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Eugene Weekly Guard THREE ♦ CAMFBKL1» BBOÌ., Proprietor«- ♦ Oklahoma, Aruona and New Mexico Admitted to Statehood. OREGON. EUGENE EVENTS OK THE DAY A Comprehendve Review of the Important Happ«nin<> of the Past Weak, Presented in a Condensed form, Mhkh Is NEW STAR8 Most Likely to Inttrcit Our Many R«ad*r» President Simon Sam, of Hayti, ban resign«!. Admiral Sampson's remains have lieen buried in Arlington cemetery. The British prem demand» that the government Like action on the steam ship «imbine. The attorney general of Missouri han filed pr-seedings against tiie lieef trust in his »Lite. The nomination of If. ( lay Evans as consul general to fsindon has been confirmed by the senate. The house has pass«i tiie omnibui statehood bill admitting Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. It is now estimated that fully 40,0**0 p«iple |ierish«i in tiie earthquake at 8t. Pierre, Martinique, The American consul and his family ere among the dead. I NEWS OF TH ESTATE Pieaaurr Launch Run Dowa By ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL Washington, May 2.—The house PARTS OF OREGON. reaumeiI consideration of the omnibus statehood bill immediately after the reading of the journal. The pending amendment was that of Mr. Overstreet, C sw Mee rciai end Financial “«ppesmgi o( lav of Indinaa, to consolnlate New Mexico portaace —A Brief Review of the Growth and Arizona ami submit them as the •nd Improvement! ul the Miry Industrie! state of Montezuma, or such other Throughout Our Thrivmg Commonwealth name as the constitutional convention should elect. The opposition to the —Latest Market Report. bill bail unit«! upon this amendment and hail determined to make a strong Tbe cani|>s and mill» near Altna effort to adopt it. Overstreet made a are vainly applying for men. vigorous speech, arguing that its pur Fire at Fraire City ilestroy«! an en pose was to benefit the people of the two territories, but the amendment tire block and caused a loss of $20,000. was defeated by a vote of 28 to 106. La Grande is enthusiastic over the A lew verbal amendments offered by Lewis and Clark fair and a general the committee were adopted, and the meeting will be held to get sul'iu'rilwra bill was then l-aased without division, to the stock. The bill as passed provides enabling Ed Graves, of Msrquam, has i on acts for Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, similar in form to former tract«! 5,000 pounds of hops from his enabling acts, with the exception that yard five miles east of Woodburn, 0 r the constitutional convention of New 12*» cents ;«r ]>ound. Mexico is empowered to designate the • A bill ha* ls-en introduced in the name by which the new state slitII United States senate granting a right enter the Union and in the case of Ok of way sciom the Cascade forest reserve lahoma the ««invention by irrevocable for the Oregon A Southeastern railroad ordinance shall express the ivmsent of The city council of Baker City has that state that («ingress at any future I time may attach all or any part of awarded tiie contract for tbe extension Indian Territory to it. The enabling | °i lLe mains of the waterworks system acts differ from one another chiefly in to a ixintractor of that city on a bid of reference to the public lands appro $33,314.77. Control LarA« Copp«r Intcrcata The disturliances in Russia are ----- due I ........ — to a famine la-ing taken advantage of by agitators. Representative J. S. Salmon, of New Jersey, is dead. Rear Admiral W. dead at Washington. T. Fampson is Thousands of sheep are dying in New Mi-yi<«i on account of the drouth, which has ls-en unbroken since the latter part of March, Tiie president has pardon«! five memls-rs of tie- Mineworkers' organiza tion who were sentem«Ml to jail in Vir ginia for contempt of court. New York, May 10.—According to Vii-e President John Maginnis, of the | Montana Ore Purchasing Company, alllj other Heinze properties, the new cotn|>an> will have in its treasury 95 |ier i-ent of the capital stock of these «'tnpanies The Montana Ore Pur chasing Coni|iany, the Nipper Consoli dated Cop|er Company, the Minnie Healy < upper Mining Com|>any, the ('obra-Ris k Island Cop|>er Mining Com- I'Hiiy ami the Belmont Copjxr Mining Company. Die company will also have ♦ 1,000,000 of th«- first mortgage bonds of the Montana Ore Purchasing Com pany isuid and $2,500,000 first mort gage bonds of the Nipper Company. These Isuids represent the only I m inde« I I in<b‘bti*lness of tiie companies uamvd. Four men were kill«! and two others Salvador Dispute Settled. fatally burn«! by Is-ing caught in a tor rent of molten meta) that flowed from Washington, May 10.—The United a smi-lter in a foundry at Harrisburg, States lias won a sweeping victory in Pa. the matter of the arbitration of the dis Margaret Taylor, the Cincinnati pute with the Republic of Salvador child kidmi|H-d four years ago, has liven over the claim of the Salvador Com found in Italy. Steps have b«-n taken mercial Company and other citizens of to extradite the aunt who carrfod her the l ulled States, stockholders in the Corporation IT Triumpho Company, away. Ltd., created under the laws of Salva An American company lias purchasi-d dor. Sir Henry Strong and I»on M. the wrecks of the Fpanish warships Al- Dickinson, a majority of the arbitra mirante Oqui-udo and Vizcaya and they tion commission, have rendered an will lie i«>nvi-rted into sernp iron and opinion against Salvador for *573,118. shipp«l to Philadelphia. A Tug Oa An Ohio River. priated for education and public pur- The wool industry of Oregon ranks The attorney general |s>ses. weli up with wheat and lumber, and has rendered an opinion that Mr. Mc out in the eastern part of Waaco <-oun- Bride is still lieutenant governor, but 8OLD DI8EA8ED MEAT. ty’s plains is the greatest »<«>! market is invested with the power of chief ex in the world. ecutive. St Louie Grand Jury le Investigating Grave The Eastern Oregon term of the su Queen Wilhelmina 1» convalescent. Chargee Against Bed Trust. preme court opened at Pendleton with Nine men were injurwl in an explo St. Louis, May 10.—The beef trust is 32 coses on the docket, all but three sion in an Anaconda smelter. now under investigation by the St. being appeals from Umatilla, Baker General Davis reports that the Dat Ixmis grand jury. Following the rev and i nion counties. to» of Mindanao are anxious for ¡»-ace elation at Jefferson City that diseased Th«- Oregon national guard will as and that everything ia quiet in that meat is sold in St. Louis, Circuit At semble at some centrally locat«i fioint torney Folk presented the subject to in the Willamette valley, in brigade island. the grand jury. He announi'es that he camp, for instruction, for a jieriod of Ft, Pierre. Island of Martinique, is will subpoena all the witnesses who said to have lieen totally destroyed by testified at Jefferson City and all other eight «lays, July 17-24, inclusive. an earthquake and nearly all of ita 25,- |ieri.ons w hom he i an find that know A strike of seven inches of w hat ap- 000 inhabitants kill«]. anything alsmt the o|ierationn of the pears to lie almost pure cobalt in the Stan<lar<l mine, in the Quartzburg dis Mrs. D. T. F. Denison WM elected lieef companies. "This has I sm nine a subject for the trict, excited more than «irdinary in president of the Genera! Federation of criminal courts," raid Mr. Folk, "and terest around Sumpter. In addition to Women’s Clulis at Los Angeles. the matter,will lie as thoroughly inves the heavy per cent of cobalt it carried, A train bound from Pretoria to tigated a* have ls-en the hriliery wan- it is re|sirted that the ore in the streak Petersburg, Northern Transvaal. was 'lais, ami 1 have no doubt that men assays $243 gold. wr«-k«i anil a British officer ami ten who have lieen selling decayed meat to The strike of the weavers at Oregon men were kill«!. St. Ixiuisans will lie landed behind the City is still on. The Unit«l Ftates consul general at liars of the |ienitentiary." An electric line will tie built from Rome has collect«! all the ilia-umenta Pendleton to Walla Walla, Wash. liearing on the ease (if the Chicago's officers at Venice and forward«! them to Washington. THOUSANDS KILLED SEVEN DROWNED Contracts will lie let for the paving of portions of Albany's streets with vit rified brick. At Baker City the Bonanza mine cleaned up $75,000 in April and the Virtue mine eh-aii«l up $25,000. in the case of the state against G«irge Miller and Jam<*s ('al<iw«-ll, at Burns, the jury found a verdict of mur der in tin- second degree. Bert Bailey was discharged by the state and u-«-d as a witness. Reports from the Cubit- Cove district confirm there news that the deep cross cut tunnel Is-ing driven by the Califor nia mine has found either the Ing Win chester or the famous Ini|«-rial lead, of !*,ie Imperial group. The ledge struck in the crosscut is 13 feet across. It is stateli that an Oregon and a Michigan capitalist are about to pur chase the Southern Oregon Company property in Coos county, which con sista of over 100,000 acres of land, the town site of Empire City and one of the largest lumlier mills on the coast. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat — 55alla Walla, 65S(36fic; bluestem, 67c; valley, 68c. Barley — Fe«i, $20(421; brewing, ♦ 21(421.50 |ier ton. Toledo, O., May 10.—Seven young people, memlier» of a Funday »«'bool Shipping Combine Agreements. It will prolwblIr I m * a rii rprim- to i Isuideu. May 10—The Aaaoeiat«! learn that Marv in tht* moat popular j \t*it in num-1 Pre«» lias m ural copies of the ship name smong a- tn • ping oinbiue agreements. They are Ixr are «-ontmetion« of Elvan« i». -ailed "provisional agreements for the All Oriental» an* great 1 lugli 1st*. ; purchase and acquisition, on or I »fore They ms-ni to hai r a favuhr f* >r picking ¡ Th*-ember I, 1902, of the White Star, up language* that im n«»( eti joy«l by Dmiinion, American ami Atlantic Anglo-Sax.-u* Transport Lines, to Reorganised under The lo»r»le*t »<«nd in the a«» rid I* not the direction of the vendors. to the sat ebony, but c«ii». a hit'll ìm m uch used! isfaction of the tankers, namelv the for making flute* and oil »er mi Imitar in-, Morgana, under the laws of the state <4 New York, or ether state s-le t«l." stnimenta. Powerful Cannon. In onler that a rainbow may is* pn- Berlin, May 10 —Professor K Bjerk- duced the «un must not be more than 42 degrws above the boritoti. land. the Norwegian phjrsi. i*t, ha* ls-en in Berlin recently for the purpose of No less than 30.tMMI.tWO acres demonstrating the power« of his electro Cuba—nearly half the island—an- for- magnetic cannon l<efore a nnmlwr of i*»t. There are 30 different specie» of experts in electrical artillery The palms alone found there results of the demonstration* have leen Sell tng elevai«! railroad tickets for so convincing that a firm of artillery 50 conta apice»- is the latest rum* manuiai turern has offered to buy the adpoteii by swindlers who prey up in invention for immediate exploitation newly land«! immigrants st the Bat- Theoretically, the gun can throw a pro tery in Sew York jectile of two ton« 90 mile« or further Ford Shot. New York. May 10. —Paul ladces- General E. F. Bragg, of Wisconsin, let Ford, the novelist, was shot and has Is'en sid«-ted as United Ftates i«in- killed by Ins brother, Malcom Webster »ul general at Havana. Ford, writer and athlete, who immedi 11. G. Hqttires. secretary of the lega ately sent a bullet into his own breast, tion at I'ekin, has ls«-n sel« t«i by dying instantly. The shooting occurred (lie pre-ulent to Is* minister to China. at 10:20 A. M . in the handsome new mansion which I’aul Ix-icestcr Ford had The president has m-ut to the senate built at 37 East S-venty-seventh strw-t, the noiiiinatiiiii of Frank P. Fargvnt to and had occupied for alsiut a year. Is- commissioner genera! of immigra The murder was sup|sis<«i to have lieen tion. «■mmitt«l in a fit of insanity. A mob of 50 Italians, erased with Point Chleli Adjourn. liquor, ruled the town of Corliss, Wis., fur a day and terrorized the inhabit Louisville, May 12. — Tiie police ants. chiefs of the Uniti«! States and Canada, at their final neaaion, changed tiie alter her narrow name of the associatfoa to the Inter Police Chiefs’ Association, on account of an national and «eloot«I New 1 blenni- as the next pia«* <>f mi-eting. Richard Sylvester, authori««l of Washington, wan el«-t«l president. Secretary Misslv has Captain Davton of the cruiser Chicago j Rebel» Bumbard Nau N<n< Fu t<> «uiveiie a court of inquiry to pmlic , Hong Kong, May 12. — Advices re the affair at X'anice. ceiv«l here from Wo Chou sav tile re>>els bomliarded Nan Ning Fit for three hours April 27, using nu vieni tielil guns. From 300 to FtH» of the inhabitants were kill«!. l'he relíela sub««|uentlv withdrew to the hills. F« >n-st Provision Plant Burned. havoc in portionsi of Co|or»«lo. On the .late at 1 ä h It*li 11 ft -ixua was taken there were $8.5,7*4,89«. «....th of 1 1 Stat«** poultry on f-«-t in th.- 1 Die Jnnvan-Bkagway cable has m4 11 ng t< • a ls*en ux-d for two break which eano- Meh ig.m art* I’ninarri«! w-.u to petition the 1«giflatnrr for lion from taxation «ai eMata» h*M» than $5,<MM. Optician« aay th at !D“rr ry* glMM«k*N an«d by are broken in hot perspiration l«-»e ning thrir grip <*n th* !>< •• i Fs«iM«r asd Br-kemas Killed F verett. Wash . May 10.—Engineer Michael J. Riley and Brakeman \ L. 1 Kittle were kill«! during the morning * by an engine rashing through a trestle 1 to the bottom of a gulch 25 feet below. Tbe men were in tlx employ of a l<w- ging company and were oming A'«n a grade with five b«<l«l fiat - ar» The engine toll upon Riley, killing him in a stantly. Kittle <li«l nan afterward f from araMa. Another train foil 'Weil. r a at i ing thru ugh the trestr l«-l lie stiq |x*l The engineef Hx fireman e«apad by jumping. Tbe entire population of Infarnvatien far Traveler». IT« Pnvtat SAMPSON 18X0 Mom Laitoiag OF ST. PIERRE DESTROYED BY A RAIN OF FIRE. •< •i Washnigton. May 8. The chief jus-1 CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE S r DEATH TO THE ADM ira tice of the United States supreme court ha» rendered opinions in two test cases affecting the transit of Chinamen Wat ia Command of th« Amir,t4, t Atlantic Water» During m, * * through th» United States to other City -Jeirt InvtMor of Sup<r,mp^ ’* countrie», sustaining the govrenmental Mount Pelee Exploded and a Burainj Lava Swept the Shower Irom Exutsaea—Now Eiumated that at Least 40.000 People Pemhed- All Ship ping is the harbor was Deitroyed. amuthorities having them detained at San Francisco. There are said to be 40 or 50 ( bitumen who have been thus r«tt oa Modern bar.h.p^,- * Record in the Civil War. St. Thomas, D. W. L, May 10.—The w. Chicago, May 12.—The plant of Ihr Ata'iit 3.1MHI RotinianÌAii Jews will 1 German Provision Company in t I h * emigrate to th«- Cuitad Stata« in thv ■toikyiird» wa* damaged lo fire during the night to the extent of $100,000. very near futur«-. Paul Liicaaltr May detained in San Francicso for the just Washington, May 8.—R,.ar four or five months, and who have been William T. Sampson, retired, .fl British steamer Roddam, Captain Free very restless under the restraint. The his home in this city at 5 u ," ’ man. which left Ft. Lucia for Martin result of the decision will be the de the afternoon. The ¡mined- • ‘ 4 “UL*‘’"dtlp. J ique, returned then- during the after portation to China of the Chinese de death was a severe cerebral , noon bringing a report that the town of rhagv. He had lieen in > i>* tain««!. St. Pi.-rre, Martinique, lias been totally 1 Two Chinamen were on their way to acinus state for several ,jav. i destroyed by volcanic disturbances in Mexico and daim«i the right under liedside when the admiral bregtUi * the island. Almost all the inhabitants tiie treatv of 18-4 to transit, one desir last were Mrs. Sampson, Mrs t'*’’1 ant Cluverius, the admiral’, 2^** of Ft. Pierre are said to have be<-n ing to go’by rail, and the other merely •laughter; Admiral 8ani[>„,n^*f^ to tran-ship. They were deni«i this kill«!. right under the provision of the treaty young sons, Ralph and Hamid s The Roddam reporta that all the giving the treasury department author son; Dr. Dixon, the attending i"* shipping in the port has also Iten de ity L> make regulations for control in cian, and nurses ami attendant, » stroy«!. Tiie Quebec Steamship Com such matters. The f«ieral authorities Sampaon had broken down nmU* severe strain and was quite qi pany'» »teamer Rorima, Captain Mug- di»«s'vre«l evidence in both cases, as in those of their detained countrymen, the day. But for the critical gar, is mentioned as lost, with all on that the pa**engi-rs did not intend to tion of the Admiral, she io . i . i . , i board. remain in Mexico. Tiie prisoners Ixen «>nfin«i to her bed. Tiie Roddam was almost completely sought release by habeas corpus pro- It has lieen suggested to \ir, ceilings, their petitions being denied son that the naval academy at wrecked. Her captain was seriously by the district court for the Northern olis would lie the proper place fo- burn«!, and 17 of her crew are dead. District of California, in his opinion, last resting place, while „ther have represent«! to her that he d Latar Detail!. the chief justice said: "Congressional action has placed lie buri«i in Arlington Uenieten St. Thoma.«, D. W. I., May 12.—It is now estimated that 40,000 jiersons the final determination of the right of this city. Admiral Sampaon resided in (n, perish«! as a result of the volcanic admission of Chinese in executive offi eruption in the Island of Martinique. cials without judicial intervention, and olis eight years, during four v The British schooner Ocean Traveler < this has lieen for many years the r«-og- which he was superintendent ,.f ■ arriv«l at the Island of Dominica. B- nixed and d«-lar«l ¡silicy of the coun academy there. William T. Sampson was |(l|, , NEEDS OF ALASKA. W. I., at 3 o'clisk in the aftenusin. try. The regulations to prevent the She was oblig«i to flee from the Island abuse of the privilege of transit have Palmyra, Wayne county. F,|,r,U j 1840. He was four month* j-ni;nt.. Ivey .Mak«« a Few Suyttuon« ta th« of St. Vincent, B. W. I., during the ls-en and are intend«! to effectuate the J. " ’ recourse i to the courts the day than Admiral Schley r. d afternoon of Wednesday, May 7, in same policy and President on the Subject. consequence of a heavy’ fall of sand by habeas corpus to determine the ex Schley, Sampson did not <-<.nieof Washington. May 10.—Ex-Collector from a volcano which was erupting istence of such abuse. Tiie record does tinguished naval lineage, nor inh of Customs J. W. Ivey, of Alaska, had there. not present a case of regulation or ac of a prominent family. He a i-onferenee with the president during The schoonei arrived opposite St. tion in contravention w ith the Consti first of his line to attain dirtii.f j the 'lav, at which he suggested the ne Pierre, Ma Unique, Thursday morning, tution, and we think that upon the ad George Sampson, his father, w » m ! cessity for early legislation for the ter May 8. While about a mile off the mission of facts tiie orders of the col laborer up in Wayne county, ail(j ritory granting a delegate to congress, volcano of Mount Pelee exploded, ami lector cannot is* iield to have been in early life of his son William revision of the tax laws, extension of fire from it swept the whole town of valid.” the pleasantest and easiest. the United Staten land laws to Alaska, St. Pierre, destroying the town and the Graduating from Annapdi* n Justices Brewer and Peckham dis amendment of the mining laws, al>ol- shipping there, including the cable re head of his class just before the ( sent«!. isiiing the right to l<M-ate claims by pair ship Grabbier, which was engage! war he Lsik an active and | r nn-. |iower of a'torney, revision of the fish in repairing the cable near tiie Guerrin part in that conflict for out- ,, tl(, FAVOR OLEOMARGARINE. ery laws, tiie «instruction of six or factory, and four American vessels. and exhibited rare courage and | -«•veil lighthouses, completion of the The < Icean Traveler, while on her way Live Stock Association Makes Representations of mind under fire. Valdes wagon road, removal of all f«i- to Dominica, encountered a quantity Sampson, with Lieutenant J.» to the President on Pending Bills. eral offices from Sitka to Juneau, the Strauss, devised and perfected ti» of wreckage. I>etter protection of fur seals by rev Washington, May 8.—William M. perinipoii«l or double deck turret* Tiie French cruiser Suchet has ar enue cutters, and the withdrawal of rived at Point-a-I’itre, Island of Guad Springer, representing the National the battleships Kearsarge aid this country from the high joint com eloupe, from Fort de France, bringing Livestock association, called on Presi tucky. mission and the survey and marking of several refugees. She confirmed the dent Roosevelt and presented to him a At the beginning of the »at ti the international boundary by monu report that the town of St. Pierre was telegram from the president of the as Spain, Sampson was in commit.; ments. The president express«l him destroyed at 8 o’clock Thuisdav morn sociation, stating that the passage of the Iowa at Key West, and when ; self favorably toward these proposi ing by a volcanic eruption. It is sup- the oleomargarine bill, the effort to miral Bicard was invalided h.q tions, ami ask«l Mr. Ivey to submit l«is«i that most of the inhabitants of enact the Grosvenor anti-shoddy bill, Sampson Vas placed in <-<'iiiinand his views fullv in writing, which he St. Pierre were killed, that the neigh ami the government’s action against Atlantic fleet and perfi ct«! the bio did. boring parishes were laid waste, and the lieef trust, all are producing heavy ade of the Cuban coast He»i, ■ that tiie residue of the population of losses to livestock prislucers of the conference with General Shiitr- No Information Given Out. United States. The president is urged Guantanamo w hen the naval halt London, May 10.—Thomas Gibson St. Pierre is without f<ssi or shelter. The commander of the Suchet re|iort8 to give immediate consideration to Santiago was fought. After th- Bowles made ineff« tual attempts in the house of i«inimons to draw out the par that at 1 o'clock Thursday the entire these matters. Mr. Springer explain«! of the war, Sampson was pnitotsi liamentary s«-retary for the foreign town of St. Piene was wrapped in that he did not know how the livestiH'k the grade of comnuxlnre, and in t office, Lord Cranbourne, on the subject flames. He endeavor«! to save about association stixxl with reference to the following year he became a rwri of the Atlantic «hipping combine, the 30 persons, more or less burn«!, from government’s suit against the ls-ef miral. Panama Canal, the Danish West Indies the vessels in the harlior. His officers trust, but he was confident that what FAMOUS WESTERN AUTHOS treaty, and German railroad in Asia went ashore in small Isiats, s«‘king for it most desired was prompt action that Minor. Ixird Cranlsiurne's reply did survivors, but were unable to penetrate the cattle raisers of the country may lie not illumine the situation. He said the town. They saw heaps of bodies relieved, from the uncertainty of the Bret Harte Die» Far From the land I no commune ation hail passed lietween upon the wharves, and it is believed present situation. Mr. Springer, on He Won Fame and Fortune. the Unit«l States and the British gov- that not a single person resident of St. IsTialf of the association, made an ar eriimentsjon tiie subjects of tiie ship Pierre at the moment of the catastrophe gument to the president to show that Ix>ndnn, May 8.—Bret Harte, the oleomargarine bill should not re- American author, di«i sudden. ping «imbine, nor regarding tiie pro- escaped. The governor of the colony, his wife ceive executive approval. | his «I purchase of tiie Panama Canal night at the Red House, Canile Company's rights, nor as to the Danish i and staff were in St. Pierre, and prob near Aidershot, from a heni"rt Againit American Vcivele. West Indies. As to the suggestion ably perished. The extent of the catas caused by an affection of the thi that J. Pierpont Morgan was a leading trophe cannot lie imagined. The cap Vancouver, B. C., May 8.—The Mr. Harte had lieen suffering i member of the syndicate carrying out tain of the British steamer Risldam is boards of trade of the various cities of swell«! tonsils since Decemberlili, the concession which Turkey grant«! seriously injur«!, and is now in the British Columbia are petitioning the he did not consider the attack to!» tojGermanv fora railroad through Asia hospital at St. Lucia. All of his offi Dominion government to revoke an or rious. A week ago he went to ’ Minor to tiie Persian Gulf, the govern- cers and engineers were killed or are der in council which ]iermits American friends at Canilierley and was i»s ment, said Ixird Cranbourne, bad no dying. Nearly every member of the bottoms to carry Canadian bonded at lunch as usual Tuesday. He t •rew is dead. Surgeon Campbel] and freight from this port to the north. denlv became ill in the aftern" information to that effect. 10 of the crew of the Risldam jumped In its unamended form the Canadian went to bed and di«-d in a few b s Oil Refinery Fire. overboard at St. Pierre and were lost. law does not permit foreign bottoms to His end was peaceful, lie had « From a dozen different sources comes New York. May 10. — Fire which carry Canadian bond«l freight, but living quietly in England fur nr start«l early in the day in the copper confirmation of the awful extent of the three or four years ago, during tiie rush Most of his time was spent in then» lion«- of the Swan A Flinch Oil Refin catastrophe and add«! details of the days, when there were few British Ixvt- try, and when in London hewari'd ery, on Ftaten Island Found, la-low horror, and it seems vain to suppose toms plying between this port and eechided, having few visitors t i Elizalieth|*irt. N. J., spread rapidly that many escap«i from the terrible Skagway, the boards of trade of Van rooms at Lancaster Gate, attl • and destroyed thousands of liarrels of shower of fire, lava and rock that fell couver and Victoria petition«! the gov going to the houses of a liniitel * refln«l and crude oil stor«l in the ti|«in the city and scattered ashes which ernment to allow bonded freight to go Is-r of intimate friends. yards and in the shipping sh«ls. As fell one hnndr«l miles away. Mr. Harte was best known it! north on American bottoms. As a re St. Pierre, the commercial center of sult of that petition an order in council quaintly pathetic and dryly hun the fire reach«! the big tanks they ex the Island of Martinique, had a popu plod«!. sending the burning oil high was passed permitting such. That or stories of the far West, and r»u in the air and scattering it over new lation of about 25,000. It was on the der has been renewed year by year ever among the masters of the In-’1 west coast of the island, about 12 material. The loss was $100,000. since, but local business men now de language in the delicate del ineat ( miles northwest of Fort de Fran«1, It sin- that it should be revokeil. the varying phases of human nata-» was the largest town in the French Cloudhurst Drowns Nine. West Indies, and was divid«! into two Fifty Egyptians Cremated. Oklahoma City, O. T., May 8.—A Drouth in Colorado. quarters by a rivulet, over which a cloudburst at Foss, 100 miles i west of Cairo, F.gvpt, May 6.—Fifty persons Denver, May 6. — The dr'-’b number of handsome bridges had been her»', Sunday evening, drowned nine 1 built. The lower quarter of the town have perished in a fire at Mount Gamti, Northern Colorado has persons ami left many homeless. Four was close and unhealthy, while for the a town on tbe right bank of the Dami- spring records for length and Isslics have Isi'ti recovered. A mile most part the town was well ventilated etta branch of the Nile. The flames and unless iclief shail come »i"J of the Choctaw railway track was and pleasant. It had numerous public were started by the intensely hot week, the losses to farmers »d* wnshisl out near the town, anil the loss Thousands of heavy. Other portions oftbe* nuildings and schools, a handsome weather prevailing. of town projiertv will amount to about theater and botanic garden. Its road native residences and 200 stores were especially the San Lui* Valle?1 *200,000. suffering from lack of water. stead was defend«! by several forts destroy«!. The einpiess Josephine was l«>rn there Santo Dominyo Pacified. Terrible Condition» in Ruma. Wire let» Telegraphy for Aiaite in 1763. Monte Cristo, Santo D>niingo May The eruption of Mount Pelee liegin \ ienmi, May 8.—In a dispatch from Washington, May 8.—A m 10 —Further information has baaa re- early last w« k. and was followed bv a Warsaw, the correspondent of Di Infor tow an! the adoption of a “'"'r <-wived here of the surrender of Santo fall of ashes over the northern part of mation gives a gloomy picture of tbe wireless telegraphy by the 15 Duningo, the capital. Frhlay, to the the island, several inches covering the «inditions of terror in Russia. He States government for conininnirt streets of St. Pierre. Saturday the flow revolutionary forces under command of of lava commenc«!. and the entire po|i- says there is scarcely a single Russian het ween fix«! place« was .il'- Vice President Vasqtiex I’eaee is com ulation was thrown into consternation. town where sentences of banishment Chief Signal Officer Greely .'pen*! plrtely re-establish«! in the southern It was rumored then that 500 inhabit and imprisonment are not constantly for the supply of such system« I' ’’ |iart of Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata ants of St. Pierre were kill«!. That has capitnlat«) to the revolutionists, was tiie last word r«-eived from Mar l**ing impoe«i. There^has ls-en a great ice between points in Alaska w ho t.sik |s>swasion of the tow n and tinique. as the submarine eaithqnakes demonstration, «avs the correspondent, bids were receiv«!, ami an"*l*r ’ die fort. Governor Deschamps em- It I k.it.-riiiosky, in Southern Russia’ interrupt«! cable communication, nn on the wav from a company 1" l>ark«i on a French steamer, ls>und for til tbe arrival of the Roddam at St «here the Cossacks kill«! 20 persons, many. Tiie bids varied grete Hayti. All is quiet at Puerto Plata. Lucia. wound«l 40 more, and arrest«! 150. will be referr«i to a IsiarJ of o’1 Oats — No. 1 white, |1.20; gray, ♦ 1.10(41.15. Flour—Best grades, ♦2.85(43.40 per liarrel; graham, 12.50(42.80. Millatuffs — Bran, |15(4lei per ton; middlings, $19(420; shorts, $17(418; chop, $lti. Hav — Timothy, $12(415; clover, $7.50(410; Oregon wild hay. $5(46 per U«. Potatoes—Best Burbanks, 1.50(41.85 |ier cental; ordinary, $1.25(41.36 per cental; Early Rose, $1.50(41.75 per cental; growers prices; sweets. $2.25(4 2.50 per cental! new potatoes, 3(43lyc- Butter—Creamery, 16(rfl7ltc; dairy, 121v(415c; store, 10(4l2Sc. Eggs—15(415lIc for Oregon. Cheese— Full cream, twins, 121» (413c; Young America, 13S(414c; fac tory prices,1(4 1 less. Poultry—Chickens, mix«!, $5.00(4 5.<50; liens, $6.00(46.50 per dozen, ll(4USr l*r pound; springs, 11(4 1* Sc per pound, $4,00(46.00 per doz en; ducks, $5.00(47.00 per dozen; tur key», live, 13(41 4c, dreseed, 16(4 18c per piwind; geese. $6.50(47.50 per doaen. Mutton—Grose, 4Sc per pound; < 1 res««I, 7Sc per pound. Hog»—Grom, 6 S«’; dressed, 7S'48c jier jHiund. Veal—6S(48c for small; 6% (4 7c for large. Beef—Groaa, cows, 4 Sc; steers. 5 Sc; dressel, 8(48 ‘«c per pound. Hope— 12S(415 cents per pound. Wool—Valley, 12(414; Eastern Ore gon, H<412c; mohair, 23%c per pound. Three Wall stteet firms failed and ( rested a flurry in stocks. Trcaaury D«partm«at of China»« ia Traaait. CITY elans of the First Baptist church. were drowned in the Maumee liver, just be Th« Volcano low tbe city, ae the result of the nap tha launch Frolic, in which they were taking a ride, lieing run down by the tug Arthur Wood», of the Great Lakes Tow ing Company’» fleet The launch ia own«! by Joseph Hepburn, of this city, who invited 11 young people to take an evening ride with him. They start«l out on a trip to I<ake Erie early in the evening, and weie returning *■ when the accident hap;*n«i Mr. Hepburn, another gentleman and two ladies are the only aurvivor». Mr. Hepburn states that he saw the lights of the approaching tug, and, thinking it was liound straight down the river, turned to the east. When nearly abreast tiie launch, the tug sud denly turned to the east in order to make the dock at Ironville, and before the launch could gut out of the way, it waa struck by the tug and turned over and saiik al«>ut 100 feet from tbe dock. Mr Hepburn caught hold of the side of the tug, and a Miss Lowe gra»|ied his leg, ami both were pull«! on Isiard the tug. The other girl was picked up from a cushion on which »he float«!. Arthur Marks was also fortunate enough to grab a piece of wreckage, ami was pick«i up by those on the tug. The other seven members of the party were drowned, and the river is now iieing dragg«i for their bodies. The tug brought the rescu«i to this city. HAS AUTHORITY. Washington. May 10. — Sarrvtary Shaw has issued amend«! regulationa governing the insp«-tion of i'aggag. of in<«vming'p*»« ngvrs at the ports of the United States. The wretsry also lias prepared a circular winch will l<e dis- triout>«i among peweengrr» of all outgo- ng steamer», giving information as »pacific as |»>«i«ible as to the rate« of litjr on gootitfnamlly piircba««f a Im a.) by tourist», what article» mar tie brought in free of duty. etc. Two other circulars i-onvey information to incoming pn^sengr--» C» um of Spanith War. Madrid May 12.—For tiie ;>ast few day» the senate ha» h«-n discu«»ing the __ interpellation of Marshal Primo Rivera com-ernig the canses of tbe war betw«-n Spain and the United States Señor Moret in lef.-nding bis i-ondnct at the time said tbe Spanish tiis-t quitt«! Santiago de Cnh» on the advice of the council if admiralty which had been ci-nv.'k«i at Madrid. Sen« Moret wa« Spanish minister of the colonies at the time of the war Quiet is Santo Danna»». Santo T*.mingo. Republic of Santo D mingo Ma« 10.—F x-Pres ident J im ines, of tbe Dominican republic, and hi» minister» have left the foreign le gation here, where they had e-ught refuge Quiet has been renter«! in the city. The hospital« are full of men who were wound«! in the last engagement between the Dominican revolutionist» and the forre* of the givrmment A Red I’r™» hospital has bren eetabliabed and is caring for the wounded. The United States cruiser Cim innati ha» arrived here ln»ur«nt« Succanful. N-w York, May8.-The insurgents have obtain«! possession of the entire republic, with the exception of this town, «ay. ;l Puerto Plata. Santo D>m- ingo. <hs,mtch to the Herald. GoV. en r D o hamp* declares that he will not -urr.-n.I.-r Puerto Plata without an offi.qal not!«, from the government. The governor i« said to have been an ■1-pirant for the presi-lency and has been bitterly opp,^! to th» present revolution. * L im May 8.«A special fn »he hX ,.f A»h<ro(t Daw»on Tttegraph V»n«w.r. B C fron, Ottawa say. «•nimons in the afternoon the public works A partment estimate, were ,ln. ^n-’ leration. The total length of «tat«Yt^o^-'.**.*l’wph H,”‘ ’•* , i_ .1 , -, —.......... R -.1X5 mH. .. and the cost $786.224. r,,t i- ■ ■ 24. M including $'U.ooo for supplies and provisions. The average per mile Th* «P fill«.! last year was HO nule-, ìnxea.ì ,4 5^ •• expert«!. In difficult _______ spot» it was rr..5.,«si to lay a cable on 'the — gmnnd *• tn pla<-e» Uxr» w •» 25Je»t of snow. Federal Monev DHtribtAtA Washington, May 8.—-N<*.<rlv 500,000 was distributed by lb'1 tary of the treasury dur t - among national bank* it '.iri of tbe country. Sixty-t"- IwnF recogniz«! as government lep*’ in widely different sei t: ■ f ti»" try. The new depositori«’* in«'!** following, in the $50.C1'1 *** i National of San Dieg • a First National of Festtb- Another Italian Bre»l Lindon. Mar 8.—In a “I* Rome, tiie cnrre«i»«ndeiit ■ ■' Chronicle say» the *ai '"• ' * f Chii-ago have indulg»«! in ,*» hehavior in a cafe at Trie*’« and glasses we*e thrown *h the i-orrvspondent. an-i f< ' n , cago’s men were am ste-l •pondent of the Daily 1 xr""* 1 report» that one man »»» • re»i>lt of the disorder ' Trieste of the four sailors Chicago The men banded over to Captain la? 'r
