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NU 1 lOKJ fJOTIO'U VO'jk'l, PoriO'Jif.r !" I " f';7i'"j' ''.c, . -v'ut ) ini'v-'-on. Any - ' ' (I . . I. urir VOL. Ill ASTOUIA, OKKGON, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1900. 10. 113 r i MS WE ARE SELLING AGENTS IN ASTORIA FOR BRIDGE, BEACH S CO.'b COLE Hot Blast Heater for Coal MFG. Dome Top Heater for Wood CO.'h Russia Iron Heater tor Wood Wo also imuiufucluro a Hindu Iron Queen IIcnttT for WocmI. TIicso compme tho Wt line of stoves in thu utiito. We null no wcond-cliuw etoves. An in fection of our line of stove will ny you. ECLIPSE HARDWARE CO. CHRISTMAS GOODS In EndlcMH Variety Books, Albums, Celluloid Novelties, Leather Goods, Medallions, Ink Stands, Gold Pens.-. n WATERMAN'S FOUNTAIN PENS GRIFFIN A FEW SPECIALTIES Fancy Navel Oranges. Lemons. Apples, Bananas, Gordon DI1 worth's New York Mince Meat, Chase & Sanborn's High Grade Tea and Coffee. Eastern Crab Apple Sweet Cider, New Nuts and Raisins of Every Variety. TRY MALTED MUSH FOR BREAKFAST- ROSS, HIGGINS & CO. JUST RECEIVED... GENUINE GEORGE'S FINDON HADDOCK Foard 8 Stokes A LONG ROW W. J. Scully, 431 BOND STREET, Bttfctea Ninth aid Tenth Streets c. Commission, Brokerage, Insurance and Shipping. J. TRENCHAR Superior Stool Ranges Sylph Heater Olio Heater & REED Norway Stockfish Norway Mackerel Norway Herring ' CODFISH KIPPERED HERRING Company... Of our now and up-to-date Air tight Heaters are still on hand. Wo figurod on considerable cold weather1 and purchased an un usual quantity; but tho weather has moderatod, consequently Bales have been slow. We are over stocked and must have tho room. From now on these splendid heat ing stoves will bo sold at a reduc tion of 20 per cent FOR CASH. D, Custom Mouse Broker : : ASTOniAj CnE. Aftat W. P. A Co, and raclllo Kxpress Co I. FATAL WRECK ON GREAT NORTHERN Five Passengers Killed and Many Injured. NEAR BROCKTON, MONTANA While Trail Wn M.klnf Feit Time Truck Broke li Pisslag Switch sad Four Can Were Pllcbcel Over Eabsskacot. M'TTE, Mont.. Dw. 12.-A special from Great Falls to th- Miner says: Great Northern piMH-tiKi-r train No. 3, wrHttuii(, was wrecked about 4 o'clock th lit illuming near lirM-klon, thirty-one mllf east of (iluKtfow. Five passcn Ken are r-tortt'l killed and many In' Jured. 1 lie I ruin wag running about 43 mile un hour, muklnic up it time, when a Iti'ik broke down while pHitalng twitch. The nvlrxe- and thrw? cars iiutcd over In mif'-iy but the next four cart pitched over an embiinkmrnt. Tlirvi. ilr H-rn remained on the rolla, The (li'iid are: Aged woman, name unknown; her duuKhtcr; Mr. Watson rinld-iicv unknown, thrown through e window, kIhm severing Jut Jugular vrin. liUKHiun child, nonw unknown. The lio.jU't have Wen taken tu Cilua kow, where Inquests will be held to morrow. TWO HUNDRED DROWNED. tmiiK-niMf Ia,k$ 4f Uf and l'rorty by Typhoon at Hong Kong and Vicinity. VICTOrtlA. n. C. Dec. 12.-The itrainiT Kmprvsa of India, which arriv ed today after a atormy passage, brought n'wt of a grva-t typhoon which ravage) Hong Kong on November 10, causing heavy loss of life and ihlp- I'lnn. The nrltlrh nunbofti SundplrH-r foun drcd and n of her aeaiwn were lout, The American aiilp Dnjajnln wull went a'hore and In all aeventy- aeven tteam launches were wrecked and out 200 natlvea drowrx-d. At Kowloon and other MU there nua alto very heavy Ib. At duyllKht the powerful dred(fr, Canton Itlver. altnual without any warnlnK. Ilnted to l"rt and caimlaed. Thoe on board at the time numbered about fifty, all but twelve betnir drowned. COMPANY HAS WON. Santa Fe Has Secured Op-ratora and It Not Dltturbed hy the Strike. OAl.VESTON. Dec. U-Cencral Man- tKr Tolk of the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe railroad tonight announced that the telegraphers' strike la cloud a far at the company H concerned. COMPANY rtETCDlATES O. R. T. TOrEKA. Dec. 12. The Santa Fe rullwHy hat repudiated lta relation! with the Order of Iluilway Telegraph er. All courttalo prevalent between the road and operator have been re voked. We will have nothing further to do with an organisation that has proved Ittelf Incompetent, that broke Us con tract to itlve ut thirty day' notice and gave u but SO seconds." said General Malinger Mudge today. ''That la not aylng that recognisance will be denied the O. R. T. permanently or under competent management." STILL SEVEN TEAMS. Fourteen Hundred Miles Mode by the Cyclist In Thre Days. NEW YORK. Dec. 13L With over 1400 miles clicked off In the aix day bl- tycle race which ends Saturday, seven team were Kill represented on the track at midnight. NEW YORK'S VOTE. Only Four Counties Gave Bryan Majority. NEW YORK. Dec. 12.-The state board of canvoters met today and can- SPECIAL FOR A NEW Mantel Folding Beds JUST RECEIVED Ladles Dressing Table In Golden Oak, Mahogany and Birds' Eye Maple IRON BEDSTEADS, FULL BRASS TOP. $6.50 CHARLES HEILB0RN & SON vanned the state vot. Only four of the sixty-one counties catt s majority of vote for Hryan. Th"y were New York, Queen, rtlchmond and flihoha lie. The M. Klntey plurality In the state It WZ.M. TO IMPROVE WHITE JIOL'SH. KxtcriNlve PI, urn Exhibited by Superin tendent of Public liulldlne. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Colonel Illngham, V. 8. A., Uier1ntendent of public building and grounds, today ex hlblted his model of the proposed en larirement of the executive mansion and explained It details. Of all the record he had been able to find of K prpted extentlon, that prepared undr the supervision of the late Mrs, Harrison came nearest, he nld, to fulfilling certain guiding prln clple) contldered as neemary to be followed. Mrs. Harrison's plan, he said, con tltted. In a word, of buildings about the tlxe of the present house, one on the eatt side and one on '.he west of the White Houte grinds, connected to tho present mantlon by curved wings, the quudrungle being completed by rebuild Inc the con?rvatoris at the south end of the ground. This plan leaves the preitent murmlon unchaiiKJ. The ettlmate on the extensions pro bably will amount to $1,100,000, Includ ing partial furnlnhlng. I.AKEVIEW STAGE ROBBERY. lAine Highwaymen Rlf1d Mull Sacks and Escaped. LAKEVIEW. Orv.. Dec, 12. Th? Ijikvvlew stage was robbed last night at S o'clock about two miles from this city. A lone highwayman accomplUlied the Job. No pana-tigvrs wyre aboard the stage. Two mall sacks were rifted and a con- t'derable m unt of regUterBd mall tak- en. Ofllcer are now working on the caae. WESTERN UNION EARNINGS. Amounts to One arid a Half Millions for the Quarter. NEW YORK. Dec. 12. The Western Union Tek'graph Company reports that for the ouarter ending December 31. the ret earnings will be about I1.&00.000. The dividend of W per cent, which was declared today, calls for the pay. ment of $1,217,000. GERMAN CONSUL IN CHARGE. Will Tako Cure at Dutch Consulate at Lourenco Marques. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 12.-At the re- (jue-u of the Netherlands, Germany has telegraphed to the German consul at Lourenco Marriues to take care of the Nctl,-rlinds In the absence of the Dutch consul from that port. 8TEAMER TO BE RETURNED. Colombian Government Will Give Back British Steamer Taboga. COLON, Dec. 12.-Govemor Alban. who returned to the city of Panama today, will hand back uninjured to her owiters the British steamer Taboga, which was oedxed last month by the Colombian government. TUNNEL COMPLETED. First Train Will Be Run Through on Sunday Next. SEATTLE, Dec.12.-The first train will he run through the new Great Northern tunnel In the Cascade mountains next Sunday. The tunnel Is 13,200 feet long and the thickness of the roof at Us thickest place Is 6300 feet. WILL OF SENATOR DAVIS. Entire Estate, Valued at $$5,00. Goes to His Wife. ST. PAUL. Dec. 12.-The will of the lat Senator Davla, who died Novem ber 27, was riled for probate today. The 111 leaves all his estate to Mrs. Davis. The estate Is valued at $25,000 In per sonal and $40,000 in real property , FIGHTERS WILL BE ARRESTED. CHICAGO. Dec. 12.-Warrants will b served at the ringside In Tattersails tomorrow evening on the principals and promoter of the McGovern-Oans fight. THIS WEEK LINE OF DE WET ELUDES GENERAL KNOX Not to Be Captured as Easily as Kitchener Expected. PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES WAR CbsiiMllor of lbs Eickqtier Prom Iks Tba1 Cestltftrsbl Pirt ( Ike Eipeas Shall Be Pile sy Tixls( fbe TraiivuL LONDON, Dec. 12. Lord Kitchener rabies the war office from Pretoria un der date of December 12th. thai Gen. eral Knox reports from Helvetia that he Is engaged In a running fight with General De Wet, and that the enemy moving towards Reddcrsburg, wh' re there Is a column ready to co-operate Ith the other British forces. Lord Kitchener In another dispatch reports that Boers attacked the post near Biwberton. The British casualties ere three killed, five wounded and 13 taken prisoners. The captured men have since been released. The Boers raided the Illverton road station December 11. They are being followed up. General Kitchener's mensage Indicates that De Wet has again evaded Knox. A'ter the latter had foiled the Boer general at Coomaasie drift, the Boers seem to have doubled back, crossed the Caledon river elsewhere, and turned thence northwest in the direction of Reddersburg, the memorable scene of the British disaster In April, when Wet captured the British rifles. BOERS MUST PAT FOR THE WAR. LONDON, Dec. lt-Csnslderabtfe ir ritation was aroused during today's de bate In the house of commons on sup ply. Sir Robert T. Reld. Q. C. Lib eral member for Dumfrtesburgh. paint ed a gloomy picture of the conditions In South Africa. He said that after four teen month of war, costing 3,000,000 per month, anarchy was prevailing and famine threatened, and this may be followed by a native uprising. An at tempt to place the colonic under mil itary rule, he said, would Imperil the very existence of the omplre. He thsught the time bad arrived for of fering the Boers terms not Inconsist ent with British dominion. All Ideas of unconditional surrender should be dis carded. James Bryce. Liberal, followed on similar lines. Ha suggested granting general amnesty to the Boers now In arms as legitimate combatants. The negotiations, Mr. Bryce also said, should not be entrusted to Sir Alfred Milner, who was the object of almost universal distrust. Including at least half the Queen's subjects in South Africa. Mr. Broderlck. the secretary for war. hotly challenged Mr. Bryce's statements regarding Sir Alfred Milner. Sir Rob ert Reid's speech. Mr. Broderlck assert ed, was Impracticable, unwise and mis chfevou. The government was perfect ly willing to offer terms for surrender, so long as they could not be interpreted as proof of wjuknees, and thereby cavse a prolongation of the iruerrllla warfare. After further recriminations the report of the supply was agreed to. During subsequent discussion In the committee of ways and means, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Mich ael Hicks-Beach, promised that a con siderable proportion of the cost of the war would be obtained from the Trans vaal. He admitted that a treasury committee was about to proceed to the Transvaal to ascertain Its assets and their taxable capacity. Sir David Bar bour, continued the chancellor of the exchequer, had been selected for this task. The resolution was then agreed to and the house adjourned. Sir David Miller Barbour. K. C. M. G., who has been named as a treasury com missioner to proceed to the Transvaal to ascertain the taxable value of prop erty there, was a member of the coun cil of the governor-general of India, 1877-1S9S, was royal commissioner to In quire Into the conditions and prospects of sugar-growing colonies, ISM, and lat terly commissioner to Inquire into the finances of Jamaica. DIED IN A SWAMP. Pathetic Career and End of a Confed erate Brigadier-General. NEW YORK. Dec. 12.-The body of the Confederate Brigadier-General Her man Bins has been found in Black wamp, four miles from Morrlstown, N. He was known as the hermit of Wancng r.ountaln. For thirty years Bins had lived a solitary life on the side of Succassunna mountain. He had little to do with any one and his retreat was far re moved from the nearest house. His cabin was found In ashes by those who went to it after the body had been iJentified. Bins made his appearand cn the mourtaln In 1865. When he first came be wore a giey uniform and on It were the ftars of a brlgadler.g-n-eral. Ten years after Bins settled on the mountain, hU life story came out thrnuKh no fault of his. William Beck er, a veteran of the union army, who had occarion to visit Atlanta in la7, commantea an Investigation and found from the confederate rexrts that Her nan Bins had enlisted as a minor oftlcr soon Lfier Sumpfr was flred up on. He lose rapidly and at the close of tl.e war had the rxnk of brlgadler-gvn-era I. At the outbreak of war Bins was a well-to-do planter In middle Georgia. While he was In the army his two children died. When Sherman marched to the sea cutting a gap through Geor gia and leaving desolation behind, Bins' home was ere of the places of which nothing remained hut ashes. Mrs. Bins had fled be'or the arrival of Sherman and Joined tht refugee. Exposure! and hardship brought her to her death. When he returned to his plantation he fcund the ashes of his home, the grave of his children and near them the grave of his wife, whom faithful slaves had carried to the plantation and buried. General Bins at once left and. until Mr. Decker Informed them, his friends did not know what had become of him. No one knows how he came to his death.. AFRAID OF AMERICA South American Republics Reported to Be Forming a Defensive Alliance. NEW YORK. Dec. 12. A dispatch to the Herald from San Juan, Porto Rico, says: It is reported here that the republics of South America are negotiating an al liance, having been prompted to do so by the fear that American Influence will become paramount in the western hem isphere. The movement is said to be the outgrowth of the Ibero-Amerlcan congress recently held in Madrid. The executive council has decided that franchise matters hereafter will be considered In secret session. This decision has occasioned much adverse comment. CHICAGO BANDIT KILLED. Plucky Defense of His Five Years' Sav ings by a Motorman. CHICAGO. Dec. 12. -By throwing his back against a wall and opening Are with a revolver, John Conroy last night kept Ave years of his savings from thieves. He was attacked by three men and when he ceased firing one of the men who had assailed him was ly ing In front of him fatally wounded. Preparatory to leaving the city Con roy, who was a street car motorman, had withdrawn his savings, amounting to nearly live hundred dollars, from the bank and was on his way home when attacked. PASSENGER RATES REDUCED. TACOMA, Dec. 12. The Northern Pa cific has decided to reduce the passen ger rates in Montana from four cents to three cents per mile. The change will go Into effect early next month. JURY STILL UNDECIDED. ELDORADO. Kas.. Dec. 12. At 10 O'clock tonight Judge Splnn again sent the Morrison Jury to bed. directing them to resume their deliberations ou the case ,t 8:S0 o'clock In the morning. MEMBERSHIP BROUGHT $47,500. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. A membership In the New York; stock exchange was jold today for $47,500 to John H. Mc Cullogh. WHEAT MARKET. PORTLAND. Dec. 12. Wheat. Walla Walla. 5454tf; bluestem. 57. CHICAGO. Dec 13. Wheat, May, opening, 7373): closing. 737474. LIVERPOOL, March, 6s. Mi. Dec. 11 Wheat. ASK w 1 "Charles Carrcll" - ICc "General Seed" - - 5c CIGARS . TWO UN EQUALED SMOKES X ALLEN & 3 Distributors, CELEBRATION AT NATIONAL CAPITAL Brilliant Military Parade and Imposing Indoor Exercises. MILES THROWN FROM HORSE Oae Kuadredth Aaalverfarr of the Establish' nest sf the Sest ! the Federal Ooveinmeat Is the City sf Wsihlnxtoe. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-With Im posing ceremonies the national capital today celebrated the centennial anni versary of the founjing of the fat of the federal government in Washington. The exercise included a brilliant mil itary parade, review by the president from the east front of the capItol and orations in the hall of the house of representatives where a brilliant audi ence was as;mbled. After the parade came the Imposing exercises In the hall of the house, where was gath.'red as distinguished 3 company as its walls had ever held. On the floor were the president and members of the cabinet;, members of the senate and the hous; ambassa dors and ministers of foreign countries, in full court uniform; the chief Jus tices of the supreme court. In thtlr Ju dicial robes; Lieutenant-General Milt, and many distinguished officers of tfcs army and navy who had received tbs thanks of congress; the governors of more than half the states of the un ion and commissioners of the dlHtrict of Columbia, while the galleries were resplendent w Ith the wealth and culture of the national capital. As a specta cle nothing could have been more In spiring or impressive. The ceremonies at the caplto) In cluded addresses by Senator Daniels, of Virginia, and McComas, of Mary. land; Representatives Payne, of New York, and Richardson, of Tennessee, and a notable historic oration by Sen ator Hoar, of Massachusetts. , Oeneral Miles was thrown from his hers? today at' the head of the centen nial parade. He had reached the re viewing stand In front of the capitot when his hor reared and fell back. The general was not hurt. JUNTA LOCATED. Government Finds One at Portuguese Settlement of Macao. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The British, government having formally notified, this government that it has been un able to locate the reported Philippine Junta In Hong Kong, our government agents have been put to work to as certain where munitions of war and other supplies which reached the in surgent Filipinos originated. aw una II urrii uiscuvricu uiai uiv Portuguese settlement of Macao, locat ed on the Chinese coast and conven ient to the Philippines, Is one of the points of insurgent activity and prob ably the abiding place of one of the rnmppine juntas. VICTORY FOR TRUSTS. Illinois Anti-Trust Law Dx-lared Un constitutional. CHICAGO. Dec. 12. By a decision of Judges Turley, Dunne and Waterman of the circuit court today, section i 1, of the anti-trust law 'of Illinois, which, defines what constitutes a trust or com bination in restraint of trade Is de clared unconstitutional. The decision Is regarded as a dis tinct victory for the corporations and is looked upon as nullifying the anti trust law of the ttate In Its most vital part. FOR LEWIS, Portland, Oregon J