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Tme IIILLSBOUO, OUJfiGON, TIIUUSDAY, JUNE 14, 1900. NO. 13. VOL. VII. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TKIISK TICKS F 110 SI Til K WlltKS An Interesting fiillm'tlun of Item from III Two tleuilihrea I'rvaenteit III ii Condensed form. Itnssl Japan iny coma to war a a result of the Huxara movement. (innnnil l'lo del Pilar, the Filipino lender, wa captured by American alt miles emit ol Manila, Two meu were linUiitly ktllmt ud liltjlit seriously Injured by the eiploaion ol it boiler at a In irk work at Aiinl Um, A In. Tim lloxar tnovintnt U spreading throughout C'ltittM. Kuaala gives notice llmt II Ilia (tower do not act lie will lti It alollM. An erplosion, rmiwil by mining discs lit tli" custom ili'purtinclit, t ()xirto, Portugal, killed two prou and Injured 13. lUrry Dekker, a well known pro. muter ul Western railroad pro,ertie, hot ninl killed hlmaelf lu lili apart ment ut New York City. ()li iiihii kui killed Hud (iiur hurt liy the lulling ul a freight lvntr in the Nichols St Shepherd Implement building at Kansas City. A fire iu tho oil refilling and salt ier district of Hamburg, (ierinany,1 destroyed property to the valua ol 4,0(1(1,000 mark, Including mauy dwelling, A tannery owned by Fayette, Kim ft Co., at Milliir, Wl., waa deatroyed by (Ire, causing a lu m 100,000 Nino hundred 111111 were thrown tiut ol ttiiltiyiiiut. ' The Investigation ( the affair ul Adolph A. Kulm, junior member of the linn ol Kuhn Itn., broker, ol C'hl cago, ahow ho haa lull a shortage ol 11,000,000. Tim president ha approved the find Iniii mid wnteuee lu the case, of Cap tain Doming, of IIiiIThIm, assistant com missary ol aiibdatence, U. H. V., tried at Kan Francisco cm a charge ol forgery and eiiibnasliug public fundi). Alexander Hcvfimm, a line repairer ol the Utah Electric Light & rawer Company, of Salt Lake, wa iniituutly killed by eleelrteity on Third South and Main itnwt. IU went up a pole to do iu work, and took hold of a live wire. Ilia body h unit auaptinded In tha network ol win in thu preauuce ol huudroda of people. Indiana Democrtita tudorwed Bryan. Robert's army la mating at Prutorla Democrats of Missouri luduraed tha Chicago platform. Kud of tha Chicago labor troubles seem U be in alght. Wolverton's plurality for supreme judge of Oregon la more thau 10,000. AfTulna in China am gradually work' 1dm up a crlaia of the lirtit umgiiltuda The liiliilnture of Oregon will be He publican on joint ballot by a majority of U. Chicago Miople contributed fft.OOO toward the mliuf of the Indian (amine u (Torero, A Christian journal iu Japan haa been amended for Nhowlng dinreapect to the imperial houae, Alexamlnr M. lWkery, of Onllatin county, Mlaaouri, tiaft been ttomluated by the Democrat fur governor. Fire at fiuaanville, Cal., dtwtroyed three block of atorea, containing forty building, entailing a large Ioni. Loudon paper think that the lirlt lah wpiadion i recognized a inferior to the HnaHlnn u well aa the jHpiinimo. Chinese mildiera attnokoil the Itoxert near Peking, mid lu the eugasenient wliloli followed many were killed on both aide. A niHimtoh from CmuiU, deiiartmeut of Hantaudur, YeueKuola, nay that after 13 dayg of fighting, the Colombian revolutioulNt have runted the govern in out foreei uear llurncaniunga, cnptur lug a number of prinouera, including Uoneral reniiNohin. Heorutnry Long haa tnaued an ordoi (or an experiment of the utmost im Dortauoe. Thoimrimso la to see how iiiuuh time would be occupied in put ting into condition for active naval awrvlce a part of the United Status fleet to meet an emergency, , ' Judge Morrow, of the United State circuit court at Ban Franoiaco, on coin lilaiut made by Jew Ho, ha granted an order temporarily retraining I he lioard of health and chief of police (rain prohibiting the aurgeoui employed by the Chinese to care for their dead, entering the quarantine line. Btopa have been taken to organize a national Negro party in Philadelphia. Prominent negrooa biahopa, miniateri, editor and lawyer at a nieetiugMe oided to place a presidential ticket in the Held with negro candidate. The plan I to organize the party In every itate of the Union, and uomluate can didate for state aud congreasloual office, The bubonio plague has entirely dis appeared from Honolulu, Harry Kimball Shnw, of Pittsburg, Pa., gave a dinner at Paris to 85 per rons that cost 98,000. Ex-Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, has announoed his oandldaoy for re election to the senate. The shortage in Cuban revenues oc casioned by the defalcations disclosed will be reimbursed by tho general dell piano bill, , LAI til NEWS. Fifteen hondrd ftoeiaaurreudered to fieneral llrabaut. Half the town of Fraucea, Wkah., wa deatroyed by lire. Kali Franeiaou' (Chinatown will be rulaed (mui (juaiautiua June 'ii. Franca talk of Joining Rumta aud ierinaiiy to reatora orlr in Chtua. lloer have evacuated faliig' Nek, nd Duller la aucauipad on Joubert'i farm. Kan Frauuix'o Cbiriiwn have won an other cane agkluat tha board of health of that city. Tha Kteamer China arrived at Han Frauotnoo (mm tha Orient with &&tt lilueae merchant. Mr. Onurge II. Haker, widow of the Kwt and eX'Uilnlatur to Ituaaia, i duad at her home iu Philadelphia. Ponttnaatcr fir ham, of Halt Lake 'Itv, Utah, wu convicted of unlawful cohabitation aud (hied (250. American at Chin Kiaug are iu need of protection, a a large number uf lUixera hava halhxl at that place. Itumian authority nay tha pivaeut trouble iu China will be put down, but a terrible upheaval will come later. Mine. Auguata l.ehiiiaiin, once a ainger of International reputation, in dead at hall la Cru, Cal., ai:d feO year. The preaident ha Uaued a proclama tion loruially anuouueing theetabllah mnnt of reciprocity agrceinont with 'urtugal. A cHire ol paaaeugor were lujureil, om aeverely, by the detailing ul a train on the Great Northern, uear Sum mit, Mont. (ienoral Oti ay the Filipino are (julck and auxioua to learn aud itiggeata that an vdiicntioual yatein be adopted lu the ialauda. (inueral MacArthnr rort the cap ture ol Milam, near Mexico, and Ca reatany at A leu la, both important, the latter a very important leader of the guerrilla iu Pingaaluau proviucee, Lu- con. Tha Yanl Indian are causing trouble for the Mexican. They occupy the lmpaaaable Ilacatcte mouutaln, a range 50 mils lu length, and it require the utmost vigilance on the part ol Gen eral Torre' (1,000 tnmpi to hold them In check. The United Htatoa navy will build wartihip aggregating over flOO.OOO,- 000 in eht a toon a the buildnra are piepatod to undertake the great pro gramme, which call for 11 armored hi pa and three highly improved Olym pta type of orulaer. Clilnene government la dealing out arm to the ltoxei. Four peraon wore killed in a trol ley-cur accident at Providence, K. I. Tha Republican convention hall at I'hladelphla will teat 16,000 people. IUmu have torn np 24 mile of rail road between Pretoria aud Kroontd. Tacoma will have a captured Hpan iah cauuon lor ue in it Fourth of July celebration. Poor captured a Itritiah battalion of 600 men at Koodeval, aeverlng Rob erta' line of communication. Philippine rebel aim to follow the tactic of the Cuban rebel during the war of tha latter agaiuat Hplan. The rteamcr City ol Seattle, which arrived at Seattle from Alaka, brought 820 Kloudtkert and 500,000 lu gold Honator Clark wa given a great ovu tiou at Ilutte, Mont. He made a apeech denouncing hi enumle a per juren. Documents aiezed in the Philippine Indicate that iu a rebel plot lor an up riaing iu Manila, women were to take important part. Chlneao mlnlMtor in London nays it i i.beurd that the power should believe the empress dowager ia aiding the Hox era' movement. May Nhlpmeuta of coal from Seattle to Ran Francinco by water amounted to 20,000 ton, or hall ol the total amount ol coal received at that port during May. Aa a result of a week' ecouting iu the Philippine, more thau 200 lu aurunut were killed aud 100 captured, while 140 rlttoN, with ammunition and atoro were teiaed. Two five-atory brick buildings, owned by (leo. K. Kelchnm, on West avenue, New York, contuUug 185,000 bushels of grain, were deatroyed by- fire, cans lug a Iom ul $140,000. Iu tha preliminary examination of L. L. Cook, charged with the murder uf James Collins at Arlington, Or., phvsllcian teatifled that Collins could easily have been saved. It Is estimated that during the past mouth ; various railroad corporations have placed orders for 30,000,000 to 80, 000,000 feet of Washington fir, mainly lu bridge timbers, dock stuffs and ties The olenn-np of gold in the Klon dike this season will be (20,000,000 to (8fi, 000.000, aooordiug to the estimates of wull-known miners arriving from the Klondike. The Spring work well along iu the district, the only drawback being the scarcity of water, This fact, it is said, will result in de lavinu the clean-up until late in the summer. Kansas has 800 flour mills, with capacity of 10,000,000 barrels a year The proposed ocean cable between Conenhason to Iceland Will ne 404 miles long and cost about $850,000. ' Manv Americans who went to PariB with the expectation of making ex pen sen by working are penniless. The cenans office is to handle the statistics of the 75.000.000 people of this country with intricate electria machines A BLOODY SUNDAY Half a Dozen St. Louis Strik ers Shot Down. DEPUTY SHERIFFS DID SHOOTING toaral Outbreak In Varloaa Part lb 1 11 M Hill 1 Ualag trr4 fur Aetlva. Ft. Txiui, June 13. The day jnat ended ha been one of the moat event ful and bloody tinea the great atrike on tha bt. Umia Transit began more than a month ago. There were numerou encounter between atriknn and other Individual and the constituted author- I tea, resulting in lour deatlia and the wounding ol five or mora persons, iiiiwtly atrikera. The dead are: C. Kdward Thomaa, ttriklng con ductor on the ChoU-au avebaa line; alint in breast by deputy aherlff;' died on the way to hoapital. George ltlne, striking motorman 00 Deliuar avenue line; shot in abdomen by deputy sheriff; died at city hospital. Fred lioelim, aged oitlsen, shot and inatautly killtsl while standing la bia front yard by deputy aherlff. Kd Iturkhardt, striking conductor on Deliuar avenue line; shut In head; may din. The day waa quiet until this after' noon, when the police were taken off a numlwr of street car lines for tha par poae ol giving them a rest and to test the ability ol the Transit Company to orate w itliuut friction. The moat aeriou trouble broke out between 6 and 7 o'clock in (rout of the aix-story building on Washington ave nue, between iiruudway and Hlxtb streets, oconpied by the sheriff's poaae oomltatns a a barracks and bead quarter. Several hundred striker had gone to East St. Louia earlier in the day to attend a picnic given lor their benefit, and toward evening began returning home. The trouble was pre' cltatd when 150 striker in uniform and headed by a drum corps, came west on Washington avenue. In their caps, aoine of them had cards bearing these words: "Union or nothing; liberty or death." Jnat as they were passing tha bar racks, a cur of tha Park avenue division waa going went. A number of the men broke from the line and rushed lor the car which waa without the oaual police guard. A brick was thrown through the car window and aahot wa tired by somebody not known. At the lirst intimation of trouble the abend's posse awarmed from the build ing and surrounded the crowd of strik era, calling on them to disperse. Other abuts were fired. Then several depn ties turned loose theh repeating shot' gnus, loaded with bockahot. As far ta can be learned only four men in tha strikers' rank were hit. Not a deputy was wounded. Under the command of Colonel Car- ender, the deputies arrested 80 of the striker and took them into the barracks, where they were searched. Three re volvera and a number of pocket knives wore secured, and the prisoners Were taken to the Fonr court, where they were locked np pending an uive8tlga tion. The remainder of tha strikers tied, followed by a squad of mounted police that bad been summoned. They disponed without farther trouble. CHINA QETS WORSE. Civil Foreigner. In r.klnf Ara Cadar Arm to right. Tlan Tain, June 12. Tha 'special train that went to " examine ; the line aud reconnoiter returned last night The railway was found dear two miles beyond Vang Tsuh. The engineers, with the guards, walked a mile and half further Thoy found tha ties and two bridges burned, and the railway torn up. The first repair train, With Admiral Seymour and his staff, 650 British, Captain MoCalla'a 100 Americans, 40 Italians aud 25 Anstrians. left this morning at 9:30. A Ilotchkisa' and other guns were mounted ia the center of the train . A second train left at 11 o'clock, with 600 British, Japanese, Ituasian and French troops. Repairing matter aud new rails were taken along There are 81 foreign war vessels Taku. A message from Peking to tha admirals asserts that the situation hourly growing more dangerous for for eigners. All those at Peking bava taken refuge in Legation street. Tha civil males are under arms to fight With the regulars, if necessary. The ap proaches to Legation street are sur rounded by howling mobs of nndi cipllned soldiery, with cannon and bayonets. The international guard were holding oft tha mob, which screamed insults and threats. To Prospect Slbarlan Oaast. San Francisco, June 13. Tha Rus aiun syndicate headed by Count Charles Hogdanovituh, that is to prospeot tha Siberian coast for gold, sailed for 1 tha frozen north on tha chartered steamer Samoa today. There are about 40 in the party, all told, among them being 87 miners, headed by II. Roberts, of Comstock fume. Paul da Lamachkaff' sky also accompanies Count Bogdano' ituh. He was formerly a Russian mail agent, aud knows every bay and inlot on the Siberian coast. The vessel cleared for Alexander bay, and will be gone about six mouths. Kallwajr Nearly Destroyed. London, June 18. General Fores tier Walker wires to the war office from Cape Town, nnder today's date as follows: "Information received from natives early yesterday reports the ta- emy iu three columns near Honing Spruit. The railway has been almost completely destroyed between America and Koodeval," PLANS FOR CARNAGE ttUalasad ftjr Sunrtrf PUIplm ! Hisata Captured. Manila, June 13. The great ftore of Insurgent documents discovered liy General Fnnaton, together with the in teresting papers which Captain Hnuth lound in tha possession of General 1 an- taleon Garcia, throw interesting aide lights upon the Filipino government. Moat important of the lot i Agpinaldo's plan for the uprising of Manila, which was drawn by him at Maloloa, is in bia own handwriting in Tagalog language, and bears the date January , lMU'J. luned to the document wa a transla tion into Spanish done iu the baud of liuencainino. Aguinaldo' order wa add re used to bis "valiant sandatihauH" or bolo men. When the word for the prising was given they were to slay all American soldiers in Manila. The inhabitant were to repair to the house tops, whence they were to hurl down pon the insurgent heavy (urnlture and any iron implements they might have, heated red hot. Tney were also to have ready in their house hot water, hicb waa to be thrown upon panning soMlera, or squirted at them from bam boo syrtuga. J lie women and children were exhortod to help in preparing the watef and ladling oil, which they were to pass out to the men (or use. Alter ward the bolo men were to run through tha streets slashing American wher ever they met them. They were in trucWd not to stop to pick op the gun ol the soldiers they killed, those could be collected afterward. The bolo men we're warned to restrain themselves trotn the temptation to looting, be cause,.) Agniualdo explained, he was particular desirous to make good in the ere of foreign nations his assertions that the Filipino were disciplined and ivilized people. Particular injuuc tion were niven for protecting the banks, even the FpanislHiank. MAY GET A NEW TRIAL. Man and Woman Now Serving l.lfe Sen teuree for Muriler. Topeka, Kan. .June 13. The supreme Court has reopened the celebrated tnur der cases of (ieorge Dobba and Mrs. Amelia New, now serving life sentence in the Lansing penitentiary for the murder, near Eureka, in 1897. of Joseph New, the wotnan'a hnsband The court has granted a writ of coram nobis, which i, in effect, an order to the diatrict court to hear the applica tion for a new trial, which the lower court had refused. Doblw and Mr. New were convicted two year ago. 1 he theory was tnat they were in love, and conspired to get rid of New, so they might marry. Alter they had been iu the penitentiary for some time, Alvin Ballard, sent np for borne stealing, asserted that he could prove that Dobbs and Mrs. New were innocent, liitllard said Frank Allgood, now in the peuitentlary for forirerv. William lumei and he were. the real murderers. .Ballard told the story in detail, saying he belonged to a robber band organized by Allgood, and told the officers where they could find many stolen horse and vehicles. Bal lard was taken from the penitentiary to verify his assertions, and aided the officers in recovering much stuleu prop erty. On the strength of this evidence, application for a hearing iu the cases of Dobhs aud Mrs. New was made be fore the district court of Greenwood eoonty, where thev weieconvioted, but the motion was refused. Now that the tupieme court has overruled the lower courts' decision, the motion for a new trial will be heard at once. STRIKERS' PLANS. St. I.ouls Car Men Will 8em! 100,000 to Kqulp an Klaburale 'Itus Pyateiu. St. Louis, June 13. The ' Central Trades and Labor Union proposes to establish a bus line iu St. Louis, to compete with and run parallel to the lines of the St. Louis Transit Company, oil which there rs a strike, to be oier- ated by union men. At a tdeetiug at Walballa hall last uigbt,' the tnt step was i taken ! toward this end by the adoption of a resolution to raie at least f 100,000' to purchase aud equip the neoessarv bus system. i From the rea0ltion 'adopted aud the ileularations of the speakers, hence forth the policy will be to win the strike, if c possible, on the basis of a general boycott, which in all of its raniirlcatious is to reach to almost every iudustry iu the city. ' ihe (are on a bus for a distance equal to thnt traversed by the street-car line will be five cents. Monday opened quiet, after a reign of terror. With one exception, all the street-car lines are in operation. A revise list of casualties makes the list of dead throe, fatally wounded one, and 10 wounded. W. D. Malum, president of the Na tional Association of Amalgamated Street Railway Employes, has tele graphed President Gompera that street car men returning from a picnic Miu day evening, peacefully and unarmed, were fired upon by the sheriff's posse and sliot down like dogs. "London, June 18. The Daily Ex press has the following dispatch, dated Saturday from Prashu: "The. British relief force is now half way to Knmas' sle. The road Is partly under water, Many of the carriers have deserted, and before advancing turtner the re I lei cot umn must await carriers from Sierra Leone with stores." Flague lu Australia. Adelaide, South Australia,' June 13 A total of 23 deaths from the bubonio plague is officially reported from Rock' hampton, Queensland, Two fresh cases are reported here, one of which has proved fatal. British Occupied Kooinatlport, Lourenco Marques, June 12. It is reported that the British have oconpied Koomatiport, after fighting. President , . ... . Kroger is sain to nave a large quantity of personal valuables with htui CAPTURED BY BOERS Another British Battalion ia Dutch Hands. KOBE UTS' COMMUSICATIOS CUT Oleaster ta the Derbyshire Reftlmeat la thm Cftgeg-eiueMt a Stoodetnl, London, June 13. Lientenant-Gen- iral Kir Frederick Forestier-Walker, n command of the linea of communi :aion in South Africa, report that in the disaster to the Itritiah troops on Inue 7, at itoodeval, where the Boers ut lioberta' line of communication, he Fourth battalion of the rank and Hie of the Derbyshire regiment were til killed, wonnded or made prisoners, ixcept six enlisted men. Two officer tnd 15 met ere killed and five officer tnd 72 men wounded, many of them ieerely. The Boers returned the sounded to the British. Officers killed srere: Lieutenant-Colonel Baird-Doug-aaa ami Lieutenant Haw ley. The wounded included Colonel Wilkinson md Lieutenant Blsnchard, of theCana Han infantry. Forestier-Walker'l dis (wtcb in full Is as follows: "Cspe Town, June 13. The follow ing telegram has been received from Jolonel Knox: 'Kroonstad The fol lowing casualties are reported from Itoodeval, nnder data of Iibenostet river, June 8, received here by flag ol truce on June 10: The Fourth bat talion of tho Derbyshire regiment, the Sherwood Forest: Killed, Lieuten mt Baird-Don glass and Lieutenant Hawley and 15 of the rank and tile; wounded, Colonel Wilkinson, Captain Bailey, Lieutenants Hall, Lawder and Blanohard, and 60 of the rank and file; the Shropshire light infantry, one; Cape Pioneer Railroad regiment, seven; Ammunition Park, Koyal marines and Imperial Telegaphs, one each; Post- office corps, one.' gtonebam reports that many were severely wounded and the remaining fourth of the Derbyshire and details are prisoners, except six of the rank and file, who are in his camp. All the wonnded are in his camp, lately occu pied by the Fourth Derbyshires. In quiries are being made as to the names." It ia Inferred the Boem captured over 500 men, and as late as June 10, held positions cutting off the Biitish forces north of Kroonstad from reinforce' meut. APPEALS TO THE POWERS. Yd Imprisoned Chinese Emperor Beg for His Relief. London, Jnne 13. The Shanghai cor respondent of the Daily Express, tele graphing yesterday says: "Weng Tnng Ho, Emperor Kwang Hsu's tutor and confidant, who waa dismissed by the dowager empress after the coup d'etat in 1898, sends, with the special sanction of tha emperor and bis party, including three viceroys, a message to the people of the West. It is iu part as follows: 'Hi majesty is convinced through ample trustworthy sources, that the loyal support of many scores of mil lions of the Chinese will be accorded to his proposals for pn tting an end to the state of anarchy brought about by the action of the Empress Ilsi Tsi. The government of China being virtually uon-existent, the emperor proposes that the foreign powers, whose troops dom iuate the capital, shall remove his im' perial person from the palace, in which his majesty is confined a prisoner; shall declare Empress Hsi Tsi and her present ministers to be usurpers, and shall bring Emperor Kwang Su to Nan' kin, Wu Chang or Shanghai, which ever the said foieigu powers ' deem to be the most suitable situation for the new capital of the Chinese empire un der the new conditions. It is proposed bv his majestv and his adviser that the foieigu powers should declare joint protectorate and undertake the task of governing the country through his majestv. "The message suggests, that the pro tectorate shun Id abolish certain boards in i'okiu, appoint new ministers, abol is li the existing so-called army, estab lish a gendarmerie ' nnder foreign olli cers, take control oi we customs, posts and telegraphs and work them through Chinese officials, establish uniform curVency, readjust taxation' and insurt the freedom of religion. Spokane, Wash., 'June 13. O. B Masterson, a young business : man oi Kathdrum, Idaho, eloped this morning with Claru, the youngest ' daughter ol W. A. Hart, a wealthy banker of that city. The young couple, accompanied by a party of friends and Probate Judge Bradv, look the' North Coast Limited of the Norhern Paciflo at Rath drum. The train was late, and, soon after leaving the Btation started at 62-mile gait. The wedding party bur ried to the observation car, where Judgt Brady quickly pronounced the words which made the oonple man and wife, Kathdrum is but seven miles east of th Washington state line, so there could be no delay, aa the judges' jurisdiction extended only to the county line. Ha spoko the final words jnst in time the train was in Washington before tha congratulations could be spoken. Cava In at the United Verde. Jerome, Aria., June 13. This morn ing aliout 1 o'olock there was a serious cave in on the 600-foot level of the United Verde mine, in which John Gray, of- Salt Lake, and Jed Torreno lost their lives, and ' Robert Northers, of London, was slightly injured. James Meickle, a laborer, had his arm aud thigh broken! and received internal injuries which are likely to prove fatal. The accident ooourred in what waa - I -I . I.! 1. -.if... A In tl, supposou vul.oi.uo . u FIRE IN A COOPERAGE. (hra Men Killed and Bight Bamed Maimed. New York, June 14. Three men were killed, eight so badly burned or maimed that they are In the hospital and three other men are misting as tha result of a fire in the cooperage estab lishment of Paol Weidmsnn, at North Eleventh street and Wythe avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tonight. The property loss ia variously estimated at from 75,0OO to 250,000. Tha dead are: Aagost Benedict, 69 years old, burned so badly that be died soon after being taken from the building. John M. Lockwood, 66 years old, died from being crushed by falling tim ber. Unknown man burned t J death. The building waa four stories high and there were over 100 employes in the place at the time. Many of these leaped from tha windows. It is said at least two-score of people dropped before the firemen had arrived. When they came many were hanging from the upper windows. August Benedict, cooper, was hanging out of one of the indows with all of bis clothine aflame. He held on to the ledge while the ladder was being run np to him. He was so badly burned when be waa taken down that he died half an hour afterward. John M. Lockwood had his chest crushed by a falling timber and died in the Laatern District hos pital about 1 1 o'clock tonight. The unknown man was taken from the burned building late tonight and the body waa so badly charred that identi fication waa impossible. SEVEN WERE DROWNED. Fata of a Party Bonnd for tha Lowa ' Tokoa. Seattle, Wash., Jnne 14. The rumor of a wholesale drowning on Windy aim, Lake Bennett, is told in the latest Alaska papers arriving by tha steamer Rosalie today. Seven were in one party, who are believed to have gone down about the first of the month, in the overturning of a scow. The news waa teleiaaphed from Tagish to Skagway by a mounted police officer. According to information which was received at Skagway, it is said that the names of the people who may have been in the scow are as follows: W. G. Mergeau, Mrs. Warner, Joe Rose, Mr. Playmate, C. E. Pea body, and two men whose names could not be learned. AH were from Skagway. Sii bead of cattle and a quantity of provisions made np the cargo with which the craft was loaded, it is said that the scow waa too heavily loaded. A strong wind caught the craft at Big indy, and the cattle, becoming excit ed, overturned the craft. All are said to have perished. Mr. Mergeau was formerlyfproprietor of the California market in Skagway, Mrs. Warner ran the Pneet Sound les- taurant in the same place. The occu pations of the others are not given. Charged With Conspiracy. Chicago, June 14. Captain George Wellington Streeter, whose cohorts re cently took possession of "The District of Lake Michigan" and defied the whole police force, was today held to the criminal court, charged with con spiracy, accessory before the fact any assault. The "District of Lake M.chi gan" ia the name given by Streetei to land which haa been formed by dump' ing in the lake off the shore. Captain Streeter took possession of it when it was a mere sand bar. A recent at tempt to oust some of the captain's fol lowers, who bad entrenched themselves on the land, resulted in some shooting and other riotous acts. The land is now valued at many millions of dollars and measures about 40 acres. Chicago Bricklayer Strike. Chicago, Jnne 14. Over 300 brick layers employed by the city in the con' sanction of trie intercepting sewer system, the building of electrical con duits, and other improvements going on in various parts of the city, were called out by their unions today, the result being the almost complete stop page of the work on public improve ments, leaving miles of streets torn up for the sewer and conduit systems in an almost impassable condition. The trouble Is said to have arisen over the letting of a minor contract to a con tractor who is persona non grata with the union. President or Chile I Dying. Wa8hinngto. June 14. The state department received the following dis patoh today from United States Min ister Wilson, at Santiago de Chile: "Santiago, June 14. Secretary of State: President Errazurize had a third and dangerous attack of paralysis yesterday. Us death is simply a ques tion of time. The executive .functions were transferred to Prime Minister Al bano, as provided bv the constitution. WILSON." Escaped From Shipboard. San Francisco, June 14. The Ex aminer asserts that of a band of 32 Jap anese immigrants who weia recently deported on the steamer Thyra, at least four, ftnd possibly 20, are already back in this state. One of them has been identified and is now in oustody. The men are supposed to have left the Thyra aft Portland or Astoria, where the vessel touched, but the northern customs officers declare that this con Id not have been the case. Good Bonds Building. New York, June 14. General Roy Stone, addressing the Long Island Good Roads Association, advocated the postal savings bank system for raising money to be applied to the building of good roads. He also discussed the project for a system of great trans-continental highways. Vranna ennanmn ST. fllld ofin oallnna ' ' ' a....vw 0l wine alinuanyi equal to 84.26 gal Ions per capita of population. SAN MIGUEL1 TAKEN General Grant Reports Cap ture of Stronghold. SO AMERICANS WF.EF, KILLED important rgal Leaders Here Cugbllelr of flllplnevl tor Education. Manila, Jnne 14. General Grant, who led reinforcements with' artillery against the insurgents in tha moon taina east of San Miguel, report tha capture of the rebel stronghold after fonr horrrs' fighting. The rebels were scattered and tha Americans are pur ruing them. General Grant's column had no casualties. Kager to Leara. Washington, Jun 14. During Gen eral Otis' afternoon at the war depart ment, in conference with the head of the various departments in regard to the condition and needs of their de partments in the Philippines, he bad many questions to answer in bis inter course with his friends respecting pres ent and future conditions in tha Philip pines, and of these ha talked freely. He made one statement in particular which came as a distinct surprise, in view of the fact that be haa spent a year and a half ia fighting the Fili pinos, for he declared that these same Filipinos' were without question the rery best ol any of " the Asiatio races living on the Pacific coast and islands. He paid a high tribute to their acquisi tiveness, saying that young and old were alike anxious to learn from the Americans, and qnick to do so if given an opportunity. ine aemana tor icbool on the American plan waa in satiable. It bad not been possible to secure a sufficient supply of Spanish- American text books, the market hav ing been denuded of such. When the book-hungry Filipinos were told this, they begged for Ameri can school books, and declared that their children could ' learn from tbem even without the Spanish text a&d translations. General Oti found to bis astonishment that such was the case,' and say that in the coarse of a very few months the Filipino children pick op a fair knowledge of English. Even the old natives con the text book in the effort to fir English phrase in their minds. Tber waa a dearth of teachers, too, General Ots often having to use the soldiers in his ranks who knew a little Spanish and so were suit able as detail for teachers. .General Otis said he looked upon this educational movement as tha only solu tion of the Philippine problem', and was confident that the spread of American ideas through the Filipino schools would in the end make good citizens of the Fflfplnos. General Otis was positively of the opinion that the . American ; forces in the Philippines at present were suffi cient for all Deeds. Of course, he said, General ' Mac Arthur' present army could not furnish a. guard to protect every Filipino household from the Ladrones; to do that would require a force of not less than 200,000 troops, snd even then the . task would occupy many years. As a matter of fact, he laid, ' 5 pain bad spent several'centuries in tha effort to stamp out tha Ladrones in the Philippine, group, and there waa reason to believe that those brigands are scarcely more numerous now than they were during the Spanish occupa tion, when the islands were nominally at peace with Spain. 1 General Otis waa confident, however, that conditions would steadily improve, and that little by little these robber bands would! be driven away. Mean while, he admitted that it Waa often Llangerous lor Filipinos of . the better class, whose interests naturally lay in American sovereignty, to admit their preferences, for they were subject in that case to assassination, i to the losa of property and to persecution, insti gated by various elements in the popu lation to whom American occupation was obnoxious. CHINA'S TREACHERY. Japanese OOlclal Slain by the Kmpresa' ' Body Quartl. London, June 14. The Times, in an extra edition, publishes the following dispatch from Peking, dated Jnne 13: "The chancellor of the Japanese lega tion, Sugyama Akra, while proceeding alone and unprotected, on official duty, was brutally murdered by soldiers of Tung Fun Siang, the favorite body guard of the empress,; at tha main gate railroad station yesterday. ' "The foreign reinforcements are daily expected. The present isolated position at Peking, the destruction of foreign property in the tsountry, and the insecurity of Ufa are directly at tributable to the treachery of tha Chi nese government." Intantlno Released. San Jose, Cal., June 14. Nick In- fantino, who was brought back from Portland, Or., by tha sheriff, on a charge of grand larceny in the alleged , stealing of JflOO from Jose Wilson, who married him here, has "been re leased by Justice Rosenthal for want of evidence. . . Immigrant on Tramp Steamers. New York, June1 14. Assistant Sec retary of the Treasury Taylor may issue regulations to exclude all immigrant arriving in the United fjtates on tramp steamships, according to a Washington correspondent ol tha Herald.; Under the law, immigrants who oome within the classes not allowed to enter the United States must be returned when possible on tha (teamen bringing them., In the caae of a tramp itaam ship, (t is very difficult W enforce this provision. - ;