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OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. V.CHENEY Publish I B ft, III tCComprehenslve Kevlew of the Import ant Happening of the fait Week i Culled From the Telegraph Columns. The British government favors the canal being built by the UnituJ States -with guarantees of its neutrality in case of war. A crisis is Imminent at Berlin, The emperor and ohunoellor cannot agree, and a new cabinet is looked for. The principal trouble is over the wholesale expulsions of Danes and Auetriuns. f , The new year brings Ireland the greatest experiment since Catholio emancipation, namely, the initiation of the local government act, whioh really, in many of its features, is an extension of the emancipation acts and policy. The war department has come to the conclusion that it will be necessary to accord General Brooke, military gover nor of Cuba, the assistance of a speoial cabinet approaching in fnnotions the late autonomist cabinet of Cuban ad ministration of the civil affairs of the island. The situation at Iloilo is pravo. Fif teen hundred natives, fully armed, ere at Melo, a suburb of Iloilo. Seven teen thousand more, it is reported, are awaiting orders to embark nt several points on the island of Negros, 15 hours' sail from Iloilo. All the women have withdrawn, and many families bave taken refuge with the Americans. Unless congress should' pass a law authorizing him to remain on the ac tive list, Bear-Admiral Dewey will be placed on the retired list on December '80, '1899. Only one other retirement will occur this year, that of Commo dore II. L. Ilowison, now commandant of the Boston navy-yard. There is a strong sentimont in naval circles in favor of the passage of a law which will permit the retention of Admiral Dewey upon the active list for 10 years, as was done in the case of heroes of the civil war. I The American line steamship Paiis, wbioh has ariived in New York from Southampton, after a tempestuous pas sage, reports that Tuesday, December 27, in latitude 49:29 north, and longi tude 81:29 west, at 83:0 in the morning, she sighted a steamer flying signals of distress. She pioved to be the British tank steamer Vindobnla, Captain Clark, from Rouen, Franoe, December 25, for Philadelphia, in ballast. She bowed the sigiiHl letters, "Must aban don vessel." The Paris rescued her Crew, and no lives were lost. ! Only about f 400 worth of property was recovered (rum the wreck of the Maria Teresa. ' Gold shipmonts from Australia for the year 1898 amounted 13,820,000. Shipments to Ameiiua iuoroused by 2,000,000. A deficit in tlio Gorman beet sugar Crop of at least 1160,000 tons is figuied upon by United States Consul Diedrich, at Madgebuig. He says that the back ward season resulted in a deficiency. Negotiations nie progressing in the matter of the payment of tho Cuban troops, so that on laying down their arms they may bo enabled to enter apon civil pursuits and earn . their living. Probably no further appropiia tion by congress will be necessary to enable the president to carry out the plan, if it should be decided, as tho mouey will eventually oome out of the revenues of the island. Immediately upon the ratification of the peace treaty by the senate, the president will recommend to congioss the enaotment of legislation looking to the settlement of tho claims of Ameri can citizens for damages sustained in Cuba, Poito Rico and other Spanish possessions which formed the seat of war. Claims to the amount of t'iO, 000,000 on this score have already boen lodged with the stato department. Near Austin, Tox., a passenger train iDscaped a serious wreck through tho in tervention of a bird. Some one had tied a rail securely across the truck, A few miles before teaching the spot a bird, blinded by tho headlight, flow against tho glass, breaking and extin guishing the light, which necessitated running slowly to the next station. The train, at reduced speed, struck the obstruction, tearing up tho Hack and damaging the front of the engine, but so one was injured. Part of Rod Rock mountain, accord ing to a dispatch from Airolo, a village Of SwiUortund, canton of Tioino, has. fallen Into Airolo, destroying a hotel and several houses. The scene of tho disaster piesonts a torriblo speotuclo, the dobiis of the nvalnnohe covering a iqnare mile. The hotel, with eight houses and 12 other buildings, woie awept into a great heap of matchwood. A new terror was added by tho outbreak of tire amid tho ruins. Thiee dead bodies have boen reooveied. It is esti mated that tho damage will reach f0,000. Minor Nowa Items. Sebastian Bach Mills, tho well known composer and pianist, dieii in Wiosbadeu, Uumiuny, aged 00 years. Tho preliminary report of the Nica tagua canal commission shows that it will require about fl35.000.000 to build tho oanul. Encouraging reports of the condition cf affairs iu Manila and Porto Rico reached the war department from the officers commauJing tho troops lu those departments. Later news.- The monthly statement of the re ceipts and expenditures of the United States shows that the total receipts for December were 141,404,798, as com pared with 159,640,098 for December, 1897. , General Maximo Gomes, from his camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar ciso, has issued a proclamation to the Cuban army advising against disband ing until the proceedings at Washing ton regarding the pay of the insurgent troops have been completed. By the purchase of a large block of stock of the Calbarion railway, in Cuba, L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing English capitalists, have secured a con trolling interest in that line. The same men have also been large pur chasers of the stocks of Snguaand Cien fuegos companies. The monthly treasury statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business, December 81, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to fl, 129,176,286, an increase during the month of $1,702,799. This increase is due to the delivery of 3 per cent bonds of the new issue, previously paid for. At Evansville, InJ., Minor Garrett. Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank Curl and William Morris, boys ranging in age from 10 to 12 years, were given a publio whipping in the police court for stealing some old wash boilers. Their parents were given the option by Judge Winfrey of whipping the boys or having them sent to the reform school. Governor Roosevelt, Greater New York's new exeuotive, has estalbished a code of rules to govern his considera tion and determination of applications for pardons and commutations of sen tence. He will not exercise executive oleniency in behalf of a man who has been convicted of murdering or abusing his vite, nor will he pardon any hab itual criminal. His mercy will be shown only to those whose sentenoe seems to have been severe or whose commission of a crime was the result of influence, A most remarkable wedding has taken place at the village of Trail, O., four brothers being married to four sis ters. The four knots were tied at the home of the brides, who are the daugh ters of a farmer named James Hooh stetter. Their ages range from 18 to 28, and the ages of their respective huBabnds vary only slightly. The grooms are four sons of John Summers. The ceremony of marying.the four couples ocoupied almost an hour, the same clergyman performing all. The four brothers and their wives will live within a stone's throw of each other.' A dispatch from Rome says a mob of 4,000 people had assaulted an internal revenue sentry box, and stoned the gendarmes around Nisoemi, . Sicily, as a protest against ex loinmunicatiou. A number of persons were wounded. John Wellmer, of Lafayette, Niool lett county, Minn, was shot in the head, and hip by two tramps, to whom he had given shelter. Thoy bound Mrs. Wellmer to a lounge with a clothes line and esoaped with Wellmer's team. The grip, and the ailments attendant upon it, that are now included in its train of ills, have piostrated an unus ual number of residents of Washington, D. C. An observant pharmacist esti mates that 10 per cent of the District's population is suffering in one way or another from the new generic grip. The governor's office at the state house in Springfield, 111., was entered by parties unknown and $580 stolen from a drawer, Tiie crime is sai round ed iu mystery, as all floors of the build ing are guarded by watchmen. The theft was discovered by Colonel J. M. Tanner and an investigation is pend ing. One of tho most notable celebra tionis in the history of Amerioan col leges was in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Transylvania uni versity, at Lexington, Ky. It was no table on account of its many famous alumni, including Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states, and Justice Harlan, of the supreme court of the United States, scores of con gressmen and men prominent in publio life. King Charles has opened the oortes gerures at Lisbon. In the oourse of his speech from the throne, King Charles said that during tiie war between the United States and Spain, two friendly nations, Poitugul prool aimed, and, as was her duty, maintained strict and absolute neutrality. His majesty said he greatly sympathized with the czar's disarmament proposals, and made a reference to the colonies whioh appar ently disposes of the rumors of tho sale of Dulagoa bay. In Chuna the Yellow rivor floods have destroyed the crops, and famine has resulted. Thousands of natives are starving. Thousands of hungry and ragged refugees are moving down tho river in boats, only to find the walls of tho citios lower down closed against the starving hordes. The gov ernment appropriated 800,000 tnols for their relief, but less than one-fifth has been distributed. It is olaimed dis honest officials have pocketed the bal ance. A relief fund has been started at Shanghai. Rev. D. Craig Patter son, of the Chian Kian missiou, appeals to American friends for aid. Mrs. John Quark, aged 100 years, died at her home ueir Galena, I1L Lieutenant Commander Sumner C Payne, United States uavy, retired, died iu Ashville, N. C, James McDonald, aged 102, a iesi dent of Chippewa Falls, Wis., died at St. Joseph's hospital, Milwaukee, A Pittstmig company has received a contract from the United States govern ment to re-equip Morro oastlo in Hay. sua. IB PROTECTION If Foundered in a Gale Off Tillamook Rock.- ONLY ONE MAN WAS DROWNED Survivor! ricked Up 1T British Ship Galgate and Brought to Astoria Vessel Wat Loaded With Coal. Asoria, Or., Jan. 5. The steam schooner Protection, from Seattle, with a cargo of coal for San Francisco, foun dered and sank off Tillamook rock on the evening of December 81. But one man was lost, and he lost his life in an attempt to lower a boat after it had been determined to'abandon the vessel. . The Proteotion, with a full cargo of coal, including a heavy deckload, left Seattle Thursday, December 29,. at 2 o'clock. While the vessel was heavily lac' en, she made fair time, and at 5 o'olock on the morning of December SO was off Cape Flattery. During that day the wind was light, but there was a heavy westerly swell that seemed to strain the vessel, but it was not until the morning of the 31st, when the Protection encountered the southeast gale that had been predicted on shore, that she began to make more water than usual. Chief Engineer George II. Morse notified Captain Erickson that it was necessary to use steam to work the pumps, and the vessel was partially slowed down to use the steam on them. Captain Eriokson then had all the available men on board throw the deokload overboard, but the water kept gaining. It was not until late that afternoon that the necessity of taking to the boats became evident, and at the time it was blowing a southeast gale. When Second Assistant Engineer Ed Benson finally left the engine-room to run off the last cooks the water was up to his chin. Then captain Erickson called all hands together and told them that the boats were their only oalvation. He divided tho entire crew of 15 be tween himself and First Officer J. il. Giiffin, to go in the two boats. In lowering one of the boats, First Engineer Carver was knocked overboard and sank almost immediately.. Assist ance was impossible. The boats were lowered, and, under instructions from Captain Erickson, both stood by the Protection for a time, until she was seen to take a deep star board list and get deep in the water at the stern, but she was not seen to ac tually disappear. As near as can be figured, this was about 30 miles off Tillamook rock. This estimate of the survivors, however, is very uncertain. The boatB soon separated, and neither knew the whereabouts of the other, and it was a bitter night.. New Year's morning broke with their boats tossing in the face of almost certain death. In the afternoon, 20 hours after leaving the vessel, the boat of Captain Erick son sighted a ship and headed towards it. From the ship the boat was soon sighted, and the occupants were pioked up and safely landed on board. The first thing that Captain Erickson did on going aboard was to tell the master that his first officer's boat waa in the neighborhood with seven men aboard. The rescuing vessel proved to be the British ship Galgate, from Sun Fran cisco for the Columbia river, and as Boon aa her master heard that there was another boat of shipwrecked men near by, he sent a man aloft, who soon reported them in sight and headed to ward tho ship. The vessel was then backed and filled, and awaited their coming, and without an aocident they were taken on board. What was done to them is best told by the survivors. Without exception, when asked about their experiences, they first told of tho kindness of Cap tain Griffiths, of the Galgate, and his offioeis and orew. After 20 hours in the open boats they were almost dead from cold and exposure. They were stripped, rubbed, placed in warm cloth ing and then given something warm to drink and eat, and made as comfortable as it was possible. They are now here, being hospitably entertained, but their future movements lias not been detei mined upon. Not one ia injured, and all are in good health. First Assistant Engineei Carver.who was drowned, signed with the Protec tion in Seattle, and little is known of him by tho crew, except that he was an English engineer, who but recently ie covered his American papers. The first thing that Captain Erickson did upon reaching Astoiia was to re port the circumstances of the wreck to the oollector of the port and explain that in tho haste of leaving tho vessel his papers were lost. The Protection was a steam schooner, about 400 tons buiden, and was en gaged iu running between coast ports and San Francisco by tho J. S. Kim ball Company. Estimates for New Warships. Washington, Jan. 8. Secretary Long has completed detailed estimates for congress for the 15 new warships he recommended to be constructed iu his annual report. The figures are for armament and armoi for all the ships, (14,168,400, and for construction and engineering, $36,100,00. Orders to the Oregon, Washington, Jan. 8. Secretary Long cabled orders today to tho Oregon, at Callao, to pioeeed to Honolulu, taking the distilling ship Iris with her. Tho Iowa was ordered to San Fiancisco to make repairs to her boilers and replace a broken cylinder head. With her will go the supply ship Celtic and tho col liers Scandia and Justin. Tho Oregon will get orders at Honolulu to proceed to Manila, if the situation does not change in the meantime. The gunboat Custiue bus also beeu ordered to Manila, WORKS SMOOTHLY. Cubans Well Pleased With American Kule at Havana. ' New York, Jan. 5 -A dispatch to the Tribune from Havana says: American rule in Cuba works smoothly Generals Brooke and Ludlow are begin ning the reorganization of the civil ad ministration satisfactorily. The Cu bans are well pleased. Part of tho Spaniards are sullen, but tho commer cial classes are satisfied with the new regime. The understanding is that no mem bers of the former autonomist cabinet are to be included in General Brooke's proposed council of advisors. They are all unpopular, and lack confidence of both elements. Civil Governor de Castro, by order of the military authorities, has abol ished the use of passports and of stamped paper in the government office. They were annoyances. Prompt steps have also been taken for improving the section of hygiene. The chief interest on Monday cen-' tered at the custom-house. Colonel Bliss was assisted by the treasury ex pert, Mr. Donaldson, wbo will be in charge at Santiago. The merohants had prepared for a change. Since noon on Sunday 15 vessels had entered the harbor with cargoes, for discharge un der the American tariff. The first vessel was the Norwegian sohooner Kitty, from Mobile, with general mer chandise. A Spanish ship, the Mexi co, of Barcelona, arrived in ballast. Among Monday's arrivals was the Seg uranoa, from New York, with merchan dise. American shippers seem to have improved their opportunities. Some confusion resulted, as no tariff rates had been translated into Spanish. That deficiency will soon be corrected. The importers had secured Amerioan money with whioh to pay duties. The postoffice service for the oity and foreign mail shows improvement. The confusion still is due to inefficient em ployes. The demoralization in the' island service cannot be remedied im mediately. Chief Director Rathburne'a first order after taking charge was to abolish the franking privilege, which has beeu grossly abused. A mistake made in Washington in printing 2-cent stamps for Amerioan correspondence has been remedied by selling the stamps for two cents. The police service is being slowly or ganized. No general disorder exists. Two or three homicides during the last two days lae been of the ordinary kind, and have had no significance. Cubans and Spaniards are getting along together pretty well. Some fears of social demoralization, of which Ameri cans complain, will be correoted when the polioe organization is more ad vanced. The military authorities do not want to use troops for duty of this kind. INDIAN MASSACRE IMMINENT. Chllkats ac Pyramid Harbor, Alaska, Terrorising the Whites. Tacoam, Wash., Jan. 5. Passengers who arrived On the Al-Ki from Alaska some of whom left Dawson as late as December 8, report, that the Chilcat In dians are terrorizing the white inhabi tants of Pyramid harbor, near Skag way, and have threatened to massacre them. The night before Christmas whites appeared at the Chilcat village with a big supply of whisky, which was sold to the Indians without reserve. The entire tribe got drunk Christmas, and with knives and guns compelled all the whites in that locality to leave. When the Al-Ki left Skagwuy no blood ha:l been shed, but trouble was imminent. On reaching Indian river the miners where informed that two men, names unknown, had frozen to death on the Yukon between Fort Selkirk and Daw son. They were guarding a scow load ol frozen dressed beef, and perished one exceptionally cold night in November. Several tons of mail for Dawson are blocked at Lake Bennett, awaiting ice transportation. The winter has been so open that Lake Bennett remained unfrozen up to December 23. In October speculators cornered the butter and tobacco market at Dawson, and since then both articles have been bringing from $2 to $3 a pound. WILL BE MUSTERED OUT. Sixteen Thousand Soldiers on the List Which Was Decided On. Washington, Jan. 6. Seoietaiy Al ger today made publio a partial list of the regiments and other organizations which, as a result of the signing of the Paris peace treaty, it has been decided to muster out of the service. Tho list includes 12 full regiments and two in dependent companies and three heavy batteries of artillery, approximating 10,000 or more men, which, with their present location, are as follows: In Alabama, Sixty-ninth New York, Third Florida, boih at lluutsville; Third Tennessoe, at Anniston. In Georgia, companies A and B, In diana colored infantry, at Chicka mauga; Third North Carolina and Sixth Virginia, at Maoon; Third New Jersey and Fifteenth Pennsylvania, at Athens. In South Carolina, South Carolina heavy battery, at Sullivan's island; Fourth Missouri, at Greensville; Seo ond Tennessee, at Columbia; Ninth Ohio, at Summerville. In Texas, Third Texas, at Fort Clark. In California, Eighth California, at Benicia barracks; heavy butteries B and C, California artilleiy. Chinese Imprison Catholics. Cologne, Jan. 8. The Volks Zeitung announces that it has received news of the imprisonment of German Catho lio missionaries by Chinese nt Ilia, in Shan Zee, about 70 miles southwest of Ping Yang. The minority of the house military committee has prepared an army bill which provides for a standing army of 80,000 men, with an auxiliary force of 60,000 for the present exigencies. TOOK THE M OF WHS John C. Chase, First Socialist Mayor Ever Elected. HAVERHILL'S NEW EXECUTIVE trill Use Hig Tower Strictly on the Line of Socialism Specific Recom meudatlons Made. Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 4. John C. Chase, elected on a socialist platform, took the oath of offloe as mayor of Haverhill today. In hja , inaugural speeoh, Mr. Chase assured the members of the city governmnt and the people, that "every atom of power possessed by the mayor would be exeroised for the defense and support of principles of sooialism, insofar as they may be ap plicable to a municipality." The mayor then referred to the de sirability of preserving equal rights upon which "the liberty and happiness of every man, woman and child'' are conditioned, and asserted that these are principles of attainment "only through the establishment of the co-operative commonwealth."-. Continuing, Mayor Chase said: ' , .......... .,... "I believe that every power the mu nicipality possesses should be plaoed at the disposal of the people in the in terest of civilization. With that aim in view. I submit the following lecom-mendations- "First The passage of an ordejres-, tablishing the minimum wage for street employes at $2 for eight hours' work. "Second Union wages and condi tions to prevail in al' brick and stone mason's work performed under the di rection of the street department. "Third All city printing to bear the union label." The mayor then took up the subject of the unemployed, whioh he said had developed from the displacement of la bor by machinery and the concentration of capital, and was a question which no municipality could solve, as it had become a national and intei national one. "Yet," he said, "some liftle relief at least can be afforded by this city government. I, therefore, recommend, first that yon proceed to seoure a tiaot of land suitable for the raising of food products, and that such of the unem ployed as desire may be permitted to use this land, the city to furnish proper seeds and tools; second, the enlarge ment of the fuel yard at the oity farm to such proportion as will permit all who desire to earn, by their labor, such fuel as they may require; third, the appropriation of suoh an amount of money as circumstances may warrant, to be used in providing employment directly upon publio works, not in com petition with the regular employes of the oity, but upon special works, two kinds of which 1 herewith suggest: First, improvement of the park systm; second, construction of a system of bi cycle patliB through all principal thor oughfares." Mayor Chase condemned the system of contracting with the lowest bidder for city work, and said the system should not be tolerated. He said: "Low bids mean cheap work; cheap work means cheap money and low wages, and low wages lower the stand ard of citizenship. The city should perform its own work and furnish its own materials, giving employment to its citizens." The mayor advocated increased ap propriations for educational purposes, and municipal ownership of the electric lighting plants and street railways. OLD GLORY EVERYWHERE. Stars and Slrlpes Adorn the Wreek of the Maine. Havana, Jan. 4. It developed today that the company of the Indiana regi ment whioh waved the Cuban flags dur ing the parade was not arrested, aa oabled last night. Investigation showed that the flags were distributed to them by Cubans in tho crowd, and the act of waving them was thoughtless and not prearranged. Twenty-five Cuban horsemen, well mounted and armed, joined the column at the Prado, rode to Central Park and debouched into a side street. They aroused considerable enthusiasm. Three bluejackets from tho Texas, at about 12:30 yesterday, rowed to the wreck of the Maine and hoisted a large Stars and Stripes to the peak of the wreck. The flag was saluted by the shipping in the haibor. An immense Amerioan flag was als") hoisted on top of a 200-foot spar at the naval dock, where it oould be seen for miles around. Miners' Narrow Esoape. Carlinville, 111., Jan. 4. Early this morning the tipple and top works if the Carlinville coal shaft, situated just out side of town, took fire and burned fiercely. There seemed from the very start no chance of saving them from total destruction. Between 70 and 80 men were in the mine, and it was only after herculean efforts on the part of the mine managers and those of the miners who escaped at the first alarm that the entombed miners were all re leased from their perilous position. The property losses aggregate only a few. thousand dollars. Australian Wheat. Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 4. A fore cast of the Australian wheat harvest indicates a yield of 12,150,000 bushels last harvest. One of the most interest ing features of the estimate is a visible surplus of 2,250,000 bushels available for export, while 1,000,000 bushels of old wheat remain on hand. The value of tho wheat harvest on the basis of the current market rates is given at 1, 837.600. The quality of grain this year is said to be considerably better than last. DEWEY AND LEE. Henry Wattersnn Names Them fo President and Vice-Presidents , Louisville, Ky., Jan. 8. Henry Watterson, in a leading editorial this morning in the Conrier-Journal, under the caption, "The New Year's Outlook for the Democratio Party," nominates Admiral Dewey foi president and Gen eral Fitzhugh Lee for vioe-president. In part, he says: "To oome down to hard faots, old horse-sense sitting in the rocker, the issue of free silver being relegated to the limbo of busted shades, the tariff issue peacefully leposing upon the shelf where the Cleveland administration left it to wait for free trade under naw conditions the season of famine ended and the season of plenty arrived what are tiie Democrats to do for a national platform and ticket? "There is but one thing for them to' do. The voters have about made up their minds that party pledges ore fab ricated chiefly to be broken. Let tho Democrats, banking on this circum stanoe, put up a ticket without a plat form; let them nominate candidates for president and vice-president who are a platform in themselves; and, if they oan induce the great admiral ami the gallant general to accept, here is the card to win with: "For president George Dewey, of Vermont. "For vice-president Fitzhngh Lee. of Virginia. "Platform The- Stars and Stripes, God bless them. "Even now the -Republican leaders, who rarely fail to take time by the forelock, and who never let go their grip upon the shore line, are planning to make their oampaigu of 1900 on the broad principle of national unification and expansion. They are not going to handicap themselves with any ancient platform rubbish. High tariff is no .'onger wanted by the manufacturers, for whom it was invented. The bloody shirt, having served its turn, has gone to the old olothes basket. The presi dent knows his business. "At the opportune moment we shall see William McKinley and Joseph Wheeler march down to the footlights, hand in hand, the flag above them beneath them emblazoned on a strip of red, white and blue, 'The land we love from end to end,' or words to that effect. And then what? What are the Democrats going to do about it? How are they going to meet it?" GHASTLY SCENE. Woman Deserted on' the Gallows Her Lover Reprieved. Prokuplif, Servia, Jan. 4. A scene more dramatic than is often essayed ii the most renlistio fiction was enaoted. in the jail-yard here on Saturday. A woman and her lover mounted the soaffold to pay the penalty for the mur der of her husband. The man was sullen and allowed the noose to be placed around his neck without resist ance. The Woman was in hysterics and had to be supported by the hang man and his deputy. Just as the hang man had finished adjusting the rope around the man's neck and was about to place the black cap over the head of the half-fainting woman, a jailer rushed out of the prison and up to the foot of the scaffold and cried to the hangman to stop, waving in his hand a reprieve. The man showed little feeling as the rope was removed; the woman sobbed with joy. But her happiness was short-lived. The reprieve was for the man only. When the hangman an nounced the mossage the woman clung to her lover in fienzy, but with a curse he flung her off, refusing to bid her farewell as he stumbled down the gal lows steps. The woman was then placed on the trap and hanged. RIOS' VANDALISM. The Spanish Commander Destroys That Whioh He Cannot Carry Away. Madrid, Jan. 4. Rios, the Spanish commander, cables that he has arrived at Manila, after having completed the evacuation of Visayas and the northern part of the island of Mindanao and af ter blowing up 14 forts and the fleet, of gunboats on Lake Lani. Ho adds that 1,600 Spanish troops are concentrated at Zaaboanda under the command of General Montero. Official oircles here are warmly discussing the attitude of Great Britain, owing to her pressing demand that Spain sell her a coaling station in the Balearic islands and other strategical points, bo as to render Gibraltar unassailable. The negotia tions on the subject have been in abey ance owing to Premier Sagasta's ill ness, but it is believed that Spain, in fluenced by Russia and France, will re Bist the demand of Great Britain. Fatal Folding Bed. Springfield, 111., Jan. 4. Mrs. Lu oretia Kent, a widow, met her death in a manner horrible in the extreme. Her fate was revealed when a friend, enter ing the houee, found her dead body. One hand was pinioned inextricably under a heavy folding bed. The body was decomposed, showing that death had occurred several days ago. When found the woman's broken hand was still clasped in the bed as in a black smith's vise. How the accident hap pened will never be known definitely. The woman lived alone in the house, and that accounts for the tardy dis covery of the body. A Soldier Murdered. Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 4. Private Starr Dare, company E, First infantry whose home is iu San Francisco, died at the second division hospital todav from a gunshot wound received Chiist mas night. Mack Lightfoot, Dare's murderer, has been committed to jail without bond. pekin8. Jan. 4. The imperial gov ernment will send 5,000 foreign drilled troops to suppress the rebellion in the province of Sze-Chuen.