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Newspaper Page TextCORVALLIS ETTE. WEEKLY. UNION Estab. July. 1897. GAZETTE Estub. Dec, 1862. Consolidated Feb. 1899. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1900. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 45. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS PROk THE WIRES In Interesting Collection of Items From e Two Hemispheres Preset i in a Condensed i'c:m. V. American troops have withdrawn from Pekin. Roosevelt was met by big crowds in the state of New York. The business portion of the town of Dnnavant, Kansas, was destroyed by fire. The United States is holding back its answer to the Anglo-German agree ment. Bryan says, if elected, be will im mediately withdraw the army from the Philippines. Thomas Walsh, the Colorado mil lionaire, forms a partnership in com mercial enterprises with King Leopold, of Belgium. Great uneasiness was created in pal ace circles, says the Constantinople crrespondent of the London Daily Mail, by a reprt that an American squadron was approaching and the censor was instructed to prohibit the press from mentioning the subject. Another feud has broken out in Clay county, Kentucky, between the Phil pots and Davidsons Recently David Davidson, father of Felix Davidson, the deputy who was killed by a l'hil pot a few weesk ago, was killed and several others wounded in a fight. On the other side, David Philpot was killed and two others badly wounded. Skirimshes continue between the Russians and the Chinese at various points along the Manchurian railway. The Amur Gazette, at Blagovest schensk, asserts that the Chinese bank of the Amur river will be offered to Russian settlers. It is reported that the construction of a railway between Blagovestchensk and Teilsikar has been decided upon. Colonel Picquart's suit for libel gainst Le Journal of Paris, arising from the Dreyfus polemics, was de cided in his favor. The court com manded the manager of the pap3r, M. Pouch, to pay a fine of 2,000 francs, rod M. Possiden and Galli, the writ ers of the articles, were sentenced to six months' and one months' imprison ment, respectively, and all three were sentenced to pay 30,000 francs darn iges. William Hammer Piper, of Chicago, on behalf of the Zion church has sent telegrams to President McKinley and Governor Nasb, of Ohio, protesting against the treatment of the represen tatives of the denomination at Mans field, O., and appealing for their pro tection. Mr. Piper sasy these punis ters have not broken a single statute of the state, and tbi right to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ is vouchsafed to them by the laws of Ohio and the con stitution of the United States. A New York bank teller stole $700, 000 and escaped. Boer guerrilla attacks give the Brit ish much trouble. President Mitchell thinks this is the last week of the wipers' strike. Twenty-five carloads of Oregon fruit trees will be shipped to other states. The British steamship Royalist will enter the transport service of the Unit ed States. The Pacific Coast Company in three years has risen from bankruptcy to fl, 000,000 surplus. Thirteen-year-old school girl, Lulu Jones, was tbe victim of a muderous assault at Jefferson, Or. Baron von Richthofen is Count von Bulow's successor as minister of for eign affairs for Germany. The Kentucky miners' strike has been declared off. Eight hundred men will return to work at once. The Russian minister of finance, M. De Witt, authorizes denial of the story that Russia began negotiations in New York in tbe middle of October for a 50,000,000 loan. General Charles M. Seira, of the Co lombian republic's army, announces that his government had purchased George Gould's yacht, Atlanta, and would use her in suppressing the rebel lion. Near Vicksburg, Miss., Glester Barnes, colored, was lynched by a mob of his own people. In a drunken fury Barnes murdered his wife, stabbed and badly wounded a negro who interfered, -and engaged in a rife duel with a white man who attempted to arrest bim. The murderer was shot to death. Tbe citizens of Oklahoma and In dian Territory want single statehood for the two territories. The formation of leagues to promote this end has com menced. The first league was organ ized at Wagoner, I. T. Determined sfforts in this direction are being made by tbe leading people of those territor ies. There are about 30,000 lepers in the Philippines. The gold yield ot Cripple Creek for the present year is expected to amount to 127,000,000. An English inventor proposes to build a boat that will cross the Atlan tic in two days. Big imports of gold from Europe art anticipated in New York as a result o! tbe resumption of mining in South Africa. LATER NEWS. Alvord, the absconder, was arrested in Boston. Japan withes to hold the balance of power in the Orient. The cigarmakers of Tampa, Florida, ire out on a strike. Fall fishing on the Columbia is tbout at an end. Prince Christian Victor, of Scbles-wig-Holstein, died at Pretoria. Venezuela was visited by a great aarthquake, killing 15 persons. Damage by flood is reported from La Crosse, Wis., and Winona, Minn. Professor Max Muller, the famous philologist, died in London, aged 77. There was a general resumption of work in the Pennsylvania coal region. The new gold strike in the Baker City, Or., country, is extensive and rich. A Democratic leader predicts that Idaho will give Bryan a majority of 5,000. Chicago postoffice clerks have affili ated with the American Federation of Labor. The Boers are said to have 15,000 armed men in tbe field in Orange River colony. Prince Hohenlohe says he resigned because he was ignored on important occasions. Chinese looters stole Manchn throne and colossal archaeological objects oi great value. Boxers at Pao Ting Fu declare the provincial treasurer ordered them to kill foreigners. Prince Yi and Ying Nien are added to the list of those whose execution France has demanded. More than $20,000,000 in gold dust and bullion has been deposited in Seat tle assay officethis year. Seven people were killed and as many injured in a Northern Pacific train wreck near Livingston, Mont. Many persons were injured and per haps killed, and a dozen buildings wrecked in a New York fire and ex plosion. A special from Victor, Colo., says the 300 miners who walked out of the Independence mine on account of the order to search them when they came off duty have been discharged. Every thing is quiet about the mine. At Spoakne, Wash., Mrs. Edith Strobe!, wife of an engineer on the Great Northern, killed herself by blow ing out her brains with a revolver. She was 29 years of age, and before her marriage was a Tekoa, Wash., girl. Temporary insanity is said to have been the motive. . New York Democrats gave W. J. Bryan another reception. A plot to assassinate President Lou net, of France, has been discovered. George W. Shaver, a pioneer steam boat man, of Portland, Or., is dead. Roosevelt concluded his tour in New York state with a speech in Bingbamp ton. All but one colliery in tbe Hazleton mining region have granted the miners demands. Four hundred native Christians were massacred at Mukden before the Rus sian occupation. Near Frederickstad, the Boers under Dewet. were scattered in all directions by a British force. A Republican parade lasting six hours was the culmination of the cam paign in Chicago. The evacuation of Cuba will not be ordered till the character of the new government is tested. Edward Dewey, brother of Admiral Dewey, died at his home in Montpe lier, Vt., aged 71 years. An Everett, Wash., saw mill has re ceived and order foi 2,000,000 feet oi lumber from South America. A man who had been a) rested at Spangle, Wash., for being drunk and disorderly, committed suicide by hang ing himself in jail. The 150-ton schooner Fischer Bros., of Seattle, is reported to have been wrecked on the beach of Behring sea in a storm near Port Clarence. No lives were lost. W. S. Robson, one ol the most ex tensive cotton planters of Texas, has gathered statistics from the Brazos and Colorado valleys and declares that the ball weavil has destroyed $6,000,000 worth of this year's crop. A sheriff's posse in pursuit of five prisoners who escaped from the Doni phan, Kan., jail, overtook tbe men near Dalton, Ark., and a battle ensued in which two members of the posse were dangerously wounded. Three of the prisoners were wounded and recap tured. Tbe war department has made public an order issued by General McArthur, looking to tbe piotection of the health of the soldiers in the Philippines. This recites that 50 per cent of tbe sickness in the army is avoidable by sanitary precautions, the most import ant of which are the boiling of all drinking water for not less than 20 minutes, and the adoption of the strict est cleanliness as to camps, quarters, kitchens and cooking utensils. A German firm has built a locomo tive on the American pattern. The international peace congress in Paris condemned Great Britain's course in the Transvaal. During the last year 2,400 duels have been fought in Italy and 80 deaths have resulted. Cabbage crops in Europe are gener ally poor this year and this country is being called upon to make up the deficiency. THE STRIKE IS OFF Official Settlement of Trouble by Union Officials. FEW OPEPATORS FAIL TO COMPLY At Such Mines the Strike Will Con tin m Until the Employes Are Grant ed Their Demands. Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 28. The follow ing statement was given out for publi cation tonight by President Mitchell, of the United Mineworkers: "Temporary Heaqduarters, United Mineworkers of America, Hazleton, Pa., October 27, 1900. To tbe miners and mineworkers of the anthracite reg ion: Gentlemen After carefully can vassing the entire strike situation, we, your officers, district and national, have concluded that your victory is so nearly complete that no good end can he served by continuing the strike longer. The contest has been in pro gress for 39 days, and the companies employing you have, with few excep tions, signified their willingness to pay the scale of wages formulated by the Scranton convention uf October 12 and 13. "We are aware that some disappoint ment and dissatisfaction has been caused by the failure of the operator, in districts 1 and 7 to separate tbe re duction in the price of powder from the advance in wages, but after careful inquiry we are satisfied that each mine employe will actually receive an ad vance of 10 per cent on the wages form erly paid. In the Schuylkill and Le igh regions the largest companies have agreed that the sliding scale should be suspended and that wages should remain stationary at 10 per cent until April 1, 1991, thus removing one oi the iniquities of which you have com plained for many years. "While it is true that you have not secured redress for all your wrongs; while it is true that the increase in your earnings will not fully compensate you for the arduous labor you are com pelled to perform, you have established a perfect organization, which, if main tained and conducted on business prin ciples, will enable you to regulatn many of your local grievances and make your employment less hazardous and more profitable than before the strike began . "The companies agree in their notices to take up with their mine employee all grievances complained ot. We would, therefore advise that when work is resumed committees be select ed by the minp employes and that they wait upon the superintendents of the companies and present their griev ances in an orderly, business-like man ner, and ask that they be corrected. "Your attention is respectfully called to the fact that the laws of the state of Pennsylvania provide that miners should be paid semi-monthly upon demand. We should, therefore, advise that each mine employe serve notice on the companies that he expects to be paid his wages twice each month, as provided by law. "Tbe practical benefits to tbe miners which accrue from thorough organiza tion have been so clearly demonstrated during this strike that it should be needless for us to urge upon you the necessity of maintaining your union in tact. We trust, however, that those who are now members of the union will be unceasing in their efforts to in duce all mineworkers to ally them selves with the United Mineworkers of America at once, as it will be impossi ble for you to secure your wages in the future or even maintain the present rate of wages unless you are prepared to offer a united resistance if any at tempt is made to reduce your earnings upon the expiration of tbe present offer." Tbe address is signed by tbe national and district officers of the United Mine workers of America. Do d son & Co., operating the Beaver Brook colliery, posted a notice today complying with the demands of the Scranton convention. The company also operates the Morea and William colleries, in Schuylkill county. Kecrnits for Philippines. New York, Oct. 28. Col onel Kim balll, assistant quartermaster of the United States army, announced today that 2.000 recruits will leave for the Philippines in the next three weeks. The first 1,000 will leave on the trans port Bp ford, November 5. The second transport carrying the other 1,000, will be -the Kilpatrick, which will leave I November 10. The recruits on the Bu ford will be under the command ot ! Colonel Jacob Kline.of the Twenty-firs infantry, and those on tbe Kilpatrick , under Colonel Tully McCrue. State Boundary X.ine Wrong;, Montgomery, Ala., Oct; 28. Secre tary of State McDavid has taken the first step toward annexing West Flori da to Alabama. In his annual report to the government the secretary of state says Alabama runs a mile farther south on the eastern boundary than the tract books have hitherto shown, and that tbe state is possessed of a wedge of land which his office records failed to show it owned running 100 miles along the southern end ot the state. St. Thomas, D. W. I., Oct. 27. In tense adverse feeling has been excited here by the renewal of the report that Denmark intends to sell the Danish Antilles to the United States. A meet ing of the colonial council has been convoked at St. Croix for the purpose of making a formal protest. The news papers discuss the question, declaring in bold type: "We do not wish to be sold." There is no desire, much less enthusiasm, among the popilation to belong to the United States. BRIBERY IN GERMANY. Fatsdowsk; - Wehner Implicated in m Scrapa. Berlin, Oct. 29. A great sensation has been caused oy the allegations that Count von Posadowsky-Wehner, secretary of sta te for the interior, had been bribed w ith 12,000 marks for his wok in connection with the penal servitude bill of i898 . The allegation is contained in a letter which is going the rounds of the German press. The writer asserts that Herr Krupp sub scribed 5,000 marks to the fund con stituting the alleged bribe. The Na tional Zeitungb says it expects that Count von Posadowsky-Wehner will resign, and nearly all the papers con demn him severely. A special addition of the Berliner Correspondent, which was issued by the minister of the interior this after noon, publishes a statement admitting that Director von Woedtke, of the im perial department of the interior, in duced Secretary Bueok, of the Central Association of Manufacturers, to de,- vote 12,000 marks lor printing reicm stag material and other documents tending to show arguments in favor of passing the anti-strike bill. This printed material was sent to the pro vincial press for reproduction. The official statement amounts to a virtual corroboration 6f the press charges brought against the ministry of the in terior, of which Count von Posadowsky Wehner is the head. All the evening papers comment upon the official administration. The entire Liberal press now demands the resignation ot Posadowsky-Wehner, j and Director von Woedtke, the assump tion being that the latter doubtless acted at the suggestion of the former. The Berliner Tageblatt says: "The sole consequence of the official state ment is that both must resign." A similar demand is made by the Vos siche Zeitung, which remarks: ' 'It is an unheard of proceeding thai a govern ment department should request and receive large sums from one small sec tion of a population directly interested in pending legislation for the purpose of influencing the nation against such legislation." The only papers which attempt to defend the secretary of state for the in terior are the Berliner Post, the Kreuz Zeitung and the Berliner Nachrichten, whose justification of his course in the matter is weakly apologetic SOUTHERN BOXERS. They Are Organizing to Drive Foreign ers Out or China. Hong Kong, Oct. 29. Advices from Lien Chan, on North river, say that American mission porperty there is threatened with destruction by Boxers, whj have posted the following procla mation: "We have organized to protect oui country and our homes, and we rely upon one another to support the order to drive out the foreign devils. They are mad. Their folly passes descrip tion. They are the usurpers of our land! They disturb our borders. In all the provinces and prefectures chap els have been opened, and our people are deceived, ripped open ana disem boweled, while the foreigners grow fat on tbe revenues of China, insulting our officials and merchants and seizing our temples and palaces. The emperor is indulgent and permits this. Who can foretell the intention of 'the foreign devils? Day by day they act more out rageously. When we behold the pres ent condition of affairs, our hearts are bruised with grief. Therefore, we have organized our strength to destroy tbe devouring wolf throughout the em pire." The Boxers took the American Pres byterian mission buildings, but have not destroyed them. Tbe rebellion is spreading along East river and North river, in the province of Kwang Si. It is supposed to be aimed at tbe over throw of the Manchu dynasty, but the reports are so contradictory that it is next to impossible to form a lucid im pression In Canton the Chinese offi cals are taking tbe insurrection so lightly that foreigners believe it will be very difficult to suppress. Mine Boiler Exploded. Minonk, 111., Oct. 29. A boiler at shaft 8o. 1, of the Chicago & Minonk Coal Company, exploded early this morning, seriously injuring William Jackson, engineer; Samuel Hayes, George Hayes and Ed Liston, firemen. Several other workmen received slight injuries. Jackson was badly burned and may die. Hayes was badly scald ed, and his son George sustained a frac ture of the pkull. Liston was so badly scalded he will probably lose the sight of one eye. At the time, the superin tendent and 250 men were in the mine, over 500 feet below. Two of the bat tery boilers were uninjured, and in or der to operate the lift with steam, the two boilers were separated from the debris and enough power furnished from them to operate the lift and raise tbe men to the surface. The financial loss is not over $10,000. Structural Ironworkers' Wages. Pittsburg, Oct. 29. The National Association of Bridge and Structural lonworkers, in session here today, adopted a universal wage scale, fixing the rate at 50 cents an hour, with eight hours as a day's work. The scale will go into effect next May. It was also decided to send an organizer to South Africa and Egypt. London, Oct. 29. Tbe Daily Mail has the following from Lourenco Mar ques: The American bark Fred P. Litchfield, which went ashore here from her moorings during the gale on the night of October 14, and was searched the next day for gold, in con sequence of a suspicion that she was carrying Mr. Kruger's treasure, to the imount of 1,500,000, sailed today, rhere is little doubt that she carries a large quantity of gold hidden under her BOERS WAKING UP Active Resistance Reported From Several Points. ATTACK MADE UPON JACOBSDAL Burghers Raiding in Northern Natal Steyn .Establishes His Capital at Fourie'j Burg. Cape Town, Oct. 29. The Boers have captured Jacobsdal, southwest oi Kimberley, after a stubborn resistance on the part of the garrison, which con sisted of a detachment of Cape Town highlanders. The latter suffered se verely, losing 34 out of 52 men. Hans Botha has cut off a train with a reconnoitering party of the Highland brigade between Heidelberg and Grey lingstad, in the Transvaal colony, tear ing up the Tails in front and behind the train. In the fight which followed two captains and eight men were wounded and all were captured. London, Oct. ij.s-r-It now appear! that Jacobsdal was not captured bj the Boers. Advices received from Cape Town shortly after midnight say: "Later news from Jacobsdal shows that 200 Boers unsuccessfully at tacked a garrison. The Highlanders had 14 killed and 20 wounded." It is reported here as a curious coin cidence that the news should be re ceived concurrently with the expected arrival home from South Africa of the City ".Imperial volunteers, as Jacobsdal was tbe scene of the latter 's first fight. The town was captured by these volun teers February"15. ' c . T, . " RIOTING NEAR MONTREAL. Clash ' Between Militia and Strikers Many Were Hurt. Montreal, Oct. 29. Over a score were wounded, one fatally, in a con flict between militia and strikers at Valley Field, Quebec, today. ' Two hundred men employed by the Montreal Cotton Company on the foundations of a new mill, went out on strike yesterday, demanding an in crease of 25 cents a day in their pay. The company refused to deal with the union. The strikers prevented the company from shipping goods and to day held up the company's coal pile. The local police were powerless. The company had to have coal or shut down. Consequently a message was sent to Montieal asking for military assistance. It arrived at Valley Field at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and con sisted of two companies of the Royal Scots. The embargo on the coal pile was promptly raised. - At dusk a big crowd, composed of strikers and their sympathizers, gath pied and there was every evidence of trouble. About 8:30 the mob gathered pear the Empire mill and began throw ing stones through the windows and otherwise destroying property. The troops charged the mob with fixed bay pnets. They were driven back. Eight pf their number weie wounded, two of them seriously. The strikers had 15 men injured, one fatally. Reinforce ments were then asked from Montreal tand 300 men with medical assistance, left, sxpecting to arrive at Valley Field about 2 A. M. K luge's Flans. Paris, Oct. 29. Dr. Leyds, Trans vaal agent was questioned today with reference to tbe plans of ex-President QCruger. He said: "Most of tbe stories published on .the subject are imaginary. Mr. Krug pr will land at Marseilles, and I sbal! go to meet him. It is not true that I bave seen M. Delcasse, French minis ter of foreign affairs, or that I am in any way arranging a reception which: will be entirely in the hands of the French themselves. Nothing has beer: definitely decided as to the details o Kruger's stay in Europe. But Mr. Kruger is an old man and not accus tomed to a cold climate, so it is likely he will sojourn in the neighborhood ot Nice for the Wwinter. Annexation of the Transvaal. Pretoria, Oct. 29. The Transvaal was today proclaimed a part of the British empire, the proclamation being attended with impressive cereomnies The roval standard was hoisted in the main square of the city, tbe Grena diers presented arms, massed bande played the National Anthem, Sir Al fred Milner read the proclamation, and 6,200 troops, representing Great Britain and her colonies, marched past. Drank Carbolic Acid. New York, Oct. 29. Mrs. Mabel Hanson, 23 years of .age, who lived with her mother and two elder sisters, on the top floor of a handsome apart ment house on West Sixty-first street, died at her home today from, the effect of a dose of carbolic acid. The family is not communicative as to the mat ter, and claims that it is certain that Mrs. Hanson took the acid by mistake. It is known, however, that she pur chased 10 cents worth of carbolic acid in a drug store less than half an hom before her death. The woman's hus band, Charles Hanson, is in San Fran osoo, where, it is said, he is in the fu business. Mrs. Hanson has been visit ing here about three months. Chigi Sold Art Treasure. Rome, Oct. 29. Prince Chigi, who was prosecuted by the Italian govern ment for selling a painting by Botti celli, which is now in London, has bees, ordered to pay as a fine for violating the law against selling valued workc of art for exportation, the sum oi 3,151,000 lire, which was the price pad for tbe picture. The purchaser, who was summoned to appear before the tribunal, but was in default, was condemned conjointly with Prince Chigi. FILIPINO ACTIVITY. force of Four Hundred Attack Ameri can Scouting Farty. Manila, Oct. 30. While scouting near Looc, a detachment of the Twen tieth and Twenty-eighth regiments, under Captain Beiglei, were attacked by 400 insurgents, armed with rifles, under the command of a white man, whose nationality is not known to the Americans. The insurgents for the most part were intrenched. After a heroio fight, Captain Beigler drove off the enemy, killing more than75. The fight lasted for two hours. Captain Beigler and three privates were slightly wounded, and two of the Americans were killed. An engagement took place October 24 between detachments of the Third cavalry and the Thirty-third infantry, numbering 60, and a force of insur gents, including 40 riflemen and 1,000 bolomen. The fighting was desperate. Finally, under pressure of overwhelm ing numbers, the Americans were com pelled to retire on Narvioan. Lieuten ant George L. Febiger and four pri vates were killed, nine wounded and four missing. Twenty-nine horses are missing. A number of teamsters were captured by tbe insurgents, but were subsequently released. The enemy's, loss is estimated at 150. Reports from General Young's dis trict show an increase of insurgents there owing to the fact that recruits are going thither from the towns. While a detail of tne Thirty-third infantry was returning from Bangned they were fired upon by insurgents. Sergeant Bearstaller being killed and two privates wounded. A civilian launch towing a barge loaded with merchandise near Arayat was attackde by a force of 150 insur gents under David Fagin, a deserter from the Twenty-fourth infantry. The American troops, hearing the firing, turned out in force before the boat could be looted and captured Fagin, who holds the rank of general among the insurgents, and who has sworn special enmity towards his former company. Of the 20 men he captured a month ago, seven have returned. One was killed in a fight, his body bet ing horribly mutilated. Fagin sent messages to his former comrades threatening them with violence if they became his pirsodners. It was Fagin's men who capture Lieutenant Freder ick W. Alstaetter, who is a prisoner. General Hall's expedition, with a force of nearly 800 men, through the mountains to Binangonan, province of Infanta, in pursuit of the insurgent, Cailles, although it discovered no trace of the enemy, encountered great hard ships on the march. Twenty Chinese porters died and 40 men were sent into tbe hospital. After stationing a garri son of 250 men in Binangonan and vis iting Polillo island, off tbe coast of In fanta province, General Hall and the rest of his force embarked there on the transport Garonne. FLOODS IN WISCONSIN. Much Damage Done at and Near the City of La Crosse. La Crosse, Wis., Oct. 30. In the 24 hours preceding 8 o'clock this morning 7 l'i inches of rain fell in this city. The storm was the heaviest in this city, although it was generally felt within a radius of 50 miles from here. The Milwaukee road suffered much damage to its tracks, and no trains have arrived from the East for 24 hours. The La Crosse river marshes are flooded, and inost of the bay that escaped the late flood has been destroy ed. On H. Goodard's farm the house was undermined and the family sought refuge in a barn until rescued today. The Green Bay road has a washout on the marshes which wlil require some days to repair. At Hokaho the dam which held in Lake Como broke today, and the lake has almost disappeared. There is a good deal of damage throughout the country. Fire caused by electricity damaged the La Crosse Knitting Works to the extent of sev eral thousand dollars. Sentences for Filipinos. vVashington, Oct. 30. Military commissions in the Philippines have recently tried a score or more of na tive Filipinos on charges of murderous assaults, abduction, rape and violation of the laws of war. In most instances the death penalty was imposed, al though in only two cases was it actual ly executed, the others being com mutetd to imprisonment at bard labor. In one instance a native organized a miniatuie insurrection and with a small squad of Filipinos made an armed raid on the town of Tuguegaro to release some of his fellows who were held prisoners there by the United States, He was sentenced to bard la bor and imprisonment for 30 yeais and his sentence later was commutted to 10 years' imprisonment. Four Children Drowned. Port Clinton, O., Oot. 30. A quad ruple drowning occurred near Plaster Bed on Sandusky bay, eight miles east of here, this afteroon. The drowned are: Doulgass, George E.. Alfred and Henry Stark, respectively 3, 5, 8 and 13 years. They were the children of William Stark. Mr. Stark and the children went for a boat ride this af ternoon. On returning to shore the boat became fouled in a fish net and the oarsman could neither force the boat ahead nor go back. The children Decani e irigtenea ana leaning over the side of the craft it capsized. Stereoptleon Cas Exploded. Chicago, Oct. 30. An explosion of gas that was to be used for a stereop ticon entertainment wrecked the inte rior of the First Presbyterian church in Austin tonight, and the operator, George W. Leitcb, recently returned from missionary work in India and Ceylon, lost his right hand and re ceived a number of other injuries. The gas was in two cylinders about four feet long. One of the tanks sprang a leak and the light in the lan tern ignited it. causing the explosion. FIRE IN NEW YORK Caused Terrible Explosion in Heart of the City. A DOZEN BUILDINGS WRECKED Tarrant's Establishment the Scene of the DisasterMany Persona Were Killed. New York, Oct. 31. As the lesult of a small fire, several explosions of chemicals occurred in Tarrant & Co. 's, drug store, at Warren and Greenwich" streets today, and blew down a dozen' buildings and badly damaged a score of others. The loss of life is not known, ( but from all sources of information it is gathered that there are perhaps: the bodies of 30 persons in the ruins,1 though, because of the hot debris and the slowness of the moving of it, no body had been removed up to mid night. Chief Croker, of the fire de partment, said tonight that the loss is fully $1,500,000. The buildings de stroyed were: Seven-story brick and stone struc ture, occupied by Tarrant & Co., wholesale druggists; the F. T. Witte Hardware Company and Breitenbach & Co., manufacturers of patent medi cines. Seven-story brick building, occu pied by Eppens, Smith & Weinman Company, coffee-roasting house. Five -story brick building, occupied by Locke & Conklin, produce dealers; Douglas ft Co.. cheese; Kahn, bakers' supplies, and Hopping & Campfield, broomsticks and broomstraw. Six-story brick, occupied by Aller, dried fruits; Haven's drug store & Spice Company; Flake & Co., and Ao entins & Cuneo, fruitdealers. Five-story brick, used as a hotel. Five-story brick, occupied by the Morris Jackson Flag Company and Hart & Co., butter and cheese. Five-story brick, occupied by Shieve ley, printers' materials; O'Keefe & Shievely, printers; Morrs-Jackson Flag Company and Boerne, butter and eggs. Four-story biick, unoccupied. Four-story brick, occupied by Behr nan, produce, and Kornaheens, storage and screens. Four-story brick, occupied by Er nest, saloon; Hesse & Ohlsbuhls, sup plies; Granatto, bananas. Seven-story brick, occupied by Ep pins, Smith & Co., teas and coffees. Five -story brick occupied by Hart man, embossing and stamping, card board factory; Lifsitcb, cigars; Rosen berg, saloon. Tbe work of the firemen saved the buildings fronting on Chambers street from total destruction and the fire was halted after it had eaten about 100 feet southward into the block below War ren. Thirty-five persons weie reported missing, and 100 men, women and children are on the list of the injured. UNION POSTOFFICE CLERKS. Chicago Employes Affiliate With the A nerican Federation of Labor. Chicago, Oct. 30. The postoffice clerks of Chicago today entered tbe ranks of the trade unionists. The clerks have affiliated themselves wth the Amercan Federaton of Labor, and the new organzaton will be known as the Chicago Postoffice Clerks' Union. It is claimed that practically all of the 1,400 postoffice employes in Chicago are included in the movement. Foremost among the objects for which the new union is to strive will be the adoption of the eight-hour working day for letter-carriers. Another object to be given almost equal prominence will be the agitation in favor of federal leg islation that will fix absolutely the rate f wages for letter-carriers and other postoffice employes, taking the matter completely out of the hands of the "Promotion Board" and other similar agencies. It is to be a labor union pure and simple, and will airect its ef forts solely to the problem of bettering the lot of the rank and file of the post office epmloyes. Admission of Chinese. Washington, Oct. 29. The secie tary of the treasury, aoting on the de cision of the solicitor of the treasury, has held that the wife of a Chinese native-born citizen of the United States is entitled to admission into the United States, regardless of tbe provisions of section 1884, revised statutes. Such ri jht to land does not depend on the status of her husband as a merchant, even if it is held that the exclusion laws apply to a Chinese merchant who is native born, but rather on her higher right not to be separated from her hus band who is legally entitled to live in the country of his birth. Suicide of a Butte Woman. Butte, Mont., Oct. 31. Mrs. Marian Adams took laudanum at a late hour last night, and died this . morning. Her husband, John Adam 3, instituted suit Saturday for $25,000 damages against Dr. Jonathan Tobb for alienat ing his wife's affections. Consul-General McNally, at Gaute mala, writes to the state department that the Gautemalan government has issued a decree permiting the exporta tion of fresh fruits from that country free of all fiscal duty. This revokes a governmental decree of recent date, which placed a duty of 10 cents os each bunch of bananas exported. Mother Killed Her Son. Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 31. The iead body of Clifford Cawthorne, the 16-year-old son ot a widow, was found t his home last night, lying on a bed (n a pool of blood, his head hacked to pieces with a hatchet, which was lying near by.