OREGON
VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 189G.
NO. 24.
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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.