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EUCEHE WEEKhY GUARD. CAMFBKLL BKUÍ , Proprietor«. EUGENE OREGON. MW5 or mt mi An Inurwlinq Csikctioe of kerns Fron 0>t Tw® Hemispheres Preient d In a Cundtawd Forni Chinese troops are m&ssing on ths Shan Hi frontier. Another rebel force in Marinduque haa surrendereil Cebu, Philippine islands, lias not yet been pacified. An English company is building a railway across Mexico. Prospectors at Nome were starting for the hills in January. The steamer Ramona blew up near Victoria, B. C., and four |ieople were killed. General Milner makes a discourag ing rejxjrt on conditions in South Africa. The trans|a>rt Lawton has reached Han Francisco and tin- Garonne was reporte d at Honolulu. Ris khiH's plan lor the abolishment of the Taung li Yamun was accepted by the ministers at Pekin. The treasury department purchased $350,000 of short term I |ier cent bonds at the rate of 113.55 A blizzard in southwestern Mis souri haa done great damage to prop erty. Practically all outside business has been suspended. Martin Ritter, who killed Clara Cheek at Nashville, III., with a ham mer, because she refused to marry him, has been captured. IJr. Rupert Blue, United States marine surgeon, on duty at Milwau kee, has toen ordered to proceed with out delay to Han Francisco. Alonzo J. Whitman, formerly state senator from Minnesota, convicted of passing a bad check, was sentenced to two and a half years' imprison- ment. Fire at Birmingham, Ala., des troyed a street car barn, containing 35 cars, the Third Presbyterian church and tho parsonage and half a block of cottages adjoining. Loss, $75.1)00. The Union Iron Works of San Francisco signed a contract with the navy department for the construction of the protected cruiser Milwaukee She is to have 22 knots speed, to Is* finished in three years, and to cost $2,825,000 Work on a target .......... st stout $50,000 will Is- togun nt the Bi.uklyn navy yard shortly. The target, which is to test the relative strength of the Gat ii lira tin torpedo gun mid the regu lar army 12 inch rifle, will duplicate a section of the battleship Iowa. Salem, Or., Is to have another flour ing mill. Mascardo. the Insurgent, is expected to surrender. Lord Roberts praises wagons of American make. Bench show of the Portland Kennel Club opens today. I I I. NAVY YARD AT SUBIO BAY. Department to Spend $5,000,000— Board Appointed to Prepare Plans. NEW YORK. April 19.—A special to the Herald from Washington says: If the plana of the navy department are adopted by congress, a $5.000.000 naval station will be established at Olangapo, Subig Bay. Luzon. Upon the recommendation of Rear- Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks. Secretary Long has appointed a board, consisting of Rear Admiral Taylor, civil engineers Wolcott and Menocol, to meet at the New York navy yard for the pur pose of preparing the plans and esti mates upon which congress will be urged to act. The board of which Rear-Admiral Remey was president only selected the site for the projected station, leav ing the department to determine upon its extent. The dry dock to be built at Olangapo will cost at least $1.009. 000, and the shops and toils are ex pei ted to cost $4.900.000. it Is the pur- pose of the department to urge con- gress to act expeditiously In order that the work of repairing men of-war can be done in American yards. At this time the smaller vessels are repaired at Cavite, but the larger ships are sent to Hong hong for docking and important repairs. Work at Hong Kong is expensive, and Secretry Long be lieves the money spent in an English port should be distributed among American workmen. DANISH WEST INDIES. Two Governments Nearer Agreement Than at Any Previous Time. COPENHAGEN. April 19.—The gov ernment is earnestly considering the recent somewhat modified proposal with regard to the sale to the United States of the Danish West Indies, which is considered likely to lead to a satisfactory termination of the ne gotiations. Official circles are of the opinion that the two governments are now nearer an agreement than they have been at any previous time. The Danish government ridicules the reiterated reports published In Eng Hah papers that peremptory communi cation regarding the sale of the islands have been received from the United States, and the officials are much Impressed with the cordiality and friendliness that the United States government has shown throughout the negotiations. Loomis Did Not 8ay It. New York, April 19. F. B. I-oomis, United States minister of Venezuela, was a passenger on the Red D line steamer Caracas, which arrived to night from San Juan. When seen on board the vessel, Mr. Loomis refused to say anything regarding the Vene zuelan matters, except that President Castro seemed to be firmly seated when he left Venezuela. When asked If he intended to return to Venezuela he said he did not know, pa he had not given the matter a thought. Mr. I-oomls, however, in reply to questions, said that It was untrue that he had expressed himself regarding General Castro's attitude toward Americans, nor hail he said anything about General Andrade. Northwest Postoffices. Washington. April 19.—A postoffice has been established in Gilliam conn ty, Or., to be known as Alville. Allen McConnell has been appointed post master. The new office will be sup plied from Condon, 12 miles to the southwest. An office has nlso been established at McGowan Pacific county. Wash., An expedition leaves Pekin to chas six miles northwest of Astoria, Or., on tise a Boxer chief. the route from that place to Ilwaco. The powers are reducing their In Edmond P. NiMinan has been appoint ed postmaster. demnlty demands. Tiie postoffice at Hadleyvllle, Lane Russia and Japan may come to un county. Or., has been moved three agreement on Corea. quarters of a mile southeast, and Mary A. Emerson appointed post The strike at the American sheet master. ■teal plant Is becoming serious. German Tarlif War With Hayti. Colonel Woodruff may dear himself of the Manila commissary scandal. Berlin. April 19. Official statistics Ex Congressman Baldwin, of Mln published by the Reichsanzelger re nesota. committed suicide at Seattle. gurding the foreign trai ide of 1900 An Idaho company will develop oil within the Germun tariff union show aggregating 6.042.000.000 prospects In Malheur county, Oregon Imports aa against 5.784.000.000 An announcement regarding the dis markq, marks for 1899. and exports aggre position of Aguiuuldo will be mads gating 4,753,000,000 marks, as against soon I b.sooi) 1)00 marks tn 1899 A tariff war with Hayti haa now At Mason City, la. Mrs H. 11 Tu our® ■hot and killed her husband, aud formally begun The — Bundesrath has then shot herself through the heart. conflrmeil the Increased duties upon rticoa and dye woods from Captain J. H Coghlan haa been or- coffee, dered to relieve Captain G E. Id® Hayti. from duty as captain of the Mare is Our Interest in Corea. land navy yard. Washington. April 19 Neither the A cage filled with natives fell down a deep shaft of the Goldenhula mine, Russian authorities nor the state de at Johannesburg Twenty six of the partment officials have received an y word concerning the reported Russo natives were killed Japanese negotiations relating to In the tost Informed circles at l.ls Corea There is no Indication, how bon it |s declared that the story that that the United States feels any the Queen of Portugal will enter ■ ever, concern, for about the only Interest convent is absolutely fantastical. thia government would have in the August Provost, deputy governor of matter la that of keeping our com the Bank of England haa been ap mere« with Corea unobstructed pointed governor of the Bank of Eng British Columbia Gold Rush land for the ensuing year, to succeed Samuel Stuart Gladstone Vancouver. B C April 18. Another The president has decided to ap gold rush Is causing some excitement point William H Jenkins to be gov In the boundary district of British Co ernor of Oklahoma territory, to sue lumbia. During the past few days. <eed the present governor, Harnea Rock Creek and Its tributaries have whose term will expire soon once more attracted placer gold hunt Turkey is attempting to conclude ex ers to stake claims. In the early 60s. tradition treaties with the powers the Rock Creek placer diggings yielded with the object of getting hold of netn large returns, and the revival of min hers of the young Turkish parti who Ing is the rvsuu of recent gold dis are seeking refuge in various paits coverles below the historic White« of Europe bar. on this creek. Thera are 120 different languages or dialects in the Philippines The postoffice department la tusk Ing plans to obviate the necessity of rehandling European mails at New fork. Autograph letter« of famous men will be far rarer In the future than now Great men of today content themselves with signing their names often with rubber stamp®, to type written documents. BBI >t will ba hard to get much oenttnu-nt from type written manuscripts la density of population Arizona has 109 Inhabitants to the square mile Because of the rise in sto< ks It In estimated that In two months th® Gould estate has increased $49o00 ooe There are signs that the imlgrs lion of northern families to the south which haa l®-n notably large for the past five or six years, will be larger Deputies Appointed Beattie. April 19 Frank H Rich ards. recently appointed United States marshal at Nome, today an noun<ed hta first appointments. Mr Richards has selected W R Forrest of this city, to be his chief deputy and Isaac Evans of Tacoma, to be office deputy at Teller City, stout 80 miles from Nome The offldwl head quarter* of the marshal's office will but he will proba be at St Michael ‘ bly spend the greater part of his tint« where court la almost eon at Nome stantly in session Preparing for Salmon. Seattle. April 1» The salmon pack ere of Alaska are preparing to begin the season a work within 30 days Th« first run of fish, tt la expoctet, will begin between May IS and June t Thia Is approximately a month earliet than the season ot o first run of fish In Alaskan waters ts the king aaltuon. whl’ h range from thia F®ar 30 to 50 pounds and which command What an English paper says la I ths a premium oa the market After these Bates! Incubator in th- trarid la I at cotfie the sockeyva, a smaller fish but ary. near Sydney Australis It of very fine quality The laat of th« aeeommodatSi 11,440 du< k eggs or season the Alaska packers work th« cohoea 14.000 hnas eggs KTa opNon suit nm Items of Interest From All Parts of the State. COMMERCIAL ANO FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS A Brief Review of the Growth and Improvs, menti of the Many Induitrie« Through, out Our Thriving Commonwealth. A telephone line is to be erected from Gold Hill to Crescent City. The council of Mitchell has ilt-citled to put in a system of waterworks. The Lam- county court is advertis- • ing for. bid* for the construction of a bridge st Ixirane S. L. Bennett, a farmer living north of Medford, han ordered a 2.(MAJ gallon tank for his windmill. A salmon was caught near the Main street bridge, Pendleton, recently, that weighcil nearly 11 |a>unds. The construction of a creamery at Summerville has togun The bridge will to 1.188) feet long and 12 feet w i- e. A new steam saw mill is toing i built on Htukel mountain, atout half way totween Klamath Falls and Mer rill It will have a capacity of 15.IMA) to 25,(MJ feet. Home young miscreants piled empty loxes at the crossing of two of Rose burg's principal streets and set fire to them alout 1 30 in the morning. A big blaze resulted. Firemen and citi zens turned out, believing one of the main business blis-ks to la- on fire. The Deschutes Reclamation A Irri gation Company has 1(10 rtslsof flume built. The flume is seven feet wide and 28 inches deep, and there is now running 15,000 inches of water. The company expects to have water on a numls'r of the hlunesteads before next fall. The ditchia surveyed seven and a half miles. Lawton — The Lawton Townsite Company has been reorganized. Grants Pass—The Josephine coun ty court has extended time for pay ment of taxes to June 3. Grants Pass—The Southern Pacific Company had its repair crew working on the bridge across Rogue river last week. Pilot Rock—A Pilot Rock corre spondent writes that It Is feared the recent cold weather seriously Injured the fruit crop tn that section. Island City—Williams Bros, sold 135 head of hogs to Kldle Bros., of Island City, at $5.40 per 100 pounds, TMa Is the highest rate reached for some time. Weston—W J. Wilkinson, at Wen- ton. purchased from Alex Walker, for the Pacific Elevator Company. 5200 bushels of wheat, which is' stored at Downing Station. He paid 46 cents per bushel. Pendleton—John Bradburn took to Pendleton two wagon loads or 22 xackB of wool from Charles Cunning ham's home ranch above Pilot Rock. The wool was from thoroughbred ewes and the 22 sacks weighed 8600 pounds. Salem—Oregon Christian Endeavor ers are looking forward with much enthusiasm to the 14th annual caa- vention. which will be held at Salem. May 16 19. The convention will open with the evening session. Thursday evening, closing Sunday evening. Toledo—A committee of the Toledo Are department is investigating the probable cost of a system of water works and a storage reservoir on the hill east of the city, Another commit tee Is figuring on the <ost of fire en- glnes .and a third is investigating hooks and ladders. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat —Walla Walla. 56'y'ii57c; Valley, nominal; bluestem. 59c per bushel. Flour—Best grades. $2 70@3 40 per barrel; graham. $2 60. Oats—White. $1 25 per cental; gray, $1 204# 1 22ky per cental. Barley—Feed. $16 50® 17; brewing. $16 50f#17 per ton Mlllstuffs—Bran. $16 per ton; mid dlings. $21 50; shorts, $17 50; chop. $16. Hay- Timothy. $12(1'12 50: clover. $7iz'9 50; Oregon wild hay. $6(#7 per ton. Hops—I2ff 14c per pound; 1899 crop. 6® 7c. Wool Valley. 13(fl4c Eastern On- gon. 9® 12c; mohair. 20® 21c per pound. Butter- Fancy creamery. 20® 2214c. dairy. 15®18c; store. 10®12Hc per pound. Eggs—Oregon ranch. 13©13'40 per dozen. Poultry—Chickens, mixed. $l(i4 50; hens. $5©5 50 dressed. llS|12c per pound; springs. $34T5 | per dozen : ducks $50'6; geese. $6©7 ’ per dozen : turkeys, live. 10(M2c; dressed. 13® 15c per pound. Cheese-Full cream, twins. 13© 1314c: Young America. 13*4<M4e per pound. Potatoes Old. 50©60<’ per sack new. 2tx©2%c per pound. Mutton tombs IO© lie per pound gross tost sheep. $8. wethers. $5 ewes. $4 50. dressed. 74*417’«’- per pound. Hogs Gross heavy. $5 7511'6. light. $4 75©5; dressed 7c per pound Veal- Large. 7c per pound small. HOfiiqc per pound Beef—Gross, top steer* $50 5 25 cows and heifer* $4 500 4 75 dressed beef. 7©84«c per pound Granite — The Climax group of quarts claims, three miles north of Granite was purchased laat week by • R. AMrta The property was fot merly owned by John Hardie. E J. Cross and Adam Christie The Cll max vein la about 10 feet wide The Egyptian reed whi<h was n li for making the pens found tn Eg, tian tombs, la a hard variety grow* < to about the diameter of an ordina y gcxvee quill. Pena made from It are said to last for a dav or two and do excellent work Lawton—Ijtwton no* has a light mail service both way*, t ut under the new Schedi Is a ds on account of the stage leaving s ter before the arrival of the n r train. An effort Is being m have the timecard < hsn*<’I ■ that tt will • parture of trains on »he Sumpt Va lev reilriM I * W’J M • niltie' Striking vour little 1 ter Willie (doggedly 1 Auntie mi. Malden Aunt- Wkv Willie' I s If you did strike her I would » kts® you again • Uk® that slip ACCIDENTON A DRYDOCK. Blocks Slipped From Und®r a Trans port While Being Floated. SAN FRANCISCO. April 20— While the transport Warren was being taken out to the Huntet Point drydock to day an accident occurred in which two men were badly injured, several re ceived slight wounds and the 709 workmen aboard got a scare they will not forget in a hurry. The big trans port was ready to be taken out of the drydock, and the water to float her was being let in. The bow rose be fore the stern, and the blocks slip ping from under the latter, the ship gave a lurch and the next instant went over to starboard. She partially recovered hcrsvlf and then went over again to an angle ot 45 degrees and remained in that position for half an hour. When the warren gave her first j.lunge a connecting roil broke loose and pinned Aaron Astill. an electrician, to the side of the ship, breaking his ankle The main binder also broke loose and struck Ben Hall, a boilermaker, crushing his hip Sev- eral men were knocked off the cylin der-head and re< rived scalp wounds. After the second luri h it did not take five minutes to clear the ship, and some of the boilermakers and ma chinists did not stop running until they were safe among the hills. Over 409 of them refused to make the trip down the bay on the vessel, and walked in from Hunter's Point. The Warren was not damaged. I SMI Bit« Thity Third »*d Thirty-lsrth Vslunter Raji- Four People. TMO MORE VICTIMS WILL PROBABLY DIE currtd in Miditrtam Near Victoria, —Wa> a Portland Steamer. BO meat! Get Thsir Diwharj«. The Boiler Exploded and Killed Two Bodi«» Cannot b« Found—Di»a»tcr mustered out . Oc- Han Francisco, April 22 — The Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth volun teer regiments, recently returned fnmi Manila, have been mustered out. 1 he Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth in fantry, now in camp at the Presidio, expect to to mustered out of the ser vice April 30 Although there are very few troops here now under orders for the Philippines, transjairts will to rushed there as fast as possible, to to in Manila in time to bring home all the volunteers to to mustered out by July 1. In accordance with this programme, the Thomas sailed from here Saturday and the Warren will sail on the 25th. The assignments to the Thomas consisted of 127 re cruits and 20 casuals under the com mand of IJeutenant W. A. Liebier. The Twenty-iourth infantry and 150 marines have been assigned to the Warren. The transport Rosecrans. which has just arrived from Manila, has been released from quarantine The Roee- crans brought 218 men of the Thirty seventh infantry and 200 casuals. The transjairt Lawton on which there were three cases of smallpox, has also l>een released from quarantine after having toen thoroughly fumigated. Seventeen days had elapsed since the last case apjieared and it was jierfectlv safe to land the passengers. A^uinaldo's Address to the fl«! r- W*T ■ Ttoir olta ‘ HfiU ta Ijsle»! ri ¡te ohi ¡jtti* «uul Just !a Water ny’ Skill ««b tbe oh Tow'rJ Xt the »P pure AuJ. »* v Iluubly di We »ball Of e*' « I Hvb ata' n. the ha just scro (dlab. tb tluof it o' Mad wi’i1 Aje. and ¡¡unipiai. bruised i .ne»«!, -June« ' Fit ¡pino People. SAYS THERE HAS L'rJH BEEN ENOUGH tin Countrymen to Accept th, , to ereignty of the United Statu M th< Beit lor Their Country Manila, April 22 — F®llowin VANCOUVER. B. C-, April 19—By Aguinaldo’s address to tfoe Fjjj®- “ the explosion of the boiler on the people, made public this evening* river steamer Ramona this afternoon, ‘‘1 believe that 1 am not in crri,t four persons »ere killed outright and presuming that the unhappy flte six others seriously injured. The dead which my avderse fortune h»o " Include two women who were passen is not a surprise to those who gers on the steamer and two deck been familiar with the progress of fi! hands. Of the Injured, the purser and war. The lessons taught with * fu' the mate will probably die. The boiler explosion occurred in meaning, and which have recentij midstream while the steamer was en come to my knowledge, suggext * .* route from New Westminster to Fort irresistible force that a complete to Langley, the latter being a farming minatoin of hostilities and la«ti- settlement about 25 miles from this |H’ace are not only desirable, but city. By the force of the explosion solutely essential to the welfare of m Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Baillie, who Philippine islands. were returning from New Westmln- “The Filipinos have never I«, ster, were blown into the river and were drowned before aid reached dismayed at their weakness, nor h»te them. The bodies of both women they faltered in following the pm have been recovered and are compar pointed out bv the fortitude and cou," atively free from bruises or burns, age. The time has come, however 1 indicating that death was due to in which they find their advan,, CAUGHT BY AN AVALANCHE. drowning. The remains of the two along this path to to impeded by 4Ji deckhands, Phipps and Mack, have FIRE IN BUTTE SMELTER. a Engines Hurled From the Track on irresistible force which, while it J not been found Purser Power was strains them, vet enlighten« the! Colorado Mountain Road. badly scalded by escaping steam, and BOULDER. Colo.. April 20 —On the Mate Maynard was also terribly Employe« Contribute Week's Time to Clear minds and open* to them the cauue | |>eace. This cause has toen joyfuik Colorado & Northwestern railroad burned. They were taken to New Up the Wreckage. Wetsminster and are now in the city embraced by the majority of niyfej. two big engines attaejied to a pas hospital, but are not expected to sur Butte, Mont., April 22 —Friction senger train coming from Ward to vive. The injuries of Fireman Know- in a hot box over t)ie generators near low countrymen, who have alreadv Boulder, and due here at 4:10 this ell are not so severe and he is ex the engine house roof at the Mon united around the glorious «overein afternoon, were struck by a huge pected to recover, as are also the In tana Ore Purchasing Company’s banner of the United States. In th* banner they repose their trust and' snowslide and hurled into the chasm dians. The Ramona was a stern-wheel river smelter, started a tire about 8 o’clock belief that under its protection ti» below. Four trainmen were killed— steamer this morning which caused a damage of about 300 tons. She was Engineers Hannon and Fitzgerald, 10 years old, but her boiler was new. of $75,000 to the plant and will delay Filipino jieople will attain all th« promised litorties which they arc bs Firemen Miller and Conductor Bair. having been put in last summer. She operations for a few weeks. The The second fireman has not yet been was valued at 25.000. On her fatal sampling works are a total loss, the ginning to enjoy. “The country has declared unm®. accounted for, and it is believed he. trip today she had only five passen stacks ruined and the engine O[>erat- too. is burled under his engine. None gers. the two women who were ine the smelter almost a total wreck. takably in favor of peace. So be it There has toen enough blood, enough of the bodies has been recovered. drowned and the three Indians who The new machinery is uninjured and The passenger train left Ward for were burned. tears, and enough desolation. Tha the blast furnaces and converters arc Boulder drawn by two engines. When not materially damaged. The efforts wish cannot to ignored by the the train reached Boomerville the en GOLD IN THE TREASURY. of the city tire department and the still in arms if they are animated fa gines were uncoupled and started up the hill to buck the snow, which was Largest Amount Now Held by Any tire brigade of the Butte <k Boston a desire to serve our noble people, deep upon the tracks. There is a Institution in the World. Company saved the plant, which is which has thus clearly manifested ¡u will. So do I resjiect this will, not sharp curve near the apex of the NEW YORK, April 19.—The Even valued at over $1,000.000. from total that it is known to me. mountain, and just as the engines destruction. As soon as the flames started to plow through a huge snow ing Post says: “After mature deliberation, I res; "Today's summary of the United were under control the men employed drift a vast avalanche of snow and liitelv proclaim to the world that I States treasury ’ s report of yesterday signed a paper passed around by one above. It earth was loosened from cannot refuse to heed the voice ofa came down with terrific force and afternoon shows that the govern of their number agreeing to contrib ment's aggregate gold holdings for the It Is gained momentum every second, ute a week’s work free to clear up the pxiople longing for peuce, nor the I* said that the train, which was quite first time in history have passed the wreckage caused by the tire and get mentations of thousands of family heavily loaded with passengers, was $500,000,000 mark. The exact total things in shape for rebuilding. Thf yearning to see their dear ones enjoy was $500.278.506, of which $252.078,- not touched by the slide. ing the liberty ami the promisedgn- 959 was held against certificates in company expects the plant to to in erosity of the great American nation the hands of the outside public and full operation again within 30 days. PLAGUE IN AUSTRALIA. “ By acknowledging and accepting I $150.000,000 a reserve against out- te sovereignty of the United 8t«te A N«w Geyser. Appears in the Insane Asylum—Car standing United States notes, the bal- throughout the Philippine archipe ance being free assets. This is the Vancouver, B. C., April 22.—A, ried by Rats. largest amount of gold now held by I ago, as I now do, and without inr I VANCOUVER. B. C.. April 20—Bu any single financial institution In the new geyser has made its appearance reservation whatsoever. I Ix-lieve that bonic plague has broken out in an world, and it Is the largest ever held at Lake Echo, Romtotnahana. New I am serving thee, my beloved cour- Australian insane- asylum. The steam by any Institution with one exception Zealand. It is described as a mass of try. May happiness to thine." er Aorangi. from Sydney, brings news —the Imperial Bank of Russia—which , toiling water, half an acre in extent, in February, 1898, raised its total hold of fresh outbreaks of plague at Bris ings to $590.300.000. At present, how rising in a great dome from which a ! STATIONARY ENGINE TRUST bane and Perth. The serious phase ever. the Russian bank holds only column of water and stones rises 3(MJ feet, while immense volumes of steam ' is the appearance of the bubonic $371.500.000. The Bank of France rise to the clouds and hot stones are ; Philadelphia Company Hat Gone Into k now holds $472.271.000. its high rec plague in the Ilunwich insane asylum, Combine. where there are 1000 inmates. Nearly ord being $479.244,000, the 4th of this thrown a great distance. Australian advises also report a re-1 II the inmates are said to be aged or month. Most of this gold is held I Philadelphia, April 22. — A sprenl incurable, so the outbreak has aroused against outstanding notes. The Bank coni blast from the line of the New meeting of the xtix’kholders elfl» the gravest apprehension. Dunwick of England holds $169,100.000 gold, South Wales Rail way deviation works, Pennsylvania Iron Company m. is on Stradbrook Island, and is the asy and the high record of its history was Tarana, when 70,000 tons of solid held today, and the propositimlM lum for the entire state. The af $245.500.000. in February. 1896. Pres rock were moved nt one blast. Ow flicted patients have been Isolated. The ent gold holdings of the Imperial Bank ing to the peculiar hardness of the amalgamate with four of then:«! carrying of the plague to the asylum of Germany are $1.30,000,000. and its rock, British gelignite was combined prominent stattionary engine nun» facturing companies in thecountn is ascribed to rats and to destroy in total of gold and silver combined never fected vermin all sewers in the Aus ran above $222.500.000. The United with dynamite and powder, the total was effected. The big combine rll trallan cities are being fumigated, with States treasury's gross holdings have weight of the explosives used in the to launched in a few weeks, with» iue result that thousands of dead rats increased $76,439,000 within the past blast toing four tons. capital of $25,000,000. Although tlx 12 months. In April. 1899, they barely have been washed out. Philadelphia concern is capitalized al exceeded $278.000.000, as against the I Gomez Coming to America. $5,000,000, only $1.000.000 in 7 pr $500.000.000 now held. February 10, | In One Combine. Havana, April 22.—General Max-j cent cumulative preferred stock« 1896. they reached the low level. $94-’ Milwaukee. Wis.. April 20.—The 239.542. imo Gomez is making arrangements 1 the company was offered for its plant ” Sentinel tomorrow will say: to go to the United States. He will and fixed assets. Atout 20 st.wk- "The five largest stationary engine No Longer Needed. be accompanied by his son Urbona, j holders, representing nearly all of the manufacturing companies in the Indianapolis. Ind., April 19.—Gov and will probably remain in thf capital stock, were present at tin United States are to be consolidated ernor Durbin has received a long let United States until the return tc meeting, and some of them objected 1 into one gigantic combine with a cap ter from Secretary Root, in which a Cuba of the special committee on re to the price offered, declaring it »a ital of $25.000.000. Charles Allis and full explanation is made of the facta lations. He desires to wait definite less than the plant was appraised » William Allis, of this city, will be pres connected with the discharge of Rus action in reference to the Platt to worth. It was explained, by wit B. Harrison from the army. Sec ident and chairman of the board of sell amendment, in order to avoid the i of answer, that the other four com- retary Root says that he. after a con directors, respectively. If the deal now ference with the president, directed accusation that the trip is made foi panics were also to to given leas this pending is consummated. The com the He has always the appraised value of their prop's discharge of Colonel Harrison, and politcial purposes. panies which are expected to be in Adjutant General Corbin simply expressed a desire to meet the peo- ties, cluded in the new corporation are: that In his official capacity in issuing pie of the United States and to thank The E. P. Allis Company, of Milwau- acted New Bank at Havana. kee; the I’ennsylvania Iron Works the orders. By Inadvertence the dis them for the assistance they rendered' New York, April 22.—It is und«- Company. of Philadelphia; the Gates charge was made to take effect De Cuba in the war with Spain. Senin Iron Works Company, of Chicago, the cember 1. instead of December 15. a Palma is the choice of General Gomez stood that an international bant with a capital of not less than$1- Fraser A- Chalmers Company, of Chi matter which the secretary regrets. for the presidency of Cuba. 1)00.000. and perhaps as ntnch « cago. and the Dixon Manufacturing Mr. Harrison's services were dis pensed with, the secretary states, be Company, of Scranton Pa." $2.000,000, is to l>e be established:) established it Independent Cereal Combine. cause they were no longer needed, and Havana, by interests prominei>M for no other reason. Akron, O, April 22—The con New Cases at Cape Town. identified with the Morgan Tiw Tr;! summation of the project to consoli Cape Town. April 20.—Ten new Company and the Cuba Company An Arizona Feud date all the independent cereal plants cases of bubonic plague, including Phoenix. Arizona. April 19.—Sheriff of the country is now assured. The Torhsdo Struck florid* Tow* two Europeans, were officially report Ed. Beeler of Apache County, well- Miami. Fla.. April 22.—Tbe bait-l ed today. Two additional deaths have known throughout the southwest, various properties, 10 in numtor, will seven miles Hili'- north«] ........ occurred. was ambushed and killed in a tight to turned over to the Great Western let of Biscavtie, rriril over a month ago. News of the bloody Cereal Company, at Chicago. The here, was ' struck by a tornado ths London. April 20.—Official advices fight has Just reached here, Beeler new company will compete with the morning, Several houses were d' to the colonial office regarding the fell mortally wounded by a volley from Ameraicn Cereal Comnipany, totter molished. Two people were serieui’ progress of the bubonic plague in behind a stone wall. At first it was known as the oatmeal trust injured. South Africa, show that prior to April believed that Beeler was the victim of Deported From Luzon. 13 there had been 41 cases of the dis cattle-rustlers, against whom he had Ptsrson App«sli to th« Preiskat ease among persons under military made a long and bitter warefare, but Han Francisco. April 22. _ The New Orleans, April 22 —tons» later it developed that they were and naval control tn Cape Colony. friends of a man whom Beeler had transport Rosecrans brought from Samuel Pearson, the Boer offierr killed who had sworn to avenge his Manila five men who had been de was refuseil a writ of injunction 3 Misunderstanding of Orders. death. ported by the military authorities. the United Sates court again«! A Cleveland. April 20 As the result Among them was Santiago Maceo, a ltKal British officers to prevent M of a head-on collision between freight Chile Will Protest. son of the late Cuban leader. Young ther export of mules from this p)rt1 and construction trains on the Wheel Valparaiso, Chile. April 19.—The ing At Lake Erie road, in the Cleve government is awaiting information Maceo came into prominence on the South Africa, has sent a jx’titi'" land yards early today. William Theis, from the Chilean minister in Buenos Pacific coast two year* ago, while rect to the president, asking !■' J In J a brakeman, was killed. Engineer Ayres before a protest is made traveling with Katherine Tingley, relief the courts refused He fell out cision Judge Parlange point«« Velsenbrech was fatally Injured and against repeated invasion of Chilean the theosophical leader. Fireman Hammond and Sylvester territory by citizens of _ Argentina. ._______ with Mr«. Tingley, claiming that he that General Pearson had this •lfJ Bruggen were badly hurt The acci There have been invasions in Seno was treated as a servant. While in saying the matter, being » 1"'1J dent is supposed to have been caused de la Ultima and Esperanza, near the Philippines Maceo became a first one, should to taken before the fl by a misunderstanding of orders. Punta Arenas. sergeant in the Macaheto scouts. utive department of the governm'*! President's Neighbor Shot. Reported by Kitchntr. To Spend $50.000 For Target. New Servian Conrtituti®* Minerva. O . April 20.—Andrew Mil • • .»0 T4 New- York April 19—Work on a London, April 22 — A dispatch Belgrade. Senia. April — ler. a wealthy farmer, living half a target to cost about $50.000 will Le from General Kitchener, dated Pre new constitution was jironria mile cast of town, was shot ’ when begun at the Brooklyn navy yard toria. Apirl », says ••Plumer has _____ _ which _____ is occupied Bath font, capturing 1.3 pris- today, and aToval ukase just • working In his barn. He cannot l live. in a day or two. The target, Bloodhounds from Canton have been to test the relative strength of the oner* and a numtor of rifle* «nd am reappoints the cabinet minis*!'1’ had formally tendered their put on the trail of the assassin, No Gathmann torpedo gun and the regu munition. Douglas column haa oc tions. All the state official motive can be attributed for the deed lar army 12 inch rifle will duplicate cupied Duli*troom. Six Boer« were unless an old grudge Miller stated a section of the battleship Iowa in similiarly reappointed. rg'-~j On Oreneral Kitchener's ad was ap|»ointed president of *b« 71 a few minutes after the shooting that resisting power. It will be faced killed he believed he knew his assailant. with srn’orplate 12 inches thick. vance from toydeburg the Boers blew state council. Of the 30 sens*’'”*j The Miller farm Joins President Me- hsr'!«’i«vfl iiy the Krupp process, When up a Long Tom. Thirtee n prisoners pointed by the king, 11 , ¿23 Kinley's farm in the northwest cor- finished It will be moved to Sandy were captured Elliott s division has Hook where the trial will take place. brought in a large numtor of cattle." 10 are Progressievs. four are ner of Columbian county and five are Independent. 1 Coyote CutOff Abandoned. Trolley Care Burned. Pendleton. Or . April 13 — The O R Birmingham Ala., April 19 Fire Sukidt W.th Dyiumitc. Voluntary IncreaM is *•<* today destroyed the car barn of the » N Co has announced that no more Milk» Cal., April 22—John H Birmingham Railway Light A Tower w *k is to be done in the Coyote cut- Parsons. Kan., April Í2 Company. 35 trolley cars, the Third off The new line was to have been Gorham, foreman of the Union copprr nun«, tot night shot and killed rials of the Missouri. Kanaa»4 Cn sbyterian Church and parsonage, and half a block of cottages adjoin- built from near Echo across the coum G*vrge B McCarthy. , prominent Railway are in this citj Ing The total loss is ev’imated at try to Coyote, shortening the main klZ’m“’ u and then The line and avoiding some heavy grades blew himrelf to pieces with Rjl|nt ««me important business °* $75.000. covered by Insurance road. They have announce! « and curves The reason assigned is origin of the fire is not known that landowner* along the proposed powder Roth men were attentive to tarv increase in the shopu’’“n * • ‘ h,> V" 1 ” »nd jealousv is sup. route asked something like $250 an Killed by a Cave-In. from 27 to 30 cents an Telluride Colo.. April 20 —K J. «ere for land worth no more than $25 posed to have been the cause of the increase will mean an Oakland contractor for the Smuggler This would have made the right *of tragedy Gorham placed some dvna- lay of fr. rn $15,(MJ to , Union mines, «as Instantly killed to way cost about $209 00«. whereas th® Th* nionth st this point •••- **2 day by a cave-in of looa« ground He ent re amount to be ripen *ed In th* lw»^ (‘h T,n< down employment are also mere«*4" new Un® dor® not ex .... . $<ofi Ogg «an about 4$ years of a*a. ■ «Sited the explosion ' eight to ten. AL( ■ .C'K-. ill' l':‘ ■ rll- tl.l- M (.lllL 1 •■N”. a I will I«' ' I I ■ :be rive ■ ,eud I1' I With I ¡leudeue I bls ruoli I spheric; I and all I his life I lil! rage I Dolly I white fi I "If -M I out." sh I ou the i ] She ti I formati 1 «errant "Wlie I be will I canoe i I love to Miss I flashed I on her I anger. 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