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FORT W AYNE, Ind., May « . - T e n
known dead, many missing and 13 seri
ously injured is the result of a fire that
destroyed the new Avelina Hotel, Fort
Wayne’s principal hostelry, Sunday.
Chief of Police Anckenbruck said
that he believes 30 bodies were still in
the ruins.
The entire interior of the building is
a smoldering heap of ruins, and how
many dead are concealed beneath the
debris can only be conjectured. The
hotel register was consumed by fire, and
there are no accurate means of deter
mining who are missing.
The complete destruction of the in
terior of the hotel makes the work of
recovering bodies a difficult task. A
confused heap of charred wood, bricks
and twisted girders is piled up be
tween the bare walls to the second
story. Piece by piece this must be re
moved before the roll of the dead can
be completed. Some of the bodies
taken out are mangled and charred be
yond recognition.
Infantry Company D and Battery D
of the National Guard are on duty, and
aiding the fire and police forces to clear
away the debris.
The hotel was erected 50 years ago,
and the woodwork was dry as tindor.
It burned like matchwood, and within a
few minutes from the time the fire was
discovered the whole of the hotel was a
mass of flames that filled the corridors
and rooms with suffocating clouds of
smoke that laid fiery barriers across all
means of escape save by the windows.
Score
t . D. ALEXANDER. Publisher
S T A Y T O N ................... OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form (or Our
Busy Readers.
* Résuma o f the Less Importent but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
Eastern railroads are to raise all
freight rates.
Mrs. Cleveland says the ex President
is in a dangerous condition.
Stuyvesant Fish has resigned from
the Missouri Pacific directorate.
A widespread revolutionary conspir
acy has been discovered in India.
A San Francisco woman cashier of a
store is short $4,000. She played the
races.
Thaw has been ordered removed from
the asylum to jail pending the insanity
inquiry.
One of the negro soldiers dismissed
at Brownsville has started suit to re
cover his pay.
It is said the Hearst League will run
Thomas L. Hisgen, of Massachusetts,
for President.
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Mrs. Harry Thaw will aid her hus
band in securing his release from the
insane asylum.
A shell, which was a relic of the Civil
War, has exploded at Riverside, Cal.,
wounding two men.
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, says
he does not want to run on the Demo
cratic ticket for Vice-President.
The prosecution in the Ruef case has
secured confessions that the ex-boss
was paid $30,000 for getting the Park-
side trolley franchise.
Senator Money has lived 35 years
with a broken neck.
Hoodlums are suspected of blow
ing up the passenger train at Butte.
Grover Cleveland is reported as
improving from his protracted ill
ness.
Portland police are still unable to
locate the murderer of Pawnbroker
Wolff.
The dowager empress of Russia is
visiting with Queen Alexandra of
England.
A petition is being circulated at
Gary, Ind., for the closing of the 110
saloons of the town.
Bishop Potter, of New York, is
much improved and expects to re
sume his duties in a few days.
Bank robbers demolished the safe
of the Farmers’ bank, at Teyon,
Okla., secured $600 and escaped.
A San Francisco woman who died
recently had a secret recess made in
a table leg where her valuables were
concealed.
A money order clerk in the Chi
cago office of the Wells Fargo Ex
press company is accused of em
bezzling $5,000.
The battleship fleet when pass
ing the principal points between San
Francisco and Seattle will slow
down and in some instances make
short stops.
Robert Watchorn, the immigra
tion official, says only one-third of
the Italian emigrants come to the
United States, the rest going to
South America.
Five bodies have been taken from
the ruins of the Chicago Reduction
company’s plant, which was de
stroyed by fire. Five more are be
lieved to be in the ruins.
The Arkansas Republican state
convention has declared for prohibi
tion.
An exploding boiler tube on a
British battleship injured five men
severely.
It is practically certain that Ad
miral Evans will return to the fleet
at San Francisco.
Four expeditions are en route to
Western states to look for fossils
of prehistoric animals.
Chinese authorities are maxing
great preparations to welcome the
American battleship fleet.
Young King Manuel of Portugal,
will be closely guarded when he
goes to attend the opening of the
Cortes.
A collision between limited trolley
cars near Detroit caused the death of
eight men and serious injury of four
others.
A British torpedo boat destroyer
was run down and sunk by a scout
boat and sunk during night maneu
vers. All hands escaped except the
engineer.
The editor of La Questions So-
clale, the anarchist paper suppressed
on recommendation of the president,
will be Indicted by the grand Jury of
Paterson, N. Y.
After several years of warfare
with the street car companies, the
city of Cleveland, O., has acquired
control of all its lines, and carried
all passengers free for one day in
celebration of the event.
H O 1 t L F IR E .
Are
READY T O RECEIVE FLEET.
San Is Francisco' Gaily Decorated In
Honor o f Occasion
SAN FRANCISCO, May 5— In eager
expectation San Francisco is awaiting
the arrival of the Atlantic battleship
fleet. The meats are baked, the house
is in order and the feast is set. The
members of the household are clothed
in their best raiment, and are busy with
the final arrangement of bow and other
adornment. Fluttering flags, navy pen
nants and streamers, and Rear-Admiral
Evans’ picture are everywhere. Mar
ket street is a long vista of bunting in
the National colors, and flags waving
from white poles 50 feet high, every 100
feet, one large and a cluster of five
smaller flags flying from each one and
terminating in the huge red, white and
blue shield on the tall ferry tower. On
each side of the tower, stretched on
long wire cables, are the words, “ Wel
come to the Atlantic Fleet.” in the
kaleidoscopic colors of the international
navy signal code flags and pennants,
while on Telegraph Hill the word
“ Welcome” stands in letter 15 feet
high, which can be read for many miles,
and which at night will be illuminated
by 2,500 electric lights. Festoons of
incandescent lights run on both sides of
the principal streets and prominent
buildings are outlined in eleetrie bulbs,
furnishing at night a most magnificent
illumination.
It is estimated that there will be be
tween 700,000 and 800,000 people in San
Franeisco on the day that the fleet ar
rives. The suburban eities adjacent to
the bay and towns within a radius of
50 miles will practically be depopulated,
and will contribute 200,000, while the
railroad compaiies estimate that they
will bring at least 150,000 from points
beyond as far east as Omaha, and from
British Columbia on the north, to the
international boundary on the south.
BLOW UP AN O TH E R TRAIN.
Attempt to
Dynam ta Oregon Short
Line Thwarted.
BUTTE, Mont., May 5.— What ap
pears to have been an attempt to wreck
a freight on the northbound Oregon
Short Line similar to that which befell
the Burlington train Friday night, wag
thwarted Sunday by John Holan, who
was walking the track on his way to
Melrose.
When about six miles this side of
Melrose. Holan, according to his own
story, discovered 15 sticks of dynamite
in a small hole immediately under the
rail. Holan threw the explosives into
the river near by, and hastened to no
tify the Melrose station agent. When
the northbound train arrived it was held
back until a thorough investigation
could be made.
The station agent at Melrose tele
phoned the local authorities, and the
latter are inclined to give credence to
Holan’s story in view of the theft re
cently of a quantity of powder from one
of the mines of the district. About
seven sticks of dynamite were found on
the Hhort Line tracks.
Tho would-be dynamiter was arrested
and confessed his part *n the plot.
Troop* Hurt Insurgent*.
LIM A, Peru, May 5__ Government
troops have been sent out by President
Pardo on the receipt of reports here
that an insurrection was brewing not
far from this city. Alarm was felt in
government circles on Friday night,
when it was rumored that the insurgent
leader, Dr. Durand, with 200 of his men,
attempted to cut the wire« of the elec
tric lighting plant which supplies the
current for the lighting of Lima and the
suburbs. President Pardo passed Sat
urday night in the barracks, and this
morning additional troops were sent out
in search of the insurgents.
TRAIN 15IJYNAMI1LÜ
Burlington Express Wrecked at
Bude, Montana.
MAIL CAR IS BADLY SHATTLREO
trgm eer Killed and Fireman Terribly
bealded— robably Vengeful
Work o f Hoboes.
Butte, Mont., May 2.— Eastbound
Burlington train No. 6, due In Butte
at 11:30 o'clock tonight, was dyna
mited about a mile west of the
Northern Pacific station at 11:87
o'clock.
The explosion caused the
.first or helper engine to leave the
rails, but It plowed along for a few
hundred feet without turning over.
The second engine crashed Into the
bank south of the track a few car-
lengths from where the explosion
occurred.
Every person on the train has
been accounted for excepting Engi
neer Bussey, of the second engine,
who la supposed to be burled under
bis locomotive.
Carl Mange, .who
was riding on the blind bagguge,
had to be taken from the mass of
timbers under which he was burled.
His arm and leg were broken.
Fireman George Ehle, of the second
engine, was badly scalded.
Both were hurried to the hospital
In the police patrol, which was at
the scene of the wreck, us quickly
as possible after the men were re
ceived in the city. Locomotive No.
2100, in charge of Engineer Bussy
and Fireman Ehle, is lying on Its
side south of the track.
The mall car, which was right be
hind It, was hurled on Its side and
badly wrecked. A cold storage fish
car was next to the mall car, and It
was smashed into kindling wood.
Following the fish car was the ex
press car. Only the front trucks of
the express car left the rails. The
baggage car also remained on the
track.
The general theory of the explo
sion is that the dynamite was placed
directly on the rails, but it is impos
sible to say whether a time fuse or
some sort of percussion cap was at
tached to the explosive. Those who
saw the flash agree It came from the
south side of the track.
The dynamiting is believed by the
officers to be the work of Borne hobo
seeking revenge for being ejected
from a train.
Express Messenger J. B. Valentine
was seriously bruised, being badly
cut by a flying grenade. His escape
from death in his car Is considered
miraculous.
The force of the explosion was
terrific.
According to the crew of
the first engine the engine was lifted
bodily off the track.
SHIELDED BIG 8INNERS.
Attorney Jerome Charged With Fa
voring High Finandere.
New York, May 2.— Before Com
missioner Hand, who is hearing evi
dence on charges against District A t
torney
Jerome,
Franklin
Pierce,
counsel for the complainants, today
called for the evidence taken by a
grand jury In the Wall and Cortland
street ferries case«, in which Thos.
F. Ryan and H. H. Vreeland testi
fied.
“ We contend,” said Mr. Pierce,
"that Mr. Jerome could have gone
before the grand Jury with the evi
dence that he had and secured in
dictments.
Instead he called Mr.
Ryan before the grand Jury and for
ever barred the road to prosecution.”
Mr. Jerome agreed to submit the
evidence privately to the Commis
sioner, with the understanding that
Mr. Pierce shall not be allowed to
read it.
Mr. Pierce asked for an adjourn
ment until Monday, when he prom
ised to take up Mr. Jerome’s investi
gation of the American Ice Company.
He said Mr. Jerome investigated the
company for half a day and then
turned
the Investigation
against
three or four small Independent Ice
companies that the American Ice Co.
wanted to smash, and that he ad
vised that indictments be returned
against them.
FxDeet Great Western Business.
Omaha, Neb., May 2.— One hun
dred and forty-eight big locomotives
are being hurried to the Harrlman
lines as fast as the Brooks Locomo
tive Works of Dunkirk, N. Y., can
turn them out. W. J. Smith, Install
ing engineer for this concern, Is in
Omaha today consulting with W. B.
McKeen, Jr., superintendent of mo
tive power and machinery of the
Union Pacific.
Mr. Smith declares
the railroads are looking for an im
mense business this year, and are
demanding the locomotlvos be deliv
Native Village In Ashe*
M ANILA, May 5— Tho town of Anti ered as rapidly as possible.
polo, in the Province of Morong, has
Snow in New York.
been practically destroyed by fire. Four
hundred houses were burned and hun
Buffalo, May 2.— Reven Inches of
dreds of people are homeless. The fa snow fell here yesterday. Today the
mens shrine was saved. The fire was sun shown and the snow Is rapidly
caused by lightning. Antipolo is a disappearing.
At
Jamestown the
town of 3,500 inhabitants.
depth was reported at 10 Inches.
0 0 , 0 0 0 M E N IN P A R A D E ,
End ot Groat Catholic Centennial C o l
ouration.
New York. May 4.- Sixty thou
sand Roman Cutholic laymen march
ing In procession Saturday brought
to a clltuax and formally ended the
week-long celebration of the ceuteu-
ary of the founding of the Roman
Cutjiollc diocese at New York.
Along Fifth uvenue und through
Fifty-seventh street, where the lino
of march led to the disbanding point
hundreds ot thousands of persons
were massed. The reviewing staud
had beeu built to accommodate 8500
persons, und Its whole capacity was
(■laced at the disposal of worneu and
children uud the distinguished pre-
lules who huve been participating
In the observance of the centenary.
The prelates lu their gorgeous robes
occupied a space in the center stuuds
and banked around them on every
side were thousands of women nud
children.
Of sll tho 60,000 who took psrt
In the parnde, every man save one
was on foot. Tho mounted man was
Brigadier-General
Thomas
Burry,
the grand marshal.
Behind him
trudged thousands, millionaire and
laborer.
In the van was a delega
tion from the Catholic club, umong
them Thomas F. Rysn, Thomas A.
Emmett. Justice John W. Goff, Jus
tice Davis and Justice O'Gorman, of
the supreme court.
Bourke Cock-
ran, John I). Crlmmlns. David Mc
Clure and many other men promi
nent In the city’s life participated.
Many of the large Btores und other
business places conducted by Cstho-
llcs had declared a half holiday for
today. The parade formed at Wnsh
Ington Square well down town. Ths
line of march covered a distance of
approximately three miles.
INSIST ON IMMUNITY
Ruel Rests on His Lontract With
District Attorney.
REFUStS TU TESTIIY IN LO lR f
PatrickfOalhoun Alto Declines lo An
swer Questions and Is Up
held by Court.
San Francisco, April 30. i’utrlck
Calhoun uud Abruhum Uuof wi re
called to the witness stuud In thu
Ford trlul today.
Both refused to
teutlfy on constitutional grounds and
were sustained by Judge l.uwlor.
After Calhoun wus sworn he was
ashed by Assistant District Attune y
O'Uara:
“ When did you come to Han Fran
cisco after the lsth day of April,
1906?”
Calhoun— I decline to nnswer,
O’Gara- In the mouth of Elay,
1906, did you tell Frank A. la-acb,
superintendent of thu Mint, to pay
to the defendant. Ford, $50,0007
Calhoun 1 decline to answer.
Judge Lawlor ruled thut Calhoun
should not be required to answer
any question which, In the opinion
of thu court, might serve to connect
him. lunnccntJy or guiltily, with tlM
alleged crime for which he and Ford
have been Indicted.
When Ruef wus sworn he was
asked:
“ Do you know Tlrey L. Ford?”
Ruef— I decline to answer unless
all the Indictments against me are
dismissed. In accordance with the
agreement 1 had with the District
Attorney and the Assistant District
NOW UP TO THE HOUSE.
Attorney, known as the “ Immunity
National Drainage Bill May Become a contract.” und on the further addi
tional ground that a mau cannot be
Law.
u witness against himself.
Washington, May 4.— Friends of
the natlonul drainage bill are very
TOUCHES PO PU LAR CHORD.
much encouraged by reason of the
fact that that meusure has passed King Manual Recommends Reforms
the senate, and been referred to the
and People Cheer.
house committee on public lands.
Lisbon, April 30— The Portuguese
While there Is very little time left Cortes
reassembled
today,
the
for Its consideration In the house, eighty-second anniversary of the es
there is a slight possibility that It tablishment of coastltutlonal govern
might get through the lower branch ment In Portugal. The royal mourn
ing for the late King Carlos and hln
of congress before adjournment, but son was suspended for tho occasion.
this will only be possible In the King Manuel was respectfully greet
event that there Is general support ed by the people.
King Manuel proceeded to the
of the measure, both In committee
Cortes, accompanied by many digni
and In the house.
If there Is & h taries of the state and escorted by u
much difference of opinion In- the strong guard of troops.
The floor
house as prevailed in the senate, the of the chamber was filled with dep
bill will probably go over to the uties and the galleries were crowded
next session.
with a brilliant audience.
The bill. In effect, creates a na
His Majesty slowly mounted tho
tional drainage fund, similar to the
tribune that had been erected for
national reclamation act, providing
his use. H I h address, which he read
that all moneys received from the In strong and fuil tones, wus a most
sale of public lands In states not con pathetic and at the same time a
tributing to reclamation fund shall practical and vigorous discourse, cal
be utilized In draining swamp and culated to win the sympathy of the
overflowed lands. The drainage fund people. He touched upon the trng-
will be small In comparison to the
edy of February 1, when his father
reclamation fund, for the bulk of
and his brother wore shot down as
the receipts from land sales Is util
“ the cruel disappearance of my fath
ized for Irrigation.
However, the er and brother.”
cost of reclaiming desert lands, and
one dollar In the drainage fund will
go as far as five dollars In the re
Many Cities Will Be Represented.
clamation fund.
Portland, Ore., April 30.- Great
est
Interest
has
been
aroused
throughout
Oregon,
Washington,
Indian Village at Rote Festival.
Portland, Ore., May 2.— C. A. and In fact the entire Northwest In
Mount, general agent of the O. R. the Portland Rose Festival, to be
held here the first week of June.
& N. at Lewiston, Idaho, Is arrang The following cities of Oregon,
ing to bring to Portland for an ex through their commercial organiza
tended stay a band of 75 braves tions or buslnees men's clubs, have
from the Nez Perce reservation, the arranged to have floats in one or
more of tho parades: Astoria, Sea
Indians to be here before June 1, side, The Dalles, Hood River, Van
so that they may participate In sev couver, Wash., McMinnville, Dallas,
eral of the day and night parades Albany, Salem, Eugene, Klamath
which will form a part of the week’s Falls and Grants Pass.
Medford,
program.
The Nez Perce* are re Roseburg. Independence, Hillsboro,
garded as the most perfect physical St. Johns and a number of others are
types of any race of Indians still ex still considering the matter. Lewis
tant. They will appear here In full ton, Idaho, will send a beautiful
war regalia, on horse back, with all float, so will Dawson, Y, T. while
the gorgeous trappings which have Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and any
made the race famous from times number of other communities will
long gone by. Their feats of horse bo represented by decorated automo
manship are Bald to excel those of biles and vehicles.
any Indians on the Continent. While
These cities and towns have each
In Portland they will live In their raised anywhere from $500 to $1000
own village which will be located to defray the cost «if their respective
where the tens of thousands of vis floats, and these pieces will be typi
itors may at pleasure, witness the cal of the principal Industries «if tho
forms, rites and ceremonies of tho communities represented.
Indians, for they will live In their
natural state, while encamped here.
British Destroyer Surk.
Harwich, England, Apr.i 30.— The
Awakens After 85 Days.
British torpedo destroyed Gala was
Los Angeles, Cal., May 4.— After
cut In two nnd sunk early today off
an unbroken sleep which extended Kentish Knock, In tho North Sea, by
over a period of 85 days, Mrs. Beu the scout Attentive.
The torpedo-
lah Hawkins, a patient at the county boat-destroyer Rlbble also was In
hospital, awakened early this morn volved in tho collision and returned
ing and asked for a drink of milk. to Hheemess with two compartments
Her return to consciousness was en full of water. The flotilla was en
tirely unexpected. A nurse, attract gaged In night maneuvers when tho
ed by the sound of rapping entered accident occurred.
Engineer Lieu
Mrs. Hawkins’ room to find the pa tenant Frank A. Fletcher, of the
tient sitting up In bed with her eyes Gala, who was In his bunk at the
open.
Physicians were summoned point where the destroyer was struck
and the woman talked rationally went down with the vessel.
with them for some time.
It was
found that she was able to stand
Rebels 8st Fires.
Victoria, B. C., April 30.— News
Four Suspects Are He'd.
was brought by the Empress of In
Pittsburg, May 4.— Four men, be dia today of a series of disastrous
lieved to have been Implicated In the conflagrations at Pekin, Involving a
robbery of the St. Ixmls express loss of many lives and due to Incen
Thursday night, were brought to diarism. Nine fires took place In as
this city this afternoon by detec many days at the end of March and
tives.
The Identity of the men or early In April. Dynastic rebels weru
where they were arrested cannot be considered responsible, and whole-
learned.
stile arrests were made.
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