The Corvallis gazette., July 23, 1896, Image 1

VOL. XXXIII.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1896.
NO. 19.
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The Witness and the lawyer.
.. E. B. Green of Ottnmwa, la., tells a
good story abont Judge Hendershott of
that city, one of the leading lawyers of
the Haw key e State.
"Judge Hendershott," said ' Mr.
Green, "was trying, a case under the
prohibition law. An important question
was raised as to whether or not a barrel
of whisky -was delivered to the defend
ant '
"An Irishman of the name of O'Con
nor was the drayman, and when Judge
Hendershott started to cross examine
him he concluded to frighten him into
contradicting his testimony on the ex
amination in chief. Assuming a dra
matic pose and with a stern voice, he
aid: 'Remember, sir, yen are on your
oath. Remember you have sworn to tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. Remember that to devi
ate one iota from the truth is perjury,
and the punishment for perjury is im
prisonment in the state penitentiary of
Iowa. How, sir. upon your oath,, did
you deliver that barrel of whisky to Pat
Duffy?'
"The Irishman answered coolly and
deliberately, 'Well, judge, being on my
oath, faith I couldn't say. I delivered a
bar'l at Mr. Duffy's place. On one ind
of that bar'l was marked "Pat Duffy,"
on the ither ind was marked "whisky,"
but bein on me oath I cbuldn't say
whether Pat Duffy or whisky was in the
bar'L
"The defendant was convicted. "
Washington Star. '
Of Coarse There WilL
. Now comes the word of another dis
covery, which if true will excel in in
terest and importance the celebrated dis
covery of Roentgen, the X rays. It is
said that a photographer named Rogers
let up a postage stamp and fixed his
gaze upon it for a moment. Then a
photographic plate was put where the
stamp had been. For several minutes
the photographer fixed his gaze intently
upon this plate and held his mind in
tently upon the image of the stamp at
the same time. When the plate waa de
veloped, two impressions, one for each
eye, were found upon it, each distinctly
resembling a postage stamp. . And this
idea can thus be carried out ad infini
tum, it is claimed. A poet can dispense
with the pen by affixing upon the sensi
tive plates the beautiful images that
arise in his brain. Criminals may thus
be forced to yield up the secrets of their
past lives. The lover can give proof of
bis faithfulness, and so on into the in
exhaustible field of the marvelous. Of
course there will be. skeptics on all this
for awhile. Cincinnati Times-Star.
Streets With uoiu r-avemrnts.
Prescott, the capital of Arizona,
boasts that it is the nearest approach
to the New Jerusalem, as described In
the Bible, as Us Btreets are being paved
with gold. The granite used for pave
ments contains $4 In gold and 20 cents
in silver to every ton, so that in time,
when less expensive methods of re
ducing ores are used, it may pay the
city to tear up and . crush ,its street
pavements.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome ot the Telegraphic
News of the World.
fEESE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
In Interesting: Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in' a Condensed Form.
A slight movement in wool is re
ported in Oregon and Washington.
. Rioters are again rampant at the
Brown Hoisting Works, in Cleveland,
O., and serious trouble is feared. -
Cincinnati and vicinity have been
visited by heavy thunder storm and at
several places there is reported loss of
life and property. Near Portsmouth
five persons took refuge In a shed,
which was struck by lightning, killing
all of them.
Captain-General Weyler has issued
a deoree that all foreigners in the
island are to register in a special book
in the government's charge previous to
their being justified in appealing to ar
tiole 7 of the deoree relative to foreign
citizenship in November, 1894.
James Harvey Sherman, a famous
spy in the war of the rebellion, who
resided near Charlotteville, Mich,, is
dead. Before the war broke out Sher
man resided in Virignia, where be ac
cumulated a fortune, which was after
wards entirely swept away by the war.
Albert Olsen, 36 years of age, an em
ployee of the Willamette Casket Com
pany, of Taooma, was oanght in the
machinery, whirled rapidly around the
revolving shaft and instantly killed.
The body was horribly mangled, the
left leg and right foot being torn off
completely.
BTA little boy of Marshall, Mioh.,
when herding cattle, tied two of his
sisters, 4 and 5 years old, and another
little girl with a rope, the end of
which was attached to the 'saddle on a
pony. The pony ran away, dragging
the three girls half a mile. Two of
the girls were killed and the other
badly injured. '
The colored people of Cincinnati
held a memorial meeting in honor of
Harriet Beeoher Stowe. It was in this
city that she wrote "Uncle Tom's
Cabin," also spending her early life
here when her father was president of
Lane theological seminary. She was
married in Cincinnati, Professor Stowe
being connected with Lane seminary.
Another bond issue is being spoken
of as a result of . the heavy gold with
drawals. " ' The rebel impi is gathered in battle
array near Buluwayo, and a fight is
probable.
The barkentine Eliza MoManemy
was sunk near Memory Rook, Pa. No
lives were lost.
A terrific wind and rain storm in
Ohio badly damaged crops Light
ning struck a number of buildings.
The deadly yellow jack is -playing
sad havoc with the Spanish army in
Cuba, and many of the soldiers are dy
ing. Two cabin-boys of Pomeroy, O , shot
and killed Peter Whittaker. The kill
ing was the result of rivalry over a
woman.
More silver is to be coined. The
San Francisco mint will soon resume
operations and it is said that about
1600,000 will be coined during this
month.
Intense heat prevails throughout the
southern portion of Great Britain and
in France and Germany. In London
the mercury marked 80 degrees in the
shade' and 135 in the sun. In Paris
the heat -is so great it has been found
necessary to close many workshops.
On July 4, the inmates of the city
infirmary in Cincinnati were treated to
green apples, lemonade and other lux
uries. - The inmates drank and ate
too much; sickness followed, and
eight have since died from the effects
of the festivities on that day.
Noah MoGill, sheriff of Tishomingo
county, L T., reports that three white
men were found hanging to the limb
of a tree near Reagan postofflce, a few
miles from Tishomingo county, Chioka
saw .nation. It is generally believed
that they were horsethieves, captured
by a party of Texans, and swung up
on the spot -
It is understood that the secretary of
state has instructed the United States
minister at Lima to demand a prompt
settlement of the claim of Victor C.
Maooord, the American citizen, for al
leged brutal and inhuman treatment by
the Peruvian authorities. Mr. Mao
cord's olaim is for $300,000. It grows
out of bis imprisonment by the Per
uvian authorities in 1885, while he
was acting superintendent of the rail
road at Arequipa.
Felix Faure, president of the French
republic was fired at from a distance
of only a few feet by an unknown man,
but the bullet fortunately went wide
ot its mark, and the president escaped
unharmed. President Faure had gone
to the Champs to' review the troops.
He bad no sooner entered the field when
a man in the crowd stepped forward
and fired at him. The shot did not
take effect The would-be assassin was
arrested. He declared that he only fired
a blank cartridge.
The Prince and Princess of Wales in
behalf of the queen gave a garden
party at Buckingham palace, In hon
or of Prinoess Maud of Wales, who is
to be married to , Prince Charles of
Denmark.. The staterooms of the palace
were thrown open , to the guests of
whom there were about 6,000. Am
bassador Bayard and Chauncey M. De
pew were present
The London Post announces 'that
Mrs. John W. Mackay has been sum
moned to Rome on account of the dan
gerous lUnesa of her father.
Fired on the Tur,
It is rumored at Astoria that the tug
Relief, while on a trip from Astoria to
Port Townsend, was fired upon by
some fishermen whose nets the tug had
just passed over.
, Jose Maceo Killed.
Private dispatches from Havana say
that General Jose Maceo, the Cuban
patriot leader, was shot through the
head and instantly killed during an
attack which he led upon the Spanish
forces in Gato Hills. The report says
that Colonel Caratagena, another in
surgent officer, and several members of
Maceo's staff, were killed at the same
time. . : - .
Mystcrl us Poisoning.
In Cincinnati an unknown blonde
woman was found by a .Fort Thomas
soldier lying unoonscions on the ground
on a farm, within a few feet of the spot
where the beheaded body - of Pearl
Bryan was left by hermcrderers. The
girl was taken to Newport, where it
was found she had either been dragged
or had taken poison herself.
Ex-Governor Bnssell Dead
' Ex-Governor William E. Russell, of
Massachusetts, was - found dead in bed
in a fishing camp near Grand Pabos,
Quebec. When he passed through Mon
treal on his way to the salmon grounds
in Gaspe, he was in the best of health.
It is supposed he died of heart disease.
i-He was well-known in publio life, and
took a prominent part in the national
Democratic convention recently held
in Chicago. r ,
Hanged at Folaom.
John E. Howard was hanged In the
prison corridor at Folaom, CaL, for
the murder of Martin DeLanina, in
Tulare county, in June, 1894. ; Only -twenty
persons besides . the prison
officials witnessed the execution.
Howard walked firmly to the scaffold
and stood, oalm and composed till the
drop fell. A. slight twitching of the
hands gave the only evidence of agita
tion. " .
New Steamship Ijiae.
A St Paul dispatch says S. Iwanaga,
of Tokio, Japan, general manager of
the Japanese Mail Steamship Company, .
limited, has just signed a contract with
the Great Northern Railway Company
for the establishment of a steamship
line between Tokio and Seattle. Thus
the Great Northern system extends its
operations into the far east, and its
bills of lading are in force from Tokio
to Buffalo, N. Y. Ai
An A merloan Bark; Ashore.
A dispatch from Zanzibar reports
that the American bark John D.
Brewer, went ashore 7 at Pah'gawani.
The government has sent a vessel to the
assistance of the Brewer, ' . -
Scraped From the Band Wagon.
- The band which accompanies Buffalo
Bill's Wild West. Show attempted to
driv under a bridge in Massillon, O.
All the men were scraped off. Five or
six are reported dead or dying and in
jured. --;
Poisoned by Drinking Lemonade.
News has been received of the fatal
poisoning at Santiago,' Minn., of a'
family of nine ' children, caused by
drinking lemonade. The children died
one after another, and the parents are
not expeoted to live.
A Fatal Call ernia Fire.
Fire broke out in the residence of
John Coyle in Fresno, CaL Coyle
was in the house asleep at the time and
was burned to death. He was a
pioneer oitizen of Fresno .county and
possessed of considerable means.
Fiendish Woman Hanged.
News from Coeburn, Va., says that
Mary Snodgrass was hanged there for
the murder of a 6-months-old child by
burning it in a stove. The woman was
28 years old. The Snodgrass woman
was a disreputable woman and was
compelled to leave Pikeville, Ry., on
that account '
Bond Investigation.
Senator Harris, chairman of the sen
ate committee to investigate the recent
bond issues, says he has not yet deter
mined whether the committee will
wait until the fall before going on
with its investigation or will complete
its work, frame its report and make it
publio this summer. The last meeting
adjourned subject to the call of the
chairman.
- The Messenger Crnetfled.
A London dispatch from Wady
Haifa reports that the messenger who
oarried the news to Khalifa, at Om
duran that his army had been defeated
at Firket, was immediately put to
death by crucifixion. Khalifa an
nounced that the same fate would be
imposed upon any one who mentioned
the Firket in his hearing.
L A Prominent Lawyer Dead.
John Cameron Simmonds, formerly
of Chicago, and a member of the bar,
died at the Ward island insane asylum,
New York. His business interests
were largely in the West He was in
terested in mining and railway con
struction in California, bnt . did much
of his business in New York, and was
well-known to Wall-street bankers.
Mr. Simmonds was an authority on
criminal law and wrote a great deal
on . that subject His writings on
prison reform have also made him
noted. . v;
The semi-official Neustenaohriohten,
of Berlin, refers in ironical language
to Rudini'a speech In wbioh be refer
red to the possibility of bettering the
terms of the triple alliance. The
writer draws attention to the weakness
of Italy, which was so , completely
beaten by Abyssinia, and asks what
she could do against France. The ar
ticle declares that Barateri's report on
the complete rout of the Italian army
at Adowah is perfectly true. Her al
lies should study her bad organisation.
A CRUSHING DEFEAT
Spanish Column Utterly Rout
ed by Maceo.
GENERAL YNCLAN WAS CAPTURED
Government Soldiers Were Drawn
Into a Trap and Fired oa.
From AU 8 idea. 1
Key West, July 21. The Spaniards
under General Suarez Ynolan have sus
tained a crushing defeat at the bands
of the insurgents under Atonio Maoeo.
Not only was Ynolan's oolumn defeated
with heavy loss, but it is currently
reported in Havana that the Spanish
general himself was captured and is
now held prisoner by Maoeo. The bat
tle is said to have occurred on July 15,
near Maceo's stronghold, in Pinar del
Rio. For the last . two weeks the
rebels have been very aggressive, and
small parties have repeatedly attacked
the trocha, oausing the Spaniards much
annoyance.
Ynolan was ordered to drive baok
these detached bands of Cubans, and
for this purpose took with him 8,000
men.
Maoeo seems to have expected suoh a
movement, and arranged to ambush
the Spaniards. He stationed a large
force in a favorable spot, and ordered
his detached bands to draw Ynolan into
the trap. The Spaniards followed the
insurgent skirmishers incautiously and
fell into the ambush. Then the Cubans
opened fire from all sides, which threw
the Spaniards into confusion.
While the Spaniards were thus beset,
the Cubans oharged and completely
routed their foes. Ynolan made a des
perate effort to rally his demoralized
forces, but was surrounded by the Cu
bans and compelled to surrender.
It is said in Havana that the Span
iards were pursued almost to the
trocha,- and lost more than 800 killed
and wounded. There were fourteen
officers among the killed. The Cubans
here also say that Maoeo will hold
Ynolan as a hostage to save the lives of
prominent insurgent officers who have
been captured by the Spaniards. One
of - those officers is Capote. If this
rebel leader is shot by the Spaniards, it
is thought Ynolan will meet the same
fate at the hands of Maceo.
What Maoeo Wants.
New York, July 21. The World
publishes the following correspondence
from the headquarters of Maceo, Tomas
de San Jose, Pinar del Rio, June 26:
"The want of a few cartridges and a
few cannon," said ' General Antonio
Maceo, "is all that makes our govern
ment use nature's rocks instead of briok
and mortar for a White House."
Asked how many and what arms and
ammunition he needs to guarantee to
win the war in, say two months, he
said:
"I could do it with 20,000 Reming
ton rifles, samller caliber, 150,000 cart
ridges, 10 oannon and 100,000 rounds
of artillery ammunitions. I might do
it with xnuoh less. I would invariably
attack the Spaniards and attack them
after maneuvering their columns into
oul de sacs and I would take an im
portant town. The supplies captured
there would assist in the capture of
the next one, and so on until I would
be able to storm Havana with its fully
equipped army of 100,000 men 'and
fifty pieces of artillery.
"In addition to our 60,000 armed
men, we have fully 20,000 more men
armed with only machetes and re
volvers, thus giving us a probable total
of 80,000 revolutionists in the field."
JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.
Great Colonization and Trading; Scheme
on Foot.
San Frsncisofo, July 21. Among
the passengers on the steamship China,
which arrived today from Yokohama,
were Sho " Nemato and T. Kusakado,
prominent Japanese business men, whose
errand is to arrange the details of a
gigantio colonization scheme in Mexi
co. They have secured an option on
300,000 acres of land in the state of
Cheapis, Mexioo, and are'on their way
south to consummate the deal. The
land is sold to them at $1 per aore.
The immense tract will be out up into
small farms, which wll be operated by
coolie labor brought from Japan. Cot
ton, sugar, tobacco and other products
adapted to the olimate will be raised.
In addition to the above scheme, Sho
Nemato has been commissioned by the
Japanese government to investigate the
trade prospeots of Mexico and Central
America. It fa the desire of Japan to
trade directly with the countries south
of the United States, as far down as
Panama, and a steamship line has been
subsidized to run to ports along the
Pacific coast - The main port will be
San Diego, and it is the intention ot
the Japanese-manufacturers to import
all their cotton via San Diego instead
of through San Franoisoo and Puget
sound ports as at present . A traffic ar
rangement will also probably be made
with the Tehuantepeo railroad, thus
giving the new steamship access to the
Atlantio coast
This steamship company has nothing
to do with the one about to be estab
J lished with Portland, Or., as the main
port of calL , :
I - ' ' Brought Up With the Tide.
i Vancouver, B. O., July 31. Word
was received by the steamer Burt to
day that the body of a woman had been
! found on the shore of Gambler island
on Howe sound. The body was dressed
j in blue serge and bad evidently been
in the water some time, as the eves and
other features were gone. No person
answering the description lived on the
island or in that distriot, and no one
has been reporter missing.
Maddened by Fear.
Athens, July 22. Dispatches re
ceived from Canea state that a panio
occurred there Sunday in the Plantza
quarter, owing to a fire wbioh waa mis
taken as a signal for carnage. The
houses were forthwith .barricaded.
British Captain Drury landed boats,
carrying armed sailors. Austrian and
Russian ships also landed, men in
Canea and Haleppa. The Turks were
finally dispersed. The shops were
closed and nobody daied stay in the
streets. A correspondent says that as
he passed through the town the dead
and wounded were lying about, and the
panic continued. A number of Cretans
arrived here, making demands to the
committee for perfected guns.
To Their Old Reservation..
Chamberlain, a- D., July 22. A
clause in the Indian appropriation bill
granted permission to the Lower Brule
Indians, who prior to July 8, 1890,
lived south of White river on the
Rosebud Indian reservation, to return
there and select the allotments of land
occupied by them prior to that date.
About 400 of the Lower Brules have
just taken advantage of this olause and
removed to their former homes. The
government will have to pay the Rose
bud Indians at the rate of f 1 per acre
for all lands settled upon and occupied
by the Lower Brules.
Wants to Wear the Belt.
New York, July 23. J. H. Hilde
brand, the Johannesburg, sporting man
has arrived in this city, accompanied
by Denver Ed Smith. . Hildebrand
claims the championship for ' Smith,
saying that he had f 1,000 up for over
a month and nobody would cover it
Smith himself declared his ability to
defeat anything in the world, Corbett,
Fitzsimmons, Jackson, Goddard,
Sharkey and so on preferred in that
order.
Woman Attempts Suicide.
Chicago, July 22. Because her hus
band abused her, Mrs. Henry Well
house attempted to drown herself and
four ohildren last evening in the lake
at the foot of Twenty-fifth street She
was intercepted by the polioe in the act
of leading the ohildren into the lake.
COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Bat First John Becker Bnrned His
Dwelling House.
Roseburg, Or. , July 21. John Beck
er, a native of Bavaria, living at Cleve
land, fifteen miles west of Roseburg,
committed suioide yesterday, after hav
ing burned his dwelling-house and its
contents.
He had trouble with his wife in the
forenoon, and beat her over the head
with a revolver. His 16 year old son
took the weapon from him. The
mother and youngest child then went
to a neighbor, half a mile distant, and
a 19-year-old son came to Roseburg to
have the father arrested. Meantime,
Becker set fire to the house and disap
peared. His body was found early this
monrlng a mile from home, and 500
yards from Von Pessel's vineyard.
Becker went to Von Pessel's house, took
a gun and shot himself. He had been
acting strangely for some time, and
was evidently insane.
An Arkansas Town Burned.
Little Rock, Ark., July 21. Mal
vern r Ark., at the junction of the Hot
Springs railway, was almost entirely
swept out by fire early- this morning.
Malvern was a city of about 6,000 in
habitants, the business portion of the
place being olustered around the rail
road station. All this section was de
storyed. only three business-bouses re
maining. The total loss is variously
estimated at from $300,000 to f 400,-'
000, only a small portion of which is
covered by insurance. The burned
buildings included the railroad depot,
two hotels and the bank; The fire was
without doubt the result of a plot to
destroy the town. The blaze broke ont
about midnight, in three different
places, and as there was no apparatus,
the. fire burned itself out
WORK AT THE LOCKS.
As Soon as the Water Goes Down, Oper
ations WiU Commence.
The Dalles, Or., July 21. The
$200,000 appropriated in the last river
and harbor bill for completing the
canal and locks at the cascades of the
Columbia river are now available, and
Mr. MoDonald, superintendent of
stonecutters under Day Bros., informed
a Dalles man who was visiting at the
Locks a few days since, that work
would be resumed on the canal, be
thought; about August 1, or as soon as
the water had receded sufficiently so
that the canal between the upper guard
gate and the lock gate can be drained
of water.
The engineers have determined to
construct walls of solid masonry be
tween the upper guard and lock gates,
and it is estimated that these walls can
be completed in two or three months.
The construction of these walls will be
under the supervision of Day Bros. , on
the basis of their former contract for
similar work.
A force of from fifty to sixty men
will be put on the stone work within
two weeks, and the building of the
walla will be pushed to completion.
Then the work of rip-rapping the outer
bank on the river side will be com
menced, and it is estimated that six
months will be required to complete
the entire job. ,
Riparia, Wash., July 21. One of
the most cold-blooded murders in the
! history of this place was committed
i this afternoon by James D. Lawrence,
: a passenger en r route from Walla .
i Walla to Lewiston, Idaho, Jacob Mal
qulst, an old steamboat man, but who,
' for the past dozen years, has been con
ducting the Steamboat saloon, being ,
' the victim. : The murderer took to the j
hills, but was followed by a posse and j
'"captured about two miles from town, i
t He will be taken to Colfax. , j
WIPED OUT BY FIRE
Business Portion ot the Town
of Lone Rock.
TOTAL LOSS IS HOT YET KNOWN
Few Dwellings Left A Small Boy With
Pocket Full of Matches
Started the Blase.
Arlington, Or., July 20.. Word,
was received here today that the town
of Lone Rook was almost wiped out
yesterday by fire. The whole business
portion of the town went up in smoke,
and nothing remains but a few dwell
ings in the outskirts of the town.
Lone Rook is on Long Creek, in
Gilliam county. It is twenty-six miles
southeast of -Condon, the oounty seat;
sixty miles from Arlington, which is
its shipping and express station, and
thirty-five miles from. Heppner, its
banking point There is a stage to.
Arlington and a daily : mail. The
town was started in 1870.
A FERRY-BOAT SUNK.
Fourteen Orehandle-a ' Drowned at
Cleveland.
Cleveland, O., July 20. Several
lives were lost in an accident whiob oc
curred abont 7:30 tonight on an old
river-bed near the ore docks of the
Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Com
pany. The ore handlers bad just quit
work foi the day, and were waiting
their turn to oross the branch of the
river on the flat-bottom ferry-boat
which they had provided for this pur
pose. When it was about half way
over, the frail craft was swamped by
the wash from a passing steamer, and
it began to sink. The first report of
the acofdent plaoed the number of dead
at twenty-two, but that proved to have
been an exaggeration. Fourteen
.bodies have been taken from the water.
William Bueloy, a well-known press
man, went to the river to see the ex
citement, fell off -an abutment near
the Detroit boat-landing and was
drowned.
The river is being dragged for more
bodies. There were many pathetio
scenes about the morgue while rela
tives of the dead men were identifying
them. It is believed at 1 1 o'olook all
the bodies have been recovered, though
it is possible one or two viotims may
be added to the list Twelve of the
fourteen victims leave families who -
j were dependent upon them.
FOR THE PRESIDENT.
Building Superintendent Wilson afakea
, a Recommendation. - - , " '
Washington, July 20. Colonel J.
M. Wilson, superintendent of govern-',
ment buildings and grounds, has re
peatedly recommended the erection of
a special office building for the ohief
executive of the nation, but oongress
has taken no action on them. His an
nual report just submitted, says: -
"I earnestly recommend that an ap
propriation of 1250,000 be made for the
erection, within the executive mansion
grounds and directly opposite the treas
ury building, of a granite structure for
the office of the ohief executive of the
nation. This structure could be con
nected by a wide corridor with a large
conservatory fitted up as a winter gar
den, with tropical plants and a foun
tain, statues of eminent Amerioans;
the conservatories could open into a
pioture gallery oonneoted by two wide
walls, with the east room, and the im
provements could serve a double pur
pose of - relieving the mansion of the
terrible crush incident to the evening
receptions.
"I earnestly hope that aotion may
be taken at the approaching session of
oongress toward erecting a suitable
office building for the president of the
United States." .
THE YEAR'S IMMIGRATION.
A Large Increase In the Number of
Aliens Arriving.
Washington, July 20. A statement
prepared by the commissioner of immi
gration shows the number of immi
grants who arrived in this country dur
ing the fiscal year ending June 80,
1896, to have been 848,267, as com
pared with 258,536 during 1895. Of
the whole number, 212,466 were males
and 180,881 were females. The coun
tries from which the immigrants came
are given as follows:
Austria Hungary, 65,103; Italy, 68,
080; Russia, 52,186; Germany, 81,886;
United Kingdom, 64,867; all other
countries, 61,446.
The whole number debarred and re
turned during the year was 3,035, as
follows: Paupers, 2,010; contract la
borers, 776; idiot, 1; insane, 1; dis
eased, 2.
Two hundred and thirty-six were re
turned witihn one year, because ot
their having become publio charges.
The total number debarred and returned
in 1895 was 2,696.
Bicycle Factory Burned.
London, July 20. The Humber
bioyole works, at Coventry, were burn
ed today. Four thousand unfinished
bioyoles in the factory were destroyed.
The total loss is 80,000.
A Granite Mausoleum,
New York, July 20. William A.
Clark, who is known as the silver king
of Montana, and who is reputed to be.
worth more than $20,000,000, has ac
cepted an architect's plans for a gran
ite mausoleum to be erected in Wood
lawn cemetery at a oost of f 100,000, as
a memorial to his wife, who died about
two years ago in this city. The archi
tects refuse to describe the proposed
stuoture or to give any Information re
garding it