Image provided by: Oregon City Public Library; Oregon City, OR
About Oregon City courier=herald. (Oregon City, Or.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1899)
OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATKD. A. .CHENEY..... PublisfiCT Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening of the Fait Week Called From the Telegraph Columns. The Spanish government has decided not to sell the Caroline islands. Tbe secretary of war has given orders for the mustering out of tbe Third regi ment of imrounes, now stationed at 6antiago and vicinity. The fortifications appropriation bill, as it will be recommended by the com mittee, canies $4,744. 198, as against estimates of $12,161,198. It is said the administration will uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at Apia, in his selection of Malietoa Tan as as king of tbe Samoan islands. The secretary of war reports tha sickness in some of the American regi ments in the Philippines is high as 17 Der oent, but the average is about 10 per oent. The teport of the war investigating commission is in the hands of the pres ident, and the commission is dissolved. During the investigation 500 witnesses were examined. Many accounts of deaths from freez ing are reported from the East. At Bloomington, lnd., J. W. Hinkle, who has served several terms as sheriff, was frozen to death while going to his home. Near Dayton, 0., Martin Duffln ger suffered a like fate while feeding bis hogs. The Filipino junta at Hong Kong has issued a statement in whioh it is claimed that the American soldiers precipitated the recent battle at Ma nila, and that the bombardment of the towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana and Malabon oaused the slaughter of 4,000 women and children. A contract has been let for two 12,-000-ton steamships for the Paoiflo Mail steamship Co. They will be the larg est so far built at an Amerioan ship yard, their dimensions being greater than those of the American liners St. Louis and St. Paul. They are to ply between San Francisco and China. Chinese rebels are raiding Christian churches and driving out missionaries. At Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ko man Catholio chapels have been burned and the houses of the native churoh members have been destroyed. Several hundred children under the care of the Roman Catholics, aie said to have been drowned by the laiders near Kueifu. There seems to be an idea in Paris that Japan will make trouble for the United States by surreptitiously aiding the Filipinos. Many of the recently disbanded Cali fornia volunteers are enlisting in the regular army, being desirous of going to the Philippines. The controller of the currency has la med a call for reports of the condition of all national banks at the close of business February 4. It is reported that the executive com mittee of the Cuban assembly willl oall Domes to aocouut for accepting the proposition from this government rela tive to disbanding the Cuban army. A freight train on the O. R, & N. was wrecked near Corbett, Or., by running into a landslide. The fire man and a tramp were injured. Fifteen cars were piled up in a heap. Duke d'Arcos, formerly Spanish minister to Mexico is likely to be legis lated by the Madrid government as its minister to Washington to exchange the ratifications of the treaty of peace. Wolff & Zwicker, the Portland ship builders, propose to build a floating tlry-dook capable of raising a 5,000-ton vessel, providing the state of Oregon or the oity of Portland will guarantee bonds to the amount of $250,000. It is reported from Washington that the war investigating committee will severely criticise General Miles on his conduct during the late war with Spain. The committee will report that Miles' statement about chemically prepared beef is not sustained by any evidence before the committee. Four happy Dawsonites passod through Skagway recently with a can vas sack of Yukon gold that weighed 100 pounds dead weight, and which came from French gulch diggings on Eldorado creek. They are all Canadian citizens rind II rat came to Alaska dur ing the popular Klondike rush of De cember, 1897. The steamer Moana Loa, which has arrived at San Francisco, brings infor mation from Honolulu that it has been definitely determined that the wreck on the Kahaln coast was the four-mast-ed Btoamer Nomad, Captain MoAllep, which sailed from Shanghai for Puget ound in ballast 10 months ago. The vessel was a new one, and belonged to Hall Bros., of San Francisco. Captain AloAllep was accompanied on the trip bv his wife, daughter and thiee sons. .All are undoubtedly lost. Minor New Hums, tA bargo loaded with a large quantity of cordwood, consigned to a Portland dealer was lost during tbe recent freshet in the east fork of the Lewis fiver. A carload of green onyx marble, the first shipment of dimension stone from the .quarries of the United States Mar ble Company, near Valley, in Stevens county, Wash,, was on the truck in r-pokune recently for a few hours, eo route to Chicago. LATER NEWS. Nearly 2,000 Spanish prisoners left Manila for Spain on the 12th and 13th. One man waa killed and five serious ly injured in a powder explos:on at Mossgrove, Pa. Four Chinese have died from in juries sustained in the San Franciaoo Chinatown fire Sunday. Silas Jones and six children were Domed to death on the Richardson and May plantation, at Cornerstone, Ark. II. M. S. Leander has been ordered to proceed with all speed to Bolivia to protect the property and lives of Brit ish residents during the revolution. Fire in Cincinnati destroyed the clothing houses of Kahn & Felthmeyer, H. A. Heinsheimer and Sanford, Stern & Sarner. The loss is nearly $500,000. There is a rumor in Paris that ne gotiations are taking place between the Panama canal company and the Wash ington government, looking to the com pletion of the canal. Thirty-five persns have died of small pox in tbe Cieek nation within a few weeks. The victims were negroes and Indians. All of Western Oklahoma has quarantined against the infected district. The recently arrived Filipinos, Gen. Riego de Dios and M. Rivera, are on their way to Montreal to urge Agon cillo, the Philippine government repre sentative, to go to Washington and sue for peace. The buildings of the G'eer Ma chinery Company and the Whittle Trunk Company, at Knoxville, Tenn., with their contents, were destroyed Ay fire. The loss is estimated at between $75,000 and $100,000. In the United States senate Tuesday the MoEnery resolution, declaring that the ratification of the peaoe treaty is not a declaration on the part of the i United States to permanently hold the Philmninfl islands, was no used hv a . vote of 26 to 22. There was a celebration in Salem on the 14th, tbe occasion being the 50th anniversary of the extension of the I laws of the United States over the Ore gon country, and the 40th anniversary of the admittance of Orogon into the Union as a state. A cablegram comes from New Zea land stating that when the cruiser Philadelphia reaches Apia, King Ma- taafa will be forced to give up his throne to Maliteoa Tanus. The Brit' ish end American consuls will declare the latter, the king, and their declara tion will be enforced by British and American marines. Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an nouncing the death of Captain Oliver Peiry Smith, commissary, from acute nephritis. Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and Will Johnson, Collins county farmers, were frozen to death Saturday night near Dallas Tex. The senate has passed a bill creating the office of admiral of the navy. Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood, will be named for the position. On Monday an ocean liner in dis tress was sighted off Dread ledge, in Swampscott bay, Mass. The life-sav ing crew could not reach her on ac count of the ice. The outbreak at Manila has enliven ed business at the United States re orultlng office in Portland. Nineteen more men mustered out of the Eighth California were enlisted last week. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of C. J. Bell, assistant secre tary of the treasury, and that of Lieu tenant-Colonel F. M. Coxe, ' to be as sistant paymaster-general of the army. The army and navy captured Ilo Ilo, the second oity of importance in the Philippines Saturday, without the loss of an Ameiican soldier. The Pet- tel and Baltimore shelled the city, which forced the insurgents to evuou- ate. Otis wires the war department a list of deaths in his oommand since Febru ary 4, not including those of men killed in action. They number nine. Among the names appear those of Private Dan iel Kyger and W. Chonwood. First Washington, and Michael P. Crowley, Second Oregon. Speaker Reed was not at the cnpitol Monday, and swnt word he thought it advisable to adjourn on account of the Btorra. Lees than a hundred membeis were present, and those who braved the storm refused to adjourn, and went on with consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. There is reported a serious hitch in the work of the Anglo-American com mission. The obstacle is said to be a demand made by the Canadian com mission for the cession of the town ol KkauWHV. AIuhUh. Tim Amrlinn mi. missioners have definitely refused to ceded that gateway to the Yukon. Terrible blizzards swept over the South, East and Middle West Sunday and Monday. The winds went bo high on the Atlantio seaboard that ocean Bteamships were BtOrm-bound in the of ditches and canals, of special inter harbors. Nine big Atlantio liners due est to mining seotions, and the other ia at New York Saturday had not put in a bill to withdraw oertain school landa their appearance Monday, Intense oold accompanied the storm and muoh Buffering is reported The cold wave extends from the AVlantio to Western Texas A deposit of earth strontinn has been found on Put-in-Bay island in Lake Erie. It ia many acres in extent. The citrate of strontia is of pure white color. Tho Hamburg-American line steamer Adda arrived at Kcw York Sunday from Hambnrir after a most teninestons 30. Captain Levetzoi', while tiying to go from the bridge lo the cabin, was thrown down into tm) cabin passageway ' and killed. i SALEM LEGISLATURE. The BUI to Fix Interest on' Loans From School Fund Recommitted The Btate Fair Appropriation. In the Oregon senate Wednesday the Vote was reconsidered by which the bill to ieduoe interest on loans from the Btate ecbool fund waa passed Tuesday in order that the rate might be fixed absolutely at 6 per cent, the bill as passed authorizing 8 per oent if it could be obtained. It was deemed an objec tion to leave the matter open to pos sible brokerage arrangements. The bill was recommitted for amendment. Dnfui's bill to extend the privileges of the Soldeirs' Home to the wives and widows of old soldiers was lost, receiv ing only six votes. The following bills were passed: To reduce the salary of the Wasco county judge to $800 and that of the treasurer to $600; to do away with the neoessity of personal service or posting notice in case of attachment of real property; to create the office of recorder of convey ances for Polk county at a salary of $1,000 per year; to provide the man ner of releasing sureties who may be come dissatisfied with their risk; to provide that surety companies may sign bonds; to cure defeots in certain deeds and judioial sales; to amend the law so as to retsriot credits to the sheriff on the tax list charged against him. Btate Fair Appropriation Knocked Out. The Wednesday forenoon session ol the house was devoted largely to reports of committees and first reading of bills. Twenty-seven committees made reports and 68 bills were reported on. The principal business to occupy the time of the house in the afternoon was the consideration of the general appro priation bill. The house went into committee of the whole and the various items were taken up one at a time. 11)6 most important item KnocKea out "as the state, fair appropriation, by a Vote OI AV to rfU. Other bills passed were: To pro hibit the manufacture and sale of adul terated commercial fertilizers; to authorize county courts to levy a spe cial tax of 10 mills and a road poll tax of $3 for the road fund; to prohibit the sale of deer and deer hides from August 1 to Deoember 1; to give laborers in mines and supply agents furnishing supplies a lien on mining property for claims; to change the time of court terms in the second district; to fix sal arles of county judges and to place the clerk of the supreme court upon a sal' ary of $8,000 and give him two depu ties at $70 and $50 per month respec tively. In the Oregon senate Thursday, Harmon's registration bill waa passed by unanimous vote. The merits of the bill were discussed at length on Mitchell's motion to recommit which finally received only his own vote. In debate the expressions were generally unfavorable to the Hill bill, which; passed the house a few days ago by a decisive vote. The pure food bill passed the senate by a unanimous vote. There was no Objection to the main feature of the bill, but a slight amendment was made eo as to exempt from making an nual reports persons selling less than 25 pounds of butter weekly; specifying tbe number and the pay of employes of the legislature, including committee clerks, was passed without discussion, only six voting against it. Other bills passed were to incor porate Eugene, Carleton, Burns, Prine ville and Canby, the two last named being house bills. Daly Bohool Law. Two Important measures came before the Oregon senate Friday, and neither reachod a vote. Amendments to tho Daly school law were discussed for hall an hour, and the matter being difficult to understand, in its present form, the entire bill was ordeied printed again with amendments. The bill to encourage the use of wide tire wagons on public roads was passed. The bill to repeal the section appropri ating $5,000 for the state fair was dis cussed half an hour and then made a special order, for Wednesday morning. The pure linseed-oil bill was lost, 13 to 11; the bill providing for the Torrens system of registering land titles passed with only three negative votes; the bill for an irreducible school' fund in Doug las county passed without question; the bill to reduce the salaries of the county clerk, olerk of the circuit court and reooidor in Multnomah county from $3,500 to $3,500 each was passed. New bills were introduced as fol lows: To authorize tbe state school land board to oontract loans now out at. 6 per oent interest for the futuie; to provide for the appointment of three Bupreme court commissioners. The vote by which Stanley's bill to regulate the praotice of dentistry in Oregon was defeated Thursday, was re consideied in the house Friday, and the bill passed by a vote of 84. Two other important bills were passed. One ia an amendment to the mining laws to facilitate the building from pnbllo sale and reduce the inter est on loans ol school luiuts In con formity with recommendations of the governor in a recent message to both houses of the legislature. In the house Thursday the following bills were passed: Senate bill provid ing for a separate board of county com missioners for Clackamas county; to authorize county courts and school dis tricts to display flags on courthouses and schoolhouscs, to amend the codo lelative to the loan of school funda by leduoing the intorest rate to 6 per cent, and providing foi foreclosure proceed ings whenever interest becomes In ar. rears six months: to rmmlnta tha In !n. ina of sheen from one ot.rintv ta anntha- and directing insne.ition:- THE DALY TEXT-BOOK BILL. It Was Temporarily Defeated In the House.' In the Oregon house Monday the Daly bill for a text-book commission failed by three votes to pass, but a mo tion for reconsideration was carried by a decisive majority. The greater part of the day waa taken up in discission of the bill. The anti-crimping bill, which was referred to the Multnomah delegation last week, waa reported back to the house and referred to the committee on commerce. The afternoon session ws given up to the consideration of charter bills, the following being passed: Michell, Dalles City and Moro; Kelly,' Browns ville and Lebanon; Smith, Burns; Howe, Carlton; , Proebstel, Weston; Dufur, Dufur; Fordney, Enterprise. Gray secured the passage of a resolu tion authorizing the secretary of state to give each member and officer of the house a oopy of the session laws of 1893, and a histoiy of the cr'y Indian wars. The following bills were passed: To protect salmon in Alsea bay and its tributaries; to create the office of clerk of the justice court in cities of 50,000 population or over; to authorize Mult nomah oounty to lease the upper deck of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company's bridge; to provide for the sale of tidelands; revision of the laws relating to negotiable instruments; to proteot salmon in Rogue river; to reor ganize the state board of horticulture; to proteot salmon in Curry county; to piovide for the oreation of park com missions in cities of 8,000 population or over; to require county clerks to ad minister oaths without charge in pen sion matters. Kuykendall's bills to provide for county eleotiona and upon the running at large of stock, and Cameron's bill to prohibit the running at large of certain animals, were defeated. The house concurred in the senate amendments to the Curtis fish hatch ery bill, reducing the amount of the appropriation from $25,000 to $15,000. In the Senate. In the Orgon senate Monday the bill to provide for the reclamation of arid lands under the Carey act of congress was passed by a vote of 21 to 8, after being amended so as to prohibit any one party from taking moie than 150, 000 acres. The seaate committee reported a substitute for Hawson's house bill for artesian wells, the substitute appropri ating $2,000 for an experiment in the county whioh will offer the greatest money inducement, instead of $42, 000, as provided in the original bill. Stillman'a bill to withdraw school landa from sale and plaoe interest on school-fund loans at 6 per cent, passed with only two opposing votes. The sugar-beet bounty bill was re committed to the judiciary committee for amendments, and the bill to regu late build'ng and loan associations was indefinitely postponed, because another bill covered the same ground. The bill to appropriate $25,000 for salmon hatcheries passed by a vote of 17 to 11. THE CAPITAL BILL DOOMED. Not Enough Votes to Pass It Over the Governor's Veto. In the Washington legislature Mon day it developed that it would be im possible to muster enough votes to pass the capitol building bill over the governor's veto. The senate waa in session but 15 minutes In the morning and adjourned. A resolution was adopted, expressing sympathy for the parents of Sergeant Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger, jr., of Walla Walla, members of com pany I, Washington volunteers, who died recently at Manila. Bills introduced were: Creating a state board of tax commissioners, con sisting of the auditor, secretary of state and land commissioner, to assess rail road property for taxution; providing that $3 worth of poison be furnished by the oounty to each farmer to kill ground squirrels. v In the House. The Washington house held sessions both morning and afternoon. At the morning session billa intioduced were: Releasing personal property from cus tody, pending appeal; prohibiting the taxing of attorney fees as costs; pro viding for the county licensing of ped dlers; providing for the appointment of a hop inspector; relating to state school taxes; exempting from taxation property of religious, charitable and educational institutions; prescribing the powers and duties of wreck mas ters; relating to the disqualification of judges; providing for the foreclosure of chattel mortgages without suit; pro viding for the appointment of an ex officio surveyor-general and deputies; relating to assessments for local im provements. The bill empowering colleges to issue normal diplomas waa indefinitely post poned after a long debate. At the afternoon session nine laid over, nine read a second time, and four sent back to oouimittees. Bills introduced were: Regulating fishing industry; making state fish commissioner ex-offlcio game warden. Bills passed wein: . Giving cities power to define and punish vagrancy; relating to .the method of decreasing the capital stock of corporations; com pelling railroads to fence rights of way, and to pay for stock killed; designat ing the last Friday in October as the date for holding supervisors' elections; regulating the sale of hotter and cheese; providing for the organization of diking and ditohing distriots; giv ing electrio railways the right of emi nent domain; granting rebates on road taxes to farmers using wide-tired ve hicles. A light earthquake was felt at Chilli cothe, O., and in East Tennessee Monday. STILL INTRODUCING BILLS. Washington Legislature Took In a Large Number Tuesday. , The Washington house Tuesday con sidered 45 bills Three were passed, 21 indefinitely 'postponed, 16 advanced from second to third reading, two or dered printed, one tabled, one made a special order for Friday, and one re committed. Bills introduced were: Providing for the organization of mutual fire in surance companies; providing for the general sohool tax levy; reducing the oost of the administration of small es tates; making Indian war veterans el igible to county relief; abolishing capi tal punishment; appropriating $392 for the relief of the Olympia Light & Power Company; ' providing for con demnation 'proceedings for irrigating companies; prohibiting the poisoning of honey bees;) fixing the length of a school day providing for the systematic improvement of public roads; relating to county surveyors; relating to the location of mining olaims; relating to the duties of oounty surveyors; regu lating common carriers, relating to liens on logs. Field's bill relating to lode and pla cer claims was made a special order for 10:55 A. M., Friday. Bills passed were: Providing for the investment of the state permanent school fund in 8 per cent state bonds; investing the permanent school funda in state warrants; preventing the Bale of trout. In the Senate. In the senate Tuesday, bills indefi nitely postponed were: Relating to the escheats of property; relating to services of summons. Senate bills passed were: Provid ing for the issuance and sale of bonds to pay the cost of local improvements; requiring road ' supervisors to destroy Canada and Russian thistles. The senate, after a long debate, by nearly a unanimous vote, refused to concur in the house amendments in creasing the normal school appropria tions from the amounts fixed in the senate bill. The house has refused to recede, and a conference committee will be appointed. Bills introduced were: Relating to the state's share of tiquor licenses; prescribing sleeping-car rates; defining and prohibiting trusts; providing for the transportation of freight over con necting roads, and prohibiting discrim ination; to regulate mutual fire insur ance. The house amendments to the bill appropriating $1,600 for the commis sioner of pablio lands were conourred in. The entire afternoon session of the senate was given up to the discussion of the bill oreating the oounty of Ferry from a portion of Stevens oounty. The bill passed, with amendments, by a vote of 24 to 5. OREGON'S ADMISSION. DAY. The Anniversary Observed by Kzercises at the Capitol. The 50th anniversary of the exten sion of the United States laws over Oregon, as well as the 40th anniversary of the admission of the state into the Union, was celebrated by tbe legisla ture Tuesday with joint meetings in the hall of representatives, to which many pioneers and prominent citizens and the public had been invited, and probably 1,200 persons were able to crowd within the uhamber and listen to the speeohes and music. The meeting was presided over by Governor Geer. Three-auarters of an lioui was ocoupied with an address by Hon. L. B. Cox on "The Relations of tho Legislature to the Constitution." The choral union sang, "America," and another selection by the orchestra closed the morning exrecises. In the afternoon, after a solo, "Two Grena diers," by W. P. Babcock, George H. Williams delivered the occasional ad dress, which was a comprehensive sum mary of the political histoiy of the early years of Oregon's statehood. Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway spoke on "The Influence of Pioneer Women in the Making of Oregon." which was listened to with close attention and was liberally punctuated with ap plause. Hut Little Business Transacted. The admission day celebration in terfered with work in the Oregon legis lature Tuesday. The senate convened for general bus iness in the evening, after the joint session. The report of the special committee appointed to confer with the state board of agriculture relative to a state fair appropriation reoommended that the appropriation be discontinued, and that the affairs of the State Agri cultural Society be wound up. There port was filed. The following bills wore passed: To amend the charter of Salem; to legu late horse-shoeing in Portland; to tax bicycles for the support of bicycle paths, after an amendment exempting 18 counties from the operation of the law; to turn into the general fund re ceipts from a 2 per cent tax on the gross earnings of ioreign insurance companies, whioh now go into the school fund. In tho House. 1 Aftei the adjournment of the joint session the house took up the third reading of house bills, whioh led to a controversy as to the best method of expediting business. During the dis cussion a motion to adjourn prevailed. In the senate Tuesday, on Roberts' house bill to provide for state normal schools at Asliland and Diain, one of the notable contests of the session was had. First it came from the com mittee with a recommendation that $10,000 be allowed tbe Ashland echool and $7,500 to Drain. This was amend ed to allow $7,500 to each. A few minutes later the bill was taken up under a suspension of the rules and put on its final parage. It was carried Ly a vote of 19 to 10. The American Forces Struck the Blow Saturday. NOT AN AMERICAN WAS LOST The Petrel and the Baltimore Bom barded the Town, Which Caused tbe Insurgents to Evacuate. Manila, Feb. 15. The United States gunboat Petrel ariived late last even ing with dispatches from Brigadier General M, P. Miller to Major-General Otis, announcing that Ilo Ilo had been taken by the combined miltary and naval forces Saturday morning. General Miller, on receipt of his in structions from Manila, sent native commissioners ashore from the United States traniport St. Paul, with a com munication for the rebel governor of Ilo Ilo, calling upon him to surrender within a time stated, and warned him not to make a demonstration in the in terval. The rebels immediately moved their guns and prepared to defend their po sition. Thereupon the Petrel fired two warning guns, and the rebels immedi ately opened fire upon her. The Petrel and the Baltimore then bombarded the town, which the rebels, having set on fire, immediately evacu ated. The American troops were promptly landed and extinguished the fires in all cases of foreign property, but not before considerable damage was dona It ia believed the enemy's loss dur ing the bombardment was heavy, but no American casualties are reported. The Official Report. Washington, Feb. 15. Shortly be fore midnight, Adjutant-General Cor bin made publio the following d'spatoh from Major-General Otis, reporting the capture of the town of llo Ho by tha Amerioan forces under General Miller, on the 11th inet. : "Manila, Feb. 15. General Millet reports from Ilo Ilo that the town wae taken on the 11th inst. and held by troops. Insurgents were given until the evening of the 13th to surrender, but their hostile actions brought on the engagement during tbe morning. In surgents fired the native portion of the . town. But little losses to the property of the foreign iuabitants. No casual ties among the troop's." A dispatch also came from Admiral Dewey telling of the capture of the city. It was a brief recital of tbe facta of the oase, but it is said contained sub stantially the same information as that sent by General Otis. It was sent to the navy department, and ia expected to be made publio in the morning. GREAT STORM IN THE EAST. It Extends From the Atlantio to West ern Texas. New York, Feb. lo. Tho fearful storm which prevailed all day yester day and last night has increased in vio lence, and, together with the snow., which has drifted in many places, has almost paralyzed traffic. Trains on all the steam railroads have been delayed for five hours by the storm. Nine At lantic liners due at this port Saturday have not put in an appearance. Freight steamers, the voyages of which are growing uncomfortably long, are the Eastern Prince, 24 days out from Shie'ds; Deike Reikmers, 25 day out from Havre; Salerno, 26 days out from Newcastle, England, and the Catania, 18 days out from St. Michaels. The Alm:da, 65 days out' from Shields, has been about given up as lost with all on board. There ia no doubt that a large fleet of steamers has arrived in tbe vicinity of Sandy Hook, and is waiting outside for the blizzard to pass. Four Lives Lost. Marlboro, Mass., Feb. 15. A po liceman who went to a small house in the rear of a shoe factory tonight to investigate a fire found the house full of smoke, and in a room off the kitchen four persons lying on a mattress, which had been placed on the floor, all dead, and in the kitchen three other per sona in a state of insensibility. In the South. Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 15. The South ia today enveloped in a storm of un usual severity. From the Gulf north ward, and from the Atlantio coast to tbe western boundary of Texas, a cold wave has settled heavily on the ooun try, and produced the lowest tempera tore ever known. Fifty Below In Manitoba. Washington, Feb. 15. The weather bureau today issued a special bulletin. It shows that 50 degrees below zero waa recorded at Minnedosa, Manitoba. The outlook ia there will be a marked though gradual rise in the temperature east of the Rocky mountains after to day. Disoredit the Andrea Story. London, Feb.15. Accoraing to a dis patch to the Standard from Stockholm, Nansen and Nordensjold, the explorers, refuse to credit the story from Krasno yarsk of the finding, in the province of Yeniseisk, of the bodies of three men, supposed to be of Audree and his com panions. Rome, Feb. 15. Prince Napoleon Charles Gregoire Jacques Philippie Bonaparte, third son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino and chief of the older branch of the Bonaparte family, is dead. He was born in Roini in 1835. A report comes from Washington that the subcommittee of the American members of the joint high commission Will concede a Portion on Lrnn ronni. Alaska, to Canada in return for fish ing concessions on the Eastern coast.