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mp OF THE DAY
Meresting Collection of Item! From
ihe Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condsnsed Form.
Senator Halo has been renominated
by the Maine Republicans.
Hon. Joseph H. Choate will be our
next ambassador to Great Britain.
Dr. H. Seward Webb, president of
the Wagner Palace Car Company, is
mentioned as siiooessor to Senator Mor
rill as senator from Vermont.
Thofiist formal state dinner of the
season took place at the White House
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
MoKinloy entertained the members of
the cabinet.
A sensation has boen created in Ger
many by the publication in a Cologne
paper of an alloged conversation had
with the late Prince BiBmaick, in
which he predicted the fall of the Aus
trian empire.
An American named Boynton, who
is trying to travel around the earth
without monoy, mot with a terrible fall
into a chasm while entering Franco by
night through the Pyrenees. He was
seriously injured.
Another disagreeable oonsequenco of
the late war has been presented to the
government of claims from the cable
companies for damages sustained
through the suspension of their busi
ness by the United States military and
naval forces. The aggregate amount
of these claimB cannot be foretold.
; Representative Tonguo, of Oregon,
has prepared an amendment to the bill
for codification of the laws of Alaska,
now ponding in the house, providing
for the licensing of main business con
cerns in the territory, and especially
tho liquor business. Mr. Tongue says
that the Tread woll mines docs not pay
anything in the way of taxes to the sup
port of the territorial institutions, and
that from the rogion surrounding Ju
neau about 18,000,000 in gold is pro
duced annually, and docs not contribute
a cent to the government.
. Tho Havana aftornoon papers sent a
thrill through tho city with a report
that a torture and execution chamber
had been found at the residence of tho
(Spanish miltiary governor, adjoining
the palace. Tho papers declareed that
there the Spanish officials questioned
and murdered political prisoners. Ac
cording to their accounts, tho floor of
tho chamhor was covered with dried
blood, and its walls were indented with
machete Btrokes. An 'oxcited crowd
soon gathored outside the house which
was last occupied by General Parrado.
I General Maximo Gomez, from his
camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar
ciso, lias issued a proclamation to tho
Cuban army advising against disband
ing until tho proceedings at Washing
ton regarding the pay of the insurgent
troops have been completed.
By tho purchase of a largo block of
stock of the Calburicn railway, in Cuba,
L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing
English capitalists, havo scoured a con
trolling interest in that lino. The
on 1 1 in men have also been large pur
chasers of the stocks of Saguaand Oion
fuogos companies.
' Tho monthly treasury statement of
the public debt shows that at tho close
of biiHiness, Decomher 81, the debt,
less cash in tho treasury, amounted to
1,129, 17(1, 2H(I, an increase during tho
month of ft, 703, 700. This incroaso
is due to the delivery of U per cent
bonds of the new issue, previously paid
for.
At Evansville, Ind., Minor Garrett,
Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl und William Morris, boys ranging
in ago from 10 to 12 years, were given
n public whipping in tho poliio court
for stealing some old wash boilers.
Their parents woro given tho option by
Judge Winfrey of whipping tho boys or
having them sent to tho reform school.
Governor Roosevelt, Greater Now
York's new exeuctivo, has eatalbished
a code of rules to govern his considera
tion and determination of applications
for pardons and commutations of sen
tence. Ho will not cxeiciso executive
olomoncy in behalf of a man who has
been convicted of murdering or abusing
iris wife, nor will he pardon any hab
itual criminal. His mercy will bo
shown only to those whoso sentence
seems to have been severe or whose
commission of a orimo was the result
of influence.
A most remaikablo wedding has
taken place at the village of Trail, O.,
four biothers being married to four sis
ters. The four knots were tied at the
homo of tho brides, who aro tho daugh
ters of a farmer named James Hooh
stetter. Their ages lange from 18 to
28, and tho ages of their respective
liusabnds vary only slightly. The
grooms are four sons of John Summers.
The ceremony of maryiug the four
couples occupied almost an hour, the
same olergymun performing all. Tho
four brothers and their wives will live
within a stone's throw of each other.
Minor New 1 1 .
Sebastian Bach Mills, the well
known composer and pianist, died in
Wiesbaden, Germany, aged 00 years.
The preliminary report of tho Men
nigua canal commission shows that it
will require about f llifl. 000.000 to
build the canal.
Encouraging reports of the condition
cf affairs in Manila and Porto Rico
reached the war department from tho
officers commanding tho troops in those
departments.
Ohio school children have given
91,275 for the La Fayette monument
fund.
The first American flag over a Phil
ippine educational Institution was
mined over the Malate schoolhonse.
A new counterfeit one-dollar silver
certificate has been discovered. It is
of the series of 1800, Bruue, register.
Roberts, treasurer.
Advices Bhow that more business is
being done now by the merchants and
maiiufm:turiiis of the United States
than at any pieivoua time lu the his
tory of the country,
' rrryf Thursday.
Zr::7?C7. OREGON.
HEPPNER .
LATER NEWS.
The Farmers' bank of In wood, Ga.,
rvas entered by burglars, who secured
20,000 and escaped.
The ravages of grip among the mem
bers of the national lion.se and senate
may compel an ex Ira session of con
gress. A disastrous freight wreck occurred
on the Wabash, at Belleville, Mich.
The loss on rolling stock is estimated
at $30,000, with $3,000 loss on a store
house. Thirteen persons were killed and
from 30 to 45 injured in a railway col
lision near Bound Brook, N. J. There
was a head-end collision between a
local train and tho Black Diamond ex
press. President Alonzo's advance guard is
within six leagues ot La Paz, capital
of the republic of Bolivia. It is likely
a decisive battle will bo fought soon
between the government troops and
the rebels who now hold the capital.
It is proposed that a memorial he
srected at Manila to the memory of all
Americans who fell in the capture or
died of disease during the campaign.
Tho proposal is that all Americans now
resident in tho Far East, of whom
there is a very considerable number,
BhoulJ be invited to contribute toward
this object.
Filipino committees havo made a
formal protest, and President McKin
ley has been warned from Paris, Madrid
and London not to attorn pt to take
forcible possession of Ho Ilo. The
ground is taken that the American
claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that tho United States is not the
possessor of tho Philippines until tho
peace treaty is ratiflod. The Filipino
agont at Hong Kong says a fight with
the Americans at Ilo Ilo is unavoida
ble, but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Washington.
Tho Cincinnati Express Gazette lias
collected data anent the operations ol
trainrobbors during the past year. Tho
effect o federal jurisdiction upon train
robborios is evidenced in Mexico. Dur
ing the past year there was not even
an attempt at train robbery in tho sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
thero with instant death. The record
for 181)8 is as follows: Number of
train hold-ups, 28; number of stage
robborios, 7; number of passengers and
train men shot, 4; number of robbers
killed, 6; number of robbers shot, 0.
Captain R. R. Shaw and the orew of
the British bark Glen Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and woll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
abandoned the (Hen Huntley in a fierce
gale June 4. 1898. For 154 duvs the
11 sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha
islo, more than 1,500 miles south by
west of the Cape of Good Hope. They
subsisted on penguin eggs and tho flesh
of sea eagles, and shared with 72 white
inhabitants tho scanty stock of provi
sions that the captain of a passing ves
sel had given them.
At a firo which broke out in the no
te! Rioholiou, at Pittsburg, Pa., three
guests lost their lives and iivo people
were badly hurt.
Colonel Potter, spocial emissary ol
General Otis to Ilo Ilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn tho town if tho
Americans bombard tho place.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com
muted the sentence of J. R. Colcan,
who, while cashier of tho Sate bank, ol
Fort Scott, in 1805, stole $52,000 of its
funds.
Four dead, two injured, ono of these
perhaps fatally, and tho loss of proper
ty of tho Southern railway to the
amount of about $35,000, is tho result
of a wreck .which occurred at Knox
vilie, Tumi.
A heavy wind storm swept over tho
remote section of Scott county, Ark.
At Boles, a schoolhotiso was blown
down and three pupils were killed, an
other was fatally wounded, and a dozen
or more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremondous landslide occurred near
Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad. A mountain which has
long been an object of curiosity to
travelers crashed into tho Fraser river,
damming it oomplctely, and sending
the water in torrents over tho fertile
Nicola valley. Tho course of tlio river
was changed completely.
According to lato advioes from Daw
son, tho United States government will
bo called upon to relievo indigent min
ers in tho Klondike. Tho Dawson
Nugget says there is a strong move
ment on foot at Dawson to send a rep
resentative to Washington for the pur
pose of enlisting the United States
government in the cause of aiding in
remedying the groat distress which
prevails among the miners of the Yu
kon. At the annual convention of tho
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and
Diedge Engineers and Cranesnion of
America, held in Chicago, resolutions
were adopted, urging congress to pass
the Nieaiagua canal hill and also that
a law should bo passed making eiht
hours a day's work on said canal. Res
olutions wore also passed urging con
kicks to pass the river and harbor bill
at the present session of congiess. Con
gress was also uiged to create a labor
commission of three union men to see
that the laws in the interest of work
ingmen were enforced on all govern
ment work.
Mrs. John Quark, aged 100 years,
died at her home ne-ir Galena, III.
Lieutenant 'Commander Sumner O.
Pavue, United States navy, retired,
died in Ashville, N. U.
James McDonald, aged 103, a lesi
dent of Chipixnva Falls, Wis., died at
St. Joseph's hospital, Milwaukee.
A Pittshuig company baa received a
contract from the United States govern
ment to re-equip Morro castle in Hav
ana. Patrick llaggerty, who would have
been 100 years old January 17, died
near Malone, N. Y.
Miss Margaret Dodge, a prominent
literary worker, was found dead in a
pew lu a church in Boston. She hud
taken poison.
Marine losses during 1808 were ma-
...rlulll nruulnt tl.n.t iliirltitt n.iiv!.
oiin season on uie nines, mo aggregate
being out i mated at J, (100,000,
While Deputy Sheriff Frank K. Nye
was forcing an entrance to a residence
lu Chicago lie was shot and killed by
Thomas U. Crosby, sged 13 years.
ORE
Both Branches at Salem Re- Members of Both Branches
tain the Organization of at Olympia Are Induct
Special Session. ed Into Office.
BUT LITTLE BUSINESS IS TRANSACTED
Ben 0. Worslcy, of Astoria, Elected
Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
Two Minor Resolu
tions Passed.
Salem, Jan. 10. Both houses 'of the
legislative assembly convened at the
appointed time, but beyond organizing
little was done. The house spent some
time in electing a sergeant at-aruis,
and thon passed a couple of resolutions
The senate was called to order at 10
o'clock by President Taylor. The roll
call showed all present but three.
Tho resolution for a joint committee
to confer with a committee from tho
Washington legislature relative to de
vising a joint regulation for fishing in
the Columbia river, was referred to
the committee on fishing industries.
Kelly's resolution for 15 committee
clorks for tho senate, to bo under the
control of the sergeant-at-nrms, went
to tho committee on education.
Cameron's resolution for the secre
tary of state to provide $4 worth of
postage stamps and f 1 worth of news
paper wrappers was adopted, after
Selling had made an unsuccessful at
tempt to cut the stamps down to $3.
The rules of the speoial session wore
adopted for the senate, after which an
adjournment was taken.
The Diiy In the Mouse,
The house was called to order at
10:20,with Speaker Carter in the chair.
The roli-call showed a quotum present,
50 members answering to tneir names.
Ou motion of Moody of Multnomah,
Sneaker Carter was declared speaker
for this session, some doubts having
been expressed as to the legality of
the continuance of the special session
organization. Seaker Carter expressed
his gratindo in a few remarks.
The election of Carter was followed
by a resolution offered by Curtis of
Clatsop, continuing in office the other
officers of the house, clerks, etc, ex
oept tlio Borgoant-at-arms. Tho resolu
tion was adopted by a vote of 49 to 0.
Tho motion of Rocder, of Umatilla,
that the house proceed with the elec
tion ol a sorgeant at-aims was amended
by Whalley of Multnomah, to enable
the Republican members to hold a cau
cub. A rocoss was therefore taken for
half an hour, but n full hour elapsod
before tho caucus adjourned and an
nounced its choico. The plum fell to
Don S. Worsley, of Astoria.
A house concurrent resolution was
thon introduced providing for tho ap
pointment of a committee of three of
the house and two of the senato to ox
amino the books and accounts of the
state treasurer.
Representative Myers introduced a
house concurrent resolution providing
for tho apnointment of a committee of
three of tho house and two of tho sen
ato to meet with a like committee to be
appointed by tho legislative assembly
of Washington to investigate tho needs
of further legislation for tho protection
of fish in the Columbia river.
Tho afternoon session of the houso
opened with a resolution by Myers that
tho clergymen of tho city be invited to
open tho sessions with prayer.
Topping of Coos, offorod a concur
lout resolution providing for tlio ap
pointment of a committee of threo, one
from tho houso and two from the sen
ate, to examine tho books of the secre
tary of stato and report within 15 days.
Williamson of Crook was thon given
permission to submit a report of tho
special committeo on clerkship abuses,
which upon being read led to the first
conflict of tho session. The resolution
provides for sweeping reductions in the
siumbor of clerks, and is the same one
that was buried by the senato. Sev
eral motions to refer were lost, and the
ropoit was adopted.
Following are tho officers of the
houso of representatives: Speaker, E
V. Caitor, of Ashland: chief clerk, A.
C. Jennings, of Albany; assistant
clork, A. V. R. Snyder, of McMinn
ville; reading clork, Frank Motter, of
Portland; calendar clerk, D. D. Maokio,
of Portland; sergeant-at-arnis, D. S.
Worsley, of Astoria; doorkeeper, M.
P. Isonborg, of The Dalles; pages,
Robert Duncan and Charles Lano, mid
Frank Swope, of Porltand.
Theese are the officers of the senate
this afternoon:
President, I. C. Talyor; chief clerk,
S. L. Morehead, of Junction City;
assistant clerk, J. Fred Yates, of Cor
Tallin; reading clork, J. D. Lee, of
Portland; calendar clerk, F. C. Mid
dleton, of Portland; sergeant-at-arnis,
Joseph S. Purdom, of Grant's Pass;
mailing clerk, 11. II. Humphrey, of Sa
lem; dooi keeper, W. W. Smith, ol
Clackamas.
Serjeant-at-Arms Purdom, of the
senate, this morning presented to
President Talyor a fine gavel, made of
Josephine county manzanita. The
old gavel was never ornamental, and,
it had become much frayed by loug use.
Dills were introduced in tho house as
follows:
llawson of Gilliam, providing for
the sinking of artesian wells in arid
lands.
Moody of Multnomah, Increasing the
number of justices of the supremo
court by two, and providing for the
appointment of the same until the gen
eral election in 1000.
McQueen of Lane, fixing tho liability
if torn moil crnieis.
Flagg ot Marion, amending Hill's
jode to tho end that all hangings shall
sake place at the state penitentiary.
Fieoltuid of Morrow, amending 11 ill's
code in reference to the attachment of
personal property.
The house commit too to which was
refoirod tho Curtis clerkship resolu
tion, met tonight and agreed to roort
. a modification of the resolution so as
til .....wiiti, ..tip itt.iwiirril ntlma fit
und 40 clerks, two of which will receive
ft each, and the others f3 per day
The total cost for the session will be
15,577. Iu 1805 the house had 83
.' clerks, to whom f 10.239 wasp aid.
The Selection of Clerks and Othe
Employes Occupies the Time
at Olympia E. H. Guie
Chosen Speaker,
Olympia, Jan. 10. Lieutenant-Governor
Thurston Daniels called the sen
ate to order at 12:30 P. M. The lobby
was crowded, and unusual interest was
manifested in the probable organiza
tion under fusion or Republican con
trol. The lieutenant-governor gave
way, without making any remarks, to
Secretary of State Will D. Jenkins,
who read the official roster of those en
titled to seats. Secretary Dudley
Esholman called the roll. All were
present. Judge Anders, of the state
supreme court, administered tho formal
oath.
On motion, of Senator Miller, of
Thurston county, seconded by Plummer
of Spokane, and Cole of Pierce, all fu
sionists, the rules of the last sonate
were adopted temporarily.
On motion of Keith of Pierce, fu
sionist, the roll was called on the elec
tion of asecretary, and Dudley Eshel
man, of Taooina, a Deinoorat, secretary
of tho last sonate, was unanimously
re-olected. Other officers selected
uunanimously were: Assistant Secre
tary Herbert de Wolfe, Republican, of
Tacoma; sergeant at-arms, Edward
Wheeler, Republican, of Soattle; as
sistant eergeant-at-arms, Lee Smith,
fusionist, of Fremont, King
minute clerk, M. J. McGinnis,
county;
fusion-
ist, of Snohomish county.
On motion of McRoavy, the further
election of officers was postponed, and
on motion of Keith, the election of
president pro tern was taken up.
Keith placed High of Clark, in nomina
tion, and Preston of King, named
Megler of Wahkiakum. Tho vote was:
Megler (Republican), 14; High (fusion
ist), 17: Miller (Deinoorat), of Walla
Walla, 1; one blank (High); one absent
(Daum). High was declared elected.
Megler voted for Miller. Willis Rand
and Raleigh George, of Olympia, were
elected pages.
Keith, Plum and Warburton wore
appointed a committee to notify the
house and Governor Rogers that the
senate had organized.
The House Organ izes.
Olympia, Jan. 10. C. E. Cline, ex
speaker of the house, called the session
to order at 12:15, and announced
piayer by Rev. A. G. Sawm, pastor of
the Olympia Baptist chuich.
J. M. Pago, assistant clerk of tho
last house, read the list of members
certified to the house by the secretary
of stato. C. E. Boyce, of King, was
absent, and was reported dangerously
ill at his home. All other mcmbeis
were present.
Acting Speaker Cline appointed a
committee of three to escort Chief Jus
tice Gordon into the bar of the house.
The latter at once administered the
oath of office.
The speaker announced that nomina
tions of candidates for temporary
sneak r were in order, and recognized
Jesse Faye, of Whatcom, who an
nounced it as the wish of the caucus
that tho speaker be elected as a perma
nent officer. He nominated E. II.
Guie in a stirring'speeeh.
Judge Calvert seconded the nomina
tion, and moved that the secretary cast
tho unanimous vote for Mr. Guie; sec
onded also by Jodgo McDonald, of tho
opposition. It was ordered, nnd Repre
sentative Bellows, of Claik; Ponder-
gast, of Douglas, and Mount, of Spo
kane, wore appointod by the chair to
escort the new speaker to the chair.
Mr. Cline referred to tho newly eloctod
speakor as one of the ablest and best
members of tho last legislature.
Speaker Guie, in assuming the chair,
spoke briefly but pointedly upon the
events of the past two years, declarod
it the duty of the legislature to dispose
piomi tly of tho senatorial election,
promised fairness and impartiality,
then proclaimed his readi ness to take
the oath, which was administered by
Chief Justice J. Gordon. .
W. F. Dillon, of Cowlitz, was unani
mously elected chief clerk.
The rules of the house of 1807 were
adopted, uutil the commit tee on rules
can report.
Oilier officers elected were: Post
master, A. B. Feasloy, of Okanogan;
assistant, E. E. Hall, of Stevens;
pages, Fred Mitzner, Estorly Rinehart,
Alorris Tweed, of Thurston, nnd Ray
Davidson, speakei's page, of Seattle.
A lesolntion commending President
McKinlev's war policy, as well as his
peace policy, by Judge Calvert, of
Whatcom, was unanimously adopted.
Messrs. Wickeisham, McDonald and
Falknor were appointed a committee to
notify the governor of the organization
of the house and its readiness to receive
any communication he may have to
impart.
Death of a Fmuuiu ltellrliifrer.
Netw Yoik, Jan. 11. The death is
announced in Brooklyn of William
Peake, the famous belli inger, aged 04
years.
Itolil llHiik Robbery.
Ashbiiriiham, Mass., Jan. 11. Dur
ing the night robbers blew open the
safe of the First National bank, seem
ing between 11,500 and tJ.000, and es
caping. The building was damaged
to the extent of 3,000 by a heavy
charge ot dynamite.
Constitutional Right Expansion Policy.
Washington, Jan. 11. -This proved
to be an interesting day in the senate,
the principal subject nndoi discussion
being the constitutional right of the
United States to carry into effect the
policy of expansion. The leading
speaker was Hoar, Republican, of Mas
sachusetts, who delivered a speech in
suppoit of tho resolution introduced by
Vest, Democrat, of Missouri, declaiing
1, t., I .it in niimuiili.in , i ,l.n iln.
.... .1 . : . .
luui ur una wiiiurjr iu nuiuire lurrigu
teintory to be goverened permanently
a colonies. I
HONOR3 TO A DEAD SOLDIER.
Service Over the Remains of Colonel
Msjbry.
New York, Jan. 10. A ITerald dis
patch from Havana says: The body of
Colonel Maybry, of the First Texas,
rested in state in a tent near Lee's
headquarters at Buona Vista on Thurs
day. Short services were held at 5
o'clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals
Lee, Keifer and Hasbronck being pres
ent. The body was brought to Havana,
being escorted to the Almandares river
by his entire regiment. It will go to
Miami on Friday to be forwarded to
Texas.
Adjutant-Gonoral Dorst. of the Fifth
cavalry, is critically ill with malarial
fever.
Lee's former forces aro being lossened
day by day. Four companies now
doing provost dnty in the suburbs have
been detached from his command and
ordered to report to General Ludlow.
When the American occupation took
place tho membersof a lottery company
that was famous a fow years ago in a
Sonthen city made an attempt to tocura
a concession hero. Local papers have
apparently been subsidized, but Gen
eral Brooke declares that so long as tho
American occupatiou lasts lotteries will
bo barred.
Smallpox lias becomo 'epidemic at
Mariana, ami General Leo has ordered
a number of infected houso3 burned.
Franklin Scott, a privato of the One
Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has
tho smallpox. Two hundred and fifty
nanigoes arrived on Thursday on tho
transport Covcdonga, and weie turned
looso in a bod v.
SANTIAGO'S TRADE;.
General Wood's Report Shows It Is on
tho Increase.
Washington, Jan. 10. Tho trado of
Santiago is already showing a surprise
ing growth under American adminis
tration. General Wood has submitted
a report to tho war department, in
which ho states that the policy of non
discriminative intercourse extended to
tho vessels of all nations in Santiago
province has greatly facilitated the re
establishment of commercial relations
and has been one of the chief features
in the restoration of comparative pros
perity in commerce, industry and agri
culture. Outward cargoes of sugar and other
products are being graudally found for
shipping, but exportations from the
mines of the province have contributed
the bulk of the exports.
"The fact," says General Wood,
"that the mines were put into opera
tion at an early date' after tho capitula
tion of Santiago was important in
that the employment of largo numbers
of natives during a critical period was
stimulated by the facilities for ship
ping ores."
The division of customs and insular
affairs of the war department has re
ceived from the colleotor of customs at
Havana, Colonel Lasker II. Bliss, un
der date of Decembor 29, 1898, his re
port. Colonel Bliss says that the first seri
ous embarrassment he met with on tak
ing charge of the custom-house at Ha
vana was caused by tho fact that the
Spaniards had removed nearly every
thing except the bare walls and floors,
is first official step was to obtain a full
list of employes in the custom-house,
their salaries and nationality, and next
information as to thoir general charac
ter and reputation for integrity.
Colonel Bliss says that, as was to be
cxpoctod, the soveral places in the cus
tom house when he assumed charge
were chiefly held by Spaniards, the to
tal number emplojod being 239. The
problem that confronts him, ho says,
is how to repair a house from founda
tion to roof without a material disturb
ance of it occupants and without in
terfering with thoir daily business.
Under this oondition, he remarks, he
cannot of course begin by tearing the
houso down.
I'ilgrintHge Ended In Riot.
Paris, Jan. 10. Tho socialist annual
pilgrimago today to the tomb of Blan-
qui, in the cemetory of Pere la Chaise,
led to riots botweou rival partisans of
Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intrans
igoant, and M. Juares, editor of the
Socialist Petite Republique. Many
wero injured, and the police made a
number of arrests. The wroath intend'
ed for tho tomb was trampled upon.
Insurgents Respect Europeans.
Madrid, Jan. 10. Advioes were re
coived here today from a leading mor
chant at Ilo Ilo, to tho effect that agri
cultural operations in the vicinity of
Ilo Ilo have not been interrupted, and
that all the insurgents respect the Eu
loneans, both nt Ilo Ilo and on the
island of Xegros.
Present Keleaite of Prisoner.
Madrid, Jan. 10. Rios, the Spanish
commander, telegraphs from Manila
that strained relations between the
Americans and insurgents prevent steps
being taken in favor of the release of
the Spanish prisoners in the Philippine
islands.. He adds that be will act in
that direction as soon as it is possible.
Immigration at Sau Francisco.
San Jbrancisco, Jan. 10. The report
of the immigration commission for
December shows that the total immi
gration into the port of San Francisco
was 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe
males. There were 149 Japanese.
Twelve assisted Japanese were deport
ed, and 27 others were not admitted
who could neither read noi write.
Record Ca.rli of Halibut.
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 9. With her
rigging and decks covered with ice, the
steamer New England arrived in port
early this morning with a record catch
at the halibut banks off Queen Char
lotte islands. The steamer hs.d 180,
000 pounds of fish. During the three
months the New England has been en
gaged this season she has brought to
port 600,000 pounds of halibut.
Medicine was the first profession to
which women were admitted in Russia.
Inviting DUarniHinrnt.
Havana, Jan. 10. Major-General
Ludlow, governor of the department of
Havana, has decided to issue a procla
mation inviting the surrender of arms
at the arsenal. Receipts will be gi"en
for the arms, which will be probably
returned later. There are supposed to
be as many as 40,000 rifles in private
possess ion, held chieflyby former Span
ish volunteers.
A medical authority in Berlin, Get-
! many, declares
that not one ot Ger
,
many pmiebsional bicyclist has r
sound W't
CLOUDS OVER AFRICA I
Tension Eetween England
and France Increased.
THUNDERER'S FIERY LANGUAGE
Cromer's Tlaln "Word -at Khartoum
Rhodes I'lans a Cape Town
Cairo Railroad.
London, Jan. 10. All events seem
(o work togethor in European politics
lo increase tho tension between Great
Britain and France. Tho past week
baa brought Madagascar and Egypt for
ward as irritants just when the mutual
irritability was subsiding. Even tho
most conservativo observers begin to
tako a pessimistic view of the relations
between tho two powers. This in
cludes those who up to tho present bave
considered tho belligerency to be duo to
supersensitiveuess upon tho part of
Franco and to tho unnecessary gruff
ness upon tho part of Great Britain in
insisting on what aha considers to bo
her rights.
Tho past 21 hours brought tho pub
lication of Madagascar bluo book, which
was followed by a leading editorial ia
tho Times denouncing Franco in Ian
gnago so fiery for that conservativo
newspaper that Frenchmen aro reading
the two together and aro construing
them as parts of a deliberate policy in
spired by ore mind. That mind, in
the theory of -tho man in tho streets,
is Joseph Chamberlain, tlio secretary
of state for colonies. Other papers
may storm and scold and not bo no
ticed, but when the Times becomes
abusive, foreigners interpret it as boing
the voice of tho government. In the
present instance, somo Englishmen
will Haco tho same construction upon
its utterances, recalling how tho Times
led tho "no suriender" cry over the
Fashoda incident, under evident in
spiration. Ono fact is certain', public opinion
in Great Britain will not sanction tha
government to swerve an inch to avoid
war with Franoe, thinking that if it
must coiuo this is tho best time to havo
it out.
Many people give importance to tho
issuing ot tlio Madagascar blue booic
almost simultaneously witli tho quiet
but unmistakable announcement at
Khartoum by tho British agent thore,
Viscount Cromer, in his lemarks to the
shiekhs, that Great Britain lias set her
seal upon Egypt. If there was a doubt
in the minds of her European rivals
that Great Britain intended to fore-
3lose the mortgage upon which she has
expended so much labor and blood to
secure, it must have been set at rest by
tho utterances of Lord Cromer, in
which the word "protectorate" was
written in largo letters, though tho
jovernrnent's mouthpiece c.irefully ab
itained from using that incendiary
word. A more definite notice that
Breat Britain's tenure of Egypt is per
manent could not be aBked.
In the meantime an enterprise of the
utmost moment in the furtherance of
Great Britain's domination in Africa is
about to be consummated. Cecil
Rhodes, the ex-premier and alleged in
stigator of the Jameson laid, and the
io-callad "Napoleon of South Africa,"
is going to England to arrange for
pushing forward the Capo Town-Cairo
railroad, so long the dearest dream of
imperialists. A definite proposition
will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to
London capitalists for an extension of
the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake
Tanganika. Ho does not pretend it
will be a paying investment from the
start. Its importance fo." some years
will be political instead ot commercial,
and he hopes to persuade tho British
government to smooth the way bv
guaranteeing 8Jj per cent interest on
the bonds to cover the cost of construc
tion. But ono barrior stands in the
way, in tho form of the Congo conven
tion,' guaranteeing neutrality .of tho
part of the continent about Lake Tang
anyika, which even the autocrat of
Rhodosia will find hard to force. Here
Germany has the veto on Great Brit
ain's advance, which she cannot be
expeotod to waive without an indem
nity. PASSED THE SENATE.
No Debate on District of Columbia Bill
First Appropriation Measure.
Washington, Jan. 10. At a brief
session of the senato today, tho first of
tho regular appropriation bills to be
reported to the body, the District of
Columbia bill, was passed. It carried
a trifle over 17,000,000, and was passed
practically without debate. The pres
entation of a memorial fiom a camp of
Confederate veterans in opposition to
the proposition of Butler of North Car
olina to pension ex-Confederate soldiers
was made the text by Allen of Nebras
ka for somo remarks, during the course
of which he said that Butler, in making
his proposition, and the president, in
suggesting that the nation care for the
graves of the Confederate dead, had
been cairied away by their enthusiasm.
The house was engaged all day on
the legislative, executive and judiciacl
bill and completed it substantially as
reported, except the items for the civil
service commisbion, which went over.
Given Vp for I.ont.
Boston, Jan. 10. The owners of the
Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Captain Hor
ace Coombs, now 120 days out on a
voyage lrom x.owport ews to Para,
Brazil, have abandoned all hope of the
vessel, although they still believe
there is a chance that the crew may
have been rescued by some Bhip bound
either to the Pacific Of to some remote
quarter of the globe. The Mary Gibbs
carried eight men and a cargo of C00
tons of coal.
Murdered and Robbed.
Butte, Mont., Jan. 10. George Pe
terson, who came hero recently from
Nevada, was found dead in a gully just
southwest of town today. His head
had been mashed or cut to pieces with
an axe, and less than f 1 in change was
found on his person. He had boen
killed and robbed, and the body diag
ged into the gulch.
It is said that every thread of a
spider's web is ruado up of about 5,000
separate fibers. If a pound of this
thread were required it would oocupy
38,000 spiders a full year to furnish it.
NO APPROPRIATION.
Anti-Civil Service Reformers Victorious
in the House.
Washington, Jan. 9. The anti-civil
service reformers scored a victory in
the house today. The executive legis
lative and judicial appropriation bill
was taken up for consideration, and
then, when the appropriation for the
civil service commission was reached,
Evans made a motion to strike it out.
This motion has been made annually
for a dozen years or more, but invari
ably failed. But today the opponents
of the law laid great stress on the fact
that they could not get a decisive vote
upon the proposition, and were there
fore compelled to seek its nullification
in this manner. Even these appeals
failed to bring out the full strength of
the opposition, though the motion to
strike out carried by a narrow margin,
f7tnfil. This was in committee of
the whole, where no record was made
of the vote. Moody gave notice that
he would demand a record vote in the
house, where the friends of the civil
service law expect to reverse the deci
sion.
When the senate -convened today tho
resolution offered yesterday by Hoar,
calling on the president for information
as to the instructions to tho commis
sionets who negotiated the treaty of
Paris, together with all correspondence
and reports relating to their work, was
laid before the senate. Chairman
Davis, ono of the commissioners, asked
that it bo referred to the foreign rela
tions .committee, but Hoar insisted
that the senate had as much right to
such information as the members of
the foreign relations committee, and
that the president should determine
whother the senate should have it.
The resolution was adopted in secret
session. In support of the resolution
offered some time ago by Vest, in oppo
sition to expansion, Caffery delivered
an extended speech.
At the conclusion of Caffery's argu
ment, Morgan announced, on. behalf
of tho Nicaragua canal committee, the
acceptance in modified form of the
amendments offered by Berry before
the holid'.ys to the pending oanal bill.
The amendments were not passed upon
by the senate.
MISSIONARY OUTRAGE.
Catholic Priest Rrutallv Treated In a
Chinese Tillage.
Berlin, Jan. 9. Letters received here
from Kiao Chou, the German fortified
sjtlement in the province of Shang
Tung, China, give details of an outrage
upon Father Stenz, the German Cath
olic missionary, November 9 last. The
missionary was about to leave Tie-Tau,
province of Shang Tung, owing to the
anti-Christian feeling. Finding him
self confronted by crowds of Chinese
who were clamoring for the destruction
of the Christians, he took refuge in a
hut, but he was dragged out, his cloth
ing torn from his back, and he was
struck with sticks and pricked with
knives and lances and his beard torn
out. The Chinese threatened to flay
him alive. The following day, his
persecutors prepared to hang him by
tho wrists. Finally, a mandarin in
terfered in his behalf, but compelled
him to leave the distriot with a prom
ise never to return.
Davis in San Francliico.
San Francisco, Jan. 9. The United
Stales torpedo-boat Davis arrived today
from Astoria, via Tillamook, and after
taking on coal pioceedcd to Mare isl
and. She proved to be a good sea boat,
but owing to the heavy weather along
the coast sho did not attempt a greater
speed than six or eight knots.
The Davis crossed out of the Colum
bia about two weeks ago, but put into
Tillamook to "scape a storm, remaining
there until Wednesday morning, when
she again headed south. She was in
command of Captain Thomas F. Neill,
and Arthur Zwicker and J. E. Wolff,
of the firm which built the vessel, were
in charge of the engine and boiler
rooms.
Ambassador to Russia.
New York, Jan. 9. A dispatch tc
the Herald, from Washington, says:
The president has practically seleoted
William Potter, of Philadelphia, for
ambassador to Russia. Mr. Potter was
formerly minister to Italy, having been
stationed at Rome during tlio Harrison
administration. His record during
that period has been carefully exam
ined by the president and Secretary
Hay, and both feel confident that he
will satisfactorily fill the St. Peters
burg po6t.
Explosion in Shipyard.
London, Jan. 9. A big boiler being
tested in Hewitt's shipbuilding-yauls
at Barking burst today, and the super
intendent, enginoer and eight other
men were killed. About 40 persons
were injured, some fatally. The whole
ship-building works were wrecked. A
woman was found dead 800 yards from
the scene of the disaster. A number
of men and boys are missing. Windows
half a mile away were shattered.
Life Imprisonment.
Madrid, Jan. 9. Colonel Julison
San Martin, who was in command of
the Spanish garrison at Ponce when the
United States troops under General
Miles landed on the island, and who
abandoned the place without resistance,
has been, sentenced to imprisonment
for life. He will be incarcerated at
Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony in
Morocco, opposite Gibraltar.
Morrill's Successor.
Montpelier. Vt., Jan. 9. Governor
Smith has tendered the place in the
United States senate, left vacant by the
death of senator Morrill, to B.
F.
Fifield, of this city. Mr. Fifield
has
not vet accepted.
Washington, Jan. 9. The housa
committee on Indian affairs today or
dered a favorable report on the bill
granting tv the Kettle River Valley
road a righ.of way through the Col
ville Indian leeervation, Washington.
Tnlstni Maj lie llanlshert.
London, Jan. 9 The Berlin corre
spondent of the Daily News mentions
a rumor from St. Pe'erslmrg that
Count Leo Tolstoi will be banished
for championing the causo of the dis
senters who are being persecuted into
wholesale immigiDtion from the Cau
casian districts, mostly for Canada,
whither one of Tolstoi's sons is going
to inspect land that has been acquired
for the immigrants.
Fowls are plucked alive in Malta in
the public markets, and in some parti
ol England.