VOL. IX THE DALLES, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1896 NO 304 THIS WAS DENIAL DAY Spaniards Put in a Disclaim er of Nearly Everything. THREE STORIES PUT ;T0 FLIGHT No Truth in Matomaa Arrest, Over tures to France, and Especially Olney's Negotiations Madrid, Dec. 29. It is officially de nied that there is any truth in bd item published in a paper that the United States consulate at Cardenas, province of Matanzas, Cuba, had been twice at tacked, and the shield torn from the door, in spite of the efforts of the local authorities to protect the consulate. An emphatic denial is also officially given to the statement today in the London Chronicle that there was reason to be lieve that the French foreign office has been sounded in regard to Cuba in an anti-American sense. GOING TO THEIK BBjTING PLACE. Kate Field's Ashes are Speeding Rapidly Eastward. San Francisco, Dec. 29. Kate Field's ashes are spaeding eastward in charge of General Chailes Taylor, proprietor of the Boston Globe. The last remains of the celebrated woman litterateur, editor and jonrnalist are encased and locked in' a small cylindrical-shaped copper casket. There is no inscription on the shining surface of the improvised urn. Passing over the top of the plain cover and throngh three little clasps, one on cover and one on each side, is a narrow laven der ribbon to which 13 attached a card bearing the customary record from the crematory, together with the name and date. The ends of the ribbon are fast ened together below the card by a disc of black sealing wax, upon which is the let tered impress of the Odd Fellows' cre matory. A very little brass padlock clasped through staples holds the cover securely in place. , All that is earthly of the woman who wrote fearlessly and wrote well is con tained in that case, probably nine inches in height and six inches in diameter. General Taylor, the custodian of the sacred cylinder, left last night for Chica go. He will deliver the urn to Editor Kohlsaat, of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who as an old friend of the deceased, purposes to see that the remains, accord iDg to Miss Field's wish, are interred at Mount Auburn cemetary, New York. BATHER DIB THAN L1VK ALON E. Horrible Suicide of an Engineer's For mer Wife. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29. Ella Eager, whose body, torn and dismem bered, was found on the road of the Sort Line in this city, committed suicide by throwing herself under the wheels of the locomotive which her husband, En gineer Fred Eager, was running. The couple had quarreled two weeks before and bad separated. The wife grew moody over ber misfortune, and the neighbors say that she often remarked that she wished she was dead. At 6 o'clock in the evening she put on her things and went out. She went to the station and her husband saw ber there just as he had come for duty, ready to make his run- to New London He did not appear . anxious to see bis wife, and it is supposed that Mrs. Eager, noticing his indifference, became desperate and resolved on suicide. The woman walked away from the depot and followed a route along the railroad track. Her husband's train started at 6 :55. At that hour she was a few hundred yards from the depot. The . No one would drink poor tea if he or she knew the difference in tea. Good tea is not costly. Your grocer will sell you Schillings Best, and return your money in full if you don't like it A Schilling & Company San Francisco 888 1 BKaj5g&' Absolutely Pure, Celebrated for Its (treat leavenine strength aud healthfulness. Assures the food ssrainxt alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal B a kino Powdkb Co., New York. train came on with increasing speed and achieved rapid momentum when it came to Mrs. Eager.' To carry out her re solve was the work of an instant. After keing killed, ber body was car ried along for 1000 yerds, when it was caught in a frog of the track and thrown to one side. The husband sped away on bis engine, little thinking of what the machinery under his feet had done. SOME TRUTH IN IT. Mediation With Spain la Progressing Keasoorbly Well. Washington, Dec. 5:9. From official sources denial is made that the Spanish premier, Canovas, has sent to Secretary Olney a communication accepting the medition of the United States in carry- out autonomy for Cuba. It is said no such letter has been sent, nor has. any thing of such a nature passed ' through the Spanish officials here. Negotiations toward home rule have proceeded for some months and the last phase of these negotiations indicated enlargement of the home rule laws adopted by the Spanish cortes last year, but not put in execu tion. Tbe arrangements embrace the election of tbe entire Cuban congress, in stead of a mixed congress of 15 elected members and 15 appointed by the queen regent, and also a complete control of Cuba on her tariff question. The latest statement regarding Spain's intention with respect to the pacification of Cuba therefore deals with the past phases of them, Spain having decided on a consid erably more liberal scheme of . reforms than the old, to which tbe latest publi cation on the subject has reference. As yet, however, the negotiations with re spect to the enlarged reforms are tenta tive. A draft of them has not been re ceived as yet at Washington,-and the in formation on them is of a general nature, The Bog Still Slides. Dublin, Dec. 29. During the past night and this morning the bog elide on Castle island, county Kerry, 'continued unchecked, a copious rainfall helping tbe movement. That mass of bogs is a mile and a half wide, roars like the ocean carries away bridges and roads, destroy ing bouses and farms, sweeping through Flesk valley and emptying the peat, car caases of cows, sheep and donkeys and debris of bouses into Lake Killarney. People living in the direction in which tbe bog slide is coming have fled and the police are searching for bodies. Lord Ken mare has caused a cordion of guards to be drawn around the slide to prevent loss of life. Great excitement prevails in the vicinity and all houses are open to receive the hundreds of people' who were rendered homeless. Sale of the Oregon Short Line.. New York, Dec. 29. A purchasing committee representing the reorganiza tion committee of the Oregon Short Line, will buy in the property and in terests of the bond-holders at Salt Lake City at tbe sale on January 9, under de cree of the court. 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