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TEEE DALLES, OREGON, WE DNESD AY, MAY 23, 1894.
NO. 13H
BURNED TO A CRISP
The Girl BeaaHer Brotner HorrMy
Roasted.
MINERAL LANDS TO BE RESTORED
Senators to Be' Elected By Direct Vote
Ladies will Not Decorate Unless
Breckinridge Is Expelled.
McMisnville, May 22. The resi
dence of M. Shadden,oneof the oldest
and most respected citizens in the com
munity, was burned at - midnight.
Mrs. Shadden's 10-year-old daughter
perished in the flames, and Mr. Shad
den's youngest son, a boy of 9, received
fatal iuj-iries. Mrs. Martha Shadden,
SO year? of age, and a pioneer of 1842,
and her Mind son Riley were taken
from the burning bnilding naked. It is
feared the aged woman will not survive
the shock. Mr. and Mrs. Shadden
barely escaped with their lives. It was
the moHt horrible holocaust ever known
in ' this section of the state, and ' the
town is almost in a frenzy of excitement.
The building was said to be the fit res
idence erected in McsMinnville. The
fire was discovered a few minutes after
midnight by a passer-by, who at once
aroused the sleeping family. Mr. Shad
den was first aronsed, and by the time
he had carried his wife into the open
air, the entire bnilding was in flames.
Single-handed he fought them back
while he secured his aged mother and
blind brother. An effort was made to
rescue the boy, who Blept on the second
floor. The poor little fellow was badly
burned, and in his agony jumped into
the street. The parboiled flesh across
his abdomen was burst open, and his
bowels gushed forth. In his suffering
and pain he begged those about him to
kill him. Skilled surgeons did all they
could to relieve his awful sufferings. At
a late hour he is still living, but the sur
geons say his death is a certainty.
The little girl whose life was sacrificed
had evidently attempted . to make her
way out of the building, but was lost in
he awful roar of flames and smoke, and
lay down to meet her fate. She was not
seen after the fire was discovered, and
not until the smouldering ruins were
cleared away were her charred remains
recovered. The lower limbs were burned
entirely away, and the remainder of the
body was burned beyond recognition
The frenzied parents of the children
rushed about the burning building in
awful agony. Friends and kind neigh
bors could scarcely restrain them from
throwing themselves headlong into the
names. . -
DOWN ON BRECKINRIDGE.
He AI ii. t Leave or No Graves Will Be
Decorated.
Lexington, May 22. At a meeting
this afternoon of the Confederate Vet
erans' Association, called to arrange for
decorating the graves of Confederate
veterans on May 26, quite a sensation
was created. Mrs. Sam. Harrison, a
member of the auxiliary, and wives of
other leading citizens, made addresses
and said they would not place a flower
on the grave of a single Confederate un
less the association expelled : Colonel
Breckinridge. The convention adjourned
amid confusion. Officers sav thev can
not expel Breckinridge, and the women
declare they will not take part in the
exercises. - , ,'
Mineral Lands to Be Restored.
Representative Hermann secured an
opinion from the attorney-general which
declares that the president can release
any portion of a forest . reserve.. The
question was raised in. connection with
the Bohemia mining district in the
Cascade reserve. , The land offico. has
-prepared a proclamation, to. be sub
mitted to the president," restoring sev
eral townships in the mineral district.
The president will sign the proclamation
as soon as he returns." '
Election of Senators. .
Washington, May 22. The house
committee on the election of president,
vice president and members of congress
today ordered favorably reported the
bl of Tucker of Virginia, providing for
the election of senators by a direct vote
of the people. - .
Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest XJ S. Gov't Report.
THE SITUATION IN WILLIAHSPOBT.
The Condition is. Indeed,
Somewhat
Pitiable.
Wixijamsport, May 21. As night ap
proached... and darkness settled down
the terrors of the flood increased. The
torrents rushing, down from the hill
sides and growing each passing minute,
assumed new terrors, and the stricken
people look forward with dread to the
ordeal through which they must pass
before morning. No railroad communi
cation, and with no avenue of tele
graphic or telephone communication,
save the quivering wire over which this
dispatch is speeding ; surrounded on
every hand by the slowly . rising des
troyer, which has already swept away
$1,000,000 worth of property and may
sweep away a million more, the con
dition of Williamsport is, indeed, piti
able. With 33 feet more water in its
channel than is its normal height, the
north branch of the Susquehana threat
ened to engulf the town. Every foot of
ground in the city is under four, feet of
water and most of it is fifteen feet be
neath the surface of the stream. ' Many
families are homeless. Hundreds more
expect to be driven from their houses in
the second stories where they have
found refuge before day, and unless the
flood ceases there is no power on earth
that can avert a greater disaster than
has already come upon this helpless
city. The loss of property cannot be
approximated until the waters recede
and accounts are cast up. The gas and
electric light plants are under water and
the city is without lights. Everyone is
desperate, terror-stricken r.nd discour
aged. " :
AT LBWISBCEG.
The Susquehanna Continues Rising; at
That Point.
Lxwisbueg, Pa., May 21. The sweep'
ing torrent that yesterday bounded over
the banks of the Susquehanna river con
tinues to rise at the rate of eight inches an
hour. In a fyvr hours it will be as high
as it was in 1889, and the heavy rains
that fell yesterday, and that, continued
today, will no doubt swell the deluge at
least four feet higher.' The whole Sus
quebanna valley is inundated, and the
destruction ' and destitution is wide
spread. Lewisburg is situated on high
ground and has not been damaged, with
the exception of some buildings on the
surrounding flats which have been
carried away on the crest of the fearful
current. The water works, gas works
and electric light plant, which are
located along the river, have been
stopped and until the flood recedes the
town will be without water or light of
any kind. On the X.ewiBburg & Tyrone
railroad a number of bridges have been
carried away.' Hundreds of families are
homeless and destitute of provisions,
and with the water rapidly rising, the
night is entered upon with a feeling of
horror. Millions of feet of logs and cut
lumber and buildings of every kind have
swept past here in the river since yester
day. Business has been suspended.
. Artesian Wells for the Northwest.
Washington, May 21. Doolittle of
Washington has introduced a bill to ap
propriate $100,000 for ascertaining the
subterranean water supplies in the
states of Idaho, .Montana, Washington
and Oregon,- lying; east of the Cascade
mountains, and ascertaining the locali
ties at which" artesian wells can profit'
ably be dug. It is proposed to have the
work done by the' geological survey.
The Klamath Reservation Lands.
Washington, , May - 20. Represents
tive Hermann, who has been long work
ing for the allotment of lands of the
Klamath Indian reservation and the
opening - to settlement of the excess
lands, has now secured a presidential
order for allotment, and next week a
special agent will be sent to Oregon to
supervise allotments.
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NEWS NOTES.
The loss by flood at .Williamsport
alone is estimated at $3,000,000. Re
ports from the flooded district indicate
that all danger is past. -
The new cruiser Columbia made 24
knots under forced draft on her trial
trip yesterday. This proves her the
swiftest war vessel in the world. '
Judge Han ford concluded the trial of
the commonwealers at Seattle yesterday.
Of thirty-five arrested,' six were ac
quitted and twenty-nine sentenced to
sixty day 8 in the penitentiary at Mc
Neal's island.
DATE OF THE EXODUS.
It Would. Seem to Lie Somewhere Re-"-'
twees 1430 and 1300 B. C.
' Although the monuments and papyri
give us no direct information upon the
subject of the exodus, they do indirect
ly indicate a certain period within
which it must have taken place, says a
writer in Scribner's Magazine. Thoth
mes III., who was the most powerful
king of that dynasty (the eighteenth)
which finally drove Jthe llyksos in
vaders out " of Egypt and reunited the
whole country under one scepter, ex
tended his conquests as far as Mes
opotamia, overrunning Palestine on
his way. He left lists of the con
quered nations, but does not mention
the Israelites among themr Barneses
II. of the nineteenth dynasty, the
supposed .oppressor, who ., reigned
about two hundred . years later,
also subdued Palestine and . left
lists pf - the conquered . peoples,
but. he, again, does not mention
the Israelites among" them. : .What
is, perhaps, still more important is
that, while the Israelites have left rec
ords of -invasions by Mesopotamians,
Moabites, Canaanits, . Midjianites and
Philistines, they do not mention any in
vasion by the Egyptians, and the con
clusion is that - the Israelites were not
settled on the west side of Jordan till
after the wars waged by Raineses If.
at the . commencement of his reign,
which began not earlier than 1388 B.C.,
or, as some now say, 1260 B. C It has
been attempted to explain this diffi
culty away by suggesting that Rameses
II. kept, close to the seacoast on his
inarch' throng-h "Palestine ami Utl not
strike inland till hti was some distance
to the north of the Israelites, but it is
inconceivable' that he should not have
secured his long line of communica
tions by establishing posts so far in
land that they must have been brought
into contact with the Hebrews if the
latter had at that time been settled in
their own country. The earliest date,
therefore, at which the Egyptian his
tory will permit the exodus to have
taken place, even when full allowance
is made for the time spent by the Jews
in the wilderness and in conquering
Palestine, would seem to be about 1430
B. C, while, if the shorter chronology
be adopted, it could not have . been
much earlier than 1300 B. C.
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"I had been fishing for trout one day
in a North Carolina mountain stream,"
said a sportsman, "and was entirely
unsuccessful. Upon trying to reach
camp, I lost my way and took refuge
for the night in a small cave I acci
dentally discovered. The place was
dry and comfortable, and so I made a
pillow of my coat and soon fell asleep.
The next morning I was awakened by
something pulling at the coat, and,
opening my eyes, I saw - that it was a
cub bear. A few feet distant was a
large bear, sitting on its haunches, and
another cub playing around her. I had
no weapon of any kind, and was com
pletely at the mercy of the animal; but
she was not in the humor to dispose of
me just then. She was watching the
cub as it pulled at my coat, and I was
careful to make no motions that might
be considered hostile. For two hours
we looked at each other in this fash
ion, and then the mother bear ambled
off with her cubs, and you may b sure
I beat a hasty retreat to camp."
Admirers of James Russell Lowell,
uiid particularly Harvard . graduates,
will be tfliid to learn that some unpub
lished fragments of lectures delivered
to students when Lowell was a pro
fessor at Harvard are soon to be
riven to the public. Prof. Charles 13.'
Norton, to whom Lowell willed all his
manuscripts, has offered them to the
Harvard Crimson for publication. They
will be issued as supplements of that
paper for about six numbers, appear
ing at intervals of one week.
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close your geography and tell us what
a bluff is." Johnny "Oh, it's what to
try when you don't have no lnek."
Xotlce. . ,
All city warrants -registered prior to
December 3, 1891, are now due and pay
able at my office. Interest ceases after
this date. 1. 1. Burget, City Treas.
Dated Dalles City, May 15, 1894.
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have said: '
"I am so glad 'to meet you. I have
been hearing you spoken of so much as
the pretty Miss Legation, the. clever
Miss Legation. Do tell me which is
the pretty one and which the clever
one." " .
Again, to a famous army officer and
his wife, who were telling' her how
much they had enjoyed her . dinner
party, she cheerily said:'
"I thought you would like to meet
some nice people."
Being presented to a plainly dressed
woman, whose name she did not
catch, she said, in the course of - con
versation; that ' Washington was a
delightful city for people in moderate
circumstances. ' .
"There are so - many pretty little
houses, such as you, madam, might
find suitable," . she said, addressing,
unwittingly, one of the richest of the
old residents, whose house on Lafay
ette square is almost historic, and
who had the tact and kindness not to
set her right.
Perhaps Mrs. Malaprop's most fa
mous speech is of as late -date as last
spring, just before she went abroad.
Coming down to greet a morning caller
in her wrapper, Mrs. . Malaprop said
very sweetly:
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