COLD HILL NEWS.
S V IR T
P V B L IS n B D
GOLD HILL
IA T V R D À T .
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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.
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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
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