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7r WEEKLY. FAVr&SiJLVZJfS. I Consolidated Feb. 1899. COBVAIiUS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGON, FBIDAY, MAY 31," ISOl. VOIi. XXXVIII. NO. 23. CO - . . ' aM t e v mns Tim da i ui vv ujp the state ?aced for a switch. FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. Comprehensive Review of the lmporvtf Happenings of the Past Week Prese ied in a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. - The Chinese indemnity will be fettled this week. Mrs. McKinley is standing the homeward trip well. It is certain that all volunteers will be started for home before July. . ' Danger of serious trouble between France and Morocco has been averted. a lieigiib brain on me urrcui nurLii ern ran into a car loaded with dyna mite. The battle ship Oregon is to be thoroughly overhauled on her return to this country. ' A 13 year old San Francisco boy was murdered in a most cold blooded manner by a butcher. The supreme court holds that the United States may levy duty on im ports from Porto Kico. , In round numbers the estimate for the civil government of the Philip pines will be $1,200,000. Twenty-one men were killed and nine others seriously injured in a mine explosion in Tennessee. Telephoness are in greater demand in Havana than in any American city, according to population. Philippines commission has enacted a law fixing the ; salaries of the offi cials of .the central government.- - Dr.- Monroe, senior dean of Colum bia University, Washington, has been decorated by the sultan of turkey. A dismantled-hulk has been sighted on Lake Michigan. Investigation disclosed seven bodies aboard her. 'I .Bear Admiral Sampson is to retire froni service in the American navy. He will ask for retirement on account of poor health. ; , It is very likely that as soon as the ministers move to the hills for the warm months that the Boxers will again attack the legations. : -. 7 The America's' cup race will begin September 21. ,race wants her treaties with Tu nis abrogated. vMis'i Mckinley is standing the re trn trip well. f .-, ? An unknown man committed sui cide, near Kahuna, Wash. Three prisoners escaped from the county jail at Salem, Or. Anny frauds 'have been discovered in Leyte, Philippine islands. Suicide of a Russian .financier may embarrass many institutions. Senators Tillman and McLaurin, of South Carolina, have resigned. i Cailles and Malver, Filipino lead ers, have been forced to surrender. Thirty-two bodies have so far been recovered form the Sengheny colliery. .vfregun , ores , are . Deing . collected for the International Mining Con gress. President McKinley has pardoned Alexander McKenzie, the Nome re ceiver. . r ' - The output of the Sumpt'er, Or., mining district was never so great as now. ; - The American legation guard at Pekin is having trouble with the Germans. i i . .. . - Noyoe Vremyra has been prohibited for a week. Five persons were killed and 40 injured in a trolley car collision near Albany, N. Y. The cases against Carman, Car ran za and other insurgent leaders, have been abandoned. The . steward of the German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm was arrested fpr stealing gold bars. Washington capital question has i hi. j i . i . . . uecu wiweu Dy ine purcnase ot Thurs ton county courthouse. The last of the American troops have left Pekin. -Bresci. the assassin of King Hum bert, of Italy, committed suicide. The expelled West Point cadets will appeal their cases to the secretary of war. . -There is a mysterious steamboat plying on the Columbia river without a license. - ' - ' - r Two men were held up at Midway, B.. C, and robbed of $450. The rob bers escaped. -- Flood in Elizabethtown, Tenn. , drowned three people and destroyed $1,000,000 worth of property. The cup challenger, with a royal party on board, including King Ed ward, was struck by a squall and wrecked. The yacht is badly dam aged. - No lives were lost. Two missionaries who made for tunes in the - Nome district are to build a hospital in Chicago. Recent census statistics in Italy show that the proportion of popula tion not able toxead or write has de creased to 39 per cent. ; -, . The faculty of Stanford University in California has directed that saloon and cafe advertisements ' must ; be omitted from the Daily Pnlo Alto, the college paper.. , . , 'residential Party Complete Their Programme v and Start for Home San Francisco Wv 5K P reaidenfc McKinley has completed his program in this city, having met every organ ization, included in the original schedule, and Mrs. McKinley's health has so far improved that the president and his party began their return jour ney to the national canital at 10 A. M. today. - - 1 he president's pulbic functions Vesterdav innlllded a reoTfion af. f no Scott mansion to the members of the foreign consular corps of this city, a receDtion a.t the Palace TTotel Kir the Sons and Daughters of the American ucYiuuuou anu ine uiyai region in hftnAT of t.llA n.Oflirlant anA a va.riAn. " wuv I V.VJ . ." I . j fill U 1 V. 11 H of the school children of Oakland by ine presdent. Last niffht President McTTinlev af- tended an impromptu reception at om vaiiiurnia sireei . m. a. cnurcn, given by the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor societies. Special precautions were taken to prevent any annoyance while the president and his wife were being driven to the ferry. A route was chosen that secured per fect comfort for Mrs. McKinley. The Dartv , was taken tn 'Oakland on special boat. The two trained nurses who have attended the patient in this P.it.V Will alfin ae in Wacliinnnn ariK J ..... o twuiugvuu II .un her. No fast time will be made and tne train will run slowly to Stockton. .ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHS. Satisfactory Results Obtained by the Lick Party - in Sumatra. "".','" San Jose, Cal., May 27. The fol rowng has been received from the di rector of the Lick observatory : "Lick Observatory, Mayv27. As tronomer Perrine, in. charge of - the Crocker eclipse expedition from the Lick observatory to Sumatra, has cabled the gratifying . information that some results were secured with all the instruments taken with him. This, taken - in ; connection with hie cable of last week,' is taken to mean that his successful photographs were secured between clouds drifting across the vicinity of the sun. As this was an unusually long eclipse, it is quite probable that his results will compare favorably,' in. quality and quantity with those - secured at. ; the short eclipses of the past three years. The hoods of the coronal streamers, first observed at the Indian eclipse of 1898, are recorded on the plates of the pres ent eclipse. Further details of the results secured are not expected until the. arrival of Mr.' Perrine 's letters." TO DEFINE BOUDARY. Internal Survey Party Will Locate . United : ' States-Canada Line. Vancouver, B. C.,--.May 27. An in ternational survey party, consisting of United States and Canadian en gineers, is about to begin the task of defining the international Vw-mnHa between the United States and Can ada from the Pacific coast ; to i the Rocky mountains. It is r.rmf pnrlml that this work was inaccurately per- iormeo. in tne surveys of 1859 and 1961. , One of the most important matters to be determined is fhs nuta tion of the national locaton of Mount Baker . mining district. "Valuable mines are" embraced in this section, and the territory is claimed by both the American and Canadian govern ments. : 1 Lieutenant Sinclair, of the and geodetic survey, will be at the neaa oi ine united states party, and J. H. McArthur will lead the Cana dian surveyors. -The work will twin this week. MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY. The Rowland System Is Being Introduced Into Germany. Baltimore. M.v 97 Tne mnH;nl. 3ystem of telegraphy, invented by the late Henrr 'A Rowland - nt Balti more, whict- is being introduced into uermany, permits oi tne transmission of eight messages simultn .neonnliT mra-r a single wire, . four in each direction as ne : rare oi w woras a minute. The messages are sent by means of a keyboard similar to that of a type writer, which can be operated by an ordinary typewriter opreator, and are recorded at the other end of the by a small machine. It is possible to enner prinnne message upon a sheet of - paper or upon a long tape like that which is used in the ordinarv ticker service. Slide More Serious Than Reported. Baker City, Or., May 27. The landslide at the Climax mine, which occurred about two weeks ago, in con sequence of a water ditch overflowing, has proven far more serious than at first reported. The mouth of the main tunnel was closed with timbers, boulders, - gravel and ; debris of all kinds, so that it required heavy blast ing and 10 days,to open it up. It will require several weeks more to put up the buldings destroyed and restore the other property lost in the flood. ... No Smallpox on Indiana. Pekin, May 27. The doctors who were instructed to make a report as to what length of . time must elapse before it will , be safe , to allow the troops : on board the "United States transport Indiana, where it was sup posed a case of smallpox had devel oped, have decided that the suspected case was not 8mallpox: The troops will go on board the Indiana today. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A Brief Review of of the Growth and Improvemeuts of the Many Industries Throughout Onr Thriving Com. monwealth Latest Market Report Philomath will celebrate the Fourth of July. The Hillaboro council has: ordered 500 feet of hose. ,:; ;"... Sufficient funds have been pledged for a Fourth of July celebration at Roseburg. - Last week there was 60,000 pounds of wool sold at Blalock : for 10 cents per pound. ':., ,. Two carloads of horses were shipped from Baker City to the East this week by Susanville people. - ' S L. Brooks, a stockraiser of the Sandridge, north of Imber, lost his large barn by fire last week. The board of directors of the Hunt ington high school have decided to have nine months' school this year. - The 12th annual convention of the Washington County Sunday School Association will be held June 6 at Forest Grove. ... i The Inland Telephone Company has a crew of men engaged in stringing extra wires between La Grande and Wallowa county points. - j The Deep Gravel Mining Company, incorporated, has assumed control of all the mining property" heretofore owned by Wimer Bros. & Co., at Waldo. i The contract has been let for the hauling of 3,000 tons of gypsum for the Oregon Lime Company irom the gpysum mine to the company's works at Lime, .three miles from ' Hunting ton. - There was a $3,500 .fire at Oregon City the first o the week, y 1 r Arrangements are being made to celebrate the Fourth at Baker City. ; The Grand lodge of Odd Fellows held their encampment at Baker City. Efforts are being made to develop the Kaolin deposits, near Huntington. The people of Forest Grove, and vi cinity are trying to secure a Sunday train service. ' Farmers near Salem say grain is looking as well as it ever did and they expect a large crop this year. Mrs. Thomas Campbell, ; aged 60 years, an old resident of Oregon died at her home in Monmouth last week. The Baldwin Sheep & Land Com pany, of Hay Creek, will sell at pub lic auction, June 1, 1,000,000 pounds of wool. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Columbia River -Packers' Association it was decided to raise the price of canned goods." ".' ' Eeports from ' . Willamette . and Clackamas river fishermen, near Ore gon City, say this is the best season for their work for several years. ' : .-. " The board of trustees of the State Reform School has let bids for the laying of 4,500 square feet of concrete work, for basement floors ' and walks. Portland Markets. ' Wheat Walla Walla, 60c. ; val ley, nominal ; biuestem, 6162c. per bushel. - v - Flour Best grades, $2.903.40 per barrel; graham, $2.60. Oats White.$1.351.40 per cental ; gray, $1.301.32 per cental. Barley Feed, $1717.50; brewing, $17(817.50 per ton. , - Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton ; midd lings, $21.50; shorts, $20.00; chop, $16. . - Hay Timothy, $12.5014; clover, $79.50; Oregon wild hay, $67 per ton. '- - - Hops 1214c. per lb. WqoI Valley, 11 13c ; Eastern Oregon, . 710c; mohair, 2021c. per pound. ' Butter Fancy creamery,' 15 17 c. ; dairy, 1314c. ; store, 11 123c.' per pound. Eggs Oregon t ranch, . 1212Jc. per dozen. - Cheese Full cream, twins, 13 13)c. ; Young "America, 13) 14c. per pound. - Poultry Chickens, m ixed, $3. 50 4 ; hens, $45.00; dressed, 11 12c. per pound; springs, $35 per dozen; ducks, $56; geese, $67; turkeys, live, 10 12c; dressed, 14 16c. per pound. . - . "" " Potatoes Old, $11.15 per sack; new, 2J2Kc. per pound. ' .: .: Mutton . Lambs 45c. per pound grors; best sheep, wethers, with wool. $4.254.50; dressed. 67c Iper pound. Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.756; light, $4.755; dressed, 77)c. per pouiid. ',.-: Veal Large, 6)7c. per pound; small, 7K8c. per pound. , Beef Gross, top steers, $55.25; cows and heifers, $4.504.75; dressed beef, 8J8c. per pound ' Senator Hawley is in favor of pro tecting the Nicaraguan canal, no matter what kind of an . interna tional agreement is made. - It wps held recently . in ' a .London police court that no one has any right to force his way into a railway car riage already full . r - San Francisco hai 130, Pittsburg 385, Providence 250, Washington 600, Louisville 325, Cincinnati 516 anc' Clevaland 400 policemen. Terrible Accident Caused by Motormen'i Carelessness. Albany, N. Y., May 27. Electric cars racing for a switch while run mng in opposite directions at the rate of 40 miles an hour cost five lives yesterday afternoon by a terrific collision in which over 40 prominent people - were injured, some fatally and others seriously. The lobby of the locdl postoffice, filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking lor relatives and friends,, surgeons administering tern porary relief, and ambulances racing through the city taking the wounded to the hospitals, were the early in timations of the accident. The scene of the accident was at a point about two miles eut of Green- busch, on the line of the Albany & Hudson Railway. , The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast . were both running and so sudden was the collision that the motormen did not have time . to put on the brakes be fore south bound car No. 22 had gone almost clear through north bound car No. 17, and hung on .the edge of a high bluff with its load of shriek ing maimed humanity. One motor man was pinioned up against the smashed front of ; the south bound car, with both legs severed and. was killed- instantly, while the other one uvea put a few moments. The few women and children who had escaped injury were hysterical and added their cries to the shrieks o.f the 'dying and mutilated. Men With broken arms and bones, with dislocated - joints and bloody heads and iaces, tried to assist others who were more helpless. . Help had been summoned from East Green busch and vicinity, and in , a. little time the bruised mass of humanity,'" with the mutilated dead, --. were . nloaded on empty cars and taken to Albany. The ambulances and"'physicians had been " summoned ' and v the postoffice turned , into morgue .and hospital. as lar as tne physicians could tern porarily attend - the .wounded they were, taken to their hornes or to the hospitals. . : " With : both motormen- killed it was hard to . get at the real cause of the accident, but it is pretty well de termined -that , it ; was caused by an attempt of the south bound car to reach a second switch instead of waiting for the north ,hoiind car at the first siding. The cars weigh 15 tons each and are the largest electric cars built, "and" so fnehtful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. SEVERE WIND; STORM. Caused Widespread Devastation in Five West. cm States. Salt Lake, ' May 28.-The wind storm ,- which swept over ; Nevada, Utah,. Southern Idaho,"1 ."Wyoming r.nd Colorado, did damage that will run into the - hundreds of thousands of dollars. It resulted . in almost complete prostration; pf telegraph and telephone service in the states affect ed and for nearly 24 hours during the height of the storm, the inter moun tain region was practically cut off from the rest of the world..-- The storm was severest in Eastern Nevada and Utah, and in the fertile "valleys in the northern part of Utah wide spread devastation resulted. When the storm was at its height, the wind at some points reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour. -At Ogden the, storm was felt worst Here the wind tore roofs from a num ber of buildings, including the Bap tist church, completely ' demolishing barns and outbuildings, and scattered them far and wide, uprooted many shade trees and tore . others to pieces, Diew in plate glass windows in ; business-; blocks and ' prostrated electric light wires, so that the city was in darkness. The damage in Ogden will probably reach $100,000. ; At Five Points, Logan, Smithfield, Hooper and other places the damage was very great. - Hundreds of fruit trees were completely stripped. ; The force of the wind was so . terrific around Logan and - Hooper - that to mato vines were swept entirely from fields. It is estimated that fully one half of the crops were destroyed. Around . Hooper, the . sweep of the wind blew away the ploughed ground to the full depth that the plows had entered the earth, rendering the land practically useless. - Along the north shore of the Great Salt Lake the wind picked up the-dry sand in great clouds and hurled it across the country with terrific force, half burying the railroad tracks for miles. - - New Mexico Mine Accident Santa Fe, N. M.,' May,28. One man was instantly killed and several seriously hurt at the Santa Rita cop per mine, in Grant county, while cleaning out blasts which had failed to explode. Sailed for Nome," San Francisco, May 28. Thret steamers sailed today for Nome the Conemaugh, with 2,600 tons of gen eral freight but no passengers ; tlu Portland with 400 , passengers,. thre tons of mail and a full cargo. ' Nearly half of the passengers are employe; of the Northern . Commercial com pany, bound for ' Unalaska," Dutcl harbor, , St. Michael and Nome. Tlv . steamer Valencia, with about 201 passengers and supplies. j TWELVE WEBE LOST STEAMER FOUNDERED ON LAKE HURON IN A STORM. "Every Man for Himself was the Captain's Last Order Second Engineer and One Deckhand Saved Utter was Crazy from His Terrible Exocrine Engineer's Story of the Wreck. East Tawas, Mich., May 27. The wooden steamer Baltimore foundered this morning in Lake Huron near au eaoie, ana iz of her crew of 14 were drowned. Two men were washed about in the lake for neveral hours, lashed to pieces of wreckage, ana were finally picked up by the tug Columbia and brought in here. George - McGinnis. a deck hand, one of the rescued, went crazy from his experience. The other survivor, Thomas Murphy, of Milwaukee, sec ond eneineer. was able to tell the story of the disaster. It was sometime after the Colum bia had brought the shipwrecked men into Port before Murnhv was re vived sufficiently to tell his story. xue .nauimore tounaered about 6 o'clock in the morning and he was in the water until late in the after noon. - "We were bound from Lorain to Sault Ste. Marie, ", he said, "and had in tow a laree steam drill and wviw When off Thunder Bay Captain Place aeciaea to iurn about and run for Tawas for shelter. - When we arrived off Au Sable the steamer struck heav ily on her bottom. The seas broke over her at the same time and carried away the deckhouse and the after cabin, and finally the smokestack fell. Both rails forward broke jn two just aft of the forward deckhouse, and we knew it was only a few minutes before the steamer would go to pieces. , " 'It's every man for himself now,'' shouted Captain Place. We took Captain Place's advice and every man started to save himself as best he could. ; Some of the boys took to the rigging, but McGinnis and myself lashed ourselves to a ring bolt in "a piece of the after cabin, and we were washed overboard shortly afewarrd. The strain was too much for McGin nis and he went crazy before we had been in the water very ' long.- He tried to throw me off the wreckage, but I talked to him and encouraged him to hold on. Twice he got loose apd tried to drown us both, but each time I succeeded in quieting him...--1 told him a boat was coming to take us offh and then I would get him tied fast again. . - .- The tug Columbia lost a drill scow with six men on board just before she picked up the men from the Bal timore. ; The Columbia went out again this afternoon and found the drill, v The men were taken off it' badly frightened, as they had neither boat not life preservers. ., The -lost steamer was rated at. 40 - 000 by the underwriters, and was in sured tor nearly that amount. . NATIVE JUDGES INCOMPETENT. Discontent Caused by Appointment of Ameri can Judges. Manila May 27. The discontent among the natives at the appontment of American judges and alleged dis crimination in the civil service in favor of Americans is finding expres sion, encouraged by some of the na tive 'judges, who are aware that the reorganization of the judiciary will result in the loss of their positions. Judge Neer, of the court of the first instance of Tondo, one of the leaders of what is beginning to be called the radical wing of the Federalists, de clared today that if such things con tinue - tnere will be a second revolu tion. Some of the prominent Federal ists ridicule the prediction. The Philippine commission's selections of Judges were thoroughly considered It is -undeniable that most of the native judges lack, the- competence required. One of them has been re moved for mal'easance, and others are suspected "of irregularities. The classifications . of the civil service avoid discrimination," but the. native and Spanish qualifications are not equal to those of capable Americans some departments are emplovine na tives at the risk of temporary incon venience. - ' ' -- - After a ; conference ' with General MacArthur, General Trias has under taken negotiations at Luchan for the surrender of General Cailles wheh is daily expected. . . - Yukon is Not Open. ; White Horse. Y. TV: Mv 1.1 withstanding reports to the contrary, me lUKpnriver is not open below Lebarge, but the dailv cleaia the ice is exDected.;. Manv RTm-a -and a great quantiy of freigh have been passed as lar as Lebarge- the latter aw m i, in g me arrival oi tne first Daw son bound steamer." Lake Bennet is not yet open,. but that is of but little soncern to the 1901 Klondiker, since the White Pass A, Yukon route haa solved the problem of lake and rapid navigation, as far as White Horse. Saved Bank From Burglars. Waverlv. O.. Mav 97.: Ti- - w t Wallace eneaeed in a duel ivif.h four robbers last night, and saved the First National Bank and. the postoffice from beimr burclarired The Arvt lino. on the sceond floor pf the building ana was awakened by the noise. He exchanged , shots with the burglars and a trail of blood proved that his aim was good. The crooks made their escape from town on a freight train. MINERAL OIL EXPORTS. Mew OU Discoveries Win Keep It Ahead of " Russia m Amount Produced. Washington, May 29. The recent oil discoveries in Texas and on the Pacific coast lend especial interest to some facts just presented by the treas ury bureau of statistics regarding the sxports of mineral oils from . the United States. These show that the exportation of the fiscal year about to snd will probably be the largest in the history of this remarkable industry, which has increased its exports from 204,000,000 gallons of illuminating oil in 1875, to 721,000,000 gallons in 1900. In the quarter century from 1876 to 1900 the value of mineral oils exported from the United States was about $1,200,000,000, an average of about $48,00,000 a year. During re cent years it has averaged about $60, 000,000 per annum or $5,000,000 per month. In the mere question of gallons of oil produced, . Bussia has been for years a close competitor of the United States, though it is probable that- the recent discoveries in the United States will enable it to continue to ' lead in the number of gallons produced; while the fact that American oil pro duces nearly twice as . much refined illuminating oil from a given quan tity of crude as from the Suisian oil, adds greatly to its value as a commer cial product. -' One especially interesting feat ure of the development of the oil in dustry is, that there has been a re markable decrease in the price to the consumer during the period in which the actual exportations and the net value of the exports have been in creasing. The average value of the illuminating oil exported in 1876 was about 15 cents per gallon,, and in 1877, an exceptional year, 20 cents per gallon. By 1881 the price had iaiien to about 10 cents per gallon, the figures for that year being . 332, 000,000 gallons, valued at $34,000.- 000. " By 1891 the average price was about 7. cents per gallon. . By 1898 tne average export price had droDned to .5 cents per gallon,, "tha quantity exported having been 824,000,000 gal lons," and the value reported to - the bureau of statistics by - exporters through the customs collectors, $42,- 2Z,682. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Car Loaded With Explosives Run Into by I ,'' - freight Train. ' " Everett, Wash., May 29. An acci dent occurred yesterday afternoon on the Great Northern Bailroad four miles least of Skykomish which re sulted in the serious injury of Engi neer John McGrouty and consider able loss of property. A push car loaded with 48 boxes of dynamite was being run to a siding when the west bound freight train. No. .15,. . came along. . :: Before -the men" in .charge of ; the push car could reach the siding,, the freight struck the car. A terrible explosion : fol lowed. The engine, was hurled some distance . up the mountain side. Three freight cars ' were demolished and about 500 feet of track- was torn up. A steam shovel standing near was Teduced to scrap" iron. . McGrouty was the only one seriously hurt. He received a scalp wound, his tongue was bitten through, and vhe also sus tained injuries to his spine. A watchman's shack, 75 yards from the explosion, was blown to atoms and the watchman himself stunned. The injured men were taken to the Everett hospital. STRIKERS LESS SANGUINE. Eighteen Hundred Men Still Out Around Newark, N. J. . New Yuri. Mil' 59 The olooe l the first week of the machinists' strike at Newark, N. J., finds about 1,800 idle men . in Newark and its suburbs. The' strikers have- ceased to be as sanguine as at first regarding tne outcome oi tneir enorts to com pel their employers to grant a nine hour day without decreased pay. A half dozen of t.he Rmaller. shnru in this section have met . the - demands of the men but none of the larger nnea haRflhnwn ' anv diKnonft.ion tn yield. Representatives of the larger i- - ii . 3 r muiB say mey are prepareu ior just ass long a fight as the machinists are to maintain. It is probable that the machinists employed in ' the American Engine wArVfl at. TMainneld will a nnf This company agreed to the nine hour i i i i. ie i r 1 1 ii clause, out vut iu ueuus irum me jaj i .... . nuur pay. . Homecoming of Volunteers. Manila, May 29. It is reasonably certain that the remaining volunteers will sail for home before July. . The Forty-Seventh regiment and battalions of the Forty ninth and Thirty eighth have sailed on tne transport , Thomas. The Ohio sails today with the Forty scond regiment and. the Kilpatrick and Logan June 1 . with the Forty third and Forty ninth regiments and two battalions of the Sixth. The Grant sails from Aparri June' 1 with the Forty' eighth regiment and two battalions of the Forty ninth. , Rioting in South Russia. - London, May 29. Rioting hat spread to South Russia, says a dis patch from St. Petersburg, as the result of the production of the anti Seminite play, "The Smugglers." At Kutais - thousands of people congre gated about the theater and stoned the police. A -: detachment of Cos-; sacks charged and dispersed the crowd. : Th irteen pol icemen, 15 Cos sacks and two officers were severely injured. ; :C , . EXPLOSION IN MINE TWENTY-ONE MEN MET A TER RIBLE DEATH. Nine More Terribly Burned Explosion Caused by Coal Dust in the Air Being Ignited by a "Blown Blast" Fire Shot Out From the Mouth of the Tunnel 300 Feet High Mine b Badly Damaged. Dayton, Tenn, May 29. At the Bichland mine of the Dayton Coal & Iron Company, two miles from here, at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, h.av. cAyivBiuu ui uoai aust re sulted in the death of 21 men, all white, and most of them marired and with families. The explosion was caused by what is known among miners as a "blown blast." It is the custom of the miners to place blasts and fire them off at quitting time, leaving the coal thus thrown down to be loaded and hauled out of the mine the next morning. The Bichland mine is destitute of water, and a great vol ume of fine particles of coal dust, i.i.k;...i, l vj uue ua&cu accumu lated at the roof of the mine. This afterfioon at 4:30 o'clock a dynamite cartride was placed in position in one of the rooms for a blast, and the miners started for the mouth of the mine. The blast did not explode, as intended, but instead a long flame shot out of the blast hole and ignited the accumulation of dust. Instantly a terrific explosion occurred, and a seething mass of flames shot to the. mouth of the mine and extended 300 feet into the air, scorching the leaves from the nearby trees. There were 34 men in the mine at the time.. Four -of them escaped with slight injuries. Twenty one were killed, and nine terribly burned, most of them fatally. The force of the explosion caused great masses of coal and slate to cave in from the roof of the mine, and many of the miners were completely buried. Word quickly reached Dayton and rescue forces were at once organized and proceeded to the mine. One by one the blackened and horribly dis figured bodies were taken from the debris and carried to the mouth of the mine, where they were put on a locomotive and taken to Dayton. Scores of relatives and friends gath ered at the mouth of the mine, and the shrieks of anguish as the bodies were removed were heart rending.' The two undertaking establishments 0t Dayton were turned into morgues, where the mangled bodies were dressed and prepared for delivery to their families. All the men em ployed in this mine were residents of Dayton. The Bichland mine is the prop erty of the Dayton Coal & Iron Com pany, composed of Glasgow capital ists. The company operates an iron furnace at Dayton. RAPIDLY N EARING HOME. Presidential Train Will Reach Washington Thursday. Sidney, Neb, May 28. The presi dential train made the third days run on the homeward journey without incident. The trip across Wyoming was at an average elevation of over 4.000 feet, and at Sherman, just be fore the train began to descend the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains the elevation exceeded 7,500. The president has made no remarks at any of the stops, but he has ap peared on She platform and shook hands with some of those nearest the car. There were crowds at every sta tion along the route and every cattle ranch had its little group of cowboys sitting bolt upright on their horses waving the sombreros as the train went by. Mrs. McKinley is standing the trip well. The weather has been pleasant and that means much for her comfort. The Presidential train will reach Washington Thursday morning at 7:30. Demands of Strikers Met Dunkirk, N. Y., May 29. The strike of the machinists employed by the Brooks Locomotive Works has been settled. : All who struck are to be taken back without discrimination. Fifty five hours will constitute a week's work ; a straight increase of 10 per cent in wages is granted.' These are substantially the demands made by the machinists. Date Fixed for Cup Races . New York, May 29. The Royal Ulster Yacht Club has cabled the New York Yacht Club an approval of September 21 as the day for the opening contest in the cup races. New Submarine Cable. ' : isew ior, way za. A new sub marine - cable between England and Germany has just been put down. The cable ' is owned by a British company, but the German govern ment contributed to its cost, and a German firm was employed to carry out the work. Postal Orders. Washington, May 29 The post- office at Susanville, Grant county, Or, "has been moved three quarters of a mile to the northeast without change of postmaster. A' postoffice has been established at Midford. Kine county, Washington, to be-supplied witn special service trom north Bend. Daily mail messenger service has been ' authorized between Seattle and West Seattle.. - V