The Times-Mountaineer
SATURDAY.... ;OCTOBER 1. 1892
POLITICAL JUGGLERY. '
The Jetter of Mr. Cleveland accept-'
ing the - Democratic nomination for
president has at last been made pub
; lie, and the anxiety of the people is
relieved. There is nothing reruark-
. able' in the document, except the
nnaiistakable evidence that the hero
of Democracy has submitted to the
discipline of Tammany and is now a
- graduated politician. His utterances
of four years ago on questions in
"which the public were interested wete
not so carefully worded, and it is very
clear that he has been an apt pupil in
- the school of politics. Elected to the
presidency in , 1884 by aid of tbe
, discontented mugwumps and by reason
of his antagonism to ring methods, in
1888 he was defeated because of Lis
reliance on this prestige. From this
experience he is attempting to profit
by adapting himself to the peculiar
. methods of the New York ring, and
straddling the Chicago platform in
such a way that he may suit all fac
tions f the party.
On the tariff, while equivocally
adopting the platform that protection
is unconstitutional, he cajoles the New
England manufacturer by stating that
free raw material should be accorded
to them, and says that the parly "con
templates a fair and careful distribu
tion of the necessary tariff burdens
rather than the precipitation of free
trade." If this is not the duplicity of
the politician, and against the Watter
son plank in the Chicago platform, we
are at a loss to conjecture what could
be. 1 w -
The Force bill must be mentioned
' to placate Dana, of the Sun, and this
is done in a few lines of high-sounding
' patriotic platitudes, which are
absolutely meaningless and are not up
: to the level of argument.
If there was anything lacking to
demonstrate the fact of Mr. Cleveland
being in harmony with Tammany his
' attitude on the money question would
settle it beyond doubt. Four years ago
he was unequivocally in favor of mono
metallism; but now he is a bi-metall-
i8t, and says "every dollar put into
the hands of the people should be of
the same purchasing power." This
will do away with either gold or silver
as a standard, and is as wild a scheme
as was ever advocated by John Law,
. But Mr. Cleveland must now be con
. sidered as the politician, and not as he
' was four years ago.
The letter can be read and re-read,
and the only remarkable feature in it,
is the great transformation of the
author, and the hand of Hill is ap
parent in every sentence. The test.
will be had in November, whether the
people haa the same confidence in
Grover Cleveland as he is or as he
was.
DUPLICITY.
It appears that Cleveland's letter of
acceptance is "all things to all men."
One Democratic exchange sees in it
- the embodiment of all wisdom, another
thinks it is a full endorsement of the
' Chicago platform, and a third "appeals
to the candor of People's party voters,
- who have heretofore been Democrats,
to read the views of Mr. Cleveland
' and then say if they can find any ten
able objection to his views." It then
quotes the paragraph on the monetary
question, and adds: "This is broad
enough for any , free-silver man.
What could be stronger than that 'the
people are entitled to sound and hon
est money, abundantly sufficient in
volume to supply their business de
mands.' " Every intelligent citizen of
. the United States knows that Mr.
Cleveland is a mono-metallist, because
he so expressed himsplf on more than
' one occasion while he was chief exe
cutive of the nation, and this duplicity
to change him to a free-silver man is
a partisan trick to delude the Fopu-
lists. .If he had not unmistakably
. placed himself on record in favor of
gold as the only standard of the circu
lating medium, every one knows that
Wall street and Tammany would con'
' trol his actions in national affairs in
that regard, and the views of the New
Tork millionaires on monetary matters
are too well known to require any ex'
planation. . This sop was held out to
the People's party before the last con
gressional election, and the first oppor
tunity the Democrats in the lower
house had to redeem their pledges was
when the Bland bill was before them,
which was defeated. The record of a
party or of an individual' is more in
dicative of .future actions than the
verbose resolutions in a platform, and
the published utterances of Mr. Cleve
land and the defeat of the silver bill
by Democratic votes conclusively prove
that free silver will receive no consid
eration from the party. The language
of the letter will undoubtedly stand
many interpretations as regards its
meaning: but this one will strain the
texture of the fabric too much to suit
the past conduct of its franiers.
THE W KIN LEY BILL.
' The following are a tew facts upon
which free-traders may cogitate:
. 'A lace curtain company at Ayer-
shire, Scotland, last month started
. their entire machinery which bad been
removed to Pennsylvania upon the
manufacture of window lace, and are
making 1000 pairs of curtain a week,
ana employ ouu nanas. lue men
earn, and are paid, $15 a week here,
instead of $6 a week in Ayershire.
The wire nail business, thanks to
the protective tariff of 1880, is now
employing in this country 300,000
Jiands at an average of $2 a day, and
the wholesale price per keg has been
brought down from $8 to $1.75.
We once bought soft coal of Canada,
and paid a duty. Reciprocity relieved
it while, but the price in Canada
went up $1.50 a ton. We had to pay
6.50 in Boston for each ton. The
United -.States put a duty on it, and
Americana went to mining coal, and in
a few years increased its use from 10,
000,000 tons per annum to 103,000,
000 tons each year; and its pricu went
down to less than a dollar a ton. Last
year the Boston Gaslight Company
bought its coal for 57 cents a ton.
Do such facts encourage paddling
our own canoe?
WHICH IS DEMOCRACY
President Harrison'8 letter of ac
ceptance is an honest statement of the
policy of the Republican party in the
past, and what it. intends to do in the
future. This cannot be said of tbe
letter vhich emanated from Mr.
Cleveland a few days ago, signifying
his consent to become the candidate
for president on the Democratic ticket.
It is evasive on every national issue,
and there is not a single sentence that
is not susceptible of a double meaning.
Tbe position of the Democracy on
public questions must be delusive to
be presentable to the country, and
such ha Leen its policy in every
presidential campaign for over thirty
years. . On the tariff question the
English papers and other friends of
free trade expected an unequivocal
stand according to the Chicago plat- 1
form in opposition to Republican
protection; but in this all were disap
pointed. If the policy pursued by the
administration and advocated in the
Republican ' platform is unconstitu
tional, then tariff reform is so like
wise, and tbe only tenable position for
any American patriot to cake is abso
lute free-trade. But Mr. Cleveland
evinces a careful training by Tammany
in handling this plank, and uses the
following equivocal language: "Tariff
reform does not mean the extermina
tion of American industries, nor the
precipitation of real free-trade, nor
the ultimate adoption of that impossi
ble thing which protectionists hold up
as a scare crow to frighten the voters.
Tariff reform does mean freer raw ma
terial for our manufacturers, and
careful distribution of the necessary
tariff burdens, and a gradual elimina
tion of the defects of the present tariff;
gradual, in order that industries may
not be destroyed." If he means by
tariff reform such an adjustment of
existing duties as will suit New Eng
land manufacturers, then he repudi
ates the tariff resolution in his plat
form which declares "it to be a funda'
mental principle of the Democratic
party that the federal government has
no constitutional power to impose and
collect tariff duties, except for the pur
pose of revenue only." An unconsti
tutional law is void in any and every
particular, and if the Democratic plat
form adopted at Chicago is correct,
then all duties of whatever kind ex
cept for revenue are illegal and can
not be enforced. But Mr. Cleveland
says the party does not intend the "ul
timate adoption" of free-trade, which.
according to the national Democratic
platform, is the only constitutional
plan to follow. The logical conclusion
to be drawn from these two docu
ments is, if the letter of Mr. Cleveland
outlines the plans and purposes of the
Democratic party then the platform
does not, and if it is conclusive of
Democratic doctrine or. the Jariff, then
Mr. Cleveland is wrong in his views.
Which horn of the dilemma to grasp
we leave Senator Hill and Tammany
to decide.
MR. PECK TALKS.
Perhaps no man has met with more
malignant abuse this" campaign from
Democrats than Commissioner Peck,
since his report on labor and the tariff
has been published. If the figures
had not made a favorable showing for
the principles of protection, he would
have been lauded to the skies; but as
they demonstrated the fact that the
McKinley bill increased the earnings
of wage-workers, Mr. Peck has been
the subject of Democratic malevolence.
The latest phase of the question is his
tria for destroying the papers from
which he derived his conclusion, and
this is still in progress. He should be
heard, however, in his Own defense,
and this is what he says:
The papers have not been and will not be
destroyed, bat Mr. Anderson and the other
mugwumps or ntt-soappers, as tbey call
themselves, will not get them. I obtained
most of those reports on my personal pledge
that no names should be disclosed. I could
not have obtained the data otherwise, as
the law does not give me power to require
facts concerning any man's private business.
The same rale holds good in all the states
where there are statistical bureaus and also
in obtaining hsures for the United States.
As to the correctness of my figures them
selves, they were a surprise disagreeable,
if you will, but a surprise to me. I had
expected it to be all the other way, and the
first tabulation on the silk industry was our
way; but nine-tenths of tbe others, both in
dividually and - by trades, showed large in
creases in both production and wages paid.
It was the most searching investigation ever
made in this state, and the figures published
are correct. J hey are borne oat by those
obtained by Commissioner Wadlin, of Mas
sachusetts, and by Commissioner Feelle, of
Indiana, who is a staunch Democrat. He,
like myself, began tbe investigation in the
expectation of obtaining different results.
Capitalists are of some use after all,
and they are very necessarv when
large amounts are required for public
enterprises or sanitary measures. Even
Mr. Frick, of Pittsburg, should receive
some praise for his liberal donation to
the board of health, and the laborers
should be willing to accord him merit
for this act In this connection the
Oregonxan says: "When the Pennsyl
vania board of health called for $30,-
000 from Philadelphia and $20,000
from Pittsburg to1 enable it to protect
the state from cholera, H. C. Frick
immediately contributed the $20,000
for Pittsburg's share. The workmen
who petitioned tbe city council to re
fuse Carnegie's gift of $1,000,000 for
a library ought to show their deter
mination to be under no obligation to
any of tnese men by importing tbe
cholera and passing it around among
themselves. It . would be as just and
dignified a rebuke as that administered
to Carnegie,"
GERR YMANDERING.
The Albany Democrat never misses
n opportunity to apologize for the
short-comings of its party, and any
legislation passed by Democrats is al
ways defensible, but everything done
by Republicans is wrong. This has
been the course passed by it for many
years, and it cannot be expected to
get out of the narrow partisan views
easily. On different occasions the
Times Mountaineer has condemned
the practice of Democratic legislatures
in so apportioning the congressional
districts in the state as to nullify in a
certain measure the popular vote, and
the answer from our contemporary has
been to the effect that Republicans
follow the same rule. Ic this same
line of puerile argument, "You're an
other," is the following:
We notice that the Mocstaiskeb and
other organs of protectionism heartily des
pise the gerrymandering in Michigan, Wis
consin and New York, They grow loudly
indignant when they contemplate the Dem
ocratic outrages in these states, bat they
draw the line tightly when they reach the
infamons Republican gerrymanders in New
York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio,
New Hampshire and other states. If the
Mountaineer was honest it would de
nounce Republican gerrymandering as zeal
ously as Democratic gerrymandering. But
this it does not do, hence its mouthings
about Demooratio gerrymanderings are
wholly unworthy of consideration or credit.
'As the Democrat has frequently said, both
parties are guilty of shameless conduct in
this matter, and the only care for it is to
educate the masses of voters up to that point
of moral duty that will cause them, without
regard to party, to vote out of power the
party that engages in it. This would effect
ually cure the body politio of this parasitic
disease.
Gerrymandering is wrong, and there
is no excuse for it in American poli
tics. That Democrats have followed
ic, because by this means they secure
congressmen in Republican states and
sometimes United States senators, can
not be denied. In fact, Senator Hill,
of New York, owes his seat in the
senate to this fraudulent practice. It
undoubtedly is one of the pet methods
of Tammany, and, since the truce be
tween that ring and Mr. Cleveland, it
will not be bitterly opposed. Of
course, Republicans may have been
guilty of the same policy, in order to
fight their opponents with their own
tactics; but this by no means makes it
right. The better elements in both
organizations should attempt a reform
ation in such methods, and aim to
purify politics so that the ballot-box
may be the free expression of the pop
ular will.
MORE. MONEY.'
The People's party, like the rest of
the human family in "this quarter of
the globe, are anxious to secure "all the
money they can, and have an idea that
the government can scatter the dollars
broadcast by passing a free silver bill.
If the mints of the United States
were running day and night coining
bullion into money. very little of it
would come into ' the pockets of the
farmers of Eastern Oregon without
there was a good yield of wheat per
acre, and- it commanded a high price
per bushel in the Liverpool market.
And the same is true in regard to the
mechanic and laborer. It is a well
defined principle of politital economy,
which has never been controverted.
that labor is the basis of value, and
coin only a convenient representative
of value, or medium of exchange. The
cost of a coat, hat or pair of shoes is
governed by the amount of labor nec
essary for their manufacture, and the
price of that particular kind of labor
in the market. This latter ingredient
is not in any manner controlled by the
plentitude or scarcity of money, but
by the productive power of labor, and
the amount of competition. An easy
solution, we believe, of the present
hard times would be for the govern
ment to appropriate liberal sums for
public works, thus giving employment
to skilled and unskilled labor, and
enact restrictive immigration laws,
which would keep out of the country
foreign pauper competition.
, EDITORIAL NOTES.
Peck's and Peelle's figures are Ban-
quo's ghosts to Democratic exultation.
They will not down at. its bidding.
Mr. Adlai E. Stevenson is electri
fying tbe south, perhaps on account of
his war record: but it will not have
that effect in the north.
Cleveland and free silver and Tam
many and civil service reform are mot
toes which the Democrats can use in
this campaign to attract mugwumps
and Populists.
General John Pope, one of the war
heroess, haa passed to the silent shore,
and now nearly all on the long list of
union generals have answered to the
final roll call.
In the possible event of Mr. Cleve
land's election to the presidential office
he will intrust civil service reform to a
committee from Tammany hall, and
then it will be reformed to Hill's taste.
In the city of Philadelphia there re
180,000 working men who own their
own homes. This is the result of pro
tection, and can the same home-own
ing ratio be shown in free-trade Eng
land?
Senator Hil! talks well, and it is
cheering to Democracy to hear his
honeyed words; but how will he and
Tammany act in November is a ques
tion to which the party cannot frame
an answer.
There is no reason why tbe district
fair next week should not be exten
sively patronized. We have fine prod
ucts of all kinds, and thebe annual
fairs are the places where they should
be exhibited.
Gen. Weaver complains that there
is no freedom of speech at the south.
The trouble is that Weaver was once
a Republican, and that is a crime that
is never forgotten south of Mason and
Dixon's line.
Hill and Tammany are relied upon
by Democrats to keep New York in
the ranks of the Bourbons. The effect
iveness of their work can be passed
upon with better judgment after Nov
ember, Until tbe election very many
will doubt tbe sincerity of their work.
We have it from good Democratic
authority that the Lake Washington '
j canal will cut no figure in the coming
contest in our neighboring state. Re
publicans will support tbe nominees of
the ticket the stme s usual, and Dem
ocrats will do like use. This is as it
should be in presidential years.
It may appear strange to the friends
of free-trade that nearly all of the
British coionies have adopted the eco
nomic policy of protection. If, as
Eoglish statesmen claim, it is the only
solution of industrial questions, why
have these dependencies of Great Brit
ain taken a different view of the mat
ter? Hamburg is recovering from the
cholera ssourge, and the streets again.
give evidence of business activity. In
a few weeks the commercial life of that
great city will go on tbe same as" usual,
and there will be no outward sign of
death's rich harvest, except in the
silent dwellings of the dead in the
cemeteries.
The Albany Democrat, in its last is
sue, informs its readers that the party
is carrying on a systematic campaign
in this state. This cannot be doubted
if the columns of the Democratic press
are taken as an index, for there never
has been the same amount of trash and
twaddle published in these papers as
during the present year.
The people of the Inland Empire
are anxiously waiting for the contract
to be let for the construction of the
locks at the Cascades, as this is con
sidered "the beginning of the end."
When work is being prosecuted by
private contractors, our producers be
lieve it will soon be completed, and
this cannot be too soon to please our
rate-oppressed farmers and shippers.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent at Hamburg has a cholera prevent
ive, and is now using all kinds of tests
to ascertain whether be is proof against
the disease. He has slept between
dying men and done other acts, and is
not dead. It would seem that he has
the proper mental calibre to hunt deer
in Oregon and make one of those acci
dental shots by which several persons
have been killed and wounded during
the past few years.
. A friend hands us Ry land's Iron
Trade Circular, printed in London,
Sept. 3d, which leading industrial
document, issued in the present month,
says with much emphasis that the
troubles in South Wales in the declin
ation of the tin and iron trade is ''goibg
from bad to worse; 10,000 workmen
are idle, 15 works have stopped for
good and 60 mills have shut down and
a large number of their workmen are
on their way to the United States to
join works established there by Welsh
manufacturers.
The letter of George Ticknor Curtis,
in the American Economist of Septem
ber 16th, is good campaign literature,
and should be read by every fair
minded citizen. Mr. Curtis is a law
yer of national reputation, the author
of several text-books on legal subjects,
and a Democrat The opinions of a
man of such mature wisdom are worth
consideration, and have more weight
than volumes from some men who have
never studied the subject of constitu
tional law and the science of govern
ment. The cotton-spinners' federation in
Manchester, in free-trade England,
have received replies from firms repre
senting 18,000,000 spindles in favor of
a 5 per cent, reduction in wages. These
operatives now receive much less wages
than those in our own country, and
such arguments the people are receiv
ing constantly against changing our
present protective policy. In the face
of thsse stubborn -facts it is not prob
able that the Chicago platform will be
endored at the November election.
- The development of the northwest
must wait until the Chicago exposi
tion closes in 1893, and then undoubt
edly it will experience an era of per
manent growth. All eyes are now
turned toward the City of the Lakes,
and every possible dollar is saved for
a "good time" at the World a Fair.
When men get through with sight
seeing at Chicago, they will turn their
attention to eligible places to make
homes, and Oregon abounds in many
such attractive spots.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
A Switchman's Death. -
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 2J. John Kildufl
was run over by a switch engine in the Great
Northern yards this morning and received hi'
Junes wmcn resulted in bis death an hour
later, tie was smployed as switchman by
the Northern .Pacific until Saturday night,
when he resigned and accepted a similar
position with the Great Northern. This
morning about 9:30, as Engineer Thompson,
of switch-engine No. 9, was backing up pre
paring to leave tor the Ureat JNorthern switch
yards, Kilduff attempted to get on, but the
engine being somewhat differently constructed
from the Northern engines, be missed his
hold and fell nnder the drive wheels. Before
the engine could be stopped it had passed
over him, breaking both legs between the
thigh and knee, cutting one foot off, crushing
tbe chest and inflicting a teartul gash in tbe
head. He was taken to sacred Heart bos.
pita, where he expired at 10:40. Kilduff
tried to talk after he was hurt, but could not
make himself understood. He attempted to
tell tbe men who took bim to tbe hospital
where he lived, but they could not understand
him. He was unman ied and lived in Spo
kane some time, his father, mother and two
sisters living here. .
Was Done Only as A Blind.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Sept. 27. It is reported
that the captain of one of the British Colum
bia sealing vessels seized by Russia in Behr-
ibg sea is here for the purpose of furnishing
the government with affidavits of his seizure
and information as to others. Also he makes
the following statement: Having been in
the Baltic, he understands the Russian lan
guage, and while a prisoner on board the
Russian gunboat learned from the conversa
tion and actions of the Russian officials that
thev are instructed to make only a pretense of
seizing the American vessels, the real object
being to assert such rights in Bearing sea as
would materially assist the United States in
the approaching arbitration. Be this as it
may, cablegrams regarding these seizures are
passing daily between the British and Cana
dian governments, and the sending of a Brit
ish, gunboat to the scene is regarded as omin
ous. The contingency is certainly contem
plated of a war between Russia and England,
and if these seizures and the consequent vio
lation of the treaty of 1825 between Russia
and England are regarded as a casus belli,
with the United States assisting Russia, the
possible consequences to Canada are very
senous.
Murdered Buy Infanta.
San Francisco, Sept, 27 The Examiner
this morning says that Dr. H. C Beale,
charged with the murder of Mary Carroll,
and who has disappeared, committed a long
series of murders in this city, according to the
story of a Mrs. Montrose, whose house he
used as a private hospital. In a period of 10
months, Beale had about 50 patients, and no
fewer than 40 children were born alive in the
house, but not one of them was permitted to
live. Beale, according to the woman's story,
either chloroformed, choked or cremated
them, or weighted the bodies and threw them
into the bay. From Superintendent of Police
Cyrus Small, of Boston, comes the intelli
gence that Beale is wanted there for crimes
of a similar character to those which have
made bim a fugitive from justice here. He
was arrested in Cambridge, Mass., in 1888,
under the name of John Harper, but levanted
to Paris and forfeited his bail.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Itescued at lnst.
MAR8HFIELD, Or., Sept. 27 Captain
O'Brien and Watchman William Holmes
were taken off the wrecked whaJeback
Welmore this afternoon, after being on
her ten days. Captain Bergman aod tbe
Umpqua lite saying crew wete tbe rescu
ers. The sea was not running so high as
yesterday, but it was It hard struggle for
me me-savera 10 get to tbe ship. They
worked bard, however, and managed to
get a line on board, which tbe two men
tied around tbeir bodies and then jumped
Overboard. Tbev were hauled into tbe
lifeboats with great difficulty and
brought ashore. The men were very
much worn out from exposure, and wbeu
tbey saw tbe lifeboat upset Friday gave
up all hopes of ever getting ashore, but
Captain O'Brien had the lifeboat ready to
launch, with a buoy, oil, etc., attached, so
that it the worst would come he intended
to risk it on tbe raft. Tbe men have bad
a hard time of it, and for tbe last five
davs had only odb meal a day. Tbii
morning tbey divided tbe last biscuit
they bad lor to day's meal. They suf
fered much from cold, and bad to stand
two days in water up to tbeir knees. The
wbart was crowded with people to-day
when tbe men came ashore at Empire,
and the greatest interest in cariog for
tbeir wants is taken by tbe people of that
city. The weather side of the main cabin
of tbe Wetmore is stove in, and, from
wb&t has been experienced, it is not
probable that any men will hereatter be
put on the wreck to "keep parties from
boarding her and claiming salvage.
Captain O'Brien bad a kite already
made and was waiting for a favorable
wind to send it over tbe government
works, and by this means get communi
cation with his friends on tbe shore. He
bad a letter of instructions attached to
tbe kite. Captain O'Brien is satisfied
from bis past week's experience on tbe
Wetmore tbat no other type of vessel
would stand such seas as the whaleback
has experienced during tbat time. Tbe
only injury is to tbe cabin. The vessel
is no worse than when tbe attempa to
Boat her were suspended.
A Youthful Fiend.
San Jose, Cal., Sept 27. Johnnie Nav
arette, a 6-year-old boy, was playing among
the rubbish at the city dump yesterday. He
found a beer bottle, and called a companion.
The other lad, who is 14 years old, coveted
Johnnie's prize. Johnnie vowed he would
not give it up. At this the other seized the
little boy by the shoulders, and held him' over.
a portion of the refuse which was burning.
with his bare feet dangling in the blaze. The
little fellow writhed and screamed under the
dreadful torture, but his tormentor laughed,
and it was only when he was tired out that
he let the boy go. Almost crazed with pain,
the boy made his way to his lather's residence.
He was immediately taken to a physician's
office, where his injured feet were dressed.
Thev presented a sickening apoearance. His
tormentor, whose name is Nathan Hackel-
back, was arrested.
Five More slew Cases.
New York, Sept. 27. Two new cases of
cholera were reported on the steamer Bohe
mia this morning, the first in seven days.
The patients are two Bohemian children, aged
7 and 8. The latter has since died. The
steerage passengers were to have been re
moved from the vessel yesterday, but rough
weather prevented.
At noon three more cholera patients were
removed from the steamer Bohemia, Carl
Gassman and two children. Fust cabin pas
sengers of the Scandia and Bohemia arrived
at quarantine at noon on the tug Evarts, of
the Hamburg-American Ime, en route to the
company's dock at Hoboken. There are 28
from the Scandia, and 10 from the Bohemia.
A Suspected Boslyn Bobber.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept 27. Late this
afternoon a man was arrested at Kent on sus
picion of being one of the Roslyn bank rob
bers. He was trying to dispose of a horse.
As his actions were suspicious, he was arres
ted. Detective bullivan says three men
passed through Snoqualmie pass Monday,
and that he has every reason to believe that
he will capture the nght parties before long.
He says he has three men under surveillance
in King county who, he thinks, will prove to
be the parties wanted.
JTatat KaiLroad Accident.
Opelika, Ala., Sept, 27. The east-
bound express on the Western Alabama road
was wrecked near here this morning. The
engineer and fireman were killed, two postal
clerks fatally injured and six passengers ser
iously hurt. The mail-car and contents took
fire and were consumed.
Blew His Brains Oat.
Washington, Sept. 27. William P.
Canady, of North Carolina, ex-sergeant-at-
arms of the senate, committed suicide here
this morning by shooting himself through the
head. He has been in financial difficulty for
some bme.
A Domestic Tragedy.
Paterson, N. J Sept, 28. Frederick
Mellenburg mureered his wife and
wounded bis daughter in this city yester
day afternoon, and then committed sui
cide. A week ago Antonio Mellenburg
sued bis father to recover money be bad
expended for repairs upon bis parent's
house. He recovered $75 judgment
Since tbat time there has been continued
fighting between tbe parents and tbeir
daughter, Mrs. Lena Roselle. Mrs. Ro
selle visited ber parents' house yesterday
forenoon. She found ber mother alone,
and sat talking with ber some time be
fore ber father appeared. As soon as be
entered tbe room be grabbed tbe daugh
ter by tbe throat, and, pinning ber
against tbe door, beat ber with a strap.
Tbe mother interfered, and tbe father.
letting go of tbe daughter, struck tbe
mother in tbe bead, knocking ber down.
Before sbe could rise Mellenburg pulled
a pistol from bis pocket, and, taking de
liberate aim at bis daughter, shot ber.
Lena fell, but, getting op at once, ran to
ber mother and tried to pull her out of
tbe house. While sbe was trying to do
so Mellenburg deliberately shot bis wife
through tbe head. He tben shot himself
in tbe temple. With tbe blood stream
ing down from the wound, he ran out of
the bouse and down tho stoop, falling
dead at tbe foot of tbe steps. Mrs. Mel
leoburg, who was but partly dressed,
staggered out upon tbe btoop alter ber
husband, and fell dead.
Venesnelaa Affairs.
Washington, Sept.- 28. The steamer
Caracas, which brought yesterday's bud
get of news from Venezuela, also con
tained in ber mail a number of official
reports for tbe navy department from tbe
naval representatives In those waters.
Tbe most of these reports are from Cap
tain White. Hear Admiral Walker hav
ing been in port only a few hours before
tbe Caracas sailed for tbe north, bis re
ports were necessarily brief. As to tbe
refugees, it is explained tbat tbe demand
has been made for tbem ot tbe existing
government at Caracas, but tbat tbey
bave not yet been secured, owing to the
inability of the officials to control affairs
away from the seat of government. A
disposition is shown by tbe government
to do all in its limited power to secure
tbe release of tbe refugees, wbo are sup
posed to be still in prison at Maricaibo,
aod to make all possible amends to tbe
United States for Urdaneta summary
action in arresting them. It now appears
for the first time tbat one of tbe missions
of tbe cruisers, sent south was to investi
gate a report received through tbe state
department that our consul at Bolivar
had been shot. Admiral Walker and
Captain White both assert that there is
no truth in tbe report of the attack on
tbe consul at Bolivar.
KonndlBR op the Buk Bobbers.
Tacoma, Wash.. Sept. 28. A special
from Rosylo says: "It is confidently
thought that at least two of the Rogyly
bank robbers will be in tbe bands of tbe
sheriff's posse by to morrow night. Tbe
pair tbat was beading toward Frazer
river almost doubled tbeir trail from the
foothills of Mount Stuart. Tbey came
back to witbin six miles of tbe Swank
mining camp and took a northeast route
over the mountains toward the Wenat
chee valley. The po:se located several
places where the baud'us had camped
over night and met a prospector on tbe
road, from whom the men bad procured
gome food, giving bim a f 10 gold piece
in return. There is do questiou but tbat
these are tbe men wanted. A vigilant
watch is being kept in the Weuatcbee
and Columbia river districts. It is
scarcely probable that the robbers will
get through without being apprehended."
Nobody Wants Them.
London, Sept. 28. The Cunard steam
ship line having grown tired of main
taining immigrants from Hamburg at
boarding-bouses in Liverpool, and seeing
no early prospect of being able to dispose
of tbem by transporting to America,
offered to return the amount of their
fares, but tbe majority refused the offer.
The company then notified the keepers
of boarding-houses tbat it would no
longer be responsible for their support.
Thereupon the landlords turned the emi
grants out of doois. Tbe emigrants ap
plied to tbe autboutles, but tbe latter de
clined to admit the strangers to tbe work:
bouse. The unlortunate foreigners are
wandering about tbe streets, tbe police
for sanitary reasoDS not wishing to arrest
tbem, and nobody wanting to bave any
thing to do witb tbem.
Drowned In a Wafth Boiler.
Spokane, Wash. Sept. 28. A little
child belonging to a family named Raum,
residing 15 miles from tbe city, was
drowned yesterday in a wash boiler, in
which there waa only four inches of cold
water. Mrs. Raum lay down on tbe bed
for a few minutes, leaving the cbild play
ing around the room. Not hearing it
making any noise sbe got up and found
it lying face downward in tbe boiler in
sensible. Sbe wag badly frightened, and
instead of rolling tbe child to get tbe
water out of it, laid it on the bed on its
back and started to a neighbor's, a mile
distant, for help. When tbe neighbors
arrived toe cbild was dead. Had Mrs.
Raum not lost her presence of mind its
life could have been saved, as it had not
been in tbe water five minutes when
found.
Daneerons Editor to Trifle With
Jackson, Mich., tsept. 28. Victor
Hamilton was stabbed and killed
Durant to-day by J. K. Almon, editor of
tbe Durant Democrat, Hamilton was
drunk and insulting. Upon being or
dered out of the office be refused 10 go,
ana wnen snovea out ue bit Almon
tbe bead with a brick. Almon grabbed
a Knite aod cut Hamilton three times in
tne Dreast. Hamilton was a newspaper
man ana son ot uoionei is. J. Hamilton.
a wealthy and prominent citizen
Holmes county. Only last week Almon
shot and killed a desperate negro.
Germs Are In tbe Hotel.
The Hague, Sept. 28. Another occu
pant of tbe hotel, from which a drummer
suffering with cholera wag removed Mon
day, has been stricken with the disease.
After tbe discovery of tbe disease, tb
occupants of tbe hotel were isolated, but
the germs spread among tbem. This is
the fourth person stopping at the hotel
who has been stricken.
All Well at Fire Island.
New Tobk, Sept. 28. News from
both quarantine and tbe convalescent
camp at Fire island this morning is en
couraging. At the former there are no
new cases, and patients are doing better.
All are well at Fire island. Tbe ill-fated
Normania, which has been quarantined
since the 3d inst., left for Southampton
this morning.
Is Decreasing In Kassla.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 28, There
were reported in this city yesterday 18
new cases of cholera, a decrease of two
cases compared with Monday. There
were three deaths against two Monday
Reports from I he provinces show the
epidemic continues to decrease in viru
l6nce.
An O nicer Bart at Vancouver.
Vancouveb, Wash., Sept. 23. Cap
tain Wheeler, of the Fourth, cavalry,
while oc mounted drill this morning met
with a serious accident. His horse be
came unmanageable and broke into
picket fence, the officer sustaining a com
pound fracture of tbe leg near tbe thigh,
No Trace of Her.
Salem. Or,, Sept. 28. Although search
has been made all day for tbe missing
girl, Mary Kamph, who disappeared from
her borne last night, uo tidings ot ber can
be found here. She is aged 15, and wore
two dresses when sbe left borne for no
apparent reason.
An Idaho Shooting; Affray,
Spokane, Wash, Sept. 29. News
reached here to-day of a fatal shooting
scrape which occurred last Sunday in the
town of Cotton wood, von Camas prairie, in
Idaho. Tbe shot, which resulted in tbe
death of W. C. Chambers, was fired by
rnce xanaeii. An 01 a lead existed be
tween the men, and shots bad been prcvi
ously exchanged. Sunday both parties.
who reside out of town, happened to be
in Cottonwood. Tbe trouble waa pre
cipitated by one Neal Pickens, who
brought Yandell back to town as be was
leaving for borne, on the pretense tbat
Chambers wanted to have it out with
bim. On bis turning back, Pickens
leaned his revolver to Chambers, and
when tbe latter saw Yandell, be at
tempted to use it, but Yandell fired first,
witbout result. Ue was arrested by
ueputy Denn joDnsoo, and locked up
in ueraiog s saloon, unamoera and
Pickens came to the place and Piokens
forced tbe door, when Chambers entered
and began firing. Several shots were ex
changed, aod Chamber finally fell dead,
shot in tbe bead, tbe ball entering below
tbe left eye. At tbe coroner's inquest
tbe jury rendered a verdict of self deteuse,
and held Pickens as accessory to tbe
killing of Chambers.
Only a Question of Tl me.
Washington, Sept. 29. Mrs. Harrison
continues to hold her own since ber re
turn to tbe White House, bnt there bas
been no improvement. There is no sub
ject in which tbe women of Washington
are more interested than in Mrs. Harri
son's condition, and tbe first thing asked
tor each day is in regard to ber. Tbere
is really no hope of ber recovery, and it
is this tbat makes tbe long and terrible
fight she is making against death more
patbetic. it is a tight almost without
hope. The attending pbysicians bave
about told this to tbe president, and be is
prepared for tbe worst at any moment.
It bas only been through the very best
care and attention tbat the distinguished
patient bas lived so long. One of her
lungs is so badly affected that sbe is un
able to breathe through it. So far, by
reason of ber wonderful constitution, she
bas been able to bold ber own against
tbe disease, but tbe struggle is such an
unequal one tbat it is not to be expected
tbat sbe can keep it up much longer.
As a member of tbe White House family
sadly expressed it to-day: "It is only a
question or time."
Hkil the Hired Haa Did.
La Gbande, Bept, 29. When tbe
hired man of George W. Rusbman, a
farmer living on tbe sand ridge, 12 miles
north of this city, entered tbe barn this
morning to feed bis stock, bis lantern ex
ploded, setting; fire to tbe hav and des
troying both bnildiog and contents. Tbe
loss was $2600, with $600 insurance.
Tbe man was severely burned and barely
escapea wita nis we.
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Coped With a Chinaman.
Salem, Or., Sept 29. Theie s a story
in circulation that Mary Kampb, tbe girl
who disappeared Tuesday, cams to Salem
to meet a Chinaman with whom she fell
in love while picsing hops on a planta
tion near her home. He is suid 10 huve
given her money and it is also said tbere
were witnessed to their engagement.
Wtien Mary left borne she wore two
dre.'SvS. Siie had been to Stlem Monday,
wheu she had ample opportunity to meet
aod arrange plans fcr escape with ber
celestml lover, who is thought to have
met her in South Salem Tuesday evening.
This story Is loid by a Chinaman who
visited tho hopyurd duriag tbe picking
ktaton.
a mount hocd bailway.
Supplemental articles of incorporation
ot tbe Bridal Veil Lumbering Company
were filed in the offce of the secretary of
stale to day by L. C. Palmer. J. M. Leiter,
J. S. Bradley and Charles Brown, declar
ing as among tbe objects of the corpora
tion that of buildiEg a railroad from
Bridal Veil to a point near the bade of
Mount Hood.
A Herious aeHtlon.
Omaha, Neb, Sept. 29. The decision
of the Western Traffic Association, re
quiring tbe Union Pacific to restore the
Montana rates, will cause some lively
rate trouble in the west. An officer of
tbe line said to-day:
"The company will abandon the asso
ciation rather than submit. When the
Union Pacific made the rate in operation
to Montana points, it did so because
there was not a comoetitor for tbat busi
ness outside tbe Northern Pacific and
Great Northern. The Rio Grande West-
em was not having a finger in the pie,
but through spite or pettey jealousy
brought tbe rate to the attention of the
commissioners last May, and now, when
tne wnoie thing seems forgotten, reopen
the sore by declaring against the Union
Pacihc on a proposition tbat on its face
would clearly bave been decided tbe
other way. It is a condition that con
fronts us, and not a theory, and what Mr.
Lomax will do when bo returns from
Chicago is a serious question."
A Singular Accident.
X.BIB, jran oept aa. Three young
men, Orrin Sweet, Charles Ketch uru and
Charles Smith, while on tbeir way borne
from a political gathering, at a late hour
last night, met witb a singular and fatal
accident, sweet was standing danger
ously close to tbe track of tbe Like Shore
& Michigan Southern railroad, 00 which
a train was passing. Eetchum at--
tempted ro save nis mend. Sweet was
burled againtt Ketchuin with such force
that he, too, was crushed to death. As
tbe two men fell they struck Smith,
crushing bim so badly that bis recovery
is not expected. Smith was a nephew of
iietchuru. Ibe men were all unmanled.
The Oakeadale Case.
Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 29. Another
chapter was added to tbe Helmer-Dana
elopement case to day by tbe arrival
from Oakesdale of Mr. Helmer, who says
be will do anything to save bis daughter
from rnin. He sayg tbe marriage was
illegal under tbe law, it being less than
six - months since Dana was divorced.
He separated tbe couple to-day, but the
daughter refused to go home to Oakes
dale, whereupon Helmer promised to let
tbem marry if Dana promised not to get
drunk for four months. Dana Hates this
evening tbat be accepted tbe proposition.
and will prove worthy of tbe rich man's
daughter.
Bobbed a Postnfnee.
West Scio, Or., Sept. 29. Some time
during last night burglars obtained en-
trance to J. S. Morris & Co.'s drugstore
in which is situated tbe postoffice, and
broke open and rifled tbe safe of its con
tents. It is thought to be tbe work ot
professional safe-crackers. Tbe amount
stolen was about $50 in cash and near
$200 in stamps.
Ten Men Probably Killed.
Ishfbmiko, Mich., Sept. 29, By ibe
fall of ground this morning ten men
were imprisoned in tbe Norrie mine at
Ironwood. AH are supposed to be dead,
but efforts are being made to rescue
thesi.
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