SSSiUS&U. I Consolidated Feb. 1899. COBVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FKIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1900. VOIj. XXXVII. NO. 2. i miM week From All Parts of the New World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import, ant Happening or the Fast Week Called From the Telegraph Columns San Franciscans are arranging for a tig pro-Boer demonstration. E. C. Hodges & Co., one of Boston' largest banks, has closed its doors. I the engagement at Ladysmith Fri day, 10 British were killed and 16 wounded. England has discovered that her mil itary resources were overestimated by 80,000 men. Wat Chandler, the old-time pugilist and former partner of John L. Sulli van, is dead. The qneen has given warning that British subjects mast not help Boers or Free Staters. Plague of a severe type is raging and many deaths from that cause have oc curred in New Caledonia. Sydney Paget, William C. "Whitney's racing partner, has left this country to join the British rough riders. A Paris dispatch says that Francs would be happy if the Delagoa bay in cident caused an anglo-American quar rel. ' Alfred Borlini was arrested in San Francisco wlile on his wedding trip. He is charged with being a bank de faulter. : Iowa tar m era have formed a syndi cate to grow rice In Texas. They have secured options on 14,000 acres of land to cost 1225,000. : The Boer army on Modder river is growing greater each day. They are building trenches within three ana one half miles of Methuen's picket line. The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho was a bad one. After 10 days the last body had not been recovered. The trainmen were to blame. Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not approve of Oregon citizens contributing to a fund for Lawton'a family, He thinks the state should look after her own heroes' familes first. ; . - The Conntess of Canavarro thought she was a convert to Buddhism. She entered their convent and changed her mind, and has applied to friends in San Francisco for assistance, . " Winston Spencer Churchill has cabled to the London Post of his escape from the Boer prison. He made his way overland from Delagoa ' bay and sealed walls while guards were not .looking. He journeyed for six days, walking at night, with nothing to eat but chocolate. - Over 600 British prisoners captured at Storm berg have reached Pretoria. Buller has destroyed the Colenso footbridge, and makes no further at tempt to advance. -. Armour's canning department, Chi cago, is rushed night and day filling orders for the English army. - A drunken wife in San Francisco has charged her husband with murder and he la being held by the authorities. The Great Northern will inaugurate a new departure. A large block of the company's stock is to be distributed among the employes at par. It fa said that England had been warned by General Butler, whom she is now turning down, that it would sot be wise to attack the Boers until bet' ter prepared. Should all Spanish war pensions now asked be allowed, it would cost . $2. ?25,000. The Seveqty.first New Yorks asks for annual-allowances which ag gregate ?34,662. Yaqnl Indians plunder, kill and burn villages and the Mexicans do not seem to make much headway in whipping the Bavages. An entire Mexican regi ment seems to have disappeared. - The Fenians are organizing at Buffa lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada. They expect, it is said, to raise 125,000 men, and have two carloads of arms and munitions of war in concealment. There is disaffection among the Free Stater troops. They complain that Cronje's men are overbearing and bet. ter fed than they. The Transvaaler's are suspicious and the situation is be aoming grave. The president of the New York prison association, who has made an investigation of the Cuban prisons tells a horrible tale of the conditions there. Offenders of all classes sleep in filth and vermin. No beds or clean clothing is provided. Money or influence is necessary before they can secure their freedom. - p,. The members of the senate committee on privileges and elections declare they will carry on the investigation of Senator Clark's case without regard to the decision of the Montana supreme court under whieh Wellcome was dis barred from practice on charges of brib ery in connec on with the senator's election. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taken a pew in St. Paul's Roman Catholic church, Washington. The entire crop of sugarcane and beet for 1899-1900 will amount to about 8, 000,000 tons about the same amount as last year. Exports and imports at the five prin cipal ports of Porto Rico for the months of May, June and July show a balance of trade in favor of these ports of 1347,882. A seat in the New York stock ex change was sold for $40,000, the high' est price ever paid. William Cleggett, of Rochester, N. Y., was killed by an elephant at Jack sonville, Fla. The animal sought revenge because Cleggett had given U tobacco two days before. M. Osiris, a wealthy physician, has presented to the Institute of France a am representing an annual income of $8,000 for a triennial prize of $30,000 for the most remarkable work, or dis co very of general interest, especially la the fields of surgery and medicine. LATER NEWS. A railroad boom has struck Hawaii Six inches of snow fell at Macon, Ga. ' Bechuanaland farmers are helping the Boers. Boers fired plum pudding at Lady' smith garrison. Oregon woolgrowers expect to get 20 cents for their 1900 crop. ' Vigilance of Americans prevented a projected uprising in Manila. At New York Kid McCoy knocked out Peter Maher in five rounds. Idaho produced $2,500,000 in gold and $6,103,000 in silver last year. France and England may have trouble over Newfoundland fisheries. The United States may buy the Danish West Indies for $4,000,000. Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy, money, arms and soliders to the Boers, One child received fatal and several persons serious burns in a New York flat fire. . : Several thousand attended a very brilliant New Year's day reception at the White House. Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again issued an appeal for peace to the powers of the world. Multnomah's football team defeated Stanford university's eleven at Port land; score, 11 to 6. ' Hilliard F. Johnson, a water-front reporter in San " Franoisco, was drowned in a bathtub. Government officials say the cruiser Montgomery was sent to Liberia to give the Black Republic assurance of protection. ' More miles of new railroad have been built during 1899 than in any previous year since 1890, when 5670 miles Pt line were completed. Since January 1, 1899, no less than 4,500 miles of track have been laid in the United States on 812 lines in 44 states and territories. The torpedo-boat destroyer Golds- j borough, built by a Portland, Or., firm, on her second contractor's trial covered eight miles in 15 minutes, which is at the rate ef S3 miles . an hour, against a 2-knot current. Steam was made without effort, and not a bearing was heated. . The run was made in the Columbia river, near Kalama. Boutelle will probably never return to congress. . ' .- The Boer trenches at . Colenso are bomb proof. ; Pingree's tax resolution was defeated in the Michigan senate. ' People are tired of Colombian . war and ask for intervention. British Columbia has Bent a gold dis play to the Paris exposition, If Delagoa bay i& closed the Boers will raid Portuguese territory. The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila delphia is a clear case of looting. ' An important witness against Sena tor Clark has confessed to perjury. ' Robert Cornelias, aged 20, was found dead in the woods near Glencoe, Or. v. Fogsiliferous remains of . a gigantic sea serpent were found on the coast of Chili. ' - At its last meeting the cabinet dis: cussed the agricultural possibilities in Alaska. Buller's army on the Tugela has now reached the enoromus strength of 28fr 000 men. Luzon hemp poits will be opened in time for supplies to reach this country by next harvest. . A London dispatch says Russia longs to seize Hfcrat, and she only waits for England to occupy Delagoa bay. ; C. G. Coad, of Dallas, Of,, has been appointed assistant sergeant'ftt-arms in the United States senate. The Boers have mounted a new gun at Ladyslmth in the place of the onej captured by the British pay airy. The clerk of the court of appeals has refused to administer the oath of office to members of the state election board in Kentucky. A Colorado Midland passenger and a Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed and two engineers were hurt. ... An English military expert asserts that the time has come for a change in the cabinet. He favors either a dicta torship or an all-powerful military minister. Miss Florence Blythe - Hinckley, heiress to the Blythe millions, was quietly married in San Francisco to A. A, Moore, jr deputy attorney-genera) of California, Americans have captured another inr surgent stronghold. Many rebels were killed, wounded and captured and an amount of ammunition and food taken. Their supposed impregnable position was north of San Mateo, An Ottawa dispatch savs that treason is talked openly among the French Ca. nadians, and all of their members have retired from parliament. All the lat ent hostility to British rule has been aroused by Canada's action in sending troops to the Transvaal, The Pittsburg baseball club has bought the pick of the Louisville team for a sum said to be $25,000 cash," - Mrs. O, A. Burling, mother-in.law of Rear-Admiral William T, Sampson, died at her home in Rochester, N, Y,, aged 76 years. Ex-Sheriff Weis, of Dayton, O., has received by mail a commission from President Kruger appointing him- a brigadier-general in the Boer army. Weis is a personal friend of Kruger's, and once visited him in Africa, The empress of Germany is a stanch defender of the bible, and deprecate! all slighting remarks at court relative to the church or the scriptures. - Nearly every- grocery jobber and wholesaler in Missouri, Kansas, Okla homa and Indian territory was repre sented at a meeting held in Kansas City to organize against trusts. , In celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of his professorship Professor Virohow, of Berlin, said he owed his scientific reputation almost entirely to his Ameri can and Japanese pupils, who continued his researches. TERRORIZING I PEOPLE Filipino Bands Returning1 to Abandoned Towns. NATIVES ASK FOR PROTECTION Colonel Hare Loses the Track of the Prisoners He Has Folio wed General Wheeler Goes Sooth. Manila, Jan. 1. The insurgents who evacuated the coast towns between Dagupaxt: and Yigan, fleeing to the mountains before the advancing Amer icans,, are returning in small bands to the towns the Americans do not oo cupy, ' terrorizing the natives and Chinamen, who showed friendship for the Americans. The . natives and Chinamen are seeking the protection of the American garrisons. ' Colonel Wessel's cavalry, while scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad, bund evidence of Filipino soldiers be ng in that vicinity, but it was impose sible to bring about an engagement. i The recent increase in the garrison of Namaepacaa against the threatened rebel attack on Christmas day averted trouble. Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in fantry, who has been following a party of American prisoners, lost track for three days, about December 20,. of such signs and evidences pf their passage as they customarily left behind them. It ia thought the prisoners were separated andconveyed to remote parts of the mountains, thus increasing the difficul ties of General Young's troops to effect a rescue, General Wheeler, who was recently in Manila, rfinnfistina- an atroointment south in the line of the expected cam? paign, is now a$ Pajanaque, , Americans Captured itrongftqid, Washington, Jan. 1, General Otis cables the war department today as fol lows: "Manila' Colonel Lockett, with a regiment of two battalions of the Forty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel Dorst), and one company of the Twen ty-seventh infantry, and two guns (Cap tain Van Deusen,) attacked the enemy, 600 strong in a mountain stronghold beyond Mont Alban, northeast of - San Mateo, A large number were killed and, wounded, and 24 were taken 'pris oners. J-iocKett caprarea one : cannon, 40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 600 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica. tions.all their food supplies and con siderable other property. "This captured point, located on a mountain trail, was formerly supposed to be impregnable. ' Our casualties: Lieutenant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry, and five enlisted men wounded, mostly slight, ; Private Matson; Forty-fifth in fantry, drowned." Not American Tessels. Port Townsend, Jan. 1. The pur chase of foreign vessels by the United States government for use as transports during the Spanish-American war and their subsequent sale by the gQYern ment to private citizens has resulted in complicating matters for purchasers from the fact that after purchase of suchsvessels the government refuses to allow them to b documented & the United States as American vessels. The pase in point is the steamship Scipio, which was recently sold by the navy department and was afterwards refused documentation. The purchaser applied to the secretary pf he treasury, asking that if he shpuJd break the Scipio up, whether the material of which she was constructed would be subject to duty if sold in the United States. Yesterday Collector Heustis received a circular letter covering the above case from the treasury depart ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul ding says that upon the sale of said vessel in a port of the United States the materia or materials taken there? from would not bo regarded as an im portation within the meaning of thft customs laws, and would therefore be exempt from duty. ; The Plague Scare, San Francisco, Jan. 1. The steamer Gaelic arrived here this afternoon from the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelib was sent to quarantine, owing to the plague scare, but her cabin passengers were allowed to land, towboats plying between tne steamer and the city for the purpose. . The press correspondent at Honolulu says there have been no new oases of plague since last advices. There have been several sudden deaths, and in each instance rumor assigned ' the plague as the cause. Investigation ptfpved otherwise, . The board of health now claims but two deaths were caused Dy tne scourge, fne remaining cases be? ing doubtful or suspicious, ': Bobbed of S12.O0O. Walsenbura. Colo.. Jan. i. W. T. Mitsap, a prominent stockman, was seized by two men when about q enter the Klein hotel and was robbed of $12,000. The money was mostly in his coat and vest pockets and these garments were torn from him. No trace of the criminals has been found Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico do Duy caiue, Big; Liner Is Ashore, London, Jan, 1,-A large German mail steamer, believed to be one of the HamburgrAmerican liners, has eone aground daring a terriflo gale in East Day, .about a quarter of a mile off Dun- geness, the southern extremity of Kent, Heavy seas are breaking over the yes sel, and life.boats are unable to reach her. Fears are entertained for the safety of the passengers. it is reported that the position of the liner is very serious, Arrested at Bsteourt Durban, Jan. 1. A German farmer named Stucke and the Rev, Mr. Hartes, director oi tne Hanoverian missions in Natal, have been arrested at Estoourt on a charge of aiding the Boers. They both claim the protection of Germany. Eugene T. Smaller Dead. : St. Paul, Jan. 1. Eugene V. Smal- ley, the editor and publisher of the Northwest Magazine, died at his home in this city at mio'night. As a news paperman, author and publisher, Mr. Smalley was one of the most widely knows writers of the Northwest. A DOUBLE TREATY. Portuguese South Africa Is to Be Di vided Up, - New York, Jan. 1. A dsipatch to the Herald from Berlin says: , i The Lokal Anzieger publishes the contents of the German-English-Portu guese secret treaty. This double treaty will have executive force as soon as the Swiss jurists, Messrs . Blaesi-Hensley and Goldau, have given a decision in the Delagoa bay arbitration. The decision, it is expected, will be given in January or February and will probably be in favor of England, in which case foftugai must pay to ing land and America an indemnity of 1,. 900,000. England obtained in 1891 from Portugal the right of pre-emption in Delagoa bay, and the cession 01 Del agoa bay to England may therefore be expected in March next. ' It is possible that President Kruger may now declare War on Portugal and attack Delagoa at once. In order to prevent any interference by France or Russia, Enlgand ' con eluded a secret treaty with Germany regarding the complete partition of the Portuguese colonial possessions. Ger many is to receive all the Portuguese possessions in Asia, with 20,000 square miles ot territory ana J.yuu.ouu innao itants, Germany further receives in Africa all Portuguese territory north of Mosambique, except a strip of land three miles wide, for Mr. Cecil Rhodes' trans-African railway. For this the German government will pay Portugal 25,000,000 marks. REST AT ARLINQTON., Burial of the Martyred -Heroes of the Maine. Washington. Jan. 1. Upon the windy heights of Arlington cemetery, the Maine dead, brought from Havana by the battleship Texas, today were laid Wy m their Snal resting places, with simple religious services,' and the impressive honors of war, in the pres. ence of the president, members p big cabinet, ameers of the army and navy and other officers ot the government. A cabinet officer, surveying the flag- draped coffins before the ceremony be' gan, saidi "The lives of these men cost Spain her colonies." But there was no note of triupmh in the grim scene today. With a touch of Sadness and, solemn, gravity," the nation per. formed its duty to the dead and gave its defenders a ' Christian burial at home, in soil hallowed ' by patriotic dead. . - " ... - Battle With Bobbers. Seattle, Jan. 1. Two, masked men held up a, pauaro streetcar at u o'clock tonight. There were eight passengers aboard, and a regular fusil lade of shots was fired. : One of the passengers inside the car, C. E. Plimp ton, opened fire on the hghwayman. en tering from the rear, and three shots were returned. One broke Plimpton,!! arm and the Other entered his breast, Shortly after midnight the ponce found near the scene of the Ballard street-car hold-up the body of one of the two bandits. He had been almost instantly killed by a bullet from a passenger's pistol. The body . is still unidentified. : Big Buffalo Vine Tori)s. Qut Blah.. Bakes City, Or., Jan. 1. A sensa tional strike was made . today in A. Geiser's Big- Buffalo mine, two miles west of this city. The miners, took several samples of or from the tunnel, which today tapped the 80-foot ledge. By assays just returned to the owner of the mine, the samples all show gold values ranging from $18 to $102.75 in gold and five ounces of silver to the ton. Mr. Geiser, who was formerly part owner pf the Bonanza mine, said today that u the values fioiq on throughout the Big Buffalo, the prop. erty will be equal to the Bonanza. The Big Buffalo is within plain sight of this city. Killed His Young Wife and Himself. Winnipeg, Jan. 1. Pierre Dentzer, a German farmer, aged 50, living near Rathwell, 100 miles from Winnipeg, shot and killed his lG-yearrpld wife in a fit gf temper. IJentzer tlieq parried his bab tg a BeighHr' hB88 d re" turned . home. The authorities were notified, and on approaching the hou? found that the woman's body had bee taken inside the house and a cross ha. been raised by Den tger en the ground where she had been shot. Dentzer had spread a sheet on the floor, placed his wife's body on it, blew out his brains. Went Through a Bridge. San Bernardino, Cal., Jan. 1. As No. S3, west-bound freight train over the Sante Fe igute,, waj erof sing Oajon creek bridge today, about 13 miles north of this city, nine cars went through the bridge into the creek bot tom. Six pf the oars weie loaded with cotton, one with telegraph Ijvire, and one wth general raerohandise and sul phur. The cars caught fire and made a terrible ponflagratiqij. gestinjf the entity contents and framework. No one was killed, . A Murderous Collector. Chattanooga, Tenn., Jan. 1 Samuel Mills, a collector for aa - installment house, this afternoon attempted, to seize furniture in: the house of Mary Ven- able, colored, for a small debt. The woman attempted to prevent it, and in the struggle that ensued Mills ghot the woman and her little son and daughter-, all seriouslv, : Mills was arrested. Bullet's Sphere of Action. Gape Town, Jan. 1. Colonel Qtter, commanding the Canadian contingent of troops," is to Join the staff of Buller, all the members qf which are proceed ing tq Natal, indicating tbat Buller's, sphere will shortly he confined t. Natal, - " Boston Sympathy for Baers, . Boston, Jan. I, The common conn!: oil of Boston today, after a spirited de? bate, adopted a resolution of sympathy for the Boers, Civil War In New Guinea. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 1. News has been received by the steamer Aorangi of a bloody civil war which has been raging among the natives of Klriwina, New Guinea. In the fighting the head chief was defeated, and 11 villages in all were destroyed, with heavy slaugh ter. German Officers Fought a Duel. : Berlin. Jan. 1. Lieutenant Raub and Lieutenant St. Clow, both of the One Hundred and Fiftieth regiment, fought a duel today near Alonstein, East Prussia. The latter officer was killed. LEITERFROMLORDROSEBERY Wants England to Define Her Position. WHAT IS CONTRABAND OF WAF Possible Change of Policy Sir Charles Dllke Warns Against a liasty Over turning of Precedents. London, Jan. 1. -Lord Rosebery writes as follows this morning to the ilmes: ' "There are disquieting intimations which appear to point to our govern ment Having treated foodstuffs as con traband of war, As this is a matter of supreme importance, I venture to ad dress this line to you in the hope that it may elicit an authoritative statement on the subject." ,, ' . The Times, commenting editorially upon Lord Roseberry's letter, says? "Too little is known f the seiauret for any valid inferenoe safely to be drawn. Aa emergency might arise when certain foodstuffs would be re garded as contraband - while others would not, especially if the latter were intended for concern batants There might, for instance, be reasonable grounds for treating canned goods as contraband and flour as legitimate." After admitting that it "would be unadvisable to create a precedent which might some day be invoked against us," the article concludes as ' follows; "While we fully share the vievf that no serious change of policy should oo cur without cogent reasons , and ample consideration, wo cannqt bnt ask our selves whether, in the event ot Great Britain being engaged in war, the action, either Of the enemy or even of neutral powers, in; a matter noon which suoh groat divergence of opinion still exists is likely to be governed by any precedent we or any one else may have set in the past, rather than by the immediate interests of the moment," A NEW YQRK FIRE, Two Seven-Story Buildings Were De stroyed Firemen Injured. New York, Jan. ,1. The two seven- story buildings at 425 to 435 East Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi. pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil liam Campbell & Qo,, were destroyed Dy nra tonight, ine loss is fully $500,000. The plant of the New York Hygienic Ice Company, which occu pied the basement of 425, and that of the Manhattan Electric . Light : Com. pany, on the first and second floors of the same building, were totally de stroyed. A iftrge portion of the east side gets its lights from that company; and was, on aooount ; of the fire, cast into complete darkness. ' The Campbell company , employed 400 -hands, who will be thrown out of work by the fire. The properties of all three firms are de stroyed beyond the ' hope of saving a dollar's worth. The lqsses are partly covered by insurance. Throe hobkrand-ladder men. Andrew Degnan, Joseph Shaughnessy and Jos eph Bessinger, were caught PM the sixth floor qCthe huilding, and escaped with great dirBcu.lty, AU were severely burned, Shaughnessy and Bessinger were sent to Bellevue hospital. . The other hook-and-ladder men were caught on one of the high window ledges, with the flames roaring all around them and the dense smoke making them, almost imperceptible from the street. Exten? sion ladders were run . and firemen brought them down in an almost un conscious condition. " One of the men, Lee Potter, waj very severely burned, and was sent to Bellevue hospital. TWO ' TRAINS WRECKED. . One Person Was Killed and Fourteen Were Injured. Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. The Cbey enne flyer on the Union Pacific rail road crashed into, the Bpulder Yalley train, at Brighton, polo..,., at ft this morning. One man -Yf as UUed, Win field Randelman, express messenger, Denver, whose body wis burned ' to a crisp, .Fourteen persons were injured. The Boulder valley train left Denver a little late this morning, and as usual stopped at Brighton, which is the junc tion for the Boulder Valley line from the main line to Cheyenne. -The Chey enne flyer also left Denver . late, and coming into Brighton in the early morning dusk, ran into the tear end Of the Boulder train, telescoping two or three cars and derailing the passenger locomotive. r . Section gangs from Denver yards and half a dozeq passengers occupied the Boulder train. . The mail and baggage car and the smoker, of the . flyer. , were burned. Mrs. Young was in t&e chair car with six children,' Nona of the children were hurt, although she re ceived serious injury., . The wounded were brought to Denver, and taken to the hospitals. Conductor McAllister, of the Boulder valley train "was erased by ne aeciaent. lie attempted to jump into the burning wreckage, and had to be forcibly restrained. ; ': 1 f In his proclamation to the burghers, Baden-Powell makes, the extraordi nary statement, that the American gov ernment has warned others pi her in tentions tq, side with England should any of them interfere.. ; - ;:- General Whjte Ba the F.v Ladvsmith. Sundav. Deo. 24. via Pietermaritzburcr -General White has had a slight, attack, pi. fever, ' bnt is now convalescent. - -: . - It is reported that General Jouhevt ia a train in command of the Boers here. The military authorities appear confi dent, but tney are very reticent. About 2.000 claims .have henn fllnrl so far for pensions for disabilities re ceived during the Spanish-American war, - - - Hawaiian Steamer Wrecked, ' San Francisco, Jan.- 1. According to Honolulu advices, the island steamer Kilohana was wrecked December 10, at Lahaina. She ran on a reef between Lahaina and Kaanapali, and is a total loss. No lives were lost.; The weather was not rough, and it is supposed that the accident was due to an error of calculation. - At Adams a brass band has "begun to practice for the political campaign." At Silver Lake a number of stockmen have sold last spring's calves at $15 per bead. X "SOUTH - OF MANILA. Opening of the- Campaign In ' Southern Provinces. ; Manila, Jan. 3. The first movement of the general southern advance oc curred this morning, when two battal ions of the Fourth infantry landed and occupied Cabuyao, on the south side of Laguna de Bay. Two Americans were killed and two wounded. Twen ty-four of the enemy were found dead in one house. One hundred and fifty prisoners and four six-pounder rapid - nre guns were captured. The gunboat Laguna de Bay bom barded the town before the disembark ation of the troops from the cascoes. which was made under the enemy's shrapnel fire. The enemy evacuated tne place before the chare ina - Ameri cans, retreating to Santa ' Rosa, to which town they were pursued. Heavy fighting occurred . along the road to Santa Rosa, which was cccu pied by the insurgents, retreating south toward Silan. The Americans burned the country around Cabuyao. ' The gunboat returned to Calamba. for reinforcements, and thence came to Manila to get ammunition. She recently captured two of the enemy's steam launches, one under the fire of artillery, at Calamba, and also four cascoes loaded with rice. Other regi ments are mobilizing tonight at San Pedro Maoati and Pasig, preparatory to continuing tne southern advance. . . Yesterday's capture of bombs in volved the seizure of doooments incul pating 1,000 Filipinos who intended to rise against the Americans. Papers were also found showing a distribution of the city into districts, and a careful assignment of leaders and - followers The precautions taken by the Ameri cans Saturday, it is now evident, alone prevented an uprsing. The provost marshal has requested that two more regiments be detained for the protection of Manila. Three thousand troops are now actually in the city. ' Aguinaldo'a wife, sisters and 18 Filipinos have surrendered to Major March's battalion of the Third infantry at Bontoo. Three Filipino officers also surrendered to Major March, and the Filipinos gave up two Spanish and two American prisoners. A GREAT ZINC TRUST. Combination to Control the Output of the Country. Chicago, Jan. 3. Information has reached Chicago of a proposed combi nation to control the zinc output of the United States. Work on the scheme has been begun, and the initial steps have been taken in Kansas City. , Ac cording to one of the best-known zinc operators, who was in Chicago yester day, the plan includes not only the control of the mines, but of the smelt ing plants as well. Within a short time representatives of the combination will get a price on all producing ziiia mines in the Joplin, Mo., district, and secure options on them: It - has - been estimated by the promoters that it will take in the neighborhood of $100,000, 000 to swing the undertaking success fully, and this amounnt of money, with as much more as may be necessary, is said to be ready tq : go into the scheme," -.. " SCHOONERS IN COLLISION. . Phosphate Carrier Goes Down, but Crew Is Saved, Chicago, Jan. 3, A special tq the Tribune from Norfolk, Va., saysj , The schooners Fannie Brown and Margaret Roper collided off Hatterae, and the Fannie Brown sank. The 10 men of the crew were saved by the crew of the- Roper. The .collision occurred on the night of December 29, during a high wind. The big schooners crashed together be. fore the lookouts saw the danger. The Brown, being loaded with rock and phosphate, filled rapidly, and its crew of 10. had barely time to take to the boats, the schooner sinkly shortly after they put off. The Roper, disabled, stood by, and after a hard stiuggle got the Brown's erew safely aboard. . An Interesting Rumor. London, Jan. 1 . A " dispatch from Lorenzo Marquez, dated December 23, says a curious Btory is current, emanat-. ing from Boer sources that Matt, Steyn, brother of the president pf ; the Orange Free State, and. 80Q Jree Staters have definitely refused to continue the :Kvar, Matt, Steyn, acting as spokesman oi the party, is reported to have told the president that he was only . authorised to, intevene in the interest ot peace, and. that the, burghers did not feel that they were bound by his 'unwarrantable conduct,, especially as they fan the. risk of confiscation. o4 their- property, and they simply desried to be permitted tq farm in peace and proposed to, imwe dlately return to their- farms, : ; :. "Train W4thou an Engineer. Cedar.' Ranida. fa.. Jan. S TTio overland limited on the - Northwestern railway ran 50 miles last night with out an engineer. - No one on the train was conscious of the danger until the nreman Drougnt tne tram TO s - standi still at Bertram. . Near Mechanicsville. Knffinp.flT. "EV .T. isb. In snmA unknown manner, fell from the cab,' and the. nreman. aia no nonce nis aDsence. until the train had whirled oyer 6Q miles. PihIt a war nicked nrt nnnanantnnH a ffiw '. A 1 I T,- ' ' hours later, aja.d died in a hospital here tonign,. . - ; Fire In a, Rarth Carolina. Town, Greensboro., N, C Jan.-" 8. Fire last night caused losses aggregating nearly $ 100,000, partly covered by ' in surance, The heaviest losers are W. Cleary and the Hague-MoCord Dry Goods Company, J. -; : . .- , i .-. Family Burned to .Death. ' Barboursville, W. " Ya., Jan, 8. William Ellis,, wife and - two children were burned to death ia. their home near here today. The origin of the fire ia unknown. . Iho Invasion of Canada. '" ' New York, Jan. 3. A special to the Times from Burlington, Vt., ' says: It is reported that the Fenians are en gaged in storing large quantities of, dynamite,lyddite ammunition and sup plies in a few selected . repositories.' in remote districts of Vermont and Maine, near the Canadian boundary line. The information comes from persons who claim to have knowledge of the . pur chase of some of the supplies. The British consul at Kansas City has resigned and will become an Amer loan citizen, .v - Boers Were Driven Back by General1-French. . SUCCESSFUL FLANK MOVEMENT The Dutch Were Surprised, and. Find ing Their Retreat Threatened, Fled In Disorder Artillery Duel. Reinsberg, Cape Colony, Jan. 3. General French has completely defeated the Boeis and occupied Colesburg The general continued to keep the Boers on the move and pressed them closely Saturday - and Sunday, giving them no time to make a prolonged stand, and when day broke he was within striking distance of the enemy Last night all the cavalry, artillery and infantry, the latter riding in wag ons to increase the general mobility. started upon a night march with the object o'f turning the Boer's right. The flank operations were successful. The infantry and field batteries immediately made a feint attack on the Boer front. and while this was proceeding the cav alry and light artillery got completely around the enemy's right flank, as ar ranged. The programme worked without hitch. The Boers were utterly sur prised, and, finding their retreat threat ened, fled in disorder, to the eastward, leaving Colesburg in General French's hands. Artillery Duel for Two Hours. London, Jan. 3 The Daily Mail has the following dispatch, dated January 1, from Reinsberg: "Yesterd'sy afternoon a big force oi cavalry and infantry, with 10 guns, under the personal command of General French, moving by a detour, occupied some hills three miles from - Colesburg, where the Boers were in strength, con fident in the natural aid afforded them by the hills around. . "The enemy '8 position extended six miles around the entire village. At daybreak our artillery opened the bat tle. The Boers were taken by surprise, but replied vigorously. An artillery duel was mamtainned for two - hours. Then a Boer Hotchkiss collapsed and was abandoned. We captured it. A Boer big gun was silenced, but this and the other Boer guns were with drawn to the northward, whither we are harassing the Boer retreat by a damaging shell fire. "Colesburg is in our hands, and the few remaining loyalists are jubilant. We have oaptured many wagons and a considerable quantity of stores. - ' . "Our loss was quite slight, but the Boers must have suffered heavily. They may stop at Achertang or cross the river altogether at Norvalspont, where the bridge ia still intact." -, .. "'.- Rising of Cape Dutch. ; " .' e Cape Town, Jan. 8.; tJgly rumors are in circulation of a Dutch rising, with the object of seizing Cape Town and the docks and capturing the gover nor qf Cape Colony Sir Alfred Milner. The center of the movement is said , to be Paari, a village about 30 miles from Cape Town, where a-meeting of the Afrikanderbund was held- yesterday. A similar meeting was held at Rich mond December 28; and it is reported that the members of the bund in these two towns are acting in concert. The members of the bund at Willing- ton and the Dutch in Clan William district are said to be armed with Mausers, and to be anxious to use them in behalf of the Boers. . Although the stories of a rising are disciedited, the police and military are taking ample precautions. . i Philippine Hemp Trade. Washington, Jan. 3. Assistant Sec- retray of War Meiklejohn, in a letter to Representative Long, of Kansas, . re garding the opening of the hemp ports in the Phlippme islands, says: The estimated exports of hemp from the Philippine islands .for one year, of American occupation will ap proximate 100,000 tons, of which amount 29,000 tons should be credited to the United States. This places the estimated exports to the United States for the year ot American - occupation at abqut 17,000 tons less than the ex ports of 1897. This is accounted for by the fact that there have been opened for shipment only three porta of the Philippine islands. "Every effort has been made by the war department in the past and will be made in the future to comply with re quests to open all the so-called hemp ports of the islands." ' Aoetylene Gas Explosion. Stromsberg, ; Neb., ; Jan. . 3. Eden Baptist church, which was dedicated only a year ago, was totally destroyed by fire this morning, and two people were seriously injured. The fire was caused by an explosion of acetylene gas, with which the church was lighted, - The gas generator and the furnace were both located in the base ment, and it is supposed escaping . gas waa ignited by the furnace. A large, number of people were in the church just previous to the explosion. The building was badly wrecked, and what was not destroyed by the explosion was consumed by fire. Great Northern's New Branch. Chicago, Jan. 1. -The Tribune says: December 31 the Sioux City & North ern railroad, from Garretson, S. D., to Sioux City, will pass from the hands of the co-receivers to the control of the Great Northern railway. 'It is stated that President J. J. Hill, oi the Great Northem,oontemplates radical changes. The German press is hostile to the British seizure of a German ship. Two German cruisers have been sent to Del agoa bay. - Pittsburg, Jan. 3. An explosion of sewer gas at Knoxville, a thriving borough near here,- about midnight, demolished 17 frame houses and a number of stables, partly wrecked a dozen more frame dwelling, and tore up several streets for hundreds of feet. No one was injured. San Diego, Cal., Jan. 3. Chas. Tag- gert, who arrived in this city from the Cocopah country of Lower California, reports that the earthquake of Christ mas day had a marked effect upon the geysers of that region, causing them to spout with redoubled force ' BRADSTREETS REVIEW. Temporary Reaction From the Heaviest Holiday Trade on Record. . Bradstreet's says: Holiday influence and stock-taking impart an appearance of dullness to general distributive trade, broken, however, by fair activity in reorder business to fill up stocks de pleted by the heaviest holiday trade that has ever hef.n fiTTWvrifinonH Anticipation of spring trade wants has given a more than ordinarily ac tive appearance to business in dry goods at New York, while in industrial lines the efforts of manufacturers to keep up with filled order-books is re sulting in unusually active operations. Following the flurry in money, stocks and in some lines of speculative com modities noted last week, has come, as was expected, a more cheerful tone, and a firming up in quotations is noted In such staples as cotton, which was effected by last week's money develop ments, and also in hog products, cof fee, copper, tin and lead. The strength of textiles is still a feature which finds justification in current statistics of larger season's receipts and sales of wool, and in reports of enlarged old and heavily increased new capacity in manufacturing lines. . In iron and steel, seasonable quiet ae regards new business is observable, but unabated activity on earlier booked orders is reported. In some cases, no shutdown was made for the holidays by mills and furnaces. Wheat (including flour) shipments for the week aggregate 8,610,557 bush els, agaist 2,813,714 bushels last week, 6,202,625 bushels in the corresponding week of 1898. 6,495,061 bushels in 1895. . For the year, failures are the smallest in number for 17 years past, and were it not for a few heavy fiancial suspen sions in December, liabilities, which will exceed those of 1892 slightly, would have been smallest for 12 yeais past. . PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Seattle Markets. Onions, new, f 1.00 1.25 per sack. Potatoes, new, $16 20. Beets, per sack, 75 85c. Turnips, per sack, 60o. Carrots, per sack, 50o. " " Parsnips, per sack, 75 85c. Cauliflower,-75o$l per dozen. Cabbage, native and California, 73 90o per 100 pounds. ' Peaches, 6580o. Apples, $1.25 1.50 per box. Pears, $1.00 1.25 per box. Prunes, 60o per box. Watermelons, $1.50. Nutmegs, 50 75c. Butter Creamery, 32o per pound; dairy, i7(92c; rancn, aao per pound. Eggs Firm, 80 31o. Cheese Native, 16o. Poultry 9 10c; dressed, 13 14c. , Hay Puget Sound timothy, $12.00; choice Eastern - Washington timothy, $17.0018.00 ' Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23; feed meal, $28. - Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, en,. 1 ln ,nn ' Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.85; blended straights, $3.10; California, S3 2K; . hnnlrwhnat flnnr. $fi 00: orra- ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat flour, $3.10; rye flour, $3.804.00. - Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $16.00; . shorts, per ton, $17.00. Feed Chopped feed, $20.50 per ton; middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal, per ton, $32.00. , Portland Market. '., Wluul! Walla Walla K1 531 KOrt Valley, 52c; Bluestom, 64o per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.00; graham. An gy An . " . 1 . . $2.ou; supemne, 92.10 per uarrei. - Oats Choice white, 34 35c; choice brewing, $18.0018.60 per ton. Millstuffs Bran. $17 per, ton: mid illinfffl $9.9? oVin-rfja Sift nVrT. S 1 ft twvf ton. - , C? - T w " ' - Hay Timothy, $9 10.50; clover, V(g; uregonwua nay, $0(3t per ion. Butter Fancv -creamery. 50(d)55c: seconds, 42K45o; dairy, 8740c; store, 25 86c. Eggs 18 19o per dozen. , Cheese Oregon full cream, 18c; Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo jt - Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 3.50 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs, $2.503.50; geese, $7.009.00 for old; $4. 60 6. 60 for young; ducks, $4.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12)it13o per pound. Potatoes 5570o per sack; sweets, 22J4o per pound. . r Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 90c; per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cauli flower, 76o per dozen; parsnips, $1; beans, 66o per pound; celery, 70 75o per dozen; encumbers, 60o per box; peas, 84oper pound; tomatoes, 7 5o per box; green corn, 12&(g 15o per dozen. , ' , Hops 8 11c; 1898 crop, 56o. . Wool Valley, 1213o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 8 14o; mohair, 37 -80o per pound. :' ' Mutton Gross, best sheep, wetners. and ewes, 8Kc; dressed mutton, 6& 7c per pound; lambs, 7o per pound. ; Hogs Gross, choice heavy, so.uu; . light and feeders, $4.50; dressed, $5.506.00 per 100 pounds. ' Beef GrosB, top steers, $3.504.00; cows, $33.60; dressed beef, 6K iHo per pound. . "r : Veal Large, 6&7c; small, Bg 8KopOT pound. .: . ? ' ' Baa Francisco Market. . Wool Spring-Nevada, 12 16c pei pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 16o; Valley,- '20 22c; Northern, 10 1 2c. ..Hops 1899 crop, ll12o . per pound. Onions Yellow, 7685o per sack. Butteir Fancy creamery 24 25c; do seconds, 22 23c; fancy dairy, 20 21o; do seconds, 19o per pound. Eggs Store, 2527o; fancy ranch, 84c. ... - ' Millstuffs Middlings, $16.00 19.00; bran, $13 14.00. . Hay Wheat $7. 00 9; wheat and ' oat $7.60 9.00; best barley $5.00 7.50; alfalfa, $5.00 7.50 per ton; straw, 8545o per bale. Potatoes Early Rose, $1.00; Ore gon tsurDanss, 000(91. 10; river uur banks, 45 75c; Salinas Burbanks, $1.00 1.26 per sack. - Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, $2.788.25; Mexloan limes, $4.00 6.00; California lemons 76cfl.C0; do ohoi.oe $1.76 3.00 per box. Tropioal Fruits Bananas, $1.60 2.60 per bunch: pineapples, nom inal; Persian dates. 6J6Ko pel pound,