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GAZETTE CORVA WEEKLY. Ccasolidited Feb. 1899. COKVAIIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGOK", FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1002. VOL. XXXIX. NO." 2. THE YEAR REVIEWED SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT EVENT8 OF 1901. Yar Witnesses tbe Deaths of Queen Victoria and President McKinley Many Other Notables Pass Away Dis asters, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc The year 1901, firstborn of the new century, ia made memorable by the deaths of two of the best loved rulers the world has ever known. In its first month Vic toria, England's good queen, breathed her - last quietly and peacefully at one of her royal abodes. The forcible taking off of President William McKinley by the bul let of the misguided anarchist youth, Czolgosz, in September, is in harsh con trast with her serene passing, and is a ad commentary upon the laxity of our democracy, which favors the intimate contact of the chief executive with the general public and fails to provide ade quate means for his physical protection. Many others of the great oaes of earth statesmen, authors, churchmen, musi cians and business men have also heard the last summons and responded thereto. The Boer-British war in South Africa has continued through the year, rather to the advantage of the latter, and the armed resistance of the Filipinos against the rule of the United States has been fitfully In evidence. There have been several mine and rail way accidents, in which many lives have been destroyed. The number of destruc tive fires has also been quite large. The most important happenings of the year may be briefly summarized thus: January. 1. Lord Hopetouu Ins'.illpd as first Gov ernor General of Federat d Australian col- - onles. 2. Death of Ignatius Donnelly. 8. Death of Bishop W. X. Nlnde at De troit, Mich. 6. Death of Philip D. Armour Eight lives lout In small hotel fire In Minneapolis. 8. Fire horror at Rochester, N. Y., orphan asylum, 20 lives lost. 10. Chinese sign Joint note of the powers. 15. Fred Alexander, colored, burned at stake by Leavenworth, Kan., mob. 16. Death of ex-(iov. James A. Mount, of Indiana. 22. Death of Quoen Victoria of England nd accession of King Edward VII Burn ing of Grand Opera House In Cincinnati. 23. Board of Trade building in Montreal burns; loss 3.000,(M)0. 25. Death of Guiseppe Verdi, Italian com poser. 20. Disastrous fire In Des Moines, Iowa. ....Twenty-one patients burned to death In Tokyo hospital, Japan. Febrn irr, 2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor. 8. Great snowstorm In Middle West. T. Marriage of Queen WUhelmlna of Hol land and Duke Henry of Mecklenhurg- Bchwerln Mine explosion In Durango, Mex'oo, kills H7 persons. 10. Sudden death of Col. Albert D. Shaw. 14. Marriage of Princess of Astutias and Prince Charles of Bourbon. 15. Death of ex-Senator Gilbert A. Pierce, of North Dakota Death of Maurice Thompson, author. ...Sixty miners entombed In mine at Cumberland, K. ('. 21. Nine persons killed In collision near Bordentown, N. J. 22. Pacific steamer Klo de Juniero sinks outside Golden Gate, Ca.lfurnlti; several lives lost. 25. Fifty miners Imprisoned In burning mine at Keminerer, Wyo. 20. Geo. Ward, negro, hanged and burned at Terre Haute, Ind., for assault and mur der. 28. Death of VVm. M. Evarts. AlHrcIi. 1. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb., Is burned. 4. Inauguration of President McKinley and Vice President Koosevelt. 5. Thirty men crushed to death on rail road at Wolovo, KhhsIh. 11. Twelve persons killed and many more Injured by bol'.er explosion In Doretnus laun dry, Chicago Hay-1'auucefote treaty re jected by Great Britain. 13. Death of ex-President BenJ. Harrison. ....Destructive fire at Cloverport. Ky. 23. Chief Aguiualdo captured by Gen. Fred Funston. 25. Tornado at Birmingham, Ala Death of Charlotte M. Yonge, author. 30. Death of Comedian Uoland Keed. April. 3. China refuses to sign Manchurlan con vention. 5. Japan Issiks ultimatum to Russia. 9. Logan statue unveiled In Washington. 12. Cuban Constitutional convention re jects Piatt amendment.". Death of Geo. Q. Cannon. 10. British war loan voted by House of Commons Agulnaldo's peace manifesto Issued. 20. Unprecedented snowstorm and floods lu Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the Virginias. 20. Fifty persons killed by explosion near Frankfort, Germany. 20. President McKinley starts on long trip through the country. iV ay. 1. Opening of Pan-American F.xpositton. ....Go,". Dietrich, of Nebraska, res gns and Is made United States Senator by bis suc cessor. Gov. Savage. 3. Burning of Jacksonville, Fla Civil government tstabltshed at Manila. 8. Suicide of It. N. Pollock, fugitive bank president of Cleveland, at Seattle, Wash. 0. First Australian Federal Parliament opeued In Melbourne by Duke of Cornwall and York Panic In Wall street. 13. Steamer Paducah goes down In Missis sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, 111. 15. President's tour broken off by Mrs. McKInley's serious Illness. 10. Klot in Albany. N. Y. 17. Death of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage Death of Edwin F. Utal, of Grand Rapids, Mich. 18. Launching of battleship Ohio at San Francisco. 20. Pan-American Exposition formally ded icated Fifty thousand machinists go out on strike. 21. Death of Gen. FItzjohn Porter Death of ex-Congressman Chas. A. Boutelle. 22. Wreck of Sir Thomas Upton's yacht Shamrock 11 Suicide of Breed, assassin of King Humbert, of Italy. 23. Death of ex-Gov. John It. Tanner, of Illinois Norwegian bark Ellse lost off Sable Island, with crew of 14 men. 24. Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti more sinks; 12 lives lost Seventy miners killed by explosion In English colliery. 28. Cuban convention adopts Piatt reso lution. HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR. Work Completed at a Cost, Approxi mately, of $3,000,000. The government history of the Civil War has finally been completed and de livered to those entitled, under the law, to receive it. It is an immense work and consists of 128 volumes, nine and a half inches long, six and a half inches wide, and averaging over two inches in sickness. In addition to the text, there are sev eral atlases containing maps of the mili tary operations of the armies. The gigantic work has cost the gov ernment, according to an official state ment, $2,S5S,514.t7, not counting the sal aries of army officers detailed from time to time to duty connected with the pre paration of the work. The total cost ia probably over $3,000,000. About 12,000 sets of this work have been printed and distributed to libraries and individuals. Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine is going to St. Joseph, Mo., to remain with her mother tot aa indefinite period, Jane. 2. Death of James A Heine..... Jasper, Texas, bnrned by robbers. 4. Eight men killed by mine explosion at Iron Mountain, Mich. 4. Great fire In Antwerp does $10,000,000 damage. 9. Death of Sir Walter Besant, English novelist. 10. Explosions In mine at Port Royal. Pa., cause deaths of 17 men. 12. Piatt amendment accepted by Cuban Constitutional convention. 14. Seven;! lives lost by collision of ferry boats In East River, New York. 18. Fourth daughter born to Cxar of Erj- sla Death of ex-Gov. H. S. Plngree, of Michigan. 21. Fireworks explosion at Paterson, JJ. J., kills 17 persons Seven persons killed by tornado near Naper, Neb. - 22. American Derby won by Robert Wad dell. 23. Destructive floods wipe ont West Vir ginia towns Death of Adelbert S. Hay. ....Gen. Cailles surrenders. 25. Death of Rev. Joseph Cook. July. 1. Death of Senator James H. Kyle, of South Dakota.... Eleven boys and men killed Dy iigntning in cnicago. I 5. Death of ex-Chancellor, Prince von IHobenlohe. 6. Versailles, Ohio, swept by fire. 10. Collision on Chicago and Alton Rail road near Norton. Mo., kills 17 persons and Injures 40 Corbln. Mont., wiped out by cloudburst Minnesota pardon board vo:es rreeoom to lounger brotners. 15. Strike of steel workers begins. 20. Death of Mrs. Paul Krueger. 21. Hottest day on record in Chicago; thermometer marks 103 degrees. 25. President proclaims free trade with Porto Rico. 29. Allotment of Kiowa and Comanche Indian lands begins at El Reno, Okla. 31. B. & O. train held up at Edgemoor, Ind. Ansrnst. I. Geo. H. Phillips company, of Chicago, suspends temporarily. 5. Death of Dowager Empress of Ger many Many killed by explosion in Phil adelphia. 6. President Shaffer orders steel workers to strike $280,000 stolen from Shelby smelter at Vallejo, Cal. II. Death of Francesco Crispi, Italy's grand old man. 13-16. Great tidal wave along shore of Gulf of Mexico. 18.1E Death of Edmond Audran, French composer. 19. Seventeen passengers drowned by sink ing of Ohio River packet City of Golconda at Crowell's Landing. 21. Tornado wrecks town of Anadarko, Okla. 26. France severs diplomatic relations with Turkey. 28. Boiler explosion on steamer City of Trenton, near Philadelphia, kills eleven per sons Knights Templar's conclave opens in Louisville. 31. Thirty-six persons killed In Great Northern wreck near KalUpell. Mont. Feptemher. 1. Flood in Cleveland causes $1,000,000 damage. 5. Miss Ellen Stone, American mission ary, abducted by Bulgarian brigands. 6. President McKinley shot at Buffalo Exposition by Leon Czolgosz. 7. Peace pact signed at Pekln. 12. Opening of Schley Inquiry in Wash ington. 14. Death of President McKinley Great steel strike settled Theodore Roosevelt takes oath as President. 16. Steamer Hudson lost In Lake Superior with crew of 25 17. Foreign troops evacuate Pekin to Chi nese State funeral of President McKin ley at Washington. 18. British torpedo boat destroyer Cobra sinks in North Sea; 67 lives lost. 19. President McKInley's body burled at Canton, Ohio. 23. Czolgosz trial begins at Buffalo. 24. Czolgosz found guilty. 26. Czolgosr s mteneed to death., . . , -28. Columbia defeats Shamrock. October. 3. Columbia wins second race with Sham rock Death of the Ameer of Afghanistan. 4. Third yacht race won by Columbia, winning the stiles and keeping America's cup in this country. 10. Death of Lorenzo Snow, head of Mor mon church. 13. Reservoir af East Liverpool, Ohio, breaks, causing $150,000 damage. 17. Joseph F. Smith chosen president of Mormm church. 18. Death of ex-Gov. John S. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, Minn. 21. Burglars tunnel under building and rob Chicago postofflce of $74,610 in stamps. 23. Burning of great packing plant at Hammond, Ind. 24. Nineteen lives lost in fire that de stroyed Philadelphia furniture house of Hunt, Wilkinson & Co. 28. Fourteen persons killed In race war in Washington Parish, La. 29. Electrocution of Leon F. Czolgosz, murderer of President McKinley. November. 1. Boers steal 6,000 horses from British remount station, near Cape Town. 2. Close of Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. 5. French forces seize three Turkish ports on Island of Mitylene. 6. Elections In several States. 7. Death of LI Hung Chang Death of Kate Greenaway, English artist. 8. Turkey accedes to demands of France. ... .Death of Mother BIckerdyke. 12. Fire at Thomas, W. Va., destroys 62 buildings. 15. Jeffries whips Ruhlin in San Fran cisco. 18. Hay-Pauncefote treaty signed In Washington. . I 20. Mine fire at Telluride. Colo., causes death of 100 miners. 23. United States burs batt'.efleid of San Juan, Cuba. . president Koosevelt warns central American nations against interference at Nicaragua canal. 26. Boiler explosion in Detroit kills 27 persons and injures many more. 27. Horrible wreck on Wabash near Sen eca, Mich.; 80 killed. 28. Terry McGovern knocked out by Young" Corbett. 30. Several lives lost In ferryboat collision lu San Francisco Bay. December. 2. Fifty-seventh Congress assembles Opeuing of the Charleston Exposition. 10. Democrats carry Boston city elections. 12. Marconi signals from Cornwall. En gland, to St. Johns, N. F.. without wires. 13. scniey court or inquiry makes Its re port, censuring Schley.. .. .Mrs. Lola Ida Bonlne acquitted of killing James S. Ayres. 14. Floods cause loss of life and great damage in New York, Pennsylvania and West Vlrglula Fatal wreck on Illinois Central Railway near Rockford, 111. 15. Death of John Swintou, New York economist. 16. Hay-Pauncefote treaty ratified by Senate Death of Gov. Gregory, of Rhode Island. 17. Postmaster Geueral Charles Emery Smith resigns from Cabinet and Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, appointed to succeed him. 10,. Congress adjourns for holiday recess. Told In a Few Lines. St, Louis police are engaged in a war on the pool rooms. The United States Supreme Court Mon day took a recess until Jan. 6. A $13,500 fire occurred in the busi ness section of Tawnee, O. T. W. II. Rogers, a railroad man, was kill ed by a train at Blackwell, O. T. Bids for a site for a new county court house at Lawrence, Kan., are asked for. Topeka, Kan., was 47 years old the other day, and the anniversary was duly celebrated. The Postmaster General has ordered the consolidation of the postoffices at Em pire City with Galena office, Kansas. "Koosevelt at San Juan Hill" is to be the subjct of a painting by Yassili Ver esthagin, a Russian painter of battle scenes. The Tope will not snd a delegation to 1 attend the coronation ceremonies of King Edward VII., a his holiness was not notified of the Knag's accession to the throaa. j EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. 4 Comprehensive Review of the Important Happening of the Past Week Presented in a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. All danger from flood in Pennsyl vania has passed. An inoffensive passenger was shot and killed by four men on a Missis sippi train. A missionary and several native converts have been massacred by Chi nese troops. The (uneral of United States Sena" tor Sewell, of New Jersey, was held with full military honors. A legal battle between the Harri man and Hill interests in the North ern Pacific has begun in Minnesota. Admiral Schley considers his case closed and will take no further action. His friends will ask congress to vin dicate him. Sir Thomas Lipton says he will challenge for America's cup until he has won it or is satisfied that it can not be won. . , The governor of North Dakota will not attend the conference of governors as he sees no menace to his state from the railroads. A prominent American, who has been in China for some time, predicts that before many years the world will see a war such as never before seen, in the Chinese empire. The Maryland Councils of the Jun ior Order of Mechanics presented Ad miral Schley -with a beautiful medal as an evidence of their personal es teem and admiration of his services to this country. England's coal supply may not out last the century. Germany has ordered another war ship to Venezuelan waters. Senator Depew and Miss May Palmer were married in Italy. Four hundred were killed in a bat tle in the interior of Colombia. The battle ship Missouri was launched at Newport News, Va. The death of Governor Rogers was due to worry as much as to ills, j Insurgent sympathizers have mur dered a number pf friendly natives. Four trainmen were killed near Scranton, Pa., on a runaway coal train. Prominent Englishmen are coming to America to study its business methods. Fire at Anderson, Ind., destroyed several business houses, causing a loss of $40,000. There is no friction between the military and civil authorities in the Philippines. Generals Chaffee and Wheaton have gone to Batangas to personally inves tigate the conditions there. United States Senator Sewall is dead. A department store at Victoria, B. C, burned. Loss, $250,000. Germany is preparing to blockade Venez uelan ports and enforce her de mands. The Chinese court will soon return to Pekin and extensive preparations are being made to receive it. Governor Shaw will not discuss the policy he will pursue when he be comes secretary of the treasury. Governor Taft has left Manila for home. The insurgent general Sampson has surrendered in Bohol. Another corps of burghers will be formed in South Africa. Four persons perished in the burn ing of a river steamer at Menphis. There is little hope of an irrigation bill being passed by this session of congress. General Chaffee refused to interfere in the court martial of a , Filipino murderer. Chile and Argentina have signed a protocol agreeing to arbitrate their differences. By a gas explosion at a Kokomo, Ind., glass factory, one man was killed and several injured. Secretary Long, by direction of President Koosevelt discharged Ma- clay from the Brooklyn navy yard. A Toledo, O., fire truck collided with a street car, resulting in the death of one fireman and the injury of several others. Tne Chinese court will engage an American adviser. Fire at Springfield, 0., destroyed a church building which cost $30,000. Ex-Governor Shaw, of Iowa, has been offered the secretaryship of the treasury. The possibilities of wireless telegra phy were predicted by James Brown Lindsay, of Dundee, Scotland, in 1834. The Pharaohs wore their beaids when in mourning for a relative. Court mourning in Egypt seems to have last a year. A Pittsburger offers to buy all the municipal and private street railways in St. Petersburg, Russia, and elec trically equip them. LAWS FOR PHILIPPINES. Root in Daily Conference With Lodge and Piatt Bills Being Prepared. Washington, Jan. - 2. Secretary Root has been in almost daily confer ence with Senators Lodge and Piatt, of Connecticut, during the past week, in regard to the legislation for the government of the Philippines. Bills are in course of preparation to carry into effect the lecommendations made by the Philippine - commission and indorsed by the president and secre tary of war, looking, to the material and political welfare of the islands. These bills authorize the granting of franchises for railroads, electric lights, telephones, etc , the issue of bonds of the insular government to purchase the agricultural holdings and property of religicus orders ; pro vide for the acquisition of homestead rights, regulate mining and provide a special system of coinage and bank ing for the islands. v f Memorial Services for Rizal. Manila, Jan. 2. Memorial services and a procession were held December dO in honor of Jose Kizal, the Fili pino leader. The services were cele brated on the Luenja, where Rizal was executed by the Spaniards, De cember 30, 1896. The procession called at the town hall, ..; and Acting governor Vv right adressed a few words to those who took part in it. The manifestation was chieily remarkable for the intense hatrt'd displayed to ward the friars. --. Generals Go to Batangas. Manila, Jan. 2. General Chaffee and General Wheaton have gone to Batangas in order to make a personal investigation of the state of affairs in that province and confer with General Bell. Generals Chaffee and Whea ton will return here tomorrow. Bonr.er Accepts Appointment. Washington, Jan. 2. Hugh J. Bonner, of. New York, has accepted the tender of an appointment as chief of the fire department of Manila. TRAGEDY ON A TRAIN Inoffensive Passenger Shot, and Killed by Four Men All Now in Jail. Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 2. Four white men killed J. M. Rhea, an in offensive passenger on a train of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley branch of the Illinois Central i Railroad, at an earlyhoar' this sisnffiig H'3ar:Lc' land, Miss., cat the locomotive from the train and forced the engineer to run to Cleveland, Miss. All four men were arrested. One is in jail at Leland, and three are locked up at Shelby. The four men, who had been drinking, boarded the northbound train at Leland at 3 A. M., to return to Shelby. Rhea, who is an engi neer, was on his way to Tutwiler to take out a locomotive there, and was sleeping on a seat in the sleeper. The four men came down the aisle and the foremost one ran into Rhea's legs, which were extended out into the aisle. Rhea was awakened and a quarrel ensued, during which one of the four men told him that they could not all stay in the same car and that he would have to get out. Rhea remarked that, in order to prevent trouble he would have to do as they told him. Thereupon be started out of the car. He had just reached the door when the men opend fire upon him and he fell. ADMIRAL CASEY SAILS. He Will Probably Change His Flag to the Iowa on Reaching Peru. Washington, Jan. 2. The navy department has been informed of the departure yesterday from Acapulco, Mexico, of Rear Admiral bilas Casey, commanding the North Pacific squad ron, aboard his flagship, the Wiscon sin, bound for Callao, Peru. By the time the Wisconsin arrives at the latter port it is expected that the battle ship Iowa will be ready to emerge from the dock at Talchuano, Chile, and at the navy department it is thought probable that Admiral Casey will transfer .his flag back to the Iowa, from which vessel it for melry flew. This state of affairs will leave the two largest battle ships of the Pacific squadron cruising in the waters off the coast of Chile, Argen tina and Peru, so that in case the threatened hostilities between Chile and Argentina materialize American interests in that quarter would be well looked after. Russia's Reply to United States. The Hague, Jan. 2. M. Komaroff, the Russian chamberlain, has handed to Professor Asser, oneo f the Dutch members of the permanent arbitra tion court, and arbitrator of the claims of American sealers, on the seizure of their vessels by the Russian government about six years ago, Russia '8 reply to the last note of the United States on the subject of the Behring sea seal fisheries differences. $100,000 Damage to Power Dam. Anderson, S. C, Jan. 2. Three hundred and fifty feet of the Anderson Light & Power Company s dam at Portman Sohals, in Seneac river, was washed awav laot night. The dam age is at least100,000. Prairie Sails for Port of Spain. Nonrfnlk. Va.. Jan. 2. The United States cniisftr Prairie sailed todav for Port of Spain, Trinidad, near the coast of Venezuela. NEWS OF THE STATE TEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portance A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth Latest Market Report - A wind storm at Astoria did $16,500 damage. A gift of $1000 in cash has been made to Philomath college. The smallpox scare at Marshfleld has passed and the quarantine raised. The December . shipments of wheat from Portland exceeded 2,000,000 bush els. . The Douglas county poultry show at Roseburg last week was a success in every particular. State Food Commissioner Bailey has started a crusade against light-weight California butter. Weston had a small fire a few days ago, but the blaze was extinguished before much damage was done. Arrangements have been completed for the registration of voters of Marion county, which begins January 6. ' Real estate is moving quite lively around Weston. Several farms have been sold recently at good prices. Six carloads of prunes just left Dal las for the Eastern .market. The price paid for the fruit was 2c per pound. Preparations are being commence'! all over the state for the primaries, which will select the candidates for the June election. A counterfeiting outfit has been cap tured at The Dalles, but the owner, who is Known, nas escaped. It is probable that he will be arrested. The Wasco Milling Company's flour ing mill is now completed, and only awaits the turning on of the electric power from White river to begin grind ing out 500 barrels of flour a day. There is greater activity in the mines of Southern Oregon at present than ever before in their history. New wagon roads are being constructed, larger stamp mills put in and new workings opened. Governor Geer pardoned three con victs the day before Christmas. Murderers Wade and Dalton have been sentenced to hang January 31. Another rich strike has been made in Southern Oregon, near Grants Pass. The assessment roil for Lane coun ty for 1900 shows $5,709,853 assessa ble property. , s . - . , v , - . Xhother holdup near Oregdn City has been reported, in which a shot was taken at the highwayman. A new logging corporation, the Yeon & Pelton Company, has been formed, with a capital of $150,000, to operate an extensive plant at Rainier. Three timbers, 100 feet long and about 18 inches by 20 inches, cut from Oregon trees, have been shipped East for bridge purposes. They, extended over three flat cars. The immigration to the vicinity of Independence in the past three months has been equal to that of the four previous years. The new com ers are generally people of means and on the lookout for good homes. Great preparations are being made for the Oregon Farmers' Congress, to be held in Salem January 6-9. The Oregon Dairymen's Association will hold its annual meeting at the same time and place in conjunction with the congress. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, 59 60c: blue- stem, 61c; valley, 59 60c. Barley Feed, $17 17.50: brewing. $17.5018 per ton. Oats No. 1 white, SI 1.10: gray, 95c $1. Flour Best grades, $2.703.30 per barrel; graham, $2.50. Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid dlings, $20; shorts, $18; chops, $17. Hay Timothy, $1112; clover, $7 7.50; Oregon wild hay, $56 per ton. Mutton Lambs, 3s3c, gross; dressed, 6c per pound; sheep, weth ers, 3314c, gross; dressed, 661ssC per pound; ewes, SMsc, gross; dressed, 664c per pound. Hogs Gross, 5c; dressed, G&6YnC per pound. Veal 89c per pound. Beef Gross, cows, SV2c: steers, 34c; dressed, 37c per pound. Butter Creamery, 2527c per pound; dairy, 1820c; store, 12V:s 15c. Eggs 2022c for cold storage: 2225c for Eastern; 2830c for fresh Oregon. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 3; hens, $3.504; 89c per pound; springs, 910c per pound, $2.503 per dozen; ducks, $56 for young; geese, $6.507.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, ll1212c; dressed, 13 14c per pound. Cheese Full cream, twins, 13 13c; Young America, 1415c. Potatoes Best Burbanks, 85c$l.lft per cental; ordinary, 7080c. Hops 810c per pound. Wool Valley, ll14c; Eastern Or egon, 812c; mohair, 2121c per pound. ,A $2,000,000 bilk cargo has just reached San Francisco from the Orient The world famous Diesel engine ' is to be built at South Worcester, Mass. Twenty-seven hour trains are here after to be run between New York and Chicago. An immense 12,000 ton hydraulic press is to be erected in the Carnegie armor plate plant. In 1900 England imported nearly 50,000 tons of German wines. THE BORDER ISSUES. ' ' Diplomats Again to Take Up the Alaska ' Boundary and Other Questions. - Washington, Jan. 1. It is expect ed that efforts will be renewed before long for the settlement of the num erous controversies which have long existed between the United States and Great Britain, growing out of relations along the Canadian border, the At lantic fisheries, warships on the Great Lakes, the Alaska boundary and other questions. . Heretofore the ne gotiations designed to secure a settle ment of the matters recited have not proved effective, largely because of the cumbersome machinery of nego tiation, and this has led to the belief that much more could be accomp lished by direct negotiations between Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote on the main points and the subse quent assembling of a commission representing the United States, Great Britain and Canada to give form to tne basis of agreement rendered. The British author ities have main tained for some time that when the isthmian canal treaty is once disposed of there will be a renewal of the efforts to adjust the Alaska boundary and other pending questions, the canal treaty being regarded as one of the many pending questions. Now that the British government has yielded "' the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and other points in the isthmian ne gotiations, it desires to take up some of the other questions in which it has important interests involved. Lord Pauncefote desires to clear up all the pending differences and have a "clean slate" before his present term as ambassador comes to a close. When he came to Washington there were four issues between the two gov ernments. The first of these was the Behring sea question, which had reached an acute stage. The diplo mats disposed of this question. The next was over Venezuela, which, like the seal question, at one time threat ened war. But the efforts of diplo macy were again successful in avert ing trouble and bringing about a set tlement. The third important issue was the isthmian canal, which has been satisfactorily disposed of by the recent Hay-Pauncefote treaty. This leaves only one issue remaining in order to bring about a "clean slate," namely, the border controversy, both as to Canada and Alaska. The Brit ish officials link these various bound ary controversies together, as they are more or less connected. jAt present a modus vivendi exists asto the Aia,?lM ixmnd&Tyv-qucslienf chiefly -. for the purpose of avoiding a clash along the border and holding each side in check until a final bound ary has been determined upon. It seems to be conceded on both sides that the modus cannot be carried on indefinitely, and that sooner or later the question of establishing a perma nent boundary must be settled. LANDSLIDE CAUSED WRECK. Four Lives Lost in an Accident on the Ches apeake & Ohio. Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 1. A land slide on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, near Reusen station, five miles south of Lynchburg on the James river branch, yesterday, caused a wreck in which four men were killed and several persons injured, but none of them severely. Several passengers from the scene of the wreck say that probably one or two passengers are buried under the debris caused by the slide, but no names can be ascertained of any pas sengers known to be missing. The train to which the mishap occurred was known as No. 7. It left Lynch burg behind schedule time, and con sisted of an engine, tender, baggage car and one passenger car, which was pretty well filled with passengers. It is stated that the train had run into a rock slide without damage, and the trainmen and some of tbe passengers had succeeded in pushing the passenger car back from under the cliff. They were trying to do the same for the baggage car when a second heavy slide came down. A shout of warning as the second slide came enabled most of those who were in danger to escape without injury. TURNING BONDS INTO CASH. Carnegie Making His Gift to the Government Available. New York, Jan. 1. Itis reported on Wall street that at an auction sale by Adrain H. Muller & Co., 5 per cent bonds of the Carnegie Steel Com pany sold at 113 7-8. say the Journal. Andrew Carnegie tendered $10,000,000 in these bonds to the government for the Washington Memorial University for Original Research and the sale is believed by some to indicate that Mr. Carnegie has begun to convert the bonds into money in order that the government should be relieved from any embarrassment on account of the bonds. At the price realized, the $10,000,000 in bonds would be equiv alent to $11,387,500, a substantial in crease of the promised endowment. Street and Freight Cars Collided. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1. A street car collided with a number of freight cars attached to a switch engine here today and one man was killed and two injured. Chicago Apartment Building Burned. Chicago, Jan. 1. A Christmas tree loaded with inflammable ornaments And candies caused a fire tonicrhfc that. destroyed the Alexander apartment! building, a six story structure. j 0EDERED TO SAIL ONE SMALL CRUISER SENT TO VENEZUELAN WATERS. One or Two More to Reinforce Squadron Now There Official Note Stating That Negotiations Continue Ambassador White Terms German-American War Talk Sen sational Nonsense. Berlin, Jan. 2. The small German cruiser Gazelle was ordered today to sail immediately from Kiel to Vene zuelan waters. The government in tends to send one or two other small warships to reinforce the present squadron in the Caribbean sea. The additions to Germany's naval force in the Caribbean sea will not be suffi cient to give rise to suspicion among the people of the United States that Germany meditates anything beyond the collection of claims due German subjects. The German government desires beyond anything else in this matter to avoid disturbing the gov ernment or the people of the United States. German newspapers pub lished today are full of expressions of this kind, and many of these express ions are so much alike that it is easy to infer their utterance was suggest ed by the governnvent. A remarkable thing is the fact that there is not a single unkind expression toward the United States in any of the newspa per comments. "We hope that this opinion," says the Berliner Neuste Nachrichten," "which grew out of the Spanish war, and which we consider to be wholly erroneous, will soon give place to a more correct conception of Germany's aims. It is quite unreasonable that the people of the United States, hold ing such opinion, should connect this opinion with their Venezuelan affair, inasmuch as Washington has been fully informed of Germany's intentions." The Lokal Anzeiger says: "The task for our diplomacy is to make German interests prevail against Ven ezuela without at the same time los ing touch with theAmerican govern ment. The authorities at Washing ton have up to the present time shown such an intelligent compre hension of the situation and friendly disposition towards Germany's wishes that no grounds for apprehension ex ists at this point." Replying to Germany's assurance to the United States regarding the former 's - plans in connection' w It h Venezuela, the foreign office here has received an answer from Secretary Hay, expressing full satisfaction with the German position. Germany still hopes to collect her claims peaceably. PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR. American Says China Is Openly Violating the ProtocoL New York. Jan. 2. Charles F. Gammon, superintendent of colpor teurs for the American Bible Society in Northern China, writes to the society concerning the present situa tion in the Chinese empire as follows : "While at Shanghai I observed that the Chinese" government was openly violating the provisions of the proto col. The great empire would shake off European domination. Thou sands of boatloads of small arms and ammunition were passing weekly up tbe Yangtse Kiang and the arsenals were being enlarged and worked day and night. Cargoes of explosives were being received, and the dowager empress had issued instructions to all officials to recruit the army, and also to inform her as to the fighting strength of each division and the time required to concentrate the forces at a given point "There were and are many other unpromising features which weighed heavily upon the minds of those in terested. I must believe that the end is not yet, and that within 10 years, possibly within five, a war will ensue the like of which the world has never known. For centuries China has been making repeated attempts to expel the foreigner, each time profit ing by past experience, each time witn more power and success, each time better equipped and better planned. "She is now preparing as never be fore, buying vast quantities of super ior weapons and reorganizing her armies on a correct basis. Therefore the next attempt will be gigantic in force and terrible in execution. It will result in a universal upheaval and the final dismemberment of this empire at a terrible cost." Pan-American Conference. Mexico," City, Jan. 2. With slight modifications, the proposal of the late Duarte Pereira for the appoint ment of a committee of jurists to codify international law was this afternoon accepted by the Pan-American conference. An amendment to the effect that the secretary of state of the United States shall be chairman of the codifying commission was ac cepted. Train Wrecked by a Rock. Pa kersburg, Va., Jan. 2. Two men are missing, one badly injured, one engine and four cars are at the foot of an embankment, two other cars are wrecked and 100 feet of track torn up as a result of a collision with a heavy rock by a westound freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio, at a tunnel near iung nun tms morning The engine struck the rock, which had rolled down from the hilj, just as the tram came out of the tunnel. i
