The Oregon mist., October 16, 1896, Image 1

OREGON
VOL, 1.3.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 1G, 1896.
NO. 43.
1ST
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TEB8B TICKS FEOM TUB WIBEfl
An Interesting Collection of Item, from
lh. Two Uemlipheret rreaente
la Coadeated Form. ..
Retnrns from th Florid election
give Bloxham, Democratic oandldat
lor governor, a plurality of 86,000. A
OODitltnttooal amendment abollthiug
lotober election wat ratified.
The tetlographeri' strike on the Can.
diau Pacific baa been declared off, A
settlement waa arrived at throogb
board of conciliation. Tbe oompany
agroea that all men will be taken baoM
esoept thoee guilty of destroying propi
erty. It alio agree to reoognl the
Order ot Railway Telegrapher and ltf
member.
Seven men atarted In a kiff to oron
tbe river from Canton, Mo., where they
bad been attending a political meet
ing. About fifty feet trout the Illlnoi
Ida the boat upset John Reed, Ueorge
Withrow and John Hlmm were
drowned. All were in the government
river lervioe.
In a fog at Argentine, Kan., Ave
t-bound Santa Fa train were mlied
np in a reir-end oolltslou just outside
the railway yarda, the train following
Mob other oloaely. Several ear and
two of the engluea were w rooked, bat
miraculously enough noonewa killed.
Four pertout were (lightly Injured.
A dltpttoh from Lowell obtervatory,
Flagitaff, Arts., announce that the
astronomer ot tbe obaervatory bava
diaoorered that tbe planet Mercury
and Venn etch torn onoe on it axl
during one revolution of the mn, rank
ing the day juat equal to the year ou
thee planet. They find farther that
Venn i not olood covered, a ha been
reported, but bit about it a thick at
mosphere, while Meroury ha none.
It ba been eml-offloially anuounoed
In Constantinople tliat the Turkiah gov
ernment, after weighing the matter
and consulting orrUin adviior, oauie
to deoltlou not to admit the United
State warahip Bauoroft through tin
Dardanelle. aud therefore ihe will not
be able to aot a tbe gunrdship of the
United State legation in tbete water.
Tbe porta, it 1 aatd, also decided not
to admit the guardship of Ureeoe and
Holland.
The Urlttah hlp Kilburn, wbloh ba
ut arrived in San Franoiaoo, report
tbe lot of two of her orew on the voy
age from Newcastle. She wa only
nine dy out when he ran into a
torn). The two men were aunt aloft
to tow away tbe topsail, and while
they were so engaged violent lurch
canted John Anderson, Swede, to
loot hi bold, and falling he atruok
agtlual John Harvey, an Amerioan,
knocking him off the yardarm and to
gether they fell. Anderaon wa thrown
into the e and drowned and Uarvoy
track on the deck, but died in tew
boar. ,
The killing of Frank Hepburn, ton
, of Congressman Hepburn, at C'hotter,
Ark., i now attributed to a polltioal
oomplraoy. The flrl report itated
that a duel wa fought
Lee Ah Mee, waiter, waa abot and
Inatantly killed by unknown aaain
in San Franoiaoo, a a remit of high
binder war. Another ahootlng affair
ooourred tbe tame evening, but no one
waa killed.
Three dead bodle have been taken
from the Cbloago river, and men are
at work dragging the etreatn tor more. ;
Tbe remain are thoae ot infanta and :
bad been in the water for ome time. I
The doctor aatert that they bad all
been drowned, and it i thought that
they have been the vlotlm of a baby
farmer. A fatal collision ooourred on the
Southern Paolflo tailway, ball mile
eouth of Green' atation, Oregon, re
acting in the death ot John MoGou
igle, of Portland, fireman, and A. N.
Toy, a brakeman. Five other were
aerloualy injured.. The oolllaion wa
due to oonduotor' oareleunea in
mislaying bl papers and order.
Case of poisoning from eating
fmoked wblteflab oontinue to be re
ported from Wisconsin. At Merrill,
in that state, Albert Radloff and an
other man died ot poisoning. Twenty
. five oases in all are reported from that
town. Twenty additional oases are re
ported from Brotherton, on the east
bore of Lake, Winnebago, acme of
whom oannot recover. Milwaukee ha
alio reoelved ber share, and fifty peo
ple have been poisoned in Oshkoah.
The new i causing a panic among
fish eater and dealer.
For tbe third time in aii month the
Sonora atnge ba been beld np, near
Cloudman, Cal. Two masked men
uddenly appeared on either side of tbe
road and covering with shotgun the
driver, ordered bim to "hold np." He
wa then ordered to throw out the mall
lack and told to drive on. The mail
saoks were rifled of registered letters
and left on the road whore they were
subsequently found by the postmaster
of Cloudman. The amount seoured by
the robber I unknown, but i believed
to have been large.
There ba been a run on the society
known a tbe Uuida Eoonomio in Rio
de Janneiro. The fond ot the soolety
are guaranteed by the government, but
numerous person withdrew their de
posit. Coffee producer and export
er are greatly alarmed at the falling
prloea In Europe. The agricultural
oongreu in San Paulo proposed tbe
foundation of a bank for the need of
the rural depositor. Foreign oapital,
It i laid, can be prooured to open
nob an institution, and immediate
steps will be taken to start it
... Thou.anut Are Homeless-
Thrte-fourtlis of the city of Ooaya
qlul, Eouiidor, hai boon reduced to
ashes by a (Ire wbloh raged for twenty
four hour, swooping everything in it
path. Some estimate tbe financial lost
at upwards of f 60,000,000. Many
live wore lost in the Ore, and 88,000
people are homeless. Two thousand
bouses, including every bank in tbe
olty, of which there ere five, were
burned. It Is Impossible from the
present food supply there to feed all
the victims, and the suffering will un
doubtedly be great.
Chloago ly Celebrated.
Chloago day, the anniversary of tbe
greet fire twenty-five year ago, wa
celebrated in tbut city chiefly a a po
lltioal holiday. Republican and
Democrat culnbratod separutey, each
party having Its own big street parade,
h well a monster gathering indoors.
Praotioully every factory and store in
the city waa oloied, also the board of
tra.de aud bank. From ealry morn
ing the streets were jammed with
cheering thousand, struggling to gain
tome point of vantage.
' An Overtealoua Parson,
The Rev. Lang, an evangelist, who
had been holding a revival at Seward,
O. T., during one of bl sermons de
clared "tbut all women who danoe are
immoral." A storm broke at onoe,
and Lang waa chased to the Santa Fe
station by fifty enraged ohurob mem
ber. At the atation he wa beaten al
most to a jelly by two farmers and a
number of women. Subsequently be
waa rescued from a ooat of tar and
feather by a train orew.
Crime ot a Madman.
Albert Dray, aged 80, of Noblesville,
Ind , a farmer aud a very religloua
man, cot tbe throat of bl wife, 8-year-old
ton, Carl, S-yer-old daughter,
Edna, and blinsolf. The wife and chil
dren died without a atruggle. Bray,
with a gaping wound in hi throat
lived for some hour without regaining
oonsolousnea. Bray crushed tbe skulls
of bi victims with an ax after be bad
out tbelr throats.
Fought a Hurglar.
Mis Ella Emerson, 18 year old, of
Fruitvale, Cal., battled with a burglar
who tried to chloroform, gag and bind
ber, and after a desperate atruggle, she
succeeded iu making ber eaoape by
leaping through an open window and
dropping to tbe ground, a distanoe of
twelve foet
II a Maurt.r la Head.
Oeorgo Du Manrler, artist, novelist,
aud author of "Trilby,"-died in Lon
don. Hia end waa pa inlets. He
passed away surrounded by bi friend.
For day he ha been hovering between
life and death, at lnsterval conversing
with friend regarding bl work. Upon
one occasion a friend at the dying
man'a bedside referred to tbe auooess of
"Trilby" a book and a play, where
upon Du Maurier replied: "Yea, it
has been lucoesaful, but popularity ba
killed me at laxi" The immediate
oause of bi death 1 given aa heart
trouble.
for the Good of the Cow.
Instructor Winterbalter, ot the agri
cultural oollege at the university of
California, 1 making a comprehensive
dairy report wbioh will cover practic
ally the entire atate The work Is be
ing done under the supervision ot Pro
fessor E. W. Uilgard, who is advocat
ing the us? of the Uaboook tester to dis
cover disease in oowa. Professor Hil
gard aay the report will (how the
value of such test aud ruggest method
of recompensing tbe dairymen for the
loss of cattle. .. ..
freight Thl.v.s apturad.
Seoret servloe agent ot the Chicago
As Northwestern railway have arrested
is Cbloago the membera and stopped
the operation of the most skillful a
well a successful gang of trelgbt-oar
pilferer! with whom the railroad de
tectivei of that olty have bad to deal
with in many year. It is known thua
far that five railroad have suffered
through tho operations of tbe gang,
and it ia believed not less tban 110,000
worth of property baa been stolen with
in the last six month.
An Bleetioa I.nehlug.
The state election caused a murder
and lynching at Mount Junotion, Ga.
Gu William, Popu lilt (negro), atruok
a ticket out of a Democratic negro
voter's hand. The Democratic negro
trook Williams for hi Insolence, and
William fired at bi assailant, nut
missed bis aim and abot aud instantly
killed Engineer Mlddleton, ot the Cen
tral railway, who wa an onlooker.
Bystandert took William and lynched
blm and riddled bi body with bullets.
Wheat Is Advancing.
Manitoba wheat Is advancing daily.
At some points where competition li
unusually keen as high aa 67 oents has
been paid to the farmer, while 60 oents
i now the general price for No. 1 hard
throughout the province.
Tan Were Browned.
In a oollisiou between the iteameri
Alexander and Emden, on the Ham
bnre. near Hull, the former sank,
drowning ten of the orew.
A Llghtahlp Founder.
It i reported in Qaeenstown that tbe
Daunt rook lightship, having on
board a orew of eight men, ha foun
dered. The Borland's Craw.
Captain Anderson and 80 other un
fortunate men, oompoting tbe orew ot
the ill-fated bark James A. Borland,
arrived in San Franoiso on tne Aiasaa
Packer' Association steamer Afnogak,
whloh came in from Port Townsend.
The Borland went on the rooks while
trying to make the harbor at Togidek
island, Alaska, September 10. The
vessel and oargo, consisting ot 80,000
atxes of salmon, were a total loss, but
all the members of the orew esoaped.
IT IS CONSTITUTIONAL
Act Providing for Election of
Judges in Washington.
AH OLD LAW REPEALED THEREBY
Soot of lupr.m. Court's Opinion Is
That Kllealtat County Canuol
A luae Choose Judge,
Olympla, Oot 18 In an opinion
flleJ today, the supreme court sustains
as constitutional the aot of 1805, relat
ing to superior oourt and the election
ot superior judges, and hold that the
aot of 1801, providing for judge and
additional judge for superior oourt
iu oountle of this state was repealed
thereby. The onse wa entllted the
State, ex ml. Hiram Dnstin, respond
ent, vs. Claude Rusk, appellant.
Regarding tbe repeal of one aot by
another the oourt say that the plain
Intent ot tbe legiilatore of 1898 wa to
provide not for additional judge, but
for tbe election ot all superior oourt
judge of tbe state by tbe district pro
vided in tbe act, and that the aot re
pealed the former aot, notwithstanding
tbe absence of any repealing clause.
Tbe constitutionality of tbe act wa at
tacked upon the ground following:
That tbe title doea not sufficiently
indicate tbe subject matter of tbe act
That tne aot Is in oontravention of
section 5, article 4, of tbe constitution.
Regarding the first contention, tbe
oourt oonolodo that the title is suffi
ciently explicit to permit tbe legisla
ture to enact anything regarding tbe
auperior oourt or the election of inch
Juage.
A to the second objection, the oourt
holds that no great violence i done to
tbe language of the section of tbe con
stitution under consideration, wben
taken as a whole, by holding that
thereby it wa intended to rest in the
legislature discretion to determine
when eaoh of the counties should elect
a judge for itself, and bow the counties
entitled to so elect should be grouped
for ludioial purpose.
Tbe effect of tbi decision 1 that
Kloktat oounty is not entitled to elect
a judge for itself at the oomlog elec
tion, but must aot with Skamania,
Clark and Cowlitx.
MACEO'S STRONG POSITION.
Entrenched Rlnueir In the Monotalaa
Wh.ra lie Cannot Ha Dislodged.
Cbloago, Oot 18. A special to the
Times-Herald from Key West, Fla.,
says: ;
The sudden return of General Barnal
to Havana from the northern coast of
the province of Pinar del Rio, where he
was eut by General Weyler to com
mand tbe Spanish foroea in the recent
engagement against Antonio Maoeo,
ba caused a profound sensation in
Havana.
General Bernal ba returned on lick
leave and haa asked to be sent to
! Spain, being thoroughly disheartened
over tbe result of the campaign just
! inaugurated against the insurgents in
I Pinar del Rio. Tbe general report
that Maoeo ba thoroughly reorgan
i iaed hi foroea in the last few weeks,
Sand entrenched himself in the most
commanding positions of tbe mountain
J fastnesses and that any attempt to dls
j lodge bim would be sure to result in
i disastrous failure and wholesale
slaughter of tho Spaniard.
The folly of attempting to dislodge
Maoeo ba been fully demonstrated,
Goneral Bernal said, in all tbe reoent
engagements. From the commanding
positiona, the Spanish officers were
ploked off by tharpshooters, and the
troops lacking leaders, became de
moralized and were slaughtered like
sheep, ,
I Tallow Fever and Smallpox.
Washington, Oot 18 D. Burgess,
; sanitary inspeotor of tbe marine hoapi
' tal service at Havana, in a reoent re-
port said that yellow fever continue
' to be epidemic there, and he i inform-
ed it la to in most plaoe where the
1 Spanish soldier are found. During
! September there were 1,084 deaths in
I Havana from the disease. Small-pox,
instead of diminishing, increase rapid
j ly, not only in Havana but in the sub
j urbs. The doctor expresses the fear
that it will be many months before this
scourge i over. He also points out
the danger from yellow fever to vessel
discharging cargoes at Talla Piedra
wharf, Havana, because ot it olose
proximity to an old and badly infeoted
military bospitaL
Dathed Down a Kavine.
Martinea, Cal., Oot 18 A. H.
Heenan, a bookkeeper at tbe Empori
um, San Franoisoo, met bi death to
day while driving. He, in company
with bi flanoee, a Miss Galloway, of
Ban Franoiaoo, drove out to Ferndale
Springs in a double team. Instead of
turning the team in tbe place provided
on the ground, be attempted to tarn
it into a narrow plaoe on the bank of
the ravine. The team went over the
bank and landed in the oreek at the
bottom with young Heenan under
neath. Mis Galloway jumped and
saved herself as the team went over.
She wa oompelled to go a mile for
asaiatanoe, and it was an hour before
the body wa reoovered.
Can Command Re.pect-
St. Petersburg, Oot 18 Tbe Russian
newspapers are unanimous in express
ing the opinion that the review of
Frenoh troops by the war at Chalon
Ignified that if the two powers, Russia
and France, are sinoerely paoiflo, they
also by aoting in unison possess me
force necessary to secure repeot
The non-tidal part of the Thame 1
188 mile in length and drains an are
ot 6,000 square mile. '
Oil la Oklahoma.
Perry, 0. T.( Oct 14. Great excite
ment exist in the eastern part of this
oounty and in Payne and Pawnee coun
ties in the Osage Indian nation, over
tbe dlsoovery of oil in great quantities.
It baa leaked out that the Standard Oil
Company ba seoured lease on thou
sand of acres and twenty other com
panies have purchased lease oomistiug
of many thousand ot sore. At Cleve
land, a wonderfully rioh flow of oil
wa found by a farmer, who wa bor
ing a well;
A Settlement In (light.
London, Oot 14. It is learned that
a oonferenoe yesterday between tbe
Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary of
State for the Colonies Hon. Joseph
Cbamberlin and British Ambassador to
Washington Sir Julian Punoefote, was
most satisfactory. It is believed in
highest quarter that at least tbe gen
eral principle of arbitration and set
tlement of tbe Venezuelan question
will be decided upon with the United
State before the eod of the month.
For Stealing Turkey.
Nashville, Oot 14. At Columbia,
Tenn., Mary Moore, a white woman,
worth $50,000, and the owner of 600
acre of fine land, wa oonvioted ot
stealing six turkey from a neighbor
and sentenced to one year in tLe peni
tentiary. An appeal wa taken to tbe
supreme oourt. Tbi i the finale of a
most remarkable career, unrivaled in
the history of the criminal oourt of
the atate.
L.ft tho Track and Cptet.
Chicago, Oot 14. An eleotrio oar
on the Madison street eleotrio line
while going at a high rate of speed,
jumped tbe track near Fitty-aeoond
street yesterday, orasbed into a tree and
then rolled over on it side in a ditch.
Of the passengers on tbe oar eight were
seriously Injured.
WHOLESALE JAIL BREAK.
Four Dangerous Criminals Kaeape Front
. Vancouver. '
Vanoouver, B. C, Oct 18. A
wholesale jail delivery this afternoon,
whereby four leader of a gang ot safe
breaker, who have been operating
here for the past month or two, es
caped. Tbe escape waa made about 5
o'clock, duriDg tbe few hour the pris
oners are allowed recreation in tbe
yard, and it was not till half an bonr
i l.tA. wkn -TailA ffnth wntir. rn Innk nn
before supper, that tbe eaoape waa dis
covered. The men' name are: Ab
bott Smith, King alia Clark, McGar
ragb and Kelly.
Smith baa already escaped onoe, and
King bad nearly got away, but fell
lnaide of tbe jail fence instead of out
Smith and King bad iron on, and
j Smith was also looked in bi cell, but
tbe iron wa filed off and the lock of
tbe cell wrenohed. The escape waa
. effected by outting out a board in a
' oell to a hole in the yard. A confed
erate, Who bad been released a few
' day ago, evidently furnished a saw to
the prisoners While the cell lock
and iron were being wrenched, one of
. the men spoke to the jailer about some
medioine, and thus kept bi attention.
I The men bad a good start, and being
, desperate characters, and having some
'revolver which were stolen recently
and bidden away, they will doubtless
' make a bard reaistanoe it followed. A
, description of the men has been tent all
over the oountry, and the offioer are
oouring the outskirts of the city, but
, It i thought there i slight chance of
capturing them.
Bpanlah Version of a Battle
Havana, Oct 18. A meager report
ha been received of another important
' engagement between tbe Spanish forces
under General Eohague and Antonio
Maoeo, in which it is claimed the in
argent sustained heavy losses, and
'the losies ot tbe Spaniarda were ad
mittedly eeverc.
Tbe battle ooourred October 8.
General Eohague reports that be found
insurgent very strongly intrenched un
der Maceo himself on the heights of
Gualitoi, in Pinar del Rio. These
height were bombarded for three
bonr with all tbe mean at the com
mand of the Spanish commander. At
tbe end of that time be took . tbe
height by assault, and put many in
surgent to death with bayonets, caus
ing them a heavy loss. It i supposed
they suffered a still further loss by a
heavy oannonade wbioh wa direoted
at their retreat
For Weyler1 Removal.
Havana, Oot 18. The conservative
Spaniarda who are againat General
Weyler are asking for hia removal on
the ground that bi continuing in
office mean the sure loss ot tbe island.
A large part ot tbe Cuban element will
be willing to accept borne rule it an
other captain-general be appointed.
There i a positive assuranoe from
friends here to the effeot that General
Martines Campos is willing and anx
ious to return to Cuba, but that he will
not oome until be bring the home-rule
concessions with bim. An understand
ing has existed between tbe reformist
here ' and the government whereby
President of the Cabinet Canovas will
end Martinea Campos and the home
rule concessions it there ia a surrender
ot some ot the iniurgent foroe in the
field, luffloient to allow the govern
meat to state to the pnblio that tbe
revolution is weakening, and that in
itself means the final end of the Cuban
revolution."
A Foul Murder.
Topeka, Oot 18 Alfred Cummiugs,
a deorepit veteran of the Mexioan war,
was murdered in a foul manner at his
home, near the Leavenworth oity lim
its, some time last night Cummings
a. a miaerlv veteran, who had consid
erable pension money, and lived alone
in a one-room house. Everything in
dicates that while he was eating sup
per last night some pesron slipped up
and dealt blm a blow on the head
with a hatohet, linking into the brain.
THE ENGINEER KILLED
Another Fatal Collision on tbe
Southern Pacific.
'IX CARS 8MA8HED TO PIECES
I oeotnotlre BuUllf Thrown From tho
Halle, Killing the Engineer and
Injuring the Fireman. .
Redwood City, Cal., Oct 18. A
torlous freight-train oolllaion ooourred
about 3 o'clock this morning on the
coast division of the Southern Paolflo,
between May field and Palo Alto. As
a result of the collision, the engineer
of the freight train from San Jose to
San Francisco was killed and another
of the train orew was seriously injured.
Laitt night six empty oar wore left
on a tiding at Palo Alto. Early this
morning the "empties" started to move
on the sidlug. Tbe grade between
Palo Alto and Mayfield i very steep,
and the empty cars soon acquired a
high rate oJ speed. The oar ran a m 1 1
down the road, when, at Greer's cross
ing, they collided with a freight train
coming frm San Franoisoo.
The engineer of tbe freight train
supposed he had an absolutely clear
track, and was coming at a good rate
of speed with a heavy train. Tbe
night wa dark, and before he could
perceive hi danger, tbe fugitive cart
crashed into hi locomotive, throw in,
it' off the track, twisting tbe engini
and smashing it badly. Tbe "empties'
and freightcar were piled high in I
general heap of ruins. Over twenty
cars were badly smashed up. Th
track at the point ot collision is abso
lutely impassable, and at daylight a
construction gang began to lay a new
track around tbe wreck.
Henry Haggerty, engineer of the
freight train, was killed. Fireman
W. Bowser was badly injured. Tbe
freight train from San Jose waa run
ning forty miles an hour wben it
struck the runaway cars going in the
opposite direction. The effeot of the
oollition was remarkably destructive.
The whole of the long freight train
was piled up in one mass of kindling
fifty feet high. The tender of the en
gine was thrown clear over tbe locomo
tive. Engineer Haggerty was mashed
to a jelly, and Fireman Bowser suffered
broken bones and internal injuries.
The trains at noon Are switching
around the wreck pending the clearing
of tbe main traok, which is completely
obstructed.
WAS BROUGHT TO BAY.
Sherburne Robber Killed Hie Pursuer
Then Suicided.
Minneapolis, Oat 19. The tory of
the robbery at the bank at Sherburne
ended tragically today, when G. D.
Sair, one of tbe mnrderoua bandits,
when all but captured, killed Marshal
nllin !.& WiIm nt lila .nr.nara
uau.vu, mw ran. r -------i
and, sending a bullet into his own
brain, fell dead at the feet of the mar-
dered marshal' posse. Tbe daring
roDber naa snot nis way out oi a iarm-
houce surroundid by offloers, and would promised.
have made good his escape, but for an i a an interview upon the subject
accident to hi bioyole. I Montgomery said hia reason tor not
Sair and hi acoomplioe rode tbeii haviDg given publicity to tbe story
bicycle into the little town of Sber-' earlier waa that the kidnapper threat
bnrne, and in robbing the cash tray oi ene(j t0 kill him if it ever became pub
$1,000, murdered Cashier Thobnrn and ii0 and both he and hia wife believed
Olaf Oerstran, a traveling salesman.
After the robbery, the bandits set ont
for the southwest, pursued by a large
posse. Yesterday the citiaens of Em
mett and Kossuth counties turned out
en masse in search of the robbers. They
separated near the De Moines river,
one going dne east Deputy Sheriff '
Brayton, ot Kossuth, and Marshal Gal
lion, with a posse from Bancroft, took
the trail.
At 7 o clock Sair stopped at a farm
house to get something to eat, and ten
minutes later the house wa surround
ed. The robber darted for a window,
out of which be jumped. Marshal
Gallion wa stationed there, but, be-'
fore he oould level hia gun tbe bandit
bad drawn hi revolver and sent a bul- j
let through the breast of his victim.
Gallion lived only a few hour.
The bandit mounted bi bioyole and
rode eastward at a tremendous paoe.
The posse soon started in hot pursuit
m . . i -. L - 1 J
Tni: and for five miles menaced to
xne ruuuor wan auuu. a uiuo iu nu-,
i j jaam.aa : . ... ij-
keep a good distanoe in the lead. His
bioyole then went down on him, being
" .......
punctured
and be left it by the road
ide and set out on foot through a corn
field. "
Deputy Sheriff Brayton wa olose
upon his heels, and opened fire with a
double-barreled shotgun. The bandit,
seeing be bad no ohanoe to make his
eaoape, plaoed a revolver to bia head
and sent a ball through his brain. By
the time the deputy sheriffs reached
him be waa dead. Hii body wa rid
dled with bullets. Most of the money
taken from the bank wa found on hi
person.
A Boiler Exploded.
Danville, Pa., Oot 18. A largt
boiler in the Redding iron work ex
ploded tonight, wrecking the boiler
house, in whioh several workmen were
badly injured, and demolishing th
residence ot John Burn. John Castle
man and Mr. Burns' little daughter,
who were in the dwelling wer
orushed to death.
A Fruitgrower Aetat.tuated.
San Franoisoo, Oct 19. A Chron
iole special from Suisun. Cal., says:
Daniel Wilson, one of the pioneer fruit
grower of Suisun valley, and a war
veteran, wa assassinated at his home
shortly before 8 o'clock this evening.
The detail are meager. Two women
who lived at the Wilson residence gave
the alarm. They said the mnrdered
man responded to a knock at the dooi
and aa he wa about to step outside a
pistol was fired with fatal effeot
TERRIBLE SIBERIAN FLOODS.
Great Demaea and Lo. ot Life Hear
Vladlvottoek.
Taooma, Oot 18. Reporta from
Vladivostook, wbiob arrived today
from Japan pr steamer Tacoma, state
that last month the plain bordering
on the Ussnri were the scene of terrible
flood. Tbe river Siphoon, Mor,
Santa Chaaa and Iman were all out,
and the plain for hundred of mile
wa turned into a lake, in aome plaoe
twenty six feet deep. Tbe Siberian
railway waa flooded for 180 vent
from Iman, the laat station on the
road, and in many place washed away
and for tome daya telegraphio com
munication with Vladivostok wa in
terrupted, both on tbe government and
private line. The grain orop were
beina catbered. and were stocked in
sheaves in the fields, and tbe winter
stock of bay wa being boused. All
these were carried away, a were in
most oases tbe stock of tbe farmers, a
well as their bouse.
New bad been reoelved of tb
deaths of over a score of people, and it
waa feared that in the more remote
district the loss of human life would
be still greater. P.esoue parties were
out in all directions, taking tbe farm
er and their familie to place ot
afety in the few boat to be found in
the distriot, and the governor-general
at Vladivoatock has dispatched a party
of soldiers, with two light dranght
(team launche and four lifeboat, to
assist, in tbe work. Tbi party found
great difficulty is reaobing the scene,
owing to tbe state of the oountry.
A tbe settlers have lost their all,
even their stock of foodstuffs for the
winter, there is likely to be great dis
tress and famine in tbe region during
the ooming winter. .
ASTONISHING BLACKMAIL.
A Story That Blvala the Campbell Ah-
.. duetlon Caee. . ...... ,
San Franoiaoo, Oot 18 Such a
story as Millionaire Campbell told and
proved against Oliver Wintbrop oome
now from Charle Montgomery, pro
prietor of the Brooklyn hotel, who ia a
man of mean, position and high repu
tationjust suoh story, save that the
kidnapper, to call bim to, is declared
to have planned more wisely than
Wintbrop, executed more skilfully,
reaped a substantial reward for hia
daring crime and gone soot free.
For more than a year Mr. Montgom
ery ha held hi peace and kept hi
pledge of secrecy, and no one but bia
wife and bi lawyer ha known that
be wa tbe viotim of an astonishing
piece of villainy, and that be paid a
large sum ot money said to be $10,
000 to bia captors aa the price of bis
liberty and personal security.
Tbe Chronicle this morning pub
lishes a sensational story to the effect
that a year ago last July Mr. Mont
gomery bad been lured into a vacant
bouse in the most populous part of the
oity at midday, and nad been held a
nrisoner and threatened witn torture
! ... , i j a ,i ... A A f
gna G6HIH , ana una uuuuy .(jicou w
' pay ja jailer the sum he demanded
j witt,iu specified time after hia re-
lease, bad aworn not to betray tbe rob-
an(j had paid the money as ne
' .w be WOuld keep bi word.
MRS. CASTLE IS GUILTY.
Ber solicitor
Admits That
the Cure.
She Stole
New York, Oct 18. A dispatch to
the World from London, concerning
the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M.
Castle, of San Franoisoo, say their
solioitor frankly admitted to a repre
sentative of the World today Mrs.
Castle's guilt Miohael Abrahams,
their solicitor, is a oriminal lawyer
of wide experience and great ability.
He declared today that "I have had
her exaimned by some leading special
ists in mental diseases, and have no
doubt that the judge will admit her
symptom are suoh a to warrant a de
fense ot kleptomania. She suffers
from pain in the bead, from oomplete
loss of memory and from other irregu
larities, whioh, according to medioal
' oienoe, are known to be frequently
' aaaVafliati
associated witn ueiusion. tier case
will be decided in a month or six
I - TIT akall aannl . Via I tVl
weens. -ffv "
ner again next J. uesaaj , auu m. uvyo
she will be released on bonds we can
offer. The whole faot ot the matter
ia, in short, that Mr. Castle did take
these artloles, but her husband is per
fectly innocent of any knowledge what
ever of ber doing o."
The Vat. of Two Gambler..
Fayettville, Ark., Oot 13. Muoh
exoltement prevails in the Indian ter
ritory over the operation of gamblers,
who are fleecing the Indians. The
quarterly payment ot the Ojage tribe
wa made Thursday, and hundreds of
gambler were present with all kinds
of devices, from the shell game to tbe
gold-brick swindle. Two gamblers
fleeced a crowd of full blood, and
their viotim beoame enraged and drove
them out of the settlement The gam
blers were overtaken at Turkey oreek
and killed. The name are not knowa
Meeting In the Phllllplnet.
Madrid, Oot 18 A dispatch from
Manilla aay a oompany of native sol
dier at Mindaoao, an island of tbe
Malay archipelago, the second largest
of the Philippine Islands, has mutined
and killed its cffloiala. -
Corning, Ia., was visited by the
most disastrous fire in its history.
Three hundretd thousand dollars' worth
of property wai destroyed. An un
known ?.! wai generally pillaged by
robbers, who undoubtedly set the fire.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns of the
Thriving alitor State.
Oregon.
A large buck deer that weighed 138
pounds dressed wa killed near Lake
view last week.
Tbe Milton Eagle says that many of
the strawberry fields about Milton are
producing the second orop of fruit now.
There wa but one case to oome be
fore tbe grand jury in Josephiqe coun
ty at this term of oourt, and no indict
ments were found.
It it reported that the government
will put in the harbor light at Coo
bay a soon as tbe location ia decided
upon. Tbey will be four in number.
Tbe Fort Klamath creamery haa
made tht season about 9,000 pounds of
butter and four or five tons of cheese.
During tbe season the supply of milk .
was from 850 oows.
A Linn oounty bopgrower baa kept a
atrlot account of all expense attending
the picking, drying and baling ot hia
18,000 pounds of hops, and tbe total
cost figure np 8Ji oenta per pound.
Two (mall boy, while trolling in
the Rogue river, near Wedderburn,
last week, booked and landed a 40
pound salmon. Tbey booked another
one, wbiob broke the line and esoaped.
A party of elk hunter killed a fine
six-point buok elk on the headwater
of Birch creek, in Umatilla oounty,
laat week, and took the caroasa to Pen
dleton, where it was sold to a taxider
mist The contraot for building a mill for
the Columbia Mining Company, on
Fruit oreek, in tbe Cable Cove mining
distriot, ba been let to the Gate Com-
pany, of Chicago, 111., and machinery
for tbe mill li on the way. '
The pole for sixty miles of telegraph
line have been landed at Warrenton by
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. Warrenton is to be made the
base of supplies of the entire line from
the Lower Nehalem to Goble.
The new drift of tbe B. B. C. Co.'
mine, at Biverton, Coo county, is re
ported in about 160 feet, and is being
pushed steadily forward night and day.
About eighteen tone of ore from the
Gem mine i being crushed daily by
the ten-stamp mill at Sparta. Tbe
Gem promise to become one of tbe
beet mine in Union oounty.
One day last week the 6-year old son
of a German named Myers, who live
near Middleton, in Yamhill oounty,
tonohed a lighted match to some hay at
one oorner oi tne barn, ana tne oia
German wa soon without a barn, bay,
a wagon and other article of value.
The little fellow said he had seen bi
father burn"labinga," and he thought
he would burn one.
Washington.
Tbe total enrollment of the Elma
school i 140.
Twenty carload of sheep from El
lensburg to Chicago were shipped last
week.
The lumber shipments of Washing
ton this year are slightly over 30,000,
000 feet larger than for a like period
in 1896.
The old Lake Shore Lumber Com
pany' mill, at the south end of Lake
Union, Seattle, burned last week.
The loss wa about 13,000. .
The payroll of the city of Spokane
for September amounted to 110.166.34.
In order to get the cash the oity wa
oompelled to discount the warranta 1
per oent
President Winter, of tbe Northern
Paoiflo Railway Company, has, it i
aid, closed the deal for a site for a pas
senger station in Seattle, the purchase
price being $167,000.
The beaoh at Gray' harbor one day
last week waa lined for mile with a
row ot smelt about four feet wide and
three to four inches deep, that bad
been driven in by tbe storm.
The law against killing quail in
Washington expired last week. Theo
retically, they have been protected for
five years, but praotioally tbe little
game bird have had a continual strug
gle for tbelr live.
.The report of the harbor and cus
tom business for the month of Septem
ber show Oriental Imports amounting
to 1350,855; Oriental exports, $265,
000; total foreign exports, $360,860;
total to all point. $479,098.
A subsidy of 860,0 feet of log ba
been pledged by tbe settlers, and work
will be oommenced on the removal ot
tbe jam in the Willapa river at once.
The channel will be cleaned a soon a
there is sufficient rise in tb river to
float the debris. ,.
Competition among grainbuyen ran
the prioe of wheat up to 45 cent! per
bushel in Garfield one day last week,
and thousands ot bushels were sold at
that figure. Tbe amount of wheat dis
posed ot since the prioe reaobed 48
oents li estimated at between 6,000 and
10,000 bushels.
A fishermens' protective association
has been formed by the fishermen of
Morr'i landing and vicinity, who
hoped to extend tbe organisation all
along tbe river to Tbe Dalle. The
objeot of tbe , organization is to pre
vent the depredations of pttty thieve
among the net and t-aps. During the
present season this kind of thieving ba
been going on . to ' inch an extent that
life haa become a burden to the aver
age fisherman, and it ia proposed
through tbi organization to teach tht
light-fingered a few lesson . ' . ,