CD VOL. VI I THE DALLES, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,' 1894 NO. 218 DANGER NOT YET OVER Three Towns Surrounded by Fierce Fires. WOMEN AND CHILDREN SENT AWAY Refugees From Hinckley and Sandstone at Duluth Memorial Meeting to Ite . Held at Fine City. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 5. Reports from the north are to the effect that Carlton, Kerrick and Barnum are in danger. Fierce fires now surround these places, and bo dense is the amoke it is impossible to see across the street. De tails are hard to get, as wires are down. A report was current in this city today that Barnum had been destroyed, but it has been impossible to confirm the re port. The men of Kerrick sent the women and children to West Superior and Duluth for safely, and remained to fight the fire. Subscriptions for the fire sufferers jumped up rapidly today. The first one come from President James J. Hill, of the Great Northern railway, and waa for $5000. Accompanying this was another for $5000 from President Hill's associates in the Great Northern. Altogether the money contributions will aggregate about $25,000. Minneapolis has already raised $12,000, and is rapidly increasing the amount, and Duluth has a fund of $10,000. Cholera In Xnls Country. Cumberland, Md., Sept. 5. John P. Walther was taken from an emigrant train today, suffering with what ap peared to be a well developed case of cholera. He was isolated in a house ' outside the city limits and the other occupants of the car were locked in the coach and forwarded to Pittsburg. The nnfortunate man died in great agony ' this evening. Walther and his fellow passengers arrived at New York yester day, in the North German I-loyd steam ship Elbe, from Brenen. One of the passengers says that Walther was at tacked with severe pains and vomiting two days before the vessel arrived, but that the ships surgeon gave him medi cine which braced him up sufficiently to pass inspection at New York. The au thorities telegraphed the Pittsburg offi cials to intercept and quarantine the car. City Health Officer Duke and Dr. Ohr, who has been through an epidemic of cholera, are positive that Walther's was a bone fide case of cholera, but are un decided as to wheteber it was a sporadic case or of Asiatic nature.' There is great excitement in Cumberland tonight over tbe discovery. Nevada Silver Party's Ticket. Carson, Nev., Sept. 5. At the open ing of the silver party's state conven tion today, the announcement that Sen ator Jones had withdrawn from tbe republican party was greeted with ap plause. The convention unanimously nominated F. G. Newlands for congress. The platform adopted denies the right of the government to restrict the coin age of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 ; demands the abolition of national banks, the collection of the Pacific rail road debt, and the government owner ship of telegraph and railroads. Destitute People of Hinckley. Duluth, Sept. 5. There are over 1000 destitute refugees from Hinckley and Sandstone fires now in Duluth.- Over $8000 has been raised for relief and food. Clothing and lumber are being donated liberally. The relief society yesterday slant 100 unfortunates to friends and rela tives in other cities. One sad feature of .the catastrophe is the large number of rvattle, horses, sheep and hogs, as well as fowls, that miraculously escaped the flames, and are now slowly dying from hunger. . : A Freight Train Barned. Arcadia, Wis., Sept. 5. A west bound freight on the Green Bay road, running twenty-five miles an hour, ran into a burning bridge near here, which gave way. The engine and seventeen cars were wrecked. Fire communicated to the cars immediately and soon the whole was a heap of ashes. A large number of sheep, hogs and cattle were burned to a crisp. Highest of all in Leavening u Shipwrecked Kxearslonists. North Sydney, B. C, Sept. 5. The schooner Bigel, of Gloucester, Mass., Captain G. W. Dixon, arrived here to day,having on board the crew and pas sengers of the steamer Miranda, which left New York July 7th, with Dr. Cook's Arctic excursion. All the parties are well. August 9th the Miranda struck a rock near Sukkertoppen, West Green land, and was abandoned in a sinking condition August 23d in Davis strait, latitude about 61 degrees, 15 main. ; lon gitude 58 deg., 40 min. A Ulg Republican Majority. Buhlington", Vt., Sept. 5. Returns from the election thus far received show a probable majority for the state ticket of 30,000. Whitx River, Vt., Sept. 5. The gu bernatorial vote is being reported slowly. Returns from 185 towns and cities give Woodbury, (republican) 35,289; Smith, (dem.) 11,810; McGinnis (pop.) 549; scattering, 303. Woodbury's plurality in these towns is 23,479; majority over all, 22,627. No ITear For Dubois. Wasaingtos, Sept. 5. Senator Du bois, of Idaho, would not be questioned today concerning the action of Senator Jones of Nevada, in leaving the repub lican party, except fo say that any re ports concerning a similar move on his part had no foundation. He leaves for tho West tonight. He regretted the action of Senator Jones and expressed the belief that silver interests would be beet eubserved by remaining in the re publican party. Arkansas Returns still Incomplete. .Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 5. Incom plete returns from the state elections in dicate that Clarke's majority will reach 30,000. The democrats elected state and county tickets in all except Nevada, Pike, Green, Osborne and Stone coun ties, in which the populists have major ities. - Cholera In Kurope. Vienna, Sept. 5. From August 27 to September 3, there were 801 deaths from cholera in Galicia and Bukowina. Since the disease became epidemic there have been 6958 cases of cholera, and 3,000 deaths in these provinces. Two Sailors Picked Up. Queens-town, Sept. 5. The steamer Ohio, from Philadelphia f&r Liverpool, arrived here with two sailors picked np from a lifeboat belonging to a French ship supposed to be lost. Pour Men Shot. - Baltimore, Sept. 5. At a political meeting at Wayne, W. Va., last night, a fight occurred between Camden and anti Camden adherents, in which four" men were shot, one fatally. ' Cholera in Germany. Berlin, Sept. 5. The Imperial board reports that throughout Germany from August 27 to Sept. 3, inclusive, there were 53 cases, and 21, deaths from cholera. La Grippe. 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Give it a trial and you will be surprised at the prompt relief it affords. 25 and 50 cent bottles. for sale by Blakeley & Houghton Druggists. . ' . Feed wheat for sale cheap at Wasco Warehouse. tf. Subscribe for The Chronicle. Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report nrv FUNNY WAYS OF MEN. A. Woman, on Bchair of Her Sex, Asks Some Unanswerable Questions. The little peculiarities of women are a fruitful topic with some masculine writers. They .continually rush into print with such questions : as: Why does a woman always want to know if her hat is on straight? Why does she keep you waiting- ten minutes after she's declared she's all ready? Why does she this, that and the other? Here's a counter blast from a woman writer in the New York Journal. Why does a man always have lengthened and often profane interviews with his collar button? It looks like an inoffensive sort of an article to an outsider. Why . does he rush through his dressing- and throw everything- all over the room, because he's in such a hurry he "knows he'll be late" and then spend a good five minutes filling and lig-hting- his pipe? Why does he never "put together and fold up a news paper? Why, when a pretty girl praises another man's "charming- man ners," does he say the girl is "soft?" Why does he declare that handsome and popular young actors are "sticks?" Why can he never, by any possibility, find anything he is sent to look for in closet or drawer? Why is his headache or toothache so much worse than any body else's ever was? Why is it always his liver that does not work, instead of the Welsh rarebit and mince pie that have worked? Why will he go out after a rain without overshoes and then preach about the vanity of women? Why does it rain too hard to go to church, but not too hard to go to a din ner or theater or club on any succeed ing stormy day? Why does he suppose, when he notes women's "funny ways," that women are not at the- same time noticing his own funny ways?. BLEACHING DIAMONDS. Trick by Which South Afriean Dealers Deceive Patrons. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa led indirectly to some clever de ceit by the dealers, says the Pall Mall Gazette. Many of the South African diamonds have a straw tjnt, which has an unfavorable effect on their price, especially as experts believe it will be come more decided the longer the stones are u exposed to the air. Some of the more knowing dealers discov ered that by subjecting the straw tinted diamonds to a bath of certain acids the objectionable color, was. re; moved and the gems become pure white. A number of diamonds . so treated were sold in Paris and Berlin, and brought higher prices than they would if they had retained their origi nal color. After exposure to the action of the air for a certain time the original color returns, but by that time they have passed out of the dealer's hands. The fraud was soon found out by the trade, and they now guard against imposi tions of such a cnaracter bv means of various tests. Of these the. most gen erally used are the hot wator bath or friction. If a dyed stone be left in hot water a few minutes it resumes it;, or iginal hue; or, if the gem be rubbed sharply on a towel, or even on the coat sleeve, its normal color can be de tected. These tests are simple and efficacious and are in daily use. AN EGYPTIAN CUSTOM. It Mystified Herodotus. But Modern Inves ' ligation Fully Explains It. More than one thousand years ago Herodotus observed a remarkable cus tom in Egypt,' says. Prof.' Drummond. 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