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VOIi. XXXIII- From All Parts of.lW Kc World and the bid. " ' " COEVALLIS, BEOTOX COTOTY, OKECrOX, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 189g. KO. 38. OF INTEREST TO' bUR READERS Mfnhenilrt BeTle'jr of the fmpoat at Happenings the; Put Week Culled From the Telegraph Column. Four persons were killed at Nanterre, France, bv a boiler explosion, tn a oar bon factory. Uprising In Uruguay . A Baenoa Ayres dispatch states that the revolution - under way in the Uru guayan republic is gradually gathering strength. Its exact proportions are as yet unknown. s the teiegrapn com panies have been seised by the govern ment and nothing is allowed to come out. It is reported,- however, that there have been several hot skirmishes on the frontier between the rebels and government forces. . Several houses have been burned, it issaid-, nd sey ral were killed on eaoh side. A Nervy Jeweler. , Four men entered Jacob Niedlikow's jewelry store in Milwaukee, Wis., and attempted to rob the place. Two oov- The damage il 00. 0004 ered the proprietor with revolvers and - him r vnATi thft RATA.. HQ JrTaD- William iSteinway; the well-knows - - rmno manufacturer, idled in New Yorl P M 7" l. ", Vh. of typhoid fever. He had been sioi THEY WANT TO BE RN Jtawaii- Cannot Long Main . tain Its Government. - WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins Co. - . Trade. Bevlew of FOSTER'S VISIT TO THE ISLANDS ii of i THE NOR THWEST STORM. People In Constant Fear That Some Unpleasant Change Mar Occur Condition of Bn.litH Is Good. for a year. . Tbirt?en prisme,, escaped! fBom I jail in.Wyan-iotte. rn. Three hav been captor, d and the officers are ir pursuit of the ot 'ers-v.. , ' Rev. P. M. Hill, fprmprly a misslofe ary t.i Chiua. was stricken with paraly sis while delivering '. sermon at hit church in BentonvUlerk. He oannot recover. ' - -v? George W. Hjjls well-knows printer and stationer.rCf Portland, Or. shot and killed himself.. He was of -' despondent natare, and about fivryean ago attempted s'uioidejby taking mor ' pbine. .''::.: : " Farmers in the vicinity of Tacoms have lost many thousands of "busbeli of potatotes because of the oold On farmer had 6.000 bushels stored in -hit barn, and nearly the wohle lot was de stioyed. The prisoners in Bedford, Ind., made a despeiate effoitto eoape by setting fire to the jail. But for the timely discovery of the fire "by the sheriff, some of them would have, escaped, and others would have been cremated. Fifteen-year-old Emma Taylor, an orphan, has been held as an important witness against four me "who 'on Thanksgiving night attempted, to rob a car full of passengers in Kansas City; The young girl says that she made the masks for therobbers and knew their clans. It is Relieved by the po lice that the girl was seized by the gang and made to do their bidding. Advices received at Tampa, - Fbj., from Havana are that Weyler will soon issue another tobacco order prohibiting the exportation of "remedios tobacco from the islands of Uuba. J. nis was not included in his other order, and errant deal has been exported. ---Havana manufacturers have 'petitioned1 Weyler to close the Cuban porta to this to baooo, a J Northern and Eastern manu faoturers were bnying-ll of it for ex portation to this country. A dynamite explosion occurred at Kouskie by which several persona were killed. The latest reports from. Russia are to the effect that the winter crop tnrougn out the south, excepting in the Cau casus, is in a fairly favorablecondiiton. A Singapore dispatch to the London Times says the Spaniards nave Deen ae footed bv the insurgents in the Philip nine islands, with "the loss of 800 of their men. , The strike in the gas Vorks, In Bor deaux. whicn necessitated the calling In of the soldiers to assist in the works ura the o.itv from being left in dar ness, has ended in a compromise, .j At Webster's sawmill, on BeeP Creek, in Washington, Engineer B. F. Elmore was oaughtby a shaft and in stantly killed. The body was fright fully mangled, j - The first serious frontier incident in a long time occurred -nea Munster, when a German forest guard shot an alleged French poacher,. ;inflicting a flesh wound. The Frtnch government will inquire into the case. While the employes of the Ihiels enamel factory, of Hamburg, Germany, were going to work a body of strikers ' attacked them and a free fight followed. Shots were fired, several persons seri ously wounded and many arrests made. A Paris dispatoh says the trial of Basin's patent roller boat, which it is alleged would shorten tne Atlantic pas sage to ninety-six hours, .is expected.to occur in the middle of December across the English channel from Havre, in the presence of distinguished naval author- ities and possibly oi rresraeni ru whe is interested in the experiment A disastrous pt8irierJw1?irte- the Seminole country, Oklahoma, six an neraons. it is reported., were hnrned to death By the raging .flames. A Catholic mission was saved "by the hernia work of Sisters Freda and Kirk; The two sisters fought the flames for two hours with blankets, and saved the lives of twenty Indian pttpilr. ;The fire was started by outlaw vjho;?were fleeing from a posse of deputy marshals. Most of the people burned were half breed Indians. - . ' The susar planters of the Island of TanritnH have decided . (to'-join Tffith those of the British East Indies in rep' reaentations to the government of Great, Britain regarding the sugar bounties noii h fnreiffn countries, with the view of brineingg about some Counter acting influence to enable.plahters there to compete more lairiywitn-tneir iot eign rivals. Delegates have been ap pointed to present the grievances in the proper quarter. nna nf the boldest robberies ever nmBtrated occurred in Alaineda, Cal Two unknown men called.-Charlie Tierrv from his house and relieved him of 45 in gH. Berry went home late and was followed by the robbers, but ma nnt fcnow it at the time. He was called to the door by repeated " knock- inM. and upon opening it he Was tabbed by the men. His mouth was closed by one and the entire pocket cut by the other form his- pants,, in waicn he carried the money. -.The men then made their escape in the darkness. K Vinerov Li Hunts fcStaBg: ii-:.a"gaioin di'serace. He entered , the imperial ort and hunting eround without unctinn. The punishment for the nF.nu ia to be deprived' 6f , all his ranks and decorations, but the emperor merelv deprived him of year's salary amnnntinir to 26.000 tsels: The count, tt is believed, will ask to he allowed to mtira n hi a native province on the plea of ill-health, as he has been dis - appointed in obtaining a position of l fluence in tne reumg jjUYcmiu. flhrmld the efforts of the empress dow Mf - In his behalf succeed, he will tav - peoome yictroy of Chihli. him, shooting him in tne nana, xne jewler's wife entered and saveral sh tt were fired at ber and her xihild. Tue robbers were then frightened off, and being pursued .were captured. - -Woman JFiree- Upon Burglars. ; 3 LOiana oreeg, : virgiuia. mio. i' 'Elizabeth Bulober, who is reputed to ! have mgney at her home, heard bur i trlarn .working at a back door." She stole out with a Winchester, saw three '' men at the . door and fired three shota I at' them.. The burglars fled. They i. were tracked more than three miles by blood stains. . . Eleven Thousand Ken On.. The American Company's lighters and ship cleaners In Hamburg, uer- many have joined the big strike tnere, and eleven thousand men are now out. Rebellion In Madagascar. Dispatches from . Antananarivo say rebellion in Madagascar, ia rampant, and in the vicinity of the capital traae is paralyzed. Disastrous Fire in Portland. The extensive plant of the Inman, Poulsen Lumber Company, oi fort land, Or., was almost completely de straved bv fire Thanksgiving evening. The fire,was rdwooverea py tne nign watchman, and-ln an iiioredible spaoe of time the entire plant was a seething cauldron-of flames. The loss sustained is about' $85,000, covered by insurance in numerous companies to the extent of about $40,000. The most distressing wwnlt of the fire is that 160 men are thrown out of employment, temporarily at a season of the year when they can ill afford to be idle. The firemen on duty did good service, but oonld not do muob exoept to prevent .the spreaa oi the flame&' i-' Just how- the fire originat ed is diffioult to determine, but it is supposed, to.- have been, caused by spon- ininiii nnmbnation. . Jar. KODers u. Inman. of the copmany, says that al though sustaining a heavy loss he is not at all disheartened and will rebuild as soon as possible. It was fortunathat a strong east wind was mowing as rflTrTi?d iila flames ont over the .iver and the lumber piled up in the yard Konth of the mill escaped almost aito- irnt.her. Had the flames reached the lumber, ths loss. wQhfd have fallen heavily upon the mill oompany.as more than 176.000 worth of lumber was stored there. ' '. . "Washington, Deo. 2. John W. Fos ter, former seoretary of state, has re turned to Washington from a four weeks' visit to' Hawaii, whither he went as the representative of the Pacific Cable Company. In speaking ol nis visit, Mr. Foster said: The oon iitii n of business m Ha waii li nourishing, ine lsiauaa aro prosperous, and tneir zutpre is Diignt. I'he Paciao Mail has receutly aouniea its service. seuRing a steaoaer mere twice a month instead of once, as for uierly, and a new line ia soon expeoted to be established by tne Japanese, whioh will touch at the islands on the wav to San Franaisoo. " The people of Hawaii wisn to oe annexed to the United State?, ine present government has the approval ol a majority of native Hawaiians, and there is no likelihood that there ever will be a restoration of the monarchy 4 The English and . German element, however, are opposed to annexation to the United States, because tneyoeiieve it will interfere with their contract la bor and so affect them commercially.- The present government in its ad- minis tra' ion is giving satisfaction; yet this government ia only temporary, ana the people want to be annexed to the United States. The members of the government are pledged to it, and the present constitution of the repphlio exi presses tnis expectation, do h ls.tao general belief that the matter should be deoided at an early date, it possioie. He said it was not apparent that Hawaii oonld maintain herself as an independent government in case the United , States should refuse to annex the islands. Although her people are law-abiding and the present govern ment gets along smoothly and success fully, there is a continual rear, says Mr. Foster, that some change may oc cur. BO tar as tne nawatiana ar wu. oerned, independently of outside influ ences, they are capabble of self-government In Mr. Foster's opinion, how ever, annexation is the only -way out-of the situation in wbiob Hawaii is praoea, Portland, Or., . Deo. 8. Wheat prioes last week reaohed the highest point thus far on the orop, and the close was near the top.. Compared with its value at the close of the third week in November, it was at the olose nf the fourth week's business 4 6-8o higher for December and 4o higher tor the May delivery. J.ne lower prioes during the third week were not the result of any change in the indica tions whioh previously existed of pros pective scarcity in the future, Dut were entirely due to the necessities of certain features of the speculative traae wnicn make the approach of an important de livery of the s'-ocka in store on specula tive purchases a terror to impecunious buyers. No matter how unchanged may be the opinion of a buyer of wheat for December delivery in the substan tial wisdom of his purohase, if he has not the needful cash to pay for the goods when the grain is on the point of being tendered to him he has to sell at whatever saorifloe. Nothing has oc curred since a week ago to make it less probable now than then that the world's wheat supply is smaller than its needs. The demand from .Austra lia for American wheat is as urgent as before: India continues to be a buyer instead of a seller of wheat, as in or dinary seasons, and the ooming orop oi Argentina gives no better promise of more than a very middling yield, than it did before. We remarked in our letter last week that "It well may be thV sham declines are in order. N out we added that "they will only furnish onnortunities for buying to greater ad- vantage.. We still hold to this view nf the oasa and advise nurohases on every little decline. . , Fearful Suffering in the Northwestern States. MANY LIVES REPORTED Cattle Buried in Snow LOST sins R ETAiJ ATI Q N SUGGESTED. Drffts.Ti Delajredaud Wires Prostrated on the Prairies -Worst Storm for Tears; Stl Paul. Deo. 1. Human beings have been frozen to death, oattle have been stampeded, bruised and smothered snow drifts; trains are deiayea, wires aie down, and the storm record ia bfbkenby the blizzard that holds-jhg: jornwes3eJea in-iEB ouu'j si" How maay lives have been saorifaced cannot be told until the snow artits clear away; months h6noe. Men are missing everywhere in the heart oi tne storm. Some are known to' be dead, and many are missing.with the chances very much against thenvbeing alive. . From the cattle country in tne west ern part of North Dakota come reports of intense suffering of tne iivestocK on the ranges, but no definite information can be had, as the wires are down. Watsnn Ball, a cattleman, says the losses will be extremely heavy. South Dakota is suffering, "too. At Pierre over eight inches oi "snow xeii during Thursday and Friday? and the wind maintained a velocity of- twenty eight miles an hour. -Whes were down most of the time, and trains and street oars were tied up. ; The first train to move west went oat about noon today with a snowplow. : -! A Snow oa'the prairie drifted oaaiy. "and oattle losses are being reported. It was the worst storm for years, ii ' THE RITZVILLE CHARIVARf. Austria A TREASURER ROBBED. I Dallas Official's Tonga Experience Wltn. Thieves. . - Dallas, Tex., Deo. 2. At midnight, five pistol shots in rapid succession in nisorlm'tnates "Against ' Onr - Glucose. 3 Washington. Deo. 2. Retaliation ncninst the .-European-r countries that seek to destroy Amerioan trade ir sag gested by United States Cohsul-Qep oral M. Jndd. at Vienna. He says that the Austrian gluoose producers, finding their trust powerless to meet the rates asked by Americans, appealed to their government, and the fatter has increased the duty on-imported glucose from 7J to 8 florins, per 1-00 Alios, to take effect December 1. This is aimed dircetlv at America, as the United States is the only oountry oompeting for this trade, and it wilt shut us out from further sale of svrup. Mr. Jndd savst " i r : cs i , ? .'It has been this way with other ar tielea for which Americans ; found foreisn'market ' If it was not a tariff measure, some ojbher . dbstaoles have nrinnlnd their efforts to' maintain the trade. - Would tiot a threatened retail atory measure, say against poroeiam the vioinit? of the courthouse attraoted and glassware, have tteiwa--eHcS - .... . -ii . .ih ,v ma iTicnnnHn .1. 1 1,ni Minn W M: . or nugsiuiy UTivulll ww . : Americans In tondon The second- Thanksgiving "dinner of the Amerioan. Society, of London, took place in the grand hall of the Hotel Cecil in that city, nenry o. weiouuio, chairman of the sooiety, presided, in the asbenoe of the United States am- hasaadefr'.' who.- with Mra Bava-d. was commanded to due witn tne queen, at Windsor castle. -The dinner was on move elaborate scale than any oi tne previous gatherings of the sooiety, and about 800 ladies and entlemen were present. The hall was splendidly dec orated. A special feature of the orna mentation, in addition to the stars and Btripes.riW.hicbi were everywhere dis nlaved. was a duantity of Amerioan corn spedially broogbt oyer for the pur pose.' Many Amerioan -awnes were on the menu, and some immense pump kins had a share in providing the good- things iot the table. Behind the ohair ocouoied by Mr. Welloome wasarepre entation of the statue oi liioerty ana a lam Amprican eagle, and near the chairman, on a pedestal, was an enor mous pumpkin, sent as a present to Mr, Bavard.- whose absenoe was muon re gretted. In the middle of th .dinner there was a surprise for the guests when each one received a leather-bound souvenir book containing the portraits of Mr. Bayard and the Amerioan pre$i dents, including President-elect Mo Kinlev. Mr. Bayard' letter of apology for not attending, and wishing "God- aneed to the land we all love," was fol lowed bv a telegram irom mo umwu States ambassador-at Windsor, castle, in whioh . he. saids "Your charming onvenir of the day we celebrate has init .been reoeived. and the. copy, for her majesty will the .presented. before vour dinner is over; - Au wno.-4ove - . . . . . . - v", a the. unitea -otaies ana ureas u"""" will ioin in the; mutual oongratulai Mons over the peaceful -relations of the Coe, oounty treasurer, was found m nis offloe with blood" oozing from a wound. in the back ot tne neaa. tie was in- a dazed condition and in a very excited frame of mind. He said he had been working very late in order to get the affairs of the office in snape to retire in favor of his successor. At midnight two men appeared, and one placed a gun to bis temple and ordered him to open the. vault. He did so and all the valuable papers and contents ' of the inner .vault were examined by one of the robbers. After placing a consider able sum of money in a canvas sack, the robbers withdrew from the vault Coe seized his pistol and shot at the robbers. The latter returned the fire. hitting the treasurer in the back of the head, inflioting a bad scalp wound. The treasurer says the robbers secured $6,000, and be is confident that he shot and badly .wounded one oi nis assail ants. The police force and a large number of deputies with bloodhounds are on the trail of the robbers. SHORT WHEAT CROP. Vrosts ton Flowing In France and -' Central JCnrope. T-nndnn. Deo. 3. The Mark Lane Express today, discussing the orop pros pects, says: "Severe frosts in France and Cen tral Europe have stopped plowing and sowing, and we anticipate a, somewhat short wheat acreage in the- entire re gion between the Vistula and the bay of Biscay. Winter has set in through- eat Russia." the sea of Azof was olosetl to navigation November 34, ana navi gation of the Baltio is. dangerous, on the northern and eastern coasts, on rhich there is already much ice. Owing to the rainfall in lnida tne defioiepoy in the wheat aoreage xa re duced.:'' But- while . famine no longer threatens, a scarcity seems bound to be felt until the spring of 1897, English l wheat maintains a good price in London, but the country mar kets are firm.. The cause of this is clear!; In the counties last week, 166, R84 nnarfcers Mot JB.ngllsn wneat were Fnglish-Bpeaking p&&Up itft' VPrl&4feffeador' sale,' agaUat 69,630 for the Mr. Bayard's sentiments were greens miame weeg ci jeo, with loud cheers, and Mr. Welloome. nf, Ttaard'a. regretted absence. T ""Fisher, Minn; of possibly preventing the change from going into-effeot?' Kesoj ror Berviee. Philadelphia, Deo. 3. The new ar mored cruiser Brooklyn, which earned for its builders a premium of $200,000, will go into commission tomorrow morning at League island navy yard. This is in pursuance of a request of the government received over a weeK ago, and as a consequence of which Cramps' men have been working night and day to have the big vessel finished in time.. All work beyond a yew finishing touches was practically "-completed to night, and at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn ing, four tugs will tow ner to the navy vard. where the ouBtomary formalities will be gone through with. .. , Due to Bnssian Influence. T,nndon.Deo 1. The Constantinople correspondent of the Standard disousse t the refusal of admission to the Dardan-1 elleey of Greek, Dutch and Amerioan stationeries, -which Is attributed t-.i Russian influence.' The Amerioan and Greek subjects, adds the correspondent, are annoyed at their governments for not showing more energy with a view t5 obtaining the privileges granted to the great powers. Many Killed In a Panle. Bombay, Deo. 1. A fete organized at Baroda in honor of the visit of th i Earl of Elgin, viceroy of India, has had a terrible outcome in the killing of twenty persons and .tne injuring oi many others by a great crush of num bers in a panio wbioh occurred in the course of the fete. Nothing is known as to how the panio developed. " JotarThleVli ts"aId,':',irWd tne'Shbt ia tne Aenseiger-Boto Wdlna '; ' Kitzville,?Wa;sh. , -Deer T-Thttrsdajr evenjng, atthe; "weadingoVtUeorge Acbzeiger 4hid Matildft -'BoJoJL fho was fired through the side of the house. from a shotgun ; loaded with . buoKsnoi, lodging in , the head of Mary Bauer,. Inquiry develops the fact tnat consiaer able Vjivaky . existed among the young men of Adams county for the aaeotions of the bride. John Thiel Was -a per sistent suitor for her hand,-and-lo'n& laid seige to the heart of the' comely German maiden, but to no avail. ; She rejected him,' and accepted her present husband, who is a prosperous- rancher. The race for the hand of the girl was made more exoiting by the faot that she comes into possession of 'considerable money when , sbe.is 21 years .void; ; Oh the night Of ther wedding, a marred man named Klannakamick, .a laborer, who' resides in the town, carried, a double-barreled shotgun to- the "house whoie Hie wedding k$laceWhe the guests departed, this rhan, wi,th others, went into the yard He after wardflTreturned for wraps whioh he had fm-ffotten. and says that before doing so he was asked by jonn xniei, me, re jected .ani tor, for the shotgun, ae handed the weapon to Thiel, and a few minutes later the shot was fired through the side of the house, passing througn the shawl of the bride and hitting Miss Bauer. Miss Bauer may recover, as the boards in the house broke the force of the shot. . WOMAN KILLED. HERSELF. Fatal Deed Committed in a Fit of In- - . : . '' nnitT. , Seattle, Nov. SO. Mrs. Louis Zim merman, of Eiver Park, a suburb of tfcis city,, shot herself in the m6uth at 2 o'olock today during'? temporary fit of insanity, infloting a wound from whioh she died two.. hours later. She haofbeen oomplaining for several days, and a few minutes before she fired the fatal shot had sent her husband for a physician, -claiming she was unwell. Zimmerman14 had not gone but a few feet from the the house when he heard a shot. He stopped, and in an-instant heard another report' Rushing hack to the house, he was horrified to-flnd his wife lying on the floor with a smoking revolver in -her hand and a stream of blood rushing" from her mouth. He tried to rouse her, but she never regained consciousness, dying at 4 o'olock. Deoeased - was 28 years of age, ana motner u n -uiuu-uiu baby. Zimmerman is a carpenter, in the employ of the Seattle Brewing & Malting Company. .. . 1;r Loss of rive tives Reported Dynamite - Used in learins; Streets. - St. Paul, : Deo.' 2. News from the great blizzard has been meager today. So far as learned, only five lives have been lost. Of oourse, nothing has yet been heard from the remote districts beyond the reach of the telegraph, and it may he another week before it can be posiitvely stated that there has ndt been more serious loss of life. " The streets of the snowbound Dakota towns are bieng cleared as rapidly as possible. The extremely oold weather has frozen the snow until tne immense drifts have reached the proportions of gigantic icebergs. Dynamite is being used to blast these out of the way, or dinary picks and shovels being unable to make any impression on them. -Rfco.ik on the ranees has undoubtedly suffered heavily, and a fuel famine is threatened in many of the smaller tnwna in the Dakotas. This is by no means a trivial matter where the mer- oury is ranging from 15 to 80 degrees helow zero. The raliorads are beginning to get their trains running again. The Great Northern got its first train into St. Paul from the snowbound district this morning, and the Northern Pacvfiq re pprts that its line is now open from Portland to St Paul. Delayed west bound transcontinental trains on"this road, whioh were teing hed at Tower City and Fargo, left those points at 5 o'clock this evening, and the eastbound trains, held at Mandan, are moving, and will be due here tomorrow. The Northern Pacific officials do not antici pate any further trouble, and expect to have trains running on schedule time. Tonight, farms and farm buildings along six miles of the Chippewa river are under water. The flood is being added to hourlv at the rate of six inhhen. and before morning, unless the to (Thinnewa Falls will be . 1 1 A partly under water. At a o. oiock -o- niebt. basements of all buildings., on Spring street are flooded, and, in some (instarces the lower noors are eovercu. In 1894 a similar flood occurred, cans na a loss of many thousands of dollars, . A roat rlnal ntrailwav property is thvoofonaA and manv highway and railroad bridges will probably be swept away. - . . . Secretary Lamont Reports Progress of the Work. NUMBER OF HIGH-POWER GUNS TWO VOTES . CAST. A Kansas Township Holds Beeordt at Peculiar NO ONE TO SAVE HER. Near ' Succeeds Tiseonnt Gong-n. - Washington, Deo. 1. Ambassador Paunoefote has,, been officially notified of the appointment of Maurice de Bun sen as seoretary of the British embassy at this oapital. The new seoretary has been distinguished in diplomatic serv ice in a number of the capitals of Eu rope, and the Orient, and he succeeds Viscount Gough, the present secretary, who Will go to Germany. ' " Feared Insanity.. . ... Deo. 2.-r-M. Sanaker, that'itvvas a good omenthe United States ambassador was ine.t sen. .- - r- guest of the queen-at a-'J-'nanKSgivingiinBauw; -- - dinner. : The toast.to tne queen was wp: '--w rr -r T-r v honored with unusual; energy. 1 oellent shape.; .'Oree-oa's Trial a Success. ,f T."bafttekbipv;,Oregon ha iust te turned from a short' cruise, undertaken tn oivt n board 6tvinspeotion an op nnrtnhitv of lookintt ber well oter. It was eiven out unofficially that the trial had been a very great success, and that the board was highjy. pleased with the. shin in all details, though the real nna- ings will.npt be" made publio until they are sent to headquarters in waaniug ton in the "form of '. ah offioial report, jind from there given out . ' The Soldiers' Home Investlaatton,. In the Soldiers'Home investigation in Leavenworth. Kan., the defense plaoed nine leading business men on. the stand who all testified as to;the apr parent good management of $he home, the marked decrease 'of druhieB.neps among the soldiers sinoe the establish ment at the home I: tne neeiey cure, and to the Bobriety of Governor Smith. '. Flood In Wisconsin. 'A dffistrons flood is reported frbM Wisconsin. Many buildings have been damaged, and the property loss wilJ be heavy. . . - ' - Shot Through the Hand. Independence, Deo. 2. J. O. Bus sell, son of J. J. Russell, of Mon mouth, was out banting last Saturday, While standing with one band .over the muzzle of his rifle, the gun -was discharged in some way, and the bullet went through his hand, and so close to his body as to burn his clothing. Cyclone In Oklahoma. . , - Perry, O. Deo. lr-Information reaches here that a very destructive cyclone srtuck the town of Balston, on the Aikansas .river, fifty miles north east ot. here, oil Thursday night at 13 "O'clook and nearly wiped out the town of. about 200'ihouses.' ' Nearly every house in town was blown down And several people were' injured, but no names, can be obtained. ' italston is in the Osage Indian nation, and fifty-five miles from a telegraph station. . Fight Among; Workmen. Hamburg, Nov. 26. A dispatoh from Lubeck says that while the em.-, ployes of the Thiels enamel faotory were, going to work this morning a Tiody of : strikers belonging to the same Bonoern attacked tne workmen ana a free fight followed. 'Shots were flred several persons seriously.wqunded and many arrests made. Omaha, Dec 8. The time for hay ing the first assessment of trans-Missis-tippi exposition stock closed Saturday night With slight exceptions, every lubsoriber paid his five per cent oalL Washington, Deo. 3.TrBobert .; E. Marshall, 84 years old superintendent of the Altoona division of the fenn vlvania railroad, shot himself at his brother's honse.-in Washington, today. Marshall was one of the most valued young men in the Pennsylvania service. He bad been suffering irom acute ner vous trouble, resulting from overwork. He was a son of J. W. Marshall, con sul to Leeds daring the. war, and as aistant postmaster-general under Presi dent Grant. ' : - The Ool'umbia Closed.' The Dalles? Or.. Dec , J, The river i dosed wrth loe at this point "and navigation is - BUBpended- - This -is, -the earliest the Columbia, has 'been frozen here within the -memory of this genera tion. The ice . makes it impossible to make any progress in Taising the sank, n steamer Dalles City. . , Ashland, Pa., Deo; 8. Parker col liery No. 5, at Park Place," Pa., owned by the"" Lehigh Coal . Company, closed down today for an indefinite period, presumably for repairs. Bight hundred laborers are thrown out of employment . Certainly Insane. . New .York. Deo.: 1. Dr. Charles Lafflih was today committed to Bellevue hospital for examination as : to his sanity. He is, according to the story told by his wife, a pitiful wreck of a brilliant scholar, a man suffering from the peculiar and powerful disease, Ai rman fever, contracted while accom panying Bishop Taylor.' on an expedi tion to the west coast oi o.nivu. married Clara Freeman, of Milton, JS. S., June 25i this year. On the follow ing night, Dr. Lafflin acted strangely. One of his freaks Of insanity was to dis locate the joints of his wife's body and then snap them back into position. Once, she . says, he took five grains oi opium inl one dose. Poison, however, seemed to have little effect on him: Finally her sufferings beoame so in tense she' says' that she was obliged to appeal to the authorities for protection. - Texas Courthouse Burned. ' ' 1 ' : Eastland, Deo 1. The courthouse and all the furniture were burned this morning. ' The records and contents of the vaults are thought to be safe. The jaw library, and other property of many attorneys who have offices in the court house were destroyed.- ;-The oost of the building was $65,000; insuranoe, $40,- ooo. . ' -i J n Never .make two bites of a cherry. Xpff might out a-worm in nan. :'n. Jr Pait to rjle.---" x Blind Woman Burned to Death '. Anacortes. Seattle, Deo. 2. A speoial' to the Post-Intelligencer from Anacortes says that ahnnt l o'clock this morning nre destroyed the residence of H. MoDon aid; a farmer, 7 living six miles from here, and also burned to death the only person in the house at the time, Mrs. McDonald. The origin of the fire is not known. Mr.'-MoDohald ha$ goje to the home pf his son-ih-lkw,1 : Henry Layton, leaving his wife;?whb was 70 years old, and blind, v at -home. . The buf nlhg'buiiatog"wasflr8t: seen by ?"J. L. Satterlee,,a neighbor, but before any one oonld reach the spot the roof had fallen in. - An examination of" the de bris revealed the ; remains, "terribly chirred and almost uhreooghizable, of the-unfortunate woman.- "i' TV'ant to Make We w Coast Bates. '- "-enveri Dec 2. A petition has been filed with the' tntei state oommerce commission in. Washington by repre sentatives - of the Santa Fe, -.. (Rio Grande, Rio Grande Western, South ern Pacifio, Colorado Midland iand Union Pacifio, asking that these roads be permitted to charge a less aggregate for longer distanoes between Colorado points and California than for shorter distanoes over the sameJ: linesw The purpose is that the railroads.be allowed to itfake a schedule of lower rates from Denver and other points in the state to the Paoifio ooatt ' than to Salt Lake. The ' interstate oomnieTce" commission has set the hearing on the petition for December 18, "at Washington.' Working of the Baines Law. New York, Deo. . 8. A legislative innnirv ; into the workings of the Raines excise law was begun here to day." 'The committee on investigation consists of five .members of the state senate, with Mr. Raines, the "father" of the law,-as chairman. It is expeoted the . hearing will continue throughout the week, and one of the star witnesses will be Police Commissioner Roosevelt, who last week gave on a newspaper interview which in effect pronounoed 'the Judgment upon .the law that it could not nave been more inefficacious had those who framed ft had the pur pose of making 'it a statute, that oonld not be enJorqedy. ; . Three Boys Shote " .- Oakland, Cal, , Dec. 3. Three boys met with a, serious accident" yesterday afternoon.. John Donovan,- Harry Canty and John Strisoh, all 12' years of age, went out on the Alameda marsh to shoot quail with a shotgun. While crossing a creek they passed the gun, which was cocked, from one to an other, handling it carelessly from stock to muzzle. The gun went off, when all three lads were in the line of fire. Canty received shear ly the whole charge in his breast and, faoe, and some of the shot entered, his lungs, tie is iaiiy injured. Donovan's little and third fineers .were shot off, and' Strisoh re ceived a few shot in the faoe, but. the ininries of the two last named are not serious. , , . , Greece a' Market for American Wheat n Washington, Dec. 2. United States Consul Horton, at Athens, in a report to the state department, says that in nnnRennence of the bad wheat harvest in Russia, wnicn supplies nearly two- thirds of the Wheat used in Greece, prices of wheat lare very high there and are still rising. He is confident that there is a fine opening for the in troduotion of American wheats into Greece, and offers to assist would-be exporters. . .-'-:,":' - Chicago, Dec. 1. A.man giving the name of . E. L. Bryan .who is thought, to have pome from Pittsburg, commit ted suicide at the Kimball hotel this morning by taking laudanum. On the table in the room was found a notebook in which he described for, twenty min utes the- feeling- he experienced as he was dying. The statement was dedi cated to medical science. He bad taken great care to conceal his identity, tear ing all marks from his clothing and un derolothing. On the cover of the memorandum book was found the name ef a firm in Pittsburg. prah- Ha One California Elector. Sacramento. Dep. 2. Fipal. returns from ' Santa Clara county, completing the state returns -show that Martin, a Bryan eleotor, has defeated Flint, a MoKinley eleotor; by 492. This gives MoKinley eight eleotors from Califor nia, Bryan onel " - Guilty of Treasury Looting-. "Montezuma. Ia.. Deo. 3. Richard Rowe, who was extradited from Mex ioo, oharged with complicity in looting the Powesheik oounty treasury, in J 895, was found guilty in the distriot court today. - The S eretsnry Benews His Previous ' Recommendation for the Reorgani sation and Increase of the Infantry Washington, Nov. 80. In his an nual report, which was made publio today, Seoretary Lamont renews his previous recommendation that the in fantry be- reorganized on the general idea of three light and- mobile battal ions of four companies each to the reg iment, instead of the cumbersome ten company formation, adopted a century ago. and abandoned by other nations sinoe the development of modern mag azine rifles, and he quotes Generals Sherman and Sheridan and Lieutenant- General Sohofleld in support of the ne cessity of this reorganization of the in fantry. -. ; , The completion already ol some ooast defenses and the approaohing completion of other modern batteries renders necessary a larger iproe oi artil leries, but on inorease of the army is asked for. The plan of seacoast de fenses involves 100 distinct batteries in over twenty harbors. Investigation this year has shown serious deficiencies in tne arms ana equipment of the state militia. When the states furnish the armories and de fray all expenses incidental to keeping their foroes in training, Secretary La mont 'suggests that the United States should provide them with the imple ments which they will need in active service arms and field equipment as the supply on hand is totally inade quate for serious and prolonged field operations. . The seoretary reoommends that the Springfield rifles, caliber 45, he issued to state troops; that the states be allowed to return to the war department obsolete arms and equip ment, to be sold, and the proceeds credited to the states, and that the states be allowed to purohase from the department supplies at regular prices. The report shows that, whereas on July 1, 1893, in our modern defense, but one high-power gun was mounted, by July- next we will have in position seventy high-power breeoh-loading guns and ninety-five breech-loading mortars .-of modern design, and by the following July, on completion of work already under way, as provided for, 128 guns and 163 mortars. A battery of two or three of these guns takes the place of the former pretentious fort, and is vast ly more- effeotive.-- The -defenses- now under considera tion are distributed among the ports of Portland, Me.; Portsmouth,' N. H.1; Boston, Narragansett bay, eastern en trance to Long . Island sound; eastern and southern entrances to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Hampton Roads, Wilmington, Charles ton, Savannah, Key West, Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston, San Diego,. San Franoisco, and the month of the Columbia river and Puget sound. All of the emplacements have been lo cated with a view to oarrying out the project of the Endicott board of fortifi cations, organized under act-of congress March 3, 1885, as revised by the per manent board of engineers. The secre tary says that the department, in mak ing these allotments, was guided by a desire to protect as many of the seaports as practicable against marauding at tacks of isolated cruisers, as well as to provide a more efficient defense for the important plaoes, and also to utilize to the best advantage the guns for whioh carriages oould be speedily furnished. The total number of emplacements provided for to date is 128 for guns and 166 for mortars, of which ninety-two for guns and 76 for mortars were ap ropriated for by the last congress. The number of gun carriages com pleted- and building all ol wnicn win be finished within the next fiscal year, ia twenty 12-inch, sixty-nine 10-inch, eighteen 8 inch for guns, and 168 for mortars. By July. 1897, there should ha rendv seventy gun oairiages and 123 mortar carriages. : The total number of guns completed tn date, since the first appropriation, is sixty-one 8-inoh, fifty-six 10-inoh twentv-one 12-inch and eighty mortars. With the money already provided, there will be completed by June 80, 1R97: seventy-two 8 inch guns, eignty seven 10-inoh guns, forty-seven 12-ineh guns and eighty-eight mortars. The estimates of the department for the next fisoal year aggregate 10,482,-. j 268. With this apporpriation, provi sion will have been made for 163 high-power gun emplacements, ' 128 rapid-fire gun emplacements, 800 12 inch mortar emplacements, 858 high power steel guns, ninety-seven rapid fire guns, 290 12-inoh mortars, 180 8 inch and 12-inoh gun carriages, and 290 12-inch mortar carriages. The armament of troops, with' the 'new magazine guns was completed in May, and the armory is taming out 13 rifles or carbines per day.under the ap propriation made last year. All the ammunition for small arms now made is supplied with smokeless powder of Amerioan manufacture and of satisfac tory quality. The 810 Apache prisoners of Geroui-mo's-band have, the seoretary says, led a quiet, pastoral life, . and have reached a self-supporting condition. He recommends that in time, tbe title to the 86,000 aores they occupy be ao n aired bv the government, and they then be placed under control of the In dian bureau. . The report shows total expenditures for tbe year for the war department aggregated $1,803,298. Among them is an item of $1,436,795 faQklaries and contingencies in the war fficee. This, the secretary says, shows a sav ing of $582,750 from the expenditure under the same head for the year 1892 The aggregate of appropriation for the department unexpended and turned back into the general fund of the treas ury, at the end of the fisoal year, was $1,975,083. For the year 1895 it was $1,764,467, and for ( 1894 it was $1; 887,922, an aggregate for three years of more than $5,000,000. - Seventy l'ersous Drowned. Athena, Nov. 80. Seventy persons have been, drowned by the floods here, and an enormous tract of land is sub merged. , , Toseka, Kan., Deo. 1. -Acoording to ; offioial returns received at tne secretary of state's office, there was one township in Kansas, where only two votes were ? oast at the repent election. . It was Garfield township, in Seward oounty. One of thevotew casta straight Repub lican ticket, while the other voted the Populist tioket straight, with: the ex ception of county attorney, y inere was a tie on all otner omoers, ana mo candidates for township offloes cast lots to see who should serve. Garfield township has about twenty inhabit ants, eight of whom are voters. There are four Populists and four Republi cans. On eleetion " day three of the Populists paired off with three Repub, lioans, and six did not vote. The other Republican wanted to pair off with the remaining Populist, but the latter would 'not do it, because he had a ; grudge against the nominee of his own party for oounty attorney, and said he wanted to vote for the Republican nominee. This necessitated the cast ing of two ballots, with the result as stated. A regular voting precinot was maintained the entire day, and five voters received $2 eaoh for serving as judges and clerks of election. AN EXPERIENCE WITH ROBBERS. Masked From Hen Extort Money . Missouri Bancher. . St. Joseph, Mo., Deo. 1. F. M. Arnhold, living near this oity, reports a terrible experience with masked rob- -hers, who entered his house at an early hour in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Arnhold were awakened and found three masked men in their bedroom. The robbers covered them with pistols and demanded to know where their money was oonoealed. Arnhold denied that he had any money, and his wife was too terrified to speak. The man and woman were then dragged into the cellar and were held there while one of the robbers went to the rooms above and heated an iron poker to a white heat and returned with it to the cellar. When they threatened to apply this to Arnhold's naked feet, he weakened and' told them where they oould find what money he had. There was but $18 in the rancher's oaohe, and so angry were the robbers that they demolished much of the furniture . in tbe house before leaving. - . , ORGANIZED ASSASSINS.' Made Desperate Attempts to Kill the Family of an Oklahoma Bancher. Perry, O. T., Deo. 1. Great exoite-. -c ment continues near Tonkawa, twenty miles north of here, over an attempt-to murder the family of R. Brooke and his wife. Reports from that commu nity are that a second attempt was made last night to murder Brooke. 'A month ago, Charley Graham, Bill Jones and Kenneth MoDonald attempt ed to assassinate Brooke and his wife one night, and Brooke killed Graham, who . proved to be a notea cutiaw. . Graham, before ' hia death, confessed, . implicating several men in the com-.. m unity. He said these men employed him to kilL Brooke and his wife and burn their house. Yesterday, several of those in jail escaped, and last night masked men went to Brooke's borne, but were repulsed by Brooke and his . wife, who stood them off with Win chesters. . jiaiains nu a Kalama, Wash., Deo. 1. Fire broke out in the Methodist church Sunday night about 8 o'olook. Services were being held at the time, but the congre gation passed out of the building with-. ' out difficulty. Before the fire company reaohed the scene, the building was a mass of flames, and it was soon com pletely destroyed. The loss was about $2,000. As the fire company was 6n its way to the engine-house, the Ka lama hotel was found to be burning, having caught . from , flying sparks. The blaze was extinguished in short order. Sparks from the burning church ignited the roof of W. H.-. Girard's general merchandise store, and, pass- , ing over the Cowlitz oounty bank and the City drugstore, also set fire to the opera-house. . Watchers were on these buildings, however, and put out the fire wherever it appeared. Conditions In India Improve. London, Deo. 1. The Earl of Elkin, viceroy of India, telegraphs to the gov-' eminent that rain there is too late to be of much benefit to the autumn crop, hut it ia in time ior tne iais bowmjkb. Prioes, be says, show a tendency J to in. iuyn - - - apparent in the Deocan. The condi tion of the people is good and the pres sure upon them ia due to prices rather than to the failure of the crops. - Since -the rain, prices have fallen 20 to 50 per cent in the northern districts. Lord Elkin's dispatoh also gives details of bow a quarter of a million of people, in the distressed districts oi inaia are engaged in relief work. Bleetlon Blots In Bulgaria. Sofia, Dec 1. The eleotions to the sobranje, which occurred today, were accompanied by serious disturbances, and the troops and police had to be called out to disperse the mobs here and in the provinces, as the result of which many persons were wounded.- The po lioe fired on the crowd at Zarobrod, killing several persons. Anti-Masonic Blots. Paris, Nov. 80. An anti-Masonic congress bi ujvub, iuiwo iwumsua were a covert attack on politioal free Masonry and on Jewish intervention. ended in serious rioting, lasting until midnight The military had to clear the streets, and many persons were seriously injured, including M. Thei erry, of the France Libre. vvr.v. Labor is drudgery only when we do not put heart in our work. ' ' Toledo, O., Deo. 1. Large sales" of No. 8 red wheat for May delivery were made at the produce exohange here this a . 1 vaw tinalt'.l Amlli lriTirl cheering. At tbe same time the New York price was 91 cents, Chicago 85 cents. The demand here is not for ex- port milling. - " " " . Montgomery, Ala., Dec 1. Repre sentaive Timberlake's bill proposing to make it unlawful for women to wear in publio, tights, bloomers, shirt fronts or any article of clothing commonly worn by men, was killed by an almost unanimous rote of the house. , O
