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ST. HELENS, OHEG ON, FRIDAY, MAItCII 26, 1897.
NO. 14.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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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
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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.
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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-
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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, ...