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VOL. VII.
THE DALLES, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1894.
NO. HQ,
EFFECT ON BUSINESS
nA General TiB-Uj One of the Immediate
Prospects' in St Panl. - -
NOT A TRAIN MOVED SATURDAY
The Knights of Labor Join the Strik
ers, Conducted Personally by
Grand Master Sovereign.
St. Pacl, April 28. A general freight
tie-np is one of the immediate prospects
of the strike. The Great Northern, the
Union Depot company, the Milwaukee
& St. Panl and the Chicago & Great
Western own mostof the yard trackage
in St. Paul. The Great Northern switch
men refuse to turn a switch in the yards.
As a cant-. ..nence, freight trains of the
Omaha and the Burlington, whose busi
ness is bandied by the Great Northern,
are stalled in the yards here. ' The
Northern Pacific, in connection with the
Minneapolis & St. Louis, owns its own
lines between St. Panl and Minneapolis,
and should not be put to serious incon
venience. With the exception of these
roads and the Milwaukee fc St. Paul
and the Chicago & Great Western . the
problem of moving freight is a Eeiiona
one. " 1
Tii Tie-Up Complete.
St. Padl, April 28. No trains moved
on the Great Northern today. -The tie
up of 4,495 miles of track, in a half dozen
states, is complete. The roads , in this
city using the Great Northern tracks for
terminals are allowed to switch with
their own train crews. No regular
switchmen are at work.
The Knights of Labor Take a Band.
Chicago, April 28. The Knights of
Labor will take a hand in the Great
Northern strike. The general executive
board today ordered the men out, and
Grand Master Workman Sovereign left
for St. Paul tonight to give his personal
supervision to the initiation of the
knights' part in the general strike. The
order for the strike announces that, in
the opinion of the board, the cauee of
the American Railway Union is justly
entitled to the support of the Knights of
Labor. Before leaving for St. Paul this
evening, Sovereign said :
"We are going to fight to the end.
The existence of organized labor along
the line of the Great Northern is at
stake.. It has become necessary fur all
labor organizations to join in with the
railway union. I shall go to St; Paul
and Duluth and personally see that our
order is obeyed, and arrange for the care
of the men. I don't know how many
men we have in the employ of the com
pany. Our assemblies include not only
men in the operating departments but
in the offices and shops. They are
scattered along the 4,000 miles of road."
SERIOUS HOTEL FIRE.
The St. Charles, of New Orleans, the
finest In the South, Burned.
New Obxeans, April 28. A fire started
at 11 o'clock tonight in the kitchen of
the St. Charles hotel, on St. Charles,
Gravier and Commerce streets. From
the kitchen it ascended through a back
elevator to the upper stories of the build
ing. The progress of the flames were so
rapid that the Commerce street side of
the third, fourth and fifth stories were
soon in flames and before the occupants,
the guests and servants could be moved.
Everv effort was made to awaken the
occupants, but the flames drove the fire
men and others back. .Several persons
were seen at a window on the fourth
floor, facing on Commerce street, appar
ently in the flames, crying for help.
One of them, a man, sprang from the
window, falling on the pavement on his
head and dashing out his brains. His
clothes were burned, and the body was
black with burns. What became of the
others,' whether they escaped or were
burned to death, it i3 impossible to say,
and will not be known till the rains are
searched tomorrow. The dead man was
burned beyond recognition, and it was
impossible to sy whether he was a
guest or a servant. Ladders were placed
against the windows of t'he lower floors
and several women were taken down.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report"
many of them in a fainting condition.
A man who sprang from a window was
instantly killed. His name and resi
dence are unknown. The flames were
confined to the rear and side, leaving
the front on St. Charles street uninjured,
so the trunks and baggage of the guests
were mostly saved, as well as the goods
in the stores on -St. Charles street. The
hotel had quite a number of guests, how
many cannot be stated. Most of them
were in the front rooms and escaped. '
FINEST THE SOUTH. '
The hotel was built in 1856, at a cost
of $1,000,000, and for years was the finest
in the South. It looks as though it
would be' a! complete loss, although the
front colonade may be saved. The loss
will probably exceed $500,000.
EARTHQUAKES IN ORKECK.
Several Cities Totally Destroyed bj a
Repetition of the Shakes.
Athens, Greece, April 28. Another
earthquake shock last night was felt
throughout the country, including the
islands of Syria and Sante, and immense
damage was done. The shock was felt
with the greatest severity at Thebes and
Atalanta, both of which places were ex
tensively damaged by the last shocks.
Both cities were completely destroyed,
not a single house being left standing.
Incalculable damage was done at half a
dozen other places.
M. Boupides, minister of the interior,
has received advices that in the Lokrist
district alone 300 persons were killed.
Three hundred and thirty-five bodies
have already been recovered. About
300 were injured. The people of Ata
lanta have fled to the hills for safetv.
In this district there was a continuous
series of ehocks. In seven hours and a
half 315 shocks were counted.' When
the earth's movement began and houses
tottered and fell many inhabitants for
got everything except their personal
safety. They ran wildly from the
doomed city and sought a firm standing
place on the hills that rise behind the
town.
Huge masses of rock were detached
from the mountains and hurled with a
thundering crash into the valleys below
Eye witnesses of the scene describe it as
having been an awe-inspiring exhibition
of the mighty forces of nature before
which man was utterly helpless.
NEWS NOTES.
Judge Bradley overruled the motion
of the council for the defendant for a
new trial in the Pollard-Breckinridge
case. Breckinridge's counsel gave notice
that an appeal will be taken.
Coxev and his army has reached
Washington. The general was attired
in a natty spring suit and proposes to
petition congress and hold mass meet
ings within the capitol grounds.
Joseph Skinner, a young man living
at Stephens Point, Wis., was shot and
probably fatally injured last night for
singing "After the Ball," by a neighbor.
The latter claims he thought Skinner
was a tramp, who had previously dis
turbed him.
A party of Admiral da Gama's friends
rescued him from the Portuguese trans
port, on which he was held prisoner,
and started for the shore, i The Portu
guese guards were sound asleep when
the admiral was taken from the trans
port. In attempting to land, the party
was fired at by soldiers of the Uruguayan
government, and Da Gama is now a
prisoner of the government of Uruguay
The democratic senators .who have
been engaged in preparing a tariff com
promise considered the sugar duty and
decided, besides fixing a tariff of 40 per
cent per cent, ad valorem on all sugars
and one-eighth of a cent additional on
refined sugar, to impose a further duty
of one-tenth of a cent on sugar imported
from countries paying a bounty to sugar
producers. The last provision is sup
posed to be aimed at Germany, where a
bounty is paid on beet sugar.
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SOME ODD CUSTOMS.
Similarity of Hawaiian CracM to Those
of the Hebrc'ws. .
The manner of disposing of the dead
in the Hawaiian islands is also in ac
cord with the Hebrew custom, says a
writer in Lippincott's. The body was
embalmed and' covered with a glutin
ous substance or wash, to seal effect
ually the pores of the skin and exclude
all air. The body was then deposited
in the side of a precipice. - The prac
tice of immolating one or more wives
of a chief was carried on to a consider
able extent in the Hawaiian group . in
earlier days. As a manifestation of
love and attachment, the wives of a
chief would voluntarily die, which act
was called moespu, companionship in
sleep. This practice can be traced to
the Vedic Hindoos, the only difference
beinsr.that the wife was immolated on
the funeral pyre. Some stress has
been laid on the peculiar institutions
called cities of refuge, or Pun-honua,
which were found to have obtained
prominence among the Hawaiians, and
which have been quoted as another in
stance of Hebrew influence upon the
customs and cullnre of the islanders.
The cities of refuge, however, were
not peculiar to the Hebrews. They
existed in the time of ancient Greeee.
We read of the temple of Ceres at
Hemione, in Argolis, which was a sim
ilar institution, and there were numer
ous others, both there and elsewhere.
where the Cushite influence had mod
ified the customs and molded the cults
of the people on its own pattern.
Besides the traditions of the Ha
waiians, their practice of incantation
and divination, and man3' peculiar
ities of their lang-uage, show a relation
not only with the Hebrews, but also
with the fire-worshipers of Persia, the
Brahmins and Buddhists of India and
other branches of the Aryan race.
SPLENDID MOTIONS.
An Instance of the- Impresslveness - of
Gesticulation.
Evervone has read of th 'apf Inn
action. ACTION". Of Demnsthonns on1
what a variety of emotions and pas
sions xtoscms couici express by mere
gestures. An anecdote told of Wil
liam C. Preston, of South Carolina, il
lustrates the power of this form of art
in an amusing way.
A, gentleman who was one of an
audience held soellbotmd hv a Knlcn,!;.!
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harangue of Preston's from the stump
one aay noticed beside him., a man
wnom lie knew to be very deaf, but
who seemed to be listening- with
breathless attention, and who appar
entlv causrht everv word that. ftll ft-rvrr.
the orator's lips. Now tears, of delight
roiiea down his checks, and again he
would shout out applause in ungov
ernable ecstasy.
At last, when a particularly splendid
passage had been delivered, with the
effect of raising a storm of applause
from the audience, the deaf man, as if
he could contain himself no long-er,
bawled into the ear of .his neighbor:
"Who's that a-speakin""
"William C. Preston:' shouted the
gentleman at the top of his lungs.
"Who?" roared the deaf man, still
louder than before. , ' . -
"William C. Preston, of South Caro
lina!" roared the centleman in i-pt.iirr.
with an effort which rasped his throat
ior some moments after.
"Well! well!" exclaimed the deaf
man, his face working with excitement.
"It don't make no difference. I can't
hear a word he or yon are sayin', not a
word; but my stars! don't he do the
motions splendid?" " '
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SOLOMON AND HIS FAMILY.
He Was Only a White Aat, But a Genius
In ills Way.
. Solomon was a white rat who lived
in an artist's studio in' New York. He
received his name because of his wis
dom and his solemn face.
Solomon was as trustworthy as a
dog. He refrained from nibbling1 the
curtains add rich stuffs that were scat
tered about the studio, and was most
particular not to . take cheese or rich
cake up on the sofa, where he was al
lowed to play and sleep when his paws
were clean.
Now it so happened that a friend of
Solomon's mistress had some rats a
father and mother and seven children.
One nigrht a stray cat found her way
to their cagft and ate up the old rats.',
Solomon's mistress agreed to adopt
them, and the cage was taken into her
rooms.
Solomon stared, and. then went cau
tiously up to the newcomers. He soon
showed signs of joy at their arrival,
and immediately took the little rats
. under his prof ection. ' He called them
to him and coaxed them to snuggle
down .by his side, as their mother would
have done. , - -
- When they were, allowed to run
about he watched them and taught
them where they might go and where
thoft were not to go," running after any
wild youngster who strayed - behind
screens or meddled with what he ought
not to touch.
Onl y one of the seven orphans turned
out a genius, but all of them became
respectable rats, and a great credit to
Solomon. -
The genius of the family one day
came upon a guitar lying on the sofa,
and, running up to it, made-tbe strings
sound. The music pleased him so
much that after his discovery he fre
quently went in search of the instru
ment and scampered backhand forth
over the strings to his own great de
light and to the auiusement of all who
saw him. -
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