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COLD HILL NEWS. S V IR T P V B L IS n B D GOLD HILL IA T V R D À T . . IBÍ NEWS Oí mi WEEK J u w p r v h e m iT « R e v i » * * f t h e I m p o r t a a t H a p p e n in g * o f t u e V a s t W eek C a l l e d F r o m t h o T e le g r a p h C o lu o ea o - Russia and Japan may come to wai as a result of the Boxers movement. General »’io del Pilar, the Filjpino leader, was captured by Americans six miles east of Manila. Two men were instantly killed am. eight seriously injured by the explosioi of a boiler at a brick works at Annis ton, Ala. The Boxer movement is spreading throughout China. Russia gives notice that if the powers do not act she will go it alone. An explosion, caused by mining fuses at the customs d etrim en t, at Oporto, Portugal, killed two persons and injured. 13. Harry Dekker, a well known pro moter of Western railroad projierties, •hot and killed himself in his apart ments at New York City. One man was killed and four hurt by the falling of a freight elevator in the Nichols & Shepherd Implement building at Kansas City. A fire in the oil refining and salt peter district of Hamburg, Germany, destroyed property to the value of 4,000,000 marks, including many dwellings. A tannery owned by Fayette, Shaw & Co., at Miller, Wis., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,000. Nine hundred men were thrown out o! employment. The investigation of the affairs of Adolph A. Kuhn, junior member of the firm of Kuhn Bros., brokers, of Chi cago, shows he has left a shortage o: 11,000,000. The president has approved the find ings and sentence in the case of Cap tain Deming, of Buffalo, assistant com missary of subsistence, U. 8. V., tried at San Francisco on a charge of forgery and embezzling public funds. Alexander Stevenson, a line repairer •f the Utah Electric Light & Power Company, of Salt Lake, was instantly killed by electricity on Third South and Main streetp. He went up a pole to do some work, and took bold of c lire wire. His body hung suspended in the network of wires in the presence of hundreds of people. Indiana Democrats indorsed Bryan. Robert’s army is resting at Pretoria. Democrats of Missouri indorsed tht Chicago platform. End of the Chicago labor trouble! seems to be in sight. Wolverton’s plurality for supreme judge of Oregon is more than 10,000. Affairs in China are gradually work Ing up a crisis of the first magnitude. The legislature of Oregon will be Re publican on joint ballot by a majority of 24. Chicago people contributed $5,000 toward the relief of the Indian famine sufferers. A Christian journal in Japan has been suspended for showing disrespect to the imperial house. Alexander M. Dockery, of Gallatin county, Missouri, has been nominated by the Democrats for governor. Fire at Susanville, Cal., destroyed three blocks of stores, containing forty buildings, entailing a large loss. London papers think that the Brit ish squadron is recognized as inferior to the Russian as well as the Japanese. Chinese soldiers attacked the Boxers near Peking, and in the engagement which followed many were killed on both sides. A dispatch from Cucnta, department of Santander, Venezuela, say that after 13 days of fighting, ihe Colombian revolutionists have routed the govern ment forces near Buracamauga, captur ing a number of prisoners, including General Peuasolan. Secretary Long has issued an order for an experiment of the utmost im portance. The purpose is to see how much time would be occupied in put ting into condition for active naval service a part of the United States Heet to meet an emergency. Judge Morrow, of the United States circuit court at San Francisco, on com plaint made by Jew Ho, has granted an order temporarily restraining the board of health and chief of police from prohibiting the surgeons employed by the Chinese to care for their dead, entering the quarantine line. Steps have been taken to organize a national Negro party in Philadelphia. Prominent negroes—bishops, ministers, editors and lawyers—at a meeting de cided to place a presidential ticket in the field with negro candidates. The plan is to organize the party in every state of the Union, and nominate can didates for state and congressional offices. L A I kR NEWS. E«IHS W H BRIN FIRE IN A COOPERAGE. T h r e e M e n K i l l e d e n d M ig h t R n ru e d OS REBEL S M W IAKÍN Fifteen hundred Boeis surrendered to M a im e d . General Brabaut. New York, June 14.—Three men were killed, eight so badly burned or Half the town of Frances, Wash., Another Battalion Falls Into maimed that they are iu the hospitui General Grant Reports Cap was destroyed l»y tire. three other men are missiug as the ture of San Miguel. San Franolsoo'a Chinatown w ill be the Hands of the Dutch. aud result of a fire in the coo pc rage estab released from quaiantiue June 23. lishment of Paul Weidmann, at North France talks of joining Russia and Eleventh street ami Wythe avenue, NO AMERICAN CASUALTIES RO BERTS’ C O M M U N IC A TIO N CUT Germany to restore order in China. Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tonight. The property loss is variously estimated at Boers have evacuated Laiug’s Nek, and Buller is eucaui|>ed on Joubert’s D is a s te r to t h e D e r b y s h ir e R e g im e n t from $75,000 to 250,000. The dead Im p o r t a n t T n g a l L e a d e rs H a v e B e e * are: farm. C a p tu r e d D l l * H p ea k s o f Ih e D a s lr - In I h e K iig a g e in e n t a t R o o d e v a l— August Benedict. 60 yeurs old, u f t h e F ilip in o s f u r K d u c a llo u San Francisco Chinese have won an T w o O H Ie e rs K i l l e d . burned so badly that he died soon after other case against the hoard of health being taken from the building. of that city. Manila, June 14.—General Grant, London, June 13.—Lieutenant-Gen John M. Lockwood, 66 yeurs old, The steamer China arrived at San eral Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker, died from being crushed by falling tim who led reinforcements with artillery Francisco from the Orient with 650 iu conunaud of the lines of couimuui- ber. against the insurgents iu the moun Chinese merchants. tains eMt of Han Miguel, reports the jatiou iu South Africa, reports that in Unknown man burued t.i death. capture of the rebel stronghold after the disaster to the British troopa on Mrs. George H. Baker, widow of the The building was four stories high poet and ex-minister to Russia, is dead Juue ?, at Roodeval, where the ltoera and there were over 100 employes iu four hours’ fighting. The robels were cut Roberta’ line of communication, the place at the time. Many of these scattered aud the Americans are pur at her home in Philadelphia. the Fourth battalion of the rank and leaped from the windows, it is said suing them. General Grant’s column Postmaster Graham, of Salt Lake file of the Derbyshire regiment were at least two-score of people dropped had no casualties. City, Utah, was convicted of unlawful all killed, wounded or made prisoners, before the firemen had arrived. When R o g e r to I. e a r n , ♦ cohabitation and fined $260. except six enlisted men. Two officers they came many were hanging from Washington, Juue 14.—During Gen Americans at Chin Kiang are iu and 15 met ere killed and five officers the apper windows. August Benedict, need of protection, as a large number and 72 men wounded, many of them a cooper, was hanging out of one of the eral Otis’ afteruixm at the war depart ment, in conference with the heads of of Boxers have halted at that place. severely. The Boers returned the windows with all of his clothing the various departments in regutd to Russian authority says the present wounded to the British. Officers killed aflame. He held on to the ledge while the condition and needs of their de trouble iu China w ill be put down, but were: Lieutenant-Colonel Baird-Doug the ladder was being run up to him. partments in the Philippines, fie hail lass and Lieuteuaut Hawley. The i He was so badly burned when he was many questions to answer iu his inter a terrible upheaval will come later. wounded tucluded Colonel Wilkinson 1 taken down that he died half an hour course with his friends respecting pres- Mine. Augusta Lehmann, once a singer of international reputation, is and Lieutenant Blanchard, of the Cana afterward. John M. Lockwood had ent aud future conditions in the Philip dead at Santa Cruz, Cal., aged 80 dian infantry. Forestier-Walker’s dis- his chest crushed by a fulling tirulier pines, aud of these lie talked freely. patch in full is as follows: aud died in the Eastern District hos He made one statement in jwrticular years. “ CsE>e Town, June 18.—The follow pital about 11 o’clock tonight. The which came as a distinct surprise, in The president has issued a proclama ing telegram has lieen received from unknown man was taken from the tion formally announcing the establish Colonel Knox: ‘Kroonstad—The fol- I burued building late tonight and the view of the fact that he has spent a ment of reciprocity agreement with lowing casualties are reported from body was so badly charred that identi year and a half in fighting the Fili pinos, for he declared that these same Portugal. Roodeval, under date of Rhenoster fication was impossible. Filipinos were without question the A score of passengers were injured, river, Juue 8, received here by Hag of I very liest of any of the Asiatic races SEVEN WERE DROWNED. some severely, by the derailing of a truce on Juue 10: The Fourth bat- j living on the Pacific coast aud islands. • _ _ _ _ _ _ _ train on the Great Northern, near Sum talion of the Derbyshire regiment, the He paid a high tribute to their acquisi Sherwood Foresters: Killed, Lieuten F a t e o f a P a r t y H o u n il f u r t h e L o w e r mit, Mont. tiveness, saying that young and old Yukon. General Otis says the Filipinos are ant Baird-Douglass aud Lieutenant Seattle, Wash., Jnne »4.—The were alike anxious to learn from the qmck and anxious to learn and suggests Hawley aud 15 of the rank and file; minor of a wholesale drowning on Americans, aud quick to do so if given that an educational system be adopted wounded. Colonel Wilkinson, Captain Windy aim, Lake Bennett, is told iu an opjiortunity. The demand for Bailey, Lieutenants Hall, Lawder aud in the islands. schools on the American plan was in Blanchard, and 50 of the rank and file; the latest Alaska papers arriving by General MacArthur reports the cap the Shropshire light infantry, one; the steamer Rosalie today. Seven satiable. It had not been possible to ture of Rbizon, near Mexico, and Ca- Cape Pioneer Railroad regiment, seven; were in one party, who are believed to secure a sufficient supply of Spanish- restanv at Alcala, both important, the Ammunition Park, Royal murines and have gone down about the first of the American text books, the market hav latter a very important leader of the Imperial Telegaphs, one each; Post- month, iu the overturning of a scow. ing been denuded of such. When the book-hungry Filipinos The news was telegrauhed from Tugish guerrillas in Pingasinan proviucee, Lu office corps, one.’ were told this, they begged for Ameri zon. “ Stoneham reports that many were to Skagway by a mounted police officer. can schixil hooks, and declared that According to information which was The Yaqui Indians are causing trouble severely wounded aud the remaining their children could learn from them received at Skagway, it is said that the fourth of the Derbyshire aud details for the Mexicans. They occupy the even withont the Spanish text an I impassable Bacatete mountains, a range are prisoner's, except six of the rank names of the people who may have translations. General Otis found to been in the scow are as follows: W. aud file, who are in his camp. All the 50 miles in length, and it requires the his astonishment that such was tlm utmost vigilance on the part of Gen wounded are in hia camp, lately occu G. Mergeau, Mrs. Warner, Joe Rose, case, and says that in tlie course of a Mrs. Playmate, C. E. I’ealxxly, and eral Torres’ 6,000 troops to hold them pied by the Fourth Derbyshires. In very few months the Filipino children quiries are being made as to the two men whose names could not be in check. pick up a fair knowledge of English. learned. All were from Skagway. The United States navy will build names. ” Even the old native« con the text Ixxiks It is inferred the Boeni captured over ) Six head of cattle and a quantity of warships aggregating over $100,000,'- in the effort to fix English phrases in provisions made np the cargo with 500 men, aud as late as June 10, held 000 in cost as soon as the builders are which the craft was loaded. It is said their minds. There was a dearth of prepared to undertake the great pro positions cutting off the British forces that the scow was t<x) heavily loaded. teachers, too, General O(s often having gramme, which calls for 11 armored north of Kroonstad from reinforce A strong wind caught the craft at Big to use the soldiers iu his *Tuuks who ships and three highly improved Olym ments. Windy, and the cattle, becoming e d i t knew a little Spanish and so were suit APPEALS TO THE POWERS. pia type of cruisers. ed, overturned the craft. All are said ( able as detail fur teachers. General Otis said he looked ujxm thia Chinese government is dealing out T h e Im p r is o n fo e d r I l C l s h in K e e s l e l e f K . in p e r o r Kegs to have perished. Mr. Mergeau was formerlyjproprietor educational movement as the only solu arms to the Boxers. London, June 13.—The Shanghai cor tion of the Philippine problem, and was Four persons were killed in a trol respondent of the Daily Express, tele of the California market in Skagway. confident that the spread of American Mrs. Warner ran the Puget Sound ies- ley-car accident at Providence, R. I. graphing yesterday says: ideas through the Filipino schools “ Weng Tung Ho, Emperor Kwang tan rant in the same place. The occu would in the end make goes I citizens of The Republican convention hall at Hsu’s tutor and confidant, who was pations of the others are not given. the Filipinos. Pbiadelphia wlil seat 16,000 people. dismissed by the dowager empress after C h a r g e d W i t h C o n s p ir a c y . General Otis was positively of tho Boers have torn up 24 miles of rail the coup d’etat in 1808, sends, with Chicago, Juue 14.—Captain George opinion that the American forces in road between Pretoria and Kroonstad. the special sanction of the emperor and Wellington Streeter, whose cohorts re the Philippines at present were suffi Tacoma will have a captured Span his party, including three viceroys, a cently took possession of “ The District cient for all needs. Of course, he said. ish cannon for use in its Fourth of Jnly message to the people of the West. It of Lake Michigan’’ and defied the General Mac Arthur’s present army celebration. is in part as follows: whole police force, was today held to could not fnrnish a guard to protect “ ‘His majesty is convinced through the criminal court, charged with con every Filipino household from tho Boers captnred a British battalion of 500 men at Roodeval, severing Rob ample trustworthy sources, that the spiracy, accessory before the fact huo I-adrones; to do that would require a loyal snpjiort of many scores of m il assault. The “District of Lake Michi force of not less than 200,000 troops, erts’ line of communication. lions of the Chinese will be accorded to | Philippine rebels aim to follow the his proposals for patting an end-to the gan’’ is the name given by Streetei to an<l even then the task would occupy tactics of the Cuban rebels dnring the state of anarchy brought about by the laud which has lieen formed by dump many years. As a matter of fact, ho ing in the lake off the shore. CaptHin said, Spain had speut several centuries war of the latter against Spian. action of the Empress Hsi Tsi. The Streeter took possession of it when it in the effort to stamp out the Ladrones The steamer City of Seattle, which government of China being virtually was a mere sand bar. A recent at in the Philippine group, ami there whs arrived at Seattle from Alaska, brought non-existent, the emperor promises that tempt to onst some of the captain’s fol reason to believe that those brigand* 220 Klondike« and $500,000 in gold. the foreign powers, whose troops dom lowers, who had entrenched themselves are scarcely more numerous now than Senator Clark was given a great ova inate the capital, shall remove his im on the laud, resulted in some shooting they were dnring the Spanish occupa tion at Butte, Mont. He made a perial person from the palace, in which and other riotous acts. The land is tion, when the islands were nominally speech denouncing his enemies as per his majesty is confined a prisoner; now valued at many millions of dollars at ponce with Spain. shall declare Empress Hsi Tsi and her and measures about 40 acres. General Otis was confident, however, jurers. present ministers to be usurpers, and thHt conditions would steadily improve, Documents srezed in the Philippines C h ic a g o B r ic k la y e r » S t r ik e . shall bring Emperor Kwang Su to Nan and that little by little these robber indicate that in a rebel plot for an up kin, Wu Chang or Shanghai, which Chicago, June 14.—Over 300 brick Mean rising in Manila, women were to take ever the said foreign powers deein to layers employod by the city in the con bauds would be driven away. while, he admitted that it was often important part. be the most suitable situation for the struction of the intercepting sewer dangerous tor Filipinos of the better Chinese minister in London says it new capital of the Chinese empire un system, the building of electrical con class, whose interests naturally lay in is i,beard that the powers should believe der the new conditions. It is proposed duits, and other improvements going American sovereignty, to admit their the empress dowager is aiding the Box by his majesty and his advisers that on in various parts of the city, were preferences, for they were subject in ers’ movement. the foreign powers should declare a called out by their nnions today, the that case to assassination, to the loss May shipments of coal from Seattle joint protectorate and undertake the result being the almost complete stop of property and to persecution, insti to San Francisco by water amounted to task of governing the country through page of the work on public improve gated by various elements in the popu ments, leaving miles of streets torn up 20,000 tons, or half of the total amount his majesty.’ for the sewer and conduit systems in lation to whom American occupation ‘ ‘The message suggests that the pro of coal received at that port daring The was obnoxious. tectorate should abolish certain boards an almost impassable condition. May. trouble is said to have arisen over the C H IN A ’S TREACHERY. As a result of a week’s scooting in in Pekin, appoint new ministers, abol letting of a minor contract to a con ish the existing so-called army, estab the Philippines, more than 200 in tractor who is persona nun grata with JnpA new e O fflc ln l Simin b y t h e Kiiiprem « surgents were killed and 160 captured, lish a gendarmerie under foreign offi the union. B o d y G u a rd » cers, take control of the customs, posts while 140 rifles, with ammunition and London, June 14.—The Times, in an and telegraphs and work them through P r e s id e n t o f C h i le I s D y in g . stores were seized. Chinese officials, establish uniform extra edition, publishes the following Washinugto. June 14.—The state Two five-story brick buildings, owned currency, readjust taxation and insur^ department received the following dis dispatch from Peking, dated June 12: by Geo. E. Ketcham. on West avenue, “ The chancellor of the Japanese lega the freedom of religion. patch today from United States Min New York, containng 125,000 bushels tion, Sngyama Akra, while proceeding of grain, were destroyed by fire, caus Spokane, Wash., June 18.—O. B. ister Wilson, at Santiago de Chile: alone and unprotected, on official duty, “ Santiago, June 14. — Secretary of ing a loss of $140,000. Masterson, a young business man of President Errxznrize had a was brutally murdered by soldiers of In the preliminary examination of Rathdrum, fdabo, eloped this morning State: third and dangerous attack of paralysis Tung Fuh Siang, the favorite body L. L. Cook, charged with the murder with Clara, the yonngest daughter of yesterday. Ils death is simply a ques guard of the empress, at the main gate of James Collins at Arlington, Or., a W. A. Hart, a wealthy banker of that railroad station yesterday. physilcian testified that Collins could city. The yonng couple, accompanied tion of time. The executive 'functions “The foreign reinforcements are were transferred to Prime Minister Al easily have been saved. by a party of friends and Probate daily expected. The present isolated It is estimated thut during the past Judge Brady, took .the North Coast bano, as provided by the constitution, position at Peking, the destruction of WILSON.” mouth various railroad corporations Limited of the Norhern Pacific at Rath foreign property in the country, and M scn ped F r o m S h ip b o a r d . have placed orders for 20,000,000 to 30,- drum. The train was late, and, soon the inseenrity of life are directly at 000,000 feet of Washington fir, mainly after leaving the station started at a San Francisco, June 14.—The Ex tributable to the treachery of the Chi in bridge timbers, dock stuffs and ties. 62-inile gait. The wedding party hur aminer asserts that of a band of 82 Jap nese government.” The clean-np of gold in the Klon ried to the observation car, where Judge anese immigrants who wete recently I n f a n t l n o R e le a s e d , dike this season will be $20,000,000 to Brady quickly pronounced the words deported on the steamer Thyra, at leust San Jose, Cal., Jnne 14.— Nick In- which made the conple man and wife. four, and possibly 20, are already back $25,000.000, according to the estimates fantino, who was brought back from of well-known miners arriving from Rathdrum is but seven miles east of the in this state. One of them has been Portland, Or., by the sheriff, on a Washington state line, so there conld identified and is now in custody. Tho the Klondike. The Spring work is well along in the district, the only be no delay, as the judges’ jurisdiction men are supposed to have left the charge of grand larceny in the alleged drawback being the scarcity of water. extended only to the connty line. He Thyra at Portland or Astoria, where stealing of $600 from Joae Wilson, This fact, it is said, will result in de spoke the final words just in time as the vessel touched, but the northern who married him here, has been re laying the clean-np until late in the the train was in Wasihngton before the customs officers declare that this ooufi leased by Justice Rosenthal for want of evidenoe. . congratulations could be spoken not have been the case. summer r A I