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Dayton Herald.
Katerrd ss wcond-eln* matter at the paat-
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DAYTON
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OREGON.
EVENTS OF THE DAÏ
A a I a t a r n s t la g O a lla a tt a a a f Ito a s a Pro«
t h a T w o H e m is p h e r e « F r e e s « * « *
la a C sa d v a se d F o n a .
Bloemfontein la badly in need oi
water.
The total British losses in the Boat
war are now 28,000.
A Texaa town in the flooded diatriet
waa destroyed by a tornado.
Fishermen tearing the Colombia
river near Astoria found but few C hi­
nooks.
• The Puerto Rican bill, aa amended
by the senate, passed the houae by a
vote of 188 to 158,
Adm iral Dewey denies the story of
‘’ his withdrawal as a< candidate for presi­
dential nomination.
H . C. Frick w ill dispose of all hie
holdings, something like $18,000,000,
in the Carnegie Company.
An internatonal naval demonatratiod
w ill soon take palce at Taka Cln, the
gulf of Pe Chi L i, China.
During a fight w ith riotous laborers
la New York, one Ita lia n striker was
killed and several wounded.
A t the Georgia Populist convention,
Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro-
" lina, waa denounced aa the * ‘chief ef
a ll tiaito rs.”
George. jV . H u ll, an Arisona m illion­
aire, w i t arrested in New York on a
charge of perjury in a divorce ease
against liis wife.
Competent authorities estimate that
the wastage of horaea monthly by the
British forces in South Africa, muat be
calculated at not leas than 6,000.
B. G. Bergln, an asaayer in the U n i­
ted States m int at San Franoisco, has
been arrested f o r , stealing
small
amounts of gold daily for months past.
Capitalists of Berijn, through a C hi­
cago firm, have made aa offer to pur­
chase the Ferris wheel. The wheel,
which weighs 2,200 tona, w ill be ship­
ped to Berlin.
,
In San Fianciaoo, 600 pounds of
plug-out tobacco have been seised in
varioua local stores by Internal tevenue
agents, because the packages were in -
suflfcientiy stamped.
Burglars in Chicago stole diamonda,
jewelry and silverware valued at $40,-
000 from the home of Orrin W . Potter,
the m ulti-m illionaire and ex-presi­
dent of the Illinois Steel Company.
* The period of time allowed Spanish
residents in the Philippines to elect
- whether they shall remain Spanish aub-
jecis or adopt the nationality of the ter­
ritory in which they reside has expired.
Commodore W illiam K . Mayo, died
at his home in Washington, aged 18
years.
General Lee has been appointed
command the new department
Havana and Pinard de Rio.
Nicaragua has landed troops
Columbian territory.
The nature
the movement ia not understood.
A 2 % -year-old child waa scalded to
death by falling into a tub of hot water
and lye, near Ashland, Or.
Indiana attempted to rescue the
murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Horton,
but were driven off by Skagway troops
The United States government denies
the report that it has joined w ith other
lowers in threatening to land troops in
China.
A vote on the resolution relative to
the seating of M. 8. Quay as senator
from Pennsylvania, w ill be taken on
A pril 24.
Thomas I I . Tongue waa renominated
for congressman horn the Second dis­
trict on the first ballot a t McMinn-
vllle, Or.
Texas and Lousiana, to guard against
r bu I ionic plague, may establish a quar­
antine against Chinamen oorning from
California.
An inventor of thorite has announced
his willingness to sell the government
the right to manufacture the explosive
for $160,000.
The British bark Iranian, which
sailed from New York, November 26,
for Yokohama, has been wrecked on
the Japanese coast.
The Building 1 rades Assembly, of
- Houston, Texas, has ordered a general
strike in sympathy w ith the carpenters,
causing 1,600 men to walk out.
Two negro murderers were executed
at Summerville, Texas.
When i
tenced both asked for a deck of cards,
and declined the offer of a Bible.
A minister of Ballast), Cal., near
Santa Barbara, committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off with
shotgun. Temporary insanity was the
cause.
Former Congressman Charles A.
Towne, of Duluth, Minn , has
nounced himself as a candidate for the
vice-presidential nomination on the
Democratic ticket.
LATER NEW S.
Congress w ill adjourn in June.
REIGN
OF
TERROR.
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P a w a r fo l T le « r » y « F r a t . . « t o t h e ■ « •-
p r „ .
GATES THROWN OPEN
O n.
M an I n e t a a t l r 1 I I W
•»<* F iv e
. - P r o b a b ly F a t a l l y lR |a v q « ?N . . . ,
D u « .|.r ,
In d ., A pril 18.— Too
Shanghai, A pril 16.* - A toll account
and a piece of defective
has been received here of the meeting
g a S p B s in the mains of the Chioago
louse Favors a Change inthf on March 6 at Peking between the em­ Formal Dedication of France’s Pipe Line Company a t a joint tour
Great Exposition.
miles Southeast of here was the cause
Mode of Electing Senators. press dowager and the grand oouncil.
Protests were read from the viceroys
of a terrific explosion today, in which
and governors of nine of the 18 prov­
Michael Ellison, J r., was instantly
inces against the policy of the empress THE SHOW 18 FAR FROM READY killed, and five other men received in-
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT dowager. These offlolals are the great-
, uriee from which it is doubtful if they
sat provincial authorities in China.
w ill recover. Twelve men were in the
They deolared unitedly that, if the em­ g p a e a h e a o f P r e s id e n t L « u b « t a n d M lo - trench repairing a leak in a 10-inch
R e s o lu t io n to T h a t V a s t A d o p te d hr press dowager persists in persecuting
la ta r M llle r a a d —C e m p le te a e » « a n d
main, from which the gas had been
a V o to o f S 4 S t o I S —T a lb e r t ’s
the reformers and continuing her isign
K a te n t e f A n e r l e a a R x h lh lfo .
transferred to an elght-inoh main near
T o o t le s D o u o a e o o d .
sf terror policy, the Chinese under
it. The men were around a ” T ” on
them w ill rebel against the Manohus.
Paris A p ril 17.— The exposition of the eight-inch main, and Ellison was
The viceroy at Nanking says he has 7900 ia open, but it w ill be at least a stooping over it when the pipe explod­
Washington, A pril 16.— The boost
today, by a vote of- 840 to 16, adopted 140,000 ilu u a n ese troops who are a n x ­ month before anything but builaings is ed. He was found 160 feet away, his
a resolution tor a constitutional amend­ ious to fight the Manobas, and he fears to be seen. The day’s ceremonies were bones broken and having probably met
The vice­ a peculiar m ixture of sumptuous splen­ instant death.
ment providing for the eleotion of U n i­ be oannot control them.
George Morrison, in
ted States senators by direct vote of the roys who united in this remarkable step dor In the Salle dee Fetes, and wide­ charge of the work, was sent sprawling
people. Fourteen Republicans and one represent the provinces of Kiang-Sn, spread confusion elsewhere.
Nothing on the ground 30 feet away, w ith gravel
Democrat voted against it. By the Anhui, Kiangsl, Hunan, Hupeh, Che­ could have exceeded the picturesque and d irt blown into his skin, his body
terms of the resolution, the amedment kiang, Fookien, Qnangsl and K wang­ stage setting in the beautiful building wrenched, and his clothes torn and ta t­
snlpnitted to the legislatures ia as fol­ lin g , w ith an aggregate population of fo which the ceremonies were held, the tered. W ill Briggs inhaled gas and
180,000,000.
Three
lows:
gorgeous uniforms of the diplomats and was taken home unconscidbs.
U n til this protest had been made, toldiers, the splendid orchestra Bod laborers were knocked down and
’The senate of the United States
shall be composed of two senators from the dowager empress bad been having chorus and the magnifloent effect pro- bruised* In a frightful manner.
The
quite
own
Though , j aced by the grand staircase, up which rest of the men escaped with slight in;
each state, who shall be elected by d i­ things
—- a - x
- . . - her
—
- — way.
Loubet proceeded to view the ; nries from flying d irt and rock. The
rect vote of the people thereof tor a she haa desisted from her purpose to set
term of -six years, and each senator up a new emperor, yet her wrath to. exposition, lined w ith some 200 picked
*T " weighs 1.000 pounds, and i t was
■hall have one vote. A plurality of wards those who opposed her has shown men of the Republican guard, with carried a distance of 60 feet.
The ex­
the votes cast for candidates for sena-, uo abatement. I t Is unbounded. K in jaokboota, w hite breeches, gleaming plosion tore the ground for a distance
tor shall be sufficient to elect. The Lien-Shan has been captured in the ouirasses and hone-bair plumes dream ­ of 400 feet, and was heard for miles,
electors in each state shall have the Portugese colony of Macao, off the ing from shining helmets. A t the top besides the heavy ja r.
qualifications requisite for electors of South China ooast. by L I Hang Chang’s of this stairway was a room, the in­
N A T A L B O E R S M O V IN G .
the most numerous branch of the state detectives. M r. K in fled from Shang­ terior of which could be seen from the
hai last month. He is the manager of Salle des Fetes, and this was hung with
législatures, respectively.
4
‘When a vacanoy happens by death, the national system of telegraphs in priceless gobelins from the Louvre. N a t iv e s R e p o r t T h e y H a v e L e ft l l i n d ' i
L a a c t e D is t r i c t .
resignation or otherwise, in the repre­ China, and headed the petition signed Into this splendid apartmeut President
London, A p ril 18.— A Ladysmith
sentation of any state in the senate, by 1,200 notables against setting np a Loubet entered and walked down the
Probably he w ill be avenue to his boat. Thia part of the special, dated A pril 16, says that
the same shall be filled for the unex­ new emperor.
An English U w firm day's arrangement was perfect, but the natives report that the Boers in Eland’s
pired term thereof in the same manner decapitated.
Laagte have retired beyond Biggara-
as is provided for the election of sena here has been retained to defend him. rest was chaos.
berg. This information tends to con­
np
to n in paragraph 1; provided, that the The government has tramped
The weather today was luckily all
executive thereof may make temporary chargee of defalcation against M r. Kin, that oou Id be desired. Fourteen thous­ firm the report that the Boers blew np
appointment until the next general or who is really a very able and enlight­ and guests had been invited to the three important colliers, near Wessel’s
Nek, completely destroying the same.
special eleotion, in accordance w ith ened man.
fonction, and they had, because of the
A Cape Town dis paten says nearly
On March 1 instructions were wired fine weaher, only the dust to enduro.
the statutes or constitution of such
from Peking to Soo Chow, capital of Had the day been wet, the unrolled 8,000 horses have landed there since
state.*1
' •
The remainder of the day was devoted Kiang-Sn, to arrest and put to death paths of the exposition grounds wonld A pril 13, which indicates that every
to the considention of private pen­ the reformers Weng T ’ Ung-Ho and have been turned into a mass of mud. effort ia being made to remedy a great
sion bills. During the coarse of the Shen Pong. These men had been in The afternoon waa a holiday in Paris defect in the British organisation.
The chief Boer delegate, Fisher, ac­
debate there were several eharp attacks very Important positions in Peking, by general' consent, and a host of
crowded into the city companied by D r. Leyds, visited the
upon Talbert, of Sonth Carolina, for his but were easily captured in Soo Chow.
. swell
i. the m
u ltitu d es. who
who from an president of the Dutch cabinet today at
The ohief reformer. Kang Yu W e i, has to
coarse in delaying action.
multitudes,
fled to Singapore. The empress dow­ early hour serged in the direction of the The Hague, bnt the doings of the dele­
B O ERS H E A D E D O F F .
ager has offered $100,000 for his body, exposition and took np positions along gates create little speculation in Eng­
land,
dead or alive.
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the route of the presidential procession
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F
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r
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a
r
d
Lord
Frederick V illie rs , the veteran war
I
t
is
said
that
there
is
an
official
and
at
the
approaches
to
the
grounds.
I T . M o v e m e n t.
correspondent, who arrived at South­
list,
prepared
by
the
Peking
govern­
I London, A pril 16.— The
The immense number, of guests prac­
forW«d ment, of the names of 800 reformers
ampton today from the front, said he
movement of the Boers is oheoked, says who are proscribed. A special list ol tically swept the central streets clean believed that the worst of t h e war is
of
cabs,
of
which
an
unbroken
stream,
Lord Roberts. This is t a k e n to m o a n over 86 names exists of those who a n
over, bnt that guerrilla warfare w ill
not by fighting, but by disposition to to be killed as soon as they are oap- several deep, drifted slowly toward the continue for some time.
gates between noon and 2:80 P. M.
bead off Aheir advance and bar their
A bulletin issued at Pietoria, A pril
turod,
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Drifted .is the correct expression for ths
way to vulnerable points in the line of
18, reports that the burghers captured
rate
of
progress,
because
the
traffic
ar­
B U IL D IN G C O L L A P S E D .
British communications
His dispatch
600 slaughtered oxen at Wepener, and
rangements were so, inadequate that
The Paris exposition waa formally to the w ar office follows:
that
General Froneman that day do­
T h r e e P o r so a e K i l l e d a n d
N u m b e r He-, hundreds of vehicles did not reach the
“ Bloemfontein, A p ril 14.— The en
opened.
ted the British, causing them to fly
J a r e d l a a F lt t e b a r g A e e l d e a t .
expositioif
a
t
a
ll,
knd
the
ocoupants
" Filipinos are again active near e m v ’s movements south have been
Pittsburg, A p ril 14.— W ithout warn­ were either left stranded en route or in the direction of Wolverport, appar­
checked. Wepener is still surrounded,
ently over ttw Oxange river.
Manila.
but the little garrison is holding ont ing and w ith a rush and a roar, the were obliged to abandon their carriages
T ro o p « A r e o n H a n d .
One man was killed and a hoy fatal­ well. Troops are being moved to their four-atory brick building at the cornet and proceed on foot. This was the ex­
ly injured in a $400,000 fire which oc­ assistance. The health of the troops is of Second avenue and Wood street col­ pedient ordinarily adopted, even by
Groton Landing, N. Y ., A p ril 18.—
lapsed today, burying in its ruins a several members of the diplomatie The first bloodshed as the outcome of
curred in Brooklyn.
—
good, and the climate perfection.”
the strike at the Cornell dam was the
The Boers in Natal appear incapable number of people, throe of whom were oorpa and two gorgeously attired offl
During a fire in a coal mine near
taken out dead, five were badly hurt, oials of the, Chinese embassy, after life blood of Sergeant Robert Douglass,
Pittaborg.*Pati one man perished and of developing an aggiesaive movement
hastily walking several blocks, arrived of the Eleventh separate company, of
at Eland’s Laagte. Lord Methuen is and several others slightly injured.
two Others in the p it escaped.
The building was occupied by tha In the Salle des Fetes just in time to Mount Vernon; who waa shot dead by
During the siege of Ladysmith, Gen­ at Zwartkopfontein, 12 miles east of Armstrong, McKeivy Lead A OH Com­ hear the cheering at the conclusion of an unknown assassin While he was re­
Boehof, and is sending s nail, swift
eral W h ite ’s total losses from all
pany. I t was being remodeled by Con­ the ceremony.
I..-— Z3SZT
lieving guard at 8:60 o’clock last night.
causes were 189 officers nad 8,183 men. columns through the adjacent counrty. tractors McGovern and Lyte, who were. _
The wildest exoitement prevailed
Lord Chesham, commanding one of
British people insist on a change in these, enoountered a small commando converting the lower floors of the cornel
troaghout the camp as soon as tha news
TR O O PS CALLED O U T.
the army service, owing to the unsatis­ aobut 10 miles southeast of Zwartkop­ store and that next door into one larg«
of the assassination spread to the differ­
factory oondnot of the campaign against fontein. He found most of the faims room. About 48 feet of the middle T a S a p p r e s s I t a lia n B trik ara a t G ro t
ent tents, and the soldiers are frantic
L a n d in g .
the Boers.
over the crime. The point where the
occupied by women and children o n ly ., partition had been removed, and steel
Croton Landing. N . Y .. A pril 17.— sergeant fell is known aa Post 10,
Three men are said to have found An editorial note in the D aily M all girders, supported by heavy iron poets,
gold in quarts formation w ithin two evars that Mafeklng is In a very bad were in place, and the finishing toncbei W h ile everything is quiet and peaceful which was in charge of Corporal Mo-
miles of Joplin, Mo., which assays $40 way, and that the hope of isllef ie far were being pot on the remodeled work. in the neighborhood of the Corhell dam Dowell. I t is situated on top of the
off, as no foroe is advancing from the The firm this morning began the trans­ tonight, nearly 800 armed deputies are h ill, near L ittle Ita ly , where armed
to $80 a ton.
fer of its stock from one room to th« guarding the works, and each one of strikeig were seen d rillin g or marching
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A Chinaman, possessing documents g— tfc . .
other, and apparently centralised th« them is guessing as to what tomorrow abont early this morning, brandishing
The
Boer
peace
envoys
have
docu­
bearing the seal of the court of Peking,
.heavy weight of the leads and oils about may bring forth. The striking Ita lia n rifles and shotguns. The spot is high
Identifying him as emperor, was arreet- ments— the Rome correspondent of the the middle of the structure. The col­ laborers, whose homes are in the vicin­
over the huge pile of masonry, and
Daily
News
says—
showing
that
urgent
ed at W n Chang
advices to the Transvaal to wage war lapse began by the second floor break­ ity of the works, are behaving them­ from it one can command a view of the
The University of Edinburgh, Scot­ were originally made by Germany. ing through, carrying w ith it the two selves excellently.
B ut underneath oonntry on each side np and down the
land, oonferred the degree of L L D. on This correspondent also asserts that floors above, making a breach from toj their assumed quiet there is stubborn Croton valley.
Joseph H . Choate, United States am­ Count von Bulow, the Gerarnn foreign to bottom through the center of th« resolve not to go back to work nor let
N egro S h o t In to a C row d.
bassador to Great Britain.
any outsiders take their places u ntil
minister, who was said to have gone building.
Indianapolis, In d ., A pril
17.— A
The fact that the rear portion of th« the contractors agree to pay the in
A t New York, 6,000 olgarmakera, en a visit to a sick brother, really went
colored man riding a bicycle shot into
building
on
Second
avenne
did
not
ool-
crease
of
wages
demanded.
Strenous
emploved by six of the largest firms in Io M ilan for the express purpose of con­
lapse saved many lives. I t was in that efforts are being made by Ita lia n Con a crowd of 20 boys in West'Indianapolis
that city, have been looked oat.
No ferring w ith the delegates.
part of the building that the offloei ■ul Branchi to bring abont a settlement this afternoon, wounding Clarence Vort
reason is given for the action.
A . A . P o r te r R e s lg a s .
were located, in which there were about of the difficulty. The strikers are very in the hip and George Golder in the
Rufus W righ t, p millionaire and
Washington, A p ril 16.— Owing to 10 persons. Those who were In ths determined in their demands, and swear thigh. Both are seriously wonnded.
treasurer of the firm of Morgan & the continued ill health of John Addi­ rear portion of the building heard the
that If outside labor is brought here As the colored man waa passing the
W right, bicycle tire m anufacturers, son Porter, secretary to the president, erash and ran-out of the aide door '-into
they w ill .fight tooth and nail to prevent crowd they began to chaff him and. he
was fatally shot by a woman in Chicago. he has tendered his resignation, and Seoond avenue and escaped. The loss
it. Angelo Rotella, who is th e , recog fired. He then rode away, pursued by
The cruisers Detroit and Marblehead the president has accepted it, to take of the firm w ill be about $40,000.
nixed leader of the strikers, said today: an infuriated mob of 100 people, who
and gunboats Bennington and Concord effect May 1 next. George B. Cortel-
“ Thia is a fight to a finish. We earn threw brioks, stones and clnbs at him,
M a a h o n a la M ora T r o a b la .
Cries of
have been ordered ont of commission, yon, of New York, the present assistant
more
money than we are receiving, and but failed to overtake him .
Cape Town, A pril 16.— The admiral
“ lynch h im ” were heard on a ll aides.
owing to the lack of a sufficient number secretary to the president, has been
the
oontraotors
must
pay
us
for
our
appointed to succeed him. M r. Cortel- in charge of the British fleet in thes« work. The state shonld protect ns, The man is said to have bad another
of officers.
yon was born in New York city, July waters has refused to permit the B rit­ and, instead of sending deputies and difficulty in the same vicinity abont a
The Chinese government has sent
26,1862. His grandfather, Peter Cor- ish steamer Mashona, Captain John­ soldiers to help the bosses, they «honld month ago, and at that time threatened
7,000 troops to Shan Ting to suppress
ston, to proceed beyond Durban.
The
the “ Boxers.” However, it is notori telyou, for 40 years a member of the agents of the vessel announce that th« compel them to treat us rightfully. I f to shoot. The police failed to locate
type-founding firm of George Brace A
the bosses attempt to bring the other the negro.
ons that the majority of the troops are
Co., and his father, Peter Cortel yorf, cargo destined for Delagoa bay w ill bs laborers here we shall prevent any work
members of the same society.
F ren ch C hurch B u rn ed .
Jr., were prominent figures in New landed at Durban.
The British gnnboat Partridge on being done, and if the m ilitary comet
Paris, A pril 18.— The historic church
The transport Lake Erie, with up­ York business and social oirclas a gen­
December 8 captured the steamer Ma to help them, then we w ill fight ths of Notre Dame des Vortus, in the out­
wards of 600 Transvaal prisoners, in eration ago._______________ .
shona, which had sailed from New soldiers.”
skirts of Paris, was entered 8unday
chiding French,’ German and Russian
W a s Mat a B o e r L e a d e r .
York, November 8, via St. Vincent,
evening or Monday morning by van­
members of the foreign legion, captured
A
tte
m
p
te
d
M
u
rd
er
a
n
d
S
u
ic
id
e
.
Pretoria, A pril 16.— United States November 6, for Algoa bay, loaded
dals, who, after pillaging it, set i t on
at Boshof, sailed from Cape Town for
Carbondale, 111., -April
16.— Gus
Consul Hay, In an Interview, says the w ith floor for the Transvaal. Ths ves
fire. Several firemen were badly in ­
St. Helena.
report that Captain Reichmann, the tel and the foodstuffs were snbeequently Yonng, a -prom inent young man of jured by burning brands. The interior
The tria l of Perlco Pipin, who re­ United States m ilitary attaohe, partici­
Murphysboro,
shot
and
wounded
Mise
released on bond and the prise oourt on
of the chnrch was found in a state of
cently led a small uprising against the pated in the fight near Sanna’s Post is
Kate Van Clooeter and then blew out
Maroh 18 rendered a veidict that
great disorder, and the oommnnion ves­
government of Santo Domingo, has absolutely false. Captain Reiohmann,
portion of the cargo was condemned, his brains in a temporary fit of jeal sels are believed to have been stolen,
ended w ith the oonviotlonr of the pris­ It is said, was occupied most of the
onsy.
Young
was
a
real
estate
man
bnt that the steamer was formally
unless they any buried in the debris.
oner, who was sentenced to 20 years’ time attending upon the wounded
and the lady was a member of one of
released. ________________
One of the huge bells fell into the
Imprisonment and to pay a fins of $80.- Dutch m ilitary attache, Lieutenant
the best families of Southern Illinois.
P la g u e R io t« In In d ia »
sacristy and three others through a roof
000 in gold.
She w ill recover.
M ix , who has sinoe died.
Consul
into the organ. Three men were aeen
Bombay, A p ril 14.— Plague rioti
Mrs. Kroger, wife of Oom Paul, on Hay has no doubt that Reiohmann has have taken place at Cownpore, when
leaving the church just after the fire
T o r n a d o ’« W o r k In T t i a i T o w n .
being interviewed, said that she trust­ been confused w ith the American Lieu­ the segregation camp has been destroyed
was discovered.
tenant
Looeberg,
of
the
Free
State
ar­
Dallas, Tex., A pril 17.— A special to
ed God would soon stop the merciless
and 10 persons have been killed. Ths
A a a « a « C ity C a r p e n te r « ’ S t r ik e .
bloodshed, bat that the republic would tillery, who took a very active part in rioters'killed five constables and throw the News from Royse, Tex., dated A pril
16,
says:
Kansas
C ity, A p ril 18.— Slightly
be victoriously defended, even if Pre­ the fig h t._________________
their bodies into the horning camp
“ A torrifRlo struck this place at mid over 400 union carpenters went on
toria were finally taken.
She added
Chicago, April 16.— The Illinois Order is now restored, bnt a ll businesi
that she had had in the field 88 grand Manufacturers’ Association, at its meet­ is suspended and the populace ia sul­ night, and it is believed that several strike today for an increase of wages
Eight houses to 87 % cents an hour. The contract­
sons, two of whom were killed, tour ing last night, took tlje stand that there len. Troope and volunteers are patrol lives have been lost.
were wrecked, and at this hour the ors offered 86 cents, bnt it was rejected
sons, six aons-in-law, and numerous
■honld be an early revision of the war ling the city, guarding the m ills and
greatest excitement prevails.
by the men.
ivea.’
other relativi
factories. ________
ievenue tax.
The m ilk trust of Chicago is broken.
W a r taxes w ill not be reduced at
this session of oongreiis.
d reat B ritain w ill levy a tax on
mines to pay the expenses of the war.
A burglar entered a saloon in Ohs-
halls, Wash., and took $600 in silver.
Four men were killed and several In ­
ured in a drunken riot of coal miners
near Johnstown, Pa.
Heavy rain and snow storms in the
vicinity of Denver are causing mnch
delay to railroad traffic.
John Hannigan, aged 83, one of the
best-known horse trainers in the coun­
try, died at Mildale, Ky.
Two Mexican outlaws held, up a
gambling bouse in Johnson, Arisona,
and killed a prominent mining man.
Rev. W illia m J. Rutledge, of Jack­
sonville, I I I . , prominent Methodist
minister and originator of the G. A .
R ., is dead, aged 88.
The legislature of Trinidad has re­
jected the offer of Canada for recipro­
cal trade and adopted the convention
w ith the United States.
Two hundred or 300 families bought
1,200 acres of land near Eugene. O r.,
with the intention of dividing it u p
into 40-acre tracts and working on the
colonisation plan. *
Burglars a t Toronto, Ont., dug
through the nine-inch brick w all of
the vault of St. Simon's church With
crowbars and picks and stole $1,176,
the Easter offering.
Conditions in famine-stricken India
are deplorable. Sixty millions of peo­
ple are suffering and 80,000,000 are, in
dire distress, and only 6,000,000 are
receiving government aid.
In New York, Julius Koster, a brick­
layer, who had inherited $300,000
from his brother’s estate in Germany,
was found dead, swinging from a rope
in an empty water tank on the roof ol
his house. H e had been ill, and the
sudden change from poverty to riohee
effected his mind.
In New York, a school of voice cul­
ture was begun on a portentions scale
a t Carnegie H a ll, under the direction
of Giacomo Minkowsky, called the
Metropolitan School of Voice and Sing-
ing. Edouard de Reeske and Mm«.
Nordica w ill give scholarships to the
beet gifted pupils under Minowsky.
Maurice Gran and Andrew A . McCor­
mick are lending their in fln e $ » . M in ­
kowsky is a composer of nofe*.
A t a meeting of the De Beers com­
estimates pany Cecil Rhodes «aid annual profits
Great Britain's naval
amount to £80,000,000,
of diamond mines in Kimberley are
Buffalo B ill says 80,000 Mormons $10,000,000.
from Salt Lake w ill found t olty in
Pnblio sentiment In England Insists
Wyoming.
upon absolute supremacy of Great Brit
Steamer Prairie, w ith Americad' ex­ aln In the Boer states after the w ar’s
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hibits for the Paris exposition, has end.
arrjved at Havre.
A private cablegram from Port ol
Spain, Venesuela, says the Britiah con­
I t costs $4,400,000 a year to main
tain the 24 royal palaces of Emperor sul at Bolivar, named Lyons, has been
W illia m
throughout
the German assassinated.
empire.
The superintendent of Indian educa
Dr. W. D . M oKlm , of New York, tion suggests that attendance be made
favors killing of confirmed criminals, compulsory.
idiots and imbeciles to improve society,
Sir W illia m Van Horne and the
The steel steamer Orlando M. Poe Bank of Montreal are planning to bay
for the Rockefeller fleet waa launched np the Cuban railroads.
The government of New Zealand pro­
at the Globe yards in Cleveland, O. I t
is 490 feet long and w ill carry 9,000 vides work for all applicants at the rate
of two dollars a day.
tons of iron ore net.
■ J , G. Schunnan, recently of the
Philippine commission, says the plan
of the government for the Filipinos
recommended to the president and ac­
cepted by him was substantially that
devised by Pedro A. Paterno, formerly
Aguinaldo ■ prime minister. '
BÏ POPOLAR
3 H IN E S E
Gen. A. D . Shaw, national co
mander of the G. A. R., announoes
himself as a candidate for congress to
succeed the late Charles A. Chickering
from the Twenty-fourth congressional
district of New York.
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V a a d a r b llt I n b e r lt a n e « T a x .
G h le a g o T a ilo r s W i l l r i g h t .
P it c h e r P n r c h a a o d fo r •IM o .
New York, A pril 14.— The appellate
division of the supreme oourt today
handed down a decision in the matter
sf the apprsjsal of the estate of the late
W illia m K . Vanderbilt. An order of
Surrogate Fitagerald, declaring a cer
tain fund subjeot to the Inheritance ta i
law was affirmed. This Was a fund of
$6,000,000 held in trust for the -benefit
af the late Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Chicago, A pril 16.— A secret meet
ing of the Merchant Tailors A Drapers
Exchange was held last night.
When
the meeting broke np it was announced
that the members of the exchange were
opposed to receding in any psrticnlai
from the stand taken'in the fight with
the Journeymen Tailors’ Union in theii
demand for the back shop system.
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The f i n of genius is frequently ex
tinguished by having oold water poured
on it .— Chicago D aily News. ,
Kansas C ity A p ril, 17.— Manager
Manning, of the Bines, has closed
deal w ith Pittsburg for Pitcher Chum,
my Gray, formerly of Buffalo, purchas­
ing him for $760.
S o a ts n e o d t a D o a th .
Cleveland, April 17.— Several Chi
cago capitalists have just purchased
and took over a ll the interests of
number of well known Cleveland ai
New York parties, including Secretary
of State John Hay and others, in the
Munising Land Company and the
Munising Railw ay Company, in Upper
Michigan.
One hundred thousand
aores of hardwood land and 60 miles of
railroad, in operation from Munising
bay to L ittle lake, paaeed into Chicago
hands by the tranafer. A sum said
be ia the v k in ity of $1,000,000 i
paid ovwr.
One pound of cork w ill support a
man of ordinary rise in the w'ktei.
D a m a g e s fo r B r e a c h o f P r o m is e .
Denver, A pril 16.— A special to the
News from Colorado Springs says:
Nellie Lewis, who lecently sued Sam
Strong, the Cripple Creek millionaire
mine owner, foi $250,000 damages for
broach of promise, was thia evening
jlr e a • verdict for $60,000.
T b s T e x a s F lo o d .
Houston, Texas, A pril 16.— The Col-
xado river flood has now reached
Wharton, and half the town is under
water. So far there has been only one
refugee Being
sawtaity, a negro
trowned in trying to
to town.
C k llo I m p o r t in g W h e a t .
Santiago de Chile, via Galveston,
Tex., A p ril 17.— Tn consequehoe o f ttu
poor crops, wheat prices are advancing,
and the situation w ill allow large im
portations from California.
Chattanooga, Tenn., A p ril 18.— A
through freight train on the Southern
railw ay struck a mule and was
wrecked while running at fu ll speed
near Huntsville, A la ., while going
down a steep
qmbaqkment. The
freight cars crowded upon the over­
turned engine and suffocated and
crushed to death in the cab both E ngi­
neer Percy Armstrong and Fireman Os­
borne, who had stuck to their poets.
Five of the train drew were seriously
injured.
T r a n s fe r o f M le h lg a a R a to r p r ls o .
Toronto, Cam, A p ril 16.— Henry
W illiam s, the burglar who shot and
killed J. E . Varcoe, a storekeeper, on
November 9, w ill he exeouted here to­
day. He was engaged in burglarising
M r. Varooe’s store when he eommttted
the murder. He is a young man
on that account some sympathy wa«
worked up in his behalf, hut th e n was
nothing oalling upon the government to
interfere in the case.
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The aaarlna has taken up the typu-
w riter and owna a
A a t a C ar D aaH ad I n f o C r o w d .
Paris, A pril 18.— The Paris-Bonbaix
in to oar race yesterday morning led to
a serious accident. Two competitors
on motor tricycles collided and dashed
a t the speed of an express train into a
crowd of 2,000 who had assembled a t a
crosa road in the First of Saint Ger­
maine to witness their passing. Twen­
ty persons were knocked down, some
having broken bones and many others
being bra teed. Mme. Charles Bos,
wife of one of the deputise for the de­
partment of the Seine, en stained • oom-
pound fraoturo.
Insurgents Attacked Gafriann
at Batoo, North llocos.
REPULSED,
LOSING
106
P-
MEN
C a p ta in D o d d ’s C a v a lr y P o r e . Sur.
r o a n d .d a V il l a g e , C a p tu r in g Many
P r la o a .r a —R e p o r t o f a C o ld F in d .
M anila, April 18^— General Young
reports that 300 insurgent riflemen un i
bolomen attacked the American garri­
son at Batoo, province of North llocorf,
yesterday, bnt were, repulsed, losing
106 men.
The Americans had no
casualties.
Captain Dodd, with' a Squadron of
the Third cavalry, recently surrounded
a village ip Union pro\ iuee, and sur­
prised 200 insurgents living in bar­
racks, it apparently being the recruit- "■
lug center for the province.
The
enemy lost 53 men killed. Our troó)is
also captured 44 men and burned the
village. One American was wounded.
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G old in L u zo n .
San Francisco, April 18.— The trans­
port Tartar, which arrived Saturday
afternoon from Manila, was released
from quarantine today. ~i > The Tartar
brought advices from the Philippines
np to March 6.
One of the rei»rts
from Manila is that W illiam Odun,
who is spoken of -as a miner of large
experience, has returned from a pros­
pecting trip on the distant"*eoast of
Vigan. He showed rich s|«cim«ns tit
gold, and declared that he had located
a ledge of quartz as rich as anything in
Colorado or California. lie is organiz­
ing a company of ex-soldiers, and w ill
go into th e mountain districts of Vigan
to secure claims. In an interview in
the Manila Freedom,
Odun says:
’ ’Never before did I see such indica­
tions of. mineral wealth. I have trav­
eled from the Klondike to South
A fritta, and 1 am convinced that there
is not a much richer mineral country
in the world than the Island of .
Luzon.”
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STEEL
L abor
PLANTS
SHUT
T y o a b le e In B u i l d i n g
D iv e n a« t h e B u i « .
N ei
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DOW N.
T rades
Chicago. A p ril 18.— Labor troubles
in the building trades are stated by
President John ■ W . Lambert, of the
American Steel & W ire Company, as
reasons for orders issued today for the
closing down of a ll the plants of the
cono< rn in the vioinity of Chicago and
thoee of Joliet, 111., excepting the
Rockdale m ill and the extensive plant
at Anderson, Ind. Twelve plants were
ordered closed. Thousands of BkiJIed-
workmen were temporarily suspended
by the action of the wire magnates.
President Lambert said: “ Labor trou­
bles are a t the bottom of it.
Onr
market has been destroyed by the st/ip-. .^
ping of buidling labor, rind we ha.e
had to shut down u n til the accumulated
stock is gold-”
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Tri
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New York, April 18.— John W .
Gates, president of the American Steel
A W ire Company, was seen today in
reference to a dispatch from the West
which stated that a number of con­
stituents concerned in the main com­
pany bad suspended o|ierations.
He
confirmed the statement, and said that
12 of the m ills have been shut down.
They are located at Pittsburg, Cleve­
land, Joliet, Waukegan, 111.: De Kalb,
111.; Newcastle, In d ., and Anderson,
In d . M r-G ates said the cause of the
elosing down of the m ilts was over­
production. He said he was unable to
state when the m ills wonld resume
operations. When asked for his view
as to the trade situation and outlook,
M r. Gates stated that the shut-down of
the m ills was the best evidence of the
current situation.
M r. Gates made
another statement later, in which he
said the 19 m ills which had been
closed bad a daily capacity of from
8,000 to 4,000 tons. I t »«
»»
many aa 4,000 men, boys and girls will
Baltii
Ia
that <
transit
each.
The
tomob
Collie
be affected by the shut-down.
Pittsburg, A p ril 18.— The American
Steel & W ire Company’s mills closed
in this district include those at New­
castle, Braddock, and the Oliver mill,
on the Sonth Side, Pittsburg. It is
estimated that about 2,000 men are
affected in this section.
R a in In H l«»l»«lp|»l.
Meridian, Miss., April 18 —Seven
inches of rain hqs fallen ill this city
and vicinity since yesterday. The
damage by high water w ill reach up­
wards of $200,600. and tw o fatalities
have been reported. This city is sur­
rounded on three sides by a vast ex­
panse of water, and all trains are in­
definitely delayed by disastrous wash-
buts. Recently planted crops in the
lowlands in a radius of 10 miles are
flooded
under water, and citizens
districts have fled to the highlaiids for
safety.
The dam of the Meridian
Waterworks Company reservoir 8»ve
way this afternoon, and the
™
roach $10,000. Two negro I >>s who
attempted to cross Sowashie creek,
M r i oH he city, this afterntam were
drowned. The rain is still falling m
torrents.
The storm is general
throughout the state,
fic is .generally «»sanded,
washouts in all diftntiojis.
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A n t)-L y « e h ln x *Law In ia lK I.
Columbus, O„ April 1 8 - J M >
prome court today -leelsred^ Tfiat J he
anti-lynching law is uncoiistitutwnal.
The law provides that the heirs o any
person Who is lynched may collect $5,-
1000 from the com m ission« in the
county in Which the affair occurs.
The decision was rendered in the cases
of Click MitcheTl, hanged by w mob
Urbana, and J. W. Caldwell, w^o was
shot and beaten by strikers at
«» Clsve-
land.
B ta trn I s la n d C arp en ter« ' S tr ik e ,
New York, April 1 8 .-A 1 I the car-
pentero on Staten island went on a
■trike today. They demanded an eigh
hour day for five day«* of »^qweek,
and a four-hour day on Saturday ,and
that no member of the union w ill 1«
employeil In any circumstance» be­
tween 13 and 6 Saturday. The mini
mutn rate of wages demanded 1« 40
cents an hour, with double pay •'
days and holiday«. They also s*k for
tne institntion ol the apprentice «yi
tern, whioh they claim Will teud to in
araaw tne skill of the ora ft.
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