OREGON
VOL. XVI.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1899.
NO. 33.
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EVENTS OF THE DAI
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World. ,
TKRSK TICKS FR01I THR WIRES
An Interesting Collection of lUini from
th Two llemt(fhers FramM
In Condensed Warm,
It I rumored In London thitt Salis
bury way resign.
Downy will spend nil o( August at
Mediterranean porta.
Talk of whi with Great Britain does
nut alarm Washington officials.
Jealousy cunsed the death at one and
probably aiiotlmr at Long Beech, Oal.
Two cool Ainailcana at said to liava
dispersed a bowling tuob of 400 la
Corea.
Melklejohn will lie acting secretary
ol war uutll Alger's resignation takaa
pla.
Mri. Rich, of Tesae, was 'taken to
Mexico fur murder trial, wrapped In an
American Aug. '-
The Catholic aichblahop of Cleveland
lias issued an appeal to tbe strikers to
reapect the law.
Russia and Japan are reported to be
preparing with a view to a poaaibla
uonriict In Corea.
The Transvaal It la laid mutt com
ply with England's every demand or a
hot war will follow.
Freight handlers are on a atrlka in
New Voik. They auk for au inoreaaa
f i oin IT to 90 oenti an hour.
The militia was ordered out to pro
teat a Georgia sheriff and jail from
tuob, wlio threatened to lynch a negro.
William T, Stead says the peace con
ference hue achieved a great success,
and went beyond the expectations of
thu delegates.
The threatened rate war to Miaaourl
ivttr points has been averted and the
reduced-rate tlckela have beeu taken
off thu uiaiket.
A wici k occurred on the Central Pa
rlllo near Clurk'a atatiou, Nevada.
Engineer Read waa killed and liia Or
u.uii badly hurt.
Own t'aol Kruger tendered bla resig
nation a president of the South Afri
ciin republic It waa not accepted, and
ha later withdrew it.
Information from the lower Yaqtil
river, at the south end of tbe atata of
Honors, In Mexbo, conveya the iutelll
pence tluit an oiitlirenk bus occurred
turning the Vequl Indiana. In a fight
line white man and 80 Indiana were
filled.
' At Ilattionbuig. Minn.. Henry No
pals, a negio who attemptel toaaaaolt
'noHalinu Davis, (Saturday evening, waa
raptured i.ear Bond City, Miss., and
lutfr Identified by tlie young lady. A
mob tied him to a tree and ahot him to
death.
The atenmer Bertha liaa arrived in
Han Francisco from Ht. Michavla via
lliialiinka with 07 passengers and ahont
91,000.000 In gold, f 760,000 of which
ia in oliaige ol Purser Keye. The pur
aer says tlieio ia wealth in the Capo
IS'omo district, and dcclarea there la no
truth in the elorina of failure to find
gold which have beeu published.
Plague and delayed raiui are die
stressing India. . '
Completion of recruiting new regi
ment! for Otia la expected within a
fortnight.
A mine eiptoaton near Biownavllle,
Pa., killed all and entombed 70 min
ers, who luter escaped.
Admiral Dewey baa wired hisacoept
anoe to tiecome the city 'a gueat upon
hia arrival In New York.
A little boy waa ahot and killed by
a non-union conductor at Cleveland.
Eight hundred troops are now on guard.
An American lady millionaire, waa
arrested in Paris for shoplifting. Hlie
waa released after paying for tba atolen
goods.
The reciprocity treaty with Franoa
liaa been signed. Concessions had to
be made aa a condition of Caiubon't
aigniug the convention.
Bir Wilfred Laurler tefuaea to quali
fy his statements In regard to the
boundary dispute, and assertl that he
meant just what he aaid.
A small boy has testified at Chicago
that he witnessed Mrs. George kill
Geome D. Buxton brother-in-law of
President MoKinley, at Canton, last
October.
Nei Perce Indiana may make trouble.
The young bucks have threatened to
inuider Northern Pacific extension
graders, because the line oiosses tbeir
leservation.
Sir Wilfred Laurler, prima minister
of Canada, ia to he presented by hia
friends with $100,000. His salary of
f 8,000 a year is considered insufficient
for hia wants. '" '
Hoke Smith favors discontinuance of
tbe war. He contends that audi ia the
sentiment all over the South, Ha
does not wunt the flag to tun, but
would have the Filipinos promised
complete Independence.
The income of the principal charita
ble institutions having their headauar
ten In London, amounts to over $36,
000,000 per annum.
The Fourth of July just past was
more widely celebrated in foreign coun
tries and participated in by foreigner!
than any previous one.
The equestrian atatue of Major-Gen-eial
John F. Reynolds, who com
manded the First coipa of the Army of
the Potomac, waa unveiled at Getty
burg, Pa.
LATER NEWS.
Martial law la suggested has method
of settling tbe Cleveland strtet car
strike.
Fire at Tapper lake, In the Adl
rendacks, dustioyed a hotel and IS
buildings.
Yellow fever as broken nut in 'the
National Holdlois' Home, near Hamp
ton, Va.
Twenty governoia will attend the
trust conference to be held In Chicago
in September.
Cubans are finding fault with the
census commissioners appointed by the
United Btates.
President MoKlnley will tender Ad
miral Dewey a reception when be ar
il ves at Washigtlon.
Private J sines A. Doyle, of company
D, Heuond Oregon, succumbed to dys
entery at the Presidio.
Because volunteer would not re
enlist, General Otis denied him a per
mit to go into business In Manila.
The tripartita oommltteo has abol
ished the kingship of Samoa adjudging
It to be without authority and useless.
The 80-knot torpedo boat destroyer
Goldsborongh, was successfully
launched from the ways at the Wolfi &
Z wicker Iron works at Poitland, Or.
The Harilman Alaska expedition bat
returned. The expedition, both from
a scientific and pleasnio point of view,
waa an entlie success. A journey ol
over 0.000 mi lea waa made.
The Nobiaskn regiment and two bat
teries of the Utah aitillery, have ar
rived in Ran Francisco. The Nebiaa.
kana have 100 wounded men. Theii
losses Including sick, amount to 804.
They say they have bad enough ol
Philippine fighting.
The rumors regarding the formation
of a Cli Ino-Japanese alliance are semi
officially denied at Pekiu, and it is aa'
parted that the envoys recently sent to
Tokio were appointed simply to prove
th friendly relations between the pow
ers. A Paris dispstoh says two automo
biles beat the Parlt-8t. Mole expieas
train In a race between .those cities, a
distance of 380 miles, making the heat
time ever recorded for an automobile.
The distance was covered in 7 hours
and 48 minutes.
General Otis has informed tbe war
department of the arrival at Mauila
of tbe transpoit Valeuoia. There were
no casualties en route. The Valencia
sailed fiom San Francisco, June 80,
with headquarters B and M, Fourth
cavalry, and F and H, Twenty-fourth
Infantry, in all 10 officers and 464 en
listed men.
The California volunteers have sailed
for home.
Dreyfus Is repotted to be seriously ill
with a fever.
Amerioan stocks now command con
fidence throughout Kuiope.
Caroline islanders want to be an
nexed to the United Statea.
' President Henreanx, of Santo Do
mingo, has been assassinated.
' The body of the late Robert G. In
gersoll was cremated at Fresh Pond,
N. Y.
The fight between the linseed oil
combinations has been amicably ad
justed.
The messenger boys' strike in Pitta-
burg has been settled. Tba boys claim
a victory.
At Hartford City.Ind., Ralph Shelby,
a 9-year-old boy, waa thrashed to death
by hia playmates.
Otia reports another engagement
with bandits in Cebu, In which Auieri
can forces were victorious.
A Chicago negress is alleged to have
attempted the stealing of four children
within an hour. She ia now in jail.
Four life-timers in the Columbus,
O., penitentiary were so nnruly tiiat
special steel cells were built for their
incarceration.
Otia has been cabled to send volun
teeia home aa soon aa possible, it being
the desire of the president to have no
delay in the matter.
William II. Proctor, who went tot
California In 1849, remained there IS
years and accumulated fortune, it
dead in Brooklyn, aged 84 yeara.
It baa been decided to discontinue
the use of coal as fuel on the Ne
York, Mew Haven and Hartford rail''
road and to substitute coka for It on
all locomotives.
United States manufacturers will be
benefited by our new treaty with,
France. Farmers, however, will re
oeive no help, as maximum duties will
stay on agricultural products.
The Illinois Central baa a new com
uetitor on business from Chicago to
the gulf. The St. Louis & Southwest
em la building a connecting link to
Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
Rev. John Morrison, pastor of Cal
vary Presbyterian church, of Portland,
died at Carat Wiley, near the Giand
Uanyon noiei, in me xeiiowsiuue run,
where ha bad gone on a pleasure trip.
The New York Herald's Washington
correspondent says Root will he only
nominal head of the war ueiartunent
The colonial secretaryship is the re
sponsibility for which ha is really
slated.
According to the Washington Times
Rev. Sam Jones' Income for several
! years has been between 136,000 and
I 185,000.
Sarah Bernhardt says she was born
In Paris and not in Amsterdam or Ij
' Havre, as most of her biographers to
. late.
Edirar D. Crawlord. who was recently
admitted to the bar at Atlanta, Ga., is
the youngest lawyer in that state, if
not in the country. Ho is uoi quite ii
years old.
TOOK ANOTHER CITY
Calamba, 30 Miles Southeast
of Manila, Captured.
BRAVERY OF WASHINGTON BOYS
Four American. Were Killed and a
Otm Wounded-Rpaulah Pris
oner Were Liberated.
Manila, July 80. An expedition
composed of troops from San Pedro
Matatl, 1'aiig and Morong, under Brig-adier-Gttnerul
R. H. Hall, yesterday
captured Culambu. an important town
on the south shore of Laguna de Bay,
alter two boms of sharp fighting, dur
ing which foui soldiers weie killed and
18 wounded. Tbe trenches command
ing the hatbor were under water, but
tiie swampiness of the land made tbe
work harder.
The troops boarded cascoes Tuesday
night, The force comprised 400 of the
Washington volunteers, 460 of the
Twenty-first Infantry, 160 of the Fourth
cavalry and two guns of the First aitil
lery. These and the gunboats Napidan
and Coato assembled opposite Calamba.
Crowds of people In carts and on foot
weie seen rushing to the bills. Na
tives escaping from Calamba in canoes
said 100 insurgents held tbe town.
A foroe under Captain McGrath, of
the Twenty-first infantry, and Captain
Kltenheid, landed east of the town,
but found a rivei Intervening. Cap
tain McGrath and Lieutenant Batson
swam the river under a fire from Mau
ser rifles. Having crossed the stream,
the officers proceeded in cascoes to ferry
the troops over. The insurgents re
treated through the town, shooting
from bouses and bushes aa they fled to
the hills.
Bravery or WuhlniUH.
Three members of the Washington
regiment waded from cascoes through
swamps often shoulder deep, while a
group of Filipinos conoealed in bay
stacke were shooting at them until the
Napidan focused her six-pounders and
Galling guns on the stacka for a few
minutes. Most of the work was done
before the Washington volunteers could
reach the town.
The Filipinos left three dead. Of
the caualties on the American side, two
of tbe killed and three of tbe wounded
were members of the Fourth cavalry,
and two killed and eight wounded be
longed to tbe Twenty-first iu fan try.
There was muoh shooting by Fili
pinos who emerged from the bushes
with white flags. After the fighting,
a dozen men holding np their hands
and shouting "Castillanos," met the
American cavalry. Even Spanish sol
diers embraced the A met leans hyster
ically. There were 60 Spanish prison
ers at Calamba, of whom some were
civil officials and some were soldiers.
They had been given the choice ol join
ing the Filipino army or becoming
servants, and tbey chose tbe army, in
tending to surrender to the Americans
at the first opportunity. Most of the
civilians readied the American lines
during the fighting, but the insurgents
took away others in their retreat.
Armed Filipinos Captured.
General Hall captured 18 Filipinos
with guns. Major-General Lawton,
Professor Dean C. Worcester, of the
American commission; Mrs. General
Lawton and Geueial Lawton'a son ac
companied tbe expedition on board a
launch, and sat coolly ill an anprotect
ed boat close to the shore daring tbe
fighting, the bullets splashing about
them.
Today General Hall brought to Ma
nila tba Spaniards whom the expedi
tion had released from captivity of
more than a year. Lieutenant Larson,
commanding the Napidan, today found
a long-missing Spanish gunboat, which
had been so oovered with bushes and
fishnets as to not to resemble a vessel.
The Filipinos having met reinforce
ments and thinking that the Araerioans
had 'evacuated the town, descended
from tbe hills today, intending to re
ocenpy Calamba. General Hall easily
drove them back. General Hall will
leave a garrison at Calamba,
Lautcert Ulos ! Prison.
Jollet, III., July 89. Adolph h.
Luetgert, the wealthy Chloago sausage
maker, who was serving a life sentence
in the penitentiary here for the murder
of Ms wiia, waa found dead in his cell
today. Dra. Werner and O'Malley held
a postmortem examination. Dr.
O'Malley says Luetgert died from fatty
degeneration of the heart He found
that the heait was surrounded by a
great mass of fat, and that it waa real
ly surprising, considering the condi
tion of the heart, that death had not
ootue long befoie this.
Will Marry Only Soldiers.
Chicago, July 89. A special to the
Times-Herald from Independence,
Kan., says: The girls' clubs of several
southern Kansas towns have resolved
never to marry a young man unless he
served with the famous Twentieth
Kansas. Tbey say they are determined
to keep their agreement and that soon
er than marry a man who stayed at
home tbey will remain single all their
lives. Tbey intend to give the boys of
the regiment a big reception when tbey
return.
Corcoran Is Guilty.
Wallace, Idaho, July 89. Paul Cor
ooran who haa beeu on trial here for
several weeks for the murder of James
Cheyne, a Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill
man, In the Wardner riot, on April
29, was today convicted of murder in
the second degree. At 1 o'clock this
afternoon, Judge Stewart sentenoed
Corcoran to 17 years in the peniten
tiary. Under the Idaho laws the pun
ishment for murder in the second de-t
gree Is Imprisonment toi from 10 yeara
to life.
SAMOA AGAIN RESTLESS.
Attltnrte of tha ;! I Par Pro in
lturlHsT Justlos Chambers Talks.
San Franoisoo, July 81, Sainoan ad
vices under data of July 14, weie re
ceived to day by the steamer Moana as
follows! The sltnation in Samoa la
one of great uneasiness, tbe attitude of
natives being far from reassuring.
Several fights have occurred in differ
ent poitions of the islands between
supporters of rivals for the kingship,
and several natives have been killed.
Nothing muoh seems to have been ac
complished by the high commission
since arms weie surrendered by the
contending factions.
Chief Justice Chambers, being dis
satisfied with the support extended to
h:s court by the commissioners, will
leave today for Washington. Their ac
tion In refusing the aid asked fot to
sustain the court's authority is said to
have been prompted by dispatches re
ceived by the German commissioner
from his home government, whioh, it is
claimed, ia greatly displeased with hia
recognition of tbe supreme court in the
kingship case,
Tha commissioners have been well
reoelved on all the Islands they visited.
They expected to sail for the United
States on the Badger on July 18.
Valeaaa Tosses Mocks as Bl as Horsoa.
Honolulu, July 33, via San Francis
00, July 81. The volcanic eruption on
Mauna Loa Is atill in full blast. The
lava flow is apparently filling np the
table land, and Hilo and the whole
island of Hawaii are enveloped in
smoke. Vessels encounter dense clouds
of smoke a bundled miles out to sea,
and navigators are seriously Inconven
ienced. Kiiaua is also smoking freely
and Indications are this volcano will
soon be in active eruption.
Frank Davey, a photographer, has
returned from a visit to the volcano.
He says there is a series of eight cra
ters; five of them were dead, but ap
peared to have been active quite recent
ly. One of the others was belohing
forth smoke and fire and molten rocks
of great size. According to Davey, the
rocks were as big as horses and went
so high that they cooled before falling
to the ground again. It took Davey
and his party 16 hours to ascend the
mountain fiom the active orater to tbe
summit, where their horses were left.
Two men became delirious from want
of water.
The trip ia described as a terrible one
in the extreme. All around the top
of the mountain was cold, but at the
crater it was very hot. The extremes
were suoh aa would knock most any
body out.
Germans and Japanese Help Inaarsjenta,
New York, July 81. A special to
tha Herald from Washington says
According to verbal reports to the navy
from officers returning from the Phil
ippines, Aguinaldo continues to get
war supplies through German mer
chants in Hong Kong, and Japanese
merchants in Yokohama, although our
consuls have been directed to keep a
sharp lookout for filibustering.
In more than one instance, British
officers have aided the United States
in pieventing the shipment of arms
from Hong Kong, but omoera just re
turned say there is no doubt the temp
tation offered by Agulnaldo's high
prices has induced merchants to vio
late the neutrality laws and tiy to force
tbe imperfect blockade.
Twelve Spanish gunboats recently
pnt on blockade duty have done re
markably good service In cutting 00
supplies between different islands.
Last mail reports said they had cap.
utied IS different cargoes of supplies.
but not any valuable munitions of war.
poor on One Soaffold.
Baltimore, Md July 81. Upon
one scaffold, and simultaneously, four
negroes were banged today in Balti
more city jail yard. Cornelius Gar
diner, John Myers and Charles James
paid with their Uvea for criminal as
sault on Annie Bailey, a 18-year-old
negress. Joseph Bryan, the fourth
member of the quarter, killed Mary
Pack, a negress. The necks of James
Myers and Byran weie broken by the
fall and they died almost instantly,
Gardiner's cap became disarranged in
the fall and hia face was visible to the
speotatora. He was apparently con
scious about one momeut, after which
be slowly strangled.
, tnterestlnc Experiment.
Manila, July 31. Iu compliance
with an order received from Madrid,
the Spanish transport Alva will pro
ceed from Manila Immediately to the
Carolina islands, in order to repatriate
the garrison and Inhabitants of those
islands. There Is gieat interest in the
first attempt of a cable boat to follow
the movements of an army. The boat
left Tambay, near Taguig, at the north
em end of Laguna de Bay, this morn
ing, and after making connection with
the land wire successfully laid 18
miles of cable. It is expected the ca
bleboat will reach Calamba tonight.
Oregon to Re- Knllat.
Wanhlncton. Jill v 81. Lieutenant
Cnlnnel-Pliimmei .who la organising the
I Thirty-fifth infantry, telegraphed the
' war department today that a number
! nf men from the Recoiid Oreiron desired
' to enlist in tbe regiment and return to
the Philippines if they can be granted
RO dava fnrlnnoh. Tha fnrlniiffh has
been authorized by the war department
to aucb men as desire to enlist.
The Philippine Dead.
Seattle, July 81. The Times prints
this afternoon what purports to be
fnll and nncensoied list of fatalities in
the Amerioan army in the Philippines
up to June 3. The list vat furnished
by Fred J. Eitel, a representative ol
the Manila Freedom, who claims to
have obtained it from the records in
tbe surgeon-general's office at Manila,
The total number of fatalities is
given as 73083 offioers, 699 privates
and 14 civilian attached to toe army.
WHY ALGER RETIRED
Friction Between Him and
General Corbin.
ROOSEVELT'S STRONG LETTER
That Letter and tbe Itesnltlnc Confer
auee Touched Affair In flilllp
plaee and Cuba a Well,
Washington, July 81. The interest-
ing statement ia made in connection
with the departure of Alger from the
cabinet that Governor Koosevelt, of
New York, wrote a letter urging his
retirement, and also that General Otis
be relieved In the Philippines and
Brooke be succeeded by Wood aa mili
tary governor of Cuba. This letter was
written to member ol the cabinet
prior to tbe last geueial outburst of
anti-Alger talk, some weeks before his
actual resignation.
There was friction between Kooae
velt and Alger, in connection with the
famous round-robin Uoosevelt partici
pated in getting op, while be was with
the rongh riders at Santiago. Secretary
Alger criticised Boosevelt lor a lettei
of protest he wrote to the secretary in
this connection, and there was consul
erable exoitement over the matter at
the time. This is said to have been
entirely made np by the two men after
Roosevelt's return from tbe war, but
Roosevelt never appioved of the man
agement of the war department.
Roosevelt, in tils letter to the oahi
net officer, waa very severe in his criti
cism of the general conise of the war
department, and Insisted that the ad
ministration could not afford to be Held
responsible for Alger, nor to continue
the military policy In the Philippines
or in Cuba. He urged that vigorous
and effective operationa be insisted on.
This letter was shown to the president
at once, as it waa intended to be, and
from this was started the renewal of
the demand for Alger's retirement that
resulted in his resignation.
When the president sent for Roose
velt, as he did some time before Alger
resigned, it is stated that the object in
calling him to the White House waa
to talk over this letter and try to reach
some understanding that wonld avoid
hasty action in the matter. It was
supposed, after this interview Between
the pieeident and uovernoi Koosevelt,
that the whole matter wonld go for
two or three months before final action.
and the immediate and sudden resigns'
tion of Alger is attributed to friction
between him and General Uoibin, be-
oaose Alger desiied to copy certain
documents in the department for his
personal use,, an act whioh Cobrin it
said to have successfully resisted by an
appeal to the president
Invited to Taooma,
Tacoma. Wash., July 81. President
C. S. Mellen, of the Northern Pacific
railroad, in talking today of the rail'
road situation on the coast, aaid:
"We have offered the O. R. & N.,
which is in the Union Pacifio system,
to let them run into Taooma over our
tracks from Portland, and to give them
terminals here, so far aa we have any
say in the matter, at very reasonable
terms. They may accept onr proposi
tion. The terms are entirely satisfac
tory. If they are not, wo will make
them satisfactory. It would be to our
interest, aa well as theirs, to let
them run In "over our tracks, rather
than build an additional line. We
would rather divide tha eost and ex
pense of maintaining one line than to
pay all the cost ourselves The traf
fic between here and Portland for many
years can all be done over the one line,
and not be crowded. Aa for terms, we
will make terms that are aatisfactoiy."
Four Killed, aeven Injured.
Halifax, N. 8.. July 81. Foui men
were crushed to death, seven seriously
injured, and a number slightly hurt
in the wreck of a construction train on
the Midland railroad, in Hanis county,
this afternoon. A train of Bat cars
was preceding slowly along some new
track, when one of the center truck!
jumped tbe rails and the others behind
piled on top of It. There were 85 or
80 men on the tram. All those on
board the oar that first left the track,
four in number, were instantly killed.
One or two of those injured ate in a
dangerous condition. The accident
happened 13 miles from Windsor,
Next War With Germany.
Chicago, July 81. A Tribune special
from New York says: The Heiald this
morning haa a apecial cablegram from
Trieste, in which Admiral Dewey ia
Quoted as saying:
"Our next war will be with Ger
many."
. The prediction of the admiral was
brought about, according to the Her
aid's correspondent, by a discussion ol
a threatened clash with the Germ as
fleefnt Manila.
SSXBETA1IT OP WAV Ar.OttR.
A SOLDIER'S TALE.
Diversions on the Battle-field When
th right Was KaclnsT.
Dnring the first engagement while
the company waa filing at will into the
woods ahead, says Sergeant King in the
Minneapolis (Kan.) Messenger, a for
lorn water buffalo, the Philippine
beast of burden, meandered into the
rice field directly in front of the line.
Tbe writer immediately directed bis
fire toward the buffalo, with no appar
ent result. Afterwards, during a lull
in tbe firing, we shamefully confessed
to having wasted out strength in this'
ignoble manner and were surprised toi
learn that eveiy man had done like-)
wise. At all events, the beast made;
good its escape, for it patiently plod-t
ded ahead until the timber swallowed!
it up. During the charge at Calocan
a frenzied pig, of diminutive size,
dashed from beneath a bamboo hull
I 4. ..i , l. -11 tUa
auu, apparel.!, juuguig .no. nil mv
commotion was for his benefit, thought)
best to retire, As the pig dashed pasw
tha writer, we gently assisted with a
shove from tbe butt of onr gnu and
thought no more of it for some time.
Afterward, upon glancing to the rear,
we saw fonr or five soldiers in hot pur
suit of tha same poor little swine, it
ia laughable, even in times of peace, to
watch another man chase a hog, but
when men forsake their places, forget
the loar of conflict, the hum of bullets,
tbe shouts of the victors, and the wails
of tbe wounded, to grapple with an
eight-pound shoat, the scene becomes
ludicrous in the extreme. We took the
trouble to learn that the pig got away.
At Calocan the rebels had mounted
two monstrous muzzle-loading guns
captured in former times from the
Spanish. They attempted to fire one
of these, with direful results. The
Americana oolleoted the remains of 80
rebels killed by the explosion of the
gun. The insurgents bad not tbe cour
age to fire the remaining cannon, which
was loaded and primed when Calocan
was captured. The natives had loaded
tha gun with a complete curiosity ahop.
Tbe cannon waa filled with scissors,
knives, coal, pieces of briok, nails,
bolts, a theimometer, a horseshoe, a
car link, a piece of rubber hose, and, to
crown it all, a large quantity of hoop
iron bad been driven into the muzzle
so tightly that it waa necessary to file
it before tbe oharge could be drawn. A
double dose of powder waa found, and
also a quantity of dyna-nite. No won
der the other cannon exploded.
THE ALUM BAKING POWDERS.
Names of Some of the Principal Brand
Bold In thl Vicinity.
The recent discussion in the papers
of the effect upon the human system
of food made with alum baking powders
and the opinions that have been pub
lished from noted scientists to the
effect that such powders render the
food unwholesome, have caused numer
one inquiries for the names of the vaii-
ous alum powders.
The following list of baking powders
containing alum la made up from the
reports of State Chemist Nicholson, of
Nebraska, the City Chemist of St.
Louis, the Fowl Commission of Minne
sota, or other reliable authority:
Baking Powder ContalnVng- Alum!
K. O .Contvina Alnm
JaquesMfgr. Co- Chlciwo.
CALUMET ....Contains Alum
Calnmet Baking Powder Co., Chicago.
HOME Contains Alum
Heme Baking Powder Co-, San Francisco
WASHINGTON Contains Alnm
Paetflc Chemical Work. Tacoma.
CRESCENT Contains Alum
Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle.
WHITE LILY . . . .Contains Alnm
I). Ferrers A Co., Taooma.
BEE-HIVE . .Contains Alnm
Washington Mfg. Co., San Francisco.
BON BON Contains Alum
Grant Chemical Co-, Chicago.
DEFIANCE Contains Alum
Portland Coffee & Spice Co., Portland.
PORTLAND Contains Alum
Beno A Baui, Portland.
In addition to these, it is learned
that many grocers ate selling what
they oall their own private or special
brands. These powders are pnt up for
the grocer and his name put upon the
labels by manufacturers of alnm now
dera in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas
City, Taooma, San Franoisco and else
where. Tbe manufacturers, it ia said
find their efforts to market their goods
in this way greatly aided by the ambi
tion of the grocer to sell a powder with
his own name upon tbe label, especial
ly when the grocer can make an ab
normal profit npon it. , Many grocers,
doubtless, do not know that the pow
ders that they are thus pushing aie
alum powders which would be actually
contraband in many sections If told
without disguise.
It is quite impossible to give the
names of all the alum baking powders
In the market. Tbey are constantly
appearing in all sorts of disguises, un
der all kinds of cognomens, and at all
kinds of prices, even as low as five and
ten cents a pound. They can be avoid
ed, however, by the housekeeper who
will bear in mind that all baking pow
ders sold at twenty-five cents or less
per pound are liable to contain alnm, as
pnre cream of tartar baking powders
cannot be produced at anything like
this prioo.
Bad Knouch Now.
Husband Don't bother me, my
dear, I'm studying political economy.
Wife Well, you needn't work so
hard at it. Goodness knows, yon 're
sufficiently strong on the economy pait
of it now. Le Petit Journal.
Barred.
"It was a good opportunity," said
the actor, "but I had to give it up."
"What kind of a character was it?"
"Villain."
"Wasn't the ealaiy enough?"
"Very liberal, and the manager a
(entleman; but when I was a boy I
promised my mother that I would never
Imoke a cigarette." Washington Star.
Tbe Monadnock block, Chicago, ia
laid to have a daily population of
1,000.
YELLOW FEVER HERE
Thirty Cases in the National
Soldiers' Home.
THREE DEATHS ARE REPORTED
Government Be Katahllthed Quaren
ta and Will Prevent the Spread
of the Malady. '
Newport News, Va., Aug. t. There
are 80 casea of what is believed to be
genuine yellow fever at the National
Soldiers' Home, near Hampton, and
three deaths from the disease were re
ported today. There were several other
deaths at the institution yesterday, but
it cannot be stated tonight that all of
them were caused by yellow fever.
Newport News and Hampton will quar
antine against, the soldiers' home to
morrow morning. The government an
thoiities at Old Point have already
adopted this step, and no strangers aie
allowed to enter the reservation.
Quarantine Officer llobsun, of this
port, went to the soldiers' home to
night and verified the statemnt that
there are now 30 cases of the disease
at the home, and that there were three
deaths from the malady today. Whilo
no one outside of the soldiers' borne
knew anything about the existence of
yellow fever until today, it is said thai
the disease made its appearance three
days ago. The most rigid quarantine
regulations will be enforced to prevent
the spread of the malady.
The news has created great excite
ment in Newport News, Old Point and -Hampton,
and the most vigorous meas
ures will be adopted to prevent ita
spread. There are 4,000 bid veterans
at tbe home, and aeveral large excur
sion parties went there last week.
Noifolk, Va., Aug. 1. The board of
health haa quarantined against Old
Point, Hampton and Newport News.
Police officeis have been sent out along
the water front to watch for tuns,
steamboata and other craft. There is
much excitement. Governor Woodfin,
of the soldiers' home, confirms the re
port of the existence of fever there.
Hampton has been quarantined from
Old Point, and tbe trolley oars stopped
tunning to the former place tonight.
RAN INTO A WRECK.
Cause of the Buiashup of the Chlcae;
Bxprea at tUackawaxott-
Port Jervia, N. Y., Aug. 1. Tbe ac
cident on the Erie railroad, growing
out of the landslide a mile east oi
Lackawaxon last night, was not so ser
ious as at first reported. Only the fire
man and engineei of the detailed en
gine of the westbound Chicago express
which turned over on tbe track were
killed, though a number of passengers
on tbe express, the vestibule passenger
train for Buffalo and Cleveland, whioh
left New York at 7 o'clock Saturday,
were injured.
The wreck, which "occurred shortly
before midnight, was preceded by
cloudburst and storm which lasted two
hours. A section of the bank fell on
the eastbonnd tiaok diiectly in front of
the freight tiain. Several trees went
down with the rocks and earth, tha
freight cars and engine turning over
directly across tha westbound tracks of
the Erie road. Sixty freight cars con
stitute the train, but only 22 were de
railed, and the debris was piled np on
WiB westbound tracks just as tbe Chi
cago express put in an appearance, run
ning SO milea an hour. The engine of
the express train crashed into the
wreck, and the baggage oar, combina
tion and buffet car and two Pullman
sleepers were piled op on the tracks
immediately in front of the wrecked
freight cars.
The first sleeper was split in two
parts as a remit of the accident, and
the passengers were thrown 80 feet
down a bank. Fire at once broke ont,
and four cars of the express train and
nine ot the freight cart were burned.
War 1 Looked For.
Pnerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Aug.
1. The situation ia critical. An out
break is momentarily expected. Tbe
friends of the government are under
arms and ready for action to proteot
property and peace. A feeble attem pt
was made to seize the body of Presi
dent Heureaux by the assassins, Ra
mon Caceres, Manuel Caceres, Horacio
Vasquea and Domingo Pichardo, who
are in the country about Moca, with
their followers. The burial of Presi
dent Heureaux waa conducted with
fitting honors.
Governor Pepin has atsembled troops
in Mooa, and the governor of La Vega
real has 1,000 men.
The minister of the treasnry baa ar
rived at Moca in hot haste. Tbe gov
ernment is taking steps for tbe protec
tion of business and tbe finances oi the
country, and expecta to carry out the
contemplated cancellation ot tbe state
bank notes. In Puerto Plata there ia
an nrgent demand that the govern
ment send a sufficient force to Mooa to
hunt down tha assassins of the presi
dent. ;
, Protests have been made to members
of the administration against tbe propo
sition to give Canada a port of entry,
' even temporarily, on Lynn canal, aa
such action would bo conceding her
right to suoh a port.
Keduetlou In Royalty Favored. ,
Ottawa, Ont., Aug. 1. In the bouse
of commons yesterday, Sir Charles Top
per spoke strongly in favor ot a reduc
tion ot tba royalty on the gold ontpnt
in the Yukon. Clifford Sifton, minis
ter of the interior, in reply, said that
while the rovaltv was not rjermanentltf
! fixed, he could not yet consent to any
reduction from the 10 per cent now col
lected. - ' -
Mrs. MoKinley'a health baa greatly
Improved at Lake Champlaiu,