VOL. XXXIII.
CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, OCT. 16, 1896.
NO. 31.
TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
-VIA-
The Shasta Route
OF THE
Southern Pacific Co.
EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY.
8 uu P m Leave Portland Arrive I 8:10 AH
12:10 A M I leaves Albany Arrive j 4:45 in
10:45 a M I Arrive 8. Francisco Leave! 7:00 ru
Above trains atop at Eat Portland, Oregon
City, Woodburn, fcalem. Turner, Marion, Jeffer
son. Albany. Albany jBuctiou,Tauavnt,8bedds,
Halrey, liarrisburg. jHiietion City, BHgene,
Creawell, Uiains, and ail stations 1 rom Rose
burn to Asblaud, inclusive.
ROSKBHRQ MAIL DAILY.
o iiue for Hand Air. vol 4:40 T U
12.25 P m Leave Albany Arrive 1 12:5 p M
:2r M 1 Arrive Bosrbnrg Leave! 6:00 am
Pullman B ffet sleepers and second-class
sletpiug ars attached to all through train.
- 6ALEM PASSENGER DAILY.
4:00 p m I L?ave Portland Arrive 1 11:15 A X
:16 P M j Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A M
VIST 8IOK DIVISION.
Between Portland and CorvalHs Mall train
daily (except Sunday).
730 a if f Leave - Portland Arrive I 6:20 p M
12:1 j r m Arrive - Corvallla Leave 1 1:85 P it
At Albany and Oorvallia connect with trains
of ibe Origi n Central A Eastern Ry.
FTPRF-s TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday).
i . m - nit
7 2 r m I Arrive
r ... i.nii.i Airive 8:25 A M
' Mlnnville l.eae 5:;',0 A M
inr nan Urketa lo all pointa In the Eastern
Mate, anda and Knroiw can be obtained at
lowest rale from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallla.
R. KOEH1.ER, Manager.
E. P. ROGERS. A G F. A P. A.. Portland, Or.
TO THE
IE A S T
CIVE3 THS CHOICE OF
TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL
ROTJ T B S
VIA
VIA.
GREAT
NORTHERN RY.
SPOKANE;
MINNEAPOLIS
UNION
PACIFIC RY,
DENVER
OMAHA
AND
AND
ST. PAUL XANSAS CITY
XW RATES TO ALL
EASTERN CITIES
CCEAM , STEAMERS , 'it:
kEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS
. . -. FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
For full detail?, call on or address
W. H. HUR LBURT,
Gtii'l Pass.' Agent, Portland, On gon.
OREGON CENTRAL
AND EASTERN R.R.CO.
;Yaquina Bay Route
Connecting at Yaqnina Bay with the
SanFraneiseo & Vaquina Bay
STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
Steamship "Farallon
Fails from Yaqulra every ft flays for San Fran
cisco, C os Bay, P.rt Or'ord, Trinidad and
Unnibollt Bay. Passenger sec mmodatlrm
Bnnrpssed. Shortest route between the Wil
lamette valley and C alifornia.
F aTroir-Hunr--o.-Points West to
San Francisco:
Cabin Steerage ... $ 5
Round trip, good for 60 da' a, J15.
To C o Bav a d Port Onoid Cubin........ 6
To Humboldt Bay Cabin.. 8
Yaquloa Bay.
The moat popular seasl.ie re ort on tbe North
Tsciflc coast. No undertow eurf Da thing abso
lutely safe.
ror iha wishing to combine hunting and
fl shins with acqualic sports, this resort has no
iqu 1. Deer, bear, elk, cougar, brook trout and
ai men trout, can be found in abundance with
in a few hours' drive of the bay. . . -
Reduced rates to all pointa.
J. C. Mato, KDWIN STONE,
T. F. A P. A. Manager.
H. L. Waldkh, Axent, Albany.
DR. L. G. ALTMAN
HOXOEOPATHIST
Dlsenes of women and children and. general
practice.
O&Vs over Allen & Woodward's drag store. ;
Office boars S to 12 A. V., and 2 to 5 and 7 to8
P.M.
At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after
hoars and on Hundays., .-.,-'
O.FARRA.M.D.
Office In Fam A Allen's brick, on the corner
of Second and Adams.
Residence ou Third street in front of court-
h Offlse honrs 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 2 and 7 to
p.m. All caJs attended promptly.
BOWEN LESTER
DENTIST
Offlc Qpitairt over First National Bank. ;
Strictly Flrst-Clas Work Guaranteed
CorvalHs. Oregon
IMS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Kevfew of Uie Import
at appealaa-s mt tka rut Week
Culled rrwmm the Tel.rrmaU Colamns'
Three men were instantly killed in
Wilkesbarre, Pa., by a fall of rock.
The Republican headquarters at
Chehalis, Wash., were broken into by
some miscreants and a quantity of lit
erature, private letters, aooonnts and
postage stamps taken.
Bertie Tripp, whose right name is
supposed to be Helen Forest, a mem
ber of the Salvation Army, committed
suicide by taking poison in Butte,
Mont. No cause for the act is known.
Lewis Edwards and bis wife drank
beer at the house of their friend, Mabel
Andrews, 403 Minna street, San Fran
cisco, retired to a room, in . a drunken
condition, agreed to die together as an
end to their misery, turned on the gas
and went . to bed. The door was
forced the following day and Edwards
found dead and his wife unsoonscious.
The Italian government has address
ed a peremptory note to the porte in
reference to a young Italian subject
who was murdered in the recent mas ;
sacres. The note says that the young
man was beaten on the head and felled
to tbe ground by a man in Turkish uni
form until he was killed. The note
demands the punishment of the guilty
persons and the payment of indemnity
for the murder of an Italian subject.
' An unsuccessful attempt at wholesale
poisoning by paris green has been dis
covered in Almond, Wis. While pre
pairng a can of milk for shipment,
John Bibby, a . wealthy milk-shipper,
notioed a peculiar color, and, on in
vestigation found a large quantity of
paris green at the bottom of the can.
John Burns, another farmer, found a
score of piles of paris green and salt
scattered in his pasture land, and
Thomas Brown lost five of tbe most
valuable oows of bis herd from the
same poison, deposited by unknown
parties on his grazing range. No clew
as yet to the perpetrators of tbe out
rage bas been found.
Boston has refused to accept the
bronze Bacchante by Maomonnies, for
the new public library. The statue is
too suggestive of immorality and thirst '
for the Puritan town. At a meeting !
of the art - committee it was decided to
reject it The curator of the museum j
sent tbe following note to the trustees '
of the library: "Voted, That the j
seoretary be instructed to inform the j
trustees of the publio libary that, while 4
recognizing the ' remarkable teohnioal
merits of Mr. Macmonnies statue of
Bacchante as a work of art, this com-1
mittee does not regard it as suited to
the publio library building."
Returns from the Florida election
give Bloxham, Democratic candidate
for governor, a plurality of 25,000. A
constitutional amendment abolishing
October elections was ratified. .
The tetlegraphers' strike on tbe Can
adian Pacifio bas been declared off. - A
settlement was arrived at through a
board of conciliations .The company
agrees that all men will be taken back
except those guilty of destroying prop
erty. It also agrees to recognize the
Order of .Railway Telegraphers and its
members.
In a fog at Argentine, Ean. , five
east-bound Santa Fe trains were mixed
up in a re ir-end collision just outside
the railway yards, tbe trains following
each other closely. Several oars and
two of the engines were wrecked, -but
miraculously enough no one was killed.
Four persons were slightly injured.
A dispatch from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz., announces that the
astronomers of the observatory have
discovered that the planets Mercury
and Venus each tarns once on its axis
during one revolution of the sun, mak
ing tbe day just equal to the year on
these planets. They find further that
Venus is not oloud covered, as has been
reported, but has about it a thick at
mosphere, while Mercury bas none.
It has been semi-offioially announoed
in Constantinople that the Turkish gov
ernment, after weighing the matter
and consulting certain advisors, came
to a decision not to admit the United
States warship Bancroft through the
Dardanelles, and therefore she will not
be able to act as thq guardship of the
United States legation in these waters.
The porte, it is said, also decided not
to admit the guardsbips of Greece and
Holland.''' - . -...'
The British ship Kilburn, whioh has
just arrived in 'San Francisco, reports
the loss of two of her crew on the voy
age from Newcastle. ; She was only
nine ' days out . When .she ran into a
storm. The two men -were sent aloft
to stow away the topsail, and while
they were so engaged a violent lurch
caused John Anderson, a Swede, to
loose his hold, and falling he struck
against John Harvey, ' an American,
knooking him off the yardarm and to
gether they fell. Anderson was thrown
into the sea and drowned and Harvey
struck on the deck, but died in a few
hours.
It is generally believed among the
leading Cathoiio .clergy that Bishop
Hortman, of Cleveland, O., diocese,
will be tendered the position of rector
of the Cathoiio university at Washing
ton, made vaoant by the resignation of
Bishop Keane. The bishop, who is at
present in the East, has given out noth
ing concerning the appointment, but it
is said he has been privately notified
that he is tbe choice of the pops, and
that his visit in the East is for the
purpoce of making arrangements for
taking on his new duties.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the employes of the Grand
Trunk railway in Toronto, whioh may
terminate in a strike. The men com
plain they areJuDjnstly treated by the
foremen and superintendents and thai
their complaints are not listened to.
The most serious point is at Stratford,
where orders were given that the 700
employes there should work but forty
five hours" "a week, instead of fifty
hours, as hitherto. . ' If the employes a,
Toronto and other oenters are placed
under a similar regulation, some u
tion will probably -be taken by the men
to have their wrongs redressed.
Thousands Are Homeless.
Three-fourths of the city of Guaya
qiul, Ecuador, has . been reduced to
ashes by a fire whioh raged for twenty
four hours, sweeping everything in its
path. Some estimate" the finanoial loss
at upwards Of $50,000,000. Many
lives were lost in the fire, and 85,000
people are homeless. Two- thousand
houses, Including every bank in. the
city, of wliich there ' are 'five, were
burned. It is impossible from . the
present food supply there to feed all
the victims, and the suffering will un
doubtedly be great. ; .
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Chicago Day Celebrated.
Chicago day, tbe anniversary of the
great fire twenty-five years ago, was
celebrated in . that city chiefly as a po
litical holiday. Republicans and
Democrats celebrated separatey,' each
party having its own big street parade,
as well as monster gathering indoors.
Practically every" factory and store in
the city was closed, also tbe board of
trade and banks. From ealry morn
ing the streets were jammed with
cheering thousands, struggling to gain
some point of vantage.
Ai Overxealous Parson.
The Rev. Lang, an evangelist, who
had been holding a revival at Seward,
Or T., during one of his sermons de
clared "that all women who 'dance are
immoral." A storm broke at onae,
and. Lang was chased to the Santa'Fe
station by ' fifty, enraged church mem
bers. At the stajion he was beaten al
most to a jelly by two farmers and a
number of women. Subsequently he
was rescued from a coat of tar and
feathers by a train crew.
Crime of a Madman.
Albert Bray, aged 89," of Noblesville,
Ind , a farmer and a very religious
man, cut' the throats of his wife, 9-year-old
son, Carl, 2 -year-old daughter,
Edna, and himself. The wife and chil
dren died without a struggle. Bray,
with a gaping wound in his throat
lived for some hours without regaining
consciousness. Bray crushed the skulls
of his victims with an az after he had
out their throats.
She Fonght a Burglar.
Miss Ella Emerson, 16 years old, of
Fruitvale, Cal., battled with a burglar
who tried to chloroform, gag and bind
her, and after a desperate struggle, she
succeeded in making her esoape by
leaping through an open window and
dropping to the ground, a. distance of
twelve feet. , .
D Maurier Is Dead. .
' George Du Maurier, artist, novelist,
and author of "Trilby," jdied in Lon
don. . His end was painless. He
passed away surrounded by his friends.
For day 8 he has been hovering between,
life and death, at instervals conversing
with friends regarding his work. Upon
one . oooasion a " friend at - tbe dying
man's bedside referred to the success of
"Trilby" as a book and a play, where
upon .Du Maurier replied: ''Yes, it
has been successful,1 but popularity has
killed me at last" The immediate
cause of his' death is given as heart
trouble. ,
For the Good of the Cow.
Instructor Winterhalter, of the agri
cultural . college at the university of
California, is making a comprehensive
dairy report whioh will cover practio
ally the entire state The work is be
ipg done under the supervision of Pro
fessor E. W. Hilgard, who is advocat
ing the us) of the Baboook tester to dis
cover disease in oows. Professor Hil
gard says the report will show the
value of such tests and suggest methods
of recompensing the dairymen for the
loss of cattle. .
Freight Thieves Captnred.
Secret service agents of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway have arrested
in Chicago the members and stopped
the operations of the most skillful as
well as successful gang of freight-oar
pilferers with whom the railroad de
tectives of that city have had to deal
with in many years. It is known thus
far that five railroads have suffered
through the operations of the gang,
and it is believed not less than $10,000
worth of property bas been stolen with
in the laSt six months.
An Election Lynching. -
The state election oaosed a murder
and lynching at Mount Junction, Ga.
Gus Williams, Populist (uegro), struck
a ticket out of a Democratic negro
voter's hand. The Democratic negro
struok Williams for his Insolence, and
Williams fired at his assailant, but
missed his aim and shot and instantly
killed Engineer Middleton, of the Cen
tral railway, who was an onlooker.
Bystanders took Williams and lynched
him and riddled his body with bullets.
Wheat la Advancing.
Manitoba wheat is advanoing daily.
At some points where competition is
unusually keen as high as 67 oenta has
been paid to tbe farmer, while 60 cents
is now the general price for No. 1 bard
throughout the province. ,
- Ten Were Drowned.
In a collision between tbe steamers
Alexander aid Em den, on the- Ham
burg, near Hull, the former sank,
drowning ten of the crew.
A Lightship Founders. '
It is reported in Queenstown that the
Daunt'a rook lightship, - having on
board a crew of eight men,: has foun
dered. .
. The Borland's Crew. -
Captain Anderson and 90 other un
fortunate men,, composing the crew of
the ill-fated bark James A. Borland,
arrived in San Franciso on the Alaska
Packers' Association steamer Afnogak,
which came in from Port Townsend.
The Borland went on the rooks while
trying to make the harbor at Tugidek
island, Alaska, September 10. The
vessel and cargo, consisting of 80,000
oases of salmon, were a total loss, but
all the members of the crew escaped.
.A Terrible Fir.
Information from Guayaquil, Ecua
dor, states that it is estimated 20,000
people are deprived of their homes by
destructive fires, which occurred there.
The losses to foreign companies are
plaoed at over $3,000, 000. The custom
house and its contents were destroyed,
among other buildings. It is estimated
the amount of the loss will reach aa
high as 6,000,000. The insurance
amounts to 500,000, 1 Thousands of
persona are left homeless by the confla
gration. The fire is believed to have
been inoendlary.
HIGH WINDS Hi TIDES
Devastation Wrought by the
West India Hurricane.
IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
Immense Damage Done at Coney Isl
and. A .bury Park and Other Ocean
' . Resorts -Beach Covered by Wreckage
New lork, Oct. 14. A veritable
hurricane has swept over tbis section
today, the, wind blowing with terrific
force, reaching at Sandy .Hook a velo
city of seventy-five miles; an hour last
night The tides rose to a height many
feet greater than has been - seen for
years, and -' the waves all -along the
Atlantio coast swept in ' with a force
that carried everything before them,
and did- many hundreds of thousands
of dollars damage. Sandy Hook and
points along the Jersey coast felt the
fury of . the storm most of alL But
Coney Island experienced, so. far as 'has
been learned., the most direful results.
The beaches were swept clean, pavil
lions were overtunred and carried sea
ward, with bathing houses and board
walks, and everything not far inland
on the famous island was torn up and
piled high beyond the coast line, or
carried out to sea. -
At'Brighton Beaoh,: the stone walks
in front of the big hotel were under
water, and toward the end of the after
noon, the famous Seidl concert ball
was inundated and partially carried
away. The well-kept lawns in front
of the Oriental hotel and Manhattan
Beach hotel were laid waste, and the
lower portions of the hotels flooded.
Innumerable small - buildings : were
simply picked up bodily and carried
away by wind or wave. .
' At Far Rockaway, the fury of the
gle was indescribable. Those bouses
whioh were built on piles on the sand
were washed away, and those higher,
up, whioh for years have been out of
reach of tbe highest tides, were today
flooded. -,
Along tbe Jesrey coast, most of the
damage done was to piers and to break-,
waters. . Preparations bad been made,
as forewafninga of the storm had been
given some days before. As yet, very
little damage to shipping has been re
ported, for on aooount of the warn
ings, many craft delayed sailing and
others that bad cleared here returned
for safe anchorage.
' Tbe Coney Island beash was swept
by the highest - tide in the history' of
the famous resort. A large number of
temporary structures along the water
front were destroyed. The boulevard
was flooded as far as Neptune avenue.
The Shelton houses, at the intersection
of Concourse and Boulevard, ' were
washed-waxTie. wavefv rrmning
high, battered the plaza in front of the
Brighton beach hotel. The Ocean ho
tel, west of the Brighton beach hotel,
was ' surrounded by water aiid the
foundations racked. Numerous bath
ing pavillions and aumsement houses
were either wrecked or damaged,
among the latter being the clubhouse
of tbe Seaside Athletic Club. The old
iron pier, Which was believed to be in
vincible, was buffeted by the storm
ind over twenty windows cut in two.
- Manhattan beach shared in the dis
aster with other sections of tbe island.'
Much of the ornaments in front of ' the
Manhattan beach hotel - were swept
away, and a magnificent lawn in front
of the swell Oriental hotel was made a
dismal waste.
Hog island, during the afternoon,
added another big section to the portion
which had previously gone to sta, and
another such storm would wipe it and
several other adjoining districts but of
existence altogether.
At Sandy Hook, where even the
breath of a breeze can be twisted into
a gale, last night's storm was a howl
ing hurricane. Tbe waves broke high
er ' than ever before, and at one time
.the old tower which incoming and out
going ships signal shook and tottered
as though it would be blown over.
All day long the wind blew a gale of
fifty miles at Asbury Park. High tide
at noon seemed to be at the maximum.
Hundreds of people lined the shores
watching the destruction that came
with every wave. Everything within
reaoh of the waves was used as a bat
tering ram to break down the struo
tures on -the beach. The great board
walk was pounded to pieces in many
plaoes. From Deal lake to the bound
ary line, it is a complete wreck. The
marble monument which marks the
spot where the New Era went down in
the early days of Asbury Park was un
dermined by the waves and toppled
into the sea. Wreckage is strewn over
the beach ' as far as tbe eye can reaoh.
' Bog Cholera in Ohio Valley.
Cincinnati, Oot 14. The reports
from the farmers in Ohio and Indiana
are alarming oyer the losses from bog
cholera. The corn crop is very large,
but the bogs are dying fast. Tbe bog
cholera has prevailed for some weeks
and during the last, week the losses
have not only increased in the infected
districts, but the 'disease is becoming
genearl throughout the Ohio valley. .
The game of checkers has been play
ed in Egypt since about 3000 B. C.
St. Louis, Oct. 14. In spite of the
fact that Miss Lillian Russell's father
is lying dead at his home, she appealed
in her usual role' in the oOmio opera,
"An American Beauty," at the Cen
tury theater tonight She was not
notified of his death until this morn
ing. Her reasons for playing, as
given, are that she did not desire to de
prive the sixty chorus girls of night's
wages. She said they could ill afford
it, and ' she was willing to make the
sacrifice in their behalf.
The Exclusion of American Meats.
Fort Worth, Tex., . Oct 14. The
press dispatch relative to a rumor-that
Germany bad decided to exclude
American canned goods was discussed
by the executive committee : of the
Livestock Exchange tonight The mat
ter was referred to tbe meeting of the
board tomorrow. It will deola along
tbe line of reciprocity, prohibition of
Canadian cattle, exportation through
the United States and retaliation
against all foreign governments seek
ing to discriminate against the meat
product of the Unitetd States. - - ,
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Hopkins & Co.'i Bevlew of
Trade. .
Porland, Or., Oot 14. There has
been a decided change in speculation
from extreme dullness to unsual ac
tivity within the past month. The
ohange has been so sudden that the
trade is becoming accustomed to it,
and all the indications point to active
markets for tbe rest of the fall, and
well into the winter. There iB a more
confident feeling among operators in
general, and the . improved business
situation also has a good effect There
is no doubt that the turning point has
come, and that we have seen our low
est prioes this year, and probably for
some years. Tbe advance in prioes bas
given the bulls good profits and scared
the bears so that they are not inclined
to make much of a fight against higher
prices, as the bull fever is" on and will
have to run its course. There will not
be an easy time for the short sellers,
and for the present they .will have to
be satisfied with small profits. There
will also be plenty of setbacks for the
bulls, but all indications point - to a
higher zange of prioes. Of late there
has been advanoes followed by sharp
breaks, but the prioes have not reached
to tbe previous low point This is the
way the bull leaders expect the markets
to work all the way up.
For years it has been tbe custom of
the trade to take no stock in bull move
ments unless based upon heavy country
buying. The fact that the countrymen
have not come in of late bas deterred
many from taking the bull side with a
vim. .- There has been a moderate in
crease in outside speculation, but the
bulk of the new business has oome from
a different source the foreigners.
They have to a great extent taken the
plaoe of the ooantrymen. They are
large traders and the majority have
made money. Their trade oomes to a
few.' houses and is not - as apparent as
the country business,' and hence is very
deoeptive, there being a great deal of
it at times that takes all offerings in a
quiet way, and the pit traders wonder
where the stuff goes to, as it does not
come on the market, again for some
time. When they get to making money
they stay at it, and thus far have been
able to catch the turns to better ad
vantage than the majority of the home
operators. This will tend to keep
them in the market right along.
- Exports of wheat continue large, be
ing 4,050,792 bushels last week, against
about 8,000,000 . bushels a month ago.
and 2,224,000 bushels for the oorre-
I spending week a year ago. We would
call the attention of those who bleieve
the present price of wheat too high, and
who think tbe advanoe bas been too
rapid to be maintained, to the inorease
in , exports last week over those of a
month ago when the prioe was ISO
cheaper. We also quote as a reason
for this heaw inorease the estimates of
the Hungarian -minister of agriculture
on the, deficits of wheat in tbe several
different exporting countries, which we
think has an important bearing on tbe
prioe - question. He estimates the de
ficit of wheat in America, compared
with .1895, at 50,000,000 bushels,
whioh Ja less than any of the American
authorities estimate it He estimates
the Russian defioit at 75,000,000 bush
els; the Argentine at 12,000,000 bush
els. This makes a total defioit in these
three exporting countires of 137,000,
000 bushels. Besides the shortage in
these three countries there is a short
age in India of about 60,000,000 bush
els, and a considerable shortage in Aus
tralia. ';. - ..'". : -
TIME CARD REDUCED.
Fastest Long-Dlstanoe Train on the
Continent.
Denver, Oct 14. By the first of
next : month, the time to California
pointa from Denver will -be reduced
from seventy-two hours by new equip
ment to be introduced by the Santa Fe.
On the two roads running south and to
the mining camps westward, material
changes in the schedule of trains will
consequently be made. The Santa Fe
will place its extra equipment in limit
ed form in oonneotion with changes to
be made by the Colorado Midland to
Leadville and points in the mountains.
The equipment is new and fresh from
the Pullman shops and is enthusi
astically characterized as the finest
limited in the world. Average run
ning time of sixty miles per hour will
be made by the limited, and the claim
is made by the company that it will be
the fastest long distance train on the
continent
LOSS BY FIRE.
Part of the Town ot Great Barrington
Burned.
Great Barrington, Mass., Oot 14.
This town was visited tonight by the
greatest conflagration in its history. It.
destroyed the major portion of the
business section. .The fire started in
tbe Kennedy hotel, and spread rapidly
to adjoining buildings. The fire de
partment responded promptly, but the
fire had gained such headway and the
heat was so intense that they were
driven from the street, and could only
fight tbe flames from the rear. Aid
from Housantonio, Stockbridge and Lee
reached the city before midnight, and
tbe fire is now under control. A gale
blew all night The loss will be heavy.
. Houses for gaming - purposes were
regularly licensed in London in 1620.
The Wreck of the Colombia.
: San Francisco, Oot 14. The late
coast storms have completely sub
merged the wreck of the steamer Co
lombia, compelling the five divers en
gaged in recovering material from her
hull' to suspend operations indefinitely.
When the weather bas moderated aufft
oienlty, tbe wreck will be again exam
ined, and it will then be decided if an
other attempt shall be made to release
what is still contained in the enigine
and boiler-rooms. '
Shonld Remain at Home.
Toronto .Oot 14. Masters of Cana
dian vessels are strongly denouncing
the regulation of : the United States
which compels Canadian vessels ply
ing between American ports, to pay $3
per diem while so engaged. This
amount, when added, to $10 30 clear
ance, make their : trips unprofitable.
The Dominion government will be
urged to try to secure them relief from
thjis exoessive charge. '
Sleotrio .ooal mining machinery is
bfting rapidly introduced is Western
Pi !dnsylvania. - - . t- .
i.
Hungarian Woman Tortured
On Farm Near Spokane.
ONE MASS OF CUTS AND BRUISES
Accused of Stealing Several Hundred
; Dollars From Her Employer . and
- Then Beaten to Hake Her Confess.
Spokane, Wash.,' Oct ' 18. Marie
Vovafd, a Hungarian woman, unable
to speak English, tells a story of bru
tality whioh is unparalleled in the.
city's history. . She came to Spokane
several months ago, and was induced to
go to the farm of one Lombardi, living
ten miles from town, to cook.' When
she reached the place, Lombardi com
pelled the woman to be his mistress,
she says, and also the mistress of
others about the place. . Lombard i's
bam was burned a few nights after the
woman arrived, and he claims several
hundred dollars in bills and silver were
stolen. The woman was accused of
theft by another man, whose name can
not be learned. To force the woman
to tell the whereabouts of the money,
Lombardi used a penknife to jab her
in ' the face, and, according to the
woman's story, he jumped on her
stomach and brutally kicked her.
An unknown employe waked her in
the middle of the night and forced her
to go to the place several miles dis
tant, and tried to make her tell where
the money was supposed to be bidden.
The woman had not stolen the money
and says the last assailant abused her
even more shamefully than the first.
She is in such a oondition that she can
not be moved from the house. Her
head is one mass of outs, and her
body, from neck down, is black and
blue. . Her neck shows the marks of
fingers, where, one of her brutal as
sailants clutched her by the throat
The authorities so far have not moved
f in the matter. The woman was viBited
today by a reporter, who took her story,
and the women of Spokane will prob
ably take care of the case.
A MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING.
A German Count Killed, Apparently
by Accident.
San Francisco, .Oct. 18. A dispatch
from Monterey says that Count Bailee
trem, an artist, was shot and killed
last night by a man named Abiger,
who lived with him. Abiger has been
arrested. He says the shooting was
accidental. It is said that both men
are well known in Berlin.
Mriger is of good German family.
He says he was preparing to go hunt
ing just at dusk, and had a playful
struggle with his friend for the gun.
Tbe weapon , was discharged, and a
load- of birdshot entered Von Bailee
trem's breast, killing him instantly. :
Tbe dead man's full name was
Count Wolfang von Ballestrem, and
he came of a prominent German fam
ily. He served in the German army,
and came to the Pacific coast about ten
years ago. He spent his money lavish
ly, and it was soon ' gone. - For a time
be led a precarious existence, working
as a bousepainter and bootblack, and
finally enlisting in the United States
army, where he served as a private.
Lately he said he had become recon
ciled with his family, and that he was
receiving money from Germany. He
went to Monterey a few months ago
and lived with bis friend Abiger.
The latter's story of tbe shooting is
believed by tbe police, but there are a
few discrepancies in it . He says the
shooting occurred at sundown, while
neighbors say they heard the shot after
8 o'clock. Von Ballestrem'a clothes
were not powder burned, as they would
have been had the shot been fired at
close range.
HELD UP CONDUCTORS.
The Plan of Three Highwaymen in
Council Bluffs.
Counoil Bluffs, la., Oct 13. Tbe
police have been assisting the offloers
of the motor company in an effort to
discover three fellows, who have been
holding up motor conductors with
painful regularity, and getting all the
money - tbey carried with them.
Many robberies of this kind have oc
curred within a few days. But tbe
motor-people and the police officers
have kept tbe matter quiet until yes
terday. Tbe plan pursued by the
highwaymen is for two of them to
board a car together and take positions
on the rear platform. When the., oar
reaches the point where they want to
tap the conductor, one of them reaches
up and pulls the trolley from the wire.
This shuts . off the current, the lights
go out and the car stops. When the
conductor goes to the rear platform
and is bending over the railroad trying
to adjust the trolley, the highwaymen
seieze him, grab his money from tbe
side pocket of his coat and jump from
the train. - - '- - .
A Plot of Turkish Students.
London, Oct 13 An Athens dis
patch says the governor of Mytelene
bas discovered a plot of Turkish stu
dents to bring about a general massacre
of Christians and that four of the ring
leaders have been arrested.
Colon, Oct. 13. Thousands who had
gathered to attend the funeral of Julio
Muller, the son of a Panama merchant,
were startled to see the supposed dead
man oome to life It 'appears he had
taken anti-pyrene to promote micturi
tion, and the effect was that he was
pronounced - dead. The appearanoe of
the skin indicated poison, and tbe au
thorities stopped tbe funeral for a post
mortem examination. When the coffin
was opened Muller was - found to be
alive. '.'
A Young Lady Dies of Fright.
. Pooatello, Idaho, Oct 18. This af-
ternoon at Ham's Fork, hile John
Byers and Miss Beatrice Bowoutt, aged
16, were riding a railroad velocipede,
a dog ran' across the traok in front of
them, throwing the car off and pre
cipitating the occupants heavily to the
ground. Miss Bowoutt fell across the
traok and died In a few moments, pre
sumably from fright Neither of the
two were struok by the car, and no
other cause for death can be given.
She was a daughter of John Bowoutt,
tbe section foreman at Bam'i Fork. -
rERRIBLE SIBERIAN FLOODS.
Great Damage and Loss of Life Keas
- Tladivostook; '
Taoorna, Oot 18. Reports from
Vladivostook, whioh arrived today
from Japan per steamer Taooma, state
that last month the plains- bordering
on the Ussuri were the soene of terrible
floods. The rivers Siphoon, Mor,
Santa Chasa and Iman were all out,
and tbe plain for . hundreds of- miles
was turned into a lake, in some plaoes
twenty six feet deep. The Siberian
railway was flooded for 120 vexsts
from Iman, the last station on the
road, and in many plaoes washed away
and for some days telegrapbio com
munication with Vladivostook . was in
terrupted, both on the government and
private lines. The grain orops were
being gathered, and were stocked in
sheaves in the fields, and the winter
stock of hay was being housed. All
these were carried away, as were in
most cases the stock of the farmers, as
well as their houses.
News had been reoeived of tbe
deaths of over a score of people, and it
was feared that in the more remote
districts the loss of human life would
be still greater. Rescue parties were
out in all directions, taking the farm
ers and their families to places of
safety in the few boats to be found in
tbe district, and the governor-general
at Vladivostook has dispatohed a party
of soldiers, with two light draught
steam launches and four lifeboats, to
assist in the work. Tbis party found
great difficulty in reaching the soene,
owing to tbe state of tbe country.
As the settlers have lost their all,
even their stock of foodstuffs for the
winter, there is likely to be great dis
tress and famine in tbe region during
the ooming winter.
ASTONISHING BLACKMAIL.
A Story That Rivals the Campbell Ab
duction Case. -
San Franoisoo, Oot 13. Such a
story as Millionaire Campbell told and
proved against Oliver Wintbrop oomes
now from Charles Montgomery, pro
prietor of the Brooklyn hotel, who is a
man of means, position and high repu
tation just such a story, save that the
kidnapper, to call bim so, is declared
to have planned more wisely than
Wintbrop, executed more skilfully,
reaped a substantial reward for his
daring crime and gone soot free.
For more than a year Mr. Montgom
ery has held his peaoe and kept his
pledge of seoreoy, and no one but bis
wife and his lawyer bas ' known ' that
be was the viotim of an astonishing
piece of villainy, and that he paid a
large sum of money said to be flO,
000 to his captors as the prioe of his
liberty and personal security.
Tbe Chronicle this morning pub
lishes a sensational story to the effect
that a year ago last July Mr. Mont-
! gomery had been lured into a vacant
house in the most populous part of tbe
city at midday,' and had been held" a
prisoner and threatened with torture
and death, and had finally agreed to
pay his jailer the sum he demanded
within a specified time after his re
lease, had sworn not to betray the rob
ber and bad paid the money as he
promised.
In an interview upon the subject
Montgomery said his reason for not
having given publicity to the story
earlier was that the kidnapper threat
ened to kill him if it ever became pub
lio, and both he and his wife believed
that he would keep his word.
MRS. CASTLE IS GUILTY.
Her Solicitor Admits That She Stole
the Furs.
New York, Oct 18. A dispatch to;
the World from London, concerning j
. . . . Vn.1i c t
tne arrest oi jut. ana airs, waiter m.
Castle, of San Franoisoo, says their
solicitor frankly admitted to a repre
sentative of tbe World today Mrs.
Castle's guilt Michael Abrahams,
their solicitor, is a criminal lawyer
of wide experience and great ability.
He declared today that "I have bad
her exaimned by some leading special
ists in mental diseases, and have no
doubt that the judge will admit hot
symptoms are such as to warrant a de
fense of kleptomania. She suffers
from pains in tbe bead, from oomplete
loss of memory and from other irregu
larities, whioh, aocording to medioal
science, are known to be frequently
associated with delusions. Her case
will be decided in a month or six
weeks. We shall apply for bail for
ber again next Tuesday, and ' I hope I
sbe will be released on bonds we can J
UHoT. Alio wiiuw inun ui uio uiivin
is, in short, that. Mrs. Castle did take
these artioles, but her husband is per
fectly innocent of any knowledge what
ever of her doing so. "
The Fate of Two Gamblers.
Fayettville, Ark., Oot 13. Much
exoitement prevails in the Indian ter
ritory over the operation of gamblers,
who are fleeoing the Indians. The
quarterly payment of the Osage tribe
was made Thursday, and hundreds of
U. mB.ii1 UTt oil Irlna
of devices, from the shell game to tbe J
gold-brick swindle. Two gamblers
fleeoed a crowd of full bloods, and
their viotims became enraged and drove .
them out of the settlement The gam-
. . m !
biers were overtaaen at xuraey orees
and killed. Tbe names are not known.
Heeling in the Philllplnes.
Madrid, Oot 19 A dispatob from
Manilla says a company of native sol
diers at Mindacao, an island of the
Malay archipelago, the second largest
of the Philippine islands, has mutined
and killed its offloials -
Corning, la., was visited by the
most disastrous fire in its history
Three bnndretd thousand dollars' worth
of property was destroyed. An un-(
known man was generally pillaged by
robbers, who undoubtedly set the fire
Women Whisky Sellers.
Guthrie, O. T., Oot 13. One hun
dred women are engaged in selling
whisky to the Osage, Otoe, . Ponoha
and Creek Indians on the border of
Oklahoma. Deputy marshals report it
is dangerous for an officer to appear in
that country alone. A party of mar
shals brought in a dozen whisky sell
era from that country today, most of
them Indians. r" ;
Seventy-two races inhabit tbe world
and use 8,004 different tongues. There
are about 1,000 religions.
AFTER SOME LIVELY FIRING
Horsethieves Captured By
Wallowa County Officers.
ONE OF FORMER SHOT IN HEAD
Druggist In Enterprise, Or., Attacked
. By a Woman With an Umbrella, and
Shot by a Lawyer, But Nt Fatally
La Grande, Or., Oot 12. Partiou-"
lars of a battle between horsethieves -and
deputy sheriffs in Wallowa county,
were reoeived from Enterprise today.
A few days ago two men, George
and Henry Smith, passed through the
Imnaha with a band of horses, sup-
posed to have been stolen, and camped
on Corrall oreek. A day or so after
ward a warrrant. was issued for their
arrest It was feared they would re
sist, and five men were sent out to
bring them in. Tbe camp was easily .
located, and Henry Smith was found
in it and captured by strategy. Four
officers went to the camp, leaving a
fifth in charge of the horses. The
officers carried no arms in sight, and .
the borsethief did not suspect them,
so that when tbey asked to see bis pis
tol, he passed it over for inspection.
The pistol was then turned on him,
and he was compelled to bold up his -bands.
He was then taken away from .
the camp and left in charge of an
officer. ' '-- ... '
Two of the offloers started out to find .
the other brother, and one was left to
watch the camp. George Smith re- . .v
turned to the camp and "got the drop" .
on the officer, and held him up. He
suspected that something was wrong,
and proceeded to march the officer up . .
the trail. After proceeding a short dis
tance, he met the two officers who were
looking for him. The offloers opened
fire, whioh was returned by Smith, but
none of the shots took effect. The offi
cers then took refuge behind trees, and
Smith fired four shots at them, three
of whioh bit the trees. The deputy
that Smith had a prisoner, fell to the
ground as soon as the firing began, to
esoape the stray bullets.
The shooting cooled tbe ardor of the -offloers
somewhat, and they turned
their efforts toward keeping the trees
between themselves and the horsethief.
While tbe horsethief was trying to get
another shot at tbe men behind the
trees, the officer that had been left
with tbe horses came up and shot the
borsethief in the bead with a shotgun.
He had heard tbe firing and came up
just in time to relieve his brother offl-
jers from an unpleasant position.
Henry Smith was brought to Enter
prise last night and lodged in jail, but " '
George is too severely injured to be
moved, and was left in camp. - A sur
geon left Enterprise for the camp this ,
morning, and until he returna-tho oon
dition cfM wounaeoTmai wflrnoTDe
known. It is supposed the sight of -both
men's eyes is destroyed. Miokel . ;
Stubblefleld did the effective shooting.
Ivanboe to the Rescue.
La Grande, Or., Oot 13. At En
terprise, in Wallowa county, today, F.
S. Ivanhoe shot and seriously wounded
R. C. Gregg. Mr. Ivanhoe is a well
known attorney, and Mr. Gregg is a
druggist' The report reoeived by tele
phone says that Mrs. J. W. Dalzell and
Gregg were having trouble over Mrs.
Dalzell 's son, and Mrs. Dalzell bad as
saulted Gregg with an umbrella. In
attempting to disarm her, Gregg broke
the umbrella, and a scrimmage re
sulted. Mrs. Dalzell continued the as
sault, and, in protecting himself,
Gregg used considerable force. Just
at that time Ivanhoe appeared, and
seeing, as he supposed, a man assault
ing a woman, took a shot at the man.
The first time he missed, but the sec
ond shot struok Gregg in the jaw, in
flicting a severe wound. Tbe bullet
was recovered by pbysioians this after
noon. Unless blood-poisoning sets in,
do serious results are apprehended.
COURTS MUST SETTLE IT.
lection Board's Decision Concerning
Name of Gold Democratic Party.
New York, Oot 18. The board of
elections, at a meeting in Brooklyn to
night, rendered a deoision that the
party name of the national Democratic
party was substantially the same as
that of the regular organization, and
that as suoh, it was an infringement on
the rights to use the thereof by the reg
ular party. It was deoided further that
certificates of nomination of the na
tional party were not party certificates
within the law. The board also in
dorsed the opinion of Corporation
Counsel Burr that there was sufficient
doubt in regard to the questions at is
sue to make it desirable that the mat
ter should be determined as soon as
possible by the oourta.
' A Rich Discovery Reported.
Trail, B. C.Oct 13. A discovery
of free gold quartz has been made at
Waterloo, fifteen miles up the Colum
bia from TraiL Specimens, said to
have been taken from tbe outoroppings,
are liberally sprinkled with gold that
is visible to the naked eye. Tbe second
payment of several thousand dollars
has been made on the Waterloo mines
by the Horn Spoon syndioate.
Wanted the Boad Sold.
Seattle, Oct 12. The attorney 'of
the holders of receiver's certificates to
the amount of $80,000 in the Seattle
Consolidated Street Bailway Company
has made application to United States
Judge Hanford that the road be sold
so that tbe holders can get their money.
As there is a orovision that tbe oroD-
erty must bring f 120,000, and no suoh
sum bas so far been offered, it is a
question if any action to hurry matters
can be taken by the court
Santa Fe, N. M.t Oot 12. The San
Antonio-White Oaks stage was held
up today, forty miles east of San An
tonio, in the Osoura mountains The
United States mail sacks were out open.
No passengers were on board. The .
robbers took the horses, leaving the
driver to walk eight miles to the near
est station. The mail ooach from the
White Oaks passing three hours later
is believed to have met tbe same fate.
It is believed the robbers are the same
men who attempted to bold up the At
lantio & Pacifio train west of Albu
querque, f - " - -