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A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting; Collection of Items From
Many Places Culled From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.
General Fitzhugh Lee's mother died
at Richmond, Va.
A proclamation has been issued
bringing Santa Ciuzand other islands
under the British Solomon islands pro
tectorate. At Friday's session of the Paris peace
commission the Spaniards rejected the
Americana' proposals, and refused to
give up the Philippines.
Later reports from the conflagration
at Hankow, China, say that 10,000
houses were destroyed and 1,000 peo
ple killed and burned to death.
Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, in his annual report,
shows that the treasury was stronger at
the close than at the opening of the
fiscal year.
Senator Redfield Proctor in an ad
dress at Montpelier, Vt., declared that
there should be divided sovereignty and
that the United States should retain
the entire Philippine archipelago.
The work of removing the bodies of
all government soldiers buried in Cuba,
Porto Rico and Manila will begin in a
few weeks. The expense of the under
taking will be borne entirely by the
government.
Major Helburn's recital before the
war investigating commission, while in
session at Cincinnati, disclosed a ter
rible state of affairs at Camp Thomas.
Chickamauga, due to ignorance and ne
glect. The sick soldiers were tieated
like dogs.
The board of control of the Joint
Traffic Association has decided to dis
solve the organization. This action
wa taken because of the recent decision
by the supreme court that the efforts of
the association to control railroad rates
was illegal.
By the explosion of a boiler at the
Oil City (Pa.) boiler works, two men
were killed, two fatally injurod and a
dozen moro slightly hurt. The killed
are Richard McCloskey and John Fraw
ley. The fatally inlured are B. J. Gid
ders and Denis McMahon.
A recent discovery of bituminous coal
in the Klondike region was made in
American territory about 100 miles
below Forty-Mile. A tunnel has been
dug into the hillside a distance of 46
feet, and there the vein is six feet in
thickness. The coal is said to be of su
perior quality.
The transport Panama, which was
reported lost with 300 lives, has arrived
safely in Havana.
Germany's esports for the first nine
months of the fiscal year showed an in
crease of 58,659,000 marks over 1897.
The newly-organized French cabinet
announces that it will support the
court of cassation in the revision of the
Dreyfus case.
Several companies of native troops in
the Visayas islands rebelled. T.li3y
were pursued and several were killed.
The rebellion is ended.
In a speech delivered at Worcester,
Mass., Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
expreseed himself strongly opposed to
the policy of expansion.
Russia has declined to support France
in the Faahoda affair, fearing that a re
opening of the Egyptian question would
interfere with her tremendous task in
China.
Archbishop W. II. Gross, of Oregon,
Is seriously ill at Baltimore.
The Cuban assembly has effected
permanent organization at Santa Cruz.
The United States, it is said, will
offer to buy the Philippines from
Spain.
Siam is about to re-establish its lega
tion in the United States after the
lapse of maDy years.
Henry Failing, president of the First
National bank, of Portland, Or., and a
well-known citizen, is dead.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy at New
York, showing liabilities of $03,773 and
no assets.
Two sticks of dynamite addressed to
the Turkish consul at San Francisco.
were discovered in the mails before anv
haim was done.
Wooden rims for bicycles are not pat
entable, according to a ruling made by
Judge Seaman in the United States
court at Miln-aukee.
Judge Grosscup, of the United States
circuit court at Chicago, rendered a
decision upholding the constitutionality
of the war revenue law.
A revolution is imminent in Samoa,
and the cruiser Philadelphia has been
ordered there to protect American in
terests. The Yorktown may follow.
A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says the
Merritt Wrecking Company has -received
information that, the Maiia
Teresa, which was reported sunk, is
ashore at Cat island.
Nikola Tesla claims to have learned
how to control vessels at a great dis
tance. By the use of an invention
upon which he is working, torpedo
boats may be sent out unmanned and
guided into contact with an enemy's
ship by an operator at a safe distance.
PostofBee at Arago
by Two Masked
Robbed
Men.
ABOUT SI500 WAS SECURED
Postmaster Was Compelled to Open
the Safe Sheriff and Posse Fonnd
the Track. a of the llobbera.
General Miles' report on the late war
has been filed. Plain statements are
made, and there is no mincing of words.
x-acis regarding tne conduct of the war
are clearly stated. Friends of the gen
eral says becretary Alger will be com
pelled to publish the report despite his
disinclination to do so.
A London coroner's jury which has
been investigating the death on Octo
ber 29 last of Harold Frederic, a corre
spondent of the New York Times, has
rendered a verdict of manslaughter
against Kate Lyon, a member of the
late Frederic's household, and Mrs.
Mills, a Christian Scientist.
, David A. Wells, the famous econ
omist, died at Norwich, Conn.
Half the population of Gibara, Cuba,
is said to be suffering from smallpox.
Major General Otis at Manila reports
12 deaths among the troops since his
last report.
Marshfield, Or., Nov. 9. Last night
at cbont 8 o'clock two masked robbeis
entered the postoffice at Arago. The
office is in the residence of W. H.
Schroeder, the postmaster. Mr. Schroe
dor was in the upper part of the house
when the men entered, but a man,
Peter Crow, was in the office. The
robbers ordered him outside. They
tied his feet and hands, and fastened
him securely to a milk cart, in such a
manner that his face was down, and he
was unable to turn. They then re
turned to the house and forced Mr.
Schroeder to come down stairs into the
office, and at the points of revolvers
compelled him to open the safe. They
helped themselves to its contents.
There was about $1,500 taken, $1,800
belonging to the Arago creamery and
$200 being postal funds. Postmaster
Schroeder is a cripple, and was unable
to offer resistance. Sheriff Gage and a
posse found the tracks of the robbers
early this morning and followed them
until dark. The country is well guard
ed tonight, and the sheriff thinks they
cannot possibly escape.
-WINTER IN ALASKA.
and
Action has been taken by the admin
istration looking to the maintenance of
the status quo with respect to the con
cession of the MaritMie Canal Company
for the construction of the Nicaraguan
canal.
M. Fontaine, of Minneapolis, who
has just returned from the Stickeen
route, says be has discovered rich dig
gings on an unexplored creek ou the
Hootallnqua river.. He shows a quan
tity ot coarse gold as evidence.
the war between England and France
has been aveitod. A general and satis
factory arrangement is said to have
been effected in relation to the disputed
.tfasnoda question. An official note has
been issued on the subject in which the
British government announces that the
situation is ameliorating.
The navy department has practically
decided to abandon wrecking opera
tions under existing contracts on the
cruisers Cristobol Colon, Vizcaya and
Airnirante Uquendo, rfear Santiago.
I. L , ,
nave oecume enormously ex
pensive to the government. A Swedish
company has applied for permission to
raise the sunken vessels.
The war department has issuod a
general order lor the movement of
troops to Cuba. The first troops will
leave on or about November 22, and
will comprise a brigade under Briga
dier-tieneral Carpenter. The brigade
will be taken from the Seventh army
corps. ine brigade will be sent to
Neuvitas, Puerto Principe.
Minor Ses Items.
Students of Dartmouth college have
unanimously voted to abolish hazing.
James A. Davis, who died in Dor
Chester county, Md., steered the first
steamer that crossed Lake Erie.
John Hays, the discoverer of Lake
Superior's copper wealth, has just cele
brated his 94th birthday in Cleveland.
At an auction sale at Morris Park,
N. J., the great race horse and sire,
Meddler, was sold to William C. Whit
ney for $49,000.
Brigadier General Joseph Roberts
died at his home in Philadelphia, aged
84 years. He entered the West Point
military academy in 1835.
General Wade will have entire
charge of the government of Cuba, both
civil and military.
Tho Omaha exposition proved a finan
cial success, and subscribers will be
paid back in full.
Troops at Manila expect to see fur
ther fighting, as they think the insur
gents will make trouble.
A fire in the Southern Pacifio rail
road shops at Sacramento caused dam
age to the extent of $200,000.
One entire block of buildings in Pit
kin, Colo., was destroyed by fire, be
lieved to be incendiary. The loss is
$100,000.
Philip Brogan, sr., a wealthy sheep
man of Antelope, Or., was stabbed and
killed by an employe in a dispute over
wages.
Antonio Sincki, a 15-year-old Italian
bootblack, was brutally murdered, after
a nameless crime had been committed,
in rortland, Or.
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xne army investigation commission
has finished its sessions in this country
and will soon go to Santiago and prob
ably, though not certainly, to Porto
Rico.
The news that the United States
now demands the whole of the Philip
pine islands has created much interest
in Berlin. The German newspapers
comment unfavorably upon it.
The transport Citv of Puebla has
sailed from San Francisco for Manila.
with the last of the California heavy
artillery, the .Nevada troop of cavalry
and a small detachment of recruits for
the Twenty-third infantry.
A cry for relief again comes from
f-. I 1 . r r ...
vju. joiiaiiions in Havana, it is
said, have become intolerable, and
severe criticism of America is heard on
every hand. While the commissioners
ar waning, crime, poverty, miserv
and death increase. '
The feature of President MoKinley'e
forthcoming message to congress will
be an appeal for immediate legislative
action looking to the construction of
the Nicaragua waterway. Delay be
yond next session will jeopardize
chances for American control in the
future.
lhe latest telegrams respecting the
risings in the neighborhood of Chung-
King, nina. state it is a movement
against the missionaries on the part of
a marauding band led by one Yu Man
Tze. The French church, hospital and
school, and also the American Method
ist cnurcn at Hong Chau, about 50
miles from Chungking, have been de
stroyed.
The Snow Lies Deep on White
Chllkoot Passes.
Port Townsend, Wash., Nov. 9. The
City of Topeka arrived tonight from
Alaska, bringing 124 passengers. She
reports that heavy snowstorms have
visited various sections of Alaska and
nearly all mining operations have been
suspended except quartz mills located
near tide water. On November 2 fou
feet of snow fell on Chilkootand White
passes, whioh completely put a stop to
travel.
Telephone messages from Lake Lind
emann to Skagway announoe that about
400 persons are snowbound there.
Another rich strike is reDOrted from
the head of Salmon river, below Quiet
lake.
According to John Olds, a pioneer
mining and business man of Alaska,
800 claims have been filed and recorded
in the Atlin mining district, and about
1,000 men will winter there. He pre
dicts that Atlin will have a population
of at least 15,000, and that the output
of gold will nearly if not quite equal
that of Dawson.
It is stated that an English syndicate
has bought up about 4,200 acres of
placer ground in the Atlin distriot.
ILLINOIS LYNCHING.
President's Message Will Three
on Nicaragua Canal.
New York, Nov. 9. A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says: In
President McKinley's message to con
gress will be a very strong and urgent
appeal for immediate legislative ac
tion for the construction of the Nica
ragua canal under government direc
tion. The president will point out
that our new connections in the Pa
cific and in the West Indies make it
imperative for the United States to
build and control the great internation
al waterway, and that delay in author
izing its construction will jeopardize
the chances for American control in
the future.
President McKinley fully appre
ciates the difficulties in the way of
securing prompt action, but he and
other canal advocates also appreciate
that failure this year may mean per
manent failure. Hence preparations
are going forward for one of the most
bitter fights ever waged in the interest
of the canal.
The action of the Nicaragua govern
ment in granting a new concession for
the construction of the canal conditional
upon the forfeiture of the contract with
the Maritime Canal Company in Octo
ber next has added new complications
to the difficulties in the way of legisla
tion. The authorities consider that it
adds another element of opposition to
prompt action on the pending Morgan
bill, which contemplates the construc
tion of the canal under government
direction on the basis of the concession
granted to the Maritime Canal Com
pany. The Morgan bill in all its essen
tial features is understood to have the
indorsement of the administration.
It is supposed that the new company
will be inimical to the Maritime Canal
Company. It is assumed if it does not
succeed in selling out to the concession-
; aires, it will exert its influence to pre
j vent action by congress this winter in
! order that its contract may go into
; effect next October. Besides opposi
tion from this new company, friends of
; the Morgan bill will have the powerful
j Huntington and Panama canal intei
ests arrayed against them. Friends of
the latter party are already in Wash
ington, preparing for a campaign
against the Nicaragua canal.
J. L. Morgan is to be a faotor in the
coming legislative war. It is stated
thivt while in Nicaragua last winter he
made an arrangement with President
Zelaya to look after the interest of Nic
aragua In this country.
INT DOWN DURING II IE
Cruiser Maria Teresa Lost in
the Bahamas.
NOW LIES THREE MILES DEEP
Strain Opened Leaks Which Conld Not
Be Stopped The Men Were Saved,
But Lost All Their Personal Effects.
Charleston. S. C. Nov. ft. Til A -frno
Merritt put into Charleston this morn"
mg, and reported the loss of the cruiser
Maria Teresa off San Salvador, the
Bahamas, November 3, in the midst of
a furious storm.
The cruiser left Caimanera, Cuba, on
the morning of October 30 in tow for
New York. She had already passed
Cape Maysi and started northeast
around the Bahamas. A furious storm
overtook her, and in her condition she
was unable to weather the gale. The
strain opened rents in the hull which
had been patched to enable her to make
the journey, and she began to fill rap
idly. The Merritt took off Lieutenant-
Commander Harris and crew from the
sinking ship and she soon went down.
The Merritt brought the officers and
men here. No lives were lost.
This afternoon the survivors came
ashore. They lost all their clothing
and personal effects.
The Teresa sank 30 miles off Walling
island at midnight Tuesday. She met
the storm Tuesday morning and began
to strain. Parts of the hull thought to
be safe became weakened, livets broke
and water made rapidly in the hold.
The boilers began to give way and
finally the water extinguished the fireg
in the engine-room. The pumps would
not work. The whole vessel showed
signs of collapse and the men stood
stripped awaiting orders to quit the
ship. The Vulcan was towing the
Teresa while the Merritt rescued 114
of the orew, made up of volunteers
from the Cincinnati, Newark and Vul
can. Ropes were cut and she then rap
idly filled.
The Merritt then headed for Charles
ton with the rescued. The crew left
this afternoon for Norfolk.
GARRISON NEAR HAVANA.
Miners Quickly Avenge an Assault on
One of Their Daughters.
Macon, 111., Nov. 9. The first lynch
ing in Central Illinois in many years
took place here earlv this morning.
when 100 miners from Toluca, a min:
ing town a short distance east of here,
broke into the county jail, took out F.
W. Stewart, a Toluca negro, and hanged
him to a tree.
The work was done quicklv and Quiet
ly. Only a few late stragglers noticed
the number of strangers who kept ar
riving in town from the east. They
were well organized, however, and
shortly after midnight marched in a
body to the jail, broke in the doors after
a short parley with the sheriff, dragged
the negro from his cell, carried him to
a tree a mile from town, where the re
mainder of the party awaited them,
and there swung him to a. limb.
Stewart's crime was assault on Friday
evening upon Mary O'Brien, the daugh
ter of one of the Toluca miners.
Although many in Macon deplore the
lynching, there is a general impression
that the negro was punished as he de
served, and the sheriff seems to think
that public sentiment would not justify
him in making strenuous efforts to cap
ture the lynchers.
PEREZ BROUGHT TO TIME.
Locution Selected Has Been Approved
by Secretary Alger.
Washington, Nov. 9. Colonel Heok
er, with Colonel Lee, of the board
which was sent to Cuba to select camp
sites lor the American army of occupa
tion, has reached Washington, and has
had several conferences with the presi
dent and Secretary Alger.
The secretary has approved the loca
tions selected by the Hecker board for
the principal garrison, which will be in
the neighborhood of Havana. The
place selected lies about eight miles
Bouth of Havana in the neighborhood
of the town of Marianao.
Two camps' will be Ditched at this
point, one on either side of the splen
did aqueduct which supplies Havana
with water. This aqueduct will be
tapped and the water drawn by steam
pumps from it to supply the camps,
which will be pitched In a plateau
about 160 feet above sea level.
At the nearest point to the camp on floss.
tne sea beach, a dock is being con
structed. The troops will be landed at
this point and marched directly to the
camp, the purpose being to avoid ex
posure to possible infection in Havana.
FATE OF THE TERESA,
Was
American pulp making machinery is
gaining considerable headway in Scan
dinavia.
ueorge Wilson Phillips, aged 79,
who invented most of the machinery
wnicn was used in the first match fac
tory in the country, died at his home
in Springfield. Mass.
1 rouble at Fort Worth. Tex., between
whites and blacks over politics cul
minated in a fight in which Horje
Adams, independent candidate for
sheriff, was shot and killed.
G. B. Pratt died at Attleboro, Mass.
He establisned over 50 daily and week
ly papers in Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut.
Captain Henry O'Neill, aged 92, a
Mexican and civil war veteran, and for
many years a famous member of the
Louisville (Ky.) police force, is happy
In being for the first time a father.
His wife, whom he married two year
go, is 80 years old.
The receipts of the Seattle assav office
and the San FraDcisco mint of the
clean-up of the season's output of Klon
dike gold are $8,000,000.
It has been judicially decided In
Georgia that a municipal ordinance
prohibiting the sale of liquor is uncon
stitutional. The value of the gold Drodnced in
the United 8tatee during the calendar
year 189? was $57,863,000. The South
African republic holds first place, pro
ducing gold to the value of 57,861,633;
Australasia. 155,684,182, and Russia,
$23,345,768.
Cuban Court-Martial's Judgment
Not Carried Ont.
Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 8. The
Cuban general Perez, who has a half
dozen times announced his intention to
disband the troops under his command,
has not yet done so, recently ordered
the trial by court-martial of one of his
men on a charge of deserting from the-
army in time of war. The prisoner
was condemned to death, but before
the sentence was executed notification
i.sent to Colonel Ray, who laid the
matter before General Wood. General
Perez was at once informed that if
the man was executed he and the fir
ing party would be hanged as soon as
the courts could legally sentence them.
Woman Killed by a Soldier.
Lexington. Ky., Nov. 8. Private
William Kane, company B, Third Ken
tucky, whose home is at Carlisle, Ky..
shot and killed a woman named Maud
McClure at a house of ill-fame here to
night. Kane snapped the gun in the
woman s face several times. He
claimed not to know it was loaded, but
other women in the house said he had
threatened to kill the McClure woman.
Preparing- for War.
St. John's, N. F., Nov. 9. The
British government telegraphed the
colonial minister today announcing the
number and tonnage and capacity of
steamers available at this port to con
vey coal from Sydney for the use of
British warships. The cruisers Cor
delia and Pelioan will be held at Syd
ney to capture St. Pierre and protect
St. John's in the event of war oeine
J i a m . .
ueciureu. ine cruisers are also in
structed to break the French cable be
tween St. Pierre and Brest. Franca
The Spanish Warship May Still Be
Afloat.
New York, Nov. 9. James E. Ward
& Co.. steamship agents, this after
noon received a cablegram from Mr.
Moyer, agent of the firm at Nassau, N.
P., that a two-funneled steamer, the
name of which had not been learned, is
ashore on Cat island, about 80 miles
from the point where the former Span
ish warship Maria Teresa was supposed
to have foundered during a storm.
The stranded steamer may be the war
ship or one of the army transports.
Department Is Uncertain.
Chicago, Nov. 9. A - special to the
News from Washington says: Navy
department officials feel a long way
from certain that the Maria Teresa is
really at the ocean's bottom. As a mat
ter of fact, the fear that she would sink
caused her to be abandoned. It is
probable that searchers will be sent to
learn the ship's fate, for it is felt that
she may now be a derelict.
An Infamous Plot.
London, Nov. 9 The Daily Chroni
cle this morning says:
"We have received information from
a reliable source of a well-orgaiJrzed
plot in Paris, in the event of an inquiry
before the court of cassation Drcvina
favorable to Dreyfus, to foment a riot
ous outburst in the French capital, to
attempt to overthrow the oivil power,
and to assassinate the leading cham
pions of Dreyfus.
"These reports are confirmed by in
terviews had with M. Trarieux, former
minister of justice, and M. de Pres
sonso, foreign editor of the Temps, as
well as others."
Opinion at the Navy Department.
Washington, Nov. 8. No orders were
issued by the navy department up to
the close of office hours as to the dispo
sition of Lieutenant-Commander Harris
and his crew, and Captain Crowin
shield, of the bureau of navigation, said
no orders would be formulated tonight.
It is the opinion of the navy depart
ment that the government has lost, be
sides the value of the ship herself, only
the amount of the per diem of $800 per
day through the sinking of the vessel,
because the contract appears to have
required the deliveiy by the wrecking
company of the vessel at the navy yard
at Norfolk. According to the contract,
salvage was to consist of such further
compensation over or above the per
diem and stipulated expense as might
be awarded by a board appointed for
that purpose, consisting of a represent
ative of each party and a third party,
tneir survey to be made after the ves
sel's delivery at Norfolk. The first
thing in order now is a court of inquiry;
in fact, the department has no option
in the case of the loss of a vessel under
such conditions. This court is re
quired to fix the responsibility for the
Supreme Court. Room In National Cap.
ltol Wrecked.
Washington, Nov. 8- An explosion
and fire at 5:13 this afternoon wreoked
the supreme-court room and the rooms
immediately adjoining it on the main
floor of the capitol. The damage is
enormous. The entire central-eastern
part of the great marble pile from the
main floor to the subterranean base
ment, practically is a mass of ruins.
The force of the explosion was so heavy
that the coping stones on the outer
walls, just east of the point where the
explosion oocuired, were bulged out
nearly two inches, and locked doors
were forced onen from their hinopn
quite 160 feet from the scene of it.
Fire followed the explosion so quickly
as to seem practically simultaneous
with it.
The explosion shook the immefise
structure to its foundations, and was
heard several squares from the capitol.
it occurred in a small room tightly
inolosed by heavy stone walls in .the
subterranean basement, immediately
below the main entrance to the old
capitol building. In this room was a
500-light gas meter, which was fed by
a four-inch main. Very little gas is
used in that part of the building, but
at the time of the explosion the gas had
not been turned off at the meter. The
meter itself was wreoked, and the gas
pouring from the main caught fire.
The flame originating from the explo
sion darted up the shaft of the elevator,
whioh had been completely destroyed
by the force of the explosion, and com
municated with the record-room of the
supreme court, the office of the mar
shal of the court and the supreme court
library.
Before the flames could be subdued,
the priceless documents in the record
room had been almost totally destroyed,
and serious damage had been done in
the marshal's office and some minnr
rooms in the immediate vicinity.
The library of the supreme court, lo
cated immediately beneath the su
preme court room, was badly damaged
by fire, smoke and water, practically
destroying the great collection of law
reference books. The library contained
about 20,000 volumes and was used not
only by the justices of the supreme
court but by members of congress and
lawyers practicing before the supreme
court.
The most serious damages, in the
opinion of the justices of the supreme
court, is to the records stored in the
sub-basement. These included all of
the records of cases and opinions ren
dered by the fathers ot the judiciary of
the government Apparently the docu
ments in this room are either totally
destroyed or so badly damaged by fire
ana water as to be useless.
Items of General Interest Gleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.
mu ...
j-ub ministers oi Spokane are gen
erally of the opinion that there should
do but one legal ground for divorce.
lfte new sawmill of the Eaualitv
Colony, near Edison. Wash., is com.
pleted and paid for. lis daily capacity
in iu,uuu ieet. t
The shipments from Coulee City,
vvasn., last week amounted to 52 cars
of cattle, containing nearly 1,500 head,
and representing $42,000.
The Indians who have been causing
trouble are getting out of Grant coun
ty, Oregon, as fast as possible, and no
further trouble is expected.
According to the financial statement
of Coos county, Oregon, the 2 per cent
reduction in the legal rate of interest
will mean a yearly saving of something
over $1,800.
G. Gunerson, of Melbourne, and one
of the largest timber importers of Aus
tralia, is viisiting the Northwest arrang
ing for the purchase of several cargoes
of fir lumber.
UNDER A FALLEN ROOF.
COAL MINE
DISASTER.
an Engl-
Two Burglars Killed.
Woroester, Mass., Nov. 9. Early
today a posse of citizens of North Graf
ton surrounded a gang of burglars, who
had broekn into the postoffice, and cap
tured two and killed one of the robbers.
Both the burglars and citizens opened
fire with revolvers, and after some brisk
shooting, three of the robbers fled.
Subsequently the dead body of one of
them, apparently a Frenchman, was
found in a field near by. In the build
ing two other burglars were found and
captured. They were armed. The
prisoners were taken to Westboro.
Michigan Judge Killed.
Traverse City, Mich., Nov. 9. Word
was received here today of the acci.
dental death of Judge Roscoe L. Cor
bett, of the 13th judicial district. 'His
death was caused by an accidental dis
charge of a gun held by his son.
Killed on the Track.
Muncie, Ind., Nov. 9. Thomas Port,
president of the Port Glass Manufactur
ing Company, was killed by a Big Four
passenger train this morning while
walking on the traok. Mr. Port was
one of the wealthiest men in the gas
belt.
Many Lives Lost.
San Francisco, Nov. 9 The Chinese
sonsul here is convinced that at least
13 Mongolians were drowned in the for
ward cabin of the wrecked river steamer
J. D. Peters, which now lies fast in the
mud. Several of the Mongolians are
known to have bad considerable money.
An effort will be made to recover tne
bodies.
The sweet potato crop this year on
the Maryland and Virginia peninsular
is estimated at 8,000,000 barrels.
Seyen Men Killed Through
neer's Carelessness
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Nov. 8. Seven
men were killed and three fatally in
jured at the Exeter colliery of the Le
high Coal Company, at West Pittston,
today. The accident was due to the al
leged carelessness of Engineer David
Price, who, acting in disobedience of
positive orders, caused three oars to
run in to the top of the shaft. These
oars, loaded and weighing 11 tons, fell
down the 360-foot shaft and crashed
with frightful foroeupon a carriage car
rying 10 men. Seven were almost in
stantly killed. They are:
Michael Smith, Andrew Tinko,
Michael Podesabanny, Miohael Bra-
zuke, Joseph E. Culock, Michael Was
lokse, Joseph Andrewsky.
The accident ocourred as the men
were going to work, and being sent
down the shaft in parties of 10. Price,
in charge of the little donkey engine.
was shifting loaded cars from the new
red ash shaft some distance away.
This track approached tbe head of Ex
eter shaft, and at a distance of 30 feet
from it curved gently to the right and
around the shaft to a breaker. At a
point where this track commenced to
curve was a switch and 20 feet of track
leading to the head of the shaft, which
was used for Storing crippled cars.
Close to the head of the shaft it was
closed by a bead block.
The train was going at good speed,
when, instead of curving around the
shaft, the cars dashed into tbe switch,
which was open, struck the head block.
dashed through it, and three of them
toppled down the shaft. About 20 feet
from the bottom thev struck the car
riage with awful force, completely
wrecking it. The mass of wreckage
leu to tbe foot of the shaft, choking it,
and when, after hard work, the men
were extricated, seven were dead and
three fatally hurt,
A Murderous Boatswain.
San Francisco, Nov. 8. There was a
serious row, almost resultng in a mur
der on the British ship Peleus, in port
here, today. Boatswain Charles Wil
son came aboard under the influence
of liquor. He ordered three men to
wash down the deoks, which work
they had just done. A quarrel ensued,
during which John Mcintosh and
Michael Scott were stabbed several
times with a large sheathknife by Wil
son. Mcintosh has a very slight
uuuuuo io recover, xne boatswain is
under arrest.
Collapse of a Theatre Building tn De
troitFifteen Workmen Killed.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 8. The new
five-story Wonderland theater building
is tonight in a hopeless state of col
lapse, and 15 or more lives have been
sacrificed by an appalling accident
which ocourred ,there this afternoon.
Shortly before 2 o'clock, while some
35 men were at work in various parts
of the half-finished theater portion of
the structure, the roof fell in without a
second's warniig. Nearly every work
man was carried down into the theater
pit. The top gallery was crushed
down upon the lower gallery, forming a
sort of fatal hillside, down whioh slid
broken steel girders, planks, timbers.
brick and a great quantity of cement
from the roof, and carrying along a
struggling company of men into the pit
below, very few of whom escaped in
jury. The front wall of the building
remained practically intact, but the
east side wall bulged out and buckled
threateningly.
Notwithstanding the latter danger,
the work of rescuing the injured and
taking out the dead was rushed, and
good progress made until 6:15, when
the upper portion of the east wall fell,
a shower of bricks striking around the
crowd ol laborers, officers and newspa
per men, extinguishing the temporary
electrio lights and causing a stampede
for the street. Fortunately none of
those who were struck by the second
, downfall was seriously injured, al
though several were precipitated into
tne basement through the steel hoiftt,
over which only a few loose planks
were laid. Mayor Maybury and other
city officials, who were on the scene,
thereupon deoided not to further im
peril life in order to save dead bodies,
and the work was suspended until to
morrow. , .
When the crash occurred two bodies
were visible in the debris, but they
were abandoned for the present. The
dead are:
August Sallach, George W. White,
Theodore Mertens, Martin Shafter,
Cornelius McArron, James Megersohke,
August Janusohowski. John Greselski.
Two other bodies had been discovered
in the debris at the time of the second
crash.
The missing are: Peter Connors,
Jacob Lewen, Frank Wolf, Betts
and O. Mnllim.
Twelvceotiien workmen were serious
ly injured1.. Offtllese it is feared that
Edward Fisher-and J..W. Wilson will
die..
The disaster is supposed to have been
due to the use of faulty iron beams in
constructing the supports for the very
heavy roof.
The Utes Wore Obedient,
Denver, Nov. 8. Game Warden
Swan returned from the western part
of the state, and says there are no Utes
there. The troops had no difficulty in
persuading the Utes to leave, as they
had already killed all the game they
wanted.
A San Francisco Murder.
San Franoisco, Nov. 8. Mrs. Louisa
Parker, also known as Mrs. Spain, was
shot and instantly killed today by To
masso Cellmi, an Italian. The mur
der occurred in a private box of a Second-street
saloon.
Spain Will Sign flL ,
London, Nov. 8. The Madrid corre
spondent of the Daily Mail says: Spain
will sign the peace treaty under pro
test. .
Racing pigeons were first trained is
Belgium.
Tacoma, Nov. 8. Olof A 1 berg, an
employe of the Blaauws salmon can
nery, was scalded late yesterday after
noon by escaping steam, caused by
carelessness.
Three More Whaler.
San Francisco, Nov. 8. Three more
whalers arrived from the Arctio today.
The bark California brought 1,650 bar
rels of oil, the steam whaler Jeannette
2,200 pounds of bone, and the William
Baillies 1,800 pounds of bone.
A cat of 10 cents on tbe 100 pounds
has been made on shipments of green
apples by the Northern Pacific from
Oregon and Washington centers to
many important points in the East, re
ducing the. rate from $1 to 90 cents.
The new schedule applies only to ship,
meats in carload lots.
Isaac W. " Garrett, ex-8ecretary of
state of Idaho, and a pioneer of Ore
gon, died at Boise. Mr. Garrett had
suffered from a complication of troubles
for about a year.
The Grand Ronde Lumber Company,
of La Grande, has just closed large con
tracts with different southern California
fruit associations for very large quanti
ties of orange and other fruit boxes.
The receiver of the Bank of Everett.
which, failed 'early in the panic, has
made his final report to the court, and
an order has been made directing the
remaining assets to be sold at auction.
The Pacific sheet metal works at New
Whatcom started up again last week
with half a crew, afflr having been
shut down for about a month. This
means the employment of about 50 or
60 persons, and is weloome news to a
large number of people.
The discovery has been made that
some miscreant has defaced the two 54
ton guns that are waiting to be placed
in position at Marrowstono point, in
Puget sound, by cutting names on tho
steel barrels with soap and acid. Sus
picion rests on discharged workmen.
The Imperial Paste Company has
been organized at Groat Falls, Mont.,
for tbe purpose of manufacturing
macaroni to supply tho trade of that'
and adjonining states. The output of
the factory is 500 pounds daily. They
have orders ahead for three months'
product.
The receiver of the defunct Spokane
Savings bank has been authorized by
the court to pay a dividend of 7 per cent
nn the outstanding claims against the
institution. This will make a total of
52 per cent paid by the bank. The
total indebtedness of the bank amounts
to $100,409.54.
The Golden Giant dredger, now be
ing rapidly pushed to completion at
Lannan's spur, below the mouth of
Burnt river, will be ready to operate
on December 1. Its capacity Is 2,000
cubic yards per day, and It is to be
operated on 160 aores which are report
ed good for 50 cents per cubic yard.
ine KepublSo Mining Company of
Eastern Washington has just deolared
another dividend amountina to t30.-
000, which is at the rate of 8 cents pet
share. This is the second monthly
dividend paid by the company of like
amount, and there is every assurance
that the dividends will continue at this
rate every month, although the mill is
not running at its full capacity.
Never before was grass so scarce on
tbe Gilliam county range as now.
Even in pastures where the old bunoh
grass is abundant, the grass is so devoid
of nutriment from lone-continued
drought that stock are losing flesh on
it. Several sheepmen have commenced
feeding hay already, and wise sheepmen
and oattlemen are reducing their flocks
Just now, while the pirce is good.
The contract to cut 6,000,000 feet of
lumber and 175.000 ties has heon
secured by McPherson Bros. & Stout,
r4 P -.-.L 1 rj n mi .
v uivimu, xj. j. xuis contract is
with the Columbia & Western railway,
whioh will use the lumber on its Rob-inson-Penticon
branch. This firm con
templates removing their mill to Glad
stone, where a fine body of timber
exists.
John Holmes, of Wellington, New
Zealand, was recently in Vancouver,
B. C, as a commissioner from the gov
ernment of the island on a mission to
find new fields for the hemp trade of
New Zealand, which last year pro
duced 22,000 tons. Mr. Holmes says
this country offers a fine opening for
trade in shirts, shoes, cottons, honsn-
hold furniture, canned salmon and agri
cultural implements.
Five mourning tribes assembled at
the Puyallup reservation Sunday to
pay the last honors to the royal infant,
Reed Leschi, who died last week, and
who was the 8-months-old son of
George Leshi, chief of the Puyallup
tribe, and bis death is mourned as the
removal of a possible leader of the neo-
ple, there being but one living heir
now left. Lesohi's uncle was the leader
of the war against the whites in tho
early days, for which he lost his life.
In compliance with the request of
the Philadelphia board of trade, whioh
was addressed to the several chambers
of commerce in Paoifio coast cities, the
Los Angeles chamber of commerce last
week passed resolutions urging congress
to take needed action to restore to the
United States the ocean-carrying trade
in vessels sailing undei the American
flag, and also urging the press of the
coast to lend its powerful aid to the
success of this great national under
taking, and to co-operate with local
commercial organizations.
Reliable authorities place the value
of the Washington fruit crop at about
$4,000,000. The prune crop was
gathered and evaporated in good condi
tion, and about 75 per cent will grade
40s to 50s, which is considered excel
lent for size. The apple crop west of
the Cascades has colored up well, and
is almost entirely free from scab and
other blemishes. Where the culture
was thorough in the eastern part of the
state, the per cent of apples affected by
tbe codlin moth is small. Eastern
fruit merchants are annlvinir to the P.
cific Northwest apple-growers for fruit
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla. Walla, 61c; Val
ley and Bluestem, 63o per bushel.
Flour Best grades. $3.45: craham.
$3; superfine, $2.25 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, S940c; choice
gray, 87 38c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $2122; brew
ing, $23 per ton.
Millstuffs-Bran, $15.50 per ton; mid
dlings, $21; shorts, $16; chop, $15.50
per ton.
Hay Timothy, $89; clover. $7
8; Oregon wild hayfc$8 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 45 60c;
seconds, 4045o; dairy, 8540o store,
25 30o. '
Cheese Oregon full cream, ll12o;
Young America, 12o; new cheese,
10c per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2 3. 50
per dozen; hens, $3. 50 4. 50; springs,
$L853; geese, $5.006.00 for old,
$4.66g)5 for young; ducks, $4.00
6.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12
12c per pound.
PotaioeB 50 60c per sack; sweets,
2c per pounn.
Vegetables Beets, 90c; turnips, 75c
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, $11.25 per 100 pounds; cauli
flower, 75o per dozen; parsnips, 75c
per sack; beans, 3c per pound; celery,
70 75c per dozen; cucumbers. 50c tier
box; peas, 83,c per pound.
unions Oregon, 75c $1 per sack.
Hops 1017o; 1897 crop, 46o.
Wool Valley, 1012o Der r,onnd;
Eastern Oregon, 8 12c; mohair,
25c per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheer). We.thp.rfl
and ewes, 3c; dressed mutton. 7c:
spring lambs, 7Jc per lb.
ilpgs Gross, choice heavv. I4.7K:
light and feeders, $3.004.00: dressed.
$5. 50 6. 50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, 8.50$3.75;
cows, $2. 50 8. 00; dressed beef,
oiffio4c per pound.
Veal Large, 56c; small, 6)
7c per ponnd.
Seattle Markets.
Tomatoes, 50 85c per box.
Cucumbers, 10 15c pei doz.
Onions, 8590o per 100 pounds.
Potatoes, $10 12.
Beets, per sack, $90o.
Turnips, per sack, 60 65c.
Carrots, per sack, 60c.
Parsnips, per sack, $1.
Beans, green, 2 8a
Green corn, $1.25 1.50 per sack.
Cauliflower, 75o per doz.
Celery, 4060o.
Cabbage, native and
$1.00 1.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples. 50c 65c per box.
Pears, 75c$l per box.
Prunes, 50c per box.
Peaches, 75c.
Plums, 50c.
fj j.. rx l
ouner creamery, 27o per pound;
dairy and ranch, 18 20c per pound.
Eggs, 30c.
Cheese Native, 12126c.
PoultrjferQld ht1B( j. p9r pound: -spring
chickens, 14c; turkeys, 16c.
Fresh meats Choice dressed beet
steers, prime, 67c; cows, prime,
6c; mutton. 7ic; pork, 78o; veal,
78o.
Wheat Feed wheat, $1920.
Oats Choice,' per ton, $22 23.
Hay Puget Sound mixed, $9.50
10; choice Eastern Washington tim-
omy, $18.
Corn Whole. $23.50; cracked, $24;
feed meal, $23.50.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton.
$2425; whole, $22.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.60;
straights, $3.25; California brands,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $3.75; graham,
per barrel, $3.70; whole wheat flour,
$3.75; rye flour, $4.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $14;
shorts, per ton, $16.
Feed Chopped feed, $1721 per
ton; middlings, per ton, $17; oil cake
meal, per ton, $35.
California
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, 10 14c per
pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10 12c; Val
ley, ioi7c; .Northern, 9 lie.
Millstuffs Middlings, $1921.00;
bran, $15.50 16.50 per ton.
Onions Yellow, 80 45c per sack.
Butter Fancy creamery, 21cj
do seconds, 18c20; fancy dairy, 21
22c; do seconds, 20 24c per pound.
Eggs Store, 1822o; fancy ranch,
3841o.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2
2.50; Mexican limes, $66.50; Cali,
fornia lemons, $2. 00. 800; do choice
$3.504.50; per box.
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Camden, Me., manufactures more
ships' anohors than any other place in
America.
Ninety-five per cent of the railway
tracks in the country are laid with steal
rails.
More steel is used in the manufacture
ot pens than in all the swords and gun
factories in the world.
Alabama produced 947,881 tons of
pig iron last year, while the output of
Tennessee aggregated 272,730 tons.
With the exception of the phenomen
al record-breaking fiscal year of 1892
8, the fiscal year of 1897-8 is the biggest
on recoard for the cigar industry. An
increase at onoe of over half a million,
or to be exact, $511,182,730, in the
cigar production, after five years of
stagnation and actual retrogression, is
an event to be marked.
All of tbe air-brake appliances we
see upon tbe trains through the country
are manufactured in Pittsburg. One
plant has an annual capacity for turn
ing out air brakes for 260,000 freight
cats, 8,000 passenger oars and 10.000
locomotives.
An individual who delights in statis
tics has figured out that the transports,
tion of this year's wheat crop will re
quire the loading and unloading of
640,0000 freight oars, provided large
cats are used. The modern wheat car
has a capacity of 60,000 pounds, or
1,000 bushels,
A correspondent of the London
Times, in a recent letter from St.
Petersburg, says that during the last
16 years tbe production of pig iron in
Russia has nearly quadrupled in ex
tent, the output of manufactured iron
has increased quite 80 per cent and the
manufacture of steel has considerably
more tban doubled.
Since tbe introduction in 1894 of
the serum treatment of diptheria, the
mortality from that disease has de
clined in Vienna from HJ per cent t
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