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COR VALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1896. NO. 27. VOL. XXXIII. TRANSPORTATION. East arid South -VIA- The Shasta Route - . OF THE Southern Pacific Co. EXPRESS TP.A1NS RUN DAILY. ? Lsae Portland Arrive 8:10 A X 12:10 a H' t l.eave Albany Arrive I 4:45 A K 10:45 a m Arrive 3. fraucitco Leave 7:00 r n Aiove trains stop at . Ea-t Fortland, Orefron City, W x,dburn, bkm, Turner, Marion, Jeffer "). Alb.ny. Alrtany Jtmet on. Tang nt, Hnedds, Haltey, Ilt.rrisbu.rg. Junction City, Eugene, Creswell, btaiiis, aid all tat ion from Ruse born to Ashland, inclusive. ROSKBPRG MAIL DAILY. o... 1 1 i u,n lor Hand Air.vel 4 40pm 12.25 p h Leave - Albany Arrive J 12:5, p sr. o:ai r M Arrive Rost burg Leave b:w a m. I'tillman B ffet cleepers and second-class shaping iars attached to all through trains. " " SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 pm Lave Portland Arrive 1 10:15 A M :16 PM Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A M - WEST 8IDB DIVISION. Between rortland and Corvallls Mall train daily (except Sunday). 730 i h I Leave Pun laud Arrive 1 6:20 p M 12:1a p m Arrive Cofvallla Leave 1 1:85 P M At Albany and Corvallls connect with trains of ike Oregon Central & Eastern Ry. i PXPRW-s TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). V. .- . - .... s liana Arrive 8:25 A M 7:2 p m Arrive McMitinville LeaveJ 5:50 A u iuck ukIi tickets to all points in the Eastern (tatet, anuria and Knrope can be obtained at lowest rale from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvellis. R. KOEHI.ER, Manager. S. P. ROGERS, A. G F. & P. A.. Portland, Or. TO THE " IS T GIVES THE CHOICE OF I TWO transcontinental' EOTJT IE S VIA. VIA - GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY, DENVER OMAHA AXD . AND , ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY ,OW BATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS JEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS FOR : ; SAN FRANCISCO For fall detail?, call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, - Gtn'l Pass. Agent, Portland, On gon. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERNER. CO.:: Yaquina Bay Route Connecting at Yaqnlna Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship " Farallon " Pails from Yaqnlna every 8 days for San Fran cisco, U os Kay, rrt unora, intnaaa ana llnmbol'lt Bav. Passenger acc mmudations nnwrpasped. (shortest route between the Wil lamette valley and California, Fare Front Albany or Points West to San Francisco: Cabin 9 Steerage Ronnd trip, good for 60 da-s, 115. To f' o Bav a. rt Port Orloid Cabin..... To Humboldt Bay Cabin -.IS S ... S Taquloa Bay The most notmiar soasl ie re ort on the North Psclficcoast. No undertow surf bathing abso lutely sale .. orthrs vrishing to combine hunting and f shin; with acqualic sports, this resort has no qu-l. leer. bear, elk, cougar, brook trout and sal men trour, can be found in abundance with in a few hours' drive of the bay. Redared rates to all points. J. C. MAVO, - EDWIN STONE, T.F.& P. A. Maaager. -V H. L. Walosn, Agent, Albany. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0EOPATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen A Woodward's drug store. Office hoars 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hoars and on bunaays. . G.R.FARRfl, M..D. Office In Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court- houfe. Office hours 8 to t A. if ., and 1 to 2 and 7 to r. at. All ca-ls attended promptly. . . -. BO WEN LESTER DENllSfT Office upstairs over First National Bank. Strictly Flrst-CIass Work' Guaranteed Corvaliis. Oregon - JEW Bids for the New Vessels Have i Been Opened. - - TERMS AE VERY REASONABLE The Lowest Bidders Were the Newport Kews Company. The Cramps t Soma, and the Union Iron Works Washington, Sept 16. The bids for building three more battleships, of about 11,000. tons eaoh, were opened at the navy department today. - The terms offered were, reasonable and the Bbips can be - constructed and fitted with armament at a total cost within the lynit of the amount authorized ty oongres. Contrary to speculation, no attempt was made to bind the govern ment to pay for the ships in gold or its equivalent. The bids were as fol lows: Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry- dock Company, of Virginia, one ship, (2,695,000; John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N. J., one ship, $2,661,000; Bath Iron Works, Maine, one ship, $3,.680,000; Cramp & Sons, Philadel phia, one ship, 12,650,000; two for (each), $2,605,000; Union Iron Works, San Franoisoo, one ship, $3,674,950. The lowest bidders are in order, the Newport News company, Cramp & Sons, and the Union Iron Works, the last named company being allowed a margin of 4 per oent above the lowest Eastern bid, to offset the difference of prices between the Atlantic and Paoiflo coast. The department under act of congress, must award the oontraots fox building these ships by Ootober 9 next; The vessels must be completed within three years thereafter. The limit of cost fixed for each ship was 13,760,000, including hull and armor. '' It is be lieved tho armor can be supplied by the department for less than $1,000, 000. - . - - X - The new vessles are to be combina tions of the best features of the Iowa and ' Eearsarge, now under construc tion, modified by such improvement! as experience - has suggested. They will be 868 feet long on the water line, and seventy-two feet wide in the mid dle. Tbe vessels will be. propelled by engines of 10,000 horse-power and will be expected to make a speed of sixteen knots an hour. Offensively, eaoh of the three new ships will possess two very powerful batteries-. The main hatterv will be composed of four 13 inch breechloading nfles and fourteen 6-inch rapid-firing rifles. -The secondary battery designed to repel torpedo-boats and light craft and to swamp tbe unarmored parts of an enemy, wilt' consist of sixteen 6 pound . rapid-fire guns; four 12 -pound rapid-fire, four machine or Gatlihg guns and one field piece. -. V ' " In addition to the force, an allowance of gun cotton for. submarine mining and eight automobile torpedo to be discharged from the two tubes on each broadside, amidships, will be carried for that silent and more deadly phase of naval warfare. " THE MAINE ELECTION. Republicans Claim the Largest majority In Its History. . Augusta, Me., Sept. 16. Maine has followed the example of Vermont and deolared for the Republican tioket by the largest majority in its history. According to the latest returns tonight, the plurality for Powers, Republican, for governor, will be over 45,000, and probably in the neighborhood of 60,000. Hon. Thomas B. Reed 1b re-elected to the house by over 10,000 plurality. The returns show a plurality of about 10.000 for . Dingley f or congressman from the Second district; over J2.000 for Milliken in the Third district, and practically the same -v for Bou telle in the Fourth district " In the state legislature, the Demo crats will apparently ha ve" less than half a dozen of the represenatives in the house and not one in the senate. ,Tne successful candidate for gover nor is the Hon. Llewellyn Powers, of Houlton, Republican. ' Hon. Thomas B. Reed, of Portland, from the First distriot; Nelson Ding- ley, of Lewiston, from the Second dis trict; Seth Milliken, of Belfast, from the Third distriot, and Charles A. Bou- telle, of Bangor, from the Fourth dis- rtrict, who have for years represented Maine in the national house, are the congressmen re-elected. To Cure Texas Fever. San Franoisoo, Sept 16. Dr. J, Sidney Hunt, an eminent physician of Queensland, and for many years physi cian of the Brisbane board of health, arrived here yesterday. Dr. Hunt has been sent here by the Queensland gov ernment to investigate and find a rem edy for the Texas, fever, as it is known in the southern part of the United States, which has broken out' among the cattle on the big ranges in North' ern Queensland. . . . Explosion of Fire Damp. Pittsburg, Sept 16. A dispatch from Walker's Mills, Pa., reports an explosion of fire damp this morning in the oldest Hawknest coal mine. One man was killed. Tbe other miners are closed in. San Franoisoo,' Sept 16. The. Brit ish ships Ditton and Cedarbank sailed out of port yesterday for a race in dis tance more than half around the world. Each is wheat laden, the Ditton, Cap tain Moody, being bound for Qneens town, and the Cedarbank for Hull. Their oapains, it is said, have put up quite a neat sum on the sailing quali ties of their ships, and a good deal of interest has been aroused over the race, so that news of either vessel will be watched for with eagerness. Revenue Cutter Gresham Launched. Chioago, Sept 16. The reveunue cutter W. Q. Gresham was launched this afternoon. A few treasury de partment officials were in attendance. The christening-ceremony was per formed by Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter of 91. A. Hanna. The Gresham will take the place of the Andy Johnson and will patrol Lake Michigan. She will not be completed until late in the falL Experiments made at Paris by Dr. Bertillon have nroven that kleptomania is easily cured by hypnotic suggestion, , ALASKA'S DEMANDS. The People Want a Territorial Form of ; : Government. Chicago,' Sept 16. Congressman Aldrioh, of this city, who has just re turned from a- six weeks' trip to Alaska, brings the 'news that the people of that distant territory think it has outgrown its swaddling clothes, and wants to govern itself. A demand is made for a regular territorial government, a new set of up to-date laws and the privi iege of sending a delegate to congress like Arizona, New Mexico and. Okla homa. - The restless Alaskans have already caused to be introduced in the national house of representatives several bills to bring about these projects on which they have set their hearts. The fail ure of congress to advance these bills, has, Aldrioh says, disgusted the people of Alaska. There are many Americans in Alaska who point with unconcealed disgust to congressional neglect and then to the -jealous care with which the British are fostering the interests of their citizens on the Canadian boun dary of Alaska. Congressman Aldrich says he' thinks it is not time yet for Alaska to have a delegate in congress. The population, though containing some 2-,000 voters, is scattered over such an immense area that, he says it would be impossible for the votes to be counted and returned within the time limit now provided by our election laws. - But, he says, a new set of laws is absolutely necessary for Alaska. That country is now run with tbe guidanoe of obsolete and ill-fitting statutes. They are largely such laws as were in the Oregon code before 1884. ' No new itatutes have been added, and while the oivilization of Alaska has grown at a tremendous rate within the last twelve years and tbe population more than doubled, the laws under which the Alaskans live have not advanced a step toward keeping pace with'the progress in every other direction. . Alaska is not governed like other territories. It has no legislature and but few officers, and even these-it does not elect itself ; they are. appointed by tbe president , Alaskans set forth all these complaints to Congressman Aid- rich, while he was there. - NEW WHATCOM BANK. Second Suspension of Bennett National Within a Tear. New Whatcom, Wash., Sept 16. The Bennet National bank posted no tioe of suspension this morning, "on account of the withdrawal of deposits beyond its power to respond." The notice further says that "All depositors, will be paid in fulL" When oalled upon by the Associated Press corres pondent, the officials, 'while not ready to make a detailed statement, said that the total liabilities are, in round num bers, $50,000, and tbe assets approxi mately $125,000, of- which $90,000 is in bills receivable. No paper is hypothe cated, and it is believed that the assets are more than sufficient to meet all olaims. Tbe statement of tbe bank's affairs at the close of the business July 14, showed deposits of over $106,000, and the cash resources of $52,000. Since then more than half of the deposits have been withdrawn, tbe cause being generally ascribed to the general lack of confidence, due to financial agita tion. . This is tbe seoond suspension of the Bennett bank within a year, the heavy run of November 4 and 6 last, due to tbe failure of the Bellingham Bay Na tional, having forced it into the hands of a receiver for about six weeks. It reopened December 19. U. H. GRAHAM KILLED. Waa Kan Over by a locomotive at - Grants, Oregon. Grants, Or., Sept. 16. A shocking accident happened here at 9:05 o'clock this morning. J. H. Graham, a brake man on freight train Ho. 23, was run over by the locomotive and instantly killed, his body being completely out in two. Graham had run ahead to olose the switch, and stepped .upon the pilot Of the moving engine. He at tempted to cross from one side to the other, and in doing so met his fearful fate. ' The remains were sent to The Dalles Graham was a brother of Master Meohanio J. E. Graham, of the O. R. & N. Co. The train was in charge of Conductor Rice and Engineer Johnson.. No blame rests upon any one living. . - Blavin Knocked Ont Kllrain. Baltimore, Sept' M. Jake- Kilraiu and Frank, otherwise known' as ."Pad dy" Slavin, the. Australian, were the stars in a lively fistic contest which took place at the Eureka Atlhetio Club, near this city, tonight When Kilrain stripped, he looked to weigh no less than 250 pounds, and the flesh hung from him in rolls. Slavin, on the con trary, was in the pink of condition. Slavin hit hard, but Kilrain was not effective. -:. Three times the pugilists came togteher, and then Slavin hit his man a. terrific short arm blow under the heart, and followed with his right on the jaw, and the one-time champion fell like a log. The execution of some of the finest Frenoh tapestry is so slow that an ar tist cannot produce more than a quar ter of a square yard in a year. . Crime In a Kentucky Town. ' Mount Sterling, -Ky., Sept 16. James Bush, of Thompson's station, came here last night and went to where his divorced wife was stopping, oalled her to the door, shot .her in the breast and then fled to the woods, followed by a posse of a lynching-turn-of-mind. About the same hour, at a bagnio, one Duff, of Clark county, was fatally dis emboweled in a fight supposedly by Ed. Foreman, who has been placsd un der arrest A Fatal Accident. Dubuque, la., Sept 16. Mrs. Wil liam Vyerberg and daughter, 20 years old, were drowned at Thompson's mill. A heavy rain during last night swelled the creek until the water ran over tbe approach to a temporary bridge.'. . They attempted to drive through the water onto the plank, but the horse stepped off the side of the submerged approach and all went down. Mrs. Vyerberg's body was found a mile , down ' the stream, but her daughter's body has not been recovered. They were -on their way to town to attend a church dedication. ; - - ARMY CHANGES. Proposed Moving- of Three) Beglmerits of Artillery. Washington, Sept 16. Major-General ; Miles baa . recommended to the secretary of war an important ohange in stations of artillery regiments. The regiments involved are the Fifth artillery, stationed on the Paoifio coast; the Third artillery, stationed in Florida, and incidentally the First artillery, located at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. His recommendations do not specifically mention the latter regi ment, but it is known to be his inten tion to recommend that this regiment be ordered to Florida to take tbe place of tbe third, in case the secretary ap proves the plan for sending that regi ment to the Presidio, in California, and for bringing the Fifth East The Fifth was on duty in New York har bor five years ago, when the last obange between regiments on the Altantidand Paoifio was made, so that it will oome back to its old stamping ground if the scheme of General Miles prevails. Secretary Lamont is generally op- posd to extensive movements of troops merely for the sake of a change of sta tion, mainly because of the expense involved. - Although a smaller number of regiments is involved in the present plan of General Miles than the last, the long journey across - the continent of the two regiments would make heavy inroads upon the transportation fund. Secretary Lamont is known to be reluctant to incur the expense, though his final decision has not yet been announced. One of the strong points in the secre tary's forthcoming annual report will be the record of economy ooupled with effloenoy which has characterized the present administration of the war de partment For the first time in many years a balance instead of a deficiency will be shown . in various appropria tions. For a number of years past the mileage fund has been short, resulting in officers being compelled to await for a special appropriation by oongresB be fore they had refunded to them the money spent out of their pockets to comply with orders issued by the war department The new system of re cruiting and paying the army by check accounts in a large measure for the saving in the mileage fund. CAME " FROM COOK'S INLET. Returning; Miners Tell of the Condition of Those Left Behind. Seattle, Sept 16. Seventy-six Cook's inlet prospectors were brought down by the sohooner Sophie Suther land, whioh arrived this afternoon. About two thirds of them paid, their passage in gold dust and the remainder fell back on the stock of money they had taken into tbe country. Those of the prospectors who were, seen said that the rapidity with which miners were leaving the inlet had reduced the number there to -about 500, exolusive of a number at Coal bay. They calcu lated that $590,000 had been expended in taking men in and out of the coun try, while the amount from the mines would not be more than $100,000 at the highest The Polly Mining Company, near the junction of Mill's and Canyon creeks, they considered to have the best paying mine in the country, and said $35,000 would be shipped out by that mine in the - falL Canyon creek, be tween Six-Mile and Mill's creeks, and two miles up Mill's creek, . they thought was a fair estimate of the pay streak in the country, and said a dozen or less men are the only ones doing welL - Starvation was a remote possibility, as the departing prospectors have dis posed of their provisions at a sacifioe. The majority are able to leave the country, and not more than 100 will be destitute. One man, who oame out by the steamer Bertha, saw the steam sohooner Excelsior lying at Sitka and learned that she is to go to the inlet and carry out a load of passengers free. A Peaceful Settlement, ' " - Buenos Ayres, Sept. 16. A corres pondent in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, tele graphs that the Brazilian foreign min ister, 8enor Cerquiria, has informed a oircle of friends of high standing officially that he regards the prospeot for a peaceful settlement of the Italian question as extremely favorable. Senor Cerquiria says the good will of the government at Rome is assured but he does not disguise the fact that thequir inal will certainly demand full satis faction for all wrongs, suffered by Ital ians in Brazil, before it will consent to enter into a negotiation for a final dis position of the matter. . Signer Bruno, tbe Italian;' represent ative in Santa Paula, deolared in an interview with Senor Cerquiria - that the situation was still grave. Seven thousand insurgents have left Santa Paula for Argentina. The! United States gunboat Castine will accompany tbe Argentine fleet in its evolutions in Brazilian waters. - ;' Three Miners Poisoned. Victor, Colo., Sept 16. Charles Mo Govern, Charles O'Tool, and George Stevens were found dead this after noon in a cabin a mile from Victor. The men, with Harry Doyle and John MoDevitt, had been occupying the cabin for some time, and all had been drinking heavily. The two latter have been arrested on suspicion of poisoning their companions. Doming, N.. M., Sept 16. Fifty Tomoohie Indiana surrounded tbe ous-tom-house at Palomas, Mexico, thirty miles south of this city, today. - The officers repulsed them. Three of the Indiana started for this town, two of Whom were wounded. One " was caught just south of town, and is under arrest at this place. It is said there are 800 Tomoohie Indians in the Florida ' mountains, fifteen .miles south of here. - The town is greatly excited. . T. ' , Disabled in a Gale. Boston, Sept 16. One of the worst disasters of the recent northeasterly gale whioh swept this coast, for 24 hours was. reported this morning on tbe arrival here of the Gloucester fish ing schooner Siegfried, Captain Alden Geel, from the South, channel fishing- grounds, with a crew of 10 men of the Gloucester fishing schooner Silver Dart, Captain Alfred Spurr, as passengers. Tbe. Silver Dart was disabled a mile and a quarter northeast from Highland light, Cape Cod, and the .Siegfried rescued the crew. I FALL OF I Deposition of the Sultan Can . not Be Long Delayed. THE POWERS ARE PREPARING The Mussulman, However, Does Not Show Any Appreciation of the Fate . - Which la Impending; Over Him.' Constantinople, Sept 15. To tioae who have eyes to see, there is more and more evidence of the approach of a crisis in the affairs of tbe Ottoman em pire. But the Turk himself offers no sign of the appreciation of the fate im pending over him or of the limit that has apparently, been reached in tbe patience of the European powers with the process of extermination of the Armenians that has been steadily and relentlessly, pursued by the Turks. There is no diminution in the ranoor displayed by the Mussulmans toward the Armenians, and no sign of the re linquishment of the Turks' contention that the Armenians are persistent and determined revolutionists and agitators against the' sovereignty of the sultan, and, as such, invite the stringent re pressive measures that have been used against them.' " - Some oolor has to be admitted to this contention of the Turks, from the fact that some of the envoys of the powers have reoeived a circular note from the Hinitichak revolutionary committee, declaring that if the reforms demanded by the Armenians at the timolol the raid by them upon tbe Ottoman bank are not granted, there will be a more serious outbreak against the Turkish authorities and over a muob wider area than was the last, which resulted in the apparently indiscriminate slaugh ter of Armenians in this city. ; Since Friday there has been a large increase of the patriots of cavalry in Therapia, the suburb of Constantinople in whioh are situated he French and English ambassadors' residences, and in Buyukdere and Pera. This is the sultan's precautionary measure against future outrages, in compliance with tbe warning contained in the note from the powers. ' These troops, it is under stood, . come under the authority of those who are warned that they will be responsible for the outbreaks involving the destruction of property and loss of life. But the troops are at the same time instructed that they are author ized to use their arms in ' self-defense if they are attacked. These . so-called precautionary measures have not im proved the situation, and have rather served to extend the feeling of terror ism on account of the feeling of doubt as to what secondary and veiled mean ing may be hidden behind the letter of instruction to the troops. Mean time, the British relief committee is busy with the work of helping the dis tressed Armenians. ' The official Turkish estimate of the number of victims of the massacres in the city is 1,100. Other estimates run pretty much all the way upward from this figure. The official estimate is ooupled with the allegation that many of those killed were in reality Turks, but that they were buried with the Armenians and that their number went to swell the ' supposed number of Armenian victims. This is undoubted ly designed as an apology and explana tion of tbe assertion contained in the note of the - powers that the savage bands-whioh pillaged their houses were not accidental gatherings of fanatical people or undirected mobs, but there was every indication of their especial organization and of its being known, if not directed, by the authorities. In foreign circles here the state ments that Turks were killed along with the Armenians is denied. But the actual number of victims of the disorders was certainly 6,000, and will probably reach 6,000. The military authorities state that three soldiers were killed and thirty were wounded. ' All Mussulmans who have yet been tried by the extraordinary tribune, appointed to pass judgment on those implicated in the recent massacre, have been acquitted of tbe charges of com plicity. The evidence against many of these was deemed by foreign resi dents here conclusive, and the failure to hold them adds to the conviction that tbe porte has no intention of com plying with the demand of the powers that the culprits shall be brought to punishment , In .view of this failure to punish the authors of outrages upon Armenains, v the . state - of terrorism among' tbe 'Armenians continues un abated, and the exoius of these people goes on with no diminution. The ap pearance of the refugees, many of them In a state of destitution from the hasty nature of their Sight, and all laboring under extreme apprehension of a blow likely to fall at any time, evokes tbe universal compassion of the foreigners Who see them- . An Impending; Customs War. " London, Sept.. 14. The Berlin cor respondent of tbe Times says that there are persistent rumors there of an impending customs war between Ger many and Russia." . . . It is stated that Russia intends to' retaliate for some vexatious restrictions upon Russian im ports, imposed at the instigation of the German agrarians. " ".A Farmer' Feud. Birmingham, Ala., Sept.15. Near Limestone,- Sumpter county, on Fri day, H. C. Dooley shot and killed Sam W; Sibley, after " having reoeived a charge of shot, in his own body. Both were farmers, and shotguns Were their weapons. , Prince Ton Hohenlohe Dead. Prince Elon von Hohenlohe, deputy to the reichstag, is dead. He expired suddenly of heart disease. ' Tho Sultan Probaoly Insane. London, . .. Sept - 15. Mrs. Emily Crawford, writing . in ; the Sunday Times, says: "A friend who has been admitted to Yildiz palace for profes sional ..reasons ' says . that ' the sultan ought to be deposed in his own inter est, and that if he is not he will be murdered by the jealous palace min ions. He never sleeps in the same bed for two Highta' running. . He believes that emissaries are in the building, and his camarilla maintain the1, delusion It becomes a grave question whether bp is not inaane,-like his brother-Murad. L USED MAILS UNLAWFULLY. Matrimonial Swindle Worked by few York Woman. ' Newburg, N. Y.. Sept 15. Mrs Anna Gossner, a Swedish woman of 80, who has a husband and six chil dren, was arretted in this city last night on a warrant charging her with using the United States mails unlawfully- ' The warrant was -obtained by Postoffice Inspeotor McDuryea, on oomplaint of William A. Siloott, of Mount Vernon, O. . Mrs. Grossner is alleged to have advertised in a matri monal paper that herhusabnd had died and left: her a fortune, but that the estate was ' not settled up yet She wanted the assistance of a, wealthy gentleman, and stated she would go to his home for an interview if money to pay her fare was sent her. It is al leged that she Obtained $40 from Sil cott in this manner. Mrs. Grossner 'b husabnd laft here yesterday morning for Toronto, and the family was to follow. Mrs. Grossner and her baby are in jail, and the other five children are at the Children's home. The woman will be given an examination by - Reoorder Hyndmann tomorrow morning. - , . . V STABBED TO DEATH. A Murder Followed a Wrestling: Bout at San Benito. Hollister,. Cal., Sept 15- Logan B. Cornwall! aged 82 years, was stab bed "-. to the heart and died instantly last night at San Benito, thirty-five miles south of here, by George Smith, a chum of the deceased. Both men were skylarking and indulegd in some wrestling, in whioh Cornwall threw Simtb. This angered the latter some what, and, another bout taking place. Smith was . thrown again, Cornwall falling upon him. - Smith reaohed into his pocket and pulling out a knife, slashed at Cornwall several times. Two outs, six and five inches long, were made across his abdomen, and one stab was directly over his heart, which was fatal. Cornwall rose, walked about fifteen feet and expired. Smith went home and, upon the arrival of Sheriff Holbrook this morning, surren dered himself and was placed in jail. He deeply deplores his act, as he and Cornwall were warm friends and bad been raised from boys together. ' Corn wall leaves a widow and two children. WENT THROUGH A BRIDGE. Fatal Railroad Accident In Kortherv - California. Eureka, Cal., Sept 15. A fatal railorad aooident ocourred this after noon five miles north of Areata, whioh resulted in the death of four persons and the serious, if not fatal injury of several others. The train whioh leaves Areata at 4:30 for Corbel, went through the bridge across Mad river, both coaches, engine and box car being pre cipitated to the river bed below, about forty feet Those killed were: Sandy Cameron, brakeman; Annie Holland; Mrs. Kirkham, of Riverside; a child, whose name could not be learned. ; , A relief train immediately went to the scene and brought the dead and In jured to Areata. The injured were given all possible attention. Drs. Felt, Wallace and other physicians were summoned and attended to the injured. This is the worst aooident that ever oc curred in Humboldt, and the telephone and telegraph offices were beaeiged for news. Tbe news spread quickly and exoited groups discussed the aooident on the streets and about the offices. STOPPED H'S OWN FUNERAL. Mistake Made by the Friends of a Miss ing; Salesman. San Franoisoo, Sept 15. Matthew Roche, a missing dry-goods salesman, made his appearanoe today just in time to interrupt his own funeral servioea and to prevent the interment of a corpse that had been identified by a score of former associates as his. The body bad been picked up on the beach Fri day morning, and as Roche had been missing -for some days, was out of work, despondent and given to drink, his ex-employers and several of his friends, who -called at the morgue, readily identified it as his, and made ar rangements for bis decent , buriaL While the cortege was on the way to the cemetery, Roche telephoned from the city and county hospital to the coroner's office that he had just read in the papers an account of his death and that some one had made a' mistake. The funeral was promptly stopped by he coroner, and the body taken back to the morgue, where it now awaits iden tification. The unknown man is said to closely resemble Roche in figure, features and age. Five Fishermen Drowned. . . Halifax, N. a W., Sept 15. Henry Warford and his four sons, of Green Bay, N. F., were drowned in the straits of Belle Isle while on their way home in a small schooner from a fish ing cruise. - ! Alice My the Vag-god. San Franoisoo, Sept 15. Alice Edith Diokerson-Blythe, the woman who claimed to be the contract wife of Thomas Blythe, and as such claimed a half interest in the dead millionaire's estate, was arrested this afternoon and booked at the city prison upon a charge of vagrancy. During the past two years the woman has been arrested on all of a score of time. San Franoisoo," Sept 15. An. old lady from Seattle, who gave her name as Mrs. Weber, oame near being as phyxiated by gas at the Park hotel last night ' She was found unconscious at 8 o'clock this morning, and was taken to. the receiving hospital, where she is slowly recovering. . She said she came to the city for treatment at the Ger man hospital. - The old lady got up in tfae-night to take her medicine, and, it is thought, Accidentally turned on the gas. -" - "' ... - Her Thirteenth Divorce. San Farnoisoo, Sept 15. Mrs. ' Es ther German, wife of a Russian furrier Of this city, has plunged into the sea of matrimony tihrteen -times, but that she is not Superstitious is evident from the faot that she is vigorously, resisting the suit for divorce now .being insti tuted by her thirteenth spouse. Ger man olaims that at the- time he mar ried her he bad $600, but that after se curing his money, she turned him ; out of the house, and wh jn he attempted to return, caused his arrest on a charge of battery. - ; . . JMpped in the Hud. 'London, Sept 16. It is generally believed here that the polioe, by the arrest of Edwin Bell at Glasoow, J. Wallace and John E. Kearney, at Rotterdam, and P. J. Tynan (No. 1), at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, have nipped a widespread dynamite plot in the bud. ' At Rotterdam tbe police captured a number of infernal ma chines and correspondence which may result in further arrests. Tb men ar rested in Rotterdam were in bed when arrested. Many infernal maohines were found in their possession, togeth er with a quantity of correspondence in cipher. The correspondence is said to have contained plans for dynamite out rages, including an attempt upon the life of Queen Victoria. . . At ast a Decision. - Washington, Sept 16. The Span ish government has yielded to the de mands of the United States for a trial by a civil court of the Competitor pris oners. Authentio information to this effeot has reached the state department unofficially, and the formal announce ment is expected in the next mail from Minister Taylor in Madrid. The Spanish government reaohed this con clusion some time ago, but has delayed the formal announcement of its deci sion until after the cortez adjourns, in order to escape criticism from that body for making concessions to tbe United States. An Italian Bark Wrecked. Highland Light, Mass., Sept 16. The Italian bark Montetabor, from Trapani for Boston, with a cargo of salt, was wrecked on Peaked Hill bar at midnight. To escape death by drowning it is presumed Captain Be lassa shot himself and the mate cut bis throat with a razor. Four of the crew of ten, all of whom were swept overboard, were drowned. The re maining six reaohed shore on the ves sel's deckhouse. BUTCHERED BY SPANIARDS. Cubana Massacred In the Matanzas Province. Key West, Sept 15. Advices from Havana by the steamer Masootte give details of a massacre of Cubans in Matanzas province by Spaniards under General Molinas. The butchery ocour red on Laa Calas sugar estate. Molinas heard an insurgent band was en camped on the estate and ordered a raid. The" insurgents bad gone when the Spaniards arrived, and Molinas ordered the buildings on the estate de stroyed. The Spaniards surrounded the homes of the employes, applied the torch and shot the Cubans as they rushed out Eighteen men and four women were killed outright, while thirteen others, including three chil dren, were wounded. Molinas was a pleased spectator of the masaacre, and reported it to Weyler as a "glorious viotory." . . . . Thursday insurgents . raided and burned the town of San Franoisoo de Paulo, a suburb of Havana. The Spanish garrison of 800 men surren dered, but were released after being disarmed. The smoke and flames were visible in Havana, and caused great excitement Weyler seems to have completely lost his head. He is having leading oitizens of Havana arrested by the wholesale. Weyler says the men ar rested, have been plotting to have him recalled to Spain. Tbe arrests have profoundly stirred Havana. THE FIRST BIG BET. McKlnley and Bryan Supporter Back Their Beliefs With Colu. San Franoisoo, Sept 15. The first big bet of the presidential campaign so far recorded was made here last night, when Charles D. Lane, manager for Alvina Hayward, and Henry Brat nober, the mine promoter, affixed their signatures to notes in. which eaoh pledged to pay the other $25,000 in case the candidate of bis choice is not the choioe of the people in November. Tbe parties to the wager have known one another for many years. Lane was chairman of the recent silver conven tion, and is an ardent supporter of W. J. Bryan and the white metaL Brat nober is just as enthusiastic a supporter of Major MpKinley. - -'The two friends -were on the point of taking a "nightcap" at the Grand hotel bar, when the political situation was broached. In the heat of the de bate Bra tnober offered to bet $100,000 on McKinley's success, and Lane promptly aocepted the bet, but by mu tual consent it was subsequently de olared off. Just before parting, how ever, JBratnober remarked to his friend that he guessed Lane .had saved him self $100,000 by not making tbe bet, and the latter thereupon offered to bet any amount on Bryan at even money. Bratnober rained $25,000, the bet was made, and a couple of minutes later their respective notes were signed and deposited in the hotel safe. . Its Success Assured. - Omaha, Sept 15. The committee having charge of subscriptions for the trans-Mississippi exposition today re ported that the $300,000 guarantee re nnnired before the congressional appro- I priation would be effective has been se , cured. Three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars unconditional sub scription have been reoeived, and $40, 000 conditional. To Avoid Trouble. Buenos Ayres, Sept 15 The Her ald's correspondent in Rio Janeiro sends word that President Moraes of Brazil has had a conference with Gen eral Cerequira, the minister of state, over the Italian troubles. It was the object of the conference to devise a plan to avoid trouble in the diplomatic rela tions between Italy and Brazil. The congress has adjourned until October. - There is some talk of having a sloop regatta at Bay Centre soon. Surrender of Matabeles. Cape Town, Sept. 14. Advioes from the Mattopo Hills say that the chiefs and head men conferred with the Brit ish officials. The natives were offered peace on surrender of their arms, and those guilty of murdering settlers and others in cold blood. The ohiefs agreed to this, saying they were sick of war. Some impis, however, are unwilling to surrender, and are going toward Zam be8ie. .''.--. -' :'- - - .' ' w;;: . f i; A hundred years ago tbe deaths from mall-pox in Germany were 65,000 a fear. - The Fleetwood Record-Holder Beat btar Pointer. . WENT AGAINST A STRONG WIND Made a Mile In 8:01 1-8. Kquallng tho World's Record Made by Hubert J. Two Tears Ago at Terre Haute. Glenn Falls, N. Y , Sept 14. Tbe first of the series of three raoes between -the great pacing s&llions, John R. Gentry (2:03 J), and Star Pointer7 (2:04), for a purse of $5,000, with $500 by the association should the traok reoord xtt 2:08 be beaten, took-d place today on the traok of the North ern New York Horse-Breeders' - Asso ciation at Glenn Falls. Last week, at Fleetwood, John R. Gentry lowered . the colors of Robert J., Frank Agan and Star Pointer, winning the most remarkable harness raoe on record, pacing the fastest three sonseoutive heats known. Today the Bame hand- some stallion equaled the world's reo ord made by Robert J. at Terre Haute two years ago, going a mile and win ning the heat by almost a full length in 2:01 . The average time for the three heats of today's raoe was just one-quarter of a seoond slower than the world's reoord, made at Fleetwood last weekX This match ' brought out up ward of' 7,000 people. Th.,horsea looked fit to make the raoe of their" lives. Shortly before 2:30 the first heat of the big race was oalled. Gen try oame first on the traok, and reoeiv ed an ovation as he passed the grand stand. Star Pointer followed quiokly. and waa equally well received... The pools were selling 1 to 2 on Gentry and 6 to 6 on Star Pointer. They closed at 5 to 2 on Gentry. They were given the word on the seoond soore. Star Pointer had the pole. They started very level, and held the position from the wire to the half mile pole, with Gentry at Point ers' saddle. Andrews let out a little and Gentry olosed up the distance, but a moment later went back to Pointer's seat As they sped around into the home stretch, the stallions were as if in one harness. Then, with a furious drive, the Fleetwood reoord holder, pushed his nose ahead and won the beat in 2:03. The seoond heat was oalled at 4 o'olook. At that time quite a breeze was blowing, and this seemed to dampen all hopes of a reoord-breaking performance. The horses were given the word on the first soore. They went along as one horse to the five-eighths pol8, where Star Pointer, who was on : the outside, . straining every muscle, -managed to show his head in " front Into the stretch they oame, and as An drews shook up his horse Gentry, with a wonderful burst of speed, flew past his rival, passing under the wire a full length in front with a world's reoord to his credit of 2:01 , . , ' Every person in the big crowd went wild, for it seemed, even before the time was posted, that a- reoord had gone down. After such a wonderful performance, the ' third heat proved somewhat of a disappointment . They got off on the first soore, and, after, traveling the first half neck and neck,' Star Pointer went back to Gentry's wheel. He closed again to the stretch, when Andrews again made his drive and Gentry took the third heat in 2:05. - - Concentrating Artillery Regiments, San Franoisoo, Sept 14. Colonel . Shatter, formetly a resident of Angel island, has removed from there, his household furniture and other goods -and chattels being transferred on the government steamer General Mo Dowell, and landed at Fort Mason. This new move has no particular sig nificance, except that it is oarrying out the orders issued a couple of months ago by the war department It is un-, derstood that the purpose of the order is to concentrate artillery regiments on the seacoasts. To do this all the at tached batteries of the regiment, scat tered in outlying stations, are ordered in to headquarters where General Graham will have them immediately under his eye at the Presidio. The infantry oompanies must take the place of all artillery in the garrisons heretofore occupied by the latter, there by scattering Colonel Shatters' ' regi ment over considerable territory, with headquarters at Fort Mason. It is the intention of the department to abolish a number of the smaller posts now scattered in this state and Oregon with a view to concentration of troops. Shot in Self-Defense. Santa Monica, CaL Sept 14. Wil liam Kearse, an Irishman of good fam ily, threatened to kill bis father-in-law, J. M. Morirs, and went to Morris' bouse tonight to finish the job. He tried to break in the door, and Morris shot him dead. Morris has been re leased on his own reoognizanoe. The aurado Seised. Wilmington, Del., Sept 14. The steamer Laurada arrived today from Port Antonio, and was . seized by the federal authorities on the belief that another filibustering expedition was . nnntamnlntarl. y Madagascar Prospectors Attacked ' London, Sept. 14. The Malgassy mail .MViivnl Viat hnn naa nt on attack upon a number of English and Amerioan gold prospeotors in Mada- ' gascar by the Tahavolds. The pros pectors were obliged to flee for their lives, abandoning their baggage. .' Bath now boasts of three canary ' birds batoned out of one egg. The lit- . tie fellows were about the size of bum- . blebee.1, but' -are alive and growing. ' - ' ;. aster Oregon Mines.' " Baker City. Or., Sept 14. The auo oess of the-Bonanza haa attracted to that region an army of prospeotors, and new strikes are reported daily. After makihg'due allowance for" personal in- -terest and enthusiasm, it is safe to say that some of the hunters have found veins that will produce ore of value next season. Some of the most prom ising of these prospects are the result - of reopening olaims abandoned, years ago. The interest has also extended to y the old placers, and several are being 1 reopened so as to be worked as soon as there is a supply of water next eaaos.'