"'-tWI(H'' ',W?.-'J,1'',:'li,",!fi'.v-tr"!.-.'.1-'ifc:H i;i-v' nn Ivl 1 1 . VOL. XTII. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1900. NO. 3. HE OREGON EVENTS OF HIE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic New of the World. TRUNK TICKS VltUM THR WIBKS An Interailhig Culleetlon of Il.iul Prort the Two llemlauheres I'raiiented Vomleneed Form. Over BOO British prisoner captorod at htoniiburg liavo reached Pretoria, Buller him destroyed the Colon) footbridge, and iiiukut no further at tempt to advance Armour' running dopartuient, Chi cago, 1m rushed night and day filling order fur thu English army. A drunken wife in Ban Francisco har charged hiir hushum! with murder and he la hulng hold by the authorities. ino currency uui, according to a Washington correspondent, will be rushed through thu senate without ninuudiiiuiit. Tlie Great Northern will Inaugurate a now departure. A largo block of the company's stock is to be distributed among the employes at par. It ia aaid that Knglnnd had been warned by General Butler, whom ahe in now turning down, that it would nol be wise to attack the Doers nutil bet tor prepared. Should all Rpanlsh war pensions no asked lie allowed, it would cost 13 72.1,0(10. The Seventy-flint Now Yorkf nk for annual allowances which ag grngute ? 84,002 Yaqnl Indiana plunder, kill and bunt villages and the Muxiuan do not seem to make much headway In whipping tne savages. An entire Mexican rogl meiit seem to have disappeared The Fenian are organising at Buffa lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada. They expect, it la said, to raise 125,000 men, and have two carloads of arms and munitous of war In concealment. There is disaffection among the Free Pinter trooiM. They complain that Croujo's men are overboarlng and bet ter fed than tliey. The Transvaaler's are suspicious and the situatien ia bs coming grave. The president of the New York prison association, who bus made an investigation of the Cuban prisons tells a Horrible tale of the conditions there. Offender of all oIushom sleep in filth and vermin. No beds or clean clothing ia provided. Money or influence is nevosmry before they can secure their freedom. The members of the senate committee on privileges and election doolare they will carry on the investigation ol Henutor Clark's case without regard to the decision of the Montana supreme court nmler wmoli Wellcome was (Its lmrred from practice on charges of brlb ery in connection with the seuator'i election. The United Btntea cruiser Mont gnniery has been on a secrot m Union and the American Hag may soon float over Liberia. The little country hai long desired an American protectorate and it may now be given. Mason oi Illinois will introduce a resolution ol inquiry in the senate, asking the par pose lor wnicn mo Montgomery was . sent to Libertun waters. The Grangers' warehouse at Bose- bnrg, Or., was destroyed by lire; loss, l,uuu, folly insured. A six-story building, 00 years old, was destroyed by fire in New York, en' tailing a loss of 80,000. At Kan Francisco the Carlisle In diaus defeated the university of Call fornla in a football gaiuo; score, 2 to 0. Julius Baldwin ia dead at his bonis nt The Dalles. lie was one of the old' est and most prominent pioneers of the ISorthwcst. . Thirty mon perished in a colliery horror causod by lire damp explosion at the Braznull mine, near Browns ville, Pu. Lanrior's French-Canadian following is protesting against Canada sending any more troop to help England in I bouth Africa. by President McKinlcy director of the American woman' department at th Paris exposition. Tho state department will investigate tho action of the British government in sexlng several cargoes of American floor off Dulugoa hay. The train wreck near Pomona, Cal., in which one life was lost and four wore injured, was causod by the break' ing of a locomotive wheel. At Rome tho pope solemnly InnugU' rutod tho holy year by performing the impressive ceremony of opening th holy door of St. Peter's cathedral. The charred remain of W, J. Thomas, a farmer, and his three chil dren, were found in the ashos of theit homo, II miles southwest of Chilli cotho, Kan. It is supposed that Thomai murdered the ohlldren and then set fire to the house and took Ills own life. Aliout a year ago Thomas' wife com mitted suicide by taking poison. Admiral and Mrs. Dowey have takes a pew in St. Paul's lionian Catholic church, Washington. The entire crop of sugarcane and beet for 1NU0-1000 will amount to about 8, 000,000 tons about the same anionnt a lust year. Exports and imports at the five prln.'fecBived b5' mal1 commission from olpal ports of Porto Kico for th ' resident Kruger appointing him a months of May, June and July show i MKdier-gonera! in .the Boor army, a balance of trade iu favor ol these 1 1Wwla U PBWonttl 'rloud of Kruger's, port of $847,883, , end ouce visited him in Africa. LATER NiW3. fioutelle will probably never return to eongreaa. The Boer trending at Colenao bomb proof. are ringree'a tux resolution wai defoated in the Michigan annate. People are tired of Colombian and ask for intervention. war British Columbia hai sent a gold dig- play to the Pari exposition. If Delagoa bay i closed the Hours will raid Portuguese territory, The Stuhl & Htraub failure in I'hlla dulphla ia a clear cuae of looting. An importunt witness against Bona- tor Clark has confessoil to perjury. Kooert uoroellus, aged zu, wai found dead in the woods near Clencoo, ur. Fosslllforou remain of a gigantlo lea aerpeut were found on the couHt oi Chill. At its lust meeting the cabinet dis cussed the agricultural possibilities lu Alaska. Bullor'a army on the Tugola has now reached the euoromua strength of 28, 000 men. Luzon hemp poits will be opened in time for supplies to reach this country vy next Harvest. A Loudon diateh ay Russia longs I w "" Herat, aud she only waits foi -giana to oeoupy Delagoa bay. C. Q. Goad, of Dallas, Or,, has been appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms in the United States senate. 1 he floor tiny mounted a now gun at Ladysimth in the place of the one captured by the British cavalry. The clerk of the court of appeals has refused to administer the oath of office to members of the state election board in Kentucky. A Colorado Midland passenger and Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer Lake, Colo. One lirunmn was killed and two engineers were hurt. An Lnglish military expert assert that the time has come for a change in the cabinet. He favors either a dicta torshlp or an all-powerful military minister. Miss Florence Wythe Hinckley, heiress to the Blythe millions, was quietly married in Sun Francisco to A A. Moore, jr., deputy attoruey-geueral ef Can lorn la. American have captured another in urgent stronghold. Many rebels were killed, wounded and captured and an amount of ammunition and food taken. Their supposed impregnable position was north of Han Mateo. An Ottawa dispatch says' that treason is talked openly among tho trench Ca nadiuns, and all of their members have retired from parliament. All the lat ent hostility to British rule has been aroasod by Canada's action in sending troops to the Transvaal. San Franciscans are arranging for a big pro-Boer demonstration. K, O. nodgea & Co., one of Boston's largost banks, has closed its doors. In the engagement at Ladysmith Fri day, 10 British were killed and 16 wounded. England has discovered that her mil itary resources were overestimated by 80,000 men. Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist and former partner of John L. Sulli van, is dead. The queen ha given warning that British subjects must not help Boer or Free Stater. riaguo of a sovero type is mging and many deaths from that cause have oc curred in New Caledonia. Sydney Paget, William C. Whitney' racing partner, has left this country to Join the British rough ridora. A Purls dispatch says that France would be happy if the Delagoa bay in cident caused an anglo-Amorican quar rel. Alfred Borlinl was arrested in Ran Francisco wlilo on his wodding trip. He ia charged with being a bonk de faulter. Innrt larmfir. llnvA fai-mail a m-twll. oate to irrow rice in Texan. Thnv hnv secured options on 14.000 aores o! land to cost $235,000. m, n,. ... i growing greater each day. Thev are building trouohes within three and one half miles of Mothuon's picket line. Th Nnrthnr panifln ,,,,,, u i tji, yfrM DB1 on8- A'10' 10 days tho last body had not been recovered. The trainmen were to uinme. Governor (Jeer, of Oregon, does not approve of Oregon citizens contributing to a fund for Luwtou's family. He think the state should look after her own heroes' familos first. The Countess of Canavarro thought she was a convert to Buddhism. She 'entered their oonvout and changed her mind, and has applied to friends in Son Francisco for assistance. Winston Ppenoer Churchill has cabled to the London Post of Ills esoape ifrom tho Boer prison. He niado his Way overland from Delagoa bay and scaled walls while guards were not looking. Ho journeyed for six days. walking at night, with nothing to eat but chocolate. The Pittsburg baseball club has .bought the pick of the Louisville team Jor a sum said to bo $36,000 cash. Mrs. C. A. Burling, mother-in-law nf Itear-Admiral William T. Sampson, Idled at her home in Rochester, N, Y., Rged 70 years. Ex-Sheriff Weis, of Dayton, O., has PLAGUE IN HONOLULU The Disease Gets a Foothold in the Islands. 3IX DEATHS HAVE OCCURRED I'll Epidemic Is Confined to the Chi nese llunrter Measures Taken te Stamp It Out. San Franoisco, Deo. 80.- The trans port Centennial, which has reached hero from Honolulu, confirms the re port that bubonlo plagne exists in that ilty. There had been no new case of the disease, however, from December 12 up to the time the transport sailed, the 18th. The quarantine at the port was to lie raised the 19th. There war little anxiety among the resident p Honolulu, according to Captain Eagles, of the Centennial, as the plague was confined to the Chinese quarter of the city. That part of the city was under strict quarantine, and no ingress or egrosa whatever was allowed. Up to the time of the sailing of the Centen nial, there had been six deaths. The Centennial arrived at Honolulu from this port with horses December 15, but was not allowed to dock nntil tho 16th. Even then nono of the crew was permitted to land. All inter-island trafllo was at a full stop, as no steamei could enter the port. The citizen have subscribed $20,000 to fight tar, plague. The transport Newport has arrived from Manila in ballast, with no new of importance. The Centennial will be kept in qaur antlne till tomorrow. There is trace of the disease on the vessel, and aa has been demonstrated, there is likelihood of its finding lodgment there but still there are many Hawaiian rats that have made a home on the steamer, and they nave all to be oanght and sao riflced before the vessel will be allowed to dock. Bats are said to be the most prolillc means of spreading the plague, They carry the germ from port to port IN STRONG POSITION. Boar Have Fortified I he Hill, at Col euio Treuchee lloinb Proof. London, Deo. 80. A dispatch to the Dally Mail from Plctermaritzbnrg, dated Saturday, December 28, says: "Every day reveals some fact regard Ing the strength of the Boer position at Colonso. Thuuks to the service of Continental olllcers, the charaoter of the campaign has changed. We are no longer fighting a foe who relies upon guerrilla tactics, but we have to deal with what 1 rapidly becoming a disci plined army, enjoying the advantage of knowing the country and of selecting the scene of contest without the bur dens of cumbersome commissariat. "The Boers have converted the hill near Col en so Into fortresses of immense strength. . Everywhere they have. splendid trenches, many of them bomb proof. Tramway lines permit the shifting of gun with astonishing rap idity. The main positions are con' nactod with the outlying positions by underground passages, and the fort proper bristle with machine guns that command the approaches. Probably mines are laid. Skirmish at Tugela. Chevoley Camp, Natal, Wednesday A heavy Boer gun on Bnlwaua hill fired steadily upon Ladysmith through out the morning. Ladysmith did not respond. The enemy having been again de tected attempting to Improve their trenches facing General Boiler, the British heavy guns opened upon them and the Boers scampered back into the hill. The British patrols sighted the en emy in force on the extreme left Nine Boer were killed in a skirmish that followed, and six Boor wagon were captured. Clan-Na-Gael Talk. New York, Doc. 29. Relative to tht attltnde of the Irish revolutionary socl etiea toward the government of Great Britain at the present juncture of affairs, the Evening Post today quote an officer of the Clau-na-Gael as say' ing: England can be only made to feel by physical foroe, and we're now going to give her some Boer treatment. We did intend going out and sinking the first expedition from Camula to South Africa, but thought it better to wait little. We can mobilise our men with out much difficulty for an attack on Canada, and we are fairly well armed as well as the , United States troops in the Spanish war. We have lots of Springfield rifles, and are handy with the bayonet. The Movmitt In Phlladolhla. Philadelphia, Uoo. 28. There is general movement among the Irish here to aid the Boers in their war with England. A oall was sent out today for a special assessment on every mem ber of the Order of Hibernians, of which there are 25,000 in this city. A return of $25,000 is expected, which will help to swell the general fund of $1,000,000 which organisations throughout the country seek to raise. 'Friiool7Ned at Coal. San Francisco, Deo. 80. The Exam iner says: There are over 00 vessel, eaoh carrying from a few hundred to over 8,000 tons of coal, bound from Newcastle, Australia, to the Hawaiian islands. From the same Australian port to San Francisco there are but 20 vessel bound with similar cargoes. The coal destined for Hawaii is chiefly for use of the sugar plantations, but the diversion of the supply from this port ha caused a scarcity of fuel and a consequent inoreoae in prioe. AMERICANS BUY A CANAL. At Least Thr Own aa InUrast I: tho Panama. New York, Deo. 80 The incorpora tion of the Panama Canal Company of America 1 said to be the first move a plan to transfer the Panama canal to American in order that it may have a better chance in the struggle with the Mcaraguan concessionaries, banking houses and Individual are understood to be Interested The who are: Augnst Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles B. Flint, J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth National bank; Edward Sweet, George Sheldon Co., Baring, Magoun & Co., and George W. Young, president of the United States Mortgage & Trust Com pany. In addition to these, several banking bouses in Ban Francisco and in cities in the South and West are interested in the company. The Herald lay this incorporation of an American company i the result of negotiations between representative of the French company, including Baron Openheim, who came to thl olty from Pari several months ago, and leading financiers of America, The representative of the French com pany came to this country empowered to transfer the rights of the company having now been incorporated, the transfer will very shortly be effected the transfer to be given formal approval by the shareholder In France. These Shareholders receive shares in the new American company in proportion to their holdings in the old. This "Americanizing" of the Pana ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in' terested in the new company styled it yesterday, has been brought about in order to place the Panama canal on a footing in America more satisfactory to the French company, and to place on the same base as the Nicaragua canal before the United State govern ment. An isthmian canal commission, with Bear-Admiral Walker a chairman, i now at work making an exhaustive study of all possible routes for a canal across the isthmus of Central America This commission was created in the closing hours of the last congress, and $1,000,000 was appropriated for It use through ttbe river and harbor bills. Its report will undoubtedly be final as far as the United States la concerned as to the best route for a canal. Its par ties, both engineering and exploring, are now scattered over Central America, obtaining material to assist the com' mission in forming conclusion. i The French company, realizing the importance of the commission's find ings, has taken the steps which have been described, believing that the canal commission would naturally be enabled to judge more impartially between the two route with both under American control. The gentlemen of the French company long since recognized that the undertaking of a canal across Nica ragua either by the United States or by private parties with the assistance or Indorsement of the United States would be a most serious blow to their project, but the American financiers who have formed the new company, now that the two routes are on an even footing, and that judgment will be made only on the ground of engineering and general desirability, they argue that the "Americanizing" of Panama is the only way by which the 400 shareholders can have any hope of any return from the $200,000,000 whioh has gone out of France and Into the canal, and they be lieve that this arrangement can pro dace only good feeling botweenthe two countries. Since 1884, when the French com pany was formed, there has been ex pended in work on the canal something like $8,000,000. Several thousand men, mostly negroes from Jamaica, have been employed, and expert de clare that tho 'money has been proprely expended, and that good progress has been made. There is a large number of men at work on the canal at the present time, and this force will be found at work by the canal commission when it goes over the route, which will probably be during February. The canal is about two-Sths completed, and the now American company esti mates that the cost of completion would be about $100,000,000. Hilton Fainting! at Auction. New York, Deo. 80. The gallery oi paintings collected by the late Judge Hilton ia about to be sold at auction. It ia composed of nearly 200 paintings, mostly by modern French artists, and ia valued at more than $500,000. Among tne masters represented are Meissonler, Cort, Daubigny, Gerome. Yibert, Makart, Munokasy, Bourgereaa and TlBsot. Quarantine Acalnst New Caledonia, Melbourne, Victoria, Deo. 80. A passenger who arrived here on board the steamer Australian from Noumea, New Caledonia, where the plague is raging, has been quarantined, and eight others have been placed under surveil lance. Money for Improvement. St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 80. The Great Northern directory today in creased its capital stock $7,600,000, for the purpose of acquiring new prop erties and making extension and im provements on the Pacifio coast. The Sioux City & Northern and Pacific Short Line, in Iowa and Nebraska, are among the new properties to be taken in. Soma's Band does to Paris. New York, Deo. 80. Commissioner- General Ferdinand W. Peck, of ' the United States commission to the Paris exposition of next year, has appointed Sousa'a band as the official American band to play at the exposition. A Chrlitmat Poisoning-. . Barboursville, W. Va., Deo. 28. Three members of the family of Man- ford Pollock died last night, havine been mysteriously poisoned while eat ing their Christmas dinner. RETURNING IN BANDS' r;t- r tt c. w..- tected Towns. NATIVES ASK FOE ASSISTANCE Colonel Hare Loses the Track of the frleoners He Has Followed Gen eral Wheeler does South. Manila, Jan. 1. The insurgents who evacuated the coast towns between Dagupan and Vigan, fleeing to the mountains before the advancing Amer icans, are returning in small bands to the towns the American do not oc cupy, terrorizing the native and Chinamen, who showed friendship for the Amerioans. The native and Chinamen are seeking the protection of the American garrisons. ' Colonel Wessel'a cavalry, while scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad, found evidence of Filipino soldiers be lli)? in that vicinity, but it was Impos uble to bring about an engagement. The recent increuse in the garrison of Namacpacan against the threatened rebel attack on Christmas day averted trouble. Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in fantry, who has been following a party of American prisoners, lost track for three day, about December 80, of such sign and evidence of their passage as they customarily left behind them. It is thought the prisoners were separated and conveyed to remote parts of the mountains, thus increasing the diffiCui ties of General Young's troop to effect a rescue. General Wheeler, who was recently In Manila requesting an appointment sooth In the line of the expected cam' paign, la now at Paranaque. Americans Captured Stronghold, Washington, Jan. 1. General Otis cable the war department today as fol lows: Manila Colonel Lockett, with a regiment of two battalion of the rorty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel Dorst), and one company of the Twenty-seventh infantry, and two guns (Cap tain van Deasen,) attacked the enemy, 600 strong in a mountain stronghold beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San Mateo. A large number were killed and wounded, and 24 were taken pris oners. Lockett captured one cannon, 40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica tions, all their food supplies and con siderable other property. This captured point, located on mountain trail, was formerly supposed to be impregnable. Our casualties: Lieu'enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry, and five enlisted men wounded, mostly light. Private Mataon, Forty-fifth in fantry, drowned." Mot American Vessels. i on iownsend, Jan. l. lne pur chase of foreign vessel by the United States government for use as transports daring the Spanish-American war and their subsequent sale by the govern ment to private citizens ha resulted in complicating matter for purchasers from the faot that after purchase of such vessels the government refuses to allow them to be documented in the United States as American vessels. The case in point is the steamship Sciplo, which was recently sold by the navy department and was afterwards refused documentation. - The purchaser applied to the secretary of the treasury, asking that if he should break the Sciplo up, whether the material of which she was constructed would be subject to duty if sold in the United States. Yesterday Collector Heustis received a circular letter covering the bove case from the treasury depart ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul- ding say that upon the sale of said essol in a port of the United States the material or materials taken there from would not be regarded as an im portation within the meaning of the customs laws, and would therefore be- exempt from duty. , The Plague Scare. San Francisco, Jan. 1. The steamer Gaelio arrived here this afternoon from the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelio aa sent to quarantine, owing to the plague scare, but her cabin passengers were allowed to land, towboata plying between the steamer and, the city for me purpose. The press correspondent at Honolulu say there have been no new cases of plague since last advices. There have been several sudden deaths, and in eaoh instance rumor assigned the plagne. as the cause. Investigation proved otherwise. The board of health now claims but two deaths were caused by the scourge, the remaining cases be ing doubtful or suspicious. Rubbed ot lS.OOO. Walsenbarg, Colo., Jan. 1. W. J. iMiisap, a prominent stockman, wa seized by two men when about to enter the Klein hotel and was robbed of 112,900. The money was mostly in his coat and vesi pockets and these garments were torn from him. No trace of the criminals has been found. Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico to buy cattle. Big l.lner Is Ashore. London, Jan. 1. A large German mail steamer, believed to be one of the II am burg-American liners, has gone aground during a terrific gale in East bay, about a quarter of a mile off Dun- geness, the southern extremity of Kent. Heavy seas are breaking over' the ves sel, and life-boats are unable to reach her. Fears are entertained for the safety of the passengers. It is reported that the position of the liner ia very serious, A DOUBLE TREATY. I fortagtiMe Booth Africa Is to Be 1 vlded Pp. New York. Jan. 1. A dsipatch to "! tne Herald from Berlin says: xheLokal Acsieger publishes the content of the German-English-Portu- gnese secret treaty. Thl double treaty will have executive foroe a soon a the Swiss jurists, Messrs. Blaeel-Hensley and Goldan, have given decision in the Delagoa. bay arbitration. The decision, it is expected, will be given in January or February and will probably be in favor of England, In which case Portugal mast pay to Eng land and America an indemnity of 1,- 900,000. England obtained in 1881 from Portugal the right of pre-emption in .Delagoa bay, and the cession of Del agoa bay to England may therefore be expected in March next. It Is possible that President Kroger may now declare war on Portugal and attack Delagoa at once. In order to prevent any interference by France or Bussia, Enlgand con cluded a secret treaty with Germany regarding the complete partition of the Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger many is to receive all the Portuguese possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square miles of territory ana 1,000,000 inhab itant. Germany farther receives in Africa all Portuguese territory north of Mozambique, except a strip of hind three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes' trans-African railway. For this the German government will pay Portugal 25,000,000 marks. REST AT ARLINGTON. Barlal ef the Martyred Heroes of the Maine. Washington, Jan. 1. Upon the windy heights of Arlington cemetery, the Maine dead, brought from Havana by the battleship Texas, today were laid away in their final resting places. with simple religions services, and the impressive honor of war, in the pres ence of the president, members of hi cabinet, officers of the army and navy and other officer of the government. A cabinet officer, surveying the flag- draped coffins before the ceremony be gan, said: The Uvea of these men cost Spain her colonies." But there wa no note of triupmh in the grim scene today. With a touch of sadness and solemn gravity, the nation per formed Its duty to the dead and gave Ite defender a Christian, burial at home, in soil hallowed by patriotic dead. Battle With Bobbers. Seattle, Jan. l. Two masked men held up a Ballard street-car at 11 o'clock tonight. There were eight passengers aboard, and a regular fusil lade of shots was fired. One of the passengers inside the ear, C. E. Plimp ton, opened fire on the hghwayman en tering from the rear, and three shots were returned. One broke Plimpton' arm and the other entered hi breast. Shortly after midnight the police found near the scene of the Ballard street-oar hold-up the body of one of the two bandits. He had been almost instantly killed by a bullet from a passenger' pistol. The body ia still unidentified. Big Baffalo Mine Turns Out Rich. Baker City, Or., Jan. 1. A sensa tional strike was made today in A. Geiser's Big Buffalo mine, two miles west of this city. The miners took several samples of ore from the tunnel, which today tapped the 80-foot ledge. By assays just returned to ' the owner of the mine, the samples all show gold values ranging from 1S to 9102.75 In gold and five ounces of silver to the ton. Mr. Geiser,' who was formerly part owner of the Bonanza mine, said today that if the values hold out throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop erty will be equal to the Bonanza. The Big Buffalo is within plain sight of Ibis city. Killed His Young Wife and Hlraselr. Winnipeg, Jan. 1. Pierre Dentzer, a German farmer, aged SO, living near Rath well, 100 miles from Winnipeg, shot and killed his 19-year-old wife in a fit of temper. Dentzer then carried his baby to a neighbors' house and re turned home. The authorities were notified, and on approaching the house ound that the woman's body had been aken inside the house and a cross had been raised by Dentzer on the ground where she bad been shot. Dentzer had spread a sheet on the floor, placed his wife's body on it, blew out his brains. Went Through a Bridge. San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1. As No. 83, west-bound freight train over the Saute Fe route, was crossing Cajon creek bridge today, about 12 miles north of this city, nine cars went through the bridge into the creek bot tom. Six of the cars weie loaded with cotton, one with telegraph wire, and one with general merchandise and sul phur. The cars caught fire and made a terrible conflagration, destroying the entire contents and framework. No one was killed. A Murderous Collector. Chattanooga, Tenn.,Jan. 1. Samnel Mills, a collector for an installment house, this afternoon attempted to seize furniture in the house of Mary Yen- able, colored, for a small debt. The woman attempted to prevent it, and in the struggle that ensued Mills shot the woman and her little son and daughter, all seriously. Mills was arrested. Buller's Sphere of Action. Cape Town, Jan. 1. Colonel Otter, commanding the Canadian contingent of troops, is to join the staff of Bailer, all tne memDers oi wnicn are proceed ing to Natal, indicating that Buller's sphere will shortly be confined to (Natal. Boston Sympathy for Boers. Boston, Jan. 1. The common coun cil of Boston today, after a spirited de bate, adopted a resolution of sympathy for the Boorst - .. CONTRABAND OF WAR Rosebery Wants the Govern, ment's Position Defined. POSSIBLE CHANGE OP POLICY Sir Charles Dllke Warns AgalnsR Hasty Overturning ef Precedent. London, Jan. 1. Lord Rosebery writes a follow thl morning to the Times: "There are disquieting Intimation which appear to point to onr govern ment having treated foodstuffs aa con traband of war. A this is a matter of supreme importance, I venture to ad dress this line to you in the hope that it may elicit an authoritative statement on the subject." The Times, commenting editorially upon Lord Roseberry'i letter, says: Too little is known of the seizure for any valid inference safely to be drawn. An emergency might arise when certain foodstuffs would be re garded a contraband while others would not, especially if the latter were intended for conoombatants. There might, for instance, be reasonable grounds for treating canned good aa contraband and flour aa legitimate." After admitting that it "would be unadvisable to create a precedent which might some day be invoked against ui, " the article concludes aa follow: "While we fully share the view that no serious change of policy should oc cur without cogent reaaons and ample consideration, we cannot but ask our selves whether, in the event of Great Britain being engaged in a war, the action, either of the enemy or even of neutral powers, in a matter upon which such great divergence of opinion till exists is likely to be governed by any precedent we or any one else may have set in the past, rather than by the immediate interest of the moment. " A NEW YORK FIRE. In Seren-Story Buildings Were De. strayed Firemen Injured. New York, Jan. 1. The two seven- story buildings at 425 to 435 East Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed by fire tonight. The loss is fully $500,000. The plant of the New York Hygienic Ioe Company, which occu pied the basement of 423. and that oi the Manhattan Electric Light Com pany, on the first and second floors of the same building, were totally de stroyed. A large portion of the east side gets its lights from that company. and was, on account of the Are, cast into complete darkness. The Campbell company employed 400 hands, who will be thrown out of work by the fire. The properties of all three firms are de stroyed beyond the hope of saving dollar's worth. The losses are partly covered by Insurance. - Three hook-and-ladder men, Andrew Degnan, Joseph Shaughneesy and Jos eph Bessinger, were oanght on the sixth floor ofjthe building, and escaped with great difficulty. AU were severely burned. Shaughnessy and Bessinger were sent to Bellevus hoepitaL The other hook-and-ladder men were caught on one of the, high window ledges, with the flames roaring all around them and . the dense smoke making them almost imperceptible from the street. Exten- ' elon ladders were run and firemen brought them down in an almost tm- : conscious condition. One of the men, - Lee Potter, was very severely burned, and was sent to Bellevae hospital. . TWO TRAINS WRECKED. One Person Was Killed and Fourteen Were Injured. Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. The Chey enne flyer on the Union Pacifio rail road crashed into the Boulder Valley train, at Brighton, Colo., at 8 this morning. One man was killed, Win field Bandelman, express messenger, Denver, whose body was burned to a , crisp. Fourteen persons were injured. The Boulder Valley train left Denver a little late this morning, and aa usual stopped at Brighton, which is the junc tion for the Boulder valley line from the main line to Cheyenne. The Chey- S enne flyer also left Denver late, and -coming into Brighton in the early . morning dusk, ran into the rear end ol the Boulder train, telescoping two or three cars and derailing the passenger locomotive. Section gangs from Denver yards and ' half a dozen passengers occupied the Boulder train. - The mall and baggage car and the smoker of the flyer were burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair car with six children. None of the children were hart, although she re- " ceived serious injury. The woundod were brought to Denver and taken to the hospitals. Conductor McAllister, of the Boulder valley train was erased by the accident. He attempted to Jump into the burning wreckage, and had to be forcibly restrained. In his proclamation to the burghers. Baden-Powell makes the extraordi nary statement that the American gov ernment has warned others ol her in tentions to side with England should any of them interfere. , - General White Ha th Fever, Ladysmith, Sunday, Deo. 24, via Pletermaritzburg General White has had a slight attack of fever, but. is. now convalescent. It ia reported that General Jonbert il again in command ot the Boer here. , The military authoiitie appear confi dent, but they are very reticent. About 2,000 claims have been filed so far for pensions for disabilities re ceived during the Spanish-American ' war. . ; . , ; -