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Vol. XVI. No. 48.
CORVAL.LIS, OREGON. JANUARY 23, 1901.
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HEART DISEASE - IN
NEW YORK.
I O. J. BLACKLEDGE'S f
Store.
South Main Street,
CORVALLIS, OR.
Cordially invite you to inspect my New Stock of
Goods consisting of
Various Musical Instruments,
Bed Lounges and Coaches,
Bedroom Suites, Iron Bedsteads,
Maple and Ash Bedsteads, etc.
Woven Wire Springs,
Good Line of Mattresses,
Extension Tables, Center Tables,
Sideboards, Kitchen Safes,
Kitchen Treasures,
Dining Chairs, High Cbairs,
Children's Rockers,- and
Many Styles of Other Kockers.
Fine Lot Bamboo Furniture jnst in
Window Shades, Curtain Poles.
' iso Sewing Uachines, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos
'or sale and for rent. A few stoves and a few pieces of Graniteware left.
E. E. WILSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office In Zierolf Building, CorsalHs. Or
B. A. CATHEY, M. D.,
Fhysician and Surgeon.
Office, Room 14, First National Bank
Bnilding, Corvallis, Or. Office Honrs,
10 to ia a, m., 1 to 4 p, m.
His Successful Caieer Author of
Forty BxksNebraka Pretty
School Teachers Struck
. With the Mttrimouial !
Epidemic Other
.. -News.
New York, Jan. 19. George
Francis Train, who died lst night
at Mills Hotel, No. 1 Bletker Etreet,
probably was una of the most, pic
1 tureeaue figures in ; the history of
America. Only a year sgo, when
hp was then 74 years old, he die
tated the reminiscences of his ex
traordinary career, and the result
was publ shed in book form. Sum
marized in bis own carious fashion,
this contained the following in
formation about bis career: ;
"Shipping clerk, 16; manager,
18; partner in Train & Co.,2j, with
income 01 10,000. ... r: :
"Established firm of George Fran
ciB Train & C, Melbourne, Aua
tralis, 1653; aaent White StarLine,
income, $9o,ooo. . Started 4o clip
pers to California in 1849. Boilt
railrrai connecting Erie with Ohio
and Mississippi.
' Pioneered the. first street rail
way inEurope, America, Australia
and England. Built first Pacific
railway, 1862-69, through Credit
Mobilier.' Owner 5,ooo lo's in O
mabaAwortn $0,000,000. iJee.i . in
15 jails, without any crime."
G 078 Francis Train was born in
Boston, March 24, 1829. tils par
ent?, wit 1 several brothers and bis-
ters, died at New Orleans from yel
low fever, and bis childhood home
wa on his grandmother's farm in
Massachusetts. Not long after en
tering the Boston shipping house
founded by his cousin, be went' a
broad, and from that time on be
wandered, all over thevglobe.
In 1873 he began a career as lec
turer and agit-j'or, and held public
debates with some of the ablest or
a tors in the country, A few years
ago he made a trip around the
world in 67-i days, saying after
wards that bis psychic force enabled
him to overcome all obstacles.
When Mill 8 Hotel No. 1. was op
ened several years ago, Mr. Train
went there to live, and since then
made it his headquarters. One of
the features of his eventful life wai
bis admiration for children, and for
years a familiar spectacle in Madi
son Square was "Citizen" Train on
a bench surrounded by a group of
little ocf&.
Mr. Train's aat misadventure
occurred last summer, when he was
quaraniiot d at Stanford, Conn., in
a smallpox isolation camp, and
threatened that city with a suit of
$5o,ooo damages. He was the au
thor of at least iohooks, and fre
quently asserted that his "psychic
powers" eventually " would make
him the most potent sovereign of
the earth. x
Mr. Train may fairly be describe
ed as an erratic genius. ' lie pro
fessed to be ruled by an imaginary
being called fe-yeno, and to be a
believer in psychic force. He was
a strict vegetarian, and often went
tor several days without food. He
talked in short, jerky, incomplete
sentences, omitting all the small
words, and wrote in the same style.
always in red and blue pencil, in a
large angular band. He had a great
aversion to shaking hands, and the
closest approach he would make to
it was to clasp his own bands to
gether.
All these eccentricities caused
him to be charged with insanity on
one occasion, but lie fought the
charge with great bitterness and a-
bility, and won.
The cause of bis death was heart
disease, following an attack of acute
nephritis. -
Omaha, Neb., Jan. 2. Cupid
has invaded the ranks of Nebraska
school teachers so often of late that
the state officials are seriously con
sidoring ipjunctionroceedings.
"it is aonoice Detween recourse
to the law or dispensing with edu
cation till the matrimonial epidem
ic abates," declared State Senator
Pemberton, of Beatrice, to Attorney-General
F. N. Prout at the
etate capitol yesterday. "At Beat
rice teachers cannot be had to in
struct oar children. Marriage ie
responsible. All the pretty teach
ers are marrying, notwithstanding
they have contracts to . teach the
year out. I don't understand why
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''Nebraska never had so many
pretty teachers before," was the ex
planation ventured by Superintend
ent Pearse, of Omaha. "
"The present generation of young
men realize . that teachers make
good housekeepers," -Superintendent
Fowler, of Lincoln, stated.
The three educators to d the at
torney get eral of the shortage of
teachers, 'and asked if legal remedy
can be had to prevent further an
noyance from matrimony .among
them. " . :
"When a teacher signs a contract
she can -be compell-d to keep it,"
was the attorney-general s advice.
"You can't enjoin the-young rren
from marrying the girls 00 the
board of education pay-rolls,- bat
mandamus proceedings will com
pel the young- women to live. up to
their contracts."
A test case will be made of the
next marriage planned. ;
GROWING MORE VICIOUS
EDUCATION MAKES THETNE
GRO WORSE SAYS GOVER
NOR VARDAMAN.
Sioux City,- la., Jan. 20. Rev.
Andrew Moe, pator of the Metho
dist church at McLean, Neb., hear
ing the nitroglycerine explosions with
which robbers were wrecking the
safe of the MoLan State hank early
this morning, got np, dressed and
with shotgun started - to prospect.
He saw two men with Winchesters
patroling the street, while two oth
ers were working on the safe. He
roused Emil Bjbler, Charles Bar
rows and George Jenka and going
to a hardware store presently emerg
ed armed. Posting themeelyes, they
began firing rapidly toward the
bank. The four robbers were lined
up and returned the fire. . The rest
of the villagers were awakened and
hurried to the streets, when the
robbers took to their heels. They
got away with $5oo, which " was
found in the outer safe, and miss
mg three times as much more m
inner compartment. The robberB
escaped.
San Francisoo, Jan. 2o. The
greatest fight in the history of the
Bait trade on the Pacific coast is
now at its height. Conflicting in
terests are warring for the control
of tbe market. -
On one side is what is left of the
old combination known as tbe Fed
eral Salt Trust, now known as the
Imperial Salt Company. On .the
other side is the Amalgamated Salt
Company, which includes in its
membership the owners of many
salt works around the Bay of San
Francisco.
The market for salt has fallen so
low by reason of the war that no
more quotations are made in tbe
open. A cargo ot salt was brought
from Mexico. The market in tbe
North had some of this salt. That
which was sold in San Francisco is
reported to have cost $9 per ton, in
cluding duty and freight, and was
put out at a rate of $).5o aton.
It is reported that the Amalga
mated company has on band some
thing like loo,ooo tone of salt and
tha Imperial company has remain
ing of the Old Mission Kocfc sup
ply 3o,ooo tons. It is claimed by
the Amalgamated people that when
the salt trust was dissolved the old
magnates of the Federal. Salt Com
pany went over to the Imperial
company and tried to control ' the
salt market which eventually led to
ODen war".
As a Race, Negro Is Deteriorating
Morally Every Day Terrible
Explosion aud DeathsXat , :
Steel Works. X
Jackson, !Mis8., Jan. 19. In his
inaugural address delivered today
before a joint session Of tbe Missis
sippi legislature, Governor James
K. . Vardaman declared that the
growing tendency of the negro to
commit criminal, assault on white
women, is nothing mure or less than
the manifestations of the racial de
Eire for social equality.. In strong
terms he declared that education is
the curse of the negro race, and
urged an amendment to the Btate
constitution that will place the dis
tribution of . the common school
funds entirely within the power of
the legislature. Continuing his dis
cussion of the negro question, Gov
ernor VsrJaman said:
As a race be is deteriorating
morally. Time has demonstrated
that he is more criminal , as a free
man than as a slave: that he is in
creasing in criminally with fright
ful rapidity, being oae-tbird more
criminal in 189j than he was in
1880.
- The startling facts revealed by
the census show that those who can
read and write are more criminal
than tbe illiterates, which is troe
of no other element of our popula
tion. I am advised that the mini
mum illiteracy among the negroes
is found in New England, where it
is 21.4 per cent. The maximum is
found in the black belt, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and . South Carolina,
where it is 65. t per C9nt: and yet
the nero in New England is four
a pd one-h alfjimes "more . cri minal,
hundred for hundred, than he is in
the black belt.
In the South, Mississippi partic
ularly, I know he is growing worse
every year, iou can scarcely pick
up a newspaper whose pages are
Dot blackened with the account ofan
unmentionable crime committed by
a negro brute, and this crime,
want to impress upon you, is but
the manifestation of the negro's as
piration for social equality, encour
aged largely by the character
free education in vogue, which
state is levying tribute upon
white people to maintain.
" "The better class of negroes
not responsible for this terrible eon
dition, nor for the criminal tenden
cy of their race. Nor do I wish
New York, Jan. 20. The body
of George Francis Train, who died
early yesterday morning, has been
removed from Mills Hotel to a mor
tuary chapel, where it will lie in
state until the funeral hour tomor-
mow. Thousands of children, in
whom Mr. Train displayed remark
able interest, are taking a farewell
view of the remains. The funeral
will be private and the interment
will be made in Greenwood cemete
ry. Of bis once considerable for
tune, Mr. Train retained nothing
personally except , the interest he
had in 3ooo lots he once owned in
Omaha, Protracted litigation has
taken place about them, and will,
it is said, bs continued by his
daughter.
San Francisco, Jan. 2o.-The
jury in the case of Martha E. Bow
ers, on trial on the charge of murd
ering her husband, Martin Bowers,
brought in a verdict tonight of
murder in. the first degree, and fix
ed the penalty at imprisonment for
life.
of
the
the
to
be understood as censuring there
for it. I am not censuring anybody,
nor am I inspired by ill-will for the
negro; bet I am calling attention
to a most unfortunate and unendur
able condition of affairs."" What
shall be done about it?
"My own idea is that the charac
ter ot the education for the negro
ought to be changed. If, after
years of earnest effort and the ex
penditure of fubulous sums of man
ey to educate his head, we have on
ly succeeded in making a criminal
out of him, wisdom could suggest
that we make another experiment
and see if we cannot improve him
bv educating his hand and his
heart.
"There must be a moral substrat
um upon wmcn to nuud, or vou
cannot make him a desirable citi
zen." -
The governor also declared that
the people of the nation should rise
up and demand the repeal of the
15th amendment. .
eral are in a critical condition. --' :
A large water Dine burst, and iar .
flooding the ground about the scenae
of the accident. One man caught
in the debris is in plain sight, bat
cannot be rescued, owing to the in
tense heat. It is probable that not "
one fifihe men penned in can -escape
death either by - drowning oc
fire. -, . ' , . "- - . . . .
At 2:40 o'clock it was said the in-
jured will number 25 or more, many
01 wnom arefiterriDiy scalded and
cannot live. Two bodies have beer'
recovered. ,
The accident oocurred just as tha
turns were being changed, and was
the result of the engine in the mill
running off as the result of the gov
ernor belt breaking. The wheel
was aoout dU teet in diameter, and
exploded with terrific force, smash
ing into a large steam basin that'
ran along the roof of the building
and caused it to burst. The entire
xopt was caved in, and the whole""
mill is a complete wreck. - -
Inelorceof the extloron, ac
cording to the men who ip ere work
ing mjjae mill, wax terrific. Large
girders were twi.-ted out of shape
and everything is a tumbled mass
of ruins. How many men may be
buried in the mass, it is now im
possible to tell and it will be sev
eral hours U fore definite informa
tion can be secured.
There were 5O men at work in
No. 2 mill and few of them escaped
without at least some injury. The
fact that the victims are foreigners
complicates the enumeration of the
dead and injured, One millwork--er,
who was near" No. 2 mill, but
far enough away to escape the force
of the explosion, says he saw men
writhing on tbe ground amid the
wreckage, rolling over in the names -while
others appeared to be almost
submerged in the deluge of water
pouring from tbe broken mains.
rwo ot the victims in the hospital
are Americans, one of whom is be
yond all hope of recovery. Neither ,
of the. Americans has been identw '.
fied. "
Such devastation has not been
seen around'the plant ofthe "Cam-"
ona Steel Company since the Johns
town flood, when the entiie plant
was submerged and practically all
the valuable machinery wrecked,
Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 2O. The
east-bound train on the Delaware.
Lackawaona & Western, which left
here at 10. o'clock last night, be
came stalled in tbe snow - at Sum
mit, and was unable to move until
nearly noon today. The trolley line
to Auburn was forced to suspend.
business. x Heavy drifting Enow baa
paralyzed all the railroads except
the main line of the New York
Central, where trainB are late.
Tbe worst blockade in recent years
prevails on the Rome, Watertown
dcOgdensburg road. Trains are JGV
to 15 hours-late, and many have!
been abandoned. The road between
Watertown and Syracuse is com
pletely closed, no train having
nndQAl Avar tViA lino iinnavMfArftair .'
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afternoon. Several trains are stall
ed in snowbanks 1 near Richland,
and every snow plow is in use to
release them.
Bloornfountain, Orange River Col
ony, Jan. 19. It is announced to- .
day that 60 persons were drowned,
in a cloudburst which occurred
Sunday. It destroyed'many build
ings in the vicinity and did oth
er great damage. Twenty-four bod
ies have been recovered.
Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 21. An
immense steam pipe directly over
the engine in the boiler room of No.
2 mill of the Cambria Steel Compa
ny exploded about i:30 this morn
ing, bringing down the whole sec
tion of roof running from tbe pud-
-dling mill to the finishing shed of
tbe mill, the woodwork at once
took fire from the furnaces, and at
this time is burning fiercely. The
number of dead is placed at 14. It
is known that at least two or three
men are under the debris, and it is
not believed that these can be res
cued in time to save their lives.
About 15 men have been taken
out, and have been either sent to
the hospital or are lying on cots in
offices near by. It is impossible at
present to learn the extentNf their
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