Semi-Weekly Gazette.
NEWS Or THE WEEK.
Justice Lamar is seriously ill and his
friends are alarmed.
Tea incheB of snow fell at Grass Val
ley. Cal., Saturday night.
A fire at Everett, Wash., Tuesday de
stroyed $6000 worth of property.
Over $2000 worth of smuggled opium
was captured in Seattle Saturday.
Cabinet makers of St. Louis have
struck for nine hours' work and ten
hours' pay.
The Northern Pacific Coal Company's
mine at Ronald, Wash., waB closed down
Wednesday.
The people of Huntington have voted
to bona the city lor Sfooou to ounoi
Bchool house.
The body of a man supposed to be
Charles Ford was found in the river at
Portland Saturday.
The heaviest gale of the year raged on
Ban FranciBCO bay Tuesday. Several
vessels were damaged.
A blaze at Colfax, Wash., Monday
night destroyed several small frame
houBes, valued at $2000.
Senator Dolph has been invited to
make a Bpeech on free silver before the
Financial Club of Boston.
A French gunboat while going up the
river Quene, in Dahomey, recently was
fired upon by the Dahomeyans.
A five-story building in Omaha was
set on fire by burglars Sunday night and
totally destroyed. Losb, 200,000.
The bodv of Carl Sundstrom was found
floating in'the bay at Seattle Friday. He
was a recent arrival from bweden.
Fire at Walla Walla Saturday destroyed
three frame buildings on First Street.
Total loss $3600; insurance, $1400.
A prairie fire, near McCook, Neb., on
Sunday, burned several thousand acres
of grain before it was extinguished.
Adolph Gaspary, professor of philology
at the Universtty of Goettingen, com
mitted suicide Thursday by hanging.
President Harrieon states that he will
not be a candidate for nomination at
Minneapolis if there is any opposition to
him.
The offices of the Lake Shore railroad
of Seattle, recently absorbed by the
Northern Pacific, will be removed to St.
Paul.
The Paris police have discovered a
bomb factory at Clichy, a suburb of the
city. Two men were arrested on sus
picion. By an explosion of a gasoline stove al
Adrian, Mich., Saturday, Mrs. Henry
Lards and two children were fatally
burned.
A freight wreck on the Erie road near
Mansfield, Ohio, Sunday, smashed two
engines and twenty cars, causing a joss
of $100,000.
Dr. M. Hughes, a prominent physician
of San Diego, accidentally shot and
killed himself while on a hunting trip
laBt Saturday.
Colored men of Chicugo have sent a
petition to Frederick Douizlas asking him
to be a candidate for president of the
United States.
A train on the Utah Central railroad
was derailed near Park City Thursday
Thirty passengers were injured, two of
whom may die.
The citizens ol Colfax are raising
subsidy to build a railroad eighteen miles
long to connect that city with the
XT .V D:rt,.
. TheauB6precssSr
lorm&1LrZVr,ti.nol $7,000,000
Sugar u usb "
,n irunt . h Grefm hap
Lieutennant-Colon?d the Mfj Colone
been elected Jfthe First regiment, Wash-
j.u. national uuards.
"3overnor McKinley was defeated for
cnairman ot tne unio republican conven
tion last Saturday. Ho was bitterly op
posed by adherents of Foraker.
Walt Whitman, the gray poet, sur
rounded oy a tew old mends, passed
peaceiuuy away at rmiadeiphia last Sat
urday. He was in his 73d year.
The steamer Venture was wrecked at
Rockford, Cal., Sunday, by running on a
rocn. sne went to pieces in a short time
Five of the crew were drowded.
Henry J. 8mith, a stone-cutter who
had been indulging in houor for some
days past, committed suicide by cutting
nis tnroat at Han francisco Saturday.
Two desperate villains in the Monte
sano jail threw insect powder into the
eyes of the jailer, knocked him insensi
ble with a club and made their excape
The Northern Pacific railroad has
virtually presented the World's Fair
managers of Washington with $15,000.
in the matter of carrying everything
iree.
Abner N. Gafford, a young traveling
man from Munning, la., shot and killed
Mabel Stevens and then killed himself in
an assignation house at Omaha Sunday
nignt.
The iron tug Tippie, while passing out
from Vancouver, B. C, sank with all on
boaid. The number of the crew is un
known. Eough weather c; used the dis
aster.
Samuel Lachman, one of tne most
prominent winemen in California, and
senior member of the firm of 8. Lachman
is Co., winedealers, is dead, aged 67
years.
Whites and negroes of Gretna pariah.
near New Orleans, have been quarreling
a long time. Sunday night Jack Tollmac
was attacked by three white men and
mieu.
By an explosion of benzine at Amster
dam, eight persons were killed and
twenty injured, seven of the latter
fatally, lhe explosion wrecked four
honBes.
Bishop Jones, a noted colored minister
at Allendale, Georgia, was assassinated
wmie in nis pulpit; the murderer es
caped. A difference of faith caused the
trouble.
At Santa Cruz, Cal., Saturday morning
Fred W. Adams took two shots at his
wife, then putting the muzzle of the
Eislol in his mouth sent a bullet through
is brain.
In the harbor of Barcelona, Spain, a
lighter loaded with coal oil took fire and
floated about, setting fire to six vessels
at anchor, and they were burned to the
water's edge.
Henry J. Smith, a stonecutter, killed
himself at San Francisco Thursday morn
ing by cutting his throat from ear to ear
with a dull butcher-knife. He was
crazed from drink. .
A boiler in Lipport's Bawmill at Find
lay, Ohio, exploded Saturday morning,
killing William Lipport, D. Pent, J. Cas
sel and El wood Elliot, and fatally injur
ing Samuel Davis.
A passing train near Rock Point, Ore
gon, frightened a team driven by Wil
liam Hartman, and the horses ran away.
Hartman was thrown out and run over,
sustaining fatal injuries.
Joseph Leighter, an ex -soldier and ex
eonvict, went from the Soldiers' Home,
at Dayton, to Findlay, Ohio Wednesday,
and mortally wounded his wife and two
daughters with a hatchet.
J. C. Frost, a Pullman car conductor,
was shot in the eye at Chicago Monday
night by Michael Hogarty, a lockmaker,
in a quarrel over Rose Nelson, to whom
Hogarty waB to be married.
MarBon Bros.' Btoreroom for feed and
hav was burned at Montreal Tuesday
night. Lobs, $80,000. The watchman
and family were rescued unconscious.
Two of the children may die.
John Baer, sent fromUkiah, Cal., to
the insane asylum at Agnews, jumped
from the train Thursday morning and
plunged into the water near Alvitso. It
is supposed he was drowned.
Larkin, ex-secretary of the South Mel
bourne, Australia, Building Society, has
been sentenced to six years' imprison
ment, and Clear, another ex-official, four
years, for defrauding the society.
An unknown man was caught on a
trestle near Spok:' ne Tuesday by a North
ern Pacific freight train. He was
knocked into a gulch seventy feet deep
and when picked up he was dead.
Monday morning, soon after 12 o clock,
W. L. Fisher, one of the best known citi
zens of Hill countv, Texas, was shot and
killed by Thomas W. Nash, bis son-in-law.
An air of mystery prevades the
affair.
Michael Smith, his ftife, and eight
children were poisoned at Dubuque, la.,
by eating beef affected with lumpy jaw.
lhe mother and one boy are still very
sick and may die. The others aro out of
danger.
Two anarchists ul Paris, named Le
bastardand Simon, suspected ot being
accomplices of Ravaehol, the anarchist
dver, in connection with the St. Germain
dynamite outrage, have been taken into
custody.
Twenty-five mik-s of the Northern
Pacific, Yakima & Kittitas Irrigation
Company's Canal, which will irrigate
75,000 acres, have been completed.
North Yakima rejoiced Saturday over
the event.
Thomas Edwards, a rich farmer, was
murdered and his houBe burned at
Vladison CrosB Roada, Ala. Peter Mar
tin and John Mullins. neighbors, have
liBappeared. It is believed tliey are tne
murderers.
A lone procession of unemployed work-
ingtnen paraded the streets of Sydneyi
a. S. VV., Saturday, Bearing a oaiinei
inscribed : "Work or bread lor our starv
mr wives and children." There was
no disorder.
George B. Fox. sou of Judge C. N. Fox
of Oakland. Cal.. while performing a trick
with what was thought to be an unloaded
pistol, shot himself through the body
over the region ot tne nver. me woimu
is very serious.
At Favette. Mo.. Tuesday three ne
groes were sold at auction under tne va
grancy act to Bcrve during their sentence.
.Nsgroes in the vicinity are greauy exer
cised over the sale, looking at it as a re
turn to slavery.
Another asbestos mine has been dis
covered on Ualice creek in Southern Ore
gon. Asbestos is worth 7o cents a pound
in New York City, and it is figured that
it can be mined in Southern Oregon for 5
cents a pound.
In lacuna Friday afternoon a motor
car ran into a hearse on Pacific avenue
idcI came within au ace of turning it over
and smiling the comae into the street
- be accident was due to the negligence
of the motor man.
ReDreBentative McKenna of California
has addressed a letter to the speaker ol
the house informing him that he lias tor-
warded to the governor of his state his
resignation as a member of the house of
representatives, to take effect Monday.
George Shepard Page, one of the most
conspicuous figures on Wall street, and
Oernx -vrj ..nr, , su. .rvj 1 tCAlni m . Jib iO i ' St. JiflfJ
His mind was broken down by worrv
superinduced by a severe attack of grip.
A party of rangers bad a fight Wednes
day with Garza's baud of revolutionists
ear Bennett's ranch, Tex., and Robert
Dougherty, one of the rangers, was
uillecl. Another fight occurred after
wards and one of the outlaws was killed
The dead and mutilated body of a man
cheaply dressed, apparent.lv about 2,
years of age, was found in the lake at
he mouth of the Thirty-first Btreet
sewer in Chicago, Sunday. It is though'
the man had been robbed and murdered
Mrs. Larsen, while dressing in hor
room at .Brooklyn, N. 1., Thursday
morning, was attacked tiv two men who
suddenly entered her room, bound and
gagged her, and took ?o000 from the lin
ing of her dress, making good their es
cape.
Through the falling of a number of
pieces of timber iu the Belt mine tunnels
at Rockford, Maryland, Saturday, four
woritmon were seriously injured and sev
eral more or less bruised. James O'Hara
of New York and Michael Farley of Bal
timore will die.
It is stated on good authority that Pope
Leo XIII, in anticipation of any future
dimcuities winch the holy gee may en
counter, has deposited in bank, to be paid
to his successor, the sum of 5,00o,0.
lira, which has been saved by economies
at the V atican.
The diamond earrings and pearl pend
ants stolen by Mrs. ilorence lUhel liar
grave were sold at auction in London,
vlonday. Fashionable crowds attended,
rather more out of curiosity than as bid
ders. The earrings brought 665, and
the pendants 416.
The rich Harquahala gold mines,
eighty miles northwest of Phoenix, Ariz.,
has been sold by Hubbard & Bowers to a
New York syndicate for $7,500,000 cash.
This is the mine which turned out the
81,000 ingot last month, the largest ever
sent from the West.
The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma
worked themselves into a frenzy by a
gliost dance during the past week and
openly declare their intention of going on
the warpath. Two hundred bucks have
donned their war clothes'and war paint
and are gaining numbers daily.
Mrs. Dolan was arrested at Chicago
Saturday for the murder of her husband,
who died from a bullet wound and waB
buried Tuesday night. The police have
a theory the wife killed her husband for
reproaching her for being intimate with
their cook, Charles Peppertzhoen.
Saturday morning the body of C. H.
Graham, aprominent citizen of Rich
mond, O., was found in the river at Fair
port, with all the evidence that murder
had been committed, the bead being
horribly mutilated. He was a candidate
for mayor at the coming election.
One hundred and seventy-five cars
containing 22,000 barrels of flour, were
sent out in eight sections Wednesday by
the Waehburn-Crosby mills of Min
neapolis, to the Russian Relief Associa
tion, of Philadelphia, lhe trains were
gaily decorated with flags and bunting.
Patrick Doyle, who murdered Mike
Walsh at Rocky Point, Mont., a few
yearn ago, and whose record as a tough
on the upper Missouri for the past ten
years was well known, was killed by his
son, 9 years old, last Saturday at bis
ranch, near the Big Muddy. The cause
is unknown.
At PitUburg. Saturday niorninir. a
large ladle of melted steel was accident
ally upset in the converting department
of Carnegie, Phipps & Co.'s Homestead
steel works. The liquid metal poured
down upon ten workmen in a pit. All
were terribly burned and one, Anthony
Stuffel, has since died.
The strike in Symond's Manufacturing
Company's works at Hunter's Point, N.
Y'., became genera! Saturday. The com
pany's watchman was set upon and bru
tally murdered as be was about to begin
his night'B vigil. John Himpling was
arrested charged with the murder. The
murdered man's name was B. C. Arnold.
Ernest Frevert, a 9-year old inmate of
th nmhans' home at Carson. Nev., be
came stone blind about the middle of ,
last week. The following azy no Be
came deaf and dumb, and the third day
went insane. Monday a rapid cliange
took place, and the boy now shows every
sign of recovering his senseB. The case
has battled the doctors and has no
parallel.
John L. l.ingeuian the crank who in
December last demanded the brains of
Cornelius Vanderbilt and was committed
for an examination as to his sanity, has
been annoying the family of Jay Gould
bv ringing the bell of their residence
and demanding to see Helen, the eldest
daughter of the financier, whose lover he
declares to be. He was arrested Monday
and committed.
Denver has been holding a beet sugar
convention, the purpose beiiig to direct
the attention of capitalists to the ad
vantages of the state as a seat ol the in
dnstry of making sugar; also to encour
age Colorado farmers to experiment in
sugar beet growing. Here is an indus
try which would prove proniaoie m
Eastern uregon.
A Horrible Death.
Mrs. Ann Halvereon was run over by
a street car and horribly mangled at
an Diego. Cal.. Sunday night, ller
body was found lying between the rails.
The right arm was ground off a little
below the shoulder and the bloody stump
was still lying on the rail. The left arm
was thrown np and back above the
shoulder and was broken. The bodv
was on its back, the limbs stretched and
both horribly broken. The skull had
been entirely scalped and was on the
outside of the track opposite and about
two feet from the center of the body.
The scalp, with an average growth of
brown hair attached, was lying near me
headless trunk. There was absolutely
no flesh on the skull, the lower half
being ground to a pulp, leaving the upper
half, inclosing the brain, intact.
THE YAKIMA HITCH.
One of the Great Work or the Country
80,000 Acres of Land to He Reclaimed.
From theTacoma News.
This enterprise is fraught with greater
meaning to the state of Washington than
any other thus tar unaertaiten. it is a
simple matter to cut down trees and saw
hospital. The physician says the wound
is not dangerous unless inflammation
sets in. Mrs. Johnson is above u5 years
old, a blonde and ur from being hand
some, but has nri.if.fi ty.
I'LAYRD niS PART VfKLI..
TMItEW HIS HONKS' IK T11K I'lltE.
lMval Eaftttern Utt.ieK.
Baltimore and Philadelphia are about
to have another tilt over corn. A tew
weeks ago Baltimore was getting nearly
all the Western trade, her total exports
from January until the 28th of March
being over 12,000,000 bushels, as against
1,2 0,000 for the corresponding period
of 1891. But a change has come, lhe
receipts in Baltimore are very light, and
the corn is going to Philadelphia. The
statement is made on the Corn and flour
exchange that Philadelphia has been at
wont lor two montns in tne wetn maning
bids and selling at prices that no other
market could even approximate. The
Quaker city dealers are underbidding
and underselling Baltimore nearly d
cents per bushel. Tho Journal of Com
merce, the organ ol the corn anu nour
exchange, suggests that it is a subject
for inquiry of the interstate! commerce
commission.
The i'audahed UiihhIuiir.
From tho New York World.
The steamship Missouri, of the Atlan
tic Transport Line swung out from the
pier at the foot of Twenty-sixth street
yesterday, and started on her long jour
ney of relief to the Russian peasants.
She was laden down to the black 22-foot
mark on her noNe-post with flour and
corn meal, all given with a hearty good
will from the free, charitable hands of
the American people. "Thus it is," said
one of the hat-waving crowd on the pier,
"that the Awericanpeopie contribute in-
sian army. The Russian peasants starve
themselves to pay taxes and support the
army, and the American citizens give
with a free band to support the peasants.
Great is tho red, white and blue."
them into saleable lumber. To boom
towns and Bell lots, to sink shafts in the
search for coal, iron or the precious met
als, to plow and sow and pray that na
ture may bring the harvest, to build
railroads and run steamships, these
things are in the common run, they
speak but lightly of the enterprise and
faith of their undertakers. But to take
from a rushing river its water and carry
it through canals over a trackless waste
of sagebrush, where, as the humorirt of
Yakima haB said, it has been heretofore
impossible to raise even an umbrella, to
turn tliis desert into a blossoming, fruit
fill garden and in defiance of obstinate na
ture make the dusty plains of Eastern
Washington to vie "with the gardens of
Gul in their bloom," this is a work
which will live as a monument to its
projectors, for its value is to be judged
not by the acres mat. it iimaes irtnuiii,
hut bv the assurance it gives that tens of
thousands of acres which in the past
have furnished food only lor the coyote
and the Yakima Indian, will, through
out the long future, contribute to the
support and comfort of civilized man.
The Yakiina ditch waR an experiment
undertaken to prove the richness of a
hitherto worthless district; it will make
wealthy its projectors, but the result of
the experiment is common property ; no
patent or copyright can be obtained on
the now demonstrated fact that by irri
gation Eastern Washington can be made
as fruitful as the wonderful valley of the
Po.
The ditch is now completed for twenty
five miles, into which the waters of the
Yakiina river will be turned within
two weeks. The plan is to make the
Bvstem, arteries and veins, sixty-five
miles lone, and bring directly under irri
gation 80,000 acres of land. What those
figures mean to the commerce anu weaitn
of this state only those can appreciate
who know the wonders which irrigation
has worked in California. We need not
go so far from home, however, to realize
the promise of irrigation to this state.
Dr. Bldlock, of Walla Walla, bought
land at $2 50 an acre a few years ago to
which lie brought water, and from forty
acres of which he last year obtained a
return of $4()0 per acre. He has now 400
acres in prunes and other fruit which,
when it comes into full bearing two or
three years hence, will yield not less
than $150,000 per year net, averaging
the prices and crops of years together.
Four hundred acres $150,000 a year!
How these figures must make the
eyes of the New England farmer
stand out with astonishment and
wonder. Such is the work of
irrigation. One cannot speak calmly
when considering the meaning of such
an enterprise as the Northern Pacific,
Kittitas A Yakiina ditch, it tells of a
future for the country between tho sum
mit of the Cascades and the Palouse
country which defies prophecy, and it
promises a greatly enlarged commerce
for Taeonia, for this must be its one great
shipping point.
An English Actor Who Made the Inctor
Believe He Wu raralyied.
A strange English actor, Walter Wal
lace, reached Buffalo, N. Y., from De
troit early last week. Wednesday as he
was walking down .wain street ne was
Queer Autin of uu insane tv oiiiir Man apparently stricken with paralysis. He
From naui Point. : was taken to the Fitch hospital and upon
Officer Tom Lathrop found a voting 1 examination both of his lega seemed c orn
man lying asleep in a Pullman car at the 1 pletely paralyzed and his case was con
Union Pacific depot, tliis mo'ning, eavs ; sidered serious. He stood every test
the Spokane Chronicle. The young made by the physicians. On Thursday
man was Ivitig entiieiv naked and ' Dr. Bradbury's suspicions were aroused
beBide him was a large" bottle which ! by noticing that Wallace's legs were in a
river at Oregon City, also valuable water
rights, which are estimated worth be
tween $09,000 and $100,000, or -even
more. The price paid for the island
is not much more than $10, and for that
sum he secured property that controls
the water power of Oregon City, and puts
in his hands a fortune. The strangest
part about the matter is that the island
belonged to tho state and government,
lint was thought to be included iu a do
nation land claim, and for that reason it
has never been filed on. While in the
land office at Oregon City Draper learned
how the matter stood. After a careful
investigation be made application for it
had at one time contained whiskv of i different position when he awoke from a j jn the state land office last September,
the "forty rod" variety. The officer j nap than they were itnen tie went into
waked nn the man and conducted him to It. !-aturday ailernoon nr. nraiioury
Astoria Prospering.
Astoria has secured the can factory.
Mr. Tallaut representing the company at
Astoria has received a letter from Presi
dent l.ee statting the proposition made
by the Chamber of Commerce of Astoria,
offering to pay the taxes on the factory
for five years' had been accepted, and
that work will be started on the factory
immediately. The Astorian says : "With
the can factory, the gas works, Arndt &
Fercheu's machine shops, the Astoria
Planing Mills, three large canneries,
and the business end of a transconti
nental railroad, the west end of the city
is pretty well represented by manufactur
ing interests."
In the Interest of Science.
Dr. Emil Doon, who for Beveral years
lived in London and corresponded for a
number of scientific German and Aus
trian periodicals, is contemplating a
walking tour this spring from New Yrork
to San Francisco. He will make this in
the interest of science and will publish
his experience in book form. He ex
pects to make the journey in 104 days
and will have as companions three young
Englishmen, who will reach New Y'ork
from London next week. Dr. Doon has
been in New Y'ork since October, engaged
iu studying civil and political conditions
in America.
Wholesale Murder of Emigrant.
Police inquiries into the case of two
brothers named Koulivisky, imprisoned
at Warsaw on the charge of murdering
and robbing a peasant near Bielostock,
have revealed a practice of wholesale
murder of emigrants on the frontier.
Already the naked bodies of five vic
tims have been discovered in the snow in
the woods adjacent to a house occupied
oy the brothers. The search for bodies
is proceeding. The police estimate tho
brothers have murdered at ler- st forty
persons.
A .Mexican'it Nerve.
Jose Gonzales, a police officer of Mus
quiz, Mexico, made an unprovoked as
eault on Manual Oritz, a justice of the
peace, last Monday. He started out of
town pursued by three policemen. Gon
zales kept them at bay with a revolver,
killing two of the officers. A shot from
the third officer's pistol brought Gonzales
to the ground. lie waB taken to jail but
refused to lie down and die, saying that
he supposed he would die as he liked,
and eat in a chair until he bled to death.
Heed of a Rellgiouo Crank.
Idol IHI3', tho Harney Eldorado.
From the liaker City lir-inncrat,
The enltiiifiastic miners in the Harney
gold lield.i have given to their embryo
camp the dainty name "Idol City," and
hope that one day in the near future
it nn.v become a Butta, a Leadville, or
Creede. Reports indicate that with the
opening Fpring, when the three and a
half feet of snow have disappeared, it
fffflrrei's-'meif fe-'f.V'Fnfg'Yif .P'l.Bl
luck in lhe search for the lost "Blue
Bucket." Experienced miners who were
on the ground iu the fall declare that
there are tine pioppects, the only draw
back being a scarcity of water late in the
season. It is doubtful if the mother
ledge has yet been discovered, although
quartz is being found in good quantity
and of high grade. The energetic men of
Harney valley are preparing tor business
and are already organizing a corporation
to bo know n as the Gold Gulch Tunnel
Company, with the purpose of sinking a
shaft and mining a 500 foot tunnel from
Gold Gulch to the divide near Armstrong
creek. With the spring influx of miners
will come capitalist, and Idol City may
be the scene of big deals before another
snow.
The tirent Northern,
fleueial Passenger Agent Whitney, of
the Great Northern, in nn interview
Thursday, said that his road was coming
westward as fast as a large army of labor
ers could push it. President Mill thinks
that the tracks will be laid into Spokane
by May 1 and to the Columbia river by
August 1. The line will cross the Colum
bia near the mouth of the Wenatchee
river and apcend the Cascades by way of
Wenatchee Pass. At the summit there
is a tunnel 1.1,000 feet long. One of the su
perintendents of construction says that
there aro 125 miles of track to be laid be
fore Spokane is reached, but two gangs
of men are putting down three miles a
day. About 4500 men are working west
of Spokane, and the grade will be com
pleted to the Columbia by July. The
tunnel at Stevens' Pass will probably not
be cut until the track is laid, so that the
heavy machinery can lie brought up.
An Irrigation Project Completed.
At 11 o'clock Saturday morning, amid
the playing of the band, the firing of an
vils and the loud huzzabs, the first
twenty-five mile section of the Northern
Pacific, Y'akima t Kittitas Irrigation
Company's great canal was formally ded
icated and the waters of the Y'akima
river turned into 'he channel, which is
to be the medium of reclaiming 75,000
acres of arid land. The early morning
train from Tacoma brought Paul Schulze,
the president of the company, who was
accompanied by a large party of distin
guished men, desirous ot witnessing the
ceremonies and inspecting this great
work, which is but the beginning of the
most important system of irrigation ca
nals in America.
Her Lover Sliol lliiwn,
Two Texas rangers with a guide in
search of horse thieves near Corpus
Christi, Texas, encountered two Mexi
cans riding the same way and called
upon them to Btop. For reply one of the
From Konigsburg, iu East Prussia, I Mexicans fired at the rangers without
Curl t. uy, K,Ji,Je, reinriiit.i tue hiiui
and brought his man down, the ball
passing through his body, causing
instant death. The other Mexican
sprang from his borne, and kneeling be
side the prostrate lorm ol the dying man
comes a story ot sell-crucilixion ol a
religious maniac named Puschke, resid
ing at Kulack. The man bound his
legs together, drove nails through liis
feet into the ground, and then, lying on
hia back, nailed bis left hand to the
ground, after which he stabbed himself
repeatedly in the chest with his right
hand. His wife found him unconscious.
In epite of the severity of his injuries, he
may recover.
A AlttrderounCMDainan. j
The ship Annie M. Stall, of Boston, I
from Trapiua, is in the outer harbor at i
Gloucester, Mass. The captain reports
that
the police station where he developed
Bvnintoms of insanity. He tore his
clothes and threw $25 in bills in the fire.
Jailer Barlow rescued the charred re
mains and took them to the Traders'
bank, where they were redeemed. He
refused to give his name but is
thought to lie James Ryan of Sand Point.
Chief of Police Mertz received a telegram
from Bruce Davis, deputy sheriff at Sand
Point, that a young man named Ryan,
biBane, had gone to Spokane, and asking
the chief to arrest him if found. He was
taken to the county jail and locked up.
A Woman's Hetermlnert Suicide.
At Cedar Ranids. Iowa, last Saturday,
Mrs. Fanny Schade committed suicide in
a most determined manner. She hail
been suffering from melancholy and
consumption. Her mind wandered, and
she imagined her husband faithless.
She loaded a single-barreled revolver and
fired a bullet into her breast, which only
produced a severe wound. She fired two
more shots iu the same vicinity, then
shot herBelf in the abdomen without
serious result. She then loaded the
revolver for the fifth time antl sent, a ball
crashing through her right temple, from
the effects of which she fell face funvard
on the bed and died.
l-'utal Row Anions ttcttiertt.
Two settlers, George Barton and James
Zule, oceup5'ing adjoining claims on the
Sac and Fox agency, in Indian Territory,
ouaneied Tuesday over a debt antl Zule
was worsted. Then be procured a Win
chester and laid for Barton. Whan the
latter came out of his hour,? Wednesday
morning Zule shot and seriouslv wounded
him, Mrs. Barton dragged her husband
into the house and Zule forced his way
in. Then followed a struggle between
the wounded man, his wile antl .ule.
Barton wrenched the gun from Zule arid
blew his brains out, thus ending the
conflict.
Kim a Sivord TliruiiKh Mini.
AtCoblentz, Germany, on Thursday
a merchant named Weimaiin, who sus
pected his wife of undue intimacy with
Lieutenant Salisch, an officer ot the
garrison, met tho officer on the street
and struck him with his cane. The
lieutenant drew his sword and inflicted
a severe wound on Weimann's head.
Friemlrf separated the combatants, but
Lieutenant Salisch followed Weimnun
to a hotel where the encounter was re
newed and Weimann received a thrust
of the ewnrd from which he shortly ex
pired.
An Hid Man Killed.
Archibald Crawford, an old man 75
years of age, met with a terrible death
at his home in Golden Gate, Cal., Sun
day afternoon. His windmill was
squeaking, anil so lie climbed to the top
in order to oil tne machinery, (v nigu
wind was blowing at the time, and while
the old man was in the act of oiling the
works the windmill suddenly turned and
he was thrown into the air and fell to the
ground, a distance ofliftvfeet. lie was
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the presence of his aged wife and his
daughter, Mrs. Jones, who were svfitch
ing him at work.
Convict etl of Lynchliijr.
For the first time in the histoiy of
Georgia the leader of a lynching parl' has
been convicted of murder. This hap
pened at Camilla, Ga. The jury in the
case of Barney White, charged with
lynching an aged man named Larkin
Nix last fall, decided upon a decree of
murder in forty-live minutes. The other
members of the lynching party have
been apprehended ami will be tried.
On Saturday Will Davis, one of the
witnesses in the case for tho state, was
shot by unknown parties near hiH home.
He wiil die.
a i: il HI i ike.
Tho Silver Lode mine, a new property
situated on Clngston creek, twelve miluB
from Colville, Wash., has broken into a
ledge of solid lead carbonates which aro
fabulously rich. The surface was over
laid with a heavy deposit of iron, and the
property had been mined for the iron
there was in it. The ledge of carbonates
will measure from ten to twelve feot in
thickness. This new discovery has
caused considerable excitement among
the miners of Clugston creek.
A Timber Agent Removal,
A. II. Tyner, a special timber agent of
Boise City, Idaho, has been by the de
partment of tho interior removed from
office for offensive partisanship, it hav
ing been reported at Washington that he
was a blatant anti-Harrison num.
Tyner is a son of the present solicitor
general of the postoflice department, and
was appointed from Indiana. The dis
missal of Tyner has created a great ileal
of talk in IViise, where Tyner has been
been stationed,
Mermen (jiilttluir TeiiiieNnee.
The recent riot at Memphis, Tenn., and
the shooting of the negro prisoners have
caused a large exodus of negtoes from
that city and vicinity to Oklahoma. Sat
urday morning 053 peoplo crossed the
Mississippi and started via the old mili
tary road for Oklahoma. Before leaving
the Tennessee shore divino services were
held. Over 2000 negroes have left there
for Oklahoma since lhe lynching, and the
exodus shows no signs of abatement.
Four Men Hi-owned.
Six men stole a boat from a wharf at
San Diego Sunday morning and went for
a picnic across the bay to Sausalilo. On
the way back the boat was caught by
the tide and swept out through the Gol
den Gute. When ill mid-channel the
boat was capsized by a heavy m-u. :r,d
four men, John Ilrown, Richard Coslello,
Jesse Carter and Isaac Hannah, were
drowned. The other two, Mike McCul
lough and M. Marshal, were paved.
Keiilnekv'a Products.
Kentucky is celebrated for its whisky,
but it also produces over 200,()00,IH)0
found Wallace asleep and inserted a pin
into his leg. The leg instantly gave a
quick jerk. Dr. Bradbury informed his
associates and further tests were made.
Wallace stood the tests unflinchingly;
and although pins were thrust half an
inch into his leg he made no movement
Chloroform wbh administered and as the
drug began to take eli'tct he began to
kick. He was hereu;on denounced antl
turned over to the police. He traveled
all through that country with the Josie
Mills Company, but has been in hard
luck since January last. His father was
formerly in the East India service, and
his native city is Norwich, England.
JKAI.OI S OK II KR DAt'tiHTKIt.
but was refused. He secured additional
proof, antl taking this before the state
board, was granted the application and
secured the part of the island which was
school land. The other part belonged to
the state, but he has made a proper tiling
on that and may get it. Men acquainted
with the location and advantages of the
island claim he has a great fortune and
wonder why it was not discovered liefore.
tun HILT Kli;r:i IJIItl.i.
A VoniiK Mntlicr Horridly Murtlera Her
t!u n Child.
Marion S. Moore, it beautiful young
woman, ;i0 years ot agf.-was arrested at
Charleston, W. Ya., Thursday night for
one of the most horrible crimes on rec
ord. Mrs. Moore was married when she
was 16 years old. Her oldest child was
a handsome girl of K!. Two weeks ago
the child was found murdertd in the
house, her throat having been cut from
ear to ear with a razor. All the family
were absent at the time. Mrs. Moore
claimed that as she was returning home
sho saw a woman named Eliza Hackney
leaving the house, antl on her evidence
the Hackney woman was arrested and
charged with the crime. The evidence
failed entirely to connect her with the
crime, and she was discharged, in the
meantime evidence has been secured
showing that Mrs. Moore was blindly in
fatuated with James Semple, a hired
man in her husband's employ. The
man apparently paid no attention to her
advances, but had reieatedly asked
Moore to be allowed to marry the daugh
ter, Bcttie, and paid her assiduous at
tention. All the evidence tends to show
that Mrs. Moore, in her furious jealousy,
took the opportunity to kill her own
child in the most horrible manner possi
ble. The facts of the catte, anil her
eflbrtH to throw suspicion on the Hack
ney woman, have caused intense ex
citement. The officers confidently ex
pects that Mrs. Moore will break down
and make a confession.
TO PKOHOTK TK.MI'lvUANCIi.
raised bis bead and began sobbing and ! pounds annually of tobacco, while the
begging him not to die. The rangers j next largest crop, that of Virginia, is less
came up and discovered the uninjured than 50,000,000. The fame of Kentucky
Mexican was a 16-year-old girl dressed ' rests on its fermented torn juice, be
in men's attire, and the dying man was cause one gallon of its old "Blue Grass"
Iter lover. They had elojied for the i is worth more than a whole hogshead of
purpose of getting married. " its abominable tobacco.
The Haloon Keepers of St. .Ineph, Mla-som-l,
Oruanie in a tloml Work.
A dispatch says the saloon keepers of
St. Joseph, Mo., have funned an organ
ization for the promotion of temperance.
It is known as the Liquor Dealers' Be
nevolent Asstciatio-i, and its aims are:
"The promotion of temperance and the
Hood order of society by aiding in the
enforcement of nil laws and ordinances
regulating the manufacture and sale of
honors: to promote temperance in the
use of liquors, especially with those who
are addicted to the intemperate use
thereof : to create and maintain a fund
for the relief and aid of the families of
members, in nise of death or disability,
and to unite fraternally the members of
the association bo that their combined
io .Im-Alud to lhe purpose of
public usefulness unit benevolence."
The membership of the association is
composed of tho most influential saloon
keepers in St. Joseph.
I'liKIC SII.VI K.
Wlnit II. .11 cum in, I What Will lie Ac
complished by It.
When you are asked "What is free
coinage of silver?" ri'mcni'nT that Direc
tor Leach, of the mint dcl'inps it thus:
"Free coinage of silver in the right of any
one to deposit at any mint, of the United
States and have every 1171 ' j' grains of
pure silver now worth about i0 cents)
stamped free of charge, info a dollar
which shall he a full legal tender at its
face value iu the payment of tJebts and
obligations of all kinds in the United
States. Under free coinage protier,"
Mi. Leech shvb, "the conversion of
silver into dollars would be limited to
tho capacity of our mints, say from three
to four 'million pieces a month. In
order, however to hasten the 'benefits' of
free coinage, all the measures advocated
by the silver men provide for the
instantaneous conversion of silver
bullion into legal dollars by pun-huso by
the Government at our coining rate.
Free silver coinage as proposed theri fore,
means thus: ' that the United States
shall pay 1.2!iL';i an ounce (now worth
00 cents) for all silver which may be
brought, to our mints, in legal tender
money, inctrnvertable under the existing
law with gold at pur."
I I I.I. OK TACKS.
A lllme MimeiMil Perforincr NnllcfM lilt
Hiii l olly
Then- died in St. Louhi Kridiiy ni;iht at
the city hospital, John W. Gjiiuun,
known iu must'iims as .lunies Kennedy.
On the 21st iiiMt. , he w:ih admitted, suf
fering from gastritis. Mmelicti caused
the ejection of nearly half a pint of lucks,
nails, screws, etc. This fniling to re
lieve him, rii oieiatiou was performed
antl resulted in the removal of as much
more hardware, but to no avail. The
fellow died in a short time. At a iost
mortem examination of the stomach, the
walls antl lining were found normal, but
literally lillwl with nailn, screws, tacks
and broken glass which the man hail
swallowed in his act at the museum.
None wore encysted, and there was not
one instance of perforation in any part of
thu stomach or throat, hut beginning
from the base of tho 'tongue back to the
esopagus, and from there entirely down
into the sloiiiHfh, nitils, tacks, antl glttSH
were found. In the stomach itself was
found almost a handful of the same, over
an ounce of Ihetn being removed. The
total ijuantity taken from tho body
would lill a piut measure.
A Novel Hcueme.
A novel scheme of heating a city by
meaiiH of natural hot water is soon to be
tried in Bo'fle City, Idaho. If it proves
successful the annual saving in fuel will
be away up into thousands. Just east of
Boise there are several streams that belch
forth iKiiling water, and it is claimed that,
the water will retain its beat for several
hours. The boating experiment has
been successfully tried in an elegant man
sion recently erected by O. W. Moore,
Bv means of pipes of special manufuc'
Tlione HavlnR Five Millioim Can lll.l for
an Austrian Pi-luce.
Henry Barna, a Hungarian detective
living at 2H3 East Houston street, New
Y'ork, has sent the following letter to the
chiefs of jiolice in all the large cities in
this country :
' New Y'obk, March H, 1802.
Dt.Ait Sin: I am authorized to seek
marriage for a prince who is a member of
the imperial house of Anstria, and who
is also closely related to the royal family
of England. He is a good-looking young
man, has never been married before, is
well educated, is not much troubled for
money, as he owns property valued at
20 000,000 florins which is free from debt,
lie would 1)0 willing to marry a young
laity about twenty years old, who is ab
solutely of tbeCatholic. religion, well ed
ucated! and has a dowry of $5,000,000.
Her titling as a princess in the Austrian
and Eughsh courts is certain. Should
you know any young lady who would be
a suitable party under mentioned condi
tions, please try to arrange it with the
family and let me know the details. If a
marriage between the young lady yon
recommend and the prince is arranged 1
will agree to pay you $2000 for your du
ties. I hope to hear from you soon.
IIenky Baksa.
The detective wants it understood that
he will close the prince's matrimonial
bureau in thirty days, and the first who
comes will have the preference.
A House Wltll .11)1)0 KooniH.
The Vatican, the ancient palace of the
pope of Rome, is the most magnificent ol
the kind in the world. It stands on the
right bank of the Tiber, on a hill called
the Vaticanus, because the Latins for
merly worshipped the Vaticanium, an
ancient oracular deity, at that place.
Exactly when the building was com
menced no one knows. Charlemagne is
known to have Inhabited it over 1000
years ago. The present extent of the
building is enormous, the number of
rooms, at the lowest compulation, being
1I22. Its treasures of marble statues,
ancient, gems, paintings, books, manu
scripts, etc., are to be compared only
with those in the British museum. The
length of the statue museum alone is a
fraction over a mile. Conservative writ
ers say that the gold contained in the
medals, vessels, chains antl other objects
preserved in the Vatican would make
more gold coins than the whole of the
present European circulation.
California i'earl FlHherlei.
A gentleman who lately visited La Paa,
the capital of the Southern district of
Lower California, lias this to say of it :
"La Paz is the finest little city along the
coast, and has long been noted for its
pearl usherles. .Mure than a score of the
royal families adorn themselves with
those precious jowels in Europe today.
Tho pearls of La Paz far exceed those of
India in lustre and price, and are eagerly
sought for by the belles of all lantlB.
YTet a ersim buying peni-js in La Paz
must be somewhat of an expert or he
will get swindled, as there is a line imi
tation made from the pearl aholl that al
ninst defies- doteotiou. La Paz, with its
hundred windmills, its shaded avenues,
its beautiful terraces, and its while
houses, of which one cliches a glimpse
from beneath the date and cocoa palms
reaching down to the sea, contrasting so
beautifully with the nut-brown hills as a
background, forms a lovely picture."
llimli to the Uolil .11 Inch.
The excitement following the discov
ery of goltl in parts of California, Vir
ginia City and other localities is being
rejieated in the Harney country today.
Notwithstanding that the north side of
the hills are covered with snow, making
it difficult to prospect, says the Haruey
Items, yet they are fast filling up with
exmrieiicod and inexierieneed men,
and now linds are continually being re
ported. The four horse Idol City stage
is daily loaded down with men hanging
cm to eveiy available hand hold, and the
bills are aii eitly alive with men. Work
at the placer diggings is going on with a
rush, but Ihetliggings being on the north
side of the mountains anil the timlwr
being quite heavy a sufficient amount of
water will not be running for several
days yet.
rncillc. Cnatt Flitherlett.
The. census office has issued a bulletin
on the fisheries of the Pacific states. The
industry gave employment to 1:1,850 ier
sons iu various capicities, the invested
capital was T(i, IH:i,2;ill and the value of
the products $ti,:ib7,.'M;i. The tables
show that the fishorieN of California are
more important than those of either
Oregon or Washington. Of the capital
invested, 2,084, 210 represented Cali
fornia interests, the value of products of
thai, stale being flii:i,il',l, Oregon rauks
next. in importance. having a
capital invested of $2,2!Kl.ti32, and
a jiioduct of fl,0:i:i,674. The amount
of capital invested in Washington
is given as $5l7,:i97 and prodncU
irKOl.HiiO, and compared with l.HtlO the
fisheries nf this nylon have as a whole
greatly advanced, although a few fjieclal
brunches show a decline.
A .lolie on the I'natltlailter,
A man went into the jiostoUice ot u
neighboring town recently and told the
postmaster that he desired thirteeu two
cent stamps for a cent and a quarter.
The postmaster refused to give them to
him, stating that the cost would lie
twenty-six cents. Tho man persisted in
getting his order, claiming that be could
get them at any cilice fur that amount,
and even threatened the government
official if he continued to refuse him.
Finally the postmaster ordered him out,
but the man, nothing daunted, took a
cent antl a twenty-live cent piece from
his Kii ket, and laving them down on
the counter, he iuceied bis stamps fur a
cent and a quarter. The posi master was
a little discimiited for a w bile, but now
enjoys the joke as well on any one.
ture. the boilintr water is convevetl to I
A Love-Lorn Laborer. A Uenperate Charac'-r Hliot. j and throughout the house, which ie con-i Itol.lted uy to luiliatx.
Gution Paulson, a laborer, attempted I Jogeph I. Myrick shot and instantly ! siderably over half a mile distant from Jake Lewis was rubbed of his vest,
plan was concocted bv the'eook suicide at Seattle Saturday by shooting ! killed I homas Edwards at Sims' Mills, ! the sringH. It is claimed that the i coutaing a gold watch and chain, at Wal-
and steward, both Chinaman, to murder I himself in the breast with a 41 calibre . ten miles west of Dexter, Maine, hatur-1 springs are at an altitude sufficient to i lula last week, by two Indians. They
the captain anu his wife. The cook i revolver. Paulson fell in love three! day. Edwards was a tlesjirate charac-1 force water into the pipes tqion the top 1 ordered a dinner at his lunch counter,
weakened, however, which so infuriated ! months ago with a widow, Dorothy ter, and while intoxicated went to the floor of an ordinary lour or five story : and after they had finished eating walked
the steward that he made an attempt to j Johnson. She rejected him, and after a home of old man Sims, Myrick father
kill the cook, hacking him in a horrible stormy interview Saturday he went to bis in law, and, covering Mr. and Mrs. Sims
manner with a sham knifo Tl.o room in the garret of a email house near ! with bis gun. compelled them to dance
steward then, finding the cook would j the beach and shot himself. Hie bullet I and pray until they liecamo exhausted,
not die from the wounds, committed entered the sternum two inches above the Myrick was present, but. unarmed and
Buicide by taking opium, and his body I apex of the heart, missing both lobes of powerless. After Edwards left lhe son
was committed to the deep Wednesday, j the lungs and lodging in the vicinity of j in-law secured a shotgun and, following
The cook is in a precarious condition'. the spine. Paulson was taken to tho Edwards, killed him.
buildiu. away without paying. Mr Lewis at-
, tempted 10 stop mem, and one pinioned
What a Shrewd Vomig Lawyer Hid. ; lug arms while the other tore off the gar
J. W Draper, a young Oregon City at-; ment. He tracked them to a camp on
tomey, was in Salem Thursday and com-1 the river where 150 natives were engaged
pleted the purchase from the stale and in fishing. The chief of the party as
government, whereby he Is virtually the j iured him that he would do ad he
owner of Hock Island, in the Willamette ! could to recover the projerty.