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VOL. IX
THE DALLES, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1896
NO 86.
H4LLS OF CONGRESS
Senate Considers Peffer's
Bond Kesolution.
HILL'S SPEECH IN OPPOSITION
Be Paid In vmtlgatlon Was Proposed
Wjtbuot Chirffei Belof Uade
Blue's Amendment l)e
i feared. .
Washington. April 16. At 2:35 p. m.
Peffer's resolution for an investigation
of the bond sales was laid before the
senate and the struggle for precedence
occurred.
Cullom, Allison and Hale urged the
appropriation bills, but it was finally
determined to consider the bond reso
lution. Hill took the floor to oppose the reso
; lution. He said this was a Populist
resolution and no one had a better right
to control it than Peffer. Hill declared
the investigation was proposed without
charges or grounds for imputing wrong
doing. Peffer wanted a bond investiga
tion because he thought there was a
popular curiosity about bond issues.
The senators who wanted a bond inves
tigation should have made specifications.
Their course was extraordinary, and was
taken because no one wauted to be re
sponsible for it if it was found nothing
wrong had been done. It was preferred
to take the gQssip of the street and news
paper insinuations rather than well
known, actual facts.
In the House.
Washington, April 16. The house
defeated Blue's amendment to substi
tute General Howard's name for General
Franklin's as trustee of the Soldiers'
Homes, by a rising vote of 65 t!o 130.
A. NKW COMET.
Discovered by l'rofesnor Swift, of Mount
Lowe Observatory.
Pasadena, Cal., April 16. Just ten
days ago Professor Swift, of the Mount
Lowe observatory, discovered an object
'in the heavens which he suspected to be
a new comet. On Monday night the
suspicion was partially verified, and last
night fully so. The visitor is in right
ascension 3 hours 33 miuutes, declina
tion north, 15 deg. 40 rain. The comet
is bright, with a short tail. Its motion
is very slow.
The Burden Diamond Robbery.
New Yokk, April 16. The Herald this
morning says : The Herald was in
formed late last night, on the best of au
thority, that the great Burden diamond
robbery has been solved. - It was stated
that a former servant committed the
thefts. This servant is now said to be
on the ocean. Instructions have been
cabled to Scotland Yard by the New
York police to arrest the servant upon
the arrival of the steamer. Some time
ago the servant in question expressed a
desire to quit the Burden employ and
make a trip abroad. It was after the
. departure that a Becond servant is said
to have made the confession upon which
the Scotland Yard authorities were in
structed to act. .
Overcome by the Beat..
. Philadelphia, April' 16. The mer
cury went up to 84 yesterday. It was
one of the hottest April days on record
in this city. George Sebela was over
come by the heat and died . in the
Germantown hospital.
BOXING UADB HARMLESS.
The Novel Invention of a Chicago Ama
teur JBoxer.
, Chicago, April 16. Boxing made as
harmless as top-spinning or any other
child's play, 'the manly art of self-defense
reduced to punting-bag exercise this
astonishing transformation of pugilism
was illustrated in this city last evening.
The new scheme for making blows harm
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
jTHllaaCi" "tlsH" ISalaLlilMairi jU I
less consists of a vest of padded material
and a mask for the jaw and nose. It is
eo built that even the most heavily
landed blows seem to the wearer like a
gentle tapping and a person provided
with the device is practically invulner
able against a-knockout.
Bob Eraser, a local amateur boxer, is
the inventor. He completed this new
suit of his invention three days ago.
Besides the protection afforded the wear
er is an electrical registering device to
count the number of blows struck. This
will result in making sparring a contest
for points in which no referee ia needed
to give the decision. When a vulner
able point is struck a stiff spring is com
pressed, an electrical contact is made, a
small bell makes a single stroke and the
register counts - one. The batteries,
wires, register and bell are all fitted in
the back of the suit, and are extremely
light. Only punting blows are made to
count.
Last evening Mr. Fraser donned his
suit for a go witn J. J. Corbett. The
big man chased his little antagonist
about the stage, delivering blows with
both hands until the register on the
back of Mr. Fraser' s suit indicated 109
blows. Mr. Fraser's score was about
six. After the trial the ex-chamn:on ex
pressed himself astonished and delighted
with the new invention and said it
would prove a great benefit to the art of
boxing. A person equipped with it
would be practically secure against a
knockout, even by a far superior antago
nist. .
Sensation In Brooklyn.
New York, April 16. The Rev. Harry
M. Covert left his home in Brooklyn
March 31, and on the same day, and at
at the same hour, by what may be a
strange coincidence, Mrs. Helene Spring
er, a widow, also left - her home, which
was just around the corner from where
the Coverts lived.
When "The Rev." H. M. Covert, who
is one of the best-known evangelists in
the country, left his residence, he left
behind a handsome wife and a step-son
aged 14. When Mrs. Springer left her
home she deserted a son by her first
husband, and a married daughter. She
did not go away, however, until she had
sold her residence, disposed of $4,000
worth of household furniture, and nego
tiated the sale of $9,000 worth of bonds
and stocks, which gave her a total capit
al of $20,000. . ,
Covert married Mrs. Alice Mason in
June, 1892. ' She was a particularly
comely women of about 40 years, and he
was a man prepossessing in appearance.
It was she who had the money ; he had
nothing. Years before he had been a
real estate speculator and had amassed
anything but an excellent reputation on
the exchange. She inherited from her
husband an estate amounting to some
thing more than $30,000.
Mr. Covett, after his marriage, became
an evangelist of the Baptist faith. Of
magnificent physique, splendid yoice
and a native eloquence, which was rare
and pleasing, he gained a reputation as
a platform orator. ' He was known in
Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Kansas
City, Omaha and in smaller cities. .
.Mrs. Springer is. perhaps 50 years of
age. She is still' decidedly handsome.
Neighbors call her "dashy," whatever
they mean. Mr. Covert met her at a mis
sionary meeting in Brooklyn, and since
that time his attentions to her have
been marked. People told Mrs. Covert
of this, but she had faith in her
husband.
, An expres3man called on Mrs. Covert
one afternoon and asked for Mrs.
Springer's trunks, saying" they were to
be shipped to Los Angeles. The ex
pressman said he had been directed to
the Covert house. Mrs.- Covert oblig
ingly directed the man to the widow's
residence. That same afternoon tbe
evangelist's wife received the following
letter:
"Dear I am going away, probably to
Chicago. My love for yon is dead, and
I will never return. It seems hard that
we should part thus, but tbe Lord's will
be done. I can no longer live with you.
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It is believed the couple have gone to
Los Angeles.
Prisoners Escape.
Wintebset, la., April 16. C. O.
Davis, confined" in the county ""jail
charged with wrecking in bank in Peru,
of which he was cashier, and Ed Street
er, an alleged harness thief, escaped
Thursday night by tunneling under the
jail. Two other prisoners, an alleged
bootlegger and a hog thief, refused to
escape. The prisoners had been digging
the tunnel ever since Easter Sunday.
The dirt was concealed by throwingit
on top of a cage. 'The tunnel is 36 feet
in length and at one point is 14 feet
under ground. , .
Davis, it is charged, robbed the Peru
bank of $15,000 last July. Parties are
scouring the country for them. The
sheriff offers a reward of $100 for their
capture.
Great I. oss of Lambi. '
Heppner, Or., April 16. The weather
continues cold and stormy. The loss of
lambs has been great. One man reports
a loss of 800 in three days. A number
of others say their loss is from 200 to 500.
Hotr to Care Itlieamntlsm.
Aeago, Coos Co., Oregon, Nov. 10,
1893. I wish to inform you of the great
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A through first-class sleeper from Port
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E. E. Lytle, Agent. .
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