aooount of the large number of viotims and the trampled, torn and mutilated condition of many of the oorpses. some of whioh are crushed be yond the possibility of recognition, and almoit beyond semblanoe to hu manity. The herd of Buffalos in Austin Corbin's game preserve, on Croydon mountain, N. H., now number fifty. V It is reported from France that the fresh juice of the poppy plant applied to reoent bee stings gives Immediate relief and prevents inflamatien. THE BILL WAS VETOED. Klr.r and Harbor BUI Returned to tho H oiuo. Washington, June 1. The president has sent to congress the following mes sage: To the House of Representatives: I return herewith, without my approval, bouse bill No. 7977, entitled "An act making an appropriation for the con strnction, repair and preservation of certain publie works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes." There are 417 items of the appropri ation contained in this bill, and every part of the oountry is represented in the distribution of its favors. It di reotly appropriates or provides for the immediate expenditure of nearly $14,000,000 for the river and harbor works. This sum is in addition to the appropriations contained in another bill for similar purposes, amounting to a little more than $8,000,000, whiob have already been favorably considered at the peirsent session of oongress. The result is that the contemplated immediate expenditures for the objects mentioned amount to about $17,000,- 000. The most startling feature of this bill is its authorization of oontraots for river and harbor work, amounting to more than $68,000,000. Though the payment of these oontraots are in most oases so distributed that they are to be met by future appropriations, more than $8,000,000 on their account is in cluded in the direct appropriation above mentioned. Of these, nearly $30,000,000 will fall due during the fiscal year ending June 80, 1896, and amounts to somewhat liss than in the years immediately succeeding. A few oontraots of like character, authorized under previous statutes, are still outstanding, and for the pay ment of these more than $4,000,000 must be appropriated immediately in the future If, therefore, this bill be oomes a law, the obligations which will be imposed on the government, together with the appropriation made for immediate expenditure on aooount of rivers and harbors, will amount to about $80,000,000. Nor ia this all. The bill directs numerous surveys and examinations, which contemplates new work and further contracts, and which portend largely inoreased expenditures and obligations. There is no ground to hope that in the face of persistent and growing demands the aggregate of ap propriatiODB for smaller schemes not covered by contracts will be reduced or even remain stationary. For the fiscal year ending June 80, 1898, such appropriations, together with the installments on contracts whioh will fall due in that year, can hardly be less than $30,000,000, and it may reasonably be apprehended the prevalent tendency toward increased expenditures of this sort and the oon- oealment whioh postponed payments afford for extravagance, will increase the burdens chargeable to this account in succeeding years. In view of the obligation imposed upon me by the constitution, it seems to me quite clear that I only discharge my duty to our people when 1 inter pose my disapproval of the legislation proposed. Many of the objects tor which it appropriates pubho money are not related to publio welfare and many of them are palpably for the ben efit ot limited localities, or in aid of individual interests. On the face of the bill, it appears that not a few of these alleged improvements have been so improvidently planned and prose cuted that after the unwise expendi ture of millions of dollars, new experi ments for their aooomplishment have been entered upon. LITTLE IS SURE. Return, of . Stata Klaction ; Com la . Slowly. Portland, Or., June 8. Never have tickets in Oregon been so scratched as at the election just held. : The count is progressing with phenomenal slowness throughout the state. The only things certain are that the Republicans have elected Bean supreme judge and has been successful in most counties with local officers. " ' ; It is impossible yet to determine whether the Republicans will control tne next legislature or wnetner it win be in the hands of the Populists and Democrats. In the second congressional distriot it looks very muoh a though Ellis had been elected. Indications from yesterday's election in the oity of Portland are that the fol lowing will have a plurality of votes: Bean, for supreme judge, large plur ality, -i Northup, for oongress. Lord, for district attorney. Thompson, for member board ' of equalization. Pennoyer, for mayor. Frazier, for sheriff. Moore, for oirouit court olerk. Gambell, for auditor. Haoheney, for oity treasurer. jaeksoa Slust Hang- Newport, Ky., June 1. Judge Helm today overruled the motion for a new trial for Scott Jackson, convicted of the murder of Pearl Bryan, and sen tenced Jaokson to be hung June 80. Subsequently the court granted a mo tion for a stay of exeoution ot sixty days to enable the defendant to take the oase before the court of appeals. Upon the arrival of the steamer Sig nal in Astoria annonoement was made of a change in the programme of hand ling Chinese coming to the Paoifio ooaat by the Canadian Pacific line of steamers. Instead of being landed at the nearest point to their destination. they will be held on the Sound and the identification paper will be forwarded by mail to the custom house ofnoials at the points where the Chinese seek admission. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Daily Proceedings in Senate and House. IMPORTANT BILLS INTRODUCED abatanee of tho Maaanres Balna; Con sidered bjr tho rirtr-a-ourth . Seolon Sonata. Washington, May 80. The St Louie horror was the theme of a touching and eloquent pra yer by Rev. Dr. Mil burn, the blind chaplain of the senate, at the opening of the session today. Wnen the house resolution was re ceived anthoizing the loan of tents to the mayors of St Louis and East St Louis, Palmer asked immediate consid eration. Vest interposed the susses- tion that,' while it might seem nngra- ' cious for him to interpose objection, yet, in view of the late reports show ing the usual exaggeration attending the first hours of a calamity, be did not consider the action necessary. The people of Bt Louis, he said, oould take oare of themselves. The resolution was amended to be joint instead of concurrent, thus requiring presentation to the president, and was then adopted. Washington, June 1 The senate to day reached an agreement to take a final vote on bill to prohibit the issca of bonds, Hill reserving the right to move to postpone the vote. Two bills. repealing the law relating to rebates on alcohol used in (hearts, and amend ing the law concerning the distilling of brandy from fruits, were passed. The latter authorized the exemption of dis tillers of brandy made from fruits from the provisions relating to the manufacture of spirits, exoept as to the tax thereon. Washington, Jnne 8 Most of the session of the senate today was given np to debate on the bond bill, Cnllom speaking against it as a step toward repudiation, and Brown in favor of this bill or of a resolution offered bv him declaring that the bonds under any future issue would be illegal and void. Morrill, chairman of the flnanoe oommittee, gave notice of a tariff speech tomorrow. Brown presented the following resolution: "That in . the opinion of the senate of the United States, the secretary of the treasury ha no authority, nndertheaot of Janu ary 14, 1875, to issue bonds in addi tion to those already issued, and that any suoh bonds that may hereafter be issued by him would be without au thority of law and void." A resolu tion by Lodge was adopted requesting the president fox information as to the seizure of the schooner Frederick Geerin by the Canadian outter Aber deen. Washington. May 80. Almost the sole topic of conversation among the members of the house today Was the St Louis tornado. Members stood about in groups and diaoussed the hor rible details. As soon as the journal had been read, Bartboldt asked unan imous consent for the consideration of a resolution prepared by Joy, of St Louis, directing the secretary of war to place at the disposal of the mayors of St Louis and East St Louis a suffi cient number of tents to afford tempo rary relief to the homeless in those cities and to give suoh relief as might be proper, eta Bartboldt explained that bis colleague, Hubbard, had called upon the secretary of war this morn ing, and had been informed that if oongress would give the authority, eight or ton boats used near St Louis in the Mississippi river could be sent to the Mound city to render assistance and relief. The reaoluiton was unan imously adopted. Washington, June 1. The houfe spent the entire day debating the John- ' son-Stokes contested eleotion case from the second South Carolina district An effort will be made to reconsider it, and, if that fails, to unseat Stokes and declare the seat vacant The river and harbor bill veto was read and re ferred without debate to the committee. . Hermann stated the aotion on the mo tion to pass this bill over the veto would probably be taken at an early date. The naval appropriation bill was again sent to conference, the two houses disagreeing on the number of battleships, and the senate amendment limiting the oost of armor plate to $350 per ton. Bod telle said it had been as certained that the average coat of armor plate wa $500. He read a letter from Secretary Herbert criticising the lan guage of the amendment by which the secretary might be prevented from mak ing direot oontraots with shipbuilders and for ships and armor. - 1 Washington, June 8. The house oommittee on rivers and harbors today deoided to report to the house in favor of the passage of the river and harbor bill over the president's veto. There was no difference in opinion between Democrats and Republicans. The only point of discussion was whether the re port should be in the nature of a reply to the president s objections. An affirmative conclusion was reached. There was an attempt in the oommit tee to have the bill brought up in the house today, but the assurance given by Representative Hermann that the bill would be called up at an early date, prevented such aotion. It ia said that the Maorh of 1896 was the coldest March in the history of the weather bureau. , Tho Prohibition national convention held in Pittsburg, nominated the fol lowing tioket: ' President, Joshua 17. Levering, of Maryland; vice-president. Hale Johnson, ot Illinois. .The silver plank was rejeoted and also the woman suffrage plank.