BOHEMIA NUGGET
Published Kreir Frldjr.
COTTAGE GROVE OREGON
THE NEWS OF IDE WEEK
Coinprehot'glvo llevlovr of tho Import
nut Happening of tlio l'nut Week
Oulloil Vroin tin- Telegraph Columni.
A national billiard association may
Boon bo in tho Held.
Washington ia said to bo tho most
productive of tho Fanning group of
islands.
It is rumored that A. D. Clarko, nn
Englishman, may try for tho cup to get
oven with Lord Dunravou.
Colonel Frost says tho stories of
American soldiers looting churches is
absoultely false. Ho praises Otis.
Tho univorsity of Oregon will play
football against the university of Cali
fornia at Berkeley campus November 18.
St. Louis' world's fair is to be a
great ono. Tho fund has already
reached $4,000,000. Tho total amount
aimed at is $5,000,000.
Tho Whito Star steamer Germanic
collided with a barge near Liverpool
and was seriously injured. She will
not sail for New York this trip.
Reverend McKinnon asserts that
General Luna, the robel chief killed by
Aguinaldo's orderly, had killed his
wife and mother-in-law in Paris and
fled.
A Paris dispatch says Russia has no
interest in Kruger's people or their lit
tle republic, and will not interfere.
Germany is said to be friendly to the
English.
A giant brass combine is being
formed which it is stated will comprise
all the plants in tho Kaugatuck valley,
Connecticut. Tho main office will be
in New York city.
At Paris, Mo., the grand jury re
turned an indictment for murder in the
first degree against Alexander Jester,
on the charge of murdering Gilbert
Gates, son of a Chicago millionairo, 28
years ago.
The 19 Russian men-of-war in tho
Pacific will shortly bo reinforced by
six ships, from the Eastern squadron.
The Berlin Tageblatt sees in this a con
nection with the rumors of the Chino
Japanese alliance.
Secretary Long will make a recom
mendation for but a limited increase of
the new navy in his forthcoming annual
report. He will dovoto most of his
energies to urging abolition of limit of
cost in the construction of battleships.
Herr Hopeff, ex-treasurer of the Al
bert Verein, a charitable organization
under the patronage of tho king and.
qneen of Saxony, was sentenced to im
prisonment for four years and nine
months for misappropriating 250,000
marks of the society's funds.
The Burghers are said to have secured
tho services of 13,000 natives.
Prolongation of war ' beyond British
expectations is now said to bo certain.
The navy department is to give Mar
coni's wireless telegraphy a practical
test.
England will expect the Boers to
4ay the cost of war when the end
comes.
The government of Venezuela has
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to bo very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent to South Africa to watch tho
progress of the war.
Fifteen sick men of the Iowa regi
ment are now in the general hospital
lit the Presidio, San Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that the
claim resulting from the seizure of
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
Ho Ho Is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Volleys aro be
ing fired at the Amorican outposts
nightly.
Colonel John B. Yates, one of Gen
eral Sherman's main supports in the
famous march to the sea, l& dead at
Amesburg, Ont.
Tho battleships Texas and Indiana
are to go out of commission, as tho
officers and men are needed in the
Philippines. Others may follow.
A Berlin dispatch says telegrams
from Brussels announce that in tho
Transvaal legation circles it is stated
that France and Russia will not per
mit the annexation of the Transvaal
and Orango Freo State to England.
At Atchison, Kan., two robbers shot
and killed ono mun and wounded an
other in a store, which they later rob
bed. They were pursued by a posse
and thoy shot and killed a policeman
and another man, both members of the
pursuers.
Canada has made a now proposition
for permanent settlement of tho Alaska
dispute. Sho again asks for arbitra
tion on terms similar to thoso imposed
by tho Unitod States and Groat Britain
over Venezuela. Fifty years of ooou
panoy is considered conclusive evi
dence of titlo. Sho is willing to give
up Skagway and Dyoa, but wants Pyra
mid Harbor.
FORCED TO SURRENDER.
An officlaljdlspatch received in Lon
don from Gonoral Whito, commanding
tho English forcos at Ladysmith, statos
that tho Dublin fusiliers, a mounted
battery and tho Gloucester regiment,
wero surrounded and forced to surren
der to tho Boers.
This loss to tho British deprives
them of 2,000 men and seven big guns.
Tho rtunperativo powors of tho Boers
aro regarded with wonder by the
British.
Tho South Amorican republics will
try to patch up their difficulties by ar
bitration. Tho Poruvian cocoa crop is a failure.
Tho plants wero damugod by insocta
and the prico lias alroady doubled.
A professional basoball loaguo for
1000, to includo Seattlo, Taconia, Port
land and Vaucouvor, B. C, is now on
tho tapis.
Admiral Schloy will go to South
Africa in command of tho South At
lantic squadron to protect Amorican
interests during tho progress of the war.
Interesting experiments of Marconi's
system on worships resultod in wire
less telegraph messages being success
fully transmitted over 29 miles ol
spaco.
Professor Arthur McGiffert, of Union
seminary. New York, refuses to quietly
resign from tho Prcsbytorian ministryi
and another heresy trial seems inevt
iable. Tho president, it is said, considore
that the Germans and British caused
the trouble at Samoa and that thoy
should pay the greater portion of the
damago.
At Kamloops, B. C, John Hayes is
to bo tried for murder. Ho is accused
by the confession of his sister of ha v.
ing killed her husband, sho acting at
accomplice.
Dwight L. Townsend, founder of the
Postal Telegraph Company, United
Linea Telegraph Company and tho fam
ous Havemeyer sugar factory, is dead
at New York.
In his message Presidont McKinley
will ask for an appropriation for a
commission to bo appointed to investi
gate tho commercial and industrial con
dition of the Chineso empire.
Bell had a hot brush with the insur
gents at West Guagua, killiug foni
rebel officers.and wounding 18 men.
One enlisted man was killed and a cap
tain and lieutenant wounded.
The Aberdeen Packing Company's
cannery at Fairhaven, Wash., was
burned. All machinery and stock, in
cluding 15,000 cases of canned salmon,
went up in smoke; loss, $150,000.
Captain Leary, the naval governor of
the island of Guam, in tho Ladrones,
was forced to adopt heroic measures to
enforce his administration. The friars
were hostilo to his orders so ho invited
them to leave.
Tho Boer loss at Eland's Laugto was
86 killed and 04 wounded.
John Barrett, ex-United States min
ister to Siam, is lecturing in tho South.
Eight men were buried alive by a
cave-in on the Isabella mine at Cripple
Creek, Colo.
President McKinley and Secretary
Long attended tho launching of the Shu
brick at Richmond, Va.
Colonel Ray thinks the Valdes trail,
an all-American route to the Alaskan
gold fields, suitable for a railroad.
Agents of the Transvaal government
are in Chicago seeking to enlist Amer
icans for service in tho ranks of tho
Boers.
With impressive military honors the
body of General Guy V. Henry was
buried at Arlington cemetery, Wash
ington. Tho move for tho increase of tho Ger
man navy was mado by Emperor Wil
liam in person, and as yet is wholly
unsupported.
Ino Fourth infantry, 1,200 officers
and men, has left Fort Riley, Kansas,
for San Francisco, en route to the
Philippines.
A circular issued by the Ohio repub
lican state executive committee, solic
iting contributions from federal em
ployes has been declare by tho civil
service board, contrary to law.
According to tho latest roports from
Capo Town .General Joubert has joined
hands with the Freo State forces, and
there has been somo outpost fighting.
President Kruger has arrived at Glen
coo. Michael Hatal was killod whilo per
forming a feat of inagio in catching
bullets in his teeth, at Now York.
Leaden bullets had boon substituted by
somo ono for the usual "dummy" arti
cle. General Fitzhugh Leo, whilo visiting
in Washington, said in an interview
that tho Cuban people aro steadily im
proving under the existing protectorate
of the United Statos, but are not yet
quite ready for puroly Cuban govern
ment. A dosporato streot fight between
members of a Tennessee colony recently
located at North Salom, Intl., and citi
zens of North Salom, resulted in tho
Instant death of one man and tho fatal
wounding of another, and minor injur
ies for many othors.
GEI. YOUNG IS Il
Experiencing Many Difficul
ties on the Maroh.
LAGUNA DE BAY RAN AQROUNl
Tho limit Vfa Fired l'l .V " Vntl'
of IiiMirRcntu nriivlnc ft White FliiR
Own. Hite Orderod Smith.
Manila, Oct. 81. Gonoral Young,
with tho infantry, is advancing upon
Cabanatuan under difficulties. Tho
country is furrowed with rivers and
deop ravines, tho briTlges ovor which
havo been destroyed; tho mud is deep,
rations aro short, and tho transporta
tion of supplies has been delayed by
low water, and tho poor condition of
tho roads. There aro sufficient stores,
howover, to keop tho brigade. Tho in
surgents for a long time havo lived off
tho country, impoverishing it. Tho
American horsos arc not yot accus
tomed to tho nativo grass and a long
bullock train loft San Fernando carry
ing hay for tho cavalry.
: Tho Spaniards report that thero aro
no insurgents at Cabanatuan. Tho
gunboat Laguua do Bay disposed a
forco of rebels who wero engaged in
constructing trenches boyond Santa
Rosa. Tho boat was fired upon by a
party of insurgents bearing a whito
llag. Sho is now aground.
Numbers of Chineso aro coming to
Angeles from Tarlao, paying tho insur
gents for tho privilege It is roportod
that Aguinaldo and tho Filipino con
gress aro still at Tarlao.
Thero aro about 8,000 insurgents be
fore Angeles. Thoy havo been quiot
for tho past weok.
Two thousand rebels aro at Bamban,
flvo miles to tho north.
General Bates has been recalled from
San Fernando, and ordered to sail for
tho southern islands as soon as possi
ble. LADYSMITH INVESTED.
Situation Sufficiently I)mi;eroui to Ex
cite Anxiety.
London, Oct. 31. Tho position of
Ladysmith, without being alarming, is
sufficiently dangerous to excito uux
iety. Evidently tho Boers are trying
to repeat their Dundee tactics. Roughly
estimated, they have 17,000 men, as
against 12,000 British. General Sir
George Stewart Whito has tho better
artillery, but his is of lesser range.
Tho delay in tho Boer attack is reported
to bo due to tho non-arrival of Commandant-General
Joubert's column.
This has given tho British a much
needed respite after their recent exer
tions. Everything, it is now considered,
hinges on General White's resources
and judgment. Nothing is known re
garding the progress of defensive works
for the protection of Ladysmith. The
censorship is moro active than ever.
According to tho Daily Chroniclo's cor
respondent, "tho new regulations limit
the number of words allowed for press
messages to ono-fourth tho number al
lowable before."
Farmers in tho neighborhood of
Ladysmith have left their farms and
stock at the mercy of tho Boers and are
congregated in tho town.
Two guns tho Boera havo mounted
aro powerful weapons. They aro tho
ones used in shelling Dundee, and it is
a matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to transport such heavy
pieces.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Fourteen 1'nrsoiiH Wire Cremntud
in
l'ulroH, Alubiiinii.
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 28. News was
received hero today that 14 people had
been burned to death at Faires, Bald
win county, about 80 miles northeast of
Mobile. Sometimo Monday night last
fire destroyed the dwellings of Harry
Gooodlaw and Samuel Smithson, cre
mating all tho occupants of both houses.
The Goodlaw family consisted of
father, mother and six children. Thero
wero six persons residing in tho Smith
son homo, the husband, wifo, threo
children, and a sister of Mr. Smithson.
Tho fires are believed to havo boon of
accidental origin.
Storm In Went Indlug.
Santiago do Cuba, Oct. 81. After
days of continuous rain storms, a terri
fic hurricane from tho southeast swopt
ovor Santiago today, causing much des
truction. Twolve houses wero wrecked
and others badly damaged. Tho un
precedented rainfall continues. Tolo
graph wires aro down, and it is impos
sible for vessols to enter or leavo tho
harbor. A Ward liner has been do
layed four days. Tho Unitod States
transport Burusido has beon kept cruis
ing outsido tho harbor, and fears aro
ontortainod for tho safety of tho Hoot of
schooners from IJfiyti and Jamaica that
usually arrivo on Monday morning.
Juiniilca Was Swopt.
Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 81. Ro
ports of tho sovoro rain storm that has
swept tho conutry arrived from various
points and confirm tho fear that oxton
sivo damago lias been dono. Tho Rio
Cobro inundated Spanishtown, doing
considerable harm. All tho railroad
lines aro interrupted, and most of tho
highways aro impassable in conse
quonco of tho floods and landslides.
A DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
rrc.ldent MoKlnloy Imiim the U.ul
l'rucliiuinllon.
The president has iwmoil tho follow
ing proclamation:
A national custom, dear to t o
hearts of tho people calls for tho he -nig
apart of ono day in y;
specla thanksgiving to Almighty God
Rr tho blessings of the proceeding year
This honored observance acquires
with Union tenderer significance It
enriches domestic life; it summon nn
dor tho family roof the absent children
to glad reunion with those they lovo.
Seldom as this nation had greater cauno
for profound thanksgiving. No great
posttlonco has Invaded our shore; lib
oral employment waits u.Kn labm,
abundant crops have rewarded tho
efforts of tho husbandman. Increased
comforts havo come to tho homo, lho
national finances havo beon sustained
and made firmer. In all branches of
industry and trado thero has been an
uuequulod degrco of prosperity, whilo
thoro has beon u steady gain in tho
moral and educational growth of our
national character. CliurehoH and
schools havo nourished. American pa
triotism has been exalted, 'lhosoen
1 gaged in maintaining tho honor of tho
jilog with such signal success havo
been, in a largo degreo, spared from
'disaster and disease. An honorable
1 peaco has been ratified with a foreign
nation with which wo wero at war, and
wo aro now at friendly relations with
' ovory jiowcr on earth.
I "Tho trust which wo havo nssumed
for tho benefit of tho people of Cuba
I lias faithfully advanced. Thero is
marked progress toward tho restoration
of healthy industrial conditions, and
itnrv regulations tho
island has onjoyod unusual exemption
from tho scourgo of fever. Tho hurri
cano which swept over our now jkis
session of Puerto Rico, destroying tho
homes and proporty of tho inhabitants,
called forth tho instant sympathy of
h. wm1n nf tho United States, who
wero swift to respond with generous
aid to tho sulTcrers. wnuo mo insur
rection still continues in tho island of
T.iiwm. business is resuming its activ
ity and confidence in tho good purpose
of tho United States is being rupiuiy es
tnhlishnil throuirhotit tho urchiiKslago
"For these reasons, nnd countless
others, I, William McKinley, president
nf ihn United HtatOS. hereby IiaillO
Thursday, tho 80th day of November
next, as a day of gonoral thanksgiving
and prayer, to bo observed as sucn uy
nil nnr immhIo on this continent and
in our nowly acquired islands, as well
as by thoso who may bo at sea or so
iniiminir in foroiim lands, and I ad
vIka that on this dav relluious exercises
shall bo conducted in tho churches or
meeting places of all denominations
in order that in tho social features of
tho day its real sigificanco may not bo
lost sight of, but fervent prayers may
bo offered to the Most Ilign for a con
tinuimeo of tho divino iruldanco. with
out which man's efforts aro vain, and
for divino consolation to thoso whoso
kindred and friends havo sacrificed
their lives for our country.
"I recommend also, that on this
day, so far as may bo found practicable,
labor shall ceaso from its accustomed
toil, and charity abound toward tho
sick, tho needy and tho poor.
"In witnoss whereof I havo set my
hand and caused tho seal of tho United
States to bo affixed.
"WILLIAM M'KINLEY."
In It Malnrln or Alum?
Languor, loss of appetite, indigestion
and often fevcrishness are tho com
mon symptoms of a physiological con
dition termed "malaria." All those
symptoms may bo and frequently arc
tho effect of tho uso of alum baking
powders in food making. There is no
question about tho poisonous effect ol
alum upon tho system. It obstructs
digestion, prostrates the nerves, coagu
lates and devitalizes tho blood. All
this has beon mado clear, thanks to
physicians, boards of health, and food
commissions. So "highly injurious to
tho health of tho community" does
tho ominent head of tho University o)
Pennsylvania, Dr. Barker, consider the
alum baking powders, that ho says
"their sale should bo prohibited by
law."
Undor theso circumstances it is
worth tho whilo of ovory housowifo to
employ tho very littlo caro that is
necessary to keop so dangorous an de
ment from tho food of hor family.
A pure cream of tartar baking jww
dor, which is tho only kind that should
bo used, ought to cost about forty-five
to fifty cents a psund. Therefore, il
you aro paying much less, Bomothing
is wrong; if you aro paying twonty-flve
cents or less per pound, tho powdoi
is certainly mado from alum.
Always bear theso simplo facts in
mind wlwn purchasing baking powder.
Popular Soiouco Monthly.
Simla Kill! h Ilorao,
Musio caused tho death of a boauti
ful 8-year-old filly at Floronco, Ala.,
tho othor day. A farmer drove hti
valuablo young maro into town, and as
ho was driving up tho prinoipal Btrool
a brass band suddoly struck up its bla
tant musio. Tho maro had novor hoard
a 6ound llko that boforo and so startled
was sho that sho dropped dead in the
shafts of tho trap. A votorinary sur
geon who examined tho carcass declared
that tho maro had died of hoart failure,
duo to oxcitomot causod by tho sound
of tho uacoustomod musia of tho brasi
bund. Roanoko Jfows.
FIGHTING AT III 1(
An Artillery Duol of Sovori
Hours ut Ladysmith.
BOERS SHELLED THE TQ
A Htrimir llr"Uh jMrcn Ailvi... )
Men! Tlitim-CiiMiiiltlioi of Hti' n,i
KMtlmuInd ut From HO to loo.
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Dill Vif l t 1 . " I J II It Jf (()
fllOIICOd at O A. .M. tills lunrimt
Boors shollliig Litdysriinh un,
m
pounders. After seven shut tin. i.,.,t
gunners succeeded In Nllem-in,; ti. p
foreo. A force of Moors is now ml m
ing on tho British left flunk.
Tho advance was made ut .i.m.i vv
tho object of shelling the ir
tho jKiHltion wliero yesterday tin
mounted a number of guns. u ,,.a
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mat tuey nan ovucuuieu the i.!tt6H
I lie iirmtm continued to tuUnn. -.
tho movement develops! into a re
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uoiwuucu in lurcu. ine emtmy w
Kstcd on a raugo of hills. Imwn
frontage of about 10 miles.
Tho British forco was dlsporeil m
following order: On the riiln
regimeniH in cavairy, lour Haiti ru-i;
tho Royal Held artillery and II
tallons of Infantry; in tho center t,
battalions of tho Royal field urtutc:
two regiments of cavalry uii.l f.r
funtry battalions, and on the leit
Royal Irish fusiliers, the f I. ..kc-i t
shire regiment, and the Tenth mo
tain batter.
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huh lorcu mm ueeu ueuiiien to'i
our loft flunk at a lato hour but mg
General lute's plan of operau
wits that, as tho movement dovvlui
tho forco constituting our center, h
was disposed under cover ol u ko
alout threo miles from the t
Should throw ltsvll upon tin-
whilo tho loft Hank was being IipM
the fusiliers and tho Gloucester
The scheme was well .Ieuwl
failed in execution, owing to the f;
that tho Boer tKJsltion, which turui
our objoctlvo, was evacuated. (nr i
tiller' quickly rodueod tho volume
the enemy's fire, but tho attack del
ered on our right flank was the pnn
pal ono, and tho column was compliS
to rhango. The Boer attack hal 1M
sileucod for a timo, and our lufaii
advanced, covored by cuval ry
The enomy now began to dcvclo
heavy counter-attack, and as they w
in great numerical sujieriority, ein
White gavo orders for tho Infantry
bo uraduully withdrawn. Tho mo
ment was carried out with great ete
inoss and deliberation, under cove
our guiia, which niiKle excellent pri
tico.
Somo shells wero thrown into
town from tho enemy's 40-kuiii1it,
a ruiiL'o of over 0.000 yards, l ut
damage was dono. Tho eiuagem
hiHted several hours, and resulted
our side, in casualties estumiii' 1
from 80 to 100. Tho 15er losses u
havo largoy exceeded this total
Tho attack was admirably Ieli
by our right, and tho Boers were far
driven out of ono of tlteir strongho
near Lombardskop. It was not po
bio, howover, to push tho succecs nuij
further, as boyond that point lay
lonif. broken bridge, affording ex
kind of natural cover. Of this the
emy took tho fullest advantage.
Our shells failed to dislodge t
Iloers. and as our infantry mov
forward in extended order, they co
under a heavy and well-directed r
firo, tho effect of which was nppare
flHiiArnl Whit. wild was With t
center, seeing that tho troops on
right woro somewhat prosswl, sent
Hi Mr nasturtium Hin whole center CI
limn, with tho oxception of tho Devi
shirn reeiiiiont.
'I'lui imrMn hud then lasted f!
hours, during which tho artillery
nn lintti kIiIpn lnifl been almost inc
sunt.
Tho naval britrudo. which landed
DnrlKin luul iirrlvnrl nil the 8C0
toward tho end of tho fight, and imnj
dlutoly brought their heavy guns m
play. Their practice was magnllictq
At tho fourth shot tho enemy's
ponudors had been knocked out of tw
tiou. 1
Tho town is now freed from appM
liensions of bombardment.
Throuuhout tho cugagomont
Boors hold tholr ground with co'in
and tenacity, and, considering the
tonsity of our artillory lire, thoy m
havo Buffered sovorcly.
llol.i.rt V.irv HlolC
Now York, Nov. 1 . Vlco-I'rcsido
Hobart, who has beon ill lor weeh
Ma linmn In Vnterson. N. J.. S11"01
n. robmso this morning. No lmu xlA
cesHlon of choking spoils, resulti
from an imporfoct action of tho lioa
n old affliction, complicated with
ii.... 4-Un titmiinnli. Mr. JJ
lililllllllitlUil Ul wtu . , 1
bart has not boon ablo to attond to j
,.v..tn f ti.n nnst two or tin
:i i 4..n,ntA friend lias no
givon powor of attoruoy to attond toiw
business. -
Wnot T.,.nl TnV. 1. SOVOU hU
drocl girls employed in tho bisc.i
warohouso and tho dipping
lug dopartmotns of noarly ovory potto.
in tho city atrucic im ui"-o
hlghor wagos.