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THE FREEDOM OF CIBA DAYTON A Wsrvy F eWs W . Four man enternd Jacob Niedlikow’s A dynamite explosion occurred at jewelry Store in Milwaube* Wi*. and Kotiekto by which several persona were »ttimpted to rob tbe plac* Two oov- ered tbe proprfetor witb rouelver» and tilled. oat the souA, excepting in the Oh«- caen* ia4n a fairly favorable condition A Singapore dispatch to the London Timm nays the Spaniards have been de- foated by the' insurgents in the Philip- pin* islands, with the lost of 800 of their men. - *• ; The strike in the gas works, in Bor deaux, which necessitated the calling in pf the soldiers to assist in tbe works to save the city from being left in dark- ness, has ended in a compromise. At Webster’s sawmill on Deep Creek, in Washington, Engineer B. F. Elmore was caught by a shaft and in stantly killed. The body was fright fully mangled. ■. . WesMie rives Upea Burglars. A| Ooland ereek, Virginia, Mr». Elisabeth Belcher, who is reputed to have money at her home, hoard bur- glare working at a back door. Bbe stole bet with a^Winobeeter, saw throe men at the door and fired three shots at ttm. The burglars fled. They were traeked more than three miles by ■tovea Thessas« Men tert. The American Company*» lighters The first serious frontier incident in and chip cleaners in Hamburg, Ger a long time occurred near Munster, many have joined the big «trike there, when a German forest guard shot an and eleven thousand men are now out. alleged French poacher, inflicting a flesh wound. The French government Dispatches from Antananarivo say will inquire into the cas* rebellion in Madagascar is rampant, While the employee of the Thiels and in the vicinity of the capital trade enamel factory, of Hamburg, Germany, ie paralyzed. were going to work a body of strikers attacked them and a free fight followed. Shots were fired, several pitotns seri ously wounded and many arrests made. A Paris dispatch says the trial of Basin’s patent roller boat, which it is alleged would shorten the Atlantic pas sage to ninety-six hours, is expected to occur ip the middle of December sores» the English channel from Havre, intbe presence of distinguished naval author ities and possibly of President Faure, who ia interested in the experiment. The fire was discovered by the night watehman, and in an incredible space at time tbs entire plant was a seething cauldron of flame». Tbs lorn sustained is about 186,000, covered by insurance in numerous companies to the extent of about $40,000. The most distressing result of the fire is that 160 mon are A disastrous prairie fire swept over » thrown out of employment, temporarily the Seminole country, Oklahoma. Six at a season of the year when they can teen persons, it is reported, were I ill afford to bo idle. The firemen on burned to death by the raging flames. duty dM good service, but could not do A Catholic mission was saved by the much except to prevent the spread of heroic work of Sisters Freda and Kirk. the flame* Just how the fire originat Tbe two sisters fought the flames for' ed is difficult to determine, but it is two boura with blanket* and saved the supposed to have been oansed by spon Wes ot twenty Indian pupil* Tbe taneous combustion. Mr. Robert D. ffih Was started by outlaw* who were Inman, of the oopmany, says that al- flffitag from a posae of deputy marshals. Mdtaof tbe people burned were hair- brollnfiian* Topeka, Kan., De* 1.—According to official returns received attbe »«orotary at state’s ofltae, there waa one township hi Kansas, where only two votes were cast at the reeant elastton. ■ It was Garfield townabip, ia Seward county. One of tbe voters casta straight Repub lican ticket, while tbe other voted the Populist ticket straight, with tbe ex ception of county attorney. There was a tie on all other oflloer* and the candidates for township cAossoast Iota to see who should eerv* Garfield Washington, Ds* 1—It ia not prob township has about twenty inhabit able that the bosue, at the coming see- ant», eight of whom are voter* Then ■ion at congress, can dispose of much are four Populist» and four Republi of the proposed legislation which en can* On election day three of tbe cumbers its calendars. Little ia usually Popoliate accomplished at the abort session be Iinana, an yond the paasage of the regular supply Republican wanted to pair off with bill* Still, the house, with its instru- the remaining Populist, but the latter mentalities for the expedition at bnsi would not do it, because bo had a use* can accomplish a great deal' In a grudge against the nominee of his own party for county attorney, and said be The question of additional revenues wanted to vote for the Republican tor the government will depend on the nominee. This necessitated the oast- senate, to which body the house sent ing of two ballots, with the result as the- Dingley bill almost a year ago. stated. A regular voting precinct waa Should it be impossible, or be.deemed maintained the entire day, and five inexpedient to proas that measure voters received $9 each for serving as through the senate, there ia of course judges and clerk» of election. a possibility that the proposal to in crease the revenues by an additional AN EXPERIENCE WITH ROBBERS tex on boar or the imposition of a duty on tea, coffee, eta., may take tangible form, and, if so, such legislation must originate, under the constitution, in St. Joseph, Ma, Dea 1-—F. M. the lower branch of congress. Arnhold, living near thia city, reports There an on the several calendars of a terrible experiepoe with masked rob which will pern at the coming session must be necessarily almoet infini tesimal. Most ot them are of course, private Mils (of which there are 1,100), but there are also 956 bills on the cal endar on the state of-the Union, and 99 pnblio billa on the regular bouse calen dar. Some .of these are of very great publie importance, and thorn interested will no doubt do all in their power to secure action for them. - The power lodged in thf hands of the committee on rules,which -give*-the members of that committee control of the house programme, will make that committee the practical arbiter of what shall be submitted to the house for action. That committee ie com posed at present of the speaker, Hen derson of Iowa, Dalsell jif^EPennayl- vania, and McMillin dP^nnnoase* The death of ex-8peaker* (^iap.oreates a vacancy at the bead ot the minority of the committee, which must be filled by the speaker. The names principal ly mentioned in connection with the vacancy are Bailey of Toxas, Oathcinga of Mississippi, Turner of Georgia, Richardson ot TonnsosM, and Dookss^ The numerous hold-ups which have occurred in Tacoma and Beattie during the past two weeks have caused many oitisens to take the precaution of de- poeiting their money and valuables in some safe place before venturing into the streets after night. In none of the hold-ups which have occurred have the robbers secured more than a few dol lars for their pain* Owing to the many protests received by Superintendent Irwin against his decision to allow the holiday teachers' meeting to go by deiault, it ia likely that he may reconsider his decision and make another effort to secure a meeting place. The teachers think that among the numerous towns of Or egon there surely must be at least one where a suitable hall for holding the meeting may be Secured. Lebanon, amount of tbs defalcation of Cashier John H. Hoffer,, of the First Nation al bank, will reach $100,000 or mon. Sunday, Hoffer sent out for General Gobin, director sfi the bank, and made G»«rge W. •. Furrta D»aU. Pittoburg, Nov. 95.—George W. G. Farri* who oonoeived and bullt tb« world-fsmoua.Farria wtoeel, died st Marcy hoepital in thia eity, st 11 o’clook.thia moealaf, ot typhoid fev«. Hia illneaa waa briet, and it waa only Friday that he w*e taken to ttee ho* , Auwvteaas la !»■<■■. founded this country. Another service was held tonight ia Chiokering hall, which was crowded. Bourke Cockran, Charles A. Dana, En rique Verona and Dr. Barnett were the speaker* AU tbe members of the Cuban junta bad seats on tbe plstform. Bourke Cookran’s speech waa one ot tbe most eloquent ever made by him. Ho urged intervention by thia govern ment in the interact of civilisation and humanity. He »aid the annexation of Cuba would puLthis country on a foot ing with barbarous Spain. When, however, the Coban should breathe the air of freedom and desired to become a part of thia republic then they could be treated aa equal a and not the sub jects of conquest Further, he mid that if necessary, the Cuban» ahould be allowed to purchase their freedom from Spain, and that, in the interest of peace, the United State» ahould guar antee the payment of the bonds. However, it ia time, bo declared, that the executive should make known his view» upon the Cuban queation.and if the word waa apoken, freedom would be amurU without the firing of a »in gle shot. But if interferenoe ahould become neosamry in the cause of ha manity, ho favored a final resort to the Cuban quertioo. Never before has so much power been veatqd in the exec utive. ' Will our president pronounce the word of doom or liberation? If he declares Cuba libre, that flag (pointing A which Mr. Powers of Vermont is the author, was reported shortly before the oloee of the last session. Everything will be done by those interested in it to secure oonaideration. The friends of the Nicaragua canal are also bending every energy to secure action on the bill reported by Mr. Doo little, which provides for a guarantee by the United States of $100,000,000 of bonds for the construction of the canal. The war claims committee, which showed fight on several occasions at the last session, promise to renew aggres siveness this winter, especially for the passage of the claims awarded under the Bowman act and the French spolia tion claim* These claims, the former amounting to 1663,459, and the latter to 13,708,196, were put on the sundry civil bill at the last session as a rider of the senate, but the bill was vetoed by the president, and they were then dropped. Mr Mahon, who ia ohairv ban of the war claima committee,will alao press the Pennsylvania border blaima, which have been pending in congress for year». The Loud bill, to cure the abuses oi the law relating to seoond-clasa mail matter, of which newspaper matter is transmitted at one cent per pound, and Which ha» been the »object of much criticism by the postoffioe department because of -the advantage taken of the law in various ways for the transmia- sion of books and pamphlet», will alac be pressed, as will be the Pickier serv ioe pension bill, bich occupine a favor, able poeition on he calendar aa a privi legad report. The second Thanksgiving dinner of the American Society, of London, took place in the. grand hall of tbe Hotel Cecil in that city. Henry 8. Welcome, chairman of the society, presided, in the asbenoe of the United States am bassador, who, with Mr* Bayard, was ’'commanded” to dine with the queen, ■t Windsor oastl* The dinner was co a more elaborate scale than any of the previous gatherings of the society, and about 800 ladies and gentlemen were present. The hall was splendidly dec orated. A special feature of the orna mentation, in addition to the stare and stripe* which were everywhere dis played, waa a quantity of American corn specially brought over for the pur- pos* Many American dishes were on the menu, and some immens» pump kins had a share ia providing the good things foe tbe tabi* Behind tbe chair occupied by Mr. Wellcome was a repre- roqtation of tbe statue of Liberty and a large American eagle, and near the chairman, on a pedestal, was an enor mous pumpkin, sent as a present to Mr. Bayard, whose absence wus much re gretted. In the middle of the dinner there was s surprise for the guests when each one received a leather-bound soevsuir book containing the portrait» of Mr. Bayard and the American presi dents, including President-elect Mc Kinley. Mr. Bayard’s letter of apology for not attending, and wishing “God speed to the land we ail love," waa fol lowed by a telegram from the United States ambassador gt Windsor eastle, in which he mid: “Your charming DyaamllMI a Train. souvenir of tbe day we celebrate haa Havana, Deo. 1.—Several well-known just been received, and the copy for bar majesty will bo presented before insurgent leaders have dynamited a your dinner is ove* All who love military «min running along the troche the United State» and Groat Britain from Juoaro to Moron, in the western will join ta the mutual congratula tions over the peaceful relation» of the Engliah-apeaklng people of the world.” Mr. Bayaid’» MtSaronte won greet»I with loud cheer* and Mr. Wellcome, the chairman of the society, ta allud ing to Mr. Bayard'» regretted aboenoe, The battleship Oregon baa jest re turned from a short cruise, undertaken to give a board of inspectian an op portunity of looking her well over. It Was given out unofficially that tbe trial had been a very great aueoat* and that ORGANIZED ASSASSINS, Baker City has a movement well » dor way to secure a public library. Tbe Eagle woolen mills, at Brow» ville, now employs sixty one me* HOLD-UP THAT him to kill Brooke and hie burn their house. Yesterday, several of those in jail escaped, and last night masked men went to Brooke’s home, but were repulsed by Brooke and hi» wife, who stood them off With Win chesters. Kalama, Wash., Dec. 1.—Fire broke out in the Methodist church Sunday night about 8 o’clock. Bervioea were being held at the time, but the congre gation passed out of the building with out difficulty. Before the fire company reached the scene, the building waa a mass of flames, and it was soon com pletely destroyed. The lorn was about $9,000. As the fire company was cm its way to the engine-house, the Ka lama hotel waa found to be burning, having caught from flying sparks The blase waa extinguished in abort order. Sparks from the burning church ignited the roof of W. Girard’■ general merchandise store, and, pass ing over the Cowlita county bank and the City drugstore, alm Mt fire to the opera-house. Watchers wer^on them buildings, however, and put out the fire wherever it appeared. London, Dec. 1.—The Earl of Elkin, viceroy of India, telegraphs to the gov ernment that rain there ie too late to bo of much benefit to the autumn crop, but it ie in time for the late sowings. Prices, he says, show a tendency to tall, though the full effect is not yet apparent in the Deccan. The condi tion of the people la good and the pres sure upon them ia due to prioea rather than to the fallu* of the crops. Since the rain, prioea have fallen SO to 60 per cent in the northern districts. Lord Elkin’s dispatch also gives details of how a quarter of a million of people in the distreaaed districts of India are engaged in relief work. bedroom was situated, and the servant, after telling her, went to bed. Jha* was the last seen of the mysterious vis itor, but Mr* Carew received from her a letter written by Carew, which had been thrown in-a waste basket. After Carew died, and the inquest was in progress, the woman wrote to Meaar* Lowder A Hall, stating that she had fooled the chemist, the doctor and that “silly little wit*" The police have been unable to find any trace of the woman in black. The coroner’s jury brought a verdict that Mr. Carew died from the effects ot arsenic poisoning, but by whom the poison was adminis tered there was no evidence to show. Mr* Carew was then arrested, and charged with the murder of her hus band, but was later released on bait Her trial was in progress when ths steamer left. er Dalle» City, belonging to The Dalle», Portland & Astoria Navigation Com- pany, struck,rock near Sprague land ing yesterday and sank in six feat of water. The weather was: extremely blustering, with a down-stream wind blowing hard when the Dalles City left the Qaacade* At • P. M. she was op- motorman and brought her*— TW other men escaped, but their names are known. The gang is said to be the same that bold up the west-bound Chi cago & Alton pasoenger train just out side Indpendence about a month ago. This afternoon the polios gave out the meta’»names as Oscar Bridges, Eu gene Ridgeway, Ernest Ridgeway and Alexander Repine. All are under 93 years of age. The Ridgeway boys live in Sheffield, a small suburb near the •oene of the hold-up. Eugene ia * barber, Ernest a professional highway man. Repine has respectable parents, and lives at Centeropolis, a suburb of Kansas City. WILL MOVE TO PRINCETON Princeton, N. J., Nov. 80.—Rumors have been currant hero concerning President Cleveland’s intention of making his permanent home at Prince ton. Nothing definite could be learned until this evening when Professor An drew West returned from Washington, after having had an interview with tbe president Professor West gave out the following statement: “President Cleveland haa today pur- chased the residence of Mr* A. J. 811- dell, on Bayard avenue, ta Princeton, and will make Princeton hia perma nent home aoon after the expiration of hie term aa president. Negotiations looking to this end have bean in prog ram about throe weeks, and were oon- sumated today by the purchase of the property.” Pensacola, Fla., Deo. 1.—It ia ru mored in military circles that the troope of the First artillery, now stationed at various poets on the Gulf and Atlantic coast, are to bo concentrated here for practice with the modern heavy guns,: which will soon be in poeition on Banta Boos ioland. . The »election of a site for another battery leaves no doubt in the minds of military men that Penaaoola is to be heavily fortified as rapidly as possible, and as the troops need practice in tbe handling of tbe modern guns, thia har bor is deemed by military men to be tbe beet that oould be selected tor the pur- poe* They would have the open gulf for target practice, and at least 1,000 of abbout $800. YoweU atatod that the money waa at hia house, and waa allowed to go after it, but failed to re- tom. . Ottawa, Ont, Nov? 10.—A mundal ia being Investigated in the mMHia de partment. It haa been diaoovered that There have been taipped out of AW deen by express since the first of Au gust 815,000 pounds of fresh fitib.wBtah brings tbe value of the season's outfit of salmon up to almost $100,000, w $1,000 per day. The Spokane Falls & Northern Trie graph Company has completed tte stringing of an additional wire tan Spokane to Northport and thence am- neoting with Romland. The busimn of tbe company will probably necene- tate tbe placing of another wire eew tbe lino to Nelaon aoon after the first d tbe year. The total cargo shipments by rixtem of the leading mills of Washingtea ■ the month of October, as officially w ported to tbe Wert Coast and Psg* Sound Lumberman aggregated 87.797,- 019 fart at lumber, and 4,149,885 tert. Of the lumber, 14,944 547 feet wsrt foreign, and 98,980,465 feet wml ooeatwie* Tbe total exceeds Septs» bar by over 4.000,000 feet. A winter muakmelon, or oaMb* tea peculiar variety of fruit that is talag exhibited by Robert Secrest. Tbe nd was brought to Oakesdale by J. J- Durant, from tbe Yakima country- The seed was planted in tbe spriag sal melons were picked this fall. Th» Crete looks like tbe ordinary melon, tbe <toy difference being that tbe winter matea will not ripen until it has been IsE away for a oonaideiable time. burned to death ■■tire Family Orsmeted ■ou.. m . K. r‘0Ma«’ «»»1 midnight. The military had toolear the streets, and many parsone were seriously injured, including M. Tbei- arry, of the Frano» Libre *' Seven miles of the now motor rail way grade between Waterloo, Sodaville and Lebanon, are raid to be now "My for the laying of rail* on account of tbe bad weather work has been diasan- tinned until next apring. Tbe contractors who have tea awarded tbe contract for furnishing act placing rook on the north jetty, ■ Cooe hay, are preparing to begin wart immediately, and are employing am with that object in view. . Hany Clay, a aheepbuyer, recmtly received about 6,000 bead of sheep ten abeepmen in the neighborhood of Man» ment, and drove to Arlington, tan which place he shipped to Chiaags Hia band will be fed and placed m Rs market later on. The material ia on band and St foundation of the cradle laid at VaB Bud denly a violent jar was felt, and im- A correspondent of the IndepmtaF wWBsnij WB wwnior t dow was turned West Side says: “Fifty-one yumj»"" toward a mnd bar lying in the middle the hand that pens these lanes of tbe river, and in lorn than three min paddling a canoe down the Wills«* utes she was beached. ' The hole in her river. The writer started from tte A hull was a large one, and in a few William Prather place, went to Lata minutes she had settled till her stern mints, stepped into the canoe, aelb three days was in Oregon City. * freeze at the Cascade locks, as UHsprP-' T-j, -1111 in. iinr~LMhr* it ««B vented the Dalles City from going through to Portland, and delayed her long after her usual time of leaving the Washington. look* The passengers, although suf The shipments of farm products tan fering somewhat from fright, were Garfield during the month of Octaa made comfortable by the officers and last, not counting wheat, amounts* b crew, and are loud in their praise of value to about $6,000. Captain Jonbaton and the other officers. Judge Smith, of Goldendal* says that A haystack with a down chiebai good management and coolness prevent- upon it went down tbe Columbia riwr ed a worse accident. last week. The fowls were rescues ta Thanksgiving purpose» at Freeport. Blaetlun Biota la ¡Bulgari*. Sofia, De* 1—The election» to the ■obranje, which occurred today, were accompanied by serious disturbance* •nd the troops and police bad to be called out to disperse the mobs here and in the provinces, aa the result of which many persons were wounded. The po lice fired on tbe crowd at Zarobrod, killing several person* There are about 500 bead of cattle ta sale ta Esgle valley, Uniou county. The Bantiam river was reported ts have been higher last week than dan the flood of 1891. Sena tor-elect Harmon, of Coo* Ceny and Josephine oounties, makes petite hia approval of a registration law. The people of Wallowa oounty vast a special seuriou of the circuit oomt They have an overstock of crunirote they wish to dispose of. prairie City. Grant oounty, has tem selected as the next meeting plaolaf the director» of the first Eastern Oto- gon District Agricultural Society. The hospital, employe’s quartern sad laundry at the Warm Springs »g«mg have been completed and are new awaiting to be turned over to tbe gw- ernment as soon as the new agent » rivs* Tbe body of Ferdinez, the cook at ths ill-fated Arago, was found late week on the beach, fifteen miles aortb of the Umpqua. The remains wws identified by paper» found ia tte FAILED. nity are that a second attempt waa made last night to murder Brooke. A month ago, Charley Graham, Bill Janes and Kenneth McDonald attempt ed to aasaaainato Brooke and hie wife 'TWoagnr planter» of the Island Cd I paid by foreign oountrfts. - with the view at briagingg about 'some counter acting influupqeto enable planters there to compete more fairly with their for eign rival* ‘Delegates have been ap pointed to present the grievances in tbs proper quarter. ’ Hon. LMfayette Lane, an ex-con- gremman of Oregon, died at hie resid ence at Roseburg, Or., November 98. The railroad track from Coquille City to Marshfield and Myrtle Point was greatly demolished by last week's freshet, many bridgea being afloat and the roadbed badly damaged in many places. I. Last week’s snow storm waa much more severe on tbe Sound than in Port land. At Tacoma fully nine inchea covered the ground, retarding to a con siderable extent railway and street-oar traffic. The Bound cities have received no through Eastern mall for a week. Baker oountv's assessment roll has been filed, and show» tbe total value of property in tbe county to be $8,974,984; total value of taxable property, $9,- 169,879. Washington county's across meat shows tbe total value of property to be $4,897,485; total taxable prop erty, $4,441,645. Hon. T. T. Geer, of Marion county, is spoken of as the moot likely candi date for the honor of carrying tbe elec toral vote of Oregon to Washington •nd represent the Webfoot state in the electoral college. The sage of Waldc hills polled the largest vote of all the Oregsm »lectors, and has always been unusually popular with hia par^. bers, who entered his house at an early hour in the morning. Mr. and Mr* Arnhold were awakened and found three masked men in their bedroom. The robbers covered them with pistols and demanded to know where their money waa concealed. Arnhold denied that be had any money, and Ma wife whs too terrified to Speak. The man and-woman were then dragged into tbe cellar and were held there while one of the robbers went to the rooms above and heated an iron poker to a white heat and returned with it to tbe oellar. When they threatened to apply thio to Arnhold's naked feet, be weakened and told them where they could find what money be had. There was but $18 in the rancher’s cache, and so angry were the robbers that they demoliahed much of the furniture in the house before leaving. Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. Perry, N. Y., Dec 1.— The maaaive jam of logs which bn been wedged in between the narrsr walla at the mountains on the river, and known as the ' jan.”b finally gon* The recent high wart took it out clean and deposited it iaibr boom at the mAuth of the river. I* mam of logs has been in thereto yean, making a perfect aud safe taMF over the river, and bad been a biadw anas to lodging on the Upper Kals«» A new town to be known as Sih* has been started in the Methow di*» A Now Whatcom man, while osta ranch near Linden, learned of tbe klb ing of a preacher a short distance•• the line In British Columbia. T* preacher was out bunting with 9* oompanions started Ho had shot a bear, animal had turned had time to shoot him. His body was the indications, the
