Heppner Weekly Gazette
Published Every Thursday.
HEPPNER OREGON.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
An Interesting; Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., is to wed
Miss Virginia Fair, of San Francisco.
Only about $400 worth of property
was recovered from the wreck of the
Maria Teresa.
Gold shipments from Australia for
the year 1S98 amounted 12,820,000.
Shipments to America increased by
2,000,000.
A deficit in the German beet sugar
crop of at least 850,000 tons is figured
upon by United States Consul Diedrich,
at Madgeburg. He says that the back
ward season resulted in a deficiency.
Negotiations aie progressing in the
matter of the payment of the Cuban
troops, so that on laying down their
arms they may be enabled to enter
upon civil pursuits and earn their
living. Probably no further appropria
tion by congress will be necessary to
enable the president to carry out the
plan, if it should be decided, as the
money will eventually come out of the
revenues of the island.
Immediately upon the ratification of
the peace treaty by the senate, the
president will recommend to congress
the enactment of legislation looking to
the settlement of the claims of Ameri
can citizens for damages sustained in
Cuba, Poito Rico and other Spanith
possessions which formed the seat of
war. Claims to the amount of $20,
000,000 on this score have already beon
lodged with the state department.
Near Austin, Tex., a passenger train
escaped a serious wreck through the in
tervention of a bird. Sorno one had
tied a rail securely across the track. A
few miles before reaching the spot a
bird, blinded by the headlight, flew
against the glass, breaking and extin
guishing the light, which necessitated
running Blowly to the next station.
The train, at reduced Rpeed, struck the
obstruction, tearing up the track and
damaging the front of the engine, but
no one was injured.
Part of Red Hock mountain, accord
ing to a dispatch from Airolo. a village
of Switzerland, canton of Tieino, hag
fallen into Airolo, destroying a hotel
mid seveial houses. The scene of the
disaster presents a toiriblo spectacle,
the debris of the avalanche covering a
square mile. The hotel, with eight
houses and 12 other buildings, were
swept into a great heap of matchwood.
A new terror was added by the outbreak'
of fire amid the ruins. Three dead
bodios have been recovered. It is esti
mated that the damago will roach
40,000.
Admiral Dowey Is now the senior
officer of the American navv, having
reached that position without congres
sional action through the retirement
of Admiral Bunco.
Ihe American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association hag presented to the
Anglo-Arnei ican joint high com in Union
a carefully prepared argument in favor
of free paper and free pulp.
Senator MeBride has offered an
amendment to the naval bill, which
provided for the construction of a stone
drydock on the Columbia river and
appropriates $200,000 for immediate
Visa in beginning the work.
Ono-half the largest foreign order for
finished steel ever sent to this country
has been offered the Illinois Steel Com
pany, of Chicago. The order amounts
to $3,000,000, and is for water pipes
'to lie used by the Australian govern
ment. The Carnegie Company will
supply half the amount.
Senator MoUrhle hag introduced a
bill appropiiating $1,000 for the pur
chase or construction of a launch for
the use of the customs officials at As
toria. , A craft capable of giving a good
peed and one that will stand knocking
about is badly needed in the customs
service at Astoria, and Senator Mo
ilride's bill ii Intonded to supply the
deficiency.
The German ambassador, Dr. Von
Hollehen, has returned to Washington
after an extended absence, during which
ho held soveial important confeienco'
With the authorities at Berlin relative
to American affairs. It is expected
that ins leturn will soon bring about
exchanges with the state department,
and perhaps direotly with the presi
dent, relative to u number of cm rent
questions iu which both count lies am
Interested.
William F. Moore, convicted of
robbing Martin Million, a hotel-keeppt
of New York, by the "badger game,"
was sentenced to 19 veins in the state
prison. The charge against Mooro wm
that he conspired with his wife, Fayiu
Moore, to ob Mahou, and that Million
wag enticed by the woman to apart
ments occupied by the Mooies and
there coin pellet! by the husband to pay
blackmail. Moore was convicted on
bin second trial, the jury in the fli sit
instance having disagreed. Faynt
Mooie formerly regided in Portland, Or.
M Inor Mews I soma.
Piof. Kitridge, of Harvard, is said to
be the only man living wlio can read
M lot's Indian Bible.
The French vintage of 1808 is offl
daily estimated at 83,283,000 hecto
liters, which is 6H.000 hectoliters bo
low the vintage of last year.
James II. Southall, convicted of deal
lugs ill fraudulent government timt
checks, was sentenced in St. Puul tc
state's prison for 10 yuuis at hard la
bor. The mystery surrounding the gift of
$250,000 to the university of New
York, has been cleared up by the dis
covory that Helen Gould was the donor.
Benjamin 8. Lear is first sergeant ol
company C, First Colorado infantry,
iow stationed at Manila. His father,
Benjamin K. Lear, is a pi irate in tin
same eoinpanr.
Piesident W. H. Newman, of tht
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Kail
road Company, has placed nu oidei
with the Brooks locomotive works, ol
Punkirk, N. Y., for 45 locomotive.
Tbs total cost wilt be about f jog.000,
L.ATER NEWS.
William Stockley and his wife were
burned to death in their home at Dal
las, Wis. Their three children were
saved with difficulty.
A dispatch from Home says a mob of
4,000 people had assaulted an internal
revenue sentry box, and stoned the
gendarmes around Niscemi, Sicily, as
a protest against ex :ommunication. A
number of persons were wounded.
John Wellmer, of Lafayette, Nicol
lett county, Minn, was shot in the head
and hip by two tramps, to whom lie
had given Bhelter. They bound Mrs.
Wellmer to a lounge with a clothes lino
and escaped with Wellrner's team.
The grip, and the ailments attendant
upon it, that are now included in its
train of ills, have piostrated an unus
ual number of residents of Washington,
D. C. An observant pharmacist esti
mates that 10 per cent of the District's
population is suffering in one way or
another from the new generic grip.
The governor's office at the state
house in Springfield, III., was entered
by parties unknown and $580 stolen
from a drawer. The crime is sui round
ed iu mystery, as all floors of the build
ing are guarded by watchmen. The
theft was discovered by Colonel J. M".
Tanner and an investigation is pend
ing One of the most notable celebra
tionis in the history of American col
leges was in commemoration of the
100th anniversary of Transylvania uni
versity, at Lexington, Ky. It was no
table on account of its many famous
alumni, including Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederate states, and
Jnatioe Harlan, of the supreme court
of the United States, scores of con
gressmen and men prominent in public
life.
King Charles has opened tho cortes
gerares at Lisbon. In the course of his
speech from the throne, King Charles
said that during the war between the
United States and Spain, two friendly
nations, Portugal proclaimed, and, as
was her duty, maintained strict and
absolute neutrality. His majesty said
he greatly sympathized with the czar's
disarmament proposals, and made a
reference to tho colonies which appar
ently disposes of the rumors of the salo
of Delagoa bay.
In Chuna the Yellow river floods
have destroyed the crops, and famine
has resulted. Thousands of natives
are starving. Thousands of hungry
and raggrfd refugees are moving down
the river in boats, only to find the
walls of the cities lower down closed
against the starving hordes. The gov
ernment appropriated 300,000 taels for
their relief, but leas than one-fifth has
been distributed. It is claimed dis
honest officials have pocketed the bal
ance. A relief fund has been started
at Shanghai. Itev. B. Craig Patter
son, of the Chian Kian mission, appeals
to American friends for aid.
The British government favors the
canal being built by the United States
with guarantees of its neutrality in case
of war.
Onlres have been issued for the dis
patch of additional troops to Cuba to
assist in the maintenance of good gov
ernment there.
A crisis is imminent at Berlin. The
emperor and chancellor cannot agree,
ami a now cabinet is looked for. The
principal trouble is over tho wholesale
expulsions of Danes and Austrians.
Tho now year brings Ireland the
greatest experiment since Catholio
emancipation, namely, the initiation
of the local government act, which
really, in many of its features, is an
extension of tho emancipation acts and
policy.
The war department has come to the
conclusion that it will be necessary to
accoid General Brooke, military gover
nor of Cuba, the assistance of a special
cabinet approaching iu functions the
late autonomist cabinet of Cuban ad
ministration of tho civil affairs of the
island.
The situation at Iloilo is grave. Fif
teen hundred natives, fully armed,
are at Melo, a suburb of Iloilo. Seven
teen thousand moro, it is reported, are
awaiting orders to emb.irk at several
points on the island of Nogrns, 15
hours' sail from Iloilo. All the women
have wiibdiawn, and many families
have taken refuge with tho Americans.
Unless congress should pan's a law
authorizing him to remain on tho no
tive list, ltcur-Admiral Dewey will be
placed on the retired list on December
26, 1811!). Only one other retirement
will occur this year, that of Commo
dore H. L. Howlson, now commandant
of the Boston navy-yard. There is a
sttong sentiment in naval circles iu
favor of tho passage of a law which
will permit the retention of Admiral
Dewey upon the active list for 10
years, as was done in the caiiuof heroes
of the civil war.
Tho American lino steamship rails,
which has an ived in. Now Yoikfioiu
Southampton, after a tempestuous pas
Bflgo, reports that Tuesday, December
27, in latitude 40:20 north, and longi
tude 3 1 :3v west, at 83:0 in the motning,
she sighted a steamer Hying signals of
distress. She proved to be the British
tank steamer Vimlohala, Captain
Cluik, from Rouen, France; December
IS, for Philadelphia, in ballast. She
showed tho signal letters, ".Must a bun.
don vessel." The Paris legated her
crew, and no lives were lost.
The will of tho late Charles P. Wil.
der, of Wellsley Hills, Mass., be
quenths $103,000 to Mount Ilolyoke
college.
The shortage In the California, wine
crop of 1808 and the fairly good demand
that lias existed during the past year
have resulted in advancing prices.
M. Ctmstuntin, a young Fieuchman
of 10, who lives in Paris, is eight feet
tall and probably bigger than other
man who has ever lived. He is per
fectly proportioned.
A ukase has been issued by the
Russian minister of education, Mr.
Dogolerow, forbidding the wearing of
corsets in any educational institution,
. The government of Nicaragua, as a
remit of the collapse of the republic
of Central America, has established a
decree declaring Nicaragua to be au in
dependent soveieigu state.
Howard Gould will not le called
upon to sacrifice any part of his fortune
as a result of his recent marriage to
Miss Katherine Clcmmon. The other
Gould heirs decline to profit by big
disregard of his father's wishes.
A SOCIALIST MAYOR
John C. Chase Inaugurated
at Haverhill, Mass.
FIRST INSTANCE ON RECORD
Will Use His Power Btrlollr on tlm
Line of Socialism Specific Rec
ommendations Mads.
Haverhill, Mass , Jan. 4. John C.
Chase, elected on a socialist platform,
took the oath of office as mayor of
Haverhill today. la his inaugural
speeoh, Mr. Chase assured the members
of the city governmnt and the people,
that "every atom of power possessed
by the mayor would be exercised for
the defense and support of principles
of socialism, insofar as they may be ap
plicable to a municipality."
The mayor then referred to the de
sirability of preserving equal rights
upon which "tho liberty and happiness
of every man, woman and child ' are
conditioned, and asserted that these are
principles of attainment "only through
the establishment of the co-operative
commonwealth." Continuing, Mayor
Chase said:
"I believe that every power the mu
nicipality possesses should be placed
at the disposal of tho people in the in
tcroet of civilization. With that aim
in view. I submit the following recom
mendations' "First The passage of an order es
tablishing the minimum wage for
street employes at $2 for eight hours'
work.
"Second Union wages and condi
tions to prevail in al1 brick and stone
mason's work performed under the di
rection of the street department.
"Third All city printing to bear
the union label."
The mayor then took up the subject
of the unemployed, which he taid bad
developed from the displacement of la
bor by machinery and the concentration
of capital, and was a question which
no municipality could solve, as it had
bocome a national and intei national
one.
"Yet," he said, "some little relief
at least can be afforded by this city
government. I, tlie'fore, recommend,
first that you proceed to secure a tract
of land suitable for the raising of food
products, and that such of the unem
ployed as desire may be permitted to
use this land, the city to furnish proper
seeds and tools; second, the enlarge
ment of the fuel yard at the oity farm
to such proportion as will permit all
who desire to earn, by their labor, such
fuel as they may require; third, the
appropriation of such an amount of
money as circumstances may warrant,
to be used in providing employment
directly upon public works, not in com
petition with the regular employes of
the oity, but upon special works, two
kinds of wbioh 1 herewith suggest:
First, improvement of the park system;
second, construction of a system of bi
cycle paths through all principal thor
oughfares." Mayor Chase condemned the system
of contracting with the lowest bidder
for city woik, and said the system should
not be tolerated. He said:
"Low bids mean cheap work; cheap
work means cheap money and low
wages, and low wages lower the stand
ard of citizenship. The city should
perform itB own work and furnish its
own materials, giving employment to
its citizens."
The mayor advocated increased ap
propriations for educational purposes,
and municipal ownership of the electric
lighting plants and street railways.
OLD GLORY EVERYWHERE.
Stars mid Blriprs Adorn the Wreck of
the Maine.
Havana, Jan. 4. It developed today
that the company of the Indiana regi
mont which waved the Cuban flags dur
ing the parade was not arrested, as
cabled last night. Investigation
showed that the flags were distiibuted
to them by Cubans in the crowd, and
the act of waving them was thoughtless
anil not prearranged.
Twenty-five Cuban horsemen, well
mounted and armed, joined the column
at the Prado, rode to Central Park and
debouched into a side street. They
aroused considerable enthusiasm.
Three bluejackets from the Texas,
at about 13:30 yesterday, rowed to the
wreck of the Maine and hoisted a large
Stars and Stripes to the peak of the
wreck. The flag was saluted by the
shipping in the baibor.
An immense American flag was also
hoisted on top of a 200-foot spar at
the naval dock, where it ojuld be seen
for miles around.
Miners' Narrow Kucitpe.
Carlinville, 111., Jan. 4. Early this
morning the tipple and top works of the
Carlinville coal shaft, situated just out
side of town, took fire and burned
fiercely. There seemed from the very
start no chance of saving them from
total destruction. Between 70 and 80
men were in the mine, and it was only
after herculean efforts on the part of
the mine managers and those of the
miners who escaped at the first alaru
that the entombed miners were all re
leased from their perilous position. The
property losses aggregate only a few
thousand dollars.
AiiDlmllnn Wheat.
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 4. A fore
cast of the Australian wheat harvest
indicates a yield of 12,150,000 bushels
last harvest. One of the most interest
ing features of the estimate is a visible
surplus of 2,250,000 bushels available
for export, while 1,000,000 bushels of
old wheat remain on hand. The value
of the wheat harvest on the basis of the
current market rates is given at f 1,
837,500. The quality of grain this
year is said to be considerably better
than last.
Fatal Kmll'ig of Quarrel.
MiddhUown, O., Jan. 4. At Jaok
minora, near here, John Ui fiord and
Philip Kuch quarreled over the divi
sion of a crop of tobacco. Ui fiord shot
and killed Kuch, and afterward com
mitted suicide.
Kiiuber Works Destroyed.
Pott Dalhousie, Ontaito, Jan. 4. i
The works of the Toronto Rubber shoe
Manufacturing Company were destroyed
by lire this morning, emailing a loss of
about 1 100,000, and throwing some 200
bauds oat of employment.
DEWEY AND LEE.
Henry Watterson Name Them for
I'resident and Vice-President.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 8. Henry
Watterson, in a leading editorial this
morning in the Courier-Journal, under
the caption, "The New Year's Outlook
for the Democratic Party," nominates
Admiral Dewey for piesident and Gen
eral Fitzhugh Lee for vice-president.
In part, he says:
"To come down to hard faots, old
horse-sense sitting in the rocker, the
issue of free silver being relegated to
the limbo of busted shades, the tariff
issue peacefully reposing upon the shelf
where the Cleveland administration
left it to wait for free trade under naw
conditions the season of famine ended
and the season of plenty arrived what
are the Democrats to do for a national
platform and ticket?
"There is but o:;e thing for them to
do. The voters have about made up
their minds that party pledges are fab
ricated chiefly to be broken. Let the
Democrats, banking on this circum
stance, put up a ticket without a plat
form; let them nominate candidates
for president and vice-presrdent who
are a platform in themselves; and, if
they can induce the great admiral and
the gallant geneial to accept, here is
the card to win with:
"tor president George Dewoy, of
Vermont.
"For vice-president Fitzhugh Lee,
of Virginia.
"Platform Tho Stars and Stripes,
God bless tliem.
"Even now the Republican leaders,
who rarely fail to take time by the
forelock, and who never let go their
grip upon the shore line, aie planning
to make their campaign of 1900 on the
broad principle of national unification
and expansion. ' They are not going to
handicap themselves with any ancient
platform rubbish. High tariff is no
.'onger wanted by the manufacturers,
for whom it was invented. The bloody
shirt, having served its turn, has gone
to the old clothes basket. The presi
dent knows his business.
"At the opportune moment we shall
seo William McKinley and Joseph
Wheeler inarch down to the footlights,
hand in band, the flag abovo them
beneath them emblazoned on a strip of
red, white and blue,"The land we love
from end to end,' or words- to that
effect. And then what? What are
the Democrats going to do about it?
How are they going to meet it?"
GHASTLY SCENE.
Woman Deserted on the Gallows Her
Lover Keprlnved.
Prokuplif. Servia, Jan. 4. -A scene
more dramatic than is often essayed In
the most realistic fiction was enacted
in the jail-yard here on Saturday.
A woman and her lover mounted the
scaffold to pay the penalty for the mur
der of her husband. The man was
eullon and allowed the noose to be
placed around his neck without resist
ance. The woman was in hysterics
and had to be sunported by the hang
man and his deputy. Just as the hang
man had finished adjusting the rope
around the man's neck and was about
to place the black cap over the head of
tho lmlf-fiiintiug woman, a jailer
rushed out of the prison and up to the
foot of the scaffold and cried to the
hangman to stop, waving in his hand
a reprieve.
Tho man showed little feeling as the
rope was removed; the woman sobbed
with joy. But her happiness was
short-lived. The reprieve was for the
man only. When the hangman an
nounced the message the woman clung
to her lover in fienzy, but with a curse
he flung her off, refusing to bid her
farewell as ho stumbled down the gal
lows steps.
The woman was then placed on the
trap and hanged.
RIOS' VANDALISM.
The Spanish Commander Destroys That
Which lie Cannot Carry Away.
Madrid, Jan. 4. Hios, the Spanish
commander, cables that he baa arrived
at Manila, after having completed the
evacuation of Visayas and the northern
part of the island of Mindanao and af
ter blowing up 14 foits and the fleei of
gunboats on Lake Lani. Ho adds that
1,000 Spanish troops are concentrated
at Zamboanda under the command of
General Montero. Official circles here
are warmly diecussing the attitude of
Great Britain, owing to her pressing
demand that Spain sell her a coaling
station in the Balearic islands "and
other strategical points, so as to render
Gibraltar unassailable. The negotia
tions on the subject luve been in abey
ance owing to Premier Sagasta's ill
ness, but it is believed that Spain, in
fluenced by Hussia and France, will re
sist the demand of Great Britain.
Fatal Folding Ited.
Springfield, III., Jan. 4. Mrs. Lu
oretia Kent, a widow, met her death in
a manner horrible in the extreme. Her
fate was revealed when a friend, enter
ing tho house, found her doad body.
One hand was pinioned inextricably
under a heavy folding bed. The body
was decomposed, showing that death
bad occurred several days ago. When
found the woman's broken hand was
still clasped iu the bed as in a black
smith's vise. How the accident hap
pened will never be known definitely.
The woman lived alone in the house,
and that accounts for the tardy dis
covery 0( tjie body.
A Soldier Murdered.
ITuntsville, Ala., Jan. 4. Private
Starr Duie, company E, First infantry,
whose homo is in Sun Francisco, died
at the second division hospital today
from a gunshot wound received Chiist
uias night. Mack Lightfoot, Dare's
murderer, has been 'committed to jail
without bond.
Peking, Jan. 4. The imperial gov
ernment will send 6,000 foreign drilled
troops to suppress the rebellion in the
province of Sse-Chuen.
Mmck by Train.
Utica, N. Y., Jan. 4,Miss Susie S.
Thomas, aged 18 years, and Calvin
Chamberlain, aged 19 years, who weie
riding with five other young people in
a surrey, Saturday night, were fatally
injured by an Ontario & Western train
striking their vehicle at a crossing near
Latham's Comers. The young people
were singing as they approached the
track, and the diiverdid not hear the
approaching tiain.
Bosnian, la., Jan. 4. Fire destroyed
over half the business poit Ion of this
Tillage today.
A CHANGE 'OF FLAGS
Spanish Gold and Crimson
Conies Down in Cuba.
A STIRRING DAY IN HAVANA
Several Cuban Generals Took . Tart In
the Ceremonies General
Brooke's Reception.
Havana, Jan. 3. The sovereignty ol
Cuba passed from Spain to tbe United
States at noon Sunday.
The form of the transfer was simple,
consisting of only an exchange of
speeches in the salon of the palace, the
hauling down of the Spanish fiaa and
tbe raising in its stead of the flag of
the United States on the flagstaff's on
the palace roof. Salutes were fired
from the heavy guns of the forts and
the warships before and after the
change of flags. The raising of the
Stars and Stripes was greeted with
cheeis by the people, who covered the
roofs of the buildings around the palace
and plaza.
No crowd was permitted to gather in
the streets in tbe vicinity of the palace
to witness the epoch-making function.
At 9 o'clock, a guard, composed of the
Second battalion of the Tenth infantry,
marched into the Plaza de Armas, un
der command of Captain Van Vleet,
and formed around the square. Captain-General
Castellanos watched tbem
with interest from the balcony of his
apartments as they entered the square
and were stationed at all the streets
approaching the plaza. No one was al
lowed to enter without a pass, and all
the doors of the palace facing the
square were ordered to be closed. Only
those who could get on the roofs and
balconies of houses in the neighborhood
saw what was going on before the
palace.
With the guard was the band of the
Second Illinois regiment, which had
been selected for the occasion as the
best band in the Seventh army corps.
With the band were the buglers of the
Eighth and Tenth infantry.
The weather was warm, the sun
bursting at intervals through the light
clouds, and the soldiers in blue, who
were forced to stand in the sun, found
the beat oppressive. The troops were
formed in extended order around the
square, three paces apart, and the band
was massed in front of the palace en
trance across the street at the edge of
the park.
At 11:55, Major-Genial Lee, military
governor of the province of Havana,
with his staff, joined General Brooke.
The lattei then crossed the street to the
palace, General Lee on one side of
liim, and General Chaffee on the other,
followed by tbe other American gen
erals and the Cuban officers. The Cu
bans wore dark blue uniforms, brown
felt hits and gray gloves, and they car
ried machetes.
A flourish of trumpets greeted the
procession and the Spanish troops pie
sented arms as the Americans entered
tbe palace. The Cubans remained out
side until escorted in by members of
General Brooke's staff, the Spanish sol
diery retmaning all the while at "pre
sent arms. "
As soon as all were in, the Spanish
troops formed a column of fours and
marched around the right side of the
plaza to tbe docks, while the band of
the Second Illinois volunteers played
the Spanish loyal march.
As Captain-General Castellanos was
escorted to the wharf to take his de
parture the band played the Spanish
royal march. General Castellanos
thanked the generals accompanying
him and as he stepped into the launch
he wept. Crowds of Spaniards all
dressed in black, gathered upon the sea
wall and silently watched the fleet pass
out. Men and women wept together.
TRANSFERRED TO DENVER.
Geueral Men-lam Will Command De
partment of the Colorado.
San Francisoo, Jan. 8. Major-General
Henry C. Merriam, who is now
in San Francisco in command of the
departments of California and the Co
lumbia, is to be transferred to the de
partment of the Colorado. His head
quaiters will be at Denver. He le
ceived official instructions to this effect
from Washington today. He will go
to Denver on or aobut January 10 next,
at which time General Shatter is ex
pected here to resume his own com
mand in the department of California.
Geueral Merriam says he has not the
least idea who will be placed in charge
of his eld headquarters of the Colum
bia, the headquarters of which are at
Vancouver, Wash.
Fell Five Huudred Feet.
Ishpeming, Mich., Jan. 8. A caga
accident in the Lake Superior mine
today caused the death of six Finnish
miners and serious injuries to three
more. The dead are: Matti Tarn
mii.en, Takko Mikkala, J. H. Kujanp
pa, J. W. Paavai, Alfred Sinna and
Gust W. Johnson. The men were go
ing down the ?haft in a cage to work.
The supposition is that something
dropped on the cage, forcing one side
of the frame work down, so as to let
the men slide off into the shaft.. One
of the wounded men said lie thought a
rope bad broken. Another heard some
thing strike the cage.
Bed Key, Ind., Jan. 8. An explo
sion of gas, followed by fire, at the
Ohio & Indiana Pipe Line Company's
compressing station near here caused a
loss estimated at $100,000. Engineer
W. F. Robinson was badly burned.
Thiity or more towns aie deprived of
natural gas by the destruction of the
station.
When a young woman gts a hew hat
she is never satisfied until the man she
loves most and the girl the hates uiost
have both seen it.
Kemlndlng l i of the Promise,
Madrid, Jan. 8. The minister for
foreign affairs, Duke Alnio.lovar del
Uio, is about sending a note to Wash
iugton to remind the American govern
ment of its undertaking, by the terms
of the treaty of Paris, to obtain the
liberty of the Spanish prisoners in the
Philippines. The cabinet has decided
to open a credit of 8,000,000 pesetas for
the lepatriation of Spanish soldiers in
Cuba and the Philipp.nes.
Dispatches fiom Bolivia say La Pus
is a vast encampment of armed men.
IusureJts sua becoming enthusiastic.
PROSPEROUS TO THE END.
The Old Year Gun Out Willi Cosiness
IS doming.
New York, Jan. 2. Bradstreet's
says: Concisely stated, the reports re
ceived as to the year's business in all
sections of the country point to an un
precedented volume of domestic and
exoprt trade, wlrch is reflected in bank
clearances that break the high record
of 1892. The general level of prices of
staple securities at the close of the
year is at the highest point reached lor
five years past. Railroad earnings ex
ceed all previous years, and finally
there was a small number of failures,
and lower liaibilties than reported in
any year for at least five years past.
These general results in the country at
large have been achieved, too, notwith
standing the outbreak and conclusion
of a foreign war, and in spite, also, of
unfavorable conditions in some indus
tries, notably textile manufactures,
which, combined with unfavorable
weather early in the year, and the
lowest price for cotton on record, exer
cised an unfavorable influence.
Bnt the close of the year finds an im
provement even in these directions, and
returns as to retail trade and particu
larly holiday business, are strikingly
good in all sections. B3Bt reports as
to distributive trade naturally come
from the graingrowing sections of the
country, which were the first to meet
an improvement resulting from free
foreign demand for our cereals, but in
dications are not wanting that this im
provement is gradulally percolating
throughout the entire business com
munity, and coupled with the unprece
dented export trade in manufactured
goods, and the fact that we are selling
$2 worth abroad for every dollar's worth
we buy, renders possible the gains re
ported in distributive trade of 1898
over 1897, ranging from 10 to 40 per
cent, with likewise good exports from
the nianufcturing centers, excepting
the textile industries alieady men
tioned. The export trade of the country for
the year, as above intimated, is the
heaviest ever known, and will probably
exceed $1,250,000 in value, thus being
nearly double the imports. Our ex
port trade in manufactured goods, it
must be observed, is the heaviest over
known, and for the first time in
our country's history exceeded the value
of imports of similar goods.
There were 11,038 failures in the
United States in 1888, involving liabil
ities of $141,137,117, a decrease from
1897 in number of 11.2 per cent, and
in liabilities of 9.5 per cent. Com
pared with 1890 and 1895, the propor
tion of decrease shown is even larger,
as compared with 1896, failures were
fewer by 25 per cent, and liabilities
smaller by 64 per cent. Decreases are
also shown when oompared with 1891,
a year of large trade, but of numerous
and costly failures; but com
pared with 1892 there is an increase
shown of 13 per cent in number, and
20 per cent in liabilities.'
TEN THOUSAND DROWNED
Another Awful Calamity Occurred at
Hankow.
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 8. The steam
ers Victoria and Yamaguchi Alaru have
arrived with news from the Orient up
to December 15.
Another serious rnlamitv. wrilpn tlm
Hankow correspondent of the North
China Dailv News, has hefnll an th
people of Hankow; about 10,000 of the
tniiuDitants Have met death by drown
ing. About noon DecftmhRr 8 linlf iha
storehouses extending along the edge of
u! ri 1 1 . t i i i
mo river nan euuuerny crone away ami
tumbled into the water on top of all
the boats there. The houses arid boats,
with all the people in them, dis
appeared in a moment. About 100
buildings and the same number of
boats are eone.
News comes of more murders of mis
sionaries. The Japanese Herald says
an English missionary haa hnpn mm-.
deied by natives and soldiers at Tsing
ring. A Drench missionary has been
burned to death at Swatow, and a Ger
man missionary has been mortally in
jured in Shan Tung. The murder of
an American missionary, Mrs. Butter
field, of Central China, is reported.
Advices state that since the attack
on the Russian troops at Andijan some
time back, discontent and dissatisfac
tion have been rife throughout the
province. This feeling has asumed
such proportions that the 'Russian au
thorities have already strengthened
their garrisons. They have, moreover,
Occupied the larffer vilhiorefi in tnrna
and superseded the civil by a military
administration. Not more than 200 or
BOO fanatics were erurasjed in tlm attack
on the Rusians, yet more than 1,200
men were arrested on suspicion and
fiOL'BOd in Oriler in PTtnrt itifnrmatinn
Not only were the actual malefactors
punisiieu, but their relatives of all de
crees were also inmrigoned. In mlili
tionto this, a fine of 800,000 roubles
uas ueen innicteri on the district.
A Fronperou Year.
Washington, Jan. 3. The rmbiished
statement of the government receipts
anu expenditures shows that during
the half year ending December 31, the
receipts aggregated $245,961,890,
against $207,760,574, for the same per
iod last year. According to the treas
ury these receipts are the largest since
1866, when they reached $558,032,620,
for the entire fiscal year, and 1887,
when they amounted to $490,634,010.
IHaastroua San Franciai-n Fir..
San Francisco, Jan. 3. Fire wtoeM
started early tonight in the business
building at 17 Stevenson street caused
a loss of $50,000 before it was
extinguished. Of this amount about
$40,000 falls on the Krouirh Manufac
turing Company, makers of primps and
hydraulic machinery. The San Fran
cisco artistic metal works, which oc
cupied part of the structure, were
totally destroyed, the loss being daced
at $10,000. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Great Britaiu's Revenues.
London. Jan. 8. The revenues of
the United Kingdom foi the quarteer
ending December 81 amounted to 28,
632,324, an increase of 803,603 over
1897. making for the nine months a
total of 78.840,488, an increase of
974,348.
Coram if sioners have been sent from
Porto Rico to Washington in an effort
to put an end to the administrative,
financial and elueational conditions as
they exist in the island of Porto Rico
today. They will alto ask that Porto
Rioo be admitted si a territory.
TRAGEDY. AT SEASIDE
Three Men Killed in a Des
perate Fight.
THE WORK OP A DESPERADO
Charles Willard Murdered Sheriff
William and Deputy Lamer, and
Was Shot by Deputy Miller.
Soaside, Or., Jan. 2. The burning
of the Fulton cottage, at this place,
last Wednesday morning, culminated
this afternoon in the bloodiest tragedy
in the history of this county, as a re
sult of which three men are oold in
death and one other is badly wounded.
The dead are:
Sheriff J. W. Williams, Dopnty
Sheriff James Lainers and Charles Wil
lard. Deputy Sheriff A. E. Miller was
shot in the leg.
It was considered certain by every
one that the burning of the cottage was
for the purpose of concealing a rob
bery, and suspicion pointed to Charles
Willard as the guilty person, particu
larly as he was seen a shoit time after
the fire coming from the locality with
a wheelbarrow load of goods.
Acting on the suspicion then aroused
Sheriff Williams this morning secured
a search warrant, and in company with
Senator C. W. Fulton and others, went
to Seaside to search Wil lard's prem
ises, and also all the cottages of which
he had eharge during the winter season.
About 8 o'clock this afternoon, Sher
iff Williams, Senator Fulton and Dep
uties A. E. Miller and James Lamers,
the two latter being residents of Sea
side, went to the cottage of Mrs. Susie
Lewkton, where Willard was living,
to search it.
On rapping at the door they were
answered immediately by Willard,
who told them to wait until he dressed,
but from subsequent events it is certain
he wanted time to get his guns leaily
for action. After a few moments he
opened the door, and on being told
what was wanted, told the sheriff, in a
polite manner, that he was welcome to
search any of the residences hi his
charge.
Leaving Fulton, Lamers and the
sheriff in the house, he picked up his
rifle, and telling Miller' to follow him,
he started for John L. Carlson's cottage
which he had in charge, and which he
said some one had endeavored to break
into. There they were soon afterwards
joined by Williams and Fulton. The
latter asked Willard to come back to
the Lewiston cottage. He made no
objection.
It was on nearing the cottage the
second time that the tragedy occurred.
Senator Fulton had identified some
shotgun cartridges in the house as be
longing to him, and began questioning
Willard as to where he got possession
of them. This nettled Willard, al
tliough he answered that a friend had
given them to him, and he began to get
ugly.
Fulton and Miller went inside the
cottage, leaving Willard, Sheriff Wil
liams and Lamers standing outside.
They had just proceeded to the rear
room when two shots were heard n
quick succession, and on running to"
he door, Sheriff Williams was seen to
throw up his hands and fall backwards
over the bank. In front of the house
were Willard and Lamers, in a desper
ate hand-to-hand struggle, although
the latter had beon shot through the
right groin and was fast growing faint,
and his assailant was fighting with the
desperation of a demon. Fulton sprang
at Willard's head, and pulling him to
the ground jumped on his face. Miller
wrenched the rifle from his hand, threw
it on the ground, and taking out his
revolver beat the desperado over the
head.
Senator Fulton, in the meantime,
picked up the rifle and told Willard to
remain quiet, or he would kill him.
The latter, however, watched his op
portunity, and jumping to his feet
started to run away, when Fulton fired,
missing him the fiist time, but strik
ing him in the faoe the second time,
carrying away the greater portion of
his mouth and nose. Willard fell, ap
parently dead, and Fulton started to
obtain help to care for the injured men,
leaving Miller on guard with the lifle
in hand. Miller stepped back to aid
Lamers, who was lying on the gtound
desperately wounded, when Willard
was noticed to be fumbling with hia
belt. Quicker than a flash he drew a
revolver and fired three bullets, the
first one hitting Miller in the left leg,
just below the hip. MilLr returned
the fire with the rifle, the first bullet
inflicting a flesh wound in Willard'a
shoulder, and the eecond hitting him
in the left side, near the groin, killing
him instantly.
By this time help had arrived, and
an examination was made of the in
jured men. Sheriff Williams was
found to have been phot through the
right breast, and although his pulse
was beating feebly when examined, he
allowed no further signs of life. La
mers was shot in the right groin, and
he lived about 30 minutes after being
removed to Giimcs' hotel. Miller, the
other deputy, was wounded iu the leg,
but his wound is not of a serious na
ture. Discarded Woman's Deed.
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 2. George
P.King, chief deputy in the office of
City Engineer Dockweiler, was shot
and probably fatally wounded this
vening by Theresa Kerr, wliom he had
cast off.
Fxtrariltion Treaty With Itraiil.
Now York. Jan. 2.--A dispatch to
the Herald from Kio de Janeiro utn
that the Brazilian congress has ap
proved a treaty ol extradition with the
United States.
Dlscoarag-lng Outlook.
Madrid, Jan. 2. The cabinet has
agreed to send additional funds to Cu
ba for repatriation of the Spanish
troops remaining there. The govern
ment considers the prospects for release
of Spanish prisoners in the Philippines
eiy discouraging.
New York, Jan. 2. Ninety men
ere taken from the receiving ship
Vermont at tbe navy-yard by steamer
to Norfolk, Va., from which place
they will go overland to San Francis
co, where they will embark for Manila
M reinforcement! for Admiral Dewey,