TO TMI
DAYTON
DEATH
Property Loas Will Reach
One Hundred Thousand.
OREGON
JUT TUY LITTLE WAS SAVED
IsteraaUs* CelleeUea of Items Fl
the Two Homis photo« Pros* ote*
la a Condenso* Perns.
munitions and provisions for th* insur-
gants, ha* bean sained by the Turkish
offidAU
The French guardships
started for Valova with 87.500 to pay
' A violent wind and rain storm visit­ the ransom of two French ladies recen t-
ed Newark, N. J., Md did damage to ly captured near that place by the
brigand*
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the amount of 8150,000.
Russian engineers have been tn
Philadelphia and have made a contract
A special from Bombay say* the
tor 8500,000 worth of machinery there.
British aeoond-claa*, twin-screw Bona­
Mr* Annie Dyer, the baby farmer, venture, the flagship of the East Indian
of Rudbig. Eng., arrested on March 9 squadron, flying the flag of Rear-Ad­
on the charge of murdering many in­ miral Edmund Drummond, loot seven-
fanta intrusted to her care, was hanged tv men by sunstroke on a voyage from
in Newgate prison.
Colombo to Podflioherry.
*
- The throe-masted schooner Edward
Koergaalaation el *M Mertkora.
a A lien true, Captain MflUughlin,
Thor* to much discussion in Now
from Baltimore for Portland, Bank off
Job’s neck, on the south side at this York among those concerned in the re­
organisation of the Northern Pacific,
iiland,
From the fact that the vessel’s boat* as to the form of charter the company
have come ashore in piece* and ar­ to to have or whether it to advisable to
ticles of clothing have been picked up foreclose the property ** present, in
it 1* feared that all on board were lost. view of the fate that the present con-.
Sixty cloakmakers employed by *
Chicago firm, were thrown in to a panic
by a fire, and it seemed for a time that
A Three Ttaw« Murderer Heuged.
some of them would bo trampled to
John Craig, 'a three timea murderer,
death in the scramble to escape. The
fire was in the stairway on the second was hanged in Folsom prison. There
could not have been a more perfect
floor and escape waa finally effected by
execution it is mid. .The condemned
rushing through the flame* It waa
man was completely resigned to his
soon extinguished with but little dam-
fate, and walked to the gallows as
pooiy a* though going to a wedding.
is a prisoner in Richmond, Va., charg­
ed with ahooting with intent to kill
Jack Carr, a young negro. Tyler is a
dairyman residing near Richmond.
Ho went to the assistance of another
person who got into a difficulty with
Carr, and saya the ahooting was in
self-defense. The accused was sent to
the grand jury and allowed bail.
One hundred And eighty can* of
dynamite exploded about a mile below
Lilly, Fa., with frightful results. Ona
man was killed by the explosion, and
seven others fatally injured.
Con­
tractor McManus' workmen on the
[r* Zoneshhondia
-aa killed by jump-
Frank Garbala,
aged 5, waa suffocated to death. Lot­
tie Garbeia, aged 13, waa internally
hurt and may di*
Frank Garbeu'
was badly burned.
The fire was
caused by the explosion of a barrel of
Tbelr Courage galled Tkem.
Forty miles east of Charleston, W.
Va., masked men boarded an express
train at midnight and crawled over
the engine tender into the cab with
revolvers drawn. The engineer stopped
the train. Ho waa commanded to out
loose the express oar. Thia waa don*
James Crflilan, the war correspond­ The paaoengers were awakened and the
ent who had to leave Cuba recently by light* wer* extinguished. After ten
order of General Weyler, says be minutes work, the bandits became
thinks there will be a war with Spain.
thunderstruck when the documenta in
the possession of the state department
are made public. Spein is anxious for
way.
Twenty-five million dollars’
worth of American property has bean
deetToyed in Cuba and many Ameri­
can* killed without provocation.
Since the collapse of the "brick
trust” at the oloee of May, the local
brick market in Chicago has been de­
moralised.
The demoralisation has
reached such a point that common
brick were sold at 84.10 per 1,000.
A member of one of the largest bank­
ing houses in Honolulu is4n this coun­
try for the purpose of interesting oap-
italiota in the refund!)
of the Ha-
waiian government'«
idebtednna.
The government has 88,096,000 of
bonds drawing 6 per oent interest out­
standing at present, which it is pro­
posed to pay and issue in their stead
bond* drawing intereat at the rate of 4
per cent..
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H s Death a Mystery.
A Peoria, 1IL, dispatch states that
Daniel Anderaon, w^o was nominated
for United States senator by the Pro-
hibitionista at their Springfield con­
vention, has withdrawn from the rao*
and the party.
The body of a man with hia head
split open, was discovered floatinFin
the Columbia river near Wallace’s
island. It ia not known how ho waa
killed.
A four-cent faro ordinance wa* passed
'in Milwaukee. Thirty day*’ time to
given in which to allow the companies
to print regulation ticket* and make ar­
rangements for carrying out’the terms
at the ordinano* The company will
carry the matter to the court*
The trustee* of the university of Illi­
nois were arreited in Champaign and
hold in 8200 bail to answer to the
grand jury the charge of failing to fly
the flag* from all univeriaty building*
Governor Altgeld to a member of the
board.
While two dosen people crowded on
a portico were witneasing a circus
parade in Ottawa, Kan., the structure
gave way, precipitating men, women
and children fifteen feet to the walk
below. Seventeen were injured Mr*
David Day, of Rantoul, will probably
die of injurie*
the body of
An Astoria dispatch i
Gus Norburg, foreman
the Fisher-
men's cannery, who waa reported miaa-
ing, and alao that of a Russian Finn
named Oviok, who ia suppoeed to have
been out in the river with him, were
found in the river below Tongue Point
It ia not ao far known bow their deaths
occurred, but the oonjecturea is that
they were both accidentally drowned.
Failed to Fly Flag*.
Except Savanah, the -capitals of the
new states of Wyoming, Montana and
Utah are the only place* that got ap-
propriationa for public buildinga at
thia aeasion of oongreaa. The bouse
policy has been to report no bills for
new buildings.
The Hammond incident is finally
settled. At a special «.meeting of the
executive council held in, Pretoria, it
was decided to release John Hays Ham-
mond, Cecil Rhodes, Georg* Farrar
and J. W. Leonard, the leaden of the
Johannesburg reform committee, upon
payment of a fine of £35,000 each, or
The emperor of China has testified in default, fifteen yean’ banishment.
hia appreciation of the gallantry ahown
by the bluejackets of the American
Ben Dice, a rancher living on the
warshipe in rescuing drowning persons
in the recent terrible disaster resulting Tule river, twenty mile* southeast of
from a collision at Woonsung between Viaalia, OaL, killed hie brother-in-law.
Grant Smith. They quarreled about
by presenting to the captain of each of water in an irrigating ditch, and Dice’s
Uncle 8am’* cruisers in Asiatic water« wife attempted to remove the dam in
an elaborately engraved and highly the ditch on Smith’s place.
complimentary testimonial.
The once beautiful little village of
Lake City, Cal., at the head of Sur­
prise valley, in Modoc county, to a
scene of devastation, ruin and disaster.
What waa once a brisk and lively burg
of 300 inhabitants with neat and oosy
dwellings to now but a vista of tangled
wreckage, nearly every building in
town being wholly or partially de­
molished. It was struck by a water-
spout—a veritable water cyclone.
Chicago.—The Union Pacific Com­
pany has given notice that it intend*
to ignore the action of the other tran*-
oontinen
dining to« make a reduced rate for the
¡Utah schoolteachers, who are anxioui
to come East to spend their vacation.
It will take independent action in the
matter, and will make a one-fare foe
the round trip for the teacher*
Teheran, Persia.—Mumffer Eddin,
the new shah of Persia, baa been form
ally enthroned.
Cnlraralty Blot.
Three thousand Harvard men, en­
couraged by the phenomenal event of a
Harvard victory, fought 100 policemen
in the streets of historic old Cam­
bridge. It was the biggest riot that
the university has ever seen. Many
students and policemen wer* injured
in the melee, hut the blneooats finally
came out victorious and the student*
were looked up.
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Hop* Idaho, Jun* 16.—A fir* broke
out her* tbto afternoon about 8iM,
originating in the Northern Paciflo
steam laundry, owned by the dining
car department. The town to built on
the mountain aide, and in a few mo­
menta, th* flame* spread to the build­
ing* <m Main street and Railroad ave-
nu*
Although men, women and
children turned out and fought the fire,
but few buildinga west and north of
the laundry wer* aaved for a dtotrict
over a block.
The Pend de’Oriell* hotel, owned by
E. Wanamaker, wa* one of the first
buildinga destroyed. His targe gen­
eral merebandtoe *tore, the town hall,
warehouae, butcher abop, and a build­
ing occupied by Mr* Milla aa a dresa-
making parlor and^ residence, burned.
Thet next'waa a small building used
by N. G. Biaeon a* a warehoua* Next
to thia building waa the Examiner
printing office at J. W. Betti* Black'*
tailor shop, th* Odd Fallow*’ hall, A.
O. U. W., O. R. G, and K. O. T. M..
wqr* destroyed, a Bibi* and a «mail
atand being all that was aaved.
Dr. Martin loat all hi* etook of drugs,
men’* furnishing good*, notion*, etc.,
together with all hia houaehold and
kitchen furniture.
N. G. Sisson, proprietor of a large
merchandise «tore, lost building«,
houaehold gooda and kitchen furniture,
and almost everything in the store.
The Twin Wo Co., merchant«, loot a
large two-story building, merohandiae,
ete. O. C. Smith lost hi* residence, a
lodging-house, a tenement bouae and a
building occupied by Chinese aa a
gambling and lodging-houset..
Among the buildings and contents
destroyed were the steam laundry,
Mr* Head's lodging-house, J. O. Mo-
Dougall’* residence, W.
Piling’*
reaidence, Ed Ginn’s residence, Perry
Morgan’s nidence, C. T. McElvaney's
residence, several small shack* and a
section-house.
Very little furniture
was aaved from any of these buildinga.
The residences on Highland avenue,
owned by T. F. Roby, -Conductor
Quinn, Rev. Mr. Roth, Firemap Han­
ton and Miaa French, were destroyed,
with moat of their content*. All of
Gaines blow after blow on the head.
Finally Mm Gaine’s reached her
rival's throat with the raaor, revering
the jugular vein and causing almost
instant death. Neighbors who came in
found Mm Gaine* unoonsciou* beaide
her rival.
An examination «bowed
that the blow* from the hammer had
fractured her skull. Both women came
from good families, and both were
noted for their beauty. ■
A »other Petal Affray.
Birmingham, Al*, Juno 17.—Mon­
roe Jackson and J. W. Vest, prominent
Populist*, bad an affray at Hartselle,
Ala., last night, which resulted in the
death of both. Th* trouble occurred
over A political argument and they
fought with knives and pistols. Jack-
son leaves a widow and ten children.
Vest leaves a widow and six children.
NEW STYLE OF WARSHIP.
Washington, June 16.—The report
of the board of batteries on battleships,
of which Admiral Walker is-president,
has been banded to the navy depart­
ment. The report show* that the
board considered, with much care and
in great detail, the whole subject fo
battleship*. A* a result of this invest­
igation ICrecom mends a slightly differ­
ent ship with a somewhat different ar­
rangement of battery from any hereto­
fore built While apeaking very fa­
vorably of the superimposed turret, as
designed for the Kearsage and the Ken­
tucky, the board does not recommend
installing more turrets of this descrip­
tion until experiments with the two
ships named have demonstrated their
utility.
The hull recommended for
the ship is like that of the Kearsage
of the household good* in the similar in many respects to the Iowa.
The main battery recommended to com­
One hundred thousand dollars trill posed of four 18-inoh and fourteen 6-
not cove the loss. Giant powder was inch guns, so arranged aa to fire two
used to good advantage fb blowing up. 18-inoh and four 6-inoh guns directly
several small buildings, thus stopping ahead, two 18-inoh and two 6-inch di­
the ravages of the flames.
rectly astern, and four 18-inoh and
seven 6-inch in broadside. It to be­
lieved by the department that the snip
Waahington, June 15 — The presi­ outlined as above will bo an improve­
dent having approved the act passed by ment on any yet built in thia country.
congress at the instance of the Ameri-
The aecretary of the navy has ap­
oan delegates to the international mar­ proved the general features of the re­
itime oonferenoe, relative to the pre­ port of the board, and directed that the
vention of oolltoiona at sea, the state plana be taken up without delay. The
department has taken ateps promptly iteoretary haa already decided upon all
to acquaint the British government preliminary steps.
with the fact that the amendments to
A Boy’« Awful Crime.
rules suggested by it have been made,
Roseburg, Or., June 17.—James Dix­
and it is hoped there will be no delay
on, the 18 year-old eon of J. R. Dixon,
in putting the rule« into operation by
a wealthy and highly respected farmer
proclamation. The «ooeptance of the
thing north of Umpqua, shot and
changes by a third maritime power to
killed Charles Rice, aged 35, a eon of
necessary to the inauguration of the
Mr* Jane Strader.
rules, but as Germany in April 1894,
The affair occurred at a baseball
brought forward the same propositions
game, at Blakeeleys, fifteen miles east
as those recently ratified, no doubt to
of Roseburg yesterday afternoon. The
entertained of that country’a adher-
immediate cause of the shooting was
enoe.
trouble over the ball gam*
Salt Against Baker City.
Key West, Fl*, June 16—An
American oitisen, writing fo a friend
here, gives an account of outrages per­
petrated on Cuban women, who obeyed
Weyler’a order requiring them to pre­
sent themselves at the Spanish fortress
and oatnps. He was an eyewitness of
one of the ourtsge* Recently Señorita
Martines and her 15-year old daughter
appeared at a Spanish camp.
After
addressing insulting remarks to them,
the officer in command tore the cloth­
ing I roar the girl and exposed her to
the soldier* Then, at the point of the
bayonet, the nude girl was forced to
march in front of the column of troop*
To escape dishonor by the Spaniard*,
hundred* of Cuban women are joining
the insurgent army.
Ata for Armenian Orphans.
London, June 16.—A dispatch to the
Chronicle from Constantinople reports
that an American lady from Maraah
makea the following statement: "Hav­
ing made arrangements with charitable
persons at Constantinople for homes
and education for eighty orphans at
Maraah and Curia, I am prepared to
bring them to Conatantinople.
The
Turkieh authorities absolutely refused
to allow them to leave. It was only
with the greatest difficulty that I ob­
tained permission to bring my own
children, as the officials said that, be­
ing hero in Turkey, they were Turkish
although their parents were Ameri­
can*"
Portland, Or., June 16.—C. Gold­
smith, of this city, has opened suit
against Baker City, claiming to be the
bolder of 82,408 worth of warrants is­
sued in 1891, said warrants have been
presented to the city treasurer for pay­
ment, which waa refused. The inter­
est on the warrants for five yearr since
they became due makea the whole sum
asked for 88,800. Milton Smith is at­
torney for plaintiff, and the case will
be brought before the June term of the
circuit court. The city has entered a
demurrer to the complaint on the
ground that it does not allege facta
sufficient to constitute a cause.
Spokane, Wash., Juno 15.—John
Brannan, aged 31 unmarried, was
drowned in Hangman creek, near
Waverly, Saturday. With two com-
paniohs, he had been shooting fiah with
dynamite. The sport was alow, and
Branban, went swimming in intensely
cold water. He waa aeised with cramp*
and wa* drowned. Hi* companion*,
unable to swim, could not reach him.
The body waa recovered.
836.988,191; they were in»s*md by
the senate 823.930.433. an« aa they
became laws, they appropriated 819.-
616,634 less than as passed by the sea-
ate- 111,383,816 more than aa they
pasaed the boom. and •18,874,873 Jem
than the estimated requirements off the
ing defioienefes, made at the la*» ■**-
aion of oongre**, amounted to 8388,-
686,896, and it included bo river and
harbor bill. Excluding th* river and
harbor act pasaed at thi* saastaa, tbo
regular annual bill* aa paaasd by tbo
bouse, appropriated only 8373,570,089.
or more than 810,000.000 leas than waa
appropriated by the last eongros*”
mated at 8165,000,000.
The bill* establishing salaries in­
stead of the fee system for edfieesu of
the United States courts, be say*, will
save 81.000,000 annually, and asinimtao
arias of employes in ih* government de­
partments. The following table off ap­
propriations is given:
Fifty-first congress, 8988.417.188.34;
fifty-second oongress,81.087,184.M7.M;
fifty-third congress, 8989,939.305. «9;
fifty-fourth congress (first aesataa),
8515,759,830.49.
Mr. Sayres, in his statement, say* st
the total appropriations of th* session:
"This sum exceed* the appropria­
tions during the last eenriou of the
fifty-third congress by 818.751,999.
and those of the first regular session of
that congress by 838,538,557.
by the second session of the fifty-«stand
congress by only 83,744.588. although
at the latter aeasion 889,853,494 meso
waa appropriated tor pensions than at
thia aeasion. It to more than those by
the first session of the fifty-first con­
gress by 821,803.571, and 825,464.940
less than the «poropriations of the aeo-
ond session of the fifty-first eostgsee*
"The appropriations made by the
second session of the fifty-first cengrsso
exceeded those made at the first session
of the same congres* by 846.676.613,
or nearly 10 per cent. If the asme
proportion should be made at the next
session, tben the appropriations will
not be less (ban 8565,000,000.’’
Contract« authorised by thia seaseun
he estimates as follows:
Rivers and harbors, 859.616,494;
public buildinga, lighthouse and roe*-
nue cutter service, 81.406,000; dsf—ssu
«nd^rmsmefit, 84.195,076; bow war­
ships. 813.900,000; District of Colnse-
bia, 8125,000; total, 878.341,489.
He says the total expendi,um ia owe
(focal year have never been a* asset,
except during the war, and exceed th*
estimated valuation of property in any
one of the South Atlantic state*.
Quarrym«» MHke.
Berea, O., June 15 —Four hundred
Santa Fe, N. M., June 17.—St Vin­ quarrymen at the quarries o< the Cleve­
cent'« sanitarium, conducted by the land Stone Company, struck today.
Sister* of Charity, burned last night. They demanded that *11 nonuioB use*
The hospital annex was gutted. The be discharged, and that several union
loas to 8100.000; insurance, 88,000. men, who recently were dtemiased, be
The striker* have taken
Both institutions were crowded with reinstated.
patients and guest*, but there were no poasemion of all loaded ear* and refuae
to perimt them to be moved.
fatalitie*
A Boayltal Ba rued.
A Brutal Muider.
In a drunken rage John Wolter, of
Chicago, made an unsuccessful attempt
to kill hia wife. Ho then shot and
killed one stepdaughter and wounded
another so seriously that abe may die.
Mrs. Wolter is possessed of property
valued at |3,500, left by her lint hue-
band. It seems to have bean Wolter’s
purpose to get control of it. Being un­
able to make any headway in thia di­
rection, he became dissatisfied and be-
gan drinking to excess and was under
the influence of liquor when be oom*
mitted the aaaault upon his wife and
stepchildren.
Chicago, June 15—Thy roads of th*
central passenger committee have
agreed to a rate of one fare for th*
round trip for the meeting of the Order
of Elke, which will be held tn Cbaa-
nati, July 7-9.
St. John’s, N. F., June 15.—Lieu­
tenant Peary arrived today on the
steamer Portia, from New York, cock­
ing a whaler to convey him with a
scientific expedition to Greenland. It
is expected be will have great difficulty
in obtaining a suitable ship, He re­
turn* to New York tomorrow.
Fire la a DiMHlary.
Key West, Florida. — In the recent
attack which General Antonio Maceo
made no the trooba, four oompaniea of
Cubab women took part, according to
advice* received in thia city. Them
women have joined the insurgent army
because their homes have bean de­
stroyed by th* Spanish.
Many of
them mourn the lorn of relative* killed
by Weyler’* troop* In consequence,
th* feeling against ft* Spaniard* is one
to the Uttereet hatrod.
and to on account of fb* ineseaa* sf
8163,815,400 in the bondad indi!**«
neae of the country by tbo peanas* ad-
■ninistartfoa to February, 1995. iates-
setand sinking fund chargea ca asm is*
of the latter bend tosoni at 8189.988.-
000 in February. 189«. amountiBg to
84.400,000, not being included la the
estimates of permanent appesateli**
The inarms* in the principal to tbo ia-
teroat-bearing debt under toe puit
administration amount* to 8^31».-
4Q8, whidh «atolla •> annual intasato
ohM«eof 8U.493.fJ«, and to mart lb*
sinking fund obligation«, too farther
sum at 83,638.154.
Louisville, Ky., June-46.—Fire thia
morning destroyed a large wareboue of
the White Mill* DtotiUevy Company,
at Tenth and Lexington street*, entail­
ing a to** of 8189,000. Which to fully
covered by insurance. Firoman Van
Schwab fell into a burning «traam of
whisky and wa* so badly burned that
it to thought be will di*
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