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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1900)
BOHEMIA NUGGET Published ETcrr I'rlilay. COTTAE GROVE OREGON 1 OF I WEEK Comprehensive Review of tlio Import nut IlnnnsiilncB of tho 1'nnt Week Cnlled Vruiu the Telecruph Column Ban Franciscans nro arranging for n big pro-Boer demonstration. E. O. Hodges & Co., ono of Boston largest banks, has closed its doors. In tho engagement at Ladysmith Fri dav. 10 British wero killed and 1C wounded. England has dipcovored that her rail itarv resources were overestimated by 80,000 men. Mat Chandler, the old-time pugilist and former partner of John L. Sulli van, is dead. The queen hns given warning that Uritish subjects must not help Boers oi Free Staters Plague of a severe typo is raging and many deaths from that cause have- oc curred in Now Caledonia. Sydney Paget, William C. Whitney's -Toeing partner, has left this country to join the British rough riders. A Paris dispatch says, that Franc would be happy if the Delagoa bay in cident caused an anglo-American quar rol. Alfred Borlini was arrested in Sar 1 Francisco wLilo on his wedding trip, He is charged with being a bank de faulter. Iowa larmers have formed a syndi cate to grow rice in Texas. They have eecured options on 14,000 acres of land to cost $225,000. The Boer army on Modder river ia crowing greater each day. They are building trenches within threo and on6 half miles of Methuen's picket lino. The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho was a bad one. After 10 days the last body had not been recovered. The trainmen were to blame. Governor Geer, of Oregon, does no approve of Oregon citizens contributing to a fund for Lawton's family. He thinks the state should look after hei own heroes' familes first. The Countess of Canavarro thought she was a convert to Buddhism. She entered their convent and changed her mind, and has applied to friends ir. an Francisco for assistance. Winston Spencer Churchill har cabled to the London Post of his escape from tho Boer prison. Ho made hit way overland from Delagoa bay and scaled walls while guards were not looking. He journeyed for six days, walking at night, with nothing to eat but chocolate. Over 600 British prisoners captured at Sternberg have reached Pretoria. Buller has destroyed' tho Colensc footbridge, and ma tempt to advancj Armour's 7ik - - - - i J r -B . . footbridge, and makaXno further at-: founds, , rrSSSJftad A Dnlloi. lino rlncfwt.torl fn fl,.. I RnVlfffmfeVN: UOTn naA vryir-rx-a'K Bffvn;'3MUb' n-t.x i iii ii "i mi nil 1 1 iimi it iin i nun ii n m m Should am?Spanish waensWTOSRi 725,000. The Seventy-firsh New Yorki asks for annual allowances Which ac- gregate $31,002 Yaqui Indians plunder, kill and burn villngos and the Mexicans do not seem to make mnoh headway in whipping the savages. An entire Mexican regi ment eeoras to have disappeared. The Fenians are organizing at Buffa lo, N. Y., for an invasion of Canada. They expect, it ia said, to raiso 125W00 men, and havo two carloads of arkris and munitous of war in concealment. Thoro 1b disaffeotion among the Free fitator troops. They complain thai, flrmrln'o. man nrn nvAraainr, nrA tor fed .than thoy, Tho Transvualor'a are suspicious and the situation fa bo coming grave. The president of the Now York prison association, who has mado an investigation of tho Cuban prisons tells a horriblo tale of tho conditions thero. Offenders of all classes sleop in filth and vermin. No beds or clean clothing Js provided. Money or influence ia neoessary boforo thoy can secure their freedom. The members of tho senate committee on privileges and elections declare j they will carry on tho investigation oi I 6enator Clark's case without regard to Itho decision of tho Montana supreme sonxt nndor which Wellcome was dis barred from practice on charges of brib flry in connection with tho senator' eleotion. I LATER NEWS. A railroad boom has struck Hawaii. Six inches of snow foil ut Macon, Ga. Bechnaunliunl farmers aro helping tho Boers. Boors fired plum pudding at Lady smith garrison. Oragon woolgrowors oxpoct to got 20 cents for their 1000 crop. Vigilance of Americans provontod a projoctod uprising in Manila. At Now York Kid McCoy knockod out Potor Malior in flvo rounds. Idaho produced $2,500,000 in gold and $0,103,000 in silver last year. Franco and England may havo troublo over Newfoundland fisheries. Tho United States may buy the Danish West Indies for $4,000,000. Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy, money, arms and solidcrs to tho Boers. Ono child rocoived fatal and sovornl persons serious burns in u New York flat fire. Several thousand attended a very brilliant Now Year's day reception at the White House. Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again issued an appeal for peaco to the powers of tho world. Multnomah's football team defeated Stanford university's eleven at Port land; scoro, 11 to 0. Hilliard F. Johnson, a water-front reporter in San Francisco, was drowned in a bathtub. Government officials say the cruiser Montgomery was sent to Liboria to give the Black Republic assuranco oi protection. Moro miles of new railroad have been built during 1890 than in any previous year since 1890, when C670 miles ot lino were completed. Since January 1, 1809, no less than 4,500 miles of track have been laid in the United States on 312 lines in 44 states and territories. Tho torpedo-boat destroyer Golds borough, built by a Portland, Or., firm, on her second contractor's trial covered eight miles in 15 minutes, which is at tho rate ot 32 miles an hour, against a 2-knot current Steam was made without effort, and not a bearing was heated. Tho run was maae in tne uoiumhia river, near Kalama. Boutolle will probably never return to congress. ue uoer trencnes at uoienso aro bomb proof. Pingree's tax resolution waBdofeated in the Michigan senate. reopie aro tirea ot Colombian war and ask for intervention. British Columbia has sent a gold disv piay to tne rans exposition. jf If Delago bay is closed thgjBoors will raid Pon ojfrfltory. The-Stahl & b failure in Phi ba delphift is a cle se of looting. An i it porta ess against Sena te perjury. 20, was arGlencoe, gigantio coast of t - cabinet dis- ossibilities in on thirXugela has now &omii8 strength of 28,- its will bo opened in to reach this country BhGnlywaitB for y ueiagoa bay. i - )allas. Or., has been it eergeant-at-arms in senate. The Boer onnted a now place of tho gnn ono at LanyBimtlr' captured by tho ish cavalry. Tho clerk of tho court of appeals has refused to administer the oath of office to inombers of tho state eleotion board in Kentucky. A Colorado Midland passonger and a Santa Fo freight collided near Palmer Lake, Colo. One fireman was killed and two engineers wereihurt. An English military 'export assorts that the time has come for a chango in il 1. 1 l tt. r Jtii - i i uiu cuuiuew no mvurti opner a dicta torship or an all-powerful military minister. , Misa Florence Blytho - Hinokloj, heiress to tho Blytho millions, was quietly married in San Franoisco to A. A. Moore, jr., deputy attorney-general of California. Americans have captured obothor in surgent stronghold. Many repels were killed, wounded and captured' and an amount of ammunition and food taken. Their supposed impregnable position was north of San Mateo. An Ottawa dispatch says that treason is talked openly among the French Ca nadians, and all of their members havo retired from parliament. All tho lat ent hostility to British rulo has been aroused by Canada's action in sonding troops to the Transvaal. , i raw AM lAijEn tor Clnff'CVnN AM M i am -M .w'w mi Ml Kan: ORD ROSEBERY ! Wants England to Her Position. Define WHAT IS CONTRABAND OF WAR roDKlliln ClimiEn of Volley Hlr Cluirle lHlko AViirim ARnlimt n llimty Over tiiriilne of Precedent. London, Jan. 1. Loid Rosobory writes as follows this morning to tho Times: "Thoro aro disquieting intimations which appoar to point to our govern ment having treated foodstuffs as con traband of war. Ah this is a matter of supreme importance, I venture to ad dress this lino to yon in tho hope that it may olicit an authoritativo Htatomout on tho subjoct." Tho Times, commenting editorially upon Lord Rosoberry's letter, says: "Too littlo ia known of tho seizures for any valid inforouco safely to bo drawn. An emorgonoy might arise when certain foodstuffs would bo ro garded as contraband whilo others) would not, especially if tho lattor wore intended for cuncombatante. Thcro might, for iustanco, bo reasonable grounds for treating caunod goods as contraband and flour as legitimate." After admitting that it "would bo unadvisablo to creato a precedent which might somo day bo invoked against us," tho articlo coucludos as follows: "Whilo wo fully share tho viow that no serious chango of policy should oc cur without cogont reasons and ample consideration, we cannot but ask our selves whether, in tho event of Groat Britain being engaged in a war, the action, either of tho enemy or even ol neutral powers, in a matter upon which such great divorgenco of opinion still exists is likely to be governed by any precedent wo or any ono else may have set in the past, rather than by the hnmediato interests of tho momf Jt." A NEW YORK FIRE. Two Seven-Story lIullillncR Woro Do- Htroj'eil t'lreinuii Injured. Now York, Jan. 1. Tho two seven story buildings at 425 to 435 East Twenty-fourth street, occupied princi pally by the wall-paper factory of Wil liam Campbell & Co., were destroyed by fire tonight. The loss is fully $500,000. The plant of the New York Hygienic Ico Company, which occu pied tho basement of 425, and, that of tho Manhattan Electric Light Com panjr, on tho first and second floors of the same building, were totally de stroyed. A largo portion of the east Tiide gets its lights from that company, and was, on account of the fire, cast into complete darkness. Tho Campbell company employed 400 nanos, who will be thrown out of work by the flro. The properties of all threo firms aro de stroyed beyond thw hope of saving a dollar's worth. Tho losses aro purtly covered by insurance Threo hook-aud-ladder men, Androw Degnan, Josoph Shaughnessy and Jos eph Bessinger, were caught on tho sixth floor ofjthe building, and escaped with great uniicuity. ah were severely burned. Shaughnessy and Bessimier were sent to Bellevue hospital. The other hook-and-ladder men were caught on one of tho high window lodges, with the flames roaring all around thorn and the dense smoko making them ulmost imperceptible from tho street. Exten sion ladders were run and firemen brought them down in an almost nn conscious condition. One of the men, Lee Potter, was very - severely burned, and was sent to Bollevuo hospital. TWO TRAINS WRECKED. One Penon wiin Killed anil Fourteen Were Injured. Denver, Colo., Jan. 1. Tho Chey enne flyer on tho Union Pacific rail road crashed into tho Boulder Valley train, at Brighton, Colo., at 0 this morning. Ono man was killed, Win field Randelman, express messenger, Denver, whoso body was burned to a crisp. Fourteen persons were injured. Tho Boulder Valley train loft Denver a littlo late this morning, and as usual stopped at Brighton, which is the junc tion for tho Boulder Valley lino from the main line to Cheyenne. The Chey enne flyer also left Denver late, and coming into Brighton in tho early morning dusk, ran into the rear end of XI.- T 1-1 A 1 i 1 mo uuumur iruiu, telescoping two or inreo cars ana aoraiung tno passenger locomotive. Section gangs from Denver yards and half a dozen, passengers occupied tho Boulder train. Tho mail and baggage car and tho smoker of tho flyer were burned. Mrs. Young was in the chair car with six children. Nono ' of tho children were hurt, although sho re ceived serious injury. Tho wounded woro brought to Denver and takon to tho hospitals. Conductor MoAllistor, of the Boulder valley train was crazed by the accident. IIo attempted to jump into tho burning wreckago, and had to bo forcibly restrained. In his proclamation to tho burohern. xjaaen-i-owoii maKes tno oxtraordi-! nary statement that tho American gov-' ernment has warnod othors of her in-' tentions to side with England should any of them interfere. ( SOUTH OF MANILA. () pirn I lie of tint Ciiinpiilirn 1'i'ovlnnus. In Southern , Manila, Jan. U. Tho first movoniont of tho general southern advance oc curred this morning, when two battal ions of tho Fourth infantry landed ami occupied Cabuyao, on tho south side of Luguim do Bay. Two Americans woro killed and two wounded. Twenty-four of tho enemy woro found dead iii ono house. Ono hundred and (lfty prisoners and four Bix-pounder rapid lire guns were captured. Tho gunlxiiit Laguna do Bay bom barded tho town beforo tho disembark ation of tho troops from tho cuhcooh, , which was made under tho onomy'd I Bhrapuol llro. Tho onoiny ovacuatod tho place beforo tho charging Anierl- cans, retreating to pawn jiobu, io which town thoy were puinucd. Heavy fighting occurred along the road to Santa Rosa, which was occu pied by tho insurgents, retreating south toward Silun. Tho Americans burned tho country around Cabuyao. Tho gunboat returned to Calamba, for roinforcenients, und theneo came to Manila to get ammunition. She recently captured two of tho enoinyV steam launches, ono uuder tho llro oi artillory, at Calamba, and also four cascocs loaded with rico. Other regi ments aro mobilizing tonight at San Podro Macati and Pasig, preparatory to continuing tho southom advance. Yestorday's capturo of bombs in volved tho seizure of documents incul pating 1,000 Filipinos who intended to ripe against tho Americans. Papers were also fonnd showing a distribution of tho city into districts, and a careful assignment of leaders and followers. Tho precautions taken by tho Ameri cans Saturday, it is now evident, alone prevoutcd an uprsing. Tho provost marshal has requested that two moro regiments bo dotainod for the protection of Manila. Three thousand troops aro now actually in tho city. Agninaldo's wifo, sistors and 18 Filipinos have surrendered to Major March's battalion of the Third infantry at Bontoo. Threo Filipino officers alw surrendered to Major March, and the Filipinos gave np two Spanish and two American prisoners. A GREATZINC TRUST. Combination to Control the Output ol the Country. Chicago, Jan. 3. Information has reachod Chicago of a proposed combi nation to control tho zinc output of the United States. Work on the scheme has been begun, and the initial steps havo been taken in Kansas City. Ac cording to one of the best-known zinc operators, who was in Chicago yester day, tho plan inol tides not only tho control of tho mines, but of the smelt ing plants as well. Within a short time representatives of tho combination will get a prico on all producing zinc mines in the Joplin, Mo., district, and securo options on them. It has lieen estimated by tho promotors that it will tako in tho neighborhood of $100,000, 000 to swing tho undertaking success fully, and this amounnt of money, with as much moro as may bo necessary, is said to bo ready to go into tho scheme." SCHOONERS IN COLLISION. riioiphnte Currier (Jon Down, hut (.'row Ih Huveit. Chicago, Jan. 3. A special to tho Tribune from Norfolk, Va., says: Tho schooners Fannie Brown and Margarot Ropor collided off Ilatteras, i.7id tho Fannie Brown sank. Tho 10 men of tho crew wero saved by tho crow of tho Ropor. Tho collision occurrod on tho night of December 20, during a high wind. The big schooners crashed together bo foro tho lookouts saw tho danger. Tho Brown, being loaded with rock and phosphato, filled rapidly, and its crow of 10 had barely time to take to tho boats, tho schooner sinkly shortly after they put off. Tho Ropor, disabled, stood by, and aftor a hard stingglo got tho Brown's crow safely aboard. An Intereitlng Humor. London, Jan. 1. A dispatch from Lorenzo Marquoz, dated December 23, eays a curious story is current, emanat ing from Boor souroes that Matt. Stoyu, brother of tho president of tho Orango Free State, and 800 Froo Stators havo definitely refused to continuo tho war. Matt. Steyn, acting as spokesman of tho party, is roportod to have told tho prosident that ho was only uuthorizod to intoveno in tho interest of peaco, and that tho burghers did not fool that they woro bound by his "unwarrantable conduct," especially as they ran tho risk of confiscation of their property, and thoy simply desried to be permitted to farm in peaco and proposod to imme diately roturn to their farms. Train Without un Buglneer. Cedar Rapids, la., Jan. 8. -Tho overland liinited on tho Northwestern railwuy ran 50 miles last night with out an engineer. No one on tho truin was consoious of tho danger until tho fireman brought tho train to a stand still ut Bertram. Near Mechanics villo, Engineer F. J. Fisko, in some unknown manner, fell from tho cab, and tho flroman did not notico his absonco until the train had whirled over 50 miles. Fisko was pickod up unconscious a few hours later, and died in a hospital horo tonight. NGLISH OCCUPY COLESB I Boors Wore Driven Back Genoral Frenoh. i SUCCESSFUL FLANK MOVEMEf inn iiiiinn worn ntirnriJiml, Mini, mi; iniiir iimrriii iirmttnniMl, ', In Dliorilur Artillory llitul. Uolnsborg, Lapo I olony, Jan. :)l General French lias completely ilffcuj tno isoeis anil occupied i iiii,nj llio general continued to keep ltoers on tno move and prof-l closely Saturday and Sunday, imvI them no time to make a j h.ti ..A 1 1 ...I .1 l- 1 1 Hluiiii, mill wiiuii liny uniKd ll" f within striking distance of the cm-id Last night all the cavalry, nvt.HI i i..e . . . - .l.ii . i linn Dummy, inu iniiur niuiitf in wp ens to increase tho general i ' 1 1 ifi startod upon a night march with object of turning tho Boer's rijr'it flank operations wero successful infantry and Held batteries ilium iliutj mane a leint aiiucic on mo liner mifl ami whilo this was proceeding tin cj airy and light artillery got rnu.pj(tg around tho enemy's right Hank, i ranged. Tho programmo worked without hitch. Tho Boers wero utter' y prised, and, finding their retreat Hire ened, fled in disorder to the i'iikmuu leaving Colesburg in General 1 ruiun hands. Artillery Duel for Two Hour. London, Jan. I). The Daily Mmll tho following dispatch, dated Jumna 1, from Roinsberg: "Yosterdiiy aftvrnoon a big force! cavalry and infantry, witli In gnn under tho peonal command of lo-ncr I'Tonon, moving uy a notour, ocfupil somo bills threo in iler. from Cr lenliurB where tho Boors wero in strength, cow fldeiit in tho natural aid afforded tl by tho hills around. "Tho enemy's jxiHltlon extended miles around tho entire village. daybreak our artillery opened the bit tie. Tho Boers were taken by snrprifj but ronlied vigorously. An ariilltT duel was maintainned for two huurn Then a Boor Hotchkiss collapsed and was i bandoned. Wo captured it. S Boer big gun was silenced, but this and tho other Boer guns were with "rawn to tno northward, whither w are liarassinz the Boer retreat by damaging sholl flro. "Colosburg is in our hands, and th few remaining loyalists aro jubilant Wo havo captured many wagons and considerable quantity of stores. "Our losi was quite slight, but the Boers must havo suffered heavily! lhoy may stop at Achertang or cro-iM tho river altogether at NorvalepoiiSI where tho bridge is still intact. ' Idling of Cnpe Dutrh. Capo lown, Jan. :i. Ugly minor. aro iii circulation of a Dutch rising? with the object of seizing Capo Towf and the docks and capturing tho gover nor of Capo Colony Sir Alfi'ed Milner Tho center of tho movement is snin to bo Paari, a village abont 110 miles froif Cano Town, where a meotiiiK of the Afrikandcrbund was hold vestcrdnyj A similar meetinu was hold at Iiiclij inoud Decomber 28; and it is rcportej that tho members of tho bund in these two towns aro acting in concert. Tho inombers of tho bund at Willing ton and tho Dutch in Clan Williaifl district aro said to bo armed witlj Mausers, and to bo anxious to usotheifl in behalf of the Boors. Although tho storios of a rising are disciodited, tho polico and military ara taking amplo precautious. I'hlllpplno Hemp Trmle. Washington. Jan. 8. Assistant Pec rotray of War Meiklojohn, in a lettei to llnnrnsntihit.lvn Lorn?. of.KlinsaS, res Kardlnir tho openinir of tho hemp port! in tho Phlippino islands, says: "Tho estimated exports of hcmpl from tho Philippiuo islands lor on voiir of American nomination will np nroximato 100.000 tons, of whic! amount 20.000 tons should to credit to tho United States. This places th estimated oxnorts to tho United State? for tho year of American occupation! at about 17,000 tons loss than the exj jiorts of 1807. This is occouutoa iuii by tho fact that thoro havo been oponeO! for shipmont only threo pons oi " Philippine islands. " Kvnrv nfTnrr. linn bnnn mftdo by til . . . . .. ..... ...in iJ war dopartmont in tno past ami mado in tho future to comply wn niiosrn tn nnnn nil tho BO-callod llOinp Tvirfo nf fl.n laln.trlu " Aiulvlann nun HloloBlon. 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