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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1901)
ekt « ó « LATER NEWS. EUGEtfE WEEKLY GUARD. •AMFBKI.L mol., EUGENE ......... -.......... OREGON, m or nit phi A. «^rwtlnq Collection ol llerru Fro-n th« Two Hemispheres l-rwenUd in « Conden»ed Form. Ilewet is the guiding genius of the Boers. Minister Wo think» the joint note demands too mncb. Minnesota has experienced her flist blizzard of the year. The Japanese minister of communi cation has resigned. Spokane has decided to bold a min eral fair daring 1902. Oregon ha« paid out nearly *100.000 in scalp bounties during 1899. Public attention in < iermatiy is oc cupied with crime in high circles. Kitchem-r reports that Boer invasion into Cape Colony has laieu checked. Germany wants the sultan to pay its bill before buying an American war ship. Rebels are scattered in the pro vinces of Pa nay and Cebu, Philippine islands. England will buy 60,000 horses and mules in the Culled Mates lor army in boutb Africa. Delay in negotiations has caused great change of seutiments as regards China in Japan. A tornado did great damage in Ala bama. News is meager, owing to all wires being down. If, Phelps Whitmarsh has been ap pointed governor of the province of ilsuguet, Philippine islands. Forty-five insurgents were killed and oue American wounded in an encounter near Guuobatan, Philippine islands. K. II. Southern, the well known are tor, who ha been laid up lor some time by an accideut, is entirely recovered. A large portion of the l’MIppines must be abandoned unless the relief of the army is immediate, says becretary Root. The police are working on the case of Long, the Portland burglar recently arrested. It is thought that a charge of murder will 1« laid at his door. Fire which starte-l in a Pennsylvania ooal mine 42 years ago is under control, and it is »aid that the next two year« will see it extinguished. Ths tire has consumed about 35 acres of the finest coal laud in the anthracite region. Conger was iuatructer1 to sign the not«. There is another bitch In the Chinese negotiations. Troops are being rxrnceutrated lu Northern Ca|>e Colony. Tlie English war office has arranged to reiuforoe Kitchener at ouoe. Nicholas Darnell, a pioneer of East ern Oregon, is dead, aged 83 years. Nenator McBride has asked for large appropriation for customs service launch at Astoria. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company will change its headquarters (rum Sag inaw to Eugene, Or. Guvoruor Geer asks Pacific Northwest states to join Oregon in celebration ol Lewis and Clarke ceuteuuial. A mob at Gulf Port, Mis»., lynched a negro. It now appears that he wn> the wrong man. The supreme court of Ohio has dis mtssml live cases brought under the trust laws of that state. It Is prolrable that the president will visit Portland aud the l’ugvt souud cities ou ins trip iu May. Mata of Washiugtou pai s $11,300 sugar bounty to local augur beet lac tory for Spokane couuty crop. The stnkiug telegraph operators on the Santa Fe have given up the fight Their places have been tilled by nv* men. Over 1,000 Christians are reported t> have b'su iua«sacred by Turks. Thr Turkish authorities show the utmost indifference. The controller of the currency has appointed a rvoalver for the American Rational Bauk of Baltimore. It is thought that depositors will be paid iu full. A dispatch from Tien Tsin says: •'1‘riuce Ching asserts that Einperor Kwang Ilan, uuacvxmipauled by th« Empress Dowager, led Muan Fu De ceml>er 19, Ism nd for Pekin.’* The dead body of Pater F. Johnson was found in a water ditch on Park avenue. Puyallup. The presumption la that Johnson fell into the ditch ami was unable Io rescue himself. A coal mine under the city of Pitts burg, I'eunsylvania, has partially caved in. al low lug part of the principal street of the towu to fall into the miue It is feared other see Hous will also sink. Three children at Qlymi ia wars ere- mated alive. There are said to bs 80,000 lepers ill the archipelago. Massacre» of native Christians in China continue. Clements cannot force ¿be B'eri from Magaiies Berg. Tbe lumber industry in Eastern (he gon is rapidly growing. A squadron of Yeomanry is said to have been captured by Boers. Whitmarsh, the new governor o' Benguet, is a 1.robin subject. Mock» of wool in the United States exceed »60,000,U00 pounds. A receiver was appointed for tbe Old Town bank, at Baltimore. The trial ol Alvotd, tbe defaulting note teller, has been |>oetponed. The grandson of ex-Attornev-General Miller was abducted by his mother. Kitchener is making little progre-« in driving the Boers from Cape Colony. Robert Taylor, a well known resi dent of Ashland, committed suicide. The bolliday rush at the New York poHtoftice was tiie greatest ever known. Three hundred student« have been arrerted in St Petersburg lor propagat ing Socialist doctrines Fontela, a Filipino refugee, says the United Mates will ueiet succeed iu subduing the Philippine islands. Congress will be asked to recognize Hobson's gallantry in sinking ths Mer rimac in the harbor of Sautiago. Fire partially destroyed tbe Method ist Episcopal church (colored) of Prov idence, Mo. The pastor was fatally burned. In the event of England rejecting the Ifay-Pauucefote treaty a new oue may be negotiated at the next seeelou ol congress. Boxers numbering 2,600 men at tacked a French column. They were repulsed with heavy los«, leaving be hind them 1,000 dead and wounded. Inquiries into quarters most likely to be correctly informed abow that nothing is knowu in Paris to justify tbe report circulated in the United Mates that Paderewski, the pianist, was killed iu a duel in France. A baud of probably 60 men forced an entrance to tbe Green couuty. 111., jail, with the intention of lynching a prisoner, but were foiled. The prison er had been seen tly removed «o an other jail. A creamery will be founded at Eu gene, Or. Prince Tuan and Prince Chung have been arrested. New Zealand will send more troops to South Africa. Yu Hsien was ordered to return to Binau Fu to be executed. Two men were killed as the result ol an explosion in an Idaho miue. The adavnee guard of Eastern sheep buyers have arrived at Heppner. The foreign ministers believe Chin« will accept the terms of the note. Fifty-two Poles have l>een arrested in Vienna lor alleged |aditical conapi- raoy. Fire in Eau Claire. Wis., destroyed half the business section. Tbe loss i- *160,000. The Weston, Or., school will a«k the legislature to grant normal g aduute» diplomas under former conditions. An unsuccessful attempt was made to blow up a hotel in Oklahoma terri tory. A suspect has been arrested. Two noted Chicago scientists declare alter long experiments, that the beat ing of the heart is caused by oommou salt in the blood. James Patterson, for the pa«t four years city treasurer of Aberdeen, Wash., is dead at his home in that City, aged 87 years. A shooting affray occurred at (lurke, Idaho, and as a result Pearley Gordon ami Charles lleek are in the litMpitai suffering from shot wounds. Alfred llarmsworth, editor aud pro prietor of the London Daily Mail, pre dicts a complete revolution in journal ism during the couilug century. John Tiger, a full blooded Indian, livlug in ludlau territory, while intox icated, shot and killed three men aud wounded a bov. lie was captured. A serious race war is expected at Comentville, a small Indiana town. The trouble was cause.I by two negroes getting intoxicated aud trying to in timidate all the whites they met. A French deta< hment of 100 men on their way from lieu Tsin to Hung leu, were tired upon by Boxers as they ap proached a small village. Oue officer was killed and another wounded. The Freuch burned tbe village. Webb Jay. ludianaiolis manager for tlie Flick Manufacturing Company, of WI us I riio , III., and a prominent bowl er was arrested ou a charge of etn lies slemeut, preferred by 8. B. Btuehart. preebleut of the company. Mr. Blue hart states that tbe alleged siioitage will not exceed *8,000. m ffl Mm L'nsblt Y«t to Drive Botrt From Cap«. Col ony—Disturbed Arts Growing. London, Dec 29.—The paucity aud But Kitchener Cannot Drive jbocurity of the dispa: cbes from South tfrica give rise to renewed anxiety. Appareutly the disturbed area of Cape Them From Cape Colony. Colony extends further sooth than it did last December, and Luid Kitch- EFFECT OF KITCHENER S PROCLAMATION -nor does not appear to have much success as yet in driving back tbe in vaders. The war office had received no news Westward Movement of the Dutch From th« last evening ot the reported capture ot Vryburj Dulnct—Dewet in South, yoemanry near Bristow n. ««item Orange River Colony. A Burgher-dorp dispatch had a ¡nys- tenous reference to an ‘‘unfortunate London, Dec. -I1.—The latest dis mistaking of the enemy for Brabant a patches from Foeth Alrica show that Horse, which resulted in the sounding Lord Kit. bluet has succeeded tn hold of ‘cease firing' and enabled the Boers lug tbe Boers in check, lie has not to occupy the commaudiug positions, yet been vucc.-seful iu expelliug them the British retiring from a difficult from C'a|>e Colony, while different predicament.” commandoes continue to dirplay a«b n- General Clements' success against i-thing activity over au immensely wide the Boers in the Magalies Berg region field, is also doubtful, tbe last dispatch re it is questionable whether his proc porting that ‘‘it was considered advis lamation will have much effect until able not to force the Boers from their ieueral Dewet is captured. The Boers position. ” ire likely to legard it as a sign of 'lhe British press continues in the weakness aud to have a wholesome main optimistic, but the condition of jread of vengeance if they surrender. affairs brings home the enormous difli- The proclamation is approved by the culties that will face Lord Kitchener party at home that favors conciliatory - in patrolllug and policing such itu- terms to the Boers as a step in tbe ' mense tracts of country, even when right direction. the Boers shall be finally subdued. Queen Victoria, it is «aid, has ap The Daily Mail, which makes a strong proved the proposal to institute a new appeal to the government to ‘‘face the order of knighthood to reward officers facta aud send Lord Kitchener wore who have reived in South Africa troops,” say«: ‘‘There is a real risk The order will probably be called the ! in being lulled to sleep by carefully Star of A friea. | cenaorel messages.” A dispatch from Vryburg, dated De Lord Kitchener, according to a dis cern tier 20, says that Boers in com-ider- patch from Johannesburg, has issued a able numbers were making a move I reclamation, dated Pretoria, Decern- ment westward. They had 160 wag-ms. i her 20, announcing that burghers who The dispaloh suggest» that thvy were 1 voluntarily surrender will be allowed trekking to Damara Land, although to live with their families in the gov the Boers themselves denied any such erntnent laagers until such time as intention. I guerilla warfare has siifficientlv abated to admit of their returning in safety to Botrv May Surrender. their homes. The proclamation also Bloemfontein, Orange River Colony, promises that all property and stock Dec. 29.—There are renewed but uu brought in at the time of surrender confirmed rumor« that General Dewet, will far respected aud paid for, if requi President Steyn aud Geueial Hasbroek sitioned by the military authorities. have had a conference aud decided to offer to surrender, providing the colon THE SCRANTON STRIKE. ial rebels are not punished, and tile leaders, including themselves, are not Mort Imported Men Induced to Change Their deported. 5ioit nut pouch Drowninj of Forty nine School Children Neer Night m the Public Wading Room- Say Report Is True. I Foster, lows. Davenport, ft ., Dee. 31.—A start- ling rumor is current here that 49 Items of Interest From All Michigan Robbers Secured Over »cbool children were drowned while of the State. near Foster, la. skating on the river I >100,000. It is impoesible to I confirm the report. _____ _ who __ arrived at Sevmour, A travel# la.. 15 miles west of Foster, early to COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL MAFF ü ^ REMARKABLE CASE OF CARELESSNESS la.. day, states he left Foster late last even ing and knew nothing of such an acci A Brief Review of the Growth ang SUfiun Agent Left the Sacks Unguarded Over dent.__________ ______ menu ol the Many hduitnci n«-,,^ out Our Thriving Cun.-nonwulth. Des Moines, la., Dec. 31.—Tele- phone messages by way of Oskaloosa Condon is digging anotl er city WllL say . the report of the Detroit, Dec. 31.—A mail pouch aud Ottumwa Tbe Salem tax levy for 1901 win i. containing *100,000 in negotiable j»a- drowning of 49 school children at per and an unknown amount of money What Cheer is true. The children 10 mills. was stolen from tbe Michigan Central were skating ou a pond near the fair The Oregon Agricultural College in. passenger station al Wyandotte. Mich., grounds and the accident occurred 406 students. some time last night. The last mail atmut 9 o’clock in the evening. Wire Dallas will refnn<] its debt of V.SOo 1 for Wyandotte arrives at 10:28 on the communication with What Cheer can at a ‘ower rate of interest. not be obtained at present. Michigan Central, and owing to the Pendleton water consumers will lateuess of the hour it is left at tbe sta tb No Particulars Obtainable. to use meters after April 1. tion until morning. When the two Chicago, Dec. 31.—A special to the mail »acks were thrown from the <i The sheriff of Grant county has «!■ ‘ h train last night, Night Operator Rich Record from Des Moines, la., says: le«_te«l over *2.5,000 since July. 1» ert threw the pouches under a seat in At 2 o’clock this morning communi Several farmers of Goose Lake vail«' G tbe corner of tbe waiting room. He cation was secured with the mayor’s are boring fot artesian water. hr then went to his home in Detroit. To office in Oskaloosa over the telephone, There are now about 30 loggin. day when Mail Carrier John McCleary and it was stated there that intorma- came to the station for the mail sacks tion had been received from Ottumwa camps on Lake creek und Siuslaw. he missed one. About the same time confirming the rumor that 49 children The treasurer of Lake county hw«. George Bessy, a driver of an oil wagon, had been drowned in What Cheer, this ceived a large safe for his office. i reported at the station that a pouch, state. Mark Wolf, of Perrydale, killed i It was stated that the children had ripped open and empty, was behind au silver fox near that place a tew da», i oil tank a short distance from the sta been skating on a pond near the fair ago. tion. At aliout the same time two grounds. There were only a few es- Emmet Kimberland was tiued *25« employes of tlie J. B. Ford Alkali « apes. The tragedy occurred about 9 works found a num tier of checks and o’clock in the evening. Beyond this Prairie City for having Btoleu a qUt f opened envelopes strewn along the rail no particulars were known in Osca- tity of barley. road track. Postmaster Johnson, of loose. What Cheer cannot now be The Garibaldi beach roadway is rs Wyaudotte, was notified and went at reached by wiYe. ported washed out in places, and once to the scene. Tlie trail of the Through the office of a telephone with driftwood. thief was marked along the railroad company at Indianola it was learned A petition is being signed »«king f«( track by strewn letters, checks and from the Oskaloosa office that the Ot- drafts. Most of the mail was intended tumwa office had learned that the ru- the construction of a new steel btidm for the J. G. Ford Company, and a mor of tbe drowning of 49 children at Cottage Grove. force of clerks was sent out to collect was true. No particulars could be ob- McKinley Mitchell, of Gervais, a the letters strewn along the track. J. tained. shipping large quantities of potatoes x, B. Ford, Jr., said he expected a draft tbe Arizona market. today from New York foi *40,000. DAMAGES FOR LYNCHING A carload of tile has been received The draft did not come, and it is be at Creswell from Salem for the purpo« lieved that the robber or robbers took of draining the town. it, with other valuable papers, from After a Long Suit s Woman Gets $4«000 f°r ihe Iu the recent storm the surf « «to Killing of Her Husband. the pouch. away Mr. McMillen's house at th* Chicago, Dec. 81.— Mre. Lulu C. mouth of the Nehalem. GALE SWEPT COAST. Jennings, now of Chicago, has jurt Peter Peterson, of Surprise valley,bi been awarded *4,000 for the lynching Minds and Join the Strikers. Havoc Wrought by Storm in English Channel of her husband in Ripley county, Ind., purchased 2,300 head of young «her Boer Attack Repulsed. three years ago. The money will be from George Ehrhardt. Scranton, I’a., Dec. 28.—Fifty-three ' — Many Wrecks Reported. Cape Town, Deo. 29.—A small mora men recruited in New York to 1 paid over by the eight bondsmen of £ Persons who have been huntit Ixmdou, Dee. 81. — There has been a party of Boers sttacked Burgliersdorp. take the places of the strikers ou the ex-Sheriff ■ Henry Bushing, and is the geese in Sherman county, say they tit on December 28. They were repulsed Scranton Railroad Company arrived recurrence of storms aud violent gales result of a private settlement of the after heavy fightiug. The floors are tonight, but before the train had come tn the channel, aud considerable dam indemnity suit instituted by the wid birds scarcer than ever knowu. Ux Business men of Pendleton are ex: active, aud skirmishes in several places to a full stop the strikers and their age has been wrought ashore. Tele ow three months after the murder. tel graph lines are down in many places. vassing for a *5,000 fund with whit have beeu reported. sympathizers tioarded the car, and by Vessels are seeking shelter in tne har This puts an eud to a case that has to erect a Y. M. C. A. building using arguments aud exhortations in bors, aud a number of wrecks havu aroused attention all over the United Martial Law Proclaimed. Thomas Martin and eons are tiguriii duced all but 18 of them to agree to re been announced. States. The gale is so furi Cape Towu. Dec. 29. —Martial Law j turn to New York. They are being ous in the channel that the Continental William Jenkins was one of five men ou building a creamery at Merrill uu has been proclaimed in the districts of I cared for at etriikers' headquarters, services were suspended this evening. The institution will be^ lynched in September, 1897, for al spriug. Beaufort West and Caruovarau aud will le furnished transportation Wales is said to have suffered th* leged complicity in the stealing of a business with milk of 250 cows. home. There was no violence and no ' worst effect of the gale, both on land horse from Lisle Levi, of Osgood, In Two colts, belonging to Charles Ha Levi also was a victim of the ershon aud Frank Kargl, of Condoi angry words, although not infrequently aud sea, but everywhere the telegraph diana. CLAIMS AGAINST HAWAII. The men killed were Robert got into a granary several days ago aa the company'» agents au l the strikers' i »ires are much disorganized, and re | mob. missionaries would be working on the ports are therefore incomplete. Con Andrews, Heine Sehuter, William died from the effects of overfeeding. Chines* and Japanese Want Pay for Property same men at the same time. siderable damage to property inland Jenkins, Cliffaril Gordon, a 17-year old A new wire cable in use on the (err Destroyed During Bubonic Plaque. The company had only 12 men left is certain to be repotted. Some 50 boy, and Lisle Levi, an aged soldier. [ connecting Kiger islaud with the mu There was a light in which shots were to run the cars today. Five cars were Washington, Dec. 29. — It is expect barges and sailing craft broke from land was stolen the other day. Tb ed that Governor Cole, ot Hawaii, will run out, but 'ew passengers were car their moorings in the Thames alone. tiged at a depntv sheriff. There is a Jenkins, with the others, was arrest wire was 300 feet long. make a recommendation to the Hawaii- . ried. At Oswestry a theater was destroyed. clew to the thief. ed ami taken to jail at Versailles, Ind. The company is fitting up An impro an legislature, which meets in Febru Tbe hurricane is increasing at Professor Merrill left Central Poit ary, for the settlement o( the claims of vised hotel in the Liudeu street car Queenstown, where the observers sav Mrs. Jenkins, suspecting that mob barn for the accommodation of the im Chinese ami Japanese growing out of it is the fiercest storm in y ears. The violence was brewing, walked from several days ago without giving his v The hotels refuse to re Maria, laden with coal, sank at her Osgood to Versailles at night ami dress. He also left some board biz#; th the destruction of their proper y at ported men. paced the streets till dawn, armed unpaid, aud forgot to leave the churt- 7 Honolulu at the time ol the bulrouic ceive them, and the merchants refuse anchorage. The mails are delayed. ai Three men wen- plague outbreak. It appear» that the to furuish supplies. In response to rockets from Eddy with a revolver. For several hours shs aud organ keys of the Baptist church. & Chinese claims are lees than was at ' coaxed off the cars this afternoon aud stone light, Plymouth sent a dockyard waited under the window of her hus I Granite has refused to allow a liqtafl in sent away by the strikers. General first estimated, aud that the total of tug with a lifeboat to assist what was band's cell, ready to challenge any who license to a dealer who persists in ke»|I th the Chinese aud Japanese claims are, Manager Silliman says the compauy reported to be a large steamer iu dis came to do him harm, Her fears be- ing his rwtloon in the street. H- < at ing finally allayed, Mrs. Jenkins approximately, *1,800,000. The t hi- will have cars running on all the lines tress iu the channel. claims the right to remain because b I started for home. No sooner was she nose government han uot been in a tomorrow. Incessant reports of innumerable was there before tbe towu was lacoip, at condition, of late, Io exert pressure in shipping easualtiex show that the gale out of sight than a mob gathered. rated. aa Wilcox's Big Mileage. behalf of the claims of its oilixeus, but was one of the worst known in many Dragging out the five men, the mot the Japanese authorities have been ac A freighter who passed through A> t et Washington, Dec. 28.—Robert H. years. Probably several days will killed them in succession by beating tively kaiking out for the losses sus Wilcox, delegate in the house of repre elapse belore the full damage becomes them over the head with a musket stock. tvdope last week said the road dovi ■ Mrs. Jenkins was compelled to Hee Antelope canvon was getting to be s w r< tain*! by their countrymen, aud now sentatives (torn tlie Hawaiian islaii-ls, known. seem to be in a fair wav of seeming has just beeu paid a claim of *1,0011 condition and that hereafts * In addition to some vessels not yet to save her own life, coining to Chi good partial remuneratiou. Governor Dole for mileage. It was the largest claim identtied, several have been wrecked or cago. Here she brought suit for *5,00(1 teams which have been going by Cwf. suggested a short lime ago that the of the kiud ever made, but it was paid placed in great danger, the fate of som« damages against Sheriff Bushing'» canyon will go that way. matter be refeired to the Hawaiian promptly by the sergeaut-al-arma ol of the cross-channel steamers being in Irourtsmen before Judge Baker in tht Active work is progressing in tb ti legislature, and .tins was approved by the house. Every congressman is en doubt. For instance, the Great West ’ United States circuit court. The suit the off cials here as the liest means ot titled to mileage at the rate of 20 cents ern Railway Company's steamer, ply I dragged along tor three years anc Liberty mine at Riverton, under ta *. adjusting the matter. There appears per mile, "by the most direct and ing between Milford and Waterford, finally the bondsmen decided to sett)« supervision of Suirerintendent- Cam tt bell. Ten men are at work, und it i to be little doubt that the legislature practicable route from his home tc is 12 hours overdue, and no tidings of outside of court. « will authorize a settlement. Washington ami return,” The dis her nave been received. It would be Mrs. Jenkins, when compelled sev expeoted that the output will reach i tance betwr en llouolulu and Washing impossible to enumerate all the minor eral months ago to go to Ripley county tons a day iu the «-ourse of a few weex « Frozen to Dtsth Ntsr Dawion to attend thu tiial of the case, was pro- ton is figured at 6,000 miles. Mr. casualties. V It is proposed to establish one or t« , tei te l l>y a body guard of government rural free delivery routes from Bendi- Oregon City, Deo. 29 —A Tacoma Wilcox will draw *500 more (or his ! «lete fives. She will go to Versaillet ton. The one most talked about i BLOWN TO ATOMS. Aispatch states that Harry Moff t’, ol return trip. next week to get the *4,000. that leading up Wild Horse creek . « ibis place, was frosen to death some Cashed Worthless Checks. northeasterly from Pendleton, tnenn thing over two weeks ago mar Dawson Dynamite Exploiion Killed Six Men at a Rail- Aberdeen, Wash., Dec. 28.—L. D. across the country to Fulton, them City. He had goue nlone to Eureka « • Found An American Diamond Mine. road Camp. back to Pendleton. creek for a hunt, aud was c night iu a Savage, stenographer in tbe office ol J Alamo Gordo, Dec. 31. — A promi Keyser, W. Va.. Dec. 31. —By a dy- sn< w storm aud wandered aimlessly City Attorney J. O. Cross, yesterday nent railway official here today re H. T. Anderson, whose ranch is lit about for two days. 1 • was found by swindled many business men by induc nannte explosion nt Baker Camp, near ceived a Irox of 50 gem« closely resem uated four miles northwest of Merril e a rescue party with his hands aud feet ing them to cash worthless checks in Durben. Pm-ahontas county, ou the bling aud alleged to lie dianiondi > is building a reservoir a quarter of r«i bally frozen, but died before they sums ranging from *16 to *40. Sav line of the Coal A Iron railway, now found near Capitan, the coal camp on 6 miie in area. It will not onlv irrig»»', age made out the cheeks payable to building out from Eikinr, six mea could reach Dawson. the line of the El Faso A Northeastern 400 acres for himself, but will be di , • Excepting the dispatch, ii" news bat himself. He had but little trouble in were killed and several othtrs fatally railway company, 80 miles north ol t sufficient capacity to contribute watc getting them cashed. injured. The accident happened yes beeu recetve-l here by J W. Moffatt, t ibis place. The atones were found by to other land in the neighborhood. terday while the men were at dinner. brother of the reported dead man. E J. J. Blow, formerly associated with Pardons for Forto Ricins. Harry Moffat left here on the first trip Some dynamite had been placed about the De Beers Consolidated company at A i'atal accident occurred at Gh* f of the Elder for the Klondike c< UJtry, New York, Dec. 27.—A dispatch to the stove to thaw, and shortly after a Kimberly, booth Africa, who has been dale. A young colored min, fair!’ t where he had since beeu engage-1 in the Herald, from San Juan, Porte terrific explosion wrecked the camp, well dressed, who had been in R um " 3 secretly investigating the field for the mining a shoit distance from Dawson. Rico, says: Governor Allen has oele- killed three men outright and injured ■ past munth, and a letter from him ac- burg a day or two, had managed tn F. F. White, who left Daw-ou a few brate-1 tlie holiday season bv extending eight others, three of whom have since r companv ing the shipmeut states that beat bis wav that far on t ie overhni. weeks ago. state« that Moffatt occupied executive clemency to 34 prisoners in died. The three men were blonn ta Being put off there he attempted to g** they are either «liamonds or something a • cabin adjoining his own. Porto Rican jails. He has pardoned atoms, legs arms aud hands and even upon the brakes of the local. In 1W t so closelv resembling the gem that darknerw he missed his hold ami fell I 17 murderers and homicides and seven part» of their bodies being found in thev deceive him. They will success Turin A«Mult«d a British Chargs. thievM. different directions from the building fully stand every crude test known. between the wheels of the moving I iu which they lived. The names are Constantinople. Dec. 29. — Soma I'he gems will be sent away for final train. His right leg was cut off a» th« Arrtsfed for Slsgr Robbery. uot obtainable tonight. thigh and the left was terrlibly «’rushed Turkish soldiers have grossly assault«d analysis. e Lakeview, Or., Dec. 28.—Bob and mangled. He was picked 'up and and maltreated the Hntisi charge Minister Buck Coming horn*. cared for by the people there, but lived | d'affair«. Mr De Hulseu, aud other Oglesby, driver of the Lakeview-Pais Mother end Children Periihed. Atlauta, Ga., Dec. 31.—A private I only an hour or two. He said thst hi» meniliers of the British e ubaaey lu tbe ley stage, was arrested biuight by Brookville, I’a., Dec. 31.—Fire to- name was Lane Hopkins, and that his • telegram received here from Cole nel 1 viiTuity ot tbe pottdnr magaaiun at Postmaster Wileox for the robberv ol Makrikein. Sharp demands for re that stage Dvcemoer 21. Money that A. E. Buck. Unit’d states minister to today destroyed the residence ot Mrs. parents were wealthy ami lived upoz he took from the mail lias beeu identi Japan, »ay» he ha« sailed for san Fran Harriger, aul the mother and two one of the finest avenues in Los Ange dress have been made to the l\-rt. cisco en route home. laughters, aged 5 and 7, perished. fied. _______________ i les. Neat« Ft Bevs « I M. $ 1 Andree i Brother Gives I p Hope. The new ferry at the Liverpool croM- Stage Fell Over a Cliff. ing of the Long Tom will be in op«re- London, Dec. 28.—The brother 3* Chicago. IVc. 29.— Intionncentei 4 Burned to Death. 1 Ouray, Colo., Dee 31. —In a runa tion this week. The ferryman is Mr y Andree, tbe missing aeronaut, says a was made today of the acquisition by Chicago, Dec. 31. — One woman, way accident abont three • niiiee above Brown, who resides near the cros ’ ing . the Atchiw n. Topeka «V 'anta la dispatch from Copenhagen to the Mrs. Mary Railroad Company of the I’e.-os Valley Daily Mail, despairing of his return the city the Red Mountain stage was death and Kennedy, was burned to For running the ferry he is to recei'X two others and a child were *2 per mouth. The boat used is thal'ft A Northeastern, which rune from Ama from the Arctic rogious, has finally overturned and six pa-«engers precipi seriously injured in a tire of myster of J. M. Herron. Il was in use I»4 1 tated over a cliff ahout 70 teet in pened his will. rillo, Tex , wl ere it ««Miuects with height. Mra. R. S. Hickey, a jxMen- ious origin at 264 West Moaroe street. winter at the Bundy crossing of t »at tbe Santa Fe system, t«i I eco» Citv, a Another Chines* Envoy. ger n tbe ooach, received rerioos and The injured are: Mre. Mary Mason. Long Tom, but is no longer nee ted*| distance of 6 7 milea. The price paid London, Dec. 88.—ft is asserted ta The driver. Uee aud body badly burned, may die; there by reason of the completion of tb»® for the property could not be ascer Shanghai, according to a dtsparch to perhaps fatal injuries. Mrs. lg>uise Hannon, overcome by drawbridge. For the use ol the host» ' tained, bat it is andt-n>tood that the the Times, that Cheng, is going to Pe John Bates, sustained a comp nnd frac •moke, will recover; — Hannon, monthly rental of *■> is to be paid- 4 ture of the right leg »ml many body payment will be made tn ca«h au l gen kin. havtng been appointed to assist in brui-es. Other passengers were more ■ -months old child of Mrs. Hannon, The cable for the ferry was hired fr >« eral moitgage boude. tbe negotiations. overcome by smoke. or lese injured. Mr. Rickard for a monthly fee of *1. | Letters Strewn Along the Track. an« [ — The salm n output in the Northwest exceeds that of all lor .tier years In Prussia au income tax is levied on all w h. so inexvtue exceeds *226 s ysar. An atreemeut has l-een leached set ting aside *20,633 a mouth lor Count- ess Castellane. Jay liould’s dangler. II. M. Ilanua, brother of the sena tor, gave a l lev eland hospital Northern Pa. l6c prefetrevi stock valuovi at fxj • U00, Since the repeal of the Colorado law providing tor capital puuiahment there 1 have been 71 murders in Deuver and1 vicinity. Horseshoes weighing an ounce each and just a tnffe larger than a silver dollar were turned out in a California shop for a Hhvt and pour six mouth» old. Tnirteeu colore*! womeo wIrose agw rango troni vj t<> 75, are attending night av h-sd lu Jersey Citv, N J , and tatui» their Arsi lesso*» lu rvadiug An Alai ama geologías who has prospectiva m thè uelghlxirhowd et D* catui. saya he has lonnd onniiatakstde traces of gold sud ph.ephats withia 16 miles of thè city named. The gross eamtugs of 146 representa tive railroads tur the first nine months of this yranr amount le tbe sum of *"6.tnLiXki Thia is |xo.o<<u,ooo more I hall the seme nu.b earw-d 'or th- correrpou- mg tuas in lb»*. A furniture dealer in Providence. R. London De»k Fire. I., offers to provide the minister mar- I riage feast and wed Hug tiip Io y< nug London, Dee. *9 — One of the most couples patnvoising turn for hv>usebob serious 8res which has occurred in tbu goods. I set Eud of London during the last 10 Tbe famous old race horse Robert J., years I roke out today at the East In who went a mile in 2:01 Q against dia docks. Fire immense sheds, hl led time, anil went a mile in a race in with goods, lueiu ‘ing 1,000 bales of 2 03 Q, was sold nt a re. eul horse sal> hemp and quantities of jute, were con- for *813. •utned. The shipping in the *eighbor- The New T>rk Cenrrel rsilrv«d will! hood and other wsrebousee were only ai-etxi *6.60o.oth> iu Improv lag its har saved bv the «real exertion« of tbe fire bor property at Boston The plan In ' men. The knee will reach tiesrly a . lades ths largest grsiu elevator <>n tlie 1 bunitrwd t* u ant. and will (all en tirely opx tbe oan re af the property. Atlaatte .«mat. King Yictor of Italy had a narrow escape front drowning while viewiug the flood in Rome. KITCHENER’S TASK. BROKE THROUGH ICE. » ■ a a Round for Tahiti. New York. Dec. 28.—The Norman die, of tbe French line, which ha» just amved here from Haire after a stormy voyage, brought live French gendarmes tn full uniform, who are going to Ta hiti. tbe principal i-land of the Society group, in the Routh Pacific, which la owue-1 by France. They were in charge of a eob-lientenant. and came from Lyooe. They will relieve a like number now m Tahiti. They will ctoes this continent to San Frnncinoo, anil will there embark for their daeti- Tobacco Steamers Struck lx>ui»ville, Ky., Dec. 31.— About 1,501) pe- pie employe«! iu tne sternmery «f the l ontinental Tobacco Company went on a »trike thia afternoon. Thar iemanded an advance of 23 cents a hundred for stemmtug. Sold bv Order ol Court. Ta«-oma. Dec. 31 —Stuart Rice, re ceiver of the Tacoma A Columbia River ratlrowi. today transferred tbe profsTty to tbe Stet»« n Tract company, by erler of the Unite«! Staten court. Tbe price pai.l was *7T,OQO. I Creditors Receive One Third. Eugene. Dec. 31.—Tbe crelitore of John Bay«, the railroad «T'ntreotor, have received a dividend of 33 1-3 per «'ent on the amount of their claim» for •rrvicee on the constr action of the 'pringfield-Wen iling branch of the -outhern Baltic railroad. This imoaut con.es from the funds turned over to the couit by the railroa.1 com pany as the amount due Bays at the rime he abend ne.i his contract, ami which has been applied by the court to the payn e it of Bars’ debts for mbdt ■ I supp ies. No m re will be paid. Tbe majeritr of tbe people in tb»« vicinity of Lewisville are said not W. approve of the propose,] free rural d«-y| livery between that place and .tb »■ mouth, because according to the pro- posed time table mail w< uld be a da*' later than by tbe present system. Owners of orchards along the chutes aud creeks near lhe Dalles ••T that since the coyotes have t-een kill* « off. rabbits have become so numero* that they make rai Is on y o rng tree« «’ eat off the bark, in many places do:* won« injury. The-e orchardi»ts »<• not adrocates of tire scalp bounty