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ORE TV TT cinn W ' - JL . Jl. i A IV 3i VOL. XIV. ST. HELENS, OHEG ON, FRIDAY, MAItCII 26, 1897. NO. 14. EVENTS OF THE DAY - . l .v.- n..i. .-i. ! Epitome oi iub tsirjiajdiiM News of the World. TKRSB TICKS FROM THK WIRES a Interesting Collection r Item Proa the Twe Henilipheree PrMnU4 In a Oondeneed Pom. Five moil wore Injured, two futally, In a railroad accident At La Grange, 111. A meat trill n bound for Hammond jumped the truck on the Belt Line of tint Chicago, lhimmond & AVeatorn road. The engine will ditched, two of the cara were telescoped, and the re- , muindor of the train throwu from the track. J Aainallband of unemployed work men have begun the oomuruction of boulevard in Gulden Gate Turk, Han Francisco, to pay for whloh public aub soriptloiis have been taken. Ex-Mayor Hiitro warned the Workmon to keep off liia land, and aa the boulevard extendi across Sutro'a property, work had to be suspended. Hutro haa promised to in deed for the atrip, however, J Mint Blanche Borard, the oldest postmistress in the country, who baa hold oftloe for ft halt century, haa re aigned. 'Administrations and presi dents changed, Rtmaater-generals came and went, poatoflloea were reor ganized and reclassified, groat political upheavala annihilated every branch of the government, but ahe remained un disturbed at Wet Point, N. Y. 1 A Havana apeoiiil to the New York World aaya: Through Cuban here it ia learned that train carrying Fpiiniah troopa woa blown up by dynamite while panning over ft deep gorge aouth of Can. delaria, Pinar del Rio province, and neary 250 aoldiera were killed or in jured. The locomotive and nix ears were demolished. The tragedy ooourred about the 10th inat j In the executive session of the annate, Senator Stewart offered an amendment to the Alaskan boundary treaty, which la in the nature of aubstltuto for the provlaion for ascertaining the meridian. It providea for the aurvey of the whole boundary line, but fixes definitely the boundary aa provided in the treaty of 1867. The boundary lino in that treaty la Incorporated in the amend ment of Senator Stewart, and, if car ried, la made a part of the treaty. Governor Rogers, of Wellington, haa iaauod hla Arbor day proclamation, recommending that Friday April 80, 1807, be devoted by the people of Washington to planting treea, shrubs and rlnet and in other ways beautify ing their homes. In connection with the governor 'a proclamation, State 8u - perlntendciit Brown haa prepared ft programme to be rendered In the dif ereut gradea of the public achoola from tlio first to the grammar grade, luulu- , aivo. The report that the O. It. N. Co. waa contemplating an extonaion of its linea to the Kootenai country haa been officially denied at the ofllcoa In Port land. No auch enterprise ia at present under consideration. The Mississippi river ia on the rise. At Memphis it boa reached 80.8, the highest record since the establishment of the weather bureau. Along the low landa of Arkanaaa there ia great suffer ing among people who have bee.n driven from their homes by the oncoming wa ters. ' ' - A Missouri Pacific passenger train ran Into a buuoh of horses near Wolf t 1 I- If fTl . . , I !. vreea, nan. xne unguieur auu iiro- man were Killed ana a aoore or otiiort .,vitution with hia phyaioiana, it was injured, mostly train employee. All djjj that for a time the patient the oars but the aloopera were ovor- mUgt have absolute rest. Aa he auf tumed. The possongore cacajied with for8j goverely from dysentery when in comparative ease. j the field, hia medical edviaer would In revenge for being ejected from 1 traina, trampa cauaed a wreck on the Louisville Se Nashville railway this morning. They spiked a switch, do railing and demolishing a freight train and causing heavy damage. The tramps had intended wrecking the Chi cago limited. They ; have been cap tured. Poatinaator-Goneral Qn hu mills the definite announcement that the ad- ministration had decied to adhere to the four-years-tennro-of-offlce policy for all postmasters, except In a few oases whore removal for cause was required on account of delinquency, incompe tency or unsatisfactory conduct of ad ministration of ofHce. Professor 3. B. MoMaatera, of the univoraity of Pennsylvania, will arrive in Chicago thla week with a bundle of manuscripts oi tlio new aonooi History of the United Statea, in which potrlot- ism is the keynote. The making of this history has been undertaken at the urirent renueat of a committee of the rund Armv of the Bnmilille. An expedition ia to be sent to North- eastern Asia and Northwestern Amorioa to discover if possible the ancestry of th AmrlHn Indian. Morris Jessuo. of Natural History of Now York, ia the originator of the expedition, and will pay all the bills connected with it, which during the six yeara of ita con tinuance, will reaoh considerably over 150,000, , Charloa Rodatinsky, a farmer, with his wife and baby, started from Omaha in a covered wagon with a gasoline stove. The stove exploded, the team ran away, and the occupants of the wagon were fatally burned. W. O. Willi, of Hay crook, Crook county, acting upon the request of oiti aona of hla section, haa asaod Gover nor Lord to intercede in behalf of the Eaatern Oregon people in the matter of the exclusion of stock from the Cascade reserve, by making a special request of the president. LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BURST. ; " - i. . . Killed Engineer and Fireman, but l'ai- Sanger Knew Nothing of It. . C,lloo. Maroh 88. The boilor of tli) locomotive, which waa hauling the vnieugo and Boston aiieoial, on the Lake Hhore as Miohigan Southern road, blow up thla morning, Instantly kill ing the engineer and fireman and com pletely demolishing the engine. The dead aret Alexander Franka, engineer, of Chloiigoj Edward B. Bmith, ilftaman, of (!hicago. The enigneor waa hurled 800 feet into the air through a network of tele graph wirea that wore atretched along tho traeka and had hla right leg torn off. Tho fireman waa thrown against a oattle car with audi force that almost every bone in hia body waa broken. None of the rcat of the train erew nor any of the pussengera were injured. The train to which the engine wna attached la one of the fastest on the Lake Hhore, and leavea Van Buren atreet depot at 10:80 in tho morning. The accident occurred about 11 o'clock, aa the train had juat pulled out from Englewood, and waa running at the rate of twenty mllea an hour. A peculiar feature of the explosion waa tho fact that although tho report waa ao loud it waa heard by resident half a mile away, and the force ao . great that the engine waa literally 'blown to atoma, none of the passenger in the rear part or tlie train heard the report and wore not aware that anything unuaual had happened until they looked out after the train had come to a andden atop, The train went about 100 feet after the exploalon Uwk place, and, although the atop waa qultfc audden, none of the paa eengcra were thrown from their aeata, and not one of the eoachea waa dam aged by the exploalon or by the audden atop.' The force or. the exploalon waa ap parently upward and outward, aa parta of the engine were thrown into the air 100 feet, and plecea of the boiler were touted into a awamp, a distance of 850 feet, while the baggage oar, directly behind the engine, waa not damaged in any way. It ia not known juat what cauaed the exploalon, oflluiala of the road aaying that It will not be determine! until what remain of the engine ia taken apart and examined. It waa thought at ftrat that there waa no water in the boiler, but this theory waa abandoned, aa it waa a through train, and the en gine had juat been taken from the roundhouse. It waa rumored that the boiler waa defective in some roapocta, but thla waa denied by oflloiala of the road. The hitter any the locomotive waa in good condition in every reapect, had been in aervice about three yeara, and waa considered one of the faateat engines on tho road. The train that it waa pulling waa known aa No. 10, and ia a through train from Chicago to Boaton. PRESIDENT CISNEROS DEAD Mama Hecomee Head of the Cuban Itapublle. I Havana, March 23. -It ia reported from Camouuey that Salvador Cisneros, nreM, lent of the Cuban republic, ia dead; that Vice-President Bartlome Maaao succeed him aa president, and that Dr. Capott, ex-professor of the , Havana university, will be appointed vice-president . General (julntln Bandera has re turned to Cainaguey. i A larire body of Insurgents ia oon- oentratod near Sancti Spiritua, and a combined movement of Spanish troopa against them la expected. 1 Vnr ,), Inut four ilnva. f!nntain-Gen I eral Weyler his been greatly annoyed by a aerioua affection of thotnroai wuu anpiHiration of the glanda of the aeao- - ... a a. . phagna. On weilnesday, alter aeon- not allow hlra to return there for aome time on that account also. In addition to the lad Nelson, several other American boys have arrived at Havana within the lust few daya witn the intention of Joining the Insurgent army, but the advice given them ia to return to the United Statea. Iheboy, I Kobort Emmett Scully, of Somerville, K .t . wlm came to loin the Insurgents, will probably be ahipiied back to New York at the request of his fumily and of the American state department. Caught by a Belt. A.tnrla. Or.. March 88. Charlca Seeloy, an employe of the Young'a TH. tmln mllla. met a horrible fate at 4 o'clock this morning. He was one of the two men employed on the nght shift. ' The belting that operates the large grlndera new ou mo punuj., I and the signal was given the engineer to shut down until It was replaced, I As thia waa being done, and while tho ' ahaft waa revolving alowly, Seeley ,,.l,n nn and caught hold of the belt, It ia aupposed his arm went through a loop, and, becoming entangled, the j young man was sent w,"7 abaft. The first revolution threw him naoinst the celling, killing him. Ba fore the machinery ootild be stopped the body had been mashed to a pulp, goelov waa 80 years of age, and a na .i... nf 'Illinois. He had lived here 1 a Villi And had relatives on Young'a river. gpaul.h Official Baport. Havana, March 23. During the ten endiiur Thursday, the insurgents 4a Willed, among them being one leader, eight officers, besides eight privates who were taken prison ..u ia i. anrrnndored. They lost 164 . ,.,l 1.000 side arms. The o....ui. w. duriiiB the same period 1 1 ree offloera and twenty-four aoldiors ailed; sixteen officers and 888 soldiers wounded. THE OAKES IS SAFE Arrives in New York After a Terrible Voyage. CEEW STRICKEN WITH SCUBVY Ala Man IMad am the Passata Cap. tain's Wife Took Har Turn at tha Wheal. Now York, March 88. The long overdue clipper ship T. F. Oakea, which lett Hong Kong, July 4, 1898, 860 daya ago, with a general cargo, for thla port, and which had been given up aa loat, waa towed into port thia morning, by the British tank steamer Kaskeck, Captain Muir, who picked her up last Thursday. The orew were sick with scurvy, and six had died. The Kasbeck was bound from Phila delphia for Flume, Austria, with a cargo of oil, and left the former port Saturday, March 18. On the following evening, at 1 1 o'clock, blue lights wore seen. Captain Muir ordered the steam er's course altered, and the eteamer bore op to the distresa aignal. At 1 o'clock, ahe waa close alongside the ship and stood by until daybreak, when aignala were observed flying from the ship, asking that a boat be aent along side, as the ship's orew were ao help less aa to lie unable to man their own boats. Chief Officer C. P. Helahem and three seamen at once put off in the Kasbcck'a yawl, and, when within speaking diHtaiioe,lieardata!eof suffer ing and sickncaa from those on board the ship such aa mode them ahudder. Captain Iteed, of the Oakea, reported that hia orew were all laid up with scurvy, and that the provisions were well-nigh exhausted. He waa unable to navigate the ship with the few bands he had at hia command, and begged that he at once be supplied with fresh food, and vegetiiblea and taken in tow for the nearest port. Mate Helahem returned to tho Kaskeck with the mea aage, and Captain Muir at once decided to ta'ce the vessel in tow. T io weather, which had been threat ening, now became boisterous, and a northerly gale sprang up. Neverthe less, preparations were mode to pass a hawser to the Oiikes, when the boat, with a load of provisions was sent. Tho sea waa rough at the time, but Chief Officer Helshem volunteered to attempt to board her, and, as the en gineers reported the propeller to be working well, it waa decided to send a hawser aboard. Accordingly, a line was dragged by the boat, and after a deal of hard work, two hawsers wore made fast. Mr. Helshem and hla boat'e orew of three did most of the work on the ahip. They found only the second and third matea able to help them. The provi- aiona they brought were a godsend to the scurvy-stricken survivors' of tne ahlp'a crew, and they began to gather hope that they might live to see land aguin. From the time the hawaer waa passed until New York waa reached, no incident of importance occurred. Captain Koed, of the Oakea, told a terrible storvof suffering and privation, When the Oakes sailed from Hong Kong the crew was apparently in the best of health, with the exception of Captain Rood, who had been ailing for some time, but who. under the careful nurs ing of his devoted wife, thought him self on the road to recovery, wnen about six daya out in the China aea, a terrific typhoon waa encountered, last' iug several days, during which the fore and main topmasts were sprung. The vesssel was oblined to run before the gale, which had no sooner blown itself out than it was followed by a second typhoon, whioh blew with great fury for twenty-four days. . The vessel had thon got well out In the North Pacific, and so far off her course that Captain Reed decided to shape his course via Cape Horn, rather than by Cape of Good Hope, hoping thereby to make better time. The weather remained flue until Cape Horn waa rounded, 167 daya out In the meantime the Chinese cook had been taken down with a severe cold and died November 11. Afterward a seaman named Thomas King waa taken down with what appeared to be acurvy, and died December 20. In quiok aucceasion Seaman Thomaa Oldon waa taken sick and died January 18; Thomas Judge, another seaman,, waa taken ill with cancer of the Btomach, and later Mote Stephen Bunker showed symptoms of scurvy. Tho latter died February 4, and waa quickly followed by George King, an old man, Who died on the 9th. On the 17th Judge aueoumbed, making in all alx deatha. One by one the other aallora wer obliged to quit work, until on March 1 nobody waa left exoept the aecond and third mates, the captain and his wife. All were well-nigh exhausted, and when a strong northerly gale blew up that day, the brove woman was obliged to take the wheel, and for eight hours without relief and without aa much aa a drink of water, she kept the ship on her course. The provisions were running short, although a supply had been obtained January 18 from the American ahip Governor Robie, from New York for Melbourne, when off the island of Trin idad, and the crew waa left without other than the barest necessities. A aharp lookout was kept for passing ves sols, but nothing was seen until the Kaskbeck hove in sight. The only vessel during the voyage, with the ex ception of the Robie, was a northbound Lamporotft Holt steamer, which passed the Oakes off Pernambuco, but was too far off to distinguish signals. , The Oakes is a three-masted ship, built bv the late Commander Gorrine, at Philadelphia, In 1888. She regis ters 1,897 tons. On March 18 she wa reinsured at 90 guineas premium. J BLOCKADE HAS BEGUN. drank Ships Will Be Prevented from Approaching; Crete. Canea, March 88. The situation in Crete today may be described aa one of expectancy. Thia morning the fact that the blockade had formally begun waa , generally communicated from Canea to all points in the Island in the telegraphic circuit. Pillaging atill continues. Three Turkish aoldiera who were caught in the act of pillage Saturday night Hal epa fired on the gendarmes, who re turned the fire, killing one of them. come doubt ia now expressed by offi cials here aa to whether Colonel Vaasos, commander of the Greek forces in Crete, will be able to hold out long, owing to the acaroity of proviaiona. It ia denied by the officials that there ia friction between the admirala and the consuls. Foreign Warships at Crete. London, March 23. The Athena correspondent of the Timea aaya ft atrong gale ia blowing across the Agean aea, which will make the blockade ex ceedingly difficult. It ia reported the admirala purposely .'refrained from interfering with vessels whioh have recently landed provisions in Crete, one having discharged a car go at Akrotiri almost under the eyes of the admirals. The necessity of removing the Turk ish troopa from the island becomes more and more imperative. Absolute ly nothing else, continues the corres pondent, will convince the Cretans of Europe'a sincerity. It may be regarded as certain that they will even prevent the departure of the Greek army by force until the Turka have gone. There ia no time to be lost. It ia Impossible that Greece and Turkey could longaup port the armies they have mobilized. Each will favor provoking a struggle to seeing ita troopa starve. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Arou.cs the German Frail to Spirit of Anlraoilty. Berlin, March 88. The German press displays special interest in the new American tariff. The Cologne Gazette publishes the full text of the bill, and all leading newapapera pub lish extracts from it, and editoriala on the subject These latter breathe a apirit of florce animosity, and a atrong desire for reprisals. The Kleiner Journal says: "If this bill becomes a law, Europe, and eapecially Germany, must feel it to be an intentional blow in tne iaoe. A large part of our exports ia thereby prohibited, and exports of another part ia rendered extremely difficult Many of our industries will be forced to oompletcly reorganise their system of production, raise the quality of their goods and specialize. Thia will require a period of experiment and delay. In the meanwhile, much of the commerce and Industry will be loat Referring to the currency plana of the United Statea, .the Kleiner Journal says: "We deem silver to be a danger to gold countries, especially to Germany, even greater than the tariff. The re mainder of our commerce in Amerloa will be put on a ehifting basis, and great losses are threatened to our finan oial investmenta in the United Statea, Our holdings in the Northern Paciflo railway alone amount to 8,000,000 marks, end billions of German capital will be imperilled." The Tageblatt, National Zeitung, Cologne Gazette, Weiser Zeitung, and Hamburger Nachrichten publish simi lar articles. A MURDER AVENGED. Pearl Bryan's Slayer Died nn the onefold. ' - Newport, Ky., March 88. The mur der of Pearl Bryan, fourteen months ago, waa avenged today. Scott Jack son and Alonzo Walling were executed at 11:45 A. M. from the same scaffold. There was a double trap, but only one lever, and when Sheriff Plummer pulled the lever, both dropped the same in stant Walling, however, lingered moment longer than Jackson. The neck of neither was broken, and both struggled hard in the process of strangu lation. The arrangements wore complete, and the performance was so perfect that it was without any incident unusual on auch occasions. Both men were nervy to the last, and on the gallows protest ed their innocence, and died with their secrets, so that it may never be known what waa done with the head of Pearl Bryan, or where she lodged the two nights previous to her murder, or what part each took in the decapita tion, or whether others were implicat ed. There were over 800 men men within the enclosure to witness the hanging, and many thousands gathered around the jail yard, but the special deputies and police maintained order. The execution waa quickly dispatched, aa neither man had anything to aay on the gallows, exoept to declare hla inno cence, and Rev. A. J. Lee waa brief in hia remarks. Capitol BUI Vetoed. nivmnia. Wash.. March 88. The capitol building project haa been put to Bleep for two yeara more. Governor Rogers today refused to give the meas ure his official sanotion, and stated aa his reason that it was not legally passed. Destroyed by Fire. Ottumwa, Ia., March 88. A disas trous fire broke out thia evening in a brick business block on Main atreet owned by the Seth Richards estate, and destroyed property valued at 180,000. After a hard fight the fire department succeeded in getting the fire under con trol. The property destroyed was In sured for $100,000. The gardener should remember that harmless snakes are expert and vora cious bug catchers. . . . , . A TERRIBLE DISASTER Exposure, Starvation! Mad ness, Then Death. LOSS OF THE V1LLE STE. K AZAIRE An Oeean Tragedy of Exceptional Horror Eighty Lire tost torlea of SurvlTora. New York, March 22. Of eigty-two persona comprising the passengers and crew of the steamer Ville Ste. Nazal re, which sailed from thia port March 6 for Port au Prince, Hayti, only four are known to have survived the disas ter whioh befell the craft a few hours later. These four passed through an experience such as fortunately has been the lot of but few, seeing one after an other of the thirty-one others who left the steamer in a large boat perish of exposure to the cold or die of hunger, some suffering, during the seven days in which they drifted helplessly with out sail or compass, pangs that drove them to madness before death came to their relief. Among the survivors is Senor Tagado, a San Domingian, who was compelled to witness the death of hia wife and four children without being able to al leviate their Bufferings. What became of the forty-four persona besides these mentioned above can only be surmised, although there is a remote possibility that one or more of the three boats in which tbey left the ainking eteamer in the midst of a fierce storm off Cape Hatteras, haa been picked up by a sail ing vessel. " The Ville Ste. Nazaire was a single ecrew bark-rigged eteamer of 8,640 tons register. She waa owned by the Com pagnie Trans-Atlantique Generate. The accident vividly recalls the fate of the aame company'a ateamer Ville de Havre, whioh went down November 83, 1873, with 226 people on board. The Ville Ste. Nazaire was commanded by Cap tain Jaguena, a Bailor of experience and ability. Hard weather was experienced from the time the steamer left thia port until the water began pouring into and over her, and it waa determined to abandon her. The passengers and crew took four boats, the fifth having been crushed in the attempt to lower it. There had been no time to provision the boats. It was night, and in the midst of a storm the transfer was made. Captain Berri, manager of the West Indian line of the Compagnie Trans Atlantique Generate, was one of the 85 men who embarked in the larger of the boats, and upon him developed the command of that frail Tefuge for so many soula. He, Senor Tagado, Lautz, the third engineer, and Maire, the hip's doctor, are the only ones surviV' ing. They were brought to Perth Am- boy yesterday by the schooner Hilda, whioh came upon them March 14, as they were drifting at aea with the dead bodiea of four of their fellow-passengers in a small boat. The aurvivora were almost dead from starvation and expo sure, and were too weak to relieve the small boat of the weight ot tne corpses. The four rescued men were brought to this city from Perth Amboy in the tug Idlewild last night. Captain Berri is being attended by Dr. L. Deplezze, who entertains doubts of nis recovery, and declares that he must have endured most terrible harships. The Ste. Nazaire cleared from New York for Port au Prince on March 6, On the following day, according to the story told by one of the survivors, the leak was discovered, Dut it was not thought to be sufficiently aerioua to war rant a return to port. By the middle of the second day, however, the leak had increased to a dangerous extent, and a portion of the cargo on the port aide of the vessel waa damaged by the water, which had commenced to pour in in great quantities. A terrible storm arose on the night of the second day, and the heavy seas, together with the big leak, rendered the escape of the vessel from shipwreck an impossibility. Realizing that the ship was doomed, the captain ordered the four lifeboats to be lowered, and into them orowded the passengers and crew. The boats were soon swept apart by the wind and waves. ' ' The boat which was found by the Hilda six days after the sinking of the steamship is the only one of the four boats that has been heard of. llilrty five persons, it is aaid, were crowded into the boat from whioh the aurvivora were taken. One by one all but the four rescued men died from exposure or hunger, or were swept into the deep by waves which broke over the smalt boat The bodies of the doen who died in the boat during the first days of its ter rible voyage were thrown over board by the survivors. But those who with stood the elements and managed to live without food or drink, at last became too weak to rid the boat of its ghastly freight, and were compelled for days to gaze upon the stiffened corpses oi tneir unfortunate companions. Agent Forget, of the French line, is doing all in hia power to make the survivors comforta ble, . '''.y:---' '.:.' Captain Berri, who is B8 yeara of age and a trusted employe of the Frenoh line, is under the care of a doctor. The physician found his patient'e throat fearfully parched and his lungs in the aame condition. After examination, the doctor aaid that with careful treat ment he might recover. It would be over a week, however, before he could take any solid food. The captain's body is oovered with bruises from being thrown about the boat while sue was tempest-tossed. Decorated by the Pope. " Rome. Maroh 82. The pope haa conferred decorations upon several Frenoh officers who saved Roman Cath olio religious houses during the Area t Canea ... . .. .. , THE BILL REPORTED. rnrlff Debate Will Continue Fire Daya House Bale Agreed Upon. Washington, March 82. Thia waa a llormy day in the house of representa tive. The Republican leaders, before adjournment, secured the adoption of a special order fixing the limita of the tariff debate, and two of the regular appropriation billa which failed to be come lawa at the last aeasion were passed and sent to the senate. The sundry civil tun carried 133,147,- 651, and the general deficiency bill 18,166,214. The galleries were thronged and there waa hardly a vacant seat on the floor. At times partisan feeling ran high, and the ball echoed the cheers of the majority or opposition aa their re spective ' spokesmen made effective pointa. All the premonitory symptoms tnat the bonse waa about to plunge into the work before it ceased when the speaker rapped the members to order today. The desks were piled high with the ap propriation bills that failed. Immediately after the reading oi tne journal, Dingley, amid aome applause, reported the tariff bill. After a good deal of crosaQring be tween Dingley and McMillin, it was finally arranged that 5,000 extra copies of the majority and minority reports, and also 5,000 copies of a comparative statement of the tariff, aboald be printed. . Dalzell. from the committee on rules, presented the special rulea under which the house waa to operate during tne tariff debate. The rules provided that general debate will continue five days, with night sessions, after wnicn tne bill should be open to amendment un der the five-minute rule (committee amendments to have precedence), un til March 81, when the bill, with pend ing amendments, should be reported from the committee of the whole and the previous question be considered as orrdered, on the third reading and final passage of the bill. The rules also gave leave to print for twenty days. Dalzell demanded the previous ques tion, which was ordered by a strict party vote, the Populiste voting with the Democrat a . In deference to the request of the minority, Dalzell agreed to an extension of debate on the general order to be thirty minutes on a side. The Senate Proceeding. Washington, March 22. The first copy of the senate calendar was on the desks of senators today. The two Pa ciflo railroad bills, reported yesterday, were numbered 1 and 2. These and Turpie's resolution for the election of senators by the people constituted the calendar; The claim ot J. Edward Addicks to a seat as senator from Delaware made its reappearance by a petition from Ad dicks, presented by Burrowa of Michi gan. Following thia, Chandler presented a memorial from Governor W. P. Lord and the secretary of state of Oregon, detailing the circumstances of the re cent failure of the legislature of that state to organize and elect a senator. The document stated that as a result of thia failure, no session of the Oregon legislature had been held, since Feb ruary, 1896. The purpose of the memorial was to establish the right of the governor to appoint a senator. The memorial, like Addicks petition, was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. . The early opening of th wiff work in the senate was indicated by the agreement to a resolution for the prepa ration ot a comparative statement on revenue questions and for an increase of the clerical Btaff of the finance com mittee. A resolution by Gear was agreed to. calling on the attorney-general for in formation as to the Paciflo railroad foreclosure suits. A resolution by Pettigrew tor a com mittee of five senators to look into the Paciflo railroads questions, was re ferred. At 12:50 the senate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty, and at 4 o'clock adjourned. Senator Davis, ohalnuan of the com mittee on foreign relations, spoke at length in the executive session of the senate today, presenting the views of the majority of the committee favorable to the arbitration treaty, and he was listened to with the utmost attention by the senators. AFTER TWENTY YEARS. A Husband Beturn to Find HI Wife In Knickerbocker. Vlneland, N. J., Maroh 22. Twenty yeara ago Captain Moses Lucas went away. He waa not heard from and it waa supposed he was dead. When he went away he left behind a wife and daughter. - They have continued work the farm which gave them sup port To facilitate movement about the fields and barnyard they donned many years ago a more fitting atyle of dress for that work than skirts. Since knickerbockers became fashionable they have , modified their dress to knicker bockers. Lucas suddenly returned and in carriage was driven to the door. Mrs. Lucas answered and in a minute she and the stranger were clasped in eaoh other's arms, the man being her long- lost husband. Lucas is said to have become wealthy. , London, March 88. A Times dis- patoh from St Petersburg aaya over thousand students have been arrested at the doors ot the cathedral of Our Lady of Kasan. They were endeavor ing to attend prayers said for the soul of a girl student named Vitroff, who it is alleged set fire to a blanket and burned herself to death in her prison cell to escape the insults and violence of a prison official. She had been im prisoned aince December on the charge of being a political agitator. , , ; NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. ;: fTEHS OF GENERAL INTEREST 7rom All the Cltle and Town of the Thriving Slater State .--Oregon ' The Grant county court has declared that taxes for the year 1896 will not be ' delinquent until May 15, 1897. The county treasurer of Umatilla re- , ceived from the sheriff last week $1, 652.79, the first installment ot 189C taxes turned over by the sheriff. Carl Parker has started for the John Day country to buy 80,000 head oi sheep, if that number can be bought, foVoaa Co , says a Baker uity paper. President William H. Hampton, of the Miner's Association of Southern Oregon, has called a meeting of the ex ecutive committee, to be held in Grant's Pass, in the near future. George and Edward Sally, two boys who were born and brought op in Baker county, were sentenced to the penitentiary by Judge Eakin, in Baker City, George to two years, and Edward to one and a half years. George is 22 years old, and Edward ia 18. The Grant county court haa awarded the contract for putting in ateel fix-, turee at the county jail to the Mosler Safe Company, of Portland, for f2,76U. Among the improvements will be steel cells, closets, bathtubs, etc The work is to be done this spring, ana alter that it ia hoped there will be no more escapes from tbia jail. T. A. Walker helped Engineer Nich olson in hia recent geological eurveya around Coquille. Among other things found was one of the government's ini-i tial points at the courthouse block, which had been tampered with. A fine of S250 ia provided for arrest and conviction of the party or parties med dling with or defacing theee posts. J. B. Tucker, ft farmer of Weston, Bays that wheat in hia aeotion of the county ia looking fine, and he does not think that there ia any danger of its being hurt from this time on. He said that where he lived the wheat was much more likely to be injured than in the wheat belt west of Weston, be cause oi tne aitituae, wnicu cause more thawing and freezing. , Three horses belonging to R. R. Cleveland, of Beagle, Jackson county, died last week of a disease similar to spinal meningitis. The disease seemed to weaken the spine, and tne animals grew rapidly worse, resulting in their deatha within four days from the day of the first symptoms. During the ill ness, they ate and drank heartily until within a short time before death. George R. McKenzie, the expert ac countant appointed by Judge Fullerton, . to eo through the books of Lincoln county, is now busily engaged at hia task. He aaya that his instructions from the court are to go through the books and accounts of the sheriff, clerk and treasurer, checking np the same. and find out how much money has been received by these officers, and what disposition has been made of it. . . Washington. . Garfield ia working to have a cream ery established there. William Rowe, an old Walla Walla county pioneer, was buried last week in Walla Walla city. Fishermen on Wlllapa harbor an busy tarring their nets and otherwise. preparing for tne fishing season. The people of Kettle Falls are build ing a' bridge acrossa the Colville river, for the use of farmers coming to town. Frank Smith, a tree pruner, living near Walla Walla, drank three bottles of a patent medicine one day last week, and died the next day. ,: A majority of the Indiana on tha Yakima reservation are aaid to favor the proposition to sell their lands, but a few of the more wealthy among them are against it - Ah Sam and Ah Mum, two Chinese laborers, were arrested in Walla Walla last week, charged with being unlaw fully in the United States. They will ba sent before United States Jndge Hanford, in Seattle,. for a hearing. Even the wheat raising district ol Walla Walla has its mines. A carload of gold-bearing ore from Blue and Mill creeks, has been shipped to the Tacoma smelter. Should the experiment prove Buccessful, a large force of men may bt put to work at the mines, The reference library of the Cheney normal school haa received valuable addition of about 200 volumea, consist ing of literary, scientific and historical works by the most eminent writers ol ancient and modern times. The liter ary work . consists of both prose and poetry. : " The telephone company ia distribut ing poles between Myers Falls and Spo kane. Teams are daily hanling poles between the falls and Chewelah. Pres ident Oakes and Secretary . Aria aay they expect soon to have the line in working order between the falls and Spokane. '.. : yJ: A tree on the Northern Paciflo track between Aberdeen and Monteaana caused Fireman Hampden to Jumj from the engine one day last week. The engineer atuck to hia post and tht engine knocked the tree, which turned out to be rotten, all to pieoes. Tha fireman was found unoonsoious, badly bruised, and bleeding, but lie is recov ering from his injuries. , Fifty-three persona joined the Meth odist church during the cent revival meetings in Colfax, ...