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r**w Äf-' e lynched by a mob . DEWET EVADES KNOX. LATER NEWS. Vsagsaau IfesH Twe Negress la ladtoaa— Loot seat to France w ill be ember- Autherittas Were Overeems. With the Bean. K a tm 4 •» n o s e d .«Iras aasltor at tho post Bee ei P a y to n , Oregon. Am erioea wheat visible shows e de crease. DAYTON EÏEI115 or Itlt M l Tw o Hemispheres Presented I * a The Monrue doctrine may be applied to France. The Boers were defeated in a battle e t Orange river. A th ird negro was lynched by the Rockport, In d ., mob. In the sinking of the Gnelsenau, 156 persona were drowned. There ia no prospect of subsidy b ill this session. passing the The steamer Alpha was wrecked on The power« have agreed to the Joint the Vancouver Island coast. Bote. M ajor-G eneral John G . Parke died The Japanese gave A d m iral Bearda* a t hie home in Washington. lee a reception. Chicago police w ill prevent the Gana- McGovern fight. The Porto Rico ease ia before the U nited States supreme court. Santa Fe strikais wish (heir differ ence« arbitrated. Congressman Boutelle waa on the retired list of the navy. Five peraona were k ille d in wreok in Montana. The m ilita ry comroiseion begins its investigation in the Boot basing. a train plaoed Fresh instructions sent to Conger F i n in Pekin destroyed the quarters -w ill clear the way ol a ll obstacles. of a number of offloers. Kitchener rpeorta a running fight be , A cure for strikes was discussed by the arbitratio n oonfereneo a t Chicago. tween D e w rt and Knox. Gompera w ill be re-elected president of the Federation of Labor. The Santa Fe repudiates ite relatione w ith the telegrapher«’ onion. The Am erican fleet in North China w a te r s ia red u c e d to tw o vessel«. The Irish Nationalist convention di e la n d for the abolition of landlordism. W ashington’s centennial anniversary w as c e le b ra te d w it h im p o s in g c e re m o nies. ■“* F o il partlcolara have been noeived oi the tyhoon which recently swept the coast of China, causing a heavy loss to life and shipping. Preiiarations are being made for de velopment of natural "gas near Rosalia, Wash. A Washington oonnty farm er was murdered by a shot fired through his window. The official report of the finances of the Paris exposition, shows a loss of 2,000,000 franca. The Oregon snpreme court decider th at the Portland vehicle license ordi nance was invalid . Five cases of w hat is believed to be bubonic plague have developed in Tucu- man. in the Argentine Republia. A reeolation was introduced in the T h e n a n more than 40 oases of smallpox in St. George’s hospital, Kan- U nited States senate for an investiga aas C ity . O nly one death from the tion of the conduct of Judge Noyea in Alaska. disease haa occurred. The offloials of the Santa Fe and The oity election a t A stoila, resulted in a sweeping victory for the Citisena’ the offloers of the different trainm en’s ticke t, every candidate, being elected organisations w ill hold s conference in Chicago. by large m a jo r itie s . Jospeph Benoit, a stage carpenter a t the Grand Opeia house, Salem, O r., fell from a scaffold, breaking several riba and bruising his face and body badly. Tbeaoeident was caused by the breaking of a board upon w hich be waa standing. The Lakeview and Ager robbed about two miles from Lake- view , O r . . A-lone highwayman accom plished th e Job. So passengers w e n -aboard of the stage. Two m a il aaoks w e n rifled and a considerable amount of registered m ail taken. Officers a n now workng on the case. The w ill of the late Senator Davis, who died November 27. was filed for probate by M n . Anna M . Davie, the w idow . The w ill, made during the senator’s last illness, leaves a ll hie estate to M rs. Davis. The estate is valued a t 926,000 in personal and >40.000 la v m U propgrtv. """mesmmmrera Seven hundred Boers have crossed from Orange R iver colony into Cape Colony near A liw a l North, and have reached Kaapdal. Preeident M cK in ley expects to a r range his Western t r ip so ae to be in Has Francisco to witneea the launch ing of the battleship Ohio. F ire in Cleveland, O hio, destroyed five out of seven building« of a machine oompeny, causing a property lees of over 9600,000, and throw ing 1,100 men out of employment. ___ _ Steyn Is Going North to Help Oom P*uL GENERAL BOTHA MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT ScfuUksaberger Swera la as Acting State Fieri dent— Rumer la Loadee of a Serious Defeat to British Anns. N ew York, Dec. 16.— A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from A m sterdam says: The fo lio * ing proclamation by Gen eral Loots Botha has been received: | "W hereas. 1 have been informed th a t the enemy circulates a ll sorts of wrong and lying report« among the i burghers about the government and myself, our officers and officials are I charged to communicate the following inform ation to the general public: I The executive council, after oonsnlttng ■ the president ot the Orange Free State, baa decided in the interests of onr eanse to -giro.. IttgyedM’ gbeenoe to onr state president, w ith orders to go im mediately to Europe in order to assist our deputation there in tbe work thev have before them. Vice-President Schalkenlterger has been sworn in, ac cording to law , and is now acting as 1 state president. H e is now assisted by the state secretary, two members of tbe executive couueil, Lucas Meyer | and mv«elf, and other officials, in short* onr government exists in the same way as before and is now in my im m e diate neigbboihood and in direct com m unication w ith me. •;Let the blood of oor brave dead a l ways by a strong voice induce every bnrgber to fight for lib erty. W e have nothing le ft to lose, bat everything to w in . Tbe government Is most firm ly decided to continue the struggle. I am convinced tbe burghers w ill ap plaud this deoision and act accordingly u n til tbe eod. Burghers are warned again«« the fine Wprds used by the en emy «o de« elve them and to make them put down th eir arms, because, accord ing to the proclamation of Robots, they w ill «11 b e , transported to 6t. Helena or Ceylon aa prisoners of war. O ur cause, however, precarious, is not hopeless i f every burgher only does-his duty. The Lord ia sure to give a blessed end i n bis own tim e end in his own way:” _________ ____ London, Deo. IT .— Lord Kitchener cables tbe w ar offioe from Pretone un der data of December 15 th a t General Knox reports from H e lv etia th a t he is engaged in a running fight w ith Gen eral D e«et, and th at the enemy ia mov ing towards Redderaburg, where there is a column ready to co-operate w ith tbe other British forces. Lord K itche ner in another dispatch reports that Boers attacked tbe post near Barberton. Tbe British casualties were three kille d , five wounded and 18 taken pris oners. The captured men have sinoe been released. Tbe Boers reload tbe Riverton road station December 11. They are being followed np. General Kitchener's message In d i cates th at Dewet has again evaded ¿e K n o x. A fter the latter had foiled Boer general a t Coomaseie d rift, the Boers seem to have doubled back, crossed tbe Caledon rivet elsewhere, and turned thence northwest— in the direction of Reddersburg, the memor able scene ot jb e B ritish disaster in A p ril, when Dew et oaptored the B rit ish Rifles. Tragedies on Shipboard. ■— Ban Francisco, Deo. 17.— The V i t - ish ehip Crown of Scotland, w hiok J - rived today, 180 days from Penartb, C ardiff, had three tragic entries in her log. November 24 John W arrington stabbed- P. C. Haglund, his shipmate, w hile the latter was asleep in his hunk. Leaving his sheath-knife in hia v ic tim ’s breast, the murderer ran np on deck, jumped overboard and was drowned, despite efforts to reach h im w ith a lifeboat. No one on board of the ship kDows of the motive. The second, tragedy occurred August 1. Salvatorl Servis fell from the foreyard, ■track the deck and fractured his thigh and -received intern al injuries w hich oaused his death. Correcting an Extradition Treaty. Washington, Dec. 17.— A treaty has been concluded between tbe United States and G reat B rita in amendatory oi tbe existing extradition treaty and lntencad to correct certain imperfec tions in that instrument, developed by recent experiences. The changes do not m aterially affect the scope or p rin ciples of the existing treaty, the chief item iq the lis t being provisions clas sifying as a crim e subject to e x tra d i tion the obtaining of money under false preten s es. At p re s e n t th e tr e a t y makes extraditionable tbe reoeptlon of money obtained under false pretenses ROBBED THE MAIL CAR. a m i omits the principal in the crim e, c o n s titu tin g a manifest absurdity.* Postal Clerk ea ths Cottos Belt Railroad Urn T o co rre c t th is th e amendment is m a d e . Was Nearly Killed. Grounding of tht Garonne. . The w ar tevenue b ill has bean pasted by the boose. Rockport, In d ., Deo. gross, Jim Henderson end Bod Clements’ Force Defeated by bed H o i I ia Simonfe ft. early this moming. w e r^ U n c h e d ^ to- Boers Under Delearey. ? lo o ‘ “ WERE HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH Row- L ™ s . who waylaid, murdered and rob t S L g jf . of The Famous Steamer Alpha. i n r i ’ar^stZd soon NINE PERSONS WERE LOST WITH HER SIDES though Rowlands* clothing bed blood __<• i t they claim — stains on claim ed ed thev they were ln- English Forced to Afeando« Their PesMJoe- nocent. In the m eantim e Sheriff Gensral French With Reinforcements Clemens, of Union oonnty, K entucky, arrived w ith a trained bloodhound. Has Gone to the Rescue. W hen the dog was plaoed on the tra il London, Deo. 17.— LortL K itch en er be followed i t to the bones where Row- ----------------------------- * severe - fighting e -------- lands reports th at, after ; at lived , six blocks from the scene Nooitgedacht, General Clem ents’ forces of the m urder, and went baying to w e were compelled to retire by Command- bed the negro had occupied. lh la an t Delarey, w ith a force of 2,500 men. ‘ wae enough fo r the excited oitiaene. F iv e B ritish officers were k ille d . The W ith in a few minutes a mob of a iboue- other casualties were not re p o rte d .' end howling, bloodthirsty men w ith Lord K ito bener’s official dispatch to sledge hammers, ropes and guns were on tbe way to the Jail. the w ar office is as foHoars: Sheriff Anderson and his two depu "P reto ria, Dec. 16.— Clem ents’ force a t Nooitgedacht, on the Megalias* ties made a stand and attem pted to Tbe offloers Berg, was attacked a t dawn today by protect the prisoner«. Beyer's were seised Delarey, reinforced — . ------ oom- . ----------M L by . tbe lea d e n of tbe mob m * H o i s o m W ji^ ii> t h , m aking a ' , od disarmed. The sheriff, although -force estimated a t 2 ,6OT. Thong U the locked in a room and. plaoed under first atta ck was repulsed, tbe Boers guard, stoatly refused to g iv e up the managed to get to the top of the Mag- ge y l or te ll where the prisoner« were alias’ Berg, which was held by font hiding. companies of the Northum berland fu s t-, The mob made a determined but un- liers, and were thus able to command mcoeaaful attem p t to break in the ja il Clem ents’ oarop. H e retired op H ek- d o « . F in a lly they ««cured a telegraph poort, ahd took up a position on a h ill pole, end using i t ns a bettering ram in the center of the valley. ! oaveid in tbe side w e ll of tbe ja il. Tbe "T h e casualties have not been oom- door of Rowlands’ cell was then quick- pletoly reported, but the fighting was i y broken in w it h sledge hammers and very severe, and I deeply regret th at be was dragged from tbe Jail to the Colonel Legge, of the Tw entieth has- aide of the oonrt yard, "Where a sars, and Captains McBean, M u rd oo h . noose was plaoed about his neck. H e an>l Atkinson were k ille d .” was given tim e to make a statem ent. Lord Kitchener also repoita th a t the i n w hich be Im plicated Jim Hendtrson Boers made an attack and were r e - ' B„d another negro. Rowlands then pulsed a t Lyohtenberg, and th a t Gen : begged piteously for m ercy, but the eral U m m e r was kille d . A tta c k , ^ o ^ n i c k l y swung tbe con feme, I m u r - upon and Vrede w ere airo w d evsw . r e w r t o • — . tree WgCVM Bethlehem — — — —-------- - — — — mid riddim i h i. body repulsed, the Boers losing 10 k ille d and w ith bullet«. Leaving the dangling body of Row - 14 wounded. V ry b e id was attacked December 11. Sniping continued lands, the mob rosbed back to tbe j a i l and buret open the -cell occupied by when tbe message was dispatched. The scenes a t the war office today Henderson. Before the bars yielded to - recall thoee witnessed in the early the Mows ol tbe sledge some one in the l-stsges of the war.- A constant stream « o w d fired npon the terrified negro as of exeitad people filled the lobbies, a ll be crouched in tbe far corner. I t took seeking details of the . disaster. Tbe but A, momenta to get a t H ender absence of the names of any of tbe offi son, end the negro, more dead than cers of tbe Northum berland fusiliers alive, was dragged a t the rope’s end to in General K ito haner’s dispatch__ leeds^ thetoonrt house yard and swung to tbe to the foreboding th a t tbe four oom tree beside the body of Rowlands F ir panies of the fnailiers mentioned are ing a p artin g volley a t the swinging in tbe bands of the Boers. The wax I bodies, tbe mob. eager /o r another vie- office officials evidently expect a heavy tim , hurried aw ay to catch the other casualty list, bnt they are hopeful from 1 negro impliofftod by Rowlands. He tbe .fact th a t the dispatch does n o t . was found a t a hotel where he was era- mention tbe capture of the N o rth e rn -; p|Oved as a porter. The negro escaped berlands th at each a great catastrophe t he roof of tbe b u ild in g , and Mana- bus been escaped. g e r D e B r u ls r succeeded in convincing Orders were iasued a t A ld ers h o t,. n o b th e * the porter bed nothing M a lta and other m ilita ry oenters to |0 do w ith the crim e. The mob then dispatch a ll the available mounted in dispersed, apparently satisfied w ith ite fantry to Sooth A tiica. w ork of vengeance. I t is reported th a t General Knox, oo- Simona was murdered in the moat operatifig w ith the B ritish column at brutal manner, one square from the Reddersbelg,-, haa . stopped General m a in street ot the city, as he was Dewet, end th at a battle ia proceeding. going to his home from his barber shop The report adds th at many of Gen a t 9 o’clock thia m orning. H e car eral D ew et’s followers have been cap- ried tbe receipts of the day's work, a lured. fact of which the negroes were aware. The scene of the fight ia ominously They attacked him from behind, strik- only 99 miles northwest o f'fr e io r ia ’ •cTibYnfc W c h r d r f f W W i f c a Ths Vessel Struck a Rock at tht Entrane* ta Uaiea Bay, an the East Coast at Vancouver B. O ., Deo, 19.— News of ' tbe w o n t m arine disaster of the wanon ia B ritish Colum bia was brought hers tonight by tbe steamer C zar, from Union bay, on the east aide of Yanoou? ver island. Tbe steamer Alpha was wrecked on a reef near the entrance to Union bay and not a vestige of the 1,000-ton steamer remains. H e r man aging owner, captain, parser, three en gineers, tw o able bodied reamen and a stowaway w ere drowned, nnd the rent Of the crew o f 54 were «aveJ by-tha------ pluok o f . an unkown member of the ship’s erew , who swam in a raging sea ~ from the w reck to a lighthouse w ith a lin e aronnd bis w aist. The A lpha was valued a t $45,000. H e r cargo comprised 760 tons of salt salmon and 860 tons of coal, con- isgned to Yokoham a, and valued at 980,000. The to tal Insurance on ths ship and cargo was 9 6 6 ,0 0 0 . I t ia tw o weeks sinoe the A lp h a first started from V s n o o n v e i for Japan. A fte r she had been fonr days out she re tain e d to V ic to ria p a rtly disabled, and accusations of tam pering w itii her engines were made. Some of the crew end several of tbe officers .le ft ths steamer declaring th a t she had been Im properly loaded, and one o f the offi « . e a and « “ ¡ T ' “ to « cers was tried sentenced six ( w~ ¡ » A lp h . left V i c * ° r ia for U nion to replenish her coal • “ PP»/- A M r » « « * « • » « "> 5 “nd U te Satnrdey n ig h t tbe steamer ran on • » o k a t Bayne, round, a t the en- trenoe to U n ion bay. 8he was quickly dashed to p ia o e v and a ll would have perished bad not one of the orew maae the deaperata and successful effort to sw im w ltn a lin e to tbe lighthouse on Y ello w island. Ph the raging sea only p art of thoee on tbe ill-fated ship managed to reach safety, the officera and owner rem aining on board last and fa ilin g to reach the rook. - The 26 sur vivors remained on Yellow island, w h ic h is * rock 200 yards wide, until Sunday night, when tbe sea moderated w m ew h at and a'sloop waa able id call and take them to U n ion . ’ a B n t the storm which had wrecked ho ship hail also prostrated the wire«, and so no tidings of the shipwreck, reached the outside .w o rld until tbs lit t le steamer Caar brought the story to Vanoouver tonight.' ■fhe A lp ha gained notoriety last spring when, as a Canadian ship, shs landed freight and passengers a t N o ih 1 in defiance of the instructions of * treasury departm ent, and, i t is said, against the advice of the B ritish cm- baasy a t Washington as w e ll. She was ohaaed on her return trip from Nome ue tg—hStaffl ---- HMM BMBAA m » . * managed to show her pursuer a clean p air of heels. -Texarkan a, A rk., Deo. 1 5 — A bold Beattie, Dee. 17-— betters havs been robbery on the Cotton Belt railroad oc R ailw ay telegraphers threaten to curred today at Bassetts, T ex., 50 received in this c ity announcing the miles south of Texarkana, on tbe train grounding of tbe U nited States trans boycott the Santa Fe. coming north, in w hich Postal Clerk port Garonne on tbe northern coast of Lord K itchener hoe called for all J o h i^ H . Dennis was almost kille d and Loaon.- She struck tw ice, lieing res available English troops. m a il pouches of tbe ear rifled of th eir eñad both tim es by tbe Yorktown England has awakened to the new content?. Tbe amount stolen la pot The second tim e tbe Y o rkto w n ’s cable seriousness in South A frica. known. A t the tra in le ft the Bassetts caught in the Garonne’s wheel, cansing The let- T n lln ck’s expedition failed _ i wei ta r tank a t 6 A . M ., tbe express and a further delay of 12 hours. h» a s m , dus u le t r a u i u i e i f tu rn tahe nhm-.siaU aboqj a bard march of A t Rockport, In d ., tw o negroes, who Holland refuses to intervene in the In the run from H a ll. The line of march was over had murdered a w h ite ms h ’ were them ooupted again. Boer w ar. , there to Texarkana, the ooaobes were steep mountains fo r a distanoe of 46 lynched. driven. Although te rrib ly beaten, S en ato r,C lay spoke against the ship uncoupled tw ice in a very mysterious English Lots Heavy. tiles, taking in a ll six days. A t the The German train ing ship Gneisenan Simons made A deape rale fight. H ie subsidy b ill. manner. Upon the a rriv al of the train oonclnston, 166 men were nndhr m edi Deo. 17.— fowd Kitchener arise attracted tw o boys. foundered near G ib ra lta r a n d ' 100 were The negroes here the U n ited States, transfer clerk cal treatm ent for several days. Frenoh troope have ceased looting drowned. reports th a t 18 officers and 653 men drove them aw ay and accomplished TROUBLE FOR FRANCE. w ent to the door of the m ail car and Chinese observatories. are missing from G eneral Clem ents’ th e ir original design, securing a beg A large Boxer force is said to be knocked for tbe p o t i l clerk to open it. Search for Hidden Gold. force. They consist of four companies containing something over 940 from L i Bung Chang claims to have abso approaching Peking w ith the intention No response whs given. -O fficials -then Pekin, Dec. 17.— A few days ago of the Northnm lterland fusiliers. th e ir victim , and made th e ir escape. The United States May Have Occasion to En lute power to negotiate. of attacking it. forced-an entrauoe and were astonished force tne Monroe Doctrine. the British troops were notified of tbe Judging from the message these Were When others arrived Simone was dead. Chaffee protested to Von Waldersee The senate cannot considered the to find Clerk Dennis stretched upon the existence of a large amount of treasure captured by the lioers. Clem ents’ H ia sknll was crushed in and his head against German looting. New Y o ik , Deo. 19.— A special to A hurried ex arm y and appropriation bills n n tii floor, apparently dead. 20 miles northwest >f here. Colonel casualties December ~16 amounted to and faoe beaten to a pulp. The spike the Tim ea from Washington says: The am ination showed th at the registered The debate on the w ar tax reduc after the holidays. Tnllock and 100 men le ft today to in five officera and nine men kille d and on the club had punctured tbe skull in te rrito ry u n til recently in dispute be pouches had been ripped open and tion b ill began in the bouse. vestigate tbe tru th of the report. many apparently wounded. John Addison Porter, M o K ln le y ’s four places and penetrated hia brain. tw een B rasil and France, and w h ic i robbed of th e ir content e, tbe most The house of commons voted «16,- former private secretary, died a t bis Colonel Tnllook requested, however, W a lte r Evans, one of the young men haa been decreed to belong to Brazil, valuable of which was the Wayue- 000,000 to carry on the Boer war. th at 60 extra men Ire detailed. I t is French Goes to the Rescue. borne in Putnam , Conn. who attem pted to rescue Simona, and mey shortly become the object of a dis Mem phis pouch, containing' a large i . believed that a large am ount of gold The Bay-Pauncefote treaty* waa Johannesburg, Deo. 17.— The -ta ttle who afterw ards witnessed the lynch pute between France and the United *A phy The British ad m iralty ia arranging num ber of valuable packages. again considered in executive session. to test vsrions inventions for steering sician was sent for and I t was foaqd and valuables were buried at that s till continues w ith in a few miles ing. has become a raving maniac. 8atee, should the Monroe doctrine be point by persona connected w ith the from Krugersdorp. General Clements The dead m an’s w ife is prostrated, vio lated . Tbe te rrito ry lying south of ‘ A congressional committee was ap torpedoes and submarine boats. th a t Dennis was alive bnt nnoonscions. Chinese oourt daring the recent flight. has asked for reinforcements, and i t ia believed she w ill die from and An ugly wound on tbe top of his head Frenoh G alan a in the state of Pars, pointed to investigate the Boos hazing. The inform ation regarding the treasure mounted men under General French the shock. The Oregon H isto rical Society pro told the story. Two boars after he and containing 100,000 square mile», The P hilippine commission gave poses to bold a great fa ir in 1906, in was received from a former oourt offi- have already gone. There have been was claim ed by B rasil and France, and- merchants a hearing on the tra iff b ill. commemoration of tbe Lewis and was taken to the hospital be revived I r i a l . _________________ Earthquake In Cuba. many casualties on both side«. I t ia enough to give the details of the rob Sw itzerland waa made arbitrator. Her C lark expedition to tbe Pacific coast A >50,000 irrig ation ditch w ill be Santiago de Cuba, Deo. 19.— A sharp decision waa in favor of B razil. estimated that tbe Boers Dimmer 2,800. bery. I t is Trial Trip of the Alabama. constructed a t once in Moxee valley, 100 years ago. earthquake shock was fe lt hero about now reportetd th a t some French finan- Just aa tbe tra in parted a t Bassetts Philadelphia, Dec. 17 — The U n it Washington. m idnight last night. I t waa tbe most cisrs, an ticipatin g th at the decision Montana Town Shaken. As a result of a mysterious poisoning tank, Dennis went, into tbe vestibule of ed States battleship Alabam a sailed Oregon delegation decides upon con case a t tbe Forsyth mines, near M a r the m a il car to stir up tbe fire. W hen today from League Island navy yard G nthrie, M ont., Dec. 17.— The in severe th a t has been experienced In would he favorable to France, had tinuing oontract tor Colum bia rive r ietta, Ohio, four persons are deed, four he opened the vestibule door he saw for New York, where she w ill aw a it habitants of the tow n of Cashion were leveral years, and created a panic at already invested th e ir capital in this the Safe Carlos cigb, where a gtand te rrito ry . They are now, i t is said, two man standing by tbe stove. On« dying and two others serironsly H I. improvement. * fa rth e r o rd ers. She w ill make a awakened this morning by a peculiai ball waa in progress. The shock was try in g to engineer a Heal by which tne of them dealt him a terrib le blow over w ave-like motion and trem b lin g of the State Superintendent Aokerman re tria l trip on the run, w h ic h w ill begin Five unknown men who] asked the Many of them rosbed into preceded by a d u ll round lik e a mine Frenoh governm ent w ill buy this commends th at Oregon schools observe marshal of Brighton, 111., for shelter, tbe heed w ith a heavy fire shovel. aa soon aa she passes ont to sea. A fter earth. explosion. Two shocks followed, tbe land from B rasil. Tbe first blow felled him and be was John M arshall day. tbe sea tria l is completed the vessel’s the streets, so badly were they frig ht in the calaboose, locked him np anp former being q uite severe and the la t then quiokly beaten into a taueelose Tbe state departm ent has absolutely bank and tw o course w ill be shaped further out to ened. No damage was done. The m atter of developing Low er then broke into a ter scarcely perceptible. T b e olub no knowledge on the «object. condition. Word reabced here at noon Its at sea to avoid shipping,* as a ll of her . Nehalem ooal is said to have been con stores. rooms became scenes of frantic com tention, however, has been called to th a t two suspect« have been arrested at Incrcax In Wages. guns and turrets are to be tested. I f ! sidered in New York. motion. Several people rushed Into The building occupied by tbe con Naples, near the sc< ne of tbe robbery, the m atter, and the attem pt of ths Celnm et, M ich ., Deo. 17.— COmmer.u- the leport is satisfactorv, i t is probable tne streets. A t M o n o Castle a lib erty French capitalists to secure government A number of persons suspected of struction d eixrtm en t a t tbe Norfolk but none of the stolen packaegs was th at the battleship w ill be ordered to ing January 1, the C alum et & Hecla ball was in progress. Am erican ladies ploting to murder Lord Roberts during navy yard, was destroyed by fire. I t found. aid in getting th e ir money back w ill be Ham pton Roads to join tbe North A t M inin g Company w ill increase the his visit to Cape Colony recently, aban contained* a ll the im portant papers, present expressed great Interest in watched w ith intereet. There is hard American Arretted In Cape Colony. lan tic squadron. wages of its . 4,000 employoa 2 % per the earthquake, w hich waa the first ly any question, i t is said at the de doned their schemes on learning th a t models and plans of tbe construction oent. Last Marob the company reined London, Dec. 15,— The Cape- Town department. they were shadowed. they bad experienced, but displayed Anti-Foreign Plot la Hong Kong. partm ent, th a t snoh action would ba s the wages of its employee 10 per cent. correspondent of the D aily M i l l reports no fear. Telephoning w ithout wires waa sue In his annual report. Fish Commis violation of the Monroe doctrine, and Hong Kong, Deo. 17.— The c ity was the arrest nt Worcester, Cape Colony, Paddy Ryan Dead. sioner Reid says value of fish output oesafnlly accomplished by transim it- of H aro ld Darringale, alleged to be no placarded today w ith statements in c it would call forth a protest from the Fighting la Colombia. ting tbe voice arrows tbe Missieaippi Albany, N. Y .. Dec. 17.— Paddy R y- for Oregon is over 95,000,000. U n ited States. Araerioan, on a charge of fomenting an ing the people and the meroliers of tbe river, a t Minneapolis, a distance of Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 19.— Ad Afrikander rebellion. "T h e arrest,’* secret societies to unite and rise daring an, at one tim e champion pngilist of As long as tbe claim was in its orig O utlaw ry la Kwang Si end Kweng over 1,000 feet. says the dispatoh, "has made great the month of January and drive out all tbe w orld, who was defeated by John vices from Colon, Colom bia, today in a l form, Franoe m ight have main T u e n g ’ is increasing. The officials L . Sullivan, in th e ir famous fight in regeidtng tbe fighting between the gov Advices from I Io Ilo report th at the sensation, and startling disclosures are tbe foreigners. Crowd« gathered abont tained th a t she was sim ply rectifying appear to be losing th eir hold of the the placards, bnt no actual outbreak Mississippi some years ago, died a t hta ernm ent troops and tbe inanrgenta a t ber boundaries, and th at the United situation and are powerless to restore American troope have been northward promised.” home in Glens Falls, N. Y ., this after Tnmeco, say th a t tbe w ith d raw ing in is reported. States cannot object to that. Even is order. Pirating on the W est river ia and westward for several days and Held Up a Box Office. noon. «urgent force was not dispersed. On th at case a rectification of boumlariai that detachments of tbe S ixth, .E ig h increasing. 8 i*n x C ity , Is ., *Dec. 16.— D aring the contrary, fears are entertained that teenth and Tw enty-sixth regiments Wisconsin’s Vote. w hich involved an area of 100,000 Earthquake In Missouri. Owing to a lack of proper fecilitiee have been active near th e ir stations. the peyfprmanoe of "bhord Acres" in this bodv of rebels w ill effect a Junc aqua re miles would be cleeely serntin- Joplin, M o .. Dec. 17.— An earth Madison, Wisconsin, Dec. 17.— The in the way of telegraph, caused by the The insurgents losses d arin g the last the Grand Opera house in thia city to- 1 tion w ith the force operating around vote” òf France has, however, forfeited Wisconsin, ns officially quake shock lasting nearly a m inute Beuna V en tu ra. Both aides lost heav ised. strike, e serious collision occurred on 10 days there have been five kille d , night, tw o masked men entered tbe ' the rig h t to make th at claim by sub the Atchison, Topeka * Santa Fe, ia seven wounded and 40 taken prisoners. box office, assaulted, beat and shot canvassed, was 426,161. M c K in le y ’s waa experienced in this c ity a t 7:45 ily in the battle of T am a ro . When m ittin g the m a tter to aribtration by Thq motion LaFollette» o’clook this m orning. w hich several persons were probably The Americans have lost two killed the treasurer, H arley 8. Round«, and p lu ra lity was 106,681. the government foroee destroyed the Sw itaerland. The territory has bees was from north to south, and of a R epn b licanrfor governor, has a p lu ra l fatally injured. rebel steamer G aitan they also de end three wounded. J escaped w ithout getting any cash. o fficially decreed by the Swiss tribe- ity of 108,745. quivering nature. stroyed a large lot of am m unition. n al to be outside of French Guiana. Five editors were ohosen to sit Rumor of Brltlah Defeat. P rairie chickens are said to be more No Uves Wert Lost Oxford Beats Cambridge. tbe Nebraska legislature a t the recent anundant in western Kaneas than for London, Dec. 15.— The D a ily Express Woman Suffrage In Porto Rico. Found Dead la His Cahfe. San Franctaoo, Dec. 17.— One of election. , London, Dec. 17.— The annual Bug years. publishes a rumor of a aerions dis San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec. 19.—1« tbe severest storms w hich has ever by football match between Oxford and H lllaboro, Oregon, Deo. 19.— A n Joseph M anley has resigned as chair During the past five years tbe state aster to the British arms. According Cambridge took place today a t tbe visited San Francisco broke over tbe drew Bahlberg, an inoffensive former the boose of delegates today, Descsrts man of tbe Republican execuitve com of Pennsylvania has purchased more to this report, the Boers attacked the Qneen’e club. A maguifipent game city a t an early hour this morning and » • M ih g near Reed v illa , was today Introduced a b ill granting unrestricted m ittee of M aine after a servioe of 16 than 100,000 acres of land to be issued camp of General Clements, In the Bar* waa won by Oxford by tw o goals to oontfnned u n til noon in fitful gusts, found dead in his cabin. The dead suffrage to women on tbe same termi years. barton district, capturing the oamp, ae a forestry reservation. rain and w ind sweeping o v e r" the city k illin g s number of B ritish officera, a goal and a try . There was a Urge w ith nnnsnal violence, and being ae- man had a bad contusion on the fore fUectrio coal-cutting machinery ia head. H e had recently sold some pro Former Amhaaador to It a ly 'W . F. and taking prisoners a ll the British and fashionable attendance. in British Columbia. oompanied by thunder and lightning, duce end was «opposed to have conaid- rapid ly displacing hand work and other Draper has Iwen decorated w ith the troops, including four companies of the Nordensk|old's Expedition. Vanoouver, B. O ., Dec. 19.— Storm« a rather unnsnal occurrence in this ereble money in the bouse. I t ia gen varieties of mechanical mining ap p li order of 88. Maurice and C a u l by tbe Northumberland fusiliers. The story ances in the c o llie riW D f G reat B ritain king of Ita ly , for services during his C hristiania, Dec. 17.— The Antarctic part of tbe country. A t one tim e rain erally beloved th at he waa k ille d for of unusual severity have destroyed s Is not confirmed in any q u a rtfr. and and tbe United States. expedition, headed oy D r. O tto Nor- fell in such torrents th at many thought bis money. Tbe coroner w il l bold an portion of the diking in the delta dis embassy to Rome ia not generally believed. tric t of B ritish Colom bia. The dam- a cloudburst was im m inent. denkajold, w ill leave in August. inquest in tbe morning. Missouri w ill hare tbe largest Demo A w ide awake Am erican has erected Twe Hundred Peraona Drowned. •g e to property ia considerable. ---------—------Mr------- cratic delegation in tbe next congress steam pumps on the Joruan and is sup Girl Studentr Burned Alive. Canton, Dec. 16 — Tbe fellin g over Pacific County Timber Deal. AM»«« VlsHinj Us. of the U nited States. plying churches a ll over Europe w ith board of a man from a passenger boat Te Suppre» Train Robbery. D u n kirk, N . Y .. Deo. 1 7 . - From ? • • * * D *0' <■ » P ly »o a genuine Jordan water. — South Bend.i, Wash., Deo. 17,— The on tbe West rive r, near Hoako, led to the «mouldering ruin? of tbe Fredonia Tbe city of Downs, Kansas, has more W ashington, Dec. 19.— Representa dispatch from G rand Rapids. M ic h i The boundary line lietweeu tbe U n it a ru st of some 400 passengers to the Weyerhanadr T im iter Compahy had state normal and than 1,000 inhabitants, among whom train in g school, gan. in v itin g him to the U n ited States tiv e R a y , of N ew Y o rk , in the boose, added 2.560 acres more to there ia not a single law yer. i ed State« and M exico has recently side of the vessel,' w hich caused ber destroyed M r. K roger has wired th a t be has not and Senator H o a r, in the senate, today over 200 persons being I been resurveved and marked fey atone to sink, introduoed b ills " f o r the suppressing The fourth oansua of tbe Dominion monument.] in the form of obelisks drowned. A ‘ 2 •«’ ▼ '’ •cislon w ith regard to 1,7 ï . e„ Pnr<,hr / f H “ key tra ct has been recovered. A revision of of tra in ro b b e ry in the territories of visiting A m erica. 1Ut ol mekes i t re rte in t h S of Canada ia to be taken next year, be about five* m i lea apart. the the U n ited States and elsewhere." AadrSC't Brother Has Hopes. certain th at ginning the first week in A p ril. Portland. The consideration I t provides tbe death penalty for ‘ ho* There are 22 counties in Montana, ' Copenhagen, Dec. 16.— The brother 916,000. perished in the 4re, A Duke's Wins and Cigar BUL 1 2 0 0 nod"0 ’ " ‘ “n i i * ’ * P r0P * r * y loss o l new ly elected governors three of which, Chotau and Dawson, of Professor Andrea, the miaalng A retie « u llty of a " b o ld -u p ,” in case th* e->™D’,On’ Dec‘ Judgm ent for 9200,000. There were 75 have been a ll inaugurated on the Canadian l-order, and < ua'er explorer, hoping for Andrea’s return A MR From Clatsop County Fisherman. young «260 we. entered in tbe Woeen’s Bench death of any person on the train re ba 26 Republican, IS women students in the coo a tv, on the North Dakota lx H f , m its . In case no one . ie killed, «>• b uilding, of p o la r regio has deferred 2 * ^ ’ *? ’ “ ** D “k e o fM e . Ulateop county, O r., fishing interdste whom six perished, one S ilvsrite, the last being make up obe-balf of the area of t i e apeniug tbe penalty is made herd labor from 20 • The ether victim la tta r’e teataraeet for I t ta re agreed upon n b ill for th i oom- '■ mr Wine end cieare » P p H e d Sadler, of Neavda. was tbe aged jn n ito n state. 40 years. F ly n n , of Oklahoma, Intro- Tb« origin ol by a city m e r r h . n / ” '1 ■g Oregon legislature. merchant. The claim was dnoed a b il l p ro v id in g for a serpente the Rre is gakmown. i s: - ä -S ä m a rt fo r O k la h o m a .
