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VOL. 13.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 189G.
NO. 41,
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome oi the Telegraphic
Newt of the .World.
TEfiSB TICKS FROM TUB WIRES
a Intonating Collection of It.ni.l"ruui
the Two llenilapherea rnuaUil
la a Coodeuaed form.
In oolliilop between an express and
in exoanluo train on tb Ureal Knit
em railroad, near London, seventeen
person war seriously Injured.
Dr. Lewis Bwlft, of tb Moout Low
obieravtory, Paindana, Cal., hai dis
covered two new comets close toegther,
both being about one degree from the
IUII. I
A terrlflo gale hi iw.ept the ooeit
of the United Kingdom. The itorm
played bavoo with the tree In London
purlin, and oh mod great damage among
coast and flablrig oraft The 'loia of
life la reported slight
The Clyde line paiaenger iteamer
Frederick DeBarry, New York to Jack
oiivllle, waa wrecked at Klttybawk,
N. O. The orew of seventeen men
were taken off by a, life taring boat.
There were no pauengera or oargo
aboard. ,
In pitched battle between .quad
of policemen and gang of hoodlums,
at Philadelphia, Pa.. Mlohael Pizza
waa ahol and killed and five othera,
three of whom were oftloeri, were seri
ously Injured. Tbe aueue of the affray
wi dingy three-story brick bouse in
the heart of the Italian distrlot
Cbarlea Pfelfer, living at Bright
wood, Iud., out bif wlfe'a throat aud
banged himself. Both are dead.
Pfeifor waa an operator on tbe Big
Four. The oonple were married
year ago and lived happily, it la be
lieved that Pfelfer waa temporarily in
line. Tbe boiler of a ninety-ton ten-wbeel
looorootive on tbe Big Four road buret
I Pekln, 111, barling the engine more
than 100 feet, partly demoliihlng a
factory, killing the fireman and break
lug nearly all the glaia within a quar
ter of a mile of tbe loene Plenei of
tbe engine were picked up 1,000 feet
way and one of tbe big drive wheela
wn burled 400 feet from the traok.
The turnpike riotera are ont again
In Lawrenoeborg, Ky., and have de
stroyed twenty of the twenty-four toll
gate in Andenon oounty. The oounty
tail fall voted to make the plkei free.
Prooeedlnga for appraisement con
demnation and purchasing have been
made, but the people did not wait for
relief in that way. Under the lawa of
Keutuoky the oounty will have to make
good the Ion and damage by the mob.
Klubard Will la mi, the eiomtonii
Inipeotor, of Ban Frinoiioo, convicted
of eitortion, baa been sentenced to ail
yean' Imprisonment and 10,000 fine.
A bakery at Woodburn, Or., waa
destroyed by Ore, and baker named
Kuhl waa burned while trying to aave
eoine of hla effect! from the building.
Tbe loea la 3,000.
Hupa aggregating In quantity over
75,000 poundi bare been contracted by
Marion oounty growers to Charles
Green A Bon, tbe purchase prioe being
8 oeuta pound,
Edson Keith, for forty year a promi
nent oltisen ot Chloflg), threw himself
into the lake at tbe foot of Thirteenth
atreet In that olty, while temporarily
insane, as a result of obronlo dyspepsia
and insomnia. .
Tb American ship Luzon, Captain
Park, wbloh left New York May Si
for Shanghai, passing Anjeron August
18, grounded on a bai at Woo Bong.
It l probabl the ship will be floated
after ahe has been lightened, but the
mint be dry docked before putting to
sea again.
"Kill me, kill me; shoot me out of
this misery." Thl waa the agonising
ory of Anton Dnsbaok, who baa been
employed In the Guggenheim smelting
works near Woodbridge, N. J. Due
baok was working near tank of ml
phnrlo aold, when be loat hla balance
ttnd plunged headforemost to a fate
more horrible than death. Bis eye
were badly burned and bla balr eaten
off. Be oannot recover. ,
From Pittsburg, Fa., oome word
that Russian spies sent out by the gov
ernment of the ozar have stolen Ameri
can armor-plate secrets and propose to
turn their, acquisition to profit by fur
nishing information by moausof which
Kuula may make her own sheathe tor
battle-ships. This In brief is the dis
covery wbloh has been kept quiet for
aomemonths by the officials of the Car
negie Company, and which has worried
the naval authorities and ofllolala of
thia country and of the ateel oompany.
The engineer and ordinance depart
ments ot the array are preparing for
the ieoution ot the legislation of the
last oongress, looking to tbe Improve
ment and strengthening tbe fortifica
tion! and ooast defenses of this country.
Plans for these important works have
been formulated, and in moit initancei
the approved projocti are under head
way. The appropriation of 118,000,000
maaa Dy the last congress has been al
loted so M to aooomplish the greatest
good with the means and facilities at
hand.
The dwelling of James Madison, a
farmer living near New Era, Or.,
burned to tbe ground while Mr. Madi
son was away from home. Tbe build
lug wa worth about laoo and Madi
son had $1,000 in paper money, notes
ndaooount and f 40 in gold in the
house, all of whioh was lost, There
was no insuranoe.
A man named Baker, in oharge of
the pumps at the White Swan mine,
near Baker City, fell down a '400-foot
baft and waa instantly killed. He
d relatives la Portland.
- A Macro Hot's Awful Crime.
One of tbe most heinous murders in
the history of Louisiana was committed
by a negro boy named John Johnson
In a farmhouse four miles south of In
dependeuo Jo Cotton, his wife, her
brother and two sinters were killed,
the first by a pistol ibot and the other
four with an as. Tbe flond who com
mitted thl i quintuple murder Is a negro
boy who has been In the employ ot,
Cotton since April 9. He was allowed
to sleep in the same honse, Tbe mo
tive is mystery, as no attempt at
robbery had been made. Tbe only
member of the family who escaped
was little Maud Miller, 14 years old,
She darted from the house and gave
the alatn. Hhe iayi she saw Johnson
begin the butchery by atrlking her
mother with the ax. Tbe murderer is
till at large and ia being traoked with
bloodhounds by a mob. He will prob
ably be lynohed if oangbt
On. Killed, Three Injured.
By an esplosion of gas at tbe Phila
delphia 4e Heading Compuny's Middle
Creek colliery, near Trnmont, Pa., live
men were burned. Two of the men
died two hours later from their in
juries. Two of tbe others oannot re
cover. . '
P-tal Accident at Hon.
The ship Pythomene, from Sydney,
which ha Just arrived at Ban Fran
cisco, report tbe death at soa August
18 of Henry B. Moyinghum, an 18-year-old
apprentice, wbo fell from the
foreyard to the deck. He lived forty
eight honra, and was buried at sea.
Fisherman lodlotod.
True bills bare been returned by the
grand jury at Aatorla against four
fishermen for molting to riot and as
sault with dangerous 'weapons, the
crimes being alleged to have been com
mitted it Booth' oannery during tbe
reoent strike of tb flihermen.
A Young M.ar liuuLr.
Louis Hartwlg, a 18-year-old boy
living at Astoria, killed an old bear
and cub in tbo outskirts ot that olty,
after an esoiting battle with tbe
mother bear, in which tbe daring
yonng almrod narrowly escaped being
killed. ,
A Thousand Armonlaoe Killed.
It appears that a thousand Arme
nian! have been killed in a reoent
masaaore at Egln, in the Kharpoot re
gion. It ia reported that a hundred
Armenians bive been killed at Divrig,
in tbe lams villayet
OH Tank. Burned.
Ten large tanka of oil belonging to
the Waters-Pieroe Oil Company, of
East St. Louli, were destroyed by fire.
Many thousand baneli of oil were
burned, oausing loss of 140,000.
A Horrlbla Crime.
Joseph Bash, of Cleveland, O., for
some unknown reason, conceived the
ghastly Idea of killing bis whole fam
ily, and, securing a crowbar, repaired
to the room where bla wife aud two
daughter were aleeplng. With one
blow he oruabed the ikull of bis wife
and then turned to the oradle of bla
youngest child. Tbe 19-year-old
daughter in another bed awoke and
sprang to arrest the fiend' arm, but
the blow fell aoross tbe infant' faoe.
A desperate fight between father and
daughter took place. Tbe girl'a
aoreami brought assistance and the
man fled. Tbe woman ia at the point
of death, but the infant may live.
A Destructive HIih,
The Miasouri military academy, situ
ated about a mil south of Mexico,
Mo., burned to the ground, causing a
loss of 175, Q00 on the building and a
bcavy loss in personal effects. Tbe
insuranoe Is 137,000. Hundreds ot
students were in the building wben tbe
fire broke out, but no lives were loat
Many had narrow escape and reoeived
injuries. The fire ia thought to have
been ot inoendiary origin.
wlft Vengeance.
' James Hawkins, a negrj, outraged
a 8-year-old whit child in Gretna, La.
Wben the offloers attempted to oapture
blm they fired into a crowd of negroea,
killing Alexander and Arthur Green.
Hawkins was later lodged in jail. A
mob broke through and took him out,
hanged blm and threw the body into
the liver.
Rata Again Advanced.
The governors of the Bank of Eng
land have again advanoed the mini
mum rate of discount one-half per oent
to 8 per oent This la ant advanoe of 1
per oent in less than a month. Good
authorities say that this will but tem
porarily oheok the large gold with
drawal for shipment to the United
States.
Biploaives In Church.
Three bottle of nitric aoid, two bot
tlei of lulphurio acid, fourteen pounds
of glycerine, two vessels for the manu
facture ot explosives, some printing
type and aome threatening letters were
found in an Armenian oburoh in Con
stantinople. A Schooner Loat.
The South sea missionary lohooner
of the Josepbites, Evanella, foundered
at sea, and the missionaries and crew
took to boats and were saved.
, Preparing to Celebrate.
Newfoundland is organising to cele
brate the fourth oentennary of Cabot'
disoovery ot the island, which occurs
next year. - ' 1
Warehouse Collapaed.
In Geneiaeei Idaho, the warehouse
owned by Frank Bros, and operated by
H. A, Thatcher, collapsed while the
men were at work unloading teams,
completely demoliihlng the building.
One of the teams was caught in the
oollapse. There were six men in the
buildi'Jg, but all were gotten out un
hurt The loss will be severnl thou
sand dollars. ' ;
Portland, Or., street Improvement
warrants art being sought after..
4 GRADUATE OF YALE
Notorious Crook Under Ar
rest in San Francisco
FOE U TTEEINd A FORGED CHECK
Caught by tha aa JPrancLeo ollce
.d Wanted la Texas -Waa Liv
ing at the Pnlaoo Hotel.
San Francisco, Sept 29. W. C.
Wallaoe, a young man of many aliases,
and a graduate of Yale, ia in the city
prison awaiting extradition to Fort
Worth, Tex., where he 1 wanted for
uttering a forged draft for 820,000 on
the First National bunk of this place.
Tbe prisoner was oaptured two weeks
ago by detectives as be was ooming
from breakfast at the Palace hotel.
Chief of Polioe J. H. Maddox, of Forth
Worth, is here awaiting to take Wal
laoe back for trial, but there is some
hitch in the extradition papers.
Wallaoe is also wanted for alleged
crooked work at Colorado Spring!,
Denver and Kansas City, where he and
a partner named J. T. MoKay are
said to have cut a wide swath in first
olaiM hotel!, without paying for the
entertainment. ,
Early in thil month, the polioe here
reoeived a ciraular from the polioe at
Colorado Spring! itating that one J. T.
McKay and J. W. Aib had been swin
dling hotels at Kansas City and the
Springs, It waa alo stated that Wal
laoe, who sometimes went by tbe name
of Brown, had deposited a 830,000
draft at Fort Worth, representing him
self to be a wealthy cattleman. Then
he and McKay traveled about tbe coun
try inning checks on the worthless
draft The sum ot f 580 was realized
in thia way.
Wben the pair left Colorado Springs,
they oame to thir oity, arriving here
on September 15. McKay registered
at the Occidental hotel under the name
of J. F. Camden. Ash or Brown fav
ored the Palace, where he was known
as Wallaoe. On the way to the ooast,
the swindlers mailed letters to them
selves, which were duly reoeived at
tbe botela named one day after tbe ar
rival ot the goeita.
AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE.
A Fortune Awaiting tha Son of John
, ' . at eParlane.
San Francisco, Sept 29. An ordin
ary four-liue advertisement in last
week's personals announoed that a
Glasgow firm of attorneys is looking
for John MuFarlane, who was last
heard of in San Franaisoo five or six
years ago Back of tbe advertisement
lies a story of Oriental romanoe, rare
even in thia day of strange happenings.
The father ot John MoFarlane, wbo
is wanted, waa a oanuy Scotchman,
free linoe, out for adventure. The re
mit of his career wai that (760,000 i
waiting for hii ion. He wai a jeweler
by trade, and, after wandering about
tor some time, finally settled In Hong
Kong in 1840. Before long, he amassed
a fortune, and then, unaware that
there was a law agaiust the marriage
of foreigners with natives, married s
mandarin's daughter. The affair al
most precipitated a riot in Hong Kong,
but was ultimately smoothed over
through the influenoe and wealth ot
bis father-in-law, and in time a son
was bom christened John. In 1860
McFarlane returned to Glasgow, invest
ing his money in an iron foundry,
with his brother as manager.
On his death, Walter MoFarlane sent
for his half-Chinese nephew, and bad
blm eduoated in England. Ai be
grew, be developed bil father's nom
adic taate, and drifted about England,
to the neglect ot hi book. Finally
he oame to America, and later to Cali
fornia. John MoFarlane was living in San
Franoisoo when bis nnole died, five
or six years ago. He bad made a for
tune, and owned a half-interest in the
Saraoen Iron foundry, beside muob
real estate. The nephew consulted
Carmen & Donohue, attorneys, a to
his ohanoes ot inheritance, but there
wai a widow, and the estate ao tied np
that John MoFarlane gave np in dis
gust The lawyers did all they could
for him, but he left tbe oity, and never
sent them bis address. Last week a
letter arrived from a Sootoh firm asking
for information of MoFarlane.
Killed By a Little Boy,
Wooster, O., Sept 39. Thomas S.
Kidd, aged 14, son of W. K. Kidd. of
Cleveland, was murdered today at Dal
ton, near here, by Carl , Mollhaney,
aged 7. The little boy, who was a
cripple, was visiting the Mollhaney
home. The boyi were left at home to
gether aud quarreled. Yonng Kidd
atruok Curl with his orutoh. The lat
ter went into another room, prooured
his father's gun, and blew off the top
of Ktdd's head. The yonng murderer
admitted tbe killing, and ia under ar
rest. . .. '
Moscow Wheat Market.
Mosoow, Idaho, Sept. 89 Yesterday
was the busiest day in the wheat mar
ket thia season. It ia estimated that
at leHSt 20,000 bushels were sold. The
prioe went np to forty cents.
Wheat In Oakcsilalo.
Oakesdale, Wash., Sept. 89. Wheat
is coming to town in large quantities.
Owing to the advanoed prioe, many
farmers are selling, instead of storing,
as in former years. The quality is
graded Al, and the price is steadily ad
vancing. At present wheat brings
forty-one cents sacked.
A trolley system oapable ot running
oars at sixty miles an hour is nnder
oonitruotlon for the eleotrio railway
between Baltimore and Washington.
Cubau. Ware Vlntorlona.
Havana, Sept. 80. Thirty-five
Spanish volunteers, commanded by
Lieutenant Romero, were snrronnded
by a superior force of insurgents m
they were leaving the town ot Qnivl
oan, province of Havana. A desperate
fight ensued, the Spaniard attempting
to cut their way through tbe rebels.
Their efforts were without avail, but
they did not oease firing nntil twenty
three of their number were killed and
four wonnded. Among tbe killed
were Lieutenant Romero. Tbe volun
teers wbo escaped report that severe
losses were inflicted on rebels.
Captured Kobber.
Chicago, Sept 80. A Metropolitan
"L" train on tbe North-avenue divi
sion made a thrilling run, in tbe dead
hours of tbe morning with a robber
caged in tbe motor car frantically en
deavoring to escape. Tbe plnoky mo
torman and conductor prevented bim
from leaping through the window to
probable death, and after running tbe
train wild np and down tbe line they
oooeeded in attracting the attention
of tbe police by furiously looting tbe
whistle. ' .
A Sensational Suteldo.
Westminster, Md., Sept 89. Misi
Carrie Horner, daughter of1 Charles
Horner, of thia place, committed sui
cide by taking atryohnine today, nnder
peculiar . oiroumitanoes. She was to
have been married at 11 o'olook today
to William Brock, a grocer. Brock
suggested tbey take a walk in the cem
etery, and there be informed her, ac
cording to her father' itatement, that
he was not in a position to marry her.
Upon thii she became nervous and said
she wished to be alone. Shortly after,
Brook beard a scream and fonnd ber
in convulsions. Tbe father of tbe girl
was so incensed that he started in quest
of Brook, swearing to kill bim, but the
latter bad left town.
Iron Mines Cloaed Down.
Iahpeming, Mioh., Sept 29. The
Lake Angeline iron mine, which in
former year paid 8500,000 dividends
annually, closed down all it wqrks to
night, throwing 600 men out of work.
Tbe oompany had annk its surplus in
improvements, and wa unabje to sell
ore or secure cash advanoei thereon.
MANY OF HIS KIND.
An Unscrupulous Adventurer Kobs a
Denver Widow. .
San Franoisoo, Sept 80. Robert
Snowden, wbo claims to be journal
ist, was arrested last night on a war
rant charging him with felony and em
bezzlement The oomplaining witness
ia Mrs. Sarah B. Williams, a middle
aged widow, of Denver. She claims
that Snowden, wbo is 28 years old,
induced her to come to San Franoisoo
on a promise to marry, and then
cajoled ber out ot her money and
jewelry and disappeared. -
Aooording to the woman's story, she
met Snowden in Denver some months
ago, and, after a brief acquaintance,
consented to marry bim. He was in a
hurry to get back to the ooast at the
time, and she promised to join him at
any time be sent for her. In pursu
ance of this agreement Mrs. William!
started for San Francisco, arriving
here in oompany with . Snowden, who
had gone to Saoramento to meet her, on
August 10. ;
The young man took tbe widow to
the Palace hotel, where she registered
and procured a room. For aome rea
son or another, her intended husband
pnt off the marriage from time to time
nntil he bad succeeded in borrowing
11 of her money and jewelry, on one
pretext or another. Then he disap
peared. Mrs. Williams waited pa
tiently for him to return, but after sev
eral days began to realize that she bad
been defrauded and that she was in
debt at a fashionable hotel, with noth
ing in ber purse to warrant her stay.
Mrs. William waited nntil ber bill
had reached 890, when the hotel man
agement insisted on payment Tbe
widow explained ber position, and wai
aent away from the hotel, ber baggage
being held for her bill. The woman
wai utterly penniless, and wai com
pelled to seek shelter in charitable
institution.
Snowden say be met the woman in
Denver through a newspaper personal.
LITTLE TOWN BURNED.
Not Much Left of Cleveland, In Klicki
tat County.
Arlington, Or., 8ept 29. A disas
trous fire occurred at Cleveland, a
small town about twenty miles north
ot this place, in Klickitat oounty.
Nine buildings went np in smoke, in
cluding the prinoipal store, two black
smith shops, a hotel and livery barn.
Tbe town has no fire department, and
no water oonld be need except what
was thrown on with buoketa. Tbe
deitrnotion is believed to be the work
of inoendiariei, although there ii no
clew to the persons guilty. Those who
suffered the greatest losses are:
H. Blome, general merchandise; 8.
Cooley, blacksmith; A. Dodge, black
smith. In addition to his store, Mr. Blome
also owned the livery barn and one of
the blacksmith shops. The losi of
property ii a severe blow to the own
ers, as there was little or no insuranoe.
The blaze was started in the livery
barn, ;
A Building Collapaed.
New York, Sept 29. A flathouie in
the oourse ot construction, on Madison
avenue, . between Eigbty-flrat and
Eighty second street, fell today, killing
three men outright A number of
others are in the ruins.
Conoy Island Elephant Burned.
New York, Sept 29. The big
wooden.elephsnt, whioh waa bnilt aome
yean ago for use ai a hotel at Coney
Island, wai burned tonight
PROTECTED BY TROOPS
Leadville Received Miners
From mlssouri.
SAFE IN THE EM MKT STOCKADE
striker. Won on Hand to Do Ml. chief
but Ware . frightened by tha
Dlfht.or tho Oune.
Leadville, Sept. 28. The first dele
gation of miners from Missouri arrived
over the Denver Sc Bio Grande at 4:20
P. M. The train was a special, and
was met at Malta, three miles out, by
the two new oompanie of militia or
ganized thii week and composed en
tirely of business men and olerks.
They escorted the train to the city,
where it was met by one-balf of Gen
eral Brooks' command, 600 strong,
with a portion of tbe Chaffee light ar
tillery, two Gatling guns and a cav
alry troop. ,
The seventy-five miners were sur
r'oonded by soldiers and the cavalcade
passed down Harrison avenue to East
Fifth street, and thenoe toward tbe
Emmet mine. Along the route there
were freqnent yells of "scab" from
strike sympathizers, and the soldier!
were booted at After leaving the
avenue and getting to a section where
many miners live, tbe call of "scab"
and jeering at the troops increased in
volume.
Al Grange' street, the cavalcade
baited for a breathing spell, and here
tbe enraged crowd grew more demon
strative, crowding olosely upon tbe
troops and showering abusive epithets
alike upon miners and militia. One
ot the officers, who was singled out by
the men for speoial abuse and crowd
ing, grew angry and finally drew hii
word, striking one of hit tormentor
aoross tbe face with the fiat side of the
aword and giving tbe other bard
blow on the back as be turned away.
The command being ready to move,
tbe order waa given to oharge the
crowd with gun butta and push them
back to give room for tbe marching
oolumn. It was a moat weloome order,
and the celerity with which it waa
obeyed sent a panic through the crowd,
wbo fled over fences and through
yards. Several windows of bouse
were broken in by men blind with tear
who simply dashed away from tbe gun
and landed inside tbe window! with
bands and faces bleeding from tbe
broken g4ass. Tbe march waa then re
sumed without further incident
The miners were soon inside the Em
met stockade, and the escort of miliita
returned to oamp. ' .
A Long I.land Water. pout.
Patcbogue, L. I., Sept 28. A fieroe
whirlwind and waterspout swept the
great south bay for several miles lait j
night It seemed to descend from the I
heavens nntil it reaohed tbe lurfaoe ot :
the bay, where it started whirling east-
ward with the roar of a hundred i
freight trains.
The spout waa noticed first down to-!
ward Fire island and swept east at !
fearful rate. When opposite Bayport 1
it struck tbe yacht Henry G. Miller,
turning her bottom up. Then the ;
great roaring body of water veered its ,
course and went whistling away in
different directions. When the spout;
reaohed point off Patohogue it started '
towards tbe main shore. Sand waa
hurled in the air and where there wai !
only three feet ot water there ia now j
ix or seven. I
Tbe waterspout finally started north 1
and ran ashore opposite and east ot J
Patohogue. When it struck the earth
a whirlwind formed instantly. . Thii,
turned over bathhouses, tore up trees
and finally played havoo in oorn field.
Wordan Sentenced to Dentn.
Woodland, Cal., Sept 88. When
Worden wai brought into court for re
sentence today, Judge Grant inquired
of counsel if there was any reason why
the day should not be fixed for carry
ing into execution the tentenoe imposed.
Reoeiving a negative answer, the oourt
fixed Friday, December 18, at FOlaom
state prison, aa the time tor oarryingJ
tbe sentence into exeoution. An ap
peal will be made to tbe govenor for
commutation to life lentenoe. Tbe at
torney for Worden say there are mat
ters that ought to be urged in Worden's
behalf, but there ia no legal method of
getting them before any oonrt, and
they will be nrged before the governor.
Four Murderers Ksccutod.
Albuquerque, N. M., Sept 28. Dion
Sandoval, wbo shot and killed Victor!
ano Tenorio July 29, 1985, was banged
here this afternoon before a orowd of
several thousand. He wa oalm and
composed to the last" Perfeoto Padela,
who assassinated John Vipond, a,
miner, and Rosario Ring, wbo shot and ,
killed Carlos Mibarri, were exeonted at
Tierra Amarilla, while Antonio Gon
zales paid the penalty of death for the
murder ot Charlea Vanoole at Ross
welL Colorado Iron tompany In Operation
Pueblo, Colo., Sept 28. Every de
partment of the Pueblo steel plant ot
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company,
about which sensational reports of a
genearl shutdown were recently circu
lated, is now in full operation, with a
force of 2.000 men.
Mountain View, Cal., Sept 23.
The passenger train leaving San Fran
oisoo at 10:40 and alone engine collid
ed about a mile south of here today,
and bnt for the presence of mind of the
euigneer of tbe passenger train, who,
when he aaw what was coming, suo
oeeded in bringing his engine to stop,
there would no ddnbMtave been a seri
ous accident The entities did, not fall
from the traok, though ,tbejt are con
siderably smashed;No .on was in
jured. ''"V-,: ;
GUITEAU OP BAD MtMORY.
Olaplay In Ralam ot a Collection of
Groaaomo Hollos.
Salem, Or.., Sept 28. The mem
ory of Charles J. Guitean, tbe assassin
of President Garfield, has been revived
here by a display of relics by a busi
ness house. Tbe oolleotion Is tbe prop
erty of F. 8. Lull, nephew of John C.
Crocker, who wn warden of tbe Wash
ington oity jail daring the time ot
Gaiteau's inoaroeration. Among tbe
collection ii a piece of the hemp rope
with wbloh the assassin was hanged,
and also a piece of the cotton rope that
bis bands were tied with. Each is
about inohes long. Warden
Crocker died two yrar ago, but Mr.
Lnll bas a certificate in his nnole's
handwriting that tbe hemp memento
waa out from the rope that banged
Guitean. The collection aleo contain!
a bottle of the land nsed in teiticg the
itrengtb of tbe hangman's rope, a
oribbage board made from the lid of
Guitean' ooffin, and a lock of bia hair.
A relio among tbe collection that at
tract! special attention is a facsimile
of the bullet that waa aimed at tbs
prisoner by a jail guard. The bullet,
after passing through Guitean' ooat
and a photograph in his pocket, struck
tbe brick wall and flattened oat Tbe
shape of the lead when picked np bore
such a marked resemblanoe to tbe bnst
of Guitean that it waa preserved, and
facsimile have since been made.
Daring a part of the time ot the as
sassin's confinement in jail, bis mail
matter waa two to three wagonloads
day. It ooniited moatly of letter de
nouncing Guitean, often aocompanied
with hideoui drawing and picture,
nd the contribution of a bouquet by
one person, Edward Diokey, a Wash
ington floriat The collection secured
from Mr. Lnll oontaina a preserved
leaf from the booquot and the card
wbiob accompanied it On the oard il
inioribed: "We met in paardise.
Farewell." Another neatly written
card ot the collection reads:
"Yon call yourself Git tow.
Yon villainous, murdering imp;
But we are glad to know
Yon rarely will get hemp"
A pen-and-ink drawing picture a
jail with an empty cell and a scaffold
in tbe rear. Below the empty oell is
written: "Empty is the cradle,
Charles Guiteau is gone."
Another represent Guiteau in agony
juat after the trapdoor baa been
prang. Tbe picture ii designated as
"tbe irresistible impulse."
. A pin, tbe bead representing tbe as
sassinated president, is aooom pained
with the instructions that it be worn
June 80, 1882, tbe date of the execu
tion. The Loll oolleotion oontaina a
vast amount of Confederate money.
One bill for f 50 is made payable two
yean after secession ha triumped.
AN OLD MAN'S BRIDE.
Ploaaar Sanborn's Bouaymoon Bua an
Unplaaaant Ending.
Jackson, Cal., Sept 28. A few day
ago B. S. .Sanborn, an 82 -year-old
pioneer, was introduced to Mrs. Julia
Hughes, a reoent arrival from Oakland.
It was a case of love at first sight, and
Sanborn prroposed marriage immedi
ately. Next day the two were married
and started off on a wedding tour, fol
lowed by the good-natured congratula
tions of the towmrpeople. Tbe follow
ing day they returned and settled down
in Sanborn's house. The couple seemed
very happy, but today Sanborn's little
romauoe came to a sadden end. Tbe
old men took bis customary nap today,
and when he awoke he missed bi wife,
also 400. He investigated and found
that Mr. Sanborn bad hired horse
and departed with her trunk to some
point outside of tbe oounty. Sanborn
swore oat a warrant charging bia bride
with grand larceny, and the sheriff 1
now pursuing her.
A Mayor-a Novel Idan.
San Diego, Sept 28. Mayor Carl
son sent a novel communication to the
council last night A resolution bad
been introduced itrongly oritioising
the miyor "lor cavorting around the
country," and the mayor replied to it
by setting forth his plans if elected con
gressman. He bases his plea for rap
port on a bill be propose to introduce
in oongress, providing for the expendi
ture of f 600,000,000 in tbe erection of
government buildings in every oounty
seat in tbe nation. To pay for thia,
the government is to issue "public Im
provement scrip," which will be met
with money saved from rental. The
resolution oritioising the mayor ha
not yet come to vote.
Tail Daaceruto n Cemetery.
Canea, Spet 25. The Turk have
desecrated and profaned the cemetery
at Suda bay under the eye of the offl
oers of the British and Austrian men-of-war.
During negotiation tor the
Cretan settlement Great Britain and
Russia agreed to permit Greece to an
nex Crete at tbe first opportunity pre
senting itself.
Maa.aCra ot Armenians Continue.
'. Constantinople, Sept 84. Disturb
ance! occurred September 18 at Gnm
aabmaden, villayet ot Karpoot, owing
to an incursion of Kurds. No detaili
have been reoeived. Troopi have been
dispatohed to the scene. The Arme
nians were murdered at Angora, Sep
tember 19, on aooount of an outbreak
of fire. - :
Cru.hlng tha Opposition. .
Singapore. Sept 25. The viceroy ot
Nanking has issued proclamation
forbidding the transfer ot land at Wa
Bung to foreigners because the im
provements of the river will make Wo
Sung a greater port than Shanghai. ;
, According to the most careful com
putation, only one person. irjt00,000
of both sexes attains the age f 100
years, and only six to aeven in 100 thl
age of aixty. . .
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
front All tho Cltloa nnd Town, of tho
Thriving BlstGr State.
-Oregon. .
Wood is being sold in Athena at
(3. 50 a oord, and i soaroe at that
A number of proprietor of stores in
Astoria have begun closing their plaoes
at business at 7 o'clock P. M.
Captain Kranse, of Company C, Pen
dleton, says that the members of the
company will soon qualify a sharp
shooters. Thii will give the oompany
a good ihowing at tbe encampment,
should there be one next June.
Tbe irrigating oanal on the weit side
of Hood river valley is nearing comple
tion, and will furnish water for irri
gating that entire section. Tbe oanal
will carry 2,000 inches of water, and
wa constructed at an expense of $20,
000. The First National bank of Heppner
sold 27X100 pounds of wool last Satur
day for 6 cent a pound. One hundred
and lixty thousand pound is all of the
wool that bas been sold in Heppner
since tbe wool blockade began last
June.
A party of hunter on tbe Nehalem
are reported to have killed four elk the
other day. When they returned to
haul the elk out of the woods, they
found two large blaok bear after tb
carcasses. In order to get the elk
meat the had to kill the bear, which
they did.
The Weston mill have completed
tbe 100-ton order of floor for China,
and shipment of five .carloads wa
made last week. A car of flour and a
car of feed were shipped to Portland.
The latter wa the largest or ever
loaded there, and held 250 barrel. An
order ha recently been reoeived from
San Franoisoo fox two carloads.
A party of government engineer has
arrived in Salem and began survey
of the Willamette river there, prepara
tory to the work of building wing
dam above the oity, whioh are to pro
tect the point at the Polk oounty side,
opposite tbe oity, and to keep the river
in tbe old channel. It will also be de
termined what bar in the river are to
be removed in order to keep the chan
nel clear and protect the river banks.
Fish oontinne to run moderately,
: though there waa a noticeable improve-
ment the first of the week over the
i catch during the closing days of last
j week, says the Astorian. The ran of
! silverside ha not yet commenoed, but
it ii looked for within a feW dayi, un
til whioh time the eannera will not
make any particular effort to increase
their daily paoking.
The civil engineer who baa been in
the Bine river mine surveying a route
for a wagon road report! having select
ed splendid route, for a road np
Quart oreek to the Laokv Bot mine.
j and that the grade will be an easy one.
He 1 in the employ of the London Ex
ploration Company, whioh has recently
purchased that property. This road
will not be of benefit to Gold .BUI
Waohlngtonw
The Pierce oounty fair has ended.
The association will be nearly $3,000
ahead after all expense are paid.
Citizens of Oakesdale have succeeded
in establishing a free reading-room in
that oity for tbe nse of workingmen.
It is reported that some sort of worm
ia eating the grasshoppers that have
been so numerous in the vicinity ot
Wilbur. . . ,w,," , ,
The lumber shipments of Washing
ton thia year are slightly over 20,000,
000 feet larger than tor like period
in 1895.
Most of the prospectors are being
driven ont ot the mountain of the
Okanogan reservation by tbe approach
of cold weather. !
3. W. Foster and Martin Becker, the
two men reported to have been drowned
in tbe Spokane river while on a fishing
trip, have turned np safe in Spokane.
Tbe people of Yakima are oomplain
ing of the hobo nuiBanoe, and are call
ing for ita abatement Tbey advocate
putting them to work on the streets.
Helen M. Henroth, president of the
general association of women's olubs,
is on the way from" Chicago to Taoo
ma, where she will attend the meeting
of the state associations. On her re
tarn be will stop in Spokane, and be
tendered reception by the Sorosis.
The Northern Paoiflo railway will
erect at Spokane, on tbe site of the old
carshops, a new water tank, with a
capaaity of 52,000 gallon. : It will
stand forty-two feet above the traoks,
the top ot it reaching a height ot sixty
feet ..v.
Bold sneaktbieve are systematically
at work in the residence districts of
Spokane. When they approach a
house and find some one at home they
ask for something to eat If tbe door
bell ia not answered they go in and
ransack the premise for money and
valuable -
E. F. Benson, speoial land examiner
ot tbe Northern Paoiflo railway, ha
been busy conferring with iheepmen
regarding the leasing of tbe company'
land for grazing purposes.' Two
hundred thousand aorea have already
been leased to sheepmen and cattle
men. The latter have all the land be
tween Cow creek and the Palonse be
low tbe month of Rook creek. The
jtheenmen have all the territory north.
JAiioepVa'fbw sections that have not yet
been rented. 7 It 1 exptoted tne tbe
balanoe will soon be occupied. '