SEMI-WEEKLY dXTABLIXHED m THE 01X8 EMI * ITI (Ml OP OKMlK^TlC PIUUIILB8, AM TO MB' (K BT THH8UKAT01 ■c Vol 37 HUNDRED PERSONS PERISHED EUGENE. ORETTN. S VTURDA.Y M VRCrI 12 FIRE FOLLOWS THE BLUEBEARD Costumes of Company that Plaved in Iroquois Theatre on Fatal Se ttle's City Election. SEATTLE Seattle, Mar. 8 —A heavy vote is being polled in the city election to- day. lndlcatlons are that the Repub LARGELY licans will make a clean sweep. Fire at Scranton. REPUBLICAN I Scranton, Mar 9. —A Ure last night destroyed the triple stores of the Goldsmith Bazaar and damaged two other buildings. The loss is 8200,000. Night Bun t Up. In the Wreck of French Steamship Cam bodge. Chicago, Mar. 8.—In a Are which gutted the Western Salvage Wrecking Company’s building this morning, causing a lo.-s of 8125,000, were de stroyed the costumes and haugin s of the Bluebeard Company, which was playing in the ill-fated Iroquois theatre at the time of the great disas ter. Off the Coast of Cochin China, BARRETT GOES TO PANAMA 1901 Ba'lingei Elected Mayor by 1200 Major- Telephone Tolls Dicision Kansa City, Mo., Mar. 9.—The su preme court has decided that a city baa no autho 1 y to regulate t le phone to'l.n The court bc’Ja tuat the company is a creature o state. V Mrs. Dye Out of Jail. Rest of Ticket Went Four Thous No 9 OHIO RACE WAR THREATENED I DESPERATE AT- TEMPTS TO ESCAPE A Missouri Murderer Twice Es caped and Twice Reciptured. Threats Made That Negro Dives Will Be Wiped Out. Few of the Five Thousand Ne St. Joseph, Mo., Mar. 10.- Murder er Dunn, who escaped from jail hero Monday and was recaptured yester day, aga’n escaped last night and was recaptured at midnight. He waa lauded iu jail here ill with puei mo- nla. He will be bauge.l tomorrow. The physicians say that he would die of disease iu three days. groes in Springfield Walked May Dismiss His Cabinet. Boone, Iowa, Mar. 9,-Mn. Sher- the Streets Today. man Dye was relt eJ iron’ jail this Birmingham, England, Mar. 10.— Railroad Politics morning by order of Judge Whitaker, The Gazette today prints a seusational Wr ck. befcre whom .he habeas corpus had Springfield, O., Mar. 9. -With the story to the effect that trouble has Seattle, Mar. 9.—The Republicans been heard. arrival of soldiers this morning order , arisen between the King and and hia Oregon Man to P î Transferred carried the city election by a major prevails. The streets are practically j cabinet over the proposed changes in Par's, Mar. 9.—Official detaile have Russians and Japs at It. ity of four thousand, the larg -Bt in deserted this morning and tho ruing ■ the war office. The Gazette hiuts that From the Argentine been received of the loss of the the history of the city. Ballinger, Washington, Mar. 9.—The com- of negro quarters along the railroad I the King may dismiss the cabinet. French steamship Cambodge, from Republic. the bead of the ticket is elected by u a der of the U. S. gunboat Heleua, tracks are the only reminders of last I Rangoon, India, ior Europe, on Feb 1200. He was slashed by auti-corpo- a . liukow, reports this afternoon an night's stirring scenes. Throughout ruary 17,oil the coast of Cochin China Washington, Mar. 9.—The president ration Republicans. The result is engagement having taken place at the series of mob acts not a person I It is believed a hundred "ersons per has decided to appoint John Barrett, regarded as a slap at the railroad Re Fung Wang Chang and that the Jap was scratched except the victim of ished iu the terrific storm. A series of Oregon, to be ministe’’ to Panama, publicans of the state. anese landed at Tusban this morning. lynch law, Dickerson. of h ge waves broke over the ship, vice Buchanan Barrett is to be suc LATER. finally sinking it in eight meters of ceeded as minister to the Argentine Russian Meat Seized. water. Help was sent from Saigen. The lookout for tonight is that other ueputlic by Aithur Beaupre, of Illi Nagasaki, Japan, Ma-. 9.—The gov negro dives surely will go off the le nois, now minister to Colombia, ernment today seized 2100 barrels of vee, that remark beiug beard on all oeaupre will be succeeded by W. W. meat on the steamer Coptic, just from sidas today. Of five thousand negroes Russell, of the District of Columbia. San Francisco. The meat was con in the city, few are seen, while many signed to Port Arthur for the Russian have left the city. The balance are army, and was seized as coutrabanu barricaded in their houses. Judge of war. Mower this morning said a special grand jury would be called immedi Report That Russian Fleet Was1 ately to prosecute the lynchers. The Destroyed Is Not judge fakes the riot, ai a personal Verified. blow, and is on the verge of prostra Wailksbarre, Pa., Mar. 8.—At three tion. o’clock this afternoon the Pennsylva nia’s huge steel bridge at Seliue London, Mar 9.—No veriflcatio Grove was swept away bj an ice has yet been received of the Tokio The Russian Shore Batteries gorge. Floods rave in the Wyoming dispatch stating that the Vladivostok valley, and the lowlands along the ■ Opened Fire-—No Reports squadron has been dest.ro; ed r cap Washington, Mar. 8.—Mrs. Kenne- Susquehanna river for forty miles be-1 tured. it is thought to be another of Extent ol Damage Jy resumed the witness stand this low the city are flooded. Seven hun- I vague rumor. Done. <1r' d families are terrq orarily home morning in th". Senator Smoot in less and eight bridges have teen 1 quiry. Answering Worthington she Berlin, Mar. 8. — The Tageblatt has Loudun, Mar. 8.—A Tokio dispatch Port Arthur, Mar. 10.—The Japan reiterates the belief that the Japanese said she knew of no reason for her swept away. The towns • f Westmoor, a report that five thousand refugees ese fleet reappeared at miduigui last sqtiadicn met the Russian cruisers iu jcurney of 75 miles from Diaz to Jua CatanBsa and Firwood are inundated. from Port Arthur and Vladivostock night and bombarded toe city inter the vicinity of Poisset Bay and gave rez, Mexico, to be married as a plu The loss will be hundreds of thous and other Manchurian towns were shunted ou sidings for days to enable mittently until eight this morning battle- The result is not made known. ral wife to Johnson. She did not ands of dollars. transport trains to pass east. They are and then withdrew. The purpose of the Japanese ships iu know whether an effort had been suffering terribly from cold and lack proceeding to Vladivostok was not to made to have the marriage perfrru el of food. Parts, Mar. 8—It ’s reported here London,Mar. 10.—The Central New« bombard the town but to locate the at Diaz. She did.n’t in'r.rm the mau The Frankfurter Znitung asserts that the Japanese have made another correspondent at l’oit Arthur reporta Russian ships, which are thought to who married her to Johnson that he that the Russian Minister of Interior have left the harbor. The Japanese »as already married. So far as she i Plebve has insti noted the local au- attempt to block the entrance to that the Japanese prepared to bom- _ Port Arthur by sinking coasting bard the port last night, but owing squadron is sutH'dently strong to di knew the celebrant might have be 3 I A I Lit thurifies to extort mouey from the ships. The details are Jacking. to a heavy storm, were compelled to vide it, one portion guarding the har lieved be was marrying Johnsou to a . Jews for the support of field hospitals. desist. At eleven o’clock the signal bor and the other seeking the Rus first wife. She had heard that Apost’e Teasdale The Tageblatt also reports that Dr. Rome, Mar 8.—Tne Agonzia Libera station oeut messages to the furtresa sians. objected to ths plural marriage and I Kynart, chief of the Russian ambu reports that a number of Chinese and that tbs Japanese t piadrou hud ap- Washington, Mar. 9.—During con had refused to marry her, notwith lance corps, dispatched to Manchuria, Japanese have been massacred by the peared on the horizon, and fifty min sideration of tile army bill in the standing the intercession of her was obliged to disband and dismiss Russians in the Vladivostok district. utes later the shore batteries opened Senate today, Senator Bacon de- mo'her.the latter being informed that the men on arriving at Ilarbin, owing The Japanese government is said to Are. A gale sprang up at that mo- tiounced the purpose of the govern to iruukeunees. plural marriages had been done a»«; have entered a protest. men tand the attacking ileet withdrew. ment to erect a staf ue o Frederick with. rhe Great, presented I y me Germau Port Arthur, Mar. 8.—Admiral Emperor, n the nation's u pitol. The Makri.ff has arrived at Dalny, and is Senator '.bought the Emperor’s ac Tokio, Mar. 9. -Japanese warships expected here today to assume charge tio" ill-advised, and the acceptance Tuesday evening bombarded Fort Tal- of the Hussain squadron. Complete of the gift by the President hasty. ienwan on Korea Bay, and later they tranquility prevails in the districts He declared the erection cf such a proceeded to Port Arthur and bom about Port Arthur. Nothing can be statue uot in accordance with the Washington,Mar. 1(1.—Russia grant- seen cf the enemy. barded the fortress there. wishes of the pepole of the country. Directs Officials Not to Talk Too i ig formal permission, (¡eneral Chaf Country Editor For Governor. fee baH .amea Major Gibson, ('apt. St. PeterBUurg, Mar. 8. - -The safety Much About Japanese- Will be at St. Louis. Jackson,Uapt Galley and Capt Reich- of the Russian Vladivostok squadron Wichita. Mar. 9.—The Republican Berlin, Mar. 8.— The Morgetpost Russian Affairs. Tokio, Mar. 9 —It is announced mann to accompany the Russian army I is believed to be preserved, Ils speed stata convention met and organized reports that the Albanian rebels fave avoiding encounter with the Japanese this morning, and this afternoon Ed innihilated a Turkish battalion of that Prince and Princess Arisugawa on its far Rastern camp dgn. Washington, Mar. 10.—The Presi until the commencement of summer. ward Hoch, county edito at Marian, >00 soldiers at Diaakovo, Central Al will represent the Mikado at the St. Louis exposifio ’. was named for governor. P.esident bania. The Finnish Senate has voted to dent today issued an executive order swell the war luud by a contril utiou that "All officials of the government Roosevelt was indorsed m the plat Japanese Land Movements. Blew Up a Bridge. of a million marks. Minister of the i are directed nut only to observe the form. 1 Interior Pielive has aske 1 the provin- President’s proclamation of neutral- Thomas Murdock, who selecte Washington, Mar. 9.—Navy Clieefoo Vienna, Mar. 9.—Italian workman j cial governors to reduce the seed al , Ry pending the war in the far East, Hoch, was stricken blind d aring last advices state that a large Japanese with dynamite today blew up a bridge lowance for public works and esti I but to ubstain from either action or ni bt. land force bas arrivid it Fung Wang across the river Began in Hungary, | speech which can legitimately cause mates. Chang and Tsban. These poin's are killing the German engineer, Line- London, Mar. 10.—investigation of irrltati- u to either of ttie comba No ».elation of Law. so located that it is believed the Jap bach, and two others, and injuring the report that Lord Chamberlain is tants. ’’ anese are on the Russian flank and Washington,Mar. 8. -Japanese Min The Czar has denied a peition of mentally ill udicates some basis for four. ister Ilayasbi this afternoon made an that the naval attacks ou Port Arthur Mad Mulla'i Loses. ■ the rumor. Advices from Egpyt, 40,000 Buriat tribesmen in the Trans adlitional statement in answer to the and Talien Wan are merely diver- where Cbamberlai > is recuperating, Baikal section not to be placed under Russians Forage Korea Aden, Egypt, Mar. 10.—Ge< oral the Russian administration. Admiral Ru»s an charge of violation of the in siens to dis'raet attention. state that he is improving Manning, commanding the British Seoul. Knrea, Mar. 8. — Small bauds Sta ’ k ’ s wife, who has arrived from ternational law. lie admitted that expedition to Somaliland, raided the of Russians cross the Yalu every day, Fort A-thiir, indignantly denies that For Immoral Purposes. Japanese troops landed in Korea be Threshing Mormon Straw. Mad Mullah’s forces, killing 150 men foraging and sweeping the country in the admiral and hia officers were fore a declaration of law, but not be Berlin, Mar. 9. —The Kleins Journal every direction. Koreans yesterday and capturing a number of camels. Washington, Mar. 10. — Andrew Jen- ashore the night of the first attack, fore a state of war existed. The im says a syndicate with a capital of a perial government declares that the million dollvis has been formed at ambushed and repulsed a strong party Ben, assistant historian of the Mor attending’a ba 1 in her honor. Shaken by Earthquakes. of Cossacks, both suffering heavy mon church, who prepar°d a book of charge that Japan declared control St. Louis for the purpose of import losses. I Vienna, March 10.— Earthquake the lives of the apostlvs, was called over Korea is without foundation. Postal Frauds Investigated. ing girls to that city for immoral ■bocks are reported thia morning at in the Smoot case this morning to purposes during the expostiion, The Washington, Mar. 10.—Republican Trieste, Carintba and Gl-igenlurt. Big Fortification Bill. »ell where he obtained his informa Philippine Shipping. agents of the syndicate are scouring house leaders recognizing the temper There are no reports of damage. tion. Most of it, he said, came from Per- Washington, Mar. 8. — Senator Washington, Mar. 9.—Tne Senate Europe for victims, the paper says. kins, from the committee on appro previous publications of the church. provoked by the Bristow report on passed the Philippine shipping bill A Japanese Report. priations, reported the fortifications About Apostle Grant, the witness postal frau I-, are determined uot to Electric Line Tragedy. today._________________ b’ll, a total of 87,637,192. This is an said Graut was reputed to have two| stand in the wBy of any investigation Tokio, Mar. 10.—Admiral Kammura desired by the majority. San Bernardino, Cal., Mar. 8.—Wal- increase of half a million over the wives. sands the following report of Hu Jap Mr« >Jsr. Trey ter Cooper, a lineman, was electro House bill. An acidemic discussion as to adul anese attack on Vladivostok Sunday. Constantinop’e, Mar. 9.—The Sul- , Druggist* Were Fined cuted at Redlands this morning, He tery ensued in atiich the witness said “The attack on Vladivostok on the tan has decided to order two cruisers A Democratic Retraction. fell dead st the feet of his wife. the Mormon people drew a clear dis Brownsville, Or., March 10 —Quite sixth began at one-fifty o’clock 1 the of the latest improved type from the | Washington, Mar. 8.- In the House tlnction between the kind of adultery an exciting trial «»• held In this city afternoon and lasted forty mtrniles. American shipbuilders, Cramps. An Insult to Amerca bombardment waa today, Gilbert, D emocrat, of Ken- preiented in Harmon’s testimony and yesterday, J. F. Venner and Osburn 1 lelieve the Berlin, Mar. 9.—The Loka! Anzie- tucky, auld Rji( la n-e, withdrew the the net of living with plurnl wives. A Hume, druggists, having be n ar effective ai d detrornlizi d the en An Actor Dzad. In response to McComas witness said rested for selling whiskey with nt li '■my as the Russian torta did n it re- Saranac Lake, N. 1 , ."ar 9.—Rob-j ge asserts that Russia has refused charge made by Litnr In a recent that only the general officers of the cense. The trial »1« by jit’y and the ply. The ernfsers •t|b.'pqnrn*| re. avi -.recently nom-1 permission to America to send mili »hat Gen. D speech ert Teber, an act .<•, .be divorced hus church were required to obtain con- jury I ronghl io th< v< ■ li . conTjoltorcfl acvi ea l a 1 oi Juli . .. ■ ■. ‘ here las. tary attaches with the Russian forces Ina! I on tb< Is'.’.n 1 Commission, | ■ Record r f ■' ent from the fir» r r ’fd"oey ‘■efore it 1 ‘h long the coast bn» 'ant » rat- <•<> ê to tu-- in the field, while free permission to sold rk * 111 I Bigut. t' ' en h of th" df *« • I t ‘ •' 1 n • rucn'nc for politic»! office. the enemy.” tba cout!".:ntz! po-?-- n-- •---- I on February Seventeenth- Storm Caused the MAY BE A FAKE RUMOR SENATOR SMOOT INQUIRY and Republican—A Slap at BOMBARD PORT ARTHUR GREAT FLOOD IN PENNSY. AGAIN RUSSIAN MEDICAL SERVICE TRIED TO BLOCK THE HARBOR Japs Let Fly at the Fortress for Several Hours. FREDEKCK THE GREAT’S THE JAPS LIKE TO BOMBARD BATTALION OF SOLDIERS ANINHILATED I AMERICAN OFH CERS TO GO. CIIAMBERLAIN MENTALLY ILL THE PRESIDENT ASKS NEUTRALITY