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A HALF MINUTE FIGHT.
J. F. STEWART. PulllUher.
TOLEDO OREGON
I NEWS OF IDE Hi
OaaDprehenalve Review of the Import.
at Happening of the fait Weak
Called From tbe Telegraph Columns.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says
that Joe James, colored, wai lynched
at Woodstock. He attempted to as
sanlt Fannie Smith, aged 17, while she
was on her way to school.
An trade has been issued granting
amnesty to all Armenian prisoners, ex
oept those sentenced to death for mur
der. The terms of the amnesty include
about 100 Armenians under sentence
of death for other offenses than murder.
Contrary to advices from Sun in u
has been ascertained that the Spaniards
were ignominiously defeated by Phil
lppine insurgents in the combined naval
and foot attack on Noveleta from No
vember 8 to 14. The Spaniards lost
heavily.
A special from Paris says it is sug
" gested that Great Britain, France and
Italy, the powers most interested, offer
their services in the Cuban question in
order to prevent a confliot between
Spain and the United States, and ter
minate the revolt.
Dr. E. Forbes, representing a Lon
don firm, arrived on the lust steamer
from the Orient in San Francisco, with
oases of medicnl instruments valued
at 180,000. He olaims they are works
of art, and should be admitted free of
duty. The customs authorities are
withholding the instruments, however,
until the duty is paid.
The postmaster of Des Moines, la.,
had his carriers look up worthy oases
of poor families and delivered present
to them on Christmas morning. Sev
eral hundred dollars was subscribed by
business men for the purpose. Saores
of letters wore reoeived from poor chil
dren telling what they desired Santa
Clans to bring them.
Senator Mitohell, of Oregon, has
proposed an amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill, providing for
auxiliary fishoultural stations at points
to be seleoted by the commissioner of
nan and fisheries in Oregon, Washing
ton and California, for the propagatinu
of salmon, trout and other fishes. The
Amendment appropriates $17,000 for
4he purpose.
Jerry Burke, the colored boy, who
hacked Mrs. John Fobs and her daugh
ter, Mrs. Cavanaugh, with an ax, at
their home at Clio, Livingston parish,
Louisiana, last Sunday, was captured
'by a posse of oitizena about a mile
from the scene of the crime. Iu view
of the fact that the ladies are not dead,
the plan to burn him at the stake was
abandoned, and he was simply riddled
with bullets.
The secretary of the treasury has
ent to congress a computation of the
Paoiflo railroad debts as made by the
government actuary. The statement
ahowa that the advances to the Union
Faoiflo, inoluding the Kansas Pacific,
by the government, will, at maturity,
the first of next July, amount to f92,
846,385, of which sullioient has been re
paid to reduce the amount to $58,280.
693. The balance due on aooount of
the Central Faoiflo on July 1 next will
be $00,818,877.
Dr. Thomas Powell, of Missouri, re
cently made some remarkable experi
ments before a party of doctors in Los
Angeles in order to prove the effioacy
of bis remedy for certain diseases. He
alarmed the physicians present by in
jeoting bauoillus tuberculosis and bao
oilli diptherial into himself, appearing
to take them without evil effect. He
also injoated some baatina into two
guinea pigs, which promptly died.
His next experiment will be to injeot
sputum from a woman dying of con-
sumption into himself.
The annual statement of construc
tion published by the Railway Age, of
Cbioago shows that during 1896 only
1,803 miles of railway lines were built
In the United States, This is one mile
less than the total reported for 1806,
and the smallest mileage built in any
year since 1878. The number of lines
on which this traok was laid is 103,
which is eleven less than the number
of new lines added In the previous
year. Traok was laid in thirty-eight
of the forty-four states and territories.
The longest mileage was built in Cali
fornia 187 miles on eight lines.
A Paris paper publishes interviews
with prominent men of France aad a
foreign diplomat, all of whom reproach
Great Britain and Spain for abandon
log Franoe in the Mexican expedition
of 1863, the object of whloh, they say,
was to oreate an American government
to counterbalance the power of the
United States.
The Russian ambassador, M. de Neli
doff, has bad an audience with the
sultnu of Turkey, at which he urged
the introduction of reforms and the
granting o( Nmneary to imprisoned
Arniittiana. The sultau asserted that
tlie utiriiis agreed upon by the powers
already had been i-xeouted aud prom
inert tn imue an amnesty decree In t
few day.
I'eter
Steve
II TRAP IS ll FOR GOMEZ
, i
Lines
Forming' Three
to Crush Him.
Mahf r Knocked Out
O'Dunnell lu Hhort Order
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HOW 1UH, ACU. O. Ill IUU& JUBIi A t i
seconds' time for Peter Maber, the Spaniards
insn pugilist, to again demonstrate
his superiority in ring tactics and bard
bitting qualities over Steve (J'D mnell,
ine Australian Doxer, in the arena or i
the Greater New York Athletio Club OPERATIONS ARE IN MATANZAS
at Coney island today. Both men were j
in excellent condition and trained to
the hour. Eaoh of them was confident,
but Maher'a backers made him a hot
favorite, the odds ranging from 3 to 5
to 1 on the Irishman's cbanoes of win
ning. O'Donnell was the first to enter the
ring. He climbed through the ropes
at 8:30 o'clock, clad in a .gray-colored
bath robe. His seconds were Sam Fitz
Patrick, Billy Madden, Mike Butler,
and Gus Ruhlin, the Canton, O., giant.
When Maher emerged from his dress
ing room five minutes later a cheer
went up whioh shook the building.
As soon as he got into the ring Maher
bowed his acknowledgment for the
warm welcome extended to him, and he
never looked better in his life. He
was escorted by Peter Lowry, of Dub
lin; Peter Burns, of Harlem, his spar-
S i.'!'.r:s:r, ana au Wuiuii, ui i
Brooklyn. Maher weiehed 177 V sneoial to the World nva-
pounds, and O'Donnell 181 pounds It is rumored that General Weyler
The men shook hands at 3
A MOB OF BOHEMIANS.
Weyler Expected to Strike Hard
lilow, So Th lit Spulii Can Call for
Another Loan Cubaus Confident,
Cincinnati. Deo. 38. A special to
the Commercial Tribune from Key
West says:
' Havana advices are that Gomez's
advance guard has captured the town
of Las Passega, in Santa Clara prov
ince, taking the entire garrison and all
the stores. A battalion of fresh troops
was sent from Havana to Matanzas
this morning, to be sent to the front.
Great exertions are being made to get
a strong force to oppose General
Gomez, and three lines are being forced
to get the Cubans entangled between
them and crushed.
Funds Kunnlng Low.
new Iioik, Dec. S8. A Madrid
Keferee Aleck Brown lost no time in
bringing them together.
There was intense silence when the
men put their fists up and Maher
rushed across the ring almost to O'Don
nell's corner. Both sparred for a w
seoonds, and O'Donnell led with his
left for the body. Maher blocked his
blow with his right glove. Peter then
Jabbed his left hard on the chin an ;
landed a heavy left swing on the faoe.
This staggered O'Donnell, and he
seemed to he unable to avoid Mahei'
rushes. Maher sent O'Donnell to the
floor with a hard left on the chin, and
the Australian stayed down 4 seoonds.
As soon as be got to his feet O'Don
nell assumed a defensive attitude, but
Maber quiokly sent his left once more
on tJe chin, and as O'Donnell was fall
ing caught him quickly with a half
hook, knooking the Australian down.
Steve rolled over on his back in a help
less condition, and the referee slowly
oounted him out. The big Irishman
stood about twelve feet away from
his fallen opponent while the referee
was counting off tho seoonds, aud as
soon as the referee tallied ton a tre
mendous shout wont up from 1,800 peo
pie who had watched the brief encoun
ter, and the band played "The Wear
ing of the Green" iu honor of the vio-tor.
the insurgents in order to give time to
discover the disposition of bands and
their ohiefs since the death of Maoeo,
with a view to feeling his way to pre
pare the ground for finishing the pres
ent Cuban war like the past insurrec
tions in Spaiu and Cuba, where official
negotiations proved more telling argu
ments than force of arms, directly the
insurgents saw no more hope of for
eign aid.
It is also believed in diplomatio cir
cles that Spaiu will take advantage of
the disposition of President Cleveland
and Seoretary Oluey to negotiate
quickly and directly with the United
States to secure a neutrality by grant
ing discriminating concessions in the
contemplated Cuban tariff, and fair living in the neighborhood said they
promises of oolonial autouomy before j had been expeotiug something of the
the aooession of McKinley. , kind for a long time, and were only
One of the principal reasons of the j surprised that it did not happen sooner.
upnuisu guvBriimem lor insisting npon
weyier mailing a decisive
Tried to Lyneh a Motorman Who Ran
Down a Boy.
Chicago, Deo. 28 George E. Den
mark, 7 years old, was killed by a
trolley-car at Troop and Eighteenth
streets, this afternoon. Fred bernier,
motorman, was threatened with lynch
ing, for killing the boy, and was with
great difficulty reBcned from the
mob of Bohemians, who. incensed at
the terrible accident, surrounded the
car and dragged Bernier from the plat
form, determined to hang him. Patrick
Hanley, the conduotor, managed to
save Bernier from the mob, and then a
riot call was sent to the Maxwell street
station. The police took charge of the
motorman and oonductor and locked
them up.
After the boy had been killed, Motor
man Bernier took refuge in the oar,
which stood within a few feet of where
the accident occurred, and in an in
stant it was beseiged by angry men.
Ha attempted to keep them out by
latching the doors on the inside, bnt
they broke the doors in, knocked him
down and kioked and beat him for a
few moments in a shocking manner.
He managed, however, to get away
from them, and ran to the door of the
drugstore, where he was handed a pis
tol, and was admitted inside by Mr.
Kvitek, the proprietor, before any
further harm befell him. The orowd
surged around the store and yelled:
"Break it inl Kill him!"
It looked for a minute as if the store
would be raided, but Mr. Kvitek had
made use of the telephone. He called
on the Maxwell station first for an am
bulance, but by that time matters had
got so warm that he requested a patrol
wagon. In a few minutes the wagon
brought a number of officers, who did
all they oould to quiet the mob. When
some degree of quiet had been restored
the polioe arrested the endangered men
and took them to the station. There
the men seemed nuconoerned, and de
clined to make a statement.
There were many versions riven of
the acoident. Well-informed nnnnlp
I
Innirr nnnrnfTfTrl I
A Fire in San Franolacn.
San Frauaisco, Deo. 28. Fire this
afternoon destroyed the plant of
Fran aia, Valentine fc Co., one of the
lariat printing firms in this city.
Tim fire broke out in the basement, nn.
uujiea uy tne Coinnsrcial
Afctnmnt: tn
oiear tue provinces of Pinar del Rio, !
Havana and Matanzas, within a few
weeks, is the urgent necessity for scor-1
ing a military sucoess before Spain has !
once more to appeal to the native and i
foreign markets for fresh loans, when
she shall have exhausted the money j
obtained by the recent interior loan, '
whioh will be iu Maroh of next year. '
At present the minister of the nnl.
i onios disposes of this cash, and Cuban '
j bonds to the value of about $5,000,000 I
j only remain out of the prooeeds of the
j loans. The expenses of the war in i
j Cuba are $12,000,000 monthly, and in i
the Philippines at least $4,000,000. !
Up to the present time, the Snanish
THE. SON'S SACRIFICE.
Power Company, and spread to "the first I "T7 th8 Cuban treaS-
floor, v..JJKaZrl " ?.r.y!by.BU"am.eelu?
-n
I ompuny was wiped out. The upper
floors were ocoupied by Francis, Valun
tine & Co. Their presses, whioh were
insured for $30,000, were slightly
damaged, while the stock and wood
cuts were nearly destroyed. The to
tal loss will probably be under $50,
0(0. Two years Bgo today the same
I n ldlug was burned. The lire wt.
n.ir disastrous, for the Call was
burned out aud the building had to be
reconstructed. Today Peter McCabe,
a fitniian, foil from the two story
building adj doing and was badly hurr.
No bimes were broken, but internal in.
juries are feared.
foreign aud native bankers nnnn (In ha n
bonds, and by pledging the sources of
imperial revenue for the reoent $80,
000,000 loan.
The moment is fast approaohing
when the Spanish parliament and tho
Spanish taxpayers must be asked to
provide, in the shape of additional tax
ation, $20,000,000 annually for the in
terest and sinking fund of $250,000,000
thus far raised, to meet only in part
the expenses of the Cuban war, up to
March, 1897, and whioh the Cuban
budget and the Cuban taxpayers oould
not possibly undertake to pay, even if
the war were soon terminated, con
sidering that their budgets showed de-
neiis, averaging $5,000,000 annually,
- i iieaponrient. 1 l,'K"K tj,vuu,uuu ai
San Francisco, Deo. 28 Desponderl ! bofnre the I)reaent insurrection.
nvu, hu t. .....& . nl....:.. . ...
Milium uuiniu employment,
Simou Hrauer, a German, 22 rears
old, attempted to commit suicide early
this morning by hanging himself
from a timber extending over a tank
wall, at tho old reservoir on Reset-volt
hill He tied one end of a sniull ropo
about tho timber, the other about his
neck aud swung himself off the curb
ing of the well. The rope broke, how
ever, aud he fell fifteen feet to the bot
tom of the well, badly spraining his
Hukle. Having failed in his attempol
to end his life, and becoming frightened
by the intense darkuess that prevailed
iu the well, Brauer began to shout
lustily for holp. He was resoued by
Mrs. Margaret Allman at 7 o'olock.
Rivera Warm Wevlri-.
New York, Deo. 33. Aspeoial from
Key West to the World says:
Stoamship passengers say that Gen
eral Rivera, who is in command of the
army of Maceo, has sent a formal
warning to General Weyler. General
Rivera notified the Spanish captain
general that if he persisted in his
threats to kill paoifloos found in the
country, the Cubans will make reprisals
on all Spaniards whom they may can
ture. General Weyler is affeoting to dis
regard the warning. Those near him
however, say he will not dare to carry
out his ideas as ruthlessly as he intend
ed. His guerillas still have full au
thority to capture or to kill paoifloos in
the oountry and to foroe their families
into the garrisoned towns. As the
troops in mob places have little extra
llenton Wilson Went to Prison to Save
His Father.
' Spokane, Wash., Deo. 28. Benton
Wilson, who went to the penitentiary
for a long term of years for murder,
oame into Spokane last night, and to
day went to Mioa, where his parents
live. He had been unexpectedly par
doned. The circumstances under whioh Wil
son was sent to jail were most peculiar.
Two years ago, some small boys un
earthed the body of a man that was
subsequently identified as that of
James Johnson, brother-in-law of Ben
ton Wilson. The body was found two
miles from the Wilson homestead.
Beuton Wilson and his father were ar
rested and charged with murder. The
father was first placed on trial, and
the case looked black for him. Per
ceiving this, Benton arose and con
fessed to having murdered his brother-in-law.
He said Johnson bad abused
his wife. Wilson's sister; had returned
to the farm and had threatened his
wife, if she did not oome baok to the
city. Wilson said thatheacoompanied
them to a lonely stretch of woods, and,
at an opportune moment, fell npon him
and clubbed him to death. For this
he was sentenoed to a long term of
years in the penitentiary. It is a case
of a son sacrificing his life to save that
of his father.
rb doing to Colorado.
Denver, Deo. 28. A Terre Haute,
Ind., dispatch savs: EoiMnn v rioi,
has promised President Boyce," of the food and The" rSn, n re"
Western Federation nf Mi u. t.t. j 1 . . "u BPHre,
will go to Col Jrdo the firs, of the week the poor oouncry folk Hundreds w'm
to help the Leadville strikers. He will soon be starving. will
speak in Colorado cities, beginning iu General Rivera is moving out of his
Leadville, where a labor demonstra- entrenchments. All indication. nfn,
turn is to be given on hi. arrival, to an important eag meut won P
President Boyce says public opinion is General Weyler has visiteTvarions
till with the strikers and they can hold , points on the trocha and BmS
out indefinitely. President Boyce re- bal. He is always a Jmpanied bv
ceived a letter saying $3,000 had been 1 large force. 7 '
Striler.01" Bntt6' UDt' L " "" daily along the
"tr,ke"- . and on the outskirts of Arte-
I tnisa.
From the Olenmor. . . ... .
Astoria, Or., Deo. 28. - Captain ruJ . u " fon8Qt Santa
Burn.came over from Li P." 5 rcT 7? gr,ilU kD
Wash., today and state, thnt tSe oln. SlJJ K'
morag i. again in a favorable position ' Re" a aero s the l'?
to be floated. Her bow is now pointed was ttLe.T ? 1 Havana'
seaward, aud as soon a. the tides art nL 'II" CM1 agin l-"' nIh alnit""
favorable she can be taken in o deJS 1 L l th8J Sev-
water with the aid of . tug P, 1L hJ T! b.UtDei and 8 ronnl"8
I ognt maintained for two hour.
CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING.
American Arrested for Driving Into
rrohtblted Mexican Territory.
San Diego, Cal., Dao. 28. Harry
Mausur, the American who was arrest
ed several weeks ago by the Mexican
customs officials at Tia Juana for al
leged infraction of the laws governing
the free zone, has been released by the
Eusenada authorities and is again at
hi. home on this side. His release was
obtained through the Intervention of
Hon. Anthony Godbe, Amerioan vice-
"i1a " 9b. bail was stained,
which allowed Mansur to leave the
country.
Mansnr said today that hi. case was
temporarily settled, and he did not ex
peot it to oome np again for six month.
JLm I68'" , Xf 18 Probal8 the cash bail
will be quietly accepted and no further
action taken, especially as Mansnr'.
infraction of the law was slight
Mausur'. wife', family live, at Ro
ario, about two miles south of the
them taking his team and paying no
attention to the law. being an old resi
"ent and acquainted with the officials
But a new administration of the Tia
Juana custom-house, Senor Motavel"
asco, oan8ed Man8nr to e Jf 61
muggling a horse into th Jl
imnnuil . i,
1- - uiii linn nnnn V.;
A Resume of Events in ,
Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GR0)n
New. Gathered In All a, .
Onr N-lunborin, St.,..'
ment N,d in All ,IldlutrM'
A project is on foot in Bm
to have a free readinS.rnmBrWn,,i"
Stockbuyers arepayum t2 hi..
2-vear.old steers, ana
Grant county. "'
Cattle on the range in Graai J
time of the year. '
Empire Cifcv'a tnn,,,
$1,200 town funds, and the oityj
The colored miners at BeaTetB
in Coos onuuty, are organizing, u
supposedly of Masonry.
There nrn nhnnt ,..
nru... . " ' 'Wia
cuuuty, wno pay taIeta
jiruperuy vaiuea at over $5,000
Elgin has shimied im .ij.
grain, stook, wool, lumber and ti..
mo ius( tea months valued at tlOai
Strange as it may seem in midway
me ouuongrass is growing on Btm
oounny s nnis, says the Uanyon Ci
iNews.
Mr. Herriok expects to have ti
wvkuu uu ma uauuarv nn I a u..
a few weeks, to put it in shape font
spring run oi salmon.
S. B. Edson, representine Ea-
Bros., of Gazelle, Cal., who haitw
in jjane county for some time
oattle, will ship about 850 heaa. e'in
carloads, to Gazelle. The cattle a
mostly 8-year-old steers
In answer to a request from the Mil
ton board of trade for a conferera
npon the quesiton of dividing Umatilb
county, the Pendleton chamber olca
merce has written that the
division is one for the people of dV
oounty; bnt that, as an assooiatloo, ii
ib opposen to aivision.
Last summer P. Boler, wholitaii
Springfield preoinot, in Lane count
raised several hundred bushels i!
canary seed, and sold it in Portlaii.
Salem and Eugene. He received l
cents per ponnd for the seed. IU
better than the canary seed raUedii
California and the other states, weigt
ing considerably more to the boshJ
An old couple, while on their hi
to The Dulles last week in a two-hone
hack, were upset in a snowdrift oat
steep grade on Ten-Mile, and mi
rolling down the hill. A young ma
vrant thaiv aaaiafumio fvlflll tnaptthl
horses out of the drift, and the horse
and hack went tumbling after. For
tunately, no one was seriously bin,
. . . i .1.. :.
nor was mucn damage aoue to u n
Harold Parker has returned to Biif
City from Omaha, after an absented
several months. Last spring Mr.
Parker left Huntington with 18,W
sheep, the property of Gutnerie, Fo
& Co.. of Omaha, to be driven otrr-
land to Clarks, a station near tbew
tropoli. of Nebraska. Although ii
took Mr. Parker four months or m
to make the drive, be was eo euooesilil
that he lost bnt ninety sheep.
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A great deal of wheat has been W
in unensburg lately.
TVia nil. Iwiaan.o. nf FflirhAVeB 1
issned a call for warrants numbered
from 97n tn ansn inclusive, inn
upon the general fund, there to!
fund, on hand with which to pay the"
Buckley citizens are now oiroolatinj
a petition for the establishment of i
wavon road from that town to tbi
Summit mines, and pledges of
ance are said to be numerous.
The aggregate value of real propertj
in Kliokitat county in 1896, as
ized by the oounty .board, is 1 , 6 1 8. 60
The population of the county is
and
Failing io pay the fine. mTus ? was'Sl
witn by the higher authorities. Since
tbat,,meiunta.dayor.oagohe
A iteel fly vfheel twenty five feet
wire7ne,it.a,11 reqDirlD
adei,nGermaCnTtrn0tiOn' be8
rni i . . oi nrff
school distriots, with an attendant
2 fiSO nnnilo
The Washington state board of pu
commissioner, for the Columbia i""
. . . .... . i. i nnnrt u
ana bar have .ubmittea men me
the governor of vessels bound in u"
out of the Columbia river from Mf '
1896, to October 5, 1896. It "
that there were siity-f our bound
sixty-one bound ont between these date
Theoityof Ellensburg has ben;
tax lair nf frnir Trillin a vear f 01 Kv
year, to pay the amount of the
ment in the jjorenoe case,
verdiotfor damages against the
wag rendered, because oi u pwv ,k
roanU(nn o AafaMiVA Hide
Tk. 4J - mll to 00fll
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ouyeriuiBHUeuii cbii"i .tf
Louis mine, wa. in Everett tn'f""
day from Silverton. He brought do
fivA noMr hnraoa anrl had tO DlskS then
wim the Stillaguamish river
times. It n nerilous undert1Dl'
for the stream wa. high and i
The company ha. a drilling
ready to put in the mine as soon
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