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CURRENT EVENTS I OF THE WEEK MEXICAN REBELS GAINING. Many FIRST COMPLETE SET OF PHOTOGRAPHS OT MEXICO'S NEW CABINET MINISTERS. Towns Captured —Americans Flee Across Border. Nogales, Ariz., May 3. Almost »11 of Western Mexico is in th«- hands of the rebels. They have captured one town after another, and now besiege Mazatlan. the principal Pacific sea port. and Culiacan. Governor Rodog. of Sinaloa. has so Sonerai Resume of Important Event small a force that he can do no more Big Iron Ora Shippers Involved Jog than hold these two towns, and doubt gling of Dock Chargos Used Presented in Condensed Form to Covar Illegal Acts. is expressed whether he can hold them for Our Busy Reader*. long. Fighting is almost continuous in Sinaloa and Sonora. Not only is the political welfare of (T«v«land,'O., April 27. Thirteen The Astoria postal savings bank opened May 1, with a good patronage. the Western Mexican states affected. indictment* on 110 count» charging I but American interests are involved four iron «ire carrying railroads enter Krupp, the German gunmaker, has and in danger. Even the lives of patent««! an aerial terpedo for use by Americans, hitherto heki sacred by ing Cleveland with rebating and alleg- airships against each other. i Federáis and rebels, are no longer re ing that two were guilty of conspiracy The accused Los Angeles dynamiters garded as safe in the interior of Mex to violate the Elkin* law were return- will seek no delay in trail anil prob ico. mi by the Fiil.-ral grand jury here to Prominent railroad officials who ably will not even ask a change of day. Indictment» of indivnlual* also reached Nogales from Mexico today venue. were returned. ' brought with them the warning from Madame Gadski, the world-renowned the rebels to remove their families as The railroad* *r<- th«- Pennsylvania, singer, is helpless with sciatica and quickly as possible into the Unite«! the Lak«- Shore A- Michigan Southern, has been taken to Europe for treat States and to advise ail of their Amer- ment. the Iles-eun r «1 Lake Erie and the i iean frierais to do likewise. Coupled New York, Chicago & St. Paul (Nick Chris Evans, noted outlaw, has been with these warnings, was the threat paroled from Folsom penitentiary and of the insurrectos that they intended, el Plate). will return to Oregon to live quietly before the end of the week, to launch Th«- indictment* were a* follows; and try to regain his health. attacks against all the Mexican border Dan It. Hanna, president, and R. L. towns. Many American families are Mexican rebels have captured Top- Ireland, »«-eorul vice president of the coming across the border. olobampo. an important port on the Won! came from Magdalena district, M. A. Hanna company, Cleveland, an«! Five Excursion Cars Demolished— western coast. This gives them a southeast of Nogales, of the complete D. T. McCabe, of Pittsburg, fourth seaport for the importation of arms. Wreck Takes Fire and Wound I wiping out of a body of 30 Federal» 1 vice president of the Pennsylvania ed Die in Flames. More than 25,000 skilled workm«ffi under Luis Estrella by a band of railrouil. They are eharg«sl w ith con struck in Chicago May 1. including rebels in the vicinity of Octates. elevated railway employes, brick spiring to violate the Elkin* law. Reports of heavy fighting near I.a layers, marble workers, builders, etc. Colorado, southeast of Hermosillo, Easton, Pa., May 1.— Three person* District Attorney W. L. Day an- Fredrick Warde spoke at length to were brought across the border today. lost their lives, eight are missing anil ( nounccd. after the filing of the report, the prisoners in the Oregon state pen The rebels claim to have recaptured are believed to be dead, and half a that “larg<- anti imp-riant suits" itentiary. He says a convict in Con La Colorado, which has been the scene hundred others were injured this af- j would begin immediately. necticut is the best known authority of bitter fighting during the present ternoon at Martin’s Creek, N. J., in Th«- ca»« s are Inter rate Commerce rebellion. the wreck of an excursion train carry-1 on Shakespeare. commission action*, brought to insure ing 170 school teachers ami friends San Francisco department stores that published ore »hipping rates are WOMAN GRATEFUL TO EVANS from Utica and Syracuse, N. Y., and put their women employes on a strict effective. Th«- government will seek vicinity to Washington for a week ’ s eight-hour day May 1, although the to show th«- indicted railma«!» owned new eight-hour law does not take Life Saved By Outlaw at Cost of outing. docking facilities in Ashtabula. <>., The train was one furnish«-«! by the Capture. effect until May 22. and Conneaut, <*., hartxirs; that the»«« .. . — L. ' Delaware, Lackawanna «i Western w«-rc iq«-ratml by c<>m|«ani<-». in effect Sacramento, Cal. — When Chris Ev- District Attorney J. D. Fredricks, railroad and the accident occurred "hireil" by the railroads; that the of Los Angeles, who is conducting the ans. train robber, stepped out of the i while it was traveling at high speed | n«ads paid excessive rates to the dock prosecution of the alleged dynamiters, Folsom prison a free man. Warden over tracks controleil by the Pennsyl-1 ing companies, ¡«uni over a portion of Retlley handed him a package contain- ; keeps a heavy revolver on his desk vania railroad. The locomotive jump-1 th«- money received to the *hippera while he works, owing to the many ing an old fashioned gold signet ring. ed the track, the cars toppled over and ; and that the who!* constitut«-» a con Accompanying it was a note written threatening letters he has received. spiracy in violation of th«- Elkin» law. in a feminine hand wishing him God- were set on fire by exploding oil, the : wrecked coaches having struck an oil The Supreme court of the United speed into his new life. Th«- ¡«enalty for rebating la a fine of States has upheld the constitutionality This was the sequel to an incident tank along the track when they left n«>t less than $1.000 nor more than the rails. of the New York statute forbidding that occurred in Evans’ life when he $2o,ooo, with imprisonment not to ex the use of a photograph or name of was a fugitive from justice, being I The entire train was quickly envel ceed two year». The p>-nalty tor e«»n- another for trade or advertising pur tracked by men and bloodhounds, It ' oped in flames and completely con ground, and the best information they ' public building-« with the exception of ■piracy is not to exceed a tine of $10,- had today was that the Chicago attor i the city hall a max* of smoking ash« ». 000 and imprisonment not to exceed poses without the permission of the was the reward of a woman whose life sumed by the fire. The eight missing persona, seven of ney, instead of coming ¡«ersonally to I For many hours the firemen, assisted two year*. subject Evans had saved. j by men »nd apparatus from «ither In a«i<lition. under th«- Elkin* l«w, Following Evans’ escape from the whom were women anil lived in Utica. I Los Angeles, has sent a confidential I Maine citie*, battled against the blaz«- are believed to have been burned to PORTLAND MARKETS. Visalia jail, he stayed one night at a death in the wreckage. th«- government ha» th«- right to bring The finding representative to look over the Bitua- before they conquered it. Dynamite civil »uit for three times th«- amount Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, tent in the backwoods occupied by a | i proved of little avail. Building* were of charred bodies led the railroad tion before he would agree to acc«-pt money rebated. It would be possi 90091c; club. 850.86c; red Russian, wood cutter and his wife, the wife wrecking crews to the conclusion that of c^jcf counsel in such a blown up, but it was not until Un of ble. in case of conviction, for th«- gov 84««/. 85c ¿"valley. 85c; 40-fold, 85f«/86c. lying sick on the bed. The rude shel-1 they are dead. wind. which ha«l been blowing almost l momentous struggle. ■ ter leaked snow and rain, while a few ernment to collect many million* of Barley—Choice feed, $28 per ton. a gale during the night. *hift«-«i and a The most seriously injured were re-, Millstuffs—Bran. $23.50f</24 tor.;, 1 rods away stood a comfortable moun- ! moved to the Easton hospital, where I In cons«?quence the arraignment, light rain fell, that there was any in dollars. The investigation leading up to to middings. $31; shorts, $25.50; rolled tain cabin boarded up for the winter, three of them. Mis* Eleanor E. Ruth-« which was schedule«! to take place not dication that the firemen would win. later than next Wednesday, may la- The owner of the cabin had asked | day's action began several month* barley, $290 30. erford, a Utica teacher; Charles M. deferred. and the district attorney ia Cheered by th«- help from this unex- ago, and i* the first government in Corn—Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per the husband to take care of it but had Pearson, of St*>udsburg, Pa., a Penn-' expect«-d to consent to the delay, as it pected quarter, the fire-lighting force* quiry into or«- trans|s>rtation methods commanded him not to enter the place. I ton. sylvania railroad conductor, and were concentrated tu-ar th«- corner of is understood that he is not averse to Evans commanded the husband at the in the lower lake region. Oats—No. 1 white $29029.50 ton. liam Vannoy, Trenton, N. J., having further time to adjust various Hammond and Central streets, nearly Hay — Timothy, Eastern Oregon, muzzle of a rifle to break open the gineer, died tonight. two miles from th«- place where th«- technical points in the state’s side of HIT KITES ON THE FLY. No. 1, $21.500,22.50; light mixed. cabin and make his wife comfortable The physicians at the hospital said the case. blaz«- started, and there th«- spread of Evans and his companion $19020; heavy mixed, $17.500 18.50; ! there. late tonight that most of those in the These points are said to concern the flames was checked at mi«li4*;ht. afalfa, $14015; clover, $12.500 spent the night in the tent. hospital will get well. But while the rain anil the shifting Experiment* Show Aeroplane* Can indictments against the accused men 13.50; grain hay, $13.500 14.50 ton. : That act saved the woman’s life and Bn Destroyed By Marksmen. The cause of the wreck has not been ' of the wind to th«1 east sav«-«! the r«-*t Apples—Fancy, $202.50; choice, made Chris Evans’ capture easy for determin««!. The place where the acci- , which were drawn hastily after Burns of the city, it only added to the dis Washington, D. C. Re|x>rt* ro had taken James McNamara and Me- i the pursuing posse. The bitter cold $101.50; common, 75c0$l per box. dent occurred had been undergoing re comforts of thousands who hn<! seen c«-iv««l at the Navy department und Vegetables — Asparagus, $101.75 I of the night spent in the tent so weak pairs and unfinished work may have! Manigal into custody at Detroit. It was a.so reported in official quar- their homes go up in flatn«-*, and who just made public show it was conclu per crate; hothouse lettuce, $1.5002; ened Evans that he was an easy prey been responsible for the train leaving that the arraignment might await w«-ro huddled together in th«- street*. sively proved at th«- target practice of the next day. per box; lettuce, 50c per dozen; rad »L. • track. — ~ „1. the I the arrival of attorneys repro-enting The burning of churches and public the Atlantic fleet als>ut ten «lay* ago ishes, 15c; rhubarb, 3c per pound; There was a terrific explosion at the the National Erectors’ association. buildings left many of the unfortu that the American battleship ran hold CHINESE REVOLT SPREADS. sprouts, 9c; carrots. $1.250 1.50 per scene of the wreck tonight. There is who, it is said, will join District Al nate* without shelter. Three live* its own against an attacking fleet of sack; pamsips, $1.2501.50; turnips, no communication with th« wrecking tomey Fredericks and his as itants, are known to have b«-«-n lost, although aeroplane*. $1.250 1.50; beets. $1.50. Canton Streets Strewn With Headless party but local railroad men say cither W. J. Ford, in the prosecution of the th«- names of the «lead have not been During the target practice April 7, Potatoes — Oregon, jobbing price, Bodies After Fight. the boiler of the wrecked loc«jmotive McNamaras. Sine«- his alleged con learned. th«- battleship Mississippi conducted $2.50 per hundred; new potatoes, 70 Hongkong. May 3.—The anti-Man- or a gas tank exploded. the ex[H-riment with kit«-s as u substi- fession to the prosecutor throe days 8c per pound. chu army, headed by Wu Sum, is now tute for aeroplanes and «lemonstrated ago «nd his sub: « quent refusal to see Onions — Jobbing prices: Oregon, extending its conquests to the north DYNAMITE C SE DELAYED. that an enemy approaching through attorneys for th«- defense. McManigal $3.50 per 100; Australian, $3.50 per and east from the West River. Though th«- air would h«- shot full of holes be is no longer considered by the defense. 100; Texas. $2.25 per crate. the government seems to control Can Attorney Darrow Hesitates to Take fore it could get n«-ar enough to inflict Poultry—Hens. 17018c; broilers, ton, the rebels have raided Sam Shui. damage. Charge of Defense. 30c; turkeys, 20c; ducks, 200 22c; FIRE LOSS $6.000,000. Wenchow. Woochow, Chungtok, Shui- geese, 12c; dressed turkeys, choice, Los Angeles. May 2. Clarence Dar hung and Fatshan. Publisher» in Sesiion. 25c. The movement has spread from the row has not promised definitely that One-Third of Bangor, Maine, Lies in Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 200 New Y-urk The member» «if the Blackened Ruin. West River, at the west of Canton, to he will undertake the defense of John 21c; case count, 19c. Am«-rican New*pa|H-r Publisher» * mo - the north and east, through Kangtung an«l James McNamara, and lacking Bangor, Me., May 2. One-third of Butter—City creamery, extra, 1 and ciation m«-t her«- in executive session. province and to Amoy, in the south Bangor is in ruins, thousands of per Among th«- subjects discussed were ad 2-pound prints, in boxes. 24c per such assurances, those interested in eastern portion of Fukien province. sons ar«.- homeless and a property loss pound; less than box lots, cartons and vertising, circulation, labor, new* the case of the accus««d dynamite con estimat«-«i at $6,000,000 has been sus According to the best information delivery extra. print piqier and w«ssl pulp, ways and obtainable, the foreign missionaries spirators said today they were “up in tained, as the result of a conflagration Pork—Fancy, lO01Ojc per pound. means for extending th«- capacity of have not been molested by the rebels. the air” regarding the arraignment which rag«-d for hours tonight. Veal—Fancy. 85 to 125 pounds, 10 plants, new inventions and th«- free . .......................... Refugees from Canton are flocking th«' I Starting in i a hay shed on Broad 0 lOJc per pound. of the prisoners. publicity evil. The association will to Hongkong. • street, the fire swept along Broad an<l Spring lambs—Pelted, 120 13c per also listen to leaders of th«- various Labor leaders who r — -------- : — are arra... .,g Exchang«- street* through the heart of pound. unions whom« members are t-mployed the preliminaries do not want th«; the city, leaving residences, churches, Mrs. Shonts Gives Sum. Five Legislator* Trapped. Hops—1910 crop, 19c02Oc; 1909 by newspapers, and new officer* will men arraigned until Darrow is on the Lexington, Ky.—Children of Breath sch«x/ls, business blocks and all th«- Columbus, (>. Ailmission* w«-re be el»-«'t«-<l. crop. 130 14c; 1911 contracts, 17c; It ia understood that itt and surrounding counties in the made her« by three men Hrr«-st«-d Mon President Herman Ridder will retire. fuggle contracts, 19c. Mazatlan Standing Siege. Crisis Come* at Ottawa. day night as alleged lobbyists in th«- Wool—Eastern Oregon, nominal. mountains of Kentucky, who have Nogales, Mexico What is believed Winnipeg, Can. Th«- critical situa general assembly that they ha«l suc- 120 14c per pound; according to lived in an atmosphere of feud since Missionary I* Robbed. shrinkage; valley, 120.15c; mohair, birth, are to be educated at the ex to be an authentic report has reached tion at Ottawa has resulted in the sud cessully manipulate«! a trap for the Victoria Mail advice* from Shang pense of Mrs. Theodore P. Shonts, this city from Mazatlan, the big port den recall of Earl Grey to the capital legislators suspected of bribery. Five hai rejxirt that Rev John Murray, a choice, 36J0 38c. Cattle—Prime grain fed steers. wife of the New York traction mag- | on the western coast of the stat«.- of from Winnipeg. The governor gen legislators were narne«l, including one Presbyterian missionary of Chianfu, $6 .750 7; choice, $6.250 6.50; good to nate, who is on her way to Kentucky j Sinaloa, saying it t is completey sur eral has cancelled all his engagements representative an«l four senators. It was attacked by rioters an<l sustained choice, $5.750 6; fair to good, $5.50 and will meet Colonel Jack Chinn at rounded by rebel*. The Mexican gun for next week an«i will have tonight is admitted by Prosecutor Turner that many wounds while he was traveling The determination of a device to record conversations wan at a ¡mint 45 miles from Chianfu. Th«« 0 5.75; common, $4.750/ $4.750 5; prime Paris, Ky., for the purpose of going boat began shelling the rebel position for Ottawa. cows, $5.500 6; good to choice cows, over the plans. Mrs. Shonts has sig from the harbor, but yielded to the the opposition to fight reciprocity placed under a couch in th«- hotel assault arose from th«- dissemination $50,5.25; fair to good, $4.7505; nified her intention of giving $500,000 united protests of foreign consuls and with the United States all summer, if rooms occupied by the detectives and • if th«- rumor that foreigners killed a poor, $40 4.50; choice heifers, $5.50 toward the building of a school for ceased firing, and later put to sea. necessary, as outlin«sl by Mr. Borden, that incriminating evidence is in pro Chinese peon. Perpetrators of th«1 Trains are not running to Mazatlan the conservative leader, thus prevent cess of presentation to the grand jury. attack have been arrested. The Chi poor children of the mountains. 05.75; choice bulls, $4.7505; from the north, the rebels having ing Sir Wilfrid Laurier from attend to choice, $4.500 4.75; choice light nes«1 authorities treated the mission Competition With Standard Oil. burned a bridge 18 miles out. Trains ing the imperial conference and coro Motorcycle Hit* Train. calves, $8.500 8.75; good to choice, ary with th«> utmost care. south to Culiacan are also stopped. nation, has caused a crisis in politics. $808.25; fair to medium, $7.5008; 7^an Franci*co—With wells in every Tacoma. Wash. Lewis Priest, of choice heavy calves, $5.5006; fair to known oil bearing section of the world Seattle, after racing across the coun 7,000 Jap* Face Death. Big Families to Parade. Turin Exposition Open. medium, $4.750 5; choice stags. $5.25 and with a capitalization of $500,000,- try for several miles on a motorcycle Victoria, B. C. A raver* famine Paris—Contrary to general belief Turin- The International Exhibi of which he hail lost completo control, prevails in Ibaraki province in South 05.50; good to choice, $4.500,5; fair 000, the Koya) Petroleum company, a to medium, $40 4.50. Dutch corporation, is about to enter there are some large families in this tion of Industries and Labor, the big crashed into a fast interurbnn train Japan, is the report received by the Hogs — Choice. $70 7.25; good to the local field in competition with country, and they are being asked to gest affair of its kind ever attempted at Grilla, near Kent, Washington, Inabn Maru. The Hochi has a dis After successfully parade in force some Sunday in Paris. in Italy, opened here Saturday. The Sunday, and was almost instantly patch from Mito saying that 7,000 choice light, $6.7507; choice heavy, Standard Oil. $6.500,7; good to choice heavy, $60 fighting the Rockefeller interests in Fathers, mothers and progeny are to exhibition occupies 12,000,000 square killed. Both machine and train were people are starving. Tragic deaths 6.50; common, $50.6; stock hogs, Europe and India, the Dutch concern muster on the Place des Invalides. feet, extending on either side of the going at a terrific cate of speed. The through starvation, illness, exet'ssive proposes to carry the fight home, and They will then march with bands and River Po, the two parts being joined victim was riding his cycle from Ta- lalwir and other causes it is sai«i are $7.5007,75. Sheep-^-Grain fed wethers, heavy, for this purpose will open offices in banners to the chamber of deputies by four bridges, two built especially coma to Seattle, as he had been no- all traceable to the iudigence arising which they will not, however, invade for this occasion. The American dis- ticed during his ride by several people, from fl«x«ds. $4.500.5; choice young wethers, New York and San Francisco, with their children, pass by, tramp play comprises the largest exhibit grain fed, $505.25; old wethers $40 Look for Jeweli y Thieve*. Rebels Are Active in Sonora. ing on to the Place de la Concorde, ever made abroad by that government. 4.50; good to choice shorn wethers, Protest is Sent to London. New York - Customs oflitfeh«. pri where they will disperse. $4.250 4.50; choice ewes, grain fed, In all there ware 15,000 exhibitors. Douglas, Ariz. Despite peace ne Izindon The Mexican government $4.500.4.75; fair to medium ewes, vate detectives and police are search gotiations at El Paso, the rebel activ has communicated to the British for Famine Threatens Fez. American Gunboat to Reacue. $3.7504; choice wool Iambs, grain ing for a band of international crooks ity in the state of Sonora, across the eign office a formal protest against the Fez, Morocco The city is quiet, but fed, $5.500/5.75; good to choice wool who have stolen jewelry worth $500,- Washington, D. C.—The Unite<l border from here, continues unabated. action of Captain Vivian, of the Brit lambs, grain fed, $5.250 5.50; choice 000 from Americans in Europe. In the stock of provisions is low and States gunboat Wilmington has sailed A band of insurrectos numbering be ish sloop Shearwater, in landing msr- shorn lambs, grain fed, $5.250 5.40; formation from Scotland Yard says famine threatens the populace. There from Hongkong for Canton to render tween 500 and I," ““ are n-itnrt-iM--hres nt San Quentin, ,000 ~ la/wer Cali good shorn lambs, grain fed, $50 5.25; that the jewelry is being marketed in have been no further attacks by the any assistance necessary to American marching southward towar«! Moctezu fornia, which action is described as an fair to good lambs, grain fed, $4.750 the United States piecemeal. Some rebels among whom dissensions appear citizens on account of the disturbed ma from the country around Nacozari, interference in the internal affairs of of the gang are believed to be women. to be springing up. 5.25; culls, $2.50^3.50. I conditions at the latter place. i 75 miles southwest of Douglas. Mexico. Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Indictments Against Hoads to Great Lakes Issued. Three Dead; Eight Missing and Many Injured.