TTr-JT
MILL
NO. 30.
VOL. Till.
IIILL8BOCO, OBEGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBEB 10, 1901.
TKe
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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
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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.