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VOL. VII
THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, '1894.
NO. 276
A DELIBERATE SUICIDE
Set Her Clothing on Fire and
Burned to Heath.
GAVE NO CAUSE FOR THE RASH ACT
Train llobbera Sighted Vrleat'a Mur
derer ConfessesDead Robber
Ball Flayera Robbed.
vBeebk, Ark.. 2fov. 12. The wife of T.
K. Breckinridge got np yesterday morn
ing, took a bunch of newspapers, set
them on fire, and walking out into the
back yard, deliberately set her clothing
on fire and burned herself to death. She
gave no cause for her rash act. The
family had recently come to Arkansas
from Travis county, Texas.
Severe Floods In England.
London, Nov 13. Much damage has
been done in the flooded district and
some lives have been lost. Passengers
. who crossed the channel during the
storm described the voyage as ah awful
experience. In Dorsetshire and Somer
setshire the heaviest floods in years have
been experienced, and at Bath, Somer
set, the water was breast high in many
of the streets. In other places the peo
ple were so alarmed by the rising waters
that they sought refuge in the attics or
upon high ground. People had to be
rescued by boats from the windows of
the upper stories of houses.' '.Others
were fed by boats the same way. Re
cent gales . are reported all along the
coasts and throughout France.
Mrs. Barnes Still Confessing;.
San Bernardino, Cal., Nov. 13. Mrs.
Mary Barnes, accused with ' Thomas
Salter of attempting to poison her hus
band, is still supplementing her confes
sions. Unable to sleep Friday night,
- she arose at midnight and in the quiet
of her cell she wrote till morning, giving
a fall history of the case, admitting that
larnes was being poisoned by arsenic,
she also says that Salter wanted to shoot
him, but she refused to allow it. This
confession is now in the possession of
the district attorney. Salter refuses to
say anything in regard to his connection
with the crime or the confessions of Mrs.
Barnes. '
A. Severe Snow Storm Rasing;.
St. Peteksbukg, Nov. 13, The body
of the late czar arrived at 10 o'clock this
.. morning. Preceding the ceremony of
removing the body from Nicholas sta
tion to the fortress, three guns were
fired. The procession, owing to a heavy
snow storm, had to move through deep
slush.
' In a proclamation to the people of Fin
land, the Russian emperor says he will
. maintain the religion' and fundamental
law of the country, and the rights and
privileges of every class.
The czar has appointed the Prince of
Wales honorary colonel of the Kieff reg
iment of dragoons.
Bobberl Did Not Get Much.
St. Louis, Nov. 13. -According to re
ports to Superintendent Simpson, of
Wells Fargo Express Company, the sum
total so the booty obtained by the rob
bers' who held up the St. Louis & San
Francisco train, near Monett,'Mo.', was
$215. '. Messenger A. MV Chapman is a
brother of the messenger killed in de
fenseof his car a year or two ago". He
was himself also held up at Red Fork, I.
T., last June, but saved all the money
he bad.
, The, Dead Bank Robber. '-
Sauna, JKan., Nov. 13. The - bank
robber shot here yesterday by his pals,
after he had been grieviously wounded
by the cashier of the bank robbed, was
found to have on his person $1,500 booty
A letter was also found upon him ad
4 dressed to Stephen McKee, 902 Hickory
street, St. Joseph, Mo.' The gang is sup
posed to have been the ' same which
robbed the Fort Scott bank in Septem
ber. Their haunts are in (he Blue hills
of O9borne county.
Two Boj Murderers.
Lakned, Kan., Nov. 13. Harvey and
Arnold, aged 17. and 19, murderers of
Mayor Marsh, of Kinsleypleaded guilty
today of murder in the first degree. The
sentence imposed by. Judge Vandivert
was imprisonment in the penitentiary
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
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until the governor shall decide they will
be, hanged. The boys were taken on
the '9 o'clock tram for Leavenworth by
Sheriff Heath, but not until a mob had
gathered and threatened lynching. i
Football Flayers Robbed.
Amherst, Mass.,' Nov. 13. While
Dartmouth and Amherst were playing
football on Pratt field, Saturday, sneak
thieves were at work in the dressing
rooms where the players had left their
clothing. Thomas, substitute end on
the Amherst team, was robbed of a
diamond ring valued at $125 and $180 in
money. Tyler, . right tackle, also an
Amherst man, lost a ring. Several rob
beries occurred about' town during the
afternoon. ' ; :
The Chinese Loues. v
Hiroshima, Nov. 13. Field Marshal
Yamagata's , report, dated Kiu-Lien-Chang,
November 10th,'eays there are
no Chinese troops in that vicinity. He
adds the losses of the Chinese in that
neighborhood are not fully known, but
the bodies of over 500 Chinese soldiers
have been buried by the Japanese. A
great number of bodies of Chinese were
found in the Aika river.
A. Japanese Woman Strangled.
Denvee, Nov. 13. Kiku Oyama, a
Japanese girl of ill-repute, was strangled
to death early this morning in a house
on Market street, in the same manner as
Lena Tapper and Marie Contassolt were
recently murdered in the same neighbor
hood. She apparently had been robbed.
There is no clue to the strangler, and ex
citement among the women of that class
is very greats
Firm of Brokers Assign.
New Yobk, Nov. 13. Charles B.
Caldwell and William R. Bunker, com
prising the firm of Caldwell & Banker,
brokers, assigned today to Stephen W.
Knevals, without preference.
Kneyals says the liabilities will not
reach ' $50,000. The failure was caused
by the stringency in the money market.
All the creditors, he says, will be paid
in full.
The" Trans-MlsslssIppl Congress.
Sacramento, Nov. 13. The governor
has appointed the following delegates to
the trans-Mississippi commercial con
gress : W. W. Davis, Santa Rosa ; Gen
eral A. Pippy, San Francisco; David
Lubin, Sacramento; E. S. Heller, San
Francisco; A. 'P. Roach, Watsonville;
William Johnston, Courtland, and
Miles, Los Angeles.
A Warship for Japan.
Valpabaiso, Chili, Nov. 13. The war
ship Esmeralda, which has been pur
chased by Japan from Chili, is in the
drydock here being cleaned. She will
have her trial trip next Thursday, and
will sail for Yokohama next week, call
ing at one port in Eucador on her way.
The captain of ' the Esmeralda is Senor
EmilfoGalin.
Fire at Tallejo, Cal.
Nallejo, Cal., Nov. 13. Fire started
this morning at the Good Templars'
Home in a hay barn containing about 90
tons of hay. The fire is still burning,
and there is no way to put it out on
account of a scarcity of water. No dam
age is apprehended to the other buildings
unless the wind .changes to the north.
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Earthquake In Bolivia.
Lapaz, . Nov. 13. There have been
violent .shocks of earthquake along the
coast of Chili and this country. One
hundred people have' been killed by the
Beismitic disturbances within a radius of
40 miles from this city. The cathedral
here has. been rendered .unsafe and .one
tower was thrown down.
He Murdered a Frlest.
Toulon, Nov. 13. A Frenchman
named Eugene has been arrested,
charged with having murdered and
robbed a priest in a London lodging-
house. He was impersonating the priest
when arrested. The body of the priest
was ' found ' banging to the bedpost.
Eugene has confessed.
Adjourned Till Wednesday.
: .Liverpool, Nov. 13. The argument
upon the order of winding up the affairs
of the Beaver Line Steamship Company,
Canada, was adjourned till Wednesday
in order for the liquidator appointed in
Canada to be represented.
The Storthing elections.
Chkistiana, Norway, Nov. 13.; Re
turns from the ' storthing elections are
complete, except in the case of two
seats. The rights and moderates have
elected 53 members, the lefts 59.
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SWIMS FAST UNDER WATER.
The Clumsy Penguin Blake, as Good Time
an a Bird In the Air.
Naval architects are credited with
saying1 that highest speed in navigation
could be obtained by submarine boats.
The principle is illustrated in the diving-
birds, which are capable of shooting-
througb. the water with amazing
velocity. While these birds live by
catching- fish, in deep water far be
low the surface they present many
differences in outer appearance. In
the collection at the London zoological
gardens are black-footed penguins,
guillemotes, "darters," a puffin and a
cormorant. . The penguin cannot fly in
the air, cannot walk, but hops as if its
leet were tied together, and cannot
swim, and can only with any grace fly
under water. When the keeper of
their quarters appears to feed the birds j
they each behave in their characteris
tic way. The fish thrown into the
water, the penguins instantly 'plung'e
beneath, when an astonishing change
takes place, thus described by a writer
in the Spectator:
The slow, ungainly bird is trans
formed into a swift and beautiful
creature, beaded with globules of
quicksilver where the air clings to the
close feathers, and flying through the
clear and waveless depths with arrowy
speed and powers of turning- far
greater than in any known form of
aerial flight. The rapid and steady
strokes of the wings are exactly sim
ilar to those of the air birds, while the
feet float straight out level with its
body, unused for propulsion or even as
rudders, and as little needed in its
progress as those of a wild duck when
on the wing. The twists and turns
necessary to follow the active little
fish are made wholly by the strokes of
one wing and the cessation of move
ment in the other; and the fish are
chased, caught and swallowed without
the slightest relaxation of speed in a
submarine flight which is quite as
rapid as that of most birds which take
their prey in midair. The head and
shoulders may be brought above the
surface for a second , and then dis
appear; but any attempt to remain on
the surface leads to ludicrous splash
ing and confusion, for the submarine
bird cannot float.
The movements of the cormorant are
quite different. It does not plunge
headlong, but launches itself on the
surface and then "ducks" like a grebe.
Its wings are not used as propellers,
but trail unresistingly level with its
body, and the speed at which it courses
through the water is wholly due to the
swimming powers of its large and ugly
webbed feet. These are set quite at
the end of the body and work inces
santly like a treadle or the floats of a
stern wheel steamer. .Yet the condi
tions of submarine motion are so favor
able that the speed of the bird below
the surface is three or four times
greater than that gained by equally
rapid movements of the feet when it
has risen and is swimming on the top.
The "darters" divers of the African
and American lakes compared to the
survival of some ancient lizard dive
and swim much like the cormorant,
except that the bird keeps its neck
drawn back in the form of a flattened
"s" when in pursuit of the fish. Once
within striking distance the sharp bill
is shot out -as if from a catapult and
the fish is spiked through and carried
to the surface. This ascent is made
after each single capture. Sometimes
tho'bird has great difficulty in disen
tangling' the pierced fish from the
spearlike' beak,' and its companion
adroitly relieves it of the struggling
victim and swallows the prize. .
ANECDOTES OF THE QUEEN.
he Approved of n Trouncing That Was
' :'Ji ' Administered to. Wales. : i
Apropos of the queen's recent sojourn
t Balmoral a north of Scotland news
aper has been gleaning from among
he Dooside peasantry some new stories
.bout her majesty's early visits to her
lighland residence. One of these re
ates to - the boyhood of the prince of
fl'ales, says the. Scottish American.
The prince on one occasion, when he
lad temporarily escaped from the sur
veillance of the parental eye, played a
rick on a ybung country lad whom he
saw approaching with, a basket of eggs
3n his arm, the result of the trick being
x break all or most of the eggs. The
-iad was a tough Aberdonian and could
not brook this injury; so he turned to,
and, doubling his fists, gave the prince
a thrashing, in Spite of the lattcr's pro
test that he was the prince of Wales.
; "Prince an' a' though ye be," said
the boy, "ye'd nae business tae break
my eggs." Just then the queen ap
peared, having seen part of the fray.
She quietly said: "You are quite right,
my lad; he had no right to break your
eggs, and he richly deserves what you
have g-iven him." Her majesty after
ward made inquiries about the boy and
sent him to school at her own expense.
Another story relates to her majesty's
visit to the cottagers in the neighbor
hood. On one occasion, when she- had
been making calls, among the cottage
women, she dropped in, on. her way
back to the castle, at the house of an
old woman who did not know her
visitor. The old lady was both talk
ative and querulous, and, referring to
a fete at which the queen had been
present that day,- complained about
peoples, including her own household,
'Turning- liko mad to see a common
clay vromtm." Her grievance was that
she had to wait till . her folks returned
in order to get her tea, for she was too
feeble to make it herself.
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