Oregon City Goarier.
A. T. CIIKIT, PablUher.
OREGON CITY ....OREGON
IWS OF THE WEEK
."Intretlng Collection of Current Eventf
In Condensed Form From
ltoth Continents
The celebration in honor of Oregon's
martyred missionary, Dr. Marcus Whit
man, was begun in Walla Walla.Wash.,
Monday. Large crowds were in attend
ance. The opening address was made
by Rev. L. H. Hallock. A monument
is to be ereoted over the grave of Dr.
Whitman.
Senator Lodge, of the committee on
foreign relations, was at the state de
partment early in the week. He would
eay nothing about the Cuban situation
except that the committee had accom
plished a great deal. The first business
would be to confirm the annexation of
Hawaii, which would bo done by rati
fying the treaty, or by legislation.
Ex-Senator Corbett and wife of, Ore
gon, have arrived in Washington for
the session. Tho Post, of that city,
says that the committee on elections
will hold a meeting the first week ol
the session and report favorably on Con
bett's case, and that party lines will
not be be sharply drawn, which will
mean that Corbett would get his seat.
Asphyxiation caused the death of
three men in the Grand Trunk railway
tunnel at Port Huron, Mich. The
train which was being hauled through
to the Canadian side, broke in two.
The engine backed down to get the de
tached portion of the train, but for
hours nothing was heard ot the crew.
Finally a searching party found the
dead bodies, and also rosouod two brake
men, in an unconscious condition.
Three members of the searching party
were also overcome, but were rescued
by another party. The tunnel gal
arises from the hard ooal used by tha
locomotives.
Colonel Domville, M. P., who went
north in the interest of the Klonkide
Yukon Stewart Company, of London,
ays his company will build a wagon
road through White pass, placing steel
bridges over the canyons. Work is to
commence immediately, and the road
is to be ready by February. They will
build steamers to run from Lake Bon
nett to White Horse rapids, around
which they will have a tramway.
From the end of this trawmay they will
have steamers to run direot to Dawson.
These steamers, he says, will be ready
when the river opens. The wagon road
through White pass is to be followed
immediately by a railway.
One of the bills that will be pushed
in the coming session of oougress ii
that introduood by Representative Sha
froth, of Colorado, which provides for
changing the time when congress shall
meet. It is a very sensible bill, and
ought to be paused. The first session
of congress after an election would he
in the January following the election
in November. This session could last
as long ns would be necessary. The
oongresi elected in November could
legislate before another election was on
hand. The second session could meet
in December previous to the coming
congressional election, and the congress,
would expire before the election took
place. As tho matter now stands tha
first session of congress is given over to
)Mlitics by representatives who wish to
bo re-elected. Tho short session if
often a discredited and defeated con
gress and oftentimes enacts very bad
legislation because it will not bo called
to account before the people, Pos
aibly, Mr. Shufroth's bill will get a
hearing, though such reforms as thil
move very slowly.
Postmaster-General Gary is receiving
many letters regarding tho postal-savings
bank proposition strongly urged
by him in his annual rort.
The great trial of Arroyo's murder
er is over, at the City of Mexico, hav
ing terminated with the sentence ol
death pronounced on 10 of the police
officers and policemen concerned in (he
butchery of the hapless wretch whose
audacious attempt on the presidunt'i
life caused so profound a sensation
there. The jury was out over seven
hours.
One of the most important feature
of the Hchring sea negotiations not
heretofore disclosed is that in tho event
that Grout llritain and Canada consent
to a suspension of pelagic sealing for
one year, the United States for tho
ame time will agree to a suspension
of all taking of seals for one year on
PribylofT islands, constituting the
American seal possessions in liehring
aea.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
who wan consul-general to Mexico
under tho tact Cleveland administra
tion, announces that he will leave
Kansas City next week for San An
tonio, Tex., where he will be joined by
W. J. lliyan and Mrs. Bryan, and that
the three will depart from San Antonio
on a week's tour of Mexico. Aided hy
tho ex-consul's knowledge of the people
and country, Mr. Bryan will make a
careful study of Mexico' tlnanoial sys
tem. The discovery of many children
of very little if any Indian blood in the
government boarding schools through
out tho country, leads to the recom
mendation hy the superintendent of
Indian schools that, inasmuch as there
otMiia to be no remedy underlying ex
isting laws, it is imperative in the in
terests of justice to both races that con
Kress should early indicate by statute
what degree of blood shall constitute
Indian, and to what extent adopted In
dians shall be entitled to goernmeutal
support, in matters ol education,
SWEPT BY THE GALfc.
A Fearful Storm Raging Off the Eng
lish Cuaat.
London, Dec. 1. The gale which
swept the English coast yesterday, do
ing great damage at many places, raged
all night. In many places it was
almost cyclonic in its violence, and the
long list of disasters includes a large
loss of life, many wrecks of large ves
sels and the loss of scores, if not hun
dreds of smaller craft, with serious
damage to property ashore at many im
portant towns.
At Norfolk, Bacton and Ilappisburg
five vessels, as yet unidentified, went
down and the crews of all perished.
A numqer of bodies have been washed
ashore near Yarmouth. The brig
Rugby was wrecked off Hemsby. The
coast guard made desperate efforts to
save the orew, and succeeded in getting
a line on board. A dying woman was
"rocketed" in safety, and then the brig
capsized, all the rest of the ship's com
pany perishing.
A large steam collier dashed upon
Flamborough head, the famous prom
ontory on the North sea coast, floated
off, and then foundered, with all on
board.
A steamer not identified was wrecked
on the Birdloiigton sands, with her
entire company.
Last evening the steamer Rose of
Devon went on the rocks near Red
Ruth, Cornwall, where she pounded all
night long, her crew of 12 perishing.
This morning the bodies of the captain
and seamen, all wearing lifebelts, were
washed ashore.
The British ehip Larnlca, Captain
Burgess, was driven ashore near Fleet
wood, at the entrance of Moretown bay,
about 18 miles northwest of Preston.
The crew were saved, but the position
of the vessel is dangerous. She left St.
Johns, N. B., November 1, for Fleet
wood. Phenomenally high tides are reported
in many localities. The distriot near
the mouth of the Thames has suffered
severely, several townships being partly
submerged. The Sherness dockyard
and the Woolwich arsenal were inun
dated. Scarcely a vestige remains in Bight of
Lord Nelson's old flagship, theFoudroy
ant, long fast in the sands of Blackpool.
There is a lot of wreckage near the
Goodwin sands.
Immense damage has been done to
government property at Sherness dock
yard and the Woolwich arsenal. Sev
eral thousand troops were hurriedly
ordered out today to remove thousands
of pounds' worth of ammunition and
stores from the wharves and sheds to
places of safety. The tide continued to
rise, and invaded some of the work
shops, quenched the engines and
stopped the electric lights. The work
men were obliged to go home, wading
knee deep.
Six vessels were wrecked between
Yarmouth and Baoton, only a few
miles apart, on the Norfolk coast, and
25 lives were lost.
The brig Vedra stranded at Bacton.
The storm lore out her masts, and when
the rocket line was fired, the crew was
unable to haul it in. Finally the line
drugged them into the surf, and three
out of seven were drowned.
Rochester and Strooil, on the Midway,
out 30 miles south of London have
suffered severely. At Rochester the
gas works ure flooded and the town is
in darknoss; the gale is now traveling
southward and traversing various parts
of the Continent. Very rough weather
is reported along the north coast of
France.
A dispatch from Liverpool says that
during the gale tho Russian ship
Nikolai, Captain Karlsen, stranded on
a treacherous bank near Formboy,
south of Southport. After fearful ex
periences her sails were jlown away
and the vessel whs so damaged as to be
uncontrollable. One of tho crew, a
man named Karlston, was swept over
board and drowned. The captain says
no ono on board slept for four days.
The vessel will probably become a
wreck.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
Kins on Lake Hteamer Extendi to
Dork, With Fearful KemlU.
Escanaba, Mich., Deo. 1. Late to
night a lire broke out on the stoamoi
Nahunta, and before it could be con
trolled it sproad to the ore docks, the
largest in the world. Two of the docks
are on tire, and the others r,j threat
ened with destruction. Two of the crew
of the steamer, whose names cannot be
learned, are known to be lost, and bcv-
j eral others injured. The steamer was
! lying at the dock loading ore. Shortly
I before midnight, the crew discovered
thut tho vessel was on (Ire. The crew
! made every effort to quench the flames,
j but a brisk wind was blowing and
spread the fire with great rapidity.
' From tho steamer the tiro spread to
Dock No. 4, which was partly loaded
with ore and lumber. The lumber was
soon a mass of flames, and from this it
spread to the next dock. The tire is
still burning fiercely. The loss will be
; fully :)00,000.
I lilted Ktatet Warim Germany, i
Berlin, Nov. 80. The state depart
ment at Washington has requested Am
bassador White to ascertain the inten-
lions of Germany with respect to the
cliuuis of Heir Luder, whose recent
imprisonment in llayti caused friction
1 between the German ami llaytian gov
ernments.
Nicaragua Canal Communion.
New York, Dee. 1. C. S. Wheeler,
...i.. ... u....u
j Ste. Marie canal, has accepted the po
sition ot chief engineer of the Nicaragua
canal commission. The expedition will
sail Sunday next, it is said.
Will KmlgraU lo Mexico.
Kansas City, Dec. 1. A special from
Muskogee. I. T., says: The Choctaws
and Creeks, who have been in council,
have determined to organize a colony
and emigrate to Mexico.
FAMINE IN DAWSON
Fear of Starvation Causes
a Stampede.
MAGEE PARTY ARRIVES SAFELY
With the Latest New From the Inter
- ior Their Hard Journey Oyer
the Dalton Trail.
Port Townsend, Nov. 80. Twenty
five men arrived here today on the City
of Seattle, direct from Dawson City.
They were divided into two parties,
the last of which left Dawson October
16. The party consisted of Thomas
Magee, sr., Thomas Magee, jr., of San
Francisco; "Swiftwater Bill" Gates,
Joe Boyle, William Huskins, E. Eckert,
H. Robertson, H. Raymond, Bert Nel
son, John W, Bratier, W. H. Cham
bers, E. W. Pond. E. Ash, J. Gillis,
Thomas Wilson, P. McGraw, Jack Dal
ton, William Leak, Arthur Celine,
Joseph Fairburn, J. Smith, T. Warren,
Jim Ferguson, and two others, whose
names could not be learned tonight.
They came out over the Dalton trail.
They are reported to have between them
$50,000 in drrfts and gold dust.
All tell stories of a food shortage in
Dawson that is almost a famine. The
last person to leave Dawson was Jack.
Dalton. When Dalton left the steam
ers Alice and Bella had reached there,
loaded light. It is said that the Bella's
cargo consisted of whisky and billiard
balls. She brought no provisions.
The Canadian mounted police char
tered the Bella and gave all who wished
free passage to Fort Yukon. The Bella
is reported to have left about October
12, with 200 men.
. According to the statements made
by members of the Dalton party, there
is liable to be trouble of the most seri
ous kind this winter in Dawson. Billy
Leak told one of the men in tho party
ahead of him at Dyea that all the peo
ple talked about at Dawson was the
food famine. Men wore gathered in
groups, and cursing might and main
the newcomers that were constantly en
tering the Klondike with scarcely any
provisions.
The mounted police were offering
free transportation to the grub piles
futher down the Yukon, but to count
less hundreds who had labored hard all
through the summer accumulating a
grubstake, the prospect was uninviting
to say the leaBt. These men figured
that it would take all their savings in
gold to pay their living expenses at
Fort Yukon during the winter, and
that in the spring they would not have
even enough gold left to pay passage
money baok to Dawson, to say nothing
of purchasing enough food to subsist
until they could get started again. To
these poor fellows the offer of the
mounted police was no better than the
prospeot at Dawson of being compelled
to winter on half rations until the sup
ply boats could reach the diggings in
the spring.
John W. Brauor, the United States
mail-darrier, who left Dawson Septem
ber 27, said:
"There is only one salvation for the
miners who are now at Dawson City,
and that is for them to undertake the
awful winter trip from Dawson to Fort
Yukon, a distance of 400 miles. There
is food ut Fort Yukon; there is none at
Dawson, and just as sure as the stars
shine, terrible suffering will be the
fate of the Dawson miner unless he
leaves there before spring. I will
make my statement conservative, and
Bay that when I left Dawson the men
who were there had on an average four
months' food supply. Some did not
have a months' supply; some had four
or five.
"The last restaurant closed the night
I left. It had been selling nothing but
beefsteak, for which the hungry paid
2.fi0.
"When tlifl people realized that no
more bouts would be up the river, they
know that starvation threatened them,
and the great stampede began. The
first to leave went to Fort Yukon. I
think there were 200 in the party that
left tho first day.
"Ono boat came up from Fort Yukon
with several newspapermen aboard,
among theui being Sam Wall and Mr.
McGillvra. They brought the news
that the Hamilton hud unloaded all of
her cargo and tried to get over the bar
light and failed in hur efforts, though
she drew but two feet of water. This
news increased the excitement, and
made the rush toward food centers all
tho greater
"September 14, with Bert Nelson, of
Seattle, I left Circle City, and started
to pole up the river to Dawson City, a
distance of 800 miles. At the time we
started from Circle City, the miners
had about all left. It took us 11 days
and three hours to make tha journey,
arriving at Dawson September 20.
Captain Hanson, with two Indians,
I who had left Fort Yukon, heat us into
Dawson by about an hour and a half.
"Hanson gathered tlio Dawson City
miners together and made a short
speech, in which ho advised all who
did not have provisions to last thorn
nil winter to eiiher get out of the
country to civilization or try and reach
points in tho Yukon count'' whero it
was known that food could be found.
"That night wan the greatest ono in
the history of Dawson City. The
miners, ns son ns they had heard tho
news, made, hasty preparations to get
out, and nightfall saw goldsoekers and
men who can today sell out for thou
sands, leaving by the hundreds for
down tho river and up the river."
Montevideo, Nov. 80. A monster
meeting of native Uruguayans and for
eigners was held in favor of the can
didacy of Senor Cuestas for the presi
dency. His opponents interfered, and
a great tumult ensued, in which several
were killed and many injured.
TO SHUT US OUT,
France Will Put High Dntlee on Certain
American OooIh.
New York, Dec. 1. The authorities
In Washington, according to the corre
spondent of the Herald, have been in
formed that France, while ostensibly
engaged in negotiations with this gov
ernment for a reciprocity treaty, is tak
ing steps to place a prohibitory tariff
upon some American products. The
state department has been notified that
a bill is pending in the legislative as
sembly of France imposing a high duty
upon certain products, which will prac
tically make that country a closed mar
ket, so. far as the United States is con
cerned. Ambassador Porter probably
will be requested to make an earnest
protest against the measure.
This bill may cause the authorties
here to go slow in negotiations for the
reciprocity agreement. The depart
ment has received no reply to its propo
sition that in exchange for a lower tariff
on French wines the French govern
ment shall remove the prohibition
against the importation of American
cattle. Unless this concession be grant
ed, the measure referred to may be de
feated and tho reciprocity negotiaitons
come to naught. Should this happen,
the French government may retaliate
by imposing the maximum tariff under
its laws upon American products which
now enter under the minimum tariff.
As those products are few, however,
the authorities are not greatly dis
turbed over the outlook.
Dr. Van Hollenben, the new Ger
man ambassador to the United States,
will be formally presented to the pres
ident tomorrow. He is expected to
make representations in regard to the
tariff. The state department is in
formed that Baron von Hollenben's in
structions contain propositions desig
nated to lead to a reciprocity arrange
ment. It is believed the United States
will require in return for any conces
sion the removal or abatement at least
of restrictions now imposed upon the
importation into Germany of American
cattle and beef.
The German government, of course,
will direot its efforts in the direction
of securing the repeal of the bounty
section of the tariff law, which clearly
aft'eots Germany's sugar interests.
Many representations on this subject.
have been made already by the Ger
man authorities. It is not likely, how
ever, that the president will recom
mend any restriction of the tariff law,
and apparently the only way in which
the German government can secure an
advantage for her industries would be
to enter into a reciprocity agreement.
Officials are speculating on the atti
tude of the agrarian interests of the
German empire and the German em
peror, who favors the agrarian party
upon their proposition to be submitted.
So far as they have gone the outlook is
not favorable.
MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS.
Frightful Mortality Among; the Cuhan
Concentrados.
New York, Dec. 1. A dispatch to
the World from Havana says: The
World's first figures of Cuba's starva
tion were timidly moderate. They
showed the deaths of only 200,000 per
sons; but every painful fact unearthed
tends to prove them nearly double that
number. When the grim returns are
all in it is now ulmost certain that this
Cuban massacre of the innocents will
reach 400,000. And this awful num
ber does not include those killed in
battle or the thousands and thousands
of women anil children who died of ex
posure, disease and massacre in the
swamps.
It now seems certain that more than
half a million people, for the most
part loyal subjects of Spain, have been
killed by the Spanish war in Cuba. A
week's trip through the provinces of
I Havana, Matanssus and Santa Clara has
I tended to make moderate this tremen
' doiiB extreme figure,
j The figures of Spanish official reports
i show but a part of the mortality. They
only give the number buried in conso
i crated ground, and they do not give
I that fully. And yet these official
ultra-Spanish reports of burial permits
I issued admit that in the province of
Santa Clara there have died and been
buried since Weyler's fiat, 71,847 per
sons. The number of people for whose ex
istence Weyler is directly responsilbe
is 155,182, in Santa Clara province.
And of these he hns killed 80,216, or
over one-half of them. Santa Clara
has so far been by far the least desti
tute of the provinces. It has many
cattle and not a very thick population.
Between it and the 53 per cent admit
ted dead in Pinar dol Rio are the prov
inces of Matauzas and Havana, with a
(10 und 70 per cent mortality respect
ively. These percentages are estab
lished by the actual figures of some 80
cities and towns Applied to the den
ser populations of their respective
provinces, the total deaths since Wey
ler's "baudo" will foot up nearly a
million..
FIlKhtof the Fat Mail.
Omaha, Neb., Dee, 1. The Union
Pacific has made a record for fast run
ning. A mail train has been shot
across the country from Cheyenne to
Council Bluffs, 619 miles,' in 699
minutes. This is the actual elapsed
time, and includes all stops. 'Engines
were changed twice and ono engineer
was relieved. All the regular stops
were made, and one extra, for an uir
Drake hose burst and had to be repaired
at the expense of over live minutes of
time.
A luirned-out bridge near Medicine
Bow,Wyo., delayed the mail five hours
and forty minutes, and the train
reached Cheyenne five hours late. It
was necessary to reach Council Bluffs
on time or pay a heavy fine to the gov
ernment. The new Chinese mint at Canton
coined mora than 14,000,000 ten-cent
pieces last year.
IAN AWFUL TRAGEDY
A Fond du Lac Indian Mur
ders Three Others.
HE WAS CAPTURED SOON AFTER
Was Crazed With Liquor Attempted to
Efface His Crime By Setting
Fire to the House.
Duluth, Nov. 29. Word has reached
here of a shocking Indian' murder that
took place on the Fond du Lac reserva
tion, 40 miles north of here. A Chip
pewa half-breed named John Anamsin,
left the reservation several days ago
and went to the town of Cloquet. Late
Tuesday he returned, crazed with lir
quor, and in a fit of drunken rage at
tacked his wife who was about to give
birth to a child. He dragged the
woman from her bed and threw her on
the floor, where he beat and kicked her
into a state of unconsciousness. The
brutal treatment caused premature la
bor, and while actually reoeiving the
blows from her husband the woman
gave birth to the child.
About the time Anamsin had fin
ished his work another Indian named
Peterson happened to be passing the
house, and hearing a noise he broke
into the room and attempted to protect
the prostrate woman. Anamsin seized
a club and turned his attention to Pet
erson, who made an effort to get out,
but before he could do so it is said An
amsin knocked him down and literally
pounded his head into a pulp.
He then took the body and threw it
into a creek near by, and returning to
the house saturated the, floor of the
room in which his wife and child lay
with kerosene and applied the match.
Then, with the evident intention of
covering up the act, he closed and
locked the door and left the house.
A number of neighboring Indians by
this time became aware that something
was wrong, ' and breaking into the
house got the woman and child out, but
tho rescuers barely escaped with their
lives. Both Mrs. Anamsin and the
child died half an hour later.
A squad of Indian police started
after Anamsin1, and caught him about
daybreak on the Cloquet road. He
showed considerable fight and in
formed the police that they could not
have him alive, thereupon one of the
police fired at him, inflicting a slight
wound. He was taken back to the res
ervation and locked up.
SAYS DURRANT IS INNOCENT.
Mlanther'a Willow Talkt of the Em
manuel Church Horror.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 29. The'
widow of Arthur Forbes, alias J. E.
Blanther, who was arrested at Merid
ian, Tex., charged with having mur
dered Mrs. Langfelt in San Francisco,
and who committed suicide in the
Bosque oounty jail, has been located in
this city. The woman goe by the
name of Ada Taylor.
She says that she married Arthur
Forbes at Little Rock, Ark., in 1892,
and that they taught in the public
schools in Bosque county in 1896.
They had some trouble, during which
Forbes shot her three times. About
that time Arthur Forbes, alias Blan
ther, was arrested, charged with murr
dering Mrs. Langfelt, and he was
lodged in jail, . where he subsequently
committed suicide by taking morphine.
Mrs. Forbes says there is no doubt as
to Forbes being the murderer of the
San Francisco woman. He often told
her he was well acquainted 'with Min
nie Williams and Blanche Lamont,
having been introduced to them by
Durrant; that he often referred to the
murders in such a manner that she was
convinced that he knew of them.
Mrs. Taylor savs that one of her
trunks is still in San Francisco, where
it was used in evidence during Dnr
rant's trial. She today wired Durrant
as follows:
"Have courage; I believe yon to be
an innocent man; if I can help to
prove your innocence command me."
Sailed With a Pirate.
San Francisco, Nov. 29. A story
from Honolulu has caused anxiety
among the friends of 16 young men
who recently sailed from this port on
the schooner Sophia Sutherland in
search of treasure on the Solomon
islands. (
The trading master of the little
craft, now presumably cruising in the
South, is Captain Sorenson, who, ac
cording to ex-Consul' Phurohill, of
Apia, Samoa, has a black record as a
pirate ami despoiler of the natives of
the islands in the Central Pacific.
When t lie Sutherland reached Apia
she was subjected to a searching in
quiry, and Sorenson was identified as
tl.e man who had led a similar expedi
tion from Melbourne on the schooner
Albert, which he soon transformed
into a regular pirate. In 1884 he was
captured by the British man-of-war
Dart, and sent ta prison for 10 years.
Since then he has not been heard from,
but now ho is in virtual command of a
company of Californians who put faith
in his stories of the fabulous wealth of
the Solomon islands.
Switzerland is the land of univer
sities. London, Nov. 29. A letter received
here from Georgetown, British
Guiana, announces that Great Britain's
legal experts have unearthed in tho co
lonial archives there a series of vol
umes containing memorandum giving
the running history of the Dutch set
tlement of Guiana from the middle to
near the close of the 17th century,
fully confirming the British boundary
claims. It is claimed the discovery
clears the question, and will greatly
facilitate the work of the arbitrators.
APPALLING DISASTER.
I Tornado In the Philippines Swept Thou.
sandg to Death.
San Francisco, Nov. 80. The ty
phoon which swept over the Philippine
islands, October 6, caused one of the
worst disasters reported from the south
ern ocean in many years, if not in the
history of that section of the world.
Thousands of lives were lost, includ
ing many Europeans, and the damage
to property was something appalling.
Telegrnphio advices concerning the
calamity have been very meager The
difficulty of getting news from the
islands is great at any time, and, ow
ing to the remoteness of some, prov
inces visited by the hurricane, full de
tails of the storm did not reach Hong
Kong until November 1.
The steamer Gaelic, from the Orient,
today brought letters and papers which
tiontain accounts of the ravages of tho
tidal wave and wind. Whole towns
we7e swept or blown away. Fully 500
Europeans were killed, nnd it is esti
mated that 6,000 natives perished.
The storm firet struck the islands at
the Bay of Santa Paula, in the prov
ince of Samar. It devastated the entire
outhern portion of the island.
On the 32th, a hurricane reached
Leyte, and struck the capital, Taolo
ban, with great fury.
In less than half an hour tho town
was a mass of ruins. The natives were
panic-stricken. Four hundred of them
were buried beneath the debris of
wrecked buildings, and 120 corpses of
Europeans were recovered from the
ruins when the native authorities in
stituted a search for the dead.
Reports from tho southern coast were
received which clnimed that a score of
small trading vessels and two Sydney
traders were blowD ashore and their
crews drowned.
The sea swept inland nearly a mile,
destroying property valued at several
million dollars, and causing wholesale
deaths among the natives.
VICTIM OF CANNIBALS.
Fate of Two Washlngtoniant in Congo
Free State.
Washington, Nov. 60. A startling
and horrible story of tho killing of two
Wushingtonians.and the mutilation of
the bodies by natives of the Congo Free
State has just been received here in a
letter to Leo Harnian, of this city. The
men were members of a party which,
during November and Deoember, 1894,
went from this city to enlist in the
Belgian army, for service in the Con
go. The party included Lindsay
Burke, Frank Batohelor, Barry R. An
drews, Harry Sparlin and a Mr. Mel
lin, who was at one time a noncommis
sioned officer of the United States
army. All except Tin. rnton and Mel
lin were members of the National
Guard of this district.
The information received is that Mr.
Burke and a party of 50 natives, who
were sent out in December, 1896, to
dislodge a band of natives who revolt
ed, were ambushed and killed. ) An
Arab, who was with the command, but
was some distance off at the time of
the ambush, states that Burke was
dead before the natives reached him,
and that the most hideous looking lit
tle men he ever saw walked up and cut
Burke's head off with one blow of a
knife. The chief then bogan to slice
pieces of his legs and arms and to dis
tribute them among his followers.
There were so many of the natives that
the pieces were very small, and before
they had concluded, there was a fight
to see who would get the remainder.
The natives then left, ono carrying off
Burke's arm.
Windeye, a New Yorker, who had
command of another detachment of sol
diers sent out on the same errand, ar
rived a few hours after the natives left.
Windeye gathered up the remains of
Burke, and buried them. When ho
learned the strength of tho rebels, ho
hurried back; to Minnas and notified
the commandant of the post.
The other Washingtonian who lost
his life was killed March 1, when the
troops, under the oommaud of Baron
Dhanis, revolted near Kabanbarre, and
assassinated a number of officers of
their regiment, among them being
"lellin. The body of Mellin was but
jnered beyond recognition. His heart
was cut out and burned.
The situation is said to be precari
ous, and a relief expedition has been
lent to the rescue. Mr tioa nnnthnr
! Anmrinun. ia vurv cinlr at Vunnina
Will Accept Alii From America.
Washington, Nov. 80. In conse
! quonce of the widespread destitution
j smong the people who have been con
centrated at certain points in Cuba, the
' Covernor-general of the island has In
; formed Consul-General Lee that United
I States citizens who desire to send sup-
plies to the poor and needy in Cuba
should send them to the Catholic bish
ops at the nearest- point of collection,
ind these prelates would in tnrn con
sign whatever might be sent to the
bishops of the island at Havana and
(Santiago de Cuba for distribution.
I
Fatal Holler Exnlnnlon.
j Halifax, N. S., Nov. 80. The cxplo
ion of a boiler at the Gold Lake mines,
I East Halifax, caused the death of tho
manager of the mine, Daniel Phail,
1 and James Hennessey and John Mc-
i Isaac, their bodies being terribly torn
by flying wreckage of the boiler.
Hennessey and Mclsaac were testing
the boiler.
Smallpox in Mexlro.
Denver, Nov. 80. A special to the
News from Santa Fe.. N. M.. savs: A
I visitor from San Marchal states that an
i ppidemio of smallpox exists among tho
j Mexican residents there. The matter
, has been kept very quiet and the atten-
tion of the territorial board of health
has not yet been called.
Eighteen persons live in a one-room
jhanty, 16x24 feet, in the town of
Woodstock Vt, not far from th
Bridgewata? '-in.