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HE m OF lit WEEK
Cuniirelif HHi va ltevieiv of tbe Import
Hnt lliipimiilnei of tlie I'HHt Week
Culled I'l-oin ti TKlfi;rjth Columns.
I. H Kouk, white, wtis shot and
killerl by a ugro near Sunnyside, Miss.
A posso hanged tbn negro. It is said
that iu consequence tlie negroes have
onalleuged thu whites and a nut is i:u
iui limit.
Saturday, October 31, has boon de
clared an (lag day by tho national
chairmen of the Republican, Dumo
oratio and I'opulisc parties. It is re
quested that tho national colors b dis
played on all residences aud places of
business on that day.
The lierkey & Oay furniture factory,
of Grand liapids, Mich., the largest iu
the world, has resumed operations
after a period of enforced idleness dur
ing t'i tarir!C33 acprC33itii. Thu luo
tory employs more workmen than any
other institution in that eity.
It is now certain that the lumber
combine, known as the Central Lum
ber Company, of California, will have
a new lease of life January 1, 18U7,
aud that it will early in the spring
attempt to hold prices at a higher fig
ure than they have been for years.
W. T. Rumbusch, the defaulting
banker of Juneau, Wis., shot and killed
hiinHLdf iu Fredericksburg, Vt. Me
left a note expressing a desire that he
be identified in order that his wife
might get his life insurance. About
$100 was found on his person.
While the Dunham family was do
ing its aerial bar act in Baruuui'a cir
cus, at Chicago, one of its members,
John, met with an accident that is
likely to prove fatal. He dropped
eighty feet into a net, alighting on his
head. Ilia spine was injured aud low
er limbs paralyzed.
T. P. Farnsworth, of Cresoo, la., ac
cidentally killed his wife in that city.
Just as they were going to dine Farns
worth was in the act of loading his re
volver, when the cartridge exploded,
the ball striking his wife nearly iu the
center of tho forehead, killing her iu
tantly. Hamlin J. Andrus, president of the
Arlington Chemical Company, Yonker.s,
N. Y., was instantly killed by the ex
plosion of a bomb iu his ollice. Ho was
alone when the tragedy occurred.
Wbo placed the bomb iu the office, or
whom it was intended for is unknown.
John Andrus, a brother of the victim,
was generally the iirst to enter the
office, aud as the dead man is very well
liked, it is supposed that his brother is
the one whose life was desired.
The loss occasioned by the burning
of the flouring mill and wheat ware
house at Weston, (Jr., has been placed
at about $20,000. Tho mill was owned
principally by I. E. Waling and P. A.
Worthiugtou, and there was no insur
ance. The mill was equipped with
modern machinery, aud was almost
constantly operated. It had 100 bar
rels daily oapaoity. The warehouse
contained 10.000 bushels of wheat that
were iusured for half their value.
The origin of the fire has not been dis
covered. General Carlos Ezetu has taken quar
ters iu Oakland, Cal., and says he it
prepared to meet his enemies. He im
agines he is being pursned by hired
AHsassinB in the employ of Mr. Lopea
the minister from Salvador. Lopez as
sorts that the general is a bluffer and ii
afraid to make a move.
The board of supervisors of San
Francisco has appropriated $ii00 foi
the purchase of a supply of tho Gott
remedy for leprosy. It will be used
for the relief of the thirteen men and
two women iu the leper colony at tlx
peathouse. The remedy as far as tried
by the physicians has had good effect
aud mauy of the afflicted will recover
Weyler aud Blanco wilt be recalled
Premier Cnuovas will fall, and gravt
eveuts will occur iu Spaiu, Madrid dia
patches say, it is believed there, unlets 1
the rebels in Cuba and the Philippine
islands are conquered within a mouth.
The Madrid press openly attacks Cauo
vas aud Weyler because of their in
ability to check the Cuban revolution.
Albert Hence Downing, a highway
man arrested in Denver, Col., has con
fessed that he murdered Joel G. Ash
worth in that city aud committed
numerous robberies, besides having
murdered a luau in 1885 at San Jose,
Cal., and committed other crimes
there. He promises to plead guilty to
all the crimes which he has committed
aud says he wants to be hung.
The people of Albuquerque, N. M.,
paid their homage to a true hero at the
funeral'of John H radon, who sacrificed
his own life to save those of women
and children. During a parade iu that
city Harden was driving au ammuni
tion wagon, the contents of which ex-;
ploded aud set tire to the wagon, The
team started to ruu, iu the direction
of a crowd of women aud children, but
Hrarien stayed at bis post until he had
checked the freuzied animals, aud then
tell from the lent, burued to a criini
Speaker CrUp Dead. j
Charles F. Crisp, ex-speaker of the
house of representatives, died iu At
lanta, Ga., His death was pot alto- i
gether a surprise in political circles, as
it has been known for some lnontha
that he had not long to live, and never ,
aKain could be an active figure in pub- j
lie affairs. The speaker had several j
spells of illneta in Washington. He ,
suffered from asthma and later from
heart trouble. His ill health, how
ever, did uot become a matter of put-lie ;
notoriety until tbe past spring, when
he was compelled to abandon a series
of joint debates arranged with ex-Secretary
Hoke Smith by reason of the ad
vice of his physician. Ciisp had been
in the sanitarium for five iveeks, suffer
ing from malarial fever. The immedi
ate cause of his death was heart failure.
TRIED 10 0MI III
A Narrow Escape for the
Passengers.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC BLOCKED
Suicide of a .MlnUter.
Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwiu, M.
A., tine of the best-known Congrega
tional clerymen of New England, has
committed suicide at his home in Hart
ford. Conn. Rev. Potwtn had been in
poor health for some time, and, since
the recent developments of melan
cholia, bad been under the care of Dr.
Stearns, of the insane retreat. While
his family were away he went to an
upper room and hanged himself with
a rope fastened to tbe drmr knob.
The Table Were Turned.
Dr. T. W. Bowman, of Savannah
(ia., tried to kill his wife. He was i
prevented from bo doing by W. T.
Haskell, a eommercial traveler. Has
kell Beized bowman's pistol and
wrenched it from him. Mrs. Bowman
and her mother then assaulted the doo
tor. They blackened his eyes and beat
him ubout the head very badly. Bow
man waH arrested and taken before a
judge who gave him twenty-four hours
to get out of the state.
Must Kt-leaNe Huu Vat Hen.
The Marquis of Salisbury has de
manded the immediate release of Sun
Yat Sen, the Chinese physician, said
to be a British subjeot, who was, ac
cording to the statement of his friends,
kidnaped while passing the Chinese
legation in Loudon, and is held a pris
oner in the legation on a charge of
having been engaged in a conspiracy to
overthrow the Mautchu dyuasty.
A St. I.ouln Itroker AflMlgim,
L. A. Coquard, a well-known St.
Louis broker, has filed an assignment.
He gives his assets as if 100,000; liabil
ities not stated, but may exceed the as
sets. It is claimed that during the last
six months he lost heavily iu wheat
and stocks, the total amount being esti
mated at $300,000.
A MiMHourl ItMllk Looted.
Robbers entered the bank at Cass
ville, Mo., aud blow open tho safe, se
curing its contents. The amount was
large, but the bank officials refuse to
say how much. The robbfry was the
work of professionals.
Oriental Ollentlon Nettled.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don News reportB that he hears the
czar's visit to Queen Victoria at Bui
moral resulted in Russia, England aud
France agreeing on the basis of a policy
in Japan and China, while the Levant,
Mediterranean and African questions
are being arranged. The czar wants
the results obtained without bloodshed,
says the correspondent, aud is support
ed by Italy aud Austria. The sultan
is likely to die hard, but he will be
obliged to yield.
Killbu-ler- to Ke Tried.
Admiral Navarro, president of the
naval court of Havana, has cansed no
tice to be served upon forty-one fili
busters aud others, including the crew
aud passengers of the Competitor, that
they must answer charges of piracy
and rebellion against the government
Consul-Gonoral Lee, in au interview iu
a Spanish paper, deuies having insisted
upon his recall to the United States,
and says his relations with Captain
General Weyler are cordial.
A FntHl Can Ivxploniwu.
In Chicago George McWhorter turn
ed on the gas iu his room and lay
down to die. The odor of the gas was
deteoted by Chalres Collard.who oalled
Geftrge Holt. Lightiug the gas in the
room adjacent McWhortor's, they burst
iu his door. Au explosion fallowed,
blowiug out a section of the rear wall
of the building, aud burning Collard
badly. Holt escaped injury. Mc
Whorter died while being taken to tbe
hospital.
A MtllioiiHire Armenian.
The most sensational trial ever
known in Turkey has just been con
cluded in Constantinople. AfikEffeudi,
the millionaire Armenian, has been
condemued to three years' seclusion in
a fortress. He was accused of being
chief of the revolutionary committee.
This latter was cousidered not proved,
but his connection with the movemeut
was established. He was given the
minimum penalty possible.
The Wrerkem Kvidently .Minciileiiluted
Their Time and Were Interrupted by
Approaching Traill ISIi;ht Damage.
Portland, Or., Oct. 27. A dastardly
attempt, which, fortunately was un
successful, was made last night to
wreck the southbound passenger train,
No. 16, two miles south of Drain. The
attempt was well-planned aud intended
either for revenge or robbery, and had
it been successful, would no doubt have
cost mauy lives. As yet there is. no
clew to tbe would-be train wreckers.
The train, hauled by engine No.
1225, left Portland at 8:60, and reach
ed Drain, ltil miles south of here,
about 8:45 the next morning. When
the engine rounded a curve two miles
south of tho station, Engineer Robert
MeCauley saw, by the glare of the
headlight ou thu Uuck ahead, what ap
peared to be a fallen tree lying leugth
wiae between the rails. He at once
reversed the engine and threw on the
air brakes, but the momentum of the
train was o ereut that it could uot be
stopped before it reached the obstruc
tion, and the pilot struck it with a jolt
that woke up everybody on the train.
In spite of tbe reversed engine and
brakes, the train was carried nearly
three lengths ahead, pushing the ob
struction in front of it. The latter, as
it caught the ties ulong the track, jolt
ed the whole train, so that everyone on
board thought the engine had jumped
the track, aud the commotion caused
general consternation.
The engineer finally succeeded in
bringing the train to a standstill, and
climbing down from the cab, he ran
forward to see what he had struck.
He discovered that it was a stick of
timber a fiot through, and eight or ten
feet long. Across the track ahead of
it was a heavy plank, which had evi
dently been used to prop the larger
stick up iu a standing position, so that
it would better throw the traiu from
the track. This plank had also been
carried forward by the pilot.
The train first struck the obstruction
on a sharp curve, iu a mountainous
and heavily wooded country. There is
a sharp declivity on one side of the
track, aud had the pilot been broken
by tho obstruction, a terrible wreck
must inevitably have followed.
The trainmen and Buch passengers as
were out of their beiths, took lanterns
and searched the track for some dis
tance both ahead and behind trie train,
but no sign of any one could be dis
covered. Thero were a few planks and
timbers scattered about near the place
whero the log lay at first, and the gen
eral appearance of the track where the
obstructions were placed, indicate that
the wreckers' were at work on a big ob
structiou to ensure the ditching of the
tiain, and having miscalculated their
time, were interrupted by the approach
ing train, and quickly abandoning
their devilish work, ran away.
The way in which the two timbers
found on the track were piled, and the
fact that they were placed on a curve
and at an unusually dangerous plaoe in
the track, indicate that there could
have been no intention but to wreck
the train.
The traiumen have been bothered i
great deal of late iu that vioiuity by
stutbbouud hobos who jump brake
beams of freight trains at watering sta
tions, day times, aud ride on the blind
baggage of passenger trains at night.
The train men thiuk it was some of
these who made the attempt to wreck
the traiu, while others think a geueral
robbery was intended.
The engine returned to Portland yes
terday, uud beyond a little damage to
the paiut on the pilot, ia all right.
Cargo Took Fire at Sea.
New York, Oct 28. The British
,'teamer Worsley Hall put into thiB port
this morning with her cargo on fire.
She left New Orleans for Havre, Octo
ber lti. On October 23, S50 milos east
by south of Saudy Hook, during a
southerly gale, smoke was found issu
ing from the ventilators under the
bridge. An examination showed that
the cotton stowed forward in the hold,
which constituted the major portion of
the cargo, was on fire. The ship was
put befoie the wind to lessen the
draught and the hatch lifted. The
iuoke was almost overpowering, but
the 6ailors managed to hoist out twenty
bales of cotton and pile them up on the
deck. The ship was rolling with a
heavy cross tea. Soon a huge wave
broke over the steamer and washed
tbe bales overboard.
TO VISIT THE COLUMBIA.
A Cowardly Nulrlde.
Alfred G. Audrew, a carpenter of
Sau Francisco, euded his own life be
cause of misfortunes that had reduced
hint to poverty, and left a widow aud
three grown children to struggle for
the living he had grown weary of en
deavoring to make for them. He took i
carbolic acid aud died iu great agony. I
His wife was a witness to bis suffer
ings. I
llattle .Ship Oregon Left San KrancUeo
for a Short CruUe.
San Francisco, Oct. 27. The battle
ship Oregon steamed out to Bea today
for the first time since her famous
trial trip. Nothing could be learned
positively of her destination, but it is
common gossip that the prime object of
the trip is to test her batteries, from
the big guns down to the smallest, aud
to try her in all the theoretical maneu
vers that could be anticipated in a reg.
ular engagment.
It is also stated that the Oregon, be
fore return'ng to this port, will visit
the Colombia river, in order that the
Oregouiaus may iuspect her and bo
given an opporutuity to preseut her
with the silver service about which so
much has been said and written. The
departure of the big battleship did not
attract much attention, as during the
past few weeks she has steamed about
the bay mauy times.
t.nlveitou Cotton Klr.
Galveston, Oct. 37. The inoBt dis
astrous cotton fire in the history of
Galveston occurred early this morning,
resulting iu the destruction of 4,-ioo
bales, aud the warehouse in which
they were stored. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
A Resume of Events j
Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GR0
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Crontted the Troelm.
Key West, Oct. 28. Well-informed
passengers who arrived from Havana
last night confirm advioes received by :
mail that Maceo baa crossed the trocha
at Artemisa and joined other insurgent
forces in Havana province. They de
clared that the report circulated by
Maceo of his encampment at Cacara
jacara and a contemplated attack on
that town was merely a feint of the ;
rebel leader to cuiiCciiUale the Spanish
troops at that point. That the ruse j
was successful iB proved by the fact
that General Gonzales Muuiz, with
large forces, was seut in that direction ;
to attack Maceo, but upon their arrival
nt Cararajucara the Spaniards found
uothiug but a deserted camp.
l'reventeft a I'miiIo.
Chicago, Oct. 27. By rare presence 1
of miud, Rev. Dr. James Vila Blake ,
prevented a pauio aud the possible aw
ful results of a fire, which broke out
just as the morniug service was begin- !
uiug at the Third Unitarian ohurch to
day, and which destroyed the main ;
part of the building. When the pastor
took his place in the pulpit, his atteu-.
tion was drawn to smoke in the lobby
leading to the Suuday school room.
He remained standing until the orgau
ist had ceased playing, and then re
quested the cougregation to retire
quietly by the rear exits. His manner
so reassured those assembled that a
pauio was averted. The ohuroh was !
eutirely destroyed. The loss ia $25,000. '
Large (Juantlty of Lumber Iturned.
Saginaw, Mioh., Oct. 27. Fire
broke out early this eveniug in the
lumber pile and on the mill plant
premises of tho Center Lumber Com
pany, at Zilwaukee, six milea down
the river. It spread into a very large
conflagratiou, which destroyed about
8,000,000 feet of lumber. The saw
mill aud Bait works were in iminient
danger, but were saved, aud only
(mall buildings were burned. The fire
departments of Saginaw and Bay City
assisted in fighting the flames. The
loss will approach 1150,000, and is un
derstood to be fairly covered by insur
ance. Boy Muiderer.
CorniBh, Me., Oct. 27.-On Ootober
5 Mrs. Betsy P.. Hobos was found dead.
She lived alone about one and a half
miles from Effingham, N. H. When
found the house was burning, and her
body was half cremated. The mystery
was cleured yesterday by the coufessiou
of Charles Savage. He accuses Frank
J. Palmer of the murder. A coroner's
jury has brought in a verdict agaimt
Palmer of murder in the first degree.
Savage was held as a witness. Palmer
is 16 years old, and lives at West Par
eoufield. Savage is 20 years of age.
At the iuquest Savage unflinchingly
withstood half au hour's cross-examma-tiou.
but at last the corouer discovered
weakness, and ho perBiBtently quea
turned him till he finally succumbed
and related a tulo implicating himtelf
aud Frank Palmer in the murder and
attempted cremation of Mis. Hobbs
He aud Palmer, he said, had been
drinking together the day before the
tragedy. Monday morning Savage
took his shotgun to go shooting. They
called at Mrs. Hobbs'. Savage left
Palmer in the houso while he went to
the woodshed on au errand. While
there he beard the report of a gun aud
soou after found Mrs. Hobbs bleeding
upon the doorstep. Palmer soon a p
peared, and with an oath declared that
now he had squared the grudge he
owed her for pulling 3 out of him in
payment for the glass he broke in her
house three years ago. Palmer asked
b'tvage to help him carry the body in
the house, he says be was so fright
eufd he did not realize what he wag do
g. hut they got the body into the
house. Savage then took to the wood,,
be ug shortly overtaken by Palmer. who
deleared that nobody would ever know
what bad happened, for he had act fire
to the bouse.
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wnr neighboring Stat.
mem Noted In A I ult(
A number of hogs wer .
week iu Milton for 2 cent.J:
William Frazim-
, . . "u " eastern ur-
buymg horses to be nbd iu thefr
The county iudie of .tnui..
ty was lined recently fioo for b
a oiumi piece oi .losephinecount.
The John flow ..-:.. ...
j uuuriug g,,
Grant county, is running sixteen J
....j, ami is grinding 400 bjsliil.
wheat a day.
Lee Mitchell, of Grant's Pas. .
ceived a painful wound from a sal
bite on ti:e leg below tlie knee
fishing last week. '
Two Albany boys have shipped r
the naval service, and are off oi
three-years' cruise on a man-of-war
ui oau rrancisoo.
As the cannery at MsrsbdeU i
overstocked, the tug Trinmph tt
2,000 salmon from that place to;
Coquille cannery last week.
The new auartz mill mnetitn.i.
- ..uuj Lt
all been put on the ground at the B':,
cutte nuue, with the exception !
small wheel, weighing 4,500 ponndi
The salmon cannery at Alueahu
makiug a iiue pack, and nearly io
oases will be put un if there imin.k.','
meut iu the run before the BeasoncW
Most of the farmers of Powdentt
have about finished the full rouDii:
of cattle and have now in paste
fine-looking lot of beef steet! and L
cows.
A movemeut ia on foot among lots
of music iu Long Creek, Orantcooir
to organize a band. A subscript
paper for that purpose is being tit;.
laieu.
City Marshal Logan, of Weston,!
sists that boys under 18 years of if
muBt keep off the streets after7 o'elw
in the evening, and warns parents il,
he iutends to enforce the curfew o:t
ance.
There passed through Athena In
week a f
an entire trip to Florida by team. Ik
make their expenses of the triphjp
iug musical performances, the em:
family being musicians.
The semi-annual report of thecoir
clerk of Josephine county shown tb
there were, on September 30, outstu:
ing unpaid countv warrants to it
amount of $04,504.87, the estimiK
interest on which is $7,000.
A number of the country papers v
fully alive to their own interests n
the present gratifying wheat sitnatix
Such notices as this are being rt:
"Don't negleot to settle that little n't
Bcription account when you sell jrc
wheat."
There are in tho office of the tm
nrer of Benton county funds atnonsi
ing to $2,824,with which old ootstu:
ing warrants oould be Daid were 4?
presented for redemption. Bonn i
these warrants were issued as far tw'
as April, 1887.
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Marshlleld, Or., Oct. 27.-Earlv this
on the ocean beach the remains of three
ill-fated steamer Arago. They were
brought to Empire City, and a To ".
ner's inquest held. The name. oUhe
unfortunates are: Patience and Speck
steerage passengers, and Sanders seal
man. Tbe three were buried at Em
P.re City this afternocn. The Ararn
t. "ill in the same position. An iZ.
.ion from here today reports the bar
very smooth, and it is probable tha
tre?'ure 11 in ,he "earner will b.
recovered by divers. '
Washington.
A dredger will begin work onOljt l
pin harbor next month.
The school tax of the city of Spoktf I
for next year amounts to f 05,000.
William Hopkins has establi6beJ'
broom -handle factory in Burlington-
Blanche Benuet, a typewriter, 'l
put in jail in Spokane Patordi'l
charaed with smokinir nninm. Si 1
was found in Lee Jim's "joint," np
nea by the drug.
The superintendent of schooli t
Whatcom county ia strongly sdvititil
teachers to observe Admission :
thiyear. Washington was admittf-l
as a state November 11, 1889.
Tbe commissioners of Kings coanr I
have fixed the tax lew for 189b I
15.85 mills on all nrnnHrtv within I
limits of Seattle. The rate on f-1
property in the county entaide o'l
cities, and not inoluded in school dif-1
trict specials, is 12 mill'.
The mills for making oatmeal n(
Hour in Tacoma and Seattle are run
ning night and day, and yet are benin
in their orders. The demand for 6'
from the Orient has been simplT P1 I
nomenal, and the rolled-oat trade c
not be supplied by the present mil"-
Bishop CranBton and a oommiitM0' I
thlrrnian (,l.i. !..;... hnus COH I
pleted a thorough investigation of',!
affairs of the Puget sound nniveriPl
resulting in an unanimous appni"
and indorsement: of the method! a
management of the college in " "'
departments.
The Northern Pacific will conrtJ
A bia fltntia wall A.f.nJinn nver l,f
feet along the bank on the wet iid
the wharves in Tacoma. The
will be of solid masonry, and wiM
thirty feet high and four aud one-""
feet wide. It will be placed o
solid rock or hardpan foundation.