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O RE GO VOL. XVII. ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1900. NO. 8. HE V MIST. EVENTS OF THE DAY LATER NEWS. Ths Boers pressed. The house passed the Epitome of the Telegraphic prUtioo bin at Sternberg are hard Indian appiO' News of the World. TKKSR TICKS FftOM TJIK WIRES An Interesting CulUotlan of Items From the Two Ilenilepheree Presented in Condensed Form. Plague at Honolulu ii nndur control. Dawson evil-doers aro forced to aood. General Buller's position li booonilug precarious. Surveyor are now at work on the Oregon Midland railway route. A big steel mill wus wrecked In Pittsburg by a boiler exploiiion. A bill was Introduced in congress to provlile milling lawi (or Cape Nome, Money in now ready (or the purchase or the Salem, Or., federal building site. Census Supervisor Kelly hoe left (or Alaska to enter upon hi duties there, Owing to a split in the National League, Baltimore may love her bae ball elub. An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan sas Se Texas railway train at Uolden, Mo., wna frustrated. The United States transports City o( Pueblo and Senator have arrived at Ban Francisco (rom Manila Near Oorunna, Spain, a torpedo boat, name and nationality unknown, baa ; Ihioii totally lost, with all on board Quarantine oflloeri In Ban Francisco are adopting stringent measures to pro tect that port Irom the bubonic plague, The Union hotel, at Revelstoke, I). C, was totally deittroyed by Are, the blaxe originating in the furnace room. Ilie Gorman steamer Remus has been wrecked near Aarhaus, Denmark, where the wan bound. The captain and 18 men perished. Colonel Charles F. Williams, com mander of the United States marine oorpi at Mate Inland, died euddouly ol hemorrhage of the stomach. "Nick" llaworth, suspooted murder er of Night Watchman Randall, at Kayiiville, Utah, attempted to commit suicide at Knit Lake by blooding. Robert Fitzslmmons now claim he wn drugged when he was wbtppeil by James Jeffries (or the championship of the world at Coney Inland, last June A runaway electric car ou the Day ton Se Xeula traction road, at Dayton, O., left tiie track at a sharp curve and was demolished, killing three persons, An American scouting irtr of the Twenty -filth was caught ill ambush by Filipinos aud an officer and three men killed. Insurgent lost 40 in killed and wounded. Senator William Goelcl, of Ken' tucky, was shot and seriously wounded by a erased hentuckiun, two shots pas sing entirely through tie Demooratio leader's body. People of China are said to take Imperial changes with great equani mity. William Jennings Bryan will aooept the ropulist nomination (or the prest dency. Lord raunce(ote will retire as am' bassador of Great Britain to the United States, April 1. The interstate commerce commission has mod the Northern I'acltlo to en force disregarded laws. Benators are said to want no change in the manner ot their election. The house favors popular vote. Dundouald's forces, (or whom (ears were entertained, aro safe on the south bank of the Tugola river. Five business men of Walla Walla wore victimized by a smooth (oiger, who cashed bogus checks. ' The Triune Regent of Bavaria has conferred the Order ol Bt. Michaels, first-class, on Dr. Nansen, the explorer. In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff, a tanner, killed his wife, his son and his daughter and then tried to set the house on Are. A funeral train, arranged by the Southern Pacific, will convey the re mains of General Lawton aud Major Logau to the East. James If. liritton, ex-mayor of Bt. Louis, and for many years one of the lending bankers of the West,' died at Ardley, N. Y., aged 88. Captain 0. II. Stockton, president of the naval war college, says: "Com mand of the sea on our North Pacific const and the waters of the western basin of the North Pacific should be in our hands in peace and war time. This can only be effected by readiness of a proper and sutllcient naval force either on the spot, or to be furnished from the Atlantic through an un trnmelled canal. In addition- to this, and ready for combining, should be the available foroes normally attached to the Philippines and the waters about China, Japan and Corea. In other words, the 1'aclfio ocean, from Samoa northward, should be within our control." The transport Manuenso has arrived at Ban Francisco from Manila. . J, Bryan spoke to an audience of 9,000 people at Chlcopee, Mass. Cardinal Gibbons commends congress ior its action in the Roberts case. Nlelson, of Minneapolis, lowered the two-mile skating record of 5:01 to 8:83 William Stanley Ilazeltiue, the ma rine artist, is dead In Koine, aged 61 years. A serious riot occurred in Porto IMco during the parades of two political parties. Chicago trades-unionists in the Fed eration of Luhor denounced Governor Taylor, of Kentucky. The president has issued a proolama tion fixing a tariff of duties and taxes for the island of Guam. The passengers and mall brought (rom Honolulu by the steamer Auatra lia were released from quarantine, The , strike at Cramp's shipyard, which lias been in progress since Au gust, has been oflioially declared off. Wm. Goebel, the contesting gover nor of Kentucky, is dead (rom the re' suit of the bullet fired by an unknown assassin. The British government has contract ed with the Philadelphia Se Beading Hailroad Company (or 1,000,000 tons of coal. Fire in Bt. Louis destroyed four blocks, causing a property loss of $1,600,000. One man was killed and several Injured. A reward of (5,000 has been offered for the arrest and conviction of the per son or persons who made the attempt on the life of William Goebel.. General Kobbe has occupied the is, lands of Lamar and Leyte. In the fight at Catbalogan 10 Insurgents were killed and the Americans captured five cannon, with their artillerymen. Secretary Beits, of the Transvaal re' public, says that the Boers have never abused the white flag, and that the Bri'ish murdered women, children and American citizens at Derdejioort. The value of property captured by Ad miral Dewey's fleet in Manila bay has been estimated by the board of ap. praisal at $320,141. The largest items in the statement are: "Ship and boat equipment, $341,600; ordnance mate. rials, $14,2U4, and (uel, $20,608." The appraisal was called (or as evi deuce in the suit brought by Admiral Dewey (or the awatd of prize money. The Boers credit divine providence with their Tugela victory. No river and harbor bill will be pre sented at this session of congress. The British parliament has reassem bled. No disorder was manifested. Alexander Duusmuir, the coal king of the Pacific coast, died in New York city, aged 47 years. Services In commemoration of the martyrdom of Charles I, of Kngland, were held in Boston. The transport Missouri, en route to Ban Franoisoo (rom Manila, has 17 in sane soldiers aboard. Fire destroyed the business portion of the town of Winfield, Kan. Hun dreds of people are homeless. Lieutenant Winston Churchill de scribes the battle of Bpionkop as the hardest tight of the South African war. All is quiet in Samoa. The nativoi are more settled than at any time since the disturbance between the native factions. The sheriff of Colfax, Wash., hat offeied a reward of $300 (or the capture of Clemens, the murderer of a man named Boland. A special dispatch (rom Cape Town says 150 American scouts, who arrived there as muleteers, have enlisted in the British forces. A cold wava is prevailing east of the Rooky mountains. The temperature it eight degrees below zero at Chicago and six below at Omaha. The Fergus Printing Company, ol Chioago, one of the oldest printing houses in the city, was thrown into the streets for non-payment of rent. Great Northern officials and em ployes' grievance committee held I conference and it is announced there will be no strike, all differences being settled. Governor Taylor declares that a state of insurrection now prevails in Ken tucky. He has ordered the legislature adjourned, but the Democrats have re fused to obey his edict. R. V. Wilson has been arrested in Ban Francisco on the charge of having embezzled a package containing $000, while he was agent for the Great Northern Express Company at Frank lin, King county, Wash. Lee Gong, a Chinaman of Fargo, N. D., who alleges St. Louis is his home, appealed today from the United States oourt to the secretary of the treasury, tnd was released on bail. He was the first of the 70 Chinamen charged with violating the exclusion act, to be heard by the courts. HER BIGGEST AMY Over aoo.ooo British Soldiers to Fight the Boers. SECRETARY WYNDHAM'S FIGURE! Only Eighty Thousand Won of Tore Now at the Front Ar tlvltjf at Navy-erd. Tht London, Feb. 8. Mr. Wyndham'l remarkable declaration in the house oi commons that Great Britain will have in a fortnight 180,000 regulars in South Africa, 7, 000 Canadians and Australians and 20,000 South African volunteers, is received with wonderment. Of this total of 118,000 troops, with 452 guns, 11 are now there with the exception of 18,000 that are afloat. Beyond com parison this is the largest force Great Britain has ever put into the field. At the end of the Crimean war she had scraied together 80,000. Wellington, at Waterloo, had 26,000. Mr. Wynd ham's speech was the strongest de (ense the government has yet put for ward as to what has been done and if being done. The general tone of the morning papers Is that his figures will astonish the country. Roughly speaking, only 80,000 men are at the front. Ten thousand others have been , lost, and 10,000 are shut up st Ladysmith. Ex cluding these there are 70,000 troops who have not yet been in action, in addition to those at sea. Why so many effectives have not yet been engaged is explained by tho laok of land transportation and the organ!' ation of supplies, to which Lord Rol- erts is devoting his experience and Lore Kitchener his genius (or details. It seems as though the weight of these masses must destroy the equilibrium which now holds the British forces sta tionary wherever they are in contact with the Boer army. Lack of transports and organization will not explain adequately why. when generals at the front request re- enforcements, they get them in rather small numbers. Knowledge is slowly penetrating to London that large garri sons must be kept in Cape Colony to bold down the Cape Dutch, who, as very one knows, outnumber the Brit ish residents there three to two. Cable scraps received during the last 12 hours do not further illuminate the military operations. Various inde- lndent correspondents confirm the report that General Holler told his troops January 28 that he hoped to re Hove Ladysmith within a week. It is believed in some trustworthy quartets that he is again assailing the Boer lines. A further list of casualties published by the war office brings the total from the crossing of the Tngeln to the aban donmont of Bpionkop to 1,885 officers and men. exceptional activity at the navy yards continues, but a correspondent of the press learns that this is chiefly new construction and refitting work. Three ihips will be commissioned at Devon port this month. Some unpleasant criticism of the war office has been caused by the dls covery that the sights of Lee-Enfield carbines are defective. Old carbines have been supplied to the outgoing fourth brigade of cavalry. THE PLAGUE SITUATION. to Qerole Efforts Taken at Honolulu Chock tho Disease. Ban Francisco, Feb. 8. The steamer Australia, seven days from Honolulu, arrived today and reports that up to the time o( her departure, 41 deaths from plague bad occurred, and there was a total of 62 cases. The Australia bad on board 176 passengers, the larg est number which ever came to this port on a single steamer from the Hawaiian islands. In an effort to stamp out the plagne, it was decided to burn one of the blocks in Chinatown. The fire was started, and it gained such headway that the fire department could not control it. I lie names spread rapidly Irom one block to another, and soon the whole Chinese quarter was destroyed. Hard' ly a house was left standing in tho dis trict. The Chinese and other residents of the district fled from their homes in terror, and were unable .to save much of their effects. ' As a result of the destruction of the Chinese quarter, 7,000 people were rendered homeless, and they are now living in tents The fire destroyed 12 blocks, bound ed by Kukui, Queen and Nunan streets. Jbe most notable building burned was the Kaumakakpili, a prominent land mark, and the most comfortable edifice of its kind in Honolulu. It contained a large pipe organ, valued at $6,000, The steamship Iroquois rendered vain able aid. She put out two lines of hose which saved the Honolula iron works. lhe Australia's passengers were taken off and placed in the quarrantine station at Angel island, where they will remain till tomorrow. According to advices from Honolulu, the transport Aztec, which left this port (or Ililo. with 400 mules and horses, may not attempt to land her cargo at Ililo. Lighters would have to t employed, as the wharf there can not accommodate the Aztec. At pres ent the weather conditions are such that the horses cannot be landed safely, and it is exacted that the Azteo will have to return to Honolulu. There was a small riot at the deten tion camp at Honolulu the night of the 23d, owing to the refusal of the author ities to allow the Japanese to burn a lot of new lumber for fuel purposes, and because they were restrained (rom burning a new cottage in which one of their number had died of the plague The arrival of the reserves ended the troubles, and a careful watch is being kept, as the Japanese are exceedmlgy sullen and some have armed themselves with clubs. ' Affairs at Ililo have quieted, and no more trouble is expected. (SHUT OFF ONCE MOR Senate Would Not Hear Petti- grew's Abuse. WAS MET BY A POINT OF ORDER Alton Conelnded Ills Arraignment rotary Onge Indian School Question la tho Hons. Washington, Feb. 5. An effort by Pettigrew, of South Dakota, to discuss the Philippine question in the senate today was of no avail, as he was met by a point of order which took him from the floor. He had gotten only so lar as to charge that the great journals of the country would not publish the facta concerning the Philippine war. MuDsequentiy ne offered another reso lution on which he will speak next week. Allen, of Nebraska, concluded his speech in the arraignment of Secre tary Gage because of his transaction with the National City bank of New York. He had previously introduced a resolution providing for an investiga (ion by the senate of the treasury de partment, but objection to its consid eration sent it over until next week. The bouse today devoted its attention to the Indian appropriation bill. got no further, however, than the ap propriations for Indians schools, where an effort was inaugurated by Fitzger ald, ol few York, to permit the secre tary of the interior to contract with schools (or the education of Indian children where the eoevnrment lacks facilities. No appropriation is made for contract schools in this bill. It is claimed that the present Indian school facilities are inadequate. HOBSON'S THOUSANDS. Wltneuee for Provocation in Clark Cue. CROSSED THE AISLE. Ban Franoisoo has a daily paper printed in Chinese, Joseph L. Mayers, state senator of Ohio, from Coshooton, walked to the capltol (rom his home, a distance of 100 miles, to show his independence o( railroads. Citizens of Dickinson county, Kan., have organized a relief association (or the purpose o( sending corn to India U oan ghow oertlHcate, of (or (ree distribution in the (amine- ' t, BIM ,, ...i..i .triun di.t-i.,. . " A newsboy of Philadelphia was ar rested under the blue law of 1704 aud fluqd (our dollars (or selling news papers on Sunday. Admiral Schley, who was recently .made a thirty-second degree Mason, has beeu a member of the fraternity tinoe his twenty-first birthday. A law just passed in Norway makes (iris ineligible for matrimony unless skill In Sibley, of Pennsylvania, Spoke In Favor or Expansion. Washington, Feb. 8. Represent tive Joseph Sibley, of Pennsylvania, who attained great prominence in the 64th congress by his earnest champion ship of (ree silver, assailed bis Demo cratic colleagues today (or their oppo sition to expansion in a speech that made the floor and galleries roar. Bib ley had recanted his views on (ree silver, and is now generally out of line with his colleagues on the Democratic side. He insisted today that expan sion was an original Democratic doc' trine promulgated by Jefferson, and adhered to by Madison, Jackson, Tyler, Polk and Buchanan. In eloquent lan' guage he pictured the destiny of the United Btates carrying the arts of peace and the story of the cross to the remotest corners of the globe. Sibley received an impressive demonstration when he closed. The remainder of the debate today was uninteresting. It touched the questions of mediation in the Trans vaal, lynchings in the South and the jury law in Hawaii. Not much pro grass was made in the Indian appro priation bill, which was under con' sideration. Nearly the entire morning hour in the Benate today was occupied by Allen, of Nebraska, in the discussion of the report of Secretory Gage, concerning his transactions with the National City bonk, o New York. Daniel, of Virginia, then delivered an extended speech on the pending financial measure. He vigorously opposed the propostion that the country should go to the gold standard. Daniel M. Randsdell, of Indiana, and Charles G. Bennett, of New York, were sworn in as sergeaut-at amis and secretary of the senate, respectively. Charted With Forcing Bonds. New York, Feb. 8. Julius Sohroe- ter, of Forest Hill, N. J., was arrested in this city today on a warrant charg ing forgery, on complaint of Laden berg, Thalmann & Co., bankers, who charge Sohroeter with forging bonds of the state of Virginia. Upon these alleged forgeries of Virginia bonds, mounting to $100,000, it is charged that Sohroeter succeeded in obtaining loans amounting to $08,000 from the I Importers' St Traders' National bank and Ladenberg, Thalmann Se Co, , Affairs in Japan. Yokohama, Jan. 16, via Ban Fran cisco, Feb. 8. The event of this week has been the arrival of the United Btates transport Grant with the Forty- eighth regiment, U. 8. V. (colored), on board. In consequence of the break ing out of the plague in Honolulu, the Grant was obliged to put in here (or coal. Permission having been granted by the authorities, a dress parade o( the regiment was held this afternoon and a great crowd witnessed the unusual spectacle of ap armed body of American soldiery landing upon the shores of Japan. The entire disappearance of the plague from Kobe and the occurrence of no more sporadic cases in other paits of the empire, its ravages being no confined entirely to the city of Osaka, is a fact attracting muoh attention. In the later city it has assumed its most dangerous form, that of lung attack, and has thus become the very breath of pestilence. In spite of this, however. only 89 cases have occurred there. Boer War In Illinois. Chicago, Feb. 8. A special to the Times-Herald (rom Danville, 111 , says: rrank Specht, a German, who has an English wife, and William Shoemaker, an Englishman, with a German wife, got into an argument over the Boer war last night. The injured are: Frank Specht, stabbed three times with a pitchfork; may die. William Shoe maker, badldy beaten and scratched; Mrs. William Shoemaker, scratched and hair torn out; Mrs. Frank Specht, badly bruised and scratched, At the beginning of the fracas, the women stood valiantly for their own nationality, but as the fight progressed each forgot country and fought for her husband. When the police arrived, Specht was unconscious and bleeding profusely, while the women were tear ing at each other's clothes and hair. Negus Friendly to England. New York, Feb, 8. A dispatch (rom Zurich states that the reports that Menolik is arming are nntruo, and that the negus has rejected French and Rus sian counsel to attack the English from the rear. Menelik in November last re ceived an extraordinary ambassador sent to him by Kngland, with the greatest honor. He held any number of conferences with the English envoy, at whioh II err llii, his Swiss adviser, was present. The negus wp highly delighted with the result of the nego tiations and loaded the embassy with costly presents for the queen. ' French and Russian diplomats are dissatisfied at the turn which things have taken. English influence in Ahyssnia is steadily increasing. Men elik will not visit Paris. He takes the greatest possible interest in the con struction of theDjibouti-Harrar railway. Mlealonitry Killed By Chines. Paris, Feb. 8. A dispatch from Peking says: The report of the death of Emperor Kwnng Su is not confirm ed. The dispatch adds that the safety of foreigners is not threatened, but that an English missionary having been ' murdered in the province of Bhang Tung, the British, American, Washington, Feb. 6. When the sen' ate committee on privileges and elec tions met today, Campbell, represent ing the memorialists in the prosecution of the charges against Senator Clark, of Montana, in connection with his election to the United States senate, announced that he hod three more wit nesses to examine, thus deferring the beginning of the presentation of the defense. The first witness was Frank E Wright, cashier of a bank at Lewiston, Idaho. Wright was questioned concern ing the accounts of State Represent, tive Long and State Senator Hobson, the latter being president of his bank He said that prior to the meeting of the legislature, Long had owed the bank $400, and Hobson had owed it $22,000. Long .had paid his note in April, and Hobson paid his in May last, both with checks. The account transcripts were plaoed in evidence. The one of Hobsop's case showed that in April last a letter was received from the Continental National bank of Chi' oago, advising the Fergus County bank of a credit of $26,000 in Hobson's be half. Hobson was then in London, but the witness did not think he had gone to London with Senator Clark. Hobson had never told him where he obtained the $26,000. On cross-examination, the witness said that Hob son was considered a wealthy man. worth about $300,000 or $400,000 He knew that he had sold some mines in London, but did not know whether the $25,000 was derived from this source. SOUDANESE TROOPS REBEL. Occur la Serious Trouble Likely to Upper Egypt. Paris, Feb. 6. A dispatch to the Havas news agency from Cairo oon' firms the report that a rebellion had occurred among the Soudanese troops in Khartoum. It says: "There is much anxiety here." There have been many grave incidents, notable the growing discontent in the Egyptian arm, which has reached to a mutiny in two Soudanese battalions. The gov ernment has sent Colonel Wingate to parle with them. The army complains of bad treat ment and the secret dispatch of Egyp tian troops to South Africa. It appears certain that 10 Maxims and a large assignment of saddles have gone to Dur ban, and a number of English officers and civil functionaries have obtained unlimited furlough to go to South Africa, which is believed to be abreaoh of Egypt's neutrality. The govern ment is alarmed at the attitude of the black troops, and has asked the k he dive to intervene. The latter has sent a letter urging obedience, but anxiety nevertheless continues, Egypt is al most denuded of European soldiers. Hay Send Boer Fund to Transvaal. Washington, Feb. 5. Secretary Hay has received the sum of $2,760 col lected by the St. Louis Westliohe Post and transmitted to the department of state by Mr. Pretorions, to be used for the !enefit of the widows and orphans of the Boer soldiers. The secretary has forwarded the money by the mails to Adelbert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, to be turned over to Presi dent Kroger for the purposes specified. The action of the state department, it is explained, applies only to contri butions for charitable objects. Short Mall Koute to Nome. Washington, Feb. 6. The postoffice department has directed that a shorter mail route, entirely within American territory, shall be established to com municate with the Cape Nome gold fields. This will be from Katmai, on the coast, via Nushagok and Bt. Mich ael, and will be several hundred TREATY WITH THE SULUS. President Bends All the Correspondenes to the Senate. Washington, Feb. 6. In compliance with a resolution of inquiry, the presi dent has sent to the senate a copy ol the report and all accompanying papers of Brigadier-General J. C. Bates, in relation to the negotiation of a treaty oi agreement made by him with the sultan of Sulu, last August. In reply ing to the request the president says: "The payments o( money required by the agreement will be made from the revenues of the Philippine islands, un less congress shall direct otherwise. Such payments are not for specific ser vices, bnt are a part of the considera tion going to the sultan, tribe or nation under the agreement, and they are stipulated as subject to the action ol congress, in conformity with the prac tice of this government from the earliest times in its agreements with the vari ous Indian nations operating and gov erning portions of territory subject to the sovereignty of the United States." General Otis in transmitting the treaty, August 27, says: "The attitude of these people hat been a subject of apprehension (or sev eral months, and by this agreement, I believe, the apprehended pending dif ferences are happily adjusted." Secretary Root, in a reply dated October 27, tells General Otis that the agreemnet is confirmed and ap proved by the president, subject to the action of congress, and with the under' standing and reservation, which should be distinctly communicated to the sul tan of Sulu, that this agreement is not to be deemed in any war to authorize or give consent of the United States to the existence of slavery in the Bulu archipelago. At the same time when yon communicate to the sultan the above mentioned understand ine. the president desires that yon should make inquiry as to the number of persom held in slavery in the archipelago, and what arrangement it may be practicable lor their emancipation." In his instructions to General Bates, under this direction, General Otis says It is believed that the market price of slaves in the archipelago is insigni ficant, ranging from $30 to $90, Mexi can, and that in some instances own' era will be pleased to grant freedom to their slaves if they can escape the burden of supporting them. General Otis continues to the effect that the character of the domeetio slav ery existing in the archipelago differt greatly from the former slavery InstitU' tion of the United Btates, the slaves becoming members of the owner's family. General Bates, in his report, stated that when he first asked to see the sul tan, the latter sent his greetings, say ing he could not come to the general, be cause he had boils on his neck, and could not put on his coat, but that he would recognize the protection of the United States, requesting as a favor that he might hoist his own flag alongside that of the United States. The sultan's brother went to Jolo to meet General Bates, and the sultan afterwards joined him. General Bates states in this con nection that the Sulns ore very jealous of their institution of slavery. in his original instructions to Gen eral Bates, General Otis instructed him to push to the front the question o( sov ereignty, and told him he could promise for the United States not to interfere with, but to protect, the Moros in the (ree exercise of their religion and cus toms, social and domestic, and to re spect the rights and dignities of the sultan. In return they must acknow ledge the sovereignty of the United States. He also instructed General Bates that it was important that the United States should oocupy the prin cipal distribution centers of trade, and that blassi, the capital, should be occa pied by our troops at no distant day. FOUR BLOCKS BURNT Property Worth $1,500,000 Destroyed in St Louis. ONE KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED In the Heart 0 the Retail Seetlor 4 the City Losses Were DUtrlB uted Among Many. A Hlf-Mllllon-Dollr Fir. Dayton, O., Feb. 6. Early this morning a fire, the result of a boiler explosion, in the tobacco warehouse oi P. Wolf, threatened for a while to do immense damage in the manufactur ing district of this city. The fire was finally gotten under control, not how ever, before fully $500,000 worth of property was destroyed. The principal losers are: J. P. Wolf & Sons, tobacco merchants; E. Bimm Se Sons, grocers; Benedict, cigars; Dayton Paper Novel ty Company. Aightwatcbman Snedinger was over come by smoke and found unconscious by firemen. Several firemen were badly lrosen, and Fireman McCoy was hurt, probably by (ailing walls. Ltqnor Traffle In Mexico. City of Mexico, Feb. 6. The press continues to denounce the growth of the liquor trafflo in Mexico, and ascribes to the increasing consumption of ardent spirits in various forms, the augmented mortality and crime. The Methodists here, headed by Bishop Mo- Cabe and Rev. Dr. Butler, have begun campaign against intemperance and the local Catholio journals are exhort ing theii readers to arouse themselves to prevent the country from becoming prey to alcholism. It is reported that the government will endeavor by means of pnblio action to aid the tem perance movement. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6. Property to the estimated value of $1,600,000 was burned today, the greater part of four blocks of buildings and their contents between Third and Sixth streets and Franklin avenue and Morgan street, in the heart of the retail section, being destroyed. One fireman was killed, nine other members of the fire depart ment were injured more or less seri ously, and five or six citizens wore hurt slightly. None ot the injured will die, as far as known tonight. The loss on both buildings and stocks of goods is approximately $1,600,000. Definite figures are ex ceedingly hard to obtain. There were six retail concerns which were heavy losers. The remainder of the loss is divided in varying proportions among a score or more of small shopkeepers 01 firms. Only two concerns suffered loss of over $100,000 Penny & Gentles and Schaper Bros. The buildings in which the two concerns were housed were owned by the Mary E. Knox estate, and were erected at a cost of $165,000. Penny & Gentles' loss, which is cov ered entirely by insurance, is estimated at $185,000. Schaper Bros.' loss is es timated at $100,000. These two con cerns occupied about half the block on the west side of Broadway, south from the corner of Franklin avenue, and the buildings were entirely destroyed. The rest of the block on the west side of the street is taken up by the build ings occupied by the Famous dry goods store, whose loss was comparatively Blight. On Franklin, just back of Penny St Gentles, the building occupied by the Fuch Millinery Se Cloak Company suffered a loss on the stock of $40,000. The store occupied by D. Crawford JS Co., at Broadway and Franklin avenue, was entirely burned, with a loss on buildings and stock of $70,000. The People's Hoosefurnishing Company, at 814 North Broadway, was completely wrecked; loss $60,000. At 813 North Broadway, Deere Bros.' store, filled with a stock of 6 and 10-cent goods, sustained a $38,000 loss on buildings and stock. The fire swept through the block from Broadway to Fourth street and burned all the buildings from 827 to 809 North Fourth street. These build ings were old three and four story structures, some occupied as tenement! above and stores below, while othen were vacant. Here the St. Louie Dressed Beef Se Provisions Company, Herboth Mercantile Company, the Schisler-Cornelia Seed Company, and three small stores, suffered an aggre gate loss of $65,000, while the lossei on buildings amounted to fully $45, 000. Among the firms and individuals that suffered heavily from the fire are the following, whose places of business were on the east side of Fourth and west side of Third streets: A. Nasse, wholesale grocer; Plant Seed Company; Krenning Glass Com-' pany; Bassett's plumbing establish ment; McLain Ss Alcorn Commission Company; Bueller Block Commission Company; Nelson Distilling Company; Hake Se Sons Commission Company; George A. Benton, produce; Bauer Flower Company; Shaw & Richmond, produce. Their losses aggregate thous ands of dollars and ore portly covered by insurance. Late tonight John Cnmmings, pri vate watchman of Penny Sc Gentles, was arrested and is being held, pending an investigation into the origin of the fire. He was taken into oustody as the result of a statement by a woman room ing opposite, to the effeot that she had seen a man answering the watchman's description, lighting matches in the store previous to the fire. Cummingi denied having had anything to do with it, and states that he was at home when the fire broke out. Wm. Goebel Is Dead. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 6. The bullet fired by an unknown assassin last Tues day morning ended the life of William Goebel at 6:45 o'clock this evening. The only persons present at the death bed were Mr. Goebel's sister, Mrs. Brawnecker, and his brother, Arthur Goebel, of Cincinnati, who has been in constant attendance at Mr.; Goebel's bedside, and Dr. McCormack. Justus Goebel, a brother, who has been hurry ing from Arizona as fast as steam would carry in a vain hope of reaching his dying brother in time for some token of recognition, arrived 40 minutes too late. Hailetine, the Marine ArtUt. New York, Feb. 6. William Stanley Hazeltine, the marine artist, is dead in Rome, aged 64 years. He was a native of Philadelphia. Transport Ohio Arrives. San Francisco, Feb. 6. The trans port Ohio, 87 days from Manila, arrived here today bodies and two passengers. Colo Waved Examination. D.f.n PoK Ph.rl.. XI r1 ' Batlons t Mafeklng, 1. i .Mi.i., .u- ' Mafeking, Feb. 6. Siege rations ol National bank, and who is barged ; bread nd meat have only now been en with embeazling and misappropriating $900,000, the property of the bank, I waived examination today, and was held in $50,000 bonds (or the grand jury of the district oourt. Capt. Sigsbee, the hero of the Maine, i ... 1 1 1 u i e .1 1 The Ohio brought 150 inteUi borean b j has purchased a house in Washington. forced. Oats intended for horses are now saved to supply the troopers, if needed. Tinned milk and matches or commandeered. Liquor is scarce. Which Sits Hot Weather In Buenos Ayr. French, Italian and German ministers miiM shorter than the present one by I Maroh 20. Benjamin E. Smith and I Buenos Ayres, Feb. 6. One bun have addressed a note to the foreign wav of the Yukon river. The first trin ' Benjamin Walls, of Boston, were ac- dred and two sunstrokes were officially office asking that measures be taken by wjh made next Maroh. The serv I cepted as surleties. Cole was brought reported in this city, yesterday. Of the Chinese authorities (or the safety ot i0e over this route will be continued here early in January from Los Ange- these 98 were fatal. The temperature missionaries. next winter. lies. Cal. 'was 120 in the shade.