TTr-JT MILL NO. 30. VOL. Till. IIILL8BOCO, OBEGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBEB 10, 1901. TKe SBR0 EVENTSOFTHEDAY INTEN8E COLO OF WINTER. NEWS OF THE STATE FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS THE WORLD. OF Commander Randall Say Troop Deteriorate to the Climate. Washington, Oct. 10. The war de partment ha made ulil!o the annual rKirt of Brigadier General George H. Kandall, commanding the depart moiit of Alaska. General Randall lay much str on the rigor of an Alaskan winter. The cold he tayi la intense ami continue to from No vember to April, with severe and fre quent blizzard. There 1 no dock age for ocean veaaoU at the supply iMirt. Fort Ht. Michael, and all nun- Child liialantly killed on the West ,,Uus must he lightered from aliipa In A Comprehensive Review of the Important rUalas of th Pari Week Proamtee la Condensed form WhkJi ll Mi UUly to Prove of Merest lo 0tr Many Readers, CoaamercUl end Financial Happmingi of Ink portents A Brief Review of tht Growth end Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Ow Thrhrlnf, Commonwealth nJ about 600 people gathered there. LaUat Market Report I Junt before the 1 o'clock service began. Tip Chad well went to the tower haa been built for the new spring. 60 yard from the church. Bide railroad. Caleb Power' atond trial 0ened at ueorgeiwon, Two Negro murderers were hanged at Philadelphia. Colombian rthol 11 rod on a Brltlih steamer at Tumaco. Hhamrock will remain in America ml race next summer. Galveston ld rain and wind ttorm. The great Aapen tunnel on the Union Pacific la completed. General Chaffee temla the lint of casualties in Kumar maeaacre Resident of full Win a war of extermination on donor t how Four trainmen were killed in a wreck on tht New York Central. Ntmsatlon waa iprung in the trial of ex-Chief JuUee Bcott, of vt sailing ton. Delano stamp mill at Boulder, Colo., dctro)ul by lire. Lo $100, 000. A sheriff' wife in Indiana died from the effect of fright when a mob at tucked the jail the 0on. If the weather i rough the work ol lightering become im possible. General Kandull lay that the moat important work in the depart- inent, after providing for the houaing and aupiily of trooiia, wa that of con structing the military telegraph line and military road through Alaaka, The total length of the Hue conitruct- I . , .. . Iff Allft . i .. ..... . i ra up w AUKiiat it waa mwui w viaiieu 7 a..M.er ,. - The work U being nuahed a fast aejpownble, and by the clone ol navi nation thU year it ii hoped that tul egraphio communication Iwtween Fort Ht. Michael and Fort Gibbon, 420 mile diatant, will have been es tablished. The constructing of these line, General Randall says, I attend ed with many dirtilullii peculiar to an Arctic climate. Owing to the imitation of army poaU and to the lack of facilitte fur in atruction in drill and for convening court-martial. General Randall aay, troop left to servo there for several year muni deteriorate in military erll ciency. Ho, therefore, reconimenda that troop stationed in Alaska tie relieved every two years, and that only men with more thau two year to aerve be ordered there. In con- lire bell at hlgin. RUgh Morgan wa there at the The Independence school district spring, and began fimg at Chadwell, a voted to maintuin a high sochol. Both faction immedately gathered, ! Mhil.it rW and the fight lasted half an hour. prize at the Pan-American ex position. "erirr Jones atwmpteo. w arrest am jne naaer wuy eiecirio ugnt pian ..... . rh.Am,,t . ,iw1 ... . a . i I aai not aaownvaai vav win ue eiiuippea wiin a new ayna- , . i,,n ,,. mi A John Day correspondent lay that Ijmt Chrbtma they met at Walnut the bridge at Beech Creek colUiwed Hill. Va.. when a pitched battle Tim Bniinnnr-enient of the aeoeaaion of the new Ameer of Afghanistan wa elusion Ueneral Kandall aav: "Ihe Vtmi -w a i ra vw . , wa r.-.-. i 1 .... I - .ninli.,MUi U. . . . a . Wirt- I V" iirtw umi m iiiituuii.M wii' PoinmiK-rer f j , , . , nroUtion Time of payment of the ranaom of of neraon and nrooert v and the estah- Mia Stone, the missionary, ha been Muiienl of gootl order in the terri tory. Tlirs ha been accomplished without . friction with the civil au extended one month. Roosevelt wilt 1 asked to end the Bouth African war by American ym. pathixer of the Hour. Ixrd Pauncefote will soon join 8c rotary Hay to put the flniahing louche to a canal treaty. Governor Rocers. of Washington, will not Interfere in behalf ol James (I. Green, convicted of numler. Ohio woman is tuspected to have murdered 14 people. Hir Thorn Liplon will try again for the Ameri ran cup, Ameer of Afmniatan is dead. Eng land is much disturUnl over the new, a it will encourage tho llocr to pro long the war, Captain Connell had been warned of the Dalangtga plot. v There is intense feeling against In turgenU in army oirclea, A sensational k dnanins case i re ported from Philadelphia. Ciok-oax' work wa praised at a meeting of Indon anarohitt. ihiiritios. and In harmony, it thouEht, with the sentiment of all law-abiding and wlf-respecting cut- xen." RANSOM TO BE PAID. Moaty for MIm Stoaa'a Rmm to m Ad. vaactd by UalU4 Statu. Paris, Oct. 10. A letter received by the lis va agency from Bulonica, dated Oetolier fl. y: The Ameriean cotiiui here Ima just reccivwl order to make the ar raiiKement with the vali (Kovernor) for tho payment ol the ransom ol MisaHUme. The United 8tutewill advance tho money, afterward set' tliins with Turkey. "The Turkish authorituia nave miulu mi morons arrest among the Hultnrmn population, without dm tinction of religion, and nearly all have boon put to torture in the hope of abstracting information. A prison- m i rmul tlimtrt auiil an lm,li.r. Tho Uto deiMirtmont urgoti tne tndii m existed twtween the proU' I tuiit. ami tlin MuMWliinn an cnmtliit Ameriean Mission board to raise mnsom for Miss Stone. . Kintf Edward i uflering from lumbago. Periou riot occurred at the Hun garian elections, Kitchener attack the British gov ernmcnt's war policy. Sugar trust uiako a deep out in manufactured product. Flanagan broke the hammer-throw ing record at Louisville. Columbia won tho third race and the series from the Bhamrook, The speedy collapse of tho Boer re sistance i expeotod by the British war ofllce. Sunday-closing movement in Lewi county, Wash., declared at an end by the reformer. Members of the Macedonian com mittee were implicated in tho M no tion of Miss Btono. Banker Bush, of Salem, files now and stronger charges against ex-State Treasurer Mctschan Martial law will be declared at Cape I ports, In attacks on two British fort 350 Boer wore killed. Anarchist Johann Most wa die charged from oustody. President appointed Col. Wm. H, Bisbee a brigadier general of the regu lar army, The5 Toamsters' and Longshore men's strike at San Francisco ha been settled I BLOODY FIGHT AT A CHURCH. HIT BRITISH SHIP TEM8 OF INTERE8T FROM ALL - PART8 OF OREGON. ;rtily 'tad Cause th Death of Four Me Mart Troubl Expected. Knoxville, Tenn., Uct. v. In a bloody fight at the Union Baptist church, at Big Springs, 10 mile from Taxewell, Tenn., four men were killed, two mortally wounded, and ! three wounded less serioualy. There wa preaching at the church COLOMBIAN REBEL8 FEAR NOT THE ENGLISH FLAG. The British Cruiser Icarus Uaves Probably For Tusuco, to lavestigat Die bidden The Sttustlea ea the Uthoua is Ucahaaged sad Quiet No Freight Ac FOUR TRAINMEN KILLED A VERY'SHiTDEVIL Rear. End CallUioa of Freight Trains oa the last Monday, Railroads announce that their fu ure policy will be the industrial devel opment of Oregon. Oregon postoffioe returns for the fiscal year show a marked increase over the previous year. Edward Everett Young urge special session of the legislature ensued, in which several were killed. Eighteen month ago they met near the Hancock line. Fighting followed and one waa killed. Both the Chad- well and Morgan are prosperous and influential, and have large families and all their member are fearless. Report of a Second Claih. Middlesboro. Ky.. Oct. 9. A ve to act on the Lewis and Clark ccnten- port reached here tonight by way of niai. - Tazewell. Tenn.. that a second clash It is reoorted from Prineville that between the Chadwell and Morgan the farm reaideima of J. 8. McMoen. faction had occurred Isle this atter- nr Imonta. burned recently, noon, but the atory is unconfirmed. with all of the content excepting a At noon, when a horseman arrived few minor article. The building here from Ewiirg, Va , five miles from wo almost new. big Springs, no more trouble hod . , , . ., . occurred, although the leeling was neverai vuinesa uuriuams .,.' nni, f..i i,.,; won urivvii iiiw .iiw vivr irum u , , . - I .11 II . Ii-t 1" culinary aniuiiu mvuj is. a. istrick caught one under a bush, and Mr. A. J. Hodge captured one in the alley near his house. their homes, and armed to tho teeth. Many tielieve theyare waiting for darkness to re new 'the trouble. Two member ot each faction came to Cumberland DOOMED TO THE GALLOWS The light testing plant of the Ah- Oao today and secured a hirae supply lanu un company, at wora soum oi 0r ammunition. town, has been having it share of diUlcultica, and last Monday encoun tered come boulder that put the tool out of order for several hours, General prosperity is reported from the Grand Hondo valley, Chinese pheasaut are unusually plentiful in Linn county, Farmers about Salem refuse to'sell wheat at 45 cent a bushel. The business portion of Gresham wo almost wiped out by Ore. Governor Rogesr Declares Emphatically That tie WII Not Interfere. Olympia, Wash., Oct. 9. James O. Green, who i under sentence of death for the murder of E. C. Ben jamin, in Skamania county, lost March, need not base any hopes on a commutation of his sentence by Colon, Colombia, Oct. 10. Previ ou cabling of this matter prevented). A force of Liberal numbering at least 250 attacked Morro island, coin- manding the entrance to the port of Tumaco, September 24. The island hod all along been garrisoned with less than 100 troops, well supplied with arm and ammunition and com missary stores, including more than 150 head of cattle and other provia- icns in proportion. The landing wo effected before daybreak by mean of canoes. Simultaneously the island was stormed from the -other end by Lib erals on the mainland. Morro island is surrounded by shallow sand banks, and the only means of approaching Tumaco is by the narrow river which is within easy ranee of the island. The British steamer Quito, bound from Guayaquil for Panama, and touch' ing at ports, between, anchored off Morro island the night of September 20, and weighing anchor at daybreak started up the stream toward Tumaco. The rebels fired a shot across ber bows. Suspecting the situation she immediately turned, but rille shots and one cannon continued to be fired wpre at ber, the former striking her several times, and the latter once, making a hole right through her above the water mark, though the damage in other respects wa slight. The Quito then steamed to the farthest point tho tide would permit and again an. chored. The firing wasnnow resumed, but it ceased after a few moments, the Liberals having discovered .the lm prudence of their action. It is significant that shortly after the Quito incident became known the British ship "Icarus left Panama for a destination not made public, but presumably Tumaco. The steamship agents have been officially notified not to accept freight at the port. The situation on the isthmus is unchanged and quiet. Logansport, Ind., Oct. 8. Four Panhandle trainmen met death near Onward, 14 mile southeast of here in a rear-end collision of freight trains, the bodies of three being taken out badly mutilated and the fourth being almost entirely consumed by fire. During the night, Conductor Wea ver, in charge of the second section of train No. 79, an engine and two cabooses, left Hartiord City for Lo gansport. In the n ar caboose were Galbreath, Brosiu and Greely, who had been working on the gravel train at Hartford City and who were en route to this city to ipend Sunday with their families. They were all asleep when the tram stopped near Onward to make up steam. The flagman wa sent out to watch for the third section from the east, and no danger waa thought of until the train loomed up too close lor any to escape except Weaver, who jumped and got off uninjured. The third section, with Engineer John Patterson, bod attained a high "speed, and when it struck the rear caboose the engine reared into the air, turned clear around and came down on its side in the ditch, smashing a number of car into kindling wood and burning in the debris the sleeping trainmen and the fireman. OHIO WOMAN CHARGED WITH FOURTEEN MUR0ER8. EXCITEMENT AT PUEBLO. Rmh .trikea are Womimr fremicnt Governor Rogers. The governor made in the Cable Cove district. A Koachurg Chinaman ho had both leg amputated below the knee. A drunken man was robbed of $400 in the depot waiting room at Rose- burg. Hop about Woodburn are begin ning to move freely at about 10 cent per pound. that clear this afternoon when he in formed newspaper correspondent that he would not interfere in the carrying out of the execution of the prisoner. Efforts have been made to induce the governor to save Green from the gallows. Two weeks ago two ministers, member of tho Meth odist Episcopal conference, held in this city, called on the governor and asked him if a petition for executive Astoria has not school room enough clemency would be ot any avail. The Outrages on British Subects. Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 10. The newspaper here print a number of letters from Bocas del Toro and other ports of Colombia, complaining of outrages on British subjects, includ ing women. Strong appeals are made to the government to send a warship for their protection, and also to demand compensation. Over 100 refugee have arrived here from Colon. tee, and that Miss Stono was even acting i" concert with them with the view of obtaining fund for political-religious propaganda. Those declarations, wrung from Diuiitri uu der torture, aro valueless, n hat certain is that the captain of the band designated for the payment of the ransom a place in the proximity of the Roumanian frontier, which prove that lie hopes to escape the Turkish police, and that the Bulga rian police do not cause him anxiety. "The condition of affairs is shown by the fact that five or six bands ot brigand of li to la men each have become so bold between Strumitis and Kuprili that the olflcials of tho Oriental railroad . have requested the military authorities to reinforce the troop guarding the track and bridges." CZOLG08Z NOT TO BE 8EEN. to accommodate her increased school population. Placer miner on Hungry creek near Grant Fas .make from 5 to $10 per day, Great interest is manifested by Um atilla farmers in the fair to be held at Pendleton. The men who robbed the dining car at Boseburg have beeu arrested in San Francisco. At tho government fish hatchery on the Clackamas over 240,000 salmon egg were taken in one day. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla, nominal 536163 Wo : bluestem, 54c ; valley, 54, Flour best grades, 92.oOS.oU per barrel: graham, fS.oU Oats Old, percental, Barley Feed, $158 15.60; brewing, $18.00 per ton. Northermoit Offlc In the World Eitabliihed year over the vear before was in the At Point Barrow. immigration from Southern Italy rw a P.,ffi t alono. The number of returning V ashington, Oct. 8. Postoffice In- ,,' ,,.,, , 1n R M. . w u ii i . i i audi i -DivJii vo oinuvio nv v iv t-vn v specior oonii jr. viun. .... re.rneu . . . ::.:-In the klaska" Hob. re to thX Q,W li vih . 4i :M n., mere Biiwais iu w au nianwinuro in- MillstufTs-Bran. $17 9 18 ; mid- " crea8e Ver lost year, but the report dlinm. $20(821 ; shorta, $1920; chop, !ln rr!.: $16. , 3' "The conclusion unfortunately is Hav-Timothv. $1113: clover. ' "L' ' 'unavoidable that our immigration is $79.50; Oregon wild hay, $56 per wtMM the aW 'T. office in the United Aisauln Will Gal No Notoriety While In Prison, Albany, Oct. 10. State Bupcrin tendent of Prisons Collins has given orders that Cozlgoss, the murderer of Presiont Mc Kin ley, must not be the subject of notoriety while in Auburn prison awaiting electrocution, lie must not be seen, and visitors must not lo pormitted to enter any part of the prison whoro knowledge might lie gained of his location. The wanton of tho prison hifs been instructed to Inform the guards and ' other em ployes of the prison that tho divulg imr of any information concern mc The Industrial commission has Is- him or hi doings will be considered a.iwl a renort on Ubor legislation at grave ureacn oi uisoipuno, aim win ...... - - a 11. .1 I l..: 1 1. .-1 home and abroad. """""K-y. Honrs attacked Kekewtoh'i oamp uu,i.ii i WM-ki mim. near Pretoria and were repuweu, wun Victoria, B. C, Oct. 10. Work heavy low on both side. hasbeon resumed in tho tunnol at the iTnrrnwina details wore -eonnected extension mines this morning, a com with the slaughter of American in mittoe of miners having Inspected it fiftmar. The president of Balangiga and reported it to bo froo from go " . I i . II .m i.. ...... iu.. I.. i,.,i nauAiiit in uerson. A neavy anu uiimp. ji win ue soiuu mne u force is being sent to punish the fore they are able to open portions of relicts. tho mine in which the bodies aro. Accordng to tho anthropologist, Al fredo Nicefore, a North Italian differs from a German than he docs from ft Clcillian. At a historio place not far from Albany, N. Y., a oertaln young man who is fond of having his name ap tuinr wherever it will bo seen, care- fully carved his initials, whioh hap pened to bo "A. 8." Some mean por- nil WrillU UUUUKI.V II1IMVI iv, thirds of tho truth." Charged With Train Wrecking. Middlesboro, Ky., Oct. 10. A wreck on tho Louisville & Ninshvillo rail road at Wasola,Ky.,sovon miles north of here, hist niirht, resulted in the death of Engineer James Schumnto, of Middlesboro, Jmnes Halo, a brake' man. was perhaps fatally injured The wreck was caused by a cross-tie lieing plaoed on the track, A man was arrested at Wasoln charged with the crime. governor was emphatio in stating that he wouldn't interfere. In the past it has been the custom where the trial judge and prosecuting attorney asked for commutation, for the governor to grant it, but in the cose of Green the governor said today that even if the judge who tried Green and the attorney who prosecuted him were w loin in a petition ior clemen cy, it would not oe graniea. -n was a willful murder, and there were no extenuating circumstances, and I will not under any circumstances inter fere," said the governor. Frequent Murderous Assaults Upon Womea sad Girls. Pueblo, Colo., Cv, 8. Thi city is in great excitement over a series of murderous assault upon women and girls. From what can be learned they seem to have been committed by tne same person, a Negro or very dark white man with his face black' ened. Last night Mrs. J. P. Hen derson wa a victim, being half killed with a club while alone in her borne, the assailant having induced her to admit him by pretending he had a telegram. He stole a revolver when he departed. Later, a eirl in a fara ily named Hamilton was terribly choked by a man who had forced his way in. He left on the bed where the girl had been sleeping, the same re volver stolen at the other place. Mrs. Hickey, who was struck down while riding a bicycle two night ago is still at the point of death with a frac tured skull and can give no clear ac count of what occurred. Two very young girls have recently been victims of assaults of the most atrocious des cription. In another case a Negro who seized a young lady on the porch of her home, was chased two blocks by a young man who came out, but escaped. The police have been unable to get any definite infor mation. Report comes late tonight another cose, which is now being investigated. INSPECTION IS FAULTY. IMMIGRATION REPORT About Half the Paisenjfers Arriving Neither Read Nor Write. Can ALASKA POSTAL 8TATION. Washington, Oct. 10. The annual report of Thomas Fitch, commission er of immigration at New York, has been received at the treasury depart ment. The report shows that the number of aliens who arrived during the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1901, was 453,496. There were also 113,- 056 citizens of the United States who arrived from abroad. From a com parison of the steerage immigration for the lost two years it is shown that nearly 30,000 of the increase of last ton. Butter Fancy creamery, !527c; dairy, 1820o; store, 12J15 per pound. Ebb Storage zuc iresn zaazao Cheese Full cream, twins, 12W( 13o; Young America, 13H14o per nound. Poultry Chiokens, mixed, $3,00(9 4.00: hens, $4.004.50; dressed, 10(4 Ho per pound; springs, i.ws.ou per dozen ; ducks, $3 for old ; $3.00 94.00 tor young; geenn, ewi per dozen; turkeys, live, 12015c; dressed, 10(4 12 Ho per pound. Mutton l.amM, c, gross; dressed, 6 6 Ho per pound; sheep, 13.25. gross; dressed, 6o per lb. Hog oross. heavy, frjQto.zo; States and what is probably the' northernmost post- office in the world. This is at Point Barrow, where Bev. Dr. H. Rich mond Marsh, the missionary at the little settlement, was appointed post- mostor. This place, where the north ernmost newspaper in the world is published once a year, will receive the mails onco a year by the united States revenue cutter. Heretofore, Not only are we drawing more and more from the countries were illiteracy is high but also the immigrants themselves are showing higher per centages of illiteracy. Nearly one- half of our steerage immigrants now present an illiteracy of from 40 to over 50 per cent." Residence of Claui Sprtckels Robbed. San Francisco, Oct. 10. The resi- tho few wkites m the vicinity have denee of Clans fcpreckels, corner of had to send for their mail 700 miles, Clay 1st. and Van Ness avenue, was en and often much further.. tered by burglars last evening. They forced a rear window while the family For Constitutional Convention. were at dinner, went upstairs and w .. rw fW n Tim giunereu iu lewe.ry ainouiiwi.s ' . r T : J. value to fully $5,000. Not until late people of Connecticut today voted! .....o' light, $4. 7Do; dressed, i$ixo per tor a constitutional convention, tne l w t th b lars wag found J I t ' Ol AAA m 1 puunu. majority oemg uvwr ii,wu, iiwy vai Mma.il. nrieufl' lartTA. I 1 . t , m i v B-i - a an vni.oii in iiLvnr m iwii MiiHtiiHi nun- i - a rv 7We nor pound. . "I who vast noooety, BeVf-lGross top steers, $3.504.00 ; 8 "onai , "ec'u.ng u 0cti9A $2 500 gold dust oowi and heifers, $3.003.50; dressed 61001 B"" " " V"""r robbery was oommitted on the Yukon EajiiieeriKg Experts Report oa Condition of Brooklyn Bridge. New York, Oct. 8. District attor ney Philbin ha made publio the re port of dwm Duryea and Joseph Mayer, the special engineering experts appointed by him to look into the condition of the Brooklyn bridge after the breaking of several suspender rods and suspender bands July 24 last. These experts were appointed to make this report with a view to pre senting the matter to the grand jury, if it should be found that the bridge department had been negligent. The experts found that the inspection of the structure, as maintained by the bridge department is faulty, but that the bridge is now practically as strong as when completed. One trouble that the moving loads which cross the bridge have increased so rapidly that the structure must be strength ened. The accident of July 24 found to have been due to the wind pressure blowing against the plat' form cars, causing a pressure trans verse to the bridge, thus causing the rods to bend. Had careful inspection been maintained, the bending - and brealing would have been prevented. The experts maintain that the in spection of the brigde should be done by engineers, and not by mechanics, as at present. They find that the safety of the bridge can be increased by remedying the certain defects in the design. They hasten to say, how ever, that they do not criticise the designer, and call attention to the fact that since his structure was de signed, great advancement has been made in such work. list Includes Four Haaiaada, Flv CWMraa and On Setter AN tfc Death An Strangely Alike and Air BeJamd to Have Been Caused ky Amafc and Cf peris Poisoning. Dayton, Ohio, Oct 9. Mr. J. A. Witmer.a widow residing in thi city, haa been arrested by the police art the instigation of the coroner, and bheld prisoner at the central station pending an investigation into very seriuot charges. Mrs.Witmer, the police say, is tus pected of 14 murder, the list includ ing four husbands, five children, one sister and four members of different families in which ihe was employed as housekeeper. The last supposed victim was her sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh, who died a week ago under mysterious circum stances. An . autopsy performed at the request of Mr. Witmer's mother. who came here from Detroit, is said to have disclosed the presence ol arsenic and copperas poisoning in the stom ach. Following closely upon the death of her first hushaud. Fred ' Schweger, came, according to police department data, the death of two children. The second husband died -suddenly several years after the mar riage, and three children of this mar rage died in rapid J succession. The third husband of Mrs. Witmer was William Stowe.who died at Middleton under symptoms, it is stated, of arsenic poisoning. Mr.Stowe's death e rented a sensation, and was the subject of an inverstigation by the coroner. . It was shortly after Mr. Btowe's death that Mrs. Witmer ctme to Dayton. She afterward assumed the duties q housekeeper for Charles K. Keller, a widower. Keller died suddenly, and the information since gained by the coroner concerning Keller's death is that his ailment was similar to that of a person affected by poison. She next acted as housekeeper for John A. Wenz, an East End druggist. ! Wens died in September one year ago. The doctors attributed his death to blood poisoning, but now tell the coroner that tbey were dissatisfied with their diagnosis at the time. Two month before Mr. W ens' death his 4-year old son died suddenly.- : Mrs.' 8towe next resided with a Mr. and Mrs, Gabler, on Best street, Riveiside. There two persons died suddenly and the coroner now says their sickness was of the nature of arsenic ' poison ing. Her lost husband, A. J.Witmer, died last April. In each instance death was somewhat sudden, and the oases were all strangely alike. The prisoner is 47 years of age and formerly lived in Middletont this state. she has two sons in the Philip pines, and a sister, it is stated, in New York asylum. No Conceivable motive for the suspcted ; crimes - has been disclosed. Drugs which were found in the house occupied by Mrs. Witmer are in the possession of the police and will be examined. A DASTARDLY CRIME. beef. 56Wo per pound Hops Hho per pound. Wool Valley, ll13Xo ; Eastern Oregon, 8 12o; mohair, 2021o per pound. Potatoes $1$1.15 per took. The Seine is 407 miles in length and during the lower part of its course frequently attains a width of a mile. Next in cost to the war of tho re bellion was the Franco-Prussian war in 1870. It cost in round numbers $2,500,000,000. There aro hints from Paris of the return of the once fashionable fervon iere a jewel to be worn on the fore head and held in place either by a velvet hand or a fillet of gold. instead of a majority, and in favor of steamer White Horse on her last voy- an increase in senatorial representa- age up the Yukon from Dawson. - The tion. In the little town elections, in treasure was owned by Dr. P. D. 162 of the 168 towns, the Republicans Carper, who arrived in Seattle today carried 112 towns, the democrats 43, from the north. The dust was a por- seven towns being missing. tion of a $25,000 shipment. Missing Texas Editor Found Insane. . New York, Oct, 9. Luther S. Bed ford, the Southern editor who failed to keep an engagement with Key. Dr. Farkhurst, and who disappeared in this oitv. causing his relatives and friends considerable anxiety, has been 80me tlme A Barroom Murder. Price, Utah, Oct .10. Peter Fran cis was shot and killed at his ranch hist night 40 miles from here by Dave Russell, stage driver. Bad feel ing has existed between tho two for ihe killing occurred in Those present have no found by John Gittorman.a New York " "y, liabu;. attorney. Mr. Gitterman made the out wnen te trouble began and all technical complaint that Mr. Bedford wag confusion until the shooting had is mentally irresponsible. all been done. Rev. McCammlsh Exonerated. Carbondale, 111., Oct. 8. The coro ners' jury summoned to inquire into the killing of John C. Brown on the streets of this city yesterday, ren dered a verdict last night, exonerat ing Rev. Joseph McCammish, who shot him. Brown, jealous of the preacher, attacked him with a knife on the publio square, but McCam mish, who had been told that Brown had threatened to kill him, was armed and shot his assailant thioueh the lung. No Mining in Siberia. Seattle, Oct. 8. D. Eveanhoff, representative of the Russian govern ment, who has returned from a trip of inspection to Nome and Siberia, states that American miners will be strictly prohibited from either mining on their own account or work ing for wages, in Siberia. He also states that next spring the treasury department of the Russian govern ment will patrol the Siberian coast with revenue steamers. Boy Tied Up la a Bag and Allowed to Suf focate. New York, Oct. 9. The body of Albert Robinson, a 6-year-old- boy, who lived with his mother, mulatto woman, at 300 West Twetnty-first street, was found this morning in an area way ot 361 West Twenty-second street, tied up with his clothes in a burlap bag. The coroner's physicians made an autopsy on the boy's body this afternoon, and' found that death was due to asphyxiation. They found a quantity of alcohol in the Btomach and serious lacerations of the lower part of the abdomen. The physicians pronounced it one of the most das tardly of crimes. Alonzo Watson, a waiter, whose mother is )ani tress of the tenement where - the boy lived, was arrested and sent to the Tombs under $5,000 bail on suspicion. tonight the police arrested Horry Trieder, white, and William De Lyons, a Negro, on suspicion of being connected with the murder of the boy. Captain Monihan gave it as his opinion that the murder was com mitted in the rooms occupied by Trie der aud De Lyons. Eighty People Killed in Church Row. . London, Oct. 9. In Pavlouka, a town of 4,000 inhabitants, 120 mile from KharkotT, says a dispatch to the Standard from Moscow, a quarrel be tween Sunists and Orthodox church people led to a free fight. The Rus sian church was wrecked. . Eighty people were killed. The police were powerless, and troops were sent from Kharkoff to restore order. The Rus sian priests escaped with the valuable sacred images and also the altar vestments. A Hall-Million Fir. Arkansas City, Ark., Oct. 9. A destructive fire ocourred in this city this afternoon, completely consum ing the Fepicke-Leicht Lumber com pany's immense yard, containing 4,000,000 feet of seasoned Cottonwood lumber ready for the market and six cars belonging to the Missouri Paoiflo Railway company. The loss is esti mated at nearly $500,000, mostly cov ered by insurance.