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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.