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BOHEMIA NUGGET. Fubllilieit Brf FsrMnr. COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON. OUR LAWMAKERS. ffillB OF 1 DM A, fr&rtstlng Collection of Kerns Fran thi Two lltmlsphtrcj taunted In a Condensed Form. Money scnrolty in England contiu- 08. Tho president will call an extra cas lion. Tho end of tho Doer war is not in light. . Severe cold weather prevails through out Europe A 13-inch gnn oxplodod on the bat tleship Koarsurge. An Englishman's letter created a sensation in Mnuiln. Five rebel officers and 20 man were captured near Manila. Civil government was established in Fangaslnan province. All tho volunteers will bo home from the Philippines by June 30. The czar is suspicious of Emperor William's doings in Euglund. , Approptiation bills have tho right of way in the house this week. Russia has imposed an increased tariff on imports from America. The senate will practically devote this week to appropriation bills. Louisiana mob hanged a negro who killed a white man and his family. Six persons were killed and as manv seriously injured in a train wreck in Nevada. Nine prisoners in ty jail overpowered caped. Ollicial list of the victims of the Union mine accident places the num ber at 04. One regiment and n portion of two others will be mustered out at Van couver. Wash. Elaborate preparations are being made for the colonial tour of the Duke of Cornwall and York. Doings of Importance at the State Capital Dills Passed. Two Railroad Dills Killed. Tho hnufio alter spending nearly an other half day in consideration of rail road bills, dlsposod of two morn Wed nesday. Ono of these mcasuros was I'oormnn's folio w-sorvant bill. It was dobatod at lougth, and nlthough even its opiioncuts admitted it had good points, it was dofcated by a vote of 31 to 22. Tho other railroad bill which was disposed of, and which met a sim ilar fate, was tho hill of Harris to fix tho liability of railroad corporations for iujurios. Hut 10 votes wero oust iu favor of this bill. 15 IHAPfCOlOIII Dcwct Engaged a British Force Near Philipstown. SPAIN IS AGAIN CALM. CROSSED ORANGE RIVER AT SAND DRIFT The tnnlskllllngs Charged the Enemy Who Lett Five Killed and Six Wounded Ten Doers Were Captured. London, Feb. 10. Tho war oflloo has received tho following dlsnntoh from Lord Kltohenor: "Pretoria, Feb. IB. Our troops are now ongngod with Christian Dowot's forco north of Philipstown, whloli we r i i - - ... lativo holiday unless tho legislature by i "u"ui,"v oro8SO" ' 10 urn,,E8 . m- i . . .T...I.. I- ' 'river at Sand Drift, nmiarout v movlm? No Holiday at Salem. Washington's birthday, Fobruary 33, is n legal holiday, but it is not a legls- speoiflo act chooses to mako it so. Jnasmuoh as Washington's birthday happons this year to fall on tho 40th day of tho session (the usual day of siuo die adjournment) it is probable that business will bo proceeded with much as usual. The constitution of the stato does not limit tho sessions to 40 days, but does limit the total com pensation of each member to .$130 at west. "French, reporting from a poiut 28 miles southeast of Ermolo, stntos that n large forco of tho enemy is bolmr driven on the Piet Riof. their offorts to j mus.iagos regarding tho royal wedding. But Martial Law Will Continue Throughout Carnival Week. Madrid, Fob. 18. Tim inlniHtor of tlm interior, Sunor Urgurto, in Iho courso of an intorviuw, asserted that calm reigned iu the provinces and that if the Mime paolllu behavior of tliu put), pie continued after the cainlval next week, martial law could lie discontin ued in Madrid and thiougiiont Spain, except in Catalonia, Madrid remains perfectly calm, although tho talk of tho proliablo oluingo of ministry aftor tho carnival is very Htroug. All the troops havo been withdrawn, and the censorship Is loin vigorous, hut no refoiotiuo to tliu disorders of the past few days is permitted to appear. All dispatches aro now revised ami de layed. The stmots uio now guardod by only the ordinary number of police. Tho weather 1b bitterly cold and not conduclvo to mob manifestations. Thoro is not tho slightest foundation for tho Hlateinent ulrculutod in tho United States, on tho autlioilty of a news agouoy that tliu government bad placed restrictions on tho Bonding of w IN A DCATH I Sixty-Five Miners Arc Entombed No Hope for Them. ureak back having so far boon frus trated. Tho Iuuisklllings ohargod tho ouomy, who loft flvo killed and six wounded on tho ground. Ten Moors $3 per day; therefore, few legislators ,vero cPturod, and thoro wns n large the Spokane conn the jailer and es- Two Bridal Veil. Or., factories and 1 the O. R. & N. railroad bridge were ' can bo expected to bo so solf-sacrific-ing as to work long for nothing. Bills Passed. The sonnto Wednesday pnssod tho follerwlng bills: Sounto hill 79, to cor rect the description of tho boundary of Whcoler county; senate bill 143, to protect hotel and boarding house koep ers; by Hunt, regnlating street rail ways in Portland; senate bill 73, to enact tho Torrens system of registra tion ot land titles; senate bill 172. to regulate insurance companies; sonato bill 31, to provide for tho olootion of road supervisors; senate bill 137, to creato tho otDce of county auditor of Multnomah county; senato bill 217, to amond tho chartor of Sherwood: sonate bill 310, to fix the salary of prosecut ing attorney in the Sevonth judicial district. ! The bouse Wednesday passed bills las follows: house bill 37, providing for a uniform system of mine bell sig nals; house bU 140, making it a crime to remove or interfere with mining lo cation marks; house bill 137, rogulat ing tho supply of water for irrigation purposes. The Senatorial Vote. The joint vote for senator Wednes- damaged by the bieaking of a drift jam. day was: II. V. Corbett, 32; Mnger Danish government has broken off negotiations with the Dnited States regarding the sale of Danish West In dies. Colonel W. T. Hart, a well-known Western promoter, committed suicide by jumping from a moving train intu the Snake river. To hasten peace negotiations, Von Waldersee has planned an 80-day ex pedition and asks American and French to co-operate with the Germans. j The Jefferies-Ruhlln fight is post poned. Another insurgent band has been broken np. A state of siege has been proclaimed at Madrid. Gnns were used in a Fa loon raid al Winfield, Kan. Pelt Dewet is at the Cape tirinc to bring about peace. Civil government has been establish ed in Pampangu province. General Davis will conduct tho Car-man-Carranza investigation. Charles M. Schwab is to be presi dent of the new Morgan steel company. An address of loyalty from the city of London was presented to King Ed ward. The headless and mutilated body of a nan was found in the rear of a Co- lamubs, O., saloon. Pensions for Oregon Indian war vet erans has been left out of the substi tute bill in congress. The ameer of Afghanistan has writ ten an extremely sympathetic letter to Lord Cnrzon, on the occasion of the death of the queen. Otto W. Meysenbnrg, formerly presi dent of the Wells & French Car Com pany, of Chicago, is dead at his conn try home, Alma Sieta, Cal., at the age of 53 years. Frank Crawford, aged 10, was shot' and instantly killed by his brother Charley, aged 14 years, at Ralingee, W. Va. Frank objected to Charley Cuing out hunting. From an ash barrel that had been, consigned to a uump at Plalnlield, N. J Colonel Julian Scott, the well known artist, has lescned a death mask of Napoleon. Margin McClure, convicted of assist ing In the wreck of the Rutland, Vt., .Merchants' National Bank, was sen tenced to seven yeurs in the county jjoiibo oi correction Fire in the five-story blookin Boston aoeupled by WilMam II. Blood & Co., shawls, oloaks, etc.; Creed & Co., fauoy goods; Edward Buller & Co., linings, and M. II. Pulaski & Co., em broideries, caused a loss of $160,000. Hermann, 29; George H. Williams, 1; R. D. Inman, Democrat, 20; W. E. itobertson, Democrat, 1; absent, 1. License BUI Defeated. Senate bill 10, tor the licensing of stationary engineers and firemen was ( defeated Monday. Woman Suffrage Defeated, An effort was made in the house Monday to reconsider the vote by which senate joint resolution 71, for woman suffrage, was defeated. The voto for reconsideration was lost, 28 to 21. capture of wagons, carts nud cattlo, Our casualties were one killod and flvo wonndod." Tho Evening News prints a dispatch from Cape Town, datod Th : Fobruary 14, which says: I "Tho govornmont hero Is advised that Christian Dowot and ox-Prosidont nmyu euieruu unpo colony and occu pied Philipstown. Tho British attack ed them yestorday and drovo them out of the town with loss." Copo Town, Fob. 10. A Boer com mando crossed the Orange rlvor yostcr day, iu tho Philipstown distriot. It is reported that Dowet was in command. Van Wyksvlei wus oocupiod Monday by 300 Boers who wero rotreating from j Calviuia. Tho Boers are reported in ' forco 24 miles wost of Carnarvon. A I Boer convoy of GO wagons and 45 pris- oners nag been taptuied north of Am sterdam. Boers Near Cape Town. London.Feh. 10. It is reportod from Capo Town that tho wife of Comumnd ant Botha left Pretoria with a military escort to endeavor to get her husband to surrender. The Boers tried unsuccessfully to destroy a culvert near Capo Town. So vere lighting ensued, tho Boors leaving three killed and 23 wouudod. Tho British lost ono killed and two wounded. Two poisons wore killed and Hoveral others wouudod yesterday at Grenada. The count and countess of Cusortit arrived at Holidays, Franco, today. They mot with no special Incident on route and continued tho journey to Nice. Cause of Disturbances. York, Fob. 18. A special to Now tho Times from Washington nays Tho disturbances which Genoral Weylor is'now trying to quell, aro not, it is mid by porsous familiar with tho situation, of either Carlist or Itepubli can origin, although both pardon aru no doubt active iu trying to tale ad vantage of tho trouble It is declined that tho uprising U in reality an out break of the discontented. Those tak ing part in it compriso all classes of malcantouts, and iti causes aro liko those which brought about tho French revolution. Povorty hai beon increasing, tho bunion of taxation has beon growing heavier, and tho laboring classos are ripo for revolution. At the sumo time the ruling dynasty is unpopular. All thoso complications and 11 uumbor of others have brought about a wldosproad feoliug of unrest, and groat ovouts aro looked for in Spain unless the incipient revolution is quolled. Spain has been touding toward n robolliou fur somo time. HARD LABOR FOR LIFE. CAUSED DY AN EXPLOSION OF GAS Only Exit Is the Mouth of the Shall, Which Is Filled With a Huge Volume ot Smoke Relief Measures Have Begun. Vancouver, 11. U., Fob. 18. Sixty live miners aro imprisoned in No. 0 ilmlt'of tho Cumberland coal mliiu on Vancouver island. Tho only exit la tho month of the Hhalt which is llllud with it hugu volume of llaiiie, There is considered to bo no possibility for the unfortunates to escape. Details of Disaster Meager. Details of tho disaster aro monger. Tho Cumberland uilnu is iioar tliu vil lage of Union, about IK) miles north oi tho town of Nitnalmo, Tin only telegraphic communication fiom Un ion is by a single government wlro, and littlu is known ot tho trngudy in tliu mine except that u terrible explo sion occurred in No. (I shaft of the Cumberland about 11 o'clock this illuming. Following thuux plosion the i(10k. and tho rear liriikoiiian uf tho shaft caught llto, and the UB inlnurs j ,tl,r i,, ,my u fow minutes In who wore working half a mile from which lo Hag No. 4 and prevent 11 rear the entrance wero caught in Ja death j vlu collision. trap. A relief party from No. 5 shaft At 7:20 A. M. a spoolnl train loft niadnabravo but futilo attempt at a I t,lN ,,cu f(ir ,io scene of tho wreck, resouo. They wero headed off by tho 1 cl,rrynK duolora and nurses, and tho Ilro aud rould not reach tho imprisoned i,rti w,,ro iv0 every attention ptm- Iho attempt at resouo was made , -t,t0. being taken lo the liotol ut Mill SIX WERE KILLED. u rlve Passengers and Fireman on Wrecked, Train , As Many Seriously lnureil. WlllllMllllOeil, Nov., Fob. H. Tito mstboiuid overland limited Houlliurii I'aolllii train, (illleliilly known an No. 2. was wrtiukotl at 5s20 o'oloul: yesterday morning nt it point 27 miles west nt this place, while running at a spued uf 50 ititlcH 1111 hour, tliu train Went into a unshod out oulvurt. and tho result was tliu worst wreck known on thin division of the road. tix poraous wero killed and six Injured. Tho dluulor occurred at 11 point ft hero an embankment 3 fot high , . . . orossos iv ravino. jviouwg snow irum tho mountains caused it heavy null of water which broke through thn em baiikinuiit some llnio during tho night. 'iho washout was about 75 (out Iu width, and Into tho raging torrent tho Ill-fated train plunged without warn. Ing. Tho engine nearly olearott tho break boloro tho mils gavo wity,pthr tender falling linuk. Tho mall car and composite car followed into Iho chasm, tho composite car telescoping tho first of tho Pullman sleepers nonny half Its lougth. Two slcopers aud the dining car re mained on the track. Tho bodies of two men, evidently tramps, who wero stealing 11 ride, aro In tho wreckage. Train No. 4, tho eiutlioiuid oxprcss, was tallowing thn limited train very Qneen Victoria had 73 children, grandchildren and great-grandchll-ilren. Lord Roberts ' Is the first man ever entitled to wear the Garter, the Vic toria Cross and the order of St. Pat xlck. Thirty-five prominent American joulptors will contribute to the embel lishment of the grounds and buildings of the Pan-American exposition al -Buffalo, N. Y. law Without Governor's Signature. Governor Geer Monday filed the barber Sunday closing bill without his signature, thus completing the proceedings necessary to make it a law. As it bears an emergency clause, it went into effect Monday and will make barbering on next Sunday a crime. Passed Both Houses. The following bills have passed both nouses: House bill 2, relative to school libraries; house hill 91, to pro hibit harboring on Sunday; house bill 203, appropriation for legislative ex penses and deficiencies; senate bill 12 providing for sale of school lands; sen ate bill 15, exemption of earnings of judgment debtors; senate bill 17. fix ing fees of witnesses in Douglas, Jack eon and Josephine counties in criminal actions; senate bill 95, fixing salary of judge 01 uiackamas county. Incorpor anon bins, Bberidan and Whitney. Signed by the Governor. The following bills have been signed by the goveinor: House bill 3, amend ing Albany bridge act; house bill 4, appropriating $45,000 lor Oregon agri cultural college; house bill 25, appro priating $47,500 to Oregon state unl versity; house hill 180, for payment of scalp bounty warrants; house bill 224. relative to Portland tax ley; house bill 257, relinquishing ground to United States for postoffico at Salem; senate bill 8, relative to licenses on state fair grounds. (A law without governor's signature); senate bill 19, to pay ex penses of Indian war veterans to Wash ington; senate hill 89, to submit initia tive and referendum; senate bill 104, removing inoline ut Cascade looks; senate bill 11, to authorize Portland to levy a special tax; incorporation acts for the following places: Rose burg, Canyonville, Sllverton, Elgin, Summerville, Baker City, Antelope, DallaB, Sumpter, Myrtle Point, Med-ford. The Vote for Senator. The vote for senator Monday stood: Corbott 80, George II. Williams 23, William Smith 25, Blnger Hermann, 0, not voting 1, absent or paired 5. Boers Worsted at Aberdeen. Cape Town, Feb. 10. Fighting is reported to have taken placo near Aber deen Friday and Saturday last, the Boers being worsted. CHICAGO HOTEL FIRES. Aid for Orphanages. The lioueo committee on corpora tions Wednosday rendered a favorable report on the bill by Holcomb provid ing state aid for all orphan asylums of not to exceed $10 per annum per in mate. Foj Clark Sword Fund. In the house Wednesday Eddy In troduced a concurrent resolution pro viding for an appropriation of $202 for the completion of the Captain Clark iword fund. Attempts Were Made to Burn Four Structures Robbery During the Excitement. Chicago, Feb. 10. Flames were started simultaneously on four floors of the Palmer House this afternoon, and 45 minntes later were discovered on two floors in the Great Northern hotel. Two men snppoEed to bo liotol thieves were seen to run from the Palmer house. During the excite ment, $500 worth of jewelry was stolen from ono of the rooms of the Great Northern. About the same timo, a blaze of light was discovered in the Sherman house. Another firo of sus picious origin had been discovered , only 24 hours before. The fires con vince the police that an organized gang of incendiaries is operating iu Chicago. Good" desciiptions have beon secured of the two mon who wero seen running from the Palmer house, and I try." u uumuer oj ueiecuves uro ai worK on the case. The four fires, with tho cir 'cumstances attending them, wore: Palmer House Four fires started simultaneously in baskets of linen on different floors. Towols saturated with kerosene weie fonnd. The fire was extinguished by guests and em ployes. Two suspects wero seen, bnt allowed to escape. Damage nominal. Great Northern Hotel Simultan eous fires were discovered on the II and J floors. Odor of kerosene on II floor. J. S. Frlest, ot Now York, reported that $500 -worth of jewelry had been stolen fiom his room. Damage. of $1,600 by fire and small panic among the guestB. Sherman House Thn blaze was on the npper floor and was attended with little commotion. Damage, $100. Hotel Grace Fire of suspicions origin discovered in a linen closet. Damago nominal. Tho most dangerous . fire in the Palmer house was on the fifth floor. It was extinguished at personal risk by John M. Mo Williams, Jr., n senior at Princeton university. The police agree that all tho flies were incendiary and tonight every important down town hostelrv was guarded by a detail of officers in plain clothes, watching for the mon suspected of having started the fires. These officers, as well as the hotel managers, have tho theory that the blaze was started by somo dis charged hotel employe who wished to satisfy his grndge and was ablo to do so through his intimate knowledge of opportunities. Sentence to the Rebel Officer Who Captured the Yorktown Party. Washington, Feb. 18. Aocording to mail advices from tho Philippines, Captain Novtcu, tho insurgent olllcer who commanded tho band which cap tured Lieutenant Uilmoro and party, has been sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life, 011 the charges of having pennlttcd one of Gilmore's party to be buried nlivo. Tho victim was a sailor named MoDouald. Surrender In Bulacan District. Washington, Feb. 18. Nows of an other important surrender in tho Phil ippines is coutalnod in tho following dispatch received at tho war depart ment from General MacArthur: "Manila, Feb. 18. Adjutant-Gon-oral, Washington Ono hundred and twelve rifles and 1,500 rounds of am munition surrendeied at Hagauey, Feb. 13, mostly from supply eccrotod j in contiguous swamps. Tho incident ; is important, and indlcatos a groat re- action favorable to American iuterosti in region of liulacan, heretofore ono of the worst iu Luzon. Tho result is ac complished exclusively by tho long continued, intelligent and persistent efforts of officers of the Third iufau- through No. 5 shaft, but the llamos prevented any development of tho per ilous venture. Tho Cumberland mine is one of the ' piopertlcN of tliu Union Colliery Com pany, situatod near Comox aud ! reached Irom Union bay by tho private colliery railway crossing tho Trent river on which tho memorable bridge disaster occurred a year or two ago. It has been singularly fortunate hero toforu iu Immunity from disaster aud was couutud an especially safe mine to work in by roason of tbu character of the formation In which tliu coal li found there, and tho manner iu which it had boon opened up. No. II shaft, the Hceno ot the disaster, was bottomed in October, 189H, ut it depth of H14 feet. It is well constructed aud lim bered, with u mud wall, tho pit bot tom being timbered with 13x18 sawn hulks, built solidly together, 1(1 foes wldo and 13 foot high, Tho shaft is located closo to tho lallway, and the vontilatiou of the mine is offealod by a l4x5-foot (itilbal fan, which, when run to its full rapacity, gives 85,000 oublo toet ot tur circulation per mltiutu. Tho air enters by the haulago slopos nnd is divided into separata splits, the main split being at the tioiut where No. 2 branches off tho main slope, part of the air gnlnvr down each slopo. Further down each of those slopes the air is again split, and sont to Iho work ings east and west of the respective lopes. A second oxploslon occurred in No. 5 shalt tonight, but it had been ex pected, and all tho mon had left the workiiign. Thoro wore no casualties. This explosion prevents any further elf 1 rts being made to roiouo tho en tombed minors through No. 6 shaft. City, tho nearest station. Tliu dead 11 ml injured wero Inter taken back to Wadsworth on a special train, aud will be carried on to San Francisco. It will bo two or three days buforn tho track run be put in condition so j that the running of trains may bo rn smned. It will bo necessary first to build a tiostlo acmes tho chasm in which tho recked cars aro lying. OVERPOWERED THE JAILER. Engagements With Insurgents. Manila, Feb. 18. Colonel Cronln, and 80 of the Thirty-third regiment have located 100 insurgonts at Candon, South I locos. Captain Green with 50 men, met a forco of tho enomy at San ta Maria. The insurgents, who wero commanded by Tino, hid bohind stone walls on a steop mountainside. There was hard fighting for three hours Then Tino abandoned his position and rotrentod southward. Gold discoveries of some importance nave uoen maue in tho proviuoo of Lo panto. Car Jumped the Track. Pittsburg, Fob. 18. A oar on tho Hamilton line jumpod the track to night, at tho corner of Sixth and Ham ilton avenue, and toppled over against ine euro compinioiy wrocKlug tho car and Injuring 20 or more passongers tonr 01 tnem severely. Ribbed of $3,000 Worth of Jewelry. San Francisco, Fob. 10. Mrs. F. II . Osgood, of Seattle, who arrived in this city on the Oregon express this morning, has reportod to tho police and railway officials that she was robbed during last night of $3,000 worth of jewelry. She stated thut the gems were in n leather bag which she suspended from her neck, hut that they woro taken while shn was sleep ing. The polico ofllcera have arrested a man ou suspicion. To Stop Cane Rushes. New Haven, Conn., Fob. 10, The Yale faculty has abolished the time- honored custom of granting a holiday to tne umiorgrad nates on Washington's birthday. The action of the faculty has excited much discussion among tne undergraduates, and an attempt will be made to have the day restored. February 22 is annually the date whon the Yale sophomoros wear high hats and carry canes for the first timo, and when tho freshmen "rush" the sopho mores and "tako" the fence. Defenses for Port Orchard Dock. Taconia, Feb. 18. Tho work of lay ing mines and torpedoes about the on trances to tho Port Orchard drydook Is soon to begin. A shipment of flvo oars of mushroom anchors has boen re ceived by the quartermaster's depart ment, consigned to tho Unitod States engineer by the ordnanco dopnrtmout of tho army. They are to be used to hold down the gunootton mines and torpedoes. Killrhy a Tiger. Indianapolis, Ind., Fuh. 18. Albert Nollson, aged 15, cfiiiployeil us an ani mal kooper at the Zoological ganlon, iu this city, ..us killed by a Bengal tiger today, l'.o onterod tho tigoi's cage ami was attacked by tho boast. A terrililo strugglo followed in which Nollson was torn in a hundred placoi. Red hot irons woro thrust into the blood thirsty animal, but not until seven bullets had been fired Into its body did it roloaso its hold on its vlo tlm. Nollson was dragged from the" cage tnoro dead than nlivo, and was hurried to tho city hospital, where he died as ho was bolng carriod in. The tiger was not fatally wounded. Noil son had been employed by the Zoo company throu yourfl. Ho was in charge of the lion's otihs, and it is sup posed opened tho tiger's cago by mis take. Generals to Retire Today. Washington, Fob. 18. Gonorals J. H. Wilson, l itzhugh Leo aud Theo dore Schwan will be retirod tomorrow, tho last named on his own upplicaion. Colonel A. H. Daggett, Fourteenth in fantry, will be promoted to a brigadier generalship, suoceoding Schwan, and will be retired immodlutuly. May Arrest Without a Warrant Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 18. In the suit of John li. Ilonnett against Socrot Serv ice Agents I'lyun nnd ilorrlman and Deputy United States Marshal W. S. Rlalr, who were charged with malic ious trespass assault and battery in connection with tho arrest of tho plain tiff, judge W. M. Achiu, iu the Unit ed States court, Handed down an im portant opinion. He makes a prece dent in dooming that United States marshals or their deputies can make arrests in eraorgonoy cases without warrant. Nine Prlioncrs In the Spokane County Jail Escape Olllcer Gave Pursuit. Spokane, Fob. 10. Arthur Spencer, af Sun Francisco, charged with Imper sonating a United States olllcer, and eight other prisoners overpowered Jailer Thompson in tho Hpokanu county jail this morning and uru now at largo. Thompson vaya ho was seized from bohind by prisoners who wero hiding behind a door, wus beaten in 0 linen ihllity, nibbed of keys aud revolver and gagged to prevent an outcry. Whon tliu jailer gut loose ho took 11 Winchester mid went out to look for tliQ escaped men. Ho spied h citizen, who, frightened by tho jailer's appoar mice, started to run, Tliu jailor gavo pursuit and began to shout at the mutt, who finally was rescued by 11 Jury out for an airing. I'osset havo been sent out every where, hut not ono of tho jail breakers has been sighted. NEGRO WAS LYNCHED. Killed 1 Man and Ills family and Ransacked the House. New Orloann, Feb. 19. ThomaM Jackson, n Negro, was lynched today at St. l'utei, 20 miles aliovo this city, for n series of 01 lines. This morning ho visited tho hnuiu of Alexander Bour geois, tho engineer of tliu dralnago machine 011 llullopoiiit plantation, homo distance from tliu plantation quartern. Ho told lloiirgools tho' manager wanted him, and tliu engineer mounted tho tricyolo with tho Negro. Jackson stabhod tho engineer in tho back and' throw tho body into a ditch. Ho thou returnod to the bouse and butchered Mrs. iiourgools aud her two babies and ransacked tho hnueo. Two lioys visit ing tho family hid in the woods. After the negro's doparturo the boys went to St. Potor nud gavo tho alarm, return ing with a mob of sovoral hundred men. Tho negro was trnokod to bin homo nnd fully ldontlllod by the boys. Ho was hanged and his body riddled with bullots boforo tho sheriff arrivod. Composer Nevln Dead. New Haven, Conu., Fob 19. Eth. elbert Novln, musician nud coniposor, died snddeuly here todny of heart dis ease. Mr, Novin came to New ilavou about flvo weeks ago to bo associated with professor Parker, of Yale tiniver slty, iu his musclnl work. Etholbert Nelvn was bom in Novinucro, Pa., in 1803. As a copmosor, Mr. Noyln at tained a namo hardly second to any musician, and his songs are known throughout tho continents. Among thesonro "Tho Rosary," "Narcissus," "Good Night," "Good Night, Prov ed, "and an arrangement of Holna' "Tlio Holden Rooslulu." Found Dead on the Desert. Tucson, Ariz. Fob. 18. Goorire Wheatloy a well-known mining man nnd two Mexican minors woro ioutid dead in their tont, ono mile from tho mining camp of Sohultz, 30 milos from Tucson. When found tho parties had been dead for sovoral days. Indica tions point to doath from ohurcnal fumes. Somo bellovo that the men were poisoned. The body of one o! the Mexicans was being consumed by flr when the remains were discovered. Mexican Troops Defeated Indians. Mexico City, Fob. f 19 Tho fe.lnr,.! troops had another engagement with Maya Indians yestorday, and the troops 'ulu"" 11 mm nun arovo thorn from all their fortified iplncosl The now Mauser rifles are found to bo extremely effective against the ouomy. Three S.dcldei In San Francisco. San Francisco, Feb. 19. Sulsldes wero opidemio in this city today Throo men suffering from dospoudency took their lives. A. Lewis, a shoo maekr iu 111 health, eudod hisllfo tron hies by asphyxiation. Robert Mo Kenna, a painter, quarreled with his wife and swallowed a doso of nrsonio . u uancr, wno grieved over tho death of a son, who wus killod in the terrlblo football accident lust Thanksgiving, took carbolic add.