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LATER NEWS.
EUGEtfE WEEKLY GUARD.
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«^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.
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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