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COEVALLIS, BENTON COIIKTt2POX' FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1900.
VOL. XXX VII. NO. 12.
I NEWS Of 1 WEEK
From All Parts of the Nev
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive KeTlew of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Called Fran the Telegraph Columns
General Jonhert is now in supreme
command of the Boers.
The total cost of the war in the Phil'
Ippines so far is $50,000,000.
British casualties in the final relief
of Ladysraith were almost 2,000.
The island of Tutuila, of the Samoan
group, is to be ose.l as a naval station.
Fire in the retail dry goods district
of Philadephia, caused a loss of $700,
Boers say tliat the retreat from Lady
smith was due to a commander's mis
take.
Senator Hoar now wants to give
Queen Liliuokalani $ SjO.OOO from the
treasury. ;
The Puerto Bican tariff bill was de
nounced from the pulpit by a Washing'
ton minister.
Steps are being taken to organize i
bank with $25,000 capital at lone,
Morrow county. Or. ;
Strikes and labor troubles of .various
kinds have thrown 50,000 men out of
employment in Chicago.
Ci'il war is imminent in China.
One province is already in revolt over
the dethronement of the emperor.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of H. B. Miller, of Josephine
county, Oregon, to be consul at Chung
Kiang, China.
Lady White, wife of General Sir
George White, has been invested by
Queen Victoria with the Order of the
Crown of India. "'.-.
Congressman Alfred C. Ha'rmer, of
Pennsylvania, father of the house of
representatives, is dead at Philadel
phia, aged 75 years. ' "
The United States government has
ordered that the California "Mammoth
Tree Grove," in Calaveras county, be
bonded for park purposes.
The Pure Food and Drug congress,
in convention at Washington, adopted
' resolutions seeking congressional action
to provide penalties for. adulteration.
Isaac Gordon, of Birmingham, Eng
; land, -the notorious money lender, is
dead. He was known all over the
kingdom, under various aliases, and is
said to have been worth 1,000,000
Dr. Nansen, the explorer, questioned
in regard to the possible fate of Andre,
'said: "I believe as long, as possible,
' In his return,' making the. ''most liberal
allowance of time for his reappearance,
but I no longer have any hope. I don't
believe that he is living; otherwise we
should certainly have heard of him.
All that can be looked for now is the
recovery of his body." '
The plague in Honolulu is under con
trol. General Gatacre has occupied Storm
berg. Cape Colony Boers are retreating to'
Orange Free State.
General Joe Wheeler has "arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
A resolution was introduced in con
gress asking for repeal of the tariff on
paper. - - .
The British government has decided
to retain Lord Pauncefote as ambas
sador at Washington indefinitely.
The latest sugar trust's dividend was
smaller than usual, supposed to be the
result of the fight with Arbuckle.
Yaqui Indians dispersed 300 Mexi
can soldiers who were acting as escort
to the mail, near Potam, Mexico.
Gerald ine, the famous' racing mare,
holder of the world's record for half a
mile, is dead at Napa Farm, near
Napa, Cal. '
Lieutenant Edgar Koehler, of the
Ninth infantry, was led 1 into an am
bush of Filipino rebels north of Tarlao
and killed.
The Howe Lumber Company of
Lowell, Mass., has assigned as a result
of the failure of the Globe National
bank, in Boston, to which the company
owed a large amount of money.
A revolutionary movement near . San
Salvador was recently nipped in the
bud, and a confiscation by the govern
ment of $50,000 belonging Dr. Jose
Alfarado, took place, who, it is report
ed, was to have led the revolt.
Sir Charles Tupper, .ex-premier of
Canada, believes that the Alaska boun
dary and other disputed questions be
tween the United States and " Canada,
will soon be settled and that Canada
will get the worst of it. -:-
At a meeting of the Baptist Social
Union ol Boston, it was announced on
behalf of the Union Theological Insti
tution that John ' D. Rockefeller has
undertaken to contribute one-half of
the $400,000 needed to complete the
equipment of that institution.
In the United States there are 5,427,
707 bachelors and 3,224,494 spinsters.
The first woman's clno of Puerto
Rico has been organized by some Amer
ican women living in Ponce.
The longest span of telegraph wire in
the world is that over the river Kistna
in India. It is over 6,000 feet long.
The usual output from 100 gold
mines in the immediate vicinity of
Johannesburg is 15 tons of gold a
month.
More than 17,000 passenger and
freight cars and 120 locomotives have
been ordeied by 20 railroads, the cost
amounting to $13,000,000.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, of Chicago,
has removed her stocks and bonds out
aide of Illinois to escape excessive taxa
tion. Similar- action by others is
feared.
The late Robert Bonner's mare Sunol
was sold at auction in New York to
John H. Schultz, of Brooklyn, for
$4,000. Mr. Bonner paid $41,000 for
the animal.
LATER NEWS.
John Z. Little, the actor, died in
Brooklyn, aged 62 years.
The United States will establish a
naval station in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
San .Francisco has had a case of genu
ine bubonic plague. . Chinatown is to
be cleaned up.
The Chinamen of Philadelphia have
. decided to band together for the pur-
pose of self-protection.
Fifteen persons, the majority of
whom were children, perished-in
tenement-house lire at Newaik, N. J
In Chicago, while playing With a re'
volver, a 7-year-old boy shot his mother
in the- abdomen. The wound will
prove fatal.
Erving Winslow, secretary of " the
Anti-Imperialist League, says that the
anti-expansion vote will be between
2,000,000 and 3,000.000.
' Walla Walla, Wash., veterans of the
Spanish-American war contemplate or
ganizing a camp to be named after
General Henry W. Law ton.
Addison C. Rand, president of the
Rand Drill Company, and treasurer of
the Laflin & Rand Powder Company,
died in New York, aged 59 years.
The schooner Lala and Mattie was
wrecked on Tillamook bar, being blown
ashore while trying to get out of the
bay. The vessel will be a total wreck
Puerto Ricans must be fed for many
months yet. In the center of the
island there is nothing to eat and fruit
cannot be had for from two to four
months.
The Portuguese authorities at Lou-
renco Marques, at the request of Great
Britain, have arrested ' four Germans
bound for Pretoria, with arm's and let
ters of introduction from Dr. Leyds
Permission to do general business in
Japan has been refused 60 foreign in
surance companies, - most of them
American. Japanese officials state that
this results from the fact that their ap
plications have failed to comply with
the Japanese insurance laws.
It is probable that the warring Chi
nese tongs in San Francisco will be
brought together for the purpose of
effecting a peaceful settlement of the
difficulties which caused the death of
three prominent Chinese wthin the last
two weeks. The Wah Ting and Sin
Suey Ying tongs have been arrayed
against the Suey Sing tongs, and while
the- former organizations started the
shooting, the latter retaliated in a ter
rible way a week ago, when two prom
inent members of the first named tong
were shot down in their places of busi
ness. '
The senate passed the diplomatic and
consular bill. ' -
Queen Liliuokalani will receive
pension from the government. ,
General Joe Wheeler's resignation
will be accepted on his arrival in
Washington. ;.
Rear-Admiral McCormick has been
plaoed on the retired list on his own
application. ' :;
General Kobbe, with 2,500 men, has
occupied the town of Sorsogon, in the
southern end of Luzon.
Thousands of organized insurgents
are resisting the Americans in the
Antique province in Panay.
The annual reports of Indian agents
show that the entire Indian population
of the United States is 297,905.
The legislature of Illinois appropriat
ed $100,000 for the reconstruction of
the Lincoln moument at Springfield. -
The mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, has subscribed for 2,
000,000 of the new English war loans.
The legislative trouble at Frankfort,
Ky., is at the boiling point. Militia is
in complete control of the state execu
tive building.
The threatened strike of the em
ployes of the St. Louis Transit Com
pany is off. An agreement satisfactory
to both sides was reached.
Indications are that the Boer war is
drawing to an end. President Kruger
has appealed to Lord Salisbury for a
cessation of hostilities.
Taxation of corporations in Paris has
led to the transfer of many main offices
to Brussels, French societies being in-
orporated there under the laws of Bel
gium to avoid the French income tax.
Admiral Kautz, commander-in-chief
of the Pacific squadron, has been
ordered to proceed with the Philadel
phia to the coast of Central America
for the purpose of protecting American
interests there.
The pi esident has commuted to im
prisonment for life the sentence ci
death imposed by court-martial in the
case of Private George Murphy, com
pany C, Twenty-fourth infantry, con
victed of the murder of another soldier
of the same company in the Philippines.
Dr. H. D. Morgan', of the United
States navy, speaking of the war in the
Philippines, says: "I do not believe
that the revolution is at an end. The
Filipinos are scattered about the
islands, mainly in Luzon, in small
bands, but it is generally understood
that they are under orders to concen
trate at any given point when the word
assed. I do not believe that Agui-
naldo is in China. It is my impression
he is still in Luzon."
Leading Paris hotels have raised
the
rates from $3 to $9 a day.
Thomas A. Edison, Jr., says he has
constructed a safety electric miner's
lamp.
Prof. W. G. Sumner told his class at
Yale that 90 per cent of all. marriages
ire unhappy.
The largest real estate owner of all
American institutions is the University
of Texas, which holds over 2,000,000
acres of land.
The annual report of the New York
state board of health shows that 13,
257 died in that state last year of con
sumption. The total exports of coffee from the
island of Puerto Rico from the date of
American occupation to November 30,
1899, was 53,243,053 pounds valued at
$6,139,955.
After nearly half a century of news
paper and literary work in this .country
Mrs. Jennie June Croly will soon leave
for England, the land of her birth,
where she intends to pass the remain
ing years of her life.
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Town
of Aparri Assaulted
by - Filipinos.
TROOPS NEEDED IN THE NORTH
Rebels In the Southern Peninsula Scat
tered Into Small ' Bands Massacre
at Calabanga 40 Spaniards Killed
Manila, March 12. Generals Young
and Hood are asking for reinforcements
and a battalion of the Forty-eighth has
been sent to Aparri. Other troops will
follow. -
: The rebels recently persistently' at
"tacked Aparri fur several hours, but
were finally driven away. Details o
the affair are lacking.
The rebels' are holding reunions in
the proivnce of North 1 locos and the
red Katapunan . cross, symbolic of re
sistence, is again - appearing"' among
the natives. - ' ' '"."-- ' :
It is believed that the insurgent gen
erals, Tinto and Florhes, have be in
driven by Young into Hood's territory
The fact that Young is unable, owing
to lack of troops, to maintain garrisons
in all the towns occupied has had u
bad effect on the natives.
General Bates,, has returned here af
ter leaving garrisons in the provinces of
North and South Camarines. The ex
pedition lost seven men killed and 10
wounded. On entering New Caceres,
province of South Camarines, General
Bates learned that 2.000 insurgents
had departed the same day. The Ameri
cans immediately sent out three pursu
ing columns, encountering the enemy
.in three small engagements and killing
a. total of 40 men.
The Spanish prisoners report that the
enemy was divided into small bands in
the mountains, under the leadership of
General Legaspi. The town of Iriga
jhas been burned by the enemy. Both
provinces were tnorougmy scoutea.
The inhabitants of the district of
Lihmanan, including Abella, the pro-
.vincial governor and other officials, are
-returning to their homes. Abella has
issued a proclamation calling Upon the
natives to submit to the Americans.
The liberated priests from New Ca
ceres report that the insurgents killed
68 Chinamen and 40 Spaniards at the
town of Calabanga.
It is estimated that thore are 100,-
000 bales of, hemp in the Cauiarinei
provinces.
Twelve hundred well armed insur
gents, formerly of Cavite proivnce,
with a Chinese colonel in command,
surround the towns of Albay and Le
gaspi. They have effected' three night
attacks and continually harass the
Forty-seventh regiment, which has lost
eight men killed and 20 wounded in
defending these towns.
CONTROL OF PHILIPPINES.
General Wheeler Suggests a Territorial
Government.
San Francisco, March 12. General
Joseph Wheeler favors giving the Phil
ippines a territorial form of govern
ment. Said he:
"I believe the people are leady for a
certain kind of self-government. . They
could be given the power to make laws,
under such a sytem of government as
has been adopted for vour territories.
The municipal governments are all in
the hands of the natives, and they get
along without - trouble or friction.
Under a territorial form, the islands
could be best controlled."
He reviews his impressions of trade
possibilities in the Orient as follows:
England, Russia, Germany and
France have braved war and pestilence
in efforts to secure a share of the
wealth which will come to them by
commeroial relations with these peo
ple. The treaty of peace cast upon us
the responsibility of sovereignty over
from 9,000,000 to 11,000,000 people,
together with the' islands which they
inhabit, containing an area three times
that of our great and prosperous Empire
state.
'Very naturally, there may be honest
differences of opinion as to whether
everything has been conducted during
the two years in accordance with the
highest wisdom and best possible judg
ment, but there should be no question
among the American people as to the
duty and wisdom of now uniting in a
determined effort to take the situation
as it stands, and so conduct the affairs
of our country as to add the most to its
glory, honor, welfare and prosperity.
It is a friendly struggle for commercial
supremacy in which our rival nations
are using their best efforts, and I say,
let us, in a friendly but determined
-spirit, use our best efforts also."
Labor Disorders la Chicago.
onicago, March 12. Efforts of con
tractors today to place nonunion men
at work on . buildings in various parts
of the city, work on which has been in
terrupted by the strike, resulted in sev
eral encounters between union and non
union men. At the new Ogdensburg
dock, Ohio and Kingsbury streets, the
contractors succeeded in getting eight
men through the picket lines of the
union workmen and put them to work.
few bricks were thrown, but no one
was hurt, and the police quickly sup
pressed the disorder.
Big Fire at Lead. ,
Lead, S. D., March 10. Fire this
morning destioyed 40 buildings. The
Deadwood fire department was called
on for assistance, and responded. In
addition to the combined fire depart
ments, it was found necessary to blow
up buildings in the path of the fire with
dynamite in order to stop its spread.
Owing to the high wind blowing, the
scarcity of water and the inflammable
nature of the buildngs, the firemen
were unable to do anything to stay the
flames in any other way.
Victims of the Bed Ash Mine.
Thurmond, W. Va., March 12. The
total number of those taken out of the
Red Ash mine up to tonight is 31.
Of these, two men and a boy, all col
ored, are living and may recover. The
number thought to be in the' mine is
20. This makes 48 killed and three in
jured. - "- ' -'
' Accident In a French Mine.
Nimes, France, March 12. Sixteen
miners have been killed by an explo
sion in a coal pit at Besaeges. The gal
leries of the mine collapsed, buryne the
bodies of the victims, "
THEATER FRANCAIS - BURNS.
Destruction of a Famous Paris Play-
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. Paris, March 12. The famous ; The
ater Francais has been destroyed by fire.
The fire broke out about noon, but
was not discovered immediately, 'and
the theater was burning furiously be
fore the fire brigade got to work. Even
then the appliances were quite inade
quate to cope with the conflagration,
and by 1:30 P..M. the entire building
was a roaring furnace. The dense col
umn of smoke arising from the fire at
tracted crowds from all parts of Paris,
the Theater Francais being regarded as
a national institution. The theater,
which is the home of the Comedie Fran
cais, was only reopened a lortnignt ago,
after having been renovated for the ex
position throngs expected to visit Paris
during the year.
A rehearsal of a comedy which was
billed for the matinee' had just con
cluded when the fire broke out. In
deed, two actresses, Madame Dudlay
and Mademoiselle Henryot, were still
on the stage when an electric wire
fused, and, a spark catching the scen
ery, the whole stage was soon in flames.'
Madame Dudlay had to be rescued in
costume and let down from a window.
M. Sardou, the playwright, arrived on
the scene about 1 o'clock, and burst
into tears when he saw the building
was doomed. A part of the dome col
lapsed at 2:30 P. M. . -
The Theater Francais. or Comedie
Francais, was situated on the Place du
Theater-Francais, near the Palais
Royal, and occupied the highest rank
among the theaters of France.
The magnficient ceiling, bearing
the
the
the
the
allegorical painting by Mazerolle,
ceiling painting by De Beufly
younger, of "Truth Enlightening
World,"- which adorned the foyer.
and
a number of other mural tableaux and
works of art, together with a portion of
the invaluable library of manuscript,
perished in the flames. . Practically all
the sculpture, however, was saved and
removed to the ministry of finance,
which faces the site of the theater on
the Rue de Rivoli. The priceless
statute of Voltaire, by Houden, one of
the chief beauties of the foyer, escaped
by being enveloped in a pile of mat
WILL FIGHT TO THE END.
Secretary Kelts Says the Burghers Are
Not Discouraged.'
Pretoria. March 12. Secretary of
State Reitz has issued : war bulletins
in which, after saying the government
has no official tidings of the surrender
of General Cronje, he must accept it as
a fact, however painful, he adds:
The government remains assured
that the surrender will not discourage
the burghers in the defense of their in
dependence and standing as a nation,
The struggle thus far has shown that
the republics have vindicated them
selves as an independent people. This
reverse will not stagger us. In . the
struggle for our cherished rights, our
belief remains that, whatever happens,
the Lord still reigngrOwinglSLtba
invasion of the Free State by a large
number of the enemy, and other cir
cumstances, it became necessary to
take up other positions, hence the
burghers in Natal have retried to Big'
gersberg. All the commandos have
reached there in safety, except a few
who retired in the direction Van Reen-
en's Pass. Thus Ladysmith and Kim
berley are no more besieged. In retir
ing, the enemy was time after time
driven back, so that our laagers were
pot cut off. In these fights a few men
were killed or wounded, and the enemy
lost heavily.
. "In spite of all -reports, the spirit of
the fighting men as to the outcome re
mains unchanged. Among the com
mandos in Natal the burghers are full
of courage. General Dewet now com
mands all the commandos at the Mod
der river. The president started yes
terday evening for Bloemfontein, to
visit the laagers of the Free State."
Disbursing Clerk Arrested.
Washington, March 12. Chief Wil
kie, of the tieasury secret service, was
notified today of the arrest in Philadel
phia, of Edward E. Grimmell, formerly
a civilian clerk in the disbursing office
of the medical department under Major
D. H. Hall, in San Francisco. Chief
Wilkie states that on December 23
Grimmell decamped with a clerk book
containing 400 checks of the regulation
engraved kind used by the disbursing
clerks, directed to the assistant treas
urers of the United States. He came
east and south and in January drew
'checks made payable to him to an
amount approximating $10,000.
Fuie Factory Blew Up.
Pompton, N. J., March 12. The
Smith fuse manufactory, at this place,
blew up today and four persons were
killed and a number more or less in
jured. The victims were at work in
the factory with about 80 other men
and girls. The bodies of the four per
sons Kiuea were Daouy mangiea, ana
some of them blown to pieces, ..-'-
Desperado Killed.
Denver, March 12. A special to the
Republican from Albuquerque, N. M.,
pays: Samuel Sandoval, a young des
perado, was killed and several citizens
wounded at the battle at Atarique,
which followed an attempt to arrest
Sandoval and Juan Mestas, who had
been shooting up the town. Mestas
was captured.
Debs and Harriman.
Indianapolis, March 12. For presi
dent, Eugene V. Debs, of Indiana; for
vice-president, Job Harriman, of Cali
fornia. This is the national ticket of
the Social Democratic party, which
will absorb the Hilquit-Harriman fac
tion of the Socialint Labor party by
agreement. The Social Democrats were
happy today. They say the candidacy
of Debs will attract hundreds of thou
sands of voters to their party. Thev
profess to see the beginning of a great
national victory.
Ironworkers Get More Pay.
Youngstown, O., March 12. At the
bimonthly wage conference here yester
day between representatives of the
amalgamated association and the iron
manufacturers, an advance of 25 cents
a ton in the rate for puddling was
! agreed upon. The rate will now be $6
a ton, the highest paid since 1880.
About 20,000 men are affected by the
advance.
Engine Factory Burned.
Elmira, N. Y., March 10. The plant
of the Payne Engine Company was de
stroyed by fire today. Loss, $100,000-
II BOERS AT Will
J.
British
Came Upon Them
Unexpectedly.
WERE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
The Dutch Troops Withdrew In th
'Night, Leaving the Imperial Forces
j In Possession Boers' Stubborn Fight.
Driefontein, March . 12. Broad
wood's cavalry brigade, advancing on
Bloemfontein, unexpectedly found the.
Boers in a strong position in ' the Di-ie-fobtein
kopjes yesterday. General
Kelly-Kenny's division arriving, severe
hunting ensued. The Boers resisted
stubbornly, but were driven from their
center position, leaving a number of
dead and 40 prisoners. . The British
force is moving forward today.
- During the fightins. in which five
regiments took' part, with artillery, the
Boers, though forced from their center
position, clung tenaciously to the othei
kopjes, shelling the British freely with
three guns and two Vickers Maxims.
The British cavalry began to turn the
Boer position, but night fell before the
movement was completed. The Boers
retired during the night.
A large number of Australians were
engaged yesterday. The First Austral
ian horse brigade, with the Scots Greys,
advanced within 800 yards of the Boers
under heavy fire. The New South
Wales mounted infantry joined in the
pursuit of the Boers northward.
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Boers Stubborn Bear Gnard Action.
i AH of yesterday was occupied in
fighting. The Boers maintained a
stubborn rear guard action along a run
ning front of 12 miles on very difficult
rmnd. The British were advancing
the three columns. General Tucker,
to the southward, occupied Petersburg,
unopposed. General Kelly-Kenny,
after following the river bank, moved
in the direction of Abraham's Kraal.
At Driefontein, about eight miles
south of Abraham's Kraal, the Boers
were found posted in considerable
strength on the ridges connecting sev
eral kopjes, where they had mounted
guns. The action began at 8 in the
morning, with an artillery duel. Gen
eral Porter's brigade .supported the
British guns. The Boer artillery wag
accurately .handled, and . the British
cavalry found a task harder than they
had ; expected. General Broadwood
moved six miles southward trying tc
find a means to get around, but the
Boers followed, behind rising ground.
and even attempted to outflank him.
.4 Meanwhile, the Sixth division of in
fantry, advancing on the Boer left,
slowly forced the enemy to retire. Had
the infantry been able to move faster,
the Boers would have been enveloped
The last shot was fired at 7:30 P. M
This morning not a Boer was seen. The
prisoners belonged to President Kruger'i
own commando.. '
BOTH SIDES ARMED.
Fighting Forces Confront Each Othei
in Kentucky.
Frankfort,! Ky.. March 12. The
Democrats and Republicans are today,
for the first time since the present
polititcal complications assumed acute
form, divided into two armed -and
organized factions. Surrounding the
capitol and the state executive build
ing, and encamped in the grounds
around Governor Taylor's Dome, are
nearly 200 state militia, well provided
with ammunition, while in the corri
dors of the Capitol hotel, in which the
Democratic state executive offices are
located, and in the street adjacent to
that building, are 60 special officers
and the men and boys of a militia com
pany that was organized in Frankfort
today as the nucleus of Governor Beck
ham's state gurad. besides scores more
of heavily armed citizens, partisans of
the Democratio claimant.. It was
stated today that an attempt was to be
made by the state militia to take Gov
ernor Beckham into custody, and inside
of an hour after the report was circu
lated, a petition had been circulated
and signed by the requisite, number of
men necessary to form a militia com
pany. The men will guard the Capitol
hotel day and night against any possi
ble attempt to arrest Governor Beck
ham.
Convict-Made Binding Twine.
Kansas City, Mo., March 12. Im
plement men say trouble is about to re
sult because of the action of the board
of control of the Kansas state peniten
tiary making binding twine. Kansas
City makes about 7,000,000 pounds of
twine a year, and the new factory at
the state penitentiary, is equipped to
turn out about one-tenth of this amount.
This is enough to disturb the market.
While regular dealers are asking re
tail merchants to pay them 11 cents
per pound for their offerings, the Kan-
i penitentiary managers announce
they will sell theirs direct to the farmer
at 10 cents per pound, 1 cents less
than the retail dealers can buy it for.
Befused to Order General Strike.
Chicago, March 12. The Building
Trades Council at its meeting today re
fused to order a general sympathetic
strike, at the request of the officers of
the machinists' union.
Fatal Boston Fare.
Boston, March 12. Fire early this
morning in the four-story building of
the Massachusetts Macaroni Company,
on, North street, caused the death of
one fireman, the probable fatal injury
of another and the serious injury of two
others, besides entailing a financial
loss estimated at $75,000 to $150,000.
Three Fresh Cases in Sydney.
Sydney, N. S. W., March 12. Three
fresh cases of bubonic plague in Sydney
are officially reported today.
Going to Join Colombian Rebels.
Kingston, Jamaica, March 12. A
general and 15 men have landed here
on the way to Colon. They say they
are Argentinians, and are going to join
the Colombia revolutionists.'
Mail advices today from Panama re
port that the Colombian revolutionary
movement continues.
Phosphate Mining Firm Suspended.
Ocala, Fla., March 12. The phos-
nhfite mining firm of Hood & Hubbard,
at Bunnellon, has suspended tempor
ally. About 1.000 men are aaectoot
AT STEYN'S CAPITAL.
General French's Cavalry
Arrives 'at
Bloeinfontein.
London, March 14. The war office'
has received a dispatch from Lord Rob
erts announcing that, after a fight with
the Boers, General French occupied
two hills close to the station command
ing Blemfontein.
The Main Army Following.
London, March 14, The war office
has received the following additional
dispatch from Lord Roberts at Venter's
Vleit:
"Our march was again unopposed.
We are now about 18 miles from Bloem
fontein. The cavalry division is
astride the railway six miles south ' of
Bloemfontein. There are 321 men
wounded. About 60 or 70 men were
killed or are missing." '
FOUR BATTLES IN MEXICO.
Yaquis K,ose Heavily Against
Govern-
ment Troops.-.
Austin; Tex.,' March 14. A special
from Potam, Mex., says that during
the. four -days ending on Friday, the
Yaqui Indians and the Mexican troops
had four engagements near Cocorito,
Mex. The Mexican troops are endeav
oring to force their way through this
section of the country, so as to keen a
roadway between Torin and that point
open for travel. There are a great
many Indians known to be in this sec
tion, and it is evident that a very
strong force will have to be in the field
at once to suppress the uprising. The
engagements of the four days men
tioned are said to be very disastrous for
the Indians, as in the neighborhood of
200 are known to have been killed, and
possibly more. The Mexican soldiers
suffered very little loss of life, though
some 20 soldiers were wounded. All
the engagements were in the nature t
skirmishes lasting only a few hour?.
when the Indians would retire.
The fact that the Maya Indians have
also taken to the war path and are
harassing the troops a great deal, gives
rise to grave surmises as to how long it
will take to bring the uprising to a ter
mination. "
A special from Ortiz, state of Sonora,
is to the effect that on Friday reports
reached there of a bloody skirmish be
tween a band of some 800 Yaquis and
about an equal number of soldiers,
about 50 miles west of .that place, in
w hich the fighting was continued most
of the dav. The loss among the sol
diers was light, owing to their splendid
fortifications, with the Indians in the
open. It was a clever laid trap into
which the Indians were led, and, while
they left none of their dead on the
field, it is thought their loss is heavy,
as quite a number were seen to fall.
Reliable information states that fully
2,500 Yaquis are now in the neighbor
hood ot uuaymas, and fully as many
more are prowling between Medano
and Potam.
HOW THE CUVIER WAS SUNK.
Unknown Steamer Crnshed Into
and Ignored Cries tor Help.
Her
London, March 14. It is. now
learned that the British ship Cuvier,
commanded by Captain Qainton, which
was reported Friday last sunk by an
unknown steamer, was run down in the
straits of Dover the morning of the 9th
by a steamer whose identity is not
known. The three survivors who were
landed at Calais, France, shortly after
the disaster, say a great hole was torn
in the Cuvier, sinking her in less than
five minutes. They further state that
the 30 men comprising the crew were
below at the time and were unable
to reach the decks and man the boats,
so quickly did the .vessel go down, and
that the colliding vessel paid no heed
to the cries for assistance shouted to
those on board, and steamed away.
The captain and third mate were
seen to jump from the bridge as their
vessel went down. Two of the surviv
ors clung to a capsized boat nntil
picked up by the Windsor and taken' to
Calais. It is believed all the other
members of the crew of the Cuvier are
drowned.
Acquitted of Murder.
Butte, Mont.j Maich 14. Edward
Gillman, of Hamburg, la., was tonight
acquitted of the murder of Dan Sulli
van. The murder occurred Christmas
night in the wash room of a miners'
boarding house. Sullivan had abused
Gillman the night before. Gillman
armed himseirnext day, and, going to
the wash room, shot Sullivan, killing
him instantly. The defense was that
Sullivan had made threats against Gill
man, wno thought the former was
armed. The verdict was a surprise to
both the prosecution and the defense.
A lew minutes after the acquittal, Gill
man, his wife, sister and father, took a
carriage and drove for the Gieat North
ern depot, where they took the express
for the East. When the trial began a
few days ago a brother of Sullivan tried
to shoot Gillman in the courthouse, but
was disarmed before he could fire.
Complication in Building Strike.
Chicago, March 14. Another serious
complication in the great building
strike came today, when the sash, door
and blind manufactuers of Chicago and
vicinity voted to close their mills until
the labor troubles are adjusted. By
this action 4,000 men are added to the
50,000 now idle.
King Leopold will introduce wire
less telegraphy into the Belgian army.
Stampede From Nome.
Seattle, March 14. Two arrivals at
Dawson City from Cape Nome, who left
the latter place eight days after Carl
Knoblesdorf and C. D. Campbell, tell
a wonderful stoiy of what is claimed to
be the richest find made in the north.
The new field is 100 miles from Nome,
and stories of its fabulous wealth were
being passed from mouth to mouth at
Nome when the latest arrivals left
there, December 18. Reports of won
derful strikes on the Siberian coast op
posite Cape Nome were being received.
It was reported that the Siberian earth
was literally filled with various metals.
great rusn irom jNome to tne new
6e.ds will commence as soon as the
weather will permit.
Time.
The time element enters into the pro
duction of everything that is valuable.
We improve slowly. Rev. John B.
Shannon.
The cost of the world's wars since
Crimean war has been 2,453,000,000,
or enough to give a couple of sover
eigns to every man, woman and child
on the globe.
Landslide
don, B. C.
at San-
ONE KILLED, FOUR INJURED
All Traffic on the . Canadian Pacific
Brought to a Stop Disastrous Floods
on Vancouver Island.
Nelson, B. C, March 14. A special
to the Tribune from Sandon, B. C,
announces tnat a fatal landslide oc
curred in that town laet night. Six
residences were carried away, one per
son was killed and four injured. Wil
liam S. McLeod, of South Granville,
Prince Edward's island, was 'killed,
and his body was found under the
ruins by a rescue party the same even
ing. The injured are: Mrs. W. Nash,
Mrs. W. Fogg, Miss Fogg and William
LOvett.
Mo Trains at Vancouver.
Vancouver, B. C, March 14. No
overland train has arrived here since
Saturday, all traffic being suspended by
mud and snow slides in the interior.
Heavy snow slides are reported ftom the
Selkirk mountains, carrying down
trees and immense rocks and sweeping
away the cut bank truss bridge 150 feet
long between Bear creek and Six-Mile
creeK. ueiayea passengers will go
through tomorrow, transferring at the
break in the line.
Floods on Vancouver Island.
Nanaimo, B. C, March 14. Condi
tions here are serious, owing to the
wind and rain storms of the past two
days. The rainfall for three days ag
gregated five inches and the Nanaimo
river has not been so high for 40 years
past and Englishman's river has never
been so high as at present. Chase river
is also-much swollen, several bridges
on its road to Union and in the Comox
valley being swept away.- Telagraph
lines are down - north of Parksville.
Water on some of the roads is axle
deep, stopping traffic over an extensive
district.
DEATH IN A FIRE TRAP.
Fourteen Persons Perished In a New
ark Tenement.
Newark, N. J., March 14. Fourteen
persons lost their lives, two persons
were seriously injured and many others
slightly burned in a fire in Newark this
morning. The firemen, after the flames
had been subdued, took 13 bodies from
the ruins, and while they were thus
engaged another victim of the fire died
in tne city nospitai. une tamiiy was
wiped out completely, and of another
only the father lives, and he is in the
city hospital, where it is believed he
will die.
The building in which the fire broke
out was a veritable fire trap. It was
old, of frame construction, and extend
ed two stories above the ground floor.
Until three or four years ago the struct
ure had been used as a chucrh, but it
was converted into a tenement. 1 The
lower floor, fronting on 50, 52 and 54
Fourtenth avenue, was occupied by
three stores, and the upper portion of
the building was divided into 20 living
rooms. As nealry as can be learned,
the structure was occupied by 10 fam
ilies, all Italians. Two of the occu
pants, Vito Credanza and one other
family, kept boarders,- and, though the
total population of the rookery -could
not be definitely ascertained during the
excitement attending the fire, there are
said to have been 40 or 50 persons, -of
both sexes and all ages,' in the build
ing when the fire started.
A few minutes before 5 o'clock the
people in the building were awakened
by the flames. They found them burn
ing at the foot of the stairs leading
from the first to the second story. The
hallway and stairs were burning,
entirely cutting off the egress from the
upper floors, on which six families
lived. It also cut off the escape by the
door for those who lived in the rear part
of the first floor. Those who could
made for the windows. From these
they leaped or dropped. The whole
neighborhood was awake in an instant,
and. trom the burning building came
agonizing screams and calls for help.
From the basement and ground floor
the inmates of the building poured
naked, or almost so. f rom the upper
stories men and women leaped to the
sidewalk. By the time the firemen
reached the scene the building was
wrapped in flames, and those who had
not escaped were dead or doomed
They must have died within a few
minutes, for the fire rushed through
every room in the frail building within
10 minutes.
The search for the bodies began with
in 20 minutes after the alarm sounded,
so quickly was the fire conquered.
When it became known the fire was of
incendiary origin, men and women,
well nigh crazed by grief, ran tearing
around the streets looking for the man
who was responsible for the frightful
tragedyand threatening dire vengeance,
Louisville, March 14. W. L. Haze-
lipp was arrested tnis atternoon on a
charge of conspiracy. - Mr. Hazel ipp
is alleged to have been implicated in
the plot to assassinate William Goebel.
He is the steward of the Central asy
lum, and was appointed to that office
by Governor Bradley during his term.
Fight at Aparri.
Manila, March 14. Advices received
from Aparri, province of Cagayan, say
that while Major Wood and the Six
teenth regiment were leaving that place
they were attacked at a landing on the
river bank opposite the town. A per
sistent fire followed, resulting in eight
Americans, including AVard, being
wounded. The natives in Cagayan val
ley presumably instigated the attack.
uispatcnes add tnat the iagais are
harassing the Americans.
Double Murder and Lynching.
Valdosta, Ga., March 12. Word
was received here tonight of a double
murder and lynching near Jennings,
Fla. Two white men of the name of
Carver were killed by a negro whose
name could not be learned. The
negro was captured by the sheriff. A
mob quickly gathered, took the mur
derer away fromt the officer and swung
mm np to a tree.
Trenton, N. J., March 14. The
American Snuff Company was incor
porated today, with an authorized capi
tal stock of $25,000,000.
A Fatal
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
General Trade Distribution Has Shown
Tendency to Kxpand.
Bradstreet's says:
Relieved from the hampering effects
of stormy weather, general trade distri
bution has shown a tendency to expand
this week, prices of many staples are
firmer and higher, and generally there
is a better tone than noted for some
weeks. Easily holding first rank in
the matter of speculative activity, cot
ton early in the week touched the high
est level, not only for the present sea
son, but for at least six years past.
Wool is rather weaker, following the
drop in prices at the London sale, and
the rather slower demand from Ameri
can manufacturers.
By another of the short swings which
have distinguished wheat prices for a
long time past, quotations have - been
advanced this week to the level touched
some time ago.
Boot and shoe manufacturers are
actively employed, and leather is firm,
but hides are weaker or lower at most
markets.- , . v.
Building materials are firm, except
at cities where labor troubles are , ap
prehended. The industrial situation is rather
irregular, owing partly to the com
bined strike and lock-out of 50,000
building hands, building material
workers and machinists at Chicago,
and partly to isolated strikes of small
numbers of men throughout the
country. '
Wheat, including- flour, shipments
for the week aggregate 4,208,758 bush
els, against 3,863,387 bushels ' last
week, 4,398,821 bushels the corre
sponding week of 1899, and 4,844,761
bushels in 1898.
Business failures in tho United States
for the week number 189, against 173
last week. 177 in this week a year ago,
247 in 1898, 227 in 1897 and 282 in
1896.
. PACIFIC COAST . TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, hew, $2.25 2.50 per sack.
Lettuce, hot house, 40c per doz.
Potatoes, new, $18 20.
Beets, per sack, 75 85c. .
Turnips, per sack, 60c.
Carrots, per sack, 50c. , '
Parsnips, per sack, 75 85c.
Cauliflower, 75c $1 per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California.
$1.001.25 per 100 pounds.
Apples, $1.251.50 per box.
Prunes, 60o per box.
Butter Creamery, Slo ' per pound;
dairy, 17 22c; ranch, 20o per pound.
Eggs 1516o.
Cheese Native, 16c. '
Poultry 13 14c; dressed, 14 15c.
Hay Puget Sound timothy, $12.00;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$18.0019.00
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23;
feed meal, $23. , ' .
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton.
130; ' : .-. . .
Flotur Patent, . per barrel, $3125;
blended straights, $3.00; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
fiourr $3.00? rye flourr$80400; -
Miiisturts iran, per
ton,-$13.00;-
shorts, per ton, $15.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $20.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00. "
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef
steers, 7J68c; cows, 7c; mutton 8c;
pork, 7c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 84
10c. : .
Hams U&ree, 18c; small, ' 13 M;
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides,
8c. '
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 51 62c:
Valley, 62c; Bluestem, 54c per bushel.
FIoot Best grades, $3.00; graham.
$2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 35 36c; choice
gray, 34o per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $14 15.00;
brewing, $17.00I7.50 per ton.
j.u.iAobuu.B ximi, mxo pcx vun , mid
M . 1 1 - T , o x , Jl
dlings, $19; shorts, $15; chop, $14 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, $9 10; clover, $7
7.60; Oregon wild hay, $67 per ton.
Butter1 Fancy creamery, 60 55c;
seconds, 4245c; dairy, 80374c;
store. 2&4 Oi 32 Ma.
Eggs 11c per dozen. .
Cheese Oregon . full cream, 13c;
Ynnnff A m pti na 14 naw ittiumA 1 ft
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50
4.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs, '
$2.503.50; geese, $6.507.60 forold; ,
$4. 50 6. 50; docks, $5. 00 5. 50 per -dozen;
turkeys, live, 10llo per
pound.
Potatoes 50 65c per sack; sweets.
22)o pe pound. -
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 90c;
per sack; garlic, 7o per pound; cab
bage, 10 per pound; parsnips, $1;
Hops 3 8o per pound
Eastern Oregon, 814c; mohair, 27
80o per pound.
mutton utoss, Dest sneep, wethers -
and ewes, 4)ic; dressed mutton. 7
iHo per pound; lambs, 7oper pound.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; .
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$6.006.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.004.50;
cows, $3.504.00; dressed beef, 6$
7?o per pound.
Veal Large, 676c; small, 8
9c per pound.
Tallow 55sc; No. 2 and grease, "
3 "4 per pound.
San Francisco Harlr.l.
Wool Spring Nevada, 1 2 1 5o pel
pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 16c; Val
ley, 20 22c; Northern, 10 12c.
Hops 1899 crop, ll13o per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 21c:
do seconds, 19 20c: fancy dairv. 17
18c; do seconds, 15 16o per pound. '
Jiggs Store, 18c; fancy ranch.
16o.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.0013.00.
Hay Wheat $7.00 9.50; wheat and
oat $7.00 9.00; best barley $5.60
7.50; alfalfa, $6.007.60 per ton;
Potatoes Early Rose, 75 85c; Ore
gon Bnrbanks, 65o1.00; river Bur
banks, 4070o; Salinas Burbanks,
80c 1.10 per sack.
Citrus Fruit; Oranzes. Valencia.
$2.753.25; Mexican limes. $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75ca$1.60:
do choice $1.75 2.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas. $1,600
60 per bunch; pinearmlea. nom
inal; Persian dates, 66o per
pound