Eugene Weekly Guard
—♦-
«AMI'BBLI. KKO1., Proprietor«.
EUGENE
OREGON.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
A Comprthtntivt Rtvitw of th« Important
Happenings of the Past Week. Pretested
in a Condensed Form, Whkh It Mott
Likely to Interest Our Many Readers.
Queen Wilhelmina is slowly recover
ing from her illness.
The revolutionists ar«* marching on
the «-apital of Santo l*orning<>.
Tornadoes in Iowa injured a large
niimlxT of persons and <lestroye«i much
property.
Bjorntjernc Bjorn so,
the famous
Norwegian author, is dangerously ill at
Christiania.
Two trainmen were kill««! ami 13
mail clerks injur««! in a railroad wreck
near Clyde, N.Y.
It is stattxl that more than 1,000
lives were lost in the Guatemalan
i-arthquake <«f April 18.
Th«* Mexican government refuses to
surrender Charles Kratz, the 8t. Rzuis
eoum ilman chargwi with bribery.
The outbsik for |H*a«-e in South Af
rica is gissl. General 18-Wet is satis-
fi.xl witli th«* British terms ami Delarey
will abi«ie by th«* decision of th«* ma
jority.
The most serious feature of the polit
ical situation in Russia is the disin-
<-linati<m of the tr«»ips to ad against
the |»-ople. Eight )iiimlr<«l men of one
regiment have btw-n piinishisi for rtot
firing on the rioters at Moscow.
Six thousaml men in the [Pittsburg
building tra>les are on strike.
President Shaffer has I mm - u re-el<x-t««i
liea«l of the Amalgamate«! Assts-iation.
l ire destroy««! an axle plant at Da
venport, la., entailing a loss of $250,-
000.
The national convention of club
women is in session at _ I sis Angeles.
Cal.
William II. Moody, the new secre
tary of the navy, has taken the oath of
office.
The cruiis-r Brtsiklyn, with Ailmiral
Remey ah >ard, lias arrive«! at New
York.
The executive comm itt«x* recommemls
the |>ost|sitieiiieiit of the St. Isiilis fair
till 1904.
Cardinal Martinelli, apostolic dele
gate to the Unit««i States, lias lieen re
called t<> Rome.
WARNING BY LABOUCHERE.
Editor ol London Truth Makes Som« Pertiacat
and Stingisi Stotenwate.
Lorn Ion, May 3.—Henry Lal«iU<l»ere
in this weex’s Truth, under the head
ing ‘‘Morgan«« ring and the Moral,"
«ays :
“To the im|>artial observer it is a
tritie amusing to watch the perturba
tion of John Bull at the nunh o' the
American capitalist. For a generation
or two |««t the gos|«l of salvation of
mankind by the agency of British cap
ital has been preached with sincere
conviction. Whether it was a dying
nation in Europe or Asia, a sickly re
public in South America, an unre
claimed region of Africa, peopled by
idolaters and cannitiato, or even a
poverty-stricken British colony, the
means of regeneration were always the
•ami', let British capital ami British
enterprise exploit the patient thorough
ly and there will be an end to all this
diseases, political, economic or social.
Eor 50 years we preached this gospel,
and acte<l U]xin it religiously. Now
comes a little turning of the tables.
"With a much larger jxipulatino ami
immeasurably
greater
natural re
sources, the Uniteli Stati« offered a
field for the accumulation of greater
wealth than we can ever aspire to.
Americans in their turn now aspire to
regenerate' the world by American cap
ital and American enterprise. They
practice upon ua the doctrine which we
-o long applied to the rest of mankind,
luistly—for the present—they lay sac-
, rilegious hands on the shipping, by
means of which ‘Britannia Rules ths*
' Waves.’
"No wonder John Bull is in a comic
-tats* of consternation. Instead of the
exploiter, he is tiecoming exploited.
"At the present crisisof our economic
history which are the objects that
chiefly occupy our minds? Ths* regen
eration of South Africa by the intro
duction into that accursed lami of Brit
ish capital ami labor; the expansion
of our army at the ex|s'nse of the labor
market; squandering time, money and
energy on the empty ostentation of the
coronation ceremony, which will sus
pend industry, dishs'ate trade ami
divert public thought from matters of
pressing and evil import.
"At the moment while we are thus
engaged. Mr. Morgan ami his colleagues
desi-end iifsin ns, »«•eking what they
may devour. Almost within ail hour
of the king's feast come forth the
fingers of a man's hand and write u[s>n
the wall. It is easy to read the warn
ing and imt difficult to accept and act
ilfsill it.
"Shall we attend to it at once, or
shall we finish <>ur wine and think
alsiut the Mede« ami Persians after the
«linn er?”
SALT WATER
President R«»i»evelt has ac«wpte«l an Beit Conductor ol Messages by the Fessenden
invitation to dim* on lsiar«l the French
System of Wireless Telegraphy.
liattleship < «auloit.
Washington, May 3.—Professor R.
Henry (). llavemeyer snys th«' Amer A. Fessenden, who hail charge of the
ican Sugar Refining Company owns no wireless telegraphy cx|s>rinients along
sugar lands in Cuba.
the Virginia and North Carolina coasts,
Forty-six Isslies have lieen recovered arrived here today and conferred with
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson and
frouf the City <>f Pittsburg wreck.
Professor Willis I.. Moore, chief of the
There is a general atam|i««ln to Sami weather bureau. Professor Fessenden
Creak, tli«s new Montana gold field.
said-.
‘‘We have found that salt water is
American tobacm «-oiiipanh's are
H««'king to gain control of the Cuban the la st conductor of the waves; land
comes next in order; then fresh water,
tobacco output.
and lastly sand. The methods used
It is saiii that King Vh'tor will par
ts>th it receiving and sending are en
don the offii-ers ami men of the cruiaer
tirely different from those used in any
Chicago, just sent to jail in Italy.
other system. We will abandon the
William McKinley oletorne, Unite«! high masts entirely within a couple of
State's consul general in laimlon, is years. I list cad of using waves to pro
«lead of Bright's disease and dropsy.
duce*«« iher«*ii«x< bet ween a lot of filings
The senate committee on military of nickel and silver, the waves are used
affairs has re|s>rt««l adversely the bill to under this sytsem to actuate a light
create a national park at Appomattox. piece of metal, which by its motion
prisluces the signal.”
An explosion on th«« submarine Isnst
Fulton, while she was Isiund from
Von Walderitc on World Politics.
Brtsiklyn to Norfolk, injured half a
Berlin, May 3.—“Anterian energy
dtiaen |x'rsons.
mid Aniericcan millions are making
General Min Arthur i-laiina that be was themselves telt in China more and
responsibl«' for the plan to capture more powerfully," says Count von
Aguinahlo, and that he is th«« one to Walder»»*«*, in an interview at Dresden,
be eensure«l, if anyone.
where he is visiting th«* King of Sax
The German emigration to this coun ony. Continuing, he said: "We have
try for the past quarter of the present come into closer political touch with
year was thr«-«« times ns great as the the Unit«*d States, and that country
will exercise a favorable influence in
corresponding quarter of 1901.
the world’s politics.
Th«« English-
The last |<arts of the RiM-hamlxiaii Ja|Hines«< alliance is of preeminent sig-
monument hav«' arriv««l in New York liifiemice. It reveals the seriousness
ami will lx* rea«ly for the unveiling by of the world situation.
in Japan
the presblent in Washington on Muy which I visit««! after leaving China, a
24.
collision with Russia is regardsxl as un
Sol Smith Russell, the actor, is «h ad avoidable. The Japanese trixips wnicli
I saw are excellently train««!.’’
at Waahington.
Another revolution has
in Santo Domingo.
broken out
Th«* insurrection in' th«* island of
Samar is practically at in end.
The storm in Wyoming of th«' past
wes-k kill««! from 12,000 to 15,0tM)
ebeep.
A magnificent siher service was pre
sented to Admiral Schley oil the first
day of his visit to Memphis.
Three of the crew were «Irow n««i ni
the wreck of the steamer Grlbbe, <>f
Cleveland, offjl‘oi*t M«-e, Ohio.
Th«< furna««* m«-n at th«* East Helena
smelter, at lleh tm. Mon., hav«' gon«' on
atrik«* for recognition of their union.
Th«' attorney g<-n> ral of Missouri has
bi-guii proc«**«iings in the supreme court
of that state- in an attempt to break up
the to«*t trust.
Lind lor Idaho.
Washington, May 3.—E. J. IMckory,
of Boise, attorney for the state of Idaho,
has left (or home after two months
spent ill adjusting public laml grants to
the stat«* and protecting the state
again-t the encroachments of the North
ern Pacific railroad upon its s«*l«*etion
of valuable pine lands. Out of 545,(MW
acres alrea«ly select«*«! by the stat«* un-
d«r it» various grants, selections cover
ing 93.000 acres have remaine«! unap
prove. I for several years.
Through
Dockery’s effiirt» th«* «iepartmeut’s ob
jection» to these ««'lections hav«' b««en
removed ami th«* seltx-tions approve«!.
\ satisfactory arrangement has leen
made with the department whereby the
«fate will »ooa he permitt«»«l to seleret
th«* 130.000 acres still due it under its
several grant»
Run on a Cripple Creek Bank.
More than 20 varieties» of rice are
known in the Philippine«; but. though
Cripple (’reek. Uolo., May 5-A run
thin cereal is no im|s>rtant to the na was »tart««! on th«* Bimetallic Rank, of
tive«, not enough of it is produced to
Cripple Creek, h»lay, ami when the
supply their needs, and large ■ | ua lit 11 lea
iloort were c I om *«I at 3 o’clock, there
have to 1« imported annually.
were still many] <1epo«it«irw in line,
The increased tine of the telephone in t'ver IIUW.IXW was withdrawn between
I Bindon has greatly diminisheil the de lit M ami I P M
The run ws»
mand for hansoms. That is easti.v un* -tarte«! by a report that the leuk wan
derstood, for bunin«*« men, to whom about te> go into Iiquillation, The
time is prei ions, no longer have to hank was «tart««l in 1892 an«l wa« the
drive hurriedly to tins or that office.
ohlvst bank in the city.
|js«t month 75,8'4 gallon
traban wine« were imported
United King*lom. a« against
January, 1901.
NEWS OF TH ESTATE
PANIC
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM AL l
PARTS OF OREGON.
CoaaaMnial and Financial Happenings of Ito.
portane«
A Brief Review of th« Growth
and laspiovenwnts of th« Many Industries
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
-Latest Mark« Report.
A building boom is on at Salem.
Albany is to have all its residences
numbered in preparation for free de
livery of mail.
Negotiations are in progress which
will probably soon terminate the strike
of the weavers at Oregon City.
A Salem creamery has just made its
first shipment of butter to Seattle for
supplying the Alaskan market.
A large vein of almost pure coal has
been struck in the Soutliern Pacific
company's mine near Medford.
W. F. Wintermantel, of Jefferson,
has contracted to deliver 8,000 pounds
of 1902 hops to New York parties at 12
cento |ier pound.
Genera) Russell A. Alger is said to
lie at the head of a ayndnate which, it
is rumored, will purchase the Cornu
copia mine at Baker City.
late spring is retarding the early de
velopment of the Eastern < Ircgon gold
fields. Roads are still in very bad
shape, but a few waim days will make
a wonderful improvement.
W. O. Tyner and Thomas Vennum,
arrested in Brownsville on the charge
of robbing the lusnk at that place of
11,700, have Isien bound over to the
June term of the circuit court arid
taken to Albany for safe keeping.
3u|ierintendent J. It. Is-e, of the
state penitentiary, rejsirta that tiie ex-
]>eriment recently undertaken by that
institution for the clearing of land 1«-
loning to private parties, under a con
tract granting a five years’ lease of the
premises so cleared, has provena suc
cess. In addition to accomplishing the
clearing of the land, the state gets the
wood, employment is furnished con
victs, who otherwise might lie idle, and
the state acquires without any expense
additional acreage for agricultural pur
poses.
Wheeler and Lincoln counties have
paid their 1901 state taxes in full.
Mrs. Ann Bowen, a pioneer of Ore
gon, died in Baker City, aged 73 years.
Cummings A Cole have sold their
sawmill at Sandy to two men of Orient.
The consideration was $1,524.85.
Sixty children were vaccinated at
Oswego in one day. So far only one
case of smallpox lias developed there.
The lioard of trustees of the state re
form school at Salem has awarded con
tracts for supplying that institution
with 200 cords of fir wimm ).
Both sides to the strike at the wisden
mills in Oregon City continue firm.
The employes will not return to work
under the present wage scale, and the
com|iany still refuses to make any con
cessions.
Marion county hop contracta repre
senting It),000 pound* of the 1902crop
were recently tiled at Salem.
I lie con
tracting firm wan l.ilienthal llroa., of
New York; Myrtle B. Cole will deliver
10,000 pounds at 12Q cents, and Mrs.
M. E. Arms will receive 12’-» cento for
0,000 pounds.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat—YValia Walla, 65(.t65isc;
bluestem, 66(<i66 lnc; valley, 65c.
Bariev — Feed, |20@21; brewing,
121(421.60 i«er ton.
Oats — No. 1 white, $1.20; gray,
$1.10(41.15.
Flour—Best grades, $2.85(43.40 per
barrel; graham, $2.60(42.80.
Miilstuffs — Bran, $16(417 per ton;
middlings, $19; shorts, $17.5O(a 18.50;
chop, $16.
Hay — Timothy, $12(415; clover,
$7.50(410; Oregou wild hay, $5«rti per
ton.
Potatoes—Rest Burbanks, 1.40(41.65
|sir cental; ordinary, $1.20(41.25 per
cental; Early Rose, $1.50(42.00 jier
cental; growers prices; sw«*ets. $2.25(4
2.50 |>er cental.
Blitter—Creamery, 16(417 *vc; dairy,
l2H(415c; store, 10(412Sc.
Eggs—15(416 c for Oreg«in.
Cheese— Full cream, twins, 13(4
13Sc; Young America, 14(415e; f se
tory prices.1(4 1 S< less.
Poultry—Chickens, nnxtsl. $130(4
5 50; hens, $5.(W(46.00 per dozen,
11(41 IS«’ !*er pound; springs, 11(4
11
per p«>und, $4.00(46.(W js r doz
en; ducks. $5.00(47.00 per dozen; tur
keys, live, 12(4 13c, dresseii, 14(416«* per
pound; g«*e»e, $6.50(47.IM) per dozen.
Mutton—Gross, 4 Sc
perptnind;
drt*ss«<<l, 7S<‘ per pound.
Hogs—Gross, t<S«'; dreeeed, 7S<4<c
per pound.
V««al—6S(rf8c for small; 6S(47«* for
large.
Beef—Gross, cows, 4(4 4 Sr; steers.
5c; drvss««<l, 8(48 Q«- per |s>und.
Hops—I2S(A15 cents per pound.
Wool—Valley, 13(414; Eastern Ore
gon, 9t» 11c; mohair, 23 Sc |«*r pound.
IN
A
FACTORY.
CUMMINGS IS PEAD
BIG PACKING TR^
latirtitta« R«P«' •< «•* Nou‘‘ Na**1
PhilMtelphia Girli Btcom« Tt»ro»iz«d *nd
mitt»« ea Wirohipi.
IF THE GOVERNMENT W|N
Eight Art Trampled to Death.
Washington, May 1—The naval pro
BRILLIANT NEW YORKER PASSED
CASE IN COURT.
Philadelphia, -May 3.—An unfortu
gram for 1903, as presented in the
AWAY AT BALTIMORE.
nate acciilerit to a deaf and dumb boy,
naval appropriation bill ami the report
Imsdor Paccus, was today directly r«-
rile«! by Chairman F o M, of the house Psckzn Will Bz Compsllfd te
sponsible for the d«*ath of eight girl» Wat a Jouriwymaa Printer. Editor of the New
naval .««nimittee, is of unusual interest.
Assotisiioa Along th« Unti of th, L "
and young women, the fatal injury of
York Sun. a Soldwr m the Gvd War and The report does not take as optimistic a
three othre.« an«l the serioaa injury of
Stetti Steel Corpor.tion-C^ **
more than two w«re of girls employed
a Congressman - Held M*»y Imports« view ol our uaval progress as is gener
ally held, and Mr. Foss points out that
Amount to i Billion Dolilr,_u
in the cigar factory of Harburger,
Committee Positions in th« Lower Mouse comparatively fe* of our ships liave
tempts Made to Eiltet Such C-nj,../
Homan A Co.
any
real
fighting
value.
The
report
-Champion
of
Labor
Measures.
The building in which the disaster
say«, in part
occurred is a five-story brick structure
Chn-ago. May l.-A H.uou,^
“While we have built and are build
«»-«-upying an entire bl«M-k.
Twelve
Baltimore, May 3.—Representative
Pa. king trust 1» among the
4
hundred persons, mostly girls from 12 Amos J. Cummings, of New York, died ing, all told, 138 slope, yet compara
tively few of them have any real bght- if the Unite.1 States government -I *
years up, were at work at th«* time of
at 10:15
o’clock tonight,
at the Church ,ng value.
_________
_
Our naval prowess Ilea
lies su«-cess«l in maintaining it8 ,,
the accid«-nt. The elevator was at the ______
top of the shaft, and the janitor pulle.1 Home and Infirmary, in this city, of a|niogt entirely in our 18 battleships, 8 plate«l injum-tion proceedings,
the rope to bring it down. He opened pneumonia, incident to an operation, armore.lerui.-er» and 21 protected crule Tribune. The prediction is nia,|
I js Salle street financial circle» V*
the door leading to the shaft and lean««! age«l 61 years. The representative's ers. The rest of our slops would cut
large
packers who may le n.a.l« ,ief7*
but
little
figure
in
actual
war.
«hips
forwar«! to see where the carriage was.
wif«* ami his cousin, Charles H. Cum of th«* battle line practically alone con ants in the Federal court will be f, '
The |elevator struck him across the
formally to combine if the proaeiut'1
liack of the nrek, pinioning his hea«i mings, were at his bedsitle when death tain the naval strength of the nation.
“Of all the countries, Germany has against them under the Sherman a **
lietweeu the elevator and the floor. A came.
trust law is successful
The (1>nib*£
boy release! Bacus an«l cried for help.
Representative Cummings came to lieeti building during the past few years
tion
would
le
along
the
lines fol«
faster
than
any
of
the
others.
Her
The foreman ran from the building to Baltimore April 11 to undergo treat
call an ambulance an«l a fianic ensoe«! ment for kidney trouble. Four days ship building program started in 1898 by the United States Steel Corp,
”
among ¡the employes.
xmie fainted later an operation was performed ami ami will be complete«! in 1908, possibly and wou 1«1 be made to comprise
ti.-ally all the beef packing «woX*?
in
1907,
instead
of
1916
as
firs
an«l some cried “Fire.”
Mr. Cummings seemed in a fair way to
Instantly there was a mad rush for recover. A week later, however, pleu planned. Tnis programme will give in th<‘ country.
In the formation of such a conibin.
the stairway leading into Tenth street. risy develop«-ii, and April 25 it was an- her in all, 38 battleships, 14 larg<*
The girl» raahed downjthe narrow stair nounce«! that Mr. Cummings was suffer- cruisers i, 38 smaller cruisers and 96 tion all the powers now denial th*
.‘
case until they reach««! a tand in the ing from pneumonia in one lung. Last torpedo boats. After the compUti«Mi of puckers, with one exception,
exit between the seconti ami third Tuesday it was announced that the this program the plan «-ontemplates legally consolidate«!. The single^
fl«x«rs. In their eagerness to eBcajie, malady ha«l extended to both lungs, new constructions to replace ships ieption, in the opinion of «■ori-orati/
the frightened leaders fell.
Others since which time Mr. Cummings ha«J which, though »till serviceable, may- lawyers, would be the adoption 0[ M-
trip|«««i over the struggling mass ami been hovering betwreen life an«l death. have reached the prescribed age limit. arbitrary and unreasonable whadubg
Many attempts have
in less than a minute hundreds of chil-
“In view of the fact that there is prices.
«Iren ami young women were struggling
some public sentiment favorable to made to form such a corporation but
Newspaper. Political and Army Career.
all have been unsuccessful. Dtirij.
in the passageway. During the exite-
Amos J. Cummings was born at building ships in our government navy
ment an alarm of fire was turmsl in,
Conkling, Broome county, New York, yards, it has been deemed advisable by the life of I'. D. Armour the <|U<-sti«.n,.i
but liefore the engines could reach the
May IS, 1838. He had an academic the committ«** to insert a provision in the promotion of a huge pai-kingan-
pany, to include all the Chicago tirm-
scene, «everal of the «x-eupanto of the
education, set type in his father’s office the appropriation bill this year, leav
building hail rushed to the windows
at 12 and became a journeyman printer ing it to the discretion of the secretary was discusi-ed, but Mr. Armour sv*>-
an«! jum|»*<1 to the stre«-t, a distance of
at 15. Starting in New Y'ork he earned of the navy to build any or all ships in firm against all such propoads. It b
over 50 feet.
his living at the case in nearly every government yards, but making it man estimated that at one time the proj«q
state in the union. In 1857 he was datory on him to construct at least one went so far as to lx* considered bv tb«
RUSSIAN AGITATORS.
with the Walker expedition at Mobile liattleship or one armor««! cruiser in heads of all the large Chicago tirni(
and was captured by Commodore Davis, such navy yard as he may designate, as but the question of the allotment
Cleverly Schemed to Arouse the Serfs «nd
on the Quaker City. Just before the an experiment, and it is further pro- capital stock is nnderstoo«! to havehe^
Easily Succeeded.
war he became a ‘‘sub” on the New vide«i that he shall keep an accurate the rock on which th«« plan went to
account of all expenditures for labor pie«'es.
St. Petersburg, May 3.—The serious- York Tribune.
In 1861, he was sergeant major of ami material in the inspection and con
iii -s of the situation in South Russia is
OREGON BUILDINGS.
apparent from the fact that Drngoni- the Twenty-sixth New Jersey infantry, struction of such ships and rejiort to
iroff, governor general of Kieff; Pocar- in which he served gallantly, being congress at each session, ami on the
ieff, vice director of the department of officially mentioned for his bravery. completion of saiii ship he shall make Mort Money Will Be Asked for Public Is
th«' police, ami other officials, have His service ending in 1863, he helped a detailed r«*|sirt showing the relative
proveminti
joined Von 1’lehms, the minister of the defend the Tribune office during the cost of one built by the government ami
Washington,
May 1. —It is expetst
interior, at Krakoff.
The Voranje riot. He became, in 1868, managing one built by contract. It is lielievisl
that the omnibus public bni'ding bi;
by
your
committtee
that
nothing
short
sugar refineries have espe«*ially suffered editor of the New Y'ork Sun, but re
of an experiment of this kind will show which passed the house today, wifi >,
from the outbreak during which the signed in 1873, because of ill health.
quite generally am«*nded in the senat,.
Duke of Oldenbourg’s estate- was dis
He was elected to the Fiftieth con whether private contractors have been
as many bills for buildings have pa-asi
reasonable
in
their
bids,
and
serve
for
mantle«!.
In
18X7
he
started
the
gress in 1886.
It now develops that the agitators Evening Sun. In 188ft he declined the the future guidance in the construction the senate which were not incorporate;
An appropriation of in the house bill. At the same time
who are directly reeponsble for the renomination for the Fifty-first con- of our navy.
progress of the revolutioav movement gross, but on Samuel 8. Cox’s death. $175,000 is recommended for each yard the unanimity with which the hou-r
bill was passed will encourage that
among the hungry |M-asants, us«*«i a was elected to fill the vacancy, and was in which a ship is built.”
Issly to stand firmly for its bill in «-on-
|»ilitical device to bring the former re-elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-
ference. It is umlerstood, hover»
Protest Against Discrimination.
«erfs and the lanilowners into collis third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-filth, Fifty
Chicago, May 1.—Merchants and that the committee expects to vieMto
ion. A rumor was industriously circu sixth and Fifty-seventh congresses.
lated that the czar bail order««l the In congress he held important commit manufacturers of Chicago have unite«! the senate, in some increases «hid
lands of th«'nobles to lie divided among tee positions. During his entire career
...... in a strong prot«-st to the interstate will be made.
Senator Mitchell announces hisin-
the emancipati'd serfs. The peasants he held mendiersliip in the New \
Y'ork
...... commerce commission against alleged
thereupon form««l committees, which Typographical Union, No. 6.
discrimination in tin* transcontinental tention of fighting for an inurenM ip.
wait«-«! ujhiii th«* landowners and or-
rates. It is chargtsl that by the rates propriation for enlarging the Portland
der«'«i them to vaeat«- the laml withheld
made Chicago manufacturers are placid postoffice. He «ays the bill hereb.f re
AFFAIR IN VENICE.
from the peasants by the crown agents,
in competition with New York for Pa passed hv the senate committee apps-
and pris-eedeil to distribute th«* land
cific
«xiast trade, and for trade west of priates $250,000 for this purpose,wlis
Lieutenant Doddridge Explains How American
ami movables, leaving the nobles from
[ the Rtx-kies. Attention is called to the the omnibus bill carries $100,000 lw
Sailort Got Into Trouble.
13 to 20 acres each. The proceedings,
fact that equal rates from New York He maintains that such an extern«
Venice, May 5.—The officers of th«* and Chicago to Pacific Coast points as is ne«*de«i cannot he built foi the
which were orderly, were conduct««!
with the utmost gravity until the an Unite«! States cruiser Chicago have practically eliminate the advantage amount provide«! in th«« general bill.
It is probable Senator Simon, a nw
thorith-s interfer««.. Thereafter thère
ls*en released. Th«* order of release, which should be Chicago’s owing to her
was riot, arson ami devastation.
situation territorially. To this charge tier of the committee, w ill also attemp:
granted by the king, came this morn
the answer of the railroad manage to have his bills appropriating $100,dit
ing. In an interview with a reporter ments has always been that water com each for buildings nt Oregon City i>:
Alaskan Salmon Season.
Washington, May 1.—The treasury of th«' Asso«-iat('<l Press the imprisoned petition by the way of the Gulf made it Albany incorporate*«! in the general bib
Senator Foster [intends to offer ar
department ha« received a report from officers warmly repudiated the reports imperative that the same rates be made
Commander Moser, of the revenue cut from Rome that they were under the from New Y'ork to the Pacific as from amendment increasing the appropria
ter service, recommending against the influence of wine at the time of th«' Chicago, St. Louis and other Missis- tion for purchasing *a site at Ticoat
from $60,000 to $100,000, as he siysa
closing of a large number of streams in trouble, ami sai«i that on the contrary sippi River valley points.
suitable site, consisting of an entin
Alaska to salmon fishing. Some time they were absolutely s«iber. Lieuten
Great Interests at Stake.
block, cannot lie had in a desirable lo
ago a rei|iie»t was made that the treas ant John S. Doddridge remarked;
"After the accidental upsetting of a
ury department close up many of the
Seattle, May 1.—The sale of the Eb cality in Tacoma for the amount no»
streams on which there are now no fish table in a cafe by myself and a com ner Copper Mining properties at Ju provided. It is hardly possible that
eries, the request coming from one of panion, at 11 o’clock at night, we were neau and the building of the Valdes- the appropriations for Seattle and Sp»
the largest salmon packing firms in followed ami attacked by a mob, and Eagle Railway will depend upon the kane can he increase«!.
Ala-ka, which has not lieen able to ex two munieijial policemen ap|«ared on result of the investigations to be made
tend its o|H-rations into these particular the scene. I w ith my open hand mo by H. IL Douglas, w ho lias left for tin-
SOUND AND ORIENT.
waters. Contrary to its expectation, tioned to the crowd to k«*ep off. The north. He represents the Land, Credit
the report recommends that the closed 1»dice then seized us, but the crowd A Mortgage Company, of London, in Will Be Connected Direct by Boston Csv
that our which Frank M. Bradshaw, the Los
season in all Alaska Is* extended until ixmtinued so threatening
panv’s Steamers.
July 4.
brother officers and a marine who hap I Angeles promoter, is interested. Cap-
Seattle, May 1.—A special to the
pened to lx- on the plaza, ran to our tain Healy also is connected with the
rescue. We act««! only in seif defense concern.
Tornado in Iowa.
The company is the one Post-Intelligencer from Riston Mat»
I Ns M oine«. la.. May 3.—A tornado ami against a large hostile crowd. We which has announceil its intention of that Puget sound is to lie connect^
Doubtless building the Valdes-Eagle City Rail direct with the Philippine islandr.
struck Bnvard. la., at 7:30 I’. M. to «lid not strike the police.
night. Two elevators, the Chicago, misunderstanding of the two languages way, and of doing an immense amount North China and Sils-ra bv the steam
Milwaukee
St. Paul station and a had something to <lo with the trouble. [of devi-lopment within the Copper ers of the Riston Steamship Compin'
niindier of dwellings were «le-troyed. We wen1 allow««l to remain together in 1 River and Tanana valleys. If Mr. Seattle is to Is* tin* American terrain»
The ag<*nt of the St. Paul is missing, prison, but the room in which we were Douglas decides that the Ebner group of the line. Five steamers will 1»
of mine* is what it has been repre- operated at first, three running w
and is suppose«! to la* kill«*«!. Tele I'onfin««! swarm««! with insects.”
The liberate«! officers of 'the Chicago sented, or in any way comes up to the Manila via Chinese ami Japanese ports
graphic communication is prostrnt«<d,
an«l «letails of the storm are difficult to join««! their shipjtislay, ami the cruiser exi«ctations of the company which In- and the other two to North China ini
The line will engage ex-
represento, the deal w ill lx- closed, ami Siberia.
obtain. At Van Wert a funnel shafM'd lias left Venice.
«•loud dropp«*«! down on th«' town. The
the first payment of $600,009 w ill lx* clusivelv in freight carrying. Other
DAYTON EXPLAINS
vessels will be added I to tiic fleet at the
, made.
high w ind blew <l«>wrn house» aixi barns
«'nd of the next year, . The first vewel
ami uprooted large trees. Several p«*o-
hill he Taken to Arlington.
the Shawnmt.
to go on the route is
i
ple wen- n'lsirt«1«! injnnsl hut non«' Stnds Shod C.ihl« Mtstiv on th» Arrtst of
I«os Angele«, Cal., May 1—The re- launched in December at 8 partw
killed. At Wehion a farmhouse was
American Offictrs in Italy.
mains of the lat«* Major General W, S. Point. Md. She hail her trial trip 1*4
blow n <iown ami three children injured.
Washington, May 3.—Secretary l-ong Rosecrans, . 7.8.
U.S.A.,
A., will lx* disinterred week, and will leave Seattle andTs-
lias received the follow ing cablegram about May 10 and conveyed for inter coma on the first voyage to the East ii
Spokane Plumbers Go Beck to Work.
from Captain Dayton, of the Chicago, ment to tlie National < enieterv at Ar July. Two of the steamers are to have
Spikane. May 1.—The second plumb
in anwser to the department's inquiry lington, near the city of Washington. a carrying capacity of 18,500 tons ea«t«
er»' strike has been settled, the Car-
“Dodridge, Wynne, Ia*dbetter, Kress When it arrives in Washintgon it will
Th«' Boston Steamship Company »
penter’s Union again acting as medi
an«l one marine on leave arre«t«*d. li«'Jin state. Elab«-rate funeral cere composed of Roston capitalist» prin
ator. Ry the term« of the settlement,
Principal charge resisting police. Ser monies have !ie«'n planne«l to take place cipally. The enterprii«* was finaoroi
each journeyman will be paid**' per
ious chrage under Italian law
Sen in the national capital May 17. Since by Kidder, IVabody «t Co., «1 Boroti
day. but the union w ill refund to the
tences, Wynne, four months, ten days; the «ieath «»f tieneral Rosecrans the re
master plumbers 50 cents for each day '«
remainder, three months F«*aeh.
Have maine have restel at Rosedale
W"ik on c uitraet- taken liefore March I.
ceme-
Boeri in Favor of Peace.
not vet their full statement or a report terv, R«s Angeles.
London. April 30.—Wiring from
from court, but applied tor. Resisting
Cl«rks Get Permanent Employment.
I’retcria, the correspondent of the lb f
arrest ¡largely due to pressing in of
Coin Bolivars in Washington.
Telegraph .«ays General Roths. ’>’•
Washington, May 1.—The president crowd an«! not understanding language.
Caracas, Y'eneztiela, Mas- 1.__ The
has signed the legislative bill. Under Appeal
Ap;x»al made
ma«l«* to Rome,
Rome. Impossible to Yenezuelan government ha» «iecided to other Boer leaders, attended then**'
ings o'the Utrecht and Vryheid (’’tn-
it» provisions, the 1,000 or more clerk» explain all circumstances by cable.
u-x- the mint at Washington in-t.-a.l of
mandos last week, and that stroi
who were t«*mporarily appointed during Will make full report.”
th.- Paris mint, as formerly, for the
the war with Spain are given |>erman.
The state department ha» begun the «»linage of bolivar silver reins, w.-rth opinions in favor of peace were«’
pressed. The tacit truce in the Ctre11
ent employment, and pla««-d within the exerci»e of its good offices in the inter
about 29 cents. Alsuit 2.(MM),000 bol
and Vryheid districts, concludes tbe
operations of the civil service law.
e«t* of the officers of the Chicago.
ivars are to b«* reineil.
correspondent, ha« expired.
Appropriation Will Stand.
The steel vessel builder« on the Great
Constitutional Amendment Necessary
lakes are assured a year of great activ
Washington, May 3 —All of the sen-
San Jose, Costa Rios. May 5.—Presi-
ity. The contract« for 1902 aggregate
ate amendments to the Indian i appro, d«*nt Iglesias, in his message to con
a carrying rapacity of 3.000,000 ton«.
This will ta» an sdditi-*n of 10 per cent, priation bill affecting Oregon i and gress, says that no n«*gotiations can he
Washington have lxw*n accepted bv the made with the Unite«! States con«*ern-
to the present lake tonnage
««inference committee, and will remain , ing the prop>»«e<i Ni«*aragua canal be-
\n aerolite fell near Chatillen« the
_ i fore a constitutional amendment au
other <iay
The »tone wa« triangular in the bill, exii'pting only an appropri thorizing th«* leasing of land for the
in shape, of a dark gray color, about ation for an agent at Y akima, which canal is ma«ie. The president save aliwi
eleven ounces in weight. This i« only i« to lx* drop|«*d an<l that agency pla«»«| , that the present crisis has resulted in
the second meteoric «tone that i» known in the hands of a hondr«i superintend the exportation of Costa Rimn gold
to have fallen in Switeerland.
ent.
coin.
The German naval budget tin» rear
Th» Trial ®) Hoxird
Mam!*, May 5. —The trial by <x»nrt I eoli» for about $50,000.01
Britain *»k« for about $1 15,000.(8«).
martial of Arthur Ho»rard. alias Wai
lev, «h'wrter from th«* Unite«! State»
Dutch fishermen are accuM*dof «bow
army, who wa« ,-aptured in Angus! last ing their pre-Roer ■«-ntiments bv at
by Lh'utenant Hazzard, was <»'Utiniw«l tacks upon English fishermen in the
textay. Howard’s trial on the charge |
North rea
of >le«<'rti«in was <h*lavt«l owing to hi«
bring uisrsl as a civilian scout nn«!er J
louring the past ten year« 249 aivi-
Franklin R II in the latter'« campaign I dents have osvurrwl in the Swiss n -> in-
»gainst the immrgetita in Ratangas prov- I tains, re«ulting in 313 death«. Thirty-
Gf
tn«*e
It i» Ixdievnt that if H«»ward i» I «even df the victims were giu«le».
I
«WlVicted that he will he parionoi be- I1 the wholn numts-r 237 «ieath«
I rauss* of the rervtcra ha haa renders! hare l«een prevented bv tbo obMrvats>n
I the government.
of rem mon precautionary rules
needs of the navy .
Morgan s Immense Foe.
Chit'ago, Mav 3.—Won! wa«
t star that J. Pierpont Morgan
receive $12.500,000 in st'X'k of
•hipping
mhine in return for
Will tw Triad Again.
receive!
Granta Pa«s, Or., May 5 —Jeff Gib-
wa« to
~>n, charg»«! with the murder of s.
the new
Bachelor. mn«t stand another trial, the
his ser-
jury after heing out 24 hours, being
vi«x*s in organising ami finam ing it. unable to agree. The trial has <«vu-
From an a«««« late of Mr. Morgan in pie«l f«xir «lays, and, although Gibson
this . ity it was learneii that, while the was generally believe.! to have ante«! in
amount of nionev represented by the ~s-lf defence, the testimony against him
•tsick in tlie new -team-hip trust given was very «iamaging. It is reported
Mr. Morgan reem« large, it i« not near that the jury stood ->ne for first d«»gree.
ly »» much as was paid f«»r the organi- three for the second, an«! the ha lane»-
iati n <»f the «teel trust ami other rem- for manslaughter.
The -late nf the
bine« effreted bv him.
new trial haa not yet been set.
Immense Amount of Wheat Sold.
Serious Situation on th» Nil».
Walla Walla, Wash., May 1.—W.
Brussels, Mav 1.__ The Viengti«*"*
H. Rahenck, the wheat king of Eureka 8i«*«'l«' rep«irts a serious situation «»n tl*
Flat, has c I oimh I «»nt nis holdings. Nile. Several Belgian posts have b*1
am.iunting to 175,000 bushels,
He attack«»«! by rebel natives from I i(*''!*'
•old at terminals for 6« '« cents, eqnal
»ay» the paper, and British tn» !'"
to 57 «.«»nts a bushel free on lawn] car» established themselves on Belgian **
ritory.
Difficulties have arisen >
at Walla Walla,
His wheat was
tw-een
the
Belgians and British in ’■
stored at different points
____ _ on Puget
I j »«1«» Enclave. A fre«h revolt I
Sound, an.1 was (he bigg,’«'» U¡
t individual broken out on the Upper I hanf
holding in Will» W.ll, Valley.
river, French Congo.
Evani lor Consul General.
Washington, May 1 -ComBiasioner
Bid Wreck in Iowa
Keokuk, la.. May 1.—The Cal f ro‘
Whit
tva,w ra* * caller at the
thÍ
,O,Ur’ *n,‘
limit««! train on the Atchi* ■ .
i'h 7'w‘n-
h,B’
»
hath . f William McKinley (».home
consul
!.,„ i
f..rm.t general t«, J-omion.
and in an in- ‘
.1 ’ man"’r'.ff'r''1 '"nitl,.* vacant
position. No f,<ma|
tender of the
pla«e was made, ami none »¡R be, a-
the preeisient wc
ant« to pay projer re-
»I»vt to the memory of the dea«l <*r...
m-
”>L Mr Evans «aid that
- ■-*.» s.1.1 that he
he w«»uld
would
take the o“
•» un 1er a«iM^Tn,.nti but
no doubt be
wi¡|
“*-
■1 »crept ,t when ma.ia.1
A Santa Fe road, eastbound.
•** '
rail««! on a curve at Cama, a •">’
miles WP«t Of Medili*. Mo., at ‘
this morning, while going at •
rat** nf
Four per*^- *
killed and 23 injured. The tni* **
over an hour late, ami pas«ed
<» nda. the last station weid, at th* ”
"f 65 mile« an hour. When 'he U»
train stru«k the curve at Cam*
rails spread.