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OREGON COURIER A, W. CHKNBT, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY fPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEW8 OF THE WORLD. An, latarastlaf .Collection of I taint From tha Two Hemispheres Presented 'la Condensed '.PbfonA'A Largs Amount or Information la Small Bpaoe. Portland,' Or.,' experienced a (ingle earthquake shook, of brief duration. Two massive boilers of the Planter'! oil mill in Greenville,' Miss., exploded, wrecking the mUl property and causing the death of five men. It is asserted ,thAj .the Transvaal gov eminent is about' to offer England the assistance of the 'burgher forces to orush the Matabele uprising. . Ten persons were burned to death in Are at 86 Union - square, Brooklyn. The building was a four-story tenement-house, oooupied by Italians. " The garment workers of Baltimore, who have been cm strike for five weeks, nave returned to work where they could get their places. Over 6,000 per sons have been out. , ; Frederick A. Humphrey, said to be , the oldest Freemason In the United States, died in Janesville, Wis., aged VS. He belonged to the Masonio fra terntiy for 74 years. The Missouri., supreme court has affirmed the sentence of the Taylor brothers, oonvloted of having murdered the Meek family, near- Milan. Exeou tion was set for April 80. The president has1 appointed B. F. Franklin, a former member of the house, as governor of Arizona. The term of the present governor does not expire until April 1, 1897. A train on the St Louis & Ban Fran oiaoo railroad was held up and robbed by masked men three miles from Leb annon, Mo. Express oompany officials say they seoured but $1,377. Mme. Dure.Berthel, a leading oon , tralto of Louisville. Ky., one of the beat-known vocalists of the South, has been stricken blind, and the probabil ities are that her affliction will be per manent In Prague, strikers attaoked theweav era who had resumed work, and a seri -, ous oonfliottook plaoe. Finally the f polioe were compelled to oharge with ', drawn swords and' several persons' were wounded. " . ' . At New York Herald dispatch from Borne says thei negus 'Menelek has or ' ' dared the massacre bf a number of Drls ' oners'and sick bdriloni who "hive fallen y into, the bands of his" forces during the pxnt campaign in a Dysnnia. .. Judge Hanford'has granted an' order Tor the sale ol the Beattley Lake Bhore fc Eastern railroad, the1 sale tp'be.made ' In Seattle on bi after May 'l6 . next The bondboldera,.uDder:.the.'reorgani aation plan, will be bidders for the property. ' Hereafter the Northern. Paoiflo will run two transcontinental trains inatead of one. The time between St Paul and Portland will be shortened eight hours by putting on a fast mail train. The time eastbound will, be : shortened aix hours , mas, Mexico, and great anxiety is felt for her safety. A foreign dispatch says: It is be lieved the dervishes lost 6.000 dead, wounded and prisoners in the engage mentat. Mount Moeran on April 9, with the Italian native battalion com manded by Colonel Stevenl from Cas sala. The money order transactions throughout the United States' during tHe. last quarteV'ot 180$, beat all previ ous reoords .in volume. The. .accounts have just been aadited and. show the receipts to have bjfen? aggregated $15, .675,971. V ; ' '., Fire broke out. in. the Washburn fc Moen. 1 Maunufaotaring . Company's plant at Quinsigmond, Mass., result ing in a loss of from $ 160,'OOb to $165,-' 000, fully Insured. Two honrded men will be out of work until the building la rebuilt . t . The Genessee riyer la- higher than, in twenty years. It is over its -banks in the southern part of Rochester and has washed away part of the Erie - tracks. ine houses are -surrounded. . by water and the occupants have ' bad to desert their homes. ' '..' Arthur Bradley and Riobard Ingra- ham, two factory hands employed in Haverhill, Mass., engaged in a prize fight, and as a result the latter was killed by a blow on ' the jaw. The fight was to be a friendly one to settle the title as to who was the better man. Letters received from Rainy river, ENGLAND AND SPAIN IMPORTANT ALLIANCE 8AID TO HAVE BEEN FORMED. on the Canadian boundary, report the death in Rainy river of the entire party who aooompanied Colonel A. F. Naff, United States special agent They were on the way to investigate a report of timber stealing by Canadians, and were asoendinir the river in sleighs. They broke through the ice nenc.in the New York papera reaching Bearing on' tha Cuban Question Bpala Can Depend, on tha Rapport of Kng- laod In iUr.'Condlui With, tha In surgent In Cuban.' ' . New York, April 7. A. World dis patch from London says: . , , . . "The positive statement came to ybor correspondent from a leading financier of this city-tbat England has oonoluded a treaty of alliance; with Spain. .His final message was: " 'Within ten days Europe will be startled with the offloial announcement of this, fact'"' " pV ' v Continuing, the World correspondent says: "I give this statement with the re-' serve winch its importance warrant, pointing out only that the sensitive money interests of the city are often better, informed on such matters than is any part of the oommunity exoept the highest in authority, and that my inforamnt is now and for many years haa been aasooiated with the leading finanoial enterpirses, conspicuously in the international ones of London bankers. His name, if I oould men tion it, would be recognized aa very authoritative by every New York banker. Such a treaty would have a vastly important ' bearing upon the continental situation. It would have a oommensnrately important bearing upon the UuDan question In the United States. I quoted to my informant the state- A BOLD PLOT. and all but Colonel Naff were lost A novel measure, aimed at high theater bats, was enaoted into law by the Ohio legislature. It provides that any manager permitting any person to wear a hat or other headgear in a the ater obstructing the view, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be fined 10. William Kemper and John Limpke, of Otis, Ind., engaged in a friendly oontest for boxing supremacy in a saloon at that plaoe. After' a few Kemper struok Limpke in the abdomen. The injured man fell un oonsoious, and remained so until he ex pired soon after. It has been announced that a chair oi the Russian language will be estab 1 1 . i it i . -Vk 1 " me yesterday that the Washington gov ernment had received a semi-offloial in timation from the British ministry that England would approve of the recognition by the United States of Cuban belligeienoy. "His reply was that exaotly the con trary is the case; that, in the first plaoe, the Salisbury ministry is dis posed to do everything it can with safety and reason to cheok the preten sions of the American government to interefere in their West Indian or South Amerioan affairs, particularly in the West Indies, where Great Britain herself has large interests; and that, seoondly, Spain, by this treaty, has made important concessions to Eng land, in return for the more or leas ao tive support of Spain in her conflict Plan to Kidnap Cornelius Vaodarbilt la California. San Franoisoo, April 8. George E. Oard, late, otyef of the Southern Pacific Company's deteotive servioe, came up irom ixs Angeles last night and gave putuioity ro one of the most rematk able .stories of an anarchist plot that was probably ever heard in San Fran oisoo. The plot, according to. Mr. Gard, was nothing less than a oon- piracy-to hold up the Vanderbilt speo ial train and abduct Cornelius Vander bilt, , and lit has transpired that the officials of the Southern Paojflo, who were informed of the matter through Mr. Gard before the Vanderbilt party reached El Paso, have been taking all possible precautions t to- prevent- the oarryiqg cpt of the plot "8bpr.tly .before-the Vanderbilt party reached El Paso,.','' said Mr. Gard, in speaking' of the affair at the Palaoe hotel,' "I received a letter which de tailed in some degree the' plans of a gang of extremists for making money out of the kidnaping of Cornelius Van derbilt As to my informant, I do not think it necessary to say any more than CONGRESSIONAL NEWS ROUTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY FOURTH SESSION. '" Substanee of tha Bills and Resolution In trod need In tha Senate and House Condensed Record of tha Doing of tha National Lawmaker Senate Washington, April 4. In the senate today the house .bill was passed grant ing the Atchison & Nebraska and Chi cago, Burlington & Qoinoy railways the right-of-way through the Sao and Fox Indian reservations, in Kansas and Nebraska. Pettigrew reported the In dian appropriation bill, and gave no tice that he would ask to. take it up next week. The postoffloe appropria tion bill was then taken up: Waloott offered an amendment to regulate ' the salaries of postmasters of substations in oities. The senator spoke in favor of the polioy of the postoffloe depart ment in establishing metropolitan cen ters, with many minor offices sur rounding them, as in Chicago and Bos WORST NOT YET TOLD. that he ia in San Franoisoo. The let- ton. Gorman opposed the amendment ter waa written from here, and the men It was a step toward doing away with who were working out the plot, so I tne small iourth-olasa postoffioes, and was given to understand, were making making them brandies of the city post San Franoisoo their base of operations, offices. Debate on the bill continued The letter went on to say that the men had been conspiring for some time, but had not been able to agree on any plan for making a haul until the an nouncement appeared in the papers that Vanderbilt and Depew were on their way to California. They imme diately ptoiced out vanderbilt for a shining mark and prooeeded to lay plans for a hold-up. "My informant was one of the gang, and in bia letter to me he said that he would oontinue to aot in the role of oonspirator, and keep me informed of their movements and any further de velopments in their plans. Coban Prlsoaers Are 'Subjected to Moit Horrible Tortures. ' , Cleveland', 6., .April The stories that have'been told. oedoeribing' the tor tures inflicted by the Spaniards in Cuba are more than confirmed by F. H. Taylor, fho hat jtfst" arrived in this oity, after a reaidenoe of three years in Havana. In answer to- inquiries re garding the truth, .9, the circulated re ports, ne saia: ;. ., i , .'.'The worst ha not been toldo I have known of. vprieouors being strung up ;by the fhunibs aV 'Horo castle, and left for daya at a time at the mercy of the vicious flies which are attraoted by molasses smeared upon the victim's faoe and cheat for thai nnrnoaa. Man v ' other fotms of torture are praotioed upon the unfortunate captives. "These outrages against humanity do occur, as any oitizen of Havana can testify. In fact, if they would allow some of the persecuted men in the dun geons to testify, stories of fiendish tor ture oould be unearthed which would shook the Christian world." ing 200 or more may make a volun tary assignment, before any competent antnority, or all his property, exoept tnat exempt under the law, for the ben efit of his creditors equally. - He is required to file a full list of all his "ine letter was the most startling property, exempt or unexemct. and of epistle I ever reoeived, and I was oon- hia oreditors. It allows preferences vinoea oi its genuineness, ior i Knew only to debts due to the United Rtntaa. New Orleans, April 6. The Pioa- yune's special Havana letter, dated Maroh 29, gives this summary of events, personally investigated by the writer, which is declared to be accurate in avovv vaawnsi until 6:30 when the senate wen into In BainbooDr. Vidal Solongo made executive aeasion and goon after ad- L ttf4rt ' ' 1 Z. 1 TI? - I ' I nrhnn Via vqi nmtvalAannnt ha was nnn Washington, April 6. The senate nisht arrested and taken to th irmnn oommittee on judiciary today decided at Guadia Civil, where the soldiers npon a favorable report upon the vol- lashed him all over the body. In spite nntary bankruptcy bill The bill will of his cries tha InnryhftH and frtnlr him be reported to the senate on Monday, on the outside of town, where they the 18th. As agreed upon by the com- oompleled him to make a grave, where mittee, it provides that any debtor ow- they buired him after he died from ill the person that. wrote it, as well as his history and associations. . L. MORE PILES PULLED. to any state or territory, to servants or treatment On the plantation of Count Baregota. a Cuban by birth, the troops of Gen-, eral Aldeooa shot to death, after hack- ing him with his maohetes, a defense less oolored resident, who waa on hia way to join his family. On the first maohete blow he ' lost his arm, and on the second hia head..-. In the oity of Banatabano. the chief lisbed at Harvard next- year, trofes with the Cuban rebels. or Leo Weiner, of the; University of - "i can furnish no further details bf Minnesota, a native of Poland, and a this ! alleged treaty than that, aooord-well-known soholar of the lavonio' ing ip my informant, it will inolnde tongues, has been appoiptedi.ito theVoivinf to Great Britain the riebt to onair ior nve. years.' .. . ...;. harbor and refit hfer fleets in the Mei A speoial report to La .Prenza.vtate.ten'aflan porta of Spain. "..Tire harbor 1.1. i .1 . . ' ' . v. t. 1 j,k j 11 . . . 1 . tiint uiu Biiuauou among, tne oanta e.fUvvntrnigHua ia one ui uiu uuum ou we wiuuum ui oueuys ayrea IB ueHpeiaia)ipiui)uiiiirBuonu, nuu wiutuciuir mo Kit They are without means aiid' aVjneatftire British navy. ' without food. The oommeroial rlrma are in terrible straits. Thenatfbnal congress will attempt to succor the peo ple nntil the next harvest A dispatch from Bucharest to the London Times says: The papers here annonoe the oonolusion of a military convention between Russia and Bulga ria under whioh, in the event of war Bulgaria would cede to Russia ports. on the Blaok sea,, and would bonoeh- trate an army at Shumla. Trapman Forced by Threat! to Vie Bli Own Plledriver. Astoria, April 8. Sunday, thirty fishing-boats, loaded with fishermen, their wives and a brass band, sailed down i the bay to celebrate Easter, They ended up the excursion' by forcing laborers for servioe performed within of police and local authorities arrested one year, and to liens or incumbrances thr lnHiwni a .u. . I vaao IMJU WWaa. UIOUI J v UUU.UD ,u w.Mwiiigi i,uuu. outsklrta, where thev were bntohered Washington, . April ft. The senate and left on 4116 roadside, the mur spent the entire, day on the postoffloe aere" bringing the report to the oity bin and did not oomplete it. The bill Wlal w insurgents had killed the men, served to bring out some sharp criti cisms by Gorman on' the. administra tion of the postoffloe department, and Dy Allen on alleged irregularities re a trabman to use his own Diledriver to "Iting from, the oivil-servioe system. - f VI . A 1 1 i. .. J ... . . ARE ALL OF ONE MIND. a , ! ' ' ' South and Central Amerlenn Btatei , Fovor Diai' Plan. City of Mexico, April 7. El Uni versal tonight publishes telegrams from all over Central and South America regarding President Diaz' ut terances on the Monroe dootrine in his reoent message to oongress. President Barrios, of Guatemala, praisea the statesmanlike tone of the message, and in Salvador the sovern- JSdward Davids, a prominent fanner ment ia inclined to favor an alliance ptfll up about 150 piles off Desdemona sands, near-New Astoria.: .The man's name is Pettiwink, and he ia a hard working family man. He was given the choioe of being strung up or re. moVipg the piles, but without waiting the fishermen got in' and helped pull the' piles.. A large number of new piles were also loosened and floated I dqwa. the river to the sea. During i.. i'l salmon in the streams of Alaska' wan ' It is stated on good authority that f1'7 orbly reported by Senior the Scandinavian Fishermen's Packinif " uommiwee on nsn o In the village of San Feline, soldiers under the command of Colonel Galbis and Colonel Linares, oaptured three inoffensive laborers and haoked them to. pieces amid the laughter of the troops, who shouted that they oould charges as to large money contributions lnot 8erTe 106 insurgents any more. said to have been made in the interests .of:-Mr.- Cleveland and Mr. Harrison. The charge that Mr. Waqamaker con tributed $400,000 toward Mr. Har- risori's election led to an .'emphatic de nial 'Trom Hawley. Allen alluded to the president as "bis majesty," and as tne enier mugwump of the country. Association has offered to pay the men 6 oents if the men will guarantee to fish for no one else at leas than 6 cents. Overwhelmed bj Offloe-Peekeri. Seattle, April .8. Mayor Black's resignation, to soon after taking offloe. created mnoh exoitement here tonight Senator Davis, of the judioiary oom mittee has reported favorably the bill making it unlawful to shoot or throw any inissle into anyrailorad locomotive or car, or to shoot at any person there in. The bill has particular application to tne Indian territory, ; ' ' ' A 'special to the Herald from Madrid aaya a violent attack upon Senator Sherman was published in the Impar tial, whioh oalled him a former slave . trader, and asserted that he wants the Cuban rebellion to suoceed in order to re-establish slavery in Cuba. ine inioago coara oi election oom xniasioners has deolared that 45,000 of the 870,000 voters registered for the coming spring eleotion are fraudulent The commissioners discovered whole sale registration frauds in nearly every ward. They say the number of names atrioken from the lists is greater than the total vote oast in Montana,' North Dakota, Delaware, Florida,juid Nevada. Secretary Morton has let a oontraot for 10,125,000 paoketa of vegetable seeds, to be distributed under the re cent aot of oongress, to D. Landreth & Sons, of Philadelphia. The prioe is 170,000. The seeds are to be delivered ready for mailing. The oontraot for a million paoketa of flower seeds was let to L. L. May & Co., St Paul, Minn., at halt a cent a package. A move has developed in Nebraska to oontest the right of the government to regulate the liquor trafflo of the forta in this state. At every post the "canteen," operated by privates, is , conducted without state or county in- terferenoe. At Fort Robinson oounty authorities Issued warrants against the canteen owners, for selling liquor without a lioense, and writs to confis cate the wet property. The military authorities refused to permit the sheriff to serve his warrants and that official haa appealed to the secretary of war. The Chinese government has decided to enter the postal union. H. E. Topping, a furniture dealer of Astoria, committed suioide by blowing hia brains out T. Simon Sam, formerly minister of war for Haytl, haa been elected presi dent to auooeed General Hippolyte, de ceased. The schooner J. B. Leeds is long overdue at Gray's harbor from Quay- of Fox Lake, Wis., was shot and in stantly Killed by Julius Zllke, a farm hand working for him. Davids had interefered to prevent Zilke from strik ing a young man in a quarrel, and Zilke waited for Davids to come home, when he shot him in the presenoe of Davids' wife. John Selman, the victor of no less than twenty fatal shooting af rays in lexas, tne exterminator oi "bad" men, and the slayer of the notorious John Wesley Hardin, was shot and killed by of all American nations in support of the Monroe dotrine as expanded by President Diaz. Hondnras - newspapers advocate LAtin-Amerioan ooniederation in sup port of the doctrine of no European in- terferenoe, but exoluding the United States and Canada. ' . Nioaragua is disposed to adopt Presi dent Diaz' ideas. Costa Rica's sentiment favors the plan, bnt there is apprehension that Mexico is ambitious of consolidating AMERICANS HONORED. . ..... Another Instance of Venezuela's Good . Will Toward This Country. Washington, April 6. President Crespo, of Venezuela, has taken an other step toward the oonsDiouous hon. i . . . ... - . The bill providing for the protection of """rL 1T iMnin ' hmwvw.uq IUD UIOUMUU UI a bronze column in honor of the citizens ' of the United States who aided Vene zuela in the first struggle for independ- '' enoe. The decree has just been re- ' oeived at the Venezuela legation here. Venezuela has honored this eovern- ment heretofore by erecting a statue of wasnington, and proiteoina- another statue of President Monroe, oommem. 1 orative of the Monroe dootrine. The aeoree states that the eolnmn eriea.. The oommittee. - bill was amended by the Boom. Washington, April 4. Several mi nor bills were passed by unanimous consent 'before consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was re sumed in the honse todikv. Tha roan. It his. resignation he -revested that lution of inquiry presented by Hitt. 'ZmZ he 7t llowinrciUzens or William D. Wood be elected by the ohairman of the foreiwi affair. m. k tt., g omzens 01 ounoil to suoceed him, and this has mittee. was adnntad nrlthnnt HaKa.a t n.,-....;- t i . . . just been done by a vote of 11 to 2. ' calling o th. .Vn 7 " ZZZ' .ru "ou"une' Uop - i n - a wva.uvwwi a a. uuu uuijaua) i jaiiii a ri vun inmAci ainai r i . l There ia alreadv talk ahonttha A.'P. r.oKW uu. ' . . . . """" "aiuuor, tnanea . " - uastuio ttiui uuuiiu uiLrimNK. m r.rana. I iniiann I t- A. influenoe havinir somethino- to do Lit a. j 1. . TTI uBwUB uurguo, -aul T. patohes, notes and telegrams in the John Ferris and Sub-Lieutenant . "v. wwuiwr i, rranois Faranerann. on, : l . . . ., 1 " v.Doouii hujo, roiuuve i ne nnnrpa fnrti ii of,v- - .. . .-- ."v. .cunra mo serv uiouin.iuu UI 1UIOI VOU11UU DV OS lntlB nT r.hao mon Ji j , . to do with Mayor Blaok's determination to quit publio life, but the real reason is kpown to be that his health would not stand the strain he was put under by seeker, after office. Mr Black was United States in the affairs of Vene- in an expediMon leaving New York in nnaoauainted with nolitios. and he Unaia watw .k n j . waring new xorK in United States Deputy Marshal George her power and taking under her pro- Scarborough. The men bad a quarrel over a game of cards, whioh resulted in the shooting. At a meeting of the bond holders of the Northern Paoiflo railroad held in Berlin, it was unanimously resolved to aooept the reorganisation plan. The Northern Paoiflo plan of reorganization has been adopted by two meetings, one of third mortgage bondholders, repre- enting $4,971,000 out of $7,845,000, and one of second mortgage bondhold ers, representing $3,844,000 out of $8,448,000. There has been considerable rivalry between the masters of the sailing ves sels plying in the ooal trade between San Franoisoo and Nanaimo for the past year, and some very fast passages have been made, several of them inside of twenty days. The Wilna, Captain Slater, arrived at San Franoisoo. mak ing the round trip in sixteen days and four hours, whioh is by far the beat time on reoord. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company, held in San Franoisoo. Rn- doph Spreoklea submitted an interest ing report, it snowed there is every promise that the world produot of sugar this year will be 1,000,000 tona short of the supply of several years past, whioh explained why augar ia selling for 4,' oents a pound against 8 oents last year. The estimated profits of the oompany on this year'a yield is upward of $500,000. Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of Cape Colony, has cabled to the govern ment the details of the massacre of white men in Inyati, in Matabeleland, inoluding Messrs. Handley, Cass and Buford. Assistant Commissioner Gra ham waa murdered by the Matabelea at Inyati March 87. A general attack upon the whites followed, and they were entirely outnumbered and almost overwhelmed, being unable to make any effective stand against the rush of the native warriors. teotorate all of Central America. President Crespo in his oongratula tions to President Diaz, declares that Venezuela sustains the plan of a Latin-American union in defense' oi territorial integrity. The president of Chile says that if the plan did not conoeal the hidden purpose of the United States, and was not aimed at any particular nation, it was worthy of commendation. Chile would be glad to send delegates to a conferenoe, but would prefer that the United States have no represenation therein. The government oontinues to reoeive by telegraph communications on the bold stand taken by Diaz in support of the amplified Monroe dootrine, and making it international law in the new world. Caa Hundred Whites Murdered. London, April 7.-A Time dispatch from Cape Town says it is known that 100 whites have been killed in the Matabele uprising and feared that the number will reaoh 300. A private telegram from Buluwayo says they have plenty of arms, ammunitions and provisiouns for three months. The Johannesbnrgers are equipping a force from Bnlnwayo, but it is stated the feeling in Rhodesia is to decline Johan nesburg's assistance. The wires are interrupted and there ia no news from Hon. Cecil Rhodes. A Pretoria dis patch saya: " Colonel Rhodes has offered increased bail if he might be allowed to go to Buluwayo, but permission was refused. The British government has intimated to President Kroger that the uneasiness will probably last until he decides about going to England. " a, togetner with all correspondence 1805 for the avowed Dnrno nf trZ v i . . f r "" le. The Cabello, was elected as a business man-on the with foreign governmenta relating to Venezuela from Spanish rule Republican ticket, to give a business the same topic. Hitt stated that his party was oanntred t Pn,!I n administration. When he took office committee had nnanimnn.i JL7 ?!v?vV?ntred ftt Pn.ret0 c The oommittee had nnanimom.lv rannrta 'on , u """"e"' place, over- the resolution. The sundry rivif hiU ZZZ" UV MflU the rush of people for whelmed him, and he saya in his resignation that he would rather be suooeeded by a good mqn immediately remainder of the session, than to hold on longer and split the term of offloe. Judge Wood is a prom inent and well-known citizen, a Re publican, and well versed in publio affairs. w mm innn iniran nn onn rfava nnA i," i ? ... -- r -w"tm u- renpe. miranda esoaned and anh.a. oiner winay war, whioh consumed the ouently took rmrt si Z asueia aeoiaration of inrinnsi Anna Washington, April 6. The honse The ooUmn is to be erected at Pnartn . - n.i.ii ... . - today revived . the agitation of the Cn- aDelIi tne point where the Ameri- A Georgia Tragedy. Tolboton, Ga., April 8. Miss Sallie Emma Owen was shot and instantly killed last night in the parlor of J. H. MoCoy'a residenoe, by W. L. Ryder, a dentist A. Bersons. a candidate for oongress, was standing beside Miss Owen. He was shot at, but reoeived only a flesh wound. It is presumed Miss Owen refused to marry Ryder. Miss Owen was a graduate of the Wes leyan female college, and belonged to one of the wealthiest families and most aristocratic set in Georgia. Ryder was captured a few miles from town. He bad made an unsuccessful attempt at auioide by cutting hia throat The Mississippi and its tributaries drain an area of J, 000, 000 square miles. Struck a Rich Pocket. ban Franoisoo, April 7. The great est strike made in a gold mine in Cali fornia for years is reported to have been made in the Rawhide mine in Tuo lumne oounty recently. The sample assay from $15,000 to $30,000 a ton. It is said that the ore in sight oontains $600,000, Three Miners Killed. Ward, Cola, April 6. A terrible explosion occurred about noon todaay in the Giles mine, about one and one- quarter miles from this oity in which three men were instantly killed and two others badly hurt When the men went to work this afternoon, they took about fifty pounds of giant powder down in the mine with them, and shortly after they reached the bottom of the shaft and went ta work the powder in some unknown way explod ed. This is the fourth fatal explosion in the Giles mine. Not much damage was done to the mine. Mill Boiler Exploded. Ridgetown, Ontario, April 8. At Watson Broa.' mill today a terrible boiler explosion tore the building to fragmenta. The bodies of two men have been taken from the ruina. It ia believed other are buried there. One man waa fatally and several seriously injured. ban belligerency question in connec tion with the oonferenoe report on the Cuban resolutions. It was not ex pected that there (would be much de bate, but Boutelle, by his vigorous opposition, prevented aotion today. Hitt, ohairman of the foreign affairs oomimttee, in presenting the confer ence report, made a very temperate peecn, in tne course oi which he ex pressed tne greatest confidence that the president, although the resolutions being concurrent, had no binding effect on the executive, would not "be so recreant to bis dnty as to disregard the expressed wish of oongress." He, in fact, refused to entertain the suggestion 4.1 X B7 a-t 1 00 mat mz. Cleveland might not reoog ntze the belligerency of the Cubans aa a result oi the adoption of the resolu tions. cans were oaptured. Tha nnraiiin the column is to be made on July 4. KENTUCKY CLOUDBURST. Sixteen In a waanington, April 8. The honaa today adopted the oonferenoe report on we vuoan resolutions by a vote of Hi to 27, and passed the river and harbor appropriations Dill under a snsDension of the rules. After a lively debate of lorry minutes, Dy a vote of 216 to -40 The report on the Cuban reanlntinnl had been debated previously and the vote today was taken immediately after the reading of the journaL Eighteen Republicans and nine Democrats vntaH against the report After the most de- rauiiuou cuurta ui UOH ODnnaaH t .1 . . n v ma reoogniuon oi the insurgents in tha acuaw iua nouse, mere were but ten mum tumjb against the renort against ma original resolutions. The luimer tow wis 463 to 17. By its SC- uoa woay. tne nouse agreed to the sen ate resolutions, and disposed of the Cuban question for the present The Irtish river in Siberia, is 1,200 miles in length and drains 600 000 miles of territory. People Lost Their Lives Disastrous Flood. Booneville. Kv.. Am-ii a a ij burst on Little Sexton and Rnffaln oreeks is reported, which did great damage to property. It is thought that iwunB were drowned. Sexton creek rises near Burning Springs and is one of the feeders of the south fork of the Kentucky river. It flows in some places through deep gorges. Through these gorges the stream rushes when in flood tide, with the speed of a racehorse, and, tnking the bottom lands below spreads out with wonderful rapidity. People little thotioht w ' i. would rise so ranidlv nr o. vi. ihe cloudburst occurred nn in e wate' fevered in a mo ment, .nd the wild flood poured down ln a SOlld Wall. namn- J . . ia it" Path. Five people ZTa" bT 019 Sexto Buffalo creek is an v.. , Z i nna" than to UU Sexton, d in its flood. ,fter th. vMt "r": nsarebelievedtohavelceVthei; uvea, A treat min . . . knocka It . M' nd Piir knked the cabin, and outbuilding to Seveat, Insurgents to Be Shot. '!VbD87 "rioua part, of Havana province, and death iwnl , wars ro- oently passed on seventy captured in wgento, who will aoon behot The nn-tniafc. i. . . . lika a . 100S tne a minUture flower garden.